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So the City of Portland drained 7.8 million gallons of Bull Run goodness from Mount Tabor Reservoir 1 because some asshat from Molalla peed in it? Fine. But where does all that water go when it’s drained? —Jay Pee I don’t know what bad things Water Bureau Commissioner Randy Leonard did in his previous life, but the indignities he’s suffered as the Aquaman of the City Council Superfriends must have erased his karmic debt by now. Not only did some random dude piss, almost literally, in the Bureau’s Wheaties, dude did so at exactly the moment when Leonard et al. were trying to convince the feds that storing our drinking water in uncovered reservoirs is Totally Not a Big Deal. In answer to your question (before I forget; you know what I’m like), the water drains into the regular sewer system. They have to do this slowly, and when it’s not raining, to make
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think maybe their institutional leadership is lagging behind that.” The passage of the package—which included provisions to expand charter schools; the consolidation of state K-12, community colleges and higher-ed boards into an “Education Investment Board”; the end of the state super“This is by far the most productive education session intendent of schools as an independent, elected position; a for two decades,” says Sen. Mark Hass (D -Beaverton), cutback in Education Service Districts; and an authorizawho chaired the Senate Education Committee and saw tion allowing public schools to offer full-day kindergartwo bills he’s pushed since 2003—full-day kindergarten ten—may not propel Oregon’s schools out of mediocrity and cutbacks to Education Service Districts—finally immediately, but it shows OEA’s clout is diminished. BY NIG E L JAQ UI SS njaquiss@wweek.com Much of that clout comes from the union’s money. win passage. Known by some lawmakers and lobbyists as “No-EA” Since January 2008, state filings show, the teachers’ union The state’s most powerful political force got rolled in the for its resistance to change, the teachers’ union engaged has spent more than $8.5 million on political campaigns, in an all-out effort to preserve the status quo in a session including more than $1.1 million to help Kitzhaber win 2011 Legislature. Last week, Gov. John Kitzhaber and his allies rammed where an evenly divided House (each party has 30 seats) last year. That is far more than any other group, public or a dozen education bills through roadblocks erected by the and a tiny Senate majority for Democrats (16-14) made private (see “Your Teacher is F’d,” WW, March 23, 2011). “Right now, if you’re a Democratic legislator in Oregon, 48,000-member Oregon Education Association. gridlock likely. But balance also meant that if a couple of A coalition of Kitzhaber, House Republicans, a few Democrats ignored OEA’s wishes, big changes could occur. your political future is largely determined by your relationship with OEA. That’s a fact,” says Sue Democrats willing to buck the teachers’ Levin, a lobbyist for the education advounion, and newly emboldened interest “I THINK THE MESSAGE FOR OEA MIGHT BE, ‘YOU’VE cacy group Stand for Children. groups handed the OEA its biggest policy OEA’s investment in Kitzhaber prosetbacks in years. GOT TO CHANGE THE WAY YOU LOBBY—YOU CAN’T vided the group with access—no interest “There is a strong desire for real JUST BE AGAINST THINGS.” —REP. BRIAN CLEM group or leader shows up on the govermovement forward on education, and nor’s calendar more often than OEA and people were willing to break a few eggs to get there,” says Rep. Chris Garrett (D-Lake Oswego), “I think the message for OEA might be, ‘You’ve got its executive director, Richard Sanders, who met with one of three Democrats who voted “yes” on HB 2031, a to change the way you lobby—you can’t just be against Kitzhaber six times in the first half of 2011. But OEA erred early on with Kitzhaber. In 2010, the controversial online charter-school bill that catalyzed the things,’” says Rep. Brian Clem (D-Salem), who joined Garrett and House Co-Speaker Arnie Roblan (D-Coos Bay) in union endorsed Kitzhaber’s chief rival, former Secretary breakthrough. of State Bill Bradbury, in the Democratic gubernatoTo be sure, OEA successfully pushed for a $175 mil- voting for HB 2031. Garrett, Clem and other lawmakers say they think rial primary. Even in the face of multibillion-dollar state lion increase in the K-12 budget over Kitzhaber’s opening proposal, and the union helped forestall any significant there is a significant gap between rank-and-file teachers’ budget deficits, Bradbury, who had little chance to defeat changes to the Public Employees Retirement System this desire to change the way K-12 education currently works Kitzhaber, promised big K-12 funding increases. In May, Kitzhaber’s staff drew up a list of about a dozen session. But in terms of educational politics, this session and OEA’s intransigence. “I’ve sensed more openness on the part of teachers education bills. Crucially, that list included three bills on saw substantive bills that have been stymied for many seswho are in the classroom every day,” Garrett says. “I sions zip through.
GOV. KITZHABER’S SCHOOL REFORMS MARK A DECLINE IN TEACHERS’ UNION INFLUENCE.
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charter schools that were important to Republicans—and unacceptable to OEA. The union said it would oppose Kitzhaber’s top education priority—Senate Bill 909, which establishes the Education Investment Board—if the charter-school bills remained part of a package. (OEA particularly disliked the bills because charter schools can employ non-union teachers and online charters employ few teachers of any kind. The union opposed Education Service District changes because OEA members could lose their jobs, and it worries that the loss of an elected state superintendent and creation of an Education Investment Board would dilute OEA’s political influence.) In recent sessions, opposition by OEA killed bills. But Kitzhaber—whose prolific veto pen won him the nickname “Dr. No” during his previous tenure as governor—told Republicans he would sign any education bill in the package that got to his desk. OEA spokeswoman Becca Uherbelau says her group is very disappointed with some of the bills that passed and the governor’s intention to sign them. “Since educators, parents and school leaders were cut out of the discussions the governor had, we don’t know what was promised,” Uherbelau says. “But it’s a bad deal for students, and Oregonians who value education will be disappointed with the result.” Kitzhaber overcame OEA’s opposition with the strong support of such groups as Stand for Children, the Chalkboard Project and the Oregon Business Association, whose interest in previous sessions focused far more on funding than reform. House Education Committee co-chairman Matt Wingard (R-Wilsonville) points to the emergence of Stand for Children— which in the past had primarily rallied parents to fight for greater funding—as pivotal. “The dramatic, rapid evolution of Stand for Children as a force for real change surprised me and a lot of other people,” says Wingard, who works for an online charter school when not legislating. “Even after this session started, I saw [Stand] as too close to OEA, but I was wrong,” Wingard adds. How OEA will react—by changing its tactics, punishing rebellious Democrats or embracing reform, as affiliates in Illinois, Ohio and Delaware have done—is unclear. “Our members support people who support public education,” Uherbelau says. “Our scorecard will reflect the votes people took [on charter bills].” Levin hopes Stand for Children can provide financial support to lawmakers who have dared oppose the union. “We have commitments to our political action committee far in excess of anything we’ve ever raised in the past,” Levin says. (Those commitments won’t become cash until later this year, but in far-bigger Illinois, Stand raised $4 million this year.) Levin credits Chalkboard, OBA and legislators for working together to move an agenda, but says Kitzhaber made the real difference. “The conditions were right, and the governor pounced,” Levin says. “He cajoled and hammered and supported through the deal.”
OEA INFLUENCE BY THE NUMBERS Number of registered lobbyists: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Largest contribution to 2010 House candidate: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Doug Ainge, Hillsboro ($83,000, lost) Contributions to Reps. Chris Garrett and Brian Clem: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,500, Garrett; $750, Clem
Total 2010 Contributions: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3.01 million
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Factor by which OEA’s donations exceed those of the next-biggest legislative campaign donor, SEIU: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Total 2010 OEA Contributions to Republican candidates: ..... $4,000 Contributions to Bill Bradbury, Kitzhaber’s primary opponent: . . . . . . . . . . . ...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $50,000 Source: Followthemoney.org, Oregon Ethics Commission
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CHARLIE HALES
AFTER 10 YEARS, THE FORMER COMMISSIONER EYES A RETURN TO CITY HALL. W W S TA F F
WW: If you were a betting man, what sort of odds would you have placed in 2002 on whether you’d be running for mayor? Charlie Hales: I would’ve placed less than a onethird chance that I would run for office again. So what happened? I love this city, and I’ve watched it drift for the last seven years. So the city is in worse shape today than you thought it would be when you left office? Yes. Definitely. One of the things I’ve seen in my work is that even a great city can’t sit still. You can’t just keep living off of the initiatives and the risk people took in the past. And that’s what Portland seems to be doing now. The current climate in City Hall is one in which there’s an initiative of the week. Very few are completed. And there’s little substantive progress. Can you be more specific? How are we doing with respect to our highschool graduation rate? Isn’t education outside the purview of the mayor? It is, formally. But you can make it a priority, you can bring people together, and you can get some stuff done.
CHARLIE IN CHARGE: The former commissioner says Portland is adrift.
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Too early for 2012 election coverage, you say? Well, the people campaigning to unseat Portland Mayor Sam Adams are already busy raising money and sending out junk mail. It’s widely assumed Adams is in deep political trouble if he seeks a second term. Three candidates have so far declared in the mayoral race. One is New Seasons co-founder Eileen Brady. Another a 19-yearold novelty candidate, Max Brumm. The third—and the only one with local government experience—is Charlie Hales. Hales, 55, a former lobbyist for home builders, won a seat on the Portland City Council in 1992, where he became best known for championing light rail and parks, and fighting to reform the Fire Bureau. He was re-elected twice and resigned his seat in 2002. He is now vice president at HDR, a national engineering firm, advocating for masstransit projects similar to those he pushed while in City Hall. In this edited interview, Hales talks to WW about where he thinks Portland has gone wrong, his concerns about the Portland Police Bureau (now facing a civil rights review by the U.S. Department of Justice), and—surprisingly—his opposition to the Columbia River Crossing, a $3.6 billion plan for a new I-5 bridge at the OregonWashington border. See excerpts of Hales’ interview at wweek.com/hales.
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Could you give some other examples of where the city is adrift? How do we build an employment future here in Portland? We are still a manufacturing city. We still make steel. We still make barges. We still make pipe and wire and parts for airplanes. I’d like to see us grow that manufacturing base again. When you’re talking to employers, and you ask them what can the city do to help you grow, what do they tell you? Listen. Pay attention not just to industry in other countries but industry here. Give us some clarity as to what the rules are. Rules as to what? Land use? Land use. Permitting. So, City Commissioner Randy Leonard’s efforts to streamline permitting— Partially successful. Only partially. Again, I see some other cities that have done a better job. Ralph Becker, the mayor of Salt Lake, he hired somebody specifically to do this: to have a permitting process that is entirely paperless. Our inspectors go out each morning with a piece of paper. Theirs go out with an iPad. The Portland Police Bureau is being investigated by the feds. How do you turn around the bureau, which some people don’t seem to trust? It’s sad, actually, that the level of trust between the Police Bureau and the neighborhoods has fallen so much. My impression of Chief [Mike] Reese is that he’s a good guy. But the culture of the bureau that was created by Chief Moose,
the last time we had a gang problem—of really working with the neighborhoods, and spending as much time as possible on crime prevention and trying to spend less time chasing 911 calls—I think we need to get back to that model. I want to turn over every rock in terms of what rules of engagement people use when they’re out there in the field. Is it OK to shoot if a gun’s not being pointed at you? There’s been a lot in the news lately about the Water Bureau, and revenues from water rates going to programs that may not be directly related—do you have any thoughts about that? Those funds cannot be used as an ATM for whatever initiative the Council wants to advance this week, whether it’s buying more green space or funding scholarships. And would that stop if you were mayor? Yes. They’d compete for it in the general fund—period. What are your feelings about the Columbia River Crossing bridge project? The CRC has just been painful to watch. The city has essentially ceded its leadership to the [Oregon and Washington departments of transportation], and now the two governors are taking this project forward. If I’d been mayor, I’d have tried to have had a lot more influence over the outcome. If you were mayor now would you support the CRC in its current form? No. Do you believe a new bridge is necessary? I believe it is. But the light-rail portion is critical. Clark County voters have to agree on funding light rail. And we have to have tolls in place for this thing to work. Instead, we just started engineering. Is it your sense that the move of the Portland Development Commission under the umbrella of City Hall has not been a good one? With the PDC, it is time to take a deep breath and say, “OK, what do we need urban renewal for?” PDC did great things downtown. Can you make the case that that’s still needed downtown? Not really. Are there places in Portland where that sort of tool might make sense, like 82nd Avenue or 122nd Avenue? I think we might want to really radically reconsider what’s urban renewal for—and not keep gerrymandering the boundaries downtown so we can fund another cool project. Do you have a sense of the city’s fiscal condition? My sense is, the city is in reasonably good condition, but there are some weaknesses, and one of those is, we’ve put a lot of things on our VISA card. We don’t really have a general-fund capital budget. So parks, for example,…always CONT. on page 13
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CITY HALL competes at the end of the budget process for some bits and scraps. Are there some bureaus that may be worse than others? We still have battalion chiefs in the Fire Bureau, for example. Battalion chiefs are there because when there’s a really big fire, somebody needs to take command of the fire. We have two of them on duty at any given moment. That position existed before these things did—[pulls out his cell
phone]—and the chief has one of these. I’ve probably just caused the firefighters’ union to oppose me—but stuff like that needs to be examined. What programs are getting general funding now that you’d lop off to make room for structural funding for parks and other things? There’s one that comes to mind, which is the Office of Equity. I don’t think we should incarcerate “equity” in some cubicles in
WHERE CHARLIE HAILS FROM Charlie Hales was a Washington state resident for tax purposes from 2004 to 2009. Hales confirmed this June 27, in response to questions WW asked him in an interview the previous week. At the time, Hales lived in Stevenson, Wash.—in a home owned by his wife, Nancy, whom he married in 2004. Hales said he lived there because his wife did, but it’s also likely that by doing so, Hales avoided paying some taxes. Washington state doesn’t have an income tax. This means that for those years that he was a Washington resident, Hales did not have to pay Oregon income taxes on dividends or capital gains. It also means he did not have to pay Oregon income taxes on that portion of his salary that was earned outside Oregon. During the time in question, Hales was employed by HDR, a large engineering and consulting firm with offices all over the globe. Hales worked out of the Portland office, but he says that most of his work was done elsewhere.
the bureaucracy. It’s an operating principle that everybody ought to adhere to. You have said Adams’ views aren’t that different from yours. But you’ve used the word “integrity” to note a difference. Can you elaborate? I’m going to run a positive campaign and say, “Here I am.” I don’t think I need to be painfully reminding people about every problem that Sam Adams has had.
“Although most of my work was carried out in other parts of the country, I paid Oregon income taxes for the portion of my time that I was working in Oregon. My income was my HDR salary,” Hales tells WW in an email. (Read the rest at wweek.com/hales.) Had he been an Oregon resident, Hales would’ve had to pay Oregon income taxes on all the money he earned on the road. “When you’re an Oregon resident, you are taxed on all the income that you earn, and it doesn’t matter if you are working for a company in Oregon that sends you out of town a lot, or you move to Wyoming for six months to work in a coal mine or something,” Oregon Department of Revenue spokeswoman Rosemary Hardin says. Hales’ tax preparer, Arnold Polk, tells WW that the candidate and his wife filed their Oregon taxes as Washington state residents “because that’s where they were living. When Charlie married Nancy, he moved to Washington.” As for the benefit of not having to pay Oregon income taxes on money earned out of state, Polk says, “I don’t
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The mayor has the authority of the office, but do you think he’s leading the city? The way you lead the city is you build agreement. Do you think he’s doing that? No. Eileen Brady…do you have any thoughts about her you want to share? Nice person!
think that was Charlie’s motivation.” Cross-border tax avoidance last year hurt Chris Dudley, the Republican nominee for governor, who established a Camas, Wash., address while playing for the Portland Trail Blazers in the 1990s. “In 2007, with the kids all gone from home,” Hales says, referring to children he and Nancy had from previous marriages, “we began a transition, where we bought and remodeled our house on Southeast 27th Avenue and gradually started living here more.” The email goes on: “Your questions caused us to review in detail what we have just been doing as a practice in these gradually changing family circumstances. We have asked [our family accountant] to take another look at 2008 and 2009 to make sure we did those years correctly.” In a Thursday, June 23, interview with WW, Hales said he had always been an Oregon resident for tax purposes, and had lived in his Southeast Portland home since purchasing it in 2007. “I’ve never changed my residency for tax purposes,” Hales said on Thursday. On Monday, that story changed. – Corey Pein
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Two of the city’s public-housing agencies have told their tenants they cannot smoke medical marijuana in their apartments and houses. The warnings from REACH Community Development and Home Forward (formerly known as the Housing Authority of Portland) have drawn a line for the first time as the federal government continues to apply pressure to limit use of medical marijuana in Oregon. Home Forward has started telling tenants of its 6,200 units that smoking medical marijuana in their residences could get them evicted, even if they had been given prior permission to do so. But they can use medical marijuana in other forms. The letter says the ban will start in November. REACH has gone a step further, telling residents they cannot use medical marijuana in any form if their unit receives a federal subsidy or if they rely on a Section 8 housing voucher, also funded by a federal program. REACH officials didn’t return calls from WW. But Dianne Quast, Home Forward’s director of real estate, says her organization has been waiting for federal guidance out of fear it would violate state law if it denied tenants the right to use medical marijuana, or federal law if it allowed such use. She says Home Forward simply decided to fold marijuana into its general nonsmoking policy, which it put in place a year and a half ago. “We were stuck between two laws,” Quast says. The housing providers’ notices follow a series of warnings to states from U.S. attorneys, including Oregon’s Dwight Holton, that medical-marijuana dispensaries may violate federal drug laws. “It’s really disappointing, and I’m not sure, frankly, that it’s lawful or constitutional,” says Leland Berger, a lawyer who helped draft Oregon’s medical marijuana law and now represents patients and providers statewide. “It wouldn’t surprise me to see more litigation.” Marijuana is still illegal under federal law, and that’s meant federal agencies and U.S. prosecutors
have been at odds with state and local governments in the 16 states and District of Columbia where the drug is approved for use. Early in the Obama administration, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said the U.S. Justice Department would not interfere with medical-marijuana operations under state law. But this year, the Justice Department signaled a change, telling governors of medical-marijuana states it would do more to police the drug’s use. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, sent a memo in January to organizations it subsidizes, says Donna White, national spokeswoman for the agency. In Oregon, those agencies run about 44,000 housing units, home to between 88,000 and 132,000 people. In the memo, HUD leaves the decision to evict medical-marijuana users to housing providers, but it forbids them from granting “reasonable accommodation” for its use. Reasonable accommodation protects people with a disability from eviction—until now, that included anyone with a medical-marijuana card. Home Forward says it won’t seek any evictions. REACH’s ban on medical marijuana in any form in its HUD -subsidized properties could mean users would be kicked out. HUD also directs housing providers to deny applicants who disclose they use medical marijuana. For Home Forward, that means it must also deny such applicants for Section 8 vouchers, which subsidize rent for private properties. “So we simply don’t ask,” Quast says. Leland Jones, HUD’s regional spokesman in Seattle, says the memo stems from his agency’s efforts to clarify federal policy toward medical marijuana as states expand its use. “It’s important that all partners receiving federal assistance know what our rules of the game are,” Jones says. Some housing providers were probably confused before the memo, he adds. Some still are. Human Solutions is a Portlandbased nonprofit that accepts Section 8 vouchers, but officials there don’t know what the policy means for them. “We are aware of the ruling, but it was unclear from our point of view whether it was imposed on us,” says Jean DeMaster, Human Solutions’ director. “As a result, we’ll continue to serve people who use medical marijuana as long as they have the marijuana card.”
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A PROSECUTOR IMPOSES A MAXIMUM SENTENCE— LACED WITH THREATS AND PROFANITY. Here at the Rogue desk, we understand the practice of law is a stressful profession. But for threatening a fellow lawyer and his client, Clark County Deputy Prosecutor Jim David lands square in the dock as this week’s Rogue. On March 3, a Clark County sheriff’s deputy arrested 29-yearold Matthew Coonce in Vancouver for possession of meth and stealing a car. He pleaded not guilty. On May 25, Coonce’s attorney, John Terry, pushed for Coonce’s case to go to trial the following week. That took the prosecutor, David, by surprise. The next day, David left Terry a profanity-laced, two-minute voice-mail message in which he complained that going to trial would force David to “cancel my weekend.” “You’ve been telling me you wanted a continuance on the goddamn case, and now you are telling me you want to go to trial next week. That’s bullshit,” the prosecutor said in the message. “I’m fucking laying you out.... It’s coming out of your client’s hide if I have to go to trial next week, and there ain’t going to be no stinking offers, there ain’t going to be nothing coming other than go to prison for a very long time.” Terry filed a motion May 27 asking the court to dismiss the case. Terry alleged in the motion that David had committed the crime of telephonic harassment and had “demonstrate[d] the prosecution’s willingness to use any measure, including criminal activity against the defendant’s attorney, to gain a conviction.” David apologized to Terry in person, and Clark County Superior Court Judge Barbara Johnson denied the motion to dismiss the case. Coonce went to trial May 31. A jury found him guilty. Because of David’s voice mail, the prosecutor’s office has agreed that another prosecutor will represent the state at the sentencing hearing, scheduled for July 22. David, a 27-year prosecutor, says that when he left the message, he was working extra hours to open an elder-abuse center in Clark County. He called his outburst an “aberration.” “You try working 60 hours a week,” David says. “I hope you understand the frustration, but that was not the right thing to say.... It was not a high point of anyone’s career.” “I’ve never been spoken to with such disrespect and profanity,” Terry says. “But I’ve accepted his apology, and I’ve moved on.” And the prosecutor’s lesson in all of this? “Don’t vent to a phone,” David says.
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GARBAGE PATROL: Illegal dump sites around the Portland metro area; (center) Det. Bobby Heaukulani.
TRASH COP BOBBY HEAUKULANI IS THE ONLY DETECTIVE IN THE NATION INVESTIGATING ILLEGAL DUMPS. BY JAM ES P I TK I N
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Growing up on Army bases in the South, Bobby Heaukulani’s favorite TV show was Hill Street Blues. He liked to play with BB guns. When asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, he always said policeman. When Heaukulani (“Huk” for short) was 13, his dad got transferred to a military base in Hawaii, the family’s ancestral home. There, Heaukulani got to spend time with his uncle, who was on a fast rise
through the Honolulu Police Department—eventually retiring as assistant chief. Huk grew into a mountain of a man. He played fullback and linebacker in high school, then got recruited as a tailback to Linfield College by legendary coach Ad Rutschman. Oregon has been Heaukulani’s home ever since. In 1989, he became a cop. CONT. on page 20
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“The camaraderie, the brotherhood, being in a job that benefits people. I know it sounds hokey, but that’s why I got into it—to try to make the world a better place,” says Heaukulani, 52. For 12 years, he worked as a cop in Tigard. For his last 10 years, he investigated crimes against children—mostly sex abuse by family members. That assignment chews through most cops in a matter of a few years. “He gained a reputation all across the region as one of the very best at working those kinds of cases,” says Tigard Police Lt. Erick Boothby, one of Heaukulani’s former partners. “He’s the guy that will always do the right thing.” Four years ago, Huk burned out. “For a long time I didn’t take a vacation. When there’s children being hurt, you don’t feel like you can take that time off,” says Heaukulani, who lives in Tigard with his wife and two sons. “I didn’t care about anything else but working my cases,” he says. “I thought, I’m holding on too tight here.” So, three years ago, he switched beats. Now, instead of fulfilling his childhood dream busting murderers, he’s probably the only detective in America who works full-time investigating illegal garbage dumping. Discarded futons, worn-out tires, construction debris and bags of household trash—that’s the medium Huk has worked with for the past three years. When they’re dumped on public property in the Portland metro area, his mission is to track down the perpetrators and hit them with fines. A sense of humor is de rigueur for a cop, whether he’s busting child abusers or finding serial litterers. “I’ve heard people say, ‘You worked with garbage before, and you’re working with garbage now,’” Huk quips.
TIRED OUT: Heaukulani tours RB Recycling in North Portland. Illegally dumped tires are some of his hardest cases.
Marine Drive, all the way from 148th Avenue to Blue Lake Park in Gresham. Metro officials say the tires were spaced every 10 to 15 feet along the roadside, as if they had been pushed out of a moving vehicle. The case remains unsolved. On the milder side of the spectrum lies Barak Hen. In early June, Hen, a 34-year-old locksmith, made a costly mistake. After filling a dumpster with unwanted items from a house he had recently purchased in Southeast Portland, he put two couches and a plush chair that wouldn’t fit in the dumpster in a vacant lot next door. Hen’s attitude: The furniture was still in good condition. Eventually someone might take it. His thoughtless trash toss brought an orange-vested inmate work crew to clean up the mess. Eventually, it led to a two-
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The dumps Heaukulani investigates range from the alarming to the seemingly innocuous—from hazardous materials like paint and oil dumped into stream beds and other environmentally sensitive areas, to old furniture abandoned on neighborhood curbsides. One extreme case came on the night of April 29, 2009, when someone dumped more than 200 tires along Northeast
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week investigation and a $404 citation from Heaukulani. When Heaukulani caught up with Hen on a recent Monday afternoon outside the house on Southeast Ramona Street, Hen admitted dumping the furniture but was furious about the fine. “I didn’t do anything wrong,” he insisted. One month earlier, Amy Stewart was equally outraged when Heaukulani questioned her about using yard debris to fill a pothole on the unpaved city street outside her house in Northeast Portland. “The city won’t fill these potholes, and when we do, the police come? Unbelievable,” Stewart says. In a moment of mercy, Huk let her off without a fine. Bespectacled and walking with a slight hunch, Steve Kraten has the soft voice, shy demeanor and tendency to slip into bureaucratic speak that mark him as a 22-year employee of the Metro regional government. As the agency’s longtime solid-waste enforcement coordinator, Kraten remembers how Metro became the only agency in the country that actively investigates trash dumpers. Among other duties, Metro is in charge of disposing of the region’s garbage. It regulates transfer stations and recycling centers, and collects fees to help pay for it all. In 1993, revenue from those fees was dropping. Officials figured more people were dodging Metro’s trash-disposal system— mainly contractors. So they started a program aimed at increasing Metro’s so-called flow control over the trash stream, though they were smart enough not to call it that. “Flow control is kind of an esoteric thing,” Kraten says. “Illegal dumping is
something that people can understand.” Today it’s called RID Patrol, which stands for Regional Illegal Dumping. Metro officials say it’s the only program of its kind in America. Other places have tried to reduce illegal dumping, but Metro officials believe no other government agency has detectives like Heaukulani working to investigate dumps and track down the culprits. The program cleans up more than 2,000 illegal dumps a year and costs taxpayers about $500,000 a year. That money goes to pay for Metro administrative salaries, disposal fees, maintaining two cleanup trucks, and paying the salaries of three detectives and two jail deputies who supervise the inmate work crews that clean up the dumps. Two other detectives police construction sites and other large-scale waste producers. Relying on snitches and evidence collected by jail crew members—some of it highly personal—Heaukulani tracks down about 60 illegal small-time dumpers each year, hitting them with fines of up to $500, plus the cost of the cleanup and disposal. The latter can amount to hundreds of dollars, or more in extreme cases. Since Heaukulani starting working the trash beat in 2008, he has written around 200 citations for a total of more than $72,000. But less than half of that actually gets collected by Metro. The rest goes to a collections agency. Kraten says the program wasn’t intended to be a money-maker in itself. Its purpose is to enhance Metro’s income from legitimate garbage disposal. It’s hard to imagine a more Portlandesque program than this: Police are used to track down environmental ne’er-dowells—all in an effort to boost the government’s ability to collect money. CONT. on page 23
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CONT. But besides bolstering Portland’s nanny-state tendencies, the RID patrol also exemplifies some of our best qualities—few places take garbage and its environmental impacts as seriously as we do. Although the Legislature this year whiffed on passing what would have been America’s first statewide ban on plastic grocery bags, Portland consistently ranks No. 1 in the nation among green cities— partly for our robust recycling program and consistently high recycling rate. The RID program sparks controversy among those who are caught in its web. But rest assured: If you dump trash, Heaukulani and his team will be out to nail you. And their tactics may raise some eyebrows.
MATTRESS WORLD: Inmates haul away a dumped mattress near Lone Fir Cemetery in Southeast Portland.
usually go to the trash’s original owners. They get three weeks to make a payment plan or schedule an administrative hearing. Metro has learned some lessons in the 18 years it’s run the program. Some are curiosities. January and June are the worst months for illegal dumping. People get rid of their unwanted stuff after the holidays and during the first warm weekends of spring. Others are more sinister. Thieves have stolen every surveillance camera Metro has set up in popular dump sites to catch polluters. Metro has two tips for residents who don’t want to be slapped with a fine for dumping. Don’t pay anyone to haul your trash unless you know who they are, and they agree to provide a receipt from the landfill. And don’t dump your old couch on the curb.
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Metro’s fleet includes two heavy-duty pickups with trash-hauling trailers hitched to the back. Each transports a two-man inmate work crew and a jail deputy. They show up at reported trash sites or, lacking those, cruise around to the region’s repeat dumping grounds. (Go to wweek.com for a map of Portland’s top illegal dump sites.) If a dump’s on public land, they throw the trash into the trailer and haul it to a transfer station. (They don’t clean dumps on private land using taxpayer dollars.) The deputies record GPS coordinates for each dump, as well as the size and the time it takes to clean up. Those factor into the fine. Inmates search the trash for any evidence to identify the owner. That often includes unopened mail, unpaid bills, catalogs with a street address or prescription pill bottles. More unusual examples have included computer hard drives. “My favorite: fully completed job applications. We’ve gotten a few of those,” says Tiffany Gates, assistant solid waste planner at Metro. To date, there has been no testing for fingerprints on old tires or DNA from mattresses. “Give us a grant and we’ll do it,” Gates says. The evidence goes to Heaukulani, who builds a case and tracks down the owners of the trash. They often blame a third party they say either stole their garbage or was paid to haul it to a landfill. If those haulers can be found, they sometimes get cited. But they often never even exist. And regardless of excuse, the citations
CHOP SHOP: Jail inmate Byron Brown prepares to cut up an armchair dumped near Southeast Powell Boulevard.
People leaving their furniture on the street is a common problem. When they’re busted, violators accuse Heaukulani of opposing sustainable re-use. Indeed, many Portlanders tend to regard the practice of putting freebies on the curb as a quirky part of the recycling culture. But Metro says it’s dumping, plain and simple. “I love re-use, but we ask that you keep it on your porch and put it on Craigslist,” Gates says. “It rains a lot in Portland, in case you haven’t noticed. As soon as a sofa or mattress gets wet, believe me, nobody wants it.” On a chilly Tuesday afternoon in mid-June, Byron Brown and Yordan Araujo-Coppinger ride through town in a rig marked RID Patrol, cleaning up illegal dumps for $1 a day. Both men reside at Inverness Jail. Brown is serving six months for driving under the influence—his third DUII conviction. Araujo-Coppinger is doing 60 days for violating a restraining order. In a grassy field near Portland International Airport, the two locate a dump reported the day before by City of Portland workers: a discarded beige sofa, an empty plastic suitcase, five car tires and a ruststained mattress. While Araujo-Coppinger rolls the tires out of the waist-high grass, Brown uses a curved-blade utility knife to attack the sofa, cutting it into pieces that will fit in the truck. He also searches inside the sofa for evidence of who left it. Brown finds nothing but a 1977 Mexican one-peso coin—“lunch money,” he says, slipping it into the pocket of his khaki coveralls. The inmates who comb Portland’s illegal dump sites for clues sometimes make juicier finds. What about those bank receipts,
personal letters and hard drives? Metro downplays any danger that inmates will misuse the information. The inmates on trash detail are considered low-risk and receive time off their sentences if they perform well. Deputies say no inmate has attempted to escape from garbage detail. But they have balked at some tasks, such as cleaning up human waste, used needles, vomit and feces at homeless camps. “I always tell my guys, ‘I’ll never have you do anything I wouldn’t do,’” says Deputy Gordon Glasser. “But, unfortunately, I am in charge.” Heaukulani starts most days in Metro headquarters on Northeast Grand Avenue, where he picks out a handful of the roughly 40 cases he has open at a given time. A file on his computer is labeled “Huk’s Hit List”— five cold cases he still hopes to crack. He starts by working on the freshest reports, because people often dump trash as they’re about to leave town. Combing law-enforcement databases, using Internet searches and working the phones, he tries to connect clues from dumps to the people behind them. He needs to build a case that will hold up at a hearing. “Mail is the best. It’s hard to explain how your mail got into somebody else’s garbage,” Heaukulani says. “Tires are the hardest. They’re almost impossible to trace back.” Two unsolved dumps still gnaw at Heaukulani. Both are from 2008. In the first, a man dumped a junky motorboat on Northeast Ainsworth Street. He chained it to a stop sign and drove away in his rig, causing the boat to fall off the trailer onto the road. In the second, a man left behind a used boat full of tires. Heaukulani had CONT. on page 25 Willamette Week JUNE 29, 2011 wweek.com
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On May 25, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality reported an illegal dump of old paint cans on Southeast Evergreen Street. An inmate work crew found an address written on one of the cans: 7030 SE 76th Ave. Heaukulani arrived at that address on June 3 and saw a man on a pink bicycle leaving. Heaukulani found the resident, Mark Freimark. Freimark recognized photos of the paint cans and said he’d hired a man to dispose of the cans. Heaukulani had heard that story many times before and often doubted it. But Freimark told Heaukulani the man he’d hired was the guy on the pink bike. Heaukulani cruised the neighborhood and found David Hallstead, age 55—the man on the pink bike. Hallstead told Heaukulani that Freimark had paid him $20 to get rid of the cans. Heaukulani fined him $300. When WW caught up with Hallstead, he was sitting on his porch in a red flannel shirt, soiled jeans and a baseball cap. He said he makes a modest living doing yard work for neighbors, adding he’s had to work harder to pay off the fine. As he stared at the ground and kicked a plastic swan lying in his yard, Hallstead insisted it was the first time he’d dumped illegally. “It was a bad thing, and I learned my lesson,” Hallstead said. “That’s all I really have to say.”
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On Feb. 4, an employee at Vernon Elementary School in Northeast Portland emailed Metro to report someone had been placing garbage in the school’s dumpster for three months. The school locks the dumpster at night,
but the person was prying up the lid. A custodian had found a catalog addressed to 5216 NE 19th Ave. Heaukulani called Waste Management and learned that address has no garbage service. Heaukulani arrived at the house and spoke with Walter Hudson, age 53. Hudson admitted to dumping the trash and said he can’t afford garbage service, according to Heaukulani’s report. Heaukulani fined Hudson $150. When WW knocked at Hudson’s house on a recent Sunday afternoon, he stepped outside onto the porch. A social gathering was going on inside, and the smell of marijuana smoke was in the air. “I ain’t got no comment,” Hudson said.
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On March 31, a Metro employee at the St. Johns Landfill reported two separate dumps just off the Columbia Slough boat ramp. The largest included garbage, tires, blue painted wood and mail addressed to 7330 SE 113th Ave. Nobody was home at that address when Heaukulani arrived on April 7, but the wood garage was the same color as the dumped wood and had new siding on the front. “It was obvious,” Heaukulani wrote in his report, “that the dumped wood came from this location.” On April 19, Heaukulani returned and showed homeowner Benjamin Capps pictures of the dump. Capps agreed it was his trash and told Heaukulani that he had sold a truck for scrap metal on the condition that the buyer take the load of trash that was in the truck. Heaukulani fined him $400. WW caught up with Capps, a retired parking-meter repairman for the City of Portland. Capps said that at the time, he didn’t have garbage service because of a bill dispute with Waste Management. After the dumping fine, he resumed paying for trash service. Capps admitted he had doubts about where the truck buyers would take the trash. “I was like, oh man, I hope they don’t illegally dump that stuff,” Capps said.
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JUST ONE MORE THING... MY SADDLE’S WAITING, COME AND JUMP ON IT: Dig A Pony, the bar set to replace the old Niki’s Restaurant at the east end of the Morrison Bridge, is starting to look like a thoroughbred. Co-owner Aaron Hall showed WW around the space Sunday, and from the huge horseshoe bar with room for 40 people to the new decor (a 110-year-old piano, church pews, custom stained-glass work), it looks promising. “[It’s] a place that has a lot of class for us younger people, but without reflecting it in the price,” says Hall. Pony will feature nightly DJs and a budget-priced menu from ex-Departure chef Gregory Gourdet. While there’s still plenty of work to be done, Hall says that Dig A Pony hopes to open July 20 with some of PDX’s finest electronic and pop bands slated to help celebrate. A LOTTA TALK: Drum/ viola/beats/pieces duo Talkdemonic has just announced that it is leaving Arena Rock Recording Co.—the label that released the band’s last two albums—in favor of Glacial Pace Records, the imprint run by Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock. It’s a fitting move for both band and label. Brock is a huge fan of Talkdemonic, taking it along with his band on a recent tour, and helping out with some mixing duties on its upcoming LP (out this fall). Mutual admiration between these musicians is a longtime thing, according to Talkdemonic drummer/programmer Kevin O’Connor: “I put on a show for Modest Mouse in Tri-Cities in 1997,” he told WW. “Isaac...stayed at my house and I remember my dog peed on [him].” ATTACK OF THE SMARTIES: Just know that you are simply smarter than the chumps around you? Make it official at the 2011 Mensa National Convention, taking place at the downtown Hilton this weekend. It’s the first time the group of smarty pants have held a convention in the Northwest (more than 2,000 are expected to attend), and includes an appearance by native Portland Mensan and author Jean Auel. Want to join in the epic high-IQ fest? Mensa holds its $40 admission tests at 6:30 pm Thursday and 9:30 am Saturday, June 30 and July 2, during which they will expect you to answer questions like the following.... for reals: “Tabitha likes cookies but not cake. She likes mutton but not lamb, and she likes okra but not squash. Following the same rule, will she like cherries or pears?” WTF. (More Mensa quiz questions on wweek.com) GRUB ALERT: In downtown Portland, the MAX-side spot last held by AJ on the Rails is becoming an Italian eatery called Mucca from chef/sommelier Simone Savaiano. We’ve got word of a new Mexican place just off Southeast Foster and 60th Avenue called “Torta-landia” owned by the folk behind Mi Famiglia Wood Oven Pizzeria in Oregon City. And in Northeast, the short-lived Clementine Bistro space on 28th Avenue is slated to be reborn as a “small plates” place—no name just yet.
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WEDNESDAY JUNE 29 [WHAT’S UP DOC?] MEL BLANC DAY The city has proclaimed June 29 will now belong to the Portlandbred voice actor who brought Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Foghorn Leghorn to life. May we suggest a Looney Tunes drinking game? Lincoln Hall, 1620 SW Park Ave. 7:30 pm. Info at melblancproject.wordpress.com. Free.
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This weekend OMSI presents the U.S. debut of Game On 2.0, the world’s biggest celebration of video games—a hands-on history of joystick-jerking, button-pumping 8-bit whizbang that runs the gamut from Pong to cutting-edge immersive toys yet to be unleashed on the gaming public. Yes, you should go to check out rare consoles and controllers, get schooled on the impact of gamer culture, futz around with 125 games from the past 40 years and gawk at
the “Virtusphere,” a 10-foot hollow-sphere gaming thingy that boasts a user experience the Discovery Channel compared to Star Trek’s Holodeck, we shit you not. But, before that, we’ve pressed pause to honor the beloved games of our own staffers’ childhoods. GO: Game On 2.0 exhibits at OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave., 797-4000, omsi.edu. 9:30 am-7 pm Saturday, July 2, through Sunday, Sept. 18. $9 youth (3-13), $12 adult.
[MOVIES] GIRLS ROCK! Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen are back (did they ever leave?) to shoot a second Portlandia season and, tonight, they introduce this heartfelt documentary about the Rock ’n’ Roll Camp for Girls. Connection: Brownstein is a girl, and she both rocks ’n’ rolls. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 4931128. 7 pm. $15-$50.
FRIDAY JULY 1 [MUSIC] FOOD WARS 4: TRAGEDY503, COOL NUTZ, LUCKONE AND MORE Last year, Food Wars gathered 1,600 cans for Portland nonprofit Impact Northwest. This year the goal is 20,000. That number may sound crazy, but with a lineup sporting some of the brightest stars of regional hip-hop, it’s a dream Food Wars just might achieve. Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside St., 2067630. 7 pm. Free with canned food donations. 21+. [COMICS] WITCH DOCTOR NO. 1 PDX graphic-novel duo Brandon Seifert and artist Lukas Ketner introduce Dr. Vincent Morrow, Sweeney Todd-coiffed cross between House, M.D., Constantine and Jeffrey Combs’ deranged Re-Animator Dr. Herbert West. Bridge City Comics, 3725 N Mississippi Ave., 282-5484. 6-8 pm. Free.
SATURDAY JULY 2 [MUSIC] MODEST MOUSE It has been more than two years since indie-rock-turned-mainstreamsuccess-story Modest Mouse played to its adopted hometown. A new record is still in its early stages, but as long as the group can fall back on its classic The Lonesome Crowded West record, who cares? Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 669-8610. 6:30 pm. $44 advance, $48 day of show. All ages.
MONDAY JULY 4 [U.S.A.] WATERFRONT FIREWORKS Crackle, fizzle BOOM-BOOM. That’s the sound of the largest fireworks display in Oregon, people. Watch it from the lawn at Waterfront Park with a patriotic soundtrack as part of the Blues Fest (for a fee) or gawk for free from anywhere near the river. Downtown Portland waterfront. 10:05 pm. Free; $10 donation and two cans of food for entry to Waterfront Blues Festival. Willamette Week JUNE 29, 2011 wweek.com
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DISH EVENTS THIS WEEK THURSDAY, JUNE 30 Firestone Barbecue Dinner
Certified Angus-beef sliders, barbecue pulled pork, grilled confit of turkey legs and a bunch of other warm-weather dishes are up for the taking at Hall Street. In addition to the buffet, there will be a keg of Firestone Walker’s Reserve Porter. Summer has returned, people. KAREN LOCKE. Hall Street Grill, 3775 SW Hall Blvd, Beaverton, 6416161. 6-9 pm Thursday, June 30. $20 for buffet and two pints of porter.
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Fourth of July Fireworks Dinner
It’s a “grown-up” celebration of the Fourth of July, with outdoor seating under the city’s biggest fireworks show and a menu packed with fancified American fare, like roasted pork shoulder with fennel pollen and mustard glaze. Part of the event’s proceeds will be donated to the Virginia Garcia Memorial Foundation. KL. Clarklewis, 1001 SE Water Ave., 2352294. 7 pm Monday, July 4. $55, beverages not included.
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First, salivate over a bunch of highly chromed, revved-up American muscle cars on display in the South Park Blocks. Then, sate your hunger with a sausage sandwich from SuperDog. It’s a match made in Americana heaven. KL. Oregon Historical Society, 1200 SW Park Ave., 306-5270. 11 am-3 pm Saturday, July 2.
Natsu Matsuri 2011
Grub on Japanese eats and meet Seijiro Shimomura, lead singer of Blizzard (that’d be the ’80s-era Japanese rock powerhouse that once opened for Journey, people) at Uwajimaya’s Natsu Matsuri fest. Modeled after summer festivals in Japan, this celebration includes traditional games, foods, music and dance. All proceeds will be donated to help relief efforts for the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami earlier this year. KL. Uwajimaya, 10500 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway, Beaverton, 6434512. 10:30 am-5 pm. Free.
Whole Foods Hollywood Wingding
NEPO 42, Buffalo Wild Wings, Columbia River Brewing Company, and Laurelwood Public House and Brewery compete for clucking domination in a hot-wing competition to benefit the Hollywood Theatre. Sample the eateries’ chicken bits and vote for your fave—wings are 50 cents each with a minimum $2 purchase to vote. KL. Whole Foods Market Hollywood, 4301 NE Sandy Blvd., 284-2644. Noon-5 pm Saturday, July 2. Free.
MONDAY, JULY 4 Pig on the Patio Party
Aquariva’s throwing a patriotic pig party. The special guest? A roasted porker from Square Peg Farm of Forest Grove. The piggy comes with sides like melon soup with crisp prosciutto and ale coleslaw, and, of course, red, white and blue explosions in the sky. KL. Aquariva, 0470 SW Hamilton Court, 802-
Ask people to envision a soda fountain in their heads and chances are most will imagine some kind of ’50s-themed Disneyland attraction, with checkered linoleum floors and waitresses delivering orders on roller skates and all that other Johnny Rocket’s crap. Thankfully, downtown lunch spot Blueplate forgoes the typical cheesy retrodiner decor, allowing the nostalgia to originate in the taste buds. Although it prides itself on the daily specials that are its namesake—the menu cycles through a different classic American entree and sandwich each day—the perennial dishes are no slouches themselves, particularly the sliders. Cap the meal with an ice cream float made from one of the intriguingly flavored house sodas. MATT SINGER. 308 SW Washington St., 295-2583, eatatblueplate.com. 11 am-5 pm Monday-Thursday, 11 am-9 pm Friday, 5-9 pm Saturday.
Cool Moon Ice Cream
Dessert people just love to draw a line in the cocoa between “adult” and “kids” sweets, usually based on bitterness and complexity. But one spoonful of a two-scoop sundae, piled high with Oregon hazelnuts, housemade fudge and drippy amarena cherries at Eva Bernhard’s Pearl District ice cream parlor totally nukes all age barriers. Only aliens and the lactose intolerant could deny the appeal of chocolate laced with cinnamon and cayenne pepper (Spicy Xocolatl Crunch) or her basic but luscious cookies and cream. A sugar cone full of buttermilk Marionberry swirl will make you feel like one of the kids playing across the street in Jamison Square. KELLY CLARKE. 1105 NW Johnson St., 224-2021, coolmoonicecream.com. Winter hours noon-10 pm Sunday-Thursday, noon-10:30 pm Friday-Saturday.
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now a local rib shack: shantied on the outside, bare bones and meaty-boned on the inside. The menu has expanded to include catfish and snapper baskets, a hot-link sandwich featuring “6 oz. of hot sausage,” dessert cakes in hilariously huge portions and the restaurant’s best selling item, a classic-style chipped-beef Philly cheesesteak with secret sauce. Still, the heart/soul stays with the ribs, which are sweetsauced, meaty and tender. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. 3962 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 939-4643. 11 am-10 pm Monday-Friday, 11 am-11 pm Saturday.
Fryer Tuck Chicken
It really says something when you order a two-piece “snack box” and receive a 2-pound plate loaded with a fried breast the size of a Pomeranian, three potatoes’ worth of breaded jojos and nary a speck of color aside from brown. Ah, but that’s the beauty of Cider Mill-Fryer Tuck Chicken, a cavernous Multnomah Village oasis that looks like a small-town Midwestern hunting lodge and declares all-out war on your left ventricle. Also tasty is the Pull This, a pulled-chicken slop stuffed into a hoagie full of coleslaw and sweet barbecue sauce. But that’s a little too much color at a place where the most delicious items are the color of charred mahogany. Fryer Tuck offers fried chicken that gives the city’s best, Reel ’M Inn, a run for its money—and for chicken scratch. AP KRYZA. 6712 SW Capitol Highway, 246-7737, fryertuckchicken.com. 8 am-midnight daily.
Little T American Baker
Unlike the Francophilic stylings of PDX’s other artisan bakeries, the curiously neomodern design of baker Tim Healea’s store places all the bread on display in a stark window cavity in the building’s left-hand window, like some sort of conceptual public art installation. Healea’s gloriously crusty breads are some of the best in town, and certainly the most interesting. The sourdough house loaf made with beer and rye flour; the addictive, baguetteshaped pretzel bread; and the ciabatta rolls made with seven-grain cereal and carrot all thumb their nose at tradition, as if to sneer, “This is not your frou-frou French boulangerie. This is A-merican baking!” Fuck yeah. RUTH BROWN. 2600 SE Division St., 2383458, littletbaker.com. 7 am-5 pm Monday-Saturday, 8 am-2 pm Sunday.
Pop Culture
Cola. Soda. Pop. Soft drink. No matter what you call it, Pop Culture has it. The shop’s neon sign in the window boasts 300 sodas, and they aren’t kidding. Boylan, Thomas Kemper, Virgil’s and Faygo are all represented. Some more exotic finds include the fruity and fizzy Capt’n Eli’s Blueberry Pop, Sioux City’s ruby-colored birch beer and Jones Soda’s Pineapple Cream— think bubbly, virgin piña colada. DENISE CASTANON. 1929 W Main St., Vancouver, 360-750-1784. 11:30 am-6 pm Monday-Tuesday and Thursday, 11:30 am-9 pm Wednesday, 11:30 am-11 pm Friday-Saturday.
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I made four visits to Cackalack’s Hot Chicken Shack before I could try the sandwich that the eatery—housed in a nondescript metal trailer—calls its marquee item. On the first visit I was just window-shopping when coowner Jeff Barcelona caught me salivating at his wooden menu board. “Once people get ‘The Blazer’ they tend to keep ordering it,” he said of the deep-fried chicken sammy, a Southern favorite, while slyly passing me a business card. He encouraged me to order ahead if I wanted to try it on short notice. “That’s definitely our most popular item.” On the next two visits the cart was closed: Once because the deep-fryer had broken down and again when Jeff and his charming girlfriend, Stephanie—who moved to Portland from Asheville, N.C., and opened the cart because they couldn’t find regular jobs—had closed things down for a week so they could get married (on my most recent visit, the tip jar still read “Honeymoon Fund,” hinting at another closure in the not-too-distant future). On my fourth visit I arrived too late: The cart was sold out of Blazers, so I ordered the Birdy ($6), a downhome, chicken-based alternative to the classic pulled-pork sandwich. It was quite good—its soft, untoasted bun and vinegary slaw combined to make it feel like the kind of crowd-pleasing fare that your favorite MADE IN OREGON: Cackalack’s fiery chicken sandwich, the Blazer. aunt might bring to the family reunion. But it wasn’t the gut-buster I was looking for. If heaven-sent. The oversized breast—courtesy sweat a little) doesn’t leave you with a total anything, this pulled-chicken sandwich is a of an organic Draper Valley Farms bird—is soggy mess. Served with Cackalack’s limp, fried in a fashion that makes heavily seasoned fries (or, for $3, four thicklighter, less fatty alternative it resemble high-grade fish and-crispy hush puppies) and a housemade to its pork cousin. this: The Blazer ($7), and chips more than it does a lemonade, this is a combo capable of transBut on my fifth visit it Order chicken sandwich of the gods. Swanson’s chicken breast. The porting you to an entirely different part of finally happened: I was car- Best deal: The Boy Howdy!, a fried layer peels away as you the country. This sandwich is worth a return ried to heaven on the wings Saturday-only brunch plate of biscuits and gravy ($4). sink your teeth in, revealing trip—or five. of a deep-fried bird. pass: On ever eating fasta tender, almost wet chunk From a distance, the I’ll food chicken again. of pure white meat beneath. EAT: Cackalack’s is parked in the Green Blazer ($7) looks like your Castle Food Court, Northeast 20th Avenue And the thin orange hot sauce and Everett Street, 388-1772, cackalackstandard—if oversized—pub chicken sandwich. But in your mouth, every- (a touch milder than I expected for a place shotchickenshack.com. Lunch and dinner thing from the chewy sesame seed bun to with “hot” in its name; order the sandwich 11:30 am-2:30 pm and 5-8 pm TuesdayFriday, 10 am-6 pm Saturday. $. the slightly sweet housemade pickles tastes “XXX” instead of “HOT” if you want to
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Whatever Ellis Island’s pleasant fictions about the poor, meek or hungry, Portland’s Old Town has always welcomed them in earnest. It has been a century-long home to the transient or boozy, whether turn-of-the-century dockworkers dragging logs from the river up Skid Row (“Skid Road”), any of various waves of immigrant communities (Russian, Jewish, Chinese, Gypsy, Native American, Japanese) or an old woman in the ’70s taking the bus to Burnside from Beaverton so she could drink somewhere no one would bother her about it. But oddly, the neighborhood’s very transience is what makes the marks of history so vividly endure there; it has never been wholly claimed or remade, merely borrowed and repurposed. Photographer Kathleen Ryan’s 1979 book Burnside: A Community (Publication Studio, 90 pages, $20)—now being reissued as the fourth and final book in Dill Pickle Club’s Portland Re-Print Series—documents these various itinerant communities from the street level, through image and anecdote rather than impersonal,
top-down histories of planning and construction; cities, like churches, are after all made with people, not hands. Ryan embarked on the project while working for the Jesuit volunteer corps, and eventually received an arts grant. “I spent a year on the street,” she told WW, “just took my camera with me and learned what this community was about. After talking with people on the streets I threw all my notions to the wind.” Sadly, though, the book had fallen out of print until being picked up again this year; the (re)publication party and lecture is Thursday at Sisters of the Road Cafe. The idea of the PDX Re-Print series, according to Dill Pickle Club’s Marc Moscato, is “not to stir up nostalgia, but rather to understand the community as it is today,” essentially to foster an attachment to place and history among Portland’s newest wave of transients, fresh from Brooklyn or Austin or California. We asked Ryan to comment on a few of the photos from the book: what they were, who was in them, and how they came about.
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KR: “That was the big Apostolic Faith Church. It was huge. These people were very serious about the Jesus stuff. They had this giant sign on the top that said, ‘Jesus, the Light of the World.’ The church was put up in three days in 1922 with all volunteer labor, but they ended up moving way out in Southeast Portland. Anyway, shortly after the book got published some people saw the pictures and asked me where this location was, and then they made it into a venue—the Roseland Theater. I only saw one show there.”
KR: “The Jolly Tyme, the bar, was kind of what drew them [some members of the Native American community]. Interesting story about Dave, one of the guys who hung out there. He had on a shirt one time with an Indian on it, with feathers and all kinds of stuff, and he just gave it to me. I wore it for years. Everybody there had the same attitude: Everybody shared everything. It was kind of a typical bar, but not a lot of people came in who weren’t Indian.”
KR: “That was a policeman looking in. I believe this was an art gallery, the Hughes, but now it was just another burned-out building. This was another sad experience. People got to know me after a year on this project, so the police and the fire department said it was fine for me to wander about even in condemned buildings. I had carte blanche, because they could care less. Often, buildings weren’t touched at all even though they’d been neglected for a long time.”
Kathleen Ryan: “Some of these guys [living in the residence hotels] I met on the street and asked if I could come up. I treated them with respect. [Northwest] Couch Street was the first place where ships tied in when Portland was barely a port; the hotels were designed for this transient community, just people who were trying to find work. In this picture I’ve got three of my kids and a rabbit on the balcony, at the Barr Hotel. Charles [Lockridge] loved it. He was a musician. He played jazz for years and years.”
KR: “Mary Leong lived in Northeast Portland. She was very much active in the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, which had Chinese language classes. They had meetings there for banding together, and for planning parades for Chinese holidays. They used to do parades, which I don’t think they do anymore; they were pretty exciting.”
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THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE DAMNED AMERICAN IDOL IS COMING TO PORTLAND. HERE ARE SOME THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW. BY JAY H O RTO N
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Whether because so few of our residents profess to own a television set or so many of our well-pitched homegrown larynxes manage to attract fans the world over without the help of reality programming, Portland is usually spared the American Idol invasion. That changes this Saturday, however, as the Rose Garden fills with hopeful stars ready and eager to embarrass themselves before the nation’s living rooms for a chance at the record-store dollar bins (the Garden is also set to host the American Idol Live tour the following weekend, wherein last year’s top 11 warble their fave covers). In commemoration, WW looks back at the past decade of withering jibes, heartfelt treacle and mad grasps at that keening high note of sudden celebrity.
UNLIKELY IDOLS Five finalists who broke the Idol mold.
Frenchie Davis (Season 2) Equally resembling the early ’90s Wesley Snipes and early-’90s Aretha Franklin, Frenchie Davis
would have won against long odds to emerge as the first entrant cast off the mountaintop for adult website pics, but, neither convicted for assault nor admitting an affair with Paula Abdul, ’twas far from the most embarrassing controversy that second season. Davis was recently eliminated as a finalist on The Voice: A next-gen singing contest born to ennoble vocal gifts and dissuade false Idolatry. Bo Bice (Season 4) Whether because of age (he benefitted more than anyone from the fourth-season age limit increase from 24 to 28), perspective (boyhood spent ’round London) or name (suggesting nasal congestion when spoken aloud), we always assumed Bo Bice understood the joke. Otherwise, his appearance in a cornflower blue tuxedo crooning the titular anthem to Blades of Glory would be impossibly cruel. Elliott Yamin (Season 5) Given the program’s target demographics of drama-club alums, monied tweener girls and Southerners evidently
delighting in familiarity of accent, there wasn’t much rooting interest for indie-pop audiences prior to Elliott Yamin’s adorably awkward stint, which proved the power of enlightened tune selections and the unexpectedly belted chorus. Sanjaya Malakar (Season 6) Idol’s producers were nearly, well, Hung, when that other American idol, Howard Stern, urged his legions to artificially buoy the fortunes of a preening Bengali from Federal Way, Wash., soon beloved as much for his tonsorial perversity as clear vocal limitations. Sanjaya Malakar appears at the Alberta Rose Theatre this Tuesday, and shall doubtlessly leap to discuss the experience. Adam Lambert (Season 8) As the first openly gay performer ’midst a pageant that celebrates overly emoted celebration and offers pithy dismissal of amateur show-tune renditions, we shan’t count Adam Lambert as an heir to Jackie Robinson. Still, Lambert may have been the last man alive to meaningfully rebel by showing the red states a pinkie painted black.
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A professional singer from the age of 13, Kristy Lee Cook wasn’t exactly a fan of American Idol before being chosen as the seventh season’s most memorable contestant—imagine the Carrie Underwood next door with self-deprecating wit and MMA chops (her farewell table dance left Simon Cowell uniquely speechless). “I didn’t watch it consistently,” she says. “I was too busy riding horses.” It’s actually some miracle she ever had the opportunity to brighten our screens at all. “I’d been home for about a year, resting my vocals due to acid reflux, and I thought this would probably be my last shot at making it,” she says now. Alas, once Cook found her way to San Diego for the auditions closest to her Selma, Ore., log cabin, she didn’t pass the first round of judging. “So I sold a horse, flew to Philly for the next audition, and ended up finishing seventh for the year!” Cook says her small-town roots didn’t hold her back. “It’s nice to be from somewhere that a lot of people don’t know about and prove them wrong. There is talent in Oregon!” Would’ve been easier, of course, had the producers of Idol not waited until the 11th season to anoint the throats of the Rose City, but Cook, now renting an apartment in Nashville, heartily encourages all Oregonians to try their luck. “Sing a song that shows your voice, but don’t be overbearing or overpowering. If they don’t let you through but say, ‘You were good, you have good control, just not what we are looking for,’ go to another city and do it again,” she says. “If they don’t, you’re probably not very good.” Cook’s own career has seen more ups and downs than most 27-year-old singers. Signed to Arista Nashville at 17 (to no avail) and again following her Idol tenure (2008’s Why Wait garnered a top-30 single), she’s about to record an album for Broken Bow Records while preparing the Oregon’s only Idol Finalist shares advice on hunting talent... and deer.
second season of her Versus network hunting program, Goin’ Country—proof that Idol fame doesn’t always travel a predictable route. “We just filmed a hunt on the YO ranch in Mountain Home, Texas, with a stage-four cancer patient named Katherine,” Cook says. “We got her a nice axis deer, and she killed it with one heck of a shot!” (JH) SEE THE IDOLS, BE THE IDOL: American Idol auditions are Saturday, July 2, at the Rose Garden. Registration starts Thursday, June 30. More information at americanidol.com. The American Idol Live tour hits the Rose Garden on Saturday, July 9. WW will be following its own Idol hopeful at wweek.com. Willamette Week JUNE 29, 2011 wweek.com
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29 A Perfect Circle, Red Bacteria Vacuum
[MIDTEMPO PROG] A Perfect Circle has been on hiatus for the past few years, and though onetime Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan and company are now officially back in business, the supergroup is off to a slow start. The quintet’s most recent album, eMOTIVe, was released back in the salad days of 2004, and even at that juncture the tracks were starting to lag. By the time “The Outsider” came around, it seemed like even Maynard himself was becoming bored with finding new ways to appear bored while performing. In the absence of a new Tool record, APC will at the very least tide you over. SHANE DANAHER. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 8 pm. $64. All ages.
Point Juncture, WA; What Hearts; Sun Angle; DJ Gigante
[SONGS OF SUMMER] Charlie Salas-Humara’s new projects alight upon Portland like unscheduled, semi-regular Christmases. This time around, Salas-Humara has joined up with explosive local multi-instrumentalist Papi Fimbres (O’Bruxo, Paper/Upper/Cuts) to wander away from Humara’s accomplishments in freak-out pop (The Planet The), ass-shaking (Panther), and sharp-angled rawk (Astrology) and into a series of meandering loops that sound very much like Animal Collective, but with a sunnier disposition. That band, Sun Angle, opens tonight for Point Juncture, WA—a nearly unrivaled contender for the title of “Portland’s most likable band.” PJWA is riding even higher than usual lately due to its spectacular third LP, Handsome Orders, released last month. SHANE DANAHER. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $6. 21+.
Alison Krauss & Union Station, Good Old War
[BLUE(STATE)GRASS] Not that Americana—particularly the highgloss, NPR-approved, SUV drivetime-wasting brand perfected by Alison Krauss & Union Station— tends to delight in experimentation, but one would’ve assumed some changes followed Krauss’ all-conquering 2007 collaboration with Robert Plant. Paper Airplane, her recent release and reunion with the poignantly strumming troupe she’s performed with for 20-odd years, resumes bluegrass as usual for a patient, evocative, thoroughly familiar collection. JAY HORTON. McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 669-8610. 6:30 pm. $49 advance, $79 day of show. All ages.
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The Donkeys, And And And, Dinosaur Feathers
[BUMMED AT THE BEACH] The knock against San Diego’s the Donkeys is that they are, at best, a band of skilled mimics. Certainly, this is true of 2008’s Living on the Other Side, a collection of prettily overcast tunes recalling a lo-fi Beach Boys and the Flying Burrito Brothers at their most depressive. For a more modern comparison, think Surfer Blood with the actual blood drained. So accurate was the retro vibe, the band posed as Lost’s oft-referenced obscure ’70s rock band Geronimo Jackson. The newly released Born With Stripes doesn’t really do much to quell the idea that the group thinks it just wasn’t made for these times, but the slightly brighter delivery finds it inching closer to its own sound. MATTHEW SINGER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
Cursebreaker, Life Erased, Emobilization
[PUNK] That Cursebreaker’s robust brand of hardcore is a bit too ten-
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AMERICAN SONGS FOR AMERICAN PEOPLE! Toby Keith, “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue” After 9/11, country badass Toby Keith warned the terrorists responsible that they would be punished for crossing “Mother Freedom” by getting a boot up their ass. Ignorant? Maybe. But is there a better soundtrack to setting off explosives while drinking vast amounts of cheap alcohol on the 4th? Didn’t think so.
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WEDNESDAY tative and mannered to cause any lasting damage speaks more to the band’s callowness than to any dearth of vision or ability. The Black Banners, the Portland quintet’s debut EP, is glutted with ideas for a restive version of metalinflected punk that can’t decide whether it wants to live with its artsy mom (Born Against) or jock dad (Integrity). In its fidgety ambivalence, Cursebreaker verges on an independence that promises great things down the road—there’s gonna be some smoke in the city once these boys decide to run away from home. CHRIS STAMM. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 4738729. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.
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[CIRCUIT BLUES] Western in nature with psychedelic leanings, Ron Ellis Gaut’s band the Defendants is not just another geriatric blues-folk creation. The quartet experiments within the realm, going tit-for-tat with classic Stratocaster solos and groovy bass lines. In the vein of fellow Portland act Scotland Barr (RIP) & the Slow Drags, the members of the Defendants boast an old-friend feel, feeding off each other’s every move almost telepathically. And while frontman Gaut may lead on
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((IN MONO)) SATURDAY, JULY 2 [TECHNO DRONE ROCK] There’s a good chance that Ark of War—the debut album from local producer Paul Lynch’s one-manband, ((In Mono))—has the most convoluted mythology of any record to come out of Portland in the past decade. In a town that is home to both the Decemberists and a Klingon metal group, that’s saying something. According to Lynch, the lyrically scant drone-metal, downbeat-techno LP is intended to soundtrack a tale of doomed love that takes place on battling city-ships in a post-apocalyptic water world. The protagonist of this tale is named In Mantis (also the title of the record’s opening track), and she is distinguished by her propensity to behead romantic conquests with “razor-spiked arms that form after she orgasms.” “I’ve always loved post-apocalyptic books and movies,” Lynch says. “So I just started writing songs, not based on that, but I gave the songs names, and then under that pretense I created chapters with those names, and it all just fell into place.” Lynch is a musician with a history of indulging his diversionary tics. He began his musical career by playing guitar in the drone-metal band Carpathia (alongside Talkdemonic’s Kevin O’Connor), and he has played extensively throughout Portland under his producing moniker, DJ Tan’t. Despite his new project’s elaborate story, Lynch explains ((In Mono))’s genesis quite humbly: “I was like, ‘Well, I play guitar, I make beats, so I might as well combine the two and try to come up with something original.’” Composed principally of reverb-tweaked drum samples and groaning, overdriven guitar, ((In Mono))’s music sounds like the heavily medicated love child of Ratatat and Thrones. Lynch’s customary stylistic mode is “stygian,” and Ark of War fairly sweats post-disaster decay. “KLTV” uses moaning vocals to create an air of anesthetized unease; “Fire South” piles aggressive guitar licks on top of thundering drum samples, forming a sinister contribution to the genre of “badass slow-motion walking music.” Lynch spent four years writing and recording Ark of War. In an earlier write-up of an ((In Mono)) show, this newspaper described him as having a “give-a-fuckless” attitude toward self-promotion. Indeed, Lynch seems to dictate his own terms less from willful defiance than from simple habit. The result is a creative product that exists, in this case quite literally, in its own private universe. SHANE DANAHER. ((In Mono))’s debut album mixes drone metal, techno, apocalyptic postcoital decapitation.
SEE IT: ((In Mono)) releases Ark of War on Saturday, July 2, at the Woods, with Swim Swam Swum, Gouseion and DJ Epoch. 8 pm. $7. 21+. Willamette Week JUNE 29, 2011 wweek.com
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paper, this rootsy band is as balanced as a brand-new checking account. MARK STOCK. White Eagle Saloon, 836 N Russell St., 282-6810. 8:30 pm. Free. 21+.
THURSDAY, JUNE 30 Bare Wires, Outdoorsmen, Taxi Boys [GARAGE ROCK] With Black Lips, Girls, Yuck, Ariel Pink, and Smith Westers, among others, reigniting throwback fuzz rock, it’s hard to say Bare Wires is doing anything new. The Oakland three-piece is about as retro-minded and fetching as the others, but still only a piece in a larger trending puzzle. Bare Wires has caught the careful eye of England via label Robot Elephant, releasing several 7-inch records, a fitting format given the band’s gritty, pre-MP3 sound. To be fair, frontman Matt Melton might absolutely kill a Ramones cover at the Ambassador karaoke bar. . MARK STOCK. East End, 203 SE Grand Ave., 232-0056. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
Group Doueh, Dusu Mali Band
[GLORIOUS AFRICAN SOUNDS] Group Doueh hails from a small Western Saharan corner of Africa known as Dakhla where the band has spent nearly three decades perfecting an inviting and intoxicating brand of traditional Sahrawi music that has been audibly touched by the sounds of the Western world. Leader Bamaar Salou wields a Fender Stratocaster from which he peels off intense melodic runs that wouldn’t be out of place on a jazz fusion record or in the live set of a particularly dosed psychedelic group. The rhythms and vocals are pure northern Africa, rumbling and rattling with the purpose of raising both body and spirit to higher places. ROBERT HAM. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $15. 21+.
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[HUNGER-STOPPING HIP-HOP] Jessie Sponberg, known in the local hip-hop community as the mouthy, persistent and quite caring artist and promoter Ozone, is a man on a mission. Last year, without much in the way of press or publicity, his third annual Food Wars hip-hop festival collected 1,600 cans of food for Portland nonprofit Impact Northwest. This year, Sponberg’s goal is 20,000. This guy might just be crazy enough to pull the thing off. Either way, tonight’s show is a sampler plate of all things Portland hip-hop, from old-school street MCs (Cool Nutz, Destro and L-Pro) to horrorcore rappers (Tragedy503) and up-and-comers (Hives Inquiry Squad, Rose Bent). Just don’t shake your cans too hard. CASEY JARMAN. Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside St., 206-7630. 7 pm. Free with canned food donations. 21+.
The Fleshtones, Charming Birds
[SUPER ROCK] With tunes too fuzzed-up and frazzled to win the New Wave chart success of their CBGBs mates and a passion for party-band theatrics—ever preferring the Paul Revere fringe of garage rock—and (however illconceived and vainly attempted) arena-sized ambitions that didn’t easily jibe with critical appreciation of the late-’70s NYC scene, the legend of the Fleshtones seems to recede each year even as the group continues without pause. Its new album, Brooklyn Sound Solution, adds Nuggets compiler and Patti Smith guitarist Lenny Kaye to the mix for a typically daft rearranging of R & B classics and jazzed-up pre-punk instrumentals unlikely to change fortunes. JAY HORTON. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 9 pm. $12 advance, $13 day of show. 21+.
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[GARAGE] Here’s hoping folks old enough to fondly recall San Francisco’s Mummified “budget rock” scene are still paying close enough attention to catch wind of Midnite Snaxxx, an Oakland trio of rockers with unimpeachable bona fides (Trashwomen, Bobbyteens) pinned to their leather jackets and an easy way with the kind of dirty bubblegum that should only be allowed to live on large-hole 45s. Although Midnite Snaxxx’s two-minute trips into pop bliss are maddeningly catchy enough to hook any listener, I love the idea of grizzled garage vets in ratty Estrus shirts getting those teen-geek goosebumps when the needle drops on “Guy Like That,” which is as good as anything that crawled out of the Bay 20 years ago. CHRIS STAMM. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 2380543. 9:30 pm. $5. 21+.
[BLUES] The New Orleans brassband tradition stretches back to jazz’s origins but had fallen into the formaldehyde of tribute-band territory until the early 1980s, when the Frazier brothers’ aptly named Rebirth ensemble helped revive and reboot the tradition with ecstatic hours-long sets at the Big Easy’s long-gone Glass House. Now reaching millions more via their appearances on Treme and touring behind a hot new disc, the bosses of brass-band funk are playing both alfresco and indoor shows at Blues Fest. BRETT CAMPBELL. Gov. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Southwest Naito Parkway between Harrison and Glisan streets. 1:15 pm. $15 day pass, $40 full event pass. All ages.
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DUbTOnic KRU • FRIDAY 7/1 @ 6PM The founding members of Dubtonic Kru are “Jubba” and “Stone,” a dynamic drum & bass duo who have contributed to the development of modern Roots Reggae, with their unique sound that intertwines Jubba’s mesmerizing Reggae/ Jazz fusion drumming with Stone’s groovy yet pulsating bass lines. Dubtonic Kru have now released ‘Dub Tonic,’ the follow-up to their debut album ‘Jungle Fever.’
RObERT ElliS • SATURDAY 7/2 @ 3PM The New York Times recently proclaimed that Houston, Texas native Robert Ellis sounds “equally inspired by Jackson Browne and George Jones.” Ellis cut his teeth performing the songs of similar luminaries around town, most notably at Fitzgerald’s. His “Whiskey Wednesdays” at that club are regularly packed with punkish newcomers and graying locals sharing a mutual interest in artists ranging from Ray Price to Buck Owens to the Rolling Stones. His upcoming debut is titled ‘Photographs.’
THE DiREcTiOn • WEDNESDAY 7/6 @ 6PM The Direction is a blues-rock outfit with a sound you won’t find anywhere else but the ears they continue to please. Vocalist Felicia Anderton sings with a passion rarely seen this side of Tallahassee. Pair that passion with the mesmerizing guitar work of Elan Bartholomew, Nate Carlisle and Steve Hutchinson, the bass of Doug Labov and Addison Aldous’ pounding drum rhythms, and these young artists set a new bar for versatility. The band has just released their debut album ‘From VII & IV.’
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FRIDAY thing I’ve been noticing: Portland’s indie rock and hip-hop scenes are two entirely different ecosystems that rarely intermingle. Fresh, though, is going to do something about it. Tonight’s show—the first of many pairings—is just common sense: WW’s 2011 Best New Band And And And releases free mixtapes on the Web and hosts basketball tournaments in its spare time; TxE’s Tope has featured local indie-pop chantuese Kelli Schaefer on his tracks and producer/multiinstrumentalist G_Force’s influences often veer into the realm of electronic funk and tasteful nearambient minimalism. So there’s no reason these two crews (joined tonight by Chicago-based R&B singer Sam Trump) can’t play, party and create together to help make a more diverse and lively local music scene. Fresh should get a huge high-five for making it happen. CASEY JARMAN. Rotture, 315 SE 3rd Ave., 234-5683. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
The Guild, Don’t
[FUZZ ROCK] The Guild pulls no punches in its efforts to emulate its proto-metal heroes. Step back to an imaginary 1972 with this band and feel the fury of Sir Lord Baltimore, Pentagram and Captain Beyond all over again. If vintage heaviness à la Black Sabbath, Judas Priest or Mountain is what you crave, look no further: Portland’s metal scene just keeps getting better and better, and the Guild—alongside future stars like Lord Dying, Nether Regions and Mongoloid Village—is helping to lead the way. NATHAN CARSON. The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., 228-3669. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
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[SKINTIGHT METAL] Vastum’s label says that this Bay Area group’s new album, Carnal Law, “explores themes of sexuality and psychic disfiguration.” When those concepts are combined with the turgid drive of death/doom metal, complete with guttural vocals, the effect is chilling and quite disturbingly sexy. It’s the type of slinky, leathery sound that could easily provide the soundtrack for an underground S & M club. I can think of no higher compliment for a metal album. Get to the show early and settle in with an avalanche of slow-moving sludge in the form of Portland’s finest doom merchants, Stoneburner. ROBERT HAM. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.
In the Cooky Jar with DJ Cooky Parker
[7-INCHES OF SOUL] If you’re throwing a party, crackling classic soul 45s from Stax and Motown make for some pretty good background music. Since DJ Cooky Parker’s monthly dance night is already known for said vinyl singles, there won’t be much need for a change of format when he celebrates the first anniversary of his In the Cooky Jar soul night this evening. The Woods makes a classy, low-key backdrop for the throwback dance party: All you need to get the full experience is a designated driver or a cushy couch in Sellwood. CASEY JARMAN. The Woods, 6637 SE Milwaukie Ave., 890-0408. 8 pm. $5. 21+.
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THE BUGS DOUBLE O-YEAH…AND OTHER HITS (LABIL)
[BASEMENT POP-PUNK] Most bands struggle with the 7-inch format: Picking a pair of songs that put an act’s best foot forward, while working within the time constraints of the medium, is no easy chore. Unless, that is, you’re the Bugs. The Portland pop-punk outfit is known for its quick wit and quicker songs: There are six of them on new 7-inch Double O-Yeah…and Other Hits, and the band has time to spare. The Bugs may be Portland’s finest purveyors of smart-ass, nod-along punk—real estate with surprisingly fierce local competition.That’s something the duo proves right off the bat on the 7-inch’s title track, a summer anthem that elicits images of Sauvie Island or the Washougal River: “When the summer time is here/ Then we’ll all get nice and weird/ And head down to the water/ Fathers bring your tattooed daughters/ Oh yeah/ Oh yeah/ Double O-yeah/ Oh yeah.” While the title and chorus remind of the Bugs’ fuzzy 2005 insta-classic, “Fuckin’ A Right,” the new 45 shares the improved fidelity of 2009’s excellent Barbaric! Mystical! Bored! That added clarity is the difference between hearing another nameless catchy punk tune and actually appreciating the stupidly clever lyrics of the sax-fueled paranoia jam, “N.S.A.” or obnoxiously catchy A-side closer “Alcatrazz.” Then again, Double O-Yeah’s best song is also its least coherent: The White Stripes-y riffage of “Lies” comes equipped with Mike Coumatos’ unintelligible, high-pitched rants—it’s getting harder to tell cartoony vocalists Cuomatos and Paul Haines apart—about lumpy gravy and the difference between the North and South. Garage rock doesn’t always need to make sense. That the Bugs can deliver occasional belly laughs (“Your Sweat is Sweeter Than a Pharoah’s” features the puzzlingly romantic couplet “I wanna be your minister of foreign affairs/ But I cannot stand your domestic policies”) is really icing on the poppunk cake. Both the band’s members prove their musical smarts in their other (recently reformed) band, Truman’s Water—so we know what they’re capable of. But squeezing smarts into a band this dumb is a feat unto itself. CASEY JARMAN. SEE IT: The Bugs release Double O-Yeah…and Other Hits (limited to 350 copies) on Friday, July 1, at the Kenton Club with Sugar Sugar Sugar and Hey Lover. 9 pm. Cover. 21+. Willamette Week JUNE 29, 2011 wweek.com
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[METAL] By his own description, YOB frontman Mike Scheidt writes “doom metal for people with ADD.” Indeed, though the band’s work bears that genre’s trademark snail-friendly pacing, it also delivers tension and release in a manner that respects the listener’s need for resolution as much as its desire for foreplay. Expect to hear a fair amount of material from YOB’s forthcoming sixth album, Atma, due next month via Profound Lore. Aside from Eugene’s sacred sons, there’s much to appreciate in tonight’s precipitating action, including exhilarating duo Wizard Rifle and the counterintuitively named Sloths, who are far from lethargic in the fret-burning department. HANNAH LEVIN. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 9 pm. $10 advance, $13 day of show. 21+.
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[SAD FUNK] On her second studio effort, Hidden Systems, Bright Archer—a.k.a. Seattle-to-Portland transplant Johanna Kunin—has crafted a melodic, dreamlike soundscape wherein the gifted musician employs skilled acoustic piano work to complement her ethereal, wispy voice over tunes both somber and uplifting. But while there are moments of melancholy, this is also the Kunin who makes asses shake with electrofunk outfit Velella Velella. Even with her forays into somber vocalsand-piano lamentation, there’s a pulse behind Bright Archer’s sound, driven home by chamber arrangements and the occasional electronic beat. AP KRYZA. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
Waterfront Blues Festival: Rosie Ledet and the Zydeco Playboys, Lucinda Williams, Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble, Orgone and more
[MORE BLUES] Celebs like Maceo and Lucinda are dandy, but I have the most fun in the all-day-andnight zydeco zone. The headliner: button accordion master Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, who actually play Cajun and bluesy Creole music rather than the funkier zydeco sounds and have succeeded BeauSoleil as standard bearers in the Cajun revival. But there’s a lot to like today: Fellow Lafayettan legend Chubby Carrier and his Bayou Swamp Band; Portland’s own Too Loose Cajun band, augmented by guitarist Tony Furtado and Louisiana expats saxman Reggie Houston and keyboarder Steve Kerin; Rosie Ledet, the leading female Zydeco singeraccordionist and songwriter (“You Can Eat My Poussiere”); another next-gen star on the rise, Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble (who mixes in modern influences, including a splash of hip-hop) and more. . BRETT CAMPBELL. Gov. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Southwest Naito Parkway between Harrison and Glisan streets. 10:15 am. $15 day pass, $40 full event pass. All ages.
Modest Mouse
[MODEST MOUSE!] It seems difficult to believe, but it has indeed been more than two years since indie-rock-turned-mainstream-success-story Modest Mouse played to its adopted hometown. Isaac Brock and company have recently regrouped to begin work on a new full-length, but with quotes as encouraging as, “It’s just a bunch of random shit at the moment” coming forth from the Brock camp, it’s not clear quite when that LP is going to see the light of day. In its absence, we will have to settle for the B-sides EP No One’s First and You’re Next, as well as the occasional regional performance. For a group that can still fall back on the classic The Lonesome Crowded West, this is an acceptable hiatus, especially if those rumors of a collaboration with Big Boi turn out to be true. . SHANE DANAHER. McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 669-8610. 6:30 pm. $44 advance, $48 day of show. All ages.
Champagne Champagne, Mosley Wotta
[HIP-HOP] Seattle’s snarkiest and most promising young hip-hop outfit—featuring Pearl Dragon and Thomas Gray—makes me miss the golden days of Outkast a little less. Backed by DJ Gajamagic (former drummer of the Blood Brothers), the crafty trio is, like all good hip-hop acts, expanding the genre’s boundaries. Raised on John Hughes films and full of suburban skepticism, one would expect the same old pent-up angst from these Emerald City MCs, but Champagne Champagne pairs some of the brightest lyrics with some of the most oddball beats the Pacific Northwest has heard in years. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
Schoolhouse Rock: Ape Machine, The Singing Knives, Ghostwriter, Otis Heat, Ben Ballinger and The Dalles, Lana Rebel, Thee Headliners and more
[GHOST TOWN FESTIVAL] While all eyes in Portland will be on the Blues Festival this weekend, the more daring souls will be venturing two hours out of town to a small town near Dufur called Friend for an all-night festival called Schoolhouse Rock. Cooked up by the one-man blues terror known as Ghostwriter and Ben Ballinger, this event has been set up to raise funds for the Friend Schoolhouse, an old school building built over 100 years ago. The fest takes place in that same building and features a variety of acts from across the state, including blues garage duo Thee Headliners and the crazed psychedelic stoner rock of Ape Machine. ROBERT HAM. The Friend Schoolhouse, Friend and Old Friend roads. 1 pm. $5-$10 donation. All ages.
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SUNDAY, JULY 3 It’s a Beautiful Day
[LONG, STRANGE TRIP] While never attaining the global renown of S.F. Summer of Love cohorts the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane—five-string violin as lead instrument being a challenging sell—It’s a Beautiful Day nevertheless forged its share of influence through a distinctly eccentric mélange of world beat, psychedelic jazz and classically tinged folk rock. On hiatus for decades, the troupe began performing together again as backing band for guiding spirit David LaFlamme back in 1997, and though they’ve since occasionally toured under the IABD moniker, one shouldn’t expect many more chances to catch “White Bird” and shouldabeen FM staples in full plumage. JAY HORTON. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 7196055. 7:30 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
East End Block Party: Red Fang, Danava, Lord Dying, Christian Mistress, Rabbits, Drunk Ladies
[METAL PARTY] When Lord Dying played its debut show at the East End’s July 4 block party last year, it wasn’t just the band’s supportive pals in Red Fang who were impressed. The band’s crowdpleasing strengths come from forging hooks that are as weighty as its riffs, a slim margin of distinction that nevertheless marks a significant difference in metal that swings as much as it slams. Today’s reprise of last summer’s outdoor blowout is also a homecoming of sorts for the Fang gang, who have been on tour for several months, and a welcome occasion to check in with Davana, which plans on playing most of the tracks from its forthcoming record. HANNAH LEVIN. East End, 203 SE Grand Ave., 232-0056. 3 pm. $6. 21+.
Waterfront Blues Festival: Randy Oxford Band, Buddy Guy, Fiona Boyes, Patrick Lamb, Curtis Salgado and more
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a mistake, of course, to measure success in Grammy nominations alone. But when a guy racks up six of them, he’s probably doing something right. In Buddy Guy’s case, the awards came from able blues songwriting and—perhaps more importantly—playing some of the meanest (and loudest) guitar in the instrument’s history. He’s as vicious as ever on last year’s highly autobiographical Living Proof: That album’s opening track, “74 Years Young” (he’ll have to amend it to “75” come August), is both a mission statement and a showy display of absolute shredding that would put a lot of Swedish death metal virtuosos to shame. CASEY JARMAN. Gov. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Southwest Naito Parkway between Harrison and Glisan streets. 10:15 am. $15 day pass, $40 full festival pass. All ages.
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[BLUES, CONT’D.] Only at the Waterfront Blues Festival do you get two guys named T-Bone in a stretch of two hours. Tonight features both a tribute performance to blues legend T-Bone Walker and a harmonica “blowoff” (their words, not ours) featuring notable honker T-Bone Stone. To add a little bang for your buck, we recommend spending your afternoon with Preston “King of Beale Street” Shannon, a real-deal Memphis bluesman with the world-worn voice to prove it, and stopping by to catch a set from rowdy Portland hillbillies Hillstomp before local blues fest staple Linda Hornbuckle kills the national anthem and the fireworks start blowing up. CASEY JARMAN. Gov. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Southwest Naito Parkway between Harrison and Glisan streets. 10:15 am. $15 day pass, $40 full festival pass. All ages.
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WED. JUNE 29 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Robert Ellis
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Open Mic
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway A Perfect Circle, Red Bacteria Vacuum
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Heshbeard, Steak Knife, Pink Slip, Chuck Roast
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Southgate, Fall from Zero, Skies Above Reason, Finest Hour, Shadow of Apollo
Beaterville Cafe
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Little Sue
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Panzergod, Infernus, Noctis, Holy Filament, DJ Disgustor666
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Buffalo Bandstand
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Matt Renzi Trio
Doc George’s Jazz Kitchen
4605 NE Fremont St. Karen Maria Capo
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam (9:30 pm); High Flyer Trio (6 pm)
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Datura Blues, Cash Pony, Anne
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Kathy Walker Band
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge 625 NW 21st Ave. Merrill Lite
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE 39th Ave. Peter Piek, Matt Hopper and the Roman Candles
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Point Juncture, WA; What Hearts; Sun Angle; DJ Gigante
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet
Kells
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Milk Drive (9 pm), Quick and Easy Boys (6 pm)
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar
PCPA Music on Main Street
The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian
1111 SW Broadway Zimba
SW Main St. & SW Broadway Celilo
1001 SW Broadway Karla Harris
426 SW Washington St. Irie Idea, Blue Iris, The Tomorrow People
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
The Know
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
2314 SE Division St. Billy Kennedy
2026 NE Alberta St. Cursebreaker, Life Erased, Emobilization
Press Club
McMenamins Edgefield
2621 SE Clinton St. Swing Papillon
Thirsty Lion
Pub at the End of the Universe
Tony Starlight’s
2126 SW Halsey St. Tyler Stenson
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Alison Krauss & Union Station, Good Old War
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Ryan VanDordrecht
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Neva and Friends
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Donkeys, And And And, Dinosaur Feathers
O’Connors
112 SW 2nd Ave. Cary Novotny
PCPA Antoinette Hatfield Hall
7850 SW Capitol Highway Kit Garoutte
Oswego Lake House 40 N State St. Tom Grant, Shelley Rudolph
4107 SE 28th Ave. Da La Warr, Andrew Grade, R. Stangland
Red Room
71 SW 2nd Ave. Kory Quinn 3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Sportin’ Lifers
Touché Restaurant and Billiards
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Open Mic
1425 NW Glisan St. Nancy King, Steve Christofferson
Secret Society Lounge
Twilight Café and Bar
116 NE Russell St. Tony Furtado
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Off The Grid, Hives Inquiry Squad, Pocket
Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave. Wizard Attack, The Friendly Skies
The Globe
2045 SE Belmont St. Hot Club of Hawthorne
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Justin James Bridges
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. The Defendants, Three Finger Jack
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar
Union Station, 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen with Anandi
THUR. JUNE 30 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Robert Ellis
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Satellite Ensemble, Hannah Penn, Galen Clark, Groovy Wallpaper
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Chervona (9:30 pm); Mister Fisk (6:30 pm)
Aloft
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Biddy’s Bluegrass Jam
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Impending Doom, Mychildren Mybride, A Bullet For Pretty Boy, The Crimson Armada
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Acoustic Minds
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Brooks Robertson
Chapel Pub
9920 NE Cascades Parkway Island Night
430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin
Andina
1669 SE Bybee Blvd. Redray Frazier
1314 NW Glisan St. Na Mesa
Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. Dina and Bamba Y Su Pilon D’Azucar with La Descarga Cubana
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. X-Kid and Dank P, Krude Love, Valer Music HD, DPro, Tope, NBH, Poverty’s Posterboy, Devitto P
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Granada, The Cat From Hue, Us On Roofs, Tigress
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Johnny Ward
D AV I D C O O P E R
2201 N Killingsworth St.
Lowell John Mitchell and the Triplets of Beaterville
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Corkscrew Wine Bar
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Rick Bain and The Genius Position
Doc George’s Jazz Kitchen
4605 NE Fremont St. Ron Steen’s Jazz Jam Session
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. The Knuckleheads
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Bare Wires, Outdoorsmen, Taxi Boys
Ecotrust
721 NW 9th Ave., Suite 200 Loveness Wesa and the Bantus, Everyday Prophets
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Ruby Hill, Daniel Park, Jordan Harris
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. The Polyrhythmics, Yogoman Burning Band
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge 625 NW 21st Ave. The Sale
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Don’t, Boo Frog, The Washers, Phil White
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Kevin Christaldi and Aubrey Webber (8 pm); Lindsay Clark (6 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown B3 Organ Group
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Cary Novotny
Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Ave. Hoot Family Showcase, Blue Moon Highway, Jawbone Flats
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. WeAre/SheIs, Glitter Express, Shermstixxx
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. The Resolectrics, The Don of Division Street (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Little Red Shed 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Pilar French
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro John Shipe
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave.
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Gov. Tom McCall Waterfront Park
Southwest Naito Parkway between Harrison and Glisan streets Waterfront Blues Festival: Chubby Carrier & the Bayou Swamp Band, Robert Cray Band, Too Loose Cajun Band, Rebirth Brass Band, Maceo Parker, Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble, Bobby Radcliff and more
Greeley Avenue Bar & Grill 5421 N. Greeley Ave. Child Children
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge 625 NW 21st Ave. Kent Smith
Hawthorne Theatre
DAIRY KING: Cheese Bar (6031 SE Belmont St., 222-6014, cheese-bar.com) is only subordinately a deli; as the name implies, it’s primarily a bar that sells cheese—250 different kinds, in fact. But the food alone is worth a trip: Try the strata ($7), a savory bread pudding packed with a rotating cast of seasonal vegetables and, yes, jack cheese. It’s served in a pub with paintings that look like the insides of Decemberists songs (oh, see the whale a-drinking from the tap in the oak!). With more than 60 bottled beers— Oregon obscurities include Long Kolsch, Billy the Mountain Old Ale and Hopworks Ace of Spades—to pair with that creamy burrata pouch, Cheese Bar is the perfect spot to take your date after a Mount Tabor sunset, especially since it stays open till 11 pm. Of course, it will help if said date likes cheese. AARON MESH. Monster-Sized Monsters, Tirade (9 pm); Back Porch Revival (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Group Doueh, Dusu Mali Band
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Mystery Siblings
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb
Oswego Lake House 40 N State St., Lake Oswego Tom Grant, Shelley Rudolph
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Andrew Orr, Jen Howard
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Wizard Boots, Filthy Face, Random Axe, Boston T. Rex, Stepper
River Roadhouse
11921 SE 22nd Ave., Milwaukie The Sinners Club
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Boreas, Mosferatu, Rare Monk
Sellwood Public House
8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic with Two Rivers Music
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones Quintet
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Johnny Martin
The Hobnob Grille
3350 SE Morrison St. Open Mic
The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Egg Plant, Greatest Stranger
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Breezin, Almost Dark
The Whiskey Bar
Urban Funk Outfit
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Merrill Lite
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Knifey Spoony, Youth Bitch, Midnite Snaxxx, Forsorcerers
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Pete Petersen Septet with Halie Loren
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero, Nat Hulskamp
Twilight Café and Bar
1420 SE Powell Blvd. The Alternates, My Robot Lung
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Tender, Love ‘n Care Country Night: DJ Gordon Organ, DJ Mike Denver
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Tara Williamson (8:30 pm); 6bq9 (6 pm)
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Garcia Birthday Band (9:30 pm); Will West and the Friendly Cover Up (5:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar
Union Station, 800 NW 6th Ave Ellen Wyte with Jean Pierre
FRI. JULY 1 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Honeydripper (10:30 pm); Robert Ellis (7 pm)
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Cabinet of Natural Curiosities (9:30 pm); Mikey’s Irish Jam (6:30 pm)
31 NW 1st Ave.
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Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. John Butler Trio
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Still Measure, A Killing Dove, The Punctuals, Vises
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Sally Tomato, Professor Gall, James Faretheewell, Andrea Algieri
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Drive By Empathy
Bossanova Ballroom
722 E Burnside St. Foodwars4: S1KOnes, Tragedy503, Speaker Minds, Cool Nutz, Destro and L-Pro, Luck-One, Stars of da Bizzare, Bad Habitat, Hives Inquiry Squad, Rose Bent, The Real Brown Recluse and more
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Poison Idea, Verbal Abuse, Embrace The Kill, Belligerents, Puke N’ Rally
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Tasha Flynn
Canvas Art Bar & Bistro
1800 NW Upshur St. Open Mic
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Muthaship
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. The Fleshtones, Charming Birds
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Truckstop Darlin’, The Tumblers, McDougall
Eagles Lodge, Southeast
4904 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The New Iberians Zydeco Blues Band
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. And And And, TxE, Sam Trump
Saratoga
6910 N Interstate Ave. Slothpop, Pollens
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Rio Con Brio
Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Adrian Martin
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Scott Alexander, Dreamdate
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Last Department, Heard It In The Headlines, Shoreline Drive, Dylan Jakobsen
Someday Lounge
Jimmy Mak’s
5441 SE Belmont St. Justin Franzino, Belinda Underwood and Michael Beach
221 NW 10th Ave. Tim Willcox, Trio Subtonic
Kenton Club
125 NW 5th Ave. Errick Lewis and the Vibe Project, I 84, Soul Tribe
TaborSpace
2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Bugs, Sugar Sugar Sugar, Hey Lover
Ted’s/Berbati’s Pan
LaurelThirst
The Blue Monk
2958 NE Glisan St. Baby Gramps (9:30 pm); James Low Western Front (6 pm)
Lightbox Kulturhaus
2027 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. Sound Bomb
Macadam’s Bar & Grill 5833 SW Macadam Ave. Bella Ruse
Aloft
Godenied, Truculence, Nekro Drunkz, Nocturnal Slaughter, Eulogy, Necryptic, Damage Overdose, Mazaroth
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Sonny Hess
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Jon Koonce and One More Mile
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Renaissance Cocktail (9 pm); Keeter Stuart (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. NIAYH, No Kind Of Rider, Housefire
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Reverb Brothers
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Terry Robb
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Dubtonic Kru
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Traditional Hawaiian Music
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Kinzel and Hyde
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Lynn Conover
Pints Brewing Company
412 NW 5th Ave. Carley Baer (8 pm); Alligator vs Crocodile (6 pm)
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Hex Machine, Mongoloid Village, White Orange, Jr. Worship
Proper Eats Market and Cafe 8638 N Lombard St. Van Meyers Duo
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave.
231 SW Ankeny St. Dubtonic Kru, Outpost 3341 SE Belmont St. Eddie Martinez
The Globe
2045 SE Belmont St. The Wishermen
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Key of Dreams
The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. The Guild, Don’t
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Vastum, Atriarch, Stoneburner
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave. The Richard McKenzie Band
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Christie Bradley
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Fruit of the Legion of Loom, The Thornes, Gaytheist
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Neil Diamond Tribute
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Ramsey Embick Trio
Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Cement Season, In Repose, Moment of Substance
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Rich Layton and The Troublemakers
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. dKOTA, Nicole Berke (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar
Union Station, 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen with Greta Matassa
SAT. JULY 2 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Robert Ellis
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Erin Cole-Baker (9:30 pm); Kevin Steinman (6:30 pm)
Aloft
9920 NE Cascades Parkway The Andre St. James Trio
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Mike Brosnan
Andina
Music Millennium
Ash Street Saloon
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio 225 SW Ash St. Thundering Asteroids, Abolitionist
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Backspace Birthday Celebration: The Gnome Sorcery Federation, Ugly Flowers, The Hollywood Tans, Lone Madrone, Cloaks, Grey Anne, Megan Spear, School of Rock
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Arthur Moore’s Harmonica Party
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. YOB, Dark Castle, Wizard Rifle, Sloths
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Cool Breeze
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Los Bastardos, Delaney and Paris
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Brothers Young, Bright Archer
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Midnite Snaxxx, Guantanamo Baywatch, Leaders, Chemicals
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Showdown on Sacred Ground - Burnside Skatepark Benefit
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. The Devin Phillips Band
Gov. Tom McCall Waterfront Park
Southwest Naito Parkway between Harrison and Glisan streets Waterfront Blues Festival: Rosie Ledet and the Zydeco Playboys, Lucinda Williams, Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble, Orgone, Chubby Carrier & the Bayou Swamp Band, Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, The Ty Curtis Band and more
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Amber Reigns, Silversafe
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Cory Dauber
3158 E Burnside St. Robert Ellis 4627 NE Fremont St. Traditional Hawaiian Music
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Margo
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Voltera, Ghost Machine, Disgustitron, DJ Owen
Press Club
2621 SE Clinton St. Michael Hurley
Pub at the End of the Universe 4107 SE 28th Ave. Vanessa Rogers
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Way of the Yeti, Buck Williams, Saturnalia, Motorthrone, Skatterbomb
River Roadhouse
11921 SE 22nd Ave., Milwaukie Saturday Night Orphans
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. The Portland Playboys
Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Charles Robertson
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Cootie Platoon, Muddy River Nightmare Band, 48 Thrills
Tango Berretin
6305 SE Foster Road Alex Krebs Tango Sextet
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Mikael K’s Rumble Pack
The Friend Schoolhouse
Friend and Old Friend roads, Friend Schoolhouse Rock: Ape Machine, The Singing Knives, Ghostwriter, Otis Heat, Ben Ballinger and The Dalles, Lana Rebel, Right On John, 15 Mile Militia, Drugstore Cowboy, Bob Connolly, Brotherhood of the Black Squirrel, Thee Headliners, Katie Brennan, Barley Draught
The Globe
2045 SE Belmont St. Deklun and Pace
Kenton Club
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar
LaurelThirst
The Know
2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Low Bones 2958 NE Glisan St. Bingo Band (9:30 pm), Tree Frogs (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Modest Mouse
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Floating Pointe
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Weekend Assembly, The McG’s
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Champagne Champagne, Mosley Wotta
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Donna and the Side Effects
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Juno What, The Staxx Brothers
1001 SW Broadway Bre Gregg
2026 NE Alberta St. White Orange, On Lock
The Woods
6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. ((In Mono)), Swim Swam Swum, Gouseion, DJ Epoch
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Break As We Fall
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Fine Steps, White Fang, The Blimp, Organized Sports (9 pm); DJ Drew Groove (5 pm)
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Kelley Shannon and John Stowell
Twilight Café and Bar
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Really Old Airplanes, False Rocket Summer, All the Apparatus
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Broken Soviet, North Head (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar
Union Station, 800 NW 6th Ave Ron Steen with Greta Matassa
SUN. JULY 3 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Cheyenne Marie Mize
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. It’s a Beautiful Day
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero Trio
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway Steely Dan
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Macy Bensley Band, Renee Arozqueta
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. “Dinner Show” with Jackbone Dixie
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Native Noize, Like A Storm
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. East End Block Party: Red Fang, Danava, Lord Dying, Christian Mistress, Rabbits, Drunk Ladies
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Worth, Nuestro
Gov. Tom McCall Waterfront Park
Southwest Naito Parkway between Harrison and Glisan streets Waterfront Blues Festival: Randy Oxford Band, Buddy Guy, Fiona Boyes, Patrick Lamb, Curtis Salgado, Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns, Karen Lovely and more
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE 39th Ave. Parfait (7:30 pm); Nyleen (5:30 pm)
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Our Mistaken Grace, An Epidemic At Hand, Conflict, Prepare for Impact
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Billy Kennedy and Tim Acott with Jake Ray (9:30 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Lynn Conover and John Mitchell
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Hanz Araki and Kathryn Claire
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. The Dread Crew of Oddwood (9 pm); Wicky Pickers (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Mbilly, Hello Mtn
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music
NEPO 42
5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic
Saratoga
6910 N Interstate Ave. Vastum, Knelt Rote, Negative Queen
CALENDAR Secret Society Lounge
116 NE Russell St. Hanz Akari and Cary Novotny
Secret Society Lounge
116 NE Russell St. Hanz Araki and Cary Novotny
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Anson Wright Trio
The Globe
2045 SE Belmont St. Rychen and Friends
The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. A Thief At Heart, Melville, The Autonomics
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Drape to Mania
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Youthbitch, Glitter Express, LeRoy Jerome and the Professionals
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Open Mic
MON. JULY 4 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. Cheyenne Marie Mize
Aloft
9920 NE Cascades Parkway Martini
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic
Gov. Tom McCall Waterfront Park
Southwest Naito Parkway between Harrison and Glisan streets Waterfront Blues Festival: Soul Vaccination with Bruce Conte, Bill Rhoades Harmonica Blow Off, Honey Island Swamp Band, Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, Arsen Shomakhov and more
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale My Three Travellers
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Bob Shoemaker
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Keegan Smith and The Fam, The Excellent Gentleman
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones
O’Connors
7850 SW Capitol Hwy Kit Garoutte
The Globe
2045 SE Belmont St. Hank Hirsh’s Jazz Lounge and Open Jam
The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. SFA, Earl Patrick, AJOPAP
TUES. JULY 5 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave.
Cheyenne Marie Mize
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Sanjaya Malakar, Brave Chandeliers, Chris Blair
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Neftali Rivera
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Voltera, Iceland
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Open Mic
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Timothy Blackman, Kendl Winter
Good Call Sports Bar & Grill 11010 SE Division St. Ace Bandits
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Scott Pemberton Trio
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge 625 NW 21st Ave. Merrill Lite
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Eli Westin
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Alan Jones Sextet (10 pm); The Mel Brown Sextet (8 pm)
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
Johnnie Ward and Eagle Ridin Papas
425 NW 18th Ave. Amanda West
Plan B
Secret Society Lounge
116 NE Russell St. Dominic Castillo
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Pagan Jug Band
The Globe
2045 SE Belmont St. Bill Coones and Larry Adair
The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Future Historians, Samuel Regaldo
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. PX Singer-Songwriter Showcase
Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Open Mic with The Roaming
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Arthur “Fresh Air” Moore Harmonica Party
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Kory Quinn
WED. JUNE 29 East End
203 SE Grand Ave. DJ Tessacoil
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. TRONix: Logical Accession
Matador
1435 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Hold On 2 Yr Butts with the New Dadz
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. DJ Catsup, DJ Mustard
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. BYOR (Bring Your Own Records)
Record Room
Someday Lounge
8 NE Killingsworth St. The Diner with DJ Gunner Lee
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. Pop-Up Club: Lionsden, Nick Dean
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Power Circus with DJ Ogo Eion
The Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave. Crush Drum ‘n’ Bass
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Colin Anderson
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Maxamillion
THUR. JUNE 30 Fez Ballroom
2126 SW Halsey St. Colleen Raney
Mississippi Pizza
Holocene
Mock Crest Tavern
Langano Lounge
1967 W Burnside St. DJ Whisker Friction
316 SW 11th Ave. Shadowplay: DJ Horrid, DJ Ghoulunatic, DJ Paradox
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Dogtooth
Tiga
Holocene
Tube
511 NW Couch St. DJ Epor
Northwest Portland Hostel
1305 SE 8th Ave. Guilty By Association, Hit Me Baby
Ground Kontrol
1001 SE Morrison St. Rice, Beans and Collard Greens
125 NW 5th Ave. The Fix: Rev. Shines, KEZ, Dundiggy
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Dave Fulton
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. See You Next Tuesday: Kellan, Avery
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Bang-A-Rang
1001 SE Morrison St. Girl Trouble: DJ Honey O, DJ Patricia Furpurse, DJ Linger, DJ L Train, DJ Cuica, DJ Linoleum (8:30 pm); Aperitivo Happy Hour with DJ Guidance Counselor (5 pm)
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Brickbat Mansion: DJ Curatrix, DJ Wednesday
The Woods
6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. In the Cooky Jar with DJ Cooky Parker
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. RNDM Noise
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Hot Mess with Doc Adam
SAT. JULY 2 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Stargazer
Fez Ballroom
FRI. JULY 1
316 SW 11th Ave. Twice As Nice
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
Ground Kontrol
303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Honeydripper
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. ‘80s Video Dance Attack featuring VJ Kittyrox
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Decadent 80s: DJ Encrypted, DJ NoN
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. DJ Magneto
511 NW Couch St. DJ Etbonz
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Booty Bassment: Ryan and Dmitri, Maxx Bass
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Andaz with Anjali and The Incredible Kid
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Madness: DJ Jimme Jamma, DJ Darkcloud
MUSIC
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Rat Creeps 18 NW 3rd Ave. Freaky Outy
SUN. JULY 3 Matador
1967 W Burnside St. Next Big Thing with DJ Donny Don’t
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Hive with DJ Owen
MON. JULY 4 Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. RoCks’Off: DJ Nik Elvis, DJ Danny, DJ Pete
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. Into the Void with DJ Blackhawk
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Going Mental Mondays with DJ Just Dave
TUES. JULY 5 East End
203 SE Grand Ave. DJ Adam Mullet
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. See You Next Tuesday: Kellan, Avery
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Bill Portland
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Good Music For Bad People with DJ Entropy
Yes and No
20 NW 3rd Ave. Idiot Tuesdays with DJ Black Dog
3435 N Lombard St.
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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.
THEATER Bindings
Spring 4th Productions presents a world-premiere comedy in which Ian Sieren and Tobin Gollihar play many characters in an unfortunate library. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 477-8245. 7:30 pm Thursdays and Sundays through July 17. $10-$12.
Hairspray
Broadway Rose presents the Tonysweeping musical adaptation of the John Waters movie. You can’t stop the beat! Deb Fennell Auditorium, 9000 SW Durham Road, 620-5262. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Fridays, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through July 24. $20-$35.
Looking for Normal
Corey Brunish directs Jane Anderson’s drama about a wife and daughter struggling to cope with their husband/father’s announcement that he will undergo gender reassignment. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., hulahub.com. 7:30 pm FridaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes July 17. $10-$19.
One Night With Janis Joplin
Portland Center Stage, inexplicably determined that its final show of the season pay tribute to a long-deceased blues belter of dimming celebrity, decided midseason to shelve the originally scheduled Love, Janis and host instead the global premiere of One Night With Janis Joplin, a family-sanctioned glimpse of a less than compelling tale, written and directed by Randy Johnson. The playwright’s decision to embrace theatricality at the expense of celebrating the ineffable led to the most intriguing element of the show: Silhouetted above or standing beside our heroine, amid a set decorated like the karaoke lounge at High Times casino, the blues singer (Sabrina Elayne Carten) appears to embody mythic inspirations and give voice to young Janis’ fave tunes, with a notably better voice than was allowed the
Janis character. Cat Stephani does her best with the title role, but, as she trades a wearying 25 songs with Carten, the disparity in talent colors perceptions. Despite a preternatural facility for soul music, Janis’ moments of rapture came from an unself-conscious delight in her own powers impossible for any actress to more than suggest. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm TuesdayFriday, 2 and 7:30 pm SaturdaySunday, June 29-July 3. $38-$63.
Original Practice Shakespeare Festival
The Original Practice Shakespeare Festival purports to perform the Bard’s plays the way they were when they premiered—in repertory, with minimal rehearsal and props, outdoors. This year (its third), the company is tackling A Midsommer Nights Dream, Much Adoe About Nothing and Twelfe Night in parks around Portland and Oregon. The spelling is original, too, you see. Multiple locations. Times vary, see opsfest.org. Free.
The Tempest
Nathan Markiewicz directs the Portland Actors Ensemble’s first open-air production of the summer, set amid the rushing waters of Lovejoy Fountain. Lovejoy Fountain Park, Southwest 3rd Avenue and Harrison Street, portlandactors.org. 7 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through July 16. Free.
The Wanderlust Circus Orchestra
Wanderlust Circus gets more musical than usual, with members of 3 Leg Torso, The Shanghai Woolies and Juan Prophet Organization joining dancers Kazum, Shoehorn, AWOL Dance Collective, NagaSita, Brittany Walsh and others. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., wanderlustcircus.com. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, July 1-2. $28-$35.
COMEDY 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. This week: “3rd Anniversary EDstravaganza” with Danger Ehren of Jackass. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 9:30 pm Tuesdays. $3. 21+.
Mice-tro
Put 16 improv actors onstage with a voice-of-God maestro pitting them against each other and the audience voting them off, and what do you get? A raw and clever show that’s disgustingly full of talent. The actors take cues from the audience, asking them to shout out a hardware object (“hammer!”) or scenario (“rehab intervention!”) or sentence (“do not step on my begonias!”), which they instantly incorporate into their skits. STACY BROWNHILL. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Saturdays through July 29. $8-$12.
My Country ’Tis of Me
The Brody crew’s annual Independence Day improv show returns: four actors have written essays on the dreaded elementary school topic, “what my country means to me,” which will provide fodder for the improvisers. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227, brodytheater. com. 8 pm Saturday, July 2. $10, $7 students. All ages.
No Pun Intendo
Ground Kontrol arcade offers its first standup comedy night, featuring Mike Drucker, Ian Karmel, Jimmy Newstetter, Whitney Streed and Ron Funches. Ground Kontrol, 511 NW Couch St., 796-9364, groundkontrol.com. 10 pm Thursday, June 30. Free. 21+.
Portland Comedy Contest Finals
The finalists in the 2011 contest—Don Frost, Gabe Dinger, Rico, Mike Coletta and Richie Stratton—head into their last showdown. Harvey’s Comedy Club, 436 NW 6th Ave., 241-0338, stageleftcomedy.com. 8 pm Wednesday, June 29. $10. 21+.
USS Improvise: The Musical
The Unscriptables improvise “lost” musical episodes of Star Trek, with costumes, sound effects and dance numbers. The Unscriptables Studio, 1121 N Loring St., theunscriptables.com. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays through July 16. All shows are pay what you will.
The Weekly Recurring Humor Night
Whitney Streed hosts a weekly sketch and stand-up comedy night. BEN WATERHOUSE. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 238-0543. 9:30 pm Wednesdays. $3-$5. 21+.
University. $25–$50. Clarinet: 8 pm Saturday, July 2. Reed College, Kaul Auditorium, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Watts, et al.: 8 pm Monday, July 4, Kaul Auditorium, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 294-6400. Tuesday, July 5. Catlin Gabel School (sold out).
Newport Symphony Orchestra
CLASSICAL Chamber Music Northwest
Renowned CMNW regulars AnneMarie McDermott, violinist Ida Kavafian and cellist Peter Wiley offer a complete survey of Beethoven’s piano trios, beginning with Thursday’s breakthrough earlier works and concluding with Friday’s nicknamed middle-period masterpieces (Ghost and Archduke). Saturday’s smorgasbord includes Haydn’s “Gypsy Rondo”; Bartók’s Contrasts for clarinet, piano and violin; Ravel’s dazzling Tzigane (its original chamber version); and other Romainfluenced tunes by Brahms, Kodály and Doppler. Sunday’s Protégé Series show brings the young Amphion String Quartet to town to play Bartók, Mozart and Schumann in a relaxed club atmosphere. Monday and Tuesday’s concert features the Orion Quartet, flutist Tara Helen O’Connor and pianist AndréMichel Schub to play Mozart’s cheery Flute Quartet No. 3, Haydn’s String Quartet Op. 76 No. 2 and Tchaikovsky’s elegiac Piano Trio. BRETT CAMPBELL. Reed College, Kaul Auditorium, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. 8 pm ThursdayTuesday, June 23-26. $25-$50.
Chamber Music Northwest
The 41st season of the venerable summer series continues with Thursday’s free, annual lunchtime concert at the Oregon Historical Society, featuring the young artists of the Protégé Series. Thursday and Friday night’s concerts include the premiere of composer Marc Neikrug’s Clarinet Quintet, along with Brahms’ Piano Quintet and the 1927 Sonata for Flute and Piano by Jewish Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff, who died in a Nazi concentration camp. Saturday’s clarinet-heavy show spotlights CMNW’s longtime artistic director, David Shifrin. Monday’s concert features pianist André Watts in Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 1 and various works by Beethoven. BRETT CAMPBELL. Lunch concert: noon Thursday, June 30. Oregon Historical Society. Free. Neikrug, et al.: 8 pm Thursday, June 30. Reed College, Kaul Auditorium, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. 7 pm Friday, July 1. Lincoln Recital Hall, Portland State
If a few days of summer warmth already have you wilting, you can head for this coastal town’s Chintimini Chamber Music Festival Friday and hear Igor Stravinsky’s delightfully wry fable, “The Soldier’s Tale,” narrated by Oregon actor David Ogden Stiers. On Saturday, the Newport Symphony plays music by Mozart, Aaron Copland’s Quiet City and Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915. BRETT CAMPBELL. First Presbyterian Church, 227 NE 12th St., Newport, 541-265-2787. 7:30 pm Friday and Saturday, July 1-2. $20.
Oregon Bach Festival: Stangeland Family Youth Choral Academy
In this packed, hourlong program, some of the nation’s top high-school singers, under the direction of conductor Anton Armstrong, sing music by two local composers: Morten Lauridsen and Do Jump composer Joan Szymko. They’ll also perform Leonard Bernstein’s 1965 masterpiece, Chichester Psalms, among others. BRETT CAMPBELL. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 147 NW 19th Ave., 222-9811. 5:30 pm Thursday, June 30. $10.
Portland Summer Opera Workshop
Philadelphia- and Weimar-based opera coach and music director Luke Housner accompanies on piano as the Portland singers perform Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. BRETT CAMPBELL. St. Michael and All Angels Church, 1704 NE 43rd Ave., 284-7141. 7 pm Saturday and 5 pm Sunday, July 2-3. $10. Info at 360-909-0355.
Wanderlust Circus Orchestra, The New Eccentrics
Members of 3 Leg Torso, Shanghai Woolies and Juan Prophet Organization accompany tap dancers, acrobats, aerialists and performers in the circus’s latest neo-vaudevillian extravaganza. BRETT CAMPBELL. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 8 pm Friday and Saturday, July 1-2. $28-$35.
DANCE Geeklesque: The Geek Night Returns
C R A I G M I TC H E L L DY E R
Two of Portland’s great loves—burlesque and geekery—merge in this recurring event. This month’s installment features Baby Le’Strange and Infamous Nina Nightshade, plus fire burlesque by Lady Germany and fusion belly dancing by Elise. The Mad Marquis de Maltease hosts the event, which also includes a raffle and trivia game with prizes that range from comics to booze provided by Floating World Comics, Ground Kontrol, New Deal Distillery and others. Pinup art by the fabulous Karina Dale will be available for purchase. HEATHER WISNER. Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th Ave., 248-1030. 9:30 pm Saturday, July 2. $10-$12. 21+.
Homegrown Family Potluck
Water in the Desert’s Local Culture Project is a yearlong exploration of the relationships between local communities, foods and the arts. With that in mind, the performance group hosts the Homegrown Family Potluck, a day of farm work and dances, supplemented by dance and creativity workshops. All you have to do is bring food, art or a craft that has been sourced and created close to home. Hours for the workshops are 10 am to 1 pm, the potluck is at noon, and the open-house party is from 1 until 4 pm. HEATHER WISNER. Prior Day Farm, 9233 N Bristol Ave. 10 am-4 pm Saturday, July 2. Free. All Ages.
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= 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.
NOW SHOWING
Gallery, 716 NW Davis St., 546-5056, augengallery.com. Closes July 2.
James Minden
The Bearded What
James Minden’s Light Drawings evoke many things while staking out a wholly original thesis. His trippy, holographic etchings on black plastic suggest the interlinked geometric shapes of star charts, while slyly ribald works such as the phallic Passage 1 (Circles 1) and the breastlike Concave/Convex wink with saucy humor. When viewed in low lighting with targeted spotlights above, the works seem to reach out and touch you. When viewed in more traditional light, they exude an obsidian, minimalist elegance. Augen
“The Bearded What” sounds more like the name of a band than an art collective, but that’s what this five-artist Midwestern group goes by. Its works are quirkily pop-culture-centric, as in the hilarious, self-explanatory Bearded Skull Smurf by Jason Lahr and Steve Seely, and Lahr’s design-y appropriation of Star Wars’ C-3PO. Throughout the show, the artists’ works display a droll, self-aware blend of topicality and universality. 107 NW 5th Ave., 7962733. Closes July 3.
Cameron Thompson and Ashley Montague
Oakland-based artist Cameron Thompson and Portland’s own Ashley Montague contribute fantasy-inflected, Burning Man-ready paintings and sculptures to this unfortunate two-person show. The sculptures, with their ham-handed cobbling-together of wood and plastic, are especially abominable. Backspace Cafe, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. Closes June 30.
Richard Barnes and Millee Tibbs
In Blue Sky Gallery’s front exhibition space, Richard Barnes’ arid photographs of taxidermied animals in museum crates are as desiccated and lifeless as the dead animals themselves. Fortunately, the back-gallery show by Millee Tibbs has more spunk. Tibbs has replicated poses from her own childhood photos and digitally inserted her current self into the old backgrounds. She places the originals and the new, doctored versions side by side. The result is a discombobulating commingling of innocence and experience. Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 225-0210, blueskygallery.org. Closes July 3.
Christopher Perry and Susan Hall
With their textures resembling an overlay of lace, Susan Hall’s oil paintings benefit from an intriguing technique but suffer from hackneyed subject matter: a rabbit, a deer, a girl holding a bird.... More seriously, in the back space, Christopher Perry uses extreme horizontality and verticality to heighten the drama of his paintings, which seem to meet at the intersection of topography and atmospherics. His glass works seem more literal than the paintings, which veer toward semiabstraction. Butters Gallery, 520 NW Davis St., 248-9378, buttersgallery.com. Closes July 2.
Plots and Plans and Equine
CONTEMPORARY NORTHWEST ART AWARDS WINNER JOHN GRADE’S FOLD AT THE PORTLAND ART MUSEUM
Alfred Harris’ acrylic paintings are jauntily composed in a way that obliquely evokes the late Stuart Davis. However, the works are embalmed under such a thick and reflective coat of resin, they threaten to blind the viewer. Is Harris hoping these pieces can be viewed from outer space? Or is he appealing to stingy, narcissistic collectors who appreciate a painting that doubles as a mirror? In the back exhibition space, a juried group show titled Equine is themed, as the title would suggest, around horses. This is a cutesy conceit that, coupled with Butters Gallery’s unfortunate show last month of Andrea Maki’s horse photographs, makes you wonder why Portland galleries are so hot to trot over horses. A few works do stand out for their originality, including entries by Rick Bartow, Timothy Scott Dalbow, and Dorian Reisman. But it’s time to say, “Enough!” to animal-themed group shows. I mean, what’s next, koala bears? Froelick Gallery, 714 NW Davis St., 222-1142, froelickgallery.com. Closes July 16.
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Saints and Other Folk and Memory Trip
Anne Siems brings a touch of Frida Kahlo to the haunting narrative figuration of Saints and Other Folk, while regionalist landscape painter Michael Brophy excels in bringing more than a touch of the quotidian to otherwise transcendental vistas in Memory Trip. Laura Russo Gallery, 805 NW 21st Ave., 226-2754, laurarusso.com. Closes July 1.
Oomph: enthusiasm, vigor, or energy. sex appeal
There has always been an air of the arch epicene in Storm Tharp’s work. Another, more déclassé, predilection emerges, however, in the group show Oomph: enthusiasm, vigor, or energy. sex appeal, of which Tharp’s works are the indisputable highlight. PDX Contemporary, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063. Closes July 2.
Contemporary Northwest Art Awards
At its mission—cherry-picking a handful of mostly superlative, mostly thematically unrelated artists from around the region—the Contemporary Northwest Art Awards succeeds as a dynamic and thoroughly compelling show. Chris Antemann’s porcelain sculptures nod to Jeff Koons and Rococo painters such as Fragonard and Boucher, while reversing the Rococo taste for placing scantily clad women in the role of carnal playthings.
Antemann, by contrast, casts men in that role, stripping them of all clothing and giving them cute little porcelain erections with gold-plated pubic hair. Among the other artists, Megan Murphy contributes gauzy waterscapes with a silvery, pearlescent finish while Jerry Iverson’s sumi ink works evoke tree branches and Susie Lee’s HD videos add a poignant contemporary spin on characters drawn from ancient Greek mythology and the paintings of Francisco Goya. Spatially and conceptually, this is an engaging and dynamic show. In short: Bravo, and more, please. Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-2811. Closes Sept. 11.
Drawing Shades
An excellent four-artist show, Drawing Shades is highlighted by Matty Byloos’ precise yet evocative domestic miseen-scènes, in which human figures are suggested by ghostly outlines. Densely hung, salon-style, the works are imagined by Byloos as parts of an ongoing visual novel. In one of Worksound’s back gallery spaces, Ním Wunnan uses sumi ink on Mylar to create uniquely smeary depictions of a monumental South Korean hotel and of Able, one of the first monkeys in space. Worksound, 820 SE Alder St., worksoundpdx.com. Closes July 1.
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Set in Portland in the future, local comic writer Shawn Aldridge’s newest title, Vic Boone No. 1, charts the adventures of a private eye as he attempts to uncover the truth about a powerful industrialist’s murder. Aldridge will be at the release party to sign copies of the book. Bridge City Comics, 3725 N Mississippi Ave., 282-5484. 6-8 pm. Free.
Rough Copy Reading Series
Rough Copy literary magazine’s next installment of its reading series will feature authors Julian Smith and David Wolman, as they explore the theme “love and war.” Smith has written for National Geographic and Wired in addition to having authored several guidebooks. Wolman, currently a fellow with the Oregon Arts Commission, is working on his third book. Canvas Art Bar &Bistro, 1800 NW Upshur St., 206-6964. 7 pm.
Maine
In a story befitting no season but summer, three generations of women descend upon a beach house for a summer of searching and understanding. J. Courtney Sullivan’s novel has been called “gratifying” and “powerful” by critics. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651. 7 pm.
SATURDAY, JULY 2 Hell Is Empty
Hell Is Empty is Craig Johnson’s seventh installment in the Walt Longmire series. In the latest tale, Longmire, the world-weary sheriff, follows a band of prison escapees into Wyoming’s Cloud Peak Wilderness. In addition to the search, Longmire’s quest for the criminals turns into a struggle for his own survival. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651. 4 pm.
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Daniel Wilson
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Set against the foreign and mysterious backdrop of Kathmandu, Cary Groner’s first novel, Exiles, tells the tale of a father-daughter duo who find themselves living in a dangerous civil war. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm.
Crush
Dr. Daniel Wilson, author of the recently published Robopocalypse, will speak at the Willamette Writers’ July meeting. Wilson, an author, TV host and roboticist whose work has inspired multiple movie deals, will describe his Cinderella-story career as a writer. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. 6:30 pm. Nonmembers, $10.
Good, bad or awkward, everyone remembers first love. Come hear
BRANDON SEIFERT & LUKAS KETNER WITCH DOCTOR
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The seventh book in Johnsonís Walt Longmire mystery series
Vic Boone No. 1
Not a place you want to visit, but the great, gritty setting and cast of broken characters for Oregon author Scott Sparling’s compelling debut Wire to Wire—published by Portland’s own Tin House. KELLY CLARKE. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
local authors Kerry Cohen, Kevin Sampsell and Lidia Yuknavitch recount the finer points of their earliest romances in Crush: 26 Real-life Tales of First Love. Writers’ Dojo, 7518 and 7506 N Chicago Ave., 706-0509. 7 pm. Free.
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JEN VIOLI / Putting Makeup on Dead People (Hyperion) A heartfelt and funny debut teen novel.
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In the wake of the runaway success of Robert In Morrow, Seifert has created a mad doctor Kirkman’s nearly decade-running The Walking for the ages, a wise-ass genius with a lab full of Dead (and the critical and ratings success of its gadgetry and a nearly indecipherable vocabulary bar-raising AMC TV adaptation), a resurgence in of medical terms (“autosarcaphagym,” “diablohorror comics is inevitable. Charging out of hell’s sis”) that are as funny to read as they are useful gates is Witch Doctor, from to word-origin fetishists. Portland writer Brandon Pop-culture references to Seifert and artist Lukas Keteverything from Batman to ner ( both occasional WW Nina Simone abound, and the contributors). The mediutter chaos of the insulated cal horror series makes its story keeps it compelling major-label debut this week. throughout. Funny, grotesque, macabre But it’s the the art that and utterly visceral, Witch really makes Witch Doctor Doctor packs enough punch pop. Ketner’s attention to to get Kirkman’s seal of detail is a revelation. Charapproval: It was previewed acters’ faces are craggy and as a flip book paired with the covered in shadows, while most recent Walking Dead massive panels of Morrow’s and is the first title to bear lab (housed in a dilapidated the mark of Kirkman’s own insane asylum) and other Skybound imprint, a divilandscapes are so rich in sion of Image Comics. detail they demand that In its first issue, Witch you pause to examine them. Doctor introduces us to Dr. Monsters are rendered down Vincent Morrow, a lab-coatto the last scale; the images The doctor of ed, Sweeney Todd-coiffed of demons emerging from the supernaturopathic medicine is in. cross between House, M.D., boil-covered body of a boy are Constantine and Jeffrey horrifyingly gorgeous. Combs’ deranged Re-Animator Dr. Herbert West. The first issue ends—as these things tend to Tasked with exorcising demons from a young boy do—with hints of a more grandiose story line to in rural Oregon, Morrow is aided by his assistant, come, one in which Morrow and company dive Penny Dreadful—an impish, red-cloaked necro- headlong into the apocalypse. If the end of days mancer with massive talons that inject patients is indeed nigh, it’s nice to have Morrow as a guide, with sedatives—and the mild-mannered Eric and with Seifert and Ketner at the reins, the familGast, who serves as a diplomat to smooth ties iar trope is once again invigorated. AP KRYZA. between the eccentric Morrow and normal folk. It’s a simple—and familiar—story, but with its GO: Witch Doctor release party at Bridge City Comics, 3725 N Mississippi Ave., 282-5484. 6 slick dialogue and gorgeous artwork, Witch Doc- pm Friday, July 1. Free. Info at witchdoctortor is a breezy, creepy blast. comic.com.
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Bad Teacher
32 It should have been a riot: Pot-
smoking, binge-drinking, cleavagebaring Cameron Diaz corrupting junior-high kids and getting down and dirty in the teacher’s lounge sounds like a decadent blast. Trouble is, Bad Teacher is neither dirty enough to make the shtick work as an exercise in shock vulgarity, nor rich enough in character to make its small moments of sentimentality seem anything but forced. Say what you will about Billy Bob Thornton’s rock-bottom drunken Bad Santa, at least the fucker didn’t even try to redeem himself: He let folks around him do the job while he patiently waited at the bottom of a bottle of Jack. Diaz has also crafted an wholly unlikable character, a gold-digging bitch cheating and stealing from children in an effort to raise money for a tit job, trying to seduce Justin Timberlake’s boyish and innocent (and wealthy) substitute teacher while spurning the advances of the film’s only likable character, Jason Segel’s horndog gym teacher. And, well, that’s about it. It’s an SNL skit stretched out to 90 minutes of forced predictability: Watch Diaz don Daisy Dukes at the school car wash. Watch her drug a standardized-testing official while promising to let him ball her on his desk. Listen to her say “fuck” in front of children (something the film relies on heavily for laughs). Or, better yet, just don’t watch her. Rent Bad Santa. If you really need another Cameron Diaz semen joke, just pop in a copy of There’s Something About Mary and save yourself the trouble of watching her make Timberlake splooge in his pants during a dry humping session. R. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub.
Beginners
56 For all the big topics director Mike Mills addresses in this little dramedy— death and grief, repressed homosexuality, the idea that life starts whenever we’re ready for it—the thing most people will leave thinking is, “Boy, that dog sure was cute.” They’re not wrong. Arthur, a clingy Jack Russell terrier Ewan McGregor inherits after his father (Christopher Plummer) passes away, is the fourth most important character in Beginners, the second most interesting and definitely the most adorable. It’s probably not what Mills would want audiences to take away from the film, but then, he shouldn’t have had the dog “speak” to McGregor in subtitled pearls of wisdom. That kind of irksome preciousness, of which there are many other examples, undermines the genuinely moving story— apparently semi-autobiographical for Mills—of a thirtysomething graphic designer coming to terms with the fact that his dad has come out of the closet at age 75. Plummer and McGregor salvage some true heart from underneath the piles of quirk, but as the timeline skips around McGregor ends up spending half the movie stuck in a tepid romance with a sexy mound of tousled hair named Anna (Melanie Laurent of Inglourious Basterds). Mills would’ve been better off cutting the girl and focusing solely on the fatherson relationship. Keep Arthur, though. Boy, is he cute. MATTHEW SINGER. Fox Tower.
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Bir3Depic
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Portland director JD Dawson’s parody of Birdemic pledges to be even worse. Clinton Street Theater. 8 pm Thursday, June 30. NEW
Bride Flight
A Dutch epic about war brides and a New Zealand airplane race. Look for a review on wweek.com. R. Fox Tower.
Bridesmaids
60 There is something a little labored about Bridesmaids, as if director Paul Feig and star Kristen Wiig were trying to compensate for a decade of Judd Apatow’s dong jokes by bypassing the genitalia and going straight for the universally scatological. Not 30 minutes into the movie, there’s a wedding-dress fitting interrupted by an eruptive case of food poisoning, and after our heroines finish vomiting into each other’s hair and lining up to use a fancy marble sink as a commode, the bride (Maya Rudolph) rushes out of the store and shits in the street. Considering this is the first direct reunion of Feig and Apatow since they co-created the wondrously warm Freaks and Geeks, all that straining for ribaldry feels a little sad, like Feig and his actors know they’re sacrificing honesty for coarse bumptiousness. I don’t think it makes me a chauvinist if, when a movie climaxes with two people screaming in public about their bleached assholes, I feel a little sorry for them. It may just be that I don’t find Wiig much fun to watch. In her SNL skits and supporting movie roles, she’s shown two gears— discomfort disguised by maddeningly persistent cheer; affectless muttering—and she doesn’t add many here, at least until her final outburst, a mortifying and self-perpetuating overreaction that destroys most of a garden party. While Bridesmaids is billed as a women’s group-bonding comedy (a bra-mance?), it’s also a movie that operates from the premise that women are brutally competitive and backstabbing—that they basically can’t bond as a group. R. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, CineMagic, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Movies on TV.
Buck
78 “God had him in mind when He made a cowboy,” a friend says of Dan “Buck” Brannaman, the country’s foremost “horse whisperer.” Maybe so, but when Hollywood made up its version of a cowboy, it certainly didn’t have a guy like Brannaman in mind. Exuding Zenlike calm rather than macho stoicism and speaking in a twangy monotone, Brannaman doesn’t make an obvious subject for a compelling documentary, but director Cindy Meehl achieves one anyway. She avoids mythicizing Brannaman’s gift, instead probing the deep childhood pain he transformed into powerful interspecies empathy. Abused by his father, he found solace in horsemanship, eventually coming to describe himself as a kind of therapist who assists “horses with people problems.” There’s a glint of lingering torture behind his eyes, suggesting the reason he stays on the road, away from his family, hosting clinics nine months out of the year is that he’s still using horses to work out his own people problems. Subtly underlining that current of anguish, Meehl elevates Buck above the cute, Disneyfied profile it might have been in someone else’s hands. PG. MATTHEW SINGER. Cinema 21.
Cars 2
65 It’s not every day a kids’ movie combines elements of Machete and Inception. Unlikely as it may seem, though, Cars 2 does exactly that. OK, so there’s no intestinal rappelling— but remember that part of Machete where the lowriders all jump up and down pre-battle? That happens. And the set designs are nearly as gorgeous and intensely detailed as Chris Nolan’s magical Paris upside-down cake. Then again, Cars 2 isn’t exactly a kids’ movie. Like most of Pixar’s work, it’s clearly written by and for grownups; kids might like the talking cars and the (many) potty jokes, but it’s hard to imagine them keeping up with the plot. And you sort of have to hope that the moral of the story, such as it is, will fly right over their heads. Cars 2 takes doofy tow-truck Mater (voiced by Larry
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THESE BEDBUGS ARE GETTING OUT OF HAND: One of Michael Bay’s new friends.
DOMO ARIGATO, MR. BAY TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON IS BETTER, LONGER ROBOT JUNK. BY A P KRYZ A
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Watching Transformers movies, you can imagine a preadolescent, mulleted Michael Bay lording over other kids’ imaginations, demanding his classmates play the way he wants them to. But he has the coolest toys, so everybody obliges him, in the hope they’ll get their hands on one of his cuttingedge gadgets. And what cool toys they are. Say what you will about Bay, the dude dazzles like a drunken frat guy with a bucket of fireworks. At his worst—Pearl Harbor, The Island—he’s an egotist with a misplaced sense of self-importance. At his best—The Rock and the first Bad Boys—he takes familiar tropes like buddy cops and amps them through the stratosphere with an unabashed disregard for subtlety or tastefulness. He transforms familiarity into over-the-top spectacle. Which is why Bay
background it becomes an afterthought. For no other reasons than familiarity and bankability, Shia LeBeouf is back as Sam Witwicky, a friend of the heroic Autobots, who work black ops for the U.S. government while preventing the evil Decepticons from destroying humanity. As the robot races square off around the globe (in such exotic locales as Angkor Wat and “Middle Eastern Illegal Nuclear Site”), Sam races to protect his new love interest (Victoria’s Secret model Rosie HuntingtonWhiteley, introduced by a 3-D ass shot that makes Megan Fox’s debut in the original look like a Gloria Steinem book jacket) from falling debris. And that’s about it. Robots fight. Stars like John Turturro, John Malkovich and Frances McDormand chomp scenery. Robots fight some more. When Bay brings out the big guns—as he does in a 40-minute climactic battle across Chicago featuring toppling skyscrapers and, surprisingly, some of the most stunning real-life stunt work captured on film in ages—it’s a blast, albeit a redundant one. The CGI is more refined, and comprehensible too. In the previous films, the complex details of the robots served as a cacophonous distraction of blurred moving
ROBOTS FIGHT. JOHN MALKOVICH CHOMPS SCENERY. ROBOTS FIGHT SOME MORE. seems the perfect match for Hasbro. Who better to helm a toy story about gigantic robots that change into instruments of destruction and smash into each other? Yet the first two Transformers films are complete messes: The first blew a flat in its indecipherable chaos and dumb-fuck story line, while the other took everything that was wrong with the original and made it worse. Critics scoffed and fanboys turned up their noses (while opening their wallets). Apparently that little boy from the schoolyard actually listened to the critical and audience drubbing that followed the series’ second installment. With Transformers: Dark of the Moon, he has delivered what we want: a dumb-as-rocks, rock-’emsock-’em popcorn flick without pretension. Sure, there’s a plot—some shit about how an Autobots ship crash-landed on the moon right around the time Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their giant leap. But that MacGuffin is so far in the
parts; here you can actually decipher what’s going on in a battle. Alas, like most kids, Bay doesn’t know when to close the toy box. At nearly 160 minutes, the film is as butt-numbing as it is eye-popping, and no amount of chaotic action can mask the fact that Dark of the Moon is at least an hour too long. Bay may have ceded to his critics and made a more crowd-pleasing flick, but he can’t hide the rust on his gears. Perhaps it’s time to put these toys in the attic and move on to exploiting a different cherished childhood plaything. 53 SEE IT: Transformers: Dark of the Moon is rated PG-13. It opens Friday at Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy, Cornelius, Pioneer Place, Broadway, Movies on TV and St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub.
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LARRY CROWNE the Cable Guy) out of the backwoods desert town of the first Cars and plops him into the middle of an international espionage thriller. Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) brings Mater, a conspicuous bumpkin, along on the international race circuit. After making an embarrassing spectacle of himself and fighting with McQueen, Mater stumbles right into the whole spy thing. Valuable lessons are learned, including that true friends indulge each other’s bad behavior always, and that there’s no such thing as an environmentally friendly alternative fuel: Try it and you will probably explode. G. BECKY OHLSEN. Cedar Hills, Roseway, 99 West Drive-In, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop
70 Up until last year, there wasn’t any-
thing particularly interesting about Conan O’Brien. He’d always been funny and creative, but that’s pretty much all anyone needed to know about him. Losing his job in such a public and unfair manner gave him an edge (even if he still walked away from his abridged run as host of The Tonight Show an extravagantly rich man). In theory, anyway. Can’t Stop, a behind-the-scenes look at the live tour he embarked on while contractually blocked from appearing on TV, doesn’t present O’Brien as anything other than a funny and creative person with a compulsive drive to entertain. His backstage banter with sidekick Andy Richter and faux-bullying of his crew (along with a few jabs at NBC and Jay Leno) is funny enough to earn the film a recommendation, and perhaps the point of it wasn’t to be enlightening, but then, what is the point of making what’s essentially a 90-minute DVD bonus feature? MATTHEW SINGER. Hollywood Theatre.
The Double Hour
76 The “mind-bending twist” has
been a standard feature in thrillers for decades, but it wasn’t until The Sixth Sense spun heads with its final reveal that the twist became a cliché all its own, a sideswipe of audience expectations that has since become an audience expectation in and of itself. Freshman Italian director Giuseppe Capotondi certainly builds his haunting debut, The Double Hour, around a twist that allows him to tell the story of a horrendous crime through the perspectives of the two people affected by it. But not content just to let the twist— which actually comes about halfway through the film—do the talking, Capotondi lets his narrative play out as a human story, and his film benefits from the extra care. What could have been a cheap, Run, Lola, Runstyle exercise in narrative possibilities instead becomes a tender character study of loneliness, a frightening paranoid thriller, a gritty surveillance piece and a psychological mind-bender with shades of the terrific French thriller Tell No One mashed into Polanski territory. While its second act can’t top its jarring setup, The Double Hour is a solid debut from a promising filmmaker. AP KRYZA. Living Room Theaters.
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Girls Rock!
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[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Arne Johnson and Shane King’s 2008 film documents Portland’s Rock ’n’ Roll Camp for Girls, a music-based retreat aimed at teaching young women selfconfidence, DIY ethics and teamwork through the basics of rock. Early on, Laura, a self-conscious 15-yearold who has little voice in her malefronted band, Thief, says assuredly, “It’s cooler to be in a band than to date someone in a band.” The camp’s counselors—who range from veritable superstars like Beth Ditto and Carrie Brownstein to local electric guitar virtuoso LKN (the soundtrack, likewise, is chock-full of apt tunes such as Bikini Kill’s “Rebel Girl” and Veruca Salt’s “Volcano Girl”)—do their damnedest to help these girls discover their potential. Sometimes it works; sometimes it doesn’t. But perhaps that’s why Girls Rock! succeeds as a documentary; instead of delivering a fantasy transformation amid stats on eating disorders and women’s self-image (which do abound), it feels real. And, because kids like Laura realize, often for the first time, that they’re truly interesting (not distastefully “interesting,” as she says), it’s ultimately inspiring. AMY McCULLOUGH. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Thursday, June 30. Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen will introduce the film.
Green Lantern
29 What’s that line from Macbeth?
Something about a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, and computer-generated landscapes and Blake Lively in form-fitting business suits and Ryan Reynolds’ abs, signifying nothing? It’s almost as if Shakespeare knew this vacuous Green Lantern adaptation was coming down the pike. Calling director Martin Campbell an idiot is a bit harsh—he gets an extended pass for making Casino Royale—but his preoccupation with bright colors and loud noises and barely comprehensible action sucks this first big-screen appearance for the long-standing DC Comics superhero into a black hole of meaninglessness. Actually, make that a beige hole. Because worse than being big, loud and stupid—things we expect from a summer blockbuster—Green Lantern is boring. There isn’t a moment in this movie that should cause anyone to give a shit. There are hints Campbell is aware of how goofy much of his movie is, but then he has Reynolds psych himself up by earnestly repeating the Green Lantern oath: “In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight!” Maybe he’s just keeping true to the comic, but there’s a reason the series has been rebooted in print several times over the past 70 years. Expect the same to happen to the film franchise. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Broadway, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
The Hangover Part II
34 If nothing else—and believe me, there is nothing else—The Hangover Part II is bound to go down as the
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How to Live Forever
[LAST TWO DAYS] Although he talks to scientists who are literally working on a cure for death, the title of Mark Wexler’s documentary on aging should still be considered tongue-incheek. As it turns out, there is no set of hard-and-fast rules for elongating life. The human body is an inconsistent machine: For every Jack LaLanne, the pioneering exercise guru and health nut who lived to age 96, there’s a guy like Buster Martin, a surly Brit who made it to 104 on a diet of cigarettes, beer and red meat. Of course, you probably already knew that, and Wexler surely did, too, but that doesn’t stop How to Live Forever from being a consistently enjoyable survey of the myriad and contradictory ways people have managed to extend their stay on this mortal coil. It is a thoroughly First World survey, however, which is probably to be expected: In the United States, England and Japan, people can afford to ponder immortality; elsewhere, they’re just hoping to get to tomorrow. MATTHEW SINGER. Fox Tower. Closes Friday, July 1.
Kung Fu Panda 2
67 In the first Kung Fu Panda, Jack Black’s Po is a bumbling idiot who succeeds despite his flaws by learning to believe in himself. Now we find out he’s a bumbling idiot with abandonment issues. Plagued by visions of the parents who gave him up for adoption, he starts asking existential questions like, “Who am I?” Turns out, he’s the only survivor of a panda genocide perpetrated by a megalomaniacal peacock (Gary Oldman). There’s a message about letting go of the past, but it’s uncomfortably crammed in between an almost unbroken stream of action sequences—all of which look spectacular—and an overcrowded field of voice actors (Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Danny McBride, Jean Claude effin’ Van Damme, etc.) clamoring to get a word in. For a movie with a theme of finding inner peace, it’s pretty fucking chaotic, but still a good deal of fun—even if it only exists to justify a third installment. PG. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen.
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Larry Crowne
Tom Hanks enrolls in college, where he meets Julia Roberts. Based, we assume, on Rodney Dangerfield’s immortal Back to School. Not screened by WW press deadlines; look for a review on wweek.com. PG-13. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Fox Tower, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy. NEW
Light of Mine
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, FILMMAKER ATTENDING] In the debut of Portland director Brett Eichenberger, a photographer going blind visits Yellowstone National Park. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Thursday, June 30. Brett Eichenberger will introduce his film.
Meek’s Cutoff
93 [SECOND RUN, WITH BEER]
“We’re close, but we don’t know what to.” These lines, spoken in an apprehensive hush near the close of Kelly Reichardt’s pioneer drama Meek’s Cutoff, are a key to what makes her film—which is methodical, arid, uneventful and without resolution—so improbably thrilling. It is not, as many of us were vocally hoping, the Oregon Trail video game turned into a movie. Instead, it saturates an audience with the sensations of what it was like actually to be on the Oregon Trail: the complete disorientation, the exhausting routines as a means of warding off fear, the paranoia of being surrounded by so much silence but being unable to quite hear the most important conversations. It is a vision of the West different from and more intimate than any I have seen before, and it sets a high-water mark for the Oregon
film renaissance. PG. AARON MESH. Laurelhurst.
Midnight in Paris
77 Sorry to break it to you, New
York, but Woody Allen is cheating on you. He’s had trysts in the past, but in Midnight in Paris his flirtation with the City of Light blossoms into a full-blown affair. If it’s any consolation, Paris isn’t about Paris in the way Allen’s classic New York films were about the experience of actually being in New York. It’s more about the idea of Paris, and really the idea of any time and place that aren’t our own. Owen Wilson, convincingly stepping into the “Woody Allen role,” stars as Gil Pender, a screenwriter and selfdescribed “Hollywood hack” who thinks of himself as a novelist born in the wrong era. On vacation in Paris,
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most profitable game of Mad Libs ever played. Writer-director Todd Phillips can claim he did more than just remove key nouns from the script of his 2009 frat boy insta-classic, then have co-writers Craig Mazin and Scot Armstrong fill in the blanks, but that’s clearly bullshit. I imagine the brainstorming session went like this: “Name a foreign locale famous for debaucherous behavior.” “Bangkok!” “Great! Now, name something cute Zach Galifianakis can carry around with him.” “A monkey!” “Awesome! OK, what’s their motivation? Ed Helms is the groom this time, so we can’t have him missing for the entire movie.” “They’re looking for his fiancée’s teenage brother!” “All right! Throw in some chicks-withdicks and Ken Jeong doing a chingchong voice and we’ve got ourselves a hit sequel! Break!”. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Clackamas, Forest, Broadway, Bridgeport, Evergreen.
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HAVE A COKE AND A SMILE: David Carr.
PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES The many adventures of David Carr.
Page One is propaganda on behalf of journalism. It is All the News That’ll Make The New York Times Look Good. It is a rousing defense of monoculture, which places it alongside World War I on the list of battles fought over a corpse. But most of all, Andrew Rossi’s documentary is the David Carr Show. The Times’ media reporter gets about 45 of the movie’s 88 minutes— not coincidentally, these are the good 45 minutes. Famously recovered from crack addiction and alt-weekly employment, with a voice like The Simpsons’ Patty and Selma Bouvier combined, Carr has become that most enviable and admirable of figures: the pugnacious advocate of civilization. He demands to be described as pugilistic—you expect (and half hope) to see him step bare-knuckled into a ring with Arianna Huffington, a cigarette dangling from his lips. It is worth quoting in full his interruption of a Vice vlogger preening about his footage of beach defecation in Congo: “Before you ever went there, we had reporters there reporting genocide after genocide. So just because you put on a fucking safari helmet and look at some poop, that doesn’t give you the right to insult what we do.” Here I could say something about how Page One does not give sufficient consideration to Gawker and its imitators, but they’re demagogues, leeches and pornographers, so fuck them. What Rossi should have examined more closely is how the Times’ own institutional blind spots made defense and propaganda necessary. Newspapers have many virtues, but self-criticism and improvisation are not among them, and to judge from this film, you might think the Times was imperiled by an unforeseen calamity—a plague of locusts on 8th Avenue, something like that. Still, there’s a lot to be said for a documentary that can make “David Carr pisses off subjects so much that they threaten to sue” into a stirring payoff. It is a loving portrait of reporting even when it hurts— which makes the subject superior to the vehicle, but I’m not sure how else it could have been managed. Late in the movie, Carr congratulates a roomful of journoss for still having jobs, and Page One does feel like a sort of reward for those who toughed it out through pay cuts, furloughs and layoffs. So what if it’s self-congratulatory? Who else is going to congratulate us? R. AARON MESH. 70
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Monte Carlo
Selena Gomez is mistaken for Selena Gomez. Not screened for critics by WW press deadlines; look for a review on wweek.com. PG. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Broadway, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
51 Mr. Popper’s Penguins embraces
the old adage of love conquering all. It conquers animal neglect, lying, conniving, cheating, greed, deadbeat dadding and shrewdness. It can even teach penguins to poop in toilets instead of on people’s faces. But no amount of love can make Mr. Popper’s actually pop beyond its surface-value cash-in on cute and cuddly flightless birds and Jim Carrey’s cartoonish qualities. Which is just fine, actually. Based on the classic 1938 kiddie favorite by Richard and Florence Atwater, Popper’s ditches the story of a poor painter who comes into possession of precarious and precocious penguins (the alliteration of “p” words runs rampant throughout) for the story of a rich divorcee who inherits penguins, which in turn teach him to be a better dad and husband while pooping and pecking all over his winterized New York penthouse. Carrey dives into his usual hamming and rubber-facing with manic glee, elevating the dumb-as-rocks story with his cartoonish charm. The film’s sweetness prevails, but its sentimentality goes cold toward the end. (How many life lessons can penguins teach? All of them.) As far as mindless kids’ popcorn fare goes, it’s better than mediocre, but only by a fin. PG. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Division, Movies on TV, Tigard, Wilsonville.
to the ultimately disastrous reforms Gorbachev brought to the Soviet Communist Party in the 1980s. In
is weighed down by grief, forever issuing a lament from the valley of dry bones. AARON MESH. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 and 9 pm Friday-Saturday, and 5 and 7 pm Sunday, July 1-3.
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31 The original Pirates of the Caribbean worked because it gave us what we wanted: pirates doing pirate shit. But then producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski started adding all kinds of nonsense to the sequels, when all we really wanted was to see an eyeliner-wearing Johnny Depp jump off high buildings, steal shit, swashbuckle and crack jokes. So we arrive at On Stranger Tides promised just that. Stripped of obnoxious starcrossed lovers Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightly and Verbinski’s belabored plot, we’re given a film that hoists Depp’s Jack Sparrow directly into the captain’s seat as he seeks the Fountain of Youth, pursued by a bevy of baddies ranging from the Spanish Armada to returning villain/teammate Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), hot chick/former flame Angelica (Penelope Cruz) and sadist of the sea Blackbeard (the craggy Ian McShane). Cue a high-speed carriage chase through London, 0629.MIP.3.825x3.5.PWW:Layout swordfights, flesh-munching mermaids, ’splosions, looting, double NEW crosses, and Depp swaggering 79 [THREE NIGHTS ONLY] A seraround the screen like an effeminate endipitous companion piece to Hunter S. Thompson with a bad The Tree of Life, Chilean direcaccent. Yet it all rings hollow. New tor Patricio Guzman’s documendirector Rob Marshall can’t make tary likewise traces connections any of it pop, mainly because it’s between vast cosmos and childhood all so bloody familiar and tedious. memory. Here’s what these origins The entire franchise deserves to be have in common: You can’t go there buried at sea. PG-13. AP KRYZA. 99 again. As inquisitive and free-assoWest Drive-In, Clackamas, Cinema ciating as Werner Herzog—if less 99, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen, self-regarding, and therefore less Cedar Hills, Living Room Theaters, fun—Guzman contemplates the irreMovies on TV. trievable past. “There is no such thing as the present,” observes an astronomer in the high Atacama [ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Desert, explaining that even an intiCort and Fatboy present the only mate conversation is a recollecMichael Bay movie in the Criterion tion of images and sounds that Collection. (Really.) R. Bagdad. 11 happened the instant before we pm Friday, July 1. perceived them. Everything is a
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My Perestroika
63 “Perestroika” is the term applied
Robin Hessman’s documentary of life in Russia before and after the collapse of the U.S.S.R., the word refers to a more personal form of readjustment. Weaving together archival newsreels, home movies and present-day footage shot cinéma vérité style, Hessman—an American who studied directing in Moscow—paints a complicated portrait of the last generation of Russians to come of age behind the Iron Curtain. None of the five former classmates she profiles ever really made sense of essentially having their reality erased in 1991 and replaced with something completely different, and they certainly haven’t lived similar lives since: At the two greatest extremes, one guy now owns a store selling expensive French-made dress shirts while the other quit playing guitar in a popular punk band to busk in a subway station. What links them— and us to them—is the lesson that generations cannot be broadly defined by the political systems they grew up under. My Perestroika is no doubt well-made, but the universality of experience Hessman wants to communicate doesn’t quite resonate loud enough to make the film crucial for anyone who isn’t already interested in the subject. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters.
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Small Town Murder Songs
71 Small Town Murder Songs is the
type of movie that makes you glad you live in Portland, and not in a place surrounded by acres and acres of empty land, where no one can hear you scream. The film, directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly, is set in a minuscule Ontario Mennonite town, where police officer Walter (Peter Stormare) has to solve his first murder case. This town is so small that Walter can identify the victim as an out-of-towner and the 911 caller by first and last name. Within minutes of discovering the body, he’s certain he knows the killer. At its core, though, Small Town Murder Songs is not so much a murdermystery as a character drama about the dichotomy between body and soul. The emergence of the town’s murder shakes Walter’s life to its foundations. Newly baptized, Walter struggles to keep Christian when his violent nature keeps slipping out. In the end, however, there doesn’t seem to be much of a solution to Walter’s life. At 75 minutes, the movie is too short, but the cinematography makes it worthwhile, with its crisp panoramas of the Canadian countryside. ASHLEY COLLMAN. Living Room Theaters.
Submarine
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Anderson-ry will surface just after the opening credits, so it’s best to meet them head on: In Submarine, director Richard Ayoade does, in fact, focus on a sullen adolescent who inhabits a perpetually overcast world (to be fair, it is seaside Wales). Good-natured young Oliver
Tate (Craig Roberts) stumbles in his overreaching attempts to connect to others and ends up distancing himself all the more (he gleefully tries on affectations to underscore the rift). But this adaptation of Joe Dunthorne’s semi-autobiographical novel plays with the restrictive “coming of age” genre, which, after all, represents an experience that is annoyingly universal. Oliver’s raison d’être is to get laid and to keep his family intact, and despite the highbrow aspirations of other outsider heroes (Max Fischer of Rushmore, say), weren’t our junior-year goals so easily summarized? Meanwhile, Ma and Pa Tate have a low-libido union that gets explored in uncomfortable detail by Oliver himself. In fact, it is Ayoade’s refusal to give Jill and Lloyd Tate the John Hughes “parents just don’t understand” treatment that makes Submarine worth the time. There are no bad guys in the Tate household, just role models who embrace the avoidant approach. R. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Fox Tower until Friday, July, 1; Academy after Friday, July 1.
Super 8
73 In a season of lazy cash-grab
sequels and more tired comic book adaptations, Super 8 is fun and cool and genuine in the ways summer blockbusters used to be. The way movies used to be is writer-director J.J. Abrams’ entire driving principle behind the project. As you may have already heard, the film is exceptionally “Spielbergian,” right down to the use of the E.T.-referencing Amblin Entertainment logo in the opening credits. Hell, Steven Spielberg’s name is listed just below Abrams’ on the poster, as a producer. All that is cause for excitement, and much of it is justified. But as an unabashed throwback to those universal cinematic experiences of the 1970s and ’80s, it can’t actually be one of those movies, which truly presented audiences with new, thrilling visions of the world. By its very conceit, it is nothing you haven’t seen before. You just haven’t seen it recently. But you should still see Super 8. It is imperfect—Abrams occasionally trips over the thin line separating homage and cliché—but it is a movie infused with a love of the movies, and that carries it a long way. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
The Tree of Life
97 “A man who writes of himself
without speaking of God,” Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hecht wrote in his later days, “is like one
who identifies himself without giving his address.” Terrence Malick gives precise geographical coordinates in The Tree of Life, a project that has gestated in the mind of the director for 32 years. It turns out that God—or at least little Terry Malick’s first stirrings of the divine—was hiding in Waco, Texas. The movie feels like an explanation for why Malick has been so reluctant to produce scheduled work. With the hero’s puberty comes a rebellion against the tyranny of earthly and heavenly fathers. “Why should I be good if you aren’t?” asks Jack, the young protagonist— and at this point, the movie had my number so completely that I feared it would come up with a reason. It doesn’t, thank goodness. In its final sequence, a grown Jack (Sean Penn) rides up a Houston skyscraper and—in a probably unintentional nod to Willy Wonka’s Great Glass Elevator—ascends to a healing vision of heaven. This is not very persuasive, and it doesn’t matter: What is so piercing about The Tree of Life is not that it knows life’s answers, but that it knows how the questions feel. PG-13. AARON MESH. Fox Tower.
The Trip
85 Nothing much actually happens
in The Trip. Trimmed down to reasonable film length from a sixepisode BBC television series, it’s arranged by director Michael Winterbottom as a series of daily vignettes that all play out more or less the same way: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, playing themselves, drive out to a fancy restaurant in northern England, which Coogan has been commissioned to review for The Observer of London; they banter and bicker while sharing a meal, often leading to argument over who does the better impression of Michael Caine or Woody Allen or a James Bond villain; Coogan breaks off to find good cellphone reception so he can field a call from his agent or get into a passive-aggressive argument with his on-off American girlfriend back in the States, while Brydon goes back to his hotel room and tries to talk his wife into phone sex. That’s pretty much the whole movie. And that’s all it needs to be. Coogan and Brydon, essentially reprising their barely fictionalized, largely improvised roles from Winterbottom’s Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, have the kind of comic chemistry where the only thing a director needs to do is point the camera at them to come away with the funniest film of the year. MATTHEW SINGER. Hollywood Theatre, Living Room Theaters.
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Viva Riva!
64 [ONE WEEK ONLY] Viva Riva! is
both a film we have seen hundreds of times before and one we’ve literally never seen. In terms of story, it’s a standard crime thriller stocked with recycled character types: the brash young criminal who steals from someone he shouldn’t have; the ruthless gangster determined to recover his merchandise; the gangster’s conflicted girlfriend, in love with his power but hateful of the man. As the first movie from the Democratic Republic of Congo to be distributed in the United States, however, Riva! drops us into a corner of the world underrepresented in cinema. Through the lens of firsttime director Djo Tunda Wa Munga, the Congolese capital of Kinshasa feels like Las Vegas—a wasteland glowing with seedy glamour— except the casinos and strip clubs are replaced with outdoor bazaars, whorehouses and crumbling domiciles. The location, and the energy Munga brings to shooting it, sparks a movie that is ultimately a bit of a mess. When a thief named Riva (Patsha Bay) returns home to Kinshasa looking to sell a truckload of gas he lifted in Angola, the power goes to his head—and to his dick. His charisma borders on arrogance, and he just isn’t as likable as Munga would like us to believe. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Clinton Street Theater. 7 and 9 pm Friday-Thursday, July 1-7.
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Water for Elephants
30 Oddly, at no time in this surpassingly dreary circus movie does anybody fetch any water for the show’s sole elephant. The pachyderm is seen slurping up lemonade, and often it is served buckets of contraband hooch (it’s Prohibition, but try telling that to the elephant); however, there’s no watercarrying—which is strange, since you’d think with all that boozing, the poor creature would be dehydrated. Anyway, it’s a gorgeous elephant (played by Tai, who has also starred with Bill Murray and posed for Banksy, and so may be the second-most accomplished actor here, after Hal Holbrook), and just about every scene she’s in is interesting—as opposed to just about every scene Robert Pattinson is in, which is boring. I’ve vouched for the Twilight kid’s chops before, but here he takes a nothing role and makes even less out of it. Director Francis Lawrence takes a Far and Away-style whitewashed periodpiece approach that favors dull lovebirds—including Reese Witherspoon, who was beating a hot retreat to squaresville even before she won her Oscar—over actors who are trying something: Here, that’s pretty much just Christoph Waltz and Tai, who develop a guilt-ridden abusivepartners dynamic that is so much more interesting than Pattinson and Witherspoon making whoopee to orchestral flourishes. No movie set on a train can be completely worthless, but Water for Elephants comes very close. PG-13. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters, Academy, Bagdad, Kennedy School, Mission, St. Johns, Valley.
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TROLLHUNTER Norwegian creature feature TrollHunter is at once a clever parody of the increasingly tired “found footage” trope popularized by The Blair Witch Project, Cloverfield and [REC], and a slick thrill ride using the shaky-cam, first-person style to perfect effect. The lowbudget, older-kid-friendly thriller takes a less-is-more approach to its tale of monsters rampaging through the icy countryside, and in so doing crafts a playful and utterly original piece of tongue-incheek escapism. TrollHunter centers on a college film crew investigating illegal bear poaching in their area. They train their suspicion (and camera) on lone-wolf hunter Hans (Otto Jespersen), following him into mysterious and uncharted areas in an effort to find out whether he’s the culprit. Of course, Hans has bigger prey in his sights—gigantic trolls, which he eradicates for a secret government agency working to cover up the creatures’ existence. Hans reluctantly allows the crew to document him as he tracks three-headed beasts and other maladies in an effort to show the world the truth about things that go bump (and crash and fart) in the night, using U.V. cannons to turn the beasts to stone or make them explode. It’s ridiculous, and rookie director André Øvredal knows it, approaching the story with a bone-dry humor. Citing folklore, Hans uses Christian blood as bait, while the conspiracy-theory plot gets laughs from a snarling field agent donning fake bear feet to create misleading tracks around slain sheep, and a dead-eyed Hans recalling the My Lai-style massacre of a troll village. The low-budget CGI creatures are cleverly glimpsed either through night vision, hidden in shadows or from the blurred perspectives of frightened cameramen, making them believable despite their cartoonishness. The technique makes TrollHunter’s lumbering beasts, who eat rocks and destroy unrelentingly, into seemingly palpable beings. The film drags a bit in the exposition—time is wasted on people yammering in the car, and scenes of Hans going into endless scientific detail about troll physiology go on forever. But when the trolls are terrorizing the people and the landscape, it’s a goofy treat, another Scandinavian fractured fairytale to set beside Rare Exports. AP KRYZA.
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THAT WAS ME: If you’re part of that generation of moviegoers who believe Jeff Bridges was born a grizzled coot, hightail it to Thunderbolt and Lightfoot to see the earliest incarnation of Jeff: a happy-go-lucky pretty boy. Bridges’ easy beauty, first in pastel blue socks and later in drag, is hardly the movie’s sole attraction—the film’s offhand absurdism includes a highway chase that ends with the unlocking of a car trunk filled with white bunny rabbits. Both co-star and director, Clint Eastwood and Michael Cimino, went on to become extravagantly stentorian, but for this movie, they don’t need to be taken seriously—everyone is content being gorgeous. R. AARON MESH. Laurelhurst. Best paired with: Ninkasi Radiant Ale. Also showing: Top Gun (Academy), Meek’s Cutoff (Academy, Laurelhurst). CineMagic Theatre
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2 COL. (3.825") X 10" = 20" WED 6/29 PORTLAND WILLAMETTE WEEK
1510 NE Multnomah Blvd., 800-326-3264 SUPER 8 Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:15, 02:05, 04:50, 07:40, 10:25 GREEN LANTERN Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:20 GREEN LANTERN 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 11:30, 10:40 CARS 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 11:25, 02:15, 05:05, 07:50, 10:35 CARS 2 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 10:45, 01:30, 04:15, 07:00, 09:50 BAD TEACHER Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 02:30, 04:55, 07:35, 10:05 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 10:25, 01:50, 05:20, 08:50 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:40, 03:10, 06:40, 10:10 LARRY CROWNE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:05, 02:35, 05:10, 07:55, 10:30 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed MIDNIGHT IN PARIS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:10, 03:35, 06:50, 10:00
Regal Broadway Metro 4 Theatres
1000 SW Broadway, 800326-3264 MONTE CARLO Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 02:30, 06:00, 09:00 THE HANGOVER PART II FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:15 X-MEN: FIRST CLASS Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:15, 03:00, 06:30 GREEN LANTERN Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:45, 02:15, 06:45, 09:30 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:30, 02:45, 06:15, 09:45
Laurelhurst Theater
2735 E Burnside St., 232-5511
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Bagdad Theater and Pub
3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-249-7474 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS Fri-Sat-Mon-Tue-Wed 08:25 THE ROCK Fri 11:00 HOODWINKED TOO! HOOD VS. EVIL Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 06:00 THOR Sat-Sun 07:30
Clinton Street Theater
2522 SE Clinton St., 503238-8899 VIVA RIVA! Fri-Sat-SunTue-Wed 07:00, 09:00 REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA Fri 11:30 THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Sat 12:00 NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY Mon
Mission Theater and Pub
1624 NW Glisan St., 503249-7474 THOR Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 08:30 13 ASSASSINS Fri-Sat-Sun 10:30 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 06:00
Roseway Theatre
7229 NE Sandy Blvd., 503282-2898 CARS 2 3D Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 01:30, 04:45, 08:00
St. Johns Twin Cinemas and Pub
8704 N Lombard St., 503286-1768 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 04:45, 07:55 BAD TEACHER Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:30, 07:35, 09:35
Kennedy School Theater
5736 NE 33rd Ave., 503249-7474 RIO Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon 03:00 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 08:05 THOR Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:30 PRIEST Fri-Sat-Tue-Wed 02:30
99 Indoor Twin
Highway 99W, 503-538-2738 X-MEN: FIRST CLASS FriSat-Sun 02:30, 07:00 RIO Fri-Sat-Sun 02:30, 07:00 NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY Mon-Tue-Wed
Regal Fox Tower Stadium 10
846 SW Park Ave., 800326-3264 THE TREE OF LIFE FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:50, 12:55, 02:40, 04:15, 05:30, 07:15, 08:20, 10:00 LARRY CROWNE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:15, 12:50, 02:45, 03:15, 05:15, 05:45, 07:35, 08:05, 09:45, 10:15 HORRIBLE BOSSES Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed MIDNIGHT IN PARIS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:05, 12:45, 02:15, 02:55, 04:35, 05:20, 07:05, 07:55, 09:35, 10:05 BEGINNERS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:45, 12:30, 02:10, 02:50, 04:25, 05:25, 07:20, 07:45, 09:40, 10:10 PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:10, 02:20, 04:40, 07:30, 09:30 BRIDE FLIGHT Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:35, 04:20, 07:10, 09:50
NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park Ave., 503221-1156 NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT Fri-Sat-Sun 04:00, 07:00
Portlander Cinema
10350 N Vancouver Way, 503-240-5850 THOR Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed SOMETHING BORROWED Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed
Regal Cinemas Bridgeport Village Stadium 18 & IMAX
7329 SW Bridgeport Road, 800-326-3264 MONTE CARLO Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 10:55, 01:40, 04:25, 07:10, 09:55 BRIDESMAIDS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 10:25, 01:15, 04:00, 07:15, 10:10 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:30, 09:50 THE HANGOVER PART II Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 11:05, 04:30, 07:20 KUNG FU PANDA 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 02:00 X-MEN: FIRST CLASS Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 10:05, 01:20, 04:15, 07:35, 10:40 SUPER 8 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 02:30 MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 10:10, 07:55 GREEN LANTERN Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 10:15, 03:50, 06:45 GREEN LANTERN 3D Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:55, 10:15 CARS 2 Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:30, 02:20, 05:20, 08:05, 10:50 CARS 2 3D Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:00, 01:50, 04:40, 07:30, 10:20 BAD TEACHER Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:45, 10:30 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:10, 12:10, 03:35, 05:05, 07:00, 08:30, 10:25 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 09:45, 01:10, 03:05, 04:35, 06:30, 08:00 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON -- AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:40, 04:05, 07:30, 10:55 LARRY CROWNE Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:55, 02:30, 05:05, 07:40, 10:15 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed
Academy Theater
7818 SE Stark St., 503-2520500 TOP GUN Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 02:10, 09:30 THOR Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 04:35, 07:00 RIO Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:20, 04:25 SUBMARINE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:45 13 ASSASSINS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 09:00 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 04:45 MEEK’S CUTOFF Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:30, 07:15 HESHER Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 09:40
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