HAPPY B-DAY, BUFFY—Ten-hut, nerds! In honor of Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s 30th birthday (and the comic book release/finale of Buffy: Season 8), Dark Horse, Multnomah Country Library, and Cosmic Monkey Comics are holding a b-day party for the Buff! Expect a Q&A sesh with Scott Allie and Sierra Hahn of Dark Horse, trivia, a vampire […]
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For Once, Something Good Happens on Buffy’s Brithday
Birthday Ruiner Buffy Summers’ birthdays have been historically terrible (Angel loses his soul after they have sex; Giles betrays her; Giles gets turned into a demon; Dawn sets the house on fire; Dawn enslaves her friends and steals a leather jacket; Dawn is still alive). But all that changes this year! Celebrate the Buffster’s 30th […]
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WARTS AND ALL—The tagline is “49 percent motherfucker, 51 percent son of a bitch,” but when we’re talking about legendary Motörhead bassist Lemmy Kilmister, it’s 100 percent badass. Lemmy shows us the man who, when he’s not rocking faces off, lives in a modest LA apartment with an enormous collection of Nazi paraphernalia. NLClinton Street […]
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MLK DAY—King: a Filmed Record from Montgomery to Memphis was originally shown one time in theaters in March 1970, but it’s since received recognition from some of the greatest institutions in America. The film contains full versions of what are considered Martin Luther King Jr.’s greatest speeches, and clips of the marches and demonstrations that […]
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LEDA—Playwright Kimberly Rosenstock’s 99 Ways to Fuck a Swan was the talk of the 2009 JAW playwriting fest. Now Rosenstock’s tale of historical romance, obsession, and fowl boning gets a full production from one of Portland’s best companies, Theatre Vertigo. AHTheater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont, Thurs-Sat 8 pm, through Feb 12, $15, theatrevertigo.org DREAM OF […]
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Today in THE GREATEST IDEA EVER THAT I WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN
As you already know, the Portland red carpet premiere of Portlandia is tonight at the Hollywood Theater—and though it sounds sorta fun, I will not be attending because these types of things just seem too… too… ohh, “Dubuque, Iowa” to me, ya know? HOWEVER! I may actually attend if you guys take me up on […]
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YOU ANONYMOUS—Things are just crazier in Australia. Toilets flush backward, people eat kangaroos, and Luke You has been printing a zine of anonymous letters from regular individuals every single week since 2001. Now Luke You’s You zine is on tour and touching down in Portland tonight, when he will present his prolific collection of anonymous […]
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The 1st Annual Perfect Pickle
In the most delicious news I’ve heard today, the Dill Pickle Club has put together a fundraising event that pits eight of the city’s most exciting eateries against each other to determine which is the “Pickler of the Year”: Beast, Chop Butchery, DOC, Le Happy, Navarre, Olympic Provisions, Salt Fire & Time, and Unbound Pickling. […]
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Have I Got a Dance Flick for You!
Like dance movies? Hate all the expository plot? The Reel Music Fest‘s got you covered with a great film called NY Export: Opus Jazz. It’s a new rendition of Jerome Robbins’ 1958 ballet, with a bunch of hot young things from the New York Ballet doing their best jazz dancing. Basically it’s like the finger-snapping […]
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The superest of Portland’s many supergroups has to be Wild Flag, a raucous all-lady quartet boasting Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein and former Helium frontwoman Mary Timony. They packed the Doug Fir last month—the chance to catch ’em in the tiny Bunk Bar is not to be missed. AHw/Drew Grow and the Pastors’ Wives; Bunk Bar, 1028 […]
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FOOT BLISTERS—It starts at Mount Hood and it stops 197 miles later, on the beach. It’s Hood to Coast, and it’s the world’s largest relay race. Tonight’s the official premiere of an eponymous documentary that follows four teams of 12 all trying to do the almost unthinkable. DCTKeller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay, 7:30 pm, $30-84MODERN […]
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FIRE BREATHER—Sweden continues to prove its prowess on the pop music front with Little Dragon, who spent the first part of 2010 collab-ing and touring with Gorillaz. Drink in their electro/dance/soul mélange in these cozy winter confines before they graduate to a bigger stage. MSw/Billygoat; Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside, 9 pm, $13-15GAME ON—The anticipation […]