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The Portland Mercury's Highball
We love you, dear Mercury reader. How much? Well, enough to team up with Beam Suntory and Good IV, LLC to put together the Portland Mercury's Highballâa one-of-a-kind event in which Portland's best bars and restaurants will create specially crafted cocktails... for a mere $5 each! From the Alibi to Loyal Legion and from Sandy Hut to Valentines (and many, many more), you'll have your pick of delicious cocktails all over the city... and they'll be available all day and night, not just during happy hour! Don't ever say we didn't do anything nice for ya. ERIK HENRIKSEN
Various Locations, see our Highball calendar for venues and drink recipes
LVL UP, Palm, Great Grandpa, Strange Ranger
LVL UPâs Return to Love might be the best indie rock album of 2016 that almost didnât get made. After self-releasing two full-lengths and a slew of EPs on Double Double Whammy, the four-piece made a pact that if they didnât get someone else to put out their music, theyâd hang it up for good. Instead, Seattleâs Sub Pop Records signed them on for a third full-length. Itâs a joyous and angry meditation on nature, relationships, and modern spirituality. Songs like âHidden Driverâ and âNaked in the River with the Creatorâ welcome the world and all its vastness, the former with a revved-up Neutral Milk Hotel-inspired mix of distorted acoustics, and the latter with a slowly decaying organ melody that closes the album Ă la the Microphones. LVL UPâs indie rock references to âthe holyâ are rare in a genre thatâs been particularly godless since Jeff Mangumâs howlings of âI love you Jesus Christ.â This approach certainly risks alienation, but Return to Love addresses religion without any pretense or cheesinessâinstead with bursts of beauty and refreshing, un-apathetic honesty. CAMERON CROWELL
8 pm, Mississippi Studios, $10-12
Ural Thomas & the Pain
To live in Portland and never have seen Ural Thomas and the Painâa resurrected local treasure of soul if there ever was oneâwould be a shame. MARJORIE SKINNER
9 pm, Goodfoot, $5
Thomas Dolby
The '80s New Wave pioneer known for his hit singles "She Blinded Me with Science" and "Hyperactive!" comes to Powell's to sign copies of The Speed of Sound, Dolby's new memoir about his rise to the top of the charts and his second career as a technology entrepreneur in Silicon Valley.
noon, Powell's City of Books, free
The Art of the Brick
One of the most well-known touring art exhibitions of recent memory, Nathan Sawaya's LEGOÂź works feature original visions alongside recreations of classic masterpieces, as well as a specially designed play area for activities, demonstration, and builder challenges.
all day, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, $5.50-19.75
The Red Turtle
A nearly perfect movie for kids (and adults) of almost any age. If youâre too young to appreciate it, you probably shouldnât be in a movie theater, and if youâre too old to appreciate it, you probably need medical attention. MARC MOHAN
6:30 pm, Cinema 21, $9.50
Pop-Up Magazine
Pop-Up Magazine is a great, unique conceptâthink of it as a live magazine, with writers, filmmakers, artists, and musicians taking the stage to share insightful, moving, funny, strange stories you won't find anywhere else. Each show is unique and no show is recorded. Portland's will feature New York Times Magazine and Wild Ones author Jon Mooallem, Kelley L. Carter (ESPN's The Undefeated), writers Laurel Braitman and Rachel Monroe, filmmakers Jamie Meltzer and Tim Hussin. Plus there will be podcasters, photographers, and live music from the Magik*Magik Orchestra. If the last time Pop-Up came through Portland is any indication, expect a night of wit, surprises, and fun. ERIK HENRIKSEN
7:30 pm, Revolution Hall
Identities & Futures: Women and Non-Binary Folks Speak Out!
Portland Zine Symposium presents a night of zine and comic readings featuring an opening ceremony by Layla Woelfle-Deene, readings by Pocha Radicales, Samantha Taylor, Eileen Chavez, Melika Belhaj, Emily Moroz, Jene Etheridge, Graham Kahler, Lillie Craw, and Alise Sanchez, animations by Daria Tessler, Tara Booth, and A'misa Chiu, and music from DJ KM Fizzy.
7:30 pm, Holocene, $7-10
Lithics, Preening, Conditioner
Around this time last year Portlandâs Lithics released Borrowed Floors, one of best local records of 2016. Its ten minimalist post-punk tracks repeat and layer needling guitar sounds against robotic drums, and the effect is totally hypnotic. The whole album is mechanical and precise, but certain moments of songs like âThing in Your Eyeâ break free from the rhythms with wild, rearing guitar riffsâit feels like the climax of sci-fi movies, when machines go rogue as their artificial intelligence inspires them to destroy humanity. Frontwoman Aubrey Hornorâs vocals deflect with cool detachment, but never fade into the background of Borrowed Floors. CIARA DOLAN
8 pm, The Know
Learning the GayBCs
Cozy up in the Queer Resource Center at PCC Cascade for an educational evening learning your GayBCâs. The introductory-level workshop will provide a safe space to explore LGBTQ+ terminology from pansexual to intersex, the importance of respecting pronouns, unconscious bias, and what it means to be a true queer and trans ally. You even get to eat free snacks! Registration required so send an email to virginia.martin1@pcc.edu if you plan to attend. EMILLY PRADO
5 pm, PCC Cascade Student Center, free
B-Movie Bingo: Tiger Claws 2
Your monthly opportunity to literally check off a bingo card full of B-movie clichĂ©s! This month, legitimate B-movie legends Cynthia Rothrock and Bolo Yeung square off in Tiger Claws 2, which would be your average trash-classic gun-fu actioner from the â90sâexcept for the part where it takes place in ancient underground caverns in San Francisco that are used to create time portals for nefarious purposes! Imagine a bad episode of Doctor Who having sex with a Chuck Norris movie. Or rather, donât imagine it. Go see it. BOBBY ROBERTS
7:30 pm, Hollywood Theatre, $9
A Day Without a Woman
Today, in coordination with the same brilliant organizers who brought us the Womenâs March on Washington, women and nonbinary workers across the country are staying home from work to shed light on the immeasurable daily contribution women make to Americaâs economy through their major presence in the labor forceâdoing work thatâs paid and unpaid, recognized and invisible, and spans every industry that makes this country (already) great. Here are just a few possibilities out of the many official ways to join in: You can participate in the strike, wear red in solidarity with it, refuse to spend money except at small businesses owned by women and people of color, and consider ways your workplace can work to achieve greater gender parity. MEGAN BURBANK
Various Locations, all day, #resist
Denzel Curry, Pell, Rare Treat
Though he was only inducted into âthe classâ by XXL this past summer, Denzel Curry is far from a hip-hop freshman. Since garnering the interest of producer Spaceghostpurrp at the tender age of 16, Curry has been on the cusp of recent hip-hop trends. His style is distinct and unflinching; he raps staccato, with machine gun bars that are vastly different from the slow, drawling style popularized by his industry-appointed peers, 21 Savage and Lil Yachty. Curryâs timing and fast-paced delivery are technically impressive, and incite a sense of angry liberation. He could easily seem jaded, even at 21 years old, but instead sounds self-assured and hopeful. EMMA BURKE
9 pm, Doug Fir, $3 w/ rsvp
Live Wire! Radio
The latest installment of Portland's own nationally-syndicated variety show features actress and writer Mara Wilson and creator and star of My Drunk Kitchen Hannah Hart. Hosted by Luke Burbank.
7:30 pm, Alberta Rose Theatre, $15-35
Starship Troopers
Not sure whether this high-powered satire of glossy, vapid fascism is going to be funnier than it's ever been before, or if it's going to cause infrequent giggles between rolling waves of nausea and panic. Either way, it's hard to pass up spending a couple hours on the big screen with Michael Ironside, Clancy Brown, and Neil Patrick Harris. The bugs still hold up as visual effects, too! Better than the dinosaurs from Jurassic Park, as a matter of fact. BOBBY ROBERTS
9:25 pm, Laurelhurst Theater, $3-4
Post Moves, Layperson, Cay is OK
Post Moves 2016 full-length, Mystery World Science Show, offers 12 songs of delicately moody guitar pop that lazily but purposefully amble like a fat bumblebee buzzing from daisy to daisy. CIARA DOLAN
9 pm, The Spare Room, free
Creative Cultivation Dance Party
The Portland-based online and print magazine with a focus on highlighting an eclectic range of PDX-based fashion, art, and music through a dance party featuring music by VNPRT, Dubblife, Brown Calculus, and Fountaine.
8:30 pm, Holocene, $7-10
Datsik, Crizzly, Virtual Riot
Canadian producer/DJ Datsik (aka Troy Beetles) makes sledgehammering dubstep that moves with Andre the Giantâlike grace. DAVE SEGAL
8 pm, Crystal Ballroom, $30-35
Don't forget to check out our Things To Do calendar for even more things to do!