So. Many. Events. Especially tonight, if you’re into the whole first Thursday thing: Backtalk Facebook Backtalk will host a first Thursday event that will feature Laurs Kemp‘s new black-and-white raw silk collection, as well as new sculpture pieces by Lane Walkup and Jessie Weitzel.Backtalk, 421 SW 10th, March 3, 5-8 pm Frances May Facebook Frances […]
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Things to Do Tonight!
VARIETY SHOW—Tonight’s guest on Live Wire!, Jen Kirkman, is the grown-ass anti-heroine we’ve been waiting for. Her dry, feminism-inflected stand-up is the antidote to the cutesy jokes about Tinder currently oversaturating the comedy landscape. She makes me look forward to being a hardened 40-year-old divorcée. MEGAN BURBANKw/Hey Marseilles; Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi, 7 pm, […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
FILM—Director John Hillcoat has yet to do wrong—he killed with Nick Cave collaborations The Proposition and Lawless—so it seems like a good bet to follow him to the streets of Atlanta for a gritty heist flick that’s high on great actors (Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kate Winslet, Woody Harrelson) and low on clear-cut morality. Triple 9 looks […]
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BOOKS—Tonight, Portland novelist and purveyor of spare, marvelously fucked-up prose Monica Drake reads from her very first collection of short stories, The Folly of Loving Life, published by local press Future Tense, because we really do live in a city with a surplus of excellent writing and worthy alternatives to the big-house Goliaths of publishing. […]
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It’s Happening This Weekend!
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 MUSIC—Tonight’s event celebrates Black History Month, particularly black American music history, with performances by hip-hop luminaries Mic Crenshaw, Cool Nutz, and DJ OG One. The night will also feature Portland’s own trailblazing emcee Theory Hazit, whose album Fall of the Light Bearer was a highlight of last year’s local releases. CIARA DOLANRosewood […]
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Fade To Light Wrap Up
What I like MOST about Fade To Light is in the title; “a multi dimensional fashion show.” Every designer kicks off with a “teaser” video that let’s us know what we’re about to see live. For example, Elizabeth Mollo (FTL‘s producer and a Merc contributor), is a big Bowie fan, and this year she gave […]
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Chest Crawl by Guantanamo BaywatchMUSIC—One thing about watching a surf rock show that nobody ever talks about: You want to imbibe as much frozen margarita as possible—enough to usher forth a bleak ice age of brain freeze, but still stay chill to the max. So when local beachy slackers Guantanamo Baywatch and party rockers Mean […]
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FASHION SHOW—The semiannual Fade to Light fashion show is a multimedia sartorial extravaganza. It mixes video production with brand-new looks from some of Portland’s most well-respected designers. It’s also hella fun. Check out new lines from Ms. Wood, Altar, Laurs Kemp, and more, with an always great soundtrack by DJ Gregarious. Revel in the prettiness. […]
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This Week’s Style Events
Only a few events this week, but they are pretty big: Brent Barnett Ms. Wood Fade to Light: A Multidimensional Fashion Event is a bi-annual fashion show that lets designers off the leash with their runway presentations, and in the past has featured live music, dance performances, and myriad videos ranging from the lookbook type […]
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FILM—In the 1980 grindhouse flick Night of the Juggler, a very young James Brolin plays an ex-cop who’s searching for his kidnapped daughter in a gritty New York City. It’s a smorgasbord of car chases, knife fights, and prostitutes with some great footage of New York at its sleaziest in this 35mm screening. SHELBY R. […]
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Commons Brewery Dinner
What could be better than a beer dinner event? A beer dinner event sponsored by Commons Brewery and held at Imperial! They’ll be putting on a special multi-course dinner featuring unique beers from the Commons Brewery and food pairings by Imperial & Portland Penny Diner’s Executive Chef and Top Chef alum Doug Adams. Check it […]
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FILM—After blowing up at Sundance and Fantastic Fest, Robert Eggers’ acclaimed horror film The Witch has finally come to Portland. Set in 1630, Eggers’ tale finds a family settling in next to a very unsettling patch of New England forest… at which point everything goes to shit. Do your best to steel yourself beforehand, because […]