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Spanning thirty years and running two and a half hours, the film bristles with the violent passion, howitzer wit and virtuoso style that made Scorsese's reputation with the gangster drama Mean Streets in 1973.

Peter Travers
Rolling Stone

Tonight's nonprofit recipient is Ceasefire Oregon. Ceasefire Oregon works to prevent gun violence by advocating reasonable, effective gun laws. They educate the public and legislators about gun violence, lobby on behalf of bills that will help make our communities safer, and work to prevent the passage of bills that would make it easier for dangerous people to obtain and carry firearms.

"Black Coffee: A Dialogue On Race & Coffee Culture" is a live podcast event highlighting the conversation about the intersection of race and coffee culture. Imagine The Breakfast Club meets The Read, (two popular podcasts/radio shows about Black pop culture).

Hosted by Michelle Johnson (The Chocolate Barista, Barista Hustle / Melbourne), Deadstock Coffee's Ian Williams, and Gio Fillari of Coffee Feed PDX. Featured guests are Dee Stubblefield (Counter Culture Coffee, Philadelphia), Cameron Heath (Revelator Coffee in Birmingham), Miles (Ikawa in LA), Zael Ogwaro (Never Coffee PDX), and Adam JacksonBey (The Potter's House DC and the first Black BGA Executive Council Member).

Ultimately, it will be a candid but guided conversation about the experiences of Black folks in the coffee industry and as consumers, while celebrating all the unique ways we make coffee our own thing. From the music, to how we interact with customers, to everything else that comes with being involved in coffee.

But Black.

All proceeds will be donated to two Portland non-profits, Brown Girl Rise, an organization dedicated to empowering young girls of color (also read this article about them), and Sankofa Collective, who are dedicated to helping Portland's Black LGBTQAI+ community.

Tickets will be $10 presale, $15 at the door with a special, but limited $50 VIP ticket for the after party and special "come down" event on Wednesday morning.

The event is presented by Sprudge and The Chocolate Barista. Sprudge is a coffee and wine website based here in Portland, Oregon. The Chocolate Barista is the popular coffee website based in Melbourne, Australia and run by Michelle Johnson, a US coffee professional who runs http://www.thechocolatebarista.com/blog/.

Join three unstoppable women as they storm the stage and fill the hall with rousing and inspiring stories of persistent women of history, myth, legend and lore at the Portland Storytellers Guild monthly showcase, Saturday evening, April 28 at the Clinton Street Theater.

Pam Maben, Julie Strozyk and Barbara Fankhauser offer up a night of stories of determined lovers and fierce mothers, world builders, real estate mavens and one who just knew her own mind and refused to settle for less. Each story will introduce you to a woman who, in spite of hardships and trials, nevertheless persisted!

As an additional delight, the sweet voice of Master Conchobar Clarsair’s Celtic harp (a.k.a. Conor the Harpist) will welcome you in and weave in and out of the stories throughout the evening, and the voice of Avery Hill will be present to sing the song of the Earth.

Both Julie Strozyk and Conor the Harpist are active members of the Society of Creative Anachronisms and we are delighted that they will be part of that night’s performance.

The Be It Yourself nights, while fully audience directed, are designed to be more family friendly and for those eager to have their first Rocky experience. Watch a cool little video about BIY Nights HERE.

Beer, wine and hard cider available for those 21 and over. Prop bags for sale - preshow with virgin games and MC Nathan!!!

Fast Times is a brilliant, funny and often challenging examination of teenage life in the early 1980s.

R. L. Shaffer
IGN DVD

Tonight's nonprofit recipient is The Dougy Center. The Dougy Center provides a safe place for children, teens, young adults and their families who are grieving a death to share their experiences. They do this through peer support groups, education, and training.

Ready for a very different evening out? Want to see amazing acts of physics involving the science of bubbles combined with wistful European style musical accompaniment? Direct from the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, The Clinton St. Theater presents the Bubble and Squeeze Cabaret!

Louis Pearl, AKA the Amazing Bubble Man, accompanied by accordion diva Jet Black Pearl, have created a new stunning spectacle of bubble based entertainment withcabaret style theatre and music. The show is geared towards an adult audience, leave the kids at home!

These are bubbles like you’ve never seen before; oscillating, psychedelic trails of opalescent soap films, bubbles as human habitation, huge smoke filled wobbly UFOS that drift about with a mind of their own, all accompanied by “a formidable force of music, which truly has to be seen to be believed” (Edinburgh Review), with ballads about slugs in love, enlightened strippers and hallucinating butterflies.

These seasoned performers weave a not to be missed, compelling, imaginative and stylish evening of entertainment and wonder.

From the creators of Frankenstein: A Cabaret, The Broken Planetarium presents a new folk musical in honor of May Day, based on the letters the revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg wrote from prison the year before she was murdered. The play juxtaposes the lives of two women: the revolutionary Luxemburg and the recipient of her letters, Sophie Liebknecht, a housewife and mother. Through the playful banter of these two characters, original folk music, dance, and playwright Laura Christina Dunn's lyric treatment of Luxemburg's life story, the play examines the two women's vastly different scopes of life yet deep friendship, asking the question, how do we remain connected in a world that we want so much to change?

By Laura Christina Dunn

Music by Laura Christina Dunn with "Sunrise/Sunset" by Monica and Ron Metzler

Choreographed by Rebekah Stiles

AIMÉE & JAGUAR was shot over a period of 56 days at the Everest Studios in Cologne-Godorf, and on location in North Rhine Westphalia, Berlin and Wroclaw. Editing and visual post-production took place in Hamburg, sound mixing in Munich.

The film was funded by the Filmboard Berlin Brandenburg, the Filmstiftung of North Rhine Westphalia, the FilmFernsehFonds of Bavaria, the FilmFörderung of Hamburg and the Film funding department of the German Ministry of the Interior.

Got grandkids or other young family members? Want to spend some quality time with them? Give them a treat they'll never forget--The Amazing Bubble Man!

"Greatest bubble show on Earth." - SFGate.com

Interested in a Bubble Show for adults??? We can't let kids have all the fun, so come out for the Bubble & Squeeze Cabaret on May 1st.

Hailed as the first and only feature film about gay life ever produced in communist East Germany, Coming Out premiered on the night the Berlin Wall opened, November 9, 1989.

Christoph Hochhäusler’s political thriller shines a light to the topical issue of power, lobbyism and the manipulation of the media. THE LIES OF THE VICTORS untangles a cunning web involving indiscretion, the spreading of half-truths, the hunt for a big scandal, and the, at times, dubious methods of lobbyists. Hochhäusler takes a look behind the scenes revealing how offstage players influence and control political and journalistic processes.

Christoph Hochhäusler's works have premiered in Berlin (Forum, Competition) and in Cannes (Un Certain Regard). Aside from filmmaking, he has published essays in several film journals, and he lectures in the film departments of various universities in the USA and Germany, such as Harvard (VES), Hamburg (Media School), Munich (HFF) and Berlin (DFFB). He is also founder and co-publisher of the film magazine Revolver. Born in 1972 in Munich, he studied Architecture in Berlin before graduating in Film Directing at the University of Film & Television Munich (HFF). His feature films include: DREILEBEN - ONE MINUTE OF DARKNESS (TV, 2011), THE CITY BELOW (2010), the episode SÉANCE in DEUTSCHLAND 09 (2009), LOW PROFILE (2005), THIS VERY MOMENT (2003), and THE LIES OF THE VICTORS (DIE LÜGEN DER SIEGER, 2014).