So what is there to do in Portland, Oregon?

[asthmaticeog]

I'm going to be there for a week starting next Saturday, and I'll be staying with friends whose hair I'll surely need to get out of once in awhile. So if'n any of y'all live there or have spent a lot of time there and want to chip in a suggestion or two, I'm all ears.

[fricasseed_gourmet_rat]

1. Shanghai tunnels

http://www.oregon.com/trips/pdx_shanghai.cfm

[asthmaticeog]

8. Bookmarked, thanks!

I love your username, BTW.

[greendog]

2. They have a decent Art Museum

Their northwest native collection is particularly good.

[Tom Kitten]

3. I live there

what would you be interested in?
Powell's of course...

[asthmaticeog]

7. Powell's is definitely on my list.

I was already at the Strand this summer, so I guess I'll O.D. on humungous bookstores. And I'm leaving room for books in my luggage.

[swag]

14. As long as you're at Powell's, walk half a block and hit

Chloe Eudaly's magnificent zine/bookstore Reading Frenzy

http://www.readingfrenzy.com/

as well as the amazing vintage smut emporium next door at 921 SW Oak, Counter Media.

Don't skip half of the bifurcated Ozone empire, Ozone Records across 10th Street from Powell's.

Between 13th & 14th NW on Burnside is Everyday Music, two huge rooms of new and used music, with the pop/rock/soul/hip-hop in the east wing and jazz/classical in the west wing.

Across the Street from Everyday Music is the Crystal Ballroom, another McMenamin's establishment which stages some of the finest rock events in town (I've seen Stereolab, Blues Explosion, The X, Gang of Four, Fugazi, Holly Golightly, so many others there), so please see:

http://www.mcmenamins.com/index.php?loc=2&id=504

As long as you're in that neighborhood, enjoy some gay clubs in the area including

Three Sisters
Silverado
The Eagle
The Red Cap
Boxxes,
and so on and so forth.

[enlightenment]

4. Powells Book Store!

You could spend the whole week in there.

[Left Is Write]

5. That's where I want to go. I've heard so much about it!

[JimmyJazz]

6. Piffle and flarn - you could have come out to the east coast and done

some boogey boarding, sight seeing and major protesting, but noooooooo - you have to do the west coast thang. I have no sympathy for you whatsoever.

[asthmaticeog]

9. I already did the East Coast thing and the Chicago thing this year.

Next thing you're gonna do is guilt me for not going to Crawford. :eyes:

[JimmyJazz]

11. Did you come to Rehoboth Beach and hang out with me and Motley36?

noooooooooooooo! Did you have salt water taffy with us and get road rash from the rough surf? Did you fight the sea gulls over your boardwalk fries saturated in vinegar? Did you score well over 95 on miniature golf?

I think my point has been made. 'nuff said. :P

[asthmaticeog]

19. Hmmmm...

Did your band play a blowout gig in one of the hippest clubs in Brooklyn? No.

More importantly, did you get hammered with Blue-Jay and terrya, well before like a dozen other prime Lounge psychos showed up to join the merriment? No. Did you experience susang, ChavezSpeakstheTruth, RandomKoolzip, whoisalhedges and Beware the Beast Man doing live-band karaoke and utterly shaming everyone else who attempted to sing that night? No.

My 2005 travel itinerary needs no redemption, Ms. Jazz, least of all from Delaware. :P

[JimmyJazz]

23. So you are enjoying the link I sent? Is that it?

:shrug:

[swag]

10. What are your dates?

John Singer Sargent at the PAM.

Shellac at Berbati's Pan.

And what is your neighborhood of domicile?

[asthmaticeog]

13. Shellac? Whoa.

I arrive Saturday the 27th in the morning and leave on Sunday the 4th in the early afternoon. I'm crashing with some friends who are right downtown.

The museum's always at the top of my list when I visit any city, but it's good to know Sargeant's showing - that'll be a great thing to see. When's the Shellac show?

[swag]

15. Shit. Sorry. Shellac is 25th & 26th.

[asthmaticeog]

27. LOL!

I w0uld have been arriving on the 26th if I'd gotten my shit together yesterday - the fare increase for booking less than a week out was like $100, which is why I'm coming Saturday instead of Friday. That's my freakin' life, man, I'll tell ya...

[Obamarama]

12. Go with your friends to the McMenamin's Kennedy School & Edgefield

You'll be sure to dig it. It's an old elementary school turned into a hotel/movie theatre/microbrewery/pub. It is one of the coolest places I've been.

Here's a link: http://www.kennedyschool.com/index.php?loc=57&id=465

The McMenamins also run a huge hospitality complex just outside of Portland called Edgefield. It, too, is COOL AS HELL. It's an old "poor farm" where destitute people would go and work the farm in exchange for room/board, etc.. There is a microbrewery there, too, as well as a winery. The Black Rabbit Restaurant is to die for.

Here's a link for Edgefield: http://www.kennedyschool.com/index.php?loc=3&id=56

[swag]

16. If you go there, eog, I am invited, since I can walk there in 10 minutes.

[Obamarama]

18. You can walk to the Kennedy School? In 10 minutes? GET OUT!

You lucky dog. If I lived 10 minutes from there it could become habit forming. Might have to send me to the priciple's office for detention.
Is that place too cool or what!?

[swag]

20. Believe me, it has been habit forming.

And I enjoyed my time with the jazz and Macallan 12 in detention, but learned to love Bach and Pinot Noir in Honors.

Hello to you.

[swag]

21. del dupe

[Obamarama]

31. My partner and I are thinking about relocating to Portland...

I'm back in school right now for a career change (Physician Assistant)and when I'm done we can relocate just about anywhere. We both love the Northwest and I would relocate to Portland simply to have access to the Kennedy School and Edgefield.

If we come to stay, we promise not to be one of the uniquitous Californicators (we're from Michigan anyway).

[Arugula Latte]

32. Aw, hell, it seems like the majority of us here have lived in California

at some point. I spent 20 years in the Bay Area, and know many others who came north.

I don't think there is that much anti-Cali bias in Portland itself. Maybe outside the city, dunno ...

[asthmaticeog]

34. That sounds like a worthy plan.

I'll PM you my cell number before I leave Cle. We can work it on out once I get there.

[Obamarama]

35. Hey...you have to have a drink for ME if you go!!

It was my idea, afterall! :-)

[asthmaticeog]

37. Done and done.

Cheers, fellow midwesterner! :toast:

[swag]

36. Bueno. If anything jumps out on the music or art calendar, I'll hit you.l

[Arugula Latte]

22. I love the Kennedy School!

So cool.

[Arugula Latte]

28. For a good view and to sniff some roses, go to the Rose Garden

(not the auditorium where the Blazers play), but the real one near the zoo. It overlooks downtown and Mt. Hood.

[Arugula Latte]

29. The Pearl District has chic restaurants and a hip vibe.

It can be pricey, though.

NW 23rd St. is a restaurant row/lots of shops kind of place.

The Hawthorne district on the East Side of town is groovy.

[HawkerHurricane]

17. Portland Science Museum.

Personal favorite.

[swag]

24. Great suggestion. OMSI.

www.omsi.edu

[HawkerHurricane]

That's the one.

couldn't remember the 'real' name. Every time I went to Portland, I visited there once.

[swag]

25. del dupe

[ironflange]

38. Make sure you take the submarine tour

That'll make you respect the guys who served on those things.

[CornField]

26. Both of these are outside Portland proper...

Visit Seaside & Cannon Beach -- both are absolutely beautiful! (I found Seaside to be much more 'touristy' than Cannon.)
http://www.seasideor.com/
http://www.cannonbeach.org/

Multnomah Falls. Wow! -- it's a wonderful hike too.
http://trips.stateoforegon.com/multnomah_falls/

If you like to ski or board and have the money, visit Timberline Lodge: http://www.timberlinelodge.com/ on Mt. Hood.

[Arugula Latte]

30. A trip to Ecola State Park is a must if you go to Cannon Beach.

It is just north of Cannon and jaw-dropping gorgeous, with very dramatic coastal views, secluded beaches, forest hikes, etc.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

33. Lotsa strip clubs