The Timbers Army First Thursday event for February takes place this week at the usual spot: The Bitter End Pub (1981 W Burnside).
Beer and whiskey specials!
Happy hour food ’til 10PM!
Real talk about real football, not this Super Bowl crap!
Excited chatter about Denver away, which will be 44 long days away!
Yup, we’ve got it all. You just need to come. Discounts apply with your 107ist card. Bring it! See you then. RCTID.
See you there – festivities as usual kick off at 7:01pm!
The February 2011 edition of Cort and Fatboy’s Midnight Movie takes place this Friday, and it’s a doozie: Dirty Dancing.
It’s a classic. A camp classic. But it is also very, VERY educational. There are some very valuable life lessons in the film:
1) Never show up to an important occasion with nothing but a watermelon
2) Disappoint Jerry Orbach at your own peril
3) Always wear a condom
4) Sometimes, nose jobs are NOT the answer, and most importantly . . .
5) Nobody puts Baby in a corner.
Ugh, if you say so – I think this one might require an extraordinary amount of beer . . .
The doors of the Bagdad Theater (3702 SE Hawthorne) open at 10pm, film begins at 11pm. Admission is only $3, and you have to be 21 or over.
On January 31, 1960 ten trucks belonging to contract haulers for the Oregonian and The Oregon Journal were blown up with dynamite.
There was a strike and a lockout going on. The Stereotypers Union went on strike first, followed by almost all the other unions.
Levi Sarfield McDonald, a Stereotypers Union collective bargaining negotiator, was ultimately convicted of dynamiting the newspaper service trucks. Several accomplices said he paid them $100 each to participate.
Something that was never quite settled was what motivated Levi McDonald, and who paid for the dynamite?
The unions condemned the bombing as quickly as the press and public, and even contributed $1000 of the $2000 reward money.
Was Levi paid off by someone connected to the unions, or perhaps by someone connected to the papers?
George Washington Bush was a married father of five sons who owned a successful Missouri farm. He was also African-American. In 1844, fed up with racial prejudice, he set out on the Oregon Trail in hopes of making a better life for his family.
Upon arrival, however, he found the awful Lash Law, passed by Oregon’s Provisional Government, which banned blacks from living in Oregon. Violators of this obnoxious law could be subjected to 20-39 lashes with a whip every six months until they left the territory.
So George Washington Bush settled north of the Columbia, ultimately staking out a 640 acre farm in frontier land near Tumwater, far from the population center of the Willamette Valley where the racist laws originated.
But then in 1846 the 49th parallel, where the U.S. – Canada border is now, was declared the northern boundary of the Oregon Territory. The racist laws of the Oregon Territory pursued George Washington Bush once again. For nearly a decade Bush’s neighbors and friends lent support and finally, on January 30, 1855 the US Congress passed a special act allowing Bush to retain his land and property.
The Albina Mural Project: Filling a void in Portland’s public art and history is the topic for the Monday, January 31, 2011 History Pub at the Kennedy School Theater (5736 NE 33rd).
In the late 1970s, a group of several artists of color created murals and sculptures that hung outside for five years in the historically African-American Albina neighborhood. They worked to depict the history of black culture, both within and outside America, aiming to fill in the gaps left by silent history books. Mural scholar Robin Dunitz will explain the context in which the artists worked and the impact the project had on them and the community.
A short film on the Albina Mural Project will be shown and Robin Dunitz, co-author of Walls of Heritage, Walls of Pride: African American Murals, will be joined by Joane Oleksiak and P. C. Peri, co-curators of the Walls of Heritage, Walls of Pride Exhibit to give the presentation.
Join event co-sponsors Oregon Historical Society and Holy Names Heritage Center at 7pm Monday for a beer and history! Admission is free and this event is all ages. Please bring canned food donations for the Oregon Food Bank!