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Daily Email - Monday - 4/21/2025

April 21, 2025

Spring is playing games with us, but summer will be more reliable. We can almost smell the funnel cake now. The Portland Rose Festival is coming to Waterfront Park from May 23 to June 8, and we’re giving away a 4-pack of tickets to opening night with unlimited ride access!*

JUST ANNOUNCED

  • The Portland Folk Festival is back in January for a can’t-miss two-day event at Crystal Ballroom featuring a mix of folk and Americana artists. Win tickets from us!*

  • Think Neil Diamond classics, but with a shot of adrenaline and a wink of rock ‘n’ roll irreverence. Win tickets to Super Diamond at Crystal Ballroom in February.*

  • Relive the best of Y2K at Punch Bowl Social while they bring the best hits, games, drink specials, and more to Portland. Enter in hourly raffles for a $75 gift card and your choice of a Tamagotchi.*

  • Indie icon Neko Case returns to Portland with a show at Roseland Theater on November 15 with John Grant.

  • Plus other just announced shows from Matt Heckler, Sheppard, Robert Randolph, Sophie Royer, Pearl & The Oysters, and Post Animal.

WHERE TO SEE WILDFLOWERS

There’s still time!!! Catch wildflowers across the PNW to remember why you put up with 9 months of rain and clouds. We're talking fields of trilliums so white they'll blind you, camas lilies that'll transport you back to a time when life was simpler, and dog roses that'll make you wonder if you've stumbled into a fairy tale.

THIS WEEK

☁️ Cloud Nothings

Tonight @ Hawthorne Theatre (8PM)

Cloud Nothings have been serving up punchy, cathartic anthems since 2009, no algorithmic trend-chasing, just pure, unfiltered DIY spirit.

🎤 Gruff Rhys

Tonight @ Polaris Hall (7PM)

Welsh musician and frontman of Super Furry Animals, Gruff Rhys will perform his 2014 album American Interior at Polaris Hall.

🤘 L.A. Witch

Tonight @ Mississippi Studios (7PM)

The L.A. Witch trio doesn’t just play garage rock, they haunt it, draping every riff in a velvet cloak of surf-noir and post-punk attitude.

🎸 Leprous

Tonight @ Wonder Ballroom (6:30PM)

Norwegian prog-metal chameleons Leprous bring their new album, Melodies of Atonement, to Wonder Ballroom.

🎷 2025 Young Jazz Composers + PJCE Archive: Dig. Deep.

Tonight @ Mission Theater (7PM)

Enjoy music written by a cohort of Young Jazz Composers and the flagship 12-member ensemble for an evening of new and archived compositions.

LOCALS ONLY

  • From May 11 - 18, Food Cart Week will take over the city with $15 (or less) specials from over 100 food carts across the city.

  • Save the date for the first-ever North Portland Book Crawl from April 26 + 27.

  • A new speakeasy has hit Portland - and it’s not where you’d expect. Aurora is the newest addition to the PDX airport, bringing an “ethereal vibe” to Loyal Legion Beer Hall.