Thursday
Commotion and Bounce Brigade @ Goodfoot (funk, Afrobeat, bass, live party tracks)
White Light @ Valentines (free disco/electro dance party)
Art Spark @ Rontoms (a gathering of artists in PDX to meet and collaborate on possible projects)
Girls Rock Camp Benefit Show @ Rotture (bands, bands and booze)
Pink Party Planned Parenthood Benefit @ Holocene (DJ Global Ruckus and DJ Anjali, plus Brazilian percussion group Samba Gata will keep you moving to world beat sounds)
PDX Burlesque Event @ Hawthorne Theater (dance performance and cabaret show)
Diamond D @ Someday (only $5 to see this famous hip hop producer and record collector)
Flavour @ The Agency (hip hop, club, dance, upscale party)
X-otica Go Go w/ DJ Izm & DJ Nature @ Dante’s (booty bass, booty and bass)
Cinema Project ‘Amar Kanwar’ @ NW 13th (screening of film project)
Builders and Butchers CD Release Show @ Wonder Ballroom (some good ole’ Appalachian folk)
Midnite @ Crystal Ballroom (some good ole’ reggae)
Boy Eats Drum Machine @ Mississippi Studios (abstract sounds and samples played live)
Humane Society Party @ Pala (raffle, music, fashion, pets)
Delicious @ Crown Room (dj’s, dancing, decorations)
Inviting Desire @ IFCC (a performance based on women’s sexual fantasies, plus some naked ladies)
NW Club DJ Spinoff Semifinals @ Dirty (club and top 40 dj competition)
Luncacy Stageworks presents ‘Sight Unseen’ @ Sellwood Masonic Lodge (pay what you will Thursday’s for live theater)
3rd Annual Rocky Butte Sunset Ride @ Irving Park (food, dancing, portable sound systems, bikes, sunset)
Quasi @ Disjecta (indie rock and readings from someone involved in porn)
Friday
Townbombing @ Tube (FREE High Life beer starting at 10pm, plus one sweaty dance party)
Entar Tete Kunts @ Life Gallery (one creepy art show)
Gemini Party @ Blue Dragonfly (top 40 and club)
Hard Times @ Rotture (80’s and 90’s electro and rock)
Shake Society @ Branx (disco disco but no revolution)
Michael Hurley @ Papa G’s (beer and wine and music)
Rockbox @ Holocene (a dance party to see and at which to be seen)
Alan Singley & Pep Assembly @ Backspace (indie rock)
Crave Party @ Crush (go go dancers, drink specials, ladies looking for ladies)
Dirty Dancing Screening and Singalong Party @ Mission Theater (nobody puts baby in a corner)
Lafa Taylor and Nicoluminous @ Report (world beat and bass hip hop)
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson @ 8335 NW Whitney (house show with an amazing vocalist – your might have seen him on the cover of the Fader before)
Q Center Cabaret @ Q Center (cabaret dance performance)
Pulp Friction w/ Demetre Baca @ BC’s (house music)
Seoul Bro #1 @ Beulahland (funk, soul, reggae)
Prince vs David Bowie Mobile Dance Party @ Dawson Park (follow the bikes with bass speakers)
Bjork: Live In Paris Film Screening @ Hollywood Theater (concert film)
16 Bit, The Bassist, SPL @ Pala (bass heavy electro)
Inviting Desire @ IFCC (a performance based on women’s sexual fantasies, plus some naked ladies)
Tope, Mr. Mr., Top Shelf and DJ HitNRun @ Crown Room (local hip hop)
Dom-Prov @ Hipbone Studios (improv led by a Dominatrix)
East Infection w/ DJ Izm @ East Chinatown Lounge (hip hop, club, bmore)
Peaceful Gathering for Iran @ PSU Park Blocks (a gathering to show support to the students and citizens of Iran)
Mortified @ Someday Lounge (embarrassing stories read by their authors!)
Saturday
Electric Feel w/ guest DJ Reverend of Rock @ Fez (FREE if you go before 11 and say LifeisaParty)
Krames @ Rotture (hard electro)
PDX White Out Dance Party @ East PDX Community Center (top 40 and club – wear white)
NW Hip Hop Grind Time Battle @ Satyricon (8 producer battles, 7 MC battles)
DJ Hostile Tapeover @ Tiga (old school hip hop gems from cassettes)
Railer Show @ Mt. Tabor Theater (house music dance party)
Thara Memory @ Curious Comedy (jazz)
Light & Shadows @ Yoga Shala (local films, video art, installations, music)
Art Institute ‘Silhouttes’ Fashion Show @ Luxe Autohaus (fashion)
Street Raver 2 @ 2410 (electro, breaks, dnb)
Airsex Championships @ Berbati’s (like air guitar, but air sex)
Ziva Fashion Show @ Ziva (fashion)
Mini Bike and Lowrider Bike Show @ Vendetta (bikes!)
Excellent Gentlement and International Male @ Jimmy Mak’s (soul and jazz)
Zap Mama @ Doug Fir (world music, vocals, amazing live show)
Juan Prophet Organization @ Backspace (electro reggae)
Roller Disco Party @ Motorcorsa Ducati Dealership on NW 21st & Wilson (roller disco party)
PDX Bike Scavenger Hunt @ Irving Park (bring a bike, camera and booze)
Kicking Hunger: World’s Longest Kickball Game @ Overlook Party (food, vendors, music, and 30+ hours of kickball)
Sick @ Branx (one truly alternative party)
After Dark @ Groove Suite (house music)
Stumptown Joustdown @ Colonel Sumners Park (tall bikes, mini bikes, bike jousts, pie fights)
Bjork: Live In Paris Film Screening @ Hollywood Theater (concert film)
Twilight Rummage Sale @ Eagles Lodge (tons of goodies)
Inviting Desire @ IFCC (a performance based on women’s sexual fantasies, plus some naked ladies)
Opera Theater Oregon @ Clinton St. Theater (silent film, live sound)
David Bowie vs Iggy & Stooges Cover Bands @ Crown Room (covers of punk and space rock classics)
Barley Mill Pub 26th Anniversary Party @ Barley Mill Pub (beer, billiards, bar-bq)
Mortified @ Someday Lounge (embarrassing stories read by their authors!)
Sunday
Father’s Day Brunch @ Portland City Grill (great place to eat and catch the views of PDX before you go to…)
Sinferno Cabaret Father’s Day Edition @ Dante’s (fire dancing, strippers, magicians)
Father’s Day Paintball @ Starbucks’s off of Sylvan (ruin your dad’s clothes with paint for father’s day)
Anime Hentai @ Paris Theater (uncensored cartoons)
Wordsmith Open Poetry Event @ Backspace (music, poetry, open mic)
Kicking Hunger: World’s Longest Kickball Game @ Overlook Party (food, vendors, music, and 30+ hours of kickball)
Jenni’s Rad Day Bday Party @ Rooftop of Commodore (potluck party!)
Soulstice @ Groove Suite (house music)
Club Sesso Father’s Day Party @ Club Sesso (swingers!)
Bjork: Live In Paris Film Screening @ Hollywood Theater (concert film)
DJ Nealie Neal @ Moloko (funk, soul, rare groove)
KBOO Benefit Event @ Harmony Farms (music, massages, snacks)
Opera Theater Oregon @ Clinton St. Theater (silent film, live sound)
Luncacy Stageworks presents ‘Sight Unseen’ @ Sellwood Masonic Lodge (2 for 1 Sunday’s)
Summer Solstice Fest @ Rontoms (folk and indie rock)
CarrotMob & Hot Lips Pizza Father’s Day Fest @ 2211 SE Hawthorne (local bands and food galore)
UPCOMING (just a taste of things to come...)
6/22 – Bike Porn Screening @ Clinton St, Theater, Pizza Ride @ Skidmore Fountain
6/23 – US Air Guitar Championships @ Dante’s, Sprockette’s Potluck @ Alberta Park
6/24 – Sly & Robbie @ The Zoo, New Oregon Interview Series @ Urban Grind, Doo Doo Jam @ Calabash, Short Shorts Party @ Piccolo Park, OMSI After Dark @ OMSI
6/25 – Organic Beer Fest @ Overlook Park
6/26 – Snap! 90’s Dance Party @ Holocene
6/27 – Massive 8 @ Crown Room