Dante’s—The Budos Band, The Universal DJ Sect, 9:30 pm, $15-17 Disjecta—Video Musics II: Alexis Gideon, 8 pm, $5, all ages Doug Fir—Garage a Trois, 9 pm, $17-19 Holocene—Strength, Fake Drugs, DJ Copy, DJ Patricia Furpurse, 9 pm, $5 Mississippi Studios—Celilo, Chris Margolin & The Dregs, Kasey Anderson, 9 pm, $5 Plan B—Cobalt Cranes, The Woolen […]
Courtney Ferguson
Mercury copy chief and appreciator of the most sophisticated form of comedy: PUNS!
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Tonight in Music
Dante’s—Tumbledown, Michael Dean Damron, Mike Pike, 9 pm, $8-10 Ella Street Social Club—Cars & Trains, Ethernet, 9 pm, $5 The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian—Bombs Into You, Pinehurst Kids, The Oblik, 9 pm, $4 Mississippi Studios—Gulfsongs Gulf Coast Benefit: Chris Robley & The Fear of Heights, Buoy La Rue, Rachel Taylor Brown, Leonard Mynx, 8 […]
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Brooklyn to Cuba
Reviews of Six New Graphic Novels
Reviews of six new graphic novels, from Julia Wertz’s Brooklyn adventures to the Cuban revolution.
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Tonight in Music
Doug Fir—Stereo Total, Allister Izenberg, 9 pm, $12 Holocene—Mattress, Thicket, Stag Hare, Actual Magik, DJ Nightschool, 7 pm, free Mississippi Studios—The Angry Orts, Blunt Mechanic, Paper Upper Cuts, 9 pm, $7 (The World Famous) Kenton Club—Eye Candy: VJ Norto, The Phantom Hillbilly, 9 pm, free The Woods—In the Cooky Jar: DJ Cooky, 9 pm, $3 […]
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Tonight’s Musical Jamborees
Alberta Rose Theatre—Peter Case, BettySoo, 8:30 pm, $20 The Artistery—Anne, Housefire, Caribou Canoe, 8 pm, $6, all ages Berbati’s Pan—The Growlers, Shannon & The Clams, Little Teeth, And And And, 8 pm, $8-10, all ages The Cleaners at the Ace Hotel—Rock Out to Walk Out: DJ Anjali, The Incredible Kid, Nate Ashley, The Bop Out […]
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Down and Derby Book Reading Tonight
I wasn’t able to review Down and Derby: The Insider’s Guide to Roller Derby this week, due to an epic bout (ha!?) of August pneumonia. It’s basically a how-to-get-involved-with-derby book, full of enthusiasm for the sport’s past and present, written with the express interest of recruiting guys and gals. A bit rah-rah in spots, Down […]
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Weekend Edition: Concerts
Buy Olympia—Portland Folk Fest: Celso Machado, Dan Bern, Johnny & Jason, Rock ‘n’ Roll Kindy, noon, free, all ages Dante’s—Thrashin’: Village Idiot, 10 pm, $10-12 Doug Fir—The Tumblers, The Shants, Sweeping Exits, 9 pm, $7 Mississippi Studios—Portland Folk Festival: Damien Jurado, Dan Bern, Dolorean, Duover, 8:30 pm, $14 NE 11th & Alberta—Alberta Street Fair: The […]
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Friday Music Listings
Aladdin Theater—Fran Healy, 8 pm, $20-22, all ages Alberta Street Public House—Portland Folk Fest: Lewi Longmire, Annalisa Tornfelt, Kasey Anderson, Jim Page, 9 pm, $6 The Artistery—Fleshtone, Kind Brother, 8 pm, $6 Backspace—The Rainy States, And And And, Social Studies, DJ Scott Oseth, 8 pm, $5, all ages Crystal Ballroom—The Hold Steady, Jaill, 9 pm, […]
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Mother of All Yard Sales
You know that pinkish/purplish house on NE Glisan and 33rd, the one with all the crazy lawn ornaments in the yard… From Clifton Burt’s Flickr Well they’re having a doozy of a junk sale. I passed by it on the way to work and boy howdy, it was INTENSE. Hoarding + yard sale = yay!
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Music: Thursday
The Artistery—Jack Lewis & Twigs Lvov, Sun Foot, 8 pm, $5, all ages Ash Street Saloon—Night of the Fly Showcase: Young X, T&E, Logics, Matty, DJ Flo, Cool Nutz, 9:30 pm, $5 Backspace—Portland Folk Fest: Sea of Bees, Bear Feet, Stefan Jecusco, 8:30 pm, $6, all ages Berbati’s Pan—Burning Yellows, The Spooks, Guantanamo Baywatch, 9 […]
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Wednesday Music Listings
Aladdin Theater—Alejandro Escovedo & The Sensitive Boys, Amy Cook, 8 pm, $20, all ages Dante’s—Thrashin’: Problems, 10 pm, $10-12Ella Street Social Club—Leonard Mynx, Michael the Blind, River Banks, 9 pm, $5 Holocene—Onuinu, Soap Collectors, Adventures with Might, Your Canvas, 8:30 pm, $5 Main St. (Between SW Broadway & Park)—Dr. Theopolis, 5 pm, free, all ages […]