1201 Club 1201 SW 12th, 225-1201 Aladdin Theater 3017 SE Milwaukie, 233-1994 Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave, 230-1166 Arnada Cafe 1717 Broadway, 360-750-9596 Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St, 226-0430 Atwater’s 111 SW 5th Ave, 275-3600 Bar 71 71 SW 2nd Ave, 241-0938 Berbati’s Pan 231 SW Ankeny, 248-4579 Beulahland 118 […]
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Theater Listings
Opening This Week Anthology: A Decade of Lucid Dreaming Pavement Productions presents a collection of scenes from the plays of Portland author Steve Patterson. Since the 1990 debut of his play Controlled Burn, Patterson has worked in both Los Angeles and Chicago. His most poignant scenes will be presented, famous for altered-consciousness realites and social […]
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Readings Listings
THURSDAY 8/24 Phillip Margolin Popular detective thriller author Phillip Margolin, a Lake Oswegan, will read and sign his newest book, Wild Justice. A former attorney, Margolin’s series of predictable pulp fiction has been successful enough to allow him to leave the practice of law and write full time. It is a regrettable state of affairs […]
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Visual Arts Listings
Blackfish Gallery 420 NW Ninth Ave, 224-2634 From the Mesabi to the Cascades, recent cast iron sculpture from Judith and Daniel Caldwell, Coral Lambert, and Tamsie Ringler. Through Sept 1 Blue Sky Photography Gallery 1231 NW Hoyt St, 225-0210 Recycled Realities, photographs by John Willis and Imagining Antarctica, photographs by Sandy Sorlien. Through Sept 2 […]
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Film Shorts
OPENING ALICE ET MARTIN ALL BLACK SCOPITONE AND SOUNDIE SHOW ART OF WAR BLAXPLOITATION TRAILER SHOW BLUE COLLAR BOY AND HIS DOG BRING IT ON COOL WORLD CREW DANCE BLACK AMERICA FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF HARLEM IN THE TWENTIES NO SMOKING SAME OLD SONG SMOKING TAO OF STEVE MOVIES & EVENTS The Adventures of Rocky […]
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CD Review
LAST DAY ON EARTH Analog (Self-Released) * There’s nothing like good guitar effects: reverb, flange, chorus, delay, yum! Pile them on until it sounds like your guitar’s about to go nuclear and blow the horsehair toupee off this town. This is what LDOE do on their second self-released album. Unfortunately, despite the fact that Analog […]
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THE STRONG-ARM OF JUSTICE
IF HE COULD, Mike McClellan would vote this November for ballot measure 94, the voter initiative that hopes to dismantle Oregon’s mandatory minimum sentence laws. But, even though he turned 18 this year, McClellan isn’t allowed to vote, because at the age of 15 he was convicted of a felony as an adult. The rest […]
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Letters to the Editor
WAITASECOND… IS SHE BEING SARCASTIC? DEAR SIRS: I feel I owe D.K. Holm a profound apology. He raised my consciousness with his review of A Piece of Cake. [Theater, July 27] I can’t believe that me, an apparently ignorant, stupid lady, actually loved the show. It just shows how culturally bankrupt I am. To think […]
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Readings Listings
THURSDAY 8/17 Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Book Discussion Group Discuss Bird-Eyes by Madelyn Arnold, winner of a Lambda Lit Award. BORDERS BOOKS AND MUSIC, 708 SW Third Ave, 220-5911, 7 pm, Free Bill Johnson A Story is A Promise. Bring plays and scripts in progress, and make use of the Q& A at this reading. […]
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Visual Arts Listings
Augen Gallery 817 SW Second Ave, 224-8182 Recent prints by Helen Frankenthaler and The Fictional Villa, recent collages from Arless Day. Through Sept 2 Blue Sky Photography Gallery 1231 NW Hoyt St, 225-0210 Recycled Realities, photographs by John Willis and Imagining Antarctica, photographs by Sandy Sorlien. Gallery talk by photographer Carole Glauber. Thurs, Aug 10, […]
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Film Shorts
OPENING ANIMATED WORLDS AUTUMN IN NEW YORK CECIL B. DEMENTED THE CELL CITY OF LOST CHILDREN GODZILLA 2000 GORDON’S WAR HARLEM IN THE THIRTIES I WANT TO GO HOME JIVIN’ IN BE BOP LOVE UNTO DEATH MEDITERRANEO MELO ORIGINAL KINGS OF COMEDY PROVIDENCE SHAFT’S BIG SCORE SHOW BOAT TEN MINUTES TO LIVE WONDER MAN MOVIES […]
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Music
THE WHO holds a strange position in modern music. Their constant reunion tours have become a sort of running gag; it’s only a matter of time before the boys gather together again for yet another run-through of “My Generation.” The populace at large, despite buying enough tickets to make most shows sell out, view each […]