The Book of Mormon
Take it from someone who hates musicals: The Book of Mormon is fucking great. Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s Broadway hit returns to Portland for a week, starting tonight—and if you couldn’t score tickets last time around, here’s your chance to try again. It’ll be worth it. ERIK HENRIKSEN
7:30pm, Keller Auditorium, $40-75
Adam Sandler
Do you think he’ll do the song about Hanukkah? Oh, oh, maybe he’ll tell the story about looking at his own anus in the bathroom mirror! OH, do you think he’ll do the bit about the talking goat who gets beat up by a drunken farmer? So many classics!
8 pm, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, $75-250
Ralph Carney: Carneyval
An array of artists pay their respects to the late composer and multi-instrumentalist Ralph Carney, known for his collaborations with Tom Waits, the B-52’s, Elvis Costello, Galaxie 500, Jonathan Richman, and countless others, along with his own solo output. Recently, Ralph collaborated with his nephew Patrick Carney (The Black Keys) on the theme music to the acclaimed Netflix series, BoJack Horseman, and had been performing locally in a range of musical projects.
8 pm, Mississippi Studios, free
Mingus Dynasty
An evening with the long-running 7-piece ensemble formed in 1979, just after the death of Charles Mingus, and whose namesake is taken from the jazz legend’s 1959 album.
7:30 pm, Revolution Hall, $10-35
Kung Fu Theater: Shogun Assassin
This month’s installment in Dan Halsted’s ongoing celebration of all things whoop-ass is a rare 35mm print of Shogun Assassin, a cinematic mixtape of the Lone Wolf and Cub series’ greatest hits, cut to minimize early ’80s art-house vibes and maximize English-dubbed blood ’n’ guts mayhem that viscerally impacted impressionable minds such as RZA and the GZA, who used the film as a loose framework to build the all-time classic Liquid Swords around. So even if you haven’t seen this movie, you’ve heard this movie. Bear witness as the ruckus gets brought on a long, bloody road to hell. BOBBY ROBERTS
7:30 pm, Hollywood Theatre, $7-9
Krizz Kaliko, Slo Pain, Izzy Dunfore
Kansas City hip-hop fixture and Strange Music-signee Krizz Kaliko headlines the Analog with his soulful and genre-bending sounds at the Portland stop on the “Talk Up On It” tour.
6 pm, The Analog Cafe & Little Theater, $17-25
Anna Tivel, Robinson & Rohe
One of Portland’s best singer/songwriters brings her lyric-driven folk and Americana out to the Laurelthirst Pub for an intimate hometown show supporting her acclaimed 2017 album, Small Believer.
9 pm, LaurelThirst Public House, free
Don’t forget to check out our Things To Do calendar for even more things to do!