See our latest batch of suggestions for pandemic-safe weekend activities below, from Stout Month Past Event Like List specials to the Winter Soup Festival To-Go Past Event Like List , and from the Portland Winter Light (non)Festival Past Event Like List to Black History Month events. For even more options, read our guides to the best online events this week Like List , the best movies to watch this week Like List , and the best things to do all month long Like List . 

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FOOD & DRINK

Celebrate Stout Month. A mere pandemic couldn’t stop Portland’s annual month-long extravaganza dedicated to pitch-black beers. Stout Month Past Event Like List will be celebrated in COVID-safe fashion this month, with a lineup of new releases and other special programming. Fort George Brewery Like List in Astoria will be unveiling a host of midnight-dark brews for February, including the 2021 release of Matryoshka, a strong Russian imperial stout aged in Buffalo Trace Bourbon and Westward Whiskey barrels for a year. The brewery will also have a lineup of hearty food specials (like beer-braised beef with potatoes and mushroom gravy and bacon on a stick) to complement your stout of choice. Deschutes Brewery Like List is also releasing its famed Black Butte Porter in cans for the first time, and Laurelwood Public Brewing is releasing four new variants of its award-winning Space Stout.

Grab some Super Bowl snacks. The Super Bowl LV Past Event Like List is this Sunday. Whether you're rooting for the Kansas City Chiefs or the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, or you're just in it for the commercials and halftime show, one thing's for sure: Being prepared with an arsenal of snacks is absolutely imperative for your game-day viewing. We've gathered a list Like List of great local options, like Detroit pizza combos from Pop Pizza Like List , nachos from ¿Por Que No? Like List , house-smoked wings from Von Ebert Brewing Like List , and more. Beloved, temporarily closed Reel M Inn Tavern Like List is also reopening for one glorious day on Super Bowl Sunday with a pared-down menu.

Celebrate Pizza Day. This Tuesday, February 9, is National Pizza Pie Day. Why not get started early by plotting to try out a few new melty, cheesy pies? Detroit-style pizza is currently all the rage, beloved for its rectangular shape and burnished, frico-like edges—check it out at Pop Pizza Like List and find a killer vegan version at Boxcar Pizza Like List . Other pizzerias well worth your time and consideration include Dimo's Apizza Like List , Apizza Scholls Like List , Lovely's Fifty-Fifty Like List , Pizza Jerk, and Ken's Artisan Pizza Like List .

Scope out some cozy patios. We’re counting down the days until spring (43, in case you were wondering). Maybe you’re also in need of some new hygge options for outdoor dining to get you through the final stretch of winter? The Thai barbecue destination Eem Like List offers a colorful respite with its Thai-inspired outdoor dining pods, while the Radio Room has a patio beneath a canopy of twinkling lights. And Lang Baan Like List ’s patio will transport you to a distant street market with its vinyl tablecloths and cheerful bunting.

Check out new takeout specials and to-go cocktails. Is your takeout rotation getting a little stale? In her latest Takeout Club column, Suzette Smith considers two local spots for excellent cookies: Courier Coffee Like List and Coquine Like List . Plus, Janey Wong determines how the boozy options on offer at the Italian markets Cooperativa Like List and Montelupo Italian Market Like List stack up in her new Cocktail To-Go Club column. We also have a list of newly opened restaurants worth your attention Like List , including a tropical food cart Like List  and a Puerto Rican-Philadelphia mashup Like List .

Other notable weekend events:

Dumpling Week Past Event Like List
The Oregonian/Oregon Live's annual Dumpling Week celebrates comforting, pillowy pockets of goodness in all of their forms with specials from over 20 participating restaurants, from "Georgian nacho vareniki" at Kachka to Chengdu-style shrimp and pork "dragon dumplings" at Ping. Print off a passport from the website and set out to try them all.
Various locations (Friday-Sunday)

National Ice Cream for Breakfast Day Past Event Like List
The first Saturday in February is National Ice Cream for Breakfast Day, a holiday invented by Florence Rappaport in Rochester, New York on a snowy day in the 1960s. The small-batch ice cream shop Ice Cream Renaissance will celebrate with waffles, waffle sundaes, baked French toast, and other breakfast-y treats à la mode, as well as plenty of creamy scoops all on their own.
Ice Cream Renaissance, Vancouver (Saturday)

Winter Soup Festival To-Go Past Event Like List
Warm up with steamy, restorative Latin American soups available for takeout or for covered outdoor dining from a variety of Portland Mercado businesses, including Xocotl, Tierra Del Sol, Fernando's Alegría, Barrio, Kaah Market, La Arepa, Que Bacano, and Alecocina.
Portland Mercado, Southeast (Saturday-Sunday)

VALENTINE'S DAY

Send Valentine's Day gifts to your friends and lovers. If your darling dearests don't live with you, take this weekend as an opportunity to ship them sweet parcels from local businesses. Tender Loving Empire has a special collection of gifts just for the holiday, like a Night In care package with apothecary goods and tasty treats and a "be mine" card that's blank inside so you can pour your heart out, Freeland Spirits offers a "Month of Love" care package, and PDX Green Box has essentials kits for your the stoners in your life (who will also enjoy these postcard prints from Broccoli Mag). For cards, stationery spot Little Otsu Like List  has a plethora by independent artists, including one from Lucky Horse Press that you can hand-deliver to your in-house valentine.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Celebrate Black History Month. So much of our culture is owed to Black artists, writers, thinkers, and communities, and Black History Month is a particularly great time to celebrate that. To get started, check out this reading list from Powell's Like List that includes book recommendations (like Kim Johnson's essay collection This Is My America) and links to some great interviews with Black authors (like a Q&A with How to Be an Antiracist author Ibram X. Kendi Past Event Like List ). This weekend also brings some Black History Month events worth checking out, like the Cascade Festival of African Films Past Event Like List (Fri-Sun), All Classical Portland's Celebrating Black Voices in Classical Music Past Event Like List series (Fri-Sun), and a 4 the Culture Market Past Event Like List at Billy Webb Elks Lodge (Sat). 

ARTS

Check out the Portland Winter Light (non)Festival. Instead of a single space, this year's iteration of the Willamette Light Bridage's Portland Winter Light Festival Past Event Like List (kicking off this Friday and Saturday and continuing next weekend) will cheer your icy spirits with installations throughout the city (including Sea Creatures Past Event Like List in the Portland Art Museum courtyard on Friday), to accommodate socially distant viewing. Check out their map to plan your route. 

Other notable weekend events:

BodyVox Video Installation Past Event Like List
In a pop-up gallery taking over the Pearl District's Maddox Building, local dance company BodyVox shows three film installations ("Synaesthesia," inspired by the phenomenon of hearing color or seeing sound; "Deep Wading," which uses the technology from Xbox Kinect to react to the dancers' movements, and "Figments," which was created using a green screen) that focus on how dance is affected by "light, technology, and perspective."
Maddox Building, Northwest (Friday-Saturday)

The Croods 2 & The Mummy Past Event Like List
Animated cavepeople and Brendan Fraser will take over the Newberg drive-in this weekend with double-feature screenings of The Croods 2 (in which the prehistoric family from the first animated Croods movie find themselves in a keeping-up-with-the-Joneses situation with a rival family) and The Mummy, whose plot you're deeply familiar with already.
99W Drive-In, Newberg (Friday-Saturday)

Davi & Chitty + Easy There Tiger + Wren The Band Past Event Like List
Get a dose of soul and R&B from Davi & Chitty, Easy There Tiger, and Wren the Band at this IRL show in Northeast.
Alberta Street Pub, Northeast (Friday)

First Friday Art Walk Past Event Like List
See new work by Salem artists at this COVID-friendly art walk. 
Various locations, Salem (Friday)

Hannah Newman: Pangea Past Event Like List
Conceptual artist Hannah Newman explores the relationship between digital media and earthly objects through cosmic-looking sculptures. Here's some heady artspeak for you, courtesy of Carnation Contemporary: "Consciousness moves between and within shared bodies to reimagine community and kinship on a planet where geologic time moves slow, but surface time moves fast. New, craggy landscapes emerge, powered by the hum of soft bodies and hardware." 
Carnation Contemporary, North Portland (Friday-Sunday)

Shelley Turley: Sound of Silence Past Event Like List
Shelley Turley's paintings explore themes of displacement, longing, mourning, and spiritual reflection. Her latest collection is inspired by cookbooks, soap operas, pop music, advertisements, and pagan rituals of the 1960s and '70s.
HOLDING Contemporary, Northwest (Friday-Saturday)

Timelines for The Future: Christine Howard Sandoval Past Event Like List
The first exhibition under resident curator Lucy Cotter's Turnstones program, which "[brings] together artists who refuse the available vocabulary and prefer to seek new frameworks," features photographs and drawings by Christine Howard Sandoval, whose practice revolves around the act of walking on sites of precarious and contested land.
Disjecta, North Portland (Friday-Sunday)

We Got Each Other's Back Past Event Like List
Together with artists Heldáy de la Cruz, Julio Salgado, and Edna Vázquez, interdisciplinary artist Carlos Motta's three-part video installation features portraits of openly undocumented queer artists and activities in the US whose work condemns this country's history of unjust immigration laws.
PICA, Northeast (Friday-Sunday)

SPORTS & OUTDOORS

Get the Burst of Hope rose from the Portland Nursery. In light of its theme, "Hope Reigns," the official rose of the 2021 Portland Rose Festival (the summer dates for which are not yet announced) is Burst of Hope, a single-stem beauty whose light-pink petals are striped with cheery yellow (the bursts of hope in question). Lucky for green thumbs with a little yard space, both locations of the Portland Nursery now have the variety in stock, and $2 from each grandiflora sold will benefit the Portland Rose Festival Foundation, which in turn will help provide a scholarship to this year's as-yet-unannounced Rose Queen. 

Hike Ecola State Park's Indian Beach trail. After getting washed out by rainstorms nearly five years ago, Ecola State Park's Indian Beach trail (just the trail, not the beach) is finally repaired and ready for hikers. The four-ish mile path is steep at times (wear sturdy hiking boots and clothes you don't mind getting muddy), but the sea air and views of the Oregon Coast's towering spires are well worth it.

Other notable weekend events:

Portland Polar Plunge Past Event Like List
The charity tradition that is literally way too cool asks you once again to help raise funds for Special Olympics Oregon by pledging to run straight into the Columbia River. This year offers a mix of socially distant IRL and virtual events, including a scavenger hunt (starting Sunday) and trivia nights (starting next Tuesday).
Friday-Sunday

RCR Winter Skate Pop-Up Past Event Like List
Rose City Rollers' open-air skating rig at Lloyd Center will be up and running every weekend in January. As usual, the Skatemobile will be on site if you need to rent gear.
Lloyd Center Mall, Northeast (Saturday-Sunday)

Yoga + Wine Salem | Coria Estates Past Event Like List
Bundle up for outdoor yoga classes followed by a glass of vino at the Salem winery. 
Coria Estates, Salem (Sunday)