We Are Traitors (Via) Kelly’s Olympian–Fault Lines, Yukon Gold, We Are Traitors, 9 pm, $5 Bunk Bar–Painted Palms, Foreign Orange, Imperial Mammoth, 10 pm, $10-12Camellia Lounge–Barra Brown, 8 pm, $6 Dig a Pony–Aan, Thanks, New Move, Strange Babes DJs, 8 pm, free Doug Fir–Sharon Van Etten, Jana Hunter, 9 pm, $16-18 Holocene–Testify: DJ E*Rock, DJ […]
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Mercury copy chief and appreciator of the most sophisticated form of comedy: PUNS!
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Paradise (Via) Bunk Bar–Sunset Valley, Paradise, Dead Teeth, 9:30 pm, $5 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall–Steely Dan, Bobby Broom, 8 pm, $59.50-119.50, all ages Crystal Ballroom–Future, Rico Love, 8 pm, $27.50-30, all ages Doug Fir–Sharon Van Etten, Jana Hunter, 9 pm, $16-18 First Baptist Church–Orpheus Academy Orchestra, 7:30 pm, $10-40, all agesGold Dust Meridian–Whiskey Wednesdays: Pete […]
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It’s Happening Tonight
MUSIC—Eric D. Johnson, formerly of Fruit Bats, has some damned impeccable taste, so let him curate your evening at A Few of My Favorite Things. The recurring event enlists a local shaker to pick their favorite artists to showcase, and EDJ signed up Corrina Repp and Rebecca Gates, alongside films and DJ sets—all to benefit […]
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The Lemons (Via) The Know–The Memories, The Lemons, Mope Grooves, 8 pm Bunk Bar–Pure X, M. Geddes Gengras, 9:30 pm, $10-12 Doug Fir–Hey Marseilles, Hip Hatchet, 9 pm, $13-15 Mississippi Studios–Red Bull Sound Select: Blitzen Trapper, Pony Village, Novosti, 9 pm, $3-12
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KISS (Via) Sleep Country Amphitheater–KISS, Def Leppard, 7 pm, $40.80-188.90, all ages Bunk Bar–Phantom Ships, Paper Cameras, 10 pm, $5 Cartlandia–The We Shared Milk, The Sweeteners, Noble Firs, 8 pm Club 21–Audios Amigos, Pushy, Full Creature, 9 pm Disjecta–Quiet Music Festival: Marisa Anderson, Mark Eitzel, Neal Morgan, Pulse Emitter, Christine Shields, Jonathan Sielaff, 8 pm, […]
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Office Products (Via ) Lola’s Room–Mark Hosler, Office Products, Fox Dye, 8 pm, $12, all ages Bunk Bar–Dean Wareham, The Parson Red Heads, 10 pm, $15-17 Doug Fir–The Student Loan, Asher Fulero, 9 pm, $10 Holocene–Laid Out: Gossip Cat, Pocket Rock-it, Misti Miller, 9 pm, $5 Mississippi Studios–The von Trapps, Three for Silver, 8 pm, […]
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Where to Swim (and Float) in Portland and Beyond
Jump in with Our Roundup of Local Swimming and Floating Spots
GROWING UP in the boonies of Idaho, summertime meant swimming our fool faces off all the time—before work, at lunch, and careening off boats after work. But moving to the city put a little damper on my backstroke action (and yours too, I suspect). But guys… we’re just being silly—we’re rolling deep in bodies of […]
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Comic Book Club
Quick Reviews of Comics We Like
Over Easyby Mimi Pond(Drawn & Quarterly) WHEN I QUIT my last restaurant job, I made my then-boyfriend promise that he wouldn’t let me romanticize it years down the road. Now—years down the road—my memories of the service industry are indeed starting to take on a nostalgic hue: Yes, the work was hard, but I had […]
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Poster of the Week
These neat-o poster by Mercury favorite Martin Ontiveros is our Poster of the Week! What do you think that creature is called? Tragonprey? Trollstrich Harpy? Thor, Master of the Puppy Pat? Send me your recommendations for next week’s pick!
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White Reaper (Via) Bunk Bar–Young Widows, White Reaper, 10 pm, $10-12 Aladdin Theater–Rodney Crowell, Will Kimbrough, 8 pm, $25-30 Dig a Pony–Pussy Control: Holla & Oates, 9 pmDoug Fir–Orquestra Pacifico Tropical, 1939 Ensemble, Point Juncture WA, 9 pm, $8-10 Gold Dust Meridian–Whiskey Wednesdays: Pete Krebs, Brent Martens, 8 pm Goodfoot–The Rivera, The Hill Dogs, Moorea […]
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The Royal Oui (Via) Doug Fir–Lily & Madeleine, The Royal Oui, Shannon Hayden, 9 pm, $10-12 Black Book–Modern(-ist): DJ Troubled Youth, Ryan Biornstad, 10 pm, free Dante’s–Dookie Jam: Tony Ozier & Doo Doo Funk, 9 pm, free East End–Bear & Moose, Mister Tang, Lady Wolf, 9 pm Foggy Notion–Faux Science, The Gypsters, Noise Toys, Fun […]