Salt and Sage stages two Shakespeare heavy-hitters in repertory. Voyage to a magical, fairy-filled forest one night and to a fracturing kingdom the next—or visit them both on the same day. —RJ

Fourteen concerts come to Pioneer Courthouse Square over the stretch of two weeks, kicking off with Ani DiFranco on August 4. The lineup also includes Muna, Courtney Barnett, Vince Staples, and the Breeders (with opening support from Team Dresch). —RJ

Benson Boone is not just the kid who does backflips off of pianos. Sometimes he flips forward. And sometimes he winds up with a gymnastic cartwheel maneuver to build momentum on the ground—probably when there’s no piano handy. Whichever move he picks, he most often wears a glittery onesie while doing it, and he does the trick just before the first chorus of “Beautiful Things,” the song in which he begs God not to take away “the girl He sent my way.” —MT

What can grown-ups learn from reading children's picture books? Mac Barnett, the celebrated children's book author currently serving as the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, teams up with the Decemberists' Colin Meloy and former Oregon poet laureate Anis Mojgani for a dive into what makes picture books so magical. —RJ

All ages, all local, all free: The annual volunteer-run music festival, launched in 2004, returns for another wide-ranging weekend of shows. The lineup includes more than two dozen artists, with genres spanning from electronic to punk to shoegaze to hip-hop to folk to pop. —RJ

The touring film fest, founded in Portland in 2003, lands back in the city that launched it. It's a two-day spree of short films, made in both the United States and abroad, about bicycles and those who love riding them. —RJ

The actor and standup comedian brings her razor-sharp, gloriously raunchy takes on sex, dating, and motherhood to the Schnitz. —RJ

It's the end of the Lloyd Center as we knew it, and this Saturday marks the 67-year-old mall's last official day of operation before it’s razed and redeveloped into a “mixed-use neighborhood.” The lineup is absurdly stacked: Prepare for a silent disco led by Vera Mysteria; a magic show; a mall tour; a funeral procession on bike; an open-invite vendor fair; a community mural painting; a stage with live music, DJs, and karaoke; and at 6:45pm, right before the doors close, a farewell ice skate for Jerry and Tally Leonard, a couple who’ve been gliding at this rink since 1967. —RJ

Indy Sleaze himself James Murphy plays a duo of Edgefield shows. In his own words, “Never change, never change, never change, never change / Never change, never change, never change.” The one caveat is (of course) that it’s totally fine to change to make someone fall in love with you. —MT