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Happy Birthday To Us!

Just over a year ago*, a few of us stumbled out from the wings and onto the stage — we were the proverbial kids in the barn, putting on a show for y’all as Portland’s latest group blog. And it seems appropriate that I commandeer the 1000th post on OurPDX to make a celebratory [...]

OurPDX anniversary party 6/26 at Beer & Blog!

by Betsy Richter

Hey! We’re almost a year old!
I know, I know — it seems like we launched the site just yesterday. But after 980 posts and with 23 authors on board, well — it looks like we’re here to stay.
And it’s time to celebrate! So please, oh, please — won’t you [...]

06.19.2009 See the rest →

No new tax on Beer party

by Dieselboi

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The Green Dragon is hosting a ceremonial “dumping of the beer” on Thursday to protest the 1900% proposed beer tax being discussed in Salem. I love that they point out that the original Green Dragon in Boston was the site for revolutionaries during he war for independence. This is a battle we [...]

02.25.2009 See the rest → 4 comments

Say goodbye to Green Dragon?

by Dieselboi

Updated. See below: News just in from BrewPublic that Rogue Brewing is going to purchase the Green Dragon and revamp it as a Rogue Taphouse. Wow! Crap! Damn! Those are my emotions right now. I love Rogue, but there is already a Rogue in downtown. There are no other Green Dragons which offer the rotating [...]

11.13.2008 See the rest → 11 comments

Second Time Out of the Gate…

by Betsy Richter

…and we smacked a grand slam.
Yep, if you weren’t at the Green Dragon tonight for the OurPDX author/reader meetup, you truly missed out.
We had 40+ people drop by at some point (some bearing gifts for the birthday girl, no less!) We stuck around for 5+ hours (or 5+ gin & tonics—not that anyone was [...]

10.08.2008 See the rest → 1 comment

“HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BETSY!!”

by Cosmic Charlie

Yes, it’s our beloved Betsy’s birthday. Besides announcing to the whole wide world that she’s now fuh-fuh-sumthin’-sumthin’ years old, I thought I should do something nice, so I made bourbon chicken. Is that the same as stewed chicken?

I can’t promise barnyard animals, but a bunch of us two-legged critters will be gathering [...]

10.08.2008 See the rest → 5 comments

Save the Date!

by Betsy Richter

Updated: The next OurPDX meetup will take place on Wednesday, October 8th. It’ll start at 5:00ish, at a location TBD. We’ve picked the location – our old standby, The Green Dragon. RSVP on Upcoming, will you please?
Why are we still figuring out the location? Weeeeelll…we have to [...]

09.30.2008 See the rest → 4 comments

OurPDX shared bookmarks

by Betsy Richter

Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) – let’s just call it the ‘back from vacation’ backlog, shall we?:

Sunday Sunday Sunday! For one night only! Sarah Lacy swings through Portland » Silicon Florist – Silicon Valley journalist Lacy's in town to promote her book; Turoczy's out to [...]

08.22.2008 See the rest →

Live @ beer and blog

by Dieselboi

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Originally uploaded by dieselboi

There are about 50 people here at the Green Dragon enjoying each other’s company and beer.
Melissa Lion just finished schooling us all on narrative. A great presentation and an excellent crowd!

08.08.2008 See the rest → 2 comments