This review is going to be something… completely different. A little magical, and a little sadistic… oh wait. Those are how one would describe the double-feature Unscriptables shows happening now at the Funhouse Lounge.
Stumptown Stages has attempted to fashion itself an easy-going evening of swing dancing music and fun with its Club Morocco, complete with a dance/supper club, dancers, crooners, full swing band and a comic gangland trifle.
Portland’s local tech scene is pretty demanding in the events they put on — they want their geeky, braniac, knowledge-sharing cake, they want it tasty, and they want it entertaining too. And most of all, they want it free, and usually with some local microbrew beer involved. The usual bi-yearly local event at the Bagdad Theater, Ignite Portland 10, fits all these needs and then some.
The Julians (Kristen Buhler, Liz Bacon, Maria Karlin and Vakarė Petroliūaitė) have quite the self-promotion engine going, best as they can for a four-woman traditional singing group.