Posts by Wendy
Cancelled: 7 Deadly Sins Storytelling Presents Saturnalia: Pantheon @ Mission Theater | Wickedly True Stories
Celebrate the solstice Thursday, December 22nd at the Mission Theater as Portland’s most sinful storytelling series returns with an exploration of history’s most sinful, fickle, and human characters: the Gods.
Read MoreMANY Portland Weekend Events & Giveaways ($1,600+): Meat and Cheese Festival, Blue’s Clues & You!, Gobble Up Artisan Market & More! | November 10-13, 2022
The weekend is back, Portland! Meat and Cheese Festival returns to Leftbank Annex. Find your holiday gifts and give to a good cause at Pretty Kitty Holiday Craft Bazaar. And The Hellenic-American Cultural Center & Museum celebrates 15 years this weekend with a benefit gala!
Read MorePortland in the News: New City Government; Laurelhurst’s Joanie on the Pony; OK to Drive in Japan & More | November 10, 2022
Portland voters this week adopted a new form of city government that includes a city council and ranked choice voting.
The Joan of Arc statue in Laurelhurst is a copy of a statue that stands in Paris.
And Oregonians visiting Japan can use their Oregon-issued drivers license to drive there.
Read MoreWin Tickets ($40): Tim Snider & Wolfgang Timber w/Justin Chittams @ The Old Church Concert Hall | Violinist for Nahko and Medicine for the People
Decemebr 4 @ The Old Church Concert Hall – Tim not only plays violin but loops guitar, percussion, and vocals into a sound that has been described as a “world-folk hybrid, aimed at the heart the head and the feet.”
Read MoreWin Tickets ($50): Shook Twins @ Aladdin Theater | w/ Handmade Moments
December 9 @ Aladdin Theater – Since their 2008 debut Shook Twins have conjured up dreamy folk with ghostly traces of Americana tradition uplifted by transcendently hummable melodies and lilting cinematic instrumentation.
Read MoreWin Tickets ($80): Portland 2023 Folk Festival @ Crystal Ballroom | Ron Artis II, Hillstomp, Rayland Baxter, Fox and Bones & More!
Janaury 13-15 @ Crystal Ballroom – Portland Folk Festival is an ALL AGES, three-day celebration of Folk and Americana music in Portland.
Read MoreWin Tickets ($50): Magic City Hippies @ Crystal Ballroom | w/ CAPYAC, Psychedelic Funk
February 19 @ Crystal Ballroom – Shades on and shirts unbuttoned, Magic City Hippies generate the kind of heat that could’ve powered a high seas yacht party in the seventies or shake a Coachella stage next summer.
Read MoreWin Tickets ($55): An Evening with Fruition (Trio) @ Aladdin Theater | Alternative, Indie
December 8 @ Aladdin Theater – Fruition’s newest album, Broken at the Break of Day, shines a light on all five members of the band, whether it’s on the traded lead vocals of “Dawn” or the irresistible rhythms of “Where Can I Turn.”
Read MoreWin Tickets ($70): Yonder Mountain String Band @ Crystal Ballroom | Jam-grass
March 25 @ Crystal Ballroom – With their latest album, “Get Yourself Outside,” Colorado-based Yonder Mountain String Band once again echoes out into the universe their place as not only a pioneering jam-grass act, but also one of the most innovative groups in the live music scene
Read MoreWin Tickets ($90): Al Franken @ Revolution Hall | The Only Former U.S. Senator Currently on Tour Tour
December 8 @ Revolution Hall – As far as anyone knows, Al Franken is the only U.S. Senator who was also one of the original writers for Saturday Night Live.
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