THURSDAY 7/27 ASH STREET SALOON-Rubber Burning Hotrods, Crack Abraham, Rex Sole * BERBATI’S PA –The Standard, Foggy Notion, Blue Balls BRASILIA RESTAURANT & BAR-Alfredo Muro’s Latin Trio BUFFALO GAP-Fernando, guest CANDLELIGHT CAFE AND BAR-Norman Sylvester DANTE’S-Soul Kitchen with Black Angel and DJ Aquaman EDGEFIELD POWERSTATION-Linda Hornbuckle, Janice Scroggins EGYPTIAN ROOM/TOMB-Open Mic EJ’S-S.K. and the Punkass […]
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Up & Coming
THURSDAY 7/27 WITCHYPOO’S LAST SHOW EVER (Medicine Hat) Yes, it’s really all over for Slim & Co. after this 10th Anniversary show. It’s the end of an era, but also the kind of landmark achievement that makes you step back and appreciate how amazing the Pacific Northwest scene is. So remember your manners, and bring […]
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Film Shorts
OPENING BLAXPLOITATION CARTOON SPECIAL CHUCK AND BUCK CLOCKWORK ORANGE EVENING WITH CHEL WHITE: NAKED CINEMA GIRL ON THE BRIDGE LIFE IS TO WHISTLE LOGAN’S RUN NUTTY PROFESSOR II: THE KLUMPS MOVIES & EVENTS Big Momma’s House Martin Lawrence is back, and he’s got a big old prosthetic ass. Where do I sign? 82nd Avenue * […]
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CD Review
EX-HUSTLERS Dirty Haiku (Panther Fact) *** At first, I was wary, remembering the Ex-Hustlers’ early recorded efforts as rather bad, ignoring such important aspects as chord changes, and…singing on-key. Then, I was inclined to think they were just good musicians aping other bands’ shticks. (Built to Spill? Guided by Voices?) My final conclusion: even though […]
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WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ATHEISM?
• USA Meetings: 7:30 every Tuesday at 6514 SE Foster Rd, Portland, OR 97206. • Bunkbusters TV Show: Portland Cable Access every Sunday at 5:30 pm. • Website: www.unitedstatesatheists.com • Dial-An-Atheist: 503-ATHEIST • On Saturday, July 29, the United States Atheists is co-sponsoring the Third Annual Atheist/Humanist/ Skeptic Symposium with the Corvallis Secular Society, Eugene […]
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Letters to the Editor
OUCH! THERE’S A CAN IN MY CAN! ANN, ANN, ANN: You poor sheltered child [One Day at a Time, Ann Romano, July 20, in which a can of Barbasol shaving cream was found stuck in a man’s rectum]! That is no “urban myth” as you described it, but solid medical fact! As a longtime employee […]
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Club Directory
1201 Club 1201 SW 12th, 225-1201 Aladdin Theater 3017 SE Milwaukie, 233-1994 Alexander’s 921 SW 6th Ave, 226-1611 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 Bar 71 71 SW 2nd Ave, 241-0938 Bar of the Gods 4801 SE Hawthorne, 232-2037 […]
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Theater Listings
Opening & Current Runs Brody Theater The usually prolific Brody Theater improv group confines itself to an evening featuring a two-act improvised play. BRODY THEATER, 1904 NW 27 Ave, 224-0688, Fri-Sat 9 pm, through Sep 2, $8 A Piece of Cake Raymond Barry’s play “contains sexual situations, nudity, violence, and adult language,” according to the […]
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Readings Listings
THURSDAY 7/20 Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Book Discussion Group Discuss wildly funny, brilliant Mercury columnist Dan Savage’s award-winning book The Kid. BORDERS BOOKS AND MUSIC, 708 SW Third Ave, 220-5911,7 pm, free David Long The Daughters of Simon Lamoreaux is a book about unraveling a mysterious past, the disappearance of a high school girlfriend, and […]
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Visual Arts Listings
750 ml 232 NW 12th, 224-1432 Organum, abstract paintings by Jeff Jahn. Through July 31 Alysia Duckler Gallery 1236 NW Hoyt St, 223-7595 Recent work from Elizabeth Sandvig and Jeana Edelman. Through July 30 American Institute of Architects 315 SW 4th Ave, 223-8757 Taking Space, Making Space: Transforming Urban Experiences. An exhibition including work from […]
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Film Shorts
OPENING THE ADVENTURES OF ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE BLOOD SIMPLE BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER FILMS ON THE LAWN FORBIDDEN PLANET THE IN CROWD JUAN, I FORGOT, I DON’T REMEMBER LOSER OSAKA ELEGY POKEMON 2000 TRIXIE WARGAMES WHAT LIES BENEATH MOVIES & EVENTS The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle Once upon a time, a badly-drawn cartoon dependent […]
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VALENCIA
(Seal Press) Michelle Tea writes like an estrogen fever dream: her girl sex stories float through ruptured San Francisco streets reverberating lost romance, broken families, and abused prostitutes. San Francisco is the perfect partner to Tea’s narrator’s simultaneously bleak and romantic viewpoint–it is a city where the interpersonal somehow seems merely geographic. A chance meeting […]