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It’s hard to imagine two people who do loosely the same thing being more different than Giles Taylor and Doug Benson. Taylor, a classically trained actor and musician from the UK, plays the stunning role of Freddie Mercury in the show, “Queen—It’s a Kinda Magic,” while Benson, a former hard-traveling optical engineer from San Diego, […]
portland saturday 2 Oregon Burlesque Festival Headlined by Canadian burlesque star Lydia De Carllo, the inaugural Oregon Burlesque Festival packs a professional punch with producers Tana the Tattooed Lady, Holly Dai and Ellie Darling. The weekend-long event kicks off Thursday at the Funhouse Lounge with a newcomers and local talent expose. Friday’s show highlights the […]
COVER BANDS—It’s just another manic Monday, but the dark Brit-rock sounds of Joy Division (Dead Souls), Siouxsie & the Banshees (Spellbound) and Sisters of Mercy (Reptile House) bring the catharsis with their gothic ’80s lullabies. Pretend you never left your moody teenage years (or your bedroom). Paint your nails black, dig out your leather jacket […]
COVER BAND—Bust out your Hawaiian shirts and salt those rims, Eugene-based Jimmy Buffett cover band The Cheeseburgers is bringing a taste of paradise to the high desert. Whether you’re a Parrothead or a reluctant fan, you probably know most of the words to Buffett’s many gulf-and-western songs of tropical escape. It’s summer. Kick back and let the […]
Bend rapper Jay Tablet is back with a new album, and it’s really good.
“Hoka Hey,” a Sioux battle cry loosely meaning, “Today is a good day to die,” is the motto that Nahko and the Medicine People live and play music by. They call it their own prayer of intention to take direct action and perhaps make today a better day to live. The band’s globally and politically […]
TV Mike and the Scarecrows Chugging along to the beat of its own folksy drummer somewhere between Wilco and a Californian dog day afternoon, TV Mike and the Scarecrows aren’t searching for a lost brain, they’re masterminding a Laurelhurst Canyon resurgence. Local favorites Wilderness open. Sat., July 26. 9 pm. Volcanic Theatre Pub, 70 SW […]
The most expensive scene in silent film history belongs to Buster Keaton’s The General, the highly acclaimed locomotive obsessed caper about a man and his beloved train (and his fiancé, or whatever) at the breakout of the Civil War. The scene involved a single-take of 500 horse-mounted extras from the Oregon National Guard, a dummy […]
portland saturday 26 Cannibal! The Musical From the creator of “South Park,” The Book of Mormon and Team America comes what aims to be the “first intelligent musical about cannibalism”—a void in the arts world clearly waiting to be filled. In the spirit of Evil Dead: The Musical (itself in the spirit of Blue Man […]
tuesday 22 Charlie Parr FOLK—With his long scraggly hair, father-time beard, thrift-store workingman’s flannel and jeans, and emphatic, throaty voice, Parr looks and sounds like the real deal. The Minnesota old-timer, with his three instruments—a banjo and two Nationals—draws his inspiration from growing up in cold Minnesota without a TV but instead with an arsenal […]
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