The Old Church Concert Hall Presents
JOE RIEDL
BAR REVIEW
Where to drink this week. 1. Dame 2930 NE Killingsworth St., damerestaurant.com. The wine list at Dame, which opened last week, already makes it Portland’s most interesting wine destination, home to the finest natural-wine list within 500 miles.
Curtis Eller’s American Circus
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10/7 • 8pm
Rae’s Lakeview Lounge
1900 NW 27th Ave., 503-719-6494. Rae’s offers $1 mimosas Saturday and Sunday mornings, which means if you can’t see the lake from the patio, you only have to wait until the lake is in your mind.
Woody Guthrie NW Songs Tribute Show
10/22 • 2pm + 8pm featuring
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Ben Hunter & Joe Seamons Jon Neufeld Darrin Matthew Craig Timberbound Bill Murlin & Fine Company Caitlin Belem Romtvedt David Romtvedt George Rezendes
Rum Club 720 SE Sandy Blvd., 503-265-8807, rumclubpdx.com. You know what’s back at Rum Club? Peach blendies. If you haven’t had them, you’re an objectively inferior person to everyone who has. And you’re definitely unhappier. But we’ve also discovered the treat, recently, of the $5 happy-hour gin with bright house tonic.
4. Gil’s Speakeasy Tavern
609 SE Taylor St., 503-234-8991, gils-speakeasy.com. It’s easy to forget about Gil’s, the basement lounge hidden under an apartment building in a residential complex. But when you remember, you end up there on $1 sloppy joe night— which is an unturndownable dare if we ever heard one.
5. Century 930 SE Sandy Blvd., centurybarpdx.com. Century is the sports bar with the best hair in all of Portland, and also the best shirts and pants, the best roof, and the best late-hours nightclub.
Killingsworth Dynasty
CONVENIENCE PARKING: On the one hand, Sizzle Pie’s new Mini Mini (638 E Burnside St.) is a mini-mart. Like the Plaid Pantry a few blocks down East Burnside, Mini Mini will happily sell you American Spirits or Parliament Lights, and some D-cell batteries for your presumed ’80s boom box. And if you’re in a deodorant pinch, it’s got Old Spice and Sure Solid to gum up your sweat glands. But at the same time, it’s an art project, a mini-mart in air quotes—the retro trucker hat of mini-marts. Warm cans of Rainier and empty Mini Mini-brand crowlers nonsensically line its front shelving as if anyone would ever actually buy warm Rainier or an open-topped crowler. An entire fridge case is taken up by blue cartons of water that say “JUST WATER,” just because. Other cool cases sport rows of multifarious Occidental and Royale beers whose colorful labels look nice through the glass. Fashioned by celebrity designer Aaron Draplin, the store is as bright-white and blank as the waiting room in the afterlife. Well, fuck it: If it’s gonna be a Gus Van Sant dream-world midcentury mini-mart, we’re gonna have a stoop beer. Because that’s what Matt Dillon would do. We left behind the Jones Soda crowlers ($5) and kombucha crowlers ($9) and Double Mountain crowlers ($7) and got some Stiegl grapefruit radler and a Sizzle Pie hot pocket ($3.50)—fluffier and with better cheese than the freezer versions, though just as greasy and prone to hot oil spills—and took our cans to the old, abandoned restaurant next door. The former Farm has a perfect stoop, shaded by trees. The day was sunny. Life was perfect. Then, from the parking lot behind us, we heard a voice: “How you doin’?” asked a woman who’d set up camp in the parking lot, calling us by a racial slur we don’t print in the paper without good reason. The slur—which didn’t easily apply to anyone within eyeshot—seemed less hostile than an aggressive form of camp. As a peacekeeping gesture, we offered her one of our Stiegls. But seeing the can, she demurred. “I don’t do grapefruit,” she said. “That stuff will bleach out my hormones.” Turned out we weren’t in a Van Sant movie after all—it was Richard Linklater. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Crystal Ballroom
The Analog Cafe
3967 N. Mississippi Ave. Monkeytek & Friends (records from the Jamaican regions of outer space)
Holocene
The Liquor Store
421 SE Grand Ave Softcore Mutations w/ DJ Acid Rick (new wave, dark, weird, hunkwave)
The Goodfoot
The Lovecraft Bar
The Lovecraft Bar
832 N Killingsworth St Twerk
Moloko
1332 W Burnside St 80s VDA Presents: The Cure VS Depeche Mode
Killingsworth Dynasty
3341 SE Belmont St, Renegade Rhythms (house & techno)
2845 SE Stark St Soul Stew (funk, soul, disco)
832 N Killingsworth St Dynasty A Go-Go! (60s soul, r&b, mod)
The Liquor Store
Moloko
421 SE Grand Ave Electronomicon (goth, industrial, 80s)
3341 SE Belmont St, Flight (acid house)
The Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand Ave Club Kai Kai
SAT. SEPT. 24 45 East
315 SE 3rd Ave Laidback Luke, Sidestep, Eddie Pitzul
1001 SE Morrison St. Main Squeeze Dance Party
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. ANDAZ: A Bhangra Bollywood Dance Party
3967 N. Mississippi Ave. Lamar Leroy (jams of all types)
Quarterworld
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd ElecTRON DanseARC4D3
Sandy Hut
1430 NE Sandy Blvd. DJ Montel Spinozza
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Truhn Juice
SUN. SEPT. 25 Dig A Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Dear Mama Presents “Do Right Sunday” (throwback rap, electro, r&b)
The Embers Avenue 100 NW Broadway Latino Night (latin, cubono, salsa)
The Lovecraft Bar
MON. SEPT. 26
Dan Bern
10/21 • 8pm
THEOLDCHURCH.ORG UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS
Appearing at Music Millennium to Meet Fans and Sign Autographs
Friday, September 23rd at 6PM
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats exist in their own self-created world, hoovering up trash/pop culture and spitting it back out in hot chunks of finely-hewn riffola and righteous rock ‘n roll noise. Make no mistake though they are a pop band too: a pop band of the most fuzzed-up, subversive kind. One with three part harmonies that sing of death and murder. But a pop band all the same. Splattered with nods to slasher flicks and pulp horror, The Night Creeper chronicles the depraved life of a Jack the Ripper-style killer and drug fiend—an oppressive portrait of homicidal delirium rendered in doomy psychedelia.
TRACY FORDICE & THE 8-BALLS
Monday, September 26th at 7PM
Tracey Fordice has a beautiful and powerful voice that can rock you like a tornado of trouble in Tennessee, or soothe your soul with a sweet, sultry tone that is as deep as the mighty Mississippi. Tracey’s unique voice, piano playing, and songwriting talents are a blend of creativity that solidifies her place at the vanguard of the Portland blues scene. Whether barrel-housing in the juke joints and road houses of the Pacific Northwest, or playing on the big festival stages, Tracey Fordice and the 8-Balls can deliver Rockin Blues and Soulful Ballads utilizing a broad repertoire ranging from Etta James to Bonnie Raitt and Willie Dixon to J.J. Grey and Mofro.
421 SE Grand Ave Black Mass (goth dance)
TUES. SEPT. 27 Club 21
2035 NE Glisan St. DJ Over Cöl
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Taking Back Tuesday
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave BONES w/ DJ Aurora & friends (goth, synth)
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