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FILM—Argue about which version of Blade Runner is the best all you want, but here’s the thing: All versions of Blade Runner are great. The Hollywood’s got Ridley Scott’s director’s cut playing—on 35mm!—which means that the best way to start off 2015 might be revisiting the dark, rainy dystopia of 2019. ERIK HENRIKSENHollywood Theatre, 4122 […]

SPORTS!—There’s a solid argument to be made that college football is exploitative, and should be either drastically changed or done away with entirely. None of that matters on this, the first day of 2015, because the Oregon Ducks are about to stomp the undefeated Seminoles of Florida State in the Rose Bowl, and move a […]

MUSIC—Portland’s soul maestro, Ural Thomas, rings in 2015 with his hot-ticket backing band, the Pain. That should be enough to ensure that you’ll start the year on the right foot, but with a bill that includes roots-rock shredders Houndstooth and DJs Cooky Parker and Bobby D spinning the hits, it could be enough fun to […]

MUSIC—Some years deserve to be bid farewell to in a deluge of whiskey and unfiltered cigarettes. Not 2014, though, y’all. This year, we recommend you gussy up and end the damn thing in class with Portland’s favorite bass-plunking jazz songstress, Esperanza Spalding, and the Oregon Symphony. DIRK VANDERHARTArlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, Tues […]

MUSIC—Every Monday, ’round about happy hour time, Portland Country Underground plays some of the best, twangiest, boot-stompingest country music in these parts. So hop along down to the Laurelthirst, sidle up to a tall glass of bourbon, and ease into the rest of your week. NED LANNAMANNLaurelThirst Public House, 2958 NE Glisan, 6 pm, FREE […]

DANCE PARTY—Every month Dig A Pony hosts Do Right Sunday, a throwback hiphop/R&B dance party to benefit a different charity. This month’s lucky recipient is Music in the Schools, and DJs Deena Bee and Hot Biology will be there to get your body moving and the cash raking in. MARJORIE SKINNERDig a Pony, 736 SE […]

DANCE PARTY—Wanna put the hell of Christmas with the family far, far behind you? Go get messy at Blow Pony’s holiday blowout dance night, Christ-Mess. There’ll be naughty and nice DJs, lots of eye candy to unwrap, and more gaiety than you ever saw on Christmas proper, with Santa sittings and sexy, sexy dancers! COURTNEY […]

FILM—It’s a Wonderful Life goes something like this: George Bailey—a small-town bumbler who can’t refuse the bums he calls his “friends”—trusts an incompetent relative with a lot of money, right before Christmas, and then the money winds up lost. Facing ruination, he gets drunk, menaces his family, and hallucinates after a botched suicide attempt. And […]

KEANU—I was going to recommend that you bail on your dumb Xmas Eve crap to go see the Seth Rogen and James Franco comedy The Interview tonight… BUT then The Interview</i got canceled! (THANKS, NORTH KOREA.) So instead, I remind you that one of 2014’s best and most fun action movies, Keanu Reeves’ John Wick, […]