portland thursday 13 – sunday 16 HUMP! It might be a little hard to wrap your brain around at first glance, but believe us when we say that Dan Savage’s HUMP! is good for the world. The Northwest-based, sex positive, amateur-produced porn festival is the only of its kind, inviting five-minute submissions of all types— […]
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Out of Town 11/5-11/13
portland friday 7 Bleachers After the hilarious Lena Dunham directed video for “I Wanna Get Better,” pop group Bleachers—a side project of Fun guitarist Jack Antonoff—reached #2 on the Alt and Rock charts with its debut Strange Desire. The video depicts Antonoff as a recently dumped psychiatrist dealing with loveless couples, over-sexed blondes and disgruntled […]
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Out of Town 10/29-11/6
portland friday 31 The Black Keys Blues music, costumes. Need we say more? One of the biggest revivalist successes in the indie-world and on the Top-40 charts in the last five years has been Ohio duo The Black Keys. Influenced by blues greats from Junior Kimbrough to Howlin’ Wolf and Robert Johnson, the band recently […]
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Out of Town 10/22-10/30
portland friday 24 Tom Green It’s been quite a while since I watched Road Trip or Freddy Got Fingered, but that doesn’t erase the quotable and totally timeless fart and butt jokes spewed by Tom Green in both films from my mind. Remember that time he documented the removal of his testicle? Or his ridiculous […]
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Out of Town 10/15-10/22
portland friday 17 Dave Attell Comedian Dave Attell has built his career and his standup set on getting drunk in strange cities and chatting about his raunchy experiences. Perhaps best known for his Comedy Central television show, “Insomniac with Dave Attell” which visited random US and European cities where Attell would drink irresponsibly and take […]
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Out of Town 10/8-10/16
portland friday 10 Wanda Sykes With a sense of humor that is both smart and approachable, comedian Wanda Sykes has gone from a National Security Agency staffer doing standup on the weekend to one of Entertainment Weekly’s 25 funniest people and the first African-American woman and first LGBT person to host the White House Correspondents’ […]
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Out of Town 10/2-10/9
portland monday 6 Luz Mendoza and Esmè Patterson Front woman of Latin-flavored folk band Y La Bamaba, Luz Mendoza, and former vocalist in Denver folk collective Paper Bird, Esmè Patterson, step out on their own to present a night of lady-centric pop. There are few women who write songs as well as these two, take […]
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Out of Town 9/25-10/2
portland thursday 25 The Orwells, with Skaters and The Picturebooks The Orwells come from a lineage of what could best be known as “The Illinois sound.” Like Cheap Trick and OK Go, fun, likable and rocking, with thumping bass drums and driving, cascading guitar riffs, and like their Midwestern brethren, they are as tight-knit as […]
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Out of Town 9/11-9/18
portland thursday 11 Mother Falcon An orchestral rock group from Austin, Tex., Mother Falcon has 20 collaborative members playing strings, horns, guitars, and percussion. The band produced perhaps one of the best tiny desk concerts ever with its dozens of members packed into the minuscule space of NPR’s offices vehemently yelling, stomping and I assume, […]
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Out of Town 9/4-9/11
portland thursday 4 Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog During the 2007-2008 TV writers strike, instead of sitting on his butt and complaining, Joss Whedon kept on writing. The result was some of the best work of his career, a 40-minute Internet-distributed short starring the effervescent Neil Patrick Harris as Dr. Horrible, a misfit villain trying really […]