Mister Yuck stickers were emphasized growing up for the obvious reasons. I recall watching news coverage of an anomalous tidal wave and thinking about all the Mister Yuck stickers washing into the ocean, fearful of exposure.
My dad, Jeff, drinks from plastic bottles filled with Naboo's purified water because he doesn’t trust the tap anymore.
The mosquitoes fly until October these days. Last fall they stuck around all the way into November. I heard officials are considering eradicating certain species.
It’s mid February now and the ants are already swarming inside Portland homes. I make use of them and project my sticky tongue to lap them up and gain their protein. Some comic relief in times of scarcity.
People expect everything to be serious like Terminator, but there’s value in childlike play.
You can’t underestimate anyone. One day you’re banished for your clumsiness and the next you’re elected a senator. Life and politics are equally convoluted. Among the conflicting opinions and social turmoil, I often don’t know what to believe.
I have this memory from early childhood where I’m lying on my parent’s bed staring up toward the skylight and an extinct fish meanders in and out of view, for only a moment.
Do you ever see pictures of organisms of the past and feel a deep sense of yourself implicated in universal forces?
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Hot Pants is the first in a series of two solo presentations by Joseph McGehee. These pop-ups will be exhibited within two months of each other in partial fulfillment of an undergraduate thesis project at The Pacific Northwest College of Art.
http://josephmcgehee.com/
Hot Pants
Friday March 11 - Sunday March 13
Opening March 11, 6-9 pm
Gallery hours: Saturday and Sunday, 12-6 pm
Julia Haft-Candell
Kristan Kennedy
Evan La Londe
A marginal tic
March 11 – April 23, 2016
Julia Haft-Candell is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. Haft-Candell’s recent exhibitions include Double Knot, Ochi Projects (Los Angeles, 2016); Loop, IKI IKO (Los Angeles, 2015); Where the Sand Worm Slumbers, The Pit (Los Angeles, 2015); Sculpting in Time, Glendale College Art Gallery (Glendale, 2014); Corporeal Impulse, Vincent Price Art Museum (Monterey Park, 2014); Sight Unseen Offsite (New York, 2014).
Kristan Kennedy is an artist and curator, whose has held recent solo exhibitions at the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum at Flagler College (St. Augustine, 2016) and Ditch Projects (Eugene, 2016) (forthcoming); Soloway (Brooklyn, 2014) and Fourteen30 Contemporary (Portland, 2013.) Group exhibitions include Sincerely Yours, Torrance Art Museum (Torrance, 2015); A Soul Selects Her Own Society, Law Waschaw Gallery, Macalester College (St. Paul, 2015); OO, Misako and Rosen (Tokyo, 2013); and Paint Off/Paint On, Halsey McKay (East Hampton, 2013). Kennedy lives and works Portland, Oregon.
Evan La Londe lives and works in Portland, Oregon. La Londe has presented work in numerous group exhibitions including Portland 2014: A Biennial of Contemporary Art, curated by Amanda Hunt, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center (Portland, 2014); Material Object, Charlie James Gallery (Los Angeles, 2014) and Untitled (Collage with Squares Arranged According to Chance) Fourteen30 Contemporary (Portland, 2014).
Neo-house cruisers and refracted dancefloor rhythms.
Your hosts DJ LIfe Couch & DJ Image Research.
Free!
21+
Soul'd Out Productions and XRAY.FM Present... The Flavr Blue! with HEARTWATCH (SF) and Blossom (PDX)
After a 2015 of major milestones, the Seattle-based trio The Flavr Blue sets out in support of their newest release, the Love Notes EP, a collection that marries the group's crackling energy with a soulful musical wisdom inherited from influences ranging from Cut Copy and Miike Snow to Feist and Sade.
Last year, the trio performed on dozens of stages, from the main stage performance at Seattle's Capitol Hill Block Party to a sold out Exchange LA performance for 30 Days in LA. They've seen their single "We Can Go Blind" play in heavy rotation on Sirius XM, and had one-off collaborations "U Crazy" and "Pretty Girl" crack 100,000 plays on Soundcloud. Their latest single, "Majesty," was premiered on Fader and is in rotation at Seattle's vaunted indie station KEXP, and they've gotten enthusiastic coverage from the likes of Billboard, Earmilk, Dancing Astronaut, and Complex.
The band's success is driven by the way its members -- lead singer Hollis Wong-Wear, whose voice graced the Billboard Top 20 hit "White Walls" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, and singer/producers Lace Cadence and Parker Joe, each with a litany of Seattle hip-hop and R&B releases under their belts -- weave their voices and eclectic experimentalism within a rich electronic landscape. It's been that way since the beginning, when they first built tracks in a half-bedroom turned studio in Parker's Beacon Hill townhouse. It grew as they translated the sounds to wild live shows, for crowds both charmed and electrified by their combination of heartfelt soul and energetic electronica. Even Questlove tweeted his affection for the band's live performance after watching their set at the Brooklyn Bowl.
Love Notes pushes the Flavr Blue's sound further still, toward an even deeper musicality; they effortlessly blend a range of textures that recall Aaliyah's slinky sensuality, Beach House's washed out reverberations, and Prince's fidelity to the pop hook. The music is still passionately handmade; Love Notes, like releases before, is a true collaboration between three creative minds (and, like their earliest music, was recorded mostly in that same half-bedroom). It's that spirit -- a collective enveloping and integrating of new sounds, their DIY ethos matched with a captivating polish-- that truly defines the Flavr Blue, and makes their future so promising.
The Flavr Blue will tour from February and March in select cities across the country in February and March in support of Love Notes. Find all tour dates on their website, theflavrblue.com.
21+, $10 adv // $12 day of
Based on the classic 1989 film, Westerberg High is ruled by a shoulder-padded, scrunchie-wearing junta: Heather, Heather, and Heather, the hottest and cruelest girls in all of Ohio. But misfit Veronica Sawyer rejects their evil regime for a new boyfriend, the dark and sexy stranger J.D., who plans to put the Heathers in their place -- six feet under.
Staged! Executive Director, Diane Englert directs and Erin Shannon choreographs a cast of 17 actors and Jonathan Quesenberry as musical director whom leads a band of 6 musicians.
Nominated for 2 Drama Desk and 2 Lucille Lortell Awards in 2014, this show has been a delight for audiences around the globe. It was created from the screen play of the movie Heathers which starred Winona Ryder and Christian Slater in 1988. With the talents of Laurence O’Keefe (Bat Boy: The Musical and Legally Blonde) and Kevin Murphy (Reefer Madness and writer on TV show Desperate Housewives) combined to write the music, lyrics, and book.
For tickets/information: 503-239-5919 or www.trianglepro.org or Stagedpdx.org
All seats are reserved. Ticket prices $15 - $35 – Group rates available!
See more at: http://www.trianglepro.org/heathers/#sthash.KQHQaK03.dpuf
Deep Under Ground presents the beginning of a monthly discussion based open mic at In Other Words Bookstore. This space is created in hopes to gather the DUG community under one local establishments roof to socalize, network, watch, learn, listen. all that. There will be chillin, politicin, and planning for (ideally) some action.
Sign up is first come first serve in advance and also upon arrival at the door.
Cocoon Youth Storytelling presents an evening of live true stories by Portland youth. The theme of the night is Acceptance. Join us for an evening of great storytelling, treats from our sponsors, and an intermission surprise. This is an all ages show. Stories may contain bad words and questionable decisions. Food and Drink available.
Day of show/Advance tickets $10
Marijuana and the brain | Oregon recently joined only three other states to legalize recreational marijuana. As consumption of the plant's products becomes more a mainstream activity, its health benefits and risks will be at the forefront of policy discussions. Dr. Nephi Stella will explain the role marijuana plays in cutting edge neuroscience research.
Nephi Stella, Ph.D. is a Professor in the departments of Pharmacology and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington.
Dr. Stella is researching how the bioactive components devoid of drug abuse properties produced by Cannabis Sativa can be used to treat neurodegenerative diseases.
RSVP and stay tuned for updates on when/where is the meeting. Updates about student ticket pickup will also be posted here. If you would still like tickets after the deadline for signing up for full funding has passed, please email our club at neuro@pdx.edu and we will look into requesting more tickets if there is enough interest.
Gran Ritmos celebrates regional styles while finding cultural connections and sounds in new places. A culture clash where Americans make Cumbias and Latinos play Acid House.
This session of Gran Ritmos features Dengue Dengue Dengue, a Tropical Bass duo. Behind the masks are Felipe Salmon and Rafael Pereira, two producers, dj's and graphic designers from Lima-Perú. For their live performances they team up with Nadia Escalante (A.K.A. Vj Sixta) for a full Audiovisual Show.
https://soundcloud.com/dengue
DDD was born in mid-2010 and immediatly made themselves well known thanks to an impeccable audiovisual show, remixing and making mash-ups from their own tracks with old cumbias and modifying cumbia cult themes to electronic versions. All this always joined by amazing visuals and the always present masks.
In early 2011 they began to publish their first original productions, being bloggued in major and specialized music portals in USA, Europe and the UK. Their sound started to spread faster, playing many festivals in Peru and along with the "Auxiliar" Collective, started producing the TOMA! Sessions, helping to consolidate the growing and vibrant Tropical Bass movement in Lima, inviting musicians and DJs from different places to share sounds and ideas.
By 2014 the sound of DDD matured into a wider spectrum of sounds, bringing elements not only from Peru, but studying and researching other cultures and their native sounds, traveling around Europe, Asia and the Americas playing shows. Collecting sounds and ideas.
The duo released the EP "Serpiente Dorada" on Buraka Son Sistema's label ENCHUFADA, with 6 new tracks that takes their sound to a new level, touring around the world playing 3 European Tours (42 Shows) and and also playing in Cuba, Japan. Argentina, Chile, China, Brazil, Colombia,etc. playing in the most renowned festivals like Roskilde, Dour, Paleo and an amazing show at the SONAR Festival Dome. Reviewed by XLR8R as one of the best shows in the festival. They also get the honour of getting invited by the Red Bull Music Academy to do a lecture on their academy sessions in Tokyo.
PDX locals Daniela Karina (Bed of Roses, Club Tropicana, Women's Beat League) and Michael Bruce (Gran Ritmos) start things off.
21+, $10 adv // $12 day of
http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1077519
Lifelike Family's monthly series Abstracted continues at Ford Food & Drink, this month featuring:
DeLyria
https://soundcloud.com/delyria
https://lifelikefamily.bandcamp.com/album/opus-7
Jesse Mejia
https://soundcloud.com/jmejia
https://soundcloud.com/losdatos
As always all ages and free, but bring some cash to support the artists by buying merch or in the tip jar and for excellent food and drinks care of Ford.
Boston's favorite old time duo Hoot and Holler are now a full time road show, chasing the long white line indefinitely. This is their second West Coast tour of 2016, following up a successful run in January from San Diego, California to Victoria, BC.
Amy Alvey (fiddle, vocals) and Mark Kilianski (guitar, vocals) present a hearty dose of traditional songs and tunes on fiddle, guitar and banjo as well as original songs and compositions. Their songwriting evokes a cross country road trip, sometimes drawing from the sound scape of the dirgy Louisiana swamp to the stark and sparse beauty of a Southwestern desert. The past year was spent gigging extensively in the Northeast, booking a summer tour with Toronto based Hannah Shira Naiman, earning a scholarship last fall to study Cajun music at the Blackpot Camp, and releasing two singles in November 2015.
Amy and Mark, Berklee College of Music grads, are promoting these singles, as well as debuting brand new material in addition to songs from their album released last fall, “Nothing If Not Young”. Whether they share the stage or by themselves, the performance will be spring-loaded with rare energy and exceptional musicality as they unleash their best, and freshest works.
"Hoot and Holler delivers on their debut EP Nothing If Not Young. Grads of the Berklee College of Music, Mark Kilianski and Amy Alvey not only have top-notch chops, they've crafted a top-notch sound that's pleasantly refreshing...The soundscapes are rooted in Old-Time music but with a contemporary feel that keeps the songs fresh and exciting. In short, this is happy music played by happy people with feeling." -Brad Kolodner WAMU's Bluegrass Country
Wikimedia’s gender trouble is well-documented. In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors identify as female. While the reasons for the gender gap are up for debate, the practical effect of this disparity, however, is not. Content is skewed by the lack of female participation. This represents an alarming absence in an increasingly important repository of shared knowledge.
Let’s change that. Join us at Yale Union on Saturday, March 5, 2016 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for a communal updating of Wikipedia entries on subjects related to art and feminism. This is our third year supporting an international effort with Art+Feminism. We will provide tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian and reference materials. Bring your laptop, power cord and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. For the editing-averse, we urge you to stop by to show your support. Women, women-identified, and male allies are welcome. We will have free on-site childcare and a few computers available to use. Please RVSP for childcare with children's ages to artfeminismwiki@gmail.com
For more information visit:
http://art.plusfeminism.org/
http://artandfeminism.tumblr.com/
Portland contact: artfeminismwiki@gmail.com
Portland Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Portland/ArtAndFeminism_2016
Info: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z9X6NqCGwSr0h-t2aRBd8sjWrcUDayLF8Hr5TnA38hQ/edit?usp=sharing
Organized by Siân Evans/Art Libraries Society of North America’s Women and Art Special Interest Group, Dorothy Howard, Jacqueline Mabey/failed projects, and Michael Mandiberg, in collaboration with POWarts and The Museum of Modern Art.
Since the 1970s, Michael Smith has nurtured two alter egos: “Baby Ikki” and “Mike.” In “Threshold,” his performance at Yale Union, Smith brings the baby and Mike together in a loop: Mike feeds into Ikki and Ikki feeds into Mike, going from one character to the next, like a life cycle.
Baby Ikki was born in 1975. “The baby was a reaction to a lot of feminist activity and discussion about gender at the time. I started thinking about what it would be like to have a character without gender, and I thought of an infant.” Since then, the baby has appeared on the street, in fetish videos, at birthday parties, and at Burning Man. In spite of all that time, Ikki is much the same, a feral baby whose precipitous infancy drags against Smith’s increasing age and stoop.
“Mike” is a single white male. An American. A bachelor with no dependents. Hapless but lovable, Mike believes in self-improvement, though isn’t sure how to proceed prudently. Still, he has high entrepreneurial hopes, and when they bust, he finds solace in pertness, in trying to be the happiest, most contented guy in the world. His life is spent in a situation comedy, behind the curve, attempting to fit in. He’s hatched many venture. He hosted a public access TV show, built himself a government-approved fallout shelter with a snack bar, ran a lighting company, and started a “wellness centre.” He has attempted to memorize two words from the dictionary every night to improve his vocabulary, invented a new game for kids called ‘Take Off Your Pants!”, and tried to sell his loft with all his artworks hung in it. Little of it pans out, but Mike endures loss helplessly—one might say naturally.
More writing about Baby Ikki and Mike will appear closer to the the time of the performance.
Michael Smith (b. 1951) lives in Brooklyn, NY and Austin, Texas, where he teaches performance art at the University of Texas.
We Out Here Magazine & XRAY.FM present
The Thesis - March 3rd 2016
21+ · $5 · 9 PM
Portland's best monthly live hip hop event is back with another dynamic line up for March 2016.
...featuring...
Vinnie Dewayne · Wool See (IAME (of Sandpeople/Oldominion)) · Näkyo͞oəs formerly known as Deuxpamine
of course our DJ, Verbz will be on the one's and two's.
RSVP via Facebook
About Keith Hennessy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Hennessy
http://www.circozero.org/
Keith Hennessy (born 1959 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada) is a San Francisco-based dancer, choreographer, and performance artist regarded as a pioneer of queer and AIDS-themed expressionist dance. He is known for non-linear performance collages that combine dance, speaking, singing, and physical and visual imagery, and for improvised performances that often undermine the performer-observer barrier. Hennessy directs ZERO PERFORMANCE / CIRCO ZERO, which has received commissions from Les Subsistances (Lyon) & Les Laboratoires (Paris), FUSED (France-US Exchange), as well as funds from the Zellerbach Family Fund, San Francisco Arts Commission, California Arts Council, Grants for the Arts, and The San Francisco Foundation.
Hennessy's performances are embedded in leftist and anarchist social movements; his career began in anti-nuclear juggling, acrobatics, and vaudevillian comedy. In 1982, he hitchhiked to the San Francisco Bay Area for a juggling convention, and stayed. In his San Francisco living room he co-founded the grassroots performance art coalition "848 Community Space," which later became CounterPULSE. He was influenced by and has worked with Lucas Hoving, Gulko, Ishmael Houston-Jones and Patrick Scully, Terry Sendgraff, Karen Finley, Joseph Kramer, the collective CORE (Jess Curtis, Stanya Kahn, Jules Beckman, Stephanie Maher, Hennessy), and Contraband, a company directed by Sara Shelton Mann. His work also developed from his participation in social and political activism inspired by Direct Action to Stop the War, Critical Resistance, ACT UP and Queer Nation. In San Francisco Hennessy's work has been presented at numerous venues including Dance Mission, Theater Artaud, Mama Calizo's Voice Factory and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Free & open to the public
Join Siren Nation for their bi-annual comedy show featuring some of the funniest ladies in the business.
Hosted by Joanie Quinn
Featuring: Elicia Sanchez, Emma Arnold and Natasha Muse!
Natasha Muse is like the C3P0 of San Francisco comedy: a bunch of small bears once mistook her for a golden god but in reality she's a bumbling robot (as well as a mom, a transsexual, and a firm agnostic). The SF Weekly once declared her a “Comedian to Watch” in 2014, and in 2016 they upgraded her to an “Artist to Watch.” Natasha features at the SF Punchline and Cobb's Comedy Club, and has worked with such comedy luminaries as Maria Bamford, Roseanne Barr, Janeane Garofalo, Wyatt Cenac, and God. Natasha's comedy is so good, it's not even funny.
Elicia Sanchez has been balancing meager paychecks between comic books and happy hour while performing stand-up since 2010. The Capitol Hill Times has described her comedic style as, “…mad cap tales of social incompetence,” while writer Lindy West (Jezebel) has called her "…a grumpy nugget of delight” and one of the "...funniest people in Seattle." Elicia has performed at the Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival, the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Northwest Comedy Fest and is a recurring opening act for comedian Hari Kondabolu (Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell). She co-produces three Seattle comedy shows (The Good Fun Show, Wine Shots: Comedy's Happiest Hour, The Enematic Cinematic: LIVES!!), hosts a podcast about bad movies titled The Enematic Cinematic, and is the lead singer of Seattle’s only Michael Bolton comedy/cover band, Lightning Bolton. Elicia currently resides in Seattle, WA where when not performing, she splits her time between watching creepy forensic crime shows and dusting her action figures.
Joanie Quinn is a rainbow haired, menopause mom of four kids, who worked on comedy sitcoms in Hollywood before she became a breeder in Oregon. She's been saving up for her kids therapy, one performance at a time. Joanie regularly produces & performs in Portland's "Spilt Milk: you'll laugh til you cry!”, at Harvey's Comedy Club, and has appeared at Helium Comedy Club and The Legendary Ice House in Pasadena, California. Joanie performed in the "All Jane, No Dick" Comedy Festival, the 2016 Idaho Laugh Fest, and will be in the upcoming SF Mutiny Radio Comedy Fest 2016.
Emma Arnold: Described as “outrageous and hilarious”, Emma Arnold is a comedian, author, and beekeeper. She is a return guest on Doug Loves Movies, and has performed at numerous comedy festivals, including the Limestone, Laugh Your Asheville Off, Pittsburgh, SheDot, and Great American. The other day, she saw an old woman apologize to, and then thank, an automatic door, and realized she was looking at her future. When not touring, Emma lives in Idaho with her family, where she keeps children and bees with varying degrees of success.
$10 in advance • $12 at the door
http://www.secretsociety.net/event/1073919-siren-nation-hell-hath-no-portland/
The expression of México’s authentic musical heritage lives on through the voice of Sol de México®! Sol de México® embraces the romanticism of México’s land, people and beauty of the heart. José Hernández invites you to enrich your affection for mariachi by experiencing Sol de México’s® dynamic energy and rich cultural expression.
Founded in 1981 by Maestro José Hernández, the platinum selling mariachi band Sol de México® have broken countless barriers in mariachi music, including becoming the first mariachi ensemble to be nominated for a Grammy. Their original rhythms, fresh sounds and inspiring ideas have energized the world of mariachi for over 30 years. Mariachi Sol de México® is truly a traveling cultural icon that symbolizes extraordinary musicianship and communal cross-generational joy.
Mariachi Sol de México® de José Hernández, whose original rhythms, fresh sounds and inspiring ideas have energized the world of mariachi for over 30 years, invite you to experience the passion and love of the mariachi tradition.
For more information visit the Portland’5 website. Tickets are on sale now! Reserve your seats today!
CLASSIXX (LIVE)
ELIOT LIPP
After more than ten years of global touring, seven solo albums on labels such as Pretty Lights Music, Old Tacoma Records, Hefty, 1320 and Mush, Eliot Lipp's status as an electronic music pioneer is known to scene experts and weekend warriors alike.
Named one of Vibe Magazines top 10 fastest rising DJs (Summer 2013) Vibe says " Eliot Lipp is making moves! ...Signed to Pretty Lights Music, Lipp's omnivorous taste in music expands to include everything from electro to funk to indie to downtempo and trap." Lipp's music tastefully spans genres, styles and techniques. Musically, Lipp is taking chances that are paying off in big ways. In a recent interview with Jay Z's blog Life+Times, Lipp commented that "People are scared to set themselves apart from the norm, but risks need to be taken in order to progress."
Perhaps this is what sets Lipp apart from the rest. He is a risk taker, not afraid to do something a little different.
KARL KLING
In the nine years since that fateful encounter, Kling has performed and DJed around the world as part of internationally renowned collective RAC and as solo act Karl Kling. With his self-titled debut album due out in 2014, a vocal feature on the RAC album Strangers, freshly released dance tracks, and a newly founded record label, the Producer/DJ/Songwriter is only building on these auspicious beginnings.
Kling's musical tastes are as wide-ranging as his tour schedule, resulting in eclectic DJ sets that span decades of dance music and move effortlessly between the many subgenres of house and disco. His original work is similarly expansive, drawing on both his electronic background and many years playing in and producing indie acts.
His first single, "Deep in the House of Love," is out now on MANI/PEDI Records, the record label he founded and curates with Mark Penner (Cyclist).
Paradox is a monthly comedy show hosted by Tim Ledwith and Alex Rios. House band EMS (Vern Avola).
This month's line up Includes:
Jake Silberman
Alana Eisner
Milan Patel
Featuring videos by: "Lady, Animated Series" (Emily Quindlen & André Falconer)
Headlining comic will be Christian Ricketts
(Bridgetown Comedy Festival, 2014 Willamette Weeks Five Funniest).
Last Sundays of every month TENTH DEGREE will be bringing you#AllThingsClub Dive into the sounds of BMORE, Jersey, Chicago, Detroit, UK and beyond. This is a worldwide movement. Expect guest headliners, intimate atmospheres, and heavy bass.
Guests:
GANGSIGNS // Verified, Stylss
https://www.facebook.com/gangsignsmusic/?fref=ts
https://soundcloud.com/gangsignsmusic
MASSACOORAMAAN // Fade to Mind, The Cave
https://www.facebook.com/massacooramaan/?fref=ts
https://soundcloud.com/massacooramaan
Residents:
KNATE PHA$ER https://soundcloud.com/knatephaser
b2b
ALBINO GORILLA https://soundcloud.com/albinogorilla
&
EMV KUSH
b2b https://soundcloud.com/pdxmandem
SKELLI
21+ w/ID
$5 at the door
Funktion-One (Official) Sound