Willamette Weekend

[BIKES] The Pedalpalooza bike festivities continues. Our pick for this weekend: Jeff and Jodi are moving house, so they're exploiting the goodwill of Portland bike riders by asking them to help them move their stuff and calling it a Pedalpalooza "ride." There will be free doughnuts, at least. N Vancouver and Killingsworth. 10:30 am. 

[MUSIC] Raina Rose does not front. None of those affected little-girl mannerisms or growly-throated blues tics mar her sturdy, elastic singing. Her lyrics are direct and plainspoken, though penned with a poet's ear. She's not afraid to be herself onstage—goofy, unpretentious and real. Of all the local folkies I've watched blossom over the past decade and a half, she's the one who seems to have maintained the clearest-eyed trajectory toward broader acclaim, decamping to Austin when she felt it was time to spread her wings beyond Stumptown. Rose is a dedicated road warrior whose occasional hometown visits are welcomed by a loyal and still-expanding following. One of these days, she may well headline on bigger stages; meanwhile, she's sure to make the most of this intimate space. JEFF ROSENBERG. Alberta Street Public House, 1036 NE Alberta St. 7 pm. 21+.

Free RPG Day
[GAMING] Gaming stores across the country give away free RPG material. It's all a great conspiracy by the game publishers to hook you on even more games, but hey—free stuff! At some stores, game and dungeon masters will be running demos and intros to their RPGs of choice. Guardian Games, 303 SE 3rd Ave. Cloud Cap Games, 1226 SE Lexington St. 

Saul Steinberg
[ART] Highlighting the humor, wit and snarky superiority of classic American journalism, Yale Union will open its summer 2012 exhibition: Steinberg, Saul. The New Yorker. New York, 1945-2000. (Harold, William, Robert, Tina, David, Eds.). The exhibit spotlights five decades of Steinberg’s work in The New Yorker, including 200 of his 1,000-plus published contributions. Yale Union (YU), 800 SE 10th Ave., 236-7996. Noon-8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, June 16-Aug. 10. Free. 

Elena[FILM] It is absolutely true that many Victorian-era doctors would masturbate their female patients. It wasn’t a fetish marketed as legitimate treatment but a widely accepted cure-all for the blanket diagnosis of “hysteria.” We encounter this strange world of clinical sex acts through Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy), loosely based on the Mortimer Granville who invented the electric vibrator. For our purposes, Granville is an idealistic doctor fighting for progress in a field that still deals in leeches. Unfortunately, through his eyes we end up with a steampunk caricature of 1880s England, with more figurative winking at the camera than a sense of authenticity. As Granville stumbles uncomfortably into a gig of physician-prescribed fingering, it’s as though director Tanya Wexler is screaming at us: “Isn’t it great how we now know that female orgasms are real?! And that mental disorders are nuanced?!”... Read the full write-up here. Regal Fox Tower, 846 SW Park Ave. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd. Multiple showtimes.