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August 8: 2010 FA Community Shield

August 2, 2010 by Dave Leave a Comment

Portland Soccer BarsFind a place to watch the match at Portland Soccer Bars, the most comprehensive list of soccer friendly bars, cafes, and restaurants in the Portland area.

FA Community Shield 2010The 2010 FA Community Shield match, the traditional kick-off to the English football season, takes place Sunday, August 8 at Wembley Stadium in London.

Usually, the previous year’s Premier League champs take on the FA Cup winner, but since Chelsea won both competitions last year, they’ll face the Premier League runners up, Manchester United. (The same two teams competed in the 2009 FA Community Shield, which was was won on penalties by Chelsea after the teams were tied 2-2 at the end of regulation.)

The match will be broadcast live at 7am Portland Time on Fox Soccer Channel.

In Portland Kells, Marathon Taverna, Costello’s Travel Caffe, and other usual suspects will feature the match – visit Portland Soccer Bars to find the place for you!

The English Premier League 2010 regular season starts next Saturday the 14th!

Oregon Blog Aggregators

April 30, 2010 by Dave 1 Comment

Since the demise of ORblogs, several Oregon blog aggregators have come, and gone. None of the survivors quite live up to ORblog’s legacy, but several are making a valiant effort.

I’ve aggregated the aggregators below, with brief reviews:

ignOregonignOregon (www.ignoregon.com)

Probably the most comprehensive of the new Oregon blog aggregators, ignOregon is simple to navigate and makes it easy to add your own blog. Like ORblogs before it, the number of clicks a post receives is recorded, the most popular posts are highlighted in the sidebar, and you can peruse by blog city. There’s no registration requirement.

ORegon BlogsORegon Blogs (orblogs.org)

ORegon Blogs never quite lived up to its promise as a potential replacement for the original ORblogs. Frankly, the site appears to be abandoned, only limping along with posts from a handful of blogs, and vague about its mission (the About page calls it a political Web site, but there’s no indication of that elsewhere on the site). And I get an Apache error when I attempt to submit my Feedburner RSS feed 🙁

Portland ThingsPortland Things (portlandthings.com)

Portland Things is simple – no voting up or down, no recording of clicks. But it’s nice looking, and easy to use. Blogs are submitted using a form, and are listed by general topic (e.g. tech, cycling, food) on the homepage sidebar. Aggregated blog posts from Portland blogs are displayed on the homepage with blog post title, blog name, and a short excerpt. This is my favorite of the aggregators. Simplicity is sometimes best.

Bend Blogs (bendblogs.com)

Bend Blogs, naturally, focuses on content from and about Central Oregon. In addition to the chronological aggregation on the homepage, it’s searchable, or you can explore by tags. A convenient list of the aggregated blogs and their RSS feeds appears in the sidebar.

Festivals all weekend: Filmed by Bike, Eat Mobile, Stumptown Comics, Record Store Day

April 16, 2009 by Dave 3 Comments

All Weekend

filmedbybike09The 2009 Filmed by Bike film festival kicks off Friday, April 17 with an Opening Night Throwdown – a street party on Clinton Street between 25th and 26th with a beer garden, entertainers, music and more. It runs from 6pm until 1am. Tickets for the films go on sale a half hour before each showing, and you can have a beer while you’re waiting in line. Thanks to Mike Vogel for the ticket tips, and make sure to check out his film at the festival, Claire Rides a Bike!

Far PostNow that spring is here and the rain has stopped (ha!), you probably need shiny new soccer gear. Far Post Soccer Supply‘s annual spring sale is going on right now. Lots of stuff is on sale. In particular club replica apparel is 30% off, and national club apparel is 40% off. Sale ends Sunday, April 19th.

comicfest09200Calling all comics nerds! As you no doubt already know and have already blogged about (nb: all nerds have blogs) the 6th annual Stumptown Comics Fest is this weekend at the Doubletree Hotel (1000 NE Multnomah). Check out the exhibitors and guests here, and the schedule here.

Saturday

recordstoreday09Support your local record store Saturday, April 18th: it’s Record Store Day. Record Store Day is an international celebration of independent record stores. To participate a store must be a physical retailer whose product line consists of at least 50% music retail, whose company is not publicly traded and whose ownership is at least 70% located in the state of operation. OregonLive’s Pop Music blog tells you all about it here, and Mayor Sam Adams has officially proclaimed Saturday to be Record Store Day in Portland. Find local participating stores here.

nightowlrecordFor even more vinyl Saturday head up to upper Hawthorne for the Night Owl Record Sale at the Portland Eagles Lodge (4904 SE Hawthorne Blvd).

Portland’s Night Owl Record Show is the nation’s first night time record show. Twice a year since October of 2003 music fans and record fiends from Portland, the Pacific Northwest and as far away as Florida, New York and Japan, have gathered for a funky time buying, selling and trading records. The Eagles provide food, drink and pool to keep things from getting boring.

Sale runs from 5 to 9pm Saturday, April 18th. Admission is $2 Admission ($15 early bird). Records, food, and drinks will be available. Hat tip to Justin (Dusty Nuggets and Hall of Records) for the reminder!


eatmobile2009
Eat Mobile, the food cart fest, is back again this year in a new location – the Disjecta space at 8371 N. Interstate Avenue. It runs Saturday, April 18 from 5:30 to 9:30 pm. Admission is $5 and proceeds go to Mercy Corp. The Willy Week is sponsoring the event, and has all the details here. Some of the food carts participating:

Al Forno Ferruzza, Altengartz Bratwurst, Cafe Velo, Fat Kitty Falafel, Flavour Spot, Garden State, Junior Ambassadors, Taqueria Los Gorditos, LeRoy’s Familiar Vittles, Lulu’s Confections, Moxie Rx, Nuevo Mexico, Sip, Soup Cycle, Tabor, The Grilled Cheese Grill and Todbott’s Triangles.

And yup, there’s a beer garden (BridgePort Beer and House Spirits Distillery cocktails) and live music (Mimicking Birds).

January 10: Tour the library eco-roof and make a buck from the recession

January 8, 2009 by Dave 4 Comments

The holidays were exhausting; January is recovery time. Mostly this month I’ll be reading books by the fire, sipping homemade glühwein, eagerly awaiting the official release of the Timbers 2009 schedule, and making countless trips to Ikea (Heather and I moved. Finally). Oh, and I have to get a haircut, stat; both the move, and my trip to the barber were snowed out several weekends in a row last month. I look like a hippy.

There are, however, a few things going on this weekend worth checking out.

Tour the Library’s new eco-roof
Last summer Snyder Roofing of Oregon installed an eco-roof on top of the Central Library (801 SW 10th).

Starting Saturday you can take a 20-minute tour to see it for yourself. The tour begins at the welcome desk on the first floor of the Central Library. Register online or by calling 503-988-5234.

When: Saturday, January 10, 2009 10:30am (and each Saturday at 10:30am and Tuesdays at noon through February).
Where: Central Library (801 SW 10th)

Secrets To Making A Great Living During The Recession
Bright Neighbor founder Randy White presents the first Bright Neighbor University lecture and presentation to help build resilient communities, achieve carbon reductions, and strengthen our local economy.

Attendees will learn:

– 10 hot new sustainable business opportunities / trends for 2009
– How to best use the Internet to make money
– How to create a buzz for your new business
– How to better collaborate and share resources
– How to access money

$10-15 donation requested, but entry is free (though space is limited; RSVP through the Bright Neighbor site, or get there early).

When: Saturday, January 10, 2009 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Where: Portland State University – Cramer Hall (1721 SW Broadway)

Peak Oil and Social Networking: Bright Neighbor

November 10, 2008 by Dave 6 Comments

Bright Neighbor LogoBright Neighbor is a new social networking framework designed to help communities increase livability, sustainability, and relocalization.

Built-in features of the site include local resources mapping, a bartering forum, and a carpooling bulletin board.  And the logo utilizes the same colors as the flag of Portland!

Portland is the debut market and home of the CEO and founder; local entrepreneur, peak oil activist, musician, and blogger [did I forget anything?] Randy White.

The official launch party is this Thursday at 5pm at Ohm (31 NW First).

The Bright Neighbor / YPOP (Young Professionals of Portland) launch party is the official launch event to unveil the power of Bright Neighbor Portland. You must be 21 to attend – we will have free food, beverages, and fun!

Raffles with free prize drawings (Kayaking lessons, seminars, etc.)
Networking & new business opportunities
Bright Neighbor demonstration
Partnership highlights

Other coverage:

  • North Portland’s new web portal looks to Bright Neighbor – The Sentinel
  • You can click with your neighbors here – The Oregonian
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