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Bagdad Theater & Pub

3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd
Portland, OR 97214
United States

(503) 236-9234

Web site: http://mcmenamins.com/index.php?loc=9&id=176

Events: http://mcmenamins.com/index.php?… (updated February 14)

Amenities: food/drink

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Southeast Portland's marvelous relic of Hollywood's Golden Age is a stunning movie palace full of wonder and surprises. For nearly four generations now, the Bagdad's Mediterranean and neon persona and daily offerings of celluloid adventures have made it an icon of Portland's vibrant Hawthorne District. A movie hall of the best sort, the Bagdad's interior is an attraction unto itself with barreled arches, ornate, wrought iron fixtures, brilliant-colored mosaic work, and painted and stenciled Mediterranean designs and mythical characters. Kick back in the theater and enjoy a slice of pizza and a handcrafted ale during the show, or come early and enjoy dinner in the casual pub that fronts the theater. But be forewarned -- outdoor tables in the summertime may be hard to come by!

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Powell's Books Presents Neal Stephenson (September 16 at 7:00pm)
Neal Stephenson promotes Anathem.
Neal Stephenson's most recent series of novels, the critically acclaimed THE BAROQUE CYCLE (comprised of Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World) hit bestseller lists across the United States and Canada – in the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, ... (more)the Los Angeles Times, Maclean's among others -- demonstrating that a writer long loved by a faithful (and ever-expanding) circle of readers had taken the international success he'd enjoyed with his modern classic Cryptonomicon to entirely new levels.

The last novel in THE BAROQUE CYCLE appeared four years ago, this autumn; and now William Morrow is very happy to bring to an eagerly anticipating world his new novel, ANATHEM.

Since childhood, nineteen-year old Raz has lived behind the walls of a 3,400 year old monastery -- a sanctuary for scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians; for those who live (and thrive, living) the life of the mind. Within their sanctuary he and his cohorts are safely sealed off from the world outside: an illiterate, irrational, unpredictable world; an endless landscape of casinos and megastores, plagued by recurring booms and busts, dark ages and reawakenings, wars between individuals and among nations.

Then, one day, it is decided that only the likes of Raz – and his friends, his mentors, his teachers – have the abilities to avert certain doom for both the world without as well as the world within. So, leaving their sanctuary behind, they go forth to discover what awaits them, and to discover, precisely, what they will in fact be able to do.

Neal Stephenson has said that ANATHEM is "a fictional framework for exploring ideas that have sprung from the minds of great thinkers of Earth's past and present." Told on a panoramic scale and with a boldness rarely seen today in fiction of any genre, Stephenson draws with bold strokes and rich humor, capturing with small, telling details and images a world where imagination and technology have intertwined in wondrous – and unexpected – ways.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Neal Stephenson is the author of the novels of the three-volume historical epic, The Baroque Cycle, comprised of Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World; as well as the novels Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac; and his nonfiction work, In the Beginning Was the Command Line. He lives in Seattle, WA.
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon (June 24 at 7:00pm)
Carlos Ruiz Zafon promotes The Angel's Game.
Tickets, $19, include admission and a copy of The Angels Game, and are available at the Bagdad Theater box office, the Crystal Ballroom box office, Ticketmaster.com, and all Ticketmaster outlets.
Added by karenharris.

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