MUSICโWhoever thought this up is a genius: Take your favorite, most approachable cello ensemble (the Portland Cello Project, obvs) and combine them with the rectified, electric soul of Ural Thomas and the Pain, and there you have itโyour new favorite thing. All that’s missing is a bow on top. MARJORIE SKINNERAladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie, […]
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New In: The Day’s News in Local Fashion, Retail, and Design
• There’s yet another fashion show to add to the city’s increasingly populous mix this winter: Fashion Meets Film is scheduled for January 24 at OMSI, and will feature Seth Aaron Henderson, Michelle Lesniak, Wendy Olendorf of Boulevard de Magenta, Stephanie Dong of Stephanie D Couture, Dubard, and Under U4Men. What does it have to […]
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FILMโThe Hollywood Theatre’s latest series invites Portland’s best film critics to take over the theater and showunder-seen classics. First up to the plate: Our own Erik Henriksen, who chose wisely, selecting Guillermo del Toro’s immensely creepy debut film, Cronos, about a greedy old man, a magic bug, and lots and lots of death. BOBBY ROBERTSHollywood […]
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BOOKSโMurderers! Wobblies! Vice Czars! And only one Dottie Do-Good. These are just some of the (real life!) shady characters you’ll meet in JD Chandler and JB Fisher’s look into Portland’s checkered past, Portland on the Take. Chandler would know: He’s spent years investigating murder and violent crime in the Pacific Northwest. MEGAN BURBANKPowell’s City of […]
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De-Gentrifying Portland
Everyone’s got an opinion on how this city is changing, but there’s one demographic that perhaps gets heard the least: the children of families who have been displaced from their neighborhoods by Portland’s rapid gentrification. Started over the summer, De-Gentrifying Portland is a program that’s designed to give young people a way to process and […]
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MUSICโWhile Thee Oh Sees were barely gone long enough for us to miss them, any opportunity to see the legendary live show of the now-LA-based John Dwyer & Co. is cause for celebration. Tonight there’s two chancesโincluding an all-ages early showโto catch their madcap, third-eye, psychedelic garage rock. Get ready to bomp! NED LANNAMANNw/Jack Name; […]
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This Week’s Style Events
If you thought we were out of the woods now that Black Friday weekend is over, allow me to point out that you’re not even close. Local retail and design events continue to abound, and that’s a good thing. Here’s your planner for the week!: • This year, instead of just envying the crafty types […]
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MUSICโIt takes only one minute and 12 seconds to fall irreversibly in love with Toronto’s Alvvays (yes, it’s pronounced “always”). That’s how long it takes to get to the soaring, blissful chorus of “Archie, Marry Me,” a glorious, slow-melt prom anthem that sounds like Teenage Fanclub and the Ronettes co-captaining a comet. Luckily, the rest […]
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Muscle Memory: Drumming & Yoga with Lisa Schonberg
Explode into Colors, Secret Drum Band… when I think of the world of Lisa Schonberg, it’s all prisms and triangles and art grants for experimental performances in Joshua Tree. There’s also her work in entomology and as the NW correspondent for Tom Tom Magazine, so of course she is now co-teaching a class that taps […]
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THEATERโWith Thanksgiving out of the way, theaters everywhere march out a scourge of Christmas Carolsโsome fine, some uncanny-valley-creepy (see: the Muppets’ version, starring that puppet without eyes)โbut Second City’s Twist Your Dickens is the funniest, with no reverence for Dickens’ morality play, which sounds like a helluva lot more fun than watching any other version. […]
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COMEDYโStand-up comedian Matt Kirshen is a baby-faced Brit who’s been a finalist on Last Comic Standing and done the late-night show circuit, with sets where he says “lovely” and “delightful” a lotโ words which pretty much describe his personality onstage. His accent complements his smiling wit, so you’re guaranteed a jolly good time at Funny […]
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THEATERโWe imply it every week in these pages, but you’re goddamn fortunate, Portland. The latest example: Bad Reputation Productions’ faithful and hilarious take on the stop-motion classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is back for a second season. Rudolph! On Stage! has all the elf dentistry and questionable ’60s mores you crave around Christmas. And Merc […]