: He's the son of late Psycho actor Anthony Perkins. But he's got a lot more to offer than simply his parentage. His songs are melancholy, wistful, brooding, a kind of soundtrack for the long dark nights of the soul.
9 p.m. Tuesday, , 1332 W.
Burnside St.; $20 advance; Ticketmaster, 503-224-4400.
Even if this new Elvis doesn't do it for you, the show may be worth going to.
Because MMJ will be there too. In a music environment where genre-bending has become a genre itself, this band seems to step back and focus on playing something refreshingly specific: rock and roll. Their music is known for its reverb.
But it's the band members' ability to move from a heavy, driving register to a softer, more heartfelt one, often within the same song, that makes their work so compelling. Lead singer Jim James' voice comes off as that of an offspring of Neil Young and Michael Stipe. But in My Morning Jacket's music it has found a perfect home.
9 p.m. Tuesday, , 1332 W.
Burnside St.; $23; 503-225-0047.
Barry Manilow: He doesn't get the buzz of, say, Neil Diamond, but Manilow keeps packing them in.
8 p.m. Monday, Rose Garden, One Center Court.
Tickets are $30 and $95, 1-877-789-7673. Click to read an interview.
Soap: What if Pedro Almodóvar made a Dogme film?
The result of a collision between the flamboyant, gynocentric Spanish filmmaker and the stringent rules of the minimalist film movement would probably resemble Soap, a Danish drama about an unlikely friendship. Charlotte (Trine Dyrholm) owns a beauty shop and, having left her longtime boyfriend, moves into an apartment. Her downstairs neighbor is Veronica (David Dencik), a preoperative transsexual whose mother still calls him Ulrik.
Touching moments ensue. Opens Friday at the .
Reel Music Festival: The kicks out the jams on the 24th Reel Music festival starting this weekend, and the offerings are as diverse as we've come to expect.
Films profiling the Holy Modal Rounders, Bob Marley, Harry Nilsson and Keith Jarrett are on tap, as well as a series of films by Peter Whitehead, an avant-garde director who captured mod mayhem in 1967's Tonite Let's All Make Love in London, and caught Pink Floyd on film when the band was still known as the Pink Floyd. The Reel Music festival runs from Friday through Feb. 4; check out our weekly for a preview.
Notes on a Scandal: Starring Judi Dench as a spinster high-school teacher and art teacher Cate Blanchett, whose affair with a student kicks Dench's conniving mind into overdrive, Notes packs more heat, acid, danger and drama into its brief running time than most films of nearly double the length. Director Richard Eyre ( Iris, The Ploughman's Lunch ) whips up a rich, tart stew of heated melodrama, bitter comedy, cunning social observation and knockout acting. The result is pungent and toothsome, a blend of Evelyn Waugh, Harold Pinter and To Die For -- a bracing concoction decidedly not for the delicate of disposition.
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Julia Scheeres: The author reads from her book Jesus Land. 7:30 p.
m. Monday, , 1005 W. Burnside St.
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