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Related: 75+ Portland Weekend Events, Parties & Free Tickets | February 4-7

Posted by Jeff Guay

True Stories is a surreal sociological musical — or a magical-realist anthropological music video — in which David Byrne floats about a fictional town called Virgil, Texas, wearing a cowboy hat and bolo tie. Byrne, who wrote and directed the film, was artistically ahead of his time with this 1986 cult classic — but hasn't he always been ahead of his time? Here he boldly breaks and expands cinematic convention and stretches the concept of genre to its limits, but to suggest that True Stories is artsy-fartsy indie-film stuff would be like calling

The Talking Heads music ‘esoteric.' In fact, the film is hilarious in a perfectly dead-pan 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 (blue = linked!) that we think will be good, well attended, or should be interesting.

Reminder: We give out free tickets 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 EVENTS LIST

From Leigh Feldman:
Things I'm currently jocking…

Free ish… We have quite a few tix this week! Tix to Where It's At w/ Slim Kid Tre of The Pharcyde (plus drink tickets), a bracelet to the Slabtown Bender weekend festival, 3 tix to the Oracle CD Release Show w/ Storm Large, a pair of tix to St. Vincent, tix to Eyedea & Abilities, Wilco (only one ticket), a pair of tix to Various, two pairs of tix to And I Was Like, What? and two passes to RAW!

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… This mix from DJ Risk One. He, along with DJ Zimmie and a few other guests will be rocking the next Massive on Feb 27th (special thanks to everyone involved in Massive last weekend, if you have photos send ‘em my way!) If you've heard Risk before you know the deal, if not, check his part on the new Super 7 mixtape.

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

Portland Thursday Events, February 4

• From Pipeline: 50+ Portland First Thursday Art Events & Parties
• The Phunktion w/ Philly's Phunkestra Soul Orchestra @ Crown Room (live New Orleans funk, $2 pints and $2 rum n cokes)
• Krushgroove Throwback @ Bar XV (old school hip hop, funk and throwback jams)
• The Fix @ Someday Lounge (hip hop dj's)
• Savoir Faire Burlesque & Vaudeville Performance @ Hawthorne Theater (barroom fare)
• Lizard Lounge First Thursday @ Lizard Lounge (tons of items on sale, free beer, music)
• By Land, Sea & Air @ Compound Gallery (art art art)
• Chocolate Cheeks Book Release Event @ Floating World Comics (art art art)
• HA:lf Show Opening@ Doppler PDX (art art art)
• Ashley Montague Art Opening @ Hawthorne Albina Press (art art art)
• Wild Kingdom Art Opening @ Groove Suite (art art art)
• Dan Duval Sextet @ Tugboat Brewery (jazz)
• Oracle CD Release show w/ Storm Large @ Dante's (rock)
• Unity Creates Strength Haiti Benefit Show @ Rotture (dubstep, glitch, electro)
• It's Not Me, It's You: Stories from the Darkside of Dating @ Bagdad Theater (reading performance)
• From Pipeline: First Thursday @ Core Gallery — Chris Haberman: I Love Myself and Want to Live
• From Pipeline: Slow Food Portland and Ecotrust present "From Bean to Buzz"
• From Pipeline: First Thursday @ Tribute Gallery — Portland debut of Tyler Kohlhoff

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

Portland's monthly First Thursday event is tomorrow night with over 50 (probably 100) galleries having openings.

We have a very large list below thanks to Sequential Art Gallery (328 NW Broadway). They  compile an email called the  "[h]IT LIST" of events every month. You can join it by emailing them @ sequentialart @ gmail dot com. We have reproduced much of it below with permission.

Related: Portland EVENTS LISTINGS

Are you on Twitter? Follow @FirstThursday to see what people are posting about it. Use @firstthursday or the #firstthursday hashtag when tweeting about the event. We will retweet many. You can also follow Sequential art on twitter: @sequentialart

From Pipeline Listings:

• First Thursday @ Floating World – "CHOCOLATE CHEEKS" Book Release & Art Exhibit w/ Steven Weissman
• First Thursday @ Tribute Gallery – Portland debut of Tyler Kohlhoff
• First Thursday @ Core Gallery – Chris Haberman: I Love Myself and Want to Live

This month at Sequential Art Gallery
{328 NW Broadway #113}
SELECTED WORKS BY DEREK STUBBS

February at Sequential Art Gallery will showcase the comics art of Derek Stubbs. Interested in more than just “final” art, Derek is intrigued by the process of creating. The “how” of the art is as fascinating to him as the “what.” To that end, his solo show at the gallery is his attempt to share the process of putting the pieces together. The show will open First Thursday on February 4th, 6-10pm, and run through the end of the month.

After a short stay at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in 2006, Derek found that marrying words and pictures was what he wanted to do with his life. The result of this has been his immersion into the world of comic art, and projects like TheMin, Mr. Popularity, Oh Snap! A Series on the Hazards of Portland, Filthy Comics and others. He moved from New York City–his home for the previous 15 years–to Portland in 2007, and is glad he did.

<<<<<<<Tons of Portland First Thursday art openings after the break… Read the rest of this entry »

From our partners at Oregon Symphony:

NATIVE SON CHRIS BOTTI RETURNS FOR ONE NIGHT OF COOL JAZZ

When and Where: One performance only, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 5; Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.

The Performers: Globe-trotting jazz trumpeter Chris Botti returns home to Portland with his stellar ensemble of back-up musicians. Please note: The Oregon Symphony does not perform.

The Program: A wide sampling of the jazz standards and pop tunes Botti's fans have come to expect.

• This is another homecoming for Botti, who was born in Portland and raised in Corvallis and Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Rondell McCalip

Electronic beats, Melodic undertones and lots of fun for all. Vote yes on “Spesus Christ.” Whenever I listen to this band i get an immediate feeling of the camaraderie circulating through the group. Both on and off the stage. This always makes for a better feeling show and when people feel good they look good and more importantly in this arena they sound good. From the crooning on “Truce” to the seemingly impromtu trip-hop spoken word interlude that laces “Airport Gate.” It is inevitable that at some point during their set your eyes will be wide shut and and your foot jamming along to the bass line.

All this happens before you start dancing your face off. This band does a brilliant job of balancing ambient background music you can just kick it to with a style that may perhaps incite one of those head back introverted dance frenzy's that only you and whatever god you pray to can understand.

They will be blazing “The Parlour” located at 26th and Powell on Feb. 27th @ 9pm.
Website/Music: myspace.com/spesuschrist

We are coming on yet another weekend of Portland First Thursdays & Fridays. This one at Nemo looks liek a standout especially if you have bike skills.

On the Twitter? Follow @pdxbikes for Portland Bike tweets.
Related: Our Portland 2010 February Events List

From NEMO:
NEMO hosts the Backyard Blam presentation of Bridgetown Hustle, art show and contests, Friday, February 5, 2010, 6pm to 10pm.

Bike Art Show
Custom bikes, photography, and much more.

Bunny Hop Contest
So. You think you can jump? Prove it at 7:30.

Roller Sprints
Open sprints is a head-to-head bike race on stationary bikes.
Races are on Giant Bowerys that double as grand prizes! Races at 8:00.

Trick Comp
Take it out to the parking lot and show us what you got. Best tricks can win big. Takes place just after sprints.

$5 to participate in the contests. Mad prizes.

Posted by Mike Harper

The era of the folk orchestra hasn't given up its bloom with the new decade. Layers of musicians pile into tiny venues and pack stages like nearly lit matches huddling in a matchbox – percussive smashing of random objects, toy pianos and brass instruments shining against the floating tones of melting guitar strings wrapped around violin whispers! In the vein of Zach and everyone's favourite Sufjan comes one Berkeley via Missouri composer that has landed in Portland like an origami crane folded from sheet music. Having toured through Portland with Bearkat in 2008, Kyle Butz set his sights on this town, orchestrating his return by way of cross-continental tour, gaggle of musicians and accordion in tow.

Bootz Orchestra channels large Balkan beats through the four strings of Kyle Butz's ukulele, buried alive beneath a shuddering brass section and the soaring violin of Ashley King.  "Mollifying Whirl," from Bootz's EP Bony Jars, begins with a Read the rest of this entry »