Dearest Darlings:

This week, we're taking T.G.I.BarFly for our first visit to NoPo! On Friday, July 15th, T.G.I.BarFly pops up at Foggy Notion, with special guest deejay, DJ Rockthrower!

While DJ Rockthrower serves up heaping helpings of all things rock - butt, sludge, doom, and prog, included - Foggy Notion will be offering up a free sampling of their surprisingly good, locavore-oriented and vegetarian-friendly bar menu for your tasting pleasure.

Here's Buddy doing what he does best!


That's today, Friday, July 15th, 5pm-8pm, at Foggy Notion (3416 N Lombard). Make it, don't break it!

Here are a few hand-picked recommendations as to how to spend the rest of your weekend:

Paul Brainard and his Fun Machine Orchestra roll into the Spare Room on Friday night for a free show replete with the mighty Fun Machine horn section, and an all-star line-up of guest vocalists and players. You may have caught Paul Brainard and his Fun Machine Orchestra at one or more of BarFly's fabulous parties over the years. They're one of my personal favorites, and unless you have a big ol' hole in your soul, you'll love them, to. Bonus: the Spare Room is always a sure thing in the date department - cheap drinks, dark booths, slinky dancefloor - you cannot fail! The Spare Room is at 5028 NE 42nd (at Alberta).

Biensur, technically speaking, Thursday was Bastille Day, but Saturday's the day to get your Gallic on, at the Bastille Day Celebration and Block Party, over at Pix Patisserie's North Williams outpost. They're making a very full day of it, kicking things off at 3pm with a 'Mini Madoc Marathon' (which will be a 5K through the streets of NoPo - in true Medoc style, costumes are mandatory, and drinking lots of wine, before, during, and after, is highly encouraged!). Live bands, a wine stomping competition, champagne 'sabering' lessons (that's where you use a blade to open your champi, all fancy-like), and, of course, this being Pix, trop du chocolat! Oh, and it's also a fundraiser for Oregon Food Bank. Vive la France! You'll find Pix Patisserie North at 3901 N Williams Ave.



Enjoy the chocolate, but save some room for bacon! Saturday night, at the Ash Street Saloon, it's the first-ever Portland Bacon Cup! The bacon will be shakin' from 8pm-1am, with bacon tastings (the cover is only $5, but upgrade to 'B.I.P.' status for an additional $5 to participate in the tasting and award judging!), bacon wrestling, bacon bras, bacon art, and a fat slab of deejays and bands playing throughout the festivities (check out the line-up, here). Who's the genius behind the Portland Bacon Cup? None other than the ever-popular deejay/writer about town, Mr. Statutory Ray, of Xotic Mag's 'View from the DJ Booth' infame! That's Saturday, July 16th, 8pm-1am, at Ash Street Saloon (225 SW Ash).



Rounding out the weekend is yours truly, trotting out the tunes in the guise of DJ Meow, on Sunday night, July 17th, in the Rialto's new basement discotheque, The Jack London! It's a Laser Light Service Industry Night Dance Party, complete with the aforementioned extra-exciting laser lights, free admission for one and all, and $2.50 drinks and micros for service industrialists, all night long. It kicks off at 10pm, and cranks til 2:30am. Meowza! Click here for more info. The Rialto is at 529 SW 4th, and to get to The Jack London, you have to walk all the way to the back of the pool hall, and descend the staircase into the nether regions.



Word to your mothers,

Miss Jen Lane
BarFly Fame

T.G.I.BarFly! BarFly's new pop-up happy hour party pops up at Foggy Notion, Friday, July 15th with DJ Rockthrower!



T.G.I.BarFly is BarFly's new Friday pop-up happy hour party, rocking and rolling into a new bar, every week.

This is our tenth T.G.I.BarFly outing. Every Friday, T.G.I.BarFly will bring the party to a different bar, with fabulous deejays, occasional live bands, appearances by Babe Force BarFly, silly contests, raffles, prizes galore, free appetizers, and happy hour deals and steals galore. Get your weekend off and running at T.G.I.BarFly!

While DJ Rockthrower entertains, Miss Tyler Tronson, fearless leader of Babe Force BarFly (a.k.a. the BarFly Bikini Team, our new promo 'street team') will be working the room, holding contests and raffles for fabulous prizes.

Be in it to win it this Friday, July 15th, at Foggy Notion, for prizes including:

Gift certificates for the services of the "Aesthetician to the Stars," Jane Cowan!

Gift certificates for Pix Patisserie! Pix has two fabulous location - the original outpost, on SE Division, and in North Portland, on Williams. Check out their over-the-top Bastille Day celebration on Saturday, July 16th - click here.

Gift certificates for Voodoo Doughnut! Look for a bigger and even more awesome Voodoo Doughnut I, newly re-opened in downtown on SW Second and Ankeny. <

Gift certificates for Genies! Breakfast Bloodies at Genies have been a southeast hangover ritual for years - get some!

Of course, we'll also have $50 gift certificates for the BarFly Bus and assorted BarFly t-shirts and other paraphernalia.

This is only our ninth time trying out the T.G.I.BarFly pop up party thing, so please come on down to Foggy Notion, and show your pretty and oh-so-handsome faces on Friday evening. It's right after work, from 5pm-8pm - the perfect pre-func for your Friday night!

That's this Friday, July 15th, from 5pm-8pm, at Foggy Notion. Be all the BarFly you can be - BE THERE!

If you'd like to do a T.G.I.BarFly pop-up happy hour party at your bar, please reply here, or email info@barflypdx.com.

P.S. You can now join us on Facebook and on Twitter. Whoopee.

It's BarFly Bus Sale Time! Every summer, we do an extra-special sale on our ever popular Halloween and New Year's Eve 2011 BarFly Bus tickets. Save $100-$150, on discount ten-ticket packs, and be the envy of all your friends!

This seven day sale only lasts until Friday, July 15th, 2011, and quantities are limited, so hop to for significant savings on social capital that's a guaranteed great return!

Only 5 discount ten-packs each will be sold for Halloween and New Year's Eve 2011, so get yours, today. See below for your Halloween and New Year's Eve Special Sale tickets, now.

Ooky-Spooky Twelfth Annual Halloween BarFly Bus Tour!
Saturday, October 29th, 2011
7pm-1am
SPECIAL SALE: 10 tix/$150 (sale prices good 7/08-15/2011; regularly: $25 apiece or $200 for ten)
All cover charges and appetizers included! Drink specials galore!
COSTUMES MANDATORY - multiple costume contests!

Trick or treat to the max onboard the 12th Annual Ooky-Spooky Halloween BarFly Bus! There'll be thrills and chills all night long as we visit some of the scariest haunts in Portland. Multiple costume contests throughout the night with fun prizes (and sometimes even cold, hard cash!), too.

Halloween is our most popular tour of the year for a reason - IT KICKS ASS! Make no mistake - COSTUMES ARE MANDATORY! FYI - all ten of last year's Halloween BarFly Buses sold out weeks in advance.

Save $100 and get your Halloween 2011 discount ten-pack for only $150! Buy now - sale ends Friday, July 15th, 2011, and only 5 discount Halloween ten-packs will be sold, so get yours today. Please use the button below to make your purchase. Save $150 on New Year's Eve 2011 10-packs! Only $150 for ten tickets until 7/15/11!

11th Annual New Year's Eve BarFly Bus Tour
Friday, December 31st, 2011
7pm-1am
SPECIAL SALE: $150 (sale prices good 7/08-15/2011; regularly: $30 apiece or $200 for ten)
All cover charges, hors d'oeuvres, drink specials, champagne toast, infernal noisemakers and traditional NYE paraphernalia included!

Say goodbye to 2011 and auld lang syne BarFly-style aboard the New Year's Eve 2011 BarFly Bus! Trust BarFly to ring in the New Year properly - and amateur-free!

Leave the driving and the planning and bullshit to us, and all you'll need to do is figure out what to wear (no dress code on the Bus!) and who you're gonna kiss at midnight. Midnight champagne toast, infernal noisemakers, silly hats, and all the traditional NYE trimmings, included.

WARNING: Year after year, all ten New Year's Eve BarFly Buses sell out in record time - get your tickets early!

Buy a special sale discount 10-pack of tickets, and save $150 bucks! Click here to purchase a New Year's Eve 2011 ten-pack for $150. Buy today - sale ends 7/15/11, and only 5 discount NYE 2011 ten-packs will be sold.