The Weekend: An Evening With a Covered in Beekend...and Paris
Good for you - you made it through to another Friday night. Who's the big winner?
If the weather sticks - and really, we've got no reason to think all the roads won't be washed out by Monday - it may be good weekend to check out a local show, go see a movie - I intend to check out Pineapple Express - or hunker down with some friends in your favorite watering hole and wait for the sun.
FRIDAY
You get not one but TWO CD release parties this weekend! Oh yes! Over at Empire Dine and Dance An Evening With releases its full-length, "Lovers & Losers," tonight. But wait - there's MORE. Friends Elf Princess Gets a Harley and Josh Loring are also on the Bill. Show starts at 9 p.m.
They're calling it the "Covered in Beekend." I'd call it a two-night affair of some of Portland's best rock. Covered in Bees' two night assault on Genos begins tonight. Actually, the band is going on hiatus until 2009 - so get your fix this weekend. Tonight they're paired with Confusatron, Hatchetface and The Vipers. In Round II: The Reckoning (or is that the Bee-ening?) Man-Witch and Ghosthunter will also take the stage. Don't buy the impending awesomeness? Maybe this short video will convince you.
Can't say I knew much about Surprise Me Mr. Davis, the folk-ish band that is rolling into SPACE Gallery for a show tonight. Thanks to the power of the Interwebs I (and you as well) checked out their MySpace page which has a healthy amount of music to give you a taste of this Brooklyn-based band. Wired-folk-ish sounds coming from Brooklyn? Who knew? Doors open at 8 p.m. for the 8:30 p.m. show, it's a $10 entry.
SATURDAY
Heart Shaped Rock plays the release show for their first CD tonight at Big Easy starting at 9 p.m. It would not be a release party without a little love (and a few sets) from your friends, in this case that includes By Blood Alone, Lead Stiletto and The Hot Tarts. It's your first chance to pick up "Paper Scissors," and not to mention a night of nothing but lady-fronted rock.
On the funky tip tonight head down to One Longfellow Square for The Soul Movement at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5 in advance and $7 at the door. Hmm, more leading ladies. Maybe this is a trend this weekend.
Finally, it was one of, if not the big vid of the week: Paris Hilton strikes back and throws her tiara into the political ring. And somehow, is funny. (I know, it scares me too.) McCain, Obama - you're on notice.
Justin is a former newspaper intern and has the scar tissue to prove
it. Justin has been a staff writer for the Portland Press Herald/Maine
Sunday Telegram since 2003, and in 2004 began writing a weekly column in the
Monday Magazine.
If he had to pick a label, the column would fall under "youth culture,"
covering everything from high school dance etiquette, dealing with college
debt, the resurgence of Roller Derby and Portland's one-of-a-kind music
scene. This of course has not stopped him from answering letters to Santa
Claus or writing about his experience riding shotgun in a drift car.
Justin is an export from the Midwest. He is a graduate of the University of
Missouri and is originally from Minnesota. He enjoys bacon, cheap beer,
redheads, Burt Reynolds jokes and wondering what the soundtrack to his life
would sound like.
When he grows up he wants to be an international art thief. Or Captain
America.
Until then he'll be bringing you dispatches about "the young people" and
what they do.
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