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MUSICAL—Based on the kitsch film classic, the Broadway musical adaptation of Xanadu retains the campiness, the ELO soundtrack, and the absurd plot, which concerns an Olympian muse inspiring an artist to open a roller disco. Don’t walk away from this one. PAC
Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay, 7:30 pm, $28.75, through Sun Jan 17

AUTHOR—In my humble opinion, Portlander Joe Sacco is the most talented and ballsy American journalist alive today. His new mind-blowing comic book Footnotes in Gaza chronicles his travels in Palestine with men and women who have an axe to grind with the West. SM
Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside, 7:30 pm, FREE

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Bang bang, choo-choo train, let me see you shake that thang. Wm. Steven Humphrey is the editor-in-chief of the Portland Mercury and has held the job since 2000. (So don’t get any funny ideas.)