Can't Miss It: The Weekend
ARJ BARKER:Come on, come on, step right up. Hurry, hurry, hurry. You, madam, do you like comedy? A little titter in your twitter every now and again? You, sir! Are you a fan of the heartfelt guffaw? If so, then come right in the Parlor, where tonight and tomorrow you can catch that veteran of stand-up, the scene-stealing character actor of Flight of the Conchords, that mop-headed muppet of mirth: the incomparable Arj Barker.
7:30 and 10:00 p.m. // Parlor // Tickets: $15
ANOMIE BELLE: The last few years have been fallow ones for trip-hop. The repurposed elements that made the genre so unique--the hip-hop-inflected drums, the soul-standard voicing, the glitched-out experimentation, the 80s synth beds--got reclaimed, leaving practitioners to chase after fans. But the giants have returned: Portishead and Massive Attack just dropped new material, and Seattle-based Anomie Belle is pushing new life into the form. Anomie Belle is Toby Campbell, a classical violinist and film composer from Portland-way. As you might expect, she produces songs full of whistfully subtle texture, never anything that feels fussy, though it must have been obsessed over. We are obsessing a little bit right now.
Saturday 8:00 p.m. // Neumos // Tickets: $13
SUPERBOWL SUNDAY: While we aren’t huge football fans—baseball is where it’s at, baby—even we can’t deny the Superbowl spectacle: the rivalry, the ads, the quasi-legal gambling pools. This year the Colts face off against the Saints to finally settle the issue of whose fans are better. (We’re thinking the Saints, in case you were wondering.) So belly up to your favorite bar, order two fingers of spirit, and raise one to the sky: it’s Superbowl time.
Sunday 3:25 p.m. // Everywhere TVs Are // Tickets: FREE
