Okay, so how’s this for a crazy pairing? Tonight you’ll be torn between two intriguing events—should you check out some pro wrestling at PSU’s Peter Stott Center (930 SW Hall) or dance your face off at Crush (1400 SE Morrison) with Crave’s Purple Rain Prince night (EEEEEE!)? Diametrically opposed? Nay, I say. Sweaty wrestling complements […]
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AUNTIE CHRIST—A couple days before Record Store Day officially hits, the one and only Exene Cervenka rolls through town for a rare in-store performance on the balcony inside Music Millennium. Battling multiple sclerosis, Cervenka tours less than she would like, but she still has that captivating voice and energy from her days with X. EACMusic […]
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INNUENDO—Oh, Europe. You so crazy! Look at you, all sexy playing keyboards. Doing sexy drugs and touching each other sexily on your bathing suit parts. We’re really looking forward to getting some transcontinental uh-oh feelings from dewy English trio the xx and those dreamy Swedes jj. JVw/Nosaj Thing; Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside, 9 pm, […]
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STRINGS—Local quartet Horse Feathers celebrates the release of their third album tonight: the lush, cautiously joyful Thistled Spring. Cello and violin bolster vocals from sweet-voiced frontman Justin Ringle, for an album that’s distinctly more buoyant than previous work that tended toward the melancholy. AHw/Justin Power, Dan Mangan; Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside, 9 pm, $10-12PUTT […]
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Free Museum! Food Lecture! Bike Polo!
Friends, this week is packed with free and awesome events around Portland. I wouldn’t even know what to do with money if I had it (lie). First of all, though I think it should be free all the time, the state historical museum is only free one day a year. That day has come. It’s […]
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DURANTULA ATTACK—Kevin Durant is a mere three seasons into his NBA career and he’s already approaching some single-season records that took Michael Jordan a career to reach. His team, the Oklahoma City Thunder, are neck and neck with the Blazers in the playoff race, with an invaluable tiebreaker on the line tonight. The winner has […]
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Roller Derby Weekends
Tonight you can catch the Break Neck Betties take on Bend’s dastardly Lava City Roller Dolls (go Betties!) in a supposedly friendly scrimmage. Doors open at 7 pm at the Hanger at Oaks Parks. Bring your own snacks (jerky!) and $5 will get you in—there’s beer for sale. The afterparty’s at Kelly’s Olympian (426 SW […]
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JEWS, DADS, & BFFS—Portland Center Stage put on their reading glasses for an adaptation of Chaim Potok’s 1967 novel The Chosen, about a friendship between two Jewish boys in 1940s Williamsburg. To celebrate the show’s themes of fatherhood and friendship, PCS is offering special discounts to anyone who brings their BFF to the show, and […]
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Hole Lotta Mini-Golf
Much like Tiger Woods, this town is crawling with hole-in-one opportunities. First up on Portland’s mini-golf green:Smash Putt has been extended for one more weekend—Friday, April 16-Sunday, April 18. (1719 W Burnside, $10-15, 21+ w/all ages matinees on Saturdays from noon-3 pm) For the par:The fabulously fun (and homegrown) Fifth Annual Minigolf Art Invitational at […]
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GET YOUR GOAT—Sure, Billygoat is a band that makes gentle, ambient music, but they also make some of the most incredible stop-motion animation you have ever seen. See their live show tonight, as they play in front of their mind-blowingly intricate and breathtakingly gorgeous visuals. NL w/Ah Holly Fam’ly, Ghost to Falco, Grey Anne; Holocene, […]
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VERHOEVEN’S JESUS—This you did not know: Director Paul Verhoeven (Showgirls, RoboCop) is also a biblical scholar who separates fact from fiction in the gospels. Tonight he reads from his new biography of Christianity’s favorite son, Jesus of Nazareth, which paints the “son of God” as a child born from rape, a practicing exorcist, and revolutionary. […]
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THE REAL WORLD—In his much-buzzed-about new literary manifesto Reality Hunger, David Shields argues that the novel as we know it is on its way out—that the form no longer speaks to readers who are ravenous for “reality” in an increasingly artificial world. Agree or disagree, if you’re interested in the future of literature you should […]