In preparation for next month’s walking tour of Chinatown, Dale Davis (Pickler#30) is organizing the first ever Dill Pickle reading group. Up first, we’ll be taking on Dr. Marie Rose Wong’s superb Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon (University of Washington, 2004).
From the publisher:
Around the turn of the twentieth century, and for [...]
Tag Archives: The Waypost
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dead or alive
Mark your calendars for the third and final NORTHWEST PASSAGE dinner lecture coming up MAY 13th with CALVIN JOHNSON, VANESSA RENWICK and COOL NUTZ. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, April 21st.
Last Thursday’s sold-out show was another phenom success, with 75 people packed into every nook and cranny at the Waypost. If you missed it, [...]
tickets for nw passage goin’ goin’…gone?
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 [...]
can you dig it?
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!
tix up now for NW passage music/ lecture series
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 [...]
Clearing House around town
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 [...]












