• Five Live: Get Out
1. "The Devil and Daniel Webster" American history and the legal system get a look in this play for older audiences (10 and up), offered by the Northwest Children's Theater. Opens 7 p.m. Friday, continues 7 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays, 2 p.m. Saturdays-Sundays through Feb. 24, at 1819 N.W. Everett St.; $10-$20; www.nwcts.org or 503-222-4480
• Five Live: Performance
1. "Antigone" The experimentally inclined Blue Monkey company staging Sophocles' classic tragedy? Almost. It's Jean Anouihl's 1940s rewrite -- likely just the beginning of the updating. Opens 7 p.m. Friday, continues 7 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, through Feb. 24, West End Theater, 1220 S.W. Taylor St.; $16-$20; www.bluemonkeytheater.org, 503-593-2466.
• Five Live: Music
1. Slabtown Bender With dozens of bands over three days, Slabtown's celebrating its annual bender with the best rock 'n' roll bang for the buck in Portland this weekend -- especially the free matinee performances. 6 p.m. Friday-Saturday-Sunday, Slabtown, 1033 N.W. 16th Ave.; $10 nightly, three-night wristbands $25; www.myspace.com/slabtownbender, 503-223-0099. Noon Saturday-Sunday free.
• High Five
1. "No Country for Old Men" Adapting a novel by Cormac McCarthy that seems to have been conceived with them in mind, Ethan and Joel Coen deliver their harshest, chilliest and most austere film in many a moon. Javier Bardem is enormous as a diabolical killer on the trail of a man (Josh Brolin) who has discovered the money left behind at a drug deal gone wrong; Tommy Lee Jones is the Texas sheriff who can't believe how ugly it all gets -- or, worse, what the world has come to. Exact, spare, bloody, dark and unrelenting, it's superb. (Multiple locations)
• Nickel and Dime
The Light-Fingered Five The comedy improv group returns from vacation for a winter show about love, relaxation, snowboarding and the rise of the Trail Blazers. 10 p.m. Friday, The Shoebox Theatre, 2110 S.E. 10th Ave.; $5.
