All dressed up and no place to go?
Thursday, May 15
The Weather, Awol One, Andre Afram Asmar
The Meow Meow
527 S.E. Pine
503-230-2111
9 p.m.
$10 general ad.
All ages
www.motormouthmedia.com
The Weather is actually the combination of L.A. players Busdriver and Radioinactive. Great names, guys. And for more hip hop, next in line is Awol One and Andre “sucks to your” Asmar.
Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Powell’s on Hawthorne
3723 S.E. Hawthorne
503-238-1668
7:30 p.m.
FREE
All ages
www.alyson.com
Portland native Bledsoe will be back in her hometown to show off her new book, “This Wild Silence.” You want to learn about Antarctica, right?
Dr. Lawrence Berman
Koinonia Hall Campus Ministries
633 S.W. Montgomery
7:30 p.m.
$5 student
$7 general ad.
All ages
You know it’s a slow week in entertainment when I’m covering lectures. But this really should be interesting! Berman will speak about Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, and its plan for ancient Egyptian, Nubian and near Eastern art. Who misses Coptic Studies?
Friday, May 16
“Beyond Sexwork: Voices from the Margins”
PSU
Smith Memorial Center, Room 296
503-725-3516
7 p.m.
All ages
Put on by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, Speaker’s Board, Women’s Studies Department, and Women’s Resource Center, this will be a collection of film shorts and enough discussion to leave you wanting more.
Battle of the Bands
Westview High School Auditorium
503-533-8294
3 p.m.
$2 general ad.
All ages
Support the kids and their music! Westview High is putting on its annual battle to support its non-school-funded radio station. Go see what’ll be performing here in a couple of years.
Michelle Shocked
Music Millennium
801 N.W. 23rd
503-248-0163
5 p.m.
FREE
All ages
www.musicmillennium.com
Promoting her latest album Texas Campfire Takes, Shocked will be playing just for you at Music Millennium. Enjoy.
Jackstraw, Dr. Corn’s Bluegrass Remedy, James Low
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W. Burnside
503-225-0047
7:30 p.m.
$8 advance general ad.
All ages
www.danceonair.com
Everyone needs a little bluegrass with which to sit back and relax. Or maybe even get up and dance. It’s up to you.
Swingin’ Utters, Youth Brigade, Pistol Grip
Nocturnal
1800 E. Burnside
503-239-5900
8 p.m.
$10 general ad.
All ages
www.thrasherpresents.com
What do the Utters sound like? Some kind of new version of early English punk. Sounds good, doesn’t it?
Saturday, May 17
Danceability Day
PSU
Peter Stott Center
503-725-5664
4:15 p.m.
FREE
All ages
www.danceability.com
This is a performance by Eugene’s Joint Forces Dance Co., teaching dancers with and without disabilities how to shake their groove thang. There is a workshop ($15-$25) from 1-4 p.m., but go see the show even if you’ve misplaced your groove thang.
“Women and Their Kick-Ass Cars”
Hollywood Theatre
4122 N.E. Sandy
503-281-4215
7 p.m.
$8 general ad.
All ages
www.hollywoodtheatre.org
How could I not encourage you to go to an event showing outtakes from “The Five Dollar Soapy Hand Job Car Wash”? It would just be wrong of me to discourage you from attending.
“Three Plays Five Lives”
Liminal Space
403 N.W. Fifth
503-890-2993
8 p.m.
$12 general ad.
All ages
www.liminalgroup.org
You simply must see something by this amazing group. And this is the last night, so GO!
Dennis Winslow, Kim Townsend
Music Millennium
801 N.W. 23rd
503-248-0163
1 p.m., 5 p.m.
FREE
All ages
www.musicmillennium.com
Dennis is all about giving us Something Out of Nothing while Kim just wants to play a little folk music.
“Emperor”
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 S.W. Broadway
503-796-9293
Through May 19
7:30 p.m.
$16-$72 general ad.
All ages
www.orsymphony.org
This is your last chance to catch James DePriest while he’s the Oregon Symphony’s music director. Listen to Brahms’ Symphony No. 4 and relax; you need it.
Sunday, May 18
It’s Portland Underground Showbiz Society Y’all
Obsidian Gallery
420 S.W. Washington, Ste. 606
503-224-5065
8 p.m.
$3 general ad.
All ages
www.portlandundergroundshowbizsocietyyall.com
Featuring Rachael Parenta, The Famous Mysterious Actor Players, the Minor Thirds, Larry Shaw and others, this is one big mix of music, sketch, improv and stand-up comedy. Check it out.
Dani Linnetz
Music Millennium
801 N.W. 23rd
503-248-0163
1 p.m.
FREE
All ages
www.musicmillennium.com
When will they come up with another term for singer/songwriter, preferably one containing more brevity? Who knows? Until then, you can check out Linnetz, who’s style is somewhere between Barry Manilow and Lionel Richie (before he did the duet with Rob Zombie, of course).
Tuesday, May 20
The Roots, The Lab
Roseland Theater
8 N.W. Sixth
503-224-2038
8 p.m.
$22 advance general ad.
All ages
www.doubletee.com
Don’t you just love the Roots? You should. If you haven’t decided, go see them and make up your durned mind!
“Late Nite Therapy”
Northwest Neighborhood Cultural Center
1819 N.W. Everett
503-274-6838
Through May 22
8 p.m.
$3 student
$5 general ad.
All ages
www.playworkshoptheatre.org
Interactive theater!!! Treated as mental patients (by someone other than your parents), you will draw with crayons and be analyzed by the “psychiatrists” on stage. Try not to get committed. Really. It’ll interfere with your schoolwork.
Wednesday, May 21
Everclear, The Exies
Roseland Theater
8 N.W. Sixth
503-224-2038
Through May 22
8 p.m.
$20 general ad.
All ages
www.doubletee.com
Formerly-local band Everclear (before they were savagely overplayed in the late ’90s and appeared in VH1 reruns) have returned to their humble roots, where they can now afford that house way up in the West Hills. Good job, boys.
-J. Nikole Degan
