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Donnie Darko, Miller’s Crossing, and the Hollywood Theatre’s 70mm Sci-Fi Weekend.
Spring is here… and it’s time to HUMP!
Noteworthy shows for the week of April 5-11.
This first week of April is a damn good week if you’re someone who loves art. Not just art as in “paintings hanging on walls,” although Jeremy Okai Davis’ opening at p:ear Gallery is necessary viewing, but art as in what Bassem Youssef does with political comedy, what Tinariwen does with “assoul” music, what John […]
Portland Pizza Week Listen, Portland. We love you. And we love pizza. So the Portland Mercury is teaming up with dozens of local pizza shops to bring you the second Portland Pizza Week: $2 slices for everyone! Click here for a list of participating restaurants, and stay up to date on the specialty slices at […]
The Liberators: Pie Night! For one night only, you can take in the delights of Portland’s premier improvisers the Liberators AND treat yourself to dessert! That’s right: Siren Theater HBIC Shelley McLendon and her cohort of professional goofballs will be doing what they do best—making you laugh until you cry—AND THERE WILL BE PIE! I […]
This weekend features one of the dumbest fucking holidays humanity has ever invented: National “Lie Straight to People’s Faces Like a Total Asshole Under the Mistaken Impression Saying April Fool’s When You’re Done Makes it Funny” Day. We will not be celebrating that holiday. Primarily because there’s way too much actual fun (and funny) stuff […]
Police Chief on Leave; Oregon Republicans Say Dumb Shit
Raw‘s vegetarian cannibal, 1984‘s prescient dystopia, and stupid Chuck Norris.
The last week of March is going to have some sunshine, dammit. If the sun doesn’t wanna come out, Portland will provide its own light and warmth, be it a stand-up set from the brilliant Ali Wong, Kate Tempest blowing minds through unrestrained verbosity, Mic Check lighting up the hip-hop community, Revolution Comedy pushing change […]
The Return of the Tonic Lounge: Fred & Toody, Tallwomen, Aubrey Debauchery Portland musicians Fred and Toody Cole rocked together for decades in bands like Dead Moon, Pierced Arrows, and the Rats. And while the husband-wife duo have left the rocking in the past, their stripped-down unplugged sets remain unmissable. Catch the legendary pair tonight […]
Weekends are for celebration, and there’s a ton of it to be done this weekend, including a 10th birthday for Blowpony, Lez Stand Up kicking off their Spring Break in silly style, Sir Cupcake throwing a hell of a queer circus, Hedwig tearing down walls with a 35mm revival at the Academy, Alton Brown cooking […]
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