Uprite Dub Orchestra: Reggae's echoey, reverby cousin, dub's the kind of music that's as much an experience as a sound. Add ska and reggae filled with the Orchestra's horns and bass, and you've got a promising night. 9 p.
m. Thursday, , 2845 S.E.
Stark St.; $5; 503-239-9292.
Sophe Lux (above): A pastiche of styles both visual and aural, have never skimped on the dramatics. Singer Gwynneth Haynes, in particular, knows how to channel everyone from her inner Shirley Temple to her inner Debbie Harry. 9 p.
m. Thursday, , 830 E. Burnside St.
; $6, 503-231-9663.
Sort Ofs: Don't let the name fool you: Nothing is equivocating about the Sort Ofs. The duo of Chris Robley and John Stewart make up the core of the band, but they are regularly joined by friends.
Their music is like being at a political protest where everyone is in his underwear and a fire alarm has gone off. And maybe snakes or scorpions are scattered on the ground. Each song accomplishes a sense of urgency, both in sound and message, which is just the kind of thing we need right now.
9 p.m. Wednesday, , 830 E.
Burnside St.; $5; 503-231-9663.
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Bark: This is a shaggy-dog musical set in a doggie day care (we kid you not) and featuring some pretty good Portland-area musical-theater folks, including Kregg Arnstson, Wendy Martel-Vilkin and Debbie Hunter. Opens 8 p.m.
Thursday, continues 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 p.
m. Sundays, through March 10. Triangle Productions at Artists Repertory Theatre second stage, 1516 S.
W. Morrison St.; $22-$30; 503-239-5919 or .
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Soap (above): 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. Go for theater locations and times.
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