Thursdays are definitely the new Fridays when it’s a First Thursday. Please update your worksheet from earlier this week: THURSDAY, NOV 5 • New markdowns are on over at Alder & Co., which is slashing prices on their fall clothing just in time for when you really need it. Alder & Co., 616 SW 12th, […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
STUNTS—For your mid-week entertainment, watch as crazy daredevils—including 17-time X Games medalist Travis Pastrana—launch themselves through the air on motorcycles, bicycles, trikes, and weird things like a reclining chair at Nitro Circus Live. The arena will be set up like a 1920s three-ring circus and there will be fire. SHELBY R. KINGModa Center, 1 N […]
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MUSIC—It’s easy to take Patty Griffin for granted. The singer/songwriter is so consistent, so masterful at turning American folk music tropes into gripping short stories that you can’t go wrong with any of her albums. If she’s easy to overlook, tonight’s the perfect time to stop doing that, when she plays a Portland show in […]
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MUSIC—L7 has been around longer than most of you reading this preview. Donita Sparks and Suzi Gardner formed the LA band in 1985, and now the punk ladies of L7 are on a reunion tour after a 14-year hiatus. The were a big deal when I was in high school, and influenced many of the […]
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Chili Jam Is Coming up Quick, Y’all!
Ever the masters of leaving what ain’t broke well enough alone, the Mercury is bringing you, YET AGAIN, another stellar event that is basically just an excuse to eat delicious foods prepared by the city’s best chefs, for a song, while we all day-drink and do-si-do our asses to victory. We’re bringing Chili Jamboree 3—this […]
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Kami Gray, The Good Mod, and an Odessa Super Sale!: This Week’s Fashion & Retail Events
MONDAY, NOV 2 • All of the men’s items at Imelda’s and Louie’s are on sale—10 percent off regular priced shoes, bags, and accessories. Only through Sunday. Imelda’s and Louie’s, 3426 SE Hawthorne, now through Sun Nov 8 • Today only, take 20 percent off fall/winter styles from REIFhaus! THURSDAY, NOV 5 • Makers of lovely leather […]
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It’s Happening This Weekend!
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30 MUSIC—It was 10 Halloweens ago that folk/punk/busker band the Builders and the Butchers performed their first show, and a decade later, they’re still one of the most entertaining bands in town. They celebrate their 10-year anniversary with two shows at Bunk Bar; tonight they play before headliner Hillstomp, and tomorrow they’ll close […]
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DANCING—If you love fun, don’t miss the Jungle Spaceship Ball featuring a dance contest for voguers and waackers! First popularized at LGBT dance clubs (and later by Madonna), vogueing focuses on precise movements, while waacking allows the arms to fly free—and both styles are amazing to watch live. Or enter the contest yourself, judged by […]
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HECKLEVISION—Of all the times to see something in Hecklevision—when audience members can text jokes and see them pop up on the screen—few are better than tonight’s GOP Debate, featuring Jeb! Bush, Carly Fiorina, Ted Cruz, and, yes, fucking Donald Trump. Fish, meet barrel. ERIK HENRIKSENHollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy, 5 pm, $5 MUSIC—Sure they serve […]
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Chili Jamboree Veterans Will Bring the Hurt!
OOOH-WEE! Have we got some goodness coming your way! Six Chili Jam veterans are returning to settle the score, and this is one grudge match that’s gonna make you squeal like a pig! You taste ‘em all and decide who takes home that purdy brass belt buckle. Get drunk as a mop on cold Widmer […]
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MUSIC—Grimes’ 2012 album Visions was fan-freaking-tastic. It sounded like a electropop kewpie doll from the alien planet Helium, or like Aphex Twin hired a chorus of singing mice. It was great and very strange. And now three years later, Grimes (AKA Claire Boucher) has promised a surprise album release this month—so expect delightful new oddities […]
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Cargo, Baby & Company, and More: This Week’s Shopping & Style Events
MONDAY, OCTOBER 26 • If you didn’t know, now you do: It’s Socktober, y’all! Clogs-N-More is encouraging you to stock up on sensible and warm foot coverings, offering a buy three/get one free deal at all four locations on pairs from Sockwell Compression and Smartwool Socks. Meanwhile, Imelda’s & Louie’s is similarly offering 15 percent off […]