🍽️ Where to dine in

• Wash down a multi-course traditional menu with a seasonal cocktail, like The Last Turkey or Honey Smoked Margarita.

• The Woodlawn neighborhood restaurant will serve an Italian-inspired four-course feast for $80 per person.

• Enjoy a four-course Thanksgiving dinner with vegetarian options and over a dozen draft beers on the rooftop of Hotel Eastlund.

🥡 Where to carry out

• Ordering Thanksgiving fixings to feed up to six people is a breeze with a range of options for dietary needs and detailed re-heating instructions. Pro tip: Place your order by Sunday, Nov. 13.

• Every day is Thanksgiving at Portland’s oldest restaurant specializing in roasted turkey dinners. Choose the Turkey Package to serve ~10 people or get a baked sugar-glazed ham or whole-roasted turkey à la carte and make the sides yourself. Bonus: Dine-in reservations are booked, but walk-ins are welcome at the bar.

• A Thanksgiving Dinner Box feeds two people and includes a turkey pot pie, mashed potatoes, gravy, roasted squash, chicory salad, and Lazy Susan’s popular smoked whitefish spread with fried saltines. Pro tip: Add a maple pumpkin pie for the full experience.

• “Elf The Musical” | Thursday, Nov. 10-Sunday, Dec. 18 | Times vary | Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S. State St., Lake Oswego | $25-$42 | It’s the story you know about Buddy the Elf searching for his birth father in New York City — but with a lot more singing.
• Lizzo: The Special Tour | Thursday, Nov. 10 | 8 p.m. | Moda Center, 1 N. Center Court St., Portland | $45-$145 | It’s about dang time you see a performance by the queen of pop.

• Nordic Vintage & Treasure Sale | Friday, Nov. 11-Saturday, Nov. 12 | Times vary | Nordia House, 8800 SW Oleson Rd., Portland | Free | Shop for gently used and new Nordic collectibles, apparel, dishes, glassware, linens, artwork, and more.
• Portland Veterans Day Parade | Friday, Nov. 11 | 10 a.m. | Northeast Beech St. and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Portland | Free | Honor all veterans — past and present, living and deceased — at Portland’s only Veterans Day parade.

• 75th Anniversary Model Railroad Show | Saturday, Nov. 12-Sunday, Dec. 4 | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | Columbia Gorge Model Railroad Club, 2505 N. Vancouver Ave., Portland | $5-$25 | All aboard for this peek into “one of Portland’s most closely kept secrets” where you’ll see the club’s new 60-ft-by-70-ft model railroad layout of Portland and the Columbia Gorge in the 1950s.
• Oysters & Olio Happy Hour | Saturday, Nov. 12, Saturday, Nov. 19, Saturday, Nov. 26 | 1-4 p.m. | Durant at Red Ridge Farms, 5700 NE Breyman Orchards Rd., Dayton | $40 | Enjoy freshly harvested Pacific oysters topped with an Olio Nuovo mignonette and a glass of Durant Vineyards 2019 Brut.

• 50º | Parly cloudy | 9% chance of rain

• Rise: 7:03 a.m.
• Set: 4:45 p.m.

• It’s all downhill from here. Timberline Lodge will open this Friday, Nov. 11. The ski resort on Mount Hood said it will begin the season with its Pucci and Bruno lifts, opening other lifts as conditions allow. Mt. Hood Meadows is expected to open Friday, Nov. 25. ⛷️

• If you have gently used books, puzzles, or board games you’re ready to part with, you can take them to Kindred Homestead Supply’s free swap meet on Friday, Dec. 2 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Take a new (to you) item home with you — even if you didn’t bring anything to swap. 📚
• “Hairspray” writer and director John Waters will bring his “End Of The World” tour to the Aladdin Theater on Saturday, April 22. To celebrate his 77th birthday, Waters will perform a new comic monologue at the end of the spoken word show. Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10 a.m. 🎙️

• Learn from locals and receive guidance on starting your own business with a five-part creative entrepreneurship series hosted by Sneaker Week PDX and Rational Unicorn Legal. The series kicks off on Thursday, Nov. 17 at Alberta Abbey, with monthly meetings through March. Registration is donation-based and proceeds will benefit local nonprofits. 💼

• This year’s Holiday Ale Festival, a celebration held every December in Pioneer Courthouse Square, has been canceled for a third consecutive year. An announcement on the festival’s website said the event will resume in 2023 and encouraged Portlanders to continue supporting local breweries and cideries. 🍺 (Portland Business Journal)

• Invasive oak lace bugs caused more damage than usual to Oregon’s white oak trees this year, according to forestry officials. The insects feed on leaf cells containing chlorophyll — causing them to turn brown. But officials say they don’t persist year after year and damaged trees will sprout new leaves in the spring. 🍂 (KOIN)

• Tina Kennedy of Southeast Portland served 22 years in the US Army, but her military-related work didn’t end when she left the service. Tina founded Fort Kennedy, a nonprofit organization providing “a hand up, not a hand out” to homeless and low-income veterans through housing and legal assistance, food, haircuts, and more. 🇺🇸 (Portland Tribune)

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