Alien
Once upon the ’70s, before there were doll-eyed albino Michelin Men, before fanged vagina-mouth Rasta-monsters from outer space barged in for a good rassle, before all the Winona-ing and cloning and sad Muppet Baby abominations, before the AIDS allegory and the Vietnam metaphors, before the titular nasty became just a screeching bug you can run over in your car, there was Alien, a movie about tired space truckers stuck in a floating haunted house with an unknowable, unbeatable Freudian nightmare made of genitalia, teeth, and KY Jelly. It is probably the best horror movie ever made, and it’s screens this week in tribute to Harry Dean Stanton, who counts among his myriad indelible movie moments the first ever on-screen death via full-grown xenomorph. A death witnessed only by Jones the Cat, who basically got him killed and didn’t do shit to stop it because cats are dicks. BOBBY ROBERTS
9:35 pm, Academy Theater, $3-4
Sound + Vision: Dan Dan, Wet Fruit
A love letter to Pittsburgh synth duo Zombi, Portland band Dan Dan is a soundtrack-y prog trio with NO VOCALS. Do not even try to expect vocals. Just be chill—but also full of high-tempo energy, like Dan Dan. SUZETTE SMITH
9 pm, Mississippi Studios, free
Sheer Mag, Tenement, Tony Molina
The Philadelphia-based punk outfit bring their infectious '70s classic rock sound back to Portland for an all ages show supporting their debut full-length, Need to Feel Your Love, the follow-up to the trio of EPs that garnered them plenty of well-deserved attention.
8 pm, Hawthorne Theatre, $12-15
Re-run Theater: Irwin Allen '60s Sci-Fi
The Hollywood’s tribute to classic television. This month: A pair of hour-long episodes from super-producer Irwin Allen. Best known for his paint-by-numbers disaster films of the ’70s (The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno), Allen got his first taste of serious shlock success in the ’60s, producing Lost in Space and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. One episode of each will be screened, with period-appropriate (and slightly psychedelic) commercials played during the commercial breaks. BOBBY ROBERTS
7:30 pm, Hollywood Theatre, $7-9
Grow Your Own Book Launch
Book launches tend to feature the author reading a couple passages, signing a couple copies and answering a couple questions. This book launch features an entire cannabis fair, with opportunities to meet the people helping transform cannabis cultivation into a legitimate industry.
6 pm, Holocene
The Cool Kids Patio Show
The Doug Fir patio hosts one of the finest free stand-up showcases in town, paired perfectly with some of our city's best singer/songwriters. This time, Emily Overstreet provides the sounds while David Mascorro, Dylan Jenkins, and Amanda Arnold bring the jokes. Hosted by Andie Main.
6 pm, Doug Fir, free
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