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Add to calendar, #Portland perverts & comics nerds: Felicia Day WITH Erika MOEN 3/20, $30 (!) at the suburban Powells, which is out of the way but oh that manga selection...
https://www.powells.com/events/felicia-day-9781668010723

#portland stuff to see & do TODAY

Hurry! "Last Unicorn" 3 pm https://hollywoodtheatre.org/

Queer cult musical (?) "Peaches Goes Bananas" https://tomorrowtheater.org/movies/peaches-goes-bananas/

Kelly Reichardt small town feminist classic "Certain Women"
https://cstpdx.com/event/certain-women/

"Mean Girls" passing comedy (?) "Slanted" looks.. triggering. https://pdx.livingroomtheaters.com/home

"Ellis Island" New World classical, Opera on Tap https://www.livemusicproject.org/

Egyptian funk for Jazz Fest! https://www.tixr.com/groups/thegetdownpdx/events/mitchum-yacoub-jungle-fire-161021

Neil from "Young Ones" voice: lads, what if we spent the #Portland Arts Tax money on... art.
https://www.orartswatch.org/portland-art-organizations-ask-for-unspent-arts-tax-funds-more-public-support/

Medieval music written for- get this!- SINGING NUNS, #portland ...
https://pbo.org/2025-26-season/hidden-women-of-rome

"Undertone", "Death Becomes Her", "Song of the Sea"... https://www.academytheaterpdx.com/

*World premier* of a chamber opera about a Silicon Valley UFO death cult. https://www.livemusicproject.org/events/170225/third-angle-new-music-dies-irae-desiree

"Hobbit" films! https://tickets.omsi.edu/events?meta.group2=Middle-earth

St John Cinema celebrates 100 years! https://northpeninsulareview.com/a-century-of-cinema-local-theater-defies-industry-trends/

"Mildred Pierce" 11 am tomorrow. https://www.cinema21.com/movie/mildred-pierce-1945

The one. The only. "BORN IN FLAMES" https://www.5thavecinema.com/

Women in Jazz, Bossa nova style! https://the1905.turntabletickets.com/events

Silksong / Hollow Knight music tribute? Hmm! https://www.livemusicproject.org/events/170383/knights-of-tears-tribute-to-music-from-hollow-knight-and-silksong

Eco Film Festival presents Agnes Varda's "The Gleaners and I", #portland film fam... https://hollywoodtheatre.org/show/the-gleaners-and-i/

"Twilight: New Moon"! https://cstpdx.com/event/the-twilight-saga-new-moon-3/

"Little Shop of Horrors", "Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"... https://www.thecinemagictheater.com/

"The Last Waltz"! https://tomorrowtheater.org/movies/the-last-waltz-x-johnny-franco-and-his-real-brother-dom/

RIP Hollywood Theatre's BlueSky Social presence...

Just backed #portland #comics and movie god David Walker's "The Monster of Blackenstyne" cuz it looks hella fun.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dfwalker/the-monster-of-blackenstyne

Mystery movie for FREE Weird Wednesday, #portland suburban film fam... https://www.thejoycinema.com/index.html

"Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" https://tickets.thecinemagictheater.com/movie/henry-portrait-of-a-serial-killerhttps://tickets.thecinemagictheater.com/movie/henry-portrait-of-a-serial-killer

"Slap Shot" in 35 mm! https://hollywoodtheatre.org/show/slap-shot-in-35mm/

Portland Opera: "Fellow Travelers"! Our tickets have a "partial nudity" warning, ooOOOoooh https://www.livemusicproject.org/events/159994/portland-opera-fellow-travelers

Lady Killers comedy fundraiser for a women's shelter! https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/58235011/lady-killers-one-year-anniversary-show-hosted-by-ally-j-ward-devan-daily-portland-show-bar

Live Wire taping with Brazilian rock music. $75, yikes https://www.livewireradio.org/live-shows/2026311

#Portland , if you're EV curious, there are test drive events in April.
https://driveelectricearthmonth.org/event?eventid=5081

We love our Chevy Bolt, 'use it ~ 2x/week to go to the movies, hardware store etc. 2-4x a year we head to the coast, Seattle, Ashland, etc. No recharge drama so far?

"Van Helsing"?? Ha ha sure, why not... https://www.thecinemagictheater.com/

Space-themed classical at Linfield... https://www.livemusicproject.org/events/170630/arcturus-winds-at-linfield-university

Jazz fest continues, #portland : Cochemea w/ Dreckig at Holocene...
https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/61380110/biamp-portland-jazz-festivalcochemea-wdreckig-portland-holocene

Native American jazz from Diné trumpeter Delbert Anderson... https://aftontickets.com/BiampPortlandJazzFestivalDelbertAndersonQuartet

And the PSU Vocal Collective! https://www.pdx.edu/music-theater/events/psu-vocal-collective-3

Tapas Tuesday bike advisory meetup, NE PDXers. https://www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-23328

Saw- and loved!- "Hoppers" but remember, Pixar is corporate and corporate art still sucks, so... https://www.fandango.com/mcmenamins-bagdad-theater-aahhm/theater-page

"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", #portland film fam... https://www.thecinemagictheater.com/

"Undertone" is a podcast horror that sounds "Pontypool" intriguing? If U go see, let me know... https://www.studioonetheater.com/undertone/

Japanese in California noir mystery novel talk at Powells tonight.. https://www.powells.com/events/naomi-hirahara-9781641296083

"Begonia" back on the biggish screen! https://pdx.livingroomtheaters.com/movie/bugonia

Indie journalism under attack doco "My Undesirable Friends" 4 pm, #portland film fam...
https://tomorrowtheater.org/movies/my-undesirable-friends-part-i-last-air-in-moscow/

2 pm Dinosaurs n' Classical music for the kids!
https://www.livemusicproject.org/events/158913/oregon-symphony-family-series-dinosaurs

4:30 "Holding Liat" presented by the Oregon Jewish Museum... https://www.cinema21.com/movie/ST00002746-holding-liat

Swinging Sounds Jazz Jam 6 pm FREE https://jazzoregon.org/event/pdx-jazz-festival-various-venues-0

Dystopian scifi "The Red Spectacles" (1987).
https://hollywoodtheatre.org/show/the-red-spectacles/

2 pm Alberta Rose Theatre, #portland music critters: West coast premiere of The North American Indigenous Songbook!

https://albertarosetheatre.com/event/resonance-ensemble-presents-north-american-indigenous-songbook-west-coast-premiere/alberta-rose-theatre/portland-oregon/

Ok, #portland theater critters, kinda losing my mind over upcoming events:

"Sojourner" at Passin Art, Friday nights, 3 pm Sat / Sun through 3/22... https://passinart.org/event/sojourner

Lavender Scare opera "Fellow Travelers" 3/7, 3/11, 3/13/ 3/15...
https://www.portlandopera.org/performances-tickets/25-26-season/fellow-travelers

Black gay Hamlet riff "Fat Ham" at PCS in collaboration with Portland Playhouse 4/19 - 5/17. 'Saw this last year in a sweltering rehearsal space packed with theater kids. Go. GO.
https://www.pcs.org/fat-ham

"Burges-La-Morte" for Church of Film, #portland fam. Looks "Don't Look Now" creepy/dreamy... https://cstpdx.com/event/bruges-la-morte-1978-church-of-film/

Fast & Furious parody "Torque". Adam Scott and Ice Cube are in this! https://hollywoodtheatre.org/show/torque/

"Streets of Fire", "Go" https://www.thecinemagictheater.com/

Joy Cinema's 9:15pm FREE Weird Wednesday will be a surprise. Over 18 only. https://thejoycinema.com/index.html

And in Camas: "Arco", Werner Herzog's "Ghost Elephants", 'Tender Mercies", "Othello". https://www.camasliberty.com/

MOLLY Awards submissions open, y'all. $5,000 prize for journalism; $1,000 for political cartoons and #comics journalism. Go get it! #uspol
https://www.texasobserver.org/molly-awards/the-molly-awards-submissions/

“That’s a lot of blood.”

Trump's chief military creep is a racist, misogynist, homophobic dipsomaniac hellbent on triggering End Times.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/troops-being-told-to-prepare-for-armageddon-in-iran_n_69a6ffe3e4b076ac5d63c82c

Native American Vietnam War survivor Rick BARTOW show at PAM *devastated* me. Through Fall 2027. Recommended, #Portland
https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/rick-bartow-storyteller/

And the video loops of Black women comedians and musicians on the 1st floor, daaaamn... https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/mickalene-thomas-do-i-look-like-a-lady/

"The Demolitionist" at B-Movie Bingo, #portland cult film fam. Just watched trailer-- Oh yeah. Low budget, soft-core lit Lady Terminator.

"Arco" is in Camas, WA? And they get "Ghost Elephants" tomorrow?? https://www.camasliberty.com/

"Sirât"...
https://pdx.livingroomtheaters.com/movie/sirt

Personal fav: "Streets of Fire" aka The Million Dollar Tarp... https://tickets.thecinemagictheater.com/movie/streets-of-fire/

"Book Smart", $5!!! https://cstpdx.com/event/booksmart/

.. Șo if the media could fact check Reddit's claim that Hegseth claims the Iran War is for Armageddon... #uspol
https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/1rjey2m/us_troops_were_told_iran_war_is_for_armageddon/

Black community TV retrospective! https://hollywoodtheatre.org/show/a-black-community-television-retrospective/

"Shin Ultraman"! https://tomorrowtheater.org/movies/shin-ultraman-x-brain-dead/

#portland Jewish Film Fest is go! Tonight: "Among Neighbors"
https://tomorrowtheater.org/movies/among-neighbors-portland-jewish-film-festival/

Ooh "Blow Out" https://tickets.thecinemagictheater.com/movie/blow-out-1/

YES. "Spook Who Sat by the Door"! https://cstpdx.com/event/the-spook-who-sat-by-the-door-2/

"Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind"
https://tickets.omsi.edu/events/f7d52eea-45a3-67f1-6c0c-98a38345c250

"Daughters of the Dust" FREE, #portland https://cstpdx.com/event/daughters-of-the-dust/

First woman to win directing Oscar: "Seven Beauties"! https://www.5thavecinema.com/

The Mother Hips https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/38679807/the-mother-hips-portland-mississippi-studios

"Sinners", "Train Dreams", "Days of Heaven", "Magnolia", nasty noir "Ace in the Hole"... https://www.academytheaterpdx.com/

"Go", Viking revenge "Furious" https://www.thecinemagictheater.com/

Oscar shorts, "Pillion", tomorrow morning: Godard's "Band of Outsiders" https://www.cinema21.com/

Sun Ra Live SOLD OUT

Just backed Jonathan Baylis's "So Buttons: Who’s My Daddy?" autobiographical #comics Kickstarter. 'Had me at "van Sciver". https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sobuttonscomics/so-buttons-whos-my-daddy-and-what-does-he-do-eisner-nom

Lucky ducks of #losangeles get Dr Z Live this weekend, with guests including Steve Agee of "Peacemaker". Jealous! https://www.dynastytypewriter.com/calendar-squad-up?event-id=129156

Tonight, #portland peeps:

Oregon Justice Resource Center presents "To Catch a Fascist" https://cstpdx.com/event/to-catch-a-fascist-with-christopher-mathias/

Community dance at Reed 6-7:30pm https://www.reed.edu/dance/community-dance/

Crazy desert adventure/nightmare film "Sirāt" https://everout.com/portland/events/sirat/e231986/

Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" https://www.livemusicproject.org/events/158909/oregon-symphony-mozart-vivaldis-four-seasons

Animated Oscar shorts! https://hollywoodtheatre.org/show/animated-oscar-nominated-short-films-3/

"Solaris" (1972) https://tickets.thecinemagictheater.com/movie/solaris1/

High Desert Speaker Series for tree lovers.
https://tomorrowtheater.org/movies/rooted-in-eastern-oregon-high-desert-tree-identification/

And finished! Jut in time to recommend for #blackhistorymonth : "The Black Angels - The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis" by Maria Smilios. #bookstodon

This is a hard read- racism, sexism, Jim Crow, mask skeptics, autopsies / brutal surgeries - but what a story. Witnesses to medical history literally dying to treat the most hopeless cases.

John Finnemore: What I said about Prince Andrew in 2011. https://johnfinnemore.substack.com/p/what-i-said-about-prince-andrew-in

"Arco" *wrecked* us, #film fam. If you dig the #hopepunk of "Nausicaä", the heartbreak of "After Yang", the We Can DO This! tenacity of "Interstellar"...

At our screening: 50% Asian (!); a discussion group on climate change etc broke out as the credits started.

Spouse: "I'm not crying! You're crying."

Tonight, #portland jazz heads: KMHD Listener Skate Night at Oaks Park 7 pm! https://everout.com/portland/events/kmhd-listner-skate-night/e231156/

I don't mind when techbros take inspiration from science fiction, but remember: Those folks also wrote fantasy, mysteries, and Westerns to get by. More CEO announcements should be like, "After AI gets us to Mars, we can more easily fight the dragon queen in her moon shrine."