Stage & Screen

Recession Buster Bash
[TUNES, THREADS AND FRIED EGGS] WW celebrates its mondo deals at 9 pm this Thursday, Jan. 29, with a Recession Buster Bash/Bender Listening Party at Slabtown. Enjoy music from the more than 35 bands performing at Slabtown's fourth annual Bender Festival (Feb. 6-8) over the house PA and get $2 off wristbands to Bender 09 (normally $25). Plus, let us give you the shirt off our back with free post-production reject T-shirts and a free egg sandwich to anyone who does the hokey pokey for the bartender. Oh, and free haircuts from Paul Mitchell, too! Slabtown, 1033 NW 16th Ave., 223-0099. See the "Free Culture" section to the right, for more free music.

We Fight for the Users
[MOVIES] Listen up, Hollywood: Movies shouldn't cost $10. We don't care if they have fancy computer graphics. We want what all Americans want—cheap thrills and beer. The Bagdad Theater agrees, and is hosting a weekend with the greatest computer-graphics movie ever: i]Tron.[/i] Screenings are $3, but if you attend the 11 pm show on Saturday, Jan. 31, and say the phrase "Copy Blue Leader," you'll get in for $1.50. Same deal with Double Indemnity on the Bagdad's $2 Tuesdays—mention WW on Tuesday, Feb. 24, and get in for a buck. Oh, and don't forget that weekend matinees at the Mission (currently showing that new Bond thing) are always $1. Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 236-9234. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan, 223-4527.

Portland Makes Music
[MUSIC, BEER] WW's free monthly music and interview series is back for a post-Super Bowl dance party on Sunday, Feb. 1, featuring disco krautrockers Atole and laptop wizard E*Rock—who tweaked a new dance set (complete with trippy video projections) specially for tonight. Plus, 12-ounce cans of PBR for 50 cents from 9:30-11:30 pm. That's pocket change! Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th Ave., 248-1030. 9 pm Sunday, Feb. 1. 21+.

It's A Blast
[STAGE] Portland Center Stage's Apollo is an astonishing four-hour epic about Nazis, rockets and the civil-rights movement. Enter "wweek" in the promo code box at tickets.pcs.org to get $10 off your ticket. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., tickets.pcs.org. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Feb. 8.

Rush!
[TIX] Wanna know the best entertainment deal in town? Just before curtain for every show at Portland Center Stage, the box office offers any tickets that remain unsold for just $10 each. You don't get to pick where you sit, and you might not get in at all, but it's worth it—the cheapest standard ticket for nonstudent adults is $30. The Portland Opera offers the same deal, but only to students, active military personnel and senior citizens, as does the Oregon Symphony, but only to students. White Bird Dance offers half-price tickets to all shows at PCPA two hours before curtain to students and seniors.

¿Amas Español?
[STAGE] Miracle Theatre's North American premiere of Argentine playwright Mónica Silver's black comedy Te Llevo en la Sangre promises sex, politics and mind-bending, Charlie Kaufman-level weirdness in the world of radio telenovelas. Presented in Spanish, with supertitles. Enter the coupon code "WWEEK" at pdxtix.net/milagro and get two tickets for the price of one through Feb. 14. 525 SE Stark St., pdxtix.net/milagro. 7:30 pm Thursdays, 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Feb. 21.

It's Free, Amen
[CHOIR] Palestrina, Viadana, Lassus and Agazzari: Hear some of the finest composers of sacred choral music, sung by one of Portland's best choral ensembles, for free. Cantores in Ecclesia performs every Saturday at 7:30 pm in Southeast Portland's acoustically and visually gorgeous St. Stephen's Church. The tradeoff is you must sit through the Vigil Mass—in Latin. St. Stephen's Church, 1112 SE 41st Ave., 234-5019, cantoresinecclesia.org.

Long Memory of the Law
[POPO LONG AGO] History buffs who can't afford $10 admission to the Oregon Historical Society can enjoy a slice of the city's past for free by visiting the Portland Police Museum in downtown's Central Precinct. Open Tuesday through Friday from 10 am to 3 pm, the exhibits feature firearms, badges, old jail dockets, uniforms and a Harley-Davidson patrol bike retired in the early 1970s. Portland Police Museum, 1111 SW 2nd Ave., 16th floor, 823-0019, portlandpolicemuseum.com.

Recycle Your Stubs
[PERFORMANCE] Take any stub from a February performance by Artists Repertory Theatre, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Portland Center Stage, Oregon Ballet Theatre, the Oregon Symphony, Portland Opera or White Bird Dance to any of the following companies and get 20 percent off a ticket to String of Pearls at Artists Rep, two-for-one tickets to Apollo or The Importance of Being Earnest at PCS, 50 percent off tickets to Lambarena at OBT, two-for-one tickets to White Bird's presentation of Spain's Compañia Nacional de Danza 2; two-for-one tickets to the Portland Opera's production of Turn of the Screw; or two-for-one tickets to the Oregon Symphony's Elgar: Enigma Variations, Thomas Svoboda, Soul of New Orleans or Gutierrez/Rachmaninoff concerts.

She's the Fifth
[FRAK, YES] KUFO's Cort and Fatboy host free screenings of the final season of Battlestar Galacticaat the Bagdad Theater until the show's finale in March. 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 236-9234. 10 pm Fridays. Free. 21+.

It's A Smorgasbord
[MOVIES, COFFEE TALK] Sate your caffeine and entertainment addictions simultaneously, as Costello's Travel Caffe offers free foreign films (most Wednesdays) and foreign-language conversation nights every week, plus Arrested Development every Thursday. 2222 NE Broadway, 287-0270. Check out costellostravelcaffe.com for a full schedule of events.

The Samislavski Method
[OSCAR-WORTHY] It's long been said City Council meetings are Portland's "best free theater." This morning, the adage will never be truer as Mayor Sam Adams leads his first council meeting since he admitted to lying about his sexual relationship with 18-year-old Beau Breedlove. Council meets every Wednesday at 9:30 am. Council Chambers, City Hall, 1221 SW 4th Ave.

WWeek 2015