Out of the depths of imagination comes Lawn of the Limp, a new whimsical offering from Portland's own Hot Little Hands dance troupe. Birthed from the fantastic storyboards of collaborators David Stein and Suniti Dernovsek, behold as the chimera of daydreams and gentle nightmares leap and writhe to the elaborate soundscape constructed by Jay Clarke. Make reservations and prepare to let reality and boredom wait while your breath is stolen by Hot Little Hands.

Beginning tomorrow, May 29th through May 31st
Two shows each evening, one at 7PM and one at 9PM
Located at the warehouse on the corner of NW 5th and Flanders in Old Town
$12-$15 call or email for reservations: (503) 913-8959 or info@hotlittlehands.org

**JC Edit: Thanks to Ainsley Drew for contributing to the Pipeline. She was recently voted as one of Twelve People Actually Worth Following On Twitter by Gawker. Here is what they wrote:

5. AinsleyofAttack
Name: Ainsley Drew
Best: “You know how a Venus flytrap snaps shut when you poke it with a pencil? My vagina does that when you say 'recumbent bike.'”

• Follow Ainsley on Twitter
• Read Jerk Ethic, her blog about trying to survive in Portland through freelance writing
• Read Face Plant, her blog about leveling the food pyramid (or experiments in veganism)
• Read Bitchcraft, her blog about…ummm…becoming a Wiccan
• Read her post on Backfence PDX about Hot, Summer love…NSFW

AND observe Ainsley's game-face right before I destroyed her in Air Hockey

From earlier post with most of the info after the jump…

Dec 8 | Be on Portland Community Television and Dance | Watch This AWESOME Clip

December 5, 2007 — Julian Chadwick

Ok, well I watched the trailer and I don't know where to begin. I'm still a bit in shock actually, and I took a bunch of screenshots that you can see on flickr.

Just Watch it and here is a comment about it at YouTube,

" WTF! HAHAHAHAHAHA!". Yep, quality comment right there.

Watch the teaser trailer for Episode 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMKtJLjFzdg

From Nickey at Riseup.net:

Saturday, December 8, 2007
5:30 PM
Portland Community Media
2766 NE MLK Boulevard
Portland, Oregon 97212

Description
The Politics of Dancing is a cable-access dance show with a
conscience. Produced by Nickey Robo and directed by Dave Slay, TPOD
aims to educate the audience about radical politics while a cast of
local youth cut a rug on the dance floor. The show airs on various
Portland Metro cable access channels.

In light of the recent string of bike/car collisions and cyclist
fatalities in the Portland area, this episode of TPOD will be "The
Bike Show." Featured performers and guests will include:

The Online Romance
The Sprockettes
BMX tricks by Blake and Lee
Bikes to Rwanda
The Bike Farm

This event is free to attend and is open to all ages. Though dancing
is not absolutely mandatory, it is highly encouraged, and everyone is
made welcome. (Be prepared for your friends to ask you, "Was that you
I saw grooving on cable access?" for months afterward.) Taping begins
promptly at 5:30 PM and will continue for a few hours, so please show
up on time!

December Events from Performance Works NW & other Portland artists & groups

November 29, 2007 — lindapaustin |:: Dec. 6-8 | Luciana Proaño's "Chaski"
Thursday-Saturday, December 6-8 @ 7:00pm
Info/tickets: Artixpdx.com or 503-977-0620

Chaski is a multimedia presentation about endurance and trance, inspired by the Inca Andean runners. A new version of a work created in 1997 and performed 1998, 1999 and 2000. In the Quechua language, CHASKI means "messenger" and refers to the legendary relay runners who carried messages across the deserts, mountains and jungles of Peru.

"Chaski is about the paradox of moving without getting anywhere, the fusion of the line with the infinite," says Proaño, of the collaboration with JB Butler, her husband and well-known jazz guitarist.

Proano dances with fierce and expressive abandon, drawing on improvisation and ritual, as well as unorthodox set design and video, to narrate the mythology. Butler's original composition is an interpretation of Andean, Indian and free-form jazz rhythms and harmonies, and beautifully supports and drives Proano's movement.

The music invokes a heartbeat, the video suggests a watery depth, and the result is an intense, yet playful study of endurance and the insignificance of time.

Just Watch it and here is a comment about it at YouTube,

” WTF! HAHAHAHAHAHA!”. Yep, quality comment right there.

Watch the teaser trailer for Episode 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMKtJLjFzdg

From Nickey at Riseup.net:

Saturday, December 8, 2007
5:30 PM
Portland Community Media
2766 NE MLK Boulevard
Portland, Oregon 97212

Description
The Politics of Dancing is a cable-access dance show with a
conscience. Produced by Nickey Robo and directed by Dave Slay, TPOD
aims to educate the audience about radical politics while a cast of
local youth cut a rug on the dance floor. The show airs on various
Portland Metro cable access channels.

In light of the recent string of bike/car collisions and cyclist
fatalities in the Portland area, this episode of TPOD will be “The
Bike Show.” Featured performers and guests will include:

The Online Romance
The Sprockettes
BMX tricks by Blake and Lee
Bikes to Rwanda
The Bike Farm

This event is free to attend and is open to all ages. Though dancing
is not absolutely mandatory, it is highly encouraged, and everyone is
made welcome. (Be prepared for your friends to ask you, “Was that you
I saw grooving on cable access?” for months afterward.) Taping begins
promptly at 5:30 PM and will continue for a few hours, so please show
up on time!

News from other Portland artists & groups
:: Dec. 2 | Cake Mixer! Conduit's Annual Winter Benefit
(Linda Austin as MC)
:: Dec. 6-8 | Luciana Proaño's “Chaski”
:: Dec. 15 | ScratchPDX

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:: Dec. 9 & 16 | Tuning Score Practice with Karen Nelson

Hi all,

These are the dates:
Dec. 9,16
Jan. 6,13
12-4pm at PWNW
4625 SE 67th @ Foster Rd.

We've decided to keep diving into the material underneath the tuning scores. The workshops will include a deep sensory personal warm-up and opportunities to experience an extension of the warm-up state in dances with others. Then we will play with some tuning scores both doing and watching. No previous experience is necessary, and we hope you will gain some understanding of what tuning scores and the under-the-surface activities are all about. Your questions will inspire us!

All this, in some way, is in preparation for a visit to Portland by Lisa Nelson early next spring. We hope anybody who is interested in this work will take the opportunity to dive in over the next months, and be able to also interact with Lisa when she comes.

The deal is the same, a sliding scale starting at $5, but don't stay away if you can't afford that. Also, please pass the word.

thanks,
karen

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:: Studio rental — New rates Jan. 1 2008

–The PWNW studio is available for rental: rehearsal, workshops, intimate performance.

Check our website for details

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:: Yoga class with Linda Austin @ PWNW

4625 SE 67th

Tuesday 6:30-7:45p
Saturday 9:30-10:45a

Drop in Class = $8
10-class Card = $60
(rates go up to $9/$70 in January)

An eclectic all-levels class: classical hatha, vinyasa, breathing, relaxation.

NO CLASS Tues. Dec. 18, Sat. Dec. 22, Tues. Dec. 25.

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:: Dec. 2 | Cake Mixer! Conduit's Annual Winter Benefit
Sunday December 2, 2007 @ 6 PM
$15 artists/seniors, $25 general public
Advance tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com

Guest hostess Linda Austin mixes things up for Conduit's Annual Winter Benefit with:
• Dazzling dances by Charged artists Suniti Dernovsek, Lauren Edson, Lizzie Karr
• Scrumptious cakes from Portland's finest bakeries
• The delicious sounds of Tim DuRoche & Fred Chalenar
• The spice of special guest artists
Plus auctioneer Jerry Mouawad helps you take the cake!

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:: Dec. 6-8 | Luciana Proaño's “Chaski”
Thursday-Saturday, December 6-8 @ 7:00pm
Info/tickets: Artixpdx.com or 503-977-0620

Chaski is a multimedia presentation about endurance and trance, inspired by the Inca Andean runners. A new version of a work created in 1997 and performed 1998, 1999 and 2000. In the Quechua language, CHASKI means “messenger” and refers to the legendary relay runners who carried messages across the deserts, mountains and jungles of Peru. “Chaski is about the paradox of moving without getting anywhere, the fusion of the line with the infinite,” says Proaño, of the collaboration with JB Butler, her husband and well-known jazz guitarist. Proano dances with fierce and expressive abandon, drawing on improvisation and ritual, as well as unorthodox set design and video, to narrate the mythology. Butler's original composition is an interpretation of Andean, Indian and free-form jazz rhythms and harmonies, and beautifully supports and drives Proano's movement. The music invoke a heartbeat, the video suggests a watery depth, and the result is an intense, yet playful study of endurance and the insignificance of time.

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:: Dec. 15 | ScratchPDX

Hey all,

Just a quick note to say thanks to those who were part of the sell-out crowd at November's ScratchPDX, the opener of our new season. The season got off to a great start with seven dazzling and challenging performances from up-and-coming artists in Portland. Check out the website www.scratchpdx.com to see pictures and details of the line-up.

We are gathering pace for the second show (Dec 15th), and already all the slots are filled! However if you are interested in performing at Scratch, we are currently looking for pieces for our January and February shows, so drop us an email at contact@scratchpdx.com with your rough idea. Please include type of performance, number of participants and estimated length.

In case you don't know, ScratchPDX aims:
to support performance by creating an open and accessible atmosphere in which experimentation is encouraged.
to promote artists by providing them with a public platform to show work and continuing to expand our audience base.
to facilitate dialogue and collaboration between artists in the spirit of collective development and mutual benefit.
to deepen understanding of performance, creative processes and the audience/performer relationship through feedback and conversation about work.

It's also a really fun night with plenty of opportunities to socialize in a great atmosphere at Hipbone Studio (1847 E Burnside). If you are thinking of proposing something but you've never been to the show before, we recommend coming down to check it out in December, so you can get a feel for it and maybe even talk to us about your idea. We'd love to meet you!

The ScratchPDX Collective

–
If it itches…
www.scratchpdx.com

Beulahland, 118 NE 28th

NO COVER
Robot Dance Party… music and movie
with your hosts King Tim 33.3 and Seoul Brother #1
see ya there

More Portland Music Shows at Beuhland from PDXPIPELINE
118 NE 28th Ave
Portland, OR 97232
(503) 235-2794

As the fall cultural season cranks up even more, we are wishing you a HAPPY ALL HALLOW'S EVE- and hope to see you out and about at the following November events!

1. Linda Austin Dance: circus me around – 3 more performances!

2. Minh Tran & Company: Forgotten Memories

3. Summer Morgan Dance: Evolver

4. Agnieszka Laska Dancers: The Fall '01

Las Pleyades Danza Contemporanea: Encuentros Terminales

5. Performance submission for ScratchPDX

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1. Linda Austin Dance: circus me around – 3 more performances!

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A great time was had by all last weekend for the opening weekend of “circus me around” by LINDA AUSTIN DANCE

For this multi-disciplinary work, architects Ean Eldred, Richard Garfield, John Kashiwabara and Peter Nylen create an environment assembled of skeletal scafflolding and a translucent shrink wrap skin, yielding various vantage points for the viewing of three simultaneous dances amid the clattering, dripping, clicking, whooping, and fluttering of Seth Nehil's spatialized sound score. Costumes are by David Rafn and the performers. The set and the 13 performers are stunningly enhanced by Jeff Forbes' lighting.

Heather Wisner of the Willamette Week covers the show:

http://wweek.com/editorial/3351/9882/

Julian Chadwick of PDX Pipeline covers it here:

Daily Stank Image Bank: “Circus Me Around” by Performance Works NorthWest

Here is some audio and interviews

http://www.focusfree.net/stuff/dance/circus.mp3

Three more shows!Thurs-Sat Nov. 1, 2, 3 @ 8pm –Come by early or stay late for wine, snacks, DJ, and art in our lobby, affectionately dubbed the King Sets Lounge!

Below is the information to get your tickets–plus a from lighting designer/op Jeff's 3 points of view — 2 through slits in the set and 1 on his video monitor:

PWNW OFF-SITE:

the CIRCUS ME AROUND Warehouse

640 SE Stark

Portland, OR

Tickets $12-$25 sliding scale.

Thursday Nov. 1 — All tickets $10

Advance prepaid tickets available at brownpapertickets.com

Reservations 503.777.1907 or info@performanceworksnw.org

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2. Minh Tran & Company: Forgotten Memories

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Who: Minh Tran & Company

http://www.mtdance.org

What: Forgotten Memories

When: Friday through Sunday, November 2,3,4 @7:30PM & 9PM

Sunday, November 4

Post-performance discussion w/ guest facilitator Kilong Ung, President of the Cambodian-

American Community of Oregon, Minh Tran & Company, and collaborating artists.

Where: Imago Theater

17 SE 8th Avenue (Corner of SE 8th & Ankeny)

Portland, OR 97214

Tickets: $20 / $18 / $18 (General / Student & Senior/Working Artist)

http://www.brownpapertickets.com or 503.838.3006

Information: 503.998.0381, www.mtdance.org

Back by popular demand, and once again in a proscenium setting, Minh Tran & Company presents Forgotten Memories at Portland's Imago Theater.

Called "a blistering evocation of genocide's ghosts," by the Oregonian at it's 2005 work-in-progress premier, Forgotten Memories centers on Tuol Sleng [hill of the poison tree], an abandoned suburban Phnom Penh high school that was code-named S-21and transformed into a Khmer Rouge interrogation center from 1975-1979. Headed by Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge combined extremist ideology, ethnic animosity, and a disregard for human life to produce murder on a massive scale. Approximately 1.7 million people lost their lives (21% of the country's population) under the Pol Pot regime. Over 17,000 prisoners were interrogated, tortured, and executed inside the walls of S-21. Tran toured Tuol Sleng in 2004 while on exchange in Cambodia with the Mekong Project, a program of Dance Theater Workshop in New York. After the first work-in-progress showing of Forgotten Memories in 2005, Tran returned to Cambodia to conduct additional research in order to complete the work. Endeavoring to engage the audience viscerally through the combined mediums of film, original music, sets and movement, the completed Forgotten Memories is per formed in the intimate setting of Imago Theater, inviting audiences acquire a first-hand taste of the horrors associated with war.

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3. Summer Morgan Dance: Evolver

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Summer Morgan Dance presents the premiere of Evolver. The performances will take place at The Historic Firehouse Theatre which is located at 1436 SW Montgomery Street in Portland, OR. The opening night performance is on Friday, November 9, 2007 at 8pm. The performance schedule is as follows:

Friday-Sunday

November 9-11th

8pm

Admission is $15. Tickets can be reserved in advance by calling (503) 239-5350

Evolver begins with a woman wearing an enormous skirt. Beneath its folds she creates a world where people are continually changing from humans in their most repressed forms into monkeys, and back again. During their metamorphoses and encounters we try and determine which is the more desirable state. The movement contains forced and awkward commercial/pop gestures in juxtaposition with animalistic ones. By forcing these extremes we try to illustrate what it is to be human, we wonder if we really like the direction some evolution seems to take, and we relish in the happy accidents that seem to occur in the meantime.

Disclaimer: Summer's work, as with most dance, is a visual language. None of the above should be taken too literally, as it is, in fact, written with words.

Evolver will be performed by Sonya Barker, Arti Boyd, Robyn Conroy, Mathew Ellis and Summer Morgan with lighting design by Joshua Westhaver and live music by Douglas Shepherd.

After graduating with a BFA in dance from SUNY Purchase, Summer started SMD in New York City where she presented work at the Merce Cunningham Studio, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Williamsburg Art Nexus, Dixon Place and The Mulberry Street Theatre. Since living in Portland she has presented her work at Conduit and in Ten Tiny Dances.

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4. Agnieszka Laska Dancers: The Fall '01

Las Pleyades Danza Contemporanea: Encuentros Terminales

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“THE FALL '01″ [US premiere] November 11 @ 8:PM Imago Theatre

Agnieszka Laska Dancers

Veterans Day – Closing Event in the Pacific Northwest Labor Arts Festival – Veterans admitted free – All other ticketing starts at $10

At 45 min. in duration, THE FALL '01 is a choreographic multimedia drama on terror, war and torture, depicting the wholesale dehumanization of the Global War Of Terror – a civilization at the precipice of its fall – not for the faint of heart.

“…one of the most potent artistic responses to war and state terrorism perpetrated by our government I've ever seen…” Brett Campbell – Eugene Weekly

tickets: www.artixpdx.com

ENCUENTROS TERMINALES [US premiere] Nov. 16-17-18 @ 7:30 pm

Las Pléyades Danza Contemporánea

ALD is proud to present, with support from the Regional Arts and Culture Council's Special Opportunity Grant, Encuentros Terminales, Luis Arrenquín's newest multi-media work to music of Ernesto Martinez and Ludwig von Beethoven. Arreguín explores through striking partnerings the alienation of modern life and redemption of love.

Agnieszka Laska Dancers will fill out the program with a work from their repertory – to be announced.

Imago Theatre

17 SE 8th Ave.

Portland

tickets: www.artixpdx.com

“Dance without tension” workshop with Luis Arreguín

Luis Arreguín is one of the top dancers and teachers working today in Mexico. In previous collaborations with ALD, first rate productions have resulted, as well as engaging workshops. Las Pléyades will be in the Pacific Northwest for about 2 weeks in November, working in collaboration with Agnieszka Laska Dancers.

Nov. 12-14

@ Polish Hall

3832 N Interstate

reserve spot: http://www.a-laska.com/dwt.html

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5. Performance submission for ScratchPDX

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This email is a call for submissions for this season's opening of ScratchPDX, Portland's performance lab, which will play monthly (November-May) at Hipbone Studio on NE 18th & Burnside. Opening show is on November 17.

ScratchPDX is an open stage for performers of all genres. **See www.scratchpdx.com for photos from last season and other info.**

The mission is to provide a venue for a growing performance community in order to promote turning ideas into action, to play with concepts of performance, and to produce a stimulating environment for open exchange. ScratchPDX offers: a venue, an audience, a host and minimal tech. There will be beverages available for purchase. Also, in line with our mission, there will be time each night for people to come together and talk. We can't wait for your contribution.

Submission Guidelines:

Email: contact@scratchpdx.com

With the intention of providing a meeting ground for a growing Portland performance community, ScratchPDX is a place for people to experiment with their work, advance their practice, be inspired by the good, some bad and the unlikely performance and to talk about it all. Seasoned performers and others stepping onto the stage for the first time are all welcome. As a performer you may also invite feedback if desired. We are opening the stage for 2-10 min slots for any kind of performance. In the past, people have come with dance, storytelling, clown, puppetry, poetry, stand-up, short plays, improvisation, music… If you are interested in performing please send your submission to contact@scratchpdx.com Please include the type of performance and describe it in as much detail as you can at this point, including length.

Other Details

Venue: Hipbone Studio, a beautiful space offering life drawing and painting, rehearsal space, and performance

Date: November 17, 2007

Time: 10pm

Tech: Minimum tech provided includes basic lights and sound.

Email: contact@scratchpdx.com

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Well, I can't tell you that I am able to fully describe this performance. One quote (very positive) was “a flock of birds with OCD“. All I know is that I am not necessarily Mr. Modern Dance and I had a great time. These pics are not the best–I am no pro photographer–but there are about 75 of them and a you can get a decent thought about what to expect.

It also gives a good idea of what it is like to watch “a flock of birds with OCD”. I definitely reccomend seeing this show before it ends this weekend.

Performance Works Northwest/Linda Austin Dance presents
"circus me around"
Oct. 26, 27, 28 (Fri-Sun)
Nov. 1, 2, 3 (Thurs-Sat)
at 8pm

Info and more thumbnail pics after the “more” jump.

Info provided by Linda Austin:

Come by early or stay late for wine, snacks, DJ, and art in our lobby, affectionately dubbed the King Sets Lounge!

PWNW OFF-SITE:

the CIRCUS ME AROUND Warehouse

640 SE Stark

Portland, OR

Tickets $12-$25 sliding scale.

Thursday Nov. 1 — All tickets $10

Advance prepaid tickets available at brownpapertickets.com

Reservations 503.777.1907 or info@performanceworksnw.org

Performance Works NorthWest/Linda Austin Dance is pleased to announce the premiere of "circus me around" at a spacious warehouse at 640 SE Stark, in Portland's Central Eastside. Conceived and directed by Linda Austin, circus me around is inspired by the zings of pleasure and pricklings of curiosity aroused by fleeting, partial views of activities in the city landscape. For this multi-disciplinary work, architects Ean Eldred, Richard Garfield, John Kashiwabara and Peter Nylen create an environment assembled of skeletal scafflolding and a translucent shrink wrap skin, yielding various vantage points for the viewing of three simultaneous dances amid the clattering, dripping, clicking, whooping, and fluttering of Seth Nehil's spatialized sound score. Costumes are by David Rafn and the performers. The set and bodies are stunningly enhanced by Jeff Forbes' lighting.

PWnw/LAD is proud to be working with the following performers, all of whom are collaborating on the creation of their own movement material for the work:

Linda Austin, Anne Furfey, Esther LaPointe, Paige McKinney, Katrina O'Brien, Gregg Bielemeier, Cydney Wilkes, Jenn Gierada, Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner (Kathleen Keogh, David Rafn, Rikki Rothenberg) Margretta Hansen, Noelle Stiles (Oct 26-28 & Linda K. Johnson (Nov. 1-3)

New Venue! Portland can always use good new venues… It's a big ol' warehouse in an industrial area, with a full bar and vast interior spaces to fill with lasers and lights and lots of dancers. They're calling it On Air, and judging from what they've lined up for the opening night, this could be a great addition to the Portland scene…

Rabbit In The Moon is a legendary live electronic music group; since 1993 they've entertained crowds all around the world with their utterly awesome beats and manic antics – LED suits, giant hamster balls (for rolling – on top of the crowd!, flamethrowers… and more.

And R.I.T.M is just the headliner – there are 13 additional DJs and performers listed, ranging from the psytrance of Epsilon to the visuals of VJ Disco Beaver.

The On Air venue is at 1300 N River St. (under the Fremont Bridge) near the Albina MAX stop – see map

All Ages – Full cash bar with valid I.D. – $20 Presales / $30 Door. Ticket info and more via Anon'mous-i

HIVE HALLOWEEN !!

Goth-Industrial-Darkwave

DANCE PARTY !!

COSTUME CONTEST !!

FABULOUS CASH & GIFT PRIZES !!

Hosted by the Insufferable Kevyn Douglas Hay of WRITTEN IN ASHES

Make a date with Dj Blackout : Dj Darkhynd & OWEN

People have asked me 'what are you gonna' be for Halloween?', my reply…. 'working!'

So….. come out to HIVE even if you don't have any costume plans, you won't be alone !!

HIVE celebrates FOUR YEARS of HALLOWEEN with CHAMPAGNE @ MIDNIGHT !!

Plan B (SE 8th & Main)

9pm 21+ $5.oo

Please visit myspace.com/darkhive or The Portland Murcury : Page # 15 for info-

Thank you Kindly & HAPPY HALLOWEEN !!

It's Your Night, BLOW IT UP !!

Dean…..out…….

HIVE

Plan B (formerly ACME)

Portland, OR 97214

(Corner of SE 8th & SE Main)

Every Sunday 9pm-2am

21+ $3 cover

www.darkhive.com

www.myspace.com/darkhive