Jim W @jwithy

Seattle-hailing musician, writer, and politician John Roderick and his fellow writer and friend Merlin Mann bring their conversational podcast to the Bridgetown stage. Individual show admission can be…

Plus: John Roderick of The Long Winters/Roderick on the Line, James Urbaniak of The Venture Bros., and comedian Rhea Butcher. Already bought my tickets.

Record release tour. See you there!

Record Release tour with Ceschi and Factor Chandelier

Awesome shoegazey band. From the press stuff:

OTHING return with ‘Tired Of Tomorrow’, their beautifully profound follow-up to 2014’s widely-acclaimed ‘Guilty Of Everything’. Recorded over the cour…

A fun night of code and donuts.

Going into the fifth year this September, XOXO is a celebration of independent artists, hackers, and makers living and working online — and all the challenges that come with it.

EmberConf is three days of trainings, sessions, activities and good times with the Ember Core Team and community members from around the world.

It’s #MaxFunDrive time! Meet other Maxfunsters and celebrate MaxFunMeetup Day with cheap drinks, skiball, & free pool.

Beer of Trust is a PGP key-signing party with beer! Actually it’s mostly just an excuse for a bunch of us to get together and talk about encryption while enjoying the amazing taps at Loyal Legion.

It’s more important than ever to have your own place to publish on the web. Have a blog? Want a blog? Are you building your own personal bot? Come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded …

Get there early if you need a bunch of seats together!

“Kung Fu Theater presents the only known 35mm print of this martial arts classic!

INVINCIBLE ARMOUR (1977) Hwang Jang Lee is an evil white…

Minus the Bear’s OMNI is still a go-to record; Beach Slang sounds like Jawbreaker (what else do you need?).

High School Noir! Rian Johnson! Amazing movie! Sometimes the Laurelhurst likes to change things around so be sure it’s still happening.

Hooray for interdisciplinary arts!

The Reed College Chorus and Collegium Musicum, in collaboration with the Dance Department, are excited to present “Mysticism, Modernity, and Motion.” This collabo…

Okilly Dokilly “is the world’s only Nedal band. Hailing from Phoenix, Arizona, a majority of the band’s lyrics are direct Ned quotes. The band’s members include Head Ned, Red Ned, Thread Ned, Stead Ne…

Documentary on journalist, author, and activist, Jane Jacobs—seemingly (from what the trailer shows) focussing primarily on her battles with notorious urban planner Robert Moses over the redevelopment…

Drinks at 6, movies start at 7

Months has members of Point Juncture, WA, which is all I need to know. Should be cool, and $7 is 🤘. The Know is now located at the former site of The Blackbird and Tony Starlight’s at 3728 NE Sandy B…

A modest house in upstate New York. One in the morning. Three people – a couple and their child – hurry out the door, but it’s too late for them. As the virtuosic and terrifying opening scene of J. Ro…

Unquestionably the best concert movie ever. Really hope they let us sing along! Part of the Hollywood’s weekend remembering director Jonathan Demme.

My favorite band is coming to Portland to support their new album, Goths.

My favorite band is touring to support their new album, Goths. I kinda hate the Crystal Ballroom, so I’m considering heading to Seattle instead!

Caught her a couple of times at one of the Bridgetown Comedy Fests. Used to do a podcast and then MTV show with Nikki Glaser. Super funny, and $12 is way under cost for her.

Caught her a couple of times at one of the Bridgetown Comedy Fests. Used to do a podcast and then MTV show with Nikki Glaser. Super funny, and $12 is way under cost for her.

What I know about Low is that I once fell into a near-asleep, near-trance state while seeing them at the Metro in Chicago.

What I (think) I know about Mono is that they are punishing and awesome. …

Open Source Bridge is an annual conference focused on building open source community and citizenship through four days of technical talks, hacking sessions, and collaboration opportunities. Participan…

We have monthly meet-ups with talks on tech, creativity, community, society, and the wonderful places where those things overlap. Every month we donate our proceeds to a local nonprofit. Come see some…

I’m hosting a launch party of sorts for my latest project, the Liberty Foundation, at my friend Kate Bingaman-Burt’s new studio in New New Crusher Court. I’ll be there to answer questions about the fo…

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Craig Finn is the awesome lead singer of the Hold Steady, a solo artist, and celebrator of John…

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Craig Finn is the awesome lead singer of the Hold Steady, a solo artist, and celebrator of John…

Shut up.

Stumble your way under the Hawthorne Bridge for three days of free, all-ages music from 35+ local indie bands, plus food carts, beer garden, record fair, and more.

Our song keeps runnin’ on

Play it now
Play it now, my baby

Her Own Wings is a gallery show of femme representations of our city, by female-identified Portland artists. Featuring contributions from Meg Hunt, Marlowe Dobbe, Molly Mendoza, Elsa Lang, Cate Andrew…

YEAH! YEAH! METALLICA! YEAH!

Always a highlight of the fall, and this year it doesn’t have some other festival (ahem) to contend with.

All I need to see was “that dog. playing all of Retreat From the Sun.”

But also: Jawbreaker! NIN! A bunch of other bands I was too young to afford to see!

It’s Ben Folds! And he’s encouraging folks to fly paper airplanes to him with their song requests.

I go to this every single year, and never regret it. Huge collection of classic arcade, console, and computer games and vendors selling my entire childhood, along with interesting talks and geeky musi…

“Busman’s Holiday is Lewis and Addison Rogers, brothers of melodic charm and ecstatic showmanshiphough adept in a D.I.Y. aesthetic of acoustic busking with only a guitar and a suitcase drum set, new a…

Kishi Bashi’s “solo live show is a dazzling array of looping and vocal/violin gymnastics.” But not Andrew Bird.

Tall Tall Trees does stuff with his banjo-tron you’ve never seen before (including p…

If you know about the Mountain Goats, you know what a special, “whaaaat?!” thing this will be to see John Darnielle at Holocene.

“True West Presents an intimate evening with John Darnielle, to ben…

There’s a lot happening! But I’m just putting down the first weekend and y’all can figure it out.

Sold out as of 9/29/21! Vaxx or test req’d!