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Thursday, Nov. 14

PSU Women’s Chorus

PSU

Lincoln Recital Hall, Room 75, 503-725-3105

Noon

FREE

All ages

fpa.pdx.edu

Support your college, support women and support music, all on your lunch hour.

“An Enemy of the People” preview

PSU

Lincoln Performance Hall, 503-725-3105

8 p.m.

$2.50 general ad.

All ages

fpa.pdx.edu

Take advantage of this low-price preview! This play opens Friday and will cost you more than twice as much to see if you wait.

“The Deal”

Jack Oakes Theatre

2820 N.E. Sandy, 503-238-9692

Through Dec. 7

8 p.m.

Cover

All ages

A play that examines the political: What happens when police coerce suspects to incriminate themselves? Interesting.

Friday, Nov. 15

Silfredo La O Vigo

PSU

Peter Stott Center, Room 207, 503-725-5670

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

$8 student

$12 general ad.

All ages

www.pdx.edu

This is an Afro-Cuban dance workshop led by the graduate of the Nation School of the Arts in Havana. Go and learn to dance!

Taking Back Sunday, The Starting Line, The Exit, The Early November

B Complex

320 S.E. Second, 503-235-4424

7:30 p.m.

$12 advance general ad.

All ages

bherenow.net

Line is young and fresh-the oldest person in the band is 23! Sunday is so new, they don’t seem much older. Rock? This could be a lot of things.

MC Paul Barman, Whirlwind Heat, The Agenda, Jackie

The Meow Meow

527 S.E. Pine, 503-230-2111

8 p.m.

$10 advance general ad.

All ages

thrasherpresents.com

New Jersey-native Barman has been influenced by the Wu Tang Clan. This’ll be fun.

Yonder Mountain String Band

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W. Burnside, 503-225-0047

Through Nov. 16

Time TBA

$14 advance general ad.

All ages

danceonair.com

Check out the band’s name, and then find out that one man in the band plays a banjo. ‘Nuff said.

Shadows and Voices – Tchaikovsky’s Last Days

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 S.W. Broadway, 503-796-9293

7:30 p.m.

$11.50-$56 general ad.

All ages

pcpa.com

Mury Sidlin joins the Oregon Symphony to discover the effects that Tchaikovsky’s mental problems had on his works.

30 Days Notice

Conduit Dance Inc.

918 S.W. Yamhill, Ste. 401

8:30 p.m.

$10

$8 working artists, students, seniors

All ages

www.conduit-pdx.org

This event features artists in media, performance music and hybrid forms. Get out and support your local starving artists.

Saturday, Nov. 16

The Ditty Twisters

Music Millennium

801 N.W. 23rd, 503-248-0163

3 p.m.

FREE

All ages

www.musicmillennium.com

A live performance by the band promoting their white trash, absinthe-infected album Vicodin Saturday Night.

Blue Skies For Black Hearts

Ash Street Saloon

225 S.W. Ash, 503-226-0430

9 p.m.

FREE

21+

This is the CD release show for this melodic, depressive and all-around despondent music. Don’t be the drunk crying to yourself in the corner. Take along some peppy friends.

DEL, People Under The Stairs, Kut Masta Kurt, etc.

The Roseland Theatre

8 N.W. Sixth, 503-224-2038

9 p.m.

$17 advance general ad.

21+

jambase.com

“Tha funkee homosapien,” DEL is in town. It’s about damn time!

Sunday, Nov. 17

Legendary Pink Dots, Origami Galaktika

Berbati’s Pan

231 SW Ankeny, 503-248-4579

8:30 p.m.

$12 advance general ad.

21+

www.berbati.citysearch.com

Yay, an English band! Sampling some apocalyptic-style beats, the Dots have been going since before I was born. Oh yeah.

Korman/Conway Show

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 S.W. Broadway, 503-796-9293

3 p.m. and 8 p.m.

$TBA

All ages

pcpa.com

Harvey and Tim, respectively, performed on the Carol Burnett show in the 1970s and ’80s. This is pre-Saturday Night Live humor. Hilarious. *Highly recommended*

Monday, Nov. 18

Korn, Disturbed, Trust Company

Memorial Coliseum

1401 N. Wheeler, 503-321-3211

7:30 p.m.

$26.50 students

$37.25 general ad.

All ages

rosequarter.com

Jonathan Davis is past dreaming about sex all day. Now he’s made his way to PDX with a kilt, mediocre bagpipe playing and the ugliest facial hair imaginable.

Tuesday, Nov. 19

Aimee Mann

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W. Burnside, 503-225-0047

8 p.m.

$20 advance general ad.

All ages

danceonair.com

Oh, Aimee, you saved us from being overcome by falling frogs in the movie “Magnolia.” Come, save us again. *Highly recommended*

Compania Nacional de Danza

Keller Auditorium

S.W. Third and Clay, 503-248-4335

7:30

$20.50-$43 general ad.

All ages

pcpa.com

Straight from Spain, this is Danza’s first tour touching the Pacific Northwest. This is going to be beautiful.

OK Go

Roseland Grill

8 N.W. Sixth, 503-219-9929

Evening

Cover

21+

jambase.com

You’ve heard them on the radio, they were on Jay Leno and they had a moist photo shoot around a spraying fire hydrant. They’re gonna make it after all.

Wednesday, Nov. 20

“Patagonia-Chile and Argentina”

Scottish Rite Center

1512 S.W. Morrison, 503-241-2575

2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

$11.25-$12.75 general ad.

All ages

Educational items in the calendar? What’s going on? Go watch a film lecture narrated by Ken Armstrong. It touches upon evolution. Touchy, touchy.

One Year, One Night

Lola’s Room

1332 W. Burnside, 2nd floor, 503-225-0047

8 p.m.

$4 general ad.

21+

www.thrasherpresents.com

The third installment of a series covering music from 1987. Think “Smooth Criminal” (by Michael Jackson, not Alien Ant Farm) and “It’s The End of the World As We Know It.”

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