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Things are really f*cked up right now. And here on Clinton Corner, we're doing our bit to make things better.

Every Monday night, come to the Clinton Street Theater, enjoy a film on the big screen (the way it should be seen!), make friends, have a few laughs, scream, cry and raise money for a good cause.

Tonight's nonprofit recipient is Portland Community Football Club.

Portland Community Football Club (PCFC) offers high quality, affordable club soccer for low-income, immigrant and refugee youth between 3 & 18 years old in the Portland, OR Metro area. No one is turned away for lack of funds.

PCFC is committed to being a completely inclusive club. They are the first youth soccer club in Portland to have an open acceptance policy for LGBTQ & gender non-binary players, coaches, staff and families. Founder and Director of Coaching, Kaig Lightner, is an open queer, transgender man who strongly believes that sports provided him with the guidance and strength he needed as a youth. He wants to make sure other youth who identify as LGBTQ find a home at PCFC.

Austin Trunick, Under the Radar

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.

North Pole, NY is a feature-length documentary about Santa's Workshop, one of the very first theme parks in the U.S. Battling against a changing economy, the digital world, and a con-man who tries to steal Christmas, the dreamers in one small town vow to keep the park open and the magic of Christmas alive all year.

Things are really f*cked up right now. And here on Clinton Corner, we're doing our bit to make things better.

Every Monday night, come to the Clinton Street Theater, enjoy a film on the big screen (the way it should be seen!), make friends, have a few laughs, scream, cry and raise money for a good cause.

Tonight's nonprofit recipient is PDX Pop Now!

PDX Pop Now! is dedicated to stimulating and expanding participation in Portland music. As an all-volunteer organization committed to being accessible, current, and local, they provide and support live performances and recorded materials. They aspire to advance a sustainable community which values inclusivity and a high caliber of artistry to enable a creative dialogue between artist and audience.

Sean Axmaker, Seanax.com

Touring punk rock TV show The Eyeslicer has returned with their craziest and most ambitious episode yet: a feature-length Halloween Special only in theaters and on limited edition VHS this October.

Featuring a dozen segments of spine-tingling surrealist terror, The Eyeslicer Halloween Special
takes viewers on the cinematic equivalent of an acid trip down the Halloween aisle at Party City.

From an X-rated Halloween party hookup to a coming of age story set on the eve of Ted Bundy’s execution; from a documentary about pumpkin carving and misogyny to a supercut about the gendered dangers of the bathtub; from a cursed stand-up comedy set to a woman trapped inside a Red Lobster commercial; from a John Carpenter homage (featuring a cameo by Carpenter himself) to a sequel to The Eyeslicer’s now infamous Gwilliam, The Eyeslicer Halloween Special is an experience like no other - a deranged, proudly transgressive anthology carving out bold new space in the Midnight movie genre.

The Eyeslicer Halloween Special is created by Dan Schoenbrun, Vanessa McDonnell, and supported by Meow Wolf.

Directed by Robin Comisar, Laura Moss, Emma Debany, Brian Lonano, Jennifer Proctor, Nellie Kluz, Sophy Romvari, Joshua Yates, Jacqueline Castel, Carlos Alberto Fernandez Lopez, and The Eyeslicer

Plus! Video Halloween Cards by D E E P, Cannonball Roarers, Chachi's Suitcase, Krewe of Vaporwave, and Sasha Gransjean

A “Monster” of a Show at Clinton St. Theater November 3

Just when you might think the goblins and gremlins of Halloween are behind you for another year, the Portland Storytellers Guild will bring them back to life in “Monsters,” a evening of sometimes chilling and always provocative tales from Steve Henegar, Holly Robison and Julie Strozyk Saturday, November 3 at the Clinton Street Theater. Doors open at 7 and the stories begun at 7:30.

“They waft through our lives as insubstantial as ghosts, prosaic as a skunk; carried on a lingering howl of desire under the moon, and as unexpected as the goddess Kali in a babushka,” Henegar says in the wistful style that has made him a Guild favorite. ”Even before you’d read Freud, they became the personification of everything inside you that was bursting to get out. As kids, they showed up to remind you how not to behave or the consequences if you didn’t. Too interesting, too familiar to be restrained– monsters with your best interests at heart, monsters wanting retribution; monsters like a mirror, all waiting kindly, patiently, hungrily in ambush.”

Things are really f*cked up right now. And here on Clinton Corner, we're doing our bit to make things better.

Every Monday night, come to the Clinton Street Theater, enjoy a film on the big screen (the way it should be seen!), make friends, have a few laughs, scream, cry and raise money for a good cause.

Tonight's nonprofit recipient is KINSHIP HOUSE.

Kinship House addresses the missing piece in services provided to most children touched by foster care and adoption. In addition to significant mental health concerns, these children have been traumatized by a necessary but difficult system. They need to explore the circumstances of their past to prepare for a successful future. Kinship House helps minimize transitions and increases the chances of children settling into a stable, healthy and permanent home.

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!!!

Referred to by the New York Times as “…exuberant and arrestingly beautiful”, and by the London Telegraph theatre critic as “…one of the most extraordinary nights at the theatre.

I have ever known”, Rimas Tuminas’ miraculous Eugene Onegin is, at long last available to a world-wide audience.

The play unfolds in the memory and imagination of Pushkin’s characters. The images are split between past and present, between reality and imagination.The scale of the production constantly shifts from noisy celebrations to secluded contemplation, from crowd scenes to lonely recollections, all of which are drawn together from the past just like the fragments of Tatyana’s love letter, framed and hung on the wall, looming next to and above Onegin’s arm-chair.

Filmed before a live audience from Moscow's venerable Vakhtangov Theatre.

Language: Russian
Translation: English subtitles

Running time: 3 hours 25 min with one intermission.

Sydney, Australia. 1974. A group of outsiders band together with a mission. In world of satin jumpsuits and screaming teens on Countdown, they form the high energy rock’n’roll band RADIO BIRDMAN, forever determined to keep compromise from their art.

Switched off, shut down and booted out of venue after venue they stay determined to do things their own way, and they slowly accumulate a cult-like following of youth, a ‘New Race’ of disaffected youth who rally around the band.

Descent into the Maelstrom is the true story of Radio Birdman, from their original formation to the present. Like the band itself, it’s an independent production, made from outside the industry. It shows what the band meant to the fans, and how they changed Australia, by inspiring a golden age of indie music from Cold Chisel to Midnight Oil.

Things are really f*cked up right now. And here on Clinton Corner, we're doing our bit to make things better.

Every Monday night, come to the Clinton Street Theater, enjoy a film on the big screen (the way it should be seen!), make friends, have a few laughs, scream, cry and raise money for a good cause.

Tonight's nonprofit recipient is IMPACT NW.

Impact NW is a premier provider of educational and social services in the greater Portland metro area. Their mission is to help people prosper through a community of support.

Impact NW is a private non-profit organization that began in 1966 as Portland Action Committees Together, Inc. (PACT). Four neighborhoods came together and created the agency to address the growing problems associated with poverty in the area.

Since its inception, Impact NW has been a leader in providing individuals of all ages with the skills and resources necessary to achieve success and to advocate for themselves and their communities. Annually, over 30,000 low-income children, youth, families, seniors, and adults with disabilities participate in Impact NW’s comprehensive anti-poverty programs.

A former German World War II officer journeys to the Ukraine with his granddaughter to find the only woman he ever loved – just as a new war breaks out in the former Soviet Union in Spring 2014.

Cast: Juergen Prochnow, Petra Schmidt-Schaller, Tambet Tuisk, Suzanne von Borsody

The gripping and touching drama about love, forgiveness and the long shadows of the past sends its protagonists Jürgen Prochnow (“The Boat”, “The English Patient”, “The Da Vinci Code”) as the old man and Petra Schmidt-Schaller (“Stereo”, “My life in Orange”), one of the most talented German actresses as his granddaughter, on an exciting road trip through a land in turmoil. Helmed by prize-winning director Nick Baker Monteys (“The Man Who Jumped Cars”).

About the Director:

Nick Baker-Monteys was born in Berlin in 1964. He gained a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Stirling in Scotland and worked as a journalist for different London newspapers before moving to Berlin in 1990 shortly after the Wall came down. Since then he has worked in Germany as a writer, director and script consultant on films for cinema and television and is a guest lecturer and tutor at the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) in Berlin. His films include: PERFECT MOMENT (short, 2006), THE MAN WHO JUMPED CARS (2010), and THE FINAL JOURNEY (2017).

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

Celebrating the international achievements in Popular Culture.

POPOLOGY® observes the technology race against humanity, and how to bring your personal messages to life.

This is a first ever POPcast™ of popological proportions.

POPOLOGY® Is Literally The Center Of Your Digital Universe™!

featuring JOE REY, your host as first POPOLOGIST®, in an evening of inquiry, and fun of the ages.

Things are really f*cked up right now. And here on Clinton Corner, we're doing our bit to make things better.

Every Monday night, come to the Clinton Street Theater, enjoy a film on the big screen (the way it should be seen!), make friends, have a few laughs, scream, cry and raise money for a good cause.

Tonight's nonprofit recipient is GIRLS BUILD.

GIRLS BUILD inspires curiosity & confidence in girls 8 - 14 by teaching them the basics of building. During one-week summer camps, they learn carpentry, plumbing, electricity, concrete, sheet metal and much more! Girls have fun with other girls their age, learning the basics of many trades from skilled female instructors.

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

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.

Things are really f*cked up right now. And here on Clinton Corner, we're doing our bit to make things better.

Every Monday night, come to the Clinton Street Theater, enjoy a film on the big screen (the way it should be seen!), make friends, have a few laughs, scream, cry and raise money for a good cause.

Tonight's nonprofit recipient is PROJECT LEMONADE.

Project Lemonade provides foster youth with a back-to-school shopping experience and offers support to inspire self-esteem and promote success. Each August youth ages 5-20 shop for free back to school clothes at the Project Lemonade store in Lloyd Center Mall. Each foster youth chooses his or her own new or nearly new outfits, accessories and shoes.

Latest sci-fi thriller from the incomparable Neil Breen.

How better to ward off the darkening days of ahead than with an evening of tales that discover new sources of light?

Barbara Fankhauser, Patrick Gannon, Rob Luck and Jacki Wildenauer will find cause for gratitude and celebration in the most unlikely places in the Portland Storytellers Guild’s final monthly show of 2018.

Things are really f*cked up right now. And here on Clinton Corner, we're doing our bit to make things better.

Every Monday night, come to the Clinton Street Theater, enjoy a film on the big screen (the way it should be seen!), make friends, have a few laughs, scream, cry and raise money for a good cause.

Tonight's nonprofit recipient is OREGON FOOD BANK.

The mission of the Oregon Food Bank is to eliminate hunger and its root causes because no one should be hungry.

In their work to eliminate hunger in Oregon, they believe we must also address the root causes of hunger through public policy, nutrition and garden education, and public awareness.

Things are really f*cked up right now. And here on Clinton Corner, we're doing our bit to make things better.

Every Monday night, come to the Clinton Street Theater, enjoy a film on the big screen (the way it should be seen!), make friends, have a few laughs, scream, cry and raise money for a good cause.

Tonight's nonprofit recipient is OREGON WALKS.

Oregon Walks is a non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to promoting walking and making the conditions for walking safe, convenient, and attractive for everyone.

Sr. Rose Pacatte, National Catholic Reporter

BORNHOLMER STRASSE is a magnificently ironic and astonishingly moving comedy about hope meeting despair and heroes who have no desire to be such.

Cast: Charly Hübner, Milan Peschel, Rainer Bock, Max Hopp, Ludwig Trepte, Ulrich Matthes, Frederick Lau

Things are really f*cked up right now. And here on Clinton Corner, we're doing our bit to make things better.

Every Monday night, come to the Clinton Street Theater, enjoy a film on the big screen (the way it should be seen!), make friends, have a few laughs, scream, cry and raise money for a good cause.

Tonight's nonprofit recipient is JANUS YOUTH PROGRAMS.

Janus Youth Programs is a leader in creating innovative, community-based services which enhance the quality of life for children, youth, and families. We work in partnership with others to create a safe and healthy community.

Since originating in 1972 as a Multnomah County demonstration project providing residential care for adolescents struggling with homelessness and drug abuse, Janus Youth Programs has provided a second chance for at-risk youth with few resources, and no place to turn for help.

Today, they have grown to become one of the largest nonprofits in the Northwest operating more than 40 different programs that span Oregon and Washington. An organizational philosophy grounded in collaboration defines who we are and everything we do.

Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre of Russia

Directed by Lithuanian choreographer, Anzelica Cholina, this multiple award-winning Vakhtangov Theatre production of Anna Karenina tells the story of Tolstoy’s classic novel entirely in contemporary dance. In this way, Cholina succeeds in finding the equivalent of Tolstoy's words in harmony and movement, with every gesture holding meaning. The distinctive music of Alfred Schnittke helps to reveal the inner turmoil of the characters and their depth.

Winner of the "Villanueva Award", Best Foreign Performance, International Havana Theatre Festival; Winner "Crystal Turandot" Best Debut Performance, Olga Lerman.

Language: Russian
Translation: English subtitles
Running time: 2 hours 15 min with one intermission.

Written by Grigory Kanovich

Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre of Russia

Rimas Tuminas' adaptation of two novels by fellow Lithuanian, Grigory Kanovich, is a dreamy, ruminative, comedic road trip, centering around the parlous fortunes of Eastern European Jews at the start of the 20th century. A period piece that carries a modern conscious, Smile Upon Us, is a Becket-like "Waiting for Jehovah" that has garnered rave reviews during its recent runs in both London and New York, and promises to be just as memorable on the big screen. Featuring three towering figures from the Russian stage, Viktor Sukhorukov, Aleksei Guskov and Vladimir Simonov.

Language: Russian
Translation: English subtitles

Running time: 190 minutes (includes one 15 minute intermission).

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