The I, Anonymous Show
The long-running Portland Mercury column “I, Anonymous” is famous for allowing readers to send in their most whacked-out rants and confessions—anonymously and without being judged. NO LONGER! In “The Portland Mercury Presents: The I, Anonymous Show” host Caitlin Weierhauser will read some of the wildest, uncensored I, Anonymous submissions ever, which will then be judged by our hilarious jury. Watch some of the funniest people alive judge the most awful people ever for your fun and enjoyment!
7:30 pm, Curious Comedy Theater, $10
Naked Giants
I witnessed Seattle trio Naked Giants play the finals at 2015’s EMP Sound Off! battle of the (underage) bands. With technical proficiency and stage moves well beyond their years, they created an energy that was so exuberant and stage banter so vigorously chipper, I thought maybe they weren’t really underage, but rather hired actors to play the perfect, super-fun young band to inspire musically inclined youth to “FOLLOW THEIR DREAMS IN ALL CAPS [high jump with guitar]!” Much of their rock/alt/blues music nods to the early-2000s garage-rock revival à la the Hives and White Stripes (thankfully without the severe color schemes), plus healthy pinches of more modern fuzz guitar like Ty Segall. EMILY NOKES
6 pm, The Analog Cafe & Little Theater, $10, all ages
Hsiao-Ching Chou, Karen Brooks
Award-winning Seattle journalist Hsiao-Ching Chou reads from Chinese Soul Food, her accessible guide to preparing Chinese comfort food, including dry-fried green beans, braised beef noodle soup, green onion pancakes, and potstickers, right in your own home. Chou will be joined in conversation by James Beard Award-winning food critic Karen Brooks, author of The Mighty Gastropolis: Portland.
7:30 pm, Powell's City of Books, free
Kulululu, Sheers, Dominoes Gonzales
Burnside Brewery presents a dynamic evening of local music on the cheap, with local avant guarde rockers Kulululu splitting a co-headlined bill with experimental pop trio Sheers.
9 pm, Mississippi Studios, $5
The Terminator
One of the sadder ongoing stories in the film industry is the strange saga of the Terminator's sequels. As of this writing, James Cameron is helping shepherd another attempt at reviving this hapless series after its third failed reboot (fourth, if you're counting the television show that got canceled so Joss Whedon's dumb spy-brothel show Dollhouse could live). The only hope for whatever it is Cameron is cooking up is that he cease chasing the misguided, corny, bigger-is-better mindset of T2: Judgment Day and go back to source. Stripped clean of all the bloated, pandering bullshit that's come to represent Cameron's reign as King of the World, 1984's The Terminator is a lean, mean, straight-for-the-throat horror movie containing maybe three wasted minutes in total, and it's still the best use of Schwarzenegger ever captured on film. BOBBY ROBERTS
9:30 pm, Laurelhurst Theater, $3-4
Don't Stop Me Now: The Freddie Mercury Experience
Courtney Freed's one-woman tribute to one of the greatest vocalists of all time reinterprets the man's life and songs in a cabaret-style, jazz-influenced way.
8 pm, CoHo Theater, $25
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