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Beauty Bar Portland opens downtown Saturday

March 2, 2010 by karenvitt  
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Portland already is home to a beauty bar of the cosmetic variety, and now come Saturday we’ll also have a beauty bar of the cocktail kind.
The Beauty Bar, which first opened in New York City in 1995, now operates eight fashionable cocktail lounges across the country, all with the same cheeky vintage beauty parlor theme. [...]

Erin Go Bragh! Vintage fashion show + sale tonight

March 2, 2010 by karenvitt  
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What’s this? The world’s first and only vintage musical comedy fashion show and sale? And it’s right in our own back yard!
Tonight, AlexSandra’s Vintage Emporium will present the Erin Go Bragh! Vintage Fashion Show + Sale at Tony’s Starlight Supper Club Lounge, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday, March 2.
One night each month, a parade [...]

Grand Opening Party at Couture Ultra Lounge tonight

February 25, 2010 by karenvitt  
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Tonight’s the night if you haven’t yet had a chance to check out Couture Ultra Lounge, which opened quietly in Old Town/China Town in December. The swank new dinner and cocktail lounge is set to throw a Grand Opening Party tonight, with live music, drink specials and amazing eats, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. Thursday, [...]

Vintage fashion rocked at Rontoms Valentine’s Day Prom

February 15, 2010 by karenvitt  
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Portland vintage lovers got the best Valentine’s Day gift ever last night, when Rontoms lounge and Potlatch Presents co-hosted a rockin’ 1950’s Valentine Prom, and throngs of fashionable friends and lovers turned out to celebrate their love in retro style.
In fact, so many stylish Portlanders showed up there was a long line down the block, [...]

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“Art of the Garment” Halloween party tonight

October 30, 2009 by karenvitt  
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Don’t you love what’s been happening in the Montavilla neighborhood over the past few years? Cool restaurants, unexpected shops, hole-in-the-wall sushi bars and cocktail lounges keep popping up all along that short but sweet stretch of Southeast Stark Street just below 82nd Ave. Once upon a time this territory was no fun to tread, but [...]