issue 21: zombie puppet dinner theater + a pool full of beans (extended cut)

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hey tiny.

the city is killing summer this week. it cannot agree on how. there is a bar crawl called death to summer. a summer slam. an end of summer mixer. a last sunset session. a post-festival party built around a pool of beans. a super summer show. six funerals. six different dates. nobody coordinated. summer does not die on a schedule. it gets quiet and some of you only notice in october.

one of you joined this week and went behind the wall without pausing to look at it first. no browsing. no deliberating. i do not know your name, and i would like to.

the issue 20 poll asked where you read this from. a tiny who has only read two issues answered and then volunteered considerably more than that.

❝

the writing is delicious, the content is dreamy, and the concept of janet owns my soul.

katie

i have carried that around for days. i am enormous. nobody has ever called me dreamy.

you are behind the wall. good. down here is the other seventy-nine, plus all fifty-eight screenings worth traveling for.

what is down here that is not up there. a grief circle billed as a happy hour. a gong bath timed to an eclipse. darude. an art show at an address they will not give you yet. a bird walk in tigard. a certified bob ross instructor in west linn, sold out, listed anyway because you deserve to know it exists.

friday is the picnic. your seat is already held. if you haven’t claimed your patch yet, the code is at the bottom.

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[ SEEING ]

The Tiniest Party Aug 20 at 19:30 6204 N Detroit Ave | from $15.71 [ more ] underground storytelling, and it is newbies night. every person on that mic has never done this before. fifteen dollars to watch eight strangers find out in real time whether they have a story.

Public Drunkenness Aug 22 at 17:00 Building 5 | Free [ more ] a performance titled public drunkenness, staged deliberately, for free. every other instance of this in portland is unscheduled.

Zombies & Goddesses Aug 22 at 19:00, matinee Aug 23 at 15:00 Portland Puppet Museum | $60, two for $100 / $15 matinee [ more ] adult puppet dinner theater in a museum garden. chef dinner. spirits. puppets. sunday they run it again for children at fifteen dollars with no dinner and, one assumes, cuts.

ETERNAL NIGHT MARKET at The Skeleton Key Odditorium Aug 22 at 20:00 939 SW 10th | Free [ more ] an odditorium holds a night market. free. the word odditorium is doing all the work and it is enough.

Log Lady Day Aug 23 at 10:00 World Forestry Center Discovery Museum | Free [ more ] twin peaks fans take a forestry museum for the day, free. either nobody thought about that booking or somebody thought about it very hard. i have decided not to ask. bring a log.

Yeosangi Day Aug 23 at 12:00 Honey Pearl Cafe | Free [ more ] a cafe gives a whole day to one thing and does not explain it to outsiders. go find out.

Community King: Drag King Show & Resource Fair Aug 23 at 13:00 The Marie Equi Center | $0 to $28.52 [ more ] drag kings and a resource fair. same room. four hours. stevie phoenix headlines. get your questions answered, then watch a king while you sit with the answers. free if it needs to be.

[ LISTENING + DANCING ]

Fantasies & Fairy Tales Aug 20 at 20:00 Peacock Bar | $10 [ more ] a fifty-first birthday staged as a fairy kingdom. the door is called the portal. it opens at seven. ten dollars buys safe passage. nobody has ever offered me safe passage. i step over.

Renegade Science Vol. 2 Release Party with DJ Manny Aug 21 at 21:00 venue TBA | $5 [ more ] dj manny out of teklife, the chicago crew that built footwork out of nothing. five dollars. that is not a typo and i checked it twice.

Secret Roller Disco Aug 21 at 19:00 Convention Center Plaza | Free [ more ] [ ~ outdoors ~ ] free. outdoors. futuristic. the organizers were so thrilled it landed on a friday they announced it in capital letters. all wheels welcome. reading that generously.

Femme Fatale Fest, Night 1 Aug 21 at 20:30 Twilight Cafe and Bar | $12 [ more ] twelve dollars, four bands, and a bill that reads like a tarot spread.

First Annual JamHill Music Festival Aug 22 at 14:00 Larson House Restaurant, Yamhill | Free [ more ] [ road trip ] the first annual anything is the bravest thing a town can try. free, back lawn, an hour out. go make sure there is a second one.

Volume Bomb Block Party IX Aug 22 at 15:15 SE 49th & Hawthorne | $20 to $25 [ more ] fifty-one bands. five venues. one block. twenty before six, twenty-five after. for once the cheap move and the smart move are the same move. 21+.

THEE BAILE PDX Aug 22 at 21:00 Process | $12 [ more ] brazilian baile funk at process, a concrete room in an industrial zone and exactly the right shape for it. twelve dollars.

Gruuv with UNDSCLSD & Friends Aug 22 at 21:00 Secret Grove | $4 [ more ] four dollars. venue called secret grove. location undisclosed. dj called undsclsd. at some point a theme becomes a policy.

BEANwatch 2026 Aug 22 at 20:00 Echo Theater | Free [ more ] post-soak party. local djs. a pool of beans you are invited to swim in. a lifeguard on duty. the flyer says please keep the beans in the pool. that sentence was earned.

007 Hookah Belly Dance Night Aug 22 at 21:00 2524 SE Division St | Free [ more ] ella moore dancing. dj al hasan. no cover. music at nine, dance at ten thirty. reservations by telephone. an actual phone call. respect.

The Afrobeats Experience Rooftop Day Party Aug 23 at 16:00 600 SE Belmont St | from $14.64 [ more ] [ ~ outdoors ~ ] six hours on a roof. second edition. the first went well enough to run it again. that is the only review that counts.

Trill LeBeau with Marcelo Guitron Aug 26 at 19:00 Rhythm Seed Farm | $20 to $40 [ more ] music and storytelling around a fire on a working farm. gather round is doing heavy lifting in that listing. believing all of it.

[ MAKING + DOING ]

Rosewood Family Health Fair Aug 21 at 13:00 3530 SE 88th Ave | Free [ more ] screenings, preventive care, nutrition, resources. free. east of 82nd. no catch. no pitch. no speech about community.

Smoke & Paint Events: Girls & Queers Aug 21 at 19:30 Gray Area | $20 membership [ more ] paint a ceramic ashtray at an event where you will need an ashtray. a closed loop. flawless design.

Drywall Repair Aug 22 at 12:00 Rebuilding Center | $70 to $120 sliding [ more ] learn to close a hole in a wall. everyone needs this eventually. nobody books it before they need it.

Puppy Yoga Benefitting ARK Rescue Aug 22 at 15:00 Lighthouse Community Yoga PDX | $44.52 [ more ] puppies loose in a yoga class. you will hold zero poses. the rescue gets paid anyway. everybody in that room knows the actual deal.

Plant Medicine: Ancestral First-Aid Practices Aug 23 at 13:00 Kindness Farm | $10 suggested [ more ] what people used before pharmacies. foraging notes. stories about specific plants they call elders. ten dollars suggested. the plants are not charging.

Handmade Gift Swap and Tote Bag Decorating Aug 25 at 18:00 Brave Neighbor | $17.85 [ more ] bring nine things you made. leave with nine things other people made. the tote is for carrying the evidence home.

[ ROAMING + EATING + SHOPPING ]

Cully Farmers Market Aug 20 at 16:00 NE 42nd & NE Alberta | Free [ more ] [ ~ outdoors ~ ] [ + all ages ] naya runs it. thursdays into september. growers from the neighborhood it sits in. four hours. no cover. real tomatoes.

Somali Heritage Day Aug 21 at 11:00 Luuwit View Park | Free [ more ] [ ~ outdoors ~ ] [ + all ages ] free, in a park most of you have never driven to, as part of the parks summer series. the poll said zero of you live east of 82nd. consider this me holding the door.

VW Camp & Show Aug 21 at 12:00, through Aug 23 Happy Acres at the Bayou, McMinnville | Free [ more ] [ ~ outdoors ~ ] [ road trip ] cruise, camp, cook, connect. three days in a field in mcminnville. the nonprofit running it states, unprompted, that it is not affiliated with the other mcminnville car event. somebody has history.

Dinner with Tony Aug 21 at 17:30 Loyal Legion, Vancouver | $83.35 [ more ] [ road trip ] four courses about anthony bourdain, then the a24 biopic. eighty-three dollars and thirty-five cents to eat a tribute and then watch one. he would have had opinions. you would have wanted every one.

Vintage Reseller Cross-Country Pile Sale Aug 22 at 09:00 Salsman Coffee Roasters | $5 [ more ] eight hundred items. no racks. five and ten dollar piles. paper bags provided. somebody is leaving town and their entire closet is on a table by the moda center. cash and venmo. be there at nine.

August Indigenous Marketplace Aug 22 at 10:00 1615 SE 3rd Ave | Free [ more ] [ + all ages ] indigenous artists and makers. six hours. free. the summer series has been quietly excellent and this is near the end of it.

Constructing Hope's Construction Carnival Aug 22 at 11:00 4906 NE 6th Ave | Free [ more ] [ + all ages ] a trades nonprofit throws a carnival. games, raffle, food, prizes, no admission. the people who teach construction built the booths. those booths are overqualified.

Italian Festival of Portland Aug 22 at 12:00 2408 SE 16th Ave | $7+ [ more ] [ + all ages ] festa italia. seven dollars. the flyer says tickets are limited and means it. it also contains a typo i have decided to let live.

Crystal Wizard Summer Night Market Aug 22 at 17:00 Gleneden Beach | Free [ more ] [ ~ outdoors ~ ] [ road trip ] free, at the coast, and i have read that schedule four times looking for the catch.

Covert Cafe Cello Brunch Aug 23 at 10:30 Covert Cafe | Free, tip the cellist [ more ] solo cello over brunch on 82nd. every sunday. no cover. one person, one enormous instrument, one small plant-filled room. tip them.

Doubles Night Aug 26 at 17:00 Pier Park Doubles | $7 [ more ] [ ~ outdoors ~ ] random draw doubles, every wednesday, may to september. you do not pick your partner. you get who you get and you make it work. so does everybody.

[ BULLETIN BOARD ]

Halloween Pirate Skeleton in a Gibbet Cage while it lasts [ more ] five feet of skeleton in a real metal cage. two hundred dollars. available specifically because several people flaked. cannot imagine why anyone would back out.

2 for $5 Mini Concrete Brains while they last [ more ] handmade. solid concrete. some raw, some gloss pink, some described by the seller as slightly melted. two brains, five dollars. they will outlast all of us and he knows it.

Original ICY BREASTS Poster while it lasts [ more ] a 1974 one-sheet, twenty dollars, printed with the words be well, be warned. a poster that threatens you before you finish reading it.

Super Fly Western Shirt while it lasts [ more ] navy. embroidered horse heads. worn once. the seller notes her husband always wanted to cut the sleeves off and she never allowed it. sixty dollars for a shirt that outlasted the argument.

Wanted: an Artist for Giro PDX before Aug 23 [ more ] a ride organizer needs a promo piece drawn. he has asked, in writing, to be saved from using ai or from subjecting his followers to his own drawings. that is a real person asking you directly. the ride is sunday.

My Toy Dinosaur, Group Show Artist Call deadline Aug 31 [ more ] dinosaurs. any medium. any interpretation. extinct sixty-six million years and still fielding more submissions than most of us.

got something to pin up? there is a form on the page. the weird ones beat the serious ones every single week. i have stopped pretending to be surprised.

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