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Leigh sent out his weekly email of Portland weekend events earlier today. It is reproduced below. You can get the email and your chance to win hookups for shows and deals by emailing leighfeldman3 @ gmail and asking to join

There are many listings so we have put events in red that we think will be good, well attended, or should be interesting.

Reminder: Also, we give out free tickets every week to our Portland Facebook Group including to many of the top music and art venues in Portland. Join it if you like free stuff.

From Leigh Feldman:

Things I'm currently jocking…
Free music ish… this mix DJ Fashen. He's gonna be in PDX at the end of the month. It would probably be a good idea to go and see him. Especially because the party is free! (more info soon) – http://www.mediafire.com/?jndqyo2noud

The ridiculousness that is this weekend!! … Events in this city get better and better — drink tastings, costume parties, bike rides, fashion shows, house parties, barbq's, dance nights, concerts and tons more! This weekend, less than an hour outside of the city there are quite a few interesting events happening which surely prove that Portland is not the only spot in Oregon keeping it weird… check out events like Turkeyrama, Mt. Hood Loop Cherry Festival, The Buckeroo Rodeo, The Sasquatch Festival, Glow in the Dark Tag and so much more!

Life is a party, everyone is just waiting to be invited.
See you all out and about!
Leigh Feldman

Portland Thursday Events, July 9

• PICA 14th Anniversary w/ Strength, Point Juncture, WA and DJ Grilfriends @ Holocene (indie rock, disco rock, electro dance)
• Soul Nite @ Rotture (the once a month sweaty soul jam packed with people)
• Pimps of Joytime @ Goodfoot (amazing band from NYC drawing on reggae, funk, soul, percussion and dance)
• Love Love Ecstatic, Mannequinhead and Nostalgia @ The Know (dance, trip hop, ambient hard core and the promise of mannequins/costume changes!)
• Bruno Private Screening @ Film Location (early showing of what will surely be a hilarious hit)
• From Twitter: Attn Villains & Vixens: 007 bash tonite @TonyStarlights benefits NW Down Syndrome Assc http://bit.ly/DEARc
• Frown Rose Fashion Show @ Prescott Location (wine, drinks, fashion show)
• DJ F & DJ Rhienna @ Random Order (electro, downtempo, upbeat)
• Audio Crip @ Tonic Lounge (music, words, glitch)
• Maelstrom: Zombie Opera @ IFCC (zombie party)
• Bitch Media Presents .. Boy Eats Drum Machine and Sugar Shortwave @ Mississippi Studios (fundraiser show)
• Sir Tall Selector @ Valentines (African psych records)
• Flavour @ The Agency (hip hop, club, dance)
• Rooftop Cinema: Duck Soup @ Hotel Deluxe (movies on the roof)
• The Fix @ Someday Lounge (hip hop)
• Delicious @ Crown Room (weekly alternative party with super cheap drinks)
• X-otica Go Go @ Dante's (bass and booty)
• Trivia Night @ World Famous Kenton Club (quiz games)
• Rose City Sirens @ Hawthorne Theater (burlesque performance)
• Trivia Night @ La Merde (quiz games)

Friday, Saturday, Sunday Events after the break… Read the rest of this entry »

Interview by Saundra Sorenson
Photos by Christine Taylor

It isn’t often you meet up with a girl you’ve already seen naked and suddenly have an overwhelming desire to be BFFs. But that’s how I felt over a cup of coffee with Rocket, the (currently) blue-haired knockout who stands 6’3” in Lucite heels and maintains a chameleon-like presence on the web as she becomes increasingly recognized for her skills on the monkey bars. Think of her as an urban Dita von Teese, crafting a career in both entertainment and nude modeling.

Portland isn’t a city where “exotic dancing” is a particularly divisive issue; you don’t find yourself getting into many discussions about naked dance’s place in Third Wave Feminism, nor do many residents seem up in arms about the Starbucks-like presence of strip clubs throughout the city. And if you want to dance, you don’t necessarily argue semantics. Well, Rocket doesn’t.

“I’m a stripper,” she says plainly, although she regards it as a craft (“Hands-down the best pole dancer I’ve seen anywhere is Cricket,” she says with reverance), lugging a suitcase full of costumes and paying special attention to her playlist as she hones her unique agility onstage.

She holds an English degree (“I’ve read all the stripping memoirs!”) she laughs at the mention of Diablo Cody’s Candy Girl), a certification in personal training and an impressive resume in Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Kimberly Gehl

Random Order Coffeehouse and Bakery at NE Albert and 18th is now serving alcohol and featuring DJs every Thursday night! Portland's DJ Rhienna and DJ F of the Fez's monthly “Electric Feel” (see “Electric Feel at the Fez: A Deeply Satisfying Dancegasm“) – and regular DJ nights at the Matador, Tiga, Ground Kontrol and other hot PDX bars and clubs – will be there tonight from 7-10 PM and every 2nd and 3rd Thursday of each month. RO will also feature a queer night every First Thursday.

Okay, so about these new cocktails: Read the rest of this entry »

Update: 2010 Trek In The Park @ Woodlawn Park

Posted by Kristen Imes

Playing it by (Vulcan) ear

For the first time in my life I watched Star Trek a few nights ago while at The Nest. Not like I had really been consciously avoiding it all these years, but just completely disinterested. Or maybe it was just all the hype. I mean, when movies are made about "the universe's most fervent fans" (Trekkies), it makes me a little skeptical… (but then again, how good was Heavy Metal Parking Lot?) But after seeing Star Trek, I think almost understand. Lifelong fan or not, there is no way I am missing Trek in the Park.

Atomic Arts' Trek in the Park is a free, live, theater performance of the Star Trek episode "Amok Time" at the Woodlawn Park amphitheater. Witness Spock undergo the bizarre and brutal Vulcan marriage ritual of Pon Farr as the crew of the Read the rest of this entry »