The legendary drag club puts on what's sure to be a legendary celebration of a legend. All proceeds will benefit the Dolly Parton Imagination Library.

Teinosuke Kinugasa's spooky 1926 experimental silent film, set in a Japanese mental hospital, gets a live score from some veteran Portland musicians: Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss of Quasi, and Rachel Blumberg and Kathy Foster of Soft Rumble. 

Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria provided nearly 150 works for this exhibition at PAM, which features pieces by Indigenous artists from across Australia, spanning from the late 19th century to the present. The work spans genres, too—ochre bark paintings, sound installations, photography, weavings, and more.

Olivia Newton-John on roller skates. Gene Kelly’s final film role. A Don Bluth animated sequence. An ELO-heavy soundtrack. And more than a dash of Greek mythology. This fantastical 1980 musical is best enjoyed on a big screen, in the company of others. Warning: Spontaneous singalongs may occur.

Founded in 1990 in Olympia, Washington, Bikini Kill disbanded in the late ’90s but, as if answering a bat signal that the world needed to hear "Rebel Girl" and "Anti-Pleasure Dissertation" live, has embarked on multiple reunion tours over the past decade. It's no surprise this all-ages show in the hometown of singer-songwriter (and author) Kathleen Hanna is already sold out.

In Makeshift, the 11th novel by Portland author and Reed College professor Peter Rock (best known for My Abandonment, later adapted into the film Leave No Trace), three children must learn to fend for themselves on a remote, rocky island after their community of survivalists is decimated. Rock will be joined in conversation by fellow Portland writer Sara Jaffe.

In addition to celebrity appearances by comics creators and live-action and voice actors (among them Alan Tudyk, Brian-Michael Bendis, Patton Oswalt, Melissa Fumero, and Richard Dean Anderson), this weekend-long fest includes a gaming hall, lightsaber training, a drag show, a Drink & Draw after-party/charity auction at Spirit of 77, and a convention center blood drive. 

How are women in their fifties spending this 25th anniversary of September 11? At Edgefield, a handful of them will be onstage and a whole lot of them will be on the lawn to take in this joint bill, one of the McMenamins venue's last big shows of the summer. More that 30 years ago, both acts released albums that can safely be called generation-defining: Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville (1993) and Sleater-Kinney's Call the Doctor (1996), showcasing Corin Tucker's trademark caterwaul. Is their "The Flannel and the Fury" tour a night of nostalgia? In some ways, but Sleater-Kinney's steady output since (despite several breakups and reformations, though this latest is without longtime drummer Janet Weiss) guarantees plenty of youngsters in the audience, too. 

The comedian, whose HBO stand-up specials include Good Clean Filth and Someday You'll Die, takes a break from Golden Globes prep (this winter's awards ceremony will be her third time hosting) to visit Ilani Casino for two nights. 

This son of Malian guitar legend Ali Farka Touré wasn't exactly encouraged to follow in his father's footsteps—his dad hoped he'd be soldier. Now a guitarist himself and a huge advocate for Malian music and the Sahel region in general, he's also a founder of Amahrec Sahel, which supports education and cultural development.

Officially, this is an author appearance presented by Literary Arts, part of a book tour for Smith's latest memoir, 2025's Bread of Angels. But it's billed as "An Evening of Songs and Stories," so we can bet the poet, playwright, guitarist, singer-songwriter, Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Little House fan, and bookstore savior—who turns 80 this December—will grace us with her singing voice, too. 

Officially a celebration of life, this program at Cinema 21 is hosted by Shawn Levy and includes film clips and remembrances of the award-winning, Portland-born documentary filmmaker, who died in May. Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse, Lindstrom's powerful 2013 documentary about a man with schizophrenia who died in police custody in 2006, screens at 9pm.

Named Portland's funniest person by Willamette Week in 2013, Miller can no longer officially claim that title—but that's only because she moved away, and is now in the running for California's funniest person, or the country's, or the world's. She's the first guest for PAM CUT's new Laugh Track series at the Tomorrow Theater.

Based around North Interstate Avenue’s 1907-founded St. Stanislaus Church, this cultural fest features polka contests each day for adults and kids, live music, dance troupes, and a pierogi-eating contest—which comes right before the adult polka contest. We'd do both, but it sounds risky, like swimming right after a snack....

"If women don't work, everything collapses," a woman says in the trailer for this 2024 documentary from Pamela Hogan and Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir. A look back on the mass walkout from homes and other workplaces (paid and unpaid) in Iceland in October 1975, the film interviews participants and charts what's happened since. Spoiler alert: Iceland today is considered no. 1 in the world for gender parity. The US? 42nd.

Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman ushered in a new era of superhero films and gave Jack Nicholson the occasion to offer such sage advice as “never rub another man’s rhubarb.” The Danny Elfman/Prince competing soundtracks are an embarrassment of riches.

Best known as the bassist for Joy Division and New Order, Hook and his band the Light (which includes his son) are marking the 25th anniversary of New Order’s Get Ready with a tour, and throwing in some assorted favorites from each of the old bands’ discographies, too. (Meanwhile, the actual New Order, sort of, will be on tour in South America later this year, though it's also down to just one original member after Gillian Gilbert and Stephen Morris had to step back following Gilbert's cancer diagnosis. Fans will be watching to see how the feuding offshoots handle their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction at the ceremony in November.)

The lights stay on low for the Tomorrow Theater's Crafternoons, all the better for moviegoers to see whatever knit, crochet, or other fiber arts project they're working on (or need help with from local yarn shop and event cohost Ritual Dye). This iteration screens the 1999 retelling of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew as a high school rom-com starring Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger. 

Playwright Kate Hamill is known for screwball stage adaptations of classics, including Sense & Sensibility and Vanity Fair. In this madcap riff on Jane Austen's most famous novel, the playwright zeroes in on the question of how anyone can know if they've met "the one." Marissa Wolf, artistic director of Portland Center Stage, helms the production.

Lane Selman, Margarett Waterbury, and photographer Shawn Linehan mark the release of Radicchio: A Celebration of the Beloved Italian Vegetable at one of the places that helped make the leafy vegetable famous. Tickets include bites, a welcome drink, and a chance to preorder the book. (The event is currently waitlist-only, but more tickets will become available if the weather is nice and things expand to the garden.)

Wait, didn't Chuck Klosterman already publish a book this year? Yes, yes he did. That was Football, way back in January. Now, the pop culture ponderer (a Portlander!) brings us Rock*, imagining an alternate history in which the Velvet Underground was bigger than the Beatles.