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“‘The government we have is too expensive to maintain.’ This is why he won’t be remembered as great. He failed to identify the problem of a declining and unstable revenue stream. Shrink all you want: health care, ed, senior and mental health services, public safety...we’ll have the worst social services in the nation, but we still won’t have enough revenue without fundamental tax law reform. Having failed (along with the rest of the DPO) to identify the problem, it isn’t surprising he (and the DPO-controlled state house) failed to do anything about it when they had the chance. California, here we come!” —Steve R.
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Now, four years later, my “good job” is gone, I’ve exhausted my savings paying for COBRA healthcare premiums and now no longer have ANY access to health care. I am competing with college graduates for jobs that in the past were the ones done by kids in high school. I am sure the governor is a nice guy, but he has been missing in action, when as governor he could have been a leader during the absolute worst economic crises since the Great Depression. A crisis that has devastated many Oregonians and left us with little hope. —randal davis “I think Ted is the Oregonian we’d like to be. Friendly, agreeable and able to stick to his guns no matter how unpopular the idea is. I believe Oregonians are an incredibly tough bunch to govern. ‘We’ still have a Wild West, do-itourselves, hopefully-we-are-on-the-right-sideof-God mentality. It was eight blissful years I didn’t have to hear about a governor that had bad loans, sexcapades, drugs or special interests. Thank you, Ted. Thanks for your effort and your integrity. —tdincorntown Editor’s note: Look for publisher Richard Meeker’s report in the Jan. 19 edition on the $1.1 million-plus raised by WW’s Give!Guide for 79 local nonprofits. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include the author’s street address and phone number for verification. Letters must be 250 or fewer words. Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Fax: (503) 243-1115, Email: mzusman@wweek.com
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Hundreds of Canada geese have been making themselves at home in my business park for months. I thought geese were supposed to fly south for the winter! It’s January and these guys show no signs of moving on. Are they just lazy? —Allen P. You don’t know the half of it: Even now, gangs of surly, delinquent geese in leather jackets are roaming our business parks. Jobless, insolent, many from broken homes, they spend their days dealing drugs, honking at our women and slicking back their head feathers with switchblade combs. They’re so rude it’s hard to believe they’re Canadian. And you’d better get used to it: Thanks to climate change, the decent, God-fearing geese of decades past—who stopped only briefly in Portland on their orderly way to warmer climes— have been supplanted by an unruly, shiftless mob for whom the Willamette Valley is south.
“Wintering populations of Canada and cackling geese in the Willamette Valley have increased from about 10,000 in 1940 to about 300,000 today,” says the Audubon Society of Portland’s conservation director, Bob Sallinger. (Surely at least one of them is breaking into your car.) “Think of them as winged cattle,” suggests urban naturalist Mike Houck, also of Portland Audubon. “Being grazers, they just love those golf courses and corporate park lawns.” They also love to ravage winter crops, and unfortunately for farmers, hunting of Canada geese is limited by treaty obligations to Alaska natives, so their numbers are likely to increase. Meanwhile, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has been planting goose-grazing fields on Sauvie Island, hoping to lure the geese away from private farmland. To me, that seems like leaving a pile of money in your foyer to keep burglars from stealing your stuff, but what do I know? QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com
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As the Portland Police Association mails ballots this week for cops to vote on a proposed labor contract, insiders attending two informational meetings last week on the proposal say the meetings were subdued. But one officer says the cops who attend those meetings already agree with the contract. “A sizable group is still not happy,” another cop says. As first reported at wweek.com Dec. 21, a leaked draft of the contract reveals union leadership appears poised TURNER to accept random drug testing and greater police oversight in exchange for a 2 percent raise. Union President Daryl Turner says leadership has not yet set a date for counting ballots. An Oregon man who formerly headed a Portland charity pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court on Jan. 10 to conspiring to break the U.S. embargo on Iran. As first reported by WW (see “Mystery Raid,” July 23, 2008), federal agents raided the downtown offices of Child Foundation but gave no reason for confiscating computers and records from the charity run by Iranian-Americans. Federal court documents indicate Mehrdad Yasrebi of Clackamas conspired to funnel money illegally into Iran and help donors write off exaggerated tax deductions. A sentencing hearing for Yasrebi, the foundation head who resigned from Child Foundation last year, is set for May 9.
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A late December federal decision moved Washington’s Cowlitz tribe closer to gaining a tribal casino 22 miles north of Portland. That decision and the prospect of another private casino effort threaten the operator of Oregon’s biggest casino, the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde. Salem sources say the Grand Ronde are eyeing Langdon Farms golf course, 19 miles south of Portland as a potential casino location. Grand Ronde spokesman Justin Martin calls the rumors speculation but adds, “If Cowlitz becomes reality, we’ll look at all options.”
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a Kitzhaber ally, took on a complexity that’s continued because the investigation involved Kitzhaber’s girlfriend. Kitzhaber, Kroger and Hayes are just some of the players. There’s also now-former Gov. Ted Kulongoski, who got a briefing in the final days of his term after the investigation. BY NIG E L JAQ UI SS njaquiss@wweek.com Kroger’s office said investigators “provided legal advice to [Kulongoski] on the related legal matters,” but neither DOJ When Gov. John Kitzhaber took the oath of office for his nor Kulongoski’s spokeswoman would elaborate. The three ODOE employees placed on leave in August third gubernatorial term on Monday, his longtime comremain suspended. On Jan. 6, state officials offered “name panion, Cylvia Hayes, stood by his side. But while Hayes was an onlooker Jan. 10, she remains at clearing” hearings to all three, and a fourth to Mark Long, the center of a festering controversy involving the Oregon who was placed on leave at the end of the investigation. Department of Energy that may blow back on Kitzhaber Here’s a three-step guide to follow the rest of the saga. 1) The Long history: DOJ officials did not seek to interand his fellow Democrat, Attorney General John Kroger. view Long until late in the probe—Dec. 13, It’s also an investigation that involves Gary says. Often, investigators delay interother big names in Oregon political circles. FACT: John Kroger contributed viewing those they suspect of wrongdoing, Just what role Hayes, a Bend renew- $7,000 from his political action able-energy consultant, played in secur- committee to John Kitzhaber’s gathering as much evidence as possible. Long declined to talk to DOJ, an unusual ing a May 2010 subcontract from ODOE 2010 gubernatorial campaign. stance for a senior state employee. for her company TEEM Inc. remains Long’s decision led his then-boss, Oregon Department unclear. (Hayes has said she did nothing wrong). Although Kroger’s Department of Justice began its of Consumer and Business Services director Cory Streisinvestigation into the contract in August and finished Dec. inger, to place him on leave. Streisinger served as counsel 29, the department hasn’t yet released the underlying to Neil Goldschmidt from 1987 to 1991 and as general counsel at the Port of Portland after that. emails and interview transcripts. As Goldschmidt’s counsel during his only term as gov“It is a comedy of errors that this whole process has taken so long,” says Bill Gary, an attorney for former ernor, Streisinger worked closely with Kulongoski, then Energy Department director Mark Long. “It’s increas- insurance commissioner, on a major economic and political issue: workers’ compensation reform. ingly obvious that politics are driving the whole affair.” Gary says the underlying question —did ODOE The two of them coordinated with then State Acciemployees improperly steer business to Hayes?—is not dent Insurance Fund director Stan Long, father of Mark complicated. But he says the investigation by Kroger, Long—the former ODOE chief. Stan Long also had pre-
viously served as deputy attorney general when Dave Frohnmayer was AG. Frohnmayer went on to serve as president of the University of Oregon from 1994 to 2009. There, Kroger criticized his administration’s handling of athletic director Mike Bellotti’s contract, which led to the firing of UO general counsel Melinda Grier. That firing in turn caused Grier’s husband, a senior DOJ lawyer, to resign. Frohnmayer and Gary are representing Mark Long, and have filed a tort claim notice against DOJ and the state, claiming the investigation was a “violation of his Constitutional rights.” 2) Enter the Kroger adversary: While Long’s attorneys possess deep knowledge of DOJ operations, another of the suspended DOE employees, Shelli Honeywell, is represented by David Angeli, an attorney who is making something of a practice of going up against Kroger. Angeli represented an Enron defendant against Kroger when Kroger was a federal prosecutor; represented hotelier Mark Hemstreet in a successful suit against Kroger’s DOJ; and represented Hood River Juice in a case that saw Angeli’s client convicted but led Kroger’s protégé, assistant AG Brent Foster, to resign over his role in the case. Angeli declined to comment, but Gary has plenty to say about Kroger’s actions. “We think the AG’s office has violated our client’s rights,” Gary says. “The suggestion that the same office that has been notified that we have a claim against them should advise Gov. Kitzhaber on whether our client and others should still be employed by the state is fraught with peril, and puts the integrity of the AG’s office at risk.” DOJ spokesman Tony Green says his agency handled the ODOE investigation thoroughly and professionally. “There is no conflict of interest here,” Green says. 3) What’s next?: The suspended employees have until Jan. 13 to decide whether to accept name-clearing hearings. After that date or the hearings, which ever comes later, the DOJ investigative file, replete with interviews with Hayes and the ODOE employees, will become public. Willamette Week JANUARY 12, 2011 wweek.com
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One huge issue facing the newly convened Oregon Legislature is a sweeping overhaul of the state’s higher-education system. Among the proposals is one from the University of Oregon that asks the state to grant the university greater autonomy over its spending decisions and to sell bonds worth about $800 million that UO would invest along with privately raised money to cover its annual operations (see “Hotseat: Richard Lariviere,” WW, May 19, 2010). Another proposal for all seven public state universities would give them greater autonomy in exchange for more accountability when it comes to outcomes such as graduation (see “Dollars for Diplomas,” WW, Dec. 22, 2010). And knowing the alumni’s often-fierce
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loyalty to their alma mater, WW surveyed all 90 legislators to learn where they earned their degrees as a way of sussing out where their sympathies may lie on the big topic of highered reform. About one-third of Oregon’s 60 representatives and 30 senators got at least their undergraduate degrees from one of the state’s seven public universities. Sen. Mark Hass (D-Beaverton), chairman of the Senate Education Committee, doubts rah-rah college spirit will sway the outcome. “I have faith in legislators looking at the merits of legislation and making the decision based on that,” says Hass, who earned his undergraduate degree in journalism in 1980 from the University of Oregon. “We have a very diverse legislature—some went to universities here, some didn’t—and I just don’t think that will be the determining factor.” Or maybe there’s some resentment toward UO’s idea. “Other universities generally feel like all of our state univerisites should be treated the same,” Sen. Rod Monroe (D-Portland), a PSU grad and co-chairman of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Education. “It’s going to be a converoversial topic.” Here’s a breakdown of our results:
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TOO DUCKING BAD SIX TAKEAWAYS FROM OREGON’S TITLE GAME LOSS.
MIDSEASON REPORT: THE BLAZERS MAY NOT BE TITLE CONTENDERS, BUT AT LEAST THEY’RE FUN AGAIN. CA
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As the Trail Blazers approach the halfway point of what’s been a tough season of lowered expectations for fans, it’s time for a look back at June 28, 2007. That was the day Blazers fans went insane—the day Portland drafted Greg Oden and shipped out leading scorer and rebounder Zach Randolph, with pundits pegging Portland as a team poised to contend for a championship in two or three years… right about now. Old-school and bandwagon fans alike bought in wholeheartedly: “Blazermania,” a subtle sort of dementia, was back in full force, and expectations were impossibly high. No one could have predicted the string of brutal, sometimes mysterious injuries the team would suffer on its way back down to earth. But in retrospect, there was a certain hubris to the idea—set in motion with the organization’s 2003 “25 Point Pledge” to fans—that by signing high-character players, the organization could build both a high-caliber and high-chemistry team. Not only did that dream inflate the organization’s estimation of its own benchwarmers—some of whom (like Martell Webster and Jerryd Bayless) the team retained until their trade value was nil—it created a leadership vacuum none of Portland’s vaunted but mild-mannered “big three” of Brandon Roy, LaMarcus Aldridge and Oden, ever seemed likely to fill. And we learned character—as evidenced by Rudy Fernandez’s homesick bellyaching and Roy’s rants against his coach and teammates—has a lot to do with context. When the chips are down, anyone can act like an asshole. All of which brings us back to the present—to a team stripped of two
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players in Roy and Oden who were supposed to lead the Blazers to titles—a team that should suck. And yet from the rich, fragrant manure of shitty luck, things are coming up roses. The team is more united, more unselfish and just plain more fun to watch than it’s been since Roy won Rookie of the Year in 2007. Even Sunday’s heartbreaking overtime loss at home to Miami left Blazers fans with hope—the team has an uptempo style that suits them well, and it has found a leader in Aldridge. Some think the Blazers’ success— and it is, admittedly, a modest success (at press time before the Jan. 11 game against New York, 20-18, three games worse than at the same point last season)—is temporary, that without a healthy Roy and Oden the Blazers are due for a slide. There have been calls to reboot the franchise entirely—to trade away big contracts and begin another “youth movement.” And if the end goal is a championship, they may be right. So I’d like to suggest something unthinkable to the stat-chasers and the
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TRANSITION GAME: (top to bottom) Marcus Camby, Wes Matthews and LaMarcus Aldridge all have bigger roles now.
cheerleaders who’ve been waiting for the team’s first title since 1977: Maybe it’s not about winning it all. Maybe the good guys don’t win in the end, and that’s what keeps them from turning into the bad guys. Maybe one championship is enough. I’m not suggesting the Blazers let the trade deadline pass without making a move—I’m suggesting fans try to forget the “Rise With Us” hyperbole to focus on the exciting basketball this team is playing right now. Portland is good enough to make the playoffs without Roy (barring a major overhaul or more cataclysmic injuries), and that’s a position a lot of fans would love to be in. So, just for a while, let’s enjoy the wins (and the losses) and toast a team that’s finally buying in to playing team basketball the right way. Let’s live like there’s no June.
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Since Auburn’s 22-19 defeat of Oregon for the national championship on Monday night, there are a half-dozen conversation starters I suspect will linger with Ducks football fans until next season. 1) Auburn’s defense was too quick laterally for the Ducks’ usually dominating running game to go outside, and too big for Oregon’s LaMichael James to run inside. The result: too many 3rd-and-9s when Auburn knew quarterback Darren Thomas had to pass. 2) Yes, Oregon left points on the field when they couldn’t score TDs in the red zone. But so did Auburn, with quarterback Cam Newton missing two sure TD passes. 3) Any hopes of a special teams game-changer with a big Cliff Harris punt return faded because Auburn was smart enough to do what other teams should: Kick the ball toward the sidelines. The Tigers also covered ferociously on kickoffs, leaving Oregon with consistently lousy field position. 4) Pure joy when Oregon tied it at 19 with 2:33 left. Pure sense of the inevitable when Auburn running back Michael Dyer got up after appearing tackled on the final possession for a 37-yard run that put Auburn into field goal position for the win. Ducks fans can’t bitch—the refs made the right call. Just like the whistle-never-blew run by Oregon’s Maurice Morris in the 2002 Fiesta Bowl. 5) Rejection of any meme that Chip Kelly can’t win the big bowl. He’s 22-4 overall. Relax. And you can be sure if Kelly wins a championship, he won’t ape Auburn’s coach Gene Chizik, who never mentioned his opponent right after the win and told a post-game interviewer, “God was on our side.” 6) Some comfort that Jim Harbaugh, the coach for Oregon’s toughest conference opponent in 2011 (Stanford), is leaving for the NFL and that both Thomas and James will return to Eugene. —Henry Stern
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STRONG MEDICINE: Cambron hits a bong with patients at Wake n Bake Cannabis Lounge.
WEED,THE PEOPLE MEET THE OREGONIANS DRIVING THE MARIJUANA MARKETPLACE. BY JAMES PITKIN
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After two years of being unemployed, Kat Cambron recently borrowed $15,000 from her family, friends and credit cards and invested in marijuana. An irrepressibly cheerful ex-financial officer, Cambron turned a former reptile rescue facility in Aloha into a medical-marijuana exchange. Opened the day before Thanksgiving, it now boasts 130 members who pay money to obtain and imbibe cannabis in the storefront space, a block off of Tualatin Valley Highway. Cambron’s investment is already paying off. On their biggest day yet, she and her business partner, Andrew Gwin, grossed $2,500. An average day is more like $1,700. “Three months ago, I didn’t know this was even possible,” says Cambron, sitting in the lobby of her Wake n Bake Cannabis Lounge with her Pomeranian, Sassy, sitting in her lap. “We’re trying to run this as a business like any other.” In the midst of Oregon’s long economic malaise, you could be forgiven for failing to register one of the state’s few economic bright spots—a burgeoning industry growing out of basements, gardens and converted shop fronts across the state. And it’s completely unregulated and under the radar. CONT. on page 14 Willamette Week JANUARY 12, 2011 wweek.com
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IN BUSINESS: Gwin and Cambron went in debt to open a marijuana exchange.
Just three weeks before Cambron’s club opened, 56 percent of Oregon voters rejected Measure 74, a ballot initiative that would have established a system of medicalmarijuana dispensaries virtually indistinguishable from the outfit Cambron is running. Oregon’s somewhat unclear medical-marijuana law (see sidebar below) makes no mention of dispensaries— cardholders without a designated grower have to score weed on the black market. With Oregon unemployment stuck above 10 percent, entrepreneurs are moving in to fill the void by working in the seams. “There are a lot of people pushing the envelope right now,” says Paul Stanford, a longtime marijuana activist from Portland. “There were so many people geared up for [Measure] 74 to pass. Now they’re moving forward anyway.” Others are holding back for fear of breaking the law. “It’s a total gray area,” says Anthony Johnson, who cowrote Measure 74. The board of his Portland nonprofit, Oregon Green Free, considered opening a dispensary-style club but killed the plan because the law is murky. “People willing to enter that market are willing to take on a risky endeavor,” Johnson says. “I fear it will have unintended consequences for the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act, particularly in light of any bad publicity that may come about because of the lack of regulation.”
OREGON MARIJUANA STATISTICS
967,307: estimated number of pot plants in Oregon 295,126: estimated pounds of weed produced in Oregon annually $474 million: estimated value of Oregon’s marijuana crop $347 million: estimated value of hay, Oregon’s second-largest cash crop (Source: Marijuana Production in the United States, Jon Gettman. The 2006 study was based on average drug seizures from 2003 to 2005.)
48,838 patients, including pending applications
It’s the Thursday afternoon before Christmas, and Cambron’s Wake n Bake Cannabis Lounge is experiencing a busy rush as members stock up on their drug supply before the holidays (see sidebar to learn how the exchange works). They park out front, flash their ID and walk into a business where almost nothing is called by its common name. After Measure 74 failed, the term “dispensary” became taboo. Cambron calls her place a “cannabis exchange.” Their product is “medicine,” and the customers are “patients.” They don’t sell marijuana—instead, cannabis is “available for reimbursement.” The smoking den is a “medicating lounge.” A store stocked with paraphernalia, seeds, soil, T-shirts and baby pot plants is a “green room.” Industry insiders estimate that around 30 such busi-
OREGON MEDICAL MARIJUANA LAW The law in Oregon allows patients to possess and use pot on a doctor’s recommendation. Patients can either buy weed on the black market or designate a grower. Each grower can provide for up to four patients, with a limit of six mature plants per patient. Growers may charge patients for the expense of growing (lamps and fertilizer, for example), but growers are forbidden from charging for their time or turning a profit. The result: Many medical growers also sell on the black market.
24,080 caregivers, licensed to carry pot for patients 31,896 growers, allowed to grow up to 24 mature plants each (Source: Oregon Public Health Division.)
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Marijuana has long been the largest cash crop in Oregon. Bigger than wheat, bigger than grass seed, bigger than Christmas trees. Now, 12 years after Oregonians opened the door to medical marijuana, we’re seeing what that industry looks like when it steps into the open. Here are three tales from the marijuana market’s front lines. First, the story of a mom-and-pop startup, the backbone of a pioneering trade. Second, a more sophisticated effort to franchise an Oregon business model nationwide. And third is a cautionary tale of economic boom and bust, from an old-school grower cynical of the new enterprise.
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DISPENSARIES Fifteen states have legalized medical marijuana, but only seven of those states allow dispensaries to sell pot to patients. Oregon law makes no mention of dispensaries. But in the past two years, dispensary-style operations have cropped up across the state calling themselves co-ops, private clubs and lounges. Some give away weed for free. Others charge membership dues or take cash to cover growers’ expenses. Here’s how Wake n Bake in Aloha works: Patients pay $20 a month for membership. Growers pay a “storage and handling fee” and provide their weed on consignment. Patients pay $140 to $190 an ounce, and the money goes back to the grower.
nesses pepper the state, from Portland to tiny Tri-City, population 3,500. No one knows exactly how many exist, because they’re completely unregulated (go to wweek. com for a map of several dispensary locations). More than 20 advertise in the trade publication Oregon Cannabis Connection, a bimonthly newspaper that published its first edition last June. Although limited to participants in the medical-marijuana program, competition is nevertheless intense. Wake n Bake is the third club to open in the Beaverton-Aloha area, Cambron says. Without legal standing or regulation, Cambron says it’s a bit like the Wild West. “But like any other industry, we’re trying to do what is correct,” she says. And the risks are high. Last week, Cambron had her foster kids removed from her home. The Portland-based Boys and Girls Aid Society had been placing troubled teenage boys in her home since October 2009. But the nonprofit removed the three boys under her care Jan. 8—the day after she informed the nonprofit she was a medicalmarijuana patient and had opened Wake n Bake. “Many of our young people have drug addiction issues,” says Michael Balter, head of Boys and Girls Aid Society. “If they can find that in the home, or smell it, or see it, that’s very provocative.” Cambron’s life changed in 2005, when she rolled her ATV on a trip to the Oregon Dunes. She broke her back and injured her right hip, her right shoulder and her neck. Cambron had tried pot once as a teenager, but it put her to sleep. After spending years on heavy medication due to her ATV accident, she says she unwittingly ate a weed-laced cookie at a party in September and found it did more for her pain than pills. “I personally would never have considered it an option,” she says. “But after that day and how great I felt, I had to do some exploration.” Cambron became a certified medical-marijuana patient, but learned there were no resources from which to obtain medicine. She asked around and was introduced to 24-year-old Gwin, a recreational user turned activist and licensed medical-marijuana caregiver. The two partners formed a nonprofit to open Wake n Bake regardless of whether Measure 74 passed. The risk seems to be paying off—Cambron believes the cannabis lounge should provide them both with a stable income. “Just to be able to be in this kind of environment,” Gwin says, “where patients don’t have to be on the street—that is everything.” Jenifer Valley and Mike Mullins want to be the Burgerville of medical marijuana. CONT. on page 16
ARE THEY LEGAL UNDER OREGON LAW?
ARE THEY LEGAL UNDER FEDERAL LAW?
People who are opening these clubs say yes. John Sajo and Anthony Johnson, the authors of a failed ballot measure that would have established regulated dispensaries in Oregon, are doubtful. Sgt. Dave Thompson, spokesman for the sheriff’s office in Washington County (where Wake n Bake is located), says the Westside Interagency Narcotics Team is now researching whether the clubs are legal. “They’re just so new that [cops] don’t really know what the legalities are,” Thompson says. “It’s one of those things that, somebody’s gotten creative, and it may or may not fall within the confines of the law. We’ll just have to find out.”
Last year, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said the Obama administration would lay off state-sanctioned medicalmarijuana operations. That prompted the first dispensarystyle clubs to open in Oregon. But Holder recently clarified that statement to say the feds will bust operations that are not in strict compliance. On Jan. 6, feds in Las Vegas charged 15 people for running storefront dispensaries, saying there’s no provision for commercial marijuana sales under Nevada law.
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To readers of High Times, Valley is better known as Stoney Girl—founder of an award-winning commercial line of marijuana breeds. Now her Happy Valley company, Stoney Girl Gardens, is also opening a chain of medicalmarijuana clubs around the state. Three clubs have already opened with their help and training—in Salem, Ontario and, most recently, Wake n Bake in Aloha. Mullins, Valley’s husband and business partner, says they expect to help open at least 40 more this year in Oregon. “We don’t want to see this operated out of a basement like some hippie-dippy thing,” says Mullins, a fast-talking 56-year-old former business executive with a shock of white hair. “This is a legitimate industry now.” Valley grew up in small-town Ohio and left home to become a stripper, first in Louisiana, then in Portland. Her dancing career was cut short after she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 1993. Doctors gave her six months to live. “They were amazed that I refused to die,” she says. “I didn’t have a choice. I had to live. I had a 5-year-old child.” Now, at 42, she proudly shows off the white scar that spans her neckline from her cancer operation. She also prides herself on her looks—although it’s her plants that have been featured in Skunk magazine’s MILF section (“Marijuana I’d Like to Find”). “I’ve had police tell me I’m not sick enough to be in this [medical marijuana] program, because I’m pretty,” she says. Valley’s sass belies the dogged determination she brings to advocating for pot patients. Her goal, she says, is to bring to the industry the regulations and standards for quality that the state and medical establishment have neglected to set. Above all, Valley says, she aims to prevent the kind of free-market chaos that emerged when dispensaries boomed in California. She believes profiteers from the Golden State are set to move into Oregon’s wide-open market. “What they have in California is a circus, and they want to bring that here,” Valley says. “Well, I’m not having it.” When Valley entered the medical-marijuana program in 1999, she says she had no idea how to grow her own pot. She met Mullins, who, besides his legitimate business background, says he spent decades as a black-market grower. They produced strains that grow more quickly and pack the medicinal punch that patients need. Then they gave them away. “On the black market, dealers don’t share their strains
CONSTANT GARDENERS: Mullins and Valley in their Happy Valley home, where they grow for patients.
with anyone,” Valley says. “We would get ahold of these really good strains and pass them out to everybody.” In 2009, they started Stoney Girl Gardens. The company develops and markets its own varieties, runs growing classes and sells a special blend of soil, with organic fertilizer already inside. Their weed has been featured in national publications—most recently on the cover of the fourth edition of The Big Book of Buds, considered the bible of ganja growing. To understand their business, think of Microsoft. Users don’t own the software—they buy the right to use it. Stoney Girl sells packs of five or 10 seeds (at $20 per seed, $100 or $200 per package). But as Mullins explains it, what customers are actually buying is the right to the genetics inside. Reselling the seeds or the pot they produce is against the licensing agreement each buyer enters into, unless the customer is also licensed to resell.
And like Microsoft, the couple insists they won’t hesitate to slap a lawsuit on anyone who violates their agreement or tries to steal their product. They’re already preparing their first tort claim against a man who pirated their brand, Valley says. To expand the brand, the couple last year began licensing with other startups, including Cambron’s exchange in Aloha. Those clubs buy the right to display the Stoney Girl logo, sell Stoney Girl products and carry buds from Stoney Girl strains that have been grown to established standards. In return for the brand name and help in opening, Stoney Girl charges each club a one-time $5,000 fee. Also in 2010, the couple opened Portlandsterdam University (motto: “Your Place for Higher Education”). For $225 in tuition, students learn how to grow and handle organic weed, produce edibles and open dispensary-style marijuana outlets. The 17-hour course takes two days and is taught in the Monarch Hotel and Conference Center off I-205. Mullins estimates 200 people have graduated. Mullins says he’s invested about $150,000 of his own money. They haven’t seen much of a return, but Mullins says it’s only a matter of time. The couple plan to expand into all 15 states with medical-marijuana programs. “This new movement is going to be bigger than the American industrial revolution, and it’s already started,” Mullins says. “We’ll see profits. There’s no question about it.” People like Valley, Mullins and Cambron present the optimistic face of a new industry. Dan Beaumont is their buzzkill. Beaumont—not his real name—is a wiry 32-year-old who recently cut off his dreadlocks in favor of a gelled business cut. The new hairdo accompanied a lifestyle switch from black-market grower to family man and, this spring, a Portland State University grad. After years of immersion in the Portland and Northern California pot scenes, Beaumont says the marijuana movement is based on three myths. First is the contention that marijuana is not physically addictive. Beaumont insists it is. After smoking an ounce a day for five years, he says he managed to quit only after a long struggle that included painful withdrawal symptoms. Second is the emphasis by medical-marijuana supporters that the program exists to serve sick people. Beaumont
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calls medical marijuana “a scam” cooked up mainly to enable recreational users. He says he knows dozens of healthy stoners who are in the program simply to gain a license to smoke. And he personally ran a black-market grow operation in Portland under the guise of medical marijuana. Third is the belief that legalization will give birth to a new breed of American yeoman farmers. Beaumont says if the market is opened up and regulated, corporations would quickly take over production and small growers will be left in the dust. “People are going to say I’m an asshole for saying all this. I don’t care; I’m calling bullshit,” Beaumont says, sipping tea on a couch in the Northeast Portland home where he harvested his last crop of Afghani Dream, G-Spot, Blueberry and Iced Grapefruit on the roof last October. Beaumont grew up in a fundamentalist Christian family in Sitka, Alaska. He started smoking weed at age 13. When he was 15, he got kicked out of the house for rebelling against his parents’ beliefs and was taken in by a drug dealer. He started selling pot. The Navy kept his ganja habit in check for four years, but when he left the service in 2003 he picked up as a daily toker. He moved to Portland, where he lived in his sister’s computer room, sold weed on Hawthorne Boulevard, and sat around Stumptown Coffee wondering what to do next. He found his answer in summer 2005 when a friend invited him to Mendocino County, one of the “Emerald Triangle,” along with Humboldt and Trinity, of ganjagrowing counties in Northern California. He was hired at a grow north of Laytonville for $20 an hour, room and board provided. “All of a sudden I’m in a pot field along the side of a mountain, and I was in heaven,” he says. “I had all the pot to smoke I wanted. I was working in a ganja field, which was blissful work in the middle of the mountains, and I was making money.” He spent the winter back in Portland selling weed. In spring 2006, he returned to Mendocino County, where he fell more deeply into the pot culture that makes up most of the financial and power base in the Emerald Triangle. The ganja farmers there grew under medical-marijuana law, but most of their patients were fake—every grow used
GROWING PAINS: Beaumont holds some of the Afghani Dream buds harvested from his Northeast Portland roof last October.
tanoaks with a pump-action .30-30. He came back to Portland that winter with thousands of dollars in cash and 20 pounds of weed. Beaumont’s run in Northern California ended in spring 2008, when he says the owners of the property where he was growing ripped him off. He enrolled in Portland State University as a communications major and tried to kick his ounce-a-day weed habit. But he says he broke down during the withdrawal—hallucinations, chills and sweats. He felt betrayed. “I thought I’d found it all—medicine for my mind,
“PEOPLE LIKE TO GET HIGH, AND THEY’RE GOING TO GET HIGH. PROHIBITION NEVER WORKS.” —DAN BEAUMONT copies of the same cards, Beaumont says. Most growers had operated illegally before medical pot came along, and all sold their crop on the black market. “For these people, it’s a way of life. It’s their only economic opportunity,” he says. “This medical thing, it’s just a way to protect established growers. Absolutely.” In 2006, an established grower lent Beaumont a 20-acre field to plant and tend, in exchange for half the crop. Beaumont slept alone in a hammock in a stand of
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money to meet my needs and a rural community,” he says. “In the end I got ripped off by my friends, I was out of a job and I was addicted to marijuana.” Beaumont moved in with his girlfriend in Northeast Portland in spring 2009 and started growing—first indoors, then outdoors during the summer and fall of 2010. He had four patients and says he grew the maximum of six plants each that the law allows. He gave each patient a free ounce each month and sold
the rest. That brought in about $4,200 a month. But with a baby daughter at home and PSU graduation looming in the spring, he decided to exit the business. He harvested his last crop in October and also managed to quit smoking. “The paranoia, the dishonesty, the constant fear of being robbed—they all became this never-ending presence in my life,” he says. “I don’t miss any of it.” Beaumont estimates there’s one illegal grow operation on every city block in Portland. But because most of the industry is still underground, Beaumont says the public has little understanding of the massive effects it has on the economy, public health and the environment. It’s also a market crying out for regulation. But if the government finally wakes up and engages in a realistic policy, Beaumont says that will be the end of the trade as he knew it. Corporations will take over. But that change may be inevitable. “There is an industry that exists,” Beaumont says. “People like to get high, and they’re going to get high. Prohibition never works. Medical marijuana as an industry is about legitimizing marijuana use for whatever reason, be it medical or largely recreational. I think that’s fine. There should not be prohibition. What’s screwed up about it is that it’s legal and it’s unregulated. It is not healthy.”
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SCOOP GOSSIP THAT MET CARRIE BROWNSTEIN THIS ONE TIME. HE IS THE FUN BLAME MONSTER: After 10 rocky years in the band, Menomena multi-instrumentalist and co-founder Brent Knopf is leaving the acclaimed experimental-pop trio to pursue other projects. Knopf, 33, is spending the winter producing a record for South African artist Dear Reader, and plans to return to his solo project, Ramona MENOMENA NO Falls, later this year. MenomMORE: Brent Knopf ena’s other core members, Danny Seim and Justin Harris, will continue on with a planned spring tour with Paul Alcott of Dat’r filling in for Knopf, and have already started working on a new album. “I’m actually quite optimistic about Menomena’s future,” Seim says. “I was lucky enough to be in a band with my two favorite musicians in the world for 10 long years. And now I’m still lucky enough to be in a band with one of them.” Knopf also has nice things to say about his former bandmates (“I’m excited to see where Danny and Justin take Menomena,” he says), but is clearly excited about a life outside Menomena: “ It’s so invigorating to daydream new ideas.” See localcut.com for more on Knopf and the future of Menomena. BOOZE NEWS: Oregon’s Rogue Ales, which already boasts a pub in the Pearl, has applied for a license to open a retail store cater-corner from Green Dragon in inner Southeast PDX. CRAFTY HQ: Crafty Wonderland, the huge PDX craft show that took over a vacant storefront downtown for the holidays, is extending its time as a boutique. Until now, Crafty Wonderland has presented goods from local DIY’ers in the form of a twice-annual fair and one-off events. The organizers will now distribute goods daily at 802 SW 10th Ave. through the summer. Owners Cathy Pitters and Torie Nguyen worked with space owner Finnegan’s Toys to come up with a leasing arrangement they could manage. They credit an “overwhelmingly positive response from both vendors and the community” for their decision to stay put. ROLL ON: Last June WW wrote about then-62-year-old Parker Pettus’ efforts to establish a rollerdisk (a.k.a. roller frisbee) team in Portland. “I do not want to see the sporting love of my life fade away,” he told us. “I’m the last rollerdisk player, and after 20 years of playing the game I don’t want to see the game become extinct.” Now he’s back to let us know he’s gotten permission from Portland Public Schools to use the covered playground at Chapman Elementary to hold rollerdisk meets this month and encourage prospective players. “It’s a sort of ‘build it and they will come’ strategy, which worked well in Field of Dreams, but might not bring results on a field of hard asphalt,” says Pettus, who has yet to find anybody willing to play with him. Get your game on (and save rollerdisk from extinction) by joining Pettus noon to 1:30 pm Sunday Jan. 16, 23 or 30. Info and videos at rollerdisk.org.
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WEDNESDAY JAN. 12 [MUSIC] WILD FLAG My, what a busy week for Carrie Brownstein. Just two days before the premiere of Portlandia, Brownstein’s new kickass rock ’n’ roll band crams into the tiny sandwich bar. Get here early. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave. 9 pm. $10 (tickets available at the bar starting at 8 pm). 21+.
THURSDAY JAN. 13 [DANCE] FRÄULEIN MARIA Whereas the original Sound of Music featured pink-cheeked children cavorting in repurposed curtains, New York-based contemporary choreographer Doug Elkins’ Maria features 12 pros dancing a gender- and genre-bending mix of modern, ballet and hip-hop, layered with a bit of voguing for good measure—all set to the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein score. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 800-745-3000. 7:30 pm ThursdaySaturday, Jan. 13-15. $27.50-$68.50. [MUSIC] KURTIS BLOW It’s crazy to think that 30 years ago, Kurtis Blow made hip-hop viable to the masses when his single “The Breaks” was the first rap song to go gold. He’s still going strong in 2011, with new material and all the old classics. Mount Tabor Theater, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 9 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
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PUTTING A BIRD ON IT PORTLANDIA ARRIVES SOONER—AND BIGGER—THAN EXPECTED. Portlandia, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s makingfun-of-Portland TV series that perhaps you’ve heard about, debuts on cable’s Independent Film Channel on Jan. 21. What’s that? You can’t wait that long? You want to see the series a full week early? You want to see it on a movie screen, while drinking a beer made specially for the occasion? You want to see two episodes at once? You want to see Brownstein in person? You want to party afterward with music from Pancake Breakfast and Eric Earley of Blitzen Trapper? My god, you are demanding. And specific. But you got your wish: The Hollywood Theatre has teamed up with IFC and Beer and Movie (yep, that’s the film festival I co-curate) to present a preview screening of Portlandia at 7:30 pm on Friday, Jan. 14. The screening will feature the first two episodes of the show, along with stand-up comedy from Ian Karmel and a Q&A session with Brownstein, moder-
ated by me. The show will also debut a new Portlandia beer, a European brown ale crafted by Rogue Brewing, on sale at the concession stand. The only problem? Tickets are sold out. But there are still a few available for the afterparty, which also happens to be the opening-night blowout for this year’s Beer and Movie festival: We’ll be debuting a lineup for the next three months. The party, hosted by @Large Studios, will feature musicians hand-selected by Brownstein: Pancake Breakfast, Eric Earley of Blitzen Trapper, and spinning from DJ Whitney and DJ Nightschool (he’s from Gossip; for some reason, Brownstein knows a lot of musicians). The afterparty also has beer—free beer—from New Belgium Brewing. If you didn’t get a ticket, don’t fret: Beer and Movie is showing the full run of Portlandia at the Mission Theater every Friday night at 9 pm starting Jan. 21. Who needs cable? Also: You’re welcome. AARON MESH.
[SCREEN] SOMEWHERE Sofia Coppola’s third examination of the miserable lifestyles of the rich and famous. The problem of leisure: what to do for pleasure. Regal Fox Tower Stadium 10, 846 SW Park Ave., 221-3280. Multiple showtimes. $7.50-$10.50. [MUSIC] DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL Sure, you’re too cool for this show, but it’s not 2001 anymore, people, so embrace the emo and belt your heart out. You know the words: “Your hair, it’s EVVVVERRRYYWHEREEE!!!” Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 8 pm. $25 advance, $28 day of show. All ages.
SATURDAY JAN. 15 [CLASSICAL] OREGON SYMPHONY The orchestra’s first performance of Color by French composer MarcAndré Dalbavie, the poster boy for the so-called “spectralist” composers, who find more to explore in the colors, overtones, timbres and textures of orchestral music than in melody and rhythm. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353. 7:30 pm. $25-$95.
GO: The Portlandia Preview Party takes place at the Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 7:30 pm Friday, Jan. 14. $15, with proceeds benefiting the Oregon Humane Society and the Hollywood Theatre. The Portlandia/BAM afterparty takes place at @Large Studios, 807 NE Couch St. 9 pm Friday, Jan. 14. $10. Tickets for both events may be sold out; inquire at the Hollywood box office or filmaction.org. Willamette Week JANUARY 12, 2011 wweek.com
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TACO TIME: Skip the halibut tacos, but do slurp one of Original Taco House’s well margaritas (only $3 during happy hour).
DON’T PASS ME BY WW VENTURES TO FOUR EATERIES WE’VE ALWAYS IGNORED THAT ARE ALWAYS INEXPLICABLY BUSY. BY KELLY CLARKE, MATTHE W KORFHAG E, BECKY OHLS E N AND BE N WATERHOUSE dish@wweek.com
Unless you’ve got an XXL stomach and an equally large wallet to match, you’re never gonna make it to all of the city’s restaurants. But there’s a handful of locally owned eateries that WW staffers admit to dismissing for years; places that we’ve always wondered about: rundown joints on Portland’s busier, exhaust-choked main drags or theme restaurants and buffets that seem schmaltzy in an era where every neighborhood boasts its own authentic pho shop. Given the gridlock in the parking lots, somebody was eating at these joints—it was high time we did too. Our reviewers didn’t like everything they noshed on, but, either due to sweet service, cheap deals or the power of American excess, we now understand why these places hold a special place in our friends’ and neighbors’ hearts. THE ORIGINAL TACO HOUSE 3255 SE 82nd Ave., 255-8266; 3550 SE Powell Blvd., 2346401, originaltacohouse.com. 11 am-10 pm daily. Preconceived notion: I drive past the Powell Boulevard location, which sits between a suspect Chinese place and DeNicola’s Home Style Italian Restaurant, on the way home from work daily. The playful midcentury type of the sign and the terra cotta tile in the room imply that the restaurant exists outside of time, a relic of the days when Oregon strawberries were still picked by children, not migrant workers, and nobody thought that was maybe a little fucked up. It looks like the kind of place where they put a sombrero on you on your birthday*, and every enor22
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mous order comes with a half pound of refried beans and a pint of shredded iceberg lettuce. The real deal: It is exactly that kind of place, but the food is not nearly so bad as expected. Sure, the “sizzlin’” steak fajita ($5.95), which did not sizzle, was dry, and the beef-and-chicken “taco burrito” was bland, but all the ingredients were recognizably real food—no mechanically separated chicken here. Sauces, beans and fillings are all made in-house (you can order them wholesale, if you like) and taste fresh enough. The Original Taco House was opened in 1960 by the Waddle family, of “Eat Now!” Jantzen Beach clock fame (now claimed by Hooters), and claims to be the city’s first Mexican eatery; is it any surprise the food is timid? Don’t try to be adventurous here. Just indulge any childhood nostalgia you may have for bubbling cheese, large drinks (the largest serves “2-4” and contains six unnamed spirits) and ersatz Third World decor, order the excellent-looking nachos ($7.95-$12.95), a chimichanga ($9.95) and, of course, fried ice cream ($3.50), and settle in for a good time. The service is excellent. Why you really should go: Decent well margaritas ($5.95) are just $3 in the bar during happy hour, 3-6 pm and 9 pm-close nightly. Order three and some jalapeño poppers ($5.95) and you’re set. Why you should keep on driving: The halibut tacos ($9.50) managed to taste more like a shrimp cocktail than any fish taco I’ve ever had. BW. *They do; I have a photo of it from my 14th birthday party, at which I slurped a virgin strawberry margarita and ate a bean-and-cheese burrito with no lettuce. —Kelly Clarke
SUPER KING BUFFET 5015 SE 82nd Ave., 774-7775. Lunch and dinner 11 am-9:30 Monday-Saturday, 11 am-9 pm Sunday.
Preconceived notion: Once the home of the downscaleprovincial version of Chuck E. Cheese that was the Organ Grinder (best known for the decrepit, becymbaled monkey guarding the front portal), this Murder Flats building stood vacant for years before being rehabbed with the four-walled, forbidding one-way glass of a mafia-owned strip bar, along with the unenticing prospect of hot-plated, presumably ptomaine-rich Chinese buffet. The real deal: Though the food may ostensibly be Chinese, Super King Buffet is, in truth, America itself. It is an absolute church to democracy and tawdry excess. Past the koi pond, under multiple glinting chandeliers, in a cavernous casino-style space; there are no fewer than six massive buffet stations (lit, of course, from within), a soft-serve ice cream station, a sushi bar, a seafood bar sporting mussels and sloppily bisected crabs, and a Chang’s-style stir fry. On the buffets, amid the expected seafood soups and gooey red-bean paste dumplings—the pot stickers, the coconut chicken, the variegated spicy porks and broccoli beefs and shortribs—one discovers pizza, salmon, whole cod, baked yams, fried plantains, macaroni salads, half-shelled oysters doused in pot sticker sauce. And it’s all yours, in any combination and whatever unsalutary quantities you’d like, for $8.99 at lunch, $12.99 at dinner. Every impulse is indulged, and it shows in the truly heartwarming breadth of clientele: On my Sunday visit, my neighbors included the local football team; giant families black, white, Hispanic and Asian; seemingly thousands of children; and a raft of Sunday-best churchgoers. A caveat, though: All of the food is slightly terrible, with the exception of some wonderful Asian radishes at the salad bar, and the stir-fry station. The pizza tastes slightly of oyster sauce, the yams of the nearby clams. But it doesn’t matter. Though all is mediocre, there is simply so much mediocrity that you’re constantly distracted, amazed, and confused: Bright lights! New food! What’s this? What wonders! America! Why you should really go: What? Do you hate America? Why you should keep on driving: After my admittedly excessive feast, my eyes were so dilated and head so dizzy and feverish from an MSG overdose that I almost got into a car accident. MK.
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TOM’S RESTAURANT 3871 SE Division St., 233-3739. Breakfast, lunch & dinner daily. Preconceived notion: This is a place most people drive by without even registering, let alone consider going inside to eat. A huge rectangular slab the color of overcooked meat, Tom’s tries its hardest to look uninviting—and succeeds. After dark, three or four disreputable-looking black-clad rocker types hang out on picnic tables outside the bar, not increasing the allure. The real deal: The diner half of Tom’s is one of the friendliest places in Portland for an old-school, solid breakfast. Nothing about it is fashionable in any way. There are babies and old people here, but no skinny jeans. The cheese on your Denver omelette ($7.45) is either white or yellow, and it’s shiny. The bacon is thick and perfectly cooked, but probably not organic applewood-smoked or anything like that. (In the tasty baconmushroom-swiss omelette, also $7.45, the fungi are fresh, not canned.) Stellar hash browns take up half the plate, or you can choose pancakes instead. Juice comes in pint glasses. Booths fill up at peak breakfast times, but nobody cares how long you stay; the coffee keeps coming. Waitresses will indeed call you “hon,” but only out of habit—it’s not intentional. Maybe the nicest thing about Tom’s is that it’s so un-Portland. It could be anywhere. Why you really should go: A huge new mural of the Steel Bridge covers an entire wall of the diner. Check it out. Why you should keep on driving: The bar side of Tom’s is actually about what you’d expect from looking at it. BO. AMALFI’S ITALIAN RESTUARANT 4703 NE Fremont St., 284-6747, amalfisrestaurant.com. Dinner Tuesday-Sunday. Preconceived notion: Amalfi’s looks like an antiseptic protoOlive Garden. Every time I walked by I swore I heard the strains of Kenny G streaming from the open door as a parade of fleececlad parents toting six kids each filed inside. I kept walking. The real deal: There’s a reason for the old school Italo-American vibe. Although the family restaurant got an earth-toned facelift last year, it was opened back in 1959 by Jack and Diane Baker (Jack’s dad, Fred, opened Caro Amico, which claims to be the first Italian restaurant to serve pizza in PDX, a decade earlier). These days the couple’s granddaughter runs the biz, which makes up for its mostly unremarkable pasta and pizza dishes with a genuinely welcoming vibe, big cocktails and giantsized meal deals, complete with bland minestrone soup, perfect tossed salad (with zippy honey-mustard dressing) and a half loaf of garlic bread per person. The star of this show is the 10-layer lasagna ($13.75 à la carte, $16.75 full dinner). It’s a Nerf footballsized dish of mild sauce, pasta and Italian sausage rounds sandwiched between stretchy ribbons of ricotta and mozzarella, all topped with a layer of addictive cheese crispies. It tastes like something your friend’s mom would make you for dinner in the 1950s—not an Italian mom mind you, but a particularly gifted middle-American mom who had yet to encounter concepts like “fat content” or “heart disease.” You will take half of it home. Why you really should go: There’s Pantene hairspray and Secret aerosol deodorant on offer in the ladies bathroom. And every visit culminates in three desserts—spumoni ice cream, an Ovation mint stick tucked inside your bill and a Dum Dum lollipop from the bowl on the hostess station as you waddle out the door. Why you should keep on driving: The fabled pizza is really more of a bland flatbread topped with elastic cheese. And that really was Kenny G playing on the stereo. KC.
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Breakside Brewing kicks off 2011 with a series of weekly “experimental” one-off beer releases. Breakside will be tapping a one-keg batch each Wednesday at 3 pm. This week it’s a keg of Sake Ale, a wheat brew with sake yeast, cedar tips and ginger. Up later this month? A cranberriesand-cream ale and a “rye common” brew. If you’re a beer wonk, you’ll be pleased to know each week there will also be a “Randall infusion” (that’s beer infused with fresh hops, espresso beans, chiles, you name it). Bonus: Starting this month, you may not need to venture north to Woodlawn in order to enjoy Breakside’s suds; now they can be found at bars including Bailey’s Taproom, the Hop and Vine, and Grain and Gristle. RACHAEL DEWITT. Breakside Brewery, 820 NE Dekum St., 7196475. 3 pm Wednesdays through Feb. 2. Info at breaksidebrews.com.
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Migration Brewing Company turns its focus from hops to grapes with a wine tasting. Mountain People’s Distribution and Davis Wine Imports, two California-based wine importers, will feature three reds and three whites from Mendoza, Argentina, paired with appetizers. Migration fans need not fear—samples of housemade brews will be abundant. RD. Migration Brewing Company, 2828 NE Glisan St., 7537572. 7 pm Thursday, Jan. 13. $8-$15.
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In honor of its first birthday this month, 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 among the 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.
Upright Brewing Barrel Dinner at Aquariva
Southwest riverfront restaurant Aquariva and boutique brewery Upright Brewing combine forces for a night of five specialty courses and five small-batch beers. Vegetarians beware, the first course is crab, followed by bacon, lamb and boar. RD. Aquariva, 0470 SW Hamilton Court, 802-5850. 6 pm Friday, Jan. 14. $45. Info at aquarivaportland.com.
Open Kitchen: Back to Basics with Courtney Sproule
Courtney Sproule, the chef behind supper series Din Din, teams up with cultural info series Showcase PDX and home ec for underprivileged youth program Back2Basics for a tasty and educational four-course dinner featuring braised chicken and lemon kirsch cream puffs at Abby’s Table. KELLY CLARKE. Abby’s Table, 609 SE Ankeny St. 5:30 pm Sunday, Jan. 16. $40. Tickets at ticketsoregon.com. Info at facebook.com/ theopenkitchen.
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Restaurant workers, sharpen everything from your knife-handling skills to your wine-pairing abilities with the Portland Restaurant Workers Association Know Your Kitchen! workshop series. Chef Andrew Garrett, of Cafe Nell, leads workshops aimed at helping novices to experts advance in the food-service industry. CC. Bargreen & Ellingson: Foodservice Supply & Design, 3232 NW Industrial St., 7664489. Mondays through March 7. Registration required. $2 per course to cover the cost of supplies.
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Hurry up and secure a seat at one of the city’s popular Urban Growth Bounty urban agriculture classes. If you’ve ever wanted to learn the art of cheesemaking, beekeeping, chicken- and goat-rearing, permaculture and edible landscaping, now’s the time. Brought to you by the city’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, workshops run February through June. Tuition ranges from $10 to $95. RD. Registration is now open, classes February-June. Info at portlandonline.com/bps/ugb.
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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Prices listed are sometimes for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply. Addresses for local venues are listed in WW’s Clublist column, page 31, or online at blogs.wweek.com/music/clublist/ Editors: CASEY JARMAN, MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, enter show information at least two weeks in advance on the web at wweek.com/submitmusic. Press kits, CDs and especially vinyl can be sent to Music Desk, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Please include show or release date information with all physical mailings. Email: cjarman@wweek.com Fax: 243-1115.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 12 Wild Flag, Drew Grow and the Pastor’s Wives
[WHERE DREAMS GO TO THRIVE] Well, looky here: Wild Flag is playing another show in Portland. Since it’s still without any recorded material, tonight’s tiny gig (get here early, dudes) at Bunk Bar might be more of a PR ploy for guitarist and singer Carrie Brownstein, whose new laugh-at-Portland-stereotypes sketch comedy show Portlandia debuts on Friday. But if anyone caught the band’s first gig at the Doug Fir in November—or spent some quality time watching live videos of the standout “Future Crimes” on YouTube—you know Wild Flag is no gimmick; instead, propelled by Brownstein’s guitar heroics and Janet Weiss’ propulsive drumming, this is the closest thing we’re going to get to Sleater-Kinney in the immediate future. Snicker all you want at Portlandia, but this band is the real deal. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Bunk Bar. 9 pm. $10 (only available day of show at the bar). 21+.
Cowboy Mouth, Dash Rip Rock
[I LOVE THE ’90s] Fans of 1990s rock don’t remember that they remember New Orleans quartet Cowboy Mouth. But one listen to the band’s biggest hit, “Jenny Says,” and most will have flashbacks—and probably bang their heads while bewilderingly trying to remember who the hell it’s by. The band has been presenting its power-chorded mix of goofball rock, emotive melodies and mosh-ready pop for close to 20 years, and fans have formed a distinctive cult around its live shows. Whether that cult exists in PDX is questionable, but the band is still grounded in ’90s rock, and it’s a damn fine footnote to see live. AP KRYZA. Dante’s. 8 pm. $12. 21+.
Dead Meadow, Sweet Apple
See profile, page 26. Doug Fir Lounge. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.
Al James, Liz Janes, Greylag, Bridges
[SOUL-STIRRING SOUL] Liz Janes has played in noise bands with Arrington de Dionyso, strummed out quiet folk under the tutelage of Sufjan Stevens, and collaborated with an L.A.-based free-jazz collective. A musical chameleon of the highest order, the former Olympia resident has taken another gentle left turn with her latest album,
Say Goodbye, released late last year on Stevens’ Asthmatic Kitty label. Working with Rafter Roberts, Janes croons a sweet suite of songs that echoes the restrained ’70s R&B soul of Roberta Flack and Janis Ian. It’s devastating and warming stuff that, played live, will probably overshadow the equally strong acts she shares a bill with at Mississippi Studios. ROBERT HAM. Mississippi Studios. 8 pm. $8. 21+.
THURSDAY, JAN. 13 Torture Me Elmo, The Bangovers, Second Best
[ID ON DISPLAY] I have a theory that all punk bands are spiritual children either of the stylish, politically nuanced the Clash, or the sneering, nothin’here-but-id Sex Pistols. If we accept this premise for a moment (please?), then it can be said that Torture Me Elmo owes its lineage to the latter of these founding felons. The Portland trio plays brash, condensed songs that are sarcastic, scathing and indulgently scatological. These tunes sport titles like “Andy’s Got a Robot Vagina,” and somehow, that’s OK. The group is having such fun acting juvenile that it’s hard not to be charmed, even whilst acknowledging that it’s kind of gross. SHANE DANAHER. Backspace. 8 pm. $5. All ages.
The Don of Division Street, Old Light, Meyercord
[LUCID AMERICANA] Like the Corleone patriarch, Matt Cadenelli wets his beak in many different ventures, including playing drums for the likes of Fernando and Lotus Isle. With his personal project, he takes on the title of Don of Division Street and leads a gang of musicians in lucidly calming—but often rocking—Americana soaked in gentle harmonies and peppy melodies. It’s a chill sound that rounds out a night of very different types of Americana, including Meyercord’s somber dreamscapes and Old Light’s forceful folk inclinations. It’s a three-tiered roster of very different rootsiness that offers a great cross section of the local scene. AP KRYZA. Doug Fir Lounge. 9 pm. $7. 21+.
Defect Defect, Foreign Objects, Pink Nightmares
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BY KU RTIS BLOW
TOP FIVE UNDERRATED HIP-HOP CLASSICS “The Breaks,” Kurtis Blow May be the funkiest rap song ever made—the breaks in this song are classic b-boy/hip-hop. “Give it Up or Turn it Loose,” James Brown The anthem for hip-hop, and many don’t know this. “It’s Just Begun,” Jimmy Castor and the Castor Bunch My mentor in the business. He was called “the imam,” because he played every instrument, like Prince. “Rock Box,” Run-D.M.C. Classic rock ’n’ roll and hip-hop fusion. “The Mexican,” Babe Ruth My tribute to the Latinos of hip-hop. Thanks!!! SEE IT: Kurtis Blow plays Mount Tabor Theater on Thursday, Jan. 13, and Friday, Jan. 14. 9 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. 21+. See Music Listings for openers and more information.
SOUNDS SEEN THE INTERNET MOST CERTAINLY DID NOT KILL THE PORTLAND VIDEO STAR. BY CASEY JA R MA N
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This year, the folks behind the Northwest Film Center’s Reel Music Festival had a great, if rather obvious, idea: Why not screen two hours of notable Portland music videos from the past few years on a big projection screen? Then I had a great, if similar, idea: Why not sit around in the office and “review” said videos in lieu of doing real work? That, folks, is called synergy. Here are the results. Red Fang, “Prehistoric Dog” (directed by Whitey McConnaughy) The song: A chugging, crunchy sci-fi anthem from one of Portland’s finest hard-rock acts. The video: A loving tribute to cheap canned beer and live-action role playing. Closest big-screen sibling: Role Models The verdict: Any video that ends in a cavalcade of ultraviolent dismembering is OK with us. Glass Candy, “Feeling Without Touching” (directed by Travis Peterson) The song: A glitzy bit of Blondie-meets-disco that may or may not be about the benefits of abstaining from sex. The video: A less trippy version of the video for Dee-Lite’s “Groove Is in the Heart.” Closest big-screen sibling: Boogie Nights, sans sex and nudity. The verdict: Director Travis Peterson gets bonus points for keeping this one both sexy and classy, but we could have used some car chases. The Thermals, “I Don’t Believe You” (directed by Whitey McConnaughy) The song: More snotty-nosed, hyperactive pop punk from the inimitable Thermals. The video: Carrie Brownstein plays a paranoid schizophrenic—or, perhaps, a wanted terrorist— being driven insane by the punk band in her shed. Closest big-screen sibling: The Conversation The verdict: Kind of an emotionally distant video for McConnaughy, but it looks great and hits the mark nonetheless.
YACHT, “The Afterlife” (directed by Judah Switzer) The song: Catchy-as-hell art-school theology set to Talking Heads-style electro-pop. The video: Slow-motion baptisms and lovely nature shots, all serving to glorify the smallest cult in Oregon, YACHT. Closest big-screen sibling: The Eyes of Tammy Faye The verdict: It’s visually striking and it’s in slow motion, making it almost too creepy for the tune. Then again, these are two sexy, wet nerds. There’s a market for that. White Hinterland, “No Logic” (directed by Solomon Chase) The song: A haunting, semi-experimental space ballad that lands in sonic territory somewhere between Björk and Laurie Anderson. The video: A high-contrast black-and-white trip into a spooky forest. Closest big-screen sibling: Sin City, without the actual city. The verdict: It looks a lot like that Levi’s “Go Forth” ad campaign (also from Portland), but with more burning laptops and creepy animals. We love it. Boy Eats Drum Machine, “Hoop + Wire” (directed by Jason Sievers) The song: A hip-hop-influenced dose of blue-eyed soul from disastrously underrated multi-instrumentalist Jon Ragel. The video: Mischievous stop-motion cassette tapes highjack outdated technology en route to a minor electrical fire. Closest big-screen sibling: The Brave Little Toaster The verdict: Oh, snap! Awesome! I want to make Jason Sievers my new best friend! Nick Jaina, “Another Kay Song” (directed by Joshua Jay Elliott) The song: A slow-and-sparse love song driven by marching band drums and highly visual lyricism from one of Portland’s best songwriters. The video: A dreadfully sad, black-and-white house party (is it a wake?) filmed at high speed, then slowed way down again. Closest big-screen sibling: 12 Angry Men (except, instead of angry, they are depressed). The verdict: Jaina’s hand-conducting reminds us of Michael Stipe in the “Losing My Religion” video. Despite the video’s slow pace, we’re too impressed by the song and cinematography to get bored. SEE IT: These videos (and more) screen Sunday, Jan. 16, at Mississippi Studios. 9 pm. $9. 21+. Willamette Week JANUARY 12, 2011 wweek.com
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that defies fabrication. Frontman Colin Grigson howls his dislike of the U.S. government as if the gasmasked commandos are likely to close in before the end of each verse. Defect Defect espouses this “live like hell for the moment” attitude in all its doings. The garagepunk quartet has, since 2006, been known to tour the West Coast up to Alaska, travel 30 straight hours to play at a house show, and send forth a series of vinyl artifacts that play like dispatches from a overcaffeinated revolutionary cell. The latest of that collection is a self-titled LP—it’s loud, it’s desperate, and it’s a great piece of work. SHANE DANAHER. The Know. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.
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[OLDEST SCHOOL] Kurtis Blow might not have invented rapping, but he is the Elvis of his genre—the first superstar hip-hop ever produced and a man who changed both the sonic and visual style of popular music forever. You know Blow by his hits (“The Breaks,” “Christmas Rappin,” “Basketball” and “If I Ruled the World” being the biggest) and from countless cultural references to the man and his music in hip-hop and beyond. Chances are, though, you stopped paying attention to his actual career sometime in the late ’80s. And that puts Blow in a funny position on tour—does he focus on his recent Christian material (Blow is the founder of New York City’s Hip Hop Church) or his early hits? We have it on good authority that he’ll do the classic material tonight—likely while dressed in an era-appropriate Adidas jumpsuit and showing off some still-impressive toprock techniques. Seeing a living legend might just be a blast. CASEY JARMAN. Mount Tabor Theater. 9 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
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[BLUES DIVA] Longtime Portland blues singer Duffy Bishop, the subject of a low-budget recent documentary called Who Is Duffy Bishop, And Why Is She Not World Famous?, is headed to Seattle for a five-month stint at Seattle cabaret/dinner theater joint Teatro ZinZanni. There’s no reason to think Bishop won’t come home victorious when her run in the Emerald City is through, but the occasion must have her in a sentimental mood, because tonight’s “Then & Now” show features two sets—one with her current band and one with the original quartet she and longtime collaborator Chris Carlson started in 1992. This should be a chance for the versatile singer (who has “won the Cascade Blues Association’s Best Female Vocalist award so many times they named the award after her,” the show’s promoter duly noted) to stretch her stylistic legs a bit. Which is, incidentally, exactly what this ballsy broad does best. CASEY JARMAN. Alberta Rose Theatre. 8 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.
Pigeons, Scrimshander, Wax Fingers
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[URBAN AMERICANA] It’s hard to hash out what makes a band like Pigeons special. The group’s own brand of reverb-laden indie country-punk rock (you read that right) is exactly that—its own brand. You could call it some kind of 21st-century Americana if you want, but there’s no doubt it’s one of the most innovative, sophisticated sounds to come out of this town in years. Each song on Pigeons’ latest release, The Talking Wire, is delivered with the melancholic, urgent energy of a band like the Killers or Arcade Fire filtered through the frosty basement window of a farmhouse built
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SWEET APPLE WEDNESDAY, JAN. 12 [RIFFS OF LIFE] If anyone ever wanted to do an indie-rock remake of It’s a Wonderful Life, Sweet Apple singer John Petkovic has a few casting suggestions: himself as George Bailey and his bandmates J. Mascis and Dave Sweetapple as his guardian angels. As Petkovic describes it, his two old friends pulled him from the brink of self-destruction in 2007. Back then, he had just watched his mother succumb, painfully, to bladder cancer. Sleeping on her literal deathbed for her final three months, he began to suffer from insomnia. If that weren’t bad enough, an accident to his hand left him unable to do what he loves most: play guitar. “On every level, I was just totally fucked up in the head,” Petkovic says via telephone. Feeling his life coming apart, he got in his car and headed east, away from his hometown of Cleveland, with no destination in mind. “My life is always chaotic,” he says, “but this was like an episode of Cops meets Dostoyevsky.” Hundreds of miles later, Petkovic got a call from Dave Sweetapple, who invited Petkovic to his home in Vermont. Mascis, who had played with both guys in different projects while on hiatus from fronting Dinosaur Jr., drove up from Amherst, Mass., and suggested they all record an album together. In a span of three weeks, Petkovic wrote over 20 songs—many of them directly addressing the death of his mom and the subsequent tailspin he’d fallen into. Although it was precipitated by tragedy, the resulting Love and Desperation—featuring Petkovic on vocals, Sweetapple on bass, guitarist Tim Parnin and Mascis on drums (he also contributes a few of his trademark squalling guitar solos)—is hardly a downer, full of the strutting classic rock riffage and glammy bellowing of Petkovic and Parnin’s long-running cult act Cobra Verde. And even though the track list includes titles like “Crawling Over Bodies” and “Hold Me, I’m Dying,” the lyrics are marked with a strain of gallows humor crucial to Petkovic’s coping process. “I felt helpless,” he says, “but not humorless.” With members spread out across the country, no one in the group intended Sweet Apple (indeed named in homage to its bassist) to become an actual touring band. Then it accepted a gig at last year’s South By Southwest. With no practice, the band convened in Austin, and Petkovic describes the show as being “like throwing a cat up in the air and hoping it lands on its feet.” Dates opening for Guided By Voices (of which Petkovic was briefly a member) followed, as did its current tour supporting stoner rockers Dead Meadow. All of a sudden, a band that started as a way of keeping its frontman from leaping off any proverbial (or actual) bridges gained an air of legitimacy. But for the frontman, the loose, nonaspirational nature of the band is what’s made it worth continuing on as something other than just an outlet for his grief. “The whole post-Nirvana era is bands wanting to be successful but trying to appear reluctant about it,” he says. “With this band, there’s no reluctance, because there’s no plan.” MATTHEW SINGER. For frontman John Petkovic, Sweet Apple was a real life-saver.
SEE IT: Sweet Apple plays Doug Fir, with Dead Meadow, on Wednesday, Jan. 12. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.
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FRIDAY - SUNDAY in a cave. Polished yet emotional, Pigeons is a dynamic local act with wind under its wings. Come watch it fly. KEVIN DAVIS. Backspace. 8 pm. $5. All ages.
Peter Wolf Crier, Retribution Gospel Choir, Little Hurricane
[FROM THE SCHOOL OF M. WARD] With freshman release Inter-Be as its beautifully raspy witness, Minneapolis’ Peter Wolf Crier is among the brightest Midwestern acts in existence. The Jagjaguwar-backed (Black Mountain, Besnard Lakes) duo holds a tight mastery of the porchside, whiskey-barrel jams of yore we’ve grown to expect from the M. Wards and Conor Obersts of Planet Contemporary Americana. Utilizing instruments as old as their sound, musical bricklayer Peter Pisano and drummer Brian Moen weave warm and hoary drafts of pure, unbleached folk rock. Given Portland’s rightful obsession with Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, this show is not to be missed. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
Kurtis Blow, Destro & L-Pro, Rocket One, Brown Caeser with DJ Ozroc, DJ Spark
See Thursday listing. Mount Tabor Theater. 9 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
Dashboard Confessional, Chris Conley (of Saves the Day), Lady Danville
[EMO’ MONEY, EMO’ PROBLEMS] Chris Carrabba is a perfectly cast emo warrior—a forgettable face of a genre famously impossible to describe. Ever since recognizing, ’midst a few pre-fab folkster gigs during hiatus from the Christian rock outfit he rode outta Boca, Carrabba immediately understood his particular talents were best served by focusing the audience’s attention toward a single performer while excising any religious references from his songbook. The past few albums, Carrabba and whichever guns were hired for recording or tours neatly balanced an obvious preference for widescreen adult contempo efforts with the bristling acoustics that convince the faithful he never truly strayed from the emo path: A twisty path, you’d imagine, and gray-skied with bare landscape and eyelinered squirrels. JAY HORTON. Wonder Ballroom. 8 pm. $25 advance, $28 day of show. All ages.
SATURDAY, JAN. 15 Kelly Joe Phelps and Corinne West, with special guest Nathaniel Talbot
[SOLO NO MO’] The acoustic bluesman walks a lonely road; not needing other musicians to punch up a band sound, he sits alone onstage, communing only with his own inner demons—or perhaps, à la Robert Johnson, external ones—to spin sorrow into musical gold. Longtime local hero Kelly Joe Phelps, in his gripping solo performances, exemplified this archetype— even as he sat alone on ever-larger stages, growing from Hawthorne Sunday brunch entertainer to celebrated international artist. After two early-’00s albums featuring other musicians, Phelps promptly retreated into solitude. In late 2009, though, he forged a musical connection that returns him to Portland tonight as half of a duo with smokyvoiced Californian singer-songwriter Corinne West, with whom Phelps has cut a spare, haunting EP, Magnetic Skyline. JEFF ROSENBERG. Alberta Rose Theatre. 8 pm (minors accompanied by parent). $15 advance, $17 day of show. All ages.
Superfresh 2: Dangerous Boys Club, Breakfast Mountain, Miracles Club, Onuinu, Purple N Green and more
[RESTLESS LEG SYNDROME] If there’s one thing Portland loves, it’s a big old sweaty dance party.
And nobody does it better than the bona fide party starters behind Supernature, a monthly Rotture mainstay, who twice a year throw an all-out, all-ages rager. Rotture will continue to play host to this dance debauchery as a slew of local acts with an inspiring variety of beats tear up the dance floor. From the dark delivery of Dangerous Boy Club to the effervescent house disco of Miracles Club and Manny Reyes and Tim Ferrell of Atole’s new electro duo, Boyfriends, this night promises to drop more beats than a Prefuse 73 record. KEVIN DAVIS. Branx. 4:30 pm. $8 ($5 before 8 pm). All ages.
Wayne “The Train” Hancock, The Runaway Boys, Truckstop Darling
[NEW COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN] For all the respectfully tailored Hank Williams cover versions and increasingly overblown protestations of a perhaps role model-starved Hank III (who regularly insists that Hancock bears more of his grandfather’s spirit than the indiefied scion and his star crossed father put together), you’re not likely to find a “Cold, Cold Heart” or “Hey, Good Looking” among the burgeoning Wayne the Train discography. At best, he has a way with ever so slightly tweaking rockabilly and Western swing blueprints for an endless variety of songs that all sound vaguely familiar with lyrics transposed from the shitkicker pursuits of earlier generations—after all, it’s the classic country touch that draws tastemaker approval; drinking songs that appeal to the modern Southern working man are somehow less approachable. Honestly, despite the Austin forntman’s reputation as a captivating live performer who continues to barnstorm the lesser-played towns of flyover country, Hancock’s vocal talents also leave something to be desired. But he has a fine band and, more importantly, he knows just how to allow the instrumentalists their own room within the rollicking tunes—it’s unlikely they’ll ever leave him behind. JAY HORTON. Dante’s. 9:30 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
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Joey Porter’s Tribute to Stevie Wonder
[VERY SUPERSTITIOUS] Former Portland mainstay and keyboard maniac Joey Porter has spent the past years assembling musicians for tribute shows that seem impossible to nail—James Brown, Michael Jackson, Herbie Hancock, you name it. But the Stevie Wonder show is the group’s best, and Porter enlists multiple guest vocalists— including Intervision frontman Paul Creighton—to cover Little Stevie’s massive range. The band can get a little jam happy, but all’s forgiven when that opening bass line to “Superstition” slugs you in the chest. Stevie makes music that nobody can resist dancing to. Porter delivers that experience splendidly. AP KRYZA. Doug Fir Lounge. 9 pm. $15. 21+.
Loveness Wessa & The Bantus
[SOUTHERN AFROBEAT] Thanks to the legendary expatriate Zimbabwean musicians Dumi Maraire and Thomas Mapfumo and the organizations and musicians that followed them, the Pacific Northwest has become an unlikely outpost of Southern African sounds, often mixed with Western pop. Portland singer-songwriter-dancer Wesa continues the lineage with original tunes performed on both traditional (marimba, mbira or “thumb piano”) and modern (keyboards, electric guitar and bass, trumpet) instruments, including omnipresent jazz keyboardist Andrew Oliver, Pachi Pamwe guitarist Matt Gordon and other local global musicians. BRETT CAMPBELL. Mississippi Pizza/ Atlantis Lounge. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
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SUNSET VALLEY FRIDAY JANUARY 21 Formed: 1996 in Portland. Members: Frontman Herman Jolly, guitarist Jonathan Drews, bassist Eric Furlong, keyboardist Jeff Saltzman, drummer Tony Lash. Sounds like: Phil Spector recording fucked-up, distorted pop songs from his prison cell. For fans of: The Beatles, Guided By Voices, The Rentals, Pavement, Dinosaur Jr., The Buzzcocks, The Kinks. Latest release: Goldbank 78 Stack (2004) Why you care: Sunset Valley is one in a handful of ’90s acts that were supposed to be the next big thing out of Portland. With the release of the band’s vaguely sci-fi 1998 album, The New Speed— which featured the almost insidiously catchy “Blanketville,” among other tunes that garnered college radio airplay—it seemed almost inevitable that the band would follow friends/tourmates the Dandy Warhols to fame and fortune. Instead, Sunset Valley became almost mythically I-5 famous behind the strength of frontman Herman Jolly’s surreal lyricism, the band’s tight guitar rock and the studio prowess of band members Tony Lash and Jeff Saltzman. After four Sunset Valley records, Jolly moved back to his native Montana to work on solo material, returning to Seattle in 2006 and eventually forming the trio Little Pieces. LP was Jolly’s primary project until a recent move back to Portland put Sunset Valley—at least temporarily—back on the map. Jolly won’t confirm that the band has plans for a new record, but he won’t rule out the possibility, either—which leaves us with more than a glimmer of hope. SEE IT: Sunset Valley plays Friday, Jan. 14, at Mississippi Studios with Pete Int’l Airport and Federale. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
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Ken Ollis on drums. If their exciting PJO shows are any indication, expect an evening of intricate original arrangements and compositions with plenty of space for intrepid improvising. BRETT CAMPBELL. The Blue Monk. 7:30 pm. $3-$7 sliding scale. 21+.
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THE DECEMBERISTS THE KING IS DEAD (CAPITOL RECORDS) [AMERICANA] As the Decemberists’ hype machine once again prepares its bayonets for war, we couldn’t help but share some gut reactions from our initial listens to the new disc, The King Is Dead. Look for more in-depth coverage when the band plays Portland next month, but here are 10 WW writers’ initial takes on the 10 tracks from the new disc.
Acephalix, Anhedonist, Knelt Rote, Ritual Necromancy
[IN GOD WE CRUST] Are you a cultural anthropology major hunting for some unsullied academic terrain? Consider a history of the punk patch, and begin your research at this show—it will offer a comprehensive survey of this most essential of crust accoutrements. You will know the Acephalix fans by their Nausea back patches and the glum, fun-hating Anhedonist supporters by the subtle placement of their Corrupted badges of dishonor, while the rowdy grindheads spazzing out to Knelt Rote will be sporting hoodie mosaics advertising erstwhile blastbeat champions Dropdead, Assück and Destroy. And if you are a music major looking to describe the din in punk’s darker dungeons, just stand behind the anthro geek and copy her notes—one size fits all here. CHRIS STAMM. The Know. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.
The Ocean Floor, Ohioan
[FARMHOUSE FREAK] Ohioan would be right at home opening for Neil Young. Instead, Ryne Warner and his crew will play with an equally adequate local pairing in the Ocean Floor. Quirky country-folk projects are never in short supply in Portland, but these two acts stand above the rest: Both bands manage to dose you with the right amount of psychedelia without jamming the blotter down your throat. You’ll find Ohioan and the Ocean Floor somewhere between Newport 1965 and Woodstock, but both bands still maintain an original Northwesternness that makes them distinctly Portland 2011. KEVIN DAVIS. Rontoms. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
XDS (Experimental Dental School), Broken Water, Happy Prescriptions
[SHOEGAZE DREAMS] With the release of the next Pains of Being Pure at Heart album, shoegaze is going to be on the minds of the tastemakers and bloggers of the world. Which is all well and good, because there’s hope that it will strike up interest in groups like Broken Water that shares a love of processed guitars, ghostly vocals, and atmospherics with POBPAH. Broken Water is, to me, the superior band, as it comes by these influences honestly and viewed through a prism of the punk/DIY scene that dominates its hometown of Olympia. This trio is likely to start hearing a buzz in the background as the world catches on to its spooky and startling work. ROBERT HAM. Rotture. 9 pm. $6. 21+.
TUESDAY, JAN. 18 Crocodiles, Flexions, Dirty Beaches
[REVERB BATH] I am probably alone in this, but I do believe the best three minutes in all of Twin Peaks is when James recruits Donna and Madeleine to coo back-up vocals on his sweet sock-hop ballad “Just You and I.” So imagine my delight when I stumbled upon the Dirty Beaches tune “Lord Knows Best,” a downright Lynchian (and Jamesian) detour down memory lane’s shadowy side streets. A single melancholy piano figure floats through weepy atmospherics while some ghost boyfriend who died playing chicken up near Make-Out Point intones, with what little breath he has left, that he still “doesn’t give a damn about anyone but you.” Oh, Donna. CHRIS STAMM. Doug Fir Lounge. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.
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“Don’t Carry It All” I’m immediately reminded of Tom Petty’s “Last Dance With Mary Jane” as the Decemberists’ new record opens up. I’m also impressed with Colin Meloy’s vocal restraint—I’d call it an impassioned holler—and his lyrical restraint, as well. CASEY JARMAN. “Calamity Song” Happy New Year, everybody. The Decemberists have turned their dire gaze from the literary past to predictions of future calamity. Here Meloy spins out a vision of happy hell, where California has fallen into the ocean and birds pick at our bones. KELLY CLARKE. “Rise to Me” Meloy borrows a few licks from some road-weary singer-songwriter type—Rocky Votolato, maybe?—and a really heartbreaking pedal steel. I love it, right up until the harmonica solo. BEN WATERHOUSE.
“Rox in the Box” Wherein the band fully dives into the country folk end of the pool. This is the stately, barn-hoppin’ dance song/sea chantey Meloy has always hinted at, with relatively simple countdown lyrics, accordion and Gillian Welch’s perfect harmonies. Still kinda miss the mutton chops, though. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. “January Hymn” If there’s one thing tote bag-carrying NPR mothers love, it’s blandly pretty acoustic ballads with the word “hymn” in the title. Never let anyone say the Decemberists don’t know their audience. This is indeed a pretty-yet-unremarkable acoustic ballad. MATTHEW SINGER.
“Down By the Water” Welch’s guest vocals pair really well with Meloy’s here, and contribute a lot to the song’s almost Americana edge. My attention span is too short to work out what the song is about. I’m sure it’s a very touching and tragic tale of a sailor falling in love with a mermaid with leprosy or something. RUTH BROWN. “All Arise!” This track is a nice showcase for the Decemberists’ ability to shapeshift their sound into whatever genre they dare tackle (in this case, the humble roll of vintage country-and-western). ROBERT HAM. “June Hymn” “June Hymn” strongly evokes thoughts of James Taylor, or a more melodic and baroque Bob Dylan. But it’s a warm familiarity, like a country drive at sunset—it’s something we all know—but the sort of beauty that never gets old. KEVIN DAVIS. “This Is Why We Fight” Mumford and Sons teased the Decemberists’ M.O. into jock-friendly dad rock and got big in the process, and here Colin and company show the British lads who’s boss with a rollicking anthem nearly as insipid as “Little Lion Man” and that other slab of Mumford cheese we all sing along to when no one’s looking. CHRIS STAMM. “Dear Avery” This track tries for lyrical simplicity and delivers an emotion rather than a “Here are some fancy words.” Gillian Welch is an amazing singer to have in the room, but almost distractingly so, like in an independent movie with one big star in a minor role. NICK JAINA. SEE IT: The Decemberists’ new album, The King is Dead, drops on Tuesday, Jan. 18.
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RED HOT & ROLLING: If you live in Southeast, there aren’t many options for watching Blazers games. And while a sportsminded bar like Blitz is nice, the noise and douchebag factor often make me wish I had just stayed at home and picked up a six-pack from the 7-Eleven down the street. Let me throw another name into the mix: The recently expanded Tennessee Red’s (2133 SE 11th Ave., tennesseeredsbbq.com), just down the street from Blitz, is almost like watching the game from your couch; that is, if your roommate spent all day slow-roasting pork over a mesquite barbecue. The Tennessee Red’s happy hour goes till 6 pm, which means you can catch road games on a projector with a bunch of senile ’Zers fans while demolishing a plate of ribs ($8 with fries) or two pulled-pork sliders (a steal at $5). Screw flat-screen TVs— barbecue wins this round. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER.
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THE DECEMBERISTS TUESDAY 1/18 @ 7PM THE KING IS DEAD
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‘The King Is Dead,’ a set of 10 concise, country-based songs, marks a deliberate turn towards simplicity after the band’s wildly ambitious and widely acclaimed album ‘The Hazards of Love.’ Produced once again by Tucker Martine, the album features special guest appearances by Americana luminary Gillian Welch on seven tracks and legendary R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck on three tracks. OFFER GOOD THRU: 2/2/11
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DAN REED Friday 1/21 @ 6PM
Join us for a special evening with Portland legend Dan Reed! Dan will be performing songs from his latest release ‘Coming Up For Air.’ SEE THE DAN REED BAND LIVE SATURDAY 1/22 @ ALADDIN THEATER UPCOMING IN-STORE PERFORMANCE
CODY BEEBE AND THE CROOKS FRIDAY 1/14 @ 6PM
Cody Beebe and The Crooks are a 7-piece roots-rock band from Seattle, WA. Formed in February of 2009, the group combines Beebe’s aggressively percussive acoustic guitar style with the diverse musical experience of a strikingly creative and cultured band. Cody Beebe and The Crooks blend rock, blues, and country with an artistic integrity that is intriguing and unforgettable (think Steve Earle meets Pink Floyd.)
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Malaikat Dan Singa, Ohioan, Brainstorm, Ah Holly Fam’ly
Mount Tabor Theater Kurtis Blow
Mt. Tabor Theater Lounge
ADAM KRUEGER
Muddy Rudder Public House
Old Time Jam with Bruce and Bonnie
Oak Grove Tavern Open Mic
Paddy’s Bar & Grill
Funk-Jazz Jam Session
Plan B
Thundering Asteroids, The Food, Dartgun, The Vignettes
Slabtown
Sadistik, Sarx, DMLH, Diction One
Slim’s
Daniel Pribyl, Orion Coleman
Tiger Bar
Karaoke From Hell
Tonic Lounge Sarx, Sadistik
Tony Starlight’s Tara Williamson
Twilight Cafe & Bar
Salty Blackness, Cement Season, Junio Muere
Vino Vixens
Renegade Minstrels
Alberta Street Public House
Suck My Open Mic With Tamara J. Brown
Anandi
Jimmy Mak’s
The Mel Brown Quartet
Andina
Kells
Andrea’s Cha Cha Club
Know
Cronin Tierney
Pete Krebs Cubaneo
Ash Street Saloon
Fall From Zero, Oden
Beauty Bar
Baby Ketten Karaoke
Biddy McGraw’s
Little Sue Happy Hour
Blue Monk
Batmen, Pentacles, Welsh Bowman
LaurelThirst Public House
Piano Throwers (9 pm); Scott Law (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery Terry Robb
Bellydance
Buffalo Gap Saloon Buffalo Band Stand
Bunk Bar
Wild Flag, Drew Grow and the Pastor’s Wives
Camellia Lounge Upper Left Trio
Dante’s
Cowboy Mouth, Dash Rip Rock
Doug Fir Lounge
Dead Meadow, Sweet Apple
Duff’s Garage
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
Redwood Son, Henna Ellefson
Mississippi Pizza
The Ruby Pines & Laura Ivancie
Mississippi Studios
Al James, Liz Janes, Greylag, Bridges
Mount Tabor Theater
Mexican Gunfight, Hard Corn
Muddy Rudder Public House
Alberta Street Public House Matthew Payne and friends
Andina
Greg Wolfe Trio
Andrea’s Cha Cha Club
La Descarga Cubana with Dina & Bamba
Artichoke Community Music Songwriter Roundup
Ash Street Saloon Excruciator, Blood of Martyrs, Aranya, Cemetery Lust
Backspace
Torture Me Elmo, The Bangovers, Second Best
Beaterville Cafe Donny Osborne
Biddy McGraw’s
Cajun Jam featuring The Crying Aces (9:30 pm); Morgan Grace (6 pm)
Blue Monk
Curtis Salgado, Alan Hager
Buffalo Gap Saloon Moonhouse Trio
Camellia Lounge
Mitch Wilson Quartet
Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam (9 pm); Chris Olson’s High Flyers (6 pm)
Stumbleweed
Portland Prime
Chapel Pub
Dunes
Press Club
Dante’s
Mundo Muerto
Ella Street Social Club Adventures With Might, Pocketknife, Vanimal, A Gentlemen’s Picnic
Gypsy Restaurant and Lounge Laura Ivancie
Hawthorne Theater Lounge Rockstar Karaoke
Hawthorne Theatre Sawtell, American Roulette, Leaving the Scene, Least Likely Heroes
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John Gilmore
Swing Papillon
Red Room
Open Mic Wednesday
Rotture
The Hood Internet, Rude Dudes, Lionsden
The Country Inn Dub DeBrie Jam
Steve Kerin
Polaroids, Therapists, Trash TV, Cheap Meats
Doug Fir Lounge
The Don of Division Street, Old Light, Meyercord
Duff’s Garage
Vulpine Slips, Gabby Holt Band
Petunia & The Vipers, Elizabeth Ames & The Countrypolitans (9 pm); Portland Playboys (6 pm)
Vino Vixens
Ella Street Social Club
The Knife Shop
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White Eagle
Left Coast Country, The Wayward Went
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Wishyunu, Ozarks, TBA
Fenouil
Laura Cunard
Download, Dead Voices On Air Plateau, Wet Mango Gnome Vs. Spybey, DJ Paaradox
Goodfoot
4 On The Floor, The Student Loan
Gypsy Restaurant and Lounge Jordan Harris
Karaoke Kings
Hawthorne Hophouse Folk and Spoon
Hawthorne Theater Lounge
Savoir Faire Burlesque
Hawthorne Theatre
Baker London, Pale Blue Sky, Jack Ruby Presents, Bryan Minus & The Disconnect, Monkey Puzzle
Heathman Restaurant & Bar
White Eagle
Monarques, Arch Cape, Yours
Jimmy Mak’s
The Mel Brown B3 Organ Group
Kells
Cronin Tierney
Know
Defect Defect, Foreign Objects, Pink Nightmares
LaurelThirst Public House
Little Hexes, No They Do (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)
East Burn
Kung Pao Chickens
East End
Sick Jaggers: Arohan, Soft Metals DJ Set
Great Hall Restaurant Tworivers Songwriters Showcase
Gypsy Restaurant and Lounge Karaoke
Stone in Love, Stephanie Schneiderman
Alberta Rose Theatre Duffy Bishop
Alberta Street Public House Jackalope Saints with Jenna Ellefson
Andina
Sambafeat Quartet
Ash Street Saloon
The Influence, AM Exchange, Animal R & R
Backspace
Pigeons, Scrimshander, Wax Fingers
Beaterville Cafe Alexa Wiley
Biddy McGraw’s
Naomi LaViolette
Jimmy Mak’s Mike Winkle
Jolly Roger
Roots Revolution
Kells
Cul an Ti
LaurelThirst Public House
Fruition, Laura Ivancie (9:30 pm); Woodbrain (6 pm)
Local Lounge
Noah Peterson Soul-Tet
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom
John Craig and the Weekend, Andrew Vait and the Eternal Fair, Cody Beebe and the Crooks
Mark Alan
McMenamins Hotel Oregon
Sunset Valley, Pete International Airport, Federale
Mock Crest Tavern Sneakin Out
Mount Tabor Theater Kurtis Blow
Muddy Rudder Public House Reverb Brothers
Portland Prime
Brasserie Montmartre
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
Mike Winkle & Tony Pacini
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
The Sale
Karaoke
Plan B
Acephalix, Murderess Mia Nicholson & Steve Christofferson (8 pm); Bill Beach (5 pm)
Press Club
Justin Power, Sean Flinn, Dave Camp
Red Room
Buffalo Gap Saloon
Rendered Useless, Unfallen Heroes, Flexx Bronco, Ergot
Camellia Lounge
Sellwood Public House
McMenamins-Grand Lodge
Crown Room
Slabtown
Billy D
Bubblin: Sleepyhead, Ben Tactic, Lincoln Up
Mississippi Pizza
Dante’s
Celilo Duo
Rock Creek Branders
Fools in Paradise (9 pm); Mo Phillips (6 pm)
Negara
Lexxi Vexx, Boo Frog, Falcon Glove
Jim Mesi
White Eagle
Dashboard Confessional, Chris Conley (of Saves the Day), Lady Danville
SAT. JAN. 15 Alberta Rose Theatre
Aaron Baca
Sugar Sugar Sugar, Pitchfork Motorway, Cootie Platoon, The Tanked
Slim’s
Sol Seed
School of Rock Performs Stoner Rock
Heathman Restaurant & Bar Karla Harris
Jimmy Mak’s
Soul Vaccination
Jolly Roger
Urban Funk Outfit (UFO)
Kells
Cul an Ti
Kennedy School
Garcia Birthday Band Evangelist, Heathen Shrine, Arterial Spray
Ridgerunner Summit: Jim Boyer, Billy Kennedy, Lynn Conover Band (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery Pilar French
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern John Bunzow Trio
McMenamins-Grand Lodge
Sonny Hess & Lisa Mann
Mission Theater
Miz Kitty’s Parlour
Kelly Joe Phelps and Corinne West, with special guest Nathaniel Talbot
Mississippi Pizza
Alberta Street Public House
Mock Crest Tavern
Wild Hog in the Woods
Andina
Neftali Rivera
Ash Street Saloon
System and Station, Violet Isle, Loaded for Bear
Augustana Lutheran Church
Augustana Jazz Quartet
Backspace
Defiance Ohio, Kimya Dawson The Brightest, The Victor Ship, The Body Rampant, Project Sign
Beaterville Cafe Donny Osborne
Mississippi Pizza
Mississippi Studios
Tribal Seeds, Outpost, Fortunate Youth
LaurelThirst Public House
Superfresh 2: Dangerous Boys Club, Breakfast Mountain, Serious Business, Boyfriends, Miracles Club, Finesse, Onuinu, Purple N Green, Piñata, Linger & Quiet, DJ Copy
Alison Rice & the Wheel (9 pm); How Long Jug Band (6 pm)
Hawthorne Theatre
Vino Vixens
Blue Monk
Brady Goss
Stevi Marie Trio
Know
Dr Sthal, The Muddy River Nightmare Band, Minta Rosa
McMenamins-Grand Lodge
Jon Koonce & One More Mile
Hawthorne Hophouse
Twilight Cafe & Bar
Biddy McGraw’s
Blue Monk
Icarus the Owl, Lights Out Dancing, Asteroid M, The Last Department
All Star Anniversary Show
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
The Student Loan Newgrass Band (9:30 pm); Billy Kennedy & Jimmy Boyer (6 pm)
Branx
Tony Starlight’s
Wonder Ballroom
Oak Grove Tavern
Poetry Night
Cats Under The Stars, Jerry Garcia Tribute, Lost Creek Gang
Hawthorne Theatre
Jack McMahon
Aladdin Theater
Tonic Lounge
Rockstar Karaoke
Wine Down East
FRI. JAN. 14
Dewi Sant, Solar Shade, Siren and The Sea
Basketball Jones Country, The Notes Underground (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
Lew Jones
The Woods
Hawthorne Theater Lounge
Bob Shoemaker, Steve Kerin, Joe McMurrian (8:30 pm); Will West and the Friendly Cover Up (5:30 pm)
Johnny Martin Trio
Holocene
Freak Mountain Ramblers
Red Room
Open Mic Night
Fez Ballroom
Duff’s Garage
Heathman Restaurant & Bar
Sellwood Public House
THURS. JAN. 13
Peter Wolf Crier, Retribution Gospel Choir, Little Hurricane
Portland Prime Highwater, Toucan Sam
Heathman Restaurant and Bar
Doug Fir Lounge
Roseway, I Am the Monster, Verah Falls, Our Mistaken Grace, Ashlynn
Tony Pacini
WED. JAN. 12
O.K. Bird, Night Genes, O Horizon Karaoke With the Captain
7th Planet Picture Show, Open Mic Comedy
ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: Superfresh 2, Saturday, Jan. 15, at Branx.
The Knife Shop
The Twilight Room Mississippi Studios
= WW Pick. Highly recommended.
Chicharones, Cool Nutz & DJ Fatboy, Tope, DJ Fatboy
Drunken Prayer (9:30 pm); Twisted Whistle (5 pm) Planet Jackers
Branx
Loveness Wessa & The Bantus Level2Music (6 pm) DC Malone & The Jones
Mount Tabor Theater
Philly’s Phunkestra, Dirty Syncopators, Excellent Gentleman
Mt. Tabor Theater Lounge Dementia
Muddy Rudder Public House Greg Clarke
O’Connor’s Vault
Dave Fleschner Trio
Oak Grove Tavern
Deth Proof, Purity in Pain, Perseverance, Ninja
Peter’s Room
Boogie Bone, The Strange Tones
Plan B
Stoneburner, Rolling Through the Universe, Sod Hauler, Burials
Portland Prime
Vince Frates & Dennis Caiazza
Press Club
Kelly Blair Bauman, Duover
Red Room
Swamp Surfer, American Roulette, Titarius, Fjord, Lyckwyd
Buffalo Gap Saloon
Roseland
Ken Hanson Band with Jason Walker
Sellwood Public House
Karaoke
Camellia Lounge Saturnalia Trio
Dante’s
Wayne “The Train” Hancock, The Runaway Boys, Truckstop Darling
Skrillex, DJ Craze, Egyptrixx, Sidestep Arlie Conner & Friends
Slabtown Xacto HiFi
Slim’s
My Autumn’s Done Come
Someday Lounge
Doug Fir Lounge
Stephen Ashbrook
Dublin Pub
The British Backlash, DJ Tiny Corrupter
Joey Porter’s Tribute to Stevie Wonder Karaoke From Hell
Star Bar
The Knife Shop
Duff’s Garage
What Hearts, Pluvial, In Mono
East Burn
The Woods
D.K. Stewart
Sudden Anthem
East End
Terokal, Don’t, P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S
Themes, James Apollo, Sexo Tropico
Tonic Lounge
Catsup & Mustard
Ella Street Social Club
Tony Starlight’s
Fenouil
Twilight Cafe & Bar
Goodfoot
White Eagle
Birthday Party
Chance Hayden with Dave Captein The Polyrhythmics, The Dust Settlers
Gypsy Restaurant and Lounge Karaoke
The Tony Starlight Show The Dirty Words, Baker London, Tall as Rasputin The Welfare State, The Tripwires, Lewi Longmire Band (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)
SUN. JAN. 16 Aladdin Theater
N.E.D. (No Evidence of Disease)
Andina
Danny Romero
Ash Street Saloon
The Father, Rumblebox, John Densmore
Bishop Creek Cellars/ Urban Wineworks East Noir Notes
Mt. Tabor Theater Lounge
Rockabilly Lounge with Kyle Black
Muddy Rudder Public House Irish
Red Room
Metal Sundays
Rontoms
The Ocean Floor, Ohioan
Rotture
Blue Monk
Renato Caranto’s Funk Band
Dante’s
Karaoke From Hell, Michael Dean Damron Big “D” Jamboree (8:30 pm); Chris Miller Band (6 pm)
Goodfoot
Sonic Forum Open Mic Night
Jimmy Mak’s
Jawbone Flats, Alison Rice and The Wheel
Slim’s
Dante’s
Someday Lounge
LaurelThirst Public House
Lars Campbell Sextet
Buffalo Gap Saloon
Sinferno Cabaret
Dunes
Mundo Muerto, Bog People
Hawthorne Theatre
Rehab, Restruct, Crown Point, Eclectic Approach, 13 Cent Bob
Kells
Irish Sessions
Know
Acephalix, Anhedonist, Knelt Rote, Ritual Necromancy
LaurelThirst Public House Billy Kennedy & Tim Acott (9 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery Lloyd Jones
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
Cary Novotny & Hanz Araki
Mission Theater
The 12th Annual Portland Old Time Gathering Cabaret
Mississippi Pizza
Bumpin Nastys (9 pm); The Jenny Finn Orchestra (6 pm)
NoPoMoJo Laura Onizuka, Lillie Last, Diana Bright, Greg Wolfe
The Dan Balmer Band
Kells
Pat Buckley
Kung Pao Chickens (9 pm); Little Sue & Lynn Conover (6 pm)
Star Bar
Laurelwood NW Public House
The Knife Shop
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
Presented by Down Under Rock Trade Up Staff Party
Tonic Lounge
Hangover Helper Burlesque, Comedy and Brunch
Vino Vixens
Cassia DeMayo
White Eagle
Open Mic/Songwriter Showcase
MON. JAN. 17 Alberta Street Public House
Magical Musical Weekly
Skip vonKuske’s “The Guest List” with James Faretheewell
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern Bob Shoemaker
Mississippi Pizza
Alexander’s Real Time Band, Poeina Suddarth, Nicole Sansuree (10 pm); James Chan (8 pm)
Muddy Rudder Public House Lloyd Jones
Fanno Creek with A. King
O’Connor’s Vault
Andina
The Knife Shop
Scott Head
Ash Street Saloon Open Mic
Backspace DORKBOT!
Beauty Bar
Bodybuiding
Biddy McGraw’s Eric Tonsfeldt
Future Historians, Andy Combs and the Moth
White Eagle
Tiger House, Urban Funk Outfit
Duff’s Garage
XDS (Experimental Dental School), Broken Water, Happy Prescriptions
Blue Monk
Valentine’s
Julie and the Boy The Autonomics, Granada
Thirsty Lion
Eric John Kaiser Hosts The PDX Songwriter Showcase
Twilight Cafe & Bar SIN Night
Eye Candy VJs
Justa Pasta
DJ Beyondadoubt, DJ Trans Fat, DJ Il Camino
Kells
Anjali & The Incredible Kid
Andina
Neftali Rivera
Ash Street Saloon
Bar 12, Macy Bensley Band, Fox Piranha
Beaterville Cafe
Chad Lee Williams
Blue Monk
Steel Drum Music
Buffalo Gap Saloon
LaurelThirst Public House Jackstraw
Living Room Theaters
Frightening Waves of Blue
Local Lounge
Pamela Jordan Band
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
Open Mic
Caleb Klauder & Sammy Lind
Camellia Lounge
Mississippi Pizza
Weekly Jazz Jam
Dante’s
Baby Ketten Karaoke (9 pm); Boa Saida (6 pm)
The Ed Forman Show, DSL Open Mic Comedy
Mock Crest Tavern
Doug Fir Lounge
Mount Tabor Theater
Crocodiles, Flexions, Dirty Beaches
Duff’s Garage
Jeff Jensen Band
Family Funktion Jam Night
Mudai
Vox Populi Karaoke
Dover Weinberg Quartet (9:30 pm); Trio Bravo (6 pm)
Slim’s
Ella Street Social Club
Someday Incubator
The We Shared Milk, Spillway
Goodfoot
Scott Pemberton Trio
Great Hall Restaurant Open Mic (6 pm); John “The Voice” English’s Frank Sinatra Tribute (3 pm)
Ground Kontrol
Rock Band Tuesdays with MC Destructo
Gypsy Restaurant and Lounge Richie Rosencrans
Jimmy Mak’s
The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm); The O.E.S. Jazz Combos (6:30 pm)
Rotture
Anson Wright & Tim Gilson Pat Buckley
TUES. JAN. 18
Mississippi Studios
Jolly Roger
Open Mic
Someday Lounge
The Twilight Room Karaoke with the Captain
Thirsty Lion
Singer/Songwriter Competition with Eric John Kaiser
Tony Starlight’s Nancy King
Valentine’s
The Polyps, Charlie Salas-Humara
Vino Vixens Terry Nichols
White Eagle
Brad Creel & The Reel Deel
WED. JAN. 12 Crown Room
Crush Drum and Bass
East End
DJ Emily Fluery
Ground Kontrol DJ-808
Holocene
DJ Zac Eno, DJ Rumtrigger, Los Macuanos
Slabtown
DJ Baby Lemonade & Girlfriends
Tiga
DJ Flip Forage
Tube
DJ Lifepartner, Ben Tactic
Valentine’s DJ L Train
Yes and No
DJ Ill Camino, DJ Vjestica
THURS. JAN. 13 Beauty Bar
Thursdays Are Gay
Crown Room
Graffitti Rock: Christafari, Mercedes, Lava Machete, Spetkt1
Fez Ballroom Shadowplay
Ground Kontrol DJ Noah Fence
Lagano Lounge
New Jack City
Rotture
DJ Beyondadoubt, The Gate Keepers of Record Heaven
Someday Lounge
The Fix: Rev. Shines, KEZ, Dundiggy
Tiga
Someday Lounge
Hostile Tapeover
Ante Up: Doctor Adam, DJ Nature, Ronin Roc
Tube
Tiga
DJ Freaky Outy
Valentine’s
DJ Hornet Leg, DJ Boulevard Nights
Yes and No
DJ Cooky Parker
DJ Black Sandwich
Valentine’s
DJ Pocket Rock-It
FRI. JAN. 14 Beauty Bar Doc Adam
Foggy Notion
Bent: Jodi Bon Jodi, Roy G Biv
SUN. JAN. 16 Beulahland
Eye Candy VJs
Ground Kontrol
Black Sunday: DJ Nate C.
Groove Suite
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom
After Dark
DJ Anjali
Holocene
Plan B
DJ Rupture, Tyler Tastemaker, E3 (9 pm); New Moon Poncho DJs (5 pm)
DJ Owen
Rotture
Element Restaurant & Lounge
Rev Shines, Slimkid3, DJ Nature, Starchile
MON. JAN. 17
Star Bar
Mello Monday’s with DJ Mello Cee
Tiga
DJ Tibin
Tube
DJ Chilly Chaze
DJ Hufnstuf, DJ Lunchlady
Yorgo’s Greeley Avenue Bar & Grill
Star Bar
DJ Blackhawk
DJ Ikon
DJ Dirty Hands
Eye Candy VJs
SAT. JAN. 15 Beauty Bar
Ground Kontrol Mississippi Studios
Tiga
DJ Cenobites
TUES. JAN. 18
Sean Majors, Flat Black, Nathaniel Knows
Star Bar
Crown Room
Tiga
Hollyhood featuring DJ Stray and Tigerbeat
Ground Kontrol DJ I (heart) U
Holocene
DJ Smooth Hopperator Ministry of Information
Tube
DJ Nature
Yes and No
DJ Black Dog
Gaycation
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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Most prices listed are for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply, so it’s best to call ahead. Editor: BEN WATERHOUSE. Stage: BEN WATERHOUSE (bwaterhouse@wweek. com). Classical: BRETT CAMPBELL (bcampbell@wweek.com). Dance: HEATHER WISNER (dance@wweek.com). TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit information at least two weeks in advance to: bwaterhouse@wweek.com.
STAGE 99 Ways to Fuck a Swan
Kimberly Rosenstock’s play about deviance, desire and romantic ineptitude, which was workshopped to much local acclaim at the 2009 JAW festival, gets its world premiere from Theatre Vertigo. Megan Kate Ward directs this bizarre riff on Leda, Michelangelo, Prince Rudolf of Austria and contemporary romance. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 306-0870. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays. $15, Thursdays are pay-what-you-will.
Antiques Improv Show
Bring your antiques, collectibles or white elephants to the Brody Theater, where the crew will pretend to appraise them, comedically. The Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Saturdays. Closes Feb. 5. $7-$10.
Blather
Riley Parker and Jeff Hardison host a new storytelling show of true tales from their own lives. Blue Monk, 3341 SE Belmont St., 595-0575. 7:30 pm Friday, Jan. 14. $5.
The Chalk Boy
Blue Monkey Theater Company presents a world premiere by Joshua Conkel, about four teenage girls whose dabblings in witchcraft draw them into the disappearance of a most popular boy in school. Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, 5340 N Interstate Ave., 593-2629. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, Jan. 14-15 and Friday, Jan. 21. $15.
The Curing Fox
Play After Play performs a Native American folk tale for children, followed by educational play. The Brooklyn Bay, 1825 SE Franklin St., Bay K, 772-4005. 10 am Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Feb. 6. $7.
The Doctor Despite Himself
Twilight Rep stages Moliere’s madcap farce about doctors, which should make a nice pairing with Portland Center Stage’s The Imaginary Invalid. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 971-244-3740. 7:40 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Feb. 6. $15, $10 students and seniors.
bills attempts to marry his daughter off to a doctor. She’s uncooperative, and a lot of fart jokes ensue. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700, pcs.org. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday-Sunday, noon Thursdays, closes Feb. 6. $33-$58 adults, $18 students and youth.
Miz Kitty’s Parlour
Pianist Andrew Oliver, clowns from Circus Artemis, music by Foghorn Stringband and Padam Padam. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 7 pm Saturday, Jan. 15. $12. 21+.
One for the Road
David Berkson directs a reading of Pinter’s drama about a torturer and his victims for Readers Theatre Repertory. Blackfish Gallery, 420 NW 9th Ave., 295-4997. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, Jan. 14-15. $8.
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. Closes Feb. 12. $12-$15.
Portland’s Got Talent
A local, live take on NBC’s America’s Got Talent. Fez Ballroom, 316 SW 11th Ave., 221-7262. 8 pm Wednesdays through Jan. 26. $3.
The Shape of Things
Public House Theatre presents Neil LaBute’s story of a dumpy undergrad who becomes involved with a graduate student who talks him into getting in shape, ditching the glasses, breaking up with his friends and undergoing plastic surgery. Eep. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 9220532. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Feb. 5. $24, $19 students, $14 Thursdays.
Superior Donuts
See review at right. 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.
Duende de Lorca
When We Go Upon the Sea
Fat Pig
COMEDY
The world premiere of a bilingual play by Dañel Malán about the early years of Spanish poet, playwright and composer Federico García Lorca, including his trips to New York and Cuba. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7:30 pm Thursdays, 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sunday, Jan. 16, and Saturday, Jan. 22. Closes Jan. 22. $12-$13.
CoHo Productions and Public House Theatre Company read Neil LaBute’s play about a man who has trouble coming to grips with dating a woman of heft. Also, his friends are the worst people on Earth. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., cohoproductions.org. 7:30 pm Monday, Jan. 17. $5.
The Hollow
Lakewood Theatre returns to Agatha Christie in this murder mystery with all the fixin’s—a butler, a party, a manse, love affairs, a Hollywood star and a late-to-the-party detective. Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, 635-3901. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 7 pm Sundays Jan. 16-30, 2 pm Sundays Jan. 23 and Feb. 6-20. $24-27.
The Imaginary Invalid
Portland Center Stage presents Constance Congdon’s new adaptation of the crass Molière farce, in which a hypochondriac drowning in medical
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Profile Theatre continues its season of Lee Blessing plays with a reading of the author’s latest, a fantasy in which George W. Bush awaits trial for war crimes. Blessing will host a talkback after the Wednesday performance. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 242-0080. 7:30 pm WednesdaySaturday, 2 pm Sunday, Jan. 12-16. $15, $10 students.
Ben Bailey
The host of Cash Cab does stand-up. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, Jan. 13-15. $25-$30.
ComedySportz
[IMPROV] Fast-paced, competitive, family-friendly improv. ComedySportz, 1963 NW Kearney St., 236-8888. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays. $12.
The Ed Forman Show, with ME! ED FORMAN!
Aaron Ross terrorizes Dante’s every Tuesday night as Ed Forman, a frenetic, oversexed, foul-mouthed 1970s talk-show host who abuses local notables, roams the audience stealing drinks and flinging insults, and generally makes mayhem. Imagine Stephen Colbert as a libidinous sociopath. Ross’ lacerating wit and bottomless energy
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make for a hilarious evening of great gags and public humiliation. With two guests and a new house band every week, it’s the best entertainment $3 can buy. BEN WATERHOUSE. Dante’s, 1 SW 3rd Ave., 226-6630. 9 pm Tuesdays. $3. 21+.
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PERFORMANCE
Hangover Helper
Whitney Streed and Miss Frankie Tease host an afternoon showcase of comedy and burlesque, featuring Jimmy Newstetter, Adam Dahl, Richard Bain, Sandria Dore’, Burk Biggler and Tiffany. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 238-0543. 2 pm Sunday, Jan. 16. $5. 21+. Brunch $5 more.
Mice-tro
A competitive improv show, in which performers work not in teams but individually, and the weak are eliminated throughout the night. The Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Fridays through Feb. 11. $10, $7 students.
UTV
The Unscriptables perform televisionthemed improv comedy. Unscriptables Studio, 1121 N Loring St., 309-3723. 8 pm Saturdays, Jan. 15 and 22. Pay what you want.
CLASSICAL Bob Sterry
The British-born local singer and humorist brings his English cabaret style to songs by Brel, Lehrer, Piaf and Weill. Sherman Clay/Moe’s Pianos, 131 NW 13th Ave., 2:30 pm Sunday, Jan. 16. $15.
FourScore
A free, family-friendly concert (refreshments available!) by the inventive and invigorating male vocal and instrumental quartet that covers everything from chant and opera to metal and barbershop. Community Music Center, 3350 SE Francis St., 823-3177. 7:15 pm Friday, Jan. 14. Donation.
Nareh Arghamanyan
Portland Piano International brings the young globe-trotting, award-winning Armenian pianist to play three of those glittering, ever-delightful keyboard sonatas by Scarlatti, then dive deep into Romanticism with some of Brahms’ Paganini Variations, one of Liszt’s Mephisto Waltzes and Scriabin’s hyper-expressive Sonata No. 3. Newmark Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 228-1388. 4 pm Sunday, Jan. 16. $28-$54.
Oregon Symphony
Traditionalists will welcome Brahms’ big, dense Piano Concerto No. 2 with renowned pianist Emanuel Ax as soloist, and the overture to Carl Maria von Weber’s “The Freeshooter.” More adventurous listeners will crave the experience of the orchestra’s first performance of Color by French composer Marc-André Dalbavie, the poster boy for one of Europe’s most prominent current musical movements. The so-called “spectralist” composers find more to explore in the colors, overtones, timbres and textures of orchestral music than in melody and rhythm. Dalbavie has won popularity with toprank American orchestras (Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia) thanks to a relatively accessible style grounded in pre-Classical music such as Renaissance polyphony and Gregorian chant. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353. 7:30 pm Saturday-Sunday, 8 pm Monday, Jan. 15-17. $25-$95.
Tango Buenos Aires
Like many other popular art forms, tango danced from the streets (the sketchy back alleys and dance halls of Buenos Aires) to the elites in just a few generations, eventually making it to the concert hall, despite much frowning from traditionalists, via the dazzling nuevo tango music of the great 20th-century composer Astor Piazzolla. This visiting septet accompanies 18 dancers in a survey of the music from composers who, except for Carlos Gardel and Piazzolla, will
GEISSLINGER AND SHAMBRY
SUPERIOR DONUTS (ARTISTS REP) Tracy Letts made his name with an act of one-upmanship: August: Osage County, which earned Letts both a Pulitzer and a Tony, is the dysfunctional family drama to end them all, an emotionally draining three-hour opus that draws upon Faulkner, Williams, O’Neill, Albee and Shepard. Letts throws all his predecessors’ most lunatic characters into a sweltering three-story manse and lets them gnaw one another into submission; it is not better than Cat on a Hot Tin Roof or Long Day’s Journey Into Night, but it is louder and meaner, and it is impossible to imagine anyone trying to top it. With August, Letts declared an entire genre of American dramatic literature finished, roaring, “I’m in charge now!” His follow-up, which plays through Feb. 6 at Artists Repertory Theatre, is less noisily ambitious. Superior Donuts is an odd-couple comedy of familiar form: Arthur Przybyszewski, a burnt-out, emotionally stunted former radical and draft-dodger who now runs the Chicago donut shop his father founded, hires Franco Wicks, an exuberant, uninhibited black 21-year-old with dreams of literary stardom, to work the counter. They banter, hilariously, as Franco tries to draw his reticent boss out of his shell, bluntly appraises his appearance (“Let me tell you who looks good in a ponytail: Girls. And ponies.”) and proposes he add poetry readings (“Poets can’t pay the rent, but they drink coffee like a motherfucker”). It’s a comfortable, entertaining, even heart-warming character comedy, directed without fireworks by Allen Nause. Bill Geisslinger, who last appeared at Artists Rep as the burnt-out middle-aged cynic Sharkey in the company’s 2009 production of The Seafarer, incorporates some of that character into Arthur, by way of The Dude and maybe Harvey Pekar. Vin Shambry, a veteran of New York productions of Hair and Rent with few nonmusical credits in his bio, is immediately likeable as Franco. He is constantly in motion and endlessly curious, part grifter, part eager student. We love him as soon as we see him. Letts knows this and, because he’s an emotional terrorist, abruptly saddles Wicks with implausible gambling debts, collected by a pair of anachronistic Irish thugs borrowed straight from 1970s Mamet, and sends the plot spinning off into unearned tragedy. It’s a silly, self-indulgent move, and brings with it enough stupidity—some really offensive Russian stereotypes, a badly choreographed fight scene and body horror that will come as no surprise to anyone who’s seen Artists Rep’s ads for the show—to nearly sink the ship. Most of the second act is disappointing, but Shambry and Geisslinger build up a strong enough head of steam in the first that even the final scene, a blunt allusion to The Cherry Orchard, cannot completely overwhelm my good feelings about the show. Adjust your expectations accordingly. BEN WATERHOUSE. Tracy Letts’ latest is a finger-choppin’ sitcom.
SEE IT: 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.
PERFORMANCE
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probably be unfamiliar to North Americans. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Jan. 18. $23-$88.
DANCE Doug Elkins and Friends
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, parody must run a close second. How else to explain the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization letting New Yorkbased contemporary choreographer Doug Elkins use the entire Sound of Music score for his Fräulein Maria? Whereas the original musical featured pink-cheeked children cavorting in repurposed curtains, Elkins’ Maria features 12 highly skilled professionals (among them Jefferson Dance alum John Sorenson-Jolink) dancing a gender- and genre-bending mix of modern, ballet and hiphop, layered with a bit of voguing for good measure. Maria herself is played by three dancers, both male and female; Elkins cast himself as a b-boying Mother Abbess. Like the singalong Sound of Music, Fräulein Maria mines the comedy of a theatrical institution that is both loved and loathed the world over. The piece, which runs 65 minutes without intermission, makes its West Coast debut here. HEATHER WISNER. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 800-745-3000. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, Jan. 13-15. $27.50-$68.50.
Hangover Helper
Howsabout a little bump-and-grind to match that pounding in your head? Hangover Helper, staged by Frankie Tease and Whitney Streed, offers striptease by Sandria Dore’, plus bellydancing by Tiffany, comedy from Jimmy Newsletter and Gabe Dinger and “little man” entertainment from Burk Biggler (you’ll see when you get there). A Bloody Mary bar and prizes from Lady Luck Tattoo help ease the pain. HEATHER WISNER. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 238-0543. 2 pm Sunday, Jan. 16. $5.
Metro Dance Auditions
In April, Metro Dancers will stage a balletic Alice in Wonderland; this week, the company holds auditions for kids and adults for intermediate and advanced dancing roles (as well as supporting acting characters). Dancers must be at least 6 years old, at least in the first grade and have a minimum of one year’s dance experience; more advanced dancers are asked to bring pointe shoes and stay for an extended audition. Candidates may audition regardless of where they trained. HEATHER WISNER. Portland Metro Arts Center, 9003 SE Stark St., 4080604. 1 pm Saturday, Jan. 15. Free.
Sinferno Cabaret
A fiery combo of striptease, jugglers, magicians and, yes, fire dancers, doused with a bit of classic rock-’n’-roll sleaze. Because, c’mon, it’s Dante’s. Dante’s, 1 SW 3rd Ave., 226-6630. 8:30 pm Sundays. $7. 21+.
So Fresh So Clean III
Mama said brush your teeth: The Pre-Dental Student Organization and Hippoh Project are busting out with So Fresh So Clean III, an ’80s-themed dance party and hip-hop competition. Local DJs Wicked, Mighty Moves and Matt Nelkin spin ’80s hip-hop, breaks and R&B jams to keep the party moving; more serious dancers will battle it out in the Hip-Hop AllStyles and 4-on-4 Breakdance competitions. Proceeds from the event benefit the PSO Elementary School Outreach Program, which brings dental health and hygiene education to low-income kids in local schools. Canned food donations will go to families supported by the Friends of Seasonal and Service Workers. HEATHER WISNER. Portland State University Smith Ballroom, 1825 SW Broadways, 5-10 pm Saturday, Jan. 15. $6-$8.
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PREVIEW
FRÄULEIN MARIA
DOUG ELKINS AND FRIENDS If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, parody must run a close second. How else to explain the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization letting New York-based contemporary choreographer Doug Elkins use the entire Sound of Music score for his Fräulein Maria? Whereas the original musical featured pink-cheeked children cavorting in repurposed curtains, Elkins’ Maria features 12 highly skilled professionals (among them Jefferson Dance alum John Sorenson-Jolink) dancing a gender- and genre-bending mix of modern, ballet and hip-hop, layered with a bit of voguing for good measure. Maria herself is played by three dancers, both male and female; Elkins cast himself as a b-boying Mother Abbess. Like the singalong Sound of Music, Fräulein Maria mines the comedy of a theatrical institution that is both loved and loathed the world over. The piece, which runs 65 minutes without intermission, makes its West Coast debut here. HEATHER WISNER. SEE IT: Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 800-745-3000. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, Jan. 13-15. $27.50-$68.50.
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VISUAL ARTS
JAN. 12-18
= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By RICHARD SPEER. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit show information—including opening and closing dates, gallery address and phone number—at least two weeks in advance to: Visual Arts, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: rspeer@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115. Emailed press releases must be backed up by a faxed or printed copy.
NEWS Talented filmmaker and visual artist Vanessa Renwick is releasing a “best-of” DVD highlighting released and previously unreleased films. Unlike high-dollar works in her superb November show at PDX Contemporary Art, the current DVD is eminently affordable ($25). For 25 clams more, pledgers at the $50 level get the DVD plus one of Renwick’s “Oregon Department of Kick Ass” T-shirts—which really do kick ass. The goods are available on Kickstarter until Feb. 20 at: kickstarter.com/projects/841274803/ north-south-east-west-dvd-films-byvanessa-renwick.
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In the group show 2011, Kristen Miller’s delicate fabric pieces incorporate organdy, fruit wrappers, beads and silk thread. Although some include text in capital letters (TOO SMALL FOR PROFIT,” one of them reads; “SHY BEARER” another), these small-scale works have a lowercase charm. On the adjoining wall, Joe Macca’s graphite drawings are
detailed studies of leaves that make strong use of negative space. Across the gallery, Nancy Lorenz’s gold- and silverleaf works on mirror have a fanciful materiality but would benefit from more compositional focus. PDX Across the Hall, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063. Closes Jan. 29.
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REVIEW
NOW SHOWING Yoonhee Choi
Yoonhee Choi stands out in this exhibition introducing four new members to the long-standing Blackfish collective. Choi’s mixedmedia compositions feature symbols and topographical forms joined by dots and lines. The contrast between wiry, thin connectors and fatter, amoebalike forms is reminiscent of Alexander Calder and Joan Miró. Immaculately matted and framed, the works whisper with elegant finesse. Blackfish, 420 NW 9th Ave., 224-2634. Closes Jan. 29.
Shai Kremer, Natan Dvir
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In Infected Landscape, photographer Shai Kremer records the residue of military conflict within Israeli cityscapes and landscapes. While more photojournalistic than aesthetic in feel, the show nevertheless makes for a thought-provoking contrast to the back-gallery exhibition, Natan Dvir’s Eighteen, a suite of portraits of 18-year-old Arabs who live in Israel. While Kremer’s work homes in on the aftermath of a specific conflict, Dvir’s photos illustrate a universal phenomenon: the mixture of bravado and insecurity endemic to teenagers on the precipice of young adulthood. Blue Sky, 122 NW 8th Ave., 225-0210. Closes Jan. 30.
Ethan Jackson
Ethan Jackson’s remarkable sculptural installation, Strait, features two metallic cones that seemingly interact with one another via projected video of rotating clouds and swirling water. Although the video is distorted as it unfurls on the piece’s main horizontal plane, its perspective corrects when viewed through the cones. The combination of hightech projection, glamorously polished metal and the polar elementality of sky and water combine to evoke a highly abstracted ecosystem. This is a visually intriguing, conceptually sophisticated work that packs a lot of punch into a relatively small scale. Chambers @ 916, 916 NW Flanders St., 227-9398. Closes Jan. 29.
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Anna Von Mertens’ hand-dyed, handstitched cotton rectangles are like quilts made by somebody’s LSDaddled grandma. With their tie-dyelike seepages of eye-boggling color and their blurry, blobby organic forms, they radiate an insistent presence that recalls the glowy concentric circles of the HAL-9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The most asymmetrical piece, Arrangement in Grey and Black’s Aura (Whistler’s Mother), is perhaps the show’s most invigorating. In the back gallery, Hap Tivey’s illusionistic rhomboids, with their shadow-casting sculptural elements, painted borders and projected colors, recall the disorienting, “What exactly am I looking at?” light play of James Turrell. Elizabeth Leach, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521. Closes Feb. 12.
MARK ZIRPEL’S SIBLING AT BULLSEYE
MARK ZIRPEL AT BULLSEYE It’s been six years since Seattle artist Mark Zirpel’s brilliantly creepy Celestial/Terrestrial at Bullseye, but the artist has clearly been busy concocting new nightmares and comedic riffs for his astonishing new show, Queries in Glass. In its breadth, density and sheer invention, this is one of the most breathtaking, head-scratching shows Portland has seen in quite some time, filling (perhaps over-filling) the gallery’s cavernous, windowless upstairs exhibition space with a baffling panoply of mixed-media works. With mad-scientist glee, Zirpel cobbles together inscrutable devices out of rusty gears, wires, wood, glass and other diverse materials. In his Orrery series, spheres revolve around a metal sun, an astronomical theme repeated in Orb Machine, whose optical lenses slowly eclipse one another, hanging from a motor-powered bicycle-wheel device overhead. Nearby, the impish Flying Cochlea traverses a wire just below the ceiling like a robotic tightrope walker. This brand of absurdism manifests as body humor in Sibling, in which liquid-filled jugs rise and fall on hydraulic pillars, tubes connecting and channeling fluid between them like a gastric tract. When the liquids reach key levels within the jugs, crude whistles blow off the excess air inside them, filling the gallery with shrill noise. Among the blown-glass pieces, Rain Organ is the most impressive, an intricate set of hanging vitrines and valves. It looks like a chandelier designed by Rube Goldberg. Meanwhile, the show’s most bizarre piece (which is saying something) is called Bird Transducer and may just be impossible to describe. The basic ingredients are a feather, a fake bird, a glass gramophone horn and an oversized crystal ball straight out of The Wizard of Oz. Somehow, vibrations make parts move, a green laser displays waveforms, there are sounds, there are dazzling visions viewed through the crystal ball, and eventually you get the feeling that there must be a higher meaning to all of Zirpel’s steampunk-flavored arcanum—or else the scientist must truly be mad, God must be dead and the rest of us must have one foot in the asylum. Notably, amid the Mad Max phantasmagoria filling the space’s every cranny, the most effective pieces are the simplest. The kilnformed glass panel called Beach is a rippling reverie in seafoam green, its immaculate execution and thoughtful shadowplay proving that while bells and whistles make a lot of noise, craft and restraint sing even more poetically. RICHARD SPEER. Bells and whistles make for a brilliantly bizarro installation.
SEE IT: Mark Zirpel’s Queries in Glass at Bullseye, 300 NW 13th Ave., 227-0222. Show closes March 26.
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WEDNESDAY, JAN. 12 Richard Settersten
If you are feeling pressure from your parents to stop living in their basement and get a job, perhaps you should share with them Richard Settersten and Barbara Ray’s book, Not Quite Adults: Why 20-Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It’s Good for Everyone. Settersten and Ray argue that these young people still living at home are not mooching off their parents, but using their extra time in the nest to gather credentials and save money for a better future. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.
THURSDAY, JAN. 13 Writers in the Schools
WITS, a program that helps students show off their creative writing, presents its latest anthology: Take My Hand, I Want to Show You Something. The anthology contains poetry, prose, comics and drama, all penned by a wide variety of local high-school students with a passion for writing. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.
Eric Alterman
Disappointed by the Obama admin-
istration? You and about a gazillion other progressives. But Eric Alterman, media columnist for The Nation, argues in Kabuki Democracy that the Obamanator is doing about as well as can be expected within a system corrupted by the “legalized graft” of campaign money, stacked in favor of the status quo, and steeped in right-wing hate speech. How long can windbags like Glenn Beck tell college kids to “shoot to kill” before one in Arizona takes him literally? MATT BUCKINGHAM. Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
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CHRIS CLEAVE INCENDIARY Set in the East End of London, Chris Cleave’s 2005 debut novel, Incendiary, is formatted as a grieving housewife’s letter to Osama bin Laden, asking him to stop his campaign of terror after her husband and son are blown to bits by his suicide bombers at a soccer game. While cheating on her husband, the protagonist looks up at her TV in horror and sees the soccer stadium crumble under a A man writes as a woman cloud of black smoke. In shock, writing to Osama bin Laden. she rushes to the arena, but is trampled by a panic-stricken mob. She soon ends up crawling around in blood and body parts, futilely trying to find her loved ones. They are in pieces, but even more disturbing, perhaps, is Cleave’s description of two opposing fans battling over a famous soccer player’s severed head. “When I saw what they’d been fighting over, I fell unconscious and stayed that way for three days,” Cleave’s narrator writes. The London-based writer—who has written two well-received books, Little Bee and The Other Hand, since gaining attention for Incendiary—stays true to his letter/novel formula. He periodically brings the narration back to rhetoric directed at bin Laden, but at times these instances seem forced, disrupting an otherwise rich and absorbing story line. In all, Incendiary is a gripping work of fiction that may be jarringly similar to many true stories of a post-9/11 world. The book, which was turned into a movie starring Michelle Williams in 2008, also possesses its own eerie backstory: It was coincidentally first published on July 7, 2005, the day of the infamous suicide bombings of the London train stations. LEIGHTON COSSEBOOM. READ: Chris Cleave reads at Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651. 7 pm Friday, Jan. 14. Free. Willamette Week JANUARY 12, 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
All Good Things
52 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? R. AP KRYZA. Hollywood Theatre, Living Room Theaters. NEW
Big Mountains, Big Energy
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Crag Law Center presents three documentaries on the environmental damage of mining. Hollywood Theatre. 6:30 pm Thursday, Jan. 13.
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 is a dom of a director, getting his jollies by brutalizing his characters. He’s the Absent-Minded Sadist, and Black Swan—with its flayed skin and ominous doppelgängers—is Fight Club with feathers. Unfortunately for Portman, she met her director at a very typical time in his life. R. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Eastport, CineMagic, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Lake Twin, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Roseway, Sandy, Tigard.
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[THREE DAYS ONLY, REVIVAL] Weimar-era Marlene Dietrich sings the sexy songs in a top hat and no pants. What more incentive do you need? 5th Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm FridaySaturday, 3 pm Sunday, Jan. 14-16.
Casino Jack
48 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. R. CHRIS STAMM. Fox Tower.
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 soul-smothering 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. PG. AARON MESH. 3-D: Clackamas, Eastport, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Evergreen, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Tigard. 2-D: Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Division, Hilltop, Oak Grove, Sherwood, Wilsonville.
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Country Strong
37 Worst rehab ever: Country crooner Gwyneth Paltrow is whisked out of wooded seclusion by manager/ husband Tim McGraw, who can arrange a stadium tour of Texas but cannot keep a Smirnoff bottle out of his wife’s dressing room. “They think I’m better,” Paltrow murmurs to her lover Garrett Hedlund. “Better than what?” he asks. Better than this script. Writer and director Shana Feste has penned the kind of movie where the main character keeps a baby bird in a cigar box and, once its symbolic meaning is clear (surrogate child!), the baby bird just disappears. Forget the symbolism: I want to see what happens to the goddamn bird. Country Strong is rife with such practical oversights: If you’re going to make a movie about a lady who gets so drunk when five months pregnant that she falls off a 10-foot stage and miscarries, it would be nice if you provided some clue, in the script or in the performance, what causes her to drink. Without any individuality, the movie is like a karaoke cover of tragedy: It sounds familiar, but you may need to get drunk yourself to find it affecting. PG-13. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Eastport, Bridgeport, Lloyd Center, Pioneer Place, Sandy.
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The Dilemma
Vince Vaughn finds out Winona Ryder is cheating on Kevin James. How could this happen? Whatever will he do? We’re still in suspense; it wasn’t screened for critics by WW press deadlines. Look for a review on wweek.com. PG-13. Clackamas, Eastport, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Cornelius, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Sandy, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
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! The Fighter deserves its shot: Director David O. Russell (Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees) announces his intention from the opening bell to out-Scorsese Scorsese with sprinting cameras, Stones songs and charismatic fuck-ups. Fleeing formula like Bale’s Dicky runs from cops, the movie is messy and darting and alive. R. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Eastport, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Cornelius, Division, Evergreen, Lloyd Mall, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub, Tigard, Wilsonville. 89
Forks Over Knives
66 [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 colorful veggies and whole grains and steering clear of meat, dairy and processed grub. It’s an important concept, no doubt, but a common-sense one that has already been shoved down our throats by everybody from Michael Pollan to Jamie Oliver. 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.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
35 It’s artless trash, but the exposition-heavy proceedings are conducted in a funny foreign language, and we all know “international cinema” is syn-
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Sometimes the drugs stop working. Sex doesn’t thrill. A sitcom laugh track grates more than usual because it refers to jokes that aren’t even half-funny anymore. The vague flicker of light illuminating the world’s myriad joys has been snuffed out by an unseen hand. What remains is an indescribable lack, an impossible need that can’t even be called a need, for desire has vanished. It’s called anhedonia, and this inability to experience pleasure, this afternoon shadow of depression—a long, black stretch of nothing attached to searing pain, the worst something—is the subject of Somewhere, Sofia Coppola’s latest dispatch from existential angst’s VIP room. It is a difficult movie, in its quiet way, and I did not like it very much. No, that’s not true—I didn’t like it at all. I hated it, in fact, until a few days ago, when I realized not a night had passed without some stray image from Coppola’s Hollywood fugue intruding and imploring me to reconsider my first impression. This sort of thing happens occasionally—I recall Michael Haneke’s Caché lingering, waiting for me to notice the impact it had made—and it is one of cinema’s more complex and bewitching effects. Somewhere comes loaded with blaring, neon-lit metaphors (many even work), and I am trying to think of a suitably obvious way to describe the strange delayed reaction I experienced. Let’s try this: I was cut with a blade so sharp that the wound did not even ache until it was already scabbing over. Like Coppola’s last two movies, Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette, Somewhere is a slack weave through well-appointed spaces filled with pretty faces, a slow trip into rarefied air too thin to sustain life. Less fixated on the comedy of the exotic (Lost in Translation) and the erotic pull of shoes (Marie Antoinette), Somewhere is the strongest work in Coppola’s “Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems” trilogy, as it manages to make Easy Street look a lot like the places where we live and sometimes don’t want to go on living. OK, this is where I explain what the movie is ostensibly about and you gag a little bit, because a
plot summary of Somewhere reads like a People puff piece about some gilded dickhead’s forged redemption journey. But here goes: Famous actor Johnny Marco (played by sorta-still-famous actor Stephen Dorff ) is living in the Chateau Marmont—Belushi died there, Lindsay Lohan lived there, many beautiful people have enjoyed cocaine there—while promoting his new film and sleepwalking through what appears to be a charmed life. He drinks, he smokes, he drives his Ferrari in circles, he conks out with his tongue inside a gorgeous woman. Money can’t buy happiness, etc. Enter Cleo (Elle Fanning), Johnny Ennui’s 11-year-old daughter, a part-time responsibility who becomes a full-time suitemate when Johnny’s ex-wife skips town on a vague mission of self-improvement. Might Johnny learn that the car and the career and the women mean nothing if he can’t love himself and make lasting, real connections with the people who love him for him? Guess. But disregard—or forgive—the predictable arc and sentimental revelations, because Coppola’s only using them as girders for a weightier proj-
THE STRONGEST WORK IN COPPOLA’S “MO’ MONEY, MO’ PROBLEMS” TRILOGY. ect: rendering emotional vacancy and existential exhaustion as it is actually experienced. This is where I ran into what seemed like glaring problems with the film. The long shots of action and inaction—Johnny driving, strippers stripping while Johnny sleeps, Cleo ice skating, Johnny being fitted for a latex mask—seemed to me to be diaphanous padding for an inconsequential narrative, or tony window dressing borrowed from Chantal Akerman’s too-real realism, some so-slow-it-mustbe-good-for-you catnip for the Kiarostami set. I was busy looking for a character study in a movie that isn’t even attempting to be one. The figure of Johnny Marco, generic secular god of a celebrity culture, functions more as an avatar, a sort of guiding awareness through which we might come to experience and understand one of human nature’s more distressing recesses. That blank middle between us and the world is not an easy place to live, so it seems perfectly appropriate that it took me two weeks to figure out where, exactly, “somewhere” was, and to appreciate what Coppola had to do to get me there. 87 SEE IT: Somewhere is rated R. It opens Friday at Fox Tower.
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The King’s Speech
The sort of awards-season tinsel that opens with a speaking engagement going mortifyingly awry—the youngest son of the House of Windsor (Colin Fifth) cannot make it through a sentence without breaking down in heaving gulps—and ends with a heartswelling proclamation of war. R. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Eastport, 73
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Kings of Pastry
Hell is blown sugar and tempered chocolate. At least, it is for the obsessive French pastry chefs who aspire to attain the rank of Meilleurs Ouvriers de France—”Best Craftsmen in France” of pastries. The honor, which comes with a blue, white and red striped collar that can only be worn by “MOFs” and personal kudos from French President Nicolas Sarkozy, is attained through 61
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Jack Black is bigger than other people. Not screened for critics. PG. 3-D: Clackamas, Eastport, Bridgeport. 2-D: Eastport, Cinema 99, Division, Forest, Hilltop, Sherwood.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
77 Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and BFFs Hermione (Emma Watson) and Ron (Rupert Grint) go on the road, abandoning Hogwarts and all the fine British thespians who reside there. The series’ child actors have spent the past decade in these roles, and it’s refreshing to see them mature. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Broadway, Clackamas, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
I Love You Phillip Morris
Jim Carrey is at his most interesting when he explores a worrisome cavity inside his mania—think of his everyman in The Truman Show suspecting his entire life was as empty as his good-morning waves—so he’s very good as the compulsively recidivist Texas con man Steven Russell, who romances (and tries to spring) a fellow prison inmate. R. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters. 69
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Kagemusha
[FOUR NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] To certain Western eyes, the later pictures of Akira Kurosawa—1980’s Kagemusha and 1985’s Ran especially—represented a pinnacle of “international” cinema. (Among those loyalists were George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola; they funded Kagemusha when Kurosawa ran short on funds, and if you look closely enough at the feudal warlord helmets, you can just make out Lucas sketching costume designs for Return of the Jedi.) A fresh look at Kagemusha, however, suggests that while the potency of its iconography endures, there’s a certain monotony to its grandeur. A new 35 mm print does justice to sights like a mud-soaked scout racing past color-coordinated infantry divisions, but the thin reed of story (a thief’s life is spared so he can play body double for a general) doesn’t justify three hours of pomp and battlefield strategy. Kagemusha lacks the bawdy energy of The Seven Samurai, and even its anti-war message is at a dignified remove; one begins to suspect that most audiences leave congratulating themselves for making it through the montage of dying horses. The contrast of the actors’ exaggerated emoting against the camera’s decorum is surely intentional, expressing Kurosawa’s philosophy of individual helplessness against the tide of history. Whether that worldview is true is another question. I’m not saying the emperor has no clothes. The emperor has plenty of clothes, each outfit more gorgeous than the last. Should that be enough? PG. AARON MESH. Cinema 21. 4:15 and 7:15 pm Friday-Monday, 1 pm Saturday-Sunday, Jan. 14-17. 68
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BLUE VALENTINE I love this movie like Williams loves Gosling.
In Blue Valentine’s most iconic sequence, a love-struck Ryan Gosling positions Michelle Williams underneath a heart-shaped wreath outside a florist shop and croons the Mills Brothers’ “You Always Hurt the One You Love” while plucking a ukulele as she tap dances. It’s their first date. You see the longing, curiosity and affection in their eyes. You want it to last forever. You wish you hadn’t seen the hour that preceded it. You know you’ll soon return to the claustrophobic sex hotel where Gosling’s Dean is trying to re-spark his marriage to Williams’ Cindy. They’ve skipped town to stoke the dying embers of their once-burning flame. They’re drunk and fighting. Their love is strained by his reluctance to grow up and her drowned ambitions: the two things that initially brought them together. You, and they, know their love is all but dead. A film more than a decade in the making, Blue Valentine could well have been torture porn for the heart. Instead, director Derek Cianfrance has crafted a small miracle, a film that reminds us that movies are designed not just to stimulate, but to make us feel— even if those feelings are devastating. Seldom has a film had such an overwhelming sense of reality—aided by a searing soundtrack by Grizzly Bear, and by Cianfrance’s choice to film early encounters with vibrancy and the hotel scenes with frigidity and claustrophobia. It’s impossible not to care about Dean and Cindy, not to both sympathize and chastise their personalities. Of course, none of the emotional impact of Blue Valentine would exist were it not for the shattering performances by Williams and Gosling, who each turn in the best work of their already impressive careers. Gosling’s Dean is a charming layabout striving to be the best husband and father he can, but aspiring to little but chain smoking and drinking at work. Williams’ Cindy is a blown spark plug of a woman who abandons her dreams of becoming a doctor to support Dean and their daughter. Their younger selves are drawn like magnets to one another, while their older selves are bloated and disheveled shadows who get along like fire and gunpowder. Each actor seems crushed under emotional weight, and that weight is shared with the audience. Blue Valentine is not a film to be enjoyed, but neither is it overwhelmingly bleak. It shows us how sometimes the things we love become our own Achilles’ heels, that sweetness can ultimately make the bitter sting even more. From the opening sequence to the beautifully rendered closing-credits montage, it clamps on the heart like an industrial vise, and keeps squeezing long after viewing. It’s a triumph that stings to the core. R. AP KRYZA. 96
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a punishing three-day exam/competition held once every four years, like the Olympics of cream puffs. Co-directed by cinéma vérité titan D.A. Pennebaker (with Chris Hegedus), the film is oddly flat; the digital video washes out both the chefs’ faces and their creations while the irritatingly cheerful score recalls a Rick Steves travel video. KELLY CLARKE. Living Room Theaters.
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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. Broadway, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Cornelius, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Oak Grove, Sandy, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
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70 A question worthy of Henry Higgins: Why do the British make earnest period dramas so much more entertainingly than the Yanks? Another: Why can’t a woman be paid more like a man? Made in Dagenham doesn’t fully resolve either predicament, but it suggests one answer to both problems: Saying “fuck” enough times will improve everything. Meanwhile, I can’t really tell if the smooth sheen of safe nostalgia hurts or harms the message delivery. R. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre.
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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 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 make-believe and kinky sexual fantasy, with random outbreaks of terrible violence from jackbooted intruders. In short, this is a case of art-as-therapy in which the art is wholly accidental and all the more remarkable for it. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters. 78
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[ONE NIGHT ONLY, BENEFIT SCREENING] Libby Spears’ documentary gets right to the horrifying point: an estimated 300,000 American children are forced into the sex trade each year. Kidnapped, videotaped or manipulated into hooking, their stories vary; the damage done is the same. Playground bombards you with interviews and statistics about the overwhelming presence of the trade. Spears weaves in conversations with social workers, police officers and adolescents working the streets with the story of Michelle, an 11-year-old girl dragged underground 10 years ago. She’s still missing. The hardest part of seeing this will not be the haunting stories of children selling their bodies; its true stomach punch comes from recognizing Portland’s streets on the screen, realizing that this is happening around us every day. NATALIE BAKER. Mosiac, 1832 NE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. 6 pm Friday, Jan. 14. Donation suggested to benefit the Nest Foundation open a home for sexually exploited youth. 83
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REEL MUSIC 28 The NW Film Center’s annual music-documentary fest expands across town this week. Here are two standouts: Search and Destroy: Iggy Pop and the Stooges’ Raw Power Could be the fact that I’ve loped through life as a frequently 79 frustrated musician who wants to have a hand in creating at least one perfect song before I die, but I get goose bumps on my brain whenever I watch that scene in Gimme Shelter in which the Stones kick back to listen to a mix of “Wild Horses” that is so good even those arrogant pricks seem shocked by it. Since I’ll probably have to continue to settle for vicarious fulfillment of rock-’n’-roll fantasies, Search and Destroy is, despite its employment of Henry Rollins, about as essential as a glorified episode of Behind the Music can be. Stooges fans are already familiar with the creation myth—Iggy meets Bowie, the Stooges gather in London, Raw Power is born and then gets a Stardust bath before its release, Stooges implode—and this brief hagiography doesn’t add much shading to the tale. But when Iggy—latter-day California Raisin Iggy—sits at a mixing board to listen to the transcendent racket he and his fellow Ann Arbor scumbags put to tape in 1972, the film becomes something more than another slick promotional product destined for a future box set. It becomes a portrait of the artist as an old man who knows he made something mind-blowingly fucking perfect one day. Lucky him. Lucky us. CHRIS STAMM. Mission Theater. 7 pm Thursday, Jan. 13. Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone There’s a scene in Everyday Sunshine in which Angelo Moore 82 is bouncing, in tandem with his tweener daughter, dangerously high on a trampoline in his mother’s backyard in suburban Los Angeles. “There’s cement under, don’t jump so high!” Mrs. Moore yells at the pair. Angelo—who, broke and entering his 40s, has recently moved back home—tries to pull a backflip before landing awkwardly. “Yaaay!” he hollers after taking a hard fall to the ground and curling into a ball. It’s a hilarious moment in a movie that’s jampacked with them. It’s also a metaphor for Angelo Moore’s life as frontman for Fishbone, one of the most influential punk bands of the past 30 years. As indestructible as he seems in concert— often throwing himself into mosh pits, fighting with mic stands and diving off stacks of speakers—his career has had more concretelined downs than ups. Everyday Sunshine attempts to find out why, and discovers that—while the racial politics of the music industry certainly hindered the band—Moore may have just bounced too recklessly for the rest of his group to follow. The film spends as much time following a depressed, hired-guns-packed recent incarnation of Fishbone around the world as it does retracing the band’s middle-school roots, its emergence in the L.A. punk scene and its brief shot at fame. Its core interviews combine to form an intensely personal examination of commercial failure and of what it means to hold on to a dying dream. I honestly can’t remember the last time I came away from a movie feeling so inspired and emotionally drained at the same time. Fishbone fought like hell to make music on its own terms, and its members have nothing but memories to show for their journey. Well, memories and an excellent documentary, anyway. CASEY JARMAN. Whitsell Auditorium. 9 pm Friday, Jan. 14. Director Lev Anderson will attend the screening.
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[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Grindhouse maven Dan Halsted presents William Lustig’s notoriously violent 42nd Street serial-killer flick from 1980. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Saturday, Jan. 15.
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they debut on IFC. Due to popular demand, a second show has been added at 10 pm Friday, Jan. 14. Both shows are sold out. Limited tickets are still available to the Portlandia afterparty/Beer and Movie openingnight gala at @Large Studios, where Colin Meloy of the Decemberists has now been added to the musical lineup. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 and 10 pm Friday, Jan. 14. Sold out.
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Uh-oh. A drama of parental bereavement, starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart as the unlucky couple? From that premise, you might expect a strident dirge, but no. Rabbit Hole is a sensitive movie about coping, about how loss can be a badge of honor that drives people away, and a horrible private joke that brings people close. Sometimes it’s the same people. Like Christian Bale in The Fighter, Nicole Kidman is perfectly cast in a role that transcends a habit of on-screen masochism. As Becca, she plays a proud middleclass mother, whose son was killed in an accident, and who cannot let go of her pride. Eckhart plays her husband Howie, who cannot let go of their son. Becca and Howie raise their voices only once, as they discover this conflict. Director John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Shortbus) and his cinematographer find haunting sterility in cold light, pretty houses, and anguished faces. You’d never know you’re watching a stage play by David Lindsay-Abaire, though you are. It’s American Bergman, the kind of movie Woody Allen likes to think he makes. Unlike Allen, Rabbit Hole accepts the modern hunger for faith, in the form of group therapy, home movies, and the art project that gives the film its title. PG-13. ALISTAIR ROCKOFF. Fox Tower.
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Season of the Witch
Nicolas Cage does battle with the devil’s minions, again—this time with less bees and more swords. Not screened for critics. PG-13. Broadway, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Cornelius, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Sandy, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
The Social Network
Say what you will about Aaron Sorkin, who seemingly hits the “like” button on himself daily, but his script recognizes that rage is our culture’s prevailing mood. Even the haves feel themselves to be havenots. The fury is balanced by Jesse Eisenberg’s delicate performance Trent Reznor’s mournful score, which combine to create a piquancy of regret for things the characters don’t know they’re destroying.PG-13. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre, Lake Twin, Living Room Theaters, Moreland. 94
Summer Wars
A Second Life-ish online world takes over the real world in Mamoru Hosoda’s insane Japanese anime sci-fi romance. The Hollywood is holding both dubbed and subtitled screenings. Hollywood Theatre.
Tangled
60 Few marketing opportunities are missed in Disney’s update of the Rapunzel fairy tale: The opening ballad sounds like Hannah Montana tween twang; a tiny chameleon sidekick is Happy Meal-ready. PG. AARON MESH. 3-D: Lloyd Mall. 2-D: Clackamas, Eastport, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Cornelius, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Oak Grove, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
The Tempest
65 Stage and opera staple Julie Taymor sets Shakespeare’s tale of shipwrecks and double-crossing nobles on a volcanic isle lorded over by a gender-bending, magic-staffwielding Prospero (Helen Mirren as “Prospera”). But despite a powerful performance from Mirren, these stormy waters don’t run nearly deep enough. PG-13. KELLY CLARKE.
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Tiny Furniture
58 Tribeca twentysomething Lena Dunham’s comedy of Tribeca twentysomething malaise has been endlessly scrutinized by Five Boroughs critics. Like many micro-indies, it knows its own hermetic world very well, and can show why it’s funny, but has nothing to compare. 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. Living Room Theaters.
The Tourist
45 It’s official: Johnny Depp has lost his grasp on reality—or, at least, his grasp on real people. After years of inhabiting fantastical characters with personalities that place no limit on how bizarrely he can play them, in The Tourist he portrays a simple American rube—a Wisconsin community college math professor named Frank—and decides to devoid him of any personality at all. His flat performance tanks a film banking its success completely on the natural fireworks that should exist between Depp and co-star Angelina Jolie. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Broadway, Clackamas, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen, Forest, Lloyd Mall, Tigard.
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 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. PG. AP KRYZA. 3-D: Clackamas, Eastport, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Wilsonville. 2-D: Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Sandy, Tigard. 73
True Grit
90 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. The music is Carter Burwell’s elegiac piano settings of the hymn “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms.” In the movie’s culmination, Mattie is herself cradled in great arms, and the shot recalls Wayne at the end of another movie, The Searchers, where his mercy only compensates so much. To appreciate the bleak but not hopeless world the Coens are mapping, you have to recognize both how Mattie is saved, and how much she has lost. PG-13. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Eastport, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Cornelius, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Moreland, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Sandy, Sherwood, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub, Tigard, Wilsonville.
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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!” I should not be surprised at this kind of stripmining. The corpses of Yogi and Boo Boo have been reanimated many times. This time out, the talking bears—the film’s human characters seem underwhelmed by the prospect of bears who speak English; they are, however, impressed by bears who can water-ski—are voiced ably enough by Dan Aykroyd and Justin Timberlake and forced to amble through adventure after joylessly clichéd adventure with nary a nod to the cartoon’s heritage. 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 pic-a-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. 3-D: Clackamas, Eastport. 2-D: Clackamas, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Cornelius, Division, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood
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