Beavis and Butt-Head Do America Before Idiocracy and Silicon Valley, Mike Judge blessed us with a different fable about our fine nation: Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, in which the titular (heh heh) duo embark upon a noble quest to find their stolen TV. This brilliant film features (1) Cornholio crashing a plane, (2) Butt-Head […]
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Where to Watch the First Presidential Debate in Portland
There are multiple reasons for you to seek out the first Presidential Debate as opposed to, say, spending the night buried under thirty blankets like a small child hoping the monster under the bed will get bored and wander away to some other house. Firstly: One of these two people will be handed the keys […]
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Things To Do Tonight 9/22
Northwest Hesh Fest: Day 1 Believe it or not, our trip around the sun has already brought us to another Northwest Hesh Fest. The first night features local kingpins Red Fang three weeks before the release of their new record, Only Ghosts. If you’re a fan and impatience is a quality you possess, it’s highly […]
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Things To Do Tonight 9/21
Sigur Rós Sigur Rós are scaling back the frills on their current tour, but beefing up the content. The Icelandic band will perform without any backing musicians as they run through two long sets of brand-new material and completely reworked older stuff. It’ll be a rare chance to see them work out their majestic, otherworldly […]
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Things to Do Music
Noteworthy Shows for the Week of September 21-27
Noteworthy shows for the week of September 21-27.
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Things To Do Film
This Week: My Blind Brother, Hippies in Space, and Yet Another Beauty and the Beast
This Week: My Blind Brother, hippies in space, and yet another Beauty and the Beast.
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Things To Do Tonight 9/20
Del the Funky Homosapien, Richie Cunning, DJ Bad, DJ Poe Del the Funky Homosapien emerged from the ravaged West Coast gangsta rap detritus of the early ’90s as the antithesis to his hardcore cousin Ice Cube, choosing to wax poetic about cerebral matters instead of crack rocks and bullet-strewn neighborhoods. As one of the more […]
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Things To Do Tonight 9/19
Neil deGrasse Tyson From the rebooted Cosmos to Twitter, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson brings logic and inspiration to a time that often feels mired in fear and superstition. Last year, he swung through Portland for a phenomenal conversation; this week, he returns with An Astrophysicist Goes to the Movies, examining what cinema gets right and […]
Posted inComedy
Things To Laugh At This Weekend
Jen Kirkman With jokes about the joys of divorce and the cultural expectation that every unwed lady who dies alone MUST own a cat, Jen Kirkman is the anti-Cathy “ACK!” comic. Her smart, mordant, vaguely existential brand of humor is a sad/funny reminder that we’re all basically alone, right? But we might as well laugh […]
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Things to Do for Sept 16-18
Things to do for September 16-18