Monday, Sept. 23
Howie Day
Music Millennium
801 N.W. 23rd, 503-248-0163
6:30 p.m.
FREE
All Ages
www.musicmillennium.com/inStore.html
Promoting Australia, his debut album, 21-year-old Day will perform his melancholy tunes in the style of musicians like U2 and Jeff Buckley. Expect a smattering of new material from the singer-songwriter.
Tuesday, Sept. 24
Dianne Kornberg/Sharon Harper
Savage Gallery
416 N.W. 10th, 503-223-2868
Sept. 20-Nov. 2
6-10 p.m.
FREE
All Ages
www.savagegallery.com
Kornberg presents an exhibit of photographs of the biological persuasion. Harper’s black-and-white photography looks like impressionism with a camera.
“Much Ado About Nothing”
Portland Center Stage, Newmark Theatre
1111 S.W. Broadway, 503-274-6588
Sept. 24-Oct. 19
$12 youth (under 25)
$12-47 general
All Ages
www.pcs.org
You’ve watched enough movies of Shakespearean plays. Go see one live!
Wednesday, Sept. 25
Money Mark with A.I.
Dante’s
1 S.W. Third Ave., 503-226-6630
8:30 p.m.
$10 advance (Fastixx)
21+
www.thrasherpresents.com/Oregon.html#1688
Playing at Dante’s is Money Mark, the keyboard whiz that boosted the Beastie Boys to fame. A.I. invents what they like to call “rocktronic.”
Thursday, September 26
“La Chunga”
The Miracle Mainstage
425 S.E. Sixth, 503-236-7253
Sept. 20-Oct.19
7:30 p.m.
$11 student
$13 general ad
All Ages
www.milagro.org
This is a play about a woman born in a house of ill repute in Peru. If you like romance novels, you’ll love the plot.
New Bomb Turks: Farewell Tour
Satyricon
125 N.W. Sixth, 503-243-2380
10 p.m.
$8 general ad
21+
www.clubsatyricon.com
Playing with Fireballs of Freedom, The Rock and Roll Soldiers and The Hunches, the Turks will spice up your Thursday.
Friday, September 27
Danny Godinez Band
Music Millennium
801 N.W. 23rd, 503-248-0163
5 p.m.
FREE
All Ages
www.musicmillennium.com/inStore.html
Danny just might be the next guitar god. Check out this free performance before the band gets too famous.
The Mooney Suzuki, Sahara Hotnights, Immortal Lee County Killers, The Modey Lemon, Dan Melchior’s Broke Revue
Berbati’s Pan
10 S.W. Third, 503-248-4579
8:30 p.m.
$8 advance (Fastixx)<
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21+
www.thrasherpresents.com/Oregon.html#1720
The Moonies: energetic, sweaty New Yorkers. Sahara Hotnights: Swedish punk. Broke Revue: Dan Melchior.
The Frames, Waxwings, Young & Sexy, Victory at SeaThe Blackbird
3728 N.E. Sandy Blvd., 503-282-9949
9:30 p.m.
$8 general ad
21+
www.theblackbird.org/september.html
A concert including Victory at Sea, a band that moves from raging rock to toned-down rock with a piano. Check it out.
“Much Ado About Nothing” Opening Celebration
Portland Center Stage, Newmark Theatre
1111 S.W. Broadway, 503-274-6588
Directly after 8 p.m. performance
FREE
All Ages
Cocktails, dancing and discussions with the cast, all in one place. Shakespeare is more comprehensible after a few glasses of wine anyway.
“Leaving Ruin”
The West End Theatre
1220 S.W. Taylor St., 503-645-7509
Sept. 27-28
8 p.m.
$10 students
$14 general ad
All Ages
A one-man show written and performed by Jeff Berryman. This play is the story of a man trying to hear God. Maybe he should rent “Dogma.”
Saturday, Sept. 28
11th Annual Portland Juggling Festival/2002 Juggling and Vaudeville Extravaganza
Reed College Sports Center/Benson High School Auditorium
3203 S.E. Woodstock/546 N.E. 12th, 503-249-1135
10 a.m.-6 p.m./7 p.m.
$10 student
$14 adult (Fastixx or at door)
All Ages
www.portlandjugglers.com
The Extravaganza features jugglers from Cirque du Soleil’s “Dralion,” including Viktor Kee. It’s about time you acted like a kid again.
Tourbillion/Willy Porter/Steve Tugwell
Music Millennium
801 N.W. 23rd, 503-248-0163
1 p.m./3 p.m./5 p.m.
FREE
All Ages
www.musicmillennium.com/inStore.html
Live performances by Tourbillion (French cabaret and folk songs), Porter (comfortable acoustic guitar player) and Tugwell (Elliot Smith-ish) will give you some real culture. Especially singer Claudine of Tourbillion.
Midtown, Recover, Taking Back Sunday, No Thanks To You Meow Meow
527 S.E. Pine, 503-230-2111
7:30 p.m.
$10 advance (Fastixx), general ad
All Ages
www.thrasherpresents.com/Oregon.html#1638
In concert in PDX after touring with Blink-182. Midtown has come out from the underground, and Taking Back Sunday should prove to be an original act.
Kreator, Destruction, Cephalic Carnage, December Ash Street Saloon
225 S.W. Ash, 503-226-0430
9 p.m.
$16 advance (Fastixx), general ad
21+
www.thrasherpresents.com/Oregon.html#1618
Kreator is amazingly precise for a German thrash metal act. The companion bands try to follow suit.
Sunday, Sept. 29
Tim Otto & Julie Nunez (a.k.a. Nancy & Lee)
Music Millennium
801 N.W. 23rd, 503-248-0163
5 p.m.
FREE
All Ages
www.musicmillennium.com/inStore.html
Performing live, Nancy and Lee will play songs from their album 11 Original “Folkabilly” Songs. You’ll know if you want to go.
Relient K, Bleach, Philmore, Holland
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W. Burnside, 503-225-0047
8 p.m.
$12 advance (Ticketmaster)
All Ages
www.thrasherpresents.com/Oregon.html#1582
Christian guys + punk rock = ? Go see them and let me know.
Tribe 8
The Blackbird
3728 N.E. Sandy Blvd., 503-282-9949
9:30 p.m.
Cover
21+
www.theblackbird.org
Performing their special brand of “queercore punk rock,” Tribe 8 will surely entertain. Watch out, they have been known to play topless (with a chainsaw).