Space is filling quickly for Thursday’s NORTHWEST PASSAGE lecture with Ural Thomas, Joe Kregal and Valerie Brown and we’re giddy with excitement. As a reminder, there’s only space for 75 people. We’ve already sold 40 tickets, so if you want to be sure you get a spot, you should pick up your ticket now. If [...]
Next Sunday, March 14th, the Dill Pickle is in the running for a grant award from Portland Stock for a new print project — Oregon History Comics! The project presents illuminating, marginalized and quirky accounts of local history in an accessible medium, engaging history fans and the public at large in learning about the place [...]
Just received this e-mail from David Klopfenstein and wanted to share…
Hello,
I truly love your idea. There are scores of under-appreciated folks in the pantheon of our regional music scene. History may never recognize independent publishers like Kathy Malloy of Snipehunt, folks who helped new talents record a demo like Justin Stark, pop pioneers who still [...]
While noodling around on the internet, I stumbled across these two lost gems of Ural Thomas’, one of our guests at next Thursday’s NORTHWEST PASSAGE dinner lecture. I can’t wait to hear him play acoustic versions of these songs!
The Dill Pickle Club and PDX Pop Now! are proud to partner in presenting NORTHWEST PASSAGE, a 3-part dinner lecture series examining the history of independent music in the NW.
Portland, a city known for its vibrant independent music scene, has a relatively obscure and unknown musical history. Through this ongoing series, we hope to celebrate [...]
Hello all,
Sorry we have been quiet of late. We have been busy planning and gearing up for our 2010 programs. A few quick items of news:
Now that WORK | PROGRESS is over, the Dill Pickle Club will be moving out of the Eyeful Gallery. We are exploring a number of options, including maintaining a highly [...]
Check out the podcast Ivy Lin (Dill Pickler #31, documentarian and a co-organizer of an upcoming tour on Chinatown) produced for her show, Current City on WK Entertainment!
Dill Pickle Club publications are now available around town! The following is a list of fine retailers in Portland that now sell our books: Ampersand, Grass Hut, In Other Words, Land, Portland Art Museum, Powells, Reading Frenzy, and The Waypost. Dill Pickles publications are also available through Needles and Pens, Just Seeds and Quimbys.
Buying our [...]
All good things must come to a close and WORK | PROGRESS is no exception. Hundreds of people saw the show, we raised a good chunk of money and the club received tremendous media coverage. Overall, the event was a great success.
The shop is currently closed and we are regrouping. We’re exploring a number of [...]