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.

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. 

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. 

The Beastie Boys retired as a band with the death from cancer in 2012 of Adam Yauch, a.k.a. MCA. Earlier this year one of the surviving members, Mike D, made a few guest appearances with his own sons’ band and seemed to catch the performing bug again, soon embarking on a tour backed by 5D (his two sons and three other people with last names that are not Diamond).

The Seattle-born folk legend, a onetime piano prodigy who survived polio as a kid, has been recording since the 1960s. Now 87, she's still gracing audiences with songs like her iconic cover of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now." Judy Blue Eyes plays two shows in Oregon, and they're both a bit of a hike: Friday, October 2, she's at the Rogue Theater in Grants Pass, and the next night she comes north to Eugene's McDonald Theatre before heading for the sunny Southwestern US, as many octogenarians do when the weather starts to turn.

We asked an area teen to tell us about Sombr, the stage name of Shane Boone, the Grammy-nominated 21-year-old whose hits include “Back to Friends,” “Homewrecker,” and “My Body Isn’t Ready.” The report: “He’s an up-and-coming artist. He sang two Taylor Swift songs when she was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. A lot of his songs will get really trendy, so a lot of people don’t like him, but I like him. One of his recent videos had Milo [Manheim] from Zombies—and [Quenlin] Blackwell, who’s a Victoria Secret model, and then another had the girl who stars in Obsession [Inde Navarrette].” 

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