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Danes Love Dwarfs (and you can too)

Tomorrow evening, July 30th from 7-9pm at my beloved (air-conditioned) Ladybug Coffeehouse in my cherished St. Johns neighborhood, I’ve invited a lice-infested, boil-covered Danish Dwarf and her life of squalor in early 18th Century Russia and Denmark to visit. They’ll be coming there in the form of a novel called The Tsar’s Dwarf, which blossomed [...]

07.29.2009 See the rest →

Love coffee and photos? You’ll love Encrusted!

by mediaChick

Tomorrow is a big day for my friend Angel O’Brien. She owns Ladybug Organic Coffee Company, one of my favorite coffeehouses in the St. Johns neighborhood of North Portland. It’s a very special place.
At Ladybug, all the coffee, tea and deliciously original food (which is made from scratch and on-site) is organic. The napkins, disposable [...]

02.28.2009 See the rest → 1 comment

TONIGHT! St. Johns Pub Crawl

by mediaChick

Join me and my fellow ourpdx.net author @dieselboi tonight in St. Johns as we visit some neighborhood bars. These bars range from dive-y to trendy, so you’re sure to get the full picture of available libation purveyors in the area, and the whole route is less than a mile. It’s pretty fast-paced but I planned [...]

01.25.2009 See the rest →

Sweet Home Bar

by Dieselboi

1 pound monster che burger
Originally uploaded by dieselboi

Every so often on my way into St. Johns, I need to stop at the B of A on N. Lombard for some cashola and see the wonderful Sweet Home Bar sign. There is always a great new message advertising food or an event. It makes [...]

01.14.2009 See the rest → 2 comments

Obama Inauguration Tickets stuck in the mail? Get an Inauguration fix here in Portland

by djtv

We know, you know someone who knows someone and your tickets to President-elect Obama’s Inauguration are in the mail. Uh-huh.
If you need a swearing in fix, though, Portland’s new Mayor Sam Adams is inviting the public to a ceremonial swearing in at Parkrose High School at noon on Monday, January, 5. (The ‘real’ ceremony happened [...]

01.02.2009 See the rest → 1 comment

Friends of the Library Sale in St. Johns this Weekend

by mediaChick

Stock your shelves with books for the winter and help your local library at the Annual Friends of the Library Book Sale.
October 11-13, in the beautiful St. Johns neighborhood, the Friends of the Library is holding it’s legendary bottom-dollar sale. So many books, CDs, DVDs, and tape will be up for grabs that it fills [...]

10.10.2008 See the rest →