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OMSI After Dark (27-Oct-2010)

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OMSI After DarkThe latest OMSI After Dark takes place October 27, 2010.

That’s right, childfree OMSI! With beer!

Bring cash for the beer and wine bar. Enjoy special menu items at the OMSI Cafe.

The current featured exhibition is Identify: An Exhibition of You. A sneak preview of Design Zone, OMSI’s latest exhibition, will treat revelers as well. There’s also body painting, a giant hamster ball, a cider making exhibition, a DJ, and squid dissection opportunities ($5/person). Of course OMNIMAX ($4) and Planetarium ($3) shows will be showing too.

Hours are 6pm to 10pm. Admission is $10 for nonmembers (free for members). You can buy tickets online, or at the door (no reservations necessary). 21 and over only! Visit the OMSI After Dark webpage for more details.

Halloween Weekend in Portland (2010)

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Elder DaveHalloween is not one of favorite holidays.

For one thing I’m an introvert, so generally I don’t like to draw attention to myself. For another, I suck at coming up with good costumes. By way of example, take a gander at the photo to the right, taken a few years ago at one of the rare Halloween parties at which I’ve made an appearance (I’m not sure what was smeared on the camera lens). I’m dressed as a . . . Mormon missionary (not shown in the photo is my backpack, Book of Mormon, and bicycle helmet).

So yeah, I suck at Halloween.

But some people love Halloween, and at Dave Knows Portland we aim to please. So below I have assembled a handful of events and resources for Halloween events in Portland (I’ll update the list throughout the week as more appear):

South Waterfront: Ideal for Filmmakers?

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South WaterfrontFilmmaker Mike Vogel has found an excellent use for Portland’s infamous South Waterfront District:

The South Waterfront area takes a lot of crap for being a highrise wasteland of condos no one lives in. But if you live in Portland and want to film a scene with a skyscraper environment without the hassles of random people interrupting your shot, it’s a filmmaker’s dream. The very deadness of SoWat makes it ideal for the budgetless director in Portland (ok, me).

You’ve got skyscrapers, busses, the streetcar, the tram, the river. And now there’s even a really cute park. It all feels pretty generic (in a good way). It could be any city.

Read the rest: South Waterfront is for indies

Like Mike I kinda like the South Waterfront. Sure it cost a lot of public money, but what new development doesn’t? I wouldn’t want to live there, but if I was rich I’d buy one of those bargain basement condos now and come back in a decade or two to see what we’ve wrought. I expect South Waterfront will be the boondoggle that blossoms. And in the meantime we have an urban landscape fit for a filmmaker’s dream!

Image Credit: Mirabella/South Waterfront Image created by Newlands & Company, Inc, and used here under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license.