engineering

Starky's

Starky's is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Starky's rather than just read about it. In short: Starky's Restaurant and Bar, or simply Starky's (sometimes stylized as Starkys), was a gay bar and restaurant in Portland, Oregon's Kerns neighborhood, in the United States. Established in 1984, the venue became a fixture in Portland's gay community before closing in 2015.

Key takeaways

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Connect Starky's to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Starky's from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Starky's Restaurant and Bar, or simply Starky's (sometimes stylized as Starkys), was a gay bar and restaurant in Portland, Oregon's Kerns neighborhood, in the United States. Established in 1984, the venue became a fixture in Portland's gay community before closing in 2015. It hosted LGBTQ events and served as a gathering space for leather enthusiasts and the Oregon Bears, among other groups. Starky's received a generally positive reception and was most known for its Bloody Marys, brunch, and outdoor seating.

Description and history Starky's, located at 2913 Southeast Stark Street, was a gay bar and restaurant in Portland's Kerns neighborhood. It was established in 1984 and housed in a building that was constructed in 1935. Starky's was known for its patio and outdoor seating, in addition to serving American cuisine, including burgers and steak. Joe Waldroff and Greg Simshaw purchased the bar in September 2004. In 2015, Willamette Week described the establishment as a "patioed mountain chalet with homestyle food that seems as domestic as Grandpa's house, with busy Thursday karaoke, 'bottomless' mimosas at its essential Sunday brunch, and a charmingly dirty-avuncular bartender who seems to have an answer for everything". Following its closure, the newspaper's Matthew Korfage called Starky's a "little mountain chalet" and "friendly little neighborhood bar catering to longtime regulars in the gay community with raucous karaoke, home-style food and a Sunday brunch that offered up bottomless cheap-bubbly mimosas unless you misbehaved". Beginning in late 2014, Waldroff and Simshaw listed the building and business for sale intermittently, and sold Starky's for $1.2 million in March 2015. The duo planned to retire and expressed a willingness to sell the rights to the name and business. The bar and restaurant closed on September 13, 2015, after operating for 28 years. The building that housed Starky's was demolished during November–December 2015, and was replaced by a three-story apartment building.

Events Starky's was a longtime fixture in Portland's gay community. It served as a gathering space for groups such as Blackout Leather Productions, a nonprofit organization and volunteer group of leather enthusiasts in Oregon and southwest Washington, and the Oregon Bears. Historically, Starky's sold tickets to Portland Gay Men's Chorus performances and hosted (or was a starting location for) gay pride events. The venue also hosted special events such as: a 2009 celebration and fundraiser to send eight musicians from the Rose City Gay Freedom Band to perform at Barack Obama's inauguration, a 2013 PQ Monthly press party, Oregon Bears' 2013 car wash fundraiser for Our House and other nonprofits, the Red Dress Party, and "Civic Pride", which was presented by City Club of Portland in June 2014 to commemorate gay pride and LGBT Pride Month. The latter event featured guests from local organizations including: Basic Rights Oregon, CAP Northwest (formerly Cascade AIDS Project), Equity Foundation, GLSEN Oregon, Oregon Gay and Lesbian Law Association, Oregon Safe Schools and Communities Coalition, PFLAG Portland and the PFLAG Black Chapter, Portland Latino Gay Pride, and Rosetown Ramblers.

Reception Starky's received a generally positive reception and was most known for its Bloody Marys, brunch, and outdoor seating. In 2013, Jaime Dunkle of the Daily Vanguard, Portland State University's student newspaper, included Starky's as one of the top five gay bars and clubs in the city, writing: For maxing and relaxing: Starky's is the best outdoor gay bar. Word on the street is that they make a killer Bloody Mary and have a yummy brunch menu. They're old school and have been in Portland since 1984. Check it out if you want to get away from the throbbing, meat-market discos. In 2014, GoLocalPDX contributor Byron Beck included Starky's in his list of Portland's top twelve gay clubs, writing: "Starky's is for those who remember that brunch is best served on Sunday with a Bloody Mary. This true original is more restaurant than bar but that doesn't stop people from coming here for some of the stiffest drinks in town." In 2015, Willamette Week contributors included Starky's in their list of favorite Portland gay bars.

References

External links Media related to Starky's at Wikimedia Commons

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Starky's

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Starky's claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Starky's before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Starky's ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Starky's

In research: Starky's appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Starky's in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Starky's is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1984 establishments in Oregon, 2015 disestablishments in Oregon, Buildings and structures completed in 1935, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Starky's outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Starky's in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Starky's means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Starky's out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

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Why does Starky's matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Starky's?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Starky's.