Join Carye Bye, of Hidden Portland, on Sunday, October 3 2010 for the Hidden Portland Reading & Walking Tour of Oldtown – Chinatown.
Starting at 2pm at Union Station (800 NW 6th), author, illustrator and museum lady Carye Bye will lead a tour as she reads from Hidden Portland: Museums & Collections, which is now available on wide-release. The tour should go until about 5pm.
Visit HiddenPortland.com for more details on the tour, and the book!
Friday
Cort and Fatboy’s Midnight Movie – The Lost Boys
The latest edition of Cort and Fatboy‘s Midnight Movie takes place Friday, October 1st at the Bagdad Theater (3702 SE Hawthorne). The film is a doozie: The Lost Boys!
“Before “24,” Before “Speed 2,” Before “Dream a Little Dream,” Kiefer, Jason and the Corey’s gained large amounts of fame by baring fangs and trashing Santa Clara, CA, a town that would be a wonderful place to stay if it weren’t for all the damned vampires.” [more]
Friday-Sunday
The 59th Annual Greek Festival takes place Friday, October 1 through Sunday, October 3 at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church (NE 32nd and Glisan).
Over 15,000 guests are expected to come out to enjoy the greek food (feta, lamb, souvlaki, spanakopita, koulourakia, diples, bougatsa, etc.), cooking demonstrations, crafts, and of course beer and wine! Festival goers can also enter a raffle, visit the Ethos Bookstore, and sign up for guided tours of the church. Entertainment includes Greek Folk Dancing performances and music. [more]
Lovecraft Film Festival & Cthulhu Con
The 2010 H.P. Lovecrat Film Festival and Cthulhucon takes place Friday, October 1 through Sunday, October 3 at the Hollywood Theatre (4112 NE Sandy). . . .
This year’s festival may be Portland’s last, so you won’t want to miss it!
Lovecraftian films El Monstro Del Mar, Pan’s Labrynth, Primal, The Burrowers are just a few of the features films this year. Twenty shorts will also be shown. In addition to the films and film discussions, vendors will be hawking their horror-related wares and Howies will be awarded. [more]
Saturday
October is Oregon Archives Month. By way of celebration four downtown Portland historical archive locations will be welcoming visitors from 11am to 4pm on Saturday, October 2 – it’s the First Annual Oregon Archives Crawl. . . .
Archives Crawl passports will be issued to participants to help in navigation. The event, and passport, is free. [more]
Saturday-Sunday
Prost! Oktoberfest and Oktoberfest Bier Challenge
Prost! Portland (4237 N Mississippi) is throwing an Oktoberfest celebration this Saturday and Sunday, October 2 and 3.
The Mississippi Marketplace food carts are also joining the festivities, and of course Prost makes a mean pretzel sandwich too.
$20 gets you your own liter stein to keep, filled with bier! [more]
I can’t imagine fitting anything else into this weekend, but no doubt Around the Sun, PDX Pipeine, and Blogging Portland on the Cheap will find a way!
You only have a few more evening to watch the Chapman Vaux Swifts in 2010 . . . but are you sure you want to?
Video by FrontAve, aka Mike Vogel, inspired by the Stumptown Magazine post Attack of the Killer Birds
The Reed College Quest, the Independent Newspaper of Reed College, is now online.
Back in the day (aka Old Reed™), as a fresh faced freshman, I was impressed with eccentricities expressed within its pages, and sometime the writing. When I learned that starting this year the Quest would be available online, I was nostalgically excited. Alas, the best stuff may not end up in the online edition. Nevertheless, stories of potential interest to Portlanders at large have already begun to appear, such as this story on TriMet’s fare increase, or this review of the Ship Ahoy Tavern.
Plus there is plenty of the frivolity one expects from The Official Organ of the Reed College Student Body, such as Excerpts from the Book of Scrounge, and 5 Songs to Bone To. Ah, college.
What would be even more interesting to me is an online archive of the Quest, a la The Oregonian’s. That will probably never happen, but the very first issue of the Quest, from January 16, 1913 is available online (PDF format). Highlights include Athletic Events to Keep Reed Men Occupied, Dr. Sisson Addresses Teachers’ Association, and ads for Meier & Frank’s and J. K. Gill’s. Now that’s some nostalgia.
In a post at the indispensable Portland Food Carts, dieselboi has announced the publication of Cartopia: Portland’s Food Cart Revolution, a book by Kelley Roy and Kelly Rodgers. He writes:
The book looks into the history or carts, the demographics, the owner’s stories and yes, the food. I contributed along with Paul Gerald from Breakfast in Bridgetown, Carol Mayer Reed and Michael Reed from Mayer/Reed, Kelly and Kelley, and Andrew Burdick, our awesome photographer. I enjoyed taking the extra time to interview cart owners and delve further into the background as to why they opened a cart and the trials and tribulations throughout the years. There are some wonderful stories out there in food cart land.
The book, available in October, can be pre-ordered at PortlandFoodCartsbook.com, where you can also read excerpts from the book.
