Happy summer vacation and Father's Day Weekend!
It's Great Outdoors Month and we have so many incredible hikes in the Portland area.
For the sneakerhead Dad or Grad, there's the Portland Art Museums Sneaker Exhibit; Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks.
It's Portland Beer Week but here in Beervana, 7 days just isn't enough. PDX Beer Week is a 10-day event featuring limited-edition brews, a lineup of events, and beer specials at bars and brewpubs citywide.
Know what goes great with beer? Snacks. SnackFest is a food-focused festival featuring all your favorite treats from hot food vendors, food trucks, food purveyors, retail stores, and other F&B-related products. You'll experience live entertainment, demos, educational breakout sessions and opportunities to meet the makers of your favorite food and products. You'll also be able to experience special, one-off pop-ups from chefs from near and far.
Grab your fellow Swifties for Laser Taylor at OMSI.
Badlands Video Dance Bar is now open in the spot where Embers was for decades serving the LGBTQ+ community.
Geek Craft Expo is a curated craft market specializing in handmade, “geek”-themed crafts of all kinds; clothing, accessories, toys, home decoration, furniture, art . . . if it’s geeky and made by hand, it can be found at a GeekCraft Expo. Cosplay is highly encouraged and admission is free.
Edgefield Concerts On The Lawn is back featuring Cavetown and Mother Mother Friday Night. Remember new rules: No personal chairs or blankets. Towels are okay and you can rent a chair.
The Juneteenth Oregon Parade & Festival is Saturday at Lillis Albina Park. Juneteenth Oregon celebrates the date in 1865 when Major General Gordon Granger read "General Order No. 3" in Galveston, Texas, declaring that all slaves were free.
Vancouver is hosting their 3rd Annual Juneteenth Freedom Celebration Saturday.
The Annual Delta Park Powwow and Encampment at East Delta Park in Portland, Oregon. The event is a free and family-friendly celebration of Native American culture.
STACEY & MIKE WATCHLIST:
Dune Part 2 is out on HULU
Stacey: Finally finishing up The Bad Batch on Disney+ with my sons. We always have a show we watch together. This weekend we'll watch the finale of Bad Batch and move on to Better Call Saul. (This winter we watched Breaking Bad so they're hyped to see Saul!)
Mike: Also immersed in the Star Wars Universe watching the new The Acolyte on Disney+
TRAFFIC ALERT: The northbound lanes of I-5 will be closed at the Interstate Bridge late Saturday night. Crews will be doing sign maintenance. The closure runs from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. Sunday. Drivers heading to Washington state should use I-84 to I-205 and the Glenn Jackson Bridge.
LOOKING AHEAD:
40th annual Tigard Festival of Balloons June 21-23rd.
Portland Pride July 20 & 21