Mordecai, Amani, Amenta Abioto
Mordecai bring their experimental electronic pop music out to Holocene for a tour kick-off that doubles as a release show for the local trio’s debut full-length.
8:30 pm, Holocene, $8
Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities
Cirque du Soleil’s latest big-top extravagance transforms their tent into the curio cabinet of an old-timey inventor, bending reality, time, and space into a variety of stages and platforms by which this troupe of amazingly flexible performers do their mind-and-body-bending work.
8 pm, Portland Expo Center, $39, all ages
Surfer Rosie, Hoop, Versing
Local up-and-comers Surfer Rosie headline Turn! Turn! Turn! with their explosive and shapeshifting blend of post-rock and pop music. Likeminded Seattle-hailing pop and indie rock outfits Hoop and Versing round out an all-around excellent bill.
8 pm, Turn! Turn! Turn!
Ladies Get Paid Town Hall
A panel discussion with Liz Valentine (Swift), Britt Howard (Portland Garment Factory), Kelly Clarke (Portland Monthly), and Aimée Reed (Ladies Night PDX), sharing experiences as career successes in this city, and how they (and you) can be a champion for equal pay.
6:30 pm, Swift Agency, $15
Wu-Tang Wednesday
Word on the street is that it’s nuthin’ ta fuck wit’. That the pleasures to be found within could not be defined even by Socrates’ philosophies and hypotheses. If your neck has not been checked prior to entry, it’s best you do so.
9 pm, Dig a Pony
Landline
If movies about benignly dysfunctional families are a fast-track to crying for you, prepare yourself for Gillian Robespierre’s Landline, which stars Edie Falco and Jenny Slate. This thing reduced me to a puddle—but as any enthusiastic movie crier can attest, while it may have looked horrible from the outside, I was actually having a really good time. And you will too, especially if you also loved Robespierre’s last film, Obvious Child. MEGAN BURBANK
Various Theaters, see Movie Times for showtimes and locations.
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