All dressed up and no place to go?
Thursday, Nov. 14
PSU Women’s Chorus
PSU
Lincoln Recital Hall, Room 75, 503-725-3105
Noon
FREE
All ages
Support your college, support women and support music, all on your lunch hour.
“An Enemy of the People” preview
PSU
Lincoln Performance Hall, 503-725-3105
8 p.m.
$2.50 general ad.
All ages
Take advantage of this low-price preview! This play opens Friday and will cost you more than twice as much to see if you wait.
“The Deal”
Jack Oakes Theatre
2820 N.E. Sandy, 503-238-9692
Through Dec. 7
8 p.m.
Cover
All ages
A play that examines the political: What happens when police coerce suspects to incriminate themselves? Interesting.
Friday, Nov. 15
Silfredo La O Vigo
PSU
Peter Stott Center, Room 207, 503-725-5670
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
$8 student
$12 general ad.
All ages
This is an Afro-Cuban dance workshop led by the graduate of the Nation School of the Arts in Havana. Go and learn to dance!
Taking Back Sunday, The Starting Line, The Exit, The Early November
B Complex
320 S.E. Second, 503-235-4424
7:30 p.m.
$12 advance general ad.
All ages
Line is young and fresh-the oldest person in the band is 23! Sunday is so new, they don’t seem much older. Rock? This could be a lot of things.
MC Paul Barman, Whirlwind Heat, The Agenda, Jackie
The Meow Meow
527 S.E. Pine, 503-230-2111
8 p.m.
$10 advance general ad.
All ages
New Jersey-native Barman has been influenced by the Wu Tang Clan. This’ll be fun.
Yonder Mountain String Band
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W. Burnside, 503-225-0047
Through Nov. 16
Time TBA
$14 advance general ad.
All ages
Check out the band’s name, and then find out that one man in the band plays a banjo. ‘Nuff said.
Shadows and Voices – Tchaikovsky’s Last Days
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 S.W. Broadway, 503-796-9293
7:30 p.m.
$11.50-$56 general ad.
All ages
Mury Sidlin joins the Oregon Symphony to discover the effects that Tchaikovsky’s mental problems had on his works.
30 Days Notice
Conduit Dance Inc.
918 S.W. Yamhill, Ste. 401
8:30 p.m.
$10
$8 working artists, students, seniors
All ages
This event features artists in media, performance music and hybrid forms. Get out and support your local starving artists.
Saturday, Nov. 16
The Ditty Twisters
Music Millennium
801 N.W. 23rd, 503-248-0163
3 p.m.
FREE
All ages
A live performance by the band promoting their white trash, absinthe-infected album Vicodin Saturday Night.
Blue Skies For Black Hearts
Ash Street Saloon
225 S.W. Ash, 503-226-0430
9 p.m.
FREE
21+
This is the CD release show for this melodic, depressive and all-around despondent music. Don’t be the drunk crying to yourself in the corner. Take along some peppy friends.
DEL, People Under The Stairs, Kut Masta Kurt, etc.
The Roseland Theatre
8 N.W. Sixth, 503-224-2038
9 p.m.
$17 advance general ad.
21+
“Tha funkee homosapien,” DEL is in town. It’s about damn time!
Sunday, Nov. 17
Legendary Pink Dots, Origami Galaktika
Berbati’s Pan
231 SW Ankeny, 503-248-4579
8:30 p.m.
$12 advance general ad.
21+
Yay, an English band! Sampling some apocalyptic-style beats, the Dots have been going since before I was born. Oh yeah.
Korman/Conway Show
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 S.W. Broadway, 503-796-9293
3 p.m. and 8 p.m.
$TBA
All ages
Harvey and Tim, respectively, performed on the Carol Burnett show in the 1970s and ’80s. This is pre-Saturday Night Live humor. Hilarious. *Highly recommended*
Monday, Nov. 18
Korn, Disturbed, Trust Company
Memorial Coliseum
1401 N. Wheeler, 503-321-3211
7:30 p.m.
$26.50 students
$37.25 general ad.
All ages
Jonathan Davis is past dreaming about sex all day. Now he’s made his way to PDX with a kilt, mediocre bagpipe playing and the ugliest facial hair imaginable.
Tuesday, Nov. 19
Aimee Mann
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W. Burnside, 503-225-0047
8 p.m.
$20 advance general ad.
All ages
Oh, Aimee, you saved us from being overcome by falling frogs in the movie “Magnolia.” Come, save us again. *Highly recommended*
Compania Nacional de Danza
Keller Auditorium
S.W. Third and Clay, 503-248-4335
7:30
$20.50-$43 general ad.
All ages
Straight from Spain, this is Danza’s first tour touching the Pacific Northwest. This is going to be beautiful.
OK Go
Roseland Grill
8 N.W. Sixth, 503-219-9929
Evening
Cover
21+
You’ve heard them on the radio, they were on Jay Leno and they had a moist photo shoot around a spraying fire hydrant. They’re gonna make it after all.
Wednesday, Nov. 20
“Patagonia-Chile and Argentina”
Scottish Rite Center
1512 S.W. Morrison, 503-241-2575
2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
$11.25-$12.75 general ad.
All ages
Educational items in the calendar? What’s going on? Go watch a film lecture narrated by Ken Armstrong. It touches upon evolution. Touchy, touchy.
One Year, One Night
Lola’s Room
1332 W. Burnside, 2nd floor, 503-225-0047
8 p.m.
$4 general ad.
21+
The third installment of a series covering music from 1987. Think “Smooth Criminal” (by Michael Jackson, not Alien Ant Farm) and “It’s The End of the World As We Know It.”
