Upcoming Events

The Clinton has been showing The Rocky Horror Picture Show weekly since 1978, making it one of the longest running movies in the world! Come on down and join us any Saturday night at midnight (doors open at 11:30pm).

Ticket price includes service fee.

"I first saw Rocky Horror when I was 9 years old, and it blew my mind and changed my life. I made my mom take me and my 6 year old sister to see it in West Hollywood, bless her heart. They called all the virgins on stage, so we went. "Do you want to get me arrested, kid? Sit back down." As a freshman at Reed, I took my dorm mates to see it for their first time. So glad for your uninterrupted commitment to educating today's youth." Nili Yosha

Steve Carell and Keira Knightley make for one of the most unlikely and yet one of the most touching romantic couples of the year.

Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com

Tonight's nonprofit partner is USAHello, a one-stop, comprehensive website that houses the resources and information newcomers need to build successful lives for themselves and their families in the United States.

Resettled refugees and immigrants have collaborated on our content, which is written for English learners and those with interrupted educations. Our programs are further enhanced by automated and manual translations and the latest in multi-modal learning techniques. We use the proliferation of mobile technology and the power of the internet to provide safe, trustworthy support where and when it is needed.

Espacio Flamenco Portland and Portland Flamenco Events are proud to present: Flamenco Syndrome

We will be connecting with filmmaker Bijoyini Chatterjee via Skype for a brief Q&A following the film.

Director Notes:

I had been studying Flamenco dance in the USA for several years before I was finally able to travel to Jerez (Spain) in 2009.

I was completely unprepared for how much in love I would fall with the gypsy culture, the flamenco culture of Jerez and its surrounding towns. It was in this region where the itinerant musicians, who left India 1000 years ago, settled down after centuries of migration in Central Asia and Europe. Their encounter with this foreign soil was culturally explosive, giving birth to the culture we know as Flamenco!

I had the great honor to be welcomed in the Andalusian homes and to establish authentic friendships with families like Miguel’s. This unique access inspired me to film alone and shoot with a small video camera instead of my professional one. Thus, the cinematography of Flamenco Syndrome is organic and spontaneous, resulting in an intimate and sincere film.

Zeroville is about Hollywood's upheaval in the 1970s.

Zeroville is based on the novel by Steve Erickson, written by Paul Felton and Ian Olds, and produced by James Franco, and Vince Jolivette, and Michael Mendelsohn.

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!!!

One of the best and most impactful docus of the 1990s, Wim Wenders exhilarating feature is at once a trbute to a pre-Castro generation of musicians as well as a largely bygone genre.

Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

Tonight's nonprofit partner is ADELANTE MUJERES, which provides holistic education and empowerment opportunities to marginalized Latina women and families to ensure full participation and active leadership in the community.

"At Adelante Mujeres we recognize that despite the fact that more than 18% of the US population is Latino, they are underrepresented in decision making roles in our society. Latina voices are particularly missing from discussions that guide policies and legislature that directly impacts their lives. We want to change that. Latina women have the capacity to lead and we are working to empower the women and girls in our programs to do just that.

More than 80% of Adelante Mujeres staff identify as Latina and share similar lived experiences as our participants. In fact, some of our staff were once participants in our programs. This ensures that our work maintains it's relevance and deep roots within the community we serve."

What influences who we are? Hearing our weird uncles debating the benefits of being a musician or a magician? Getting that poodle-head perm in second grade?

Storytellers Jeanne Anderson, Will Hornyak, Rick Huddle and Kriya Kaping explore real and imagined experiences — bending a spoon, contending with a sixth-grade bully, becoming the first woman of color to rocket into space — in an evening of stories “How Do We Become …
Us?” — Saturday, October 5 at the Clinton Street Theater.

Tickets are $15 on line ($12 for Portland Storytellers Guild members and their guests) or $20 the evening of the show when doors open at 7 and the stories begin at 7:30.

I wasn't prepared for how good it really is: it's not just a suspense classic, but a beautifully executed example of filmmaking.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Tonight's nonprofit partner is Friends of Refugees, a registered 501(c)3 started in 2010 in response to the influx of Middle-eastern refugees coming to Portland.

They exist to help refugees not just survive, but thrive in their new home.

Serving through relationship, they come alongside new arrivals and help them navigate their new lives in the City of Roses.

In partnership with local churches, Friends of Refugees strives to
• assist in furnishing apartments
• getting kids registered in school
• starting businesses
• cultural mentoring
• teaching English, driving, & citizenship classes
• and more.

Above all, they develop the genuine friendships that are so essential in feeling at home in a new country. New arrivals become old friends. Since its inception, Friends of Refugees has helped hundreds of refugee families in the Portland area to adjust, adapt, and make their home in the Pacific NW.

Dare You Sojourn Through The RAWNESS Of Things With WHISPER SKIN THEATRE?

Journey with WHISPER SKIN through the caverns of the human psyche. Ten original surrealist dramas, written by five women-identified playwrights from ALL walks of life, traversing grief, trauma, motherhood, love, hauntings, forest spirits, other worldly beings, myth, loss of identity, reclaiming of self, and courage.

It's like a stoned, slapstick 1984: a nightmare comedy in which the comedy is just an aspect of the nightmarishness.

Pauline Kael, New Yorker

Tonight's nonprofit partner is Sail 2 Change, a nonprofit organization inspired to support our nation's underserved youth by providing tools for personal growth, while simultaneously creating an understanding of responsible recreation, sustainability, and the ecological complexities of the natural world.

They believe that every person has the potential to succeed given the appropriate environment and opportunity.

The program is geared towards marginalized youth in 10th to 12th grade who are less likely to transition into adulthood and achieve economic self-sufficiency.

They offer support to students with emotional and behavioral complications, truancy, low-academic performance, and students experiencing a disconnection from the traditional school environment. Sail 2 Change strives to keep students from becoming involved in drugs and alcohol, as well as gang-related offenses by offering individualized guidance. Sail2change is dedicated to providing a compassionate outlet for positive decision-making, ensuring future success to those involved.

Who knows why the ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW is so intimately linked with Halloween? Maybe it's the Frankenstein spoof, the meat cleaver, the touch of cannabilism. Maybe it's aliens from outer space. You take your pick--there are many layers to peel back before you discover the heart of this cult classic. That's why folks come back again, and again, and again. For many, ROCKY HORROR is what makes Halloween their favorite holiday of the year.

Whether you're a veteran or a newbie, where better to see ROCKY HORROR during the Halloween season than at the LONGEST, CONTINUOUSLY RUNNING WEEKLY SHOW IN THE WORLD (39 years and counting)? Yep, you heard that right--39 years and counting.

Unpack that French Maid's dress from that box behind the kids' old toys and dust off your tap shoes, and come delight in this cinematic right of passage and cherished Portland tradition.

Costume contest, prizes, goodies and more.....Come show us what you got!

Doors open at 1/2 hour before show time.

“The Menace Among Us” Will Be Lurking in Stories at the Clinton St. Theater Nov. 2nd.

Four storytellers standing at the corner of Menace & Dread will shed light on the darkness near at hand in the Portland Storytellers Guild’s monthly show Saturday evening, November 2 at the Clinton Street Theater.

Janice Alexander, Trish Anderson, Norm Brecke and Anne Rutherford, share tales of the macabre that can lurk in the shadows, turning such seemingly innocent pleasures as walking the beach, bonding with a pet or riding a carousel into “the menace among us” in a show is recommended for mature audiences ready to enjoy a good scare. Tickets are $15 online and $20 at the door.

A special invitation to first see the movie FLASH GORDON and then stay for a gala reception with food and drink specials and THEN...the pièce de résistance, reserved VIP seating for Flash Ah-Ahhh!

Need more Flash Gordon? We've got the movie playing in the afternoon before the stupendous production of Flash Ah-Ahhh!!!!

The OregonMade Creative Foundation has teamed up with four of the best independent cinemas located in all four of the quadrants of Portland--Northwest Film Center, The Hollywood Theatre, Clinton Street Theater and Cinema 21, to announce a pilot program designed to give locally produced feature length films a short theatrical distribution window in the city. Screenings will consist of a four day run, with one night at each theatre, in the four “quadrants” of Portland.

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

If you are new to Portland (and even if you aren't) come experience a PORTLAND CHRISTMAS TRADITION--the Clinton Street Theater's "12th"* annual Christmas screening of THE BIG LEBOWSKI.

COME COMFORTABLE. COME IN YOUR ROBE AND PAJAMAS.

Screening every night at 7:30pm from December 20th through December 26th.

Serving the Clinton's own blend of RICE RUSSIANS. Believe me, you're gonna want some.

35mm Print!!

"The Big Lebowski is a mess. But what a glorious, wonderfully-entertaining mess it is." --James Berardinelli

*We've been running this far longer than 12 years, but having lost count, I use 12 because it's my favorite number.