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Monday, Sept. 23
Howie Day
Music Millennium
801 N.W. 23rd, 503-248-0163
6:30 p.m.
FREE
All Ages
www.musicmillennium.com/inStore.html
Promoting Australia, his debut album, 21-year-old Day will perform his melancholy tunes in the style of musicians like U2 and Jeff Buckley. Expect a smattering of new material from the singer-songwriter.

Tuesday, Sept. 24

Dianne Kornberg/Sharon Harper

Savage Gallery

416 N.W. 10th, 503-223-2868

Sept. 20-Nov. 2

6-10 p.m.
FREE

All Ages

www.savagegallery.com

Kornberg presents an exhibit of photographs of the biological persuasion. Harper’s black-and-white photography looks like impressionism with a camera.

“Much Ado About Nothing”

Portland Center Stage, Newmark Theatre

1111 S.W. Broadway, 503-274-6588

Sept. 24-Oct. 19

$12 youth (under 25)

$12-47 general

All Ages

www.pcs.org

You’ve watched enough movies of Shakespearean plays. Go see one live!

Wednesday, Sept. 25

Money Mark with A.I.

Dante’s

1 S.W. Third Ave., 503-226-6630

8:30 p.m.

$10 advance (Fastixx)

21+

www.thrasherpresents.com/Oregon.html#1688

Playing at Dante’s is Money Mark, the keyboard whiz that boosted the Beastie Boys to fame. A.I. invents what they like to call “rocktronic.”

Thursday, September 26

“La Chunga”

The Miracle Mainstage

425 S.E. Sixth, 503-236-7253

Sept. 20-Oct.19

7:30 p.m.

$11 student

$13 general ad

All Ages

www.milagro.org

This is a play about a woman born in a house of ill repute in Peru. If you like romance novels, you’ll love the plot.

New Bomb Turks: Farewell Tour

Satyricon

125 N.W. Sixth, 503-243-2380

10 p.m.

$8 general ad

21+

www.clubsatyricon.com

Playing with Fireballs of Freedom, The Rock and Roll Soldiers and The Hunches, the Turks will spice up your Thursday.

Friday, September 27

Danny Godinez Band

Music Millennium

801 N.W. 23rd, 503-248-0163

5 p.m.

FREE

All Ages

www.musicmillennium.com/inStore.html

Danny just might be the next guitar god. Check out this free performance before the band gets too famous.

The Mooney Suzuki, Sahara Hotnights, Immortal Lee County Killers, The Modey Lemon, Dan Melchior’s Broke Revue

Berbati’s Pan

10 S.W. Third, 503-248-4579
8:30 p.m.

$8 advance (Fastixx)<
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21+
www.thrasherpresents.com/Oregon.html#1720

The Moonies: energetic, sweaty New Yorkers. Sahara Hotnights: Swedish punk. Broke Revue: Dan Melchior.

The Frames, Waxwings, Young & Sexy, Victory at SeaThe Blackbird

3728 N.E. Sandy Blvd., 503-282-9949

9:30 p.m.

$8 general ad

21+

www.theblackbird.org/september.html
A concert including Victory at Sea, a band that moves from raging rock to toned-down rock with a piano. Check it out.

“Much Ado About Nothing” Opening Celebration

Portland Center Stage, Newmark Theatre

1111 S.W. Broadway, 503-274-6588

Directly after 8 p.m. performance

FREE

All Ages

Cocktails, dancing and discussions with the cast, all in one place. Shakespeare is more comprehensible after a few glasses of wine anyway.

“Leaving Ruin”

The West End Theatre

1220 S.W. Taylor St., 503-645-7509

Sept. 27-28

8 p.m.

$10 students

$14 general ad

All Ages

A one-man show written and performed by Jeff Berryman. This play is the story of a man trying to hear God. Maybe he should rent “Dogma.”

Saturday, Sept. 28

11th Annual Portland Juggling Festival/2002 Juggling and Vaudeville Extravaganza

Reed College Sports Center/Benson High School Auditorium

3203 S.E. Woodstock/546 N.E. 12th, 503-249-1135

10 a.m.-6 p.m./7 p.m.

$10 student

$14 adult (Fastixx or at door)
All Ages

www.portlandjugglers.com

The Extravaganza features jugglers from Cirque du Soleil’s “Dralion,” including Viktor Kee. It’s about time you acted like a kid again.

Tourbillion/Willy Porter/Steve Tugwell

Music Millennium

801 N.W. 23rd, 503-248-0163

1 p.m./3 p.m./5 p.m.

FREE

All Ages

www.musicmillennium.com/inStore.html

Live performances by Tourbillion (French cabaret and folk songs), Porter (comfortable acoustic guitar player) and Tugwell (Elliot Smith-ish) will give you some real culture. Especially singer Claudine of Tourbillion.

Midtown, Recover, Taking Back Sunday, No Thanks To You Meow Meow

527 S.E. Pine, 503-230-2111

7:30 p.m.

$10 advance (Fastixx), general ad

All Ages

www.thrasherpresents.com/Oregon.html#1638

In concert in PDX after touring with Blink-182. Midtown has come out from the underground, and Taking Back Sunday should prove to be an original act.

Kreator, Destruction, Cephalic Carnage, December Ash Street Saloon

225 S.W. Ash, 503-226-0430

9 p.m.
$16 advance (Fastixx), general ad
21+

www.thrasherpresents.com/Oregon.html#1618

Kreator is amazingly precise for a German thrash metal act. The companion bands try to follow suit.

Sunday, Sept. 29

Tim Otto & Julie Nunez (a.k.a. Nancy & Lee)

Music Millennium

801 N.W. 23rd, 503-248-0163

5 p.m.
FREE

All Ages

www.musicmillennium.com/inStore.html

Performing live, Nancy and Lee will play songs from their album 11 Original “Folkabilly” Songs. You’ll know if you want to go.

Relient K, Bleach, Philmore, Holland

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W. Burnside, 503-225-0047

8 p.m.

$12 advance (Ticketmaster)
All Ages

www.thrasherpresents.com/Oregon.html#1582

Christian guys + punk rock = ? Go see them and let me know.

Tribe 8
The Blackbird

3728 N.E. Sandy Blvd., 503-282-9949
9:30 p.m.

Cover

21+

www.theblackbird.org
Performing their special brand of “queercore punk rock,” Tribe 8 will surely entertain. Watch out, they have been known to play topless (with a chainsaw).

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