You don’t have to wait until Sunday to get your Easter festivities rolling like an upended basket of eggs. Look below for a list of 10 opportunities to celebrate the season at the breakfast table, at the edge of the stage, or at the end of the bar. Whatever’s clever, right? Look below for all […]
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Things to Do This Week: April 10-13 2017
It’s a good week to live life a quarter-mile at a time. Get to the end of it (provided nobody fires off a bunch of fucking missiles like an asshole again) and you will be rewarded with sweaty ridiculousness in cinematic form. On the way, you’ll have opportunities to enjoy the laid-back, scruffy charms of […]
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10 for $10: The Best Bang For Your Buck Shows, April 7-9 2017
Bombay Beach, Deathlist, Point Juncture, WA Summer Cannibals bassist Jenny Logan plays a release show for her electro punk and dream pop solo project’s self-titled debut album. Apr 7, 9 pm, The Know, $5 Nike Hoop Summit Pay no attention to the fact our public schools aren’t much more than unpaid labor farms for the […]
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Things to Do This Weekend: April 7-9 2017
This weekend is about discovery and rediscovery; finally dipping your toes into waters you should have been swimming long before now, or diving back into your favorite watering holes. From the large-scale delights of Tron, Ghostbusters, and Interstellar in 70mm; to one of the greatest rock bands of all time taking over the Moda; to […]
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Things to Do This Week: April 3-6 2017
This first week of April is a damn good week if you’re someone who loves art. Not just art as in “paintings hanging on walls,” although Jeremy Okai Davis’ opening at p:ear Gallery is necessary viewing, but art as in what Bassem Youssef does with political comedy, what Tinariwen does with “assoul” music, what John […]
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Things to Do Food: April 2017
How to Eat, Drink, and Be Merry for April
Portland Pizza Week Listen, Portland. We love you. And we love pizza. So the Portland Mercury is teaming up with dozens of local pizza shops to bring you the second Portland Pizza Week: $2 slices for everyone! Click here for a list of participating restaurants, and stay up to date on the specialty slices at […]
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Things to Do Comedy: April 2017
Funny Things to Do All Month Long
Reggie Watts I don’t know how to describe what it is that Reggie Watts does, other than to maybe say he effortlessly yanks together utterly disparate threads—singing, rapping, beatboxing, turntable knob-spinning and button-punching, comedy that veers from improv to sketch to standup—and braids them together into something completely new and different and captivating and hilarious […]
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10 for $10 (Or Less): The Best Bang for the Buck Shows, March 31-Apr 2 2017
The Liberators: Pie Night! For one night only, you can take in the delights of Portland’s premier improvisers the Liberators AND treat yourself to dessert! That’s right: Siren Theater HBIC Shelley McLendon and her cohort of professional goofballs will be doing what they do best—making you laugh until you cry—AND THERE WILL BE PIE! I […]
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Things to Do This Weekend: March 31-April 2 2017
This weekend features one of the dumbest fucking holidays humanity has ever invented: National “Lie Straight to People’s Faces Like a Total Asshole Under the Mistaken Impression Saying April Fool’s When You’re Done Makes it Funny” Day. We will not be celebrating that holiday. Primarily because there’s way too much actual fun (and funny) stuff […]
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Things to Do This Week: March 27-30 2017
The last week of March is going to have some sunshine, dammit. If the sun doesn’t wanna come out, Portland will provide its own light and warmth, be it a stand-up set from the brilliant Ali Wong, Kate Tempest blowing minds through unrestrained verbosity, Mic Check lighting up the hip-hop community, Revolution Comedy pushing change […]
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10 for $10 (Or Less): The Best Bang for the Buck Music Shows, March 24-26 2017
The Return of the Tonic Lounge: Fred & Toody, Tallwomen, Aubrey Debauchery Portland musicians Fred and Toody Cole rocked together for decades in bands like Dead Moon, Pierced Arrows, and the Rats. And while the husband-wife duo have left the rocking in the past, their stripped-down unplugged sets remain unmissable. Catch the legendary pair tonight […]
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Things to Do This Weekend: March 24-26 2017
Weekends are for celebration, and there’s a ton of it to be done this weekend, including a 10th birthday for Blowpony, Lez Stand Up kicking off their Spring Break in silly style, Sir Cupcake throwing a hell of a queer circus, Hedwig tearing down walls with a 35mm revival at the Academy, Alton Brown cooking […]