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Music Tonight: Thursday, April 4
The Alley Cats, also known as the Opera Alley Cats when they play the Speakeasy on that street, are a fine jazz group of varying size depending on who is up for the gig. However large or small, these...
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Music Tonight: Friday, April 5
We all love a good local band showcase, don’t we, folks? Tonight’s line-up spans the rock-to-punk pipeline, with a quartet of groups who all have names that sound like minor Teenage Mutant Ninja...
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Music Tonight: Saturday, April 6
The Sanctuary presents “Ladies Sing for Lady Day,” an appreciation of Billie Holiday, whose birth happened 109 years ago on Sunday. Musicians James Zeller, Danny Gaon and James Forrest will back up...
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Music Tonight: Sunday, April 7
Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka lends its church organ to the talents of Hungarian organist Sándor Balatoni, who will be joined by Hungarian American violinist Philip Ficsor, to play a series of solo...
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Music Tonight: Monday, April 8
Well, it’s another total eclipse day, though essentially just a partial at best for those of us on the West Coast and therefore outside of the path of totality. Not sure how you want to celebrate, I...
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, April 10
Regular readers know all about the beloved Metal Mondays at Savage Henry Comedy Club— and now the venue is expanding that general concept with Music Wednesday. Today’s offering is advertised as a...
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How to Survive This
I won't check the news right now if you won't. Instead, let's think about summer peaches so ripe we'll eat them leaning over the kitchen sink, or the crunching sound of walking on snow, and...
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The First Omen and Monkey ManFight Dirty
THE FIRST OMEN. With the recent spate of horror movies centered around nuns — from the Conjuring universe's spinoff and 2023 sequel, Immaculate's robes only lately sweeping out of the theater and now...
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Music Tonight: Thursday, April 11
The Basement continues its hit parade of steady weekly shows featuring killer local acts. Tonight’s feature is the jazz fusion group RLAD, which, when I saw them last in 2023 was composed of Tim...
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Music Tonight: Friday, April 12
I really don’t want to write about the pandemic, so I’ll just say that 2021 was a heavy time for this beat, and the only real moment of grace came when the fever broke a bit in November and I was able...
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Music Tonight: Saturday, April 13
Two free shows tonight at great local venues with some of the best and offbeat bands around. Rooster McClintock brings the fine country jams alongside Heaven’s Taint (lol), which I am told has a surf...
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Music Tonight: Sunday, April 14
Minnesota bluesman, picker, and singer-songwriter Charlie Parr is the real deal, by which I mean an artist who has sublimated the nerve-ending feedback signals of his life and the lives of those...
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Music Tonight: Monday, April 15
The Logger Bar hits us with a rare Monday night show at 7:30 p.m. and this one looks like a rip-snortin’, garage-rockin’ deal with our local lovelies Clean Girl and the Dirty Dishes cranking the amp...
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, April 17
Let’s hear it for the Logger Bar again, which has positively crushed it with booking this week, finishing strong with the return of Jenny Don’t and the Spurs, Portland’s favorite stardust country and...
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I want...
I want to be A good ancestor To plant seeds for Future generations To harvest I want to leave A foundation For strong community Happy and willing to Work together I want to work For bringing humanity...
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Civil War's Victory
CIVIL WAR. I would never call myself a science fiction head, as much for fear of reprisals from within the community as for the sake of accuracy. When the genre works, though, it can deliver vivid,...
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Music Tonight: Thursday, April 18
Local guitar playing and soothsaying storyteller Anna Hamilton brings her trio and its blues to the Basement tonight for a free recitation at 8 p.m. I remember her tunes and chatter fondly from the...
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Music Tonight: Friday, April 19
I like it when a new group I haven’t heard before drops a line to let me know about an upcoming gig because I am given the chance to see what the music makers (and the dreamers of dreams, per Roald...
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Music Tonight: Saturday, April 20
I’m too far removed from cannabis culture to comment on the current street value of 4/20 as a holiday, but I have to imagine it’s been a cycle of diminished returns regarding coolness in the wake of...
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Music Tonight: Sunday, April 21
Fans of ensemble vocal jazz and pop are in for a treat this afternoon when the Mad River Transit Singers present a matinee performance at Fulkerson Hall at 2 p.m. ($10, $5 children and seniors, free...
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Music Tonight: Monday, April 22
The calendar marks the onward tapping of time, and once again the first days of the working week is capped off with a 7 p.m. installment of Metal Mondays at Savage Henry Comedy Club. Tonight’s fare...
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, April 24
Speaking of hip hop (and for that matter, an organic, career-length artistic celebration of the fun side of weed) Houston’s screwball master MC, guest star and laid back producer Devin the Dude is...
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Take the Mods Thrifting
what goes better with the blue suede shoes: the pink peg slacks or the red blue jeans? This raspberry beret matches the pants, or I could do the fez and switch to the boogie shoes with the diamonds on...
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Team Efforts
THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE. When they're really cooking, Guy Ritchie movies can deliver a thrilling, funny, well-appointed (if slightly vapid) pastiche of Brit-crime in a heightened,...
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Music Tonight: Thursday, April 25
Come on down to the Basement tonight around 8 p.m. for an evening of music courtesy of the Claire Bent Jazz Quintet. I haven’t heard this exact line-up, but I can confirm that Ms. Bent has one of the...
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