Bipartisan Calendar
Friday, July 2
7 p.m., FREE
Shicky Gnarowitz and the Transparent
Wings of Joy (Klezmer Folk)
Friday, July 9
7 p.m., FREE
Colleen Raney
Monday, July 16
7 p.m.,
FREE
Sophie Vitells & Gabrielle Macrae
Friday, June 23
7 p.m.,
FREE
Buoy Larue Duo
Saturday,
July 30
7 p.m.
Mark Orton
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Local Calendar
Friday, July 2
First Friday
5 to 9 p.m.
Offering arts, culture and fun along the Stark Street strip, First Friday offers fun for everyone. We'll be featuring live music, art, fashion, and bourbon flights. Sponsored by the Montavilla East Tabor Business Association (METBA).
Sunday, July 4
Montavilla Farmers Market will be open!
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Celebrate your independence from mass produced, genetically modified food by shopping at our local farmers market. Located SE 77th & Stark Sts., the Montavilla Farmers Market returned on June 13 and will be open every Sunday until October 31 and then return for one last hurrah on November 21!
Monday, July 12
Montavilla Neighborhood Association Meeting
7:30 p.m.
There's no better way to meet your neighbors (besides hanging out in Bipartisan, that is). The Montavilla
Neighborhood Association
meets the 2nd Monday of each month at the Montavilla United Methodist
Church, 232 Southeast 80th Ave.
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Coffee Cantata
"Leischen secretly lets it be known:
no suitor is to come to my house
unless
he promises me,
and it is also written into the marriage contract,
that
I will be permitted
to make myself coffee whenever I want."
[submitted by a Bipartisan patron]
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Did you know...
...Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world?
...Stumptown started a nonprofit to provide cargo bikes to coffee growers in Rwanda to transport their coffee called Bikes to Rwanda?
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Greetings!
Welcome to the second issue of the Bipartisan Cafe Crier, our new monthly e-newsletter. If you missed the "inaugural" issue, it's archived here.
As we celebrate the nation's 234th birthday, times are as challenging as ever -- the stock market is down, an oil well is gushing crude into the ocean (and Hurricane Alex is threatening to wash even more oil onto the coast of Lousiana), and we are fighting two wars in the Middle East, among other things.
If you're feeling uncertain about our country's future, I invite you to come down to the cafe and check out the walls, which are covered floor-to-ceiling with souvenirs of our country's history, reminding us that we've weathered far worse times and come out alright.
Better yet, come down to have a conversation with your friends and neighbors about how we can make it better.
Have a happy and safe Fourth of July weekend!
regards,
pete emerson, proprietor
bipartisan cafe
bipartisancafe@gmail.com
www.bipartisancafe.com
503.231-1051
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 Extended Hours
Good news for those of you needing a little extra stimulation later in the evening -- Bipartisan has extended its hours to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Come over to grab a cup of coffee and dessert after seeing a movie at Academy!
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 The Origins of "Cuppa Joe"
During World War I, American soldiers were accustomed to drinking coffee
- whether by large mugs from the mess hall percolators or dehydrated
packets of coffee in their military rations - and heating it with the
matches included in their ration packs. The term "Cuppa Joe" came
from "G.I. Joe" - who always had his coffee.
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 First Fridays Add a Festive Flair to the Neighborhood
The First Friday of every month, several Montavilla businesses are livening up the strip with art, music and fashion...
Last fall, the owners of Union Rose and the Portland Garment Factory thought it would be fun to have a monthly event showcasing the designers featured in their store. In collaboration with the Montavilla East Tabor Business Association (METBA), that event grew into a full-fledged night of fun and mingling that has come to be known as First Fridays.
METBA secured a grant from the APNBA to promote the event this spring. Here are a sampling of the events going on tomorrow night in the neighborhood:
Bipartisan Cafe
Live Music (No
Cover): Shicky Gnarowitz & the Transparent Wings of Joy
7 to 9 p.m.
7901 SE Stark St.
Country Cat Dinnerhouse & Bar
Rare Bourbon & Rye
Flights
7937 SE Stark St.
Montavilla Community Acupuncture
Forged kitchenware by
Arnon Kartmazov & paintings by Carola Penn
6 to 8 p.m.
7925
SE Stark St.
Portland
Garment Factory
Multimedia Group Show Curated by Gabriella
Lewton-Leopold
6
to 10 p.m.
7910 SE Stark St.
The Observatory Lounge
Live Music: The Lonely Crow
8115 SE Stark St.
Vintage Cocktail Lounge
Live Music & Drink Specials (Mt. Tabor
Brewing Introduces the P5 Pale Ale!)
5 p.m. to 1 a.m.
7910 SE
Stark St.
Find more events here!
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 Mt. Tabor Brewing
Releasing P5 Pale Ale
To commemorate the somewhat rundown but extremely cool historical milemarker near Southeast 78th & Stark, the boys at Mt. Tabor Brewing have created an honorary pale ale called the P5 Pale Ale, which they will be releasing tomorrow night (Friday, July 2) at Vintage Cocktail Lounge. They will also have Soapbox Blonde and Asylum Avenue IPA on tap that night! Their Facebook page quips, "...with three taps it now feels like our home!" In case you didn't know it, the real "P5 marker" is a small stone obelisk-shaped stone monument in front of the auto upholstery business near the Montavilla Farmers Market. The pioneers built it, as they did several of its kind throughout the city, to mark the 5-mile point from downtown Portland.
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