Taste of Latinoamérica
The Portland Mercado is always an excellent place to spend a Saturday, and that goes double today when the vibrant Latino market hosts the third annual Taste of Latinoamérica festival. The all-day celebration of Latin American culinary and culture: more than 25 vendors, all representing different countries with unique-to-the-region food, drinks, and crafts, along with kid friendly activities and live music for dancing. While you’re visiting, be sure to pick up a container of carrot habanero salsa from Kaah Market—the flavorful paste-like salsa is destined to become your latest and greatest craving. CHIPP TERWILLIGER
noon, Portland Mercado, free, all ages

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Cigarettes After Sex
Cigarettes After Sex isn’t a very good band name. In fact, it’s horrendous, and invokes the pseudo-noir aesthetic of moody Instagram filters and reclaimed Edison bulb lamps and writing on a typewriter in 2017. But frontman Greg Gonzalez leans into this curated vibe on the Brooklyn-via-El Paso group’s self-titled debut, released in June on Partisan Records. It’s an excellent dream-pop record, if you can tune out the lyrics—the worst offender is “Apocalypse,” with the profoundly lazy rhyme “Your lips, my lips/Apocalypse.” It’s an album about modern love, but as the Guardian said in their review, “Gonzalez has a habit of writing about sex in a manner that somehow suggests he only saw a lady naked for the first time last week and is still reeling from the experience.” He’s a master of ambient melody, though, whisper-crooning his subpar lyrics like he’s singing lullabies in a sleeping bear’s cave. The music is gorgeous and hypnotic, but the words are eyeroll-inducing: “Nothing’s gonna hurt you baby/As long as you’re with me, you’ll be just fine.” CIARA DOLAN
9 pm, Doug Fir, $18-20

Wizards Assemble Pub Crawl
Greetings, common folk! 'Tis I, Gandalf! I've sailed all the way from Valinor to magically reveal that while you could spend $65 to get into this weekend's Rose City Comic Con—and, once inside, cough up another $100 to get your picture taken with Doctor Who—there's a far better use of your time: Get shit-faced with a bunch of wizards! In addition to $5 drink specials, the Wizards Assemble Pub Crawl vows to enchant “thousands of wizards and witches” with “wizard cocktails and potion drinks” (those sound safe!), a costume contest (oooo, sexy!), a Hogwarts-style “house sorting” (Hufflepuffsayswhat?), and a “graduation certificate” (sure to impress your parents)! Abracadabra! GANDALF THE GREY
4 pm, Various Locations, $16

Chuck Westmoreland, Mission Spotlight
Westmoreland plays songs from his self-titled debut album, a definite departure from the psychosexual pop of the Kingdom, focused on piercing examinations of loss, love, and surviving tragedy.
9 pm, Bunk Bar, $5

Tall Paul Fest
The famous Paul Bunyan statue in Kenton has seen way better days. An axe is little defense against chafing winds and unceasing rains, after all. So head north today to drink a special “Tall Paul Lager” from Widmer Brothers, root on the Timbers against NYC, and rake in goods via a live auction. All proceeds go toward the restoration of the NoPo landmark. Timber Jim will be there! DIRK VANDERHART
noon, N Willis & N Brandon, free, all ages

Mac DeMarco, The Garden
Pop-rock jester Mac DeMarco revealed a soft underbelly on his new record, This Old Dog. It’s a sharp left-turn from his jangly, island-flange guitar freakouts. Buoyed in sentimental lyrics, DeMarco sizzles on the Sea Change-esque title track, which trades the happy-go-lucky prankster’s Salad Days abandon for a self-reflective meditation on the fragility of life. He still resurrects crisp, vaguely schlocky guitar runs from the bowels of the mid-’80s on the trippy “On the Level” and the peppy “Baby You’re Out.” The newfound levelheadedness of This Old Dog suggests that DeMarco will probably be around for a while. I can only imagine the fun he’ll have performing at a zoo. RYAN J. PRADO
7 pm, Oregon Zoo, $30-90, all ages

Broncho, Billy Changer
Broncho's music is highlighted by diverse guitar tones that range from glittery psychedelic-rock, to shoegaze noise-pop, and even to Robert Smith-like goth. Frontwoman Samira Winter switches between singing in English and Portuguese as she simmers on different forms of longing. Her voice has an icy cadence that pairs nicely with the warm backing music, with this disparity perfectly capturing the conflicted nature of desire. CAMERON CROWELL
9 pm, Star Theater, $13

Fast Times at Ridgemont High
In 1982, Amy Heckerling and Cameron Crowe provided one of the most incisive, insightful looks into what high school was really like. Thirty-five years of constant pop-culture referencing has rendered the film quaintly cliché, a collection of questionable fashions coughing up cornball dialogue. But two aspects of the film still ring as true today as they did then: The muted desperation humming under everything Judge Reinhold does (yes, his character has a name, but such is the curse of Judge Reinhold—everyone he’s ever played simply becomes Judge Reinhold), and the reluctantly charming relationship between Mr. Hand (Ray Walston) and his good-natured problem student, Jeff Spicoli (Sean Penn). BOBBY ROBERTS
4:30 pm, 9:30 pm, Laurelhurst Theater, $3-4

Eyelids, Echo Echo Echo, Lonesome Heart Radio
Eyelids are no longer the parts of their sum, they're just the kind of killer all-star group that sometimes serendipitously springs up here in Portland. BEN SALMON
9 pm, The Fixin' To, $5

Tallwomen, Mujahedeen, Dim Wit, Toxic Slime, Anaïs Genevieve
A range of local rock, folk, and experimental acts get together at the Black Water Bar to raise money for the Immigration and Refugee Community (IRCO).
7 pm, Black Water Bar, $6, all ages

Reverend Horton Heat, Fishbone, Strung Out, Larry & His Flask
A night of rowdy-ass rockabilly rave-ups from one of the masters of the genre, with long-running funk, ska, and punk act Fishbone and Fat Wreck Chords mainstays Strung Out providing support.
9 pm, Roseland, $29.50-42.50

IPRC Grand Re-Opening
After a long and arduous 15 months spent seeking a new location, the IPRC has finally found their new home and is throwing a housewarming party, with free studio tours, print pulls, a new letterpress print shop dedication ceremony, live music, beer, and food.
5 pm, Independent Publishing Resource Center, free

Tony Starlight's Tribute to Television
Mr. Starlight enlists the help of his All-Star Horns to pay tribute to one of the most beautiful of arts, diminished as time has gone on, but whose glory days still shine bright: The art of the TV theme song. But to spice up those well-worn boob-tube classics, Tony will be re-interpreting the timeless melodies through modern musical styles.
6:45 pm, The Tony Starlight Showroom, $30-75

Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities
Cirque du Soleil's latest big-top extravagance transforms their tent into the curio cabinet of an old-timey inventor, bending reality, time, and space into a variety of stages and platforms by which this troupe of amazingly flexible performers do their mind-and-body-bending work.
4:30 pm, 8 pm, Portland Expo Center, $39, all ages

La La Land In Concert
Conductor Norman Huynh leads the Oregon Symphony and the Oregon Repertory Singers through a live performance of the Academy Award-winning original score, all while the second best Ryan Gosling film of 2016 is projected onto the big screen behind them.
7:30 pm, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, $30-115, all ages

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