If there’s one thing I know about the people who work at Bishops Barbershop, it’s that they know how to party (you know who you are). And since no holiday season would be complete without at least one workday plagued by the telltale dehydration and anxiety-driven decision making skills of a really nasty hangover, you’re […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
RETRO SLIDE SHOW—Lovers of mid-century lifestyle and kitsch will get a kick out of Charles Phoenix’s Retro Holiday Slide Show—a comedic look at how America celebrated Christmas via his humongous collection of found Kodachrome slides! Bring along your parents so they can say, “What’s so funny?” WSHHollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy, 7 pm, $15 GEEK […]
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I’ve Gotta Get Outta Here
OMG, how much do you hate your family right now? Yeah, I know. Want an excuse to get out of range of their annoyingly piercing eyes of judgment for a while? Yep, me too. Start here. Think of an excuse. Then RUN, DON’T WALK, OUT THE DOOR. Repeat tomorrow. I love you, but please stop […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
KARAOKE—Nothing says Christmas like “Chinese food buffet,” and if you book a slot at Voicebox karaoke for Christmas Eve, you’ll have complete access to all the free kung pao and chow mein you can shove down your throat in between singing your heart out in their private karaoke rooms. MSVoicebox, 2112 NW Hoyt, 4-11 pm, […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT—Christmas traditions: putting lights on the tree; giving Oprah’s latest book-club selection to your stepmother; watching a psychotic Santa gruesomely murder people. One of the holiday season’s grandest rituals, Silent Night, Deadly Night is here again thanks to the Grindhouse Film Festival, with a 35mm print of the 1984 slasher classic on […]
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The 7th Annual Prints for PICA
There’s a reason they call them “starving artists,” but they are still asked often to donate their work for charitable causes around the holiday season. PICA, naturally, found a great way to sidestep any icky financial strains when they came up with the triple-win Prints for PICA formula seven years ago. For the un-initiated: Portland’s […]
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Steve Novick is… SANTA CLAW!
If you weren’t already planning on dressing up like your favorite political scandal this Saturday night and heading down to the Someday Lounge for the Mercury/Bus Project SantaGate party consider this: Steve Novick confirmed that he’ll be coming. As “Santa Claw.” VIA This is going to be awesome.
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Genevieve Dellinger
You may know Genevieve Dellinger as: one half of the team (with Hazel Cox) that brought us Denwave, which initiated the transformation of an assuming complex of suites on E Burnside into the hive of indie retail that is the 811 E Burnside; designer of her eponymous apparel line for men and women; co-founder and […]
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World AIDS Day Electric Candles Light City Hall
City Hall is full of small electric candles right now, held by marchers in Portland’s 21st Annual World AIDS Day commemoration. Cascade AIDS Project Executive Director Michael Kaplan’s short speech to the hundred-odd crowd that marched across downtown to City Hall was refreshingly devoid of backslapping. “After 21 years, why aren’t we using federal funds […]
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Experiment No. 1
Mercy Studios (537 SE Ash #25) is the new, communal 2,000sf studio of Andy Lifschutz, Janeane Marie, and Nialls Fallon, jewelry designer, apparel designer, and artist respectively. This Friday, starting at 6 pm, they’re breaking in the space with a grand opening party, “Experiement No. 1,” and I’m already looking forward to “Experiment No. 2” […]
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Tomorrow: Portland Planners Paid to Listen to You Bitch!
If you’ve got a mailbox in the city of roses, by now you should have received the official Portland mailer featuring this lady’s face: Look familiar? Apparently, this senior citizen is the face of bitchy Portland. Starting tomorrow, she and her 575,000 friends are invited to attend info sessions on the Portland Plan, which is […]
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Action and Memorials for Pedestrian Deaths
Willamette Pedestrian Coalition is pulling together a “safety awareness action” at 5 pm today at the site where two young Portland women were struck last week in a marked crosswalk on SE Foster. Lindsey Leonard, a 23-year-old employee of Sock Dreams, died in the crash and her friend Jessica Finlay is still in the hospital […]