McMenamins Pubs & Breweries
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Sunday, May 19
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Q Doc Film Festival“Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker”12:30 p.m.Minor with parent or guardian |
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Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker explores the life, times and music of piano legend James Booker, who Dr. John described as “the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced.” Triply marginalized by his race, sexuality and physical disability, Booker still managed to excel as a musician in New Orleans and Europe in the turbulent ’60s and ’70s, fusing secular, sacred, pop and classical traditions.
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Q Doc Film Festival“Wildness”2:30 p.m.Minor with parent or guardian |
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Wildness captures the creativity and conflict that arose when a group of young queer artists of color organized a weekly performance party at the Silver Platter, an historic bar in the east end of Los Angeles’s MacArthur Park neighborhood that has been home to the Latino LGBT community since 1963. The party, also called Wildness, became an incubator for queer performers, punks and dance music aficionados.
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Q Doc Film Festival“I Am A Woman Now”4:30 p.m.Minor with parent or guardian |
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They are all women of a certain age: blue-haired ladies using canes, well-preserved 60-year olds walking small dogs in the park or aging beauties meeting old beaus for a posh lunch. And they all have one thing in common: Dr. Georges Burou. In this beautifully photographed documentary, five trans women reflect back on their lives and the various paths that led them to surgery. In a mixture of interviews, home movies and scenes of their daily lives, we hear their stories.
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Billy D5 p.m.21 and over |
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This year's Cascade Blues association "Best New Act" winner!
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Irish SundaysElizabeth Nicholson & Bob Soper6 p.m.All ages welcome |
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High-strung international roots music featuring harp, fiddle, vocal harmonies, percussion, Greek bouzouki, and more.
Mo Phillips & the Spaghetti Pants Dance Band6 p.m.All ages welcome |
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Monster Jam! to celebrate the release of Monster Suit, the new kindiependent album by Mo Phillips. Special guests include Little Sue, Lincoln Crockett, Johnny Keener, and more!
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Classical PubDelphinium Quartet6:30 pmAll ages welcome |
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McMenamins welcomes the high arts to the public house, bringing monthly sonic explorations of classical music into cozy and informal settings!
The Delphinium Quartet, made up of four members of the Portland Opera Orchestra, is a new project with a focus on bringing classical music to smaller venues.
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Garcia Birthday Band7 p.m.21 and over |
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Dead Unique & Irresistibly Danceable!
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Ray TarantinoGoose & FoxKrista Herring7 p.m.21 and over |
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"He is bald! He writes really good songs and has a great voice but he's bald!"
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Q Doc Film Festival“Valentine Road”7 p.m.Minor with parent or guardian |
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On December 12th, 2008, eighth-grader Brandon McInerney entered E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard, Calif., with a stolen gun. His target was Lawrence “Larry” King, an openly queer classmate who had just started coming to school wearing women’s clothing. Valentine Road, named for the street where King is buried, peels back the layers on what Newsweek described as “the most prominent gay-bias crime since the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard.”
At the Grand Lodge, the mosaics in the basement hallways were inspired by the work of Spanish artist Antonio Gaudi. The Centzon-Totochtin (“Infinite Rabbits”) was an Aztec group that represented the ways humans are affected by intoxication. What was the very first McMenamins pub, opened by Mike and Brian McMenamin? The Barley Mill on SE Hawthorne in Portland. Does each McMenamins pub brew beer? Nope – only our brewpubs and breweries do. They supply our other spots. “Wine is bottled poetry.” -- Robert Louis Stevenson Which beer is our best-selling ale? Hammerhead, of course. Have a pint or two today! How many McMenamins are there in the Seattle area? Three – Mill Creek, Six Arms and Queen Anne. What’s the name of the Kennedy brewery? The Concordia Brewery, named for the surrounding neighborhood. “Give me a woman who truly loves beer and I will conquer the world.” – Kaiser Wilhelm II “Wine is bottled poetry.” -- Robert Louis Stevenson Queen Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII, was said to be able to drink any man under the table. You show ‘em, Betsy! Give it up for St. Arnold, the patron saint of brewers! His miracle was a tankard of ale that never ran dry… Put him on the invite list. McMenamins has a full-time historian on staff. He collects stories, photos, anecdotes and more about McMenamins spots, past and present. “We borrowed golf from Scotland as we borrowed whiskey. Not because it is Scottish, but because it is good.” -- Horace Hutchinson
