Holy Crow it's a murder! 30 giant crows have taken over Portland and the reason will make you smile. The new public art trail, "The Wildwood Follow The Crows Art Trail," is a benefit project for OHSU with a nod to Laika's upcoming animated movie based in Portland called Wildwood. They're quite pretty works of art. If you follow the trail you might enjoy a Counting Crows playlist on iHeartRadio.
Make it a day and support a new-to-you local pub or eatery during Portland Burger Week. Love that Portland Mercury does these themed food and drink weeks; pizza week, wiener week, highball week. Check out their map of places serving up specialty $10 burgers this week only.
The PDX Adult Soapbox Derby at Mt. Tabor Park is hilarity and hijinx at its finest. Straight up grown-ups trying to beat each other down the hill in their homemade derby cars.
The Blue Angels are in town for the Oregon International Air Show today through Sunday in McMinnville
Multnomah Days Festival & Parade is a one-day open-air, family-friendly street festival: live music, art fair and over 170 vendor booths, outdoor street dining and food carts.
Fridays all summer at the Oregon Zoo there’s live music, spread out a blanket in the amphitheater and enjoy show. Every ticket purchased for Zoo Nights helps the Oregon Zoo protect endangered species at home and around the world.
If you love a good tribute band, get down to Salem for the Capital City Retro Fest.
Summer Shred is a free all-day alternative and garage rock festival in SE Portland.
Sk8ers Assemble. The Rockstar Energy Open is at Waterfront Park Friday - Sunday featuring Men's and Women's Street and Park Skateboarding and live music Friday and Saturday.
The world’s top women pro golfers will be in town for the Standard Portland Classic, the longest-running tournament on the LPGA Tour, outside of the major championships.
The Portland Thorns are hosting the Pride 5:45pm Saturday at Providence Park.
And welp, if you feel that all your clothes are doing is holding you back, have we got the event for you! The American Association for Nude Recreation is hosting its 95th National Convention from at The Willamettans family nudist club in Springfield. They'll be sprawled out across 40 acres until Sunday.
LOOKING AHEAD
If you use i5 near the Rose Quarter, hope you’re planning your work around. We’re one month away from the 5 week closure of I-5 southbound at I-405. Crews will be doing major repairs to the freeway surface and that closure will last up to five weeks. All I-5 southbound traffic will be directed onto I-405.
Not the best timing for Rose City Comic Con, which also happens starting Sept 11…at the Oregon Convention Center. So you may see a lot of Cosplay characters on Max that weekend. Celebrating comics, gaming, sci-fi, cosplay, anime, fantasy, and everything pop culture with celebrity guests including Chase Crawford from Gossip Girl, Star Trek’s Star Trek’s Anson Mount & Christina Chong, Lena Headey from Game of Thrones, and Tom Skerritt, who’s been in everything…Alien, Top Gun, Contact, Steel Magnolias.
Portland Staycation Weekend, ALSO September 11-13. Stay local and explore more than 100 businesses and attractions and stay in one of 23 downtown hotels just for funzies.
STACEY & MIKE'S WATCHLIST
Stacey: Lucky. LOVE but it's only one episode a week. Narcos: Mexico. I finally watched Narcos so I have to do this one too. Not as good but still bingeable.
Mike: The Shards on FX/Hulu. Trashy but oddly good.
NEW TO THEATERS
Calling all Basket Cases, Nimrods is finally in theaters. It's not a Green Day biopic, more an indie comedy about an unknown band that shoots their shot and thinks they're getting their big break opening for Green Day on New Years.
PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie, The Brink of War, and The End of Oak Street also in theaters now.
NEW TO STREAMERS
Lanterns on HBO Max. Stace loves her some Kyle Chandler.
The Walking Dead: Dead City (Season 3) on AMC+
The X Trilogy / Pearl: Streaming now on Hulu for horror fans.
Piece by Piece: Pharrell Williams' unique Lego biopic available on Amazon Prime Video.
The Last House: A super tense claustrophobic thriller on Netflix