It's Sunflower season! Juj up your instagram page at Lee Farms Sunflower Festival.
Mmmm Garlic. The 26th Annual Elephant Garlic Festival is goin down in North Plains. You can find more at FUNSTINKS.com
Then there's the PDX Hot Sauce Expo. If you can handle garlic let's see how you do with the Guinness Book Of World Records Reaper Eating Challenge. You may never taste anything again but there is a $1000 to go with that world record.
Providence Bridge Pedal is Sunday. Plan ahead for detours if you're headed to the airport or across the river.
Last chance corndogs and elephant ears in the Couv, it's the final weekend of the Clark County Fair .
Did someone say record shopping?! Music Millennium's 31st Annual Customer Appreciation Bar-B-Q is Saturday August 10th from 11AM to 7PM. Featuring 8 lives artists, complimentary food and drink, and the Whacky Wheel of Wonder!
Ghosts of Summer 3: Nightmare In Portland is a convention for Halloween Lovers covering 30,000 square feet of spooky fun at The Redd in SE Portland.
Celebrate the season of DAHLIAS at Swan Island Dahlias. A Rainbow of Color. Stroll through almost 40 acres and a beautiful display garden of stunning dahlias featuring over 370 varieties. The beautiful fields are open from August to September.
Ole Bolle, Portland’s beloved giant troll sculpture, is celebrating its first birthday from Aug.11-18 with a week of activities, including movie screenings, crafting and cake! If you haven't seen Ole Bolle in person, the troll stands at 19 feet tall and was built with mostly recycled or reclaimed materials by a team of 60 volunteers over 10 days.
The Washington Park Summer Festival is this weekend. Saturday evening is their Rejoice Diaspora Dance, an evening of dance from Afrobeats to Second Line, and an amazing lineup of musicians. Then Sunday night is Edna Vazquez with Mariachi Portland, A family-friendly evening of traditional Mexican Folk Music. Both events are in Washington Park’s Rose Garden Amphitheater, starting at 6 PM.
A new music festival is kicking off in Portland this weekend! Portland-born rapper Aminé Daniel — professionally known as Aminé — teased his inaugural music festival in the Rose City "The Best Day Ever" back in May. The two-day festival will be held at McMenamins’ Edgefield Concerts on the Lawn in Troutdale.
Want to squeeze in a last minute summer camping trip? Snow Peak Campfield, a new campground on the Long Beach Peninsula, just north of Astoria, made Time magazine’s 100 World’s Greatest Places. 6 hours south there’s the Bay Point Landing campground in Coos Bay and that one was ranked the 4th best camping experience in the U.S. by outdoors website The Dyrt.
Oregon’s best meteor shower of the year is almost at its peak. The Perseid meteor shower, which technically runs from July 14 to Sept. 1, reaches its peak Aug. 12 to 13, when an average of 50 to 75 meteors may be visible under dark skies. If you want to watch with fellow stargazers OMSI and the Rose City Astronomers are hosting a star party at Rooster Rock State Park on Monday Aug. 12.
STACEY & MIKE WATCHLIST
Stacey: Mayor of Kingstown on Paramount +. It's definitely not an easy watch but Jeremy Renner is so good in it. This weekend my bff and I are going to see It Ends With Us starring Blake Lively. I read the book by Colleen Hoover in like 3 days so looking forward to the movie. The director and co-star Justin Baldoni is an Oregonian, he was raised in Medford!
Mike: Ya know he's actually out there enjoying summer. But will occasionally end his day with some Scrubs.