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Baron Von Goolo’s Museum of Horrors & Petting Zoo of the Unsettling I-5 North to Exit 308, keep left, In the Old Navy/Home Depot Complex over by Toys ‘R’ Us To give away the scares in a haunted house would be criminal–a lot like seeing Fire Walk With Me before viewing the Twin Peaks series, […]

justifiable homicide Thurs Oct 17, 7 pm Guild Theater SW 9th & Taylor, $6.50 Justifiable Homicide is a film based on the case of Antonio Rosario and Hilton Vega. These young men were cousins; both of them were killed by the police in 1995, in what was officially categorized as an attempted robbery. The story […]

cardio striptease Every Tuesday, 6 pm Maverick’s Sports Club 2025 NW Overton (503) 228-2626 $15 per class, free with a membership Ashkan Amouzegar is not the typical fitness instructor. He wears a pink tanktop with strategically ripped sleeves dangling seductively around his elbows. His hair has been sculpted into a sharp point reminiscent of Astro […]

critical mass bike ride Friday, September 27, 5:30 Meet at Waterfront Park, underneath Burnside Bridge www.subluna.com/CriticalMass It’s official! Critical Mass bike rides are no longer boring! While these end-of-the-month jaunts are intended to prove the superiority of bikes over noxious car fumes, they’ve been pretty ho-hum as of late. In fact, most of the fun […]

benefit show for four wall cinema collective Dijecta, 116 NE Russell 335-6979 Sat Sept 21, 8 pm $5-10 suggested donation While it often seems like every movie the Northwest Film Center screens came out 70 years ago (and you often can rent it from one of Portland’s many video establishments), somehow it’s more acceptable when […]

Workshop: Converting Diesel Engines to Run on Vegetable Oil Saturday September 13 Southeast Uplift, 3534 SE Main Street 10 pm $25-50, sliding scale There are so many benefits to having your vehicle run on vegetable oil. Think about it: you could stop by the local gas station, fill up your truck’s tank up with Wesson… […]

The Iron Artist Sculpture Competition/Game Show Thurs Sept 5, 6-8 pm (competition), 8-11 pm (party) Wacky Willy’s 2374 NW Vaughn 525-9211 Wacky Willy’s Surplus Store is nestled in between some weird printing shop and another weird printing shop (because all of the Northwest industrial district seems to be one weird printing shop). From the street, […]

Sunday, September 1 Washington County Fair Complex 873 NE 34th, Hillsboro, OR 11 am – 6 pm, $15 Now, I’m the last person to deny an old person a little bit of fun. As long as they keep their kind of fun way over there… me and the old folk will get along just fine. […]

PDX Adult Soapbox Derby Sunday, August 25 Mt. Tabor Park 10 am – 5 pm, Free In the homoerotic drama Top Gun, pilot Tom Cruise (Codename: Maverick) and buddy Anthony Edwards (Codename: Goose) express their love for extreme aerial antics by slapping each other’s asses, and proclaiming, “I feel the NEED! The need for SPEED!” […]

Mysterious Mystery Film! Guild Theater, 829 SW 9th Fri Aug 23 Bar Opens at 10:30 pm Film at 11:00 pm, $5 If you’ve attended the Mercury and Northwest Film Center’s Summer Movie Megathon (eight weeks of campy films made better by beer), then you know it’s been one of the most raucous events of the […]

Jefferson High School 5210 N Kerby Sun Aug 11, 1 pm Forget the crybaby Blazers, whose slovenly ass-dragging makes it seem as if the game (the actual up-and-down the court game, not the contract negotiations and Nike-endorsement game) is an inconvenience to their lives. The most energetic and high-spirited game in town is the Great […]