DURANTULA—The Portland Trail Blazers’ homestretch has arrived and the team is currently jockeying for playoff position. Standing in their way tonight are their former rivals from Seattle, the Oklahoma City Thunder. Sure they might have Kevin Durant, but Blazers’ fans can now buy a Greg Oden jersey on the discount rack. In this economy, that’s […]
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GET ‘EM HIGH—With razor-sharp lyrics and a delivery that’s at once laidback and powerful, Talib Kweli’s a hell of a hiphop artist in his own right, even if he’s most famous for his collaborations (Mos Def, Hi-Tek, Madlib, some guy named Kanye). Tonight he’s in Portland, no doubt doing a few tracks off of his […]
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Tonight in Music
Crystal Ballroom—Talib Kweli, Fashawn, Animal Farm, T&E, 9 pm, $18-20, all ages Doug Fir—O’Death, Helado Negro, Lee Corey Oswald, 9 pm, $10-12 The Know—STLS, Hungry Ghost, Neal Morgan, DJ Shawn Creeden, 8 pm Mississippi Studios—Franz Nicolay, David Dondero, Barton Carroll, 9 pm, $10 Roseland—Helmet, Saint Vitus, Crowbar, Kylesa, Red Fang, Howl, Atlas Moth, 7 pm, […]
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DON’T FORGET!—Memory, it turns out, is as much an art as it is a science. Joshua Foer (yes, he’s Jonathan’s kid brother), author of Moonwalking with Einstein, explains how dullards like us can harness fantastic imagery to sharpen our powers of recall. DCTPowell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside, 7:30 pm, FREE FOLK—Sharon Van Etten […]
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Tonight in Music
A smattering:Doug Fir—Sharon Van Etten, Little Scream, Sonny Pete, 9 pm, $12 Holocene—White Fang, The Mean Jeans, Boom, Therapists, DJ E*Rock, 8:30 pm, $5 The Know—The Prids, Crypt of the Grave, DJ Ken Dirtnap, 8 pm Rotture—Jumping Sharks, Power of County, White Indian, Freddy Trujillo, 9 pm, $5 Tiga—Matthew Yake, 9 pm, free Red & […]
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The Lineup of This Year’s Open Season Mercury Fashion Show!
I am so excited to announce the lineup of this year’s Mercury spring fashion show, Open Season! It will take place on Friday, May 6 at the Bossanova, and will feature new work from this very stellar roster of independent Portland (and beyond!) design talent: Reif, Isaac Hers, Bridge & Burn, Dawn Sharp, Heather Treadway, […]
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This Weekend in Fashion
If you only attend fashion shows during one weekend of this season, well… you should probably go to the Mercury‘s huge show, the lineup for which is so, so amazing that I’m dying to tell you but can’t quite yet. (Dying!) It’s on May 6 at the Bossanova. But! If you can squeeze in two […]
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SPUR SPAR—By quite a large margin, the San Antonio Spurs are the number one team in the league, but there’s no cause for alarm: Last time they stopped by the Rose Garden, the Blazers sent them packing. Let’s hope history repeats itself tonight as the season steadily closes in on the playoffs. NLRose Garden, 1 […]
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Tonight in Music
Backspace—Boy Eats Drum Machine, No-Fi Soul Rebellion, DSR, 9 pm, $5, all ages Branx—The Grouch, Zion I, Blu, Shotgun Wedding Quintet, Tope, Destro, L Pro, Gepetto, Verbz, 8 pm, $16, all ages Doug Fir—Toro y Moi, Braids, Cloud Nothings, 9 pm, $10-12 East End—Sic Alps, Orca Team, The Whines, Guantanamo Baywatch, 9 pm, $8 Ella […]
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YOU’RE BROKE—Portland’s fave storytelling event, Back Fence PDX, returns with an evening entitled “Broke—Bones, Wallets, and Hearts.” Thrill to short and sweet (and probably mortifying) true tales from filmmaker Andrew Dickson, painter/media maven Joan Hiller, Live Wire!’s hilarious Courtenay Hameister, and more! WSHMission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan, 7:30 pm, $12-15 WITCHCRAFT—Spring has sprung, but there’s […]
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DREAM WEAVER—Portland designer Laurie Herrick gained a reputation in the craft world for remarkable, colorful weavings before her death in 1995. In honor of the Museum of Contemporary Craft’s 75th anniversary they’re hosting the retrospective Laurie Herrick: Weaving Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. MSMuseum of Contemporary Craft, 724 NW Davis, Tues-Sat 11 am-6 pm, through July […]
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Doug Fir—What Hearts, Ah Holly Fam’ly, Clampitt Family, 9 pm, $7 Holocene—Andy Combs & The Moth, Scrimshander, Justin Power, 8:30 pm, $5 Rotture—MEN, Lovers, Macromantics, Silver Interior, Mr. Charming, 9 pm, $10-12 Twilight Cafe & Bar—Slutty Hearts, The Grand Atlantic, Evrim, 9:30 pm, $3 Mt. Tabor Theater—Chicharones, Hives Inquiry Squad, Lytics, 9 pm, $7 Hives […]