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We all float down here. And you'll float too. You'll float too. YOU'LL FLOAT TOO! YOU'LL FLOAT TOO! WE ALL FLOAT DOWN HERE AND YOU'LL FLOA—
Various Theaters, see Movie Times for showtimes and locations
Jen Kirkman
With jokes about the joys of divorce and the cultural expectation that every unwed lady who dies alone MUST own a cat, Jen Kirkman is the anti-Cathy "ACK!" comic. Her smart, mordant, vaguely existential brand of humor is a sad/funny reminder that we're all basically alone, right? But we might as well laugh during our stint in this mortal gutter. MEGAN BURBANK
8 pm, Aladdin Theater, $25, all ages
Anders Nilsen
Portland artist and author Anders Nilsen has been working up to this. An award-winning comics creator, Nilsen’s plumbed the philosophical depths of existence and meaning in every book he’s produced, most famously through conversations between small birds in Big Questions. Now, Nilsen is starting off on another long journey, a serialization which will one day form an ambitious book, Tongues. Issue #1 features a human-shaped but not human-looking being chained to a remote rock, a girl carrying a futuristic or magical weapon, and an ordinary-looking man with a teddy bear strapped to his back who previously appeared in 2004’s Dogs and Water. Early descriptions of Tongues characterized it as an adaptation of a work by Aeschylus, which is a bit of a spoiler if you’re into Greek tragedians. But though I theoretically already know what will happen, I still have plenty of questions. SUZETTE SMITH
6 pm, Floating World Comics, free
Enter the Dragon
"Don't think! Feel. It is like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory."
5 pm, 9:15 pm, Academy Theater, $3-4
Black Belt Eagle Scout, Blackwater (Holylight), Shortline
Portland-based musician Katherine Paul brings her post-rock solo project, Black Belt Eagle Scout, to the Fremont Theater stage to celebrate the release of her Good Cheer Records-issued debut album, Mother of My Children.
8 pm, Fremont Theater, $8
Alexandra Savior, Máscaras
The up-and-coming singer/songwriter and Portland native who began turning heads after her demo appeared featured in True Detective’s second series brings her smooth-yet-haunting blend of pop music to the Doug Fir stage for a hometown show supporting her Columbia Record-issued debut album, Belladonna of Sadness.
9 pm, Doug Fir, $12-14
Best of Portland: Ladies Night
Helium's ongoing series celebrating the best of Portland's comedy scene turns its spotlight on the many women comics working the stage week in and week out. It'd be cool if they saw their way towards putting more women on their stage way more fucking often (as opposed to the non-stop run of scruffy bearded white college dropout types they keep shuffling on-and-off-stage), but this showcase is a pretty good start, including sets from Julia Ramos, Amanda Lynn-Deal, Kelly Richardson, Alayna Becker, Kate Murphy, Laura Anne-Whitley, Barbara Holm, Andie Main, Amanda Arnold, and JoAnn Schinderle. Hosted by Katie Nguyen.
8 pm, Helium Comedy Club
Get Weird: The Heavy Hustle, Karma Rivera, Courtney Noe, ADDverse Effects, Robot Jurassic
Heavy Hustle hosts this genre-hopping evening of local music, with visual art by Katrina Zarate on display as pop, rock, funk, and hip-hop all get blended together live on stage.
8:30 pm, Holocene, $8-10
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