Minority Retort
Hosted by Jason Lamb, Julia Ramos and Neeraj Srinivasan, Minority Retort is Portland’s only comedy showcase featuring entirely POC and minorities—and it’s always a hoot. This month the Siren Theater kicks off its spring edition with headliner Dino Archie, the winner of the 2015 Seattle International Comedy Competition, who you may have also seen on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, or Adam Devine’s House Party on Comedy Central. And there’s lots of great locally based talent on the bill as well, like Shrista Tyree, Brandon Lyons, and Adam Pasi. JENNI MOORE
8 pm, Siren Theater, $12
Mount Eerie, Black Belt Eagle Scout
Few albums illustrate the death of a loved quite as starkly and beautifully as A Crow Looked at Me, which beloved lo-fi singer/songwriter Phil Elverum released last year under the Mount Eerie moniker following the passing of his wife. Elverum’s new record Now Only also ruminates on loss, but with more distance and grounding. It’s not going to be the most uplifting show of your life, but these are gorgeous, sparse, and heart-wrenching songs played by one of the most talented and prolific musicians in the Pacific Northwest. CIARA DOLAN
9 pm, Revolution Hall, $18-20
Sonny Smith, Virgil Shaw, Strange Babes DJs
The prolific songwriting force behind Sonny and the Sunsets brings his playful blend of classic rock, folk, and pop back to town in support of his new solo full-length, Rod for Your Love.
9 pm, Mississippi Studios, $12-14
The Go! Team, Skating Polly
The Brighton, England-based six-piece known for their dynamic and shapeshifting of garage rock make their way back across the pond in support of their latest full-length, Semicircle.
9 pm, Doug Fir, $18-20
Flash Gordon
December 5, 1980 is a very notable date in film history—it was the day that camp ascended to unassailable art. Before that Friday, the term was a synonym for clumsy, failed ambition, earnestness gone sour and turned to kitsch. And then, Dino DeLaurentiis, inspired by Star Wars and holding the rights to the property George Lucas wanted to make in the first place, plugged “camp” into Queen guitarist Brian May’s amplifier stack, fed “camp” through designer Danilo Donati’s sewing machines, and firehosed “camp” through cinematographer Gil Taylor’s camera lens, with the resultant mess expansively splattering the meaning of the word all over the delirious circus of ridiculousness barely holding its orbit around the lunkheaded, beefy majesty of Sam J. Jones as Flash (ah-aaaaahhhhh!) Gordon, and praise Ming, cinema itself was forever altered. BOBBY ROBERTS
9:45 pm, Academy Theater, $3-4
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