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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...

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8 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...

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8 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...

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8 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...

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8 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...

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8 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...

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8 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,...

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8 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...

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8 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....

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8 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...

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8 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...

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8 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...

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8 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...

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8 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....

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8 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...

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8 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...

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8 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,...

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8 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...

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8 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...

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8 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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