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Where to Watch Portlandia In Portland

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Updated for 2012: season 2!

PortlandiaDon’t have a TV? Don’t have the Independent Film Channel? Watch Portlandia, if you’re into that sort of thing, at the Portland venues listed below.

Portlandia season 2 airs of Fridays, beginning on January 6, 2012.

[The IFC broadcast is at 10pm Portland time. Note the different air times for the venues below!]

Mission TheaterMission Theater

Watch each episode of Portlandia at 7pm at the Mission Theater (1624 NW Glisan). Doors open at 6pm. Must be 21 or over to get in, and entrance is free!

4424-4-2 Soccer Bar

Not much soccer on TV Friday Nights, so 4-4-2 Soccer Bar (1739 SE Hawthorne) will be showing Portlandia each Friday night at 7:00pm! )

Tanker BarTanker Bar

Tanker Bar (4825 SE Hawthorne) will be showing Portlandia this year when it does not conflict with Trailblazer Games. Check Facebook and Twitter for updates.

Leisure Public HouseLeisure Public House

North Portland’s Leisure Public House (8002 North Lombard) will be hosting screenings of Portlandia – stay tuned to Twitter and Facebook for updates.

East BurnEast Burn

East Burn (1800 E. Burnside) will be playing a Season 1 marathon starting at 4pm on Friday, January 6, followed by the Season 2 premiere on heated patio and in the downstairs taproom!

CartlandiaCartlandia

Watch Portlandia at the appropriately named food cart pod Cartlandia (intersection of 82nd and Springwater Corridor) Season one marathon on the big flat screen followed by season 2 premier. covered seating, fire pits and good food. Check Twitter for more details. (hat tip Jessica!)

Radio RoomRadio Room

Via Twitter we learn that the Radio Room (1101 NE Alberta) will also be showing Portlandia again this year.

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Please leave comments below if you know of other places that should be included on this list. I’m also waiting for confirmation from a few venues that regularly showed Portlandia last year.

New Year’s Eve in Portland

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Helping you make plans to ring in 2013 since 2012 – this page will be updated throughout the week leading up to January 31st as more events are identified.

New Year's EveArea New Year’s Eve Events, Parties, and Celebrations

New Year’s Eve Fireworks

FireworksI haven’t found any Portland area New Years Eve fireworks displays. If you head up to the mountain, however, you have a couple options.

  • Brrring in the New Year at Mt. Hood Meadows – Fireworks start around 10 p.m., lifts run until midnight.
  • Mt Hood Skibowl’s 25th Annual New Year’s Eve Extravaganza. Skibowl West will be entertaining all day long with MC Snow Go! in the base area having comps and giving out swag and prizes. Around 11:45, the lights on the hill will be turned off and the countdown festivities will begin starting with the torchlight parade led by the Powder Hounds doing a snow bike demo, then followed by skiers and riders carrying the torches down the slopes featuring members of the Mt. Hood Race Team. Lastly, the New Year will be kicked off with world record Olympic speed skier Petr Kakes launching down the hill into the base area starting the fireworks extravaganza!

New Year’s Eve Travel

After midnight cops and drunks make up the majority of driver – take the train, bus, or a cab!

  • TriMet service is free after 8 p.m. on New Year’s Eve. Buses and streetcar will run on weekday schedules, and MAX will be running extra late.

MAX Blue, Green and Yellow lines
• The last Blue Line trip to Gresham leaves Pioneer Square South at 3:07 a.m. and the last trip to Hillsboro leaves Pioneer Square North at 3:07 a.m.

• The last Yellow Line trip to Expo Center leaves Pioneer Courthouse/SW 6th at 3:02 a.m. and the last trip to Downtown Portland leaves Expo Center at 2:16 a.m. A trip to Rose Quarter Transit Center and Ruby Junction/E 197th leaves Expo Center at 3:41 a.m.

• The last Green Line trip to Clackamas leaves from Pioneer Courthouse/SW 6th at 3:10 a.m. and the last trip to Downtown Portland leaves Clackamas Town Center Transit Center at 1:44 a.m.

MAX Red Line
• The last trip of the night to the Portland International Airport leaves Pioneer Square South at 10:30 p.m. and the last trip of the night to Beaverton Transit Center leaves the airport at 11:49 p.m.

Breakfast in Bridgetown – Book Review [and Giveaway!]

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We have a Winner! William Reagan wins the free copy of Breakfast in Bridgetown, 2nd Serving.

Breakfast in BridgetownBreakfast in Bridgetown: The definitive guide to Portland’s favorite meal, 2nd serving, is a great resource.

I know breakfast in Portland pretty darn well, and even I learned of a few spots from reading the book that are now on my must visit list. The book isn’t just a catalog of great restaurant places in Portland (though it is mostly exactly that). There’s also an article by Brett Burmeister, of Food Carts Portland, giving the rundown on food cards that offer breakfast. PortlandFood.org‘s Nick Zukin‘s contribution helps you hunt down authentic international breakfasts in Portland.

The bulk of the book is authored by Paul Gerald, host of the weekly Cascadia.fm show Breakfast in Bridgetown, and he knows how to break a fast in Portland, Oregon.

One day, sitting in the Beaterville Cafe, it occurred to me that I had never done an article about a breakfast place in Portland. Then I thought of all the options I could write about. And within a few minutes, Breakfast in Bridgetown was born — at least, in my head.

So the book and the show is really about Portland, and our lives here. I’m not a restaurant critic, and the book doesn’t have stars or any kind of rating system. For each of the places, I’ll describe it, tell you what I think, throw in what others think, try to tell you how the place fits in the Portland breakfast pantheon, and then let you decide if you want to eat there.

Find Paul Gerald on Twitter @PDXBreakfast Guy. He’s also got a blog, where you can find the weekly podcasts, at BreakfastInBridgetown.com.

The book can be found at Stumptown Scribes, Powell’s, and other places – check out the blog for details.

We have a winner – Thanks to all who participated, William Reagan was the randomly selected winner!

CONTEST!

Win a free copy of Breakfast in Bridgetown, 2nd Serving!

Leave a comment on this post indicating your favorite Portland breakfast spot. On Tuesday, December 14 at 6am I will draw a name randomly out of a figurative hat and send that person a brand spanking new copy of the book, signed by author Paul Gerald himself!

Time Magazine: Why Portland Is America’s New Food Eden

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Time MagazineAs the New York Times obsession with Portland wanes, Time Magazine gamely enters the fray with an impressive contribution: Why Portland Is America’s New Food Eden.

Food writer Josh Ozersky opens the article with gusto:

When I found myself heading to Seattle for business recently, all I could think about was Portland. The Oregon city is America’s new food Eden, a confluence of every fertile trend in contemporary gastronomy. Locavorism, the New Naturalism, food trucks and so on — they’re all there.

Elliot Smith, Modest Mouse, and The Decemberists are all mentioned in the very next sentence – this article is a Portland pandering tour de force.

The restaurant talk starts with celebrity restauranteur Naomi Pomeroy’s Beast, followed by visits to Nostrana, and Olympic Provisions. Clyde Common, The Country Cat, and The People’s Pig all garner pork laden mentions too. Ozersky highlights Portland’s small culinary community and it’s apparent lack of internecine warfare. At the Skyline Tavern he experiences a Double Rainbow moment surrounded by the raw and natural scenery.

And he’ll be back – he missed his chance to dine at Beast (the blame goes to Bunk).

Happy Birthday Horse Brass Pub! (1-Nov-2010)

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Horse Brass PubPortland’s venerable and irreplaceable Horse Brass Pub (4534 SE Belmont) turns 34 years old today, November 1 2010. And of course there are some special beers on tap:

The Pub’s Anniversary! Come help us celebrate our 34 years serving great beer and food. There will be an array of special beers we will be putting on tap:

Double Mountain Killer Green
Caldera Mogli
Sierra Nevada Fritz & Ken
Sasquatch Oatmeal Porter
Full Sail’s Top Sail Bourbon Barrel Aged Porter
Last year’s Jubel Ale from Deschutes
2009 Alaskan Smoked Porter
Green Flash Special Brew #1