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What what…John Ray aka “Ray shock“/ one of the Crazy Flipper Fingers is featured in the Goodfoot Last Thursday. And to top it off, Atom 13 will be there on the wheels of steel. Yep, this will be well attended and probably the best last Thursday party in PDX.

From Goodfoot:
The Goodfoot will have an art opening Last Thurs, Feb 26th from 5-11pm, the show will be until March 23rd. This months artists are Derek Olsen and John Wray.

Derek Olsen is a painter, silk screener and tattoo artist currently working at Black Hole Tattoo & Body Piercing in Portland, Oregon. He often paints as an attempt to better understand the things that inspire him…be it a flock of birds, japanese wood block prints, old tattoo flash or a brass band marching down the street. Derek has a desire to comprehend what it is, how it makes him feel, and why it moves him. This show is a series of work ranging from small to large, with a set of free standing privacy screens as a utilitarian way to make large scale art work more accessible. Please enjoy his attempts at understanding.

John Wray grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana on the southeast side of town, sandwiched firmly between ghetto and farms. Read the rest of this entry »

OK, Pipeline likes the dark tar. We like to get “jacked up“. Below are some barrels we keep at Pipeline headquarters (or they are barrels from the remodeled Fred Meyer on SE 39th?–you decide). We often just scoop it out, rub it on our gums and eat it up. Who has time for the shot pullin'? Nope. Not us.

Why are we telling you about our smack caffeine problems? Because tomorrow is a Portland coffee showdown and if you are not “focused on the beans“—FOCUS now!

From January:
My name is January xxxxxx. Local coffee slinger and muckraker. We've been putting together a little event that your readers may dig. This event is part of a larger effort to unite the Portland coffee community.

We really want every coffee dork in this town to have an opportunity to jam with us. Oh, and you mortals are welcome too. If you haven't been to a barista jam before, you have not lived. A room full of people geeked out on coffee. . . drinking beer. . .smack talking. . . tasting. . . pouring. In a word: heaven.

Portland will be hosting the United Stated Barista Competition in early March. We hope that this event will be just the kick in the pants our fair city needs to get focused on the beans.

PDX Tamp Your Face Off!
Local Coffee Roaster Tasting Read the rest of this entry »