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Stephen King 35mm Double Feature
It's Stephen King's 71st birthday—and the Hollywood is celebrating with a 35mm double feature of two movies penned by the horror and literary mastermind! First up is 1982's pulpy anthology flick Creepshow, directed by Night of the Living Dead's George Romero; second is 1985's Cat's Eye, directed by Lewis Teague and featuring James Woods, Drew Barrymore, and, of course, an evil troll. Hail to the King, baby. (7 pm, Hollywood Theatre, $7-9) ERIK HENRIKSEN

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The Avett Brothers
Back in July, the Avett Brothers postponed the third of three consecutive shows they were scheduled to play at the Edgefield after a man claiming to be an out-of-state police officer entered the venue with a gun and disappeared into the crowd. Though unnerving, nothing came of the incident, and the beloved North Carolinian folk rockers made good on their promise to reschedule the cancelled concert—tonight they’ll perform to a sold-out Edgefield audience to close out the final day of summer. (7 pm, Edgefield, Good luck on the ticket resale sites) CIARA DOLAN

Slothrust, Summer Cannibals
Slothrust’s extraordinary new LP, The Pact, is a wild beast of a record, alive with sadness, fear, defiance, and joy. The album plays like a tour of night’s most tender zones, those places that hum with thoughts that don’t belong in the light. On “The Haunting,” the album’s centerpiece and one of 2018’s best songs, singer/guitarist Leah Wellbaum paints a picture of existential uncertainty that could double as a band motto: “Not sure if I am asleep or awake, so I’ll treat this body like I think that it’s a fake and see how much it can take.” We’ve all been to that terrible in-between—Slothrust has just figured out how to thrive there. (9 pm, Mississippi Studios, $14-16) CHRIS STAMM

Aaron Neville Duo
The chart-topping R&B and soul singer out of New Orleans brings his stuff to the Revolution Hall stage for a special stripped-down performance. (9 pm, Revolution Hall, $42.50-45)

Candi Pop
Candi Pop returns to Holocene to bring you another night of glitter, lollipops, rainbows, unicorns and all the bubblegum pop hits you could ever want. (10 pm, Holocene, $5)

Gaytheist, Ice Queens, Help
If the music of Gaytheist were a vehicle, it would be a semi, late on its delivery, blazing down I-5, the speed limit only a laughable suggestion as the trucker begins to have Tron-like hallucinations from 38 hours of no sleep and caffeine-pill cocktails. With only three members, Gaytheist leaves you wondering how they create such a heavy, intricate layering of sound. (9 pm, Bunk Bar, $5) CAMERON CROWELL

Quasi, Dreckig
Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss bring their seminal indie rock outfit through Portland's newest venue for a can't-miss hometown show. (8:30 pm, Polaris Hall, $10-15)

John Prine, Todd Snider
The Tree of Forgiveness is John Prine’s first collection of new material in over a decade, and it contains some of the legendary folksinger/songwriter’s most playful tunes to date. At 71, Prine doesn’t spend too much time mulling over the end of life and the great beyond, but when he does, it’s with a twinkle in his eye: On the excellent closing track “When I Get to Heaven,” he sings of being reunited with family and smoking “a cigarette that’s nine miles long” amid a chorus of kazoos, saloon piano, and hooting backup singers. The Tree of Forgiveness is sweet, silly, and a little sad, meaning it’s the perfect kind of John Prine record. (8 pm, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, $82.50-128, all ages) CIARA DOLAN

Waitress
Only one weekend's worth of performances left for this touring Broadway musical smash, with songs by Sara Bareilles, based on the lovely 2007 romantic comedy written and directed by the gone-way-too-soon Adrienne Shelly. (Fri 7:30 pm, Sat 2 pm, Sun 1 pm & 6:30 pm, Keller Auditorium, $25-100)

DeVotchKa, Orkesta Mendoza
Beloved Denver-based quartet DeVotchKa bring their sweeping blend of orchestral pop to the Wonder Ballroom stage for the Portland stop on a North American tour supporting their latest full-length, This Night Falls Forever. (8 pm, Wonder Ballroom, $25-75)

SIGH. It's my turn to dig into Donald's latest fuck-ups again. Let's get this shit show started, shall we?

On a video posted to Twitter on Thursday, Donald said, "For many years countries have been taking total advantage of the United States on trade. Whether they are allies or not, they looked at us really as a bunch of soft touches. That's not what's happening anymore."

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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 20, 2018

Correct! Instead of looking at us really as a bunch of soft touches they are looking at us as a bunch of fucking idiots who somehow let this goon be president. Moving on!

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Based on their real-life adventures in adulting, Aaron Ross and writing partner Jordan Paladino’s YouTube series Training Wheels is along the same lines as Broad City and Workaholics. The first episode sees Ross and Paladino playing themselves, their heads in the clouds as they try to create comedic genius on the long-running evening talk show WHO’S the ROSS?. While the two are great at dreaming big, progressing in reality is a rockier endeavor—the two lack regular income and struggle to pay their bills, maintain relationships, and move out of their family’s house. There’s a lot of funny, relatable stuff here—like watching Ross fully commit to a downward spiral in Pioneer Square after his girlfriend Rachel breaks up with him for not being adult enough, or the hilarious dialogue that ensues when Ross and Paladino each attempt to get day jobs. Even the peripheral characters are rounded out by solid lines and excellent delivery. I particularly liked friend/actor Rachel Lynn Meyer (as herself) and Ross' almost-boss, played by Brett Smith. On top of being genuinely funny and enjoyable, it’s always fun to see Portland and its many landmarks in an on-screen narrative. Plus donuts and strippers. Lots of strippers. It'll be fun to see how much the show mirrors reality as Ross' character moves forward (or not) without training wheels.

The 10-episode season makes its debut on September 30, with new episodes dropping every Sunday. However, right now there's a sneak preview of the pilot on trainingwheelsshow.com.

DeRay Mckesson
Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson is an easy-to-recognize face (thanks to his blue Patagonia vest) and voice (via his Crooked Media radio show Pod Save the People) in the modern resistance revolution happening right now. Touring to support his first book On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope, McKesson will engage local civic leaders in a “no-holds-barred conversation about inclusion and community.” (7:30 pm, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, $15-40) SUZETTE SMITH

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Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Paul Cherry
On their last record, 2017’s Backlash, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears’ soulful, infectious blues met riff-heavy funk, with the focus shifting from Lewis’ noted fretwork to peppy brass and a steady rhythmic pocket, as heard on the excellent “Global.” As evidenced by their status as veterans of pretty much every major American music festival, the band is known for engaging performances that orbit around Lewis’ unhinged vocal delivery that sounds inspired by the likes of Howlin’ Wolf and James Brown. It’s the kind of guitar hero-centric act that’s not unlike the unifying allure of Jimi Hendrix or Lenny Kravitz (if that’s your thing). Their sixth studio LP, The Difference Between You and Me, is due out this month. (9 pm, Mississippi Studios, $18-20) RYAN J. PRADO

Table Sugar, Nick Normal, Collate
Olympia-hailing art punk quartet Table Sugar bring their shapeshifting sounds down the I-5 for an all-ages show at Speck's, with likeminded locals Nick Normal and Collate on hand to round out the proceedings. (7 pm, Speck's Records and Tapes, $5)

Hurry Up, Savak, Goddamned Animals
Hurry Up is the unholy trinity of Maggie Vail (bass), Kathy Foster (drums), and Westin Glass (guitar). It’s also kind of a super-group: Vail fronted the now-defunct Bangs, she and Foster represent two-thirds of the Strange Babes DJs, and Foster and Glass play in the Thermals. On their debut self-titled EP, Hurry Up sounds fluent in the lo-fi punk tradition of Dead Moon—all three sing (and scream) over big, razor-edged guitar riffs and drum attacks more intimidating than a charging rhinoceros (8 pm, Kenton Club, $7) CIARA DOLAN

The Wailers
Pioneering reggae rock bassist Aston “Family Man” Barrett and the rest of the reunited Wailers make their way thorough the Aladdin Theater for the Portland stop on their North American tour. (8 pm, Aladdin Theater, $25-30, all ages)

The Doubleclicks, Danielle Ate the Sandwich
Angela and Aubrey Webber bring their beloved geek-folk outfit down to the Siren Theater for a headlining show with support from like-minded Fort Collins, Colorado singer/songwriter Danielle Anderson. (7 pm, Siren Theater, $12-15)

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A noon forum organized by the Chamber of Commerce in a county Trump carried by 14 points should be hostile territory for a Democrat. But when Carolyn Long walked into a room at the back of The Oak Tree restaurant in Woodland, WA, a crowd of about 300 people clapped and chanted her name. "Caro-lyn! Caro-lyn! Caro-lyn!"

I heard no such chanting for incumbent Republican Jaime Herrera Buetler, who's seeking her fifth term in a surprisingly tight race against Long in Washington's 3rd Congressional District. That's not to say Herrera Buetler didn't have some any support in the room—she did—but they weren't so vocal.

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