Investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones will deliver the first Hatfield Lecture of 2025.

We’re giving you plenty of reasons to leave the house this week, with event picks from Nikole Hannah-Jones: 2025 Hatfield Lecture to Neko Case in Conversation With Tucker Martine and from the Portland Winter Light Festival to Mudhoney. Check out our February events guide for a look at the month ahead.

MONDAY

LIVE MUSIC

Alison’s Halo
If you’re a lover of ’90s dream pop bands like Mazzy Star, the Sundays, Cocteau Twins, and Slowdive, then I must convert you into a Alison’s Halo fan. Formed in Tempe, Arizona in 1992, the four-piece band evokes the vast, mysterious desert landscape from which they hail with frontwoman Catherine Cooper’s otherworldly harmonies and droning guitars. Expect to hear songs from their 1998 debut, Eyedazzler, which they originally recorded on various porta-studio cassettes between 1992–1996. LA-based indie rock band untitled (halo) will open. AUDREY VANN
(Polaris Hall, Humboldt)

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