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The Best In-Person Things to Do in Portland This Weekend: The Rose Festival Art Show, Pedalpalooza, and More

by EverOut Staff

The Rose Festival Art Show is now on view at the Oregon Society of Artists gallery.

The Rose Festival Art Show is now on view at the Oregon Society of Artists gallery. Gia Whitlock via OSA

When you’re not busy applying aloe vera goo to your sunburned limbs, scroll through our picks for this weekend’s most noteworthy events and activities, from Pedalpalooza to the Rose Festival Art Show, and from the first night of the Portland Pickles’ Rockin’ the Walk Concert Series to places to get pandan treats (like Berlu, with its chewy waffles and cakes). Plus, check out our guides to the best things to do online this month and upcoming events going on sale today.

PRIDE
Stack some new titles from LGBTQ+ authors. Working your way through the queer lit canon is a noble cause, but if you’re overwhelmed with options and are looking for a fresh read, start with something released in 2021 (or set to come out by the end of the year) from Powell’s or your other favorite local bookseller. On the graphic novel front, we’re picking up The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Dykes to Watch Out For progenitor and Fun Home author Alison Bechdel, in which the cartoonist regales her lifelong fascination with fitness crazes of the past and present, concluding that, for her, strength comes from facing her interdependence with others. Lee Lai’s somber-but-heartfelt-looking debut Stone Fruit, a blue-toned watercolor about queer couple Bron and Ray who grapple with their depleting emotional intimacy just as they’re forming a bond with their niece, is also on our list. If you’re on the hunt for a non-graphic novel and you don’t mind waiting a week, spring for Kristin Arnett’s With Teeth (out June 15). Like her terrifically weird debut, Mostly Dead Things, the story takes place in Florida, where a woman who yearns for a loving queer family finds herself instead with a son who scares her and a wife who’s never around. And over in the short-fiction camp, the R.O. Kwon- and Garth Greenwell-edited anthology Kink: Stories has some gems, many of them centering LGBTQ+ characters. (We recommend flipping to the one by Carmen Maria Machado first; it’s a gay macabre delight.) If your bookshelf is overflowing and you’d prefer to check things out from the library, good news—five Multnomah County branches (Holgate, Capitol Hill, Kenton, Gresham, and Midland) are back open for business as of this week! Browse the system’s staff picks section for more Pride month reads.

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