This Is Spinal Tap
The annual summer Top Down: Rooftop Cinema series on top of Hotel deLuxe’s parking structure is one of the most fun movie-watching experiences in Portland. It’s outside with great downtown views, and there’s beer. Tonight, Rob Reiner’s This is Spinal Tap—the best and most hilarious mockumentary ever created—is playing. It’s the second-to-last movie of the season there (Spring Breakers is next week), so get in while you still can. The doors open at 7 pm, music starts at 8 pm, and the movie starts around 9-ish. You need to get in before 8:30 but you should get there well before to claim your spot. DOUG BROWN
8:30 pm, Hotel DeLuxe, $7-12, all ages
Yo! PDX Hops
Breakside Brewery and Double Mountain Brewery & Taproom take control of the taps at Paydirt while DJ Jimbo serves up a dose of old-school hip-hop from behind the tables.
6 pm, Paydirt, free
Y La Bamba, Run On Sentence, Ryan Oxford
The heart of Portland band Y La Bamba, Luz Elena Mendoza is a warrior of light, resilience, and creative ingenuity. Born singing mariachis of Michoacan in Southern Oregon, her haunting yet calming bluegrass folk vocals are rooted in Mexican tradition. Mendoza’s voice resounds with a profound sense of history, her guitar strumming soft but with gripping presence. EMILLY PRADO
9 pm, Mississippi Studios, $10-12
Secret Drum Band, Notel
Anything Lisa Schonberg touches is gold. More than just a great drummer, she uses drums as compositional tools that have made bands like Explode into Colors and Kickball great. Always in demand, she's drummed for Mirah, Tune-yards, Tara Jane O'Neil, the Need, and Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, just to name a few. But it's the rare Secret Drum Band performance that brings her into the spotlight. Composing with the space in mind, Schonberg brings together a surprise star-studded cast of five drummers and two noise/tone/sound makers to create an experience unlike any other. JOSHUA JAMES AMBERSON
8 pm, White Owl Social Club, free
Kielen King, Shubzilla & Bill Beats, C0splay, Kid Apocalypse
Local electronic music composer Kielen King brings his dark and melodic sounds to the Dante's stage along with support from Shubzilla & Bill Beats, C0splay, and Kid Apocalypse.
9 pm, Dante's, $8
Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities
Cirque du Soleil's latest big-top extravagance transforms their tent into the curio cabinet of an old-timey inventor, bending reality, time, and space into a variety of stages and platforms by which this troupe of amazingly flexible performers do their mind-and-body-bending work.
8 pm, Portland Expo Center, $39
Logan Lucky
“I just don’t think movies matter as much anymore, culturally,” infamously unpredictable filmmaker Steven Soderbergh told the Guardian in 2013—one of the many legit reasons he gave when he announced he was quitting movies forever. So naturally, four years later, the infamously unpredictable Soderbergh has a new comedy—Logan Lucky, a movie that aims to undermine Hollywood’s traditional distribution model, a movie whose screenwriter may or may not exist, and, most importantly, a movie that’s a goddamn delight. ERIK HENRIKSEN
Various Theaters, see Movie Times for showtimes and locations
Flawless Bingo Happy Hour
A special edition of Flawless Bingo, with two rounds of the fabulous game raising money and awareness for Network for Reproductive Options, Western States Center's BRAVE, and the Portland Menstrual Society.
6 pm, Century
Don't forget to check out our Things To Do calendar for even more things to do!