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By Sasha Burchuk

Coverage From Wednesday November 11th

Taste in film, like taste in literature, is a very personal matter of aesthetic that is difficult to translate. For this reason, it is very difficult to put together a good film revue that can please crowds without sacrificing too much to lowbrow pop culture. I was pleasantly surprised by the November 11 selection. Among seventeen shorts, there was only one entry that I thought was offensive to my lofty sensibilities.

Highlights included People Can't Wait, a satirical short about public bathrooms and social justice. Inspired by the struggle for public toilets in Portland, ongoing since 1910, director Travis Shields does a nice job of underscoring the import of sanitation as a human right, without getting too righteous. Axioms of a Dishwasher, written by playwright Charles Augustus Steen III took a Down and Out in Paris and London look at the Machiavellian qualities of the dishwasher. And do you remember when that comic strip "Love Is" started getting really dirty, or did I just make that up? Because Read the rest of this entry »

Former Pipeline contributor, current Mercury intern and Chopstick's Karaoke Jockey, Will Radik, has moved his “It's a Terrible Movie!” event to Mount Tabor Legacy and apparently renamed it “7th Planet Picture Show”. Now, we don't all have to drive to Nob Hill to take part in the fun.

Related from PDX Pipeline:

• Portland Sunday Events: November 15
• It's a Terrible Movie! | August 16th @ Coho Theater

From Will Radik:
7th Planet Picture Show is an MST3K-inspired live celebration of cinematic camp, taking place twice a month at the Mt. Tabor Theater in Portland, Oregon. Will Radik and 2 or more hardened camp cinema veterans will face down some of the most ridiculous, awkward, and tasteless films born unto this pitiless earth, with only microphones (and probably alcohol). Audience members are not only allowed but encouraged to shout at the movie themselves and leave their cell phones on.

Though the live commentary is the heart of the show, it doesn't stop there. At the end of the film, audiences may want to mill around the luxurious and dark Mt. Tabor lounge, perhaps discussing the finer points of the cinematic piece they've just viewed. At this point, Will may show clips or behind the scenes footage pertaining to the film, ridiculous clips of just about anything else, trailers, or even another movie. Beyond the main film and commentary, 7th Planet Picture Show is, well, like a bo-. Never mind.

Did I mention there's a bar right in the back of the lounge where the movies are shown? Well, there is. You can even watch it from a barstool. Isn't that grand?

On November 15th 7th Planet Picture Show will Read the rest of this entry »

Regardless of weather, this is a GREAT time of year in Oregon because of the new wines and new winter beer releases. Last night I had the new Blue Moon winter beer. I don't usually like Blue Moon, but that winter beer hit the spot. Hopefully, this Widmer Brrr will be pretty tasty. Even if it isn't, the party looks good and they are giving away a lot of prizes..

Related Portland Events:

• 75+ Portland Weekend Events, Parties & Free Tickets | November 12-15
• Scorpio Ball @ 2410
• BREWPUBLIC presents The Cocoa Hop — pairing Northwest craft beer & chocolate

From Press Release:

Put on your bowling shoes and stocking caps for the 2009 "Big Chill” at Grand Central Restaurant and Bowling Lounge, taking place this Friday, November 13th. This second-annual event, a celebration for the upcoming snow season, will kick off at 9 pm and keep patrons toasty all night long with cold Brrr, the winter seasonal ale from Widmer Brothers Brewing.

The night will include music from 94/7 FM and Grand Central's new DJ, Clint Kuper, as well as a fashion show on the bowling lanes with the best in winter gear from U.S. Outdoor Store, including looks from Airblaster, Bond, Bonfire, Burton, DC, Holden, Oakley, Volcom, 686, and more.

The event will also feature custom snowboard design entries from the 94/7 Snowboard Design Competition and one lucky designer will leave with a customized Revolution snowboard, a 2009/2010 Season Pass to Mt. Hood Meadows, and a $50 gift certificate to U.S. Outdoor Store.

Snow-junkies can also get their pictures taken at the Read the rest of this entry »

FIRST, You have to be a member of our Facebook group to win. I will check the names against the group. Join here before entering if you are not a member. Don't worry, we only send out one message a week about portland events and free tickets. 

Looking for something to do this weekend?

75+ Portland Weekend Events, Parties & Free Tickets | November 12-15

Free Tickets and info after the break… Read the rest of this entry »

Leigh sent out his weekly email of Portland weekend events earlier today. It is reproduced below with some additions by Pipeline. 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 (or blue = linked!) that we think will be good, well attended, or should be interesting.

Reminder: 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.

Related From Pipeline: Portland Monthly Event Listings

From Leigh Feldman:
Things I'm currently jocking…I'm currently jocking…

Free ish… Immortal Technique (thurs), Misfits (fri), Flux (sat), Josh Martinez/Pigeon John (sun) Puscifer (mon), Tonya Stephens (tues) and 4 passes to the Super Beat Off Battle (wed). Wanna win any of them? Forward this email to a friend, have them write us asking to join the group and we'll enter you both in a drawing to win! (These are from Leigh, not Pipeline. Email him to join his list & win: leighfeldman3 @ gmail)

Free music ish… Double L's ‘Flashback Party Mix.' He specializes in music from the West Indies, but this is his tribute to the days of feel good house party hip-hop. http://www.mediafire.com/?bk0ojzqzcna

More Awesome ish… Pics from Massive on Halloween are up on Usnaps and on Moonrok's blog! Check the photos at usnaps.com and http://moonrok.blogspot.com and get ready for Massive on Nov. 28th.

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

Portland Thursday Events, November 12

• 2010 Queer Animal Calendar Release Party @ Reading Frenzy (free beer, vegan food, gay animal pictures)
• Squaters Wine Tasting Event @ Jupiter Hotel (wine wine wine)
• Immortal Technique, Poison Pen, Chino XL @ Wonder Ballroom (hardcore hip hop)
• Project:Evolution P:ear Benefit @ Invasion (music, art, drinks, fundraising event)
• Thuggage CD Release Party @ Virgo & Pisces (hyphy crunk rapclash party)
• I've Got a Hole In My Soul @ Rotture (soul nite packed madness)
• MSTRKRFT @ Dante's (electro bangers)
• The Order of Ostrata & The Party Crashin Pervert @ The Hostess (theater performance with nudity and strobe lights)
• Arohan, Prizm, Soft Metals @ Holocene (synth madness)
• Opium Magazine's Literary Death Match @ Blue Monk (crazy sounding reading event)
• Sir Tall Selector @ Valentines (African psychadelica)
• Everyone Who Looks Like You @ Theater! Theatre! (hand2mouth performance!)
• Krushgroove Throwback Thursdays @ Bar XV (old school hip hop, funk and throwback jams)
• Dubstep Fathoms @ Report Lounge (dubstep)
• From Pipeline: The 36th NW Film & Video Festival
• I Hate Your Job w/ DJ KG @ Tube (soul/r&b and rock)
• Psychedelic Sock Hop w/ DJ AM Gold @ The Tanker (Psych, Rockabilly, Surf, Early Soul and R&B and Fuzzed-out Garage)
• Breakdown Thursdays @ Pala (dubstep, electro, glitch, bass)
• Crown City Rockers w/ The Fix @ Someday Lounge (hip hop)
• Delicious @ Crown Room (weekly alternative party with super cheap drinks)
• X-otica Go Go Bboy Spectacular @ Dante's (bass, bboys and booty)
• Rose City Sirens @ Hawthorne Theater (burlesque performance)
• From Pipeline: Pander Bros. "SELFLESS" @ Cinema 21
• From Pipeline: Deschutes Brewery's Jubelale Label Art Through The Years

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From our partners at 24ten:

13th Annual Scorpio Ball with:

BEATS ANTIQUE- LIVE 1st time in PDX with ENTIRE band!
http://www.beatsantique.com/

BEATS ANTIQUE, an oakland based group featuring ZOE JAKES, DAVID SATORI, AND SIDECAR TOMMY, which has stumbled down the rabbit hole
and emerged anew on the other side. BEATS ANTIQUE forges a curious alliance between middle eastern traditions and potent west coast circus,
underground hip hop, breakbeat brass band, downtempo, glitch and dubstep. Supporting their 2nd album, COLLIDE (2008 CIA records), BEATS ANTIQUE'S DJ sets on BASSNECTAR'S “THE OTHER SIDE” tour feature their diverse sound collage as the opening act for one of the nation's most well known DJ's. ZOE JAKES, nominated as Zaghareet's “Best Interpretive Artist 2007″, presents a unique take on Tribal bellydance, influenced by Art Nouveau, tango, Breakdance, and Indian classical dance. BEATS ANTIQUE has brought the paradox of electro-acoustic music into the future

More after the break... Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Sasha Burchuk

The only tragic element of this play is that only a handful of people will be able to follow the script, with its multiple references to the Arthurian legends, histories of witchcraft, lycanthropy, physics and astronomy. And I think that only James Joyce might have understood this play the whole way through, including the two minute segment that's in Latin/Ancient Welsh/bastardized Arthurian. To everyone else, this is just an absurdly psychedelic journey to the end of the night (which makes it very difficult to describe, thank you very much). Regardless of how much I didn't understand, this is one of the more entertaining plays that I've ever seen. There's dancing (music provided by a live band), sexual innuendo, nudity, demonic possession, smoke, intellectual snobbery, and the wardrobe is great.

The curtain opens on Page Phaedra and Vivian Lacome who await their arriving guests. Easter Sunday 1954 marked the first full moon on Easter (a. Ostara) in over 100 years, hence, these supernatural, dark-romantic academic types have already planned the perfect blueblood blue-stocking Dionysian orgy. As the guests arrive one by one it becomes clear that the hostess has intentionally invited guests who strongly dislike one another. Fortunately, one of them, an astronomer with Tourrette's (who is also a werewolf) has the antidote to this completely unkosher social situation, which he brandishes at the most pretentious moment in the play.

I asked Charles Steen if this was an absurdist play. "Not like Genet or Beckett or Artaud…this is a serious play, with meaning," he told me. "What's the meaning?" I asked him. "Friendship," he said.

You really just have to see it for yourself.

The Order of Ostara & That Party Crashin' Pervert: A Two-Act Dramatic Representation of Easter 1954
Written and directed by Charles Augustus Steen III
Facebook page
Performances at The Hostess
(538 SE Ash St., Portland)
November 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22 at 8:00 PM.
Tickets $10.

Junk to Funk is definitely one of the larger shows this weekend and with this economy, I'm making all my clothes out junk. Also, isn't it good to see that Mayor Adams is fully back on the part scene after having to keep a low profile earlier this year. Is there a city with a mayor at more parties and events than this guy? I think not.

From Press Release:

Junk to Funk Recycled Fashion Show Contest
“Trashion Edutainment for the Masses”
November 14th, 2009 at the Crystal Ballroom

Portland's favorite trashion show continues!  November 14th will mark the fourth annual Junk to Funk Recycled Fashion Show Contest, once again hosted by Mayor Sam Adams, joined by The Mercury's Fashion Editor Marjorie Skinner.  The show will feature 25 pieces of newly constructed wearable art and couture fashion creatively transformed from "trash".  After selling out of the Wonder Ballroom in 2008, we are excited to announce that this year's Junk to Funk Recycled Fashion Show Contest will be held on November 14th at the Crystal Ballroom and for the first time will be an all ages event.

Contestants will compete for prizes up to $500 and will be judged by panel of local note worthies rightfully dubbed the "Junk Jury" comprised of local designer Adam Arnold and representatives from Scrap, The Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland Fashion Week and the Oregon Association of Recyclers.  Winners will be determined based on the percent of recycled material used, design innovation, out of the box use of materials, quality of craftsmanship and wow factor in presentation.

Additionally the event will feature a premier performance by Portland's junk orchestra Read the rest of this entry »

This is only showing one night at Clinton, so you might want to add it to your Thursday plans.

From Press Release:
Money-Driven Medicine, produced by AcademyAward® winner Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) and based on Maggie Mahar's book of the same name, is a powerful expose on America's profit-driven health care system, and sheds light on just how vital it is for us to accomplish comprehensive health care reform now.

Last week Money-Driven Medicine screened on Capitol Hill for members of Congress and their staffers; now we're carrying the momentum from that event into select cities around the country to galvanize Americans to help push us closer to realizing universal health care that serve patients rather than profits.

Thursday, November 12th
7:00pm & 9:00pm
Clinton Street Theater
2522 SE Clinton St. Portland OR 97202