FRIDAY, MARCH 4
Arthur
[MOORE RETRO FILM] Triangle Productions spearheads a revival of Arthur. The charming Dudley Moore version from 1981, not the shitty Russell Brand one we try to ignore. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Friday, March 4.
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
[FILM] Wim Wenders' stunning second feature was shelved for decades thanks to German music regulations. This rerelease—with a new soundtrack—will kick off the Film Center's Wenders retrospective. Read the full article. Northwest Film Center's Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Ave., 221-1156. 7 pm. $9.
John Prine, Kendell Carson and Dustin Bentall
[BIG OL' HEART] Legendary songwriter John Prine may be wrinkled, but he's still smiling. A 69-year-old Illinois native with a slight drawl the South would happily claim, Prine is easily among the greatest songwriters to ever live—a casual superstar whose name gets dropped in interviews with Bob Dylan and in Johnny Cash's memoir. A timeless and powerful cultural critic whose voice growls patiently over each word, Prine has become more vulnerable with age, a simmering giant with live performances that have, if anything, become more endearing in his twilight. PARKER HALL. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm. $50-$95. All ages.
Lucky Lab Barleywine Fest
[DRINK] In a passion project that's endured 19 years, the Quimby Lucky Lab will host 50 big, strong barleywines, many of which aged for years in the Lab's back coolers. You won't find a better fest devoted to the style in Portland. Event glass and four tasters $15, $2 per additional taster. Lucky Lab, 1945 NW Quimby St., 517-4352. Noon-10 pm, through March 5. $15+.
National Forest
[ACES COMEDY] Dry campsites and clear skies are coming, and Mayor Charlie Hales just OK'd our plans for summer campouts on city sidewalks. But the Aces' National Forest tops all that. The new sketch-comedy show takes us camping now, in Old Town. One of Portland's oldest comedy duos, this is the Aces' (Michael Fetters and Shelley McLendon) fifth show in five years. But it's their first in McLendon's new Siren Theater. It's a wacky camping trip that turns this spacious, white-brick theater into what looks like the Lost Lake Campground, complete with fresh firewood, red flannel shirts and a full-sized wooden canoe. Read the full review. Siren Theater, 315 NW Davis St. 8 pm, through March 12. $15-$20.
Tango Alpha Tango
[ROCK 'N' ROLL] Tango Alpha Tango isn't the band it once was. The tried-and-true riffage and raw psychedelia, once the cornerstones of singer-guitarist Nathan Trueb's particular brand of blues, have recently given way to a more pop-friendly kind of rock, as evident on the band's latest release, White Sugar. Read the full album review. Doug Fir Lounge, 803 E Burnside St., with Fauna Shade. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
SATURDAY, MARCH 5
Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
[FEMINISM] Wikipedia, like everything, is sexist. "What?" you ask. "How can truth and facts and dates be sexist?" Oh, sweet innocent baby boy. The history and facts included in textbooks and encyclopedias have long been biased in favor of the patriarchy. On Saturday, feminists around the world will participate in the Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to make Wikipedia more accurately reflect the accomplishments and struggles of people who aren't straight, white men. See our Suggested Edits. Yale Union, 800 SE 10th Ave., 236-7996, 10 am-5 pm. Free.
Beaverton Sub Station Anniversary
[SUBS] Chuck Wilson is the heart and soul of downtown Beaverton, and he'll be celebrating 35 years of making old-school, meat-packed, fresh-bread subs there. Celebrate his sub shop's birthday with cake from Beaverton Bakery. Beaverton Sub Station, 12448 SW Broadway St., Beaverton, 626-2782. 10 am.
The Departed
[LEO] Oh, hey! Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Oscar. He probably should've won one 10 years ago, when he offered a jangled performance that held The Departed together. He was nominated that year for The Blood Diamond, which gets a celebratory anniversary screening nowhere. Mission Theater. Playing March 6-8.
Gran Ritmos: Dengue Dengue Dengue, Michael Bruce, Daniela Karina
[EXOTIC DANCE] Peru's Dengue Dengue Dengue fuses South America's tropical bass music with the rhythms of modern cumbia, resulting in a technicolor tribal experience. As a live act, the internationally acclaimed duo of Felipe Salmón and Rafael Pereira dons masks, embodying generations of ritual performance, with samples of classical huaynos and folk chants, and good amounts of AutoTune completing the cultural hybridity for the global club. While most mixes feature an ethereal downtempo beat, the duo's recent Boiler Room debut, the single "Murdah," sees Dengue Dengue Dengue amping up the syncopation and BPM for an infectious footwork track. WYATT SCHAFFNER. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
Great Notion Beer Release
[GREAT BEER] In our blind tasting of 73 IPAs, Great Notion's two beers rank as the third and fifth best in Portland. Now, they're breaking out the imperial IPA and a crazy breakfast stout. Read about our epic IPA tasting. Great Notion Brewing, 2204 NE Alberta St., No. 101, 548-4491. Noon-11 pm. $10.
Horae: A Musical Book of Hours
[CLASSICAL] Before the Amighty brought us YouTube and iPads, the closest thing to medieval multimedia experiences may have been worshiping in cathedrals, hearing sacred music surrounded by magnificent stained-glass windows or consulting Horae, lavishly illuminated prayer books. Some of those books of hours reside at Mount Angel Abbey outside Silverton. A vocal octet of some of the city's finest female singers has worked with theater and video artists to create an hourlong immersive video using images from those ancient manuscripts, which they'll accompany with music by famous and less-known medieval and Renaissance composers. BRETT CAMPBELL. St. Philip Neri, 2408 SE 16th Ave., 283-2913. 7:30 pm Saturday, March 5. $20-$25.
TFAW In-Store Convention
[BOOKS] Who needs to go to all the trouble of a trip to San Diego (have you ever tried to check Iron Man armor?) when you can see all you need to at Things From Another World in one day? At this nationwide event live-streaming from all over, Portland comic power couple Kelly Sue DeConnick and Matt Fraction will speak, as will Firefly's Nathan Fillion and folk from DC, Marvel, Dark Horse and Top Cow. Things From Another World, 2916 NE Broadway, 284-4693. 9 am. Free. (A previous version of this event listing implied that all these people would be appearing in-store. That's not happening. This is a nationwide live-streaming event. Deets and schedule here.)
Wolf Eyes, Timmy's Organism, Video, Piss Test
[TRIP METAL] Ever since declaring "noise is dead," the seminal industrial DIY project known as Wolf Eyes has ascended from cult worship into wider recognition, via LPs on Sub Pop. Now, it has a release on Jack White's Third Man Records to bankroll their inaugural Trip Metal Festival later this year. Trading brutal noise for distorted atmospherics, Wolf Eyes haven't polarized just their core fans in scratching the glass ceiling, they've also bitten the new hands that are feeding them, "hacking" into Third Man's Instagram with a glitchy take over as album promo and causing them to lose followers. I Am a Problem: Mind in Pieces finds the band trying to achieve clarity with a hypnotically bluesy dirge of feedback and monotone drumming as their latest work of sonic provocation. WYATT SCHAFFNER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
SUNDAY, MARCH 6
Children of Men
[APOCALYPSE-NOW FILM] Ten years ago, Children of Men was the most timely movie on screens, with its allusions to reality TV, homegrown terrorism, Abu Ghraib, and technology's encroachment on relationships. Ten years later, it's just as relevant. In hindsight, some of its bleak images of society seem like prophecies of our current geopolitical minefield. It's the kind of thing that makes you shake outside a theater. Read the full article. Academy Theater. Playing March 4-10.
Eleanor Friedberger
[INDIE ROCK] Eleanor Friedberger's work as a member of the Fiery Furnaces was a jubilant celebration of weird, tripped-out bliss. As a solo artist, though, she's gone for a more subdued aesthetic. The tunes on her vibrant, sunny new record, New View, employ a relaxed tone drawn from her own personal experiences. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 8 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.
King Lear
[THEATER] The new Post5's inaugural show isn't the "edgy" theater that director Rusty Tennant said he wants to bring Sellwood. But we're all better off for its classicism. Ithica Tell drips distain from her curled upper lip as Goneril; Stan Brown is her indulgently flamboyant minion; Jessica Tidd fills out the lusty Regan in a black slip or red fur coat; and Todd Van Voris…you should know the name. The axis is 80-year-old Tobias Anderson, a 50-year veteran of Northwest theaters who plays the titular King as a tempest of rage, a pathetically mad king, and a heartbreaking embodiment of human sorrow. Despite the occasional garbled speech and a weird cell phone cameo, when Lear stands center-stage carrying his daughter's corpse in frail arms, the burly guy in my row was crying too. Read the full review. Post 5 Theatre, 1666 SE Lambert St., 971-258-8584. 7:30 pm Friday-Sunday. Through March 19. $20.
Robyn Hitchcock, Emma Swift
[POST-FOLK] While the more worldly millennials may have heard of Robyn Hitchcock, they're not quite sure why. His name and associated acts (Soft Boys, the Egyptians) seem borrowed from a CW vampire show, and the man himself has long assumed the pose of an impossibly erudite, ageless raconteur possessed of a daunting oeuvre and deep, deep amusement over what fools these mortals be. Under the guidance of iconic Nick Drake and Fairport Convention producer Joe Boyd, his 21st and most recent album, The Man Upstairs, forgoes studio trickery for a blend of cover songs (Psychedelic Furs, Roxy Music) and typically addled originals, including yet another oblique paean to Dirty Harry, whose legend Hitchcock may well outlive. JAY HORTON. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $25. Under 21 permitted with parent or guardian.
Stupid F**king Bird
[THEATER] Aaron Posner doesn't so much twist Chekhov's classic The Seagull as he does dump its guts onstage and finger paint with the gore. In the 2014 Helen Hayes Award-winner for best new play, a cast of seven actors fly through episodic scenes about the nature of art. The scenes flit from solo monologues on a nearly naked stage to family fights on lickable kitchenette sets. A tutor, a cook, a smattering of choreography and "fleeting nudity"—what more could PCS-goers desire? Gerding Theater at the Armory, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 2 pm, through March 27. $25-$70.
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