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There are clumps of five, seven and 11 manholes on nearly every block of Alder. Each intersection has multiple clumps, which means we’re talking about 25 to 40 manholes every city block. What gives with all the freaking manholes? —Amie I think the mistake you’re probably making, Amie— with plenty of help from the movies and TV—is assuming that every manhole on the street opens into some large underground chamber full of sexy vampires lounging on sectional sofas—or, at very least, into some sort of tunnel system providing wide-ranging access to the city’s innards. If that were the case, it would indeed make little sense to have so many manholes; they’d all open into the same space. But unfortunately for Portland’s vampires, the rambling catacombs so beloved of suspense writers mostly don’t exist. Mainly, what’s down there is a) pipes and b) dirt. “Natural gas lines, conduits for underground

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WE’VE NEVER HACKED A DEAD GIRL’S VOICE MAIL Incumbent Portland City Commissioners rarely lose—only two have since 1970. But Rep. Mary Nolan (D-Southwest Portland), who announced Tuesday that she’ll challenge Position 1 incumbent Amanda Fritz, stands as good a chance as anyone of beating the odds. Nolan’s official campaign launch came with high-profile endorsements from former Gov. Barbara Roberts and NOLAN former Secretary of State Norma Paulus, and the inclusion of a highpowered political consultant, Ben Unger. “City Hall is where I can be most effective,” says Nolan, a six-term lawmaker who has raised $18,000 since June 30. Fritz clearly has her work cut out for her; she hasn’t reported raising a penny since loaning her campaign $25,000 on June 9. When the Portland French School announced closure on April 30 after 22 years, many families lost more than cultural opportunities for their kids. At least nine families have filed complaints with Attorney General John Kroger, alleging that the Southwest Portland language-immersion school took prepaid tuition (at nearly $13,000 per child) from them for 2011-12 but has not refunded the dough. One Southeast Portland family forked over nearly $40,000. The school filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy on June 29 but has not yet filed a statement of creditors, which will show who else is owed money and how much. If large, secured creditors (such as banks) are waiting in line to collect, parents may have little hope of collecting even partial repayment from the school. A prisoner serving a life sentence for kidnapping and murder is suing The Oregonian for $44 million after the daily cast him a snitch. In the suit filed June 28 in Multnomah County Circuit Court, Damien Douglas, 37, says Latino inmates in the Oregon State Penitentiary have threatened and assaulted him as a result of a June 2010 story by reporter Stuart Tomlinson; the story claimed Douglas gave cops information about a Latino suspect in a 2001 murder committed during a home-invasion robbery in Lake Oswego. Douglas says in the lawsuit that he never snitched. But as a libel claim, this one is dubious— Douglas also says in the suit that he’s been trying to clear his name in prison to avoid further retaliation. Oregonian Editor Peter Bhatia did not return a call for comment. Portland activist Erin DeRamus, who tried to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip (see Hotseat, WW, June 22, 2011), is headed home after Greek authorities turned back the ship she and 35 other Americans were on. Members of the 10-boat international flotilla say several of their ships suffered propeller damage in sabotage by unknown attackers. Complaints from Israel that the boats were unseaworthy resulted in more delays. After passing inspections in Greece, the flotilla finally sailed July 1, but the Greek coast guard refused passage to all but one small French vessel out of alleged safety concerns. “Israel has been able to outsource its naval blockade of Gaza to Greece,” says Leslie Cagan, a New York-based spokeswoman for the American ship The Audacity of Hope. Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt.

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but by our count iring with two pensions, Leonard insists he’s ret d’s Police and The first is from Portlan he’ll have at least three. -year career 24 his tirement fund from Fire Disability and Re Employees c bli Pu n’s ego ond is from Or as a firefighter. The sec te legislator and m his 19 years as a sta Retirement System fro would tell WW te er the city nor the sta city commissioner. Neith s he’ll collect say ard on ns are worth. Le how much those pensio from the Veterplus about $110 a month about $85,000 a year— service in the his a military injury from ans’ Administration for s jobs in the iou var m fro Social Security Marine Corps, as well as refighters’ union. private sector and the fi

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FIVE TASKS FOR PORTLAND’S TOUGHEST COMMISSIONER BEFORE HE RETIRES FROM CITY HALL. om

Love him or hate him, Portland will be a more boring place witho ut City Commissioner Randy Leonard. Le on ard ’s fac e wo uld tur n sca rle t at the comparison, bu t in his nine-plus yea rs on the Cit y Co un cil he ’s be com e the George W. Bush of Portland politics. Like Bu sh, Le on ard is a master at presenting himself as an aw-shucks everyman while cultivating close connections to his most powerful constituents. And like Bush, Leonard is adept at pushing thr ou gh agg res siv e po lic ies tha t ha ve changed city history. Wi th Ma yo r Sa m A da ms ba dly wo un de d by the Be au Br eed love sca ndal, Leonard in 2009 and much of 2010 was Portland’s de facto chief executive. He was instrumental in bringing Major League Soccer to Portl and—and at losing the 107-ye ar- old Po rtl an d Be ave rs baseball team. Leonard demanded—and go t— the str on ge st ch an ge s to po lic e oversight in a generatio n. And he altered the cit y sky lin e by sav ing the Ma de in Or eg on sig n, ch an gin g the wo rd s to “Portland Oregon.”

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Last year Leonard ioner Amanda tics (including Commiss bond to pay for what cri n covered in bee e hav service that should e cor a is ued arg tz) Fri at the fire bureau. budget: improvements the city’s general-fund spend the money. office, Leonard gets to In his last 550 days in of toys like new ds loa n for radios plus llio mi 9 $3 es lud inc at Th the Hawthorne station at the east end of rigs, a fireboat and a new at we told voters done consistent with wh Bridge. “It needs to be s. say d election,” Leonard would be done in the bon

And Leonard’s not fin ished just yet. He announced June 29 tha t he won’t seek re- ele cti on ne xt yea r— bu t tha t lea ves him with 18 months in office. Here are five items on Leonard ’s to-do list before he walks out the door.

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Heading the Water s been slammed in irs. In the past year he’ material for his memo eged pet projratepayer money on all a city audit for spending ong them), am rks scholarships and pa g to save ects (a “Water House,” lin fai for nts wr ath of res ide s. an d he ’s inc urr ed the the fed Now he oirs from shutdown by Portland’s open reserv lly executing lk up a win by successfu has a final chance to cha ll Butte and we Po on k illion-gallon tan -m 50 a of t -ou ild bu the lace the beloved k on Kelly Butte to rep a 25-million-gallon tan miss,” Leonard part of the job I won’t Tabor ponds. “That’s the “You literally s. oir erv closing Tabor’s res r ove ire n ize cit of s say can’t win the argument.”

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Former Mayor Ve olitician, former er firefighter-turned-p bank Esplanade. Anoth med after him. na za has a downtown pla k, run Sch rry Te yor Ma d Oregon sign, a He leaves the Portlan What about Leonard? rk, and a growing McCall Waterfront Pa neon flower over Tom visible reminders commodes as the most number of free public ually read history act you hat you learn if of his time in office. “W says Leonard, a are quickly forgotten,” is that individual people xing pedantic. wa PSU who still enjoys former history major at conduct youryou w ho d your life [and] “It’s about how you lea ask , that is the legacy.” Just self, in the final analysis George W. Bush.

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No political advocacy group in the state has enjoyed greater success than Our Oregon in recent years. In 2010, Our Oregon engineered the passage of Measures 66 and 67, two income-tax hikes that bucked a national trend. In 2006 and 2008, the group, which gets much of its funding from public-employee unions, won more than half a dozen ballot measures. Now a group so new that it has little more than a name and a two-page draft plan wants to be the next big player in Oregon politics—and its “action plan” looks remarkably like Our Oregon’s. One of those responsible for Our Oregon’s 2005 creation—then-Oregon Education Association lobbyist Chip Terhune—is helping steer the new group, which comprises large businesses often at odds with Our Oregon. State filings show the new outfit, called “Grow Oregon,” was incorporated April 18, using Wally Van Valkenburg, managing partner at the city’s largest law firm, Stoel Rives, as agent. People involved with Grow Oregon stress that the effort is in its infancy. “It’s truly in pre-start-up phase at this point,” says Justin Delaney, vice president of legal and public affairs at the Standard, an insurance company that is among Portland’s largest employers. Delaney says he and other large employer reps want to build on the 2011 Oregon Business Plan, which business and political leaders wrote with a focus on increasing employment and raising per-capita income to the national average (Oregon lags by about 10 percentage points). “This is not a partisan effort,” Delaney says. “We want to work toward job and wage growth.” A two-page Grow Oregon document WW obtained includes “The Grow Oregon Action Plan,” nine bullet-pointed headings on how to build a political machine—something the business community lacks. The plan, apparently contributed by Terhune, bears a striking resemblance to the original blueprint Terhune and others created for Our Oregon. (Terhune now works for Schnitzer Steel.) “Whoever put this together has a clear appre-

ciation for what we do,” says Our Oregon spokesman Scott Moore of the Grow Oregon document. The Grow Oregon plan, Moore says, describes Our Oregon’s approach: “electorate modeling,” “targeting message delivery,” “using data to measure progress and success” and “long-term strategic electoral planning.” While at OEA, Terhune arranged a big chunk of Our Oregon financing and helped create a permanent, highly organized staff. (Terhune did not respond to calls seeking comment for this article.) Now, a group that includes Schnitzer, the Standard, PacifiCorp, Portland General Electric, NW Natural and, Delaney hopes, many of the state’s other large employers, want to use Our Oregon’s approach to reverse the business community’s losing record at the ballot box. (Grow Oregon hired Laura Imeson as a fundraiser and tasked her to raise $1 million for the 2012 election cycle.) Business interests sought to eliminate Portland’s publicly financed elections in 2006, recruited a candidate to unseat then-City Commissioner Erik Sten that same year, twice failed at statewide efforts to make political primaries nonpartisan, and last year pumped millions into losing efforts in the governor’s race and statewide votes on tax hikes. Businesses sometimes win—they abolished Portland’s publicly financed elections in 2010— but often, better-organized operations beat them. Our Oregon’s Moore says his group is suspicious that terms such as “growing the economic pie” are code words for tax cuts. “They say, ‘We’re working for all Oregonians,’ but if you’re talking about tax cuts that only benefit the top 5 percent of taxpayers or large corporations—and that’s what these companies have advocated for in the past—that doesn’t square,” Moore says. But Delaney insists Grow Oregon will not continue the tax fight. “This is not about taxes, and Grow Oregon is not about providing a counter to Our Oregon,” he says. Delaney says the goal is unleashing Oregon’s economic potential through a variety of mechanisms—better education, lower healthcare costs and streamlined regulation, among others. Moore says Our Oregon will be watching. “You can certainly talk about how ‘We’re all in this together,’ but if the business community pursues policies that only benefit a few, its results are going to be the same,” Moore says. Willamette Week JULY 6, 2011 wweek.com

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Last Thursday drew thousands to Alberta Street on June 30 for the festival’s summer opener. Unlike similar Portland street parties, however, it was held without permits, and entirely at public expense. For reasons that remain somewhat unclear, but have to do with Mayor Sam Adams’ office, the City of Portland doesn’t require the sprawling, 15-block festival to follow the same procedures required of a small, casual block party. On top of that, for the past several years Last Thursday has been funded exclusively by the City of Portland, rather than vendors—to the tune of $30,000 last year. Tucker Teutsch, whom the city hired as a contract “event coordinator” for Last Thursday, simply hands invoices for sanitation, security, traffic control and publicity over to Adams’ office, which pays them. “I basically say, ‘Here’s the receipt,’” says Teutsch, who is paid $10,000 to stage six Last Thursdays. It’s not so easy for other neighborhood events, or the big festivals on Tom McCall

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Waterfront Park. Those parties must not only obtain city permits, they also cover all their own expenses. The double standard frustrates organizations such as the Belmont Area Business Association, which spent $15,000 to hold its annual one-day event in 2010. “There are 38 business districts in the city. For the city to take on sponsorship for one of them is unfair,” says Nancy Chapin, owner of TSG Services, the event management company used by several businessdistrict associations, including Belmont’s. Teutsch says the crowd that comes to Alberta is “a natural outgrowth of art culture. We have an arts and culture mayor right now, so I imagine that he is thinking along similar lines,” he says. Nevertheless, Teutsch says, “The understanding [with the mayor’s office] is that Last Thursday needs to grow up.” City officials want a private group called Friends of Last Thursday to take financial and regulatory responsibility for the event. “The city’s goal by next year is to have an organization in place that is capable of getting a permit,” says Mayor Adams’ spokeswoman, Amy Ruiz. That is almost exactly what organizers said last year, when The Oregonian reported on permitting issues at Last Thursday.

REGULATORY NIGHTMARE: This may look wholesome, but some Alberta Street locals say Last Thursday gets out of hand after dark.

Now some Alberta Streeters want the city to take a firmer hand with the traffic, public drinking and urination that have come with Last Thursday crowds. In a complaint he mailed to Adams, King Neighborhood Association Chairman Alan Silver said “neighbors have found dented cars, garbage and tire tracks on their lawns, damaged private property, used condoms and vandalism.” After problems with public drinking in his parking lot, John Janulis, co-owner of Alberta Street’s Bye and Bye restaurant, closes his doors for the festival and hires a security guard to patrol the lot. Janulis wants the city to ensure that crowds are dispersed at a fixed hour.

Meanwhile, the lack of city permits complicates Multnomah County’s responsibility to regulate food vendors. “An event like Last Thursday—that doesn’t have to follow the regular rules—makes it very difficult, if not impossible, for all the people who are responsible for keeping the community safe to do their jobs,” says Multnomah County spokesman David Austin. But thousands of attendees and vendors don’t care about the fuss. “This is what makes Portland Portland,” says Sammy Eath, an 18-year-old artist who displayed his paintings at the most recent Last Thursday. “If you start regulating and charging people, it will be Seattle.”

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In downtown Portland, across Southwest 5th Avenue from City Hall, stands a tall glass and aluminum tower. Inside this building, the Pacwest Center, is a safe. This safe keeps many secrets, but this story is about the disputed contents of a single envelope. Inside the envelope were the last wishes of a holy man, instructions to be revealed after his death. CONT. on page 16

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Many of the holy man’s followers were successful Yet because the will belonged to the head of an obscure people [in America] wearing turbans,” says Sat Hanuman entrepreneurs: One founded Kettle Chips, a Salem-based church—and because this church has a great deal of mon- Singh Khalsa, a Troutdale TSA agent who joined Sikh company whose owners sold it in 2006 for a reported ey—the legal disputes represent much more. Dharma in 1971. $320 million; others co-founded Golden Temple foods in Many members of the faith are pained by the disputes, Bhajan later made friends with U.S. senators, governors Eugene, a company famous for its Yogi Tea brand. More but also amazed. The legal process has, for the first time, and Hollywood stars. In a day before Bollywood and Slumthan a few of his followers were practicing lawyers. But the opened a window into opaque business dealings at the dog Millionaire, he helped introduce America to traditions holy man trusted one lawyer in particular with the most highest levels of their church. from the Indian subcontinent. sensitive matters of money, family and legacy. “This is a huge corruption case. It really reads like a spy Sikhism is only 500 years old, but it is the eighth-largest The holy man was Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji. Most novel,” says Hari Nam Singh Khalsa, a longtime Portland world religion, with more than 30 million followers. (See people called him Yogi Bhajan (pronounced Budg’un). He Sikh convert now living in New York City. sidebar, page 20.) Yogi Bhajan added a New Agey twist to looked the part, wearing robes and a spotless white turban, “It’s like the Catholic Church,” Hari Nam adds. “My traditional Sikh practice, with his embrace of yoga (more his handsome face hidden behind a long, wavy beard. Yogi mother-in-law was an absolutely saintly person, but the of a Hindu thing), astrology and “tantric numerology.” Bhajan was often photographed looking into the distance; people running her church were basically criminals.… But the most obvious difference between Punjabi Sikhs something in his eyes revealed intelligence. They may look like they’re saints, and talk like they’re and followers of Yogi Bhajan is that most of the latter are Beginning in the 1970s, Yogi Bhajan helped introduce saints—but you dangle 5 cents in front of them, and what American converts. If you meet a white hippie in a Sikh white America to Kundalini yoga, and recruited thousands do you know?” turban who practices Kundalini yoga, odds are pretty good of seekers into a new religious movehe or she is a member of Sikh Dharma. ment, Sikh Dharma. Today the group has “What Yogi Bhajan accomplished,” says thousands of followers around the world his nephew, Surjit P. Soni, “is truly remarkand hundreds in Oregon. able. He came without a dime in his pocket. The trusted lawyer was Roy D. LamHe started teaching yoga, and formed a bert, a tax specialist and partner at the series of nonprofits. He encouraged entrePortland firm of Schwabe, Williamson & preneurialism among a bunch of people Wyatt. Lambert is not a member of Sikh that were basically disenfranchised and Dharma. But Lambert had come to know lost, and created at least two significant Yogi Bhajan in the 1990s through some businesses to perpetuate the nonprofits.” legal work he had done for Golden Temple. Under Yogi Bhajan’s guidance, and over His square, clean-shaven face and neatly a period of decades, the new American parted hair marked him as an outsider Sikhs established a real community. among his turbaned, bearded clients. They built temples; today, there are When Yogi Bhajan died in October Sikh Dharma gurdwara in Eugene, Salem 2004, Lambert asked that the safe be and Beaverton, and across the river in opened and the envelope brought to him. Vancouver, Wash. Yogi Bhajan’s followIt contained Yogi Bhajan’s will. ers also established themselves in CaliYogi Bhajan’s last wishes would shape fornia, Maryland, New York City, North the fate of thousands of people, the conIndia and South Africa, but the place Yogi trol of corporations worth hundreds of Bhajan and his closest advisers called millions of dollars, and the future of a home was Española, a small town north unique religious group with thousands of Santa Fe, N.M. of followers across the United States and They married—sometimes, in pairings the world. arranged by Yogi Bhajan—and raised Sikh What Lambert says were in Yogi children. Bhajan’s last wishes put the control of And, just as importantly for the furSikh Dharma’s holdings into the hands therance of Sikh Dharma, they started of a few men and women who have since profitable companies. become instantly wealthy, and who have According to Kamalla Rose Kaur, a forpaid Lambert handsomely to do their mer Sikh Dharma member in Washington legal work. Those who lost control of the state who now runs a website denouncgroup’s holdings, including members of ing the group as a cult, “Yogi Bhajan just the clergy and Yogi Bhajan’s own widow slammed the men [in the group] to make and children, believe they were the vicmoney…. With the money, they could buy tims of a fraud. more stuff for Yogi Bhajan.” Six years after Yogi Bhajan’s death, on Although it appears Yogi Bhajan had a late spring day in 2011, Lambert took little in the way of money or assets, he had ROY LAMBERT, A PORTLAND TAX LAWYER, the stand in a courtroom in downtown a luxurious lifestyle, with a private chaufPortland, a key witness in a civil trial feur and a large personal staff of secretarBECAME YOGI BHAJAN’S TRUSTED ADVISER. fraught with alleged deception, theft, sex ies, attendants and nurses who worked and sacrilege. as much as 16 hours a day, according to The civil suit, brought by a group of courtroom testimony, interviews with Yogi Bhajan’s followers from New Mexico and later joined The defendants insist they’ve done nothing wrong. They Sikh Dharma members and published reports. by the Oregon attorney general, does not name Lambert as say they earned every penny of the raises they bestowed In the rugged high desert of northern New Mexico, a defendant. (He is a named defendant in a separate civil upon themselves. And they claim Yogi Bhajan left them members of Sikh Dharma founded Akal Security. At first, complaint filed by Yogi Bhajan’s widow and children, in rightfully in charge after his death. the company hired only Sikhs to guard shops and restauU.S. District Court in Portland, alleging racketeering; he is rants. Today, Akal is a $500 million-a-year company that also the subject of a related Oregon State Bar complaint.) Depending on who tells his story, Yogi Bhajan was either protects federal courthouses across the country (and at Instead, the suit targets a few Portland Sikhs who have a charismatic spiritual leader who rescued young hippies least one U.S. embassy overseas), has more than 1,000 assumed control of the corporate and nonprofit empire from the 1970s drug culture, or a huckster who concocted guards at government buildings in Washington, D.C., and, built over four decades by Yogi Bhajan’s followers. a woo-woo sect in order to support a lifestyle he could two months ago, expanded its transportation security The legal cases are extraordinarily complex, with over never otherwise have attained. Or both. business with a $150 million baggage-screening contract 800 trial exhibits and thousands of pages of filings aimed He was born with the name Harbhajan Singh Puri to at the Kansas City airport. The founders donated the at sorting out the byzantine structure of Yogi Bhajan’s middle-class parents in the Punjab region, in an area that company to the church in 1980; it is now controlled by the organization. It’s all the more confusing given that nearly is now part of Pakistan. Certainly, his first few decades did defendants in the Portland lawsuit. all the parties share a surname taken after their religious not hint at the prominence he would achieve: Yogi Bhajan Meanwhile, in the lush, green valley of Eugene, a group vows: “Khalsa.” worked as a customs agent for 15 years before emigrating of about 15 Oregon Sikhs founded Golden Temple foods. Despite the complexity, this is a familiar kind of story: to North America to teach yoga. A family argues over a will. “He started teaching yoga in 1969. By 1972 there were CONT. on page 18 16

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Having purchased a bakery and a granola recipe in the early 1970s, the Eugene Sikhs woke up about 3 am for prayers—as devout Sikh Dharma practitioners still do today—and shared the work: mixing granola, baking bread and making deliveries. Although members came and went, both companies grew steadily, a real achievement considering that the converted Sikhs had little access to outside capital. In addition to individual tithing, members sometimes donated their companies to the church, with the understanding that profits would be used for the good of the community. “Many have suffered discrimination because of their appearance,” says Hari Nam Singh Khalsa, a longtime Portlander and Sikh convert. “If you have a family business, it’s a place where people can find work.” For the next three decades, Yogi Bhajan and his white Sikhs kept a low profile. There were headlines now and then. (After 9/11, a number of Sikh cab drivers and business owners suffered violence and vandalism in a wave of xenophobic

PERAIM AND KARTAR LEFT THEIR OLD retribution; presumably the culprits mistook the Sikh turban for a form of Islamic dress. In response, members of Sikh Dharma joined Punjabi-American Sikhs and Muslim groups in public appeals for tolerance. ) For the most part, though, Yogi Bhajan’s followers focused on growing their revenues and chanting their mantras. They kept to themselves and avoided confrontation like they avoided meat and alcohol. Until he died. Yogi Bhajan was, by all accounts, mindful of his legacy, and careful to ensure that the movement he founded would continue after his death. But if he’d hoped to avoid the internal conflicts that tend to follow when an organization loses a powerful leader, it didn’t quite work. Whether Yogi Bhajan expressly chose successors among anyone in his inner circle—apart from a religious authority—is a matter of dispute. Who should rightfully serve on the boards of the corporations that hold Sikh Dharma’s assets is at issue in at least two separate lawsuits in Portland.

What is clear is this: None of the people who wound up in control of the Sikh Dharma organization are Yogi Bhajan’s wife, Bibiji Inderjit Kaur Puri, and children in Los Angeles, who have filed a federal lawsuit against the people who did wind up in charge. None of them are the spiritual authorities of Sikh Dharma in New Mexico. And most of the people who wound up in charge of the Sikh Dharma empire no longer look like the other Sikhs. The four people who control the Sikh Dharma organization, through their seats on the board of a corporation called Unto Infinity, include former members of Yogi Bhajan’s personal staff, plus the chief executive of Golden Temple. Three of the four now live in Portland. They are Golden Temple CEO Kartar Singh Khalsa; his domestic partner, Peraim Kaur Khalsa, who was a member of Yogi Bhajan’s personal staff; Sikh Dharma’s longtime comptroller, Sopurkh Kaur Khalsa; and the organization’s strategic and legal planner, Siri Karm

ASCETIC LIFE FOR A CONDO IN PORTLAND. Kaur Khalsa, a New Mexico resident. Those four, who could either not be reached or declined to be interviewed, are at the heart of the lawsuits. The gist of the complaints against them is that they breached their fiduciary duties by selling off the cereal division of Golden Temple to Hearthside Food Solutions last year for $71 million, of which $21 million went to the Golden Temple managers, including $10 million to Kartar, the CEO. The plaintiffs also say the Unto Infinity board and Golden Temple managers paid themselves inflated salaries even while they reduced support for the Sikh Dharma religious organizations, and for Yogi Bhajan’s widow and children. The court testimony showed that within three years of Yogi Bhajan’s death, the four began preparing to restructure Golden Temple in a way that would transfer ownership from the church to a company controlled by Unto Infinity’s board. Not long after, Kartar, Peraim and others with Unto Infinity and Golden Temple management traded their robes for business suits. They doffed their turbans and cut their hair. CONT. on page 20

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They allegedly started eating meat and drinking alcohol, both forbidden. Kartar left his wife for Peraim. Kartar left sleepy Eugene behind, and purchased a $550,000 waterfront condo just north of the Fremont Bridge, where he now lives with Peraim. Earlier this year, Portland police ticketed his Porsche. Kartar, who bears a passing resemblance to the actor Liam Neeson, now wears his hair short and braided tightly in the back. Born Tom Burns, he met Yogi Bhajan in 1973, at a Kundalini yoga class in Corvallis, and went to work for Golden Temple in Eugene soon after. He and the three others in charge of Sikh Dharma are, in the minds of many who devoted themselves to Yogi Bhajan for decades, no longer Sikhs. Soon, a judge in Portland will decide if they deserve the power they attained.

There is some evidence to back them up. But the truth of what Yogi Bhajan wanted may never be known. It all comes back to what was—and what was not—in that envelope in the safe in Roy Lambert’s office downtown: the yogi’s last secret.

opened the envelope containing Yogi Bhajan’s will, he found only one name: that of Sikh Dharma’s religious authority, Guru Amrit Kaur Khalsa. She was promptly appointed. But according to Lambert, the second list of names was not in the envelope. As a consequence, control over Yogi Bhajan’s and Sikh Dharma’s affairs fell to an Oregon What was in the envelope? nonprofit corporation, Unto Infinity, which is controlled Nothing. At least, not the thing that everyone expected. by the four people who are now defendants. According to Lambert’s own testimony, Yogi Bhajan Bizarrely, one year after Yogi Bhajan’s death, Lambert wrote an email to a Golden Temple manager in Europe, which was introduced as evidence in the circuit court case. In the email, Lambert states that there was a list of names that Yogi Bhajan intended to run the companies—and that those names included Yogi Bhajan’s wife, one of his sons, and 11 others, some of whom are plaintiffs in the Portland circuit court case. Yet, by 2007, Lambert had switched stoThe Oregon Attorney General’s office ries, claiming that the names he wrote about joined the case this year. The state’s in 2005 were not really the people Yogi involvement was all but unprecedented. Bhajan intended to run the companies. “We do not typically intervene in “I have no basis for understanding why litigation when we believe the charitable I thought that [2005 list] was true,” Laminterests are being sufficiently reprebert said at trial. sented or protected by private individuIn the past years, those who control als. But given the concerns regarding the Sikh Darma’s affairs have done well; private parties’ standing, the size of the according to an analysis of the tax returns disputed transaction and some questionof the four Unto Infinity board members, able aspects of the transaction, we felt it from 2007 through 2010, Sopurkh made was appropriate to get involved,” Oregon $515,000, Peraim made $502,000 and Siri Department of Justice spokesman Tony Karm made $545,000, while plaintiffs Green says. figure Golden Temple CEO Kartar made That trial began on May 23, con$15.8 million as a result of the company’s cluded on June 17, and both sides—along asset sale and restructuring. Unto Infinwith dozens of Sikhs who traveled from ity’s lawyer, Lambert, who was originally all over the world to watch—are awaithired by Kartar in 1992, did well, too. ing a decision from Multnomah County Lambert claimed at least $300,000 Circuit Court Judge Leslie Roberts. in hourly billings for his work advising Roberts gave signals during the Unto Infinity and the Golden Temple course of the trial that she sympathized executives; more importantly, he has a with the plaintiffs and the state—at least director’s seat on the Legacy of Yogiji insofar as she believes the cereal diviFoundation, which manages Sikh Dharsion of Golden Temple should not have ma’s considerable real estate holdings, been sold. But she also made clear that and a powerful advisory role with the she is uncomfortable with the attorney Unto Infinity board. general’s proposed remedy—that she Surjit P. Soni, the widow’s lawyer, AMRIT, SPIRITUAL LEADER OF SIKH DHARMA, appoint a receiver to take charge of the believes Lambert hid or destroyed Sikh Dharma organization. As the defenevidence—the missing list of directors. ALSO WANTS A CORPORATE DIRECTOR’S CHAIR. dants have noted, such a decision would He wants Lambert stripped of the right to result in court-appointed clergy, a clear practice law. First Amendment problem. “He is as bad an apple, if not a worse If she only had to decide whether or not the new was supposed to leave two sets of instructions to be fol- apple, than the other four” defendants, Soni says. “I’m leaders of Sikh Dharma breached their duties, Roberts’ lowed after his death. The first was to be the name of his absolutely convinced of that.” decision might be simple. But the plaintiffs’ argument chosen successor as spiritual leader of Sikh Dharma. The Lambert denies all such criticism and calls the bar goes deeper than that. They also argue that the new Sikh second was to be a list of directors who would oversee the complaint “a joke,” but won’t say much more. Dharma leaders in Portland should never have attained corporate side of things. “I’m not going to spread this through Willamette Week,” their positions in the first place. In his court testimony, Lambert claimed that when he Lambert says.

SIKH AND YE SHALL FIND The first Sikh, born some 500 years ago in Punjab, was Guru Nanak. He taught that Hindus and Muslims could liberate themselves by abandoning the outward trappings of their respective religions and worshipping one god, whose name is Truth. Nine other gurus followed, and

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their teachings constitute Sikh theology. Yogi Bhajan is not one of the 10 Sikh gurus. The movement he founded in America, Sikh Dharma, is to traditional Punjabi Sikhism something like an African Christian folk church is to the Vatican—same basic idea, different execution.

But both branches of the religion share some key tenets. Baptized Sikhs, known as Khalsa, pledge to abstain from consuming meat, alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, as well as having sex outside of marriage. Not all Sikhs are Khalsa, but Khalsa by definition are Sikhs. Khalsa don’t cut their hair. The men also traditionally carry a dagger, known as a kirpan. Today, so the joke goes, many Khalsa have traded their sacred daggers for a sharp tongue.

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HOT CHEESE FIGHTS, ’90S FLASHBACKS AND STRING WINS. IRON CURDS: Cheese Bar owner Steve Jones is preparing to battle the world’s foremost fromage-heads at the second annual Cheesemonger Invitational this Friday in Long Island City, N.Y. As the lone Oregon competitor and only one of four West Coast mongers out of the competition’s 40 international contestants, he’ll show off his skills (“a lot of geeky, technical stuff,” he says) like carving cheese to specific weights without a scale in the hopes of winning bragging rights and $10,000. (He’s got skills, by the way—he and Rogue Creamery’s Tom Van Voorhees won the national American Cheese Society mongering competition in 2009.) “It’s [also] a blind tasting,” Jones explains of the Invitational. “They give you a 1-ounce portion of cheese and you’re tasting it and telling them animal, varietal...like, ‘It’s a cow’s milk, a mountain cheese, raw milk, and I think it’s from Switzerland. You get more points the more you guess right. That’s the deep dorky part of it. That’s the part I’m not too worried about.... I eat a lot of cheese.”

RESTAURANT ROULETTE: Castagna’s forward-thinking chef and chief forager, Matthew Lightner, is leaving the restaurant. According Karen Brooks over at Portland Monthly, he’s opening a restaurant in New York in August. Lightner’s right-hand man at Castagna, Justin Woodward, will take over the kitchen. >> Former Higgins pastry chef Erin McBride is now baking in-house at Cellar Door Coffee (2001 SE 11th Ave., 234-7155). Starting this week you can stuff your face with McBride’s creations, from biscotti and glutenfree carrot cake to ham and Gruyère hand pies. >> In bad but good news, 2011 Eat Mobile Carty Judges Choice Award winner Kim Jong Grillin’ has closed—kinda: “I had so much fun serving HAN LY HWANG OF you all as your dictator of KIM JONG GRILLIN’ lunch and ambassador of Korean cuisine,” owner Han Ly Hwang wrote on Facebook. “I am currently working hard on opening a new restaurant. Same cuisine, more options, places to sit and lovingly serving soju.” Three other carts, Mono Malo, the Kettle Kitchen and Chili Pie Palace, have also recently closed. CLASSICAL WIN: Good news regarding our early June Scoop on the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, which was in danger of having to cancel its 2011-12 season if it didn’t raise $100,000 by the end of last month. The group has surpassed its goal, raising $135,000—$50,000 from a single, anonymous donor. 22

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 6 [CLASSICAL] SCHOLA CANTORUM DE VENEZUELA The crack Caracas choir sings Eric Whitacre’s Cloudburst, leading Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer’s Magic Songs and works by Latin American composers rarely heard in the U.S. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 147 NW 19th Ave., 541346-4363. 7:30 pm. $12-$35.

THURSDAY, JULY 7 [MUSIC] MEL BROWN B3 ORGAN GROUP WITH THARA MEMORY Those who have seen legendary Portland drummer Mel Brown’s weekly performances at Jimmy Mak’s know what all the fuss is about—but even the regulars may never have seen Brown’s original B3 Organ Group, which reunites tonight to celebrate the club’s 15th anniversary. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. $10. All ages (first set), 21+ (second set).

SATURDAY, JULY 9 [MUSIC] AIR-GUITAR CHAMPIONSHIPS Air guitar is that rare profession where passion and enthusiasm can take you further than talent: One need never to have held an ax to become this sport’s next Yngwie Malmsteen, and that’s what makes this touring competition such a thrill to witness in person. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+. [DANCE/FOOD] TEN TINY DANCES Who knew shopping for organic produce could be so entertaining? The roving performance series in which a handful of dancers must navigate a very small stage comes to the Beaverton Farmers Market. Beaverton Farmers Market, Hall Boulevard, between 3rd and 5th streets, 643-5345. 10 am-1 pm. Free. [MULTI-BLOCK PARTY] MISSISSIPPI STREET FAIR The neighborhood fest celebrates its 10th anniversary with beer, barbecue, 30-plus bands and a whopping 30,000 friends and neighbors. North Mississippi Avenue between Fremont and Skidmore streets. 10 am-9 pm. Free. All ages.

TUESDAY, JULY 12 [MOVIES] ALLIGATOR The Grindhouse Film Festival dredges up the 1980 movie with Robert Forster fighting an alligator in the sewers of Chicago. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 2814215. 7:30 pm. $7.

is Portland’s first Cans Fest, which celebrates a handful of hops iconoclasts who prefer to store their This Saturday beer in cans, from Missoula’s Big Sky Brewing to Central City Brewing in Surrey, British Columbia. They swear it keeps the brews fresher. This Saturday also happens to bring us the First Annual Superhero Pub Crawl, which really doesn’t need any explanation beyond the fact that it’s the only time you will be mocked for not wearing a cape to a local bar. Two great tastes that taste great together, we say: for proof, see above. KELLY CLARKE. GO: Cans Beer Fest takes place outside the Guild Public House, 1101 E Burnside St., 233-1743, theguildpub.com. Noon-10 pm Saturday, July 9. Free entry. $5 tasting mug. Cash only. All ages. Details on page 24. The Superhero Pub Crawl starts at Paddy’s Bar & Grill, 65 SW Yamhill St., 224-5626. Noon, Saturday, July 9. No cover. Info and crawl stops at superheropubcrawl.com. Details on page 24.

[MOVIES] THE MINDERS, NIGHT MOVES, KAREN The Minders, a band that now includes ex-Shaky Hands bassist Mayhaw Hoons, has been working on a new record. Great, as long as frontman Martyn Leaper is penning the band’s catchy-as-hell, slightly dark pop tunes. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $7. Willamette Week JULY 6, 2011 wweek.com

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DISH EVENTS THIS WEEK FRIDAY, JULY 8 Ice Cream Churn-a-ment

Of all of the dubious, food-related celebrations, Ice Cream Month may be the tastiest excuse to stuff your face. The Dairy Farmers of Oregon celebrate with an Ice Cream “Churn-a-ment” where a bunch of Portland’s crazy talented chefs, from Beast’s Naomi Pomeroy to Jenn Louis (Sunshine Tavern, Lincoln) and Wildwood’s Dustin Clark, battle for cold-stuff supremacy using old-fashioned hand-crank churns to make the ice cream. Bonus: free ice cream samples for passersby. KAREN LOCKE. Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave. 11 am-2 pm. Free.

The Perennial Plate/Plate and Pitchfork Dinner

The Plate and Pitchfork crew say they’ve developed a crush on the folks at weekly Web documentary operation The Perennial Plate (see Q&A, page 25), so they have invited Daniel Klein and Mirra Fine, who have been road-tripping across the United States encouraging folks to have a better understanding of where their food comes from, to get to know the Willamette Valley’s bounty. Tabla’s Anthony Cafiero and Adam Berger cook with Klein for this dinner benefiting the Sauvie Island Center and Janus Food Works. KL. Sauvie Island Organics, 20233 NW Sauvie Island Road, 621-6921. 5:30 pm. $125, visit plateandpitchfork.com to make reservations.

SATURDAY, JULY 9 Yamhill Lavender Festival

It’s the best weekend of the year for lavender lovers. Finally, a chance to experience lavender-based cuisine alongside beer, wine, music and lavender-centric crafts. KL. Beulah Park, East 3rd Street off Highway 47, Yamhill. 10 am-8 pm Saturday and 10 am-5 pm Sunday. Free.

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Pascal Sauton Summer Cooking

You’ve been stuffing your face with Pascal Sauton’s heavenly French fare at Carafe for years. Now that the chef has stepped away from the restaurant, he’s got time to teach you how to cook his way. Sauton’s hosting a series of classes at KitchenCru this summer, focused on teaching cooks how to find inspiration in ingredients, not recipes. Every class ends with lunch and “summer wines.” KELLY CLARKE. KitchenCru, 337 NW Broadway, 226-1900. 10 am Saturdays July 9 and 23, Aug. 6 and 20. $75 per class; $65 if you sign up for four or more. Class limited to 10 people. Email pascal.sauton@yahoo.com to reserve your spot.

1st Annual Superhero Pub Crawl

Starting at Paddy’s and ending at Ringlers, this seven-pub crawl (see page 23) advises you to leave your real superhero weapons, knives, swords or hammers at home. Don’t forget your X-ray vision, though; they’ve got a Sexiest Superhero award. If you need ideas for your costume, check out the “ideas” tab on the website, and you will find “super” asses only before seen on Australian postcards. KL. Paddy’s Bar & Grill, 65 SW Yamhill St., 224-5626. Noon. No cover, info at SuperheroPubCrawl.com. 21+.

Cans Beer Fest

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than enough reason right there to enjoy brews from all over the nation at Guild Public House’s first Cans fest, which promises live music in the street next to the bar along with its brews. See page 23 for more. KL. The Guild Public House, 1101 E Burnside St., 233-1743. Noon-10 pm. Free. $5 tasting mug. Cash only. All ages.

MONDAY, JULY 11 Andina Rosé Dinner

Ken Collura, Andina’s wine director, is taking on a new gig as DJ Malolactic for this tour of rosés from Oregon, France, Italy and Spain. The tastings are paired with a selection of tapas, served family style. KL. Andina, 1314 NW Glisan St., 228-9535. 6:30 pm. $60 plus gratuity, call for reservations.

RESTAURANT ROUNDUP: CHINESE BARBECUE Best Taste

Best Taste brands itself as “Chinese BBQ,” and the owners aren’t kidding; this meat bears no resemblance to its American cousin. Right by the doorway fire-reddened ducks are strung up at the neck, while the rear quarters of pigs hang from wire looped into their unmentionables. Neither the butchering nor the spicing is tempered for American palates, which means you get everything from crispy skin to fat to bone in your literal cross section of duck or pig (with rice and bok choy garnish). The restaurant’s wide array of won ton noodle soup includes the wonderful acquired taste of pickled green soup with pork, which over the course of its voluminous bowl went, for this palate, from overly tart to fantastically sui generis. Amid the 100-plus menu options, though, what always keeps this reviewer returning is the killer all-day dim sum, including shumai dumplings, black-bean spareribs and sweet egg-glazed buns. Plus, the fact I can hear the family’s TV from their upstairs living space lets me know they’ve really committed to the place. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. 8350 SE Division St., 771-0812. 9 am-8 pm daily. $.

Good Taste Noodle House

Luckily, the NFL has yet to serve notice to this noodle shop that its won ton-, noodle-, barbecue pork- and duckladen “Super Bowl” is in violation of trademark and force it to change the name to the Big Game Bowl. Regardless of what it’s called, the bowl remains a ridiculously good deal. The won tons are plump, serious affairs, redolent with sesame and five-spice, and the roast pork has bits of crackling skin attached. Ignoring the rest of the menu here is an easy trap to fall into, which is a shame. The shrimp fried rice is exactly the sort of hot, salty starch bomb that makes the trip worth it, especially when loaded up with the housemade chili oil sitting on every table. BRIAN PANGANIBAN. 8220 SE Harrison St., 788-6909. 9 am-9 pm Monday-Saturday, 9 am-8:30 pm Sunday. $.

Wing Wa BBQ King

Among the 153 items on the massive and confusing menu at this surprisingly pleasant restaurant next door to Fubonn Shopping Center are all the standards, from egg flower soup and fried spring rolls to eight-vegetable delight and General Tso’s chicken. But you don’t want any of those things. This is the BBQ King, and you are here to eat meat: pork, beef or duck, roasted, barbecued or salted. The roasted pork is sweet and crisp, and the hot pots (called “casseroles”) are divine. For a special occasion, try the flayed duck. BEN WATERHOUSE. 2788 SE 82nd Ave., 771-1848. $.

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DANIEL KLEIN, THE PERENNIAL PLATE A week ago Daniel Klein was hanging out with a Vietnamese fisherman on the Gulf Coast; before that he was trailing shiitake mushroom farmers in the Ozarks; before that, he was hunting and cooking frogs with Arkansas rednecks. It’s all part of his yearlong road trip across the U.S. called The Perennial Plate. Klein and his partner, Mirra Fine, post a new, bite-sized documentary based on their sustainably-minded adventures every week on theperennialplate.com. The pair has always been about introducing people to the places their food comes from, but the online doc series hasn’t always been so mobile. The first season was shot in Klein’s home state of Minnesota, where he kicked off the series by killing a turkey for his Thanksgiving table. This week, the filmmaker and chef—who has worked everywhere from Bouchon to the Fat Duck—motors into Portland to harvest veggies with the kids in the Janus Food Works farming program at Sauvie Island Organics. He’s also cooking a special Plate & Pitchfork dinner. But before that, he stomped on the brakes for a few minutes to talk to WW. KELLY CLARKE. MORE: Follow Klein’s road trip and watch episodes of The Perennial Plate at theperennialplate.com. The Perennial Plate/ Plate & Pitchfork Dinner details on page 24. Read a longer Q&A at wweek.com.

WW: OK, is this the longest road trip you’ve taken? Daniel Klein: For [my] first documentary, What Are We Doing Here?, I traveled from Cairo to Cape Town across Africa for six months, so it was similarly epic…only slightly harder. We did that on public transportation so there was, like, crazy scary buses... [After filming The Perennial Plate’s first season in Minnesota], it seemed like the next thing to do was to go to other parts of the country. Flying wasn’t a financial option; it’s [carbon] footprintintensive to fly around the United States. So…road trip. The docs are only 10 minutes long, but they are often quite beautiful and poignant…. We just go in and film, we don’t have a script, we don’t have anything we’re trying to get out of [the subjects]. The experience we are going for is to show that w0e are these strangers coming into someone’s house and cooking; the experience is unique for us and for them. What message do you want to get across to U.S. eaters? By providing stories of real individuals’ lives who are the creators of our food, maybe instead of going to the store and just seeing a mushroom, you see the hard work of an individual you respect or even love. What’s something that you’ve eaten that blew you away? [Arkansas] frog legs were 10 times better than any frog legs I’ve ever had. They were really, really good.

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THURSDAY, JULY 7 Typhoon, Wild Ones

[UP-AND-COMERS] Most bands with Typhoon’s current (local and national) buzz would stay on the road for weeks on end or lie low at home. But the dramatic Portland orchestral rock outfit loves you, see? Typhoon has become something of a local institution since the Tender Loving Empire label released its excellent Hunger and Thirst LP last year, and these kids are soaking up every last bit of PDX love by playing plenty of local shows— often free ones such as this. Typhoon’s BFF band Wild Ones opens things up with a set of sparkling dance pop. This isn’t the last time you’ll see these two great local bands on the same bill, but it might be the last time you can get in the door—capacity at Ecotrust is 800, and we wouldn’t be surprised if it got pretty crowded in there. CASEY JARMAN. Ecotrust, 721 NW 9th Ave., Suite 200, 227-6225.

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[STOPPED CLOCKS] Before Coldplay and Snow Patrol and the subsequent blizzard of U.K. bands melted middlebrow hearts through the keening thaw of glacial pomposity, the sudden crush of piano chords opening a pop-rock single didn’t necessarily portend wide screen sentiment and unfun anthems. “You Will Leave a Mark,” lead single from A Silent Film’s The City That Sleeps (its 2008 debut released locally last year), delivers the same dully thrilling choruses and preening sincerity of their forebears—lead singer Robert Stevenson’s falsetto neatly mirroring emotion—and the Oxford quartet’s reported intent to move to the cloudless climes of Phoenix speaks volumes. JAY HORTON. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 2883895. 9 pm. $14.

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[HARDCORE PUNK] They say that “punk’s not dead”—and though Hot Topic and the Warped Tour make that notion hard to believe, hope still remains. Thanks to the untiring efforts of local gal Jamie LaRose, Last Hours Fest is alive and kicking. For two days, Bossanova will host dozens of bands keeping the torch burning for the political/Pabst scene. Better yet, it’s all-ages. Kids who bemoan the lack of entertainment and accessible show spaces in town best take note. Here’s the opportunity to flagellate your ears and open your mind to old crusters like Burning Leather and exciting young upstarts like Dr. Loomis. No future, indeed. NATHAN CARSON. Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside St., 206-7630. 8 pm. All ages.

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[NEON COULD BE YOUR LIFE] Superfest, now in its third year, offers an exhaustive testament to a distinct moment in Portland’s musical history. The two-day party showcases dance acts that have cut their teeth on the past five years of Portland’s houseshow bacchanalia. The fest’s promotional materials feature enough neon to scar your retinas, and its attendants rock Wayfarers as if they were the standard against which all other eyewear should be measured. Superfest 333 features many of the same heavy hitters as previous years. Marius Libman continues to drop enough A-plus beats to put the Swedes to shame; Atole (fronted by festival curator Manny Rayes) makes elegant, atmospheric techno; the

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NEKO CASE’S FAVORITE MUSCLE CARS 5. ’66 Rambler Classic 660 When you need a car to be your best friend, this is it. You can make the seats into a bed and the air-pressure-powered wipers never work (that was a terrible idea!). You can spend the rest of your life wondering what the “Weather Eye” is, but the damn thing will start every time. Now that’s love. 4. ’64 Falcon Ranchero Blocky, functional and awesome! I have always preferred the later, less-rounded Falcons. 3. ’64 Chevy Apache I have always wanted one of these! It may be the sexiest vehicle ever, besides the Cougar, of course! 2. ’67 Dodge Polara A bigger hotrod, not very common. I had a friend that had a chocolate metal flake brown one with a creamy white interior. It made me hungry! Fast as BALLS! 1. ’67 Mercury Cougar What can I say? I love a small sedan! This is the car I picture Angie Dickinson driving in Police Woman. I don’t think she did, but.... SEE IT: Neko Case plays Edgefield on Friday, July 8. 6:30 pm. $35 advance, $38 day of show. All ages.

LOOKING FOR JIMMY MAK WE TALK TO THE SEMINAL LOCAL JAZZ CLUB’S OWNER AS HIS VENUE TURNS 15. BY CASEY JA R MA N

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It’s rare, in Portland, for a club to last five years. Jimmy Mak’s opened 15 years ago ( just across the street from its much-larger current location) and remains a driving force behind this city’s jazz scene. Downbeat magazine has called the Pearl District club “one of the world’s top 100 places to hear jazz,” and a never-ending stream of musicians—from legendary drummer Mel Brown to standout local highschool and college students—grace one of Portland’s best stages every night. You’d be forgiven, though, for not knowing Jim Makarounis. Though the club owner’s name is on the sign out front, Jimmy Mak is more likely to be helping out in the kitchen than introducing musicians onstage (many regulars mistake “J.D.,” the bartender who often introduces bands, for the club owner). So we thought we’d drag 48-year-old Portland native Makarounis out into the spotlight for once to ask him a few questions on the eve of Jimmy Mak’s’ 15th birthday. WW: How did you come to own a jazz club? Jimmy Mak: I grew up in a family where my mom and dad had little neighborhood taverns and bars, so since I was 1 or 2 years old, my dad always had a bar. So I just had it in the back of my mind since before high school that I wanted to have my own place. I was a corporate guy for 11 years when I got out of college, but I was always just putting a few doughnuts away and looking for opportunities. What was this neighborhood like in 1996? There was no real nightlife here, but there were some businesses around. There had been nobody in [Jimmy Mak’s old location] for like nine months— right before we were there it was an Australianthemed gay bar...I don’t know how much more of a niche you could have in Portland! And so the landlord just wanted somebody in there. We had an interesting clientele: We had a pimp, Diz, who was one of our regulars. So it was an interesting mix of blue-collar guys, neighborhood people and folks from the West Hills or wherever. So did it seem like a risky investment? Oh yeah. But I’m kind of Type A. I’m a very com-

petitive person and I don’t like to lose. And my wife is pretty competitive, too, so we were not going to look back at it in a year and say, “We wish we would have worked harder.” It was just going to be all-in for a year and see what happens. And thank God, it worked. We were profitable within six months. Was it a scary transition when you bought this building five years ago? Oh yeah. We went in debt up to our eyeballs. I mortgaged my house, emptied my 401(k) plan. It was nerve-wracking, but the timing was perfect. The economy was going up. If we had tried to do this in 2008 or 2009, I don’t know.... Your booking got bigger after the move. We’re trying to get more of those bigger national names in the club. It’s funny, we had purposefully not booked more national acts, especially on weekends, because we have always wanted to give those opportunities to local people. I have always felt so humbled and appreciated by guys like Mel [Brown] and Curtis [Salgado] who wanted to play our room even when we were nothing—so I have never wanted to take those opportunities away from local guys. But what has made me more comfortable with national booking is that the scene is healthy. The Brassserie Montmartre is back, Wilf’s is there and doing what they do, Tim [Gallineau] at the Blue Monk is booking more music again. The scene is expanding a little bit, so I feel like we can take X number of nights away from local players. Were you the only game in town for a while? Yeah, and those are nervous times. It’s really the opposite of what you might think—it really is an indication that the scene is dying, and who wants to be the last guy on that proverbial sinking ship? The only time I’ve ever seen you onstage here is when Martha Reeves pulled you up before singing the Vandellas’ “Jimmy Mack.” Yeah, that was great. The funny part was that I went to get her at the airport, and we were having some problems finding each other, and then we literally ran into each other at the door. And she says “Jimmy?” And I say, “Yeah.” And she says, “Jimmy Mak, I’ve been looking for you for 30 years!” SEE IT: Jimmy Mak’s hosts special 15th anniversary shows all this week. See music calendar, page 37, or jimmymaks.com, for details. Willamette Week JULY 6, 2011 wweek.com

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OTIS HEAT FRIDAY, JULY 8 [POST-FUNK] A lot of bands like to say they came together on accident. In the case of crooked funk trio Otis Heat, the band was brought together by an accident. In 2008, singer-bassist Sean O’Neill was driving his Alfa Romeo Spider through Northeast Portland when he collided with another car going through an intersection. While recovering in adjacent hospital beds, he and the other driver, guitarist Mike Warner, hit it off, and a few months later—along with drummer Adam Lucas, who was in O’Neill’s passenger seat at the time of the accident (he has since been replaced by Scotty Gervais)—the trio formed a group named after the mysterious drifter who helped them out of the wreckage and called an ambulance before disappearing into the streets. At least, they think his name was Otis. “My memory was not really in action there,” says O’Neill, 27, over the phone from a college dorm in southwest Texas, where he’s coaching Grant High School’s varsity lacrosse team. Serendipity has continued to play a part in the evolution of Otis Heat. Initially crafting its off-kilter groove rock using two guitars and no bottom end, O’Neill came to visit a friend at the office of the Portland Chinese Times and was literally handed a bass by the owner of the paper. O’Neill had never played the instrument before—he didn’t even pick up a guitar until after he graduated from college—and in an effort to learn quickly, he developed the fluid, hard-thumping style at the foundation of the odd amalgamation of sounds found on the group’s forthcoming second album, Yoon. Although some might pigeonhole Otis Heat as a jam band (it’s a frequent guest at Southeast Portland’s epicenter of jam, the Goodfoot), it doesn’t indulge in note-crammed noodling, and Warner’s guitar edges more toward spiraling psychedelia than white-boy funk. And then there’s O’Neill’s voice: Although he grew up singing in school vocal groups and stage musicals—“all that corny stuff,” as he says—his elastic, nasally tenor could hardly be called “classically trained.” “I really demand authenticity out of myself,” O’Neill says. “Once I’m doing something redundant, I get frustrated. The sound comes from that desire to be authentic, and the desire to make something that makes people dance.” Of course, in striving to do something different, there’s always the risk of alienation. Indeed, Otis Heat’s inability to easily classify itself has made it difficult for the band to find a comfortable niche in the Portland music scene. Although it has played the usual venues in town, and for broad audiences—from highschoolers to middle-agers—O’Neill admits Otis Heat has had trouble breaking through to more “hip” clubs such as Holocene. His band won’t pander to that crowd by throwing in synths or electronic beats, but O’Neill thinks the band can win them over. It just needs the chance. “We shoot to be in that world, because we want to be in all worlds,” O’Neill says. “The experience people have with our music is pretty enjoyable. It doesn’t really dictate one kind of crowd or another. It’s fairly uninhibited music.” MATTHEW SINGER. Call it car-crash funk, if you must— just don’t call Otis Heat a jam band.

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[CHAMBER BUMP] Four years in, the Portland Cello Project’s shtick— classical musicians taking a literal approach to “chamber pop” by giving works by artists like Justin Timberlake and Kanye West the classical treatment—has still not gotten old. In fact, it’s an everevolving blast, and PCP’s two-night Extreme Cello Dance Party should be no exception. With the army of classically trained musicians enlisting the likes of Drew Grow and the Pastor’s Wives, Rebecca Gates, Ezza Rose and others for a night of assdropping action, the show should satisfy clubgoers and Beethovenites in equal measure. Expect PCP standards like Britney’s “Toxic,” plus a bevy of unexpected club bangers. AP KRYZA. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

The Rosebuds, Other Lives

[GREAT PLAINS CHAMBER ROCK] The Rosebuds, a boy-girl duo with a full-bodied, occasionally R & B-indebted brand of rock, headline this show, but opener Other Lives is well worth an early arrival. The latter’s previous incarnation as the (mostly) instrumental group Kunek is still evident in the lush instrumentation that cinematically buoys the sparse guitar and frontman Jesse Tabish’s delicate vocals on Other Lives’ new album, Tamer Animals, while the band’s roots in its hometown of Stillwater, Okla., manifest themselves in the record’s big-sky, far-plains vibe of lovely desolation. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

AfroCubism

[AFROCUBISM] In 1997, a planned historic collaboration between the greatest old-school Cuban musicians and traditional music masters from that other amazing musical font, Mali (where some Cuban sounds originated generations earlier, forcibly conveyed in the transatlantic African diaspora), fizzled when the Africans’ visa paperwork vanished in the mail. With the studio already booked, more Cuban legends were hurriedly assembled — and the commercial breakthrough Buena Vista Social Club was born. The Malians— including ngoni lute master Bassekou Kouyate and Rail Band guitarist Djelimady Tounkara—have lamented the missed opportunity ever since. Now we can hear what it might have sounded like, as they and countrymen kora master Toumani Diabaté, griot singer Kasse Mady Diabaté and balafonist Lassana Diabaté join BVSC vocalist Eliades Ochoa (still in sturdy, penetrating voice at age 65) and his Grupo Patria in a cross-cultural collaboration that both showcases two of the world’s most powerful musical traditions and reveals the connections between them. BRETT CAMPBELL. Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Road, 220-2789. 7 pm. $19. All ages.

Paul Collins Beat, Needful Longings, Garbo’s Daughter, King Louie One Man Band, DJ Hwy 7

[OLD SONGS ABOUT YOUNG GIRLS] In February, lost L.A. powerpop legend Paul Collins wowed the crowd at Slabtown when he headlined the club’s annual Bender festival. At age 57, his songbook spans three decades—from his time as a drummer with the beloved but short-lived Nerves, who wrote the spiky classic “Hanging on the

U-S-A! U-S-A!: Stalley plays the Crown Room on Friday, July 8. Telephone,” to the pair of obscure treasures he recorded as frontman of the Paul Collins Beat, to his most recent solo album, the boldly titled The King of Power Pop! But the revved-up, girl-crazy music he made in his 20s is still infectiously energetic today. Tonight, he returns to deliver more of the same. As a bonus, check out openers the Needful Longings, a collaboration among ex-members of Crackerbash, Dharma Bums and Guided by Voices. MATTHEW SINGER. Slabtown, 1033 NW 16th Ave., 2230099. 9 pm. $8. 21+.

Otis Heat

See profile, page 29. Ted’s/Berbati’s Pan, 231 SW Ankeny St., 248-4579. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

Bob Desper, The Parson Red Heads, Old Light, Aerial Ruin

[FOLK ROCK] In 1974, Bob Desper went into a Portland studio and recorded a stunning album of bruised, haunted folk songs. A local Christian label distributed a few hundred copies of the vaguely religious New Sounds, then it—and its creator—disappeared into the footnotes of Pacific Northwest music history. But as the decades passed, the record’s lore (and value—it sold for $400 to $1,000 on eBay) grew. It’s a stark, stirring collection of guitar-and-voice songs underpinned by a palpable sense of dread. And now the blind Oregon singer-songwriter’s classic album finally finds a proper release, as Greg Glover’s Arena Rock records reissues the disc, with bonus tracks, this week. Two of Desper’s excellent new labelmates, Parson Red Heads and Old Light, open the show. MATTHEW SINGER. The Woods. 6637 SE Milwaukie Ave., 890-0408. 9 pm. $6 advance, $8 day of show. 21+.

SATURDAY, JULY 9 JD Souther, Jill Andrews

[COUNTRY-ROCK PIONEER] The other day, my mom sent me this text: “I didn’t know JD Souther was in the Eagles!” Yes, ma’am, it’s true. For a brief stretch in the ’70s, this craggy, sun-baked songwriter worked with the cocaine-bruised rockers, co-writing hits like “New Kid in Town” and “Best of My Love.” On top of that, Souther secured his place in L.A. music history through his work with the likes of Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne and James Taylor. Still, he sounds best to these ears on his own, letting his drawling tenor melt all over his tales of love, loss and life’s strange trajectory. ROBERT HAM. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $25. Minors must be accompanied by a parent. All ages.

Last Hours Festival: Frustration, Streetwalker, Countdown to Armageddon, Raw Nerves, Peroxide, Atrocity Exhibition and more

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Superfest 333: Strength, Guidance Counselor, Atole, Serious Business, Ancient Heat, Swahili, ExtrAlonE, Sick Jaggers DJs

See Friday listing. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 7:30 pm. $7 per day or $10 two-day pass. All ages.

Portland Cello Project: Extreme Dance Party Edition!

See Friday listing. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

Mississippi Street Fair: Strangled Darlings, Soft Metals, AgesandAges, Celilo, XDS, Renegade Minstrels, Kasey Anderson, 1939 Ensemble, Mike Midlo, Wild Ones, Priory, Linda Hornbuckle and more

[FREE FUN] It’s hard not to be impressed by the lineup at this year’s Mississippi Street Fair: Bands like Archers, AgesandAges and Wild Ones are some of Portland’s fastest indie rock up-and-comers while Ezza Rose and Mike Midlo are some of its best-regarded singersongwriters. The street fair itself has gone from a small neighborhood get-together to a sprawling mass of people, vendors and events that literally packs the street, and the music is suitably high-profile for the occasion. But it’s also hard not to look at this great lineup and wonder—given that this is still one of Portland’s most diverse neighborhoods, even post-gentrification— whether musical and racial diversity could have been a higher priority for the festival’s organizers. How’s that for opening a can of worms! CASEY JARMAN. Mississippi Street Fair, North Mississippi Avenue between Skidmore and Fremont streets. Noon. Free. All ages.

Mississippi Street Fair: Dolorean, Quiet Life, Denver, Alina Hardin

[WHISKEY FOLK] The Mississippi Street Fair couldn’t ask for a more appropriate comedown party. Folkrock quintet Dolorean is unrivaled at lending melancholy testament to life’s debauches. On last year’s The Unfazed, the group managed to further perfect the mournful country rock that has become its trademark. Both Quiet Life and Denver are of a similar cut, the former offering an acoustic guitar-based take on the honky-tonk ballad and the latter playing an approachable mix of bluegrass and pop, never quite overplaying its banjo-heavy hand. For the introspective territory that resides near the bottom of a fifth of bourbon, you could scarcely find a better soundtrack. SHANE DANAHER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

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American Idol Live!

[J.LO’S ELEVEN] A week after the Rose Garden hosted American Idol auditions for a new class of freshfaced warblers of greater vocal range than evident shame, the top 11 finalists from the 10th season— already fading from memory—perform their signature cover tunes for what amounts to a farewell tour from the rarefied airs of instacelebrity. Although eventual winner Scotty McCreery and runner-up Lauren Alaina shall probably have jobs as long as there’s a Nashville, we’ll vote national darling and new Interscope signee Pia Toscano as the girl most likely to headline the Rose Garden on her own one day. JAY HORTON. Rose Garden, 1401 N Wheeler Ave., 235-8771. 7 pm. $45$65. All ages.

Darude, Randy Boyer

[FINN DE SIECLE] “Sandstorm,” the hypnotic, euphoric, wall-of-beats rave-up that swept the club world ’round the turn of the millennium (largest-selling 12-inch of 2000) and still soundtracks athletic events from hockey to MMA, served as the global mission statement of Finland’s Ville Virtanen, or DJ Darude. Alas, the ultra-propulsive melodic techno dubbed progressive trance has ever been a fickle mistress, and by 2008’s Label This—a fitfully embarrassing venture that employed American Idol Blake Lewis as vocalist—the majesty of early works seemed swallowed by the shifting desert of dance fashion. JAY HORTON. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $20. All ages.

The Monkees

[CLASSIC POP ROCK] There was a time when actors-turned-rockers the Monkees were known only as a lamer, less innovative version of the Beatles. As time passed, however, Davy, Micky, Peter and Michael developed a batch of their own wellcrafted pop songs, selling 50 million records worldwide in the process. Today, three of the original four members still tour, seducing throngs of fiftysomethings with their timeless sugary hits of love and heartbreak. It should not be overlooked that the band also still performs its darker, lesser-known psychedelic material, bringing some much-needed angst to the otherwise goofy reunion tour. REED JACKSON. Sleep Country Amphitheater, 17200 NE Delfel Road, Ridgefield, Wash., 360-816-7000. 7:30 pm. $40. All ages.

Stalley, Libretto, Manimalhouse, Ronin Roc

[HIP-HOP] It looks like Ohio-born MC Stalley is using his latest breezy barbecue anthem, “Summer in America,” as a battle cry as he sets out on a three-month nationwide tour fresh from signing to the eclectic roster of Rick Ross’ Maybach Music imprint. Fans of hip-hop, both young and old, will appreciate the impressive newcomer’s ability to mix conscious lyrics with trunk-rattling beats as he pays homage to the golden era of the genre while still putting a Midwest twang on things. Portland conscious rapper Libretto also joins the party, stepping out from the shadow of his Misfit Massive Crew (which includes local legends Lifesavas) to show he can still hold his own on the mic. REED JACKSON. The Crown Room, 205 NW 4th Ave., 503-222-6655. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

Kate Davis Trio

See Monday’s Ella Street Social Club listing. Wilfs Restaurant and Bar, Union Station, 800 NW 6th Ave., 223-0070. 7:30 pm. Cover. 21+.

SUNDAY, JULY 10 Limp Wrist, Lebenden Toten, Bellicose Minds, Trauma

[HARDCORE] Despite its fingerwagging tendencies, straight-edge hardcore is an essentially self-reflective mode, more concerned with parsing the homosocial bonds that constitute the scene than harshing

VERSION 2.0: The Minders play Mississippi Studios on Tuesday, July 12. an outsider’s mellow. With its terse, fast-as-fuck paeans to getting frisky with the youth crew and lusting after all those cute, X’d-up boys, Limp Wrist turns the macho posturing of the poison-free brotherhood on its head, but it does so without renouncing the scene or reaching for an audience of jaded post-punks. Turns out Limp Wrist is still committed to its hermetic hardcore world, and pit politics might not mean much to you anymore, but that’s fine, because the youth of today aren’t thinking about you anyway. CHRIS STAMM. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 8 pm. $8. All ages.

The Elected

[SOUTHLAND HEARTLAND] Ever since Rilo Kiley co-founder Blake Sennett started the Elected in 2003, the L.A.-based band has been turning out solid albums of sweetly chaste, lightly countrified music in the shadow of Sennett’s better-known project. Following Rilo Kiley’s disastrous play for mainstream recognition with 2007’s Under the Blacklight, the Elected finally would have had its turn in the spotlight—except by then, Sennett had quit music. Happily for Elected fans, Sennett was coaxed back into the studio to record this year’s Bury Me in My Rings. The record finds Sennett (with a reworked lineup) trying out a funkier sound, but the essential Elected charm still shines through. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

Last Hours Festival: Defect Defect, Excruciator, Occult SS, Pills, Confessions, Geister, Septick System and more (4 pm)

See Friday’s Bossanova Ballroom listing. East End, 203 SE Grand Ave., 232-0056. 4 pm. $8. 21+.

Doobie Brothers, War

[AGREEABLE] While I do associate the Doobie Brothers with sleep, I respect the blue-eyed soulsmiths dearly. Quiet heroes Tom Johnston and Pat Simmons have stuck to their muted ways for four decades now, despite the shirtless shredding of Led Zeppelin and aggressive Americana of Tom Petty changing the tides around them. Michael McDonald’s chummy takeover sent the group into even sleepier waters in the mid-’70s, but he’s too busy singing at sporting events to make this tour. Latest release World Gone Crazy is not a bad twilight effort, but the Doobie Brothers would be smart to stick to the early bona fide sparkling tracks from Toulouse Street and Stampede tonight. MARK STOCK. Sleep Country Amphitheater, 17200 NE Delfel Road, Ridgefield, Wash., 360-816-7000. 7:30 pm. $40. All ages.

MONDAY, JULY 11 The Ditty Bops

[DIMPLE POP] The preciousness

of L.A.’s Ditty Bops doesn’t end with its name. First, members Abby DeWald and Amanda Barrett allegedly decided to start a band during a search for a lost cat. (Cute!) The music they ended up playing together is an old-timey mix of folk, pop and vocal jazz, with harmonies that sound like they’re being sung by 8-year-olds—the kind of thing that appeals to fans of A Prairie Home Companion, which they’ve appeared on. (Even cuter!) And the Ditty Bops’ stage shows involve puppets and costumes. (Oh, be still my heart!) The band even did a bicycle tour once. The cuteness doesn’t appear to let up on its upcoming fourth album, Love Letters, but maybe I’m just cranky. Bob Dylan recruited the duo to sing on his Christmas album, so what do I know? MATTHEW SINGER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $15 advance, $17 day of show. 21+.

Kate Davis, Mojave Bird

[BALLAD BELTER] How do you tell your parents you’re a jazz singer? Is there a support group for that? After all, crooning hardly seems a legitimate career path in 2011: Save for a few velvet-voiced songbirds soundtracking AARP dinner parties, vocal jazz is an art with few innovators and plenty of detractors. So it’s incredibly rewarding to discover a mind-blowingly skilled singer—all confident pipes and forward-thinking arrangements; no cutesy shit or over-the-top scatting—who hails from right here in sleepy Portland. Davis’ 2010 Live at Jimmy Mak’s CD is one of the better contemporary jazz albums around, and better yet she’s challenging herself as we speak, penning her own new material, some of which is likely to debut tonight at the Ella Street. Her band—drummer Brian Wright, guitarist Bill Marsh and keyboardist Ben Darwish—is certainly up to the task of helping Davis deliver. CASEY JARMAN. Ella Street Social Club, 714 SW 20th Place, 227-0116. 10 pm. Free. 21+.

John Mark McMillan, All The Bright Lights

[EDGY WORSHIP POP] John Mark McMillan is following a rarefied path that has only been trod by the members of the Danielson Famile and David Bazan, the devoutly Christian songwriter who finds success outside the flock. Credit that to the fact that McMillan has dug his heels in, refusing to follow the typical path of his peers. He plays venues like Backspace (which he did last year) and Mississippi Studios, and he couldn’t care less whether his powerful folk pop is heard on Christian radio. This attitude hasn’t stopped him from being one of the most praised and covered worship songwriters around. ROBERT HAM. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 8:30 pm. $10. 21+.

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TUESDAY, JULY 12 Albert Lee & John Jorgenson

[GUITAR HEROES] Forget last week’s regional air-guitar championships: Should you really wish to observe men of a certain age visibly fretting as they fail to ape the incendiary noodling of the gods, tonight’s pairing of Albert Lee (British Telecaster adept; sideman to the stars for more than half a century; Clapton’s fave axeman) and John Jorgenson (master multi-instrumentalist; personal guitarist and saxophonist to Elton John for six years; gypsy jazz heir to Django Reinhardt’s legacy) promises an embarrassment of riches. JAY HORTON. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $25 advance, $30 day of show. Minors admitted with parent.

Tricia Scully and Carl Hauck, Felecia and the Dinosaur

[FOLKABILLY] A cross-section of Felecia Campbell would reveal a golden set of pipes. The Felecia and the Dinosaur frontwoman has little trouble matching speedy guitar riffs and band mate Seth Campbell’s jumpy upright bass lines with her elastic vocals. Last year’s Hand Me Down God shows influences like Wynonna Carr, Melissa Etheridge and a bottle of Jim Beam—adding an electrified rockabilly element to her more traditional hard folk stance. Campbell is five voices in one, each more melodic than the last. MARK STOCK. Alberta Street Public House, 1036 NE Alberta St., 2847665. 9 pm. Cover. 21+.

Dead to Me, Off With Their Heads, Riverboat Gamblers

JOHN CHIASSON

[PUNK] There’s something vexingly ersatz about tonight’s lineup of perfectly pleasant melodic punk— like a Pandora station that’s a few tweaks away from being awesome, but still good enough to clean the house to. Riverboat Gamblers frontman Mike Wiebe should be touring with his other concern, the leaner and meaner High Tension Wires, but OK, the Gamblers’ bright and shiny anthems will do in a pinch. Meanwhile, the gruff

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poppy punk of Off With Their Heads is basically a commercial for Minneapolis comrades Dillinger Four, but fine, commercials can be cool, especially if they’re selling a top-notch product like D4. As for Dead to Me’s earnest eclecticism, it’ll suffice until Joe Strummer gets the Clash back together. Oh, wait. Shit. CHRIS STAMM. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 8 pm. $12.

Petoskey, Harlowe & The Great North Woods, Mike Midlo (of Pancake Breakfast)

[EMOTION-DRENCHED FOLK COUNTRY] Does Portland need Petoskey, yet another dreamy folkbased act that aims to lull you into a trance as it pulls at your most deeply entrenched emotions? One listen to the vocals of Angie Kuzma and her sharp backing band and the answer is a firm “Yes, please.” The band refers to itself as being made up of “mischief makers” on its MySpace page, but there’s not much devilry to be found in the quintet’s shuffling and ghostly reverb-imbued sound. Just topnotch musicianship, vocals that send glorious crackles up the spine, and lots of breathtaking moments of raw beauty. ROBERT HAM. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 9 pm. $5.

The Minders, Night Moves, Karen

[MAJESTIC POP] The recently reformed Minders (now officially a supergroup including ex-Shaky Hands bassist Mayhaw Hoons and ex-Shins drummer Jesse Sandoval) have been busy as of late working on material for a new record. That’s fantastic news considering it has been five years since the stellar Bright Guilty World, one of the finest pop records ever to come out of this city, had us all dropjawed and drooling. We’re hoping the half-decade hiatus has inspired frontman Martyn Leaper—who is not faking a British accent, he just grew up in England—to raise the stakes once again, and new track “Needle Doll” (which appears on this year’s PDX Pop Now! compilation) suggests it’ll do just that. CASEY JARMAN. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $7. 21+.

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GILLIAN WELCH Born: In 1967 in New York City, but Gillian Welch eventually made her way to Nashville where her minimalist country/bluegrass/folk sound took root and flowered. Sounds like: Dorothea Lange’s WPA-financed photographs from the Depression taking musical form. For fans of: The Anthology of American Folk Music, the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack. Latest release: The Harrow & The Harvest, a devastatingly beautiful and thorny collection of intense folk that arrived after an eight-year stretch of failed songwriting and recording attempts. Why you care: It’s the voice. Whether on her own or in closelyknit harmony with music partner David Rawlings, Welch has a perfectly twangy alto that cuts right to the bone. So inspiring and intoxicating a voice that everyone from Robyn Hitchcock to the Decemberists have enlisted it to help enrich their Americanainspired musical efforts. But when Welch enlists her voice for her own songs, she draws from the rich history of folk, pulling out characters like the “Orphan Girl” of her first album, Revival, and singing of the “Hard Times” and the “Dark Turn of Mind” on The Harrow that speaks to some collective American sorrow. In concert, gently strumming an acoustic guitar or picking at a banjo, Welch’s voice will have you weak-kneed and agape at its simple power and allure. SEE IT: Gillian Welch plays Tuesday, July 12, at the Roseland Theater. 8 pm. $27.50 advance, $30 day of show. All ages. Willamette Week JULY 6, 2011 wweek.com

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[JULY 6 - 12] Someday Lounge

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125 NW 5th Ave. Noise Agency, Kicking Fires, Raised by Television

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Arabesque Bellydance

The Globe

2045 SE Belmont St. Quintillion

ADAM KRUEGER

The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. This Not This, Mike Ailes

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Slam Dunk, Pet Jordache

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Eddie Martinez

Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Nancy King, Steve Christofferson

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Mars Retrieval Unit

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar Union Station, 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Trio

THUR. JULY 7 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Cheyenne Marie Mize

Alberta Street Public House

1036 NE Alberta St. Scab Apple & the Sleeper Smiles (9:30 pm); Nick Brakel (6:30 pm)

Aloft

9920 NE Cascades Parkway Koloku Holt

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Tracy Kim Trio

Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. Dina & Bamba Y Su Pilon D’Azucar with La Descarga Cubana

Arnold Park

17770 SW Blanton St. Midnight Serenaders, Trashcan Joe

Artichoke Community Music

WHAT’S THAT ON YOUR BACK? WHY IT’S: The Monkees. They play Saturday, July 9 at the Sleep Country Amphitheater.

WED. JULY 6 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Cheyenne Marie Mize

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Open mic

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka

Ash Street Saloon

The Ascetic Junkies, Violet Isle, Ravishers

Duff’s Garage

Darren CdeBaca (8:30 pm); Gordon Glodsmith (7:00 pm)

Jimmy Mak’s

3158 E Burnside St. The Direction

East End

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet with special guest Mimi Fox

Soft Tags, Massive Moth, The Reservations 1635 SE 7th Ave. Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam (9:30 pm); High Flyer Trio (6:00 pm) 203 SE Grand Ave. DJ Total Fucker, Seanbardment (10 pm); Burning Yellows, Prescription Pills, Alps, Blood Beach (9 pm)

225 SW Ash St. The Johnson Creek Stranglers, Dead Cat Hat, Rubella Graves

Ella Street Social Club

Beaterville Cafe

2845 SE Stark St. Yamn, Pocket

2201 N Killingsworth St. Robin Greene

Beauty Bar

714 SW 20th Place Pheasants

Goodfoot Lounge

Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge

111 SW Ash St. Baby Ketten Karaoke

625 NW 21st Ave. Brian Odell

Buffalo Gap Saloon

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Buffalo Bandstand

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St.

1503 SE 39th Ave. Old Man Markeley

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St.

Kennedy School

5736 NE 33rd Ave. 3 Leg Torso with Jason Webley

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Portland Country Underground

McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St. Mike Midlo

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road Billy D

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Rate of Raise, The Direction

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave.

Music Millennium

O’Connors

7850 SW Capitol Highway Kit Garoutte

Oswego Lake House 40 N State St. Tom Grant, Shelley Rudolph

PCPA Antoinette Hatfield Hall

1111 SW Broadway Bridgetown Morris Men

PCPA Music on Main Street SW Main St. & SW Broadway The Stolen Sweets

Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli

2314 SE Division St. Billy Kennedy

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Angry Lions, Sitting Sideways, Secnd Best

3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Songwriters Roundup

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Illmaculate, G_Force, Only One, Gold and Dice

Beauty Bar

111 SW Ash St. A Lukewarm Mess-Free Comedy

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Living With Lions, Heartsounds, Chin Up Rocky, One Hour Newport, Meet Your Monster

Buffalo Gap Saloon

6835 SW Macadam Ave. David Samuel

Chapel Pub

430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin

Corkscrew Wine Bar 1669 SE Bybee Blvd. Adlai Alexander

Garden Home Park

7475 SW Oleson Road Quarterflash

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Wayne Horvits’ Sweeter than the Day, Kiki Band

Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge 625 NW 21st Ave. Anthony Brady

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. When The Lights Go Out, Sisyphean Conscience, Day of Days, Way of the Yeti, Fear The Slaughter, Betrayed By Weakness

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. White Hinterland, Wampire, Zorch, E*Rock

3341 SE Belmont St. The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence

The Globe

2045 SE Belmont St. Nilika Remi

Last Hours Festival: Napalm Raid, Burning Leather, Hammered Grunts, Dr. Loomis, Old City, Radium and more

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Superfest 333: Deelay Ceelay, Purple & Green, Marcus Libman (aka Copy), Arohan, E*Rock, Wild Ones, Prescription Pills, Supernature DJs

The Hobnob Grille

Buffalo Gap Saloon

The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian

Canvas Art Bar & Bistro

3350 SE Morrison St. Open mic

426 SW Washington St. Lance Dinauer and the Dandelions, The Singing Knives

The Woods

Thirsty Lion

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Ken Hanson Band

1800 NW Upshur St. Open mic

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Norman Sylvester

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. J. Roddy Walston & The Business

221 NW 10th Ave. Mel Brown B3 Organ Group with Thara Memory and other special guests.

71 SW 2nd Ave. Joseph Konty

Kennedy School

Tonic Lounge

Duff’s Garage

Touché Restaurant and Billiards

Ella Street Social Club

5736 NE 33rd Ave. Professor Banjo

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Direction, Invivio

LaurelThirst

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Warner Drive, Kleveland 3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Empire Rocket Machine, Smoking Mirrors, Wizard Boots

2958 NE Glisan St. Lana Rebel & The Broken Promises, Hearts of Oak, WC Beck (9:30 pm); Old Light, Larry Yes (6 pm)

1425 NW Glisan St. Andrea Algieri Trio

McMenamins Edgefield Little Red Shed

Twilight Café and Bar

2126 SW Halsey St. The Radical Revolution

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road Gravel

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Loose Change

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. A Silent Film, Water & Bodies, Mission Spotlight

Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. On The Stairs

Mudai Lounge

801 NE Broadway A Wild Pack of Canaries, Still Caves, The Bubs

Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb

Oswego Lake House 40 N State St. Tom Grant, Shelley Rudolph

Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli

2314 SE Division St. Andrew Orr Jen Howard

Pints Brewing Company

412 NW 5th Ave. Rychen (8 pm); Galen Fous (6 pm)

Pioneer Courthouse Square 701 SW 6th Ave. Ezra Holbrook

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Ghost Town Hangmen, Viggs, Royal Tees

Rotture

Ecotrust

The Blue Monk

Jimmy Mak’s

Duff’s Garage

721 NW 9th Ave., Suite 200 Typhoon, Wild Ones

8635 N Lombard St. Wendy and the Lost Boys

6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. Au Dunes, Range of Light Wilderness, Yesway

2346 SE Ankeny St. Nico Bella

Red Room

1635 SE 7th Ave. Portland Playboys

Slim’s Cocktail Bar

Jade Lounge

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. John Vogue Benefit

Open mic with TwoRivers Music

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Echoic, Angry Axe 315 SE 3rd Ave. Play/Start, Eighteen Individual Eyes, The Bruises, The I’s

Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave.

Tupai at Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Scott Head 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Gnosis, Willie Ames, Deborah Crooks

Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Trio Sandoval (8:30 pm); 6bq9 (6 pm)

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Portland Cello Project: Extreme Dance Party Edition!

1635 SE 7th Ave. Red Hot Blues Sisters (9:00 pm); Honey and the Hamdogs (6:00 pm) 714 SW 20th Place Symmetry/Symmetry, Man Your Horse, Bearcubbin

Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge 625 NW 21st Ave. River Twain

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Chapter’s End, Open Fate, Amerakin Overdose, Paint the Sky, Filth Machine

Holocene

836 N Russell St. Bad Assets (8:30 pm); Will West and the Friendly Cover Up! (5:30 pm)

1001 SE Morrison St. The Miracles Club, Reporter, New Moon Poncho DJs (8 pm); Aperitivo Happy Hour with DJ Magic Beans (5 pm)

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar

Jade Lounge

White Eagle Saloon

Union Station, 800 NW 6th Ave. Mike Horsfall, Karla Harris, Todd Strait

FRIDAY, JULY 8 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Cheyenne Marie Mize

Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Josh Garrels

Alberta Street Public House

2346 SE Ankeny St. Adolfo de Cuellar IV (8:00 pm); Mick Schafer and Greg Thelen (6:00 pm)

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Linda Hornbuckle and “The Divas of Soul”

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Lana Rebel & the Love Lasers, Dramady, Aquarena Springs, Adios Amigos, Aquerena Springs

1036 NE Alberta St. Lucky Jumping Voices (9:30 pm); Mikey’s Irish Jam (6:30 pm)

LaurelThirst

Aloft

McMenamins Edgefield Winery

9920 NE Cascades Parkway Mark Allan

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Sambafeat Quartet

Artichoke Community Music

3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Friday Night Coffeehouse

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Blue Skies for Black Hearts, Tennis Pro, The Blast Majesty, Your Rival

Bossanova Ballroom

2958 NE Glisan St. Klickitat, Patina (9:30 pm); Woodbrain (6 pm)

2126 SW Halsey St. Scott Gallegos

McMenamins Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Neko Case, The Cave Singers

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Jackalope Saints (9 pm); Folk & Spoon (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Rosebuds, Other Lives

722 E Burnside St.

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Superfest 333: Strength, Guidance Counselor, Atole, Serious Business, Ancient Heat, Swahili, ExtrAlonE, Sick Jaggers DJs

Buffalo Gap Saloon

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Shannon Curtis

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Rich Halley

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ocean 503

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. US Air Guitar Championships--Portland Regional, Airpocalypse

Doug Fir Lounge

IF YOU BREW IT, THEY WILL RIDE: Hopworks Urban Brewery’s new BikeBar (3947 N Williams St., 287-6258), aptly located along one of NoPo’s main bicycle arteries, is less a bar and more a museum of bikes and brew. A rainbow of bicycle frames from the Oregon Bike Constructors Association hang suspended above the bar like metal hunting trophies, while a wall in the dining room displays row upon row of HUB bottles; a pair of highly hyped stationary bikes flank the front door— give ’em a spin to generate electricity for the bar’s eco-friendly building. Christian Ettinger’s excellent lineup of organic brews tastes just as good surrounded by folks rocking cycling shorts and pannier bags as it does in HUB’s more spacious Powell location. Sip a stein of caramel-y Crosstown Pale Ale ($4.50) with an order of HUB’s addictive foot-long chewy pretzels ($3.75) on the big back patio and you’ve got yourself a little piece of two-wheeled heaven. KELLY CLARKE. Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Jackbone Dixie

Mudai Lounge

801 NE Broadway Ami Dang, Cloaks, Sporay

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Reverb Brothers

Nel Centro

1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew with Jeff Leonard and Randy Rollofson

Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Traditional Hawaiian Music

Oregon Zoo

4001 SW Canyon Road AfroCubism

Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Lloyd Allen

Oswego Lake House 40 N State St. Tom Grant, Shelley Rudolph (9 pm); John Gilmore (7 pm)

Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli

2314 SE Division St. Lynn Conover

Pints Brewing Company

412 NW 5th Ave. Suzanne Tufan (9 pm); Mark Harrod (7 pm)

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Blood of Martyrs

Press Club

2621 SE Clinton St. Afterlife Revival, Kelly Blair Bauman

Railside Pub

5301 NE Portland Highway Party of Four

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Wayne Gacy Trio, Ether Circus, Monster Size Monsters, White City Graves

Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Blue Cranes

Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Tom Arnold

Slabtown

Twilight Room

1033 NW 16th Ave. Paul Collins Beat, Needful Longings, Garbo’s Daughter, King Louie One Man Band, DJ Hwy 7

5242 N Lombard St. Mr. P Chill, Lumis, Mike Colossal, End of Line

Slim’s Cocktail Bar

2929 SE Powell Blvd. Kenny Lavitz Duo

8635 N Lombard St. Basketball Jones, Papa Coyote

Someday Lounge

125 NW 5th Ave. Jujuba, The Excellent Gentlemen

Pan

Ted’s/Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. Otis Heat

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Gretchen Mitchell, Taharia Memory

The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Naomi LaViolette

The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Eastside Speed Machine, Bombs Away!, Hosmanek

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Diesto, Lamprey, Ten Speed Warlock

The Woods

6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. Bob Desper, The Parson Redheads, Old Light, Aerial Ruin

Thirsty Lion

71 SW 2nd Ave. Beth Willis

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Simple Sweet, Stan McMahan Band, Counterfeit Cash

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Bridgetown Sextet

Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Sounds Of Brazil - David Valdez, Weber Iago

Twilight Café and Bar

1420 SE Powell Blvd. Equal of Kings, The Beat Jackers, Macy Bensley Band, P. Chill

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White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Redwood Son, Billy D. and the HooDoos, Ben Dewey (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)

Wilfs Restaurant and Bar

Union Station, 800 NW 6th Ave. Michael Allen Harrison

SAT. JULY 9 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Cheyenne Marie Mize

Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. JD Souther, Jill Andrews

Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Gypsy Soul, Larry Murante

Aloft

9920 NE Cascades Parkway Mark Allan

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio

Artichoke Community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Music in the Schools Benefit Concert

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Bit Shifter, Trash 80, Operation Mission

Bossanova Ballroom

722 E Burnside St. Last Hours Festival: Frustration, Streetwalker, Countdown to Armageddon, Raw Nerves, Peroxide, Atrocity Exhibition and more

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave.

830 E Burnside St. Portland Cello Project: Extreme Dance Party Edition!

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. D.K. Stewart

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. The Riffs, Clit 45, Dog Soldier, DJ Paultimore

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. The Dead Kenny G’s

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge 1503 SE 39th Ave. Moose and Mike

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Mad Moniker, A Decade Apart, The Johnson Creek Stranglers

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Sam Densmore (8 pm); Car (6 pm)

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Soul Vaccination with special guest Bruce Conti

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Don’t, Ghosts of Love, Cootie Platoon

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Jimmy Boyer Band (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)

McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St. Brady Goss

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road Left Coast Country

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Z’Bumba (9 pm); Level2Music (6 pm)

Fair

Mississippi Street

North Mississippi Avenue between Skidmore and Fremont streets Mississippi Street Fair: Strangled Darlings, Soft Metals, AgesandAges, Celilo, XDS, Renegade Minstrels, Kasey Anderson, 1939 Ensemble, Mike Midlo, Wild Ones, Priory, Linda Hornbuckle and more

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Mississippi Street Fair: Dolorean, Quiet Life, Denver, Alina Hardin

Mock Crest Tavern

3435 N Lombard St. DC Malone & the Jones

Mudai Lounge

801 NE Broadway Ghost Writer, New Science Projects

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Alan Hagar

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. JD Souther

Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Traditional Hawaiian Music

Original Halibut’s II

2527 NE Alberta St. Franco & the Stingers

Oswego Lake House 40 N State St. John Gilmore, Shelley Rudolph (9 pm); John Gilmore (7 pm)

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Insanity, Scorched Earth, Blood Freak, Necro Drunks

Po’Shines Cafe De La Soul 8139 N Denver Ave. E.D. Mondaine & Belief

Press Club

2621 SE Clinton St. Shoeshine Blue, Jarad Miles

Ravenz Roost Cafe 11121 SE Division St. 6bq9

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Dead Man’s Lamp Collective, Johnny Reno and the Vice Machine, The Skurfs

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Blown, Strangeletter, Lena Lou, Oxcart

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Tony Starlight Show

Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. The Kelley Shannon Trio

Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Invivo, Robo Erctus, Eyepennies

Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Arthur “Fresh Air” Moore Harmonica Party

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Stan McMahon Band, Counterfeit Cash, Mr. Howl (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar Union Station, 800 NW 6th Ave. Kate Davis Trio

SUN. JULY 10

River Roadhouse

Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

Rose Garden

Alberta Rose Theatre

11921 SE 22nd Ave. Last Call

303 SW 12th Ave. Lauren Shera

1401 N Wheeler Ave. American Idol Live!: Casey Abrams, Haley Reinhart, Jacob Lusk, James Durbin, Lauren Alaina, Naima Adedapo, Paul McDonald, Pia Toscano, Scotty McCreery, Stefano Langone, Thia Megia

3000 NE Alberta St. Ottmar Liebert, Luna Negra

Roseland Theater

Backspace

8 NW 6th Ave. Darude, Randy Boyer

Secret Society Lounge

116 NE Russell St. The Me Oh Mys, Redray Fraizer (9 pm); The Portland Playboys (6 pm)

Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Dale Miller

Sleep Country Amphitheater

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Koortwah

115 NW 5th Ave. KITTIN, Squid Attack, Trails, Falcor

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Limp Wrist, Lebenden Toten, Bellicose Minds, Trauma

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. The Elected

Center Street Park

17200 NE Delfel Road, Ridgefield, Wash. The Monkees

SW Denfield St. & SW Mercer Terrace GruVBox

Someday Lounge

Clyde’s Prime Rib

125 NW 5th Ave. Taste: Hip Hop Junkies Fashion Show with Mistah Fab

TaborSpace

5441 SE Belmont St. Tim Reed

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Klezmocracy

The Crown Room

205 NW 4th Ave. Stalley, Libretto, Manimalhouse, Ronin Roc

The Globe

2045 SE Belmont St. Elizabeth de Lise

The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Barbara Lusch

The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Here Come Dots, Donovan Breakwater, Sucker For Lights

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. The Happening, Tea Cozies, The Slutty-Hearts

The Woods

6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. Pink Widower, Death Songs, Plants, Grandparents

Thirsty Lion

71 SW 2nd Ave. Hoegarden Brothers

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Gamma Knife

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. Graffiti 6

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Stolen Sweets

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Last Hours Festival: Defect Defect, Occult SS, Pills, Confessions, Geister, Septick System and more (4 pm)

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Cherry Royale, 16 Bars Hip-Hop Orchestra

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Foxtrot, Danger Thieves, Kopath Bear, The Alvins, Delayed Relay

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Open mic featuring host John Anthony Black

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Whirlies, Pacific Pride, Thee Goochi Boiz

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Billy Kennedy & Tim Acott, Jake Ray (9:30 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)

McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St. Billy D

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road Hanz Araki & Kathryn Claire

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Sun Kids (9 pm); Scott Browning (6 pm)

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Battery Powered Music (8 pm); Stereovision, Solovox (7 pm)

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. The Ditty Bops

Duff’s Garage

Mississippi Studios

1635 SE 7th Ave. Rita Hosking and Cousin Jack

Mudai Lounge

Club

Muddy Rudder Public House

Goodfoot Lounge

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Mbilly, Kites & Crows 801 NE Broadway The Downtown Struts

8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music

NEPO 42

Ella Street Social

714 SW 20th Place Kate Davis, Mojave Bird 2845 SE Stark St. Open mic

Hawthorne Theatre

Nel Centro

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Suicide Silence, Unearth, All Shall Perish, Indelible Terror, Gaia

Red Room

2346 SE Ankeny St. “Salon du Musique” featuring host Jaime Leopold

5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open mic 1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew with Dave Captein and Randy Rollofson

Jade Lounge

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Negative Zen, American Roulette

Jimmy Mak’s

Rontoms

LaurelThirst

Secret Society Lounge

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

Sleep Country Amphitheater

Mississippi Studios

600 E Burnside St. Archers, Hosannas, Blood Beach 116 NE Russell St. Hanz Araki, Cary Novotny

17200 NE Delfel Road, Ridgefield, Wash. Doobie Brothers, War

The Blue Monk

221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band 2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road Bob Shoemaker 3939 N Mississippi Ave. John Mark McMillan, All The Bright Lights

Mount Tabor Theater

The Globe

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Keegan Smith & The Fam, The Excellent Gentleman

The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian

8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones

The Know

3158 E Burnside St. Keeley Valentino, Whitney Nichole, Nate Wallace

The Old Church

7850 SW Capitol Highway Kit Garoutte

Tonic Lounge

116 NE Russell St. Miwa Gemini

3341 SE Belmont St. James M. Gregg Quintet 2045 SE Belmont St. Corey Heppner

426 SW Washington St. The Phoenix Variety Revue 2026 NE Alberta St. Alto!, Ya Ho Wha, Kevin Sheilds 1422 SW 11th Ave. Joni Renee 3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Fist Fite, Drunk Dad, Antikythera

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Vanimal, Little Lord Fauntleroy (ex-Leather Tom and the Dirty Dudes), DoublePlusGood

Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Nilika Remi

White Eagle Saloon

Muddy Rudder Public House

Music Millennium

O’Connors

Secret Society Lounge

Sellwood Riverfront Park SE Spokane St. & SE Oaks Pkwy. Tooloose Cajun Band

The Globe

2045 SE Belmont St. Hank Hirsh’s Jazz Jam

The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Everybody Gets High, Mike Jeffrey, We Play 4 Keeps

836 N Russell St. “Open mic / Songwriter Showcase” featuring Portland’s finest talent

The Know

Willamette Sailing Club

White Eagle Saloon

6336 SW Beaver Ave. The Whistling Rufus

MONDAY, JUL. 11 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Lauren Shera

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Charley Orlando

Aloft

2026 NE Alberta St. Pacific Pride, Goochi Boiz, Palo Verde 836 N Russell St. Tango Alpha Tango

TUES. JULY 12 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Lauren Shera

Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Albert Lee & John Jorgenson

Alberta Street Public House

Andina

1036 NE Alberta St. Tricia Scully and Carl Hauck, Felecia and the Dinosaur

Ash Street Saloon

1314 NW Glisan St. JB Butler

9920 NE Cascades Parkway Martini 1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs 225 SW Ash St. Open mic

Andina

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St.

CALENDAR Joint Venture, Moriah Domby

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. The Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra, Negara, All the Apparatus

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. 6bq9

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Dead to Me, Off With Their Heads, Riverboat Gamblers

Buffalo Gap Saloon

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Open mic

Hawthorne Theatre 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Delta Bravo, The Welcome Home, Ella Ferrari, 3rd to Last

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Petoskey, Harlowe & The Great North Woods, Mike Midlo (of Pancake Breakfast)

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Thomas and Pong AKA Carnaby Street (8 pm); Annie Vergnetti (6 pm)

Jimmy Mak’s

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Open mic

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet (8:00 pm); Orjazzum (6:30 pm)

Bunk Bar

LaurelThirst

Buffalo Gap Saloon

1028 SE Water Ave. Blouse, Youth Band

2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw

Doug Fir Lounge

McMenamins Edgefield Little Red Shed

830 E Burnside St. The Beautiful Girls (Mat McHugh solo acoustic), Anuhea, Ethan Tucker

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. John Nemeth (9:00 pm); Trio Bravo (6:00 pm)

Ella Street Social Club

714 SW 20th Place Ox Veneer, Wires, Solar Shade

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Scott Pemberton Trio

Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge 625 NW 21st Ave. Karyn Patridge

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge 1503 SE 39th Ave. Obedian Parker

2126 SW Halsey St. Cul An Ti

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road Open Bluegrass Jam

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave. Gillian Welch

Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. Open mic

The Globe

2045 SE Belmont St. Christopher Coats (9:30 pm); Anna Hoone (8 pm)

The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Great Horned Owl, The Kissing Party, Flora Flora

The Know

Pioneer Courthouse Square 701 SW 6th Ave. Matt Brown

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. TRONix: Bryan Zentz

Slim’s Cocktail Bar

Palace of Industry

8635 N Lombard St. DJ DirtyNick

The Crown Room

205 NW 4th Ave. Crush Drum and Bass

The Whiskey Bar

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Supervillains, NIYAH, The Taxpayers 3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Ayars Vocal Showcase 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Open mic with The Roaming

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. May May, Houndstooth, Spookfish

Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar

2929 SE Powell Blvd. Arthur “Fresh Air” Moore Harmonica Party

Ground Kontrol

1967 W Burnside St. DJ Whisker Friction

Matador

Thirsty Lion

71 SW 2nd Ave. PX Singer-Songwriter Showcase

Shadowplay: DJ Horrid, DJ Ghoulunatic, DJ Paradox 511 NW Couch St. Fiasco vs. Variety Pac: DJ Brokenwindow, Strategy

The Lovecraft

Twilight Cafe and Bar

801 NE Broadway Extreme Animals, White Fang

WED. JULY 6

2026 NE Alberta St. Eye Candy Music Video Night with Spanish Galleons

Mississippi Studios

Mudai Lounge

Goodfoot Lounge

116 NE Russell St. Dominic Castillo

Tony Starlight’s

3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Minders, Night Moves, Karen

316 SW 11th Ave. Decadent 80s: DJ Encrypted, DJ NoN

Secret Society Lounge

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. The Debutante Hour

Fez Ballroom

421 SE Grand Ave. Church of the V8 Chainsaw 31 NW 1st Ave. Crush Drum ‘n’ Bass

Tiga

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Someday Lounge

125 NW 5th Ave. The Fix: Rev. Shines, KEZ, Dundiggy

The Know

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Tiga

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303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Anjali & the Incredible Kid

Beauty Bar

111 SW Ash St. Tim Sweeney

Fez Ballroom

316 SW 11th Ave.

18 NW 3rd Ave. Bang-A-Rang 232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Girlfriends, DJ Tender, DJ Pashly, Braincrush

FRI. JULY 8 Beauty Bar

111 SW Ash St. OFF BRAND - Doc Adam, DJ Nick Dean

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. ‘80s Video Dance Attack - featuring VJ Kittyrox

2845 SE Stark St. Soul Stew with DJ Aquaman

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

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Rotture

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The Foggy Notion

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Beaterville Cafe

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Beauty Bar

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Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Atlas: DJ Anjali, E3, The Incredible Kid

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. AV Club Volume 2 with Joel C. and Kristin

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Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Virus III: DJ Encrypted, DJ Missionary

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Comidienne

Valentine’s

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The Lovecraft

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Star Bar

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The Lovecraft

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421 SE Grand Ave. Darkness Descends with DJ Maxamillion

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The Crown Room

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The Lovecraft

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Tiga

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K.D. Lang is revisiting her roots. Backed by her new, full-time band-Siss Boom Bang- ‘Sing it Loud’ recalls in spirit if not sound, the exhilarating work she created at the start of her career. She’s also breaking new ground as a songwriter & producer and penning most of these tunes with Joe Pisapia (Guster) and her new band-mates Daniel Clarke and Joshua Grange.

SONGWRITERS CIRCLE • MONDAY 7/11 @ 7PM Keeley Valentino

• ’s sound is a soulfully electric and joyful flavor of folk-pop that lives somewhere amongst the innocence of Colby Caillat, the sexiness of Norah Jones and the lyrical depth of Lisa Loeb. ‘Three Cities’ explores new territory that seems like a natural evolutionary step forward. The "Cities" in question are San Francisco, Nashville and Los Angeles. Guest appearances by Matt Wertz, Gabe Dixon and her old friend, Stan Sonu.

Whitney Nichole

• is a humble, approachable, sweet young woman, whose music is truly an extension of her warm personality. With distinguished piano parts, clever hooks, powerful chord progressions, moving lyrics, and belted vocals, it's clear that this her melodic pop is heavily influenced by rock, country and soul. Whitney’s debut full-length album, ‘100 Strong,’ places her among the likes of Sara Bareilles, Adele and Ingrid Michaelson.

Nate Wallace

• was raised around music, with a songwriter father. As a teen, Nate headed to San Francisco, and in '98 moved up to Portland. He learned the guitar and started writing songs for The RCMP, a group of songwriter friends. As the songs kept coming, Nate formed Hearts of Oak, a project which continues to evolve. ‘Used To It Now’ is the second Hearts of Oak album.

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THEATER The 1 Festival

Mizu Desierto’s the Headwaters Theatre presents a 10-day festival of solo performance, ranging from dance to comedy to Erin Leddy’s Drammy-sweeping My Mind Is Like an Open Meadow. Individual shows are listed below. The Headwaters, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9, the1festival.com. Showtimes vary July 7-17. $10-$15 per show, $75 full-festival pass.

Bindings

Spring 4th Productions presents a sharp and sassy two-man, two-act comedy with acoustic guitar accompaniment and a spot-on sense of humor akin to finely tuned improv. Reminiscent of Greater Tuna crossed with A Prairie Home Companion, Bindings weaves the tale of a dysfunctional library staff scrambling to host the Book Fun Fair Fest amidst financial ruin. Tobin Gollihar and Ian Sieren play the entire library staff, from the pudgy, chatty circulation librarian to the tousled director who sleeps in the walls. Books are not the only things mis-shelved; storytellers deviate into personal nonfiction, library funds are siphoned into fur coats and a father conceals his true identity to an unknowing librarian. But, between stiflingly awkward hugs, “poop balloon” blackmail and mayo-Oreo waffle recipes, all the stories eventually find their niche. David Gerow and Patrick Cleburne provide foot-stomping live music which, combined with the cozy theater, pulls you into a bookish, boisterous comedy. STACY BROWNHILL. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 477-8245. 7:30 pm Thursdays and Sundays through July 17. $10-$12.

Boeing-Boeing

Ben Plont stars as a Manhattanite Lothario who juggles three flightattendant fiancées with the help of his long-suffering maid until a rube college friend (Leif Norby) happens along to screw up the schedule. Lakewood presents the Portland premiere of this internationally popular farce. Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, 6353901. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 7 pm Sundays, July 10-24; 2 pm Sundays, July 17 and July 31-Aug. 21. $25-$28.

Drunken Fucker

[THE 1 FESTIVAL] Sean Bowie performs his solo show about being an alcoholic asshole. The Headwaters, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9, the1festival. com. 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday, 9 pm Monday, July 8-9 and 11. $15.

For Better

Clackamas Rep begins its season with a comedy by Eric Coble about a pair of globe-trotting sweethearts struggling to put together a wedding despite never being in the same city. Clackamas Community College, Osterman Theatre, 19600 S Molalla Ave., 594-6047. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2:30 pm Sundays. Closes July 24. $12-$22.

Going On

[THE 1 FESTIVAL] Kristin OlsonHuddle, producer of ScratchPDX, performs her solo show about an orphan who endures further heartbreak. The Headwaters, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9, the1festival.com. 7 pm Monday, 9 pm Wednesday and Friday, July 11, 13 and 15. $15.

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.

Mary Poppins

The smash hit Disney musical adaptation of P.L. Travers’ short stories (and, of course, the film) comes to Keller Auditorium for three weeks. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 2411802, BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com/ Portland. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday, 1 and 6:30 pm Sunday, July 6-10. $26-$90.70.

Maybe It’s Me: Confessions From a Lover of Crazy Women

[THE 1 FESTIVAL] Don Kern performs his new solo show about his complicated romantic history. The Headwaters, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9, the1festival.com. 7 pm TuesdayWednesday and Saturday, July 12-13 and 16. $15.

New Women in Butoh

[THE 1 FESTIVAL] Butoh—highly stylized Japanese dance theater—performances by Sheri Brown, Vangeline and Mizu Desierto. The Headwaters, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9, the1festival.com. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, July 8-9. $15.

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.

PICA’s 16th birthday party

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art celebrates its 16th year with a party featuring DJ New Moon Poncho, Reporter and the Miracles Club. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 2397639. 8 pm Friday, July 8. $7. 21+.

The Tempest

Nathan Markiewicz directs the Portland Actors Ensemble’s first openair production of the summer, set amid the rushing waters of Lovejoy Fountain. Lovejoy Fountain Park, Southeast 3rd Avenue and Harrison Street. 7 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through July 16. Free.

The Unseen

The Quick and Dirty Art Project presents a recent work by Craig Wright, whose plays Recent Tragic Events, The Pavilion, Grace and The Gray Sisters have been produced in Portland to wide acclaim by Third Rail Rep. In this one, called “an exercise in dramatic tedium” by The Village Voice, two prisoners in solitary confinement converse through a wall and are periodically tortured by a guard named Smash. The Voice was probably being overly negative. Jennifer Rowe directs Christopher David Murray, Matthew Dieckman and Matt Pavik. There will be free beer. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 205-0715. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays. Closes July 16. $10.

Threads

[THE 1 FESTIVAL] Tonya Jone Miller knew her American mother and Vietnamese father embarked for Vietnam about the same time as American troops, but she never knew why. After videotaping her mother tell her stories, Miller stitched the anecdotes together into a one-woman show about her mother navigating two cultures in a moment of political hostility. With heavy-handed tone setting, Threads begins with gunshots sound-

ing over Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit,” and Miller, as her mother, fearfully running across the stage. When the shooting subsides, she tells of her journey from Indiana to California to Vietnam in 1968, where she taught English and had many gut-wrenching experiences helping desperate people. With no scenes or set changes, and in a continuous address to the audience, Threads feels more like an hour of storytelling than a play. Though personally significant for Miller and her mother, Threads is neither cogent nor novel to the objective observer. RACHAEL DEWITT. The Headwaters, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9, the1festival.com. 5 pm Saturday, 9 pm Tuesday and Saturday, July 9, 12 and 16. $15.

Romantic piano trios. Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 294-6400. 7:30 pm Tuesday, July 12. $15-$35.

Chamber Music Northwest: Brentano Quartet

Named after the prime candidate for Beethoven’s “immortal beloved” secret paramour, this Princeton foursome has lapped up a lot of love from critics worldwide. On Thursday (Friday’s show is sold out), it’ll perform one of the pinnacles of chamber music,

Mozart’s dark, divine Viola Quintet K. 516; Mendelssohn’s second quintet; and contemporary English composer George Benjamin’s dazzling 1997 Viola, Viola for dueling violas. To celebrate their 20th anniversary, the Brentanos commissioned six contemporary and very different composers (jazzer Vijay Iyer, Stephen Hartke, Sofia Gubaidulina, Charles Wuorinen and Bruce Adolphe) to complete, or “engage with,” unfinished works by Mozart, Schubert, Haydn, J.S. Bach, Dufay and

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PERFORMANCE

Trek in the Park

For its third alfresco re-enactment of classic Star Trek episodes, Atomic Arts picked the best of them all: “Mirror, Mirror,” better known in non-nerd circles as “the one where Spock has a beard.” Woodlawn Park, Northeast 13th Avenue and Dekum Street, trekinthepark.com. 5 pm Saturdays-Sundays through July 31. Free.

COMEDY Fly-Ass Jokes

Ian Karmel and Tom Johnson headline a weekly showcase of West Coast talent. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8:30 pm Fridays through Aug. 5. $8. All ages.

Magenta Improv Theater

Improv games in Vancouver. Magenta Theater, 606 Main St., Vancouver, 360635-4358. 7:30 pm Saturday, July 9. $7.

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.

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. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 2380543. 9:30 pm Wednesdays. $3-$5. 21+.

CLASSICAL Chamber Music Northwest: Amphion Quartet

In this celebration of French Impressionism, flutist Sooyun Kim and harpist Bridget Kibbey join the young Amphions, who were so impressive in their initial Protégé series concert last month, in perhaps the summer’s most beautiful program: Debussy’s sultry Syrinx for flute, sacred and secular dances for harp and strings, his otherworldly sonata for flute, viola and harp, and Ravel’s shimmering String Quartet. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 294-6400. 5 pm Sunday, July 10. $12-$15.

Chamber Music Northwest: Brahms trios

Violinist Cho-Liang Lin, cellist Gary Hoffman and pianist Jon Kimura Parker play all three of Johannes Brahms’ Romantic piano trios. Catlin Gabel School, 8825 SW Barnes Road, 2946400. 8 pm Monday, June 11. $15-$35.

Chamber Music Northwest: Brahms trios

Violinist Cho-Liang Lin, cellist Gary Hoffman and pianist Jon Kimura Parker play all three of Johannes Brahms’

BLYTHE WOODLAND (CENTER) AND COMPANY

HAIRSPRAY (BROADWAY ROSE) A big, campy dance party—in Tigard.

John Waters is not a good filmmaker by any conventional measure, but he is relentlessly original. His work cannot be mistaken for that of another artist. So what happens when you take his most successful film and make it into a very traditional musical? An unexpectedly delightful alloy of camp and chorus. Hairspray, the 2002 musical by Mark O’Donnell, Thomas Meehan, Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, hews closely to Waters’ plot: Tracy Turnblad (Blythe Woodland) is a hefty teenager whose greatest dream, in 1962, is to dance on The Corny Collins Show and—when that dream comes to pass—who realizes that what she really wants is to integrate Baltimore television. Despite an awful book and annoying namedropping tic, the show is a real joy: a loud, exuberant tribute to loving yourself as you are, with infectious energy and an immediately memorable score—including “You Can’t Stop the Beat,” by far the best finale in recent memory. Broadway Rose’s production shows all the company’s usual ambition and inevitable flaws. Woodland has a good voice and great presence as Tracy, but is too svelte to call herself a “fat girl.” Dan Murphy is a lot of fun as Tracy’s unapologetically hefty mother, but I wish he had a bigger voice—Murphy is a crooner, and the role demands a belter. Alina Ziak dances too well as Amber Von Tussle, the supposedly graceless daughter of the evil former beauty queen Velma Von Tussle. Opening night lighting was marred by shaky follow spots. But these are minor quibbles. The show has a great, cartoony set, all wild angles and candy colors, that suits the manic fantasy of the score. Music director Rick Lewis’ band is punchy and loud enough to compete with the enormous cast. And the show is completely stolen by the outstanding performances of two minor characters: John “Jay” Kelley Jr. as Seaweed, who showed off a voice as big as his graceful, bass-player hands on “Run and Tell That”; and Lacretta Nicole as Motormouth Maybelle, whose delivery of “I Know Where I’ve Been” outshone even Queen Latifah’s performance in the 2007 movie. I don’t know if Hairspray, with its central themes of body image, discrimination, race and drag coated in a sugary shell of ’60s pop, is truly subversive, or just another example of Broadway’s long tradition of co-opting marginalized culture for mainstream consumption. I assumed the latter, but as the uncomfortable racism gags and phallic imagery grew during the show, I began to wonder if the show’s creators hadn’t pulled a fast one. In the end, Hairspray’s political agenda, overt or hidden, is irrelevant. The show had Broadway Rose’s quite aged opening-night audience up and dancing, and it will do the same to you. BEN WATERHOUSE. SEE IT: 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. Willamette Week JULY 6, 2011 wweek.com

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In this Oregon Bach Festival concert, the Eastman School of Music prof plays some of J.S. Bach’s greatest keyboard music, including several preludes and fugues and a trio sonata, plus a Bach tribute from Franz Liszt, on Trinity’s terrific tracker organ. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 147 NW 19th Ave., 541346-4363. 7:30 pm Thursday, July 7. $15-$21.

James M. Gregg Quintet

For his CD-release show, the trumpeter is joined by pianist Andrew Oliver, bassist Sam Howard, drummer Kevin VanGeem and guitarist Neil Mattson in contemporary and retro jazz-rock fusion. The Blue Monk, 3341 SE Belmont St., 503595-0575. 7:30 pm Sunday, July 10. $3-$7. 21+.

Oregon Bach Festival

Past, present and possible future collide. After intermission, Stuttgartbased artistic director Helmuth Rilling, who founded the venerable festival more than 40 years ago in Eugene, leads several sterling soloists, the festival orchestra and chorus, and the Schola Cantorum of Venezuela in a performance of Beethoven’s mighty Symphony No. 9. Before that, young English conductor and keyboard player Matthew Halls, a top candidate to replace Rilling when the latter retires in a couple years, shows his stuff in Handel’s grand Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 541-346-4363. 7:30 pm Saturday, July 9. $12-$59.

Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra

The popular flamenco guitar virtuoso brings his warm world music to a more-intimate-than-usual venue. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 774-4131. 8 pm Sunday, July 10. $32.50-$35.

Portland Piano International: Anthony DeMare

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In this opening recital, the great new-music pianist, who was so impressive a couple summers back, returns with a program of arrangements of the music of Stephen Sondheim by some of today’s most accomplished composers—including Steve Reich, William Bolcom, Fred Hersch, Jake Heggie, Kenji Bunch and John Musto. World Forestry Center, 4033 SW Canyon Road, 228-1388. 7:30 pm Tuesday, July 12. $29-$36.

Schola Cantorum de Venezuela

Long before their countryman Gustavo Dudamel thrust Venezuela onto the international musical map—in fact, a generation before the Dude was even born—this crack Caracas choir was revolutionizing the art of choral singing with a more colorful, expressive sound and performance style. The choir’s performance of Osvaldo Golijov’s St. Mark Passion a decade ago remains one of the finest choral performances I’ve ever experienced. In this Oregon Bach Festival concert, conductor Maria Guinand leads the magnificent chorus in a superb program featuring Eric Whitacre’s Cloudburst, leading Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer’s Magic Songs, and works by a passel of Latin American composers rarely heard in the U.S. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 147 NW 19th Ave., 541-346-4363. 7:30 pm Wednesday, July 6. $12-$35.

Tim Reed & Friends

The pianist-tenor saxophonist and his ensemble play Latin classics. TaborSpace, 5441 SE Belmont St. 7-9 pm Saturday, July 9. $5.

White Salmon Jazz Ensemble

The 17-piece big band plays swing, jazz and more. Tabor Heights United

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THE 1 FESTIVAL: Sheri Brown. Methodist Church, 6161 SE Stark St., 898-8500. 4 pm Sunday, July 10. Donation.

DANCE The 1 Festival

Watch and learn (though not necessarily at the same time) at the 1 Festival, an inaugural performance series featuring solo performers from the dance and theater worlds. There will be 22 shows performed by 27 artists in 10 days, along with a series of workshops. Some of the performers are local contemporary artists like Tahni Holt, Katherine Longstreth, Tere Mathern, Linda K. Johnson and Linda Austin, butoh specialist Mizu Desierto, and visiting butoh artists Vangeline (New York) and Sheri Brown (Seattle). The festival kicks off with the “8-by10” show, in which eight artists get 10 minutes onstage to share their specialty, be it dance, storytelling or improv. The Headwaters, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9. Various times July 7-17. $10-$15 for individual shows, $75 for festival passes

A Month of Sundays

Linda Austin dances her way through a work in progress every Sunday in July, accompanied by a different choreographer each time. Performances are layered with video projection (of the previous Sunday’s performance) and short performances by members who will dance in Austin’s final group project next year. Austin’s conspirators include Linda K. Johnson (July 10, off-site at the Headwaters Theatre as part of the 1 Festival), Lucy Yim (July 17) and Philippe Bronchtein (July 31, plus a reprise of Combo No. 2 with Austin, Jin Camou and Esther LaPointeJensen). Performance Works NW, 4625 SE 67th Ave., 777-1907. 7 pm Sundays July 3, 17, 24, 31 (5 and 7 pm Sunday, July 10 at Headwaters Theatre). $8-$25. All ages.

Arabesque

Locally and nationally known belly dancers perform at Arabesque, a weekly Middle Eastern music and

dance party. Members of longtime world-music ensemble Brothers of the Baladi play traditional acoustic Turkish, Persian and Armenian music; dancers are signed up a year in advance and rotate weekly, giving everyone a chance to perform, and offering viewers variety from week to week. Speaking of viewers, the band also plays open dance music for amateur dancers, belly or otherwise. Blue Monk, 3341 SE Belmont Ave., 288-4684. 8 pm Wednesdays. $5. Info at baladi.com.

Open Fire Dance Night

Grab a bucket of water and head for Tigard, where fire dancers put on a show in the Sheelah’s Dance Studio parking lot every second Saturday of the month. Fire spinner K’ahi leads the movement to music; participants are asked to bring their own fuel and safety gear as well as LEDs, staffs, fans and anything else they can spin. Imagination— and flame-retardant clothing— are encouraged. Sheelah’s Dance Studios, 14335 SW Pacific Highway, Tigard, 352-5644. 9 pm second Saturdays monthly. Donations requested. Info at sheelah.net.

Ten Tiny Dances

Who knew shopping for organic produce could be so entertaining? Ten Tiny Dances, the roving performance series in which an everchanging handful of contemporary dancers must navigate a very small stage, comes to the Beaverton Farmers Market. Feed your hunger for culture with Korean sword dancing, Native American jingle and hoop dances, traditional Mexican dance, Tahitian and hula dances, and traditional Indian dance theater. To get the most out of the show, pick up a program, map and instructions at 10 am; performances begin simultaneously on each of the market’s five stages at 10:30 am and repeat every half-hour. Beaverton Farmers Market, Hall Boulevard between 3rd and 5th streets, 643-5345. 10 am-1 pm Saturday, July 9. Free. All ages.

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VISUAL ARTS

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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.

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714 NW Davis St., 222-1142, froelickgallery.com. Closes July 16.

85 + sunny

Brad Carlile

Now that warm weather has finally arrived (gods of the skies, are you listening?), the Art Institute is celebrating summertime with the group exhibition 85 + sunny. Theming an art show around a season runs the danger of veering into tackiness, so it will be interesting to see whether the works in this show cohere in ways beyond seasonal gimmickry. Art Institute of Portland, 1122 NW Davis St., 228-6528. Show runs July 7-31.

Cynthia Mosser

Cynthia Mosser’s paintings stay on the cute side of the slippery slope separating cute from cutesy. Past shows have featured imagery evoking the world of plants and protozoa, but in this new body of work, Eggs Obsession, she combines drippy, droopy, gloopy hanging motifs with ovular forms that hark back to Carl Fabergé and the Easter Bunny. How can work this whimsical avoid toppling over into the cloying? We have no idea, and we’re not asking why. Sometimes you just have to trust your eye. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 5465056. Closes July 30.

Plots and Plans and Equine

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 animalthemed group shows. I mean, what’s next, koala bears? Froelick Gallery,

There is something eerie and otherworldly in Brad Carlile’s immaculate photographs. The prints in Tempus Incognitus show hotel rooms around the world photographed on slide film. Long exposures impart a richly saturated, thoroughly unnatural, and perversely arousing panoply of hues. The Independent, 530 NW 12th Ave. Show runs July 7-Aug. 7.

Nancy Lorenz

Opulence is the key to Nancy Lorenz’s mixed-media paintings. Using silver leaf, amethyst, rock crystal, and mother-of-pearl, she crafts luxuriant fantasias that reference the natural world using natural materials in a way similar to that employed by Walla Wallabased artist Ian Boyden, who shows at Augen. Still, although Lorenz’s works are materially rich, they are chromatically restrained, creating an appealing dissonance between effulgence and subtlety. PDX Contemporary, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063. Closes July 30.

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 goldplated 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

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Matthew Picton

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Blending his update of 1960s and ’70s Land Art with an interest in text-based work, British-American artist Matthew Picton creates a kind of topographical-typographical hybrid in his latest wall sculptures and prints. A piece entitled Portland is based on Ursula Le Guin’s The Lathe of Heaven and incorporates text from the novel, which is set in Portland around the hypothetical eruption of Mount Hood. As always, Picton’s approach is obsessively detailed and conceptually rigorous. Pulliam, 929 NW Flanders St., 2286665. Closes July 30.

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Ellen George and Jerry Mayer

Ellen George and Jerry Mayer collaborate on the installation Splace, an intriguing title that intimates the splicing of a space according to spontaneity and chance. These artists have long histories in the Northwest art scene, so it will be a treat to see what they come up with working together in Nine Gallery, an unassumingly small and boxy space that is inventively curated almost without fail. Nine Gallery (122 NW 8th Ave., inside Blue Sky Gallery). Show runs July 7-31.

Selections from the PCVA Archive

While it is in no danger of setting the world aflame with drama and dynamism, there are some thought-provoking aspects to fledgling nonprofit Yu’s inaugural exhibition, Selections from the PCVA Archive. For one thing, its extensive collection of correspondence, programs and newspaper clippings hark back to a time when major art-world big shots had shows in little old Portland, Oregon. We’re talking Chuck Close, Christo, Robert Smithson, and Donald Judd, to name only a few. The clippings also show the extent to which local media covered the arts back in the day. An impossibly long, photopacked, full-page 1979 Willamette Week feature about a Robert Rauschenberg show would elicit Pavlovian drooling from any arts writer today. What does any of this portend about whether Yu can revive public enthusiasm for visual arts? The jury is out, but we’d be coldhearted cynics if we wished Yu anything but the best in its ambitious quest. Yu Contemporary, 800 SE 10th Ave., 236-7996. Closes July 30.

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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By NATASHA GEILING. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit lecture or reading information at least two weeks in advance to: WORDS, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: words@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 6 “A Woman’s Worth”

Join local author LaRee Johnson for “A Woman’s Worth: The History of Purses, Pockets and Handbags,” a talk that focuses on how the style of purses evolved as women’s essential items changed from smelling salts to lip gloss. Johnson, author of Ladies’ Vintage Accessories, will bring in a sampling of antique purses from her own collection. Pittock Mansion, 3229 NW Pittock Drive, 503-823-3623. 7 pm. $5 for members, $8 for nonmembers.

FRIDAY, JULY 8 Dark Rose

In 1956, two investigative reporters for The Oregonian exposed a web of corruption within Portland law enforcement. In Dark Rose: Organized Crime and Corruption in Portland, Robert Donnelly explores the corruption, as well as the city’s attempts to eradicate it. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

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Dorianne Laux reads with 2010 Walt Whitman Award winner Carl Adamshick. The reading is sponsored by the Mountain Writers Series. A book signing at Cassidy’s (1331 SW Washington St.), follows the reading. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. 7:30 pm. $10.

SUNDAY, JULY 10 Tin House Summer Writer’s Workshop

Local publisher Tin House kicks off its weeklong summer writer’s workshop featuring both seminars and readings led by a collection of authors. Seminar topics range from the standard “Architecture and Impulse: Building a Short Story” to the whimsical “Narrative Time Travel,” which teaches writers how to use time-traveling devices in their writing. Reed College, Vollum Lecture Hall, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 771-1112. Workshops run July 10-17. $5 for readings, $15 for seminars. Info and schedule at tinhouse. com/blog/workshop.

Studio Series Reading and Open Mic

Poets Donna Henderson and Stephanie Lenox will read from their work at Stonehenge Studios; after

the reading, check out the Ross Island Cafe, which will stay open late. Stonehenge Studios, 3508 SW Corbett Ave., 224-3640. 7-9 pm.

MONDAY, JULY 11 Poetry on the Piazza

Jesse Morse, James Yeary, Lisa Radon and David Abel read their works during this alfresco showcase of the PDX literary scene. Director Park, 815 SW Park Ave. 7 pm. Free.

Christian Parenti

In Tropic of Chaos, Christian Parenti explores an unexpected consequence of climate change: increased violence. Parenti, an investigative journalist, travels to the planet’s mid-latitudes, a region marked by post-colonial nations and failed states surrounded by the chaos of nature and violence. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.

What It Takes To Make a Website

This three-hour workshop from DIY Stories teaches the ins and outs of Web creation, from HTML and CSS to finding a domain and server for your finished product. There are no prerequisites for the seminar. Zimmerman Community Center, 1542 NW 14th Ave., 224-4636. 6-9 pm. $55.

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REVIEW

MIRANDA KENNEDY SIDEWAYS ON A SCOOTER Upon first whiff, former NPR reporter Miranda name of enlightenment. Her reasons for moving Kennedy’s memoir, Sideways on a Scooter: Life to India are glaringly flawed, but she spares her and Love in India (Random House, 352 pages, readers a quest for greater meaning. She hires $26), reeks of Eat, Pray, Love regurgitated. Dis- servants—that’s weird. But Kennedy’s decision appointed by her life’s lack of “transcendent, not to parade around India like a born-again hiptransformative experiences,” Kennedy answers pie allows her to provide authentic insight into the call of white privilege by the complexity of the caste sysrelocating to India in hopes tem. It also makes her different of becoming the adventuress from every other schmuck with her parents want her to be. a travel book. Seventy-five years after her After a couple years of ignored great-aunt traveled to India as story pitches and less-thana Christian missionary, Kenregular assignments, Kennedy nedy forges a morally murky lands a contract with a radio pilgrimage of her own as a jourstation covering major news nalist freelancing overseas. stories. She crouches under As with most Westerners the damp sheets of moldy matstumbling through the East, tresses to report on the Indian Kennedy ’s self-absorption Ocean tsunami and pursues a dampens the first few war-zone fling with an Indian chapters with wet-blanket reporter in Kabul. But Kennaiveté. She expected an nedy sidelines her more heroic exhilarating reporter’s life moments and instead chooses and received, quite literally, to chronicle her friendships the slap of a dung-crusted cow with her neighbors and maids. Eat, pray, improved. tail across the face. Kennedy By doing so, she exposes her quickly awakens from the revreaders to an unparalleled erie and cuts the bullshit with razor-sharp wit. insider’s view of life for women in India, from Once she stops complaining and starts reporting, helping a friend navigate matrimonial websites the memoir seamlessly weaves engaging personal to witnessing her maid become a widowed slave experiences with enlightening historical context. to a dead husband. In the comic chapter “Any Issue?,” Kennedy links After a half-decade in Delhi, Kennedy leaves an appointment with her gynecologist—a woman India feeling emptier than a dinner plate during who prescribes photos of her children in place of Ramadan. But, in her epilogue, she doesn’t ratiobirth control—with details of the Indian vasec- nalize her confusion with clichéd revelations. tomy camps of the 1970s. Instead she intentionally spills the bottle of her In contrast to suburban spiritual seekers experiences, saying that she never wanted to like Elizabeth Gilbert, Kennedy doesn’t waste imprint herself on India nor claim it as her own. time fondling her inner self. She doesn’t sample And because of that, she has written a travel her way through a foreign country—she eats memoir well worth its ink. SHAE HEALEY. the whole damn thing and kindly puts the pen down when diarrhea ensues. Most importantly, GO: Miranda Kennedy reads at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm Kennedy doesn’t pretend to drop her life in the Sunday, July 10. Free. 44

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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Editor: AARON MESH. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, send screening information at least two weeks in advance to Screen, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: amesh@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.

15: An Exploration of Human Violence NEW

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A local thriller about a serial killer in Happy Valley. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Wednesday, July 6. NEW

Alligator

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] The Grindhouse Film Festival dredges up the 1980 movie with Robert Forster fighting an alligator in the sewers of Chicago. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, July 12. NEW

Animated: A Film Festival

[THREE NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] McMenamins fills its theaters with cartoons, including 1977’s The Hobbit and 1982’s The Secret of NIMH. Bagdad, Kennedy School, Mission. FridaySunday, July 8-10. A $10 pass gives a full weekend admission for yourself and as many kids as you want to bring along. NEW

B-Movie Bingo: Samurai Cop

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, BINGO] Local concept-art kidders Wolf Choir present a 1989 film starring Sylvester Stallone’s former bodyguard, plus bingo cards. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Monday, July 11.

Bad Teacher

32 It should have been a riot: Potsmoking, 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 spurring 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. Cornelius, Oak Grove, Sandy. Call theaters for additional showtimes.

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, under-

mines the genuinely moving story— apparently semi-autobiographical for Mills—of a thirty-something 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 Inglorious Basterds). Mills would’ve been better off cutting the girl and focusing solely on the fatherson relationship. Keep Arthur, though. Boy, is he cute. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Fox Tower. NEW

Bloodied But Unbowed

[ONE WEEK ONLY] A documentary recounts Vancouver, B.C.’s, punk scene. Go Canucks! Clinton Street Theater. 7 and 9 pm Friday-Thursday, July 8-14.

Bride Flight

A Dutch epic about war brides and a New Zealand airplane race. Look for a review on wweek.com. R. Living Room Theaters.

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 bramance?), 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. Call theaters for showtimes.

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 Zen-like 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

ALLIGATOR 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 rapelling— 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 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. Cornelius, Oak Grove, Roseway, Sandy. Call theaters for additional showtimes.

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

80 The new Werner Herzog docu-

mentary is comparatively thin on the cuckoo German’s trademark perversity—except when you consider that he has made a 3-D documentary about motionless drawings on rocks. They are, admittedly, very old drawings on very unique rocks: Sketched in charcoal on the walls of the Chauvet Cave in southern France, the 32,000-year-old paintings are the

earliest ever found, preserved by a rockslide that sealed the artwork (and many bear bones) until 1994, when the cave was uncovered and immediately locked up again for preservation. Still, there are no flying dragons. You will have to settle for woolly rhinos, which doesn’t strike me as too painful a concession. Science, even at a remove, trumps fantasy. What is most endearing about the drawings is their suggestion that Paleolithic man, much like a tribe of elementary-school girls, dreamed mostly of horses. There are also some bears on the walls, some bulls, and a lot of rhinos. The images roll out from the shadows, rippling under headlamps—and suddenly the rationale for filming in 3-D makes perfect sense. This is the closest most of us will ever come to these paintings, and we should be able to gain as tactile an experience as possible. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters. NEW

The Chameleon

Ellen Barkin stars in a thriller about a long-lost son who returns home...or does he? Hollywood Theatre.

Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop

70 Up until last year, there wasn’t anything 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.

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Dirty Pretty Things

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Stephen Frears’ terrific 2003 thriller about London’s illegal immigrants introduced Chiwetel Ejiofor to audiences. R. 5th Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday, July 8-9. 3 pm Sunday, July 10.

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, Run-style exercise in narrative possibilities instead becomes a tender character study of loneliness, a frightening paranoid thriller, a gritty surveillance piece and a psychological mindbender 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. NEW

The First Beautiful Thing

73 The First Beautiful Thing has

all the trappings of a sappy melodrama: mother in hospice, junkie son, estranged father, reunions, revitalization and self-actualization. Clichés aside, director Paolo Virzì has crafted a bittersweet drama that defies convention while playing it close to the heart, tracing 40 years in the life of Anna (the luminous Micaela Ramazzotti), a devoted mother whose insulated son (Valerio Mastandrea) is forced to reconnect with her in hospice, triggering flashbacks to the chic Italy of yesteryear. Touching, elegant and witty, it’s a thing of beauty itself, making it easy to forgive

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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 longstanding 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 brightest1day, in X COL 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. Oak Grove. Call theaters for additional showtimes.

out. Whenever Hesher appears to his terrified 13-year-old host— which he does without warning, often in a brown shell of a van—he is accompanied by a metal guitar riff announcing his arrival. Hesher has named himself after an entire burnout subculture, as if he were supposed to symbolize a stringyhaired ethos. Hesher is played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. By the end of the movie, I was convinced he deserved an Oscar. It is not an especially remarkable movie, so it’s fair to complain that Hesher seems to exist in a different movie than Hesher—and yet I think director Spencer Susser is aware of that, and is enjoying the subversion. Sure, his main character basically functions as Jesus listening to Judas Priest, but I for one am tickled by the idea that maybe our savior is doing his best, but just isn’t very sharp. R. AARON MESH. Academy, Laurelhurst. NEW

Horrible Bosses

Jason Bateman and his pals remake 9 to 5, without that whole “women’s lib” downer. Not screened by WW press deadlines; look for a review on wweek.com. R. Cornelius, Oak Grove, Sandy, Tigard, Wilsonville. Call theaters for additional showtimes.

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and wobbles onto the screen like a Tom Hanks-shaped Jell-O, and you have Larry Crowne. It announces itself from the opening scene as a gnaw-through-your-own-leg-toescape variety of sunny torture; I spent almost all 99 minutes wishing I had to pee. The movie is so hapless from the outset that I don’t 34 If nothing else—and believe me, think anybody will hold it against there is nothing else—The Hangover the participants—even Hanks, who Part II is bound to go down as the directed. After being callously fired most profitable game of Mad Libs from his beloved big-box job, Hanks’ ever played. Writer-director Todd Larry enrolls in junior college—an Phillips can claim he did more than apt setting, since the movie feels just remove key nouns from the like it was written by a juco student, script of his 2009 frat boy instamaybe one studying English as classic, then have co-writers Craig a second language. In fact, Larry Mazin and Scot Armstrong fill in the Crowne was co-scripted by Hanks blanks, but that’s clearly bullshit. I and My Big Fat Greek Wedding’s imagine the brainstorming session Nia Vardalos, and their collaborawent like this: “Name a foreign locale tion has resulted in a movie where famous for debaucherous behavthe characters feel compelled to ior.” “Bangkok!” “Great! Now, name reassure each other that they are something cute Zach Galifianakis good people, that their lives and can carry around with him.” “A conversations are going well, that monkey!” “Awesome! OK, what’s the thing they saw happen actutheir motivation? Ed Helms is the ally happened, and that they just groom this time, so we can’t have had lunch. That insecurity is partly him missing for the entire movie.” due to These Economic Times, yes, “They’re looking for his fiancée’s but that doesn’t explain the formal teenage brother!” “All right! Throw diction, or the way people around in some chicks-with-dicks and Ken Larry are always laughing in delight Jeong doing a ching-chong voice for no reason. It is possible that and we’ve got ourselves a hit sequel! every character in the movie is fallBreak!” R. MATTHEW SINGER. Call ing-down drunk; that’s the best theaters for showtimes. hypothesis I can offer. I do not mean to be snotty but merely precisely descriptive when I say that much of Larry Crown appears intended 72 Hesher is Peter Pan, if Peter flew as a matinee for people with mild in through the Darlings’ nursery 2 COL X 1" = 2" (SAU) cognitive disabilities. Its target window and refused to leave. demographic is Forrest Gump. PGFinding a suburban family ren13. AARON MESH. Cornelius, Oak dered catatonic by grief, Hesher Grove, Sandy. Call theaters for addithrows his laundry in the washer tional showtimes. and plants himself on the couch in his BVDs, thus displaying his twin tattoos of an extended middle finger 93 “We’re close, but we don’t know and a stick figure blowing its brains

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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. Meek’s Cutoff is filled with the dizzying freshness of freedom, and it portends that Reichardt is leading Oregon filmmaking to places it has never been before. It doesn’t matter what to. We’re close. PG. AARON MESH. Academy, 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 1 COL X 2" = 2" 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, he wanders into the streets one night and tipsily stumbles upon a rip in the space-time continuum that transports him to the 1920s to party with his literary idols: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. It’s a fairy tale for lit majors, and Allen’s best work in years. That said, calling Paris a true return to form for Allen after the past decade’s mixed bag is an exaggeration. It’s more of a charming trifle. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Fox Tower. Call theaters for additional showtimes.

Monte Carlo

35 All you preteen ladies—should

any be reading this—take note: If this Selena Gomez vehicle contains any valuable lessons about self-reliance, they’re overshadowed by dangerously bad examples of how to behave abroad (or on your home soil). Fact: Identity theft and impersonation are crimes, even if you’re spunky. Suggestion: If you must FILLER ADknow steal somebody’s identity, your own personal limits regarding equestrian safety. As Grace, Gomez stumbles into a long dreamed-of trip to Paris with Southern-sassy best friend Emma (Katie Cassidy)

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and resentful-to-the-tits stepsister Meg (Leighton Meester). The group’s travel abilities are called into question early when the trio misses its tour bus and Gomez absolutely loses her shit, but a chance encounter with heiress and Grace doppelganger Cordelia (also Gomez) eases the itinerant lasses into a world of mistaken identity and…Monte Carlo. Sitting in the lap of luxury for a week requires only that Grace show up to a benefit auction speaking half-assed Queen’s English—a tootall order, as it turns out. Ah, but the seemingly endless series of gaffes and snafus unfolds in a glitzy, chaste world with few legal consequences— a world where running off with mysterious Australian backpackers on Vespas still allows a young woman to maintain her innocence. (Again, ladies: no.). PG. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Cornelius, Oak Grove, Sandy. Call theaters for additional showtimes.

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. Forest. Call theaters for additional showtimes.

they threaten to sue” into a stirring payoff. R. AARON MESH. Fox Tower. NEW Patricio Guzman: Memory Works

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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

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

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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, swordfights, flesh-munching mermaids, ’splosions, looting, double crosses, and Depp swaggering around the screen like an effeminate Hunter S. Thompson with a bad accent. Yet it all rings hollow. New director Rob Marshall can’t make any of it pop, mainly because it’s all so bloody familiar and tedious. The entire franchise deserves to be buried at sea. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Living Room Theaters. Call theaters for additional showtimes. NEW

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Super 8

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Page One: Inside The New York Times

70 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 altweekly 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. 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

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KEVIN JAMES Born: April 26, 1965 in Mineola, N.Y., as Kevin Knipfing. Signature move: Being cuckolded, falling down, moaning. For fans of: John Candy, Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Dora the Explorer. Latest film: Zookeeper (opens Friday, not screened for critics by WW press deadlines). Why you care: When a man’s defining hit is called Paul Blart: Mall Cop, it says something inescapable about the sacrifices he has made for success. Kevin James is hardly the only comedian to use girth and pratfalls to his advantage, but he is the first I can recall cresting to stardom on a tide of shame. He’s a working-class dog with his tail between his legs, a scapegoat for a generation’s worth of bad feelings about demeaning employment. (It’s no accident that he launched his career on sitcom The King of Queens as a parcel-delivery driver in those mortifying little brown shorts.) His shtick tends invariably toward masochism; while I don’t exactly expect the talking animals in Zookeeper to molest him, I wouldn’t be surprised, either. Notice how many of his movies explicitly address the subject of undergoing ritual humiliation for money— even in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, the deeply confused picture where James and Adam Sandler pretend to be a gay couple, they enter the sham marriage so James can get his kids named as pension beneficiaries. Children seem to find James a gentle and reassuring presence, like a father they don’t have to respect, so he’s got bright prospects in kiddie fare. At least he gets to be king of something. SEE IT: Zookeeper is rated PG, and opens Friday at TK.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

53 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 cutting-edge gadgets. And what cool toys they are. With Transformers: Dark of the Moon, he has delivered what we want: a dumb-as-rocks, rock-’emsock-’em popcorn flick without pretension. 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 Huntington-Whiteley, 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. 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 eyepopping, 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 crowdpleasing 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. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cornelius, Oak Grove. Call theaters for additional showtimes.

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. As a child is cradled in his mother’s arms, she points to a sheer blue sky and tells him, “That’s where God lives.” This tidbit of information sparks the most ecstatic montage in Malick’s canon since the tree-fort dance in Badlands: a two-minute sequence

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THE FIRST BEAUTIFUL THING of dusky bedtimes and exuberant wake-ups, hayrides and sparklers, set to Czech composer Bedrich Smetana’s swirling “Vltava.” We have seen the creation of the world; now we see the creation of one human consciousness. 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. PG13. 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 cell-phone 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.

TrollHunter

72 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 low-budget, older-kid-friendly thriller takes a less-is-more approach to its tale of monsters rampaging through the icy countryside, and in

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so doing crafts a playful and utterly original piece of tongue-in-cheek 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. 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. When the trolls are terrorizing the people and the landscape, it’s a goofy treat, another Scandinavian fractured fairytale to set beside Rare Exports. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Hollywood Theatre.

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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. Abrams shows a good deal of affection for the gang of barely pubescent kids at the story’s heart. All the young actors, with the exception of Dakota Fanning’s sister Elle—who is talented and starting to look like Lindsay Lohan, two things that should deeply concern her parents—have few to no other credits, and they are all uniformly great, particularly the two leads. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Cornelius, Oak Grove. Call theaters for additional showtimes.

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ing X-Men movies (from the prettygood Bryan Singer-directed X-Men in 2000 to the universally lambasted X-Men Origins: Wolverine in 2009), First Class has so much fun with its setup that you almost wish it never got around to the savingthe-world-from-nuclear-annihilation plot. It’s a blast watching the young Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and the future Magneto, a.k.a. Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender), sashay around the planet collecting stray mutants to protect and school. Even more fun is watching Lehnsherr track down and punish his Nazi tormenters; this could easily be its own whole movie. It’s also cool to see how far the characters have come: Pre-wheelchair Xavier is a little smarmy (he tries the line “that’s a very groovy mutation” twice). He’s idealistic and brilliant but not yet wise. Other characters arrive fully formed. Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone) does a good job at toughing it out as Mystique, who must console herself with Fassbender after getting the brush-off from wimpy Xavier and nerdy Hank McCoy (Nicholas Hoult). Both silliness and sap increase as the film rolls along, but the big action scenes are handled well, and it never becomes ridiculous enough to undercut the cool, shaken-not-stirred vibe of its first half. PG-13. BECKY OHLSEN. Cornelius, Forest. Call theaters for additional showtimes.

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DON’T FUCK WITH MY PLAY: Yes, as a matter of fact it is true that I wrote my undergraduate thesis on Rushmore, and it is entirely possible that I got an extension on it. And yes, there probably was some irony in writing a quasi-academic paper on a movie about a sheltered privateschool idyll as a graduation requirement at a sheltered private school. And I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that those afternoons in the library watching Max Fischer and Miss Cross were part of the happiest days of my life, and that I wish I still believed in a world where everybody ended up dancing in slow motion to the Faces. I guess you’ve just gotta find something you love to do and then do it for the rest of your life. For me, it’s watching Rushmore. AARON MESH. Academy. Best paired with: Anderson Valley Summer Solstice. Also showing: Up in Smoke (Laurelhurst).

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Regal Lloyd Mall 8 Cinema

2320 Lloyd Center Mall, 800-326-3264 THE ZOOKEEPER Fri-SatSun 12:20, 03:20, 06:20, 09:20

Regal Tigard 11 Cinemas

11626 SW Pacific Highway, 800-326-3264 THE ZOOKEEPER Fri-SatSun 11:20, 02:00, 04:40, 07:20, 10:00 HORRIBLE BOSSES Fri-Sat-Sun 11:40, 02:20, 05:00, 07:30, 10:10 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 Fri-Sat-Sun HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D

Regal Wilsonville Stadium 9 Cinema

29300 SW Town Center Loop, 503-225-5555 THE ZOOKEEPER FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue 11:50, 02:20, 04:50, 07:20, 09:50 HORRIBLE BOSSES FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue 12:00, 02:30, 05:00, 07:30, 10:00 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue SUMMER MOVIE EXPRESS - TUES. & WED. 10AM FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D

Cornelius 9 Cinemas

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200 N 26th Ave., 503-844-8732 HORRIBLE BOSSES Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:40, 02:55, 05:30, 07:45, 09:50 ZOOKEEPER Fri-Sat-

Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:10, 02:30, 05:00, 07:30, 09:45 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:30, 02:05, 03:30, 05:10, 07:00, 08:15, 10:00 CARS 2 Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:50, 12:50, 03:15, 05:20, 07:10, 09:30 LARRY CROWNE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:35, 02:45, 04:55, 07:15, 09:20 BAD TEACHER Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:05, 04:20, 06:15, 08:10, 10:05 SUPER 8 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:00, 02:20, 04:40, 07:05, 09:25 MONTE CARLO Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 11:45, 02:00, 07:40, 09:55 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:15

Academy Theater

7818 SE Stark St., 252-0500 RUSHMORE Fri-Thurs 2:35, 9:30 THOR Fri 4:35, 7 Sat-Sun 12:10, 4:35, 7 Mon-Thurs 4:35, 7 KUNG FU PANDA 2 Fri 2:15, 4:25 Sat-Sun 12:20, 2:15, 4:25 Mon-Thurs 2:15, 4:25 SUBMARINE Fri-Thurs 6:45 13 ASSASSINS Fri-Thurs 9 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS Fri 4:45 Sat-Sun 12, 4:45 Mon-Thurs 4:45 MEEK’S CUTOFF Fri-Thurs 2:25, 7:15 HESHER Fri-Thurs 9:40

Oak Grove 8 Cinemas

16100 SE McLoughlin Blvd., 503-653-9999

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:50, 03:10, 06:30, 09:40 ZOOKEEPER Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 02:15, 04:35, 07:00, 09:20 HORRIBLE BOSSES Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:00, 03:05, 05:15, 07:20, 09:35 BAD TEACHER FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:25, 03:25, 05:25, 07:25, 09:25 MONTE CARLO Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:05, 02:25, 04:45, 07:05, 09:20 LARRY CROWNE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:40, 02:50, 05:00, 07:15, 09:30 CARS 2 Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:45, 02:15, 04:40, 07:10, 09:40 SUPER 8 Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:00, 04:50, 07:20 GREEN LANTERN Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:20, 09:50

Roseway Theatre

7229 NE Sandy Blvd., 503282-2898 CARS 2 3D Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 01:30, 04:45, 08:00

Laurelhurst Theatre

2735 E Burnside St., 232-5511 JANE EYRE Sat-Sun 1:30 HANNA Fri-Thurs 7:15 HESHER Fri-Sun 4:45, 9:35 Mon-Thurs 9:35 KUNG FU PANDA 2 Sat-Sun 2 WIN WIN Fri-Thurs 7:30 UP IN SMOKE Fri-Sun 4:20, 9:45 Mon-Thurs 9:45 THOR Fri 9:15 Sat-Sun 1:45, 9:15 Mon Thurs 9:15 MEEK’S CUTOFF Fri-Sun 4:30, 7 Mon-Thurs 7 EVERYTHING MUST GO Fri 6:50 Sun 1:20, 6:50 Mon-Thurs 6:50 13 ASSASSINS Fri-Sun 4, 9 Mon-Thurs 9

Sandy Cinemas

16605 Champion Way, 503826-8100 ZOOKEEPER Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:25, 02:00, 04:35, 07:05, 09:35 HORRIBLE BOSSES Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:35, 03:00, 05:15, 07:35, 09:55 CARS 2 3D Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:30, 02:10, 04:50, 07:30, 10:10 CARS 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:20, 03:05, 05:45, 08:15 LARRY CROWNE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 02:40, 05:00, 07:20, 09:30 MONTE CARLO Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:40, 02:05, 04:25, 06:45, 09:05 BAD TEACHER Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:15, 03:20, 05:25, 07:45, 10:00

Pioneer Place Stadium 6

340 SW Morrison St., 800326-3264 ZOOKEEPER Fri-Sat-Sun 01:15, 04:15, 07:15, 10:15 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D

Living Room Theaters

341 SW 10th Ave., 971-2222010 THE FIRST BEAUTIFUL THING Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:10, 02:50, 05:30, 08:10 BRIDE FLIGHT Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:00, 02:20, 04:55, 09:30 THE DOUBLE HOUR Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 11:40, 02:40, 05:05, 07:40, 09:40 THE TRIP Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 11:50, 02:10, 04:35, 07:15, 09:35 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES 3D FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:50, 03:45, 07:00, 08:50 CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS 3D Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 01:30, 04:45, 06:45, 07:30, 10:00

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