Minority Retort
Hell yes, it’s Minority Retort, the city’s premiere comedy night showcasing comedians of color. This month’s headliner is Los Angeles-based up-and-comer Neel Nanda, whose recent credits include Funny Girls, Garfunkel and Oates and Jimmy Kimmel Live. Minority Retort is hosted by Jason Lamb, Julia Ramos and Neeraj Srinivasan. Chris Johnson, Marcus Coleman, and Debbie Wooten will also perform. (8 pm, Siren Theater, $10) SUZETTE SMITH


Portland Polish Festival
If you are a fan of fantastic food and fun, the annual Polish Festival is the place to be. Picture this: non-stop onstage performances including polka and Klezmer bands (including a Polka contest), insanely tasty Polish food like Golabki, bigos, and sausages, and most importantly BEER. Lots and lots of glorious BEER. If you can find a more enjoyable outdoor experience, please email me courtesy of this paper. (Sat 11 am, Sun noon, St. Stanislaus Church, free, all ages) WM. STEVEN HUMPHREY

Sunday Parkways Northeast
As accursed rainclouds loom on the horizon—hope you're ready to hate your bike commute for the next six months!—we've got one last opportunity to actually enjoy pedaling around. The final Sunday Parkways of 2018 features an eight-mile loop around Northeast that hits Northeast Going, Northeast Ainsworth, and not one but four parks (Fernhill, Alberta, K'unamokwst, and Woodlawn), along with music, food, and more. It's going to be goddamn delightful. (11 am, Various Locations Across Northeast Portland, free, all ages) ERIK HENRIKSEN

Gaytheist, Ice Queens, Help
If the music of Gaytheist were a vehicle, it would be a semi, late on its delivery, blazing down I-5, the speed limit only a laughable suggestion as the trucker begins to have Tron-like hallucinations from 38 hours of no sleep and caffeine-pill cocktails. With only three members, Gaytheist leaves you wondering how they create such a heavy, intricate layering of sound. (9 pm, Bunk Bar, $5) CAMERON CROWELL

Andaz
For more than 15 years, DJ Anjali and the Incredible Kid have been an inimitable force in the Portland dance scene. Since 2002 the power duo has hosted Andaz—their monthly bhangra, Bollywood, and desi bass dance party (the longest running on the West Coast)—and let me tell you, it is WILD. There were flashing lights and Bollywood movies playing on TVs. The air was thick with moisture, so thick that I'm pretty sure it was condensing on the ceiling. Surrounded by energetic dancers, DJ Anjali and the Incredible Kid inundated late-night revelers with rhythms from South Asia and beyond. (9 pm, The Liquor Store, $5-10) CIARA DOLAN

Hair Puller, Marriage+Cancer, Post/Boredom, Licky Chomps
Fresh off a performance at this summer's PDX Pop Now! festival, Portland noise rock rippers Hair Puller headline a hometown show at the Kenton Club along with support from likeminded locals Marriage+Cancer and Licky Chomps, and Washington's Post/Boredom. (8 pm, The World Famous Kenton Club, $7)

Stephen King 35mm Double Feature
It's Stephen King's 71st birthday—and the Hollywood is celebrating with a 35mm double feature of two movies penned by the horror and literary mastermind! First up is 1982's pulpy anthology flick Creepshow, directed by Night of the Living Dead's George Romero; second is 1985's Cat's Eye, directed by Lewis Teague and featuring James Woods, Drew Barrymore, and, of course, an evil troll. Hail to the King, baby. (7 pm, Hollywood Theatre, $7-9) ERIK HENRIKSEN

Looney Tunes: Warner Bros. Cartoon Classics
"Portland cartoon maven" Ivan Gold presents a carefully curated selection of 10 all-time classic Looney Tunes shorts from 1947-1955, many of which you probably first saw (and eventually memorized) in cut-down form in some Bugs Bunny and Friends mid-afternoon cartoon block decades ago. But it's a whole 'nother thing to see them on the big-screen where they belong, with no commercial breaks for Cinnamon Toast Crunch interrupting the fun— just some of the most influential comedy shorts of all time, one right after the other, bigger than life and as drop-dead hilarious as they were 70 years ago, including: The one where Bugs tricks Daffy into repeatedly getting his face shot off (Rabbit Fire); the one where Elmer finally kills the wabbit (What's Opera, Doc); and the one with the frog who lives solely to sing and ruin men's lives (One Froggy Evening). (Sat-Sun 2 pm, NW Film Center's Whitsell Auditorium, $8-10) BOBBY ROBERTS

Big John Bates Noirchestra, Stoned Evergreen Travelers
With their new LP Psychedelic Bloodbath, Seattle band Stoned Evergreen Travelers present something wholly unclassifiable. Stand-up bass and fiddle give the album the swagger and bounce of a drunken cowboy—it’s dirty, confident, unpredictable, and potentially dangerous. At times it sounds like stripped-down Americana or rockabilly, but the gruff vocals and crunchy guitar licks add an unexpected edge. The fiddle present on every track sounds like it should be coming from the middle of a circle of covered wagons, but it slithers and drips with enough reverb to be completely spooky. Stoned Evergreen Travelers are like everything and nothing you’ve ever heard before. (7:45 pm, Dante's, $10) ARIS HUNTER WALES

Oktoberfest at Occidental Brewing
The beloved St. Johns brewery opens its doors for its biggest Oktoberfest celebration yet. Indulge in beers from all around the world, along with food from Urban German Grill, all while enjoying live music from the deck. Admission nets you a souvenir stein and one beer fill. You can purchase additional beer tokens and food as you go. (noon, Occidental Brewing Co., $10)

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