Arts & Culture

Top Things to Do This Weekend: June 12–15

Pride takes over the city, Once rocks your heart, LitHop fills Alberta bars with authors and book-lovers, and there are two types of people in the world: Tom Robbins people, and Dolly Parton people (okay, maybe not...).

06/12/2014 Edited by Aaron Scott By Portland Monthly Staff

BOOKS AND TALKS

6 Things We Learned from Christine McKinley's Physics for Rock Stars

McKinley teaches us how to make the laws of the universe work in our favor in her new book—or, at least explains a thing or two our high school teachers failed to. Book Release Party June 15

06/12/2014 By Danielle Klenak

CULTUREPHILE

The Art Museum Brings a Bit of Paris to Portland

The Portland Art Museum pays homage to Paris's Tuileries Garden, one of the world’s most inspiring spaces.

06/11/2014 By Aaron Scott

BOOKS & TALKS

Q&A: Ira Flatow on Science Friday and Portland Innovation

Science Friday will record live at OMSI on June 18. The host talks about cameos on The Big Bang Theory, why Portland teens should be trusted with nuclear reactors, and how Dr. Jane Goodall believes in Sasquatch.

06/11/2014 By Peter Holmstrom

FILM

Internet Cat Video Fest Returns

The third annual traveling kitty rumpus pounces into town June 13 & 14. We choose our 5 favorite videos.

06/10/2014 By Danielle Klenak

THEATER

A Hot Two-Night Stand for Portland Theater Awards

Portland Playhouse scores big at the Drammys after OSF’s All the Way snags two Tonys on Broadway.

06/10/2014 By Aaron Scott

SPORTS

Feel the Burn: Timbers vs. FC Dallas

This is a match with direct playoff implications, and the season is no longer young.

06/10/2014 By Mike Schwartz

SLIDE SHOW

Jedi Knights and Manga Characters Invade Beaverton Supermarket

Fans of cosplay dress up as their favorite fictional characters for a meetup at Uwajimaya. We caught it on camera.

06/09/2014 By Peter Holmstrom

HAPPENINGS

The Hollywood Theater Gets 'Clueless'

The second installment of the Hollywood Theater's Fashion in Film series? A one night showing of the 90's classic Clueless.

06/09/2014 By Eden Dawn

ART

Portraits of Trans Men Layer the Ambiguities of Photography and Gender

Lorenzo Triburgo merges transgender men and corny, Bob Ross–style landscapes in portraits that playfully puncture assumptions about men, women, landscape, and photography. Thru Aug 15

06/06/2014 By Aaron Scott

Top Things to Do This Weekend: June 5-8

The Naked Bike Ride bares PDX, Shine a Light turns the art museum into a party, Jesse Eisenberg stars in a thriller filmed in Oregon, Colin Meloy talks the Pogues, First Thursday sees sun, and more.

06/05/2014 Edited by Aaron Scott By Portland Monthly Staff and Danielle Klenak

CONCERTS

Win Tickets to Indigo Girls and Joan Baez

The folk powerhouse double bill is one of several concerts that make the summer feel like an unofficial Lilith Fair reunion. June 26

06/05/2014 By Aaron Scott

SPORTS

House of Horrors: Timbers vs. RSL

A reeling, bare-bones Salt Lake team could be carrion for the angry, hungry, ego-bruised Timbers.

06/05/2014 By Mike Schwartz

BOOKS & TALKS

June's Killer Literary Events

LitHop and Poetry Press Week, PDX's best new lit happenings, kick off a crazy month that also includes Tom Robbins, Colin Meloy, Blumesday, and some local debuts.

06/04/2014 By Danielle Klenak

THEATER

Review: Third Rail’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane

The darkly comic Irish tale of daughter and mother from the screenwriter of In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths. Thru June 22

06/02/2014 By Nathan Tucker

INTERVIEW

Tales of a Late-Blooming Novelist

We sit down with local writer Polly Dugan, whose debut book So Much a Part of You appears this month.

06/02/2014 By Peter Holmstrom

SPECIAL EVENTS

Pick Your Perfect Pride Experience

Our fab LGBT celebration is here. Want to thrive, not just survive? Answer these questions to choose your own Pride adventure.

06/02/2014 By Aaron Scott

PDX INDEX

Pedalpalooza, By the Numbers

The annual bike event offers way more than the World Naked Bike Ride, no butts about it.

06/02/2014 By Greg Young

INTERVIEW

Jesse Eisenberg Gets In Touch With His Inner Oregonian

The Social Network star on filming Night Moves in Southern Oregon.

06/02/2014 By Aaron Scott

ON THE TOWN

PoMo Picks: June 2014

Sarah McLachlan talks Portlandia, Jawz: The Musical in 3-D, Cher and Cyndi Lauper take over the Moda Center, and the rest of the month's best bets for things to see or do

06/02/2014

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