What to Watch This Week: A Hitchhiking Brad Pitt’s Big Break, David Lynch’s Dreamlike Hollywood and Spoon Hurling

A Bloody Mary Festival, “The Color Purple,” and 9 Other Things to Do and See in Portland Sept. 19-24

The 11 events we’re most excited about this week.

Home Improvement Isn’t Pretty in this Moral Satire About the Lengths People Go to Get Ahead

In Radiant Vermin, a young couple are given the opportunity to become homeowners—for free. In return, they must simply become the first gentrifiers—move in and raise the property values enough to attract more people like them.

From Hedwig to Latex-Clad Aliens, John Cameron Mitchell Embraces Cultural Outsiders

The two directorial bookends of John Cameron Mitchell’s career so far, Hedwig and the Angry Inch and How to Talk to Girls at Parties, both hinge on cultural outsiders finding themselves through stage performance. Mitchell screened both at Revolution Hall, but if you missed it, WW asked him about the making of those films.

What Do You Care About Most In This Election?

Our favorite Portland looks this week.

John Fish Grew Up a Midwestern Skate Punk. How’d He End Up In Portland Making Classic Bespoke Hats?

Fish’s embrace of the greatest generation’s aesthetic might seem at odds with his skate-punk youth. But growing up where he did, in a town that hadn’t any stores beyond Ace Hardware and Shopko, stylistic distinctions weren’t so slavishly followed.

A Portland Fashion Events Calendar

Mark your calendars.

Dark Horse Comics Will Publish Anthony Bourdain’s Last Graphic Novel

Milwaukie-based Dark Horse Comics is publishing Anthony Bourdain’s final graphic novel—a collection of Japanese-themed horror stories about food. Hungry Ghosts is scheduled to hit shelves Oct. 2.