Isle of Dogs
Planet Earth in 2018 is basically a reeking pile of boiling pus that fascist dictators are threatening to have nuclear wars over. WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE! There are, however, two good things about living in the pre-apocalypse. First, dogs still exist! Dogs are the only creatures that are worth caring about. Second, Wes Anderson is still making movies! Wes Anderson movies make most other movies look bad and dumb. And now, behold: Isle of Dogs, Wes Anderson’s stop-motion movie about dogs! It is one hour and 41 minutes long. Go. For one hour and 41 minutes, remember what it is like to enjoy being alive. ERIK HENRIKSEN
Hollywood Theatre, see Movie Times for showtimes, $7-9
Beth Ditto, Ssion, Connie & the Precious Moments
Last summer, former Gossip frontwoman Beth Ditto dropped her candy-coated solo debut, Fake Sugar—an album that channels the sultry, soulful drawl of Bobbie Gentry, with glittery beats meant for the dance floor. She’ll be joined by Ssion (pronounced “shun”), the synth-pop project of Cody Critcheloe, who just released the glossy new single “At Least the Sky Is Blue” with Ariel Pink from his forthcoming LP O. CIARA DOLAN
8 pm, Wonder Ballroom, $20, all ages
U.S. Girls, Amenta Abioto, Bryson Cone
US Girls is an apt name for Megan Remy’s solo project, inspired as it is by the history of American women in the music world. But in Remy’s case, her take on ’60s girl-group pop and ’80s post-punk sounds like it’s coming from sixth-generation cassette dubs, all the instruments awash in tape hiss and under thick layers of almost unnatural-sounding reverb. ROBERT HAM
9 pm, Mississippi Studios, $12-14
PechaKucha Night PDX
Portland’s influential thinkers take to the stage to share their ideas with slides and 400 seconds worth of time. The theme for the 25th installment of PechaKucha Night is “Comeback Stories.”
7:30 pm, Holocene, $5-10
Grindhouse Film Festival: Sugar Hill
This month’s entry in the Hollywood’s celebration of Grindhouse cinema is a rare 35mm print of the 1974 blaxploitation horror film Sugar Hill. Not to be confused with the 1994 pseudo-sidequel to New Jack City starring Wesley Snipes as a dour drug kingpin, the original Sugar Hill is about a woman in the deep South whose boyfriend gets offed by local gangsters, and in response she does the reasoned, sensible thing—she wades directly into a swamp and procures the assistance of an aged voodoo queen who hooks her up with Baron Samedi, Lord of the Dead, who lets her use his complement of zombie hitmen in exchange for her soul. BOBBY ROBERTS
7:30 pm, Hollywood Theatre, $7-9
Sarah Andersen
The artist behind the hugely popular Sarah’s Scribbles comic series returns to Powell’s to read from her latest book, Herding Cats.
7:30 pm, Powell’s City of Books, free
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