Image: Nateesh Podolske
The Band
If you missed Divers’ electric performances marking the February release of their great, guitar-grinding debut album, Hello Hello, you’re in luck: the Portland quartet takes the stage at MusicfestNW this month as part of the August 23 lineup. Get there early—they’re a surprisingly long way down the bill—for a kick of their kinetic energy.
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Image: Gabrielle Urbani
The Book
Local writer Ellen Urbani follows an acclaimed memoir When I Was Elena—Alice Walker is a fan—with her first novel, LANDFALL, a story of mothers and daughters set in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Out August 29, the 10th anniversary of Katrina’s Louisiana landfall.
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The TV Show
A Stumptown restaurateur whose best friend is dating his mother? Sounds thoroughly Portland. It’s also the premise for Significant Mother, a new TV comedy out this month on the CW network that was filmed in various spots around the city in spring. Added bonus? Linda Gray, who played the gin-steeped wife of JR Ewing on the soap Dallas in the ’80s, as the grandmother. Come for the Portland location spotting, stay for Sue Ellen.
Published in the Great Trails issue of Portland Monthly.
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