FRIDAY, MAY 15
FILM FEST—Since 2007 the Portland Queer Documentary Film Fest (QDoc, if you’re nasty) has been screening informative, fascinating, and entertaining documentaries about and directed by the LGBT community. This year sees a host of filmmaker appearances and movie subjects as diverse as MMA fighters, Tab Hunter, and the mystery of JT LeRoy. It’s a cornucopia of curated cinematic treats. COURTNEY FERGUSON
Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy, Thurs-Sun, $8-10 per screening ($75 fest pass), queerdocfest.org
COMEDY—It takes no small amount of chutzpah to name your podcast Never Not Funny, and it takes real skill and smarts to live up to that name. Jimmy Pardo delivers all those things at a blistering rate of speed; this isn’t so much stand-up as it is a mile-a-minute conversation with a crowd happy to ride his comedy roller coaster. BOBBY ROBERTS
w/Jon Schabl, Alex Falcone; Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th, Fri-Sat 7:30 & 10 pm, $20-28
SATURDAY, MAY 16
COMEDY—AAAAAUUUUUGHHHHHHHH! Delightfully shouty-mouthed comedian Bobcat Goldthwait is comin’ to town, and though he’s become (a little) less shrill in his old age, he’s just as weird, with interests in Bigfoot truthers (?) and filmmaking. He probably won’t deliver this set from inside a shower, but there’s no saying what else might transpire. MEGAN BURBANK
Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside, 8 pm, $30-50
PARTY—It’s PICA’s big 20th anniversary, so naturally they’re having a party (see Arts, pg. 39), but I’m talking about the afterparty. White Hinterland will play, Beyondadoubt and Cooky Parker will DJ, plus a costume contest, food carts, a “bizarre bazaar,” and so much more! MARJORIE SKINNER
w/Pepper Pepper; The Redd, 831 SE Salmon, 9 pm, $25
SUNDAY, MAY 17
MUSIC—For their new album, Darling… It’s Too Late, Guantanamo Baywatch have toned down some of the surf-punk sleaze and let their songs shine: immaculately stoned candlelit ballads, vintage leather-jacket jukebox rockers, forgotten spaghetti western overtures, and weenie-roast party starters—all of which can be heard at tonight’s record release party. NED LANNAMANN
w/the Bugs; Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside, 9 pm, $5-6
COMEDY—Not to be creepy, but comedian Emily Heller’s signature deadpan (it’s been described as “feminist slob poetry”) makes me wish she were my best friend. Heller was the warmup comic for Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, and a true inspiration to the world’s joyful premature spinsters and young ladies with attitude problems—just the thing to soothe us post-Bridgetown. MEGAN BURBANK
w/Zak Toscani, Caitlin Gill; Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi, 8 pm, $13-15