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July 17-19: Beer, Woodstock Parade, the Big Busk, and a Sunday Parkway

July 17, 2009 by Dave 2 Comments

Updates for 2010:

  • July 16-18: Portland International Beerfest 2010
  • July 17: Woodstock Festival and Parade 2010
  • July 17: The Big Busk 2010
  • July 18: East Portland Sunday Parkways

This weekend sports quite the line up.

There’s a beer fest, of course – the Portland International Beer Festival, which runs all weekend (Friday 4pm-10pm, Saturday 12pm-10pm, Sunday 12pm-7pm) up in the North Park blocks between Davis and Everett. This is the expensive one: $20 for 10 beer tickets and official glass (don’t confuse this one with the big one, which is next weekend).

woodstock09150Head out to southeast Portland for the the annual Woodstock Festival and Parade Saturday. It runs from 11am to 4pm, in the Woodstock Neighborhood of course.

You’ll find live music on two stages (one at 43rd and Woodstock, one at 46th), food vendors, a raffle, and of course the parade. Check the website for details.

thebigbusk09Also Saturday The Big Busk takes place. What’s the Big Busk? It’s a downtown Portland musical festival unlike any other:

The idea is, for an entire afternoon, to saturate downtown with music. All kinds of music. Up and down Broadway, the transit mall, the park blocks to the esplanade.

There is no stage, but every corner is a stage. There is no audience, but everyone is the audience. There is no admission fee, but we

Make a trip downtown between 2pm and 8pm Saturday to see, and hear, what it’s all about. Check out the website for a list of performers and stages, or just wander about and follow your ear.

I know you listen to the Portland Sucks podcast, so you already know Robert Wagner and Sabrina Miller are putting together a team of commandoes to roam the festival to record music and gather interviews for an upcoming podcast.

Sunday ParkwayThe second Sunday Parkway of the summer takes place Sunday from 9am to 4pm. This one is in Northeast Portland. (The last one is August 16 in Southeast Portland.)

The 7-mile Northeast Sunday Parkways two-way route will showcase portions of the Vernon, Concordia, Cully, Alameda, Sabin, and Beaumont-Wilshire neighborhoods. The route will also feature the Ainsworth parkway, Alameda bluff and will cross the Alberta, Beaumont and 42 Avenue business districts. There is no start or finish line – join the fun where ever you want!

Other noteworthy events are the Cathedral Park Jazz Festival, under the St. John’s Bridge, Friday through Sunday, and the Portland Highland Games out at Mt. Hood Community College on Saturday. And of course the Timbers play twice this weekend, on the road.

Around the Sun and PDX Pipeline, as usual, have comprehensive lists of other events this weekend, and OurPDX enters the fray with Shit to do this weekend.

October 17-19: Fresh hops, apples, and the Timbers Army

October 16, 2008 by Dave 3 Comments

Friday-Sunday

Portland Nursery‘s apple tastings continues this weekend, 10am-5pm each day. Enjoy the fair-like atmosphere, sample sixty varieties of apples and pears (pdf), and listen to the musical stylings of Pete Krebs Gypsy Trio (Saturday 10am-12pm), Hurricane Hole with Dale Jones (Saturday 1pm-4pm), The Mighty Filberts (Sunday 10am-12pm), and the Mike Danner Trio (Sunday 1pm-4pm).

Heather, from Mile73.com, and I made it out last weekend; read her recap and mine.

Saturday

The second installment of the Oregon Bounty Fresh Hop Beer Tastivals takes place Saturday at Hopworks Urban Brewery (2944 SE Powell Blvd). Part one was October 4th in Hood River; part three is next weekend at Ninkasi in Eugene.

Hopheads, rejoice! The autumn air is turning crisp, heralding the annual harvest of hops, and with it, the celebration of fresh hop beers by Oregon’s famed craft brewers. Oregon Bounty and the Oregon Brewers Guild have collaborated to host a statewide series of three Fresh Hop Beer “Tastivals,” each featuring more than 20 original fresh hop beers from many of Oregon’s top craft breweries.

Admission is free; the requisite tasting mugs cost $5. Beer tokens are $1 each.

The tentative beer list is available at the Oregon Brewers Guild Blog.

TimbersJonesing for some Timber-centric company?  Maybe thinking a celebration of sorts is in order for the official MLS bid?  Craving some haggis or a scotch egg? Head to the Rose and Thistle (2314 NE Broadway) for merriment, commiseration, argy-bargy, and whatnot with the Timbers Army Saturday night.  7:01pm of course!

StreetFilms extolls Portland transportation planning for 30 minutes

August 22, 2007 by Dave Leave a Comment

You’ve probably seen bits of this before, but here it is all together in a 30 minute production.

StreetFilms is a project of the New York City Street Renaissance, “a collection of non-profits geared towards re-imagining the city’s public spaces and making our streets safer for pedestrians, bicycles and non-vehicular modes of transportation.” Portland gets a lot of attention on the site for obvious reason.

Kilts and hops next weekend

July 16, 2007 by Dave 1 Comment

Portland Highland Games Association LogoThe Portland Highland Games take place next Saturday the 21st at Mt. Hood Community College.  The game schedule is available here.  The Mac MacTarnahan Memorial Challenge Caber Toss is at 4:30pm.

Meanwhile south of town the Hubbard Hop Festival kicks off Saturday morning. It features a parade,  a 5k run, barbecue chicken, german sausages,  a horseshoe tournament, and a beer garden!

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