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Mount Tabor is old. How old? So old it knew Burger King while he was still a prince. So old it knew Clark before he got Sacajawea pregnant the first time. So old it reads the Willamette Week (oh noes…approaching trouble town).

There is a huge party to celebrate this oldness starting tomorrow.

From the Mount Tabor Anniversary website (mttabor100.org).

Mount Tabor Park is today one of the oldest urban parks in the United States (Mount Tabor is so old, it knew Mr. Clean when he had an afro.).

Mount Tabor Park's centennial is established as 1909, when the City of Portland completed purchasing the rural lands now comprising the park. The site was identified in 1903 by landscape architect John Charles Olmsted, brother of Frederick Law Olmsted.

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Fremont Fest Parade '06
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Posted by Reuben Smith

Kick off August with Festive Style!

Every Saturday deserves an activity packed, family-friendly, street fair. This week's is the Fremont Fest, an annual day of summer time fun that will include a parade, live music, a sidewalk sale, an art show and carriage rides. The parade starts at 10:30am, so be sure to get out there early to take advantage of the whole day.

Fremont Fest stretches from NE 42nd to NE 57th on Fremont St. and will be happening from 10am — 4pm, so even if you miss the parade you can come grab a carriage ride and make your own parade.

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Posted by Kristen Imes

An Hour and a Half Filled with Death, Sex, Drugs, Violence, and Homosexuality? Good GRIEF!

Snoopy killed Woodstock and in turn, is, well, killed / "put down" / call it what you will. Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, directed by Brian Allard, is an Bert Royal's unauthorized take on what happens to Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang after Snoopy dies – a work so unlicensed that the playwright changed all of the characters' names, presumably to avoid lawsuits; to avoid confusion I've changed them right back.

The play opens with sexually-confused Charlie Brown* (Noah Goldenberg) and his Goth/ Wiccan / Christian / gangsta / some-combination-of-them-all sister, Sally, (Kaia Hillier) burying Snoopy before the re-introducing the audience to a re-imagined pubescent cast of all your favorite PEANUTS characters — Linus (Tristyn Chipps) is like that one guy from high school who is stoned 95% of the time — the kind of person who will get stoned and do yoga and read Buddhist philosophy. Beethoven (Joel Durham) still plays the piano and is s ridiculed and picked on for presumably being gay.

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Posted by Mike Harper

Riding on the touring current of their recently released album, Upper Air, Bowerbirds will fly through your soul with their soulful folk tunes like sunlit dust landing on the wind. Crossing between sincere hymns and call-and-response, the collective vocals of this band have the vibrancy of a room full of old friends resonating off the walls of the North Carolina woodlands.

Beth Tacular ties her sorrowfully smiling accordion around Phil Moore's vocals on slow numbers that will make your eyelids close into a smile.

Violins hide in front of simple guitar strings slapping out questions answered by harmonies of rattling percussion and a swooning upright bass. Their last album was on repeat for about a month after I bought it, and Upper Air is soon to surpass that record.

Megafaun (www.megafaun.com)
Also hailing from North Carolina, Megafaun has got that full folk sound — fuller than you'd expect from a 3-piece. They must be hiding Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Mike Harper

There's nothing better than a cold brew on tap after a nice long bike ride. There's nothing better than a cold brew after a short one either. Hell. Beer just goes well with bikes no matter how long the ride. That's why this city is so great. We've got breweries and bikes like they're going out of style, and here's a ride that mixes all of that together. Even the going out of style part (that's my opinion — no offense meant to the Hawaiian shirt wearing crowd — I'm just not plugged into dad style shirt fashion yet). Yes, Hawaiian shirts are necessary for this ride.

Take a tour de beer around Portland starting at the Deschutes Brewery and make your way around with Livers and Blisters as the group hits Rock Bottom, Produce Row Café, Widmer, Bridgeport, and Rogue! If you haven't visited these places yet, it's all mapped out for you — just drink up and follow the herd of bikes! Everyone is welcome and it's no race. Just a cruise and brew around the city.

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