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Your coverage of Colin Meloy’s story with crows on the cover is a good example of the hip nepotistic slant of your paper. Lots of writers in Portland would love to get this kind of exposure. I guess if you are not from here (Montana) and write R.E.M./SEA SHANTIES and you are on a big label and play at the Edgefield, you must also be profound—at least in Portland and your CEOowned paper. If you like this little story, I suggest you read Benji or watch the French movie The Balloon. Keep up the tragically hip work, people; oh yeah, people in Brooklyn are proud to be from New York and really don’t think about Portland and the WW at all. —“Diane Austin”
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Was Jeld-Wen Field designed with only two water fountains in order to boost sales of bottled water? The line for the fountains is agonizingly long, and it’s slow because everyone is filling up bottles. (The sinks won’t run long enough to fill a bottle.) Is this even legal? —Tim
Tsk, tsk, such a suspicious mind. I’m sure the folks at Jeld-Wen Field have no idea what you could possibly be thinking. Oh, look, here comes one now: “The answer to the question is, no, the number of drinking fountains at the stadium is not kept artificially low,” says Timbers spokesman Chris Metz. “Lines at the drinking fountains, if any, are typically quite reasonable, too.” See, Tim? There’s no place for profiteering in the charity-driven world of sports concessions. Why, I’ll bet those selfless operators would gladly take a loss on every $3.75 bottle of water
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A caption for our story about homeless people living in their vehicles (“Homeless on Wheels,” Aug. 17, 2011) should have identified the sons of Edie Richards as Chris and Greg. Our story “One Patient’s Painful Lesson” (Aug. 17, 2011) misstated the reason an Oregon Health & Science University spokeswoman declined to comment on a malpractice suit against a plastic surgeon. The spokeswoman, Elisa Williams, said OHSU declined to comment because the university was not a party to the case. WW regrets the errors. 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
sold, just to see the smile on your heatstrokeaddled face. Of course, there will always be a few gimleteyed skeptics to rain on the parade. “No one has ever admitted that [fewer drinking fountains] is to sell more bottled water,” says the Pacific Institute’s Peter Gleick, an anti-bottled-water activist who’s taken on several sports facilities over this issue. “But everyone believes it is.” Many state building codes require a water fountain for every 1,000 seats. In Oregon, though, the law requires only one fountain per floor: Whatever you may think of the stadium’s motives, legally it’s covered. And in fairness to the Timbers, maybe drinking fountains are getting rarer because we don’t demand them—even though clean water out of the tap is one of the few First World privileges we still enjoy. I say live it up: There’ll be plenty of time for drinking bottled water when we’re all huddling in the zombie shelters. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com
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The man behind pdxmugshots.com—a site that posts booking photos and charges their subjects $39 to remove them—has identified himself. Portlander Kyle Ritter, 35, also runs pdxbars.com and previously worked at Barflymag.com. After WW’s story last week (“Mug Shot Profiteers,” WW, Aug. 24, 2011), sources identified Ritter as the main operator. He confirmed his identity to Portland blogger Jack Bogdanski; previously he had given interviews to other media outlets, identifying himself only as “Barry.” Ritter’s company, KA Marketing, runs similar sites in several cities. As our story went to press last week, the sites apparently disabled their pay-for-removal feature. Ritter declined to say whether the decision to stop charging people to have their mug shots removed is permanent. Kathleen Cambron, owner of Wake n Bake Cannabis Lounge in Aloha, pleaded guilty last week to two counts of selling marijuana—the first prosecution of an Oregon medical-marijuana dispensary owner. Cambron appeared in a January cover story (“Weed, the People,” WW, Jan. 12, 2011) that described how the “irrepressibly cheerful ex-financial officer” had transformed a former reptile rescue facility into a medical-marijuana exchange pushing the boundaries of the state’s medical-marijuana law. The Washington County Sheriff ’s Office raided Wake n Bake in June after U.S. Attorney Dwight Holton sent warning letters to dispensaries. Bracken McKey, a Washington County deputy district attorney, said law enforcement investigated Cambron after reading her comments about her practices in the WW story. An ex-Portlander’s political campaign in the American heartland may hinge on the urban chicken. Jarrett Mitchell is running for city council in Iowa City, Iowa, on a poultry platform. Turns out it’s a hot issue in that city of 62,000—the Iowa City council has declined to lift the ban on keeping chickens within city limits. Mitchell, 33, returned to his native state two years ago after working in Portland as an educator at Prescott Elementary. When living here, he kept chickens in his Northeast Portland yard. Allowing city chickens isn’t the only Portland practice Mitchell says he’ll fight to adopt: He also hopes to increase recycling, add bike lanes and promote community gardens. “Portland showed me how an urban center can also be an agricultural center,” Mitchell says. When he’s not campaigning, Mitchell runs a coffee shop, appropriately named Wake Up Iowa City.
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THE UTOPIA PROJECT: City Commissioner Amanda Fritz (above) and Mayor Sam Adams have failed to nail down a plan for the Office of Equity before its first City Council hearing.
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It should’ve been a gimme: a city of Portland office devoted to making sure “everyone has access to opportunities necessary to satisfy essential needs, advance their well-being, and achieve their full potential.” Something happened to Mayor Sam Adams’ Office of Equity on the way to City Council. On Wednesday, the council holds its first hearing on an ordinance Adams says will help prevent “social unrest” caused by growing racial and economic disparities. But Adams tells WW that, after months of work, he can count on only two votes for the proposal: his, and that of Commissioner Amanda Fritz, whom he left in charge of the details. The three other commissioners have said they have problems with the plan. For good reason. Whether or not it wins approval, the Office of Equity has become political shorthand for City Hall’s failures, Adams’ drifting tenure as mayor and a city government that’s expanding its purview, rightly or not, beyond its basic responsibilities. It’s also become an easy target for mayoral candidates Eileen Brady and Charlie Hales, who each say the Office of Equity is unnecessary. Adams says the Office of Equity is vital to Portland’s future. “I’m not doing the ‘up with people’ cheer, here,”
Adams says. “We spend more time and attention and research to get insight into things like recycling than we do helping facilitate equal opportunities for everybody.” For Fritz, the Office of Equity is the highest-profile project she’s taken on since entering office in 2009. It’s gone badly. With Adams fading from view (he’s not running again in 2012), Fritz will be the lone city official fully behind the Equity Office as she runs for re-election. Fritz says she’s faced resistance because she’s chosen to champion an emotionally charged subject that Portlanders haven’t yet faced. “We’re pretty bad,” Fritz says. “If you look at the Wikipedia entry for Portland…‘Racism in Portland’ was a whole page. Somebody has now changed it to ‘Cultural Issues in Portland.’” How did Adams and Fritz let a noble idea go so wrong? The Office of Equity could serve as a civil-rights watchdog for city employees and root out sources of income disparity in Portland. Multnomah County has a similar office, as does TriMet. Fritz and Adams cite the Seattle Office of Civil Rights as a model. But that office has explicit enforcement powers—something Portland’s proposal lacks. Adams and Fritz have failed to explain what the Office of Equity would do. They want the City Council to approve the office, and to trust them to figure it out later. It’s remarkable the plan is so painfully vague given that Adams made it the crescendo of his State of the City speech back in February. Even people inclined to support the idea are befuddled. “It demonstrates a commitment on their part, and is a symbol of their commitment,” says Gale Castillo, president of the Hispanic Metro Chamber of Oregon. “I don’t think you need a symbol. I think you need an action plan.”
Castillo served on a 38-member “creation” committee for the plan—an example of a process-loving city processing a good idea to mush. Adams and Fritz haven’t found consensus, even on the concept itself. “When you have giant committees like this, it’s hard to do something without someone taking issue,” says City Commissioner Dan Saltzman, who says the plan for the office is fuzzy. The Office of Equity would compete with another city agency, the Human Rights Commission and Office of Human Relations—formed in 2008 with similar goals. In an April 18 email to Commissioner Randy Leonard, Fritz says Human Relations “has not developed positive regard in the community.” Who oversees the office? That would be Fritz herself, who has left the Human Relations Office headless since getting rid of director Maria Lisa Johnson four months ago. Commissioners have other ideas what to do with the Office of Equity’s proposed $525,000 annual budget. That’s money on top of the $618,000 already being spent each year for the Office of Human Relations. Fritz’s opponent in next year’s council race, state Rep. Mary Nolan (D-Southwest Portland), says the plan lacks clear authority, goals and deadlines. “If we can’t articulate what outcomes we want to be different, I don’t see a mechanism for how we get there,” Nolan says. The vagueness and duplication, says Leonard, is hard to justify in tight budget times. “I don’t see how it survives the next council,” he says. Fritz says controversy over this relatively small budget request reflects an aversion to discussing the difficult subject of equity. She says the council recently approved Leonard’s plan to use $456,000 in Water Bureau funds to build a caretaker’s cabin on Powell Butte. “I think we can spend half a million looking at race and disability,” Fritz says, “and why those factors have such bad outcomes [for people], and what we can do about it.” Willamette Week AUGUST 31, 2011 wweek.com
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The people running the Columbia River Crossing project veered into Orwellian territory last week when they announced they had found $100 million in savings that could be cut from the cost of the giant freeway bridge project. Several media outlets, such as the Portland Tribune and the Portland Business Journal, swallowed the news whole. The Columbian’s headline was taken almost verbatim from the press release: “Update: CRC Cuts $100 Million From Cost Estimate.” That’s not much of a trim from the Interstate 5 freeway bridge and light-rail project’s previously estimated cost of $3.6 billion. But here’s what made this “news” weird: CRC officials had already announced the same savings last April—only to repackage the news with a straight face last week. CRC spokeswoman Mandy Putney acknowledges the $100 million in “savings” doesn’t add to that announced earlier by Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire and Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber. She says the project has added new costs since then but also found new savings. “They are the same net numbers but not necessarily for the same reasons,” Putney says. Got it? This recycled “good news” comes just as the massive project needs better publicity. In July, Oregon Treasurer Ted Wheeler issued a blistering report that found CRC staff vastly overstated traffic estimates and lacked a sound plan to pay for the project. WW has reported the project’s own records show that it won’t fix many of the problems it’s supposed to solve (“A Bridge Too False,” WW, June 1, 2011). Last week’s “savings” come amid preparation for the CRC’s Final Environmental Impact Statement, the encyclopedic analysis and rationale for the project.
WW looked to see what those changes might mean. They mean millions in hidden costs. The document is accompanied by a risk analysis designed to evaluate the consequences of virtually every conceivable calamity, including what some observers consider the biggest threat to the project—that it won’t get funded. The finding: The cost of one year’s delay is $57 million. The project is supposed to break ground in 2013. But Oregon and Washington haven’t approved their contributions of $450 million each, nor OK’d the higher taxes necessary to pay for it. Washington lawmakers have also yet to approve the tolling that is crucial to the project, and Clark County voters can still torpedo the light-rail component. Costs from inevitable delays—measured in years—more than wipe out the “savings” in Friday’s press release. Portland economist Joe Cortright also sees a troubling shift in the project’s approach to federal funding. The feds dole out transportation money in two ways. One is through earmarks, the practice whereby Congress ties money to a particular project. Earmarks are scarce in the current fiscal and political environment of Washington, D.C. The second is through “formula” dollars, which are allocated by population. These funds pay for transportation projects all across Oregon. Critics—including Oregon lawmakers from all over the state—fear that the CRC could crowd out other projects. Cortright says there’s reason for concern: The finance plan says “federal formula funds potentially could be used for the CRC project.” The plan, he says, undercuts the CRC’s argument that the project won’t hurt funding for other Oregon projects. “Advocates have traded on the idea that the CRC is a special project and that will get funding from a special pot,” he says. The CRC’s Putney says Cortright’s fears are misguided. “Nothing has changed in our approach to formula dollars,” she says. Rep. Matt Wand (R-Troutdale), a construction lawyer who serves on an interim CRC oversight panel, says if Cortright is correct, lawmakers will have concerns. “Every legislator will have to re-evaluate with how the CRC competes with projects in their district,” Wand says. “From my district and my perspective, I would have a hard time coming to the conclusion that CRC creates jobs in my community. We have transportation needs in East County that will create local jobs.”
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HARD TIMES AND RECORD PRICES HAVE PORTLANDERS MINING THEIR DRAWERS FOR SILVER AND GOLD. BY MAT T SI N G ER
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Renee Buckley and Sherri Dominic, a pair of self-described suburban housewives, shook down their jewelry boxes before coming to Silver Lining Jewelry and Loan. They spilled out their trinkets—including an old wedding ring from 40 years ago— before the owner. It’s 12:30 p.m. on a Monday, and the line of people behind them stretches to the door of the shop, located at the corner of Northeast Sandy Boulevard and 22nd Avenue. It will remain long the rest of the day. “I needed money,” Buckley says. “We lost a business two years ago, and things have been a little tight lately, so to go see my son who lives out of state, I chose this.” This is Buckley’s first time visiting a pawn shop, and Dominic’s third since May. What brought them here—and the scores of others who come each week—is a combination of hard times and soaring prices for silver and gold. Precious metals have always been the backbone of the pawnbroker business, especially during hard times. But this rush is different. The price of gold hit $1,900 per ounce in August, and silver $43 per ounce. In one
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HEAVY METALS looked to liquidate their scrap. “They’re making 10 times-plus on their money of what they bought it for originally,” he says. Many customers Oller sees have never been in a pawn shop before; many keep returning. Next door to Silver Lining at the Jewelry Buyer, Kasey, a 23-year-old hairdresser who declines to give her last name, plunks down a handful of gold bracelets, rings and necklaces in front of owner Randy Swerdlick. She and her fiancé have been cleaning out his late grandmother’s estate. In three trips to Swerdlick’s shop, she’s walked away with an average of $1,200 each time. “It’s crazy, but I don’t even have to work right now, just on the money we’ve brought in,” she says. It’s a boom time for regulars as well. Rick Walton has used Silver Lining like a bank for years. He pulls from his pocket a small gold-plated Victorian belt buckle, which he bought when he saw gold prices beginning to soar. He brings it and other gold items in when he needs help paying a bill. He calls it “creative finance.” “If I was serious about it, I could raise $3,000 or $4,000 in a few hours,” he says. The metals market remains volatile, however. Last week, December gold futures hit $1,917, then dropped to $1,705 in the course of three days. “It’s just brutal,” says David Griffiths, owner of A Cut Above Pawn in Beaverton. “If we’re paying $1,800 an ounce for something, and now it’s $1,700, guess what? We
GOLD TO GREEN: Josh Oller of Silver Lining Jewelry and Loan pays out to Sarah Laughlin, who made more than $100 when she pawned a variety of gold jewelry.
good to be true—and we’re in a position that these prices are too good to be true— everybody and their mom wants in on this,” Oller says. According to the Better Business Bureau, mail-in evaluation companies
dealing in secondhand merchandise that is often the target of theft (such as jewelry) must also have a city permit and keep careful records. Before coming to Silver Lining, Sandra Sanchez had only one experience selling
“ANY TIME YOU SEE SOMETHING THAT’S TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE—AND WE’RE IN A POSITION THAT THESE PRICES ARE TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE—EVERYBODY AND THEIR MOM WANTS IN ON THIS.” —JOSH OLLER year, that’s a 42 percent increase for gold. And silver has more than doubled. “It’s a really strange market we’re in now,” says Josh Oller, who has run Silver Lining alongside his father, Earl, for 13 years. Oller says the crush to sell silver and gold started in 2007, when the economy first took a dive. As prices have climbed, he says, more people aged 55 and older have
just lost money. Any pawn shop with any degree of intelligence is going to buy at $1,500 or $1,400.” Full-page newspaper ads and late-night TV commercials from companies seeking to buy gold have increased interest in cashing in on precious metals. Some companies ask customers to send in their gold to them and wait for a check to come back. “Any time you see something that’s too
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GANG GREEN THE TIMBERS ARMY IS ROWDY, RAUCOUS AND REBELLIOUS. IT ALSO WIELDS ENORMOUS POWER. BY JON ATHA N CR OWL
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No one should have more power when the Portland Timbers play at Jeld-Wen Field than Merritt Paulson. He bought the team in 2007, built it into a Major League Soccer franchise and turned the team into a local phenomenon. But even Paulson has learned the limits of his influence: You don’t mess with the Timbers Army. CONT. on page 14
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On May 29, he watched his dejected team leave the pitch, beaten 3-2 by D.C. United. It was the Timbers’ first MLS home loss after winning five straight. Team captain Jack Jewsbury and striker Jorge Perlaza had each scored—it wasn’t enough—and they and the rest of the team filed into the locker room without stopping to acknowledge the Army. The Timbers Army is a living force: Thousands of chanting, singing and (often) drinking fans form a raucous choir whose singular voice floods the stadium. In exchange for this passion, the Army demands recognition and respect. That includes honoring its traditions—some dating to the original Timbers, circa 1975, who played in the original North American Soccer League. At game’s end, players typically stand before the Army’s sections, known as the North End, and applaud the fans. And players who score must hoist log slices cut by the team’s chainsaw-wielding Timber Joey. This is Army tradition—win or lose. Catcalls and a few obscenities rained down from the North End as the team slipped out. Paulson rushed to the locker room. “Guys, you’ve got to come out, you gotta get your log slices,” Paulson recalls saying as he dragged Jewsbury and Perlaza back on the field. “The fans want to recognize you.” Not just any fans. The Timbers Army fills 3,600 seats every game, and that doesn’t include thousands more who identify with the beast of the city’s soccer subculture. Lawyers and high-tech execs cheer alongside construction workers and waitresses—many waving banners, others beating drums. Some are tattooed with the anti-establishment emblems of the Army. Most wear the ubiquitous “No Pity” scarf. The Timbers’ unofficial supporters group grew out of a handful of passionate soccer fans a decade ago. Its founders rejected the slick, team-approved branding that
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SLICE OF LIFE: Timber Joey cuts a log after a Portland goal.
goes along with many booster clubs. Instead, they wanted the Army modeled on support groups that surround soccer in Latin America and Europe. That’s antithetical to the traditional American concept of sports fanship. The Army wants an identity independent of the team it loves—like a teenager who rebels but will never move out of the house. Alexi Lalas, a former star on the U.S. national team
and an ESPN commentator, says the Army is on par with many supporters groups in other countries. He says Major League Soccer is marketing itself to younger adults epitomized by the Army—and that means an edgy experience beyond the family-oriented approach of the past. “Portland has done a great job of tapping into this and CONT. on page 16
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making it about the drinking and the fan experience leading up to the game,” Lalas says. “It’s not G anymore, it’s not R—but it’s certainly PG-13.” The Army has shown its power and bent the Timbers’ front office to its will, from getting stadium rules changed that allow for its smoke-bomb demonstrations to taking a cut of the ticket sales from the stadium’s North End. When the team unveiled its official MLS logo last summer, members of the Army shouted it down—many with obscenities— and Paulson quickly caved and changed the design. Keith Costigan, a former Timber who also played professionally in his native Ireland, says the Army has always been a savvy group—and that the team is smart to recognize its influence. “In five years, Jack Jewsbury won’t be around,” says Costigan, now an analyst for Fox Soccer. “Players move on, but the fan bases stay. You need to know that they have a voice and are appreciated.” After years of bad-boy (and bad-girl) behavior, the Army has become one of the most powerful forces in Oregon sports and one of the most influential sports supporters groups in the nation. “The Army is not the first, but they are arguably the biggest,” says Zach Dundas, a sports journalist and author of The Renegade Sportsman (and a former WW writer). “They’ve taken a pioneering role.” The Army has turned this power into financial strength. It’s taken in more than $200,000 so far this year from a savvy ticket deal with the team, membership dues and its own line of merchandise—all run through a behind-thescenes corporate structure called the 107 Independent Supporters Trust, better known as the 107ist, named for the stadium section where the Army got its start. The Army has in some ways eclipsed the image of the team itself and is better known than most of the players. At least one former player tells WW that some members of the current team recognize the Army’s clout and question
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SONG AND DANCE: The Timbers Army sings and chants nonstop during the game.
whether Paulson and the front office have granted the Army too much influence. And not everyone finds the nonstop singing and chanting all that charming. While less profane now than in their early years, Army members still send F-bombs booming through Jeld-Wen. And it can often feel as if the experience at the stadium belongs foremost to the Army; everyone else is just being allowed to sit in.
The question for the Timbers remains how much clout they leave in the Army’s hands if—or when—other fans trail away after the shine comes off the team. “The emotional relationship of the fans with the club is primarily a social phenomenon,” says Sean Hamil, a sports business expert at the Birkbeck Sports Business CONT. on page 19
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Centre in London. “The consumer relationship is all a function of this emotional relationship with the team, and you can manufacture that, and that’s really what you’re doing [with supporters groups]. “It makes sense [for clubs] to develop that fan equity because it means you’ll build a loyal fan base, but you lose a certain amount of control as well.” Abram Goldman-Armstrong is punk rock from head to toe. A Timbers Army regular since 2001, Goldman-Armstrong has jet black hair that runs down into thick sideburns that reach his jaw. He wears black work shoes with plaid shorts, a leather-andmetal wristband on his right arm, and a Timbers sweatband on his left. “That’s been part of the identity the whole time, the whole punk-rock aspect of it,” Goldman-Armstrong says. “[Now] I think there’s a lot of aspiration to it by some of the newer fans who don’t necessarily come from the music scene at all—it’s just part of what they associate with going to a soccer game.” He’s originally from a farm outside Yamhill. But a slight Irish accent colors Goldman-Armstrong’s words even 13 years after he studied abroad at University College Cork, where he fell in love with supporters culture by following Cork City F.C. of the League of Ireland. He works salvaging building materials and writes a column for Northwest Brewing News. Goldman-Armstrong has anchored his spot in the front row of Section 107 since the Timbers joined the United Soccer
“IT’S NOT G ANYMORE, IT’S NOT R—BUT IT’S CERTAINLY PG-13.” —ALEXI LALAS Leagues 10 years ago. He’s easily recognized by many Portlanders from being featured in the Timbers’ billboard campaign this year promoting the team’s move to MLS. If its antics cut against the grain of Portland’s famous politeness, the Army reflects a subculture of the city’s young who could easily be walk-ons in Portlandia. (One Army leader says he’s heard the IFC series that spoofs the city is eyeing an episode about the group.) Goldman-Armstrong says soccer in America has long suffered from family-friendly marketing campaigns that misjudge the demographic most likely to embrace the sport. “Basically, your typical American ownership group looked at [soccer] as, ‘Oh, that’s for soccer moms and suburbanites,’” he says. “We didn’t fit into what they had in mind.” Goldman-Armstrong and seven compatriots were banned from the stadium for a year after protesting the team’s lousy 2006 season by lighting flares at the final home game. He watched the following season from atop ladders across Southwest 18th Avenue. Thousands of people who perhaps had never been to a Timbers game before now call themselves members of the Army. Many flock to Section 107 behind the north goal, which Timbers Army veterans refer to as the tourist section. “There’s definitely a little bit of, ‘Who the hell are these people?’” Goldman-Armstrong says. “All of these people, they seem to think that they can just show up and come right down in front CONT. on page 20 Willamette Week AUGUST 31, 2011 wweek.com
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COMING OF AGE: Many analysts say MLS has shifted its marketing focus from families to young adults.
and save seats.… It’s like, no, I’ve been standing here for the last 10 years.” That sums up many Army members’ views of the fans only now discovering the Timbers: We were here first. They feel that way about the owners, too. The original hardcore supporters in 2001 numbered less than a few dozen. They called themselves the Cascade Rangers and gathered in Section 107—later renaming themselves to dispel association with the Glasgow Rangers of the Scottish Premier League. Everything about the Army got bigger: its size, volume and renegade attitude. Timbers owners tried to squash it. They failed. Take the way past owners tried to deal with what the Army calls “YSA.” When opposing keepers strike goal kicks, the Army would yell, “You suck, asshole!” In 2005, the front office tried to ban profanities and spread leaflets around Section 107 warning the Army against foul language. At one point the team sent security guards to surround Section 107 as a warning. The 1,000 or so Army members abandoned 107 and spread out around the stadium; 107 sat virtually empty as the Army cheers continued, mocking the befuddled owners. The protest emboldened many Army leaders. It taught them they had more power than they realized, and they used it to influence the current owner, Merritt Paulson. Paulson arrived in 2007 with two things every sports team owner should have: a love for sports and a lot of money. A Harvard
“THERE’S DEFINITELY A LITTLE BIT OF ‘WHO THE HELL ARE THESE PEOPLE?’ I’VE BEEN STANDING HERE THE LAST 10 YEARS.” —ABRAM GOLDMAN-ARMSTRONG MBA, Paulson worked for the National Basketball Association for five years before forming Peregrine Sports LLC with his father. That would be Henry “Hank” Paulson, former CEO of Goldman Sachs and U.S. Treasury secretary under President George W. Bush. The elder Paulson is best known for trying to fend off the nation’s 2008 financial meltdown. According to a 2010 Forbes article, he’s worth $700 million. It took a few good bruisings before Merritt Paulson learned his lesson with the Army. Roger Levesque plays for the rival Seattle Sounders and is widely reviled by the Army. But Paulson saw no problem inviting Levesque to play for one match in a Timbers jersey during a friendly against Toronto FC in October 2007. Army members spray-painted a huge sign that read, “Real Fans Hate Levesque.” Security officials tried to take it down; it just reappeared elsewhere in the North End. After the game, Paulson ran toward the Army’s sections and yelled, “What’s the matter with you guys?” This failure to understand what the Army considers to be tradition at the games has caused the most problems—and strengthened the Army’s muscle. The Timbers won promotion to MLS in 2009 and unveiled their official logo at a team-sponsored celebration in June 2010 at Director Park; the stylized ax sent Army members into paroxysms. The design looked too cartoonish and fancified, and CONT. on page 23 20
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NO PITY: Behind the scenes, the Timbers Army is run by a nonprofit corporation with revenues of $200,000 this season.
violated the sense of history and humility of the simple, dignified logos of the past. The event was a fiasco: Scores of Timbers Army members drowned out everyone else by chanting, “You fucked up! You fucked up!” Paulson at first responded defensively and defiantly. But he quickly gave in and settled on a plainer logo. He says he’s learned. The redesign of Jeld-Wen was done in consultation with the Army; it includes stages in front of the North End seats for capos, the Army’s yell leaders. In turn, Army officials agreed to discourage profanity—namely, YSA. But at least once a game, the Army bellows out a repeated chant heard for blocks beyond Jeld-Wen: “We are green, we are white, we are fucking dynamite!” The Army went corporate in 2009. It might seem a contradiction in terms for an anarchistic group that for years rejected the idea of having a hierarchy. “Some people wanted to mold the fan culture [in the early days], but we let the group grow organically,” says Steven Lenhart, a founding member. “After the MLS announcement, people knew it was time to have something directing the path, making sure [the Army] stayed true to its roots.” The nonprofit corporation, 107ist, is run by an 11-member board (like the 11 players a team fields on the pitch). The Army’s corporation finds itself in an unusual spot: In the past, the Army rarely had more than $1,000 in a checking account and had to pay for its inventory of scarves and merchandise by charging members’ credit cards. No longer. Officials of 107ist say their ticket deal with the team, membership dues and other smaller revenue streams brought in more than $100,000 between March and December 2010. This season the Army got a 2.75 percent commission on $360 season tickets sold for its North End sections. Army officials say the 107ist has seen its revenues top $200,000 this year. The 107ist also earns modest revenue from its merchandise van, which is set up across the street from the stadium on game days. This includes items like “No Pity” scarves, which are considered a rite of passage for new members and are sold at cost. Paulson says any merchandise bearing the Timbers’ name could be claimed by the club under the team’s trademark. But his comments show the Army has made its impression on him. “I’m not getting into any unnecessary legal pissing matches,” Paulson says. “It seems petty. Those scarves have a lot of history behind them.” The 107ist has donated $11,000 for soccer equipment at Jefferson, Madison and Franklin high schools. The 107ist also started Operation Pitch Invasion, which is restoring and building soccer fields throughout the Portland area. Despite its growing influence, the Army has found its relationship with the players has grown more complicated. As recently as five years ago, players routinely gathered and drank with Army members at the Bullpen, a half block from the stadium on Southwest Taylor Street. (The Bitter End Pub, at the corner of West Burnside Street and Northwest 20th Avenue, is now the preferred game-day Army bar.) The onetime closeness between the Army and players sometimes spelled trouble. The night in August 2004 when the Timbers clinched their first United Soccer Leagues A-League Western Conference championship, goalkeeper Josh Saunders was treated to free rounds at the Bullpen by Army members. According to news reports, he was arrested hours later for reckless driving and
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driving under the influence when Beaverton police clocked him at 102 mph on U.S. Highway 26. Team rules now prohibit players from interacting with fans in such a manner, and the collective bargaining agreement of Major League Soccer further restricts how and when players can make appearances. The team sponsored a barbecue at Jeld-Wen earlier this month for 107ist members and players. But even the 107ist would have to jump through several hoops to get a player to appear at an event. “To be honest, even if we did that we wouldn’t get Darlington Nagbe,” says Army spokesman Garrett Dittfurth, referring to the star midfielder from Liberia. “They would send someone like Rodrigo Lopez.” Ryan Pore spent two full seasons playing for the Timbers, plus much of this season, before being loaned to the Montreal Impact. Pore was the unofficial liaison between the players and the Army. Pore says he has nothing but praise for the Army, but some of his former Timbers teammates—especially those new to Portland—didn’t understand the Army’s traditions and the expectations of the players to follow them. When Paulson pulled Jewsbury and Perlaza back onto the pitch to acknowledge the Army, it rankled some players. “I think some guys still weren’t happy with the fact that after the game they don’t have the right to do whatever they want,” Pore says. The team roster saw lots of turnover this year and added players who didn’t grasp the Portland soccer traditions, let alone the Timbers Army rituals. Pore says there was some discussion in the Timbers’ locker room about the extent to which the Army influences the team and Paulson. “I can tell you that it’s come up in conversations among players,” Pore says. “Some people think maybe the Timbers Army has too much power and the fans almost think it’s more about them than the players.” Timbers Army regulars say the step up to MLS has created some distance between them and the players—a reality when paychecks, and egos, get bigger as the stakes increase. “No one had support in the USL like Portland did,” Pore says. “Things have changed. Once players become bigger household names, it’s going to be tougher to get them to appreciate the fans and raise the log slices.”
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Ryan T. Jacobs’ music is hard to categorize, having drawn comparisons that run the gamut from Neil Young to Damien Rice, Adam Duritz (Counting Crows) to Thom Yorke (Radiohead). Nevertheless, the mix of small town boy and diverse life experiences fuse to offer his audience earnest, personal songs with universal appeal. Josh and MeR: Josh Schroeder has always had a deep love for the music of The Beatles, Jeff Buckley, and Elliott Smith. Meredith Adelaide’s musical tastes span from the influences of Simon & Garfunkel, Daft Punk, and Ella Fitzgerald. They soon discovered that their common interests and ideas were a match, and shortly after began conjuring up their own music while filming and photographing the entire process of creation. Jack McMahon is a performing songwriter as well host and organizer of the Music Millennium Songwriters’ Showcase. McMahon has been a working musician for all of his adult life and over the years has fronted some of Portland's more notable bands (Tracks, The Chameleons, Jack McMahon & Friends).
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WEDNESDAY AUG. 31 [COMICS] JUSTICE LEAGUE No. 1 Today marks the beginning of DC Comics’ ambitious (and desperate, considering slow sales as of late) reboot effort, “The New 52,” which finds the publisher restarting 52 superhero titles from issue No. 1. Justice League kicks things off, but each Wednesday in September will feature about a dozen rebooted titles (Swamp Thing and Batman: The Dark Knight among them). See your local comics shop.
Jason Sohn makes great mustard… in part to finance his love of motorcycles. The part-time United Airlines luggage loader and his wife Mandie received the recipe for their signature condiment as a wedding present from one of the groom’s relatives in 2005; nowadays it has turned into a family obsession that also happens to fund Sohn’s passion for road and dirt bikes. This stuff is magic: thin, hot and super vinegary with a noseclearing horseradish and pepper kick courtesy of the cayenne and serrano peppers the couple grow, dry and grind themselves for each batch at their Northeast Portland home. It’s more like a mustardy salad dressing than a paste; the perfect consistency for smearing on a ham sandwich, using as a marinade or sucking directly off your fingers. It comes in a little 8-ounce glass Kerr jar with a stick-on label proudly featuring the couple’s 9-year-old chocolate Lab, Skater (the O.G. “fatdog”). But as good as the mustard is, it’s made better with the addition of a bag or two of the Sohns’ Fatcat Pretzels ($6 for a 1-pound bag). They sprinkle the crunchy little homemade knots with cinnamon-sugar for their addictive Cinnamon Toast blend or coat the snacks with a tongue-tingly cayenne and serrano mix. The pretzels are light, not at all dry, and oily enough you’ll ruin your shirt in your haste to devour the entire bag. Really, this is the ultimate beer snack trifecta; every single bar in Portland should carry them. If they do, Sohn will be able to buy his custom orangeand-black Yamaha R6 all that much sooner—“in the same colors as the Fatdog label, of course,” he says with a laugh. KELLY CLARKE. EAT: Fatdog Mustard and Fatcat Pretzels are available at Portlandarea Made in Oregon stores and the Hollywood and Montavilla farmers markets, among other locations. Find a full list at fatdogmustard.com. Visit the website, or call 250-3749 for larger volume orders and deals.
THURSDAY SEPT. 1 [CLASSICAL] OREGON SYMPHONY, PORTLAND YOUTH PHILHARMONIC The end of summer outdoor concert includes familiar fare (Tchaikovsky) but also less cliched stimulation by George Gershwin, Sibelius, Mozart and Wagner, plus a guest turn by dancers from Oregon Ballet Theatre. But you’re not really coming for the program. The real question is: Will there be cannon fire? Yes. Tom McCall Waterfront Park on Southwest Naito Parkway, just south of the Hawthorne Bridge. 5 pm. Free.
FRIDAY SEPT. 2 [MUSIC] BROTHERS OF THE SONIC CLOTH, NORSKA, MORE Seattle’s Tad Doyle is a grunge-era legend, though he’s likely not a fan of the words “grunge” or “legend.” After all, he’s still making loud, inscrutable and excellent music with his new band, Brothers of the Sonic Cloth. Don’t miss them. Plan B, 1305 SE 8th Ave., 230-9020. 8 pm. $8. 21+.
SATURDAY SEPT. 3 [MUSIC] DARYL HALL AND JOHN OATES You’ve sung their songs at karaoke bars across the city and used their greatest hits album to soundtrack your workout montages—now is your chance to repay the men who wrote “Rich Girl” and “Maneater.” Isn’t it time you asked not what Hall and Oates can do for you, but what you can do for Hall and Oates? Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm. $79-$105.
TUESDAY SEPT. 6 [MOVIE ART] OREGON STILLS It’s the opening reception for an exhibition of photographs from the sets of local movies Meek’s Cutoff, Cold Weather and Some Days Are Better Than Others. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 2814215, hollywoodtheatre.org. 6 pm. Free.
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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 31 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 local nonprofit that’s been providing support and square meals for Portlanders in need at its Old Town kitchen since 1979. Eateries from Lincoln, Il Piatto and Three Doors Down to Pacific Pie Co., ¿Por Que No? and Mississippi Pizza are all helping out. Find participants and events at sistersoftheroad.org/events/dining-withdignity-calendar.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 1 PHAME Barbecue and PHard Sale
PHAME, the excellent local nonprofit that creates plays, concerts and other arts opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities, raises funds with a tasty barbecue and “PHard Sale” (PHAME yard sale, get it?). They’re promising brats, burgers, cupcakes and lots of info on the program’s fall and winter lineup of shows. Grace House/ PHAME offices, 1511 NE 17th Ave. 5-9 pm. $5 suggested donation. RSVP at info@phameacademy.org.
East India Co. Ganesha Chaturthi Celebration
Perennially underrated downtown Indian spot East India Co. cooks up a three-course veggie tasting menu in honor of the Hindu fest of Ganesha (yes, the elephant god riding a mouse). We’re talking spicy stir-fried beets and red cabbage, sweet and sour pumpkin, coconut desserts and a few other tasty dishes that are well worth giving thanks for all on their own. East India Co., 821 SW 11th Ave., 227-8815. 5-9:30 pm every day through Sept. 10. $20. Call for reservations.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 2 Basement Pub Anniversary Party
Everybody’s favorite Southeast Portland pub-away-from-home turns 10 this week and its owners, Tim Harris and Joel Hartzler, are celebrating with four days of beer deals, raffles and other boozy goodness. Starting Friday, Sept. 2, there’s a kickoff party with 2001 prices on PBR and Sierra Nevada (3-6 pm) as well as a pinball tournament through Monday. The weekend revelry continues with name-that-tune trivia, a tiki party, back-deck barbecue and even a screening of Archives of the Fantastic, featuring scenes filmed at the bar by the Alter Egos Society.
Basement Pub, 1028 SE 12th Ave., 2316068. Friday-Monday, Sept. 2-5. Visit basementpub.com for schedule and details. 21+.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 3 Sassafras Canning Classes
I know you’re incredibly proud of yourself for babying those grape tomatoes through our shit of a late summer, but now it’s time to shift your focus to turning those babies into some serious winter sauce fodder. Sassafras offers up a fall canning class to help you can, jar and seal your summer bounty. Plus, each class includes a trip to the farmers market for fruit and veggies, a three-course lunch with wine, recipes and three jars of whatever you make in class. Saturday, Sept. 3, is devoted to peaches, while Sept. 24 is all about tomatoes. This is a great deal, people. KitchenCru, 337 NW Broadway, 2261900. 10 am-1:30 pm. $99. Call Erin Meeker at 936-6153 or email classes@ sassafrascatering.com to reserve a seat.
Cooking Channel Truck Tour
The Cooking Channel—the Food Network’s sexier little indie sister station that most of us don’t get to watch because we can’t afford a triple-digit cable package—shows up in Portland this weekend to party for its first birthday at…the Saturday Market (I know, it makes no sense). They’ve commandeered a food truck (natch) and will be handing out free cold stuff from Great Northwest Ice Cream Co. while Montreal chef Chuck Hughes from the channel’s upcoming series, Chuck’s Day Off, chats with locals. Which, I’m sure, will be a great show…not that I’ll ever get to see it (again, damn you cable). Portland Saturday Market, Southwest Ankeny Street and Naito Parkway, 2226072, ext. 11. 10 am-5 pm.
Eighth Annual Romanian Festival
Celebrate all things Romanian—from cabbage rolls and roasted lamb, special beers and wines, to poems, folk dances and ballads. A note from the organizers: “Romanian folk dance can only be savored when sipping wine made in a truly Transylvanian method.” So, there you go…this might be your only chance for this kind of thing all year. St. Mary’s Romanian Orthodox Church, 13505 SE Stark St. 11 am-8 pm Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 3-4. Free entry; non-perishable food donation suggested. Info at festival.romanianorthodoxportland.org.
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THE OLD COUNTRY Grandma’s Meatballs, each the size of a baseball, are the house specialty: They’re available with spaghetti ($18) or as a stand-alone appetizer, polpette BY AA R ON MESH amesh@wweek.com ($8). I’d suggest getting them in the latter presentation, since that will allow you to order the lemon A large portrait of chef Marco Roberti’s grand- chicken ($19) as an entree. A Draper Valley breast mother Gilda hangs in the foyer of her namesake covered in a zesty sherry sauce and mushrooms, restaurant; she smiles approvingly at tables of other it’s the strongest main course. The most breathtakgrandmas. Gilda’s Italian Restaurant, a Caesar-bust ing item on the menu is the fritto misto appetizer garnished hole-in-the-wall in the apartment district ($13), a trawler-sized pile of squid, scallops and surrounding Jeld-Wen Field, has become a bluehair tiger shrimp, all battered and lightly fried. Plenty big enough to share, it would pair party destination—most nights, nicely with two glasses of pinot you’ll find two or three tables of Order this: Fritto misto and senior celebrants raising their over- lemon chicken. grigio as a pre-Timbers sidewalk sized wine glasses for toasts. seafood date. Best deal: Arancini ($7), crispy fried mozzarella rice balls. The reasons for this demographic But Gilda’s is primarily a place I’ll pass: On the lunch menu’s imbalance are a little obscure—it to tuck into big portions of pasta unremarkable sandwiches. might be because Gilda’s is located a that will put you to bed early. The block from the Social Security office, patrons here are people who have or because its hours are suited to early-bird diners. lived enough to decide food no longer need be a But I’d guess Gilda’s appeal is based on the place challenge or a chore; better to sink into comfortbeing a distinctly Portland hybrid: It uses voguish, able decadence, like one of those emperors. After a locally sourced meats—Olympic Provisions salami, certain point, it’s all gravy. Tails ’n’ Trotters pork—in traditional, heavy Sicilian cooking. Here is the new wrapped in the familiar, like EAT: Gilda’s Italian Restaurant, 1601 SW Morrison St., 224-0051, gildasitalianrestaurant.com. the prosciutto stuffed into Silvies Valley Ranch beef Lunch 11 am-2 pm Monday-Friday; happy hour 4 rolls to make Grandma’s Braciole ($23). This dish, pm-5:30 pm Monday-Saturday; dinner 5 pm-8:30 like many others, is drenched in a tomato sauce thick pm Monday-Thursday and 5 pm-9:30 pm FridaySaturday. $$ Moderate. enough to remind you why Italians call it “gravy.”
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soul singer Solomon Burke (who died last year) crafted an entire album that revolved around humping, Music To Make Love By. The opening and closing spoken-word title tracks alone are total gold. On Part 1, Burke’s voice sounds like a thick shag carpet as he addresses the sad, lonely housewife who wanted to listen to this 350-pound man spin his tales of seduction: “Hi, baby, I’m so glad that we can be together again,” he says over swelling strings to open the album. “You know, it’s so hard to make love to a picture, baby. It’s even more harder to make love to a dream.” Then, after a handful of romantic anthems, he comes back with a closing track to seal the record with a kiss. “It was so nice. Oh, God, it was so nice,” he says softly. “Can we do it again? Please? Real soon?” He drops his phone number for good measure. (CJ) Derek and Clive, “My Mum Song” (1977)
Dudley Moore and Peter Cook’s late ’70s “comedy” LPs are some of the raunchiest, lewdest, most unconscionable excuses for albums ever released. Generally just collections of drunken improvisational rambling (the recording process was literally “get plastered, press record” and the word “cunt” is uttered every 10 seconds or so), the duo occasionally breaks into song. On this occasion, from 1977 debut record Come Again, that song is an a cappella ditty about incest and cancer (OK, “knob cancer”). It’s not as funny as “Jump,” a misty-eyed piano ballad encouraging a suicidal man to dive into a nonexistent safety blanket (when he tumbles to his death, Moore sings “laugh/ we nearly shat/ we had not laughed so much since grandma died”), but it is far dirtier—so dirty, in fact, that reprinting the lyrics would seem in exceedingly poor taste. (CJ) 2 Live Crew, “Do Wah Diddy” (1987)
There’s a reason the members of 2 Live Crew spent so much of their heyday in court. What easier target could censors have than MCs who sample liberally, rap about sex with prostitutes and say little of redeeming social value (aside from the occasional public service reference to “stank” STDs). The popularity of “Do Wah Diddy”—a particularly tasteless and derivative number in which Brother Marquis details punching a crackhead in the face after receiving oral sex from her—was instrumental in transforming the Crew from a rap group that rapped about sex to a rap group that ONLY rapped about sex. (CJ) PEACHES
DIRTY SONGBIRDS ON THE EVE OF PEACHES’ VISIT, WE REVISIT FILTHY SEX SONGS FOR THE AGES BY C AS E Y JA R M A N AND M ATT S I NGER 24 3 - 21 2 2
There’s a reason sex comes first in the trio of “sex, drugs, and rock and roll.” Doin’ it has always been the primary thematic interest of pop music, from Jerry Lee Lewis’ shakin’ to Trent Reznor wanting to fuck you like an animal. But some artists are a bit more risqué in describing the dirty deed than others. So in light of potty-mouthed Peaches’ visit to Portland, here are some classic pervert anthems. Like Shakespeare wrote, “If music be the food of love, let’s just skip straight to dessert.” George Formby, “With My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock” (1937)
“Blackpool Rock” is a rod-shaped hard candy (apparently enjoyed by beach-bound British kids), and George Formby’s tune explains that the singer carries one everywhere he goes. “It may be sticky but I never complain/ It’s nice to have a nibble of it now and again,” Formby sings through a toothy smile. His winking ukulele tunes may seem harm-
less today, but they made their mark on the British psyche, and on pioneering U.K. acts like the Bonzo Dog Band. (CJ) Tom Lehrer, “Smut” (1959)
“I do have a cause, though,” legendary musical comedian Tom Lehrer tells his audience in the introduction to this tune. “It is obscenity. I’m for it.” The resulting anthem is perhaps less shocking than a defense of all things offensive. “Stories of tortures/ Used by debauchers/ Lurid, licentious and vile/ Make me smile,” he sings before pointing out that the twisted mind can construe both Peter Pan and The Wizard of Oz as total filth. (CJ) Blowfly, “Hole Man” (1971)
The juvenile, filthy soul satires delivered by illicit Georgian singer Clarence Reid (a.k.a. Blowfly) only work to the extent that his band works, too—and in the ’70s, Blowfly had a blisteringly hot band that could parody doo-wop ballads (“I Only Have Eyes for You” becomes an ode to erectile dysfunction) and Bill Haley rockers (“Suck Around the Clock”) with equal mastery. “Hole Man” finds Blowfly in fine form, tackling the Sam and Dave classic with backdoor gusto and revealing a bit of his origin story (“I was brought up/ In a transit house/ With a titty in my hand/ And a pussy in my mouth”) along the way. (CJ) Solomon Burke, “Music to Make Love By (Parts 1 and 2)” (1975)
Not content just to write a song about making love, famed
Lil’ Kim, “How Many Licks?” (2000)
Proving that objectification wasn’t purely the territory of male MCs like Too Short and Slick Rick, Lil’ Kim turned the rap world upside down with her 2000 record, The Nortorious K.I.M. With Sisqo (of “Thong Song” fame) providing the backing vocals, Kim runs through her black book and details past conquests (“And this black dude I called King Kong/ He had a big-ass dick and a hurricane tongue”) before encouraging prisoners to masturbate to her likeness. While countless dissertations could (and doubtless) have been written on Kim’s brand of feminism, this song is, if nothing else, a refreshing role reversal. (CJ) Peaches, “Mommy Complex” (2009)
Choosing the filthiest Peaches song is like opening a photo book on venereal diseases and selecting the grossestlooking sore: All of them are pretty damn nasty. Filth—of the sexually liberating, gender-inverting variety—is what the electroclash nympho has built her career on. “Mommy Complex,” from 2009’s I Feel Cream, is relatively subdued, but as she assumes the role of a cougar satisfying a younger man’s Oedipal yearnings, the 44-year-old exschoolteacher indulges in a kink that’s, frankly, creepier than all her other fetishes. She references bottle-feeding and C-sections, and tells her suitor that if he’s going to bring her flowers, she prefers “baby’s breath.” Then she declares her desire to “bust a cherry cheese popcorn puff.” Eew! What does that even mean?! (MS) SEE IT: Peaches plays the Roseland on Sunday, Sept. 4. 9 pm. All ages, astonishingly. Willamette Week AUGUST 31, 2011 wweek.com
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[COLLEGE DROPOUT ROCK] Japandroids of Vancouver, B.C., is having far too much fun touring. No surprise when you consider the terse lyrics on 2009’s PostNothing, which glanced at such pressing issues as staying up late and crushing out on girls. However, the wave of ’90s nostalgia threatens to crest without a fresh contribution from this earnest pair of throwback instigators. The promised series of five 7-inches devoted to Post-Nothing outtakes stalled late last year after the release of “Younger Us,” which is understandable—it’s hard to imagine Japandroids has anything quite so careeningly pretty in its vaults— but here’s hoping the attainment of post-Post-Nothing perfection will inspire a new batch of fuzzed-out anthems. Don’t come back emptyhanded next time, OK, dudes? CHRIS STAMM. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
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[ROOTS RIOT] Portland duo Hillstomp’s kinetic blend of hard-edged blues, rough-hewn Americana and Tennessee sludge has made it a staple of the roots scene in its decade of destroying local venues. Despite being
limited to eight limbs, the band never sounds stripped down— Henry Kammerer plucks guitar and wails while percussionist John Johnson beats drums, washboards, buckets and anything else that goes boom. Hillstomp offers more of the same rowdy lunacy on its third full-length, last year’s Darker the Night. Whether evoking a John Fogerty nursed by the gods of metal, Robert Johnson on an extreme adrenaline kick, or Earl Scruggs soaked in moonshine, Hillstomp isn’t a band—it’s a force of nature. AP KRYZA. Dawson Park, North Stanton Street and Williams Avenue. 6 pm. Free. All ages.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 1 Kelly Anne Masigat (of the Dimes), Sara Jackson-Holman
[ORNITHOLOGIST POP] Bend native Sara Jackson-Holman coos and caws like a dove, adding silk to an otherwise dark and mysterious backing of parlor house piano and jazzy strings. Reminiscent of the inventive back-alley musical trio from Sylvain Chomet’s Triplets of Belleville, SJH sings as though stuck in a Parisian bar, circa 1935. Last year, she dove into local music’s crowded and sometimes turbulent waters with When You Dream, instantly earning her keep
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TAYLOR SWIFT Born: 1989 in Wyomissing, Pa. Sounds like: Avril Lavigne’s smarter, soulful, slightly southern gal pal For fans of: Radio Disney Emo Hour Latest release: 2010’s Speak Now, her third album, which expands the platinum template of richly textured portraits of shallower emotions through hook-laden New Country balladeering to embrace pre-ripped pop-punkishness and, on “Dear, John,” acid-washed blues. Why you care: Despite somewhat desperate reports to the contrary, Taylor Swift is not the last best hope of a beleaguered music industry. She may be about the only newly minted artist to move product comparable to the dinosaurs that hawked best-ofs in those pre-millennial glory days, but she’s also sold the most digital downloads by some stretch. Rather more impressively, she’s done so without even the slightest hint of a public persona. Beyond a somewhat forced casualness midst album asides and genuinely amusing self-deprecation through stunts like her T-Pain collaboration, there’s a certain steely eyed careerism lurking behind any such rapid coronation. In retrospect, even the startled embarrassment after Kanye West—like numerous other Swift targets, he earns a dig on her new album with “Innocent”—interrupted her 2009 VMA acceptance speech seems perfectly choreographed, if only by the pop gods, to emphasize a supposed fragility. On this tour, sure to be the summer’s most lucrative, she’ll be cranking up the Broadway fantasia, fleshing out the most personal of songs with fireworks, acrobats and show-stopping set pieces. There are technicolor confections to fulfill the dearest wishes (revenge or romance) and Disney-fied dreams of princesses of all ages, but one can’t help but wonder how her subjects will respond as she ascends the throne. SEE IT: Taylor Swift plays the Rose Garden on Tuesday, Sept. 6. 7 pm. Sold out. All ages. 34
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THURSDAY - FRIDAY with songs like “Red Ink” and “California Gold Rush,” songs so rich they feel like fables. She’ll share the stage with the Dimes’ Kelly Anne Masigat, an equally haunting songstress in the midst of an Al’s Den residency. MARK STOCK. Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel, 303 SW 12th Ave., 972-2670. 8 pm. Free. 21+.
Earn, Matt Carlson, Pulse Emitter, Eye Myths
[DRONE GUITAR MAESTRO] Guitarist Matt Sullivan, the gent who performs as Earn, is another performer who aims not for virtuosic runs on a fret board, but to eke out minimalist drones, long notes and melodies that will make your heart and soul ache at the sound of them. The Los Angeles-based musician makes an all-too-rare appearance here in the Northwest in support of his most recent cassette release, Performance (out on Ehkein Tapes), which captures his gorgeous work played live in Chicago and St. Louis. Sullivan is supported by Portland’s analog synth gurus Matt Carlson (Golden Retriever) and Pulse Emitter. ROBERT HAM. Ella Street Social Club, 714 SW 20th Place, 227-0116. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
Red Fang, White Orange, Smooth Sailing, The Chasers
[NOT YOUR MOTHER’S MUSIC] Listen to this year’s PDX Pop Now! compilation and you might stop to wonder who let their bingedrinking, live-in uncle contribute his favorite song. Red Fang’s “Wires” is doused in lighter fluid and lit with the butt of a Pall Mall: The nearly six-minute song is rabid with guitar shredding and raspy rock vocals that would fit better on a Black Sabbath tribute album than a local pop comp, and that’s how the outfit’s April release, Murder the Mountain, sounds all the way through. The single is just a taste of the heart palpitating, speaker blowing, vintage basement metal that consumes a good portion of the album (you get a break during “The Undertow,” but there’s no point in getting comfortable). The guys have had plenty of time to perfect their heavy-on-drums, light-on-nothing sound since forming in 2005, and it shows. NIKKI VOLPICELLI. Plan B, 1305 SE 8th Ave., 230-9020. 8 pm. $15. 21+.
Young Jeezy, Freddie Gibbs, Cool Nutz, Spac3man
[SOUTH IN THEIR MOUTHS] It has been six years since Young Jeezy released Thug Motivation 101—an
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album that elevated the Atlantabred MC from a trap rapper riding the Southern-fried wave of success of the aughts to a respected street lyricist who wasn’t afraid to take risks (see the boom-bap production on “Go Crazy”). In the years that followed, the “Snowman” released two follow-up albums, neither of which was as wellreceived, as they were both too similar in sound to his debut. Now, after a four-year solo hiatus, Jeezy plans to release TM 103, which fans are hopeful will be a return to form—partly due to the addition of Freddie Gibbs to his CTE imprint. Gibbs, a rugged storyteller also from the South who has gained underground stardom with his high-quality mixtapes, could be the match to relight Jeezy’s fire. The two MCs performing together could be the making of something beautifully gritty. REED JACKSON. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $25. All ages.
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[NEW WORLD JAZZ] Being born in Ethiopia and raised in the United States can do wonders for your sound. Meklit Hadero realized this while a poly-sci student at Yale, answering that oft-risky call to leave the books for greener musical pastures. Given Hadero’s appreciation for African folk and American jazz, as well as her warming, kinetic vocal abilities (commonly compared to those of Nina Simone or Yael Naim), the cards were always in her favor. Work with Bay Area collective Nefasha Ayer and Seattle hip-hop artist Gabriel Teodros has broadened and bolstered her sound, as proven on On a Day Like This..., her classy, retro-modern 2010 debut. MARK STOCK. The Woods, 6637 SE Milwaukie Ave., 8900408. 8 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 2 Atomic Gumbo
[ZYDECO] If you’re looking to find a little slice of New Orleans—maybe a great big spoonful would be a better way of putting it—Steve Kerin is your go-to guy. Atomic Gumbo isn’t the Louisiana expat’s only local group, but it’s a lively one that has a lot of fun running down hits from the annals of cajun party music. Kerin, a pianist/keyboardist of substantial talent, surrounds himself with bandmates both skilled and ready to make a night
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THINGS THAT ARE DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS TOUR. Every show will feature an album performed in its entirety. Something that has never been done before. We will perform with one of each other’s socks on our left foot each night as a good-luck charm. We usually just hang upside down for 15 minutes for meditation and focus before shows. This will be the last tour before we mark 20 years as a band. Wow, getting up there in years! Fans can expect longer concerts than in the past (which were already long). Because each show will feature entire albums and a selection of highlighted songs from the other four albums. Bees and dogs can smell fear. AND SO CAN HANSON! SEE IT: Hanson plays the Aladdin Theater on Monday, Sept. 5. 8 pm. $30. All ages. Willamette Week AUGUST 31, 2011 wweek.com
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of it. If there’s room to dance, this Duff’s show should turn into a dance party rather quickly. CASEY JARMAN. Duff’s Garage, 1635 SE 7th Ave., 234-2337. 9 pm. $7. 21+.
Castanets, Death Songs, Ohioan
[EARTHY SONGWRITERS] It’s been a while since we’ve heard Ohioan’s name, but Ryne Warner’s Portland act is apparently back off the ground, prepping for a new album titled, quite wonderfully, Balls Deep in Babylon. An early mix of a tune called “No Favorites,” recorded with Karl Blau at Unknown studio in Anacortes, Wash., showcases more dark and atmospheric music with a big beat drop. It reminds a bit of the first jazzy full-length from Warner’s earlier band incarnation, Ohioan and Native Kin—a criminally underrated local release called Being of the Good River. Suffice to say, we’re excited to hear some new songs in concert, and the show is all the more exciting as the great Castanets and Nick Delffs’ Death Songs project share the bill. CASEY JARMAN. Ella Street Social Club, 714 SW 20th Pl., 227-0116. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
Brothers of the Sonic Cloth, Norska, Negative Queen, Cull
[METAL EXCHANGE PROGRAM] While Day One of SEA-PDXEXG features local favorites Red Fang, Day Two brings down some mighty death from above in the form of Seattle legend Tad Doyle. Tad’s name is not only eponymous with his old band, it’s synonymous with metallic Northwest grunge in its purest form. This gentle giant’s debut album, God’s Balls, was probably the heaviest album recorded in the Northwest until Burning Witch came along in the late ‘90s. Funny thing is, Tad’s new trio, Brothers of the Sonic Cloth, sounds pleasantly influenced by regional modern doom. With Doyle’s wife, Peggy, plucking the bass and He Whose Ox Is Gored drummer John O’Connell in tow, Tad will bring the hammer down tonight with the crushing weight of experience. NATHAN CARSON. Plan B, 1305 SE 8th Ave., 2309020. 8 pm. $8. 21+.
Groundation, Kevin Kinsella
[ROOTS REGGAE] While the offkilter rhythms and spiritual subject matter of California-based roots band Groundation may draw comparisons to reggae greats like Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, its live performances are more in the spirit of Miles Davis: Intricate improvisations give the group’s organic sound a real complexity. Lead singer Harrison Stafford, a white American whose tremendously authentic Jamaican drawl has tricked blind listeners for years, croons consciousness of the worldwide struggle to be free—something almost everybody can relate to, whether it’s from the powers that be, credit-card debt or your Aunt Edna’s awkward hugs. The band is touring in promotion of their soon-to-be-released fulllength, Building an Ark, as well as its recently released compilation album, Gather of the Elders, which finds the band teaming up
with roots-reggae originators Don Carlos and Pablo Moses (among others). REED JACKSON. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 2848686. 9 pm. $20 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 3 Daryl Hall & John Oates
[SMOOTH CRIMINALS] Hall and Oates are the Led Zeppelin of blueeyed soul. Think about it: Both have massive hits collections, both maintain an ongoing cultural ubiquity (you can’t spend an hour at a karaoke bar without hearing someone’s rendition of “Rich Girl”) and both made pacts with the Devil (how else could John Oates get famous?). The only difference is that Zep overcame the critical push-back of its heyday to become generally accepted as about the third greatest rock band of all-time. That kind of critical reappraisal hasn’t yet happened for H&O. The pair is the highest-selling pop duo in history, yet they are rarely held in high regard by tastemakers. Objectively, though, most of the band’s singles are undeniable. Why the disrespect? My theory: It’s impossible for any duo to be taken seriously when one dude looks like Geraldo with a perm. Fuckin’ Oates. MATTHEW SINGER. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm. $79$105. All ages.
Davila 666, Cheap Time, Tensions, No Tomorrow Boys
[ROCK PSICODELICO] If you’re in the hunt for some fine, psychedelically unhinged garage pop, the last place you might think to look is Puerto Rico. Yet, that’s just where Davila 666 hails from. A recent signee to venerable In the Red Records, this sextet sings almost always in its native tongue, and adds an extra touch of grogginess by using samples and drum machines in many of its songs (hence the appearance of part of Elvis Costello’s “This Year’s Girl” in “Yo Seria Otro” from the band’s most recent LP, Tan Bajo) and coating everything else in lo-fi scuzz. ROBERT HAM. East End, 203 SE Grand Ave., 232-0056. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
Venerable Showers of Beauty, Toshi Onizuka Trio, Alma Brasileira, Sakura Koto Ensemble
[GLOBAL POTPOURRI] Every September, the Vaux’s swifts converge upon Chapman School and Portland global music explorers congregate at the outdoor stage in the North Park Blocks during the Labor Day arts festival. Saturday’s performers include the Sakura koto (Japanese zither) and violin ensemble; Alma Brasileira (bubbly Choro music wherein European dances meet African rhythms); Toshi Onizuka’s Latin-jazz-flamencoGhanaian fusion; and Venerable Showers of Beauty’s percussive, seductive Javanese gamelan music. Sunday and Monday’s shows feature everything from Celtic
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showcases Bachmann’s unique prowess at songwriting and his propensity to veer hard into uncharted territory, with somber slide-guitar laments and heartfelt ballads mingling with stabbing chamber-rock arrangements that rattle the mind with their intelligence and vigor. With its fifth album, the much-anticipated Breaks in the Armor, poised to drop in October, Crooked Fingers offers a complex musical palate that should translate beautifully into the small space of Bunk Bar. With either project, Bachmann would be a MFNW star. Pulling double duty, he’s a sage, and MFNW’s undisputed MVP. MFNW CROOKED FINGERS plays Wednesday, Sept. 7, at Bunk Bar with Sean Flinn & the Royal We, Kelly Blair Bauman and the Heligoats. Doors open at 7 pm. Entry with MFNW wristband or $10 at the door. 21+. ARCHERS OF LOAF plays on the Comcast Stage at the Crystal Ballroom on Thursday, Sept. 8, with Viva Voce and Sebadoh. Doors open at 7 pm. Entry with MFNW wristband or $20 advance ticket from TicketsWest. All ages.
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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SERPENTS OF SOUL LITTLE DRAGON CULTIVATES A FIERY, GENRE-SPANNING PULSE No one sounds quite like Little Dragon. Oh, you might be able to pick out a few influences—a bit of Massive Attack here, some Kate Bush there, a touch of jazz over there—but the truth is, the band operates outside the constraints of any genre. No surprise, then, that it’s made admirers of other boundary-pushers, everyone from Kanye West and Erykah Badu to TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek. Gorillaz’s Damon Albarn collaborated with Little Dragon on his cartoon supergroup’s Plastic Beach. Not bad for a humbly named bunch of Swedes—but if the growth across its first three records is any indication, this is just the beginning for Little Dragon. Little Dragon announced its arrival in 2006 with the overcast piano ballad “Twice,” an alluring introduction that highlighted the band’s soul but kept its rhythmic heart a secret. When its self-titled debut dropped a year later, the group revealed its true identity as a fantastically original, crisply funky ensemble working at the intersection of trip-hop, dance-pop and electro-R&B. That first album established the main ingredients of the foursome’s bewitching cocktail: dubby basslines, glow-in-the-dark synthesizers, precision drumming and the smoldering voice of singer Yukimi Nagano. On 2009’s Machine Dreams, the band gave its seductive mélange a futuristic synth-pop sheen, transforming itself into something approaching Sade—if she adapted her quiet storm for a New Wave nightclub. With its newly released third album, Ritual Union, Little Dragon continues to explore within its own singular style. Stripping down its already minimalist sound, the band becomes even more beguiling. “Brush the Heat” and the title track surround Nagano in a mist of echoed drums and blinking synth, while “Nightlight” and the appropriately named “Shuffle a Dream” are propelled by deliciously sexy grooves. As captivating as the group is on record, its unique sonic admixture comes to full fruition in concert. There is a lot of great music to see at MusicfestNW, but this is a chance to catch one of the best live acts touring today. LITTLE DRAGON plays MusicfestNW at the Hawthorne Theatre on Thursday, Sept. 8, with Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Dirty Mittens and Mnemonic Sounds. Doors at 7 pm. Entry with MFNW wristband or $15 at the door. All ages. Willamette Week AUGUST 31, 2011 wweek.com
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[CASCADIAN METAL] Few bands wear Cascadian pride on their (tattooed) sleeves with quite as much gusto as Megaton Leviathan. These shoegazing metallers cover the stage in requisite animal bones and candles, soaking it all in mood lighting. Then the sonic ritual begins, and the core duo of Chris Beug and Andrew Costa drift in and out of fjords full of guitar, canyon echo drums and moaning vocal anguish. Kicking things off with reserved aplomb tonight is the solo acoustic metal wonder Aerial Ruin. While Erik Moggridge made his name in a real Bay Area thrash band called Epidemic (it opened for Slayer, toured with Cannibal Corpse—real deal shit), he has gentrified his art into some glorious, sublime and aching balladry. NATHAN CARSON. Plan B, 1305 SE 8th Ave., 230-9020. 8 pm. $5. 21+.
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[GUITAR ZEITGEIST] How weird is it that Surfer Blood is signed to Warner Brothers Records? It seems that circa yesterdayish, the Florida quartet was still relying on a mountainous outpouring of Internet buzz to sustain it day to day. Now, the group’s reverb-laden Stratocaster riffs are being touted as the most recent incarnation of Weezer. Surfer Blood’s sole album to date, last year’s Astro Coast, was a case study in bare hooks, set forth without much in the way of adornment. Perhaps Surfer Blood can be lumped in the same category as Yuck, as both bands mine the late ’90s for guitar-based indie-rock gold. In the case of Surfer Blood at least, a fond nostalgia and a relentless feel for hooks have allowed for a solid shot at the big leagues. SHANE DANAHER. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $9.47 advance, $10 day of show. All ages.
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[THRASH METAL] Can you call a thrash-metal album “mature”? I’m hoping so, because that’s the epithet I want to toss toward Conjure and Command, the new full-length from Portland’s longtime thrash kings, Toxic Holocaust. For one, it’s the first album that features a bona fide band, rather than every instrument and grumbling vocal being handled by Joel Grind (could you ask for a more metal name than that?). By relinquishing his hold on the bass and drums, Grind is now able to throw his every atom into ripping off meaty chunks of guitar and toughening up his already shredded vocal chords. ROBERT HAM. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 8:30
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[PERSISTENT POP] Compared to its late-’90s teen pop peers, Hanson has shown a jaw-dropping amount of staying power. After being discovered in 1996 by a talent agent, brothers Isaac, Taylor and Zac Hanson were granted the kind of instant fame and cherubic infamy available only through major-label scheming. Spearheaded by the sugarier-than-sugar single “MMMBop,” the group’s debut record went on to sell upwards of 10 million copies and breed all manner of media adoration ranging from documentary films to fan magazines. Instead of dying quietly with the next media cycle, Hanson picked a protracted fight with Island/Def Jam Records, eventually leaving to form its own label (3CG). Since then, the trio has released a steady stream of reasonably solid soul-pop records, the most recent of which was last year’s Shout It Out. SHANE DANAHER. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $30. All ages.
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[DREAMY FOLK POP] Devon Williams cleans up on Euphoria, the sophomore album from the Los Angeles folk songwriter. The August release features various moods, minds and altered states that are wrapped into a streamlined recording with help from the likes of Destroyer producer Dave Carswell and the Violens’ Jorge Elbrecht. The always heady, upbeat 12-song album feels so dreamy you might just pinch yourself— and that’s not a bad thing. There’s a time in all of our days when we feel in between sleep and waking, like before a morning coffee and after the night’s last drink. This is great theme music for those times. NIKKI VOLPICELLI. East End, 203 SE Grand Ave., 232-0056. 9 pm. $7. 21+.
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[DIGITAL HARDCORE] American ears weren’t ready for Atari Teenage Riot in 1996. Electronica was just beginning to flower stateside, and the most abrasive thing the mainstream could tolerate at that point was the Prodigy. A group of anarchistic Berliners wielding speed-metal guitars and screeching digitized chaos to techno beats and using it as a battering ram for radical politics just wasn’t going to find anything but the smallest niche audience on these shores. Fifteen years later, the band’s overwhelming blitz of noise is still a lot to take. Is This Hyperreal? is ATR’s first album in over a decade—it initially broke up after the 2001 death of screamer Carl Crack—and it sounds like distorted communiqués from a future that never arrived. MATTHEW SINGER. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.
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[FUZZ BOMBS] As its mid-career name change might imply, Big Black Cloud (formerly “Here Comes a Big Black Cloud!”) isn’t the same band it was while soundtracking summer house shows with its calamitous, darkly celebratory garage rock in the late aughts. Long gone are the dancers, bolts of theremin and discordant blasts of brass. In fact, BBC sounds an awful lot different than it did on last year’s aptly titled Dark Age full-length, which found the band’s old sound narrowed and refracted in cracked fun-house mirrors. On Shitty Vibrations, the trio sounds—for the first time— exactly like its name would suggest. Opener “Human Host” is a stuttering crawl through muddy feedback that offers nods to rockabilly but remains mostly tethered to a distressing lo-fi hardcore sound. But it’s on the instrumental “Black Friday” that the band proves it can do more now with less: Guitarist/vocalist Nick Capello’s guitar convulses with metallic and ADD delta blues licks folded in on themselves while bassist Soo Koelbli and drummer Travis Wainwright maintain a high-tension groove out of the Fugazi playbook. The cassette release’s A-side wraps with the sludgy “Medusa,” which forces the first two tracks’ aesthetics together in unholy matrimony. But it’s on the B-side where BBC most successfully balances its punk and psychedelic tendencies. The title track opens in stabbing fits and false starts (with vocals, as usual, so tinny that one can’t understand much besides the Beach Boys-goofing battle cry of “shitty vibrations”) and then inflates and pops into something befitting of an Italian horror movie soundtrack. “Untitled” is another instrumental cut that sounds like early Modest Mouse on a severe death trip. The catchy, crusty, near-cowpunk anthem “Mazes” follows, and the entrancing, out-of-character “Cocaine World (Dub Version)” closes the album on a particularly gloomy (if funky, thanks to Koelbli’s wandering fingers) note. Which is exactly how a band called Big Black Cloud should close an album. It’s just perhaps not an album you should listen to while taking any kind of medication. CASEY JARMAN.
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303 SW 12th Ave.
102 NE Russell St. The Javier Nero Quintet
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel Kelly Anne Masigat
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Open Mic
Alderbrook Park Resort
24414 NE Westerholm Rd., Brush Prairie, Wash. Jimmy Buffett Tribute: The Cheeseburgers
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St.
Random Diversity, Sundaze, Gnosis, Dante Elephante
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Oregon Summer Jam: Yung Mil, Mike Bars, Captain Low, Cali Cash, Scruplez, Lil Senny, Young Mook, The Krisis, MC Nett, AP the C.E.O., Ace and J Hyph, Sammy T and Gabe Fain, Mikie Slapz
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Robin Greene
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. David Gerow
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Japandroids, Bass Drum of Death
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave.
Gordon Goldsmith
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. The Syndicate, Item 9, Mammoth Life
Dawson Park
Ventura Park
Jimmy Mak’s
The Midnight Serenaders
The Mel Brown B3 Organ Band
Naomi Hooley and Rob Stroup
White Eagle Saloon
Kennedy School
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
The Defendants
Kinderqueen
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar
Kenton Club
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Peter Rodocker
Milagros Boutique 5433 NE 30th Ave. Van Oodles
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. The Icarus Kid
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Vanimal, Serious Business, A Gentlemen’s Picnic
O’Connors
7850 SW Capitol Highway Kit Garoutte
PCPA Antoinette Hatfield Hall 1111 SW Broadway
Sunset Traffic Jam
PCPA Music on Main Street SW Main St. & SW Broadway
The Quick and Easy Boys
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Billy Kennedy
Press Club
2621 SE Clinton St. Swing Papillon
Red and Black Cafe 400 SE 12th Ave.
Music for the Working Class: Ryan G., David Small, Kory Quinn, I Wobble Wobble
Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery 206 SW Morrison St. Jordan Harris and Company
Saratoga
6910 N Interstate Ave. Daikaiju, Audios Amigos
North Stanton St. & N Williams Ave.
Someday Lounge
Hillstomp
Mercy Graves, Race of Strangers, Verner Pantons
Doug Fir Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave.
830 E Burnside St.
The Blue Monk
Kaylee Cole, Sun Angle, Lemolo
Arabesque Bellydance
Duff’s Garage
3341 SE Belmont St.
The Globe
1635 SE 7th Ave.
2045 SE Belmont St.
Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam
Woody, Wiseman and Sprague
East India Co.
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar
821 SW 11th Ave. Josh Feinberg
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place
Mangled Bohemians, My Empty Phantom, Rainstick Cowbell, AUX 78, Amy Bleu
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge
1001 SW Broadway Key of Dreams
The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Leo London, My Autumn’s Done Come, Father Figure
The Lovecraft
625 NW 21st Ave.
421 SE Grand Ave.
The Sale
Identity Theft
Holocene
Thirsty Lion
1001 SE Morrison St.
71 SW 2nd Ave.
R. Stevie Moore, Tropical Ooze, Lake, The Night Game Cult
Stone White
Jimmy Mak’s
Eddie Martinez
The Mel Brown Quartet
Touché Restaurant and Billiards
221 NW 10th Ave.
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Little Sue and Lynn Conover (9 pm); Michael Hurley (6 pm)
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway
1425 NW Glisan St.
Nancy King with Steve Christofferson
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Curious Hands, Hey Lover, Dramady
ONE ON ONE: Daryl Hall and John Oates play the Schnitz on Saturday.
SE 115th Ave. & SE Stark St.
836 N Russell St.
221 NW 10th Ave.
5736 NE 33rd Ave.
2025 N Kilpatrick St.
Union Station, 800 NW 6th Ave.
The Streakin’ Healys
Ron Steen Trio with David Watson
17100 NW Sauvie Island Road
Thurs. Sept. 1 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
Kruger’s Farm
Caleb Klauder
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St.
Kelly Anne Masigat, Sara Jackson-Holman
The Basinbillies, Bus Folk, Mikal Brucken (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)
Alberta Street Public House
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
303 SW 12th Ave.
1036 NE Alberta St. Dog Tooth
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro
Andina
Lynn Conover, Gravel
Matices
3939 N Mississippi Ave.
Andrea’s Cha Cha Club
Wax Fingers, No Kind Of Rider, Hello Electric
Dina and Bamba Y Su Pilon D’Azucar with La Descarga Cubana
Mock Crest Tavern
1314 NW Glisan St.
832 SE Grand Ave.
Artichoke Community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Songwriters Roundup
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St.
Mississippi Studios
3435 N Lombard St.
River Twain and The Ruby Pines
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb
Pints Brewing Company
412 NW 5th Ave.
Alabama Black Snake, Antique Scream, Mongrel City
Noah Peterson, Carley Baer
Branx
1305 SE 8th Ave.
320 SE 2nd Ave. The Devastated, Regiment 26, Amerakin Overdose, Way of the Yeti, When They Invade
Camellia Lounge
Plan B
Red Fang, White Orange, Smooth Sailing, The Chasers
Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave.
Randy Porter Trio
Young Jeezy, Freddie Gibbs, Cool Nutz, Spac3man
Chapel Pub
Saratoga
510 NW 11th Ave.
430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin
Corkscrew Wine Bar 1669 SE Bybee Blvd. Boy and Bean
Dante’s
6910 N Interstate Ave. Nocturnes, Psychic Feline, Woolen Men
Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave.
Open Mic with Two Rivers
350 W Burnside St.
The Blue Monk
Pitchfork Motorway, Thorntown Tallboys, Couch
Alan Jones Jam
Doug Fir Lounge
3341 SE Belmont St.
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar
830 E Burnside St.
1001 SW Broadway
Chris Marshall, Shane Tutmarc, Nathan Trueb
Johnny Martin
Duff’s Garage
3350 SE Morrison St.
The Hobnob Grille
1635 SE 7th Ave.
Open Mic
Daikaiju
The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian
East End
203 SE Grand Ave.
426 SW Washington St.
The No Tomorrow Boys, Matty Rue
Holy Children, The Soft Bombs, The Midnight Callers
Club
Ella Street Social
The Woods
714 SW 20th Place
6637 SE Milwaukie Ave.
Earn, Matt Carlson, Pulse Emitter, Eye Myths
Meklit Hadero, Fast Rattler
Goodfoot Lounge
Thirsty Lion
2845 SE Stark St.
71 SW 2nd Ave.
Philly’s Phunkestra
Merrill Not So Lite
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge
Tonic Lounge
625 NW 21st Ave. Anthony Brady
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge 1503 SE 39th Ave.
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Gamma Knife, Teeter Totter, Danger Thieves
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd.
Savoir Faire Burlesque
Sing For Your Supperclub with the All-Star Horns
Holocene
Tupai at Andina
1001 SE Morrison St.
1314 NW Glisan St.
MGM, Linda Austin, Allie Hankins, Why I Must Be Careful, Pool of Winds, Rob Walmart, DJ E*Rock
Neftali Rivera
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CALENDAR
BAR SPOTLIGHT
Plew’s Brews
INGER KLEKACZ
8409 N Lombard St.
1314 NW Glisan St.
Red Room
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway
Roseland Theater
225 SW Ash St.
Dispatch
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Heathen Shrine, Motorthrone, Godenied, Raptor, DJ Nefarious
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St.
Sugarcane String Band (9 pm); Anna Paul and The Bearded Lady (6 pm)
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St.
Rumblebox, Reverend Loose Morals
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Caleb Klauder
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Eddie Martinez
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Pete Krebs
The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Oxcart, Big Wheel Stunt Show, The Interlopers
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Paper/Upper/Cuts, Wooden Indian Burial Ground, Animal Stitches
Mosby, Glimpse Trio, Jailbox, CC Swim
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
The Quintessentials, The Stims, Roadkill Carnivore, Clackamas Baby Killers, 5-0
James Fogg
510 NW 11th Ave.
White Eagle Saloon
Island Jazz Quintet
2958 NE Glisan St.
Canvas Art Bar & Bistro
Baby Gramps (9:30 pm); James Low Western Front (6 pm)
1420 SE Powell Blvd.
2929 SE Powell Blvd.
836 N Russell St.
Bad Assets (8:30 pm); Lincoln Crockett (5:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar
320 SE 2nd Ave.
Camellia Lounge
1800 NW Upshur St. Open Mic
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd.
Union Station, 800 NW 6th Ave.
Muthaship
Mike Horsfall, Karla Harris, Todd Strait
350 W Burnside St.
FRI. SEPT. 2 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave.
Kelly Anne Masigat, Ezza Rose, Bryan Free
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Sugar Beets, Chris Kokesh and Lincoln Crockett
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St.
Renegade Stringband (9:30 pm); Mikey’s Irish Jam (6:30 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. JB Butler
Artichoke Community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Friday Night Coffeehouse
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St.
Target For Tomorrow, The Longshots
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Jack Ruby Presents, Fanno Creek, Aaron Bergeson
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Dante’s
Valient Thorr, Lord Dying, Witchburn, Salvador
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Atomic Gumbo
Eagles Lodge, Southeast
4904 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The New Iberians Zydeco Blues Band
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Lamprey, ZSmoke, Old Junior
Ella Street Social
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Last Prick Standing, The Hand That Bleeds
LaurelThirst
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Little Sue
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Reverb Brothers
8105 SE 7th Ave.
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Traditional Hawaiian Music
Delta Bravo, Peace Mecutio
Lynn Conover
2346 SE Ankeny St. Belinda Underwood (8 pm); Elie Charpentier (6 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave.
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3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Neil Diamond Tribute
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Gary Hobbs Trio 1420 SE Powell Blvd.
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd.
White Eagle Saloon
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Jade Lounge
American Bastard, Dirty Little Fingers, Dog Tribe
Carbon Leaf, Chamberlin
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
Hawthorne Theatre
3100 NE Sandy Blvd.
3939 N Mississippi Ave.
The Sportin’ Lifers Trio
Eric Allen
Tonic Lounge
Mississippi Studios
Castanets, Death Songs, Ohioan
625 NW 21st Ave.
Ghost Town Hangmen
Rich Layton and The Troublemakers
714 SW 20th Place
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge
317 NW Broadway
Monster Addict, Nothing Said, Necessary Means, Seth Myzel
Muddy Rudder Public House
Club
Tiger Bar
Jon Koonce and One More Mile
Homegrown Docfest with Kory Quinn
2314 SE Division St.
Pints Brewing Company
412 NW 5th Ave. Ray Ottoboni, Carley Baer
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Brothers of the Sonic Cloth, Norska, Negative Queen, Cull
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. School of Rock: Modern Prog
836 N Russell St.
The Hill Dogs, Jackalope Saints (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar
Union Station, 800 NW 6th Ave. Tony Lincoln Band
Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St.
Groundation, Kevin Kinsella, Xact Change HiFi, Gavinchi, Outpost
SAT. SEPT. 3 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave.
Kelly Anne Masigat, Matt Farina Trio
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St.
Pirates Charles, Fire and Steel, Deviant Dance with Negara, Elias “Lefty” Caress, Man Overboard, Bilge Rats and Pyrettes, Chervona, Man Overboard, Pirate Morris (Quarterdeck Stage); Baby Gramps, Oregon Defense Force Pipe Band, Sam Bam Boo, Beltaine (Bowsprit Stage)
John Shipe, The Druthers (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)
Portland Pirate Festival
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar
Press Club
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
Chervona, Chata Addy, Man Overboard, Bilge Rats and Pyrettes, Pirates Charles, Beltaine (Quarterdeck Stage); Belissimonde, Curt Show, Elias “Lefty” Caress & The Tiger Lillies, Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers, Pirate Morris (Bowsprit Stage)
2621 SE Clinton St. Mood Area 52
Union Station, 800 NW 6th Ave. Richard Arnold and Groove Swingers
SUN. SEPT. 4 303 SW 12th Ave.
Red Room
Mike Coykendall
830 E Burnside St.
American Roulette
1314 NW Glisan St.
Jim Jones Revue, Unnatural Helpers
Doug Fir Lounge
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Davila 666, Cheap Time, Tensions, No Tomorrow Boys
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place
Father Figure, My Autumn’s Done Come
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St.
Green State, Jackstraw
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
2530 NE 82nd Ave.
Danny Romero
8 NW 6th Ave.
Ash Street Saloon
The Naked and Famous, Surfer Blood, Viva Brother
225 SW Ash St.
Write On, HelloKopter, Danger Thieves
Saratoga
Suburban Slim
Anna Paul and The Bearded Lady, Eric Stern, and Russell Bruner (8:30 pm); The Portland Playboys (6 pm)
Ron Steen Jazz Jam
St. Josef’s Winery
8132 SE 13th Ave. Tom Arnold
1033 NW 16th Ave.
The Dirty Words, The Autonomics, Jacen Magnolia
8635 N Lombard St.
Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave.
PDX Songwriter Happy Hour
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Teri and Larry
The Alleyway Cafe and Bar 2415 NE Alberta St.
Big Black Cloud, Blood Beach, Sei Hexe
Folk and Spoon
The Blue Monk
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
Mel Kubick
3341 SE Belmont St.
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro
The Globe
John Bunzow Trio
Mock Crest Tavern
Vises, Rollie Fingers, Hornet Leg, The Hand That Bleeds
Donna and the Side Effects
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar
3435 N Lombard St.
2045 SE Belmont St.
The Shwing Daddies
East End
2026 NE Alberta St. Gone Bad
Scream, Trauma, Rabbits, Frenzy, DJ Skell
Tillicum Club
Ella Street Social Club
Johnny Martin
Jack Ruby Presents, Callow, The Ruby Pines
Tube
Goodfoot Lounge
Anne, Forest Park, DJ Miss Prid
Jerry Garcia Tribute: Cats Under the Stars, Andy Coe
White Eagle Saloon
2845 SE Stark St.
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge 1503 SE 39th Ave.
Will Coca, Jesse Morrow
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Renegade Minstrels
Knuckleheads
6219 SE Foster Road The Ken M Project, The Kerry Dean Stickler Band, Knuckleheads, Party of Four
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Billy Kennedy and Tim Acott (9:30 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
Traditional Hawaiian Music
Thirsty Lion
McMenamins Edgefield
71 SW 2nd Ave.
3100 NE Sandy Blvd.
Art in the Pearl: Venerable Showers of Beauty, Toshi Onizuka Trio, Alma Brasileira, Sakura Koto Ensemble
Age Sex Occupation, Tasha Flynn, Simple Sweet
Original Halibut’s II
The Tony Starlight Show
2527 NE Alberta St.
Franco and The Stingers
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Megaton Leviathan, Bell Witch, Guardians, Aerial Ruin
Plew’s Brews
8409 N Lombard St. Irie Idea
Portland Pirate Festival Historic Waterfront, St. Helens
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd.
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St.
Kelley Shannon, Glen Moore, Dan Duval
Twilight Café and Bar
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale
Ray LaMontagne and The Pariah Dogs, Vusi Mahlasela
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Elizabeth Nicholson and Bob Soper
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. WERQ Force
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave.
1420 SE Powell Blvd.
Irish Music
Pecos, The Commons, Mermaid Problem
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd.
Natty Bone Blues (8 pm); Portland Casual Jam Group (2 pm)
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St.
8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway
714 SW 20th Place
Billy D
Tonic Lounge
The Know
203 SE Grand Ave.
Key of Dreams
Northwest 8th Avenue between Burnside and Glisan streets
8635 N Lombard St.
Third Seven, Sinferno Cabaret
1001 SW Broadway
Brian Odell, DJ Soulshaker
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
28836 S Barlow Road, Canby
350 W Burnside St.
4627 NE Fremont St.
North Park Blocks
Letting Up Despite Great Faults, Lubec, Sucker For Lights, Ghost Animal
Dante’s
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe
315 SE 3rd Ave.
5474 NE Sandy Blvd.
Knuckleheads
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale
Rotture
116 NE Russell St.
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
Peaches, Rude Dudes, DJ Beyondadoubt
Clyde’s Prime Rib
The Mordy Ferber Quartet
Olina (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave.
Secret Society Lounge
Soul Jelly, The Sentiments, DJ Baby Lemonade
2958 NE Glisan St.
This Charming Man, The Police Cars
Toxic Holocaust, Holy Grail, Krum Bums, Excruciator, Dr. Loomis
Jimmy Mak’s
6219 SE Foster Road
600 E Burnside St.
Horse Fingers, Hello Electric, The We Shared Milk
Slabtown
221 NW 10th Ave.
Rontoms
320 SE 2nd Ave.
Jade Lounge Matty Rue
Branx
Historic Waterfront, St. Helens
6910 N Interstate Ave.
Sellwood Public House
2346 SE Ankeny St.
Andina
Roseland Theater
Tragedy 503, Public Drunken Sex, Chief Grey, Nitro Norm, P.A.T.
LaurelThirst
Thirsty Lion
Twilight Café and Bar
1624 NW Glisan St.
A Killing Dove
Beth Willis
Ray Ottoboni, Carley Baer
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro
Mission Theater
Ash Street Saloon
71 SW 2nd Ave.
8050 SE 13th Ave. The Joey DeFrancesco Trio with Mel Brown and Dan Faehnle
Daryl Hall & John Oates
Blues Fest: Kevin Selfe and The Tornadoes, Franco Paletta and The Stingers, Kenny Lee and The Sundowners, The Danny Hay Davis Band
The Living Room Branx
Toshi Onizuka
Sindicate, Item 9, The Outer Space Vents, The Movie 8 NW 6th Ave.
Twilight Café and Bar
Andina
Bryan Minus and the Disconnect 2530 NE 82nd Ave.
GIN AND TEUTONIC: There’s nothing conceptually awry with Kask (1215 SW Alder St., 241-7163), the back-alley companion to westside Alpine chateau Grüner. The decor is salvaged classroom, with a blackboard above tiny wooden folding chairs. The charcuterie and cheese plates are smartly chosen and presented, with the Mexican queso slice paired with blueberries, pretzel bread and jam. The drinks are canny variants on classic cocktails—the Black Lodge ($10) is essentially a Perfect Manhattan on one very large rock, with splashes of cherry and artichoke liqueur. But the tab is higher than any of this would seem to justify: at least $30 for drinks and salami. That leaves a sour aftertaste to Kask—it’s a nice, self-consciously downmarket place to get a fancy pre-dinner beverage, but you can’t afford more than one round of austerity. It may be in the West End, but Kask is somehow a very East German experience. AARON MESH.
Alderbrook
18 NW 3rd Ave.
836 N Russell St.
Open Mic / Songwriter Showcase
MON. SEPT. 5 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Mike Coykendall
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Hanson
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Nappily Blue
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St.
Miss Meghan and the Crusher
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Battery-Powered Music
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Devon Williams, Hausu, Shivas
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. Keith Apicary’s Apicarnage Tour with Mechlo (8 pm); Keith Apicary’s Apicarnage Tour with Plain Flavored (4 pm)
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
NEPO 42
5403 NE 42nd Ave.
Atari Teenage Riot, Otto Van Schirach, Rabbit Junk, Blowupnihilist
Open Mic
Jade Lounge
North Park Blocks
2346 SE Ankeny St.
Northwest 8th Avenue between Burnside and Glisan streets
Helen Chaya
Art in the Pearl: Bon Ton Roulet, Negara, The Hanz Araki Band, Sebe Kan, Boka Marimba
The Kenny Lavitz Band, The Redeemed, The Megan James Band
Knuckleheads
6219 SE Foster Road
CALENDAR LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Nate Lacy (of Mimicking Birds)
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Bob Shoemaker
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones
North Park Blocks
TUES. SEPT. 6 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. Mike Coykendall
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St.
Emily Ottenson Music with Jordan Lamb
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Neftali Rivera
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St.
Angry Lions, Burning Streets, Secnd Best
Backspace
Northwest 8th Avenue between Burnside and Glisan streets
115 NW 5th Ave.
Art in the Pearl: Spider Moccasin Ensemble, Z’Bumba, Los Palmeros Mariachi, Kalabharathi School of Dance, Youth Expression Project
Buffalo Gap Saloon
O’Connors
7850 SW Capitol Highway Kit Garoutte
Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave.
Bring Me The Horizon, Parkway Drive, Architects, While She Sleeps, Deez Nutz
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Renato Caranto Project
The Globe
2045 SE Belmont St. Hank Hirsh’s Jazz Lounge and Open Jam
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St.
Riviera, The Lonesomes
Ask You In Gray, Sucker For Lights, Your Canvas 6835 SW Macadam Ave. Open Mic
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave.
Noah Bernstein and Blake Lyman with Akila Fields, Jim Prescott, Sam Foulger
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Quartet (9 pm); Trio Bravo (6 pm)
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Orca Team
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge
See You Next Tuesday
Kent Smith
The Globe
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Zia Mcabe (of the Dandy Warhols) (8 pm); Dan Sherrill (6 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm); The Lovetet (6:30 pm)
Kenton Club
Bill Coones and Larry Adair
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. All-Request Music Video Night with Toyboat Toyboat Toyboat
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave.
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Delightful Young Man
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd.
2958 NE Glisan St.
Mike Winkle
Jackstraw
Touché Restaurant and Billiards
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Nate Lacy (of Mimicking Birds)
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Open Bluegrass Jam
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. HTRK, ASSS, Branes, DJ Linoleum, DJ Night School
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Vollwrath, Eleven The Scree, Toyboat Toyboat Toyboat
Rose Garden
Goodfoot Lounge
Taylor Swift
Scott Pemberton Trio
2045 SE Belmont St.
PDX Singer-Songwriter Showcase
LaurelThirst
1401 N Wheeler Ave.
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Pagan Jug Band
Discos Discos: DJ Zac Eno, Michael Bruce, DJ E*Rock, Nathan Detroit, Rude Dudes (9 pm); Aperitivo Happy Hour with KM Fizzy
205 NW 4th Ave.
625 NW 21st Ave.
Pheasant, Blast Majesty, Stepkid 2845 SE Stark St.
The Crown Room
1425 NW Glisan St.
Tom’s Funky Tuesdays
Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Open Mic with The Roaming
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Arthur “Fresh Air” Moore Harmonica Party
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Kory Quinn
WED. AUG. 31 East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Last Wednesday on the Left with DJ Dennis Dread
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. DFRNT
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. TRONix--Logical Accession: Megaphysics, DJ CEV
Matador
1967 W Burnside St. DJ Whisker Friction
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Go Fuck Yerself
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. DJ Spaceborn
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Hooded Hags, Forsorcerers, DJ Ken Dirtnap
Tiga
Fiasco vs Variety Pac: DJ Brokenwindow, Strategy
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Disc Jockey Full of Bourbon
Rotture
The Woods
2026 NE Alberta St. Dirt Bag
The Whiskey Bar 31 NW 1st Ave. Bassroots
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Actual Magik
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Bang A Rang; DJ 2ArmTom
FRI. SEPT. 2 Beauty Bar
Goodfoot Lounge
303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Anjali and the Incredible Kid
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St.
315 SE 3rd Ave. Psyche: Makoi, Herbzilla, Blue Spectral Monkey, Electrosect, Waater
The Know
Tube
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
Rotture
The Lovecraft
111 SW Ash St. Fa$t Life: DJs Danny Merkury, Yo Huckleberry
THURS. SEPT. 1
2100 SE Clinton St DJ Rev. Shines, DJ Mike One
315 SE 3rd Ave. Anne, DJ RAD, DJ Jetset Adventurer, DJ Lamar Leroy
1465 NE Prescott St. KM Fizzy 18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Loyd Depriest
Night Light Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. DJ Magneto
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. DJ Capcorn
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St.
421 SE Grand Ave. Brickbat Mansion: DJs Wednesday, Curatrix 6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. In The Cooky Jar with Cooky Parker
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Ikon
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Hot Mess with Doc Adam; DJ Neil Blender
SAT. SEPT. 3 Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. DJ Etbonz
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Booty Bassment: Ryan and Dmitri, Maxx Bass, DJ Same DNA
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. MRS. with DJ Beyonda
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Stahlwerks with DJ NoN
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Andaz with DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid
MUSIC
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Claude Young, DJ Bryan Zentz, Tom Mitchell
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Mike M
SUN. SEPT. 4 Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. Black Sunday with DJ Nate C
Refuge
116 SE Yamhill St. Claude VonStroke, The Perfect Cyn, Sappho, Ryan Walz
MON. SEPT. 5 The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Going Mental Mondays with DJ Just Dave
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Metal Mayhem: DJs Malice, Dennis Dread, Horrid
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Valkyrie
TUES. SEPT. 6 The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. See You Next Tuesday: Kellan, Avery
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Lord Smithingham
Tube 18 NW 3rd Ave. Tubesday with DJ Freaky Outy
Yes and No
20 NW 3rd Ave. Idiot Tuesdays with DJ Black Dog
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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., 477-9477. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, Sept. 2-3. $12-$15.
DEVA PREMAL & MITEN WITH MANOSE “Beautiful Music” — H.H.Dalai Lama “Their music is truly a portal into presence... Pure magic.” — Eckhart Tolle
Sweat
Some smashing sketch comedy from members of the Road House: The Play and 3rd Floor crews: Shelley McLendon, Michael Fetters, Jason Rouse, Sean McGrath and Andrew Harris. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., www.sweatysweat.com. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays through Oct. 1. $15-$19. All Ages.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Brainwaves
Oscar Wilde’s cheeky commentary on Victorian conventions is presented, oddly and perhaps appropritately, at a Masonic Lodge by Third Eye Theatre. Director Cosette Brown’s adaptation brings a handful of laughs (it’s Oscar Wilde, after all) but ultimately lacks the swiftness and deadpan delivery vital to Wilde’s brilliant verbal exchanges. Alacias Enger steals the show as the intellectual and pretentious Gwendolen Fairfax, but, while lead actor Tommy Bentley sure looks the part of Algernon, his appearance doesn’t make up for his awkward demeanor and tendency to trip over lines. Nevertheless, Wilde is Wilde, and if you’ve been yearning for a taste of the classic satire, you’ll find it, somewhat muted, here. NATALIE BAKER. Kenton Masonic Lodge, 8130 N Denver Ave., 970-8874. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. $12-$15.
Much Ado About Nothing
Portland Actors Ensemble celebrates its 42nd summer of Shakespeare in the Parks with a high-energy rendition of Much Ado About Nothing. In line with the PAE mission “to bring financially accessible classical theatre to Portland communities in a non-traditional environment,” the production is geared more toward first-timers than theater buffs as evidenced by the cast’s relentless enthusiasm and over-the-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. See portlandactors.org for the full schedule. SHAE HEALEY. Multiple locations. 3 pm Saturday-Monday, Sept. 3-5. Free.
Mysterious Skin
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., 971-2694032. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through Sept. 24. $15.
Very intimate improv comedy. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 5208928. 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, 224-2227. 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 who abuses local notables, roams the audience stealing drinks and flinging insults, and generally makes mayhem. This week: “Back to School EDition” with comedian Ian Karmel and musical guest Geoff Byrd. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 10 pm Tuesdays. $3. 21+.
Funny Over Everything
Sean Jordan hosts a comedy showcase featuring Timmy Williams, Gabe Dinger, Ian Karmel and Shane Torres, plus an interview by Tim Hammer and a sketch by Anthony Lopez. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 9:30 pm Wednesday, Aug. 31. $6. All Ages.
Long Story Short
The Brody crew teams up with Brainwaves Improvisational Comedy for a show that melds their longand short-form methods. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Saturdays through Sept. 17. $8-$12. All Ages.
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 improvers—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
Janice Scroggins, Ryan David Dwyer, David Ornette Cherry
This new pay-per-view piano showcase offers either live or virtual experience of local jazz stars in a club setting. Chameleon Restaurant and Bar, 2000 NE 40th Ave., 4494699. 8 pm. $15 (PPV only)-$20.
Oregon Symphony, Portland Youth Philharmonic
The end-of-summer (“we’re partying in the park anyway!”) outdoor concert includes familiar fare (Tchaikovsky) but also wellchosen yet less clichéd stimulation by George Gershwin, Sibelius, Mozart, Wagner and more, plus a guest turn by dancers from Oregon Ballet Theatre. But you’re not really coming for the program. The real question is: Will there be cannon fire? Yes. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Southwest Naito Parkway between Southwest Harrison and Northwest Glisan streets, Portland. 5 pm. Free. All Ages.
Portland Gay Men’s Chorus
The 110-voice choir heads to New York next month to perform in the 10-year commemoration concert for 9/11, and it’s bringing one of our local stars who also has quite a bit of NYC experience. Former Metropolitan Opera baritone Richard Zeller, now a PSU prof, will join the chorus in both the Portland and New York concerts. The chorus will raise funds for the trip at this concert, which reprises its BraveSouls and Dreamers cantata. Commissioned by PGMC and composed by Robert Seeley with lyrics by Robert Espindola, it’s inspired by words of Gandhi, Jesus, Mother Teresa and others, about the search for peace and the tragedies of war. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 242-1419. 8 pm. $30-$125.
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. The Blue Monk, 3341 SE Belmont St., 503-595-0575. 8 pm Wednesdays. $5. 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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Grace Weston constructs meticulous miniature stage sets, which she populates with action figures and props. Then she photographs the sets, resulting in vignettes that come across initially as cutesy and whimsical but upon further viewing betray psychological complexities, a sense of mystery and, at times, downright poignance. The works in Angles of Incidents also address gender polarities, romance, and the mixture of terror and nostalgia with which Northwesterners look back on the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. Augen Gallery, 716 NW Davis St., 546-5056, augengallery.com. Sept. 1-Oct. 1.
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FIRST THURSDAY WITH JONATHAN HILL In Americus, the new graphic novel written by M. K. Reed and illustrated by Jonathan Hill, Oklahoma teen Neal Barton stands up for his favorite fantasy series, The Chronicles of Apathea Ravenchilde, when conservative Christians try to bully the town of Americus into banning it from the public library. THU / 1ST / 6:30PM RECEPTION 7:30P READING / DOWNTOWN
ALEX SHAKAR / Luminarium (Soho Press)
Explores the state of technology and of what is real and what is ephemeral. THU / 1ST / 7:30P
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Assemblage
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In Burlap 2B, conceptual artist Stephen Scott Smith reflects on his young adulthood in the 1980s. His suite of drawings captures the era’s strange mélange of militaryindustrial machismo (witness his depiction of Ronald Reagan), lookthe-other-way attitude toward HIV/ AIDS (see again Ronald Reagan) and pop-culture explosion (a droll portrayal of a grizzly bear wearing the Madonna-inspired phrase “Boy Toy”). Smith is a talented visual thinker with a sense of humor and a penchant for self-referential work. By looking back on his childhood, he examines the childhood of Generation X as that generation heads uneasily into middle age. Breeze Block Gallery, 323 NW 6th Ave., 318-6228, breezeblockgallery. com. Aug. 31-Oct. 1.
Carrie Iverson
Carrie Iverson tackles highly personal subject matter in Correspondence. Her father, a philosopher, is suffering from a kind of
progressive memory loss that makes it difficult to remember words. “He can visualize an object,” Iverson remarks, “but he can’t remember its name.” In the show, she creates sculptures, handmade books and kiln-formed glass objects that reference experiences important to her father. The show’s overarching theme is the breakdown of connections between language, objects and memory. This has the makings of a thoughtful, poignant and courageous show. Bullseye Gallery, 300 NW 13th Ave., 227-0222, bullseyegallery.com. Closes Nov. 19.
Art in the Pearl Fine Arts and Craft Festival
For the 15th year in a row, Art in the Pearl will fill the North Park Blocks with art, craft, kitsch, some good work and scads upon scads of the most astonishingly tacky “art” you are likely ever to lay eyes on. A projected 75,000 visitors will jostle around, eating gyros, being fat and yelling at their kids while trying to find something under 25 bucks to send to Aunt Ethel back in Schenectady. More than 130 artists will participate. A good time, no doubt, will be had by all. North Park Blocks, on Northwest 8th Avenue between West Burnside and Northwest Glisan streets. 10 am-6 pm Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 3-4; 10 am-5 pm Monday, Sept. 5. Free.
Kristen Miller
Like thin-skinned leaves, the works in Kristen Miller’s Memento have delicate, crepelike textures and seem as if a light wind could blow them away. Miller sews beads into tissue paper to create these beautiful, intricate compositions, which whisper with a quiet elegance. PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063, pdxcontemporaryart. com. Closes Oct. 1.
For Assemblage, curator Leo Michelson has gathered together pieces by 21 artists, all of whom work in assemblage. Michelson’s interest in the medium dates to the 1960s, when he was fascinated by the assemblages of the late Joseph Cornell. The current exhibition showcases a wide variety of approaches to assemblage by artists from across the Pacific Northwest. Annie Meyer Artwork Gallery, 120 NW 9th Ave., Suite 102, 224-3150, anniemeyerartwork.com. Closes Sept. 30.
The Allure of the Automobile
If you’ve ever seen the movie Tucker: The Man and his Dream or salivated over a vintage Jaguar, Porsche or Chevy, you’ll get the appeal of PAM’s The Allure of the Automobile. Cars have always crystallized the duet between aerodynamics and aesthetics, with its intriguing trade-offs between form and function. The cars parked in the museum’s lofty front gallery glint and gleam in the light, their curves biomorphic and downright sexy. Ranging from the 1930s to the 1960s, the Bugatti, Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, and other autos look more futuristic than anything on the road today, although they’re antiques. Even if you’re not a classic-car freak, this show will inspire at least a couple oohs and aahs. Portland Art Museum, 219 SW Park Ave., 226-2811, portlandartmuseum. org. Closes Sept. 11.
Jim Kazanjian
Jim Kazanjian obsessively sifts through Internet-sourced imagery, then painstakingly combines them into bravura composite tableaux. The results are stunningly realistic, yet impossibly surreal. Structures that could not exist in real space rise into the air as if on actual foundations, even as they are struck by lightning and subjected to myriad other punishments. This is the stuff of nightmares, horror films and bad trips. 23 Sandy, 623 NE 23rd Ave., 927-4409, 23sandy.com. Closes Sept. 10.
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(Bloomsbury)
Looks at the life of Diane Arbus through the prism of four central mysteries. TUE / 6TH / 7:30P
DOWNTOWN
S. M. STIRLING / The Tears of the Sun (Roc) Rudi McKenzie must defeat the Church Universal and Triumphant, knowing he may lose his life in the final battle. WED / 7TH / 7P
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EMMA MARRIS / Rambunctious Garden (Bloomsbury) Argues convincingly that the environmental world needs a new idea, a hybrid of wild nature and human management. Wed / 7th / 7:30p DOWNTOWN BRENT WEEKS / The Black Prism (Orbit)
The bestselling fantasy author begins a brand new tale of magic and adventure. THU / 8TH / 7P
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ROSEMARIE OSTLER / Slinging Mud (Perigee) Gathers memorable words and expressions from two centuries worth of political mud slinging. THU / 8TH / 7:30P
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C. S. FRIEDMAN / Legacy of Kings (DAW)
The Magisters hunt the peasant woman Kamala for killing one of their own. FRI / 9TH / 7P
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THURSDAY, SEPT. 1 Alex Shakar
Alex Shakar (author of 2001’s The Savage Girl) returns with new novel Luminarium, a thriller about technology and spirituality in a post-9/11 world. Dave Eggers calls it “funny and soulful and very sad.” Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free. All ages.
Reading Frenzy Art Show and 17th Anniversary Party
Portland’s independent press emporium Reading Frenzy celebrates 17 years with a new art show, X (Marks the Spot)—exploring the art of maps— plus a host of other festivities, including a “pull your own” letterpress anniversary souvenir at the IPRC upstairs, a new edition of Craphound and, most importantly, free beer courtesy of Ninkasi. Reading Frenzy, 921 SW Oak St., 274-1449. 6 pm. Free.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 4 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., 2482900. 7:30 pm. $5 suggested donation. All ages.
Meet and Greet Northwest Lesbian Authors
Meet seven lesbians who write about lesbians. Authors Cate Culpepper, Gabrielle Goldsby, Lori Lake, Lee Lynch, Kristin Marra, D. Jordan
Redhawk, Karis Walsh and M.J. Williams will read from and chat about their latest novels. In Other Words, 14 NE Killingsworth St., 232-6003. 2 pm. Sliding scale donation to support In Other Words requested.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 6 An Emergency in Slow Motion: The Inner Life of Diane Arbus
Author William Todd Schultz goes behind the lens of renowned American photographer Diane Arbus, exploring her troubled life, sexuality and ultimate suicide in 1971, pieced together from newly released writing by Arbus and interviews with her psychotherapist. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
Cynthia Whitcomb: Breaking Into the Professional Writing Biz
Emmy-nominated screenwriter and playwright Cynthia Whitcomb will give an instructive talk to Willamette Writers on how to break into the writing business—whether it’s penning the next great American novel or getting a foothold in the film industry. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 503-305-6729. 7 pm. Free for Willamette Writers members, $5 for guests of members and students, and $10 for nonmembers.
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FIELD RESEARCH: Aaron Draplin’s studio is filled with hundeds of old notebooks, ledgers and pamphlets.
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Most new products are designed to fill a need, create a new market or just make something better. Aaron Draplin’s product is none of these things. It’s three staples, paper and cardboard with a simple brand name—Field Notes—printed across the front, and its function is simple: something on which to write shit down. “One hundred years ago, everybody had to write,” Draplin says. “What do we have now? A bunch of fucking dicks with iPhones. No one can write, no one can spell. We’re losing that shit.” But Field Notes has turned paper and staples into a successful brand. And unlike Moleskine, the previous darling of the designer stationery world, you won’t find these notebooks limited to office supply
stores and Powell’s—you’ll find them in fashion boutiques around the country. “Seeing $300 jeans with $9.99 Field Notes next to them?” he says, rolling his eyes and sighing. Draplin is not the first guy you’d expect to have products stocked in clothing stores. Heavyset and sporting a thick beard, the Michigan native is alarmingly open and honest—both in his expletive-heavy condemnations of modern culture and in expressing his sincere passion and nostalgia for the written word. “I think in this world where we’re sitting on these computers with awesome hardware, awesome software, it’s kind of getting old. There’s a lack of randomness,” he says. “But you sit and write or draw? It’s a little Wild West. You just feel this freedom. I think that’s why people are digging this.”
He ambles around the cluttered studio of Draplin Design Co. in an eastside industrial district warehouse, pulling out prototype notebooks and “reference material.” He opens a drawer full of vintage ledgers and agricultural memo books, which he collects from antique stores and estate sales. “Look at this, this is where this shit starts,” he says, holding up an old pamphlet with a husk of corn on it. “To see the way that they used to promote some dumb little corn seed, it’s just incredible. That’s how the American farmer got his job done…. I’ve got over 800 to 900 of these things.” Draplin made his first notebook in 2002, subsequently printing more and more, handing out thousands to friends, before one ended up in the hands of Chicago designer Jim Coudal. “Jim helped me wrangle it into something legitimate,” Draplin says, and in 2007, Field Notes was launched commercially. Almost immediately, they began garnering attention from style and design blogs, eventually making their way onto the shelves of 500 stores around the world, including art galleries, clothing boutiques and designer accessory
stores. You can even buy them at J. Crew. “It was an item cool people, creative people were using, and it just caught on,” explains Bob Davis, creative director and buyer for Pearl District boutique Lizard Lounge, which displays Field Notes alongside $105 wooden-rimmed sunglasses and $100 flannel bow ties. “I’d seen them before they became popular, and they didn’t necessarily resonate with me. Then I saw them at a cool trade show with a lot of hipster types hanging around and thought it’d be cool to have them in the store.” “Will they go out of style? Oh yeah!” Draplin says. “The people who have a loop for frivolous shit, they’re one out of 100. There’s 99 other motherfuckers who take notes because that’s their job. The UPS guy that comes in here, he uses them. I gave him one a year ago he just fills full of shit. I would much rather see him using the things. It’s just paper. It’s not cool. The fonts aren’t cool at that point. But it works for him. And that is a cool thing. “Really, it just comes down to this: Just write shit down.” Willamette Week AUGUST 31, 2011 wweek.com
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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, Forest, Lloyd Mall, Wilsonville. NEW
The Adults in the Room
48 [ONE WEEK ONLY] In certain
Portland circles, Andy Blubaugh’s autobiographical docudrama was one of the most anticipated premieres of last year; WW proclaimed Blubaugh the city’s filmmaker to know in 2010. The director has put much care into re-creating his teenage affair with a man twice his age, and he may in fact have kneaded all the leaven out of his story—the picture is about as inert as a movie in which a 15-year-old boy offers a 30-year-old man a blow job can be. It stalls in the extensive metasexual scenes where Blubaugh consults various writers and critics about his uncertainty over what his experience means, and whether it has anything to do with Sam Adams, and what his movie should say. Nobody gives him the proper advice: Stop dithering, and tell your story. AARON MESH. Cinema 21. 7 pm Friday-Thursday, Sept. 2-8. NEW
Apollo 18
If you believe they put a man on the moon, maybe you’ll believe there’s something out there that’s not cool. Anyway, here’s a horror movie about it. Not screened for critics. PG-13. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy. NEW
B-Movie Bingo: Immortal Combat
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL, GAMES] Find the boring scenes in a fight movie with Roddy Piper. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Sept. 6. NEW
Big Deal on Madonna Street
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, OUTDOOR REVIVAL] Marcello Mastroianni stars as a hapless thief in a 1969 heist comedy, remade many times over. Hotel Modera, 515 SW Clay St. 8 pm Thursday, Sept. 1. Benefit for the Portland International Film Festival, featuring a wine tasting and a strolling accordionist.
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:
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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. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, 99 West Drive-In, Clackamas, Broadway, Bridgeport, Evergreen, Lloyd Mall, Tigard.
Colombiana
68 Very late in Colombiana, an FBI
agent explains to vengeful serial assassin Cataleya (Zoe Saldana) his theory—long since collaborated by the movie—that she has killed 23 cartel goons and other lowlifes in order to spur the feds to publicize the killings, thus goading out of hiding the drug lord who killed her parents. “Yes,” she admits, “but it took you so fucking long!” Something about this line tickled me into a fit of laughter: I love how it acknowledges how extravagantly ineffective this plan is, yet never wavers in a determination to see it through. And yes, this is an accurate enough summation of Colombiana, a movie from the Luc Besson factory with an elaborate vision of an American underworld that has never existed—the kind of atmosphere in which a man can stand next to an elementary school in Chicago, fire random gunshots to wreck a passing car in broad daylight, then take a moment to explain this as an object lesson to his niece, while never expressing the slightest concern that some eyewitness might identify him. Also, it it the sort of movie where director Olivier Megaton could have cast American actors for the bit cop parts, but chose his favorite French performers instead, and did not object to their desperately fake Californian drawls. It is a movie where a woman in a bikini writhes atop a glass tank of sharks—and later those sharks are shoehorned into a hit that has nothing whatsoever to do with the larger plot. It is, in short, operatically ridiculous and incorrigibly amoral, with several enjoyable, incoherent action sequences and Saldana crawling through tight spaces while not wearing a bra. About halfway through, I decided I would enjoy it more if I moved to the front row. This was the right plan. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, 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
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John Sayles’ career is a maddeningly prismatic thing. So varied is the ambidextrous writerdirector’s list of accomplishments that James Franco, following an ill-advised perusal of Sayles’ Wikipedia page, resolved to take up mixed martial arts in order to maintain his lead as Hollywood’s premiere dabbler. Sayles sports credits for revered schlock (Piranha, The Howling), kidfriendly fairy tales (The Secret of Roan Inish) and Ebert-friendly dramas (Lone Star, Men With Guns); he directed corny music videos for Bruce Springsteen; and he received a MacArthur Fellowship (the “Genius Award”) a few years after being nominated for a National Book Award (the “You’re Not Quite a Genius Yet But Just Wait Award”). Ridiculous. Sickening, even. The guy
remains resolutely fixed on one small rural baryo in the months following its occupation by a band of American troops led by Lt. Compton (a constipated Garret Dillahunt) and Col. Hardacre (a really constipated Chris Cooper). Compton will slowly realize his reluctant subjects are actual human beings; Hardacre will not. The “constipated dude vs. really constipated dude” dialectic is one of many tidy oppositions that give Amigo its shape while muting all but the most schematic resonances. Sayles’ parched narrative lacks the sustaining illusion of possibility that drives drama forward; it is as if Sayles intended to lay bare the writer’s secret binary code by erasing those vague gray smudges that make good art so damn difficult and thrilling. What we are left with, then, is an arrangement of allegiances as tidy as a soldier’s foot locker: conciliatory father vs. insurgent son, velvet glove vs. iron fist, faith vs. reason, the aforementioned shitless grimace vs. the aforementioned even more shitless grimace. And although I’m inclined to trust Sayles’ version of this oft-forgotten chapter of American history, I’m also pretty sure my 10th-grade algebra teacher’s
I SEE A TIRED SUBSTITUTE TEACHER TORN BETWEEN TWO PAINFUL OPTIONS THAT WILL PUT STUDENTS TO SLEEP. probably invented the first vegan meat substitute in his spare time, and under an assumed name, because he’s humble to boot. Sayles appeared to be slowing down in the past few years, but it turned out he was busy writing A Moment in the Sun, a 968-page historical novel that McSweeney’s published in May. Going to Pynchonian lengths to investigate American imperialism at the turn of the 20th century didn’t require quite enough physical labor, however, so Sayles capped his burst of creativity by writing, directing and editing Amigo, an airless history lesson as insipidly didactic as it is well intentioned. An outgrowth of the extensive research that inspired Sayles’ massive novel, Amigo zooms in on a small village on the Philippine island of Luzon during the Philippine-American War (1899-1902), which found American soldiers defending colonial rule against guerrilla insurgents. A few detours to far-flung outposts notwithstanding, Sayles
explanation of polynomials was unassailable—that doesn’t mean I ever got from x to y without praying for a fire drill. I ditched that algebra class for the vaunted GRE track halfway through sophomore year, but I stuck with high school long enough to learn where Amigo is likely to retire after its piquant parallels to current events elicit a few knowing sighs from the PBS donor-cum-knowing sigher set. I see a tired substitute teacher torn between two painful options: muddle through a borrowed lecture about a long-ago war or pop in a dull film about same. The lecture will put the students to sleep. So will the film, even with its brief bursts of violence. But the sub will choose the movie every time: Cracker-dry and soporific it may be, but the room will be dark enough to catch some secret shut-eye with the kids. 29 SEE IT: Amigo is rated R. It opens Friday at the Hollywood Theatre.
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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. R. CHRIS STAMM. Fox Tower, CineMagic.
Happy
[ENCORE SCREENINGS] This very popular documentary from the director of Genghis Blues seeks the meaning of happiness. Clinton Street Theater. 7 and 9 pm FridayWednesday, Sept. 2-7.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
80 The first act of Deathly Hallows
Point Blank
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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, Broadway, Bridgeport, Evergreen, Lloyd Mall.
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. 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 steelyeyed 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, Broadway, Bridgeport, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, 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. PG-13. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Bridgeport, Forest, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub.
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
70 Guillermo del Toro hates children.
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Whether he’s directing The Devil’s Backbone or Pan’s Labyrinth—which used the Spanish Civil War as backdrop for horror wrought on the young—or producing the deadbaby 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, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark is all slowburn creep-outs 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, Bridgeport, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy. NEW
Driving William
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, BENEFIT] A documentary about the rehabilitation of a child whose arms were amputated. The Lakehouse Restaurant, 40 N State Street, Lake Oswego. 6 pm Wednesday, Aug. 30. Benefit for a prosthesis for the film’s subject, William Smith. $100-$150.
Final Destination 5
42 That the end-credits splatter
montage is the best part of the film speaks volumes—these are works best enjoyed at 2 am with a loaded bong and a fast-forward button. R. AP KRYZA. Eastport.
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 romance-novel 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. R. KELLY CLARKE. Clackamas, Forest, Oak Grove, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd Mall. NEW
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
Jason Sudeikis hosts a beach-house gangbang. WW did not attend the press screening. R. Cedar Hills, Bridgeport, Lloyd Center.
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
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 set-design team have created an atmosphere that explicitly recalls London during the Blitz, with young lovers snogging goodbye as the cathedral towers rain down. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, 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. 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, Fox Tower, Bridgeport, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
The Interrupters
94 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. Hoop Dreams director Steve James’ searing new documentary, The Interrupters, follows CeaseFire’s team for a year in the trenches—2009-10, when gangrelated 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. Their work is endlessly inspiring, and James’ presentation of their stories is a triumph. AP KRYZA. Hollywood Theatre.
Life in a Day
78 The line between popular enter-
tainment and home movies has been blurring in the age of YouTube, and it disappears altogether in a documentary funded by YouTube. The exercise—people worldwide submit
AUG. 31-SEPT. 6
The Man Who Fell to Earth
[HELD OVER, REVIVAL] 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. Cinema 21. 8:45 pm Friday-Thursday, Sept. 2-8. 4 pm Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 3-4.
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. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Fox Tower, Bridgeport, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy. NEW Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow
68 [TWO NIGHTS ONLY] Anselm
Kiefer’s art looks like a wreck. More precisely, the giant installation the German sculptor dug and erected on the site of a former silk factory in Barjac, France, looks like
One Day
24 Director Lone Scherfig introduces
us to Anne Hathaway’s Emma and Jim Sturgess’ Dexter, two miserable characters mired in non-events spanning 20 years. Even the story’s conceit is shoddy: Unlike its precursor (1978’s Same Time, Next Year), this couple doesn’t necessarily need an annual face-to-face encounter. If Emma or Dexter simply mentions the other, then the filmmakers have met the appropriate prerequisite and can move on. 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, Bridgeport, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall.
Our Idiot Brother
55 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 grownups. 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. Directed by Jesse Peretz from
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77 Owen Wilson, convincingly step-
ping 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. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Clackamas, Hollywood Theatre, Fox Tower.
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Midnight in Paris
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an ancient ziggurat and a Soviet apartment block, a Nazi death camp and a World War I trench. Parts of it look like a ship’s hull encrusted with human teeth instead of barnacles; other parts look like that sea monster pulled up by Japanese fishermen, hung in a greenhouse. It looks a little like the surprising architectural juxtapositions of his contemporary Olafur Eliasson, but with a more pronounced emphasis on decay. Most of all, though, it looks like the minimal framework of an early video game—like the interiors of GoldenEye 007 if somebody switched on the lights. Sophie Fiennes’ documentary on Kiefer’s work is similarly bare-boned: It is the most uncompromising portrait of the artist at work, in that the camera moves patiently over his structures, and watches his craftsmen baking and shattering things, without commentary. Kiefer offers his own inter-
L AU R I E S PA R H A M
4,500 hours of footage they shot on July 24, 2010—is basically Andrew Sullivan’s “View From My Window” feature in motion. But what’s memorable (and alarming) about Life in a Day is how regularly dark its tone becomes. Bring children to this documentary and you will be introducing them to the miracle of C-section birth (cameraman dad passes out cold), the gloppy, high-altitude miracle of giraffe birth, and the nonmiracle of industrial cattle slaughter. The mood grows ominous, the confessions gain gravity, and soon the movie unfolds a subtext of everyday people trying to document themselves to avoid oblivion. There’s a lot to respect about this emphasis (somehow I doubt this film is going to repeat the phenomenon of Babies, if only because Terrified Old People is a less adorable concept), but the film’s best moments are its quietest. PG-13. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters.
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COLD WARRIORS: Ciarán Hinds and Helen Mirren.
THE DEBT
John Madden’s The Debt feels like a talented but glib college student trying to pass a modern European history exam with an essay on the repercussions of the Holocaust and the founding of Israel—it volunteers answers, but has no feeling for the questions it raises. The movie is superficially fluid but spiritually muddled. It takes the old canard about how those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it, and stages that lesson as literally as possible. It demands another axiom: If you have nothing to say with your movie, saying it very seriously will not help. The film’s confusion is not merely thematic; it also bungles at the most basic levels. Remaking an Israeli film, Ha-Hov, Madden positions Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson and Ciarán Hinds as aging former Mossad agents, then rewinds to their fateful 1966 mission in East Berlin—but he casts two young men (Sam Worthington and Marton Csokas) who could each be young versions of either Wilkinson or Hinds. (The best way to orient yourself is to figure out which guy might grow up to look like he killed a drifter before breakfast—that’s Li’l Wilkinson.) Jessica Chastain, however, is unmistakable: She was the ethereal mother in The Tree of Life and the kind soul in The Help, and now, as mini-Mirren, plays a woman whose first instinct is to try and make the best of bad situations. This disposition is not all that helpful when you’re locked in an apartment with three men, two of them rivals for your romantic attentions and the other a Nazi doctor. These scenes are undeniably claustrophobic, and the movie gains some power from physical intimacy—Chastain captures the vile doc (a nasty Jesper Christensen) by going undercover for gynecological exams, and later gives him a very close shave. But as the Mossad fighters grow increasingly rattled, the picture begins to abandon moral inquiry in favor of plot contrivances. By its final act, The Debt bears an unfortunate resemblance to another Mirren vehicle, the AARP assassin flick Red. It’s grim, but not the least bit serious. R. AARON MESH. Hunting Nazis, dodging questions.
60 SEE IT: The Debt opens Wednesday at Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Bridgeport, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Sherwood, Tigard and Wilsonville.
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pretation in one interview; his basic thrust is that we are all microscopic sea creatures who want to return to the warm ocean. You are well advised to ignore whatever score I give this movie, and decide whether or not you should see it based on whether you find the art intriguing enough to gaze upon for 105 minutes. You’ll have plenty of time to decide what it looks like. AARON MESH. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, Sept. 2-3.
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thriller opens with a bang, followed by several more bangs, as a desperate man in a neatly trimmed goatee, holding his guts in with one bloody hand, slams into a chain-link fence and sprints down a rickety fire escape just a few scant yards ahead of a pair of carefully manicured, gun-waving thugs. Bang! A bullet ricochets past. Bang! Out of nowhere, our man is struck by a speeding motorcycle. The movie goes banging right on from there, as the pursuit of miraculously still living motorcycle-guy (an unsettlingly taciturn Roschdy Zem) ensnares a nurse-in-training, Samuel, (Gilles Lellouche) and his very pregnant wife, kidnapped before his eyes. A reasonably fit but not especially bright sort, Samuel sets off at a sprint to get her back, and doesn’t stop running, through tenebrist warehouses, squalid apartments and dreary public spaces for the next hour. Writer/director Fred Cavayé’s film is as loud and ugly and improbably plotted as anything by his American contemporaries, but remembers the vital truth that Sydney Pollack knew but Haggis and Greengrass and Schumacher have forgotten: when your ordinaryguy protagonist emerges from a 10-minute sprint through a subway tunnel, he should vomit on the sidewalk. When he sees a fat snitch shot three times in his quivering belly, he should show disgust. When he is shot at, he should be afraid. Samuel searches for his wife with the determination all husbands like to think we would ours, but he does not do so gracefully. He is fazed, and because he is fazed we fear for him. R. BEN WATERHOUSE. Fox Tower.
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). PG-13. CASEY JARMAN. Cedar Hills, 99 West Drive-In, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, 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. PG-13. SHAE HEALEY. Living Room Theaters.
Senna
65 Like the Formula One racecar
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 in 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. 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. 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. NEW
Seven Days in Utopia
20 Robert Duvall loves you and
has a wonderful plan for your life. This scheme involves playing golf with him for a week in a weedy Texas goat pasture until you realize there are more important things in life than playing golf. I would have happily accepted that revelation without sitting through a whole movie of golf, but here is the movie anyway, based on a book by a Christian sports psychologist, a book called God’s Sacred Journey. It is not the worst movie I have seen this year, but it is far and away the most boring. It is hard to imagine how it could be more boring—it is a series of motivational lessons, muttered by Duvall through a Vincent Price mustache to his pupil Lucas Black, followed by a musical montage recounting all the lessons that have been learned. Then there’s a tournament, though director Matthew Dean Russell takes great pains to emphasize that the outcome has no eternal significance. “You really couldn’t script it better than this,” says an announcer—a boast that’s sort of poignant, since the screenwriters must know they really could have. Seven Days in Utopia might have been sponsored by the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, but instead
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Sharks. At night. In 3-D. Not screened for critics. PG-13. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
The Smurfs
They take Manhattan, in CGI form. It might be harmless, but no one on our staff could be persuaded to risk it. PG. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Bridgeport, Evergreen, Lloyd Mall, 99 Indoor Twin.
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, Bridgeport, Evergreen, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
Tabloid
91 Erroll Morris’ new subject is 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. R. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters. NEW
The Tenants
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] The Global Lens series explores mayhem in Brazil. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 5 and 7:15 pm Sunday, Sept. 4.
The Tree of Life
97 A project that has gestated in the
mind of Terrence Malick for 32 years, and loops back to the origins of the universe. 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 Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon
have the kind of comic chemistry in which 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 blood-boilers 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. 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. Kill ’em all, and let the U.N. sort ’em out. R. AARON MESH. Fox Tower.
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OUR TIME: I often wonder whether The Goonies is held in as high esteem elsewhere as it is in the Northwest. For most Oregon natives now on the cusp of their 30s, the 1985 film was a rite of passage—not only did the Astoria-based adventure flick’s scenery seem familiar, but we treated Goonies as a pre-Internet personality test. I always saw myself as a Mikey/ Chunk hybrid, a true-believer underdog type who inevitably gets the girl in the end, but also a great dancer with a fondness for ice cream and a giant mutant for a best friend. I’d suggest catching the film as it was meant to be seen: with a half-melted Baby Ruth bar in your pocket and a Cyndi Lauper song in your heart. CASEY JARMAN. Laurelhurst. Best paired with: Mount Hood Oatmeal Stout. Also showing: The Devil’s Double (Mission). 06:10, 09:10 CONAN THE BARBARIAN Fri-Sat-Sun 12:20, 03:20, 06:20, 09:20
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