Eugene friday 6 & saturday 7 KLCC Microbrew Festival 2015 Bringing classic fundraising out of the standard car washes and pledge drives, KLCC (Eugene’s NPR affiliate, 88.1) holds a microbrew tasting event instead featuring collaboration brews and a homebrew competition, along with a cd and record music sale. Seventy-five breweries will serve up 190 craft […]
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Out of Town 1/29-2/4
friday 30 Star Trek: Oregon Symphony Set your phasers to geek! If this event is actually interesting to you—a top-notch symphony covering the soaring soundtrack from the final frontier—then you probably care that the specific soundtrack to be covered (and film simultaneously shown) is the 2009 J.J. Abrams’ movie, with music composed by Michael Giacchino. […]
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Out of Town 1/21-1/29
thursday 22- sunday 1 Fertile Ground Festival The 11-day celebration of theatre and dance kicks off with Women on the Scarlet Beast. Written by Caroline Miller and directed by Cassandra Schwanke, Women follows three generations of marginalized women dealing with their own inner turmoil as the world changes around them. The city-wide festival which focuses […]
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Out of Town 1/14-1/22
portland thursday 15 – sunday 18 The Oregon Truffle Festival Perhaps lesser known then the grapes of the Willamette Valley are the French Truffles that grow abundantly in Oregon. In fact, the same advantageous climate that allows for a flourishing wine industry also produces what are known among the experts as the highest quality truffles […]
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Out of Town 1/7-1/15
saturday 10 The Builders & The Butchers They came from the cold, damp streets of Portland. Starting out busking on rainy corners and playing small shows in pizza shops and galleries, The Builders & The Butchers has progressed to bigger stages and higher wattages. In its recent albums, the group attempts to harness its raucous […]
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Out of Town 12/24-1/1
portland through saturday 27 Golden Girls Live: A Christmas Special Rose, Blanche, Dorothy, and Sophia—all played by adult men in pantyhose—celebrate Christmas the only way they know how…with quick witted comebacks and holiday cheer. Twenty two years after the show went off the air, the foursome’s bitchy banter is as sharp and hilarious as ever. […]
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Out of Town 12/10-12/18
portland thursday 11- sunday 14 Walking With Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular To transport the show from one city to the next requires 27 semi-trucks—which seems like something out of King Kong, and shouldn’t be surprising because they are moving 20 species of full-sized dinosaurs while, not quite alive, are as close as a caveman ever […]
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Out of Town 12/3-12/11
portland friday 5 Holiday Spectacular: Portland Cello Project and Ural Thomas & the Pain The Portland Cello Project has more soul than the average string group, and a reputation for transforming pop music with its evocative covers. But the group takes its genre-transcendence to the next level in its Holiday Spectacular with Ural Thomas—the 70-something […]
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Out of Town 11/27-12/3
portland friday 28 Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony Even the tallest dinosaur, the Cretaceous-era brachiosaurus only measured 50 feet tall, which means even standing on its hind legs (which it wasn’t capable of), the tallest dinosaur still could not even reach the top of the seventy-five-foot-tall tree in Portland’s Pioneer Square. The annual tree lighting and […]
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Out of Town 11/19-11/27
portland friday 21 Black Prairie and Swansea With the Decembrists announcing a duel European and U.S. tour set for January, it’s safe to assume that Black Prairie founders, Chris Funk (dobro) and Nate Query (bass) and other crossover band members Jenny Conlee (accordion) John Moenwill (drums), will be busy on stage with Colin Meloy for […]