FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27
COMEDY—You know him from the Everything as Fuck column that graces (and okay, occasionally tarnishes) these pages, as well as his appearances on Chelsea Lately and Portlandia, but erstwhile Portlander Ian Karmel is at his best in person, especially when he gets to perform for his hometown. Welcome home, Ian! MARJORIE SKINNER
Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th, Fri & Sat, 7:30 & 10 pm, $23-31
DANCE NIGHT—Don’t know about you, but I feel like a greased pig in control-top pantyhose today. Ugh. Let’s go unleash some turkey sweats on the Spare Room’s amazing dance floor with this night of groovy moves—the Get Down, headed up by DJ Maxx Bass, promises more bounce than all that Jell-O salad you slurped down last night. COURTNEY FERGUSON
w/DJs Honest John, Portia; The Spare Room, 4830 NE 42nd, 9 pm, $5
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28
BASKETBALL—The Los Angeles Lakers are lucky the Philadelphia 76ers and the New Orleans Pelicans exist, because otherwise they’d be the worst team in the league. That should make tonight’s game against our Blazers unappealing, except that it’s less a game, and more an excuse to heap mountains of shit on Kobe Bryant for 48 straight minutes. BOBBY ROBERTS
Moda Center, 1 Center Court, 7 pm, $40-465, all ages
MUSIC—As Portlanders, you already love Blitzen Trapper, and you know that their new album, All Across This Land, can be favorably compared to Bob Dylan’s deeply underrated crooner phase. Land applies beefy guitar riffs to their pastoral, autumn-sweater-on-a-drizzly-day sound, and the result is the perfect classic rock-tinged nighttime driving music. MEGAN BURBANK
w/Barna Howard; Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark, 9 pm, $20-25
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29
MUSIC—Tonight’s a royally great edition of the Mercury‘s free Ear Candy series at Mississippi Studios, one not to be missed. The motorik rockers of Months will send you into a dizzy trance, but only after the punky funk of Bitch’n compel you to all kinds of getdown, and the dreamy lullabies of Tents warm you, whiskey-like, from the inside. NED LANNAMANN
Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi, 9 pm, FREE
MUSIC—If you like your electro indie rock hoppin’ and poppin’, don’t miss Brooklyn’s Tanlines. Their music is danceable, heartfelt, smart, funny, and if you haven’t checked out their amazingly awesome website (tanlinesinternet.com), which is a parody of Netflix, you are really missing out. So don’t miss out! WM. STEVEN HUMPHREY
w/Blossom, DJ Bobby D; Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison, 8:30 pm, $15