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INBOX POOP ON GROUPON We loved your article [“Cheat Local,” WW, Aug. 17, 2011]. Journalism such as this pins the testicles back on the media; great job. We too were casualties of the Groupon locust invasion. My restaurant, Wayne’s Chicago Red Hots, sold about 1,200 Groupons near the same time period as Ethan and Tobias [of EaT: An Oyster Bar] (Ethan is actually a customer of Wayne’s; we’re just a few blocks apart), and we have the same horror story to tell. Many of our “customers” arrived with dozens of Groupons and would flutter through a handful of them (some arrived with neatly organized manila folders containing countless Groupons) asking us, “So...what’s the name of this restaurant?” pull out the one pertaining to us, spend not a penny more than the face value, ask for a water cup, the bathroom key, want the TV channels changed from our beloved Chicago Cubs game to HGTV or something lame, complain about the appearance of the neighborhood, ask us if they’re safe, complain about the lack of parking, and then leave, never to return. Frankly, most of our real customers are working kids that live in the same Northeast neighborhood where we’re located, along with contractors, UPS drivers, cops from the precinct down the street, the outside sales guys having a working lunch with their laptops, the old guys that hobble in for a Polish and a beer, the gradeschool boy who shows up every other day to buy a basket of fries (“make sure they’re hot and crispy”) for his grandma, etc. The Groupon invasion certainly ruined the atmosphere for them. I had no idea I would be putting these wonderful, valued, everyday customers on the line for this
I work in a building that has one of of those automated defibrillator stations. My co-workers aren’t exactly medical geniuses, though. What happens if I faint and somebody decides to zap me? Can just any yahoo operate these things? —Chicago Hopeless Your fear is entirely understandable, Chicago. Few among us would relish the prospect of placing our lives in the hands of the same guy who just yesterday threw away a Xerox because he’d copied it upside down. Still, in keeping with our overall national project of making stupidity an unimpeachable sacrament, modern automated emergency defibrillators, or AEDs, are fairly foolproof, and the chances that your discreet after-lunch nap will end in fiery electro-death at the hands of one of these workplace heart-zappers are remote. AEDs are designed with a healthy respect for the ignorance of the general public. First, they’re 4
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mass gaggle of Beaverton-Lake O, Lexus-driving, “retired at 40 and have an assload of money but love to get a deal ex-money managers” and soccer moms. Ironically, today as my business partner was initially reading your column from the stack of WWs sitting outside our door before opening up, I was on a call from Aaron of Groupon. He was working me hard, wanting us to give them another shot with this “new and vastly improved” program. Apparently, it allows us to dictate the exact number of customers we want to have purchase the Groupons and the exact time we want them to redeem them. Once I hung up the phone, Jimmy (my biz partner) threw me a copy with your lead story and laughed, “Read this cover story, right now!” You have motivated us beyond belief. You are right, Groupon’s complete business plan is based simply on an email list. Well, we have that! Even though it’s paltry, we still harbor over 1,300 of our very own customers who have signed on to our Constant Contact email list, and they receive weekly notices of our specials. But thanks to your article, we’ve decided to do exactly what they do, minus them. Yup, from now on, every Monday at Wayne’s Chicago Red Hots, it’s “Poop on Groupon Coupon Day.” Ciao! Randy Sanders Owner-president Wayne’s Chicago Red Hots LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include the author’s street address and phone number for verification. Letters must be 250 or fewer words. Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Fax: (503) 243-1115, Email: mzusman@wweek.com
clever enough to check for a pulse before zapping you. If they find one, they don’t zap. (I couldn’t determine if this safety feature would still kick in if you were trying to shock, say, a watermelon. Any video on this subject would be welcome.) AEDs also talk, walking you through the process with step-by-step instructions. It would be nice if they could hear, too, so if they caught you saying “Clear!” before you shocked somebody they could immediately power down, but this feature is apparently still in beta. According to the National Institutes of Health, AEDs are designed so that untrained bystanders (they specifically use the word “untrained”) can save the lives of cardiac-arrest victims in those crucial first few minutes. That said, AED training is available wherever fine CPR courses are sold. Thanks to Oregon’s “Good Samaritan” laws, your fellow yahoos are safe from lawsuits either way, but we can always hope. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com
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IT’S STILL AUGUST. WE’RE STILL HERE. Former state legislator and Metro Council Chairman Mike Burton has lawyered up to fight any charges he broke state ethics laws by taking a $4,500, 11-day European trip last year while a vice provost at Portland State University. He’s hired John DiLorenzo Jr., a prominent attorney and lobbyist with a long record of helping elected officials fight ethics charges. As wweek.com first reported, PSU referred the BURTON case to the Oregon Government Ethics Commission after an audit found Burton falsely claimed to have attended conferences in France. Auditors also found PSU’s School of Extended Studies, which Burton oversaw, had widespread accounting and billing problems. Burton tells WW he warned PSU officials for years about the problems— specifically, software conflicts between departments. PSU Provost Roy Koch tells WW that Burton had been pushing for a new system, but that management problems went beyond those that could be blamed on lousy software. Mother Jones’ September issue features a yearlong investigation of U.S. government prosecution of 508 cases of alleged domestic terrorism. The magazine says the pending case against Mohamed Mohamud, charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction at the Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Pioneer Courthouse Square in November 2010, illustrates some of its findings. Among them: All but three high-profile domestic terror plots in the past decade were FBI stings; and in many there are no recordings of key encounters with suspects. Journalist Trevor Aaronson writes, “The Portland case has been held up as an example of how FBI stings can make a terrorist where there might have been only an angry loser.” A federal judge has set Mohamud’s trial for April 2012. Turns out a feminist bookstore can take a joke—and maybe save itself in the process. As WW reported in June, In Other Words, which bills itself as a women’s resource center, faced financial collapse under tens of thousands of dollars in debt and falling revenues (see “At a Loss for Words,” WW, June 22, 2011). It’s perhaps best known as a location—and subject of spoof—in Portlandia. The stars of the IFC series, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, hosted a fundraiser Aug. 20 at In Other Words to help bail out the store. In Other Words officials say they raised more than $5,000. Says board chairwoman Lauren McCartney, “We will not be closing our doors by any means.” Stumptown walk of shamers, be warned: You’re not alone in your wanton ways. CBS. com reports that Portland is the most promiscuous city in the United States. These sultry statistics are based on the percentage of OkCupid.com members—a free online dating site—who say they’re “looking for casual sex.” Portland came out on top with 9.4 percent. CBS ranked our sophisticated sister a close second, saying that Seattle, “the birthplace of grunge rock, is also a breeding ground of casual sex.” Five out of 10 of the sluttiest cities are on the West Coast. We’re titillated by the city’s new title. Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt.
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In May, Portland got smacked in the face with embarrassing news: Nearly two of every three times they sought a place to rent, African-American and Latino renters found evidence of discrimination from the city’s landlords. The news came from an audit paid for by the city of Portland and conducted by the nonprofit Fair Housing Council of Oregon. The audit claimed minority testers ran across evidence of potential discrimination 64 percent of the time they talked to landlords or rental agents. The audit set off howls of protest and frowning editorials about the city’s shameful treatment of minorities looking for a place to live. But interviews and newly released records from the state Bureau of Labor and Industries show the audit is marred by errors and sloppy work, and that the Fair Housing Council withheld evidence that would have weakened claims that it had found discrimination. Although city officials believed Fair Housing Council testers did all their surveys in person, for example, at least some of their evidence of supposed discrimination against Latino testers was gathered over the phone. As a result, the audit exaggerates the degree of housing discrimination it found. That raises questions about the reliability of the Fair Housing Council, a watchdog group that contracts with cities across Oregon to do audits. City officials have refused to renew their contract with the Fair Housing Council and suspended negotiations for a new one Aug. 9 after discovering the audit was rife with problems. “We have concluded the audit is not reliable,” City Commissioner Nick Fish, who oversees the Housing Bureau, tells WW. “There have been failures of communication and breakdowns of protocol. The test they gave us has been demonstrated to be something we cannot rely on.” Fish says problems with the audit shouldn’t take away from the city’s plan to end discrimination in housing, which he says is supported by other evidence of housing bias in Portland. But the Fair Housing Council audit has proven a political headache for Fish and threatens to frustrate the city’s work on equal housing issues. Moloy Good, the Fair Housing Council’s executive director, acknowledges the audit contains errors, but he stands by its basic conclusions. “We think our report is still reliable,” he says. “We reported when we found different treatment of our testers. A lot of what we are looking at here is very subtle different treatment; it’s not as blatant as it used to be.” Housing audit testing is done across the country, but this is the first time Portland has sponsored it. The tests work like this: Two people pose as potential renters and separately go in as “testers” to see how each is treated
by the apartment manager or rental agency reps. One is white. The other is African-American or Latino. Each tester is supposed to have a nearly identical profile in terms of job, income and personal situation. The minority tester goes in first and asks a series of questions. The white tester follows. Then each writes a summary of what happened, and Fair Housing Council officials compare the reports. The Fair Housing Council did 25 tests each using African-American and Latino testers. The audit claimed that the African-American testers found evidence of discrimination 15 times; the Latino testers, 17. On Tuesday, the state Bureau of Labor and Industries released files of its investigation into the Fair Housing Council’s claims. BOLI dismissed one complaint based on the audit; its review of 13 other examples found inaccuracies and discrepancies in the original report. In some cases, for example, the audit claimed the white tester was offered financial incentives to rent an apartment and the minority testers were not. BOLI documents show this wasn’t true in at least two cases—the minority testers were, in fact, offered price deals.
Good acknowledges the errors but says the testers still faced different treatment. In these audits, different testers typically talk to the same rental agent to guarantee an apples-to-apples comparison. But BOLI found cases in which testers spoke to different agents—and the audit still claimed to find potential evidence of discrimination. As the BOLI report said of one case, “A review of the actual tester narratives is inconclusive, primarily because the testers met and spoke with different agents.” In at least one case, the testers didn’t portray similar background situations, which can muddy the results— something the audit failed to note. In June, WW reported on potential problems with the Fair Housing Council’s methodology. One expert told WW the 64 percent rate of alleged discrimination was beyond credibility and cast doubt on the rest of the results. Fish says the city’s painful lesson in this case won’t stop future testing; he says the city plans to do another round this fall. “The public has to have confidence in these tests and the results,” Fish says. “Going forward, we need to fix the problem.” Willamette Week AUGUST 24, 2011 wweek.com
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The way Richard Felley sees it, his son has already paid the price for his crimes. Felley, who lives in Nehalem, wrote the Oregon attorney general this spring to complain about a website, pdxmugshots.com, that featured a mug shot of his 21-year-old son. Felley had found out the site was demanding $29 to remove his son’s booking photo. “Doesn’t seem fair that we should have to continue paying,” he wrote. Felley today says he never paid it, nor did his son, who he says has a mental disability. Court records show his son also has misdemeanor theft and menacing convictions. “I’d say they’re predatory in the way they operate,” Felley says of the website, pdxmugshots.com. “It preys on troubled people.” The site posts thousands of booking photos from Portland, Salem, Eugene, Corvallis and other Oregon cities and now charges the accused $39 to have the photos removed and their names attached to the pictures scrubbed from Google searches. The company operates in other states, including Idaho and Tennessee. Other companies’ mug-shot sites have popped up in such places as Florida and Utah. Mug shots as entertainment has been flourishing. Anyone who has visited a Plaid Pantry lately might have seen copies of Busted, a $1 tabloid that reprints local booking photos. Other businesses, such as removearrest.com, promise to purge embarrassing information about you from the Web. But pdxmugshots.com is one of the few that both showcase the photos and offer to remove them for a fee. Fairly simple mechanics power pdxmugshots: An algorithm scrapes the photos from law enforcement websites, including the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, which oversees the jail.
“It’s definitely not something the sheriff ’s office would condone,” spokesman Lt. Steve Alexander says. Even advocates of open government say such sites are in effect extorting people hoping to avoid further embarrassment. “It seems to me that any effort to profit from someone else’s personal embarrassment is fundamentally wrong,” says Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy of the Federation of American Scientists, a nonprofit group that advocates for increased transparency. “It is disrespectful. It is exploitative. It is unethical.” One of the site’s operators, who identifies himself as Alfonso Petal, says he’s providing a public service. “Look, we are not embarrassing anybody,” Petal says. “We are giving public information out so people can see it in an easy way, so they can see whether their neighbor or their friend has been arrested.” His partner, who identifies himself only as “Barry,” gave a Dec. 8, 2010, interview on KBOO. He told the radio station that the website didn’t start charging until he and his business partner were inundated with requests from people whose mug shots appeared on the site to take them down. “I realized its revenue potential,” he said. He also attempted to explain the appeal of the site: “That whole kind of twisted psychology where people like to see their friends and neighbors in kind of a vulnerable position...people can do it privately. You don’t have to feel too bad about it.” Petal and his partner have operated in the shadows to avoid being identified. But WW tracked the address of the site’s parent company, KA Marketing, to Anand “Lucky” Jesrani, a Redding, Calif., attorney. Jesrani, who says he does not own a stake in the site, referred Petal to WW. Petal claims the group doesn’t make much money from the site. “I think me and Barry probably made $50 each after everything was done last month,” he says. But crunching numbers he provided suggests the group made about $1,500 a month in profit from mug shot removal alone. Even advertisers on the site have had some misgivings. “My initial thought was that it’s kind of nefarious,” says Matt Stickler, whose site, Arrestly.com, alerts employers or other subscribers if people on a watch list get arrested. “But after talking to them about what they are actually doing, it’s going to be that or it’s going to be something else. People are going to monetize emotion, maybe humiliation.”
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They came in the mail, thousands upon thousands. And Portland businesses have obediently applied them to their windows: white stickers, the size of a pulp novel, with the distinctive red pinpoint icon of Google Maps. The stickers advertise one of the Internet giant’s newest services, Google Places. Portland is the first test city for Places, which is like an online Yellow Pages that’s updated by users and is free (for now) to businesses that want a listing. What most passersby—and some retailers— don’t know is that the Google stickers contain a tiny chip that can send a signal to the latest smartphones. It’s the same technology used in new U.S. passports and by farmers for “electronic sheep identification.” Google and other corporations are investing heavily in this technology, known as radiofrequency identification or RFID, which they bill as the future of commerce. The Google stickers can be activated by the company’s new Nexus S Android phones; the iPhone 5 and other nextgeneration smartphones should also work. WW tested a sticker with a Nexus phone. Tapping the phone to the sticker made the screen flash with the appropriate Google Places page. Which seems cool. But for some consumer and privacy advocates, the chips represent something troubling—“the most terrifying thing that Google has unleashed on the public,” says Paul Wagner, founder of Forkfly.com, a local restaurant listings site. The technology could bring together three of the Internet giant’s products: One is Google Offers, its clone of Groupon, the popular “daily deals” site offering discounts at local businesses [See “Cheat Local!,” WW, August 17, 2011]. Another is Google Places, which helps people locate and rate businesses. The third—which is so new the company won’t talk about it with us—is Google Wallet. This service will allow you to buy things in stores with your phone, and will let Google take a cut of the sale. A Google spokesperson didn’t answer WW’s
questions about Wallet. But Stephanie Tilenius, Google’s vice president of commerce, offered some details at a May industry presentation. “I go to the grocery store, [the phone] welcomes me,” Tilenius said. “I’ve given my phone permission to know where I’m at. Up pops my shopping list, based on what I usually buy at the grocery store. A notification pops up that there’s this great apple pie that I love, that I can get $1 off of it in aisle 8…. When I check out, I tap to pay…and I get a receipt on my phone.” Tilenius left out key details. First, the Google Wallet processing fee. Second, it’s not clear what information about your tastes and habits Google will share with its other services, such as Gmail. While Portland serves as Google’s sandbox, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and other big tech companies are testing similar strategies elsewhere. “The thing that makes Google stand out,” says Harley Geiger of the Washington, D.C.based Center for Democracy and Technology says, “is that Google has so many other applications that people find useful in their everyday lives, and which collect vast amounts of information about people.” Geiger says federal law doesn’t cover the possibilities created by new technologies. “It is very likely that in the future—probably not at the outset—using your phone for payments is going to disclose considerably more information than using your credit card does today,” Geiger says. “The issue is what is disclosed and whether the consumer has control.” Google could send ads to your phone based on whom you’ve emailed, the content of your emails, and where you happen to be standing. Many new cash registers come with Googlefriendly RFID built in, whether the merchant wants it or not. Several local businesses told WW they were already cautious about how much influence Google has over their businesses. An ongoing Federal Trade Commission antitrust probe is examining whether Google’s search results are rigged to favor advertisers and Google’s own services. “Top to bottom, they’re figuring out a way to own the entire consumer space,” Forkfly’s Wagner says. That’s not the story Google tells. “A lot of businesses know and love the Google brand,” spokeswoman Jeannie Hornung says. Why else would they put its stickers in their windows?
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Colin Meloy was always bound to write a kid’s book. For years, the hyper-literate bard and lead singer of Portland’s internationally lauded band the Decemberists has been spinning bedtime yarns about clipper ships and chimney sweeps, of finding angels in angles and of ghostly girls wandering parapets. Now, he and his partner, illustrator Carson Ellis— herself considered a local treasure for her whimsical line drawings and gouache paintings—have set themselves a new task. Infect a new generation with the Lit-pop bug, this time in the form of a series of novels for middle-school-aged kids. The first book of the couple’s planned series is called Wildwood. Much of it is set in Portland, of course
(St. Johns, to be specific), and named for the trail that winds through Forest Park, which Meloy has reimagined as an “impassable wilderness” home to coyote soldiers and kid mystics alike. With its wry tone and fantastical creatures, it’s a perfect tribute to a city that sees creative forms of arrested development as a birthright and has elevated hobbies—from backyard chicken keeping to soapbox derby racing—to art forms. The first book debuts next Tuesday, Aug. 30, with a kickoff reading and discussion with Meloy and Ellis at the Bagdad Theater. But before that, WW gives you a little taste of what your nephews, daughters and neighbors will all have their noses buried in this fall—the first chapter of Wildwood. WILDWOOD BEGINS on page 14
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ow five crows managed to lift a twenty-pound baby boy into the air was beyond Prue, but that was certainly the least of her worries. In fact, if she were to list her worries right then and there as she sat spellbound on the park bench and watched her little brother, Mac, carried aloft in the talons of these five black crows, puzzling out just how this feat was being done would likely come in dead last. First on the list: Her baby brother, her responsibility, was being abducted by birds. A close second: What did they plan on doing with him? And it had been such a nice day.
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True, it had been a little gray when Prue woke up that morning, but what September day in Portland wasn’t? She had drawn up the blinds in her bedroom and had paused for a moment, taking in the sight of the tree branches outside her window, framed as they were by a sky of dusty white-gray. It was Saturday, and the smell of coffee and breakfast was drifting up from downstairs. Her parents would be in their normal Saturday positions: Dad with his nose in the paper, occasionally hefting a lukewarm mug of coffee to his lips; Mom peering through tortoiseshell bifocals at the woolly mass of a knitting project of unknown determination. Her brother, all of one year old, would be sitting in his high chair, exploring the farthest frontiers of unintelligible babble: Doose! Doose! Sure enough, her vision was proven correct when she came downstairs to the nook off the kitchen. Her father mumbled a greeting, her mother’s eyes smiled from above her glasses, and her brother shrieked, “Pooo!” Prue made herself a bowl of granola. “I’ve got bacon on, darling,” said her mother, returning her attention to the amoeba of yarn in her hands (was it a sweater? A tea cozy? A noose?). “Mother,” Prue had said, now pouring rice milk over her cereal, “I told you. I’m a vegetarian. Ergo: no bacon.” She had read that word, ergo, in a novel she’d been reading. That was the first time she had used it. She wasn’t sure if she’d used it right, but it felt good. She sat down at the kitchen table and winked at Mac. Her father briefly peered over the top of his paper to give her a smile. “What’s on the docket today?” said her father. “Remember, you’re watching Mac.” “Mmmm, I dunno,” Prue responded. “Figured we’d hang around somewhere. Rough up some old ladies. Maybe stick up a hardware store. Pawn the loot. Beats going to a crafts fair.” Her father snorted. “Don’t forget to drop off the library books. They’re in the basket by the front door,” said her mother, her knitting needles clacking. “We should be back for dinner, but you know how long these things can run.” “Gotcha,” said Prue. Mac shouted, “Pooooo!” wildly brandished a spoon, and sneezed. “And we think your brother might have a cold,” said her father. “So make sure he’s bundled up, whatever you do.” (The crows lifted her brother higher into the overcast sky, and suddenly Prue enumerated another worry: But he might have a cold!) That had been their morning. Truly, an unremarkable one. Prue finished her granola, skimmed the comics, helped her dad ink in a few gimmes in his crossword puzzle, and was off to hook up the red Radio Flyer wagon to the back of her single-speed bicycle. An even coat of gray remained in the sky, but it didn’t seem to threaten rain, so Prue stuffed Mac into a lined corduroy jumper, wrapped him in a stratum of quilted chintz, and placed him, still babbling, into the wagon. She loosed one arm from this cocoon of clothing and handed him his favorite toy: a wooden snake. He shook it appreciatively. Prue slipped her black flats into the toe clips and pedaled the bike into motion. The wagon bounced noisily behind her, Mac shrieking happily with every jolt. They tore through the neighborhood of tidy clapboard houses, Prue nearly upsetting Mac’s wagon with every hurdled curb and missed rain puddle. The bike tires gave a satisfied shhhhhh as they carved the wet pavement. The morning flew by, giving way to a warm afternoon. After several random errands (a pair of Levis, not quite the right color, needed returning; the recent arrivals bin at Vinyl Resting Place required perusing; a plate of veggie tostadas was messily shared at the taqueria), she found herself whiling time outside the coffee shop on the main street while Mac quietly napped in the red wagon. She sipped steamed milk and watched through the window as the café employees awkwardly installed a secondhand elk head trophy on the wall. Traffic hummed on Lombard Street, the first intrusions of the neighborhood’s polite rush hour. A few passersby cooed at the sleeping baby in the wagon and Prue flashed them sarcastic smiles, a little annoyed to be someone’s picture of sibling camaraderie. She doodled mindlessly in her sketchbook: the leaf-clogged gutter drain in front of the cafe, a hazy sketch of Mac’s quiet face with extra attention
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breaking in one direction and the next. Suddenly, the curtain of their bodies parted and Prue could see the distant beige shape of Mac, his cord jumper pulled into a grotesque rag-doll shape by the crows’ talons. She could see one crow had a claw tangled in the fine down of his hair. Now the swarm seemed to split in two groups: One stayed surrounding the few crows who were carrying Mac while the other dove away and skirted the treetops. Suddenly, two of the crows let go of Mac’s jumper, and the remaining birds scrambled to keep hold. Prue shrieked as she saw her brother slip from their claws and plummet. But before Mac even neared the ground, the second group of crows deftly flew in and he was caught, lost again into the cloud of squawking birds. The two groups reunited, wheeled in the air once more, and suddenly, violently, shot westward, away from the playground. Determined to do something, Prue dashed to her bike, jumped on, and gave pursuit. Unencumbered by Mac’s red wagon, the bike quickly gained speed and Prue darted out into the street. Two cars skidded to a stop in front of her as she crossed the intersection in front of the library; somebody yelled, “Watch it!” from the sidewalk. Prue did not dare take her eyes off the swimming, spinning crows in the distance. Her legs a blue blur over the pedals, Prue blew the stop sign at Richmond and Ivanhoe, inciting an angered holler from a bystander. She then skidded through the turn southward on Willamette. The crows, unhampered by the neighborhood’s grid of houses, lawns, streets, and stoplights, made quick time over the landscape, and Prue commanded her legs to pedal faster to keep pace. In the chase, she could swear that the CONT. on page 21
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crows were toying with her, cutting back toward her, diving low and skirting the roofs of the houses, only to carve a great arc and, with a push of speed, dart back to the west. In these moments Prue could catch glimpse of her captive brother, swinging in the clutches of his captors, and then he would disappear again, lost in the whirlwind of feathers. “I’m coming for you, Mac!” she yelled. Tears streamed down Prue’s cheeks, but she couldn’t tell if she’d cried them or if they were a product of the cold fall air that whipped at her face as she rode. Her heart was beating madly in her chest, but her emotions were staid; she still couldn’t quite believe this was all happening. Her only thought was to retrieve her brother. She swore that she would never let him out of her sight again. The air was alive with car horns as Prue zigzagged through the steady traffic of St. Johns. A garbage truck, executing a slow, traffic-stalling Y-turn in the middle of Willamette Street, blocked the road, and Prue was forced to hop the curb and barrel down the sidewalk. A group of pedestrians screamed and dove out of her way. “Sorry!” Prue shouted. In an angular motion, the crows doubled back, causing Prue to lay on the brakes, and then dove low in an almost single file and flew straight toward her. She screamed and ducked as the crows flew over her head, their feathers nicking her scalp. She heard a distinct gurgle and a call, “Pooooo!” from Mac as they passed, and he was gone again, the crows back on their journey westward. Prue pedaled the bike to speed and bunny-hopped the wheels of the bike back onto the black pavement of the street, grimacing as she absorbed the bump with her arms. Seeing an opportunity, she took a hard right onto a side street that wound through a
new development of identically whitewashed duplexes. The ground began to gently slope and she was gathering speed, the bike clattering and shaking beneath her. And then, suddenly, the street came to an abrupt end. She had arrived at the bluff. Here at the eastern side of the Willamette River was a natural border between the tightknit community of St. Johns and the riverbank, a three-mile length of cliff simply called the bluff. Prue let out a cry and jammed on the brakes, nearly sending herself vaulting the handlebars and over the edge. The crows had cleared the precipice and were funneling skyward like a shivering black twister cloud, framed by the rising smoke from the many smelters and smokestacks of the Industrial Wastes, a veritable no-man’sland on the other side of the river, long ago claimed by the local industrial barons and transformed into a forbidding landscape of smoke and steel. Just beyond the Wastes, through the haze, lay a rolling expanse of deeply forested hills, stretching out as far as the eye could see. The color drained from Prue’s face. “No,” she whispered. In the flash of an instant and without a sound, the funnel of crows crested the far side of the river and disappeared in a long, thin column into the darkness of these woods. Her brother had been taken into the Impassable Wilderness. MORE: Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis read from Wildwood at the Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 467-7521. 7 pm Tuesday, Aug. 30. $17.99, includes a copy of Wildwood. Tickets available at the Bagdad, Crystal Ballroom and cascadetickets.com, or by phone at 855-227-8499. All ages.
PLAYING JIMMY MAK’S 8 p.m. Sat., August 27 Tickets $12
Locally Brewed Visit Pyramid/MacTarnahan’s Taproom 2730 NW 31st Ave. Watch for future Pyramid/MacTarnahan’s shows!
Featured September Shows FRI., SEPT. 2
Joey DeFrancesco Trio SAT., SEPT. 3
Mordy Ferber Quartet
PLUS MusicFest NW FRI. SEPT. 9
Y La Bamba & more SAT., SEPT. 10
The Dimes & more
JIMMY MAK’S
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STREET: Sunday softball snaps. FOOD & DRINK: Pigging out at Three Pigs. MUSIC: Nick Jaina shuts his mouth. MOVIES: Mad Max’s bad breakup.
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SCOOP GOSSIP THAT’S A SAD SIGN OF THE TIMES. FUN ON SANDY: With a capital T, that rhymes with P, that stands for... putt-putt? Polly Bangs, founder of the at-risk youth job-skills program Urban Opportunities, and Tres Shannon, co-owner of Voodoo Doughnut, will soon open Portand P Palace in a former car dealership at Northeast 24th Avenue and Sandy Boulevard. What’s a P Palace? According to Bangs, it’s “Portland’s Premier Putt-Putt Course serving Potables and Provisions...and a lot of other things that begin with ‘P.’” Some of those things are pool, pingpong, pinball and plenty to drink—the Palace has applied to the Oregon Liquor Control Commission for a full license, which includes spirits. NO NOA NOA: After almost three years in business, the Southwest Washington Street clothing boutique Narcisse will shutter in two weeks. In Narcisse’s absence, Portland will also lose the only shop in the United States that carries Danish couture brand Noa Noa. “It’s such a bummer, because it’s such an amazing line,” co-owner Heidi Goldsmith told WW. Mourn another casualty of the poor economy by hoarding Noa Noa before Narcisse shuts its doors for good; the store will offer closeout sales at up to 50 percent off.
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NEWS YOU CAN BOOZE: Sports pub Pinstripes Bar and Grill on Southeast 11th Avenue and Harrison Street will become the Firkin Tavern. >> An application has been made to turn the Anatomy Clothing Company store on Northwest 23rd Avenue and Johnson Street into what appears to be a wine bar called Taste on 23rd. >> Restaurant chain Yard House, which claims to have the “world’s largest selection of draft beer,” is planning to open a Portland location in Pioneer Place mall.
SOFTBALL, HARD LOSS: Oh, how the mighty have fallen. WW’s defending-champion bar league softball team lost in the second round of the playoffs to Old Gold, the team formerly known as The Portland Mercury. While engaged in a valiant comeback attempt, with the bases loaded in the bottom of the final inning, WW’s Ben Mollica hit a line drive right into the mitt of Ezra Ace Caraeff, the nimble Mercury music editor. Caraeff spiked the ball and walked off the field to celebrate with his team, which won 14-12. Players from both teams stayed to watch Disjecta and its all star, Stephen Malkmus, advance to the next round. Some guys just have it all. 22
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WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK IN ARTS & CULTURE
THURSDAY AUG. 25 [COMEDY] MARIA BAMFORD If you haven’t seen Maria Bamford live, know this: She is just about the funniest woman in America at present. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669, heliumcomedy.com. 8 pm. $20-$25. 21+. [BEER] MACRO BREWFEST O’Malley’s presents its second annual Macro Brewfest, celebrating the beers “that everyone drinks but is afraid to admit,” including Rainier, Oly and Blitz tall boys. O’Malley’s, 6535 SE Foster Road, 777-0495, omalleyspdx.com. 7 pm Aug. 25-27. Free. 21+. [ART AND MUSIC] DANIEL JOHNSTON Quirky singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston caps off a monthlong exhibition of work from his forthcoming graphic novel, Space Ducks: An Infinite Comic Book of Musical Greatness, with a live performance at W+K. Wieden+Kennedy, 224 NW 13th Ave. 5-9 pm. [HISTORY AND MUSIC] OREGON ROCKS EXHIBITION OPENING The Oregon Historical Society’s tweely-named new exhibition Oregon Rocks: A History of Popular Music in Oregon kicks off with a genuinely cool show, promising local legends like Ural Thomas, the Kingsmen, Pierced Arrows and Quasi. Oregon Historical Society, 1200 SW Park Ave., 306-5270, ohs. org. 5:30-11 pm. $10. All ages.
FRIDAY AUG. 26 [FESTIVAL] FESTA ITALIANA Now in its 20th year, Portland’s annual celebration of all things Italian features live music, food, wine, pizza tossing and grape stomping. Pioneer Courthouse Square, festa-italiana.org. 11 am-11 pm Aug. 25-27. Free. All ages.
SATURDAY AUG. 27
Step aside, Dude: There’s a new movie tribute festival in town. It’s BurgundyFest, the first event in the country dedicated to celebrating the 2004 comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, which starred Will Ferrell as a pompous, mustachioed 1970s San Diego TV news reader. Bearing striking similarities to national Lebowski Fests across the country—including the requisite costume contest, and straight scotch in place of white Russians—this Saturday’s BurgundyFest is the brainchild of two Salem men, Shad Barnes and Justin Labhart. We asked Barnes our burning questions. AARON MESH. WW: Are you saying that there’s a party in your pants and that I’m invited? Shad Barnes: It’s more of an event than it is a “hang out and party” thing. We’ve got several things on the docket. We have
a little game called the Baxter Punt—I don’t know if you remember the movie very well, but Jack Black kicks his dog off a bridge. We have a jazz-flute solo. We’re going to have a little singing of “Afternoon Delight.”
What? You pooped in the refrigerator? And you ate the whole wheel of cheese? I wish I had some exotic story involving gamma rays and meteors falling from the sky. The shining moment came when we went to the Lebowski Fest up in Seattle. We were enraptured. That’s when we started cookin’ on, “What’s something we could do?” We love this movie Anchorman, we’re real passionate about it. We’ve each seen it 25 or more times. And the whole thing kind of blossomed from there.
Why don’t you go back to your home on Whore Island? Basically, our promotion is, we get dressed up in the polyester. We’ve both grown these disgusting mustaches. I’m about a month and a half in on my little cookie duster right now. We just hit the downtown bars when they’re busy on Saturday nights. It is unreal, the reception we get. This Saturday, I bet we had at least 250 people take a photo with us.
[SHOP] PDX COLLECTIVE SALE Eleven schmancy local boutiques, including Isaac Hers, Radish Underground and Lizard Lounge, will be selling their wares cheap(er) in this end-of-season group sale. The Cleaners, 403 SW 10th Ave. 11 am-6 pm Saturday, noon-5 pm Sunday, Aug. 27-28.
SUNDAY AUG. 28 [FOOD] KRÄFTSKIVA CRAWFISH PARTY House Spirits is throwing a traditional Swedish end-of-summer party in its parking lot, featuring the distillery’s excellent aquavits alongside food from Chop Butchery, Broder and Viking Soul Food. House Distillery, 2025 SE 7th Ave., 235-3174, housespirits.com. 11 am-5 pm. Free. All ages.
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We’ve long been fans of Bill Cunningham’s work in The New York Times. His weekly photographic declaration of New York fashion and style is a luminous spot in the Gray Lady. Given that imitation is the sincerest form of you know what, we are delighted to debut Street—a weekly ripoff homage to Cunningham. This week, softball fashion. Comments? Send them to street@wweek.com.
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SALTY SAVINGS: Himalayan salt blocks are on sale for one day only at the Meadow.
EVENTS THIS WEEK Chefs’ Annex Teaching Dinner
Paul Folkestad has been teaching locals to cook for years as a prof at Le Cordon Bleu. Now he’s branching out with a side project with caterer John Burrowes: a series of “teaching dinners” that instruct diners how to make a bunch of food…as they guzzle wine and eat those same dishes. Fun. Class takes place at the catering kitchen at 5222 NE Sacramento St. 5:30 pm Wednesday, Aug. 24. $90 per person. Email chefsannex@gmail. com or search “Chefs’ Annex” on Facebook to reserve a seat.
Portland Beer Week
The city’s first Portland Beer Week continues with a barrel-aging beer panel at Hopworks (Wednesday, Aug. 24) and a night devoted to session beers called “Mighty Mites” at Coalition (Saturday, Aug. 27). Oh, there are also five types of beer-inspired ice cream at Salt & Straw’s new Alberta scoop shop, plus a Ninkasi bunch at EastBurn and a big closing party featuring tons of Belgian-style brews at Bazi Bierbrasserie (both Sunday, Aug. 28) if you haven’t passed out by then. Portland Beer Week runs through Sunday, Aug. 28, all around Portland. Visit pdxbeerweek.com for a full schedule of events. 21+.
Dining With Dignity for Sisters of the Road
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 nonprofit that’s been providing support and square meals for Portlanders in need at its Old Town kitchen since 1979. Through Aug. 31. Find participants and events at sistersoftheroad.org/ events/dining-with-dignity-calendar.
Sharpening4U Anniversary
Few things are more irritating than chopping up dinner with a dull knife. Sandy Boulevard blademasters Sharpening4U address that problem—or at least small problems like 8-inch knives, pocket knives, scissors and hand clippers (valued at $5 or less)—for free this week in honor of the first anniversary of its brick-and-mortar shop. Sharpening4u, 3429 NE Sandy Blvd., 962-0574. Through Saturday, Aug. 27. Info and hours at sharpening4u.com.
Macro Brewfest
Finally, one bar has the balls to stand up for the unappreciated big boys of the beer world. And that bar is O’Malley’s. The Foster-Powell stalwart presents its second annual Macrofest, celebrating the beers “that everyone drinks but is afraid to admit,” including Rainier, Oly and Blitz tall boys (attendees will vote to determine O’Malley’s 2012 house can). Live comedy, honky-tonk and rock will soundtrack the largescale hops revelry. 7 pm ThursdaySaturday, Aug. 25-27. Free. 21+.
Vancouver Wine & Jazz Festival
Our next-door neighbors to the north celebrate the smoother side of life with more than 200 wines and Al Jarreau (Moonlighting!). Esther Short Park, 801 W 8th St., Vancouver, Wash., 360-7508840. 4-10 pm Friday, 11 am-10 pm Saturday, 11 am-9 pm Sunday, Aug. 26-28. $20 (Friday), $25 (Saturday or Sunday,) three-day pass $50 advance, $60 door. Info at vancouverwinejazz.com.
Oregon State Fair Pairings
Oregon’s biggest fair graduates from funnel cakes and the world’s largest cow with “Pairings,” a gourmet(ish) evening featuring duets from Oregon eateries and wineries. There’s alloo tikki from Gateway to India, paired with sips from Ancient Cellars; Euphoria chocolates with Stag Hollow Wines; and Vitality Bistro’s blueberry braised lamb with Stangeland Vineyards vino, among many, many other white-tablecloth mashups. Plus, a musical tribute to Ray Charles, from Patrick Lamb. Event takes place at the Hart of the Garden in the Oregon State Fairgrounds. Oregon State Fair & Expo Center, 2330 17th St. NE, Salem, 947-3247. 5 pm Friday, Aug. 26. $50 (includes fair admission). Info at oregonstatefair. org/do-see-taste/or-wine-celebration. Oregon State Fair runs Aug. 26-Sept. 7 ($7 advance, $11 gate).
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It’s hard to pin down what this annual summer fest is all about— it’s in part a networking event, but there’s also jazz, funk and soul performances, some spoken-word folk and naturopaths, free health screenings, free grub and a basketball shootout. It’s all in the name of “uniting community across all lines.” Again, free food. Kenton Park, 8417 N Brandon Ave. Noon-4 pm Saturday, Aug. 27. Free. Info at properusa.net.
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Potluck in the Park
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20TH AT 8PM
For 20 years a small group of local folks have been feeding those in need at this annual alfresco feast. More than 1,200 people are expected to attend this year’s barbecue bash, which includes a resource fair, with free haircuts, bike repair, pet food and live tunes. South Park Blocks between Southwest Harrison and Montgomery streets, 241-0032. 11 am-4 pm Sunday, Aug. 28. Free. More info and volunteer opportunities at potluckinthepark.org.
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Himalayan Salt Block Sidewalk Sale
It’s the salt that you cook on rather than cook with. Nab your own pale pink slab of fabulousness on the cheap at the Meadows’ one-day sale. Most sizes of the blocks will be 50 percent off, yo. The Meadow, 3731 N Mississippi Ave., 388-4633. 10 am-5 pm Sunday, Aug. 28.
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HOG HEAVEN
Nearly everything on the menu either comes with “pig” or the chalkboard encourages you to add it for a buck. You’d be a fool not to. Capalupo sources most of his hogs from Carlton Farms, butchers them himself and makes fantastic bacon and ham. Even the salad ($7) comes with BY KELLY CLA R KE kclarke@wweek.com pig: crunchy bacon crumbles on top of a tangle of local greens along with some almonds, juicy Three Pigs is a fine-dining restaurant sandwiched cherries and blue cheese. between two slices of bread. Hidden away in a Three Pigs just started late-night service on building at the corner of I-405 and West Burnside Fridays and Saturdays, serving the neighborhood’s Street, the tiny sandwich shop (the former home drunken and stumbling hordes food far better of Sahagun chocolates) has just enough room for than they deserve until 4 am. If you come then, six stools at the high window counter and a pair of you’ll probably meet Capalupo’s main man Peter tables outside. They wrap everything in butcher’s Metzger, who has a beautiful tattoo of a cut-up pig paper so you can leave, quickly, and you have NW named Mr. Oinker on his forearm, moonlights as Auto Spa’s blessing to park in its gravel lot across a cook for Vitaly Paley and recently produced the the street while you pick up your takeout order. best soup ($3) I have tasted in the past few years. It doesn’t matter. These are sandwiches That’d be a hot, sweet and vinegary bean and ham worth standing up for, made with love by people soup enriched with fat fennel seeds, carrot juice who could be cooking at and a purée of pickled papadu someplace way bigger and Order this: Egg and cheddar on brioche peppers. (“The peppers were fancier (and have). There’s a with “pig.” a stroke of genius,” he says, grilled cheese for grown-ups: Best deal: The soup...any soup ($3). proudly.) cheddar and bacon on but- I’ll pass: On sitting on those high stools Some of what I’ve crowed tered brioche from Grand for any extended period of time, thanks. about may not be on the Central ($7), slathered with menu by next week. Capalupo a sweet and spicy whole-grain mustard and rhu- is always fiddling with the menu, shifting offerbarb jam spread that’s so good they ought to sell ings according to the season or what animal he’s it at specialty food shops for a lot of money. The hacking apart. “I get people hooked and I screw Cubano ($7) is heavy with juicy ham and melty with them,” he says with a laugh, mentioning that Gruyère on Como bread, each bite delivering late-night peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and a big crunch from vinegary-sweet housemade Saturday morning prix fixe brunch plans are also pickles. The breakfast sandwich ($6) swaps on the horizon. If you ask ahead of time, they’ll Portland’s usual fried egg for a buttery omelet, also move the stools, set up a table and cook you sharp cheddar and bacon caught between two and your friends a private dinner for as cheaply airy squares of that toasted brioche. You should as $15 to $20 a head. Last Saturday he bought a probably order all three. whole Katahdin lamb from Hubbard, Ore., which If you come during the day, you’ll probably he and his friends butchered in the same space. meet owner-chef Ralph Capalupo, the laid-back It’ll be on the menu this week, along with parts of New Yorker who opened the shop a little more the Carpenter Creek Farm pig head and feet that than a month ago after years of cooking at high- were sitting in the Three Pigs fridge last week. er-end spots like Noble Rot and Urban Farmer. In any case, it’s bound to be good. This is one He’s lived in the neighborhood for six years and pig’s house that isn’t being blown down anytime lamented its lack of a great, no-nonsense deli soon. for just as long. He spends 18 to 20 hours a day in his postage stamp-sized kitchen prepping and EAT: Three Pigs, 10 NW 16th Ave., 227-3575. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and late night 7:30 churning out that short list of sandwiches and a am-7:30 pm Monday-Friday, 8 pm-4 am Fridayhandful of equally great specials, from creamy, Saturday. $-$$.
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SAT SEPTEMBER 24TH • 8PM • ALL AGES THEATER OF THE CLOUDS
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COOL NUTZ • SPAC3MAN
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DOUBLE TEE CONCERTS & KESEY PRESENT RUDE DUDES & DJ BEYONDADOUBT SEPTEMBER 4TH • ROSELAND • 8PM • ALL AGES
ALESTORM BLACKGUARD THE AGONIST SEPT 13TH • PETER’S ROOM@ROSELAND • 7:30PM • ALL AGES
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MONEY SHARK TOUR 2011
FRI SEPTEMBER 16TH • ROSELAND • 8PM • ALL AGES
3 GREAT SHOWS!
STANTON MOORE TRIO
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SAGE FRANCIS THE METERMAIDS SADISTIK
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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 24 Joshua English, Mark Spangler
[SWELL POP SONGS] Portland songwriter Joshua English’s latest disc, Lay Bare Your Bones, was a bit of an under-the-radar affair, but the tattooed troubadour’s sophomore full-length contains some fantastic tunes— ”Beast! Upright!” is a smartly delivered pop gem that reminds a bit of New Morning-era Dylan; “All Hours” is all strange breakbeats, twang and tacit heartbreak—that shouldn’t be ignored and likely sound even better as solo affairs. Tonight’s engagement in the intimate Al’s Den features a guest spot from the slightly more dramatic Mark Spangler, and English plays the club every night until Saturday, when he wraps things up with a full band alongside Pancake Breakfast’s Mike Midlo. CASEY JARMAN. Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel, 303 SW 12th Ave., 972-2670. Free. 21+.
Tapes ’n Tapes, The Chain Gang of 1974
[CALCULATED CARNAGE] The pride of the Twin Cities, Tapes ’n Tapes, has done great things to the world of basement rock. The band’s sound is so level, yet so gritty, it’ll make your head spin. Josh Grier and Jeremy Hanson are responsible for this noisy contradiction of calculated carelessness and show no signs of letting up. Usually, by album three a band will alter its approach—or, worse, begin hemorrhaging inspiration—but the band’s latest release, Outside, immortalizes Tapes as one of the finest garage-rock outfits around: an act with the unlikely ability to turn the volume dial from 10 to 11. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $15. 21+.
Mattress, Religious Girls, The Crow, Jizz Wisard
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See album review, page 31. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. Free. 21+.
The Protomen, Air War
[NES CORE] Fresh from a triumphant performance at Nerdapalooza, Tennessee’s Protomen—a face-painted, pseudonym-happy, 10-piece prog troupe devoted to the teachings of retro Nintendo franchise Mega Man— have again taken to the road. While one might question whether the 8-bit dystopia deserves so full a musical extrapolation (the band has released two thirds of a planned album trilogy to a general lack of interest—performing part one tonight and part two tomorrow at Lola’s Room), the band’s live performances, as much traveling metal operetta as concert, deliver an artful, energetic and none too especially serious majesty. JAY HORTON. Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
Nick Jaina, Dovekins, Run On Sentence
See music feature, this page. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
THURSDAY, AUG. 25 Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk
[FUNK] Ivan Neville is the son of butter-smooth crooner Aaron, but aside from the whole sharing-DNA thing, the acorn fell pretty far from Aaron’s branch of the legendary Neville family tree. Fronting New Orleans funk quintet Dumpstaphunk, the barbedvoiced Neville the younger is a full-on funk tornado, embracing a postKatrina Big Easy funk in which political statements, blaring horns and nastyas-fuck bass lines coexist in perfect harmony. Dumpstaphunk is in the top tier of its genre, and once the band gets into its pocket, any hip within earshot is a guaranteed casualty on the dance floor. AP KRYZA. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 9 pm. $17. 21+.
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BY CAS EY JA R MA N
OKKERVIL RIVER’S WILL SHEFF I recently spoke with Okkervil River’s Will Sheff for the better part of an hour about his song “Black,” from Okkervil’s 2005 record, Black Sheep Boy. Well, I tried to talk to him about that—the ensuing conversation (up now at wweek.com) was far-flung and intriguing, touching on stand-up comedy, abuse, Okkervil’s latest album (which is really good, by the way) and how Sheff would like to “personally kick the shit out of John Boehner.” I chose a slightly less shocking excerpt for print. “I’m really deeply honored that my music means anything to anybody, and particularly when it’s able to be some kind of use to people when they’re unhappy or when something painful is preoccupying them. I think that’s what art is. It’s a useless useful thing. I don’t mean that to sound like it’s supposed to be an after-school special...but I do think it’s useful somehow. So yeah, in fact it’s the thing I’m most proud of in my entire life, if I can have some kind of moment where I made people feel better or was comforting. That’s the best thing I’ll probably ever do. I don’t know if I’m gonna have kids, and I don’t know if it even makes the world better to have kids at this point. I’m a pretty useless human being from day to day, but I do have going for me that I have occasionally make people feel better. So I’m proud of that.” SEE IT: Okkervil River plays Thursday, Aug. 25, and Friday, Aug. 26, at the Edgefield, with the Decemberists. 6 pm. $37 (Thursday show sold out). All ages.
NICK JAINA AND HIS WOMEN THE PORTLAND SONGWRITER STEPS AWAY FROM THE MIC TO FIND HIS CALLING. BY MATTHEW SIN GER
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If Nick Jaina had been born just a few decades earlier, in the era of Tin Pan Alley and the Brill Building, the world never would’ve heard his voice on record, and he’d be perfectly fine with that. “People don’t really seek out songs anymore. Everyone’s a songwriter now,” the soft-spoken musician (and occasional Willamette Week columnist) says. “If this was the ’50s, I would be a songwriter and never sing, because that’s my strength.” For his new album, The Beanstalks That Have Brought Us Here Are Gone, Jaina lives out his dream. After reconsidering the songs that failed to make the cut for his last album, Jaina found most didn’t work because his voice wasn’t right for them. So, he brought in different vocalists to give them new life. Those singers happened to be women. “I tried to find ways to use female voices as instruments to do things my voice just couldn’t do because it’s masculine...slightly,” he says with a laugh. “And it just changes the perspective of the story to have a woman singing it.” WW talked to Jaina about the inspiration behind some of the songs from his new disc.
preacher’s insistence that Jesus is a man whose return is worth waiting around for a metaphor for the leap of faith required by falling in love. Sung with soaring grace by Kunin, a.k.a. Bright Archer, “James” also conveys the insecurity of being in a relationship with someone whose heart belongs to a deity. “In some respects they’re comparing you to this person who’s impossibly perfect because he’s not around,” he says. “The President of the Chess Club,” featuring Amanda Spring of Point Juncture, WA “It’s nerd love,” Jaina says of the record’s catchiest track. Although joyfully sung by Spring from the perspective of a girl crushing on a brainy highschooler, many of the details of the song, which describe a boy with an effeminate walk “who mispronounces words because he’s never heard them in conversation,” are taken from another of Jaina’s real-life relationships. One line, referencing a notary public, came from his mother. “She said, ‘You can get a certificate as a notary public, and you can just drive around and notarize things, and it’s not that hard,’” Jaina says. “A few weeks later, I play that song for my brother, and he’s like, ‘All you heard when she was talking about a career was lyrics for a song, weren’t you?’”
“You Were So Good to Me,” featuring Jolie Holland Jaina originally wrote this mournful, bossa novainspired tune for soul singer Tahoe Jackson, but a miscommunication led him to believe she was not interested. He passed it along to Houston folk artist Jolie Holland. “She has this hyper-emotional quality to her singing that seems to disregard notes and formality sometimes. Her voice always gives me the chills just because of the unexpected leaps she does,” he says. “The subject of the song fits with that, because I picture it as a widow singing it to someone she loves.”
“No One Gives Their Heart Away,” featuring Laura Gibson Beanstalk concludes with the song that started the entire project. Jaina had tried to get venerable Portland crooner Gibson to perform one of his songs for years before she finally connected with this gentle lullaby. “I like the idea of listening to an album as you’re going to sleep, and the last song ending as you’re half-conscious,” he says. It also expresses what Jaina considers the message of the entire record. “Nothing is for free. Nothing is given to you, you have to earn it—with relationships, too. It wouldn’t be as good if someone just said, ‘OK, I’m in love with you.’ You should have to earn it, constantly.”
“James,” featuring Johanna Kunin A few years ago, Jaina dated a Christian girl. He went to church with her once, and found in the
SEE IT: Nick Jaina plays Mississippi Studios Wednesday, Aug. 24, with Dovekins and Run On Sentence. 9 pm. $10 day of show. 21+. Read more about Nick Jaina’s songs at wweek.com. Willamette Week AUGUST 24, 2011 wweek.com
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The Decemberists, Okkervil River, Pt. Juncture, WA
[FOLK-POP PLUS] If you’re ever going to see the Decemberists, now is the time. Not only does latest record The King is Dead find the hugely popular Portland outfit in fine form, but supporting act Okkervil River just released its most ambitious and adventurous album to date, I Am Very Far. Respective frontmen Colin Meloy and Will Sheff are friends and noted hyper-literate nerds, so don’t be surprised if a tea-sipping Q&A session (or at least a duet) makes its way somewhere into this two-night engagement. Oh, and openers Point Juncture, WA (tonight) and AgesandAges (Friday) are two of our favorite Portland bands. Good stuff all around. CASEY JARMAN. McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troudale. 6 pm. Sold out. $37 tickets still available for Friday show. All ages.
Nipsey Hussle, Mikey Vegaz
[GANGSTA FUNK] No, Los Angeles MC Nipsey Hussle is not related to Snoop Dogg. Yes, his skinny frame, braided hair and Chuck Tayloradorned California swagger give him a physical resemblance. And yes, they both speak in this a gentle hush that may makes you wonder if this is what a Sloth would sound like if it could talk. But Nipsey is his own man. Unlike Snoop, his soft hum of a voice turns into a nasaly bark when he raps. His neighborhood tales of street life are part bravado, part conscious MCing— Nipsey is more akin to a young Ice Cube, if anyone. One thing the two West Coast rappers do have in common though is they both make music that will shake the shit out of your windshields if turned up loud enough—perfect for scaring old people waiting at bus stops. The hype machine has dubbed Nipsey as the next big thing to come straight outta Cali, so catching him live is probably worth your time. REED JACKSON. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 7 pm. $15 advance, $17 day of show. All ages.
Midday Veil, Swahili, Golden Retriever, Billions and Billions, Black Science
[INTERDISCIPLINARY ART EXPERIENCE] A spinoff of a similar event that happened at Holocene in December 2010, Intuitive Navigation gathers a handful of psych, drone and experimental bands and pairs each one up with a dancer, filmmaker or artist to play with and off one another. Considering the tone of many of the acts—the spacious dreamscapes of Midday Veil, Golden Retriever’s glorious tonal smears and the sharp metallic edges wielded by Black Science—this isn’t a night to be taken lightly or without a little chemical boost to help let the music and visuals take you to a higher plane. ROBERT HAM. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8 pm. $5. 21+.
The Protomen, Wizard Attack
See Wednesday listing. Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
Grass Widow, Blood Beach, XDS, Nature
[GRRRLS AT THEIR BEST] The Bay Area-based Grass Widow is another all-female trio that takes large, tasty bites out of the early ’80s postpunk sound and the ’90s riot grrrl groups that followed in its wake. It’s a familiar enough trope for anyone who has been listening to bands like Brilliant Colors or New Bloods, but Grass Widow adds that steely tang that provides a delicious tingle at the base of the spine. The kind of feeling you get when you know the scares are coming and you alternately look forward to them as you wish them away. ROBERT HAM. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
Oregon Rocks Exhibition Opening: Ural Thomas, The Kingsmen, Pierced Arrows, Quasi, DJ Hwy 7 [OREGON ROCK] Though I haven’t yet viewed the exhibit, the Oregon Historical Society and Dill Pickle Club have already taught me something new: Pierced Arrows, a band noted for its marathon performances, is apparently capable of playing a 40-minute set. This is the first of many lessons to be learned at the debut of the Historical Society’s new exhibit, Oregon Rocks!: A History of Popular Music in Oregon, which aims to contextualize our fair state’s music history with fun facts about liquor laws and race relations. Tonight’s opening performance, which also features local soul survivor Ural Thomas and the great Quasi, is rounded out by Q&A sessions and what will likely be
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Mares of Thrace, Sei Hexe, Natur
[IRON MAIDENS] Don’t let the name fool you; Mares of Thrace are not from the ancient East Balkan Peninsula. In fact, Mares are two women who hail from Canada and make some of the most blistering and ugly underground metal music you’ll hear this year (even if there are occasional breakdowns into melodic singing and guitar arpeggios that wouldn’t be out of
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DOUBLEPLUSGOOD, HERE THEY COME, THE BIRDS OF MY YOUTH (SOHITEK) [ELECTRONIC POP] The air of romantic and erotic longing that presides over Doubleplusgood’s latest CD might be hard to breathe in without some effort. This drums-and-electronics duo doesn’t push it right to the surface. Instead, the pair masks it with plenty of glitz, New Wave dance beats and candied melodies that leave a delightfully sticky residue on your fingers. Start peeling back the copious layers of computerized wobbles and Andy Nelson’s breakbeats and you’ll start to catch glimpses of the cracked heart that lies at the core of the group’s sound. For all you can pick up, though, singer Erik Carlson sounds like he wants to give away only pieces of the story. Lyrics get lost in the fray of synthesized sounds. Just as you start to track the tale he spins on the dubsteppy “Something Else”—“You came along just a man without a story/ I thought it wrong to put out if you don’t know me”—he swallows the last part of the verse. Does Carlson want you to fill in your own woeful thoughts or pang of regrets into the mix? Or is he just expecting you to ignore the beats and spend repeated listens trying to nail down the lyrics? This remains a mystery. Not that you need to know every little detail to enjoy this album. Let Doubleplusgood wallow; just grab the partner of your choice and hit the dance floor. ROBERT HAM.
MATTRESS LONELY SOULS EP (FIELD HYMNS) [DARK ELECTRONICS] Most bands go for the lapel grab, insisting on your attention from the first notes of the first song of a live set or album. The rare and often more interesting bands prefer to sidle up alongside you, put an arm around your shoulders and slowly seduce you. At least that’s the impression that the new EP by selfproclaimed “cyborg gospel” outfit Mattress left me with. No beats get above the pace of your average heartbeat, and the drum patterns tend to hide in the background to provide a buttress between the Suicide-style synth drones and godhead Rex Marshall’s basso profundo vocalizing. It’s an amazingly effective formula that works over your senses with an intoxicating fervor. Where does the gospel part of Mattress’ sound come in? Marshall seems to inhabit the role of a futuristic tent revival preacher, all sweat and insinuation. He chastises the listener on the skittering “Lied Again,” falls to his knees imploring the Holy Spirit to “Shake Me” and closes this six-track EP with an agonized reminder that “only lonely souls go to heaven.” As slowly as Lonely Souls will sneak up on your senses, it will quickly rattle you around and leave you spent at the end. Just thank whatever God you pray to that it is only 25 minutes long. Any more, and you might not make it out alive. ROBERT HAM. SEE IT: Mattress plays Holocene on Wednesday, Aug. 24, with Religious Girls, the Crow and Jizz Wizard. 8:30 pm. $8. 21+. Doubleplusgood plays Saturday, Aug. 27, at Doug Fir, with XDS and Wild Ones. $5. 21+. Willamette Week AUGUST 24, 2011 wweek.com
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[PSYCHEDELIC TWANG-POP] It’s great when a band emerges, fully formed, out of nowhere to knock us all out. But as a music critic, it’s actually more rewarding to find an emerging band with promise to build upon. Celilo, over the past four years, has grown immeasurably. On new disc Buoy Bell, the band seamlessly integrates shades of its personality that have occasionally felt at odds on previous efforts—frontman Sloan Martin’s twangy, roots-influenced songwriting and the band’s spaced-out psychedelic leanings. On big songs (see the puzzle-like “Baroque Blues”) and small ones (like the stripped-down “Old Loves”), Celilo sounds cohesive and lovely all the time. The group can now make a case for being one of Portland’s most underrated bands—and the live shows are even better than the records. CASEY JARMAN. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. All ages.
Wooden Shjips, Night Beats
[TURN ON, TUNE IN, DROP OUT] San Francisco’s Wooden Shjips started its career aiming for instant obscurity. According to legend, frontman Ripley Johnson envisioned making records that would never see the light of an actual record store, instead going straight into thrift stores and libraries like the arcane LPs that inspired him. Unfortunately for Johnson, the band’s trance-inducing psych rock turned out to be too good for the bargain bin, as Shjips’ first two albums earned raves from the likes of Rolling Stone and impressed coolsters such as Jim Jarmusch, who booked the group for his All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in 2010. Its third full-length, West, is being issued by Chicago’s venerable Thrill Jockey in September. So much for anonymity. MATTHEW SINGER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. Free with RSVP at dougfirlounge.com. 21+.
Daniel Johnston, Motopony
[THE DEVIL INSIDE] Having only seen this remarkably tortured soul at an oversized venue, I can only salivate over a set at the midsized Wonder Ballroom. A smaller audience is less likely to scare the songwriter off stage, a practice Johnston’s made quite common.
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Despite what critics have said about 2009’s Is and Always Was, the record still demonstrates the alt-rock mammoth’s glowing creativity within meager musical dimensions. Manic depression has haunted Johnston for years, but it’s in that darkness—as painful as it may be—where he finds the magic so many other big-name musicians swoon over. MARK STOCK. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.
SATURDAY, AUG. 27 Mouthbreathers, Leaders, Drunk Dad, Youth Bitch
[MIDWEST PUNK] Kansas punk band Mouthbreathers’ Bandcamp page features an homage to the cover of Minor Threat’s hardcore classic, Out of Step—though it’s doubtful a straight-edge icon like Ian MacKaye would see the compliment in an image of a black sheep taking a hit off a bong. Oh well. At least musically, the group truly honors its idols with clenchedfist power chords and the shouted vocals of Kyle Gowdy, who often sounds like he’s screaming into an echo chamber. Its Out of Breath EP isn’t all fire and rage, however: “Out of My Mind” is a jangly, shambling tune fueled by a hooky garagepop melody, suggesting these dudes are a band to keep an eye on. MATTHEW SINGER. East End, 203 SE Grand Ave., 232-0056. 9 pm. $6. 21+.
McTuff, Philly’s Phunkestra
[SAX MACHINE] Seattle sax phenom Skerik is of the rare breed who can pick up his horn and do whatever the fuck he wants. At the Goodfoot, he’s guaranteed to let his freak flag fly in all its glory. As a solo artist, Skerik’s experimental, digital loop-based compositions fly in the face of convention, but he’s at his bizarre best with McTuff, a Seattle quartet fusing old-school dinner club jazz and more worldly influences like some weird fantasy of Louis Jordan kicking it at a Moroccan open mic. Odds are, Skerik will even join Portland’s finest New Orleans-style brass band, Philly’s Phunkestra, for part of its set. This is a master musician treating the stage as a sonic playground. AP KRYZA. Goodfoot Lounge, 2845 SE Stark St., 239-9292. 9 pm. Cover. 21+.
And And And, Death Songs, Safe Word, DJ Hostile Tapeover, DJ Danny Dodge
[MIDNIGHT RAMBLERS] When not delivering folk-encrusted power pop with the Shaky Hands, Nick Delffs is encrusting folk with all sorts of weird accents with his brother Nathan as Death Songs. As the name suggests, it’s a departure from the foot-stomping rave-ups of Delffs’ other project, but it’s hardly as dour as the moniker would lead you to believe. “Remain in Love Straight to the End” is a rattling,
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skeletal tune that indeed sounds like a funeral celebration of some sort, but it’s still a hand-waving good time. And “Ophillia” is a late-night basement clap-along jam that leans toward darkness while allowing a little moonlight to shine through. MATTHEW SINGER. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $7. 21+.
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Dead Prez, League of Extraordinary GZ, Tope
[REVOLUTIONARY BUT GANGSTA] The last time we heard from Dead Prez, on the election-themed single “Politrikkks,” the radical, socially conscious hip-hop duo was warning us against jumping on then-candidate Barack Obama’s hope-fueled bandwagon. If the lyrics felt divisive at the time, the influential group’s message might just strike a chord with disillusioned Democrats these days: “Everywhere we go, every day on TV, they be talking about who we gonna vote for/ Got a black man running but I wonder, if he get in, who he gonna open up the door for/ I don’t want to discourage my folk, I believe in hope, I just want us to want more/ Politics is a game, how they keep us contained, there’s gotta be more we can hope for.” It’s not the first time Dead Prez has been right: The gulfs between rich and poor, and between black and white, are widening; Americans don’t trust their government; riots in the streets from Egypt to England. If the duo can finally get a new album out, Dead Prez might just soundtrack an American revolution after all. CASEY JARMAN. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. $20 advance, $25 day of show. 21+.
Huey Lewis and the News
[BLUE-EYED SOUL] He’s a bit raspier than he was in his heyday, but then range was never Huey Lewis’ strong suit. The ’80s megastar was better known for his enthusiastic stage presence, strong chin and his knack for writing the synth-and-horns-fueled doo-wop pop that would come to soundtrack the decade’s white experience. In retrospect, studio recordings of songs like “Doin It (All For My Baby)” and “If This Is It” sound a bit canned and artificial, but in concert—and yes, I’m enough of a Huey Lewiphile to have caught the band’s Lincoln City casino tour stop last summer—the production gloss slips away to reveal the tight songcraft (and, to perhaps a lesser extent, the soul) behind Lewis’ truckload of hits. New covers record Soulsville is an admirable and classy hat-tip to the Motown and Stax-era records that first inspired Lewis and his News (the band remains mostly intact today), but these dudes have made so many hits that it’s kind of a shame to knock anything out of rotation. CASEY JARMAN. Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Road, 220-2789. 7 pm. $39. All ages.
Emmure, Blessthefall, Iwrestledabearonce, For Today, Born of Osiris, In This Moment, The Ghost Inside, Motionless in White, Chelsea Grin, Sleeping With Sirens, Attila, For All Those Sleeping, Upon a Burning Body, Memphis May Fire
[GRINDCORNY] Not that it’s particularly hard to earn a reputation as the clown princes of avant-garde metal—within this grimmest of all genres, incorporating disco breaks and pun-laden titles equals slapstick—but even the merest suggestion of a playful tinge to frontgal Krysta Cameron’s unearthly wails sets Southerners Iwrestledabearonce apart from Emmure, Alesana, Born of Osiris, and the rest of their All Stars tourmates ploughing the more approachable furrows of walking deathcore and off-black metal. JAY HORTON. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 1:30 pm. $25 advance, $30 day of show. All ages.
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BRAILLE FRIDAY, AUG. 26 [HIP-HOP] When Portland’s Bryan “Braille” Winchester was 17, hip-hop seemed like a practical career path. With adult responsibilities on the way and no high-school diploma, Winchester’s best chance to pay the bills was to follow his dream of being an MC full time. “I didn’t give myself many options,” he says. “I had put so much time into [hip-hop], it was like, ‘This is what I know how to do.’” Over a decade later, the 29-year-old is on the verge of releasing his seventh album, Native Lungs, on Humble Beast Records—an imprint he co-owns with friend Thomas Terry. The album finds the MC spitting his signature complex wordplay over beats made mostly by local producers (with some exceptions, like Dilated Peoples’ Evidence and former collaborator turned hitmaker S1). Although he’s lived in Portland almost his entire life—he spent a brief time in New Jersey in high school—Braille has often been absent from the local hip-hop scene. “I always miss out on the cool Portland shows, because I’m out of town,” he says of his heavy touring schedule. This time he wanted things to be different. “I just have a longing to get more involved, so the album saw me working with people from my native land.” For most artists, it’s the other way around: They want to break out of their hometowns and tour the world. But Braille has already done that, opening for greats like James Brown and performing at hip-hop festivals in Japan, Australia and across Europe. Braille is the first to admit that some of his success comes from finding a niche: His songs, while not entirely “Christian rap,” certainly have an underlying spiritual theme. For those who want some God in their hip-hop, Braille—who first preached the gospel on the sideline of a Lents neighborhood basketball court and went on to win fans with Lightheaded, a local hip-hop outfit that also included lauded MC/producer Ohmega Watts—is one of the best. But the 14-year music veteran’s “niche” only half-explains his success. On Native Lungs, the MC’s skills are on full display—from the dense wordplay on “Feel It” to the out-of-this-world rhyme schemes on “Nightmare Walking.” But like the rest of his albums, Lungs—available as a free download from humblebeast.com on Aug. 30—also finds Braille wearing his heart on his sleeve, allowing listeners to connect with his music on a personal level, even if they aren’t religious. “Life kind of writes the songs for you half the time,” he says of his music. “It’s never me standing and looking down at people—it’s me standing with the people.’” That attitude endears Braille to his fans, but with a wife and 4-year-old daughter at home (and with recurring stomach problems that may be caused by his busy schedule), Braille often wonders if he can continue down the path that once seemed so obvious. Then there are the moments when the hustle pays off. Recently, Braille got a letter from a hospital patient that reassured him that hip-hop was the right choice, not just the practical one. “If I can make a song that impacts this guy paralyzed from the waist down in Africa, maybe I should keep making songs, because I don’t know if I’d get the same result in another profession,” he says. “Those are the type of things that have kept me going.” REED JACKSON.
Portland’s Braille is a hip-hop lifer.
SEE IT: Braille releases Native Lungs at Branx on Friday, Aug. 26. 8 pm. $5 advance, $7 day of show. All ages.
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SUNDAY, AUG. 28 Mac Lethal, Knothead
[IRISH CAR BOMBS] Although Kansas City’s Mac Lethal hasn’t had a proper release since 2007’s 11:11, the media-savvy MC has stayed relevant through a series of online videos that demonstrate both the Irish American’s often vicious willingness to poke fun at stardom—check out his mucky take on Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the U.S.A.”—as well as his breathtaking (literally) technical skills as a rapper. To his fans, though, Lethal is not some no name on YouTube who likes to rap to a camera but a gifted, honest MC who spits as many rhymes on social realism as he does about getting drunk on PBR. His latest mixtape, North Korean BBQ, which was created in the heart of a gloomy Missouri winter, is his most honest piece of work to date. The disc is a stark look into the mind of a thirtysomething coming to grips with no longer being a young talent. Sound too cold for summer? Don’t worry: Even when he spits the serious stuff, Lethal does so with a Midwest bounce that’s built for the dance floor. REED JACKSON. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 9 pm. Cover. 21+.
Vancouver Wine and Jazz Festival: Spyro Gyra, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Bill Frisell Trio, John Hammond, Circle Three Jazz Trio
[JAZZ GUITARIST] I tend to balk at jazz fests, as they tend to book the most sanguine, inoffensive musicians and bands. So, I have to hand it to the Vancouver Wine and Jazz Festival for throwing a few curveballs into the mix. The biggest one is Bill Frisell, the renowned guitarist whose clear, understated tone lies as comfortably alongside Elvis Costello as it does jazz titans John Zorn and Jan Garbarek. He brings with him a pair of musicians (including drummer James McAlister) who will help push the guitarist into what are sure to be strange and tuneful directions. ROBERT HAM. Esther Short Park, 801 W 8th St., Vancouver, Wash., 360-750-8840. 11:30 am. $50 (three-day pass, Friday-Sunday). All ages.
PDX Rock Fest: Korn, Queensrÿche, Five Finger Death Punch, Chevelle, Hinder, All That Remains, Loaded, Like a Storm, Witchburn
[TRUCK ROCK] Making fun of a show like this is too easy and, frankly, a little hacky. Doing so would reek of indie smugness, as repugnant a characteristic as the chest-beating machismo of the KUFO crowd this lineup aims to attract. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not going to waste brainpower thinking up nice things to say about the generic aggro-rock of Hinder and Chevelle and, to be honest, I don’t have an informed opinion one way or the other about Queensrÿche. Let’s recon-
sider Korn, though. Sure, blame them for ushering in the rap-metal era and laugh at singer Jonathan Davis’ aggressive scatting and Utilikilts, but the group’s sound— more grinding and atonal than most mainstream acts dare—was as original as anything on alternative radio back in the mid-’90s. And at least the band attempted to be a legitimate voice for freaks and outcasts, not just the soundtrack for their bullying. If nothing else, Korn did less damage than Limp Bizkit. Maybe that’s faint praise, but it’s deserved. MATTHEW SINGER. Washington County Fair Complex, 873 NE 34th Ave., Hillsboro, 648-1416. 5 pm. 21+.
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Friday, Aug 26th
CELILO buoy bell album release
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MC Frontalot, Brandon Patton
[THE GAMER] More the spiritual heir to Allen Sherman and Weird Al than charmingly self-deprecating nebbish-chic contemporaries like Paul Barman, the self-described “world’s 579th greatest rapper” and nerdcore visionary rocks the pocket-protector persona with a cartoonish elan that tends to grate through star-studded albums. Name-checking less enviable pursuits within hip-hop braggadocio always seemed a limited joke upon which to base a career, but the gamer-fabulous aesthetic has grown surprisingly dated. With a Wii in every household and superheroes invading the multiplex, the geeks have already inherited the earth. JAY HORTON. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 9 pm. 21+.
Friday, Sept 2nd
Janet Jackson
[POP QUEEN] Listening back, there has always been something different about Janet Jackson. Where other pop stars of her day sang to candy-coated backing instrumentation, Ms. Jackson’s catalog of hits features minimal industrial beats (“Nasty,” “Miss You Much”), drugged-out house cuts (“That’s the Way Love Goes,” “Together Again”) and crunchy post-New Jack Swing (“Doesn’t Really Matter,” the MJ-collabo “Scream”). The diva, who celebrated her 45th birthday this spring, has always embraced sexuality on her own terms—“Control” is a bona fide feminist anthem; 1997 effort the The Velvet Rope featured some reasonably overt gay themes; conspiracy theorists contend that the famed Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction was less than accidental—and she has never shied from speaking directly with her fans, often on record. For a pop star, Jackson has had a startlingly bold career, and even as she performs hits from her Number Ones collection at this relatively intimate show, one gets the distinct impression that Janet’s most daring work is yet to come. CASEY JARMAN. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 800-745-3000. 8 pm. $64.50-$95. All ages.
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litzen Trapper is consistently impressive, but the ability to impress is pretty much the only consistent thing about the local favorite—the Portland quintet’s sound and subject matter are anything but uniform. Blitzen Trapper churns out everything from jangling Southern-rock tracks about dusty outlaws to intergalactic space jams about break-dancing wizards. Monotony, suffice to say, is a non-issue. Now, the band is slated to release a spanking-new full-length, American Goldwing (Sub Pop), on Sept. 13 with the same pleasantly mishmash sound. The band’s sixth full-length, American Goldwing puts the group’s nose-to-the-grindstone work ethic front and center, and it seeps through the seams of Blitzen Trapper’s gritty yet poetic lyrics. The album’s title track is a harmonica-heavy toe-tapper that would sound equally appropriate on a jukebox in Portland as it would in a honky-tonk bar in Tennessee. Frontman Eric Earley’s clench-jawed vocals are hard to distinguish from Tom Petty’s iconic croon, lending the band’s sound a sense of comfort and nostalgia. And like any fan-friendly band, Blitzen Trapper comes with fun accessories. In anticipation of a fall tour with L.A. rockers Dawes, the bands have released a free, six-song tour sampler available for download. Blitzen Trapper has also offered up
BLITZEN TRAPPER plays MusicfestNW on the Comcast Stage at the Crystal Ballroom on Friday, Sept. 9, with Weinland and Sharon Van Etten. Doors open at 8 pm. Entry with MFNW wristband or $18 advance ticket from TicketsWest.
MusicfestNW. Saturday. Day Four. You’ve seen 41 bands, and you’re wandering around Portland in a zombified daze, fatigued by an endless barrage of drinking and dancing, ears ringing. But the promise of seeing BOAT at Star Theater keeps you going. You eagerly stumble into the venue, only to discover BOAT has already sailed. Yesterday. You reach for your pocket schedule. It’s nowhere to be found. That’s why man invented robots. And living in the future as we do, MFNW’s online scheduling system is here to prevent such confusion. Simply log in at musicfestnw.com, click the shows you want to see, and you’re presented with a color-coded schedule that can be uploaded to Facebook and Twitter to share with friends and stalkers alike. Bam! Crisis averted. Musicfest is here to do the thinking for you. All you have to do is sign up, go out and get down. Isn’t the future grand?
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The annual MusicfestNW Poster Show is dead, kaput, muerto. But fear not. Rising from its ashes is the more consumer-friendly MFNW Poster Mart, presented by EMP. Held in the Jupiter Hotel’s courtyard (800 E Burnside St.), the MFNW Poster Mart is open to everyone who wants to peruse the custom-made MFNW show posters and other original works, meet the artists who created them, slap down some sweet green scrilla and take home a poster. This year, MFNW enlisted artists such as Guy Burwell (Portland), Studio Frontaal (Netherlands), John Vogl (Denver) and a slew of others who crafted meticulous pieces for MFNW’s shows. The Poster Mart will be open Saturday from noon to 10 pm, so if you see a MFNW show that changes your life, or think you might have a life-changing experience (you will, trust us), run down to the Poster Mart to commemorate (or, pre-emptively memorialize) that moment in time with a slick new piece of art.
MusicfestNW takes the misconception that Portland’s music scene caters almost exclusively to the 21-plus crowd and smashes it like an ill-fated guitar at a punk show. The kids aren’t only alright, they’re also the future of music, and MFNW is here to feed the hungry hordes. In addition to all-ages shows at Pioneer Courthouse Square, Crystal Ballroom, the Roseland Theater and Wonder Ballroom, MFNW has spread the all-ages love throughout the city, offering whippersnappers ample opportunities to fully immerse themselves in the fest. At eastside mainstay Branx, shows include Thursday performances by Portland chamber-thump duo Talkdemonic and synthheavy Canadian duo Handsome Furs. On Friday, shit’s getting psychedelic with Reporter and the experimental Glass Candy, while Saturday unleashes a frontal assault on eardrums by local heroes YACHT. Deeper Southeast, the historic Hawthorne Theatre is going eclectic with Swedish electronic nutjobs Little Dragon on Thursday, the balls-out metal of Pig Destroyer on Friday, and Saturday hardcore shows by OFF!, Poison Idea and others. Of course, no all-ages lineup would be complete without Backspace. This year, the Old Town staple pulls out all the stops with explosive performances highlighted by a Friday throwdown by Portland superheroes the Thermals and a Saturday set by indie-rock mainstay and all-around swell guy Ted Leo. There’s even something for the little ones—and their parents, no doubt thrilled to temporarily shelve the Raffi CDs—with You Who!, Seann McKeel and Chris Funk’s children’s variety show featuring a performance by AgesandAges in addition to skits, cartoons, puppets and more on Sept. 11 at Kennedy School. For kids of all ages—whether fledgling teenage rock kids dying to bring the noise or geriatric music lovers looking to hear what the kids are listening to—MusicfestNW has transformed Portland into a musical playground where scuffed knees are replaced by ringing ears.
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its newest single, “Love the Way You Walk Away,” for free download to tickle your eardrums and get them itchin’ for American Goldwing’s full release on the tail of MusicfestNW. In March, the band even went multimedia, teaming with actor Rainn Wilson (Dwight Schrute of The Office) to release a short film titled Blitzen Trapper Massacre. In the film, Wilson attempts to join the band, which kindly declines his offer. After a demonic conversation with himself in the bathroom mirror, Wilson methodically massacres the entire band. Like all other Blitzen Trapper material, the batshit-quirky dramedy is seven minutes of gonzo bliss. MusicfestNW’s showcase is the band’s last local show before embarking on its five-week fall tour. Given the consistency Blitzen Trapper has provided fans in recent years, sending the hometown band off with raucous reception is highly appropriate. Bon voyage, Blitzen Trapper—and come back soon. MFNW
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= 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.
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Billy Kennedy
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Wax Edison, Grrlfriend, Vises
Press Club D AV I D C O O P E R
2621 SE Clinton St. Swing Papillon
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Open Mic with Go Fuck Yerself
Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery 206 SW Morrison St. Jordan Harris and Company
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Adventures With Might, Decades, Rotten Musicians
Someday Lounge
1530 SE 7th Ave. Larry Pattis, Peter Janson
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Melville
303 SW 12th Ave. Joshua English, Mark Spangler
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Open Mic
Alderbrook Park Resort
24414 NE Westerholm Road, Brush Prairie, Wash. Lloyd Jones Band
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Blvd Park, Jobo Shakins
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Mystery Siblings, On the Stairs, Jon Gary Williams, Denim Wedding, Jonah Luke
6000 NE Glisan St. Fairweather (9 pm); David Gerow (6 pm)
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Scott Southworth
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Tapes ‘n Tapes, The Chain Gang of 1974
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. Cyclotron, Apache, Daddy Longlegs, DJ Tessacoil
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Fulero, Prescott and West
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge 625 NW 21st Ave. Laura Ivancie
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Mattress, Religious Girls, The Crow, Jizz Wisard
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Mat Ridenour, Steven Martinelli
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet
Kells
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Redwood Son
Milagros Boutique 5433 NE 30th Ave. Van Oodles
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Hillstomp, The Preservation
Mississippi Studios
112 SW 2nd Ave. Pat Buckley
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Nick Jaina, Dovekins, Run On Sentence
LaurelThirst
O’Connors
2958 NE Glisan St. Kory Quinn, Mike Midlo, Blind Bartimaeus, Lewi Longmire (9 pm); Michael Hurley (6 pm)
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St. The Protomen, Air War
7850 SW Capitol Highway Kit Garoutte
PCPA Antoinette Hatfield Hall 1111 SW Broadway Mistral
PCPA Music on Main Street SW Main St. & SW Broadway
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Ahmond
430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin 1669 SE Bybee Blvd. Wicky Pickers
Dante’s
1635 SE 7th Ave. Knuckleheads (9 pm); Portland Playboys (6 pm)
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Grave Babies, Fever, Perpetual Ritual
Ella Street Social Club
Ford Food and Drink
Vie de Boheme
Biddy McGraw’s
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Acoustic Minds
Tony Starlight’s
SE 115th Ave. & SE Stark St. David Correa and Cascada
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
Buffalo Gap Saloon
71 SW 2nd Ave. Eric John Kaiser
Ventura Park
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Old Yellers Duo
722 E Burnside St. Lil Flip
714 SW 20th Place Olina, Michael the Blind, The Oldest Profession
1425 NW Glisan St. Nancy King with Larry Dunlapp
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. When The Lights Go Out, Apollo, Southgate, Sisyphean Conscience, Bury Your Horses, Subtle City
Bossanova Ballroom
Duff’s Garage
Touché Restaurant and Billiards
2201 N Killingsworth St. Lowell John Mitchell and The Triplets of Beaterville
2201 N Killingsworth St. Rotten Musicians
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Tara Williamson with Bre Gregg
102 NE Russell St. The Javier Nero Quintet
Beaterville Cafe
350 W Burnside St. Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk
Thirsty Lion
Afrique Bistro
115 NW 5th Ave. Kimosabe, Speaker Minds, Tracksploitation
2045 SE Belmont St. Melz/Prigodich/Erskine Group (MPEG)
426 SW Washington St. Pheasant, Still Caves, Jesse Hughey
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
Backspace
Corkscrew Wine Bar
The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian
Hawthorne Theatre
225 SW Ash St. Rockin’ Fuckin’ Roll, Gorilla Monsoon, The Drawingboard, Tidal Horn, No Fucking Bueno
The Blue Monk
1001 SW Broadway Key of Dreams
Beaterville Cafe
Ash Street Saloon
Chapel Pub
The Globe
WED. AUG. 24
3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Songwriters Roundup
125 NW 5th Ave. Edan and Paten Locke, DJ Roane 3341 SE Belmont St. Arabesque Belly Dance
BRING THE KIDS: The Decemberists play Edgefield this Thursday and Friday.
Artichoke Community Music
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar
Union Station, 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Trio with Nancy Curtain
THUR. AUG. 25 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Joshua English, Jon Koonce
2505 SE 11th Ave. Ezra Holbrook
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Damian Erskine Project, Sean Hutchinson’s Still Life
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge 625 NW 21st Ave. Kory Quinn
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE 39th Ave. Savoir Faire Burlesque
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Nipsey Hussle, Mikey Vegaz, Libretto
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Midday Veil, Swahili, Golden Retriever, Billions and Billions, Black Science
Hotel deLuxe
729 SE 15th Ave. Top Down: “Goldfinger” featuring Hosannas
Jimmy Mak’s
Troutdale Jack McMahon
McMenamins Edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale The Decemberists, Okkervil River, Pt. Juncture, WA
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Reverb Brothers
Milagros Boutique 5433 NE 30th Ave. Mo Phillips
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Weekend Assembly (9 pm); Boy and Bean (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Grass Widow, Blood Beach, XDS, Nature
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Stellars Jay
Oregon Historical Society
1200 SW Park Ave. Oregon Rocks Exhibition Opening: Ural Thomas, The Kingsmen, Pierced Arrows, Quasi, DJ Hwy 7
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb
Peter’s Room
8 NW 6th Ave. Bag Raiders, Sidestep
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Mares of Thrace, Sei Hexe, Natur
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Chloraform, AUX 78, Stepper
Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery 206 SW Morrison St. Tony Smiley
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Burn Pilot, Hello Electric, Bryan Minus and the Disconnect
Saratoga
6910 N Interstate Ave. Fucking Lesbian Bitches, Street Eaters, The Mishaps
Sellwood Public House
8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic with Two Rivers
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
8635 N Lombard St. KPSU Benefit: Rollerball, Dead Air Fresheners, Soup Purse, Office Products
Street of Dreams
SW Bull Mountain Road & SW 144th Ave., Tigard KINK Street Party with Tyler Stenson
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones Jam Session
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown B3 Organ Group
The Globe
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Dave Alvin and The Guilty Ones, Los Straitjackets
Kells
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar
Alberta Rose Theatre
Kennedy School
Aladdin Theater
112 SW 2nd Ave. Pat Buckley
3000 NE Alberta St. The Old Town Bohemian Cabaret
5736 NE 33rd Ave. Sugarcane
Alberta Street Public House
2958 NE Glisan St. Jake Ray (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)
1036 NE Alberta St. Chervona
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Borikuas Trio
Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. Dina and Bamba Y Su Pilon D’Azucar with La Descarga Cubana
LaurelThirst
Lents Commons
9201 SE Foster Road Parfait
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom
2045 SE Belmont St. Charley and Jesi
1001 SW Broadway Johnny Martin
The Hobnob Grille
3350 SE Morrison St. Open Mic
The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Egg Plant, Pale Tourist, Patti King
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Christie and the Kings
1332 W Burnside St. The Protomen, Wizard Attack
Tin Shed Garden Cafe
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
Tonic Lounge
2126 SW Halsey St.,
1438 NE Alberta St. Back Porch Revival
3100 NE Sandy Blvd.
Paul Iannotti Group, Buttery Lords, Milky Justus
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Tony’s Tiki Voodoo Vibes Lounge Luau with Carib
Trader Vic’s
1203 NW Glisan St. DJ Drew Groove
Twilight Café and Bar
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Best Supporting Actress, PIGS, Welfare
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Chrissy Faith Dream Team
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Gordon Goldsmith
WTFbikes
1114 SE Clay St The Ocean Floor, James Rabbit, Zach Jammin’, Shelby Sifers
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Will West and the Friendly Cover Up
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Garcia Birthday Band (9 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. Harry Bacharach
FRI. AUG. 26 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Joshua English, Little Beirut
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Celilo, Sean Flinn and The Royal We, Carcrashlander
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Misner & Smith, Heartroot (9:30 pm); Mikey’s Irish Jam (6:30 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Dan Diresta Quartet
Artichoke Community Music
3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Friday Night Coffeehouse
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. The Eegos, Party Trigger, Hairspray Blues
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Brainstorm, Religious Girls, Kotten Dik, Moon Pearl
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Shawn Hawkins and the Offenders
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Funk Shui (9 pm); Billy Kennedy & Jimmy Boyer (6 pm)
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Braille, Odd Thomas, Theory Hazit, TxE, Dave Notti, Calvin Valentine, Xperiment, Trox
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Jordan Harris, Travis Petersen
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. David Friesen, Greg Goebel
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The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Johnny Martin
The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. The Tumblers, Indian Headset
4001 SW Canyon Road Huey Lewis and the News
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Clarity Process, The Days The Nights, Loom
Tony Starlight’s
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Norman Sylvester
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Wooden Shjips, The Night Beats
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. D.K. Stewart Sextet (9 pm); Honey and the Hamdogs (6 pm)
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Chemicals, Meat Sluts, Partycat, Ghost Mom
Elizabeth Caruthers Park 3508 SW Moody Ave. Blue Cranes
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Thee Headliners, Snap, The Hooded Hags
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Petty Cash, Dan Haley, Rachel Rice (9:30 pm); Alice Stuart (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Whiskey Puppy
McMenamins Edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale The Decemberists, Okkervil River, AgesandAges
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
Ella Street Social Club
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Billy D and the Hoodoos
Esther Short Park
Milagros Boutique
714 SW 20th Place Joe Marquand
801 W 8th St., Vancouver, Wash. Vancouver Wine and Jazz Festival: Arturo Sandoval, Junkyard Jane, Dan Balmer Jazz Trio
5433 NE 30th Ave. Mr. Hoo
Greeley Avenue Bar & Grill
3552 N Mississippi Ave. The Heavy Brothers (9 pm); Succotash (6 pm)
5421 N Greeley Ave. Oden
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge 625 NW 21st Ave. River Twain
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge 1503 SE 39th Ave. Jailbox
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. These Hearts, Capture The Flag, Sensual Saint, Ninjas with Syringes
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Vivavoce (8 pm); Chris Bigley (6 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Lloyd Jones Band
Kells
Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan St. Cloud Cult
Mississippi Pizza
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. AU, Operative, Archers
Mock Crest Tavern
3435 N Lombard St. DC Malone and the Jones
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Poor Man’s Whiskey
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. JD Dawson Trio
Nel Centro
1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew with Dave Captein and Todd Strait
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Traditional Hawaiian Music
112 SW 2nd Ave.
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Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Rick Carlson
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Lynn Conover
Pints Brewing Company
412 NW 5th Ave. Jeff Cochell, Nicodemus Snow
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. The Tanked, 60 Cycle Hum, Bring the Dead, Jabronis
Press Club
2621 SE Clinton St. Sunset Valley, Buzzyshyface
Proper Eats Market and Cafe 8638 N Lombard St. Jacki Wheeler
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Mouthwash Enema, Vamanos, Torture Me Elmo, The Bangovers
Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery 206 SW Morrison St. Walkfast
Rose Garden
1401 N Wheeler Ave. Josh Groban
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Dirtyfinger, DJ Zac Eno, Chaach, El Cucuy
Saratoga
6910 N Interstate Ave. He Whose Ox Is Gored, Ninth Moon Black, Heavy Voodoo
Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Aaron Baca
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. Hawkins Wright
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. iLLA, Cranberry Vodka Fiasco, Nathaniel Knows, DJ TJ
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Klickitat, Azul Yael
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe
Esther Short Park
Tonic Lounge
Tom May Band
Ella Street Social Club
4627 NE Fremont St. Traditional Hawaiian Music
203 SE Grand Ave. Mouthbreathers, Leaders, Drunk Dad, Youth Bitch
Thirsty Lion
317 NW Broadway Sugarwall, Glass Bones, Tuesday’s Projects
Kenton Club
East End
1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew with Dave Captein and Todd Strait
2026 NE Alberta St. Perfect Look, B-Lines, Grown-Ups, Eiger Sanction
Tiger Bar
1800 NW Upshur St. Open Mic
Nel Centro
Off the Griddle
71 SW 2nd Ave. Audio Syndicate
Canvas Art Bar & Bistro
1635 SE 7th Ave. Trio Bravo
714 SW 20th Place Sweet Burnside Block Party Music Fest: My Pinky Has A Brain, The Monuments, The Mercury Tree, Drag Like Pull
The Know
YO-HO-HO: Michael Shea, the co-owner of Rum Club (720 SE Sandy Blvd., 467-2469, rumclubpdx.com), describes his month-old bar as geographically and philosophically at the midway point between Beaker & Flask, the cocktail-heavy restaurant down the block, and the Slammer, the delightfully weird dive across the street. I don’t think I can do better. Rum Club, which Shea, a former bar manager at Doug Fir, conceived with Beaker & Flask’s Kevin Ludwig, serves Hemingway-class cocktails at reasonable prices (all $8) in a tiny triangular room almost completely filled by a horseshoe bar topped in glowing African mahogany. The bar encourages long, pisco-soaked conversations that drift on and on until the 2 am last call, so fortify your stomach with a stream of deviled-ham sandwiches ($5) and pickled eggs (beet- or turmeric-flavored, $1) and settle in. BEN WATERHOUSE.
Duff’s Garage
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Tony’s AM Gold Show
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Jaclyn Guillo Trio
Twilight Café and Bar
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Cement Season, The Tip, Danger Thieves
Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Kode Bluuz
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Franco Paletta, Mark Love Duo
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Root Jack, Rubella Graves, Henry Hill Kammerer (from Hillstomp)
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar
Union Station, 800 NW 6th Ave. Tony Pacini Trio
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Daniel Johnston, Motopony
SAT. AUG. 27 15AH
1517 NE Brazee St. Bitterroot
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Joshua English, Mike Midlo
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Shanghai Woolies, Swing Time Vaudeville
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Taarka (9:30 pm); Whiskey Puppy (6:30 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio
Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Knox Harrington, 48 Thrills, The Decliners
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Hollywood Tans, Axxicom, The Fasters (8 pm); The Numbats, Dark Matters (5 pm)
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Carolina Pump Station
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Cold Hard Ground
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Jim Ward, Lusitania
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Hal Gerard
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Randy Star Band
801 W 8th St., Vancouver, Wash. Vancouver Wine and Jazz Festival: Al Jarreau, Diane Schuur, Stanley Jordan, Coco Montoya, David Friesen Quintet, Go By Train
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. McTuff, Philly’s Phunkestra
Hawthorne Hophouse 4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Folk and Spoon
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE 39th Ave. Aria Souder, AW Feldt
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Chapters End, TAPER
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. And And And, Death Songs, Safe Word, DJ Hostile Tapeover, DJ Danny Dodge
Influence Music Hall
135 SE 3rd Ave. Dismal Niche Orchestra
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Paul Mauer
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Intervision with Paul Mazzio, Dan Balmer and Go By Train
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Tom May Band
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Pynnacles, Mr. Howl, DJ Hwy 7
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Crow Quill Night Owls, Wayward Vessel (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)
Matador
SE 50th Ave. & SE Ivon St. Cody Weathers and The Men Your Mama Warned You About
Oregon Zoo
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. A.C. Porter
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Benefit for Transient: Elitist, Basement Animal, Spectral Tombs, Heavy Voodoo, Atrocity Exhibition
10350 N Vancouver Way The Git Rights Gospel Revue
Press Club
2621 SE Clinton St. James Low, Stereovision
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Magicks
Red Room
1401 N Wheeler Ave. Northwest Love Jam: Ginuwine, Dru Hill, Faith Evans, Jon B, Andrew Garcia
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Anna Paul and the Bearded Lady, Jobo Shakins, J.L. Stiles (9 pm); Keep Your Fork There’s Pie (6 pm); Lorna Miller Little Kid’s Jamboree (4 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Dead Prez, League of Extraordinary GZ, Tope (9 pm); Michael Charles Smith (4 pm)
Mock Crest Tavern
NEPO 42
White Eagle Saloon
Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery
836 N Russell St. Jared Mees and the Grown Children (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar
Union Station, 800 NW 6th Ave. Greg Goebel, Phil Baker, Randy Rollofson
Wonder Ballroom
SUN. AUG. 28 303 SW 12th Ave. Kelly Anne Masigat
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Groundskeeper, The Hague, Monuments, Drag Like Pull
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Echoic, F.O.A.L., Ritual Healing, American Roulette, After Everything
Biddy McGraw’s
River Roadhouse
Branx
6000 NE Glisan St. Andrew’s Ave (9 pm); Felim Egan (6 pm)
5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic
206 SW Morrison St. Redwood Son
Rontoms
600 E Burnside St. Monarques, Real Diamond
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Ocular Concern
The Globe
2045 SE Belmont St. Rychen
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Organized Sports, Vavant State, The Bi-Marks
The Woods
6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. Dan Grigor
Tillicum Club
8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Johnny Martin
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Western Hymn, Hurry Up
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Galen Fous
Washington County Fair Complex
Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery
320 SE 2nd Ave. Brofest: In Her Memory, I Reckon, Man Against Sky, Aleen, Her Death and After, We Rise The Tides, American Girls
873 NE 34th Ave., Hillsboro PDX Rock Fest: Korn, Queensrÿche, Five Finger Death Punch, Chevelle, Hinder, All That Remains, Loaded, Like a Storm, Witchburn
Clyde’s Prime Rib
White Eagle Saloon
Roseland Theater
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam
11921 SE 22nd Ave., Milwaukie Nothing Said, King Green, Macy Bensley Band
206 SW Morrison St. The Bradley Band
8 NW 6th Ave. Emmure, Blessthefall, Iwrestledabearonce, For Today, Born of Osiris, In This Moment, The Ghost Inside, Motionless in White, Chelsea Grin, Sleeping With Sirens, Attila, For All Those Sleeping, Upon a Burning Body, Memphis May Fire
Saratoga
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. Coyote Creek
Someday Lounge
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Planet Jackers, Pocket
The Globe
2045 SE Belmont St. Nathan Leigh
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Linda Lee Michelet
The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Spillway, Neighbors, The Charts, Boo Jays
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Hellshock, Salted City, Tensions
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. The Remasters
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Boo Frog, Hog Wild, 1776
Tony Starlight’s
3435 N Lombard St. Blueprints
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Tony Starlight Show
Muddy Rudder Public House
Touché Restaurant and Billiards
8105 SE 7th Ave. Cafe Cowboys
Muddy Rudder Public House
1530 SE 7th Ave. Dawid Vorster Birthday Bash
Ponderosa Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Sista Fist, Starlight and Magic, Serious Business, Winston Lane, Neo G Yo, Koolaid (10 pm); Solo Flamenco (7 pm)
Memorial Coliseum
8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
8409 N Lombard St. Dye Hippie Dye, Jim Cramer
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Sagebrush Sisters
Vie de Boheme
1420 SE Powell Blvd. This Not This, The Disappointments
Plew’s Brews
6910 N Interstate Ave. The Singing Knives
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
Twilight Café and Bar
Oh Captain My Captain, Monoplane, Gay Ghost (9 pm); Death Songs, Rememory (4 pm)
128 NE Russell St. Reverend Horton Heat, Nashville Pussy
1967 W Burnside St. The Sweet Burnside Block Party Music Fest: Hairspray Blues, Autonomics, Taxi Boys, Sweet Rock Party
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Chris Robley’s False Fables
Kelley Shannon, Laura Cunard, Belinda Underwood
1425 NW Glisan St.
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Sinferno Cabaret (11 pm); Mac Lethal, Knothead (9 pm)
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Denver, Kyle Morton (of Typhoon)
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Stolen Sweets
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place The Harvey Girls, Prisoners, Matt Hopper
Esther Short Park
801 W 8th St., Vancouver, Wash. Vancouver Wine and Jazz Festival: Spyro Gyra, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Bill Frisell Trio, John Hammond, Circle Three Jazz Trio
Jade Lounge
836 N Russell St. Open Mic / Songwriter Showcase
MON. AUG. 29 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Kelly Anne Masigat
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Northeast Northwest, Silver and Glass (9 pm); Dan Grigor (6:30 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Open Mic
Beauty Bar
111 SW Ash St. Pocketknife, Charts
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Mike D
2346 SE Ankeny St. Aaron Lindstrom (8 pm); Human Voices (7 pm)
Duff’s Garage
Kells
East End
112 SW 2nd Ave. Sessions
LaurelThirst
1635 SE 7th Ave. Suzie and the Sidecars 203 SE Grand Ave. Moto, Mofo, Doom Patrol, Perfect Look, DJ ADD
2958 NE Glisan St. Billy Kennedy and Tim Acott with Jake Ray (9:30 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
Goodfoot Lounge
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Lynn Conover and John Mitchell
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Hanz Araki and Kathryn Claire
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. 29 Steps (9 pm); Jenny Finn Orchestra (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave.
2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale My Three Travellers
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Bob Shoemaker
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mr. Ben
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones
CALENDAR O’Connors
Aladdin Theater
Record Room
Alberta Street Public House
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm); Soulmates (6:30 pm)
Andina
222 SW Clay St. Janet Jackson
Ash Street Saloon
2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw
7850 SW Capitol Highway Kit Garoutte 8 NE Killingsworth St. Acorn Bcorn, Blood Beach
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Dick Williams Blues Revue, AUX 78
Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery 206 SW Morrison St. Tasha and Kaloku
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Company of Thieves
1036 NE Alberta St. West of Wayland 1314 NW Glisan St. Neftali Rivera 225 SW Ash St. Truth Vibration, Chapters End
Backspace
Jimmy Mak’s
Keller Auditorium LaurelThirst
McMenamins Edgefield Little Red Shed 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Hanz Araki Band
Fez Ballroom
2045 SE Belmont St. Steve Hall Quintet
316 SW 11th Ave. Twice As Nice
Plan B
The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian
Ground Kontrol
Red Room
Matador
Tube
426 SW Washington St. The Tummybuckles, Bitterroot, Kory Quinn and The Comrades
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. All-Request Music Video Night: Sad Horse, Acorn Bcorn, Best Supporting Actress
Buffalo Gap Saloon Bunk Bar
Milagros Boutique
Tony Starlight’s
Mississippi Pizza
Touché Restaurant and Billiards
The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Black Black Things, The Ruby Pines
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. System and Station, Wax Edison, Air War, DJ Circe, Agent 99
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Shearing Pinx, ASSS, Vice Device, Sick Jaggers
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Evan Churchill Band, Brian Copeland Band
TUES. AUG. 30 15AH
1517 NE Brazee St. Sandy Saunders Band
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. Kelly Anne Masigat
1028 SE Water Ave. Sons of Huns, Monoplane
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. MC Frontalot, Brandon Patton
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Quartet (9:30 pm); Trio Bravo (6 pm)
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Spruce Goose, The Deadcoats
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Scott PembertonTrio
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge 625 NW 21st Ave. Todd Mauvais
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. DJ Jamey
5433 NE 30th Ave. Mr. Ben
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Christine Havrilla
Northwest Portland Hostel 425 NW 18th Ave. Nancy Cassidy
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Burn Pilot, Bryan Minus and The Disconnect, Held Up Hands, Shy Seasons
Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery
6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. Still Flyin’ 71 SW 2nd Ave. PDX Singer Songwriter Showcase 3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Piano Bar with Bo Ayars
1465 NE Prescott St. Alex Hall 18 NW 3rd Ave. Accidents Will Happen with Ms. Nomer; DJ Loyd Depriest
THUR. AUG. 25 Beauty Bar
Twilight Café and Bar
Ground Kontrol
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Open Mic with The Roaming
511 NW Couch St. DJ Noah Fence
Valentine’s
125 NW 5th Ave. The Fix: Rev. Shines, KEZ, Dundiggy (9 pm); Happy Hour DJs (4 pm)
232 SW Ankeny St. Lost Lockets, Braincrush
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
Someday Lounge
White Eagle Saloon
3341 SE Belmont St. Pagan Jug Band
8635 N Lombard St. DJ Dirty Nick
1425 NW Glisan St. Tom’s Funky Tuesdays
206 SW Morrison St. Beth Willis Rock Duo
The Blue Monk
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
111 SW Ash St. Shameless Thursdays: Easter Egg, DJ3X
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Arthur “Fresh Air” Moore Harmonica Party
125 NW 5th Ave. Oracle, Erin Barra, Mic Crenshaw, DJ Michael Grimes
8 NE Killingsworth St. John Southerland
Thirsty Lion
The Globe
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Open Mic
Record Room
Tube
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Open Bluegrass Jam
2045 SE Belmont St. Hank Hirsh’s Jazz Lounge and Open Jam
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The Woods
3341 SE Belmont St. Renato Caranto Project
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
511 NW Couch St. Roxy’s Ego Hour
Tiga
115 NW 5th Ave. Mangled Bohemians, My Empty Phantom, Boyd Andersson, Squim
The Blue Monk
MUSIC
The Globe
836 N Russell St. Will West and the Friendly Strangers
Someday Lounge
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. Whoo Ha with DJ Wels
The Whiskey Bar 31 NW 1st Ave. Bassroots
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Survival Sklz
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Bang A Rang with Doc Adam; DJ Sethro Tull
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St.
TLC Country Night: DJ Split Ditch, Gordon Organ
FRI. AUG. 26 Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. Landau Boyz
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Snap!: Dr. Adam, Colin Jones (9 pm); Aperitivo Happy Hour with Nurses DJing (5 pm)
Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Kerouac
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. DJ Gemini Mars
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. Blown: American Girls, D. Poetica, Rap Class, Spekt1
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Ghost Town Waltz with DJ Maxamilion
The Whiskey Bar 31 NW 1st Ave. Fort Knox 5, Marin8Tracks
1967 W Burnside St. DJ Drew Groove
Mt. Tabor Theater Lounge
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd Stahlwerks: SIN, Zufall, J. Alexander
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Blow Pony: Evelyn Ivory, DJ Airick, DJ Kinetic, DJ Lustache, Bruce LaBruiser, DJ Eddy Toonflash
Ted’s/Berbati’s Pan 231 SW Ankeny St. Jai Ho Bhangra Revolution
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. Red Star Lounge: Doc Adam, Ronin Roc, DJ Four Color Zack
The Lovecraft
SAT. AUG. 27
511 NW Couch St. Service Industrial Night with DJ Tibin
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. Into the Void with DJ Blackhawk
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Rat Creeps
TUES. AUG. 30 East End
203 SE Grand Ave. California Screamin’: DJ Sarah Smut, Masterblaster
The Crown Room
31 NW 1st Ave. Codes, American Girls
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Magic Beans
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ New Dadz
MON. AUG. 29 Ground Kontrol
The Whiskey Bar
Tube
Valentine’s
18 NW 3rd Ave. Hootchie Koo with DJ Danny Dodge
Record Room
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Hood Rich with Ronin Roc; DJ Neil Blender
2530 NE 82nd Ave. DJ Disgustor
421 SE Grand Ave. Industrial Night with DJ Ghoulunatic
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. RNDM Noise
1305 SE 8th Ave. Hive with DJ Owen
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Wels 232 SW Ankeny St. Ecstacy #7 with The Miracles Club
SUN. AUG. 28 Matador
1967 W Burnside St. Next Big Thing with DJ Donny Don’t
8 NE Killingsworth St. DJ Kevin Lee 205 NW 4th Ave. See You Next Tuesday: Kellan, Avery
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Nate C.
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Good Music For Bad People with DJ Entropy
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Tubesday with Ronin Roc
Yes and No
20 NW 3rd Ave. Idiot Tuesdays with DJ Black Dog
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THEATER Book of Dreams
New theater company Book of Dreams makes its debut with Prince Gomolvilas’ adaptation of Scott Heim’s novel about two sexually abused boys whose trauma manifests in very different ways: One believes he has been abducted by aliens; the other becomes a teen prostitute. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 971269-4032. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through Sept. 24. $15.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Third Eye Theatre stages Wilde’s masterpiece. Kenton Masonic Lodge, 8130 N Denver Ave., 970-8874. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Sept. 11. $12-$15.
Madder Music & Stronger Wine
From male chastity belts to anti-tribadism laws, no touchy topic or potential pun is too taboo for this raunchy and surprisingly enlightening musical (written and directed by Russ Cowan, who also stars) that seeks to confront the hypocrisy of morality and its self-righteous champions. Armed with cheeky limericks and handfuls of historical dirt to dish on everyone from Lewis Carroll to Queen Victoria (“WE ARE NOT AMUSED!” barks a spluttering, pinch-lipped Shannon Jones), this crass and charming 90-minute performance brings a satiating mix of slapstick and substance. Some might see hypocrisy in a musical in which its own moral is that morality is often hypocritical, but Madder Music and Stronger Wine escapes the paradox by not taking itself as seriously as the malefactors it so joyfully critiques. “Pornography is filthy and disgusting,” a character proclaims cheekily, “and erotica is filthy and disgusting, but has pretensions to art..just like this play!” Touché. NATALIE BAKER. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 2050715. 8:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, Aug. 25-27. $12-$15.
Mamma Mia!
Mamma Mia!, you’re on the road again. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 241-1802. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday, 1 and 6:30 pm Sunday, Aug. 24-28. $23.50-$85.60.
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 ensemble’s 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 lawn chair 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. See portlandactors.org for the full schedule. SHAE HEALEY. Multiple locations. 3 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Sept. 4 and Monday, Sept. 5. Free. All ages.
Oklahoma!
Warm yourself up for Portland Center Stage’s season-opening revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s pioneer-
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ing 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 Thursday-Saturday, 2:30 pm Sunday, Aug. 25-28. $14-$24. All ages.
Romeo and Juliet
For an entire generation, the modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet is director Baz Luhrmann’s overstated yet luridly engrossing 1996 film, Romeo Juliet. For its excellent new production of Shakespeare’s tragedy, Post5 Theatre (Milepost 5’s new outdoor theater program) uses that oh-soInformation Age “plus” sign on its programs, but otherwise approaches the play’s contemporary elements with thankfully un-Lurhmann-like lighthandedness. The newly formed company (making its debut with this show) leaves the Bard’s story of “star-cross’d lovers” and his poetic and ribald language largely intact, but brings modern dramatic sensibilities and greater relevance to the play through clever stage direction and small but effective updates: All the characters, for example, wear 21st-century clothing (red for Capulets, blue for Montagues); Lord Capulet schedules Juliet’s marriage to Paris via smartphone; and one of Romeo’s cohorts (Benvolio) is recast as a tomboy. These latter-day bells and whistles fall away as the plot turns tragic, and some of the staging’s energy goes with them, but Post5 can hardly be criticized for presenting Romeo and Juliet’s final act without accessory: At its heart, the clear-eyed tale of beautifully, catastrophically unworldly love needs— still—no refurbishment. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Milepost 5, 900 NE 81st Ave., 729-3223. 7 pm FridaySaturday, Aug. 26-27. Free. Info at post5theatre.com.
COMEDY Brainwaves
Very intimate improv. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 520-8928. 8 pm Fridays through Sept. 16. $10.
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.
The Ed Forman Show, with ME! ED FORMAN!
Aaron Ross terrorizes Dante’s every Tuesday night as Ed Forman, a frenetic, oversexed, foul-mouthed 1970s talk-show host. This week: “Pleasure EDition” with dancer and contortionist Blaze and musical guests Basketball Jones. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 10 pm Tuesdays. $3. 21+.
Maria Bamford
You might have seen Maria Bamford when, in a fit of sleeplessness, you watched Comedians of Comedy on Netflix and fell in love. Or maybe you saw her sold-out set at the 2010 Bridgetown Comedy Festival. If you haven’t seen Bamford live, know this: She is just about the funniest woman in America at present. That’s all you need to know. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 and 10 pm FridaySaturday, Aug. 25-27. $20-$25. 21+.
Mixology
A monthly late-night comedy variety show with sketch, improv and standup. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 10 pm the last Saturday of every month. $5.
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Sean Ongley hosts a comedy showcase featuring Virginia Jones, Nathan Brannon, Shane Torres, Phil Schallberger, Jimmy Newstetter, Jon Washington, Christen Manville and unannounced others, plus music by Gang Radio and M.A.R.C. The Fixin’ To, 8218 N Lombard St., 477-4995. 9:30 pm Friday, Aug. 26. $3-$5. 21+.
Portland Neutrino Project
The Neutrino Project pays homage to its nimble namesake by ripping through the Curious Comedy Theater with speed-of-light velocity. Three groups of invigorated improv-ers— each equipped with a rotating cast of directors, tape runners, and actors— film a movie under the gun of a ticking timer and a live audience. Each team shoots three scenes based on a randomly selected genre (science fiction, melodrama, film noir, etc.) and intersperses the three-minute story lines immediately after completion. The ultimate goal is connecting nine mildly related scenes into one hot mess of a movie. Shy spectators need not apply as the project is fueled by audience participation culminating in a final scene shot on stage (and possibly at your table). The price of admission includes the opportunity to loan an object to the cast as an impromptu prop and watch as your personal possession is weaved into the fabric of the evening’s plot. Audience members who find themselves particularly struck by the improv scene may be invited to step on stage for a supporting role. Some actors (Alex Gavlick, Annie Rimmer) are stronger than others, but the frenzied format is forgiving and fun for all parties involved. SHAE HEALEY. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 4779477. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays through Sept. 3. $12-$15.
CLASSICAL Angela Carlson and Becky Jeffers
The Oregon State University faculty pianists play Liszt and a newly commissioned work. St. James Lutheran Church, 1315 SW Park Ave., 227-2439. Noon Friday, Aug. 26. Donation.
Cascadia Concert Opera
The professional participants in this Eugene-based ensemble donate their time to bring opera to non-traditional venues (libraries, theaters, senior centers) and to audiences who might otherwise be unlikely to see it. Judging by last year’s production, there’s a good chance that the informality of the venue and the devotion of the participants will bring intimacy and freshness to this one-hour, English version of Così fan tutte, Mozart’s classic Shakespearean identity-switching comedy. Two soldiers insist their lovers will be faithful; a cynical guy begs to differ; they set up an elaborate scheme to see who’s right; confusion, duplicity, hilarity and forgiveness ensue. But it’s more than a silly rom com, and some productions (such as Portland Opera’s last year) reveal more complex dimensions to the story about the uneasy reality of human feelings and motivations as opposed to conventional, socially imposed romantic illusions about them. Or you can just go for the really funny antics and of course the incomparably beautiful music. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. Noon Wednesday, Aug. 24. Free.
David Friesen and Greg Goebel
This intimate venue in the Tea Zone space offers a splendid opportunity for a close-up experience of the nonpareil jazz bassist and his frequent piano partner. Camellia Lounge, 510 NW 11th Ave., 221-2130. 9 pm Friday, Aug. 26. $6. 21+.
Delphinium Quartet
Who knew that beer led to classical music? First, the McMenamins empire grants Opera Theater Oregon a muchneeded home at its Mission Theater, and now its Broadway outpost inaugurates a regular Classical Pub night, this time featuring Portland Opera string players performing Mozart, Dvorak and Beethoven. Classical music continues
MARIA BAMFORD its invasion of the pubs! McMenamins on Broadway, 1504 NE Broadway, 2889498. 6:30 pm Wednesday, Aug. 24. Free.
Filmusik
The organization dedicated to using cheesy old movies to inspire cool new soundtracks scored brilliantly in June with its first foray into an improvised score, courtesy of Blue Cranes. Hard to go wrong with musicians of that quality, of course, and the same goes for this month’s choice, the terrific pianist/composer Andrew Oliver and the latest in his seeming unending list of ensembles, the Ocular Concern. Along with Filmusik’s voice actors and foley artists, they’ll supply the sounds that accompany the giant heroic turtle Gamera (making a return appearance to the Filmusik screen) as he strives to save the earth, or at least a model of a Japanese city, from the freezing tongue spray and devastating rainbow back ray spewed by the evil mutant dinosaur Bachmann, er, Barugon, in this 1966 Japanese monster flick. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, Aug. 26-27. $10-$12. All ages.
Portland Chamber Orchestra String Quintet
In this house concert/fundraiser, guest violinist Lindsay Deutsch joins PCO players in overfamiliar pieces by Mozart (“A Little Night Music”) and Vivaldi (“Summer” from the Four Seasons), plus the latter’s welcome 20th-century counterpoint from Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla’s own Four Seasons. 1628 NW 32nd Ave. 860-2024. 6:30 pm Saturday, Aug. 27. $50. All ages.
Vancouver Wine and Jazz Festival
The lineups just keep getting stronger at this annual summer event, and even though it leans toward the pop jazz side (Spyro Gyra, Diane Schuur, Al Jarreau, Stanley Jordan and the like), there’s still enough adventure (Bill Frisell, David Friesen trio and quartet, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Arturo Sandoval) to tempt hard-core jazzheads. Esther Short Park, 801 W 8th St., Vancouver, 360-906-0441. 4-10 pm Friday, 11 am-10 pm Saturday, 11 am-9 pm Sunday, Aug. 26-28. $20-$60.
William Byrd Festival
England’s greatest Renaissance composer should be better known and more widely heard today. For 14 years, Portland choir Cantores in Ecclesia has been on a mission to perform every surviving work by the Shakespeare contemporary. The festival also includes lectures and religious services. This closing choral concert, featuring music from throughout Byrd’s career from the 1560s to the early 17th century, includes sacred songs and motets in both Latin and English for various combinations of singers. It makes a fine summing-up show for devotees, or a good overview for casual fans. St. Stephen’s Church, 1112
SE 41st Ave., 800-838-3006. 7:30 pm Sunday, Aug. 28. $15-$20. All ages.
DANCE Arabesque
Locally and nationally known belly dancers perform at Arabesque, a weekly Middle Eastern music and dance party. Members of longtime world-music ensemble Brothers of the Baladi play traditional acoustic Turkish, Persian and Armenian music; dancers are signed up a year in advance and rotate weekly, giving everyone a chance to perform, and offering viewers variety from week to week. Speaking of viewers, the band also plays open dance music for amateur dancers, belly or otherwise. The Blue Monk, 3341 SE Belmont St., 503-5950575. 8 pm Wednesdays. $5. 21+.
Free Dance Day
Try your hand(s)—and feet—at dancing during BodyVox’s Free Dance Day, which is open to all skill and age levels and offers a variety of styles from which to choose. Kids as young as 14 months to 4 years old can experiment with basic movement classes; there will be a hip-hop class for adolescents and teens. Adults are invited to try genres ranging from ballet to African dance. Check the schedule and bring the fam. BodyVox Dance Center, 1201 NW 17th Ave., 229-0627. 9 am-2pm Saturday, Aug. 27. Free. All Ages.
Geeklesque: The Geek Night Returns (Again!)
How would you like your burlesque: regular or with fire? Baby Le’Strange, Infamous Nina Nightshade, Itty Bitty Bang Bang and others offer the former at Geeklesque: The Geek Night Returns (Again!). Lady Germany offers the latter, so mind your eyebrows. Fusion belly dancer Elise is the lone non-burlesquer at the event, which is hosted by the Mad Marquis de Maltease and features raffle prizes from such geek-friendly establishments as Geek Chic Cosmetics and Ground Kontrol. Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th Ave., 248-1030. 8:30 pm Sunday, Aug. 28. $10-$13. 21+.
Glitter Girls From Outer Space
If you love Barbarella, you might also enjoy Glitter Girls From Outer Space, an intergalactic-themed burlesque show featuring Time Bomb Burlesque and special guest Tana the Tattooed Lady. Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside St., 206-7630. 8 pm Friday, Aug. 26. . $10-$12. 21+.
Savoir Faire Burlesque Revue
Weekly burlesque revue featuring local, regional, and national burlesque and cabaret performers. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 10 pm Thursdays. $8 . 21+.
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there. Elizabeth Leach, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521. Closes Aug. 27.
Rick Bartow
The seven paintings in Eva Lake’s series DRAPE hang flush with one another, snaking around a gallery corner with an élan that belies their electric, go-for-broke colors. Rectangles shade from one hue to another with Op Art kineticism, blanching out in the paintings’ middles in bursts of intensity. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 546-5056. Closes Aug. 27.
Rick Bartow flawlessly and consistently melds figuration and symbolism in the inspired paintings and sculpture in Coyote’s Road. Bartow is a visionary, and in paintings like Bull Man Laughs and Bull Disguise, he demonstrates his ability to turn simple pictorial elements into metaphysical archetypes. Froelick, 714 NW Davis St., 222-1142. Closes Aug. 27.
Richard Whiteley
Blue Moon Camera & Machine Staff Show
As head of Australian National University’s glass program, Richard Whiteley guides what is perhaps the world’s foremost incubator of talent in the glass medium. As an artist in his own right, he is obsessed with the dialogue between what can and cannot be seen by the viewer. In his exhibition Encapsulated Space he presents smooth abstract forms with benign-looking circular and ovular holes visible on one side and, on the other side, unexpected shapes flaring out in ways that could never be inferred from the visual information offered from a different vantage point. Bullseye, 300 NW 13th Ave., 227-0222. Closes Aug. 27.
Elizabeth Leach 30th Anniversary Exhibition Program
Where to begin in the embarrassment of riches that is Liz Leach’s 30th Anniversary Exhibition? How about in the front lobby? Above the reception desk hangs one of Jaq Chartier’s intensely saturated stain studies, a succession of fuzzy-focus patterns atop an elegantly muted background. Directly across from the desk is Isaac Layman’s Ice Cube Tray, a 9-foot-long photograph of a dirty ice tray, with chromatic gradations from blinding white to silver to soul-chilling aquamarine. So that’s the foyer, and it’s spectacular. The show just gets better from
Old-fashioned, nondigital 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. Newspace, 1632 SE 10th Ave., 963-1935. Closes Aug. 28.
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 an Aug. 25 live performance piece at W+K. Wieden + Kennedy, 224 NW 13th Ave. Closes Sept. 1.
Identity Paintings
Chelsea Linehan stands out in the 10-artist show Identity Paintings. Her whimsical mixed-media wall sculptures incorporate dollops of white cream, pink sprinkles, feathers, odd objects sprouting from dried gels, and clustered gel caps. Worksound, 820 SE Alder St., worksoundpdx.com. Closes Aug. 29.
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TERRY BROOKS / The Measure of the Magic (Del Rey) After three decades, the storytelling magic of Brooksís Shannara saga reaches its peak. THU / 25TH / 7P CEDAR HILLS
LEV GROSSMAN / The Magician King (Viking)
A return to Fillory, where the graduates of Brakebills College face terrifying new challenges. THU / 25TH / 7:30P DOWNTOWN
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COLIN MELOY & CARSON ELLIS/ Wildwood (Balzer & Bray) Created by Colin Meloy, lead singer of the Decemberists, and illustrator Carson Ellis, Wildwood (Balzer & Bray) is the first book in a new middle-grade fantasy series. Set in Portland, this spellbinding tale features a secret world full of warring creatures, peaceable mystics, and powerful figures with dark intentions. What begins as a rescue mission becomes something much bigger as two friends find them- selves entwined in a struggle for the very freedom of the wilderness the locals call Wildwood. Please note: Tickets, $17.99 (admission and a copy of Wildwood), are available at the Bagdad Theater, the Crystal Ballroom, CascadeTickets.com, or by phone: 855-227-8499. Books distributed at event. TUE / 30TH / 7P BAGDAD THEATER
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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 24 Verse in Person
Poet and 2010 Oregon Book Award finalist Donna Henderson of Monmouth will be the featured reader at this month’s Verse in Person at the Multnomah County Library’s Northwest branch. Henderson will be reading from 7-7:30 pm, with an open mic available for budding poets before and after the session to share their own work. RUTH BROWN. Multnomah County Library-Northwest Branch, 2300 NW Thurman St., 988-5560. 6:30 pm. Free. All ages.
THURSDAY, AUG. 25 I Taste Fire, Earth, Rain
American-born Caryl Sherpa spent six years as a trekking guide in the Himalayan regions of Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan, and this week she’ll be trekking down to Mountain Hardwear to read from and sign her autobiographical book, I Taste Fire, Earth, Rain. Mountain Hardwear, 722 SW Taylor St. 5:30 pm. Free. All ages.
John Sibley Williams Book Launch and Art Party
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Poet John Sibley Williams celebrates the release of his latest chapbook, Autobiography of Fever, with an all-night reading and art gathering at Oubliette Arthouse. Fellow poets A. Molotkov, Carrie Seitzinger, Johnny No Bueno and Karen Wood Hepner will perform two readings, at 8 and 9:15 pm, with works on display by artists Staci M. Cole and Mark Struzan. Oubliette Arthouse, 4705 N Vancouver. 6:30 pm-midnight. Free.
Terry Brooks
Renowned Seattle-based fantasy author Terry Brooks hits Powell’s Cedar Hills with the newest addition to his Shannara series (which has been running since 1977), The Measure of the Magic. This one promises “an army of bloodthirsty trolls.” Magical. Powell’s Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., 228-4631. 7 pm. Free. All ages.
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Time journalist and novelist Lev Grossman has released a sequel to his 2009 best-selling fantasy novel, The Magicians. The Magician King picks up the tale two years later, with the story’s protaganist chartering a “magical sailing ship” and engaging in some “black, twisted magic.” Grossman will be materializing at the equally enchanting City of Books to talk and sign books. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free. All ages.
FRIDAY, AUG. 26 Write Around Portland Anthology Release
Write Around Portland—an organi-
zation that runs writing workshops for people living in poverty or with illness—is releasing its 36th anthology, Moving or Still/En Movimiento o Quieto, with a public reading by “adults with disabilities, survivors of sexual assault, low income housing residents and women in recovery.” First United Methodist Church, 1838 SW Jefferson St., 234-4077. 6:30 pm. Free, but donations appreciated. All ages.
SUNDAY, AUG. 28 Portland Poetry Slam
The Portland Poetry Slam runs every Sunday at Backspace. Each show opens with an open mic at 8 pm, followed by a featured poet, then the slam, where eight poets battle it out for $50 and poetic glory. Sign-ups for the slam and open mic begin at 7:30 pm. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. 7:30 pm. $5 suggested donation. All ages.
Body, Heart, Mind and Soul
“Integrative health coach” LauraLynn Jansen’s new book Body, Heart, Mind and Soul tells the story of her survival and courage in the face of cancer and sexual assault. She will be reading and selling copies of her book at TaborSpace. TaborSpace, 5441 SE Belmont St. 3:30 pm. Free. All ages.
MONDAY, AUG. 29 One City’s Wilderness: Portland’s Forest Park
You have a little over a month to enjoy the great outdoors during Portland’s brief but glorious summer before the drudgery of winter starts to set in. That’s still enough time to get through all 29 hikes in the new updated and expanded edition of Marcy Houle’s One City’s Wilderness: Portland’s Forest Park, which has directions for the park’s best treks, plus a healthy dose of history. Annie Bloom’s Books, 7834 SW Capitol Highway, 246-0053. 7 pm. Free. All ages.
TUESDAY, AUG. 30 Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis
Decemberists singer Colin Meloy branches out from his usual whimsical songs about sailors in the 1800s to pen a young-adult book about the whimsical adventures of a young girl in modernday Portland. Meloy and his wife, Carson Ellis, who did the book’s whimsical illustrations, will be doing a reading at the Bagdad. See cover story on page 12 for an excerpt. Bagdad Theater & Pub, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 236-9234. 7 pm. All ages.
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30 Minutes or Less
55 The title of the new action farce
from Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland) is very nearly accurate: At 83 minutes, the movie is notably short—also nasty and brutish. Those adjectives likewise apply to the lead performers, along with “lazy.” Everyone feels a little uninspired and short-fused, like it was a hot day on location and they had a pounding hangover. The premise doesn’t seem like promising comedy fodder anyhow—it’s based on the true story of Brian Douglas Wells, a pizza delivery man killed by a time bomb strapped to his neck as part of a bank robbery, tee hee—and Fleischer tries to counterbalance the queasiness by having his cast be hostile but harmless. Jesse Eisenberg is best served by this approach, playing the pizza guy as scathing as a dirt-road Zuckerberg; Aziz Ansari gives the most effort as his disgruntled best friend; and Danny McBride, as the kidnapping thug with a happy trigger finger, plays his usual scumbag without the redeeming vulnerability. The movie has its amusing bits, but it hasn’t thought its violence through (it hasn’t thought anything through), and the whole project feels half-baked, in several ways. The best thing about the picture is that it was shot on location in Grand Rapids, Mich., and has a low-class strip-mall ugliness missing from glossy L.A. comedies. The worst thing about the picture is that this is the best thing about the picture. R. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Broadway, Lloyd Mall, Wilsonville.
Brighton Rock
[REVIVAL] Richard Attenborough is the evil little teenage gangster who records a hit record in Graham Greene’s 1947 adaptation of his own even nastier novel. Cinema 21.
Captain America: The First Avenger
70 Patriot, super-soldier and the most 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 bombshell Brit agent 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 one-liners 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 chest-thumping Neanderthal gestures and straightforward patriotic charm. PG-13. AP KRYZA. 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Broadway, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Tigard.
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Colombiana
Zoe Saldana plays an assassin out for revenge. The script’s by Luc Besson, but the movie wasn’t screened for critics by WW press deadlines. Look for a review on wweek.com. PG-13.
Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Sherwood, Tigard, Sandy.
Conan the Barbarian
18 It is inevitable that almost every
Arnold Schwarzenegger action film is going to be remade, and probably in the very near future. Which is fine. Essentially, they’ve all been remade 1,000 times, though under different names—we’ve seen at least eight permutations of Commando, for example, including X-Men Origins: Wolverine. So it’s only understandable that the first to share the title with a Schwarzeneggerian original is Conan the Barbarian, the film that shot the big man into superstardom in 1982. What’s confounding, though, is how the reportedly $90 million revamp manages to feel like a Syfy channel version of Prince of Persia with extra blood and tits. Instead of a drunken hornball and sadist who escapes slavery and develops an affinity for punching camels, new Conan (Game of Thrones beefcake Jason Momoa) is demoted to a walking scowl trying to avenge the death of his dad at the hands of an evil sorcerer. And that’s about it. No stupid accent. No animal abuse. Hell, the lamentations of the women are even sparse. Oh, and then there’s a bad CGI sea monster, for some reason. Never mind the women. The lamentations of the fanboys are deafening. R. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
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. 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. Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
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 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
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I LOVE YOU BUT I’VE CHOSEN DARKNESS: Evan Glodell (foreground) and Rebekah Brandes.
HEARTBREAKER VS. FLAMETHROWER BELLFLOWER IS ABOUT HUMUNGUS PAIN. BY AA RON MESH
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Evan Glodell, the writer, director and star of Bellflower, has said that his debut movie was inspired by a bad breakup, which is about as revelatory a disclosure as Martin Scorsese admitting that Mean Streets was influenced by Catholicism. The film was shot with a custom-built digital camera, but I’m pretty sure it’s made out of hate sex. It is exactly like All the Real Girls if David Gordon Green had grown up worshipping Ozploitation flicks instead of Terrence Malick, and if he couldn’t help finishing every emotional confrontation by pulling out a flamethrower. I mean, this is a movie in which the romantically devastated hero consid-
man-eating tramp, but is really very sweet. They take an impromptu road trip to Texas in a Volvo Bertone fitted with a whiskey dispenser. They share kindness. Then she inexplicably becomes a man-eating tramp. He responds poorly. Here is a lesson in how a $17,000 budget can buy you a summer’s worth of free controversy. Getting almost as much attention as Glodell’s cars and cameras (much of the movie is filmed in the limited focus that David Fincher used to make the rowing scenes in The Social Network look like miniatures) is the question of whether Bellflower is misogynist. That question hinges on exactly how much distance Glodell keeps from his characters and their almost helplessly vile imaginings. It is worth noting that this criticism—how much do you identify with these people?—is the same one usually leveled against female filmmakers (Miranda July and Lena
COMPENSATING FOR EMASCULATION WITH A FIERY PHALLUS. ers a litany of different responses, playing each option out in his head—and not one of them fails to include a flamethrower. This synopsis makes Bellflower sound funny, which it is not. It is silly, but it is not funny. In fact, it is often very upsetting, in the way that the thought of going mad is upsetting. I have rarely seen a movie not made by Scorsese that so precisely captures the place where male insecurity and impotence become male violence. It is a film about truly impure thoughts, and it calls to mind the famous priestly question, “Did you entertain them?” Bellflower compulsively strokes those thoughts into an elaborate phantasmagoria. So, then—not a date movie. But it does contain dates, many of them notably tender in a heedless way. Some of these outings are between Woodrow (Glodell) and his best friend, Aiden (Tyler Dawson), who have the destructive platonic chemistry of the Sobotka boys on season two of The Wire, and share a fondness—not to say a fetish—for the Road Warrior movies, and especially the hulking, bondage-clad Lord Humungus. Their idea of a productive afternoon is going into the California brush, chaining a propane tank between two poles and setting it on fire. Later, Woodrow spends evenings with Milly (Jessie Wiseman), a girl who styles herself as a
Dunham, most recently) who make intimate movies about real feelings, and is never applied to the dozens of hacks who make Marvel adaptations, even though everybody who watches those movies is supposed to identify with the juvenile, banal machismo of the heroes. The nastiness in Bellflower comes from a far less calculated place. But it seems fairly clear that Glodell is aware how pathetic Woodrow’s revenge meditations are: Just look at the movie’s epigraph, “Lord Humungus shall not be defied,” and how it is credited to, well, one Lord Humungus. As important as the operatic assault at the movie’s end are the scenes of Woodrow scouring the fields in slo-mo with his flamethrower—it cannot be an accident that he is compensating for emasculation with a fiery phallus. That said, Glodell’s awareness about the thoughts of Woodrow doesn’t change the fact that the actions of Milly make no sense. Great art has to contain the perspectives of multiple people, even when one person’s emotions are a raw wound. Bellflower is the work of a director bravely admitting that he doesn’t understand how to relate to women. It would be a better movie if he understood women. 70 SEE IT: Bellflower is rated R. It opens Friday at Fox Tower.
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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. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Forest, Division, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub.
The Devil’s Double
51 Not to make light of the traumatic life of Latif Yahia, but this is the movie that deserves to be called Horrible Bosses. Yahia’s employers were Saddam Hussein and his sadist son, Uday, who conscripted lookalike Latif as a body double for the heir, and that title suits the movie’s tone—leering rubbernecking at garish crimes. The passably smoldering Dominic Cooper has a grand time playing both Uday Hussein and his reluctant doppelgånger. As the tyrant, he uses a bucktoothed grin as a synecdoche for all kinds of sauntering madness, and comes off as a melding of Borat and Patrick Bateman; as the assassination decoy, he is nobly stoic in suicidal disgust. He might have had something memorable if the script were a little more sophisticated, and if director Lee Tamahori (xXx: State of the Union) showed more patience for atmosphere, instead of using every scene as an even more lurid demonstration of Uday’s psychosis. There’s a lovely Lynchian moment halfway through the picture where we and the hero silently observe two of Saddam’s tubby doubles playing a tennis match in matching white shorts. The entirety of The Devil’s Double could have achieved that level of haunting absurdity; instead, it just wants to titillate with glimpses of bizarre evil. Hey, you guys, crazy Uday just disemboweled a man on a banquet table! R. AARON MESH. Broadway.
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Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
70 Guillermo del Toro hates children.
Whether he’s directing The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth— which used the Spanish Civil War as backdrop for horror wrought on the young—or producing the dead-baby creepfest The Orphanage, del Toro is particularly sadistic when it comes to kids. That’s his strong suit. Framing ghost stories through the eyes of children creates a special kind of dread, with the audience forced to recall early fears as innocents fall prey to evil. A collaboration with rookie director Troy Nixey, the remake of 1973’s Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark features del Toro’s typically unsettling gothic aesthetic in the story of a young girl (Bailee Madison) sent to live with her estranged dad (Guy Pearce) and his girlfriend (Katie Holmes) as they renovate an impossibly spooky Rhode Island mansion, only to be stalked by tiny, ratlike monsters with a hunger for children’s teeth. Unlike other summer fare, Dark is all slow-burn creepouts rather than splatter scares, with ghostly voices whispering through dusty vents, raising tension to a boil as the creatures slowly reveal themselves. It succeeds resoundingly in making us squirm like children spinning yarns around a campfire. R. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy. NEW
Filmusik: Gamera vs. Barugon
[TWO NIGHTS ONLY, LIVE SOUNDTRACK] Portland’s cinema composers tackle a Japanese rhino dinosaur fighting our beloved giant turtle. Hollywood Theatre. 8 pm FridaySaturday, Aug. 26-27.
Final Destination 5
42 Say what you will about the endless
Final Destination franchise: It knows its formula, and it knows its audi-
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ence. The films, essentially death porn for the Rube Goldberg crowd, take a basic setup—attractive young stereotypes cheat death, death gets pissed and systematically splatters them all in exceedingly elaborate ways—and uses it to present a $50 million SFX reel of flying entrails and severed torsos. In the fifth go-round, Nice White Guy once again has a premonition of a massive disaster—this time a suspension bridge collapse—and saves all his friends from becoming hamburger at the last minute. Death gets pissed. For a while, it’s nasty fun. Too bad, then, that FD5 decides to throw in a lastminute twist—if you murder somebody, you basically take their lifespan, or some shit—that sucks all the fun out of the affair, transitioning awkwardly from a gruesome Wile E. Coyote cartoon into a D-class thriller for no good reason. R. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinema 99, Division, Lloyd Mall. NEW
The Four Times
62 [TWO NIGHTS ONLY] Slow as a
man made of molasses getting stuck in a syrup spill on planet Butterscotch, The Four Times examines the slow cycle of life, death and rebirth as it is very slowly experienced in a rather slow Italian village. The closest thing to a narrative here involves a tubercular geezer literally eating dust and a baby goat getting lost and looking all emo when night falls. Slowly. Director Michelangelo Frammartino has a sharp Tati-esque eye for widescreen absurdity, but stay away if you don’t like goats and the goat things goats do, because much of the movie involves goats doing goatlike things like standing, eating, being born, looking at stuff, breathing and being goaty. CHRIS STAMM. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 9 pm Friday and 7 pm Saturday, Aug. 26-27.
Fright Night
76 Craig Gillespie’s new remake of the
1985 horror-comedy Fright Night—the short, bloody story of Charley Brewster (Anton Yelchin) and Jerry, the vampire who moves in next door to his Vegas suburb tract house and promptly ruins his life—really doesn’t try all that hard. And that makes it a gory good time, packed with as many giggles as wooden stakes and exploding bodies. Much of the credit for this guilty pleasure goes to Colin Farrell, who plays Jerry (“That is a terrible vampire name,” Charley says incredulously, early in the film) as a hunky romancenovel cad who quickly devolves into a menacing addict with personal-space issues. You’d be attracted to him if he didn’t seem so, well…rapey. Farrell, sporting an inky black widow’s peak and white wife-beater, has concocted an entire arsenal of tweaker twitches and undead affectations. Confronted by a stray beam of sunlight, he even gives a little hiss, like a cat startled by a spray bottle full of water. Wisely, screenwriter Marti Noxon and director Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl) have simply updated the cult classic for 2011, complete with geysers of 3-D blood that spurt toward the audience and a Foster the People song on the soundtrack. But at heart, it’s still the same creepy, campy flick: all fangs and one-liners. R. KELLY CLARKE. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Living Room Theaters, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy. NEW
Goldfinger
45 [ONE NIGHT ONLY, OUTDOOR
REVIVAL] With chest unwaxable and wit unflappable, Sean Connery’s 007 takes on Auric Goldfinger, Oddjob and Pussy Galore in the Bond film you’ve already seen even if you haven’t. Like every other movie about the incorrigible, syphilitic rake known as James Bond, the only remarkable thing about Goldfinger is the fact that its producer, Albert Broccoli, was named Albert Broccoli. Too timid to work as camp and too smitten with rank double entendres to work as anything more than a slimy joke trapped in a 12-year-old’s soft head, Goldfinger is bad but not terrible, which means it’s pretty awful. PG. CHRIS STAMM. NW Film Center’s Top Down series
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The Guard
42 Brendan Gleeson has impossible
features. He appears to have been born in the wrong aspect ratio, with a visage formatted to fit old televisions, a noggin incompatible with our wide screens. His face, or so it seems, must be stretched and pummeled like pink taffy to conform to the 16:9 standard, and it’s almost sadistically compelling to watch Gleeson work with his own strange packaging. Writer-director John Michael McDonagh (whose brother Martin used Gleeson in In Bruges, a film John should have studied more carefully) is lucky to have him in The Guard, for absent the big man’s wadded physicality, there would be little worth looking at here. Gleeson stars as an adorably racist police officer who reluctantly teams with a strait-laced FBI agent (Don Cheadle, very nearly comatose) to foil a trio of drug traffickers who discuss Nietzsche when they’re not killing people, because like much of the rest of The Guard, these bad guys seem to have escaped through a hole in the bottom of Tarantino’s barrel. At least the demon who writes the next Lethal Weapon movie (it’s bound to happen) can cross “Riggs goes to Ireland” off his list of bright
while neither pardoning nor paralyzing white viewers. The Help doesn’t reward its viewers with a championship trophy. Instead, the film presents the reality of Southern life in the 1960s as something that takes much more than a high-school squad to overcome. PG-13. SHAE HEALEY. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Moreland, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Sherwood, 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
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
STEP UP TO THE STREETS: Violence interrupter Ameena Matthews (center) in a standoff.
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 semesterlong 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. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Tigard.
The Help
86 Give a white male director a script
about Southern racism and nine times out of 10 he’ll hand you back the story of an enlightened sports team wrapped in a flashy soundtrack. Director Tate Taylor manages to break this mold in his adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s 2009 novel, The Help. Set in the early 1960s in Jackson, Miss., the film focuses on young, wealthy white mothers and their maltreatment of the black maids who serve them. Emma Stone plays Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, an aspiring writer whose childhood friends have grown up to resemble rabidly racist hybrids of the Plastics and the Stepford Wives. Sparked by contradicting stories regarding the abrupt departure of her own family’s maid, Skeeter attempts to document the reality of the Jim Crow era through a book detailing the experiences and perspectives of Jackson’s “help.” Taylor might be a white dude, but he successfully parodies touchy stereotypes—Minny Jackson (Octavia Spencer) loves fried chicken and throws down plenty of “Lord knows you don’t wanna mess with this angry black woman” moments—in a way that calls attention to the guilt in the room
THE INTERRUPTERS Chicago epidemiologist Gary Slutkin likens societal violence to bubonic plague in its capacity to spread uncontrollably through a cycle of retribution and domination. His urban organization, CeaseFire, tackles the Windy City’s never-ending epidemic of gang violence much like a doctor might attack an outbreak: on a case-by-case basis. The group comprises reformed gangbangers and hustlers who take to the most crime-riddled areas of the city to coax enraged thugs to lay down their arms, if only for a moment. Because of their past criminal notoriety—CeaseFire workers include former vice lords, murderers and hustlers—they can often prevent gang members from pulling the trigger. Often, of course, they can’t. Hoop Dreams director Steve James’ searing new documentary, The Interrupters, follows CeaseFire’s team for a year in the trenches—2009-10, when gang-related killings reportedly outnumbered U.S. casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq, and when the beating death of 16-year-old Derrion Albert caused a media storm in the projects when it appeared on YouTube. With unparalleled access, James follows three principal “violence interrupters”—charismatic reformed gang leader Ameena Matthews (daughter of notorious gangster Jeff Fort), haunted Latino murderer-turned-street-savior Eddie Bocanegra and former hustler Cobe Williams—as they mediate between various rival gangs to help prevent bloodshed. The Interrupters is a harrowing journey through the streets, troubled high schools, the projects and the endless series of funerals of a city in turmoil—where politicians consider deploying the National Guard to quell violence, innocents are killed by stray bullets, and a shit-talking session results in one gangbanger smashing another’s face with a concrete block. James’ camera catches it all, from moments of unspeakable horror—such as a slain teen’s memorial service where family members fear ambush by a rival gang—to moments of unexpected hope, including an ex-con’s emotional apology to the family he held at gunpoint. If there’s anything wrong with the picture, it’s that, at 125 minutes, it’s simply too short to tell all the captivating stories with the full detail each deserves. Yet The Interrupters never becomes unfocused, nor does it relent in its portrait of entire communities held captive by impending doom. At one point, the camera pans through a tunnel where the names of dozens of murder victims are painted on the bricks. It pauses briefly on a brick that reads “I am next.” It’s alarming in its frankness, and that inevitability permeates every moment of The Interrupters. CeaseFire’s goal is to prove the author of that grim sentence—and countless others who share that fatalism—wrong. Their work is endlessly inspiring, and James’ presentation of their stories is a triumph. AP KRYZA.
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Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark 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. R. AARON MESH. CineMagic, Evergreen, Fox Tower. NEW The Ian Berry Film Festival
75 [ONE DAY ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] ] Ian Berry understands the motivating power of a camera. The best of his short documentaries—screening together at Cinema 21, where he works as a projectionist—capture everyday human struggles, whether it’s overcoming an irrational fear, gathering the courage to ask a girl out on a date, or trying to ejaculate 10 times in a single day. Well, maybe that last one, made for the annual amateur porn contest Humpfest, is less a “struggle” than a freakish endurance test, but it still fits with Berry’s theme of examining how people react to being put on film and given a task they normally wouldn’t attempt. Not everyone succeeds: Brenda Dives is pretty heartbreaking for what’s basically just seven minutes of a girl consistently failing to dive into a pool; in Movie Madness, Berry amusingly chronicles his effort to woo a clerk at the titular Southeast Portland video store, an 18-minute saga that ends in disappointment. Taken together, Berry’s movies are about coming to terms with personal limitations. As the curator of his own festival, however, he knows the importance of sending the audience home happy: In Citizen Came, our chronic masturbator passes his endurance test with flying, er, colors. MATTHEW SINGER. Cinema 21. Noon Saturday, Aug. 27.
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Make Believe
60 [ONE WEEK ONLY] There
are tears of sadness (“playtime’s over”), statements of grandeur (“when you’re able to do the impossible, there are not obstacles in your life anymore”) and even a cameo by Neil Patrick Harris (an unexpected board member of Los Angeles illusionist nightclub the Magic Castle). This surprisingly well-made documentary profiles six teenagers on their quest to become winner of the World Magic Seminar Teen Contest in Las Vegas. A brooding Japanese boy, two merry South Africans, one blundering Chicagoan, a Justin Bieber lookalike from Colorado and a California Barbie girl awkwardly practice, prepare and compete to be the best magician of the bunch. J. Clay Tweel’s film is a sometimes heartwarming tale that is accom-
panied by a palpable lesson: if you’re not good at school, not good at sports, or just generally not accepted, do magic. In the magic community you’ll make lifelong friends and find true happiness. Of course, you’ll need to like magic to begin with, an imperative that reveals the main problem of the documentary. If you aren’t interested in magic, you probably won’t be interested in Make Believe. MAGGIE SUMMERS. Clinton Street Theater. 7 and 9 pm Friday-Thursday, Aug. 26-Sept. 1. NEW
The Man Who Fell to Earth
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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 self-described “Hollywood hack” who thinks of himself as a novelist born in the wrong era. On vacation in Paris, he wanders into the streets one night and tipsily stumbles upon a rip in the space-time continuum that transports him to the 1920s to party with his literary idols: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. It’s a fairy tale for lit majors, and Allen’s best work in years. That said, calling Paris a true return to form for Allen after the past decade’s mixed bag is an exaggeration. It’s more of a charming trifle. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, CineMagic, Fox Tower, Hollywood Theatre.
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an English accent that’s far more amusing in its inconsistencies than is David Nicholls’ insipid script, Hathaway exudes a sour discomfort, as if she realized her error in signing on to the project after the first day of shooting but had no choice but to grimace and bear it. Far more troubling is her other, lesser half, Sturgess’ ever-dissipated Dexter, who reflects a depth of character that goes from A to, um, A. References to how he makes her laugh, or how much she loves him, are simply incredible...and not in a good way. Neither a moving romance, compelling drama nor fascinating chronicle, this film lumbers from one insufferable moment to the next. One Day seems much more like eons. PG-13. KIMBERLY GADETTE. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, City Center, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall.
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[ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] A documentary about five proposed hydroelectric dams in Chile. Mission Theater. 6:30 pm Sunday, Aug. 28. Director Brian Lilla will answer questions after the screening.
driver it profiles, this documentary tests the limits: Ayrton Senna pushed how fast his car could go, and Senna lives on the edge of alienating those unfamiliar with his sport. Anybody more fascinated than I by F1 car racing—anybody who has watched an entire race, say—is likely to take a good deal more pleasure from the movie than I did, though by the end of the thing I was no longer actively annoyed by the engines whining like mechanical mosquitoes. Director Asif Kapadia’s work is on par with other ESPN Films releases (which is to say it’s very good), and there’s a lot of tense footage from inside drivers’ meetings before controversial Japanese Grand Prix races. The film even becomes actively interesting for a stretch in the middle, as the Brazilian Casanova Senna feuds in the early ’90s with
calculating French driver Alain Prost, who was surely the inspiration for Sacha Baron Cohen’s character in Talladega Nights. (Rivals Senna and Prost both drove cars imprinted with the Marlboro logo, which in hindsight seems like an emblem of self-destruction.) The footage from cockpit cameras is alarming, especially as you begin to sense it will inevitably precede a fatality, and Senna suggests that racing is as the poet described life: first boredom, then fear. PG-13. AARON MESH. 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. PG. Cedar Hills, 99 Indoor Twin, Clackamas,
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[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] The Grindhouse Film Festival digs up the 1973 tale of psychedelic bikers who kill themselves so they can rev their engines with extra-hellish fury. Also, there’s frog worship. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Aug. 30.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
17 In quick cuts of bright green and earthy brown and pure white flashing teeth, the opening scene makes a false promise: These motherfucking apes are going to get their revenge and it’s going to be awesome. OK, so the apes—or the Children of the Apes, anyway— do get a bit of revenge. But 105 minutes later, very little awesomeness has come to pass: Just a lot of stiff, hammy lines from central beefcake James Franco and 90 million dollars worth of underwhelming action scenes you’ve already seen (assuming you’ve been to one of these overblown summer blockbusters before). Instead of a bold new world, we get the sunny suburbs of a postcard-perfect San Francisco, with a slack-jawed and entirely miscast James Franco—playing a self-absorbed super-scientist named Will Rodman—as our guide. The movie spoon-feeds us heap after generous heap of banal, pseudoscientific backstory before leading us to a semi-climactic ape revolt on the stupid fucking Golden Gate Bridge—with most of the apes transforming from uncivilized beasts to a sophisticated Tom Clancy-style tactical assault force literally overnight. PG-13. CASEY JARMAN. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Roseway, Sandy, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub.
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 (Kristin 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. PG13. SHAE HEALEY. Living Room Theaters. NEW
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BEER SWEATS: Two Finnish sauna enthusiasts in Steam of Life.
STEAM OF LIFE I have seen Steam of Life twice now, but it was only after going over my notes from both viewings that I realized just how frequently the dread specter of death noses into the proceedings. I’d like to think my critical oversight is attributable not to my analytical laziness but to this Finnish documentary’s tender humanity, its vision of salutary amity. For despite all of its hovering around tales of woe, Steam of Life delivers one back to the world lighter, somewhat lifted, not at all skeeved by ineluctable annihilation. The film’s final line, spoken by a man wrecked and wracked by grief, might as well be its tagline: “Knowing you are not alone is an incredible relief.” Composed of a dozen or so carefully staged tableaux starring an assortment of variously shaped and weather-beaten Finnish men who gather in saunas (evidently a national pastime) to commiserate and cry over lost love, dead wives, estranged children and myriad failures, Steam of Life allows its subjects the time and space to speak until the pain pours out with the sweat. It is difficult to resist the urge to avert one’s eyes from the bottomless hurt that manifests in the men’s testimonials. It is hard to watch the buff, preening soldier who crumples while talking about his dead mother. And then there is the man so overcome by grief that he cannot lift his chin from his chest while discussing his dead wife. Most devastating is the gentleman who tells a stunned brotherin-steam about his dead child before delivering the aforementioned prayer against suffering in solitude. It is not the first sauna scene to get stuck in my head—I still have Viggo’s nude wrestling match in Eastern Promises, Jason Patric’s majestically icky steamroom monologue in Your Friends and Neighbors and Mastroianni’s hallucinatory papal schvitz in 8 1/2 caught in the old noodle—but this penultimate scene of fraught catharsis, which is followed by an odd but perfect group singalong, tops them all. Steam of Life is a small, quiet film, free of the flash that has, for better or worse, crept into so many nonfiction films. It is a work wholly devoted to conversation, and it takes time to vibe on the enervated rhythms of steamed speech; just keep the comforting words of one of the bathers in mind: “Sometimes it’s good to talk.” CHRIS STAMM.
Singing in the sauna.
89 SEE IT: Steam of Life screens at the NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium at 7 pm Friday and 9 pm Saturday, Aug. 26-27.
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Spy Kids: All the Time in the World
Jessica Alba and little children spy on something. Not screened for critics. PG. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Broadway, Cinema 99, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy. NEW
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[ONE NIGHT ONLY] The Global Lens series continues with a drama about heroin addiction on the streets of Tbilisi, Georgia. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 5 and 7 pm Sunday, Aug. 28.
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istry 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.
The Whistleblower
43 To remain effective, human-rights violation bloodboilers have been forced to up the ante on atrocity. The Whistleblower, a Canadianmade Rachel Weisz vehicle about U.N. security contractors aiding sex trafficking in Bosnia, is very effective: Enslaved teenage girls are sodomized with pipes. This may not even be the worst thing that happens to them. When peacekeeper-for-hire Weisz attempts to save two Russian kids from perpetual rape, the promise of rescue is a mere gambit to pull the audience
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closer for escalating barbarity in the torture chambers within a mountain brothel. (The movie uses similar rhythms as Hostel, or one of those evangelical haunted houses where you can get saved at the end.) The Whistleblower is a stumbling, inept drama, so director Larysa Kondracki compensates with visceral provocation. As sadism piled atop debasement, I began desperately hoping the movie would hop genres and become Rachel Weisz’s Death Wish. But since this is outrage porn for a better sort of audience, she reports the crimes to her superiors, then to the press. I am not a better sort of audience. “You want blood on your hands?” a peacekeeper asks Weisz. Yes yes yes yes yes. Kill ’em all, and let the U.N. sort ’em out. R. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters.
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The Tree of Life
97 “A man who writes of himself
without speaking of God,” Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hecht wrote in his later days, “is like one who identifies himself without giving his address.” Terrence Malick gives precise geographical coordinates in The Tree of Life, a project that has gestated in the mind of the director for 32 years. It turns out that God—or at least little Terry Malick’s first stirrings of the divine— was hiding in Waco, Texas. The movie feels like an explanation for why Malick has been so reluctant to produce scheduled work. With the hero’s puberty comes a rebellion against the tyranny of earthly and heavenly fathers. “Why should I be good if you aren’t?” asks Jack, the young protagonist. 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. Hollywood Theatre.
The Trip
85 Nothing much actually happens in The Trip. 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 chem-
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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. By the end of Tabloid, you’re convinced Joyce McKinney is delusional, and that that Mormon boy really should have married her. R. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters.
BACKPACKING THE HIGH LINE: Paul Rudd.
OUR IDIOT BROTHER Hey, man, I don’t have any problem with your movie. It’s cool that you’re out there doing what you do, really making things, you know? I really dug that part at the end, when—oh, you don’t want me talking about the end? That’s cool, I’m sorry. I just didn’t think we had a lot else to talk about. Um, do you think I could get, like, $5 of my $10 back? I owe this dude some money, and this movie was worth about $5, right? Mimicry aside, Our Idiot Brother is an uncommonly affable little movie, a very indie teasing of latter-day hippies. A lot of it feels like a Portlandia sketch—specifically the organic farm bit, but slightly less funny—and I’m honestly grateful it wasn’t filmed here; that would have been a blow of stereotyping from which we’d never recover. As it stands, Our Idiot Brother is set in New York City and upstate, though it could be anywhere where young people are bewildered by having to be grown-ups. Paul Rudd plays the title character, a holy fool with a produce stand who goes to visit his sisters—Emily Mortimer, Elizabeth Banks and Zooey Deschanel— who are a far sight more fouled up than he is, even if they weren’t recently jailed for selling weed to a uniformed cop. (The officer “just seemed really sad,” Rudd explains.) Rudd’s performance is oddly flat: It may be that playing such a beatific innocent saps the acidity that gives him a lot of his comic appeal. None of the other family members is especially memorable either—Deschanel comes closest, though that’s just because she’s unconvincingly cast as a bisexual with boundless erotic appetite. Mostly what registers is that these are a lot of notably goodlooking people whose problems could be solved by admitting how easy they have it. Directed by Jesse Peretz from a script co-written by his sister Evgenia, Our Idiot Brother plays like a diluted Nicole Holofcener film (even down to a less horrific re-staging of the scene from Lovely & Amazing in which Mortimer exposes her naked body to the critique of her lover) without the cognizance and dissection of privilege. What’s left is niceness, which isn’t really a quality or a flaw. It just is, man. R. AARON MESH.
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55 SEE IT: Our Idiot Brother opens Friday at Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville and Sandy.
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A BOY FALLING OUT OF THE SKY: Seeming to hail from a cinematic quasar that flared briefly before disappearing forever, Nicholas Roeg’s 1976 The Man Who Fell to Earth plays on an entirely alien emotional register. This is an earth where sex is constant and aggressive, technology is oppressive and tacky, and all genuine feeling has been lost on another, irrecoverable world. David Bowie’s plight, in short, is exactly what the bereavement of adulthood feels like—even if most of us do not pine for the family we left on an A-frame mud monorail. AARON MESH. Cinema 21. Best paired with: Ninkasi Believer Double Red Ale. Also showing: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Academy), Super 8 (Academy, Bagdad, Kennedy School, Mission, Laurelhurst).
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340 SW Morrison St., 800326-3264 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 01:00, 07:30 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:10, 10:30 COWBOYS & ALIENS Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 01:10, 04:00, 07:00, 10:20 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 01:30, 04:30, 07:10, 10:00 30 MINUTES OR LESS Wed 01:40, 04:40, 07:40, 10:25 CONAN THE BARBARIAN Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:20 CONAN THE BARBARIAN 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 01:20, 07:20, 10:05 FINAL DESTINATION 5 3D Wed 01:50, 04:35, 10:10 DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 01:50, 04:50, 07:50, 10:10 APOLLO 18 Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue COLOMBIANA Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 01:40, 04:40, 07:40, 10:25
Valley Theater
9360 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway, 503-2966843 BRIDESMAIDS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:00, 06:35, 09:10 MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS Wed 04:40 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:55 THE HANGOVER PART II Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:45 SUPER 8 Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 03:40, 06:15 X-MEN: FIRST CLASS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 08:50 WINNIE THE POOH Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 05:10 KUNG FU PANDA 2 Sat-Sun 02:00
Living Room Theaters
341 SW 10th Ave., 971-2222010 FRIGHT NIGHT 3D FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:40, 12:30, 01:50, 02:50 TABLOID Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 03:00 GLEE THE 3D CONCERT MOVIE Wed 11:50, 02:00, 04:10 HOOD TO COAST Wed 12:10 TERRI Wed 02:40 THE TRIP Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:00, 02:20 THE PERFECT HOST CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 12:10, 02:40, 04:40 THE TREE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 11:40, 03:00, 05:20, 07:40, 09:45 SARAH’S KEY Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue 11:50, 02:10, 04:30, 07:00, 09:15 THE WHISTLEBLOWER Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue 12:20, 02:00, 04:50, 07:30, 09:30 SUBJECT TO CHANGE. CALL THEATERS OR VISIT WWEEK.COM/MOVIETIMES FOR THE MOST UP-TODATE INFORMATION. FRIDAY-THURSDAY, AUG. 26-SEPT. 1, UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED