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From our partners at Oregon Symphony

The Oregon Symphony is bringing Beethoven back for a one-time-only Beethoven Festival Weekend! It's an all Beethoven all—of—the—time weekend.

The astonishing pianist Arnaldo Cohen tackles all five of Beethoven's Piano Concertos — plus the Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano — in three completely different concerts over three consecutive nights. Each night will be a totally different experience.

Saturday May 15 | 7:30 pm
Leonore Overture No. 3
Piano Concerto No. 2
Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano

Sunday May 16 | 7:30 pm
Leonore Overture No. 1
Piano Concerto No. 1
Piano Concerto No. 4

Mon May 17 | 8 pm
Leonore Overture No. 2
Piano Concerto No. 3
Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor”

Pick up tickets while supplies last either online or over the phone 503-228-1353 | www.orsymphony.org

Take time to enjoy The Concert Conversation too. Conducted one hour before each concert, presented by Music Director Carlos Kalmar and John Pitman of All Classical FM. Enjoy Concert Conversations at home, too.

Click here to see it online live at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, or Read the rest of this entry »

If you missed it last month, you get one more chance. Dan has the ONLY known 35mm print of this movie. Plus, you can grow your Wu Tang clan background knowledge for the upcoming trivial pursuit hip-hop edition.

From Dan Halsted/Grindhouse:
Tuesday night at 9:30 at the Hollywood Theatre, cheer on the fight against the Ghostface Killer!  The Grindhouse Film Festival presents an encore screening of THE MYSTERY OF CHESS BOXING.  This is the only known 35mm print of one of the greatest kung fu movies ever made.  Here's one more chance to see it before it's filed into the vault.

THE MYSTERY OF CHESS BOXING (1979) The original Ghostface Killer is on the loose!  A vicious villain with an unstoppable five element technique, Ghostface is killing off all his old rivals.  Meanwhile, a young student tries to learn kung fu and is taken under the wing of an old chess master.  The basics of chess prove to be the same as the basics of fighting, and eventually the heroes will have to fight Ghostface Killer, who verbally insults his opponents as he annihilates them.  A true classic, and obvious favorite of the Wu Tang Clan, directed by Joseph Kuo (SEVEN GRANDMASTERS)

Advance tickets are here

LifeisaParty, Heineken & Crown Room present…

It's A Wonderful Night OPEN BAR Party with Lateef The Truthspeaker, E da Boss, DJ DV8, Marv Ellis & Band. May 8th, 2010. Crown Room. 9pm. $5. 21+ OPEN BAR with LifeisaParty entry information – email leighfeldman3@gmail.com

Lateef the Truthspeaker is an American hip-hop artist from the Bay Area who is part of the groups Latyrx (with Lyrics Born) and The Maroons (with Blackalicious' Chief Xcel). He was one of the founding members of the Solesides collective, which became Quannum Projects. Fatboy Slim's hit singles “That Old Pair of Jeans” and “Wonderful Night” feature vocals by Lateef and he is also featured on the single “Enuff” from DJ Shadow's album “The Outsider.”

Other collaborations include the 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 tix here and will be giving away some on twitter (add @leighfeldman3) to a screening of The Human Centipede (tonight), passes to the open bar party with Lateef the Truth Speaker (sat), Talkdemonic's first show in PDX in a year (sat), and to comedian/actor Rob Schneider (sun). 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 — or follow us on twitter @leighfeldman3! (These are from Leigh, not Pipeline. Email him to join his list & win: leighfeldman3 @ gmail)

Free music ish… This promo mix from Z-Trip and Lateef the Truth Speaker. Lateef will be in PDX Saturday night at the Crown Room – http://www.mediafire.com/?4jhotnn1izy

More Awesome ish…For the first hour on Saturday night at the Crown Room (9-10pm) people on the LifeisaParty email list get access to unlimited drinks while Lateef the Truth Speaker (Blackalicious, Fatboy Slim, DJ Shadow…), Marv Ellis, DJ DV8 and E da Boss entertain you!

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

Portland Thursday Events, May 6

• From Pipeline & Sequential Art Gallery: 25+ Portland First Thursday Events
• The Phunktion @ Crown Room (FREE — Live New Orleans brass funk, 2 for 1 well drinks)
• Lizard Lounge First Thursday Party @ Lizard Lounge (FREE — always one of the best events in town, bands, beer, clothes and tons of people)
• Hipsters of The Universe Art Show @ Floating World Comics (FREE — art art art)
• The Fix w/ Diamond District @ Someday Lounge (FREE – hip hop dj's, lounge breaks)
• Housecall @ Groove Suite (FREE — house music)
• Lupe Fiasco, B.o.B. @ Roseland (SOLD OUT — hope you can get a ticket if you are trying!)
• Compound Gallery Art Opening @ Compound (FREE — art and streetwear)
• Le Beau @ East Chinatown Lounge (FREE — electro hip hop lounge)
• Steady Rockin w/ Deff Ro, DJ Renz, Might Moves @ Bar XV (FREE — hip hop, funk, r&b)
• Devin the Dude @ Peter's Room ($20 — stoner rap)
• Ladies Night Gathering. Bellydancing & Lapdancing @ Alberta Loft Gallery ($7 — erotic dance exploration)
• Tender Loving Empire Grand Opening @ 212 NW 10th (FREE — this will be a huge gathering of artists and musicians, expect this to be mobbed)
• Radish Underground Mini Golf @ Radish Underground (FREE — come shop and hit some balls)
• Coco & Toulouse Fashion Show @ Ste. Maine (FREE — fashion show)
• The Parlour Benefit Show @ The Parlour (Donation$ – help save this all ages music venue)
• PNCA Illustration Exhibition @ PNCA (FREE — art art art)
• Where You From @ NW Film Center ($8 — a documentary movie about rural hip hop)
• From Pipeline: Free Movie Nights in Portland
• From Pipeline: Rose City Rollers' Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls Fundraiser @ Buffalo Gap

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

Another great weekend of ticket giveways from Pipeline this weekend. We are giving them all away here on Facebook. The amount of tickets we are giving away is going up every week, so you might as well become a fan and win.

You can win any of the tickets here: http://pdx.be/fb-topics

List of tickets (click them/links to enter and win):

• Win pair of TICKETS to Circus Artemis, Portland's New All-Women Circus
  

• Win pair of TICKETS to Portland Indie Wine & Food Festival ($150!)
  

• Win pair of Tickets to “HOT GUN”, Top Gun the Musical @ Dante's

• Win GOODFOOT Tickets: May 8-13

• Win pair of TICKETS to Part of the NW Film Center's "Celebrating Chekhov" series
  

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The Parlour is one of those scant all ages venues here in Portland. Sticking to good beer, good wine, local artists, and good music for everyone to enjoy, they've been trying to keep it going for a while now. The three owners are artists, baristas, and musicians alike, working normal old day jobs so that they can help bring all-ages music to Portland at night. But the pockets of three young guys only go so deep, and it's starting to catch up with them!

From The Parlour:
The Parlour crew has been hanging on as tightly as we could since the very beginning, but recent unfortunate developments with the property have made it impossible for us to continue as what we are. It weighs very heavily in our minds to have to notify our patrons and acts of this drastic change, but we will be unable to keep our doors open after a short while, most likely the end of May, if not sooner.

We just might be able to save this, though!

This Thursday, come down to The Parlour to try to save southeast Portland's all ages venue! Read the rest of this entry »

This Friday is the fifth annual Cinco de Lebowski festival. Sadly, unlike last year two years, there will not be a sanctioned March of the Lebowskis* from Laurelhurst Park to the Bagdad. They do have contests, music, and of course, the movie.

Related from Pipeline:

• Portland Cinco de Mayo Party @ Blitz Bar: Food & Drink Specials, Giveaways | May 5
• 20th Annual Portland Cinco de Mayo Fiesta @ Santa Fe Taqueria | 300+ People & Family Friendly
• Portland's Cinco de Mayo Festival @ Waterfront Park

From Press Release:
Cort and Fatboy present the 5th annual CINCO DE LEBOWSKI, a homegrown house party at the Bagdad Theater, held in celebration of The Dude. As Walter Sobchak might say, “MARK IT CINCO!”

I know many were worried that the Lebowski fun would disappear along with our corporate paychecks. But the Dude Abides, and so do we. However – lack of corporate conglomerates assuming considerable liability means that unlike the 2 previous years, there will be no free attendance via bathrobe, and no March of the Lebowskis*, either.

HOWEVER – the screening will be preceded by live gut-bucket blues music performed by The Troublemakers, and The Jesters, McMenamin's own Street Marching Band, will greet you at the door with fabulous, bathrobed funk.

Attendance is STILL Read the rest of this entry »