First Caturday
Caturday! Caturday! Caturday! That’s the day when cats, their thunder too often stolen by DOGS, finally get their turn to see and be seen at the park. Feline VIPs will be descending on Laurelhurst Park at this delightful event. If you’ve got a cat who’s longing for exercise and socializing, harness ’em up and come on down to celebrate living in one of the nation’s cat-friendliest cities. Suck it, Seattle! MEGAN BURBANK
Jun 3, 1:30 pm, Laurelhurst Park, free
Queer as in Fuck You: An All-Ages Punk Pride Festival
The Pacific Northwest is one of the most accepting and sexually free places in the country—a region defined by its gorgeous green terrain and the nonconforming existences of its residents. Seeing as June is Pride month, Portland’s kicking off the festivities with a two-day festival open to even the youngest of queer audiences. The all-ages Queer as in Fuck You Fest will see Black Water swarmed by those seeking the best in Pacific Northwest queercore. Look forward to sets from funk punks Way Worse, Chicanx feminists Cockeye, and local metal super-group Magic Mansion on night one. Things cool off for the second night, as pop trio Planet Damn shares the stage with queer youth group Kids’ Table and headliners Creature to Creature. The last set doesn’t mean the party is over, though—both Friday and Saturday will continue with DJs spinning the best in post-punk and new wave for a late-night Pride dance party. Come early, stay late, and feel supported in telling anyone who disagrees to fuck off. CERVANTE POPE
Jun 2-3, 8 pm, Black Water Bar, $5-10, all ages
Yeezy Night
Celebrate Kanye West's 40th birthday at Ante Up's Yeezy tribute, featuring a full night of hits, rarities, remixes, and Yeezy-produced tracks from DJ Ronin Roc, along with a free Yeezus-themed photo booth from Booth of Bass.
Jun 2, 9 pm, Holocene, $10
Rollin' with the Homies: Gifted Gab, Jarv Dee, Mic Capes, Verbz
Seattle's "queen of hip-hop" comes to Portland to bless Kelly's stage, with support from local royalty Mic Capes and Verbz.
Jun 4, 9 pm, Kelly's Olympian, $10
A Volcano, So Stressed, Marriage & Cancer
Pissed-off post-hardcore from Sacramento's So Stressed, who are currently touring the West Coast in support of their 2017 full-length, Please Let Me Know.
Jun 4, 8:30 pm, High Water Mark, $8
Cinema Classics: Gaslight
Before 1944, there wasn’t really a term for the insidiously shitty practice of lying straight to a person’s face about the obvious reality they’re perceiving. People had been doing it forever, because people have been lying, manipulative assholes forever, but that phenomenon didn’t really have a name. But then George Cukor released his now-classic thriller Gaslight, starring Ingrid Bergman as a woman whose controlling, duplicitous, piece-of-shit husband attempts to drive her insane with literal gaslights. That this film is getting a 35mm screening in the same month our sex-offending, mentally deficient, racist slumlord-in-chief (who lost the popular vote by 2,864,974 votes) celebrates his birthday is not a coincidence. BOBBY ROBERTS
Jun 3-4, 2 pm, Hollywood Theatre, $7-9
In the Cooky Jar
DJ Cooky Parker (Scott Magee, to his mama) has hosted In the Cooky Jar for seven years, beginning at the much-missed Woods before he eventually made his way to the Eagles Lodge, where he's kept a near-constant residency since 2012. Of all the dance nights in town, In the Cooky Jar is likely the only one where you can dance to Rufus Thomas and Little Johnny Taylor underneath black-and-white photos of old dead white dudes. SANTI ELIJAH HOLLEY
Jun 3, 9 pm, Eagles Lodge, $5 ($3 w/ two cans of food)
Cheers to Belgian Beers
The delicious return of this annual celebration of Belgium and its gifts to the world of beer. Admission is free, souvenir goblet costs $20 and includes 10 drink tickets, allowing guests to sample some of the finest Belgian beers in the country. Visit oregoncraftbeer.org/ctbb for a list of participants.
Jun 2-3, Fri 1 pm, Sat noon, The North Warehouse, free
For Your Eyes Only
Bond fans debate which is the best of the late Sir Roger Moore's tenure as the legendary scoundrel, this or The Spy Who Loved Me (it's Spy, easily), but there's no debate that despite the towering amounts of cheese defining Moore's era, only someone as enduringly, effortlessly charming as Sir Rog could have made the often subpar material he was handed sing so strongly and confidently. For Your Eyes Only is a great way to say goodbye to the old man; sure, he could never run, wasn't much for fighting, even in this movie he's about five years too old to be doing anything that he's doing—but goddamned if he still doesn't make you believe that's James Bond up there.
Jun 2-4, 4:15 pm, 6:45 pm, Laurelhurst Theater, $3-4
Starlight Parade
One of the most enjoyable events of the Rose Festival is NOT the bloated Grand Floral Parade, but its much cooler li’l sis, the Starlight Parade. More than 100 glow in the dark or illuminated floats, marching bands, and all that Portland weirdness you love is jam-packed into a 2.25-mile parade… AT NIGHT! And even better, this year’s grand marshal is no other than our city’s most beloved street performer, John “Elvis” Schroder! Don’t miss it! WM. STEVEN HUMPHREY
Jun 3, 8:30 pm, W Burnside & 9th, free, all ages