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Recently I’ve noticed a small flag flying below the U.S. flag on top of the Multnomah County building on Southeast Hawthorne. I’ve tried to make out what it says, but am unable to. Can you help? —M.J.M.
prisoner in Vietnam, an experience so horrible it makes people feel sorry even for John McCain. That said, by the 1980s the POW/MIA flag had become closely tied to a right-wing conspiracy theory which holds that hundreds of American GIs are, right now, still being held prisoner in Vietnam—and that every U.S. administration since that of Lyndon Johnson has conspired to conceal this fact. Most people who aren’t Chuck Norris believe that the real number of current American POWs is one—an Idaho kid in Afghanistan named Bowe Bergdahl. We can say that the flag is in his honor, if we want. And I do hope he comes home soon. But in 1999, when Oregon’s flag law was passed, the number was zero. One suspects that the flag was put there mostly to humor crazy right-wingers and their counterfactual beliefs. Still, I suppose we should feel nostalgic for the days when all such folks demanded was a flag.
Let’s get something straight: Internet piracy does not cost the U.S. economy “$58 billion annually” [“Caught Up in the Net,” WW, July 27, 2011]. It has been well documented how industry groups routinely and grossly over-exaggerate their losses to piracy. Still, piracy should be deterred, and there are a number of laws as well as voluntary measures by ISPs that do this (and more on the way). The principle objections to “PROTECT IP” (S-968) are that it goes way too far. There are deep constitutional objections as well as technical ones. It would be expensive, retard free speech and commerce, and significantly degrade the experience of the Internet. Everyone would lose; only a very few at the top of the royalty food chain would gain. The MPAA and RIAA do not have the greater good in mind, but rather media control and maximizing profit for a few. Senator Wyden has made a wise and courageous political move in blocking this bill. Also, I believe Wyden’s opposition was specifically to “secret holds” ( just like it sounds). This is not a secret hold. Your article mentions that the AFL-CIO is supporting this bill. I am a member of IATSE, under the AFL-CIO umbrella, and it should be noted the decision to support this was never voted on by the membership. I have received a great deal of one-sided propaganda in support of this. It is my belief that, if all AFL-CIO members heard both sides of the story, many would be in opposition to this Draconian bill. Chris Steele Southeast 178th Avenue
Forest Park ranger, the Best of Portland [“Best Kemo Sabe,” WW, July 27, 2011]? Really it’s just a perpetuation of the unfounded, and unequaled, bias against dog owners: “the biggest issue he sees is off-leash dogs, which can disturb wildlife, spread invasive species, and trip up bikers.” Consider: -Cyclists can be far more rude, and can do more trail damage than anyone walking a dog. (I know, I’m a cyclist.) -Cats roam the city with impunity and without regard to songbird predation. Until the city treats outdoor cats with the same restrictions as dog owners, I [don’t] buy the wildlife issue. -Invasive species? How does a dog spread more invasive species than anyone else using the park? Have you been out to any beach lately? Broughton? Sellwood? The garbage is rife, and it’s not from dog owners. There are a lot of users of Portland’s natural areas that do far more damage than someone enjoying an outing with their dog. Metro even has a sign at Broughton beach proclaiming in the largest type “No Pets,” where in small print it’s just mentioned “no guns”; meanwhile, you’re ankle deep in trash from partiers. This city needs to base its concern about dogs in reality rather than perception, and start addressing real issues concerning public spaces. If you want to see an area that is managed with the cooperation of dog owners, visit the Sandy River Delta with me…. I can provide you an example of shared usage that works, as well as the impact of the overly restrictive Portland / Metro policy regarding dogs. Jeff Schuh Chair, Friends of the Sandy River Delta
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Either you’re very young and thus don’t remember the POW/MIA flag, M.J., or you’re very old (i.e., my age) with failing eyesight that won’t let you see it. Since you’re a Willamette Week reader, I’m going with No. 2. The flag in question is indeed the POW/MIA flag. As Multnomah County’s Mike Pullen notes, “State law encourages Oregon cities and counties to fly the POW flag at their main building on specific days of the year.” In fact, not only does state law encourage this, it requires it. Of course, explaining what the flag represents is a little more complicated—I certainly don’t want to disrespect our veterans, and I especially don’t want to disrespect those who were taken
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ALL THE NEWS WE HAD TIME TO FIT IN. It was a bike crash heard around the nation: On Sunday night, July 31, former University of Oregon and NFL quarterback Joey Harrington, 33, was hospitalized with a broken clavicle, broken rib and punctured lung after reportedly being struck from behind by an SUV while riding his bike westbound on Southeast Foster Road near 88th Avenue. The bike lane on Foster ends at 92nd Avenue, and it’s a high-traffic corridor considered notoriously dangerous HARRINGTON by some cyclists—a fact noted on local blogs BikePortland.org and Bojack.org. Rob Sadowsky, head of Portland’s Bicycle Transportation Alliance, says the accident brings new urgency to a long-term Powell Corridor Safety Plan already in the works at City Hall. Harrington had “a right to be on that road,” Sadowsky says. “There are clear gaps in the [bike lane] network right there…. We need to close those gaps.” Some Buckman residents are wary of Central Catholic High School’s plans to expand, arguing that they could make parking worse and harm the residential character of the neighborhood. The private school at Southeast 24th Avenue and Stark Street has a master building plan that calls for a new wing, larger classrooms, a student counseling center and a commons. A city hearings officer has OK’d a conditional-use permit for the project, but the Buckman Community Association has appealed the decision. President Susan Lindsay says her group supports the school’s improvements but is contending its plans to put in a new parking lot off Southeast 24th Avenue on two residential lots the school owns; she says her groups is seeking a delay until a compromise is reached over ongoing parking issues. “The school is nestled in an area that doesn’t have the capacity for all the activities and the kids and their cars,” Lindsay says. Central Catholic President John Harrington (father of the former NFL quarterback, above) says the school’s plans are aimed at addressing parking concerns. “We’re trying to do what we can,” Harrington says. “There is no perfect answer.” The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said late last month it may reconsider the toxicity of Bisphenol A, better known as BPA, used in an array of consumer products, including some plastic bottles. The Oregon Legislature considered— but failed to pass—a limited BPA ban this year. Now Jeff Cogen, the Multnomah County Commission chairman, and City Commissioner Dan Saltzman are examining how a local BPA ban might work. Cogen’s policy adviser, Emerald Bogue, has begun looking into the potential costs and legal considerations of a ban. While the Legislature considered a limited ban on sippy cups, Cogen notes that health and environmental activists have been pushing for broader restrictions. “We saw the special interests kill the statewide effort to do this,” Cogen tells WW. “We know BPA is a poison, and they’re using it in baby bottles. So we want to do something locally.” Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt.
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BY DROPPING HIS RE-ELECTION BID, THE MAYOR ADMITS HIS POLITICAL WEAKNESS AND REVEALS SOME REALITIES OF POWER IN PORTLAND.
lingering public memory of a scandal. Adams learned the most crucial facts to inform his political future on Monday, July 25, when the political consultant who had helped engineer his rise, Mark Wiener, privately shared some results from a voter opinion poll. The poll had bad news for Adams: He was in a statistical BY CO R E Y P E I N cpein@wweek.com dead heat with the two declared candidates, former City Commissioner Charlie Hales and New Seasons grocery Many tough things have been said about Sam Adams over the co-founder Eileen Brady. Wiener confirmed to WW that the poll showed Adams, years, but no one has ever accused him of being a quitter. Adams overcame a poor childhood in Newport to be Hales and Brady essentially tied, with support in the lowelected in 2008 as the first openly gay mayor of a major 20-percent range. Those numbers are reasonable for candidates just American city. Four years earlier, he had stormed back starting out in a citywide campaign, but from a lousy primary showing to win a seat not for a sitting mayor. on the City Council. And during his years as Mayoral candidates a political aide to Mayor Vera Katz, Adams FACT: Adams told WW that the poll “showed Charlie Hales and Eileen was relentless and cunning. me, frankly, at a better place than I Brady have raised a combined So the news July 29 that he wouldn’t $208,000 for their campaigns. thought I was going to be.” That doesn’t explain why the poll—as seek re-election after one term as mayor Mayor Sam Adams’ campaign account is $139 in the hole. Adams told people privately—was key shocked the city. Adams acknowledges he in his decision to fold his re-election faced a difficult campaign. But less tenacious politicians have survived more dam- hopes. Commissioner Nick Fish says Adams cited the poll aging scandals than Adams’ sexual relationship with an first in explaining his decision. “He said, ‘I’m making an 18-year-old former legislative intern. Weaker politicians announcement today. I’ve been giving a lot of thought to re-election, I saw a poll on Monday, and I’ve got a pretty have won re-election. So why did Adams walk away? He says he would have to big hill to climb,” Fish recalled. become a full-time campaigner if he wanted to hold office. What’s not been reported before is that the AFSCME “I’m just not willing to phone it in as mayor,” Adams says. Council 75 and Service Employees International Local 49 But there’s more to it. The process of Adams’ decision- commissioned the poll at the suggestion of political stratmaking, pieced together through interviews with the egist Kevin Looper, who last year left the directorship of mayor and people close to him, opens a window into the liberal activist group Our Oregon to run his own indepencalculus of power in Portland. The lesson is that even a dent political consultancy. (Our Oregon spokesman Scott savvy, battle-scarred politician cannot overcome certain Moore says the group had nothing to do with the poll.) realities—namely, the need to raise large sums of money “I did suggest it would be important information for to win, the influence of labor unions in Oregon, and the them to have going into the election cycle,” Looper says.
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Union leaders say the poll shows Adams could have won and weren’t sending him a message to step out of the race. “I think Sam could go down in history as one of the more pro-working-families mayors ever,” says Ken Allen, executive director of AFSCME Council 75. Adams’ exit from the mayoral race means the unions, whose political power rests in large part in their ability to get out the vote, have no obvious favorite. Union leaders say Brady is a question mark; New Seasons employees are not unionized, although Brady is a confirmed liberal. Portland firefighters still steam over Hales’ efforts to reform that bureau. Adams’ departure means unions may be shopping around for a different candidate. Multnomah County Commission Chair Jeff Cogen says he didn’t ask for his name to be tested in a mayoral campaign poll but heard that it was. Cogen told WW that he’s heard that some polling “has me looking very good,” but he’s sticking by his decision not to run for mayor. On July 31, a Sunday, the last day of what he called a “staycation,” Adams drifted in a blue inflatable raft down the Willamette River past crowds of Portlanders along the waterfront as part of a fundraiser for Willamette Riverkeeper, an environmental advocacy group. Adams must have known that things would not be the same when he went back to the office on Monday. Two days earlier he had become a lame duck, and here he was, doing what ducks do best: floating.
SAM ON SUNDAY: Adams updates Twitter from the Willamette River. Willamette Week AUGUST 3, 2011 wweek.com
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Something stinks in Lents. In July, glossy brochures showed up at homes in the Southeast Portland neighborhood attacking plans to collect food waste at a local facility run by Recology Inc. The San Francisco-based company collects yard debris from local haulers at a recovery facility at Southeast 101st Avenue and Foster Road. Recology, which boasts a long track record in Portland, also wants to collect food there when Portland starts citywide food recycling this fall. A few neighbors started grumbling about potential odors and noise—and then a mysterious opposition group popped up. Called the Springwater Trail Preservation Society, the group aims to thwart Recology’s plans. “Increased truck traffic, noise, dust, pollution, and disease-carrying vermin will take over the community,” says the group’s slick website, thisdoesntsmellright.org. Then a high-priced lawyer started showing up at neighborhood meetings to oppose Recology, and well-connected lobbyists called in favors from local politicians. No one will say who’s bankrolling all of it. “This is more money than any citizen group I’ve ever been involved in could possibly come up with,” says John Notis of the Lents Urban Renewal Advisory Committee. “It smelled like crap.” There are millions of dollars at stake over who controls Portlanders’ trash after they leave it on the curb. Recology now hauls the yard debris it collects at 101st and Foster to a North Plains site for composting. Gary Conkling, a veteran PR consultant paid by Recology, says the food waste would stay in Lents no more than a few hours, and occasionally overnight. Recology needs the city to change its conditional-use permit to allow it to accept food. A few residents were alarmed by the prospect when they were first informed in the spring. They say only nearby neighbors were notified. “I wouldn’t want this in any neighborhood in Portland,” says opponent Fred Fleck. “Recology and the city tried to sneak this through in the dead of night.” Fleck says he is the Springwater Trail Preservation Society’s president. Ask him who’s paying for the campaign and he ends the conversation. “I thought you were going to help us out, but you’re not,” he says—and then hangs up. Another member claims he doesn’t know who is paying for the lawyers, lobbyists and pricey mail campaign. “My guess is that it’s business rivals of Recology,” says Gary Gossett, the group’s secretary. The people who do know won’t come clean. On April 27, hearings officer Gregory Frank ruled that the alleged nuisances caused by Recology’s plans wouldn’t pose a significant problem for neighbors and recommended the city approve the company’s request. On May 9, lawyer Thomas Rask of Kell Alterman & Runstein registered the Springwater Trail Preservation Society with the state’s Corpora-
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tion Division. Three days later, he appealed the hearings officer’s ruling. Neighbors at a July 26 meeting in Lents repeatedly asked Rask who was paying him. He refused to answer. Rask didn’t return WW’s phone calls. Pac/West, a lobbying firm run by former state senator Paul Phillips, also went to work opposing Recology. Sen. Rod Monroe (D-East Portland) wrote a letter to the City Council opposing Recology’s plan. Monroe told WW he did so at the request of Pac/West lobbyist Josh Balloch, who ran Monroe’s 2006 Senate campaign. “So my tendency was to be helpful when they asked for this favor,” Monroe says. Multnomah County Commissioner Judy Shiprack, whose district includes Lents, also wrote in opposition. Her husband, Bob Shiprack, a former labor leader and lawmaker, works with Pac/West. Judy Shiprack wouldn’t reveal whom she spoke with at Pac/West, except to say it wasn’t her husband. Bob Shiprack confirms that. “This is really not a result of a big lobby effort,” Judy Shiprack says. “I’m involved because I have constituents who are very concerned.” Conkling, Recology’s spokesman, suspects the hidden hand belongs to Allied Waste Transfer Services of Oregon, a competitor that recently lost a Metro contract to Recology. “The word in waste-management circles is that this is Allied trying to take a shot at Recology,” Conkling says. Carol Dion, Allied’s general manager in Portland, didn’t return a call seeking comment. The City Council is set to vote on Recology’s plan later this month. Meanwhile, neighbors in Lents feel burned by the secretive opposition. “It really irritates me,” Notis says, “when some outside moneyed interest tries to use my neighbors as pawns.”
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Backers of the $3.6 billion Columbia River Crossing are working to keep the Interstate 5 bridge project from facing the same scrutiny other highway projects do under Oregon’s land-use laws. Instead, they’re hoping to push the massive freeway project through a narrow exemption that lawmakers carved out 15 years ago specifically to speed up the siting of light-rail lines. The project as proposed does include a light-rail line between Portland and Vancouver. But lawmakers probably never contemplated that the light-rail bill would be stretched to allow for a car-centric freeway project on the scale of the Columbia River Crossing. The scheduled Aug. 11 vote by Metro on the bridge’s sweeping land-use approval has received little attention, even though it’s one of the most important steps in the troubled story of the bridge project. Supporters say it’s all perfectly legal: Because the bridge will have a light-rail
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“A Bridge Too False,” WW, June 1, 2011, and “Derailing the Bridge,” WW, July 27, 2011). In formal terms, the Metro Council will vote whether to accept an application from TriMet to find the Columbia River Crossing project sufficient to meet Oregon’s landuse standards. The 1996 law has been used before to approve the siting of light-rail lines that run north to the Expo Center and south to Clackamas Town Center. Each time, the plans called for some highway improvements necessary when siting the new train lines.
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sharply shorten the timelines and limit the grounds on which citizens can appeal. “The process cuts out the public debate that would ordinarily take place,” says Michael Lilly, an attorney for Plaid Pantries Inc., which opposes the project. “The whole thing is just being glossed over.” Without question, traffic is a nightmare along I-5 between Vancouver and Portland. But the CRC project—on which Oregon and Washington have already spent $130 million in design and planning costs—has
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been hurt by poor management and a growing sense that the two states can’t come up with the money to pay for it. There’s also evidence, as WW has reported, that the CRC will not fix the traffic problems as promised, and that the states lack a solid plan to pay off the $1.3 billion in bonds needed to build the project (see
Former 1000 Friends of Oregon director Bob Stacey says Metro’s action will give the Columbia River Crossing a giant “hall pass” by using a law that was intended for a specific purpose 15 years ago, and one never intended to approve freeway projects. “This is a preposterous stretch,” Stacey says. “It’s a rush job.”
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It’s 9:50 on a Wednesday night, in the Safeway parking lot on Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. I’m looking into the passenger-side window of a gray Chevy Tahoe, with $160 in my fist. In the back seat lies a green pillowcase. Inside that pillowcase is a loaded 9 mm handgun. I want that gun. I’m firearms shopping in Northeast Portland—not out of self-defense or vigilante delusions. I want to find out how easy it is to buy a gun on the streets. I’ve been at it for less than three hours, and now I could be moments away from getting one. So far this year, gunfire police believe may have been gang-related has left eight people dead in Portland. Dozens more have been wounded, and the DA’s office says Portland is on track for its worst year of gang violence on record. Community volunteers who work at the street level say better jobs, beefed-up school programs and expanded support for families should be top priorities for stopping the violence. Mayor Sam Adams talks plenty about jobs and has pushed to give the city a bigger role in helping the schools. But on the gang front, his most high-profile campaign has pushed in a different direction: taking “illegal” guns off the street.
Last October, not long after 19-year-old Andre Payton was gunned down in Old Town, Adams held a press conference at the cop shop’s North Precinct and blamed illegal firearms. Adams insisted that too much gang violence in Portland involves stolen guns, or guns in the hands of minors and convicted felons. There’s anecdotal evidence that’s the case, but the cops don’t keep stats to back up that statement. That didn’t stop the mayor from forging ahead. “My position is very, very clear,” Adams declared. “[We] intend to do everything we can to rid this community of illegal guns.” Adams announced he was reassigning four police officers and a sergeant to work full time recovering stolen firearms and getting guns away from kids and criminals. And he pushed through City Council three new ordinances and two code changes aimed at keeping guns out of the wrong hands. More on that later. In the meantime, I set out to see just how easy it is to buy a gun on the streets in the North and Northeast Portland neighborhoods hit heaviest by gang shootings. I’m a white guy from inner Southeast. So I needed help.
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THE OPERATOR: Gang-outreach worker Michael Johnson stands in the Safeway parking lot on MLK. Some neighbors call the store “the Unsafeway.”
Michael Johnson is a 43-year-old father of seven who normally wears a pressed white shirt and tie. On Sundays he’s a minister at the Vancouver Avenue First Baptist Church. On weekdays he runs Take III, a nonprofit gang-outreach group, out of his house in Northeast Portland. Tall and lean with a closely shaved head, handsome grin and slightly crooked teeth, Johnson operates in two worlds. He regularly talks with the police and white bureaucrats like Adams. But he also has street cred. Johnson was a founding member of the Columbia Villa Crips, one of the first black street gangs in Portland. His first tour through the state prison system was for lodging a bullet between a rival gang member’s heart and lung. The second was for armed robbery. The third was for attempted assault. Six and a half years behind bars transformed Johnson. He found Jesus, took a job in a bottling company and became an ordained preacher in 2006. Like other black Portlanders concerned about gang violence, Johnson is skeptical of Adams’ gun plan. “Those laws don’t keep guns out of people’s hands. They don’t stop gun sales. They don’t stop anything,” Johnson says. “There’s a disconnect between City Hall and the community.” Last month, he offered to help me learn how easy it still is to get a gun on the street. He’d accompany me while I made the purchase. Later, I planned to turn the gun over to police. Without Johnson vouching for me, I stood little chance of buying a gun in gang territory. But with his felony record, Johnson still can’t legally touch a firearm. The purchase, and the gun, would be mine alone. On the evening of July 13, Johnson comes dressed in an oversized white T-shirt, baggy jeans and Nikes. As we pile into my Honda sedan, Johnson says he’s nervous. “I’ve been wearing suits,” he says. “I haven’t tried anything like this in a long time.” Our first stop is at the corner of Northeast Mississippi Avenue and Killingsworth Street, a block away from the Portland Community College Cascade Campus. I pull over where a group of men is hanging out on the sidewalk. It’s 7:30 pm. A pudgy guy in an Angels ball cap who reeks of cheap booze shuffles up to Johnson. “Shorty” is tattooed on the left side of his neck. He stumbles as he circles around, looking at me out of the corners of his bloodshot eyes. “What you want?” he asks Johnson. “A piece,” Johnson says.
A long string of mumbled banter ensues between Johnson and Shorty. In the end, Shorty offers to sell us a .32-caliber pistol for $200. He says it’s hidden in the bushes behind him. “A tres-deuce? Naw,” Johnson objects. (Johnson later tells me the small-caliber .32 is “the kind of gun a woman might keep in her purse.”) “She buck!” Shorty insists, throwing back his fist in a mock recoil. “Take a shot,” he says, offering to let us fire his gun down Mississippi Avenue. We appreciate the offer, but Johnson insists $200 is way too much to pay. Shorty screws up his eyes, shrugs his shoulders and wanders back to his friends. Within 15 minutes of starting our search, we’ve been offered a gun. We climb into my Accord and drive away. It might seem that what we are doing—trying to buy a gun from a complete stranger with no ID—is breaking the law. It’s not. Not here, and not in most other states. In fact, gun sales in Oregon can be about as casual as shopping at a farmers market. Gun shops are required to check ID and perform a background check on buyers to look for
“THOSE LAWS DON’T KEEP GUNS OUT OF PEOPLE’S HANDS.” —MICHAEL JOHNSON felony convictions, domestic-violence prevention orders and mental-health records. And Oregon is one of a handful of states that have closed the “gun-show loophole,” so all sales at gun shows also require a background check. But for “person to person” gun sales, there’s no background check or ID required. You can sell a gun out of your garage or on the street—no questions asked. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, about 40 percent of American firearms sales happen that way. Only California, Rhode Island, Chicago and Washington, D.C., require background checks for every firearm purchase. Maryland, Connecticut and Pennsylvania require background checks for all handgun sales. In Oregon, and elsewhere, person-to-person sales are wide open. “That’s one of the reasons I give Oregon a B [for its gun laws],” says Kevin Starrett, head of the Oregon Firearms Federation. Law enforcement and gun-control advocates CONT. on page 16
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say it also enables weapons to flow into the wrong hands. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms tracks only the first time a gun is sold by an authorized dealer. After that? “It can be sold every day of the week for the next 10 years with no paperwork,” says Fred Weinhouse, who prosecutes federal gun crimes at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Portland. Weinhouse outlines several ways firearms end up in the hands of minors and criminals. They can arrange a straw buyer at a gun shop. They can provide fake ID. But it’s much easier just to buy it on the street, like I’m trying to do. Mayor Adams talks a lot about “illegal guns.” How many are out there? It’s a tricky question, because in the strictest sense, there’s no such thing as an illegal gun. A gun might be stolen—that would make it illegal to possess, if the buyer knew that it was stolen. But that’s a hard case to make.
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Before she was mayor of Portland, Vera Katz was speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives. She can take credit for passing the law that first required background checks for guns in Oregon. She is also responsible for the explosion in concealed-weapons permits. In 1989, Katz, a Democrat, helped pass a law requiring background checks for gun-store purchases. But in a deal with the National Rifle Association, she also made Oregon a “shall-issue state” for concealed-handgun licenses. That means the state must issue a permit if a person qualifies. Before that law, there were fewer than 20 concealed-weapons permits in Multnomah County. Now there are more than 19,000. So began Oregon’s modern path to being a mediocre state for gun control. The gun lobby’s next win came in 1995, when the NRA leaned on the Legislature to pass a “pre-emption” law. It forbids local governments from passing laws on buying or carrying guns. Such decisions are left to the state. That’s why Adams’ city gun ordinances are so tame: It was the most he could accomplish. Now Oregon ranks 29th out of the 50 states for gun deaths per capita. Roughly one Oregonian every day is killed by a firearm. About 80 percent of those deaths are suicides. What could Oregon do? It could ban the sale of assault weapons and large-capacity magazines. It could license and regulate firearms dealers at the state level, limit the number of guns bought at one time, or impose a waiting period. Or even join California and require a background check for every gun purchased.
“How do you prove that someone knew an item was stolen?” asks Pat Callahan, a chief deputy district attorney for Multnomah County. “He pretty much has to admit it.” Or a person can be ineligible to bear arms—like a felon, a minor or a dangerously insane person. But that makes the owner illegal, not the gun. How many firearms in Portland are in the wrong hands? Remember, most guns fall off the grid after their first sale. The question brings belly laughs from law enforcement. “I could not even guess,” says Sgt. Jami Resch, head of the Portland cops’ gun task force. “There are millions of guns in the country. You have to assume a fair share are in the hands of people who aren’t supposed to have them.” A Duke University study in 2001 found that more than half a million guns are stolen each year in America. And a Justice Department survey found that 8.4 percent of prison inmates who wielded a gun during their crime obtained it illegally. Basically, the only way I’d be breaking the law would be if the seller actually told me the gun was stolen. And that wasn’t going to happen. Our next stop is Magoo’s, a bar on Northeast 42nd Avenue where Johnson tells me we might find what I’m looking for. We walk in shortly before 8 pm and drop 50 cents into the only pool table in the place. I’d normally be drinking a beer. Tonight I opt for a turkey sandwich and water. While Johnson chats with the handful of patrons in the bar, I try to pick my pool shots. I’m a passable player, but distraction is my enemy. Tonight I scratch twice and leave three balls on the table. A tall guy in a black ball cap and his girlfriend sit down in one corner. The man orders a beer, but the woman’s having nothing. Johnson knows the guy—a Blood who might be able to help us. The man is heavily tattooed, including a teardrop under his left eye. Johnson motions for me to stay behind at the pool table while he walks over to the man. They hold a hushed conversation while I pretend to focus on my pool game. Johnson returns about five minutes later. The man refused to help. “He’s into something totally different now, getting himself together,” Johnson says. “He’s trying to make his way in life without being criminally active.” Good for him, but it doesn’t help my search— which I’m worried will be as frustrating as Adams’ mission of taking guns off the street. As police commissioner, Adams assigned a sergeant and four officers last October to work full time ridding the city of illegal firearms. Adams emphasized that meant stolen guns, and guns in the hands of children and felons. Resch, the North Precinct sergeant and a 12-year veteran, was tapped to head the gun task force. A street sergeant from East Precinct, she has steel-blue eyes and a clipped voice. Resch says her team tracks cases that might otherwise be forgotten. Say there’s a report of an armed man threatening people in a bar, or a man waving a gun at his wife. If the suspect disappears by the time regular cops arrive, those cases may go uninvestigated. No longer. “We try to follow every lead as far as we can,” Resch says. “If we find out someone bought the gun from somebody else, we will try to find that person. We will trace a gun back as far as we can.” In one recent case, Resch says, someone CONT. on page 18
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I was sold a Stallard Arms JS-9 mm handgun. In online gun forums, the model has been described as “a genuine piece of junk,” “clunky piles of pot metal” and “like bad cartoon drawings of guns (Dick Tracy).” According to GunBroker.com, it’s worth $90 at best. It weighs a little less than 2½ pounds and was manufactured in Mansfield, Ohio, between 1990 and 1998. The serial number is 055378. I wanted to find out who else had owned the gun, and whether it was reported stolen. But the ATF refused to trace the serial number, saying they don’t perform that service for the public. The Portland cops also refused unless I filed a police report. I have never owned a gun before. It still sits in my apartment closet. I plan to give it to the police at the next citysponsored gun turn-in event, which Mayor Sam Adams says will probably happen this September. The police gun task force takes a gun off the streets every two days, at a cost of more than $1,400 in taxpayer money. In less than three hours, I’d accomplished the same thing for $160.
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Cheese Slices All Day SHOWTIME: Cops display some of the 17 firearms seized July 9 from convicted felon Dohnald Hartman’s home in Milwaukie.
penalize owners who don’t report firearm thefts, exclude gun offenders from shooting hot spots, establish curfews for child gun offenders and set a minimum 30 days in jail for convicted gun offenders caught with a loaded firearm. The outcome eight months later? Fred Lenszer, a Multnomah County deputy district attorney, says no one’s been prosecuted under the new misdemeanor crime Adams created. And only 13 people have been excluded from the hot spots. Adams insists the police task force and new laws are paying off. And he says his focus on guns hasn’t detracted from his antigang work in other areas, like jobs and education. “The amount of lives saved by getting those guns off the street, to me, and to most Portlanders, I think, is worth it,” Adams says. “When you can go to the Quickie Mart and buy an illegal gun on just a random night, it shows how bad the problem is.” And that’s exactly what I was trying to do.
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It’s 9:10 pm. Johnson and I drive to the Safeway parking lot on the corner of Ainsworth and Martin Luther King Boulevard. The southwest corner of the lot faces Quick Trip, a convenience store where Johnson says many gangbangers and wannabes buy their blunts. Men in baggy shorts and ball caps shuttle in and out of the shop. Johnson steps out of my car and walks past a smoke-gray Chevy Tahoe parked directly in front of me. A young black man with a ’fro-hawk hairdo and a long-sleeved white T-shirt behind the wheel of the Tahoe catches Johnson’s eye as Johnson steps past the door of the SUV. “You looking?” the man asks. Johnson nods. “For what?” “A whammy,” Johnson replies. The man glances at me warily. His friend arrives back at the Tahoe carrying a bag of blunts from the Quick Trip. Johnson assures them both that they don’t need to worry about me. We work out a deal. The driver will sell me what I want for $150. They’ll run home and come back with it. We agree to wait, and the Tahoe heads north on MLK. Two minutes after pulling into the Safeway parking lot, we’ve arranged to buy a 9 mm handgun. The seller told us he’d be back in 20 minutes. It takes twice that long. We pass the time munching Doritos and gulping iced tea in my car. Both of us have shaky hands. At 9:50, the Tahoe returns. It reeks of marijuana smoke. The driver reaches into the back seat, where empty Vitaminwater bottles lay discarded next to a vacant child safety seat. Among the bottles is a dirty pillowcase. The driver lifts it into the front seat, unfolds it, and pulls out a black handgun and a clip with seven bullets inside. I lift the gun. It’s heavier than I expected. The driver folds it back inside the pillowcase, along with the loaded clip, and hands me the bundle. I hand over $160 (he doesn’t have change for my $20 bills), and I ask the driver how many guns he has sold. “Too many.” Where did he get this one? “On Killingsworth.” Does he ever ask the buyers why they want a gun? “That ain’t my business,” he says. “I grab it, and if somebody else needs it, I give it to them.” The Tahoe pulls away at 10 pm. My heart is still pounding, my legs numbed by adrenaline. It just took me less than three hours to buy a gun in Portland. I could have been anyone—a felon, a kid or a gang member. “On the street,” Johnson says, “if you know what you want and you are determined, you will find it.” Willamette Week AUGUST 3, 2011 wweek.com
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FOOD & DRINK: Beer, meet barbecue. MUSIC: Sweet and low. THEATER: Shakespeare! In a park! MOVIES: You’re entering a world of pain.
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SCOOP FUTURE DRINKING: The news from this week’s OLCC applications: Fire on the Mountain Buffalo Wings has applied for a brewing license for its new location on Northeast Fremont Street. >> Harvester Brewing has applied to open Portland’s first glutenfree brewery at 715 SE Lincoln St. Appropriately, the brewery will be just four blocks from gluten-free New Cascadia Traditional Bakery. >> Pacific Crust Inc. is opening a restaurant called the Broadway Rose— not to be confused with the Tigard theater company of the same name—in the former Almost Normal Cafe space on Northeast Broadway.>> Finally, the Portland P Palace, coming soon to the former auto dealership at 2340 NE Sandy Blvd., will be, according to its application, a “family fun center that all can enjoy,” with pingpong, pool and putt-putt golf. And beer! VAN DAMAGE: Local grindcore band Transient was involved in a head-on collision Saturday en route to a tour stop in Savannah, Ga. Its van was totaled and all involved were injured, although luckily everyone in the band survived. Singer Krysta Martinez, however, had to be extricated from the wreck by the Jaws of Life, the band reports. “She is one of the toughest people I will ever know,” guitarist Adam Wilson wrote in his announcement of the accident on Facebook. Martinez was airlifted and underwent surgery for a broken wrist and a displaced hip. The band is quickly racking up medical bills, and also needs to raise money to get home to Portland. A donations link is up now at the band’s website, transientbrutality.com. Transient’s label, End Theory Records (endtheoryrecords.com), will also be donating its profits to the band. SO LONG LUCY, HELLO DICK: Monday morning brought the news that longtime Northwest Portland dining fixture and canoodling spot Lucy’s Table will close Tuesday, Aug. 9, after 13 years in the biz. The cozy spot at the corner of Northwest Irving Street and 21st Avenue won’t stay empty for long. The Lucy’s crew has announced that a second Portland outpost of Dick’s Kitchen—the healthy diner project from Laughing Planet mogul Richard Satnick—will open in the space later this year after a round of remodeling. FINDER BUZZ: To celebrate the release of WW’s newest edition of Finder and everything in Portland worth a damn, we’re teaming up with some of our favorite coffee shops next week to give you free coffee to enjoy with our 2011 magazine-style guide to Portland. The week of Aug. 8, WW will be heading to a different coffee shop each day, handing out copies of Finder Free Coffee, and cups of free local coffee. Slurp and read 9-11 am at Free Finder! the Killingsworth Extracto on Monday, Aug. 8, the North Williams Ristretto Roasters on Tuesday, Aug. 9, and Oui Presse on Wednesday, Aug. 10. To find out where else we’re going, check out wweek. com/promotions or follow us on Twitter @wweek.
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WILLAMETTE WEEK
WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK IN ARTS & CULTURE
THREE OUTDOOR MUSIC FESTIVALS, ONE SURVIVAL GUIDE. Summertime in Portland is full of planning challenges. On that rare free weekend, do you head to the beach or go out dancing? Or do you combine the two activities into one mega-plan, and hit one of the gazillion outdoor festivals this area has on offer? This
weekend it’s high time you chose the third option. With no fewer than three excellent outdoor concert options this weekend, though, you’re going to need to know what to expect—and what to pack. Here are our recommendations. CASEY JARMAN. GO: See pages 27 and 34 for music festival dates and details.
WEDNESDAY AUG. 3 [MUSIC] TARA JANE O’NEIL AND NIKAIDO KAZUMI, TOM GREENWOOD, DRAGGING AN OX THROUGH WATER Local artistic polymath Tara Jane O’Neil and Nikaido Kazumi build spacious, ambient collages of sound and mood that wrap around the legs like gentle tendrils. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $6. 21+.
WHAT IT IS
THURSDAY AUG. 4 Pickathon
Fire in the Canyon
An outdoor, roots-, rock- and pop-focused festival with camping at Pendarvis Farm.
An outdoor, hip-hopfocused festival at Horning’s Hideout.
The Great Idea
An outdoor festival at the Enchanted Forest with a focus on indie rock.
[MOVIES & MUSIC] FILMUSIK: WARRIORS OF THE WASTELAND The latest vehicle for this series of so-bad-it’s-good reboots involving local voice-over artists dubbing the original mozzarella-laden dialogue and an original score performed live. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 10 pm ThursdayFriday, Aug. 4-5. $8-$10. All ages.
FRIDAY AUG. 5
BIGGEST DANGER
WHAT TO PACK
WHAT TO WEAR
[MOVIES] TABLOID Errol Morris goes to Fleet Street for his new documentary. Human comedy of the highest order. Regal Fox Tower Stadium 10, 846 SW Park Ave., 2213280. Multiple showtimes. $10.50.
Cut-off jean shorts, a pearl-button shirt, a straw hat and flip-flops.
A tent, a sleeping bag, a discreet pipe and a folding chair.
Being annoyed by small children, who roam freely across the festival grounds.
Baggy swimming trunks (there’s a lake), Jordans and a flatbilled ball cap.
A tent, a sleeping bag, a fourfoot bong and a rubber raft.
Sunburn and hearing loss from excessive bass.
An oversized Hypercolor tank top and creepy, tight bicycle shorts.
Skittles. Lots of Skittles!
Being boiled alive in a giant cauldron!
SATURDAY AUG. 6 [FOOD, BEER] BONES AND BREW Salute summer with giant plates of barbecue, regional microbrews and “Kobe bleu balls.” Buckman Brewery, 909 SE Yamhill St., 5170660. Noon-9 pm Saturday, noon-5 pm Sunday, Aug. 6-7. $3 suggested donation. Info at rogue.com.
SUNDAY AUG. 7 [MUSIC] LOST LANDER, YOURS, WHAT HEARTS Get an earful of Lost Lander, the brand-spanking-new collaboration between local singer-songwriter Matt Sheehy and former Menomenaut Brent Knopf. Rontoms, 600 E Burnside St., 236-4536. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
MONDAY AUG. 8 [FOOD] DIM SUM YUM YUM It’s like Chinese dim sum, but with tiny renditions of Pix’s greatest dessert hits and new concoctions instead of chicken feet. Pix Pâtisserie, 3402 SE Division St., 2324407. 8-11 pm. Free entry.
SUGGESTED PICK-UP LINE
TUESDAY AUG. 9 “Iron and Wine is cool and all, but Bon Iver’s music just feels more authentic.”
“Didn’t I see you at Rock the Bells? No? It must have been POH-Hop.”
“Want to see a picture of my cat?”
[MUSIC] LAURA GIBSON BIRTHDAY BBQ We are pretty sure there’s going to be a cakewalk at this, the birthday celebration of accomplished indie-folk artist and Sellwood resident Laura Gibson, whose forthcoming record is going to knock lots of socks off. The Woods, 6637 SE Milwaukie Ave., 890-0408. 8 pm. $10. 21+. Willamette Week AUGUST 3, 2011 wweek.com
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CULTURE
INTERVIEW
PATRICK DEWITT
THE MAN LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE. DA N N Y PA L M E R L E E
WW: Are you going to get knighted now, or what? DeWitt: My mom keeps making cracks about that. When I don’t pick up her phone calls, she asks if I was speaking with the queen. But yeah, if you make the shortlist, which is announced on [Aug.] 6, then you get to go to London, which would be great fun. But I’m not really sure what my chances are. Did you even know you were eligible? I knew I was eligible because I’m Canadian, but I didn’t know the book had been submitted. I was checking my emails, not awake yet, and there were just a dozen hysterical emails from all these different people with a lot of capitalization and exclamation points. That screwed up my whole day, really, in the best possible way. I didn’t get any work done at all.
BY AA R O N MES H
amesh@wweek.com
It sounded like an absurdity. Patrick deWitt’s second book, The Sisters Brothers, had been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the redoubtable honor bestowed annually on the finest British novel. Patrick deWitt wrote his novel in Portland. But it’s no joke: DeWitt was born on Vancouver Island, B.C., and so is eligible for the Man Booker as a citizen of the Commonwealth. The selection of The Sisters Brothers, a darkly comic tale of Old West assassins, to the 13-book longlist last week marks the latest apex of a ridiculously triumphant year for the 36-year-old deWitt, who arrived in Portland from Los Angeles in 2008. Already in 2011, he’s watched the screenplay he wrote, Terri, get made into a movie with John C. Reilly, and open to glowing reviews. And he’s been chosen for a literary residency in France, where he’ll travel next year with his wife, Leslie, and their 6-year-old son, Gustavo. But for now, he’s content to sit in the sun outside Caffe Vita on Northeast Alberta Street, sipping a San Pellegrino Limonata and talking about dogs.
Were you trying to write? I started what I hope will be my next novel a couple months before all that stuff descended. It’s about a corrupt investment banker who finds out that he’s about to be arrested and so he expatriates, and then starts a new life under a pseudonym in France. There’s sort of a two-pronged story of him discussing his assimilation into a foreign society with quite a lot less money than he’s used to having, and then also him looking back over his childhood in tenement living—these things that lead him to become somewhat sociopathic....With the last book I did, it sort of was really minimal research, and it felt like homework to me and it just sort of brought pouty adolescence back into the light. But this time around I’m going to try to get a little bit more into it. My wife and I are going to Paris next year....I got a residency for three months, but it’s sort of open-ended. We might not want to stay, but I suspect we will. It’s pretty pricey, though. I’m not sure how we’re going to swing it. How much French do you speak? Virtually none. I was taking classes but then I dropped out. My plan is to cram right before, so February, March I’ll be sitting there with the Pimsleur CDs, hoping for the best.
Terri director Azazel Jacobs told me you’re working on something together. Yeah, we’ve talked about the novel that I’m writing now. He thinks it would make a good film. And I think if anyone could do it he could do it and I would be honored if he would work with me again.... When the Man Booker thing came out, [Jacobs] called me to say congratulations. We were talking about when we first met: I was washing dishes in a bar, and he was shooting Good Times Kid and he came and asked if he could shoot for free at the bar, and the film they were shooting with was film they had stolen off the back of a truck in Hollywood from some Brad Pitt film or something. So we were just sort of discussing [how we got] from A to B and it’s nice that we’ve sort of been able to share these things together. It has to be strange, too. It’s just very odd. You read a review from Roger Ebert and there’s just sort of a laughinggas quality to it. It’s hard to ingest it. There’s a dreamlike quality to good news. Bad news is much more concrete somehow. I’ve been describing you as a “Liberty Glass habitué.” Do you still hang out at Liberty Glass? When we moved here, that was just one of the first places my wife and I would take my son. And the macaroni and cheese is really excellent. There’s a three-legged dog scene in Sisters Brothers and that was inspired by a back-and-forth my son had about [Liberty Glass’] dog, Otis, who actually was thanked in Sisters Brothers. I didn’t realize he got a thank-you. Yeah…Otis the dog gets a thank-you in the book. I only met him this one time, but we had this [conversation with] my son, who at the time was I guess 4, and it was just like in the book—except my son wasn’t trying to poison the dog....I hope they’re not offended because the dog dies in the book. READ IT: The Sisters Brothers is available in stores now. Read an extended interview with deWitt at wweek.com.
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KEB MO THE REFLECTION ‘The Reflection’ is the first new studio album by Keb Mo since Suitcase in 2006. These twelve songs are the product of an important period of personal and professional growth for ON SALE $12.99 CD the artist formerly known as Kevin Moore. ‘The Reflection’ is not, in essence, a blues album. In sound and spirit, it’s closer to the work of African–American “folk soul” singer/songwriters like Bill Withers, Bobby Womack and Terry Callier.
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FOOD & DRINK
Shandong
= WW Pick. Highly recommended.
cuisine of northern china
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PRICES: $: Most entrees under $10. $$: $10-$20. $$$: $20-$30. $$$$: Above $30. Editor: KELLY CLARKE. Email: dish@wweek.com. See page 3 for submission instructions.
13 topless bartenders and 70 dancers each week! fresh ingredients • prepared daily • a new look at classic dishes Open Every Day 11am to 2:30am www.CasaDiablo.com (503) 222-6600 • 2839 NW St. Helens Rd
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 3
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Dining With Dignity for Sisters of the Road
Caprial & John College Survival Cooking Course
Stuff your face and help out those in need this month by chowing at local restaurants and food carts pledging to donate part of their sales to Sisters of the Road, a local nonprofit that’s been providing support and square meals for Portlanders in need at its Old Town kitchen since 1979. Eateries from Lincoln, Il Piatto and Three Doors Down to Pacific Pie Co., ¿Por Que No? and Mississippi Pizza are all helping out. Plus, it’s an excellent excuse to brave “Drag Bingo” at Hamburger Mary’s—10 percent of your bill goes to the Sisters. KELLY CLARKE. July 31 through Aug. 31. Find participants and events at sistersoftheroad.org/events/diningwith-dignity-calendar.
SATURDAY, AUG. 6 Brunch on the Bridge
Nosh your way across the Willamette River at PDX Bridge Fest’s second annual “Brunch on the Bridge.” Yes, they will turn the Hawthorne Bridge into a picnicready park, complete with grass and trees. Yes, there will be nibbles from local food companies. Yes, Voodoo Doughnut will attempt to break the Guinness Book of World Records title for “The World’s Largest Box of Doughnuts,” and yes, there will be croquet and cornhole. KC. Hawthorne Bridge. 10 am-2 pm Saturday, Aug. 6. $25. VIP $75 (reserved picnic area and brunch basket from local chefs). Tickets at pdxbridgefestival.org.
Bones and Brew
For 17 years, Rogue Ales has been saluting summer with giant plates of barbecue and tons of regional microbrews. This year the bacchanal also boasts live blues, chicken wing- and “Kobe bleu ball”-eating contests, and a charity dog wash. KC. Buckman Brewery, 909 SE Yamhill St., Portland, 517-0660. Noon-9 pm Saturday, noon-5 pm Sunday, Aug. 6-7. $3 suggested donation. Info at rogue.com.
Pascal Sauton Summer Cooking Series
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 is 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.” KC. KitchenCru, 337 NW Broadway, 226-1900. 10 am Saturdays August 6 and 20. $75 per class. Class limited to 10 people.
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open daily 11-2:30 lunch 4-9:30 dinner happy hour specials 4-6
Longtime Portland chef team and cooking-show hosts (and former restaurateurs) Caprial and John Pence don’t want your college-age kids to starve when they head off to school. In an effort to keep our local frosh away from Faygo and Domino’s, they’re offering a course that teaches everything from how to roast a chicken and make omelettes to how to make a basic tomato sauce and bake “kitchen sink brownies.” KC. The Kitchen, 609 SE Ankeny St., 239-8771. 11 am Saturday, Aug. 6. $50 per person. Call or email info@caprialandjohnskitchen.com to reserve seats.
SUNDAY, AUG. 7 Lincoln Northwest Collaborative Dinner
North Williams standout Lincoln hosts a chef/farmer love-connection dinner focused on farms with sustainable practices. Aside from four courses’ worth of dishes featuring rabbits from Dutcher’s and Nicky farms and wine pours from Elk Cove and Lemelson, there’s also a slide show and tasty talk from the farmers and winemakers themselves. KC. Lincoln, 3808 N Williams Ave., 288-6200. 6:30 pm Sunday, Aug. 7. $65. Call for reservations.
MONDAY, AUG. 8 Dim Sum Yum Yum
It’s like Chinese dim sum, but with tiny renditions of Pix’s greatest dessert hits and new concoctions (from tawny port ice cream to raspberry-rosemary ganache flower pots) instead of shumai and chicken feet. KC. Pix Pâtisserie, 3402 SE Division St., 232-4407. 8-11 pm Monday, Aug. 8. Free entry.
TUESDAY, AUG. 9 Pig and Pinot II
The Original “dinerant” gives nose-to-tail eating a gut-busting Americana twist at its second Pig and Pinot dinner. The porker happens to be the blue-ribbonwinning pig from the Washington County Fair’s Prime Livestock Auction—chef Ryan Bleibtrey promises everything from deviled ham and kalua pork to fried mac ’n’ cheese and bacon-latticed apple pie with maple bacon ice cream in one sitting. KC. The Original, 300 SW 6th Ave., 546-2666. 7 pm Tuesday, Aug. 9. $65, wine included. Call for reservations.
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LIVE MUSIC EVEry nIght · 7 PM
August 3-6 Ruby Hill
Relaxed rock, old school soul, and a touch of blues
August 7–13 Eric Nordby Singer/songwriting talent from the band Norman
DJ’ED MUSIC · 10:30 PM Every Thursday, Friday & Saturday
August 4 DJ Anjali & the Incredible Kid Every Thursday
August 5 DJ E3 August 6 DJ Stargazer
FRIDAY, AUGUST 5 5:30 p.m. is “eagle time” • free
REVERB BROTHERS TORTUNE WOLF IN THE DREAMCATCHER
SATURDAY, AUGUST 6 4:30 p.m. is “eagle time” • free
THE STUDENT LOAN IAN JAMES JORDAN HARRIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 7
“OPEN MIC/SINGER SONGWRITER SHOWCASE” FEATURING PORTLAND’S FINEST TALENT FREE
MONDAY, AUGUST 8
EVAN CHURCHILL BAND MATT BROWN (OF RUBY HILL) FREE
TUESDAY, AUGUST 9
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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 3 Olin & the Moon, Noah Gundersen
[SINGER-SONGWRITER] It’s clear that Seattle-based songwriter Noah Gundersen’s breathy vocals owe a debt to Conor Oberst. However, Gundersen takes Oberst’s model and amends it nearly beyond recognition, removing much of that latter troubadour’s verbosity and adding in its place a surfeit of well-proportioned orchestration. Many of Gundersen’s tunes comprise acoustic guitar, the aforementioned vocal stylings, and violin, courtesy of Noah’s sister, Abby Gundersen. The result of this mix is a quavering, seismic variation of folk. Gundersen’s tracks always sound as if they are holding back their most essential force, and his debut recording, Family, has the effect of a looming tidal wave. SHANE DANAHER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
Nekromantix, The Brains, Toxic Zombie
[THE KILLING JOKES] Music dependent upon shtick-driven showmanship and a gimlet-eyed exploitation of past notions of cool—essentially extrapolating a cultural worldview from ’50s hot-rod art–psychobilly—best focuses its tongue-in-cheek romanticism upon either the naked or the dead. Any guess on Nekromantix’s specialty? Danish bassist Kim Nekroman (his double bass specially constructed from a child-sized coffin, natch) and an ever-fluctuating pair of pseudonymous sidemen have plowed the kitschiest fringes of horror for more than 20 years, and the revivified honky tonk-of-the-damned onslaught of recently released eighth album What Happens in Hell Stays in Hell still threaten infernal pleasures. JAY HORTON. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show All ages.
Tara Jane O’Neil and Nikaido Kazumi, Tom Greenwood, Dragging an Ox Through Water, Ryan Francesconi, DJ Alien Observer
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[EXPERIMENTAL DUO] One of the best albums to come out this year is a quiet, unassuming little masterpiece of improvisation created by local artistic polymath Tara Jane O’Neil and a young
woman from Japan named Nikaido Kazumi. The pair, working together for four hours over the course of one day, used their distinctive voices and an array of traditional string and percussion instruments. The two returned to the tracks to relearn them, build upon them and turn them into spacious, ambient collages of sound and mood that wrap around the legs like gentle tendrils. ROBERT HAM. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $6. 21+.
Wampire, The Tempers, Onuinu, Litanic Mask
[SUMMER CAMP] Portland dance-pop mainstay Wampire always puts on a solid performance, but Seattle drama freaks the Tempers are as sure to steal this show as Rocky Horror attendees are to toss toast. The sibling act, which released its debut full-length, Vol. 1, last Halloween, is known for the theatricality of its performances. Drummer Chalia Bakker and her keyboardist brother James provide the synthed-out, glam-infused score to the downstage antics and the quavering, transfixingly unhinged vocals of their sis Corina. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
[STILL SWINGING] The ill-fated neoswing revival died a predictable death as quickly as it was born more than 10 years ago now, but you wouldn’t know it from the career of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Formed in Ventura, Calif., in 1993, the band got caught up in the zoot-suit mania that swept the country in the late ’90s, a phenomenon it helped usher in thanks to its appearance in the classic indie comedy Swingers. The group signed to Capitol, had a hit record and single, and reached what common knowledge would indicate was its zenith, performing at the Super Bowl XXXIII Halftime Show alongside Gloria Estefan and Stevie Wonder. It should have been downhill from there, but BBVD has kept a rigorous touring schedule, playing symphony programs at huge venues like the Hollywood Bowl and making regular TV appearances. Yes, the music is still unbearably corny,
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PICKATHON ACTS I’M ITCHING TO SEE. Bill Callahan One could build a legitimate case—and people have—for Bill Callahan being the finest songwriter touring today. He’s real good. Lee Fields and the Expressions I used to wonder what happened to real soul music. I don’t wonder anymore, thanks to guys like Fields and his crackerjack band. Mavis Staples You don’t get many chances to see a living legend like Mavis, especially in such an ideal setting. Brownout Big-band Latin funk? I’m always down for big-band Latin funk. L.C. Ulmer This Mississippi bluesman’s story songs are going to be totally flooring in the intimate workshop barn stage. SEE IT: Pickathon runs Aug. 5-7 at Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley. See pickathon.com for details.
THE BREAK-UP ARTISTS JESSE SYKES AND THE SWEET HEREAFTER BUST OUT OF ALT-COUNTRY. HARD. BY H A N N AH LEVIN
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In the very first episode of HBO’s erotically campy True Blood, telepathic ingenue Sookie initially encounters rogue vampire Bill when he enters the rural Southern diner where she works. As the undead chemistry is alchemized, “The Dreaming Dead,” a slow-burning ballad by Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter, plays in the background. The track is barely audible, and the scene is over in less than a minute, but the resulting payday helped cover Sykes’ living expenses for the better part of the next two years as she and guitarist Phil Wandscher recorded Marble Son, their ambitious fourth full-length (and sixth release) together since forming in Seattle nearly a decade ago. When Sykes met Wandscher in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood institution Hattie’s Hat in 2002, they quickly became both romantic and creative partners, weaving together her somber alto and his tightly coiled, reverb-thick guitar lines with their shared love of dark subject matter and heavy, atmospheric arrangements. Their debut, Reckless Burning, had a bewitching charm and focus on broken spirits, lost souls, and a sweet undercurrent of the fresh infatuation that was its impetus. Sykes, a former art-school student and lifelong classic-rock fan, had recently become fascinated with Seattle’s burgeoning Americana scene, and it was reflected in those early works. “The whole altcountry thing was pretty huge, and the epicenter was here in Seattle,” explains Sykes over cocktails at Hazlewood, a bar just up the street from Hattie’s. “It’s not that I was trying to jump on any bandwagon. I was coming out of my 20s where I was sort of in a refrain from heavier music and got into singer-songwriters. And that was kind of liberating. I was obsessed with Townes Van Zandt.” Wandscher’s distinct twang and preceding history as a founding member of Whiskeytown marked him and Sykes with the country-noir tag for the first several years of their careers, but over the course of the next two albums, they tread more deeply into artful, psych-rock territory inspired in part by the
couple’s fateful collaboration with doom-rock acts SunnO))) and Boris on 2006’s Altar. “Our bassist, Bill [Herzog], was friends with [Southern Lord label owner and SunnO))) member] Greg Anderson,” explains Sykes, and Anderson eventually asked Sykes and Wandscher to collaborate. “I would have thought they would have wanted something with a voice modulator or something silly, but they really did just want me. They told me to treat it like one of my songs.” Drawing inspiration from author Joan Didion’s heartbreaking widow’s memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking, and her own brewing discord with Wandscher, Sykes wrote the lyrics and melody for “The Sinking Belle,” the eight-minute dirge that would become Altar’s centerpiece. She went on to perform the piece with Wandscher and Anderson at the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival and a handful of East Coast dates. When her and Wandscher’s romantic union ended in 2009, Sykes was unsure of whether they could continue with the Sweet Hereafter. “Part of me really thought it was going to all fall to shit,” she says. “I figured there’d be no way he’d tolerate me [dating other people], and there’s no way the band’s going to stay committed to something that feels this wishy-washy. Initially, it was like pulling teeth. He was in a very dark spot.” They prevailed, however, and ended up in a spot that was unexpectedly fruitful. “Long story short,” she adds, “I think feeling like I was about to lose everything I’d worked so hard for—on some bizarre level—freed me up. I didn’t second-guess shit. We just went for it.” Marble Son is the band’s strongest record to date, and one that will no doubt permanently remove the alt-country label, thanks to Wandscher’s sprawling, majestic leads and Sykes’ fearless, larger-than-life vocal presence. “I wanted this record to reflect that direness and the magnitude of what was happening in our lives” she says. “It felt epic and it felt like a serious transformation, emotionally, so the music just had to mirror that. It couldn’t just be us in our comfort zone any longer. It had to have fury.” SEE IT: Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter play the Pickathon festival at 4:15 pm Saturday and 6 pm Sunday, Aug. 6-7. See pickathon.com for more information. All ages. Willamette Week AUGUST 3, 2011 wweek.com
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but I grew up down the road from where the band started, so I can’t help but feel a twinge of pride in its largely soulless, completely corporatized version of success. MATTHEW SINGER. Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Road, 220-2789. 7 pm. $14.
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[FLAVORFUL DANCE PARTY] Skipping around North America this summer, the HARD tour is a traveling caravan of some of the most dance floor-friendly electronic acts in the world. Headlining this sweat-inducing shindig is the German techno duo Digitalism, which, through a handful of singles, has managed to pull the sound of Factory Records-style urban-decay disco pop into the world of DFA Records-style sunny party starters. The group is joined on this date by dubstep wobbler Caspa, housemusic production team Jack Beats, and French dark electro wizard Gesaffelstein. Hydrate yourself, wear comfortable clothing, and be ready to dance your ever-loving ass off. ROBERT HAM. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. All ages.
Hidden Number, Warning: Danger!, Rayon Beach, John Wesley Coleman III, Dartgun & the Vignettes
[HUNGOVER PUNK] In Memphis, there exists a garage rock-loving store and label called Goner Records. Over the past few years, the brave little shop has cast unlikely talents like Fucked Up and Jay Reatard...not necessarily into popularity, but certainly away from obscurity. John Wesley Coleman III, a part-time Golden Boys member and part-time soloist, is next in line. His latest work, Bad Lady Goes to Jail, combines classic rabid post-punk and psychedelic sides similar to those of fellow Austinite Roky Erickson and his 13th Floor Elevators. MARK STOCK. Slabtown, 1033 NW 16th Ave., 223-0099. 9 pm. $7. 21+.
The Caribbean, Brothers Young, Melville
[POP-ART POP] Michael Kentoff, Matt Byars and David Jones, the three men who make up the Caribbean, don’t look like the masterminds behind a breathtakingly good catalog of art pop. Give them a quick glance, and you’d probably hit upon their day jobs as, respectively, a lawyer, a schoolteacher and a librarian. Sometimes the most unlikely sources make the best art, and this trio certainly bears that out. The group’s latest album, Discontinued Perfume (released on local label Hometapes), is as brilliant and ornate a pop album as has been released this year—or any year. It’s a rare thing to find them on this coast, so don’t miss them before they slip back to their D.C. home. ROBERT HAM. The Woods, 6637 SE Milwaukie Ave., 890-0408. 9 pm. Cover. 21+.
FRIDAY, AUG. 5 Gray Matters, IAMe, Molly Foote, Notion, Matty
[HIP-HOP] Besides a few shows here and there, Portland hip-hop duo Gray Matters has been quiet of late. The group’s 2008 debut, Intelligent Decline, was packed full of the sort of boom-bap battle rap Northwest hip-hop heads have come to expect from crews like Oldominion and Sandpeople. Word on the street was that the Matters planned to release their sophomore album this summer, and this show was supposed to be the release party. That’s not happening, as they pushed the album back. Still, the duo’s old material still sounds as good as ever, and it’s joined tonight by the consistently good IAMe, who recently released
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DEELAY CEELAY SATURDAY, AUG. 6 [ORGANIC ELECTRO] When we last checked in with Portland duo Deelay Ceelay, Chris Lael Larson and Delaney Kelly had placed third in WW’s 2010 Best New Band poll and hit the road on a national tour with Starfucker. Shortly afterward, Deelay Ceelay disappeared. “During that 10 months it was hard to turn down good shows,” Larson says. “And part of me thought, ‘How many will we turn down before people stop asking?’ Whether we verbalized it or not, it was a concern: Is 10 months enough time for a local band to be forgotten?” It’s a reasonable question: Portland music moves fast, and the two-drummer electro outfit—with only a four-song EP to its name until this week’s release of debut full-length Sunset Drumsets—moves awfully slowly. There are a host of reasons for the band’s molasses-style release schedule (day jobs, studio indecision, life), but the real culprit is that Deelay Ceelay isn’t a band at all. In concert, it’s a very sophisticated A/V experiment, and Larson’s elaborate video projections— with their hand-shot, acid-trip fractal explosions, organic patterns and DayGlo dancers—take time to produce. “I used to spend up to three months on them,” says Larson, who is responsible for those video duties. He has since learned to expedite the process by removing narrative from the videos and enlisting the help of local dancers. Still, it’s a process: “It changes every time. The same way I wouldn’t want us to write the same song twice, I try not to recycle any visual devices, which is hard.” After seeing the inspiring, energetic live show, any Deelay Ceelay recording feels a touch incomplete. But Sunset Drumsets, like its title, is an effort strong and cinematic enough to stand on its own. Songs like the punchy, robotic “Little Whispers” and the squealing “Slow Rain”—both uplifting and elastic tunes that add a hint of post-rock drama to Starfucker-style live electronica—seem to contain wordless narrative arcs all their own. The album is a moody, complete work from a wholly DIY band still seeking its comfort level with collaborators and deciding where to go from here (it enlisted mastering help from busy Portlander Jeff Stuart Saltzman, which contributed to the band’s long hiatus). The arc of many recent Portland electronic projects—from Guidance Counselor to YACHT—has been their steady expansion from minimalist laptop projects to full-on bands, and that’s something Deelay Ceelay hasn’t ruled out. “I’m certainly open to it, but we can barely get the two of us organized to practice,” says Larson. “And I am also tied up in the symmetry we have onstage—if we get one bass player, we kind of have to get two bass players. Which is completely absurd.” If it isn’t broke, Deelay Ceelay probably shouldn’t fix its approach to live music. While some showgoers are uncomfortable with the majority of the duo’s sound coming from pre-recorded tracks, the simplicity of the arrangement and constant onstage movement are still what makes the band tick. Besides, we wouldn’t want to lose Deelay Ceelay again. “The last few months have been excruciating,” Larson says, adding that the band ignored label interest in order to get its new album out as quickly as possible. “In order to be a living, evolving thing, we have to be playing.” CASEY JARMAN.
The return of Portland’s most sophisticated A/V experiment.
SEE IT: Deelay Ceelay plays Saturday, Aug. 6, at Doug Fir. 9 pm. $5, includes a copy of the new album. 21+.
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STILL HARD AFTER ALL THESE YEARS: Slayer plays Memorial Coliseum on Friday. one of this year’s best Northwest hip-hop albums in Lame. REED JACKSON. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 8 pm. Cover. All ages.
Rasputina, Smoke Fairies
[CELLO GOLD] Melora Creager and her rotating cast of players in New York trio Rasputina spent 20 years rubbing elbows with Nirvana and Marilyn Manson while crafting six albums, including last year’s Sister Kinderhook. And yet Rasputina— two cellos and a drummer—remains among the era’s strangest acts. The group is a bizarre chamber ensemble with a penchant for Renaissance fest-meets-Zeppelin thunder, featuring Creager warbling harmoniously like a one-woman combo of Jack and Meg White—spinning tales about everything from giants and ancient kingdoms to Lizzie Borden. AP KRYZA. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $15. 21+.
Big Business, Torche, Thrones
[STONER METAL] When Big Business added guitar player Toshi Kasai to its streamlined bass-anddrums attack three years ago, the result was the vexingly diluted Mind the Drift, which, well, did a little too much drifting and not enough pummeling. News of a second guitar player was certainly cause for concern then, but rounded up to a quartet by Scott Martin (late of 400 Blows and Crom), Big Business is back to hammering skulls with Quadruple Single, a foursong landmine of bong-friendly riffs, surprisingly catchy hooks and squalling guitars. It’s exactly what Mind the Drift should have been: Big Business, only bigger. CHRIS STAMM CHRIS STAMM. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 9 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.
The Ben Darwish Trio, Andrew Oliver’s Kora Band
[MODERN JAZZ] Two of the Northwest’s top young jazz pianists—both recent Oregon Arts Commission fellowship winners— converge for one of the summer’s most attractive jazz gigs. Ben Darwish’s sounds can range from funk (in his band Commotion) to Afrobeat to more straightahead jazz territory. This trio includes bassist Dave Captein and drummer Jason Palmer. Andrew Oliver is similarly protean, excelling in all manner of jazz forms and combos up to big band. His dazzling Kora Band features Seattle’s Kane Mathis (who studied at the source in Gambia) on the gorgeous 21-string African harp, in originals and traditional and modern repertoire from Cameroon and Congo that transcend mere exoticism to achieve a genuine global fusion. BRETT CAMPBELL. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 8 pm. $12. All ages.
Slayer, Rob Zombie
[HEAVY METAL] Like Iron Maiden, Slayer is experiencing a latecareer revivification that is translating into concert tickets, if not artistically high-water marks. On stage, the band remains a functioning armada—absolutely fucking
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brutal, in fact. Still, the general sense is that the guys in Slayer are not getting any younger, and that putting on shows of this intensity takes a toll. No pact with Satan can keep this up forever. That being the case, Slayer is back in Portland to squeeze a bit more blood and money from its loyal (and gentrifying) fan base—while it still can. At its Washington County Fairgrounds gig last September, there was a dust cloud over the mosh pit, obscuring a host of bandanna-clad warriors. Even so, the general atmosphere of the crowd was mellow for a Slayer show; a lot of tattooed dads had brought their kids. In co-headlining tow on this trip is Rob Zombie, a man made almost more famous now for his film work than his music. NATHAN CARSON. Memorial Coliseum, 1401 N Wheeler Ave., 235-8771. 7 pm. $40. All ages.
Dntel, The One AM Radio, Geotic
Dntel’s now-decade-old debut album, Life Is Full of Possibilities, was a classic among many for the way its morose subject matter sizzled so profoundly over the album’s warm, staticky backdrops. Sub Pop is now releasing a remastered version of the album, and Dntel is hitting the road in support, performing most of its tracks as well as some other electronic goodness, including material from his other little side project, the Postal Service. The One AM Radio, a frequent Dntel collaborator and remixer, will also be there, zapping audiences into a dreamlike state with his otherwordly ambient music, while Geotic (also known as Baths) shows off the neck-breaking breaks that have helped him become one of the most popular artists in today’s beat scene. REED JACKSON. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
Hot Victory, Vice Device, Extralone, Sick Jaggers
[DRUM ’N’ DRUM] Drums with drums can be like plaid with more plaid: just too much. Experimental electronic outfit Hot Victory, however, pulls off the percussionon-percussion sound, crafting arty yet magnetic music with nothing but a bunch of electronic equipment, two sets of drum sticks and a drum kit (one that the band’s two percussionists, Ben Stoller and Caitlin Love, share). Hot Victory’s new split 7-inch with Vice Device, which the Portland bands release tonight, finds Stoller and Love grooving themselves into drum trances while being doused, courtesy of electronics maestro Ian Weiland, with turns of New Age-y and sci-fi sound effects. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Rotture, 315 SE 3rd Ave., 234-5683. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
Free Beat Nation, We the People, DJ Pharo
[BRAZILIAN BEATS AND BRASS] Pink Martini/Lions of Batucada percussionist Derek Rieth’s maracatustyle ensemble, Free Beat Nation,
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adds trumpet, trombone, saxes, fifes and harmonica to an Afro-Brazilian percussion bateria. But wait, there’s more: The group integrates funk, hip-hop, New Orleans brass band and other influences to traditional Brazilian Olinda and Recife rhythms, producing a tidal wave of danceable beats. The “hip-hop-latin-electric-trance rock-hook” trio We the People includes Sam Omeechevarria, multi-instrumentalist Andy Sterling and MC and multi-instrumentalist Beyond Martin. BRETT CAMPBELL. Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th Ave., 248-1030. 9 pm. Cover. 21+.
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The Great Idea: The Dandy Warhols, Calvin Johnson & the Hivedwellers, Brainstorm, Symmetry/Symmetry and more
[THE MONKEY HOUSE] A Northwest institution more than a little weathered by the years with its local popularity ever threatened by outside attractions advertised as more educational or family friendly, the faintly miraculous continued perseverance (thriving even shorn of corporate sponsors) of Salem theme park the Enchanted Forest frankly deserves the Dandy Warhols for this second incarnation of the Great Idea music festival. The Dandies play Western Town early evening alongside a dizzyingly eclectic array of acts to be scattered throughout the park—Massive Moth, Youth and Sexy Water Spiders hint toward a stylish, inventive pop—including K Records icon Calvin Johnson, who’d seem a natural for Storybook Lane. JAY HORTON. The Enchanted Forest, 8462 Enchanted Way SE. 10 am-8 pm. $20. All ages.
Basement Animal, Registeredsexoffender, Ghost Shirt Society
[SHORTFASTLOUD] This is a strange thing to say about a powerviolence band with the sophomorically unGoogleable name Registeredsexoffender, but these Reno kids warm the cockles of my heart. With songs shorter than soda commercials and a drummer who might very well be on fire, Registeredsexoffender is a dead ringer for ’90s speed-geeks Spazz, whose record-nerd mythos would look downright quaint and avuncular in a contemporary scene dominated by airs of dark mystery. Which is to say that Registeredsexoffender’s brief spurts conjure visions of nice kids with strong wrists playing music as fast as they fucking can. Thanks for the hot cockles, dudes. CHRIS STAMM. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.
SATURDAY, AUG. 6 Skarp, Resist, Dead by Dawn, Profits, Dr. Loomis
[HEAVY EVERYTHING] You know how you feel a genital flutter of animal fear when a drunken friend does something potentially fatal like dance on a ledge or start a Fugazi cover band? Skarp’s polyglot intensity causes a similar sort of phantom pain—it’s difficult to imagine four frail human forms summoning such dizzying sounds without ending up in some sort of collective body cast. Propelled by the frantic drumming of Joe Axler, who is either an octopus with opposable thumbs or an alien capable of bending time, Skarp takes the stuff that scares your grandpa—grind, crust, hardcore, even ska—and braids it into something that might even freak you out. CHRIS STAMM. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 8 pm. All ages.
Jujuba
[AFROBEAT] Jujuba’s releases have consisted only of live bootlegs since its dynamite 2008 self-titled debut, but really, the local Afrobeat army— numbering up to 11 members on a given night—is all about the live show. Driven by polyrhythmic blasts and blaring horns, the band evokes Fela Kuti, but Jujuba is no imitator. Nigerian founder Nojeem Lasisi cut
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DUDES ABOUT TOWN: Fire in the Canyon co-founders Anthony Sanchez (left) and Phil Haleen.
ANTHONY SANCHEZ OF FIRE IN THE CANYON Longtime Portland booker Anthony Sanchez is in over his head— and he likes it. As talent buyer for the inaugural Fire in the Canyon, Sanchez has been working around the clock to put together the three-day Horning’s Hideout festival (a benefit for MercyCorps), landing big-name acts like Digable Planets and the Pharcyde, as well as dozens of regional acts. He took the project on while also making his return to Berbati’s (now dubbed Ted’s). We asked him how the festival came about. CASEY JARMAN. WW: How much thought had you given to putting on a music festival before you got involved with Fire in the Canyon? Sanchez: This is something I’ve never really given much thought to. I mean, I always thought the idea was cool, but this literally fell in our lap—that being me and Phil Haleen from Taxidermy Records. Another guy was putting this on, originally, and realized that the project was bigger than he could handle, so he talked to Phil. They called me up and I said, ‘Of course I want to be involved with this.’ It was kind of weird, because me and Phil had been talking about music, and Phil was about ready to give up his label and get out of music. And I’ve been back and forth a lot, thinking about my spot [in the business]. Then this hit us, and we got completely inspired by it and energized by it. Was any of the booking already done? No, it has been about three, 3 1/2 months of putting this together. Most [annual] festivals start booking about a week after the last one starts. So we were planning on doing an event next year when another festival at Horning ’s canceled. So Bob Horning from Horning’s offered us the space, and because it’s a charity event for MercyCorps, he gave us a great deal on the property. What makes this festival special? Musically, we wanted to do something different. We didn’t want to do a jam festival or an electronic festival—those are being covered. So we really wanted this festival to be much more diverse than it actually is, but when you have three months to work with, that’s not a lot of time. We were lucky to get some of the artists we did get. The original idea was to do one night of rock, one night of hiphop and then one night of more electronic music. Then, pretty quickly, the Pharcyde said yes, Digable Planets said yes, Del said yes and it started moving in that direction. But even in that, we wanted to work with a certain kind of hip-hop artist whose music and ideas represent what we want our festival to be about. Did you ever ask yourself if Portland was ready for this? Yeah. It scared the shit out of me. I’m scared and very excited. Honestly, I don’t think [Portland] is ready for it. I have a lot of reservations, even today. But I think we have to build that. We are absolutely, 100 percent committed to doing this event next year, whether this one is financially a success or a bomb. So I don’t think they’re ready for it this year, and maybe we’re not ready for it either. But we definitely have an idea of where we wanna be. SEE IT: Fire in the Canyon runs Aug. 5-7 at Horning’s Hideout. See music calendar, page 39, or fireinthecanyon.com for more.
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his teeth with King Sunny Adé, and his charismatic, call-and-response audience interplay is amplified when he brings out his talking drum. The instrument was once used to communicate messages between Nigerian villages. Here, Lasisi’s message is perfectly clear: “Get ready to sweat on the dance floor for at least two hours.” AP KRYZA. Goodfoot Lounge, 2845 SE Stark St., 503-239-9292. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
bodied alt-country at times, with nods to world-music influences at others, namely a hint of Ireland when she strays from the band and sings of fragility and false love. The quiltlike appearance of the album cover pretty much sums up Annie’s homespun, pillowy and gorgeously orchestrated musical style. MARK STOCK. The Woods, 6637 SE Milwaukie Ave., 890-0408. 8 pm. $7. 21+.
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[DANCE PARTY] Filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) has been throwing his Mattachine dance parties in NYC for three years now. On a recent visit, The New York Times found the shindig “packed with arty gays.” Neil Patrick Harris has been spotted there. Ditto Fred Schneider and Michael Stipe. I’m pretty sure Portland boasts not a single member of the B-52’s, so our first Mattachine—DJ’d by Mitchell and friends—will likely be studded by dimmer stars. But hey, arty gays! Unless Mississippi’s usual Saturday night crowd floods the dance floor, in which case, hey, dudes in flipflops! CHRIS STAMM. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 10 pm. $5. 21+.
SUNDAY, AUG. 7 George Thorogood and the Destroyers, The Stone Foxes
[THE BIKER KING’S SPEECH] “B-b-b-b-bad.” Next to Roger Daltrey spitting all over the mic on “My Generation,” it’s the most famous stutter in rock ’n’ roll. That utterly badass speech impediment belongs to George Thorogood and his “Bad to the Bone,” which might also be the most famous bar-rock tune of all time. It makes sense, then, for Thorogood to refer to his band the Destroyers—a badass moniker appropriate for such a crew of badass dudes—as “the world’s greatest bar band.” Some people might want to hand that title to the Rolling Stones, but the truth is Mick and Keef left their stools long ago while Thorogood remains firmly planted in dive culture—churning out hard, heavy and assuredly badass blues rock some 29 years after recording his biggest hit. He’s basically had the career your uncle Larry’s band the Blues Stew aspires to, except he’s, y’know, more badass. MATTHEW SINGER. Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Road, 220-2789. 7 pm. $24. All ages.
Lost Lander, Yours, What Hearts
[ATMOSPHERIC POP] Lost Lander is the brand-spanking-new, brightand-shiny collaboration between well-regarded local singer-songwriter Matt Sheehy and former Menomenaut Brent Knopf (who here handles production duty and live guitar and back-up vocals). On the lonesome-sounding advance tracks from the group’s forthcoming debut, DRRT, which were tantalizing enough to elicit over $7,600 in donations through Kickstarter to fund the record, one hears both artists’ influence: Knopf’s in the deft production and Ramona Falls-reminiscent alternation between sparseness and lushness; Sheehy’s in the masterful songcraft and exquisitely wistful vocals. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Rontoms, 600 E Burnside St., 2364536. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
Annie Bethancourt, Fairweather
[COMFY COUNTRY] We’d like to think we’re partly responsible for Annie’s bright sound and blossoming musical persona. The former WW intern and freelancer is a farmier Feist, with a fluttering, countrified vocal ability akin to contemporary indie darling Lia Ices. Bethancourt’s 2009 release, Three Hundred Suns, pushes full-
[CHAMBER ANOMALY] Since 2008, Portland-based multiinstrumentalist Holland Andrews has been partnering with several renowned looping pedals to create her one-woman band, Like a Villain. Sure, we’ve heard this story before, but in this case Andrews throws a curveball by creating her compositions almost exclusively from clarinet, glockenspiel and a hovering sense of dread. What results is a spooky, elegant and unaccountably unique orchestral oddity. Now two records into this experiment, Holland is settling into her obtuse aesthetic, having just last year released an LP (The Life of a Gentleman) that sounds like the Vienna Boys’ Choir trying to come up with a soundtrack for The Road. SHANE DANAHER. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. 9 pm. $5. All ages.
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[HEAVY, THUNDERING DOOM] When a three-piece puts its drummer front and center onstage, you know you are about to see some otherworldly, extreme-endurance, break-your-body-for-the-beat drumming that summons demons who talk backward from the cauldron of doom. Rabbits has roots in chaotic screamo, but the Portland outfit has since mutated, growing in size, slowing down and becoming a thousand times heavier than its origins would suggest. The manversus-nature theme of the band’s latest LP, Lower Forms, lends depth to the group’s dark musical forest. JOHN ISAACSON. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 10 pm. Free. 21+.
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[’90s REVOLUTION NOW] Googling “Ghost Mom” and listening to the band’s tracks on MySpace somehow seems wrong. The local outfit’s music evokes nostalgia for the days when you’d read about a band in a zine, then mail a check to its listed P.O. Box to order its 7-inch. Pairing deconstructed guitar riffs and Nadia Buyse’s riotgirl vocals with the slacker-rock sounds of Pavement and Dinosaur Jr., the gritty, lo-fi quality of the music perfectly captures that early ’90s rock era. “Tonight,” a sincere, slow-paced singalong that has Nadia professing, “If you/ asked me/ to run away with you/ I would/ I would/ tonight,” will have you recalling a time when music meant so much it hurt. DEVAN COOK. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $5. 21+.
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MUSIC CALENDAR = WW Pick. Highly recommended. Editor: Jonathan Frochtzwajg. TO HAVE YOUR EVENT LISTED, send show information at least two weeks in advance on the web at wweek.com/submitevents or (if you book a specific venue) enter your events at dbmonkey.com/wweek. Press kits, CDs and especially vinyl can be sent to Music Desk, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Please include show or release date information with all physical mailings. Email: music@wweek.com. For more listings, check out wweek.com.
[AUG. 3 - 9] PCPA Music on Main Street
SW Main St. & SW Broadway Alameda, Autopilot is for Lovers
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
D AV I D C O O P E R
2314 SE Division St. Billy Kennedy
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Desideratum, Five-O, Filth Machine
Press Club
2621 SE Clinton St. Jeffery Trapp
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Bummer Town USA
Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery 206 SW Morrison St. Jordan Harris and Company
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Amber Voltaire, System and Station, White Orange
The Globe
2045 SE Belmont St. Quintillion
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Laura Cunard
The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Liana Stone, Johanna Chase and Band, Tin Santos
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Lord Dying, Owl, Drunk Dad
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Lenora Warren
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Nancy King, Steve Christofferson
Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Jay Koder Band
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Mars Retrieval Unit
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar
Union Station, 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Trio
DEAD RECKONING: Nekromantix play the Hawthorne Theatre on Wednesday, Aug. 3.
WED. AUG. 3 Afrique Bistro
102 NE Russell St. The Javier Nero Quintet
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Ruby Hill
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Open Mic
Alderbrook Park Resort
24414 NE Westerholm Rd., Brush Prairie, Wash. Journey Tribute: Stone in Love
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. David Ramos and Tommy V, Cars and Trains, Cresent Banks
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Robin Greene
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave.
Exhumed, Macabre, Cephalic Carnage, Withered, Ceremonial Castings, Blood Freak
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Olin & The Moon, Noah Gundersen
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam (9:30 pm); High Flyer Trio (6 pm)
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. DJ Total Fucker, Seanbardment
East India Co.
821 SW 11th Ave. Josh Feinberg
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Fox Street All-Stars, Pocket
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge 625 NW 21st Ave. Eric John Kaiser’s Protégé
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Nekromantix, The Brains, Toxic Zombie
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Tara Jane O’Neil and Nikaido Kazumi, Tom Greenwood, Dragging an Ox Through Water, Ryan Francesconi, DJ Alien Observer
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Tony Pacini, Caribbean Jazz
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Billy D
Milagros Boutique 5433 NE 30th Ave. Van Oodles
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Chloe Lear Jackson
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Wampire, The Tempers, Onuinu, Litanic Mask
Kells
Music Millennium
LaurelThirst
O’Connors
112 SW 2nd Ave. Cary Novotny 2958 NE Glisan St. Steve Taylor, Sam Adams (9 pm); Michael Hurley (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale John Bunzow
3158 E Burnside St. Fruit Bats 7850 SW Capitol Highway Kit Garoutte
Oregon Zoo
4001 SW Canyon Road Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
PCPA Antoinette Hatfield Hall
1111 SW Broadway Cul An Ti, Brongaene Griffin
THURS. AUG. 4 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Ruby Hill
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. The Collective Sound, Adventure Galley
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Get Rhythm, The Newgrass Pickers (9:30 pm); Gordon Goldsmith (6:30 pm)
Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. Dina and Bamba Y Su Pilon D’Azucar with La Descarga Cubana
Artichoke Community Music
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Shannon Curtis, Mark Ward, Deanna Walton
Cedar Mill Park
10265 Cornell Rd. Hapa
Chapel Pub
430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin
Corkscrew Wine Bar 1669 SE Bybee Blvd. Redray Frazier
Couch Park
NW 20th Ave. & NW Glisan Mister Ben
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Hookah Stew, The Commadorks
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Thunder Power, National Flower, The My Oh Mys
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. The Knuckleheads
Eat Art Theater
850 NE 81st Ave. Family Hour--Under The Sea: Little Sue, Lara Michell, Kate Black, Mike Coykendall
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Adam Arcuragi, Buffalo Death Beam
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Otis Heat, Unicorn Domination
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge 625 NW 21st Ave. Anthony Brady
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE 39th Ave. Savoir Faire Burlesque (10 pm); Wendy and The Lost Boys (6 pm)
Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Blvd. Filmusik: “Warriors of the Wasteland” with Retake Productions
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Nico Bella
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Eddie Martinez
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Cary Novotny
Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Ave. Larry Wilder and the Stumptown Stars
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Lloyd Mitchell Canyon, The Streakin’ Healys
LaurelThirst
2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Andrew Orr, Jen Howard
Pints Brewing Company
412 NW 5th Ave. Arielle Dollinger, Carley Baer
Pioneer Courthouse Square 701 SW 6th Ave. Painted Grey
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. The Warshers, Snowbud and the Flower People, The Vacilitators, Hairspray Blues
Refectory Restaurant & Lounge 1618 NE 122nd Ave. Liquid Blue
Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery 206 SW Morrison St. Tony Smiley
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Digitalism, Jack Beats, Caspa, Gesaffelstein
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. The Caps, Brownish Black, Beyond Veronica
Sellwood Public House
8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic with Two Rivers
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Hidden Number, Warning:Danger!, Rayon Beach, John Wesley Coleman III, Dartgun & The Vignettes
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
8635 N Lombard St. Thom Lyons, Suzanne Tufan, Sam Wegman
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Johnny Martin
The Hobnob Grille
3350 SE Morrison St. Open Mic
The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Water And Bodies, Glass Bones, Small Leaks Sink Ships
The Woods
6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. The Caribbean, Brothers Young, Melville
McMenamins Edgefield Little Red Shed
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The New Kinetics, The North Wind, Design. Drift. Distance
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Brian Copeland Band
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Lynn Conover, Gravel
Milagros Boutique
Ash Street Saloon
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Loose Change
2201 N Killingsworth St. Marty Preslar and Friends
Original Halibut’s II
Thirsty Lion
5433 NE 30th Ave. Mo Phillips
Beaterville Cafe
3435 N Lombard St. Chris Lee Estes
2958 NE Glisan St. Michael Dean Damron, T. Jones (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)
3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Songwriters Roundup 225 SW Ash St. Rare Monk
Mock Crest Tavern
Mississippi Pizza
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Nucular Aminals, Psychic Feline, Swahili
71 SW 2nd Ave. Hair Assault
Tonic Lounge
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Bad Assets (8:30 pm); Will West and the Friendly Cover Up! (5:30 pm)
Wieden & Kennedy Building 224 NW 13th Ave. Daniel Johnston
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar
Union Station, 800 NW 6th Ave. Mike Horsfall, Karla Harris, Todd Strait
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. KMFDM, Army Of The Universe, 16 Volt, Human Factors Lab
FRI. AUG. 5 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Ruby Hill
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Justin Klump (9:30 pm); Mikey’s Irish Jam (6:30 pm)
Artichoke Community Music
3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Friday Night Coffeehouse
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Assisted Living, The Mediam, Stone the Murder
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. The Lower 48, Ezza Rose, A.W.Feldt
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Beaterville Open House
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Gray Matters, IAMe, Molly Foote, Notion, Matty
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. The Ken Hanson Band
Canvas Art Bar & Bistro
1800 NW Upshur St. Open Mic
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Muthaship
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Michael Shapiro, Pete Cornett, Anthony Brady
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Rasputina, Smoke Fairies
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Stan Ruffo’s Pulled Pork, Lucy Hammond (9 pm); Honey and the Hamdogs (6 pm)
Eagles Lodge-Southeast
4904 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The New Iberians Zydeco Blues Band
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge
Tony Starlight’s
625 NW 21st Ave. Byron and Shelly
Twilight Café and Bar
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Big Business, Torche, Thrones
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Sing for Your Supperclub with the All-Star Horns 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Absent Minds, Lysolgang, Poor Nancy Reagan
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Dawid Vorster Band
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Galen Fous
Hawthorne Theatre
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Ama Bently
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Ben Darwish Trio, Andrew Oliver’s Kora Band
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Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Shanghai Woolies
Touché Restaurant and Billiards
1425 NW Glisan St. Rebecca Kilgore featuring David Frishberg
Twilight Café and Bar
1420 SE Powell Blvd. A Moment of Substance, Mano Kane, Diwali, Dandelion Massacre
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Zenda and Mike Doolin
HOUSE MUSIC: In the foyer of the gorgeously restored 1906 Portland foursquare home that is now Beech Street Parlor (412 NE Beech St.), about where you’d expect a coat rack, is a polished hardwood podium for two turntables. That touch—equal parts refined and bumpin’—establishes the intent of this second bar from the owners of Tiga. It’s your archetypal Northeast Portland house party, but for people who have turned 30 and want to trade out underage drinkers and cop calls for $4.50 pints of Double Mountain Vaporizer. The two-tiered front porch is too cramped to avoid hearing every detail of your neighbor’s conversation (like a house party!), but the interior shows promise as a kind of Wilco album of PDX boozing: the bar as cozy dad rock. There’s also an excellent view of Planned Parenthood across the street, as extra motivation to drink responsibly. AARON MESH. Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Grafton Street
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Mongoloid Village, Salvador, Rollie Fingers
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Baby Gramps (9:30 pm); James Low Western Front (6 pm)
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St. Gentlemen’s Club
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale The Phoreheads
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Jon Koonce and One More Mile
Memorial Coliseum
1401 N Wheeler Ave. Slayer, Rob Zombie
Traditional Hawaiian Music
Hot Victory, Vice Device, Extralone, Sick Jaggers
Original Halibut’s II
Sellwood Public House
2527 NE Alberta St. Norman Sylvester
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Lynn Conover
Pendarvis Farm
16581 SE Hagen Rd. Pickathon: Califone, Pine Leaf Boys, Pokey Lafarge, The Builders and the Butchers, Old Sledge and the 2011 Squaredance, Richard Swift, Grupo Fantasma, Buffalo Killers, Truckstop Darlin, Laura Veirs, Bill Callahan, Dawn Landes, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Ted Jones and the Tarheel Boys, Elliott Brood, Bruce Molsky, Black Lillies, Fruit Bats, Corinne West and Kelly Joe Phelps, Old Light, Mike and Ruthy, L Culmer, Brownout, Agesandages, Ray Wylie Hubbard
Pints Brewing Company
5433 NE 30th Ave. Mr. Hoo
412 NW 5th Ave. Noah Peterson, Suzanne Tufan
Mississippi Pizza
Plan B
Milagros Boutique
3552 N Mississippi Ave. The Jim Jams (9 pm); Virginia Lopez and Ivan Alamo (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Dntel, The One AM Radio, Geotic
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Otis Heat
Morgy’s Pub & Grill
5245 NE Elam Young Parkway, Hillsboro Dawson and McDermott
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. The Sportin’ Lifers Trio
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Smoke Fairies
Nel Centro
1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew with Jeff Leonard and Todd Strait
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe
1305 SE 8th Ave. SMMR BMMR
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Dr. Heathen Scum(mentors), Thrawtle, The Mormon Trannys, Get Shot, Raw and Order, Mr. Plow, Nekro Drunkz
Refuge
116 SE Yamhill St. Share the Love: Boy and Bean, Midnight Serenaders, 3 Leg Torso, DJ Anjali, Angelique DeVil, Lady Germany, Deviant Dance, Burlesquire, Between the Veil, Aerial, Rachel Slater
River Roadhouse 11921 SE 22nd Ave. Excavator, Othrys
Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery 206 SW Morrison St. Tanner Cundy
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave.
4627 NE Fremont St.
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8132 SE 13th Ave. Adrian Martin
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. The Food, Muddy River Nightmare Band, Pitchfork Motorway, The Polaroids
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
8635 N Lombard St. Mystery Siblings, The Honeycuts, Denim Wedding
Someday Lounge
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Rich Layton and The Troublemakers
White Eagle Saloon
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Ghostwriter, Drunk on Pines, Ichabod Strangelove, Audios Amigos
LaurelThirst
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
Sellwood Public House
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Kris Deelane
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro The Brothers Jam
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Dirty Little Fingers, Andrew Paul Woodworth (9 pm); Backporch Revival, The Low Tide Drifters (6 pm); Aaron Nigel Smith (4 pm)
Mississippi Studios
The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. The Fasters, Veronica, VAJ
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Basement Animal, Registeredsexoffender, Ghost Shirt Society
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
8635 N Lombard St. Hip Deep Soul Revue
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Adventures With Might, Imaginary Airship, Sun Kids, Tuesday’s Project, LeRoy Jerome; PDX Songwriter Happy Hour (4 pm)
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Donna and the Side Effects
3416 N Lombard St. Rolling Through the Universe, Down Looks Up
Union Station, 800 NW 6th Ave. Alyssa Schwary Trio
Mount Tabor Theater
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Cowtippers Reunion Show: 21 Horses, Abort! Abort!, Wayne Gacy Trio, The Cowtippers Reunion
Alberta Street Public House
8105 SE 7th Ave. Johnnie Ward
SAT. AUG. 6 303 SW 12th Ave. Ruby Hill
Muddy Rudder Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Roommate, Ethiopiate (9:30 pm); Megan Slankard, Brian Copeland (6:30 pm)
Nel Centro
Backspace
4627 NE Fremont St. Traditional Hawaiian Music
115 NW 5th Ave. Item 9, The Sindicate, Sitting Sideways, Secret Secretaries, Ibid
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Arthur Moore’s Harmonica Party
Branx
1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew with Jeff Leonard and Todd Strait
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe
Oregon Buddhist Temple
3720 SE 34th Ave. Obonfest 2011: Bon Odori, HAPPYFUNSMILE, Portland Taiko and Tanuki Taiko
Dante’s
1001 SW Broadway Mary Kadderly
1033 NW 16th Ave. Decliners, Joey Steelhead Tribute
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar
The Enchanted Forest
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar
Slabtown
The Blue Monk
Pendarvis Farm
3416 N Lombard St. The Hand That Bleeds, Last Prick Standing, RLLRBLL, Child PM
8132 SE 13th Ave. Charles Robertson
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Paul Thorn (8 pm); Ryan Francesconi, Like A Villain (4 pm)
The Blue Monk
The Foggy Notion
206 SW Morrison St. Evan Churchill
836 N Russell St. Sinus Rhythm, Tortune, The Hip Replacements (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
Clyde’s Prime Rib
8462 Enchanted Way SE, Turner The Great Idea: The Dandy Warhols, Calvin Johnson & The Hivedwellers, Brainstorm, Symmetry/Symmetry, Sons of Huns, Youth, Massive Moth, Sexy Water Spiders, Hello Electric, Jared Mees & The Grown Children, For Charles, Tonya Gilmore, Jettison Bend, Tent City, Joshua Blanchard & Molly Griffith-Blanchard, Succulent Dish, Jon Fro, Brian Smith/Bloody Twins, Faerabella, Generifus
11921 SE 22nd Ave., Milwaukie The Shatterbrains, Feeding Fate
Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery
Original Halibut’s II
3341 SE Belmont St. Eddie Martinez
River Roadhouse
2958 NE Glisan St. Sunbeam, On The Stairs, Pine Language (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)
320 SE 2nd Ave. Skarp, Resist, Dead by Dawn, Profits, Dr. Loomis
125 NW 5th Ave. Free Beat Nation, We the People, DJ Pharo
Excruciator, Spellcaster, Cemetery Lust
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Cool Breeze 350 W Burnside St. Rachel Brice, Belly Dance Soulfire, Negara
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Deelay Ceelay, Atole, Marius Libman
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Izzy Zaidman and the Kesstronics, Sportin’ Lifers
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Spracta Snut Skallar
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Worth, Nuestro, Aliina Champion
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Jujuba
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Plug In Stereo, Bird by Bird, Weatherstar, One Hour Newport
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. The Thoughts (8 pm); Macy Bensley (6 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Bobby Torres Ensemble
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Grafton Street
2527 NE Alberta St. Sonny Hess and Lady Kat 16581 SE Hagen Rd. Pickathon: Brownout, Vetiver, Black Mountain, Cahalen Morrison and Eli West, The Sadies, Bill Callahan, Elliott Brood, Whitey Morgan and the 78s, Lee Fields and the Expressions, Damien Jurado, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, The Wilders, Grupo Fantasma, Califone, Charlie Parr, Future Islands, Pine Leaf Boys, Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter, Eileen Jewell, Joy Kills Sorrow, Mike Ruthy, Fruit Bats, Old Sledge, The Builders and the Butchers, Sunday Valley, Danny Barnes, Sonny and the Sunsets, Strands of Oak, Pokey Lafarge, LC Ulmer, Michael Hurley, Buffalo Killers, Laura Veirs, Dawn Landes, Ted Jones and the Tarheel Boys, KBOO Live Show with Cahalen Morrison and Eli West, Old Sledge, The Wilders and Bruce Molsky
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. SMMR BMMR
Powell Butte
16160 Powell Blvd. Rich Halley’s Outside Music Ensemble
Ravenz Roost Cafe 11121 SE Division St. 6bq9
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave.
3341 SE Belmont St. Mel Kubik
The Foggy Notion
The Globe
2045 SE Belmont St. The Autonomics, Macy Bensley Band
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Key of Dreams
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Pierced Arrows, Divers, Sick Secrets
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Brian Odell, DJ Soulshaker
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Stonecreep
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Motorbreath, Splintered Throne, Dog Tribe
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Marianna and the Baby Vamps
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Kelley Shannon Trio
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Freaky Outy
Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Surf Weasels, The Insanitizers
Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Laura Ivancie
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. John Bunzow
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Ian James, Jordan Harris (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar Union Station, 800 NW 6th Ave. Cheryl Hodge Trio with Ron Steen and Dave Captein
SUN. AUG. 7 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Eric Nordby
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. 42 Ford Prefect, Mentes Ajenas, Los Other Phux
Autumn Ridge Park NW Fieldstone Dr. and NW 176th Place, Beaverton
5 Guys Named Moe
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. Copy, Serious Business, The Hague, Tango Alpha Tango, The Horde and The Harem, The Dimes, Violet Isle, Wanderlust Circus, Mnemonic Sounds, Water and Bodies, Sara Jackson Holman, Dropa
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Sinferno Cabaret
Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. Duover, Themes
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Stolen Sweets
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Fanno Creek, Brother Luke and the Comrades, You Are Plural
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Portland Solo Guitar Night: Andrew Gorny, Christie Lenee, Jon Self, Sean Frenette, James Chance
Japanese American Historical Plaza
2 NW Naito Parkway The Slants, Portland Taiko
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Sessions
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Mercy Sounds, M.A.R.C. and the Horse Jerks, Lil Lord Fontleroy
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Billy Kennedy and Tim Acott (9 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale L.C. Ulmer
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Michelle O’Brien
Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan St. Oregon Music Hall of Fame Benefit: Geoff Metts, Eddie Martinez, Robbie Laws
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Duncan Ros, Project Talent (9 pm); Izzy and the Kesstronics (6 pm)
Pendarvis Farm
16581 SE Hagen Rd. Pickathon: Charlie Parr, Future Islands, Lightning Dust, Lee Fields and The Expressions, Damien Jurado, Wye Oak, Mavis Staples, Danny Barnes, The Black Lillies, The Wilders, Sonny and the Sunsets, Black Mountain, Bruce Molsky, Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, Sunday Valley, Breathe Owl Breathe, Vetiver, Whitey Morgan and the 78s, Cahalen Morrison and Eli West, Agesandages, Mavis Staples, The Sadies, Joy Kills Sorrow, Old Light, Eileen Jewell, Strands of Oak, Ted Jones and the Tarheel Boys, Corinne West and Kelly Joe Phelps, Mike Ruthy, Truckstop Darlin’, Richard Swift, Pokey Lafarge, Michael Hurley, Kids Showcase with Annalisa Tornfelt
Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery 206 SW Morrison St. Redwood Son
Rontoms
600 E Burnside St. Lost Lander, Yours, What Hearts
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. This City Defects, Charts, Verso Recto, Problems?
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. Suburban Slim
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Ingrid Jensen and Dawn Clemente
The Globe
2045 SE Belmont St. Laura Dunn
The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Sleepwalk Kid, JR Worship
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Burning Leather, Sprakta Snut Skallar
The Woods
6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. Annie Bethancourt, Fairweather
Tillicum Club
8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Johnny Martin
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Discotays, Parlait Outre
White Eagle Saloon
Mississippi Studios
836 N Russell St. Open Mic / Songwriter Showcase
Muddy Rudder Public House
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Chris Koza (9 pm); Death Songs, Ghost To Falco (4 pm)
8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Danielle Ate the Sandwich
NEPO 42
5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic
Nel Centro
1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew with Dave Captein and Randy Rollofson
Oregon Zoo
4001 SW Canyon Road George Thorogood and the Destroyers, The Stone Foxes
MON. AUG. 8 303 SW 12th Ave. Eric Nordby
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Count Fleet
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Battery-Powered Music
Beauty Bar
111 SW Ash St. Tremblor
Congress Center 1025 SW 6th Ave. Scott Head
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Suzie and Sidecars
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Heavy Metal Ladies Night: Landmine Marathon, Excruciator, Mjolniir DXP, Echo Beds, DJ Nate C
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic
CALENDAR Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band (8 pm); The Connor O’Shea Band (6:30 pm)
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Tom May
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Bob Shoemaker
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mr. Ben
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Renato Caranto Project
The Globe
2045 SE Belmont St. Hank Hirsh’s Jazz Lounge and Open Jam
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Swamp Buck, Greys, Donacepa
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. The Greys
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Evan Churchill Band, Matt Brown (of Ruby Hill)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Rose’s Pawn Shop, Water Tower Bucket Boys, Jack Ruby Presents
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones
O’Connors
7850 SW Capitol Highway Kit Garoutte
The Dover Weinberg Quartet (9 pm); Trio Bravo (6 pm)
Ella Street Social Club
714 SW 20th Place The Volt Per Octaves, Ghost Montrose
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Scott Pemberton Trio
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge 625 NW 21st Ave. Merrill Lite
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Guantanamo Baywatch, TRMRS, Ghost Mom
Jimmy Mak’s
LaurelThirst
Backspace
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw
Red Room
Buffalo Gap Saloon
Mississippi Pizza
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Mojave Bird, Forest Park, The Early, Desert of Hiatus
2045 SE Belmont St. KJ and the Lost Boys
The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian
Ash Street Saloon
Milagros Boutique
206 SW Morrison St. Tasha and Kaloku
The Globe
112 SW 2nd Ave. Tom May
111 SW Ash St. Prescription Pills, Breakfast Mountain
Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery
206 SW Morrison St. Hit Machine Acoustic Duo
6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. Laura Gibson, Bright Archer, Rauelsson
Plan B
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Dick Williams Blues Revue, Aux 78
Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery
Kells
115 NW 5th Ave. Like a Villain, Moniker, Lynnae Gryffin
1305 SE 8th Ave. Hemorage, Hello Yellow, Saboteur
1305 SE 8th Ave. YOB, Dark Castle, Atriarch, Mongoloid Village
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
225 SW Ash St. S.F.A., Weekender, Fast Fox
Beauty Bar
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Open Mic
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Rabbits, Cull
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Chris Pureka, Katie Sawicki’s Cabin Project
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave.
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Open Bluegrass Jam 5433 NE 30th Ave. Mr. Ben
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Javier Nero’s New York Band
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Fatty Acids, Yeah Great Fine, Your Canvas
Peter’s Room 8 NW 6th Ave. Evaline, VEIO
The Crown Room 205 NW 4th Ave. Fresh
Plan B
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm); Partners in Jazz artist (6:30 pm)
303 SW 12th Ave. Eric Nordby
8 NE Killingsworth St. DJ Rob’d
701 SW 6th Ave. The Builders and the Butchers
426 SW Washington St. The Jitterbug Vipers, Earl Patrick
TUES. AUG. 9
Record Room
Pioneer Courthouse Square
The Woods
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Ayars Vocal Showcase
Touché Restaurant and Billiards
1425 NW Glisan St. Tom’s Funky Tuesdays at Touche’
Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Open Mic with The Roaming
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Arthur “Fresh Air” Moore Harmonica Party
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Pheasant, Olina, Soft Paws
WED. AUG. 3 Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. TRONix: Bryan Zentz
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. DJ Dirtynick
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Church of the V8 Chainsaw
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Ango Reinhardt
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Loyd Depriest; Island Soundz: El Cucuy, Chaach, DJ Lifepartner
THURS. AUG. 4 Beauty Bar
111 SW Ash St. Shameless Thursdays: Easter Egg, DJ3X
Element Restaurant & Lounge
1135 SW Morrison St. Labworks: DJ Apolinario Ancheta, DJ Sappho, DJ Folding
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. Fiasco vs. Variety Pac: DJ Brokenwindow, Strategy
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Studio 69: Reporter, Ancient Heat, Starlight and Magic, DJ Maxx Bass, DJ Erik Hanson, DJ Liz B
Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave.
The Fix: Rev. Shines, KEZ, Dundiggy
The Crown Room
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. The Cure Tribute: DJ Wednesday, DJ Curatrix
205 NW 4th Ave. War Against The Ordinary
Tiga
The Globe
Tube
2045 SE Belmont St. Nilika Remi
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Dirtbag
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Joan Hiller
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Bang-A-Rang; DJ 2Armtom
FRI. AUG. 5 Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. ‘80s Video Dance Attack
Ella Street Social Club
714 SW 20th Place Genderfucking Takeover
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Decadent 80s: DJ Encrypted, DJ NoN
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. DJ Magneto
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. DJ Liz B
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Discos Discos: DJ Zac Eno, DJ Rumtrigger, DJ Dave Quam (9 pm); Aperitivo Happy Hour with DJ Gigante (5 pm)
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Ikon 18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Neil Blender
MUSIC
RNDM Noise
SUN. AUG. 7 Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Hive with DJ Owen
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. DJ Rockthrower
MON. AUG. 8 Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. DJ Nik Elvis, DJ Danny, DJ Pete
Ground Kontrol
Ash Street Saloon
511 NW Couch St. Service Industrial Night with DJ Tibin
Fez Ballroom
639 SE Morrison St. Into the Void with DJ Blackhawk
SAT. AUG. 6 225 SW Ash St. Try Vegan PDX Prom with DJ Acidwash 316 SW 11th Ave. Twice As Nice
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. DJ Etbonz
Holocene
Star Bar
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Jen O. and DJ Gordan Organ
TUES. AUG. 9
1001 SE Morrison St. Booty Bassment: Ryan and Dimitri, Maxx Bass
East End
Mississippi Studios
Record Room
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Mattachine: DJ John Cameron Mitchell, DJ Amber Martin
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Andaz with Anjali and The Incredible Kid
The Crown Room 205 NW 4th Ave. R.A.W.
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Mechlo, Effword
The Woods
6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. In the Cooky Jar with Cooky Parker
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St.
203 SE Grand Ave. DJ Time Warrior 8 NE Killingsworth St. DJ Yard Sale
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. See You Next Tuesday: Kellan, Avery
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Horrid
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Snacks
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Good Music For Bad People with DJ Entropy
Yes and No
20 NW 3rd Ave. Idiot Tuesdays with DJ Black Dog
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The Miser
Most prices listed are for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply, so it’s best to call ahead. Editor: BEN WATERHOUSE. Stage: BEN WATERHOUSE (bwaterhouse@wweek. com). Classical: BRETT CAMPBELL (bcampbell@wweek.com). Dance: HEATHER WISNER (dance@wweek.com). TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit information at least two weeks in advance to: bwaterhouse@wweek.com.
THEATER All’s Well That Ends Well
Even more outdoor Shakespeare! This time it’s a ring-swapping problem play, about a very bright girl who, for some reason, contrives to force a total cad to marry her, presented by the new Willamette Shakespeare company. Cerf Amphitheatre at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 852-1564. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, 6 pm Sunday, Aug. 5-7. Free. All ages.
As You Like It
The debut performance of Michael Mendelson’s Portland Shakespeare Project is a triumphant success, presenting one of Shakespeare’s most problematic comedies on an intimate, human scale with an exuberant focus on wordplay. Like almost all directors, Mendelson fails to make much sense of the play’s dour first act, in which the usurping Duke Frederick banishes his daughter and niece from the court on pain of death and then disappears from the story more or less entirely. The production’s 1930s Paris theme is completely incongruous for the first 20 minutes—who is this guy threatening to murder Parisians by the dozen with impunity?—but the show finds its groove as soon as Rosalind and Cecilia settle into their exile in the rainbowhued forest of Arden. Cristi Miles is sharp and spunky as the cross-dressing Rosalind, and Melissa Whitney makes the eye-rolling most of the underwritten Cecilia. Jill Westerby is enjoyably grouchy as the cross-cast melancholy lord, Jaques, and Andy Lee-Hillstrom and Dana Millican find some over-the-top comedy in the peasant couple Silvius and Phoebe, who are usually given short shrift. The real standout, though, is Darius Pierce as the sardonic fool Touchstone. Pierce doesn’t let a single line go to waste as his elastic face seems to fill the stage with sheepish grimaces and devilish grins. It is a lovely production, and bodes well for the company’s future. BEN WATERHOUSE. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 3133048. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 pm Sundays. Closes Aug. 7. $24, $15 students. All ages.
Boeing-Boeing
Set in a snazzy Manhattan pad, Boeing-Boeing, a 1960 farce by Marc Camoletti, centers on the superficial fiancée-juggling of a three-timing joe (Ben Plont) who thinks he’s got it all. Lakewood Theatre Company’s production, directed by Alan Shearman, seeks to follow the current pop-culture penchant for simultaneously fetishizing and subtly mocking ’60s-era society by bringing back laughable male egoism, innocent misogyny, daytime drinking and a handful of Barbie’s muses—as if we have evolved so far that the mere presence of such phenomena constitutes a commentary on them. Make no mistake: Boeing-Boeing is a funny play. Filled with airlinepun innuendo, entertaining portrayals of a militantly German flight attendant (Christy Drogosch) and a dopey 40-Year-Old Virgin-esque Minnesotan (Leif Norby)—not to mention an excellent bra-straddling dance by the aforementioned couple and much-needed snarkiness from a sharp-tongued housekeeper (Lisa Knox)—BoeingBoeing doesn’t disappoint in the laugh department. But in between the gut busts and giggles is a substanceshaped hole that is only highlighted by the very jokes upon which the play’s simple, farcical nature rests: the persistent sly references to the protagonist’s “international harem” or the ease with which such supposed male dunces dupe and seduce the three stewardesses, who are known more by their employers’ names than their own. Go to Boeing-Boeing prepared to laugh, but leave your thinking cap at
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the door. NATALIE BAKER. Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, 635-3901. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Aug. 21. $25-$28.
Les Misérables
Do you hear the people sing? They haven’t stopped in 25 years. It’s a good thing the show’s good, or we’d all be bored to tears. Sure, the tickets cost a heap, but have you seen that massive set? It’s the best musical show you’ll ever geeet. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 241-1802. 7:30 pm WednesdaySaturday, 2:30 pm Saturday, 1 and 6:30 pm Sunday through Aug. 7. $28.50$117.90. All ages.
Madder Music & Stronger Wine
CoHo Productions presents a full production of a musical revue by Russ Cowan that the company premiered last summer. Cowan, who also stars, penned new lyrics to tunes by Arthur Sullivan (of “Gilbert and” fame) on various themes of Victorian erotica. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 205-0715. 8:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays through Aug. 27. $12-$15.
Much Ado About Nothing
Portland Actors Ensemble celebrates its 42nd summer of Shakespeare in the Parks with a high-energy rendition of Much Ado About Nothing. In line with the PAE mission “to bring financially accessible classical theatre to Portland communities in a nontraditional environment,” the production is geared more toward first-timers than theater buffs as evidenced by the cast’s relentless enthusiasm and overthe-top theatrics. The actors’ excitement paired with the play’s notorious sexism creates a playful environment that at times borders on parody— an effect magnified by director Asae Dean’s decision to cast women in the roles of several prominent male characters. Johnny Adkins and Racheal Joy Erickson steal the show as the sharp-tongued couple of Benedick and Beatrice, and the cast’s excellent projection ensures that every last lawnchair feels the verbal lash of some of Shakespeare’s finest one-liners. The entire show falls somewhere between a renaissance rap battle and a delightful look at where high-school theater kids go to retire. SHAE HEALEY. Multiple locations. 3 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Sept. 4 and Monday, Sept. 5. Free. All ages. See portlandactors.org for the full schedule.
Oklahoma!
Warm yourself up for Portland Center Stage’s season-opening revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s pioneering musical with a trip to an actual pioneer town to see Clackamas Repertory Theatre’s production in Oregon City. Clackamas Community College, Osterman Theatre, 19600 S Molalla Ave., 594-6047. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2:30 pm Sundays. Closes Aug. 28. $14-$24. All ages.
Ripper
Broadway Rose Theatre Company presents a fully staged world premiere of a new musical by Duane Nelsen: Isaac Lamb stars as a journalist investigating an illusionist/pimp who saws women in half while Jack the Ripper is stalking the London streets. Deb Fennell Auditorium, 9000 SW Durham Road, 620-5262. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Aug. 21. $20-$35. All ages.
Romeo and Juliet
You can’t stop the free outdoor Shakespeare! It will continue! Under the direction of Jeff Gorham and Orion Bradshaw! In a courtyard near 82nd Avenue! Milepost 5, 900 NE 81st Ave., post5theatre.com. 7 pm Fridays-Sundays through Aug. 27. Free. All ages.
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Masque Alfresco performs Molière at various locations in the western suburbs. See masquealfresco.com for details. Multiple locations, 422-0195. 6:30 pm Fridays-Sundays through Aug. 28. Free. All ages.
The Tempest, or The Enchanted Isle
The Tempest is a play I always remember fondly but never enjoy when I actually read or see it. It was Shakespeare’s last solo work (three awful collaborations with other playwrights followed), and his mind seems to have been wandering as he vacillated between comedy and tragedy. It has none of the verve of his early comedies, and many of its speeches are leaden. While modern directors produce the play far more frequently than it deserves, Shakespeare’s contemporaries realized it was a promising failure. In 1667 his godson, William Davenant, and the poet John Dryden rewrote the play to give it a royalist bent (the monarchy had just been restored) and, more important, adding a lot of bawdy comedy. Among their additions were several new characters: sisters for Miranda and Caliban and a foster son for Prospero, plus a sidekick for Stephano named Mustacho. Dryden and Davenant’s take was the preferred version until the 1840s, when the original regained popularity. Now Bag&Baggage director Scott Palmer, himself a prolific adapter of Shakespeare, has taken the DavenantDryden script, shaved off some 2½ hours and given the whole affair a glam-rock theme. If you’re sick of over-reverent or, worse, awkwardly conceptual productions of the canon, this one should be a welcome break. Tom Hughes Civic Center Plaza, 164 E Main St., Hillsboro, 345-9590. 7 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through Aug. 13. $14. All ages.
COMEDY Comedy Is OK
This month the showcase, featuring comedians Mike Drucker and Solomon Georgio, has a time-travel theme. Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St., 238-8899. 9 pm Wednesday, Aug. 3. $5. All ages.
Diabolical Experiments
The Brody Theater crew presents a showcase of experimental improv formats with a new guest each week. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 2242227. 7 pm Sundays through Sept. 12. $5. All ages.
Fairytale Theatre
The Unscriptables improve fairy tales for children. Dawson Park, North Stanton Street and Williams Avenue. 1 pm Saturdays through Aug. 21. Free.
Fakespeare
The Unscriptables improvise short plays in the style of the Bard—in a park, of course. Dawson Park, North Stanton Street and Williams Avenue. 3 pm Sundays through Aug. 21. Free. All ages.
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.
Hilarious at the Hawthorne
The brother of Belinda Carroll, who produces this regular showcase of local comedy, recently lost his home and all his possessions in a fire. This edition, featuring Ian Karmel, Carmen Trineece, Joe Hieronymus, Whitney Streed, Brady Echerer, Kevin Clarke Strausser, Jen Allen and Seattle’s Jeremy Horn, will raise funds to help him put his life back together. Hawthorne Theatre Lounge, 1503 SE 39th Ave., 233-7100. 8:30 pm Saturday, Aug. 6. $5. 21+.
Portland Neutrino Project
Curious Comedy’s band of breathless movie-makers improvises a film based on audience suggestions, which is per-
AS YOU LIKE IT formed, edited and projected while you watch. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays through Sept. 3. $12-$15.
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 Evanee and Heather Terrall
At this free lunch concert, the sisters play Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals and music by Brahms, Dvorák and Liszt. St. James Lutheran Church, 1315 SW Park Ave., 227-2439. 12:15 pm Friday, Aug. 5. Free. All ages.
Filmusik
After serving up all those spaghetti Westerns, it’s no surprise that the Italians’ next course featured the Mad Max/Road Warrior franchise, which was really a Western set in a postapocalyptic future. Presto! Meet the juggling chainsaws and exploding arrows of Warriors of the Wasteland, which now, in turn, becomes the latest vehicle for Filmusik’s series of so-bad-it’s-good reboots involving local voice-over artists dubbing the original mozzarella-laden dialogue into English and an original score (cello, violin, trumpet, guitar, bass, drums) performed live by Retake Productions, which has taken up the re-scoring task on everything from Buñuel and Dali’s An Andalusian Dog to Nanook of the North. It’s the next best thing to the old summer drivein experience. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 10 pm Thursday-Friday, Aug. 4-5. $8-$10. All ages.
Gorge Music Festival
Oregon Repertory Singers director emeritus Gil Seeley’s new venture features duo pianists Ron Potts and Karen Eddleman performing a Mozart sonata, music by Brahms, and tunes of the great 20th-century nuevo tango composer Astor Piazzolla. Riverside Community Church, 317 State St. 7:30 pm FridaySaturday, Aug. 5-6. $15. All ages.
Michelle Fujii
Deploying dance, drum and video in an installation setting, Portland Taiko’s inventive artistic director, choreographer, composer, dancer and drummer goes solo for “Choking,” an intimate (70 tickets per night) show about her family history and experience with Japanese art and tradition. Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, 5340 N Interstate Ave., 283-8461. 7:45 pm Fridays-Saturdays through Aug. 13. $16-$20. All ages.
Portland Festival Symphony
Lajos Balogh’s annual summer alfresco concerts alight at two of the city’s most popular parks, featuring Lalo’s Spanish Symphony, selections from Goldmark’s Rustic Wedding Symphony and Haydn (or somebody’s) Toy Symphony. Picnic with the classics! On Sunday, avoid parking hassles and take the MAX to the zoo, then board
the shuttle to the park. Laurelhurst Park, Southeast 39th Avenue and Stark Street, 245-7878. 6 pm Saturday, Aug. 6. Washington Park Rose Garden Amphitheater, 400 SW Kingston Ave., 245-7878. 6 pm Sunday, Aug. 7. Free. All ages.
Portland Summerfest
Keith Clark, who scored a national award for his work at the Astoria Music Festival, conducts an abridged concert version of Bizet’s Carmen with orchestra, chorus from Pacific Youth Choir and ace soloists, including celebrated baritone Richard Zeller. Picnic opportunity. Washington Park Rose Garden Amphitheater, 400 SW Kingston Ave., portlandsummerfest.org. 6 pm Friday, Aug. 5. Free. All ages.
Portland Taiko, The Slants
The Asian-American drum ensemble and rockers perform as part of an afternoon fair dedicated to freeing the world of nuclear weapons and energy. Japanese American Historical Plaza, 2 NW Naito Parkway, 224-1458. 1 pm Sunday, Aug. 7. Free. All ages.
DANCE Arabesque
Locally and nationally known belly dancers perform at Arabesque, a weekly Middle Eastern music and dance party. Members of longtime worldmusic 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. The Blue Monk, 3341 SE Belmont St., 595-0575. 8 pm Wednesdays. $5. 21+.
Burlesque S’il Vous Plait
This installment of the monthly burlesque showcase includes Bridgetown Bombshells performer Kit Katastrophic, dance instructor and burlesque sensation Zora Von Pavonine, and Miss Kennedy’s Cabaret producer Alex Kennedy. Zora Phoenix emcees. Crush, 1400 SE Morrison St, 235-8150. 9:30 pm Friday, Aug. 5. $7. 21+.
Dark Matters
The latest work from choreographer Crystal Pite features seven dancers, a wild set and a very angry puppet. Hand2Mouth Theatre presents a screening of a recorded performance at Seattle’s On the Boards. The Mouth, 810 SE Belmont St., hand2mouththeatre.org. 7 pm Friday, Aug. 5. $5.
Lu’au in P:earadise
Local hula dancers perform at this fundraiser for P:ear, which provides arts and education programs for homeless and transitional Portland youth. The dancers share the bill with the band Kalo Roots, a silent auction and raffle are also planned, and appetizers and local beer and wine will be served. P:ear Gallery, 338 NW 6th Ave., 226-6677. 7 pm Saturday, Aug. 6. $25. 21+.
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NOW SHOWING Eva Lake
Eva Lake’s neo-yet-retro-feminist collages have become so ubiquitous and sophisticated, it’s easy to forget that (we dare say) her truest calling is as a painter. Not to worry, the seven paintings in her new exhibition Drape are here to remind us. With their repeating Op-Art rectangles of vibratory color, they boggle and delight the eye. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 546-5056. Aug. 4-27.
Joe Bartholomew
In Girih Extended, Joe Bartholomew uses computer programs to riff on medieval “girih” patterns of traditional Islamic tile work. After altering the patterns and programming them into an incising tool, the artist lets a digitally controlled spinning drill bit cut them into blocks made of plastic, paper and resin. However, it is in his glass pieces, which are hand-cut, that Bartholomew shines most brightly. The works’ surface irregularities—which is to say, imperfections—impart a soul that a computer program never could. Chambers, 916 NW Flanders St., 227-9398. Closes Aug. 27.
Brad Carlile
There is something eerie and otherworldly in Brad Carlile’s 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. Closes Aug. 7.
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. Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-2811. Closes Sept. 11.
Michael Endo
Fresh off his eerie exhibition at FalseFront, Michael Endo departs from painting in his mixedmedia installation, Et in Arcadia Ego. Based on two works by 17th Century painter Nicolas Poussin—with a skosh of fashionable “Detroit ruin porn” thrown in—Endo’s show evokes a grungily post-industrial, post-apocalyptic dystopia. The show posits that even amid the most arcadian perfection lurk the memento mori that portend decay and death. Don’t get too comfortable, Endo’s works imply, for, as poet Robert Herrick warned, “This same flower
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that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.” Portland Building, 1120 SW 5th Ave. Closes Aug. 26.
Blue Moon Camera & Machine Staff Show
Old-fashioned non-digital cameras, old-fashioned film, and old-fashioned natural light are at the heart of the Blue Moon Camera & Machine Staff Show. No tricks here, just solid, eye-pleasing, sometimes brain-twisting work. It’s refreshing to see innovative photography being done with vintage equipment. In addition to this show, Newspace offers up its seventh annual juried exhibition, for which Portland-based photographer Raymond Meeks chose 25 artists from an initial field of 200. The work spans a gamut of techniques, subject matter, and sensibilities. Newspace, 1632 SE 10th Ave., 963-1935. Closes Aug. 28.
Mark Reid
The late architect Mies van der Rohe was fond of saying “God is in the details,” a sentiment with which photographer Mark Reid obviously concurs. In his show, Details, he proves that the closer artists get to their subjects, the more profoundly they know their essences. With compositional and chromatic verve, Reid zooms in on objects so tightly, the imagery approaches abstraction. 12x16 Gallery, 8235 SE 13th Ave., Suite 5, 432-3513. Closes Aug. 28.
Jim Kazanjian
Jim Kazanjian obsessively sifts through Internet-sourced imagery (his image library has more than 25,000 high-res pictures), then painstakingly combines them into bravura composite tableaux. The results are stunningly realistic, yet impossibly surreal. Structures that could not exist in real space rise into the air as if on actual foundations, even as they are struck by lightning and subjected to myriad other punishments. This is the stuff of nightmares, horror films, and bad trips. 23 Sandy, 623 NE 23rd Ave., 927-4409. Show runs Aug. 5-Sept. 10.
Daniel Johnston
Quirky singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston mounts an exhibition chosen from his forthcoming graphic novel, Space Ducks: An Infinite Comic Book of Musical Greatness, with a First Thursday preview (5-9 pm, Thursday, Aug. 4) and an Aug. 25 live performance piece at W+K. Wieden + Kennedy, 224 NW 13th Ave. Show runs Aug. 4-Sept. 1.
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BOOKS
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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 3 First Wednesday Readings
Oregon authors John A. Blackard, Matt Love and Kim Cooper Findling will each read their work at First Wednesday Readings, a series of readings, performances and winetastings held at Blackbird Wine Shop. NATASHA GEILING. Blackbird Wine Shop, 4323 NE Fremont St., 282-1887. 7-9 pm. Free. 21+.
Brian Boone
In his new book, I Love Rock ’n’ Roll (Except When I Hate It), Portlander Brian Boone breaks down society’s love-hate obsession with music: Why do some songs make us tap our toes while others make us want to tear out our hair? Explore this and other riveting questions (stupid band names, for example) during Boone’s visit to Powell’s. NG. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
THURSDAY, AUG. 4 Kivalina: A Climate Change Story
An Alaskan village stands on the brink of cultural ruin—devastated by the effects of climate change, it must relocate, but no one seems willing to take responsibility for the process. This is Kivalina: A Climate Change Story, Christine Shearer’s tale of a community rocked by social, political and environmental changes. NG. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
FRIDAY, AUG. 5 Gladstone Chautauqua Book Sale
Head out past Southeast Portland for the Gladstone Chautauqua Book Sale sponsored by the Gladstone Public Library Foundation. With more than 10,000 new and used books, videos and DVDs, it’s one of the largest book sales in the Portland area. Each day of the sale features unique activities, from a reading by local cartoonist and children’s book author Joe Spooner to Gladstone Camp Fire girls hawking hot dogs. NATASHA GEILING. John Wetten Elementary School, 250 E Exeter St., Gladstone. Free.
SATURDAY, AUG. 6 Walking Tour of Portland Building Stones
Explore Portland’s earthy mysteries with the Geological Society of Oregon, which sponsors a walking tour of the city that highlights the billion-year-old building stones and fossils hidden beneath our feet. NG. Pioneer Place, 700 SW 5th Ave, 228-5800. 9 am. $5.
SUNDAY, AUG. 7 How Can We Create a Nuclear-Free World?
Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility commemorate the 66th anniversary of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with activities that can help you learn what can be done to achieve a nuclear-free future. Speakers include Hiroshima survivor and author Dr. Hideko Tamura Snider, Voices for Nonviolence co-author Kathy Kelly, and 2011 Oregon PSR Peace Writing Contest winner Erica Maranowski. NG. Japanese American Historical Plaza, 2 NW Naito Parkway, 224-1458. 1-4 pm. Free.
Mission Street Food
In the tale of one unlikely restaurant’s rise to success, Mission Street Food charts the birth, life and death of the unconventional San Francisco eatery over its 18-month lifespan—recipes included. NG. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.
MONDAY, AUG. 8 Laurie Notaro
Local author and New York Times best-selling author Laurie Notaro is back with her new book, It Looked Different on the Model: Epic Tales of Impending Shame and Infamy, a comedic romp through such life experiences as a night of Ambien, staining boutique garments and a dog-collar bark translator. NG. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
Paul Levy
If you can’t shake the feeling that you’ve woken up on the wrong side of the bed, author Paul Levy argues there might be a psychological explanation for your lessthan-sparkling attitude: wetiko, a psycho-spiritual disease Levy claims has been ravaging the human psyche for over half a millennium. In his book Wetiko: The Greatest Epidemic Sickness Known to Humanity, Levy explores the alleged disease, first proposed by Native Americans, and argues that encoded within the psychosis is the key to breaking free from its destructive grasp. NG. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
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TUESDAY, AUG. 9 Portland’s Forest Park
Tame the nation’s only city wilderness with One City’s Wilderness: Portland’s Forest Park, Marcy Cottrell Houle’s guide to the 5,100-acre park, which includes park history, profiles of prominent park people and full-color trail maps for over 29 hikes. NG. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.
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B-Movie Bingo: The Stabilizer
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, MOCKING REVIVAL] In the 1986 film, an American secret agent avenges his murdered fiancée. In the audience, people play bingo with all the risible scenes they see. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Monday, Aug. 8. NEW Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
74 Anyone coming into this documentary on hyper-influential rap foursome A Tribe Called Quest expecting mad drama is going to be disappointed. It’s almost false advertising: In the run-up to its release, much of the publicity for the film focused on the beef between director Michael Rapaport and group leader Kamaal “Q-Tip” Fareed, who refused to endorse the finished product. It’s hard to see what he was so upset about. Yes, Rapaport plays up the ongoing passive-aggressive tension between Fareed and his boyhood friend, Malik “Phife Dawg” Taylor, and neither one comes across looking particularly mature. In between the talking-head segments of the pair bitching about each other, however, is a pretty standard music doc, one made with such obvious adoration it borders on hagiography. Rightfully so: In the early ‘90s, the quartet—rounded out by DJ Ali Shaheed Muhammad and rapper Jarobi White—released three visionary albums (the group now more or less disavows its last two records) that persuaded even 14-year-old rockists such as myself to appreciate hip-hop as an art form. Beats Rhymes & Life gets its energy from that music, not Fareed and Taylor’s squabbles. And hey, there’s even an “it’s all good now” coda to send everyone home happy. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Hollywood Theatre.
Beginners
56 For all the big topics director Mike Mills addresses in this little dramedy— death and grief, repressed homosexuality, the idea that life starts whenever we’re ready for it—the thing most people will leave thinking is, “Boy, that dog sure was cute.” They’re not wrong. Arthur, a clingy Jack Russell terrier Ewan McGregor inherits after his father (Christopher Plummer) passes away, is the fourth most important character in Beginners, the second most interesting and definitely the most adorable. It’s probably not what Mills would want audiences to take away from the film, but then, he shouldn’t have had the dog “speak” to McGregor in subtitled pearls of wisdom. That kind of irksome preciousness, of which there are many other examples, undermines the genuinely moving story— apparently semi-autobiographical for Mills—of a 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, Lake Twin.
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. 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. R. AARON MESH. Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall.
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Buck
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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 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. Hollywood Theatre, Living Room Theaters.
Captain America: The First Avenger
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violent Ultimate Frisbee player in history, Captain America finally gets the proper big-screen treatment after nearly 70 years with Captain America: The First Avenger, an obligatory origin story and extended commercial for next year’s The Avengers. With Chris Evans (previously the only watchable part of Marvel’s failed Fantastic Four) sporting red-white-and-blue tights as wimp-turned-World War II-icon Steve Rogers, First Avenger is exactly what Cap should be: an old-fashioned Nazi beat-’em-up wherein the genetically modified hero two-fistedly pursues the maniacal Red Skull (an appropriately menacing Hugo Weaving) and his army of laser-gun-wielding Gestapo, whacking heads with his invincible shield, blowing shit up on his motorcycle and romancing Brit agent/bombshell Hayley Atwell. Hack director (and George Lucas protégé) Joe Johnston reverts to Rocketeer mode to craft a gee-whiz actioner with nods to Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Evans spits oneliners with gusto, showing comic charm in a cheeky sequence that plays to Cap’s jingoist origins as a propaganda puppet on the USO circuit. Sure, the action’s as generic as its hero (and the ending is a rushed mess), but that’s just what Captain America needs to be: a fun piece of mindless escapism full of explosions and Nazi killin’ that earns its “Made in America” stamp by forgoing serious storytelling in favor of chestthumping Neanderthal gestures and straightforward patriotic charm. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Broadway, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
Cars 2
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combines elements of Machete and Inception. Unlikely as it may seem, though, Cars 2 does exactly that. OK, so there’s no intestinal rappelling— but remember that part of Machete where the lowriders all jump up and down pre-battle? That happens. And the set designs are nearly as gorgeous and intensely detailed as Chris Nolan’s magical Paris upside-down cake. Then again, Cars 2 isn’t exactly a kids’ movie. Like most of Pixar’s work, it’s clearly written by and for grownups; kids might like the talking cars and the (many) potty jokes, but it’s hard to imagine them keeping up with the plot. And you sort of have to hope that
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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. 99 West Drive-In, Clackamas, Bridgeport, Evergreen, Movies on TV.
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doing the crossword on the back of a cereal box during the requisite “everybody’s thinking” montage), and he has great chemistry with eventual bravadomelting love interest Emma Stone, just as Steve Carell develops an easy rhythm with Julianne Moore. There are scenes between each couple that delve past genre patter into something more vulnerable and tender. So the structure’s ingenious and the individual performances are good: What’s not to like? Well, it takes a lot of digging to get to the quality goods. Directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa are getting comparisons to James L. Brooks, and that’s fair, if we’re talking about Brooks around the second season of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Crazy, Stupid, Love reaches for sitcom
punch lines whenever it feels a scene faltering. Like Friends With Benefits, this picture is mortifyingly self-aware of how artificial its genre has become, and so it likewise wastes a lot of time protesting how much better it is than its tropes. This has the unintended but predictable effect of making the tropes seem more hackneyed. Ficarra and Requa show a gift for emotional outpouring in Crazy, Stupid, Love—now they just have to realize that we don’t care if they know that we know what’s coming. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
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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-yearold 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. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters.
Cowboys & Aliens
66 Movies make it so easy sometimes: “You have to stop thinking,” Olivia Wilde tells Daniel Craig toward the climax of Cowboys & Aliens, and that’s clearly the track director Jon Favreau took in naming this sci-fi/Western mash-up. Keeping the comic book’s laughably expository title shows just how enamored Favreau is with the concept of playing Space Invaders in the old West. Who can blame him? An alien invasion set in a more primitive time period is such a lavish idea it’s surprising Hollywood hasn’t done it more often. But a cool premise can only carry a movie so far, and Favreau misjudges how far the concept can carry Cowboys & Aliens. It’s not a case of two conflicting parts making an unsatisfying whole, so much as those separate parts not being very satisfying to begin with. A horde of anonymous extraterrestrials come to the American Southwest circa the late 1800s to plunder its resources and, just for the hell of it, abduct and probe the citizens of a tiny frontier town. Cue the hasty assemblage of a ragtag rescue party—the gruff cattle magnate (Harrison Ford), the whiskey-swilling priest (Clancy Brown), the wimpy barkeep (Sam Rockwell), the mysterious woman (Wilde), the steely-eyed outsider (Craig) and, why the heck not, a kid (Noah Ringer) and a dog—that sets off to find their fellow townspeople and bring them home. Along the way, enemies become allies. Racists become not racist. Wimps become heroes, and at the most opportune time. The lesson here is that simply pulling tired tropes from two different kinds of movies doesn’t instantly make something fresh. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Moreland, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Broadway, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub, 99 West Drive-In.
Crazy, Stupid, Love
70 Where Friends With Benefits
employed Justin Timberlake as an art director at GQ, this picture features Ryan Gosling as a walking issue of Esquire—the one with the “Am I a Man?” quiz on page 170. You can practically smell his cologne ads. His performance is the Situation with a better wardrobe and a bigger vocabulary, and his situation is that he’s being a show pony: the real actor who returns to light entertainment again in an unlikely role. Still, he’s fun (my single favorite shot in Crazy, Stupid, Love is Jacob
LATTER-DAY GAMS: Joyce McKinney.
TABLOID Beyond being the most expertly paced documentary of the year, Errol Morris’ Tabloid also has the best timing. What better moment to release a movie about the excesses—and wicked appeal—of Fleet Street scandal peddlers than in the weeks after Rupert Murdoch’s fishwrap empire began to collapse under the weight of its own phone hacks? Tabloid contains plenty of unscrupulous journalism (from the nonMurdoch Daily Mirror and Daily Express, mostly) but, on the whole, its muckrakers are understandably gobsmacked by their seedy subject: Joyce McKinney, the “barking mad” blond American bombshell at the center of Britain’s “manacled Mormon” scandal of 1977. What? You are not familiar with the manacled Mormon scandal? Could I interest you in a story about a former Miss Wyoming who decided she would rid a Church of Latter-Day Saints missionary of his qualms regarding fornication by tying him to her bed? Oh, good. I shouldn’t spill any more than that—and there is so much more than that—because, for voyeurs like you and me, Tabloid is as much shameless fun as we’re likely to have this year. It just revels in human farce. But I can say that, like all Morris documentaries, it’s about the human capacity for self-deception, and the impossibility of finding truth through images. It often feels like the really danceable B-side to Standard Operating Procedure, his grim and overworked film about the Abu Ghraib photos. This, clearly, is a different class of scandal, but Morris gives it no less careful a treatment. Consider the textual lines flashed in huge letters across the faces of the interviewed subjects. This is the same technique used in another very good doc currently in release, Project Nim, but the philosophical rationale is clearer in Tabloid: These 80-point-font bulletins— “KIDNAPPED,” “SPREAD EAGLE,” “DOO-DOO DIPPER”—literally paper over the actual events, and indeed Morris uses all the stock footage to create a distance from any objective reality. All the while, McKinney stares into the camera, no whit abashed. She speaks to Morris’ Interrotron (a camera designed so the subject will look the audience in the eye) with the conviction of a woman long convinced she is the most adorable and down-to-earth person a Christian soul could ever hope to meet, really very shy about physical matters but willing to confide, just between you and her, that she smuggled notes from her jail cell in her anus. She is Morris’ most persuasive demonstration of stubbornness in the face of all facts—and he made a movie on Robert McNamara. By the end of Tabloid, you’re convinced Joyce McKinney is delusional, and that that Mormon boy really should have married her. AARON MESH. Errol Morris prints the legend.
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Diary of a Country Priest
I understand why you might consider skipping this early masterpiece by Robert Bresson. Diary of a Country Priest happens to be one of the least promising movie titles this side of The Tree of Wooden Clogs. Plus Bresson is the guy who would go on to make a film about a sad donkey before making a film about a girl who drowns herself—dude was a first-class boner killer. An explication of the narrative, which finds a young priest beset by tummy aches and a hostile parish, likely won’t compel you. What if I told you this somber study of faith would pair nicely with Bergman’s outrageously depressing Winter Light? Hey, where are you going? Wait, come back, relax. I know this doesn’t sound like great late-summer fare, but this subtly agitated adaptation of Georges Bernanos’ novel is one of the most immediately engaging films Bresson made. In fact, with near-constant voiceover, lunging camerawork and a first hour composed of clipped, hurried scenes, one might go so far as to say that Diary of a Country Priest is exciting, at least until God’s inscrutability starts weighing so heavily on everyone. By then, though, mesmerized by Bresson’s peerless rhythms and accretive repetitions, stung by Claude Laydu’s wrenchingly candid performance, you will be lost in it, and happily. CHRIS STAMM. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, Aug. 5-6. Restored 35 mm print. NEW
Dooman River
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Director Zhang Lu tells a story of friendship at the Sino-Korean border. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 5 and 7 pm Sunday, Aug. 7.
The Double Hour
76 Freshman Italian director
Giuseppe Capotondi 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. AP KRYZA. Living Room Theaters.
NEW Filmusik: Warriors of the Wasteland
[TWO NIGHTS ONLY, LIVE SOUNDTRACK] Portland’s astonishingly prolific live-soundtrack collective takes on an Italian Road Warrior knockoff. Hollywood Theatre. 10 pm Thursday-Friday, Aug. 4-5. NEW
Freedom
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A documentary about oil and ethanol. Clinton Street Theater. 7 and 9 pm Friday, Aug. 5.
Friends With Benefits
75 The first question most casual moviegoers will have about Mila Kunis’ fuck-buddy comedy is how it compares to Natalie Portman’s fuck-buddy comedy No Strings Attached. (It’s a little better, just as Kunis’ performance in Black Swan was a little better, though both movies are pleasant surprises.) But Friends With Benefits sets higher standards for itself, and should be judged against them. Director Will Gluck, who proved with Easy A that he has the touch for brittle, innuendo-laced patter, sets up this movie as a subversion of every Hollywood romantic shortcut. But as sexual frankness goes, this is less Last Tango in Paris than a smutty but ultimately conventional pre-Code gadget. The most intriguing aspect is Justin Timberlake’s lead performance, which includes him crooning Kris Kross and Semisonic, but also cleverly plants notes of boy-toy submissiveness (he’ll let you whip him if he misbehaves). Kunis uses her trademark sultry-panda eyes as a fine match, and the movie rises
to the occasion more often than not, erecting something very close to a perceptive study of distant, self-protecting urbanites. It’s possible to completely forget how conventional it is, especially when Richard Jenkins in onscreen as Timberlake’s Alzheimer’sstricken father. Like the movie, the role is manipulative, but fiercely played. R. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Tigard, Sandy. NEW
Golf in the Kingdom
[ONE WEEK ONLY, MADE IN OREGON] A drama about life lessons on the Scottish links, but filmed on Oregon’s Bandon Dunes, using Portland-made MacKenzie Golf Bags. Bagdad Theater. Sunday-Monday, Aug. 7-8. Mission Theater. Tuesday-Saturday, Aug. 9-13. NEW
Happy
[SIX NIGHTS ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] A documentary from the director of Genghis Blues seeks the meaning of happiness. Look for a review on wweek.com. Clinton Street Theater. 7 and 9 pm SaturdayThursday, Aug. 6-11.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
80 It is a gratifying resolution to J.K.
Rowlings’ wand opera, even if resolution isn’t really what we want: The best movies in the series were the third through the sixth, which felt most like a semester-long stroll through the Hogwarts campus. No time for that now; the first act of Deathly Hallows 2 is a roller-coaster ride through goblin caves, and everything else is dedicated to an all-out battle that, with its rubble and dusty light, looks like Saving Private Potter. This World War II tone is the finest thing about the film: Director David Yates and his setdesign team have created an atmosphere that explicitly recalls London during the Blitz, with young lovers snogging goodbye as the cathedral towers rain down. It is a good stage for good deaths, and everybody shows a lot of grace under pressure, especially Neville Longbottom (Matthew Lewis), who gets the most noble bits. Everything almost makes sense, and the backstory of the Potter family and Severus Snape gets its deserved heft. (Also, we learn that Voldemort is an incredibly awkward hugger.) With the exception of a coda where makeup causes the protagonists to look less like they’re middle-aged and more like they’ve contracted tuberculosis, it unspools like gangbusters. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
Horrible Bosses
76 An occasionally sublime dollop of
silliness, Horrible Bosses plays like Adam McKay’s The Other Guys without the sincere workingman’s rage or the full courage of its absurdist instincts. It doesn’t need those higher qualities; it relies entirely on the chemistry of Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day, the motormouth from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia who looks and sounds like what would happen if Bradley Cooper and Casey Affleck had a baby, and that baby, like Stuart Little, turned out to be a mouse. This is a labored analogy, I admit, but it’s in keeping with the movie’s delight in extended digression. (The single best scene is Jamie Foxx as a parolee explaining, in grave detail, how he received the street name Motherfucker Jones.) Yes, there’s a plot about our three pals conspiring to kill their loathsome superiors (Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell and Kevin Spacey, still swimming with sharks after all these years). But you don’t care about the plot. The plot doesn’t care about the plot. The story is nothing but an alibi for hanging out with three very funny people and their foils. Horrible Bosses contains a kernel of advice for whoever makes The Hangover Part 3: Cast dudes we want to get in trouble
with. R. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, CineMagic, Forest, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Tigard.
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If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
72 Seeing Eugene, Oregon in contemporary footage, as well as video from the ’90s, when it was somehow even worse, has the effect of illuminating a certain mind-set. Which goes like this: Here is this ugly little town inside this magnificent forest, and the people who run the ugly little town are tearing down the magnificent forest, and when we try to stop them tearing down the magnificent forest, they paint our eyes with pepper spray, so maybe—just a thought—we should set fire to the ugly little town? At any rate, it does not strike me as a coincidence that Daniel McGowan’s move to New York City coincided with a flagging desire to burn things. McGowan is the main subject of If a Tree Falls: a former ELF member wearing an ankle bracelet under a terrorism charge. Directors Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman are willing to engage a lot of perspectives (including those of some shit-eating, smug feds), but by the end, they’re pulling out songs from the National to escort McGowan to his fate, and a lot of that complexity leaches away. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters.
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Life in a Day
78 The line between popular enter-
tainment and home movies has been blurring in the age of YouTube, and it disappears altogether in a documentary funded by YouTube. The exercise—people worldwide submit 4,500 hours of footage they shot on July 24, 2010—is basically Andrew Sullivan’s “View From My Window” feature in motion. But the film is also produced by National Geographic and directing brothers Ridley and Tony Scott, which might explain its melange of uplift and bombast. Only in the minds of Terrence Malick and small children is putting feet to floor in the morning an event of such sublime exaltation as it is in the montage assembled here by lead director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland) and his collaborators. Still, what’s memorable (and alarming) about Life in a Day is how regularly dark its tone becomes. Bring your kids to this documentary and you will be introducing them to the miracle of C-section birth (cameraman dad passes out cold); the gloppy, high-altitude miracle of giraffe birth; and the non-miracle of industrial cattle slaughter. The mood grows ominous, the confessions gain gravity, and soon the movie unfolds a subtext of everyday people trying to document themselves to avoid oblivion. There’s a lot to respect about this emphasis (somehow I doubt this film is going to repeat the phenomenon of Babies, if only because Terrified Old People is a less adorable concept) but the film’s best moments are its quietest. I was most moved by a scene where a British university grad goes to get cheap burgers with his estranged father, who gruffly acknowledges that his son has become “a nice boy.” The effort to avoid sentiment and push for something harder elevates both the scene and the film past the banality the concept would suggest. Thank editing: All of the men, women and children are above average. PG-13. AARON MESH. Lloyd Mall.
Midnight in Paris
77 Sorry to break it to you, New
York, but Woody Allen is cheating on you. He’s had trysts in the past, but in Midnight in Paris his flirtation with the City of Light blossoms into a full-blown affair. If it’s any consolation, Paris isn’t about Paris in the way Allen’s classic New York films were about the experience of actually being in New York. It’s more about the idea of Paris, and really the idea of any time and place that aren’t our own. Owen Wilson, convincingly stepping into the “Woody Allen role,” stars as Gil Pender, a screenwriter and selfdescribed “Hollywood hack” who thinks of himself as a novelist born
IN ORBIT: Brit Marling and William Mapother.
ANOTHER EARTH Oh, I cannot begin to tell you how much I despised this movie. Nah, I’m being overdramatic: I certainly can begin to tell you. I started loathing Another Earth exactly five minutes into the picture, during which time the heroine drank at a party while talking about astrophysics, drove home tipsily listening to the radio, heard from the DJ that a new planet had appeared in the night sky, and began peering out her window into the heavens. At this point, I knew with absolute certainty that she would plow her car into a sedan containing the world’s most contented nuclear family. This happened, which was annoying enough. But I could not have predicted that the scene would fade out with an elegantly framed shot of blood pooling around a small child’s head. That also happened, and with that shameless image I knew Another Earth and I were through. Only later did I realize that Another Earth both starred and was co-written by Brit Marling, the ballyhooed Georgetown quadruple threat (writer, director, actress, economist) who has been featured in several glossy magazine profiles explaining how she would not settle for the roles given to good-looking young blondes, and wrote better ones for herself. This sensation of double-dealing extends to her character, Rhoda, who emerges from a four-year prison stretch—her hair looks great upon release, by the way—and decides to take on work as a janitor, because she deserves no better, and to apply to a private space program offering rocket trips to the second Earth that is approaching our planet, because she deserves a chance to start over. Yes, you heard right: There’s a second Earth. I’d tell you more about it, but Marling and her director/co-writer Mike Cahill are not interested in the science of their science-fiction conceit, but in the power of Earth 2 as a symbol. Fine: I won’t quibble about realism. The problem is that what happens on Earth 1 is infinitely wretched and literal-minded. The appearance of the second planet is by far the least idiotic thing that happens in this movie. I won’t give away the plot twists; I’ll just say that at the 30-minute mark, feeling irritated, I wrote down the stupidest possible outcome of the story I could imagine, and that is exactly what happened. Another Earth has been met predominantly with glowing reviews. I find this baffling and maddening, like seeing a popular kid stand up in a school assembly and read poems about his goldfish, then be hailed as the voice of a new generation. But I would hate Another Earth even if it were friendless and derided. I have given it a 10 out of a possible 100, which means I thought it was worse than Hobo With a Shotgun or Larry Crowne or Zookeeper. This may seem unlikely, but those movies were honest in their dreadfulness—even people who liked them knew they were junk food—while Another Earth, which is as authentically “indie” as a can of Pringles, postures as existentially profound because it makes sad faces. It contains a subplot about a lonely old man (Kumar Pallana, the kindly Wes Anderson veteran) who has poured bleach in his eyes because the world was too painful to see, and then later pours bleach in his ears because—yep. Naturally, the only person who has suffered enough to understand this man is...Rhoda. Fine: She can have her trip to the other Earth. I would rather watch another movie—any other movie. PG-13. AARON MESH.
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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. CineMagic, Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower.
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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. R. AARON MESH. NEW
The Perfect Host
David Hyde Pierce stars in a thriller about a dinner party gone awry. R. NEW
Poltergeist
83 [THREE NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL]
From the first tinkle of that eerie music-box score to the last image of an entire suburban tract house imploding into a snarling hole of doom, Tobe Hooper’s celluloid ghost story is creepy, even nearly three decades later. You’d be forgiven for misremembering Poltergeist as a Spielberg movie; although Texas Chainsaw Massacre man Hooper directed the film, Steven Spielberg wrote and produced the flick. And, really, it’s his knack for capturing the mundane details of family life that set this film apart from the slashby-numbers horror bunch: tired parents JoBeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson getting high and giggly on their bed; a little boy cowering under Star Wars sheets terrified of the gnarled old tree outside his bedroom window; and those neat rows of little ticky-tack box homes and their station wagons glowing red at sunset. It’s like E.T., with evil spirits that suck little blond girls into TV sets instead of friendly, squashynecked aliens. Although the special effects look laughable these days (why is Carol Anne covered in pink Jell-O? Why do the spirits look like animated sketches from Heavy Metal?), the way the supernatural intrudes on, wears down and eventually tries to consume the Freeling family is still unsettling. And that kid-sized clown doll still scares the shit outta me. PG. KELLY CLARKE. 5th Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday, Aug. 5-6. 3 pm Sunday, Aug. 7. NEW
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
James Franco experiments with chimpanzees, not recognizing that they are damned and dirty. Not screened by WW press deadlines; look for a review on wweek. com. PG-13. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Oak
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Sarah’s Key
75 Thanks to the cinematic adapta-
tion of Tatiana de Rosnay’s New York Times bestseller Sarah’s Key, readers can now transcend literary isolation by experiencing soul-crushing quantities of human depravity in the open air of a darkened movie theater. In this book-to-film metamorphosis, director Gilles Paquet-Brenner emphasizes the emaciated elbows of suffering that jut from its harrowing plot. Sarah’s Key weaves the life of Julia (Kirsten Scott Thomas), a present day journalist investigating the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup of 1942, with the story of 10-year-old Sarah Starzynski (Mélusine Mayance), who is targeted by that roundup during the Nazi occupation of France. The film opens with the Starzynski children laughing and tickling each other beneath white bedsheets— a doomed image of fleeting innocence that has viewers holding their breath until the inevitable knock of the French police rattles the scene and drops the heavy-handed beat of the movie’s true tune. In a moment of panic and heartwrenching naivete, Sarah locks her little brother in the closet with the hope of protecting him from the fate of the 76,000 Jews that would be deported from France during the Holocaust. Her struggle to survive and forgive exposes the dark corners of collective memory in a manner that is horrifically depressing yet ultimately redemptive. PG-13. SHAE HEALEY. Fox Tower.
The Smurfs
They take Manhattan, in CGI form. It might be harmless, but after seeing the trailer (“I just smurfed in my mouth”), no one on our staff could be persuaded to risk it. There are only so many things we are willing to do. PG. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Broadway, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
34 Wayne Wang’s long, decorous
fade-out continues with an adaptation of Lisa See’s novel so overstuffed that it succumbs to a kind of food coma—there’s lots happening, but everything plays out in the background while the main characters stare impassively out the window. Things that parade past Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: a typhoid outbreak, opium addiction, a suicide, an attempted suicide, a child who freezes to death because his mother let him sleep in the snow and did not think to make a fire, spousal abuse (related to the freezing incident), an unnamed revolution, a great deal of bone-crunching foot binding, Hugh Jackman. That none of these things makes any emotional impact is a kind of achievement in pacific filmmaking. Wang pairs the 19th-century China of See’s book with a contemporary framing device that takes an equal amount
Super 8
73 In a season of lazy cash-grab
sequels and more tired comic book adaptations, Super 8 is fun and cool and genuine in the ways summer blockbusters used to be. The way movies used to be is writer-director J.J. Abrams’ entire driving principle behind the project. 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. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Mall, Living Room Theaters.
Terri
88 Terri Thompson (Jacob Wysocki)
lives with an uncle succumbing to dementia, he is unmistakably fat, and he’s so bullied and embarrassed about his weight that he has begun attending school in his pajamas, as if throwing himself the only slumber party he’d get invited to. Maybe you recognize the feeling: the uniquely hollow knowledge that you’re constitutionally incapable of facing social interactions most people breeze through without a second thought. Nothing cures that, but Terri offers a balm, by knowing its characters’ weaknesses as well as they do themselves, but treating them far more generously. Director Azazel Jacobs (Momma’s Man) and writer Patrick deWitt—yes, Portland novelist Patrick deWitt, the one who hung out at Liberty Glass and just published The Sisters Brothers—have pinpointed how the very admission of your weaknesses feels shameful, a body blow to your pride. R. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters.
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’em-sock-’em popcorn flick without pretension. Alas, like most kids, Bay doesn’t know when to close the toy box. At nearly 160 minutes, the film is as butt-numbing as it is eye-popping, and no amount of chaotic action can mask the fact that Dark of the Moon is at least an hour too long. Bay may have ceded to his critics and made a more crowd-pleasing flick, but he can’t hide the rust on his gears. Perhaps it’s time to put these toys in the attic and move on to exploiting a different cherished childhood plaything. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Division, Forest, Broadway, Cinema 99, City Center, Lloyd Mall, Wilsonville, Evergreen, Hilltop, Movies on TV.
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 coordi-
AUG. 3-9 set to modern pop hits is rare these days—so why does this one have to be squandered on antiquated characters who, frankly, were never that appealing to begin with? Oh, bother. G. MATTHEW SINGER. Clackamas, Bridgeport.
Zookeeper
22 By now you’ve surely caught wind that Zookeeper is terrible—and it is, but it’s a reassuring kind of terrible, like cat poetry or Little Debbie oatmeal cream pies. If it weren’t terrible, you wouldn’t know what to do with yourself. It plays exactly like Grown Ups, but if all of Kevin James’ idiot pals were zoo animals. It’s also exactly like Hitch, but if Kevin James got relationship advice from zoo animals. It’s like anything with Kevin
“ONE OF THE MOST THOUGHT-PROVOKING FILMS OF THE YEAR.”
James you’ve ever failed to enjoy, but with zoo animals. Actually, it’s often a little surreal how bad Zookeeper is—you’d think that James filmed the menagerie scenes and then the comedians came in and dubbed the thing What’s Up, Tiger Lily?-style, but there’s CGI, so some of it had to be scripted. The closest it gets to pathos is Nick Nolte voicing an abused gorilla who just wants the unrivaled joy of a night at TGI Friday’s. Anyway, Zookeeper bombed, so I guess that means no one will ever eat at TGI Friday’s again. Kevin James has saved America! PG. AARON MESH. 99 Indoor Twin, Cinema 99, Division, Movies on TV.
“MARKS THE EMERGENCE OF A STARTLINGLY FINE YOUNG ACTRESS. Brit Marling has not been widely known on this planet until now, but that’s about to change.” FOx SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES presents
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nates in The Tree of Life, a project that has gestated in the mind of the director for 32 years. It turns out that God—or at least little Terry Malick’s first stirrings of the divine—was hiding in Waco, Texas. The movie feels like an explanation for why Malick has been so reluctant to produce scheduled work. With the hero’s puberty comes a rebellion against the tyranny of earthly and heavenly fathers. “Why should I be good if you aren’t?” asks Jack, the young protagonist— and at this point, the movie had my number so completely that I feared it would come up with a reason. It doesn’t, thank goodness. In its final sequence, a grown Jack (Sean Penn) rides up a Houston skyscraper and—in a probably unintentional nod to Willy Wonka’s Great Glass Elevator—ascends to a healing vision of heaven. This is not very persuasive, and it doesn’t matter: What is so piercing about The Tree of Life is not that it knows life’s answers, but that it knows how the questions feel. PG-13. AARON MESH. Fox Tower, Lake Twin, Tigard.
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The Trip
85 Nothing much actually happens in The Trip. But Steve Coogan and Rob 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. 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 so doing crafts a playful and utterly original piece of tongue-in-cheek escapism. 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, Academy Theater.
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Viva Las Vegas
20 [ONE NIGHT ONLY, OUTDOOR
REVIVAL] I don’t understand Elvis. I don’t understand people who like Elvis. I don’t understand the appeal of his oil-spill voice. I don’t understand why his aw-shucks mugging is considered charming or even permissible in this day and age. I don’t know what to tell you. Elvis is in this movie. Go buy a Beatles album. CHRIS STAMM. NW Film Center’s Top Down series, atop the Hotel deLuxe parking garage at the corner of Southwest Yamhill Street and 15th Avenue. 8 pm Thursday, Aug. 4.
Winnie the Pooh
62 Let’s assuage some fears regarding the new Winnie the Pooh movie right up front. No, it isn’t computer animated. It wasn’t shot in 3-D. It doesn’t feature celebrity voice cameos from Seth Rogen or Jim Carrey or Angelina Jolie. At no point does Pooh rap or tell Christopher Robin to “chillax,” and it doesn’t end with the cast singing and dancing to a Beyoncé song. It is very much like the cartoons you remember from childhood: simple, unassuming and twee as all hell. It doesn’t launch fart jokes at you, and it won’t make you weep. In other words, it’s a bit of an anachronism. It’s hand-drawn, with two of those classic, surreal Disney sequences that make you wonder if the animators were smoking opium. It just never justifies its existence, and that makes all its positives feel like a waste. A traditional animated film with no poop gags or obnoxious voice casting or incongruous song-and-dance numbers
FRATERNAL TWINS: Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds.
THE CHANGE-UP Two bros in a fountain.
Director David Dobkin has a magic formula for tricking meatheads into exploring their feelings: Simply take a worn-out shtick wherein man-children learn important lessons, then pepper it with enough bare breasts, f-bombs, scatological humor and people speaking loudly to fill two hours. Dobkin has become a master of repackaging chick flicks for people who need a fart joke or 30 to help the sentimental medicine go down. As with his last big hit, Wedding Crashers, The Change-Up concerns two mismatched buddies, glued together by their shared love of tits, cheap beer and random pratfalls. Again, The Change-Up is a surprisingly funny and crass exercise that eventually deteriorates into blubbery sentimentality. Essentially a Frat Pack Freaky Friday, the flick takes the two bros—Ryan Reynolds’ stoned-out free spirit and Jason Bateman’s workaholic attorney/family man—who switch bodies after peeing in a magic fountain. They then learn the requisite lessons of manhood, which essentially boil down to “be good to your family,” “value your work,” “stop and smell the roses” and, of course, “only you can be the best you.” The sap and clichés run rampant, but the film manages moments of sheer hilarity. Bateman, after years as the straight man, chomps into the role of a foul-mouthed slacker with horrific child-rearing skills that include letting toddlers play with light sockets. Reynolds subdues his usual over-the-top clowning into a thoughtfully boyish performance as the family man transported into a horndog male model’s body. Leslie Mann, as is her habit, steals every scene as Bateman’s frazzled wife, and Olivia Wilde nicely fills the role of the manic pixie dream girl who romances Reynolds. The charm of the performers makes the generic premise forgivable but, this being a Dobkin film, there’s a dramatic shift looming large. After about an hour of watching babies poop on faces and grown men behaving like 12-year-olds, we reach the standard stare-contemplatively-into-the-sunset montages that suck all the fun out of the proceedings. Apparently, man-children do have feelings. But once they’re realized, feelings transform lovable oafs into overly affectionate eunuchs. R. AP KRYZA. 63 SEE IT: The Change-Up opens Friday at Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Tigard, Wilsonville and Sandy.
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YOU’RE WITH ME, LEATHER: When a man in a Germanic military cap asks a crowd, “Will you stand with me?” that is traditionally an excellent moment to leave that crowd. But this man is addressing Chicago’s International Mr. Leather Contest, his speech is featured in the documentary Kink Crusaders, and the movie is the centerpiece of this year’s CineKink—all far more healthy stuff than the average cop-union rally. The paradox of fetish is that it blossoms when it’s a little illicit, and the phenomenon of leather parades—or movies about the parades—makes the aficionados seem almost as silly as a Shriners Club. But hey: Whatever makes you stand up. AARON MESH. Clinton Street Theater. 9 pm Sunday, Aug. 7. Best Paired With: Black Butte XXIII. Also showing: The Naked Gun (Laurelhurst). Sun 1:45, 4:15 EVERYTHING MUST GO Fri-Thurs 7:10 HANNA Fri-Thurs 9:15
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1510 NE Multnomah Blvd., 800-326-3264 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:35, 03:50, 07:25, 10:20 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON Wed 11:45, 03:10 HORRIBLE BOSSES Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 11:30, 02:00, 04:30, 07:15, 09:50 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:25, 10:40 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 03:15, 06:30, 09:40 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:35, 02:20, 05:05, 07:50, 10:35 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:10, 04:15, 07:30, 10:30 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:25, 03:30, 06:45, 09:45 COWBOYS & ALIENS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:15, 01:00, 03:40, 07:00, 07:40, 10:00 THE CHANGE-UP Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed TRANSCENDENT MAN: LIVE WITH RAY KURZWEIL Wed 08:00
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2320 Lloyd Center Mall, 800-326-3264 BRIDESMAIDS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:20, 09:10 KIT KITTREDGE: AN AMERICAN GIRL Wed 10:00 SUPER 8 Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:25, 03:30, 06:30, 09:20 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE Wed 10:00 CARS 2 Wed 12:35, 03:20 BAD TEACHER Wed 06:10, 09:30 WINNIE THE POOH Wed 12:10, 03:25 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:00, 06:05 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D
Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 03:05, 08:55 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 03:10, 09:00 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D Wed 12:20, 06:00 COWBOYS & ALIENS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:15, 03:15, 06:15, 09:15 THE SMURFS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:30, 03:00 THE SMURFS 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:05, 03:35, 06:25, 09:25 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed MIDNIGHT IN PARIS Wed 06:35, 09:05 SUMMER MOVIE EXPRESS - TUES. & WED. 10AM Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed SUMMER MOVIE EXPRESS - TUES., WED. AND THURS. 10 AM TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue 02:55, 06:30 LIFE IN A DAY Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue 12:20, 03:10, 06:00, 09:00
Regal Broadway Metro 4 Theatres
1000 SW Broadway, 800-326-3264 BRIDESMAIDS Wed 01:00, 04:00, 07:00 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 01:30, 04:30, 07:30 COWBOYS & ALIENS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:15, 04:15, 07:15 THE SMURFS Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 01:40, 04:40, 07:40 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue 12:30, 03:50, 07:10
Laurelhurst Theater
2735 E Burnside St., 232-5511 THOR Sat-Sun 1:30 WIN WIN Fri-Thurs 6:45 13 ASSASSINS Fri-Sun 4, 9 Mon-Thurs 9 X-MEN FIRST CLASS Fri 7 SatSun 1:15, 7 Mon-Thurs 7 TROLLHUNTER Fri 7 SatSun 1:20, 7 Mon-Thurs 7 KUNG FU PANDA 2 Sat-Sun 2 NAKED GUN Fri-Thurs 9:35 HANGOVER 2 Fri-Sun 4:35, 7:25 Mon-Thurs 7:25 JANE EYRE Fri 4:15 Sat-
2522 SE Clinton St., 503-238-8899 PINK FLAMINGOS Wed 07:00, 09:00 FREEDOM Fri 07:00, 09:00 REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA Fri 11:30 HAPPY Sat-Sun-MonTue 07:00, 09:00 THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Sat 12:00
Mission Theater and Pub
1624 NW Glisan St., 503-249-7474 NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY Wed THE HANGOVER PART II X-MEN: FIRST CLASS FriSat-Mon 06:00 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue 08:00 A BETTER LIFE Fri-Sat 10:30 GOLF IN THE KINGDOM Tue 06:00
Roseway Theatre
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CineMagic Theatre
2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-231-7919 HORRIBLE BOSSES Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:30, 09:40 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:35
Fifth Avenue Cinemas
510 SW Hall St., 503-725-3551 POLTERGEIST Fri-Sat-Sun 03:00
Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-281-4215 BUCK Wed 07:15, 09:15 TROLLHUNTER Wed 09:30 BEGINNERS Wed 07:00, 09:00 MAKE A MOVIE LIKE SPIKE Wed 07:00 THE NEW BARBARIANS: WARRIORS OF THE WASTELAND
846 SW Park Ave., 800-326-3264 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 02:30, 05:00, 07:30, 10:00 THE TREE OF LIFE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:55, 04:10, 07:00, 09:50 HORRIBLE BOSSES FriSat-Sun-Mon-Wed 12:30, 03:00, 05:25, 07:45, 10:10 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:05, 12:45, 02:15, 02:55, 04:35, 05:20, 07:05, 07:55, 09:35, 10:05 PROJECT NIM Wed 12:10, 02:20, 04:40, 07:15, 09:30 BEGINNERS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:55, 02:10, 04:25, 07:20, 09:40 SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:25, 02:50, 05:15, 07:40, 09:55 SARAH’S KEY FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:15, 02:40, 05:05, 07:35, 10:00 TERRI Wed 12:20, 02:45, 05:10, 07:25, 09:45 BRIDESMAIDS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue 01:00, 04:15, 07:00, 09:45 TABLOID Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 12:20, 02:45, 05:10, 07:25, 09:30
NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium
1219 SW Park Ave., 503-221-1156 COHEN/STRATMAN/ BROWN: REFLECTIONS ON PLACE Wed 07:00 VIVA LAS VEGAS DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST Fri-Sat 07:00 DOOMAN RIVER Sun 05:00, 07:00
Pioneer Place Stadium 6
340 SW Morrison St., 800-326-3264 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D Wed 03:40, 07:00, 10:30 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:50, 07:05 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 03:50, 10:05 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:40, 03:35, 07:20, 10:20 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:00, 04:20, 07:40, 10:35 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:30, 03:45, 07:10, 10:10 COWBOYS & ALIENS FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:45, 04:15, 07:15, 10:00 THE CHANGE-UP Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed
Academy Theater
7818 SE Stark St., 503-252-0500 DICK TRACY Wed 02:45, 09:40 MEEK’S CUTOFF Wed 05:00 GREEN LANTERN Wed 07:15 MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:40 X-MEN: FIRST CLASS Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 01:50, 06:45, 09:30 KUNG FU PANDA 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:30, 03:30, 05:30 THE HANGOVER PART II Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:30, 09:50 TROLLHUNTER Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 02:15, 09:45 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue 04:15, 07:00 LARRY CROWNE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue 02:45, 07:15
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