Got plans tonight? Now ya do! “Our newest live storytelling format features behind-the-scenes stories combined with film/TV clips from the storytellers’ own work—including outtakes and never-before-seen footage,” says Back Fence PDX‘s B. Frayn Masters. They’ve assembled some of the city’s most interesting filmmaking types for the task: James Westby (Rid of Me, The Auteur), Beth […]
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This Week’s Style Events: Labor Day Edition
Yes, there are sales—including a few late-breaking Labor Day deals that didn’t make print—but there’s also a destination dining experience. Who knew?! • The small but mighty Demimonde is throwing open its newly spruced-up doors to welcome ceramicist Martina Thornhill (originally a Portlander, she now lives in North Carolina) for a one-evening trunk show of […]
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Tonight in Music
Watercolor Paintings (Via) Laughing Horse Books–Golden Hour, Watercolor Paintings, Void Boys, Half Shadow, 8 pm, $3-5, all ages Aladdin Theater–Southern Culture on the Skids, Johnny 7 & The Black Crabs, 8 pm, $20Al’s Den–St. Even, Ezza Rose, 7 pm, free Black Book–Modern(-ist): DJ Troubled Youth, Ryan Biornstad, 10 pm, free Bunk Bar–Sama Dams, Zula, Hands […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
MUSIC—It is empirically impossible for the reunited Afghan Whigs to put out too much music, come through town too often, or sing the word “baby” too many sexually charged times. That’s what’s called science. Greg Dulli and the boys are back for a two-night run at the Doug Fir, after blowing the roof off the […]
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Lookbook of the Day: Lyon Falls
You can’t hardly turn around in this city anymore without bumping into some sort of flea/open air/maker market. So who are all these vendor people, anyway? Well, here’s one, our submission for lookbook of the day: Lyon Falls, AKA “treasure hunting power couple” Jessica Comfort and Jevon LaBar. Find them at the Grand Marketplace Flea […]
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Meet the Wieners of the First Ever Wiener Takes All!
Hang on to your wieners, it looks like we’ve got a hit! The Mercury‘s first-ever Wiener Takes All wiener dog race on Sunday at Lucky Lab was sneaker of a hit, with an astounding 600-person turnout and 78 racing wieners! Winner came away with prizes packages from folks like Bean Goods and a portion of […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
MUSIC—As How to Dress Well, Tom Krell makes melted-sundae R&B and broken-jack-in-the-box pop that’s uncommon and exhilarating. How to Dress Well’s latest, “What Is This Heart?” is an assured, polished effort that doesn’t underplay Krell’s avant approach, but solidifies and consolidates it into something that’s melancholy, moving, and hard to shake. NLw/DJ Portia; Holocene, 1001 […]
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Inside the New Jade Night Market
The first of several planned Jade Night Markets, in the Southeast 82nd parking lot of Fubonn Shopping Center parking lot. Clearly, there’s a hunger for this type of event in the area that has become the city’s real Chinatown, because the small section of the lot they set aside for this event (a joint venture […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
MUSIC—When Beck’s music first shuffled into your ’90s-era life, I bet you didn’t realize how excited you’d still be to see him two decades later. The shaggy-haired weirdo turned out to be capable of a surprisingly eclectic and consistently pleasing career, and that Jenny Lewis gal ain’t so bad either. MSEdgefield, 2126 SW Halsey, Troutdale, […]
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Your Visual Reminder of Tonight’s Fade to Light
The universally adored Fade to Light fashion show is happening tonight. Distinguishing itself as a runway event that not only debuts new apparel collections, it also features short films and other impromptu surprises devised by the designers to engage the audience. Fashion shows are a ton of work, so it really says something that designers […]
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Wild About Game: ON
Nicky USA‘s annual, orgiastic Wild About Game event rears its meaty head just over the horizon on Sunday, Sept 7 at the Timberline Lodge in Government Camp. The legendary bacchanal is centered around a competition between four match-ups of Portland vs Seattle chefs, each trying to create the better dish centered around a Nicky protein. […]
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The Textile Hive Base
A while back I wrote about Blue Rider Design, the astonishing textile library stashed quietly in downtown Portland. Caleb Sayan, the caretaker of the collection (most of which was first established by his mother Andrea Aranow in New York during the late ’80s) has been busy digitizing each piece—there are over 40,000—and once complete it […]