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Well, we already knew that Che star, Benicio Del Toro, loves Portland. Now, it appears that Che director, Steven Soderbergh, loves us too.

From Cinema 21:
Friday, March 13 will be an eventful day at Cinema 21. We'll have director Steven Soderbergh at Cinema 21 for screenings of his latest film “Che” (Friday, March 13 7pm show only) and both shows (1:30pm, 7pm) Saturday March, 14.  These screenings will be co-presented by the Northwest Film Center.

Soderbergh will also do a Q&A at each show.

For more information, please see http://www.cinema21.com

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I just got a message from Andy Wood with his lineup announcement. PDX Pipeline is a sponsor of this year's festival so that means you have an extra incentive to BUY TICKETS now. Of course, look at this lineup…do you really need more of an incentive?

From Bridgetown Comedy:

Big news!  We've just posted the Bridgetown lineup on BridgetownComedyFestival.com, and discounted festival passes are available for the next two weeks at Brown Paper tickets.

Over 120 acts are scheduled to perform at the 2009 festival, taking place April 23rd-26th, including standouts such as Janeane Garofalo, Brendon Small, David Koechner, Maria Bamford, Neil Flynn, Jon Glaser, Todd Glass, Hannibal Buress, Pete Holmes, Dave Hill, Leo Allen, Brody Stevens, Tig Notaro, Chris Hardwick, Andy Blitz, Natasha Leggero, and Hari Kondabolu, to name just a few, whose resumes include shows like The Office, Saturday Night Live, Scrubs, Metalocalypse, Reno 911!, The Sarah Silverman Program, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show, The Larry Sanders Show, The Ben Stiller Show, Human Giant, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Last Comic Standing, Politically Incorrect, Mr. Show and Comedy Central Presents, and hit comedy films such as Wet Hot American Summer and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.

This year's lineup includes an historic cast reunion of the hit animated comedy Home Movies in celebration of the 10^th anniversary of the program's debut, featuring creators Brendon Small and Loren Bouchard, along with comedians and fellow cast members including Jon Benjamin and Ron Lynch.  In 2009, Bridgetown is also pleased to announce the addition of Beer Shark Mice, one of the best long-form improve groups in the country, featuring David Koechner of Anchorman and Saturday Night Live and Neil Flynn, best known as the hilarious janitor from Scrubs.  Late-night sketch and variety shows including The Tomorrow Show, featuring Brendon Small and Ron Lynch, and The Midnight Show, featuring James Adomian and Michael Busch are new additions to Bridgetown in 2009 that are not to be missed

In addition to the well-known national acts participating in the festival, Bridgetown features groups who have built enormous fan bases from the ground up, such as Portland favorite Read the rest of this entry »

We encourage you to go to all of these lectures. However, we suggest this one even more because Modou is both a friend of the Pipeline and a great talent we have in our city. If you are able to speak with him before or after the lecture, ask him about his plane's emergency landing on an unmapped island in the Atlantic last year…always a favorite story for us.

From the press release:
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY MFA MONDAY NIGHT LECTURE SERIES

Modou Dieng Will Lecture About His Work!
The Public is Invited (it's free, tell your friends)
Monday March 2nd, 7:30pm Sharp!
Shattuck Hall Annex
at the corner of SW Broadway and Hall on the PSU campus

Modou Dieng is a multidisciplinary artist working in mixed-media, painting, photography and installation. Dieng's interests lie in conceptualizing visions of contemporary life constituted by a mix of humanity, topography, and pastiche of forms. Dieng evokes the city's continuously changing façade, as well as the hybrid character and eclectic combination. The issues deal with urban history, race, social status, gender, cosmopolitanism, and belonging.

Modou Dieng has exhibited with numerous galleries and Museum including Read the rest of this entry »

If you have seen March Fourth, you know it is one of the best performances in our city. Their current shows are a bit special though as it is their week and they have a venue that suits their insanity.

We'll be there Monday night to take some some video and also live-streamage. Tune in at 7:30 or so to see this live from your bed or work or living room and know why you need to buy tickets to the remaining shows.

From the website:

March Fourth Marching Band's 6th birthday is just around the corner!

They're busy planning their “four days, five shows, six years” Anniversary Spectacular and you're invited! There will be something for (almost) everyone this year, as they return to their eastside roots for shows on March 1, 2, 3, and 4, 2009 at Bossanova Ballroom.

This venue (where M4 celebrated their 1st and 2nd birthdays) allows fire and has a rigging point for aerialists, so look for some new and exciting performances to spice up the band's new songs.

As always, if March 4th is your birthday you get a free ticket* to any one of our birthday shows. Read the rest of this entry »