GOLD SOUNDZ—Ever since news of the Pavement reunion broke, we’ve been drooling for a Portland show: It’s Stephen Malkmus’ hometown, and the reunion rehearsals took place in SE Portland’s AudioCinema. Well, the day of a local Pavement show has finally arrived, and you can bet we’ll be front and center. NL
w/Quasi; Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey, Troutdale, 6:30 pm, $39, all ages
SAVE FERRIS—The best day of hooky ever committed to film, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off drenches the Cort and Fatboy Midnight Movie with late-’80s nostalgia and more Broderick than you can handle. PAC
Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne, 10 pm, $3
BOMB DROPPER—William “Upski” Wimsatt self-published Bomb the Suburbs in 1994, a self-critical examination of race, hiphop, and the suburban co-opting of culture. His latest, Please Don’t Bomb the Suburbs, continues the dialogue of youth culture and politics as it has been, and as it will be. MS
Reading Frenzy, 921 SW Oak, 7 pm, FREE
We’ve got a weekend’s worth of fun at My, What a Busy Week!
Dear attractive Portland female:
I’m a Seattle chap that has an extra ticket to tonight’s Pavement concert at Edgefield, and I need someone to give it to.
Make your case….! PS: Me? Quite good company. Pleasant all around, and not too bad to look at.