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STAFF Editor-in-Chief Mark Zusman EDITORIAL Managing Editor for News Brent Walth Arts & Culture Editor Martin Cizmar Staff Writers Nigel Jaquiss, Corey Pein Copy Chief Sarah Smith Copy Editors Matt Buckingham, Rob Fernas Assistant Arts & Culture Editor Ben Waterhouse Movies Editor Aaron Mesh Music Editor Casey Jarman Editorial Interns Emilee Booher, Emily Green, Maggie Summers, Annie Zak CONTRIBUTORS Classical Brett Campbell Dance Heather Wisner Food Kelly Clarke Visual Arts Richard Speer Erik Bader, Judge Bean, Nathan Carson, Devan Cook, Shane Danaher, Jonathan Frochtzwajg, Robert Ham, Shae Healey, Jay Horton, Matthew Korfhage, AP Kryza,
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This article is great [“The Other Portland,” WW, Oct. 12, 2011]! As a new PDX resident, I’ve found it hard to get through the onslaught of hipster culture, admittedly in which I sometimes partake; but I definitely have felt like there absolutely is more going on in the city, that people are being excluded from the dominant young culture. I want to know more about what exactly “investment” in East PDX would look like. Does that mean gentrification and a pushing out of current communities, making it “safer” for middle-class white people to move in? There’s more to investment than New Seasons and bike lanes. The discussion about transportation and access to groceries was great; it will be important to see how the communities themselves define their interests and needs in terms of investment, and if a new mayor can listen and respond accordingly. —“Whit” Yes, it is getting worse. I lived in far East County when I first moved to Portland in 1981. I recently had to spend a few weeks commuting to Gresham along Powell and Division. I was SHOCKED. While I have marveled at the changes around Portland, the invention of the Pearl, the makeovers given to Mississippi, Alberta, North and Northeast, East County is the only area that looks worse than 20 years ago. Let me qualify my comment somewhat: The area I am speaking of is bordered by East 102nd, Powell, Gresham city limits and Glisan. Espe-
What are the Occupy Portland people going to do when it gets really cold? I’m worried they’ll have to give up when the snows come, enabling the movement’s detractors to deride the whole thing as an ephemeral hippie tantrum.—Violet Full disclosure: Even though I’m nominally a representative of the establishment media, I’m as keen to see Lloyd Blankfein’s head on a pike as the next aging hipster. Sorry, ruling class; if you wanted me to stump for you, you should’ve taken better care of me up till now. Having tossed journalistic objectivity aside like a spent condom, let’s get down to business. You’re correct, Violet, in the presumption that Occupy Portland’s plan is to stick it out until things change—all of the unscientifically selected protesters I buttonholed Sunday agreed that they were there indefinitely. As to their winter plans, a young fellow manning the info booth (he insisted, adorably, that I 4
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cially along the major thoroughfares, it looks like a ghetto. And this was not always the case. —“Firstpost” Summer before 2nd grade (1987) my parents bought a house on 192nd between Glisan and Halsey (Rockwood district). It was a well-manicured, clean middle-class neighborhood. It was glorious, I remember feeling “rich.” Everyone’s lawn was green and not one house in sight had so much as a tire in their yard. Most had seminew vehicles in their driveways. No one had a pitbull. The MAX line had just opened up a year prior.... I literally watched the Eastside crumble (Rockwood in particular) in a few short years. I moved to West Linn/Wilsonville in 1993. It’s sad to drive out there and see how bad it is now.... Stupid MAX...Milwaukie is next. *sigh* It’s where I live now :( —“From Rock-hood” Journalism like this is why I tell people that WW is the best in the city. I live between 82nd and I-205 (Lents). It isn’t as bad as east of I-205 (which I didn’t realize until this article was still considered Portland), but it sure as hell isn’t part of the “party,” either. I wish some of the Pearl’s URA [Urban Redevelopment Authority] money could be thrown toward our abandoned business area. —“Thanks” 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
not print his name) was succinct: “When it gets cold, people who can’t handle the cold will leave.” He noted, however, that a number of the occupiers had camping or survival training, skills they’d be passing along to their fellow travelers. Thus, it’s possible they’ll survive the winter unscathed. But even if they cave, what they’ve already done isn’t insignificant. And even fullblown revolutions always give back some of their gains, as any Tahrir Square veteran can tell you. The point is, if the tea party could have the impact it did—despite being liberally sprinkled with weirdos ranting about Area 51 and the gold standard—I’m pretty sure the Occupy movement’s image can survive a few frozen hippies throwing in the towel till spring. Still, if you’re that concerned, you can always lend a hand. They’re soliciting donations of wool clothing and blankets even as we speak. More at occupyportland.org. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com
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POLITICS: AG John Kroger’s surprising decision. HOTSEAT: Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards. CITY HALL: The candidates’ parking-ticket derby. ENDORSEMENTS: Our picks in the 1st District primary.
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BETTER THAN TAX ADVICE FROM THE PIZZA GUY State Sen. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Beaverton) enters the stretch run for the Nov. 8 Democratic primary to replace U.S. Rep. David Wu with a big cash advantage over her opponents. The latest reports show Bonamici scored $1,500 from Broadway playwright Neil Simon (her husband’s uncle). More importantly, but less famously, she got $10,000 from Portland publisher Win McCormack and $7,500 from her former boss, trial lawyer Robert Stoll. At last report, Bonamici had $451,000 cash on hand, Labor Commish Brad Avakian had $108,000 and State Rep. Brad Witt (D-Clatskanie) had $23,000. Check out WW’s endorsements in the primary campaigns on page 14. Recent court complaints filed in Seattle promise new dirt on Portland Trail Blazers owner Paul Allen. The lawsuits, filed by the former security director and three security officers for Allen’s investment arm, Vulcan Inc., claim they were pushed out of the firm after they witnessed ALLEN “unethical or illegal activities” by Allen and his sister, Jody. While the lawsuits include no specifics, the complainants have some credibility: One is a two-decade FBI agent, another is a Navy SEAL. SeattlePI.com first reported the complaints.
Portland-based novelist Patrick deWitt’s magical run to the top of the British literary establishment—he was like Harry Potter, if Harry had been a writer and a Canadian—ended Tuesday when he lost the Man Booker Prize to the heavily favored Julian Barnes. DeWitt, 36, who moved to Portland in 2008, invaded the Brit lit scene by being named to the Booker shortlist for his second novel, The Sisters Brothers. A British Columbia native, DeWitt is in London this week attending Booker ceremonies.
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Lawyers continue to be the biggest winners in a fight over the inheritance of the late Yogi Bhajan [“Death of a Yogi,” WW, July 6]. Starting in the 1970s, Bhajan’s followers in Oregon and New Mexico founded profitable companies, including Yogi Tea, Golden Temple cereals and Akal Security. The guru’s death in 2004 pitted several factions of followers against one another. Early this month, Bhajan’s widow, Bibiji Inderjit Kaur Puri, won legal control of the Yogi Tea trademark, but not the Golden Temple corporation’s other assets, leaving the future of the Eugene company in doubt. Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Leslie Roberts has yet to rule in a separate lawsuit over control of the Sikh Dharma corporate empire.
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THE PUZZLE AT JUSTICE JOHN KROGER, OREGON’S MOST AMBITIOUS POLITICIAN, WON’T RUN FOR RE-ELECTION DUE TO AN ILLNESS HE WON’T DISCLOSE. BY NIG E L JAQ UI SS
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It’s been a long time since Oregon has seen a politician as ambitious as John Kroger. He jolted the state’s staid political establishment with a meteoric rise to attorney general in 2008. He pledged to turn the Oregon Department of Justice from a drowsy law firm into an aggressive weapon for the state’s citizens. He declared war on scam artists, corrupt public officials and polluters. He continued to act like the prosecutor he once was, even when the job often called for a softer touch from the state’s top counsel. Kroger’s actual record has been mixed: modest achievements with public embarrassments over high-profile cases. Still, nothing seemed able to halt his continued rise, or his willingness to paper with state with press releases. Despite a growing list of political enemies, he had an easy path to re-election in 2012. That’s why Kroger’s announcement Tuesday that he won’t seek re-election because of an undisclosed health problem has interrupted one of the most compelling storylines in recent Oregon political history. “I was shocked,” says Trent Lutz, Democratic Party of Oregon executive director. “He was somebody that came in unexpectedly and was ambitious and won in a dramatic fashion. He has been actively involved in building the party at the local and county levels.” Kroger, 45, declined to answer questions Tuesday, announcing his decision in a press release from his campaign office. “I was recently diagnosed and am under the care of a physician at OHSU for a significant but not life-threatening medical condition,” Kroger’s statement said. “It will not interfere with my legal work or prevent me from completing my term, but I will need to reduce my hours, travel less, and be careful about my health.” The announcement raises more questions than it answers. If Kroger won’t tell citizens what’s wrong with him, how do they know he’s healthy enough to serve out his term? How can the most ambitious politician in Oregon be so ill that he cannot continue a campaign but still be able to serve for the next 14 months? What ailment would be sufficiently private that the man whose favorite word is “transparency” declines to say why he’s giving up? A skilled and prolific communicator, Kroger has now created a vacuum which his many critics and enemies will fill to overflowing. Kroger acknowledged in an interview with the Salem Statesman Journal editorial board Sept. 21 he had already angered many people while doing his job. “The way for
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someone in American politics to stay out of trouble is to do nothing,” he said. “Every time you try to do something, you’re either going to anger some people or you’re gonna run a risk that you’re not going to achieve what you set out to do.” Kroger had already raised $350,000 for his re-election campaign, and no serious candidate seemed ready to take him on. Most people thought he had a good shot at the governorship or the U.S. Senate someday. In 2008, Kroger, then a little-known professor at Lewis & Clark Law School, stormed into office on the strength of a life story he told in his brisk and compelling memoir, Convictions. After growing up in Houston, he joined the Marines, then graduated from Yale and Harvard Law School. He learned politics as a campaign aide to Bill Clinton and staffer for Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.). As a federal prosecutor, Kroger went after mobsters, drug runners and Enron executives. He came to Oregon as a professor at Lewis & Clark in 2002.
Kroger campaigned for attorney general in 2008 on a pledge to shake up the Oregon Department of Justice. Heavily funded by public-employee unions angry at his opponent, former state Rep. Greg Macpherson, he won 56 percent to 44 percent. Nearly three years into his term, Kroger has indeed shaken things up, although not always with a positive result. He told the Statesman Journal editorial board he considered his biggest accomplishments the consumer protection actions he’s taken against more than 100 companies, his efforts to combat drug traffickers, and cracking down on child porn and Internet crimes against children. “I’m saddened by John’s departure from public service,” says Dwight Holton, the former interim U.S. attorney for Oregon and close friend of Kroger’s. “He’s been innovative, creative and effective.” CONT. on page 8 Willamette Week OCTOBER 19, 2011 wweek.com
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Kroger has nabbed some misbehaving public officials, chasing the sheriffs of Marion and Jefferson counties from office; pushing a Marion County judge from the bench and knocking prosecutors in Lincoln and Umatilla counties from their posts. But his performance in higher-profile cases left observers wondering if Kroger was too political. The first major case his office handled—the 2009 investigation of Portland Mayor Sam Adams’ relationship with a teenaged boy—dragged on for months. In the end, Kroger declined to prosecute Adams, even though the investigation found evidence the mayor tried to tamper with a witness and lied during the investigation. Last summer, Kroger’s office investigated allegations that Oregon Department of Energy employees steered a contract to Cylvia Hayes, companion of Gov. John Kitzhaber. The case brought no charges but plenty of embarrassment to Kroger. His chief prosecutor, Sean Riddell, now faces a bar complaint that he misled witnesses. Kroger later demoted Riddell for deleting key emails in the case. Kroger’s actions also raised questions about his own judgment. He met personally with Kitzhaber to brief him on the still-confidential case and to offer political advice on how Hayes should handle the situation—all while keeping then-Gov. Ted Kulongoski in the dark. On Monday, Kroger acknowledged a major screw-up. In 2009, the justice department and local prosecutors agreed to dismiss the case against Philip Scott Cannon, who had earlier been convicted of three 1998 murders in Polk County. Cannon won a new trial, but prosecutors claimed they couldn’t find key evidence, which led to the dismissal. Recently, four boxes of records prosecutors had thought were destroyed turned up in storage at the justice department. “Mishandling of evidence is completely unacceptable,”
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Kroger said Monday. “As attorney general, I take full responsibility.” While Kroger’s announcement seems to end a promising career, it creates some oxygen for potential rivals such as state Treasurer Ted Wheeler and Secretary of State Kate Brown. There is also the more immediate question of who will seek to replace Kroger. Although the job provides more visibility and power than any in the state except governor, it pays just $77,200, paltry for lawyers. The GOP has searched unsuccessfully to find a challenger to Kroger (they failed to field one in 2008). And no Democrat wanted to challenge him. But on Tuesday, the first name in circulation to replace Kroger was his friend, Dwight Holton. Holton served as interim U.S. attorney for more than a year until presidential appointee Amanda Marshall was sworn in Oct. 7, raising that office’s profile. Holton’s close relationship with Kroger may be a mixed blessing. They worked together on the Clinton-Gore campaigns and in the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn. Reached at the Dallas airport, Holton declined to say whether he will enter the state AG’s race. Macpherson, Kroger’s primary opponent in 2008, says he is considering running. Another name in play is Keith Dubanevich, Kroger’s chief of staff. As potential successors jockey for support, there will be pressure on Kroger to provide more information about his health. Critics such as former Labor Commissioner Jack Roberts, who as an Oregonian op-ed writer has dogged Kroger’s every move, says Kroger should give the public “enough information to reassure us that he can do his job.” “I think when you serve in public office,” Roberts says, “you give up some of the rights to privacy.”
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How is Planned Parenthood changing so that it’s inclusive for men and women? With this Congress that’s so far to the right—it was really going after ending basic access to birth control and access to cancer screenings and STD testing and treatment—thousands of young men got involved to stand for Planned Parenthood. Men have just as vested an interest in birth control as women. Do you believe laws requiring women to receive sonograms prior to abortions affect their decisions to have an abortion? We always counsel women on all their options if they have an unintended pregnancy. What we have found historically is that women make incredibly responsible decisions. The thing that is really disturbing about most of these laws is that they basically assume women are incapable of making their own personal, responsible decisions about their health care. But these laws push women to get more information before making a decision. Legislators, most of whom will never be pregnant, [are] writing their own ideas about what doctors should be telling their patients. It assumes doctors aren’t responsible, that they
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had six people driving two cars.” Steve Novick (68 tickets), the City Council candidate who some people fear actually lives in his car, is one of Oregon’s loudest advocates for additional tax revenue. “I regret overstaying my welcome in many parking spots,” Novick says. “But I’m happy to have forked over a bunch of money to help the city.” We found lower numbers for Jefferson Smith and Charlie Hales, both users of alternative transportation. Hales is a streetcar pioneer, and Smith is famous for traveling by bus. Then there’s the battle for City Council Seat No. 1: The challenger is Mary Nolan, a longtime state lawmaker known to be precise and careful, and the incumbent is Amanda Fritz, known as a stickler for the rules. Nolan has four tickets and Fritz has three—making this one race that’s too close to call.
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When U.S. Rep David Wu resigned his seat in August, he did something pretty unusual in Oregon these days: He created an opening for a well-paying job—the position pays $174,000 a year, plus terrific benefits. Wu’s resignation following allegations of sexual misconduct gives voters in Oregon’s 1st Congressional District an overdue chance to replace him. (In his 12 years in office, Wu managed to sponsor exactly two bills that actually passed, according to govtrack.us.) Democrats and Republicans will choose their nominees in a Nov. 8 primary, and voters choose the winner in a general election Jan. 31. The victor won’t get much of a break. He or she must defend the seat three months later in the regular May 2012 primary and general election the following November. The good news is the 1st District is a prize worth fighting for, the state’s bright spot amid Oregon’s general economic gloom. Over the past three decades, Washington County, which dominates the district, has added 127,000 private-sector jobs, state
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figures show. That’s nearly twice as many as Multnomah County. The 1st District has more manufacturing jobs than any of Oregon’s other congressional districts, Census data show. And those jobs pay well. Median household income in Washington County in 2009 was $61,000, about $10,000 higher than in Multnomah County. The district is home to many of Oregon’s largest and best-known private employers: Intel, Nike, Columbia Sportswear, Solarworld and Genentech. The district is also home to the state’s richest man, Phil Knight, whose fortune Forbes pegs at greater than $12 billion, and to Columbia Sportswear CEO Tim Boyle, whose company stock is worth more than $700 million. Thanks to redistricting, most of the tony Pearl District and Southwest Portland, the city’s wealthiest section, is in the district. (The special election will be run using the existing boundaries. The new lines will take effect beginning with the 2012 primary.) But the 1st District is not just about semiconductors, solar panels, running shoes and high-
end condos. The Clatsop and Tillamook state forests supplied a big chunk of the nearly 300 million board feet of state-owned timber cut last year. Seafood processors provide jobs in Astoria. What most of the district has in common is trade. Oregon ranks seventh in the nation for its economic reliance on trade, and the 1st District counts on imports and exports to an unusual degree. “It’s hard to find congressional districts in this country that are more trade dependent,” says Oregon Business Association President Ryan Deckert. “I think you could count them on two hands.” For Republicans, capturing the 1st District is harder than winning the governor’s office. Oregon last elected a GOP governor in 1982, but the 1st District has not sent a Republican to Congress since 1972. Six-term incumbent Wu, who resigned in August, was no political giant. But after squeaking past Republican Molly Bordonaro in 1998, Wu never faced another close race. Even after a 2004 Oregonian investigation
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of Wu’s alleged date rape of a college girlfriend, he defeated GOP challenger Goli Ameri by 20 percentage points. Part of Wu’s success came from Democrats’ increasing registration advantage over Republicans. Republicans have also repeatedly nominated weak candidates. Except for former State Rep. Derrick Kitts (R-Hillsboro) in 2006, recent GOP nominees have come into their races with little political experience or name recognition. In 2010, Rob Cornilles, a political newcomer who owns a Tualatin sports-marketing firm, challenged Wu. Cornilles, 47, earned The Oregonian’s endorsement but lost to Wu by 13 percentage points. Now, Cornilles is back, running as a “job creator.” Although his company, Game Face Marketing, which helps pro and college teams sell sports tickets, has just five employees, Cornilles claims he’s trained or found jobs for hundreds since 1995. Game Face has had a couple of hiccups. In 2003, as the Forest Grove News-Times
first reported, the company settled Bureau of Labor and Industries complaints by three Game Face trainees who alleged they ’d worked hundreds of hours without being paid. Cornilles denies wrongdoing, but he paid the three about $9,000 to avoid litigation. What’s never been reported is Game Face later encountered a more serious problem. Although Cornilles boasts, “For 162 months we’ve met a payroll,” records show that in May 2007, the Internal Revenue Service filed an $83,000 federal tax lien against his company for failing to make 2006 tax withholdings. Cornilles says an inexperienced bookkeeper neglected to make the required payments. After discovering the problem, he paid off the lien in August 2007. (He says his company has regularly been profitable. Last year he disclosed personal assets of between $8 million and $49 million—primarily his wife’s property investments). Cornilles is pro-life and opposes gay marriage. But in a district with a Democratic registration edge, he’s trying hard to establish street cred as a moderate. He refused, for
example, to sign the “no new taxes” pledge many federal GOP candidates have inked. That’s not the case with Cornilles’ most serious rival. Tigard property investor Jim Greenfield, 64, won the 2002 GOP nomination but lost to Wu 63 percent to 34 percent. A constitutionalist who says he arrived at tea party principles 20 years ago, Greenfield boasts two Ivy League degrees (Cornell undergrad and Penn for law school), but other than the 2002 race, he’s kept a low political profile. He’s only raised about $5,000 for this race. Cornilles’ platform is thin, but he’s run an active campaign, raising more than $500,000, and would be a credible opponent to the winning Democrat. We give Cornilles our primary election endorsement. Lisa Michaels, 51, a tea party activist and ad saleswoman who most recently ran unsuccessfully for the Tualatin Valley Parks and Recreation District board, is also in the race, as are Pavel Goberman and DR Delgado-Morgan. CONT. on page 16
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The leading Democrats are Labor Commissioner values, but in 2005, in one of the highest-profile Brad Avakian, State Sen. Suzanne Bonamici votes of his six-year legislative career, he was one (D -Beaverton), and State Rep. Brad Witt of only two Democrats in the Legislature to vote (D-Clatskanie). There are five other candidates against a bill that would have required PGE and in the Democratic primary PacifiCorp to stop pocketing race, but none of them is runhundreds of millions of dollars ning a substantial campaign. they add to ratepayers’ bills Avakian, 50, grew up in supposedly to cover the utiliWashington County, graduties’ income taxes—taxes they ated from Aloha High School legally avoided paying. He can and wrestled at Oregon State offer no reasonable explanaUniversity. After graduattion for this vote. ing from Lewis & Clark Law More recently, Avakian School, Avakian as a lawyer said he opposes the trade primarily represented injured agreements recently passed or aggrieved workers. (His by Congress that open up JIM GREENFIELD, Republican agency, the Bureau of Labor trade with South Korea, Panand Industries, does much the ama and Colombia. He’s said same on a statewide level.) He so in front of labor unions lost a race for the Legislature and to us during our endorsein 1998 but won a House seat ment interview. four years later. But he gave a different In the past, Avakian has view to Nike, a supporter of looked at running for attorney the trade agreements. “When general and governor. In 2008, Brad Avakian met with us he briefly ran for secretary of to ask for Nike’s support state but dropped out when for his campaign, he did not the labor commissioner’s job tell us that he opposed the BRAD AVAKIAN, Democrat came open and then-Gov. Ted free-trade agreements,” Nike Kulongoski named him to spokeswoman Erin Dobson the post. And he was the first told WW. candidate to jump into this Avakian is not ready for congressional race, doing so Congress, and we have our before Wu resigned. doubts he ever will be. As we’ve previously reportBrad Witt, 59, is a four-term ed (“Not Paying His Dues,” member of the House from WW, Sept. 14, 2011), Avakian Clatskanie who makes his livhas had serious money probing negotiating contracts for lems. He failed to pay his fedthe United Food and Commereral and property taxes, and cial Workers union. As a young was sued by creditors in small man, Witt worked in sawmills BRAD WITT, Democrat claims court four times. While in his native Massachusetts a legislator, he sent an email and Oregon but later moved to lobbyists asking for help in finding a private- into management positions in various unions, most sector job. And 21 years after graduating from law notably as the No. 2 man at the statewide AFL-CIO school, he still hasn’t paid back his student loans. for 14 years. Among our many concerns about Avakian is his lack of consistency. Avakian champions populist CONT. on page 18
BY THE NUMBERS As of September, the 1st Congressional District had 93,400 non-affiliated voters, more than any other Oregon district. But registered Democrats outnumber Republicans, 178,000 to 126,000. The district includes Washington, Clatsop, Yamhill and Columbia counties, and part of Multnomah County. Republicans controlled the 1st District from 1893, when the seat was created, until 1974, when it was won by Les AuCoin.
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It’s been in Democratic hands ever since. In Multnomah County, 19 percent of residents receive food stamps; in Washington County, the most populous in the 1st District, the figure is 12 percent. In Washington County, 90.5 percent of residents have a high-school education; in Multnomah County, the number is 89 percent. Both are well above the national average of 85.3 percent.
In 2009, 11,575 Washington County households reported incomes of $200,000 or more; the number in Multnomah County was about 6,000. Outside Washington County cities, the two biggest population centers in the 1st District are St. Helens (12,715) and Astoria (10,110). Biggest machine: The Lampson LTL-2600, the world’s largest mobile crane, is being used to build Intel’s new $3 billion chip plant.
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Witt’s failure to gain that union’s endorsement in this race (after a hard-fought process, the AFL-CIO endorsed nobody) illustrates his problems as a candidate and potential congressman. He’s bright and considered honest by his peers. But after four terms in the House, he’s remained a back-bencher who hasn’t demonstrated the energy or skills to play in the political big leagues. His mediocre record in the House contrasts sharply with that of more junior members, who have eclipsed him both in leadership positions and committee assignments. His caucus depends enormously on labor support, which should put Witt in a position of influence. But he’s not in one. The best Witt could muster in the 2011 session was the chairmanship of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee, known in Salem as a panel of little significance. The two Brads haven’t demonstrated the qualifications or skill to represent Oregon’s 1st District in Congress when compared to our choice, Suzanne Bonamici. Bonamici, 57, grew up in Michigan and went to the University of Oregon, where she earned her law degree. She worked in consumer protection for the Federal Trade Commission in the mid-1980s, and then practiced law for a few years in Portland after she and her husband, current U.S. District Judge Michael Simon, moved back to Oregon in 1986. Bonamici took time out to raise children, then began working as a legislative aide in 2001. When Avakian moved from the state House to the Senate in 2006, she won his seat, and moved up to his Senate position when he was named labor commissioner. As a lawmaker, Bonamici quickly earned a reputation for honesty and diligence, if not charisma. In her first Senate session, she chaired the Consumer Protection and Public Affairs
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“[BONAMICI] IS A PERSON WHO IS FAIR AND HONEST, AND HAS THE INTERESTS OF NOT ONLY HER CONSTITUENCY BUT THE REST OF OUR NATION IN MIND.”—BRAD WITT Committee. Her focus on consumer issues might have alienated many lobbyists, but she instead won widespread respect. In WW’s “The Good, the Bad and the Awful” rankings of metro-area legislators in 2009, she ranked near the top among senators. In 2011, she was No. 1. Bonamici can come across as overly cautious. She’s declined to say whether she would support the controversial free-trade agreements. She’s earned the wrath of some in her party’s left wing because she’s equivocated, saying she doesn’t have enough information to take a position. It’s hard to imagine Bonamici is running for Congress and doesn’t yet know what she thinks about free trade. She could be trying to navigate the economic and political realities of a tradedependent district, which leaves her sounding wishy-washy. That’s a knock against Bonamici, but not a big enough one to discount her. She is studious, hard-working and a consensus builder, and she possesses an ego that is, uncharacteristically for a politician, civilian-sized. That’s why Senate President Peter Courtney chose her to lead the 2011 process for redrawing legislative and congressional boundaries. Redistricting is perhaps the most contentious and politically important duty any lawmaker could tackle. And to do so successfully, as she did, shows the skills to bargain, negotiate and compromise. Under Bonamici’s leadership, lawmakers approved redistricting—rather than leaving it for the secretary of state and courts to resolve. It’s the first time in five decades that’s happened. In our joint endorsement interview, we asked all three candidates, if they couldn’t vote for themselves, which one of the others at the table would they support. Avakian and Bonamici—who have had the knives out for each other during this short primary race—both said they’d vote for Witt. Witt gave a ringing endorsement of Bonamici—one that could easily sum up our conclusion as well. “She is a person who is fair and honest, and has the interests of not only her constituency but the rest of our nation in mind,” Witt said. “And is an exceedingly thoughtful person.”
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SUFJAN SHOW: Sufjan Stevens is doing a neat little mini-tour in conjunction with screenings of the documentary Beyond This Place, including a Nov. 3 show at Portland’s Hollywood Theatre. The flick chronicles filmmaker Kaleo La Belle’s attempt to reconcile with his old man, a perpetually-stoned cyclist named “Cloud Rock,” on a 500mile bike ride through the Pacific Northwest. Stevens, a childhood STEVENS friend of the documentarian who also filmed a meeting with his estranged father, did the soundtrack, and is now touring with it for screenings in New York, San Fran, L.A. and our fair burg. Local dude Raymond Raposa of Castanets will also be lending a hand at the show. FUTURE DRINKING: Katie Potter and Christopher Loverro have applied to open a cafe, the Hazel Room, in the Hawthorne Boulevard building that formerly housed the Dollar Scholar and currently houses the Mag Big crafts/art/fashion shop. >> Nyno Thol, owner of Bara Sushi House, has applied for a liquor license for Sok Sab Bai, his Cambodian food cart next door to WTF Bikes at 1114 SE Clay St. >> BJ Smith, formerly chef of the Original Dinerant, has applied to open Smokehouse 21, a barbecue joint, in the 413 NW 21st Ave. space recently vacated by Tanuki. >> No sooner did Belmont Street pizza joint The Globe announce its closure than the storied building’s new tenants, Casey and Wendi Maxwell, applied to open the Conquistador Lounge, a “Spanish/Latin/ Mexican” restaurant and bar. Future Drinking believes, but has not confirmed, that Casey is the same Casey Maxwell who co-owns Matador Lounge. >> Elsewhere in the state, Portland Dayton RV Park is, hilariously, changing its name to Willamette Wine Country RV Park. BRACING: The organizers of last Monday’s song-dance-anddrama benefit for Louanne Moldovan say the show was a big success, raising enough money to make the down payment on Moldovan’s next round of surgery. The longtime Portland theater director is facing a mountain of medical bills after a mid-August fall which left her in a neck brace. KNOWLEDGE APLENTY: Dr. Know, our own esteemed infotainment columnist, is playing the Know with his band, the Slutty Hearts, on Monday, Oct. 24. We find all this mildly amusing. UMMM, HI: Martin Cizmar is Willamette Week’s new Arts & Culture editor. He does not normally write about himself in the third person, but, in keeping with the strictures of this space, he is doing so right now. He is originally from Akron, Ohio, and previously worked as the music editor at Phoenix New Times. He encourages you to contact him as necessary by whatever means you feel most comfortable.
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SHAKE IT UP TOAST PORTLAND COCKTAIL WEEK WITH A WILLAMETTE WEEK-FLAVORED LIBATION. The second annual Portland Cocktail Week (it’s actually only three days, but you can always start drinking a few days early) hits town Thursday. It’s more a conference for professional mixologists, but cocktail nerds of all stripes are welcome. In addition to seminars on the finer points of cocktail crafting, there are plenty of drinking-focused events, including a whiskey party at Ground Kontrol, a Yacht Rock and rum concert at Lola’s Room, a single-malt scotch cocktail dinner at Beast, a battle between robots and bartenders at the Jupiter Hotel and more. The festivities also coincide with the Great American Distillers Festival, where small-batch distillers from across the country come to Portland to share sips of their spirits. To celebrate, we asked Beaker & Flask bartender and Oregon Bartenders Guild honcho Brandon Wise to create a cocktail especially for us. “Here’s a cocktail inspired by our beloved Willamette Week,” he writes. “A slightly bitter, boozy libation all jacked up on the great things about Portland. What says Willy Week more than a subtly sweet, knock-you-on-your-backside, take-no-prisoners blast of liquorous flavor? Buy the ticket, take the ride….” RUTH BROWN.
Willy’s Wild Ride 1.5 oz. Ransom Old Tom Gin | 1 oz. Carpano Antica Vermouth | .25 oz. Fernet Branca | .25 oz. Deco Coffee Rum | A dash Regan’s No. 6 Orange Bitters | Rinse of House Spirits Krogstad Aquavit “First pour a splash or two of the aquavit in an Old-Fashioned glass and add a couple of ice cubes to let it coat the glass. Build the rest of your ingredients in a separate mixing glass, add ice and stir for 15 to 20 seconds. Discard the aquavit and ice from your glass and strain the contents of your mixing glass into the aquavit-laced glass. Drop in a BFC—a Big F—in’ Cube of ice. (You can buy silicon ice molds online—they’re rad and they’re cheap!) Garnish with a swath of orange using a vegetable peeler and squeeze the peel to express the oil over the drink before you drop it in. Cheers!” GO: Portland Cocktail Week runs Oct. 20-23. Venues and prices vary. Visit portlandcocktailweek.com for info and tickets. The Great American Distillers Festival runs 1-7 pm Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 22-23. $10 for one day, $16 for two. See distillersfestival.com.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 19 [HAUNTED HOUSE] FRIGHT TOWN The only thing scarier than the monsters at Fright Town is the line on Halloween weekend. Stop by the block-long haunted house as All Hallow’s Eve draws nigh and you’ll see people standing around as though they’re waiting to buy some doughnuts. Fright Town, Memorial Coliseum at the Rose Quarter, 300 N Winning Way. 7 pm. Oct. 19-23 and 25-31. Info at frighttown.com. $20.
THURSDAY, OCT. 20 [DANCE] CHUNKY MOVE This Australian contemporary company returns to White Bird to launch the North American premiere of its work, Connected. The central set piece is a giant kinetic sculpture made by Reuben Margolin and hung from the ceiling by wires. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave. 8 pm ThursdaySaturday, Oct. 20-22. $20-$30. [MUSIC] E-40 Bay Area legend E-40 is a renaissance man: He’s an innovator of slang (“fo’ shizzle”), tycoon of the California fast-food industry (Fat Burger) and two-decade veteran of the rap game (3 million sold). Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $28.50. All ages.
FRIDAY, OCT. 21 [MOVIES] TAKE SHELTER Michael Shannon thinks the sky is falling, and by the end of this harrowing movie, you don’t know if you’d rather he was right or wrong. Regal Fox Tower Stadium 10, 846 SW Park Ave., 221-3280. Multiple showtimes. $10.50.
SATURDAY, OCT. 22 [MOVIES] ZOMBIE There’s little innovation in Lucio Fulci’s Dawn of the Dead knockoff, but there is an extended underwater fight between a zombie and a shark, and one of the most excruciating eyeball impalements in history. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 9:30 pm. $7.
SUNDAY, OCT. 23 [MUSIC] MALE BONDING With Endless Now, Male Bonding has made its masterpiece: an addictive collection of blissed-out, gently distressed pop. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
MONDAY, OCT. 24 [MUSIC] SO PERCUSSION
The New York quartet performs pieces by two visionary 20th-century composers: Steve Reich and John Cage. Cage’s percussion classic Child of Tree features an amplified cactus. Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 224-9842. 7:30 pm. $27-$40. Willamette Week OCTOBER 19, 2011 wweek.com
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Acadia Bistro 10-Year Anniversary
Northeast Fremont’s Cajun bistro celebrates a decade in the biz with $10 deals on Southern classics like crawfish pie, smoked duck étouffée and chicken maque choux all through October. Plus, red velvet birthday cake. Acadia, 1303 NE Fremont St., 249-5001. Through Oct. 31. Info at creolapdx.com.
Castagna Brewers Dinner
Castagna’s new chef throws the restaurant’s first brewers dinner with Logsdon Farmhouse Ales and Upright Brewery. Expect a quintet of beerhappy dishes—including “aged beef fed on beer with cipollini and hops,” talk from the brewers, and samples of their wares. Castagna, 1752 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 231-7373. 6:30 pm. $65 per person. Call for reservations.
Kenny & Zuke’s Pastrami Anniversary
Yes, there was a dark time when Portland lived without pastrami sandwiches the size of small brontosauruses. Luckily, that void was filled four years ago when Kenny & Zuke’s opened its downtown doors. The deli celebrates its birthday by knocking $3 off the price of its famed pastrami on rye for a week. Even better, that $3 goes to the Oregon Food Bank. Kenny & Zuke’s Delicatessen, 1038 SW Stark St., 222-3354. All day Wednesday-Sunday, Oct. 19-23.
THURSDAY, OCT. 20 Portland Cocktail Week/Great American Distillers Festival
The city gets blitzed in every conceivable way, from swilling at a cocktail cart (Cartopia) to attending workshops on how to make your own bitters and the “lost art of technical free pouring” (Leftbank Annex) to rooting for the fleshies at a robot-vs.-humans cocktail-pouring battle (Jupiter Hotel) and swaying sedately at a Yacht Rock rum party (Lola’s Room). Oh, and there’s a little thing called the Great American Distillers Festival happening, too, which gathers the nation’s most fervent craft distillers for two days of spirit geekery. Leftbank Annex, 101 N Weidler St. Thursday-Sunday, Oct. 20-23. Info, full schedule and prices at portlandcocktailweek.com. Great American Distillers Festival occurs at Leftbank Annex. 1-7 pm Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 22-23. $10$16. Info at distillersfestival.com. 21+.
The Love of Beer Brewery Screening
Alison Grayson’s new documentary, The Love of Beer, gets up close and personal with women in the Pacific Northwest beer industry, from Tonya Cornett of Bend Brewing to Portland
bottle shop Saraveza’s owner, Sarah Pederson. The local doc screens at The Guild Public House—with $3 pints from Ninkasi Brewing—and includes a Q&A with Grayson and some of the film’s she-brewers. The Guild Public House, 1101 E Burnside St., 233-1743. 7 pm. $5 suggested donation. Info at theloveofbeermovie.com.
Portland Farmers Market 20th Anniversary Party
For two decades, the Portland Farmers Market has been showing off the best of our region’s bounty of veggies, fruits, flowers and edibles. This Thursday it celebrates with a gala benefit bash at the International Culinary School’s Sharp restaurant, where you can gawk at former Wildwood chef and current ICS teacher Cory Schreiber, Park Kitchen’s Scott Dolich and chef Leena Ezekiel, among others, making everything from goat cheese cannelloni to lamb curry (and sample it once they’re finished). Sharp restaurant at the International Culinary School at the Art Institute of Portland, 34 NW 8th Ave. 6:30 pm. $75. Info at portlandfarmersmarket.org.
SATURDAY, OCT. 22 North Portland Oktoberfest
NoPo throws its own Oktoberfest celebration this weekend to benefit Ockley Green’s K-8 Arts and Technology magnet program. The lineup includes accordion music, a brew tent and lots of German eats. Historic Kenton Firehouse, 8105 N Brandon Ave. 3-10 pm. $15 beer tent, $40 prime-time dinner. Visit northportlandoktoberfest. eventbrite.com for details and more prices.
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Elysian Brewing revels in all things pumpkin at Saraveza Bottle Shop, including eight pumpkin brews, a jacko’-lantern contest, live music and more. Saraveza Bottle Shop & Pasty Tavern, 1004 N Killingsworth St., 206-4252. 5 pm. $20 advance, includes Elysian glass and eight tasting tickets. Info at saraveza.com.
SUNDAY, OCT. 23 Portland Fruit Project Orchard Banquet Series
Gilt Club’s Chris Carriker devises a fruit-themed dinner to benefit the Portland Fruit Project. The food’s sure to be tasty, but just as interesting is the venue: a “historic farmhouse and expansive permaculture food forest at Columbia Ecovillage in NE Portland” owned by one of the PFP tree people. 5 pm. $45, includes wine. Reservations required, info at portlandfruit.org.
YOUR PORTLAND FERMENTATION FESTIVAL CHEAT SHEET BY KELLY CLA R KE
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Some people see cucumbers and think “salad,” but local author Liz Crain, restaurateur David Barber and dapper foodist George Winborn think, “I’ll stick those cukes in a crock, let ’em sit exposed to airborne organisms for weeks and then devour them.” This is the trio behind Portland’s annual Fermentation Festival, which gathers the city’s ardent home picklers, professional fermenters and curious eaters to swap secrets and nibble bits of each other’s best kraut, kefir, kimchi, miso, cucumber pickles and other fermented wonders. You really
never know who or what will show up at the event, which is held at Ecotrust. “There are always surprise ferments,” explains Crain, who is also the scribe behind the Food Lover’s Guide to Portland. “Last year there was delicious fermented salmon, and the year before that we had sticky, stinky (for brave eaters) natto.” On the eve of the city’s third Fermentation Fest, which is slated to include “ghost pickles, home-captured sourdough rye and fermented cabbage tonic,” we asked the organizers to explain, in pictures, exactly how to ferment anything. Still have questions? Head to the fest. GO: The Portland Fermentation Festival is held at Ecotrust’s Billy Frank Jr. Conference Center, 721 NW 9th Ave. 6-8 pm Thursday, Oct. 20. $5. Info at portlandfermentationfestival.com.
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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 19 Jim Page, Teresa Tudury, Anne Weiss, Sky in the Road and more
[STREET-MUSICIAN CRED] On the busk or off the busk, Jim Page has attracted a renown rare for the committed street musician—arguably second only to frequent collaborator Artis the Spoonman, though Page doesn’t have a Soundgarden tribute on his résumé. The Seattleite still holds a regular residence outside Pike Place Market despite recording dozens of albums over the past three-plus decades and occasional international tours. Less surprisingly, the troubadour’s material tends toward politicized folk, with engaging guitar work intended to stop traffic. A handful of other folkies—en route to a conference in Eugene—round out the bill. JAY HORTON. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 8 pm. $12 (Minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.). All ages.
A Gentlemen’s Picnic, Delayed Relay, New Century Schoolbook
[KITCHEN-SINK DANCE POP] In addition to providing a workshop for Portland’s budding laptop wizards, Backspace’s bimonthly electronic jam session, Battery Powered Music, has yielded some lasting testaments to this town’s finest synthesizer junkies. A Gentlemen’s Picnic is perhaps the best artifact to have emerged from Battery Powered Music’s free-for-all. With intertwining synthesizer lines reminiscent of Portland electronic guru Copy and lyrics that could compare favorably with the wistful melancholy of the Blow, A Gentlemen’s Picnic manages a tidy combination of danceability and introspection. A months-long hiatus to retool its sound—and some backup playing from the Battery Powered Music Ensemble—should make this one of A Gentlemen’s Picnic’s finest outings to date. SHANE DANAHER. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. 8 pm. $5. All ages.
The Head and the Heart
[FINE FOLK] There’s something fundamentally resonant about the music of Seattle’s the Head and the Heart. Since its formation in 2009, THATH has had a blink-and-you-miss-it rise from obscurity, opening arenas for Death Cab for Cutie, leading the Sub Pop Records roster and chalking up the sale of 10,000 albums largely via word of mouth. Success on that scale isn’t possible without a broad appeal, and in this case that appeal is born from the sextet’s skillful employment of folk-rock shorthand. The group’s self-titled LP offers much in the way of acoustic background instrumentation, harmonized “ohhs” and repeated references to roads and distance. SHANE DANAHER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 9 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.
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[IMPROV EXPERIMENTS] Here’s a very cool concept: Devin Gallagher, one of the loudest voices in support of the local music scene (and multiinstrumentalist for Typhoon), is curating a show at Holocene where he taps a bunch of different players—from Typhoon, Y La Bamba, Inside Voices and more—to collaborate on stage in improvised performance. Sounds pretty all right, don’t it? It will sound even better once you get a load of the wicked combos that Gallagher has cooked up (though they were still changing around a bit as of press time!). ROBERT HAM. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $5. 21+.
Yellowman
[DANCEHALL KING] In 1982, the death of Bob Marley left a hole in the reggae world too big for anyone to properly fill. So Jamaica went in an altogether different direction when anointing its first post-Marley superstar: a raunchy albino DJ named Yellowman. Ushering in the dance-hall era with lyrics bragging about his bedroom prowess, the former Winston Foster represented the division between the spiritual uplift of reggae’s past and the bawdiness of its future. It’d be like if 2 Live Crew became the biggest band in America after John Lennon died, except even crazier, since Foster was raised in an orphanage and considered a social outcast due to his outward appearance. In that way, the story of his transformation into a self-made sex symbol is sort of inspiring, even if it’s tainted by misogyny and homophobia. At age 55, Yellowman remains a nimble toaster and energetic performer, and after bouts with cancer in the late 1980s and mid-’90s, his music has become more socially conscious as well. MATTHEW SINGER. Mount Tabor Theater, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 9 pm. $18. 21+.
Death Crisis, Quiet Dawn, Colonix, Weird Fear
[HARDCORE HUMOR] I fell for the lovably dain-bramaged Death Crisis before hearing a single distorted chord. The San Diego quintet’s 2009 7-inch sports ludicrously perfect punk packaging: The front cover features an impossible church-tank hybrid decorated with skulls—Profane Existence by way of RoboGeisha—while the back cover gets the name of one of the most famous people in the world dead wrong (“Sadam is Dead”). Death Crisis is in on the joke, I think—see D-beat parody “El Masturbador”— but it also takes ’80s hardcore seriously enough to serve up legitimately rousing short-fast-loud anthems along with the laughs. CHRIS STAMM. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.
THURSDAY, OCT. 20 Katie Herzig, Butterfly Boucher
[DREAM POP] After spending a decade fronting Colorado folk-bluegrass project Newcomers Home and recording a pair of sprightly solo albums that best reflect her adopted Nashville digs—and winning a Grammy for her part co-writing a Best Country Performance in the meantime—Katie Herzig has finally embraced a pure pop sensibility long hinted at in her work. Layering electronica beneath acoustic strums, vocals veering from playful to ethereal, new release Waking Sleep seems tailor-made to soundtrack CW teen-soap fever dreams. JAY HORTON. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 8:30 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
E-40, Baby Bash, Erok and Mayo
[CALI RAP] Bay Area legend E-40 is a renaissance man: He’s an innovator of slang (fo’ shizzle), tycoon of the California fast-food industry (Fat Burger) and a two-decadeplus veteran of the rap game (over 3 million sold). He wears a pig made of gold around his neck, and his flow—an off-kilter grunt that somehow sounds smooth—is one of the most unique in hip-hop. On top of all that, he’s been one of the most consistent MCs of the past 20 years, releasing a steady stream of creative, gusto-filled street rap. Recently, 40 extended his legacy with Revenue Retrievin’—a four-part series that,
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Q&A: JOHN DOE
THE EX-X FRONTMAN WAXES ON WRITING WHILE HAPPY, LOS ANGELES AND FERRETS BY MATTHEW SIN GER
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After using the city as a backdrop for tales of urban love and hate with legendary punks X—which, for a four-album stretch between 1980 and 1983, was the greatest band in America—John Doe, like the protagonist in the band’s signature song, had to get out. He fled L.A. in the early ’90s, around the time he began using his warm tenor to more directly explore the country and blues his old group folded so deftly into its blistering punk clamor. “You have to go where you’re inspired,” says Doe, 57, who was born in central Illinois and now lives in Northern California. “Los Angeles was oftentimes like living inside a giant boombox. What attracted me originally is that it was the heart of the beast. It was the most disposable, the most fastpaced and most anonymous kind of city you could move to. After that’s not inspiring, you have to find someplace else.” These days, Doe (born John Duchac) finds inspiration in serenity. Keeper, his ninth solo album, is a collection of moonlit ballads and honky-tonk dust-ups, tied together by a newfound sense of satisfaction—a feeling that, as Doe explains, took some effort to get his head around. WW: The music you played with X was so evocative of L.A. itself. How important are location and environment in your solo work? John Doe: They’re critical. You need different influences and different environments, different spaces, and you always have to be true to yourself and write about what you’re involved in. I think it’s important for me to be honest and straightforward, and that’s why working on this last record was kind of a challenge, because I didn’t have the usual loss and longing and unhappiness to draw on for inspiration. At some point, you have to figure out how you’re going to write a song that isn’t bland when you’re feeling satisfied and as though things have turned around and you’re happy. This is what I ended up with, and I think it’s pretty good.
What was your solution, then? It’s the difference between being an extrovert onstage for X and having more internal dialogue or internal fire—as if you’re acting in a film—to deliver a song with an acoustic guitar. With that sort of performance, with a quieter song or a more intimate song, you don’t have the power and bombast you do with a rock band. So you have to figure out where the tension is. Where are the images that aren’t necessarily unhappy or dark? You can have good images that are positive and rewarding and make you feel other emotions. It seems like a big theme on this album is reflection. Would you say the record is nostalgic? I would say it’s trying to be more timeless. The song “Giant Step Backward,” the time it’s set in seems to be the 1930s, for some reason, because
“I DIDN’T HAVE THE USUAL LOSS AND LONGING AND UNHAPPINESS TO DRAW ON.” I mention a factory, and the song “Sweetheart,” even though it’s very current, seems to be set in the days of the horse and carriage or something. When you’re writing the songs, they start to take on these shapes, and you have to go with it and let them be what they want. I can’t tell if the song “Never Enough” is about hoarders or the greed inherent in capitalism. I’ve seen a lot of people who are hoarders, and it’s kind of sad but almost comical. Well, it’s not comical, it’s just weird. It’s also about extremism. It’s about people having these ideas, these belief systems—whether it’s religion or capitalism—where they get their head all full of smoke and then they decide, this is the enemy, and they want to blow up stuff. There’s no reasoning with people. You have 50 ferrets in your basement? That’s not right, but you couldn’t reason with a person like that and say, “C’mon, you have 50 ferrets in your fucking basement!” It’s that thing about trying to fill the void. I understand, but it’s a shame that people don’t realize satisfaction comes from within. SEE IT: John Doe plays Dante’s on Saturday, Oct. 22. 9:30 pm. $14 advance, $16 day of show. 21+. Willamette Week OCTOBER 19, 2011 wweek.com
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BLACKALICIOUS FRIDAY, OCT. 21 [NEW CLASSIC HIP-HOP] In 2002, Sacramento’s Blackalicious had it all: The duo was at the helm of a West Coast underground hip-hop scene just as explosive as the East Coast had been a decade prior. “We were living our dream at that time,” says Blackalicious’ MC, Gift of Gab. “We were on a big label [Quannum Projects, home of DJ Shadow and Lyrics Born], we had an album that everybody embraced. It just took us to another level creatively.” A decade can change things. Gab and his producer/DJ, Chief Xcel, followed their critically acclaimed breakout Blazing Arrow with a sonically ambitious—and underrated—album called The Craft for the Anti- label in 2005 before spending six years on solo ventures and other projects. As Blackalicious moved to the back burner, various major-label signings and side projects diluted the perception that Quannum—the most respected label in West Coast underground hip-hop—was one big happy family. Looks can be deceiving. “I feel like we’re strong and we’re united,” Gab says of his labelmates. “These are guys that I grew up with, this is family. We’re not kids anymore, but we’re always family.” The year to come is going to feel a bit like a family reunion. Gab is prepping a new solo record for Quannum early next year. Label staple Lateef has a new Quannum disc coming out Nov. 8. Portland’s Lifesavas are recording their own Quannum release. And Blackalicious—which will visit Portland alongside longtime collaborator Lyrics Born—plans to release a new disc late next year. “We work when we feel like it’s best to work—and now we’re back in that season,” Xcel says of the group’s six-year recording hiatus. Not that the downtime is a big deal for the West Coast veterans, who met 25 years ago in their Sacramento high school before developing Gab’s scientific flow and Xcel’s exotic, crisp beats. Besides, for Blackalicious, business has always come second to art. “Where we grew up there wasn’t any industry at all. We only knew one person that had a record deal, and they only had a deal for a 12-inch at the time,” Chief Xcel says. “It wasn’t until well into our career that we had any contact with the music business, and it gave us a very unjaded perspective on things. We were being influenced by records from everywhere without knowing any of the personalities that made those records. We just knew the music.” “It gave us the chance to be fans first,” Gift of Gab adds. That unbridled enthusiasm for hip-hop culture, along with the duo’s tight friendship, lent even Blackalicious’ earliest recordings a sense of friendly competition between MC and producer. From the playful sparring between beats and rhymes on the A to G EP to the hip-hoperas on The Craft, this group—with its members now entering their 40s—has evolved gracefully, a unique trait in a genre where artists rarely age well. “I don’t believe the age myths anymore,” Gab says. “You don’t have to stop or slow down or lose your creativity, as long as you honor your craft. It’s a gift, why not use it?” “I always wanted to keep the mindset of a student, because there’s always something new to learn,” Xcel adds. “To me, that’s the recipe for never falling off.” CASEY JARMAN. Gift of Gab and Chief Xcel met as students. Students they remain.
SEE IT: Blackalicious plays Refuge PDX (116 SE Yamhill St.) on Friday, Oct. 21, with Freestyle Fellowship, Doo Doo Funk AllStars, MyG and Serge Severe. 8 pm. $20. 21+. Willamette Week OCTOBER 19, 2011 wweek.com
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despite its overwhelming size, was exceptionally balanced. Baby Bash, hip-hop’s go-to purveyor of guilty-pleasure hits (“Suga Suga,” “Cyclone,” “Baby, I’m Back”), opens things up. REED JACKSON. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $28.50. All ages.
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Chicharones, 2Mex, Mine & Us, DJ Hoppa
[RAP RADICAL] 2Mex, who once described himself in rhyme as “your favorite gangster MC’s nongangster MC,” has quietly progressed from a cult-favorite lo-fi rapper to a cutting-edge songsmith who consistently turns out some of the best hip-hop on the West Coast. From production to storytelling to nuts and bolts MCing, his 2010 effort, My Fanbase Will Destroy You, which features cameos from Murs, Busdriver and Prince Po, among other guests—is one of the smartest, most satisfying genre-bending hip-hop discs in recent memory, and his live shows are breathless and often hilarious. Why hasn’t 2Mex’s profile shot up alongside his skill level? Maybe the occasional piercing scream scares people? Maybe he should cut down on the references to Oprah’s vagina? Oh, who cares? Come show 2Mex some love as he opens for Portland’s most fun live band, the Chicharones. CASEY JARMAN. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 2266630. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
82nd & Heartache, The Gams, Carnabetian Army
[HONKY-TONK] If 82nd & Heartache were a real intersection, it would be a desolate one indeed. There would be, like, a Taco Bell there and not much else. The Portland country tribute band that goes by the name plays music to match: rural tales of small-town sorrow and unhealthy drinking behavior to put a tear in your beer. Covering honky-tonk tunes by genre greats like Loretta Lynn and Hank Williams, 82nd & Heartache is hardly breaking the mold, but what the band does, it does well. When you find yourself at those lonesome crossroads, the group’s rendition of Merle Haggard’s “The Bottle Let Me Down” should provide your misery the necessary company. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Kenton Club, 2025 N Kilpatrick St., 285-3718. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
Freak Mountain Ramblers, Fernando, Lewi Longmire, DJ Zia, Bingo and more
[HEALTH BENEFIT] Another week, another member of Portland’s music community struggling with serious illness. In this case, it’s not a performer, but a supporter and friend, Eduardo Chavarria, who was struck this summer by a viral cardiac infection causing three heart attacks and three heart surgeries. Chavarria is a bio-energetic therapist and counselor who’s worked with and befriended many musicians in Portland and beyond. Tonight’s family-friendly event will help the healer to heal himself, and also offer attendees healthrelated information and support. Performers include many familiar faces from the Portland music scene, and also recent Portlandvia-Alaska transplant Naomi Hooley, performing with the skillful Rob Stroup. Plus, a visit from Planet Dandys in the form of DJ Zia (McCabe). JEFF ROSENBERG. North Star Ballroom, 635 N Killingsworth Court, 240-6088. 5-11 pm. $10-$30 individuals, $20-$40 families. All ages.
Lord Dying, Hazzard’s Cure, Ubik, Winter in the Blood, DJ Just Dave
[INDOMITABLE RIFFAGE] I could not escape the specter of Lord Dying at this year’s MusicfestNW.
Seemingly every other person with metal predilections was wearing a Lord Dying shirt on that lost weekend. Now, having heard this Portland behemoth’s debut 7-inch, I understand what the merch madness is all about: “In a Frightful State of Gnawed Dismemberment,” in addition to being one of the most awesomely titled songs of the year, is a masterclass in sonic pummeling. Someone needs to figure out how to frame the fierce riff that kicks in during the song’s second minute; it belongs in a museum, right next to “Raining Blood.” Yep. Lord Dying is that good. Buy me a shirt. CHRIS STAMM. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.
SATURDAY, OCT. 22 Fruit Bats, Parson Red Heads
[SOULFUL ROCK] Any successful artist should count his work in dog years, slowing down to reflect the stresses of touring, hours in the studio, fights with band members, and the ebb and flow of the music industry. But we’re on human time, so no matter how prolific Eric D. Johnson’s project the Fruit Bats is, it can only be considered a 10-year-old stint as a full band thus far. Through thick and thin (and band makeovers that have left Johnson the only original Fruit Bats member standing), Johnson has managed to create five albums’ worth of jangly river rock with stylistic similarities to Americana groups like Deertick and the Delta Saints. This summer, the pack—now a quintet stationed in Portland— released Tripper, a disc filled with experiments, from “Tony the Tripper,” a twangy, inspirational anthem about a paranoid homeless man Johnson met on a bus to “You’re Too Weird,” a buttery love song complete with a music video full of bad hair, ’80s suit jackets and chest fur. NIKKI VOLPICELLI. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $15. 21+.
Roxy Epoxy and the Rebound, Iceland
[DARK PUNK] When synth punks the Epoxies broke up in 2009— fading away rather than burning out, going from “indefinite hiatus” to indefinitely defunct— the Portland music scene got a little less fun. Band-Aids for Bullet Holes, the debut from singer Roxy Epoxy’s new band, the Rebound, released that same year, wasn’t a complete left turn away from her former outfit’s hopped-up power pop and garish sense of theatricality, but it did show how the band might have evolved. Epoxy is still enamored with the synthesizer but uses it to create darker textures, which cause Epoxy’s deep tenor to take on an almost Siouxsie Sioux quality. It’s probably better than the Epoxies, though it’s certainly not as joyful. Once you grow up, you can’t go back. MATTHEW SINGER. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 4738729. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.
SUNDAY, OCT. 23 Male Bonding
[DREAM POP] Endless Now, Male Bonding’s polished follow-up to the bristly Nothing Hurts, betrays barely a hint of the London trio’s rough-and-tumble background (two of these guys helped resuscitate No Wave in PRE), and that turns out to be a very good thing. Fully committed to beauty for the nonce, Male Bonding has made its masterpiece, an addictive collection of blissed-out, gently distressed pop that has me reaching back for the Breeders’ “Divine Hammer” to find something similarly pretty and thrilling. The droning and driving
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MUSIC ALBUM REVIEWS
TONY OZIER BEATSGALORE VOL. 1 (SELF-RELEASED) [READY TO FLOW] Tony Ozier, the de facto leader of the musical collective known as the Doo Doo Funk All-Stars, has already proven his multi-instrumental and songwriting mettle in the group’s regular jam sessions (known as Dookie Jams) and its album Keep the Funk Alive. To these ears, an all-instrumental mixtape cooked up by Ozier and his many compadres just seems like the next logical step in a steady progression toward sanctified glory. The spirit of this collection is as loose and spirited as the DooDoo Funk All Stars’ “Dookie Jams,” but honed to a fine point. There are no wasted notes here or discursive solos. These songs are fuss-free bumpers ready to slip into a DJ mix or find an MC ready to take them on. Without the frills, Ozier’s influences are allowed to fully float to the surface of this set. He evokes the spirit of Bernie Worrell and his peerless work as keyboardist for Funkadelic on the appropriately titled “The Nastyness” and on the straightforward, driving “The Funk.” With “Cutty Nashty,” Ozier dips into a fractured groove—almost dubstep, really—punctuated by samples of a gun being cocked and fired. What sustains this disc is a strong emotional core. Not only as expressed by the loving and often-goofy spoken-word interludes by some of Ozier’s admirers and collaborators (the Pharcyde’s SLIMKID3 and frequent Doo Doo Funk collaborator Yolanda Johnson among them), but through tracks written in honor of friends and family. Chief of these is “B,” a tribute to the late Barry Hampton, a guitarist with the All-Stars and longtime Portland player. Ozier doesn’t wallow in the loss, but elevates the joyous spirit of his friend through a stinging guitar line and a shuffling rhythm—the aforementioned heartfelt core is surrounded by a glitzy, mirrorballed shell meant to be hung from the rafters and illuminate the writhing bodies below. Beats Galore, indeed. ROBERT HAM.
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CLOUDY OCTOBER THE METAL JERK (FIELDWERK) [DEAR DIARY HIP-HOP] When people tell me they’re not really feeling the Portland hiphop scene, I point them to Cloudy October. The Portland MC resides at the corner of massive ego and crushing anxiety. He is painfully honest. He is the Woody Allen of rap. Case in point: “Hairline Fracture,” Cloudy’s ode to his own receding hairline. It takes a brave MC to tackle this subject, and the fact that October combines self-deprecating one-liners (“Suckas always telling me they’re gonna push my wig back/ Motherfucker Mother Nature just did that”) with a dancehall reggae beat on his new free-download record will only further endear him to his small but loyal local fanbase. Though Cloudy encourages fans to boo at his live shows, he’s not built on self-hatred. Elsewhere on The Metal Jerk, he’s the president of his own fan club. “Play” and “Live @ Pioneer Square” are packed with creative boasts (though I’m not sure “Style, simple and plain/ I got game/ Check out my emaciated frame” fully qualifies). And on “Name Yourself,” we start to sense the depth of self-awareness behind that sense of humor. “When I was born I was given a Eurocentric name/ When I got a little wiser I decided to change it,” he explains by way of biography. That partially explains Cloudy’s strange fit of a legal name, Kizzy Yokomura, but the lines to come tell us even more about the man behind the moniker. “And with this lust for learning I’m a real go-getter/ And I didn’t need religion or prison to know better.” Cloudy ends the album in true Woody Allen fashion (The Metal Jerk’s last words are, “He’s bigger than me. All over. He has a job and everything”). But between the searing beats—think Shabazz Palaces meets Dan the Automator—and the fascinating, revealing lyricism here, Cloudy really has nothing to be ashamed of. CASEY JARMAN. SEE IT: Tony Ozier’s Doo Doo Funk All-Stars play Refuge on Friday, Oct. 21, with Blackalicious and Freestyle Fellowship. 9 pm. $20. 21+. BeatsGalore Vol. 1 is out now. Cloudy October’s The Metal Jerk is out now as a free download at Fieldwerk.com.
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SUNDAY - TUESDAY “Bones,” which contains 2011’s most heartrending melody, should be on every sad sack’s crushedout mixtape come late fall. CHRIS STAMM. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
High Places, David Scott Stone, Purple & Green
[SLAVES TO THE RHYTHM] The Brooklyn-based duo High Places has finally moved into the final state of its evolution into a brilliant electronic pop act, having spent its first few years in psychedelia mode. With the release of its fourth LP, Original Colors, Rob Barber and Mary Pearson have finally fallen down the laptoplit rabbit hole. Pearson’s feathery vocals are painted in broad strokes atop a canvas of wavy beats and bubbling bits of melody and noise. The music tests the waters of full-on dubplate space-time, but is kept earthbound thanks to a weighty post-punk foundation. ROBERT HAM. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $10. 21+.
Mariachi el Bronx, Federale
[HIGH-NOON SONG] Daniele Luppi and Danger Mouse may have made the spaghetti-western genre cool again with the release of this year’s Rome, but Portland’s Federale has had the genre on lock for a while. The band, built of local talent such as Collin Hegna (the Brian Jonestown Massacre) and Sebastian Bibb-Barrett (the Builders and the Butchers), weaves high-country tumbleweed-friendly whistling and hollering with triumphant mariachi instrumentation. Better yet, it’s all made up and set to a film that only exists in the band’s collective psyche. Stick around for the Bronx’s spinoff act, Mariachi el Bronx, a jumpy L.A. act that can surely handle the torch Federale lights for it. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
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MONDAY, OCT. 24 Tyler Ramsey
[LONE HORSEMAN] Many credit financial success for Band of Horses’ move toward a softer, safer sound. One could just as easily credit guitarist Tyler Ramsey, who joined in 2007, bringing with him the breezy, plaintive country plucking that glows like an ember on all three of his solo records. The Valley Wind is his latest, a slow-burning allotment of soft Americana further tenderized by the singer-songwriter’s own shivering, ragged, Neil Young-like voice. The alternating vastness, rockiness and serene solitude Ramsey evokes is a musical adaptation of the landscape of the American Southwest. MARK STOCK. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 8 pm. $10. 21+.
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Warren Haynes Band
[SOUTHERN ROCK] One wonders when Southern rock guitar god Warren Haynes sleeps. In his endless touring schedule, the stout, fleet-fingered axman plays with everybody from the Dead to Govt Mule and the Allman Brothers. Thing is, you don’t take up Duane Allman’s mantle by resting. This time around, the guitarist-somnambulist is touring with his own Warren Haynes Band in support of May’s Man in Motion, the second studio effort to bear his band’s name. Expect everything that makes Haynes a living legend— gentle guitar lullabies, extended improvisation and some of the hardest-hitting Southern rock mayhem available on any stage— from this show. AP KRYZA. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 2250047. 9 pm. $25. All ages.
Maria Taylor, Big Harp, Dead Fingers [SADDLE CREEK SONGSTRESS] Singer-songwriter Maria Taylor is best known as one half of dreampop duo Azure Ray, a flagship act of the Omaha record label/ music institution Saddle Creek. The Birmingham, Ala.-based musician (who has also sung with Bright Eyes) embarked on a solo
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Wednesday 19th Jamaican reggae legend KING YELLOWMAN W/JAGGA CULTURE 9pm, 21+ w/ID
Thursday 20th Funky Portland legends HEAVY BROTHERS 9pm, 21+ w/ID
Saturday 22nd ALL AGES MATINEE SHOW! Boys Without Toy, Mourning Bedhead, Kittin 3pm FRIENDS CIRCLE HALLOWEEN PARTY 8pm, 21+ w/ID IN THE SIDESHOW LOUNGE Portland’s own reunited! THE DICERS 9pm, 21+ w/ID
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Why you care: We wouldn’t have a modern electronic music scene if it weren’t for the work of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and his contemporaries and compatriots. The former child actor combined his loves of modern art, electronics and psychedelics in the ’60s to help create mind-blowing experimental recordings with his groups Cluster and Harmonia, as well as his jazz trio Aquarello. You can follow the thread of influence from his work to artists like Brian Eno, Aphex Twin and Oneohtrix Point Never. What keeps him vital to the modern scene is his willingness to play and experiment with like-minded musicians, a quality that has left an enormous and almost always inspiring discography in his wake. SEE IT: Hans-Joachim Roedelius plays the Mount Tabor Theater on Sunday, Oct. 23. 8 pm. $10. 21+. Willamette Week OCTOBER 19, 2011 wweek.com
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FROM SEATTLE, WITH LOVE: The Head and the Heart plays Crystal Ballroom on Wednesday. career while Azure Ray was on hiatus for much of the aughts, and has released four records under her own name. Her latest, Overlook, bears Saddle Creek’s indie-country brand, but ventures into rock-ier territory on tracks like “Matador,” which features a flailing guitar breakdown. Other songs, such as album denouement “Happenstance,” remind of Azure Ray’s wistfulness, and it’s on these sad, sparse numbers that Taylor’s at her best. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
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[CLASSIC-ROCK REWIND] Following the example of Peter Frampton and, well, pretty much any geriatric rocker who crafted a certified classic, Who frontman Roger Daltrey is bringing his immortal “YEAAAAAAH!” for a performance of the 1969 opus Tommy. But with half the Who in the ground and Pete Townshend hopefully self-flagellating for “Let My Love Open the Door,” it seems a tad ridiculous to shell out more than $50 (fun fact: VIP meetand-greets are classified into “emerald-,” “sapphire-” and “diamond-level” packages) to hear Daltrey’s aging voice scream out “Pinball Wizard.” It’s much more satisfactory to listen to Tommy the way it was intended to be heard: with a doobie and some big-ass headphones cranked up to 11. AP KRYZA. Rose Garden, 1401 N Wheeler Ave., 235-8771. 7:30 pm. $51-$116.50. All ages.
TUESDAY, OCT. 25 War on Drugs, Purling Hiss, Carter Tanton
[ATMOSPHERIC ROCK] The War On Drugs probably wasn’t intended as a one-man-band. Though frontman Adam Granduciel has always been responsible for the lion’s share of musical duties—playing guitar, drums, organ and harmonica along with singing on the band’s exciting 2008 full-length debut, Wagonwheel Blues—he started out with a pretty solid supporting cast that included multi-instrumentalist Kurt Vile, who has gone on to capture plenty of hearts and minds as a singer-songwriter. But after showing his breadth on the 2010 ambient/shoegaze/americana/pop EP Future Weather, Granduciel proved the War On Drugs’ magic was largely his own. This year’s Slave Ambient is a lush, ambitious sonic journey that tips its hat to My Bloody Valentine and Tom Petty in equal measure. CASEY JARMAN. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 8949708. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
The Felice Brothers, Gill Landry of Old Crow Medicine Show
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not quite the roots opera their fans may have been expecting, Celebration Florida—the seventh album from the Felice Brothers, which draws its name from the Disney Company’s rigorously overplanned community—hews close to the thematic boundaries of tastefully manicured exurban despair. It’s with the music, an unprecedented foray toward experimentalism, that the depths of the Woodstock indie folkies’ ambitions are realized, and the resultant genre-bending collage (plaintive mandolin blues sharing space with found-sound industrial) sparks a sonic equivalent to the stylings of one of its track-title namesakes, “Oliver Stone.” JAY HORTON. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $16. 21+.
Hello Electric, Sons of Huns, Steaming Satellites, Turbo Perfecto
[ECLECTIC COMPANY] Hello Electric leads this deliciously diverse bill, and the trio is here to celebrate the release of a new EP that finds the band adding some particularly interesting shades to its already colorful palette. On it, the three-piece slips a variety of programmed sounds into its emotive art rock, allowing it to give texture and weight to what might otherwise have floated free into the stratosphere. Another recommendation: Be there when the doors open so that you’ll catch Turbo Perfecto, a side project of the Builders and the Butchers’ Harvey Tumbleson that finds him eschewing punk folk for straightup prog metal. ROBERT HAM. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. Free. 21+.
The Javon Jackson Band with Jimmy Cobb, Mulgrew Miller and Peter Washington
[’TRANE TIME] PDX Jazz and Jimmy Mak’s all-star tribute to legendary improviser and composer John Coltrane features some of the tenor and soprano sax star’s finest classics, like “Impressions,” “Giant Steps” and “Naima.” Tenorman Javon Jackson and pianist Mulgrew Miller starred in jazz’s greatest finishing school, Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, in the 1980s, and both have since fashioned distinguished careers as leaders. Jimmy Cobb drummed on jazz’s greatest record, Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue, but was overshadowed by the spectacular drummers who preceded (Philly Joe Jones) and followed (Tony Williams) his tenure with Davis, after which he backed up many of jazz’s stars of the 1960s and ’70s. Bassist Nat Reeves has graced the ensembles of Kenny Garrett, Jackie McLean and more. An all-star cast to honor one of jazz’s greatest allstars. BRETT CAMPBELL. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 8 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. 21+.
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Afrique Bistro
102 NE Russell St. The Javier Nero Quintet
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Otis Heat
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Jim Page, Teresa Tudury, Anne Weiss, Sky in the Road, Joanne Rand, Tom May, Caroline Aiken
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Open Mic
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Bad Rabbit, Chapter’s End, Broken
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. A Gentlemen’s Picnic, Delayed Relay, New Century Schoolbook
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Lowell John Mitchell and The Triplets of BeaterVille
Biddy McGraw’s
626 SW Park Ave. Andre Bush & Bill Athens
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Weekly Jazz Jam
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. The Head and the Heart
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Muddy River Nightmare Band, The Decliners, Minty Rosa
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam (9:30 pm); High Flyer Trio (6 pm)
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Sisters of the Midnight
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Bottleneck, Twisted Whistle
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Blood on the Dance Floor, Angelspit, New Years Day, So Good, Ask You in Gray
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St.
The Woods
6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. Jeffrey Foucault, Shelley Short
Event 1: Alex Fitch, Pieter Hilton, Luz Elena Mendoza, Mike Kitson, Dan Hunt, Jason Leonard; Jeff Brodsky, John Gnorski; Cyrus Lampton, Elec Morin, Eric Stipe, Clayton Knapp; Nora Zimmerly; DJ Snakks
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Cronin Teirney
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. The Small Arms, Sorta Ultra, The Dunbar Number
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Bingo Dream Band (9 pm); Black Prairie (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Michael Dean Damron
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Billy D
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Bitterroot
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave.
Stephen Ashbrook, Sam Densmore
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Yellowman
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Sleepy Eyed Johns
O’Connors
7850 SW Capitol Highway Kit Garoutte
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Billy Kennedy
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Open Mic with Go Fuck Yerself
Rose Garden
1401 N Wheeler Ave. Journey, Foreigner, Night Ranger
Someday Lounge
71 SW 2nd Ave. Kent Smith
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Sinatrafest: Dan Murphy with Bo Ayars
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Nancy King
1314 NW Glisan St. Matices
Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. Dina & Bamba Y Su Pilon D’Azucar with La Descarga Cubana
Artichoke Community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Songwriters Roundup
Backspace
Vie de Boheme
Beaterville Cafe
White Eagle Saloon
Biddy McGraw’s
8700 SW Sweek Drive Kevin Burke 1530 SE 7th Ave. Chuck Israels Orchestra 836 N Russell St. Don Juan! Peligroso!
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Trio
Yukon Tavern
5819 SE Milwaukie Ave. Open Mic
THUR. OCT. 20
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar
Aladdin Theater
2026 NE Alberta St.
Andina
115 NW 5th Ave. Chris Blair, Travis Peterson, Kaia, Kent Anderson
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
The Know
1036 NE Alberta St. April Verch Band
Tualatin Heritage Center
125 NW 5th Ave. The We Shared Milk, Log Across The Washer, Jesse Hughey, Charts
1001 SW Broadway Shirley Nanette
Alberta Street Public House
303 SW 12th Ave. Otis Heat
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Robben Ford, Campbell Brothers
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. AJ Croce
2201 N Killingsworth St. Loose Change Trio 6000 NE Glisan St. Biddy’s Open Bluegrass Jam (9:30); Nicole Campbell
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. John “JB” Butler & Al Craido
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Roxi Copland
Chapel Pub
430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Root Jack, Boom Chick, Woodbrain
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Katie Herzig, Butterfly Boucher
ADAM KRUEGER
6000 NE Glisan St. Half-Step Shy
Brasserie Montmartre
Death Crisis, Quiet Dawn, Colonix, Weird Fear, DJ Smooth Hopperator
Thirsty Lion
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WED. OCT. 19
[OCT. 19 - 25] Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. David Landon Band (9 pm); Lovepyle (6 pm)
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place The Hugs, Adventure Galley, Wires
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Scott Law Reunion Band; Erskine, Fulero and Kleiner
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Potluck, Glasses Malone, Mistah Fab, SunSpot Jonz, J Hornay
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Swahili, Billions And Billions, Jewelry Rash
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown B3 Organ Group
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Cronin Teirney
Kelly’s Olympian
3350 SE Morrison St. Open Mic
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. 1939 Ensemble, Big Mono, Larry Yes
The Woods
6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. Anne Adams (Entertainment For People variety show)
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Merrill Lite
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Woolen Men, Lantern, White Fang
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Sinatrafest: Pete Petersen Septet with Johnny Martin
Touché Restaurant and Billiards
1425 NW Glisan St. He Said, She Said Quartet
Trail’s End Saloon
426 SW Washington St. Rate of Rise, CC Swim
1320 Main St., Oregon City Rae Gordon
Kennedy School
Twilight Café and Bar
Kenton Club
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
5736 NE 33rd Ave. Bingo Dream Band 2025 N Kilpatrick St. Disco Doom, Scared Crow
1420 SE Powell Blvd. JAMF
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Kelsey Lindstrom
LaurelThirst
White Eagle Saloon
Lewis & Clark College, Agnes Flanagan Chapel
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar
2958 NE Glisan St. Bad Mitten Orchestre, Dear Rabbit (9:30 pm); Casey Neill (6 pm)
0615 SW Palatine Hill Road James W. Rogers Concert
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale John Bunzow
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Tara Williamson Quartet (9 pm); Mo Phillips with Johnny & Jason (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Shelby Lynne
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. David Brothers
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Heavy Brothers
836 N Russell St. Strangled Darlings, Ken Hanson Band (8:30 pm); Tanner Cundy (5:30 pm) 800 NW 6th Ave. Randy Porter Trio
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. The Hold Steady, Morning Teleportation
FRI. OCT. 21 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Otis Heat (7 pm); Poison Waters (5:30 pm)
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. After (9:30 pm); Mikey’s Irish Jam (6:30 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Belinda Underwood
Artichoke Community Music
Original Halibut’s II
3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Friday Night Coffeehouse
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
Ash Street Saloon
Plew’s Brews
Backspace
2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb
2314 SE Division St. Andrew Orr, Jen Howard 8409 N Lombard St. Sockeye Sawtooth, Phillip Bryce
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Wild Dogs, Dr. Mastermind, Ace of Spades
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. E-40, Baby Bash, Erok and Mayo
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. St Johns Songwriter Showcase
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones Jam
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar
I DON’T BUMP MAINSTREAM, I KNOCK UNDERGROUND: E-40 plays Roseland on Thursday.
The Hobnob Grille
1001 SW Broadway Johnny Martin
225 SW Ash St. Maiden N.W., Lovedrive, Sabbath Dio Sabbath 115 NW 5th Ave. Ocean Grove, Voxhaul Broadcast, Robert Schwartzman
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Massey Ferguson (9:30 pm); Bill Kennedy and Jim Boyer (6 pm)
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Across the Sun, Sisyphean Conscience, A Blinding Silence, Betrayed By Weakness, Alpha Fixation
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Al Craido & Tablao
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Trio Flux
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The Lovecraft
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421 SE Grand Ave. Erik Anarchy, Effword, Los Other Phux, Mentas Ajenas
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Sugarcookie
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Stolen Rose, Lexxi Vexx, Therapist
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Capsula, Whalebones, Thebrotheregg
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Devin Phillips Quartet
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Mike Winkle Quartet
Trail’s End Saloon
GENERIC SLAB: Walk the blocks around the new Quimby’s at 19th (1502 NW 19th Ave., 222-3416; quimbysat19th.com) and you’ll see signs this geographically desirable but obstinately industrial Northwest ’hood is evolving. Orange-vested surveyors are casing warehouses, and an advance guard is hosting a sparsely attended running event. For Slabtown to embrace its fate of shiny, mixeduse development, it will need proper bars. And thus, Quimby’s. This nondescript spot across from a rubber company has seven taps, middle-shelf bourbon and comfy booths. The twist? Food carts in the back lot, which supplement the bar’s pizza-centric menu. Grab kraut or brisket before sinking into a chair behind the glowing Video Lottery machine. Quimby’s used to be called Cheers. Service is early-episode Diane; expect Frasier Crane sometime in season 3. MARTIN CIZMAR.
1320 Main St., Oregon City Junkyard Jane
Twilight Café and Bar
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Irie Idea, Bubble Cats, No More Parachutes, Mongrel City
Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Laura Ivancie
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Lloyd Jones
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Just Lions, Deepest Darkest, The Ravishers (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Norman Sylvester
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Chicharones, 2Mex, Mine & Us, DJ Hoppa
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. The Prids, Deathchange, Queued Up
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Linda Hornbuckle (9 pm); Honey and the Hamdogs (6 pm)
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Sick Jaggers, Cenobites, Weapon
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Mongoose Thompson, Glassbones, Little Volcano, A Happy Death
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Fractal, Jamie Kent Band (9:30 pm); Alice Stuart (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Pilar French
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Will West & the Friendly Strangers
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Melao d’Cuba (9 pm); Jackalope Saints (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Blouse, Vice Device, Hausu
Mock Crest Tavern
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
3435 N Lombard St. HiFi MoJo
Hawthorne Theatre
8105 SE 7th Ave. Mike Brosnan
1503 SE 39th Ave. Ninjas with Syringes
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Passafire, Tatanka, Medium Troy
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Eddie Martinez Band
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Pass the Whiskey
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Egg Plant, Funnel: A Rock Legend, Foolproof Four
Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Ave. The Radical Revolution (’80s homecoming dance)
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. 82nd & Heartache, The Gams, Carnabetian Army
Laughing Horse Books 12 NE 10th Ave. Morrow, ANNE, Sun Drugs
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Muddy Rudder Public House
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Whispering Pines
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Traditional Hawaiian Music
North Star Ballroom
635 N Killingsworth Court Freak Mountain Ramblers, Fernando, Lewi Longmire, DJ Zia, Bingo, Janet Julien, Rob Stroup & Naomi Hooley (community health benefit)
Original Halibut’s II
2527 NE Alberta St. Steve Kerin, Jim Wallace
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Lynn Conover
Peter’s Room 8 NW 6th Ave.
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Pints Brewing Company
412 NW 5th Ave. Zay Harrison (9 pm); Hilary Negus (7 pm)
Plew’s Brews
8409 N Lombard St. The Bottlecap Boys
Proper Eats Market and Cafe 8638 N Lombard St. Stumptown Jug Thumpers
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Mormon Trannys, S.F.A., Reanimated, Go Ballistic, Chase the Shakes, Bastardmaker, T.O.A.S.T
Refuge
116 SE Yamhill St. Blackalicious, Freestyle Fellowship, Doo Doo Funk All-Stars, MyG, Serge Severe
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Primary Colors, Joey Casio, Prescription Pills, DJ Copy, DJ BJ
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Dead Farmers, VAJ, Red Hex, Apache Chief
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
8635 N Lombard St. Hip Deep Soul Revue
Ted’s (at Berbati’s) 231 SW Ankeny St. Zach Deputy
The Foggy Notion
3416 N Lombard St. The Commons, Rayliotta, Jesus and Mary Jane
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Bobby Torres
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Lord Dying, Hazzard’s Cure, Ubik, Winter in the Blood, DJ Just Dave
Plew’s Brews
Andina
Dante’s
Press Club
Ash Street Saloon
350 W Burnside St. Edgar Allan Poseurs
Domenic’s Sports Bar 16065 SE McLoughlin Blvd. The Norman Sylvester Band, Papa Dynamite & the Jive, Return Flight, The Sinners Club
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Fruit Bats, Parson Red Heads
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Radio Giants
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Danny Barnes, Fruition
Hawthorne Hophouse 4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Bitterroot
Hawthorne Theatre
1517 NE Brazee St. Kelsey Morris
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Otis Heat
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Typhoon (Live Wire! live radio-show taping)
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Effword, Tonality Star (9:30 pm); Roem Baur (6:30 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Poison Idea, The Insurgence, Embrace the Kill, Mill’s Lane
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Kim Boekbinder, Myrrh Larsen
Beaterville Cafe
1001 SE Morrison St. 8 1/2 DJs: Beyondadoubt, Cooky Parker, New Dadz, Cuica, Sgt. Forkner, Womb Service, Pretty Ugly, A-Train
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Patrick Lamb Band
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Pass the Whiskey
Kelly’s Olympian
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Pataha Hiss, The Denizenz, Hairspray Blues
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Petty Cash, Becky Kappelle (9:30 pm); I Wobble Wobble (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale JP and the OK Rhythm Boys
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Jettison Bend
Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan St. Ryan Montbleau Band, Jason Spooner
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. The River Empires, True Margrit, Dream Cannon (9 pm); Level 2 Music (6 pm); Shoehorn Kids Show (4 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Celilo, The Maldives, Drunken Prayer, Ed & the Red Reds
Mock Crest Tavern
2201 N Killingsworth St. Steve Rodin & Tony Lahaina
3435 N Lombard St. The Adequates
Biddy McGraw’s
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Boys Without Toys (concert hall); The Dicers (Sideshow Lounge)
6000 NE Glisan St. Lynn Conover and Gravel (9:30 pm); Twisted Whistle (6 pm)
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Jamie Stillway Trio (9 pm); Al Craido & Tablao (5:30 pm)
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Toque Libre
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. ON-Q Band
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St.
2530 NE 82nd Ave. 7 Reasons, Lacero, Simooms, Death Valley High, The Movie, The Father
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. DJ Mikey Oh!, The Longshots, The Sentiments, The Middleage Ska Enjoy Club
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. The Sale
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Amanda Richards, Mini Marilyn Manson (Zombie Walk show)
3341 SE Belmont St. Philly’s Phunkestra
Kenton Club
15th Avenue Hophouse
Red Room
Holocene
Wonder Ballroom
SAT. OCT. 22
2621 SE Clinton St. Shicky Gnarowitz, The Old Yellers
Star Theater
426 SW Washington St. IOA, Snake Rattle Rattle Snake, Glass Knees
128 NE Russell St. The Show with Seezin’
8409 N Lombard St. The Executives
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Bayside, Saves The Day, I Am The Avalanche, Transit
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Alyssa Schwary Trio
Clyde’s Prime Rib
John Doe & His Rockin’ Band, Dead Rock West, Paula Sinclair
Mount Tabor Theater
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Cafe Cowboys
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Traditional Hawaiian Music
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Jim Wallace
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. The Heevees, World’s Finest, Autry! (Fake movie-trailer competition)
13 NW 6th Ave. Zombies & Monsters
The Blue Monk
The Foggy Notion
3416 N Lombard St. Hillhouse, Curious Hands, Autonomics
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Linda Lee Michelet
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Roxy Epoxy and the Rebound, Iceland
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave. Stephanie Schneiderman, Roxy Consort Choir, 45th Parallel String Quartet, Keith Schreiner, Tony Furtado, Hanz Araki (Rock and Roll Camp for Girls benefit)
The Woods
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero 225 SW Ash St. 42 Ford Prefect, Holley 750, First Issues
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Andrew’s Ave.
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Male Bonding
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Sinatrafest: Tony Starlight & Tony Moretti
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Kelley Shannon Trio
Trail’s End Saloon
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Vandervelde, The Fling
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Shareef Ali
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Miyavi
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. High Places, David Scott Stone, Purple & Green
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Danny O
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. De La Warr, Ugly Flowers, Car Waiting
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Billy Kennedy & Tim Acott (9:30 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Dan O’Sullivan
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Colleen Raney 3552 N Mississippi Ave. Hungry, Hungry Hip-Hop (9 pm); The Satisfied Minds (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Xambuca
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music
3158 E Burnside St. Matt Nathanson
Vie de Boheme
Rontoms
1530 SE 7th Ave. Belinda Underwood
600 E Burnside St. Rocky & The Proms
White Eagle Saloon
Tabor Heights United Methodist Church
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. Jon Koonce, Albert Reda
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. The Green, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, Chris Boomer
MON. OCT. 24 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Jon Koonce, Joshua English
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Take Three Girls
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Open Mic
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Battery-Powered Music
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Mike D.
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Eric John Kaiser with Todd Bayles
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Tyler Ramsey (of Band of Horses)
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. Warren Haynes Band
Duff’s Garage
5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic
SUN. OCT. 23
836 N Russell St. Open Mic/Songwriter Showcase
Mount Tabor Theater
NEPO 42
128 NE Russell St. Ronnie Laws
232 SW Ankeny St. Team Evil, Pluvial, Same Same
Dante’s
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Aethyrium, Sarcalogos
Wonder Ballroom
1314 NW Glisan St. Jessie Marquez
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Mariachi el Bronx, Federale
Twilight Café and Bar
800 NW 6th Ave. David Friesen Trio
18 NW 3rd Ave. Primary Colors, Vice Device DJs
White Eagle Saloon
350 W Burnside St. That 1 Guy
1320 Main St., Oregon City Big Al with Robbie Laws
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar
Tube
Dante’s
Music Millennium
836 N Russell St. Lewi Longmire Band, Bingo Band, Whispering Pines (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)
1320 Main St., Oregon City Gordon Hermanson
Valentine’s
1332 W Burnside St. Matt Nathanson, Scars on 45
Mississippi Pizza
Tony Starlight’s
Trail’s End Saloon
Crystal Ballroom
Thirsty Lion
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Pigs On The Wing (Pink Floyd tribute), Stairway Denied (Led Zeppelin tribute)
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Piano Bar with Bo Ayars
Tupai at Andina
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
Tonic Lounge
Tony Starlight’s
Clyde’s Prime Rib
6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. The We Shared Milk; School of Rock (performance of Radiohead’s “OK Computer”) 71 SW 2nd Ave. Christie and the Kings
Jizz Wisard, Glitter Express, K-Tel ‘79
6161 SE Stark St. Christopher Nordwall (Nosferatu screening with live organ score)
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Retta Christie, Dave Frishberg, Dave Evans
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Heavy Voodoo
350 W Burnside St. Tony Green 1635 SE 7th Ave. Suzie and the Sidecars
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Northeast Northwest
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Dan Balmer
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Danny O
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. David Gerow, Twisted Whistle
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens (9 pm); Portland Country Underground (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Skip vonKuske with Kjersten Pixton
Tillicum Club
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Johnny Martin
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Bob Shoemaker
Tonic Lounge
Mississippi Pizza
3100 NE Sandy Blvd.
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mr. Ben
CALENDAR Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Maria Taylor, Big Harp, Dead Fingers
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones
O’Connors
7850 SW Capitol Highway Kit Garoutte
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Rainy River Blues Experience, AUX 78
Rose Garden
1401 N Wheeler Ave. Roger Daltrey (of the Who)
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Renato Caranto Project
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. The Slutty Hearts, Bam! Bam!
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. John Heart Jackie, Duover
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Norman, Owner Operator, Kelly Blair Bauman
TUES. OCT. 25 15th Avenue Hophouse
1517 NE Brazee St. Kory Quinn Duo
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. Jon Koonce, Mark Spangler
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St.
Jerry Joseph, Stevie James Wright, Charley Orlando
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Miss Tess & The Bon Ton Parade, Fairweather
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. JB Butler
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. A Happy Death, The Lockouts, Outer Space Heaters
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Item 9, Supreme Nothing, Fast Fox
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Open Mic
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. The War on Drugs, Purling Hiss, Carter Tanton
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Sockeye Sawtooth
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. The Felice Brothers, Gill Landry (of Old Crow Medicine Show)
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Quartet (9:30 pm); Trio Bravo (6 pm)
Ella Street Social Club
714 SW 20th Place Kat Jones, Olga Lukomsky, Jamie Treadwell, Kevin Hardy
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Scott PembertonTrio
Hawthorne Hophouse 4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Ben Larsen & Austin Moore
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Firewind, Arsis, White Wizzard, Nightrange
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Hello Electric, Sons of Huns, Steaming Satellites, Turbo Perfecto
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Javon Jackson’s “We Four” (John Coltrane tribute)
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Danny Ohanon
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Father Figure, Fanno Creek, The We Shared Milk
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Bingo, Lewi Longmire Duo (9:30 pm); Jackstraw (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Henry Hill Kammerer
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Open Bluegrass Jam
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Stellar’s Jay, Grey for Days
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Milagres, Lookbook, XDS
Beauty Bar
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Honest John
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Songwriter Showcase
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. The Jazzistics (8 pm); Pagan Jug Band (6:30 pm)
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Future Historians, Oslo in September (“Eye Candy” music-video night)
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. PDX Singer-Songwriter Showcase
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Beverly Caruso, Anita Forbes, Miss B. Haven, Patsy-Lynn Ragonese
Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Open Mic with The Roaming
Valentine’s
WED. OCT. 19 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Gregarious, DJ Disorder
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. DJ Old Man Stares
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Drum ‘n’ Bass Night
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. TRONix: Mike Gong, Bliphop Junkie
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Pippa Possible
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Dennis Dread
Tiga
232 SW Ankeny St. Mattress, Prescription Pills, Light House
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Mattressland
Vie de Boheme
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Josh Spacek
1530 SE 7th Ave. Lynn Winkle & Mark Stauffer
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Arthur Moore’s Harmonica Party
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. China Davis Band
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THUR. OCT. 20 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Anjali & the Incredible Kid
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Ott, Phutureprimitive, Etheric Double
Groove Suite
440 NW Glisan St.
House Call: Ramiro, Jordan Strong, Architects
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. DJ Noah Fence
Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Magic Crystals
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Bummer Town USA
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Popular Mechanix: Black & Tan, Neo G Yo, Koolaid, Countmoney
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Mixer: John AD, 31 Avas, Muchas Lucas, Ian Obe, Michael Grimes, Mr. Romo, Selectress Instigatah
111 SW Ash St. Jet Set: DJs 100 Proof, Swervewon
Palace of Industry
Groove Suite
Rotture
440 NW Glisan St. Trifecta: The Merchants Of, Mercedes, Ernest Ryan
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. Landau Boyz
Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ AM Gold
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Carlita
FRI. OCT. 21 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Hwy 7
421 SE Grand Ave. DJs Carrion, Ghoulunatic
The Whiskey Bar
Tiga
The Woods
Tube
Tiga
Valentine’s
639 SE Morrison St. Blank Fridays 6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. In the Detention Hall with DJ Cooky Parker 1465 NE Prescott St. RNDM Noise
Tube
232 SW Ankeny St. DJs Feathers, Tobias
18 NW 3rd Ave. Fast Weapons Night with DJ Nate Preston
The Lovecraft
Star Bar
Tube
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Partydogg
315 SE 3rd Ave. Blow Pony: DJs Airick, Kinetic, Lustache, Roy G Biv, Jodi Bon Jodi, Mr. Charming, Anna Conda
31 NW 1st Ave. Juice!: Stunna, Place 42, Codename
1305 SE 8th Ave. Catsup & Musturd DJs
Tiga
205 NW 4th Ave. Lush
5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Pippa Possible
Plan B
18 NW 3rd Ave. Townbombing: Doc Adam, Lionsden (late set); DJ Neil Blender (early set)
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Roxy’s Ego Hour
Valentine’s
SAT. OCT. 22 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Stargazer
Groove Suite
440 NW Glisan St. After Dark: DJ Jonene, Richie Stax, Mark Bennett
1465 NE Prescott St. Bikini Briefs 18 NW 3rd Ave. Saturdazed: DJs GH, Cxief, Xenith (late set); 232 SW Ankeny St. DJ E*Rock
MON. OCT. 24 Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Alex Hall
TUES. OCT. 25 East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Secondhand Daylight with DJ Linoleum
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. The Black Church: DJs Deathcrush, Decapod Claw
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Alex Carney
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St.
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THEATER Blue Man Group
The Blue Men are on tour. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 241-1802. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday, 1 and 6:30 pm Sunday, Oct. 19-23. $31.70-$86.60.
Bourbon at the Border
[NEW REVIEW] Nobody could accuse playwright Pearl Cleage of painting Bourbon at the Border with a light touch. The play tells the story of Charlie (Wrick Jones), a kindhearted civil-rights activist institutionalized after a traumatic experience during 1961’s “Freedom Ride,” in which activists seeking peace in the deep South were met with violence. The play revolves around the aging Charlie leaving the hospital in the 1990s and reuniting with his wife, May (Rozlyn Reynolds), in their Detroit apartment, where they are bombarded with troubles both mental and economic. It’s heavy-handed stuff, and sometimes the play and its performers buckle under the weight of the story. But each of the four players gets a moment in the spotlight, including welcome comic turns from S. Renee Mitchell and Jerry Foster as the couple’s bickering neighbors and a powerhouse final monologue by Jones. Getting to those moments, though, may require some mental stamina. AP KRYZA. Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, 5340 N Interstate Ave., passinart.org. 7:30 pm Thursdays, 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 3 pm Sundays. Closes Nov. 5. $20, $17 students and seniors.
Cloud 9
[NEW REVIEW] Caryl Churchill’s 1979 play is something of a socialscience experiment: What happens when you take a randy but repressed British family from the Victorian era and put them into the anything-goes early 1980s? For the characters, only 25 years have passed—but thanks to radical shifts in social mores, everything is changed. The first of Cloud 9’s two acts, which takes place in 1880, is hilarious—partly because Victorian times were hilarious, but more so because the cast of Theatre Vertigo’s production, directed by Jon Kretzu, plays the mordant satire of Victorian morality to comic perfection. The transition from the absurdity of the play’s first half to the realism of its second is rough, but the latter act grants what would otherwise be a mere lampoon a deeper meaning, elucidated by Jane Fellows in a show-stealing monologue: Loving whom we want to is humanity’s scariest, truest existential statement yet. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 306-0870. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays. Closes Nov. 12. $15. Thursdays are “pay what you will.”
Feast on CoHo
[FUNDRAISER] In this gala to benefit CoHo Productions, eight directors will create original theater pieces from the same slate of guidelines. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 220-2646. 6:30 pm Monday, Oct. 24. $50-$75.
Gem of the Ocean
Having been evicted from its home by the city, Portland Playhouse was forced to begin its fourth season in downtown’s World Trade Center. The move is unfortunate, given that August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean—the first play in his Pittsburgh Cycle and the only to feature an onstage appearance by Aunt Ester, the 285-year-old spiritual matriarch of Wilson’s world— takes place in a single room and would benefit from a smaller stage. The setting is 1906 in Ester’s home at 1839 Wylie Ave., a sanctuary for the troubled, where Citizen Barlow (Vin
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Glengarry Glen Ross
[NEW REVIEW] David Mamet’s plays are famous for two things: profanity and misogyny. (This may not actually be true, but work with me.) In this defunkt theatre production, director Tamara Carroll embraces the former and subverts the latter, casting women in the swaggering, cocky roles of Shelly Levene and Richard Roma. Aside from some pronoun confusion, it works quite well—after all, real estate is no longer the male-dominated field it was in 1984. Female real-estate agents now outnumber their male counterparts in every state in the U.S., according to trulia.com. The gender swap has surprisingly little effect on the desperate, faded Levene (Lori Sue Hoffman)—beyond lending a sinister air to the opening scene in which she begs her supervisor for better leads—but Roma is transformed. Grace Carter gives the role’s slimy doubletalk a seductive, sexual tone, turning Roma into the sort of woman who strikes terror into the heart of men who hate women. My favorite performance here is Garland Lyons’ more traditional turn as Aaronow, a man so nervous he shakes too badly to hold chopsticks. Lyons, who often plays brash braggarts, conveys such miserable career angst that I imagined I could smell his flop sweat over the Back Door Theater’s pervasive mildew. BEN WATERHOUSE. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 481-2960. 8 pm Thursdays-Sundays. Closes Nov. 19. $10-$20. Thursdays and Sundays are “pay what you can.”
Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells!
Northwest Children’s Theater presents a play about a precocious first-grader. NW Neighborhood Cultural Center, 1819 NW Everett St., 222-4480. Noon and 4 pm Saturdays-Sundays through Oct. 30. $13-$22.
King John
Northwest Classical Theatre presents one of Shakespeare’s lesser-known histories. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 971-244-3740. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Nov. 13. $18-$20.
Lips Together, Teeth Apart
Profile Theatre kicks off its 15th anniversary with a fantastic bang, returning to the work of Terrence McNally for a play about two straight couples spending a weekend in the Fire Island beach house of the gay brother of one of the women, who has just died of AIDS. NATALIE BAKER. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 2420080. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, Oct. 19-23. $16-$30.
No Man’s Land
William Hurt is back in town, performing alongside his old friend Allen Nause in what’s become a regular gig for the Oscar-winning actor. This time—his fourth on Artists Rep’s stage—he’s doing Pinter, and that means drinking, menace and mystery: Hurt plays Spooner, a washed-up old poet who finds himself in the stately sitting room of Hirst, a far more suc-
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cessful writer and former classmate, having run into the latter at a pub. The play begins with the offer of a drink, and the consumption of whiskey is the primary occupation of its characters throughout its two hours. Hirst, we soon learn, has drunk himself into a state of pitiable dementia, and the audience is made to share in his confusion. Is Spooner an innocent visitor or a con man? Are Hirst’s companions, the “vagabond cock” Foster (Hurt’s son Alex) and crisp-munching butler, Briggs (Tim True), servants, bodyguards, lovers or jailers? BEN WATERHOUSE. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 pm Sundays. Closes Nov. 6. $35$65, $25 students.
Oklahoma!
For a regular fixture of high-school stages, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s first collaboration is a pretty bleak show. Its nominal hero, Curly, is a bully, and its female lead, Laurey, is a snob. Its moral is that looking at dirty pictures leads to murder. Of course, the show’s a lot of fun, too. Chris Coleman, in his production of the show at Portland Center Stage, very ably balances its dual personalities of darkness and delight. BEN WATERHOUSE. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm TuesdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays, alternating 7:30 pm Sunday and 2 pm Saturday performances. Closes Nov. 6. $39-$69, $25 students.
¡Viva la Revolución!
Every year, Miracle Theatre celebrates el día de los muertos with a bilingual revue of song, dance, comedy and, usually, some sorrow. This year’s production honors las adelitas, the women soldiers of the Mexican revolution. El Centro Milagro, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7:30 pm Thursdays, 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Nov. 13. $15-$30.
The Ensemble
Patrick McDonough and five other accomplished singers perform selections from German composer Heinrich Schütz’s early Baroque masterpiece Sacred Choral Music (Geistliche Chormusik). Grace Memorial Episcopal Church, 1535 NE 17th Ave., 753-8368. 8 pm Saturday, Oct. 22. $10-$15.
Gaurav Majumdar, Nirmala Rajasekar, T.K. Murugaboopathi, Vishal Nagar
COMEDY Stand Up for Neighborhood House
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[FUNDRAISER] The all-mom Time Out! Comedy troupe headlines a benefit for the nonprofit’s emergency food box program. Multnomah Arts Center, 7688 SW Capitol Highway, nhpdx.org. 7:30 pm Saturday, Oct. 22. $18-$20.
This Kalakendra concert pairs renowned sitar and veena string players (the former a protegé of Ravi Shankar, the latter one of the world’s most acclaimed Carnatic musicians) with tabla and mridangam percussionists in music that crosses the formerly
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Pinkalicious: The Musical
Oregon Children’s Theatre presents a musical adapted from a book about a little girl who loves pink and eats so many pink cupcakes that she turns pink. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 228-9571. 2 and 5 pm Saturdays-Sundays through Nov. 20. $28.15-$37.35, fees included.
The Real Americans
Fed up with yuppie brunch and his life in the liberal bubble in general, San Francisco journalist Dan Hoyle bought a van and spent 100 days traveling rural highways through the Deep South, Appalachia and the Midwest in search of homegrown country wisdom. What he found was anger, ignorance and racism, as well as kindness, hospitality and hope. PENELOPE BASS. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm TuesdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays, alternating Saturday matinee and Sunday evening performances. Closes Nov. 6. $26-$46.
Richard III
Portland Actors Ensemble stages Shakespeare’s finest history play. Concordia University, 2800 NE Liberty St., 467-6573. 7 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 3 pm Sundays. Closes Nov. 6. $5 minimum suggested donation.
Sex, Drugs, Murder
The Working Theatre Collective presents a double feature of one-acts. WTFbikes, 1114 SE Clay St., 893-9075. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through Nov. 5. $10-$15. Thursdays are “pay what you will.”
Shirley Valentine
Helena de Crespo performs Willy Russell’s play about a bored English housewife who goes on a life-changing vacation. Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd., 800-494-8497. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Nov. 6. $20-$25.
Zugzwang
Jerry Mouawad’s latest in the series of movement pieces he calls “theater without words” takes as its inspiration the classic heist flick. It begins with a gambler (Gregg Bielemeier) losing piles of cash in a tragic poker match, much to the distress of his wife. To make up for his losses, he and his black-clad crew set out to steal some unspecified treasure, sneaking along corridors, skulking in elevators, dodging mysterious pools of radioactivity, blowing a safe and negotiating an Entrapment-style laser field. BEN WATERHOUSE. Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave., 231-3959. 7:30 pm ThursdaySaturday, Oct. 20-22. $10-$16.
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THE PAIN AND THE ITCH (THIRD RAIL) “Don’t you understand the rather comic dimensions of it all?” Cash (Duffy Epstein), the martini-swilling plastic surgeon, asks Mr. Hadid (John San Nicholas), a vaguely Asian cab driver, in the midst of explaining how his family happened to accidentally cause the death of Mr. Hadid’s wife. “Look, you want to be more like us. But we’re a bunch of assholes.” He got that right. Bruce Norris’ brutal denunciation of monied liberal America is a comedy so bleak it ceases to be funny. Aptly set at Thanksgiving dinner in the sort of house where dining rooms have multiple levels, it is populated by a family of well-heeled, college-educated, sweater-clad weasels—the surgeon; his 23-year-old Russian girlfriend, Kalina (Amy Beth Frankel); his PBS-obsessed mother, Carol (Jacklyn Maddux); his stay-at-home-dad brother, Clay (Damon Kupper); Clay’s high-powered lawyer wife, Kelly (Valerie Stevens); and their 4-yearold daughter, Kayla—who exhibit the sort of two-faced selfishness one expects only from the works of David Mamet. That Norris is fully aware of his characters’ unpleasantness doesn’t make them any more fun to spend an evening with. Norris is hunting for humor at the brink of tragedy, dwelling in the moments when the evening threatens to fly out of control. I laughed hardest at the potentially sinister origin of Kayla’s genital rash, Kalina’s explosive incredulity at Carol’s endorsement of socialism, and Clay’s near breakdown over Kelly’s insistence that he euthanize his cat to protect their unborn child from toxoplasmosis. But the dialogue that fills the spaces in between, while sharply written, is tediously meanspirited. Wealthy leftists happily espouse sympathy for the less well off so long as they aren’t asked to make any sacrifices themselves. I get it; I don’t need two hours of reminding. Third Rail’s production shows the company’s usual efficiency and polish, handling the show’s many temporal changes and myriad props with aplomb, even as the script’s negativity grates. The sole relief in the mire of meanness is Frankel as Kalina, the transparently emotional, brightly sexual and delightfully impulsive Russian émigré. She’s a twit, but at least she’s an optimist. With this crowd, you take whatever sliver of joy you can get. BEN WATERHOUSE. Christ, what a family of assholes!
SEE IT: Third Rail Rep at the Winningstad Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 235-1011, thirdrailrep.org. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Oct. 30. $29.50$38.50, $14.50 students and rush tickets.
OCT. 19-25 insuperable divide between North Indian Hindustani tradition and the southern Carnatic style. First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park Ave., 702-6937. 7:30 pm Saturday, Oct. 22. $20-$25.
Lewis & Clark music ensembles
The school’s annual Rogers Concert showcases its music groups, including Wind Symphony, Cappella Nova choir, Community Chorale, Women’s Chorus and Venerable Showers of Beauty Javanese Gamelan Ensemble in music loosely associated with the Silk Road regions. Agnes Flanagan Chapel at Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, 7687461. 8 pm Thursday, Oct. 20. Free.
Portland Chamber Orchestra
No orchestra in the Northwest is shaking up stodgy performance traditions as much as PCO, so German composer HK Gruber’s “pandemonium” Frankenstein!! is a natural and a perfect warm-up for All Hallow’s Eve. Batman and Robin, Miss Dracula, Superman and others, including actor Kirk Mouser, join the fun in this wild cabaret-style monster mashup that retells Mary Shelley’s story from the monster’s POV. Portland Chamber Orchestra also gives us another world premiere, Duncan Neilson’s The Monster, with visuals by Liz Gill Neilson; and pianist Rosa Li maintains the mortal mood with Franz Liszt’s Dance of Death and takes the solo spotlight in the bicentenary composer’s Piano Concerto No 1. Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 205-0715. 7:30 pm Saturday, Oct. 22. $15-$25.
So Percussion
The New York quartet performs pieces by two visionary 20th-century composers—Steve Reich’s lively new Mallet Quartet and early triumph Music for Pieces of Wood, John Cage’s percussion classic Third Construction and Child of Tree, which features an amplified cactus—along with music from So member Jason Treuting’s Amid the Noise and the quartet’s “meditation on urban soundscapes,” Imaginary City. Almost as fun to watch as to hear, So Percussion is capable of conjuring the most aggressive sounds and also the subtlest. Don’t miss this one. Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 224-9842. 7:30 pm Monday, Oct. 24. $27-$40. Free short concert at Central Library at 1 pm Sunday, Oct. 23.
Third Angle
Over a two-decade career, the experimentalist/post-minimalist New York composer Eve Beglarian has won deserved renown for creating compelling sounds that involve global musical influences, digital technology, early music and avant theater music. In late 2009, she spent four months paddling and pedaling down the Mississippi River by bike and kayak, from Minnesota to post-Katrina New Orleans, talking to and performing with people who live along the way, recording the sounds she heard, and writing music that reflected her journey. Third Angle will perform it, along with a new Beglarian work commissioned by the group, with the superb musicians of Eugene’s Beta Collide. 7:30 pm Friday, Oct. 21. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 7196055, thirdangle.org. $10-$30.
DANCE Chunky Move
Melbourne, Australia’s contemporary company Chunky Move returns to White Bird to launch the American premiere of Connected. The central set piece of this innovative creation is a giant kinetic sculpture made by artist Reuben Margolin and suspended from the ceiling by wires— company members dance in and around it. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 20-22. $20-$30.
New York Shimmy Shakedown
New York’s love affair with Portland has reached the undressing stage: Big Apple burlesque stars Miss Astrid (Velvet Hammer Burlesque/ Va Va Voom Room) and Peekaboo Pointe share some stage time with Portland’s Rose City Shimmy troupe. Red Cap Garage, 1035 SW Stark St., 226-4171. 9 pm Wednesday, Oct. 19. $10-$15. 21+.
Tracy Broyles
Inspired by veteran experimental dancemaker Deborah Hay, contemporary choreographer Tracy Broyles
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offers Art and Life, an adaptation of a solo she learned during Hay’s 2010 Commissioning Project. The piece will be performed on a double bill with the trio Mirror/A Convoluted Path of Transformation, danced by Richard Decker, DeeAnn Nelson and Rebecca Harrison and accompanied by a score from local musician Adrian Hutapea. The Headwaters, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9. 8 pm FridaySunday, Oct. 21-23, 8 pm FridaySaturday, Oct. 28-29. $14.
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Sat Oct 22 | 7:30 pm & Sun Oct 23 | 3 pm Jeff Tyzik, conductor New York Voices, vocal ensemble A beautiful blast from the past as this Grammy Award-winning ensemble takes us on a thrilling trip down memory lane. A non-stop hit parade of tunes from Chicago, Paul Simon, Carole King, The Mamas & the Papas and many more.
CHRIS MURRAY AND JOE BOLENBAUGH
ANIMALS AND PLANTS (COHO PRODUCTIONS) From the moment viewers enter the theater, stepping over empty pizza boxes and Coors Light cans on the way to their seats, they know this show will take them out of their comfort zones. The set is the seediest of hotel rooms, complete with brown scuzzy carpet, bent metal window blinds and scuffed furniture. The wall behind the bed is populated with taxidermied creatures, including a raccoon mid-pounce. This cage is inhabited by two other sad-sack critters: a pair of drug runners snowed into this hotel in Boone, N.C., while awaiting a delivery from the “Burning Man.” Even though no drugs are consumed on stage, the resulting 90 minutes feel very much like a surreal trip. As the lights come up, Burris (Chris Murray) paces the room like a caged animal, filling the space with his rapid speech and working every muscle in his body. (Nunchucks and a Shake Weight are central to his workout routine). In Murray’s excellent portrayal, Burris’ pomaded, dirty-mouthed alpha male sucks up all the air in the room. When he left the stage, I missed his frenetic energy. Burris’ partner, Walt Dantly (Joe Bolenbaugh), spends much of the show planted on the mussed double bed, sticking things down his pants, taking vocabulary lessons from his partner and futilely musing about changing his name and his life. After Burris takes off to bring back a girl for Dantly, things begin to unravel. Dantly wakes to find Cassandra, a college dropout who works at the local head shop, perched on a chair. Birdlike Cassandra (Nikki Weaver) flits about the stage with youthful enthusiasm that shakes even Dantly out of his reverie. One of the sweetest moments in the show is a bed-jumping duet of “There’s Always Tomorrow.” Like her Greek namesake, Cassandra has prophetic powers that tell her when death is coming, and she’s sure something bad is on the way. It is—a bloody ending that’s about as believable as Cassandra walking around in a blizzard in Birkenstocks. I am not the target audience for this play, and I’m not sure who is. Big Lebowski lovers, sure. Anyone amused by grown men stripping off their clothes to Right Guard their balls. Ultimately, the problems with this show are not in the production but in the writing: This is one of playwright Adam Rapp’s earliest works, and it shows. The script flits from clever and snappy exchanges to semi-serious musings, and the plot requires vast leaps of faith. I think Rapp’s message, if there is one, is that humans aren’t so different from animals and plants—especially when our faculties for higher thinking are tuned to this kind of absurdity. MARIANNA HANE WILES. Welcome to the Hotel Carolina.
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VISUAL ARTS
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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By RICHARD SPEER. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit show information—including opening and closing dates, gallery address and phone number—at least two weeks in advance to: Visual Arts, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: rspeer@wweek.com. Fax: 2431115. Emailed press releases must be backed up by a faxed or printed copy.
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Photographer Carl Bower’s Chica Barbie chronicles the beauty pageant culture in Colombia. It’s a grittier, more straightforwardly erotic scene than the precious JonBenét Ramsey-style pageants we have in the U.S. Bower’s photos of Colombian swimsuit competitions show skinfests one hairsbreadth away from a strip club. His shots of the minor local celebrities who judge these competitions betray the leering cheesiness inherent in the proceedings. And the backstage crush, as fans and hangers-on compete for groping and flirting rights, provides a tableau of inspired tropical seediness. 122 NW 8th Ave., blueskygallery.org. Closes Oct. 30.
Horia Boboia
Boboia’s “I Am Sorry” is a series of painted diptychs placed around the perimeter of Nine Gallery’s boxy project space. The series is more literal but no less engaging than the artist’s previous forays into conceptual and video art. The leitmotif is counterposition: seemingly unrelated pictures situated side by side, challenging the viewer to make connections between the two. What do a foot covered with open sores and an upsidedown writing desk have to do with one another? Why is the waxy, embalmed corpse of Vladimir Lenin dreaming of Bambi in a thought bubble? Other pieces are less inscrutable, such as Boboia’s grininducing depiction of a couple dancing aboard the Titanic, counterposed with an iceberg bearing the marquee from which the exhibition takes its name: “I AM SORRY.” Nine Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 227-7114, blueskygallery.org. Closes Oct. 30.
Chambers @ 916
The highlight of this group show, Connecting, is Eva Speer’s virtuosic Untitled (Black Sea). It depicts dark ocean waves in a near-photorealist style, the surface selectively eroded, betraying abstract swirls of bold-colored paint underneath. It is a jarringly beautiful effect: an abstract world lying underneath the “real” world. Speer is treading on metaphysical ground, making us question whether what we see and construe as fact might actually be only a thin membrane covering a much more complicated universe. 916 NW Flanders St., 2279398, chambersgallery.com. Closes Oct. 22.
Sally Finch
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to each time period of climatological measurement. In the midst of creating these compositions, the artist saw similarities to electrocardiogram printouts, suggesting a link between human respiration and nature’s own breathing in and breathing out over the eons. Finch’s work is both conceptually challenging and visually rapturous, a one-two punch all too rarely seen. Froelick Gallery, 714 NW Davis St., 222-1142. Closes Oct. 29.
Raymond Meeks Meeks turns lemons into lemonade in his bittersweet reverie on the collapse of the real-estate market. Meeks photographed his empty house in Hamilton, Mont., as it awaited theoretical buyers who did not materialize. Bathed in gorgeous light, these prints are not so much architectural studies as they are portraits of dead dreams. Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, 134 NW 8th Ave., hartmanfineart.net. Closes Oct. 29.
Under Wonder Gallery Space
Freelance curators Anna Solcaniova King and Mark Woolley join forces for To Sacrifice is to Love, an integrated evening of art and fashion. This one-night event features sketches and watercolor paintings by fashion designer Devon Yan Berrong, as well as photographic prints by ChoiYee Wong. The work flows from Chinese narratives from 1900 to the 1930s, and is complemented by a runway presentation of Berrong’s spring/summer 2012 ready-to-wear fashion collection, entitled Madame Butterfly. 128 NE Russell St. 6:30 pm Thursday, Oct. 20. $10.
Pulliam Gallery
In this thoughtful three-person painting show, Hickory Mertsching’s human and animal skulls grab the eye with memento-mori still lifes that are oddly droll, even in their moribundity. On the gallery’s east wall, Thomas K. Conway portrays Old Masters such as Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and Vermeer in fastidious trompe l’oeil, as if the great painters’ works had been hung up on a copyist’s studio wall. Finally, Jeremy Dubow has his way with a campily déclassé trope: the pet portrait. Many “legitimate” artists have paid their bills by painting upper-middle-class pooches and pussies on the side, a necessary evil that Dubow knowingly parodies in various jowly hound dogs and hairless Cornish Rexes. 929 NW Flanders Street. 228-6665. Closes Oct. 29.
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BOOKS
OCT. 19-25
= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By RUTH BROWN. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit lecture or reading information at least two weeks in advance to: WORDS, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: words@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.
FRIDAY, OCT. 21 Matt Love and Lisa Wells
It’s a double bill at Broadway Books: Matt Love’s latest is Love & the Green Lady, about the Yaquina Bay Bridge, which Love calls “Oregon’s crown jewel of socialism.” Portland writer Lisa Wells published her debut essay collection, Yeah. No. Totally.—a clip over the ears for Portland’s young folk—earlier this year. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm Friday, Oct. 21. Free. All ages.
PSU Weekend
Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants, will be the keynote speaker at this year’s PSU Weekend, an open event that celebrates the university’s faculty, students and alumni. The keynote costs $20, but there will be free seminars all day Saturday, with topics like “Bibliophiles Buy Vinyl: The Future and Past of Publishing,” “Biodynamic Winemaking” and “Stieg Larsson’s Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Series and the New World Order.” Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student Union, 1825 SW Broadway. 7:30 pm Friday, 9:30 am Saturday, Oct. 21-22. PSU Weekend is free, keynote address is $20. All ages.
“PHAME changes lives by focusing on our students’ talents and aspirations; that’s why I chose to work there. I’m the luckiest executive director in Portland.” Stephen Marc Beaudoin, 2011 Skidmore Prize Winner
David Guterson
Pacific Northwesterner David Guterson (Snow Falling on Cedars) releases his eighth book, Ed King, a contemporary reimagining of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, about an orphan left on a doorstep who grows up to be an Internet tycoon who…well, you know how it goes. Out with his eyes! Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651. 7 pm Friday, Oct. 21. Free.
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SUNDAY, OCT. 23 Portland Poetry Slam
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 19 The War at Home
Stacy Bannerman, author of When the War Came Home and founding director of advocacy group the Sanctuary for Veterans and Families, will give a lecture on “The War at Home: What America’s Longest War Has Shown Us About Who We Are, and Who We Can Become.” Bannerman’s book detailed her experiences as an antiwar spouse of an Army reservist serving overseas. Ecotrust, 721 NW 9th Ave., Suite 200, 227-6225. 6 pm Wednesday, Oct. 19. Free.
A Plague of Wolves and Women
Local author Riley Michael Parker releases his new novel, A Plague of Wolves and Women, with a party at Plan B. It’s about “a secluded village and the vicious curse that ravages its inhabitants.” Lovely. There will be music by Curious Hands and readings by Matty Byloos, Carrie Seitzinger and others. Plan B, 1305 SE 8th Ave., 230-9020. 8 pm Wednesday, Oct. 19. Free. 21+.
Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals
Former federal prosecutor and congressional investigator Ken Ballen spent five years interviewing Islamic radicals about what led them to jihad. Homosexuality, sexual abuse, unrequited love and plain old trickery are just some of the reasons he uncovers. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Oct. 19. Free.
Mountain Writers Series
Timothy Schell and Ronald Talney read at the Press Club as part of the Mountain Writers Series. Schell is a literature and writing teacher at Columbia Gorge Community College. His latest novel, The Memoir
of Jake Weedsong, is about racism in rural Oregon. Talney recently published the novel Nockers Up!, the story of a stripper who dreams of writing Christian romance novels. Press Club, 2621 SE Clinton St., 2335656. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Oct. 19. $5 suggested donation.
THURSDAY, OCT. 20 Comma Reading Series
In its latest Comma Reading Series event, Broadway Books will host poets Paulann Petersen and Paul Merchant. Petersen, of course, is Oregon’s poet laureate. Her most recent book is The Voluptuary, which, to me, sounds like a really sexy dinosaur bird. Paul Merchant is the director of Lewis & Clark’s William Stafford Archives. His latest book is a translation of Twelve Poems for Cavafy, by Greek poet Yiannis Ritsos. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm Thursday, Oct. 20. Free.
Poetry Night at Paper Tiger
Portland poet Dan Raphael visits the ’Couve to read at Paper Tiger Coffee House. Paper Tiger, 703 N Grand Blvd. 7 pm Thursday, Oct. 20. Free. All ages.
Joe Bianco
Former editor of The Oregonian’s Northwest magazine Joe Bianco reads and signs copies of his selfpublished memoir, The Story Never Ends, which is self-described as “one man’s journey of discovering personal satisfaction and international notoriety through independent thought and action.” Also, the event is at a bakery, so, y’know, croissants. St. Honoré Boulangerie, 2335 NW Thurman St., 445-4342. 5:30 pm Thursday, Oct. 20. Free.
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.
TUESDAY, OCT. 25 Floyd Skloot
Portland poet, novelist and memoirist Floyd Skloot publishes his first short-story collection, Cream of Kohlrabi. Skloot has won three Pushcart Prizes, a PEN Center USA Literary Award, two Pacific Northwest Book Awards, an Independent Publishers Book Award, and two Oregon Book Awards. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm Tuesday, Oct. 25. Free. All ages.
Richard Kadrey
Avant-garde horror writer and fetish photographer Richard Kadrey has a new novel in his Sandman Slim series, Aloha From Hell. The “hell” in this case is not L.A., the setting of his previous books, but actual H-E-double-hockey-sticks Hell, where protagonist James Stark must return to save the world, etc. Coincidentally, this reading will occur in Beaverton. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW 06V.WW.Skidmore+.99.3750 Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 2284651. 7 pm Tuesday, Oct. 25. Free. /10.19.11/sh
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Editor: AARON MESH. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, send screening information at least two weeks in advance to Screen, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: amesh@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.
50/50
57 Despite its title referring to the
hero’s odds of survival, the movie feels hesitant to explore the implications that one character might soon vanish from the company of all others. It’s skittish, even—as uncomfortable as Bryce Dallas Howard as oncology patient Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s girlfriend, who would rather wait in the parking lot for four hours than venture into a hospital. 50/50 goes in the building, obviously, but it never really faces what happens there. It has jokes about scamming to get your dick sucked and jokes about hitting the bong—the same jokes as The 40-YearOld Virgin, basically, but delivered in a hush, like throwing a 4/20 party next to a funeral home. R. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Forest, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Tigard, Sandy, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub.
Abduction
Taylor Lautner discovers intrigue about his real parents, who are probably not wolves, but maybe. Not screened for critics. PG-13. Clackamas, Eastport, Sandy.
The Big Year
9 The existence of The Big Year is a sign of something diseased and possibly irreparable in our society. Watching it, I felt, for the first time this month, a distinct urge to occupy something. This is a movie that feels like it was made as a gesture of scornful confidence in the bovine acquiescence of the American audience: “These people are so stupid and docile that we can literally show them pictures of movie stars watching birds for nearly two hours and they will not mind.” Halfway through the comedy, I began to laugh for the first time—a kind of hysterical, disgusted cackling, as I realized we had been observing two minutes of people riding bicycles over tundra in search of a bird, then turning their bicycles around and riding in the other direction because the bird had moved, and this was supposed to be a galvanizing adventure. You could tell because there was a Coldplay song blaring. This is why Robespierre started the public executions. Still, it should not come as a news bulletin that Jack Black, Owen Wilson and Steve Martin are talented comedians who are also shameless paycheck whores. Black is debased the most by The Big Year: Denuded of all mischief and masculinity, he seems like a Hummel figurine crafted from PlayDoh. PG. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Tigard, Wilsonville.
NEW Bridge School Benefit Concert Film
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Concert footage from 25 years of rock shows aiding kids with disabilities. Hollywood Theatre. 7:15 pm Monday, Oct. 24.
Contagion
64 Examining what would happen if the grim prophecies of a global swine flu-like epidemic had come true, Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion takes great pains to show the excruciatingly complicated and frustrating lengths the global scientific community would go to in an effort to vaccinate a crumbling world. It’s a fascinating concept, and in the hands of such a meticulous director as Soderbergh, whose gift for juggling dozens of characters and plotlines can explode off the screen, Contagion could have been among the best medical freakouts in ages. That diagnosis, sadly, is far from accurate. Soderbergh trains his lens on a global group of scientists/A-listers (among them Laurence Fishburne, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, Jude Law and Elliott Gould) who work endlessly in labs as the disease esca-
lates, leaving a pile of dead Oscar winners and lab monkeys in its path (because you can’t make an outbreak flick without at least a few monkeys, apparently). But scratch Soderbergh’s name off the credits and sub in actors like Powers Boothe, Corbin Bernsen, Anne Heche and Bronson Pinchot, and Contagion would simply be a standardissue TV movie of the week. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Tigard, Wilsonville, 99 Indoor Twin.
Courageous
A drama about cops finding God. Not screened for Portland critics, who do not have a good track record with cops or God. PG-13. Bridgeport, Movies on TV.
Crazy, Stupid, Love
70 Directors Glenn Ficarra and John
Requa are getting comparisons to James L. Brooks, and that’s fair, if we’re talking about Brooks around the second season of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Like Friends With Benefits, this picture is mortifyingly self-aware of how artificial its genre has become, and so it likewise wastes a lot of time protesting how much better it is than its tropes. This has the unintended but predictable effect of making the tropes seem more hackneyed. PG-13. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre.
The Debt
60 Jessica Chastain was the ethe-
real mother in The Tree of Life and the kind soul in The Help, and now 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. R. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters.
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
63 As if genuinely trying to earn those boilerplate comparisons of action movie to roller coaster, much of Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame looks as if it were shot in some Hong Kong amusement park themed after first-century China. In this regard, director Hark Tsui’s imperial adventure recalls Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom; the similarities to Spielberg’s archeological larks continue with a sacred construction zone (a skyscraping hollow Buddha), endless arrow-laden booby traps and the propensity of supporting characters to spontaneously combust. The first two face-melting conflagrations summon the jailed investigator Dee (Andy Lau), who determines they are the result of “fire turtles” and sets out to determine who might be breeding these dreaded creatures, which turn out to be oversized pillbugs that cause severe sunlight allergy. So the movie is enjoyably cockamamie, yes, but it also shares most of the qualities that make wuxia the most soporific of genres: formally bad acting in the face of any absurdity; elaborate but dreadful effects; prolonged fights without resolution; and a resistance to all pleasure or spontaneity. There are a half dozen moments of electric weirdness—talking stags, transfiguration by acupuncture, the search for an alchemist whose name is translated as “Dr. Donkey Wang”—but they are too thinly spaced, as if beamed from an ancient Saturday serial. PG-13. AARON MESH. Fox Tower.
Dolphin Tale 3D
58 Dolphin Tale is like Free Willy set in the age of the Internet. The cetacean sensation here is Winter, an injured dolphin who loses her tail in an accident and is lucky enough to garner a ragtag team of marine somethingor-others (Morgan Freeman, Harry Connick Jr.) who make it their mission
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PICTURES OF ME: Jennifer Chiba and Elliott Smith.
MISSING MISERY READY OR NOT, PORTLAND GETS AN ELLIOTT SMITH DOCUMENTARY FROM LOS ANGELES. BY CASEY JA R MA N
cjarman@wweek.com
Gil Reyes isn’t sure what to expect when he finally screens his 2009 film, Searching for Elliott Smith, in Portland on Friday, eight years after the singer’s death. “I am always nervous before a screening,” Reyes says via email. “This time I may have a real reason to be.” Not only does the Los Angeles-based filmmaker and TV news anchor hail from the anti-Portland— where bike rides are terrifying and the music business is more business than music—but Reyes, who discovered Elliott Smith’s songs only after his death, had the gall to make a documentary about Portland’s favorite son in the city some say killed him. More damningly for some, he did so with the cooperation of Jennifer Chiba, Smith’s girlfriend at the time of his death and the woman whom some Smith friends and family members (not to mention a lot of anonymous Smith fans on the Internet) blame for his death. Even Sean Croghan, the ex-Crackerbash frontman and Smith roommate who appears in Searching as much as anyone, was apprehensive about the film before WW took him to a preview screening. “There’s the artist, and then there’s all the people after the artist who tell the story they want to tell by using that person’s life,” Croghan says. “So what was Gil going to do? Did he have his own agenda?” Reyes says self-help was part of his agenda. One of his close friends had recently committed suicide, and by telling Smith’s story, Reyes thought he could work through some of his own pain and confusion. “I discovered with suicide, there’s surprisingly some anger and blame being passed around too,” he writes. “I didn’t want to filter those feelings in the film.” So while most of Searching is about Smith’s life—Smith’s family didn’t cooperate with interviews or song licensing—Reyes relies on friends and contemporaries to paint a portrait of a funny,
sensitive and stubborn artist who becomes increasingly self-involved as his drug use takes its toll. Smith’s death lingers from the outset, as the film opens with young fans grieving at a mural he used as an album cover, which became a memorial after his death. Shortly thereafter, we see a sad-eyed Chiba acknowledging her accusers and saying bluntly, “I didn’t kill him.” Near the close of the film, Chiba appears again, walking viewers through Smith’s last week and—in grisly detail—through his final moments, when she removed the knife that had twice plunged directly into his heart. The scene is shot without the quick edits and cheesy camera filters that color the rest of the decidedly lo-fi film. It’s also gut-wrenching. After seeing the film, Croghan feels uneasy about that scene. “I’ve never needed the true-crime details of that day,” he says. “That was difficult. Thinking about the way he died is difficult enough. It becomes a little voyeuristic.” Reyes says he’s giving Chiba a fair shake. “Is it voyeuristic? That’s one way to put it,” he says. “But it’s also Chiba answering her critics. This time…you can look into her eyes and determine for yourself if she’s telling the truth or not.” Croghan says he never thought Chiba killed Smith. He wonders more about the accuracy of his own 2005 interview. “Half the stuff I say [in the film] I kind of call bullshit on now,” he says. Primary among these retractions, Croghan thinks the prevailing Portland sentiment—that Los Angeles enabled Smith’s death and he would have been better off back in Portland—was based on speculation and occasional phone calls from Smith, who would blame his spiraling drug usage on others. “I don’t know anything. All I know is that I loved him very much, and there are people here and obviously in L.A. who love him a lot,” he says now. Croghan, long known as “the famous dead guy’s friend,” has also struggled with depression, learning to cope with age. That’s one reason Smith’s death still haunts him. “If he could have held on a little bit longer and seen it through another day and another day,” he says, “now he’d be in his early 40s, and maybe just kind of chilled out with those demons at bay. But who knows?” 72 SEE IT: Searching for Elliott Smith screens at the NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium at 7 pm Friday, Oct. 21. It is part of the Reel Music festival, continuing through Sunday, Oct. 23. See full listings at nwfilm.org.
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to fix her by attaching a prosthetic fin. Despite its cheesiness (and there’s no shortage of that, musical montages and all) Dolphin Tale has a great message at its core, and really, isn’t that what all those overactive, overstimulated kids need? PG. MAGGIE SUMMERS. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
Dream House
Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz move into a house that once sipped a little red rum, if you know what we mean. Not screened for critics. PG-13. Forest, Movies on TV, Sandy.
Drive
The Guard
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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. Writerdirector John Michael McDonagh (whose brother Martin used Gleeson in In Bruges, a film John should have studied more carefully) is lucky to have him in The Guard, for absent the big man’s wadded physicality, there would be little worth looking at here. R. CHRIS STAMM. Hollywood Theatre.
The Help
95 Drive, the luxurious new L.A. noir
from Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, is the most brutally antisocial movie of the year. It is also the most romantic—but it is primarily spellbound by the romance of isolation. It is also exhilarating filmmaking, from soup to swollen nuts. It contains half a dozen white-knuckle action sequences—starting with a Ryan Gosling robbery getaway timed to the final buzzer of an L.A. Clippers game—yet its closest relative is the lightheaded, restrained eroticism of Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love. It is macho, self-pitying poppycock, and it engrossed and moved me like no other picture I’ve seen this year. R. AARON MESH. Eastport, City Center, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Roseway.
El Bulli: Cooking in Progress
A documentary about Ferran Adrià and his extraordinary restaurant in Spain. Living Room Theaters. NEW
Festival of New Spanish Cinema
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] The series concludes with a cartoon romance set to Cuban jazz (Chico & Rita, 5 pm Sunday, Oct. 23) and a documentary about a former Barcelona mayor with Alzheimer’s (Bicycle, Spoon, Apple; 7 pm Sunday, Oct. 23). NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. NEW
Firewalker
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Chuck Norris hunts for Aztec gold. Clinton Street Theater. 9 pm Wednesday, Oct. 19.
Footloose
61 The remake of Footloose is drenched in nostalgia, not only for the original 1984 Baconfest. Rather strangely for a movie about a small town so oppressive it bans dancing— heck, rather strangely for a movie called Footloose—this is a film made in a spirit of longing for community and conformity. In Hustle & Flow and Black Snake Moan, director Craig Brewer displayed a taste for belting out the Bible. It seems very possible that what attracted him to his latest material was not the dancing but the preaching. This incarnation of Footloose wants you to listen carefully to the words of the pastor (Dennis Quaid) but only after leering at his daughter’s ass in skintight jeans. Just like Black Snake Moan, it’s about a compulsive hussy (Julianne Hough) tamed by a man of principle, though this time that man also likes to put glitter in a wind machine. That would be Ren MacCormack, the Kevin Bacon role now assumed by Kenny Wormald. A young Bostonian, Wormald was presumably cast for his two-step skills: His previous credits include You Got Served (as “Dancer”) and Clerks II (as “Dancer”). But he’s the best thing in Footloose—casual, dishy and just a little more persuasively angry than the High School Musical models. At several moments in the movie, he takes off his iPod earbuds and twirls them like a lasso. That gesture is what the rest of Footloose, a fascinating if hopelessly muddled movie, would like to be: both old-fashioned and red-blooded. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Eastport, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
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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 film presents the reality of Mississippi life in the 1960s as something that takes much more than a high-school squad to overcome. PG-13. SHAE HEALEY. 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Bridgeport, City Center.
The Ides of March
83 Probably a bit hysterical in its
bleakness—maybe that’s a predictable outcome of a proudly liberal filmmaker like George Clooney dealing with the concessions of a Democratic POTUS. But the disillusionment in Ides has an evangelical fervor: This movie is going to find your Shepard Fairey poster and set it on fire. It’s like an anti-Bus Project. That it corrodes so effectively is thanks to Clooney communicating the romance of the campaign trail, which is basically summer camp for drizzle-loving workaholic wonks. Ryan Gosling, continuing his prolific year of playing hyper-aggressive grinners, is the media-strategy guru for Democratic presidential frontrunner Mike Morris (Clooney). The early stretches of the movie have the wish-fulfillment and intellectual energy of Aaron Sorkin: The banter between Gosling and intern Evan Rachel Wood has the particular energy of two people aroused by their own smarts. This makes it all the more flooring when players reveal their primary colors. R. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, CineMagic, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Eastport, Cornelius, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard. NEW
The Innocent
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, CAST AND CREW ATTENDING] A drama about Internet bullying, from Beaverton horror director Jason Hawkins. Look for a review on wweek.com. Hollywood Theatre. 5:30 pm Sunday, Oct. 23. NEW
Johnny English Reborn
55 Was it only nine years ago that
Rowan Atkinson first took to the screen with his incompetent-spy shtick? With Reborn, we’re offered a second helping of the Johnny English franchise, a not entirely necessary addition to the parody espionage genre. Bumbling MI7 agent Johnny English attempts to overcome his disgrace in the last film by tapping into the mysticism of east Asian fighter culture (the testicle-tugging variety, with tinges of Zen philosophy). For reasons that are never made clear, the guy that bungled an important mission in Mozambique is suddenly a hot commodity within the super-secret spy agency. Yet again, his savvier sidekick saves his ass repeatedly, and subtler moments of humor are outweighed by recycled Austin Powers gags. And once more, Atkinson surrounds himself with capable actresses whose stars are regrettably no longer on the rise: Gillian Anderson as the head of MI7, and former Bond girl Rosamund Pike as a behavioral psychologist with shockingly low dating standards. It’s telling that the two veteran Bond writers who signed on for the first
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round of Johnny English couldn’t be bothered for a reunion: The promise of a smart spy comedy has died, and the whole thing is a smorgasbord of wistful regret—ah, that these English beauties were enjoying higher-caliber projects; if only Atkinson had continued on a path that was much more Blackadder than Bean. PG. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Bridgeport, Evergreen, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood.
REVIEW SONY CLASSICS
MOVIES
Killer Elite
33 A flat tire of an action movie, flopping and scraping across the wide screen, Killer Elite is, contrary to its title, astonishingly mediocre. It is supposedly based on the real-life covert operations of mercenaries against the far-right British paramilitary, but its slew of tough-guy proverbs feels like the publishers of Soldier of Fortune printing an issue of Poor Richard’s Almanack. Poor Jason Statham mumbles a lot of these, poor Clive Owen looks nearly aghast at his own contribution, and poor Robert De Niro finds a more efficient way to accomplish his usual AWOL routine, getting held hostage by a sheik and disappearing from most of the picture. R. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Eastport, City Center, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV.
The Lion King 3D
It means “no worries,” except for that thing about to POKE YOU IN THE EYE. G. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Bridgeport, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV.
Love Crime
Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier fight for corporate power. Living Room Theaters. NEW
Margin Call
59 Perfectly primed to capitalize on
current interest in just how majestically wrecked we all are and shall seemingly forever be, Margin Call dramatizes 2008’s financial death rattles by isolating a 24-hour span in which one fictional Wall Street firm tries to figure out what to do with all of the shit falling into its huge, shiny fan. Writerdirector J.C. Chandor’s central premise, that these guys bathing in cash and Drakkar Noir were simply doing their jobs, is a steep slope to climb at the moment, and Chandor’s evident faith in essential goodness isn’t fuel enough to get us up to that peak of magnanimity with him. Like Moneyball, this year’s other numerary drama of note, Margin Call hits the root thrill of dudes fidgeting with digits—I’d be perfectly happy watching Zachary Quinto’s eyebrows dip and dart in front of a computer screen for half an hour—but once those many-zeroed figures merge with the messiness of human motivation, Chandor’s film collapses. As various handsomely coiffed traders grow spines, hearts and consciences, Jeremy Irons enters the picture as a sin-eating executive who will exculpate his soldiers by giving them excuses in the form of marching orders. If only it were that simple. R. CHRIS STAMM. Cinema 21. NEW
Michael Jackson Sing Along
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, MUSIC VIDEOS] Hee hee. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Saturday, Oct. 22.
Midnight in Paris
77 Sorry to break it to you, New
York, but Woody Allen is cheating on you. He’s had trysts in the past, but in Midnight in Paris his flirtation with the City of Light blossoms into a full-blown affair. If it’s any consolation, Paris isn’t about Paris in the way Allen’s classic New York films were about the experience of actually being in New York. It’s more about the idea of Paris, and really the idea of any time and place that aren’t our own. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Fox Tower. NEW
The Mighty Macs
Carla Gugino is a nun coaching basketball. Not screened for critics. G. Clackamas, Bridgeport, Evergreen, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Tigard.
LOOKS LIKE A GULLY WASHER: Michael Shannon heads down in a hole.
TAKE SHELTER Jeff Nichols’ sublime Take Shelter is a trenchant, contemporary American horror story, which means it is not about ghosts or demons but waiting for the other shoe to drop. More specifically, it’s about expecting dead blackbirds to plummet out of the sky (as they actually did on New Year’s Eve in Arkansas) and oil to come down in the rain (as it effectively did last year off Louisiana’s shore). Even more specifically, it’s about knowing you’re losing your mind to apocalyptic expectations but being unable to stop worrying about them, because they are too immediate and terrifying. It reminded me of FDR’s inaugural promise, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” and how that bromide is comforting only if you’ve never felt yourself going mad. Take Shelter is not a political picture; it takes the national temperature, and finds delirious fever. More than three decades after the hopeful sky-watching in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, here is a movie that feels like Richard Dreyfuss’ mashed-potatosculpting scene distended to a two-hour daymare. This time, what the hero sees is looming thunderheads. He responds by expanding his backyard tornado shelter into an underground ark. Such material could play as condescending or grotesque (Evan Almighty starring Glenn Beck!) but is instead sensitively shaped by Nichols, who directed the under-appreciated Shotgun Stories and is working with a crew of longtime David Gordon Green confederates, together realizing the adult visions their mentor cannot or will not explore on his Apatow digression. So Take Shelter is horror in the costume of regional indie cinema, or maybe vice versa. Aptly, it stars Michael Shannon, a tender performer with the face of a maniac. Shannon’s bug-eyed visage seems built to be stretched into a rictus of agony, and the movie takes full advantage. As the protagonist, Curtis, an Ohio gravel driller, he’s visited by a series of dreams (filmed by cinematographer Adam Stone in serenely sinister panning shots) that inexorably escalate into a ruinous squall. But even as hallucinations edge Curtis toward ranting end-times prophet, he remains fundamentally doubtful. He knows schizophrenia runs in his family, and instead of becoming more certain in his foreboding, he is self-diagnosing, torn between competing anxieties. He might be right or he might be insane. What he is, in fact, is a good man—something hard to find in the movies. “You got a good life, Curtis,” says his best friend (Shea Whigham) in a pickup truck heart-to-heart early in the movie. “I think that’s the best compliment you can give a man: Take a look at his life and say, ‘That’s good.’” What makes Take Shelter more than a horror movie or another realist trinket—what makes it a remarkable study of everyday life in a declining empire—is that its central characters are not merely pleasant but actively virtuous. Both Curtis and his wife, Samantha (played by Jessica Chastain in the standout performance of her standout year), are exhilaratingly, devastatingly loyal to each other and their young daughter. They are forced into impossible straits—but what makes their fate so affecting is not their distress; it’s their decisions. It is easy to sneer that, as privileged Americans, we deserve whatever comeuppance we get, but Take Shelter brings a reminder that, whatever our fate, we still have the capacity to be righteous. R. AARON MESH.
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Moneyball
90 If the dehydrated poetry of
sports-page chatter fails to tickle you even a little bit, I can almost guarantee Moneyball will leave you cold. For although director Bennett Miller (Capote) and his elite writing team (Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian) pad Oakland A’s GM Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) with paternal longings and past defeats, there’s not a whole lot of squishy human interest to dig into here. This is a movie about baseball and the obsessed men who devote their lives to it. Make no mistake: There is heart in Moneyball, but it’s the part of the heart that swells at the sight of numbers on the back of a Topps card and breaks beneath tacky banners commemorating past championships. PG-13. CHRIS STAMM. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Eastport, Moreland, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy, 99 West Drive-In. NEW
Mozart’s Sister
A speculative French drama about the life of...you guessed it. Living Room Theaters.
Nashville
NEW
89 [THREE NIGHTS ONLY,
REVIVAL] Robert Altman’s ode to all things crass and indomitable in the American spirit, this Bicentennial ensemble drama may be the only country-music movie not in the sway of country-people piety. R. AARON MESH. 5th Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday, Oct. 21-22. 3 pm Sunday, Oct. 23. NEW
Paranormal Activity 3
More ghosts. Not screened for critics by WW press deadlines, but the “Bloody Mary” scene is unsettling enough to make us leave the theater during previews, so there’s that. Look for a review on wweek. com. PG-13. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Eastport, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
Real Steel
63 Real Steel is fundamentally a bad movie—obnoxious, incoherent and sloppy—resembling nothing so much as some ’90s summer family-film commodity fabricated to sell toys: Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, specifically. Somehow this also makes it seem like a more innocent movie, or at least reminds me of a time when I was more innocent about movies. Most kiddie blockbusters have become cripplingly wised up and knowing. Real Steel knows nothing. We open in the backwaters of the unsanctioned robot-boxing circuit, where Hugh Jackman’s joystick cornerman, Charlie, has been reduced to pitting his last tin palooka against a rodeo steer. I cherished a fleeting hope that Real Steel would continue in this Hemingwayesque bullfighting vein and become a Robot Death in the Afternoon, but nah. Since Real Steel is directed by the Other Shawn Levy (the one who isn’t an Oregonian critic), it is bound to have severe bugs. The malfunction this time is the arrival of Charlie’s son Max, a mouthy moppet played by Dakota Goyo, who bears several regrettable similarities to Jake Lloyd in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. The kid’s mother has died in circumstances the movie takes pains never to explain (though Real Steel is 20 times funnier if you imagine she was killed by robots), and thus begins a tedious father-son bonding plot. This aspect is only bearable because of Jackman, who finds a groove where violence becomes a joyful two-step. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
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Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles NEW
[ONE WEEK ONLY] A documentary about enigmatic messages embedded in the asphalt of U.S. and South American cities. Not screened for critics. Clinton Street Theater. 7 and 9 pm Friday-Wednesday, Oct. 21-26.
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. PG-13. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters.
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Shredtober Film Festival
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Two snowboarding movies for $3. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Thursday, Oct. 20. NEW
Sugar Hill
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] A wronged woman gets revenge in 1974 with a zombie army. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Oct. 25. NEW
The Thin Man
[TWO DAYS ONLY, REVIVAL] Nick and Nora Charles’ infinite drink list. Hollywood Theatre. 2 pm SaturdaySunday, Oct. 22-23.
The Thing
49 It’s only fitting that a film about a creature that can clone anything it touches has itself become mimicked over and over again. As such, The Thing sort of dodges the whole remake debate. It can’t, however, mask the fact that it’s simply not a very good film. Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. hits rewind on John Carpenter’s 1982 film, tracing a Norwegian research team’s discovery of, and subsequent evisceration by, a pissed-off and rather hungry alien frozen in the ice. But first, as anyone who has seen earlier versions of the story knows, it preys on the mind, with the scientists and grunts discovering the monster can imitate them, and thus turning on one another. Taking over the wellworn flamethrower of Kurt Russell (though not, sadly, the sombrero), Mary Elizabeth Winstead steps up to the plate as the unlikely badass who discovers the monster’s nature and decides to kick some ass. Arterial sprays and face-eating ensue. The new Thing goes through all the beats with a workmanlike commitment to recapturing the lightning of its immediate predecessor, but Heijningen’s obvious infatuation with overwrought and cartoonish CGI gore gets in the way all too often. Each suspense scene consists of a character being accused of being a monster, a shouting match, and another dead body. The Thing manages to fall somewhere between a prequel and a remake, but plays more like a special-effects reel with zero character or narrative consequence. It’s simply a copy of a copy of a copy, and the reprint quality fades with each scene. R. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak
Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy. NEW
The Three Musketeers 3D
All for one, and one POKING YOU IN THE EYE. Not screened for critics. PG-13. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
The Willamette Week has locked away 50 passes to a special advance screening of TOWER HEIST. For your chance to heist one back, simply unlock the TOWER HEIST safe by following this link http://jwpr.me/towerheistseattle. 50 winners chosen at random from all correct entries will receive a pass (admits 2) to a special advance screening of TOWER HEIST.
The joke is that a group of dopey college archetypes encounters rednecks Tucker (Serenity’s Alan Tudyk) and Dale (Jack Black clone Tyler Labine) while camping and immediately suspects them of being backwoods cannibals. They’re actually beer-swilling pacifists renovating Dale’s cabin. But when the ’billies rescue a coed (Katrina Bowden) from drowning and take her back to the cabin, the kids launch an increasingly violent rescue mission and systematically kill themselves in gruesome accidents (like falling into wood chippers). It’s a funny idea— particularly when the heroes begin to hypothesize about the property’s mortality rate—but the movie, as these things often do, begins to take itself too seriously in the final act. R. AP KRYZA. Hollywood Theatre.
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The Way
43 The phrase “written and directed
by Emilio Estevez” should rightfully strike fear into the ardent cinephile’s heart, as you’re sure to witness a filmmaker overreaching his abilities to an embarrassing degree. This latest effort by the former Brat Packer is no exception. The Way refers to the Camino de Santiago, a popular backpacking trail through northwestern Spain that leads to a cathedral where the apostle James is supposedly buried. It is on this path that Estevez’s character, Daniel Avery, is accidentally killed, and where his estranged father (Martin Sheen, in a role written for him) lands to collect his remains. Compelled to learn something more about his on-screen son, Sheen decides to walk the path and scatter the ashes along the way. From there,
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We Were Here
81 This documentary opens where
Milk ends, and there is something wantonly sadistic about how Harvey Milk’s killing, which so galvanized the Castro community, was the opening shot of a massacre. The speed and ruthlessness of the onset of AIDS was staggering—by the time a test was available, 50 percent of the gay men in San Francisco were infected—and QDoc co-founder David Weissman’s intimate recounting of the human toll can’t help feeling like an unremitting dirge. The movie is filled with agonizing memories—doomed men warning each other of some “gay cancer,” young lovers saying goodbye (if lucky), an entire room of doctors breaking down sobbing—and it is softened only by the kindness San Francisco’s gays and lesbians showed each other in the hours of their deaths. It is heartrending how much this movie feels like the story of soldiers conscripted into a war after making love. AARON MESH. Fox Tower.
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details one of the most authentic and intimate beginnings of a relationship I’ve ever seen. Two men meet at a gay club in Nottingham, England, at the beginning of the weekend and find themselves completely engrossed in each other’s company, laughing back and forth at what the other one has to say. Over the weekend, they drink, smoke, snort, talk, make love, and try to make the most of their sole weekend together (one is relocating to our very own Portland at the end of the weekend). Tom Cullen and Chris New are exceptional as the main characters. Their chemistry is astounding. It seems as if there is a true intimacy between them, fueled by the innocence and excitement of meeting someone for the first time. The film is beautifully shot by director Andrew Haigh, leaving the audience aghast at life’s inexplicable bad timing but enthralled at the chance of connecting with someone who shakes your very core in just a couple of days. MAGGIE SUMMERS. Living Room Theaters.
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templating Clarence Reid’s career touring the world as septuagenarian soul singer, rap inventor and pussy lover Blowfly, it’s hard not to think of a tired old circus lion. Occasionally, he roars, but more often he sleeps and eats. Reid’s fate seems well beyond his control, but as long as there are stages, someone will keep trotting him out onto them—in full glittery superhero get-up—for puzzled audiences who have a vague curiosity about the living legend growling obscenities before them. Also, much like a lion, he really needs someone to trim his claws—you can hear Reid’s comically long, yellow fingernails tap against piano keys when he plays. It’s pretty gross. Reid—an underground soulrap legend who has been releasing raunchy, satirical songs for over 40 years—would probably enjoy that last critique. In the film, when his young collaborator Otto von Schirach tells him, “You were disgusting” after a performance of the duo’s Egyptian-themed song, “Mummy Fucker,” Reid just smiles warmly and thanks him for the compliment. It’s one of many tendervia-twisted moments that make The Weird World of Blowfly an unexpectedly feel-good affair (others include a genuinely haunting rendition of his R. Kelly send-up, “I Believe My Dick Can Fly,” and a shot of Reid playfully serenading a nurse with a song about syphilis). CASEY JARMAN. Hollywood Theatre. 9:15 pm MondayTuesday, Oct. 24-25.
WE’RE THE KIDS IN COLOMBIA: The Colors of the Mountain.
PORTLAND LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL Chicogrande 38 [MEXICO] The 41st film of 74-year-old Mexican auteur Felipe Cazals is a deeply silly western loosely inspired by Gen. George Pershing’s 1916 pursuit of outlaw Pancho Villa into northern Mexico. Dubbed the “punitive expedition,” the incursion was a response to Villa’s razing of the town of Columbus, N.M., in which 18 Americans died. This is what Americans do when we’re attacked by terrorists: We take the fight to their homes. Cazals really isn’t out to explore Mexican-American relations, though. The film uses the invasion as a transparent analogy for our current wars. Cazals apparently couldn’t find enough atrocities in history, so Pershing is subbed out in favor of the fictional Butch Fenton, a mustachioed Col. Kurtz who horsewhips, beats or hangs every “fucking greaser” he encounters in the Sierra Madre. Curiously, all the American characters speak only English (with a Texas twang) and the Mexican characters only Spanish. The English script is laughably awful. A representative exchange: “You don’t want knowledge. You want to mutilate and kill.” “This monkey here is neither a soldier nor a white man.” If you thought Green Zone wasn’t preachy enough, this is the flick for you. BEN WATERHOUSE. 7 pm Thursday and 9 pm Saturday, Oct. 20 & 22.
Viva Villa! Viva accordions!
The Colors of the Mountain 76 [COLOMBIA] When people praise the acting of children, they usually mean the children display an adult-like subtlety and fluidity of emotion but on a tiny face. This film’s kids are something else. There is a refreshing awkwardness and suddenness to their performances, as if they were trying on expressions that are not yet their own. In their poor guerrilla-filled town at the foot of mountains, they’re trapped between sides in a violent civil war. The film’s dominant metaphor is a soccer ball stuck in a minefield (as opposed to merely being over a neighbor’s fence, guarded by a scary dog), making it seem the emotions they’re stuck with shouldn’t, really, be theirs, even as the film remains very much so. It’s touching and accurate to childhood, without any heavy-handedness. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. 7 pm Saturday, Oct. 22. The Wind Journeys 77 [COLOMBIA] The story is well-trammeled and the travelers not very vibrant company, but who cares when The Wind Journeys has accordion rap battles! Technically, those are vallenato folk musicians dueling with their squeezeboxes, but the macho swagger and rhyming insults are the same as Supernat killing Juice. (Well, not quite the same: One face-off begins with one bellow-slinger dropping the line, “It smells like sorcery in here.”) It’s the Colombian accordion version of 8 Mile—though maybe it’s more like 800 Mile, since the hero rides a burro from town to town, playing at festivals and providing a live soundtrack for a bridge-top machete fight. Director Ciro Guerra’s mountainscapes and endless blooming fields are worthy of the age of CinemaScope, and there’s a trace of Peckinpah in the images of hard men cradling their loneliness like a musical instrument. AARON MESH. 4:40 pm Sunday, Oct. 23. SEE IT. The 5th Annual Portland Latin American Film Festival screens at the Hollywood Theatre on Thursday-Wednesday, Oct. 20-26.
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1219 SW Park Ave., 503-221-1156 SEARCHING FOR ELLIOTT SMITH Fri 07:00 BOB AND THE MONSTER Fri 09:15 VINICIUS Sat 02:00 ZANZIBAR MUSICAL CLUB Sat 04:45 SING YOUR SONG Sat 07:00 INSTRUMENT Sat 09:00 CHICO & RITA Sun 05:00 BICYCLE, SPOON, APPLE Sun 07:15
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MY DINNER WITH LUCIO: Horror is driven by imitation, and there was no better rip-off artist than Lucio Fulci. The Italian schlock-shock maestro built a career nibbling from other, better movies. But perennial favorite Zombie stands as the director’s splatter masterpiece. The 1979 film was originally marketed as Zombi II in an effort to ride the laurels of George A. Romero’s opus Dawn of the Dead (called Zombi in Italy). There’s little innovation in Zombie, but there is an extended underwater fight between a zombie and a shark, and one of the most excruciating eyeball impalements in history—two scenes that put the “nasty” in video nasty. When it comes to inventively gross violence, fans of imitation should accept no imitations. AP KRYZA. Hollywood Theatre. 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday, Oct. 21-22. Best paired with: Laurelwood Free Range Red. Also showing: Attack the Block (Laurelhurst), From Dusk Till Dawn (Academy).
Fifth Avenue Cinemas
Regal Lloyd Center Stadium 10 Cinema
1510 NE Multnomah Blvd., 800-326-3264 MONEYBALL Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:15, 03:30, 06:45, 09:55 50/50 FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:50, 04:30, 07:15, 09:45 REAL STEEL Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:25, 03:45, 06:50, 10:00 THE IDES OF MARCH Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:05, 02:35, 05:05, 07:35, 10:05 FOOTLOOSE Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:35, 03:40, 07:05, 10:15 THE THING Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:10, 02:40, 05:15, 07:50, 10:25 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:30, 02:50, 05:10, 09:50 THE THREE MUSKETEERS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:45, 10:10 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 03:55, 07:20 LANG LANG LIVE IN CONCERT Sat-Mon 07:30
Regal Lloyd Mall 8 Cinema
2320 Lloyd Center Mall, 800-326-3264 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:25, 03:30, 06:30, 09:30 CONTAGION Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:35, 09:10 DRIVE Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 03:35, 06:35, 08:55 THE LION KING 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 03:25, 06:05, 09:00 DOLPHIN TALE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:05, 06:25 DOLPHIN TALE 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 03:10, 09:20 KILLER ELITE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00 REAL STEEL Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:10, 03:00, 06:10, 09:05 THE BIG YEAR Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 03:20, 06:20 FOOTLOOSE Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:30, 03:05,
06:00, 09:25 THE MIGHTY MACS Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:15, 03:15, 06:15, 09:15
Laurelhurst Theater
2735 E Burnside St., 232-5511 JACOBS LADDER FriThurs 9:15 COWBOYS AND ALIENS Fri 3:50, 6:30 Sat-Sun 1, 3:50, 6:30 MonThurs 6:30 CRAZY STUPID LOVE Fri 7:20 Sat-Sun 1:20, 7:20, Mon-Thurs 7:20 ATTACK THE BLOCK FriSun 9:50 Mon-Thurs 4:35, 9:50 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HOLLOWS: PART 2 Fri 4 Sat-Sun 12:50, 4 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Fri 4:20, 7, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7, 9:30 Mon-Thurs 7, 9:30 HORRIBLE BOSSES FriThurs 6:50 BRIDESMAIDS Fri-Thurs 9
Cinema 21
616 NW 21st Ave., 503-223-4515 MARGIN CALL Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 04:30, 07:00 THE ROOM Sat 10:45 RUSH: TIME MACHINE Wed 09:00
Clinton Street Theater
2522 SE Clinton St., 503-238-8899 RESURRECT DEAD: THE MYSTERY OF THE TOYNBEE TILES Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 07:00, 09:00 THINK THANK: RANSACK REBELLION VIDEO GRASS: RETROSPECT
Roseway Theatre
7229 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-282-2898 DRIVE Fri 02:00, 04:30, 07:00, 09:30
CineMagic Theatre
2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-231-7919 THE IDES OF MARCH FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:30, 07:40, 09:50
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Forest Theatre
1911 Pacific Ave., 503-844-8732 DREAM HOUSE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:00 50/50 Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 09:20
Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-281-4215 ZOMBIE Fri-Sat 09:30 SING ALONGS MICHAEL JACKSON Sat 07:00 THE THIN MAN Sat-Sun 02:00 BRIDGE SCHOOL ANNIVERSARY BENEFIT CONCERT Mon 07:15 SUGAR HILL Tue 07:30 FAST BREAK Wed 07:15
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846 SW Park Ave., 800-326-3264 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:10, 05:10, 07:30 WE WERE HERE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 02:55, 07:15 CONTAGION Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 02:20, 04:50, 07:25, 09:40 DRIVE Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:15, 02:30, 04:45, 07:45, 10:10 KILLER ELITE Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 02:40, 10:00 REAL STEEL Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:40, 04:20, 07:05, 09:50 THE IDES OF MARCH Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:50, 12:35, 02:10, 02:50, 04:30, 05:15, 07:00, 07:40, 09:25, 09:55 TAKE SHELTER Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:55, 02:25, 04:55, 07:35, 10:05 THE BIG YEAR Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 05:05, 09:30 THE WAY Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:50, 04:15, 07:20, 10:00 DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:45, 04:10, 07:10, 09:45
340 SW Morrison St., 800-326-3264 MONEYBALL Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:00, 04:00, 07:00, 10:00 50/50 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:20, 04:20, 07:20, 09:50 FOOTLOOSE Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 01:30, 04:30, 07:30, 10:05 THE THING Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:40, 04:40, 07:40, 10:15 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:50, 04:50, 07:50, 10:20 THE THREE MUSKETEERS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:10, 04:10, 07:10, 10:10
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Academy Theater
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