Things to Do

CityFair Every year the Rose Festival crams the month of June with parades, concerts, dragonboat races, and beauty pageants—and it all starts with CityFair. Jam-packed with amusement park rides, corn dogs, and elephant ears, CityFair covers nearly the entirety of Waterfront Park and also offers two other things of note: concerts like the What Was […]

You’d think the preceding weekend’s worth of weird would have exhausted itself, but nope. The adventurous creativity (and outright freakiness) don’t stop just because the calendar rotates over to another Monday. Jesus & Mary Chain still have fistfuls of psychocandy for you, the Hollywood has some Psychomania revved up and ready to peel out on […]

Is this weekend weird? Is it thoughtful? Is it complicatedly creative and rewarding in off-kilter yet thoroughly satisfying (and maybe unnerving) ways? It is all of those things and more, starting with Twin Peaks coming back and a new chapter in the Alien series, a risky comedy from Yussuf El Giundi on the Artists Rep […]

Wild Combination: A Birthday Tribute to Arthur Russell The world would have surely come around to the avant-disco and minimalist classical music of the late Arthur Russell eventually. But what has helped spur a dedicated cult following around this New York legend were a pair of compilation albums, released in 2004, that revealed to a […]

Not every week gives you a chance to explore the mysteries of outer space while gorging yourself on corn dogs, but that’s what happens when the UFO Fest lands in McMinnville. If you choose to keep your choice in entertainments a little more earthbound (but still a little heady) there’s Kikagaku Moya next in line […]

Tony Starlight’s Mother’s Day Brunch Tell your mom “Thanks for giving birth to me” by taking her to a Vegas lounge act in Southeast Portland, complete with performances by Neil Diamond (Tony Starlight), Liberace (David Saffert), and Judy Garland (Jillian Snow Harris). 12:45 pm, The Tony Starlight Showroom, $30-74 Out of This World Mother’s Day […]

Normally Mother’s Day weekend is envisioned as a pastel, placid thing, festooned with lilacs and doilies and whatever other frilly shit you’ll see glued to the front of a greeting card. This Mother’s Day weekend is not that at all. Or at least, not entirely—sure, there are sun-dappled brunches to enjoy, loungy, family-friendly entertainments to […]

Jenny Don’t & the Spurs, Sean Mager Jenny Don’t and the Spurs play vintage country and western straight out of the lonesomest corners of mid-20th century America, Don’t and her cohorts sound nothing like a museum piece; rather, there’s grit, sadness, and an edge of danger to these rumbling-boxcar country songs. NED LANNAMANN May 12, […]

After the behemoth of a weekend we just got through, this upcoming week is kind of a cool-down period. But that just makes it easier to emphasize the “cool” part, starting with the adventurous and mind-bending visuals of the NW Animation Fest returning to the Hollywood, and continuing with appearances on city stages by Old […]

This weekend is gonna get extravagant. There’s no other way to put it when the best and brightest of the country’s comedic talents descend upon the city for 72 hours, at the same time Cinco de Mayo turns the waterfront into a full-on fiesta, at the same time the city uses a horse race down […]

33rd Annual Cinco de Mayo Fiesta A three-day party with all the food, drink, rides, and dance the city can squeeze into Waterfront Park. Events include face-painting, an artisan village, amateur boxing, a Day of the Dead art exhibit, and more. May 5-7, Tom McCall Waterfront Park, 11 am, $6-10, all ages 3 Kings: Prince, […]