The Top 42 Events in Portland This Week: Mar 31–Apr 6, 2025
Mar 31, 2025
Kraftwerk, ManiFest Festival, and More
by EverOut Staff
We've taken stock of everything happening this week and distilled our findings into one handy guide, just for you. Read about all of our picks below, including events from Emma
Pattee to Kraftwerk: Multimedia Tour 2025 - 50 Years of Autobahn and from ManiFest - A Nail Art Movement to How Did This Get Made?—Live!
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READINGS & TALKS
Emma PatteeEmma Pattee’s debut novel Tilt takes place over the course of a single day, the day that the decades-overdue Cascadia earthquake rocks Portland. It unfolds via the wry inner monologue of Annie, who is a swole 37 weeks pregnant and shopping for a crib at IKEA when it all comes down. Tilt follows her on a trek across Portland as she tries to walk home, coming across scenes both heart-warming and harrowing. Pattee is a Portland Mercury contributor and an environmental journalist whose climate reporting has been published by the Guardian and the New York Times, among others. Tilt’s trim, 227-page narrative reflects her dedication to research. It’s as evocative a portrait of what Portlanders can expect as anyone has published since Nathan Gilles’ “The First Four Minutes,” which Pattee noted as a major influence on the book, along with “The Really Big One” by New Yorker writer Kathryn Schultz, which won Schultz a Pulitzer. Pattee will be joined in conversation by People Like You author Margaret Malone. SUZETTE SMITH(Powell's City of Books, Pearl District) ...read more read less