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Waterfront Blues Festival

tyler — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:10:55 +0000

This Thursday through Sunday July 2-5 the Waterfront Blues Festival will be returning again to the Tom McCall Waterfront park for food, fun, and over 100 performances. The performances include Keb’ Mo’, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Ryan Shaw, Karl Densons Tiny Universe, Johnny Winter, and many more. The suggested donation to the festival is $10 plus 2 cans of donated food per person per day. Be sure to be there for the fireworks show on the 4th!

Tom McCall Waterfront Park

Portland, OR

Habibi Lebanese Cuisine

tyler — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:59:56 +0000

Habibi Lebanese Cuisine is a nice little restaurant that I have been eyeing for a while, but just recently dropped in to try it out. The atmosphere was quiet and nice, and I liked looking at dozens of varieties of beers and wines that lined the shelf near me. The Artichoke Casserole I ordered was a little heavy, but very good. The homemade hummus and homemade pita bread were only the appetizer, yet to me they were the highlight of the whole night and I probably ate more pita bread than anything else. In the fun tradition of date night, I also got to share in the other dish which was an excellent lamb shwarma that was quickly devoured along with the helping of rice and veggies. For anyone who enjoys Lebanese cuisine, I would add Habibi to your list and try it out this summer.

1012 SW Morrison St Portland Or 97205

503-274-0628

North American Organic Brewers Festival

tyler — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:48:43 +0000

This weekend June 26th, 27th, and 28th 2009 Portland, Oregon is hosting the 5th annual North American Organic Brewers Festival in Overlook Park. Ride the max or a bike down (no parking available) to enjoy the free festival. Bring 3 cans of food to donate or a Trimet ticket for that day to get $1 off of your biodegradable cornstarch beer tasting mug. $1 token will get you a beer sample, and $4 will get you a full glass. Beer brewers are coming from all over the world including Germany, England, Scotland, California, Oregon, Washington, and Vermont to share their perfect brew with you beer lovers.

Overlook Park

1301 N Fremont St Portland, OR 97227

Friday 12-9pm, Saturday 12-9pm, and Sunday 12-5pm

“The World” in Portland

tyler — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:44:29 +0000

On Tuesday June 16th many Portlanders downtown noticed that a massive 12 deck cruise ship “The World” has docked and come to visit for three days. The ship is a giant cruise ship condo complex where you can purchase (or rent) a luxurious cabin and travel with the ship all over the world. The ship comes to us fresh from San Francisco, and was visiting South America before that. After the ship leaves Portland they will be headed up along the Canadian coast up to visit Alaska. Check out KATU for more on the story, and Oregon Live has some video of the ship.

Portland Buddhist Festival

tyler — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:11:44 +0000

This Saturday June 13th, 2009 is the annual Portland Buddhist Festival in Colonel Summers Park at SE 17th and Taylor, Portland, Oregon. Come find some fun, food, zen, and maybe even enlightenment. There are activities for children and adults including classes, crafts, workshops, special guest speakers, vendors, and amazing food. The kidlets can check out the Childrens Pavilion where they can enjoy cooperative contests, drinks and snacks, crafts, and meditative activities. Adults can enjoy workshops on chanting, living zen, living green, and establishing a daily practice. There will be related vendors as well as plenty of food vendors including vegan friendly Vegi-Dog, Todbotts Triangles, Sol Pops, and Yakisoba noodles.

Growing Gardens

tyler — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:31:30 +0000

Growing Gardens is a non-profit organization in Portland that aims to reduce and eliminate hunger in the area through sustainable organic gardens. Organizing hundreds of volunteers and neighbors and hosting dozens of classes each growing season. For those enrolled in the program (generally 40 or so new families each year), a Growing Gardens team will help you build, plant, and care for a garden at your home for three years. During this time, seeds, tools, help, and knowledge are all shared to bring a healthy organic garden to a family in need. 97% of all Growing Gardens families reported massive money savings on food each month, and over 91% of the families reported having enough produce to share with others outside of their home. Two thirds of the Growing Gardens families also report eating a healthier daily diet now that they have a garden to eat from. Growing Gardens also provides many classes to the public (on a sliding donation scale suitable for any budget), the classes range from gardening, pest control, cooking with food from your garden, year round vegetable gardening, and composting. Check out their website to see how you can get involved.

Rose Festival Floral Parade and Dragon Boat Race

tyler — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:38:08 +0000

This weekend the Portland Rose Festival will be having the Grand Floral Parade starting at 10am on Saturday June 6th. The parade will start at the Memorial Colosium and end in downtown Portland. Also be sure to catch the Rose Queen coronation and the Dragon Boat Race. The Dragon Boat Races will be happening every 10 minutes or so with over 100 teams competing. Put on by the Portland-Kaohsiung Sister City Association who organized everything and is supplying the dragon boats. Races start at 8am and end at 4pm on both Saturday and Sunday in Tom McCall waterfront park.

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admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:36:42 +0000

Fleet Week

tyler — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:27:30 +0000

Wednesday June 3rd to Sunday June 7th some of our very own men and women in uniform will be here in Portland arriving on ships from The US Navy, US Coast Guard, and a ship from the Canadian Maritime Forces. Not only will the men get a much needed and well earned break from their normal duties, but they get to enjoy nearly a week in one of the greatest cities at one of our best times (the Rose Festival and perfect weather). Lets show these guys a great time with everything Portland has to offer. Free tours of the ships will be available on the waterfront on a first come first serve basis. Show up early because the tours are popular. Tours run from 9:00am to 11:30am each day as well as 12:30pm-4:30pm each day that the ships are here. Bags and strollers are not allowed on the ships, and no wheelchair access is available unfortunately so plan ahead if these are concerns.

Lolo’s Tapas on Alberta

tyler — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:26:29 +0000

After Last Thursday Art on Alberta late last night, I dropped in to try tapas for the first time ever at Lolo’s tapas to enjoy something new while the crowds dispersed. Despite the busy night, the place was a pleasant hum of people talking quietly and sharing their Spanish finger food. Over the course of the night we ended up trying the local bread dipped in a balsamic vinegar/oil sauce with some Catalan Tomato Bread to get started. The bread was very good, and very soft, but I was much more enthusiastic about the tomato bread, which was some slightly strange (but great) cheese slices on a crusty piece of bread spread with their own tomato sauce with finely chopped dill on top. It was presented very well, and tasted great. To finish the night we had the Chicken Skewers with sherry sauce and the Fideos mixto pasta. The pasta was good, but slightly more balsamic than my taste. I was the only one with that opinion though, the pasta was quickly devoured by someone else who remarked that it was amazing, especially the large prawns that were underneath the noodles. I was very impressed with the chicken skewers that our server suggested, they were really striking and different, but in that really good new food sort of way.

2940 NE Alberta
Portland, Oregon 97211

503.288.3400