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Honestly, Kristin, your letter gives the impression that the central city is overrun with rogue construction gangs, ripping up the streets at random in a crank-fueled orgy of wanton destruction. (Granted, simply driving through the neighborhood also gives that impression, but whatever.) However, you couldn’t be more wrong. First of all, everyone knows that oxy is the new meth. Second, this crank-fueled orgy of wanton destruction is anything but random. Strictly speaking, it’s the city that’s doing it, so asking them to “step in” is a bit like asking Heinz to put a stop to beans.

“The Portland Streetcar Loop project…comprises the majority of construction activity in the central city area,” says the Portland Bureau of Transportation’s Dan Anderson, who also mentioned the Burnside/Couch couplet, the Oak Basin sewer project, and the repaving of Hawthorne and Madison. “These projects are either completed or in the final stages,” he assured me. Of course, I’m told that the war in Afghanistan is also in its “final stages,” so make of that what you will. Incidentally, you can sift through the ashes of your doomed commute at keepportlandmoving. org, which has updates on all publicly funded traffic mayhem. You can’t say you weren’t warned. Anderson declined to state (possibly because I didn’t ask him) whether this roadwork carpetbombing was part of a plan to make us all hate driving so much we’ll line up to take the streetcar when it’s finally ready, but knowing these tricksy public servants, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com

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In the final days of the Oregon gubernatorial campaign, when both major-party candidates were scrambling for donations, John Kitzhaber did something unusual: He gave away $100,000. But that money came right back to the Democrat’s campaign, wrapped in the imprimatur of two abortion-rights groups, Planned Parenthood of Oregon and NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon. On Nov. 1, the day before ballots were due, state filings show, the Kitzhaber campaign gave $60,000 to the NARAL PAC and $40,000 to Planned Parenthood’s PAC. Because of the seven-day reporting rules in effect at the time, the campaign did not have to report either contribution until after the Nov. 2 Election Day. Both organizations spent the money on mailers, phone calls and other voter outreach designed to help elect Kitzhaber. The groups’ bona fides gave him a boost with pro-choice Republicans and undecideds that direct communication from the

campaign would not have—and emphasized a key issue contrast with Republican Chris Dudley. It’s impossible to know how much the last-minute outreach from the two prochoice groups to more than 100,000 voters contributed to Kitzhaber’s thin, 22,000vote victory. But it certainly did not hurt. Andrea Cantu-Schomus, a spokeswoman for the state’s chief elections officer, Secretary of State Kate Brown, says the transactions are legal. In many states, says Janice Thompson of the watchdog group Common Cause Oregon, Kitzhaber could not have, in effect, rented the PACs’ names. “Other states have restrictions on the contributions that can be made between political committees,” Thompson says. “The reason the restrictions exist in most other states is they are a necessary component of a package of limits.” But Oregon is one of only six states that place no limits on campaign contributions, as long as they are disclosed. Oregon GOP chairman Bob Tiernan says it’s unusual for candidates to donate money to advocacy groups in return for inkind contributions. Tiernan says the scheme may be legal, but it’s misleading. “The purpose of election law is to have

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They say the Sustainability Center should be viewed not as a real estate deal but the next chapter in an Oregon success story that stretches from the Bottle Bill to national leadership in recycling to forward-looking public transportation and renewable-energy policies. “It’s very short-sighted to look just at the real estate cost,” says Andrea Durbin, executive director of the Oregon Environmental Council and one of the project’s leaders. “The real question is, how do you actually use this project to leverage long-term outcomes?” In 2001, Portland anchored itself on the sustainability map when the Ecotrust building, a 19thcentury brick and stone structure on Northwest 9th Avenue and Johnson Street, achieved what is called Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, gold status. The Ecotrust building became Oregon’s first LEED gold building and the nation’s first remodeled building to meet that standard. Ecotrust won its award based on criteria such as energy conservation, access to transportation

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and use of natural light and recycled materials, and an ecoroof and landscaping that eliminated nearly all runoff. Even the unwanted parts of the Ecotrust building, which was originally built as a warehouse in 1895, were recycled: 98 percent of the debris taken out in the renovation was reused. Over the past decade, the Portland development community has pursued LEED certification aggressively. Nearly all building projects in which the city or its urban renewal agency, the Portland Development Commission, invested sought LEED status. Portland now has 103 LEED-rated buildings, second only to Chicago’s 120. “I would say that pushed the whole industry forward,” says Scott Andrews, chairman of the Portland Development Commission and president of Melvin Mark Companies, one of the city’s largest private real estate firms. But the difference between a LEED building and the proposed Oregon Sustainability Center is like the difference between jumping a hurdle and clearing an 18-foot pole-vault bar—without the pole.

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“It’s a quantum leap forward,” says Gerding Edlen project manager Jill Sherman, whose firm has developed eight LEED platinum buildings. LEED standards simply deal with design. The Living Building Standard focuses on how a building actually performs. To achieve certification, the Sustainability Center must emit no carbon for 12 months, use no outside water and meet strict energy-savings goals during that period. “This is where the world is going,” says Kimberly Schneider, Mayor Sam Adams’ economic development director. “We want to be an early adopter and get there first.” In order to meet the “Living Building Challenge,” the partners in the Oregon Sustainability Center—the Oregon University System, the City of Portland, and a team of mostly nonprofit green organizations called the Oregon Living Building Initiative—have to build something that is as different from a conventional building as a Prius is from a Hummer—and the Prius has to generate all its own fuel. To do that requires a radical design. The building’s shell will be triple-glazed glass and concrete; 60,000 square feet of solar panels will be embedded in walls and cover other surfaces like a second skin, generating more electricity than the building’s 750 inhabitants will use. A massive solar disc angled to catch the sun’s rays will sit on the roof, and a solar-panel-coated roof will shelter the Southwest 4th Avenue streetcar, which, once it’s rerouted, will run right through the building’s foyer. The guts of the structure are also radical. Rather than employing a forced-air heating, ventilating and air-conditioning system like a typical high-rise, the building will employ a geothermal well system that shoots warm water 200 feet down into the earth for cooling in the summer and does the same with cold water in the winter to provide “carbon-free” heating and cooling. After analyzing historical weather records, building engineers are confident they can capture 400,000 gallons of rainwater annually. Because that rain falls sporadically, a 200,000-gallon tank in the basement will serve as storage. Using a state-of-the-art natural filtration system that includes a biological wastewater treatment system called “The Living Machine,” the building will be self-sufficient in water terms and will not connect to the city’s overburdened sewer system.

The building will cycle “gray” water (water that’s been used for washing hands or dishes) through toilets, the heating and cooling system and indoor gardens. “Black water,” or sewage, will be separated. The solids will be used as fertilizer on-site and, after going through “The Living Machine,” the water flushed back into the ground. “After treatment, even the ‘black water’ will be almost clean enough to drink,” says Vice Chancellor for Finance Jay Kenton, the Oregon University’s System’s point man on the project. “Although I don’t know that you’d want to do that.” Sophisticated monitoring and metering devices—more than 1,000 of them—will measure how much energy each person in the building is using, down to keeping an eye on each wall plug. Much of the ventilation will be natural—every occupant will have access to a window that opens. In addition to the goal of reducing energy usage by about 70 percent compared with a comparably sized conventional building, the project must also meet stringent sourcing and materials requirements. Everything from building components to the people who work on the project must be from within a defined radius of Portland. For instance, “heavy, high-density materials,” such as stone, must come from within 250 miles. So no Italian marble. Consultants cannot come from more than 1,500 miles away, and solar panels must be made within 9,000 miles. The purpose of those restrictions is to reduce the fuel used in transporting materials to Portland. The Challenge also “red-lines” materials that are toxic or otherwise undesirable. For instance, the wiring in many buildings is coated with petroleum-based plastic polyvinyl chloride, which cannot be used in a “living building.” Nor can materials that include mercury, lead or cadmium or that are treated with formaldehyde, a common preservative. So with all those conditions—and before considering whether the project is economically feasible—a threshold question is whether the building is technically achievable. Last year, project sponsors hired Balzhiser & Hubbard, a Eugene engineering firm, to conduct a “validation study” of the Sustainability Center’s preliminary design. With some tweaks, the firm said, the systems CONT. on page 18

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With Portland’s unemployment rate well above the national average, it’s easy to see why city officials are promoting what they say will be a catalytic project for “growing skills, expertise and jobs,” as an August presentation to City Council predicted. Even economist Joe Cortright, who is skeptical of the Oregon Sustainability Center, supports the policymakers’ focus on beefing up the state’s green economy. “You can make a very plausible case that we have a strong leadership position in green tech and sustainability,” Cortright says. “I just question whether concentrating on this building is the right focus.” A review of the city’s economic development efforts over the past decade does resemble a 16-year-old’s driving record: lots of tears and bent fenders. Many Portlanders will remember the aggressive predictions city officials made for the $200 million investment in South Waterfront over the past decade—it was supposed to create a biotechnology industry and yield 10,000 new jobs. Those jobs have failed to materialize (as Cortright predicted), and South Waterfront is an empty quarter of sparsely filled condos and apartments for old people. In an earlier “if you build it, they will come” episode, the city pumped $12 million into fixing up an Old Town building in 2001 for what it called the “Creative Services Center.” When tenants did not move in, PDC moved itself there. “We learned a lot from those two experiences,”

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From the city’s perspective, Abuaf says, the OSC will provide economic development benefits far greater than its cost. First, it will create immediate construction jobs, then it will allow those construction workers to gain new skills from working on a cutting-edge project and, most importantly, build on Portland’s “greentech, clean-tech sector.” “This is not a real estate deal,” Abuaf says. “This is an economic development deal.” There is a certain leap of faith inherent in the project. But proponents note that unlike trying to start a biotech cluster from scratch, they are adding to an existing strength. “Portland exports a lot of building and design skills,” says PDC’s Andrews. “And much of that has to do with our reputation as innovators on LEED projects.” He also says building a showpiece environmental building will create its own demand. Not long ago, Andrews recalls, he and many of his peers in the commercial real estate industry scoffed at LEED. “In the early days, we didn’t do LEED,” Andrews says. “We’d say, ‘How can you talk a tenant into paying an extra $2 per square foot in rent?’” But now, Andrews says, prospective tenants demand an environmentally friendly certification and are willing to pay for it. One of the reasons city and university officials feel so confident about the building is the interest large for-profit companies such as General Electric, Intel and SolarWorld have expressed in showcasing their technologies in the project. “The way I view the building is that it’s similar to the visionaries that set aside land for light rail,” says Bob Beisner, managing director for Hillsboro’s SolarWorld, which is helping design the optimal array of solar panels that will power the building. “It’s the forward-looking aspect of the building and how these developments will be incorporated into other buildings in the future that makes the project exciting,” Beisner says. Of course, plenty could go wrong. Durbin worries most about whether the building’s designers and engineers will be able to bring costs down. The Oregon University System’s Jay Kenton frets about renting nearly 50,000 feet of office space to small businesses at steep rents. (Several tenants have already provided contingent

commitments to the building, including Earth Advantage, Oregon Environmental Council, Sustainable Northwest, River Network and Green Building Services, the only for-profit tenant.) Kenton has asked the City of Portland to join the university system in backstopping those rents, essentially guaranteeing them should the small tenants not perform. In the worst case, Kenton says, if some tenants cannot remain in the building, he expects Portland State’s strong growth would absorb any extra space. Of all the buildings’ proponents, Adams may be the most cautious. “If we can’t get costs down to an acceptable level, there’s honor in not moving forward,” he says. If, as seems likely, the project does move forward but falls short of lofty expectations, taxpayers can take solace because the biggest single tenant in the Oregon Sustainability Center will be Portland State University. That fact alone significantly limits the worstcase scenario. PSU is by far the state’s largest university and is currently overflowing with students and renting space because it does not have enough classrooms. PSU Vice President for Finance and Administration Lindsay Desrochers says the university wants to house its large and rapidly expanding sustainability faculty in the new building and wants to create two extra-large classrooms—with capacities of 250 or more—which the university currently lacks. “PSU enrollments have surged, and research is growing at a rate of 20 percent per year,” Desrochers told WW via email. “We need classrooms and research space now. We have been acquiring existing buildings, and building classrooms in new buildings like the new rec center.” In recent years, critics, including this newspaper, have derided City Hall for thinking small. Other voices have argued convincingly that for Portland to achieve its ambitions as a city, Portland State must dramatically raise its profile. The Oregon Sustainability Center gives both entities an opportunity to take a meaningful step forward. “Sure it’s a risk,” says PDC’s Andrews. “But it’s a risk worth taking.”

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Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte ($3.49 for 12 ounces) This tastes like neither espresso nor pumpkin, but rather cheap, caramel-flavored milk with some cinnamon sprinkled on top. It’s like the bastard child of a Werther’s Original and a Red Hot, all melted down into something that looks like an oily, two-day-old massaman curry.

FRIDAY NOV. 26 [’TIS THE SEASON] HOLIDAY TREE LIGHTING Gather with thousands of your fellow Portlanders to surreptitiously sip whiskey from Starbucks cups and watch a 75-foot tree be ritualistically set on fake-fire. Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave. 5:30 pm. Free.

Moonstruck Chocolate Pumpkin Pie Truffle ($2.50 each) These two-bite chocolates are actually a lot less disgusting than they sound. The pumpkin buttercream filling may even have real pumpkin in it, and the rich, savory flavor and strong spices mask much of the nasty white chocolate—sorry, “ivory” chocolate (call it whatever you want, Moonstruck, it’s still an abomination) topping.

[MUSIC] GWAR It’s Black Friday, and you’re tired of shopping and eating leftovers and watching the stupid Thanksgiving parade. The best cure we can think of? Fake blood, plastic foam costumes, disembowelment and a song called “You Are My Meat.” Roseland, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $18 advance, $22 day of show. All ages.

Cold Stone Creamery Pumpkin Cheesecake Ice Cream ($3.39 for 5-ounce cup) This seasonal special doesn’t taste like a pumpkin cheesecake, but it does taste remarkably like butternut squash—butternut squash dunked in a vat of cream and syrup, mind you, but butternut squash nonetheless. It works surprisingly well.

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Burgerville Pumpkin Smoothie ($3.19 for 12 ounces) Now this actually tastes like a pumpkin. It also tastes like an ashtray. It’s thick and fragrant and full of little orange bits that I’ve no doubt come from a real pumpkin grown on some sustainable local farm where they kiss their vegetables every day, but it also reminds me of making out with Marlboro Light-smoking boys in high school. Kettleman Pumpkin Bagel with pumpkin schmear ($2.95) Kettleman’s sweet bagel toppings already make me a bit nauseous, but sweet pumpkin? Oy. In fairness, the bagels themselves are OK—a mild, savory pumpkin flavor with a bit of chew, but the sickly sweet cream cheese would be more appropriate as cupcake icing.

[MUSIC] SUSAN MCKEOWN After a visit to a mental hospital, New York singer McKeown traced bipolar disorder back through generations of her own Irish family, and enlisted friends to help her turn the poetry of famed victims of the disease (Lord Byron, Theodore Roethke, Leonard Cohen and more) into dark-tinged folk-rock songs. The Secret Society Ballroom, 116 NE Russell St., 493-3600. 8 pm. $15. 21+.

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[WORDS] SOIREE OF FURIOUS TYPING The Portland partisans of the National Novel Writing Month Contest throw a fleet-fingered bash complete with grub, raffles and scribes cranking out the pages at a “dangerous” pace. Urban Grind, 911 NW 14th Ave., 546-5919. 6 pm. $18 advance donation. RSVP at meetup. com/PortlandNaNoWriMo.

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BURGER LOVE EVERYWHERE YOU TURN, IT’S BURGER TIME IN PORTLAND. BY K E L LY C L A R K E , MI C HAE L M A NNH E I M ER, AAR O N M E SH , B E C KY O H LS EN

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Blame the excellent Foster Burger for kick-starting Portland’s interest in inexpensive burgers. In the past few months, a handful of meat peddlers have opened up shop, luring locals with the perfume of grilled beef and golden fries. Here’s our take on five of the newbies.

LITTLE BIG BURGER 122 NW 10th Ave., 274-9008, littlebigburger.com. 11 am-10 pm nightly.

Micah Camden, the seemingly tireless chef who has in the past five years had a hand in the openings of Yakuza, Naomi Pomeroy’s Beast, DOC and Fats, is often described as having a “restaurant empire.” The string of eateries along Northeast 30th Avenue is really more of a fiefdom, but with Little Big Burger, Camden and co-owner Katie Poppe have their sights set on world domination. The restaurant, which opened in September and already has two more locations in the works, has only six items on the menu: fries, floats, soda and burgers, with or without cheese or meat. There are no plates on the shiny red-andwhite counter; all orders are delivered in paper bags. The burgers cost $3.25, $3.75 with cheddar, Swiss, chèvre or blue; fries are $2.75. They are very good fries; crisp and sweet and adequately salted, with maybe just a tad too much truffle flavoring. The burger is also very good, with a quarter-pound patty of first-rate cow flesh, seasoned with restraint, cooked medium and slathered with Camden’s own sriracha-spiked ketchup (you can take a bottle home, if you like). The bun is sturdy, but quite small, leading some Yelpers to whine that the burger is an overpriced slider.

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sober. Four other choices include grilled chicken and a veggie burger, plus specials like a turkey burger with Brie and pesto (all $8). Call ahead to avoid a wait. BO. Pro: Spicy ranch sauce for the onion rings: yes. Con: Burly appetites might find the burgers a little petite; they’re rich, but they do fit on an English muffin.

KILLER BURGER 4644 NE Sandy Blvd., 971-544-7521. 11 am-9 pm MondayThursday, 11 am-10 pm Friday-Saturday. Info on Facebook, “Killer Burger Portland, OR.”

According to Killer Burger, the no-nonsense meat shack that recently took over Nasca’s corner digs on Northeast Sandy Boulevard, a burger ain’t a burger until it’s topped with crispy bacon, grilled onions, thick pickle slices and a slather of smoky, orange mayo-relish sauce…so that’s what

A BURGER YOU CAN ORDER AT 2:30 AM DOESN’T NEED TO BE THIS TASTY. Don’t let yourself be fooled—I’d guess this is a 500-calorie burger; eating two for lunch would be unwise. BW. Pro: A really good lunch in the Pearl for $6.50! Con: You may have to wait through your break to get it, as lines have been reported spilling out onto the sidewalk.

C BURGER 28 NW 4th Ave., 206-8866, cburgerpdx.com. 11 am-3 am Tuesday-Friday, 7 pm-3 am Saturday.

A burger you can order at 2:30 am does not need to be this tasty. It should be vaguely burger-shaped and easily acquired, absorbent and not too pricey. It doesn’t need to be made of coarsely ground, hand-patted Cascade Natural Beef, nor does it need to come with Applewood bacon, fontina, aioli, shallots and homemade pickles. These adornments are wasted on drunk people. Please, no one ever tell the folks at C Burger how much less they could get away with. Especially do not mention the onion rings ($4), which are about 6,000 times better than any other late-night onion rings in town. They’re thick and buttermilk-battered and huge enough to crawl into, should you lack other options at closing time. Best of all, C Burger means you can have those onion rings and a Couture Burger ($8) without ever slithering into the Couture Ultra Lounge. Just visit the window at the back of the nightclub’s kitchen, facing Couch Street. The Couch Street Burger ($5) is the basic option, a knockout even dead

every order starts with. Build on that crunchy, greasy, juicy base with everything from mild green chiles and Jack cheese (the Jose Mendoza, $7.95) to housemade sweet peanut-butter sauce. Lucky for purists, Killer’s 1/3 pound of moist, seared beef plopped atop a buttered, toasted Franz bun is good enough to stand alone, especially since each order comes with a bottomless side of thick, deeply golden, perfectly salted fries. Killer doesn’t do options; there are no salads, hot dogs or even onion rings (although there is a lone veggie burger). And you will drink soda or beer (there’s both Ninkasi and PBR on tap). It’s not fancy, folks—just killer. KC. Pro: Default cheese is American, by god. And that smoky sauce could pull double duty as a fry topping. Con: The shotgun space starts feeling cramped any time more than four people queue up at the counter. Order to go.

JOE’S BURGERS 7409 SW Bridgeport Road, Tigard, 598-1111, joesburgerspdx.com.

Operating out of a gazebo in the Stepford Wives galleria of Bridgeport Village, Joe’s Burgers flips what is almost certainly the best cheeseburger you can eat under a giant suburban Christmas tree. If this seems like a backhanded compliment, well, perhaps you will be swayed by the kiosk murals of customers enthusiastically biting into their

Oregon beef patties. Also appealing: the paper baskets and the $3.75 sticker price on a standard model. But the danger of offering a no-frills, walk-up-window burger is that it will taste like a no-frills, walk-up-window burger. The two patties on a Joe’s Classic Double Cheeseburger ($6) are fine, and the grilled onions melt sweetly into the American cheese, but the bun is kind of Wonder dry, and the special sauce tastes suspiciously like it came from a nearby Burgerville. Joe’s also serves shoestring fries and milkshakes (neither are remarkable) and a gut bomb called the Diablo Dog ($5): a hot dog wrapped in bacon, then deep fried. AM. Pro: With this place and the Pearl District’s 50 Plates, owner Joe Rapport is striving mightily to achieve Americana overkill—the kind of more-is-more food you remember from state fairs. Con: Do you actually remember anything you ate at a state fair?

DICK’S KITCHEN 3312 SE Belmont St., 235-0146, dkportland.com. 11 am-10 pm Monday-Saturday, 11 am-9 pm Sunday.

There are many qualities that define a truly great burger. A juicy, slightly charred patty, cooked medium rare but still able to hold its shape. A fresh, golden bun with a subtle hint of sweetness. Crisp veggies. Tart pickles. But having perfect ingredients doesn’t always make for a perfect burger, and Dick’s Kitchen—a new sustainable cafe on Belmont tagged as “Portland’s 1st Stone Age Diner”—makes a good one, not one that you run home to start a burger blog about. The menu deserves major props for branching out: All the usual subjects (a bacon blue-cheese burger, for instance) are here, but you can also get a French Onion “Zizou” burger ($7.75) with onions smashed right into the patty and a burger topped with persillade ($7.50), a zingy green paste that tastes like the offspring of pesto and an anchovy-heavy Caesar salad dressing. The Southerninspired pimento-cheese burger ($8.25) is what I’ll come back for, even if it leaves the bottom bun a soggy mess of burger and cheese juices. It’s the one thing on Dick’s menu that doesn’t try to be somewhat healthy, which is where Dick’s really falters—baked “not fries” are fine when they are crisp and warm, but mine were cold and mushy. MM. Pro: Pimento cheese tastes good on anything. Also, it’s fun to eat under framed pictures of famous Dicks—er, Richards (Nixon, Van Dyke, Burton). Con: Who wants a burger joint that even tries to cater to vegetarians? I don’t need a vegan bun on my bloody hamburger, thanks. Willamette Week NOVEMBER 24, 2010 wweek.com

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PROPER Thanksgiving Feast

Giving thanks doesn’t have to cost a dime. For eight years, Portland nonprofit PROPER, which seeks to “unite community across all lines,” has been offering a free, vegetarian-friendly Thanksgiving Day feast for anybody who needs it. This year’s dinner takes place at Celebration Tabernacle, right next door to its original location, Po’Shines Cafe de la Soul (the soul-food cafe has gotten too small for the turnout). Good food. Music. Storytelling. Free rainboots for those in need. CHRISTINA COOKE. Celebration Tabernacle, 8131 N Denver Ave., 8905393. Noon-4 pm Thursday, Nov. 25. Free. Info at properusa.org.

Departure Tree Lighting

Get a reindeer’s-eye view of the Pioneer Courthouse Square tree-lighting ceremony this year from the rooftop patio of Departure, atop the Nines hotel. You’ll get a clear view of the 75-foot tree and singalong below, plus blankets for warmth, festive cocktail specials and holiday foods including roasted chestnuts with sea salt and black pepper ($4), duck skewers with pomegranate and

ginger ($7) and maple-glazed gingerbread cookies ($3). CC. Departure, 525 SW Morrison St., 802-5370. Festivities in the square begin at 5:30 pm Friday, Nov. 26. No reservations, no cover.

La Fête du Macaron

The macarons at Pix Pâtisserie are about to be celebrated—and get a little crazy at the party. Both locations of the Euro dessert shop are hosting an all-day festival for the French buttercream-filled sandwich cookies. Expect the traditional chocolate and pistachio flavors, sure, but also some wild new ones— think olive oil, Scotch whiskey, fig blue cheese, Chartreuse—30 in all. “At Pix, our macaron is all about flavor and texture— crispy on the outside and chewy inside,” says Pix maven Cheryl Wakerhauser. At the party, you’ll also have the chance to sample macaron ice-cream sandwiches, chocolate-covered macarons on a stick and temporary macaron tattoos (ummm, circles?). Submit suggestions for the next unique flavor and win a $50 gift certificate if yours is chosen. CC. Pix Patisserie, 3402 SE Division St., 232-4407. Starts at 10 am Saturday, Nov. 27. Pix Pâtisserie North, 3901 N Williams Ave., 282-6539.

BLACK FRIDAY FLASH KITCHEN If you’re gonna risk your life and limbs for discount prices this Black Friday, you might as well do it at Tigard’s chichi outdoor mall Bridgeport Village—not only does it boast a Crate & Barrel but this Friday it’ll play host to an awesome free cooking class where Lincoln’s Jenn Louis, 50 Plates’ Patrick Miller and Whole Foods’ Matt Talavera will school you on how to turn T-Day leftovers into savory wonders like turkey posole and pasta with cabbage, turkey and nutmeg cream. The event’s the latest installment of Flash Kitchen, local foodie Mike Thelin’s collaboration with Whole Foods that aims to demystify cooking by randomly setting up mobile kitchens staffed by crazytalented foodmakers in busy spots around town. The first one, held in September in Director Park, attracted 600 hungry people. The Black Friday edition? “We’re expecting 1,200 people,” Thelin says. Now that’s a holiday party. KELLY CLARKE. Event takes place in Bridgeport Village’s Center Court. Noon-1 pm Friday, Nov. 26. Whole Foods will donate a buck to Ecotrust’s Farm to School program for every person who attends Flash Kitchen. Bridgeport Village, 7455 SW Bridgeport Road, 968-1704. Free.

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purchased along with your coffee (Stumptown). The relatively limited assortment of goods has included whole-wheat banana or pumpkin muffins ($2.50) and orange-currant and cheddar greenonion scones ($2.50), and will typically include one variety of seasonal pie, available by the slice ($3.50). The buttery, tender, lattice-crusted apple ones we sampled (the variety of apple changing with each BY JOA N N A MILLER dish@wweek.com visit) were more applesaucey than crispy—definitely a plus on my pie chart. A unique take on the For months, Woodlawn Coffee and Pastry’s web- standard chocolate-chip cookie ($1.50) scored high site was teasing us with photos of lemon-curd with a brown sugary-sweetness surrounding both tarts, muffins and scones teeming with fresh bittersweet and intense, unsweetened chocolate. berries, syrupy rhubarb spilling Trust me, this totally works. from pie crusts and a Jenga tower of Order this: A slice of The unique and toothsome buckglistening cranberry butter cookies. seasonal pie ($3.50) wheat Breton cake ($2.50/slice) leans deal: Bundt cakes, toward the savory, and a creamy So when the newspaper finally came Best made to order ($22) butternut squash, chanterelle and off the windows in early October, I’ll pass: The banana we were champing at the bit to get a muffin could be more… ricotta strata ($4) will also please the banana-y. not-so-sweet of tooth. taste of the goods. Owners Gretchen Glatte and MatSeasonal pies are made to order; curthew Busetto have transformed a long-vacant rent selection includes pear-cardamom crumble, former dry cleaners on a Northeast Dekum block pumpkin (chiffon, chocolate or traditional), that is also home to a pizza joint and a brewpub, maple pecan, winter fruit and coconut cream, to completing the Portland holy trinity of beer + name only a few. Cakes (bundts, loaves, tortes and pizza + coffee/baked goods. The high-ceilinged layered) are also available upon request. A whole and light-filled room, charmingly furnished with ricotta orange bundt ($22) was dense and aromatic ample benches and tables made from reclaimed upon purchase, becoming only more moist and wood, feels less like a full-blown bakery than flavorful as it was noshed into oblivion over the it does a homey coffeehouse where one of the ensuing days. When it comes to flavors, Woodlawn owners (Glatte, who is also the pastry chef at is a coffee shop that thinks outside the bun. Busetto’s local restaurant, Firehouse, does all of the baking) just happens to be churning out EAT: Woodlawn Coffee and Pastry, 808 NE Dekum St., 954-2412, woodlawncoffee.com. 6:30 am-4 pm cookies, pies and scones in the exposed kitchen— Monday-Friday, 7:30 am-4 pm Saturday-Sunday. $. and then arranging them on pretty platters to be See website for custom orders.

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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 24 Acoustic Evening with Fernando, Mike Coykendal, Michael Jodell

[SINGER-SONGWRITER] Well, she’s not quite “the Six Million Dollar Diva,” but to paraphrase Oscar Goldman: “We have the technology. We can make her better than she was. Better, stronger, faster.” Less than a week after tonight’s show, Michael Jodell heads to the hospital to get what she calls “a matched set”—a second artificial hip, after having replaced one in 2007, both to correct a congenital defect. It’s hard to see making her better and stronger, as she already rocks one of the best, strongest voices in town. As for “faster,” though, the costs (financial and physical) of her health struggles have directly impeded Jodell’s ability to bring any recordings of her beautiful work to market. So if the operation speeds such a project’s completion, bringing the more widespread exposure she richly deserves, bring on the bionics! JEFF ROSENBERG. Alberta Rose Theatre. 8:30 pm. $10. 21+.

Cold Metal, Prescription Pills, Vanimal, The Ro Sham Bos

[DARK WAVE] The gray, twisting synth-gloss tunes of Prescription Pills just beg for cold weather. It’s not that you can’t dance to this stuff, because there is a beat and a human heart, but Cole Browning’s music is encased in chilly synths, pulsing drummachine drone, and a heavy dose of Joy Division. Prescription Pills is officially part of the burgeoning Old Wave Records label (Starfucker, Guidance Counselor, Fake Drugs), and the band fits in well; “Mask” and “Goth Brooks” are cold and clinical and a little bit punk, but you can still dance along. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Backspace. 8 pm. $5. All ages.

Champagne Champagne, Mad Rad, Hurtbird

[HIP-HOP] It can be hard to hear, over all the hype for Seattle’s Shabazz Palaces, the buzz for Champagne Champagne these days. But listen closely, because the Emerald City trio—MCs Pearl Dragon and Thomas Gray with DJ Gajamatic (ex-Blood Brothers drummer Mark Gajadhar)—is producing total fire. With minimal, electro-psych beats that recall Egyptian Lover, Kool Keith, Starfucker and Aphex Twin, Pearl and Gray spit rhymes that seem half written and half intuited from some grand pop culture deity—messages delivered in verses that stretch like a whole pack of masticated and spit-out Big League Chew. The trio’s split 7-inch with THEESatisfaction, released earlier this year, is like weed and cough syrup rap for the stylish post-hip-hop set, and it is as likely as anything to become the future of Northwest music. You can stick Champagne Champagne on a bill with just about anyone and it’ll work— hence the bill with Seattle dance-pop electro-weirdos Mad Rad, who have a new disc out next week. CASEY JARMAN. Mississippi Studios. 9 pm. $8. 21+.

Hotter Than a Crotch, Mangled Bohemians, The New York Rifles

[MESS ROCK] Portland trio Hotter Than a Crotch is a band best seen in a basement, but Plan B is kind of like a big basement, so it’ll work. Onstage, guitarist Buck bin Nasty—who has the body and hair of a ‘70s rock star— plays sloppy T-Rex and Rolling Stonesstyle licks while vocalist/rad dancer Gloria Holer (I wonder if these are stage names?) shimmies around the stage while moaning about heart-

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THE BEST ’80S AND ’90S SITCOM THEME SONGS. 1. Full House Great song. The idea of the track is questioning whatever happened to predictability—the standard things in life, like the milkman, the paperboy and even TV. This guy has no idea what going down in the world today, but then realizes not to give up...because everywhere you look there is a heart to hold onto? True poetry. 2. Family Matters I swear Family Matters and Full House have the same songwriters, but the chorus of “as daaaaaays gooooo byyyyy” is sooo catchy. That will be stuck in your dome for days. 3. Fresh Prince of Bel-Air It might be the most recognizable song and the most fun to sing while drunk with your buddies, but it jut isn’t my No. 1. Maybe I got sick of people singing it. But it is a flippin’ catchy tune. 4. Saved by the Bell I don’t even know what to say about this theme. It’s just awesome. Shredding guitar leads, lyrics about being late for school—they keep it straight and to the point, and that what makes a solid theme song. 5. Charles in Charge I just like this one. It’s fun to sing. The lyrics are kind of creepy, especially when I sing them to myself. SEE IT: Champagne Champagne plays Wednesday, Nov. 24, at Mississippi Studios, with Mad Rad and Hurtbird. 9 pm. $8. 21+.

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THE DOODOO FUNK ALL-STARS: SHIT-HOT. BY CASEY JA R MA N

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The DooDoo Funk All-Stars is kind of a silly name for a band. But frontman Tony Ozier—Dookie Green when he’s in full, glammed-out garb and fronting the group—says there’s more than just shock value in the name. He holds up a french fry at Katie O’Brien’s on Northeast Sandy Boulevard to illustrate his point. “Let’s get to a literal description of DooDoo Funk,” he says, an ear-to-ear smile lighting up his long face. “When you think of the DooDoo…I’m not just eating fries. I’m eatin’ a burger, I’m eatin’ macaroni and cheese, greens, beans, cornbread...all that stuff goes in my stomach and mixes together. And then it comes out as one.” That description is a perfect metaphor for the DooDoo Funk All-Stars’ weekly party, the Dookie Jam. Every Wednesday night (usually at Someday Lounge or Club 915), the band hosts an evening of live music that’s malleable enough to shift from funk to neo soul, hip-hop to rock, Afro-pop to jazz or dance-hall reggae. The All-Stars—a two-year-old funk/soul collective with origins as the Lifesavas’ backing group—are something like the house band for the weekly party, but anyone with talent can step up or step in and change the direction of the band’s improvised songs. It’s a vibrant, diverse and powerful musical experience that’s unlike anything else in Portland. Local music-scene staples like trumpet whiz Farnell Newton and pianist Ben Darwish are regulars at the Jam, but the evening is gaining a reputation with touring musicians as well—Lady Gaga’s band, much of The Lion King cast and ’80s New Jack Swing hitmaker Al B. Sure! (who also appears on the DooDoo Funk All-Stars album) have all sat in to play. But as wild as the Dookie Jam gets when the stage is flooded by conga players and turntablists, the DooDoo Funk All-Stars themselves are always the main attraction. Sporting a sound that ranges from neo soul (the gorgeous and smooth “Never Gonna Let You Go,” which features Nafisaria Scroggins) to pounding, psychedelic grooves à la Parliament Funkadelic (Bootsy Collins has a fascinating cameo on the hard-driving title track, which ends in a barrage of

Collins’ farting/pooping noises), the All-Stars make noise on a grand scale on new disc Keep the Funk Alive. Their music features screaming guitars, blaring horn lines, gritty organ hooks and a soulful choir. Funk, the band members admit, is not a music often associated with Portland: That’s part of what drives the band—the All-Stars are trying to put Portland back on the map. “At one point in time, this town was known for funk,” Ozier says, citing bands like Pleasure and the Five Fingers of Funk. “So that funk foundation is here.” “It’s been a long time, so we need to bridge that gap,” drummer Tyrone Hendrix adds. And that’s what the Dookie Jam does. The weekly has been an incubator for young talent and a meeting place for new groups. “It’s probably birthed like six or seven bands,” Hendrix says.

“AT ONE POINT IN TIME, THIS TOWN WAS KNOWN FOR FUNK.” —TONY OZIER New acts are fine and good, but right now it’s the All-Stars who reign supreme. And despite the band’s proclivity toward all things fecal, the album is a beastly effort packed with serious musicianship. A year and a half of Dookie Jams have sharpened the players’ skills—guitarist A.G. Donnaloia’s cutting guitar lines and Errick Lewis’ bruising, dextrous bass work are great complements to Ozier’s rubbery vocals and Hendrix’s deep backbeat. The new album is pristinely self-produced in a throwback style—think of the Daptone Records formula inched up a decade or so. And even when the All-Stars employ more modern songwriting techniques—local MCs Cool Nutz and Soul P both make welcome appearances—there’s timelessness to the disc’s sound. The All-Stars live up to their name, and there’s nary a dull moment on the album. Moreover, it’s a load of fun. “The one thing that keeps the DooDoo Funk running like it does,” Ozier says without catching his own joke, “is that we genuinely enjoy playing together. As long as that’s happening, I think the world is open to us.” “We want to spread the DooDoo around.” SEE IT: The DooDoo Funk All-Stars release Keep the Funk Alive on Saturday, Nov. 27, at Someday Lounge. 9 pm. $8. 21+. Willamette Week NOVEMBER 24, 2010 wweek.com

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Lifehouse, Kris Allen, Alyssa Bernal

[HUNG BY A MOMENT] Following the breakout success of “Hanging by a Moment”—officially the most played song of 2001 and background music to seemingly every televised romantic coupling for years afterward—the Lifehouse boys knew not to overly change the formula. On fifth album Smoke and Mirrors, frontman Jason Wade (alongside the drummer, the only remaining original members) still specializes in slow-burning sentimentality that ever threatens to climb rockier peaks but manfully refrains, and the band still grounds its hooks in Adult Contempo riffage. The lost-love songcraft, highlighted by a Richard Marx collaboration, seems best defined by new track “It Is What It Is.” JAY HORTON. Roseland. 8 pm. $30. All ages.

THURSDAY, NOV. 25 J. Cole, CJ Hilton, K. Michelle, Cool Nutz

[ONLINE SENSATION] It’s a strange time for budding hip-hop stars. The days of going to MTV or BET to check out the latest rap sensation are gone, replaced by mixtapes and, most importantly, the Internet. Think about it: most hip-hop fans, myself included, didn’t know much about J. Cole before seeing his name tagged on the end of a few of Kanye’s G.O.O.D. Fridays releases. So I admit I was surprised when Cole knocked his verse on “Looking For Trouble” out of the park, out-rapping Kanye and Pusha T and Big Sean and then dropping the soulful, consistent Friday Night Lights mixtape last week. We’re still waiting for a true full-length (Cole’s signed to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation imprint), but until then we can always turn to the net to find his true swag. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Roseland. 8 pm. $21. All ages.

FRIDAY, NOV. 26 Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience

[THE SON REMAINS THE SAME] Jason Bonham has never exactly strayed too far from the looming shadow of his dearly departed father—drumming for UFO, Foreigner, Paul Rodgers; releasing an album of Led Zeppelin covers with his own ’70s-styled hard-rock outfit Bonham—and manning the skins for a reunited Zep in concert a few years back should’ve brought some sort of closure. Alas, that London show seems to have only fueled the obsession, and he’s brought together a trans-Atlantic grouping of similarly devoted (though less genetically predisposed) imitators for Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience, which, since home movies of Bonzo play throughout the performance, seems eerily well named. JAY HORTON. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. 8 pm. $42 & $52.50. All ages.

The Taxpayers, Nun Chuksky, Tiny Knives, Kreamy ‘Lectric Santa, The Angries

[DIY FOLK PUNK] God bless the Taxpayers. There are few bands in Portland—or the whole country, really—that put as much blood, sweat and tears into their music than these guys. Up until this point, though, the Taxpayers have mostly been a live beast, with an excellent full-length (2008’s A Rhythm

in Cages) that didn’t get nearly enough attention. That shouldn’t be a problem with To Risk So Much For One Damn Meal, the band’s frantic new album. Instead of upping the volume, the Taxpayers up the intensity with each and every track—from the rousing anthem “Everything Is Awful” to the harmonica-assisted, country-fed “Louisiana Hot Sauce Rainy Nights”—delivered in the impassioned half-singing, half-shouting wail of leader Rob Taxpayer. The eclectic record even has a few good ol’ Bruce Springsteen homages, including the funny and touching “Everybody Just Stood There.” The Taxpayers are gearing up for a tour that will take them away from Portland until the spring, so show up with a few bucks to drop on the show and the album, which you can even purchase as a zine complete with essays, drawings, music and science experiments. Bring on the horn sections, dudes. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Backspace. 8 pm. $5. All ages.

Climber, Boy Eats Drum Machine, Ravishers

[EVOLUTIONARY ROCK] Climber has spent eight years perfecting its sound, a robust blend of pop and electronic melodies driven by the band’s affinity for pulling rugs out from under its audiences. With the recent The Mystic—a full-on concept album—the group has evolved into a rock-solid force, even if it occasionally wears its Radiohead influence a little too openly. When the group nails it, though, it nails it big, with slamming percussion, jarring transitions and morphing time signatures that defy all expectation. Climber is set on making as big a trippy rock sound as possible, and it almost always succeeds in making venues sound like stadium shows. AP KRYZA. Doug Fir Lounge. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

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pianist and composer has held down a long stint as a member of the Mel Brown Septet, but he’s also done time with the late, great Leroy Vinnegar and Portland-via-Ghana master drummer Obo Addy. You can tell he’s learned a few tricks from the aforementioned folks on his fifth disc, This Path. With able help from guys like Portland bassist Dave Captein and drummer Ron Steen, Lee has penned an album full of warm originals and smartly arranged covers. There’s swing and feeling in “Minor Discrepancy,” which follows a Latin groove out through the back door of a schmaltzy dinner party and into some wilderness in the form of great solos from Captein and drummer Carlton Jackson; and there’s an emotional weight to Jim Pepper’s “Lakota Song” that evidences Lee’s time in Pepper’s band and affinity for his music. There’s an energy and depth to these tunes that makes the disc warrant repeated listens, which can be hard to pull off in the sparse trio setting. Gordon Lee’s path is the right one. CASEY JARMAN. Jimmy Mak’s. 8 pm. $10. 21+.

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break in a voice that’s part Motown and part Courtney Love. You’re either going to accept Hotter Than a Crotch—which was last seen with an explosive young drummer who looked like Ricky from My So-Called Life—as awesomely free-spirited rock ’n’ roll in the tradition of the Stooges or reject it as some bullshit, “keep Portland weird,” Alberta Street basement band. I think it’s the former. CASEY JARMAN. Plan B. 8 pm. $3. 21+.

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Diamond Rings, Boyfriends, Mattress

[DRUM-MACHINE MECCA] Signed to Montreal-based Secret City Records (Patrick Watson, Basia Bulat), Diamond Rings’ John O’Regan travels with a briefcase full of clingy beats. He blends crisp artificial percussion with scratchy guitars like Handsome Furs, but often tacks on—in the style of Moby—vocals that come off as read straight from the liner notes that burst into triumphant harmonies. Just a month old, Diamond Rings debut Special Affections has turned critics’ heads from coast to coast. Without a drum machine, Diamond Rings would be a Tarantino film without the blood. So, unless the power goes out, you’re in luck. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios. 9 pm. $8. 21+.

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GWAR Formed: 1984 in Richmond, Va.—at Virginia Commonwealth University. Sounds like: Musical theater set to the tunes of garish heavy metal. But how it sounds is a lot less important than how utterly insane it looks—and how drenched you are after the show. For fans of: Dethklok, Slipknot, KISS, Devo, Frank Zappa and Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive. Why you care: Gwar is a heavy-metal band that takes the stage theatrics of Alice Cooper to their ultimate conclusion. Dressed as rotting monsters and mechanized villains, the band members spurt homemade slime out of every oversized phallus and motorized orifice imaginable. Giant dinosaur puppets eat members of the crowd, and everyone and everything in the club is regurgitated at least twice. The fact that this spectacle is set to a blistering metal soundtrack just makes it that much more surreal. Sweaty, bloody bodies constantly stagger out of the pit, and it’s impossible to know who is hurt and who is just covered in purple jizz shot out of a cannon. Somehow there have been enough real-life Beavises and ButtHeads to keep Gwar’s career going for over 25 years. In that time, the band has been interviewed on Jerry Springer and performed at the Gathering of the Juggalos, the latter having become the very definition of shock-rock success. Gwar’s 12th studio album, Bloody Pit of Horror, was released earlier this month—and though members have come and gone, founding guitarist Dave Brockie is still donning the mask (and junk) of Oderus Urungus. Some things never change. In fact, Gwar could conceivably play forever—the Simpsons of heavy metal. SEE IT: Gwar plays the Roseland on Friday, Nov. 26, with the Casualties, Infernaeon and Mobile Death Camp. 7 pm. $18 advance, $22 day of show. All ages.

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The Estranged, Thee Headliners, The Neat, DJ Cecilia

[COLD FOR THE COMMON CURE] On 2008’s Static Thoughts, the Estranged trekked to the darkness at the edge of the Wipers’ “Doom Town,” and evidently found themselves standing on the beach, staring at the sand, reflected in the eyes of a slim, pre-Pornography Robert Smith. The ex-Portland trio’s latest LP, The Subliminal Man, has Smith’s lipstick traces all over it: Flanging guitars swirl around jumpy bass lines and vocals dance along that thin thread between the pique of “Boys Don’t Cry” and the gloaming of “Seventeen Seconds,” and it’s as perfect as cats. I’ve exhausted my repertoire of Cure references, but here’s hoping the three imaginary boys (I lied) in the Estranged don’t jump someone else’s train anytime soon—this stuff is just like heaven. CHRIS STAMM. The World Famous Kenton Club. 9 pm. Free. 21+.

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[HOT CALLUSES-ON-FRETS ACTION] When local musicians are handed a local in-house residency, it’s easy—too easy—to immediately dismiss them out of hand, to reason that downtown ubiquity equals unessential. Please don’t make that mistake with Toshi Onizuka; Toshi Onizuka is awesome. The guy’s acoustic-guitar technique is sick, melding and soldering together flamenco, folk, jazz, blues and classical mores into a dizzying, delightful blend of lightly frenzied chords that’s as gently palate-cleansing as it is polyharmonically intense— the perfect precursor or chaser to a main course of Lady Gaga or Prurient or Young Prisms. And you know what? Get this: Onizuka is playing in Portland. Several times this week. And you can hear his deft stylings while enjoying an alcoholic beverage and a decent meal, and you’ll still be able to hear yourself think. And did we mention that he’s awesome? Don’t believe us? Cue up YouTube and set phasers on daze. RAY CUMMINGS. Andina. 8 pm. Free. All ages.

World’s Greatest Ghosts, Jared Mees & The Grown Children, Black Whales

[WIZARD ROCK] After spending much of early 2010 touring in support of its debut LP, No Magic, local fantasy-loving synth-rock outfit World’s Greatest Ghosts did a bit of a disappearing act to spend time conjuring up more of its Dungeons & Dragons-inspired anthems, returning to the Portland stage for only one show last month. Fellow indiepop travelers Jared Mees & the Grown Children are also returning from an epic adventure of touring and recording, while Brit-poppers Black Whales will embark on an epic quest from a faraway foreign land (or possibly drive down from Seattle. Whatever) to round out this enchanting evening of clap-yourhands-and-shout-along music. RUTH BROWN. Doug Fir Lounge. 9 pm. $8. 21+.

Teenage Murder School, Skip Roxy, Problems?, Leather Tom & The Dirty Dudes

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Duover, James Low, Kelly Blair Bauman, Evan Way

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PROBLEMS? YOU HAVE TO HOLD ON (BIRDSEED COLLECTIVE) [HEADPHONE MASTERPIECE] Opening your debut EP with a sampled snippet from 2001: A Space Odyssey proclaiming, “My God, it’s full of stars!” is one bold, audacious move. It’s a claim that’s damn hard to live up to: The scene is set, expectations are suddenly sky-high, and you come off as just a wee bit pretentious. But after fully absorbing You Have to Hold On, the first set of recorded material from local experimental pop band Problems?, I see where the band is coming from: The quote is ambitious, and bold, and absurd. But so is the concept of a perfect debut record. You Have to Hold On is just that, a nearly flawless 25 minutes of bent, fractured indie pop that feels miles removed from most of the stale compositions that give the genre a bad name. The album represents Problems?, which has since expanded beyond a duo, though Cory McCulloch (Xiu Xiu, Ten in the Swear Jar) played bass on one track and lent production assistance. That so much sound comes from just two people—multi-instrumentalists and singers Judge Bean and Ashley Mudra—is a shock at first, but it’s also comforting to know that this type of forward-thinking music is still being produced in houses across the city. To my ear, Problems? has a close kinship to the Xiu Xiu circa 2004’s Fabulous Muscles, at least musically. You hear standard pop instruments here—guitar, organ, banjo—but it’s the way they are used and augmented, with blasts of noise and rhythm and static in the background, that makes these songs so thrilling. Opener “KakersX2C” mutates into at least three different parts over the course of seven minutes, with just a bit of forlorn guitar squall in the background to hold it together. Both Bean and Mudra sing, repeating things like “In my dreams I sleep with you,” before a huge, spiraling crescendo and pretty banjo-led outro as Mudra coos “You love me, you love me.” Bean mentioned to me that he spent two years endlessly writing and reworking the EP, and you can hear the care put into each and every figure; though You Have to Hold On consists of just five songs, it’s more assured and varied than pretty much any local release this year. The only track that ever settles in one place, the gorgeous goth waltz “Death Machine,” finds a slow rhythm and then just builds toward oblivion, with the phrase “Your hands feel so good in my hair,” looped and eventually belted out by Mudra in an impassioned moment of clarity. It’s one of the most gorgeous refrains I’ve heard all year, and the sign of a truly ambitious band attempting—and almost attaining—perfection. Kubrick would be proud. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. SEE IT: Problems? plays Saturday, Nov. 27, at East End. 9 pm. Cover. 21+.

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LOOKIN’ REAL J. CREW: No Age plays Holocene on Sunday. course helping of locally sourced Americana goodness. Leading off the meal is a dish with homegrown ingredients marinated in L.A. sunshine, with Evan Way of the Parson Red Heads, who brought their lo-fi, poppy country-rock sound back home to Portland this year after a half-decade Southern California stint. Kelly Blair Bauman is one sweet potato of a songwriter, hearty and rustic, with weird psychedelic marshmallows marbled through his sonic recipe. James Low ain’t no turkey, but his juicy roots-rock tunes are stuffed with lyrical insight and glazed with his honey-sweet tenor. And Duover—Nathan Jr. and Rebecca Rasmussen—plays perfect harmony-laden folk that goes down as sweet as pumpkin pie. JEFF ROSENBERG. Press Club. 8:30 pm. Free. 21+.

Susan McKeown

[BATTERED COASTLINES, FOUND TREASURES] Susan McKeown’s latest record started in a hospital meeting room. Spouses of mentally ill patients described their hearttugging scenarios, inspiring the Irish musician to unveil the bridge that connects mental instability with tremendous creative energy. McKeown turns herself inside out, incorporating lines from the poets of old to quiet, lamplit folk. On top of illuminating the tender spots of troubled psyches, Singing in the Dark supports organizations like the National Alliance on Mental Illness. It’s also a long Portland winter’s worthy counterpart. MARK STOCK. Secret Society Lounge. 8 pm. $15. 21+.

The Doo Doo Funk All Stars, Reva Devito, Excellent Gentleman

See feature, page 29. Someday Lounge. 9 pm. $8. 21+.

Paschal Coeur, Donovan Breakwater, Winterhaven

[HELLO GOODBYE] Singersongwriter Danielle Fish moved to Portland from Waxahachie, Texas, in 2008, bringing with her a quirky country and bluegrass sound, around which she built the band Paschal Coeur, playing foot-stomping folk pop all around town and releasing a sweet EP earlier this year. But this will be the band’s final show (somewhat appropriately at former funeral parlor venue the Woods) and thus your final (and possibly first) time you’ll see it live. RUTH BROWN. The Woods. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

The Frames

[BETTER THAN BONO] Perhaps you discovered Glen Hansard’s the Frames only after the Dublinbased guitarist and songwriter rose to fame with his performance in Once (a movie for which his song, “Falling Slowly,” won the Academy Award) and his subsequent work with his co-star, Markéta Irglová, as the Swell Season. That’s OK, but what longtime fans of the Frames

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have long known is that Hansard is as adept at plugged-in rock-’n’-roll immediacy as he is at unplugged emotionalism. With all of Hansard’s other musical duties, the Frames hadn’t toured in three years (when the band last went on the road in support of 2007’s The Cost) until earlier in 2010 when its members reunited for the band’s 20th anniversary. The celebration continues tonight. REBECCA RABER. Wonder Ballroom. 8 pm. $25. 21+.

SUNDAY, NOV. 28 Ariel Pink, Os Mutantes

[WORLD WIDE WEIRDOS] Talk about a pairing of eccentric geniuses. Actually, a better phrase might be “accidental geniuses.” In the 1960s, Os Mutantes—the merry pranksters of Brazil’s tropicalia movement—set out to be its country’s answer to the Beatles and ended up becoming something completely different. Even so, its odd mélange of psychedelic rock, samba and musique concrète influenced subsequent generations of musical outsiders, leading to its 2006 reunion and first record in 30-something years, 2009’s Haih Or Amortecedor. Similarly, Ariel Pink arrived at his unique sound by trying (and ultimately failing) to emulate the studio alchemy of his idols—’80s pop hitmakers like Hall and Oates, the Cure and Michael Jackson—from the comfort of his bedroom. After spending more than a decade as an L.A. cult figure, Pink broke through this year with the brilliant Before Today and 2010’s best song, the hypnotically addictive “Round and Round.” As both artists would probably tell you, sometimes missing the mark means hitting a target no one else knew was there. MATTHEW SINGER. Berbati’s Pan. 8:30 pm. $20 advance, $23 day of show. All ages.

No Age, Lucky Dragons, Dangerous Boys Club

[DREAM PUNK] Nuance is not a word you often hear associated with punk rock, but it’s not like No Age really cares. Ever since the Los Angeles duo of Dean Spunt and Randy Randall debuted in 2006, its story—rigid DIY ethics; a commitment to veganism; serving as the flagship band for all-ages venue-cum-Mexican grocery store the Smell—has overshadowed the seminal, life-affirming music it makes. That’s not the case on Everything in Between, the duo’s second proper album and one of the most fluid records released in years. It takes a lot of skill to master such a unique sound, but Everything in Between is somehow ferocious and tender, dreamy yet punishing, melodic and trippy. It’s the sound of No Age figuring out its sound and then deconstructing it, relying on loops and ambient noise to set the foundation for the most straightforward and forceful

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Pigeons, Wax Fingers, What Hearts

[CHAOS FOLK] Hailing from all four corners of these United States (or at least the Nebraska and Alaska corners), Pigeons take the gothic wrath of Nick Cave and give it the garage-recorded momentum of early Modest Mouse. It’s still hard to believe that the twentysomethings in this quintet had never been in a band before starting Pigeons two years ago. Twenty years of creative capability with no real outlet has made for some incredible pent-up energy, and frontman Justin Ready sounds like he’s ripping himself in half trying to give that energy an outlet on the group’s excellent self-titled debut. SHANE DANAHER. Mississippi Studios. 9 pm. $6. 21+.

Black Mountain, The Black Angels

[BIG LETDOWN] Let’s make it clear: Canada’s Black Mountain hasn’t put out a bad album. All three of its records, including the recent Wilderness Heart, are marked by good-to-great hardrock songwriting, heavy guitars and sultry girl-guy vocals from frontpersons Stephen McBean and Amber Webber. And yet, each one since its first has been slightly disappointing. That’s usually what happens when a band’s debut is a minor classic. But in this group’s case, it has seemed to willfully strip away the stuff that initially made it stand out—the druggy Velvet Underground porch jams, the Can-like rhythms—and left only the throwback ’70s riffs and psychedelic head trips. It pulls that off with expert panache, but in doing so simply blends in with the rest of the retro-stoner lot (à la its tourmates, Austin’s Black Angels) when it could be something more. MATTHEW SINGER. Wonder Ballroom. 9 pm. $15. All ages.

MONDAY, NOV. 29 King Louie’s Missing Monuments, Mean Jeans, Leaders, Spider Babies

[BLACK BUBBLEGUM] Zelig-like garage-rock torchbearer King Louie Bankston has done time with fellow legends Jay Reatard and the Exploding Hearts, but his reign has thus far not extended beyond the borders of the incestuous Goner/ Sympathy kingdom. That could and should change if his forthcoming LP with the Missing Monuments, Painted White, is anywhere near as infuriatingly addictive as the “Black Rainbow” single released earlier this year. It’s peerless power pop with a serrated edge and a drunkenly gruff twang at its center, and B-side “Tailspin” rivals anything his

dearly departed brothers-in-arms produced in their short careers. Stick around, King. Please. CHRIS STAMM. East End. 9 pm. Cover. 21+.

Speed of Darkness, Aranya, DJ Nate C

[NONE MORE BLACK] Here’s a chance to get in on the ground floor with an incredible new metal band. Hailing from Humboldt County, Calif., Speed of Darkness doesn’t have a label and (as far as I can tell) doesn’t have any records out. But I fully expect that to change in the near future once the world gets wind of its pitch black, goth-tinged sound. Led by Elise Sauer, whose her moody, chilling vocals are akin to Diamanda Galás, SOD stirs up a whirlwind of exotic sounds through the blueprint of power chord and wandering drums that is modern metal. ROBERT HAM. Tube. 9:30 pm. $3. 21+.

Bonobo Live Band, Tokimonsta

[A WELCOME RETURN] By my recollection, Bonobo (otherwise known by the name his mother gave him: Simon Green) has already traversed the U.S. twice this year in support of his spotless modern electonica masterpiece, Black Sands. So why see him again if you’ve already lost yourself in the hypnotic grooves of his DJ sets? This time around, he’s going to be leading a full band, an ensemble that will add so much more depth and color to these already impressive productions. As an added bonus you get an opening set by the equally mind-blowing producer-DJ Tokimonsta, who shares Miller’s love of fluttering beats and layers of folk instrumentation. ROBERT HAM. Wonder Ballroom. 9 pm. $20 advance, $23 day of show. All ages.

TUESDAY, NOV. 30 Marco Benevento, Guests

[ECLECTIC KEYS] As his plentiful guest stints, other bands (e.g., Garage a Trois) and one-off projects demonstrate, Brooklyn-based keyboard wizard Marco Benevento’s vision transcends his long-running duo with drummer Joe Russo. His four solo albums, including this year’s wide-ranging Between the Needles & Nightfall, maintain the jazz-meets-jam-meets-avant-rock vibe, while spotlighting acoustic piano (augmented by circuit bending, guitar pedals and other trademark effects), poppy melody and evocative atmospheres. This show with longtime colleagues bassist Reed Mathis (from Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey) and drummer Andrew Barr should delight fans of all sorts of improvised instrumental music. BRETT CAMPBELL. Doug Fir Lounge. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

Fences, Ezza Rose, Light For Fire

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MUSIC CALENDAR = WW Pick. Highly recommended. Editor: Michael Mannheimer. TO HAVE YOUR EVENT LISTED, enter show information at least two weeks in advance on the web at wweek.com/submitmusic. Press kits, CDs and especially vinyl can be sent to Music Desk, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: mmannheimer@wweek.com. Find more music: reviews 29 | clublist 39 For more listings, check out blogs.wweek.com/music/calendar/

Brasserie Montmartre Bobby Torres Trio

[NOV. 24-30] Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience

Ash Street Saloon

Juma blaQ, Dolla$ign Men, Portland George, Roulette Delgato, Malik

Backspace

The Taxpayers, Nun Chuksky, Tiny Knives, Kreamy ‘Lectric Santa, The Angries

Beaterville Cafe

Donny Osborne & Band

Beauty Bar

Lions Den, Nathaniel Knows

Biddy McGraw’s

Funk Shui (9 pm); Billy Kennedy & Jimmy Boyer (6 pm)

Bipartisan Cafe Lewi Longmire

Branx

Arohan, Mario Maroto, DJ Zac Eno ADAM KRUEGER

Brasserie Montmartre Barbara Lusch & Dan Gaynor

Buffalo Gap Saloon Jacob Merlin

Camellia Lounge

Hikaru Okada, Anandi Gefroh, Matt Farina, Hank Hirsh

Clyde’s Prime Rib LaRhonda Steele

Dante’s

Golden Calf, Thornes, Dinner for Wolves, Sick Broads

Doug Fir Lounge

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!: Gwar plays Friday, Nov. 26, at the Roseland.

Climber, Boy Eats Drum Machine, Ravishers

Duff’s Garage

Bridgetown Sextet, Marilyn Keller (9:30 pm)

WED. NOV. 24 Alberta Rose Theatre

Ella Street Social Club Kowloon, Theremin Solo by Larold Will

Acoustic Evening with Fernando, Mike Coykendal, Michael Jodell

Fire on the Mountain

Alberta Street Public House

Sugarcane, Flowmotion

Suck My Open Mic With Tamara J. Brown

Aloft

Adrian Bourgeois

Andina

Toshi Onizuka

Andrea’s Cha Cha Club Cubaneo

Ash Street Saloon

Crimson, Sons of Richard

Backspace

Cold Metal, Prescription Pills, Vanimal, The Ro Sham Bos

Beaterville Cafe

Shug Mauldin & Riders in the Round

Biddy McGraw’s Little Sue

Brasserie Montmartre Kit Taylor

Buffalo Gap Saloon Six String Social With Matthew Lindley

Camellia Lounge David Daniels

Clyde’s Prime Rib

Dez Young Folk Trio

Crown Room

Marv Ellis and the Platform

Dante’s

BRIE Jedi Mindf*ck

Doc George’s Jazz Kitchen Laura Cunard

Doug Fir Lounge

The Quick & Easy Boys, The Resolectrics, Mark Mallman

Duff’s Garage

Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam (9:30 pm); Chris Miller Band (6 pm)

Joe McMurrian

Goodfoot

Hawthorne Theater Lounge Rockstar Karaoke

Hawthorne Theatre

Wide Eye Panic, Lena Lou, Flight 19, Purity in Pain

Heathman Restaurant and Bar Shirley Nanette

Mount Tabor Theater Perfect Zero, Sauce Policy

Mudai

Vox Populi Karaoke

Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli Billy Kennedy

Plan B

Hotter Than a Crotch, Mangled Bohemians, The New York Rifles

Press Club

Swing Papillon

Pub at the End of the Universe

Jade Lounge

Robots on Crack, The Messy Jacksons

Jimmy Mak’s

Lifehouse, Kris Allen, Alyssa Bernal

Josh Nielson, Jaime Leoplod The Mel Brown Quartet

Kells

Pat Buckley

Know

Pink Snowflakes, The Shivas, DJ Ken Dirtnap

LaurelThirst Public House

Lewi Longmire & the Left Coast Roasters, Scott Law (9:30 pm); The Parson Red Heads (6 pm)

McMenamins Edgefield Winery

Roseland

Someday Lounge

Dookie Jam, Tony Ozier

Star Bar

Blue Skies for Black Hearts

The Country Inn Dub DeBrie Jam

The Woods

Baby Ketten Karaoke

Tiger Bar

Karaoke From Hell

Tony Starlight’s

Ayars Vocal Showcase II

Twilight Cafe & Bar

‘80s Detention with The Breakfast Club Duo

Rumble Box, Don White, Jesse Meade

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

Vino Vixens 6bq9

McMenamins-Grand Lodge

The Defendants, Jawbone Flats

Worth

White Eagle Saloon

Billy D.

Mississippi Pizza

“Lez Stand Up” hosted by Kirsten Kuppenbender (9:30 pm); Singers and Stompers with Mr. Ben (4 pm)

Mississippi Studios

Champagne Champagne, Mad Rad, Hurtbird

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THURS. NOV. 25 Andina

Brasserie Montmartre Randy Porter

Doc George’s Jazz Kitchen

Ron Steen’s Invitational Jazz Jam Session

Fez Ballroom

Shadowplay Presents A Reason To Be Thankful: Das Ich, Dead When I Found Her

McMenamins Edgefield Winery Matthew HaywardMacDonald

Mother Maybel’s Erin Dickinson

Mount Tabor Theater Soul Thanksgiving R&B Showcase

Mt. Tabor Theater Lounge

7th Planet Picture Show, Open Mic Comedy

East Burn

Sugarcane String Band

Fire on the Mountain Scrafford Orser

Great Hall Restaurant Tworivers Songwriters Showcase

Hawthorne Theater Lounge Ron Rogers Rockstar Karaoke

Hawthorne Theatre

Bud Light Viva La Luna Showcase

Johnny Martin

Holocene

Dr. Adam, Freaky Outy, Colin Jones

Jade Lounge

St. James’ Gate

Open Mic Night

The World Famous Kenton Club Miller & Sasser

Wine Down East Lew Jones

FRI. NOV 26

Jimmy Mak’s

LaurelThirst Public House

Freak Mountain Ramblers (9:30 pm); Morgan Geer, Root Jack (6 pm)

Local Lounge

Noah Peterson Soul-Tet

McMenamins Edgefield Winery John Bunzow

McMenamins Hotel Oregon Warren Floyd

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern Pagan Jug Band

Toshi Onizuka Danny Romero Trio

Alberta Street Public House

McMenamins-Grand Lodge

Artichoke Community Music

Aloft

Mississippi Pizza

Friday Night Coffeehouse

Biddy McGraw’s Morgan Grace

Jobo Shakins

Mark Alan’s Acoustic Night

Karaoke

Original Halibut’s Norman Sylvester

Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli Lynn Conover

Plan B

Boo Frog, Terwilliger Curves, Hawthorne

Ponderosa Lounge Concrete Cowboys

Press Club

The David Langenes Swing Trio

Red Room

Accidental Intoxication, Dust Til Dawn, Apache Trail

Roseland

Gwar, The Casualties, Infernaeon, Mobile Death Camp

Sellwood Public House Tom Arnold

Slabtown

Doug Fir Lounge

The Tony Starlight Show

Lisa Mann, Jeff Jansen

East Burn

The Barkers

East End

Teenage Murder School, Skip Roxy, Problems?, Leather Tom & The Dirty Dudes

Goodfoot

Zach Deputy

Hawthorne Theater Lounge Ryan Jacobs

Hawthorne Theatre Afflictions End, The Incapacitators, Set in Stone, Gunfighter

Heathman Restaurant & Bar Linda Lee Michelet

Heathman Restaurant and Bar Linda Lee Michelet

Holocene

Beyondadoubt, E*Rock, Miracles Club, Linger & Quiet, DJ Copy, DJ Linoleum, DJ Zac Eno, Lincolnup

Slim’s

Kells

The Fix: Rev. Shines, KEZ, Dundiggy

The Knife Shop

When the Broken Bow, Day Moanstar

The Twilight Room

Macy Bensley

Jimmy Mak’s

Thara Memory’s Superband St. James’ Gate

LaurelThirst Public House

Pagan Jug Band (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)

Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom

Karaoke With the Captain

Jai Ho! Bhangra Dance Party with DJ Prashant

The World Famous Kenton Club

McMenamins Edgefield Winery

The Estranged, Thee Headliners, The Neat, DJ Cecilia

Tonic Lounge

Mz Queen B Presents Local Hip-Hop

Tony Starlight’s

The Bureau of Standards Big Band

Twilight Cafe & Bar

Sonny Hess & Lisa Mann The People’s Meat, Don & The Quixote’s (9 pm); East Pete (6 pm)

Lloyd Jones

Dan Egan and the Morning Mustache Report, Whiskey Puppy (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)

SAT. NOV. 27 Alberta Street Public House

Chervona Birthday Bash!

Andina

Borikuas Toshi Onizuka Trio

Artistery

Artistery Benefit: Wampire, Billions and Billions, Ghost to Falco

Ash Street Saloon

Idletap, Xuosoux, In Repose, A Killing Dove

Augustana Lutheran Church

Augustana Jazz Quartet

Backspace

Paper or Plastic, Braincloud, AM Exchange, All the Money

Beaterville Cafe

Carolina Pump Station

Berbati’s Pan

Bombs Into You, Hello Electric

Biddy McGraw’s

Jimmy Boyer (9:30 pm); Twisted Whistle (5 pm)

Brush Prairie, Guests

Duff’s Garage

Jade Lounge

Someday Lounge

Paschal Coeur, Donovan Breakwater, Winterhaven

Tonic Lounge

Vet P.R.O., L-city, Drew Slum, Sleep Bandana, Ace Dough, 919 Entertainment, Gutta Squad, B Smooth Jackbone Dixie

Zenda Torrey and Neal Mattson

World’s Greatest Ghosts, Jared Mees & The Grown Children, Black Whales

Scott Gallegos

McMenamins Hotel Oregon Jack McMahon

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

Billy D. & The HooDoos

McMenamins-Grand Lodge

White Eagle

Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli

Sellwood Public House

Oak Grove Tavern

The World Famous Kenton Club

Andy Stokes

Heathman Restaurant and Bar

Kells

J. Cole, CJ Hilton, K. Michelle, Cool Nutz

Dave Fleschner Trio

Clyde’s Prime Rib

Mississippi Pizza

Funk-Jazz Jam Session

Roseland

O’Connor’s Vault

The Woods

Melz Prigodich Erskine Group

Vino Vixens

Johnny Martin

Paddy’s Bar & Grill

DJ Nate C

The Love Loungers, The Manimalhouse, Kimosabe

Camellia Lounge

Rayllway, The Shoguns

The Gordon Lee Band, The Ben Darwish Trio

Railside Pub

Mount Tabor Theater

The Springwater Grill

Heathman Restaurant & Bar

Oak Grove Tavern

Andrew Orr, Jen Howard

Diamond Rings, Boyfriends, Mattress

When the Broken Bow, Day Moanstar

“Make It Last” Saturday with Brian Copeland Band & Angie Foster

Dave Clarke & Jimmy Robb

Mathew Payne

Open Mic

Mississippi Studios

Buffalo Gap Saloon

The Knife Shop

Andrew Oliver & The Ocular Concern (9 pm); Tracy Klas (6 pm); Lorna Miller’s Little Kid’s Jamboree (4 pm)

Mystic Roots Band

Tony Starlight’s

Twilight Cafe & Bar The Flesh Lawn, The Washers

Vino Vixens

Belly Dancing Uncorked

White Eagle

Bradley Wik & The Charlatans, Rich Layton & The Troublemakers (9 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)

Wonder Ballroom The Frames

SUN. NOV. 28 Andina

Toshi Onizuka

Ash Street Saloon

The Taxi Boys, The Born Again Heathens, Mentes Ajenas

Backspace

Tablao Flamenco! Savannah Fuentes, Guests

Berbati’s Pan

Ariel Pink, Os Mutantes

Biddy McGraw’s Danny O’Hanlon

Bishop Creek Cellars/ Urban Wineworks East Noir Notes

Brasserie Montmartre Ramsey Embick

Buffalo Gap Saloon Karaoke

Clyde’s Prime Rib

Ron Steen Jazz Jam

Dante’s

Sinferno Cabaret, The Twangshifters

Doug Fir Lounge

Western Family, Falcon Glove, Chris Marshall

East End

Ex-Humans, Foster Care, White Fang, BOOM!

Fire on the Mountain

Mimi Naja and Jay Cobb

Hawthorne Theater Lounge Slim Bacon

Hawthorne Theatre

The Notes Underground, JoAnne Lee, Random Diversity, Bread & Circuses

Holocene

No Age, Lucky Dragons, Dangerous Boys Club

Kells

Mount Tabor Theater

Irish Sessions

Oak Grove Tavern

You Who: Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside

Sagittarius Gala

The Brickers, Ether Circus, Macy Bensley, The Idealist

Kennedy School

LaurelThirst Public House

Ponderosa Lounge

Billy Kennedy & Tim Acott (9 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)

Press Club

McMenamins Edgefield Winery

Original Halibut’s Jim Wallace Flexor T

Duover, James Low, Kelly Blair Bauman, Evan Way

Proper Eats Cafe

The Produce Department

Red Room

Static Parallel, O.U.T., Black Haze

Secret Society Lounge Susan McKeown

Sellwood Public House Dick Lappe & Friends

Dylan Thomas Vance

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern Matthew HaywardMacDonald

Mississippi Pizza

Dr. ReClusion’s Sunday Night Phlegm Festival (9 pm); Baby Ketten Karaoke (5 pm)

Mississippi Studios

Slabtown

Baby Ketten Karaoke Pigeons, Wax Fingers, What Hearts

Slim’s

Mt. Tabor Theater Lounge

Xacto HiFi, The Green Brothers Jobo Shakins, So and So and So

Someday Lounge

The Doo Doo Funk All Stars, Reva Devito, Excellent Gentleman

Rockabilly Lounge with Kyle Black

Mudai

The Ax, LSD & D, DJ Nate C

Plan B

Gothic, Industrial, Darkwave

Red Room

Duff’s Garage

Big “D” Jamboree (8:30 pm); Chris Miller Band (6 pm)

East End

Larsen Vegas Starr

Someday Lounge

Tablao Flamenco: Savannah Fuentes, Vocalist Vicente Griego, Guitarist Mark Ferguson

The Knife Shop

Stellar Jay’s, Smoking Mirrors, Downtown Tramps, Mudpuppy, Annie Galen Rentz

Tony Starlight’s

Thirsty Lion

Sonic Forum Open Mic Night

Hall of Records Folklore

Hawthorne Theatre

Vino Vixens White Eagle

Open Mic/Songwriter Showcase

Wonder Ballroom

Black Mountain, The Black Angels

Open Mic

Goodfoot

The Dan Balmer Band

River Twain

Slim’s

The Knife Shop

Valentine’s

Sexo Tropico, More

The Pine Leaf Boys

King Louie’s Missing Monuments, Mean Jeans, Leaders, Spider Babies

Sisyphean Conscience, Bring Me Solace, Indelible Terror, Carson

Sportin’ Lifers

Secret Society Lounge

Jimmy Mak’s Kells

Cronin Tierney

LaurelThirst Public House

Kung Pao Chickens (9 pm); Little Sue & Lynn Conover (6 pm)

The Bright Midnight, Nihilist Youth, Galaxy Farm, Karmedy Eric John Kaiser Hosts The PDX Songwriter Showcase

Tube

Speed of Darkness, Aranya, DJ Nate C

Boom!, Braincloud, Friends

Bonobo Live Band, Tokimonsta

Andina

Open Mic, Portland’s Finest Family

Backspace

Battery Powered Music

Beauty Bar

Airblaster Party

Bob Shoemaker

Mississippi Pizza

Archers, The Eiger Sanction (10 pm); Ross & The Hellpets with the Contestants (8 pm)

Mississippi Studios

Biddy McGraw’s

Lucy Schwartz

Brasserie Montmartre

Julie and the Boy

Eric Tonsfeldt D.K. Stewart

O’Connor’s Vault Red Room

Larsen Vegas Starr

Fire on the Mountain Goodfoot

Scott Pemberton Trio

Great Hall Restaurant

McMenamins Edgefield Winery

Ash Street Saloon

Duff’s Garage

Wonder Ballroom

Aloft

Scott Head

Marco Benevento, Guests

Brad Parsons

Poncho Luxurio

Kafana Klub

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

Doug Fir Lounge

White Eagle

Miriam’s Well

Andina

The Ed Forman Show, DSL Open Mic Comedy

Here Come Dots, Heartbreak Beat, Welsh Bowman

LV’s Sports Bar

Skip vonKuske

Dante’s

McMenamins Edgefield Winery

John Butler Trio, The Beautiful Girls

Valentine’s

Alberta Street Public House

Martini

Crystal Ballroom

Local Lounge

Ella Street Social Club

SIN Night

Alberta Street Public House

Charis

Frightening Waves of Blue

Weekly Jazz Jam

Danny Romero

Andrea’s Cha Cha Club

Rumberos del Caribe

Ash Street Saloon Drain, Least Likely Heroes, Petting Zoo

Open Mic (6 pm); John “The Voice” English’s Frank Sinatra Tribute (3 pm)

Ground Kontrol

Rock Band Tuesdays with MC Destructo

Hawthorne Theatre

The Secret Handshake, A Cursive Memory, The Narrative, Speak, Delta!Bravo

Jimmy Mak’s

Beaterville Cafe Nordic Thunder

The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm)

Blue Monk

Justa Pasta

Steel Drum Music

Brasserie Montmartre Vince Frates

Buffalo Gap Saloon

Open Mic Night hosted by Scott Gallegos

Anson Wright & Tim Gilson

Saucebox

Living Room Theaters

Camellia Lounge

Twilight Cafe & Bar

TUES. NO.V 30

Magical Musical Weekly

Rabbits, Wizard Sleeve

Dover Weinberg Quartet (9:30 pm); Trio Bravo (6 pm)

Laurelwood NW Public House

MON. NOV. 29

Bunk Bar

Phonographix Video DJs

Star Bar

DJ Cecilia Paris

Tiga

Pamela Jordan Band

Caleb Klauder

Mississippi Pizza

Baby Ketten Karaoke (9 pm); The Glyptodons (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios Fences, Ezza Rose, Light For Fire

Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli Paul Brainard

Someday Lounge

Shawn Lawson Freeman, Will Fries, Naomi Hooley, Danielle Fish, Zarefoss, Ed from Ed & The Red Reds

The Knife Shop

Terry Halstead, River Twain

The Twilight Room Karaoke with the Captain

Valentine’s

The Reservations, Love Always, Psychic Feline

White Eagle Kory Quinn

DJ RNDM Noise

WED. NOV. 24 Fame

Weekly DJs hosted by DJ Party Martyr

Groove Suite House Call

Ground Kontrol

Tronix: DJ Palomitas vs. DJ Megaphysics

Hall of Records Casta

Holocene

DJ Zac Eno, DJ Rumtrigger

Matador

Highway To Hell

Saucebox

DJ King Fader

Slim’s

DJ DirtyNick

The World Famous Kenton Club Eye Candy VJ

Tiga

Gentlemen Matthew Yake

Tube

Awesome Racket

THURS. NOV. 25 Blitz Ladd

Video Disco With VJ Dantronix

Cafeteria

Lunch Lady, Trans Fat, Ill Camino

Hall of Records

DJ Lord Smithingham

Mother’s Bar DJ Mumu

Kells

Cronin Tierney

LaurelThirst Public House Jackstraw

FRI. NOV. 26 Berbati’s Pan

Disc Jockey Gregarious

Crown Room

Crystal Ballroom ‘80s Video Dance Attack

Goodfoot

DJ Aquaman’s Soul Stew

Groove Suite After Dark

Ground Kontrol

Valentine’s

DJ Knife Hits

SUN. NOV. 28 Ground Kontrol

Black Sunday: Metal Inquisition with DJ Hellion, DJ Sacrifyx

Journeys By DJ: Levels with DJ Ghostdad, DJ Avery (The Cool Cat)

Hall of Records

DJ Sappho: Queer Nite

DJ AM Gold

Saucebox

Open Tables

Rotture

Cory O, Sharkmode, Matt Rock

Saucebox

DJ Evan Alexander

Tiga

Morning Steel

Valentine’s

DJ OB/GYN and DJ Dunderchief

SAT. NOV. 27 Crown Room Massive

MON. NOV. 29 Element Restaurant & Lounge Mello Monday’s with DJ Mello Cee

Ground Kontrol DJ Tibin

Saucebox

DJ Lionsden

The World Famous Kenton Club

Old Country Night with Billy Lee

Tiga

Fez Ballroom

DJ Magic Beans

Groove Suite

DJ Entropy

Twice As Nice

Tiger Bar

Soulstice

Ground Kontrol

TUES. NOV. 30

Reaganomix: DJ Torsion, DJ A-Minus

Beauty Bar

Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom

DJ AM Gold

Crown Room

Matador

East End

Rotture

Element Restaurant & Lounge

Jai Ho! Strictly Bhangra Dance Party DJ Donny Don’t DJ Airick, DJ Kinetic, DJ Yer Momm, DJ Trans Fat, DJ Ill Camino, Jodi Bon Jodi

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THIS HOLIDAY…PUT A LEGEND IN YOUR STOCKING! PAUL MCCARTNEY & WINGS

ROBERT PLANT

PAUL MCCARTNEY

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‘Band on the Run’ should have been a disaster. Two of Wings’ original members quit in a huff just before its production. The whimsical decision to record in Lagos, Nigeria, became a nightmare when McCartney and company found themselves in a decaying studio, then had many of the project’s demos stolen by armed bandits. Despite these hardships--perhaps because of them—‘Band on the Run’ remains the most focused and consistently satisfying record of McCartney’s post-Beatles career. Paul McCartney personally supervised all aspects of the ‘Band On The Run’ reissue. The remastering work was done at Abbey Road using the same team who recently remastered the complete Beatles’ catalog.

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‘Band Of Joy’ was recorded in Nashville and co-produced by Plant and Nashville legend and guitarist Buddy Miller. Also in the Band Of Joy is multi-instrumentalist Darrell Scott, who provides the mandolin, guitar, accordion, pedal, lap steel and banjo lines, country singer-songwriter Patty Griffin who adds the main vocal foils to Plant’s lead parts, Byron House who plays bass and percussion comes from Marco Giovino.

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Though they produced several excellent albums, Creedence was predominantly a singles band, and ‘Chronicle’ compiles many of their biggest hits. From the slowly building saunter of ‘Suzie Q’ and the spooky, R&B-soaked ‘I Put a Spell on You’ to the fierce ‘Fortunate Son’ and the swampy blues of ‘Run Through the Jungle,’ ‘Chronicle’ features the ensemble`s signature tunes. The group`s tight, no-frills musicianship leaves John Fogerty`s keening voice and superb songwriting at the fore, and the results-brought together here on one of rock`s best greatest-hits packages-make for some of the genre`s most endearing and enduring music.

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Paul McCartney’s historic three-night christening of New York’s Citi Field in July 2009 has been unanimously hailed by critics and audiences alike as the concert experience of a lifetime. The special Deluxe Edition includes an additional DVD which features 7 songs performed live on top of the famed Ed Sullivan Theatre as well as a special audience documentary film, and the full performance of ‘I’m Down’ from the Citi Field show.

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In November 2007, James Taylor, Carole King and members of their renowned original band “The Section” (featuring guitarist Danny Kortchmar, bassist Leland Sklar and drummer Russell Kunkel) returned to the Troubadour for a three-night, six-show run to celebrate the venue’s 50th anniversary. Those historic shows are documented in ‘Live At The Troubador’ and feature 15 songs and 75 minutes of pristine video and audio including stunning performances of the pair’s most beloved hits.

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Ranked third in consecutive gold or platinum albums after The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, Rush enjoys a devoted following by legions around the world and is revered by generations of musicians. Yet, their incredible success story has remained largely untold. ‘Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage’ is the first comprehensive exploration of the extraordinary power trio. Featuring never-before-seen archival footage and interviews with notables such as Jack Black, Billy Corgan, Trent Reznor, Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters), Kirk Hammett (Metallica) and Gene Simmons, this film explores the forty-year career and phenomenon behind what could be the world’s biggest cult band.

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Angele Dubeau and La Pieta take us around the world with a selection of Christmas themes for small string orchestra. Some tunes are familiar while others are new but ring with the essence of timelessness as they are surely international favorites bound for familiarity here through many repeated listenings. One characteristic every work on the program shares... simply beautiful melodies and the sound of shimmering, silken strings.

Celebrate the festive season with some of the world’s greatest fiddlers and violinists in many genres, with stepdancing like you have never seen. ‘Holiday Heart Strings’ includes all time favorite classics, such as ‘The Nutcracker Suite,’ ‘Sleigh Ride,’ ‘So This Is Christmas,’ ‘Dreydl, Dreydl, Dreydl,’ and ‘The Christmas Song,’ with added singing and the best of Bowfire that audiences have come to love from its years of touring and performing.

The Bowfire company is composed of leading Canadian violin virtuosos and fiddle masters performing alongside an equally gifted backing group of cello, percussion, keyboard, bass and guitar. The talented ensemble sets fire to the stage with its eclectic musical performances combined with beautiful theatrical production values. Fiddlers in the company are also worldclass step dancers. This musical journey includes fiery performances of ‘Fiddler in the Hood,’ ‘Orange Blossom Special,’ and a rousing cover of Led Zeppelin’s ‘Kashmir.’

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On December 6, 1983, legendary blues guitarist Albert King joined his disciple Stevie Ray Vaughan on a Canadian sound stage for the live music television series In Session. The highly sought after video footage from that one-time renowned summit becomes available for the first time ever on the two-disc CD/DVD ‘In Session.’ The DVD contains three classic performances unavailable on the previously issued audio disc.

Back after a 5-year hiatus doing solo projects, soundtracks and more, Glasgow’s beloved Belle And Sebastian have returned with ‘Write About Love.’ Marrying the intimacy of early works like ‘Sinister’ and ‘Tigermilk’ with the production values of their more recent work, ‘Write About Love’ is a varied, captivating and occasionally disturbing trawl through the mind of Stuart Murdoch and his colleagues. The album features duets with Norah Jones and actress Carey Mulligan (An Education).

The music of Luisa Maita embodies the modern spirit of Brazil. Inspired by the bustling urban life found in her native city of Sao Paulo, ‘Lero-Lero’ has a contemporary vibe with influences from alternative pop and down-tempo electronic music melded with an acoustic foundation deeply rooted in samba, bossa nova and MPB.

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WHO KILLED NANCY

On October 12th, 1978, Nancy Spungen, girlfriend to Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious, was found dead at the Chelsea Hotel in New York. Sid was quickly accused of murder. Six months later he died of a heroin overdose and the case was closed. Per Sid’s mother’s request, Alan G. Parker set out on a journey to discover Who Killed Nancy. Through conducting 182 interviews, re-examining NYPD evidence, and gathering a thorough understanding of the zeitgeist of those times, Parker delivers a compelling and moving documentary.

Woody Guthrie once said, “Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.” On ‘Harlem River Blues’ Justin chose the simple route. The record’s not a wall of sound produced to the rafters. It’s rockin’ and reelin’ at times, sweet and slow at others. Compared to the much-lauded ‘Midnight At The Movies,’ ‘Harlem River Blues’ is more mature and increasingly nuanced, with percussive guitar, killer standup bass lines by Bryn Davies and a guest appearance from Jason Isbell.

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SPECIAL 9:00 AM OPENING AND NOW THE SPECIAL RELEASES… CHAMPIONSHIP SWAGGER: Let me get this out of the way early: Spirit of 77 (500 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., spiritof77bar.com), the new Trail Blazers-themed watering hole, is not the best sports bar in town. But still, despite the fact you have to fight for a table—or show up before happy hour begins—and pay $6 for a 20-ounce imperial pint of Double Mountain Vaporizer pale ale, it’s easily the wildest place in the city to watch Nicolas Batum posterize poor members of the Utah Jazz. Watching any sporting event at Spirit of 77 is almost like being at the game: You’re surrounded by screaming diehards in Oden jerseys, and the giant flat-sceen TV provides a better view than the cheap seats. And there’s free Pop-A-Shot. Good lord, the free Pop-A-Shot. OK, maybe it is the best sports bar in town. Just don’t expect to leave with any money in your wallet. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER.

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Hailing from Austin, TX, Stephanie Bailey (drums), Christian Bland (guitar), Alex Maas (vocals), Jennifer Raines (organ), and Nathan Ryan (bass) took their name from a Velvet Underground classic, ‘The Black Angel’s Death Song.’ Their third album ‘Phosphene Dream’ marks a giant leap forward for the band. Produced and mixed by Dave Sardy (Oasis, Wolfmother, Band of Horses, Black Mountain) the album shows off a bold new direction for The Black Angels both sonically and musically.

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Old Light began when Garth (singer and autoharp) bought an old autoharp from an antique instrument guru down in Winters, CA and recorded it over and over, layering the tracks. The band’s debut, The Dirty Future, is like nothing else that has come out of the Pacific Northwest. Featured guests include Jolie Holland and Kelly Blair Bauman.

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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Most prices listed are for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply, so it’s best to call ahead. Editor: BEN WATERHOUSE. Stage: BEN WATERHOUSE (bwaterhouse@wweek. com). Classical: BRETT CAMPBELL (bcampbell@wweek.com). Dance: HEATHER WISNER (dance@wweek.com). TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit information at least two weeks in advance to: bwaterhouse@wweek.com.

CLASSICAL

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Classical Revolution

Bellydance Uncorked

The rebels go all informal with a chamber-music jam. The Waypost, 3120 N Williams Ave., 367-3182. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Nov. 30. $5.

David Friesen, John Gross, Greg Goebel

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Mars on Life—Live!

A Christmas Story

Portland Center Stage presents its “first annual” production of a stage adaptation of the movie with the bunny suit and the leg lamp and the BB gun. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm WednesdayFriday, 2 and 7:30 pm SaturdaySunday. No shows Nov. 25 or Dec. 25. Closes Dec. 26. $33-$63, $18 youth.

Cinderella

Tears of Joy Puppet Theatre offers a nice respite from ironic Portland with its sweet and straightforward adaptation of Cinderella set in France circa 1770. The 55-minute production unfolds, leading up to the prince’s masked ball, at a pace that may be a tad slow for older kids. (The line is probably around 8 years old, depending on your child’s maturity). And the show doesn’t have any insidejoke nods to the adults. But if you’re a parent of younger kids, the tabletop puppetry performed by Nancy Aldrich and Kris Woolen holds its target audience of ages 3 and up with its mix of song and cleverly designed puppets. A final note: Be sure to arrive early enough to take advantage of papermask-making in the lobby HENRY AND BEN STERN. Winningstad Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-0557. 11 am Saturday, 2 and 4 pm Sunday, Nov. 27-28. $18, $15 children.

Ebenezer Ever After

Stumptown Stages presents a new musical by Don Flowers and Fred Walton, in which Ebenezer Scrooge, 20 years after his harrowing Christmas Eve adventure, journeys to the underworld to free Jacob Marley. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 503381-8686. 7 pm Thursdays, 7:30 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays and Dec. 24. Closes Dec. 24. $30.

The Foreigner

Lakewood Theatre Company turns to Larry Shue’s community-theater staple about a shy man whose attempts to avoid conversation by feigning ignorance of English do not go well. Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, 635-3901. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Dec. 12. $24-$27.

G.I. Holiday Jukebox

[SOLD OUT] Broadway Rose pays tribute to the music of the 1940s with a fictional USO show of holiday tunes. Broadway Rose New Stage Theatre, 12850 SW Grant Ave., Tigard, 6205262. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Fridays, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Dec. 19. $20-$35.

Hammil-Town, Ohio

Spring 4th Productions’ fall show, by company members Ian Sieren and Tobin Gollihar, is a profile of an allAmerican town that loves brownies. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 477-8255. 7:30 pm Thursdays and Sundays. No show Thanksgiving Day. Closes Dec. 5. $10-$12.

Hanukah: The Power of Light

Jewish Theatre Collaborative presents a pair of tales for children. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., jewishtheatrecollaborative.org. 10:30 am and 1 pm Sunday, Nov. 28. $10, $5 children.

Killing Time

The 3rd Floor steps away from sketch comedy with this world-premiere play, which the company describes as “Double Indemnity, but with time machines.” Local duo Sallo provides a live score. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., the3rdfloor.com. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays. No show Nov. 25. Closes Dec. 18. $15-$18.

Susannah Mars, everyone’s favorite soccer-mom chanteuse, revives her delightful holiday revue at Artists Rep. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 pm Sundays, 11 am Wednesday, Dec. 8. No shows Dec. 11-12 and 17-18. Closes Dec. 19. $25-$47, $20 students.

Portland’s Got Talent

A local, live take on NBC’s America’s Got Talent. Fez Ballroom, 316 SW 11th Ave., 221-7262. 8 pm Wednesdays through Jan. 26. $3.

Sealed for Freshness

Adair Chappell stars as a malcontent housewife in this grotesque parody of ’60s suburban mores by Comedy Central writer Doug Stone. The plot: Five women get sozzled at a Tupperware party and yell at each other for an hour, having several epiphanies along the way. All the laughs come in the form of insults, delivered quite well by Lori Ferraro as a hugely pregnant harpy, but being trapped for an hour in a room with a half dozen unpleasant women, however well performed they may be in this Triangle production, soon ceases to be fun. BEN WATERHOUSE. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 239-5919. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Nov. 28. $15-$35.

COMEDY Brianwaves

Fast-paced improv comedy. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 250-8928. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays. Closes Dec. 11. $10.

Mitch Fatel

Fatel’s material is pretty standard sexobsessed dweeb stuff, delivered in a really annoying, faux-autistic mumble. Dude! You’re 42! Boobs are still fun, but don’t you ever think about anything else? Like, I dunno, prostate cancer? Or hemorrhoids? Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888643-8669. 7:30 and 10 pm FridaySaturday, Nov. 26-27. $20-$25.

Puppetz vs. People

ComedySportz’s band of improvisers matches wits with Tears of Joy’s puppet menagerie. Winningstad Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 8 pm Saturday, Nov. 27. $18, $15 children.

Rex Navarrete

“The premiere Filipino-American comedian,” whose material is all Filipino-related and decently entertaining. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Wednesday, Nov. 24. $15-$20.

The Standup Comedy Showcase

The Brody Theater hosts local standup comics, including Ian Karmel and Tom Johnson. The Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 10 pm Fridays. Closes Dec. 17. $7-$10.

Super Secret Spy Team

The Brody Theater improvises an espionage comedy thriller. The Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Saturdays. Closes Dec. 11. $10, $7 students.

U.S.S. Improvise

The Unscriptables put on originalseries Star Trek uniforms and improvise new episodes from audience suggestions. Unscriptables Studio, 1121 N Loring St., 309-3723. 8 pm Saturdays and Friday, Dec. 10. Closes Dec. 11. All shows are pay-what-you-will.

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The superb jazz trio (bass, sax, piano) shows off. Doc George’s Jazz Kitchen, 4605 NE Fremont St., 287-7067. 9 pm Friday, Nov. 26. Free.

Irish Christmas in America

Members of Téada, singer-accordionist Seamus Begley and other Irish traditional musicians (on Celtic harp, uilleann pipes, bodhran, guitar, fiddle, et al.) and dancers perform Irish ballads, carols and fiddle tunes. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 7:30 pm Friday, Nov. 26. $22-$33.

Prolong the hedonism of Thanksgiving with Bellydance Uncorked, a monthly showcase of burlesque, fusion, hoop, tribal, fan and belly dancers. Vino Vixens, 2929 SE Powell Blvd., 231-8466. 7:30 pm Saturday, Nov. 27. $10.

Jai Ho! Strictly Bhangra Dance Party

The fourth Saturday of each month DJ Prashant presents Bhangra two ways: the more traditional Indian-based-style music (high voices, energetic delivery), and the U.K.-based Indian expat style tunes, a fusion of the Punjabi tradition with various Western genres including hip-hop, reggae and house. Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. Doors open at 9 pm; dance lessons begin at 10 pm. $5.

Portland Ballet

The Nutcracker is not the only familyfriendly holiday dance classic in town. The Portland Ballet has been staging the old Ballets Russes chestnut La Boutique Fantasque for the past seven years, giving its students a chance to experience public performance in the process. The story, such as it is, is set in a toy shop and concerns toys who come to life and fight the separation of a pair of can-can dolls purchased by separate families. They will be accompanied by the Portland State University Orchestra. Newmark Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm Friday, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday, 1 and 4 pm Sunday, Nov. 26-28. $12-$45.

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Oregon Symphony

The symphony turns the Schnitz into a kid-friendly circus as the performers of Cirque de la Symphonie (jugglers, aerialists, dancers, etc.) return to cavort to the live orchestral accompaniment of seasonal tunes. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 2281353. 7:30 pm Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, Nov. 27-28. $23-$123.

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PERFORMANCE

Portland Baroque Orchestra

The great English harpsichordist, organist and ensemble director Richard Egarr returns for another guest appearance leading our own lively local Baroquers in historically informed performances of Handel’s joyous organ concerto, nicknamed the “Cuckoo and the Nightingale.” If words like “historical” and “organ” make you think solemn and churchy, think again. Handel was a theater composer whose best work, though it has its pensive moments, is grand and smiling. In his day, keyboard soloists improvised in a way that would dazzle and amuse audiences, just as Mozart would a generation later and a jazz piano soloist might in the 20th century. Egarr’s recordings of the concerti with one of the early music ensembles, Britain’s Academy of Ancient Music, are hands down the finest ever. The Nov. 26-27 concerts also include music from one of Handel’s great collections, the Opus 3 concertos featuring woodwinds. And in this case that means especially PBOboist Gonzalo Ruiz, who contends that instrument was the “electric guitar of the 18th century” and makes you believe it. On Sunday, Egarr leads PBO’s annual community singalong of excerpts from Handel’s Easter epic, Messiah. Let the parade of out-of-season Messiahs begin. Hallelujah, y’all. First Baptist Church, 909 SW 11th Ave., 222-6000. Concerti 7:30 pm FridaySaturday, Nov. 26-27. Messiah 7 pm Sunday, Nov. 28. $18-$64.

Quadraphonnes

To kick off a most welcome new Sunday night series at the Blue Monk, where the music will at last again the suit the name on the door, the jazzy sax quartet gets rhythm support from bassist Leah Hinchcliff and drummer Ward Griffiths in new arrangements by Dan Gaynor and others. Blue Monk, 3341 SE Belmont St., 595-0575. 7:30 pm Sunday, Nov. 28. $3-$7. 21+.

Susan McKeown

It is often claimed that there is a link between bipolar disorder and creativity, but anyone who’s been touched by so-called manic depression in friends or family knows it’s nothing to romanticize. After a visit to a mental hospital, New York singer McKeown traced the illness back through generations of her own Irish family, and enlisted friends to help her turn the poetry of famed victims of the disease (English composer John Dowland, Byron, Roethke, Leonard Cohen, Anne Sexton, Gwendolyn Brooks and more) into dark-tinged folk-rock songs that suit her sumptuous, cellolike voice. Like the condition itself, the music isn’t all gloomy; it ranges from haunting to upbeat and melancholy gradations in between. The Secret Society Ballroom, 116 NE Russell St., 493-3600. 8 pm Saturday, Nov. 27. $15. 21+.

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DYING CITY (PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE) It is a year after the death, and Kelly is boxing up her books while watching Law & Order. The doorbell buzzes. She blanches. Then the television responds: chung CHUNG! From the outset, Christopher Shinn’s Dying City, directed here by Brian Weaver, echoes the familiar form of a whodunit. There is a corpse (Craig, a Faulkner scholar and Army reservist, dead in Iraq), a survivor (Kelly, his wife of two years), an investigator (Craig’s twin brother, Peter, an actor) and a slew of unanswered questions. But as the circumstances surrounding Craig’s demise are gradually revealed, we are left with deeper, more distressing mysteries that will follow us, nagging, into the night. Shinn’s subject is not death so much as psychological violence. The man at the buzzer is Peter, who has arrived, unannounced, with unclear intentions. A master of passive aggression, he really wants Kelly to read a sheaf of emails his brother sent him from Iraq; emails, he believes, that explain how he died. What follows is a tense 90 minutes of conversational judo, interspersed with flashbacks to Craig’s last night at home. There is one obnoxious gimmick: The brothers are both played by one actor, Wade McCollum, with many costume changes. The stunt doesn’t do much to serve the story. The relationship between Peter and Craig, full of mutual admiration and scorn, is nothing unique to twins. It would be a hell of a lot easier on the cast if there were three actors, and the script would probably be more satisfying if Craig never appeared at all. McCollum pulls off the trick fairly well, though his performance is marred by the unsubtle gesturing he brings to many of his roles. As Peter he is twitchy, self-obsessed and obliquely cruel; as Craig he seethes with barely restrained violence, but overdoes the virile swagger. In both cases he is outperformed by Cristi Miles as Kelly, who completely inhabits the role of the damaged, grieving therapist, robbed of husband and motherhood by an apparent accident. She ably conveys the effort Kelly has spent crafting a façade of stability, and the shock of having it abruptly dismantled. BEN WATERHOUSE.

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NOW SHOWING Picasso Prints

While most remembered for his wildly innovative paintings, the late, great Pablo Picasso was also a pioneer in printmaking. Augen Gallery’s owner, Robert Kochs, an expert in prints, has curated a thoughtful exhibition showcasing the ways in which Picasso transferred his phantasmagorical imagery across a wide range of printmaking techniques. As he was in painting and drawing, the artist was prolific and uncompromising in prints. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 546-5056. Closes Nov. 27.

Stephen Scott Smith

Stephen Scott Smith knows a thing or two about narcissism. It’s been a recurring theme in his work, which has often featured head shots and semi-nude self-portraits of his fastidiously gym-toned body. In his current show, Burlap, he continues his seemingly inexhaustible self-fascination with a gratuitous shot of his own crotch in sheer bikini briefs, interspersed with photos of a topless female porn star, a supermarket meat aisle, a surveillance camera and celebutante Ashley Olsen. Collectively, these images aim to critique the contemporary fascination with self. It is often difficult to know where a narcissist’s critique ends and where indulgence begins. Perhaps that is Smith’s point. Elsewhere in the show, a giant beech tree and a gorgeous suite of candy-colored frames add visual interest. Breeze Block Gallery, 323 NW 6th Ave., 318-6228. Closes Nov. 27.

Passage

Back in March, wunderkind painter Blakely Dadson made a splash with his glitter-spangled paintings of Jesus jewelry. Now he returns to Chambers as part of the twoperson show Passage. While his paintings of reggae stars cover well-worn post-Pop territory, his image of a fantastical schooner, Ivory Blackness, is something special. Although it’s not evident in reproduction, seen in person the painting’s richest component is the blackness surrounding the ship, with its intricate brushwork and dark curlicues, highlighted by a gorgeous matte finish. It is a highly accomplished painting, only one or two notches below downright breathtaking. On the opposite wall, Bay Area artist Jose Guinto has created a hilarious suite of faux Converse sneakers out of felt. Chambers @ 916, 916 NW Flanders St., 227-9398. Closes Dec. 31.

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tive “iconic,” Adams (1902-1984) is easy to view through a musty, sepia-tinted monocle—a trend that Ansel Adams: Photographs 1920s1960s does much to dispel. Crisply matted and framed in immaculate white, the prints incorporate closeup and medium-shot imagery, not just the expansive vistas that made Adams famous. Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, 134 NW 8th Ave., 2873886. Closes Nov. 27.

Lee Kelly, Shane McAdams

In the late 1960s, beloved Northwest artist Lee Kelly used to make sculptures out of discarded auto parts he found in junkyards. These biomorphic compositions, displayed in the exhibition Chrome, are as corny, cloying and arbitrary as you would expect from work that emerged from a trash heap. Fortunately, the artist went on to work in other media to much more sophisticated effect. In the back gallery, Brooklyn, New York-based artist Shane McAdams’ paintings have panache to burn. He frames realist depictions of waterfalls, icebergs, caverns and mountains in amoeba- and cell-like structures. Although the landscape portions aren’t quite as crisp and nuanced as they could be, it’s still a startling integration of realism and abstraction. Elizabeth Leach, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521. Closes Dec. 31.

Vanessa Renwick

Like Ansel Adams, Portlandbased filmmaker and installation artist Vanessa Renwick reveres the American West to the point of obsession. In her exhibition, As Easy as Falling off a Log, she has created perhaps the most effective multimedia installation show to be mounted in a commercial Portland gallery over the past five years. Its elements—including a small mountain of chopped wood appointed with bean bags and headphones and a poignant short film titled Woodswoman—demonstrate a virtuosity with materials anchored in a sound conceptual base. PDX Across the Hall, 925 NW Flanders St., 2220063. Closes Nov. 27.

Justin L’Amie, Arnold Kemp

Justin L’Amie’s diminutive insect drawings skew toward the precious side of the cute/cutesy dichotomy. Fortunately, this two-person show is rescued by Arnold Kemp’s ambitious abstractions. His nearly 6-foot square, Tonight’s Day, shows his talent to greatest impact. With a monolithic interior rectangle of inky black framed by washes of ink and graphite, the piece has charisma to burn: a kind of Darth Vader minimalism that is seductive, fierce and utterly compelling. PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063. Closes Nov. 27.

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SATURDAY, NOV. 27 NaNo Portland Meetup & Soiree of Furious Typing

If those trashy crime novels you see on the shelves at Fred Meyer can be pumped out like hotcakes, perhaps it can also be done with something worth reading. Enter the National Novel Writing Month Contest. If you’re unfamiliar with the NaNo Contest, take a moment to consider the idea: Writers from all over the nation competing against each other to see who can write the biggest and best novel in only 30 days. Those involved with the Portland NaNo event are throwing what they’re calling a “Soiree of Furious Typing.” Zuppa antes up a soup-and-salad buffet and several raffles will also be held as writers crank out the pages at a “dangerous” pace. RSVP at meetup.com/ PortlandNaNoWriMo. Urban Grind, 911 NW 14th Ave., 546-5919. 6 pm. $18 advance donation.

SUNDAY, NOV. 28 Spare Room: Christian Hawkey

“Experimental poetry”: That’s how the Spare Room Reading Series describes the spew of words it celebrates at its frequent gatherings. Ginsberg and Kerouac would have

loved it, hated it or just taken it with a bottle of Benzedrine either way. This installment includes an appearance by Christian Hawkey, whose Waiting for Stretchers sounds darkly intriguing; Hawkey’s previous works (Stars are Shredding Machines and From My Mother’s Sleep) both contain overtones of work-related frustration. Open Space Cafe, 2815 SE Holgate Blvd., 233-6736. 7:30 pm. Suggested donation of $5.

MONDAY, NOV. 29 Fen Montaigne

Adélie penguins make great poster children for species negatively affected by global warming. Fraser’s Penguins is journalist and travel writer Fen Montaigne’s retelling of scientist Bill Fraser’s 30-year scientific study of Adélie penguins in Antarctica. Fraser uses these tuxedoed birds to show “how rising temperatures are swiftly changing” the polar habitats of our globe, and goes on to make environmental predictions for our future. Montaigne recounts Fraser’s study and spices it up a bit by narrating the drama of the Adélies’ journey to the western Antarctic Peninsula. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.

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The mere fact you live in Portland probably means you’re not a dummy when it comes to the vegan lifestyle. But perhaps you could use some fresh tips, tricks and recipes for true home-cooked, non-meatrelated dishes. Vegan Cooking for Dummies boasts more than 100 vegan recipes, including a veggie quiche with cornmeal crust and a zucchini-carrot-pineapple cake. The book also offers a helping hand to anyone “thinking about becoming a vegan,” who may need a shove in the correct direction. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.

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127 Hours

73 Danny Boyle’s new movie, 127 Hours, is in keeping with the happybummer contradictions he established in Slumdog Millionaire: It is based on the true story of Aron Ralston, a rock climber who in 2003 got his right arm pinned beneath a boulder, was stuck in a Utah canyon for five days, and ultimately survived by amputating his own limb with a dull utility tool. However appealing or appalling that premise sounds to you, the one thing that must be said for the movie is that it is never dull. The one thing that must be said against the movie is that it is never dull. Actually, a second thing should be said for 127 Hours: It’s a reminder that no matter how many other hobbies he undertakes, James Franco is primarily one hell of an actor. He’s very good at communicating not merely pain but annoyance—the crisis has all the frustrations of locking your keys in the car, except instead of his keys it’s his arm. The amputation is about as harrowing as you’d expect, but it’s over reasonably quickly—though not before Boyle deploys his inside-the-arm cam, which somehow isn’t quite so upsetting as the outside-the-arm cam, or the insidethe-Nalgene-bottle-of-urine cam. There are a lot of cams: Boyle still loves the cacophonous montage, and often 127 Hours resembles a Nike commercial more than a drama. R. AARON MESH. Bridgeport, Fox Tower. NEW

Boxing Gym

For nearly half a century, Frederick Wiseman has made vérité documentaries about social networks— what academics in the ‘90s liked to term “third places.” There was High School and Hospital and Juvenile Court, then The Store and Racetrack and Central Park. Now here’s Boxing Gym, set in an Austin, Texas, punchingbag facility syncopated to the beep of a three-minute timer—like a microwave announcing that the popcorn is ready. The clientele is “students, mamas, sick dudes, doctors,” says a trainer, and Wiseman settles his slender narrative on their daily regimen of beating back sadness and loneliness. It’s not exciting. Wiseman isn’t exciting. But he is keenly observant, and watches for true exchanges, like the old fighters explaining how they couldn’t really have been contenders. Above all, Boxing Gym is peaceful. “Anybody who does come in here acting like a toughass isn’t going to last too long,” says a gym veteran, much to the relief of a newcomer. “It’s just not that kind of place.” If you want that kind of place, Mark Wahlberg plays in The Fighter in a couple of weeks. Me, I’m thinking of joining a boxing gym. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre. 70

Catfish

A documentary follows New York photographer Nev Schulman and his Facebook friends. The film, though flawed, offers a compelling sociological study of the tactics people employ to be who they always wanted to be, if only on a computer screen. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Living Room Theaters. 74

Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

88 If you’re looking for a definitive answer to why former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, the crusading prosecutor many believed would become America’s first Jewish president, was dumb enough to get caught visiting $1,000-an-hour prostitutes in 2008, napalming his political career in the process, don’t watch Client 9. Alex Gibney’s detailed and damning documentary is far more interested in why the federal government went after “the sheriff of Wall Street” for his sexual transgressions with such ferocity—spending the kind of money and resources usually reserved for building terrorism cases on nailing a NYC prostitution ring. The answer? Spitzer was winning. According to Gibney (Enron:

The Smartest Guys in the Room and Taxi to the Dark Side), a handful of ridiculously powerful men the prosecutor had burned wanted to shut Spitzer down, to punish him for changing the way the political system worked. They won. “Those whom the gods would destroy they make all powerful,” Spitzer says, calmly comparing himself to the Greek myth of Icarus flying too close to the sun. That’s seems fitting for a man who was taken down by the world’s oldest profession. R. KELLY CLARKE. Living Room Theaters.

Due Date

54 Here’s Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis in Due Date, which feels like the spiritual equivalent of smashing your funny bone against a door frame, popping a couple Vicodin, then smashing your funny bone again really hard. It’s a rehash of Planes, Trains and Automobiles, which you already knew from the World Series ads—but it’s Planes, Trains and Automobiles for a meaner, angrier America. Most of the movie’s interactions culminate in assaults and bloodletting. From the movie’s opening shot (a Downey monologue about a nightmare he’s had about a bear), it feels wired, frayed: It’s like director Todd Phillips’ last flick, The Hangover, if everybody had been chugging Four Loko and woke up the next morning with their hearts racing. Galifianakis’ character is the usual good-hearted simpleton, but with a perm and every boorish tic the screenwriters can load on him: He spends all his money on weed, he laughs helplessly at Downey’s backstory of parental abandonment, he masturbates while his traveling companion is trying to sleep. Near the end of the picture, I was convinced Downey was going to try to throw him into the Grand Canyon. He instead just slams Zach’s face into the door of a truck. Again, this isn’t really a punch line except in the most literal sense. Hardy har har oh my god I am clawing at my own face. R. AARON MESH. Broadway, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard.

Enter the Void

It is a POV experiment with precedents—Lady in the Lake and the opening of Strange Days come to mind—but when Gasper Noé adds dimethyltryptamine to the formula via a glowing glass pipe, which we toke on along with the protagonist, the world breaks and recoheres into something more than a nifty optical illusion—something more like a drug movie that actually drugs you; or a movie about death that feels like dying; or a reincarnation fable that feels like being born; or, really, a movie that doesn’t feel like a movie, but a long, sublimely damaged life crammed into just over two hours. CHRIS STAMM. Living Room Theaters. 93

Fair Game

More left-wing celebrity grand7 standing from studio Participant Media, Fair Game is a tribute to compromised CIA officer Valerie Plame and her diplomat husband Joe Wilson. They are played by Naomi Watts and Sean Penn as weepy victims of the Bush administration’s march to war. Time to haul out that news footage of George and the gang, so that Sean Penn can scowl at the television and “Milk” the political glamour for all it’s worth. It’s not worth much. The movie is ridiculous and elitist, reducing the war to one Beltway couple screwing over another. Scooter Libby and Karl Rove are the evil couple who smirk; Plame and Wilson are the indignant couple who shout. PG13. ALISTAIR ROCKOFF. Cedar Hills, Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower, Hollywood Theatre.

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In advance of its much-buzzed release, the Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams film Blue Valentine— which has yet to secure a Portland opening—was slapped with an NC-17 rating by the MPAA, a death sentence at the box office for a film gaining acclaim for its stark portrait of an unraveling marriage, complete with coercive cunnilingus. Williams’ Brokeback Mountain co-stars Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal probably didn’t have any trouble nabbing an R rating for their new romantic dramedy, Love & Other Drugs, despite the fact the pair start their onscreen romance with a little rough, doggystyle fuck in a public restroom, and generally thrust and undulate their way through the film. There’s even a wacky sidekick who likes to jerk off to the sex tapes the pair makes. So in an era when sex is everywhere, how does a film about serious issues get blacklisted while a popcorn flick about fuck buddies getting mooshy feelings for one another is deemed a breezy romp? Is it because Hathaway and Gyllenhaal actually seem to be enjoying their carnal knowledge? Possibly, but my guess is it’s because Love & Other Drugs is a cookie-cutter romcom that humps every cliché in the book with the same reckless abandon Gyllenhaal mounts Hathaway behind a dumpster: It’s cheap, it’s emotionless, and it uses explicit sex and comedy to disguise what is essentially a chick flick wrapped in a Trojan, ribbed with bare flesh (for his pleasure) and ready to be tossed in the trash. It’s no surprise Love & Other Drugs was perpetrated by Edward Zwick, an inexplicably acclaimed director who has spent decades taking tired ideas and repackaging them as prestige pictures (The Last Samurai, Blood Diamond). Here, Zwick re-imagines the skeezy but charming tobacco lobbyist of Thank You for Smoking as a pharmaceutical salesman (Gyllenhaal) whose unique ability to insert his unit in almost any woman makes him the perfect guy to peddle Pfizer’s miracle drug, Viagra. He meets his match in the form of Hathaway’s artistic eccentric, who spends her spare

time bussing senior citizens to the Canadian border for affordable prescriptions. Hathaway embodies what AV Club critic Nathan Rabin accurately dubbed the Manic Pixie Dream Girl: She’s smart, zany, artistic, listens to indie rock and manages to turn Gyllenhaal’s egocentric Lothario into a respectable man. And she loves to casually fuck—which is compromised when Gyllenhaal wants to do weird things like have dinner together and talk after sex. Oh, and she has early onset Parkinson’s Disease, a plot point exploited endlessly throughout the film as Gyllenhaal ditches boner pills in an effort— seriously—to find a cure. “I had places I wanted to go,” says Hathaway, following Gyllenhaal’s standardissue manic freeway jaunt to stop her from leaving

IT’S A CHICK FLICK WRAPPED IN A TROJAN. town. “I’ll carry you,” he replies to his trembling damsel in distress. That’s some stinky cheese, but the actors give it their best. Gyllenhaal has always had a natural, gee-whiz charm, and here it’s well applied, particularly in early scenes of him partying and playing conquistador in the beds of Midwestern women. Hathaway does her best Julia Roberts impression, but when the disease starts to set in she goes overboard in her fits of anger and acceptance, moments that manage to be more laughable than the comedy that peppers this glib film. Both seem to think showing ample flesh will help elevate their performances—and the movie—into something beyond what Love & Other Drugs is: a generic romcom. It’s a film that exudes sleaziness, and not because of its themes of casual sex and hedonism. Were it content to be a hornball version of a Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan flick, it would be just fine. That it sees fit to exploit its heroine’s affliction is irritating enough. It’s the utter ordinariness of the whole affair that makes it go completely flaccid. 42 SEE IT: Love & Other Drugs is rated R. It opens Wednesday at Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Cinetopia, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub, Tigard, Wilsonville.

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Pitched as another unrelenting vengeance picture, Faster has one potentially transgressive scene, where Dwayne Johnson goes to see the preacher—to shoot the preacher. But “The Rock” goes all soft, as he repeatedly does. Faster is jammed with the expected nasty violence, but no real payoffs, and its sentimentality seems pointless: If you’re going to spend the holidays visiting a peep show, you don’t want the proprietors to close the curtains right when you’re about to get off, to tell you about the needy orphans. Until its unsatisfying finish, the movie is a bundle of directorial tics and flourishes, most of them needless, from George Tillman Jr. (He did that Notorious B.I.G. movie a couple years back.) It’s fun to see Billy Bob Thornton’s desiccated form sandwiched between the mounds of muscle, but what made anybody think the movie needed a nihilistic British assassin in love is beyond me. (The script, by brothers Tony and Joe Gayton, is tedious and terrible, with an odd reliance on the word “dude.”) It’s no knock to call a movie low class, but we ought to demand films with the courage of their cheap, pandering convictions. Like several of its characters, Faster has a shaky trigger finger. R. AARON MESH. Broadway, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen. Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Oak Grove, Sandy, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville. 43

For Colored Girls

64 Tyler Perry’s contemporary staging of Ntozake Shange’s 1975 play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf is crass, cringeinducing and compelling—but that’s the mixed result you can expect when you use your movie to host a marathon poetry slam. It’s like a musical, but the dramatic incidents are links between not songs but recitations. Even Perry’s many detractors should concede that his adaptation is beautifully performed and often adroitly staged, but it hinges on Shange’s venerated poems, which are sometimes eviscerating but more often incomprehensible. You already know whether an evening of sexual assault, spousal beatings and maternal abuse would be useful to you, and the drama loses momentum every time a character gears up for a soliloquy, but the tenaciousness of the acting isn’t easily dismissed. R. AARON MESH. Lloyd Mall.

Four Lions

96 The cell of bumbling British jihadists in Chris Morris’ divine new comedy end up disguised as a turtle, an ostrich and a bear, but what they really are is morons. Their idiocy isn’t entirely caused by their embrace of radical Islam, though, as is the case with any religious fundamentalism, it doesn’t help. Seeking their 72 virgins, the five men who call themselves the Four Lions behave like the Three Stooges. Their aim is suicide bombing. They’ll probably manage the suicide part.

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Offended yet? Director Morris is no novice at finding sacred cows and opening a slaughterhouse. The cast is uniformly brilliant, but my favorite is Kayvan Novak as Waj, who looks a little like Ashton Kutcher and who understands martyrdom as the spiritual equivalent of cutting to the front of the line at a theme park: “Rubber dinghy rapids, bro.” Here’s the funniest thing about Four Lions: Though its mockery is unsparing and its conclusion unflinching, it humanizes Islamist terrorists in a way that no movie has even attempted before, because it understands they’re made from the same selfishness and stupidity as anybody else. Consider the anti-logic employed by jihadist Barry (Nigel Lindsay), who argues against empty gestures by driving his car into a brick wall. “Was that a gesture?” he asks. “That was for real, brother. Are you as for real as that?” Four Lions is for real. It’s the bravest cinema of the year. R. AARON MESH. Fox Tower.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

35 Lisbeth Salander, buried alive with a bullet in her brain at the end of The Girl Who Played With Fire, can barely walk when The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest begins. The Girl Who Opened a Can of Worms would have been a more accurate (although considerably less sexy) title: Salander’s injuries have her confined to a hospital bed for the film’s first half, and she is capable of little more than pecking out her autobiography on a cell phone. Maybe they don’t have cans of worms in Sweden. I don’t know. But I must warn you there is very little kicking until the final 15 minutes of this third and final installment of Stieg Larsson’s horrendously popular trilogy, and not one goddamn hornet’s nest in the entire picture. While Lisbeth convalesces and awaits trial (she tried to kill The Dude With a Burned Face Who Is Also Her Dad in the previous installment), her friend Mikael Blomkvist, The Writer Who Somehow Makes Journalism Look Even More Boring Than It Is in Real Life, preps a special issue of his magazine devoted to clearing his taciturn hacker buddy’s name. It’s artless trash, but the expositionheavy proceedings are conducted in a funny foreign language, and we all know “international cinema” is synonymous with quality, so yeah, go pay for this instead of watching a Law &amp; Order rerun for free. Call me The Boy With the Thorn in His Side if you must, but I just don’t get it. R. CHRIS STAMM. Cinema 21.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

77 Everybody has tough teenage years, but damn does Harry Potter have issues. Sure, we’ve all dealt with shifty relatives and hormonally imbalanced friends with mean streaks. But we didn’t have the lord of all that is evil breathing down our necks, gigantic snakes trying to eat us, or a crazed government hunting us down in the midst of a genocide attempt on wizard-human lovechildren. Now, we near the end of the road with Deathly Hallows, Part 1, the first half of the final chapter, wherein

Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) must get all Frodo on Lord Voldemort (the terrifically menacing Ralph Fiennes) by destroying a series of gems possessing fragments of his soul. To do so, he and BFFs Hermione (Emma Watson) and Ron (Rupert Grint) go on the road, abandoning Hogwarts and all the fine British thespians who reside there. The series’ child actors have spent the past decade in these roles, and it’s refreshing to see them mature. Each young actor shows chops, from Radcliffe’s tortured chosen one to Watson’s peppy Nancy Drew type. But it’s Grint who shines here, breaking away from comic relief to show serious skill as Ron is seduced with darkness and jealousy. Of all the actors in the series, the goofy-looking Grint emerges in Deathly Hallows as the standout. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Broadway, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinema 99, CineMagic, Bridgeport, Cinetopia, City Center, Division, Evergreen. Hilltop, Lake Twin, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Moreland, Movies on TV, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Roseway, Sandy, Sherwood, St. Johns Twin CinemaPub, Tigard, Wilsonville. NEW

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Inside Job

Inside Job, a primer on securitization and other Wall Street follies, amounts to a wonk-on-wonk assault. Before Charles Ferguson directed the sober Iraq war documentary No End in Sight, he scored a fortune in Internet software development, and he has a fundamental gripe with bankers. It’s not that they’re rich. It’s that they don’t make anything. That is, they don’t make anything except ornately convoluted and exponentially risky methods of speculation— new ways of betting on loans, and betting on other people’s bets on loans. What makes Inside Job worth squinting at is Ferguson’s gusto in calling out the regulators and academics—like Columbia Business School professor Frederic Mishkin, paid $124,000 by the Icelandic Chamber of Commerce for authoring a paper praising the country’s doomed banks—who pretend to be watchdogs when they’re actually lampreys. In the salad days of Iceland, Inside Job notes, a third of the nation’s bank regulators quit their jobs to go work for the banks. What a quaint system! In America, they don’t need to quit their jobs. PG-13. Fox Tower. 71

Last Train Home

As China transformed itself into the manufacturing capital of the universe, hundreds of millions left the bucolic poverty of the Chinese countryside for the grimy opportunity of urban factory jobs. Thanks to the country’s tyrannical residency laws, many of them had to leave their families behind. Every year, some 150 million of them head home for the Lunar New Year, in an unimaginably huge mass migration. In this grim and beautiful documentary, director Lixin Fan follows one broken family over the course of several New Years, as Mr. and Mrs. Zhang make their annual trek from a smoke-filled city through snow-covered hills to visit the family they abandoned some 17 years before. BEN WATERHOUSE. Living Room Theaters. 89

Leaving

60 Kristin Scott Thomas brings a measure of nuance to a genre that’s been done many times over in Leaving (Partir). Written and directed by French filmmaker Catherine Corsini, the film is engaging and short enough at 85 minutes to hold the viewer’s attention. Thomas gives a compelling performance throughout. But Diane Lane delivered an equally impressive turn in the similarly themed Unfaithful, and one is reminded that the earlier film had a less predictable story with more fleshed out characters than Corsini’s tale of a trapped

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Megamind

66 Poor Megamind. Its writers must’ve thought they had a really clever idea—”What if we make an animated superhero movie with the villain as the protagonist?”—until Despicable Me came out this summer and became a sleeper hit built on that very conceit. Outside that basic premise, they’re not the same film, but the two will now be inextricably linked until the end of time—or at least until Megamind is completely forgotten, which should happen before this review even appears in print. Ironically, it’s actually the superior picture—it has better characters, explores the subjectivity of good and evil with greater insight, and doesn’t resort to fart jokes or forced cutesiness—but Despicable Me will endure longer because it reveled in old-school cartoon anarchy in a way most kiddie flicks don’t anymore. Megamind, by contrast, does little to ensure it’ll survive in anyone’s memory beyond its 96-minute runtime. Sure, it’s got some decent voice work from Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill and David Cross (despite his top billing, Brad Pitt’s appearance is basically a cameo), nice visuals (though the 3-D is unimpressive) and a couple of good gags, the best being Ferrell’s titular giantheaded criminal mastermind illustrated Shepard Fairey-style on a poster emblazoned with the phrase “No You Can’t.” But it all feels stultifyingly typical. PG. MATTHEW SINGER. 3-D: Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Cinetopia, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood. 2-D: 99 Indoor Twin, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Bridgeport, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Oak Grove, Sandy, Tigard, Wilsonville.

Morning Glory

Morning news shows are made tolerable only by the grogginess of a pre-work stupor, and they grow more irritating with each sip of coffee. As such, they’re ripe for skewering, and at times Morning Glory nails the parody while getting at the heart of why people watch this tripe every day. Rachel McAdams is a plucky producer steering a fourth-place Today Show knockoff back into relevance. To do so, she hires a disgraced journalist (Harrison Ford, playing a grumpy Harrison Ford-y cross between Mike Wallace and Dan Rather) as lead anchor. Sparks immediately fly between Ford and co-anchor Diane Keaton, a Katie Couric type whose crowning achievement is a story in which she has her pap smear filmed. This should sound familiar to anyone who has ever watched Regis Philbin come close to slapping Kelly Ripa, and there’s some biting satire in the mix (like Broadcast News for teenage girls). But director Roger Michell (Notting Hill) dumps all sorts of NutraSweet into the mix, forcing in a dull romance and loads of McAdams acting quirkily. Morning Glory eventually becomes the equivalent of watching a twohour morning show—one that gets more obnoxious with each sip of cheap pandering and sentimental sludge. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cinema 99, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Bridgeport, Cinetopia, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd Center. Movies on TV, Oak Grove, Sandy, Sherwood, Tigard. 51

Never Let Me Go

64 A dystopic fable about clones raised on a tony organ farm. With its focus on an inseparable trio of British boarding-school students, Never Let Me Go feels like a Harry Potter movie for the clinically depressed. Maybe you should try a nice comedy. R. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre.

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The Next Three Days

College professor Russell Crowe has three years to appeal wife Elizabeth Banks’ conviction for smashing her boss’s face in with a fire extinguisher. When he fails, he has three months to bust her out of jail before she’s transferred to a maximum-security prison. When the process is expedited, he has three days to spring her and flee the country with their young son. With The Next Three Days, writer-director Paul Haggis (Crash) has a mere two hours to make this remake of French flick Anything for Her interesting. 67

Both barely make it. Crowe spends his time studying maps, procuring fake passports from shady gangstas and learning, in alarming detail, how to make fake keys and break into cars. Haggis spends his time lingering on bland subplots, shots of Crowe crying, and montages of his hero tacking bits of his plan to the wall of his study. But just when the whole thing seems a bust, the director amps up the finale with a satisfyingly elaborate and extended chase sequence that manages to be whiteknuckle despite its harried pace. It’s a nice payoff. It’s just a shame it seemed to take three years to get there. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Oak Grove, Sandy, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

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bourgeois woman having a tumultuous affair in the south of France. It’s fun to watch Thomas spiral, but the final twist will merely leave the viewer shrugging. ALI ROTHSCHILD. Living Room Theaters.

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TANGLED It did not augur well for Disney’s latest princess cartoon when the studio changed the title from Rapunzel to Tangled, in hopes of enticing more little princes. Let down your hair, but hedge your bets. The movie puts less emphasis on its protagonist’s backstory (magic hair, kidnapped, no barbers) than it does on establishing a knowing superiority to its storybook origins—a tone borrowed from the Shrek movies, though thankfully not quite so pungent. Few marketing opportunities are missed: The opening ballad sounds like Hannah Montana tween twang; a tiny chameleon sidekick is Happy Meal-ready. Worse, Tangled is Disney’s latest effort to transition its formula into computer animation, and the movie can’t shake a gleam of plastic. The Toy Story pictures function as a celebration of childhood playthings; Tangled just comes across as an inducement to buy more toys. The heroine, voiced by Mandy Moore, looks like a Mandy Moore baby doll—I’m actually a little surprised no one thought to stuff a stocking with her until now. But once you accept that the film appears built from a box of Playmobil toys, Tangled is moderately enchanting. Voicing Rapunzel’s calculating surrogate mom, Broadway vet Donna Murphy channels a blend of Barbra Streisand and Bette Davis in All About Eve. Alan Menken has been brought back to pen the songs, and while none of his compositions is as catchy as his collaborations with Alan Sherman on The Little Mermaid or Beauty and the Beast, he has apparently instructed the directors, Nathan Greno and Byron Howard, what hits to beat. There’s the giddy supporting-character comedy number (“I’ve Got a Dream,” a genuinely delightful vaudeville bit starring ugly brigands with innocent ambitions), not one but two climactic sacrifices for love, and a romantic serenade on a gondola. This last entry provides Tangled’s singular moment of visual awe: A bouquet of airborne candles turns the screen into a delicate magic lantern show. The scene is not only beautiful, but sincere about its beauty. Possibly Disney should take a lesson from every children’s movie it ever made, and remember to believe in itself. PG. AARON MESH. Life in plastic, it’s fantastic.

60 SEE IT: Tangled opens Wednesday at Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Cinetopia, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Sandy, Sherwood, Tigard and Wilsonville.

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54 “We don’t wear feathers or ride horses,” explains director-narrator Neil Diamond by way of introduction, “but because of the movies, a lot of the world still thinks we

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Raw Faith

[THREE DAYS ONLY] I feel a certain futility in reviewing this documentary profile of Rev. Dr. Marilyn Sewell, the former pastor of Portland’s First Unitarian Church. This is usually something I feel only when a movie is so small and shoddy that delineating its shortcomings seems cruel. But Raw Faith is quite artfully crafted by local director Peter Wiedensmith; its cityscape images for once paint Stumptown as something more than a tourist’s paradise or rain-soaked flophouse, and it considers Sewell as something more complicated and unguarded than a peacenik saint. We see that she’s lonely, and afraid she’s been denied a life lived according to love: “When I’m on an airplane,” she tells her own minister, “and they’re passing out the Cokes and drinks, I always feel like they’re going to pass me by.” When she retires from the pulpit and meets a nice architect, her anxious transition is something rarely seen in a nonfiction film. But Sewell is also a spiritual leader, and her beliefs are that exhausting Tillich-lite muddle of trust in a God who isn’t there. It doesn’t sound like the creed of anybody who is willing to engage the claims of religion with much seriousness. But she seems at peace. And honestly, what’s the point of my criticizing someone else’s peace? I don’t know what to make of her faith, but I admire her life. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre. 5 and 7 pm SaturdaySunday, 7 pm Monday, Nov. 27-29.

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Turns out the AARP Team of Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren and John Malkovich is as contrived as The A-Team. You know the drill: Retired CIA spook Willis is marked for death and spends two hours “getting the band back together” to kill people. Yet the biggest surprise of Red is how much fun the familiar can be. From its opening shootout to its final punch line, the action comedy plays conventions for laughs, with zingers and bullets spraying everywhere. Most of the joy in Red (“retired, extremely dangerous”) comes from watching the cast let the ham juice fly. The hysterical Malkovich steals the show as a paranoid nutjob whose trigger-happy brain is addled from daily doses of LSD administered by the military. Director Robert Schwentke goes against the grain by forgoing excess. Red’s action is fast and furious (this is, after all, a DC Comics adaptation), but the director relies on practical stunt work in his bombastic action scenes, 82

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highlighted by a great sequence in which the heroes play baseball with live grenades. Schwentke realizes the best special effect is a cast of award-winning dynamos allowed to let loose. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Movies on TV, Oak Grove, Tigard.

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Director Rachid Bouchareb crafts standard-issue period pageants about specifically Algerian issues. His World War II epic Days of Glory followed Algerian infantrymen fighting for colonial France; his postWorld War II epic Outside the Law follows three Algerian brothers fighting for independence against colonial France. Upon its French debut, the movie went over like a lead balloon filled with stories of your grandfather shooting women and children. It’s unlikely to attract so much attention here, though I’m hoping it sparks a renewed love of fedoras. (Outside the Law has many excellent fedoras.) As in Days of Glory, Jamel Debbouze gives the most appealing performance, with a pimp’s pencil mustache and an impatience with the KENWOODprofit-sharing THEATRE dogmas of revolution. 7815 Kenwood Rd, Cincinnat (513) 984-4488 Like many European historical pictures, the handsome movie is under the sway of The Godfather, but its garrotings over plates of pasta and garden stabbings are portrayed as unambiguously noble, and thus aren’t nearly as interesting. AARON MESH. Fox Tower. 61

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BURLESQUE If you’re going to make a movie about an entertainment form based on skin, sex and bawdy belly laughs, your film ought to include any of the three. But the new Christina Aguilera comeback vehicle, Burlesque, hides its best assets beneath a leaden plot and enough soft focus to make even Cher look dewy. You already know the story/Journey song: small-town girl Ali (Aguilera, with bangs and a jean jacket) heads to L.A. to become a star. Awed by the sight of a stage full of women dressed in bras and striped thigh-high stockings shaking their asses, she annoys the club owner, Tess (Cher, with bangs and cheeks that now resemble airplane propellers), into giving her a spot in the chorus line. Guess what happens when they find out the puny white girl who can barely dance is hiding a pair of mutant Aretha Franklin lungs? With fun style cues and choreography cribbed from every movie that ever featured a push-up bra, from Sweet Charity to Showgirls, Burlesque still manages to be a dull, PG-13 tease: Kristen Bell, who usually exudes twinkle-eyed bitchiness, trades her personality for a lace bodystocking to play a drunken, lip-syncing diva. The only moment of quality nudity comes courtesy of Ali’s love interest, bartender/musician/ab model Jack (Cam Gigandet), who plays “Dick in a Box” with a package of cookies. Even the bad guy—Eric Dane’s slick developer, who wants to turn Cher’s club into high-rise condos—isn’t that bad. He just doesn’t understand the transformational importance of fanny dancing. In a respite from the boredom, Stanley Tucci shows up to play a witty, gay costume designer—the exact same role he sashayed through in The Devil Wears Prada, with Cher and a BeDazzler standing in for Meryl Streep. The silver lining of the entire snoozy mess is the fact that Christina Aguilera does indeed have a freakishly great set of pipes. A ’20s era honky-tonk piece featuring the blonde bombshell writhing on a piano, clad in an amazing bikini made of pearls, is the best moment —and, oddly enough, the only actual striptease—in the film. Credit for all the soulless flash and glitter goes to writer/director Steven Antin—brother of Robin Antin, the founder of the L.A. burlesque troupe-turned-MTV commodity Pussycat Dolls, and one of the creators of the 2007 CW reality series Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll—who, doing what he does best, essentially cobbled together one long, slick Pussycat video. If only he hadn’t tried to turn it into a movie. PG-13. KELLY CLARKE.

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38 SEE IT: Burlesque opens Wednesday at Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Cinetopia, Division, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard and Wilsonville.

like an Indian warrior-themed summer camp where pasty, pudgy white boys use so-called Native rites as an excuse to act like totally obnoxious fucking assholes. CHRIS STAMM. Hollywood Theatre.

Secretariat

38 An inspirational horse-racing picture directed by Randall Wallace from a script by Beaverton’s Mike Rich that might have been called The Blinder Side. PG. AARON MESH. 99 Indoor Twin, Bridgeport, Lake Twin, Movies on TV, Wilsonville.

Skyline

19 Imagine Cloverfield stripped of anything enjoyable—its pseudo-amateur device, its slow, peripheral reveal of raging space reptiles, its doomed romantic heart—and what you’re left with is Skyline, an alien-invasion picture that is both deeply boring and aggressively unpleasant, like being cornered by a foul-breathing drunk at a party. Directors Greg and Colin Strause (“The Brothers Strause,” they bill themselves) dedicated most of their attention to designing their grim beasties, which are intent on harvesting human brains—plucking them right off the stems like ripe strawberries. Unfortunately, the aliens chose Los Angeles, and no brains are in evidence: The characters, all appallingly acted, are a collection of tank tops and lip gloss. You might be tempted to root for the blue-beam invaders, except they are disgusting—like cockroaches filled with carburetors. “This can’t go on forever, can it?” one besieged victim moans, and while it feels like an eternity, it’s only 100 minutes, and the last five are so skin-crawlingly vile— featuring the outer-space performance of back-alley abortions—that Skyline takes on a level of perverse interest before skidding to a halt. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Division, Evergreen, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV.

The Social Network

94 The early critical dispute over The Social Network, the Facebook origin movie (directed by David Fincher! Script by Aaron Sorkin!), is whether it is a cyberpunk Citizen Kane or a geek Gatsby. These comparisons do the movie no favors, but they fairly precisely identify the film’s themes of prodigy, ambition and loneliness—the bone-aching lonesome that comes from outrunning everyone you know, then castigating them for not keeping up. Then there’s this: The Social Network actually is superior entertainment. It is the most intellectually electrifying cinema of the year. It’s fundamentally an Angry Young Man movie—like Room at the Top, except that when Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) sees a room he’s not allowed in, he has the ability to move the room. Say what you will about Sorkin, who seemingly hits the “like” button on himself daily, but his script recognizes that rage is our culture’s prevailing mood. Even the haves feel themselves to be have-nots. The fury is balanced by Eisenberg’s delicate performance, the film’s flash-forward structure and Trent Reznor’s mournful score, which combine to create a piquancy of regret for things the characters don’t know they’re destroying. This is history written in text messaging. PG-13. AARON MESH. Lake Twin, Lloyd Mall, Pioneer Place.

Tamara Drewe

Writing—or at least typing— always looks a little silly onscreen, but Stephen Frears (The Grifters, The Queen) makes the craft look especially preposterous in the opening minutes of Tamara Drewe, which find the denizens of a British writer’s retreat clacking out inanities on laptops. They are no more dignified in their lives. “Can I tempt you?” the colony’s proprietress (Tamsin Greig) asks as she passes around a tray of biscuits, and of course nobody can say no to any 84

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NOV. 27-DEC. 3 carnal appetite—especially not after the homecoming of Tamara (Gemma Arterton), a local girl who returns with her nose smaller and other places grown significantly. The movie, based on a comic by Posy Simmonds, is the sort of barbed romantic farce Kingsley Amis used to specialize in, and the best schemer in the roundelay is a rather Kingsleyian rotter, a philandering mystery novelist played by Roger Allam (if anybody’s out there casting for a Christopher Hitchens biopic, you’ve found your man). Everyone in the picture—even the tabloid-perusing schoolgirls—wants something they haven’t got, and everyone is just horrible enough that you’re dying to know what their comeuppance will be. (It involves cows. Lots of cows.) As the season of bloated, tony films starts its boring trudge, Frears has snuck in a deliciously toxic little bonbon. R. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre.

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Unstoppable

Tony Scott’s last two films starred Denzel Washington, as a righteous ATF agent who travels back in time to stop the terrorist bombing of a ferry (Deja Vu) and as a kindly subway dispatcher who foils an armed robbery in a remake of a ‘70s thriller (The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3). They were both terrible. So it doesn’t come as a great shock to find Scott’s new movie, Unstoppable, starring decent Denzel foiling a transportation disaster, and it’s even less surprising that the picture is a throwback. It could have been released in 1973 under the title Runaway Train. It is nothing more than a runaway-train picture. But—against all expectations and its own dreadful marketing campaign—it is a really good runaway-train 90

FASTER picture. In its direct, steaming way, it is the most satisfying genre exercise Scott has ever made—easily the equal of The Last Boy Scout or Enemy of the State. If you are the slightest bit intrigued, let me add that there’s a scene where a guy is lowered from a helicopter down to a train chugging along at some 80 mph, and another scene in which Denzel tells a sneering corporate flunky he is going after that train, but “not for you…I’m not doing it for you,” and both scenes are clichés that made me feel a little better about the state of contemporary moviemaking. PG-13. AARON MESH. Broadway, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Cinetopia, City Center, Division, Evergreen. Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Oak Grove, Oak Grove, Sandy, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville. NEW Viva la Revolucion: The Mexican Revolution on Film

[THREE NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] The NW Film Center’s mini-festival of

cinema from Mexico’s fight for independence includes a 1930s trilogy from director Fernando de Fuentes: Prisoner Number 13 (7 pm Friday, 2 pm Saturday, Nov. 26-27), El Compadre Mendoza (8:30 pm Friday, 3:30 pm Saturday, Nov. 26-27) and Let’s Go With Pancho Villa (7 pm Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, Nov. 27-28). NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. FridaySunday, Nov. 26-28.

Waiting for Superman

61 Waiting for “Superman” is not a bad way to spend two hours. The documentary from Davis Guggenheim, director of An Inconvenient Truth, introduces viewers to five cute kids on the precipice of academic failure and follows them and their struggling parents as they try to enroll in what they think are better schools. The solutions the film offers are too limited, too neat. (They involve charter schools, luck and Bill Gates—a college dropout.) But the real-life drama that unfolds onscreen is affecting. BETH SLOVIC. Living Room Theaters.

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SOUTHEAST Academy Theater

DO IT FOR THE OLD MAN: The role of the Understanding Dad has a long history in teen girl coming-of-age movies—its lineage runs from Donald Crisp through Harry Dean Stanton. But in recent years an interesting subspecies has developed: the Understanding but Wisecracking Dad. The version played by Stanley Tucci in Easy A may not actually be a very helpful parent to Emma Stone—he’s perhaps just a little too blithe about his daughter’s ostensible promiscuity—but he’s the funniest father I’ve seen. His lines (most seem improvised) assure us that this is all just a little hormones, nothing to stand in the way of a good joke. AARON MESH. Academy, Laurelhurst. Best paired with: Lompoc C-Note Imperial. Also showing: The Town (Academy, Edgefield, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Mission).

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1000 SW Broadway, 800-326-3264 DUE DATE 4:15 Fri-Sat 9:45 FASTER 1:45, 5, 7:30 Fri-Sat 10 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 1, 4:30, 7:45 THE TOWN 1:15, 7 UNSTOPPABLE 1:30, 4:45, 7:15 Fri-Sat 9:30

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Fox Tower Stadium 10 846 SW Park Ave., 800-326-3264 127 HOURS 12:05, 12:40, 2:15, 2:55, 4:40, 5:20, 7:10, 7:45, 9:35, 10:05 BURLESQUE 12, 12:55, 2:30, 4:20, 5, 7, 7:30, 9:30, 10 FAIR GAME 12:20, 2:40, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 FOUR LIONS 12:10, 2:35, 4:55, 7:25, 9:45 INSIDE JOB 12:35, 3:05, 5:25, 7:50, 10:10 OUTSIDE THE LAW 12:45, 4:10, 7:05, 9:55 RED 12:15, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10:10 THE NEXT THREE DAYS 12:50, 4:15, 7:15, 10

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340 SW Morrison St., 800-326-3264 DUE DATE 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 12:30, 3:45, 7, 10:05 LOVE & OTHER DRUGS 1, 4, 7:30, 10:15 MEGAMIND

3D 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:40 TANGLED 3D 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 9:50 THE SOCIAL NETWORK 12:40, 4:30, 7:40, 10:25

Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park Ave., 503-221-1156 Call for showtimes.

NORTH Portlander Cinema 10350 N Vancouver Way, 503-240-5850 Call for showtimes.

St. Johns Pub

8203 N Ivanhoe St., 503-249-7474 CONVICTION 9 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE Sun, Tue-Thu 6:30 Fri-Sun 1

St. Johns Twin Cinemas and Pub

8704 N Lombard St., 503-286-1768 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 4:40, 7:50 Fri-Sun 1:30 LOVE & OTHER DRUGS FriSun, Tue-Thu 5:45, 8:15 Fri 1:10, 3:30 Mon 8

GET LOW Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:10, 6:45 Mon-Thurs 6:45 SCOTT PILGRIM Fri-Thurs 9 EASY A Fri-Sun 4:25, 9:30 Mon-Thurs 9:30 INCEPTION Fri-Sun 1, 6:30 Mon-Thurs 6:30 DESPICABLE ME Fri-Sun 1:40 THE TOWN Fri-Sun 4, 9:15 Mon-Thurs 9:15 IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY Fri-Thurs 7 MACHETE Fri-Sun 4:45, 9:40 Mon-Thurs 9:40 WINTER’S BONE Fri-Sun 1:30, 7:15 Mon-Thurs 7:15

Lloyd Center

1510 NE Multnomah Blvd., 800-326-3264 BURLESQUE 12, 3:30, 7:25, 10:20 DUE DATE 12:05, 2:30 Fri-Tue 5:05, 7:50, 10:15 FASTER 11:55am, 2:35, 5:15, 7:55, 10:35 GLENN BECK LIVE: BROKE Thu 8 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 11:45am, 3:10, 6:40, 10 LOVE & OTHER DRUGS 12:45, 3:55, 7, 10:05 MEGAMIND 3D 4:50, 7:15, 9:50 Fri-Mon, Wed-Thu 11:50am, 2:20 MORNING GLORY 11:35am, 2:15, 4:55 Fri-Wed 7:40, 10:25 TANGLED 3D 11:30am, 2:05, 4:40, 7:35, 10:10 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON PASQUALE ENCORE Wed 6:30 UNSTOPPABLE 12:35, 3:45, 6:55, 9:40

Lloyd Mall 8 Cinema

4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-281-4215 BOXING GYM 6:45 Sat-Sun 2:50, 4:45 FAIR GAME 7:20, 9:30 Sat-Sun 3:10, 5:15 MY DINNER WITH A.J. Thu 7 NEVER LET ME GO Sat-Thu 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:10 RAW FAITH Sat-Mon 7 Sat-Sun 5 REEL INJUN Sat-Sun 1, 3 Fri 5 TAMARA DREWE 8:30 Sat-Sun 12:45 Fri 5:10

2320 Lloyd Center Mall, 800-326-3264 BURLESQUE 12:35, 3:35, 6:25, 9:10 FOR COLORED GIRLS 12:30, 6:30 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 12, 3:05, 6:10, 9:15 Sat-Thu 12:25, 3:30, 6:35, 9:40 MEGAMIND 3D 11:55am, 3, 6, 9 SKYLINE 3:30, 9:30 TANGLED 3D 12:10, 3:25, 6:20, 9:25 THE NEXT THREE DAYS 12:05, 3:15, 6:05, 8:55 THE SOCIAL NETWORK 12:20, 3:10, 6:15, 9:20

Kennedy School

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5736 NE 33rd Ave., 503-249-7474 DESPICABLE ME FriSat 3 INCEPTION 10:15am LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE Fri-Sun, TueThu 5:30 Sat 12:30 THE TOWN Fri-Sun, Tue-Thu 7:40 Tue-Thu 2:30

Laurelhurst Theater 2735 E Burnside St., 503-232-5511

7229 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-282-2898 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 1, 4:30, 8

NORTHWEST Cinema 21

616 NW 21st Ave., 503-223-4515 Call for showtimes.

7818 SE Stark St., 503-252-0500 CONVICTION 6:45 DESPICABLE ME 4:50 Fri-Sun 12:10 EASY A 7:15 Fri-Sun 12:35 GET LOW 5 INCEPTION 9:10 IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY FriWed 9:20 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE 4:35 FriSun 12:20, 2:25 THE TOWN 7, 9:40 Fri-Sun 2:15 TOY STORY 3 Fri-Sun 2:40

Avalon Theatre

3451 SE Belmont St., 503-238-1617 DESPICABLE ME 1:45, 5:15 EASY A 3:30, 7 INCEPTION 3:20 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE 1:30, 6 FriSat 11:30am RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 8:45 THE TOWN 7:45, 9:55 TOY STORY 3 Fri-Sat 11:45am

Bagdad Theater & Pub 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-249-7474 A CHRISTMAS STORY Sat 2 DESPICABLE ME Fri 2:30 Sun 2 IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY Mon-Wed 8:35 Fri-Sat 7:40 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE Sun, Tue-Wed 6 Fri-Sat 5:15 THE WALKING DEAD Sun 10am

Century at Clackamas Town Center

12000 SE 82nd Ave., 800-326-3264 BURLESQUE Mon-Thu 11am, 1:45, 4:35, 7:20, 10:10am Fri-Sun 10:20am, 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05am DUE DATE 12:25, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Fri-Sun 10am FASTER 12:50, 2:10, 3:30, 4:50, 6:10, 7:30, 8:50 Mon-Thu 11:40am, 10 Fri 10:10am, 11:25am, 10:10 Sat 10:10am, 11:25am, 10:10 Sun 10:10am, 11:25am, 10:10 GLENN BECK LIVE: BROKE Thu 8 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 12:10, 3:40, 7 MonThu 10:20 Fri 10:30 Sat 10:30 Sun 10:30 LOVE & OTHER DRUGS 1:55, 4:40, 7:25 Mon-Thu 11:05am, 10:05am Fri 11am, 10:10am Sat 11am, 10:10am Sun 11am, 10:10am MEGAMIND Mon-Thu 12:40, 3:10, 5:35 Fri-Sun 10:25am, 12:55, 3:25, 5:55 MEGAMIND 3D 2:15, 4:45, 7:20 Mon-Thu 11:45am, 9:50 Fri 11:35am, 9:55 Sat 11:35am, 9:55 Sun 11:35am, 9:55 MORNING GLORY 1:50, 4:35, 7:15 Mon-Thu 11:15am, 9:55 Fri 11:10am, 10am Sat 11:10am, 10am Sun 11:10am, 10am PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 Mon-Thu 8:05, 10:30 FriSun 8:20, 10:40 RED 2:05 Mon-Thu 11:25am, 4:55, 7:45, 10:25am Fri 11:15am Sat 11:15am Sun 11:15am SKYLINE 12:35, 3:05 FriWed 5:35 Fri 10:05am, 8, 10:20 Sat 10:05am, 8, 10:20 Sun 10:05am, 8, 10:20 Mon 7:55, 10:15 Tue 7:55, 10:15 Wed 7:55, 10:15 TANGLED 12:30, 3:05, 5:45, 8:25 FriSun 10am SUBJECT TO CHANGE. CALL THEATERS OR VISIT WWEEK.COM/MOVIETIMES FOR THE MOST UP-TODATE INFORMATION FRIDAY-THURSDAY, NOV. 26-DEC. 2, UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED