FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13
NERD CONVENTION—Attention, Twin Peaks nerds! Ready your coffee mug and cue some mournful synthesizers, because Bobby Briggs, Audrey Horne… and LAURA PALMER HERSELF will all be at this weekend’s Living Dead Horror Convention. Plus! Panels on monsters, forgotten slasher flicks, and horror-comedies. At last! That gum you like is coming back in style! MEGAN BURBANK
Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE MLK, Fri 4-11 pm, Sat 11 am-11 pm, Sun 11 am-5 pm, $25-40
COMEDY—Comedian Eugene Mirman uses his new comedy-album trailer to ask himself, “Why are you releasing something as long as everything that Creedence Clearwater has ever done?” I’m Sorry (You’re Welcome) is indeed redonk, with seven LPs full of meditation sounds, 195 orgasm noises, and copious crying. Oh, and some great stand-up! COURTNEY FERGUSON
w/Derrick Brown, Josie Long; Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 8 pm, $24, all ages
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14
TALK SHOW—The always entertaining Late Night Action with Alex Falcone returns with another live chat show, and this one is a humdinger! Joining the hilarious Alex and Bri Pruett (both Merc contributors), are guests David Giuntoli (star of Grimm), knee-slappin’ comedian Phil Schallberger, and actor David Saffert’s spot-on impersonation of Liberace, which you must see to believe! WM. STEVEN HUMPHREY
Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi, 7 pm, $10-15
FASHION PARTY—The annual Content transforms an entire floor of the Ace Hotel into a series of installations from the artistic minds of more than 20 of the city’s most interesting up-and-coming designers and makers. It’s also one of the most guaranteed good (and good-looking) times on the calendar. MARJORIE SKINNER
Ace Hotel, 1022 SW Stark, 5-10 pm, $15-20, all ages
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15
MUSIC—Fine with me if you want to get the old gang back together. Especially if we’re talking Brit shoegazers Ride! The cool mofos strapped on their guitars earlier this year after a nearly two-decade-long hiatus. Their wash of swirly, noisy dreamscapes is the perfect opportunity to eat a pot cookie and swim down the jangly river to Nowhere, a near perfect artifact of the ’90s. COURTNEY FERGUSON
w/Cat Hoch; Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside, 8 pm, $32.50-37.50, all ages
COMEDY—If you’re unfamiliar with Curious Comedy, they are a terrific theater providing stand-up comedy, improv, and classes to a laff-needing city. So don’t miss tonight’s fundraiser for the venue, Colin Mochrie and Friends, starring the verrrry funny former star of Who’s Line Is It Anyway? doing improv with all-star members of the Curious Comedy troupe. WM. STEVEN HUMPHREY
Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark, 7:30 pm, $22-25, all ages