We’re taking weekend planning off your plate with fun event suggestions from the QDoc 2025 Film Festival to the World Famous Kenton Club Honky Tonk and Chili Cook-Off and from Portland Fruit Tree Project’s Free Cider Fest to the Oregon Mycological Society’s Fall Wild Mushroom Show. Plus, our weekly top picks guide has even more options.
FRIDAY
LIVE MUSIC
Aan, Gabriel Delicious, Mlue
A new project featuring members of local grunge bands Summer Cannibals and Soft Cheese, Mlue plays their first show this Friday with “one of their favorite bands ever,” Portland indie rock group Aan. Aan released a brilliant, bubbly, pop and psych rock-influenced album at the end of last year and played a set out at Shady Pines Festival this summer. Australian-based singer and guitarist Gabriel Delicious rounds out the lineup—he’s worked with New Zealand band the Beths and makes music reminiscent of Scottish indie pop group Belle and Sebastian. This show originally caught my eye because of the poster (Is it people throwing socks? Receiving socks? What’s going on here?), but once I listened to the bands, I knew this was a must-see. SHANNON LUBETICH
(Firkin Tavern, Hosford-Abernethy, free)
