portland thursday 7 Foxy Shazam is a band that is as dazzling as its name, a group of crusty, over-the-top rockers that will rip your heart out of your chest with their stunning live performances. The singer is known for eating lit cigarettes on stage and for his fits of spastic and enthralling performance, that […]
Trombone Shorty
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Our Picks 11/13 – 11/21
thursday 14 Author! Author! with Rebecca Skloot READING—Rebecca Skloot’s 2010 book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” tells the disturbing and fascinating story of the living legacy of a sharecropper’s unique cells and, more broadly, exploitation and racism. 7 pm, Bend High Auditorium, 230 NE 6th St. $20 general, $75 preferred seating. thursday 14 Pyro […]
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Brass Punch
New Orleans jazz artist Trombone Shorty packs a Big Easy wallop
When New Orleans trombone player Troy Andrews—stage name Trombone Shorty—takes to Twitter, 99 percent of his posts have at least one exclamation point; sometimes three, occasionally four. In many ways, it’s the perfect metaphor for a career punctuated by an explosive rise to new wave jazz greatness in one of America’s most remarkable cities. The […]