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Portland Weekend Amusements (12-14 February 2016)

February 11, 2016 by Dave Knows Leave a Comment

Fun weekend ahead – with or without a sweetheart: Beer, science, Oregon’s 157th birthday – and more!

Friday

Darwin Day – A celebration of Darwin’s Birthday featuring Dr. Kiki Sanford, host of the This Week in Science Podcast

Dr. Kiki Sanford is a neurophysiologist by training and currently runs the This Week in Science radio program. Join Biology Investigation & Outreach to hear Dr. Kiki speak about genetics, evolution, and the future in celebration of Darwin’s 207th birthday!

5:30pm Science Communication Panel

6:00pm Keynote Address with Dr. Kiki

7:00pm Q&A Session

Location: Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom

Tickets are FREE and everyone is welcome!

Friday-Saturday

Portland Night Market

The Portland Night Market showcases 75+ businesses that call the great City of Portland home. Blending food, culture, music, drinks and retail together for an adventurous evening in the Industrial District. The event allows people to meet some of Portland’s best makers and creators set in the unique venue of a 100+ year old produce row warehouse. The PNM is a free event and open to all ages.

To kick off 2016, PNM is partnering with some of Portland’s sexier businesses for a special edition market, dubbed, “The Love Train.” We’ve brought on entertainment showcasing live music, aerialists, not to mention an aphrodisiac alley complete with chocolate, tastings, an oyster bar and loads of other goodies!

Saturday

Zwickelmania

Zwickelmania, the annual one-day event in Oregon when breweries open their doors to the casual and hardcore beer fans, lands on Feb. 13th this year — from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. More than 120 breweries, both big and small, are planning on participating with meet-the-brewer events and beer samples. For those who are planning a special Valentine’s Day trip to a place in Oregon, make sure to carve out some time to stop by a brewery or two while you are here. Visitors are invited to click on one of the six regions of Oregon on the Zwickelmania event page to see which breweries are participating.

Last year, more than 32,500 people toured 115 participating breweries statewide and the Oregon Brewers Guild is expecting that number to increase in 2016.

Sunday

Oregon Statehood Day

The Oregon Historical Society invites one and all to a special Oregon Statehood Day celebration on Sunday, 14 February 2016 at the museum (1200 SW Park Ave).

“Celebrate Oregon’s birthday in style at the Oregon Historical Society! The one and only Thomas Lauderdale will be at the piano as former Governors Ted Kulongoski and Barbara Roberts lead the singing of “Happy Birthday.” Feast on cake from Gerry Frank’s Konditeri, and meet Gerry himself as he signs copies of the latest edition of Gerry Frank’s Oregon.”

Oregon Statehood Day (14 February 2016)

February 10, 2016 by Dave Knows Leave a Comment

Oregon' 64th Birthday 1923 - Oregonian Collection The Oregon Historical Society invites one and all to a special Oregon Statehood Day celebration on Sunday, 14 February 2016 at the museum (1200 SW Park Ave).

Celebrate Oregon’s birthday in style at the Oregon Historical Society! The one and only Thomas Lauderdale will be at the piano as former Governors Ted Kulongoski and Barbara Roberts lead the singing of “Happy Birthday.” Feast on cake from Gerry Frank’s Konditeri, and meet Gerry himself as he signs copies of the latest edition of Gerry Frank’s Oregon.

Program and 157th birthday cake will be served up at 12pm. This event – and museum admission – is free and open to the public. Sunday is also your last chance to see the current exhibit, The Art of War: Propaganda Posters of World Wars I & II, which closes at the end of the day.

Stumptown Stories: Happy Birthday, Oregon! (9 February 2016)

February 8, 2016 by Dave Knows Leave a Comment

Come on out to the Jack London bar (basement of the Rialto, SW 4th and Alder) on Tuesday, 9 February 2016 Happy Birthday, Oregon – presented by Stumptown Stories.

February 14th is Oregon’s birthday! And to celebrate, Stumptown Stories is bringing more historic tales of Portland’s past…with cake! It’s also the day after Lunar New Year begins, so Heather Arndt Anderson will be talking about the history of Chinese food in Portland. JB Fisher will be regaling us with tales of Jimmy Valentine and the notorious Brice child kidnapping attempt in the mid-1950s. A good time will be had by all! And much learniness!

Stumptown Stories, batshit crazy stories from the murkiest, weirdest, and nuttiest corners of Portland history, takes place the second Tuesday of every month at the Jack London.

Admission is free. Doors open at 7:00 PM, 21 and over only.

Portland Weekend Amusements (5-7 February 2016)

February 3, 2016 by Dave Knows Leave a Comment

Sausage, seafood and wine, Chinese food and culture – and a parade! Plenty to do beside watching football this weekend.

Friday-Saturday

Portland Seafood & Wine Festival

Come join us and sip some of Oregon’s best wines while indulging in all the fresh coastal seafood and culinary delights at the 11th Annual Portland Seafood & Wine Festival! What luck that this Portland Tradition falls right in the middle of Dungeness Crab season. We encourage you to bring the whole family! With face painters, balloon artists and so much more your everyone is sure to look forward to coming every year!

Wurstfest (in Mt. Angel)

The Best of the WURST a celebration of German Sausage

Celebrate Mount Angel’s German heritage at Wurstfest, where you will find the best handcrafted German sausages as well as local and German beers. Enjoy other great food, live German music, dancing, games and demonstrations.

Special events include Senior Day for 65 and over, with special give-aways on Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

So dust off your lederhosen, starch up your Bavarian dirndl, and join the happy folk of Mt. Angel for a fun-filled, two-day celebration of the Wurst.

Saturday

年宵會 Chinese New Year Cultural Fair

Chinese New Year Cultural Fair will be celebrating the Year of Monkey with you on Feb. 6, at Oregon Convention Center Hall B.

This year with the sponsorship from ACHIEF Fund and the Oregon Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, and the local Chinese Restaurants, and Food supply Companies, we will be able to give out 1,000 FREE NEW YEAR LUNCH to our audience. Free lunch will be given at around 1pm after our Grand Opening at 12pm. You have to present the WHOLE ticket to get the lunch.

Sunday

Dragon Dance and Parade

Kick off the Chinese New Year with a fabulous mile-long parade through Portland! The Dragon Dance will begin at 11am on the corner of NW Davis & 4th Ave., continuing through Chinatown, down 3rd Ave., and up SW Jefferson. The celebration continues at OHS when the parade arrives around noon, where we will host tea, sweet treats, and special performances by local Lion Dance teams!

Science Pub Portland: Liquids in Space (4 February 2016)

February 1, 2016 by Dave Knows Leave a Comment

Join OMSI and Mark Weislogel, PhD, Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Portland State University on Thursday, 4 February 2016 for Science Pub Portland: Liquids in Space at the Empirical Theater at OMSI (1945 SE Water Ave.).

There are as many as 50 different drinks available to astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Beer is not one of them. But coffee is. Understandably, the coffee is sucked through straws inserted into sealed bags. But wouldn’t it be more pleasurable to sip from a cup, sensing the warmth and aromatics, and chilling from the pressure of the day with co-workers a little like back on earth? Believe it or not, this isn’t easy to do. The problem is the lack of gravity(!) and its impact on the whole process of drinking.

In this presentation we tell the story of the Space Cups which were designed at IRPI LLC in Wilsonville in collaboration with NASA, demonstrated in the low-gravity drop tower at Portland State University, launched to the Space Station on a Space-X rocket, and enjoyed by the astronauts aboard the International Space Station. We will present fun video of astronaut antics while drinking in the galley of the Space Station, but also the deeper story of microgravity capillary fluidics research that undergirds our work and illuminates a direction for the design of advanced spacecraft for the more demanding exploration missions of the future.

The Portland Science Pub takes place monthly at the Empirical Theater at OMSI. Check in at the theater entrance (doors open at 5 PM) – there’s a $5 suggested admission. OMSI’s restaurant Theory, and the Empirical Cafe are open and you can take food and drinks into the theater with you.

Parking is free for the event, but consider taking the streetcar or any of the multitude of buses that cross the Hawthorne Bridge (eastbound/westbound), which has stops a few blocks from OMSI.

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