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August 15: Southeast Portland Sunday Parkways

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Sunday ParkwaysThe fourth Sunday Parkways of 2010 takes place Sunday, August 15 in Southeast Portland.

This is an opportunity to spend a pleasant summery Sunday morning and afternoon (10am to 3pm) winding your way on bike or foot through the mostly residential, car free, streets of Southeast Portland. The eight mile route take you from one park to the next, where you can check out the vendors and demonstrations, or just sit down and relax.

The Southeast event, just like last year, coincides with the Hawthorne Street Fair, so make a day of it.

Sunday Parkways Map

Heather and I have participated in several Portland Sunday Parkways – we walked the very first one in North Portland in 2008, and last year we rode bikes in the Southeast Portland event. We highly recommend participating.

Portland Simple Living Advocate Tammy Strobel Featured in New York Times

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Tammy StrobelPortlander Tammy Strobel‘s simple living story is featured in a New York Times article today about the consumer trend towards simplicity – Consumers Find Ways to Spend Less and Find Happiness.

A two-bedroom apartment. Two cars. Enough wedding china to serve two dozen people.

Yet Tammy Strobel wasn’t happy. Working as a project manager with an investment management firm in Davis, Calif., and making about $40,000 a year, she was, as she put it, caught in the “work-spend treadmill.”

So one day she stepped off.

Read the rest of the article to find out how she and her husband, Logan Smith, overhauled their spending habits, got out of debt, and simplified their lives.

Tammy blogs about social change through simple living at RowdyKittens. She’s also a photographer, designer, and author.

Her story has been an inspiration to Heather and me, as we just recently got out of debt and have begun planning a simpler future together. Read my April interview with Tammy to find out more about her work, tiny houses, and the origin of her blog’s quirky name!

New York Times Explores Portland Happy Hours

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New York Times For some reason, the New York Times is writing about happy hour food specials in Portland: Bar + Food | Portland’s Happiest Hours.

Are food specials at happy hour a special phenomena? I wouldn’t think so, but according the T Magazine article other towns — notably Seattle, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Charleston, S.C. — also serve cheap eats in the late afternoon, Portland has been doing it since the last recession. Huh.

Accanto, Clark Lewis, Wildwood, Olympic Provisions, and Nostrana are the formidable Portland restaurants that garner accolades for their fine happy hour food specials in the article.

If they were to have asked me, I would also have suggested:

Lincoln – for their $4 crispy fritter of the day, $5 greens and shaved fennel with almonds, and of course the $7 poutine, featuring fries, lamb gravy and cheese curds!

Papa Haydn (east) – $5 pork rillette, country pate, and their delicious poutine with hand-cut kennebeck fries, pulled chicken, thyme gravy and cheese curds!

(Don’t worry, the New York Times will come round to appreciating poutine eventually . . .)

PDL Championship Match Day: Portland Timbers U-23 vs. Thunder Bay Chill

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Portland Timbers U-23With their 19th win in a row the Portland Timbers U-23 took one step closer to both the perfect season (they’re 19-0-0 right now!) and the Premier Development League championship.

The Timbers beat Reading United AC 2-1 in the semifinal Friday to earn the right to face the Thunder Bay Chill in the championship match today, Saturday August 7 2010, at 4pm at PGE Park – tickets are cheap!. The match will also be broadcast live on Fox Soccer Channel.

Match Recaps and Previews

Timbers U-23s to play for PDL championship Saturday at PortlandTimbers.com

Chill Headed to PDL Championship Finals at ThunderBayChill.com

Thunder Bay to Meet Portland in Final at USLSoccer.com

Timbers U-23s one game away from perfection after 2-1 win over Reading United AC by Allison Andrews at The Timber Mill

Timbers Kids Advance to National Final at Prost Amerika Soccer

Timbers U23s one final step from perfection by David Ball at the Portland Tribune

Timbers U-23 2, Reading United AC 1: Perfect season, championship just a win away for Portland at The Oregonian

August 6-8: Nano Beer Fest 2010

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Nano Beer FestThe 2nd Annual Nano Beer Fest takes place this weekend, August 6 through 8 2010, at Fanno Creek Brew Pub (12562 SW Main Street in Tigard).

The small breweries and their beers:

Pelican Pub& Brewery– Pacific City / Kiwanda Cream Ale
Beer Valley Brewing – Ontario / Leafer Madness Imperial APA+Rosebud IPA
Caldera Brewing Co.– Ashland / Dry Hopped Orange
Double Mountain Brewery–Hood River / Devils Kriek+Molten Lava Imperial IPA
Oregon Trail Brewing–Corvallis / Oregon Trail Wit
Upright Brewing Co.–Portland / 7 Strong Saison
Bend Brewing Co.–Bend / Eclipse CDA
Fort George Brewery–Astoria / Sunrise Oatmeal Pale
Calapooia Brewing–Albany / Riverdog ESB
Three Creeks Brewing–Sisters / Firestorm Red
Walkabout Brewery – Central Point / Worker’s Pale Ale
Heater Allen Brewing–McMinnville / Isarweizen German Wheat Beer
Oakshire Brewing – Eugene / Watershed IPA
Southern Oregon Brewing–Medford / Gold Digger
Natian Brewery–Portland / Undun Blonde

The tasting mug costs $2, and 4oz samplers cost $1.25. Visit NanoBeerFest.com for more details.