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BIG, BAD BRIDGE Contrary to what [Oregon and Washington] officials are saying, the Columbia River Crossing is way behind schedule [“The Runaway Bridge Project,” Oct. 26, 2011].... Instead of sinking more time and money into this unwieldy megaproject, isn’t it finally time to work toward an affordable, buildable Plan B? —“Mara Gross” The state should implement a five-year hiatus on further bridge construction planning. Use those years to learn the effect of higher car prices, rising fuel costs, and any economic changes to reassess probable traffic counts. Replace the present, very crude estimates of tolling effects with a real-life pilot trial of tolling on the present bridge. Every currently posed comment...should receive a thoughtful and complete response based on knowledge. Cost estimates in particular should receive a thorough review. —“Marvin McConough” 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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Don’t hang on, Tom—nothing lasts forever but the Earth and sky. Still, I suspect you want me to put down the bong and answer your question. First, we need to understand how light bulbs work. You probably have a hazy memory about Thomas Edison rolling a cotton thread in soot and using that thread to fly a kite in a thunderstorm, thereby inventing the steam engine. (Hey, I said it was hazy.) The story’s emphasis on Edison’s long search for the perfect filament makes it seem like there’s something magical about carbonized cotton (or the more recent tungsten) that causes it to glow when a current is passed through it. There isn’t. The current is just a way to get the filament hot—and any material, from iron in a forge to, oh, I don’t know, a lump of burning marijuana—will glow when it gets hot enough.
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Clark County voters will decide Tuesday, Nov. 8, whether to increase a local sales tax by 0.2 percent to support C-Tran, the public bus agency. But it’s a referendum of sorts on voters’ feelings about the Columbia River Crossing. C-Tran says this tax hike will maintain current service. Critics fear the money could be diverted for maintenance of the light-rail component of the Interstate 5 bridge project [“Derailing the Bridge, WW, July 27, 2011]. Voters must also approve a future measure to pay for running the light rail; Tuesday’s vote could provide a sense of how they like that idea. Get Your Vote In: Don’t forget to vote in the Nov. 8 special primary runoff to decide which Republican and Democrat will face off to replace former U.S. Rep. David Wu in the 1st Congressional District. WW has endorsed Republican businessman Rob Cornilles of Tualatin and Democratic state Sen. Suzanne Bonamici of Beaverton. See our endorsements and video of our interviews with the Democratic candidates at wweek.com.
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When he ran for office, Attorney General John Kroger said the state’s prosecution of polluters was inadequate and he would put the worst ones behind bars. Three years later, one has done time: a landscaper who dumped 60 truckloads of dirt, barrels and plastic pipes on his foreclosed property. He did two days in the Marion County jail. Kroger made environmental prosecutions a cornerstone of his 2008 campaign, promising to bust toxic polluters. He reminds Oregonians in every press release that protecting the environment is part of the state Department of Justice’s mission. Kroger has prosecuted more polluters than any Oregon attorney general, but records show they’ve been small targets: individuals dumping polluted water or drilling illegal wells, and a Linn County dairy mishandling cow wastes. His agency hasn’t charged a big polluter or made a case that shows widespread environmental crimes have gone unpunished. “We have fulfilled the promise of looking at these cases differently,” says Kroger spokesman Tony Green. “It’s a little on the unreasonable side to look at cases that have been completed in less than two years’ time as measurement of whether an attorney general has done what he promised.”
Kroger won support from environmental groups in 2008, and today some say his work provides a disincentive for companies to break state pollution laws. “The cases may not be on the scale of the BP oil spill, thank goodness, but the fact he’s prosecuting cases changes the equation,” says Sue Marshall, a policy consultant with Tualatin Riverkeepers. “When they pursue these as criminal cases, the word gets out.” But Nina Bell of Northwest Environmental Advocates says prosecuting “mom and pop” operations provides little deterrent for large, chronic polluters. “It doesn’t feel like anything has jumped out at me so far,” Bell says of Kroger’s cases, “so that sort of speaks for itself.” The Department of Environmental Quality is the cop on the beat and can levy civil penalties. Kroger, during his campaign, said many DEQ cases deserved criminal prosecution but district attorneys didn’t have the time, experience or inclination. Lawmakers approved Kroger’s environmental crimes unit in 2009, and it’s had five convictions out of 53 investigations. Nine more with charges remain open. (This count doesn’t include fish and wildlife cases, which the state already completed, or those led by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.) Another 14 are under investigation. The case against George Joseph Davenport is typical. The state alleged Davenport, 30, who worked for D&S Water Services of Salem, pumped thousands of gallons of oily wastewater from car-wash holding tanks into storm drains in 2009. Davenport pleaded guilty to misdemeanor water pollution charges and was sentenced to 36 months probation, 120 hours community service and a $1,500 fine.
One major case Kroger’s office declined to prosecute involved Bandon Pacific. Owned by Dulcich Inc.—which runs Pacific Seafood Group, one of the West Coast’s largest seafood distributors—Bandon Pacific disclosed in 2008 that it failed to monitor its wastewater. The state found more than 4,000 water-quality violations, including fish carcasses dumped in the Coquille River. In December 2009, the DEQ levied a $208,554 civil fine against Bandon Pacific, but it wasn’t the first time for its owner. The DEQ says it has fined Dulcich subsidiaries seven times, including a $40,591 fine three months earlier. Bandon Pacific looked like the kind of case Kroger said he would pursue—egregious, prominent and big enough to send a signal to polluters. But Green says Bandon Pacific reported the problems, the DEQ’s fines seemed adequate punishment, and there was no new evidence of laws being broken. “We had to consider how to explain to a judge that the 11th-largest fine in DEQ history hadn’t adequately resolved the matter,” Green says. “Without evidence of pollution after the fine, we did not feel we could meet our burden.” Kroger’s most prominent case turned out to be a bit of a fiasco. Hood River Juice had been charged by the local district attorney with 18 felony counts, mostly for water pollution. Kroger’s office later took over the case. Kroger’s environmental counsel, Brent Foster, failed to disclose he had personally tested wastewater near the Hood River Juice plant. Foster resigned in April 2010, undermining the case’s credibility. Hood River Juice pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of water pollution and one count of making a false statement to the DEQ. The company’s owner, David Ryan, pleaded guilty to one count of each. Hood River Juice’s attorney, David Angeli, says the state’s prosecution was overkill. “I’m not saying there aren’t companies that deserve to be investigated,” Angeli says. “But I think [Kroger] ran on a false premise about environmental crimes to begin with. It’s not the widespread problem he made it out to be.” Willamette Week NOVEMBER 2, 2011 wweek.com
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It’s safe to say most Oregonians are neither terrorists, criminals nor illegal immigrants. But the 500,000 people who get their pictures taken for their driver’s license each year are having their images stored in a facial-recognition database that exceeds in size and breadth anything Oregon law-enforcement agencies possess. Last week, the Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles quietly inked a $13 million contract renewal with L-1 Identity Solutions to continue building a database so hush-hush that few Oregonians—or many state leaders—know it exists. The L-1 contract provides software that records a person’s unique facial features, just as police collect criminals’ fingerprints. The software scans the image of your face and compares it to earlier DMV file photographs. The software also scans other photos in the database to see if someone is trying to get identification under more than one name. “If we think they are possible frauds,” says DMV spokesman David House, “we refer the case to law enforcement.” Since 2008, when the software went into use, the DMV has alerted police to 940 cases of suspected identity fraud, House says. He doesn’t know how many reports resulted in an arrest or conviction. Critics say the high-tech database threatens privacy. “Once you have a database like this, there’s no telling how it can be used in the future,” says Dave Fidanque, Oregon director of the American Civil Liberties Union. Lawmakers in 2005 passed a contentious bill to tighten controls around who can get a driver’s license. About 30 states use similar software. Former Sen. Gary George (R-Newberg) was the lone member of his caucus to vote against the legislation in 2005. George says security breaches at state agencies and private companies in recent years, such
as Providence Health System, make him more skeptical than ever. “I was very concerned about where this thing was headed in terms of personal privacy,” George recalls. He says security concerns, while legitimate, caused his colleagues to overreact in 2005 when they passed the bill. “I think a lot of people are now saying, ‘Wait a minute, all the rest of us have our freedom and our liberty compromised,’” George says. Companies such as Facebook have already assembled billions of photos, and surveillance cameras are proliferating. Some retailers already use facial-recognition software to tailor their pitches to customers based on other information they’ve aggregated. And yet the most comprehensive data exists in DMV files, which means a merger of L-1, law enforcement subpoena or a security breach could open the floodgates. A Carnegie Mellon University study earlier this year showed that off-the-shelf facial-recognition programs are already so accurate that users can easily identify strangers and determine their social security numbers. “A reason for concern with large databases of biometric data is that, once they get assembled at great cost for a legitimate purpose, it becomes easier to argue for their extension into additional, less legitimate applications,” says Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon professor of information technology and public policy. “So a tool useful for thwarting identity theft can also become an instrument of surveillance and control.” The DMV’s House says his agency is sensitive to such concerns and notes that legislators wrote Oregon’s law so that only the DMV has access to the photo files. Law enforcement agencies can request individual photos but cannot use the DMV’s facial recognition software, House says. Fidanque is skeptical, however, that existing law provides long-term protection or can reduce the risk of accidental data breaches or hacking. “The use of the database can be changed or superseded at any time by the legislature,” he says. And since federal law trumps state law, Oregon’s database could be easy pickings. “If DMV gets a national security letter from the FBI,” Fidanque says, “they are going to turn over those photographs.”
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A MEMOIR REVEALS THE PERSONAL SIDE—AND POLITICAL FAILINGS—OF OREGON’S FIRST WOMAN GOVERNOR. BY M A R K K I R C H M E I E R
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Former Gov. Barbara Roberts’ new memoir, Up the Capitol Steps, is the most frustrating of books. For 200 pages, it’s the revealing, tender and intimate life story of Oregon’s first female governor. But it stretches to a Dostoyevskian length of 436 pages with too many narcolepsy-inducing anecdotes about her inlaws, ex-in-laws and mingling with Portland Trail Blazers and other minor celebrities. Yet if you can get past the minutiae, there are rewards here. Roberts may have been a Portland politician, but she was truly of Sheridan, the Yamhill County farming and timber town, where the 1953 high-school class of 37 included Barbara Hughey: honor student, oratory champ, cheerleader. Goals set, goals achieved. She married before graduation, as did many young women in Sheridan. Her life changed when her first son, Michael, by age 6 wasn’t toilet trained, avoided eye contact and displayed unusual gestures.
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When she and her husband, Neal Sanders, took him to the University of Oregon Medical School in 1962, she writes: “[T]he diagnosis was a devastating one: The doctor’s label: ‘extremely emotionally disturbed.’ They recommended Mike be permanently institutionalized! These ‘experts’ predicted Mike would never be able to go school, never work, never be able to live independently. I was stunned.” She fought back, ferociously, mustering the courage to transform herself into an amateur Capitol lobbyist. In 1971, she led the fight to require that public schools guarantee educational rights to specialneeds children. Meanwhile, her marriage had ended (her high-school sweetheart husband left her to marry one of her best friends), and she found a new love, state Rep. Frank Roberts, the Portland Democrat who championed her bill. The next decade saw her political rise to legislative aide, Multnomah County commissioner, state rep and, in 1984, secretary of state. When Gov. Neil Goldschmidt abruptly announced he wouldn’t seek re-election in 1990, Roberts jumped into the race. Her chief opponent was Republican Attorney General Dave Frohnmayer, a Rhodes Scholar who had been marked for greatness and was expected to stomp her in debates. But the matchup highlighted Roberts’ foremost skill: She’s a great communicator. In four debates, Frohnmayer gave laborious answers to the simplest questions. Roberts sparkled with direct and quotable quips. She won in a three-way race. She became an unlucky governor on the same night as her election, when voters passed the Measure 5 property-tax limit that has complicated the lives of every governor since. She spent her years cutting budgets. Roberts tried to persuade voters to pass a noble but disastrous sales tax proposal. She fought Oregon Citizens Alliance attacks on gay rights and supported expanding the Oregon Health Plan, but these are positions any Democratic governor would have taken. Roberts had reveled in the campaigner role, but once in office seemed to enjoy ceremony more than policy duties. In that
TELLING HER STORY: Then-Gov. Barbara Roberts, here in 1992, was the first state chief executive to face the budget cuts triggered by Oregon’s property-tax limit.
largely because she was deeply torn by family issues, including her son’s continued needs. That comes back to her own signature story, of the single mother with a specialneeds son, climbing the steps of the Capitol to change state law and, eventually, reaching the governorship. It’s an inspiring outsider’s tale, a great campaign speech, but Roberts had a tendency to overplay it. Succeeding as an executive requires stretching into new issue areas as Kitzhaber did, as well as Roberts’ former legislative colleague and future Portland mayor, Vera Katz. That more of the energy of Up the Capitol Steps is devoted to her family adversities than to issues and her accomplishments is a metaphor for Roberts’ time in office.
regard, she was the mirror opposite of her introverted and bookish successor, thenSenate President John Kitzhaber. During Roberts’ first term, Kitzhaber sensed growing dissatisfaction among other Democrats, and asked for a meeting in late 1993, as her re-election approached. “[Kitzhaber] came into my private office, not even taking a seat, [and] informed me he intended to run against me in the 1994 primary election, and turned to leave....” Roberts wrote. “He simply walked away.” Kitzhaber’s iciness stunned her— Roberts says he never even asked about Frank Roberts, his onetime Senate colleague, who was then dying of cancer. Barbara Roberts’ background suggests that however steep the odds, she didn’t fear a political fight with Kitzhaber, but after Frank died in the fall of 1993, she announced in January 1994 she wouldn’t run again. Her background suggests she stepped down
Mark Kirchmeier is the author of Packwood and previously reviewed Wayne Morse: A Political Biography for WW.
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AN OREGON BUSINESSMAN WANTED TO GET “FILTHY STINKING RICH.” NOW HE’S LINKED TO A BRIBERY CASE AND RISKS LOSING HIS BIGGEST CUSTOMER: THE U.S. MILITARY. BY CO REY P EI N
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Many successful business owners can’t resist showing off. They get their name in the newspaper, they donate to local politicians, or they put a big shiny sign on their offices to build a sense of identity. One of Oregon’s most successful manufacturers does none of these things. It has a signless white building in an office park in Tualatin. Barbed wire rings the gate that surrounds its parking lot. This company is famous only to the highly trained specialists who use its primary product, an emergency stretcher that has carried countless wounded soldiers from battlefields around the world. The high quality of this company’s products have made it an industry leader and its owner, a 74-year-old former U.S. Army medic and denturist, a wealthy man. But the actions of this company, Skedco, and its owner, Carston “Bud” Calkin, have threatened to unravel this success. Court documents show Skedco paid $365,000 to a U.S. Defense Department official “in return for increasing the amount of federal contracts” it received. Neither Calkin nor Skedco has been charged with any crime. But a Defense official is doing time in a federal prison in Englewood, Colo., after a jury convicted him of 35 counts of bribery, extortion and accepting illegal gratuities. Evidence
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presented in the case, and in a related civil case in Oregon, reveals that Skedco was the source of those payments. Now Skedco, which has received more than $8 million in federal contracts over the past decade, faces losing access to its biggest customer, the U.S. Army. Nine weeks ago, the Army put Calkin and others who did business with the nowimprisoned official on a list of “excluded parties”—as in, excluded from selling to the federal government. As WW went to press, the Army’s Suspension and Debarment Officer had yet to decide whether to ban Skedco, Calkin and his wife and business partner, Catherine Calkin, from government contracting. Whatever the Army’s decision, the case illustrates the vanishing line between the public and private sectors throughout the U.S. military, a trend that makes the $703 billion Defense budget a potential bonanza of corruption. Conflicts of interest span the ranks. Some 80 percent of retiring three- and four-star generals and admirals went on to work as consultants or executives for Defense contractors, a Boston Globe investigation found last year. In the Beltway, they’re known as “Rent-A-Generals.” Calls to the Defense Department’s waste, fraud and abuse hotline have nearly doubled since October 2002—totaling more than 11,000 in the most recent sixmonth reporting period. But the congressionally chartered Commission on Wartime Contracting said in its final report this year that the Pentagon remains far too lenient with companies accused of wrongdoing. The Army debarred or suspended 281 companies and individuals in the last fiscal year. Skedco is the first Oregon company to face an Army debarment since 9/11. This state has remained largely CONT. on page 14
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untainted by contracting scandals in the “war on terror,” if only because Oregon gets relatively little Defense spending. This unseemly chapter of Skedco’s story might have been as obscure as its rise to success had another company not drawn a line. The other company, facing similar threats of extortion, refused to pay bribes and instead blew the whistle. Much remains unclear. Some key court records remain sealed. Few people are talking. Calkin, reached on his cell phone, referred questions to his attorney. An attorney for the imprisoned Defense official did not return messages. But an intimate look into the case is possible because of two brothers: one, the ex-Defense official in prison for bribery; the other, a police officer who witnessed his brother’s slide to ruin. What the police officer has since disclosed about his brother’s crimes offers a rare insight into the greed, anger and remorse built into the business of war. The shooting starts. A soldier falls. And medics place the wounded on a hard plastic stretcher so common it’s known by its brand name: Skedco. “You say ‘Give me the Skedco’ the same way you say ‘Give me the Kleenex,’” says Andrew Cull, chief executive of Seattle-based Remote Medical, which sells the stretcher to the military and other customers. “They’re just so entrenched— it’s a staple of rescue teams around the world.” And for good reason. For decades, medics and rescue teams used stretchers, also known as litters, made of fabric or netting. Skedco makes litters of a tough yet flexible plastic, making them compact and light. “You can drag it, you can lift it—in a Humvee it’s easier to put under the seat for when you need it,” says Cull, who has years of mountain rescue experience. “It just saves a lot of headaches.” Some former military officers say Skedco gear saves more than headaches. “Bud is not just a hero to a lot of us that have him as a personal friend, but he’s a hero to a lot of soldiers, sailors and airmen who owe their lives to his equipment,” retired U.S. Army Col. Peter K. Landsteiner says. “I would give my left arm for Bud Calkin.” Calkin, Skedco’s founder, calls himself a pioneer of “extreme medicine.” He routinely leads training sessions for U.S. forces on bases and in the field, including a trip this year to Afghanistan. “My primary goal in life is to save GI lives. That’s what I live for,” Calkin told the Journal of Emergency Medical Services in July. “It’s extremely important to me, because the American soldier is the greatest treasure of America; they save lives and they keep us free.” The Skedco stretcher, Calkin told another interviewer, 14
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MADE IN OREGON: Skedco’s main product is the flexible plastic stretcher, or litter, that’s now standard medic gear throughout the U.S. military. It’s shown here in a recent Army training exercise.
MEDIC!: Soldiers drag a man on a Skedco stretcher during a training exercise in Baghdad.
was adapted from a rig his sister had used to drag deer out of the woods after a hunt. Today, the full Skedco litter kit runs $769. Records show Calkin moved to Oregon around 1980 and moved in with a friend, Pat Trotti, in Trotti’s Tigard home. According to court records, Trotti allowed Calkin, a licensed denturist until 2003, to use his dental clinic free of charge, and then loaned him money to help launch Skedco. In exchange, Trotti got a one-third ownership stake in the company. (In 2004, Trotti’s widow, Louise, sued Skedco and the Calkins in Washington County Circuit Court, claiming they had failed to pay her husband $2.5 million in dividends. Louise Trotti says the settlement agreement she reached with Skedco bars her from talking about the case or the Calkins.) Today, Bud Calkin’s wife, Hang Lee Calkin, who goes by Catherine, is Skedco’s principal owner, which allows the company to qualify as a minority-owned small business under federal contracting rules. Catherine handles the books, while Bud designs, sells and personally tests the products.
“My life goes in every product that handles the patient before anyone else is allowed to get in it,” Calkin told the Journal of Emergency Medical Services. “If I don’t trust it, then I should not be selling it to you.” He first began selling his unique brand of flexible plastic litters to the U.S. military in 1984. At first, Calkin had a hard time persuading rescue crews to buy his new product, according to the August 2007 issue of International Fire Fighter magazine. He would drive as far as 1,000 miles to sell a single litter, so his story goes. The company got its first break with the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama. Calkin’s litters “performed very well during that operation. Lives and at least one spinal cord were saved,” the IFF article says. A few years later, during the first Persian Gulf War, Skedco received “gigantic orders.” By 2004, Bud and Catherine Calkin were making a combined $625,000 a year in salaries, court records show. A year later, the Calkins purchased a $1.4 million, 7,700-square-foot home in the Stafford area of Clackamas County. A formidable security gate, complete with an intercom system, guards the Calkin home, with a large deck facing an idyllic green hillside. Today, the company reports $6.5 million in annual revenue and 21 employees. Skedco’s Tualatin headquarters are located near a United Parcel Service distribution center not far off Southwest Tualatin-Sherwood Road. It, too, restricts access with a tall gate, heavy doors and an intercom. Tiny letters on a tinted window read “SKEDCO.” BUD CALKIN Calkin’s Facebook page shows him to be a tea party supporter. On it, he recommends the Tea Party Action Center, a website promoting causes like the balanced-budget amendment and the repeal of “Obamacare.” Despite Calkin’s limited-government politics, Skedco hired a Washington, D.C., lobbying firm, the DLM Group, to request $4.5 million in earmarks from U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, both Oregon Democrats, in fiscal years 2010 and 2011. The earmarks were never approved, but the senators moved Skedco’s request on to the relevant appropriations committees. Merkley spokeswoman Julie Edwards tells WW the senators wouldn’t have sought the earmarks if they had known Skedco was involved in a public corruption investigation. Over the years, Calkin has donated relatively small sums to the national Republican Party. It seems most of his time and attention were devoted to his business with the military. Calkin is a familiar face at conventions of the Society of Army Physician Assistants and the Special Operations Medical Association, and other trade shows. A number of military officials have sent supportive letters to Calkin’s attorney in preparation for Skedco’s debarment hearing. “Bud was and continues to be a legendary figure, known to most medics and field commanders,” writes retired U.S. Army Col. Frederick E. Gerber. Another supporter, Col. Drew Kosmowski, an emergency physician at a military hospital in Colorado, adds that “Bud always maintained the highest ethical standards.” It’s not clear how Bud Calkin first met Joe Marak, the Defense official convicted of taking bribes. Marak, 51, was born in Connecticut, became an Eagle Scout and enlisted in the Army in 1979, training at Fort Lewis, Wash. He trained as a medic, served in Bosnia and retired as a sergeant first class in 1999. In a military service evaluation, submitted during his criminal case, a superior wrote “Joe’s abilities are endless.” In February 2002, Marak signed on as the Army Special Operations Command’s medical plans specialist at Fort Bragg, N.C. The job called for identifying flaws in military medical equipment, recommending improvements and
CONT. assigning contracts for new gear. By July of that year, Marak was leading the development of a new litter kit that could be attached to the belly of a Blackhawk helicopter or slide under the seat of a Humvee, then be quickly removed and carried into the field. The new litter kit, known as a CASEVAC for “casualty evacuation,” was developed especially for rugged terrain like Afghanistan’s. Defense procurement is rarely so straightforward as the government placing an order or a company making a sales pitch. In this case, the government—Marak—came up with the idea and went looking for a company to make the kit. Marak led the design of the CASEVAC over the next few years, as his job description required. However, prosecutors say he put his own interests ahead of the Army’s, even signing drawings of the prototypes “property of Joseph J. Marak.” It seemed Marak had a plan to profit from his design. In the spring of 2005, Marak reached out to others who could make the plan a reality. During a Special Operations Medical Association conference in Fayetteville, N.C., Marak met with Bud and Catherine Calkin in a hotel room along with representatives of one of Skedco’s competitors, Special Operations Technologies, known as S.O. Tech. Based in Carson, Calif., S.O. Tech was founded by James Cragg, an intelligence officer in the Army reserves. Cragg later said the meeting ended with a handshake deal for shared work on the CASEVAC system. A few months later, the companies and the government had a contract. At Marak’s insistence, S.O. Tech and Skedco would form a joint venture to produce the CASEVAC. With a deal in place, Marak began asking both S.O. Tech and Skedco for what he called “royalties”—but what S.O. Tech’s Cragg believed were kickbacks. The demands for payment were delivered by email and in person, prosecutors said, and came with threats to yank pre-existing contracts. Beyond kickbacks, Marak also began asking both companies for a job. In an October 2005 email to Cragg, Marak expressed anger that Cragg had ignored his previous request for employment. “You’re screwing with your life blood,” Marak wrote to Cragg in an October 2005 email. “I’m all talked out and burnt out on BS promises. I make things happen.” Court documents show Marak was at that time already taking money from Skedco. From September 2005 to
June 2006, according to the indictment later filed against him, Marak collected 35 traveler’s checks from a Defense contractor. Documents filed in the case reveal that company was Skedco. The checks, for sums between $100 and $3,000, eventually totaled $13,000. In the spring of 2006, the Army approved the CASEVAC design. Within a few months, the Army had purchased 2,800 kits from Skedco for $3.8 million—triple the previous year’s orders. S.O. Tech, which had refused Marak’s demands for payment, would soon find itself cut out of the deal. In June 2006, Marak, then 46, drove to his brother’s house in Whitewater, Colo., in a Ford Ranger pickup pulling a trailer. The trailer was filled with military packs, assorted gear, drafting materials, fabric and a used industrial sewing machine. Gary Marak, then 38, was a sergeant with the Grand Junction Police Department. He and his wife, Lori, helped his older brother install the sewing machine in a detached garage. Joe told them he was starting his own military equipment design company, and for the next month he worked nonstop on prototypes for Defense contractors he hoped to work with. Gary says his brother talked about Skedco hundreds of times in the year they shared a home. “Joe always talked about the persons at Skedco by first name, Bud and Catherine,” Gary wrote in a five-page, single-spaced letter to the federal judge who this year sentenced Joe to 72 months in prison. Joe’s optimistic attitude began to change in July 2006, Gary recalled. Joe had returned upset from a brief trip to Oregon, where he visited Skedco, Gary wrote. One of the things that upset Joe: Calkin had made a comment about becoming “filthy stinking rich,” Gary wrote. “Joe would tell me over and over again that this was not what he wanted to do or become,” Gary wrote, adding that Joe came to question “whether Bud and Catherine were trying to do the right things or just make money, and why they were trying to hide him and his work behind the scenes.” Despite such reservations, court records show, Joe Marak signed on in July 2006 as a consultant for Skedco. In coming months and years, he would collect $350,000—
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A “debarment” is government jargon for banning a company or person from getting contracts. These statistics from the U.S. Army Suspension and Debarment officer show an increase in debarments in recent years. But according to the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, which submitted its final report to Congress this year, the military still isn’t doing enough to sanction contractors who break the rules or behave unethically.
money paid in return for the exclusive contracts he had arranged as a government employee, prosecutors said. In June 2007, the deal between Marak and Skedco started to come to light. That’s when S.O. Tech, the company that had refused to pay Marak, sued Skedco and Marak in U.S. District Court in Oregon. S.O. Tech claimed Skedco and Marak had conspired to steal its designs and cut it out of participation in the CASEVAC joint venture and future contracts. Among other allegations, S.O. Tech said Marak had written one of its contracts in such a way that required it to purchase laminated first-aid cards from Skedco for $10 apiece—a hugely inflated price used to fund payments to Marak. According to Gary Marak, S.O. Tech’s lawsuit increased Skedco’s power over Joe. “[T]he only way he could pay for a lawyer was to work for Skedco,” Gary Marak wrote. “From my standpoint, as time passed they seemed to have control over him.” Skedco’s Calkin told the court he had lost sleep over the “scurrilous” accusations by S.O. Tech. “Neither Skedco nor I have done anything wrong,” Calkin said in a 2009 court filing. “We were just unlucky to have been talked into using an incompetent subcontractor who is willing to say anything to get back at us for rejecting its totally unusable products. I cannot get the injustice of this case off my mind.” Skedco filed a counterclaim, accusing S.O. Tech of defamation and shoddy work on the CASEVAC kits. Calkin also claimed Cragg’s employees physically threatened him at a 2007 trade show. S.O. Tech’s allegations against Marak drew the government into the case. Initially, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Oregon, then led by Karen Immergut, sought to have S.O. Tech’s civil claim thrown out of court, on the grounds that Marak was acting in the scope of his duties as a federal employee. Immergut’s office dropped the argument when the U.S. Attorney in North Carolina decided to bring criminal charges against Marak in 2010. S.O. Tech’s civil lawsuit remains pending against Joe Marak even as he sits in a federal prison. But the company settled with Skedco. S.O. Tech and Cragg are now fighting to protect their privilege to sell products to the government. S.O. Tech’s attorney, Robert Aldisert of the Portland firm Perkins Coie, says the Army sought to debar his client even though Cragg refused to pay Marak any bribes. That decision “was based on a confused reading of the indictment, which was not a model of clarity,” Aldisert says. Skedco’s attorney, Lois Rosenbaum of the Portland firm Stoel Rives, says the company should not be barred from military contracting because it was a victim of Marak’s extortion, and because it cooperated with prosecutors. She says no Skedco competitor makes products of the same quality—and that America’s military personnel would be put in danger if they had to rely on inferior gear. “It’s done so much for so many people,” Rosenbaum says of Skedco. “In fact, it’s dedicated its whole corporate existence to saving the lives of military personnel.” The Calkins’ supporters have rallied to Skedco’s defense. “I know that Bud and Catherine regret what they did that led to this hearing,” Landsteiner, the retired colonel, writes in another letter of support. “I know that they have been humbled and have truly learned from their actions also.” Joe Marak is appealing his criminal conviction. Before his brother was sentenced, Gary Marak told the court he didn’t understand why Skedco escaped accountability. “I know he did not force or coerce Skedco into anything,” Gary wrote. “I have seen this company now and the resources they have available to them. In their entire story, my brother was able to do everything he has done while acting alone.” “I have investigated more crimes than I can remember,” he went on, “and I have seen a lot while working the streets and investigations. I am having a hard time understanding how all this is coming down on one man.” Willamette Week NOVEMBER 2, 2011 wweek.com
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GOSSIP THAT’S NOT ABOUT KRIS AND/OR KIM. MONSTER SMASH: Even though it was up against Game 7 of the World Series, Portlandfilmed spooky series Grimm premiered with the highest non-sports broadcast network ratings for a Friday night since ABC’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. This is a good a place for GRIMM: Lots of people watched it. Aaron Mesh to eat crow for mistakes in his review of the Grimm pilot: NBC has ordered 12 additional episodes, not eight, and Ayanna Berkshire plays a doctor, not a nurse. PIZZA AND A FLICK: Lonesome Pizza, known for putting local artwork on its boxes, is now delivering regional movies. On Monday, Oct. 31, Lonesome began teaming up with the NW Film Center to insert DVDs of short films from last year’s Northwest Film & Video Festival in its boxes throughout November. The movies on the DVD include The True Believers, Nathaniel Bennett’s comedy about searching for Bigfoot. OCCUPY FM: Portland’s anarcho-eclectic community radio station KBOO is, predictably, totally losing its shit over Occupy Portland. As of Monday, Oct. 31, it’s coming live from camp every day from noon to 5 pm. UNOCCUPIED: Not everyone is toeing the Occupy line. The Oregon Symphony issued a statement distancing itself from Thomas Lauderdale’s Occupy Portland fundraiser. “The Oregon Symphony is in the business of making great music,” a release said. “It is not in the business of making political statements and takes great care not to do so.” CARTASTROPHE! The Green Castle food cart pod at Northeast 20th Avenue and Everett Street closed Monday, Oct. 31, displacing at least 14 carts. According to city documents, the owners failed to obtain a zoning exception for the lot, which is in a residential area, prior to opening. The Bureau of Development Services found that allowing the food court would “lessen the residential character of the residentially zoned area.” Several of the displaced carts are moving elswhere: The Burger Guild to Southeast 50th Avenue and Division Street; Cackalacks Hot Chicken Shack, Viking Soul Food and Sushi PDX to Good Food Here at 4262 SE Belmont St.; and Gaufre Gourmet to Southwest 9th Avenue and Alder Street. >> Former Shins drummer Jesse Sandoval has closed his Mississippi Avenue New Mexican cart, Nuevo Mexico. >> Troy MacLarty, a former chef at defunct Lovely Hula Hands, plans to open Bollywood Theater, an Indian restaurant, on Northeast Alberta Street. >> Vegan burger cart Off the Griddle is opening a brick-and-mortar in the former Cafe Monet space at 5420 E Burnside St.
ROASTED: In this year’s Devour guide, we called Adam McGovern’s Sterling Coffee Roasters and Coffeehouse Northwest “just about the only places worth caffeinating at west of I-405.” Competition is brewing: Ristretto Roasters, which has two Northeast coffeehouses, is opening a third in the Nicolai Building at 2121 NW Nicolai St. According to the roaster, the cafe will feature a new pour-over system designed by owner and roaster Din Johnson, and the space will be designed by Accelerated Development, behind the look of Portland’s Barista and Coava. Opening is set for December. 18
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THURSDAY NOV. 3 [COMEDY] NORM MACDONALD To say former SNL Weekend Update host Norm MacDonald is past his prime is to miss the point. Yes, he shows up half in the bag. Obvious intoxication happens to work really well with his sardonic style. Imagine the funniest guy to ever fall off the bar stool next to you and double the hilarity. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm. $20-$25. Also 7:30 and 10 pm Friday and Saturday, Nov. 4-5. [MUSIC, MOVIES] BEYOND THIS PLACE Sufjan Stevens is touring in conjunction with screenings of the documentary Beyond This Place. The flick chronicles filmmaker Kaleo La Belle’s attempt to reconcile with his old man, a perpetually stoned cyclist named “Cloud Rock,” on a 500mile bike ride through the Pacific Northwest. Stevens did the soundtrack and will perform. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 2814215. 7:30 pm. $25.
FRIDAY NOV. 4 [TOUR] WHERE DOES GARBAGE GO? The Dill Pickle Club’s latest educool-tional event is a bus tour that follows your nasty-ass trash through Portland’s various refuse handling systems, including Metro, Recology Oregon Material Recovery, Far West Fibers and the ReBuilding Center. (Note: Bush-era plans to “just dump it in the river” never came to fruition, so the barge is in dry dock.) Tour departs from the Metro building, 600 NE Grand Ave., 797-1700. 10 am-4 pm. $25. dillpickleclub.org.
TIPS FOR SURVIVING WITHOUT THE NBA. In a world without labor negotiations, the Portland Trail Blazers’ regular season would start on Thursday, Nov. 3. Meetings have been spun as “cautiously optimistic” when they haven’t been obviously
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Ducks and Beavers usually rule Oregon’s college basketball conversations, but Portland State’s games are—well, they’re right on the streetcar line. Senior guard Charles Odum had a big season last year, and “Odum” sounds enough like “Oden” to make this a feel-good story. For even more wins, check out Eryn Jones and the excellent women’s Vikings. SEE IT: The Vikes play an exhibition game against Western Oregon University at 8 pm Friday, Nov. 4. (Women play at 6 pm.) $8, free for cardcarrying PSU students.
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The Blazer forward has organized a charity game where he’ll play alongside teammates (Brandon Roy, Wesley Matthews) and familiar faces (Kevin Durant, ex-Blazers Steve Blake and Jeff Pendergraph). If you’ve always wanted great seats to an NBA game but couldn’t afford the tickets, tonight’s your night. SEE IT: The charity game is Sunday, Nov. 6, at the University of Portland’s Chiles Center. 7:30 pm. $40-$100.
disastrous (thanks, Paul Allen), so prospects for an NBA season are looking increasingly dim. Yet one needn’t forsake the sport of basketball entirely. When you’ve tired of Googling classic NBA games—it’s amazing how many are on YouTube—here are a few non-NBA options for hardwood heads. CASEY JARMAN.
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“Experts” might be a bit too serious of a description for the authors behind the Basketball Jones, one of the Internet’s finest NBA blog/podcast combos. Now J.E. Skeets and company are on a 10-city tour, reminding us that we don’t need a basketball season to make fun of basketball players.
SEE IT: The Basketball Jones Tour is Sunday, Nov. 6, at On Deck Sports Bar (910 NW 14th Ave.). 4 pm. Free.
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Despite some failings on the online front, NBA 2K12 is, simply, the finest and most realistic b-ball simulation to date. Virtual Blake Griffin dunks and pouts with equal intensity, and skilled players can master the flop with digital Dirk Nowitzki. Try to persuade your entire fantasy basketball league to battle in the Association mode. Game on!
GET IT: NBA 2K12 is available now. $4.99-$59.99 depending on platform.
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Three steps: 1. Follow every NBA player you can find on Twitter. 2. Create a list called “NBA” from your Twitter page. 3. Dump all the players in said folder, and watch the sparks fly! And by “sparks,” we mean gross grammatical errors and photos of shoes.
INTERNET IT: A handy, near-complete list of NBA players is at bit.ly/ wwbball.
[THEATER] ROCK WITCH House of Cunt founder Amber Martin is back in town with her new show about rock and witchcraft, and probably singin’ and obscenity. Martin is an extraordinary performer who can out-sing most country stars and out-weird John Cameron Mitchell. Wild Abandon, 2411 SE Belmont St., 232-4458. 9 pm. $17, dinner and drinks not included. 21+. [MUSIC] BLACK STAR This one has been a long time coming. In 1998, every college kid in America was bumping Mos Def and Talib Kweli in their dorm rooms, and other than a few fly-by-night reformations, the duo has remained silent ever since. With a new album in the works, we expect big things from the pair. Roseland Theater, 8 pm. NW 6th Ave. 8 pm. $31.50-$45.
SATURDAY NOV. 5 [MUSIC] SIREN NATION FESTIVAL Siren Nation isn’t so much a “women’s empowerment” weekend as it is a “really talented artists who happen to be women” weekend. The small difference makes all the difference. Laura Gibson is one of Portland’s best songwriters of any gender, and her new album drops soon. The Woods, 6637 SE Milwaukie Ave., 890-0408. 8 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
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FOOD & DRINK = WW Pick. Highly recommended. By EMILEE BOOHER. PRICES: $: Most entrees under $10. $$: $10-$20. $$$: $20-$30. $$$$: Above $30. Editor: MARTIN CIZMAR. Email: dish@wweek. com. See page 3 for submission instructions.
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Chef Christina Tosi is the lady behind compost cookies, cereal milk, crack pie and all those other Momofuku Milk Bar treats you got just a leeeetle sick of hearing about in 2009. Tosi has written a recipe book featuring all her buzzed-about New York confections, and she’ll be bringing it to Portland for two events: a bake sale and book signing in the lobby of the Ace Hotel (1022 SW Stark
St., 228-2277, acehotel.com/portland) and a cooking demo and signing at Williams-Sonoma (338 NW 23rd Ave., 946-2300). 5-8 pm Wednesday, noon Thursday, Nov. 2-3. Free.
Create Your Own Sandwich at Kenny & Zuke’s
Legend has it that John Montagu, Fourth Earl of Sandwich, was such an avid gambler he needed food easy to eat with one hand—thus the sandwich was born. In the American fashion of celebrating
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CRUST AND COMMON As the weather turns chilly, there are few things more comforting than gobbling down fistfuls of carbs, fat and salt. Well, except maybe chasing it with a pint. That’s one reason chef Bradley Jones moved his five-month-old pie-centric food cart, Crust and Common, from Sellwood to a NW bar’s parking lot. From inside his little blue box, Jones serves up comfort food in portable pastry shells. There are classic sweet slices ($4.50) like pecan, chocolate cream and pies filled with seasonal fruit, but the real gems are the savory options ($6.50-$7). The squat little morsels were inspired by a year Jones spent in London, coming in unashamedly thick, buttery and salty, crusts wrapped around braised beef short ribs or potatoes and cheddar. Some days he also bakes a tart; a recent caramelized garlic and goat cheese number was like sinking your teeth into a slice of savory fudge and elicited several pornographic moans. Pair it with a side salad and it’s a little taste of sunshine. RUTH BROWN. EAT: Q-19 cart pod, 1502 NW 19th Ave., 593-4936, crustandcommon. com. 11 am-3 pm Tuesday-Wednesday, 11 am-8 pm Wednesday-Friday.
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ABOMINABLE WINTER ALE (HOPWORKS URBAN BREWRY) Hopworks Urban Brewery advertises its Abominable Winter Ale as a “Fall Seasonal.” That’s the first sign something ’s awry. Though winter ale and Christmas ale are fuzzily defined styles, this hop-heavy West Coast pale ale just doesn’t fit, despite the cute cartoon yeti on the label. Winter ales are spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg or the like—stuff you’d find in cookies. Gimmicky? Yeah, sure, but that’s why people buy them. The only vaguely holiday flavor in this all-too-standard brew is spruce, coming from Centennial and Simcoe hops, which, like your least favorite familial guests, outstay their welcome after a sweet and malty start. The carbonation in our bottle, purchased from Food Front co-op in Northwest Portland, also seemed a bit off, dissipating far too quickly from a thin head atop a coppery yellow body. Pick a season, HUB, and add the appropriate spices. The yeti can stay. Not recommended. MARTIN CIZMAR. 20
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everything, Montagu’s birthday (Nov. 3) is dubbed National Sandwich Day. Portland’s go-to sandwich joint, Kenny & Zuke’s, is celebrating by letting you make your own sandwich (because we all want to slap a sandwich together when we go out to eat). Sarcasm aside, the restaurant offers a build-your-own-sandwich platter with pastrami, corned beef, salami, turkey, roast beef and chopped liver through Nov. 6. Kenny & Zuke’s Delicatessen, 1038 SW Stark St., 222-3354. Through Sunday, Nov. 6. $33.50 per platter.
SATURDAY, NOV. 5 Chef2Go Asian Food Market Tour
Chef2Go hosts a chef-guided tour of Portland Asian food markets, unearthing the city’s hidden treasures. With good Asian markets few and far between, you’ll learn where to find fresh produce, spices and seafood with a chef conveniently by your side. The afternoon starts with a gourmet Chinese
banquet luncheon to get the juices stirring. 656-8910. 11:30 am-3:30 pm. $25 lunch only, $40 lunch and guided tour.
Portland to Eugene Brew Tour
Portland makes good beer. But let us not forget the deliciousness brewing two hours south. Brewvana Brewery Tours teams up with craftbeer website the New School for a beer-filled bus tour, co-hosted by Ninkasi’s Jamie Floyd, of four prominent Eugene breweries and tap houses. Take a trip through Ninkasi, Oakshire, Hop Valley and 16 Tons to see the behind-thescenes brewing process, and, most importantly, drink lots of beer. Space is limited—it is a bus, after all. 11 am. $95.
Third Annual Gumbo Cook-off
Cajun and Creole, okra and roux, all gloves are off as participants from around the city compete in EaT: An Oyster Bar’s third annual gumbo cook-off. Past competitors, including Tabla, Beaker & Flask, Acadia and
Cha! Cha! Cha!, have cooked up the famous Louisiana stew with ingredients such as rabbit, sausage and squid. Tasting-fee proceeds will go toward the Pacific Coast Shellfish Growers Association. EaT: An Oyster Bar, 3808 N Williams Ave., 281-1222. 2-5 pm. $5 tasting fee.
MONDAY, NOV. 7 MEJOR Communities Fundraiser Dinner at Andina
Peruvian cuisine hot spot Andina hosts its fourth annual fundraiser dinner for the upcoming MEJOR Communities Youth Empowerment project, aimed at encouraging youth participation in rural Peruvian community health and educational development. The dinner will feature a three-course tapas-style menu complemented by house wines. Tickets can be purchased through MEJORC’s website, mejorc. org. Andina, 1314 NW Glisan St., 228-9535. 6:30 pm. $70.
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What’s the one thing you want wine consumers to learn about biodynamic winemaking from your book? That it’s a very traditional and environmentally sensitive way of farming grapes and making wine. I’m not saying it’s the best way. But I appreciate the fact that biodynamic farmers are focused on soil health and environmental sustainability. And in my own experience, the vignerons who are focused on these things tend to make the most terroir-driven wines. TASTE: Tasting and signing 5-7:30 pm Friday, Nov. 4, at Great Wine Buys, 1515 NE Broadway, 287-2897. $15 tasting fee. Free tasting and signing 2-5 pm Saturday, Nov. 5, at PastaWorks, 3735 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 232-1010.
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The founder of biodynamic agriculture, Rudolf Steiner, believed in fire spirits, ghosts and gnomes. Oregon winemakers following Steiner’s biodynamic practices often overlook the gnomes—they’re quite short, after all. The organizations at the front lines of American biodynamic agriculture—ground quartz buried in cow horns, stinging nettles mixed into compost—are based in Oregon. Katherine Cole’s new book, Voodoo Vintners: Oregon’s Astonishing Biodynamic Winegrowers, published by Oregon State University Press, explores their beliefs and the quaffable product thereof. Cole, 38, has been writing about wine since moving to Portland in 2000. Voodoo Vintners is
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Funny memory from the writing of Voodoo Vintners? I think there’s a little side note in the book about John Paul of Cameron Winery sneaking into Doug Tunnell’s vineyard in the middle of the night and hiding garden gnomes everywhere so when Doug hopped on his tractor early the next morning, he was confronted with the sight of gnomes. Steiner actually wrote that gnomes were actively involved in plant growth. And no, Steiner didn’t drink or use drugs. I think he was on sort of a natural high for his entire life.
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WW: What’s something that didn’t make it into the book that you wish did? Katherine Cole: Everyone had a story to tell about a personal epiphany. Doug Tunnell of Brick House Vineyards was traveling in Mexico a few years ago and inquired about the palm-frond roofs of the huts in the village he was staying in. He was told that, to make a sound roof, only palm fronds harvested under a full moon should be used. This, of course, resonated with him because biodynamic practitioners time their agricultural activities to the moon cycle. We’re having a moment of resurgent atavism, of returning to the old ways of doing things.
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[FULL COURT PRESS] The AP Tour, whose name and unfussy professionalism always reminds us of an off-season pro golf event, returns for a third year. Four Year Strong is an East Coast harmonic hardcore quartet newly streamlined and synthless en route to next week’s eagerly awaited fourthalbum release. Bringing the kids, U.K. punks Gallows recently replaced their frontman with the former vocalist of Canuck emo outfit Alexisonfire. Then there’s the rather cuter pop punk of (the Midwest’s) Swellers and (the West Midlands’) Sharks, both arousing memories of Warped summers past. JAY HORTON. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 6:30 pm. $17 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.
Bell Witch, Noctis, Aerial Ruin
[DOUR POWER] I’m fairly certain bars are not legally obligated to act in loco parentis, but the Know should consider hiring grief counselors for this one. I foresee many a melancholy metalhead leaving this show inconsolably bummed. One-man black cloud Aerial Ruin’s sylvan folk dirges will get the pity party started, after which Noctis’ thorny black metal, the ideal soundtrack for being buried alive, will obliterate whatever hope is left in the room. Seattle doom duo Bell Witch might actually qualify as a light at the end of the tunnel, as its hypnotic, incantatory epics hint at stoned bliss, but be careful—that light might be a fire. CHRIS STAMM. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.
[FRIENDS INCORPORATED] One could make the argument that Tender Loving Empire—home of Typhoon, Y La Bamba, Loch Lomond and Radiation City—has become the most influential indie rock label in Portland. If you buy that argument, you might also want to buy Friends And Friends of Friends Volume Four, this year’s two-disc TLE compilation. Aside from having some of the most bitchin’ packaging in recent memory (the cardboard case folds into a tent, complete with pop-up campers), the comp showcases a loving spoonful of the best bands in Portland and some notable out-of-town acts, as well. The release celebration features five of the comp’s finest contributors, an eclectic group that includes fast-rising atmospheric soul-rock quartet Radiation City and one-man dance machine/visual artist E*Rock. Your ticket comes with a free comp, though you’ll probably buy a second copy: They make nice Christmas presents. CASEY JARMAN. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 2397639. 8:30 pm. $8. 21+.
Beyond This Place with live score from Sufjan Stevens and Raymond Raposa
See Headout picks, page 19. Hollywood Theater, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd. 7:30 pm (Sold Out) and 9:30 pm. $20. 21+.
The Lemonheads, The Shining Twins
See Primer, page 26. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 2883895. 9 pm. $20. 21+.
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QUEER-ASS SLOW-JAMS Teddy Pendergrass, “Turn off the Lights” “Would you rub me down in some burnin’ hot oils, baby, yeah?” Probably the best slow-dance song ever by the (reportedly trannychasing) King of the Quiet Storm. I used to spin this 45 in my Fort Riley, Kan., basement for late-’70s junior high parties. Barry Manilow, “Weekend in New England” I was a fervent acolyte of the much-disparaged Barry. I remember reading the words “his boyfriend” in a late-’70s People magazine profile. Did I just imagine it? Barry, if you read this, I still LOVE YOU. Janis Ian, “At Seventeen” “Inventing lovers on the phone/ Repenting other lives unknown/ That call and say/ Come dance with me/ And murmur vague obscenities/ At ugly girls like me/ At seventeen.” ’Nuff fuckin’ said, my beautiful Sapphic sister. Gary Wright, “Dream Weaver” This song always blows away the crowd at the end of the night. He gets everything right. Surfer-glam good looks, spacy MDMA atmospherics, an ideal BPM and the rare double beat for true ’70s grind action. Hall & Oates, “She’s Gone” H&O was one of the few white acts allowed on black radio in the ’70s. Hell, I thought they were black till I saw their picture—and then I just thought they were gay. SEE IT: Director/actor/DJ John Cameron Mitchell’s Mattachine Dance Party hits Branx on Saturday, Nov. 5. 9 pm. $5 before 10 pm, $7 after. 21+.
MIX MASTER: DJ Wicked then and now.
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AFTER 20 YEARS IN THE UNDERGROUND, DJ WICKED LOOSENS UP AND LANDS ON TV.
take the craft more seriously. Kirpatrick met local MC Terrance “Cool Nutz” Scott in community college in 1992, not long before the rapper became Portland’s biggest hip-hop star.
BY CASEY JA R MA N
“In ’94 or ’95, you could sell out the Roseland with Cool Nutz,” Kirkpatrick remembers. “You could get a thousand people at La Luna for POHHop.” But over time, the local scene’s popularity faded and the crowds began to dwindle. “The stars just never aligned,” Kirkpatrick says. Many of the era’s artists left the scene, but DJ Wicked carried on, releasing mixtapes, playing parties and opening for everyone from the Wu-Tang Clan to Eminem. But the audience for hardcore underground rap— which Kirkpatrick refers to as “my shit”—isn’t what it once was. “When you’re just hardcore underground, you get the five hardcore underground backpack guys to come out to your show,” he says. “It’s cool, those are the heads, but it’s like, ‘This dude’s about to fire me because there’s five people here.’” Music being Kirkpatrick’s sole means of employment, five people wasn’t going to cut it. So over the past few years, DJ Wicked has expanded his horizons. He’s played corporate parties and even dropped a few Top 40 singles on his crowds—still on vinyl, of course, though Kirkpatrick figures he may eventually have to make the digital leap if he wants to stay relevant. “I’m trying to be open-minded,” Kirkpatrick says of his latest career phase. Hence his transition from mean-mugging radio-hater to minor reality-TV star. Not that he’s gone Hollywood. “The whole [Master of the Mix] thing reminded me of how much I love Oregon,” says Kirkpatrick, who prefers camping and bike-riding to hanging out at bars when he’s not performing. But he hopes the exposure will get him a few more gigs—and perhaps a little well-earned respect. “I’m the underground dude. I’m the dude who plays the basement parties and smoky bars and after-hours parties,” he says. “So the chance to be in that spotlight, it’s priceless.”
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Kirk Kirkpatrick represents the old guard of Portland hip-hop. The turntablist known as DJ Wicked is old-school not just by tenure, having held down his Wicked Wednesdays night at various venues over 13 years, but by presentation. Kirkpatrick is near the last of a dying breed: A fiercely independent vinyl purist in the age of digital DJs, and a student of the underground who once named a mix CD Fuck the Radio (Volume 1). So it was a little surreal to see Kirkpatrick, an understated, ballcap-wearing 37-year-old who usually lets his dexterous fingers do the talking, appealing for YouTube thumbs-ups in a video this June. Surrounded by crates of records and looking a touch like an escaped convict in a bright blue button-up shirt, Kirkpatrick engaged the camera with some pre-written dialogue: “I’ve been showing you for 20 years on these turntables why I’m a Master of the Mix; today is no different.” But it was different, and not just because the video showed Kirkpatrick using Serato’s digital software for the first time. Portland’s best turntablist had been bitten by the reality-TV bug. When his Detroit audition for season two of the BET network’s Master of the Mix failed to yield him a spot on the show, the producers encouraged him to try for an online vote-driven final spot. That’s when Kirkpatrick found out that he had a posse. Fans voted, tweeted and posted to Facebook in support of the contest’s only Northwest participant. “A lot more people came out to support me than I ever imagined,” Kirkpatrick says. “I saw people [online] that I always figured, for whatever reason, didn’t care for me. That feels good, seeing that many people go to bat for you.” In Portland hip-hop’s heyday, that might not have been a surprise. Kirkpatrick has been involved in the local scene since he was a teenager, when he practiced his art form by scratching on his parents’ console turntable. He gravitated as much toward visual art as he did turntablism in his early days, but a graffiti-related arrest at 21 compelled him to
SEE IT: DJ Wicked plays the Black Star after party at Someday Lounge on Friday, Nov. 4. 9 pm. $5. 21+. A viewing of the first episode of Master of the Mix (season two) is Saturday, Nov. 5, at the Up Front Bar and Grill, 833 SW Naito Parkway. 10:30 pm. Free. 21+. Master of the Mix airs Saturday, Nov. 5, at midnight on BET. Willamette Week NOVEMBER 2, 2011 wweek.com
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HONEYHONEY • MONDAY 11/7 @ 6PM Bubbling up from the underground of the Los Angeles music scene with an indelible Nashvilleinfluenced sound, indie roots duo honeyhoney have released their new full-length album, Billy Jack. The album finds twenty-something musicians Suzanne Santo and Ben Jaffe threading sweet melodies with big acoustic guitar sounds, percussive banjos and countrified fiddles.
SONGWRITERS CIRCLE: ALEX MILLER, JOSH MALM, JOHN MCMAHON • MONDAY 11/7 @ 7PM LYDIA LOVELESS • TUESDAY 11/8 @ 6PM Blessed with a commanding, blast-it-to-theback-of-the-room voice, the 21-year-old Lydia Loveless was raised on a family farm in Coshocton, Ohio—a small weird town with nothing to do but make music. ‘Indestructible Machine’ combines heady doses of punk rock energy and candor with the country classicism she was raised on and just can’t shake; it’s a gutsy and unvarnished mash-up.
JOHN WESLEY HARDING • WEDNESDAY 11/9 @ 6PM Now 19 albums and three novels into one of the arts' most compelling careers, John Wesley Harding brings us ‘The Sound of His Own Voice.’ Recorded at the Type Foundry in Portland, the album was produced by Harding and Scott McCaughey (The Minus Five, The Baseball Project, R.E.M., Young Fresh Fellows) and mixed by Tucker Martine (My Morning Jacket, The Decemberists, Spoon).
RICH ROBINSON (OF THE BLACK CROWES) THURSDAY 11/10 @ 6PM The Black Crowes are still a vibrant, relevant entity, an experience Rich shares with his longtime bandmates, including his brother Chris. To refresh their individual energies, the band has gone on more frequent hiatuses, which has allowed him to explore musical ideas that might not fit the band dynamic. ‘Through A Crooked Sun’ finds the musical gifts that have propelled a major career fully intact, but joined this time by a more sentient, holistic outlook.
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The Spits, The Mouthbreathers, The Lovesores
[PUNK FOR THE PEOPLE] How did it take this long for the Spits, one of the best sloshed garage-punk bands that Seattle has to offer, to end up on In the Red Records? The band’s short, dirty and analog synthladen slaps to the face have long seemed a perfect fit for the label that Jay Reatard, the Hunches, and the Dirtbombs have all called home. Well, let’s just be glad they found each other and that ITR is helping coax the band’s most recent and most potent album, V (the Spits’ fifth full-length), into existence. ROBERT HAM. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. $8. 21+.
FRIDAY, NOV. 4 Lewi Longmire’s Acoustic(esque) Orchestra, Michael Hurley, Fernando
[MAN ABOUT TOWN] If Lewi Longmire got a button for every Portland band he’s played for or with, he could sport a jacket that would have made even Ramblin’ Rod jealous. Turns out, Longmire works well as a bandleader, too, evidenced by his group’s latest disc Tales of the Left Coast Roasters, a remarkable neo-country effort. This time, the rootsy singer-songwriter shares the stage with nearly a dozen pals in music—with strings from Annalisa Tornfelt of Black Prairie and a threepiece horn section co-scored by Paul Brainard. MARK STOCK. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
Siren Nation Festival: Corin Tucker Band, Kelli Schaefer, Lemolo, Ximena Sarinana
[SINGIN’ SISTERS] It’s a weekend full of ladies! But you will hardly notice, because the Siren Music Festival isn’t so much a “women’s empowerment” weekend as it is a “really talented artists who happen to be women” weekend. That small difference makes all the difference; the female artists playing this series of shows are already powerful, and the music speaks for itself. Among the musical acts playing Siren Nation’s fifth annual fest are Kimya Dawson—who cleverly confuses ears with her childlike, fun-poking voice juxtaposed with oft-serious (and sometimes cringe-worthy) subject matter. Dawson plays Mississippi Studios on Saturday at 4 pm. Local songwriter Laura Gibson shares the stage at the Woods on Saturday night with other locals Y La Bamba, a band with one of the most striking frontwomen in Portland. Other lady acts to check out are Kelli Schaefer with her voice like butta and the unmistakable Corin Tucker with her band, both playing the Doug Fir on Friday. EMILEE BOOHER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 8 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show.
Little Red, Hurtbird, Bombs Into You
[HIP-HOP FUSION] If only “rap rock” didn’t connote crap rock, it would be the perfect descriptor for Hurtbird. The Portland trio draws evenly from both idioms composing that unfortunate hybrid genre, creating an eclectic blend more akin to art-rap collective Anticon than to Limp Bizkit. On Hurtbird’s latest record, last year’s Nature vs. City, mic controller Ryan Hayes’ rapping— with a voice sandpapery as Buck 65’s and a flow steady like spoken-word—holds down the hip-hop side of things, while Ritchie Young’s saucy vocals and occasional cool washes of synth keep the group’s sound melodic. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
Rabbits, Sirhan Sirhan, Raw Nerves, Jr. Worship
[PUNK-METAL NOISE] It’s been a helluva year for Rabbits. After slog-
ging it out in the Portland trenches for far too long, the trio has finally released an album that’s gone international, thanks to Relapse Records (the label also responsible for helping Red Fang reach further acclaim). Tonight, San Diego crusher Sirhan Sirhan will be in attendance, brandishing its patented angular noise rock. This show should also whet appetites for the return of Portland’s lost noise-metal heroes; Sirhan Sirhan members are now filling out the rhythm section of the reformatted Black Elk (!), so come get an ear-bleeding preview of what’s to come. NATHAN CARSON. Plan B, 1305 SE 8th Ave., 230-9020. 8 pm. $6. 21+.
Black Star, Shabazz Palaces, Risky Star
See Headout picks, page 19. Also see Someday Lounge’s Friday listing. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $31.50 - $45. All ages.
Risky Star, Libretto, Nu Era, Destro & L Pro
[SOULFUL HIP-HOP] Live, fullband hip-hop is a delicate proposition: The band has to craft a groovy, smooth backing track without losing the boom behind traditional samplebased rap production. Too groovy and your audience falls asleep; too raw and you veer into rap-rock territory. On Portland MC Risky Star’s new disc, Cool Breeze Volume One, he strikes the perfect balance of live instrumentation and synthesized boom bap: Risky raps over everything from trippy ’70s synths to New Jack Swing and late-night jazz. One of the few Portland MCs not afraid to sing a hook, Risky layers on the syrup between his bouts
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with the microphone. Low-key love songs and feel-good anthems make up the majority of the tracks here (even Risky’s street stories play out as smoothly as the yacht rock-style album title would suggest), but the production here is layered enough to keep your attention off any lack of depth. Appearances from frequent Lifesavas collaborator Libretto (who performs tonight) and World Rap Champion Illmaculate help sweeten the pot. CASEY JARMAN. Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th Ave., 248-1030. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
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[MILD GUITAR GOD] Leo Kottke belongs to a subsect of musical godheads who are almost impossible to appreciate casually. His masterful acoustic guitar playing and deadpan, folksy humor have never captured the zeitgeist, but this is due less to active snubbing than to an apparent lack of interest. At any rate, it has made Kottke immune to pop music’s tidal shifts. No sooner had he released his 1969 debut than Kottke amassed a cult following sizable enough to subsidize the release of more than 30 albums and a touring schedule so intense it nearly undid Kottke’s career with a mid-’80s bout of tendinitis. Though Kottke hasn’t released a record in six years, he has certainly reached a point where proving himself is no longer an issue. SHANE DANAHER. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $32.50 advance, $35 day of show (minors must be accompanied by a parent). All ages.
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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 2
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SEE IT: Sun Angle releases its self-titled EP on Tuesday, Nov. 8, at Holocene, with Wooden Indian Burial Ground and Our Brother the Native. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
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Relentlessly energetic pop-rock from esteemed Australian favorites, visiting North America at the tail end of a world tour
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[THREE-WAY] When Charlie Salas-Humara quit his one-man-band-turned-duo, Panther, in 2009, I knew it would only be a matter of time until he returned to the fore of the Portland music scene. And while he has popped up in various live capacities (most notably fronting local semi-supergroup Ylang Ylang), his newest group, Sun Angle, seems intent on being a “real band,” offering an energetic first cassette EP this week as physical proof. Luckily, it’s also the most exciting thing Salas-Humara has been involved with for a long time. The dots between Panther and Sun Angle are connectable, but not especially pronounced. Where the former depended on precise, sexy musicianship and repetitive hooks, Sun Angle finds pleasure in a looser, more effervescent sound. Sun Angle’s three members— Salas-Humara, Copy’s Marius Libman on bass and Paper/Upper/ Cuts’ Papi Fimbres on drums and flute—work from a palette that’s thick with the sort of foggy reverb we’ve come to expect from the emerging chillwave subgenre, but also ripe with a frenetic energy that’s passed between members like a hot potato. While Fimbres’ melodic, cymbal-heavy percussion gifts all of his projects with a certain post-bop swagger, Libman and Salas-Humara seem especially willing to turn in a jazzy direction (“Yes Beach” is alternately modal and free-flowing; “Seriously Innocent” sounds at times like guitar-led ’70s fusion). On “Vague Light,” it seems as if each member of Sun Angle is playing in a genre that’s in direct opposition to those of his bandmates. Salas-Humara is off in his prog world while Fimbres plays frantic Latin jazz and Libman plugs away on some minimal trance music. But two minutes in, after a brief breakdown, all three return more intense than ever to force the track—kicking and screaming— into submission. These guys know exactly what they’re doing; they’re just doing it the hard way. That stubborn determination to make something unclassifiable and fresh pays off throughout the EP. CASEY JARMAN.
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Shonen Knife, Grave Babies, The Slants
[CANDY PUNK] All right, so how many of us had the experience of hearing the Ramones for the first time and thinking, “Wow, this is awesome, but I wonder what this stuff would sound like if it were being played by four Japanese women who sang exclusively about food and cute animals?” Well, even if that question never crossed your mind, Shonen Knife is the answer, and has been since 1981. It’s hard to tell if the ongoing cult adoration of the band is a product of the sheer, unself-conscious joy that seeps through all its records, or if people just think its concept is funny, but the band did tap into the secret that kept its leather-jacketed male counterparts going for two full decades: If you find the right song, you can keep writing it over and over again for 30 years and it’ll never get old. Appropriately, Shonen Knife’s latest album is a collection of Ramones covers, and it makes the bruddas from Queens sound cute as a capybara. MATTHEW SINGER. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 9:30 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.
Jay Farrar, Bobby Bare Jr.
[THIRD-GENERATION FOLKIE] Folk began in the fields and on stoops with everyday folks jonesin’ for an outlet. It was popularized by Woody and Hank. And it was re-energized when it needed it most by artists like Jay Farrar in the early 1990s. Since then, Farrar has played huge Americana-based roles in institutions such as the late Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt and, most recently, with Ben Gibbard on the One Fast Move or I’m Gone soundtrack. He’s presently touring solo, with the aid of Gary Hunt on electric guitar and spare strings. Expect plenty of introverted, seemingly effortless folk rock from this maestro. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $17 advance, $19 day of show. 21+.
Old Highway (as Babes in Toyland), Youthbitch (as the ShangriLas), Drunk Dad (as L7), Boom (as the Ronettes), Gardens
[GARAGE CAMP FOR GIRLS] From the Ronettes to riot grrrl, women have made rock what it is today. Tonight’s show, a benefit for Rock ’n’ Roll Camp for Girls, proves it’s never too late to dress up for Halloween: Boy bands will don glitter and glam to pay tribute to the towering titans of estrogen and electric guitars. Expect to hear such classics as the Shangri-Las’ “Leader of the Pack” performed by Youthbitch and BOOM! covering “Be My Baby” by the Ronettes. Then fast-forward to the ’90s and Drunk Dad singing the L7 smash “Pretend We’re Dead,” and Old Highway will bring it all back home as Babes in Toyland. Finally, Gardens will perform as themselves: badass garage-rockers from Detroit. JOHN ISAACSON. East End, 203 SE Grand Ave., 232-0056. 9 pm. Cover. 21+.
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[HERBIE STYLE] For the past eight years, keyboardist and Portlanderin-exile Joey Porter (he lives in Colorado but returns regularly for shows) has specialized in assembling some of the area’s funkiest improvisational musicians for a wide range of tributes, from an ambitious but ho-hum wake for Michael Jackson to electric takes on James Brown and Stevie Wonder. But it was his tribute to the bopping, thunderous and pioneering Headhunters-era jazz funk of Herbie Hancock that got the whole thing started. For the eighth year running, the troupe returns to the basement of the Goodfoot with its best, most fine-tuned offering. AP KRYZA. Goodfoot Lounge, 2845 SE Stark St., 503-239-9292. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
Booty Bassment: Ryan Poulsen, Dimitri Dickinson, Maxx Bass [DIRTY DANCING] The Booty Bassment started as a birthday party among friends and, over the past nine years, has grown to a multicity DJ dance event with stops in San Diego, San Francisco and Portland. Step through the doors of Holocene and expect to be slapped in the face by a thick wave of heat generated by bouncing bodies shaking hard to the sound of Jay-Z and Kanye over a dozen squealing sirens. Dimitri Dickinson, one of the co-founders of the hip-hop dance party, started performing in the early ’90s alongside the likes of Slick Rick and Mobb Deep. His experience level is obvious: He plays Odd Future against Eminem and complements Rick Ross with the dirty howl of Ghostface while maintaining fluid transitions that never miss a beat. You could come tonight to marvel at his skill, but let’s be honest: Booty Bassment is really just another excuse to give your ass a good shake. NIKKI VOLPICELLI. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
Deer Tick, Guards
[DRUNKEN FOLK POP] Deer Tick’s latest, Divine Providence, is a rowdy, raw and rapacious romp. The quintet’s fourth album is an attempt to bring its multitiered live set to the studio. The result tends to alternate between two distinct sounds: one folksy, one rocking. There’s the garagey, lo-fi, belligerent side (“The Bump,” “Let’s All Go to the Bar,” “Something to Brag About”), and there’s the contemplative, melodic, moody side (“Chevy Express,” “Electric,” “Now It’s Your Turn”). Turns out, bipolar works well for Deer Tick. Providence is not the Rhode Island group’s best effort to date, but it’s fun and pretty damn good. MAGGIE SUMMERS. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 2234527. 9 pm. $15. 21+.
Siren Nation Festival: Sassfest, STLS, Kimya Dawson
See Friday’s Doug Fir listing. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 3 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.
Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe and Anders Osborne (performance of the Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers)
[STICKY SAX] Of course, California sax monster Karl Denson and his Tiny Universe are playing the 1971 Rolling Stones masterpiece, Sticky Fingers, in its entirety. “Bitch,” “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” and “Brown Sugar” boast some of the nastiest sax lines in history. But be warned: Denson’s jazz-blues-funk group veers jam-happy, pointing to the likelihood of a 46-minute album playing out for hours. If that’s your bag, you’re in for an epic night. If it makes you cringe, stay home and unzip the original vinyl. AP KRYZA. Mount Tabor Theater, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 9 pm. $22. 21+.
Mastodon, Dillinger Escape Plan, Red Fang
[METAL] After what was arguably a very good decade for metal, it’s somewhat surprising to see that Mastodon, of the many worthy aughts contenders, has wound up making the critical and commercial leap into the mainstream (or at least whatever haggard approximation of the mainstream still exists). With The Hunter, the Georgia quartet has abandoned sweeping concept albums to focus instead on a stylistic homage to the Melvins and others of its sludgy, pop-leaning predecessors. Opening this show are two of the nation’s finest (and most accessible) metal groups: first, local standouts Red Fang, and then the Dillinger Escape Plan, whose whiplash transformation from Freakiest Math Metal Band Ever to Band Your Little Brother Might Enjoy has, shockingly, not turned out all that bad. SHANE DANAHER. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $25 advance, $28 day of show. All ages.
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BY MAT T HEW SIN GER
THE LEMONHEADS Formed: 1986 in Boston. Sounds like: Classic early-’90s jangle-pop, with just enough country-rock touches to satisfy singer Evan Dando’s Gram Parsons obsession. For fans of: The Replacements, Teenage Fanclub, early Goo Goo Dolls. Latest release: Bizarrely conceived 2009 covers album Varshons. Why you care: In an alternate-reality version of the 1990s, the Lemonheads was one of the biggest bands of the decade. That’s not to say the group was overlooked in this dimension; the Lemonheads appeared to be heading toward mega-success before, well, they weren’t anymore. Appropriately enough for a Replacements acolyte, leader and lone consistent member Evan Dando pretty much sabotaged his own career. A songwriter with angsty-dude good looks and an affinity for simple/sweet hooks, he had the makeup of a Gen-X superstar. It’s a Shame About Ray, the 1992 album that marked the Heads’ transformation from hard-core wannabes to serious power-pop tunesmiths, brought Dando to the cusp of chart-busting fame. Follow-up Come on Feel the Lemonheads should’ve sealed it, but while the record contained the endearingly plain-spoken single “Into Your Arms,” it also featured a ton of filler that felt purposely directionless, including a baffling duet with Rick James. It didn’t sell. Derailed by Dando’s drug addiction, the band just sort of fizzled out three years later. Maybe that’s how it was always supposed to happen, though: If the Lemonheads’ astonishingly solid self-titled 2006 resurrection is any indication, Dando is much more comfortable being an also-ran than the next big thing. SEE IT: The Lemonheads play Mississippi Studios on Thursday, Nov. 3, with the Shining Twins. 9 pm. $20. 21+.
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Siren Nation Festival: Laura Gibson, Y La Bamba, Led to Sea
See Friday’s Doug Fir listing. The Woods, 6637 SE Milwaukie Ave., 890-0408. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show.
SUNDAY, NOV. 6 Mark Kozelek
[BLUE GUITAR BEAUTY] Mark Kozelek is one of those rare musicians who can humble a crowded club into hushed quiet. And it isn’t simply because of the reverence with which his fans hold the 44-year-old guitarist-singer. It is the delicacy of his playing, the slow haze of his vocals and songs that seem to pull at some memory lodged deep within our unconscious mind. So affecting are his compositions that a book of his lyrics has just been published through Kozelek’s personal label, Caldo Verde—there’s definitely a demand. Prepare to be enraptured if you aren’t already in Kozelek’s sway. ROBERT HAM. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $15 advance, $17 day of show (Minors must be accompanied by a parent). All ages.
Real Estate, Big Troubles
[DREAM SURF POP] Brooklyn-byway-of-New Jersey quintet Real Estate recorded its first singles (the keys to its early acclaim) when it consisted of only two members—Martin Courtney and Matt Mondanile. Though the group has since grown to five members and put out two records—October’s gauzy Days being the most recent— the band still retains the cavernous fuzz of a project recorded on a shoestring budget, with reverb doing the heavy lifting needed to bring across its creators’ outsized sense of scope. Real Estate’s narcotic guitar meanderings work a unique hypnosis, stacking lazy riffs on top of each other until they reach the point that Mondanile’s repetitive humming of “Budweiser Sprite/ Do you feel all right” sounds damned near prophetic. SHANE DANAHER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.
Warbringer, Lazarus AD, Landmine Marathon, Diamond Plate, Way of the Yeti, Order of the Gash
[THRILL ’EM ALL] Warbringer’s throwback thrash is formulaic for sure, but like all the best and most addictive drugs—crystal meth, pornography, Coca-Cola—this particular strain of metal seems to be most effective when its makers stick to the cheat sheet. There are few surprises on this Ventura, Calif., quintet’s latest album, Worlds Torn Asunder: Drums and guitars get glued to each other in machinegun patters; air-raid solos squeal at regular intervals; barking vocals give way to shrill ululations; and lyrics conjure bloodstained, skull-strewn battlefields and Nietzschean mettle. Thrash ain’t broke. Warbringer don’t fix it. That’s fine by me. CHRIS STAMM. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 6 pm. $13.50 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.
The Bangles, A Fragile Tomorrow
[THE I-DON’T-HAVE-TO-RUN DAYS] As the last significant entrants to that peculiarly frosted wave of ’80s girl groups, the Bangles always seemed the fussy middle sisters, absent the party-hearty punk roots counterbalancing Go-Go’s and Bananarama effervescence yet without any claim to the seriousness of music or message informing Lilith fare. If anything, their startlingly few greatest hits—“Eternal Flame” is almost a threat—suggest that the group’s true brilliance lay in collaboration. Their best tunes (“Hazy Shade of Winter,” “September Gurls”) were expertly chosen covers, they attracted Prince and Elvis Costello to write singles (and Matthew Sweet
HIDE AND PEEK: Deer Tick plays the Mission Theater on Saturday. to produce a recent dullish comeback album), and that lone global chart-topper, perhaps the most joyless novelty twaddle of a cynical age, enjoyed a faintly miraculous second life as the inspirational call to march for this summer’s Egyptian revolution. JAY HORTON. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $22.50-$35. All ages.
MONDAY, NOV. 7 Das Racist, Danny Brown, Despot
[HIPSTER-HOP] Don’t let the hilarity of it all fool you: Brooklyn-based hip-hop trio Das Racist is not a novelty act. After a few listens to the group’s new album, Relax, you’ll start to realize the trio’s goofiness often gives way to witty social commentary. Although none of its three members is very impressive on the mic, the group does drop gems here and there—see “W.E.B. DuBois/ We be da boys,” from its first mixtape, Shut Up, Dude. Granted, many of its songs are more catchy than clever— the cult favorite “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell,” for example—but ignorance can sometimes be bliss at hip-hop shows as the loudest, most unapologetic songs often spark the most dancing. Detroit fire-spitter Danny Brown, a recent signee to A-Trak’s Fool’s Gold imprint, brings a more vulgar (his lyrics read like an overly graphic romance novel) vibe to the party. REED JACKSON. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 8 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
[NERVOUS POP] It’s impossible to talk about Brooklyn’s Clap Your Hands Say Yeah outside the context of what the band has come to represent, which is the hyper-accelerated, “praised today, panned and dismissed later that same day” nature of today’s music culture. Hyped to the heavens as a newmillennium Talking Heads (mostly because singer Alec Ounsworth appropriated David Byrne’s anxious yelp) when its self-titled debut came out in 2005, by the time it recorded follow-up Some Loud Thunder just two years later, the group had slipped completely off the blog-world radar. Hysterical, the band’s latest, was CYHSY’s chance to prove itself fully removed from the pressure of critical buzz. Sadly, it dropped the ball. Its first album might not have been the masterpiece that critics hailed it as, but it was certainly idiosyncratic. This is just another boring indie-rock album. When you can’t infuse a song called “Ketamine and Ecstasy” with energy, maybe your band was just a fraud to begin with. MATTHEW SINGER. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.
Mike Doughty, Moon Hooch
[SOUL SURVIVOR] Since his 1990s oddity rock outfit Soul Coughing
dissolved, Mike Doughty has gone solo, baring his soul about lost loves and conquering addiction, all while lacing his laments with humor and delivering them with a vibrating monotone and bounding melodies. On his fourth studio effort, Yes and Also Yes, Doughty seamlessly integrates his sorrow and goofballery while musically maturing to new levels. Tracks like the mournful “Telegenic Exes, #2 (Astoria)” work perfectly alongside “Makelloser Mann,” which sounds like a Henry Mancini song sung by a German Bond villain, and the poppy “Na Na Nothing.” With the Band Fantastic in tow, Doughty’s live show offers a playfully penetrating glimpse into the heart of a scarred jester. AP KRYZA. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 8 pm. $20 advance, $22 day of show. 21+.
Wednesday 11-2 JACKTOWN ROAD & THE WARSHERS 9PM 21+
Friday 11-4 KBOO MEMBERSHIP DRIVE BENEFIT WITH JERRY GARCIA BIRTHDAY BAND AND CATS UNDER THE STARS 8PM 21+
Saturday 11-5
TUESDAY, NOV. 8
KARL DENSON’S TINY UNIVERSE PRESENTS
Minus the Bear, The Velvet Teen
THE ROLLING STONES ALBUM STICKY FINGERS IN IT'S ENTIRETY
[PLUS ÇA CHANGE] Though the indie-prog stylings of Minus the Bear have grown decidedly far afield in recent years, the Seattle quintet returns to the sounds of their first triumph for the 10th anniversary of first full-length Highly Refined Pirates. Throughout this tour, the outfit has been given to blending tracks from even earlier EPs ’midst soft opening prior to literally unfurling the Pirates banner and expertly, wordlessly chugging through a note-perfect re-creation of the original—not altogether different from listening at home should you invite a few hundred devout fans to drunkenly sing along to the entirety of the lyrics around your living room— before an extended encore acknowledges later albums, including the glossy funk of last year’s Omni. JAY HORTON. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $19.50 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.
Sun Angle, Wooden Indian Burial Ground, Our Brother the Native
WITH SPECIAL GUEST ANDERS OSBORNE AND MORE 9PM 21+
Sunday 11-6 KARAOKE ON THE BIG SCREEN WITH SEAN BAILEY
9PM 21+ IN THE SIDESHOW LOUNGE
Tuesday 11-8 OLD SKOOL – SPINNING ALL VINYL HIP-HOP CLASSICS 9PM 21+
Wednesday 11-9 DRUM CIRCLE! 7:30PM 21+
See album review, page 25. CASEY JARMAN. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $5. 21+.
Nancy Whang, Jeffrey Jerusalem
[LCD SOUNDSISTER] Nancy Whang is nothing if not a tastemaker. And if the Portland-born singer/multiinstrumentalist/DJ—who once told The New York Times that seeing Nu Shooz at a Beaverton mall was the most memorable concert she ever attended—wants to come home and spin records at an old funeral parlor, more power to her. Lord knows we miss her recently departed band, LCD Soundsystem, and we’ll be salivating to hear any new fire Whang might drop from one of her other arty digi-rock outfits like Shit Robot or the Juan MacLean. CASEY JARMAN. The Woods, 6637 SE Milwaukie Ave., 890-0408. 9 pm. $10.
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WED. NOV. 2 Afrique Bistro
102 NE Russell St. The Javier Nero Quintet
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Ryan Sollee, Mike Midlo
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Crooked Still, Scott Law
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Open Mic
Andina
510 NW 11th Ave. Open Jazz Jam
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. The Dark Backward, Welfare, Oslo in September
Dante’s
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Lowell John Mitchell and The Triplets of BeaterVille
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Anamanaguchi, Starscream, Copy
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Suburban Slim Blues Jam (9:30 pm); High Flyer Trio (6 pm)
Ella Street Social Club
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Mary Flower
350 W Burnside St. The Fasters, The Idealists, VAJ
714 SW 20th Place The Shoguns
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St.
Doc Brown Experiment, The Villains
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The AP Tour: Four Year Strong, Gallows, Title Fight, The Swellers, Sharks
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. The Field, The Miracles Club, Operative, DJ Genevieve D
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Worth
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave.
The Mel Brown Quartet with Byron Stripling
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Barkers
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. The Monarques, Richard Cranium & The Phoreheads, Margaret
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Billy D
Mississippi Pizza
Kit Garoutte
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Billy Kennedy
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Los Other Phux, A Blinding Silence, Mr. Plow, Reefer Madness
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Open Mic with Go Fuck Yerself
Rotture
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Sideways Reign
315 SE 3rd Ave. Koffin Kats, The Sawyer Family, Hot Rod Carl
Mississippi Studios
Secret Society Lounge
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Still Corners, Ganglians
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Sleepy-Eyed Johns
O’Connors
7850 SW Capitol Highway
D AV I D “ D $ ” C O O P E R
1314 NW Glisan St.
Camellia Lounge
Toshi Onizuka
[NOV. 2 - 8]
116 NE Russell St. The Accordion Babes, Eric Stern
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. A Season of Tanagers, Ten Million Lights, Queued Up
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project Jam Session
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Bell Witch, Noctis, Aerial Ruin
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Matt Laurentano
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Warner Drive, Acidic
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Chad McCullough/ Bram Weijters Quartet, The Ocular Concern
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Nancy King, Steve Christofferson
Beaterville Cafe
Branx
Red Room
2201 N Killingsworth St. Tucker 320 SE 2nd Ave. My Favorite Season, Apollo, Above the Broken, Bury Your Horses, How the West Was Won
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. John “JB” Butler & Al Craido
Chapel Pub
430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Rogue Shot, High Desert Hooligans, Titarius
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Bell X1, Favourite Sons
THURS. NOV. 3
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Philly’s Phunkestra, Cherry Royale
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Everyone Dies in Utah, A Faylene Sky, Through Arteries, Verah Falls, Subtle City, I Reckon, An Epidemic at Hand
Holocene
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown B3 Organ Band
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Twisted Whistle, Mercy Graves
Kennedy School
Alberta Rose Theatre
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Tracy Kim Trio
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
225 SW Ash St. Adema, Amerakin Overdose, Devolved, A Killing Dove, Broken
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave.
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
8635 N Lombard St. Debbie Clinken-Beard, Elke Robitaille, Anna-Lisa
Star Theater
3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones Jam
2505 SE 11th Ave. The Low Bones
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
1036 NE Alberta St. Brooks Robertson
8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic
Ford Food and Drink
Aladdin Theater
Alberta Street Public House
Sellwood Public House
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Tom Grant Jazz Jam Session
2958 NE Glisan St. Darren Smith, Hilary Scott & New County Line (9:30 pm); Old Flames (6 pm)
3000 NE Alberta St. Bobby Jo Valentine, Andy Kong, Karmina, Gabby Holt
315 SE 3rd Ave. Thurlow, Zaptra
The Blue Diamond
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Paul Byrom
Rotture
714 SW 20th Place Renfield, Automatic Thoughts, Toiletooth, Deems
5736 NE 33rd Ave. Scott Fisher
303 SW 12th Ave. Ryan Sollee, Mike Midlo
8 NW 6th Ave. Doctor P, Funtcase, Sidestep, James Steele
Ella Street Social Club
1635 SE 7th Ave. Tough Love Pyle
Jimmy Mak’s
5819 SE Milwaukie Ave. Open Mic
Roseland Theater
Duff’s Garage
White Eagle Saloon
Yukon Tavern
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Ol’ Devols, Angry Axe, Aux. 78
13 NW 6th Ave. The Spits, The Mouthbreathers, The Lovesores
Trail’s End Saloon
836 N Russell St. Perfect Zero
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. American Roulette, Zodiac, Sh@, Myself Destruct, Caducus, The Murry’s
1001 SE Morrison St. Tender Loving Empire Compilation Release: Radiation City, Brainstorm, Finn Riggins, E*Rock, Adventures With Might
1320 Main St., Oregon City Steve & Margo
THE LOVELY LAURA: Laura Gibson plays the Woods on Saturday, Nov. 5.
Codak, Jeremy Nichols, Jill Raymundo, DJ Pharo, Zeus Deuce
LaurelThirst
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Lynn Conover, Gravel
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Loose Change
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Lemonheads, The Shining Twins
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. David Brothers
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Andrew Orr, Jen Howard
Pints Brewing Company
412 NW 5th Ave. Alligator vs. Crocodile (9 pm); Noah Peterson (7 pm)
The Blue Monk
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave. Ashia and the Bison Rouge (art opening)
The Woods
6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. Carolyn Mark, The Eager Beavers
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Sugarcookie
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Kid Logic, Citymouth, Uncommon Sense, Falling Star Reception, Photon!, Cestladore, Quarry, DJ Alnie
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Sing for Your Supperclub with The All-Star Horns
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Martin Zarzar Quartet
Trail’s End Saloon
1320 Main St., Oregon City Rae Gordon
Twilight Café and Bar
1420 SE Powell Blvd. The Lockouts, Raw Dob & the Close Calls
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Gordon Goldsmith
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Bad Assets (8:30 pm); The Sale (5:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar
800 NW 6th Ave. Mike Horsfall, Karla Harris, Todd Strait
FRI. NOV. 4 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Ryan Sollee
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Gaelic Storm
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St.
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Belly Full of Bob (Bob Marley and The Wailers tribute)
Mary Flower Trio (9 pm); Al Craido & Tablao (5:30 pm)
The Blue Diamond
Camellia Lounge
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Terry Robb
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Eddie Martinez
The Know
830 E Burnside St. Jay Farrar, Bobby Bare Jr.
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Neil Diamond Tribute
Alberta Street Public House
Ella Street Social Club
1036 NE Alberta St. Two Man Gentlemen Band, Trashcan Joe (9:30 pm); Mikey’s Irish Jam (6:30 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. John Butler Trio
Artichoke Community Music
3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Friday Night Coffeehouse
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Tall as Rasputin, Eidolons, Car Waiting
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Rags and Ribbons, The Crash Engine, Frame the City
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Johnny Ward
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Resistant Culture, Embrace the Kill, Wretched of the Earth, Hepsi, Dead in a Ditch
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Al Craido & Tablao
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Muthaship
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Siren Nation Festival: Corin Tucker Band, Kelli Schaefer, Lemolo, Ximena Sarinana
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Honey and the Hamdogs
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. Andrews Ave., Cascadia Soul Alliance
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203 SE Grand Ave. Reservations, Nuke Arms, Hooded Hag 714 SW 20th Place The Forgotten Ones, The Filthy Nightmares
Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave. Kyle Williams, Mateo Bevington
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE 39th Ave. Cory Branan, John Phelan, Betty and the Boy (8:30 pm); Wendy and The Lost Boys (6 pm)
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. American Bastard, Deathtrap America, Rogue Shot, Gordon Avenue
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Peter Erskine Trio
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Blue Skies for Black Hearts, The Purrs, Buzzyshyface, Whiting Tennis
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Almost Dark
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Baby Gramps (9:30 pm); The James Low Western Front (6 pm)
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Jon Koonce & One More Mile
Mississippi Pizza
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. KBOO Membership Drive Benefit
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. The Sportin Lifers Trio
4627 NE Fremont St. Traditional Hawaiian Music
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Bill Rhodes
Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Eyepennies, Robo Erectus, Theme, Invivo
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Everything’s Jake
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
Doug Fir Lounge
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Mia Vermillion
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Old Highway (as Babes in Toyland), Youthbitch (as the Shangri-Las), Drunk Dad (as L7), Boom (as the Ronettes), Gardens (Rock & Roll Camp for Girls benefit)
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Glitter Express, Unicorn Domination
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Joey Porter (Herbie Hancock tribute)
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. First Saturday Swing, AnnaPaul & The Bearded Lady, Eric Stern, Russell Bruner (9 pm); Pete Krebs and his Portland Playboys (6 pm)
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Old Age, Turbo Perfecto, The We Shared Milk
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Waste Is Obscene (Swans tribute), Maiden Oregon (Iron Maiden tribute), The Scream (Siouxsie & the Banshees tribute)
The Woods
In Other Words
14 NE Killingsworth St. Glitterfruit
Jimmy Mak’s
SAT. NOV. 5
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Mastodon, Dillinger Escape Plan, Red Fang
71 SW 2nd Ave. Brian Odell, DJ Soulshaker
4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Ben Larsen & Austin Moore
White Eagle Saloon
128 NE Russell St. Thrice, La Dispute, O’Brother, Moving Mountains
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Mouthwash Enema, N.F.F.U., Chase the Shakes, Juicy Karkass, Mr. Plow, Los Headaches
Hawthorne Hophouse
Jade Lounge
Winona Grange No. 271
Red Room
6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. Siren Nation Festival: Laura Gibson, Y La Bamba, Led to Sea
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Rich Layton & The Troublemakers
836 N Russell St. The Resolectrics, The Tomorrow People (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
2621 SE Clinton St. Whistlepunk!, Alex Hudjohn
2346 SE Ankeny St. Slow Teeth, The Eventuals 221 NW 10th Ave. Soul Vaccination
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. The Trophy Fire, Bird by Bird, Water & Bodies
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Bad Assets, The Gams
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Jimmy Boyer Band (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Scott Gallegos Band
Thirsty Lion
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Bottleneck Blues Band, Sarah Moon & the Night Sky
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. My Fellow Traveller, Cedar Teeth, Bottles and Cans, Tyler J. Hinds
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Chuck Israel Jazz Orchestra
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Kelley Shannon Trio, Gordon Lee, Holy Ghost
Trail’s End Saloon
1320 Main St., Oregon City Toy Run
Twilight Café and Bar
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
15th Avenue Hophouse 1517 NE Brazee St. Switchgrass
1624 NW Glisan St. Deer Tick, Guards
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Bring the Dead, Blastfemur, The Ascendents
Plan B
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
Mississippi Pizza
Vie de Boheme
2314 SE Division St. Lynn Conover 1305 SE 8th Ave. Rabbits, Sirhan Sirhan, Raw Nerves, Jr. Worship
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Separation of Sanity, Shark Party, American Roulette, Foal, Echoic, Bring the Dead
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Black Star, Shabazz Palaces, Risky Star
Secret Society Lounge
116 NE Russell St. Sugarcane String Band (9 pm); Boy & Bean (6 pm)
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
8635 N Lombard St. Cement Season, Danger Thieves, Murderbait
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Risky Star, Libretto, Nu Era, Destro & L Pro
13 NW 6th Ave. Wayne “The Train” Hancock, Hopeless Jack & the Handsome Devils
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1320 Main St., Oregon City Francine West & The High Speed Wobblers with Wendy DeWitt, Lori B.
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe
Mississippi Studios
3435 N Lombard St. Joe McMurrian
Trail’s End Saloon
Wonder Ballroom
Splendorporium Art Gallery
Mock Crest Tavern
1425 NW Glisan St. Haley Horsfall Quartet
Music Millennium
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Zach Zeitlin, Jedadiah Bernards, Lindsay Clark (9 pm); Jenny Sizzler (6 pm) 3939 N Mississippi Ave. Little Red, Hurtbird, Bombs Into You
Touché Restaurant and Billiards
8340 SW Seneca St., Tualatin Grainne Murphy, Kathleen Boyle, Johnny Connolly, Matty Sears
3158 E Burnside St. Josh and Mer
Dante’s
Thirsty Lion
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Glassbones, AdagioForte, Sinker and Crow
East End
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Cool Breeze 350 W Burnside St. Shonen Knife, Grave Babies, The Slants
Tonic Lounge
Lewi Longmire’s Acoustic(esque) Orchestra, Michael Hurley, Fernando
Clyde’s Prime Rib
2026 NE Alberta St. Guantanamo Baywatch, Courtney & the Crushers, The Polaroids 71 SW 2nd Ave. 90 Proof
CARLO’S ROSY: Thanks to a recent remodel, Bar Carlo (6433 SE Foster Road, 771-1664, barcarlo.com) is no longer an egregious misnomer. While the four-year-old brunch joint is still only tenuously a bar—the place is only open after 10 pm Thursday through Saturday, and then only until midnight—Carlo has finally taken advantage of its very large, wide-windowed space to add such bar essentials as a pool table, a projection screen and a piano. The place has the air of a community center. Thursday is craft night (pumpkin carving, when I dropped in), and Friday is devoted to arcade games. I like Bar Carlo best as a place to grab an enormous burger and a few cheap-yet-good well drinks. The bar’s kitchen has greatly improved in the past year, and the enormous sandwiches and excellent Cajun fries are just as good by night as at brunch. BEN WATERHOUSE.
510 NW 11th Ave. Debby Clinkenbeard
Press Club
3421 SE 21st Ave. Alma Brasileira
Star Theater
Ted’s (at Berbati’s) 231 SW Ankeny St.
303 SW 12th Ave. Ryan Sollee
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Leo Kottke
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Tu Fawning, Tremors (Live Wire! live radioshow taping)
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Ghost Toy Castle, Mike Brosnin, The Nutmeggers
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio
Artichoke Community Music
3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Bev Barnett, Greg Newlon
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Falling Closer, The Fail Safe Project, W. Stone
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Lovers, Parenthetical Girls
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Arthur Moore’s Harmonica Party
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave.
Mission Theater
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Beautiful Lies, Panama Gold (9 pm); Jettison Bend (6 pm); Aaron Nigel Smith (4 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Head for the Hills, Dead Winter Carpenters, Big E (9 pm); Siren Nation Festival: Sassfest, STLS, Kimya Dawson (3 pm)
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Donna and the Side Effects
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe and Anders Osborne (performance of the Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers)
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Traditional Hawaiian Music
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Jimmy Boyer Band, Sam Henry, Dave Reisch
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Impiety, Weregoat, Cemetery Lust, Panzergod, Gravehill
1530 SE 7th Ave. Bobby Torres
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Broken Soviet (8 pm); Portland Casual Jam Group (2 pm)
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. The Student Loan
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Mia Nicholson, Randy Porter
SUN. NOV. 6 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Jared Mees, Luz Elena Mendoza (of Y La Bamba), Viox
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Mark Kozelek
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Ludovico Einaudi
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Bad Luck Blackouts, Yo Adrian!, Pirate Radio
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. David Grier
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Real Estate, Big Troubles,
Hawthorne Theatre
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Basketball Jones Band
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Open Mic
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Warbringer, Lazarus AD, Landmine Marathon, Diamond Plate, Way of the Yeti, Order of the Gash
Backspace
Jade Lounge
320 SE 2nd Ave. Das Racist, Danny Brown, Despot
2346 SE Ankeny St. Seth Myzel (8:30 pm); Sockeye (7 pm)
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. No More Parachutes, Autopilot is for Lovers, Jeff Smith
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Billy Kennedy & Tim Acott (9:30 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Elizabeth Nicholson & Bob Soper
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Ataxia Cab, Budget Airline (9 pm); Christine Havrilla (6 pm); Lincoln Crockett (3 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Siren Nation Festival: My Brightest Diamond, Netherfriends
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Bangles
NEPO 42
5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic
Rontoms
600 E Burnside St. The Barr Brothers, Charts, Orca Team
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. The Bangles, A Fragile Tomorrow
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Trio Flux
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Hornet Leg, Dead Dog, Maxines, Horse Fingers
The Woods
6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. Yoya, Tango Alpha Tango, John Craig & the Weekend
Tillicum Club
8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Johnny Martin
Trail’s End Saloon
115 NW 5th Ave. Battery-Powered Music, HoneyHoney & Joshua James
Branx
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Eric John Kaiser
Congress Center 1025 SW 6th Ave. Alma Brasileira
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell (10 pm); Jacktown Road (8 pm)
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Lily Wilde
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. David Gerow, Chris Lay
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens (9 pm); Portland Country Underground (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale The Two Man Gentlemen Band
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Bob Shoemaker
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Songwriters Circle, Honeyhoney
O’Connors
7850 SW Capitol Highway Kit Garoutte
1320 Main St., Oregon City O’Brien & Brewer, Rae Gordon
Starbucks
Tupai at Andina
3341 SE Belmont St. Renato Caranto Project
1314 NW Glisan St. Padam Padam
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Galen Fous
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Open Mic/Songwriter Showcase
Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St. Uh Huh Her, Jarrod Gorbel
MON. NOV. 7 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Jared Mees
1039 NW Couch St. Dezy, the Pianobike Kid
The Blue Monk
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Holy Children, Geist & the Sacred Ensemble, Ichabod Strangelove
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Ruby Feathers, The Verner Pantons, DJ Tobias, DJ Feathers
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Jack Ruby Presents, Jarad Miles, Future Historians
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Mike Doughty, Moon Hooch
CALENDAR TUES. NOV. 8 15th Avenue Hophouse
1517 NE Brazee St. Kelsey Morris
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. Jared Mees
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Dryland Farmers Band
Ash Street Saloon
The Acacia Strain, Terror, Stray from the Path, Harm’s Way, Proven
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Sun Angle, Wooden Indian Burial Ground, Our Brother the Native
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm); Naomi LaViolette (6:30 pm)
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
225 SW Ash St. Hidden Knives, Atlas and the Astronaut, Bath Party, Roake
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale The Two Man Gentlemen Band
Buffalo Gap Saloon
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Open Mic
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Pocketknife, A Gentlemen’s Picnic
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Minus the Bear, The Velvet Teen
Duff’s Garage
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Open Bluegrass Jam
Mission Theater
Goodfoot Lounge
116 NE Russell St. Jessica Fichot, Shoestring Trio
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Kublakai, Epp, MC Pig Pen, Oso Negro, J Merc & J Comedy
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Pagan Jug Band
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Cursebreaker, The Love Below, Grandfather
The Woods
6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. Nancy Whang, Jeffrey Jerusalem
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. PDX Singer-Songwriter Showcase
WED. NOV. 2 Gossip Restaurant & Lounge 11340 NE Halsey St. Bad Girl Wednesdays with DJ George
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. TRONix with Bryan Zentz
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. DJ Lil Ol’ Sippy
Matador
1967 W Burnside St. DJ Whisker Friction
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. Pop-Up Club: Lions Den, DJ Nick Dean
The Lovecraft
Mississippi Pizza
Tony Starlight’s
421 SE Grand Ave. A Night of Women Who Rock: DJs Aurora, Beatnik Betty
Twilight Café and Bar
1465 NE Prescott St. Jason Urick
3552 N Mississippi Ave. McDougal
Ella Street Social Club
Music Millennium
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Lydia Loveless, The Tumblers 3158 E Burnside St. Lydia Loveless
Peter’s Room
2845 SE Stark St. Scott PembertonTrio
8 NW 6th Ave. The Dean’s List, OnCue, Gilbere Forte
Hawthorne Theatre
Plan B
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Secret Society Lounge
316 SW 11th Ave. Decadent ‘80s: DJs Jason Wann, Non
6910 N Interstate Ave. Open Mic
Tiger Bar
Mississippi Studios
Goodfoot Lounge
Fez Ballroom
1624 NW Glisan St. Catch and Release (flyfishing book signing)
1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Quartet (9 pm); Trio Bravo (6 pm)
714 SW 20th Place Orangutangular
Saratoga
317 NW Broadway Hip Deep Soul Revue 3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Ayars Vocal Showcase
Tiga
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Open Mic with The Roaming
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Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
Yes and No
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Arthur “Fresh Air” Moore Harmonica Party
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. The Shook Twins
1305 SE 8th Ave. Bad Luck Blackouts, Yo Adrian!, Skatter Bomb, The Knuckles
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Loyd Depriest 20 NW 3rd Ave. Death Club with DJ Entropy
THURS. NOV. 3 Albina Press Hawthorne
5012 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Siren Nation Festival: DJ Safi (and visual art show)
Beauty Bar
111 SW Ash St. Shameless Thursdays: DJs Easter Egg, 3X
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Shadowplay: DJs Horrid, Ghoulunatic, Paradox
Groove Suite
440 NW Glisan St. House Call: Victor Simonelli, DJ Sir Round, Marc Madina, BMR
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. DJs Brokenwindow, Strategy
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. The Fix: Rev. Shines, KEZ, Dundiggy
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Dirtbag
The Whiskey Bar 31 NW 1st Ave. Damage
2845 SE Stark St. DJ Magneto
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. DJ Epor
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. FRESH.: Bonobo, Dabrye, Monolithium, Bones (9 pm); Aperitivo Happy Hour with DJ Hostile Tapeover (5 pm)
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Booty Bassment: Ryan Poulsen, Dimitri Dickinson, Maxx Bass
Mt. Tabor Theater Lounge
5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Pippa Possible
2621 SE Clinton St. DJ Miles (art opening)
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Deep Cuts: Bruce LaBruiser, DJ Kasio Smashio, DJ L Train
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. Blank Fridays
The Whiskey Bar
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The Woods
111 SW Ash St. Trashed: Whiskey Pete, Sean Majors, Flat Black, Nathaniel Knows, BGeezy
511 NW Couch St. DJ Etbonz
Press Club
5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Miss Dolly Mod
1465 NE Prescott St. Honest John
Beauty Bar
Ground Kontrol
Palace of Industry
Tiga
FRI. NOV. 4
320 SE 2nd Ave. Mattachine Redux: DJs John Cameron Mitchell, Amber Martin, PJ Deboy, Paul Dawson
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Stahlwerks with DJ Non
31 NW 1st Ave. Pussy Patrol: Hatiras, MC Flip Side, Jelo, Adivizion, Miss Palmer, Bobby de Maria, Gabe Driscoll
18 NW 3rd Ave. Fast Weapons Night: DJs Nate Preston, Nightschool (late set); 2 Arm Tom (early set)
Branx
6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. In the Cooky Jar with DJ Cooky Parker
511 NW Couch St. Service Industrial Night with DJ Tibin
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. Into the Void with DJ Blackhawk
The Know
Rotture
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Valkyrie
The Whiskey Bar
Kelly’s Olympian
315 SE 3rd Ave. Andaz with DJ Anjali & The Incredible Kid 31 NW 1st Ave. White Party: DJ Icey, Gabriel Driscoll, Jamie Meushaw
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Lord Smithingham
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Saturdazed: DJs GH, Czief Xenith
SUN. NOV. 6 Ground Kontrol
Tube
Matador
SAT. NOV. 5
MON. NOV. 7 Ground Kontrol
Palace of Industry
511 NW Couch St. Black Sunday with DJ Nate C
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Neil Blender
18 NW 3rd Ave. Hootchie Koo! with DJ Danny Dodge
2026 NE Alberta St. Going Mental Mondays with DJ Just Dave
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Ikon
MUSIC
Tube
1967 W Burnside St. Next Big Thing with DJ Donny Don’t
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Hive with DJ Owen
Tiga
TUES. NOV. 8 426 SW Washington St. DJ Hairfarmer
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. See You Next Tuesday: Kellan, Avery
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Eye Candy Music-Video Night
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Coloured Glass
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Good Music for Bad People with DJ Entropy
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18 NW 3rd Ave. Tubesday: DJ Ronin Roc, Doc Adam
Yes and No
20 NW 3rd Ave. Idiot Tuesdays with DJ Black Dog
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Get Inspired. Enrich Portland. Skidmore Prize Celebration & Give!Guide 2011 Kick-off
“My Voice Music is a place where young people have the opportunity to share their voice, to be heard, and to use that experience to change their world. To work with such brave and passionate youth is invigorating.” –Ian Mouser, 2011 Skidmore Prize Winner
Tuesday, Nov. 8, 5:30-8:30 pm $18, includes hosted appetizers, wine and beer. Davis Street Tavern 500 NW Davis St.
Tickets: wweek.com/store
NEW & USED DVD SALE ALL DVDs & BLU-RAYS 20% OFF ALL NOVEMBER!* BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN THE PROMISE: THE MAKING OF DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN ON SALE $12.99 DVD $23.99 BLU-RAY This ninety-minute documentary combines never-before-seen footage shot between 1976 and 1978 including home rehearsals and studio sessions with new interviews with Springsteen, E Street Band members, manager Jon Landau and more.
AC/DC LIVE AT RIVER PLATE ON SALE $ 12.99 DVD $23.99 BLU-RAY ‘Live At River Plate’ is a definitive live concert DVD documenting AC/ DC’s massive Black Ice World Tour. Shot in December of 2009, it marks AC/DC’s triumphant return to Buenos Aires where nearly 200,000 fans, and 3 sold-out shows, welcomed the band back after a 13 year absence from Argentina.
THE GRATEFUL DEAD THE GRATEFUL DEAD MOVIE ON SALE $19.99 BLU-RAY/DVD ‘The Grateful Dead Movie’ on Blu-ray for the first time, in a deluxe 2-disc version, with the feature film on Blu-ray and a DVD loaded with an extensive slate of bonus features- five hours of content in all! Co-directed by Jerry Garcia, ‘The Grateful Dead Movie’ was originally released in 1977, and captures performances from five October 1974 shows at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom. JOHNNY CASH THE GREAT LOST PERFORMANCE ON SALE $13.99 DVD/CD $12.99 CD/DVD In Johnny’s own words, this rare performance was by far the best of his life. The sound quality of this 18-song collection is second to none. The doubledisc set also includes a rare documentary.
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THE ROLLING STONES LADIES & GENTLEMEN ON SALE $11.99 DVD $14.99 BLU-RAY This legendary Rolling Stones concert film, shot over four nights in Texas during the ‘Exile ON Main Street’ tour in 1972, was released in cinemas for limited engagements in 1974 and has remained largely unseen since. Restored and re-mastered, ‘Ladies and Gentlemen’ is one of the finest Rolling Stones concerts ever captured on film and features outstanding performances of classic tracks from the late ‘60s and early ‘70s.
CROSBY & NASH CROSBY-NASH: IN CONCERT ON SALE $19.99 DVD Filmed at the Palace Theatre in Stamford, CT during their 2011 tour, ‘Crosby-Nash: In Concert’ captures the legendary duo performing hits from their beloved catalog. This is a must-have for fans who want to experience two of America’s greatest musicians in their element: performing live in concert.
HARRY CHRISTOPERS & THE SIXTEEN SACRED MUSIC: A CHRISTMAS HISTORY ON SALE $14.99 DVD “A fascinating history of Christmas music!” CORO brings the next installment of the BBC’s groundbreaking TV series, Sacred Music, to DVD. This documentary and concert performance follows The Sixteen and Simon Russell Beale as they explore the history of Christmas music.
THIEVERY CORPORATION LIVE @ THE 9:30 CLUB ON SALE $14.99 DVD ‘Live At The 9:30 Club’ is the first ever live concert film from Thievery Corporation. Part documentary, part concert film it will bring you in and surround you with the energy that is Thievery Corporation. TC’s eclectic ensemble weaves in and out of the band’s musical history while delivering a beautiful and engaging visual experience. AMERICAN GRAFFITI ON SALE $10.99 DVD ‘American Graffiti’ presents a powerful collage of youth on the brink of maturity just before the assassination of J.F.K.. Based on George Lucas’s own teenage hot-rodding days in Modesto, California. Starring Ron Howard, Cindy Williams, Richard Dreyfuss, Charles Martin Smith and Paul LeMat.
JEFF BECK PERFORMING THIS WEEK: LIVE AT RONNIE SCOTT’S ON SALE $11.99 DVD $14.99 BLU-RAY This DVD features pieces recorded at Ronnie Scott’s club in London. Jeff is joined by guests Joss Stone, Imogen Heap and Eric Clapton.
SADE LIVE IN MUNICH 1984 ON SALE $11.99 DVD This concert, recorded in 1984, highlights Sade’s rise to the heights of pop music fame and features several hits from her multiplatinum album ‘Diamond Life.’
THE GODFATHER ON SALE $10.99 DVD Based on the bestselling novel by Mario Puzo (who cowrote the screenplay with director Francis Ford Coppola), ‘The Godfather’ tells an epic tale of Mafia life in America during the 1940s and ‘50s. Starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Talia Shire, James Caan and Robert Duvall.
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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 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 Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 3-5. $20-$25.
Badgirls
Leanne Grabel performs a “multimedia spoken-word” show inspired by her years teaching writing to teenagers in a lockdown treatment center. Pacific Crest Community School Theater, 116 NE 29th Ave., gograbel@earthlink.net. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, Nov. 4-6. Free.
BecauseHeCan
Profile Theatre presents a staged reading of a thriller by Arthur Kopit about the terrors of the information age. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 242-0080. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, Nov. 2-6. $16.
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 kindhearted civil-rights activist institutionalized after a traumatic experience during 1961’s “Freedom Ride,” in which activists seeking peace in the deep South were met with violence. The play revolves around the aging Charlie leaving the hospital in the 1990s and reuniting with his wife, May (Rozlyn Reynolds), in their Detroit apartment, where they are bombarded with troubles both mental and economic. AP KRYZA. Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, 5340 N Interstate Ave., passinart.org. 7:30 pm Thursday, 8 pm Friday-Saturday, Nov. 3-5. $20, $17 students and seniors.
Cloud 9
Caryl Churchill’s 1979 play is something of a social-science experiment: What happens when you take a randy but repressed British family from the Victorian era and put them into the anything-goes early 1980s? For the characters, only 25 years have passed—but thanks to radical shifts in social mores, everything is changed. The first of Cloud 9’s two acts, which takes place in 1880, is hilarious—partly because Victorian times were hilarious, but more so because the cast of Theatre Vertigo’s production, directed by Jon Kretzu, plays the mordant satire of Victorian morality to comic perfection. The transition from the absurdity of the play’s first half to the realism of its second is rough, but the latter act grants what would otherwise be a mere lampoon a deeper meaning, elucidated by Jane Fellows in a showstealing monologue: Loving whom we want to is humanity’s scariest, truest existential statement yet. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 306-0870. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays. Closes Nov. 12. $15. Thursdays are “pay what you will.”
Clowns Without Borders Benefit
These clowns bring a little joy to places experiencing a dire lack thereof. This year, they’ll head to Haiti. This benefit features jugglers Patrick McGuire and Charlie Brown, roper Leapin’ Louie Lichtenstein, shouty man Noah Mickens, comedian Angel Ocasio, strong woman Tera Zarra and contortionist/archer Brittany Walsh. Da Vinci Arts Middle School, 2508 NE Everett St., clownswithoutborders.org. 7:30 pm Friday, Nov. 4. $5-$25.
Dramatists Guild of America Meeting
The leadership of the national playwrights’ association hosts an informational session for members and interested writers. The event begins with a town hall meeting, followed by a seminar on legal matters and a synopsis-writing workshop, closing with a meet-and-greet. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 212-398-9366. 1:30-5:30 pm Saturday, Nov. 5. Free.
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. World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St., 205-0715. 7:30 pm Thursday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, Nov. 3-6. $15-$32.
Glengarry Glen Ross
David Mamet’s plays are famous for two things: profanity and misogyny. (This may not actually be true, but work with me.) In this Defunkt Theatre production, director Tamara Carroll embraces the former and subverts the latter, casting women in the swaggering, cocky roles of Shelley 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)—beyond lending a sinister air to the opening scene in which she begs her supervisor for better leads—but Roma is transformed. Grace Carter gives the role’s slimy doubletalk a seductive, sexual tone, turning Roma into the sort of woman who strikes terror into the heart of men who hate women. My favorite performance here is Garland Lyons’ more traditional turn as Aaronow, a man so nervous he shakes too badly to hold chopsticks. Lyons, who often plays brash braggarts, conveys such miserable career angst that I imagined I could smell his flop sweat over the Back Door Theater’s pervasive mildew. BEN WATERHOUSE. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 4812960. 8 pm Thursdays-Sundays. No show Oct. 16. Closes Nov. 19. $10-$20. Thursdays and Sundays are “pay what you can.”
Hero’s Welcome
A puppet show for military families by Sarah D. Holloway. Benefits the Returning Veterans Project. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 11:30 am Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, Nov. 5-6. $5 suggested donation per family.
Irving Berlin’s White Christmas
It’s ridiculous, I know, but Lakewood Theatre is indeed opening its Christmas show three weeks before
Thanksgiving. Heaven help us all. It consists of exactly what it sounds like. Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, 635-3901. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 7 pm Sundays Nov. 6 and 20, 2 pm Sundays Dec. 4 and 18, 2 and 7 pm Sundays Nov. 13 and 27 and Dec. 11. No show on Thanksgiving. Closes Dec. 18. $29-$32.
King John
So you think you know Shakespeare? How about this, one of the littlestknown, 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. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 971-244-3740. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Nov. 13. $18-$20.
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 Wednesday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday-Sunday, Nov. 2-6. $39-$69, $25 students.
One Up. One Down
A new play about hierarchy in the workplace, with audience participation, created by Living Stages. Eat Art Theater, 850 NE 81st Ave., 548-4096. 7 pm Tuesday-Thursday, Nov. 8-10. Free.
Pinkalicious: The Musical
Oregon Children’s Theatre presents a musical adapted from a book about a little girl who 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.
Portland Playhouse Shakespeare Festival
Directors from Portland Playhouse and students from six area high schools perform 90-minute cuts of Shakespeare plays for their fellow students. Ridgefield and Fort Vancouver High Schools perform Twelfth Night and Hamlet beginning at noon Saturday, Hudson’s Bay and De La Salle perform Taming of the Shrew and Macbeth at 5 pm Saturday and Franklin and Rex Putnam perform Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing at 2 pm Sunday. Winningstad Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 1-800-7453000. Noon and 5 pm Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, Nov. 5-6. $10.
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PERFORMANCE
The Marriage Plays
Artists Rep joins theaters around the nation in presenting nine 10-minute plays by renowned playwrights—Doug Wright, Paul Rudnick, Moisés Kaufman and Neil LaBute among them—to support the fight for marriage equality. The Portland event benefits Basic Rights Oregon. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 2411278. 7:30 pm Monday, Nov. 7. $50 in advance, $75 at the door.
Naftali, Story Voyager on the Yiddish Seas
Jewish Theatre Collaborative performs stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer, for the kiddies. Mittleman Jewish Community Center, 6651 SW Capitol Highway, 244-0111. 4 pm Sunday, Nov. 6. $5-$8.
No Man’s Land
William Hurt is back in town, performing alongside his old friend Allen Nause in what’s become a regular gig for the Oscar-winning actor. This time—his fourth on Artists Rep’s stage—he’s doing Pinter, and that means drinking, menace and mystery: Hurt plays Spooner, a washed-up old poet who finds himself in the stately sitting room of Hirst, a far more successful writer and former classmate, having run into the latter at a pub. The play begins with the offer of a drink, and the consumption of whiskey is the primary occupation of its characters throughout its two hours. Hirst, we soon learn, has drunk himself into a state of pitiable dementia, and the audience is made to share in his confusion. Is Spooner an innocent visitor or a con man? Are Hirst’s companions, the “vagabond cock” Foster (Hurt’s son Alex) and crisp-munching butler, Briggs (Tim True), servants, bodyguards, lovers or jailers? Director John Dillon’s sure-handed blocking indicates he has some idea, but he declines to share it with us. BEN WATERHOUSE. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 pm Sundays. Closes Nov. 12. No show Nov. 9. $35-$65, $25 students.
Oklahoma!
For a regular fixture of high-school stages, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s first collaboration is a pretty bleak show. Its nominal hero, Curly, is a bully, and its female lead, Laurey, is a snob. Its moral is that looking at dirty pictures leads to murder. Of course, the show’s a lot of fun, too, enough that two generations of drama teachers have decided that big crowd scenes, cowboy hats and “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’” are worth talking down any parents alarmed by Jud’s porn collection and Ado Annie’s inability to heed Nancy Reagan’s advice. Chris Coleman, in his production of
CHILDREN’S GAMES (SETH NEHIL) The program for composer Seth Nehil’s new “sonic cinematic performance” lists 19 sources: “Phylogenetic Thinking in Biology and Historical Linguistics,” “On the Limitations of the Iconographic Approach to Bruegel” and journal articles and books about film theory, theater, wolf children and similarly heady material. Yet the hour-plus program contains hardly half a dozen English sentences. That’s the consequence of sound artist Seth Nehil’s bold decision to dramatize the development of new language without using the old one. Instead, Children’s Games conveys its ruminations on Lacanian theory almost entirely via arresting sound, symbolic images and phrases such as “Ling long bling a ling ling.” Invoking themes explored by writers from Rousseau to Anthony Burgess, this four-act, multimedia speculative fiction does tell an elliptical story: Feral children living in a “pre-Oedipal state of bliss,” who’ve developed their own language and nature-loving “saturnalia of the mind,” are rounded up, cleaned up and forcibly impressed into “civilized” society. Drawing on the brothers Grimm, François Truffaut, Dario Argento’s cult movie Suspiria, Disney’s Snow White and Pieter Bruegel’s celebrated painting of the same name, Children’s Games doesn’t escape the common problem of overcooked ambitious art overloaded with complex ideas. References obvious to the creators become obscure to the audience. Yet the production effectively uses nonliteral musical, verbal and imagistic repetition to suggest social indoctrination—particularly the percussive, ominous, sometimes harsh electronic noise by Nehil, and bubbly minimalist chamber trio music by Matt Carlson. Sometimes the performance provides both too little and too much, with images on a big screen, TV monitors and the stage while the Mouth’s superb sound system blasts an assaultive, overlong climactic sequence at deafening volume. The big ideas and images could have been portrayed at half the length, but Nehil said in a post-concert talk that he wanted to push the envelope of audience patience for dramatic effect. He succeeds; the last words we hear are “over and over and over,” and although I was happy it was, I was also glad I’d played these elusive, allusive games. BRETT CAMPBELL. Ling long bling a ling ling!
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The Real Americans
Fed up with yuppie brunch and his life in the liberal bubble in general, San Francisco native Dan Hoyle decided he needed to explore the oft-lauded “real America” of the 2008 presidential campaigns. He bought a van and spent 100 days traveling rural highways through the Deep South, Appalachia and the Midwest in search of homegrown country wisdom. What he found was anger, ignorance and racism, as well as kindness, hospitality and hope. Hoyle, a journalist, playwright and performer, turned his experiences from the trip into an acclaimed, new one-man show, The Real Americans, 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 Wednesday-Saturday, 2 and 7:30 pm Sunday, Nov. 2-6. $26-$46.
Richard III
Portland Actors Ensemble stages Shakespeare’s finest history. Concordia University, 2800 NE Liberty St., 467-6573. 7 pm FridaySaturday, 3 pm Sunday, Nov. 4-6. $5 minimum suggested donation.
Rock Witch
House of Cunt founder Amber Martin is back in town with her new show, about rock and witchcraft, and probably singin’ and obscenity. Martin’s had a hell of a year, garnering praise from The New Yorker and The New York Times. It’s all deserved—Martin is an extraordinary performer who can out-sing most country stars and out-weird John Cameron Mitchell. Wild Abandon, 2411 SE Belmont St., 232-4458. 9 pm Friday, Nov. 4. $17, dinner and drinks not included. 21+.
Sex, Drugs, Murder
The Working Theatre Collective presents two one-acts by its members: Houstatlantavegas, a tale of a man who falls in love with a stripper by Nate Harpel; and Peekaboo, by Eva Suter, about a serial killer pursued by a psychic detective. WTFbikes, 1114 SE Clay St., 893-9075. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 3-5. $10-$15. Thursdays are “pay what you will.”.
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Shirley Valentine
Helena de Crespo performs Willy Russell’s play about a bored English housewife who goes on a lifechanging vacation. Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd., 800-494-8497. 7:30 pm ThursdaySaturday, 2 pm Sunday, Nov. 3-6. $20-$25.
Stranger than Fiction/ Intimate Strangers
To accompany a show of local art and stories inspired by art at Benjamin Benjamin Gallery, the Brody will perform some of said stories live. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7:30 pm Thursday, Nov. 3. $5.
¡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. 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 is a satisfying and engaging performance. REBECCA JACOBSON. El Centro Milagro, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7:30 pm Thursdays, 8 pm FridaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Nov. 13. $15-$30.
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COMEDY Pipes
Curious Comedy’s musical ensemble debuts a new show, Rhapsody. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays through Nov. 19. $12-$15.
CLASSICIAL Andre Chiang
The rising young baritone sings an impressive program of American tunes (Ives, Barber, Bernstein, Ned Rorem) plus Schumann’s song cycle, “The Poet’s Love.” Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Ave., 241-1407. 7 pm Tuesday, Nov. 8. Donation. Reservations (at portlandopera.net/news/967) required.
Bach Cantata Choir
Ralph Nelson leads the choir and 15-member chamber orchestra in Vivaldi’s Gloria (not the famous one you’d expect, but an earlier piece), J.S. Bach’s flute-fueled Cantata No. 115 and Renaissance music by Tomás Luis de Victoria and Lodovico Viadana. Rose City Park Presbyterian Church, 1907 NE 45th Ave., 702-1973. 2 pm Sunday, Nov. 6. Free.
Dean Kramer and Claire Wachter
The University of Oregon piano professors, just back from performing in China, will play music by Brahms, Debussy and Liszt. Sherman Clay/ Moe’s Pianos, 131 NW 13th Ave., 7752427. 7 pm Thursday, Nov. 3. Free.
Kenneth Beare and Maria Choban
Franz Schubert’s “Winter Journey” might be the greatest song cycle ever written, but the way it’s been interpreted over the past century can also make it a crashing bore, especially for audiences who’ve been accustomed to getting their dose of romantic angst from pop and rock. Veteran opera-tenor Beare, who recently returned to the Northwest after two decades of performing in Europe, and piquant pianist Choban have radically reenvisioned this classic tale of an impoverished lad dumped by the wealthy girl of his dreams (not far from Schubert’s own predicament). This new, R-rated translation features video projections and a theatrical interpretation that simultaneously revives the composer’s original intentions and makes the story resonate for modern listeners. Community Music Center, 3350 SE Francis St., 823-3177. 8 pm Friday, Nov. 4. $15 suggested donation.
Oregon Symphony
Mozart’s magnificent final symphony is the finest of the 18th century and one of the most thrilling of all orchestral works. The last movement alone, which culminates in five different musical motifs brilliantly and seamlessly woven together, is a miracle of musical invention. Richard Strauss’ colorful, virtuosic tone poem Don Juan and
Benjamin Britten’s too rarely heard Piano Concerto, featuring English soloist Steven Osborn, complete this exciting concert. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353, orsymphony.org. 7:30 pm Saturday, 8 pm Monday, Nov. 5 and 7. $21-$92.
Portland Opera
Rich jerk gets to have his way with servant lass who’s in love with a fellow member of the 99 percent, and rich guy’s wife isn’t happy. That’s the setup for one of the most delightful, subversive and musically enchanting operas ever made, Mozart’s 1786 gem, The Marriage of Figaro. Modern productions play up the class and gender politics that were always bubbling beneath the surface of the revolutionary play it’s based on (and which got the original playwright/spy/gunrunner in hot water). Directed by Stephen Lawless, who won raves for his Mozart at the Met, this Glimmerglass Opera production stars singer David Pittsinger, who triumphed in earlier PO productions, in Baroque and other opera at Lincoln Center, and in the acclaimed South Pacific revival on Broadway. The other principles have accumulated positive reviews on major stages and/or in previous PO productions. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 241-1802. 7:30 pm Friday and 2 pm Sunday, Nov. 4 & 6; Thursday and Saturday, Nov. 10 & 12. $20-$135.
Tim Galloway, Melanie Downie Robinson, Douglas Schneider, Michael Wilhite
Four of the city’s pre-eminent early music players sing and play music by J.S. Bach, Handel, Monteverdi, Rameau and other great Baroque composers. Lincoln Performance Hall, 1620 SW Park Ave., 593-1254. 8 pm Saturday, Nov. 5. $15.
DANCE Burleynomicon
Burleynomicon features Portland burlesque performers including the Infamous Nina Nightshade, Kit Katastrophic and Lizzy O’Boom, plus fusion belly dance by Endymienne. The Lovecraft, 421 SE Grand Ave., 971-270-7760. 9:30 pm Tuesday, Nov. 8. $5. 21+.
Miss Kennedy’s Reading is Sexy Cabaret
Indulge your hot-librarian fantasies at Miss Kennedy’s Cabaret classic literature edition. The monthly cabaret specializes in burlesque, fire dancers, performance artists and more—this one features Lana Louche, Sandria Dore, Burk Biggler Tommy Twimble and burlesque hallof-famer Charlotte Treuse. Raffle prizes are included. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 9 pm Sunday, Nov. 6. $10-$12. 21+.
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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By TJ NORRIS. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit show information—including opening and closing dates, gallery address and phone number—at least two weeks in advance to: Visual Arts, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: rspeer@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115. Emailed press releases must be backed up by a faxed or printed copy.
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NOW SHOWING False Front
The mysteries of science are alive, and well, perhaps more subliminal than at first glance. Magic>Nature is an invitational group show cocurated by Michael Endo and Emily Nachison, who tapped a half-dozen national artists and two fellow locals. Mining the inverse of science, they explore the majestic, eye-popping color in nature’s fractured parts. Who knows exactly what they mean by “the lost symbolic languages of pseudo-sciences”? But you just might like it. False Front Studio, 4518 NE 32nd Ave., 781-4609, falsefrontstudio.com. Nov. 5-30.
Fourteen30
To Make a Flame is a promising mixed-media group show by five national young, established guys: Glen Baldridge, Walead Beshty, Mike Bray, Alex Hubbard and Brendan Fowler. The show is intended to be “imbued with lingering adolescence” as the artists “have become contemporary Lost Boys.” Will that overarching aesthetic rise to the occasion or fall back into a hazy day of swilling PBR with hipsters? Are they looking back in anger, or will they allow viewers to balance the sublime with the subliminal—all while smiling with a gaping Cheshire Cat grin. Fourteen30 Contemporary, 922 SE Ankeny St., fourteen30.com. Nov. 4-Dec. 11.
Laurie Danial
In Control Release Control, the new sci-fi/psych paintings by abstractionist Laurie Danial are unleashed. Chunky and gemlike, they read like twisted games people play through boggling mazes. Danial slowly reveals, extracts, represses and converts patterns like an illusionist who will swallow the key before revealing the invisible threads holding it all together. In the long line of painters like Philip Guston and Cy Twombly, her trajectory is as perfectly obscured. The message in the madness reveals itself through mark making, erasure and happenstance. Layers of quirky lines and lurid color meet organic deposits in the flux of a surface that has a serious sense of humor and endless symbolism. Froelick Gallery, 714 NW Davis St., froelickgallery.com. Closes Dec. 17.
Ellen George
Sensing Place is sculptor Ellen George’s sophisticated take on the wilder side of botanicals. She returns with sinewy forms that ooze
breath and sensuality. Works such as Wild Blue Indigo steal directly from the open sky by overlapping elongated swaths of cool blue clay draped from invisible wire. Translucent and vibrant, George’s Twang reawakens a field of color from memories of her native Texas, dangling just so in flamboyant shades of fuchsia. Part Kodachrome and all handcrafted, these beauties fuse the tension of the organic with intangible and hallucinogenic qualities. PDX Contemporary, 925 NW Flanders St., pdxcontemporaryart. com. Closes Nov. 26.
Chris Burden
Now on view in the Portland Art Museum’s front room, the Rubinstein Gallery, is renowned Los Angeles multidisciplinary artist Chris Burden’s Three Ghost Ships (1991). Known for his unbelievable performative happenings from the ’70s (Shoot, Trans-fixed and Through the Night Softly, to name a few) Burden has focused in his latter years on developing large-scale sculptural installations with sociopolitical underpinnings. The solar-paneled castaway ships, whose prospectus has them sailing unmanned from the U.S. to the U.K. à la the Niña, Pinta and Santa Maria, form a complex triumvirate evoking both militia and the deadpan of hunting decoys. Portland Art Museum,1219 SW Park Ave., pam.org. Closes Jan. 22.
David Eckard
A midcareer survey of the work of David Eckard is under way at the University of Oregon-Portland, which is working in conjunction with the Art Gym. This smaller exhibit showcases three short video works as well as recent mixed-media paintings that have teeth—literally. At once visceral and unsettling, this work pairs the anatomical with ambiguous foreign objects. Engorged, twisted and taut with the pageantry of a certain signature trompe l’oeil these 2-D works pop from the surface with a queasy tactility. Eckard’s moving pictures depict wry, poetic cinema that pokes at the documentary (L’Homme du Fleuve, 2005) and more temporal earthiness (Patter, 2009). Deployment is a place where flesh meets flash stage right, where tools and tricks galvanize in a cryptic wink of an eye. The White Box at University of Oregon-Portland, 24 NW 1st Ave. Closes Nov. 12.
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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By RUTH BROWN. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit lecture or reading information at least two weeks in advance to: WORDS, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: words@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2 Christopher Ryan
Christopher Ryan is the co-author of the acclaimed Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality, which questions whether marriage, monogamy and the “nuclear family” are natural (spoiler: they aren’t). This talk seems like an excellent place to pick up. Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 236-9234. 7 pm. $20.
Adam Gopnik
In his new book, The Table Comes First: Family, France and the Meaning of Food, Adam Gopnik (Paris to the Moon, The New Yorker) asks: When did America go from being a nation of normal eaters to “manic, compulsive gastronomes”? I’m as guilty as anyone, but: word. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.
West Side Story
Misha Berson, theater critic for The Seattle Times, has a newish book entitled Something’s Coming, Something Good: West Side Story and the American Imagination, which explores the back story and enduring appeal of one of Broadway’s greatest musicals. Benson will discuss West Side Story with Portland Center Stage’s artistic director, Chris Coleman, in this public talk. There will be no small fee—this event’s free. In America. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 5 pm. Free.
SUNDAY, NOV. 6
every Sunday at Backspace. Each show opens with an openmic 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.
John Hodgman
The Daily Show’s John Hodgman completes his Complete World Knowledge trilogy with That Is All, full of completely made-up facts, lists, articles and other BS. Because Hodgman is (semi) famous on TV, this event will be held at the Bagdad Theater and cost $25 (though that includes a book). Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 236-9234. 7 pm. $25. All ages.
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Portland Poetry Slam
The Portland Poetry Slam runs
REVIEW
THURSDAY, NOV. 3 Brian Doyle
Lake Oswegan writer Brian Doyle releases his 11th book, a short-story collection called Bin Laden’s Bald Spot, which his press release compares to the style of David Foster Wallace and Raymond Carver. Big claims. Doyle has previously written five essay collections, two nonfiction books, two short-prose collections and a novel. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.
Thickness No. 2 Art Exhibit and Release Party
IN MY EXPERT OPINION, THIS BABY IS: (Check all that apply)
slow predictable amateurish ill-conceived forgettable banal
low-budget Michael Bay-esque heart-warming hilarious inventive breathtaking
(zero stars)
LET THE BABY JUDGING BEGIN.
nwfilm.org Opening Night, Friday November 11, 2011 7pm Opening Night Shorts Screening 9 pm Northwest Film Center's 40th Birthday Party with Dirty Mittens and Brainstorm.
Floating World hosts the sexy release party for the second edition of Thickness, an anthology series of erotic comics. Co-editor Ryan Sands will be there with Portland artist Angie Wang, alongside art by Angie Wang, Lisa Hanawalt, True Chubbo, Katie Skelly, Jonny Negron, Zejian Shen, Mickey Zacchilli and Derek Ballard. Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St., 2410227. 6-10 pm. Free.
FRIDAY, NOV. 4 Wade Davis
Did you know National Geographic has an “explorer-in-residence” job? That sounds amazing, and one of the lucky people to hold the position is Wade Davis. For the last 12 years, Davis has been exploring the story of George Mallory and the 25 other English climbers who sought to conquer Mount Everest, and how it relates to World War I, which is documented in his book Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
John Carlos and Dave Zirin
John Carlos was one of the two runners who famously gave the black-power salute on the medal podium at the 1968 Olympics, for which he was thrown off the U.S. team. He has co-authored a book with The Nation sports editor Dave Zirin called The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World, which has received accolades from the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Chuck D. Carlos and Zirin will sign copies of the book at Someday Lounge, alongside free appetizers and cheap beer. Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th Ave., 2481030. 5 pm. $10 requested donation. Proceeds will benefit Haymarket Books and the International Socialist Organization.
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK DAMNED As the setting for a Chuck Palahniuk novel, hell seems strangely overdue. The Portland-bred novelist specializes in damaged protagonists in vile scenarios—people well deserving of eternal damnation—yet none of those characters has actually existed in that foul place where (per Palahniuk’s Butter rum Life Savers, imagination) those who love and other visions of hell. to whistle are forced to interact with people who peed in the pool too many times. Madison Spencer, the pleasantly cynical narrator in Damned (Doubleday, 247 pages, $24.95), goes and finds that it’s not so bad. Spencer is the 13-year-old child of detestable Hollywood royalty and the most sharp-witted and sarcastic girl in her boarding school. Then (spoiler alert!) she dies and finds herself in Palahniuk’s hell, which isn’t a deserted wasteland with lava rivers and imps in red spandex. No oppressive heat, no sulfur—just a plethora of butter rum Life Savers and stale Bazooka gum. The description of old popcorn balls is where Damned began its steady, calculated assault on my subconscious. Palahniuk uses Madison’s experience to advance the idea that hell—like any other unsavory situation—is what you make of it. He interjects flashbacks from Madison’s pampered above-ground life, which was, in fact, far more hellish than hell. It’s an old-fashioned, touchy-feely idea that works well paired with Palahniuk’s aggro prose. Madison was a miserable wretch with no self-worth while alive, but she really finds her place in hell, acquiring a mélange of friends in her new and unfamiliar world—a nerd, a punk, a preppy girl and a jock. They form their own little Breakfast Club and, as teenagers are wont to do, take on the establishment, defeating Hitler and Vlad the Impaler before floating crepe-paper lilies on the surface of Shit Lake. For a novel with such a dark setting, Damned manages to entertain readers with Palahniuk’s sharp, pithy wit. There’s one motif involving Spencer’s slandering of classmates that he more than exhausts (one he didn’t think of: Slutty McSluttberg), but it’s hardly the novel’s undoing. What comes forth is another lucid, yet skewered, tale from the famously warped mind of Palahniuk. Damned does, at times, feel like Palahniuk is simply living up to his subversive authorial reputation, yet it’s his polish and undeniably unique storytelling that save the reader from a schlocky, formulaic hell. MICHAEL LOPEZ.
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57 Despite its title referring to the
hero’s odds of survival, the movie feels hesitant to explore the implications that one character (Joseph GordonLevitt) might soon vanish from the company of all others. It has jokes about scamming to get your dick sucked and jokes about hitting the bong—the same jokes as The 40-YearOld Virgin, basically, but delivered in a hush, like throwing a 4/20 party next to a funeral home. R. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Pioneer Place, City Center, Lloyd Mall.
Anonymous
36 When you want your secret knowledge 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
Charge
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A documentary about Portland motorcycle-building team MotoCzysz racing on the Isle of Man. Bagdad Theater. 7 pm Thursday, Nov. 3.
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. But scratch Soderbergh’s name off the credits and sub in actors like Powers Boothe, Corbin Bernsen, Anne Heche and Bronson Pinchot, and Contagion would simply be a standardissue TV movie of the week. PG-13. AP KRYZA. 99 Indoor Twin, Eastport, Fox Tower.
NEW
The Crying Game
[THREE NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] She’s a dude! 5th Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday, Nov. 4-5. 3 pm Sunday, Nov. 6. NEW
Dear God No!
[ONE WEEK ONLY] A new grindhouse film about a biker gang that actually grinds up people in a machine. Look for a review on wweek.com. Clinton Street Theater. 7 and 9 pm FridayThursday, Nov. 4-10.
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. Despite its cheesiness (and there’s no shortage of that, musical montages and all) Dolphin Tale has a great message at its core, and really, isn’t that what all those overactive, overstimulated kids need? PG. MAGGIE SUMMERS. 99 West Drive-In, Forest, Oak Grove.
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. It is macho, self-pitying poppycock, and it engrossed and moved me like no other picture I’ve seen this year. R. AARON MESH. Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall.
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 “awardwinning” 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. MATTHEW SINGER. Fox Tower.
NEW
Finding Kind
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A documentary about girl-on-girl bullying. Hollywood Theatre. 6:45 and 8:45 pm Friday, Nov. 4.
Footloose
61 The remake of Footloose is drenched in nostalgia, not only for the original 1984 Baconfest. Rather strangely for a movie about a small town so oppressive it bans dancing— heck, rather strangely for a movie called Footloose—this is a film made in a spirit of longing for community and conformity. In Hustle & Flow and Black Snake Moan, director Craig Brewer displayed a taste for belting out the Bible. It seems very possible that what attracted him to his latest material was not the dancing but the preaching. Just like Black Snake Moan, it’s about a compulsive hussy (Julianne Hough) tamed by a man of principle, though this time that man (Kenny Wormald) also likes to put glitter in a wind machine. PG-13. AARON MESH. 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, City Center, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Sandy.
NEW
Happy, Happy
A woman envies her new neighbors in this Norwegian drama. R. Living Room Theaters.
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THE MASK OF ZORRO: Antonio Banderas and Elena Anaya.
FAREWELL TO THE FLESH ANTONIO BANDERAS WILL MAKE YOU A WOMAN WITH THE SKIN I LIVE IN. BY AA R ON MESH
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When Pedro Almodovar’s Volver premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2006, the hot topic was how Penelope Cruz’s ass was not Penelope Cruz’s ass. Almodovar, the Spanish director as famously fascinated by the female form as he is openly gay, had decided that Cruz’s posterior wasn’t prominent enough for a blue-collar mom, so he fashioned her a prosthetic backside. Even odder? She said she had grown, well, attached to it. “I didn’t want to take my false ass off,” Cruz told a press conference. “I was a disaster for two months.” These very particular body-image issues are at the core of The Skin I Live In, Almodovar’s violently outre new movie. It proves that the director’s penchant for physical modification has only grown more pointed—or rounded. It is perhaps the most twisted and unsettling film Almodovar has made (and this is a director whose Talk to Her featured a nurse tenderly raping his comatose patient), but it is not exactly a horror movie. Instead, it is a throwback to golden-age Hollywood’s mad-scientist movies, as if the dress-up games of Vertigo had been conducted by James Whale around the time he made Bride of Frankenstein. The mad scientist, a plastic surgeon to be exact, is played by Antonio Banderas, and he is most certainly insane. Other characters keep mentioning this to him, in case he had forgotten. His mother (Marisa Paredes, an expert at widening her eyes to indicate horrible memories) is especially distraught. “It’s my fault,” she says. “I’ve got insanity in my entrails.” Banderas has a laboratory filled with stacks of petri dishes, vials of blood and tanks crawling with woodlice. In a locked room of his country estate, he is keeping a gorgeous test subject played by Elena Anaya; she is modeling his innovative, bug-resistant artificial skin, and she may hide a few other nips and tucks they’re not discussing. She seems relatively serene, though she is taking a lot of opiates. Then a disfigured bank
robber dressed in a tiger suit arrives at the door, and starts licking the security cameras. Here I’d better stop the synopsis, because I’m getting dangerously close to spoiling the movie (and upsetting voters in David Wu’s congressional district). But I can say that the tiger suit is explained by Carnival season—and this is important, especially when you consider that the term “Carnival” may originate from the phrase “farewell to meat” or “farewell to the flesh.” The Skin I Live In is a movie where flesh is endlessly dispensable and malleable, but also one that pulls you into the consciousness of a man who sees all corporal desire as grotesque perversion. There’s a great scene midway through the picture where Banderas stumbles upon a teenage hook-up party: As he watches from the bushes, couplings and threesomes look like a tableau from the corner of Bosch’s painting The Garden of Earthly Delights. The absurdity is held together by Banderas, whose understated performance recalls the pained dignity of James Mason in Lolita. Likewise, the movie proceeds calmly, through elision and implication, until it becomes a study of how sexual-
“IT’S MY FAULT,” HIS MOTHER SAYS. “I’VE GOT INSANITY IN MY ENTRAILS.” ity can be formed through victimization—people shaped against their will—yet leaving room for a sense of self to emerge triumphant. In the background of one scene, Chris Garneau sings a cover of Elliott Smith’s “Between the Bars,” with its verse, “People you’ve been before/ That you don’t want around anymore.” With The Skin I Live In, those old identities are removed with extra padding. Almodovar takes the elements of classic films—the doctor playing God, the grand staircase, the femme fatale—and splices them into unexpected shapes that turn out to be exactly what you wanted. 86 SEE IT: The Skin I Live In is rated R. It opens Friday at Fox Tower.
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The Help
86 Give a white male director a
script about Southern racism and nine times out of 10 he’ll hand you back the story of an enlightened sports team wrapped in a flashy soundtrack. Director Tate Taylor manages to break this mold in his adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s 2009 novel, The Help. Set in the early 1960s in Jackson, Miss., the film focuses on young, wealthy white mothers and their maltreatment of the black maids who serve them. The Help doesn’t reward its viewers with a championship trophy. Instead, the film presents the reality of Southern life in the 1960s as something that takes much more than a high-school squad to overcome. PG13. SHAE HEALEY. 99 Indoor Twin, Cedar Hills, Lake Twin, City Center.
to snap viewers out of their fugue state by cutting in brash videotaped footage of the band members early in their career. Those moments provide some comic relief (particularly keyboardist Kjartan Sveinsson insisting with a straight face that Sigur Rós is “heavy metal” and writes songs worshipping Satan), but it detracts from the overall effect of the film. Those intrusions aside, there’s plenty here to embrace, from the awe of watching singer Jonsi Birgisson pulling seemingly impossible vocal noises out of his gaunt body, to the showclosing snowstorm of confetti blown
from around the band into the audience. ROBERT HAM. 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
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[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, Nov. 4-5.
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. R. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Moreland, City Center, Fox Tower, Lloyd Center, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub.
In Time
62 Justin Timberlake is 30 years old, but he doesn’t look a day over 25. This youthfulness serves him perfectly in the new sci-fi chase picture In Time (somehow, 20th Century Fox resisted the temptation to call it Just In Time). The film is set in a world where everyone stops aging at 25 but has to purchase the rest of their lifespan, which is displayed on ticking green biomechanical forearm clocks. This premise—Logan’s Run minus five years—means that everybody on screen in Andrew Niccol’s movie is young, gorgeous and worried their relevance is about to permanently expire. It is a metaphor for Hollywood. If stardom becomes In Time’s nagging subtext, it is because the intended subtext is so explicit it becomes text. Niccol, who wrote and directed, has always used his movies as a social-justice soapbox—his past scripts include The Truman Show and Lord of War— but never has he been this didactic. Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried, big-eyed Bonnie to his shavedhead Clyde, have shrugging, casual chemistry, which makes it more of a shame that the movie constantly forces them to utter stilted exposition and doctrine. (“No one should live forever if even one person has to die.”) When they aren’t preaching, the two of them seem to get a genuine kick from their own verve and beauty. I’d prefer to see them off the clock. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, City Center, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Sandy.
NEW
Inni
82 Sigur Rós are one of the few
bands to understand that making a concert film means approaching it cinematically first. To that end, their second such live document features footage that has been distressed into hazy black-and-white visions of the Icelandic group performing its anthemic rock. Images of the band smear across the screen (as if viewing the show through a skein of tears) or are pixelated into a hallucinatory miasma. It matches up beautifully with the dreamlike quality of the quartet’s music. Unfortunately, director Vincent Morisset decided
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KICK THE TIRES: Carlos Ghosn goes for a ride.
REVENGE OF THE ELECTRIC CAR Chris Paine would like to sell you a Tesla.
It’s back. No, not the practical, affordable consumer electric car—despite the claims made in Chris Paine’s Who Killed the Electric Car?, such a thing had never really existed. No, the most prominent resurrection in Paine’s follow-up film, Revenge of the Electric Car, is the director’s overdramatic narration and penchant for snarky sound bites from dubious celebrities. This time, instead of hunting for the man who took his sedan away, Paine chronicles the creation of a new generation of electric vehicles and the personalities behind them. His tools are the same: ominous shots of oil platforms, free-flowing hyperbole and a wiseguy chorus that includes Anthony Kiedis, Danny DeVito and several Gawker editors. The success of Paine’s previous film has earned the director remarkable access, but at the expense of coherence. His camera hovers over the shoulders of great men of industry—Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, General Motors vice chairman Bob Lutz and Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn—but, beyond knowing that all three are working on plug-in electric vehicles, Paine doesn’t seem to know why we’re there. We are treated to odd shots of business lunches and photo shoots, unflattering angles of stockholder meetings and a lot of powerful backs. Paine lingers on any potential conflict, giving the film the tone of a Discovery Channel building competition. Fittingly, Paine’s fourth subject is a regular on Discovery: Greg “Reverend Gadget” Abbott, a mustached metalworker who makes large sculptures and refits vintage cars to battery power. He’s a colorful character, but shockingly foolish: After he loses his uninsured workshop to arson, he buys a new building without bothering with an inspection. It turns out to be so polluted he has to abandon it. Paine’s inclusion of Gadget, among executives who, despite their flawed personalities, at least get things done, is troubling. The film would have been better without the sideshow, and better still had Paine focused more on Musk. The Tesla (and PayPal and SpaceX) founder is the most interesting and troubled of the executives, and gives Paine the greatest access. We see him sweating through meetings with buyers, fighting with his fiancée and staring down bankruptcy as his company struggles to deliver its appallingly expensive, near-handmade sports cars. Next to overpuffed Lutz and closed-up, calculating Ghosn, he seems present and fragile. We want to believe in him, as does Paine—he already bought his Tesla. PG-13. BEN WATERHOUSE.
64 SEE IT: Revenge of the Electric Car opens Friday at the Hollywood Theatre. Director Chris Paine will attend the 7 pm show Friday, Nov. 4.
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THEMILLANDTHECROSS.COM
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. R. CHRIS STAMM. Living Room Theaters.
The Mill and the Cross
65 As cinematic dissertations on
art history go, you could do a lot worse—and certainly less eye-popping—than The Mill and the Cross. Give director Lech Majewski credit: In “adapting” Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s 1564 painting The Way to Calvary, he never forgets that his source material is a masterful work of art. Visually, the film is a stunner. Using a combination of live action, green screen and CGI, Majewski approximates the feeling of stepping inside a painting in the midst of its creation. With little dialogue, the story—or what there is of one—is told mostly through images set against the surrealistically greengray backdrop of the Flemish countryside: Bruegel (Rutger Hauer) admiring a glistening spider web; a man, tied to a wheel and suspended in the air by Spanish troops, having his face pecked at by crows; a huge grain mill perched atop a hillside, acting as a stand-in for God. As a narrative, The Mill is fairly impenetrable; anyone who isn’t an art major is probably going to be confused as to what Jesus is doing in 16th-century Flanders. In a way, that’s the greatest tribute to Bruegel’s piece: Through a single powerful image, he managed to comment on politics, religion and peasant life more clearly than Majewski could through several dozen of them. MATTHEW SINGER. Cinema 21.
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. CHRIS STAMM. Cedar Hills, Lake Twin, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd Center.
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New German Cinema
[THREE NIGHTS ONLY] A trio of German films: A comedy about a man with Tourette’s syndrome (Vincent Wants to Sea, 7 pm Friday, Nov. 4), a romance with plagiarism (Lila: My Words, My Lies, My Love, 7 pm Saturday, Nov. 5), and a drama about poet Oda Schaefer (The Poll Diaries, 4 pm Sunday, Nov. 6). NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium.
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. 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
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A BRAVE, THRILLING
PERFORMANCE BY ELIZABETH OLSEN IN A FILM THAT IS FAR AND AWAY ONE OF THE
YEAR’S BEST.” THE MILL AND THE CROSS 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).PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, City Center, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Sandy.
Puss in Boots 3D
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, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, City Center, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Sandy.
Real Steel
63 Real Steel is fundamentally a bad movie—obnoxious, incoherent and sloppy—resembling nothing so much as some ’90s summer familyfilm 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. It is only bearable because of Hugh Jackman, who finds a groove where violence becomes a joyful two-step. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Sandy.
NEW Rise & Shine: The Jay DeMerit Story
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A documentary about the American soccer star. Cinema 21. 7 pm Thursday, Nov. 3.
The Rum Diary
62 Long before the book was actually published, Hunter S. Thompson was absolutely obsessed with seeing The Rum Diary hit the big screen. When the Great Gonzo punched his own ticket in 2005, his dear friend Johnny Depp made it his mission to finally bring the vision to the screen and, after several false starts, The Rum Diary finally boasts Depp in the lead and reclusive cult director Bruce Robinson (Withnail and I) behind the camera. Shot amid the beautiful sands of San Juan, The Rum Diary tells the tale of Thompson avatar Paul Kemp, a 22-year-old reporter (Depp is 48, though you wouldn’t know it) who arrives at the city’s dying newspaper for his first professional gig, only to discover that his editor (the great Richard Jenkins) would rather see stories about American tourists having fun than the rape of the land at the hands of developers such as Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart, in the film’s weakest role). It actually works beautifully for a while, prodded along by excellent performances all around, particularly a show-stopping Giovanni Ribisi and an uncharacteristically subdued Depp as the pre-frenzied Thompson.
But then, suddenly and without warning, The Rum Diary forgets that the book isn’t a comedy. Or particularly good. The shroud of sentimentality adds far too much sugar to a life that was marked—celebrated— for its piss and vinegar. The Rum Diary begins as the portrait of the Gonzo as a young man. It ends as a sappy Disney movie far too drunk on its sense of purpose to realize it’s taken an extraordinary life and rendered it utterly dull and normal by comparison. R. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, CineMagic, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Fox Tower, City Center, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Roseway, Sandy, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub. NEW
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as Sarah Sparks searches, there is no instruction manual for having a baby. There’s no detailed map explaining how part A attaches to part B. But the main character of Small, Beautifully Moving Parts (1 pm Sunday, Nov. 6), convincingly played by Anna Margaret Hollyman, has replaced most of her human relationships with a technology obsession. So, basically she’s afraid she won’t relate to her unborn child. It’s a justified fear when she makes comments like, “It’s actually a pretty good-quality font for a disposable,” after watching the word “pregnant” appear on her pregnancy test. With an irresponsible mother who disappeared years ago, and a father who gets his jollies through cyber relationships, it’s obvious why Sarah feels disconnected and seeks comfort through predictable, lifeless gadgets. Despite the techie fixations, her character is rather refreshing— smart, skeptical, curious and collected—and her pregnancy forces her to face some harsh realities. Eve and the Fire Horse (11 am Sunday, Nov. 6) brushes on themes of religion, superstition and death with a balance of humor and melancholia. Told from the perspective of Eve Eng, a young and spirited Chinese girl, the film directed by Julia Kwan pushes clashing cultures of Eastern and Western philosophies through uncomfortably impressionable minds. Coming from a 1970s Chinese-Canadian family, Eve and her older sister stray from their Buddhist upbringing and start practicing Catholicism after a string of unfortunate incidents plague their household. The most interesting element is that the protagonist hasn’t seen her 10th birthday, adding endearing qualities of naivete, innocence, imagination and curiosity to the clichéd idea of finding faith. EMILEE BOOHER. Mission Theater. Thursday-Friday and Sunday, Nov. 3-4&6. Opening night film Hit So Hard: The Life and Near Death Story of Patty Schemel screens at 7 and 9:30 pm Thursday, Nov. 3. See full listings at sirennation.com.
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This Place. The flick chronicles filmmaker Kaleo La Belle’s attempt to reconcile with his old man, a perpetually stoned cyclist named “Cloud Rock,” on a 500-mile bike ride through the Pacific Northwest. Stevens, a childhood friend of the documentarian who also filmed a meeting with his estranged father, did the soundtrack, and is now touring with it. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 and 9:30 pm Thursday, Nov. 3. 7:30 show is sold out.
Take Shelter
91 A trenchant, contemporary
American horror story, which means it is not about ghosts or demons but waiting for the other shoe to drop. Take Shelter is not a political picture; it takes the national temperature, and finds delirious fever. More than three decades after the hopeful sky-watching in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, here is a movie that feels like Richard Dreyfuss’ mashedpotato-sculpting scene distended to a two-hour daymare. This time, what the hero (Michael Shannon) sees is looming thunderheads. He responds by expanding his backyard tornado shelter into an underground ark. R. AARON MESH. Fox Tower.
ile’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. It is on this path that Estevez’s character is accidentally killed, and where his estranged father (Martin Sheen) lands to collect his remains. Enlivened only by cinematography that ably captures the beauty of the Spanish countryside, this Way leads to disappointment. PG-13. ROBERT HAM. Cedar Hills, City Center.
We Were Here
This documentary opens where Milk ends, and there is something wantonly sadistic about how Harvey Milk’s killing, which so galvanized the Castro community, was the opening shot of a massacre. The speed and ruthlessness of the onset of AIDS
was staggering—by the time a test was available, 50 percent of the gay men in San Francisco were infected— and QDoc co-founder David Weissman’s intimate recounting of the human toll can’t help feeling like an unremitting dirge. It is heartrending how much this movie feels like the story of soldiers conscripted into a war after making love. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters.
Weekend
90 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. Over the weekend, they drink, smoke, snort, talk, make love, and try to make the most of their sole weekend together. Tom Cullen and Chris New are exceptional as the main characters. Their chemistry is astounding. MAGGIE SUMMERS. Living Room Theaters.
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The Thing
49 The new Thing goes through all the beats with a workmanlike commitment to recapturing the lightning of its immediate predecessor, but director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.’s obvious infatuation with overwrought and cartoonish CGI gore gets in the way all too often. R. AP KRYZA. Eastport, Forest.
The Three Musketeers 3D
All for one, and one POKING YOU IN THE EYE. Not screened for critics. PG-13. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Forest, Lloyd Mall. NEW
Tower Heist
Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy occupy a condo. Not screened for critics by WW press deadlines. Look for a review on wweek.com. PG-13. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, City Center, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas NEW
John Cho and Kal Penn search for a Christmas tree with Neil Patrick Harris. We’re pretty sure this was an episode of The Waltons, but it wasn’t screened for critics by WW press deadlines. Look for a review on wweek.com. R. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, City Center, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy. NEW
The Victim
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Dan Halsted’s Kung Fu Theater unearths the only known 35 mm print of this 1980 martial arts rampage with fight choreography by Sammo Hung. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Nov. 8. NEW Voices in Action: Human Rights on Film
[FOUR NIGHTS ONLY] The NW Film Center series continues with documentaries on L.A. homelessness (Lost Angels, 7 pm Wednesday, Oct. 19); social media in Iran (The Green Wave, 7 pm Thursday, Oct. 20); Harry Belafonte (Sing Your Song, 7 pm Saturday, Oct. 22); and human trafficking (The Price of Sex, 7 pm Tuesday, Oct. 25). NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. NEW The Walking Dead Hosted by Cort and Fatboy
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, TV] Local radio boys present AMC’s zombie series on a big screen. Hollywood Theatre. 9 pm Sunday, Nov. 6.
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GUN CRAZY: Elizabeth Olsen and John Hawkes.
MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE As a member of a back-to-the-land cult in the Catskills, Marcy May’s boyfriend, Patrick, “cleanses” her and the rest of his flock with ritualized rape and shooting lessons. Sequestered away in a lavish lakeside home in Connecticut, Martha’s estranged sister tries to fix her with tall glasses of kale and ginseng juice and pretty pink sundresses. Both are driving her crazy. Writer/director Sean Durkin has created an unsettling, intense portrait of a girl close to losing her marbles because she can’t determine exactly what life after brainwashing ought to look like. As Martha/Marcy, Elizabeth Olsen (the younger, healthier sister of the bobble-headed Olsen twins) is a subtle wonder of confusion and apathetic bitterness. The emotions glide across her open face and lodge behind her gray-green eyes as she shakily tries to reintegrate herself into the normal world—and fails in both small and spectacular ways. Her Martha/Marcy is not the easiest former cult member to root for. She sleeps for hours on end, mocks her brittle sister (Sarah Paulson) and lashes out as she begins to imagine that her former clan is out to get her. Don’t hold your breath for an easy cathartic breakthrough. It’s not coming. John Hawkes (Winter’s Bone) is terribly good as cult leader Patrick. A knobby bag of sinew, the longtime character actor is endlessly interesting to look at, whether his homespun fanatic is strumming a guitar or violating a family member. And Durkin’s quiet vision of cult life is similarly approachable, intriguing and awful—but most of all it is claustrophobic. Even the pine trees surrounding the farmhouse compound seem determined to choke out the light. Oddly enough, even two-thirds through Martha Marcy May Marlene, it’s still uncertain which is more crazy: turning control of your life over to a cult leader or living an empty life in pursuit of money and great deck chairs. As Martha/Marcy’s grip on what is a dream, a memory or happening right now becomes more and more slippery, it turns out that none of those states is really all that safe. R. KELLY CLARKE.
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NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park Ave., 503-221-1156 VINCENT WANTS TO SEA Fri 07:00 MY WORDS, MY LIES -- MY LOVE Sat 07:00 THE POLL DIARIES Sun 04:00 CERTIFIABLY YOURS Sun 07:00 NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY Mon-Tue-Wed
EVERYTHING IS HALF OFF: Since Hollywood is forever bent on remaking its thrillers with more gore and less brains—the hee-haw replica of Straw Dogs is merely the latest example—we might as well get in on the ground floor. Hitchcock’s Rear Window has already been counterfeited twice in the past 15 years (once with Shia Le Beouf, for God’s sake), but what if we tried shooting it from Raymond Burr’s point of view? There’s the guilty paranoia of being watched (deep!), the grindhouse mess of fitting a wife into suitcases (edgy!), and the nosy neighbors bursting in without knocking (shocking!). Eli Roth directs. Zach Galifianakis stars. A hit! Let’s get lunch. AARON MESH. Showing at: Laurelhurst. Best paired with: Coalition Maple Porter. Also showing: Colombiana (Kennedy School, Mission).
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3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-249-7474 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. FriSat-Sun 02:00 COWBOYS & ALIENS Sat 09:00
Cinema 21
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1624 NW Glisan St., 503-249-7474 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. Mon-Wed 05:30 ATTACK THE BLOCK Mon-Wed 10:00 COLOMBIANA MonTue-Wed 08:00
Roseway Theatre
7229 NE Sandy Blvd., 503282-2898 THE RUM DIARY Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:30, 05:15, 08:00
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2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-231-7919 THE RUM DIARY Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:30, 08:00
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5736 NE 33rd Ave., 503-249-7474 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon 03:00 SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD IN 4D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 05:30 COLOMBIANA Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:30, 09:55 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 07:30
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Hollywood Theatre 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-281-4215 FINDING KIND Fri 06:45, 08:45 THE VICTIM Tue 07:30
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7818 SE StarkConfirmation St., 503-252-0500 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 04:20 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 07:00, 09:25 THE SMURFS Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 04:30 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:45, 09:15 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:40 THE DEBT FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:15 COWBOYS & ALIENS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:40 CARS 2 Sat-Sun 02:10
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