BANGS Sweet Revenge (Kill Rock Stars) *** Hello, Bangs. HELLO! Come in! Please, sit down. No–not there. Over here, with all my favorite albums. I can tell we’re going to be great friends, like me and Poly Styrene. You are all the good parts of the Go-Gos, when Belinda Carlisle was still Debbie Danger and […]
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Live Music Listings
THURSDAY 6/8 * ASH STREET SALOON-“Benefit for Nutjob for the Dog.” Three Bands. * BERBATI’S PAN-Fat Possum Records presents a Juke Joint Caravan with T-Model Ford, Robert Belfour, Paul Jones (See Up & Coming page 16) BORDERS BOOKS AND MUSIC-April Henry BRASILIA-Alfredo Muro’s Latin Trio BUFFALO GAP-Succatash CANDLELIGHT CAFE AND BAR-LaRhonda Steel & the No […]
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My, What a Busy Week!
THURSDAY, June 8 READING–Ever since the birth of America’s chattering class, Harper’s has been there. Commemorating the magazine’s remarkable century and a half run, current editor Lewis Lapham storms into town to perform intellectual wheelies. PB Powell’s Books, 1005 W Burnside, 7:30 pm, Free B-BALL–In their season opener, Portland Fire held onto last year’s WNBA […]
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Up & Coming
THURSDAY 6/8 BATTLE CAT, ELBO FINN, CRACK CITY ROCKERS, MOME RATHS (Meow Meow) In theory, Salt Lake City’s Elbo Finn should be a really fun band. I mean, they have songs called “Freezer Hash,” and “Worm of Khan,” and “Big Wheel Explosion.” But then, if you really think about it, those are the thinly-disguised song […]
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Theater Listings
Closing This Week A SUNBEAM • PassinArt at Concordia University SALTIMBANCO • Cirque du Soleil at the Grand Chapiteau Opening & Current Runs ANTIQUES IMPROV SHOW The latest variation in the Brody’s improv hijinks, this time dedicated to deriving stories from old objects. BRODY THEATER, 1904 NW 27th Ave, 224-0688, Fridays, 10:30 pm, $6 AVOID […]
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Readings Listings
THURSDAY 6/8 * Lewis Lapham: 150 Years of Harper’s Magazine This is the harvest of so many years of Harpers, from Herman Melville through Sylvia Plath, David Mamet, and Salman Rushdie. POWELL’S CITY OF BOOKS, 1005 W Burnside St, 228-4651, 7:30 pm Anndee Hochman The former Portlander returns to read from her collection, Anatomies. We […]
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Visual Arts Listings
4x 625 NW Everett St, 525 2376 Popsickle Curator Floyd Watkins showcases pop sensibilities in a group show complete with punchy colors and cultural iconography. Through June 30 Attic Gallery 206 SW 1st Ave, 228-7830. There’s Something in the Attic Watercolors from Arne Westerman and clay sculptures by Sandy Visse. Through July 1 Atwood Primitive/ […]
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Club Directory
Acapulco’s Gold 2608 NW Vaughn, 220-0283 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 Atwater’s 111 SW 5th Ave., 275-3600 BaLZER’S 53 NW 1st Ave., 274-9901 Bar 71 71 […]
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DJ Listings
DJ LISTINGS Thursday 6/8 BEULAHLAND-DJ Scarface * COBALT LOUNGE-Skint Records Tour starring Cut La Roc, Space Raiders, and Sparky Lightbourne SAUCEBOX-DJs VISCOUNT BALLROOM-Swing Night FRIDAY 6/9 POLLY ESTHER’S-Weekend Dance Party SAUCEBOX-DJs VISCOUNT BALLROOM-Salsa Night SATURDAY 6/10 PANORAMA-DJ Don Bishop (from Palm Springs!!!!) POLLY ESTHER’S-Weekend Dance Party SAUCEBOX-DJs SUNDAY 6/11 COBALT LOUNGE-Sunday School DANTE’S-Sinferno MATADOR LOUNGE-Disc […]
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Film Shorts
OPENING THE BIG TEASE– Cinema 21 THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL– Hollywood Theatre DIVINE TRASH– Clinton Street Theatre GONE IN 60 SECONDS– 82nd Avenue A PERSONAL JOURNEY WITH MARTIN SCORSESE THROUGH AMERICAN MOVIES– Northwest Film Center @The Guild Theater WINTER SLEEPERS– Cinema 21 MOVIES & EVENTS *American Movie A documentary about the trials and […]
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Mercury Video Picks
The June 6 video releases offer a lot of murderous kooks and a smidgen of homoeroticism. Hey, it’s kind of like the Mercury office! • MR. DEATH–Erroll Morris’ documentary of Fred Leuchter Jr., an execution device engineer-turned-revisionist historian, is so good you’ll wanna puke. Leuchter Jr. commits a series of gut-wrenching travesties, from making electric […]
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Scottish-Style Death Match!
AYE! Belles Lettres by Lois Maffeo HOW PAINFUL WAS IT when Dick, the sad sack indie nerd in High Fidelity, had to turn and face his record shop co-worker and speak his love for Belle & Sebastian? Even though I am not a striped-shirt wearing, minutiae-arguing, indie completist, I too dig Belle & Sebastian. I […]