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Although Mayor Sam Adams knew nothing about the feds’ probe into last week’s alleged bomb plot, at least one elected official was clued in beforehand. The Oregon State Police—which, unlike the Portland Police Bureau, belongs to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force—briefed Gov. Ted Kulongoski three days before Mohamed Osman Mohamud was arrested Nov. 26, as well as KULONGOSKI updating him the morning before the arrest. Meantime, there’s fresh debate at City Council about Portland’s role in the JTTF. Five years ago, under then-Mayor Tom Potter, the city pulled its cops from the task force because of a lack of civilian oversight. Now Commissioner Dan Saltzman, the only council member in 2005 to oppose the withdrawal, wants a Dec. 8 council vote on returning to the task force. Adams has said he would review that idea. For much more on the arrest and its fallout, see page 7.

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The alleged planning of a bomb attack last week at the holiday tree lighting in Pioneer Courthouse Square left one 19-year-old arrested and a bunch of questions for the rest of us. At Mohamed Osman Mohamud’s initial appearance in federal court Nov. 29, the Somali-born man pleaded innocent to a charge of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. As the FBI takes credit for foiling an attack agents said could have killed thousands Nov. 26—and Mohamud’s attorneys plot his defense—here are the five most noteworthy pieces of this puzzle: 1. WHAT THE DEFENDANT’S CLASSMATES SAY The picture federal law enforcement officials paint of a young man bent on destruction does not jibe with recollections from Mohamud’s former classmates at Jackson Middle School in Southwest Portland. “He’s always been so quiet,” says Joslyn McLaughlin, now a 20-year-old student at University of Oregon. “He wouldn’t go out of his way to say hello, but no one would have ever suspected this.” That’s not to say Mohamud didn’t stand out, even at Jackson, where the Somali population of roughly two

dozen students is substantial compared with other schools in the Portland Public Schools district. Classmates of Mohamud at Jackson when he was a student there from 2002 to 2005 referred to the boy as one of “the Mohameds,” owing to the fact there were three other students with the same first name at Jackson. Former students at Jackson who recall this say the nickname was never intended to be disparaging. Rather, it was a sign the four young men formed a tight clique along with other Muslim students. Tom Halley, another classmate, called Mohamud “pretty normal.” But by the end of eighth grade, Mohamud socialized less frequently with non-Muslim students, Halley says. “By high school, they pretty much stuck to themselves.” Mohamud left Portland Public Schools in June 2005 after eighth grade. He then enrolled at Westview High School in the Beaverton School District, which has a similar Somali population compared with an estimated 335 in PPS—320 out of 38,000 students, or less than 1 percent. If Mohamud grew increasingly radical, it’s still not clear how or when that happened. After Westview, Mohamud enrolled as a non-degree-seeking student at Oregon State University, where he took pre-engineering, intermittently, from 2009 to October 2010. His closest friends from those two stops couldn’t be reached for comment. But Andy Stull, a current student at OSU who also shared a locker with Mohamud at Jackson eight years ago, says he saw his former classmate at a fraternity party around February. Mohamud appeared to be the same. In Mohamud’s sixth-grade yearbook at Jackson, his

THEN AND NOW: Mohamud’s photo in the sixth grade, and his mugshot after his Nov. 26 arrest.

photograph suggests nothing unusual. And the yearbook is a typical version of the American school staple—in this instance wrapped in the image of an American flag with a picture of the Statue of Liberty. It carries the title “Let Freedom Ring.”—Beth Slovic 2. WHAT THE FBI AFFIDAVIT REVEALS ABOUT MOHAMUD AND HIS DEFENSE The 36-page affidavit FBI Special Agent Ryan Dwyer swore out Nov. 26—the day of Mohamud’s arrest—raises several questions about the accused bomber wannabe. First, there’s the question of whether Mohamud is an unwitting dupe or a clever plotter. Dwyer’s affidavit says after Mohamud spent months sending emails to a wrong address in an attempt to link up with a jihadi, Mohamud went to PDX on June 14 hoping to fly to Alaska for a summer job. Authorities did not allow Mohamud to board his plane. Instead he endured an FBI grilling. (The FBI and U.S. Attorney Dwight Holton declined to comment on how Mohamud first attracted scrutiny.) CONT. on page 8 Willamette Week DECEMBER 1, 2010 wweek.com

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“Mohamud said that he had previously intended to travel to Yemen but had never obtained a ticket or a visa,” the affidavit states, adding that he confirmed communicating with a person identified as “Unindicted Associate One” who “was located in the northwest frontier province of Pakistan, an area known to harbor terrorists.” Just nine days after the feds questioned him, Mohamud was gullible enough to respond to an unsolicited email from a person referred to in the affidavit only as an “FBI undercover employee.” Agent Dwyer’s affidavit also undercuts a claim Mohamud made in conversation with his alleged undercover co-conspirators—that he was inspired to jihad at age 15 by the terrorist raid on a hotel in Mumbai, India. “Mohamud was seventeen, not fifteen at the time of the 2008 Mumbai attacks,” Dwyer notes. Mohamud’s arraignment Monday, Nov. 29, filled a hallway on the 11th floor of Portland’s federal courthouse. About 200 people, including reporters and citizens, crushed together outside the doors to U.S. Magistrate John Acosta’s courtroom. The judge estimated a trial would take 15 days and set a tentative date for Feb. 1. Another aspect of Dwyer’s affidavit arose at Monday’s hearing. Mohamud’s attorney, federal public defender Stephen Sady, signaled that he will focus at least part of his defense on an apparent technical glitch Dwyer noted in his affidavit. Recounting the first of seven meetings between Mohamud and undercover FBI employees, Dwyer wrote: “[The FBI undercover employee] was equipped with audio equipment to record the meeting. However, due to technical problems the meeting was not recorded.” A logical defense argument might be that by providing Mohamud resources and opportunity he otherwise lacked, the FBI entrapped him. Thus, the absence of a tape recording of the first meeting raises questions about how much direction and encouragement the FBI provided. “In the cases involving potential entrapment, it’s the first meeting that matters,” Sady told the court. Holton declined to respond to that argument.—Nigel Jaquiss and James Pitkin

grooming” his teenage client, who was one year out of graduating from Westview High School in Beaverton. Some of Portland’s top criminal-defense lawyers agree entrapment may be Mohamud’s best defense. “I’d like to find out his emotional stability [and] his maturity level. There’s a big question whether he had the mental makeup to do it on his own,” says defense lawyer Pat Birmingham, whose past clients include Kyle Brewster, one of three men convicted in the 1988 killing of Ethiopian immigrant Mulugeta Seraw. But many of the details in the FBI’s court affidavit appear designed to defuse any entrapment argument. They allege Mohamud came up with the time and place to bomb and that the FBI laid out for him nonviolent options for jihad. “[U.S. Attorney] Dwight Holton is a very cautious prosecutor,” says defense lawyer Bob Weaver, a former federal prosecutor who defended Mayor Sam Adams in the 2009 criminal investigation of the Beau Breedlove scandal. “I am assuming that the FBI and the U.S Attorney’s Office have been very cautious about how they’ve approached this.” To consider the likelihood of an entrapment argument working, consider an almost identical case last year in Texas. In September 2009, the FBI provided Hosam Smadi, a 19-year-old Jordanian citizen, with a truck containing an inert bomb. Undercover FBI employees had contacted Smadi online six months prior and helped him plot to blow up a 60-story office building in downtown Dallas. Smadi’s public defender, Peter Fleury, was prepared to go to trial. But with the trial looming this past May, Smadi instead pleaded guilty. He was sentenced in October to 24 years in prison. Henry Klingeman, a New Jersey defense lawyer who lost a 2005 terrorism trial after mounting an entrapment defense for his client, says juries aren’t prepared to give a defendant the benefit of the doubt he wouldn’t have acted without the FBI’s help. “It was a great legal defense on Sept. 10 (2001),” Klingeman says. “It’s been a lousy defense since.”—James Pitkin

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incredible. And acquaintances’ description of him as a hoops-loving, rapping Beaverton teen may not fit many people’s idea of a jihadi. But Mitchell D. Silber, a New York Police Department terrorism analyst described an archetype resembling Mohamud to a T in his 2007 report “Radicalization in the West: The Home-Grown Threat.” Terrorism experts now widely cite Silber’s 90-page study as one that shows why homegrown terrorism is catching the feds’ attention. After reviewing numerous terrorist plots since 9/11, Silber concluded the biggest threat comes from within—from “unremarkable,” middle-class males aged 15 to 35, not foreign agents. “The transformation of a Western-based individual to a terrorist is not triggered by oppression, suffering, revenge or desperation. Rather, it is a phenomenon that occurs because the individual is looking for an identity and a cause and, unfortunately, often finds them in the extremist Islam,” Silber writes. “There is no useful profile to assist law enforcement or intelligence to predict who will follow this trajectory of radicalization,” he adds. “Rather, the individuals who take this course begin as ‘unremarkable’ from various walks of life.” While there has been speculation that Mohamud’s family turned him in or that he attracted scrutiny because Somali immigrants in Minnesota and other states have plotted terrorist attacks, another possible explanation is that he contributed articles to the online website “Jihad Recollections.” Terrorism investigators monitor such sites closely, although neither FBI spokeswoman Beth Ann Steele nor Holton, the U.S. Attorney for Oregon, would comment on how agents first came upon Mohamud. Relative to its small population, Oregon has seen an outsized number of terrorism prosecutions—including four previous high-profile cases since 9/11. Holton declined to speculate why Oregon spawns so many plots, although he acknowledges that he spends a disproportionate amount of his time—about half—on national security issues, including a recent espionage case involving a rogue CIA agent; money laundering; and other terrorism-related cases.—Nigel Jaquiss

5. THE DISCONCERTING EFFECT ON THE SOMALI COMMUNITY Muslim leaders and Somali community members in Portland rushed to condemn the violent plot after the allegations against Mohamud first surfaced Friday. But their condemnation quickly turned to worry for the safety of Somalis and other Portlanders of Muslim faith after a report emerged that one Muslim woman was verbally attacked by a young man in Southeast Portland on Saturday. Then, on Sunday, the Corvallis mosque where Mohamud had infrequently attended prayer services erupted in fire. The FBI announced a $10,000 reward for tips as part of its investigation into that attack, which inspectors said caused “substantial damage.” Portland’s Somali community is about 8,000 and growing, according to Kayse Jama, the Somali executive director of the Center for Intercultural Organizing. Abdi Jamac, a Portland Public Schools employee who works with Somali students, says some parents were so concerned they considered keeping their children out of school Monday as classes resumed following the holiday weekend. “We’re shocked,” Jamac says. “It’s not something we thought would happen here.” Some advocates for refugees also expressed concern that Muslim Portlanders who appear Somali but are, in fact, Somali Bantu may be targeted unfairly as well. Elisabeth Gern, a social services coordinator for Catholic Charities, works with Somali Bantu families. She fears Somali Bantu could be attacked even though they don’t identify as Somali. “Outsiders don’t make the distinction,” Gern says. She adds, “They don’t feel connected to the crime, but they feel very much offended by the burning of the mosque [in Corvallis].” Somali Bantu and Somalis do share concern for the educational opportunities available to their children in the Portland area. Jama, speaking on behalf of some members of the refugee community earlier this week, said Somali youth need far more support in Portland than they currently get. Recognizing this, educators with Portland Public Schools have pressed without success to hire additional Somali-speaking parent liaisons. “This is a wake-up call for the Somali community,” Jama says. “[Somali youth] are falling through the cracks.”—Beth Slovic

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Jolene Jenkins was 16 when she first met Antjuanece Brown. The two ate pizza, watched a movie and messed around looking at YouTube videos. Jenkins, a student at Grant High School, was so moonstruck by Brown, she marked the occasion in her day planner by doodling dozens of loopy hearts on the date. It was Oct. 10, 2009. One year later, Brown, who is three years older than Jenkins, learned a Washington County grand jury had indicted her for the felony crimes of sex abuse, creating child pornography and luring a minor. CONT. on page 16

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Those charges may suggest a heinous crime. But the evidence against Brown was far more mundane. The photos and text messages police found on Jenkins’ cell phone would make few teenagers blush. The sentencing, on the other hand, would. Seventy months in prison and membership on the sex offender registry are the minimum punishments for peddling child pornography, a crime whose official name is “using a child in the display of sexually explicit conduct.” “Child pornography” may conjure images of lecherous men prowling playgrounds for underage victims. But the anti-pornography laws in Oregon—much like the rest of the country—have not changed since the advent of cellphone cameras. As a result, Oregon’s anti-pornography statute ensnares not only perverts but teenagers who stupidly, or casually, “sext.” “It’s not the fidgety old man on the street corner, at the schoolhouse gate or hunched over a computer who gets caught up in this sexting,” says David Fidanque, president of ACLU of Oregon. “It’s young people who aren’t thinking.” Among teenagers who have cell phones, more than one in seven say they’ve sexted, according to the Pew Research Center. “Acting stupid isn’t always a criminal offense,” says Multnomah County District Attorney Michael Schrunk. Indeed, few find themselves in court over sexting. Antjuanece Brown was not so lucky. “I’ve never been in trouble in my life,” Brown says. “I’m not a sex offender.” Though she is three years Brown’s junior, Jenkins looks older than Brown. The varsity high-school lacrosse player is gregarious and confident, with straight black hair that frames a heart-shaped face. She often wears a trace of makeup and two sets of glittering gemstone earrings. Her outfits are casual—North Face fleece jackets and jeans. In other words, Jenkins is a typical teenager. She has an after-school job at Wendy ’s. She’s wanted to be a lawyer ever since her parents divorced in 2006, and she’s applying to attend Willamette University next fall. “She’s a nice, sweet girl,” Brown’s mother, Karla Patterson, says. “An average 17-year-old.” Jenkins says she had only ever dated boys. But when she met Brown through mutual friends, she was smitten. Brown, who lives in Tigard, is stocky, with a round face and a slouchy carriage. Her father calls her “Pops,” or Princess of all Princesses, but Brown is more introverted than the pet name suggests. Her younger half-sister looks up to Brown, who says she wants to be a social worker. “She’s the funny one in the family,” Aaleyah Patterson, 14, says. “She’s the one who keeps us together. The glue.” Brown and Jenkins’ relationship followed a familiar arc for teenagers. After they first met, the two grew inseparable. They hung out at the mall and wandered around downtown. One day they went to Lloyd Center, and as they walked back to the parking garage, Jenkins slowed her pace. “Then she just stopped; she pulled my arm and she kissed me,” Brown says. That assertiveness was not uncharacteristic for Jenkins, who says she initiated the relationship. “Jolene took the lead in almost everything we did,” says Brown, who had dated young women before. Brown, who graduated high school in 2008, worked at a call center in Tigard for $9 an hour. In her free time, she would drive across town to Grant’s lacrosse games and cheer for Jenkins from the sidelines. Brown would also meet Jenkins for lunch, picking her up at school and taking her to a nearby Subway, McDonald’s or Baja Fresh. 16

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Occasionally, Jenkins would ride the bus 15 miles to Tigard to be with Brown at her place. There, they’d babysit Brown’s 4-year-old nephew, taking him to the pool or the playground. “She was,” says Jenkins, “a wonderful person who has made a huge impact on my life.” For Brown’s 20th birthday in April, Jenkins got a oneinch tattoo on her hip of Brown’s initials, “A.C.B.,” inked inside a tiny heart. Both deny they ever had sex. “I cherish my virginity,” Jenkins insists. “I just don’t have time for that kind of stuff; it would take too much energy. Sex complicates stuff.” That may be true. But Jenkins’ mother, Carmen Brant, believed her daughter’s romance with Brown had developed into something more than puppy love. Sometime in June or July, Brant took her daughter’s cell phone and turned it over to Tigard police. Though Jenkins says her mother never seemed to mind when she dated older boys, Brant could never accept Jenkins’ relationship with Brown, Jenkins says. “I love my mother,” Jenkins says. “I thought she’d take it better, but she didn’t.” On Oct. 12, Tigard police arrested Brown on suspicion of creating child porn, for “knowingly subjecting” Jenkins to sexual intercourse and for “luring a minor” by “arousing

child to participate or engage in sexually explicit conduct for any person to observe or to record in a photograph, a motion picture, videotape or other visual recording.” Equally broad is the definition for “sexually explicit conduct,” which includes actual or simulated intercourse. As a result, it wouldn’t much matter to law enforcement officials in Washington County whether Brown and Jenkins actually had sex. It just had to look like they did in photographs. “I didn’t know I was breaking the law,” Brown says. “But I guess I’m an adult. Period. And she’s a minor. Period.” On that point, Oregon law is actually fairly confusing. Sexting is a felony if the subject of the picture is a minor under 18. That’s regardless of the age of the photographer; one doesn’t have to be an adult to face charges. In Brown’s case, she faced additional allegations of felony sex abuse and luring a minor because she was more than three years older than Jenkins. In Oregon, a sexual relationship between a person who is over 18 and a minor is lawful if fewer than three years separate the two. There’s a cruel flipside to that three-year defense. A 19-year-old boy in Oregon who has a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl isn’t breaking the law. But if that same young man takes a cell phone picture of his naked, underage girlfriend, that’s a felony. Brown is three years, three months and two weeks older than Jenkins. John Humbach, professor at Pace University School of Law in New York, has written about sexting, teenagers and freedom of expression. He calls today’s anti-pornography laws “a trap for unwary teens” and a chilling example of what happens when old values bump into “new and unanticipated social phenomena.” VIVIANJOHNSON.COM

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Thirty years ago, Americans elected Ronald Reagan president, and the made-for-TV movie Fallen Angel, about a pedophile who ruins two young girls’ lives, was about to enter heavy rotation on network television. In May 1984, Reagan signed into federal law tougher penalties against pedophiles. “There’s no one lower or more vicious than a person who would profit from the abuse of children, whether by using them in pornographic material or by encouraging their sexual abuse by distributing this material,” Reagan said at the White PICTURE IMPERFECT: Brown (l), Jenkins. House bill signing in the Rose Garden. State lawmakers soon followed suit, and satisfying” Jenkins’ “sexual desires.” The evidence? Pro- and in 1985 Oregon legislators passed a law that mirrored the vocative photos of Jenkins and someone police identified as federal act. It ratcheted up punishments for purveyors of kidBrown, plus an exchange of suggestive text messages. die porn. It expanded the definition of what was considered Washington County’s prosecutor blocked release of the illegal material. And, importantly for Brown 25 years later, it evidence. Therefore, it’s not possible to say with precision raised the age of a “child” to someone under 18, instead of 16. what the cell phone images show. Jenkins and Brown say Today, fighting child pornography remains a top public they both agreed to the photos. Jenkins called them “silly safety priority for Attorney General John Kroger, whose things that all teenagers do.” “Internet Crimes Against Children” unit convicts, on averTheir descriptions of the photos may not be the most age, 35 Internet predators a year. reliable. However, they say one of the photos shows the two But when lawmakers across the country approved toughtouching tongues. Another depicted a naked female body. er anti-pornography measures 25 years ago in response to A third shows Jenkins between the legs of another per- Reagan’s federal push, making child porn required considson who is wearing a purple-and-white T-shirt but, appar- erable effort and expense. Legislators didn’t foresee a time ently, no pants. The image doesn’t show Brown’s face, but when teenagers themselves would have the equipment to police confiscated a purple-and-white T-shirt from Brown’s film and spread sexual images of minors themselves. mother’s apartment as evidence that the person is Brown. Since 2009, a growing number of states have carved out Police said this was evidence the two had had oral sex. exceptions to their anti-pornography laws to make sexting “We didn’t have sex,” Brown says. among minors a misdemeanor or juvenile offense rather than a felony. States have also moved to exempt young A web of seemingly contradictory laws govern young people convicted of sexting from having to appear on sex people’s relationships today. offender registries. Under Oregon law, a person commits the felony of using But not in Oregon, where the law hasn’t changed siga child in the display of sexually explicit conduct “if the nificantly since 1985. Instead, the decision of how a judicial person employs, authorizes, permits, compels or induces a system should accommodate this new challenge has been

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left to the 36 district attorneys in each of this state’s counties. Ed Caleb, the district attorney in Klamath County, says he doesn’t condone sexting. But pursuing felony charges against young people who sext is not among his priorities, especially considering the pervasiveness of the problem, he says. “I’d have the whole town in my office, if I did,” Caleb says. “This is like holding hands used to be.” Mike Dugan, district attorney for Deschutes County, takes a similar stance. When cases have come to his office for prosecution, lawyers have instead pursued lesser charges like disorderly conduct. Yet Dugan says the current law can be a good “two-by-four.” “Some of them have to be made examples of, and if we don’t have that two-byfour, they won’t be,” Dugan says. Michael Schrunk, district attorney for Multnomah County, says his office uses “common sense and good discretion.” A recent case involving a 33-year-old man who impersonated a police officer, then induced young, intoxicated girls to pose provocatively for his camera, is an example of the kind of case his office thinks fits the original purpose of the law—going after criminal minds, not foolish kids. Washington County appears to have a different attitude. State statistics suggest Washington County’s district attorney is the most aggressive in the state in pursuing anti-pornography charges against young people. Since 2005, Oregon grand juries have indicted 66 people age 21 and under on the charge of using a child in the display of sexually explicit conduct. Of those, the highest number came from Washington County, which indicted 19 young people, including Brown, on the charge. By comparison, Multnomah County, which has almost 200,000 more residents, indicted just four young people on the charge during the same period. And while it’s difficult to determine the exact circumstances surrounding all of those 66 indictments, which resulted in five convictions, it’s clear that some number of them involve sexting. Washington County District Attorney Bob Hermann wrote a three-page response to WW about his office’s approach. Hermann defended Brown’s prosecution, saying in a later interview that she had engaged in “sexual acts in violation of the law,” beyond sexting. He says his office applies the pornography charge “judiciously” and typically only in addition to other criminal charges. “Being aggressive about fighting crime,” says Dick Schouten, a Washington County commissioner, “that sounds like a good thing.”

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Oregon voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure last month that could have serious implications for teens indicted on sexting-related charges. Measure 73, which takes effect Dec. 2, imposes new mandatory minimum sentences on repeat offenders who commit serious sex crimes or drive under the influence of alcohol. It was billed as a measure that would punish the worst of the worst among us. But one provision of Measure 73 has critics of the sentencing initiative worried about unintended consequences. Specifically, it increases the penalty for criminals who commit two counts of displaying sexually explicit images of children from 70 months to 25 years. That means a person who takes two images of anyone under 18 on two different dates could face a sentence of 70 months for the first charge and 25 years for the second charge as part of the same case. (Measure 73 will have no effect on Brown, because it is not retroactive.) Even neutral observers of the measure say the change will have unforeseen ramifications. “I think this is going to have a big impact,” says Craig Prins, executive director of the state Criminal Justice Commission. “And it’s a concerning one.” So concerning, even crime victim advocate Kevin Mannix, the author of Measure 73, says there needs to be a less punitive tool for punishing sexting teens. “I do think this may trigger the Legislature to address sexting,” he says of Measure 73. Sen. Floyd Prozanski (D-Eugene) says that could happen in the 2011 session, and Attorney General John Kroger has said he would take a close look at whatever emerges. “You get the wrong mother finding the wrong cell phone with two pictures with two different dates on them, and you have a teenager facing 25 years in prison,” says Rob Raschio, president of the Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. —Beth Slovic Willamette Week DECEMBER 1, 2010 wweek.com

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CLOSE UP: A cell phone picture of the pair before Brown’s arrest.

On Nov. 17, Brown sat in a holding cell adjacent to a courtroom on the first floor of the Washington County jail, where she’d been confined since her arrest. She was wearing an orange overshirt and green-and-white striped pants. Shackles bound her hands around her waist. “Horrible” is how Brown later summed up her five weeks in jail. “I got called a child molester,” she says. “I was told I should kill myself. We were only allowed out of our cells six to eight hours a day. It was lonely and scary.” Facing the prospect of conviction and almost six years in prison, Brown decided to plead guilty to the lesser charge of luring a minor, a felony that doesn’t require registration as a sex offender. Perched on a courtroom bench with her hands clasped in prayer, Brown’s mother, a private-care aide for the elderly, was in court that day. Brown’s father, who had been hospitalized the night before with complications from diabetes, was also in the courtroom, clutching a cane. When asked to speak, Robert Brown, who is awaiting a kidney transplant, said: “I can’t drive and I can’t hardly walk. She’s my baby and if you all lock her up, you’re killing an ex-Marine. That’s me.” He added: “My baby is not a sex offender. She fell in love with somebody.” Absent from the courtroom was Carmen Brant, Jenkins’ mother and the one who originally called police. Jenkins herself was asked if she wanted to make a statement. Dressed in black patent-leather high heels, a pencil skirt and a white blouse, Jenkins could not have offered a more striking contrast to Brown’s prison garb. Her poise crumbled, however, when it came time for her to address the court. Tears filled her eyes as she covered her face with her hands. Later she said, “I feel victimized by the state, not her.” If Judge Eric Butterfield recognized this, he didn’t say. But when he sentenced Brown moments later, his terms were not as harsh as they could have been: three years of bench probation, $3,000 in court fees and an order to stay away from Jenkins until she turns 18 in July. It’s not as if Brown escaped punishment, however. Unable to make the $50,000 bail set for her in October, she was in jail for more than a month. She left with a felony conviction that will make her dream of becoming a children’s social worker much harder, if not impossible. In the meantime, that strike against her also cost her her job at the call center, which does not employ felons. “That’s my only income,” Brown says. “I was trying to save money, pay off debt.” She now somewhat regrets not having taken her chances with a jury. She thinks going to trial might have allowed her to be with Jenkins sooner. “I can handle not being able to see her,” Brown says. “But it sucks not even being able to talk to her. That takes it to a whole different level.” As Brown sat in jail, Jenkins reconsidered for the first time her aspirations to become a lawyer. “It’s not to me what justice should be,” she said. “And if it is, I don’t know if I want to be a part of it.” 18

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CULTURE: ’Tis the season for an overload of holiday events. DISH: ’Tis the season for Tibetan butter tea. DISH: ’Tis the season for hot food-porn photos. ONLINE: ’Tis the season to give at wweek.com/giveguide.

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SCOOP BLOWIN’ UP BIGGER THAN MOHAMED MOHAMUD. THE BREEDERS: One of the most promising (and fun) dance bands in Portland, O Bruxo, is calling it quits. We are mega-bummed by this news. The band, whose live shows were spontaneous, pulsing, sweaty affairs, cites a lack of time (there’s never really enough, is there?) for its demise. “The reason for our departure is simple,” David “Papi” Fimbres told WW via email. “There are children that must be taken care of within our band, and there doesn’t seem to be enough time in this world to do both.” He’s not calling his bandmates children, by the way—his bandmates have children, and children are well-known time thieves. Once again, leave it to children to ruin everything. O Bruxo’s last show will be this Saturday, Dec. 4, at the Woods with Point Juncture, WA and Petosky. BURGERS SUDDENLY APPEAR: Hallelujah. Little Bird, the second restaurant from Le Pigeon’s Gabe Rucker, will open for lunch and dinner Wednesday, Dec. 8, at 219 SW 6th Ave., with a menu that includes Rucker’s famously scarce burger (of which Le Pigeon makes only five per night). M&M SIGHTING, OMG: King of the PDX gadflys Byron Beck (byronbeck.com) had his hands full Thanksgiving weekend with news that both Matthew Perry (meh) and Michael Cera (yea!) were in town. Perry checked into a downtown hotel on T-Day and was later spotted at both Voodoo Doughnut and Bridgeport Cinemas, where he was reportedly snippy to aging Friends fans. Cera was spotted Saturday night at the Baby Ketten Karaoke dance party at Mississippi Studios, where he didn’t insult anybody. Why is Scott Pilgrim/George-Michael Bluth in town? We don’t know (and neither does Beck), but WW movie critic Aaron Mesh confidently states it is because Cera “really wants to hang out here.” SANTACON, SORTED: Mark your calendars! NoPDXAntiCon, the first of Portland’s many Santa-themed drinking events is this Saturday, Dec. 4, beginning at 12:30 pm at the Paul Bunyan statue in Kenton. The Cacophony Society’s SantaCon begins the following Saturday, Dec. 11, at Skidmore Fountain at an as-yet-unannounced time (12:30 pm is probably a good guess). A third event, organized by persons unknown, will be held Saturday, Dec. 18, at 12:30 pm at Club 15 (915 SW 2nd Ave.). As far as WW has been made aware, there will be no Santacon in Hillsboro or FosterPowell this year. GIVE IT UP: Have you given your favorite local nonprofit some love yet this holiday season? WW’s Give!Guide wants to help you with that. Portlanders raised more than $900,000 for local nonprofits through the guide last year and nearly $200,000 so far this year since Nov. 17. Visit wweek.com/giveguide to get the scoop on 79 of our favorite worthy groups, from Project POOCH and the Community Cycling Center to Ethos Inc. and Write Around Portland. Now go donate your little heart out. 20

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HEADOUT

MUSIC: Riders from Tulsa. STAGE: It shot my eye out. GALLERIES: Creepy seamen. BOOKS: Even more stuff white people like. SCREEN: Mos hi-def.

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WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK IN ARTS & CULTURE

WEDNESDAY DEC. 1 [DRINK] HOLIDAY ALE FEST Guzzle winter beers under gasheated tents at the base of the city’s Christmas tree. Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave. 2-10 pm Wednesday, 11 am-10 pm ThursdaySaturday, 11 am-5 pm Sunday, Dec. 1-5. $20 in advance at holidayale. com or $25 at the door. [COMEDY] SHELIUM Rissa Riss hosts a showcase of local women stand-up comics: Belinda Carroll, Veronica Heath, Lisa Myers, Holli Pappan, Carmen Trineece and Marcia Belsky. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm. $5. 21+.

THURSDAY DEC. 2 [DANCE] JASON SAMUELS SMITH Funky tap man Smith and company bring along a live jazz trio for their improv-laden show. Newmark Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm ThursdaySaturday, Dec. 2-4. $27.50-$68.50. [SCREEN] MY DINNER WITH A.J. Former WW movie critic David Walker debuts a movie, a conversation piece that does not have its own action figures. Yet. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 2814215. 7 pm. $5. [MUSIC] TENDER LOVING EMPIRE WINTER FORMAL Bust out your ugliest holiday sweater and kick back with the TLE crew for a night of folk rock, slow-dancing and prizes. The Woods, 6637 SE Milwaukie Ave., 890-0408. 9 pm. $15 (or free with the purchase of any holiday item at the TLE store). 21+.

FRIDAY DEC. 3 [MUSIC] CURREN$Y Shante Anthony Franklin does everyman stoner rap better than anyone not named Snoop Dogg, and he even name-drops Clyde Drexler on the record. Get this man a Blazers jersey! Roseland, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $20. All ages.

SUNDAY DEC. 5 Sunday Best Holiday Sale

Once again Studio Olivine picks and chooses its fave PDX artisans for a smallbatch gift show, including pretty goods like Rachael Donaldson’s intricate Demimonde jewelry, Elizabeth Soule’s quirky gnome- and lamb-related Polaroid art (pictured above) and Trish Grantham’s whimsical works. Bonus: Stumbling distance from a Clyde Common burger. Ace Hotel Cleaners, 403 SW 10th Ave. 11 am-7 pm Saturday, 11 am-5 pm Sunday, Dec. 4-5. Info at sundaybestholidaysale. blogspot.com.

3rd Annual Big 100 Art Show Benefit

If you can’t find the perfect picture for your loved one at Chris Haberman’s epic local art blowout, you’re doomed: More than 1,800 pieces from 100-plus artists (including Jesse Reno, Dan Ness and Rio Wrenn) are going for only $50 each. And it all benefits the Oregon Food Bank and Cascade AIDS Project. Bonus: It’s a bar and there are DJs—so you can drink and dance while you shop. Goodfoot, 2845 SE Stark St., 239-9292. 4 pm-2 am Thursday-Saturday, Dec. 2-4. Info on Facebook.

Give Good Art Holiday Sale Prints for PICA Mississippi Studios trades art for music on Sunday, with a cavalcade of local paintings and jewelry, from Laura Berrutti’s funky sterling silver rings to Swirly Girlie’s wearable art. Bonus: Bar Bar’s running a 16-ounce draft beer special for $3 for thirsty shoppers. Plus, buyers are entered in a raffle to win two tickets to Mississippi’s New Year’s Eve bash with Helio Sequence. Mississippi Studio, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 11 am-4 pm Sunday, Dec. 5. Cash preferred. Info at pdxpipeline.com.

The contemporary art giant’s eighth annual, one-day sale of one-of-a-kind monoprints from local artists is back. Bonus: Hobnob with arty types while nabbing a work that no one will get to buy again. Ever. Goldsmith Building, 20 NW 5th Ave. 6 pm Saturday, Dec. 11. Free. Info at pica.org.

Crafty Wonderland Super Colossal Holiday Sale

The local crafting behemoth returns with more than 250 artisans selling every adorably fascinating reconstructed, sustainably made, hand-knit, -glued, -soldered and -stitched product ever conceived of by a human being. Probably with a bird on it. Bonus: Goodie bags for early shoppers. Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Exhibit Hall C. 11 am-5 pm Saturday-Sunday, Dec. 11-12. Free. Info at craftywonderland.com.

[PARTY] BARFLY XMAS EXTRAVAGANZA Barfly’s boozy holiday party comes with a piñata full of bacon, $2 Ninkasi beers and dirty Santa presents from Taboo Video. O’Malley’s, 6535 SE Foster Road, 777-0495. 8 pm. Free. Info at barflymag.com.

TUESDAY DEC. 7 [SCREEN] EVERYONE GETS HURT BUT THERE’S NO ONE TO BLAME Pablo de Ocampo curates a bill of melodramas and meta-melodramas, including a one-man remake of Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. It’s a Fassbinder mind-bender! Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St., 232-8269. 7:30 pm Tuesday-Wednesday, Dec. 7-8. $7. Willamette Week DECEMBER 1, 2010 wweek.com

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HOLIDAY CALENDAR

PERFORMANCE DEC. 1-19: Mars on Life—Live! (Artists Repertory Theatre) 1515 SW Morrison St., 2411278, artistsrep.org. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 pm Sundays, 11 am Wednesday, Dec. 8. No shows Dec. 11-12 and 17-18. $25-$47, $20 students.

DEC. 1-JAN. 2: The Santaland Diaries (Portland Center Stage) Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700, pcs.org. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 pm SaturdaysSundays, 10 pm Thursdays Dec. 9-30, 5 pm Dec. 31. No shows Dec. 25 or Jan. 1. $30-$50, $23 youth.

1232, dojump.org. 7:30 pm Fridays, 3 and 7:30 pm Saturdays and 3 pm Sundays through Dec. 19; 3 pm Dec. 21, 3 and 7:30 pm Dec. 22, 7:30 pm Dec. 23, 27-30 and Jan. 1, noon and 3 pm Dec. 26 and Jan. 2. $32, $20 children.

DEC. 3: Indulge: A Dinner Circus Extravaganza (The Circus Project, Night Flight Aerial, Vagabond Opera) Adrianna Hill Grand Ballroom, 918 SW Yamhill St., second floor, thecircusproject. org. Silent auction at 7 pm, dinner show at 8 pm. $25-$50. 21+.

DEC. 10-JAN. 2: ZooZoo (Imago Theatre) 17 SE 8th Ave., 2319581, imagotheatre.com. 7 pm Fridays, 2 and 7 pm Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays Dec. 10-19; 2 pm Sundays-Tuesdays and Thursdays, 7 pm Wednesdays Dec. 21-Jan.2. No show Christmas and New Year’s Eve. $29, $25 students and seniors, $16 youth 16 and under.

DEC. 3-5, 9-12: The Christmas Revels 2010: In Celebration of the Winter Solstice (Portland Revels) Scottish Rite Theater, 1512 SW Morrison St., 274-4654. 7:30 pm Dec. 3, 1 and 7:30 pm Dec. 4, 1 and 7 pm Dec. 5, 7:30 pm Dec. 9 and 10, 1 and 7:30 pm Dec. 11, 1 and 5 pm Dec. 12. $7-$36.

DEC. 1-19: G.I. Holiday Jukebox (Broadway Rose Theatre Company) New Stage, 12850 SW Grant Ave., Tigard, 620-5262, broadwayrose.com. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Fridays, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. $28$35, $20 youth. DEC. 1-24: Ebenezer Ever After (Stumptown Stages) Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 381-8686, stumptownstages.com. 7 pm Thursdays, 7:30 pm FridaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays and Dec. 24. DEC. 1-26: A Christmas Story (Portland Center Stage) Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700, pcs.org. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturdays-Sundays. Noon and 5 pm shows Dec. 24. No show Dec. 25. $33-$63, $18 youth. 22

DEC. 3–12, 16-19: 1945 Christmas From Home (Tapestry Theatre Company) Dec. 3-12: Portland Community College Sylvania Campus, Performing Arts Center, 12000 SW 49th Ave. Dec. 16-19: Lewis & Clark College, Fir Acres Theatre, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, 245-6919, tapestrytheatre. org. 7:30 pm Fridays and Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays, plus 2 pm Dec. 11 and 18, 7:30 pm Dec. 16. $11-$30. DEC. 8-23: The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge (Bag & Baggage Productions) Venetian Theatre, 253 E Main St., Hillsboro, 3459590, bagnbaggage.org. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays and Tuesday, Dec. 21; 2 pm Sundays. $23, $18 students, seniors and military. DEC. 9-23: A Tuna Christmas (Oregon Repertory Theatre) Winningstad Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 1-800-7453000, oregonrep.org. 7:30 pm Dec. 9-11, 14-16 and 18-23, 2 pm Dec. 12. $15-$53.85. DEC. 10-JAN. 2: Greatest Hits for the Holidays (Do Jump!) Echo Theater, 1515 SE 37th Ave., 231-

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DEC. 11: Of Scary Ghost Stories and Tales of the Glories (The Free Theatre Co.) Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St., thefreetheatreofportland.blogspot. com. 7:30 pm Saturday. Free. DEC. 11-18: A Holiday Revue (Oregon Ballet Theatre) Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 2225538, obt.org. 7:30 pm Dec. 11 and 17-18, 2 pm Dec. 12. $20-$140, $10 students and military. DEC. 11-24: The Nutcracker (Oregon Ballet Theatre) Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 2225538, obt.org. 2 pm Dec. 11, 6:30 pm Dec. 12, 7:30 pm Dec. 15-16, 2 pm Dec. 18, 1 and 5:30 pm Dec. 19, 7:30 pm Dec. 20-21, 2 and 7:30 pm Dec. 22-23, noon Dec. 24. $20-$135, $10 students and military.

pm Sunday. $28-$45, $22 seniors, $10 students. DEC. 5: Handel’s Messiah (Bravo! Vancouver Chorale) St. Joseph Church, 400 S Andresen Road, Vancouver, 360-906-0441, bravoconcerts.com. 2 pm Sunday. $20. DEC. 6: Béla Fleck and the Flecktones (Oregon Symphony) Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353, orsymphony.org. 7:30 pm Monday. $23-$123.

DEC. 21: A Christmas Carol (Wordplay Theatre Company) The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., wordplaytheatre.com. Noon Tuesday, Dec. 21. $16, $10 students, $22 for limited reserved seats.

MUSIC DEC. 2-4: The Singing Christmas Tree. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 557-8733, singingchristmastree.org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Friday, 2:30 and 7:30 pm Saturday. $12-$75. DEC. 4-5: Wintersong! (Portland Symphonic Choir) St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1716 NW Davis St., pschoir.org. 7:30 pm Saturday, 2 pm Sunday. $15-$35.

DEC. 16-18: Cool Yule! (Northwest Dance Project) Northwest Dance Project Studio and Performance Center, 833 N Shaver St., nwpdp. com/shows.html. 7 pm Thursday (with artist reception), 7 and 9 pm Friday and Saturday. $33-$50.

DEC. 5: A Holiday Gift of Music (Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra) Mount Hood Community College Theater, 26000 SE Stark St., Gresham, 234-4077, columbiasymphony. org. 3 pm Sunday, Dec. 5. $10, $5 students and children.

DEC. 18: Solstice Party (Mudeye Puppet Company) Taborspace, 5441 SE Belmont St., mudeyepuppets.org. 4-6 pm Saturday. $8, $6 children.

DEC. 5: Cascadia Yulegrass with Darol Anger Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 427-8201, albertarosetheatre.com. 4 and 7:30 pm Sunday. $10-$35.

DEC. 18-20: A Nutcracker Tea (Northwest Dance Theatre) PCC Sylvania Performing Arts Center, 12000 SW 49th Ave., nwdt.org. 2 and 7 pm Saturday-Monday. $12-$28.

DEC. 5: Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (Clackamas Community College Chamber Choir and Sinfonia Concertante Orchestra) Central Lutheran Church, 1820 NE 21st Ave., 231-1421, sinfoniapdx.org. 7

HOLIDAY CALENDAR

DEC. 12 and 17-19: Glory of Christmas (Oregon Repertory Singers) St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1716 NW Davis St., 2300652, orsingers.org. 2 pm Sundays, 8 pm Friday-Saturday. $10-$30.

DEC. 6-7: Takács Quartet (Friends of Chamber Music) Lincoln Performance Hall, PSU, 1620 SW Park Ave., 224-9842, focm.org. 7:30 pm Monday-Tuesday. $27$40, $14-$20 students. DEC. 7-8 and 15-16: The Hollytones Wilfs Restaurant and Bar, 800 NW 6th Ave., 223-0070, wilfsrestaurant.com. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Thursdays. $15. DEC. 9-10: White Album Christmas (Wanderlust Circus and the Nowhere Band) Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 427-8201, albertarosetheatre.com. 9 pm Thursday-Friday. $20-$25. Accompanied minors welcome. DEC. 10: Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (Bach Cantata Choir) Rose City Park Presbyterian Church, 1907 NE 45th Ave., bachcantatachoir.org. 7:30 pm Friday. $23, $18 students and seniors. DEC. 10-11: Jingle Bell Swing (Portland Gay Men’s Chorus) Portland Center for the Performing Arts, Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 2262588, pdxgmc.org. 8 pm Friday, 2 pm and 8 pm Saturday. $16-$42. DEC. 10-12: Gospel Christmas (Oregon Symphony) Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353, orsymphony. org. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday, 4 pm Sunday. $23-$88. DEC. 10-12: Handel’s complete Messiah (Portland Baroque Orchestra) First Baptist Church, 909 SW 11th Ave., 222-6000, pbo. org. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday, 4 pm Sunday. $22-$52.

DEC. 16: Celtic Christmas Celebration (Molly’s Revenge, Moira Smiley, Gabrielle Maher Irish Dancers) Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 427-8201, albertarosetheatre.com. 7:30 pm Thursday. $12-$20. DEC. 17: Portland Cello Project, Corin Tucker Band, Typhoon, the Golden Bears, PHAME Academy Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047, mcmenamins.com/ crystalballroom. 8 pm Friday. $15-$18. DEC. 17-19: Christmas Concerts (Bassist David Friesen with Dan Gaynor, Tim Willcox, Rob Davis, Charlie Doggett) O’Connors Vault, 7850 SW Capital Highway, 2441690, 8:30 pm Friday. Woodstock Wine & Deli, 4030 SE Woodstock Blvd., 777-2208, 8 pm Saturday. Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1624 NE Hancock St., 287-1289, 8 pm Sunday. DEC. 18: Brazilian Christmas Dance Party (The Lions of Batucada with guests from Brazil) Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686, wonderballroom. com. 9 pm Saturday. $10-$12. DEC. 18-19: Christmas With the Choral Arts Ensemble of Portland First Unitarian Church, 1011 SW 12th Ave., 488-3834, caeportland. com. 7:30 pm Saturday, 3 pm Sunday. $10-$15. DEC. 18-19: Handel’s Messiah (Oregon Symphony) Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353, orsymphony. org. 7:30 pm Saturday, 2 pm Sunday. $25-$95. DEC. 21: A December Feast (In Mulieribus) St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1716 NW Davis St., inmulieribus. org. 7:30 pm Tuesday. $12-$20.

DEC. 11: Colin Carr and Thomas Sauer (Chamber Music Northwest) St. Mary’s Academy, 1615 SW 5th Ave., 294-6400, cmnw.org. 7:30 pm Saturday. $12-$45.

DEC. 22-23: Handel’s Messiah (Portland Chamber Orchestra) Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1624 NE Hancock St., portlandchamberorchestra.org. 7:30 pm Wednesday. St. Matthew Catholic Church, 475 SE 3rd Ave., Hillsboro, 7:30 pm Thursday. $5-$25.

DEC. 11: Celtic Yuletide Concert (Magical Strings) First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park Ave., 253-857-3716, magicalstrings.com. 7:30 pm. $12-$26.

DEC. 23: Comfort and Joy (Pacific Youth Choir and Oregon Symphony) Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353, orsymphony.org. 7:30 pm Thursday. $18-$53.

DEC. 11: Tuba Christmas Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave., pioneercourthousesquare. org. 1:30 pm Saturday. Free.

DEC. 26: Concert at Christmas (Portland Youth Philharmonic) Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 223-5939, portlandyouthphil.org. 7:30 pm Sunday. $11-$37.

DEC. 11-12: The Majesty of Christmas (Vancouver USA Singers) First Presbyterian Church, 4300 Main St., Vancouver, 360-513-8315, vancouversingers. org. 7 pm Saturday, 3 pm Sunday. $12, $10 students and seniors.

DEC. 26: Out of the Orient Crystal Skies (Oregon Renaissance Band) Community Music Center, 3350 SE Francis St., 631-2973, emgo.org/events.htm. 3 and 7:30 pm Sunday. Free.

SHOPPING DEC. 1-JAN. 8: Give Local. Give Craft (Museum of Contemporary Craft) Gallery, 724 NW Davis St., 223-2654, gallery. museumofcontemporarycraft.org. 11 am-6 pm Tuesdays-Saturdays. Free. DEC. 3: Holiday Ceramics, Woodwork and Illustration Sale Radius Community Arts Studio, 322 SE Morrison St., 231-4145, radiusstudio.org. 6-9 pm Friday. Free. DEC. 3-4: Holiday Bazaar Leach Botanical Garden Manor House, 6704 SE 122nd Ave., 823-1671, leachgarden.org. 9 am-3 pm Friday-Saturday. Free. DEC. 3-5: America’s Largest Christmas Bazaar Portland Expo Center, 2060 N Marine Drive, 282-0974, expochristmasbazaar. com. 10 am-6 pm FridaySaturday, 10 am-5 pm Sunday. $6.50, $3.25 youth 12-17, children under 12 free. DEC. 4: Cathedral Park Place Holiday Sale 6635 N Baltimore St., mudeyepuppets.org/calendar. 10 am-2 pm Saturday, Dec. 4. Free. DEC. 4: French American International School Holiday Market 8500 NW Johnson St., 292-7776, faispdx.org. 9 am-4 pm Saturday. Free. DEC. 4: Hillsboro Holiday Market and Festival Main Street between 1st and 2nd streets, Hillsboro. Market 2-7 pm, parade 2 pm, Santa visits 2-4 pm, Radio Disney 4-5:30 pm, tree lighting 5:45 pm Saturday. Free. DEC. 4: Laurelhurst Artisan Bazaar Laurelhurst School, 840 NE 41st Ave., twitter.com/ laurelhurstbaz. 9 am-5 pm Saturday. Free. DEC. 4-5: BikeCraft Portland Design Works Mothership, 15 NE Hancock St., bikeportland.org/ bikecraft. 10 am-6 pm SaturdaySunday. Free. DEC. 4-5: Decemberville Sales and specials throughout Sellwood, see sellwoodwestmoreland.com for details. All day SaturdaySunday. DEC. 5: Give Good Art Holiday Sale Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave. 11 am-4 pm Sunday. Free. DEC. 7-10: Holiday Artisan Market Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave., bemerrydowntown. org. 11:30 am-6:30 pm. Free.

DEC. 16-24: Festival of the Last Minute Portland Saturday Market, Southwest Ankeny Street and Naito Parkway, portlandsaturdaymarket.com. 11 am-6 pm Mondays-Fridays, 10 am-5 pm Saturday, 11 am-4:30 pm Sunday. Free. DEC. 19: Handmade NW Formal Holiday Artisans Fair The Acadian Ballroom, 1829 NE Alberta St., handmadenw.com. 11 am-5 pm Sunday. Free.

ACTIVITIES DEC. 1-26: Jubitz Winter Wonderland Portland International Raceway, 1940 N Victory Blvd., 232-3000, globaleventsgrouppdx.com. 5-9 pm Sundays-Thursdays, 5-11 pm Fridays-Saturdays. Bike night Dec. 6. $6-$16. Cash only. DEC. 1-30: Christmas Festival of Lights The Grotto, 8840 NE Skidmore St., 261-2400, thegrotto. org. 5-9:30 pm nightly. Closed Christmas Day. $8, $4 children ages 3-12. DEC. 1-JAN. 2: ZooLights Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Road, 2261561. 5-8 pm Sundays-Thursdays, 5-8:30 pm and Fridays-Saturdays. Closed Dec. 24-25. $7.50-$10.75. DEC. 1-JAN. 2: A Northwest Christmas: The Natural Beauty and Bounty of Oregon Pittock Mansion, 3229 NW Pittock Drive, 823-3623. 11 am-4 pm daily. $6-$9. DEC. 3-29: Christmas Fantasy Trail 19754 South Ridge Road, Oregon City, 631-2047, fantasytrail.com. 6-9 pm MondaysSaturdays. $4, $3.50 children under 12. DEC. 4: NoPDXAnticon The only one of the city’s many Santathemed rampages to pick a date by press time, this one meets at the Paul Bunyan statue, North Denver Avenue and Argyle Street, nopdxanticon.wordpress.com. 12:30 pm Saturday, Dec. 4. Santa costumes required. 21+, obviously. See santacon.info for other Santacon dates.

DEC. 11: Christmas at Fort Vancouver Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, 612 E Reserve St., Vancouver, 360-8166320, nps.gov/fova. 10 am-3 pm Saturday. $3, $5 per family. DEC. 15-31: Peacock Lane Between Southeast Stark and Belmont Streets, one block east of Southeast 39th Avenue. 6-11 pm nightly, 6 pm-midnight Dec. 24 and 31. Free.

OTHER STUFF DEC. 1-5: Holiday Ale Festival Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave., 252-9899, holidayale. com. 2-10 pm Wednesday, 11 am-10 pm Thursday-Saturday, 11 am-5 pm Sunday. $20 for mug and 10 tastes, additional tastes $1 each. 21+. DEC. 3-4: Providence Festival of Trees Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Hall A, providence. org/oregon/events/festival_of_ trees_10. 10 am-9 pm Saturday, 10 am-6 pm Sunday. $4-$6. DEC. 4-5: ScanFair Smith Memorial Ballroom, Portland State University, 1825 SW Broadway, scanheritage.org. Fair 10 am-5 pm, dance 7-10 pm Saturday; fair 10 am-4 pm Sunday. $5-$6, children under 12 free. DEC. 5: Trail Blazers vs. Los Angeles Clippers Hanukkah Celebration Night Rose Quarter, 246-5437, chabadoregon.com/ blazersfive. 4 pm pregame party, 6 pm tipoff. $23-$70. DEC. 11: Turning of the Wheel Yuletide Festival The Q Center, 4115 N Mississippi Ave., turningofthewheelfest@yahoo. com, pdxqcenter.org. 3-8 pm Saturday. $5-$10. DEC. 12: Posada Milagro (Miracle Theatre Group) 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253, milagro.org. 1-5 pm Sunday. Free.

DEC. 7-8: Chanukah Menorah Lighting Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave., bemerrydowntown.org. All day Tuesday-Wednesday. Free. DEC. 9-21: Christmas Ship Parade Willamette and Columbia rivers, various locations. See christmasships. org for schedule. Free.

DEC. 9: Hawthorne Boulevard Holiday Stroll Various businesses on Hawthorne Boulevard. 6-9 pm Thursday. Free. DEC. 11: Season’s Eatings Food, Wine and Spirits Market (benefits Oregon Food Bank) New Deal Distillery, 1311 SE 9th Ave., 2342513. Noon-5 pm Saturday. Admission one nonperishable food item.

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DEC. 12: Christmas Carol SingA-Long (Concordia University Choir) Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave., pioneercourthousesquare. org. 1-2 pm Sunday. Free.

CULTURE

DEC. 11-12: Crafty Wonderland Super Colossal Holiday Sale Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Exhibit Hall C, craftywonderland. com. 11 am-5 pm SaturdaySunday. Free. Willamette Week DECEMBER 1, 2010 wweek.com

MORE OF THE BEST OF THE YEAR 2010 LUISA MAITA LERO-LERO ON SALE $10.99 CD ALSO AVAILABLE: MAITA REMIXED

PETER ROWAN BLUEGRASS BAND LEGACY ON SALE $13.99 CD

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, ‘LeroLero’ 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.

Since his apprenticeship some 45 years ago with Bill Monroe, Peter Rowan has blazed trails across an unsurpassed range of musical territory. Backed by his veteran touring Bluegrass Band (Jody Stecher, Keith Little, Paul Knight) and guests including Del McCoury, Ricky Skaggs, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings and Tim O’Brien, Rowan delivers a hefty dose of inspired singing and traditionally-informed but fresh original songs that bear his unmistakable stamp.

LOS LOBOS TIN CAN TRUST ON SALE $12.99 CD • LP ALSO AVAILABLE

Featuring powerful rock ’n’ roll, blistering blues, two Spanish-language tracks (a cumbia and a Norteña), and even a Grateful Dead cover, ‘Tin Can Trust’ is classic Lobos through and through. And, like many of their albums, it is an album that speaks to the time and place in which it was conceived, dealing largely with the economic challenges many people are facing today.

RICHARD THOMPSON DREAM ATTIC ON SALE $12.99 CD Richard Thompson returns with a collection of 13 brand-new songs recorded in front of a live audiences during a February 2010 West Coast tour. By recording ‘Dream Attic’ on stage, Thompson was able to capture the interaction between himself and his band members, who between them add acoustic guitar, mandolin, violin, sax, bass and drums into the mix.

PATTY LARKIN 25 ON SALE $13.99 2CD 2010 marks Patty Larkin’s 25th year of recording music. Follow her musical journey as she reworks 25 love songs from 1985-2010 with the help of 25 very special guests including Shawn Colvin, Suzanne Vega, Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Bruce Cockburn, Rosanne Cash, Martin Sexton, Dar Williams and many more. OFFER GOOD THRU: 12/31/10

SANTA RECOMMENDS BROTHERS OF THE BALADI TIME OF PEACE ON SALE $12.99 CD

FLOACIST FLOETIC SOUL ON SALE $13.99 CD

‘A Time of Peace’ is an instrumental collection of Christmas songs performed on traditional Middle Eastern instruments by Brothers of the Baladi, in the true spirit of the holidays. Features Ishmael, master of the kanoon (an eighty-four-string Middle Eastern hammer dulcimer), as well as Stephen Skaggs on oud and Steve Flynn on Turkish ney (flute). Brothers of the Baladi are one of the largest sellers of belly dance music, both nationally and internationally.

Floetry founder Natalie Stewart takes her concept she invented to the next level with her solo debut release. Floetry made its mark as a unique duo featuring poet/rapper Natalie Stewart aka “The Floacist” and singer Marcia Ambrosius. ‘Floetic Soul’ delivers the same unique concept and includes a stellar list of guest vocalists and producers including JR Hutson and Chris “Big Dog” Davis.

JIMI HENDRIX WEST COAST SEATTLE BOY: THE JIMI HENDRIX ANTHOLOGY ON SALE $10.99 CD / $16.99 CD/DVD / $55.99 4CD/1DVD LP ALSO AVAILABLE This 4CD/1DVD collection tracks Jimi’s incredible journey from R&B sideman to international acclaim and collects—for the first time—the most sought after of Jimi’s pre-Experience recordings as a sideman for such Rhythm & Blues stars as The Isley Brothers, Don Covay, Little Richard and others. The remaining three discs feature previously unreleased and commercially unavailable studio recordings from every chapter of his career. The DVD features rare and never before seen footage and photos—as well as the Hendrix family archive of the late guitarist’s personal drawings, postcards home to his father, song drafts, sketches, lyrics are all featured in this special 90 minute presentation.

ROBERT GREENIDGE A CORAL REEFER CHRISTMAS ON SALE $10.99 CD Raised on the sounds of the steel drum on the island of Trinidad, Robert Greenidge has become one of the preeminent pan players in the world. Also, a member of Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band, Robert joins his bandmates, Roger Guth (Drums), Jim Mayer (Bass), Michael Utley (Keyboards), Peter Mayer (Guitar), Ralph MacDonald (Percussion) and Mac McAnally (Guitar, Mandolin and Keyboard) to deliver the ultimate Island-flavored Christmas!

OFFER GOOD THRU: 12/31/10

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THE NATIONAL HIGH VIOLET (EXPANDED EDITION) ON SALE $12.99 CD ‘High Violet’ is a nervy, melodic, explosive and beautiful set of songs that find the band at the height of their collaborative powers. The music is wide-ranging in its moods, by turns intimate and rough, expansive and spare, full of stark angles and atmosphere. This limited edition expanded version contains eight bonus tracks including an alternate version of “Terrible Love,” two brand new songs (“Wake Up Your Saints” and “You Were A Kindness”), two b-sides and three live recordings.

UPCOMING IN-STORE PERFORMANCES OLD LIGHT THURSDAY 12/2 @ 6PM 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.

COBIRDS UNITE

SATURDAY 12/4 @ 4PM

Having crafted records since 1982, the shy, reclusive Pacific Northwesterner Rusty Willoughby is well loved and cult-followed for his trio of rock/pop bands Pure Joy, Flop and Llama. For his newest album of stunning, lo-electricity recordings, Willoughby set out to channel his folk noir influences. Willoughby and Visqueen's front woman, Rachel Flotard, were rounded out with a brilliant cast of musicians that included Barrett Martin (Screaming Trees), Barb Hunter (Afghan Whigs), Maggie Bjorklund (Mark Lanegan) and Johnny Sangster (Mudhoney). With Cobirds Unite, Willoughby stepped out of his comfort zone and crafted his most moving album to date!

SONGWRITERS CIRCLE Featuring: CHRIS KOKESH, ORION COLEMAN & JACK MCMAHON

MONDAY 12/6 @ 7PM

Chris Kokesh: With the inception of the band Misty River in 1997, Chris Kokesh became a distinctive voice on the Northwest music scene. Kokesh helped create Misty River's signature vocal blend and modern folk style. With the 2010 release of her solo CD, ‘October Valentine,’ her stunning songwriting, crystalline vocals, tasty fiddle and solid guitar have distinguished her as a stand-alone talent. Orion Coleman: Brought up in the hollows and black oak hills of southwestern Wisconsin, Orion Coleman carries something from there in his voice. Written in a simple acoustic framework the music calls for more. "I hope to return to a style with more of a rhythm section and electrified sound. Portland is really exciting; lots of nooks and crannies. I feel really creative here.” Jack McMahon is a performing songwriter as well host and organizer of the Music Millennium Songwriters’ Showcase. McMahon has been a working musician for all of his adult life, Jack's penchant for catchy hooks and emotionally charged lyrics have made him a favorite of long time fans and neophytes alike.

HALIE LOREN TUESDAY 12/7 @ 6PM The first thing you notice is that voice: deep and rich and warm, gorgeous, graceful, and somehow earthy and ethereal at once. It is an instrument perfectly pitched and primed to each line, with each audible breath. Just as warm and familiar and frankly right as the needle hitting the groove on vinyl. ‘After Dark,’ Loren's latest release, fuses her unique song interpretations and songwriting chops with her deep roots in jazz.

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DISH EVENTS THIS WEEK Portland Blind Cafe

Go out on the town like you never have before: blind. At the Portland Blind Cafe community awarenessvent, participants eat dinner and listen to a musical performance in pitch-black darkness and find out how different life is when they can’t see. Gluten-free vegan meal by Portland chef Ivy Entreken. Musical entertainment by Rosh & “One Eye Glass Broken.” Poetry by Rick Hammond. A percentage of the proceeds will support Pups at Work for Sight, an organization that works with the blind and visually impaired in Portland. CC. TaborSpace, 5441 SE Belmont St. 7:30 pm seating, 8 pm show Wednesday-Saturday, Dec. 1-4. Tickets available by calling 1-800-8383006 and online at brownpapertickets. com/event/131623. $45 general admission, $35 students, seniors.

Holiday Ale Festival

Warm up for those holiday gatherings with the 15th annual Holiday Ale Fest. Sample four dozen winter craft ales created especially for the occasion— belgians, barleywines, pilsners, porters, strong ales and stouts with “rich,” “robust” and “complex” flavors. The kegs are located under gas-heated tents at the base of the city’s 75-foot decorated Christmas tree. CHRISTINA COOKE. Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave. 2-10 pm Wednesday, 11 am-10 pm Thursday-Saturday, 11 am-5 pm Sunday, Dec. 1-5. Belgian Beer Brunch 11 am-1 pm Sunday, Dec. 5. $45. $20 in advance at holidayale.com or $25 at the door.

“Breakfast for Dinner” Book Party at Kenny and Zuke’s

There are few things Portlanders love more than breakfast. Local author Paul Gerald caters to the city of biscuit, waffle and omelette aficionados with his newly updated book, Breakfast in Bridgetown. The 2010 edition includes more than 120 breakfast restaurant reviews, plus a new section on ethnic breakfasts by Kenny & Zuke’s co-owner Nick Zukin and sections on food carts and out-of-town locations. At the “Breakfast for Dinner” book party, Gerald will speak on topics ranging from book publishing to bacon, and Kenny and Zuke’s Deli will serve challah frenchtoast lollipops, breakfast-sandwich sliders and blueberry blintz purses (beer, wine and soda sold separately). “I aim to tell the story of each breakfast place,” says Gerald. “Whether it’s a mom-andpop diner or a fancy weekend brunch, I like to give the reader a sense of the place: what’s the food like, who eats there, and what the scene is like.” CC. Kenny & Zuke’s Delicatessen, 1038 SW Stark St., 222-3354. 6:30-8 pm Monday, Dec. 6. Tickets $9 or free with purchase of a book, $16. Call or e-mail deli for reservations.

Woodstock Wine & Deli’s 25th Anniversary Celebration

FISH TALES: Fin chef Trent Pierce finishes off a hot stone bowl of Szechuan seafood sausage, tofu and chile mopo dofu.

Woodstock Wine & Deli has made it to 25 and plans to celebrate in style with Champagne, caviar and tasty hors d’oeuvres, including a slow-smoked barbecued pig, handmade sushi and fresh, hand-shucked oysters. CC. Woodstock Wine & Deli, 4030 SE Woodstock Blvd., 777-2208. 2-6 pm Saturday, Dec. 4. $5 admission. Wine and some food free; some available at reduced cost.

THE ANTI-JAKE’S FIN TAKES DINERS THROUGH UNCHARTED WATERS.

Screw fall. None of this autumn leaf and pumpkin patch romanticism for me—it’s gray and drizzly and one big depressing downward spiral into winter. Rushing through downtown to avoid the rapidly plummeting temperature and the onset of seasonal affective disorder, I almost missed this tiny, unassuming new cart. But huddled under a rickety old cafe umbrella, I met another young woman saying “screw fall” by brewing up delicious, comforting teas gathered from her travels throughout Asia— spicy, fragrant Indian chai ($2.25), salty Tibetan butter CHAI CHUSKI OWNER LAURA JOHNSON tea ($2.50), aromatic, umamirich Japanese matcha green Best bite: Cinnamon chai ($2.25)—add some tea ($2.25) and the creamy, cocoa for 50 cents. I won’t tell. complex tea-coffee blend of Cheapest bite: Cute housemade cookies pastries ($1-$1.50) are actually cheaper Hong Kong-style yuanyang and than the drinks here, but just as tasty. ($2.50). It’s not all completely authentic—cocoa powder is a surprisingly delicious optional addition, and the Tibetan tea (thankfully) isn’t made from yak butter—but the cooking method is charmingly old school, with each individual cup made to order in well-weathered saucepans on a little two-burner stove. Yes, you will have to wait, and it’s cold and damp, and there’s no wi-fi, but watching your brew bubble away as the warm scent of exotic spices tempers the crisp air, fall doesn’t seem so bad after all. RUTH BROWN. GO: Chai Chuski, Southwest 5th Avenue and Morrison Street. 10:30 am-2:15 pm Monday-Friday. $ Inexpensive. Cash only.

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still lingered in my mouth, so perhaps a proper palate cleanser would have helped the carpaccio.) The butterfish tartare ($11) needed no such qualifiers, as the tender chunks of yuzu-dressed fish meshed well with the crunch of pomegranate seeds and tobiko (flying fish roe). Sweet kabocha squash nestled in the tasty dollop rounded out the salty and pungent flavors in the dish. BY B R IA N PA N GA N IB A N bpanganiban@wweek.com The hot dishes at Fin are all about luxury. Witness the gnocchi alla Romagna ($16), the Outside the perfunctory nod fish is given in airy semolina dumplings draped in a buttery sea most of the finer restaurants in town, Portland urchin sauce laden with Dungeness crab, so rich diners of a piscatorial bent have been limited to and sweet it could double as dessert. Higher up visiting one of the sushi joints scattered around on the food bling scale is Fin’s treatment of some town or settling on an outpost of the McCormick larger portions of fish, like a lovely hunk of mar& Schmick’s empire. Fin, helmed by chef Trent lin belly ($16), cooked perfectly medium, clad Pierce and opened over the summer in the space in lardo and perfumed with truffle ponzu and formerly occupied by Sel Gris, is determined to chanterelles. Big eye tuna ($22) that received boldly elevate Portland’s seafood dining experi- the same outfitting was a touch sinewy, but was ence beyond boilerplate slabs of grilled salmon. helped with the addition of several slivers of Aside from a few missteps, shaved truffle. it succeeds, wielding a small Order this: Any permutation of the As exciting an operation as Fin but focused menu of artfully lardo-wrapped fish with truffle ponzu. is, it can still produce clunkers. Hand-cut squid-ink tagliatelle assembled creations that chal- Best deal: The tartare with accompanying microgreens is surprisingly ($14) looked exotic enough, lenge and delight. filling ($12). the blue-black noodles blanFin’s menu is designed with I’ll pass: Seafood Bolognese, unless a shared, smaller-plate focus. you’re feeling nostalgic. keted in a seafood Bolognese. Ninety percent of its fish are But one bite had a dining comflown in from Hawaii. The ever-changing menu panion looking for some crushed potato chips, features both raw and hot sections, with a note as the shockingly familiar tuna noodle casserole that to preserve the delicate flavors of each dish, qualities of the dish became apparent. “I feel like they are served as soon as they are ready. With I’ve been punched in the mouth by the ’80s,” she some of the raw preparations, such just-in-time exclaimed, parochial-school cafeteria memories manufacturing is vital, as was the case with the rushing back. ceviche ($12). The glistening hunks of ono were Who knows? Perhaps that was the effect the bathed in lime juice just long enough for the sur- kitchen was aiming at. Everything about Fin— face proteins to denature without turning rub- visually, texturally, gustatorily—seems designed bery, while heat from Thai chiles played nicely to elicit a response of some sort. With a staff off herbs and ginger. The dish did skirt the edge seemingly dedicated to being unconventional, of overwrought—it was sometimes difficult to you shouldn’t put it past them. discern the flavor of the fish past the nuoc mamlike dressing—but the bites in which the fish was EAT: Fin, 1852 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 517-7770, finpdx.com. Dinner 5:30-10 pm Tuesday- Saturday. the primary player were sublime. In that regard, $$ Moderate. Note: This past Monday Trent Pierce the yellowfin carpaccio ($13) was less effective, revealed that Fin is expanding its menu for a more as the flavor of the beautiful, translucent sheets “gastropub” vibe, including meat options and a dedicated pasta section. We’ll report back soon of fish was lost beneath a slick of ponzu soy and with our take on the changes. chives. (To be fair, the taste of that great ceviche Willamette Week DECEMBER 1, 2010 wweek.com

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DELORES CUSTER For the past 35 years, Delores Custer has been making people hungry for everything from pies and pizzas to haute cuisine. As one of the world’s best food stylists, she’s turned recipes into camera-ready masterpieces for Bon Appetit, the Food Network, Julia Child and even movies like The Muppets Take Manhattan and Trading Places. In the past decade Custer, an Oregon Coast native turned New Yorker who moved to PDX earlier this year, has been working as a food-styling instructor for schools across the globe, including the Culinary Institute of America. Earlier this year, she released the ultimate foodie holiday gift—Food Styling, a giant book full of tips, tricks and stories from the biz. She’s planning on holding PDX food porn workshops in 2011, but first she explained to WW why fake ice cubes rock. KELLY CLARKE. Her job is to make you drool.

WW: OK, what exactly does a food stylist do? Delores Custer: Our job is to make you want to eat the food…to make somebody want to try the recipe, want to go to Burger King, want to buy the book…. [She displays a picture of the most deliciouslooking bread pudding ever, which she styled.] See? It’s the ooeygooey, the chocolate, the “oooh, I wanna dive into this!” look.

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What are the toughest foods to style? Pizzas. The cheese congeals in a very short amount of time, and it doesn’t look attractive. Then sometimes [the client] wants that pizza-pull look [mimics the cheese stretching out], and knowing how to do that, and make it beautiful and just right…. Also, ice cream, because it doesn’t last very long…. There are a couple of people who are very good at it…there’s an Ice Cream Man. He’s having a lot of trouble with carpal tunnel because of all of the pulling he has had to do to get those perfect scoops. What’s in your food-stylist tool kit? [My] hands. But I have tweezers, a wooden skewer, good paintbrushes (the little ones that are very soft), a good, sharp knife, and I love my scissors. They’ll go through chicken bones and also snip off the little, tiny piece of dill that’s sticking out too far. Don’t you use glue and soy sauce to make things look tasty? It depends on the job. We really, really cook when we’re doing editorial [like magazines]. If I want to put just a little glisten on the chocolate-chip cookies, I use a heat gun for just onehundredth of a second, and it gives it this “just came out of the oven” look. In advertising, sometimes they want things a little more...perfect. When we’re selling an alcoholic beverage, the photographer may use fake ice. The cubes are $30 to $40 each, hand-designed. When [you] shine a light through the glass, it’s just gorgeous. The same guy makes fake splashes [she shows me a white, liquid-looking acrylic blob]—this would be a fake splash of milk you would see on the cover of a box of cereal. It’s $250. MORE: Find info on Delores Custer’s book and upcoming workshops at delorescuster.com. Read a longer Q&A at wweek.com.

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Prices listed are sometimes for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply. Addresses for local venues are listed in WW’s Clublist column, page 39, or online at blogs.wweek.com/music/clublist/ Editors: CASEY JARMAN, MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, 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. Please include show or release date information with all physical mailings. Email: cjarman@wweek.com Fax: 243-1115.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 1 Blue Cranes, The Youngs, Why I Must Be Careful

[JAZZ AND FRIENDS!] Blue Cranes’ latest disc, Observatories, isn’t just one of the best jazz releases out of Portland this year, it’s one of the best releases out of Portland this year—or any year, for that matter. A deep, beautifully composed and then radically deconstructed effort, it rocks harder than most rock albums and says more than most singer-songwriters—without any words at all. I realize that, for some people, “jazz” is a dirty word—even the Blue Cranes themselves avoid throwing it around—but the Cranes’ music throws back to an envelope-pushing era when “jazz” could mean just about anything. There’s Mingus and Coltrane in here— even if there’s also a bit of Bazan and Kozelek, two songwriters the Cranes cover (the Bazan cut, “Harmless Sparks,” is especially full of life) on their new EP, Cantus Firmus. There’s nothing forced about these pop covers—they seem to flow out of the Cranes just as easily as their epic original tunes. CASEY JARMAN. Berbati’s Pan. 9 pm. $8. All ages.

Passion Pit, Mister Heavenly, We Barbarians, Pepper Rabbit

[SEQUENCERS OF LOVE] While homegrown applications of pop electronica have thus far lacked a certain, sigh, energy—too distanced, too artful, too affected by tastemaker whimsy— one has to consider the different ways Europeans and Americans judge technological detritus. Where landfills of children’s synths fuel a post-apocalyptic abandon among the older cultures, Passion Pit singularly admits our reflexive, for lack of a better word, delight. Even if Pit boss/vocalist Michael Angelakos hadn’t famously forged the core sound as an undergrad Valentine’s Day present, even if he couldn’t effortlessly trill castrato, the guile-free falsetto fight of digitized urges encoding the troupe’s 2009 debut, Manners, would still stall malls and fill club floors. We tremblingly await the Christmas single. JAY HORTON. Crystal Ballroom. 8 pm. $29.50. All ages.

The Queers, Kepi Ghoulie, The Riptides, The Blood Types

[HORNDOG POP PUNK] Twenty-eight years ago: Joe Queer adopts offensive name, starts band. Twenty years ago: Said band releases Grow Up, the first full-length offering from a group that would join Screeching Weasel on every teenage Green Day fan’s Christmas wish list of no less palatable but far less popular bubblegum punk acts. Fourteen years ago: Don’t Back Down caps the Queers’ five-album run of peerless pop with more songs about boobs, Joe Queer’s favorite subject. Twelve years ago: I stop buying Queers albums because I am more interested in actual boobs than songs about boobs. Today: Joe Queer is still singing about boobs and I am suddenly less interested in boobs than songs about boobs, so I will be there in the front row singing along to “Ursula Finally Has Tits” with a bunch of randy, smelly boys who don’t know a goddamn thing. CHRIS STAMM. Dante’s. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.

SexyWaterSpiders, The Blacklights, The Shivas

[ROCK.GIF] SexyWaterSpiders wants you to hate it. The band’s MySpace page—the sole online testament to its existence—is a seizure-inducing, browser-crashing, eye-searing mess of glitter graphics, hideous fonts, images of Kenny G, breastfeeding babies and

video clips of Korean karaoke. And yet, if you can find the music player— scroll right for five years—your rage will subside in a soothing cocktail of psychy vocals, funky bass lines, stoner guitar riffs and smooth drumming. And if it’s worth assaulting your eyes and possibly sacrificing your computer for a few minutes of that groovy goodness online, it’s probably worth parting with $5 to experience it all live. RUTH BROWN. Doug Fir Lounge. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

White Rainbow, Eternal Tapestry, The Greys, $kull$

[GENRE-CONFUSED BLISS FOR GNARLY TIMES] What a clusterfuck mess locals Eternal Tapestry make. Don’t get me wrong; I mean that in a good way. Because Eternal Tapestry brings several different varieties of heaviosity to the counter, stuffs ’em in a blender, and hits purée—leaving the listener with a sonic salad that’s equal parts Dead Meadow (stoner-rock psych), Exquisite Fucking Boredom-era Skullflower (repetition-as-smokescreen noise), and Sonic Youth’s Made in USA (raw road-movie score). Sometimes grunts puncture the glassy-eyed onan’s grind; sometimes Eternal Tapestry cops a bit of punk ’tude. The band is golden no matter what it does—and what we’d really like it to do, soon, is cut a new album. RAY CUMMINGS. Holocene. 8:30 pm. $5. All ages.

Kling Klang Festival: Tender Forever, Judy, La Pump, Amy Kasio, DJ Lick My Battery

[DANCE POP] Melanie Valera is a pop genius. She’s also a comedic genius. Both of these strengths were on full display when her solo project, Tender Forever, hit this year’s TBA Festival with an elaborate multimedia experience of a show that should eventually surface as a sweet DVD (we hope, anyway). Tonight’s show at Portsmouth Pizza & Pub (affectionately re-christened the P-Chop some time ago) for the ongoing Kling Klang electronic music festival should be a bit more lo-fi, but that should be just as exciting—Valera is as fantastic as an intimate singer-songwriter-with-laptop as she is in full-on theatric mode. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll dance—you might even eat some pizza. CASEY JARMAN. Portsmouth Pizza & Pub. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

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[SOUL SURVIVOR] Mattress fans, rejoice: Rex Marshall’s got a brand new bag. The Reservations are an R&B-influenced, full-on soul garagerock band featuring members of Don Hellions and the Boo Jays, but it’s still Marshall’s deep, Rat Pack-meets-David Lynch croon that anchors their tunes. Marshall is simply one of the finest— if slightly unconventional—frontmen in town, with a serious swagger and voice to match. The band’s organdriven sound is the perfect match to Marshall’s vocals, which also serve as a nice counterpoint to secondary singer Chris Hoganson’s sweet falsetto. If Calvin Johnson and Doug Martsch started a Sonics cover band instead of the Halo Benders, you can guess it would sound something like this. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Holocene. 8:30 pm. $5. 21+.

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On a chilly Sunday this past September, I settled in at Rontoms for one of the club’s weekly music showcases, mentally steeling myself for the psychnoise onslaught of White Hills. But by the end of the evening, all I wanted to talk about was the band that played first: No Kind of Rider. The young quintet played a jaw-dropping set of lush, introspective pop that was obviously modeled after the shoegazer movement of the ’90s—lots of dynamic shifts, guitar effects and buttery vocals)— but with its own modern, moody twist. It scratched that deep, Brit-pop-adoring itch I carry with me at all times. I was instantly smitten. I grabbed vocalist-guitarist Sam Alexander after the band’s set, professing my newfound love and peppering the members with questions, chiefly: “Where are you from?” The band was from Portland. So, where had No Kind of Rider been hiding? “We get that a lot,” Alexander says two months later, digging into some tacos at the Cruzroom on Northeast Alberta Street. “‘How come we’ve never heard of you guys before?’ You never hang out at the Red Room, I guess.” No one in No Kind of Rider can pinpoint why the band has been flying under the radar since arriving here from Tulsa, Okla., two years ago. All five gents in the group—Alexander, drummer Jon Van Patten, guitarist Jeremy Louis, bassist Wes Johnson and keyboardist Joe Page—arrived in 2008, leaving a healthy fan base and a former name (Black Swan) behind. The quintet hit the ground running in Portland, playing at any venue that would have it and offering up a pair of fantastic selfreleased recordings (The Black Swan EP and the slow-burning single “Danger”) for free download via its website. NKOR is making all the right moves to get noticed in Portland’s overstuffed music scene, but still remains on the verge. For any young band, this would be par for the course, but for No Kind

of Rider, it’s a bit of a step back from the acclaim it received in Tulsa. In NKOR’s former hometown, the band stood out not only because the majority of its members were black (that attention had its drawbacks, according to Alexander: “Without fail, every one who wrote about us would compare us to Bloc Party and TV on the Radio”), but also because “there wasn’t anything happening in Tulsa when we first started,” Page says. “There was no scene. There were maybe eight other bands that were playing stuff outside the mainstream.” The quintet’s singular sound helped garner it co-headlining status at the city’s annual Dfest Music Festival and heaps of praise from local media outlets. No Kind of Rider only left Tulsa because the technology company Alexander worked for relocated to Portland. Realizing he didn’t want to break up the

“WITHOUT FAIL, EVERYONE... WOULD COMPARE US TO BLOC PARTY AND TV ON THE RADIO.” —SAM ALEXANDER group, he offered to help move his bandmates here as well. It was, according to Johnson, the perfect opportunity. “I always thought that if we had the chance to move out to the West Coast, we should take it.” Two years on, No Kind of Rider is edging closer to the spotlight: its first show at the Doug Fir, more recordings on the way, and a mockumentary film about the band (produced by musician Jen Moon and featuring folks like Bladen County Records owner Joe Bowden) that has been making the rounds at Portland short-film fests. No Kind of Rider should hear that buzz grow louder once it wraps up its next EP, a self-recorded project that has been going on in fits and starts for the past eight months. “I think we’re deceptively ambitious,” says Alexander. “It doesn’t seem like people see that until we play out.” Johnson nods and adds, “People at my work find out I play music and say, ‘Oh, that’s nice, you’re in a little band.’ Then they come see us, and they’re, like, ‘Whoa! You guys are for real!’” NKOR seems to get more real every day. SEE IT: No Kind of Rider plays Doug Fir Lounge on Thursday, Dec. 2, with Water & Bodies, NIAYH and Housefire. 9 pm. $8. 21+. Willamette Week DECEMBER 1, 2010 wweek.com

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Jónsi has spent more than a decade writing epic compositions with Sigur Rós, creating some of the finest, most acclaimed albums of the last ten years. The choice to make an album of solo recordings came together as a solution to a backlog of songs Jónsi had written that didn’t seem to fit within the Sigur Rós context. ‘Go’ is ecstatic, dramatic and alive, it features Jónsi’s signature vocals throughout, with the majority of the songs sung in English.

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‘Thousand Words’ is the third full-length national release from The Portland Cello Project and the first fully instrumental album by the group. It features collaborations with Rachel Blumberg (Decemberists, M Ward, Bright Eyes), and NYC Beatboxer Adam Matta, as well as music from numerous contrasting genres, and original compositions from major members of the group, Gideon Freudmann, Ashia Grzesik (Vagabond Opera), and Douglas Jenkins.

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‘Feast of the Hunters’ Moon’ is the debut album from Portland, Oregon-based Black Prairie. Featuring three-fifths of The Decemberists and two of the city’s finest folk stylists, the heavily acoustic debut was produced by Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Death Cab for Cutie) and embodies the rich sonic landscape of the Portland music scene while integrating the diverse backgrounds of its members.

Produced by fellow Chicagoan Jeff Tweedy at Wilco’s studio The Loft, ‘You Are Not Alone’ showcases the iconic singer at her most powerful and fervent. The album mixes traditional gospel numbers with two new songs written for Mavis by Tweedy, plus her unique interpretations of songs by Pops Staples, Randy Newman, Allen Toussaint, John Fogerty, Rev. Gary Davis and Little Milton.

JIMMY WEBB JUST ACROSS THE RIVER ON SALE $13.99 CD

As a performer Jimmy has released numerous critically acclaimed albums but he has never attempted a project like ‘Just Across The River,’ where his singing AND songwriting is celebrated by the collaborations of his peers, like Jackson Browne, Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams, Michael McDonald, Glen Campbell, Linda Ronstadt, Vince Gill and more!

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Merle Haggard’s new album ‘I Am What I Am’ bristles with all the arresting qualities for which this unrivaled artist is prized. Every song is imbued with the near alchemical power of his dazzling vocal performances, and Haggard’s interpretive mastery and unmatched phrasing continues to bring on impressive measures of sensitivity, candor and authority. Recorded with his ace band the Strangers, many of whom have been at Hag’s side for decades, and co-produced by indispensable, longtime cohort Lou Bradley, the album was largely a family affair.

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JOHN HIATT OPEN ROAD ON SALE $13.99 CD

‘The Open Road’ is a classic Hiatt record, the rockin’ songs sizzle with the heat from two-lane blacktop on a summer’s day. Hiatt and his touring band (Kenny Blevins on drums, Patrick O Hearn on bass and Doug Lancio on guitars) recorded a set that gives Garage Rock a new meaning.

RAY LAMONTAGNE & the PARIAH DOGS GOD WILLIN’ & THE CREEK DON’T RISE ON SALE $12.99 CD • LP ALSO AVAILABLE

Entirely self produced (for the first time) ‘God Willin’ & The Creek Don’t Rise’ was recorded in two weeks at LaMontagne’s home in the woods of western Massachusetts. The newly restored historic home served as a homemade recording studio for Ray and his fellow musicians. With Ray’s vocals at the forefront of the songs and a loose, almost live sounding recording, the album stands as a testament to a band at the height of their powers.

SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS I LEARNED THE HARD WAY ON SALE $9.99 CD • LP ALSO AVAILABLE

Produced by Bosco Mann and recorded on an Ampex eight-track tape machine by Gabriel Roth in Daptone Records’ House of Soul studios, ‘I Learned The Hard Way’ drips with a warmth and spontaneity rarely found since the golden days of Muscle Shoals and Stax. Sharon’s raw power, rhythmic swagger, moaning soulfulness, and melodic command set her firmly alongside Tina Turner, James Brown, Mavis Staples, and Aretha as a fixture in the canon of soul music.

KEITH JARRETT/CHARLIE HADEN JASMINE ON SALE $13.99 CD

‘Jasmine’ marks Keith Jarrett’s first recorded collaboration in decades other than with his standards trio, and reunites him with the great bassist Charlie Haden, a close partner until the midseventies. Intimate, spontaneous and warm, this album of love songs recorded at Jarrett’s home, has affinities, in its unaffected directness, with his solo collection ‘The Melody At Night With You.’ Jarrett and Haden play the music and nothing but the music - as only they can.

THE CHIEFTAINS featuring RY COODER SAN PATRICIO ON SALE $13.99 CD / $19.99 DELUXE The musical souls of two nations, Ireland and Mexico, are movingly brought to life in ‘San Patricio’, the latest international collaboration by The Chieftains - the leading practitioners of Irish traditional music for the past four decades. The album features multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer Ry Cooder, who co-produced with The Chieftains’ Paddy Moloney.

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After 24 years, Widespread Panic remain one of America’s best live bands, and most successful touring acts. Aside from their legendary live shows, they continue to raise the bar in their genre through their songwriting, and ‘Dirty Side Down’ is a prime example. Band members John Bell (vocals/guitar), John Hermann (keyboards/vocals), Jimmy Herring (lead guitar), Todd Nance (drums/ vocals), Domingo Ortiz (percussion) and Dave Schools (bass/vocals) combine their efforts by writ-

PHOENIX WOLFGANG AMADEUS PHOENIX ON SALE $9.99 CD • LP ALSO AVAILABLE

Born out of restlessness and a steady hunt for inspiration, ‘Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix’ is a careerdefining album filled with the band’s signature melding of synthetics and organics, sharp, danceable rhythms, infectious choruses with a considerable dose of aural panache and candy-colored pop sensibilities.

LAURA VEIRS JULY FLAME ON SALE $10.99 CD • LP ALSO AVAILABLE

Laura Veirs seventh album ‘July Flame,’ which Colin Meloy of The Decemberists calls ‘’the best album of 2010,’’ explores the emotion of mid-summer. Drenched in wood smoke, sunlight, pollinators, pastoral dales, fireworks and warm nights, her lyrics explore the dichotomy between one’s desire for permanence and security and the realization that such things rarely exist. Composed mostly in the barn behind her house in Portland, the album is a relatively stripped-down folk record highlighting Veirs masterful finger picking guitar and confident vocals.

CAROLE KING & JAMES TAYLOR LIVE AT THE TROUBADOUR ON SALE $14.99 CD/DVD

James Taylor and Carole King first performed together at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, California in November of 1970. Thirty-six years later they both returned for a three-night six-show run to celebrate the venue’s 50th anniversary. The result is ‘Live At The Troubadour,’ a special 2-disc CD/ DVD featuring 15 songs and 75 minutes of pristine video and audio including stunning performances of the pair’s most beloved hits.

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‘Brothers’ was primarily cut in Muscle Shoals, a setting that turned out to have more in common with the Akron, Ohio factories where the Black Keys used to record. The place was desolate, the town depressed, so once again the duo slipped into a world all its own. The tunes offer a surprising amount of lyrical candor and more than a little dark humor; the grooves alternate between ballsy swagger and bluesy rumination.

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Gil Scott-Heron is one of the most influential and important singer/songwriters to have come out of America in the second half of the last century. Much can be said about why this Gil’s lyrics are so original and powerful but it is important not to overlook his utterly singular voice that is so distinctive and rough and tender.

MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD THE SOUND OF SUNSHINE ON SALE $10.99 CD

‘The Sound Of Sunshine’ is a kind of musical sun shower, a bright, beautiful and often buoyant song cycle created to bring all kinds of listeners a sense of hope during rough and rainy times for so many in our world. In the mid-Nineties, Franti first formed Spearhead, and increasingly in recent years, he’s found his own voice musically and his own organic brand of popular success.

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This cinematic musical travelogue equally embraces the high energy of pop / rock, the complex structures of chamber music, and the improvisational qualities of jazz. With inspirations as varied as The Decemberists, John Coltrane, Hungarian gypsy fiddle music, Eric Satie, and Japanese pop / jazz composer Akiko Yano, Animals & Cannibals showcases an expanded vision for the world chamber music genre, incorporating styles from Eastern European folk and Latin dance music to American blues and avant cabaret.

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Lisbon was recorded over the course of eight months beginning in the fall of 2009 with You & Me producer Chris Zane (Passion Pit, Les Savy Fav, Tokyo Police Club). The band then traveled to Dallas to finish the album with producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Explosions in the Sky’). Featuring the band’s signature vintage instrument-sound, Lisbon will showcase ‘A lot of stuff that’s Elvis-sounding, like early Elvis and Sun Records kind of sounds,’ says frontman Hamilton Leithauser.

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Recorded in upstate New York, in a converted church called Dreamland with producer/engineer Chris Coady (who has worked with TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blonde Redhead, and others) ‘Teen Dream’ is the third album from the Baltimore-based duo Beach House. The album also includes a companion DVD featuring a video for each song on the album, each by a different director.

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Blue Giant is the creation of Kevin and Anita Robinson, better known as Portland indie-pop darlings Viva Voce. The Robinson’s new band features Chris Funk (The Decemberists), Evan Railton (Swords) and Seth Lorinczi (The Golden Bears). On their self-titled debut, produced by Kevin Robinson, Blue Giant combines the traditional sounds of American music - country, bluegrass and folk with driving, straight-ahead rock.

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Mumford & Sons, West London indie rock quartet, have created a gutsy, old-time sound that marries the magic of Crosby, Stills & Nash with the might of Kings of Leon and the harmonies of Fleet Foxes. ‘Sigh No More’ was recorded at Eastcoast Studios, where Arctic Monkeys, Brian Eno, Tindersticks and Laura Marling have honored their sound. The band teamed with producer Markus Dravs who has worked with such superstar acts as Arcade Fire, Bjork and Peter Gabriel.

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For Local Natives everything is a collaboration, from song writing duties, to the band’s self produced artwork. The three part harmonies come courtesy of keyboardist Kelcey Ayer, guitarists Ryan Hahn and Taylor Rice. Then there’s Matt Frazier on drums and Andy Hamm on bass, who look after the band’s equally impressive graphics and artwork. The self-funded ‘Gorilla Manor’ features twelve sumptuous slices of dappled California sunlight and beguiling percussive rhythms.

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DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS THE BIG TO-DO ON SALE $11.99 CD

Born of a provocative mating of art and music, ‘Dirty Baby’ is guitarist/composer Nels Cline and poet/producer David Breskin’s visionary recontextualization of Ed Ruscha’s censor strip paintings. The 2CD box set includes more than an hour-and-a-half of new music by Cline for two large ensembles, paired booklets with reproductions of 66 Ruscha pictures, and insightful liner notes by Nels in a third booklet graced by session photos.

‘The Big To-Do’ features thirteen new tracks and was produced by their long time producer David Barbe (Sugar, Bettye LaVette). Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley continue to be the chief songwriters of the group, continuing a musical partnership that has lasted over twenty-three years.

ESPERANZA SPALDING CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY ON SALE $13.99 CD

Centuries ago chamber music was the music in which people from nearly every segment of society could find meaning and relevance. Esperanza Spalding takes a contemporary approach to this once universal form of entertainment with ‘Chamber Music Society.’ Backed by drummer Terri Lyne Carrington and pianist Leo Genovese, Esperanza creates a modern chamber music group that combines the spontaneity and intrigue of improvisation with sweet and angular string trio arrangements.

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Willie Nelson goes back to his roots with a songbook of classic Americana. ‘Country Music’ was recorded in Nashville, TN and produced by T-Bone Burnett. Willie collaborated with many musicians on the album including old-time banjo master Riley Baugus, double bassist Dennis Crouch, and T-Bone himself, all musicians featured on ‘Raising Sand,’ the 2009 Grammy® award-winning Album of the Year by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.

TOM PETTY & the HEARTBREAKERS MOJO ON SALE $13.99 CD / $19.99 BLU-RAY AUDIO • LP ALSO AVAILABLE ‘MOJO’ showcases a wide variety of American music from rock ‘n’ roll to country and both electric and acoustic blues. This is the sound of a band playing together in a room not a studio - facing each other, all singing and playing at the same time. The music is alive, with no overdubs or studio trickery. What you hear is what they created on the spot at that time.

ROBERT PLANT BAND OF JOY ON SALE $13.99 CD

‘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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Following up on their 2007 release ‘Time On Earth’ - their first studio recording in 14 years the internationally acclaimed Crowded House deliver ‘Intriguer.’ Produced by Jim Scott (Wilco), this all-new recording brings together singer/guitarist and chief songwriter Neil Finn with original Crowded House bassist Nick Seymour and keyboardist/guitarist Mark Hart.

ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN HAWK ON SALE $9.99 CD • LP ALSO AVAILABLE

Isobel Campbell has had a remarkable career in music, from her stint as cellist and vocalist with Belle and Sebastian to her role as bandleader in the Gentle Waves. On ‘Hawk’ her coconspirators include longtime partner Mark Lanegan, who lends his distinctive blues-folk growl to eight of the album’s 13 tracks; the young American singer Willy Mason; and former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha.

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school’s winter formal. Unless, that is, your alma mater’s dances were held in old funeral homes-turnedintimate performance spaces, and featured sets by sprawling, rootsy collectives like the nine-piece Pancake Breakfast. But, then again, local label Tender Loving Empire ain’t your average formal-thrower. (Note: Attendees are encouraged to wear their festive finest all the same.) Tonight’s show is not only a celebration of the winter season (and the holidays contained within), but is also a welcome party for Loch Lomond, the newest addition to the TLE roster, and a release bash for the label’s latest 42-track comp, Friends and Friends of Friends III. We’re assuming that the requisite awkward slow dancing is still encouraged, though. REBECCA RABER. The Woods. 9 pm. $15. 21+.

FRIDAY, DEC. 3 The Books, Black Heart Procession

[LARGELY INSTRUMENTAL] Sometimes I think we need a little icon that means “get stoned for this show.” The Books, a NYC duo that incorporates found sound samples into moody instrumental compositions, has been blowing up thanks to some NPR attention and a strong fifth (!) album, The Way Out. The disc is pretty avantgarde, and the Books’ songwriting is often more like something out of ambient electronic music than instrumental rock, but there are enough beats and cool sonic tricks along the way to keep things interesting (the ring-tone manipulation on “Thirty Incoming” is downright beautiful). When the songs sound like actual songs, they’re fascinating (see “Beautiful People” and “All You Need is a Wall”). San Diego’s Black Heart Procession opens, and any time BHP—a band with a dedicated cult following strong enough that the room might clear out a bit when it finishes—is on a bill there’s a chance they’ll upstage the headliners. CASEY JARMAN. Aladdin Theater. 8 pm. $20. All ages (minors allowed with parent or guardian).

Black Prairie, Old Light, Ritchie Young

[LATE AFTERNOON FOLK] Black Prairie and Old Light have made a thorough study of the shoeless, front-porch jam. The results, in both cases, are deceptively laid back. Black Prairie, headed by errant Decemberists Chris Funk, Jenny Conlee and Nate Query, has spent the past year as a musical pressure valve for the tensions of the trio’s more famous main group. The quintet’s songs are too gothic to play at a farmers market, but they are still near that level of banjoplucked comfort. Old Light tends more toward the rock side of things, having taken the occasion of MFNW to prove that rocking out while seated is not only possible, but actually kind of rad. SHANE DANAHER. Alberta Rose Theatre. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

The Black Crowes

[THERE WILL BE RIFFS] Even amongst the legacy of Southernfried rawk troupes, ’twas a jagged and circuitous path the Black Crowes flew. Platinum debut Shake Your Money Maker in 1990 heralding newfangled Aerosmiths—tenderly crafting the lick-driven boogie whilst kids crossed the street to gawk at smoke and sparks as faded day laborers manufactured grunge— the band ambled along toward the aughts as Bonnaroofied survivors out of time and out of place, and seemingly kept alive through frontman Chris Robinson’s Natchezon-Kate Hudson entanglement. Croweology, the summer’s doublealbum acoustic-ish live-in-the-studio sampling of the band’s most prized nest eggs, has been announced as its last before an indefinite hiatus. Light your candles, now and forever. JAY HORTON. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. 8:30 pm. $36.75 - $64. All ages.

Lucero, Drag the River, I Can Lick Any Son of a Bitch in the House

[SOUTHERN ROCK] There are two reasons to see Lucero live. The first is for the band, which lovingly crafts sentimental, drunken ballads with an emotional authenticity that belies the bar-rock genre’s usual testosterone-fueled bullshit. The second is for the audience, which sings along to most every word and lives the stories that frontman Ben Nichols scratches out with his whiskey-soaked, Springsteen-meetsFogerty delivery. Like a less-nerdy Hold Steady or a less-postured John Mellencamp, Lucero tells stories of growing up in a very messy America, and its songs seem penned at the end of long, rough nights. If your best nights are ones spent out, drunk and soaked in rock and roll, Lucero’s got a smart, twangy and

rocking soundtrack for that. Both opening acts share a similar energy, so it’ll be a wild one at Berbati’s tonight. CASEY JARMAN. Berbati’s Pan. 9 pm. $14 advance, $16 day of show. 21+.

Horse Feathers, Y La Bamba, Sara Jackson-Holman

[A GALLANT GALLOP] Only Horse Feathers could deconstruct Nirvana’s jumpy “Drain You” and rebuild it as a sleepy nursery rhyme, part of a new Kill Rock Stars EP. And the band did it in the midst of an already busy 2010, which began with the release of Thistled Spring in April. Portland’s tenderest folk outfit embarks on a West Coast tour in December, and its two-night stint at the Doug Fir marks its true beginning. The four-piece ensemble is a

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ARCHERS THURSDAY, DEC. 2 [GUIDED BY INDIE-ROCK VOICES] Growing up in the quiet, conservative town of Romoland, Calif., (pop. 2,764) Chris and Mike Cantino of the angular indie-rock band Archers knew they didn’t really fit in. “People were most interested in dirt bikes and money,” Chris says with a straight face. “We are the only ones out of several generations of our family that moved out of this 30-minute Southern California bubble.” Four years ago the brothers, both songwriters and wicked guitar players, escaped the bubble to move up I-5 to the Pacific Northwest. Chris, 26, and Mike, 24, had each played music in the past, including Chris’ outfit Die Radio Die (“We were defined by the use of our U2 delay pedal”) that almost signed to Virgin Records, but they had never played in the same band before launching Archers in 2009. While their other projects tend toward the introspective (Chris put out a beautiful record of droney, ambient tunes as Saudade last year, and Mike fronts his own solo project, Orange Jam), Archers is a full-on rock band. The band—Chris and Mike on guitar and vocals, with bassist Brian Yoder, drummer Anthony Frey, and keyboardist Michael Griffith—makes music that’s both scrappy and complicated, full of tricky time signatures, jagged blasts of guitar, and a frantic energy that takes equal cues from ’90s indie-rock titans Chavez and the sloppy garage pop of the Soft Boys. “Our songs are dense but also really poppy,” Chris says. “We don’t want to make people overthink.” Those songs—especially the four included on Archers’ selfreleased EP—are so good that famed U.K. label Heavenly Records (home to Saint Etienne and Doves) signed on to release the band’s 7-inch and potentially its upcoming full-length. Tracks like “Brussels Truffles”—inspired by Chris’ year living in Belgium—and “Radical Opinion” are jumpy and immediate, with smart lyrics, fantastic harmonies and a special familial bond. “We’re comfortable enough around each other that we don’t have to beat around the bush,” Mike says. “If one of us writes a song that’s total bullshit, we just call the other one out.” MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. One of Portland’s best new rock bands runs away from a hapless SoCal town.

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[RAMONES WITH FUR] Forget the gimmicks and the mask, the wig and the distancing effect it creates for Justin Champlin: Nobunny’s Ramones-y garage rock is for real. For nine years Champlin has been pushing a perfect pastiche of lo-fi punk snarl and power-pop melodies, and recent full-length First Blood is no different—11 tracks of short, three-chord singalong nonhits that sounds great in a dingy basement. It’s easy to mark at the spectacle of Nobunny’s live show— the bunny mask, firecrackers and homemade trash suits will do that—but in the end it’s the tunes that will stand the test of time. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. East End. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

Mount St. Helens Vietnam Band, The Globes, AgesAndAges

[KINFOLK ROCK] Employing the family-first philosophy, Seattle’s Mount St. Helens Vietnam Band features a husband-and-wife lead and a 15-year-old brother who doubles as drummer. The quartet formed in 2008, playing a show at Neumos en route to an EP produced by Scott Colburn (Arcade Fire, Animal Collective). New full-length Where the Messengers Meet scares off any lingering uncertainty about the band’s glowing future. The four stress blues and classic rock modes, with raspy, freewheeling vocal overtones. Breaking it down like an SAT analogy: MSHVB is to the Emerald City as Portugal. the Man is to Portland. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

AOK Suicide Forest, Fistfite, Lord Dying, Labyrinth and the Desert

[ALLOYS AND TALLBOYS] Lord Dying is the best new metal band in Portland. It’s all too rare for local bands in this scene to come out of the gate swinging this hard. Think Orange Goblin covering Slayer tunes and you are scratching the surface of just how profoundly Lord Dying rocks. Its pedigree scars even deeper, as the group boasts Erik “Man Mountain” Olson from Le Force on guitar and growling, and his longtime foil Chris Evans on dueling lead. Fretless bassist Donnie (ex-Black Elk) Capuano and Memphis transplant Slo-Talkin Jon keep the bottom raging. Hopefully, the former members of Conifer in AOK Suicide Forest will bring tales of Lord Dying’s rock majesty back to their home city of Portland, Maine—and the dots between will connect all on their own. NATHAN CARSON. Plan B. 9 pm. $7. 21+.

Curren$y, Nipsey Hussle, Dom Kennedy, Smoke DZA, Fiend & Cornerboy P

[NOUVEAU STONER RAP] When you’re a veteran rapper from New Orleans who has already done time on No Limit and Cash Money Records without ever really making a dent on the hip-hop scene, when do you finally give up your dreams and hang it up? That’s the question that faced Shante Anthony Franklin—known to the world as Curren$y—the past few years as he navigated mixtapes, guest verses, and late-night, syrup-assisted spots on a few Lil Wayne jams. But sometime after leaving Cash Money in 2006, Curren$y developed into a serious spitter, the kind of everyman stoner-rap acolyte who’s just as comfortable talking basketball (Rajon Rondo reference, sure, but Clyde Drexler?) as he is celebrating food and video games and really hot girls. Curren$y’s latest fulllength, Pilot Talk, is produced by

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ROSE BENT FRIDAY, DEC. 3 [HIP-HOP] Live hip-hop, at its worst, can feel like awful karaoke. But Rose Bent—the Portland hip-hop trio composed of MCs J-Kronic, Rose City MissChief and Lady Trinity—shatters that stereotype, along with a few others, when it hits the stage. The allfemale group’s live shows involve near-constant bouncing, dancing and the occasional synchronized karate kick. When the MCs aren’t rapping or singing, they’re glowing with excitement. “I honestly feel like we haven’t even gotten started yet,” Lady Trinity says of Rose Bent’s live show. “I don’t even want to tell you some of the things that we’re gonna be doing.” It’s a perplexing thought, considering what the group has already done: added a DJ—Zita, whom they found via the Internet and through her residency at local electronic-music hub Groove Suite—and a live band, and recorded a vibrant debut album that defies stylistic pigeonholing. As the trio’s name would suggest, there’s a strong dose of femininity in the music on Rose Bent’s self-titled debut full-length (“Let Me Entertain” is an Auto-Tuned sex jam; “Hey Daddy” is a bit more romantic); but there are thorns here as well (“Check”—the song that warrants kung-fu moves in a live show—is a lyrically twisting and funny rap-rock battle track), and even something for the kids (closer “A New Tomorrow” ends things on a positive note). Rose Bent’s sound is still developing, and some songs work better than others—as you’d expect from a group that’s less than a year old—but as a self-run business, the band is already quite mature, especially considering that its members, between them, juggle two kids, two college degrees and two full-time careers (in teaching and youth mentoring) while trying to navigate a male-dominated music industry. “Half the time, ‘Hey baby, I’m a producer, let’s work together’ doesn’t mean ‘I’m a producer, let’s work together,’” Jacque “J-Kronic” Dixon says of the business. “It means ‘I want to get in your pants.’” Despite those business frustrations, Rose Bent is surfacing as one of Portland’s most promising hip-hop outfits. It’s a group versatile, talented and exciting enough to share bills with just about any group in the city and unique enough to be plucked and groomed by a national label or hot-shit producer. Only, Rose Bent is from Portland—and hip-hop outfits from this city have historically struggled. Because of this, the group half-jokes about “pulling a Bosko” (the in-demand session musician and hip-hop producer who began in the Rose City but flourished in L.A.) and skipping town. “I love my city,” Kheoshi “Lady Trinity” Taylor-Mayes says, eliciting knowing smiles from the other MCs. “But it’s tough. If you can get a head nod in Portland, you’re great. You can go anywhere and blow people away.” But in a town with so few female voices populating the hip-hop scene, Rose Bent is a welcome presence. “That’s part of why we do what we do,” ShaRhonda “Rose City MissChief” McCauley says. “We’d like to see a lot more females out of Portland, really doing it.” And, between the group’s bombastic live shows and distinct sound, Rose Bent is bound to inspire not just other female artists, but entire audiences. CASEY JARMAN. Every rose has its thorn; Rose Bent has three very thorny MCs.

SEE IT: Rose Bent plays Backspace on Friday, Dec. 3, with King Wolverine, Rich James, Portland George, Yung Mil and Karma. 9 pm. $5. All ages.

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THE RED RIVER LITTLE SONGS ABOUT THE BIG PICTURE (BRAVE RECORDS) [SINGER- SONGWRITER, WITH BAND] The Red River was more legend than band when I first heard them—all hushed whispers and home-dubbed cassettes. They were from Long Beach, Calif. Dhani Rosa from Eskimo and Sons said they “taught us everything we know,” and Eskimo and Sons was a band that knew a lot about sending shivers up and down my spine. When I first saw them—in the basement of the PSU student center—they took my heart whole. French horn! Singalongs! Sincerity! The full-throated choruses and clamor of horns and clattering drums of their first album, Grassblades, has never been more than a month out of my steady rotation since. A line from that album, “You are something good, and so am I,” saw me through some of my toughest times. I saw them again in the winter, a semi-secret house party on Northeast Beech Street. I brought a bottle of wine and shared it with their lead singer, Bill Roberts. We all sang together, warming that little living room with our earnest breath. They moved up here, I heard, but sadly I missed the one show I heard about. They were working on a record, but there was no timeline. Then I heard nothing. If it feels like I’m talking about myself, it’s only to explain my anxiousness about hearing the Red River’s new album, Little Songs about the Big Picture. Can they still bring that warmth, that grace, that big-heartedness that shone through those ramshackle shows? Would they lose the innocent wonder of that earlier album? Good news: They enter honestly. “We have nothing more than what we are born with,” Roberts sings, joined by the full band in chorus. And if, by four songs into the album, any doubts remain—they are blasted to pieces by the joyous horn that opens “I Will Give Thanks.” “I threw my heart out/ like a spinning, sharp tomahawk,” they sing. And maybe that’s what really grabs and holds me about the Red River—their willingness to venture fearlessly out of the comfortable world of metaphor and into the uneasy and uneven terrain of autobiography. It’s embarrassing at times. Some lyrics feel forced or awkward, as on the standout “Dirty Dave”: “You wrote poems about God and lighters/ and read them to me in all-night diners.” But as face-reddening as it can be, Little Songs About the Big Picture redeems itself instantly and repeatedly with its purity and honesty. The lyrics say it better than I can: “Any time something is lost, it can be rebuilt/ And any time something is rebuilt, it can be broken again/ And any time something is broken, you can learn from it/ And any time you learn from something broken, you can change for good, for good.” BEN HUBBIRD. SEE IT: The Red River plays the Woods on Friday, Dec. 3, with Andy Combs and the Moth and Risa Beaumet. 9 pm. $6. 21+.

FRIDAY - SATURDAY New York rap veteran Ski Beatz, and the producer wisely fleshes out his laid-back flow with gorgeous, lush beats and pillows of sound that anyone with an ear for a good melody can get down with. It’s a good thing Curren$y got away from Master P’s clutches before he could really make ’em say, “Uhh.” MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Roseland. 8 pm. $20. All ages.

SATURDAY, DEC. 4 Palo Verde, Dr. Amazon, Boo Frog, Jagula

[OLD DOGS, NEW TRICKS] Here’s a local music history lesson in one short evening. Mike Lastra and friends from Portland’s most longevous experimental act, Smegma, return to the stage as Dr. Amazon. Lastra will also lend his talented theremin wizardry to Boo Frog, the pleasantly primitive swamprock trio led by Chris Newman of Napalm Beach (and too many noteworthy others to name in this space). Jagula is a newer outfit from some former Hell Cows, a seminal ’80s act that appeared at the Mayor’s Ball and countless Satyricon bills. With Lauren K Newman’s improv metal duo Palo Verde topping things off, her status as an immortal Portland icon is all but sealed. NATHAN CARSON. Ash Street Saloon. 9:30 pm. $6. 21+.

La Playa, Murmuring Pines, Paint & Copter, D’S’R’

[PRIMEVAL PINES] Portland may be the Oregon city getting all the media attention for our overabundance of musical talent, but don’t be shocked if you start hearing more about the scene bubbling up just south of here. Salem is starting to boast a wealth of talented acts of all stripes, such as the folktronica outfit Murmuring Pines. Led by the evocatively named Julian Snow, the Pines balance the plaintive and noisy, stirring up whirlwinds of

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[SWING SWANG SWUNG] It’s funny to think, now that Portland is nationally recognized as a hub of on-the-edge music, that 12 years ago the most popular band out of Oregon was based in Eugene—and it played swing. Making fun of that brief moment in the late ’90s when America became fascinated with horn sections and bowling shirts is too easy, but the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies are a particularly egregious example of the big-band revival’s insufferable corniness. At least Big Bad Voodoo Daddy had the credibility of appearing in the film Swingers, the only thing that made that era seem even remotely cool. “Zoot Suit Riot,” the Daddies’ once-inescapable hit, is so bad it sounds like a parody of the genre. Thankfully, for its last record, 2008’s Susquehanna, the group ditched most of its Roaring Twenties fetishism in favor of returning to its ska roots and dabbling in, uh, flamenco. MATTHEW SINGER. Dante’s. 8:30 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show. 21+.

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[BOYS’ NIGHT OUT] Can you believe East End is three years old? The little basement venue that could is still going strong, and this anniversary show is one for the ages, with Honest John Plain (of the Boys), a garage-rock savant who’s played with Keith Richards, the Crybabys, and the Lurkers. The Boys, for the uninitiated, were among the first filthy

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BOB MOULD Born: 1960 in Malone, NY. Sounds like: All the layers of fuzz on Hüsker Dü’s Zen Arcade and New Day Rising peeled away to expose the bruised heart underneath. For fans of: Frank Black; Vic Chesnutt; pretty much every college rock act of the ’80s;The Daily Show theme song (he wrote it). Latest release: 2009’s Life and Times, another set of strikingly honest confessionals from one of alt-rock’s most consistent songwriters. Why you care: Bob Mould is responsible for, like, half of all the life-affirming records to come out of the indie-rock underground—and he only played a direct part in creating a few of them. As the singer-guitarist for Minneapolis post-hardcore legends Hüsker Dü, he upped the artistic ante for an entire generation of bands: The Minutemen famously took the Hüskers’ 1984 epic Zen Arcade as a challenge, responding with their own magnum opus, Double Nickels on the Dime; and don’t think crosstown rivals the Replacements weren’t pushed to greatness by living in the same city as the most aggressively ambitious group in American punk. But Mould’s influence didn’t end when the band collapsed in 1987. He spent the early ’90s fronting Sugar, which produced two classics of its own: the power-pop master classes Copper Blue and File Under: Easy Listening. Save for a stint as— believe it or not—a pro-wrestling scriptwriter, Mould has mostly dedicated the past two decades to building his solo discography, releasing eight albums that vacillate between mournful folk, full-throated rock and electronic experiments, all linked by his genius for soaring melodies and gripping introspection. SEE IT: Bob Mould plays Mississippi Studios on Saturday, Dec. 4, with Telekenisis and Cobirds Unite. 9 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. 21+. Willamette Week DECEMBER 1, 2010 wweek.com

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PARTY KILLERS: Passion Pit plays the Crystal Ballroom on Wednesday. blast of U.K. punk, a toned-down, melodic outfit known then as “The Beatles of Punk,” and a huge influence on future bands like Exploding Hearts and Japan’s Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, which had a modest hit with a cover of the Boys’ “Sick on You.” Tonight Honest John is backed by members of a few local punk bands, all of whom grew up on a steady diet of his classic songbook. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. East End. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

Otis Heat

[SOUL ROCK] Otis Heat is a weird band. Weird lyrics (“I got to roll my head around/ The goddamn thing won’t get off the ground”), weird sound (a Motown- and Red Hot Chili Peppers-influenced funk rock with patches of warm wah-wah psychedelia and acoustic singer-songwriter flourishes) and weird taste (the trio covers “Que Sera, Sera” on its new Pre LP EP—actually a lovely arrangement and one of the more striking songs on the album). But for all its weirdness, the group is both well-produced and self-assured on the EP; Otis Heat’s confidence is infectious, and the listener winds up lending an ear to this crazy, eclectic group without reservation (I liken it to Cee-Lo Green fronting the White Stripes). I’m still figuring out if I like Otis Heat, but I can’t stop listening. CASEY JARMAN. Slim’s. 9 pm. Free. All ages.

Point Juncture, WA; O Bruxo; Petoskey

[TRIP-POP] It’s easy to compare Portland quartet Point Juncture, WA to Stereolab: Both groups offer seamless blends of spaced-out trip-pop with lucid female vocals. Where Stereolab is grounded in the psychedelic Euro-chic underground, Point Juncture unfurls its Portland flag with blasts of guitar rock and tepid grooves that never overload the sound or compromise Amanda Spring’s siren song. After three albums—including 2008’s terrific Heart to Elk—Point Juncture’s carved a sound all its own, and it’s difficult to not space out in its wake before being smacked back to reality with well-placed riffs that shatter the lucid vibes. AP KRYZA. The Woods. 9 pm. $8. 21+.

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[LIVE FROM NYC] Since 1995, New York’s Les Savy Fav has seen the post-punk revival come and (for the most part) go. But while that may have been its ticket to the

big leagues—if you can call still being in the indies after 15 years the “big leagues,” but hey, it was on Conan—the real reason indie kids fell so hard for the band was that it was simply one of the best live acts they’d ever seen. And as long as singer Tim Harrington continues to strip down to his pasty, chubby birthday suit and pour his guts out onstage while the rest of the group smashes, shreds and sweats its way through five albums’ worth of addictive art punk (including 2010’s Root for Ruin), that isn’t going to change anytime soon. RUTH BROWN. Wonder Ballroom. 9 pm. $15 advance, $17 day of show. All ages.

SUNDAY, DEC. 5 Bedouin Soundclash, Moneybrother

[WELCOME TO HAMROCK] Ugh, Canadian reggae. Try saying that phrase aloud without dry heaving. But for what it’s worth, Bedouin Soundclash—hailing, hilariously enough, from Kingston, Ontario—is almost certainly the greatest purveyor of island rhythms to ever come out of the Great White North. Maybe that’s not saying much, but unlike a lot of its American counterparts, the band earned that distinction without embarrassingly adopting Jamaican patois, growing white-boy dreadlocks or mimicking Sublime. And really, the influence is more textural than anything else: At its heart, the group is a rock band with dub and ska leanings. If that’s not enough, consider that two of its albums were produced by Darryl Jenifer of Bad Brains, and its latest, Light the Horizon, by globe-trotting DJ King Britt—two guys who certainly know respectful reggae acolytes when they hear them. MATTHEW SINGER. Hawthorne Theatre. 8 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.

MONDAY, DEC. 6 Béla Fleck and the Flecktones with the Oregon Symphony

[HOLIDAY HOEDOWN] Béla Fleck’s normal touring lineup might as well be an orchestra—the banjo master rolls a rotating group of musicians that’s a veritable United Nations of music, from bassist Victor Wooten to synth phenom Futureman and the occasional appearance by tabla players, Tuvan throat singers and others. But for his Christmas

appearance, the legendary plucker joins forces with the Oregon Symphony for a holiday throwdown. Fleck is keen on classical arrangements with a rocking twist— his version of Aaron Copland’s “Hoedown” is a barnburner—so the groups should have no trouble shaking things up at the Schnitz. AP KRYZA. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. 7:30 pm. $23 - $123. All ages.

The Temper Trap, A Silent Film

[WORLD-BEATING ROCK SPECTACLE] Hailing from Australia, Temper Trap purveys the sort of stadium-storming, Big Rock Candy Mountain comfort-food rock that sounds effortless but can’t be in actuality. It’s easy to be cynical about this sort of titanic poprock ubiquity—witness how much mileage people get out of hating on the likes of Kings of Leon and Coldplay—but to listen with open ears is to partake in populistpleasant delights. Namely, in this case? Skyscraper-sized hooks that will haunt your dreams, prismatic melodic schematics as playful as they are sneaky, dynamics for days, and the angelic, shamanlike countenance of frontman Dougy Mandagi. Be there. RAY CUMMINGS. Crystal Ballroom. 8 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show. All ages.

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TUESDAY, DEC. 7 The Black Keys, Sleigh Bells, Morning Teleportation

[DUO RIGHT] Of course, compassionate Portlanders already bought up all the tickets to tonight’s show; it’s a benefit for the Sunshine Division, the PDX police’s emergency food-relief organization. But we suspect it was more than just the kindness in some locals’ hearts that sold all those tickets—though they are benefiting a very worthy cause—when duos like the Black Keys and Sleigh Bells are on the marquee. Ticket-holders’ generosity will be repaid with some killer blues rock from the former’s latest album, Brothers (which gave us the ubiquitous single “Tighten Up”), and noisy, raucous synth pop from the latter’s breakout debut, Treats. Who says charity is its own reward? REBECCA RABER. Crystal Ballroom. 8 pm. Sold Out. All ages.

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Loose Change and Friends

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PDX We in the Building

Music Millennium Old Light

Original Halibut’s Terry Robb

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Funk-Jazz Jam Session

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Andrew Orr, Jen Howard

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The Duke Robillard Band, Boogie Bone

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Diocletian, Blasphemophager, Obeisance, Weregoat

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Lucero, Drag the River, I Can Lick Any Son of a Bitch in the House

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Lewi Longmire Band (9:30 pm); Billy Kennedy & Jimmy Boyer (6 pm)

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Eddie Martinez

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Brasserie Montmartre Toni Lincoln & Phil Goldberg

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Smoochknob, SmoochGirls

Doc George’s Jazz Kitchen

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After Nothings End, Petting Zoo, Basic Radio, The Born Again Heathens

Andrea’s Cha Cha Club

Holocene

The Andre St. James Trio Cubaneo

Ash Street Saloon

Bill Skins Fifth Will Punch You Right in the Face, Wester Daywick, Grand Tragic

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Blue Cranes, The Youngs, Why I Must Be Careful

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Colleen Raney Trio (9 pm); Little Sue (6 pm)

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Brasserie Montmartre Kit Taylor

Camellia Lounge Space Case

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Passion Pit, Mister Heavenly, We Barbarians, Pepper Rabbit

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The Queers, Kepi Ghoulie, The Riptides, The Blood Types

Doc George’s Jazz Kitchen

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Doug Fir Lounge

SexyWaterSpiders, The Blacklights, The Shivas

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Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam (9:30 pm); Chris Olson’s High Flyers (6 pm)

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Thee Headliners, K-Holes, Stickers

Ella Street Social Club Alameda, Lindsay Clark, Nevele Nevele

White Rainbow, Eternal Tapestry, The Greys, $kull$

Jimmy Mak’s

The Mel Brown Quartet

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Trio Flux, The Tomorrow People, Little Volcano, Jason Simms

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Grant High School Jazz Ensemble

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Cronin Tierney

Eight-53, Fox Piranha, The Hunt

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Happy Holiday Hooley: Geraldine Murray, Nancy Conescu and Matthew Hayward McDonald

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The Dimes’ Acoustic Trio (9 pm); Michael Hurley (6 pm)

McMenamins Edgefield Winery Will West Duo

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern Floating Pointe

Mississippi Studios

Le Serpent Rouge, The Crow Quill Night Owls, Underscore Orkestra

Mount Tabor Theater Midnight Expressions

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Defender, The Secret Whistle

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Atriarch, Cough, Amarok, Gardians, Rohit

Portsmouth Pizza & Pub

Kling Klang Festival: Tender Forever, Judy, La Pump, Amy Kasio, DJ Lick My Battery

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Mars Retrieval Unit

Wilfs Restaurant

Ron Steen, Nola Bogle, Greg Goebel, Dave Captein

The World Famous Kenton Club Tiger Bar

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Twilight Cafe & Bar Future Ghetto, Sunny Travels, Longkutt

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David Cushman

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Lew Jones

Edie Carey, Beth Wood, Christine Havrilla

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Artistery Plankton Wat, Stag Hare, Lady Shapes

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The Dirty Words, Chloraform, Stone the Murder, Alien Parachute Man

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Archers, Blood Beach, Sons of Huns, Nucular Aminals

Biddy McGraw’s

John Ross (9:30 pm); Morgan Grace (6 pm)

Blue Monk

Galen Clark

The Country Inn

Acoustic Attic

Dub DeBrie Jam

Tender Loving Empire Winter Formal: Pancake Breakfast, Ritchie Young & the Loch Lomond Chamber Orchestra, Aan

Julianne Johnson Holiday Special

Someday Lounge

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Eugenios

Raul Malo, Seth Walker

Brasserie Montmartre Buffalo Gap Saloon

Bad Assets (8:30 pm); Jesse Young (5:30 pm)

Wilfs Restaurant

Fenouil

Shelly Rudolph with Clay Giberson

Fez Ballroom

FRI. DEC. 3 Aladdin Theater

Brickbat Mansion Winter Wonderland

The Books, Black Heart Procession

Fire on the Mountain

Alberta Rose Theatre

Stefan Andrews

Goodfoot

Big 100 Art Fundraiser for Cascade AIDS Project

Hawthorne Theatre

Stamps, So Good, Race of Strangers, Visions of Voices

Holocene

The Reservations, Jewels of the Nile, Vice Device, Dark Entries

Jimmy Mak’s

The Mel Brown B3 Organ Group

Kells

Cronin Tierney

Kennedy School

The Parson Red Heads

The Woods

Andy Combs & The Moth, Red River, Risa Beaumet

Black Prairie, Old Light, Ritchie Young

Alberta Street Public House Mikey’s Irish Jam Angie and the Car Wrecks

Aloft

Mark Allen’s Acoustic Night

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall The Black Crowes

Ash Street Saloon

The Athiarchists, Dirtnap, Only Nightmares, Kingdom Under Fire

Backspace

Rose Bent, Speaker Minds, King Wolveryne, Rich James, Portland George, Yung Mil, KARMA

The Last Jai Ho! Party of 2010 featuring Pancham

McMenamins Edgefield Winery Dickens Carolers Kris Deelane

McMenamins Hotel Oregon

The Parson Red Heads

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

Water Tower Bucket Boys

The World Famous Kenton Club

McMenamins-Grand Lodge

Tonic Lounge

Mississippi Pizza

The Fast Takers

Trevor Ras

John Lennon Tribute Show: Mont Chris Hubbard, Matthew Lindley, Miriam’s Well, Justin Klump, Paul Creighton

Ric Rac

Tony Starlight’s

Donna and the Side Effects

The Tony Starlight Christmas Extravaganza

Twilight Cafe & Bar

Mississippi Studios

Bob Mould, Telekinesis, Cobirds Unite

Mock Crest Tavern Mount Tabor Theater

Dementia

C. Ryze Presents

Margo May, My Robot Lung, Domino Trauma Rich Layton & the Troublemakers

Music Millennium

Wonder Ballroom

Plan B

The Gracious Few, Danielle Barbe

Kinder Bison

East End

Ford Food and Drink Pete Krebs

Hawthorne Theater Lounge Rockstar Karaoke Randy DeBoy

Hawthorne Theatre

Capture the Flag, Chin Up Rocky, Sunderland, Heard It in the Headlines, All Falls Through

Jimmy Mak’s

Michael Kaeshammer

Kells

Tom May Band

Know

Microtia, Tigon

LaurelThirst Public House

Baby Gramps (9:30 pm); The James Low Western Front (6 pm)

Local Lounge

Noah Peterson Soul-Tet

Macadam’s Bar & Grill

Mt. Tabor Theater Lounge

Water Tower Bucket Boys, Jackstraw (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)

SAT. DEC. 4

Scrafford Orser

Aladdin Theater

THURS. DEC. 2

Ground Kontrol

Ella Street Social Club

Karaoke With the Captain

The Knife Shop

White Eagle

Chris Margolin

Jesta, Spinnaface, Sarah Q

Convenient Noise, Like A Villain, Desert Of Hiatus

The Twilight Room

Artistery

Karaoke From Hell

Dunes

Dark Black, Spellcaster, Dead by Dawn

Fire on the Mountain

Doc George’s Jazz Kitchen

Cousin Harley

The Knife Shop

TaborSpace

Whiskey Puppy

Doug Fir Lounge

Best of the Someday Incubator

Alberta Rose Theatre

Miller & Sasser

Ron Steen Invitational Jazz Jam Session

Someday Lounge

Nobunny, Guantanamo Baywatch, Pure Country Gold

Leonard Mynx, Titlewillcome, Dasha and the Bear, Chainsaw Darwin

Bo Asian Bistro

Rockstar Karaoke

Corkscrew Wine Bar

Duff’s Garage

Pub at the End of the Universe

Hawthorne Theater Lounge

Jenny Conlee

White Eagle

Fire on the Mountain

Years and Years

Chapel Pub

6bq9

Curtis Salgado, Alan Hager

Bryan Zentz

Tim Willcox

Water & Bodies, NIAYH, Housefire, No Kind Of Rider

Flamenco Guitarist Jeffery Trapp

Joe McMurrian

Camellia Lounge

Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom

White Eagle

DK Stewart & The Soul Survivor Horns (9 pm); Joy & Her Sentimental Gentlemen (6 pm)

East Burn

Oden

Hawthorne Theatre

Slim’s

Duff’s Garage

Slim’s

WED. DEC. 1

Jim Boyer Band (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)

Roy Smallwood

Vino Vixens

Doug Fir Lounge

Sellwood Public House

The Portland Blind Cafe 2

LaurelThirst Public House

Horse Feathers, Y La Bamba, Sara JacksonHolman

Dunes

Robert Richter, Rudy Treasure

Tom May Band

Bobo David, Jagga, Iyahson, Red X, Serious De Witness, Souljah Sound

David Friesen Trio

The Woolen Men, Magic Mouth, Sex Hair Open Mic Night

Kells

Slabtown

Dirty Words, Tall as Rasputin

The Chapin Sisters, Brothers Young, Neema

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Curren$y, Nipsey Hussle, Dom Kennedy, Smoke DZA, Fiend & Cornerboy P

Live Wire! Radio

Karl and the Jerks, Pelican Ossman, Bloomers

Ash Street Saloon

Palo Verde, Dr. Amazon, Boo Frog, Jagula

Augustana Lutheran Church

Augustana Jazz Quartet

Backspace

La Playa, Murmuring Pines, Paint & Copter, D’S’R’

Biddy McGraw’s

Rob Stroup & The Blame, Radio Giants (9:30 pm); Twisted Whistle (5 pm)

Blue Monk

Good for the Jews

Bo Asian Bistro

Reggie Houston & Guest

Brasserie Montmartre Bobby Torres Trio

Buffalo Gap Saloon Karaoke Bryan Flannery Band

Cobirds Unite

Original Halibut’s Margo Tufo

MDC, Dreadful Children, Rum Rebellion, Rendered Useless

Press Club

Mood Area 52

Proper Eats Cafe

Kenny Eng, Rob Deez, Isaac Cheong

Red Room

Wayne Gacy Trio, Ninja, Clackamas Baby Killers, Mr. Plow, Amanda Richards

Roseland

HellYeah, Hail the Villain

Sanas

Intergalactic Travels: Siren, Kitty D, Graintable, PlumbLyne

Sellwood Public House Oh My Mys

Slabtown

Barbara Manning, Michael Hurley, Flash Flood & the Dikes

Slim’s

Otis Heat

Someday Lounge Sagittarius Party

St. Michael’s Lutheran Church Christmas Chorale

The Springwater Grill Zenda Torrey and Neal Mattson

The Ty Curtis Band

Camellia Lounge

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

Clyde’s Prime Rib

Point Juncture, WA; O Bruxo; Petoskey

Dante’s

The World Famous Kenton Club

Jon Koonce & One More Mile

Mississippi Pizza

Melao de Cuba (9 pm); Jenny Sizzler (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

Mount St. Helens Vietnam Band, The Globes, AgesAndAges

Mock Crest Tavern Ken Hanson Band

Mount Tabor Theater Everyday Prophets, Grand Unified Theory

O’Connor’s Vault

Dave Fleschner Trio

Original Halibut’s Robbie Laws

Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli Lynn Conover

Plan B

Negara

Cool Breeze

Cherry Poppin’ Daddies

Doc George’s Jazz Kitchen

The Andre St. James Trio

Doug Fir Lounge

Horse Feathers, Y La Bamba, Joshua English

Duff’s Garage Knuckleheads

Dunes

The Wolfman Fairies

East Burn

Sudden Anthem

East End

Honest John Plain, Defiance, Greatest Hits, DJ Paultimore

Fenouil

Mike Winkle with Tony Pacini

AOK Suicide Forest, Fistfite, Lord Dying, Labyrinth and the Desert

Goodfoot

Project Grow

Hawthorne Theatre

Project Grow Art Opening with music by Calvin Johnson

Red Room

Manrock, Proven, VIII Days Clean, Lily

McTuff Trio, Philly’s Phunkestra Epica, Scar Symmetry, Blackguard, The Agonist, Beyond the Red Horizon

Jimmy Mak’s

Tall Jazz 22nd Annual Winter Jazz Concert

The Woods

The Satin Chaps, Pure Joy, DJ Drew Groove

Tonic Lounge Local Hip-Hop

Tony Starlight’s

The Tony Starlight Christmas Extravaganza

Twilight Cafe & Bar

Mangled Bohemians, The Datura Blues, The Sindicate

Vino Vixens

Bluestone Jazz

White Eagle

Truckstop Darlin’, Riviera, The Tumblers (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)

Winningstad Theatre Julianne R. Johnson presents “Home for the Holidays/Believe Concert”

Wonder Ballroom

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Aladdin Theater

Misty River Band “Harmony for the Holidays” with Doug Smith

Alberta Rose Theatre Darol Anger and Friends

Ash Street Saloon

American Roulette, Betrayed by Weakness

Backspace

The Infinite Knobs, Lamkins Caird Williams

Biddy McGraw’s Felim Egan

Bo Asian Bistro

McMenamins Edgefield

The Parson Red Heads

McMenamins Edgefield Winery

Water Tower Bucket Boys

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern Cary Novotny

Mississippi Pizza Colin O’Brien

Mississippi Studios Steve Poltz, Anya Marina

Plan B

Ron Steen Jazz Jam

Black Haze, Mr. Plow, O.U.T., Gordon Avenue, Jim Fitzgerald, Jackbone Dixie, Carlos Severe Marcelin, Tiger Lillies, Of Former Fame, Sally Tomato, The Shatterbrains, Bittersoundfase, Rob Tyler, Laugh at Linus, Radiophlyer

Dante’s

Rontoms

Ian James

Branx

Greeley Estates, Vanna, Tides of Man, A Bullet for Pretty Boy

Brasserie Montmartre Ramsey Embick

Clyde’s Prime Rib

Sinferno Cabaret, The Twangshifters

Doc George’s Jazz Kitchen Ed Neumann

Doug Fir Lounge

And And And, Light for Fire

Slim’s

Suburban Slim

Star Bar

Frazey Ford, Guests

Presented by Down Under Rock

Ella Street Social Club

The Woods

The Jezebel Spirit, Zoo Girl, Summer of Glaciers, Desert of Hiatus

Fire on the Mountain Mimi Naja and Jay Cobb

Hawthorne Theatre

Tonic Lounge

Kells

Vino Vixens

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

Maguffy’s Tavern

Mlord, InfinityFace, Tropical Cod vs. J-Funk

Jason Henderson

Brasserie Montmartre D.K. Stewart

Crystal Ballroom

The Temper Trap, A Silent Film

Dante’s

Karaoke From Hell

Duff’s Garage Lily Wilde

East End

Tributes to Blitz, Violators, Red Alert & more

Steve Adams

MON. DEC. 6 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Béla Fleck and the Flecktones with the Oregon Symphony

Deklun and Pace

TUES. DEC. 7 Aladdin Theater

John McLaughlin & the Fourth Dimension

Andrea’s Cha Cha Club

Rumberos del Caribe

Ash Street Saloon

Ugly Flowers, Duncan Ros, Water Under the Bridge

Beaterville Cafe Nordic Thunder

Blue Monk

Fire on the Mountain

Steel Drum Music

Jimmy Mak’s

Mimi Naja of Fruition

Big E and Ellie

Bo Asian Bistro

The Dan Balmer Band (8 pm); The McMinville High School Jazz Combo (6 pm)

Brasserie Montmartre

Kells

Weekly Jazz Jam

Peter Yeates

LaurelThirst Public House

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

McMenamins Edgefield Winery Skip vonKuske

The World Famous Kenton Club

The Git-Rights Gospel Revue

White Eagle

Bo Asian Bistro

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

Hangover Helper Comedy & Burlesque Show

LaurelThirst Public House

Eric Tonsfeldt

Ivan & Alyosha, Western States Motel, Maren Parusel

Bedouin Soundclash, Moneybrother Irish Sessions

Biddy McGraw’s

Bob Shoemaker

Chance Hayden & Sam Howard

Camellia Lounge Crystal Ballroom

The Black Keys, Sleigh Bells, Morning Teleportation

Kells

Rotture

LaurelThirst Public House

Tiga

Living Room Theaters

Frightening Waves of Blue

Fame

Goodfoot

Macadam’s Bar & Grill

Weekly DJs hosted by DJ Party Martyr

Groove Suite

Matador

Ground Kontrol

Rotture

Holocene

Saucebox

Matador

Miriam’s Well

The Station with Chris Lay

McMenamins Edgefield Winery Caleb Klauder

Mission Theater Ben Darwish Trio

Mississippi Pizza

Baby Ketten Karaoke (9 pm); Sam Rico (6 pm)

The World Famous Kenton Club

S.I.N. with Podunk, BFE

Thirsty Lion

Eric John Kaiser Hosts The PDX Songwriter Showcase

Scott Pemberton Trio

Jimmy Mak’s

The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm); The Portland Woodshed Jazz Orchestra (6:30 pm)

Justa Pasta

Anson Wright & Tim Gilson

S.I.N.: Gregarious, Flight Risk, Colin Sick

Matador

DJ Donny Don’t

Plan B Hive

MON. DEC. 6 Element Restaurant & Lounge

The Woods

Saucebox

DJ Tibin

The Knife Shop

Tiga

Hot Panda, Here Come Dots

Goodfoot

DJ Nature, DJ Nick Dean

DJ Nate C

Roseland

Duff’s Garage

Brad Parsons

DJ LED, DJ Lakisa Falta

SUN. DEC. 5 Ground Kontrol

Mello Monday’s with DJ Mello Cee

Doug Fir Lounge

Fire on the Mountain

Video Vanguard With VJ Dantronix

After Dark

Eye Candy VJs

Press Club

The Woods

Lincoln’s Beard, Kory Quinn, Gunnar Roads

Galen Fous, Duncan Ros, The Mermaid Problem

Passion Pit DJs, Rude Dudes

DJ Magneto

Yorgo’s Greeley Avenue Bar & Grill

Star Bar

Mount Tabor Theater

The Knife Shop

Highway To Hell

‘80s Video Dance Attack

Johnnie Ward & Eagle Ridin Papas

Ella Street Social Club

Julie and the Boy

House Call

Crystal Ballroom

Mother’s Bar

Mississippi Pizza

O’Connor’s Vault

Crush Drum and Bass

DJ Freddie Fagula and Guests

Slim’s

Mock Crest Tavern

The Ken Hanson Band, Johannin, Melville

Run On Sentence, The Go Round, Autopilot Is for Lovers

FRI. DEC. 3

LV’s Sports Bar

Pamela Jordan Band

Vino Vixens

2010 PDX Strippies

WED. DEC. 1 Crown Room

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

Supervisor

Tonic Lounge

Local Lounge

Dante’s

Brooke Fraser, Sam Bradley

DJ Black Sandwich

Jackstraw

Needtobreathe, The Daylights

The Ed Forman Show, DSL Open Mic Comedy

DJ Anjali & the Incredible Kid

Peter Yeates

Watercolor Effect

White Eagle

Wilfs Restaurant

Holly Tones Cabaret “Wrap It Up”

DJ DirtyNick DJ Gregarious In The Cooky Jar with DJ Cooky Parker DJ Survival Sklz

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THURS. DEC. 2 Beauty Bar

DJ Lifepartner

Blitz Ladd

Video Disco With VJ Dantronix

Ground Kontrol

DJ Brokenwindow, Strategy

Railside Pub DJ Nate C

Someday Lounge

The Fix: Rev. Shines, KEZ, Dundiggy

Tiga

Mild Child

DJ Mumu DJ Miles

Video Disco with VJ Dantronix

SAT. DEC. 4 Branx

Monkeytek, Ryan Organ, Jon A.D., E3, Lincolnup, Ben Tactic, Samizdat, Saltfeend

Da Hui

Get Funky with DJ Nealie Neal

Devils Point DJ Brooks

Groove Suite Soulstice

Ground Kontrol

DJ Tigerstripes, DJ Rainbow Pudding

Holocene

Dimitri, DJ Beyondadoubt, Maxx Bass

Radio Room DJ Lo-Fi

Ground Kontrol Star Bar

Amateur DJ Night

The World Famous Kenton Club

Old Country Night with Billy Lee

Tiga

DJ Copy

Tiger Bar

DJ Entropy

TUES. DEC. 7 Beauty Bar

DJ Rob Graves and DJ Rotar!!

Crown Room

See You Next Tuesday Weekly Dubstep Party

Element Restaurant & Lounge Labworks

Shanghai Tunnel Mello Cee

Tiga

DJ Blackwell

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ALADDIN THEATER 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694 ALBERTA ROSE THEATRE 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055 ARLENE SCHNITZER CONCERT HALL 1037 SW Broadway., 248-4335 ARTISTERY 4315 SE Division St., 803-5942 ASH STREET SALOON 225 SW Ash St., 226-0430 BACKSPACE 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900 BEAUTY BAR 111 SW Ash Street., 224-0773 BERBATI’S PAN 231 SW Ankeny St., 248-4579 BIDDY MCGRAW’S 6000 NE Glisan St., 233-1178 BLUE MONK 3341 SE Belmont St., 595-0575 BRANX 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683 CROWN ROOM 205 NW 4th Ave., 222-6655 CRYSTAL BALLROOM 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047 DANTE’S 1 SW 3rd Ave., 226-6630 DOUG FIR LOUNGE 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663 DUFF’S GARAGE 1635 SE 7th Ave., 234-2337 DUNES 1905 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 493-8637 EAST BURN 1800 E. Burnside., 236-2876 EAST END

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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.

STAGE 1945 Christmas from Home

Tapestry Theatre completes its cycle of World War II radio variety show revues for the second time. PCC Sylvania Little Theatre, 12000 SW 49th Ave., 254-6919. 7:30 pm Fridays and Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays, plus 2 pm Dec. 11. Closes Dec. 19. $19-$22, $11 veterans.

Antigone Now

Oregon Children’s Theatre’s Young Professionals program presents Melissa Cooper’s contemporary take on Sophocles’ tragedy. Oregon Children’s Theatre Young Professionals Studio Theatre, 600 SW 10th Ave., 228-9571. 7 pm Thursday-Friday, 2 pm Saturday, 2 and 5 pm Sunday, Dec. 2-5. $5-$10 suggested donation.

A Christmas Carol

Beaverton Civic Theatre presents... well, you know the drill. Beaverton City Library Auditorium, 12375 SW 5th St., Beaverton, 626-1936. 8 pm FridaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Dec. 18. $15, $5 children.

The Christmas Revels 2010: In Celebration of the Winter Solstice

This year the annual, Renaissanceinspired revue of music and dance takes a Spanish theme, with guest appearances by Julia and Tarik Banzi of the Al-Andalus Ensemble and Flamenco dancer Laura Onizuka. Scottish Rite Center, 1512 SW Morrison St., 274-4654. 7:30 pm Dec. 3, 1 and 7:30 pm Dec. 4, 1 and 7 pm Dec. 5, 7:30 pm Dec. 9 and 10, 1 and 7:30 pm Dec. 11, 1 and 5 pm Dec. 12. $7-$36.

Dying City

From the outset, Christopher Shinn’s 2007 drama, 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. Kelly finds Peter at her door, unannounced and 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. McCollum pulls off the trick fairly well, but he’s 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. BEN WATERHOUSE. The Church, 602 NE Prescott St., 205-0715. 9 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 4 pm Sundays. No show Dec. 9. Closes Dec. 12. $12-$21.

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.

Everyone Who Looks Like You

Hand2Mouth’s 2009 show, back for a two-week run at the Interstate Firehouse after a whirlwind tour of West Coast colleges, is a warts-andall exploration of family: the people to whom you happen to be related, who made you who you are, who loved you more and caused you more pain than anyone else ever could, and whom you will one day inevitably become. The material is drawn from the memories of the cast and crew and informed by interviews with one another’s parents and siblings: the time Mom came home with a terrible perm, the time the parents bungled a speech about the ills of masturbation, the time a sibling stormed out of the house and vanished for five years. Should you invite family members to attend, you may find yourself in the midst of involuntary oversharing after the show. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. BEN WATERHOUSE. Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, 5340 N Interstate Ave., hand2mouththeatre.org. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays and Dec. 11. Closes Dec. 12. $12-$15, $24 Dec. 3.

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 Dec. 5 and 12. 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 all-American town that really loves brownies. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 477-8255. 7:30 pm Thursday and Sunday, Dec. 2 and 5. $10-$12.

The HollyTones

The vocal trio calls it quits after 12 years with five final shows of holiday cheer. Wilfs Restaurant, 800 NW 6th Ave., 223-0070. 7:30 pm Dec. 7-9 and 15-16. $15.

Killing Time

This “all-new world premiere comedy” from Portland sketch comedy company the 3rd Floor doesn’t do anything nearly so dramatic as the title suggests; rather, it languishes the time away with a lazy silliness that’s all the more frustrating because the show has the potential for something greater. Director and co-writer Tony St. Clair starts off with the year 1948 and Johnny Donovan (John Killeen), a sort of everyman struggling to make it until he’s swept into a whodunit caper of criminal, political, scientific and ultimately familial intrigue, all set off by a time machine. There is a lot of time travel on show; that fact alone will decide whether you want to see it or curse it. There is also punk rock and a surprise appearance by Stephen Hawking. These are the best scenes. The surrender to schmaltzy sincerity, played clunkily by most of these sharp comedic actors, is what breaks Killing Time. Keep it campy, 3rd Floor—not sappy. CAITLIN McCARTHYMiracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., the3rdfloor.com. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays. 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.

and roams the audience stealing drinks and flinging insult. Imagine Stephen Colbert as a libidinous sociopath. Ross’ lacerating wit and bottomless energy make for a hilarious evening of great gags and public humiliation. With two guests and a new house band every week, it’s the best entertainment $3 can buy. BEN WATERHOUSE. Dante’s, 1 SW 3rd Ave., 226-6630. 9 pm Tuesdays. $3. 21+.

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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.

The Santaland Diaries

Wade McCollum reprises his performance of this stage adaptation of David Sedaris’ memoir of a miserable season spent at Macy’s Santaland. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 pm Saturdays-Sundays, 10 pm Thursdays Dec. 9-30, 5 pm Dec. 31. No shows Dec. 25 or Jan. 1. $30-$50, $23 youth.

Whitney Streed and Frankie Tease host an afternoon revue that blends standup comedy and burlesque. Performers include Carmen Trineece, Todd Armstrong, Dennis Williams, Jewels Belly Dancer, Sandria Dore’, Nat Tango and Blaze the contortionist. Tonic

Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 2380543. 2 pm Sunday, Dec. 5. $5. 21+.

Shelium

Rissa Riss hosts a showcase of local women standup comics: Belinda Carroll, Veronica Heath, Lisa Myers, Holli Pappan, Carmen Trineece and Marcia Belsky. I’m guessing there will be around 90 percent fewer rape jokes than there were at the last, all-male open mic I attended. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Wednesday, Dec. 1. $5. 21+.

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Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

Portland Civic Theatre Guild presents a reading of Richard Alfieri’s comedy about a retired woman and her dance instructor. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. 10 am Tuesday, Dec. 7. $6.

Soph: An Evening With the Last of the Red-Hot Mamas

Wendy Westerwelle reprises her hit 1984 performance as Sophie Tucker, a turnof-the-century vaudeville star who was once arrested for indecency in Portland, for Triangle Productions! What’s it like to see the same show, with the same actress, 26 years later? Find out! (And if you saw the original production and would care to compare the two in print, email me at bwaterhouse@wweek.com.) The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 239-5919. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. No Show Dec. 25. Closes Dec. 26. $15-$35.

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[FUNDRAISER] Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s annual holiday gala offers food and drink by Bluehour and dancing by Seattle burlesque star Lily Verlaine. Wieden & Kennedy Atrium, 224 NW 13th Ave., 242-1419 x225. 7:30 pm Friday, Dec. 3. $50.

Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them

Portland Actors Conservatory begins its season with a comedy by Christopher Durang (author of The Marriage of Bette and Boo), in which a nice girl finds herself married to a creepy maybe-terrorist. It features cameos by a German spy, a pornfiend priest and disembodied voice. Portland Actors Conservatory, 1436 SW Montgomery St., 274-1717. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Dec. 19. $13-$25.

COMEDY Brainwaves

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

ComedySportz

[IMPROV] Fast-paced, competitive, family-friendly improv. ComedySportz, 1963 NW Kearney St., 236-8888. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays. $12.

Dan Cummins

A pretty funny fella, Cummins has about the best joke I’ve ever heard about pop-up ads and stabbing. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, Dec. 2-4. $15-$25. 21+.

The Ed Forman Show, with ME! ED FORMAN!

Aaron Ross terrorizes Dante’s every Tuesday night as Ed Forman, a frenetic, oversexed, foul-mouthed 1970s talkshow host who abuses local notables

VALERIE STEVENS AND MICHAEL CLINE

A CHRISTMAS STORY (PORTLAND CENTER STAGE) We all already know what Ralphie wants for Christmas. The American consciousness has been imprinted with holiday visions of sexy leg lamps, oversize pink bunny suits and, of course, the “official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle with a compass and this thing which tells time built right into the stock” since Jean Shepherd’s classic 1940s-era family flick hit theaters in 1983 (and has aired in all-day TV marathons on TNT ever since). Portland Center Stage has set itself a big challenge in unwrapping this charming Christmas present, which focuses on a 9-year-old Ralphie Parker and his oddball Indiana family’s December trials and triumphs, for the live stage. Unfortunately, Philip Grecian’s stolid adaptation manages to suck much of the nostalgic holiday cheer out of this story of BB gun mania. The biggest problem? There’s two Ralphies. While the film overlays its wry adult narration on kid Ralphie’s cherubic face, PCS’s version forces kid actor Michael Cline to share the stage with his grown-up alter ego Darius Pierce, the latter often blandly pontificating over the minutiae of kid life (Little Orphan Annie decoder rings, schoolyard bullies with yellow eyes) while the former ineffectually mimes the action. That makes for a crowded stage, which is dressed in a spot-on re-creation of the film’s shabby Midwestern living room, kitchen, and smoke-choked stairway down to the blasted furnace. To make it worse, this version crams in at least another 20 minutes of superfluous dialogue plucked from Shepherd’s book, In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, leading to a 2 1/2-hour stage-show slog that feels like an extended DVD edition of the film—complete with a pointless love interest for Ralphie. Despite the issues, the cast performs with screwball charm. Ebbe Roe Smith shines as Ralphie’s turkey-obsessed, furnace-fighting “Old Man,” blasting off into fantastic fits of garbled obscenity and misplaced rage when the occasion calls for it. Fourth-grader Harrison Goyette nails kid brother Randy, right down to the kitchen-table piggy snorts and snowsuit waddle, lending much-needed giggles to the show. All in all, A Christmas Story is not a bad show; the problem is simply that a straight adaptation doesn’t add anything to the original. I couldn’t help hoping that at some point Ralphie’s exhausted mom would break into song about her love of cooking meatloaf and red cabbage or that evil Scut Farkus would get his own dance number. Poking fun at a cult movie worked for the Tony-nominated adaptation of Xanadu. Maybe it’s time somebody gave Ralphie and his blue-steel beauty a Christmas song of their own. KELLY CLARKE.

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comics. The Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 10 pm Fridays. Closes Dec. 17. $7-$10.

Super Secret Spy Team

The Brodys improvise an espionage thriller. The Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Saturdays through 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-whatyou-will.

CLASSICAL Adam Hurst

The prolific gypsy cellist plays music from his newest CD of haunting original solo cello music and, with help from pianist Vince Frates, earlier releases. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., oldchurch.org. 7 pm Wednesday, Dec. 1. $12-$15.

The choir sings J.S. Bach’s advent Cantata 61, Savior of the Nations, Come, and a motet by Northwest composer Ron Jeffers. St. James Lutheran Church, 1315 SW Park Ave., 227-2439. 5 pm Sunday, Dec. 5. Donation. All ages.

narrated by PSU faculty member and jazz pianist Darrell Grant; John Adams’ Scratchband; and Tchaikovsky’s final orchestral work (he conducted the premiere nine days before his death), Symphony No. 6, with its startling (for 1893) switcheroo—it ends with a poignant, brooding movement instead of the usual rousing finale. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 242-1419. 3 pm Saturday, Dec. 4. $10-$17.

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Dave Fleschner Organ Trio

The onetime jazz venue returns to presenting music worthy of its namesake in this new Sunday-night series inaugurated by the veteran Curtis Salgado organist and his trio. Blue Monk, 3341 SE Belmont St., 595-0575. 7:30 pm Sunday, Dec. 5. $3-$7. 21+.

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Portland Classic Guitar brings the Oregon Guitar Quartet member and PSU faculty member for a solo recital. First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park Ave., 654-0082. 8 pm Friday, Dec. 3. $17.50-$24.50.

Endangered Blood, Paxselin Quartet

The New York spinoff of the renowned Claudia Quintet features experimental music stars Chris Speed and Oscar Noriega (sax), Jim Black (drums) and Trevor Dunn (bass) in sounds that touch on free jazz, rock and other genres. Portland’s Paxselins (Mary Sue Tobin, Ken Ollis, Bill Athens and Chad Hensel) open with their own brand of avant jazz. The Hop and Vine, 914 N Killingsworth St., 954-3322. 8 pm Tuesday, Dec. 7. $5-$15. 21+.

Oregon Symphony, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Alash

The orchestra plays seasonal tunes by Rimsky-Korsakov, Bizet and Vaughan Williams, then joins forces with the jazz/bluegrass fusion pioneers in unusual versions of holiday tunes. Also appearing: Tuvan throat singers Alash, who’ll unleash their unearthly, multi-pitch vocal sounds that mix modern jazz and classical influences with the haunting, traditional Siberian sounds. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353. 7:30 pm Monday, Dec. 6. $23-$123.

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With piano accompaniment, the choir sings Brahms’ Love Song Waltzes, while the early-music ensemble sings Renaissance music by Palestrina, Tallis, Tavener, Lasso and Portland’s John Vergin. Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 517-7815. 7:30 pm Sunday, Dec. 5. Free.

Takacs Quartet

These Friends of Chamber Music concerts offer two very different programs by the 35-year-old ensemble. Monday’s classical lineup features quartets by Haydn, Beethoven and Mendelssohn, while Tuesday’s comprises Bartok’s great sixth quartet, Schubert’s popular “Death and the Maiden” quartet and an impassioned modern meditation on it by American composer Daniel Kellogg, called “Soft Sleep Shall Contain You.” Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 224-9842. 7:30 pm Monday-Tuesday, Dec. 6-7. $27-$40.

Tapestry

The superb Boston women’s vocal ensemble, renowned for its moving performances of unusual pieces from composers ancient (Hildegard of Bingen) and modern (Steve Reich, Oregon’s Robert Kyr), brings an especially intriguing program to this Friends of Chamber Music concert: works by contemporary composers James Falzone, Patrician Van Ness and Tapestry’s own Shira Kammen; a new Tibetan-inspired cantata for singers, percussion and Tibetan bowls by Sheila Silver; and medieval and traditional works. St. Philip Neri Church, 2408 SE 16th Ave., 224-9842. 7:30 pm Thursday, Dec. 2. $27-$40.

DANCE The Circus Project

The Circus Project is offering a show themed around the seven deadly sins, and you can join in—at least during the lust, gluttony and sloth parts. Indulge, a benefit for the project’s efforts to give at-risk youth performing arts and circus training, comes with live and silent auctions of local products and services, in which you can bid on whatever excites your desires. There will also be a four-course feast catered by the Adrianna Hill Grand Ballroom, a musical-theatrical performance by the Vagabond Opera and aerial work from Circus Project’s Training

Company and Night Flight Aerial. Adrianna Hill Grand Ballroom, 918 SW Yahmill St., 764-9174. doors/ auction 7 pm, show 8 pm Friday, Dec. 3. $25-$50.

Dance West

You get a lot with Dance West, the student company at Beaverton’s Arts & Communication Magnet Academy, including ballet, jazz, tap and hip-hop. At the holiday concert—the Spirit of the Season—the company is also offering a holiday bazaar in the lobby. In return, the company is asking viewers to donate toiletries, gift cards, cash, checks or new/gently used clothing for the Beaverton School District’s Title X Homeless Program. Arts & Communication Magnet Academy Performing Arts Center, 11375 SW Center St., Beaverton, 2 and 7:30 pm Friday, 2 and 7 pm Saturday, Dec. 3-4. $9-$13.

Hangover Helper

Nothing mitigates a hangover like a Bloody Mary, a vegetarian-friendly buffet and a little bump ‘n’ grind, or so the thinking goes at Hangover Helper, a show hosted by Whitney Streed and Frankie Tease. This very Portland sort of event (yes, you may also have PBR with your breakfast) features burlesque dance entertainers and stand-up comedians: The lineup includes the Helper hostesses, plus Carmen Trineece, Todd Armstrong, Dennis Williams, Jewels Belly Dancer, Sandria Dore’ and Nat Tango. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 238-0543. 2 pm Sunday, Dec. 5. $5.

Jason Samuels Smith

Tap isn’t a singular style of dance any more than ballet is just Bournonville or modern is just Merce. On one end of the spectrum you have the genteel, smileyfaced Shirley Temple style of tap; on the other, the daring athleticism of the Nicholas Brothers or Gregory Hines. The past two decades have seen a tap rebirth, thanks to such skilled young practitioners as Savion Glover and Jason Samuels Smith, who joined the cast of Glover’s Bring In ‘Da Noise, Bring In ‘Da Funk at 15 and went on to create the first annual Los Angeles Tap Festival and his own company, Anyone Can Get It. Smith and ACGI are making their Portland debut this week, but don’t be surprised if some of these dancers look familiar. Smith has also appeared on So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing With The Stars; company member Chloe Arnold has performed in music videos for Beyoncé and Outkast. Here, the group is backed by a live jazz trio as it demonstrates a stylistic versatility along with a knack for improv and collaboration. Newmark Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, Dec. 2-4. $27.50-$68.50.

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Fortunately, the artist went on to work in other media to much more sophisticated effect. Elizabeth Leach, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521. Closes Dec. 31.

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A glass-art innovator and visionary on par with Dale Chihuly, Klaus Moje was feted with a stunning retrospective last year at Portland Art Museum. Now, in Constructed, he returns to Bullseye, the gallery with which he has been closely associated for the past three decades. In virtuosic kiln-formed panels shaped into platter forms and pure objets d’art, Moje deploys his unerring chromatic and compositional instincts, marrying them with a contrastingly understated approach to surface. Bullseye, 300 NW 13th Ave., 227-0222. Closes Jan. 22.

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.

Corey Arnold

Corey Arnold owns a fishing boat and takes photos of his crew members catching and gutting fish, crabs, and all manner of other marine life on the high seas. He’s at his strongest not as a documentarian but when he allows the human and ichthyological players to stand (or swim) in for the fearsome symbolisms of our common struggle against nature and death. In his latest body of work, Fish-Work Europe, he leaves the cold waters off Alaska, where he normally works, to explore the fishing industry in eight European countries. Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, 134 NW 8th Ave., 287-3886. Closes Jan. 15.

Lee Kelly

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.

Three Japanese printmakers— Kazuo Umezz, Kazama Namiki and Rin Nadeshico—help Froelick Gallery continue its march toward increasingly edgy work. The artists in this exhibition, titled Gwashi!, specialize in manga imagery, and their work is by turns kitschy, creepy and subtly erotic. Kudos to Charles Froelick for bucking the trend and mounting challenging shows in an economic climate that would seem to reward conservative choices over curatorial derring-do. Froelick, 714 NW Davis St., 2221142. Closes Jan. 15.

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Carl Morris

One of the Pacific Northwest’s most acclaimed historic artists, Carl Morris (1911-1993) was a master of abstraction who helped put the region on the map during the middle of the past century. This month, Laura Russo presents a selection of Morris’ works on canvas and paper. Complementing Morris’ abstractions are landscapes by the late painter William Givler (1908-2000). Laura Russo, 805 NW 21st Ave., 226-2754. Dec. 2-24.

Tropical Depression

In advance of the exhibition Tropical Depression, the artists in Appendix Collective (Maggie Casey, Zachary Davis, Joshua Pavlacky, and Benjamin Young) set formal parameters on their work and forced themselves to create within those boundaries. Must restriction stifle creativity, or can limitations actually foster new artistic approaches? Appendix Collective believes in the latter case and aims to prove that thesis in this show. Does it succeed? Check this space for a capsule review later this month. New American Art Union, 922 SE Ankeny St. Closes Dec. 19.

The Template Files

Understated and willfully quirky, D.E. May’s works in The Template Files challenge the mind to make sense of the arcane. His stylized graphs and diagrams combine geometric precision with conceptual imprecision, to piquing effect. PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063. Closes Dec. 31.

G. Lewis Clevenger

Squares and rectangles in immaculately perpendicular compositions: That’s what made G. Lewis Clevenger’s reputation as an abstract painter. His style was dependably beautiful and beautifully dependable. But now the artist is switchin’ it up and gettin’ all freaky, incorporating (gasp!) curves, (horrors!) ovals, even circles, for the love of God, in works that are less rigid and more jaunty than before. This is a case study in what artists are supposed to do over time: evolve. The palette-knife work and bold color schemes we have come to associate with Clevenger are still very much in evidence, as are his intuitive and assured compositions, but the style is changing in ways that are discernible in every show. Good for him, and good for his fans. To paraphrase Bob Dylan: the lines, they are a-changin’. Pulliam, 929 NW Flanders St., 228-6665. Closes Dec. 30.

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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 1 Chris Hedges

It is uncertain how welcoming Portlanders will be toward anti-liberal advocate Chris Hedges, whose rhetoric may even surpass that of Rush Limbaugh. In his provocative book, The Death of the Liberal Class, Hedges argues that liberalism has “bankrupted the country,” asserting that liberals have become “irrelevant,” and are now the No. 1 burden on the progression of our society. Bring on the right-wing zealotry! Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

THURSDAY, DEC. 2 Franklin and Eleanor

Marriages as political façades are nothing particularly new. But the marriage between FDR and his first lady, Eleanor, has been a hot topic for decades. In her book Franklin and Eleanor, Hazel Rowley aims to dissect and diagnose the unconventional and radical Roosevelt relationship, while also examining their genuine love for one another. “From FDR’s lifelong romance with Lucy Mercer to Eleanor’s purported lesbianism,” Rowley strongly emphasizes the famous and influential couple’s well-calculated partnership as one of “mutual admiration and compassion.” Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.

1000 Words Reading: Permanence

How many different ways can the phrase “…tattooed the word ‘tiny’ across her knuckles” be incorporated into 1,000 words? Find out at the 1000 Words Reading Series third anniversary show. Participants, including Kevin Sampsell and Karl Lind, will present their final short writing pieces from the four-week challenge at the show. Other words they had to include? “Tattered,” “sale,” “spin,” “pool” and “foil.” The reading also features Portland writer Amy Temple Harper, author of the short story Elevator Roulette, and unapologetic “peripheral visionary” Kirby Light. Beer and wine is available for those with ID. The Waypost, 3120 N Williams Ave., 367-3182. 7 pm. Free. All ages.

FRIDAY, DEC. 3 Bethlehem Shoals

For you not-so-sports-savvy bookworms out there comes The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History. Written and assembled by the “blogging collective” known as FreeDarko, the book takes an irreverent and satirical tone, covering a variety of crucial basketball exploits and dynasties. Bethlehem Shoals (one of the FreeDarko members) will no doubt address the Celtics of the 1960s, as well as the draft of Michael Jordan. Topics will also range from the history of violence in the NBA to the players’ ridiculous hairstyles throughout the decades. Pictures galore! Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

IPRC Show and Tell

Oregon Book Award winner Jon Raymond believes that print media is not dying, but thriving, especially at Portland’s Independent Publishing Resource Center. Committed to the craft of print (everything from prose to comic books), the IPRC has acted as a launch pad for many publishing pros. This Friday, IPRC presents its certificate program showcase

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to the public, and will share work from many creative “poets, thinkers, cartoonists and eccentrics.” The Waypost, 3120 N Williams Ave., 367-3182. 7 pm. Free.

SATURDAY, DEC. 4 Brian Elliot and Cheyney Ryan

In times of war, old men send young men to die. But first they must persuade them not only to believe in their cause, but also to take ownership of it. In Cheyney Ryan’s book The Chickenhawk Syndrome, he examines the paradox of “how Americans often support modern warfare but have zero interest in fighting themselves.” Fellow philosophy professor Brian Elliot will join Ryan in discussing the hypocrisy of America’s pro-war leaders placing the burden of sacrifice on citizens, while simultaneously avoiding it themselves. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 4 pm. Free.

Orlo’s 18 Candles

Portland environmental nonprofit Orlo celebrates 18 years of using the arts to explore “place-based themes” with a birthday bash of writers, artists, musicians and printmakers all getting together to share their work and reflect on 2010. The event also serves as the release party for the foodcentric new issue of Orlo’s The Bear Deluxe magazine, which, among other things, includes a Q&A with Ruth Reichl and investigates Mark Twain’s passion for regional cuisine. Zoomtopia, 810 SE Belmont Ave. 6:30 pm. $10 general admission with suggested donation. $65 VIP reception for sustaining members.

SUNDAY, DEC. 5 Christian Lander

Although other races probably don’t give two shits about stuff white people like (the website, the book or the stuff itself), the site’s follow-up, Whiter Shades of Pale, claims to be “a guide for dealing with the Caucasian race.” In the book, Christian Lander explores popular trends within the white race, and examines the behavior and cultures of white people around the world. It covers all the important stuff: love triangles between white people, indie rock… hybrid cars. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 5 pm. Free.

TUESDAY, DEC. 7 Deadly Spin

To health insurers, the name Wendell Potter is almost synonymous with the boogeyman. First, he spoke out against health-insurance PR at the 2009 Senate panel for healthcare reform, now he’s released his book Deadly Spin. As the “former senior VP of CIGNA,” Potter explains how he could no longer be a part of an industry that was intentionally duping its customers. Most importantly, the book places emphasis on “how a huge chunk of health-care spending actually bankrolls a propaganda campaign and lobbying effort focused on protecting one thing: profits.” Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

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Culled from Sting’s critically acclaimed world tour, ‘Symphonicity,’ this exclusive live CD/DVD compilation features many of his greatest hits all re-imagined for symphonic ‘Bare Bones’ is an inspired arrangement. Sting is also joined by a group of accomplished musicians collection of minimally arranged hits culled from Adcomprised of Dominic Miller (Sting’s longtime guitarist), Rhani Krija ams’ impressive body of work spanning three decades. (Sting’s longtime multi-genre percussionist), David Cossin (a featured Recorded in spring of 2010 during his “Bare Bones member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars), Jo Lawry Tour,” the disc captures a raw Adams, featuring only (vocalist) and Ira Coleman (bassist), and his distinctive voice and guitar, accompanied on select special guest Branford Marsalis. songs by keyboardist Gary Breit, lending a newfound appreciation and perspective to what many consider some of the most beloved songs in pop/rock music.

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127 Hours

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. R. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Fox Tower. 73

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The Boxer’s Omen

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Early in the 1983 Shaw brothers’ fracas The Boxer’s Omen, our hero—midcoitus, no less—learns he must avenge his brother before the dead Tibetan monk to whom his soul is linked decomposes. So he becomes monastic as hell and takes on a group of evil wizards who encase a dead hooker in a crocodile carcass so she can be reborn as a zombie warrior. But first he must battle a magician who chews entrails and unleashes an army of enraged crocodile skulls, animatronic bats, a floating alien head and his own decapitated cranium in the ultimate Arthurian hazing ritual. Confused? You fucking should be. Bizarre even by Shaw brothers standards, Boxer’s Omen is a psychedelic nightmare that tests hardened gag reflexes, a trip-out bathed in enough red and blue lighting to give Dario Argento seizures. Naturally, it’s being presented by the Grindhouse Film Festival, which is handing out airsickness bags at the door. Those will come in handy during a scene in which wizards chomp chicken genitals and regurgitate them onto a communal plate. If that entices, strap yourself in for the most batshit-crazy grindhouse romps this side of Hausu. AP KRYZA. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Dec. 7. 85

Burlesque

38 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. 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 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—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. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cinema 99, Cornelius, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Oak Grove, Sandy, Sherwood, Tigard.

Catfish

A documentary follows New York photographer Nev Schulman and his putative Facebook friends. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Living Room Theaters. 74

Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

88 Alex Gibney’s detailed and damning documentary is 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. R. KELLY CLARKE. Living Room Theaters. NEW

Disco and Atomic War

[THREE NIGHTS ONLY] A documentary argues that images of Western disco dancing helped bring down the Soviet Union. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm FridaySunday, Dec. 3-5.

Due Date

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. R. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cinema 99, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard. 54

NEW El Superstar: The Unlikely Rise of Juan Frances

27 Portlander Spencer John French was tapped by his sister, director Amy French, to play Juan Frances, a ranchero guitarist who becomes a Latino pop star even though the musician he most resembles is Frank Black. Playing East L.A. clubs, Spencer French is good in the role, but the joke—gringo Juan identifies so fully with immigrant culture that he takes jobs as a gardener, short-order cook and highway rose hawker—is the only one that clicks. Everything else (and there’s a lot of else: This is a movie that devotes at least 10 minutes to spastic dancing, and another five to puns on the word “caca”) is broad and straining. I mean, give El Superstar credit for getting Danny Trejo to play Juan’s adopted dad—but it might have scripted something for Danny Trejo to do. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters. FridaySunday, Dec. 3-5. The Frenches will answer questions after the 7:15 screenings on Friday-Saturday, Dec. 3-4.

Enter the Void

Gaspar Noé film is a POV experiment with precedents—Lady in the Lake and the opening of Strange Days come to mind—but when Noé adds dimethyltryptamine to the formula via Oscar’s glowing glass pipe, which we toke on along with him, 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

NEW Everybody Gets Hurt but There’s No One to Blame

[TWO NIGHTS ONLY] In what is easily the best-titled film program of the season, Cinema Project’s Pablo de Ocampo curates a bill of melodra-

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THE DISCREET CHARMS OF MOVIE-HOPPING. BY MATTHEW KO RFHAGE

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I have a trivial confession: I am an inveterate and unrepentant movie-hopper. I have spent full eighthour workdays at the cineplex exhausting its options, emerging dazed and spent and viciously hypoglycemic, with pupils dilated back to my ears. I rarely have a plan beyond the first movie—the next in line is determined by whatever happens to be starting when the last one spits me back out into the hallway. I have absently wandered into castrato comedies starring the Matthews McConaughey and Perry, the Jennifers Aniston and Lopez. I have watched always-the-bridesmaid movies. I have fallen asleep in the theater during a B-flick about illegal cage fighting (in which a principled, lily-white-trash protagonist beats up a variety of less-principled ethnic badasses, plus earns the love of a virtuous single mother), and then woken up to watch two more movies. Even the awful films are a comfort on the order of, say, cheap Chinese takeout: It is the three-reel form dumbly flexing its muscles. In the Paris of the First World War, surrealists André Breton and Paul Éluard used to wander into moviehouse after moviehouse without asking what was playing; they left the theater at the moment the strange, flickering images on the screen became understandable as mere narrative—when the film lost its power as dream and became domesticated into simple, dully coherent plot and action (which, of course, is what most people go to a movie to see). The pair were two of the world’s first movie-hoppers but also the first to catch its vital essence: When you are watching so much, choosing is pointless. One can simply see everything until it loses its interest for you. Prior knowledge of the film is flat-out counterproductive. Your modern multiplex is pretty much made for this sort of thing. Fifteen or even 27 screens, in many cases, are adjoined by dim back hallways and left largely unattended, amid constant foot traffic. One ticket effectively buys access to as many films as one has patience for. Nota bene, though: The kind folks at the multiplex do not at all want you to be doing this, even if the risks and legality of the practice fall somewhere in the range of absentmindedly eating grapes out of a shopping cart at the supermarket and popping a U-turn in the middle of an empty, night-

time street. A goodly percentage of the multiplex’s teenage employees are flatly indifferent to one’s continued, interminable presence in the ’plex. (For the record, however, Willamette Week is pointedly not telling you to go hop multiple movies without paying for them, OK?) Still, there are rules to be followed. Don’t look nervous or shifty, for one. You’re not stealing diamonds from the Russian mafia. Walk tall and with purpose, as if you’re supposed to still be there. Go to the restroom between each movie to avoid being seen flipping between doors but, dear lord, don’t keep walking back to the concession stand: This takes you back in front of the kids taking your ticket stubs. Though no one but the manager is liable to

THE SURREALISTS USED TO WANDER INTO MOVIEHOUSE AFTER MOVIEHOUSE WITHOUT ASKING WHAT WAS PLAYING. take interest in you, this is an obvious trust-in-Godbut-tie-up-your-camel sort of situation. Most important, however, is that you go alone. The aloneness is not so much to remain inconspicuous as it is a fundamental necessity of the experience. While many may watch movie marathons at home, where distraction rules, the movie theater is a darkened sanctum in which the tumult of the world is shut out. The patience to watch six or more hours of unmitigated movie—uninterrupted by phone, unsupplemented by email, unnourished by food or drink—has become a rare quality. I brought a companion along during my research for this story, and after the hop from the first film she was already fidgeting in her seat, thinking of errands she had to run, the omnipresent demands of civilian life. New Wave directors Godard and Truffaut became friends, goes the myth, because both spent their entire days watching film after film at the cinema, just seats away; both did so, however, alone. Part of the reason the practice goes so unpoliced is that it is almost always rare: Movie-hopping is not an easy indulgence so much as it is a prolonged abnegation of self, an abstracted and impersonal act of love, perhaps also a meditation. It is, let’s say, yoga for the culture-damaged and sedentary.

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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. PG-13. ALISTAIR ROCKOFF. Fox Tower, Hollywood Theatre.

Faster

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. (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, Cinema 99, Cornelius, Evergreen, Lloyd Mall, Oak Grove, Sandy, Sherwood, Tigard. 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, cringe-inducing 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. You may leave feeling that you were, like two small children midway through the movie, dangled out of a window. But that was kind of the idea. R. AARON MESH. Lloyd Mall.

Four Lions

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. 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. 96

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

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 & 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. 35

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, Cinema 99, CineMagic, Cornelius, Evergreen, Lake Twin, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Moreland, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Roseway, Sandy, Sherwood, St Johns Twin Cinema-Pub, Tigard. NEW

Heartless

Philip Ridley, who has been busy with everything but feature films these past 14 years—paintings, books, plays, songs—returns to the medium for which he still might be best known (his debut feature The Reflecting Skin is a dark and insistent splinter of a movie) with Heartless, an almost wholly awful yet oddly intriguing film that recalls Clive Barker at his worst trying to write the devil into a Fight Club knockoff to be directed by someone who dropped out of film school to watch Nine Inch Nails videos on repeat. What I mean to say is that this lukewarm stew of supernatural suspense, about a sad sack with brutal birthmarks who agrees to do the devil a bloody favor in exchange for a pretty face, made me feel like a 15-year-old who hates himself, when in fact I am a grown-ass man who hates himself, and trite parables about beauty being skin deep just don’t cut it for me anymore. While there is something fascinating and even admirable 45

about Ridley’s blinkered devotion to following his ridiculous premise to its logical conclusion—any movie with lizard people, Saran Wrap sex and a louche Eurotrash Beelzebub can’t be a total loss—Heartless never reaches the nightmarish depths beyond the light. CHRIS STAMM. Living Room Theaters. NEW

High and Low

[THREE DAYS ONLY, REVIVAL] Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 kidnapping mystery. 5th Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday, 3 pm Sunday, Dec. 3-5. NEW

In Search of the Miraculous

Megamind

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 66

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

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mas and meta-melodramas, including a one-man remake of Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. It’s a Fassbinder mindbender! Clinton Street Theater. 7:30 pm Tuesday-Wednesday, Dec. 7-8.

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[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A Swedish skateboarding film by Pontus Alv. Clinton Street Theater. 9 pm Thursday, Dec. 2.

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. PG-13. Fox Tower, Hollywood Theatre. 71

THE BARKING DEAD: Lily Jackson and zombie dog in The Macabre World of Lavender Williams.

Last Train Home

89 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. 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. The film is packed with gripping images—squalid urban rooms, a thumping Shenzhen nightclub, a crowd of 100,000 trapped in a train station by a snowstorm—but the most memorable are near-Arcadian shots of rural life. The mountains and rice fields are so beautiful that one wonders why anyone would ever leave; Fan neglects to remind us that the alternative is starvation. BEN WATERHOUSE. Living Room Theaters.

Love & Other Drugs

42 A cookie-cutter romcom that humps every cliché in the book with the same reckless abandon Jake Gyllenhaal mounts Anne 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 reimagines 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: She’s smart, zany, artistic, listens to indie rock and manages to turn Gyllenhaal’s egocentric Lothario into a respectable man. 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 standard-issue manic freeway jaunt to stop her from leaving 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. R. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cinema 99, Cornelius, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub, Tigard.

HDFEST The celluloid vs. digital argument is often portrayed as a battle pitting projection-booth purists against James Cameron’s army of bloodless replicants, but this week’s HDFest is a reminder that digital video is also generating some very personal filmmaking. The Historic Digital Cinema Festival, an oddly peripatetic fest that visits a different city each year (previous stops include London, Helsinki and Seoul), arrives in Portland with a batch of movies made on budgets tiny enough that the directors never had to fret about mass appeal. The festival, in fact, suggests a sort of twilight world of highly individual—not to say bizarre—sensibilities. I’m not sure it’s a better world than the mainstream, but it does seem somehow more free. “The course of true love never did run smooth,” warbles the fairytale narrator of Bedfellows, “a phrase made all the more true when both lovers in question possess a penis.” That’s a cockeyed line to open a movie with, and Pierre Stefanos’ 15-minute short only grows more, well, queer: It includes an extended post-coital romantic fantasy in which one of said lovers imagines not only starting a family with his hook-up, but being consoled by him after a surrogate miscarries their baby. That’s some highly specific stuff—endearingly so—but it seems downright ordinary compared with The Macabre World of Lavender Williams, a 25-minute picture by Nicolas Delgado de la Camara that plays like a live-action All Dogs Go to Heaven shot by David Lynch. It’s about an orphaned girl who journeys with the zombiefied remains of her family mutt, Lester, a detailed creation that looks like something left rotting in Jim Henson’s garage for the past decade. Lester is voiced by Christopher Lloyd. God is voiced by John Lithgow. The dog and his master share a poignant reminiscence about the time he bit her and her parents subsequently shot him in the head. (Both films show in the shorts program, at 9:30 pm Monday, Dec. 6.) The most accomplished work in the fest is also the opening-night feature: The Beginner (7:15 pm Monday, Dec. 6) presents a reductio ad absurdum portrait of the kind of moony slacker by now noxiously familiar. He’s been lolling through movies since The Graduate, but this guy can’t even commence schooling—instead he wheedles for his college fund and starts spending it at every pizza parlor he can find. Director Ben Coccio has far more stylistic ambition than any of his mumblecore peers, however—he has a mastery of sound editing and loves iris-ins for transitions—while lead actor Cal Robertson creates a hero so passively repellent he becomes perversely fascinating. In one remarkable scene at Foxwoods Casino, he makes an indefensibly reckless roulette gamble, and his reaction to the result is impossible to decipher. Some things are so personal we’ll never understand. AARON MESH. Free to be you and me on DV.

67 SEE IT: HDFest screens at Living Room Theaters on MondayThursday, Dec. 6-9. It also includes the debut of Oregon-shot feature film The Presence (7:15 pm Thursday, Dec. 9), which was not screened for press. Visit hdfest.com for a full schedule.

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HEARTLESS to ensure it’ll survive in anyone’s memory beyond its 96-minute runtime. PG. MATTHEW SINGER. 3-D: Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cinema 99, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Pioneer Place, Sherwood. 2-D: 99 Indoor Twin, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Sandy, Tigard.

Morning Glory

51 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 Morning Glory eventually becomes the equivalent of watching a two-hour morning show—one that gets more obnoxious with each sip of cheap pandering and sentimental sludge. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cinema 99, Cornelius, Evergeen, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Sandy, Sherwood, Tigard.

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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, writerdirector Paul Haggis (Crash) has a mere two hours to make this remake of French flick Anything for Her interesting. Both barely make it. 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 white-knuckle 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, Cinema 99, Evergreen, Forest, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall, Oak Grove, Sandy, Tigard. 67

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My Dinner With A.J.

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] Former WW movie critic David Walker debuts a new movie, a conversation piece that does not have its own action figures. Yet. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Thursday, Dec. 2. H

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Rad

[FOUR NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] The 1986 BMX hit-on-video, with Talia Shire. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Friday-Monday, Dec. 3-6.

Red

Turns out the AARP Team of Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren and John Malkovich is as contrived as The A-Team. 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. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Clackamas, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall, Oak Grove, Tigard. 82

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Shogun Assassin

[TWO NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] For devotees of kung-fu trash cinema, the 1980 swordsand-sinew opus Shogun Assassin is a dividing point. Fans are drawn into the short and sweet, ultraviolent story of a disgraced samurai on the run, pushing his toddler son around the feudal countryside in a tricked-out cart. Naysayers call it a bastardization of the Lone Wolf and Cub films—a six-part series based on the 1970s manga series. They’re basically right—“director” Robert Houston edited the first two Lone Wolf flicks together to make Shogun into an 86-minute exploitation romp. Let ’em whine. Shogun Assassin is like a Cliffs Notes introduction to the series, packed with lightning swordplay, mystical foes, bad dubbing, extreme closeups and enough spraying arteries to make the front row feel the need for raincoats. While it isn’t as epic as the original cuts, it packs enough action and sadistic lunacy to appease fans of samurai mayhem and spark curiosity about the originals. Ultimate grindhouse fanboy Dan Halstead, director of the omniawesome Grindhouse Film Festival, has obtained an extremely rare 35 mm print of the film, meaning Shogun Assassin will be screened the way it was supposed to be seen (well, kind of)—in all its gritty, violent glory. AP KRYZA. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Thursday and 9 pm Saturday, Dec. 2 & 4. Screens as part of the NW Film Center’s Japanese Currents samurai series, along with Sword of Doom (7 pm Wednesday and 9 pm Friday, Dec. 1 & 3). 80

Skyline

19 Imagine Cloverfield stripped of anything enjoyable—its pseudoamateur 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

DEC. 1-7 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. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas.

The Social Network

The Facebook origin movie is 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 screenwriter Aaron 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. PG-13. AARON MESH. Lake Twin, Lloyd Mall, Pioneer Place. 94

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Sundance Shorts 2010

A selection of short films from Robert Redford’s annual mountain fest. Hollywood Theatre.

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. The movie, based on a comic by Posy Simmonds, is the sort of barbed romantic farce Kingsley Amis used to specialize in, 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 84

trudge, Frears has snuck in a deliciously toxic little bonbon. R. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre.

Tangled

60 Few marketing opportunities are missed in Disney’s update of the Rapunzel fairy tale: The opening ballad sounds like Hannah Montana tween twang; a tiny chameleon sidekick is Happy Meal-ready. 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. 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. 3-D: Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cinema 99, Cornelius, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Pioneer Place, Sandy, Sherwood, Tigard. 2-D: Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cornelius, Evergreen, Oak Grove. NEW

Today’s Special

Aasif Mandvi from The Daily Show plays a chef. Not screened by WW press deadlines. R. Fox Tower. NEW

Transformers: The Movie

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[FOUR NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] You’ve got the touch! You’ve got the power! You’ve got the 1986 cartoon with Orson Welles voicing a planet that eats other planets! Clinton Street Theater. 9 pm Friday-Monday, Dec. 3-6. NEW

Two in the Wave

[THREE NIGHTS ONLY] In 1976, three years after they severed ties in an epistolary pissing match, François Truffaut co-starred in a little film called Close Encounters of the Third Kind and directed an insufferably sentimental picture called Small Change, while Jean-Luc Godard ran his increasingly alienating punning commentary on post-’68 radicalism into the ground with the inscrutably soporific Comment ça va. Truffaut died eight years later, possibly sparing us the schmaltzy flipside to Godard’s recent abstruse rants (imagine Andy Rooney if he dug Das Kapital instead of Family Circus and had the whole damn 60 minutes to bloviate), but robbing us of the inevitable reunion of these former French New Wave BFFs who helped dynamite a medium, first as rebel critics in the fifties, then as troublemaking auteurs in the following decade. Emmanuel Laurent’s nimble account of the New Wave’s heady beginnings and the Lennon (Godard)McCartney (Truffaut) tag team at its center smartly omits the post-divorce proceedings to focus on the films these men made while they still had each other’s backs and still looked sharp in shades. Mercifully free of stuffy interviews with scholars and experts, Two in the Wave weaves various primary sources (films, promotional materials, newspaper clippings, television interviews) into an invigorating reminder that films matter; that films are actually worth fighting for, fighting over; that films define us; that we can define films if we so desire; and, most importantly, that Anna Karina was heartstoppingly beautiful. CHRIS STAMM. Hollywood Theatre. 5:10 pm Friday, 1 and 3 pm Saturday-Sunday, Dec. 3-5. 90

TWO IN THE WAVE

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. But— against all expectations and its own dreadful marketing campaign—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 90

of contemporary moviemaking. PG13. AARON MESH. Broadway, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cinema 99, Cornelius, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Sandy, Sherwood, Tigard.

Waiting for Superman

61 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. NEW

The Warrior’s Way

Kate Bosworth and Geoffrey Rush in a movie about ninjas. Not screened for critics. Look for a review on wweek.com. R. Broadway, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cinema 99, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Sherwood, Tigard.

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Roseway Theatre

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616 NW 21st Ave., 503-223-4515 THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST 3:45, 7 Fri 9:45 Sat 1, 9:45 Sun 1

Mission Theater and Pub

THE GHOST OF MURRAYS PAST: At 8 years old, I was a huge Bill Murray fan. Every kid was a Bill Murray fan. I don’t know if we knew why, exactly. He was good with a joke and he could pull off physical comedy, sure, but in a movie like Scrooged—a film I must have watched at least a half-dozen times as a kid—it was something a bit more subtle that kept us watching: Murray just had that expressive, sad-sack face that made every line twice as funny (or, occasionally, poignant) as it should have been. Scrooged is almost two hours of Bill Murray’s face—and as Lost in Translation proved, that’s really all a film needs. CASEY JARMAN. Bagdad. 11 pm Friday, Dec. 3. Best paired with: Black Rabbit Porter. Also showing: Secretariat (Academy, Laurelhurst).

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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, 5, 7:30, 9:30, 10 FriTue 4:20, 7 FAIR GAME 12:20, 2:40, 5:15, 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 RED 12:15, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 9:55 THE NEXT THREE DAYS Sat-Thu 12:50, 4:15, 7:15, 10 Wed 10am TODAY’S SPECIAL 12:25, 2:50, 5:05, 7:20, 9:40

Living Room Theaters 341 SW 10th Ave., 971-222-2010 CATFISH 2:35, 7:45 CLIENT 9: THE RISE AND FALL OF ELIOT SPITZER 11:50am, 1:40, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 EL SUPERSTAR: THE UNLIKELY RISE OF JUAN FRANCES Fri-Sun 4:50, 7:15, 9:30 ENTER THE VOID 11:40am, 4:40, 9:05 HEARTLESS 6:40, 10 LAST TRAIN HOME 12:10, 2:10, 4:20 MORNING GLORY 12, 2:20, 5, 7:30, 9:45 WAITING FOR SUPERMAN 11:45am, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:15

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340 SW Morrison St., 800-326-3264 DUE DATE 12:50 Fri 4:30, 7:50, 10:10 Sat 4:30, 7:50, 10:10 Sun 4:30, 7:50, 10:10 Mon 4:30, 7:50, 10:10 Tue 4:30, 7:50, 10:10 Wed 4:30, 7:50, 10:10 Thu 4:05, 7:05,

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St. Johns Twin Cinemas and Pub

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NORTHEAST Hollywood Theatre

4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-281-4215 FAIR GAME Fri-Wed 9:40 Fri-Mon 7:30 Sat 1:10, 3:15 Sun 1:10, 3:15 INSIDE JOB Fri-Tue 7:15 Fri-Mon

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Kennedy School

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

Laurelhurst Theater

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Lloyd Center Stadium 10 Cinema

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Avalon Theatre

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