Jump to: Friday | Saturday | Sunday Friday, Aug 16 Taj Mahal, Marc Cohn, the Blind Boys of Alabama When I got my first turntable, my mom came into my room and, ceremoniously, handed me a copy of Taj Mahal’s 1969 double album Giant Step/De Ole Folks at Home. “This is a good album,” she […]
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The 25 Best Things to Do in Portland This Week: Aug 12-15 2019
Jump to: Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday Monday, Aug 12 Everything Is Terrible Everything is Terrible has birthed a mutant conglomeration of brilliant, lo-fi ridiculousness that takes the nostalgic and the new and shakes them until the fizzy concoction explodes like a can of Jolt Cola. Catch up with the video and performance collective […]
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The Summer of Slushies, Week 6: Aug 12-18 2019
Painkiller (Crow Bar) The slushie: PainkillerWhat’s in it: 151 Rum, pineapple juice, orange juice, cream of coconut.What they say: Numb your summer sunburn with our twist on the classic tiki cocktail turned slushie! Rum, 151, pineapple, OJ, and cream of coconut swirl together in this delicious creamy frozen treat. Imagine yourself in coconut bikini and come […]
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Cheap, Free, & Fun: The 18 Best Bang For Your Buck Events in Portland, Aug 9-15 2019
Lents Street Fair If you’re yearning for some of that old-school Portland weirdness—the kind that is less twee and more real—then do not miss the annual extravaganza known as the Lents Street Fair! They have food, a beer garden (and a root beer garden for the kids), live music, a 26-foot inflatable slide, a 90-foot […]
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The 31 Best Things to Do in Portland This Weekend: Aug 9-11 2019
Jump to: Friday | Saturday | Sunday Friday, Aug 9 Fortune Feimster Fortune Feimster’s writing and acting credits read like a highlight reel of popular TV comedies over the last decade or so: Glee, Two Broke Girls, Drunk History, Chelsea Lately, The Mindy Project, Workaholics—I could go on. An unapologetically butch lesbian who employs broad […]
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The 18 Best Concerts to See in Portland: August 1-14
Allison Sudol Brantley Gutierrez FRI AUG 2-4Pickathon: Various ArtistsRead our story on YOB, and 12 other artists to see at Pickathon 2019.FRI AUG 2Toots and the Maytals, The Gladiators, Droop LionJust how important is Toots Hibbert to the history of reggae? The 76-year-old is responsible for giving the genre its name via his 1968 single […]
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The 27 Best Things to Do in Portland This Week: Aug 5-8 2019
Jump to: Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday Monday, Aug 5 Alison Sudol After several years of recording music under the name A Fine Frenzy (and playing the role of Queenie Goldstein in the two Harry Potter prequels), Alison Sudol is finally stepping into the spotlight as Alison Sudol. Last fall, she released her […]
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The 18 Best Concerts to See in Portland: August 1-14
George Clinton! Portugal. The Man! The War and Treaty!
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The 30 Best Movies & TV Shows to Watch in Portland: Aug 2-15
The Art of Self-Defense The cultural discourse has, of late, become filled with stories of aimless, lonely young men who, feeling they’re being ignored and left behind, find direction and a kind of community through toxic and bizarre means. For Casey (Jesse Eisenberg), the weedy accountant shuffling through his beige existence in writer/director Riley Stearns’ […]
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The Summer of Slushies, Week 5: Aug 5-11 2019
Caribbean Queen (5 & Dime) The slushie: Caribbean QueenWhat’s in it: Blue Hawaii, Pina ColadaWhat they say: The “Caribbean Queen” is named after the same song from international R&B superstar Billy Ocean. It is a swirl of Blue Hawaii and Pina Colada, and tastes exactly like the song sounds- dripping with the excess of the 1980’s.When […]
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Cheap, Free, & Fun: Your 26 Best Bang For The Buck Events in Portland, Aug 2-8 2019
Portland Cello Project A rare opportunity to behold the musical alchemy the Portland Cello Project can deploy, in front of the beauty of Washington Park, for free, as part of Portland Parks & Recreation’s Summer Free for All. (Sat Aug 3, 6 pm, Washington Park, free) Friends of Noise Youth Showcase w/ Black Panther Okay, […]
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The 26 Best Things to Do in Portland This Weekend: Aug 2-4 2019
Jump to: Friday | Saturday | Sunday Friday, Aug 2 Toots & the Maytals, The Gladiators & Droop Lion Just how important is Toots Hibbert to the history of reggae? The 76-year-old is responsible for giving the genre its name via his 1968 single “Do The Reggay,” that’s how. Before and after that tune was […]