Archives for March 2009

March 21st: Dog-free Farmers Market and a Firkin Fest

March 19, 2009 by Dave Knows 5 Comments

The Portland Farmers Market‘s winter hiatus is over! The PSU market returns to operation this Saturday at 8:30am. They’ve finally banned Fido; but when will they ban the double wide strollers?

The 2009 Firkin Festival occurs Saturday too, in two shifts: 11am-2pm and 3pm-6pm at the Green Dragon Bistro and Brewpub (928 S.E. Ninth Street). The maximum capacity is 200 per shift. I’m not sure if there are any tickets left, but you can try at the Oregon Brewers Guild website.

Firkins of the following beers will be tapped:

Brewers Union Local 180 That Dark Beer Black Molasses Stout 4.6%
Brewers Union Local 180 North Fork Ordinary Bitter 3.5%
BridgePort Brewing Co. Raven Mad Imperial Porter 7.4%
Deschutes Brewery-Portland Pub Cinder Cone Red American Red 5.4%
Double Mountain Brewery Hop Lava IPA 6.8%
Eugene City Brewery The Hammer Throw Irish Red Ale 5.7%
Full Sail Brewing Co. Broken Paddle IBA India Black Ale 6.0%
Hopworks Urban Brewery HUB Organic 150 IPA 6.8%
Laurelwood Brewing Co. Workhorse IPA 7.2%
Lompoc Brewing Co. Oak Barrel C-Note Imperial Pale 7.0%
Lucky Lab Brewing Co. Super Dog IPA 6.3%
Ninkasi Brewing Co. Spring Reign Pale Ale 6.0%
Pelican Pub and Brewery India Pelican Ale IPA 7.5%
Roots Organic Brewing Co. Nevermind Pale Ale 5.3%
Rock Bottom Brewery Maltnomah Porter Porter 5.3%
Rogue Ales Mogul Strong Ale 6.5%

Celebrate the Vernal Equinox with the Timbers

March 19, 2009 by Dave Knows Leave a Comment

Sources say an announcement will be made Friday confirming that Portland is to receive one of the two Major League Soccer expansion franchises to start play in 2011.

Grab your scarf and head down to the rally Friday, March 20th at 9:30am at the Portland Hilton (921 SW Sixth Avenue). The press conferences is at 10am in the Pavilion Ballroom.

timbersvsredbull And then at 7pm the Timbers take on the visiting MLS New York Red Bulls in the teams’ first home pre-season match of the year, at Merlo Field (at U of P’s Clive Charles Soccer Complex).

MLS to Portland – official on Friday?

March 18, 2009 by Dave Knows Leave a Comment

MLS Via SoccercityUSA: Very Important MLS/Timbers Announcement Friday

What: Rally and Press Conference Announcement

When: 9:30 a.m., Friday March 20

Where: Portland Hilton
921 SW Sixth Avenue, Portland Oregon

What we need to do: We need to take what we did with the MLS to PDX rally and be even louder, prouder, more drums, and even more noise. It looks like this is going to be the CELEBRATION we have all been waiting for! Our goal is 300 people for this event wearing your green and white plus as many scarves as we can muster. Arrive early to claim your flag, banner, drum etc. As always the Timbers Army and Timbers fans will play a prominent part in any announcement.
Do whatever it takes to join us.

Major League Soccer (MLS) Rumors has more.

10 (plus 3) books about Portland

March 18, 2009 by Dave Knows 3 Comments

Yesterday Reading Local, a blog that covers the Portland book scene, posted a list of 10 books from local authors that will get you caught up on all the things you should know about Portland then and now: Portland 101-Learn About Portland In 10 Books

I’ve read most of them, and plan to follow the rest of their recommendations. I would like to expand their list a bit though, and recommend these too:

An Architectural Guidebook to Portland by Bart King. Exactly what the title says, and it’s well written and researched. (Also the author is responsible for two of the more entertaining local blogs: Unexpectedly Bart! and El Ilusorio Blog de Rudy.)
City Limits: Walking Portland’s Boundary by David Oates. Read my review: Portland’s real edge.
Red Hot and Rollin’: A Retrospection of the Portland Trail Blazers’ 1976-77 Championship Season Edited by Matt Love. Read my mini-review (second one down): Harry Potter free zone; some books for the rest of us.

The Ainsworth Age at Cafe Unknown

March 16, 2009 by Dave Knows 1 Comment

Dan Hackenow has a great post up on Cafe Unknown about 19th century Portland Banker John C. Ainsworth, the bank he founded, and the beautiful Victorian gem he built, that, in the 1950s, was deemed less important (i.e. lucrative) than a parking lot.

For fifty-nine years, the northwest corner of Third and Oak has been the site of a parking lot. For the seventy-four years prior to that, it was occupied by something more; a center of finance and trade, then, art and music. The Ainsworth Building.

Read the whole post: The Ainsworth Age.

The photo, via the Cafe Unknown post, is by Marion Dean Ross, and it resides in the University of Oregon collection.

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