Portland Jazz Festival: Ezra Weiss Sextet (8 pm); The Hutchinsons (5 pm)

Who can forget photographer Ann Ploeger’s gory 2009 series of blood-spattered faces, aptly titled Blood? She’s up to the old horror antics again in her current show at Pushdot, My Melin ...

As Crooked opens, 14-year-old Laney reads aloud a short story she’s just written, about a murderous lemonade vendor, to her mother, Elise. Elise tells Laney to make it more realistic. “You ...