coffee – Fresh Pot http://urbanhonking.com/freshpot The business of an independent cafe with three locations in beautiful Portland, Oregon. Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:37:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Rock & Roll Pancake Breakfast Benefit, this weekend! http://urbanhonking.com/freshpot/2011/05/20/rock-roll-pancake-breakfast-benefit-this-weekend/ http://urbanhonking.com/freshpot/2011/05/20/rock-roll-pancake-breakfast-benefit-this-weekend/#respond Fri, 20 May 2011 08:43:54 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/freshpot/?p=133 Continue reading →]]> On Sunday, May 22, 2011, musicians Stephen Malkmus(of the band Pavement) and Rebecca Gates(of the Spinanes)will each perform sets at the Rock & Roll Pancake Breakfast Benefit for Dara Greenwald. The event will take place at Disjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center at 8371 N. Interstate Avenue. A pancake breakfast will be served beginning at 11:00am until 2:00pm, with musical performances beginning at noon. The cost of admission is a sliding scale fee of $8 – $100, with pancakes, coffee, and juice available for an additional $1 per item.
Dara Greenwald is an artist/activist based in New York City. Her internationally recognized videos, performances, writing, and curatorial projects critique capitalism and promote progressive social change. Greenwald visited Portland in February 2010, when the Pacific Northwest College of Art exhibited Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now, a broad survey of posters and other ephemera from international social movements co-curated by Greenwald and Josh MacPhee.

In July 2010, Greenwald was diagnosed with cancer and is currently undergoing treatment. While her health insurance covers part of the cost of her medical bills, she still needs to pay tens of thousands of dollars for her care. Artists, colleagues, and friends across the USA have been hosting fundraising events for Dara. Portland is the first city to host a Rock & Roll Pancake Breakfast Benefit. For more information on Dara and her work, see http://daragreenwald.com/ and http://healdarag.org/ .

]]> http://urbanhonking.com/freshpot/2011/05/20/rock-roll-pancake-breakfast-benefit-this-weekend/feed/ 0 Keeping One Foot In Front The Other. http://urbanhonking.com/freshpot/2010/08/27/keeping_one_foot_in_front_the/ http://urbanhonking.com/freshpot/2010/08/27/keeping_one_foot_in_front_the/#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:19:09 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/freshpot/2010/08/27/keeping_one_foot_in_front_the/ Continue reading →]]> Is it really that time again? Summer has just flown by and with the last days of August comes the pain & pleasure explosion known as the Hood to Coast Relay.
197 miles. 1000 teams. 12 runners in two vans. And with us, enough coffee (both pressed and cold-brewed) to keep us up for 36 hours straight. This is our 4th (5th?) year running with our pals over at the roastery. The legs all tend to blur together at this point so the count could be a little off.
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Van 1 is powered by the Stumpies. They have a crackerjack team with a pretty good mix of HTC veterans and newbies. Our buddy Skip will try to keep his quads from disintegrating as he checks off Leg 1 from Timberline. Van 2 is powered by the FP and friends. Our customers Jill and Amber keep us on our feet and from talking entirely about coffee. We’ll be making our way back to Portland sometime around midnight on Friday. Look for us — we’ll be under the Hawthorne bridge (with about 2,000 other people). After that, only two more legs and 90 miles to go!
If you see us creaking and limping behind the bar next week — now you know why…

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