Novmber 4: The Barfly Nominees are in and The Award Show is Today at Mt. Tabor Legacy

This is an invite-only event. Normally, I would not post invite-only here, but it was already on the Barfly website, and hey–you might know one of these people and possibly mooch one of their VIP tix…I mean, congratulate them. And why am I not up for “Most Good Writer”–sounds like it was written specifically for my illiteracy (rhyming on-timing!). 

My lovely fall sickness seems to be nearly gone (the contagion is for sure), so I’m going to do my best to get out there tonight as several of these people are friends of mine (Atom 13, Malice, Chris Haberman, Phil Ragaway, William Slater - “hottest item not on the menu”= ha!). If so, expect some good pictures this coming week.

Now Non-contagious, Julian

Posted By Miss Jen Lane of BarFly fame on October 31, 2007, 2:43 pm

And the nominees are…

The people have spoken, and BarFly has listened. Final BarFly Award voting will be conducted live and in person at the ultra-fabulous, oh-so-exclusive, BarFly Awards Gala, on Sunday, November 4th - check your inboxes for your personal invites, beautiful people, and hope your tears don’t stain your pillowcases, hoi polloi.

Now, without further ado, the 2007 BarFly Award nominees are…

Portland has over 200 Happy Hours, Find Them and Make a Pub Crawl

“We want to be like the British Empire.
The sun will never set on the happy hour empire.”

The above quote is a rough remembrance of what Michael said to me at Plan B bar (formerly ACME) a couple weeks ago. Michael, Elizabeth, and Bryan are building UrbanDrinks.com, a guide to bars and happy hours around the country.

Of course, they live in Portland aka Eden, and undisputed (to us) bar king of the world. Therefore, Portland is nicely filled out on their site. But, if you don’t see your favorite watering hole, you can add it in there (as well as tags and info if it is listed).

Bonus, you can create a pub crawl on there and bring your other friend on it.

They also told me there are almost constant happy hours in the PDX (7AM to 2:30AM)

Picture: Cal at the Bar of Gods (BOG) sporting a B-Side hoody, with Mr. Shock in the background.

Choose a neighborhood in Portland (www.UrbanDrinks.com):

Happy Hour Statistics
Neighborhood	Total	Right Now!
Downtown	50	2
Northeast	47	4
Alberta	11	0
Northwest	35	2
Southeast	34	3
Hawthorne	6	0
Belmont	5	0
Pearl	27	0
Old Town	19	0
North Portland	16	0
Mississippi	6	0
Southwest	4	0

This grid is from their site, and was cut and pasted at 11:45 today, Saturday. Go over there and play my new favorite game–click and refresh to watch our happy hours come alive.

There is already a new one in SE (yeah!) since I started writing this.

Reminders: 1st Thurs, 5th Ave St Fair, Stumptown Party…and then there is Friday

Tonight/Thursday, August 2nd

• 5th Avenue Street Fair — Old Town/Chinatown • August 2 • 5-10

• It’s First Thursday…did you not know?
• Stumptown Downtown is having it’s Art Opening Party Tonight with THE COOL KIDS and LIFESAVAS
• ATOM 13 and 3M at the BOG

Friday:

• Rock And Rose and Rontoms = ‘soso‘
• Jace Gace is educating fools
• Hot Sweaty “will get you laid” Mess at The Tube
• PDX POP NOW kicks down 5 million bands
• Pretty Please at Moloko Plus

More later I’m sure…I’ll be at a dive bar playing dominoes