Headout Picks 7/9/14

CROWD PARTICIPATION: Pale-faced and savage, Nick Cave tore through a set at the Schnitz on July 5 that leaned on recent material and finished with the requisite hits. Despite the refined setting, Cave spat on the stage and stormed into the crowd, walking the tops of seats until he was in the center of the audience, surrounded by adoring and supplicating hands. When the grasping horde tried to pull him down, he gracefully found his footing. And when an enthusiastic party groped him inappropriately, he claimed "harassment in the workplace" over the mic and moved onward. NATHAN CARSON
By WW Culture Staff

THURSDAY JULY 10

THINK AND DRINK
[LECTURE] Want the gummint outta your personal bizness? Historian Stephanie Coontz and Adam Davis of Oregon Humanities discuss the effects of state intervention in our private lives, including in sex, parenthood and marriage. See our Hotseat with Coontz on page 37. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 6:30 pm. $10 suggested.

SATURDAY JULY 12

BASTILLE DAY CELEBRATION
[FRENCH FETE] For whatever reason, Portland plays home to the largest Bastille Day celebration on the West Coast. Commemorate the stormy kickoff of the French revolution with Lillet cocktails, buttery pastries from St. Honoré and a very refined race among tray-carrying waiters. Director Park, 815 SW Park Ave., afportland.org. Noon-6 pm. Free.
MISSISSIPPI STREET FAIR
The Mississippi Street Fair is one of Portland’s quintessential neighborhood parties for 13 years running and draws about 30,000 people. Expect ribs and beer and music. Wear deodorant. North Mississippi Avenue between North Fremont and Skidmore streets, mississippiave.com. 10 am-9 pm. Free.

SUNDAY JULY 13

PURE SURFACE
Valentines, 232 SW Ankeny St., 248-1600. 7 pm. Free. 21+.
A SUNNY DAY IN GLASGOW 
[MUSIC] For latest album, Sea When Absent, the band turned its amps up to the max, burying the twin angel voices of Annie Fredrickson and Jen Goma under a blanket of swirling synths and roaring guitar, but its blindingly bright melodies shine through the fuzz. It’s the pop album My Bloody Valentine will never make. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

TUESDAY JULY 15

WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM
[MUSIC] If the paths of black metal and Pure Moods New Age were ever to intersect, you can bet your stack of Sunn amps that the Olympia-based band will be there to light the sage and get the “astral metal” party started. Its last record was hailed as “American black metal’s idiosyncratic defining record of 2011” by Pitchfork. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 345-7892. 8 pm. $14. All ages. 

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