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Kick Ass Oregon History Vol 5 #6: Portland’s Dead Whores
Kick Ass Oregon History is the latest series of podcasts from the enthusiastic historians behind ORHistory.com. And volume 5 #6 just dropped: Portland’s Dead Whores. In which we learn that neither...
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Portland Area Weekend Amusements (October 19-21, 2012)
Plenty of booze and beer this weekend, plus belly dance, apples, records, and more! Ongoing and all Weekend Autumn Ale Festival Plew’s Brews (8409 N Lombard) is the place for Autumn beer fans all...
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Strip City’s Storied Sex Worker Specters & Midnight Cowboy (26-October-2012)
Kick Ass Oregon History presents Strip City’s Storied Sex Workers Spectre… a.k.a. Portland’s Dead Prostitutes plus a screening of Midnight Cowboy, this Friday, October 26, 2012 at the Mission Theater...
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Portland Weekend Amusements (October 26-28, 2012)
Ongoing Walktober PDX 2012 Walktober PDX 2012 runs from Saturday, October 6 through Halloween (the greatest walking holiday of the year). Inspired by Pedalpalooza, three weeks of bikey fun in Portland...
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History Pub: Geological History and the development of Oregon’s Wine Industry...
Geological History and the development of Oregon’s Wine Industry is the topic of the latest History Pub at the Kennedy School (5736 NE 33rd), on Monday, October 29, 2012. This special Oregon Wine...
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OE History Night: Of Casts and Characters – the Early Years and Collections...
The Oregon Encyclopedia, in conjunction with McMenamins, the Northwest Examiner, and the Portland Art Museum, presents Of Cast and Characters: the Early Years and Collections of the Portland Art...
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Kick Ass Oregon History Vol 5 #8: McCall Prison Riot
Kick Ass Oregon History is the latest series of podcasts from the enthusiastic historians behind ORHistory.com. And volume 5 #8 just dropped: McCall Prison Riot. In which we learn that Oregon Governor...
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Die-Oh-Ram-Ahs! The 2nd Annual Kick Ass Oregon History Diorama Contest
The 2nd annual Kick Ass Oregon History Diorama Contest has begun. As everybody knows – Dioramas Kick Ass! Those awesome little cardboard boxes detailed with globs of glue and faded construction paper...
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True Crime in Portland: Portland Exposé (12-June-2013)
The first installment of True Crime in Portland, presented by the Jim Elkins Appreciation Society and McMenamins Mission Cinema Society, features a screening of the 1957 noir film Portland Exposé on...
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The Great Flood of 1894 (18-June-2013)
Join the Kick Ass Oregon History crew on Tuesday, June 18, 2013 for their 2nd Year Anniversary Party at the Jack London Bar (529 SW 4th) – and a presentation on the Great Flood of 1894, when the...
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Sign Up Now: Old Timey Bars Kick Ass Bus Tour (14-November-2013)
Don’t miss the Kick Ass Oregon History Old Timey Bars Kick Ass Bus Tour coming up on November 14, 2013. Inspired by the recent Old Timey Bars podcast and taking a page from last summer’s Portland Bar...
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Embezzler, philanderer, racketeer, Senator: The life and times of John...
Join Finn John, author of the Offbeat Oregon column and Wicked Portland: The Wild and Lusty Underworld of a Frontier Seaport Town, tonight at the Jack London bar (basement of the Rialto, SW 4th and...
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The Great Flood of 1894 (18-June-2013)
Join the Kick Ass Oregon History crew on Tuesday, June 18, 2013 for their 2nd Year Anniversary Party at the Jack London Bar (529 SW 4th) – and a presentation on the Great Flood of 1894, when the...
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Sign Up Now: Old Timey Bars Kick Ass Bus Tour (14-November-2013)
Don’t miss the Kick Ass Oregon History Old Timey Bars Kick Ass Bus Tour coming up on November 14, 2013. Inspired by the recent Old Timey Bars podcast and taking a page from last summer’s Portland Bar...
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Stumptown Stories: Radical Portland (24-September 2013)
The Stumptown Stories: Free Tuesday Lecture Series, geared to anyone who is curious about the world and community in which we live and loves to learn new things, takes place most Tuesdays at Jack...
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Breakfast: From Silver Screen to Small Screen (1 October 2013)
Portland ecologist and food writer Heather Arndt Anderson presents Breakfast: From Silver Screen to Small Screen, on Tuesday, October 1, 2013 at the Jack London bar (basement of the Rialto, SW 4th and...
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Mysterious Skeletons of Old Oregon: If only these bones could talk … (1...
Finn John, author of the Offbeat Oregon column Wicked Portland: The Wild and Lusty Underworld of a Frontier Seaport Town, presents Mysterious Skeletons of Old Oregon: If only these bones could talk …...
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Oregon Experience ‘Portland Noir’ Documentary Screening (11 October 2013)
Watch a preview screening of Oregon Experience‘s Portland Noir on Friday, October 11, 2013 at the Mission Theater (1624 NW Glisan). From shanghaied sailors to opium dens, Portland’s illicit past is...
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Stumptown Stories: When Oregon was Russian (15 October 2013)
Kick Ass Oregon History‘s Ribald Resident Historian Doug Kenck-Crispin presents When Oregon Was Russian on Tuesday, October 15, 2013 at the Jack London bar (basement of the Rialto, SW 4th and Alder)....
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Ghastly Northwest Tales: A Historic Halloween (31 October 2013)
Kick Ass Oregon History presents Ghastly Northwest Tales: A Historic Halloween on Thursday, October 31, 2013 at the Jack London bar (basement of the Rialto, SW 4th and Alder). Master of ceremonies and...
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