From FoLT:

With 17,000 participants in the peak summer months, Friends of Last Thursday is focused on addressing the issues involved with sustaining this event in a people-powered approach. This group has saved LT from a painful death, the result of politics, collapse, self implosion and or backlash from one of many angles. FoLT will now hold a permit for LT and are geared to steer the event back towards supporting artists and performers and providing the services to allow it to continue into the future. FoLT earns and scrounges funds and gathers the volunteers each month, providing security, education of the vendors about expectations, removal of trash and recycling, street closure and logistics.
FoLT is wanting to purchase a used box truck for our Street Operations Team. We will take that box trailer and retro-fit it to carry all of the barricades, street signs, and garbage/recycling bins and what they get filled with at the end of the night. FoLT will then lend out the trailer to other community groups at low cost, with the funds helping FoLT to become more financially sustainable. This box trailer will help us support a multicultural community’s economic engine, grassroots art, creative thinking, performance opportunities, personal expression, dreaming, et al. Your contribution may be tax deductible as our fiscal sponsor is the Non-Profit Association of Oregon.
Please see our campaign here.
Shoot, if you don’t have $ to give, please take a moment to pass this along to friends and help us get the word out!
You can also volunteer for a Last Thursday! Info@LastThursdayonAlberta.com

Each month runs just under $4000 to make the magic happen even with the donated time, cars, drivers and efforts.

Want more information?
Info@LastThursdayonAlberta.com

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1st Annual Alberta Bar Crawl
April 25, Last Thursday
Between the hours of 6-10p.m. teams of four, distinguished by their team “dress code”, will travel down Alberta Street getting stamped at each of the ten participating bars where they are offered cheap drink specials and enjoy live music, entertainment and prizes.
At the end of the event, teams will turn in a full punch card and receive a Last Thursday pint glass.
Let’s get ready to rumble!
Money raised will help FoLT pay for services (trash, security, toilets, etc.) during the peak summer months of Last Thursday.
Sign up early at the Black Cat Cafe, 1203 NE Alberta or Al Forno Ferruzza, 2738 NE Alberta.

Upcoming Events
FoLT Meeting
The Hilt, 1934 NE Alberta
6:30-8:00

April Last Thursday
Alberta Bar Crawl
6-11p.m.

May Last Thursday
1st Street Closure by FoLT

King Neighborhood Association – General
Meeting
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 6:30pm
Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods
4815 NE 7th Avenue, Portland, OR
Agenda
6:30 Introductions, approval of agenda and minutes
6:45 Discussion of pending liquor licenses & KNA engagement
-CROWN Q MARKET & DELI – Comments due 4/20
7:15 Water Stewardship Grant update – Diego Gioseffi
7:25 Vote on fiscal sponsorship of Water Stewardship Grant
7:30 Movies in the Park update & request for volunteers – Russ Eisenberg
7:40 Communications Committee – Recruitment & Ideas
8:00 Adjourn

The following business has applied for two liquor licenses:

CROWN Q MARKET & DELI:
(CROWN Q LLC & GARY L. LOWE)
445 NE KILLINGSWORTH
PORTLAND, OR 97211

The OLCC has received an application for a Limited On-Premises license and an Off-Premises license in your community. These two licenses would allow a licensee to sell and serve wine, cider and malt beverages for consumption on the premises, as well as in sealed containers for consumption off the premises. The legal hours to sell alcohol in the state of Oregon are 7:00AM to 2:30AM daily.

The applicant proposes to operate from 7:00 AM to 9:00 PM Sunday through Thursday, and from 7:00 AM to 12 Midnight Friday and Saturday. Food will be available whenever alcohol is consumed on-premises.

If your organization wishes to provide the Commission with factual information concerning whether there is a basis to grant or deny this license under the OLCC’s licensing standards, please write me at the following address:

OLCC
Eric Hildebrand, License Investigator
P.O. Box 22297
Milwaukie, OR 97269-2297

If you have any questions, please call me at (503) 872-5197. Please respond to this letter within 14 days of this letter’s date so that we can process this application in a timely manner. We will share your information with the applicant, make it a part of the public record and consider it when making a final decision.

Eric Hildebrand,
License Investigator
Ph. 503.872.5197
Fax: 503.872.5074

OLCC
PO Box 22297
Milwaukie, OR 97269

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City of Portland Community Budget Forums

PLEASE SHOW UP TO SUPPORT FUNDING TO OFFICE OF NEIGHBORHOOD INVOLVEMENT NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAMS.

The Forums provide you with the opportunity to offer testimony before City Council and express which service priorities are most important to Portland residents for next year’s FY 2013-14 budget which begins July 1, 2013.

ONI, and all city bureaus, were required by Mayor Charlie Hales to submit a 10% cut to each of their budgets. The ONI Budget Advisory Committee (BAC), on which neighborhood and other civic involvement groups are well represented, is proposing ‘add-back’ restoration to those cuts.

Your testimony at these public hearings will indicate to the new Council that there is community support for the restoration of funds for neighborhood and community involvement services.

ONI’s City Council Budget Worksession

2nd hearing for ONI to respond to questions from the City’s Budget Advisory Committee, which includes all Council members, NO PUBLIC TESTIMONY. Continue reading →

Mother Teresa is Dead is EXTENDING
Now through April 11th!

Due to audience demand, Mother Teresa is Dead is extending for one week, and will now be running through April 11th.

Read the review in The Oregonian, then make sure you…

Buy your tickets here!

2013-2014 Season Six

DETROIT by Lisa D’Amour
Directed by Brian Weaver
October 2 – November 3, 2013
A “sharp X-ray of the embattled Ameri-can psyche…a dark comedy as rich and addictively satisfying as a five-layer dip served up with a brimming bowl of tortilla chips.” -The New York Times

THE OTHER PLACE by Sharr White
November 20 – December 8, 2013
Gretchen Corbett stars in Sharr White’s riveting psycho-logical drama that critics have hailed as “piercing and tonally on-target” (New York Magazine) “curvy and com-pelling” (NY Daily News), and a “taut, incisive puzzle play” (Backstage).

JITNEY by August Wilson
January 15 – February 2, 2014
Don’t miss Portland Playhouse’s signature approach to Wilson, of which Portland Monthly wrote about this season’s King Hedley II: “if you like your drama strong and your performances intense, it’s unlikely that you’ll see a production this gripping… anytime soon.”

THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA Book by Craig Lucas
Music & Lyrics by Adam Guettel
February 26 – March 30, 2014
Discover what The New York Times calls “a blessing for those in search of signs of intelligent life in the American musical.”

AFTER THE REVOLUTION by Amy Herzog
Playwright’s Portland Debut
April 30 – June 1, 2014
Tamara Fisch (Race at Artist’s Rep 2012; The Scene at Portland Playhouse 2011; After the Revolution World Premiere workshop at the Williamstown Theatre Festival 2010) directs this “smart, engrossing play” that “crackle[s] with lively, natural dialogue” and characters that “are drawn with a perceptive sense of the contradictions that color personality” (The New York Times).