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AIGA's SOCIO XV/ Celebration Gala

What is it?

The Urban Forest Project brings the community together to celebrate collaboration, problem-solving, and sustainable design and business choices during the week of Earth Day. This year, the initiative will culminate in a celebration of this year's work on the project, at the yearly AIGA gala social event.

For more info visit: AIGA's Urban Forest Project Site

Go here for:

• More information on Sustainability in Portland
• More Information on Art in Portland

Hi, I am a PDX book-blogger (you can also find me at Books Are My Only Friends) and I will be bringing Portland book-related action to PDXPipeline. It seems fitting by start with Gabriel Boehmer's City of Readers, a guidebook focused on reading in Portland. I was initially dubious about this book, thinking it would just be a list of bookstores and library hours.

* Picture from Multnomah County Library

The slight looking volume is in fact crammed with useful information like local author bios, ways to get involved in the local literary culture, local literary magazines and journals, and in one of my favorite chapters, the best places to read in Portland.

As I expected, a large portion of the book is devoted to bookstores and libraries, but it provides good detail on the bookstores and covers private libraries that are less well known than Multnomah Public. The City of Readers site has photos of a wide range of local book sites. I am happy to see that the Rachelle Markley, the friendly owner of Second Glance Books is in the mix.

Newcomers to Portland are obvious gift candidates, but even long-timers will learn something. Check the City Of Readers website or give it a test drive at the library.

Edit from JC: Ladies & Gentleman, let me introduce a new contributor, slackermark

Yes, the Clown House, on the corner of 25th and Alberta, hosted their final Last Thursday event with special guest stars The B:C Clettes. The girls had the crowd jumping and rumors were abound that Portland's very own Sprockettes would be performing.

Even though a few of the Sprockettes were spotted in the crowd and helping out behind the scene at at the Clown House they did not perform. Well, I left kind of early so maybe I just missed it. Anyway, for all of youz guyz that stayed in (or went to the symphony at the Waterfront Park), here are a couple of pictures from the Last Last Thursday at the Clown House.

Actually, I think he took a rest…but he had had a very productive week, so we understand.

You were not nearly as productive, and it is still pre-season football…so

GO SEE HIVE, now at Plan B!

Info from questions asked to Ms. Chris:

i. where are you moving from? Lola's room at the Crystal after 3 years

ii. why the move (love Plan B?)Officially from Dean Hunter:

Plan B is away from downtown, it offers a non-smoking /smoking environment, Goth-Industrial Dj'd Music simultaneously, free cover before 10pm, stiff cheap drinks, wonderfully relaxed and locally owned establishment, ample parking,fire performance friendly.

iii. music link: We're not a band-we're a club that meets every Sunday catering toward the Goth Industrial Darkwave Dance Party crowd.

 

Thank you

Chris

Sunday, Sept 2nd

Plan B Bar (formerly Acme)

SE 8th and Main

Portland, Oregon

9PM, $3, 21+
Myspace.com/darkhive

Oh yeah, like me (and everyone else who's been)–Chris seems to be a fan of Plan B. He later emailed and added…

Nice….Jeff, that's a pretty lovely review. I think you owe Chris, Dean Hunter, and I a Miller High Life for that.

There are over 3,000 Portlanders on StumbleUpon! Come Join us!

From my page:

“Inspecta-Dexta is here for Friends, Business, Community”

I speak English, German, Dutch.

The first few PDXers I pulled from the page.

Portland (3138 people from here)

MacSidhe

coopmax

Augen

hamstercam03

chickinvest

No offense to cracked-out fifth graders who have A.D.D. and are trying to read this as they load their pipes–but yo, get some help!

For some odd reason, Myspace knocked out about 300 or PDX PIPELINE's friends this weekend (even some of our “top friends”?!!). Anyone who uses the space knows the code issues they have and…well…all the other issues they have.

Anyway, if you saw us de-listed from your roll, add us back–we love you. Myspace is just a Cracked-Out Fifth Grader that knocked you off, promise :)

Myspace.com/pdxpipeline 

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!

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From my August 14th Post:

NEWSFLASH! The B:C:Clettes, those lovely bicycle showgirls from Vancouver, BC, are

going on tour in August! 

Yes, we will be bringing our bicycle-inspired performances up and down the west coast from Vancouver to Los Angeles and back on our 2007 B:C:Clettes VELO:CITY Tour,

leaving a trail of glitter and bike love in our wake.

Please help us make VELO:CITY a resounding success! Visit our website at

www.bcclettes.ca or www.myspace.com/bcclettes to find out more details. Come and see

us perform, track our progress, and SUPPORT our tour

August 30
Alberta Last Thursday Street Fair

Dear Portland:

Just because I make fun of Katu–and really, all local news everywhere in the country is pretty much the same–I don't hate Katu…they provide me some enjoyment and good material. The whole “We Are All Going To Die!!” series would not be possible without Katu's “Spirit of the Northwest” :)

Tonight, Katu is having a bunch of us bloggers over at their place. For some reason, they didn't invite the PDX PIPELINE crew or the Portland Mercury crew…hmmm, but they did invite the Portland Metroblogger crew, and in turn, Betsy invited the Merc–So we are all going to have some fun I guess…except what do they want?

From KATU

Hello fellow bloggers!

Channel 2 is hosting a meet-up of Portland-area bloggers and you're invited!

KATU wants to get to know the blogging community and is interested in joining the conversation. There's no agenda, other than to enjoy some food and beverages courtesy of our hosts. Meet fellow bloggers, view (and photograph!) the television studios and have some fun!

While there is street parking in the area — consider carpooling or taking public transit.

To help spread the word (and hear what fellow bloggers are saying about this meetup), let's tag our blog posts and photos “KATUmeetup”.

Please RSVP so the right amount of food can be ordered, and when you do… feel free to post your blog address to your reply (optional).

Let me (or our KATU contact below) know if you have any questioins… hope to see you Wednesday August 29th! :)

Questions about this:

• Will those drinks be beer (yeah!) or kool-aid (nooooo!)?
• Are We All Going to Die?!!

Please, no kool-aid…I used your tag “KATUmeetup”. Freinds? BFF maybe?

To continue to appease the Mac gods and Steve Jobs (“our dear leader”), another picture taken with an iPhone (not bad at all).

These are my season tickets to the Portland State Vikings.

Also, you have deliscious Endangered Species DARK Chocolate also–”10% of net profits donated to help support species, habitat and humanity“–bought at the Wonderful Wild Oats on East 29th and Burnside (tempeh tacos=yum).

Oh, the Vikes are going to be good this year–Glanville Good!

From ESPN (worst uploading time after myspace and the pdxpipeline):

Glanville looking for a little more action at Portland State

PORTLAND, Ore. — Jerry Glanville is selling a dream.

And part of that dream includes convincing anyone who will listen that coaching Portland State University is the best job in college football.

Yes, that Jerry Glanville. And yes, he's serious.So on Day 2 of fall practice — better known as “Breakfast with Jerry” here on the Park Blocks — it's no surprise to see the Pied Piper of Portland walking around the Peter W. Stott Community Field shortly after 7 a.m. in his familiar all-black outfit — complete with sunglasses.

He doesn't seem to notice it's cloudy and raining. In Jerry's world, black isn't simply a color. It's an attitude. And it includes sunglasses…READ MORE

That's…well, that's awesome!

PS: I am not an alumni ($5 a ticket–thanks Mitch). I'm getting closer though, even if I have been on the Tom Green 7 year Road Trip plan…