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Christine Davis compiles best bets for family fun, festivals, comedy and more. Send events submissions to eventsbestbets@oregonian.com.

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Oregon Brews & BBQs

With more than 40 taps serving craft beer from more than 25 breweries, this tented festival in McMinnville also offers barbecue, live music and a kids’ zone.

5-11 p.m. Friday, noon-11 p.m. Saturday, noon- 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 6-8; 400 N.E. Baker St., McMinnville; $5-$15; orbrewsandbbqs.com

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Clackamas County on Tap & Uncorked

Craft breweries, wineries and distilleries will offer tastings. Also on tap: live music, food carts and other vendors.

1-9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7; Sara Hite Memorial Rose Garden, 5440 S.E. Kellogg Creek Drive, Milwaukie; $15-$20; clackontap.com

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Beaverton Celebration Parade

Celebrating community superheroes, the 61st annual Beaverton Celebration Parade promises floats, marching bands and costumed superheroes everywhere.

10 a.m.-noon Saturday, Sept. 7; begins at Griffith Park, ends on Southwest Menlo Drive near Berthold Avenue; free; beavertonoregon.gov/Parade

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Carlton Crush Harvest Festival

This festival includes grape stomp competitions for children and adults and a watermelon eating competition, too.

11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7; downtown Carlton; free entry, but $100 for a team of four to sign up for the stomp; carltoncrush.com

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Tigard Street Fair and Latino Festival

Oh, the street fairs continue to go strong. The Downtown Tigard Street Fair and Latino Festival is a family-friendly event with an Aztec dance group, live music and vendors.

11 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7; S.W. Main St., Tigard. Free. exploredowntowntigard.com

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Mount Angel Oktoberfest

Don your dirndl or leap into your lederhosen to celebrate the harvest season, German style.

Doors open at 10 a.m. Thursday-Sunday, Sept. 12-15; 5 N. Garfield, Mount Angel; Most events are free and open to all ages. Three premium venues (Biergarten, Alpinegarten and Weingarten) require a ticket/wristband purchase, persons younger than 21 can enter these locations at no cost when accompanied by an adult. $5-$15 for day and evening passes, $30 for the whole festival; oktoberfest.org

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Feast Portland

Multiple days of multiple sips and bites await the dedicated foodie at Feast Portland, featuring top chefs from around the country.

Various times Thursday-Sunday, Sept. 12-15; venues across Portland; tickets start at $35; 21+; feastportland.com

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Portland Fall RV & Van Show

Sorry to see summer end but still have travel on your mind? Take a trip to this show and peruse all manner of wheeled homes in preparation for your next road holiday.

Various times Thursday-Sunday, Sept. 12–15; Portland Expo Center, 2060 N. Marine Drive; $10; expocenter.org

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CONCERT GUIDE

Nathan Rizzo puts together seasonal, monthly and weekly concert guides. Email submissions at least 4 weeks ahead of the event to musicbestbets@oregonian.com.

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Iron Maiden

As Rolling Stone recently pointed out, Bruce Dickinson “might be the closest thing heavy metal has to an ageless Mick Jagger figure.” And like the Stones, Iron Maiden and their frontman are performing as well as they ever have. Tickets for their Legacy of the Beast tour will be rare items — the band has sworn to play only deep cuts and hits — but they’re surely worth scouring for.

7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, Moda Center. All ages. Tickets: SOLD OUT - try resellers. rosequarter.com

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Death Cab for Cutie

There is a special poignancy to a song like “Gold Rush,” the slow-churning ballad from Death Cab for Cutie’s “Thank You for Today.” “And now that our haunts have taken flight,” sings Ben Gibbard, a longtime resident of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. “And been replaced with construction sites/ Oh, how I feel like a stranger here/ Searching for something that’s disappeared.”

7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, Oregon Zoo. All ages. Tickets: SOLD OUT - try resellers. zooconcerts.com

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Big Boi

Big Boi was Outkast’s anchor to the traditions of Atlanta hip-hop, his rhymes smooth-coursing and void of their epoch’s self-parodying excess. And where former bandmate André 3000 has dialed up the weird — wandering around LAX with an indigenous flute — Big Boi is reaping his own success from their psych-funk vision.

9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, Roseland Theater. All ages. Tickets: $35. roselandpdx.com

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Deep Purple

Deep Purple consummated a trinity of British groups that forged the heavy metal of successors like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Metallica. Unlike Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, however, Deep Purple largely receded in the mid-1970s, when guitarist Richie Blackmore left to form Rainbow. Today, they are a potent touring act, with Blackmore’s baroque inclinations entrusted to former Dixie Dregs virtuoso Steve Morse.

8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, Keller Auditorium. All ages. Tickets: $69.50-$125. portland5.com

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The Mountain Goats

“As is generally known,” said Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle, “whenever I get some time to myself, I start thinking about Ozzy Osbourne.” In August, the alt-folk group announced a surprise appendix to “In League with Dragons,” whose medieval cover art exudes a certain Sabbath vibe (albeit Dio-era). Formatted as a 7-inch single, “Welcome to Passaic” features the jangling “Passaic 1975” and “Get High and Listen to the Cure,” an unreleased B-side long-beloved by fans.

8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, in Eugene, 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 9, at Crystal Ballroom, 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, Aladdin Theater. All ages. Tickets info for all shows: $26-$31. aladdin-theater.com

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Bon Iver

Bon Iver is an unlikely arena act, “For Emma, Forever Ago” sounding less suited to a stadium PA system than to the grainy intimacy of a car stereo. But the band’s overcast balladry has piqued the ears of hip-hop superstars Kendrick Lamar and Kanye West, who spent a week recording “The Life of Pablo” at bandleader Justin Vernon’s Wisconsin compound. “Power has come to me,” Vernon told Pitchfork. “But it’s not fun to wield by yourself and it’s not as useful if it’s just your vision.”

7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, Moda Center Theater of the Clouds. All ages. Tickets: $39-$275. rosequarter.com

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George Colligan Trio with Buster Williams and Lenny White

Before he moved to Portland, jazz pianist George Colligan had imprinted his name on first-call lists across New York City, while Buster Williams and Lenny White - career associates of Thelonius Monk and Return to Forever - are nothing short of legendary. The trio’s 1905 performance is a special treat: In another time, a group this good would be playing in

spaces far less intimate than the Mississippi Ave.-area bar and pizzeria.

7 and 9 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11, The 1905. All ages. Tickets: $20. the1905.org

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Melvins, Redd Kross

Reportedly named for a noisome Thriftway clerk, Melvins were progenitors of the woolen rumble that shaped Seattle grunge. They’ve enjoyed ongoing notoriety on that basis, remaining memorable largely for Buzz Osborne’s exploding hair and their influence on successors — Nirvana and Soundgarden, in particular — who would quickly surpass them. But the sound is all there.

9 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11, Doug Fir Lounge. 21+. Tickets: Sold out - try resellers. dougfirlounge.com

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THE ARTS

Arts editor Amy Wang compiles theater, classical music and visual arts events. Email submissions to fineartsbestbets@oregonian.com.

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“Testament”

"I like to know and feel the moment where people fall apart, and saturate my work in it," says photographer Jennifer Thoreson. Her current exhibit, "Testament," consists of images made over a year that incorporate multimedia sculptures and that lean heavily on the Bible verse Matthew 11:28: "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." Artist talk, 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 5; on view, noon-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday, Sept. 5-29, Blue Sky, 122 N.W. Eighth Ave. Free.

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“Blue City”

Portland artist Arnold Pander presents new works in oil and watercolor depicting the Rose City and its fluctuating landscapes in shades of blue. The Dandy Warhols' Zia McCabe will DJ the opening. Opening reception, 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6; on view by appointment, Union Knott, 2726 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Free; 503-866-3028.

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Lou Watson

The Portland composer and sound artist is among the artists participating in the recently opened Portland2019 Biennial exhibit, where her video "Look Both Ways on Interstate Avenue (Because Stuff's Worth It)" features music composed for the traffic flow. She'll be joined by collaborators in creating a live score, "Interstate Avenue, On a Saturday, for Harp Duet and Percussion," to accompany the exhibit. 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, 8371 N. Interstate Ave. Free.

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Oregon Symphony

Find out what happens when you mix wild animals with classical music as the Oregon Symphony offers classical favorites at the Oregon Zoo. Concert tickets include admission to the zoo that day. Activities, 5:30 p.m.; show, 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7; Oregon Zoo, 4001 S.W. Canyon Road. $29-$85; zooconcerts.com.

--Christine Davis

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“Mala”

CoHo Productions presents Julana Torres in Melinda Lopez's one-woman play about a first-generation American struggling with her relationship to her 92-year-old mother, who lives with her and her daughter. The title, "Mala," comes from an insult that the mother flings at her daughters as they try to care for her: "Mala means bad," our narrator explains wearily, "… it means your essential self is bad." Lopez examines essential selves through an end-of-life story that's by turns funny and fierce. 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 6-28, CoHo Theatre, 2257 N.W. Raleigh St. $20-$35, cohoproductions.org or 503-220-2646.