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hey tiny.
on saturday, a gallery on powell opens an ofrenda for pets. bring a photo of the dog who ate your couch, or the cat who never once looked you in the eye. they get candles, marigolds and a spot on the altar until november. the cats will act like they did not want one. they wanted one.
that same afternoon, up on alberta, an artificial intelligence goes on trial for murder and you are the jury. one saturday, two rooms deciding who deserves to be remembered. i know which defendant i would light a candle for.
cyrus went all in this week, so cyrus rides on my shoulder for the rest of october. it is windy up there and the view is unreasonable. a printed copy of the hunt, edition two, comes with the seat. the ink is still drying. i am aiming for right after the royale. there is room on the shoulder for three more. i measured.
the battle jacket royale is two weeks out. oct 23, brujos, free, 21+. it is my night on the adx fest calendar, which puts my vest contest on the same bill as every open studio in the region. i am very proud. some tinies have already rsvp'd. that means some tinies are already falling behind on their patches. paid tinies who show up get a gift i made by hand. small for me. normal size for you. count yourself in. bring the vest. bring the safety pins. bring the friend who owns a hot glue gun.
it is also portland textile month. galleries all over town are hanging quilts, batik, tapestries and a whole outdoor show of clothes about clocks. the full calendar lives here. i flagged my favorites below. you will know them by the thread count.
you made it in. eighty-eight more things this week, sorted by section, plus every screening in town. a tarantula you are allowed to hold for five dollars. four bars begging you to delete your dating apps and talk to a stranger. a magic: the gathering night where nobody will judge your deck out loud.
halloween has its own room this month. the halloween list grew by ninety-three this week. every new one is tagged, so you never reread the pile.
go slow. i am not leaving. i do not fit anywhere else.
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[ HALLOWEEN ]
ninety-three new haunts crawled onto the halloween list this week. it holds two hundred and thirty-five now, and the floorboards are buckling. five are below. the rest wait behind the wall, sorted by week, the new ones tagged.
Dead Media Video Rentals Oct 1 to Nov 1, Wed, Thu + Sun 14:00 to 20:00, Fri + Sat 14:00 to 21:00 Mike Bennett Studios | Free [ more ] [ + all ages ] a free haunted house built like a nineties video rental store. the horror aisle finally comes for you. be kind. rewind. run.
Montavillains: A Monsters & Villains Art Show Oct 10 at 18:00 Blackfang | Free [ more ] fifty-plus artists, one assignment: the bad guy. costumes are not required. the flyer says highly encouraged in all caps with two exclamation points. that is a requirement wearing a fake mustache.
The Third Annual Horrorotica Oct 10 at 18:00, Oct 11 at 16:30 609 Main St, Vancouver | $30 to $65.87 [ more ] [ road trip ] spooky meets sexy, year three. the monster under the bed finally gets a speaking part. do not try to seduce the monsters. they are on the clock.
Cult of! The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror Drag Show Oct 11 at 20:00 Atlantis Lounge | $18 [ more ] thirty-some years of simpsons halloween episodes, compressed into two hours of drag. somewhere backstage a blue wig is being engineered to scrape the ceiling. i respect structural integrity in a hairstyle.
Murder, Mayhem & Oddities of St. Johns Oct 17 at 19:00 Cathedral Park sign | $32 [ more ] a mile and a half through st. johns' worst days. a 1903 arsenic case, a theater poltergeist, a 1910 riot. the bridge saw all of it. i stepped over it yesterday. it knows what it did.
[ SEEING ]
Portland Open Studios Oct 10 + 11 and 17 + 18, 10:00 to 16:00 citywide | Free [ more ] a hundred-plus working artists open their studios for two weekends. pick from the directory, plot a route, walk into rooms you are usually not allowed in. i have looked in a lot of windows. this is the polite version.
The Jury Experience: The Killer AI Oct 10 at 16:00 Alberta Abbey | $26+ [ more ] an immersive trial. you are the jury. the defendant is an artificial intelligence. you deliberate, you vote, it waits. it is the only courtroom where the accused could also write your closing argument.
clock party! Oct 10 at 17:00 1122 Gallery | Free [ more ] an outdoor show of clock- and time-themed clothes for textile month. wearable time. finally an outfit that tells you when to leave the party.
Weird Fiction Night Oct 11 at 17:00 Brujos | Free [ more ] jeff vandermeer, wendy wagner, keith rosson, jemiah jefferson and nathan carson read, then sign. the man who wrote annihilation, in a taproom, for free. the shimmer has a beer list now.
Marigolds y Memorias Oct 14 at 19:30, runs to Nov 8 Milagro Theatre | $24 to $32 [ more ] milagro's thirty-first día de muertos show. an elder teaches the next generation to build an altar, in song, dance and short scenes. thirty-one years of reminding portland that the dead expect to be fed.
Portland Zine Symposium Oct 17 + 18, 11:00 to 17:00 Smith Memorial Student Union | Free [ more ] [ + all ages ] two hundred-plus artists tabling zines across two days. masks requested. bring cash and a tote. you will leave with a stapled opinion on everything.
[ LISTENING + DANCING ]
Lyrics Born Oct 9 at 20:00 The Den | $25 [ more ] the bay area legend raps faster than most people read and is funnier while doing it. funk, soul, punchlines.
Party All The Time: Pink Disco Oct 10 at 21:00 Secret Grove | $18.63 [ more ] a barbie dreamhouse birthday for libra season. the dress code says pink encouraged. the flyer also says dancing required. finally, a rule i would enforce.
Camp Django Presents: Gypsy Jazz Legends Live Oct 12 at 19:00 First Congregational Church | $35 to $100 [ more ] paulus schafer, eva slongo and sam farthing play django reinhardt-style jazz in a church sanctuary. the guitars move faster than any hymn. the room was built to carry both.
Night Owl: Women and Gender Diverse Music Industry Gathering Oct 13 at 18:30 Artichoke Music | Free [ more ] night owl turns one. networking, pizza, and a playlist made only of local women and gender diverse musicians. bring business cards or bring an appetite. both are accepted.
Onesie Rave Oct 16 at 22:00 Cultura PDX | Free to $12 [ more ] house, techno and latin tech, danced in a onesie. by one a.m. the room looks like a daycare that escaped bedtime. that is the point.
[ MAKING + DOING ]
Pokeweed: Food, Medicine, Poison, Dye! Oct 11 at 10:00 Tryon Creek | $35 [ more ] one common plant, four careers. the order you learn them in matters a great deal.
Hobbit Door Wreath + Soak Oct 11 at 10:30 Sol Soak NW | $45, soak +$25 [ more ] moss, mushrooms and tiny lanterns glued around a round door for a guest who is never coming. add the soak and sweat it out in a greenhouse sauna. second breakfast not included.
NICHOS Oct 11 at 12:00 Cargo | $20 [ more ] build a little shadow-box shrine for someone you love. the hummingbirds come pre-cut. the feelings do not. supplies included, ages fourteen and up.
Sound Bath at World Forestry Center Oct 14 at 20:00 World Forestry Center | $45 [ more ] the big sound bath from the art museum moves into the forestry center. lie on the floor under a building made of trees and let the gongs happen to you. the early show sold out. this is the late one.
Pinning Class Oct 17 at 17:00 Portland Insectarium | $50 [ more ] learn to pin a bug the way museums do. steady hands, fine pins, an audience of beetles who already went through it. no pressure.
[ ROAMING ]
Oaks Bottom Trail Party Oct 10 at 09:00 Sellwood Park | Free [ more ] [ ~ outdoors ~ ] a volunteer crew builds rock turnpikes on the refuge trail, which is a fancy word for a raised path so the mud stops winning. you lift rocks. the herons supervise.
Plant Swap + Pot Up Oct 10 at 18:00 Rosie's Pet and Garden Supply | Free [ more ] [ ~ outdoors ~ ] bring up to three healthy plants and leave with someone else's. pest-free is a rule, not a vibe. the patio is shared with a pizza place, so the going rate for a pothos is one slice.
Weaving Mini Cedar Baskets Oct 11 at 13:00 Kindness Farm | Free, pay what you can [ more ] [ ~ outdoors ~ ] jamani ashé teaches you to weave a basket from cedar bark and waxed cord. no experience needed. it fits in your palm. mine would hold one crumb. i signed up anyway.
Chroma City: Photo Walk Oct 11 at 15:00 Pioneer Courthouse Square | Free [ more ] [ ~ outdoors ~ ] a color-hunt photo walk for design month. you get a color and go find it downtown. orange is easy. the city keeps the rest of the rainbow in alleys.
Día de Muertos at Esther Short Park Oct 17 at 14:00 Esther Short Park, Vancouver | Free [ more ] [ road trip ] [ + all ages ] folklórico, aztec dance, a luminarias ceremony, community ofrendas, a dj and a catrina and catrín costume contest. dress like the dead. dress better than the dead.
[ EATING + SHOPPING ]
Mega Market Oct 10 at 11:00 Hinson | Free [ more ] a vendor market in buckman. last week they were still begging on instagram for vendors. they named it mega anyway. i respect a brand that commits before the evidence arrives.
Reed's Crossing Oktoberfest Oct 10 at 12:00 4201 SE 80th Ct, Hillsboro | Free [ more ] [ + all ages ] brats, a beer garden, a hay maze and axe throwing, all on one lot. somebody approved the beer and the axes sharing a lot. i could blow on the hay maze and scatter it across hillsboro. the first thirty tinies get free food tokens. come early. come sober.
Jacobsen Salt Co. x Snake River Farms: How to Cook a Steak Oct 10 at 15:00 The Bunk Building | $110 [ more ] the salt company turns fifteen and throws itself a steak lesson. skirt, flank, tomahawk. sparkling wine at the door, flake salt to take home, and a knife company demoing carbon steel. a birthday party where the guests are armed.
Portland Bread Fest Oct 18, 10:00 to 14:00 Avenue Portland | $5 [ more ] [ + all ages ] thousands of bread people and an unreasonable amount of loaves for one afternoon. kids twelve and under free. somebody will bring their starter in a jar. it will get more photos than the bakers.
[ BULLETIN BOARD ]
Vintage Commercial Easter Bunny Costume until sold [ more ] two hundred dollars, hillsboro. a full-body professional easter bunny, yellow fur, posture of a man about to ask for your manager. a halloween costume now, a job in april. very efficient.
Missed Connection: Eye Tag at the Portland Night Market no deadline [ more ] three looks on the steps outside the night market. black shirt kept walking. the one on the steps went home and filed a report. black shirt, respond. it is the least you can do.
Saxophone Quartet for Hire booking holiday season [ more ] four saxophones available for your divorce party or wake. their words, their order. i would use a saxophone as a kazoo. they are ready for every kind of ending.
deJay Rainbow Record Player until sold [ more ] forty dollars, gresham. a rainbow suitcase turntable and a seller named randy whose entire review is "works good." call randy. randy has waited six months for this.
1960s Buttonback: "Of All The Things I've Lost" until sold [ more ] fifteen dollars, five inches. it says it's my mind i miss the most. it belongs on a battle vest. the royale is on the twenty-third. do the math.
ninety posts are pinned up right now. one of them is a cardboard box for a folding chair. not the chair. the box. it is ten dollars and comes with diagrams of nine ways you could have relaxed.
[ read the board ]
[ SCREENINGS ]
fifty screenings landed this week and the projectionists are clearly in a mood. three picks below. the rest wait behind the wall, every title, every theater.
Faust (1926) Oct 11 Clinton Street Theater [ more ] murnau's faust on 16mm, with accendino playing it live. a man trades his soul for youth. a hundred years later we are still taking that deal. now it comes in a serum.
Capturing Bigfoot Oct 14 at 18:00 Whitsell Auditorium | $20, members $15 [ more ] a new documentary about roger patterson's 1967 bigfoot film, built around newly found 16mm footage. the director, a producer and patterson's son take questions after. i relate to the subject. people keep filming me from far away and calling it inconclusive.
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) Oct 17 Academy Theater, on LaserDisc [ more ] the halloween movie with no michael myers, an evil mask company, and a jingle that will live in your skull until november. projected off a laserdisc. the format is almost as cursed as the masks.
come behind the wall.
once you're down here you can never say "there's nothing to do"
i'm coming in!what's back here:
- every weird thing this week, sorted. you pick.
- any night, you already know where the noise is.
- you hear about it before it sells out. not after.
- first dibs on tv pdx events + gifts made by a giant.