Lonely Hearts Club Band
Bad date? At least you’ll get a good story out of it.
Table of Contents: | Headout Picks
January 27th, 2010
Star Search | WW’s celeb-stalking red-carpet reporters help make (non)sense of the third annual Pammys.0 comments
January 20th, 2010
Bowling With The Devil | Jessie Rogers’ heavy-metal bowling league is changing lives.0 comments
January 13th, 2010
Tom Tom Club | Portland gets some 4/4 feminism.0 comments
January 6th, 2010
Drag Out | Portland’s developmentally disabled community gets a coming-out party.0 comments
December 30th, 2009
All Tomorrow’s Parties | It’s not too late to say thanks to this decade the right way.0 comments
December 23rd, 2009
Christmas-Up Your Apartment | 1) Print it Out. 2) Color it in. 3) Cut along the dotted line. 3) Hang on wall or in front of TV. 4) Rejoice!0 comments
December 16th, 2009
IceCycles | What’s better than racing motorcycles? Racing motorcycles with spiked tires on ice.0 comments
December 9th, 2009
Only In PDXmas | From trail carols to NASCAR lights, Christmastime is here.0 comments
December 2nd, 2009
Field Trips For Grownups | The Dill Pickle Club wants you.1 comment
November 25th, 2009
Thanksgiving 2.0 | Friends, family and a laptop display of smoked-turkey temperature readings.0 comments
[February 3rd, 2010]

IMAGE: Ryan Bubnis
It will come as a shock to absolutely no one to learn that my romantic history, such as it is, has been paved with swift disappointment and extravagant failure (plus an unfortunate dodgeball incident). It might be slightly more surprising to learn that Multnomah County Commissioner Jeff Cogen was once forced on a blind date by his mother, or that radio ace Tara Dublin was served terrifying Jell-O rings by her future in-laws. This Thursday, the three of us will join five other Portland personalities in revealing our most horrifying and absurd dating experiences to an audience at the Bagdad Theater, in a benefit for Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon: “It’s Not Me, It’s You: Stories From the Dark Side of Dating.”
“Everyone’s got a bad date story, it seems—the hard part is picking just one,” says PPAO director Roey Thorpe, whose own tale somehow manages to involve a double-wide trailer and the Multnomah County corrections department. “I imagine that couples will leave wanting to show their gratitude to the one they love, and single people will go get another cat.” For my part, I like to think that just hearing about my past can serve as an innovative form of birth control. You’re welcome, ma’am.
GO: “ It’s Not Me, It’s You: Stories From the Dark Side of Dating” takes place 7 pm Thursday, Feb. 4, at the Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 236-9234. $15.
^Headout Picks
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 3
[WORDS] Face-2-Face: Old-School Identity Politics vs. Post-Gay Mentality
To queer identify or not to queer identify—that is the question. Q Center, 4115 N Mississippi Ave., 234-7837. 6:30 pm. Free. All ages.
THURSDAY, FEB. 4
[MUSIC] SEA WOLF
Sea Wolf frontman Alex Church’s strong, stringy tenor might make your ears do a double-take—he sounds like an amped-up version of Conor Oberst. The Woods. 6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. 6 pm. Free. 21+.
FRIDAY, FEB. 5
[SCREEN] NORTH FACE
Get out your jackets: This recounting of an attempt to scale Mt. Eiger is chilling, with extraordinary cinematography from Kolja Brandt that will leave mouths agape through the last 45 minutes of film. Cinema 21, 616 NW 21st Ave., 223-4515. $5-$8.
[WORDS] A WEATHER
Somehow, the hushed Portland pop outfit failed to take over the world on the power of its fantastic full-length debut, Cove. Everyday Balloons should push the band to a much wider audience. The Artistery. 4315 SE Division St. 8 pm. $6. All ages.
SATURDAY, FEB. 6
[CLASSICAL] PORTLAND CAMERATA
The early-music choir performs short pieces of Renaissance music (by Claudio Monteverdi, Thomas Tallis, Orlando di Lasso and Thomas Morley) with a kind of storyline involving the daily activities of a hapless music master. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 246-4744. 8 pm. $8-$12.
[MUSIC] ST. VINCENT
In any other year—that is, one without Veckatimest, Merriweather Post Pavilion and Bitte Orca—St. Vincent’s 2009 sophomore effort, Actor, would’ve received a lot more kudos. Her music juxtaposes the singer’s porcelain voice and richly decorated arrangements against bloody stabs of serrated guitar. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St. 9 pm. $15 advance, $17 day of show. 21+.
SUNDAY, FEB. 7
[HAITI/ACROBAT RELIEF] STEFANEFIT
The many students of acrobat Stefan Furst come together to raise funds to pay for the medical bills their mentor incurred after a windsurfing accident. Furst, ever generous, is going to donate much of the proceeds right back—to Haiti earthquake relief efforts. Echo Theater, 1515 SE 37th Ave., 231-1232. 4 pm. $7-$15 suggested donation.
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