Mondays are basically a government psyop to make Friday feel more powerful. Fortunately, there’s a cure: imagining yourself at OUTLOUD Music Festival at WeHo Pride Weekend 6/5–7 with The Pussycat Dolls, JADE, Ava Max, Ashlee Simpson, Jess Glynne, and more. Win VIP tickets, hotel stay, and a $600 travel credit for the perfect slaycation!*

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• Date night deserves better plans. Join DoPDX MORE for tickets to great shows and more reasons to actually lock something in. $50 for 12 months.

• The Portland Rose Festival is back this Friday, 5/22 to Sunday, 6/7 with dragon boat races, fireworks, carnival rides, parades, and enough deep-fried food to alter your brain chemistry. Here’s your annual excuse to leave the house.*

• Not peaches. Not nectarines. The Apricots, Portland’s beloved indie folk charmers, are taking over Mississippi Studios on Friday, 7/10, with special guests Smokey Brights and Chipped Nail Polish. Get tickets!

• María Zardoya of The Marías is leaving the city lights behind and wandering straight into the forest. Her solo project Not For Radio hits the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall on Tuesday, 8/11. Tickets drop Friday, 5/22 at 10AM!

• Thievery Corporation has spent 30 years making music for people who own records, candles, and at least one chair nobody’s allowed to sit in. Catch them live this fall on Tuesday, 9/15 at McMenamins Crystal Ballroom.

CELEBRATE MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND IN PORTLAND

Memorial Day Weekend is almost here, and Portland’s about to enter its yearly “summer starts NOW” era. Patios will overflow, river floats will get aggressively scheduled, and someone you know is already shopping for hot dog supplies. Might as well make plans while you’re at it.

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• Portland hoops history got a new chapter last night: former Pilot Alex Fowler officially became the first Portland women’s basketball player to appear in a WNBA game. Check it out!

• Boys’ volleyball just became the OSAA’s first new sanctioned sport in 47 years, and Central Catholic is already running the table. The Rams are undefeated against Oregon teams this season and have dropped only three total sets statewide.

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