Events

BLAZERS—Conventional wisdom said the Blazers would pretty much eat shit all year and score a nice draft pick for their troubles. So of course they’re in contention for the eighth seed in the Western Conference. The only team near ’em? The Sacramento Kings. Expect a prideful scrap at the Moda tonight. BOBBY ROBERTSModa Center, 1 […]

U N T I T L ED by Low-KeyMUSIC—Surprise! One of Portland’s better nights for eclectic beat slanging is at a punk bar. Every month, Thirsty City takes over the Know’s sweat-slaked confines for a few hours to keep NE Alberta on its toes. Tonight features a spectrum of interesting noises, from the staid rhymes […]

FRIDAY, JANUARY 22 COMEDY—Lovers of Portland comedy love Nathan Brannon. Why? Well, besides being proclaimed Portland’s Funniest Person (2012), his political humor is sharp as a Ginsu, and guaranteed to make your sides and brain split. Check out his hilarity in person tonight as he records his latest comedy album for Kill Rock Stars. (Your […]

THEATER—If you’re a fan of new and exciting theater, don’t miss the always reliable Action/Adventure Theatre’s Pilot Season, in which four new shows are tried out over four weekends—with the winner given a full-blown production later in the season! Pilot Season kicks off tonight with Talon Bigelow’s Purgator Inc., about a middle manager in Purgatory […]

MUSIC—The word to accurately describe the sounds that Detroit electronic artist Shigeto makes hasn’t been invented yet. Unless there is a word that means “an igneous interplanetary pixel-trellis music-box lightsaber-illuminated bebop balm for your ears and brain.” Webster? NED LANNAMANNw/Groundislava, Philip Grass; Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi, 9 pm, $12-14 FILMS—So this is awesome: Portland’s […]

MUSIC—You were hella looking forward to Janet Jackson at the Moda Center tonight, but that got canceled (wardrobe malfunction?). Now you can really dig into underrated power-pop legend Todd Rundgren instead! His music is as varied as his long career. You can call him Mister Rundgren, if you’re nasty. COURTNEY FERGUSONStar Theater, 13 NW 6th, […]

MUSIC—The lush, nocturnal lullabies of Haunted Summer traverse a starlit sky, gently spreading seeds of slumber across the world below and giving us ageless, romantic dreams. The Los Angeles group is joined tonight by a twofer of terrific local bands. NED LANNAMANNw/Sama Dams, Tender Age; Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi, 9 pm, $10

FRIDAY, JANUARY 8 MUSIC—Four vocalists, a horn section, and minimal crotch-grabbing, but still a lot of entertainment in Foreverland’s renditions of all your Michael Jackson faves. The 14-piece band formed in 2009 just before the King of Pop kicked and have been touring in his memory ever since. Go, dance, and sing along. SHELBY R. KINGw/Dr. […]

MUSIC—You gotta have some serious nerve to step into the purple high-heeled booties of Prince, and luckily Portland’s premier tribute band, Erotic City, has the chops to back it up. Work up a much-needed post-holiday sweat with a suitable facsimile of the real thing. (Consider it a dress rehearsal.) MARJORIE SKINNERGoodfoot, 2845 SE Stark, 10 […]

MUSIC—Oakland emcee G-Eazy says he’s the best white rapper since Eminem, and he’s scheduling the opening date of his latest tour here, in the best, whitest big city in the country. Themes! Racial boasting aside, G-Eazy’s got flows. And he’s touring with A$AP Ferg, known to turn on-stage slips into ninja-style somersaults. DIRK VANDERHARTMemorial Coliseum, […]

FILMS—Starring Jennifer Lawrence as a self-made business lady/inventor (fuck yeah!), David O. Russell’s Joy is a surreal, fairy tale-adjacent delight that’ll make you forget the final terrible Hunger Games movies were ever made. Hate whimsy? YOU’RE ALSO IN LUCK! Todd Haynes’ Carol finally brings confirmed Grand Dame of Suspense Patricia Highsmith’s forgotten(ish) lesbian pulp to […]