This week’s another sleeper hit on the city’s retail calendar. See below for what’s listed in today’s print edition, and then some: • Montana artist Nicholas Coleman is setting up at Beam & Anchor with his paintings of the West. Kicking off the show is tonight’s opening reception, with Roman Candle food and Union Wine […]
Events
It’s Happening Tonight!
MUSIC—When he’s not making album covers and designing T-shirts, Dutch-born LA-based Nick Van Hofwegen—AKA Young & Sick—makes brightly colored, falsetto-strewn electro R&B that’ll get any party started. His slow jams are tender, but make sure you have your dancing shoes on for songs like “Glass.” NLw/Bent Denim, Exroyale; Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi, 9 pm, […]
Tonight in Music
Bad History Month (Via) Discourage Records–Bad History Month, Dust from 1000 Years, Post Moves, 6:30 pm, $5, all agesArlene Schnitzer Concert Hall–Music on Main Street: Billie & the Holidays, Liz Vice, 5 pm, free, all ages Doug Fir–Spirit Lake, Blue Skies for Black Hearts, Young Vienna, 9 pm, $8-10 Gold Dust Meridian–Whiskey Wednesdays: Pete Krebs, […]
Urban Air Market
Urban Air Market has been going strong in San Francisco for a decade, where it goes down several times a year in neighborhoods like Hayes Valley and the Lower Haight, and this summer—August 2 & 3—it’s making its debut in Portland. Its emphasis is on the sale of sustainably produced goods, bolstered by additional attractions […]
David Lynch Yoga
I guess you can blame “bikini season” for the rash of unusual workout options coursing through the intertubes this week? Next up: David Lynch Yoga. This one is a benefit for the David Lynch Foundation, through which he spreads the gospel of transcendental meditation, particularly to at-risk populations like inner-city kids, veterans, and refugees. For […]
An Evening with Orland Nutt
It’s a couple days away, but I know how busy you are, and I really think you’d like Orland Nutt. The local filmmaker is a Portland native, and his films are all short and experimental. I love the short film format, but a lot of people assume it’s going to be boring and obtuse when […]
What Are You Doing this Weekend?
IT’S FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND, Y’ALL! (So what are YOU doing?) Wm. Steven Humphrey: “As mentioned in Busy Week, it’s my Fourth of July tradition to go to the St. Paul Rodeo—in beautiful, non-bustling St. Paul, Oregon… a mere 45 minute drive from Portland. And for me, the rodeo isn’t even the highlight! My fave […]
It’s Happening Tonight
MUSIC—Sub Pop scored big last year, at least for music nerds, when it signed German indie geniuses the Notwist, who dropped a new album, Close to the Glass—the group’s eighth overall and first since 2008. The Notwist have been laying electronics over poppy melancholia since well before Radiohead made it cool. And these days, any […]
Tonight in Music
We Are Traitors (Via) Kelly’s Olympian–Fault Lines, Yukon Gold, We Are Traitors, 9 pm, $5 Bunk Bar–Painted Palms, Foreign Orange, Imperial Mammoth, 10 pm, $10-12Camellia Lounge–Barra Brown, 8 pm, $6 Dig a Pony–Aan, Thanks, New Move, Strange Babes DJs, 8 pm, free Doug Fir–Sharon Van Etten, Jana Hunter, 9 pm, $16-18 Holocene–Testify: DJ E*Rock, DJ […]
Tonight in Music
Paradise (Via) Bunk Bar–Sunset Valley, Paradise, Dead Teeth, 9:30 pm, $5 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall–Steely Dan, Bobby Broom, 8 pm, $59.50-119.50, all ages Crystal Ballroom–Future, Rico Love, 8 pm, $27.50-30, all ages Doug Fir–Sharon Van Etten, Jana Hunter, 9 pm, $16-18 First Baptist Church–Orpheus Academy Orchestra, 7:30 pm, $10-40, all agesGold Dust Meridian–Whiskey Wednesdays: Pete […]
It’s Happening Tonight
MUSIC—Eric D. Johnson, formerly of Fruit Bats, has some damned impeccable taste, so let him curate your evening at A Few of My Favorite Things. The recurring event enlists a local shaker to pick their favorite artists to showcase, and EDJ signed up Corrina Repp and Rebecca Gates, alongside films and DJ sets—all to benefit […]
It’s Happening Tonight!
COMEDY—”PowerPoint” and “comedy” are very, very rarely uttered in the same sentence—but leave it to Comedy Is OK to combine the two. Tonight, some of Portland’s best performers (Bri Pruett! Mike Merrill! Shane Torres!) will give spontaneous PowerPoint presentations based on randomly assigned material. Will it be hilarious, a trainwreck, or a hilarious trainwreck? One […]
