Please join the Resident Historian, Doug Kenck-Crispin as he tells true tales from Oregon's Disastrous past. Hear about the day Roseburg blew the fuck up, a giant flood, and even gianter volcano and a really, really bad batch of scrambled eggs. Oh, and more!! Always the third Tuesday of each month, always informative, always entertaining at always FREE!! 7:30pm at The Jack London Bar. It is really a good time! Hope you can join us! BOOM!

   Come join us at The Jack London Bar on Tuesday, February 18th at 7:30pm for "Oregon's Birthday!" We will tell some fun stories from Oregon's Past, have some cake, watch a movie and just revel in Oregon's Awesomeness. AAAnnnddd we'll be revealing the winner in our 3rd Annual Kick Ass Oregon History Diorama Contest! An evening you will NOT want to miss - and it's FREE!!  

Please join the Resident Historian, Doug Kenck-Crispin as he tells true tales from Oregon's past. March 18th we will be discussing The Beats, and the legacy that Oregon left on that "movement." Wine specials. Open Mic Poetry. Shit - bring your bongos, Daddy-O. And appropriate wear is certainly encouraged. FREE!! 7:30pm at The Jack London Bar. It is really a good time! Hope you can join us! Moloch, moloch, moloch...;

Stumptown Stories is back at The JLB - and DKC will have a brief chat on this showcase program about the history of Fleet Week. With lots and lots of Tom of Finland pics too! Hope you can join us!

All the naughty shit that happened on Burnside... Please join Kick Ass Oregon History's Resident Historian, Doug Kenck-Crispin and JB Fisher, co-author of Portland on the Take for "Burnside Vice," a FREE evening of discussion and photos of one of Portland's most storied streets. The event will take place at the Jack London Bar 529 SW 4th Ave (under the Rialto Poolroom) on August 11th. Doors at 7:00pm (21+). JB Fisher will take you on a virtual walking tour of Burnside's vice-ridden past in the 1940s and 50s. He'll tell you about the card rooms and taverns, the whorehouses, the bad hotels, and he'll throw in some juicy stories about the crooked dealings that went down in the district back in the day. Doug Kenck-Crispin has been working on the public art project in the new Innovative Housing project at the old Erickson's Saloon building. With the help of others, he has archived more photos (many from private collections) of this storied establishment than have been gathered in at least a generation. He'll show them ALL to you - many never before publicly presented - as well as photos of the project, and a few "new" stories that he was able to…

What's the Holidays without a little Herstory thrown in the mix... and booze... and designer anti-depressants... It's the All Star Cast of Stumptown Stories, and they'll all be presenting to YOU on December 8th, 2015 at the Jack London Bar (SW 4th and Alder)! Doors at 7:00 pm (21+ only). Come on down for the third night of Chanukah (we'll light the menorah, baby!) and catch a double shot of Holiday Cheer! Heather Arndt Anderson will be discussing the old-timey Portland children's radio classic, the Cinnamon Bear, Joe Streckert will tell you all about Meier & Frank's totally bitchin Santaland, JB Fisher is talking about What Happened to the Martins? A Christmas Mystery, Finn John will reveal Portland's Murderous Melodrama of Christmastime 1907, and Doug Kenck-Crispin will tell you about the Jewish utopia down by Roseburg! Cause it's Chanukah! AND there will be a Kick Ass raffle with books by said historians and a bottle of sweet brown stuff that sure goes smooth in your egg nog! Sober Santa will pay us a visit (although I wouldn't recommend sitting on his lap... he hasn't been out of rehab THAT long.) AND your Favorite Holiday Carols will be performed by accordionist Lynn Haldeman!…

***Don't forget our 4/20 Bus Tour! Beer! Weed! Fun! History!*** Join Stumptown Stories on March 8th for a night of computer games and showtunes! Dive into the world of dysentery, death, and DOS with Joe Streckert (Interesting Times). Oregon Trail intorduced a whole generation of school kids to the wonderful world of westward expansion. Learn about the origins of the game, how it evolved, and how it matches up to real history. After that, learn all about Oregon's most catastrophic cinematic flop, Paint Your Wagon! Doug Kenck-Crispin (Kick Ass Oregon History) will guide you through the chaotic and expensive production of one of the most notorious musicals off all time, made all the more infamous due to the musical stylings of Clint Eastwood himself. Doors are at 7:00, start time is 7:30