Here’s a new David Lynch jam to listen to while perusing through the Best of the Music Calendar™. Berbati’s Pan—Blue Cranes, The Youngs, Why I Must Be Careful, 9 pm, $8 Crystal Ballroom—Passion Pit, Mister Heavenly, We Barbarians, Pepper Rabbit, 8 pm, $29.50, all ages Dante’s—The Queers, Kepi Ghoulie, The Riptides, Blood Types, 9 pm, […]
Events
Posted inEvents
It’s Happening Tonight!
GET IN THE PIT—If your passion for all things Passion Pit knows no bounds, you won’t miss tonight’s show with the New England synth-pop practitioners—but make sure you don’t miss their after-hours DJ set across the river at Rotture! NLw/Mister Heavenly, We Barbarians, Pepper Rabbit; Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside, 8 pm, $29.50, all ages; […]
Posted inEvents
It’s Happening Tonight!
THE BOOK OF BOOK—The youngest Whedon, Zack, is coming to the Hollywood Theatre to watch the last episode of Joss Whedon’s TV show Firefly with you. On the heels of his comic book release of Serenity: The Shepherd’s Tale, writer Zack and artist Chris Samnee will stick around to answer all your questions about Shepherd […]
Posted inEvents
Firefly Tonight! Zack Whedon Tonight!
Serenity: The Shepherd’s Tale Maybe you read my book piece about the Zack Whedon meet and greet, Firefly screening with Q&A tonight. No? Here. Are you as excited as I am? Deets:Hosted by a whole cadre of nerds (Things from Another World, Dark Horse Comics, Bridge City Comics, Excalibur Comics, and the PDX Browncoats), tonight […]
Posted inEvents
Food Events
Beast Feast—For an adorable twist on Thanksgiving tradition, the Oregon Zoo’s Beast Feast invites the animals to the table with activities like “papier-mâché turkeys stuffed with yummy treats.” Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon, Thurs Nov 25-Sun Nov 28, 11:30 am-2:30 pm, free with zoo admission Clear Creek Distillery Tour—Clear Creek Distillery hosts an open house […]
Posted inFashion
The Invisible Christmas Dinner
Since experiencing flavor is almost all about experiencing scent (just ask my aunt AJ, who lost her sense of smell in a teenage accident and determines food preferences by texture… she’s an interesting cook), it makes sense that fashion people would come up with the Invisible Christmas Dinner. (Okay, cheap shot. No really, fashion people […]
Posted inArtsy
The New World Apothecary
You may know of Sword + Fern (811 E Burnside #114) as the outpost for Emily Baker’s line of jewelry by the same name, but in a couple weeks she’s unveiling an expansion of the operation, called the New World Apothecary. If you’re ready to take your toiletries beyond the Tom’s of Maine-level of neo-hippie […]
Posted inEvents
It’s Happening Tonight!
POOR PEOPLE—Amy Sedaris is here to tell it like it is again, this time with her latest lifestyle tome, Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People, which takes on the Martha Stewart set of middle-class craft elitists, armed with nothing but pipe cleaners, a glue gun, and—oh yeah—wit. MSBagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne, 7 pm, $27.99 […]
Posted inEvents
Tonight in Music
Alberta Rose Theatre—Live Wire!: Blue Cranes, Weinland, 7:30 pm, $15-30, all ages Backspace—Music in the Schools Benefit: JonnyX & The Groadies, Sloths, The Odious, 8 pm, $4, all ages Bamboo Grove Salon—Spacefunk: Bryan Zentz, Let’s Go Outside, Maximus, The Perfect Cyn & Sappho, Pipedream, Miss Vixen, Travismode, Nicodemus, Jimm, 9 pm, $8-10 Doug Fir—Dawes, The […]
Posted inCats
When They Say “Pink Horse” They Mean A Pink-Ass Mothereffing Horse
Tomorrow night at Bodyvox (1714 NW Overton) there is a big breast cancer benefit sponsored by Let ‘Er Buck—the official fragrance of the Pendleton Roundup (It’s a real thing, they sent me a bottle. It smells like cowboys, only cleaner.) There will be live music by the Hanson Family Singers and the Water Tower Bucket […]
Posted inFashion
Have Yourself An Ugly Little Christmas
Billed as “the anti-fashion event of the holiday season,” I Heart Retro is gearing up for their First Annual Ugly Christmas Sweater Fashion Show on Saturday December 4. For ironic reasons that escape me, they have been collecting the ugliest holiday sweaters they can find all year just for the occasion, at which they will […]
Posted inEvents
Tonight in Music
Ash Street Saloon—Hives Inquiry Squad, Doc Brown Experiment, Josh Martinez, Abadawn, Gepetto, 9:30 pm, $6Burgerville (on NE MLK)—Thee Headliners, 6 pm, free, all ages The Cleaners at the Ace Hotel—Ethical Butcher Dinner: Mr. Charming, Roy G Biv, DJ Gutter Glamour, 7 pm, $20-30 Doug Fir—Margot & The Nuclear So & So’s, Jookabox, Burnt Ones, 9 […]