Dearest Darlings:

Hope your week's been as much f-u-n as mine. I don't want to make anyone too jealous, but yesterday, BarFly got HACKED. Just like one of the big kid websites! Anyhoo, you'll forgive me if I just go straight to happy hour, yes?

Today, we're taking T.G.I.BarFly down to the Rialto, for the grand-opening of their brand-new discotheque, the The Jack London! Oh, and don't miss my sidebar, all about our biggest and best party, yet - BarFly's 12th Anniversary BBQ Bash, on Sunday, June 26th, at the Tonic. Hope to see you drinking, soon.

T.G.I.BarFly is BarFly's new Friday happy hour pop-up party, rocking and rolling into a new bar, every week. On Friday, June 17th, T.G.I.BarFly pops up at The Jack London, the brand-new discotheque below the venerable Rialto, with DJ Drew Groove!

Come on down to enjoy a free sampling of The Jack London menu, great happy hour specials Free appetizers, $2.50 well & micros, and $2-4 menu), and the eclectic, actual real record playing, DJ Drew Groove!

This is our sixth 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 Drew Groove spins, 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, at The Jack London, for prizes including:

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

Tickets for shows at Mississippi Studios! Winner gets their choice of any non-sold out shows! Here's a sampling of what they have coming up: Burlap To Cashmere on Wednesday, 6/22, Cheyenne Marie Mize and Vandaveer on Thursday, 6/23, and The Donkees, And And And, and Dinosaur Feathers, on Wednesday, 6/29.

Gift certificates for Bishops Barbershops !

Tickets for shows at Doug Fir! Winner gets their choice of any non-sold out shows! Check out what's coming up: Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs on Tuesday, 6/21, and The Meat Puppets, (Click here to preview The Meat Puppets' new single!), Bad Weather California, and The Black Box Revelation on Wednesday, 6/22!

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 sixth time trying out the T.G.I.BarFly pop up party thing, so please come on down to The Jack London, 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, June 17th, from 5pm-8pm, at The Jack London. Be all the BarFly you can be - BE THERE!

 

T.G.I.BarFly

Friday, June 17th, 2011
5pm-8pm
The Jack London,
under the Rialto, at 529 SE 4th

Free appetizers, $2.50 well & micros, and $2-4 menu

Exclusively 21+, of course.

Word to your mothers,

Miss Jen Lane
BarFly Fame



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

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Ninkasi presents BarFly's 12th Anniversary BBQ Bash, Sunday, June 26th, at the Tonic!

BarFly turns twelve years old on Sunday, June 26th, and we're having our biggest and best BBQ Bash to celebrate! Come out early, and stay late - the party starts at 2pm, and rolls until 10pm.

Nine great bands make up a stellar bill, the free barbecue's in the the more than capable hands of LeRoy's Anton (who opened the Delta Cafe, way back when), Ninkasi's ponying up the brew.

With fingers-crossed for a rain-free summer day, we'll be doing the party entirely outside, making use of the Tonic's large parking lot (which will be closed to cars for the day), for a host of silly sideshows and games, including Goat Poop Bingo (just what it sounds like), a hipster Beard-Off (get your whiskers professionally sheared by master barber Josh Poole of Electric Ocean Barbershop, and compete for a cash prize for the most massive bag-o-beard, post-shave!), a Stripper Petting Zoo (where the strippers pet you!), traditional Cake Walks (officiated by DJ Drew Groove), and a Snack Race (combo sack-race/eating contest!).

Taboo Video will be doing a special pop-up shop in the parking lot, too!

In the oh, so small event of rain, we'll move the party inside (maybe not the Goat Poop Bingo...).

The live music will start at 2pm sharp, and continue all day. Here's the line-up (in approximate reverse order, from last up to first up):

The Hugs! (Four adorable boys not nearly old enough to remember early Kinks, but channeling the mid-sixties London sound like old pros.)
Holy Children (Psychedelic garage rock at its finest.)
Cool Breeze (Portland's premier R & B revue - if you're not dancing during their set, you're dead.)
Advisory! (Bouncy, lyrical rock and roll.)
Gaytheist (Hard rock with a sense of humor.)
Drunk Ladies (Crunchy metal with an emo bent.)
My New Vice (Grunge-inflected head-banging metal.)
The Sale (Mellow soft-rock with unique, home-made, percussion.)
Rian O'Hara (Off-beat, funny, singer-songwriter.)

Be there AND be square!

So, again, that's last Sunday,
Sunday, June 26th, 2011
2pm-10pm
at the Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd
$5 (free with VIP invitation*)

This party is 21+, only, of course. Our usual zero tolerance policy for jerks, fighters, and spoilsports, will be firmly in place. Take a cab, or catch Tri-Met bus #12 to the front door. Oh, and, take Monday off, now - you'll need it.

Come on out, early - LeRoy's barbecue is so good, it won't last that long, and the entertainment starts at 2pm, sharp. There will be $3 Ninkasi brews and $3 well drinks throughout the festivities.

Any questions? Email info at barflypdx.com.

Remember, if it's a BarFly Party, it has to be good.

*Where's your VIP invite? If you toil in one of BarFly's favorite bars, you'll get invites delivered to you by the Post Office, and/or your BarFly advertising executron. Not a SINner? Check your email and your FaceBook inboxes - if you're one of the chosen few (i.e. NOT of "the small people"), you'll find your VIP invite, there.