XRAY.FM’s Birthday Bash
Put on your celebrating pants, becauseย XRAY.fmย is turning four years old. Thatโs four years of excellent community radio, with talk and music to get you through your day. It kicks off with a panel discussion about radioโs vital role in our current democracy, and then itโs party time, with the Birthday Bash featuring music from Maarquii, Mรกscaras, and the Bedrooms, plus DJs, prizes, mini-cupcakes, and more. NED LANNAMANN
7:30 pm, Mississippi Studios, $15
Daniel Mallory Ortberg
The internet is bad, but Daniel Mallory Ortberg is good. The co-editor of beloved now-defunct site the Toast and author of 2014โs Texts from Jane Eyre, Ortberg also serves as Slateโs Dear Prudence, and brightens Twitter with hyperliterate jokes about everything from coming out as trans to hypothetical crossovers between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Daphne du Maurierโs Rebecca. Ortbergโs latest book, The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror promises to carry on the proud tradition of the Toast column โChildrenโs Stories Made Horrificโ. MEGAN BURBANK
7:30 pm, Powell’s City of Books, free
Brahms’ Violin Concerto
Conductor Carlor Kalmar and violinist Vadim Gluzman lead the Oregon Symphony through a performance of Brahms: Violin Concerto, with the symphony also performing Dvoลรกk’s The Water Goblin and Hanson’ Symphony No. 4, โRequiem.โ
7:30 pm, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, $24-120, all ages
Holi HaiโThe Festival of Colors
DJ Prashant and DJ skee provide the sounds for this Bollywood dance party where attendees dress all in white while getting showered with sounds and powder colors.
3 pm, Barrel Room, $17-25
Shamrock Run
The largest running and walking event in Oregon celebrates its 40th anniversary, with 30,000 participants gathering at Waterfront Park to take part in a series of competitive races, fitness walks, and children’s events.
8 am, Tom McCall Waterfront Park, click here for a complete schedule of events
Tank Girl
In 1995, Rachel Talalay directed an adaptation of the cult comic Tank Girl, starring Lori Petty and Naomi Watts. Nobody in the film industry had carved out a space for something like Tank Girl to exist within, so when Talalay and Petty made that space, a lot of people (men) sneered at its loud, scattered, ridiculous indulgence and dismissed it. And it is those things! Most comic book adaptations are! But instead of starring roided-up hulkmen bleeding asinine catchphrases, Tank Girl centers on an irreverent feminist anti-hero who gives not one solitary fuck about protecting for any dude’s limited conception of what “comic book” movies can be. Tank Girl, even in its compromised, misunderstood form, is still something of a minor miracle of the genre. It shouldn’t exist. But there she is. Straddling a tank turret, laughing, and flying double birds at you from 1995. BOBBY ROBERTS
2:45 pm & 9:45 pm, Academy Theater, $3-4
Phillip Phillips
Not only does Mr. Phillips make music so crowdpleasing he won American Idol, but he proved that having a really redundant name doesn’t have to stop you from achieving your dreams.
8:30 pm, Wonder Ballroom, $27.50-149, all ages
Neighborhood Brats, Mr. Wrong, Macho Boys
The bill sure as hell looks like a whole buncha sonic tantrums are gonna get thrown at the Black Water. That’s a good thing, in this case.
8 pm, Black Water Bar, $7
Cortรฉge, A//tar, ZYL, Erin Jane Laroue
Austin duo Cortรฉge bring their experimental doom and prog rock up to the Pacific NW for a headlining show at the High Water Mark. Likeminded locals A//tar, ZYL, and Erin Jane Laroue lend their own heavy sounds to the proceedings.
9 pm, High Water Mark, $5
The Capitol Steps
The Washington DC-based political satire group known for their Government-skewering song parodies and comedy routines bring their act to Revolution Hall for the Portland stop on the “Orange is the New Barack” tour.
7 pm, Revolution Hall, $35-65, all ages
Clothing Swap
Modified Style Portland will host a Clothing Swap that will benefit Dress for Success Oregon and Project Lemonade. The cost is $8 with a bag of clothing and $12 without, just make sure anything you bring is just slightly used and clean.
3 pm, Crystal Ballroom, $8-12
Don’t forget to check out our Things To Do calendar for even more things to do!