8 Days: Winter folk jams, artsy hang-outs, and charities actually worth your...
THURSDAY 7 HELP A CHILD | We’re in the “giving season,” so to speak, a time when it’s also important to remember that not all charities are 100 percent trustworthy and benevolent. If you’re suspicious...
View Article8 Days a Week: Noise heroes, mass seduction, and music scene love
THURSDAY 30 MIC DROP | There’s one person sinfully omitted from the Best Noise Act category of our Portland Music Awards, it’s Crank Sturgeon. That’s because he’s basically already received a lifetime...
View Article8 Days A Week: Beatles' Nights, Funk Nights, Worst Nights
THURSDAY 23 GIVE RIGHT | If you’re someone in need of a meal today, the soup kitchen team from Wayside Food Programs is offering a free Thanksgiving dinner from noon to 1. | Deering Center Community...
View Article8 Days a Week: Men breaking down, pre-holiday anxieties, and constructive...
THURSDAY 16 REAL BOYS | If there’s one thing men could learn from this cultural moment, it’s that they have a lot of work to do. Earlier this week, the journalist Eve Peysey published a piece titled...
View Article8 Days a Week: Cannabis Fighters, Rap Legends, No Mansplainers
THURSDAY 9 HEAR THIS | Everyone grew up so punk. Bucking the authority of fathers, teachers, priests and blowhards was one of the first things many of us learned to do. It's a defensible move, one I'd...
View Article8 Days: Electronic mayhem, ancient art-forms, and chances to be a better person
THURSDAY 2 PEOPLE NEED A PUSH | No matter how many of our Facebook friends complain about the latest political issue, voter turnout continues to be abysmal. Imagine if everyone that lamented about...
View Article8 Days a Week: Petty Worship, American Primitivism, and Reproductive Justice
THURSDAY 26 NOW ZONING | The only style of music it's impossible to grow out of is jazz. Book it! True statement! Test that theory the next few decades if you don’t trust me, but if you already do,...
View Article8 Days a Week: The Undead, The Timeless, and the Stone Aged
THURSDAY 19 HUMBLE BOWS | Some say the world has already been built, that its great artists have already sung their songs, its coliseums hosted their finest battles, and that we're just here to...
View Article8 Days: Small Town Horrors, Uncovered Gems, and Art Dissections
THURSDAY 12 BEST IN THE BIZ | A big reason why Portland — unlike some rapidly growing American cities — retains its unique and hyper-local charm, is because of the success of its small businesses....
View Article8 Days a Week: American troubadours, Intelligent Senators, and Peace efforts
THURSDAY 5 BASIC ECSTASIES | One of the myriad highlights of last weekend's Waking Windows festival was watching artist Chani Bockwinkel deliver a passionate, scripture-driven lecture as Justin...
View Article8 Days: Questionable Comedy, High-Flying Dancers, and a Whole Bunch of Rats
THURSDAY 28 GET VERTICAL | If you’re in the area, make sure to spend your lunch break in Congress Square Park today, because you’ll get to witness something exciting and unusual: acrobats, tethered...
View Article8 Days a Week: Dark Crystals, Half Moons, All Black Everything
THURSDAY 21 FOISTED EAST | One of the summer's successful music series, Are You Kidding Me? Tapes' Thursday night showcases of weird, experimental, and next-wave rock, has moved from Geno's Rock Club...
View Article8 Days a Week: Posi-Jams, Lawn Hangs, and Street Talk
THURSDAY 14 HERE'S YOUR CHANCE | Tell you what. You could skip this whole weekend and drive to New York right now to see the Fall, the legendary post-punk band from Manchester, UK, fronted by the...
View Article8 Days a Week: Six-Fingered Men, Victorian Revivals, and Badass Poets
THURSDAY 7 TO BLAVE | One of the most quoted, celebrated, and influential movies of a generation, the '80s fantasy film The Princess Bride gets a one-night-only screening at the Nickelodeon tonight....
View Article8 Days A Week: Ear Candy, Brain Food, and Sublime Moments
THURSDAY 31 IN MEMORIAM | Almost 100 people are dying every day from drug related accidents or overdoses. Experts say that half a million Americans will die from opiates in the next decade. The problem...
View Article8 Days A Week: Time Machines, Politically Conscious Comedy, and the Fight of...
THURSDAY 24 FLASHBACK | In these anxiety-inducing times, where it seems that World War III, Civil War II, or domination from technological overlords could each easily be over the horizon, many of us...
View Article8 Days a Week: Disney Burlesque, Haitian Pop, and Showin' Up
THURSDAY 17 FINGERS CROSSED FOR URSULA | In a reckless world, onight's burlesque show is something you can put some faith in. Produced by the smart, silly, multimedia-friendly Voulez-Vous Cabaret,...
View Article8 Days A Week: Dead Whales, Resurrected Goddesses, and Other Hallucinations
THURSDAY 10 ATLANTIC INJUSTICE | The sixth screening in the Portland Public Library’s free Point of View Documentary Series commences this night, offering a break from an otherwise stressful and...
View Article8 Days a Week: Rainbows, Moonlight, Ghost Stories, and Dark Stars
THURSDAY 3 PICTORIAL BUCKET LIST | Maine folks could soon be running out of chances to see Moonlight, Barry Jenkins's gripping 2016 coming-of-age tale about a young black man growing up in Miami. The...
View Article8 Days a Week: Beer Festivals, Country Dads, and Radical Compassion
THURSDAY 27 LET IT DRIPPETH | All damn day, the folks at the Oxbow facility in Portland host a tap intrusion by Jester King, a farmhouse brewery outta Austin, Texas, said to eff around with...
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