Archives for May 2010

May 22: Lost Oregon

May 20, 2010 by Dave Knows Leave a Comment

The Architectural Heritage Center invites us to learn some little known Oregon, history: Lost Oregon.

Lost Oregon looks at a selection of resources from Oregon’s now-vanished built environment. In the past 250 years, Oregonians have built, and then lost, many remarkable structures, from Chinook longhouses to the Capitol Building, from nabob’s mansions to towering wooden trestles. Wood, our most common construction material, is cheap and adaptable; it also burns well and rots easily. Social and economic fluctuations have also driven changes in the built environment, as railroad trestles were superseded by freeway ramps, and country churches gave way to trailer courts.

The lecture, by historian and author Richard Engeman, takes place this Saturday, May 22nd, 2010 from 10-11:30am. Visit the website for more information.

Another AHC event Saturday, May 22nd:

The Fox’s Lady: Holistic Weatherization Meets Historic Preservation

Tour a fantastic 1884 home, learn more about the Clean Energy Works program, and how you can weatherize an older home without impacting its vintage character.

For more information, visit the AHC website.

Every third Friday of the month, from 7 to 9pm, the Blue Monk (3341 SE Belmont) hosts the Offbeat Belly Dance collective, a club rocking, good timing, genre-defying gang of badass belly dancers.

And this third Friday, May 21st, is no different – the Offbeat Belly Dance collectives invites you to Come get some of our awesomeness!

Ye gods! Good people of Portland! It’s time! Yes! Time, once more for everyone’s favorite evening of off kilter awesomeness, Offbeat Belly Dance!

That’s right, this Friday at the Blue Monk, we will bring you our very best in weird and wonderful belly dance.

This month features some of our favorite returning champions including:

The Serpentine Shallah!
The Zephyrean Ziggy!
The Vibrant Vee!
The Awesome Adeylah!
The Jingly and Jubilant Jasmine!
The Kharismatic Karissa! (sometimes alliteration is hard.)

And more!

The show is free and goes from 7pm to 9pm.

For more information read my April Offbeat Belly Dance post and visit OffbeatBellyDance.com. You can also become a fan on Facebook, and follow the genre-defying, good timing gang of belly dancers in Portland OR, w/Karissa as ringmaster/carnival barker/propagandiston on Twitter at @OffbeatBelly

Photo credit: Offbeat Belly Dance

Match Day 05/19/2010: Portland Timbers vs Montreal Impact

May 19, 2010 by Dave Knows Leave a Comment

The Portland Timbers (3-1-2) have not had a good home stand. And the opponent in the last of three matches at home in a week a much better team than Crystal Palace Baltimore or AC St. Louis. The Montreal Impact (2-1-2) visit PGE Park tonight. Kick off is at 7pm.

In April at Montreal, the Timbers tied 1-1. Montreal are the defending playoff champions.

Match previews:

Timbers host Montreal, visit Baltimore this week at PortlandTimbers.com

Defending League Champions [sic] Stroll Into Town by Kevin at Dropping Timber

Game 7: Portland Timbers v. Montréal Impact by mao at The Timbers USL Blog at The Offside

Timbers play the Impact; Skate Decks; Oral Surgery by Dojo Mouse at TA Bike Brigade

Timbers prepare for Montreal on Wednesday by IceFunk at Rowdies

Happy Mount Saint Helens Day 2010

May 18, 2010 by Dave Knows 1 Comment

Thirty years ago today, Mount Saint Helens blew its top. I was eight and saw the massive plume of ash from Portland.

Heather was living on the East Coast in 1980, so her memories of the eruption are from National Geographic. However since she’s moved here we’ve made a few pilgrimages – once in 2008, and also January this year. Go check them out for Heather’s titillating prose and impressive photographs.

And there’s a bunch of good stuff collected at OregonLive too: Mount St. Helens eruption: 30 years later

Photo credit: Heather!

Tuesday Timbers Tidbits (05/17/2010)

May 18, 2010 by Dave Knows Leave a Comment

The Portland Timbers go through a slump almost every season.

My hope is we have already witnessed the worst of it in 2010.

Saturday’s draw with AC St. Louis was disappointing (I think Kip Kesgard summed it up best with the headline: Timbers giveaway includes skate decks and two points), but the Timbers played much better than last Thursday.

Wednesday, the Timbers will have a chance to redeem themselves when the Montreal Impact visit. Let’s hope the boys regain their mojo, as it were. Montreal are a quality opponent.

Some would say the chant you see in the video below is the Best Timbers Army Change. Ever.

Some would disagree. And of course as with all things trivial or inconsequential, there is an epic argument on the internet about it.

In player news, KATU recently did a nice feature on Ryan Pore’s efforts to get back to the MLS (video here). And former Timbers goalkeeper Josh Saunders is profiled the LA Galaxy blog, The View from Victoria Street.

In the silly promotion, but for a good cause, department: The Portland Timbers are teaming up with Tropical Smoothie (1902 West Burnside) to concoct the official Portland Timbers smoothie.

The winning smoothie recipe will be available at Tropical Smoothie NW locations with $1 of every Timbers’ smoothie purchase going to the Portland Beavers & Portland Timbers Community Fund (PBPTCF), which donates more than $100,000 annually to youth-focused nonprofits in the greater-Portland area.

Visit the Timbers Facebook page for more info.

And lastly, in supporter news, this past Saturday marked the one year anniversary of the passing of legendary Timbers fan Harmut Bless, better known as Timber Howie. Read Lucas Grzybowski’s heartfelt homage to Howie from last year.

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