Blackbird Wineshop: First Wednesdays

Stopped by last night and met owners Andy and Amelia. What a perfect venue for the new First Wednesdays series! Small, intimate, filled with Amelia's art (and other artists will be featured, i.e. a gallery), and a collection of their favorite wines for sale.

We strive for hand-crafted, small production (5000 cases or less) to insure higher quality.

Reasonably priced, most wines seem to be in the $15-20 range. A really nice wineshop.

So the adventure begins January 2nd! We're excited, they're excited. I've got the Jan. 2nd program set and am working on Feb. 6th. I plan to schedule a few months ahead. Also, Andy has video expertise and a projector, which means we should be able to add to our program a short video now and again, the sort of thing we publish.

The January 2nd program:

Readers: Evelyn Sharenov (nonfiction editor), Joshua Weber (fiction editor), Paul Pintarich, Charles Deemer (editor), folksinger Judith Richmond.

Blackbird is at 3519 NE 44th in Portland, just north of Fremont. If you're coming east out Fremont, 44th is split, the north branch to the left coming before the southern branch. Turn north/left on 44th at the bank, and Blackbird is the next building on the left. Lots of parking along the street.

The first First Wednesday is Jan. 2, 2008, 7-9pm. Be there or be square.

Blackbird Wineshop.

P.S. In less than an hour, I found this posting on Google! Man, they have the world's fastest spider.