Events

SMOOTH SAILING—Longing for summers spent sailing off the shore of Cape Cod before heading back to your Ivy League university? Vampire Weekend will help you reminisce—or imagine—those simpler, preppier times as summer winds down to a close. Don’t forget to bring the horchata. SHw/Beach House, Dum Dum Girls; Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey, Troutdale, 6 pm, […]

BEER-STORY—In a near-meta twist, the Oregon Historical Society’s History Pub takes on the history of the Oregon brewpub, with an incredible panel of brewers, writers, and legislators who made Portland’s beer paradise possible. PACBagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne, 7 pm, FREE COWABUNGA—Tired of landlocked living? Slip on your best Jams and flipflops and cruise over […]

STRIKING A CHORD—Powell’s workers celebrate 10 years of union book slinging with Rock Out to Walk Out, a concert raising some cash for their strike fund (don’t worry, they’re not quitting the bookstore anytime soon!). Powell’s employee bands will be performing folksy union songs; also, there will be dancing. Book nerd dancing. SMw/DJ Anjali, the […]

I wandered through the hordes last night at Last Thursday in search of the “lemonade revolt”: donation-only lemonade stands set up in protest of county health inspectors shutting down a little girls’ lemonade stand at the event last month. I only saw six stands, but I did run into Michael Franklin, the guy who started […]

RHYME AND REASON—Need a quick primer on Portland’s sadly neglected hiphop scene? Start here. Chicharones are the dream-team collaboration between Josh “the People’s Champ” Martinez and the fastest emcee in the land, Sleep. Joining them is up-and-comer Cloudy October, who’s been known to steal the show every time he sets foot onstage. EACw/Rafael Vigilantics, Eddie […]

Nicole Georges and Clutch This weekend is the biggest event of the year for Portland’s small press writers and comics artists—the zine symposium at Portland State University. This is the 10th annual festival (good work, guys) and it’s bringing in a whopping 230 tablers from all over the country (okay, mostly Portland, San Francisco and […]

NINJAS—Tonight the Grindhouse Film Fest presents the 1982 kung fu classic Five Element Ninjas! Directed by Chang Cheh and starring the Venom Mob—and presented in Shaw Scope, natch—this rare 35mm screening will contain enough bloody, awesome, chop-socky action to delight even the most discriminating kung fu fan. EHHollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy, 7 pm, $7OPERATOR—The […]

ANALOG ART—Artist-writer-human Mark Searcy used to be the art director for the Mercury until he left last year to focus on “making art.” All this month, his work appears in an exhibition at Reading Frenzy. Rejecting his (and everyone’s) dependency on computers, Searcy’s Small Things Can Make You Feel Smaller features multi-dimensional minimalist collages made […]