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March 5-7: Midnight Movie, Barleywine, Saturday Market, Build A Business, and an Art Walk

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Blues Brothers, Barleywine, and art. Not a bad weekend.

Friday

Blues BrotherThe Cort and Fatboy Midnight Movie: The Blues Brothers

We’ve unearthed a 35mm print of the 1980 classic “The Blues Brothers,” as much a celebration of soul music in America as it is a celebration of doofy white people crashing a ridiculous amount of cars. [more]

Friday & Saturday

Lucky LabBarleywine and Big Beer Tastival

If you like big beer, the Lucky Lab Beer Hall (1945 NW Quimby) is the place to be Friday and Saturday, March 5th and 6th.The Barleywine and Big Beer Tastival runs both days, from noon until 10pm.

$8 gets you a custom taster glass and two tokens, and additional tastes are $1.50. [more]

Saturday

Build A Business In A DayBuild a Business in a Day Competition

Mangrove is . . . focused on earthquake rebuilding efforts in Haiti. To support this, we are sponsoring and running a “Build a Business in a Day” charity fundraiser and competition. The competition will foster team-building, real-time strategizing and marketing insight by requiring teams to market, promote and sell a product in a single day. [more]

Saturday & Sunday

Portland Saturday MarketPortland Saturday Market 2010 Kickoff

Looking for a new tie dyed shirt?

The Portland Saturday Market kicks off the 2010 season this Saturday (10am to 5pm) and Sunday (11am to 4:30pm), March 6th and 7th. [more]

SE Art WalkSouth East Area Art Walk

The 7th Annual South East Area Art Walk takes place this Saturday and Sunday (10am to 5pm both days), March 6th and 7th . . .

The art fair area is roughly bordered by SE 9th, SE Hawthorne, SE 41st and SE Powell. The event is free. Maps are available at local shops [more]

March 5, 6: Barleywine and Big Beer Tastival

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Update: 2011 Details Here!

Lucky LabIf you like big beer, the Lucky Lab Beer Hall (1945 NW Quimby) is the place to be Friday and Saturday, March 5th and 6th.

The Barleywine and Big Beer Tastival runs both days, from noon until 10pm.

$8 gets you a custom taster glass and two tokens, and additional tastes are $1.50.

The lineup is impressive. Visit PortlandBeer.Org for 46 beers, averaging 9.8% alcohol by volume, from the lineup – yowza! Word is there will be over a dozen more.

Portland Pinball Map iPhone App Released

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PPMLast month we got a sneak peak at Drew Marshall‘s artwork. We learned then that the talented Isaac Ruiz was working on an application for the iPhone that would bring the Portland Pinball Map, your best source for finding pins in Portland, to your fingertips.

And now we have it: the Portland Pinball Map iPhone App was released yesterday.

I have the app already, and it’s slick.

Over 340 pinball machines in over 170 locations in the Portland area (including Vancouver, Washington) are covered.

You can search for machines by location, proximity, or name.

Only interested in places that have four or more machines? Wondering where new machines have shown up recently? The Portland Pinball Map iPhone App can show you.

According the the Facebook fan page, in addition to artist Drew Marshall and developer Isaac Ruiz, we also have Portland Pinball Map developers Scott Wainstock and Ryan Gratzer to thank for this excellent application, and Nicholas B. Kula for the epic app store description.

Visit the apps page at Portland Pinball Maps for details on the app. There’s a useful support page there too.

And of course you can find the app on iTunes, of course. It costs 99 cents.

March 4: Timbers Army, Gems & Giants, and 7th Planet Picture Show

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Wow, it’s March already. And First Thursday is already upon us . . . looking for something to do?

Gems & Giants

Gems & Giants: Only the Finest in Soul and Funk, returns to the Jade Lounge (2342 SE Ankeny) Thursday, March 4. Your bi-monthly social therapy / weekend jump start commences at 7:30pm.

TimbersTimbers Army First Thursday

Get ready for the upcoming season at the Timbers Army First Thursday gathering, Thursday, March 4th at The Bitter End Pub (1981 W Burnside).

7th Planet Picture Show

7th Planet PIcture Show is an MST3K-inspired live celebration of cinematic camp, taking place twice a month at the Mt. Tabor Theater in Portland, Oregon. Will Radik and 2 or more hardened camp cinema veterans will face down some of the most ridiculous, awkward, and tasteless films born unto this pitiless earth, with only microphones (and probably alcohol). Audience members are not only allowed but encouraged to shout at the movie themselves and leave their cell phones on. [More]

The featured movie tonight: Hawk the Slayer.

Honolulu Magazine Examines the Island Exodus to Portland

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Honolulu MagazineIn Afterthoughts: Next Stop, Portland in the latest edition of Honolulu Magazine, writer Kathryn Drury Wagner ponders why everyone is moving to Portland, Oregon.

I ran into a friend at Whole Foods the other day, who cheerfully told me she was about to relocate to Portland. Then our coworker announced he was pulling up stakes and heading for Portland. And local burlesque artist Violetta Berretta? She, too, was off to shake her tail feathers in—everybody say it with me, now—Portland.

She tracks down Randy Gragg, of Portland Monthly, for his opinion on why everyone is moving to Portland.

Though he fails to bring up the biggest reason, his explanations are relatively sound.

“It’s the golden era for Portland,” he said. “There are lot of writers, art, music and performance. There’s an extraordinary food scene.” And, he added, “It’s still the cheapest West Coast city.”

But, of course it’s not all rainbows and unicorns . . .

“Our unemployment rate is really high,” says Gragg. “We’re befuddled because people keep moving here and there’s no place to work. And, people drive really slow here. Slowly and sloppily.”

[Huh. I’ve lived in Honolulu, and I’ll take Portland’s “slowly and sloppily” over Honolulu’s furiously and insanely driving style any day.]

Read the whole article to find out the Portland’s dating scene, hipster dudes, and Proust: Afterthoughts: Next Stop, Portland.