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MUSTACHIOED FOLK—Day three of the Parlour’s acoustic festival, Music to Folk To, is the lovingest day yet, featuring Ocean Age, Sam Cooper (of Horse Feathers), and Oh Captain, My Captain. Twenty bucks gets you a mustached wristband and access to all three days. JC
The Parlour, 2628 SE Powell, 3 pm-midnight, $10 ($20 weekend pass), all ages

READ IT, SEE IT—After last year’s fantastic adaptation of Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion, Portland Center Stage tackles another Northwest literary classic. David Guterson’s Snow Falling on Cedars, set on a small Puget Sound island in 1954, examines racial conflicts in the aftermath of WWII and the US’s Japanese internment policy. AH
Portland Center Stage, Gerding Theater at the Armory, 128 NW 11th, Tues-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm, through Feb 7, $28.50-65

Get busy now! My, What a Busy Week!

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.)