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2010 Multnomah County Fair

May 31, 2010 by Dave 8 Comments

2012 Multnomah County Fair details here!

Multnomah County Fair 2010Sunday afternoon the weather improved for a few hours, and Heather and I made our way to Oaks Park for the 2010 Multnomah County Fair.

Unlike the Elko County fair we visited last summer, the Multnomah County Fair features hardly any cowboys or cattle, and no rodeo or horse racing.

Both fairs, however, feature plenty of red necks, funnel cakes, and award winning vegetables.

Award Winning Veggies

The enormous carrots below, however, were my favorites. They were very deserving of the blue ribbon.

Tiny Carrots

And check out this amazing flower arrangement – it’s called Kicking Up Your Heels:

Kicking Up Your Heels

The Multnomah County Fair has a few things that the Elko County Fair doesn’t, though, including the Northwest Challenge X-treme Air Dogs Jumping Competition!

Dog jumps into the water from Dave Knows on Vimeo.

And robot soccer!

Robot Soccer

And chainsaw sculptoring! Heather would not let me get this awesome bench for our living room 🙁

Awesome Bench

Here are the sculptors in action:

Chainsaw Sculpting at the 2010 Multnomah County Fair from Dave Knows on Vimeo.

Really though, the main draw for us was the animal exhibits, and the fair delivered.

This guy was in the Walk on the Wildside exhibit. He’s a black and white something or other:

B and W something

I am 38 years old and I only learned the origin of the phrase “pig pile” yesterday:

Napping Piggies

The ponies all looked bored. Why don’t we say “bored as a pony”?

Ponies

Nigel the Camel had a lot of energy:

Nigel the Camel

And my favorite part of the entire 2010 Multnomah County Fair? The cute bunny!

Bunny

Go read Heather’s view of the fair – Multnomah County Fair: Bunnies – We had such a great time, we needed two blog posts to describe it all!

June 4: Cort and Fatboy’s Midnight Movie – Terminator 2: Judgement Day

May 31, 2010 by Dave Leave a Comment

Terminator 2Cort and Fatboy’s Midnight Movie for June 2010 takes place this Friday, and it’s a doozie: Terminator 2: Judgement Day

Wanna watch James Cameron take the early 90’s, set it on fire and then explode the hell out of it on the big-screen one more time? You’ll want to be at the Bagdad Theater June 4th, then. Because for the first time in a very, very long time (almost 20 years) Terminator 2: Judgment Day will be screened, in 35mm.

Now, you could say “Forget it” and wander off to a multiplex where you’ll pay about 4x as much cash to see that new Ashton Kutcher flick, or the one where the tubby dude from Superbad has to get the Yahoo Serious lookin dude from Forgetting Sarah Marshall to a concert. OR – you could plunk down 3 bucks, enter the best beer theater on the west coast, and experience what many consider one of the best action movies ever made. AAAAAH! at all the pretty state-of-the-art-1991 Effects. OOOH! at Arnie’s physique. EWWWWW at Linda Hamilton’s physique. YEEEAAH! at the sheer amount of destruction onscreen at any given moment.

The doors of the Bagdad (3702 SE Hawthorne) open at 10pm, film begins at 11pm. Admission is only $3, and you have to be 21 or over.

June 3: First Thursday Pearl District Bar Crawl

May 31, 2010 by Dave Leave a Comment

Bar CrawlTo a lot of us, First Thursday means avoid the Pearl District. But what if instead of a possible glass of wine and some grapes and cheese at stodgy art galleries, you could get a specialty cocktails at a multitude of bars? Wouldn’t that make First Thursday fun? We are in luck!

The First Thursday Pearl District Bar Crawl, a benefit for ALSO (the Association of Liquor Store Agents), takes place this Thursday, June 3rd.

Organized by the Oregon Distiller’s Guild and the Oregon Bartender’s Guild, each participating venue features a specialty cocktail.

The participating venues are:

  1. The Benson Hotel (309 SW Broadway)
  2. Blue Hour (250 NW 13th)
  3. The Daily Café (902 NW 13th)
  4. Fratelli Bar Dué (1230 NW Hoyt)
  5. Henry’s 12th Street Tavern (10 NW 12th)
  6. Jinx Lounge (232 NW 12th)
  7. Metrovino (1139 NW 11th)
  8. On Deck Sports Bar (910 NW 14th Ave)
  9. The Original Restaurant (300 SW 6th)
  10. Teazone & Camellia Lounge (510 NW 11th Ave)
  11. Ten01 (1001 NW Couch)
  12. Vault (226 NW 12th)
  13. Whole Foods Market Pearl (1210 NW Couch)
  14. Wilfs Restaurant (800 NW 6th)

(Of the fourteen venues participating, two are Downtown, one is in Old Town, and there’s a hotel and a grocery store, so the event should be called the First Thursday Downtown, Old Town, and Pearl District Bar, Grocery Store, and Hotel Crawl, but I won’t nitpick any more than what I just did).

You’ll find a map below (click it to download the full-sized pdf). Visit the Oregon Bartender’s Guild website, or the New Deal Distillery June 2010 events page for more info!

First Thursday Pearl District Bar Crawl

June 3: 7th Planet Picture Show presents El Tesoro de Moctezuma

May 30, 2010 by Dave Leave a Comment

El Tesoro

Portland’s answer to MST3K, the 7th Planet Picture Show, takes place at 7pm this Thursday, June 3rd at Mount Tabor Theater (4811 SE Hawthorne).

The movie?

El Tesoro de Moctezuma (Montezuma’s Treasure) (1968)

El Tesoro de Moctezuma is the second half of the swinging Santo spy saga that started with Operacion 67. Since it was filmed back to back with Operacion, it boasts the same relatively swank production values and sleek cosmopolitan look. Santo’s pretty boy co-star Jorge Rivero returns here, as does Noe Murayama – who, judging from this and Blue Demon contra Cerebros Infernales, was Mexican cinema’s go-to guy of 1966 for maniacal. The criminal gang from the first film are also back this time around and, in combating them, the secret agent team of Santo and Rivero are commendably more proactive, not just taking the “let’s hunker down and wait for them to start trying to kill us” tack that they did in the first film. Like Blue Demon’s adventures from the same period (and seemingly every action/adventure movie made in any country in 1966), Moctezuma is as much influenced by the cartoonish campiness of the Batman TV series as it is by the Bond films.

Show is free, but there’s an entirely optional suggested donation of $5. 21 and over only, there’s a bar!

Match Day: Portland Timbers vs Boca Juniors

May 29, 2010 by Dave Leave a Comment

Timbers v BocaThe rain may clear out by the 7pm kickoff of the friendly today between the Portland Timbers and Club Atlético Boca Juniors. Boca are one of the biggest clubs to ever grace the pitch at PGE Park. With the way the Timbers have been playing lately, it will be nice to not have to worry about the resul. I’ll just enjoy the atmosphere and, hopefully, wide open play on the field.

Match previews:

Friendly: Portland Timbers v. Club Atlético Boca Juniors by mao at Portland Timbers USL Blog at The Offside

Game Preview: Legendary Boca Juniors Comes To Portland by Kevin at Dropping Timber

Boca Juniors thirsty for a win as they complete U.S. tour in Portland by Geoffrey C. Arnold at The Oregonian

Timbers will get tested by Boca Juniors in exhibition by Paul Danzer at The Columbian

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