TOPLESS—Few things are better than watching movies outdoors in the summer—something you can do plenty of in Portland (see Movie Times for more info). Tonight, the Northwest Film Center’s Top Down: Rooftop Cinema series begins on the roof of the Hotel deLuxe with 1929’s silent Hitchcock film Blackmail, featuring live musical accompaniment from Cambridge, Massachusetts’ […]
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Tonight’s Concerts for Your Ears
Backspace—Mahjongg, Atole, Joey Casio, Vanimal, 8 pm, $8-10, all ages Doug Fir—Admiral Radley, Carcrashlander, Buzzyshyface, 9 pm, $12 Hollywood Theatre—Gulliver’s Travels: Filmusik, 7 pm, $10-12, all ages Holocene—Sustentacula, Massive Moth, Julian Snow & The Murmering Pines, DSR, 8:30 pm, $3Oregon Zoo—Bassekou Kouyate, 7 pm, $11.50, all ages Someday Lounge—The Foreign Exchange, Yahzarah, Darien Brockington, Zo, […]
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AMAZON TRAIL—Don’t you just hate it when you and your conquistador amigos are journeying down the Amazon River and you simply can’t find El Dorado anywhere? Commiserate with fellow adventurer Klaus Kinski in this weeklong screening of Werner Herzog’s classic, Aguirre: the Wrath of God. Relive the hallucinatory voyage on a new 35mm print. AMClinton […]
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Content Application Deadline Extended
Being that the founder and driving force of the event has been unavailable for the past weeks, the crew between this year’s Content (full disclosure: I’m on the submissions board) event at the Ace Hotel (refresh memory here), is extending the deadline for designers of apparel and accessories to participate. Last year was a huge […]
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First Week of Events at Luce
You may already have heard about Luce, the new event space(s) opened by the husband and wife team of Giovanna Parolari (owner of the Una boutique) and John Toboada (chef and owner of Navarre) that’s taken over not one, but two addresses at 2138 and 2140 E Burnside. Not quite a restaurant (I’ll leave the […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
BOOK SMART—British novelist David Mitchell reads from his brilliant new book, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, in which a trader with the Dutch East Indies Company visits Nagasaki Harbor, the sole point of entry for Japan’s cloistered late-18th-century society. SKPowell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside, 7:30 pm, FREE ON THE BLOCK—Planned Parenthood […]
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BEFORE BIKE LANES—Here’s a little literature to bring your highfalutin, fixie-obsessed buddy down a peg: David Herlihy reads from The Lost Cyclist, an account of the real life and times of Frank Lenz, a long-distance cyclist pioneer who set out in the 1880s (when roads were still unpaved) on the first ever worldwide tour by […]
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Concerts, Concerts, Concerts: Weekend Edition
Tonight! Bagdad Theater—Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls Showcase, 6 pm, all ages Centaur Guitar—The Friendly Skies, Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers, The Mother’s Anger, The Welfare State, Toyboat Toyboat Toyboat, Someret Meadow, 2 pm, free, all ages Doug Fir—Drew Grow & The Pastors’ Wives, Two Sheds, Cabinessence, 9 pm, $5 East End—The Dutchess & […]
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Feelin’ Lucky Friday Concerts
Crystal Ballroom—The New Pornographers, The Dodos, Imaad Wasif, 8 pm, $23-25, all agesDante’s—Swingin’ Utters, The Cute Lepers, My Life in Black & White, 9 pm, $12-14 Doug Fir—The Mynabirds, Celilo, Sean Flinn & The Royal We, The Physical Hearts, 9 pm, $8 Fernhill Park—The Quick & Easy Boys, 6:30 pm, free, all ages Hollywood Theatre—Gulliver’s […]
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RED ALERT—It’s a weekend of Star Trek, Trekkies—and this time around, you’ll actually have to leave your captain’s chair couch to spend some time in the final frontier! Trek in the Park’s dramatic version of the classic Trek episode “Space Seed” is still going on in Woodlawn Park, and tonight, last year’s super-fun Star Trek […]
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Thursday’s Creepy Concert Picks
Berbati’s Pan—And I Was Like What?, Archers, Asphalt Thieves, Fox & Law, Gashcat, 9 pm, $5 Branx—The Friendly Skies, Shapes Stars Make, Aristeia, 10 pm, $5 Crystal Ballroom—Colin Hay, Jake Oken-Berg, 9 pm, $23-25 Dante’s—The Leaders, River City Tanlines, Problems, 9 pm, $7-8 Holocene—Raymond Byron, Sam Hamilton, Pete Swanson, 8:30 pm, $6Someday Lounge—The Fix: Rev. […]
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Portland Indie Rock, SPIN Magazine, the Ford Fiesta, and You
If you go anywhere near the vicinity of the old Music Millennium building at 801 NW 23rd Ave between now and August 7, be prepared to get hit hard with a marketing blitz to entice Portlanders in their 20s, 30s, and 40s into buying a Ford Fiesta, with the “Fiesta Lounge“: A striking image, I […]