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I have only eaten [at Podnah’s Pit] once [“Restaurant of the Year,” Oct. 19, 2011]. It was bad! The brisket was chewy like rubber. The ribs were not baby backs, and also were like rubber. The service was slow.... It was expensive in comparison to Buster’s [Texas Style Barbecue], and the food did not even compare.... We did not even finish the food; it was BAD. —“Larry”
[Attorney General John Kroger] is not owned by the state; he has no obligation to share his medical history [“The Puzzle At Justice,” Oct. 19, 2011]. If he had anal warts, would you want to see proof? He’s agreed to finish his term; let his performance speak for itself as his obligation expires.—“Yogi”
Really? Buster’s? Was Outback all full up? Arby’s too far away? Podnah’s is consistently the best barbecue in this city. I’ve been eating there regularly for nearly three years, in the old location and the new. It has only gotten better. I find the prices to be fair, especially for the quality. I like that the meat isn’t slathered in gallons of cheap corn-syrup barbecue sauce, so you can actually taste the meat and the smoke. Good call, WW. — “Chris”
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INCOMPLETE PICTURE Author Corey Pein acts as a third party in a chess game, presenting a litany of known problems and how they stack up for incumbent politicians [“The Other Portland,” Oct. 12, 2011]. The article did nothing to note where real strides and diligent effort are being undertaken [in East Portland] by local nonprofits. Instead Pein presented a part of the Rosewood Initiative as if it were an autonomous working nonprofit. In fact, the Rosewood Cafe is the first initiative the nonprofit is undertaking. It is in the most preliminary stage. The cafe is not open. The initiative is working out of the cafe space so the community can operate as the real stakeholder and choose how to define the center. To not give the full picture on this is irreverent and independent in a communally apathetic way. I guess Pein wants to think of his career. Generating a big stir and pointing big fingers...may make you a big writer, but not a good one. —Millicent Zimdars, Northwest Portland 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
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Paper or plastic? —Nick G.
You’re clearly a wiseass, Nick, but I do admire your brevity. I’ll assume, charitably, that you’re not just flinging linguistic poo at the answer monkey and you really want an answer to your question. That answer is: It doesn’t matter. As a Portlander and a WW reader, you’re more likely than the average American to be aware of the well-trodden calculus demonstrating that paper vs. plastic is a wash: Paper is easier to dispose of, but more energy-intensive (and polluting) to make. Plastic is light and carboncheap to transport, but is functionally immortal and rarely recycled. This Scylla and Charybdis of the checkout aisle is, of course, the reason that bringing one’s own bag has recently started catching on in a big way. Surely that’s the real answer, right? Sure, go for it. But the main problem with the paper/plastic conundrum is that it’s gotten so
much press (ahem) that you’d think it was the most environmentally consequential decision you can make in the grocery store, when in fact it’s not even close. Are you a fan of bottled water? It costs twice as much in fossil fuels as our grocery-bag habit does. And if your reusable eco-bag contains, say, a 5-pound beef roast—well, you might as well just drive your Hummer to Al Gore’s house and take a dump in his mouth, because that one chunk of meat burned more crude oil than a year’s supply of plastic grocery bags. Other things that would make more of a difference than bringing your own bag for a year include carpooling for a week, buying one compact fluorescent light bulb, and roasting John Boehner in a solar cooker. By all means, use fewer grocery bags. Just don’t expect to save the world by doing that and nothing else. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com
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TRANSPORTATION: How Columbia River Crossing costs exploded. 7 COURTS: Protecting au pairs from sexual harassment. 10 BUSINESS: The great pumpkin feud on Sauvie Island. 12 COVER STORY: We spend 48 hours inside Occupy Portland. 15
BREAKING NEWS: STEVE JOBS IS STILL DEAD. Portland law firm Bullivant Houser Bailey has had its share of trouble recently with lawyers leaving—losing nearly two dozen this year, and 38 since 2007. Now, Bullivant can’t meet its payments to those cashing out their shares in the firm. A confidential Oct. 18 letter obtained by WW says the firm owes former shareholders $1.6 million. Starting in 2012, the letter says, the firm will stretch out payments over 10 years, not the typical five. Managing shareholder Beth Skillern says Bullivant usually has one or two retirements a year. “When you have 30 shareholders leave, it creates a bigger financial obligation,” she says. Bullivant has about 60 lawyers now. To see the memo, go to wweek.com/bullivant. Portland’s Lone Fir Cemetery ranks ninth in National Geographic’s list of Top Ten Cemeteries to Visit, calling the Southeast Portland graveyard “one of the few cemeteries that allows the planting of a tree or garden to commemorate the dearly departed.” NatGeo notes Lone Fir’s pioneers’ graves, crypts of captains of industry, and a planned memorial for Portland’s early Chinese immigrants and patients of Portland’s first mental hospital. As reported on wweek.com recently, Lone Fir is among the cemeteries managed by Metro that have seen vandalism increase this year.
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The freeway project Oregon and Washington want to build across the Columbia River has already cost taxpayers $136 million. This cost comes largely from paying consultants to design, plan and push for the project, known as the Columbia River Crossing, or CRC. The cost of the project has been reported before. But for the first time, it’s clear why those costs skyrocketed. Documents reviewed by WW show that a single contract initially estimated at $20 million has climbed to $105 million. The contract grew because Oregon and Washington officials kept rewarding the contractor, Portland-based David Evans and Associates, even though the firm had burned through its money long before finishing the work. The costs include the price of working for years on a bridge design experts later said was unbuildable. The result: We now have a project that’s 18 months behind schedule and costs more than five times the original estimate. Records show Oregon and Washington officials sent the cost of the original David Evans contract soaring, from $50 million to $95 million, with a single change to the deal. That change was done quietly and with little public scrutiny.
WashDOT Deputy Secretary David Dye insists both states’ transportation agencies monitored costs carefully and only approved expenditures after identifying specific, necessary tasks. “We have very rigorous internal processes,” Dye says. He says the complexity of the planning process made sticking to the $20 million estimate impossible. “The environmental process up front has so many variables, and there is so much that can happen,” Dye says. “It is very volatile and very difficult to estimate.” The hidden story of this deal, called the master contract, doesn’t bode well for the $3.5 billion freeway project. The CRC calls for building a new Interstate 5 bridge, widening the freeway, adding a series of ramps, and extending light rail from Portland to Vancouver. The project is aimed at reducing the traffic congestion that now plagues I-5 near the Oregon-Washington border. But as WW has reported, the CRC’s own documents show the project won’t solve traffic problems, and that state officials based their cost estimates on inaccurate traffic projections (“A Bridge Too False,” WW, June 1, 2011). WW has also reported that state officials continue to mislead the public about the number of jobs the project will create (“Not True, Times Ten,” WW, June 15, 2011). Oregon and Washington officials pledge the project will be completed on time and on budget in 2022. But if the early stages are any clue, the CRC will take far longer and cost far more than officials are telling the public. Here’s what has driven the costs so high already: A project of such scale requires years of planning—costs paid for equally by Oregon and Washington taxpayers. The
key document that comes out of this work is the Environmental Impact Statement, the size of a couple of Manhattan telephone books, filled with traffic, environmental and financial information. In February 2005, planners went looking for a consultant to manage the planning. “The WSDOT/ODOT Project Team anticipates the total cost of the environmental phase to be in excess of $20 million, with an initial agreement to be in excess of $6 million,” the original solicitation read. “The total dollar figure will vary upon project requirements and funding.” Only one company, David Evans and Associates, responded. In May 2005, Evans signed the contract to: “Deliver the EIS [Environmental Impact Statement] and Record of Decision; develop a framework and strategy to deliver the project.” But something had changed behind the scenes. The $20 million-plus cost had somehow jumped to $50 million, the amount written into the David Evans contract. It’s unclear how or why the figure grew so much. “I wasn’t here then, but as they realized what the scope was, it was more than anticipated,” says Lyn Wylder, David Evans’ current CRC project manager. “There were more alternatives examined and more work to be done.” Yet David Evans couldn’t finish the work even with a contract that paid more than twice what was originally planned. On May 2008, Evans delivered the hefty Draft Environmental Impact Statement along with some bad news: The firm had used up the $50 million in less than three years. And the project was far from finished: David Evans still had to produce the Final Environmental Impact Statement, published September 2010. The cost of the contract exploded with a startling lack of oversight and public review. On May 16, 2008, Doug Ficco, a WashDOT engineer CONT. on page 9 Willamette Week OCTOBER 26, 2011 wweek.com
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TRANSPORTATION Oregon and Washington officials did it again in April 2010, extending the deadline by 18 months. A year after that, they increased David Evans’ contract to $105 million and pushed its life out to December 2012. Of the total contract, David Evans itself has collected $33 million and has paid the remainder to subcontractors to help with planning. (For a list of how much subcontractors got paid, go to wweek.com.) McCaig and Wylder say mega-projects such as the CRC present many variables. “The range of alternatives and unanticipated specific challenges, you don’t know them all,” McCaig says. “Being 18 months off on a project like this is actually on time.” McCaig says it’s unfair to assume that, simply because the CRC blew its planning deadlines as costs grew, the actual building of the bridge will also go over budget and
past its deadlines. “It would be like comparing apples and oranges,” she says. Cortright says the project’s record makes him skeptical—as does the poor track record of similar mega-projects across the country. “There aren’t effective mechanisms to hold them accountable when budgets and deadlines are not met,” he adds. And the CRC saw its costs explode while doing the easy part: planning. Just wait, he says, until the project actually starts building a massive new bridge, disrupting a freeway that carries 120,000 vehicles per day, and working in the Columbia River under strict rules to protect sensitive salmon habitat. “Experience should tell us the risk is on the upside in these projects,” Cortright says. “It’s going to take longer and cost more than they say.”
David Evans turns in a draft environmental plan but says it’s used up all the money in the contract.
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then in charge of the project, submitted a terse four-page memo seeking an additional $45 million for the Evans contract. Normally, public agencies are required to seek competitive bids when contract amounts exceed a certain threshold. But to get that money for David Evans, Ficco didn’t need to get new bids from other contractors or even seek legislative approval. He merely had to answer a few brief questions on a WashDOT form. Here’s the key question: “Explain why the services were not included in the terms of the original contract?” “The services were included,” Ficco wrote. “The funding wasn’t.” That was his entire answer. And David Evans got $45 million added to its contract. Patricia McCaig is both a consultant to David Evans and the adviser to Gov. John Kitzhaber on the CRC project. She isn’t paid by Kitzhaber, but she’s billed David Evans $227,000 so far. McCaig says although the $45 million increase did not require approval of lawmakers or the states’ governors, it wasn’t just rubber-stamped. She says project officials wrote the contract to be amended without rebidding if Evans performed well. “The caliber and quality of work is evaluated all the way up to the [transportation department] directors,” McCaig says. “I don’t think anybody ever thought you could get to an ROD [Record of Decision] for $50 million. I believe that was just the maximum contract amount WashDOT could sign at the time.” Portland economist Joe Cortright, a critic of the CRC, says the practice of low-balling the cost of the initial contract and then hiking the price through amendments, or “change orders,” allows agencies to skirt oversight. “Why wouldn’t you rebid the contract when you are almost doubling the initial amount?” Cortright asks. “The argument is always that you’ve built relationships that would be lost with a rebid, but that’s not a good excuse.”
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She was 18 when she came to Oregon from Germany as an au pair and moved in with an Intel manager and his family in September 2010. She agreed to provide live-in child care so she could go to school and have an enriching cultural experience. But the young woman says she instead fought off the host father when he touched her breasts and put his hand between her legs. She fled the house and told the police. Back in Germany, she filed a lawsuit Oct. 5 in Multnomah County Circuit Court, accusing a Lake Oswego au pair placement agency of negligence and fraud. The suit alleges that US Au Pair Inc. and its owner, Helene Young, knew two previous au pairs had reported sexual advances made by the father, Ashish Gupta. The suit says Young didn’t warn the German woman about Gupta before placing her in his home. The suit—seeking $990,000 in damages—says the woman, now 19, later became suicidal. Experts say this is the first lawsuit of its kind in the U.S., and it reveals how au pairs lack adequate protection from abuse. Gupta declined to talk to WW for this story. Young, whose firm was paid $6,000 by Gupta for the placement, denied the allegations. “There is no basis for the charges,” she says. “They are totally unfounded. Anyone who knows me and my organization knows that what is being said is not true.” The U.S. State Department says its au pair program is “a mutually rewarding, intercultural opportunity” for young people (typically women) aged 18 to 26 to study here while working for and living with a host family. The State Department has approved 14 au pair placement agencies in the U.S., and ensures au pairs get 32 hours of training
in first aid, child development, cultural awareness and other issues. What they don’t get, placement agencies say, is training on how to deal with sexual harassment. Edina Stone, founder and CEO of Au Pair Clearinghouse, an online advocacy group, says it’s not easy for au pairs to speak up when things go wrong. “The au pair agencies have pretty much depended on the fact that these girls are young and foreign,” Stone says. “They’re here alone, and they don’t know how to get legal representation. “The German au pair did the right thing by bringing the lawsuit, because it’s the agency’s responsibility to make sure they’re screening both sides of the contract.” The lawsuit says US Au Pair’s Young told the German woman’s father that “the Gupta family had a few au pairs working with them in the past, there had been no problems reported, and the au pairs had enjoyed their experience.” Records obtained by WW show that police turned up a very different story. Washington County sheriff’s investigators found notes in US Au Pair’s files showing that an au pair in 2009 reported that Gupta had asked if she was a virgin and said he wanted to see her in a bikini. An investigator interviewed another au pair who said Gupta in 2008 rubbed her thigh and back, told her to leave her bedroom door open, and came into her room and lay down in bed next to her. She reported his behavior to US Au Pair staff, the sheriff ’s report says, and says Gupta had tried to punish her by refusing to let her attend school. The German au pair said Gupta touched her inappropriately on five occasions, and that she was initially too scared to say anything when Gupta put his hand between her legs while they sat on a couch. At one point, she said, he grabbed her bottom. “She was shocked,” the sheriff ’s report says, “and [he] then asked, ‘Can I touch it again?’ and she said ‘No.’ He then said, ‘Can I at least smack it?’ and she said ‘No.’ She said he then laughed and made
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fun of it afterward.” She said she resisted when Gupta kissed her neck and touched her breasts; when she rejected him, Gupta cut her pay and denied her use of the family’s car. When a sheriff ’s investigator interviewed him, Gupta denied any wrongdoing. He told the investigator that he gave the au pair back rubs, adding, “where he works at Intel, it is common for people to give each other shoulder massages.” The Washington County District Attorney’s Office charged Gupta in January with one count each of sexual abuse and harassment, both misdemeanors. Gupta pleaded not guilty and hired Stephen Houze, a well-known Portland criminal attorney. The DA dropped the case after the au pair and Gupta reached a civil compromise—a confidential agreement that she
wouldn’t pursue the case. Gupta is trying to get the record expunged. Rayney Meisel, Washington County deputy district attorney, says her office didn’t agree with the deal but didn’t fight it. (The settlement didn’t include US Au Pair.) “The victim was in Germany, and it would have taken a lot for her to be able to come out here,” Meisel says. “A civil compromise was a better situation for her.” Au Pair Clearinghouse’s Stone hopes the case will encourage placement agencies to screen host families more thoroughly and give au pairs sexual harassment training. “There should be an awareness campaign that says if you are abused, if your host parent does something to make you feel uncomfortable, you need to document it,” Stone says. “That’s what the agencies should be doing.”
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Mike, who supervises the night shift of the Safety/Peacekeeping detail, stands on the designated smoking corner at the edge of Alpha Camp. A BY AAR O N M E S H amesh@wweek.com two-way radio dangles from the collar of his green DJ Nick is back. He needs to get out of here, T-shirt. He’s tired of DJ Nick. because DJ Nick is trouble. Just after midnight Friday, Mike decides to go to He’s just one of the problem people the Safety/ the cops. Two Portland police officers stand on the Peacekeeping Committee worries about in the Occu- corner, known outside Occupy Portland as Southpy Portland camps. west 4th Avenue and Main Street. He tells one cop he wants DJ Nick arrested if There’s Pinkie, with his pink Cherry WEB EXTRA: Take 7UP jacket and pink Mardi Gras hat, who a video tour of the he returns. The cop says they’ve already tried to gets frantic dancing to his radio and has to Occupy Portland be calmed down. And there’s Justin, who camps at wweek.com. deal with DJ Nick. They sent him up to smears lavender oil across his expansive Oregon Health and Science University bare chest and yells at strangers and by morning will hospital. He refused treatment. have a black left eye and a fresh red scab on his nose. “We can cite him,” the patrolman says. “We But DJ Nick is real trouble. They banned him last couldn’t hold him.” “What you need to do,” Mike tells him, “is drive night, but he keeps returning to pick fights. He tells anyone who will listen that he’s been attacked. He him past OHSU and drop him off. It’ll take him a falls to the ground and begs for help, his eyes puffy couple of days to get back.” from crying. “I have HIV,” DJ Nick says. “I will spit blood on you.” CONT. on page 17 Willamette Week OCTOBER 26, 2011 wweek.com
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I can’t find a place to pitch my tent. Every inch of what used to be the north lawn of Chapman Square is covered with tents and tarps and pallets. The same goes for Lownsdale Square to the north. I’m moving into the Occupy Portland camps for two days so I can find out what happens when a protest turns semi-permanent in America’s most dissenthappy city. Two weeks earlier, more than 10,000 Occupy Portland marchers wound through the city—a spinoff of the Occupy Wall Street movement that began Oct. 6. Some ended up at Chapman and Lownsdale squares, now renamed Alpha and Beta camps. Occupiers say about 500 people live here now. They say they aren’t leaving. The Occupiers have established a democratic government, based not on majority rule but on volunteerism and consensus. They have honed their activism, holding a march a day and making their message more specific—like going into Wells Fargo last week to protest what they see as predatory banking practices. The camp’s leaders—mostly students and recent college grads who work as much as 20 hours a day—have built social services for everyone who lives here. They provide three meals a day, clothing, trash collection, medical care, religious services and acupuncture. And they offer seminars on personal economics, mental health and crocheting. But two weeks in the parks has also created growing stress on Occupy Portland. The bevy of services has made the camps a magnet for the homeless, who now outnumber the original protesters. The Occupy leaders find themselves dealing with some of the same social ills they have been protesting against. For help in finding a place to camp, I go to Engineering— one of many departments set up here. It’s in a shelter made of white plastic tarps and PVC pipes. Outside, there’s a table with cups of chicken soup and part of a chocolate cake. Anthony Dryer, with long brown hair and a yellow rain jacket, is standing nearby. He’s a server at Sushi Ichiban who returns to camp each evening after work. And he knows where there’s empty tent space. He finds me a straw-covered mud patch 4 feet by 6, right next to Main Street with a view of the elk fountain. My neighbor is Mario, who sits on a flattened Sierra Designs tent and plays with a beach ball marked “ > $.” Mario has no idea how to put his tent up, so Anthony and I help him. In broken, rapid English he thanks us, thanks
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God, tells us he’s Cuban and then sings and dances. God has given him a new heart, he says. Castro tried to conscript him into the army. “King Obama killed the king of the terrorists,” he says. “I’m a little crazy, but I don’t drink.” I drop off my things—a sleeping bag, a duffel with toothpaste, deodorant and clothes—and cross Main Street into Beta Camp. Dozens of Occupiers stand at the corner; everyone waits for the lights to change. The Library is in a blue tent filled with wooden and plastic shelves. The volunteer librarian, Mark Nerys, a freelance illustrator, sorts donated books according to the Dewey Decimal System. The books include Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, Mario Puzo’s The Last Don and Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight. “We make them all available,” Nerys says. “No censorship here.” Nerys has helped run the Occupy Portland Library
since the beginning, except the two days he went home with strep throat. It has more than 200 books, and Multnomah County librarians are helping catalog them. The pride of the Library was a collection of law books, including an especially prized volume on white-collar crime, until someone stole the entire set last week. From the outside, the Occupy Portland encampment is a confusion of tarps strung with crisscrossing yellow cords tied to Chapman and Lownsdale’s giant elms. Passersby also see signs—a nearly unbroken wall of signs—condemning Wall Street, “Banksters” and the 1 percent, the tiny sliver of Americans who control 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. “We are the 99%,” says one. “Veterans are the 99%,” says another. “Hip hop is the 99%.” On the back of a Hollywood CONT. on page 18
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Video closeout-sale placard someone has written, “Smile! The entire world is watching.” (The “o” in world is a peace sign.) Another has a drawing of an extended middle finger: “Put a bird on it.” Inside, the camps have a thicket of tents and a remarkable array of services. In Beta Camp, families with children have pitched their tents around Kids’ Camp, a tarped enclave that smells like talcum powder and is filled with boxes of crayons, stacks of DUPLO blocks, piles of dolls and a flag featuring Che Guevara. “Honestly, I’ve never had a moment when I’ve doubted bringing my son here,” says Kate Sherman, who’s dressing her 16-month-old son, Tupac, in a fuzzy green onesie. Alpha Camp has a 24-hour cafe with a plastic canteen of coffee. “Sorry! We are out of mugs,” says a sign. KBOO community radio broadcasts from a makeshift studio under a blue tarp, complete with an ON THE AIR light. They’re giving away sweaters and socks in the next booth. Other tents are named Relax, Octopi Portland, Beer Mecha. Across the sidewalk is Information, with tables covered with handbills. Next door is Safety/Peacekeeping. Nearby, there’s a noteboard marked “Missed (Romantic) Connections” where people have left yellow Post-its: “I love when you tickle me until I can’t breathe.” “I was the sexy guy with the ‘Free Therapy’ sign.” “Damon I am here! Love Mom.” Another board urges responsibility. “No Means No,” says a poster. “I’m Not Sure Means No,” “You’re Not My Type Means No,” and “Let’s Just Go to Sleep Means No.” It’s 10 paces from the part of Alpha Camp that
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Pit bulls are on leashes; two white huskies drink out of a Benson bubbler. A black-and-white pet rat scurries down the overalls of a woman in braids until only his tail shows. “I’m sorry,” she says, “he’s very antisocial.” A kitten named Marley Killface perches on the shoulder of a man with a studded leather jacket. The kitten is wearing his own tiny leather jacket decorated with metal clothespins.
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feels like a utopian commune to the south side, known as “A” Camp, which has become a hangout for street kids. Anarchists and crusty punks control “A” Camp. A kid stores a white Bic lighter in his stretched left ear-piercing hole. One man in a frayed sweater steps in front of strangers and says, “You want to see my testicles?”—and then holds a rubber scrotum in their faces.
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The Safety/Peacekeeping Committee has enlisted many of the street kids to help keep an eye out for trouble. “The homeless people are guarding the homeless people,” says Michael Withey, a cleancut man in his 40s who volunteers on the Finance Committee. “And it’s just not working.” While Occupy Portland is a grassroots democracy, a clear authority structure has emerged within the camp. Its operations are run by more than a dozen committees: Finance, Legal, Outreach, Chaplains, Sanitation. A new one forms whenever someone can amass support and volunteers for it. Members of some of the more influential committees wear armbands to identify their roles. Information has black lettering, and Safety/Peacekeeping has blue. Not everyone is getting along. Withey has organized a meeting between Occupy Portland leaders and city parks officials. Another committee leader tells him he doesn’t recognize Withey’s authority to schedule the meeting. “Whatever,” Withey says. “If nobody wants to show up, don’t show up.” After two weeks in camp, Withey’s grievances have reached a point where he declares aloud what other committee members will confirm during my stay. “More than half of the Occupiers here are homeless people,” he says. “Quite honestly, a lot of them don’t know what the movement is.” An “A” Camp resident named Tyler, with blond hair neatly combed and breath that smells of alcohol, complains that the city shut off an CONT. on page 21
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electric-car-charging station along Southwest 4th Avenue. Occupiers had run extension cords from it to charge cell phones. “You know why they’re not shutting us down?” Tyler says of City Hall. “Because they like us to live like this. ‘Y’all are peasants.’ They’re doing free hugs in here, because there’s a lot of people who haven’t even had a hug for a long goddamn time.” About an hour later, Tyler is in the group of “A” Camp residents helping Safety/Peacekeeping when DJ Nick shows up. DJ Nick threatens to spit blood on Tyler. “You’re lucky I don’t get a hammer and cave your head in,” Tyler shouts. It’s 6 pm, and the most impressive operation of Occupy Portland is now under way: dinner. The 20 Kitchen Committee volunteers serve at least 1,500 people every day. They’ve transformed the centerpiece of Lownsdale Park—a 1993 bronze statue of a pioneer family called The Promised Land—into a mess hall covered by massive blue and white tarps. The statue’s marble base supports racks of ginger, oregano, Parmesan cheese, sea salt, barbecue sauce, mustard and maple syrup. A sign nearby says, “First the Dishes, then the Revolution.” During my stay, I will eat bowls of red beans and rice, and cream of mushroom soup, a tangy tomato and cucumber salad, and a plate of flavorless, sticky glop made of potatoes. There’s also a pony keg of kombucha. The kitchen crew has limited electricity and no refrigerator. They cook with whatever is donated each day—much of it from factory farms. Many Occupiers worry they’re not being sustainable. “Prepackaged meat pasta in cans?” says Chris Klitch, an unemployed 27-year-old chef and Kitchen volunteer. “That’s not helpful. That’s not food, even.” Klitch looks resignedly over at the serving line, which has run out of forks. “You better not be putting out plasticware,” he mutters.
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In Terry Shrunk Plaza, just south of Alpha Camp, it’s time for General Assembly. Occupiers call it GA and convene every evening at 7 pm. The meetings are supposed to be finished by 10 pm,
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when the plaza closes to the public, but they’ve lasted as long as seven hours. GA Committee members want to limit clapping, which they deem disruptive. They’ve created seven silent hand gestures to express opinions. “Twinkles,” or fingers waved in the air, signals support. “Down twinkles,” fingers wagged at the ground, signals disagreement. They look silly at first but actually do keep the meetings flowing. Tonight one man comes forward with a proposal urging camp residents to rid themselves of all belongings “that come from somewhere immoral, like child labor.” He suggests they display trash bags filled with their discarded things. “That’s what Gandhi did,” he says. The acoustics aren’t great. So GA has developed what it calls the “mic check.” When people can’t speak into a microphone, they make a statement, and the crowd repeats it en masse. A woman objects to the idea of people throwing their clothes away. Many of the homeless people in the camp don’t have clothes to spare. “If we burn all our clothes…” she says. “If we burn all our clothes…” the group echoes. “We won’t have anything.” “We won’t have anything.” During the night there’s a rock concert in Beta Camp and a movie about auto workers in Alpha Camp. People are passed out on the ground. A man in thick glasses reads Psalms aloud from a leather Bible in Hebrew. One man barges into the tent of another guy he says is mistreating his girlfriend; a bystander calls it “drunk drama.” Jimmy Tardy, a committee leader who helps run GA, is standing by the Medical tent around 11 pm. Tardy, a conflict-resolution specialist in his 20s with glasses and a long ponytail, shows me the tent next door, Wellness. The tent has neatly organized rows of Lipton and Trader Joe’s tea, along with a box of free condoms. The Sanitation Committee will keep working all night to bag trash and set it at the southeast edge of Alpha Camp for city parks crews to pick up at 8 am. “What the hell’s going on here?” Tardy says. “But it’s working.” “There’s a massive amount of tweakers,” says a young man standing nearby. “There was one CONT. on page 23
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SCOOP GOSSIP THAT’S TOTALLY SICK OF LADY GAGA COSTUMES. ’WRIGHT STUFF: Portland Playhouse, the 4-year-old theater company recently evicted from its Northeast Portland home by the city, announced some good news Monday. The company has commissioned its first new work, from playwright Christina Anderson. Anderson, whose plays address the black experience in America with a magical bent, is among 15 young artists American Theatre magazine says “will be transforming America’s stages for decades to come.” RADIO FREE KETCHUP: From sourcing local ingredients to composting your nasty-ass trash, Burgerville has long positioned itself as ANDERSON a hip and decidedly Northwest fast-food chain. Now your local Burgerville even sounds cool: This month the company is launching an in-restaurant radio service with a focus on local music. In a press release that name-dropped indie-rock acts like Radiation City and Viva Voce, Burgerville said it plans to dedicate one-third of “BV Radio” airtime to local and regional artists. Burgerville says you’ll also be able to stream the station from home by year’s end. Local musicians can drop off their CDs at Burgerville HQ for airtime consideration. TRUCKIN’: Portland may soon get its first food trucks! Portland, Maine, that is. We sorta take trucks for granted but, believe it or not, they’re still verboten in many parts of the country, including our namesake back East. A special committee charged with making Other Portland more “creative” has approved the measure, which now goes to a city council committee, etc. Good luck, Other Portland, may your city someday have as many food carts as one PDX ’hood. O’BREW: Downtown Irish-themed bar chain Kells has applied to open Kells Brew Pub in a former furniture and fabric showroom at 210 NW 21st Ave. Kells is the third Northwest chain to place a claim on the street in recent weeks. The second location of Dick’s Kitchen and fourth Blitz sports bar are slated to open on 21st in the near future. EASTENDERS: Michele McDonnell and Gabriel Lageson, owners of East End, have applied along with Zachary and Kyja King to open Garageland, a “space for art, film and other performing arts” in the building next door to the bar at 215 SE Grand Ave. The new business will serve Mexican food and have a full bar. THAT’S BUNK: The meatball sub-pushers at Bunk Sandwiches have opened a new location at 211 SW 6th Ave., between Little Bird Bistro and Lauretta Jean’s Handmade Pies.
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THURSDAY OCT. 27 [BOOKS, MOVIES] SUSAN ORLEAN Her fleet new canine biography, Rin Tin Tin, considers the dog that was briefly voted Best Actor at the first Oscars. Orlean returns to Portland to read from her book and screen what she says is Rin Tin Tin’s best film, Clash of the Wolves. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 7 pm. $15.
FRIDAY OCT. 28 [AVANT NOISE] CHILDREN’S GAMES The latest and most ambitious venture by musique concrète composer Seth Nehil is a spooky video piece, shot by Dicky Dahl, accompanied by live music. The pieces of the work Nehil has posted to his blog are promising: filthy play in the woods, a white-walled classroom with a blackboard covered in mysterious scrawl, fire and distant howling and scratching. The Mouth, Inside Zoomtopia, 810 SE Belmont St., 320-7512. 8 pm Fridays-Sundays. Closes Nov. 6. $15, $10 students. [MOVIES] THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE II We’re not really recommending this, but for those of you who didn’t think the first Tom Six ass-to-mouth movie went far enough, here’s an even longer bug. Cinema 21, 616 NW 21st Ave., 223-4515. 10:45 pm. $6-$9.
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JOHN CARPENTER’S MUSIC IS IN THE KEY OF TERROR. It emerges out of the night, throbbing, relentless, implacable. It cannot be reasoned with. It cannot be silenced. It is coming from inside your brain. It is the music of John Carpenter. The director composed the music for most of his horror and sci-fi movies, including Halloween, Christine, Escape From New York and They Live. Each score is in the same insistent tempo, and in the key of E. For one night, anyway, Carpenter’s compositions are finally getting the respect afforded to minimalist composers like Steve Reich and Philip Glass. Local musician, author and composer Willy Greer has arranged nine Carpenter soundtracks as In E, a 45-minute suite for five musicians. (The title is an homage to Terry Riley’s 1964 randomized musical piece In C.) Greer will perform it with his ensemble the Magic Pumpkin at Tonic Lounge on Friday night. Carpenter wrote music that feels like a stabbing. “It’s not necessarily a pleasant experience for everybody,” Greer says. “There are certainly people who have adverse reactions to such highly
repetitive music. I guess that’s kind of what I like about it: You very rarely get a neutral reaction.” Greer first responded to Carpenter’s motifs when, as an 8-yearold learning to play drums, he saw Halloween for the first time and forever associated Michael Myers’ menacing trudge across suburban streets with a racing keyboard. After writing his own soundtracks for chillers like 2007’s Cthulhu, Greer recognizes Carpenter’s music as achieving the escalating purity of Glass’s Einstein on the Beach—or “Rowdy” Roddy Piper’s prolonged bum fight in They Live. “It’s a very simple idea that is milked for a good 10 minutes,” Greer says of that famed alleyway ass-kicking. “And that’s an argument you could also make about the composers of the ’70s: They might have been working within very repetitive structures, but there’s nothing minimal about the way they arrange the instrumentation and the harmonies.” In E will be performed with very few instruments: guitar, drums and several keyboards, including at least one synth. “We’re trying to keep it as synthy as humanly possible,” Greer said. AARON MESH
[MUSIC] RESONANCE ENSEMBLE If giggling 8-year-olds in Spider Man costumes soliciting sweetened candy don’t quite summon that deep cultural catharsis, this rare and splendid program should. Two poem settings by Samuel Barber, a pair of Brahms choral songs and excerpts from Maurice Duruflé’s 1947 Requiem bookend the centerpiece: Hugo Distler’s singular, seldom-performed 1934 concoction of early music- and free-jazz-influenced settings of Baroque mystical poetry, “Dance of Death,” inspired by the famous mural on the wall of Distler’s hometown church. Agnes Flanagan Chapel at Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, 427-8701, resonancechoral.org. 8 pm. $11-$22.
MONDAY OCT. 31 [TOUR] LONE FIR CEMETERY’S TOUR OF UNTIMELY DEPARTURES Portland’s oldest cemetery, Lone Fir, is filled with the remains of guys with names like Socrates Hotchkiss Tryon Sr. and people who died grisly deaths involving syphilis, logging, or barfights related to poker games or winning the affections of women named Mildred. Lone Fir Cemetery, entrance on Southeast 26th Avenue off Stark, 224-9200, 6 pm. $10 for adults, $15 for families of four with two children.
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Last week’s funny pages found Pearls Before Swine auteur Stephan Pastis, who draws himself into his strip as a slouchy chain-smoker with a goatee and a backwards ball cap, feuding with a 9-year-old hate blogger. “Listen, Cartoon Critic 2544, please stop criticizing my strip,” he pleads to an unimpressed Goldilocks stand-in. “I try very hard with my jokes and you’re really hurting my feelings.” Coincidentally, the segment ran during Pastis’ first full book tour, set to stop in Portland this week. So strips depicting the artist as a prickly, petty little man had “Meet Stephan Pastis at this time and that place” blurbs grafted on to them. Metafunny? You decide. Either way, they’re unlikely to dissuade fans of Pearls, a three-panel strip that often finds humor in the darker impulses of its crudely sketched anthropomorphic (and unimaginatively named) characters, led by the blissfully naive Pig, the hard-drinking misanthrope Rat, and the latte-sipping armchair philosopher Goat. Wikipedia tells us that Pearls “has become somewhat controversial due to its use of adult humor, mock profanity, violence, drinking and drug references and references to Middle-Eastern terrorism.”
This is true. Also true: Pearls debuted a decade ago, the last time (“last” as in “former,” and probably also “last” as in “final”) when daily newspapers had money to go through the rigmarole of introducing new syndicated comic strips. It now seems weirdly suspended in space on comics pages where anything new (read: funny by contemporary standards) has been brushed aside to shrink pages without slashing into the legacy strips preferred by old people and half-cyborg grandkids sitting bored on their laps long enough to guiltlessly cash the $15 birthday check they’ll use to buy toxic-waste-flavored energy drinks and computer gaming discs. If you’re a Gen Xer, a baby boomer who ‘gets’ those Lonely Island boys, or the rare Millennial who reads newspapers, Pastis is now pretty much Your Guy on the comics page. Get Fuzzy and Cul de Sac (which comparatively few cities get, thanks Oregonian!) are your only other options. Editors aren’t likely to frag Beetle Bailey to make room for new strips that their readers (with an average age of 57, Pastis points out) will only bitch about anyway. “They are now in such a downward arc that they’re petrified,” he says. “And like anyone who’s petrified, they get very conservative very fast. So now they’re going to take less chances than ever, which further contributes to the problem of no young readers. I feel like Indiana Jones at the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark when he goes under that stone wall that’s collapsing and grabs his whip or whatever. That was me, the last one under the stone wall. The door shut behind me.”
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Most of Pastis’ peers seem happy to go gently into the night, cashing checks on the way out. That’s not Pastis’ style— you don’t become an attorney, then give up that career to draw little pictures of smart-mouthed animals only to half-ass things. His only recourse is to mock them in his strip. Family Circus, which is now done mostly by Bil Keane’s son Jeffy, is a favorite target. This is almost always a bad dynamic, he says. “What happens is the guy who takes over, just like the newspaper editor, doesn’t want to screw up the franchise,” he says. “If you look at early Family Circus, they’re even edgy. The dad is kind of this brutish lout, and then it kinda gets Disneyized over the years because you don’t want to be the one who stopped the gravy train.”
And thus you have poor Pastis, pissing off old people and children who don’t get it, then getting shredded on message boards by comic nerds who think he’s not edgy enough. Despite last week’s strips, he says he’s learned to ignore it—mostly. “When you start out you read everything, every message board, everything anyone says,” he says. “The only thing I’ll still do is Google and click ‘News’ and put in the name of the strip. Unfortunately, that does also pull up letters to the editor. But I’ve seen every comment someone can put on a message board, you only need to look for the first year of syndication, so that truly is not helpful.” GO: Stephan Pastis appears at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm Thursday, Oct. 27. Free.
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Cheesy name aside, Salty’s Brews ‘n’ Views party offers a nice combination of beer, river views and food specials. The evening includes samples from local breweries such as HUB, Bridgeport and Widmer, along with beer-friendly appetizers in the form of beer cheese fondue, beer marshmallows, pork belly, bleu cheese gougères and salmon with an apricot reduction. Reservations recommended. Salty’s on the Columbia, 3839 NE Marine Drive, 505-9986. 6-9 pm. $29. 21+.
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On the fence about doing the costume thing this year? Brasserie Montmartre is offering an incentive, 20 percent off its full brunch menu, if you go out in broad daylight in costume. Ladies dressed as the ever-popular “Slutty Nurses,” “Slutty Cop,” or “Zombie Amy Winehouse,” please stay home as children will be present. Brasserie Montmartre, 626 SW Park Ave., 236-3036. 10 am-2 pm.
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The “five minutes a day” claim is a little overblown as it will surely take any amateur far longer to faithfully follow the recipes, but authors Zoe Francois and Jeff Hertzberg do teach you how to make a damn nice loaf. They’ll be talking about their third collaborative cookbook, Artisan Pizza and Flatbread in Five Minutes a Day, with a cooking demonstration of their lightningfast techniques at the Powell’s Beaverton location. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651. 7 pm. Free.
As if there aren’t enough kid-centric Halloween events, the PSU Farmers Market is getting into the game with a Great Pumpkinthemed event. Wholesome activities include a scavenger hunt, a pumpkin-carving contest and a children’s costume parade at noon. Yay! At least they’re unlikely to
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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 26 Spank Rock, The Death Set, Big Freedia, Pictureplane, Franki Chan
[MUSIC] A visit from Baltimore’s Spank Rock is always cause for celebration, but when the opening act is Portland’s favorite New Orleans sissy bounce queen Big Freedia, it guarantees the room will be packed shoulder-to-shoulder and there will be ass—or “azz,” if you prefer—everywhere. The most interesting act on the bill, though, is the Death Set—a thrillingly edgy (or horribly obnoxious, depending on your ears) punk/electro duo that recalls a sweeter Atari Teenage Riot or a more successful reconstruction of Tim Armstrong’s ill-fated drum-n-punk project, the Transplants. It promises to be a fun/weird/slap-happy night, and it happens to be Conrad Loebl’s last night as a well-loved Rotture/Branx inhouse booker extraordinaire (he will be missed), so expect the club’s personality to undergo some changes in the coming months. CASEY JARMAN. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 8 pm. $20. All ages.
Shellac, Helen Money
[EXPERIMENTAL MINIMALISM] Considering his first band titled an album Songs About Fucking and his other group is called Rapeman, Shellac could be thought of as producer and legendary curmudgeon Steve Albini’s tamest musical project. Of course, “tame” is a relative term when dealing with a man of such staunch punk principles. Across the band’s intermittent discography— it’s put out five albums in 17 years, the last being 2007’s Excellent Italian Greyhound—are traces of the Albini signatures that date back to his vicious industrial-rock prototype Big Black: metallic, lacerating guitar; a fascination with transgressive lyrical subject matter; no true melodies to speak of; and a general uncompromising, unrelenting attitude to the way it goes about business. It’s just delivered in a slightly more fun-loving way, which manifests itself live in spontaneous question-and-answer sessions with the audience and even the occasional bunny costume. So maybe Albini isn’t such an asshole after all. Ah, who am I kidding? He’s a huge asshole. But Shellac still rules. MATTHEW SINGER. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $12. 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 all-stars. BRETT CAMPBELL. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 2956542. 8 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. 21+.
Cuong Vu with Burn List
[FUTURISTIC JAZZ] Like most young jazz players, trumpeter Cuong Vu came to many people’s attention through his work as a member of a more well-known musician’s ensemble. In Vu’s case, it was via his work with guitarist Pat Metheny. But Vu’s original material is what keeps his star shining bright in the jazz world. On his solo ventures, the Washington state native tends to run his trumpet through a series of effects à la late period Miles Davis while his band grooves and deconstructs behind him. He stops by Portland in support of a nebulous and amazing new album, Leaps of Faith. ROBERT HAM. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 8 pm. $15. 21+.
Green Noise Records Night: The Bi-Marks, TitPig, Doom Patrol, DJ Ken Dirtnap
[PUNK ROCK] Seattle’s hardcore wrecking ball TitPig, endearingly and knowingly knuckleheaded, has one of the more idiotic (read: brilliant) Twitter feeds I’ve seen recently. May 16: “I’m gonna fight Ray Ramono [ sic].” May 23: “Fuck the joshua tree hey guys guess what it’s the fucking desert [sic].” July 30: “36 bus is nutz [sic].” These tweets only hint at TitPig’s stupid genius. TitPig’s singer, clearly committed to dopiness as a lifetime pursuit, has a huge tattoo of a reptilian wizard thing on his chest. Also, TitPig’s shirts double as rough guides to fisting a man until he orgasms. Is a description of this band’s music even necessary? OK then: Punk. Fucking. Rock. Period. CHRIS STAMM. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.
THURSDAY, OCT. 27 Dwarves, Zeke, American Friction
[FURIOUSLY FAST] Buzzsawing its way through the past two decades, Seattle’s Zeke is one of those bands that put its head down, charged forward and never looked up. Unrelentingly fast and loud—and, frankly, unrepentantly indebted to Motörhead, which it more or less rips off while adding just a smidgen of modern hardcore ’tude—the band started in the early ’90s heyday of Epitaph Records and has just kept going, regardless of whether anyone else is listening or caring (though it hasn’t put out an official full-length album since 2004’s ’Til the Livin’ End). Come for the speed, stay to see if anyone in infamous shock-punk institution Dwarves gets naked on stage. MATTHEW SINGER. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 9 pm. $15. 21+.
Pomplamoose, Louis and Genevieve
[WE CAN HAZ CAREER?] Although Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn were acclaimed as living symbols of the Music Industry 2.0 before they had played more than a handful of gigs as Pomplamoose, breathless media coverage of their viral branding triumphs never questioned the sustainability of the duo’s appeal. Hard to argue with six-figure song downloads sold absent any tangible product (this summer’s CD debut more a novelty gimmick for fans) or 60 million viewings of the Northern California couple’s adorably scruffy home videos (YouTube splitting subsequent ad revenue). But how long can insufferably twee, willfully eccentric indie-cabaret renditions of Lady GaGa and Beyoncé tunes that swap all essential production signifiers for xylophone breaks and labored sincerity possibly last? JAY HORTON. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St.,
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TECHONOMICS
LOVE IT OR HATE IT, TECH N9NE IS ON TOP. BY CASEY JA R MA N
cjarman@wweek.com
Wipe away his trademark face paint, and Tech N9ne is still one of the most fascinating figures in rap. He’s skilled enough to outshine Outkast’s Andre 3000 on Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter IV, business savvy enough to sell well over a million records without label support, and he’s outlandish enough to share stages (and fans) with Insane Clown Posse. Those pieces combined form one of the most loved and reviled figures in American music: The Kansas City MC’s costumed stage show and aggressive rap-rock backing tracks help detractors write off Tech N9ne as gimmick-fueled low art. But Tech’s oft-dark, unflinchingly personal lyrics and his lightning-quick delivery—plus a knack for conversing easily with audiences—have endeared him to a fervent and growing fanbase of “Technicians.” So if Tech N9ne (born Aaron Yates, a name he says he hates) is such a big deal, why is he playing Bend, Ore., and Casper, Wyo., on his current tour? “I’m trying to tread every piece of this Earth before I go,” Yates says from his tour bus in Southern California. “A couple months ago, we did a tour with 83 shows in 85 days, and you would think, with that many shows, that we wouldn’t have any lost cities. But these are all the lost cities, pretty much, that we didn’t hit last tour.” This obsessive-compulsive desire to play the sleepier corners of the planet is real. Tech plays Aspen, Colo., regularly (“It’s a beautiful little town; all the rich people come out and see Tech N9ne”) and will perform for troops in Afghanistan in December. But it’s also one of Yates’ many personality quirks that dovetail so nicely with socialnetworking business models that it’s hard to tell where the excitable, self-built rapper ends and the cunning businessman begins. Yates uses Twitter to track down collaborators (he’s currently angling for Slipknot and Bush’s Gavin Rossdale). He meets with fans before every show (but it takes purchasing a $125 gift package to guarantee an hour with the MC). On his new disc, All 6’s and 7’s—which
has sold more than 150,000 copies since its June release—Yates offers something for everyone, from dubstep to heavy metal and bass-heavy beats. “You’re not going to like everything I do, but you’re going to like something I do,” Yates says. Thus far, the Neapolitan-flavor strategy has worked wonders for Tech N9ne’s pocketbook, even if his music rarely touches the radio waves (“We’d rather put our money into other things than payola,” he says). In 1999, the MC co-founded Strange Music, a label that allows for that same diversity. The label’s roster features a fittingly odd assortment of Kansas City mainstays (Big Scoob, Krizz Kaliko) and nearly forgotten gangster hip-hop veterans (Brotha Lynch Hung, Young Bleed). That’s what happens when a self-described schizophrenic is the vice president of an indie hip-hop label. “I never wanted to be in one bracket,” he says. “I never wanted to just do the fast rap or do the sexual music or do the dark rapper, sad-all-the-time thing. I want to be known as a clusterfuck.” And if that means an awkward alliance with Insane Clown Posse, Yates says, bring it on. “People fear what they can’t understand, and what they can’t understand they try to destroy. A lot of people say, ‘Oh, the Juggalos are dirty and they can bring Tech down,’” Yates says, addressing his critics. “But the Juggalos are a part of the human race, and my music is supposed to be for everybody. So why would I alienate anybody? That’s like racism, and that’s my pet peeve. I don’t fuck with racism, it’s not my thing.” The diatribe might seem trivial, but it’s indicative of what fans love about Tech N9ne’s music. Yates has a way of turning the personal—his drug use, family, hang-ups with religion—into the monumental. On songs like the ranting/revealing “Delusional,” the listener feels as if even Yates isn’t sure where the next verse will take him. There may be some truth to that. If there was ever a distinction between Aaron Yates and Tech N9ne, the MC says, it’s disappearing fast. “When I put that face paint on, I just get that growl. I just feel like a superhero.” But is Tech N9ne a superhero or supervillain? Yates laughs at the question: “I think I’m a superhero with villain tendencies.” SEE IT: Tech N9ne plays the Roseland Theater on Sunday, Oct. 30. 8 pm. Sold out. All ages. Willamette Week OCTOBER 26, 2011 wweek.com
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Buttery Lords, The Sexbots, Bling Theatre
[IT’S TRICKY/TREATY] There are many different ways of making it rain, of course, and one could attribute the coloring books designed and printed especially for the evening’s performance to be nothing more than an oddly family-friendly bit of generosity on the part of our headliners—Buttery Lords to the end. Still, though not necessarily hinting toward Halloween (Sexbots’ opening Star Trek performanceorgy shall promise costuming, at the least), the simpler forms of art therapy are redolent of mental illness, and the troupe’s sophomore effort Monsters & Madness explores the demons within to blistering effect. The Beastie Boys may have brought neuroses to rap, but the Lords’ seamless id/ego/superego shifting (egged on by athletic delivery and frenzied cadence) is articulate, confident and thor-
Bridge to Russia
[JAZZ DIPLOMACY] This concert benefits the Jazz Bridge Project, a musical exchange instigated by one of Portland’s most admirable civic artists, PSU music prof and piano master Darrell Grant. The exchange swaps musicians from Portland with those from our Russian sister city, Khabarovsk (which is sort of the Memphis of Russia). Our delegation, which includes students, will talk and perform in schools, give concerts, bring teaching materials and generally replace those bad old Cold War vibes with cool new jazz beats. Tonight, Grant and his allstar bandmates (composer-bassist Charley Gray, drummer Alan Jones, singer Marilyn Keller and saxophonist Scott Hall) will premiere an original jazz suite (based on Russian folk songs) that they composed for the occasion. Russian pianist Andrei Kitaev and other guests will also perform. BRETT CAMPBELL. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. Reception at 6 pm. Show at 7 pm. $10-$25. All ages.
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[NORTHWEST EMO-RAP] A handful of Seattle MCs are being hyped right now—Macklemore, Grynch, Sol—but very few of them are actually signed to record labels. Twenty-six-year-old Grieves was picked up by Rhymesayers, the historic Minneapolis-based imprint, last year, and it’s a perfect home for the baby-faced MC; his raps of drug addiction and heartbreak are cut from the same musical cloth as the label’s owners, Slug and Ant of Atmosphere. Of course, Grieves has a long way to go before he can be put in the same class as Slug, but he shows plenty of promise on his Rhymesayers debut, Together/ Apart, which finds his bulky, huffy voice paired with reflective lyricism to make him sound wise and developed beyond his years. Letting one beatsmith—the talented multiinstrumentalist/producer Budo— handle all of the album’s beats shows Grieves’ desire for cohesiveness, something he’s well on his way to finding. REED JACKSON. Peter’s Room, 8 NW 6th Ave., 2199929. 8 pm. $13. All ages.
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Jason Webley, Shook Twins
[MONSTER OF ACCORDION] I attended a Jason Webley show that, at one point, had the entire crowd running around in a tickling frenzy. I saw another performance where his streaks of conversational storytelling took up as much time, if not more, than his actual songs did. Webley’s shows are unpredictable and highly varied, but there are two things you can expect to see when this theatrical, gravellyvoiced man takes the stage: A damn fine accordion player and a crowd that’s just as much a part of the performance as he is. EMILEE BOOHER. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 8 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. All ages.
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7:30PM
BY JAY H O RTO N
SMOOCHKNOB Formed: Around the turn of the millennium, when frontmanto-be Donnie Rife abandoned the Midwest for the promise of Portland. Sounds like: Weezer, should a lovely and uncomplicated girl have approached Rivers Cuomo in the winter of 1994 and turned his frown upside down. For fans of: A power-pop-punk joy ride unswayed by fashion and expressly designed to audience specifications. Latest release: Junior High Anthems, last month’s sampling of odds and ends never properly recorded. It likely won’t change the band’s lingering local reputation as a wholly live phenomenon. Why you care: Why don’t you care, actually? Failings of nomenclature aside—after Cherry Poppin’ Daddies conquered suburbia, one can’t ever take names that seriously—Rife and company have forged an enviable career absent press support or a previously existing scene. The band’s muscular, simplistic approach to power-pop hasn’t the craftsman’s sheen or self-deprecating wit we typically expect from the genre, but Smoochknob’s fortunes continue to rise. Artless and unaggressive regional pop acts without the slightest regard for romanticizing their labors—this Saturday’s concert, the eighth consecutive Halloween weekend show to sell out Dante’s, centers around a vaguely defined theme of zombies fighting Star Wars characters—don’t get to depend upon ever-escalating good times as a career strategy, right? Though, with a name like Smoochknob, they’d have to be good. SEE IT: Smoochknob plays Dante’s on Saturday, Oct. 29, with Poison’us and Cellar Door. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
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FRIDAY, OCT. 28 Kathryn Calder, Like a Villain
[PORNO POP] Even if you don’t know the name Kathryn Calder, you know her voice. Since 2005, the Canadian native has been providing backing vocals and keyboards for her uncle A.C. Newman’s band, the New Pornographers. But last year, Calder made the move to center stage with the release of her own bittersweet and wonderful pop LP, Are You My Mother? Exhibiting some of the innate songwriting ability that must run in the family, Calder quickly returns this month with a new album, Vivid and Bright, a collection of synth-heavy songs that sound founded from the same source as late ’80s Kate Bush and fellow Canuck Jane Siberry. ROBERT HAM. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. 9 pm. $12. All ages.
King Tuff, Suicide Notes, Guantanamo Baywatch, Still Caves
[SUPER TUFF] As if Kyle Thomas weren’t busy enough writing and performing as a member of the bands Happy Birthday and Witch, the Vermonter has affixed a great rock moniker to his person—King Tuff—and has been traversing the world, squeezing new life out of the garage-pop formula. Through this and his other garage-y projects (OK, Witch is straight-up stoner metal), Thomas exhibits the kind of lackadaisical joy and facility tossing out perfect pop hooks that puts him close to the front of the line as a potential heir to Jay Reatard’s crown. ROBERT HAM. East End, 203 SE Grand Ave., 232-0056. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
Houndstooth, Swim Swam Swum, The Four Edge
[PORTLAND VIA DIXIELAND] Houndstooth, the local quintet featuring ex-Inside Voices frontman John Gnorski (as well as members of Swim Swam Swum and the Parson Red Heads), tags itself as “Southern rock,” but if the band can be filed with groups like the Allman Brothers, it’s the most dulcet act the genre’s ever known. Certainly, Houndstooth bears Southern rock’s country influence, and the style’s jammy tendencies manifest themselves live, where Gnorski spiderwalks along his fret board in chopsy guitar solos. Lynyrd Skynyrd, though, never sounded as contemplative—lonesome, even—as the mood Houndstooth summons with clear, ringing guitar and lead singer Katie Bernstein’s serene vocals. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., 228-3669. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
King Louie One-Man Band, Guantanamo Baywatch, Midnight Snaxx, Chemicals, Youth Bitch
[GARAGE GOD] The grimy rock ’n’ roll that King Louie Kingston crafts under his One Man Band guise is, at first blush, the sneering and leering sort of junkyard skronk that gives guys with Hasil Adkins hairdos license to indulge in creepy nostalgia for brutish greaser shtick. But sit a spell with the legendary Louie— and his knack for crafting wistful pop that slinks into the scuzzbucket jamboree—to add some feeling and healing to the proceedings. It’s Kingston’s sweet center I’m most drawn to, so I’m a bit bummed he’s not playing with his powerpop outfit the Missing Monuments tonight, but I’ll take Louie any way I can get him. And Slabtown is offering two opportunities to make that happen: King Loui also helms an “All-Star jam” at Slabtown on Saturday. CHRIS STAMM. Slabtown, 1033 NW 16th Ave., 223-0099. 9 pm. Cover. 21+.
SATURDAY, OCT. 29 Jeff Beck
[WAY, WAY WIRED] The English guitar god of Yardbirds fame wields
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an axe better than Timber Joey. And while Mr. Beck is closing in on 70, you’d never know it by his ambitious 2010 release, Emotion & Commotion, which features—once you get past some of the worst album art ever designed—a colossal orchestra, relentless soloing and enough wah-wah pedal to turn your knees to rubber. Beck’s cosmic rock sources from jazz, psych rock and the blues, his signature Stratocaster an extension of his carbon being. Go for the breakneck finger work, stay for his spacey version of “Corpus Christi Carol.” MARK STOCK. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 8 pm. $53.50$73.50. All ages.
The Quick & Easy Boys, The Pretty Poor Know, The Resolectrics
[FUNK, PSYCH ROCK] The Quick & Easy Boys are trying to get your daughters to dance and smoke weed and then dance some more. To categorize this band would be to do it a disservice, but a telling signifier of its sound is the band’s rallying cry at shows: “Yeah, Bud!” The Boys’ mix is a little rock, a little pop, a little soul and a whole lot of funk. Red Light Rabbit, the band’s 2010 sophomore album, finds the band’s energy level high and its sonic mix as intoxicating as ever. MAGGIE SUMMERS. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
Commotion’s Talking Heads Tribute, The Polyrhythmics
[MAKING FLIPPY-FLOPPY] Local jazz wunderkind Ben Darwish is of the rare breed that differentiates between tribute and imitation. He proved it with his stellar mash-up of Michael Jackson and Fela Kuti, and he and flagship band Commotion are at it again with a 10-piece tribute to New Wave sacred cows the Talking Heads. With full percussion and horn sections, expect a funhouse mirror version of the iconic Stop Making Sense performance. Which is to say, expect shit to get insanely funky and Afrobeatdriven, with Philly’s Phunkestra siren Aniana Hough on vocals while Darwish dons David Byrne’s big suit and Bernie Worrell’s psychedelic keys. It’s quite possible the Goodfoot’s dance floor will burn. AP KRYZA. Goodfoot Lounge, 2845
SE Stark St., 503-239-9292. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
Mood Area 52 (Nosferatu screening with live score)
[VAMPIRE TANGO] One of All Hallows Eve’s most fun rituals is the annual Mission appearance by this accomplished Eugene surrealist neotango ensemble (accordion, cello, electric axe, bass, horns, toy piano, percussion) Mood Area 52, performing its original, semi-improvised score to F.W. Murnau’s 1922 film, Nosferatu. The group’s old-Euromeets-modern-weird vibe, and the theater—located in an 1891 former church building—combine to provide a strangely appropriate setting for the German Expressionist silent-film version of the Dracula story. Before the lights go down, MA52 will perform behind the Middle Eastern dance troupe Luminessa, which will be appropriately costumed (think black lipstick) and choreographed for the season. BRETT CAMPBELL. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 8 pm. $10. 21+.
Rubblebucket, Copy, Pocket Knife
[PSYCHEDELIC DANCE POP] It had been a while, before I heard Rubblebucket’s Omega La La, that an album had blown me away with production wizardry. The Brooklynbased dance band’s disc is packed to the gills with synths, horns and percussion, but it’s the soaring boygirl vocal harmonies and towering song structures that really killed me. From schizo-disco cuts with silly lyrics (“You Came Out of a Lady”) to startlingly pretty and airy rock cuts (“Breatherz (Young as Clouds)”), this outfit knows how to stack its rhythms sky high and go for broke on record. It helps that said record was produced by the folks behind some of the most tripped-outsounding pop music of the last decade (LCD Soundsystem, Animal Collective), but video evidence suggests that the eight-piece band successfully translates the stellar disc’s psych/world sound in concert. CASEY JARMAN. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
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ALBUM REVIEW
CHROME WINGS NEW LANDS (AMDISCS) [MOODY, UNUSUAL AND RICH] Chrome Wings’ music exists below the surface of the water, calmly burbling along while it gets warped by ripples, reflecting back glittering bits of sunlight. At least that seems to be what the duo is aiming for on New Lands. Every sound on this opulent new album has been altered by effects pedals or postproduction filtering: Guitars echo through the stereosphere, drum parts are covered with several layers of gauze, and what vocals you can process are mostly lost in the sonic haze. Chrome Wings members Jon Jurow and Shane McDonell run the risk of turning these songs into an amorphous muddle that would only appeal to a subset of listeners (of which I am a cardcarrying member, for what it’s worth), but they only skirt that line throughout the album, and that is their triumph. What pulls New Lands from the brink are elements like the Suicide-meets-Silver Apples bass line throbbing through the title track, and the “Be My Baby”/“Just Like Honey” rhythm of “Drip City” that manages to survive waterfalls of electronic noise raining down on it. It’s that combination of the starkly melodic with the droning and noisy elements that Chrome Wings has been working out since the project began. The group has finally found the right balance here and, as a result, has emerged with a near-perfect statement of musical purpose. ROBERT HAM. HEAR IT: Chrome Wings’ New Lands 12-inch is out Monday, Oct. 31.
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[HOT JAZZ] Like poor Jack Nicholson transported back to the glamorous days of masquerade balls and ax-murdering, Portland sextet the Midnight Serenaders offers a musical trip back to the days of 1920s and ’30s hot jazz. It’s plucky, fox-trotty, authentic and, as the group proves on its third album, this year’s Hot Lovin’, more than a little suggestive. The Serenaders’ vibe makes its annual Halloween Bash a classy alternative to the night’s typically ghoulish dance parties, offering more of a ballroom-masquerade ambiance. Tell ’em Delbert Grady sent you…and leave the ax at home. AP KRYZA. Secret Society Lounge, 116 NE Russell St., 493-3600. 9 pm. $10 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
Transylvanian Voodoo Ball: Vagabond Opera, Chervona, Rachel Brice, Amy Hotfield
[VOODOO VAGABONDS] Colliding neo-bohemian swing, gypsy bravado, cabaret, vaudeville, opera, jazz and more than a little oohla-la, every show by legendary Portland troupe Vagabond Opera feels like Halloween. This is, after all, a band based on costumed showmanship, and all its slinky and throbbing sounds are sure to hypnotize and mesmerize. With new cuts from this year’s Sing for Your Lives on the roster for the Transylvanian Voodoo Ball, these freaks can utilize Halloween’s inhibition-busting ability to entrance with music that is inherently creepy, heftily askew and playfully sexy. AP KRYZA. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 9 pm. $15 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.
SUNDAY, OCT. 30 Amanda Richards, Fever
[DOOM’S DAY ROCKABILLY] If Sam Raimi and Bonnie Raitt had a baby, it might turn out an awful lot like Amanda Richards. The Portland singer-songwriter has a knack for twang, so much so that she’s flexing two Grammy nominations for Best Country Song. Her 2010 record, Play Dead, is a postapocalyptic-themed story, rich with zombies, doom and her standard folky songwriting. Richards sings from a make-believe pulpit, with veins pulsing and fret fingers swollen. If Halloween were a band, it’d be Amanda Richards and company. MARK STOCK. Rontoms, 600 E Burnside St., 236-4536. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
Wild Ones, Youth, Ocean Age
[SWEET SEA SOUNDS] Wild Ones is the brain child of Danielle Sullivan and Thomas Himes, who stuck together after Eskimo&Sons—the busy, clangrock outfit they were both a part of—split up. After spending some time writing songs together in their bedrooms, the duo added multi-instrumentalist and old bandmate Clayton Knapp to the mix,
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WHITE DENIM SATURDAY, OCT. 29 [EVOLVING ROCK] For Josh Block, drummer for Austin’s White Denim, describing the process of recording the band’s new album is a bit difficult. It probably shouldn’t be; it wasn’t, as they say, his first rodeo. In fact, D, which came out in May, is the genre-hopscotching group’s third record. As far as the band’s concerned, however, it might as well be its debut. It’s the first album White Denim worked on outside of the trailer it uses as a combination studio and practice space. It was a new experience that changed the way the band thinks about making music. So, when asked to discuss this record in relation to those that came before it, Block defers to a metaphor. “Last night, this girl at dinner was talking to her friend who was taking a picture on Instagram,” he says over the phone while on break from rehearsals, a day before the band leaves on tour with Manchester Orchestra. “The girl was talking about photography and saying, ‘I don’t use that stuff,’ referring to digital processing. She seemed put off by it, and she had sound reasons.” Her argument, he explains, is that she objected to people being able to essentially manufacture accidents—to make a photo look like the product of the moment it was taken when it was actually manipulated after the fact. And that’s what Block considers White Denim’s earlier albums to be: exercises in faux-spontaneity. “We did a really good job of making them seem like accidents,” he says. Listening to D, the difference is clear. It feels meticulously crafted, and largely for the better. White Denim’s 2009 breakthrough, the aptly named Fits, was a frantic, schizophrenic record; the sound of Southern garage punk, psychedelic rock, prog and free jazz tossed into a blender and set on puree for an hour. While D maintains that jittery restlessness, it’s mostly under the surface. Instead of blitzing from one style and time signature to the next— usually in the span of a single verse—the band relaxes enough to allow its gorgeously sprawling, swirling songs to fully unravel. It’s still stylistically manic, but the shifts are more coherent, skipping from the desert-fried Grateful Dead of the Meat Puppets’ Up on the Sun (“It’s Him!”) to the twinkling cosmos-folk of early My Morning Jacket (“Street Joy”) to rollicking, hooky rock ’n’ roll (“Bess St.”). “We used to just approach everything as it came and hit every idea and let the album itself decide how it was going to come out,” Block says. “With this one, there was a lot more planning. It was more of a traditional approach.” Along with the addition of guitarist Austin Jenkins, who joins Block, singer-guitarist James Petralli and bassist Steve Terebecki, D is not just a new album but the start of a new band—one that no longer has to record in a trailer, at least. “Everyone has grown as a player and a person,” he says. “I think those times, as great as they were, are behind us—which isn’t a bad thing.” MATTHEW SINGER. Out of the trailer, into the fire.
SEE IT: White Denim plays the Wonder Ballroom on Saturday, Oct. 29, with Manchester Orchestra, the Dear Hunter and Little Hurricane. 8 pm. $16.50-$20. All ages.
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[SLUDGE] You could be forgiven for thinking that Mendozza is from the Bay Area. Its gargantuan nods to Melvins’ single-note riffage, High on Fire-esque gallops and Neurosis-like apocalypse take up the entirety of the self-titled album released last month. But Mendozza, led by drummer gal Bina Nancy Whisky, hails from the wintry Northlands of Vancouver, B.C. That lucky locale led the group to a fortunate early break on the Underworld: Evolution soundtrack. Since then, the band has continued to slog it out on its own strength, volume and mettle. NATHAN CARSON. Plan B, 1305 SE 8th Ave., 230-9020. 9 pm. $6. 21+.
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THE IMPOSTERS/ TEMPORAL LOVE WEDNESDAY 10/26 @ 6PM The Imposters are a Los Angeles, Hermosa Beachbased punk-rock band. They are Evan Hein (bass), Miles Gretsky (drums), and Nickolai Preiss (guitar, vocals, organ, piano, djembe, xylophone, banjo, bass, drums, kazoo, tambourine). Their new album, ‘Animal Magnetism,’ boasts an impressive range of musical influences, which remain undeniably contained within the punk realm. Temporal Love continues to demonstrate that they’re one of the thickest, nastiest, most energetic storms to explode onto the rock and roll spectrum. While anchored in paying homage to the blues, acknowledging jazz, and toying with funk, they blast forth a power-trio force scarcely reckoned with in the world of music today.
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featuring GABBY LA LA & PAMELA PARKER FRIDAY 10/28 @ 6PM Gabby La La is a sitarist extraordinaire and Nintendo 8 Bit beat master. Her latest CD ‘I Know You Know I Know’ is completely self produced and performed by La La, using sitar, ukulele, theremin, voice and Nintendo DS Lite. She is currently touring with her duo, Snow Angel, which features her on sitar, ukulele, accordion and voice, and Pamela Parker on keyboard and backing vocals.
PAULA SINCLAIR — Tribute To Joni Mitchell THURSDAY 10/27 @ 6PM Born one of fourteen creative siblings in Lexington, Kentucky, Paula Sinclair is a sultry crooner with a country soul and a rock-n-roll heart. A multifaceted performer, Paula sings her own tunes and sets poems to original music. She is also renowned for her kick-ass cover songs ranging from the great Steve Earle to Joni Mitchell to Emmylou Harris.
JOSH AND MER FRIDAY 11/4 @ 6PM Josh Schroeder has always had a deep love for the music of The Beatles, Jeff Buckley, and Elliott Smith. Meredith Adelaide’s musical tastes span from the influences of Simon & Garfunkel, Daft Punk, and Ella Fitzgerald. They soon discovered that their common interests and ideas were a match, and shortly after began conjuring up their own music while filming and photographing the entire process of creation. Their first album is entitled ‘Planet Music.’
MONDAY, OCT. 31 Pierced Arrows, Don’t, Edgar Allen Posers
[SPOOKY ROCK] Not too long ago, the very specter of assembling even a single performance from Portland’s most frightening/least tangible rock block icons seemed just another ghost story told ‘round the squatter campfires. But once Edgar Allen Posers’ creatures of the night (members of P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S., Epoxies, Weaklings, Lucky 13s and more) actually conspired to practice four years ago, a mutual respect enabled sudden absorption of a vaunting repertoire (“Psychokiller,” “Teenage Werewolf,” “Vampire Girl” and another few dozen relevant numbers) while mutual respect for left-handed aesthetics inspired progressively more outre attire (Blacula, Creature Of the Black Lagoon). If the rocking dead can survive through the Ash Street’s triumphant return of Pierced Arrows and still make its climactic witching hour set at Matador, they may well be possessed. JAY HORTON. Ash Street Saloon, 226-0430. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
Richard Thompson, The Webb Sisters
[SINGER-SONGWRITER] Except for Neil Young, it’s hard to think of a major ’60s star who’s been so consistently creative as performer and composer than former Fairport Convention teenage guitar genius and prolific (400-plus) songwriter Richard Thompson. His last Portland show, with full band, produced tracks for his most recent live album, Dream Attic. His two shows this week will be solo acoustic sets, with a very different feel, featuring a mini-set of his typically emotionally tense, immaculately crafted, often dark songs from a randomly chosen album from his long and brilliant career. England’s rising folk stars, the Webb Sisters (last seen with Leonard Cohen), open. BRETT CAMPBELL. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $35. 21+.
Monarques, Gringo Starr
[ROCK AND ROLL] At this point, the Josh Spacek-fronted Monarques have been around long enough to qualify as a Portland music fixture. The septet has earned this distinction with its ever-more-perfect reimaginings of 1950s doo-wop—reimaginings that have reached such well-toned perfection as to sometimes outdo their stylistic forebears. Opening for the Monarques tonight is Atlanta garage-rock outfit Gringo Starr, a quintet whose open adoration of ’60s rock is as blatant and perfectionist as the Monarques’ similar fetish for ’50s pop. Gringo Starr is fresh off its sophomore album, Count Yer Lucky Stars, which is as fine an example of rock ’n’ roll as you’re likely to find kicking around in this century. It’s Halloween: Bunk Bar is dressing up like 1962. SHANE DANAHER. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
Alice, with live score by Wampire, Litanic Mask, Bruxa
[SURREALIST CINEMA DANCE PARTY] Holocene’s Fin de Cinema
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along with bassist Nick Vicario and drummer Andy Parker. Last November, the Portland quintet came out with You’re a Winner, a debut EP strewn with nymphlike vocals (“The Pacific” being the most haunting) and an all-around sugary electro-pop sound. Knapp and Vicario tackled the recording and mixing of last summer’s “Need It All” single, which infuses the band’s sound with hints of surf rock and bubbles of gummy pop that we’re hoping to hear more of early next year, when the group releases its first full-length album. NIKKI VOLPICELLI. The Woods, 6637 SE Milwaukie Ave., 890-0408. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
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SUNDAY - TUESDAY
BURNING MAN CHANGED US: Rubblebucket plays Mississippi Studios on Saturday, Oct. 29. series has been going strong for a couple of years now without hitting so much as a single sour note. For each installation in the series, local bands are enlisted to provide a live score for a particularly strange cinematic artifact. In keeping with that pattern, the caffeinated dance machine that is Wampire has been called upon to head up this outing. Wampire—along with Litanic Mask and Bruxa—will be scoring Czech director Jan Svankmajer’s 1988 film Alice, a retelling of Alice in Wonderland so unsettling that it somehow manages to make latent pedophilia the least creepy of the story’s aspects. After the film, Sick Jaggers takes over with a DJ set that should last well into the first hours of November. SHANE DANAHER. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $5. 21+.
Trentemøller, Xylos, Natasha Kmeto
[NOIR ELECTRONICA] The trend spotters of the music world have rightly noted that electronic music is the star that’s burning brightest in the eyes of American youth. For good reason, too, considering the mind-altering work that many producers are creating of late. One such music maker getting his just due in the States is producer Trentemøller. Frankly, it’s a little amazing that the 37-year-old Dane’s dark electro beats and raindrenched atmospherics can draw a sizable crowd, considering the more party-crazed dubstep antics that seem to have most folks’ attention. But why question it? Just get on the dance floor and lose control. ROBERT HAM. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $17. All ages.
TUESDAY, NOV. 1 Richard Thompson, The Webb Sisters
See Monday’s Aladdin Theater listing. MARK STOCK. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $35. 21+.
Of Mice and Men, Iwrestledabearonce, I See Stars and more
[METAL BUBBLEGUM] It’s fun, but far too easy, to watch a few videos by metalcore cutie pies Of Mice and Men and Iwrestledabearonce and mock their pants-sharting guitar dances and inappropriate wholesomeness. I have written just such dismissals. This time around, I
ditched YouTube for more careful considerations of each band’s most recent album. Verdict the first: Of Mice and Men has finally succeeded in blending Fall Out Boy and Slipknot into a rather fast-acting expectorant. Patent it, boys! Verdict the second: Iwrestledabearonce is an able purveyor of schizophrenic electro-metal, and although this Alabama quintet’s unceasing shapeshifting left me dizzy, I did not throw up. Maybe next time, kids! CHRIS STAMM. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 6:30 pm. $16 advance, $18 day of show. All ages.
Grupo Xochipilli, Edna Vasquez, Rafa de Alaska y sus Compas, Death Songs and more
[MÚSICA PARA LOS MUERTOS] As curator of this show for Día de los Muertos (the Mexican holiday honoring the dead), Y La Bamba’s Luz Elena Mendoza has done right by those listening from the hereafter as well as living listeners, alluringly fusing elements from Portland’s traditional Latin and contemporary underground musical worlds. Following performances by Grupo Xochipilli, an Aztec dance troupe; Edna Vasquez, a mariachi singersongwriter; and Rafa de Alaska y sus Compas, a cumbia act, head Shaky Hand Nick Delffs’ new solo outing Death Songs would seem only nominally on-theme—if it weren’t for Delffs’ persistent lyrical morbidity and musical peppering of sabor latino. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 7 pm. $3. 21+.
Peter Wolf Crier, Birds&Batteries
[HAUTE HOWLIN’] The Twin Cities’ Peter Pisano and Brian Moen— also known as Peter Wolf Crier— more than earned a paycheck for the stark and stunning release of Inter-Be last spring. The record showcased the duo’s resourcefulness and true folk pedigree, making so much out of so little. Newest release Garden of Arms is the work of a better-paid band (and deservedly so), trimmed with clean-cut synthetic layers without skipping around Pisano’s tunnel-set, unmistakable falsetto. The rootsy quality of the first disc is still present, just better dressed. One more shining example of why Jagjaguwar is arguably the coolest record label on the planet. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
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ELEVEN PDX PRESENTS: SNOW ANGEL FEATURING GABBY LA LA AND PAMELA PARKER 9pm 21+ in the SideShow Lounge
FREAKS AND BEATS W/SPEAKER MINDS, BAD HABITAT, TASK1NE AND DJ WELS 10pm 21+w/id LIVE MUSIC FULL BAR FOOD FUN
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Gretchen Mitchell 9pm
Saturday October 29th
Sarah Moon & the Night Sky 9pm Sunday October 30th
Eugene Lee 8pm
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DAY OF THE DEAD DANCE PARTY
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Music Millennium
= WW Pick. Highly recommended.
= WW Pick. Highly spooky and/or scary.
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Matthew & The Atlas, The David Mayfield Parade, Lauren Shera 3158 E Burnside St. The Imposters, Temporal Love
O’Connors
7850 SW Capitol Highway Kit Garoutte
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Billy Kennedy
Press Club
2621 SE Clinton St. Swing Papillon
Red and Black Cafe
400 SE 12th Ave. Music for the Working Class
The Lovecraft
THURS. OCT. 27
303 SW 12th Ave. Jon Koonce, Stephen Bradley
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Lindsay Clark, Ezza Rose, Duover
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Open Mic
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. AM Interstate, The Ecology, Shareef Ali, Alec Berg
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave.
6000 NE Glisan St. Half-Step Shy
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Spank Rock, The Death Set, Big Freedia, Pictureplane, Franki Chan
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Brooks Robertson
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Weekly Jazz Jam
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Panzergod, Cemetery Lust, Cult of Unholy Shadows, Shroud of the Heretic
Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. The Gourds
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave.
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Imperative Reaction, God Module, System Sin, Twitch the Ripper
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. 4 on the Floor, Left Coast Country, The Giraffe Dodgers
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Shellac, Helen Money
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Javon Jackson Band with Jimmy Cobb, Mulgrew Miller, and Peter Washington (John Coltrane tribute)
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Lynn Conover & Little Sue (9 pm); Black Prairie (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Miss Tess & The Bon Ton Parade
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Billy D
Mission Theater
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Jon Koonce, Stephen Bradley
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Ruth Moody Band, Nathaniel Talbot Quartet
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Chervona
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Borikuas
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
Ash Street Saloon
1624 NW Glisan St. Cuong Vu with Burn List
225 SW Ash St. Key of Solomon, Erik Anarchy
Mississippi Pizza
Backspace
3552 N Mississippi Ave.
1635 SE 7th Ave. Legendary Superstars (9 pm); Lovepyle (6 pm)
Ella Street Social Club
2845 SE Stark St. Moo Got 2
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Devin Townsend Project, The Ocean, Restruct
Holocene
Jimmy Mak’s
5819 SE Milwaukie Ave. Open Mic
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
Duff’s Garage
Vie de Boheme
Yukon Tavern
426 SW Washington St. The Oldest Profession, Smoking Mirrors, Tan Sister Radio
830 E Burnside St. Pomplamoose, Louis and Genevieve
1425 NW Glisan St. Nancy King
800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Trio
714 SW 20th Place The Pleasant Peasants, The Hollands, The Crescendo Show
Dante’s
1001 SE Morrison St. Father Figure, Kind Brother (“Evidence of the Sasquatch” screening)
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar
Biddy McGraw’s
430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin
Hawthorne Theatre
836 N Russell St. Redwood Son
Kelly’s Olympian
Chapel Pub
Tony Starlight’s
White Eagle Saloon
Ella Street Social Club
510 NW 11th Ave. Elizabeth Dotson
Goodfoot Lounge
1530 SE 7th Ave. David Friesen
102 NE Russell St. The Javier Nero Quintet
Camellia Lounge
Tiger Bar
Touché Restaurant and Billiards
112 SW 2nd Ave. Danny Ohanon
626 SW Park Ave. John “JB” Butler & Al Craido
714 SW 20th Place Hey Lover, The Royals, Hoops
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Sinatrafest: Mike Winkle with The Joe Millward Trio
Afrique Bistro
Brasserie Montmartre
421 SE Grand Ave. Sataray, Chad Carver 317 NW Broadway Rudy Treasure
Kells
320 SE 2nd Ave. Call Us Forgotten, Verah Falls, When the Lights Go Out, In Her Memory, Her Death and After
Doug Fir Lounge
The Know
Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam (9:30 pm); High Flyer Trio (6 pm)
Branx
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar
2026 NE Alberta St. The Bi-Marks, TitPig, Doom Patrol, DJ Ken Dirtnap
Sad Little Men, Halsyun, Aaron Bergeson’s Fever Dream, Jeremiah Brunnhoezel
6000 NE Glisan St. Open Bluegrass Jam
350 W Burnside St. Dwarves, Zeke, American Friction
1001 SW Broadway Shirley Nanette
WED. OCT. 26
Biddy McGraw’s
Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave. The Funginears
AZZ EVERYWHERE: Big Freedia plays Branx on Wednesday.
2201 N Killingsworth St. Johnny Ward
115 NW 5th Ave.
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown B3 Organ Band
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Danny Ohanon
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Boston T. Rex, Stone and Mountain, Nathan Earle
Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Ave. Thumptown
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Pitchfork Motorway, John Wayne Gacy Trio
LaurelThirst
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Don’t Talk to the Cops, Big Digits
836 N Russell St. Garcia Birthday Band (9 pm); Tanner Cundy (5:30 pm)
Music Millennium
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar
O’Connor’s Vault
Wonder Ballroom
8105 SE 7th Ave. Lauren Sheehan
3158 E Burnside St. Paula Sinclair 7850 SW Capitol Highway Kathy James Quintet
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Andrew Orr, Jen Howard
Peter’s Room
8 NW 6th Ave. Grieves and Budo, Prof, The MC Type
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Noise-a-tron, Hot Victory, Rollie Fingers, Extralone
Plew’s Brews
8409 N Lombard St. Abbey Road (The Beatles tribute)
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Smoking Mirrors, Empire Rocket Machine, Invivo, The Movie, The Ascendents, Item 9
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Skrillex, 12th Planet, Two Fresh, Nadastrom
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. VTRN, Robot Uprise, SHK THT
Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. Jobo Shakins
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Buttery Lords, The Sexbots, Bling Theatre
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones Jam
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Johnny Martin
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave. Bridge to Russia
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell
Tony Starlight’s
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
1425 NW Glisan St. Rebecca Kilgore and Dave Frishberg
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Bingo
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Krebsic Orkestar (9 pm); Chad Hinman, Camping in a Cadillac (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Grouper, Daniel Menche, Port St. Willow
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. John Bunzow
White Eagle Saloon
Muddy Rudder Public House
2958 NE Glisan St. Jim Boyer, Billy Kennedy & Lynn Conover, Tim Acott (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Miss Tess & The Bon Ton Parade
Brianne Kathleen & Bradley Wik (8:30 pm); Faerabella (6 pm)
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Sinatrafest: John Gilmore
Touché Restaurant and Billiards
Trail’s End Saloon
1320 Main St., Oregon City Rae Gordon
Twilight Café and Bar
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Ten Miles of Bad Road, Wave Sauce, Pale Blue Sky, Speeding Kills Bears
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Totally Anonymous, Geoff Soule, Heather MacKenzie, John Niekrasz, DJ Li’l Smarty Pants, DJ Dr. Dum Dum
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
800 NW 6th Ave. Gaea Schell Trio
128 NE Russell St. Jason Webley, Shook Twins
FRI. OCT. 28 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Jon Koonce, Larue Todd, Kip Richardson, Albert Reda
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Henry Hill Kammerer, Kory Quinn and the Comrades (9:30 pm); Mikey’s Irish Jam (6:30 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Dan Diresta Quartet
Artichoke Community Music
3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Friday Night Coffeehouse
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. PDX We Got Next Fall Fest: Portland George, Thief Sicario, Juma Blaq, Supa Nova, LIQ, Spoon, Vet Pro, Spity, Freek E, Edot, Hero Fame, Low, Reign Pro, Johnny Cool, Money Rocket, Yung Mook, Meat Gutta, AP the C.E.O., Stars of da Bizarre
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Kathryn Calder, Like a Villain
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. No Tomorrow
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Funk Shui (9:30 pm); Billy Kennedy and Jim Boyer (6 pm)
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Al Craido & Tablao
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. David Friesen, John Gross
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. La Rhonda Steele
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Hell’s Belles, M.F. Ruckus, Ninja
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Mr. Gnome, Boats, Paper/ Upper/Cuts
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. New Iberians, Bon Ton Roulet (9 pm); Honey and the Hamdogs (6 pm)
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. King Tuff, Suicide Notes, Guantanamo Baywatch, Still Caves
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Starfucker, Phonographix VJs
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge 1503 SE 39th Ave. Ron Rogers
2929 SE Powell Blvd.
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CALENDAR Touché Restaurant and Billiards
BAR SPOTLIGHT INGER KLEKACZ
1425 NW Glisan St. Robert Moore Trio
Trail’s End Saloon
1320 Main St., Oregon City Franco & the Stingers
Twilight Café and Bar
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Erotic City (Prince tribute), Audio Syndicate
White Eagle Saloon
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Bernard “Pretty” Purdie
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Cu Lan Ti
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Houndstooth, Swim Swam Swum, The Four Edge
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Aranya, Kassapu, Vanguard
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Bingo Dream Band (9:30 pm); Sassparilla (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Miss Tess & The Bon Ton Parade
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro The Old Yellers
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Great Migration, Duover, Tony Garcia (9 pm); Pagan Jug Band (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Henpeck, The Eastsiders, Future Proof, A Season of Tanagers, Plucker, The My Oh Mys, Casey Neill, Jack The Tripper, Toy Boat Toy Boat Toy Boat, Jim Brunberg, The Flying Wasp
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Sneakin Out
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
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Saray Munoz, Pedro Cortes, Savannah Fuentes (flamenco performance, concert hall, 7 pm); Speaker Minds, Bad Habitat, Task1NE, DJ Wels (concert hall, 10 pm); Snow Angel (Sideshow Lounge)
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Snow Angel
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Traditional Hawaiian Music
Norse Hall
111 NE 11th Ave. The Pranksters
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Jim Nesi
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Lynn Conover
Pints Brewing Company
412 NW 5th Ave. Switchgrass (9 pm), Ray Dodd (7 pm)
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Excruciator, Raptor, Revolution Overdue, Gorgon Stare
Plew’s Brews
8409 N Lombard St. Tenpenny
Press Club
Saratoga
6910 N Interstate Ave. Diesto, FistFite, X’s for I’s
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. King Louie One-Man Band, Guantanamo Baywatch, Midnight Snaxx, Chemicals, Youth Bitch
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. Lickity
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Rick Bain & The Genius Position, 1776, Ruby Feathers, James Ambrose
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Rob Wynia, Michael Shapiro
The Woods
6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. Blue Cranes, Alison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. The Prescription
2621 SE Clinton St. The Don of Division St., Morgan Geer
Tiger Bar
Queen of Hearts Tavern
Tonic Lounge
5501 SE 72nd Ave. Johnny Payola’s Hay Ride, Johnny Credit and the Cash Machine
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. R.R.B.C, The Longshots, Skatter Bomb, The Rotten Truth, The Warshers
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Jack’s Mannequin, Lenka, Lady Danville
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317 NW Broadway Delaney and Paris 3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Unknown Pleasures (Joy Division tribute), The Band Who Fell to Earth (David Bowie tribute), The Magic Pumpkin (John Carpenter tribute)
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Sinatrafest: Bureau Of Standards Big Band with Matthew Gailey, Tony Moretti, Tony Starlight
221 NW 10th Ave. The Phil Baker Trio, The West Linn High School Jazz Ensemble (Jazz Society of Oregon Hall of Fame Induction)
426 SW Washington St. The Ax, Belt of Vapor, Sons of Huns
800 NW 6th Ave. Tony Pacini Trio
112 SW 2nd Ave. Cu Lan Ti
Kelly’s Olympian
Kenton Club
SAT. OCT. 29 15th Avenue Hophouse 1517 NE Brazee St. Renegade String Band
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Jon Koonce, Larue Todd, Kip Richardson, Joshua English
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. New Monsoon, Fulero/ Lehe Band
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Treefingers, Years and Years, Micheal Cantino, Pedal Home
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Ghostwriter, Whiskey Dick Mountain, Smoke Staxx
LaurelThirst
1037 SW Broadway Jeff Beck
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Only Zuul, Black Queen, Winter in the Blood, Dead in a Ditch
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Kimosabe (9 pm); School of Rock (5 pm) 2201 N Killingsworth St. Carolina Pump Station 6000 NE Glisan St. Jimmy Boyer Band
Brasserie Montmartre
116 NE Russell St. Midnight Serenaders (9 pm); Pete Krebs and his Portland Playboys (6 pm)
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Mean Jeans, King Louie’s All-Star Jam, The Cyclops, Leaders, Therapists, The Rapists
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. Jackbone Dixie
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church 1432 SW 13th Ave. Portland Chamber Music (Operation Nightwatch/St. Stephen’s Table benefit)
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Vagabond Opera, Chervona, Rachel Brice, Amy Hotfield
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam
Dante’s
1422 SW 11th Ave. Patrick Ball, Lisa Lynne, Aryeh Frankfurter
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave. Sacredflight Community of Angels Concert
The Venetian Theatre
253 E Main St., Hillsboro Kristi King (Doris Day tribute)
The Woods
6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. Wild Ones, Youth, Ocean Age
Tillicum Club
8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Johnny Martin
350 W Burnside St. Edgar Allan Poseurs, Hopeless Jack & the Handsome Devil
Tony Starlight’s
830 E Burnside St. The Parlotones, Scattered Trees
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Iration, Tomorrow’s Bad Seeds, Through the Roots
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro The Brothers Jam
Mission Theater
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Dag B. and the Zig Zags, American Nobody (9 pm); Cedro Willie (6 pm); The Alphabeticians (4 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Rubblebucket, Copy, Pocket Knife
Mock Crest Tavern
3435 N Lombard St. Dakota Bob & the Business, Man’s Blues Band
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Jaime Michaels
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Traditional Hawaiian Music
1001 SW Broadway Alyssa Schwary
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Spice Tomb
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Adrian H and the Wounds
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. The Boys Next Door
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Amerakin Overdose, The Berated, Toxic Zombie, Rishloo
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Master of Sabotage (Black Sabbath tribute), The Thornes, Axxicorn, Bombs Away!, DJ Rockthrower
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Sinatrafest: Tony Starlight & His Band, Bo Ayars
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Kelley Shannon Trio, Martin Zazar
Trail’s End Saloon
Clyde’s Prime Rib
Plew’s Brews
1635 SE 7th Ave. DK Stewart
320 SE 2nd Ave. Ceremonial Castings, Scorched Earth, Cemetery Lust, Grim Ritual, Compulsive Slasher
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
510 NW 11th Ave. Satellite by Night
Duff’s Garage
Branx
The Old Church
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Sinatrafest: Tony Starlight & His Band, Bo Ayars
Tupai at Andina
1305 SE 8th Ave. Mendozza, Diesto, A(((wake))), Aerial Ruin
830 E Burnside St. The Quick & Easy Boys, The Pretty Poor Know, The Resolectrics
225 SW Ash St. Sola Super, Hellfire Club, Miss Massive Snowflake
203 SE Grand Ave. Religious War, Frenzy, DJ Skell
Camellia Lounge
Doug Fir Lounge
Ash Street Saloon
2026 NE Alberta St. I Need Lunch (Dead Boys tribute), Motley Crude (Motley Crue tribute), Drugs Party (GBH tribute), Skitfaced, DJ Smooth Hopperator
East End
Tube
350 W Burnside St. Smoochknob, The Smoochgirls (Dead Sexy Ball)
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero
3416 N Lombard St. RLLRBLL, The Hand That Bleeds, Bison Bison, Party Killers
Plan B
Dante’s
Andina
The Know
The Foggy Notion
1320 Main St., Oregon City The Strange Tones
1332 W Burnside St. Pepe & the Bottle Blondes, Keegan Smith
303 SW 12th Ave. Ryan Sollee
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Chris Margolin
Original Halibut’s II
Crystal Ballroom
SUN. OCT. 30 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
3341 SE Belmont St. Eugene Lee
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
3341 SE Belmont St. Sarah Moon and the Night Sky
626 SW Park Ave. How Long Jug Band (9 pm); Al Craido & Tablao (5:30 pm)
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Elite
128 NE Russell St. Manchester Orchestra, White Denim, The Dear Hunter, Little Hurricane
The Blue Monk
Trail’s End Saloon
Mississippi Pizza
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Secret Society Lounge
Wonder Ballroom
Doug Fir Lounge
Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Mac Miller, People Under the Stairs, Casey Veggies
Nancy Curtin Trio
The Blue Monk
1624 NW Glisan St. Mood Area 52 (“Nosferatu” screening with live score)
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio
Isolated Cases, Lockouts, Heaven Generation, Black Black Things, Stepper, Alabama Black Snake
2958 NE Glisan St. Tree Frogs (late show); Dan Haley, Tim Acott (6 pm)
Andina
Biddy McGraw’s
421 SE Grand Ave. Atriarch
Jimmy Mak’s
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar
The Foggy Notion
The Lovecraft
Hawthorne Theatre
Kells
Beaterville Cafe
3416 N Lombard St. The Healthy Dose, Megaterra, Gang Radio
4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Kory Quinn Trio
836 N Russell St. Klickitat (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Gretchen Mitchell
2845 SE Stark St. Commotion’s Talking Heads Tribute, The Polyrhythmics
Vie de Boheme
2929 SE Powell Blvd. The Lucy Hammond Band
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Alesana, A Skylit Drive, Sleeping with Sirens, Attila, Memphis May Fire, Serianna
Goodfoot Lounge
Hawthorne Hophouse
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
Hawthorne Theatre
203 SE Grand Ave. Beach Party, DJ Danny Dodge
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Wayne Gacy Trio, Blow Up Dolls, Amerakin Overdose 1530 SE 7th Ave. Jay Koder and the Soulmates
A STAR IS REBORN: The 100-year-old Star Theater (13 NW 6th Ave., startheaterportland.com) has been a strip joint, a burlesque bar and a speakeasy. Its latest incarnation isn’t the first time the room—with its impressive vaulted ceilings, long red curtains, second-story lounge and narrow staircases—has been a music venue, but it is the first time in recent history anyone has given the place some dignity. The new Star Theater is as clean and unpretentiously classy as it is really fucking loud on show nights. It also has an ingeniously positioned mirror behind the bar, so you can sit and drink with your back to a band without missing the show. And while one can’t help but wonder if Portland needs more 21-and-over rock clubs, the Star is open nightly with cheap drinks, a huge patio (heat lamps coming soon?) and some of the tastiest bento boxes in town—so it doesn’t take a concert to take in the rather majestic club’s charms. CASEY JARMAN.
East End
2527 NE Alberta St. Linda Meyers
8409 N Lombard St. Irie Idea, Silverhawk, Threadbear
Portland Police Athletic Association
618 SE Alder St. Andre Thierry & Zydeco Magic
Press Club
2621 SE Clinton St. Harlowe and the Great North Woods, Green Hills Alone
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Bam Bam
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave.
18 NW 3rd Ave. Willy Joy, Capcom D, Ben Tactic (10 pm); No Tomorrow Boys, Primitive Idols (7 pm)
Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. In Repose, Alchemy, Cement Season
Hawthorne Theatre
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Pass the Whiskey
Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Ave. Hanz Araki, Kathryn Claire (7 pm); You Who Kids’ Rock Variety Show with The Fruit Bats (1 pm)
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 Naomi Hooley
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Johnny B. Connolly
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Modern Golem (9 pm); Lazy Champions (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Sarah Gwen and Scott Weddle, Kyle Morton with Typhoon members, Dave Depper, Lewi Longmire, Matt Sheehy, Adam Shearer, Ritchie Young, Ryan Sollee, Nick Jaina, DJ Cooky (Mississippi Studios’ eighth anniversary)
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music
NEPO 42
1320 Main St., Oregon City Gordon Hermanson 1314 NW Glisan St. 3 Leg Torso
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Hume; Grandparents; Duck. Little Brother, Duck
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Ali Ba and the Groove
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Open Mic/Songwriter Showcase
MON. OCT. 31 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Ryan Sollee
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Richard Thompson, The Webb Sisters
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Pierced Arrows, Don’t, Edgar Allen Posers, DJ Miss Meghan and The Crusher (Ash St.’s 17th birthday)
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Harry and the Potters
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Monarques, Gringo Starr
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell (10 pm); Wayne Gacy Trio, Mistress Dawn, The Tragic 5, Happy Endings (8 pm)
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Suize and the Sidecars
East End
Vie de Boheme
5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
600 E Burnside St. Amanda Richards, Fever
203 SE Grand Ave. Dead Rockers Halloween (tributes show): Cyclops, Motley Crude, Alice Cooper, Iron Maiden, Buzzcocks
Roseland Theater
Ella Street Social Club
White Eagle Saloon
8 NW 6th Ave. Tech N9ne, Krizz Kaliko, Jay Rock, Kutt Kalahoun, Flawless
1530 SE 7th Ave. Kode Bluuz
2929 SE Powell Blvd. The Josh Cole Band
836 N Russell St. Truckstop Darlin’, Alexander Hudjohn (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave.
Rontoms
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Los Gallos Rumba, Puertotierra Soundsystem, DJ Rhienna
714 SW 20th Place Soft Tags, The Prids, And And And, Obvcp
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
CALENDAR Parachute, Painted Grey, Beautiful Lies
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Wampire, Litanic Mask, Bruxa (“Alice” screening with live score); Sick Jaggers DJs
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Dan Balmer
Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Ave. Freak Mountain Ramblers
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens (9 pm); Portland Country Underground (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Trentemøller, Xylos, Natasha Kmeto
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Swans tribute, Triplehorn, Banishing, DJ Flowers
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. The Doo Doo Funk All Stars
Star Theater
8105 SE 7th Ave. Jon Koonce
O’Connors
2026 NE Alberta St. The Silent Numbers, Marmits 836 N Russell St. Norman, Olina
TUES. NOV. 1 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. Ryan Sollee
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Richard Thompson, The Webb Sisters
7850 SW Capitol Highway Kit Garoutte
Beaterville Cafe
Red Room
Buffalo Gap Saloon
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Aux.78, Rainy River Blues Experience
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Qurtet (9 pm); Trio Bravo (6 pm)
Ella Street Social Club
Goodfoot Lounge
3341 SE Belmont St. Renato Caranto Project
White Eagle Saloon
Muddy Rudder Public House
830 E Burnside St. He’s My Brother, She’s My Sister; Buster Blue
The Blue Monk
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mo Phillips with Johnny and Jason, Mr. Ben
Doug Fir Lounge
714 SW 20th Place Spirit Lake, Holy Children, Root Beer & French Fry, Holy Tentacles
The Know
Mississippi Pizza
510 NW 11th Ave. Jazz Extraordinaire Night
13 NW 6th Ave. Water & Bodies, Violet Isle, Wax Fingers, Mosley Wotta
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Skip vonKusk with Creepy Wallpaper
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Bob Shoemaker
Camellia Lounge
2201 N Killingsworth St. Spoken-Word Open Mic 6835 SW Macadam Ave. Open Mic
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Youth Bitch, White Fang
2845 SE Stark St. Scott PembertonTrio
Hawthorne Theatre 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Of Mice and Men, Iwrestledabearonce, I See Stars, For the Fallen Dreams, That’s Outrageous!
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Grupo Xochipilli, Edna Vasquez, Rafa de Alaska y sus Compas, Death Songs, DJ Chaach, DJ Cucuy (Dia de los Muertos show)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm); Partners in Jazz artist (6:30 pm)
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Corduroy, Iceland, AUX 78
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St.
SAT. OCT. 29
Chris Chandler, Paul Benoit (9 pm); Jackstraw (6 pm)
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Peter Wolf Crier, Birds & Batteries
Mock Crest Tavern
3435 N Lombard St. Johnnie Ward & Eagle Ridin Papas
Mount Tabor Theater 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Children of Nova
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Messy Jackson, Lion Mouth, Lick
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. The Jazzistics (8 pm); Pagan Jug Band (6:30 pm)
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. PDX Singer-Songwriter Showcase
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Like a Storm
303 SW 12th Ave. Shocks of Sheba
WED. OCT. 26 Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Chairman Project
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Magic Beans
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Gay So Gay
THURS. OCT. 27 East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Tuff! Girls’ Night Out: DJs Dreamlover, Sister Sister
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Shadowplay: DJs Horrid, Ghoulunatic, Paradox, Hanzel Und Gretyl
Someday Lounge
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Ruthann de la Vega with Bo Ayars
125 NW 5th Ave. Mixer: Nik Fury, James Anthony, John Hendricks, Mr. Romo, Michael Grimes
Twilight Café and Bar
The Whiskey Bar
Tony Starlight’s
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Open Mic with The Roaming
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Arthur “Fresh Air” Moore Harmonica Party
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Tumble Rye
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. DJ GhostTrain
Fez Ballroom
Palace of Industry
Groove Suite
1001 SE Morrison St. XI, Tyler Tastemaker, Graintable 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Holiday
Place Gallery
Pioneer Place, third floor, 700 SW 5th Ave. Scrample Set: Flowerpulse, Trickassedmarxist, Five Lights
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. DJ Kit Fisto
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Wicked Awesome: DJs Beyondadoubt, Mr. Charming, Roy G Biv, Lunchlady, Chelsea Starr, Stormy Roxx, Bruce LaBruiser
The Crown Room
Tiga
Tonic Lounge
1465 NE Prescott St. Beacon Sound
1465 NE Prescott St. Broken Nose DJ 3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Something Spooky: Samuel DJ Jackson, Rap Class, Gumar
Tiga
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Ecstacy House Night with Miracles Club DJs
Wonder Ballroom
FRI. OCT. 28
111 SW Ash St. Nightmare on Ash Street: Mick Boogie, DJ Izm
Holocene
205 NW 4th Ave. Blown: WD4D, Sutikeeree, Dan Cin, D. Poetica
31 NW 1st Ave. Dillon Francis, J. Rabbit
Beauty Bar
128 NE Russell St. Freak Boutique: Victor Menegaux, DJ Jub Jub
316 SW 11th Ave. The Monster Mash(up) with DJ Gregarious
MUSIC
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
231 SW Ankeny St. The Prince vs. Michael Experience with DJ Dave Paul
The Woods
6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. In the Crematorium II: DJ Cooky Parker, The Angry Orts, This Charming Man
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Champagne Jam
SUN. OCT. 30
440 NW Glisan St. Orlando Voorn, Buzz Goree, Bryan Zentz, The Mitchell Brothers
Ground Kontrol
Holocene
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Snap!: Dr. Adam, Colin Jones, DJ Tant, DJ Same DNA, Claude Balzac
Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Roxie Stardust
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Howl: Drumspider, Mazeguider, E3, Phidelity, Negara (main stage); Solovox, Good Time Girls, Global Ruckus, Bridgeport Review, El Cpitan, Manoj with MC Razarman (3rd Ave.); Real Time Motion, Andrew Mataus, Forrest Avery, Miss Vixen, Team Sexy, Kalven Swell (2nd Ave.); Cornflower, Professor Stone, Barisone, Hoya (upstairs)
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Bollywood Horror with DJ Anjali & The Incredible Kid
511 NW Couch St. DJ Fancy Feast 1001 SE Morrison St. Homo Hallow’s Eve with DJ Lunchlady
MON. OCT. 31 Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. DJ Makeout
Refuge
116 SE Yamhill St. Thriller 3: Raoul Belmans, Pumpkin, Michael Gabriel, Pipedream
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. DDDJJJ666, Magnolia Bouvier
TUES. NOV. 1 The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Tom Waits Night with DJ Full of Bourbon
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Cookies and Milk Back
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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Most prices listed are for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply, so it’s best to call ahead. Editor: BEN WATERHOUSE. Stage: BEN WATERHOUSE (bwaterhouse@wweek. com). Classical: BRETT CAMPBELL (bcampbell@wweek.com). Dance: HEATHER WISNER (dance@wweek.com). TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit information at least two weeks in advance to: bwaterhouse@wweek.com.
THEATER “A Rocky Horror Pastie Show”
Miss Kennedy’s Cabaret presents a staging of the film with songs accompanied by burlesque. Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., 228-3669. 8 pm Sunday, Oct. 30. $12. 21+.
An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe
Willamette Radio Workshop performs stories by the master. Kennedy School Community Room, 5736 NE 33rd Ave. 4 and 6 pm Monday, Oct. 31. Free.
Animals and Plants
From the moment viewers enter the theater, stepping over empty pizza boxes and Coors Light cans, they know this show will be uncomfortable. The set is the seediest of hotel rooms, inhabited by a pair of drug runners awaiting a delivery. Burris (Chris Murray) paces the room like a caged animal, filling the space with his rapid speech and working every muscle in his body, sucking 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, futilely musing about changing his name and his life. After Burris takes off to bring back a girl for Dantly, things begin to unravel. This is one of playwright Adam Rapp’s earliest works, and it shows. MARIANNA HANE WILES. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 2050715. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Nov. 5. $20-$25.
Bourbon at the Border
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 civil-rights activist institutionalized after a traumatic experience during 1961’s “Freedom Ride.” 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. 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.
Children’s Games
The latest and most ambitious venture by musique concrète composer Seth Nehil, Children’s Games, is a spooky video piece accompanied by live music. The show is dark pseudo-narrative about a feral child, captured and trained by a scientist, who finds himself caught in a “cinematic nightmare.” The soundtrack to the nightmare is music composed by Nehil for a six-voice improvisational chorus and an electric noise band, and by Golden Retriever’s Matt Carlson for a violinviola-synthesizer trio, along with some of Nehil’s robo-insect-angel recordings. BEN WATERHOUSE. The Mouth, Inside Zoomtopia, 810 SE Belmont St., 320-7512. 8 pm Fridays-Sundays. Closes Nov. 6. $15, $10 students.
Cloud 9
Caryl Churchill’s 1979 play takes a randy but repressed British family from the Victorian era and puts them into the anything-goes early 1980s. The first of Cloud 9’s two acts, which takes place in 1880, is hilarious. 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
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latter act grants what would otherwise be a mere lampoon a deeper meaning: 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.”
Gem of the Ocean
The first play in August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle and the only to feature an onstage appearance by Aunt Ester, the 285-year-old spiritual matriarch of Wilson’s world, Gem of the Ocean takes place in 1906 in Ester’s home at 1839 Wylie Ave., a sanctuary for the troubled, where Citizen Barlow (Vin Shambry), a young arrival from the South, arrives seeking redemption for stealing a bucket of nails. Another man was accused, and then drowned himself, and Citizen needs his soul washed. The playwright is at the peak of his powers here, and Weaver’s cast does his incredible language justice. BEN WATERHOUSE. Portland Playhouse at the World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St., 205-0715. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Fridays, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Nov 6. $15-$32.
Glengarry Glen Ross
David Mamet’s plays are famous for two things: profanity and misogyny. 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. The gender swap has surprisingly little effect on the desperate, faded Levene (Lori Sue Hoffman), 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. BEN WATERHOUSE. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 481-2960. 8 pm ThursdaysSundays. 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 firstgrader. NW Neighborhood Cultural Center, 1819 NW Everett St., 222-4480. Noon and 4 pm Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 29-30. $13-$22.
King John
[NEW REVIEW] So you think you know Shakespeare? How about this, one of the littlest-known, least-performed of the Bard’s 38-odd plays? The attraction of Northwest Classical Theatre Company’s production is, perhaps, its scarcity, but not all rare rocks are precious stones. King John recounts the beset reign of same, whose claim on the crown is tenuous to begin with and whose conduct when his legitimacy is contested confirms he lacks even kingly character. The play contains as much potential for royal-court drama as, say, King Lear, but feebly substitutes diplomacy’s bloodless disputes for pulsing human conflict. Northwest Classical exsanguinates the story further by setting it among the stuffy trappings of contemporary statecraft, from drab suits to joint press conferences. In theory, if not practice, though, the company’s spirit of innovation is in the right place, and its staging is partially redeemed by earnest, decent performances all around—notably Dana Millican’s incandescent turn as should-be-king Arthur’s mama grizzly. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 971-244-3740. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Nov. 13. $18-$20.
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The Kitchen
A National Theatre Live screening of a revival of Arnold Wesker’s play about life in the kitchen of a West End restaurant. World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St., 235-1101. 2 and 7 pm Saturday, Oct. 29. $15-$20.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Masque Alfresco performs Washington Irving’s horror story. Subud House, 3185 NE Regents Drive, 254-5104. 7:30 pm Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 29-30. $8 adults, $5 children, $20 per family.
No Man’s Land
William Hurt is back in town, performing alongside his old friend Allen Nause. This time 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 successful writer and former classmate, having run into the latter at a pub. 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 (played by 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 TuesdaysSaturdays, 2 and 7:30 pm Sundays. Closes Nov. 12. No show Nov. 9. $35$65, $25 students.
country wisdom. He turned his experiences from the trip into this one-man show, in which he tells the stories of the people he met in their own words, voices and mannerisms, and creates composite characters to represent them. PENELOPE BASS. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays, alternating Saturday matinee and Sunday evening performances. Closes Nov. 6. $26-$46.
Sex, Drugs, Murder
The Working Theatre Collective presents a double feature of one-acts by its members: Houstatlantavegas, by Nate Harpel, a tale of a man who falls in love with a stripper; and Peekaboo, by Eva Suter, about a killer pursued by a psychic detective. WTFbikes, 1114 SE Clay St., 893-9075. 8 pm ThursdaysSaturdays 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.
Spellbound
A fundraiser for Portland Story Theater and NestShare, featuring spooky performances by Lawrence Howard, Penny Walter, Lynne Duddy, Ryan Wolf Stroud and Julie Strozyk. John Palmer House, 4314 N Mississippi Ave., brownpapertickets.com/e/198869. 8 pm FridaySaturday, Oct. 28-29. $35-$50. 21+.
Strange Snow
The Portland Civic Theatre Guild presents a reading of Stephen Metcalfe’s story of two Vietnam vets working
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Oklahoma!
For a regular fixture of high-school stages, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s first collaboration is a pretty bleak show. Its hero is a bully, and its female lead is a snob. Its moral is that looking at dirty pictures leads to murder. Of course, the show’s a lot of fun, too, enough that two generations of drama teachers have decided that big crowd scenes and “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’” are worth talking down any parents alarmed by Jud’s porn collection. 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 Tuesdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays, alternating 7:30 pm Sunday and 2 pm Saturday performances. Closes Nov. 6. $39-$69, $25 students.
The Pain and the Itch
“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, it is populated by a family of well-heeled weasels who exhibit the sort of twofaced 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. Winningstad Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 235-1011. 7:30 pm ThursdaySaturday, 2 pm Sunday, Oct. 27-30. $29.50-$38.50, $14.50 students and rush tickets.
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
In 2008, San Francisco native Dan Hoyle, a journalist, playwright and performer, bought a van and spent 100 days traveling rural highways through the Deep South, Appalachia and the Midwest in search of homegrown
HANNIBAL BURESS Many of today’s successful young comedians spent their childhoods consuming classic comedy and fantasizing about making people laugh for a living. Hannibal Buress had other dreams. “I wanted to be a samurai warrior or a businessman, or a football player,” he says. “Or a combination of them all. Why limit yourself?” Buress may not have imagined having a career in comedy growing up in Chicago, but at age 28, that’s what he’s got. And it’s going pretty good: He’s written for Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock; he’s developing a television pilot with Jonah Hill; and his debut album, My Name Is Hannibal, announced him as one of the funniest stand-up comics in America. Chris Rock called him the new Mitch Hedberg, and though Buress doesn’t totally agree with the comparison, he does share with Hedberg an absurdist outlook on life’s little things, like pickle juice and kicking pigeons. “My comedy is not deep at all,” he says. “It’s more self-centered than anything. I don’t have anything good to say about Occupy Wall Street or Barack, but I can talk to you about Young Jeezy.” MATTHEW SINGER. WW: I take it you didn’t grow up studying Monty Python records. Hannibal Buress: Young black kids don’t know about Monty Python. I hate to generalize, but that’s one I feel good going with. But no, right before I started doing comedy, I started listening to more comedy and buying DVDs. Before, I was into video games and music—the same stuff I’m into now. Did not being a student of comedy alienate you from your peers? Nobody was giving me quizzes, like, “Name your three favorite Monty Python sketches.” We were just doing open mics. However you got there doesn’t matter, it’s just that you’re doing it. What was your material like when you started? It was the same kind of stuff, it’s just better now. I talked about rap lyrics and the stuff people say to me and stuff that I see that I thought was weird. It’s just more focused now. You performed at the Gathering of the Juggalos in 2010. What was that like? It’s wild, man. It’s just people getting fucked up and yelling. There was a drug bridge, where people are just openly selling drugs. Nobody threw anything at me during my show, so that was pretty cool. Four questions for the “new Mitch Hedberg.”
SEE IT: Hannibal Buress performs at Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669, heliumcomedy.com/portland. 8 pm Wednesday-Thursday, 7:30 and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, Oct. 26-29. $10-$15. 21+.
through very old trauma, directed by Devon Allen. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., portlandcivictheatreguild.org. 10:30 am Tuesday, Nov. 1. $6.
¡Viva la Revolución!
Midway through Miracle Theatre’s original, bilingual Day of the Dead celebration, the characters read aloud a manifesto proclaiming their revolutionary aims. Ludovico, the master of a Mexican hacienda, reads first, and the rest of the cast repeats each line. This call-and-response evokes the so-called “people’s mic” of the Occupy Wall Street protests, where the ban on sound amplification has led demonstrators to devise a novel communication strategy: After someone speaks, others shout back the same words. But ¡Viva la Revolución!, set during the Mexican Revolution, does not only draw inspiration from the Occupy protests—the Arab Spring also echoes through the production, which pays tribute to activist women from both the past and the present. Part history lesson, part song-and-dance revue, part idealistic call to arms, the show occasionally turns melodramatic or contrived, but a zippy pace and a spunky, likable ensemble make for an altogether satisfying and engaging performance. REBECCA JACOBSON. El Centro Milagro, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7:30 pm Thursdays, 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. $15-$30.
COMEDY Funny Over Everything
A stand-up comedy showcase featuring Moshe Kasher, Ron Funches, Ian Karmel and Anthony Lopez. Shane Torres and Sean Jordan host. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 9:30 pm Thursday, Oct. 27. $7-$10.
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Curious Comedy’s musical ensemble. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 4779477. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays through Nov. 19. $12-$15.
The Weekly Recurring Humor Night Whitney Streed hosts a weekly sketch and stand-up comedy night featuring Richie Stratton, Anthony Lopez, Bri Pruett, Christian Ricketts, Marcia Belsky and Ira Novos. Masked open-mic follows. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 238-0543. 9:30 pm Wednesdays. $3-$5. 21+.
CLASSICAL Cascadia Composers
Some of the region’s top musicians perform chamber music and songs. A video montage will feature some of the area’s most creative musical minds, including former PSU professor Tomas Svoboda, Jack Gabel, Gary Noland, PSU’s Bonnie Miksch and David Bernstein. Colonial Heights Presbyterian Church, 2828 SE Stephens St. 8 pm Saturday, Oct. 29. $5-$20.
Jasper Quartet
Last year, this young foursome impressed Chamber Music Northwest audiences with energetic performances and engaging audience appeal. In this concert, they’ll play quartet versions of works more familiar in string orchestra settings: Musica Celestis, by Aaron Jay Kernis, and Samuel Barber’s classic 1938 quartet, plus one of the pinnacles of Romantic chamber music: Schubert’s String Quartet No. 14, “Death and the Maiden.” Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 294-6400. 7:30 pm Sunday, Oct. 30. $15-$45.
Josh Feinberg and Rik Masterson
Both Portland Indian music veteran Masterson (playing tabla here) and
more recent arrival Feinberg (sitar) have studied Hindustani music at the source, with some of the great Indian teachers (Pran Nath, Zakir Hussain, Ali Akbar Khan), and both teach and perform regularly. The Little Church, 5138 NE 23rd Ave., 771-1940. 7:30 pm Thursday, Oct. 27. $10-$15 donation.
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Marti Mendenhall
In this benefit for the Portland chapter of Friends of the Children, the jazz singer is joined by musicians who regularly accompany big-name singers like Diane Schuur, Diana Ross and Karrin Allyson. First Unitarian Church, 1011 SW 13th Ave., 800-838-3006. 7:30 pm Saturday, Oct. 29. $12-$18.
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Oregon Symphony
Tokyo-born, New York-based violinist Karen Gomyo returns to join the band in another mighty Beethoven masterpiece, his Violin Concerto, along with a pair of war-related pieces: Aaron Copland’s poignant Letter from Home and Carl Nielsen’s powerful 1916 Symphony No. 4, “The Inextinguishable.” Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353. 2 pm Sunday, 8 pm Monday, Oct. 30-31. $21-$100.
Resonance Ensemble
When summer light succumbed to autumn chill, many ancient cultures commemorated with solemn ceremonies (El Día de los Muertos, All Souls’ Day) for the dead. If giggling 8-year-olds in Spider Man costumes soliciting sweetened candy don’t quite summon that deep cultural catharsis, this rare and splendid program should. Two brief but plangent poem settings by Samuel Barber (including one he wanted performed at his own funeral), a pair of ultimately consoling Brahms choral songs and excerpts from Maurice Duruflé’s popular 1947 Requiem (accompanied by organist Jon Stuber) provide worthy adjuncts to the centerpiece: Hugo Distler’s singular, seldomperformed 1934 concoction of early music- and free-jazz-influenced settings of Baroque mystical poetry, “Dance of Death,” inspired by the famous mural on the wall of Distler’s hometown church. The promising composer didn’t live to see its destruction in World War II because, after being drafted, he killed himself rather than fight for the Nazis. But not before writing this powerful music equal to the dark spirit of the time. 8 pm Saturday, Oct. 29, at Agnes Flanagan Chapel at Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road; 2 pm Sunday, Oct. 30 at First Presbyterian Church, 1200 SW Alder St.; 427-8701, resonancechoral.org. $11-$22.
DANCE TGIFF Halloween Dance
Wear a costume you can move in: The 18-piece big band The Pranksters are playing live at this community event. Mary Ann Carter teaches dance lessons from 7:30 to 8:30. Norse Hall, 111 NE 11th Ave., 236-3401. 7:30 pm Friday, Oct. 28. $8.
Tracy Broyles
Inspired by veteran experimental dancemaker Deborah Hay, contemporary choreographer Tracy Broyles 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 Friday-Saturday, Oct. 28-29. $14.
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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.
Sally Finch
Finch’s Weather Studies meticulously plot global climate data onto grids, assigning a different color 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.
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 upside-down 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 grin-inducing depiction of a couple dancing aboard the Titanic, counterposed with an iceberg bearing the marquee from which the exhibition takes its
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name: “I AM SORRY.” Nine Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 227-7114, blueskygallery.org. Closes Oct. 30.
Bonnie Bronson
For pure gestural abandon coupled with judicious color-weighting and an invigorating sense of motion, it’s hard to beat the late Bonnie Bronson (1940-1990). This focused exhibition, The Early Years, features oil-on-canvas paintings and collages on paper from the era that followed on the heels of Abstract Expressionism. In the 1963-vintage Untitled (White), Bronson uses impressive scale (the piece is nearly 6 feet high and 7 1/2 feet across) to express an explosion of impetuous energy, tempered by impeccable compositional instincts. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521, elizabethleach.com. Closes Nov. 19.
Gregory Grenon
One of the Northwest’s iconic painters, Gregory Grenon uses a reverse-glass technique to create distinctive figurative work in a deliberately naive style. This style is not for everyone. Grenon’s work tends to polarize viewers into “Love it!” or “Hate it!” camps. Stylistically, it has not evolved much over the years but has stayed reliably quirky. His new body of work, entitled Behavior, is the latest exhibition in his long association with the Laura Russo Gallery. Laura Russo Gallery, 805 Northwest 21st Ave., 226-2754, laurarusso.com. Closes Oct. 29.
Tadashi Ura
Nagasaki-born artist Tadashi Ura, also known as “Gleamix,” is a designer by trade but also works as a fine artist, primarily in watercolors. In this show, entitled Japanism, he presents contemporary reimaginings of traditional Asian forms: monkeys, elephants, birds, zebras, leopards, lions, turtles and bulls. While Ura commands a sure, free-wristed technique, his paintings cling too closely to the time-honored forms from whence they sprang. This artist would do well to dispatch his considerable technique in the service of more contemporarily relevant subject matter. Compound Gallery, 107 NW 5th Ave., 7962733, compoundgallery.com. Closes Oct. 31.
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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 26 Verse in Person
Multnomah County Library’s poetry series this month features locals Naomi Fast, rick j and Nicole A. Zdeb. Give a hoot and, er, listen. Multnomah County LibraryNorthwest Branch, 2300 NW Thurman St., 988-5560. 7 pm. Free.
Steve Inskeep
Steve Inskeep, host of NPR’s Morning Edition, is also an author. His new book, Instant City, explores the rapid growth of Karachi, Pakistan, a volatile metropolis that has grown from a population of 350,000 in 1941 to 13 million today. OPB Morning Edition host Geoff Norcross will join him. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
Loggernaut Reading Series
The latest edition of Loggernaut features Smalldoggies editor Matty Byloos, author Kerry Cohen (Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity and the new Seeing Ezra) and artist Amy Martin (the woman behind the beautiful children’s book Symphony City), alongside tasty Ristretto coffee. Ristretto Williams, 3808 N Williams Ave., 288-8667. 7:30 pm. Free.
THURSDAY, OCT. 27 Roger Porter
Reed College professor Roger Porter noticed a recent spate of memoirs by people who have discovered their fathers lead secret lives—second families, religions, crimes, sexual preferences. Intriguing! He explores 18 of them in his book, Bureau of Missing Persons: Writing the Secret Lives of Fathers. Annie Bloom’s Books, 7834 SW Capitol Highway, 2460053. 7 pm. Free.
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Diane Wakoski and Matthew Dickman
Lewis & Clark College hosts visiting poet Diane Wakoski and local Matthew Dickman. Wakoski is an O.G. deep-image poet, best known for her 1971 collection, The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems. She’s racked up some 40 books to her name and was a professor at Michigan State University. Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Road, 768-7000. 3:30 pm. Free.
FRIDAY, OCT. 28 Randy Blazak
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SUSAN ORLEAN RIN TIN TIN: THE LIFE AND THE LEGEND A more precise title for Susan Orlean’s new Rin Tin Tin book might have been The Lives and the Legend, seeing as the most cherished German shepherd in show business had at least 11 manifestations, all descending Susan Orlean’s new from the dog who made Warshaggy dog story. ner Brothers’ fortune and was voted Best Actor at the first Oscars. Orlean devotes a mere four paragraphs of this 317-page history to the temperament of the original Rinty, who was, along with being an extraordinarily emotive performer, reportedly prickly and standoffish. (Like an 85-pound Orson Welles!) No matter: The book is packed by kennel trainers and TV producers with enough self-made muleheadedness to rival The Orchid Thief’s John Laroche. The world of performing animals is inexhaustibly absurd, the solemn anthropomorphism giving Orlean about a laugh a page. Most she intends. (One early dogpicture screenwriter explains that “you cannot let your dog give your baby a bath, no matter how funny, because dogs don’t give babies baths under any conceivable circumstances.”) But she indulges in enough flowery speculation on what Rin Tin Tin symbolized to the human race that the otherwise fleet book heels at the side of bathos. It is hard not to be sentimental about your dog, of course, but it is impossible to seriously listen to anyone else being sentimental about their dog. AARON MESH. GO: Susan Orlean reads from Rin Tin Tin and screens what she calls his best movie, Clash of the Wolves, at the Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 7 pm Thursday, Oct. 27. $15.
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Blazak will read from his recent novel, The Mission of the Sacred Heart, about a Portland man who “hates hipsters,” apparently inspired by the ELO album A New World Record and written “while Blazak was loaded on Zoloft.” The book was released as an ebook earlier this year, but is now being published in paperback for the meat world. St. Johns Booksellers, 8622 N Lombard St., 283-0032. 7 pm. Free.
SUNDAY, OCT. 30 Portland Poetry Slam
The Portland Poetry Slam runs every Sunday at Backspace. Each show opens with an open mic at 8 pm, followed by a featured poet, then the slam, where eight poets battle it out for $50 and poetic glory. Sign-ups for the slam and open mic begin at 7:30 pm. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. 7:30 pm. $5 suggested donation. All ages.
Letters of Ernest Hemingway
Editors Sandra Spanier and Robert W. Trogdon have pieced together Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume One (1907-1922), a collection of the author’s missives “never before seen and never intended to be read by the public.” What a charming way to honor his memory. Spanier will be at Powell’s to read and sign copies of Hemingway’s private correspondence. Powell’s
City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 4 pm. Free.
Juicy political gossip? Yes, please. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.
MONDAY, OCT. 31
Jewish Voices
Michael Moore
The baseball-capped filmmaker has penned his eighth book, Here Comes Trouble, which the press release calls “a sort of anti-memoir.” Moore “hilariously presents a collection of far-ranging, irreverent vignettes from his own life.” That actually sounds exactly like a memoir. Whatever it is, he will be signing copies of it (but not reading from it—this is a line up, get a John Hancock, leave kind of affair) at Powell’s. Could this finally get the occupiers to leave the park? Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 6 pm. Free.
Drunk Poets Society
This poetry open-mic takes place every Monday at the horror-themed Lovecraft bar. The Lovecraft, 421 SE Grand Ave., 971-270-7760. 8 pm. Free. 21+.
TUESDAY, NOV. 1 Gov. Barbara Roberts
Oregon’s first female governor, Barbara Roberts, reads from and signs copies of her new autobiography, Up the Capitol Steps.
Every year, Jewish writers and poets from around Oregon gather for this reading. This year’s lineup includes cycling enthusiast Mia Birk; poet, author and filmmaker Marilyn Johnston; writer and performer Lois Leveen; PNCA writer-in-residence Barry Sanders; and poet, sculptor and photographer Willa Schneberg. Oregon Jewish Museum, 1953 NW Kearney St., 226-3600. 7:30 pm. General public $5, museum members free.
Madhusree Mukerjee: Research Your Way to a Writing Career Madhusree Mukerjee ruffled British feathers with her 2010 book, Churchill’s Secret War, which revealed Winston Churchill’s role in the 1943 Bengal famine during World War II. The former Scientific American editor will talk to Willamette Writers about how to translate solid research into an engaging read. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. 7 pm. Free to members and full-time students under 25, $5 for guests of members, $10 for non-members.
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One of the signal pleasures of a nostalgic soap lessly scaped, men were culled and women raped opera like AMC’s Mad Men—or, more recently, as spoils of war, etc. ABC’s Pan Am—is the consistent appeal of discovThe slow de-moding of such practices is, for ering that our predecessors’ morality is roundly Pinker, part of something he terms the “civilizing inferior to our own. We watch as Betty lights a process,” which he seems to see as history’s inevicigarette at the dinner table, as table forward path. As society Roger offhandedly waxes patrihas adopted Enlightenment idecian, as a boor pats a woman’s als and notions of the sanctity of bottom, and get a little thrill the individual, and as states have from both the transgression supplanted the old vengeful and our own superiority to it. codes of honor with impersonal Steven Pinker’s scientized justice, we have grown peaceful history The Better Angels of and prosperous. Our Nature: Why Violence This model holds up beautiHas Declined ( Viking, $40) fully well when only Europe is a self-congratulatory opus is considered, but elsewhere of much greater dimension. Pinker’s optimism seems hapPinker amasses an impressive less and hopelessly selective array of facts and graphs showin its descriptions. America’s ing that worldwide per capita idiosyncratically violent nature violence has indeed declined is left to be mostly a mystery, precipitously since Europe’s while present-day Haitian enlightened 1700s, that racnecklacings, Salvadoran guerism has waned, spankings rilla massacres and coked-up Steven Pinker says humanity been spanked and major wars African child soldiers—essenis improving. made less frequent. Against tially the byproducts of U.S./ the notion that humanity has degenerated from European prosperity—go largely unmentioned. nobly peaceful hunter-gatherers to mechanized Pinker blames the violent spike of the 1960s on killers, he employs relentless statistical proof. the “de-civilizing ” influences of a dangerous We really don’t off each other like we used to. Even counterculture, calls American blacks violent the gruesomely bloody 20th century—with its 70 and “stateless,” and attributes our current drop million dead in two world wars—is, when those in violent crime largely to the positive effects of mind-boggling numbers are considered relative to mass incarceration. the world’s expanding population, less violent on That said, Pinker’s heartening narrative of progaverage than the preceding centuries. ress toward a more blameless present and an even When Pinker moves toward explaining why better future is a story I do hope is true. However, I this shift away from violence has happened, am left to suspect that as much violence is likely to however, he mostly leaves science at the door- result from our pacific Enlightenment as has ever step. Much of the book is taken up, in chatty been tamped down by it, and that the future has an tones, explaining just how awful we all used to unsettling habit of slipping any noose we prepare be, and how awful we all aren’t now. In the past, for it. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. we are told, inquisitors stretched alleged cryptoheathens on racks, Genghis’ officers cut off ears GO: Steven Pinker reads at the Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 855-227-8499. 7 pm as trophies of kills, goats of all kinds were merci- Wednesday, Oct. 26. $9.99.
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All’s Faire in Love
Christina Ricci in a comedy about a Renaissance Faire. PG-13. Lloyd Mall, Bridgeport. Call theaters for additional locations. NEW
Anonymous
36 When you want your secret knowl-
edge laughed to the crackpot scrap heap, call Roland Emmerich. After his cataclysmic 2012 made Mayan doomsday prophecies look spectacularly silly (maybe on purpose), Emmerich returns with Anonymous, a florid, inept melodrama positing that the plays of William Shakespeare were actually penned by Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford. (This is a favored theory of the Shakespeare Authorship Research Center at Portland’s Concordia University.) This might indicate Anonymous is a reactionary defense of nobility, or a campy undermining of the romantic pieties of Shakespeare in Love. If only. Its tone is sinister candlelit histrionics, with performances so terrible they seem like Monty Python parodies of po-faced Britishness. Many of the actors (Rhys Ifans as the Earl, Sebastian Armesto as Ben Jonson) deliver their lines in a gravelly snarl, as if Shakespeare’s plays were actually written by Batman. Vanessa Redgrave escapes with most of her dignity intact as Queen Elizabeth, but poor Edward Hogg (the gas-huffing step dancer in White Lightnin’) is embarrassing as an evil hunchback who eventually gets to deliver the news that the man who wrote Hamlet is literally a motherfucker. As this suggests, Anonymous feels like the product of a vulgarian who not so secretly hates Shakespeare and the grand scope of his artistic consciousness. Roland Emmerich knows thee not, old man. PG-13. AARON MESH. Fox Tower. NEW
B-Movie Bingo: Nightbeast
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL WITH GAMES] Aliens with lasers fight cops with shotguns, as you look for ridiculous elements to fill your board. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Nov. 1.
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. Clackamas. Call theaters for additional locations. NEW
Class of Nuke ‘Em High
[THREE NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] Fast times in Lloyd Kaufman’s Tromaville. R. 5th Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday, Oct. 28-29. 3 pm Sunday, Oct. 30.
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. 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 escalates, 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 standard-issue TV movie of the week. PG-13. AP KRYZA. 99 Indoor Twin, Eastport, Fox Tower. Call theaters for additional locations. NEW
The Crater Lake Monster
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] A dinosaur terrorizes Oregon hillbillies. Featuring not-so-terrible stop-motion animation and very terrible everything else. PG. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm and 9 pm Tuesday, Nov. 1.
The Debt
60 Remaking an Israeli film, Ha-Hov, John Madden positions Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson and Ciarán Hinds as aging former Mossad agents, then rewinds to their fateful 1966 mission in East Berlin—but he casts two young men (Sam Worthington and Marton Csokas) who could each be young versions of either Wilkinson or Hinds. Jessica Chastain was the ethereal mother in The Tree of Life and the kind soul in The Help, and now, as mini-Mirren, plays a woman whose first instinct is to try and make the best of bad situations. This disposition is not all that helpful when you’re locked in an apartment with three men, two of them rivals for your romantic attentions and the other a Nazi doctor. R. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters.
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 to fix her by attaching a prosthetic fin. But unlike the mostly unfettered Free Willy, many major themes of our complicated age are involved in Dolphin Tale: war, hurricanes, debt, disability, corporate buyouts, major loss. 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, over-stimulated kids need? PG. MAGGIE SUMMERS. 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove. Call theaters for additional locations.
Drive
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. In this context, the relentless carnage of Drive’s second half makes a sick kind of sense: It is a movie about men who only know how to show loyalty and care by staving in the skulls of other men. Winding Refn’s last film, Valhalla Rising, featured vikings disemboweling each other by hand, and the
WIZARD COPS: David Guintoli (left) and Russell Hornsby look at a monster mashing.
RED RIDING HOODIE GRIMM GOES INTO THE WOODS TO CATCH A PREDATOR. BY AA R ON MESH
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What can you divine about a television series from its pilot? Probably about as much as you can learn by looking at footprints in a muddy crime scene and determining the killer wore Timberlands. But by the end of the first episode of Portland-shot police show Grimm, Detective Nick Burckhardt (David Giuntoli) has tracked down a child abductor using only boot prints. It helps that he has a paranormal knack for recognizing fairy-tale fiends disguised as traveling businessmen and postal workers, just as it’s useful to check on IMDb if the characters from the first 42 minutes will return. So here is what I can safely deduce about Grimm: It will appeal to viewers who worry about missing children as much as Nancy Grace. The third TV series currently shooting in Portland and the first on a broadcast network, NBC’s Grimm is what passes for an original idea on the struggling Peacock—which means it’s an already popular idea, rotated slightly. The notion in this case is from Twilight: The creatures of occult legend still roam the Pacific Northwest, hiding their true, bestial identities. The twist is that the protagonists are cops and the gargoyles maul young girls. This is certainly a new conception of Grimm’s Fairy Tales—it’s Law & Order: Magic Victims Unit—and I’m sure the producers congratulated themselves on it. I hope they also figured out how to make it a lot less repellent, because this Friday’s opening episode is pretty icky. It is definitely possible that the show will ratchet down its emphasis on catching carnivorous predators. The pilot, after all, is about a Big Bad Wolf. There is something inextricably sexual and voracious in that story, and addressing that something either means advancing the age of the heroine (as Catherine Hardwicke did, removing “Little” from the title of her underrated, voluptuous Red Riding Hood) or taking Grimm’s approach and embracing the pedophilic nature of the mailman/wolfman who kidnaps a 10-year-old and fattens her in his cellar (“Do you want a chicken pot pie?”), keeping her red hoodie with those of his other victims.
This villain does not make it out of the episode. (And thank goodness, because there are a lot of other tonal problems with the character, including the distasteful, winking way he is signaled as a sexual deviant by his pie cooking, needlepoint and sweater collection.) But Detective Nick gets an extemporaneous partner—a reformed, vegan wolf named Eddie, who is scheduled to appear in all eight additional episodes NBC has ordered. Played by Silas Weir Mitchell, a glowering actor who has long served as a poor man’s Michael Shannon, Eddie is the best thing in the show. “You people started profiling us over 200 years ago!” he complains, as if frustrated by the way Big Bad Wolves are patted down by airport security. But again, the character is queasily conceived. He’s the antihero controlling his impulses—just like those teenage vampires!—but his particular impulse is to look at small children like they’re pieces of candy corn. Not a lot of tweens will join Team Eddie. Maybe the Grimm showrunners have already written themselves out of this jam. (Future episodes are expected to involve Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Rapunzel, and WW boxes, all of which have the potential to feature child endangerment.)
EDDIE LOOKS AT SMALL CHILDREN LIKE THEY’RE PIECES OF CANDY CORN. But I can only judge by what they’ll display, and this pilot has the facial grotesqueries of Buffy the Vampire Slayer matched with the sickly themes of The Lovely Bones. There are glimmers of promise, however. Unlike most procedurals, Grimm has a bright, sugary palette, as if it was shot in a gingerbread house. I liked an exchange between Nick and a nurse (Ayanna Berkshire) about the hazards of the librarian profession. And the cops conclude the pilot by shooting an unarmed man in the back, so at least Grimm understands the culture of the Portland Police Bureau. 55 SEE IT: Grimm premieres 9 pm Friday, Oct. 28, on NBC. Look for show recaps each weekend on wweek.com.
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characters here are not much more civilized, though they do have more cosmopolitan surroundings, smearing each other across some handsomely paneled elevator interiors. It is some kind of advancement, I suppose, that while the characters speak after very long pauses, they have moved past grunts. It is macho, self-pitying poppycock, and it engrossed and moved me like no other picture I’ve seen this year. And I have a sliver of justification: The entire history of noir, stretching back to The Maltese Falcon through Drive’s obvious influences like Walter Hill’s The Driver and Michael Mann’s Thief, is a lot of macho, self-pitying poppycock. That does not diminish the power of those movies. If Drive, a deliberate throwback, belongs in their company, it is because it is unreservedly committed to the decadent masochism of its fantasy. R. AARON MESH. Eastport, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall. Call theaters for additional locations.
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. 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Wilsonville. Call theaters for additional locations.
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Fast Break
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Amateur psychedelic soundtrack over grainy, slo-mo basketball footage makes the ’70s seem like an ancient, foreign world, but this vintage documentary of the Blazers’ 1977 championship season was never a conventional, sporty sports movie, even in its own time. The film’s backbone (and its most interesting thread) is director Don Zavin’s postseason bicycle ride down the Oregon coast with superstar center Bill Walton, the 6-foot-11, red-bearded hippie credited for the young team’s first (and only) championship season. Walton seems equally at peace dominating a packed stadium and pedaling his 10-speed along the lonely highway. It’s touching to see these paragons of athleticism swaggering across the screen, oblivious to the fleeting nature of glory, and the impossibly simple age in which they were living. PG. TONY PIFF. Hollywood Theatre. 7:15 pm Wednesday, Oct. 26. NEW
Finding Joe
8 If you’re looking for a film about
famed mythologist Joseph Campbell and an intelligent discussion of his philosophies of life, you will not— ironically enough—find it in Finding Joe. If, however, you want to know how the guy who wrote Batman and Robin and A Beautiful Mind became such a successful Hollywood hack, then you’re probably a douchebag who deserves to endure the 80 minutes of this glorified self-help video. Over a never-ending chorus of faux-inspirational piano music, a cavalcade of grating celebrities, “bestselling” and/or “award-winning” authors, screenwriters and playwrights—for a guy who preaches against consumerism, director Patrick Takaya Solomon sure likes to point out when one of his talking heads has sold a lot of books—tell us how Campbell’s teachings inspired them to be so awesome. (Fuck you, Solomon, for making me like Rashida Jones a little less.) This non-documentary takes a simple idea all of us can agree on—that true satisfaction comes from doing what makes us happy—and reduces it to such hippie-dippie New Age slop it makes the rat race look appealing. Apologies to Mr. Campbell, but I prefer to quote another dead philosopher, comedian Mitch Hedberg: “I’m sick of following my dreams, man. I’m just going to ask where they’re going and hook up with them later.” MATTHEW SINGER. Fox Tower.
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
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BABY LLAMA DRAMA: Marine Battaggia reads Balzac at a gas station.
FILM SOCIALISME “Film is over,” claimed Jean-Luc Godard in a recent interview with The Guardian. “It’s sad nobody is really exploring it.” On its surface, this seems an utterly daft overstatement. If his inscrutable output of the past 30 years is any indication, however, Godard watches Godard films almost exclusively. Given his prolonged exposure to himself, Godard’s dire verdict is perfectly reasonable, totally forgivable. His plaint, on the other hand, is wrong no matter which way you slice it, for in light of Film Socialisme, the former New Wave brat’s latest slog, the sad thing about cinema is that Godard is still bothering to explore it. Consisting of three distinct parts that add up to one miserable trip through a sad professor’s mental museum of rotted lumber, Film Socialisme briefly stumbles into something verging on aesthetic pleasure during its first hour, which is confined to a cruise ship and devoted to the blathering of its polyglot passengers. Because the English subtitles isolate only select words—fragments like “plane surface” and “anyone maydo nogod” and “kamikaze divine wind” stand in for complete translations—one’s attention quickly turns to images alone for solace. Once in a while, as when a camera’s flash bursts against the bruised hue of a darkening sky, Godard offers something worth looking at. But more often than not during that first seasick stretch, and throughout the entirety of the film’s final landlocked 40 minutes, which follow a film crew making something obnoxiously Godardian before ramping up to a trite found-footage collage, watching Film Socialisme is like climbing a mountain to meet a sage who rewards your perseverance with a gob of spit and a swift kick. Godard has been a master titty pincher for some time now, but this might be the film with which he finally defeats pleasure and joy once and for all, leaving the viewer finally defeated, maimed, suffocated. There are those who will accuse me of philistinism or contrarian provocation. Please, by all means, see Film Socialisme. But when Godard is done with you, look me in the eye and tell me, with a straight face undisturbed by stifled laughter, that you didn’t just see what I saw: the breathlessly bereft work of a one-man Human Centipede, the futile circuits of an obsolete ouroboros of abstruse bullshit who gets off on tasting his own tail in public. And I don’t know about you, but I’m through humoring the dude. CHRIS STAMM.
There is no Godard.
13 SEE IT: Film Socialisme screens at the NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium at 9 pm Saturday and 7:15 pm Sunday, Oct. 29-30.
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[TWO NIGHTS ONLY] A program of work from new French directors. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Friday and 2 pm Saturday, Oct. 28-29. NEW
Gun Hill Road
An ex-con dad deals with his son’s sexual identity in this Bronx drama. R. Living Room Theaters.
The Help
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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 Help. Set in the early 1960s in Jackson, Miss., the film focuses on young, wealthy white mothers and their maltreatment of the black maids who serve them. The Help doesn’t reward its viewers with a championship trophy. Instead, the film presents the reality of Southern life in the 1960s as something that takes much more than a high-school squad to overcome. PG13. SHAE HEALEY. 99 Indoor Twin, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Lake Twin. Call theaters for additional locations. NEW The Human Centipede II: Full Sequence
[TWO NIGHTS ONLY] For those of you who didn’t think the first Tom Six ass-to-mouth movie went far enough (*cough, cough* Chris Stamm!), here’s an even longer bug. Cinema 21. 10:45 pm Friday-Saturday, Oct. 28-29.
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 front-runner 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. The point of The Ides of March—a very “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” kind of moral—is that every social advancement is built on the back of an unknown, innocent victim. It’s an observation difficult for an Oregon progressive to deny, and Clooney’s direction moves the chamber piece at such a ruthless pace that objection is impossible. But the pessimism makes this more of a horror movie than a social analysis. It is a very good horror movie, and its savage iconoclasm is bracing. R. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, CineMagic, Fox Tower, Sherwood. Call theaters for additional locations. NEW
In Time
Justin Timberlake’s new eat-the-rich thriller was not screened by WW press deadlines. Cry me a river. Look for a review on wweek.com. PG-13. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville. Call theaters for additional locations.
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
ANONYMOUS 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 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, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood. Call theaters for additional locations.
The Lion King 3D
It means “no worries,” except for that thing about to POKE YOU IN THE EYE. G. Clackamas, Eastport. Call theaters for additional locations.
Love Crime
Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier fight for corporate power. Living Room Theaters.
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. Writer-director 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. Hollywood Theatre, Living Room Theaters.
Midnight in Paris
77 Owen Wilson, convincingly step-
ping into the “Woody Allen role,” stars as Gil Pender, a screenwriter and self-described “Hollywood hack” who thinks of himself as a novelist born in the wrong era. On vacation in Paris, he wanders into the streets one night and tipsily stumbles upon a rip in the spacetime continuum that transports him to the 1920s to party with his literary idols: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. It’s a fairy tale for lit majors, and Allen’s best work in years. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Fox Tower.
The Mighty Macs
Carla Gugino is a nun coaching basketball. Not screened for critics. G. Lloyd Mall.
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. Mercifully short on baroque re-enactments of pivotal match-ups and pandering locker-room banter, Miller’s uptown update of Major League is almost wholly devoted to the front offices and underground clubhouses in which the game behind the game is played. PG-13. CHRIS STAMM. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cinetopia, Forest, Lake Twin, Moreland, Wilsonville, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub. Call theaters for additional locations.
Paranormal Activity 3
70 You’re recycling a fake docu-
mentary about something strange in the neighborhood, including an invisible man sleeping in your bed. Who you gonna call? How about the dudes who made the most dubious “documentary” in recent memory: Catfish creators Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman? Turns out, the rookies were a good bet. Paranormal Activity 3 opened with $54 million. More surprisingly, it’s arguably the best of the series. This time out, we again watch the haunting of the original film’s heroine, Katie, though this time she’s a little kid whose sister, Kristi, is getting close to an imaginary friend who makes loud noises and apparently hates kitchenware.
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The girls’ stepdad (Christopher Nicholas Smith) is conveniently a wedding videographer, so he sets up a bunch of cameras and…well, you know the rest. Yet despite offering little new—aside from some genuine scares courtesy of a camera attached to an oscillating fan and a finale that borrows from Ti West’s little-seen The House of the Devil— Joost and Schulman manage to harvest maximum scares from familiarity. We know the formula. What makes PA3 a success is its ability to make us want to take the same funhouse ride again, even if we know it’s all fake (and kind of dull). R. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Wilsonville. Call theaters for additional locations. NEW
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Antonio Banderas makes his Garfield. WW did not attend the press screening, as WW was at Occupy Portland instead of the cat movie. PG. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville. Call theaters for additional locations.
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. The film becomes actively interesting for a stretch in the middle, as the Brazilian Casanova Senna feuds in the early ’90s with
calculating French driver Alain Prost, who was surely the inspiration for Sacha Baron Cohen’s character in Talladega Nights. PG-13. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters. NEW
Shredtober Film Festival
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Two snowboarding movies for $3. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Thursday, Oct. 27.
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
PROFILE
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Voices in Action: The Human Rights on Film series finishes with a documentary about a Liberian warlord who finds Jesus. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Wednesday, Oct. 26.
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, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Wilsonville. Call theaters for additional locations.
[FOUR NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVALS] A holiday festival celebrating The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Repo: The Genetic Opera.. Clinton Street Theater. Friday-Monday, Oct. 28-31. NEW
The Rules of the Game
[TWO NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] Jean Renoir’s 1939 masterstroke about a “society...dancing on a volcano,” which does not sound like anything happening now at all.. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 6:30 pm Saturday and 5 pm Sunday, Oct. 29-30.
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NEW The Redemption of General Butt Naked
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Johnny Depp goes gonzo again, this time in an adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s Puerto Rican novel. Not screened for critics by WW press deadlines; look for a review on wweek.com. R. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Fox Tower, Sherwood, Wilsonville, Roseway, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub. Call theaters for additional locations.
LOUVERTURE FILMS
MOVIES
’FRO SURE: Angela Davis.
THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 Most of us see the world through American eyes, contextualizing modern political struggles through selective memories. Whether consuming news from Libya, Iran or Occupied Portland, it’s impossible to step entirely outside our class station and our privileged place on the globe. Which makes The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 a curiosity worth beholding. It is previously unseen footage shot by a Swedish film team in the wake of the murders of two Kennedys and a King, amid the rise of the Black Panthers and boiling racial tension. Director Göran Olsson assembles the footage (much of it grainy black and white, some of it resembling a mod-era Swedish Frontline episode) into a jarring snapshot of a bleak time in American history told by people observing from half a world away, and spotting the tender sides of larger-than-life figures we often view as titans rather than humans. The film begins with a disclaimer—“This film does not presume to tell the whole story of the Black Power Movement, but to show how it was perceived by some Swedish filmmakers”—before launching into a nine-chapter crash course on African-American militancy, from the rise of fiery orator Stokely Carmichael to the trial of academic Angela Davis, the abandonment of nonviolence and the emergence of Louis Farrakhan and the post-Vietnam heroin epidemic. The years go by at a lightning pace, aided by off-screen commentary by the film’s surviving subjects as well as modern musicians such as Erykah Badu, Talib Kweli and Questlove (who also arranged the music). At 95 minutes, Mixtape is far too short for the depth of its subject, but the film succeeds in telling a uniquely American story about a searing chapter in our national history through the eyes of outside observers. It’s a turnabout from the way we observe the Arab Spring from the comfort of our homes, away from the despair and violence. We are a nation of media junkies who consume news in sound bites and through the lenses of our own personal experiences. The Black Power Mixtape shows us how other countries might see our own internal struggles. Surprise: It’s not always pretty. AP KRYZA.
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MOVIES “WE MUST BE WILLING TO GET RID OF B LO O DY- D I S G U S T I N G .C O M
OCT. 26 - NOV. 1
THE LIFE WE’VE PLANNED SO AS TO HAVE
THE LIFE THAT IS WAITING FOR US.” –JOSEPH CAMPBELL
A FILM BY PATRICK TAKAYA SOLOMON
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THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE II: FULL SEQUENCE 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 well-worn 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 specialeffects 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, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood. Call theaters for additional locations. NEW
The Thing (1982)
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The Three Musketeers 3D
All for one, and one POKING YOU IN THE EYE. Not screened for critics. PG-13. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Wilsonville. Call theaters for additional locations.
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
66 Even the best horror comedies are essentially one-joke ponies. What separates the Shaun of the Deads from the Stan Helsings is how they use those jokes as a springboard into the unconventional. While the latest slapstickand-squibs offering, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, is no Shaun, it manages to amuse with a clever, though redundant, revision of hicksploitation/slasher fare. 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 beerswilling 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. Still, Tudyk and Labine are great company, and long after the premise has become stale, the easy likability of the titular characters, paired with ample gore, lends Tucker & Dale instant cult-movie cred. 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, we ride the road-movie cliché train: Sheen at first rejects and then bonds with a ragtag group of fellow hikers (played to the hammy hilt by Deborah Kara Unger, James Nesbitt and Yorick van Wageningen), has a moment of darkness, warms up to the world around him, and walks away from it all a new man. Enlivened only by cinematography that ably captures the beauty of the Spanish countryside, this Way leads to disappointment. PG-13. ROBERT HAM. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Hollywood Theatre, Fox Tower. Call theaters for additional locations.
Weekend
90 [ONE WEEK ONLY] Weekend
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, but the film’s most powerful moments come in its silences: the sun rising over his concrete apartment building in Nottingham; him at his window smoking; him watching his lover leave, not knowing if they’ll see each other again. MAGGIE SUMMERS. Living Room Theaters.
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THINGS COULD BE BETTER, LLOYD: Twin girls hacked to pieces. Torrents of blood spilling from an elevator. Shelley Duvall. Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is full of creepy imagery. But it’s the film’s family dynamic that’s the stuff of real nightmares, and what makes The Shining among the most frightening films of all time: the feeling that those you love and trust are the real boogeymen. The simmering evil—prodded along by Kubrick’s patient buildup, his then-revolutionary sound mix and Steadicam work, and Jack Nicholson’s erratic eyebrows—imparts a blood-boiling dread throughout. Tell ’em Delbert Grady sent you… and stay away from Room 237. AP KRYZA. Academy. Best paired with: Boneyard Chocolate Espresso Stout. Also showing: Crazy, Stupid, Love (Academy, Laurelhurst, Valley). 99 West Drive-In
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