The first ever feature-length documentary exploring homosexuality and Islam (titled A Jihad for Love) will be screening for free tomorrow in North Portland. The documentary was filmed in 12 countries ranging from the US to Saudi Arabia, France and Bangladesh. See the trailer here: The free screening is hosted by the Human Rights Commission of […]
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MOCKINGJAY—If you’re a Harry Potter fan who sneers at the Twilight series, then not only are you clearly a discriminating consumer of YA fiction, but I hope you’re hip to Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy. Like Are You There God, It’s Me, Margaret meets Battle Royale, Collins’ smart, gritty series follows a scrappy heroine pitted […]
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Weekend Edition: Concerts
Buy Olympia—Portland Folk Fest: Celso Machado, Dan Bern, Johnny & Jason, Rock ‘n’ Roll Kindy, noon, free, all ages Dante’s—Thrashin’: Village Idiot, 10 pm, $10-12 Doug Fir—The Tumblers, The Shants, Sweeping Exits, 9 pm, $7 Mississippi Studios—Portland Folk Festival: Damien Jurado, Dan Bern, Dolorean, Duover, 8:30 pm, $14 NE 11th & Alberta—Alberta Street Fair: The […]
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Friday Music Listings
Aladdin Theater—Fran Healy, 8 pm, $20-22, all ages Alberta Street Public House—Portland Folk Fest: Lewi Longmire, Annalisa Tornfelt, Kasey Anderson, Jim Page, 9 pm, $6 The Artistery—Fleshtone, Kind Brother, 8 pm, $6 Backspace—The Rainy States, And And And, Social Studies, DJ Scott Oseth, 8 pm, $5, all ages Crystal Ballroom—The Hold Steady, Jaill, 9 pm, […]
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Mother of All Yard Sales
You know that pinkish/purplish house on NE Glisan and 33rd, the one with all the crazy lawn ornaments in the yard… From Clifton Burt’s Flickr Well they’re having a doozy of a junk sale. I passed by it on the way to work and boy howdy, it was INTENSE. Hoarding + yard sale = yay!
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Music: Thursday
The Artistery—Jack Lewis & Twigs Lvov, Sun Foot, 8 pm, $5, all ages Ash Street Saloon—Night of the Fly Showcase: Young X, T&E, Logics, Matty, DJ Flo, Cool Nutz, 9:30 pm, $5 Backspace—Portland Folk Fest: Sea of Bees, Bear Feet, Stefan Jecusco, 8:30 pm, $6, all ages Berbati’s Pan—Burning Yellows, The Spooks, Guantanamo Baywatch, 9 […]
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Portland RiverFest Starts Tomorrow
What’s Portland RiverFest? And haven’t there been enough festivals this summer already? NO. And I’m not too familiar with RiverFest myself, but I guarantee it will be better than that Bridge fest thing. There are community paddles, boat building, the River Fair, dragon boats, and a run on Sunday. Plus, the fire department shoots a […]
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Protest Planned Against TriMet Bus Cuts!
Here’s a factoid for you: Since 1998, TriMet has cut bus service by 3,940 hours and cut 16 lines. Light rail service, on the other hand, has doubled, and TriMet’s opened three new rail lines. I have a piece in this week’s paper about how some locals, like environmental justice group OPAL are crying foul […]
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SENSITIVE BOY—What can we say about Alejandro Escovedo that hasn’t already been said? The man’s as good as it gets songwriter-wise, and his latest album, Street Songs of Love, finds him barreling down boulevards of the human heart with all the anthemic gravitas of Springsteen. NLw/Amy Cook; Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie, 8 pm, $20, […]
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Wednesday Music Listings
Aladdin Theater—Alejandro Escovedo & The Sensitive Boys, Amy Cook, 8 pm, $20, all ages Dante’s—Thrashin’: Problems, 10 pm, $10-12Ella Street Social Club—Leonard Mynx, Michael the Blind, River Banks, 9 pm, $5 Holocene—Onuinu, Soap Collectors, Adventures with Might, Your Canvas, 8:30 pm, $5 Main St. (Between SW Broadway & Park)—Dr. Theopolis, 5 pm, free, all ages […]
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Friday the 13th Concerts
Anyone else been stewing in the bubonic juices of sickness lately? My muscles are atrophying. My head is pounding. I haven’t seen nary a soul in four days. I’ve watched two Bret Easton Ellis movies. I’ve rewatched Twin Peaks season two. I believe you could irrigate two fields of alfalfa with my fever sweat output. […]
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BUTCH BUILDERS—It’s been awhile since the Builders and the Butchers performed an intimate show around these parts, thanks to their massively growing popularity, but tonight you can relive the magic of the olden days as the raucous band takes part in the Great Northwest Music Tour of McMenamins venues. EACw/Pancake Breakfast; Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey, […]