Ace Hotel Portland is sponsoring Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: A Walking Tour of Portland’s Chinatown with local creative culture club (no Boy George jokes) Dill Pickle Club this coming weekend. The tour will illuminate local Chinese-American history through architecture, plants, walking around and talking to people, and looking at the secret messages and hidden time capsule under the grand Chinatown entrance gate. Get tickets and look at the event on the Dill Pickle site.
Our long-time friend, filmmaker and photographer David DeOtte, sent us some pictures of his dog, Sumo, at Ace Hotel Portland. “Your awesome hotel, and my awesome dog.” Thanks, David.
Today the lobby at Ace Hotel Portland is filled with 1,000 knit cranes, “celebrating the quiet logic of peace.”
Annuals played a very special show in the lobby of Ace Hotel Portland on a strange and sunny Wednesday afternoon. It was lovely. See more on our Vimeo. And stay tuned for more free lobby shows at Ace.
Our friend Holly Miranda played a special show at Ace Portland recently, and we took some video. Holly’s headlining at the Bowery Ballroom May 26th, and we’ll be celebrating with her afterward at Ace NYC. If you haven’t heard her debut album already, get it here for ten bucks with code Holly10 playing a show tonight at Bowery Ballroom.
Video by Martin Schoeneborn
Colin Meloy of the Decemberists at the Make It Pop! benefit for PDX Pop Now! at The Cleaners, Ace Hotel Portland.
We Made It Pop
Here’s some shots from the benefit we hosted last night in The Cleaners at Ace PDX. Everyone who played was terrific. Colin Meloy drank some red wine and played new songs from the upcoming Decemberists album. Where there would have been guitar solo, there was instead audience whistling. There were local cupcakes, homemade ice cream, and locally brewed beers, but a big treat was Colin’s cover of Men at Work’s Overkill.
Musee Mecanique.
Colin Meloy of the Decemberists.
Thanks for the photos, Jack.
Make It Pop
Tomorrow night, we’re hosting Make It Pop!, a benefit with Colin Meloy of The Decemberists, at The Cleaners in Ace Hotel Portland. It’s a fundraiser for PDX Pop Now!, an organization that works to support and strengthen Portland’s incredible, diverse independent music community. We’re really honored to help.
They’re also raffling off a two-night stay at Ace Portland. And other treats at the show will include Saint Cupcake, Captured By Porches Brewing, Bakery Bar, and Fifty Licks Homemade Ice Cream. Hopefully you can get some cupcakes before we eat them all.
Holly Miranda played a special show in the lobby at Ace Hotel Portland this afternoon. Her voice gave us goosebumps several dozen times. The lobby was hushed, but we were all buzzed on her magic.
Last year, Holly played an impromptu poolside show at Ace Palm Springs. We hope she’ll keep coming back. In the meantime, we have that a cappella sing-along playing on a loop.
Photos by Martin Schoeneborn
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