Video: Sonicsgate Movie Trailer | Portland Premier @ Bagdad Theater


Sonicsgate Movie Trailer

Description: Sonicsgate is a feature-length documentary film exposing the truth behind the SuperSonics’ tragic exodus after 41 years in the Emerald City.

Like many Blazer fans who watched what happened to the Sonics, I often worry about our Blazers getting Oklahoma City-ed by some Texas, Florida or other sunbelt city…or even Seattle. While watching Rip City Live tonight, they had the director of Soncisgate on speaking about the movie and its upcoming Portland premier at Bagdad on February 20 (part of the BAM Beer & Movie Fest). If you want to watch and worry* alongside many other basketball and Blazer fans, it should be an interesting time with a possible Q&A session after.

The producer, Adam Brown, sent this message to me about the screening:

Yes, we will be at the Portland premiere on the 20th and we are stoked!…We are hoping to have a Q&A after the show but not 100% sure if BAM has time for that or not.

If you want to watch the full movie online, you can @ www.sonicsgate.org/movie

BAM: Beer & Movie Fest | February 10-26
Bagdad Theater
Saturday February 20
7:15 PM $3
Sonicsgate.org Read the rest of this entry »

Friday: Fifth Annual Love Show @ Olympic Mills Center | 350+ Artists

The Fifth Annual Love Show is this Friday and has over 350 artists. The last large show at Olympic Mills (The Big 100) was a huge party. As you can see from the crowd shot at last year’s event, this one will be as well.

Also, they are taking canned food donations for the Oregon Food Bank.

From Press Release
love show portlandLaunch Pad Gallery & Portland City Art team up once again to bring you the Love Show, a huge open-call show with over 350 artists making art about love of all types and shades, from romance to bromance, heart-ache to heartless to heartwarming, mysterious, delirious, deleterious, disappearing and reappearing, cheering, jeering and sneering- this show has room for your love or lack there of, because it’s not all pink hearts, chocolate and doilies.

We’re honored to present the show at the Olympic Mills Commerce Center, where we will be sharing the love by collecting cans of food for the Oregon Food Bank at the opening and throughout month and donating 10% of our bar sales and 5% of vendor sales to American Red Cross Haiti Disaster Relief. 5% of art sales will also benefit Zimbabwe Artists Project.

OPENING
Friday, February 12th, 2010
7pm-12am
FREE! All Ages! Read the rest of this entry »

1st Annual BAM: Beer & Movie Fest | February 10-26

Posted by Kimberly Gehl

February is now ” brewpub and craft beer month” thanks to the work of local film aficionado Jacques Boyreau, Willamette Week screen editor Aaron Mesh and Beer Northwest Magazine. This beer and movie-loving triad have come together to present Portland’s 1st Annual BAM: Beer & Movie Fest, opening this Wednesday night at the Bagdad Theatre.

Wednesday’s opening night party is FREE, so anyone interested in celebrating the fusion of two of the most wonderful gifts the heavens have bestowed upon us* should swing by to try new seasonal beers from New Belgium Brewing and Nikasi Brewing, to pick-up free beer-related loot, to enter a raffle for DVDs and vintage movie posters, and to meet the BAM crew responsible for plotting 2 fun-filled weeks of BAM mayhem.

BAM promises to be a festival in the fullest sense of the word. The schedule boasts a 4 brewpub line-up, with screenings scheduled at the Academy Theatre, The Bagdad Theatre, Cinema 21 and the Mission Theatre. Films include cult classics, “super trash”, 80s sci-fi and comedy treasures, 5 Portland premieres, a 4-night “MetalHaus”series, and plenty of beer-themed favorites (see the full film line-up below). In addition, BAM will also be throwing opening and closing parties, hosting beer dinners, holding free pub and bar events, hosting an art gallery show and a metal music concert, and – last but not least – there will be additional special (FREE) screenings at various theatres across the city.

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Museum By Moonlight @ The World Forestry Center – Chocolate Edition | February 11

From our partners at World Forestry Center

Join the World Forestry Center for Museum By Moonlight~ Chocolate Edition!

Let us pour you some wine, beer, and a good ol’ taste of chocolate vodka while you explore our latest special exhibit, The Chocolate Story. Follow chocolate’s beginning as a potent and magical drink used by the Aztecs to its current worldwide popularity.

Enjoy Brownies From Heaven sampling their chewy fudge brownies with a secret truffle tucked inside, and smothered with luscious bittersweet Belgian chocolate ganache. Can’t get enough Missionary Chocolates? Get your chocolate fix with the best chocolates in town. And what do you know, they’re vegan too!

New Deal Distillery will be sampling out Mud Puddle Vodka, a hand-crafted spirit created with the essence of chocolate. Compare and contrast against their more traditional flavors.

Tribeca Light is back with their ready-to-pour cocktails made with real juice. Come try all 3 flavors: Mojito, Pomegranate Martini, and Margarita.

Hip Chicks Do Wine is serving up wine with attitude try Drop Dead Red or Belly Button Wine. Oakshire Brewing Co. will be serving Overcast Espresso Stout along with Oakshire Amber – two very chocolate friendly beers! Samples are complimentary with Museum admission.

Bring your appetite and cash for Ancho Chile Mole Burritos or Nachos with a side of Ancho Chile Mole sauce from Qdoba

Museum by Moonlight at the World Forestry Center
An after-hours event for those 21+
When: Feb. 11, 2010
Times: 6 – 9:30pm
Cost: $8, or $6 with coupon off website
Where: World Forestry Center Discovery Museum
More info: www.worldforestry.org
Directions: Take MAX to our front door! Exit Washington Park/Zoo
Tastings •  Beer •  Wine •  Food

Portland Music Mondays: A. King + Download

Posted by Mike Harper

A. King Can Sing

Her guitar gently weeps, and her violin smiles sad melodies across strata of music. Sleight jazz hides under waves of a present guiding bassline, often times running from wisps and whistles to climbing a wall built of organ pipes, distorted amps, and bent keys competing with A. King’s less-than-mellow-while-still-spot-on voice.

Weaving spot on melodies between her six strings with pent energy, Ashley wraps softly haunting lyrics around an energetically crying violin on her track “You Don’t Mind”. A tambourine chases her violent strum that keeps you at the edge of your headphones till a break of echoes charms your ear like a surrounding line of smoke tip-toeing through delay before crashing back into a burst and end.

Drawn to the Northwest following a brick road of family and friends, A. King’s saintly spirit will fit right in in Portlandtown!

A. King’s next show: February 9th @ Ash Street Saloon

Download “You Don’t Mind” here: www.zshare.net/audio/723224233f3a0579/

Portland Valentines Day With Storm Large + Meet Storm Backstage | Arlene Schnitzer

From our partners at Oregon Symphony

Announcing our Valentine’s Crazy Deal for Storm Large’s Crazy Love concert debut with the Oregon Symphony.
See Storm at her sexiest and sassiest with this fantastic package offer.

Feb. 13, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Brimming with treats and surprises, this package includes …
– Dinner for two at Nel Centro before the concert
– Two Dress Circle seats – the best in the house
– One great bonus: You get to meet Storm backstage!

Bring a date, or invite friends to get in on the package with you. Make it an unforgettable night!
An evening like this is simply a click away. Just go here to buy tickets.
But don’t wait — because bidding ends at 10 a.m. Feb. 10.

Regular tickets can be purchased here.

Video: Clare and the Reasons – “All The Wine” + Mississippi Studios Show


Clare and the Reasons – All The Wine
www.clareandthereasons.com

Great video from Brooklyn-based group Clare and the Reasons. They will be at Mississippi Studios on February 10th with Van Dyke Parks. You can also download their mp3 of “That’s All” here.

Related from PDX Pipeline:

Today & Tonight: St.Vincent at the Doug Fir | All Ages + Adult Show

Posted by Mike Harper

Oh So Saintly…

St. vincentThe calm croon of Annie Clark’s voice can be a smiling trap  to capture you in a cascading lull as her gut-pulling guitar will tear at your ears with the lovely contrasting blows of string-bending and wall-of-sound instrumentation. Seeing her is like a glimpse of a nymph (one who listened to a good bit of Beatles), her small stature a misleading element of her raucously perfect musical wave that combines the sound of destruction and whispers of sonnetesque ballads.

St. Vincent is gracing the Doug Fir with not one but two sets on Saturday, February 6th, including one ALL AGES matinee at 5pm ($15). Catch her later at 9pm for just two bucks more!

St. Vincent with Wildbirds & Peacedrums
Saturday Feb 6 @ The Doug Fir
5pm $15 ALL AGES
9pm $17 21+

Tonight: True Stories @ Whitsell Auditorium | Reel Music Film Festival

Related: 75+ Portland Weekend Events, Parties & Free Tickets | February 4-7

Posted by Jeff Guay

True Stories is a surreal sociological musical – or a magical-realist anthropological music video – in which David Byrne floats about a fictional town called Virgil, Texas, wearing a cowboy hat and bolo tie. Byrne, who wrote and directed the film, was artistically ahead of his time with this 1986 cult classic – but hasn’t he always been ahead of his time? Here he boldly breaks and expands cinematic convention and stretches the concept of genre to its limits, but to suggest that True Stories is artsy-fartsy indie-film stuff would be like calling

The Talking Heads music ‘esoteric.’ In fact, the film is hilarious in a perfectly dead-pan Read the rest of this entry »

75+ Portland Weekend Events, Parties & Free Tickets | February 4-7

Leigh sent out his weekly email of Portland weekend events earlier today. It is reproduced below with some additions by Pipeline. You can get the email and your chance to win hookups for shows and deals by emailing leighfeldman3 @ gmail and asking to join

There are many listings so we have put events in red (blue = linked!) that we think will be good, well attended, or should be interesting.

Reminder: We give out free tickets to our Portland Facebook Group including to many of the top music and art venues in Portland. Join it if you like free stuff.

Related From Pipeline: Portland Monthly EVENTS LIST

From Leigh Feldman:
Portland Weekend EventsThings I’m currently jocking…

Free ish… We have quite a few tix this week! Tix to Where It’s At w/ Slim Kid Tre of The Pharcyde (plus drink tickets), a bracelet to the Slabtown Bender weekend festival, 3 tix to the Oracle CD Release Show w/ Storm Large, a pair of tix to St. Vincent, tix to Eyedea & Abilities, Wilco (only one ticket), a pair of tix to Various, two pairs of tix to And I Was Like, What? and two passes to RAW!

Wanna win any of them? Forward this email to a friend, have them write us asking to join the group and we’ll enter you both in a drawing to win! (These are from Leigh, not Pipeline. Email him to join his list & win: leighfeldman3 @ gmail)

Free music ish… This mix from DJ Risk One. He, along with DJ Zimmie and a few other guests will be rocking the next Massive on Feb 27th (special thanks to everyone involved in Massive last weekend, if you have photos send ‘em my way!) If you’ve heard Risk before you know the deal, if not, check his part on the new Super 7 mixtape.

Life is a party, everyone is just waiting to be invited.
See you all out and about! Leigh Feldman

Portland Thursday Events, February 4

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