Scrabble Every Tuesday at The Gotham Tavern

*Julian Chadwick edit/shout-out: Oregon Literacy noticed my inabilities and is now contributing *

Neighborhood: North

Map: 2240 N. Interstate Ave, Portland, Or, 97227

Scrabble- It’s free and it’s every Tuesday at The Gotham Tavern

Oregon Literacy hosts free scrabble games every Tuesday evening at The Gotham Tavern, located at:
2240 N. Interstate ave. from 6-9pm.

Join us for lightly compeitive rounds with a chance to win prizes, meet new people, and enjoy the yummy food and delicious beverages The Gotham Tavern offers. Ten percent of your food/beverage tab goes to supporting Oregon Literacy.

Please feel free to call us, send an email, or visit our website for more information on this and other events, ways to promote literacy, and for volunteer opportunities.

www.oregonliteracy.org
www.myspace.com/oregonliteracy

email: oregonliteracy@gmail.com
phone: 503-244-3898

Barfly Awards time — Fill out Your Ballots Now–”your personal creme de la creme of the PDX scene for a coveted 2007 Golden BarF!”

From Jen Lane at the BarFlyMag.com

It’s BarFly Awards time once again! As of now, you have ONE DAY to nominate your personal creme de la creme of the PDX scene for a coveted 2007 Golden BarF! Fill out BarFly’s online survey to nominate your fave raves for BarFly Awards celebrating the local service industry, media, and artsy-fartsy contingents that keep Portland PORTLAND, and enter to win tickets to the social event of the season!

Act fast! Nominations close at precisely 11:59pm on Monday, October 29th, so hit the survey, now. Once our crack staff of CPAs collate and rank the popular vote, we’ll announce the top four nominees in each category on Tuesday, October 30th, and issue the remaining VIP invites for the Awards Gala on Sunday, November 4th, to our lucky drawing winners!

When making your nominations, please give as much identifiying info about the nominee, as possible - like their full name, where they work, phone number, their email address, MySpace, FaceBook, etc., stuff like that. We’re not going to sell anyone into white slavery or stalk them any more than usual, but we’ll need to track them down. Your answers will be kept completely confidential, and yes, you may nominate yourself (but don’t just say “ME”, give your name, please). Multiple nominees are hunky-dory, too. Multiple surveys from the same person - not hunky dory. One survey per person, please!

Continue reading after the “more” jump…

“Check out Portland’s 260+ happy hours”; Meet Tom Potter at one perhaps

A message from Bryan at UrbanDrinks.com (I like that he made it sound as it came from me–I didn’t edit this to come from him, because that is probably what I would say…sort of, but close enough)

Be sure to check out UrbanDrinks.com — they’ve added many new
features recently, including revamped user profile pages (mine is at
http://urbandrinks.com/people/JulianChadwick), and a so-easy-to-use-
that-a-fingerless-monkey-could *Edit Below*

-do-it star rating feature for bars and
restaurants.

 

You can literally rate your 50 favorite places in less
than five minutes. Also, if you have an account, you can add tags,
friends, photos of your nights out, and brutally honest reviews of
your favorite and not-so-favorite drinking holes.

Check out Portland’s 260+ happy hours here: http://urbandrinks.com/
happyhour/usa/or/portland.

Edit: Bryan emailed me to say that this monkey-line probably didn’t come out right. But, you know, when you are visiting 260+ Happy Hours, you might get sloppy at times. I hit 4 or 5 a week, and I get sloppy

He wanted me to remove it but then he would lose 8 hyphen points; that kind of hyphen-domination would win any scrabble or boggle tournament–so it stays–and the point is that it is so easy to use that Tom Potter wouldn’t even need to create a committee to figure it out.

And as we all know, Tom Potter likes to drink beer and he likes his committees…so he probably is looking.

More on Tom Potter’s drinking issues on the Pipeline:

Mayor Tom Potter gets to drink on the job–how sweet!

Mayor Tom Potter Continues to Drink on The Job!

Is it Intervention-Time for Mayor Tom Potter?

OCT. 4TH - First Thursday: XX POWER!

This October we have a very special show dedicated to female artists in Portland. The show features new paintings, collages, illustrations, comics, zines, sculptures, mobiles, and embroideries from some of this town’s most exciting artists - all of which happen to be female.

Poster image by Bobbie Sue

Headlining the show are Bobbie Sue, Rikki Barney, Indgha Leigh, and Buket. Bobbie Sue has prepared a new zine, and paintings featuring crying celebrities and our own celebrities from local bars. In addition to these 4 artists we’ve also invited the following artists to fill the space with glorious art:

Maura Arraj
Janina Angel Bath
Heather Campbell
Ashby Collinson
Britney Crump
Sarah Gottesdiener
Kathie Hadd
Midori Hirose
Joelle Jones
Aidan Koch
Kristie Louderbough
Carolyn Main
Dylan Meconis
Jennifer Mercede
Erika Moen
Sarah Oleksyk
Jennifer Parks
Jeannie Lynn Paske
Catherine Peach
Ruth Pierich
Rachel Richter
Morgan Ritter
Taryn Tomasello
Nubby Twiglet
Jen Wang
Julia Wertz… and more to be announced!

These artists come from many different fields and professions: comics, animation, fine art, graphic design, sculpture, illustration. It’s going to be one of our most diverse and interesting shows yet.

Sept 30: The Hive at Plan B: Another Message for Dave Mathews perhaps?

The Hive is at PLAN B tonight. This show, plus Heidi at the B-Side tonight means you never have to leave the B-Triangle (as Mr. Jeff coined it).

This is from their orignal show there

Sunday: The Hive Has a Message for Dave Matthews

September 1st, 2007 — Julian Chadwick

 

The Hive makes its big move to Plan B (formerly Acme) tomorrow. It should be interesting and you can read more about the Hive show at this earlier post (And The Lord Said, On Day Seven, I Will See Hive at Plan B Bar)

I asked Ms. Chris if she thought Dave Matthews was a musical genius or a musical prodigy–I mean come on–Dave Matthews* is changing people’s lives! Her response follows:

I’m sooo not a fan. I think he starts and ends every song very well, I actually like those parts, but the bridge is my kryptonite. So I’m being diplomatic and not siding either way. Better to just stay silent. Now if you asked about the Clash or Depeche Mode or The Guess Who. I could give you my opinion.

Thanks,

MS!!! Chris

HIVE
Plan B (formerly ACME)

Portland, OR 97214

(Corner of SE 8th & SE Main)

Every Sunday 9pm-2am

21+ $3 cover

www.darkhive.com

www.myspace.com/darkhive

hivepdx@gmail.com

*Reference Quota: Never, ever, ever, eva bet with Dave Matthews. It’s easier to play Joseph Hachem in Poker…

Sept 30: Daily Stank Image Bank: Is it Christmas at the B-Side? Heidi is Bar-tending!

*Edit: I originally had the day as Oct 1st, but it is tonight, Sept 30!*

I love Tanya and Joel…I was there the first night the B-Side opened (and only broke one table and chair), and I was there looking for it the night before it opened (thanks for that text-message BC).

BUT…Heidi is bar tending at the B-Side tonight (Tanya’s on vacations- lucky!). Yes, that Heidi, The one from Meat, and formerly of the BOG (Bar of Gods).

When I first moved to Portland, I met up with the mayor the second evening. He wasn’t the M.O.B yet, as he was living off Hawthorne (South of Hawthorne and north of 39th=dirty laundry= mayoral recall).

Anyway, he (and some others) took me up to the Bar of Gods where we drank many $2 special beers and dropped about $50 to get past level 4 or 5 of Archanoid table-top (where did it go?!).

That is where I met Hiede. So, Heidi is my first Portland bartender, and she was top of the game before moving onto MEAT. Now, I don’t have a pet, but I’ve been to MEAT, see MEAT hoodies everywhere, and friends who have gone their swear by it–plus, ummm, it’s called MEAT!

From Meat’s Website:

meat proudly supports and supplies the raw food diet for dogs and cats. Haven’t heard or tried the raw diet before? We will walk you through each step of the way to help integrate raw meat into your pet’s diet.

Meat
2250 E. Burnside
Portland, Or 97214
503-236-6971
fax 503-236-8039
mon-fri 11-6pm sat 11-5pm sun 12-5pm

*Picture of Heidi from Motokitty with Motokitty Bag*

From B-Side’s Myspace Page:

About me: Beer,Whiskey,Pinball, 632 e. burnside PDX, OR,97214
Who I’d like to meet: People who like to drink beer,whiskey & play pinball

Sept 8: “Why Tiger Woods is Moving to Portland” Part 2

A message from PDX PARK GOLF:

With September being in the title of a bulletin, it indicates that summer is nearing an end. So come on out for possibly 2007’s last hot day in the Park. Sad we know - but let’s all go out having fun in the sun and most likely go for drinks at the Night Light Lounge following. They have a great sunny deck and an awesome happy hour menu.

Scheduled Tee time is 2:00pm at Powell Park (SE 26th & Powell).

More info: Sept 3: “Why Tiger Woods is Moving to Portland”

Daily Stank Image Bank: Top 9 Searches Landing at PDX Pipeline Today: Greg Oden, Piercing, Plan B

This is what people typed into google or yahoo (msn, etc) and came to the PDX PIPELINE from 5PM yesterday to 5PM today (Midnight GMT is what WordPress uses).

So, let’s take a look…

1. greg oden
   • Greg Oden…really honored….I need to put more info about you to direct those people to right place/info (but it looks like they are finding your blog from my earlier posts). I’m sure I’ll be writing Blazers stuff when the season starts (email us if you want to)…Rip City baby!

   

2. Plan B Bar 1305 SE 8th Ave portland oregon
   • Nice - the searches for Plan B Bar are going up every day. Good for Jeff! I’m all about the Plan B (and the B-Triangle) success.

   

3. plan b bar portland
   • yep 2 and 3–Plan B is almost Hansel/Flexcar hot!
4. black tangerine music
   • black tangerine music must be playing a show this weekend or just getting more popular, but here is some info on their pioneer square noon tunes show with a link to their site.
5. piercing
   1. hmmm…weird, must be because of this Dante’s show where there was live tattooing and piercing going on and THE SMOOCH GIRLS!

   

Daily Stank Image Bank: It’s Plan B Bar’s Weekend–Soap Box Derby and Bangaroo

I met with Jeff, the owner of Plan B (formerly Acme) a month or so ago and shot these pics…then, I liked what he’s doing over there I went again…and again, and took more pics…

Jeff told me a lot of funny things–he’s an interesting person to speak with for sure. One that I remember is that he said Plan B completed the B(ermuda)-Bar-Triangle of this zone with the B-Side and the Basement Pub.

I love all three and am down to disappear in their triangle nearly anytime (big-ups Jeff, Tanya, Joel, Ingrid, Sandy!).

Saturday, the wonderful Mt. Tabor Soap Box Derby takes place. Afterwards, 3M (Atom 13, Pete Moss, Homonym) will be rocking the after-party at…guess…right–Plan B!

Sunday brings PRA’s 2nd Annual Bangaroo Party, where all kinds of things will be going on including someone taking on The signed PDX PIPELINE (american apparel) Thong. Oh yeah, that will be at…ummm…Plan B.

Plan B=Plan A for many of us this weekend!

August 26: PRA’s Second Annual Bangaroo Festival– “wet tightie white contest”

Just got this reminder message from Coco at PRA (so nice, PDX PIPELINE had to be a sponsor!–signed thong from Roller Derby!)

Second Annual Bangaroo Festival

On August 26, 2007 — It’s time once again for Portland Radio Authority ’ s annual Bangaroo Festival, an all-day benefit held on August 26 at Plan B (the old Acme space), located at 1305 SE 8th St., PDX.

The show is an outdoor musical extravaganza (yes, it’s that big) starting at 4 p.m. and featuring some of the best indie talent around Portland, along with a raffle, pie/hot-dog (hot dog wrapped in bacon no less) eating contests, and wet tightie white contest.

It’s open to those 21 and over, with a cover of $5 to $10 (sliding scale). Proceeds go to help keep the Portland Radio Authority going strong in all its DIY goodness.

Included in this year’s eclectic line-up are:

The Bugs, Autopilot, Dracula, Fist Fite, A Cautionary Tale, The Lesbians, Here Comes a Big Black Cloud, Happy Prescriptions and Pink Snowflakes

Sponsored by Viso Bev, Discourage Records, and Green Noise Records and PDX PIPELINE (video of Valentine wearing our prize/giveaway aka Score thong…again, which she signed for ya!)

–
Coco
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(((PRA RADIO)))
Events Manager
Truth Through Electronics - Dj ChaCha
Thursday’s 4-6pm
www.myspace.com/Coco_Madrid