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The new Flaming Lips album comes out at midnight and Jackpot Records is putting on this great event to go with the release. If you are a Flaming Lips fan, you shouldn't miss this or you'll lose all your SE Portland street cred.

From Jackpot Records:

Tonight is the night!  Jackpot Records will be presenting a special, one time only multimedia event to celebrate the latest FLAMING LIPS' album, “Embryonic”, which drops tonight at midnight.

Bagdad Theater (3702 SE Hawthorne)
Doors open at 10 pm, film + album listening start at 11 pm
FREE!
21+

For eager fans, the album will be available for purchase at midnight!  Be the first to see and obtain, and subsequently become the coolest kid on your block.

By Sasha Burchuck

When I first moved to Portland eight years ago, any fashion show was a novel DIY event that had to be incorporated in to the then-nascent First Thursday scene. Seaplane was THE ONLY design collective and Pokerface was the only boutique. And I worked there. Pokerface had a hard time not bouncing my paychecks. And not strictly due to poor management ; as a sales associate I hardly ever remember hitting the "cash" button. A lot of people came in and looked over our Oliver Peoples sunglasses (the name meant nothing to any of them then) and our dandy J. Lindeberg line of silk ties and velvet suits, and walked out. Of course this was the most wearable couture stuff that we carried. The bulk of the clothing in the store was Japanese streetwear and obscure types of Levis that cost $300.

Some days, I felt like I was working in a museum. For a year the store got by on spray paint sales alone. Pokerface went under in 2003, but had Jason Brown been able to keep the shop open for another year, he might have been able to pay off that bill that Marc Jacobs Co. kept calling about. Perhaphs the bain of Pokerface ‘s existence was that it was just a decade ahead of its time — not enough moneyed New Yorkers had moved to Portland to bail it out by the time it closed its doors.

Now, we have a smattering of wonderful boutiques and a thriving design scene with multiple collectives. And our own Fashion Week. My oh my, how the times they are a changing.

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