A round up of what’s going on in Portland this week including festivals, concerts, comedy, trivia, happy hours, movies, & more!
Win Tickets ($110): Oregon Zoo Presents 2022 BrewLights | Adults Only, Featuring 45 Northwest Breweries & Cideries
November 18-19 @ Oregon Zoo – Join the Oregon Zoo for the fourth annual BrewLights, a ZooLights brew festival experience just for the 21-and-over crowd with more than 45 Northwest breweries and cideries to sample from.
Win Tickets ($70): Experience Theatre Project Presents 101 Extraordinarily Awful & Truly Terrible Ways to Die (in one night) @ Beaverton Masonic Lodge | Dark Sketch Comedy
October 28-29 @ Beaverton Masonic Lodge – Part improv, part side show, this Monty Python-like dark comedy will have you cheering “Death! Death! Death!” more than once.
Win Tickets ($34): Surf Curse, Toner @ Crystal Ballroom | Rock, Indie Pop
November 12 @ Crystal Ballroom – Surf Curse’s Nick Rattigan and Jacob Rubeck have been crafting sounds spanning from punk to psych rock for nearly a decade with a rabid and dedicated international fanbase and no end in sight.
Hip Chicks Do Wine Presents Pre-Holiday Wine Tasting | Appetizer Pairing, Holiday Sangria, Discounts
November 5-6 @ Hip Chicks Do Wine – Join us for a Pre-Holiday Wine Tasting paired with Holiday inspired appetizers.
MANY Portland Weekend Events & Giveaways ($2,100+): Season of Screams Haunted House, A-WOL After Hours, Art in the Burbs, Candy & Wine Pairing & More! | October 20-23, 2022
The weekend is back, Portland! Hip Chicks Do Wine will be pairing candy & wine this weekend. Get a head start on holiday shopping at Art in the Burbs. And Halloween Weekend is coming up fast, see our huge list of Halloween parties & events.
Portland in the News: Ghostbusters Firehouse; Fall Colors Covered Bridges Tour; Bug Museum & Petting Zoo | October 20, 2022
A vacation rental in Portland has recreated the Ghostbusters firehouse.
Portland’s Bug Museum + Petting Zoo is open in SE Portland.
And read up on this history of Portland’s notorious Shanghai Tunnels.
Win Tickets ($30): Tim Taylor Band: Birthday Bash @ Ponderosa Lounge & Grill | From Classic Rock to Hit Rock and Roll
November 19 @ Ponderosa Lounge & Grill – From Classic Rock to Hit Rock and Roll, Tim Taylor Band is ready to get y’all singing along with some face-melting jams!
Win Tickets ($40): 7 Deadly Sins: Haunted Storytelling for Adults @ Mission Theater | True Tales of Ghosts, Witches, Monsters & More!
Portland’s most sinful storytelling show returns from the dead this October 29 at Mission Theater with our own twist on Halloween campfire stories: 7 Deadly Sins: Haunted.
Win Tickets ($40): Psycho-a-Go-Go! 2022 A Rock & Roll Halloween Dance Party! @ Rainbow City in Old Town Portland | Costume Contest, DJs Rescue & Gregarious, The Edgar Allan Poser
October 29 @ Rainbow City – It’s our second year throwing our mind-blowing Rock & Roll Halloween DANCE party with DJs Rescue & Gregarious.
Portland Film Festival Presents Humanity Stoked @ Oregon Shore Crab Theater | Featuring Q&A w/ Filmmaker, Cast Member, & Pro Skater/Artist, Sebo Walker
October 18 @ Oregon Shore Crab Theater – Humanity Stoked is a feature length documentary featuring world-famous skateboarders, scientists, artists, musicians, activists and educators, all of whom share a love of skateboarding.
Win Tickets: On One Posse – Electro Boogie Dance Party @ The Goodfoot Pub & Lounge | Vinyl-based Funky Dance Party
October 27 @ The Goodfoot Pub & Lounge – On One Posse is one of PDX’s long time purveyors of vinyl-based funky dance parties.
Win Tickets ($112): Storm Large 2022 Holiday Ordeal @ Aladdin Theater in SE Portland | Music, Comedy, Special Guests
November 25-26 @ Aladdin Theater – Storm will love you, leave you, delight you and abuse you with a wicked charm and stunning vocals that will have you begging for more.
2022 The Big Lebowski Halloween Party @ Grand Central Bowl & Arcade in SE Portland | Costume Contest, White Russians, Bowling
October 28 @ Grand Central Bowl & Arcade – Come bowl the night away in your favorite costume.
Win Tickets ($59): Cory Wong: Power Station Tour @ Revolution Hall | Featuring Sierra Hull and Robbie Wulfohn (of Ripe)
November 9 @ Revolution Hall – Cory Wong fashions himself “a hype man,” first and foremost.
Win Tickets ($54): Craig Finn & The Uptown Controllers @ The Old Church Concert Hall | w/Bridget Kearney & Benjamin Lazar Davis
November 9 @ The Old Church Concert Hall – American singer-songwriter and musician Craig Finn, is best known as the frontman of the American indie rock band The Hold Steady.
Win Tickets ($64): Guster @ Revolution Hall | Alternative Rock, w/ Ratboys
American alternative rock band Guster is at Revolution Hall on November 8.
Win Tickets ($60): Glen Phillips (of Toad The Wet Sprocket) @ The Old Church Concert Hall | Rock, Folk
November 6 @ The Old Church Concert Hall – Since starting his solo career, Phillips has pared his music down to its emotional core, concentrating on the simple truths of love and relationships, with a profound spiritual understanding.
Win Tickets ($40): An Evening with My Siamese Twin @ Mission Theater | New Wave 80’s Tribute
December 2 @ Mission Theater – My Siamese Twin is a Portland based band that plays songs by your favorite alternative bands of the 80s.
Win Tickets ($50): An Evening with Lucy Kaplansky @ The Old Church Concert Hall | Folk, Rock, Bluegrass
November 4 @ The Old Church Concert Hall – Celebrated singer-songwriter Lucy Kaplansky is thrilled to announce the release of her ninth solo album, Last Days of Summer on Lucyricky Records.
Win Tickets ($44): Battle Trance (feat. Travis Laplante) + Blue Cranes @ The Old Church Concert Hall | Saxophonist, Composer
November 3 @ The Old Church Concert Hall – Travis Laplante is a saxophonist, composer, and qigong practitioner living in Brooklyn, New York and southern Vermont. Laplante leads Battle Trance, the acclaimed tenor saxophone quartet as well as Subtle Degrees, his newest project with drummer Gerald Cleaver.
Win Tickets ($50): Hermanos Gutiérrez El Bueno y El Malo Tour 2022 @ Mission Theater | Latin
November 13 @ Mission Theater – “When Alejandro and I play together, it’s like we are driving a car,” says Estevan Gutiérrez, one half of the guitar duo Hermanos Gutiérrez. “It’s like we are taking a road trip. Sometimes we’re driving through a desert. Sometimes we’re traveling up the coast.
Gather, Preserve, Share: 15 Year Celebration Gala for of The Hellenic-American Cultural Center & Museum | Tours, Dinner, Auction
November 12 @ Father Elias Stephanopoulos Center – Join The Hellenic-American Cultural Center & Museum for an unforgettable evening at their 15th anniversary gala that includes delicious food, a live auction, Greek dancing, and more!
Win Tickets ($44): Holy Fawn @ Mission Theater | w/ SOM, Grivo
November 9 @ Mission Theater – Through an otherworldly conjuration of heavy guitars, soothing dissonance, and textural space, HOLY FAWN invoke music from seen and unseen corners and crevices of the wilderness.
Win Tickets ($30): Object Heavy @ Mission Theater | w/ The Graduating Class, Progressive Soul, Funk, R&B
November 4 @ Mission Theater – Object Heavy is Northern California’s hardest hitting Soul sensation.
Queens & Screams: Halloween Drag Performance @ The Pharmacy in NW Portland | Hosted by Devlin Lynn Phoenixx
October 31 @ The Pharmacy – Join The Pharmacy for a spooktacular night of drag performances on Halloween Night!
A-WOL Dance After Hours: Trapped, Bound, Possessed @ Alberta Rose Theatre | Untamed Experience of Live, Sensual Artistry, Portland 2022 Halloween
October 21-22 @ Alberta Rose Theatre – After Hours is an untamed experience of live, sensual artistry that will make your eyes wide.
Murderboat & Code Name: Project Wonky Present Cosmic Circus 2-Night Halloween Party in NE Portland | DJs, Aerial Performances, Contortionists, Karaoke & More!
October 28-29 @ Alberta Abbey – Step right up! Come one! Come all! To the Greatest Show in the Universe…. if you dare.
MANY Portland Weekend Events & Giveaways ($2,000+): Haunted Corn Maze, Legends of the Otherworld, Haunted House, Spooky Escape Room & More! | October 13-16, 2022
The weekend is back, Portland! Cinema of Horrors continues w/ Beetlejuice, A Nightmare on Elm Street & More! Shop locally made goods from area artists and crafters at PDX Moon Market. And Halloween is coming up fast, get your party tickets soon!
Portland in the News: WNBA; Downtown Dining; Loretta Lynn’s Oregon Affair & More | October 13, 2022
Portland rapper Cool Nutz has been inducted into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame.
Loretta Lynn’s song Portland, Oregon is about a time she pretended to have an affair with her guitarist while in Portland.
And Portland is on the short list of cities the WNBA is considering for expansion.
2022 HOWL Awesome Halloween Dance Party @ The Den in SE Portland | Live Music, DJs, Benefit for City Repair Project
Huge Halloween dance party Howl is October 28-29 in SE Portland’s The Den. This 19th Annual Halloween Celebration is a benefit for the City Repair Project
I WANT CANDY 2022 Halloween Party @ Spare Room Restaurant & Lounge in NE Portland | 80s New Wave Costume Dance Party w/ DJs Cooky Parker and Disarray
October 29 @ Spare Room Restaurant & Lounge – Put yur Halloween costume & come to Spare Room for the 80s dance party you want, that you love, that you need!
Win Tickets ($55): The Milk Carton Kids & Katie Pruitt @ Revolution Hall | Indie Folk
October 20 @ Revolution Hall – Listening to The Milk Carton Kids — Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale — talk about their creative process, it’s easy to imagine them running in opposite directions even while yoked together.
Win Tickets ($60): Grateful Shred @ Aladdin Theater | Grateful Dead Tribute
October 20-21 @ Aladdin Theater – The thing is, Los Angeles-based Grateful Shred manage to channel that elusive Dead vibe: wide-open guitar tones, effortless three-part vocal harmonies, choogling beats, and yes, plenty of tripped out, Shredded solos.
Win Tickets ($90): An Evening with SIMRIT @ The Old Church Concert Hall | Punk Rock
October 21 @ The Old Church Concert Hall – “Imagine that the Aurora Borealis could sing: that’s Simrit’s voice. Timeless, Strong, and Ethereal as a whale’s song.”
Cancelled: The Island Tour with Etu @ Mission Theater | Featuring CRSB & Mo Musiq
November 11 @ Mission Theater – The Island Summer Tour featuring ETU, CRSB, & MO MUSIQ makes its stop in Portland.
Win Tickets ($50): Young Dubliners @ Mission Theater | Celtic Rock
December 4 @ Mission Theater – After thirty years as one of the world’s leading Celtic Rock bands, the Young Dubliners have begun work on their tenth studio album.
THIS WEEK in Portland: Festivals, Music, Comedy, Trivia, Theater, Happy Hours, & More!
| Today
Scooped Ice Cream Festival @ Esther Short Park in Vancouver, WA | 50+ Flavors of All You Can Eat Ice Cream
| Food & Drink
Chamber Music Northwest presents CONFLUENCE: Our Shared Voices 2026 Summer Festival | 70 of the world and our region’s finest chamber musicians!
| music
TeaFestPDX @ World Forestry Center | A Celebration of Tea Culture
| events, Food & Drink
St. Helens Independence Day Celebration 2026 @ Columbia View Park | Music, Food, and Activities for All Ages
| All Ages, events, Free
Win Tickets ($160): 2027 Portland Folk Festival @ Crystal Ballroom | 30+ Local & National Artists
| music
Win Tickets ($86): McMenamins Presents Madison Ryann Ward @ Mission Theater | Contemporary Christian, Pop + R&B
| music
Win Tickets ($70): McMenamins Presents “A Hot August Night” with Super Diamond @ McMenamins Grand Lodge in Forest Grove | The Neil Diamond Tribute
| music
Portland in the News: Waterfront Restaurant, Airport Accolades, Heatwave & More | June 11, 2026
| News
McMinnville Art Festival @ Downtown McMinnville | 50+ Artists & Artisans, Interactive Kids’ Crafting, Art Demos, & More
| All Ages, events, Free, Shopping, Visual Art
PRIDE at the Museum @ OMSI | A night at the museum celebrating the LGBTQ+ Community
| All Ages, events, Food & Drink, LGBTQ, Science, Shopping
Villain Arts Tattoo Festival @ The Rose Quarter | Celebrate the Art of Tattooing
| All Ages, events, Services, Shopping
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