FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
VARIETY SHOW—Don’t miss the recurring Entertainment for People: New Shit Show, featuring music, stand-up, readings, and lots more weird stuff! This go-round is hosted by The Moth‘s Dan Kennedy, with performer/artist Andrew Dickson, comedian Bri Pruett, director Arthur Bradford, and many more along for the ride! WM. STEVEN HUMPHREY
Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate, 8 pm, $15-22
MUSIC—Milwaukee’s Jaill are as good at making fun, punky, poppy, kicky songs as they are bad at spelling the word “jail.” They’ve got a splendid new record called Brain Cream and a back catalog of terrific, twisty tunes. They’re at the top of a bill that also includes the awesome Colleen Green and two of Portland’s finest, Summer Cannibals and Coma Serfs. NED LANNAMANN
The Know, 2026 NE Alberta, 8 pm, $8
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
PODCASTS—If you love the political and social commentary from the podcasts Throwing Shade and Jordan, Jesse, Go!, maybe you’ll enjoy their (and their surprise guests) hilarious pontifications about celebrities, sex, and life in general even better IRL? Only one way to be sure! MARJORIE SKINNER
Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy, 7 pm, $20
BRIDGE—The snazzy Tilikum Crossing and the long-awaited MAX Orange Line celebrate their grand opening today. All TriMet rides are FREE today. They’ve been making a real big deal over this new line, including a fireworks show and a selfie contest, so go ride it for free while you can. SHELBY R. KING
MAX Orange Line, various locations, 11 am-6 pm, FREE
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
BOOKS—Sure, religious fanaticism, in all its forms, is super depressing these days. But cheer up! It always has been, and there are people like Salman Rushdie writing books like his latest, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, which dresses up that fanaticism with murderous fictional genies, and then neatly skewers it. DIRK VANDERHART
Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills, Beaverton, 2 pm, FREE
MUSIC—If the little-girl wight in the opening scene of Game of Thrones grew up to become a goth (as a reanimated dead girl in the frozen woods might), her taste in music might resemble that of Zola Jesus. Find out what that sounds like at tonight’s rare TBA Fest DJ set from the enigmatic artist. MARJORIE SKINNER
The Works at the Redd, 831 SE Salmon, 10:30 pm, $8-10, all ages