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MISSING THE POINT It seems apropos that Aaron Mesh chose to quote Henry Higgins, musical theater’s most misogynistic character, in his patronizing review of the movie Made in Dagenham (Screen, WW, Dec. 29, 2010). Mr. Mesh refers in condescending terms to the main character as “plucky,” to the film as “so goddamn touching it hurts” and to the working class as a “close-knit community of pretty poverty.” It was precisely the lack of patronizing and distancing assumptions about class and gender that made this film outstanding. In the film, the working class is not portrayed as ignorant about the fashion revolution that overtook Britain (and the Western world) in the ’60s, and the issue of fairness and equality for women in the film extended beyond class and workplace. The women were portrayed as intelligent and unapologetic about their femininity. They were portrayed as undaunted by male domination and assumption of superior worth. We women in America could learn from the community of women portrayed in the film; we still only earn 77 cents to the male dollar, and the Equal Rights Amendment is still, decades after our sisters in Europe have gotten similar legislation passed, languishing in the limbo of “not now, not yet” that was the defense in this film. Karen Alexander-Brown Hillsboro

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NEWS THAT FELL OUT OF THE SKY. Less than one week before his Jan. 10 inauguration, Gov.-elect John Kitzhaber has yet to announce his chief of staff or many other hires. By comparison in 2002, then-Gov.elect Ted Kulongoski had hired Peter Bragdon as his chief of staff on Dec. 4. Two sources say Kitz’s chief of staff will be Curtis RobKITZHABER inhold, a former Kitzhaber staffer who recently returned to Oregon after working for BP’s renewable energy operation. Robinhold and Kitzhaber aide Tom Imeson did not return calls. A Multnomah County grand jury’s annual report on jails and prisons says suicide prevention is its main concern. The corrections grand jury report (to read the report, go to wweek. com/jailsuicides) released Jan. 3 by the District Attorney’s Office says the county’s downtown Detention Center has had two suicides since July 2009, compared with one in the four years prior. The timing is significant because before July 2009 the jail bunked prisoners two to a cell. The jail moved to single-bunking in July 2009 to prevent assaults and rapes. But jail managers also acknowledge that leaving prisoners alone increases the risk of suicide. On a more favorable note, this year’s report heaps praise on Sheriff Dan Staton for further streamlining the jail system, gauging the true costs of running the facilities and for increasing morale among staff.

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Michele Rossolo has quit as director of FuturePac, the Oregon House Democrats’ campaign arm. Although a Republican tide swept the nation in November, FuturePac earned criticism from some Democratic insiders for ineffective attacks on Republicans, most notably a series of mailers that claimed GOP candidates favored a 30 percent sales tax. “Michele left of her own accord and would not have been forced out if she had wanted to stay,” says House Democratic spokesman Geoff Sugerman. No successor has been named for Rossolo, who says she’s “hanging out with her 1-year-old.” Two notable campaign contributions popped up in recent state fundraising filings: Ted Blaszak, owner of the signaturegathering firm Democracy Resources, gave $5,000 to Multnomah County Chairman Jeff Cogen, a potential 2012 mayoral candidate. And Siemens, the German engineering giant, gave “Yes for Transit” $20,000, which might indicate TriMet will seek another capital bond in the wake of voters’ defeat of a $125 million request in November.

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Belt-tightening in prior years and new, higher-thanexpected revenue from business license fees put the City of Portland in good financial shape in 2011. That means when city bureaus submit their budgets Jan. 31, program cuts won’t go as deep as city officials once feared. Instead of .75 to 1.5 percent reductions, some bureaus won’t have to take any cuts at all. But as Mayor Sam Adams embarks on his third year in office, more than the city’s 2011-12 budget is on his mind. Along with city commissioners, Adams has set a wide-ranging agenda for 2011. Here’s what to expect in the weeks ahead. Strengthen police training: A fatal shooting by an officer in Southeast Portland on Jan. 2 marked the fourth officer-involved shooting since mid-December. Two Portlanders died in those exchanges. On Monday, the mayor and Police Chief Mike Reese said they’d hire an outside consultant to review the incidents. Adams also said he’d “fast-track” the process. Prediction: “Fast” is a relative term, especially in the mayor’s orbit. For more, see page 9. Reconsider role in Joint Terrorism Task Force: Following the Nov. 26 alleged plot to set off a bomb in Pioneer Courthouse Square, Adams promised to revisit Portland’s involvement in the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. Commissioner Dan Saltzman wants to rejoin the group that Portland broke away from in 2005. The American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon opposes that. Adams has scheduled a Jan. 13 town hall-style meeting at 6:30 pm at a to-be-determined location. Prediction: Status quo. Rejoining the task force is about as likely as your rejoining the gym. Build a new police training facility: Rewind to 2008 when then-Mayor Tom Potter tried to secure funding for a new police training facility on farmland 20 miles from Portland in Scappoose. Commissioner Randy Leonard rejected the plan for the 276-acre site, and his skepticism ultimately tanked the Potter project. But Leonard says he’ll now work just as hard to find a new site. In Adams and Reese he has close allies. “I got associated with killing it out in Scappoose,” Leonard says. “So I feel somewhat responsible to help them come up with an alternative.” One option is Portland International Raceway, which the city’s Bureau of Parks and Recreation already owns. Prediction: Kenton neighborhood residents near PIR will embrace the new facility but may raise objections about noise from a possible shooting range.

Secure a westside emergency response center: The hunt continues to find a suitable site for emergency vehicles to refuel on Portland’s west side after a massive earthquake or other disaster. Last year, Adams called the lack of a site “unacceptable.” But Saltzman expressed concerns about Adams’ wish to buy 10 acres from The Oregonian in industrial Northwest Portland for the project. Saltzman considered that land better suited to businesses that could create jobs. Now the city has turned its attention to two different parcels—one in Multnomah Village at Southwest 25th Avenue and Multnomah Boulevard and a second site the city already owns next to The O’s land. The Southwest spot currently houses the Jerome Sears U.S. Army Reserve Center. It was to be turned into an affordable housing project after the military decommissions the site in September 2011. But that project fell through because of a lack of funding. Prediction: Likely. Sell the 1900 Building: Adams appears closer than ever to a decision to sell Portland’s 1900 Building to Portland State University, which wants the building for its business school. The building houses about 80 employees of the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability plus all 150 employees of the Bureau of Development Services. Leonard, who oversees BDS, wants that bureau to have new headquarters on the inner east side. Also, Adams wants to move the planning department to the Oregon Sustainability Center, a so-called living building that incorporates green-energy techniques.

Prediction: Imminent. The success of the Sustainability Center in part depends on having tenants from the 1900 Building. Increase technology oversight: Saltzman in 2011 wants to bring more transparency and accountability to the city’s tech projects, such as the $47 million business system software implementation, which Auditor LaVonne Griffin-Valade in November called “expensive, late and incomplete.” One component of Saltzman’s plan would create a citizen oversight committee much like the Portland Utility Review Board. Prediction: In a city that loves citizen involvement, a new committee is a shoo-in. Its effectiveness is another question. Improve services for foster kids: Saltzman, whose Children’s Levy raises about $12 million a year from Portland property owners to fund social services for kids, wants to create a new center in Portland for foster-care kids aging out of the system at 21. Modeled somewhat after the domestic violence one-stop center that opened in East Portland in 2010, the foster kid center would help young people seek jobs and higher education. It might also offer housing. Prediction: A design team will look at funding possibilities with Multnomah County. If it doesn’t attract money in 2011, it will in years to come. Promote urban renewal: A plan for a central city urban renewal zone is off the table for now. But the mayor has floated a small urban renewal zone in the sidewalk-deficient Cully neighborhood in Northeast Portland. One goal? Building a grocery store in a neighborhood some call a “food desert.” But Cully isn’t the only neighborhood lacking a supermarket. Commissioner Nick Fish says he’ll seek $50,000 in city funding to help the nonprofit Janus Youth Programs create a community grocery store in the New Columbia housing development. Prediction: Adams must convince critics of urban renewal that smaller zones, possibly funded without bonds, make financial sense.

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gun’s safety is off. Taser’s website says the cameras increase accountability “not just for officers but for the people they arrest” and have cut complaints against police up to 50 percent in cities where they’re used. BY JA M E S P I T K I N jpitkin@wweek.com O’Connor, a board member of the Mental Health Association of Portland, urged On Nov. 30, defense attorney Chris the Citizens Review Committee’s Taser/ O’Connor met with members of the city’s Less Lethal Force Work Group to look police Citizen Review Committee to push at buying such cameras as it reviews the for a simple step he says would increase Police Bureau’s rules on Tasers. He says the cameras’ absence here is an cops’ accountability and help the public ongoing concern for the defense bar. understand why they use force on duty. He has yet to get a response. And five “In the next year it’s going to be the big issue—why don’t they weeks later, the city is reeling from four officer- FACT: In the wake of the shootings, use an existing technolinvolved shootings since state Rep. Lew Frederick (D-North/ ogy that would answer all of these questions?” mid-December in which Northeast Portland) says he still plans to introduce four bills when O’Connor says. two men have died. the 2011 Legislature begins next Police in West MelThe most recent came week to beef up police training and Jan. 2, when cops in oversight statewide (see “32 Shots, bourne, Fla., released Southeast Portland Taser- One Plan,” WW, June 2, 2010). Taser footage on YouTube last year to show a cop was ed and then fatally shot a 60-year-old man who police say refused to justified in stunning a naked jogger. After the recent Portland shootings, such disclosures drop a knife as officers approached him. O’Connor’s Nov. 30 suggestion to police could serve to calm citizens—assuming the review officials was to note that Taser sells facts of the shootings match how police a $500 camera that mounts onto its stun described them. Portland cops tested the cameras guns. It automatically records up to 90 minutes of audio and video whenever the several years ago but decided not to buy

them because of technical issues, such as the fact they film only after the safety is off, says Lt. Kelli Sheffer, a Portland police spokeswoman.“The most critical time to film what’s happening is before the Taser is deployed,” Sheffer says. “We wouldn’t want officers to point a Taser at somebody with the safety off just to film.” The topic came up in last year’s budget discussions, says Roy Kaufmann, a spokesman for Mayor Sam Adams, who oversees the Police Bureau. “It’s fair to anticipate that the topic will resurface in the coming budget preparation, though it’s too early to speculate on a particular technology or the scope of such a program,” Kaufmann says

in an email. In the other three recent shootings: An officer discharged his weapon Jan. 1, police said, while questioning people about the killing of a bouncer earlier that day at Club 915 downtown. Officers shot 34-year-old Marcus Lagozzino on Dec. 27 after trying to Taser him. Police say Lagozzino, recovering in a local hospital, was wielding a machete outside his parents’ Southwest Portland home. Officers responded Dec. 17 to reports of threats at an east Portland apartment complex and fatally shot 45-year-old Darryel Ferguson. Police say they found a replica handgun at the scene.

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If you’re an Oregonian who doesn’t refer to the Civil War as the “War of Northern Aggression,” you may not know or care that 2011 is the 150th anniversary of the Confederacy’s first shots on Fort Sumter. But south of the Mason-Dixon line, the 1861 start of the Civil War will be marked in 2011 by dozens of battle reenactments, put on by history buffs who swear the war was Republic of Cascadia Numbers: 2,150 friends on MySpace and 334 members on Facebook. Around since: 1803, when Thomas Jefferson envisioned the Pacific Northwest as a “great, free and independent empire.” Newly embraced in the 1970s and 1980s with the publication of Ecotopia and Ecotopia Emerging by Ernest Callenbach. Fellow countrymen: Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. Raison d’être: To preserve and localize use of natural and industrial resources, from timber and fish to software and biotechnology. Historical fact: In 2006, a handful of supporters attended a Secession Conference in Burlington, Vt., along with more than a dozen other secession organizations from across the country. Supporters say: “The bottom line is that we have more in common with those who live just a few hundred miles away in Washington, Oregon or British Columbia than in a distant capital more than 3,000 miles away…the idea of Cascadia is a bioregional one.” —CascadiaIndependenceProject.com creator Brandon Letsinger of Seattle.

about states’ rights, not slavery. In Oregon, the Northwest Civil War Council will stage several events to commemorate the 150th anniversary, including a skirmish re-enactment at Mount Pisgah in Eugene on May 14-15. All this excitement in 2011 over the Civil War’s 150th anniversary reminds us that Oregon itself is no stranger to secession alternatives. Oregon’s constitution gives citizens the “right to alter, reform, or abolish the government” when it no longer meets our needs, but Lewis & Clark College constitutional law professor Todd Lochner assures us states cannot constitutionally secede from the union. Try telling that to these three Northwest wannabe-secessionist groups:

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Numbers: 1,133 pledged members on JeffersonState.com.

Numbers: 28 friends on Facebook and 45 members on SavePac Yahoo group.

Around since: 1941

Around since: Unclear.

Fellow countrymen: Southern Oregon and Northern California. Raison d’être: Shift decision-making power away from liberal-leaning Portland and Eugene, and bring freedom back to the everyday rightwingers. Proposed capital in Yreka, Calif. Jefferson Public Radio already runs on many AM/FM stations in Southern Oregon. Historical fact: In 1940 and 1941, armed supporters blockaded Highway 99 south of Yreka and proceeded to collect tolls from motorists and pass out Jefferson State independence proclamations. Supporters say: “Jefferson State is a real possibility in the next 20 years. The status quo isn’t working: Oregon’s broke; California’s broke. We’re being overtaxed and it isn’t American. Some adults need to get in and fix the economy.”— JeffersonState. com creator Brian Peterson, of Yreka, Calif.

Fellow countrymen: Oregon, California, Washington, Hawaii, and possibly Idaho, Alaska, British Columbia and Baja California. Raison d’être: Greater environmental responsibility, world peace, legalized marijuana and gay marriage. Proposed capital in Seattle. Historical fact: Chief Seattle’s 1854 speech provided inspiration for this 21st-century movement. Supporters say: “My meritocratic socialist ideas would probably not be well received by most idealistic ‘freedomminded’ people.”—Nation of Pacifica Facebook page founder, who declined to be identified.

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On Jan. 10, Kulongoski, still trim and gingery-haired at 70, will cease being governor, ending a political career at the highest levels of the legislative, judicial and executive branches of state government. Kulongoski served three years in the Oregon House, five in the Senate, four years as insurance commissioner, one term as attorney general, four years as an Oregon Supreme Court justice, and eight years as governor. Remarkably, considering such a lengthy tenure, Kulongoski avoided personal scandal. As the state’s chief executive, he made wrenching policy decisions and demonstrated a level of empathy unusual for those who attain real power—as evidenced by his dedication to the men and women who serve in the military. When the federal government dumped caskets in Portland and declined to pay the freight for the last miles home, Kulongoski commandeered National Guard helicopters to deliver the deceased. He canceled trips and made CEOs wait so he could attend Oregon soldiers’ funerals, more than one every month for the past eight years. “The sheer number of funerals became overwhelming,” Kulongoski told WW in a two-hour conversation in mid-December. “And that changed me.” It’s unlikely historians will view Kulongoski as a great governor. Partly because of the recessions that bookended his tenure. And because Kulongoski is many things, but dynamic is not one of them. It’s far more likely that he will be remembered for his sense of duty. There may be no better and more recent example than

his “reset report,” a blunt diagnosis of Oregon’s current malaise, which he summarized as follows: “The government we have is too expensive to maintain.” His proposal to reduce public employee compensation puts him at odds with organized labor, the interest group most responsible for his many electoral victories. Kulongoski, originally a labor lawyer, is in a real sense a father of Oregon’s public employee unions, having written the 1973 law that permitted state employees to engage in collective bargaining. Yet, at key junctures, he put taxpayers first. In 1989, as state insurance commissioner, he implemented sweeping business-friendly workers’ compensation reforms; in 2003, as governor, he slashed billions of dollars in benefits from the Public Employee Retirement System. In other ways, Kulongoski achieved more than critics may realize. He implemented aggressive renewable energy standards (backed—too strongly, perhaps—by a tax credit program that launched Oregon’s wind and solar industries), made college accessible to thousands more students, created a rainy day fund and obtained health insurance for nearly 100,000 children. Wherever Kulongoski goes, he introduces himself the same way: “Hi, I’m Ted.” But despite that low-key approach and regular-guy affections for Waylon Jennings, Dairy Queen and union-brewed beer, Kulongoski is complicated. In his WW interview, he spoke bluntly about the challenges facing this state and the consequences of his

fateful decision to make Neil Goldschmidt part of his administration. And he discussed a topic that shaped his approach to everything: his mother placing him in a St. Louis orphanage for much of his childhood. “I spent a lot of time in my life denying certain things about how I was raised,” Kulongoski says. “And what I now know more than anything at the age of 70 is, bad things happen to good people,” he said. “They happen to all of us. And we’re not judged by how many bad things happen but by how you overcome them and actually make something of yourself.” Here, edited for brevity and clarity, is Gov. Ted Kulongoski unbound: Willamette Week: How are you feeling about leaving office? Ted Kulongoski: In preparation for my move out of Mahonia Hall [the governor’s mansion], I had to recently go out and buy a toilet brush. This is a challenge, readjusting. You know, six months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you I was probably looking forward to Jan. 10, but the closer I’ve gotten the more difficult it is. The reality of it is, I like it. I like governance, I like being governor. But the truth is, I also like the perks. I like someone to drive me, I like, you know, all these things, and you just get used to it. So, are you going to pull a Kitzhaber and run again in 2014? No, no, no, no, no. I’m a little too old for this now. Of all the elected officials you’ve observed, who was the most effective? I think [Gov.] Tom McCall had a particular skill. He could recognize a good parade forming, and he knew how to get in front of it. That is part of being a great leader. He could push an agenda, even if it wasn’t his. If it was something that he believed in, he could actually lead it.

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You’re leaving office at a time when the national economy is still in the dumps and Oregon is performing poorly by many measures. Why is Oregon lagging behind other states—Washington, for example—in terms of employment and job creation? Washington has always put higher education as the No. 1 issue. And Washington is a much more cosmopolitan state, even though it has a footprint like Oregon. It has Seattle, a huge port on the ocean, and it put its major university in its major city. We put ours 120 miles away. And Washington’s had a much broader economic base than Oregon did, because Oregon was basically a natural resource state. And Washington developed [knowledge-based] companies like Boeing and, later, Microsoft. One of the dilemmas we’ve had is that we’ve never had the culture of investment in higher ed.

1974: Working as a labor lawyer, Kulongoski wins election to the Oregon House, representing Junction City and rural Lane County.

1978: After winning appointment to an open seat, Kulongoski is elected to the Oregon Senate.

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CRUSHED: Kulongoski flamed out after losing the 1982 governor’s race.

Why not? Historically, given our natural resource-based economy, if you finished high school, you could find a job with great wages, great health care, a retirement benefit. Oregon is still in a transformational stage in its economy. Look, I wish I could tell you that this happens overnight, but it doesn’t. But when you ran for governor in 2002, you made higher education a key part of your platform. Would you say you succeeded? No. If you ask me all the things I would say were a disappointment, one would be that I had a strategy around higher education that we didn’t execute. Is that because the man you appointed to chair the higher-ed board, former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt, became embroiled in a scandal? It was Neil. I wanted a leader that would actually be a catalyst for change. [After he resigned] I never got the traction back. How did Goldschmidt’s downfall affect you personally? Being governor is very lonely, because no one knows what it’s like to be a governor. And the truth of it is that you look for somebody like that, [who] you can talk to, and you just like to talk to them because they’re very creative and they’ve got a force in their personality. And it was more than just higher ed: Neil was my voice on the CRC before it ever became an issue. Losing him—and I don’t want

1980: At 40, and one of the bright young faces of Oregon politics, Kulongoski wins the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate and runs a surprisingly strong race against Republican incumbent Bob Packwood, losing 52 percent to 44 percent.

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to sound disparaging of anyone—but losing that, there’s nobody else I could sit down and talk to in that way. I saw the press conference the other day with Obama, and then Bill Clinton comes in and takes over. There is a similarity between these two guys. Goldschmidt and Clinton, you know: size, everything, the skill set that they have. They’re very bright. They’re very articulate. You go in for five minutes, and they’re still talking after a half hour.

international marketplace with commitments in Vietnam and Bangladesh and a variety of places. I think the difference between then and today is that people like [former PacifiCorp CEO] Glenn Jackson actually saw Oregon as much larger than just their individual business. I’m not telling you they weren’t looking out for their individual businesses’ interests, I’m just telling you they shared a vision with the whole state. But what you have now with the business community is all these Was the Goldschmidt scandal part of why you were different groups with multiple names and missions. And ambivalent about whether to they can never come together on a common goal. run for re-election in 2006? “I HAD A STRATEGY Yes. People like Neil don’t come AROUND PUBLIC along very often. That may be true, but one of the complaints business EDUCATION THAT WE Let’s get back to today. Why is interests make is that public DIDN’T EXECUTE.” it that the business communiemployee unions have too ty and the Democratic Party much power. Are they right? seem so estranged from each other in Oregon? The nature of government is power. There have If you look at governance, the changes that come are always been interest groups with power. What I think from forces external to that system. In Massachusetts, it the complaint is with the business community, to be used to be the archbishop or the cardinal. In Michigan, frank with you, is they [the unions] have more power it’s unions. In Oregon, it used to be the business com- than us [businesses]. munity. Before the ’70s, it was three groups: the financial institutions, the timber companies and the utilities. And But you would acknowledge the strength of public the commonality between all three of those, they were employee unions in this state. When you reformed Oregon companies, run by Oregonians. And what you the Public Employees Retirement System in 2003, now have is companies like Columbia Sportswear and unions came at you pretty hard, Nike, but they’re not the same as a timber company or didn’t they? a utility that has its employees based here. [Nike and INTERVIEW cont. on page 16 Columbia] are international companies based in an

1982: After tying himself to a controversial state factory-closing notification law (that later became the federal standard), Kulongoski is painted as anti-business in the depths of a recession. He gets crushed in the gubernatorial race against Republican incumbent Gov. Vic Atiyeh, 61 percent to 36 percent. Kulongoski leaves politics, gets divorced and moves to Portland.

1987: Then-Gov. Neil Goldschmidt hires Kulongoski to be insurance commissioner at a time when high workers’ compensation rates are a major political issue. Kulongoski alienates labor supporters by implementing reforms.

1992: Labor unions endorse and bankroll Jan Wyers for attorney general in Democratic primary in response to Mahonia Hall reforms. Nonetheless, Kulongoski defeats Wyers and wins general election over token opposition. As AG, he enacts major reforms of juvenile justice system. TIMELINE cont. on page 16

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TROOPER: Greeting soldiers at Eastern Oregon University in La Grande, Sept. 21.

V = VICTORY: Kulongoski after his 2006 re-election win.

OK, listen, you and I know they tried to recruit John [Kitzhaber], [U.S. Rep. Peter] DeFazio, or anybody they could to run against me in ’06. And when they couldn’t find a candidate and I won the primary…two years later, the target became Macpherson.

it’s about 240,000. State, city, county, federal. Give each of them a spouse. Now I’m about up to almost 500,000. Give them each a child. Now spread the group out. I’m telling you, in a state with 2.4 million voters, that’s a powerful group.

You mean former state Rep. Greg Macpherson (D-Lake Oswego), who carried your PERS reform bill. When he ran for attorney general in 2008, public employee unions gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to his opponent, John Kroger. How did that make you feel? I had such confidence in Greg’s ability. It surprised me that he lost. Even with the union support for Kroger. But this is how politics works now. Let’s say you are [a special interest] and you’ve got a million dollars. And you’ve got 10 candidates. You give $100,000 to each of them. And you elect six. And you say, “This is a good investment.” But you also lost four. Or, let’s say you have a million dollars and you instead say, “You see that guy? People think he can’t be beat. I’m going to put all [one] million dollars against that person.” And you defeat him. Which of those scenarios do you think affects 90 legislators the most? The latter. Look, politics is always about power. The question is whether power is equally distributed. Public-sector unions have got no competition right now. They have the ability to come together in a room with a number of like-minded people and start building the base. There are about 220,000 public employees in the state. If you add in federal employees,

How else have things changed from when you entered public office 35 years ago? I’ve got less hair [laughs]. Look, I came in at a time when the Oregon governor was the chief executive officer of the state, ran the executive department and prepared the budget. Policy was generally generated by the Legislature. The Bottle Bill, Beach Bill, land-use planning—those were all legislative initiatives. Today, I am still the executive officer and I run the budget. But I am also looked upon now by the Legislature, and interestingly enough by the media and the public, as the person who is also supposed to generate all the policy initiatives. I do not think that’s good.

1996: Kulongoski wins election to the Oregon Supreme Court, defeating Rex Armstrong and Frank Yraguen.

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Why has the governor’s role changed? The rise of the initiative process has intimidated the legislative process. It’s the Legislature putting referendums out and saying, “Let’s ask the public,” instead of them doing it themselves. Secondly, it’s the amount of money it takes to be elected. Third, the [negative] tenor of the campaigns are such that I don’t think legislators want to collaborate or see each other in interim sessions when a lot of work used to get done.

2002: After defeating former State Treasurer Jim Hill and former Multnomah County Chairwoman Bev Stein in the Democratic primary, Kulongoski defeats Republican Kevin Mannix 49 percent to 46 percent to become Oregon’s 36th governor. His margin of victory is smaller than the number of votes for Libertarian candidate Tom Cox.

Could you identify one or two of the toughest parts of being governor? The sheer number of military funerals became overwhelming. And it changed me. I’ve talked to too many parents who have lost their children. The last time I went to Iraq, I was meeting at the embassy with a number of the generals who were in the theater at that time and they were talking about the importance of what I was doing over there to sign this memorandum of understanding with the civilian government [Oregon State University is working with the Iraq Ministry of Higher Education on an engineering program]. And they were telling me all this stuff I wasn’t sure I believed. So at the end I said, “I’m going to tell you why I’m doing this and why it’s important to me and why it’s important to you in the military.” I’ve attended all these services for kids that have died. And what the parents are asking me is, “Is there a purpose, was there some reason this happened?’ And I told the general, “If this country [Iraq] implodes on itself, what you would tell every one of those parents [is]: It had no purpose.” There’s going to come a time in the history of our country where we’re going to have to deploy these kids again and you’re going to have a hard time gaining public support. Because in the rules of warfare, battles are won on the battlefield with soldiers, but wars are won at home in the minds of the people, the civilian population, the parents of these kids. That has changed me more than anything.

2006: After seriously considering retirement following his first term, Kulongoski defeats Republican Ron Saxton 51 percent to 43 percent to win re-election.

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What’s your greatest strength? I like people. But it isn’t just liking people—I’m not afraid of them. I’m not afraid to listen to them and [have them] tell me, “I don’t agree with that.” I think the strength is I’m willing to sit down and listen.

strict land-use laws passed Measure 37, gutting those laws. In 2007, Measure 49 restored much of the original structure. Property-rights groups say land-use laws are part of the reason our economy lags. Are they right? No. I read an Oregonian article the other day in which a housing industry representative said what saved Oregon in this recession was the land-use system. I do think our land-use laws are one of Oregon’s strengths, and I think it did save us in the sense you didn’t have the sprawl of unwanted properties like other states. That doesn’t mean there aren’t any problems. The issue of how you expand an urban-growth boundary and you

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Democrats have held the governorship for 24 years and we’re probably worse off than we were a quarter century ago, so why not let the other guys have a turn? Look, there’s always an argument to be made that you should turn the snow globe upside down and let the snow fall a different way; I’m not going to argue with that. Whether he was the one to turn it upside down is the question.

What’s your greatest weakness? If I had to do one thing over, I’d do a better job with the media. And it isn’t about me. I finally learned in this process over time [that] I don’t think we have the ability, the media or me, to look at things cumulatively. What do you hope to do in the next five years? I think we always look at just what’s in front of us today. First, I’ll take some time off. Then, I’m interested in And what I now realize is, I have an obligation to the working on corrections policy, because you cannot keep putting money into that public to keep telling them what we’re doing. system. I also have a great “PUBLIC-SECTOR UNIONS HAVE GOT NO COMPETITION RIGHT NOW.” interest in a program I respect [U.S. Sen. Ron] Wyden very much for his within AID [the Agency ability to always be out there. That’s what I would have give growing areas like Clackamas and Washington for International Development] called the rule of law. I done more of, and I think governors like McCall and counties some room and still be able to maintain the am absolutely convinced the glue that holds this whole system together is the rule of law. It’s what distinAtiyeh, they did much better than I did. values of this system are a real challenge. guishes this country from other industrialized counWhat state function would you most like to see What advice do you have for your successor, John tries in the world, and why Russia fails—because they operate differently? Kitzhaber? never established [the rule of law] before they divested The K-12 education system. I still believe we measure The key to the reset [of state government] is the total themselves of all the state-run industries. How do you our success by how much money we give to K-12. We get labor compensation budget, and that is triggered by resolve commercial disputes without shooting each up and always say, “I gave them $6.4 billion,” rather than the bargaining process. It’s important that the state other? You know, of all the things that in governance I focusing on outcomes like graduation rates, retention, find cost savings in pension and healthcare costs first, still am amazed about, there is this: At 11:59 on Jan. 9, any other issue. So you not only have to change inside because if the state cannot lead the charge, you’ll never I will sit there with all the power, authority, prestige of government, you have to change the public’s under- be able to push it down the local jurisdictions, such as being the governor of the state of Oregon. One minute standing of how success is measured in K-12. I just think counties and K-12 districts. You just couldn’t go to them later, John Kitzhaber will raise his hand— we’re on the wrong path the way we’re doing it now. and [say], “You [local jurisdictions] have to do what we [the state] can’t do.” And you’re going to have your new toilet brush in One of the biggest battles during your tenure was your hand. over land-use laws. In 2004, critics of Oregon’s GOP gubernatorial candidate Chris Dudley said That’s right, and you just turn around and you walk out. T:9.639”

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SATURDAY JAN. 8 [MUSIC] TOMAS SVOBODA The dean of Portland composers is also an excellent pianist, and in this Cascadia Composers showcase, the Czech-American musician traverses more than a half century of his music for solo keyboard. Sherman Clay/Moe’s Pianos, 131 NW 13th Ave., 775-2480. 3 pm. $5-$15. [MUSIC] BIG POOH Little Brother’s Big Pooh has been instrumental in making some of the finest hip-hop of the aughts. His latest release, The Purple Tape, finds the North Carolina native rapping over reworked samples from Prince’s Purple Rain—but expect some new material tonight. Crown Room, 205 NW 4th Ave., 222-6655. 9:30 pm. $5. 21+.

SUNDAY JAN. 9 [MUSIC] SOAP COLLECTORS One of the most overlooked local LPs of 2010 was a quietly configured batch of electronic pop created by a group known as Soap Collectors. Now’s your chance to catch the outfit in the new year. Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th Ave., 248-1030. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

MONDAY JAN. 10 [CLASSICAL] PACIFICA QUARTET The reigning champ of American string quartets performs one of Mendelssohn’s early quartets, one of Beethoven’s middle-period masterworks and Shostakovich’s 10th Quartet. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 2249842, focm.org. 7:30 pm. $27-$40. [FREE FOOD] OREGON DUCKS BURRITOS Listen up, Ducks fans: If you whore yourself out and wear green and yellow head to toe to any Portlandarea Chipotle Mexican Grill today, you’ll get a free burrito with the purchase of another. Score. All day at Portland-area Chipotle locations.

Photographing Portland’s most beloved natural wonder. As if Portland weren’t already in the running for honors as the Beard Capital of the U.S.A., Texas-based photographer Dave Mead brings his ode to the beard, Magnificent Specimens, to Land Gallery this month. Irreverent, borderline disturbing and at times downright bizarre, these photographs—featuring World Beard and Mustache Championship contestants—sport more hair than most grizzly bears. So, does this

global collection of hirsute habitués trump us Portlanders for follicular prolificacy? Check ’em out and judge for yourself at the show’s opening gala this Friday, an informal public fete at which organizers expect “beards of all types to be in attendance.” RICHARD SPEER. GO: Magnificent Specimens at Land Gallery, 3925 N Mississippi Ave., 477-5704. Show runs Jan. 7-Feb. 13.

[MUSIC] LITTLE DRAGON In 2009, Sweden’s Little Dragon dropped its second album, Machine Dreams, an impeccably funky electro-soul record that revealed what Sade would sound like if she embraced ’80s New Wave. Catch the Gorillaz-approved post-soul outfit while you can. Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

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In honor of its first birthday this January, the lauded Foster ’hood diner will hold a donation drive for Raphael House, an agency that serves victims of domestic violence. Among the items on the Raphael wish list: toys, blankets and TriMet bus passes to distribute to women and children living at the shelter and participating in its programs. Make a donation and receive a free basket of fries or a munchkin burger meal in exchange. CHRISTINA COOKE. Foster Burger, 5339 SE Foster Road, 775-2077. Donation drive runs through Friday, Jan. 14.

Irving Street Booze and Brunch

Portland bartenders will wake up before noon (!) to share their knowledge of brunch cocktails in the second installment of Irving Street Kitchen’s three-part Booze and Brunch series (last classes Jan. 22). Chef Sarah Schafer will serve appetizers and select entrees from her new brunch menu as the tenders share the secrets

Demystifying Oregon Truffles

Kick off the new year with Oregon’s most decadent fungus. The Portland Culinary Alliance hosts a field trip to Dayton’s Joel Palmer House where chef, owner and mushroom hunter Jack Czarnecki will provide eaters with info on the proper way to hunt, gather and cook up the savory nubbins. The organizers are promising fun facts and truffle history too, but then again, I can’t imagine you’ll be able to focus

Most Superior Donut Competition

Victory will be particularly sweet for the winner of the “Most Superior Donut” competition between Portland doughnuteers Voodoo, Acme and Coco Donuts. Celebrity judges will sample sweet-and-sticky treats from the three shops and name the best in the Round, Bar and Specialty categories. This all takes place an hour before the Artist Repertory Theatre’s Jan. 8 showing of playwright Tracy Letts’ Superior Donuts, about friends in a downtrodden Chicago doughnut shop. Bear witness to the battle of taste, then stick around for the play. CC. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 6:30 pm Saturday, Jan. 8.

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It’s 10 pm, 35 degrees, and a man in a lonely truck is cooking up fresh ice-cream waffle cones on the griddle. “I can’t believe no one’s ever thought of this before,” he laughs, grabbing a fistful of Tillamook cheddar and dropping it into the batter. “This is going to make me rich!” Once it’s ready, he rolls the waffle into shape and spoons in heapings of soft macaroni in a thick, comfortingly creamy Parmesan, Havarti and aged cheddar sauce, and finishes it with a sprinkle of Best bite: Mac + Cheese Cone, $6 (when available; it’s a special). paprika. This is not your averCheapest bite: Red beans and rice, $3. age ice-cream truck. In fact, Awesome Cone is not really an ice-cream truck at all—the whole point is to put everything but ice cream in a cone: pulled pork, chicken and dumplings, udon noodles and anything else that should be rightfully eaten with silverware and crockery. It doesn’t always work so awesomely—the vegan “O, Pioneer Cone” ($5) comes with a perfectly serviceable pasta and tomatosauce filling, but it just doesn’t marry with the sugary waffle, while the Fungus Cone ($5) is an utterly delicious mix of button mushrooms and garlic sautéed in fresh rosemary and wine, which isn’t hurt by the cone but is just as good with a fork. But oh, piping hot housemade mac and cheese you can eat with your hands while stumbling home in the middle of the night. Why hasn’t anyone thought of it before? It’ll make him rich. RUTH BROWN. GO: Awesome Cone is located at 3221 SE Division St., awesomecone. com. Open noon-8 pm Tuesday-Thursday, noon-10 pm FridaySaturday. $ Inexpensive. Cash only.

Restaurant workers, sharpen everything from your knife-handling skills to your wine-pairing abilities with the Portland Restaurant Workers Association ninepart Know Your Kitchen! workshop series on Mondays through March 7. Award-winning executive chef Andrew Garrett, of Cafe Nell, leads workshops aimed at helping novices to experts advance in the food-service industry. Class sizes limited. CC. Bargreen & Ellingson: Foodservice Supply & Design, 3232 NW Industrial St., 766-4489. Mondays through March 7. Registration required. $2 per course to cover the cost of supplies.

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“Light on the butter?! Honey, you’re in a Southern restaurant,” the waiter at Clementine Bistro sassed a couple of regulars. A few minutes earlier he’d been cheerfully scolding another table for their helpful interference: “No stacking!” he chirped, adding that he had won the plate-stacking Olympics as a trainee busboy years ago. Then he briefly transformed into an opera star to deliver another table’s check with an aria. Maybe the reindeer-antler headband and red leotard he was wearing had put him in an extra-hammy mood, but given the unruffled, contented amusement of everyone in the room, it SOUTHERN CHARM: Clementine serves hush puppies seemed more likely this was Clemenand more with side of sass. tine’s standard approach to breakfast. In some restaurants, the song-and-dance rou- chicken and fish, as you should), but they’re packed tine might be uncomfortable, the leotard displays with flavor, thanks to well-chosen secret sauces. over-sharey. But not here. At Clementine, the By contrast, the regular burger ($6) is unreborderline-insanely friendly service (a bartender markable, even dressed up with blue cheese and on the dinner shift was equally chatty, though bacon ($7.75). And the larger main dishes are standardly attired) is purely charming. That’s mostly lackluster, though tilapia makes a numbecause Clementine is not what it seems. Despite ber of interesting appearances, including in a appearances, this is not a designy Southern res- full dinner ($10) or with grits at breakfast ($7). taurant with a sleek cocktail bar. Breakfast is served all day, and it’s Beneath the mod surface, it’s a Order this: The world’s greatest where you learn the wisdom of humble neighborhood joint, more hush puppies ($5). the waiter’s comment about butdeal: Three sliders at ter. Everything cooked in butter about socializing than dining. In Best happy hour ($3.99). other words, expect on your second I’ll pass: Veggie scramble ($6)— is great: Hash browns are perfect, or third visit to be sassed like a it’s not bad, just boring. and the flat-grilled English muffin you should order instead of toast regular, and like it. The food reflects this. What the kitchen excels at is like some kind of exquisite dessert, especially are tidbits to be shared over a cocktail. (The cock- with apple jelly. But a veggie scramble didn’t hold tails are also fantastic.) If you’ve heard of the place, together at all—the veggies were too crunchy, the you’ve probably heard about the hush puppies ($5). egg overcooked, and the whole thing just seemed The menu calls them “World’s Greatest,” and it’s to be missing something. Luckily, it’s easy to make a full and delicious hard to argue. They’re practically doughnuts: blobshaped, deep-fried, soft and not at all greasy. They meal from Clementine’s appetizer list, especially come in three types, standard, jalapeño and bacon. during happy hour (2 to 6 pm Tuesday through SunThey must be total fatbombs, but somehow they day). This lets you enjoy the restaurant’s strengths: conviviality and good cheer, excellent cocktails and feel and taste light. Also on the share-worthy appetizer menu are a small bits of buttery heaven to eat. variety of sliders: tilapia, chicken, beef or portobello ($2 for two). They arrive looking disappointingly EAT: Clementine Bistro, 510 NE 28th Ave., 236-8541, clementinebistro.com. 11 am-midnight plain (especially if you opt for grilled over fried on the Willamette Week JANUARY 5, 2011 wweek.com

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[FOLK OF FEISTY EXCITEMENT] Bend’s Dirty Words aren’t late bloomers so much as bloomers who favor a self-designated pace. In the halfdecade since the quartet’s inception, it has released but one album and only recently ventured outside its isolated hometown. This scarcity shouldn’t be mistaken for indolence. Since the release of 2008’s The International Machine, the Dirty Words have only tightened their muscular synthesis of Nick Cave, Modest Mouse and just a wee bit of math rock. Frontman David Clemmer’s lyrics still exemplify the throaty wit at the quartet’s core, and the Dirty Words’ next album should be fantastic…if they’d just get around to recording it. SHANE DANAHER. Ash Street Saloon. 9:30 pm. $5. All ages.

[ADMIRABLE JAZZ] Here’s to Klickitat for producing the least pretentious synthesis of jazz and rock (“jock”?) in recent memory. Named after the well-loved Portland thoroughfare (and bearing no apparent connection with the fantastic Klickitat Band Camp recording studio), Klickitat is a jazz quartet whose chief virtue is the meandering guitar work of Sean DeGregorio. It’s DeGregorio’s restraint in his almost constant soloing that makes the group’s debut recording, Live in Portland, OR, 2010, an appreciable example of a band jamming, rather than another grating example of a jam band. SHANE DANAHER. Mount Tabor Theater. 9 pm. $7. All ages.

The Babies, Karen, Virgin Blood

[SOULFUL BLUES] Big voices come in small packages. Local siren Sarah Moon’s voice erupts from her body with the force of an old soul diva’s, lending a boom to her brand of blues rock (one laced generously with chill grooves). With the Night Sky backing her every note with explosive blues skills, the rising talent shifts from dirty blues to R&B sounds with ease, falling somewhere between Nancy Wilson and Storm Large (with a touch of old-school soul sista). With a voice that big, Moon demands to be heard. AP KRYZA. Hawthorne Theatre. 7:30 pm. $4. All ages.

[EVIL-TWIN POP] In recent years, Portland and Brooklyn have grown to be cultural twins. Each maturing in its own way, these counterpart hubs are perhaps more of a fraternal pairing, but it makes sense that the siblings would share a lot of musical affection. Brooklyn-based “supergroup” the Babies feel at home in each locale, as the band plans to crawl through Portland on a brief West Coast tour before relocating here to write and produce a sophomore effort. With adorable lo-fi steez, soon-to-belocal relevance and the starpower of both Vivian Girls frontwoman Cassie Ramone and Woods bassist Kevin Morby, there is ample reason to spend some time with the Babies who, like Portland and Brooklyn, will surely grow up too fast. KEVIN DAVIS. Rotture. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

White Hinterland, Neal Morgan, Sporting

FRIDAY, JAN. 7

Sarah Moon & the Night Sky, Ronan Baker & the Minute Hand Ballet, The Notes Underground, Quinn Allan

[ART&B] White Hinterland is a decidedly eccentric project that seems to evolve with each new show and release—which is why we recently named its latest, Kairos, as one of 2010’s best albums. Frontwoman Casey Dienel is finding the legs to walk around spaced-out soundscapes of Francophile pop and smooth R&B with ease, and WH possesses the odd ability to craft songs that can deliver a tremendous punch of rather soporific sound. Tonight the duo headlines an equally dynamic bill of locals. Opener Sporting is a collaboration between Au’s Luke Wyland and Why I Must Be Careful drummer John Niekrasz—both parent projects are known for their frenetic, off-kilter energy. Neal Morgan, meanwhile, does some incredible things with just his voice and a drumset. KEVIN DAVIS. Holocene. 8:30 pm. $7. 21+.

THURSDAY, JAN. 6 Dusu Mali

[MALIBEAT] Portland is blessed with a wealth of African musicians who have formed a small but formidable scene based mostly on Nigerianstyle Afrobeat music. Native Malian drummer and guitarist Ibrahim Kelly could prove a game changer with the Desu Mali Band, a polyrhythmic quintet that keeps the funk core of Afrobeat but throws in a bounding, harmonic sound traced right back to Mali, infusing the highly danceable music with shades of blues, jazz and rock. With drums pounding and electric organ wailing, it’s one of the most intoxicating sounds to emerge locally

Disgustitron, Massive Moth, Sustentacula, Rollerball

[OUTER LIMITS] Wow, what an oddlooking bill. Every once in a while, there’s a lineup that draws you in just on names alone, and this is one of them. Obviously, Portland’s Disgustitron sticks out. As uniquely evocative as its handle might be, its music is straight from the Trent Reznor playbook, all skittering drum’n’-bass programming, squealing distorted guitars and darkly emotive vocals. Sustentacula is a bit more interesting, making skewed avant-pop and post-rock that’s weird without being inaccessible. And Rollerball— veterans of the Portland psych-rock scene—you might just be familiar with. MATTHEW SINGER. Backspace. 9 pm. $5. All ages.

Casey Neill & The Norway Rats, Ashleigh Flynn, Lindsay Fuller

[FOLK POP] Where Casey Neill’s songs once sounded a bit like museum pieces—well-crafted, delicate and timeless—the material on his latest LP, Goodbye to the Rank and File, feels more at home in its time and place. The full-bodied sound of Neill’s Norway Rats band should get much of the credit for this: A veritable supergroup that features a Decemberist, an Eel and a Minus 5 vet, the band lends Neill’s songs a Pogues-esque romanticism and a Springsteen-ish darkness that prove fine compliments to the frontman’s crisp storytelling style. And if

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STUNNING IN THE ’70S THE UNDERAPPRECIATED GENIUS OF EDDIE HENDERSON AND THE MWANDISHI GROUP. BY CASEY JA R MA N

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In the early 1970s, jazz was in the midst of another identity crisis. Tags like “swing,” “bop” and “free” had already stretched the music’s definition over the years, but when Miles Davis fused the openness of jazz with rock production and instrumentation on his landmark 1970 double record Bitches Brew, it was met with huge commercial success—and a sizable backlash from the jazz establishment. Eddie Henderson, then an obscure 29-year-old horn player living in the Bay Area, would become one of jazz fusion’s most compelling creators. “Miles Davis, and also Coltrane, took the music to the ozone,” the trumpeter says now from his home in New York. “It sort of took off from there.” Though his parents were both successful entertainers and Henderson played trumpet from a young age (a lifelong overachiever, he later served in the Air Force and was also a champion figure skater), he took a more pragmatic course and played gigs to pay for medical school. It wasn’t until a chance fill-in with Davis protégé Herbie Hancock in 1969 that Henderson’s musical career began to blossom. He left a two-year medical residency to join Hancock’s band full-time. “I never thought I’d get to play with my idols,” Henderson says. “It changed my life.” His modesty is misleading. Despite joining Hancock on the eve of Hancock’s most adventurous record to date—the 1970 album Mwandishi, which found each band member taking a Swahili name (Henderson’s was “Mganga”) and playing soul-searching, futuristic and funky extended jams— Henderson is a force; at once aching and psychedelic, lending warmth to a sound that seems in danger of shooting into cold prog-jazz territory. The record would kick off a creative period for Henderson, who released three albums with Hancock and two as a bandleader between 1970 and 1973. While “fusion” is stereotyped as crassly commercial, these records—especially Henderson’s own lost classic, Realization—stand up today as deep, trippy collec-

tions of inspired jazz. “It was pushing the creative envelope; it was something new,” Henderson says of the Mwandishi group (most of whom played on his and Hancock’s early-’70s records). “It was really on a high spiritual level. [The band members] studied all the same books about Eastern spiritual philosophy, and I think the music kind of reflected our collective spiritual strivings.” In 1973, Hancock disbanded the Mwandishi band in favor of the (trumpetless) Headhunters group and widespread fame. Henderson continued to make great records of his own (Sunburst, a break-heavy favorite among hip-hop producers, being the finest). Then came disco, which replaced the spiritual with the danceable and destroyed just about everything in its path. Henderson became an accidental champion of the music when British DJs mistakenly played his cut “Cyclops” at 45 speed. “When I first heard it, I thought it sounded absurd,” he says now. “But in the context of disco, it was right there in the pocket! So I said ‘cool,’ and learned how to play it like that.” In 1979, Henderson took a 15-year hiatus from releasing records as a frontman. Some of that time was spent in private-practice medicine, though he found time to play with greats like Pharaoh Sanders, Dexter Gordon and McCoy Tyner. Nowadays, he teaches music at the Juilliard School in New York. His Portland performance—featuring local pianist Peter Boe as well as bassist Essiet Okon Essiet and drummer Sylvia Cuenca, both established New York players—will probably draw on more recent material, including cuts from his excellent (and more straightforward) 2010 disc, For All We Know. But Henderson still thinks fondly on his early days with Hancock. “I was a little sad to see it go,” he says of the fusion era. “But everything changes, and you wouldn’t want everything to stay the same. That would be boring.” His performances, he says, are still spiritual: “The thoughts you get when you improvise—they come right through from above and you manifest them through your instrument.” It’s the same energy he felt as a doctor, he says: “The human body is a divine creation. Music is a healing force.” SEE IT: Eddie Henderson plays Jimmy Mak’s on Friday, Jan. 7. 8 pm. $15-$20. 21+.

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OPENING NIGHT 07 FRI 7 PM LOOK AT WHAT THE LIGHT DID NOW A kaleidoscopic behind-the-scenes tour documentary, which celebrates the confluence of art, music, collaboration, and stage presentation involved in making Leslie Feist’s landmark 1997 slbum, “The Reminder”. Sponsored by KINK.fm. JOIN US FOR THE OPENING NIGHT AFTERPARTY. Located at the School of Film, 934 SW Salmon Ave. PARTY ONLY ADMISSION: $5; free with Opening Night Film ticket. Party 21+.

08 SAT 4:30 PM PIANOMANIA A humorous journey into the secret world of sounds and world famous pianists like Lang Lang, Alfred Brendel, Rudolf Bu chbinder, and Pierre-Laurent Aimand. Sponsored by Sherman Clay/Moe’s Pianos and All Classical.fm.

08 SAT 7 PM COMING BACK FOR MORE An intriguing look that’s part exploration of Sly and the Family Stone and part search for its legendary frontman. Sponsored by KBOO.

08 SAT 9 PM THE SECRET TO A HAPPY ENDING: A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE DRIVEBY TRUCKERS A portrait of a band working tirelessly for success and musical creativity, but also a universal tale of music, family, and the redemptive power of rock and roll. Sponsored by KPSU, Portland’s College Radio.

09 SUN 2 PM THE GOLDEN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD FILM COMPOSERS Learn how great soundtracks were created, along with stories about Hollywood. Portland’s All Classical.fm host Edmund Stone (The Score) leads a conversation with Kathryn Korngold, granddaughter of composer Erich Korngold, and Suzanna Moross, daughter of composer Jerome Moross. Sponsored by All Classical.FM.

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LOCATION: FIELDS BALLROOM, Mark Building, Portland Art Museum, 1119 SW Park Avenue.

09 SUN 4:30 PM IN THE GARDEN OF SOUNDS A profound study of Wolfgang Fasser, who uses music and natural sounds to reach through each child’s particular physical and mental barrier. Sponsored by the Oregon Association for Music Therapy. Join us for a post-film discussion about the Portland music therapy scene with members of the OAMT.

09 SUN 7 PM PHIL OCHS: THERE BUT FOR FORTUNE His music featured lyrics ripped straight from daily headlines and spoke to those who hoped and fought for change, influencing a diverse array of modern artists such as Pearl Jam, Ani DiFranco, and more. Sponsored by the Portland Folk Music Society and KBOO.

09 SUN 8:30 PM SOUNDS LIKE A REVOLUTION A passionate reminder that music is still a voice for protest and defiance, especially for the artists featured such as Michael Franti, The Dixie Chicks, and more. Sponsored by Music Millenium.

10 MON 7 PM THE TURANDOT PROJECT Takes us behind the scenes of a massive, spectacular production whose backstage artistic dramas rival the eventual on-stage spectacle. Tonight’s screening is co-presented with Portland Opera, whose own production of ”Turandot,” opening February 4, proudly embraces the diverse challenges of staging this opulent drama.

11 TUES 7 PM MELLODRAMA: THE MELLOTRON MOVIE Explores the rising and falling fortunes of the first musical keyboard to ”sample” the sounds of other instruments, used for more than 50 years by artists such as The Beatles, Radiohead, and Kanye West. Sponsored by KZME.

11 TUES 7 PM THE ANATOMY OF VINCE GUARALDI Explores the brief but astounding life and times of the celebrated composer, perhaps best known for his scores to the “Peanuts” animations, who pioneered a unique crossover of jazz and pop music. Director Andrew Thomas in attendance.

LOCATION: MCMENAMINS MISSION THEATER, 1624 NW Glisan. After the screening, stay for a live performance by the Vince Guaraldi Tribute Band. Co-sponsored by PDX Jazz Festival, February 18–27, 2011. With additional support from KMHD.

12 WED 7 PM ARVO PÄRT: 24 PRELUDES FOR A FUGUE As if trying to trace the source of his genius, the film captures in short segments one of the most popular, distinctive modern composers, whose work appeared in films like Gus Van Sant’s “Gerry” and Tom Tykwer’s “Heaven.” Sponsored by All Classical.fm.

12 WED 7 PM DO IT AGAIN A film that morphs from destination into journey as the subject, hoping to reunite the long-dormant British rock band The Kinks, comes to terms with the dreams of his youth and the power of the music. LOCATION: MCMENAMINS MISSION THEATER, 1624 NW Glisan.

13 THURS 7 PM SEARCH AND DESTROY: IGGY POP & THE STOOGES’ RAW POWER The Stooges look back on their magnum opus, with some surprising musical analyses of the songs and of the rise and fall of the band. Sponsored by Bart Day Entertainment Law West, LLC. With community support from Voodoo Doughnut. LOCATION: MCMENAMINS MISSION THEATER, 1624 NW Glisan. followed by:

13 THURS 8 PM RADICAL ACT Captures a moment in indie rock history and speaks to the universal experience of finding your voice in an indifferent and occasionally hostile world. Director Tex Clark in attendance. With community support from Siren Nation. LOCATION: MCMENAMINS MISSION THEATER, 1624 NW Glisan.

14 FRI 7 PM LANCE BANGS / IMMORTAL VOLUME MUSIC FILMS 1990-2010 Music videos, documentary excerpts, short films, concert footage, and experimental collaborations with top bands such as The White Stripes, The Arcade Fire, Ghostface Killah, Menomena

and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs; ranging from iconic bursts of pop culture to rarer unreleased pieces. Join us after the screening for a party at Crave Dog (412 NW Couch) featuring an exhibition of record album cover art and photography organized by RockPop Gallery. In addition to iconic rock images, the show includes recent work by top Portland artists. Thanks for MacTarnahan’s Brewing Co. for the beverages and Crave Dog for hosting the party. With additional support from MusicFest NW and OPB Music.

14 FRI 9 PM EVERYDAY SUNSHINE: THE STORY OF FISHBONE

15 SAT 7 PM EVENING’S CIVIL TWILIGHT IN EMPIRES OF TIN Brings together film, text, and musical performance to create a unique meditation on a central question of our time: what are the effects of Empire? With community support from the World Affairs Council of Oregon.

15 SAT 9:15 PM GOOD TIMES: EL SALVADOR’S NEW WAVE

The history of one of the most original bands of its era that influenced No Doubt, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Gogol Bordello — a story about music, politics, courage, and being funky. Director Lev Anderson in attendance. Sponsored by KBOO.

Explores the explosion of Salvadorian musical groups in the ‘60s and ‘70s and reveals the unique power of music to define culture. With community support from Miracle Theatre Group. Director Mario Anaya in attendance. Join us after the screening for a live set from DJ Boulevard Nights featuring music from the film. Location TIGA, 1465 NE Prescott.

15 SAT 3 PM NY EXPORT: OPUS JAZZ

16 SUN 2 PM SOUNDS AND SILENCE

This reimagined adaptation of a 1958 “ballet in sneakers” by Jerome Robbins, itself a companion piece to his legendary “West Side Story,” is an abstract tale of disaffected urban youth shot on location all over New York City. Sponsored by BodyVox artistic directors Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland.

15 SAT 5 PM JOHN COHEN: APPALACHIAN SONGS THE HIGH LONESOME SOUND Documents the songs of churchgoers, miners, and farmers expressing the joys and sorrows of life. Sponsored by KBOO. followed by:

THE END OF AN OLD SONG Straddling the old and new, Dillard Chandler renders traditional English ballads as testimony of continued hardships and evocation of a world gone by. followed by:

SARAH AND MAYBELLE: THE CARTER FAMILY Captures the rarely filmed guitar picking and harmonies of cousins Sara and Maybelle Carter.

Captures aspects of the music-making process at ECM Records and gives glimpses of unique players and composers at work.

16 SUN 5 PM DECONSTRUCTING DAD A revealing tour of the multi-faceted life of one of the true enigmas of 20th century music that attempts to reconcile the myth and reality of Raymond Scott, known best to jazz aficionados, record collectors, exotica fiends, and electronic music tinkerers. Director Stan Warnow in attendance.

16 SUN 7 PM & 10 PM PORTLAND MUSIC VIDEOS A selection of some of the best music videos from local bands, combined in felicitous marriages of sound and image across diverse genres. Including Red Fang, Y La Bamba, The Thermals, YACHT, The Dandy Warhols, Blitzen Trapper, and many more. Thanks to Mississippi Studios (link: www.mississippistudios.com) for hosting and Oregon Music News for organizing and cosponsoring the Program. LOCATION: Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Avenue.

contrasts two great concerts separated by half a century but united by the power of jazz. Sponsored by MusicFest NW. Join us after the film for a reception at the Brasserie Montmartre.

17 MON 1 PM & 18 TUES 7 PM KINSHASA SYMPHONY Paints a picture of the diverse, fast-paced, vibrant city in which the only orchestra in the Congo lives and works‚ and the courage of a community that demands a better tomorrow. With community support from The Skanner.

17 MON 3 PM THE ROAD TO CARNEGIE HALL Young musicians from around the world, plucked from obscurity after winning an online audition for a prestigious Carnegie Hall concert, face many challenges in this inspirational musical assemblage that could only happen in the internet age. Sponsored by All Classical.fm.

17 MON 5 PM RAY CHARLES AMERICA The film tells of Charles’ impact in broader stories of love, politics, art, and business. Sponsored by KBOO.

17 MON 7 PM REJOICE AND SHOUT Celebrates the 200-year musical history of African-American Christianity and traces the evolution of gospel. Whether you know The Dixie Hummingbirds, Golden Gate Quartet, and other gospel legends, or need an introduction (you do), the revelation will run deep.

18 TUES 9 PM ROLL OUT, COWBOY A funny, touching look at rapping cowboy Chris “Sandman” Sand, a dreamer taking on the dying American West with singular musical spirit. Sponsored by KINK.fm.

followed by:

ROSCOE HOLCOMB FROM DAISY, KENTUCKY Reveals exceptional banjo playing infused with the soul and grit of a hardscrabble existence in Appalachia.

16 SUN 7 PM IN MY MIND In 2009, MacArthur “Genius” Grant-winning pianist Jason Moran paid tribute to one of his own heroes, Thelonious Monk. Compares and

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FRIDAY - MONDAY

Pictureplane, Teengirl Fantasy, DJ Hot Air Balloon, Sex Life DJs

[CRYSTAL LIGHT CASTLES] For all the stylistic intricacies and vaguely defined micro-idioms intended to intimidate the genre-hopping trend tourists, electronica survives on the fringes of mainstream recognition only because of endless and increasingly complex permutations of a rather simple—not to say pandering—formula: Break down and reassemble the guiltiest of pleasures from the dustbin of drivetime. Pictureplane, the nom de decks of frankly adorable Denver wunderkind Travis Egedy, distills the most rapturous pop spurts of Bush the Elder-era mass-market dance cuts and re-creates an artfully distanced approximation along unchanging subdivision of prefab house beats. The tunes are sufficiently trenchant to gain the approval of knob-twiddling tastemakers while still deemed approachable by the average clubgoer less concerned with sonic reinvention than soundtracking Saturday night. JAY HORTON. Holocene. 9 pm. $7. 21+.

Eddie Henderson with the Peter Boe Trio See music feature, page 22. Jimmy Mak’s. 8 pm. $15-$20. 21+.

Living Proof, Spaceman, Xperience, Vinnie Dewayne, Natasha Kmeto

See album review, page 29. Someday Lounge. 9 pm. $7. All ages.

Aarangatang, On the Tundra, The Pentacles, Peaceful Valley

[INSTRUMENTAL FURY] Sometimes a band just needs to rock the fuck out. No words, no balladry—just badass instrumental fury, driven by lightning riffs and the occasional progressive change in time signature. Eugene quartet On the Tundra does just that, but don’t assume the mostly instrumental band goes the Explosions in the Sky route of wellcalculated crescendos and carefully orchestrated dramatic compositions. Sure, On the Tundra embraces the epic, but it’s also content to let its New Wave-infused pop flag unfurl in clap-along choruses that blast forth with giddy energy that’s pretty irresistible. AP KRYZA. The Knife Shop. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

Fauxbois, Pony Village

[FRIENDLY FOLK] Modest Mouse without the weirdness; Built to Spill without Doug Martsch’s annoying voice: Boise’s Fauxbois does that lazy guitar, country twang indie thing as well as any other NW band wearing fashionable facial hair and a serious expression. The band’s 2010 debut, Carry On, has a lovely homespun sound, full of fuzzy lo-fi lead breaks, heartfelt choruses and charming folk harmonies—it also includes a standout collaboration with Finn Riggins’ Lisa Simpson. RUTH BROWN. The Woods. 9 pm. $7. 21+.

SATURDAY, JAN. 8 Acoustic Minds (CD release), Jarrod Lawson and the Soulmates

[ROCK] Acoustic Minds have many loyal fans, but I don’t get it. Of course, that following entitles them to ignore what I or any other doubters might think. Jenni and Amanda Price work that ineffable sibling harmony thing, sometimes opening up unique, compelling spaces between their voices. But their new live album, creatively titled Acoustic Minds LIVE, finds those harmonies often adorning abrasive progressions and melodies, or joined to lead vocals suggesting

too much time spent covering classic rock. Those odd songs stem from an admirable effort to avoid jam-band clichés, as do occasional creative arrangements incorporating samples and electronic sounds, but perhaps they’re trying a bit too hard. And— sorry—I still hate the name. JEFF ROSENBERG. Alberta Rose Theatre. 9 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. All ages. Minors must be accompanied by parent or guardian.

Big Pooh, Philly’s Phunkestra, DJ Zimmie

[MUSIC] Despite having one of the most unfortunate handles in showbiz, Big Pooh has been instrumental in making some of the finest hip-hop of the aughts. Most of that hip-hop gold has come in the form of Little Brother albums (one could make a case for that outfit being the best underground hip-hop operation of the past decade), but on his 2005 record Sleepers, Pooh showed plenty of chops—a poetic street professor who’s a true student of hip-hop. His latest release, The Purple Tape, finds the North Carolinan rapping over reworked samples from Prince’s Purple Rain—but the safe money is on hearing some brand new material tonight. CASEY JARMAN. Crown Room. 9:30 pm. $5. 21+.

The Slants

[DO THE REVERB SHUFFLE] Call me Ebenezer, but I simply don’t much like dance rock. It’s a cloudy centaur of a genre that fuses to very different sides. But, because I’m in the minority here, I offer a nod to Portland’s the Slants, a Killers-esque quartet fresh off its third release, Pageantry. While a definite ’80s pulse gives life to much of the new record, the Slants fan the flame with punishing electric scratches and Aron Moxley’s decidedly Paul Banks-y baritone. The band will premiere its newest video for “How the Wicked Live” prior to a full set tonight—and the preview of the vid looks pretty wild indeed. MARK STOCK. Dante’s. 9:30 pm. Cover. 21+.

The Tumblers, The Low Bones, Drunken Prayer

[AMERICANA] Portland’s Low Bones’ distinctive sound sets them apart from the packed roots-rock crowd. Instrumentally tight and inspired, the band showcases too long little-known pickin’ whiz Jason Montgomery on crunchy electric guitar and lyrical lap steel, while rhythm section John McDonald (bass) and Jenni Lynn Nissila (drums) lock in like clockwork. Frontman Joel Roth’s laconic vocals and tunes are New Wavy Americana recalling the likes of Camper Van Beethoven. While his voice—physical and poetic—shouldn’t lose its idiosyncracies, it could be shored up a little more before the Low Bones reach for the next brass ring. The honkytonkin’ Tumblers and country-goth outfit Drunken Prayer round out a worthy local bill. JEFF ROSENBERG. Doug Fir Lounge. 9 pm. $7. 21+.

Mean Jeans, Wild Thing, SF Blows, Rooftop Vigilantes, Therapists

[PARTY PUNK AS FUCK] Dirtnap Records has assured us a new Mean Jeans full-length this year, and if the latest 7-inch single “R U Mental?” is any indication, it will be just as immature and lovably hyperactive as the songs on the Jeans’ debut fulllength, Are You Serious? This is a band whose simple harmonies and lightning-quick chords sound better with each listen, and we’re starting to jones a little—the way we used to jones for new Exploding Hearts songs—in anticipation. A sweaty East End show will have to suffice. Opener Wild Thing is like a sloppier, lower-fi and louder version of Mean Jeans from San Francisco. Yeah, I said louder. Yeah, that’s a challenge. CASEY JARMAN. East End. 9 pm. $8. All ages.

Champagne Champagne, Mad Rad, Serious Business (Venue);

Sandman the Rappin’ Cowboy (Bar Bar)

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See music box, this page. Mississippi Studios. 9 pm. $10. All ages.

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it’s redemption you seek, “This Year Was a Blur” is a fine, Replacmentsstyle “fuck you” to everything in the rearview mirror. As Neill sings: “The past is another country my dear/ But the gang’s not gone, the gang’s all here/ Together we’ll endure.” In other words, Happy New Year! CASEY JARMAN. Doug Fir Lounge. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

MUSIC

Junior’s Gang, Doom Patrol, The Polaroids

[PUNK BLISS] I’ve listened to Junior’s Gang’s “Shake Roll in Your Grave” on repeat for nearly half an hour now. I don’t plan to stop anytime soon. It’s a two-minute masterpiece of Misfits worship that sounds like it was recorded in a flooded garage with Radio Shack microphones. If Junior’s Gang ever releases a proper single, the local punk trio will probably record a cleaner version, but it shouldn’t—I can’t imagine they will ever recapture the flawed beauty of those drunkenly clumsy drums and shredded Glenn Danzig croons. If I didn’t already know how terrible I look with a mohawk, I’d give myself one pronto. CHRIS STAMM. Plan B. 8 pm. $3. 21+.

SUNDAY, JAN. 9 Joe Manis Trio

[NEO-POST-BOP] If his explosive 2009 release, Evidence, is any indication, excellent young Eugene-based saxophonist-composer Joe Manis will soon be better known for his intense, updated take on the glorious Rollins’Trane tradition than for his sideman slots in the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies and Thomas Mapfumo’s band. The trio that’ll play in this latest entry in the Monk’s new Sunday Night Jazz series—all three of them University of Oregon grads—replaces the standard piano or bass player slot with Portland guitarist Justin Morrell, Randy Rollofson on drums. BRETT CAMPBELL. The Blue Monk. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

Soap Collectors, Alameda, Billions And Billions, Plum Sutra

[BLOSSOMING DEARIES] One of the best and most overlooked local LP’s of 2010 was a quietly configured batch of electronic pop created by a group known as Soap Collectors. Called Tape Side, the nine songs on this short and very sweet cassette/ digital release outshine all the competition of bands meshing wispy female vocals with lush, pinging production (which seems inspired by iconic instrumental acts like Boards of Canada). The Collectors’ secret weapon is singer Lizzy Ellison, who manages to impart a world-weariness into her otherwise dreamy vocalizing—though her musical partner Marc Girouard helps out considerably by exercising restraint in his tasteful backing tracks. ROBERT HAM. Someday Lounge. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

MONDAY, JAN. 10 Little Dragon, Billygoat

[SCANDINAVIAN SYNTH SOUL] Sometimes a band doesn’t need a lot of fans—just a few of the right ones. In 2009, Sweden’s Little Dragon dropped its second album, Machine Dreams, an impeccably funky electrosoul record that revealed what Sade would sound like if she embraced ’80s New Wave. It received respectable reviews but didn’t end up on many top-10 lists, where it deserved to be. Enter Damon Albarn (exBlur), who’s always had better taste than the so-called tastemakers. He invited the group to guest on Gorillaz’s Plastic Beach, placing it in the same company as fellow collaborators like Lou Reed, Snoop Dogg and De La Soul, and brought singer Yukimi Nagano onstage to duet with him while headlining ginormous festivals such as Coachella. With its profile upped, real buzz is starting to form around Little Dragon, allowing newbies to discover it’s one of the best live acts currently touring. MATTHEW SINGER. Doug Fir Lounge. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

MAD RAD SATURDAY, JAN. 8 Two years ago, if the hard-partying hip-hop group Mad Rad announced its intention to travel south for a gig in Portland, club promoters in its home base of Seattle might have sent out a warning as if pillaging marauders were coming to town. Back then, the band had a reputation as misfits with a penchant for getting themselves banned from venues all around the city. Local media helped perpetuate the bad-boy image: Seattle Weekly titled its profile on the foursome “Mad Rad’s TroubleMaking Hipster Hop.” For an act with a rowdy live show and lyrics about sex and drugs and general craziness, that would seem to be the best kind of publicity it could possibly receive. But its members insist they did not actively encourage the characterization. In fact, they say much of it simply isn’t true. “People thought we were drunk and coked-out,” says Gregory Smith, who MCs under the name Terry Radjaw. “As the level of attention grew, people got to know us as people and not what they thought we were.” Things are different for Mad Rad these days. Slightly different, anyway. Although its performances remain wild, sweat-drenched affairs, clubs have begun to welcome the group back (it’s hard to argue with the crowds Mad Rad draws). And while Smith and rapping partner Nate Quiroga (a.k.a. Buffalo Madonna) spend their newly released second album, The Youth Die Young, focusing on their favorite topic, partying in all its forms, they do so with greater maturity. “It’s us growing up a little bit more. We’re still having fun, but we’re a little more conscious about what we’re doing in terms of the message we’re conveying,” Smith says. “The first [album] was all parties, no consequences. Now it’s like, last night was awesome, but how about the morning after? How do we feel about that?” Smith and Quiroga met in a freestyle session at a house party; soon afterward, they connected with DJ Darwin through Craigslist. The last piece was the addition of producer P Smoov, whose colorful, high-energy beats owe less to the likes of J-Dilla and DJ Premier than LCD Soundsystem. Along with Mad Rad’s hyperactive concerts and outlaw notoriety (much of which stems from an altercation with bouncers at Neumos in Capitol Hill that Smith says got blown out of proportion), its genre-bending sound quickly placed it at the vanguard of a local hip-hop scene that is bringing out large, diverse audiences. “When we started doing it, along with [tourmates] Champagne Champagne, we weren’t afraid to have fun,” he says. “Hip-hop is supposed to be a fun thing, not just brainy.” It’s a lesson Portland’s sometimes overly cerebral rap community could learn from. (Tellingly, Mad Rad has played with local spazz punks White Fang more often than any Portland hip-hop group.) But Smith says the band never set out to break Seattle hiphop open. All it has ever done is keep things real. “The cool-guy shit doesn’t fly,” he says. “Unless you’re established and big, you can’t be on that cool guy shit. In hip-hop, you can’t walk around and front like you’re hard and gangster. We never tried to be something we’re not.” MATTHEW SINGER. The Seattle electrohip-hop outfit fights for its right to party…thoughtfully.

SEE IT: Mad Rad plays Mississippi Studios on Saturday, Jan. 8, with Champagne Champagne and Serious Business. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. All ages.

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[BIG BOTTOM] A two-hour bass solo might sound most people’s idea of hell, but don’t let a lifetime of failed guitarists staring at their feet and fumbling around four strings put you off: Victor Wooten is, without hyperbole, one of the greatest bass players on the planet. The backbone of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones by day, Wooten is an absolute virtuoso when he steps into the spotlight as a solo performer, his fingers dancing around the fretboard like Fred Astaire on amphetamines, completely redefining the instrument. It’s not always tuneful, but it is completely mesmerizing and totally mind-blowing. RUTH BROWN. Mississippi Studios. 7 pm. $25. 21+.

Kowloon, Stag Bitten, Gestapo Khazi [BEACH-BLANKET APOCALYPSE] Finally, courtesy of Gestapo Khazi, some legitimately menacing surf punk. Sure, it’s still a suitable soundtrack for a long, beersoaked day at the beach, but if that beach isn’t paved with dead birds and bloody seafoam, you’re doing it all wrong. This Long Beach quartet’s agitated guitars, agile drums and spooked howls conjure visions of great whites growing legs to terrorize boardwalk bums by the light of a full moon. Few bands since the Dead Kennedys have evoked a damned and drowned California with such aplomb. When is someone gonna remake The Lost Boys? The soundtrack’s already finished. CHRIS STAMM. Plan B. 10 pm. $3. 21+.

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[GENTLY CRANKING HIPPOP] Song titles like “You Make Me Shake Like an Eskimo” and “Pacific Bottom Barking” wouldn’t lead you to think the band responsible for them takes itself very seriously. But Sun Mar

is quite studious and respectful about the music it makes under these often goofy sobriquets. The band’s glimmering electronic pop never seems to speed up past a crawl, letting slow beats and stretched-out drones unfold gently. Almost as gently as the surprisingly soulful vocals that— when they’re not being synthetically pitched to heights that would be impossible for a human to reach—call to mind a mixture of Daryl Hall and Dirty Projectors’ frontman Dave Longstreth. ROBERT HAM. Ella Street Social Club. 9 pm. Free. 21+.

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[FRET PARTY] The concert faithful—frighteningly focused adolescent boys of all ages alongside a smattering of girlfriends wondering over life decisions; industry types curious how any instrumentalist could push 10 million albums through a facility for arpeggios—do not dance, of course, but the autistic ballet of a thousand simultaneous air-guitar solos absently jazz-handsed might be the most interesting aspect of a Joe Satriani performance. As coach and mentor to an enviable listing of the past generation’s most respected axmen (Steve Vai, Kirk Hammett, Larry LaLonde), Satriani has somewhat of a Salierian legacy that would’ve always merited a footnote in the annals of popular music despite his obvious limitations as composer or frontman. As athlete, mage and fleet-fretting freak, though, the guitar virtuoso won unparalleled devotion from that ever-burgeoning society of basement shredders endlessly practicing their fingerings, too entranced by the latest technological doodads to recognize they’ve confused gaming for art and dexterity for rock ’n’ roll. Without the songs to service him, a guitar hero is nothing to be. JAY HORTON. Roseland. 8 pm. $35 advance, $40 day of show. All ages.

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[JAN. 5-11]

WED. JAN. 5 Alberta Street Public House

Suck My Open Mic With Tamara J. Brown

Andina

Toshi Onizuka

Andrea’s Cha Cha Club Cubaneo

Ash Street Saloon Old North, Tall as Rasputin, The Dirty Words

Beaterville Cafe

Matt Pearlman & Special Guests

Beauty Bar

Baby Ketten Karaoke

Biddy McGraw’s

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

Brasserie Montmartre Kit Taylor

Buffalo Gap Saloon Buffalo Bandstand

Camellia Lounge Jenne Sluder

Dante’s

Jedi Mindf*ck

Doug Fir Lounge

Glassbones, Redwood Son, Brad Mackeson

Duff’s Garage

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

Ella Street Social Club Southpaw, Forget All Rock Taught You

Fire on the Mountain Joe McMurrian

Hawthorne Theater Lounge Rockstar Karaoke

Hawthorne Theatre

White Hint.erland, Neal Morgan, Sporting

Jade Lounge

Ash Street Saloon

Holocene

Songwriter Roundup

Jimmy Mak’s

Monoplane, Midnight Persuasion, Hooker Vomit, Fools

LaurelThirst Public House

Arthur Moore’s Harmonica Party

Jon Ransom, Devin Royce The Mel Brown Quartet

Counterfeit Cash (9 pm); Scott Law (6 pm)

McMenamins Edgefield Winery Beth Willis

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern Scott Gallegos

Mississippi Pizza

Beaterville Cafe Biddy McGraw’s

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

Brasserie Montmartre JB Butler

Buffalo Gap Saloon Acoustic Attic

Camellia Lounge

The Ken Hanson Band

Bre Gregg, Ben Graves, Julio Appling

Mount Tabor Theater

Chapel Pub

Midnight Expressions

Mt. Tabor Theater Lounge

Midnight Expressions

Muddy Rudder Public House Sleepy Eyed Johns

Pub at the End of the Universe

Years and Years, The Oh My My’s, Melissa Mazoros

Red Room Open Mic

Slim’s

DJ DirtyNick

The Country Inn Dub DeBrie Jam

Vino Vixens 6bq9

White Eagle Perfect Zero

THURS. JAN. 6 Alberta Street Public House Derrick Hart

Andina

Tracy Kim Trio

Jenny Conlee

Dante’s

Notes from Underground

Doug Fir Lounge

Paper or Plastic, Hutson, AM Exchange

Duff’s Garage

Portland Playboys

Ella Street Social Club Focus! Focus!, A Leaf, Roads

Eugenios

Lew Jones

Fenouil

Shelly Rudolph with Chance Hayden

Goodfoot

Dusu Mali

Gypsy Restaurant and Lounge The Sale

Hawthorne Theater Lounge

Savoir Faire Burlesque

Hawthorne Theatre

Revolution Overdue, Nazfiratu, Martyrs Among the Casualties, Tullis, Run Bitch Run

Johnny Martin Trio

Nucular Aminals, Psychic Feline, Edibles, Forest Park

Jimmy Mak’s

The Mel Brown B3 Organ Group

Kennedy School

Brad Creel & the Reel Deal

LaurelThirst Public House

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

McMenamins Edgefield Winery Jack McMahon

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

Lynn Conover & Gravel

McMenamins-Grand Lodge Lauren Sheehan

Mississippi Pizza Loose Change

Mount Tabor Theater Klickitat, Perfect Zero

Mt. Tabor Theater Lounge

7th Planet Picture Show, Open Mic Comedy

Muddy Rudder Public House Lauren Sheehan

Music Millennium Cloud of Suns

Oak Grove Tavern Open Mic

Paddy’s Bar & Grill

Funk-Jazz Jam Session

The Babies, Karen, Virgin Blood

Sellwood Public House Open Mic Night

Slim’s

Branx

Across the Sun, All I Ask, Skyward Collapse, Karmedy, Sisyphean Conscience

Buffalo Gap Saloon Tyler Stenson

Jim Cramer and the Can’t Hardly Playbooys, Matthew Payne, Jeff Lucas

Camellia Lounge

Tiger Bar

La Rhonda Steele

Karaoke From Hell

Tonic Lounge

Hip-Hop with Gunz N Rozez

Tony Starlight’s

Sing for Your Supperclub: Tony’s Variety Show & You Sing With the AllStar Horns

Twilight Cafe & Bar

Triple Grip, Blacque Butterfly, Toni Hill, Mizz Floes

Vino Vixens

Years and Years

White Eagle

Jessica Schultz & Marcus Reynolds

Clyde’s Prime Rib Dante’s

Cirque Du Civil Rights, The Underscore Orkestra, Aerialists, Fire Dancing, Bike Dancing, Free Speech

Doug Fir Lounge

The Knuckleheads (9 pm); Joy & Her Sentimental Gentlemen (6 pm)

Dunes

Wine Down East

East Burn

Lew Jones

Analog Abuse, New York Rifles, Hotter Than a Crotch Kinder Bison

East End

FRI. JAN. 7 Alberta Street Public House Mikey’s Irish Jam Leaves Russell, dKOTA

Andina

JB Butler Trio

Ash Street Saloon

B Fifty-thousand, No More Parachutes, Opie, The Incapacitators

Backspace

Disgustitron, Massive Moth, Sustentacula, Rollerball

Beaterville Cafe

D.C. Malone and the Jones

Biddy McGraw’s

Palo Verde, Lamprey, Zmoke

Great Hall Restaurant Tworivers Songwriters Showcase

Gypsy Restaurant and Lounge Hawthorne Theater Lounge Rockstar Karaoke

Hawthorne Theatre Lost Creek Gang, Christie Josef, Anne Britt, Blueprint Baby, Audiophobia

Slabtown

The Bloodtypes, The French 75’s, Taxi Boys, Youthbitch

Jade Lounge

Moriah Domby

Hawthorne Theatre

Paul Green’s School of Rock performs Motown vs Stax (3 pm) The Backyard Blues Boys, Laura Chase, Dave Mullany Blues Band, Olivia’s Pool (7 pm)

Heathman Restaurant and Bar

Someday Lounge

Jaime Leopold, Ailsa Weis

Living Proof, Spaceman, Xperience, Vinnie Dewayne, Natasha Kmeto

The Knife Shop

Aarangatang, On the Tundra, The Pentacles, Peaceful Valley

Jade Lounge Jimmy Mak’s

Thara Memory’s Superband (8 pm); The American Music Project Pacific Crest Jazz Orchestra (6:30 pm)

The Twilight Room

Jolly Roger

The Woods

Know

Fauxbois, Pony Village Noise Media, Attack Ships on Fire, A Killing Dove

Tony Starlight’s

The Midnight Serenaders

Twilight Cafe & Bar

This Not This, Moonshine, Mike Ailes

Vino Vixens

Rich Layton & the Troublemakers Unplugged

White Eagle

Better Than Street Racket, Dismal Niche Orchestra, Loco Jones (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)

Excellent Gentlemen Old Junior, You, Eiger Sanction

LaurelThirst Public House

Garcia Birthday Band (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)

McMenamins Edgefield Winery Whitethorn

McMenamins Hotel Oregon John Bunzow

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern Josh Cole Band

McMenamins-Grand Lodge Jon Koonce

Mississippi Pizza Z’Bumba

SAT. JAN. 8 Alberta Rose Theatre Acoustic Minds (CD release), Jarrod Lawson and the Soulmates

Alberta Street Public House

Toshi Onizuka Trio

Bipartisan Cafe

Pagan Jug Band

Barbara Lusch

The Caps, Salinger

Holocene

Pete Krebs Trio

Karaoke

Slim’s

The Deadcoats, Baker London

Andina

Ash Street Saloon

Mississippi Studios

Champagne Champagne, Mad Rad, Serious Business (Venue); Sandman the Rappin’ Cowboy (Bar Bar)

Mock Crest Tavern Donna and the Side Effects

Mount Tabor Theater

Left Coast Country, Rebel String, World’s Finest

Dirtnap, Beringia, Downrite Walnut, Sexhawk

Mt. Tabor Theater Lounge

The Milford Academy, Little Hexes, The Mermaid Problem

Augustana Lutheran Church

Muddy Rudder Public House

Jimmy Mak’s

Beaterville Cafe

O’Connor’s Vault

Biddy McGraw’s

Oak Grove Tavern

Augustana Jazz Quartet

Eddie Henderson with the Peter Boe Trio

Dawn & the Dents

Jolly Roger

Power of County, The Redeemed (9:30 pm); Twisted Whistle (5 pm)

Know

Sons of Huns, Monoplane, Hooker Vomit

LaurelThirst Public House

Branx

Buffalo Gap Saloon Ruby Hill

Tom Wakeling/Steve Christofferson Quartet

Clyde’s Prime Rib Elite

Crown Room

Mark Alan

Big Pooh, Philly’s Phunkestra, DJ Zimmie

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

Dante’s

Jettison Band

McMenamins-Grand Lodge

The Slants

Doug Fir Lounge

Water Tower Bucket Boys

The Tumblers, The Low Bones, Drunken Prayer

Mississippi Pizza

Duff’s Garage

Tami Hart (9 pm); Jenny Sizzler (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

Celilo, Parson Red Heads, Norman

Mock Crest Tavern Jeff Jensen Band

Mount Tabor Theater

Jon Wayne and the Pain, Outpost

Mt. Tabor Theater Lounge Rayllway

Brian Anthony Hardie, Macy Bensley, Quintessentials, Brudos

Plan B

Red Room

Camellia Lounge

McMenamins Hotel Oregon

Dave Fleschner Trio

Brasserie Montmartre

Local Lounge

John Bunzow

Alan Hagar

Junior’s Gang, Doom Patrol, The Polaroids

Reggie Houston Trio

McMenamins Edgefield Winery

Dementia

Gulls, Strategy, Monkeytek, Ryan Organ

Baby Gramps (9:30 pm); The James Low Western Front (6 pm) Noah Peterson Soul-Tet

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Heathman Restaurant and Bar

Red Room

OH, LAWD!: Drunken Prayer plays Doug Fir on Saturday, Jan. 8.

Sellwood Public House

Karaoke

Porches, Heartbreak Beat, The We Shared Milk

Shicky GnarowitzH

Midnite Winter, Wizard Boots, Sinfix, Smile for Diamonds

Tonic Lounge

7th Seal

Hawthorne Theater Lounge

Purple Rhinestone Eagle, Sei Hexe, Lozen

Duff’s Garage

Pictureplane, Teengirl Fantasy, DJ Hot Air Balloon, Sex Life DJs

Silver and Glass, Byron & Shelley, Aux 78

Plan B

Karaoke With the Captain

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

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Hawthorne Hophouse

Karaoke

Casey Neill & The Norway Rats, Ashleigh Flynn, Lindsay Fuller

Bad Assets (8:30 pm); Will West and the Friendly Cover Up (5:30 pm)

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Sarah Moon & the Night Sky, Ronan Baker & the Minute Hand Ballet, The Notes Underground, Quinn Allan

Holocene

Heathman Restaurant and Bar

Oak Grove Tavern

Red Room Rotture

Artichoke Community Music

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The Buckles

Dunes Cervix

East Burn

Sharaya Mikael

East End

The Mean Jeans, Wild Thing, SF Blows, Rooftop Vigilantes, Therapists

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Mike Winkle with Tony Pacini

Goodfoot

Freak Mountain Ramblers, Electric Jackstraw

Krix, Chase the Shakes, The Xaggerations, The Sho, Clackamas Baby Killers, Ramblin’ Rod’s Bastard Children, Sulpher Valley Wranglers

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Slabtown

Westfold, Tall as Rasputin, Old North

Slim’s

Silverhawk, Wester Daywick

Someday Lounge DLYTE

The Knife Shop

New Century Schoolbook, Stories for Money, Transistors and Brothers

The Woods

In the Cooky Jar With DJ Cooky Parker Last Prick Standing, When the Broken Bow

Tiga

Akron/Family Listening Party

Tonic Lounge

The Interlopers, Oxcart!, Monstress

Tony Starlight’s

The Stolen Sweets

Twilight Cafe & Bar

Melville, Lee Dennis, Da La Warr

Vino Vixens

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McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

Kendalin

Brongaene Griffin

White Eagle

The Resolectrics, Otis Heat, The Tomorrow People (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)

Mississippi Pizza

Monster-Sized Monsters, Duncan Ross (8:45 pm); Professor Banjo (4 pm)

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SUN. JAN. 9

Rockabilly Lounge with Kyle Black

Andina

Danny Romero

Ash Street Saloon

Staller, Funkle Ted, The Shy Seasons

Bishop Creek Cellars/ Urban Wineworks East Noir Notes

Blue Monk

Muddy Rudder Public House Irish

Someday Lounge

Soap Collectors, Alameda, Billions And Billions, Plum Sutra

Star Bar

Joe Manis Trio

Brasserie Montmartre Ramsey Embick

Buffalo Gap Saloon Karaoke

Clyde’s Prime Rib

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The Knife Shop

The Phoenix Variety Revue

Valentine’s

Ron Steen Jazz Jam

Thee Headliners, Dramady, Chris Kaup

Dante’s

Sinferno Cabaret

Vino Vixens

Ella Street Social Club

Hawthorne Theater Lounge Rumblebox

Hawthorne Theatre Hi-Fi Reset, Verdelite, Gunfighter, Beautiful Lies, Almond Buds

Jade Lounge

River Twain, Taylor William, Leaf Eater Band

White Eagle

Open Mic/Songwriter Showcase

MON. JAN. 10

Psychic Feline, Gestapo Khazi, The Woolen Men

LaurelThirst Public House

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

Goodfoot

Sonic Forum Open Mic Night

Jimmy Mak’s

The Dan Balmer Band

LaurelThirst Public House

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

Laurelwood NW Public House

Andina

JB Butler

Andrea’s Cha Cha Club

Rumberos del Caribe

Ash Street Saloon The We Shared Milk The We Shared Milk

Beaterville Cafe

Frederick’s Nordic Thunder

Jackstraw

Radio Room

Living Room Theaters

DJ Lo-Fi

Tube

East End

DJ KG (9 pm); DJ Two Arm Tom (7 pm)

Local Lounge

Pamela Jordan Band

Total Fuker & DJ Nightmare

Valentine’s

McMenamins Edgefield Winery

Groove Suite House Call

Frightening Waves of Blue

Caleb Klauder & Sammy Lind

Ground Kontrol

Mississippi Pizza

Matador

Karaoke (9 pm); Switchgrass (6 pm)

Blue Monk

WED. JAN. 5

DJ Sweet Jimmy T

FRI. JAN. 7

Bryan Zentz

Crystal Ballroom

DJ Whisker Friction

‘80s Video Dance Attack

Saucebox

Goodfoot

Mount Tabor Theater

Slabtown

After Dark

Buffalo Gap Saloon

Family Funktion Jam Night

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

Weekly Jazz Jam

Bob Shoemaker

Mississippi Pizza Tree Top Tribe

Mississippi Studios Muddy Rudder Public House Lloyd Jones

O’Connor’s Vault

Mike Horsfall

Open Mic Night

Camellia Lounge

Mudai

Duff’s Garage

Plan B

East End

Drunk Dad, Gestappo Khazi, Mikey & the Mistakes

Ella Street Social Club

Plan B

Goodfoot

The Knife Shop

Biddy McGraw’s

Slim’s

DJ LED, DJ Lakisa Falta

Matador

Cooky Parker

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

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Mother’s Bar

The Twilight Room

The Shook Twins, Sleepy Bell

DJ LKN

DJ Donny Don’t

Plan B

DJ Owen

MON. JAN. 10 Element Restaurant & Lounge

Tiga

Tube

Doc Adam

Video Disco With VJ Dantronix

Valentine’s

Fez Ballroom

Yorgo’s Greeley Avenue Bar & Grill

Cowboys from Sweden

Ground Kontrol

Hall of Records Star Bar

DJ Blackhawk

DJ Black Sandwich

Shadowplay

DJ TIbin

Clarence Duffy

DJ Paultimore

THURS. JAN. 6

The World Famous Kenton Club

Old Country Night with Billy Lee

Tiga

DJ Pickle Barrel & DJ Gordon Organ

Eye Candy VJs

DJ Brokenwindow, Strategy

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DirtBag (working-class/ queer) DANCE NIGHT

Beauty Bar

See You Next Tuesday Weekly Dubstep Party

Someday Lounge

Da Hui

Element Restaurant & Lounge

The Fix: Rev. Shines, KEZ, Dundiggy

Star Bar

The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm); Aaron Ward and Nugen Jazz (6:30 pm)

Matador

Ground Kontrol

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White Eagle

DJ Metal Matt, DJ Shining Armour

Video Disco with VJ Dantronix

Blitz Ladd

Terry Nichols

SUN. JAN. 9 Ground Kontrol

Saucebox

The Woods

Vino Vixens

Gimme Danger with DJ Maxamillion

Valentine’s

Thursdays are Gay

Ground Kontrol

Valentine’s

Mello Monday’s with DJ Mello Cee

Beauty Bar

The Crow, Virgin Blood, Onuinu

DJ Cecilia Paris

DJ Mumu

Karaoke with the Captain

Valentine’s

Star Bar

DJ Tyler Tastemaker, Lionsden

Star Bar

Le Cabaret Chanteuse

Dan McGuinness

Ground Kontrol

Star Bar

Open Mic

Tony Starlight’s

Jimmy Mak’s

Team Evil, Paper/Upper/ Cuts, Port St. Willow

Joe Satriani, Ned Evett, Triple Double

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

Twilight Cafe & Bar Valentine’s

Roseland

Great Hall Restaurant

Hawthorne Theater Lounge

SIN Night

Hammerhead Tsunami, Vanamos

Coastwest Unrest, Joshua English, Guests

Eric John Kaiser Hosts The PDX Songwriter Showcase

DJ OK Huckleberry

Tiga

Scott Pemberton Trio

Rock Band Tuesdays: with MC Destructo

Groove Suite

DJ Gregarious

Vox Populi Karaoke

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

Sun Mar, Morals & Ethics

Transformational Voice Training Open Mic

Mock Crest Tavern

Steel Drum Band

Julie and the Boy

Thirsty Lion

D.K. Stewart

TUES. JAN. 11

Anjali, E3, The Incredible Kid

Skip vonKuske’s “The Guest List” with Cellotronik

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Brasserie Montmartre

Holocene

LaurelThirst Public House

Brasserie Montmartre

McMenamins Edgefield Winery

Johnny Laser, Dean Paints, Danny Sherrill

Blue Monk

Soulstice

Anson Wright & Tim Gilson

DJ Magneto

TaborSpace

Eric Tonsfeldt

Groove Suite

Justa Pasta

Tiger House, Guerillacillin, VPO, Monolith

Video Vanguard With VJ Dantronix

Ash Street Saloon

Caravels, Octaves, Solar Bear, Rogue Sounds, Marca Luna

White Eagle

Jeff Jensen Band

Magical Musical Weekly

Kowloon, Stag Bitten, Gestapo Khazi

Scott Head

Mike D.

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

Duff’s Garage

Andina

Battery Powered Music

Know

Little Dragon, Billygoat

Victor Wooten

The Lansings

The Ruby Pines, Worth, Bitterroot

Doug Fir Lounge

DJ Drew Groove

Tiga

DJ Bad Wizard

Girls Night Out! Get Funky with DJ Nealie Neal

Labworks

Devils Point

Shanghai Tunnel

Fez Ballroom

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Twice As Nice

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REVENGE OF THE NERDS: Along with Southeast Belmont’s Hall of Records, Record Room (8 NE Killingsworth St., recordroompdx.com) represents Portland’s latest attempt to combine every last activity young people enjoy (in this case, record shopping) with alcohol. Drinking and music buying can be a bit of a dangerous proposition, lest your beer goggles (beer headphones?) start making those old Kajagoogoo cassettes seem enticing, but this so-called “vinyl lounge” has a comfortable atmosphere more akin to a coffee shop than a bar, with bench seating, large windows, free Internet and cups of Stumptown to accompany the cheap pints of microbrews, PBR and glasses of wine. Add a listening station, pinball and nightly DJ sets, and it’s an inviting hangout even for those who prefer drunk downloading. MATTHEW SINGER.

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PERFORMANCE

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early quartets, one of Beethoven’s middle-period masterworks and Shostakovich’s 10th Quartet. Tuesday’s concert features an earlier Beethoven quartet, a quartet by Schumann and Shostakovich’s most celebrated and searing chamber work, his dramatic String Quartet No. 8. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 2249842. 7:30 pm Monday-Tuesday, Jan. 10-11. $27-$40.

Tomas Svoboda

The dean of Portland composers is also an excellent pianist, and in this Cascadia Composers showcase, the Czech-American musician traverses more than a half century of his music for solo keyboard, from his Opus 1, 1949’s A Bird, to music from the 1950s, ’60s, ’80s and last year (selections from Children’s Treasure Box, op. 199a). Svoboda will introduce his music and answer questions. Sherman Clay/Moe’s Pianos, 131 NW 13th Ave., 775-2480. 3 pm Saturday, Jan. 8. $5-$15.

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STAGE Cyrano

Lakewood Theatre presents a concert staging of Anthony Burgess (the one who wrote A Clockwork Orange) and Michael J. Lewis’ musical take on Cyrano de Bergerac. Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego., 635-3901. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, Jan. 7-8. $18.

Fat Pig

CoHo Productions reads Neil LaBute’s play about a man who has trouble coming to grips with dating a woman of heft. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 7:30 pm Mondays, Jan. 10 and 17. $5.

Porn Shop!

Third Eye Theatre take on a world premiere comedy by John Heller, which sounds a lot like Clerks, but with Brian O’Halloran sullenly pushing dildos rather than milk and cigs. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays. $12-$15.

Porseattland

Two nights of stand-up by some very good Northwest comics: Mike Drucker, Jen Allen, Shane Torres, Christian Ricketts and Jessie McCoy on Friday and Mike Drucker, Ian Karmel, Ron Funches, Barbara Holm, Timmy Williams and John McKay on Saturday. The Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 10 pm Friday, 8 pm Saturday, Jan. 7-8. $10.

Scratch PDX

This month’s performing arts showcase features comedians Cindy Tenant, Whitney Streed and Nathaniel Boggess, belly dancers Deviant Dance and musicians Travis Taylor and John Branch. Hipbone Studio, 1847 E Burnside St., 3580898. 9 pm Saturday, Jan. 8. $10.

Superior Donuts

Artists Rep presents the first production of 2011 and the company’s third by playwright Tracy Letts. Superior Donuts, Letts’ follow-up to his Pulitzer-winning August: Osage County, tackles racism, poverty, addiction and gentrification through the lens of a Chicago doughnut shop. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 pm Sundays, 11 am Wednesday, Jan. 26. Closes Feb. 6. $20-$42.

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Northwest Classical Theatre presents Shakespeare’s weakest comedy. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 971-244-3740. 7 pm ThursdaySaturday, 2 and 7 pm Sunday, Jan. 6-9. $15-$18.

A View of the Mountains

Profile Theatre Project continues its season of Lee Blessing plays with the first public reading of the writer’s latest, a sequel to his armsnegotiation drama A Walk in the Woods. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 7:30 pm SundayMonday, Jan. 9-10. $10 suggested donation.

CLASSICAL Cappella Romana

By now we’ve had our fill of Santa, jingle bells and holiday sweets, musical and otherwise. But according to the old Julian calendar, this Friday is Dec. 25, which makes this concert of Ukrainian Slavic chants, stirring Russian Baroque motets by Vasily Titov and choral concertos by Dmitri Bortniansky both seasonally appropriate and a welcome antidote—a hearty borscht to counter all those cookies. St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1716 NW Davis St., 800494-8497, cappellaromana.org. 7:30 pm Friday, Jan. 7. $18-$44.

Oregon Symphony

The orchestra has shared the stage with plenty of divas, but…Joan Rivers?! The face that launched a thousand nips and tucks, including the foul mouth that launched a thousand quips, will perform show tunes and her trademark zingers Saturday. The next day, Portland Youth Philharmonic music director David Hattner conducts the orchestra, Pacific Youth Choir, BOOMtown Desperadoes and narrator Pamela Mahon in an hourlong kids concert featuring Western-themed music from Aaron Copland, Ferde Grofe and film composer Elmer Bernstein. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway., 228-7353. 7:30 pm Saturday (Rivers), 2 pm Sunday (kids), Jan. 8-9. $23-$123.

Pacifica Quartet

After the venerable Guarneri Quartet gave its farewell performances last year (in Portland, as it happened), many wondered which group would replace it in the top rank of American string quartets. New York’s Metropolitan Museum replaced the Guarneris as its quartet in residence with the Pacifica Quartet, which also recently collected a 2009 Best Chamber Music Grammy, Ensemble of the Year award from Musical America and various other prestigious honors. Having already essayed all the quartets of Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Elliott Carter, they’re now adding a formidable 20th-century landmark: Dmitri Shostakovich’s complete quartets. Monday night’s program features one of Mendelssohn’s

There will be contemporary-type dance at Distilled from Linda Austin, Grace Nowakoski and Danielle Ross, as well as Noelle Stiles and Kathleen Keogh. There will also be “antidance,” as Austin (the event purveyor) describes it, from her Boris and Natasha Dancers, a rotating cast of local celebrities who must quickly memorize and subsequently perform choreography in full view of the public—a variation on NPR’s Not My Job game. The show, which extends beyond dance to include video work, live music and theatrics, will benefit the Performance Works NorthWest series Alembic, a program allowing guest artists to program and produce performances or media-arts events. Distilled performances will be followed by wine, apple cider, goodies and a raffle. Performance Works NW, 4625 SE 67th Ave., 777-1907. 8 pm Saturday, Jan. 8. $15-$30.

Do Jump! Greatest Hits for the Holidays

Favorite works from the company’s repertoire. Echo Theater, 1515 SE 37th Ave., 231-1232. 7:30 pm Saturday, Jan. 8, 3 pm Sunday, Jan. 9. $20-$32.

Homomentum

This month’s award for best drag name must go to Feyonce, one of many performers scheduled for this month’s installment of the queer cabaret Homomentum. The monthly showcase—which specializes in dance, drag, burlesque and performance art—also features CJ & the Dolls, the Drag Palace, Goddess of Sparkle, the Genderfuck Twins and more, all emceed by Max Voltage. Audience participation and prizes are regular features. Fez Ballroom, 316 SW 11th Ave., 221-7262. 8 pm Friday, Jan. 7. $5-$10.

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Shen Yun Performing Arts

Celebrate Chinese New Year early, and on a grand scale, with Shen Yun Performing Arts’ Chinese music and dance spectacle. Each year the New York-based company hits the road with a new collection of music and dances spanning classical to ethnic and folk styles. It’s a memorable experience that borders occasionally on the surreal, as settings morph from pastoral landscapes to celestial kingdoms. Accompanied by vocalists (who, in turn, are accompanied by an East-West blend of modern and ancient musical instruments), a lavishly costumed cavalcade of dancers re-enacts tales from 5,000 years of Chinese history, and nearly as many locales. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 800745-3000. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, Jan. 7-9. $60-$180.

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“Eco-Baroque” projects have graced local art venues such as Worksound Gallery and Marylhurst University’s Art Gym, but now the duo’s Warlord Sun King is slated to premiere this May at the Angel’s Gate Cultural Center in Los Angeles. It will be the first time Lucas and Conkle have shown together in L.A. While the venue is covering some of the costs associated with the project, the artists must cough up a large portion of the shipping fees themselves. So they’re asking for donations via Kickstarter (kickstarter.com/projects/ecobaroque/warlord-sunking-an-eco-baroque-exhibition). Contribute at levels from $10 to $10,000 and you’ll not only get the satisfaction of helping show Los Angelenos what we Stumptowners are made of, you’ll also get thankyou gifts ranging from a mention in the exhibition program to a full photo shoot of you by Lucas, a well-known portrait and pinup photographer. Contribute by Wednesday, Feb. 16, and do your part for exporting local art!

NOW SHOWING Mark Zirpel

Mark Zirpel’s exhibitions always skirt the line between elegance and inspired grotesquerie, and Queries in Glass promises to up the ante. With his signature blend of surrealism and mad-scientist conceptual chutzpah, he uses glass and other media to probe the nature of planetary models, birds, language, music, water, hot air balloons and— what else, the kitchen sink? Don’t count it out. This promises to be one of the month’s—if not the year’s—most memorable shows. Bullseye, 300 NW 13th Ave., 2270222. Closes March 26.

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Of late, Chambers has mounted the most reliably ballsy installations in Portland, and this show promises to keep that trend trending. Scott Johnson’s Incidentals uses light to evoke halos, snowdrifts and the corona around the sun during an eclipse. Ethan Jackson’s Strait is a video piece in which two images swirl around one another and a base of two reflective cylinders. Together, Johnson’s and Jackson’s work should make for a trippy light show guaranteed to blast away all traces of those January SAD blues. Chambers @ 916, 916 NW Flanders St., 227-9398. Show runs Jan. 6-29.

Corey Arnold

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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 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.

Hap Tivey, Anna Von Mertens

An exquisite kickoff to the Elizabeth Leach Gallery’s 30th year, Hap Tivey’s Folded Light and Anna Von Mertens’ Portraits begin 2011 with visual invention and pizazz. Tivey is a master of light and color whose glowing boxes emanate soft hues and abstract compositions. One of his most visible pieces commands the wall above the downstairs reception desk at the Nines Hotel. In this show, Tivey explores projected light and color. For her part, Von Mertens is a sorceress with stitchery and fabric, transubstantiating quotidian materials into the stuff of transcendence. Elizabeth Leach, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521. Show runs Jan. 6-Feb. 12.

Kris Hargis

In Kris Hargis’ suite of works on paper the artist departs from the morose self-portraits he normally favors. The convoluted but ravishing imagery in Apple, Amaryllis, and Potato and the haunting female nude in Legs Crossed show an accomplished drawer excelling in economical but emotionally potent visual sonnets. Froelick, 714 NW Davis St., 222-1142. Closes Jan. 15.

Dave Mead

See Headout, page 19. Land Gallery, 3925 N Mississippi Ave., 477-5704. Show runs Jan. 7-Feb. 13.

New Views

We tend to think of Laura Russo Gallery as a bastion of the Northwest old guard, but in January the gallery spotlights six emerging talents: Gala Bent, Marcus Gannuscio, Grant Hottle, Rachel Peddersen, Megan Scheminske and Liz Tran. Scheminske’s acrylic paintings stand out for their duo-chromatic minimalism and conceptual élan. They’re based on Google Earth maps of Mount Hood in progressively closer zoom-ins, rendered in cerulean and frosty white. Kudos to gallery director Martha Lee for stirring some youthful pep into Russo’s venerable roster via this exhibition, which is sponsored by the Carl and Hilda Morris Foundation. Laura Russo, 805 NW 21st Ave., 226-2754. Show runs Jan. 6-29.

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FRIDAY JAN. 7 Margaret Willson

In Brazilian shantytowns, where children run wild with guns and drug dealers are everywhere, education is virtually nonexistent. In her new book, Dance Lest We All Fall Down: Breaking Cycles of Poverty in Brazil and Beyond, international anthropologist Margaret Willson recounts the true story of how her unexpected detour to Brazil turned into her quest to combat extreme hardship in the community by providing education to “some of our world’s most disadvantaged people, AfricanBrazilian women.” Willson explains how her partnership with one important African-Brazilian activist led to the foundation of an educational program for girls in Bahia. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

SUNDAY JAN. 9 Timberline Lodge: A Love Story

Many people associate Timberline Lodge with the menacing vibrations of the Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. But lodge public affairs director Jon Tullis has a more amorous relationship with the building. In his new book, Timberline Lodge: A Love Story, Tullis lays out the history of the extravagant structure and explains how Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal Federal Art Project made the construction of Timberline Lodge a “symbol of hope and purpose to an entire nation” during the Great Depression. The book serves as porn for landscape admirers, as it offers an amazing collection of “neverbefore-published photographs” of Mount Hood and its historic lodge. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 2 pm. Free.

MONDAY JAN. 10 The Hustle

Originally, the Lakeside High basketball team in Washington was a social experiment to expose “rich white kids” to “poor black kids.” New Yorkbased journalist Doug Merlino’s first book, The Hustle, is the true story of how his integrated high-school basketball team won the 1986 state championship. The story describes how the players came together as friends and overcame their socioeconomic differences. More than two decades later, Merlino tracks down his former teammates to examine how “race, class and fate” have shaped their lives—encompassing a search that ranges “from a prison cell to a hedge fund office, street corners to a shack in rural Oregon, a Pentecostal church to the records of a brutal murder.” Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

TUESDAY JAN. 11 David Sarasohn

Many proud parents loathe the idea of sending their kids to college, as it is a money-hungry monster that will greedily feed from their savings accounts for several years. In his new book, Failing Grade: Oregon’s Higher Education System Goes Begging, chief political columnist for The Oregonian David Sarasohn explains the reason for expensive tuition by tracking the past two decades of higher-education funding cuts. Sarasohn presents a timeline of his past columns pertaining to Oregon’s higher-education institutions and “their dramatic decline in quality” as a result of slimming budgets. With “appalling statistics” and “dismal firsthand accounts of student experiences,” Sarasohn breaks down the

money monster. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.

Heidi Durrow

Fitting in is a constant struggle for everyone, but acclaimed author and Portland native Heidi Durrow knows this better than most. Set partially in Portland in the 1980s, her new novel The Girl Who Fell From the Sky follows young, biracial Rachel, “the sole survivor of a family tragedy.” Sent to live with her grandmother,

Rachel learns to cope with her identity in a mostly black neighborhood while receiving mixed attention from community members for her “light brown skin, blue eyes and beauty.” As a biracial woman herself, Durrow creates a protagonist who faces challenges similar to her own from adolescence. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.

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It sounds like the plot of an action movie: After Bhagwan Shree (Sir God) Rajneesh arrived in America in 1981, he declared he would build a utopian farming commune in the rural town of Antelope, a Central Oregon community with a How a red-robed cult tried population about the size of a to seize political power in high-school classroom. But in Oregon. years to come, it would become increasingly obvious that Rajneesh was building a cult, and was hellbent on creating an army to carry out his criminal bidding. Few have as intimate of an understanding of the cult’s sinister leader as local author, journalist and Tin House founder Win McCormack. In his recently published book, The Rajneesh Chronicles: The True Story of the Cult That Unleashed the First Act of Bioterrorism on U.S. Soil (Tin House, 336 pages, $14.95), McCormack presents a detailed timeline of the group’s disturbing exploits, including the poisoning of Wasco County officials and citizens during election season in an effort to sway voting results. Though there are contributions from other sources, the book is largely an assemblage of McCormack’s articles from his time as editor in chief of Oregon Magazine, where he published his column “Rajneesh Watch” from 1983 to 1986. Through hypnosis and the abuse of Eastern meditation practices, the Bhagwan was able to exercise authoritarian mind control over his disciples, turning spiritual seekers into helpless minions. Police later learned that in order to feed Rajneesh’s appetite for money and power, his followers were forced to surrender all their material wealth to him and engage in drug smuggling and prostitution. According to McCormack, Rajneesh was entertained by his ability to manipulate others, once saying, “This is my circus and I enjoy it.” The Rajneeshees were infamous for intimidating the public and stockpiling weapons—even participating in gang rape and infecting the public with a potent strain of salmonella. This much was verified in 1985, when an implosion of the group’s leadership gave the FBI enough evidence to raid Rajneesh’s compound. McCormack also gives readers insight into the Bhagwan’s grand attempt to cultivate and release a live AIDS virus upon the world to fulfill a self-proclaimed apocalyptic prophecy. Dense with facts, and meticulous in its explanation of cult psychology, The Rajneesh Chronicles will turn your knuckles white as you grip it. Or if you’re just interested in the crazy guy from India who was infatuated with Rolls Royces and nitrous oxide, it’s a good read for that too. LEIGHTON COSSEBOOM. READ: Win McCormack’s The Rajneesh Chronicles is available now in local bookstores. Willamette Week JANUARY 5, 2011 wweek.com

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127 Hours

James Franco is very good at communicating not merely pain but annoyance—his wilderness crisis has all the frustrations of locking your keys in the car, except instead of his keys it’s his arm. R. AARON MESH. Fox Tower. 73

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All Good Things

Sometimes, a true story is so bizarre and twisted it already seems like fiction. The story of New York real estate heir David Marks is a humdinger. Considered one of the craziest unsolved crimes to hit the upper crust, Marks’ story begins with his mental disintegration, gets grim with the disappearance of his sweet and long-suffering wife (Kirsten Dunst) and comes to a head with two murders. There’s dismemberment, sex, drugs, disco, cross-dressing, psychosis and every other manner of freakout. So why—and how—is All Good Things so bloody dull? Director Andrew Jarecki moves at a snail’s pace, covering nearly 30 years in what feels like real time before shifting wildly into bizarro world about halfway through. Ryan Gosling’s Marks is simply too insulated to compel, and long stretches of montage seem to go on for decades. By the time the film starts thrusting in conjecture about guilt—for a film based on actual police reports, it sure likes to point fingers— it’s hard not to feel just as detached as Marks himself, and just as uninterested in the consequences of the events that take place. R. AP KRYZA. Cinema 21. 52

Black Swan

53 Darren Aronofsky opens the Christmas movie season with a clammy, upscale horror flick starring Natalie Portman as the dancer whose metamorphosis from “frigid little girl” to ballet queen—complete with the subsuming of a dark twin—is accompanied by madness and molting. Aronofsky’s the Absent-Minded Sadist, and Black Swan—with its flayed skin and ominous doppelgängers—is Fight Club with feathers. R. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Bridgeport Village, Cinetopia, City Center, Fox Tower, Lloyd Center, Movies On TV.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

62 The 1992 cheerleader vs. vamps flick starring Kristy Swanson and Luke Perry (!) that inspired the entire, epic Buffy/Angel TV saga is back from the dead for one weekend only. PG-13. 5th Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm FridaySaturday, 3 pm Sunday, Jan. 7-9. NEW

Casino Jack

A sloppy sketch of malfeasance rendered in thick Crayola lines, Casino Jack adopts a cannily canted stance on The Man—politicians and the bespectacled barnacles attached to their backs are callow geeks who’ve seen Wall Street one too many times and have willfully mistaken the map for the territory—but director George Hickenlooper seems to have been so taken with this cynical (and possibly correct) insight that he forgot to build a compelling film around it. Former promising actor Kevin Spacey stars as infamous, hat-wearing scumbag Jack Abramoff, whose wheelings and dealings give Spacey an opportunity to do what Spacey does best, only this time purposefully: be profoundly unlikable while trying very hard to be dryly charming. A cold, detail-oriented filmmaker like Soderbergh or Fincher could do something thrilling with the backroom glad-handing and subsequent cascade of dominoes, but Hickenlooper doesn’t have a keen sense for the rhythm and timbre of secret meetings, and so Casino Jack pleases itself with cartoon buffoonery and loud speeches. That said, the broad strokes are accomplished quickly enough to intersect before they dry out completely, and it is nice to see Barry Pepper’s rubber face contorting into asshole grimaces again. Also, this line, which deserves a 48

better movie but at least found a notaltogether-terrible one, is priceless: “You just hit a hemophiliac reporter from The Washington Post!” R. CHRIS STAMM. Fox Tower.

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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 3-D

20 The third Walden Media attempt at a C.S. Lewis epic (get ready for Shadowlands: 3-D!) is not quite so soulsmothering as the second, but it feels less like a movie than a velvet painting, or one of those Magic Eye posters you find in malls. There are water sprites and dragons, and if you stare at the thing long enough, out pops a giant moray with terrible inflammation of the bowels. Aahh! It’s enough to make you never want to go to the mall again. PG. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Cinema 99, Bridgeport Village, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies On TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

Country Strong

Not content to mutilate Cee-Lo songs on Glee, Gwyneth Paltrow takes on the mantle of modern country music. Look for a review on wweek.com. PG-13. Clackamas, Bridgeport, Lloyd Center, Pioneer Place, Sandy.

Do It Again

34 [ONE WEEK ONLY] Boston Globe music critic Geoff Edgers wants to reunite legendary Brit rock pioneers the Kinks, a formidable task, given lead singer Ray Davies and his brother, guitarist Dave, have sibling rivalry issues that make Noel and Liam Gallagher look like the Brady Bunch. But with Do It Again, his actual mission appears to be playing bad acoustic versions of Kinks songs with famous people. All we learn about the band is that the brothers Davies fought a lot and Sting loves “You Really Got Me.” Yet we learn all about Edgers’ family, career, even his highschool days. Edgers is so concerned with his own boring story that his ego—despite pangs of self-loathing— and sense of entitlement rival those of Ray Davies himself. AP KRYZA. Clinton Street Theater. 7 and 9 pm Thursday, Jan. 6.

The Fighter

The true story of Lowell, Mass., boxing half-brothers Micky and Dicky, played by Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale—no, no, c’mon, pick the paper back up! Fleeing formula like Bale’s Dicky runs from cops, David O. Russell’s movie is messy and darting and alive. R. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Cinema 99, CineMagic, Bridgeport, Cinetopia, City Center, Cornelius, Division, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies On TV, Oak Grove, Sandy, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville. 89

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Forks Over Knives

[ONE WEEK ONLY] The Western diet makes us fat and sick. And pills make things worse. That’s the basic message of this utilitarian documentary. But we can combat or even reverse the effects of many of the diseases that kill us most often, from cancer to diabetes, by eating our veggies and whole grains and steering clear of meat, dairy and processed grub. It’s an important concept, no doubt, but one that has already been shoved down our throats by everybody from Michael Pollan to Jamie Oliver. Forks Over Knives succeeds instead by focusing on the science of animal and vegetable nutrients, sputtering out a machine-gun rattle of stats that’ll make you sick to your 66

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ESPN has broadcast a lot of schlock since taking the air in 1979. The network’s rise to cable juggernaut has meant sports devotees wasting uncounted hours (not me, of course) watching lumberjack competitions and the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl. But to mark its 30th anniversary in 2009, ESPN stressed the entertainment in its original Entertainment and Sports Programming Network name to take a deeper focus on 30 moments with 30 documentaries. Fifteen of the films in the “30 for 30” series are now out in a DVD boxed set ($74.95). The nearly 20 hours add up to a very strong lineup, with themes like fallen stars, fans’ broken hearts and the parallel tracks of sports and music. But like any roster, some players are more valuable than others. Here’s a scouting report: THE STARTING FIVE Muhammad & Larry: Properly r e st o r e s f o r g ott e n champ Larry Holmes to his place among boxing heavyweight greats and just as properly indicts Muhammad Ali’s toadies for putting him in the ring with Holmes in 1980 when he was washed up. The Legend of Jimmy the Greek: Long before cable TV exploded, three networks dominated. One of them, CBS, had the most watched pregame NFL show in the 1970s and early ’80s. One of its stars was oddsmaker Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder. And then he wasn’t. This well-paced piece chronicles the rise and fall of a man who legitimized talk of sports betting. Kings Ransom: The Trail Blazers’ prominence in small-town Portland is nothing compared with hockey in Anytown, Canada. This film captures that with Edmonton’s trade in 1988 of superstar Wayne Gretsky to—Canada’s horror—the LA Kings. Straight Outta LA: When Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis moved his silver-and-black renegades to Los Angeles in 1982, LA’s gangs and rappers embraced the team and its colors. Directed by Ice Cube, this documentary shows how these vilified groups found common cause and profited from it. Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?: Less a whodunit than a wry take on a goodvs.-evil battle over spring football’s fate between two team owners. Good (John Bassett) loses to Evil (Donald Trump). But director Mike Tollin makes great sport of Trump along the way, including a classic interview with the man, and recalls the whimsy of a league that briefly had a Portland franchise.

KEY RESERVES The 16th Man: Nelson Mandela gets released from prison, apartheid ends, and Mandela graciously cheers for South Africa’s white rugby team. Yes, it’s the plot of Invictus. But in documentary form, it’s still a worthy, uplifting watch. Without Bias: A quintessential “Where were you when you heard…?” moment for basketball fans was when top Boston draft choice Len Bias died of cocaine intoxication in 1986. Told through the people who knew Bias best, this film shares their memories of what Bias could have been and why his death mattered in making federal drug laws. Guru of Go: A quintessential “Did you see the highlight?” moment, sadly, for hoops fans was when Loyola-Marymount star Hank Gathers collapsed in 1990 against the University of Portland and died. His coach was Paul Westhead, whose run-’n’-gun offense has some parallel to Oregon football coach Chip Kelly’s speed-it-up philosophy. Maybe they discuss that in Eugene—Westhead now coaches the Ducks women. This movie explains all that happened to the 71-year-old Westhead. Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. the New York Knicks: A fun return to 1995, when the New York Knicks mattered and Indiana’s Reggie Miller was the most amazing shooter trying to beat them. Run Ricky Run: A largely successful effort to sort through the competing reasons (marijuana and anxiety disorder, among them) star running back Ricky Williams left the NFL. END OF THE BENCH The Band That Wouldn’t Die: Barry Levinson has directed poignant dramas recounting his native Baltimore (Diner, Avalon and Liberty Heights, among them). His documentary retracing the departure of Baltimore’s Colts and the team band that kept fighting for a new franchise is at times schmaltzy but should remind Blazers fans how tenuous having a franchise can be in any league. June 17th, 1994: If you lived through this newsy sports day topped, of course, by the O.J. chase, these clips add up to a nice piece of nostalgia. No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson: Before the O.J. trial divided black and white America, the fate of Iverson when he was a Virginia high-school superstar arrested after a bowling-alley brawl did the same in that Southern state. CUT THEM The U: A similar tale to Straight Outta L.A. of showy athletes and the rappers who love them, this time at the University of Miami. But this film makes that same point over and over. Silly Little Game: A mildly amusing tale of who started the phenomenon of fantasy leagues. But it goes off track when it replays that history at times with actors. Plus, hearing about your pal’s fantasy team is only slightly duller than watching a history about what created the whole concept for him.

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stomach (40 percent of Americans are obese; every minute a person in the U.S. is killed by heart disease; each of us eats around 600 pounds of dairy products every year) before introducing us to a pair of committed doctor/scientists who have been working on studies for decades showing evidence of how eating our damn greens can fight cancer and other diseases. (My favorite illustrative account? When the Germans occupied Norway during World War II, confiscating the country’s livestock for their own plates and forcing the Norwegians to eat plants, the country’s rates of circulatory disease deaths plummeted.) This is not high-concept storytelling; the scene setting is plodding, the interviews often droning and the health-focused agenda unyielding (no food porn here, folks). But it does get its point across, most effectively with a handful of success stories from people who ditched medication for a whole-foods diet, as well as a litany of goofy animated charts and graphics, from arteries clogged like sewer pipes to visions of cancer cells crawling over our insides like noxious gray spiders. Ultimately, the doc is a mixed bag: It’s great to stress that we can combat horrific diseases by simply heading to the salad bar. On the other hand? Mmmmm…cheeseburgers. KELLY CLARKE. Fox Tower.

Gulliver’s Travels

Jack Black is bigger than other people. Not screened for critics. PG. Clackamas, Cinema 99, City Center, Cornelius, Division, Hilltop, Movies On TV, Oak Grove, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville. 3D: Clackamas, Bridgeport, Evergreen, Living Room, Lloyd Mall.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

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. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Broadway, Clackamas, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Forest, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville. 77

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Hood to Coast

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTORS AND SUBJECTS ATTENDING] While Oregon’s 197mile Hood to Coast Relay race is run every year, this is the only widerelease documentary anybody is likely to make about it, and so contributing to the poignant mood is some regret that the movie isn’t a little better. German TV producer Christoph Baaden has brought his best HD cameramen (and apparently some helicopters) to chronicle the descent from Mount Hood to Seaside; the result is some fluidly shot and edited footage that is going to look very nice in a national park visitor’s center someday. Baaden tracks stories from four teams, including one from Laika (Lucky Lab beer is quaffed; friendly resentment toward Nike is voiced) and another group running in memory of a fallen son and husband—this latter arc is the most affecting and revealing, a reminder 55

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FORKS OVER KNIVES that physical strain can become a conduit for catharsis. But Hood to Coast isn’t really structured as a dramatic vehicle so much as an inspirational sporting record; the late Bud Greenspan used to do this sort of thing much better, and in 20-minute segments. No need for a marathon. AARON MESH. Keller Auditorium. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Jan. 11. $24-$75. Christoph Baaden and the four racing teams will attend the screening.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest How Do You Know 35 Lisbeth Salander, buried alive with a bullet in her brain at the end of The Girl Who Played With Fire, can barely walk when The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest begins. The Girl Who Opened a Can of Worms would have been a more accurate (although considerably less sexy) title: Salander’s injuries have her confined to a hospital bed for the film’s first half, and she is capable of little more than pecking out her autobiography on a cell phone. R. CHRIS STAMM. Cinema 21. Hollywood Theatre, Living Room Theaters.

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34 Cut from USA Softball, Reese Witherspoon goes to a shrink (Tony Shalhoub), who advises: “Figure out what you want, and learn how to ask for it.” James L. Brooks wants to remake his Broadcast News without the pesky workplace, and after you win enough Oscars, you always get what you ask for. It really is the same love triangle, but disastrous: Witherspoon has been instructed to impersonate Holly Hunter, Owen Wilson is humiliated in the dimwit beefcake role given poignancy by William Hurt, and Paul Rudd gets drunk on cocktails and sings to his furniture. Not since Cameron Crowe’s Elizabethtown has a respected director floundered so publicly, and at such length. PG-13. AARON MESH. Broadway, Clackamas, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Oak Grove, Sherwood, Tigard.

I Love You Phillip Morris

Jim Carrey is very good as the compulsively recidivist Texas con man Steven Russell, who romances (and tries to spring) a fellow prison inmate. It’s the tale of a man who comes out of the closet, only to discover he’s only functional in confined spaces he can escape from. He is born to jailbreak. R. AARON MESH. Fox Tower. 69

The King’s Speech

The King’s Speech is the sort of awards-season tinsel that opens with a speaking engagement going mortifyingly awry—the youngest son of the House of Windsor, known to his few intimates as Bertie, cannot make it through a sentence without breaking down in heaving gulps— and ends with a heart-swelling proclamation of war. R. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Lloyd Center. 73

Little Fockers

13 Appropriately for a movie with a dumbass near-pun for a title (which doesn’t even make sense— the little fuckers in question are tangential to the plot), nobody in Little Fockers escapes with their dignity intact. It’s a parade of shame from actors willing to debase themselves for a franchise that’s proven inexplicably popular. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Clackamas, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Cinetopia, City Center, Cornelius, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Sandy, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

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78 Mark Hogancamp was the town drunk of Kingston, N.Y., until the night 10 years ago he had his head stoved in by a pack of local thugs and woke up with his thirst for liquor replaced by a hankering to play with dolls. His memory almost completely wiped, Hogencamp began building a World War II-era Belgian village in his backyard (he started with the bar), populating it with Barbies and G.I. Joes representing himself, his friends and his would-be lovers. (Most of Kingston’s women were flattered.) His photographs of these miniatures look like Saving Private Ryan performed by the cast of Team America: World Police, with the scenarios posed somewhere between childlike makebelieve and kinky sexual fantasy, with random outbreaks of terrible violence from jackbooted intruders. In short, this is a case of art-astherapy in which the art is wholly accidental and all the more remarkable for it. Jeff Malmberg’s documentary is scaled at the level of Hogencamp’s camp (literally: The camera never allows us a view of the full project from a distance); the movie is cannily structured while seeming discovered. The reinvention of Hogencamp as a gallery-exhibited outsider artist is a little pat, but the movie is otherwise the rare documentary that empathizes with its subject even in its shot selection. More’s the serendipity. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters. NEW

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Rules of the Red Rubber Ball scribe Kevin Carroll gets locals amped up for the big University of Oregon BCS title game with a pregame rally featuring clips from “some of the most powerful sports films ever produced,” Grant High School drumline trills, and a sports-themed auction with Nike and Blazers goodies. Bonus points: The Hollywood is screening the BCS game on the big screen Monday, Jan. 10, for free. Hollywood Theatre. 3-5 pm Saturday, Jan. 8. $10, $5 students. The BCS game screens free on Monday, Jan. 10. NEW

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Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

86 There’s something very diabolical about an ancient man who watches children at all times, passing judgment on their behavior before breaking into their homes in the middle of the night. Finnish director Jalmari Helander knows there’s an inherent malice in the Santa Claus myth. He mines it to full effect with Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, a fantastical horror comedy in which the Fat Man is a sadistic enforcer of morals. Santa— ”not the Coca-Cola Santa,” as one character puts it—is actually a

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demonic marauder (Per Christian Elletsen) who snatches naughty kids from their beds, replacing them with wicker dolls before chucking them into burlap sacks and carting them off. There is no shortage of irreverent holiday films, but not since Gremlins has a Christmas flick so aptly combined dark overtones with such imagination and abandon. Clocking in at under 90 minutes, Rare Exports is packed with a sense of childlike discovery, nailing the laughs and dread with an overriding sense of innocent curiosity. The result is poised to be an instant cult classic for those who have grown tired of George Bailey and his feelgood brethren. Naughtiness can be its own reward. R. AP KRYZA. Hollywood Theatre. NEW

Season of the Witch

Nicolas Cage does battle with the devil’s minions, again. This time with fewer bees and more swords. Not screened for critics. Clackamas, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Cinetopia, City Center, Conelius, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Sandy, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

Sita Sings the Blues

This is tough to explain, but hang in there: Director and cartoonist Nina Paley took the fracturing of her marriage, made it into a cartoon, recognized its parallels with the Sanskrit epic The Ramayana, drew that story as another cartoon in three separate styles, then expressed the feelings of ancient Indian goddess incarnation Sita with the songs of Roaring ’20s radio chanteuse Annette Hanshaw. It’s an exhilarating scramble, with the flash animation segments emphasizing anything round, from Sita’s comically spherical breasts to the staring eyes of flying slug-demons. It’s a little poignant, too, as god-man Rama puts Sita through literal trials by fire, never acknowledging that love means never having to singe your sari. Special plaudits are due to Aseem Chhabra, Bhavana Nagulapally and Manish Acharya, who wryly debate the plot points of the Hindu sage Valmiki as if on a podcast recapping an episode of Desperate Housewives. My only reservation about the entire picture is that, even at 82 minutes, the singing of Annette Hanshaw is an acquired taste I failed to acquire. Meanwhile, Paley has barely obtained a dime from her creation—the rights to the Hanshaw melodies are corporately held—which just seems like piling on. She’s released the movie under a Creative Commons license, and these screenings are at least a small redress of the injustice. AARON MESH. NW Film Center at Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Thursday, Jan. 6. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm and 9 pm Friday-Thursday Jan. 7-13. No 7 pm show Sunday, Jan. 9. 87

The Social Network

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

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REEL MUSIC FESTIVAL 28 From a distance, Sly Stone and Phil Ochs couldn’t have less in common. Stone was a flamboyant, excess-prone sex symbol who took the pop world by storm; Ochs was a smart, big-hearted kid from Ohio who wrote elegant, topical folk songs and—like so many songwriters of his generation—fell into Bob Dylan’s long shadow and never really climbed out of it. But the stories aren’t quite as disparate as they might seem: Both songwriters were obsessed with fame; both were idealists who took on the establishment; both disappeared too soon. And both artists deserve great documentaries: Ochs gets one; Stone most certainly does not, although both are screening at this week’s Reel Music film festival. Examining the two films side by side strikes at the heart of what’s wrong—and what’s right—with contemporary music documentaries. We decided to break it down. CASEY JARMAN. PHIL OCHS: THERE BUT FOR FORTUNE (2010, Kenneth Bowser) Plot: Phil Ochs was the realdeal folk singer, if a complex individual, and the general fucked-upness of the ’60s literally drove him insane. Tone: Honest, stylish and poignant. Though it features dozens of interviews, the film builds a complete narrative of the artist and his era, and has a cool scrapbook style throughout. Best material: Candid archival audio interviews with the singer himself, which prove just how keen an intellect and just how self-aware an artist he was in his prime.

COMING BACK FOR MORE (2010, Willem Alkema) Plot: Sly Stone was a genius, and then he went into hiding. Now we must stalk him relentlessly and expose his sad, current-day existence! Tone: Disjointed and sloppy with little visual style, poor sense of direction and an unnecessary focus on nerdy Dutch record collectors. Best material: Sly Stone, adorned in Spider-Man pajamas in a hotel room and drinking Budweiser. That scene answers the “Whatever happened to Sly?” question.

Biggest flaw: Could use a couple full-length Ochs songs, and maybe less Sean Penn (why is he here again?).

Biggest flaw: As if the “searching for” plot weren’t tired enough, the filmmakers rarely challenge their interview subjects. And one has to wonder whether they paid Sly for their interview.

Verdict: Thoroughly enjoyable film and a haunting portrait of Ochs that puts music first but doesn’t discount the life behind the songs. You don’t need to know anything about the guy to appreciate this movie. 88

Verdict: One could make a fantastic 30-minute short out of this material, but as is, it’s a snoozer. Reel Music has better films this week (like The Anatomy of Vince Guaraldi, at 7 pm Tuesday, Jan. 11). 32

GO: The NW Film Center’s Reel Music Festival 28 screens Friday-Tuesday, Jan. 7-18, at the Whitsell Auditorium, Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave. Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune screens at 7 pm Sunday, Jan. 9. Coming Back for More screens 7 pm Saturday, Jan. 8. Find a full schedule of movies at nwfilm.org. $9 general, $8 students and seniors.

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Tangled

60 Once you accept that the film appears built from a box of Playmobil toys, Tangled is moderately enchanting. PG. AARON MESH. 2D: 99 Indoor Twin, Broadway, Clackamas, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Conelius, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Moreland, Movies on TV, Oak Grove, Sandy, Sherwood, Tigard, wilsonvielle. 3D: Lloyd Center.

The Tempest

65 In her Tempest, which sets Shakespeare’s tale of shipwrecks and double-crossing nobles on a volcanic isle lorded over by a gender-bending, magic-staff-wielding Prospero (Helen Mirren as “Prospera”), Julie Taymor ups the interest with a panoply of amazing creatures, from fiery-eyed lava dogs and a naked, androgynous butoh sprite to a goo-mouthed harpy that bedevils Prospera’s evil brother and his compatriots, looking like the world’s most terrifying seagull after an oil spill disaster. PG-13. KELLY CLARKE. Living Room Theaters.

The Tourist

It’s official: Johnny Depp has lost his grasp on reality—or, at least, his grasp on real people. Even as he finds himself being chased by gangsters for reasons we don’t think he understands, Depp doesn’t seem upset, confused or even inconvenienced. He just looks bored. And, thus, so do the rest of us. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Broadway, Clackamas, Bridgeport, City Center, Cornelius, Division, Evergreen, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Oak Grove, Sandy, Sherwood, Tigard. 45

Tiny Furniture

58 Tribeca twentysomething Lena Dunham’s comedy of Tribeca twentysomething malaise has been endlessly scrutinized by Five Boroughs critics—Glenn Kenny deliciously dubbed it “the Cinema of Unexamined Privilege”—but be honest: You’re far too busy offering advance opinions on Portlandia to care about the tempest in some other city’s miniature teapot. Anyway, with all respect to Kenny, who has written more on this movie than I have written on the collected works of Orson Welles, Tiny Furniture seems to examine privilege a bit too much: Like many micro-indies, it knows its own hermetic world very well, and can show why it’s funny, but has nothing to compare. (For contrast, look at Kicking & amp; Screaming, also about the end of college, or any movie directed by Nicole Holofcener.) Dunham, who stars and films herself from unflattering angles that border on self-hatred, writes wickedly revealing dialogue for her characters—she’s especially clinical on mooching, lazily predatory men, and after seeing such slackers glorified in every indie this year, it’s satisfying to see their tiny balls pinned to the wall. Other than that, let’s say the director has more promise than most people I knew at age 24, and maybe someday she’ll make something larger than her apartment. AARON MESH. Cinema 21, Living Room.

Tron: Legacy

Video games have come a long way since Tron hit screens in 1982, and Tron: Legacy has evolved with them. It’s eye-poppingly gorgeous, ludicrous and swollen with 73

MARWENCOL enough pure adrenaline to make Raoul Duke trip balls for decades. Legacy finds computer wunderkind Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) sucked into a digitized world of violent Ultimate Frisbee and glow sticks to retrieve his long-lost father, Kevin (Jeff Bridges). The fallen Apollo of the neon realm, Kevin’s now hiding from the maniacally dictatorial Clu (Bridges again, age digitally reduced 30 years to resemble Patrick Swayze by way of The Polar Express). Aesthetically, Tron is a wonder, maybe the best use of 3-D to date. Set to a pulsing Daft Punk score, action scenes sear the retina, from gladiatorial battles to a kung-fu melee in a Eurotrash bar and the requisite Light Cycle throwdown. Neon dominates the film, with glowing lights augmenting women’s curves and men’s muscles with ample ooh-la-la and phosphorescence permeating each shot. With so much style, who gives a shit about substance? Director Joseph Kosinski, for one. The film is packed with enough broody exposition and religious allegory to give both Wachowskis migraines. PG. AP KRYZA. 2D: Clackamas, Bridgeport, Cornelius, Division, Evergreen, Movies on TV, Oak Grove. 3D: Clackamas, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Cinetopia, City Center, Cornelius, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sandy, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

True Grit

The Coen Brothers’ new rendering of Charles Portis’ novel of Arkansas frontier retribution is remarkable for its lack of perversity—one character voices a slightly unseemly interest in the 14-yearold heroine, and another is graphically relieved of some fingers but, by Coen standards, everybody behaves with relative civility. But it maintains something sorrowful in the story of young Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfield), who seeks retribution for her dead father and talks like Laura Ingalls Wilder with a law degree. Jeff Bridges’ drunken lawman is essentially a comic turn, a sharpshooting grandpa who just wants to tell campfire stories, and it leaves the movie’s emotions to Steinfeld and Matt Damon, whose Texas Ranger is painfully aware of his own ridiculousness, and is all the more hurt that everyone else notices it too. PG-13. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Cinetopia, City Center, Cornelius, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sandy, Sherwood, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub, Tigard, Wilsonville. 90

Wake Up

31 [ONE NIGHT ONLY] I do not feel qualified to say whether Jonas Elrod actually sees ghosts, angels, demons and auras drifting through New York streets or San Francisco hotel rooms. But I must say something feels fishy about this slick SXSW-accredited documentary directed by Elrod and his girlfriend, Chloe Crespi. The movie is too artful to feel genuine: If you’re

suddenly enduring spiritual manifestations at every corner, how are you concentrating on setting up multiple cameras, let alone writing a classy keyboard score? Elrod comes across as an aw-shucks Ben Roethlisberger-looking regular fella, going on a Chehalis vision quest and asking a lot of questions, except for the obvious one, which is, “Oh shit, how do I get these fucking ghosts to leave RIGHT NOW?” AARON MESH. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Sunday, Jan. 9.

White Material

It takes time to get your bearings in a Claire Denis film. White Material, the remarkable new movie by this French master responsible for three nearly perfect films already (Beau Travail, Trouble Every Day, The Intruder), begins with a succession of unsettling fragments: a soldier lying dead in a dark room; a man trapped in a burning building; and a woman, Maria Vial (Isabelle Huppert), running to or from some as yet vague emergency. Broad context emerges soon enough—we are in an unnamed African country verging on post-colonial Hobbesian hell—and so we have some idea of how that soldier came to be there, why that building is on fire, and what Maria is fleeing or chasing, but Denis embellishes these initial adumbrations slowly and carefully, even gently, as if White Material’s escalating chaos could tip over into incurable madness at any moment. It is almost as if Maria has been cast as the political actor who shall not act, so that this violence, seemingly so arbitrarily dispersed, might have a place to eventually converge. White Material ends where it begins—a figure in limbo, running— and there are still people left alive to follow their loved ones into death, yet I did not want this horrible story to end, not as long as Denis was acting as guide. CHRIS STAMM. Living Room Theaters. 95

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32 Torture is a relative term. I’ve not been waterboarded or stripped naked and thrown in a pyramid of other naked men. Still, watching Yogi Bear was a humiliating experience, from sliding a pair of 3-D glasses awkwardly on top of my existing glasses to seeing Yogi—one of my closest childhood friends— stripped of his stylized ‘50s dignity and forced to repeat a single catchphrase ad nauseam: “I’m smarter than the average bear!” If there’s any style to be salvaged from this wreck—and its lack of style is what hurts this movie most—it’s in the inspired design of Yogi’s various pica-nic basket-snatching devices (the airborne “Baskit Snatcher 2000” is downright da Vinci-esque) and the animated closing credits, both of which look pretty sweet in 3-D. Please don’t mistake that for a recommendation. PG. CASEY JARMAN. 2D: Clackamas, City Center, Cornelius, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Oak Grove, Tigard, Wilsonville. 3D: Clackamas, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Divison, Evergreen, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sandy, Sherwood.

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MOVING RIGHT ALONG: In the ’70s, the Muppets represented everything gentle and good in the world. Sure, Miss Piggy threw a punch now and again—but, at the heart of it, the Muppets were friends who got along despite their differences. The Muppet Movie (1979) is the one full-length film that captures that innocent and slyly subversive spirit of the TV series—a show that refused to talk down to kids, but found ways to talk sense into adults. It follows Kermit and Fozzie on their musical journey to Hollywood, where they meet A-list actors (Telly Savalas!) and fight nobly to avoid selling out. Too bad we all know how that fight ended (cough, Muppet Babies!). CASEY JARMAN. The Muppet Movie screens as part of the Cort and Fatboy Midnight Movie series Friday, Jan. 7, at the Bagdad Theater (10:30 pm Fraggle Rock, 11 pm Muppets). Best paired with: McMenamins Ruby. Mon 3 Sat 12:30 Sun 12:30 UNSTOPPABLE 9:45

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340 SW Morrison St., 800-326-3264 COUNTRY STRONG 12:50, 4:30, 7:30, 10:10 LITTLE FOCKERS 1:15, 4:20, 7:20, 9:50 SEASON OF THE WITCH 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10 THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER 3D 12:30, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05

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Whitsell Auditorium

1219 SW Park Ave., 503-221-1156 COMING BACK FOR MORE Sat 7 IN THE GARDEN OF SOUNDS Sun 4:30 LOOK AT WHAT THE LIGHT DID NOW Fri 7 PHIL OCHS: THERE BUT FOR FORTUNE Sun 7 PIANOMANIA Sat 4:30 SOUNDS LIKE A REVOLUTION Sun 8:30 THE GOLDEN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD FILM COMPOSERS Sun 2 THE SECRET TO A HAPPY ENDING Sat 9

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Kennedy School

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12000 SE 82nd Ave., 800-326-3264 BLACK SWAN 11:25am, 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25am COUNTRY STRONG 11:05am, 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05am GULLIVER’S TRAVELS 11:15am, 1:35, 3:55 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS 3D 12:20, 2:40, 5:05, 7:25, 9:50 Sat 10am HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 6:15, 9:35 HOW DO YOU KNOW 6:25, 9:20 LA PHIL LIVE: DUDAMEL CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN Sun 2 LITTLE FOCKERS Fri-Tue 11:10am, 12:30, 1:45, 3, 4:15, 5:30, 6:50, 8, 9:25, 10:30 SEASON OF THE WITCH 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20 TANGLED Fri-Tue 11:20am, 1:55, 4:25, 7, 9:30 THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER 12:05, 2:55, 5:45, 8:35 THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER 3D 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 Sat 10:40am THE FIGHTER 11:15am, 2, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15am THE KING’S SPEECH 11am, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10am THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST Sat 10am THE SOCIAL NETWORK Fri, Sun-Mon 11:30am Sat 4:30 THE TOURIST 7:35, 10:10 Fri, Sun-Thu 2:20, 5 TRON: LEGACY 5:50, 8:50 Fri-Sat, Mon-Thu 11:45am, 2:50 TRON: LEGACY 3D 11am, 1:55, 4:50, 7:45, 10:35am TRUE GRIT Fri-Tue 11:50am, 2:30, 5:10, 7:55, 10:35am YOGI BEAR 11:30am, 1:40, 4 YOGI BEAR 3D 12:25, 2:35, 4:55, 7:05, 9:15 Sat 10:05am

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