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June 7: Fleet Week Ends, Morning Commute Sucks

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Rose FestivalThe 2010 Rose Festival Fleet Week ends today, which means another Raising and Lowering of the Bridges.

From 5:30am until 11am today, Monday June 7, the Burnside, Steel, and Broadway bridges will be opening up periodically to let the ships from the United States Navy and Coast Guard, and the Canadian Maritime Forces depart our fair city.

The departure schedule, via OregonLive:

  • 5:30 a.m.: USS Sampson
  • 6 a.m.: USS Bunker Hill
  • 7 a.m.: USCGC Blue Shark
  • 9 a.m.: HMCS FFH; USCGC FIR; USCGC Triumph; USCGC Alert
  • 11 a.m.: USCGC Henry Blake; USCGC Bluebell

June 9: See Me | See My Work

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See MeSee Me | See My Work, the Mt. Hood Community College Integrated Media Portfolio Show celebrating the 2010 program graduates, takes place this Wednesday, June 9th at Nemo (1875 SE Belmont), from 5pm to 8:30pm.

SEE ME | SEE MY WORK will showcase work from 18 design and 12 digital photography students. Come enjoy food, beer and wine while looking over student work and mingling with other PDX creatives. This is a chance for you to give invaluable feedback to help shape the lives of young designers (unless you’re not into that sort of thing).

There’s a preview of some of the work you’ll see at the show at the show website, and many of the students have websites too, many with portfolios, linked on the sidebar of that page.

The Mt. Hood Community College Integrated Media Program trains students in broadcasting, digital photography, graphic design, and video. For more information, visit the website: MHCCIM.com

Portland Timbers Roundup (06/04/2010)

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TimbersThis weekend Heather and I are embarking on our first camping adventure of 2010, so unfortunately we’re going to miss this weekend’s Timbers events – don’t forget Saturday, You Are Timbers History!

And then Sunday, the Portland Timbers should be relatively well rested as they take on the Carolina Railhawks, who feature former Timber David Hayes, at PGE Park at 6pm. The Timbers have not played since last weekend’s delightful friendly against Boca Juniors.

The video below is the second “clue” to the new MLS Timbers logo to be debuted at halftime of the USA vs England World Cup match on June 12th! (Kip Kesgard has more, a the Timbers Blog at OregonLive.



And now, to the roundup . . .

Timbers looking to re-launch their season after big win; news, notes and links by Geoffrey C. Arnold at The Oregonian

The way the Timbers celebrated Rodrigo Lopez’s game-winning goal, you would have thought they had won the league championship.

Lopez was mobbed by his giddy teammates on the sideline, and it was if all the problems, worry and negativity that was growing nearly as fast as the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico during the month of May was vaporized during that moment. [more]

Timbers begin U.S. Open Cup play June 15 by Geoffrey C. Arnold at The Oregonian

The Timbers will host the Sonoma County Sol in the first round of the U.S. Open Cup play, the club announced. The Timbers will face the Sol on Tuesday, June 15 at PGE Park.

The Timbers, one of 32 clubs from lower division leagues in the first-round competition, should easily beat the Sol. [more]

Timbers Jersey Display at Nike World Headquaters by paulsepp at Dropping Timbers

We attended the Boca Junior’s practice at Nike World Headquarters last week and decided to explore the campus a bit. The campus includes many sports fields including perfect pitches, where some of the best youth teams across the US were playing in a Man U sponsored tourney. The Nike Campus is filled with bright shinny fancy things like huge office buildings, life-size bronze statues and some of the best sports memorabilia you could ever find on the planet. [read the rest for a photo gallery, including the first Nike soccer uniform – for the Portland Timbers!]

World Cup Madness – Rowdies Style by mao at Portland Timbers USL blog at The Offside

The Rowdies, well known among Timbers supporters, are hosting a major bracket challenge and called it World Cup Madness. Their goal is to enlist 100 supporters at $5 per entry with the proceeds going directly to the Timbers Army Tifo Fund. To date the Rowdies have reached 25% of their stated goal with a full week left before the games begin. [more]

And finally, a World Cup match blast from the past (2002), by Timbers player Takayuki Suzuki. Have a great weekend!

June 4-6: Cort and Fatboy’s Midnight Movie, Robots x3, Tiny Houses, Free Rowing, and the Timbers

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Friday

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

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

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. [more]

Robots robots robotsRobots Robots Robots

Robots Robots Robots, a film and art show, takes place Friday, June 4th at the Tenpod (1111 E Burnside – 3rd floor). Portland based film archivist Dennis Nyback will be showing rare robot-themed film shorts [more]

Saturday

TimbersHelp Create Portland Timbers History

Portland Timbers fan and photographer Steven Lenhart, in conjunction with Michael Orr and Matthew Speakman, is creating a visual history of the Portland Timbers.

And they would like your help. . .

They invite you to bring your Timbers ephemera to Studio 20 on Saturday, June 5th from 3pm to 7pm, where they will catalog and photograph everything for the project and for future reference. [more]

Tiny HouseTiny House Construction Workshop

I figured I’d let the Tiny House building experts, like the folks at tiny house construction company Portland Alternative Dwellings (POD), handle that.

And they will.

But they also will help you build your own tiny house, if that’s more your style. And their next one-day tiny house construction workshop is on June 5th, 2010 in Portland. [more]

RowingAnd finally, did you know Saturday, June 5th is National Learn to Row Day? It sure is! And in honor of the special day, Station L Rowing Club, of Portland, is offering a FREE two hour Introduction to Rowing Class. The class takes place 10am until noon, and no registration is required. Meet at Station L’s home in the Portland Boathouse (1515 SE Water Ave), at the intersection of SE Clay and SE Water, near the east end of the Hawthorne Bridge. They occupy Bay #2, facing the river. Parking is available in the building lot.

June 3: First Thursday For the Rest of Us – Bar Crawl and 7th Planet Picture Show

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First Thursday for June 2010 is upon us, which means tons of gallery openings if you’re into that sort of thing (PDX Pipeline has, I believe, the definitive list of openings).

But if, like me, First Thursday is not your cup of tea, what is there to do? There’s no Timbers match tonight, goldarnit.

I’ve got a few suggestions:

Bar CrawlFirst Thursday Pearl District Bar Crawl

To 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! [more]

El Tosoro7th Planet Picture Show presents El Tesoro de Moctezuma

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) [more]