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OMSI After Dark: Burn, Baby, Burn (27-June-2012)

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OMSI After DarkBurn, Baby, Burn: OMSI Gets Fired Up! is the theme of this month’s OMSI After Dark, on Wednesday, June 27, 2012.

[W]e’re all fired up with this month’s event theme, fire and water. Flaming balloons, great balls of fire, vanishing water, tornadoes of fire and more. Don’t try this at home!

Yup, it’s time for another child-free night at OMSI, and there’s alcohol!

The OMSI After Dark Summer Concert Series also debuts Wednesday, with performances by Radiation City, and The Robinsons & The Psychedelic Family Band.

Visit the OMSI Cafe for special menu items, and Altengartz Bratwurst will be out front from 9:00 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Bring cash (only!) for the beer and wine and cocktails at the bars set up throughout the museum.

Featured science demonstrations and activities include Flaming Baloons, Freezer Burn, and Tornado of Fire. Coffee, spirits, chocolate, and beer vendors will be on hand.

Hours are 7 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Admission is $18 for non-members, $9 for members. You can buy tickets online, or at the door (no reservations necessary). 21 and over only!

Good in the Hood (June 22-24, 2012)

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Good in the HoodThe 20th annual multicultural music, food festival, and parade, Good in the Hood, takes place this weekend, June 22 through 24, 2012, at Lillis-Albina Park (N. Flint and Russell Streets).

It’s Good Neighbor Night from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, featuring live music by Andy Stokes Band and Nekked Bonz. The Good in the Hood parade and the Good Neighbor run/walk take place Saturday at 11 a.m.

Both Saturday and Sunday enjoy ethnic food, a beer and wine garden (21+ only!), Kidspace, a 3-point basketball shoot off, plus lots more. (Vendor hours are noon to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, and noon to 7:30 p.m. Sunday.) Enjoy live music every night of the festival, on two stages, by Patrick Lamb, Soul Vaccination, Ocean 503, Melao de Cuba, and lots more.

Visit the website for more information, including a downloadable flyer (pdf). Organizers request a donation of 2 cans of food, and sorry, no dogs allowed.

Laughter is the Best Medicine: A Night of Comedy (22-June-2012)

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Laughter is the Best MedicineThe third annual Laughter is the Best Medicine, presented by the Vital Life Foundation, takes place Friday, June 22, 2012 at the Alberta Rose Theater (3000 NE Alberta).

Hosted by Dave “Gruber” Allen (best knowns as the guidance counselor on Freaks and Geeks), this comedy fundraiser benefits the Oregon Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association.

“Last year we started something new by actually including videos of memory care patients telling jokes,” commented event organizer Jessica DeNardo. “The crowd loved it and it was a meaningful way to remind guests why they were at the show. It’s amazing the power that a little laughter can have.”

After seeing the benefits that laughter could have on patients, The Vital Life Foundation’s sister company, Marquis Companies, piloted a program integrating improv into its activity sessions for patients. They found that patients love the activities and that improv requires little to no recollection of the past with a sincere focus on living in the present moment.

Comedians performing at this year’s event include J. Elvis Weinstein, Frank Conniff, and Ron Lynch.

Oh, and there’s beer and wine, food, a raffle and a silent auction!

Tickets start at only $10. Doors open at 6pm, show begins at 7pm. 21 and over only.

OMSI After Dark: Beans of the Gods: Coffee & Cacao (30-May-2012)

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OMSI After DarkBeans of the Gods: Coffee & Cacao is the delicious theme of this month’s OMSI After Dark, on Wednesday, May 30, 2012.

Qahwa, kahve, koffie–Fragrant bean of all that is worth waking up for on this wildly orbiting orb, I prostrate myself before thee, not ever to rise until your steaming elixir passes my lips.

Yup, it’s time for another child-free night at OMSI, and there’s alcohol!

Visit the OMSI Cafe for special menu items, and bring cash (only!) for the beer and wine at the bars set up throughout the museum.

Featured science demonstrations and activities include Oh That Heavenly Aroma…, Candy Coated Chromatography, and What’s In That Drink? Coffee, spirits, chocolate, and beer vendors will be on hand.

Hours are 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Admission is $12 for non-members, $6 for members. You can buy tickets online, or at the door (no reservations necessary). 21 and over only!

Kick Ass Oregon History Presents: The Seventh Day (11-May-2012)

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The Seventh DayKick Ass Oregon History presents the film The Seventh Day at 5th Avenue Cinema (510 SW Hall) on Friday, May 11, 2012.

Labeled by some in our current era as “The FIRST Occupy Portland,” The Seventh Day was made by Portland State University students, with the help and guidance of the university’s Center for the Moving Image, during the student strikes that erupted on college campuses across the nation in May of 1970. PSU’s campus became the site of a violent confrontation between the Portland police and protesters that sent over 30 to area hospitals. The events leading up to, and the melee itself are all chronicled in this important film. The Oregonian film review of June 5th, 1970 called The Seventh Day “an excellent film about a truly historic event in the history of our community.” My guess is 42 years later, this statement is even more true.

A virgin 16mm copy of the film from the Tom Taylor Collection, Gift of the Taylor Family, Special Collections, Portland State University Library, will be shown. The film’s context will be laid out by orhistory.com’s enthusiastic Resident Historian, Doug Kenck-Crispin. Witness to the 1970 riot, PSU history professor David Horowitz, will speak, and Josh Feinberg will provide live sitar music – no joke!

Admission is a mere $5, and beer and wine will be available. The show begins at 7 p.m.

Prepare yourself for the evening by listening to Park Blocks Riot, Kick Ass Oregon History podcast, Vol 4 #6! Visit ORHistory.com and stay tuned to @Oregon_History on Twitter for further details on the Kick Ass Oregon History podcasts. Catch up on missed episodes at the Kick Ass Oregon History archives.