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Match Day (21-September-2011): Portland Timbers vs. San Jose Earthquakes

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Portland TimbersThe Portland Timbers (10-12-6) return to Jeld-Wen Field today to take on the San Jose Earthquakes (6-11-11).

Portland is in excellent form of late, especially on the defensive end, with three shutouts in a row. Still on the cusp (at the moment, the wrong side of it) of a playoff position, a win tonight will only do them favors. San Jose are not in particularly good form (record last five: L-L-T-W-L), but are always dangerous with scorer Chris Wondolowski, who has already garnered 10 goals this season on 81 shots.

The match kicks off at 7:30pm, and will be broadcast on KPTV and estrellaTV 8.3. Listen to the game on 750 AM The Game and La Pantera 940 AM.

Match previews and intrigue

Northeast Portland Sunday Parkways (25-September-2011)

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Sunday ParkwaysThis year’s fifth and final Portland Sunday Parkways takes place in Northeast Portland on September 25, 2011.

Spend your Sunday afternoon (noon to 5pm) winding your way on bike or foot through mostly residential streets free of car traffic, from one park to the next.

This year’s 8 mile loop connects Northeast Portland’s Woodlawn, Fernhill, and Alberta Parks with marketplaces at Durham Street and Rigler School. Enjoy food, music and activities at all the stops along the route.

Download the PDF map, and find more details, at PortlandSundayParkways.org.

Reed College Centennial Community Day Celebration (24-September-2011)

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Reed College Centennial Community Day CelebrationThe first classes at Portland’s Reed College started 100 years ago, and to celebrate this auspicious anniversary, Reed is hosting a Centennial Community Day Celebration on Saturday, September 24, 2011 from 8am to 3pm, and 7pm to 9pm.

Things start off at 8am with the Reed College 5k Odyssey Run/Walk (7am on-site registration at Eliot Circle) and a pancake breakfast (price included with 5k registration, or $5.95/person) from 8:30am to 11am.

9:30am to 2pm enjoy games, a climbing wall, bouncy castle, juggling, and more on the Great Lawn (on the South side of campus, along Woodstock Boulevard).

Watch a Reed College rugby match in the upper playing field (off Steele on the North side of campus) at 10am, tour the research reactor at 11am, noon, and 1pm, and lots more – visit the celebration website for the full schedule of the dya’s events.

At 7pm watch a Movie in the Quad: See a clip of Harrison Ford roaming around Reed’s Eliot Hall chapel in the 1977 film The Possessed, part of which was shot at Reed, followed by the 1981 feature film Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.

The day ends, as all great days should, with fireworks at 9pm, on the west lawn.

September 20, 1952: Portland’s First Television Station, KPTV, Broadcasts First Program

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"KPTV Signal Starts in City" (The Oregonian, 19 September 1952)Portland’s first television station, KPTV, broadcast its first programming on September 20, 1952. KPTV, which originally broadcast on channel 27, was the world’s first commercial UHF band television station (The Oregonian, 19 September 1952).

The test pattern (pictured to the right), which began at 12:01am on September 18, 1952, was the very first telecast from KPTV’s Council Crest tower. The programming on September 20, starting at 4:30pm, featured three shows:

  • The first, sponsored by RCA, was a half hour film about the first experimental UHF station, KC2XAKUHF channel 24, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It was introduced with a speech by Herbert Mayer, who ran Empire Coil Company, KPTV’s parent company.
  • At 5pm the station joined the network to present the All Star Review, a one-hour program starring Jimmie Durante and Margaret Truman.
  • Sid Caesar’s Your Show of Shows came on at 6pm, and the station signed off at 7:30pm.

For most of that first year KPTV used shows from all the networks: ABC, CBS, DuMont, and NBC. On June 1, 1953 it became an NBC affiliate, and KOIN, Portland’s first VHF TV station, began broadcasting a year later as a CBS affiliate.

Further reading: Yesterday’s KPTV

Portland Oktoberfest Trifecta (September 23-25, 2011)

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If you enjoy Oktoberfests (and who doesn’t?!), get ready to don your dirndl or lederhosen this weekend, September 23 through 25, 2011. You have three area Oktoberfests to choose from (not to mention the Portland Polish Fest). The truly dedicated will attend them all!

Friday – Sunday

Zenner's Oktoberfest 2011Oaks Park Oktoberfest 2011

The 2011 Zenner’s Oktoberfest at Oaks Park takes place Friday through Sunday, September 23 through 25.

The authentic German beer and food (e.g. Zenner’s sausages, chicken schnitzel, braised red cabbage, sauerkraut, German Potato Salad, and Tater Tots!) is reasonably priced, and two festhallen and a multitude of outdoor picnic tables means there are plenty of places to sit down with your beers and friends. [more]

Friday-Saturday

Der Rheinlander Oktoberfest 2011Der Rheinlander Oktoberfest

The Rheinlander 2011 Oktoberfest takes place Friday and Saturday, September 23 and 24 at the restaurant (5035 NE Sandy).

The outdoor bier tent features beer directly from Munich, German – including Hofbrau Oktoberfestbier and Paulaner Salvator Dopple Bock. Live music in the evenings is provided by Oktoberfest band Paloma from Chicago, and participate in (or observe with a smirk) the sausage and pretzel eating contest and costume competition. [more]

Sunday

McMenamins EdgefieldOktoberfest at Edgefield

When you imagine Oktoberfest, what comes to mind? Oom-pah bands, loads of beer, bratwurst and hamburgers and more! One and all are welcome to participate in the German celebration that is Oktoberfest! Begun as a wedding party for Germany’s Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese in 1810, today Oktoberfest is celebrated all over the world with music, singing, dancing, beer, food and revelry. [more]