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What to Watch This Week: Break Dancing, Toga Parties and a Galactic War Over Spice

Want to see a movie this week? Maybe something you’ve seen before—or something you’ve been meaning to see for a while? Here are the best old flicks revived on movie screens across town right now.

Romeo and Juliet Gets a Hard-Rock Makeover in New Musical Comedy

What if Romeo and Juliet were set in a fantasy dimension where the Capulets were demons and the Montagues were angels? Where the two houses were feuding over—the soul of rock and roll? This hypothetical plot begins to explain the concept of Star-Crossed, a vibrant, hilarious rock opera that fuses classic and metal hits with Shakespeare’s quintessential tale of doomed love.

Crazy Rich Asians is First Major Hollywood Film in 25 Years With All-Asian Principal Cast

Director Jon M. Chu accomplishes a couple things by kicking off this adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s 2013 book of the same name in this manner. He addresses the elephant in the room (everyone is Asian!) and demonstrates these people are rich. Crazy rich. Perhaps too rich ever to have been marginalized.

In 1978, a Jetliner Crash-Landed on Burnside. In “Crash Course,” Journalist Julie Whipple Explores How the Accident Changed Aviation.

In her book, Crash Course (Yamhill Canyon Press, 296 pages, $17.95), journalist Julie Whipple documents the tragedy and the effect it had on everything from corporate litigation to surgical procedures.

How Would You Modify Your Body?

Our favorite looks this week.

Portland’s Fade to Light Fashion Show Features Emerging Designers Alongside Project Runway Winners

Taking place at Crystal Ballroom, the show is often so highly anticipated it sells out, and producer Elizabeth Mollo finds herself having to put designers on a wait list.

Sávila, a Parker Posey Themed Drag Show and 12 Other Things to Do and See in Portland Aug. 15-21

“Big Trouble in Little China,” pop country in Central Oregon and other events we’re excited about this week.

Please Underestimate Me is a Terrific Tour of Jay Flewelling’s Mind

If you think the title of Jay Flewelling’s autobiographical extravaganza Please Underestimate Me is meant to be self-deprecating, think again. As Flewelling explains when the show commences, he relishes being underrated because it puts him in an uncanny position of power.

The Strange, Singular Cinema of Joshua Churchill and John Davis Comes to Portland

Vibrant colors, eerie music and an exhilarating embrace of the unknown are among the many joys to be found in films by Joshua Churchill and John Davis. But there are two things you won’t find: story and character.

We Talked to the Portland Artist Whose Graphic Illustration of Trump Stirred National Controversy

Compton Creep is watching his back. One of the Portland artist’s illustrations recently went viral—a graphic illustration of President Trump with a knife to this throat and blood spewing from his neck. Creep—who declined to share his given name—had already sold the image on a few hundred T-shirts for about a year. But late in July, a blown-up version of the image was displayed in the window of One Grand Gallery on East Burnside Street, as part of a show called Fuck You, Mr. President.

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