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PROMISES, PROMISES Isn’t it about time that [Attorney General John] Kroger’s campaign promises are regarded as so much hot air as Obama’s? [“The Would-Be Toxic Avenger,” WW, Nov. 2, 2011.] He’s been a complete failure when it comes to prosecuting people like [Mayor] Sam Adams and the governor’s girlfriend. —“Bad Boy Brown”
I don’t think I miss the vicarious experience of NBA basketball. I watched it on TV, and then went to a game, and was blown away by how slow a game is in real time [compared] to seeing it on the tube. [“Blaze a New Trail,” WW, Nov. 2, 2011]. Not worth the ticket and hassle. You can’t change the channel when the game gets boring at the Rose Garden. At home, you can, or read or play with the dog. —“dude” 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.
Why aren’t there any interviews with tree-huggers about companies that Kroger should have targeted instead of the small fry (and DEQ) he went after? —“John Williams”
Shooting for the new NBC [TV] series Grimm seems to be everywhere I turn. Does the City of Portland receive remuneration from the network for shooting the show here, and, if so, what kind of ducats are we talking about? —Kristine The sad truth is that it’s more or less the stated mission of all governments to kiss the ass of any corporate interest that might, given the right tax breaks or fee waivers, spend a few bucks in that government’s jurisdiction. You say, “handjob.” I say, “economic development incentive.” I mention this because if you’re expecting all those Grimm location fees to fill city coffers until we’re hip-deep in shiny new schools, parks and robot police officers, you’re going to be disappointed. “City permit fees are meant to recoup the costs of doing business, but they are not a big revenue-generator for the city,” says Shelley 4
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PUBLISHER’S REPORT TO OUR READERS: Willamette Week was founded 37 years ago this week, and it’s been 28 years since editor Mark Zusman and I bought what’s grown into a fully formed news media business. Because you are the most important ingredient in our enterprise, I celebrate our anniversary each year by reporting back to you. To help make these letters engaging, I answer questions from an imaginary interviewer who has an uncanny way of reading my mind. Here’s hoping this year’s exchange is of value. So, as WW begins its 38th year, what’s on your mind? I’m like the rest of Portland: pissed off at what’s been done to our country by a small minority with access to seemingly limitless financial resources. At the same time, I remain excited and energized by WW’s scrappiness—despite an economy that’s been on the ropes four straight years. Let’s talk dollars and cents. How are you doing? Revenues are up over last year, but very slightly. The biggest gains have come at our events; the next two months will determine whether we show growth in our key drivers: display and Web sales. On the expense side, just about everything but our libel insurance and printing costs are up. The latter is a pleasant surprise, given that for years we endured price gouging by newsprint manufacturers. Overall, City of Roses Newspaper Co. strives to remain profitable but not to maximize profit. This year, total revenues for WW should come in right around $5 million with a net, pre-tax profit of about 2 percent, or $100,000. We consider ourselves fortunate not to have been swamped in the dreadful economy—and to be eking out a small margin again this year. What’s the stalled, rotten economy done to life at your office? On one hand, we feel a little beaten over the head by these tough times. On the other, we’re better off. We’ve diversified our editorial reporting, so that we now deliver a robust diet of digital news—video interviews of candidates for office, slide shows that amplify our stories, and breaking news ahead of other Portland media
outlets. We’ve also improved the print quality of our newspaper; it’s now heat-set with color available on every page. As a result, the paper is a little more magazinelike, and the ink is much less likely to rub off on your fingers (and then on your white shirts and sweaters). Finally, our audience continues to grow—it’s significantly over 450,000 a month, including Web viewers. Our average reader is well under 40. In this digital era, that’s crazily counterintuitive, and contradicts the notion there’s not a market for serious news among Portland’s most active media audiences. Are there any good journalists left? We certainly think so. Earlier this year, when managing news editor Hank Stern left to work for Multnomah County, we were able to persuade Pulitzer Prizewinning Oregonian reporter Brent Walth to take his place. We got a great catch in Martin Cizmar when his predecessor, arts and culture editor Kelly Clarke, found the joys of newfound motherhood too great. We have a superb new reporter in Hannah Hoffman, whose first few nights on the job were long ones, courtesy of Occupy Portland. And Ruth Brown, who comes to us from Australia, is our new Web editor. Altogether, there are so many smart, energetic, ambitious and creative people working in our office that practically every day here is rewarding, both personally and professionally, for Mark and me. (In the interests of full disclosure, I must note that as I write this, music editor Casey Jarman is parked on a couch outside my door playing a new video game without interruption for the next 24 hours. He’s scribbled a sign pinned to his sofa: “I AM DOING THIS FOR A STORY. THANKS.” To see how that worked out, see page 45.) What can you tell us about your big events—Eat Mobile in April and MusicfestNW in September? They were real successes, both benefiting from good weather. Late last April, I got an incredible charge looking north from Eat Mobile’s digs under the Morrison Bridge to thousands of you—at least eight blocks long—waiting to get into our signature annual food event just as the Portland Trail Blazers pulled out an amazing playoff comeback victory. And Musicfest…the weather, the crowds
CROWD PLEASER: About 25,000 saw shows at MusicfestNW in September.
and the music were fantastic. About 3,500 attended Eat Mobile; 25,000 (including a fair number of visitors to Portland) saw shows at Musicfest. We’re already at work to make both events even grander in 2012. How about your Restaurant Guide and Finder? I like to think these two publications are in a class by themselves. Hats off to Restaurant Guide editor Ben Waterhouse, Finder editor Aaron Mesh and creative director Carolyn Richardson, who was responsible for the design of both. Despite our good way with service journalism, news remains our bread and butter. Careful reporting, attention to detail and great design animate our journalism. Here are examples from 2011 of classic WW-style reporting: “Strange Wu” (Feb. 23—the story that helped David Wu decide he needed to leave Congress, opening the door to this week’s primary election and January’s general election); David Cay Johnston’s “9 Things the Rich Don’t Want You to Know About Taxes” (April 13—no story has gotten more hits or had longer legs on wweek.com); “Dirt Roads, Dead Ends” (May 11—about Portland’s 59 miles of unpaved roads and the civic leaders who promised to fix them); “The Good, the Bad and the Awful” (June 22—our biennial legislative ratings); and “The Other Portland” (Oct. 12—Corey Pein’s profile of Portland east of I-205, a major battleground in the upcoming mayoral election). What about the digital world. Where’s it headed? The digerati are putting a lot of bets on the tablet—as a format where people feel comfortable reading long stories and advertisers are increasingly interested in spending their money. Ken Doctor, an Oregonian and former journalist who’s now a leading news industry analyst, said in Portland
recently that the tablet is “a huge gamechanger.” He says 20 percent of the U.S. will have tablets by the end of 2012. So a better tablet format is clearly on WW’s agenda. You talk a lot about community. What are you doing to give back? Right now most of my attention is on this year’s Skidmore Prizes and Give!Guide. Tuesday night, Nov. 8, we celebrated four fabulous Portlanders under the age of 36 who work for local nonprofits. You can read more about them in this week’s lead story. We’re also publishing our eighth Give!Guide; a copy has been inserted in this week’s paper. This is our annual effort to support local nonprofits. The secret is that you can get great incentives in return for your donations. (See this year’s G!G for the list.) Last year we raised more than $1.16 million; this year, we’re shooting for at least $1.3 million. Greatest credit for the Give!Guide’s success, of course, goes to you, who have donated more than $3 million to this cause since its inception in 2004. Please give the 2011 Give!Guide a careful look, then go to wweek.com/giveguide and let your better angels have the run of your credit or debit card. Any closing words? Yes. I want to be sure you, as readers, understand our continuing debt to you. That is, as I try to remember to say every year in this space, you provide us with our reason for being. Your continued engagement gives us the wherewithal and the motivation to produce journalism that can improve this already remarkable community. Thank you for another year together,
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Last spring, Michael Halstead used $860 of his tax refund to invest in an increasingly popular way of buying vegetables: community-supported agriculture. He and his wife, Angela Carpenter, gave their money to Singer Hill Gardens LLC of Milwaukie, their first experience with a CSA, as these enterprises are called. Subscribers pay up front to help nearby small farmers with the cash they need for the growing season. In return, Singer Hill promised them a bounty of organic vegetables and sustainably raised meat and eggs in a weekly bucket. The couple who ran the CSA, Jessica and Jacob Dean, also promised subscribers they were part of something bigger. As they wrote in one email, “Your Urban Farmers/ On the Front Lines of the War for Food!” “We’re like most starry-eyed Portland people looking for a new, interesting way to help local businesses and feel like we’re a part of something important,” says Halstead, a 42-year-old stay-at-home dad from Northeast Portland. But Singer Hill Gardens didn’t deliver on its promises. The supply of produce stopped, Halstead and other subscribers never saw a refund, and the owners cut off communication with dozens of people who are out their money. The popularity of CSAs has exploded across the
country, but they’re especially celebrated in Portland as a way to keep food-buying local, local, local. And they’ve developed a good reputation, since the majority of farmers fulfill their promises. But as the CSA business grows quickly—there are more than 60 in the Portland area, up from 15 in 2000—investors face greater risk when they pay for a season’s worth of food up front. The Oregon Department of Justice is pursuing complaints against Singer Hill, but there’s little recourse for people who pay in advance for produce and end up with paltry weekly baskets—or see the delivery of vegetables and meat halt altogether. The Portland Area Community Supported Agriculture Coalition, a group of CSA farmers, says Singer Hill is only the second local CSA failure since 2004. But other operations have faced complaints that their bounty was sparse and buyers didn’t get everything that was promised. “We do need to be careful when we’re investing our money in a startup business,” says Steve Cohen, who heads up food policy and programs for the Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability. “When we see more young people getting into farming—which we need—who are untested, there are probably going to be individuals who aren’t going to make it.” But a good track record isn’t enough, as the Singer Hill case shows. Singer Hill first sold shares in its produce in 2009, led by Maureen “Mo” McKenna, who started the enterprise with the Deans and others. McKenna had significant experience, including a degree in sustainable agriculture from Warren Wilson College near Asheville, N.C., and as a crew
leader for a 1,400-subscriber CSA operation outside Madison, Wis. The CSA didn’t own its own land but farmed a number of backyards whose owners were paid in produce. McKenna says she was clocking 80 to 90 hours a week between the CSA and a second job. Singer Hill had become financially untenable for her. “I have a master’s degree and student loans,” she says. “I’d been trying to make this work for so long.” The Deans took over for the 2011 season and signed up about 120 subscribers. One was Cindy Anderson, a satisfied 2010 subscriber who renewed for $1,000 to get vegetables and shares of a new offering—eggs and cheese. “I had a certain expectation about how things were going to turn out,” says Anderson, a 45-year-old real-estate investor who lives in Colonial Heights. Anderson picked up her bucket at the Seven Corners New Seasons. The quantity of produce was small at first, but real signs of trouble appeared when Singer Hill gave vouchers for eggs, explaining that the hens were molting and half a flock had ended up as dinner for wild animals. Michael Halstead was also happy at first. “Things went south a few weeks into it,” he says. “If we hassled them, we got our eggs.” On July 11, Singer Hill sent an email explaining that Jessica Dean had been admitted to the hospital with pneumonia and asthma complications. The CSA also wrote that, after it dropped off food in weekly buckets, subscribers were taking eggs, meat and cheese that didn’t belong to them. In August, Singer Hill emailed members to say the CSA wouldn’t deliver produce that week—members had to drive to Milwaukie and pick up their shares. On Sept. 5, the Deans abruptly shut down Singer Hill, telling its members they should have known the risks when they bought into the CSA at the beginning of the season. “You, as a member, investing in CSA, are sharing the CONT. on page 11 Willamette Week NOVEMBER 9, 2011 wweek.com
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risk of producing food on a relatively micro, ecologicallyfriendly scale,” the email read. “If our crops are lost due to a wind storm or a failed water pump/hose, fungal disease etc. well, that’s it.” But the Deans’ email also acknowledged Singer Hill had simply run out of money, in part because members who hadn’t paid in full in advance quit paying after they became dissatisfied with the results. “Undoubtedly, we made amateurish errors in budgeting so tightly,” the Deans wrote. “We are so deeply sorry and regretful to be ending the season early, it is truly heartbreaking to us and has been one of the most difficult decisions we have ever had to make.” No subscriber WW contacted has received a refund, but WW identified the farm that was to provide subscribers meat: Inspiration Plantation in Ridgefield, Wash. Co-owner Matt Schwab still has about $1,000 the Deans paid as a deposit on chicken, lamb and pig they had planned to have butchered. Inspiration Plantation didn’t see its full payments, he says, and the relationship with Singer Hill “almost brought us under.” “I don’t think they were trying to be malicious,” Schwab says of the Deans. “I think they got in over their heads and made a series of bad decisions.” (Schwab says he’s willing to provide some food to Singer Hill investors who bought shares of meat. He says they should write him at inspirationplantation@gmail.com.) Strengthening the local food economy involves encouraging and supporting young new farmers. But running a CSA is an advanced level of farming that isn’t for beginners, says Erin Barnett, director of LocalHarvest.org, a website that helps promote CSAs, farmers markets and small family farms throughout the country. “To create a plan that you are going to plant in succession the right amount of food in the right variety to be
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harvestable on a schedule that provides a weekly basket that’s not too little or too much requires a high level of skill,” she says. Barnett estimates the country has about 6,000 CSA farms, up from an estimated 600 in 1996. Her organization hears from two to 10 CSAs a year that have run into trouble, although she says there are clearly more. She encourages people to understand the risks before they sign up with a CSA—and to weigh why they’re motivated to invest. If it’s largely to help support local agriculture, she says, consider investing in a new CSA. If
you’re investing the family food budget, research the local options and go with a farm that’s tried and true. Barnett says CSAs are seeing higher rates of turnover among their members compared with a few years ago. “There’s only so many people who are going to want the ‘I’ll take what you give me’ model of eating,” she says. “When CSAs offer more choice, I suspect retention rates will be higher.” Halstead isn’t going that route again. “I’m completely soured on the idea of CSAs,” he says. “We experienced the dark side of the equation.”
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Maybe money can’t buy you love—legally, anyway—but it helps when trying to sway voters. For much of the past decade, Oregon House Democrats have out-raised their Republican rivals by a 2-to-1 margin. This edge in cash helped Democrats retake the House in 2006 after a decade and a half in the minority. But this year, the advantage has flipped. Through the first week of November, Promote Oregon, the House GOP campaign, has raised about $354,000—twice as much as Democrats. The implications of this reversal are clear: House Democrats’ 34-26 hold slipped away last year. They spent $2.3 million only to lose six seats and end in a 30-30 split with the GOP. Any lost ground in raising money means Democrats face an even tougher battle to win back control of the House. “There’s no one out there who’s pushing the Democratic brand in this state,” says former state Rep. Nick Kahl (D-Portland). “That’s splashing on the House Democrats.” Melissa Unger, who in August took over as executive director of Future PAC, the House Democrats’ campaign, says bringing in big checks is tough. “Fundraising is different when the House is 30-30,” she says. Nick Smith, a spokesman for the House Republican caucus, says the shift in fundraising is noticeable. He cautions that it’s still early in the 2012 cycle—the election is a year away. “Gaining six seats shows we know how to win races,” Smith adds. “People are more pleased with a more balanced and more business-friendly legislature.” Across the Capitol, Senate D’s, with a 16-14 majority, are well ahead of the GOP in fundraising. But the House races are the most volatile— every one of the 60 seats is up—making races much more vulnerable to both voters’ moods and the amounts poured into campaigns. Control of the House is particularly important; new tax measures must originate there. Without control, Democrats’ desire to raise more
money for schools or social services is fantasy. Democrats have a statewide edge of 200,000 registered voters, but House D’s appear to be squandering their numerical advantage in a fashion only Red Sox fans could appreciate. Why has the Democrats’ cash flow dried up? Some donors have less money to spend. Others are still angry at Democrats for Measures 66 and 67, the income-tax increase voters approved in 2010 despite heavy opposition from businesses. House Democrats have also seen an exodus of caucus leaders and would-be leaders. House Speaker Jeff Merkley (D -Portland) and Rep. Greg Macpherson (D-Lake Oswego) left to seek higher office in 2008. Rep. David Edwards (D-Hillsboro), a rising star, bailed in 2010. Portland Reps. Mary Nolan, Ben Cannon and Jefferson Smith announced plans to leave, as have former Speaker Dave Hunt (D - Gladstone) and current co-Speaker Arnie Roblan (D-Coos Bay). So far, public employee unions, traditionally sympathetic to Democrats, are keeping their wallets closed until after the 2012 session scheduled for Feb. 1 until March 6. It’s a blackout period during which lawmakers cannot raise money. “I think a lot of big, institutional folks are waiting until after the session,” says Joe Baessler, statewide political director for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the third-largest public employees union. Arthur Towers, who heads the lobbying team for Service Employees International Union, traditionally one of the top donors to Democrats, says his public-employees union hasn’t given lawmakers any money in 2011. He says it will wait to do so after the 2012 session. He doesn’t see the low money totals for House D’s so far as a problem. “My sense,” Towers says, “is that Democratic money usually comes in late.” Year
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2011
$172,000
$354,000
2010
$2.03 million
$1.03 million
2009
$642,000
$294,000
2008
$2.3 million
$1.17 million
2007
$377,000
$254,000
Source: Oregon Secretary of State
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INTRODUCING FOUR PORTLANDERS WHO DO FABULOUS WORK FOR LOCAL NONPROFITS. You are about to meet a few special people. When Willamette Week decided to award prizes each year to Portlanders under the age of 36 who perform great service for local nonprofits, we named the award The Skidmore Prize. Why? At the west end of Old Town’s Ankeny Square sits Skidmore Fountain. In September of 1888, when the elegant, European-styled landmark was dedicated, Ankeny Square was pretty much Portland’s heart. On one side of the fountain are words full of hope and idealism for this place: “Good citizens,” reads C.E.S. Wood’s encomium, “are the riches of a city.” Portland knew then—and knows today—that personal commitment is the key to our community’s health, livability and vibrancy. This year all four Skidmore Prize winners—Stephen Marc Beaudoin of PHAME Academy, Jenn Cohen of the Circus Project, Ian Mouser of My Voice Music, and Temmecha Turner of Friends of the Children—thoroughly merit the “Good Citizen” label. They received their $4,000 prizes, each accompanied by a certificate, at a celebration at the Davis Street Tavern on Tuesday evening, Nov. 8. The Skidmore Prize Celebration also marks the kickoff of Willamette Week’s annual Give!Guide, copies of which are inserted in this week’s paper and can be read online at wweek.com/giveguide. As you’ll see from the profiles that follow, these four Portlanders build on the examples set by the 29 previous recipients of this honor. Special thanks are in order to Davis Wright Tremaine and OakTree Digital for financial support for the Skidmore Prizes, and to Integra Telecom for helping to fund the Skidmore Prize Celebration and Give!Guide Kickoff.
Photographs of this year’s Skidmore Prize winners were made possible by Focus on Youth, an 8-year-old local nonprofit that puts cameras in the hands of low-income, high-risk youth. Focus on Youth collaborates with professional photographers, schools and community organizations to develop projects that engage students’ imaginations and creativity while building their confidence and self-worth.
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Stephen Marc Beaudoin first heard the PHAME choir during a successful benefit concert he produced early last year. As its members enthusiastically belted out the lyrics to “Stand by Me,” he stood in the wings of the Aladdin Theater and—in awe of the choir’s pure joy and expressiveness—began to weep. Their harmonious voices “brought down the house,” Beaudoin recalls. He immediately thought to himself, “I’ve got to get involved with this organization!” Helping to raise $160,000 in Haiti relief funds wasn’t his only accomplishment that night. Beaudoin, 32, had found a new mission. Soon his life would revolve around the PHAME Academy of Fine Arts, a nonprofit organization in Northeast Portland that provides fine- and performing-arts education to adults with developmental disabilities. It’s not surprising that Beaudoin, a classically trained musician, was drawn to PHAME, which stands for Pacific Honored Artists, Musicians and Entertainers. He has an extensive background in the arts and in managing nonprofits. Less than a month before last year’s concert, on New Year’s Eve 2009, he promised himself he
would get involved with an organization that really meant something to him. He felt he had wandered off track after moving to Portland in 2005 and wanted to return to his roots. Beaudoin grew up in Independence, Mo., where his parents had a profound influence on him, he says. His father, Philip “Ross” Beaudoin, taught him the importance of helping others—he’s a Catholic deacon who’s been going on yearly missions to Mexico since the early 1980s and was often involved in local charities. Beaudoin’s mother, Renata Beaudoin, helped her son discover his love of music. He remembers singing from a Reader’s Digest songbook while she accompanied him on piano. Years later, after Beaudoin became PHAME’s executive director, his parents told him before he was born, they, too, had worked with the disabled to put on musicals while employed at a state school in Missouri. Reflecting on this, he says, “Nothing’s a coincidence in life.” After graduating from high school, Beaudoin studied at the New England Conservatory in Boston, and was later involved in a variety of performing arts-related nonprofits, such as the Fenway Alliance and the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus. Every Columbus Day, during the Fenway neighborhood’s cultural festival, museums and
HOW SKIDMORE PRIZE WINNERS ARE SELECTED This year’s committee consisted of two non-WWers—Phoebe Adams and David Martin—and three employees of this newspaper: Nick Johnson, Kendra Clune and Richard Meeker. Adams and Martin have long histories with both the Skidmore Prize and our Give!Guide. G!G Executive Director Brittany Cornett kept things on track. We started by reading all nominating forms and reference documents. We also conducted separate reference checks of our own, while making sure all nominees were under the age of 36 and were earning less than $35,000 a year at the time they were nominated. We then winnowed the impressive list of nominees to a group of eight, each of whom were interviewed for half an hour or so in Willamette Week’s offices. Then we made our decision. It was not easy, given the incredible contributions all the nominees make to the benefit of the Portland community.
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concert halls would open their doors to the public. He says it was during this time that he “started to see the value and the real specialness” of bringing the arts to those who otherwise might not have the means to access it. Beneath his charming sense of humor and warm smile, Beaudoin cares deeply about the needs of others. He never questions whether he has the time, energy or capacity: He simply asks if there is a need. It wasn’t a question after a catastrophic earthquake shook Haiti in January 2010, and it wasn’t a question when one hit Japan a year later, leading him to help raise an additional $220,000 for Mercy Corps when he produced another day of benefit concerts at the Aladdin. But Beaudoin isn’t just a fundraiser. He gives 10 percent of his salary back to PHAME and donates his time and money to other local nonprofits such as Basic Rights Oregon, the Cascade AIDS Project and Fear No Music. As fate would have it, Beaudoin brought his philanthropic heart and optimistic energy to PHAME at an opportune time. Not only was the recession taking its toll on the academy, but founder Carol Stady had recently retired. “His leadership has been phenomenal,” PHAME board member Ethan Dunham says. “Since Beaudoin arrived, he’s helped
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double PHAME’s revenue, created jobs that pay living wages, secured its first official office space and brought in a new, younger generation of donors. “He has a passion for the population that is extraordinary,” Dunham says. “He connects with the students very well.” Pat Hansen has been a student at PHAME since its inception in 1984. He says it’s “one of the special things” in his life, and that Beaudoin “knows how to work with the students.” “He’s got us doing a lot more theater stuff and more performance places for us to sing at,” Hansen says with a grin. Beaudoin is hard at work promoting “Sparkle! A Night to Shine with PHAME,” a Nov. 20 gala at the Tiffany Center he hopes will raise $100,000 for the academy. “What drives me,” he says, “is knowing that all the late nights, early mornings and weekends, and all the very gritty, unsexy cranking-out-the-sausage, behind-thescenes work...affect the lives of these individuals in a very profound way.” For many of the students, PHAME is their only creative outlet. Some take the bus all the way from Vancouver, Wash., and Oregon City to attend classes. As for Beaudoin’s Skidmore Prize money? He’s giving it all to PHAME, of course. A CITY’S RICHES CONT. on page 18
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point pursuing a degree in primatology, the scientific study of primates. To her family’s initial disappointment, Cohen found her love for circus was the one thing she couldn’t leave behind. “Many of the youth I work with are the first ones in their family to go to college,” she says. “But I had the opposite problem. I was the only one not to.” Cohen, 35, first discovered the power of circus at age 13 at a flying-trapeze program at Club Med in Florida. Six years later, she decided to pursue her dream and teamed up with Chinese acrobatics master Lu Yi. “I had no money, and he [spoke] very little English, so we were quite the combination,” she says. But with their powers combined, Cohen launched a successful career as an aerialist, and she was soon performing internationally in Berlin and Paris. “That was a time of great professional success, but I was extremely lonely and depressed—a combination that led to a breakdown or what I like to call a ‘breakthrough,’” she says. Cohen returned to the United States in late 1999 determined to find happiness. She began intensive therapy and devel-
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Jenn Cohen dangles like a human chandelier above the scuff-marked floor of the Friendly House gymnasium in Northwest Portland. She twists and turns in an aerial tangle of blue silks while Joesai Carr, a sweaty and dreadlocked 22-year-old, observes intently from below. Cohen lowers herself to the mat and hands the ropes to Carr, who scurries 10 feet in the air and nails the move he’s long been perfecting. Upside down and smiling, Carr looks to Cohen and receives a proud smile and a high-five. This is the Circus Project, the only preprofessional circus-training program in the country designed to meet the needs of homeless and at-risk youth. Cohen—the founder and artistic and executive director—works as many as 70 hours each week passing on her gift. Since 2008, Cohen’s Circus Project has produced 21 public performances before more than 10,000 people. But the most important work happens behind the scenes in drop-in classes, open-gym sessions and performance-troupe trainings at which the Circus Project serves up to 150 marginalized youth each year. “Jenn’s allowing us to share her dream,” says Charlotte Ives, a 21-year-old performance-troupe member who lives at an Outside In housing facility. “Taking me in is kind of like taking in a pit bull. Jenn had no idea of who I was before working with me.” It’s no coincidence that stories of Circus Project youth echo Cohen’s own experiences as a young adult. “I felt completely out of place growing up, and circus saved me,” she says. Raised in a Chicago suburb, Cohen was eager to leave her community and graduated from high school in three years. In the next 18 months, she attended three colleges in different states and was at one
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with were severely at-risk, and I wanted to help them.” To do so, Cohen realized she needed more education in therapy. So, at 29, she went back to school to earn an undergraduate degree and a master’s in process work from Portland State University. She worked closely with professors who helped her rediscover what she calls her “sen-
“WE DO SHOWS THAT PEOPLE WANT TO SEE, AND THEN AFTERWARD THEY SAY, ‘WHAT? THOSE KIDS ARE HOMELESS?’ NOW, THAT IS THE MAGIC OF CIRCUS.”—JENN COHEN oped a passion for “process work,” a type of therapy that blends spiritual practices with Jungian psychology. Revitalized and inspired, she returned to circus once more—this time directing several youth at the San Francisco Circus Center. Thanks to Cohen’s assistance, their circus act earned national recognition. “That was the experience that sparked my interest in working with marginalized youth,” she says. “A lot of the kids I worked
sual relationship with the wind.” In 2008, Cohen brought her dreams to life through an 80-page thesis, “The Circus Project: Applying Process Work Techniques to Circus & Theatre Arts with At-Risk Youth.” As the title implies, Cohen’s involvement with the Circus Project has been nothing short of a process—ripe with struggle and success. “I was headed toward personal bankruptcy,” she says. “There were several
times when I thought we’d have to close our doors in a month.” But thanks to a thick Rolodex and several well-timed grants, Cohen has watched the Circus Project—and with it, dozens of homeless youth—thrive. “People are finally understanding that circus is a viable method of working with at-risk youth,” she says. For the youth, the power of the circus speaks for itself. “We’ve all made some sort of steps since being here,” says Taylor Coghill, the youngest member of the Circus Project’s performance troupe, “whether it’s finding an apartment or a job or getting sober or all of those things. It’s not like Jenn sat us down and taught us job skills, but she’s given us the space and support to make it on our own.” But Cohen says it’s not enough for the Circus Project to be a feel-good thing: “We do shows that people want to go see, and then afterward they say, ‘What? Those kids are homeless?’ Now, that is the magic of circus.”
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You’d have a difficult time imagining Ian Mouser shaving crosses into his hair in high school. Especially today, as the 32-year-old, now with shoulder-length locks, gathers a small group of preteens in a circle at the Vintage Ballroom in North Portland. He’s prepping them for a rendition of The Beatles’ “Let It Be,” complete with bucket drums and acoustic guitars— one of many roles Mouser’s nonprofit, My Voice Music, has come to fill since its founding in 2008. A self-described “scrapper from a poor family in Southern Oregon,” Mouser calls his mother the same. During his childhood, he found music by way of her encouragement. “She was always like, ‘Go take your trumpet up onto a mountaintop and just play from the heart.’ I mean, it was crazy,” he says. From third grade until about his sophomore year in high school, Mouser was somewhat content playing his music in the woods, where he lived with his mother, stepfather and three sisters. “No electricity, no generator—it was pretty sweet.” While he enjoyed being in the woods in Williams, other parts of his environment were less desirable. After his mother divorced his father, whom he describes as a “druggie,” she got remarried—to an ultraconservative Christian. Mouser’s grades suffered, and at school he was viewed as a troubled kid. Between flunking out of classes, being in anger-management groups and getting into fights at school, he discovered Wilderness Trails, a faith-based camping group run out of Medford, when he was 12. “It was like the first time I was able to be seen for being a good kid,” he says. Faith became a part of his life, but he describes it more as simply finding love “without any of the other stuff around it.” At 17, Mouser picked up the guitar. What he had previously found in faith, he
discovered again in instruments. But music wasn’t the only thing that led Mouser away from faith. When he had the choice to go to either Hidden Valley High School or Rogue River High School, he figured Rogue River sounded like a place that needed saving. “I thought I’d be a missionary,” he says, laughing. Once he started volunteering and getting involved in his new community, however, Mouser says he saw for the first time a group of non-Christians serving others. “I was like, ‘Oh, I thought only Christians could be good Christians,’” he says. By the time he was 19, after talking to more classmates, he decided he “wanted nothing to do with God…so, it was kind of a choice.” Between high school and college—originally at Western Oregon University and then a year at Lane Community College— Mouser found work, first at a slaughterhouse, then a rock quarry. “My first day on the [slaughterhouse] job, this guy comes up and has a cow eye in his hand and says, ‘Here’s lookin’ at you, kid,’” he recalls. “I knew it was not my cup of tea.” After a bad breakup with a girlfriend and finding another guy who had experienced a bad breakup, Mouser decided the logical thing to do was to form a band. Calling themselves American Hit List, Mouser and his bandmate moved to Portland, got a record contract and toured the Pacific Northwest from 2006 to 2009. While in the band, he kept working— holding down three jobs at one point. That’s when another friend, who worked with kids in a mental health center, suggested Mouser do the same. “I’d worked with kids forever...so it just seemed like a really good fit,” he says. He began working at Albertina Kerr in 2003, and had jobs across the board, from treatment counselor to psychiatric technician to music teacher. Mouser enjoyed the work but didn’t enjoy being in charge of kids. One day, he decided to bring his guitar. He says mornings were the hardest, trying to get 10- to
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12-year-old boys out of bed, but when they heard him playing music, they slowly came out of their rooms and sat, fascinated, watching him play. “They were just boys, without their guards up, and that was the first time I’d seen them like that,” he says. “Music does that. It transforms just any weird-ass space into magic.” After a lack of funding prevented him from continuing his music program at Albertina Kerr, he began teaching private music lessons, which led to him teaching a different kind of student. “My heart is for disadvantaged youth that would never really get this opportunity,” he says, “and I was working with rich kids.” Ironically, it was a private-school student who led to the founding of his organization. In 2008, her parents donated an SUV to Mouser and said, “Form a nonprofit, and give us the tax receipt.” My Voice Music worked with about 90 kids that year; this year, it’s working with 500. Since 2008, Mouser has accumulated a wide variety of instruments, which he keeps in his basement studio and garage. Keyboards, guitars, a mandolin and a variety of computers have all been donated to
him help provide resources for the kids. The two most important tenets of My Voice Music, he says, are to “provide fun in the midst of a challenging, lame-ass time in your life,” and also to give kids a place where they can develop personally through music. My Voice Music recently released its first compilation album. In addition to 27 tracks of material written and performed by students, it features introductions to each song by the likes of local mystery writer Chelsea Cain and Portland Mayor Sam Adams. Mouser plans to give his Skidmore Prize check to My Voice Music with hopes that other organizations will match his donation. His biggest goal is to acquire a permanent space for rehearsal and meetings. “We have a motto, which is: Believe. Create. Give,” Mouser says. “Believe in yourself enough to create something that means enough to give back.” A CITY’S RICHES CONT. on page 21
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Temmecha Turner likens her management of time to solving a Rubik’s Cube. She makes everything fit, but it takes a little effort. The 31-year-old Portland native is a mentor to eight girls at the nonprofit organization Friends of the Children. The girls live all across the Portland/Southwest Washington area and attend schools in six districts. Turner travels a lot. Khaleeah is one of the eight girls. She’s in the fourth grade. Friday is her day with Turner. It has been that way for two years. Before that, it was Tuesday. The depth of their relationship is immediately apparent. Khaleeah looks at her mentor with pride and respect. Laughter and hugs abound. The presence of love is obvious. In many ways, Turner was born to be a mentor. Throughout her childhood, she faced challenges similar to the youth at Friends of the Children. “She...experienced the meaning of a troubled home and foster care,” says Gloria Fluker, Turner’s supervisor when she worked for Self Enhancement Inc., in North Portland. “However, she also experienced a caring, nurturing and consistent relationship with an adult. This nurturing experience helped her change her view of the world, and she made a decision to replicate the experience for children and
families through her mentoring.” Turner was the first person in her family to go to college. Now, while working full time and raising a daughter, she’s enrolled in graduate school. There’s a fierce drive in her, that much is clear. Her girls need only look to her for a guide to success. Turner attributes her success to those caring teachers, grandparents, and college and community advisers who were her rock as she grew up. “Having someone show you that type of support really does make a difference,” she says —especially when that support has longevity, as it did in her life and does in the lives of the children she mentors through FOTC. Research shows the most important influence on a child’s resilience and future success is a consistent and nurturing relationship with an adult. At-risk, vulnerable youth benefit extraordinarily from a relationship with a mentor. Friends of the Children’s mentors dedicate a remarkable 12 years to each child. FOTC children are selected for the program when they begin school and continue with a mentor (changing mentors up to three times) until they graduate from high school. The full-time, paid mentors provide a stable and sustained relationship for children who face enormous obstacles to success. The organization guarantees four hours with a mentor each week to every child, with no summer break, spanning kindergarten to graduation. So Khaleeah reads with Turner,
HOW TO MAKE A NOMINATION FOR THE 2012 SKIDMORE PRIZE It’s never too early to start thinking about next year. If you know someone who is 35 or younger and does amazing work for a Portland-area nonprofit, you’ve got a candidate for next year’s Skidmore Prize. The only other requirement is that your prospective nominee earn less than $35,000 a year and not be a volunteer. Next July, WW and wweek.com will be full of announcements inviting you to nominate your candidate for a 2012 Skidmore Prize. The nomination process is open all month and easy: Just go to wweek.com/skidmoreprize and fill out the handy form. We’ll then contact the nominee for further information and references. Our rules also allow candidates to nominate themselves.
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who points out mistakes and checks for comprehension. Turner also rides bikes with Khaleeah and the girl’s mother. Successful timber investor Duncan Campbell founded FOTC in 1993. Having been raised in a troubled Portland home with alcoholic parents, he promised himself that if he ever had the means, he would help other troubled children succeed. To date, more than 1,300 have been aided by FOTC’s national organization, which has chapters in Portland, Boston, New York, Seattle, and Klamath Falls and Sisters. Friends of the Children has three longterm goals for participants: achieve success in school, and avoid the juvenile justice system and teen parenting. The mentors set specific goals and work with the children to achieve them. “It is so rewarding to see their healthy choices pay off for them and give them positive results,” Turner says. “This taste of success has a ripple effect that will teach them more lessons than I ever could.” When Khaleeah reaches sixth grade, she will become a “teen” at Friends of the Children, allowing her to go on fun outings each Friday and hang out in the “teen area” of the basement, which is filled with games, couches and computers. Khaleeah says she wants to skip fifth grade and go straight to sixth, to the good stuff. But Turner reminds her that they are working to “build a strong
foundation.” After they’ve laid that framework, the fun can begin. Turner’s commitment to working for nonprofits is clear. In high school, she worked as a peer mentor, and was an academic tutor at Oregon State University. After graduating with a degree in philosophy and ethics, she returned to Roosevelt High School to provide student advocacy and support in the Open Meadow Step Up program. She’s also worked as a mentor for Sisters Reflecting Beauty, and taught at a school operated by Metropolitan Family Services. Her extensive, well-rounded experience illustrates her dedication to mentoring youth and to the nonprofit sector. “Even after a difficult day, the next day she was always ready and willing to start again,” says Michael Navarro, her former supervisor at Open Meadow. “Temmecha never backed down from a challenge at work.... She truly believes that all students are capable and able.” In five years, Turner wants to be in an executive role, teaching and helping others to understand how to mentor young people effectively. She would like to host workshops to share the skills she’s learned, including offering advice on how to effectively manage a Rubik’s Cube-like schedule.
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NEW MATERIAL: When Portland’s Run On Sentence hits the Doug Fir stage this Sunday, frontman Dustin Hamman will have a great story to tell about his time in New York City. On Oct. 23, the local songwriter found himself at the Occupy Wall Street protest, performing Madonna’s “Material Girl” with Sean Lennon and Rufus Wainwright. After a discussion with filmmaker Josh Fox, Hamman says “they all [came] over to my cousin’s apartment and we all ran through the song one quick time.” Video at wweek.com. MOVING MONEY: A group of notable Portland musicians— Sam Coomes, Rachel Blumberg, Lisa Schonberg and Neal Morgan—are pushing members of the local music community to stop using big banks. They’ve set up moveyourmoneyportland.com, where you can sign a public pledge to switch to a local bank or credit union. Doug Fir, Mississippi Studios and artists including Colin Meloy and Hutch Harris have already signed. While Occupy-minded activists celebrated National Transfer Day last Saturday, Nov. 5, this ensemble says it will continue its work indefinitely. “We’re not the first people to do this, but the idea was that if we just reach out to who we know, get them to move—maybe that’s a replicable model,” Morgan says. “Maybe the visual artists do that in Portland, maybe the poets do that in Portland. And we’re going to put some of the larger businesses in Portland on notice—we’re going to come knocking.” FRESHLY ROASTED: In last week’s Scoop, we erroneously reported that Ristretto Roasters would be opening a new coffee bar at 2121 NW Nicolai St. The correct address is 2181 NW Nicolai St. Incidentally, we also had the opportunity to tour the building (full disclosure: owner Din Johnson’s wife, Nancy Rommelman, is a former WW writer) last week, and it’s really something. Fancy vintage lighting company Schoolhouse Electric (which appears to be moving into other fancy furnishings) has taken over several floors for manufacturing, offices and a huge ground-floor showroom, while letterpress company Egg Press has moved into another level. The tenants seem hopeful that the obscure location will become a destination for creative types on the west side.
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STARE WAY TO HEAVEN? Meet Braco, the Croatian gaze healer.
This is Braco. He stares. He may be the solution to your healthcare needs. Braco (pronounced BRAHT-zo) is a man from Zagreb, Croatia, who travels the world to perform gazing sessions. This Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 12 and 13, he is holding 18 gazing sessions at the Portland Sheraton Airport Hotel. The agenda of a gazing session is very simple. Braco gazes at people. “It’s like this silent gaze that goes on for seven minutes,” says Laurie Day, who called WW to tell us about Braco. Please do not misunderstand. Braco makes no extravagant claims. “While Braco doesn’t call himself a healer, hundreds of thousands around the world do,” says the website bracoamerica.com. “We invite you to read and discover cases of chronic pain and cancers vanishing, clarity and purpose being restored, and remarkable transformations bursting forth achieved not just by gazing with Braco in person, and Braco’s Skype or Braco’s live streaming sessions, but also by simply hearing a recording of Braco’s voice.” Yes, Braco Skypes. Braco does not, however, talk to the media. So we cannot tell you what it is like to have him stare at you. But we can tell you that a ticket to a gazing session is $8. Attending all nine sessions a day is $72. A visit to Zoomcare is $99. Do the math. While a bargain for the uninsured, Braco is not a family practitioner. “Each participant must be at least 18 years old,” organizers say on bracoamerica.com, “and no pregnant women beyond their first trimester may attend a gazing session due to the intensity of the energy.” AARON MESH. BE SEEN BY IT: Braco holds gazing sessions Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 12-13, at the Portland Sheraton Airport Hotel, 8235 NE Airport Way, 281-2500. Sessions hourly 10 am-6 pm. $8-$72.
WEDNESDAY NOV. 9 [COMEDY] HARI KONDABOLU Seattle comedian Kondabolu takes a long, hard look at the peculiar excesses of contemporary, white city culture—vegan soul food, concertgoers in feathered headdresses and the homeless guy begging for Vitaminwater—and artfully dismantles them. The Woods, 6637 SE Milwaukie Ave., 890-0408. 8 pm. $10-$12. 21+. [MUSIC] GWAR You thought that losing a guitarist—Cory “Flattus Maximus” Smoot died on tour last Thursday—would stop the bloody, pussy, disgusting live abomination that is GWAR? You were wrong. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $19.50 - $23. All ages.
THURSDAY NOV. 10 [PARODY] CHAD CHATS Whitney Streed, Virginia Jones, Christian Ricketts and other funny Portlanders perform satirical presentations in the style of those infuriatingly twee TED nano-lectures on subjects such as “Ending World Hunger Through Facebook Postings” and “Lincoln, Pants and Why Your Cat Is Incapable of Love.” This mockery is long overdue. Saratoga, 6910 N Interstate Ave., 719-5924. 8 pm. Free. 21+.
FRIDAY NOV. 11 [THEATER] MR. DARCY DREAMBOAT Camille Cettina premieres her solo performance about the power of reading. A sort of guided tour through one woman’s experience of English literature, the show combines physical theater and book-madness in a way that should be catnip for Portland audiences. Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, 5340 N Interstate Ave., ethos.org. 8 pm Friday-Saturday and 2 pm Sunday, Nov. 11-13; 8 pm Wednesday-Saturday and 2 pm Sunday, Nov. 16-20. $16.
SUNDAY NOV. 13 [MOVIES] SAVING PELICAN 895 The star of Portland director Irene Taylor Brodsky’s latest work, a 40-minute HBO documentary, is not a person at all—it’s a gawky young brown pelican covered in petroleum from last year’s BP oil spill. The NW Film Center gives the bird an encore at its Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival. Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Ave, 221-1156. 1 pm. $6-$9.
TUESDAY NOV. 15 [BEER] DESCHUTES ABYSS RELEASE PARTY The Abyss, a pitch black Imperial Russian Stout that’s thick as mud and 11 percent ABV, is arguably the Northwest’s most sought-after seasonal beer. Buy your bottles while the rest of the country waits patiently. Deschutes Brewery & Public House, NW 11th Ave., 296-4906. 11 am-10 pm. 21+. Willamette Week NOVEMBER 9, 2011 wweek.com
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Cooking With Root Vegetables
The glory of root vegetables is sometimes, well, buried. Not at Portland’s kitchen and garden shop Livingscape, which is hosting a cooking class dedicated to the mysterious soil-dwelling foodstuffs. The evening includes making a hash with poached eggs and a pot pie with sweet potatoes and butternut squash. Livingscape Nursery, 3926 N Vancouver Ave., 248-0104. 6:30-8:30 pm. $25.
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THURSDAY, NOV. 10 Taste of Thanksgiving at Whole Foods
Whole Foods Market hosts its annual Taste of Thanksgiving event at all Portland locations. Sample local wine and beer, learn holiday cooking tips (foil on the drumsticks, or no?) and donate to participating charities. 5-8 pm. $10 suggested donation or two cans of food.
FRIDAY, NOV. 11 Noble Rot’s 11-11-11 event
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Taking advantage of the abounding public-relations opportunities presented by a numerical curiosity, Noble Rot celebrates Nov. 11, 2011, from 11:11 am to 11:11 pm with a day of specials. The restaurant is entitled to such frivolity since its address is full of 11’s (1111 E Burnside St.). Meal deals include a burger and bourbon, salad, mac-and-cheese and a brownie bouchon, and others for— yep, you guessed it—$11.11. Noble Rot, 1111 E Burnside St., 233-1999. Reservations recommended.
Chitlin Festival
Po’shines soul-food cafe pushes Portland’s passion for pig to its pungent edge with its annual Chitlin Feed. The two-day party features the Southern staple— chitterlings are intestines, it’s worth mentioning—fried, boiled and otherwise rendered fit for consumption. MARTIN CIZMAR. Po’Shines Cafe De La Soul, 8139 N Denver Ave., 978-9000. All day Friday and Saturday.
MONDAY, NOV. 14 A few months back, Peter Bro, the man behind Scandinavian brunch joint Broder, launched a new site for Portland hospitality jobs called Poached (geddit?) as an alternative to the brainfart that is Craigslist. Now he’s officially launching the site with a party and job fair at Spirit of 77. Poached claims hiring managers from “top-tier restaurants” will be there sniffing for fresh blood, and is expecting around 300 potential servers, bartenders and chefs to vye for their attention. RUTH BROWN. Spirit of 77, 500 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 232-9977. 6 pm-8 pm.
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YOYO & LEFTY’S “I’m YoYo,” shrugs the soft-spoken man at the window of the blueand-white food cart. “He’s Lefty.” He jerks his head back toward the grill, where a second man carefully constructs gyros the size of a Chihuahua. Both men’s real names are multi-syllabic Greek tongue twisters. Both used to work at Berbati’s. Now they make some of the best Greek grub in town at their cart, from tender pork souvlaki skewers ($5) and big Greek salads heavy on the oregano and olives with pits to sticky triangles of cinnamony baklava ($2). Those habit-forming gyros start as big rounds of charred Alexis Order this: YoYo’s Special ($8) and a “sundae” of tangy Greek yogurt pita stuffed with everything and candied walnuts drizzled with from crazy-juicy lamb, spicy honey ($3). french fries, feta and garlicky Best deal: A big mound of Greek fries with zingy tzatziki sauce ($3). tzatziki (YoYo’s Special, $8) to what amounts to an entire bacon cheeseburger (Lefty’s Special, $7), big hunks of pork or even a chicken Caesar salad (around $7). The front of the cart is plastered with full-color pin-ups of the eats, so you can drool while you wait—and you will wait. “Don’t be a malaka,” confirms a sign posted next to the menu. “Good food takes time.” Upon request, Lefty will tell you what a malaka is—with the accompanying hand motion. KELLY CLARKE. EAT: Located at the food-cart pod at Southwest 3rd Avenue and Stark Street, 705-1001. 11 am-6 pm Sunday-Thursday, 11 am-6 pm and 8:30 pm-4 am Friday-Saturday. $.
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GREEK TO THEM: Lefty (right) and Yoyo discourage malaka-ness.
Wanna shoot something and eat it? Serratto’s executive chef, Tony Meyers, partners with Portland cooking school In Good Taste to host a “Game for Entertaining” class, for cooking game meats and accompanying side dishes. Learn how to prepare elk, quail and venison. Firearms safety training and shooting lessons are not part of the program. In Good Taste, 231 NW 11th Ave., 248-2015. 6 pm. $95.
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DUNKELWEIZEN (OCCIDENTAL BREWING CO.) Traditional Germanic brews are often ignored by American craftsmen who might rightfully resent the fact that “beer” is synonymous with Bohemian pilsners in red states. By making only German styles—Hefe, Kölsch, Alt, Dunkel—North Portland’s Occidental Brewing Co. is squeezing into a thistly niche. Any newish brewery not attempting an unbalanced Tripel with an irritatingly punny name is worth a sip or two, and Occidental heartily rewards. Its fall seasonal, a dark wheat Dunkelweizen called (get this!) “Dunkelweizen” manages to be both refreshing and complex. It’s a mature and bready brew, headlined by bananas that have gone spotty, ready to unpeel themselves at the slightest touch, and red apples that have surrendered their crispness. It’s a round, relatively dry wheat beer with rich flavors but without loud esters. Poured into a tall, thin 12-ounce glass that could pass for a stange at BeerMongers, it’s surreptitiously contrarian and cheerfully traditional. Recommended. MARTIN CIZMAR.
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GONE FISHIN’: A plate of herb-crusted, rare ahi tuna at RingSide Fish House.
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tender redness from fringe to fringe and no hint of the raw. Equally thick scallops are cooked to a satisfying, unrubbery firmness. Trout swoons under crisped skin. The filets provide most of their own flavor, so the execution and selection BY M AT T H E W KO R F H AGE 243-2122 here are all but impossible to fake; this kitchen knows its way around a cut. The shellfish were fresh and diverse, feaThe RingSide Fish House, perched on the mezzanine of the theater district’s Fox Tower, is the turing an excellent, eight-variety selection of first addition to Portland’s staid RingSide steak Pacific Coast oysters ($2.50 to $3.50 each), but empire in three decades. Nonetheless, it remains accompanied by a forgettable, somewhat cloyvery much in the vein of the original. Like an old- ing Champagne mignonette. Diners get none school father’s den or pool-tabled rec room, it is of the subtle pear or apple flavors one finds at, designed to be deeply soothing—congratulatory, say, Paley’s Place. Rubbery surf clams were also an unfortunate substitution for the just out-ofeven—to the alpha male id. The wood is burnished, the booths deep, the season clams on the small seafood platter ($25). The Fish House does also occasionally stumwalls an unassuming beige. The muted fluorescent ble with garnishes. The aforelight displays of Portland’s mentioned succulent scallops modernist Director Park— Order this: The menu changes, but if it ($27) were served on a bed of which dominate the restau- was once an animal—whether walking, or aswim—it’ll be your oyster. lentil, carrot reduction and rant’s second-story picture seabedded Also, get the oysters. red wine gastrique that never windows—subtly simulate Best deal: The bar happy hour is cheapmanaged to blend into coherthe ghostly, flickering reds est, but the true deal is the $35 threespecial, served before 5:45 pm ent flavor or texture. And and blues of an always-on course and after 9 pm. while a lobster soup ($9) was television. Vintage nautical I’ll pass: Surf clams. Tuna tartare (try beautifully subtle with just pictures adorn the restau- the one at Kin instead). And eat those a hint of lemon and chive, rant’s walls, while the lounge oysters sans sauce. an ahi tuna tartare ($12) was sports a mammoth, trophied whale jaw, a none-too-subtle sign that this is a marred by too much brightly acidic onion. Dessert-side, the dulce de leche underplace where mad Ahab actually gets his prey. The restaurant was House Speaker John Boehner’s whelmed but the fruit desserts were stellar, in particular a fresh-pear ice cream that improbably choice during his last stopover in Portland. The overall effect is of landed, domestic, not only mimicked the slightly granular texture heavy-on-the-seat luxury—the preferred style of of pear, but had also somehow refined the flavor both Washington, D.C., and the country’s various of the fruit into near-numbing intensities. For the budget-conscious, the bar’s happyupscale provinces. It is money with which one can sit comfortably. So, even given its excellent hour prices—small plates range from $2.25 to sourcing (the menu rotates both daily and sea- $4.75—stay south of the menu’s other heights, sonally) and the obvious delicacy of preparation, although portions and in some cases ingredients the cuisine is aimed more at the palate of Terre follow the course. Truly, the restaurant is recomHaute than that of the haute; the byword is not so mended much less as a cocktail hangout than as much innovation or novelty as it is comfort and an upper-middle-class throne room, power-meal execution and a simple sense of being spoiled, luxe with wine and whiskey and filet of somerecession be damned. Heck, the menu even thing, excess flexing its marbled muscles. sports a ’70s-style filet mignon surf ’n’ turf ($52). When it comes to the meat, RingSide does GO: RingSide Fish House, 838 SW Park Ave., 227-3900, ringsidefishhouse.com. Lunch 11:30 consistently well what other kitchens mundane- am-2:30 pm Monday-Friday. Dinner 5-10 pm ly struggle to achieve. Cuts of rare steak nearly Monday-Thursday, 5-11 pm Friday-Saturday, two inches thick are served warm, with uniform 4-10 pm Sunday. $$$$.
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Monday, November 21
History Talk: “Politics and Crime in Portland: Drug Enforcement in the 1980s”
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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9 Lights, Rubik
[ELECTRONICA FOR POP LOVERS] Canadian hottie Lights personifies synth pop on her second fulllength album, Siberia. When the synths are generous and the bass is heavy, her songs sound like a fusion of Bassnectar and Britney Spears. But when there’s not enough of either, the young Valerie Anne Poxleitner’s airy voice makes her sound like a glorified New Age singer-songwriter in the vein of Michelle Branch or Vanessa Carlton. This second effort is a significant improvement over her excessively saccharine 2009 debut, The Listening. Hopefully, Lights will continue to tweak its synth-pop sound, preferably with a bit more trippy electronica and less pop sparkle. MAGGIE SUMMERS. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show.
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GWAR, Every Time I Die, Warbeast, Ghoul
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[COSTUMED METAL] Characters in the GWAR meta-verse die onstage every night, only to be resurrected at the next gig. But on Nov. 3, guitarist Cory Smoot was found dead in his bunk on the tour bus. Cause of death remains unknown, but it’s a tragic loss for any
band to lose a friend and longtime collaborator. Smoot first saw the band at age 14 before eventually assuming the role of the character Flattus Maximus. He was 34 and happily married when he passed last week. Out of respect, the character Flattus Maximus is now being permanently retired. Despite the loss, GWAR is championing on with this tour. Come pay your respects to one of the most irreverent bands in history. Smoot’s spirit, clad in latex, will be looking on from beyond. NATHAN CARSON. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $19.50-$23. All ages.
THURSDAY, NOV. 10 Rickie Lee Jones
[REBEL GIRL] Confounding those Americans who well remember the rarefied heights of cultural ubiquity Rickie Lee Jones ascended during that annus mirabilis of 1978 (Best New Artist Grammy, NYT plaudits as “Duchess of Coolsville,” show-stopping SNL stint, relationship with Tom Waits—only one of these honors aging particularly well), the Tacoma native admits to spending the past few years raising her daughter in relative anonymity around the outskirts of Olympia, last touring to support 2009’s dullish but starstudded collection Balm in Gilead. If our younger listeners are at all familiar with her work, it’s probably because of that album’s respects paid by Alison Krauss or Ben Harper or rather
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TOP FIVE MIDDLE STATES 5. Texas On the merit of some very good friends that live there, Texas comes in at No. 5 for me…and what’s not to like about Austin? Texas has many flaws. Its state flag sums it up: the American flag, minus all the other states. 4. Colorado There’s a lot to love about Colorado. Denver is a cool town. The scenery is diverse and beautiful. The people are warm and friendly. It’s a great place to cross-train. Mostly, I love playing the Hi-Dive. 3. Wisconsin Bravo Madison! Bravo Wisconsin! Thank you for showing the rest of the country that demonstrations are not dead. Most of the time it’s just money doing the talking. It’s nice to see people doing it for a change. 2. Oregon You read that right. Oregon is a middle state. If you don’t think so, ask anyone from California or Washington. I visited Portland many times in my youth, and now that I have been touring for 12 years or so, I have become very well acquainted with Portland and the rest of the state as well. A truly beautiful state. Everyone living here has a reason to be proud. 1. Kansas I know what you’re thinking: I picked Kansas as my top state because it’s my state. You’re partially right. It is because I know this state better than any other. Kansas is flat, and the weather is extreme, and it shares one thing with every other middle state: invisibility. Which is great if you like to surprise people. SEE IT: The Appleseed Cast (touring behind its great new EP, Middle States) plays Doug Fir Lounge on Saturday, Nov. 12. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
STRIKE UP THE BAND JOHN WESLEY HARDING WAS A FRIEND TO THE PORTLANDERS. BY JEFF R OSEN B ER G
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John Wesley Harding and the Decemberists’ Jenny Conlee are trading a Chuck Berry-style do-si-do. No, not the duck walk, but that other thing Chuck does—bent at the knee and pointing one foot out while hopping forward on the other. It’s a giddy moment at a private, pre-tour appearance that reflects the spirit of friendship pervading Harding’s new album, The Sound of His Own Voice. John Wesley Harding’s brief tour is a natural outgrowth of what was by all accounts a breezy recording process for his new album, which took place in a little over a week last November in Portland. Tracked mostly live at Type Foundry studios by Adam Selzer, the disc was co-produced by Harding and the Minus 5’s Scott McCaughey, and its band—a sextet puckishly dubbed the King Charles Trio by Harding—includes such longtime companions of Harding’s as McCaughey and (might I be the first to label him such?) ex-REM guitarist Peter Buck. Another old amigo and Stumptowndweller, Los Lobos sax man Steve Berlin, honks on the disc as well. The balance of the band comprises the sans-Meloy Decemberists, more recent pals of Harding’s. “In 23 years of making music,” Harding says, “I have never [before] taken the same band on tour that I made an album with.” “Wes,” as he’s known (his given name is Wesley Stace), has never dwelled in Portland; he skipped over us on what he calls his “circuitous route around America,” having stopped in Atlanta, L.A., San Francisco, Seattle, Brooklyn and Philadelphia, where he currently lives with his wife and two children. (Should they leave, he says, “my next move is probably to fuck off home” to his native England.) Nonetheless, he has forged a tight Portland bond. The streamlined album sessions connected the songwriter to an simple recording approach. “You get used to making albums in this modern age with Pro Tools,” he says. “Adding a bit here and there, and thinking about it…. But what I forgot is that when you make a record with a band, and they’ve
arranged the songs and are playing them really well, there’s little overdubbing that actually needs to be done.” Harding is an exemplar of the Artist as Record Store Geek (as are certain other King Charles Trio members), and despite its title, The Sound of His Own Voice is replete with guileless references to the sounds of the Kinks, Phil Spector, Bowie, Julian Cope and even Gilbert O’Fucking Sullivan. But Harding’s good nature and the Trio’s sure-handed performance assure the work its own identity. Coming off like some mooted BBC sitcom’s theme song, “Uncle Dad,” a wry tale of post-divorce family politics, is most redolent of a Ray Daviesstyle, echt-Brit knees-up. Harding readily confesses the debt: “Whenever I tackle domestic stuff,” he says, “I think in a Kinks-y way, and those songs come with their own kind of English music-hall shuffle that’s second nature to me.” The album’s closer, the inoffensively philosophical “The World in Song,” conjures a Spectorian soundscape à la George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass. Like a thumbnail version of The Tree of Life, its two verses and chorus span the cosmic (“[T]he stars they sang a melody/ And breathed life into you and me”) to the cozily domestic (“I woke up feeling good/ And you look so beautiful asleep”). The collection’s centerpiece is Harding’s adaptation of John Whitworth’s poem, “The Examiners,” which evokes a huge influence. “I love Leonard Cohen,” says Harding, “and I’ve always wanted to intone a song in that meaningful and heavy—but hilarious—way that he does it. And I simply think that I couldn’t do it because I’ve never felt confident enough about one of my lyrics to do that.” Perhaps it’s Harding’s latest batch of songs, written in the year since the album was made, that will approach that lofty level. Producer McCaughey calls them “the biggest evolution in Wes’s songwriting, [songs] that veer away from technical wordsmithery to a very personal, autobiographical perspective.” With a little help from his Portland friends, then, Harding seems to be growing ever closer to the true sound of his own voice. SEE IT: John Wesley Harding and the King Charles Trio play the Aladdin Theater on Friday, Nov. 11, with the Minus 5. 8 pm. $17.50. 21+. Willamette Week NOVEMBER 9, 2011 wweek.com
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THURSDAY-FRIDAY more approachable AAA entity. Otherwise, save her turn-of-thecentury lawsuit against the Orb for unauthorized spoken-word samples ’midst epochal chill-out room staple “Little Fluffy Clouds” or a continual misidentification as relative of Tommy Lee Jones, her legacy has essentially disappeared alongside the record labels that went to war bidding up the singer-songwriter’s peculiar Annie Hall-as-Blossom-galpal aesthetic and the Venice Beach jazz-dive circuit that enabled her supra distinct delivery and unhurried confidence. JAY HORTON. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $35 (Minors must be accompanied by a parent).
Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Gauntlet Hair
[ENIGMATIC FUNK] Early in its inception, Portland’s Unknown Mortal Orchestra was truly a bit of a mystery. When it self-released the demo for hazy, groovy single “Ffunny Ffriends” in 2010, no one knew from where or whom it came. Even after folks discovered the band was a new project of ex-Mint Chick Ruban Nielson, the band has remained a lingering question mark. No one can agree on what, exactly, UMO is: bedroom funk? Psychedelic breakbeat? Lo-fi dance pop? As soon as you think you have it figured out, Nielson drops something like “Nerve Damage,” a psychgarage-punk number that sounds left over from his old band. All that’s clear about UMO is that its selftitled debut is one of the best—and certainly most unique—records of 2011. SHANE DANAHER. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
They Might Be Giants, Jonathan Coulton
[NERDGASM] While the ongoing mainstreaming of nerd culture continues apace, it’s refreshing to know that there are still obsessions nebbish enough to earn you a well-deserved wedgy. Par exemple: They Might Be Giants. Founded in 1982, the Brooklyn-based quintet has come up with something weird and brilliant about once every six months for the entirety of its threedecade career. These accomplishments are too multitudinous to list here, but highlights include two Grammy-winning children’s albums, a “dial-a-song” phone service, a credulous paean to the electric car and a rousing cover of Chumbawumba’s “Tubthumping.” TMBG was described as college rock in the ’80s, alt rock in the ’90s and probably falls under the rubric of “indie” these days. However, none of these appellatives does justice to the group’s bouncy wit and genrebusting prankster pop. SHANE DANAHER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 9 pm. $20 advance, $23 day of show.
Hungry Ghost, Ghostwriter, Spanish Galleons
[NOISE BLUES] Rising from the ashes of aggressive Northwest math-rockers Unwound, Portland’s Hungry Ghost kicks up a wicked racket pitched somewhere between the abrasively off-kilter rhythmic intensity of drummer Sara Lund’s former band and the bluesy noise of Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. Some songs, such as the woozy strutter “Feel,” could almost be described as funky. But this is a band at its best when it’s being loud: “Wicked Betsy” is a combustible mixture of tumbling drums and slide guitar; “Am I Powerman” is a straight-ahead power-chord cruncher; and “Alice’s Journey” is a jazzy slow burn, featuring a drunken, skronky saxophone worthy of the Stooges’ “Fun House.” MATTHEW SINGER. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.
The Wombats, The Postelles, Static Jacks
[SHADOWPLAY PANTOMIME]
Emulating a trio of performing arts kids whose adorable, addictive, advert-friendly ambitions led to immediate Christmas success (for which they crafted holiday anthems) and a ready-made breakfast TV audience (for whom they harmonized old TV jingles), any American simulacrum of the Wombats would be utterly despised, but across the pond, a masterful facility for throwaway singles so streamlined and sugared and stripped of all higher emotions as “Let’s Dance to Joy Division” wins NME Awards and mass converts precisely because the Liverpudlians plumbed such limited depths. Recently released third album This Modern Glitch adds a swath of synthesized bells and whistles to the adrenalized bass lines and staccato drum breaks but otherwise continues the blueprint, aside from a newfound and off-putting impulse in vocalist Matthew Murphy to convey some sort of recognizable inner humanity; inevitably, he only disappoints native proponents of a glib shamelessness and never manages the smugly subliterate posturing so beloved of pop-punkers on these shores. JAY HORTON. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $11 advance, $13 door of show. 21+.
FRIDAY, NOV. 11 John Wesley Harding, The King Charles Trio, The Minus 5
See music feature, page 29. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $17.50. 21+.
Herbie Hancock
[CLASSICAL JAZZ] Former Miles Davis collaborator, Headhunter and keytar aficionado Herbie Hancock has done it all: from experimental jazz to proto-hip-hop and beyond. But this time around, we won’t hear Hancock’s funk grooves— or, thankfully, lite-jazz takes on Bob Dylan from his 2010 album, The Imagine Project. Joining the
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Oregon Symphony, Hancock takes on Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” that ever-so-American composition that perfectly meshes jazz and classical music with its instantly recognizable bursts of piano insanity. The piece also leaves ample room for Hancock to hammer on the keys at will. Prepare to be thrilled by a master jazzman letting loose in a controlled environment. AP KRYZA. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm. $30-$125.
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[PDX FLASHBACK] Duoglide, the collaboration of guitarist Jo Haemer and Jim Cuomo on clarinet, domra (Russian lute) and glidophone (an electronic horn), was active and acclaimed in those fabulous 1990s, but hasn’t been heard from since. If the name’s unfamiliar, the music will seem equally so, blending classical, jazz and European influences—and more—into something compelling and strange. And check Cuomo’s CV: sax on Marianne Faithfull’s Broken English; piano for Eugene native folk legend Tim Hardin; electronic music production for John Cage; arrangements for Mark Bolan; session work from Thin Lizzy to Thelma Houston; and composer of music for the SimCity video game! This one-off reunion is a free taste of old-school Portland sounds that promise to remain utterly new. JEFF ROSENBERG. Beaterville Cafe, 2201 N Killingsworth St., 735-4652. 6 pm. Free.
From Ashes Rise, Black Breath, Organized Sports, Sloths
[PERFECT CRUST] It is with no small amount of shame that I recall dismissing From Ashes Rise as a very good but less-than-essential epilogue to fellow Southern lord His Hero Is Gone’s late-’90s run as the savior of crust punk. Oops! Now that From Ashes Rise has risen from the dead to take muchdeserved victory laps, I am seeing
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SEE IT: Judy Collins plays the Newmark Theatre on Wednesday, Nov. 9, with Walter Parks. 8 pm. $40-$65.
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 10 $15 Adv West african and roots music from Malian musical maestro, who has shared the stage w/ Bono, Eric Clapton, Bonnie Rait, and more
BASSEKOU KOUYATE & NGONI BA
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Synth pop and post wave from a favorite Baltimore trio, performing songs from their new album, On The Water
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JUDY COLLINS Born: May 1, 1939, in Seattle. Sounds like: A cool glass of water in a beautiful, cut-crystal flute. For fans of: Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, folk art and song. Latest release: This year’s Bohemian, which includes work by Jimmy Webb and a return to the Joni Mitchell songbook, but, sadly, no cover of the Dandy Warhols’ “Bohemian Like You.” Why you care: Her lucid soprano, her ethereal yet earthy beauty, her uncanny poise and her unerring taste in material made Judy Collins the premier interpreter of the new wave of 1960s songwriters, introducing the work of Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell to the record-buying public. Untethered from strict folkie territory, her mid-’60s run of albums encompassed orchestrally accompanied art song on In My Life and Wildflowers, juxtaposing songs by Brecht/Weill and Brel with the Beatles, Donovan, Cohen and Mitchell (plus, on the latter, her striking first original compositions). Later, her early stab at country rock, Who Knows Where the Time Goes, featured guests Stephen Stills, Flying Burrito Brothers bassist Chris Etheridge and Van Dyke Parks. From there, her work devolved into adult-contemporary smoothness, but still generated stunning performances, like her definitive interpretation of Sondheim’s “Send In the Clowns.” In later years, she’s branched out into writing novels, memoirs (including the new Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music), and, more recently, children’s books based on famous songs (like her latest, When You Wish upon a Star). Fortunately, the infomercials for signature-brand eye cream have long since ceased. But Collins’ voice retains all its clarity and confidence, and her ear for great songs remains as sharp as her interpretations thereof.
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FRIDAY these Portland-by-way-of-Tennessee punks for what they really were: the bridge between His Hero Is Gone’s panicky malevolence and Tragedy’s more straightforward D-beatings, an absolutely essential practitioner of punk both menacing and rousing. CHRIS STAMM. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 8:30 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. All ages.
Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Gauntlet Hair
See Thursday listing. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, Dusu Mali Band
[MALI FUNK] One doesn’t find many ngoni players stateside, so the fact that Mali’s Bassekou Kouyate even plays the small, guitarlike instrument is a curiosity in itself. It’s the masterful player’s outright shredding, though, that fascinates audiences. Those with an interest in intricate prog-rock licks or blazing bluegrass picking should fall easily under Bassekou Kouyate’s masterful spell, as his ethereal melodies complement his band Ngoni Ba’s hypnotic jams (which will remind Western listeners of everything from the blues to James Brown). As the first act for Sub Pop’s world-music imprint Next Ambiance, Ngoni Ba is bringing West African music to a young audience, and the band’s sophomore album, I Speak Fula, is a damn fine gateway drug for contemporary world music. CASEY JARMAN. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave. 9 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.
Collie Buddz, Kalo Roots, New Kingston, Gappy Ranks
[HEADY DANCEHALL REGGAE] You’ve probably heard Collie Buddz without really knowing it. His most popular single, “Come Around” (released in 2007 on his only proper full-length album), is a pretty standard modern reggae weed jam that finds Buddz singing, “Finally the herb’s come around.” Born in New Orleans and raised in Bermuda, the singer has released dozens of singles, mixtape tracks and appearances—including remix collaborations with Dr. Dre and Lil’ Wayne—in the past five years, melding reggae, hip-hop and dancehall in the process. Yeah, it’s a white guy singing reggae, but it’s surprisingly legit...especially after a little Mary Jane. MAGGIE SUMMERS. Mount Tabor Theater, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 9 pm. $20. 21+.
Atriarch, Hull, Stoneburner
[SINISTER SOUNDS] Music is so very rarely truly scary. Even black metal made by convicted killers is rendered somewhat silly by ludicrous costuming decisions. Portland’s Atriarch, surveyor of blasted sonic landscapes, is therefore quite special: The band’s first full length, Forever the End, is downright frightening. With a protean sound incorporating goth gloom, majestic doom and metal of the aforementioned black variety, Atriarch conjures the sublime sort of horror Lovecraft understood so well, the monstrosity one must risk madness to understand. Okay, so Forever the End won’t actually drive you insane, but it’s a chilling hint of what might await you on the other side.CHRIS STAMM. Plan B, 1305 SE 8th Ave., 230-9020. 8 pm. $6. 21+.
Blockhead, DJ Cam, Gladkill, Righteous Trash, Keys, Joe Nasty
[FUNK FUZZ] When he’s not creating beats for rappers like Cage and Aesop Rock, Tony Simon busies himself working out his own hip-hop fantasies using his Peanuts-inspired moniker Blockhead. It’s been a few years since Simon graced the world with a new album, but his last LP, 2009’s The Music Scene, is the kind of playful and funky collection that
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WILD FLAG WILD FLAG (MERGE) [UNDER THE BANNER OF ROCK] In the music video for “Romance,” the lead single on their recently released self-titled debut, the members of Wild Flag play unlikely work buddies who, on their lunch hour, secretly meet, don Halloween masks and wreak harmless havoc on Portland (e.g., knocking records off Jackpot’s shelves and replacing them with Wild Flag’s own LP). Both in and out of character, they look like they’re having a blast. That feeling—that Wild Flag is having fun—defines the group’s new record. Wild Flag is an album of hooky rock ’n’ roll that captures the band’s jubilance and communicates it in the eloquent language of a group of veteran musicians (which, for those who haven’t followed breathless music-news coverage of the “supergroup,” includes former Sleater-Kinney bandmates Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss, Helium’s Mary Timony, and Rebecca Cole, formerly of the Minders. After some two decades of musical flirting between its members, this Portland/Washington, D.C., foursome’s eagerness to make music together has resulted in a couple of seemingly dashed-off songs, such as the underdeveloped “Boom.” But in most cases, the evident chemistry among Wild Flag’s players makes for sure-footed songwriting. The aforementioned “Romance” is exemplary: The super-catchy opening track starts with a bright, chunky keyboard riff before adding Brownstein’s distinctive gut-spilling vocals and later transforming into a yell-along anthem. Indeed, while Wild Flag is certainly no pep rally, many songs on the disc feel anthemic, from the driving “Future Crimes” to album finale—and highlight—“Black Tiles.” These seem like rallying cries for good, clean pop-music fun, and we’ll toe that line. After all, Timony reminds us as “Black Tiles” builds to a peeling guitar outro, “For all we know we’re just here/ for the length of the song.” JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG.
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[SHOEGAZE DAZE] Don’t let the title of Anne’s debut album fool you—this Portland quartet’s sad-sack shoegazing is about as punk as Robert Smith’s mansion. But the bait-andswitch perpetrated by Dream Punx is a welcome surprise, for although Portland does not lack for peddlers of speed and aggression, there are surprisingly few bands here pushing the kind of wet and gray dolor Anne so expertly evokes. Composed of both newly recorded tracks and songs culled from previously released DIY affairs, Dream Punx isn’t quite a proper “album,” but you wouldn’t know it, as the record’s tight 30 minutes cohere into a singular wash of mid-tempo melancholy that fills the strait between Slowdive and Disintegration. Sequenced in reverse chronological order—the album ends at Anne’s beginning, with a song off a 2010 demo—Dream Punx peaks in the middle, with the plangent majesty of “Lower Faiths,” one of five songs recorded specifically for this release. A sterling example of the wintry thrills Anne is capable of conjuring, “Lower Faiths” finds a synth’s rapid pulse beating beneath echoing, braiding guitar lines while somber vocals make like a sick kid and dive for the middle of the mix. It is music for fetal positions, and it is wonderful. Cynical listeners might find something a bit overly academic or mannered in Anne’s resolutely retrospective gaze, but the unabashed romanticism of the project more often than not does exactly what unabashed romanticism is so dangerously good at doing: It brushes away hesitancy and doubt while ushering us, free of shame, into dark places where love and sadness merge into shapes that quicken and stun. Does that strike you as so much bad teen poetry? Then move along, Mr. Sunshine, and let us mope in peace. CHRIS STAMM. SEE IT: Wild Flag plays at Doug Fir Lounge on Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 9-10, with Drew Grow and the Pastor’s Wives. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+. Anne plays at Rotture on Tuesday, Nov. 15, with Nightmare Fortress, Prescription Pills and Light House. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
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helps keep clubs and mixtapes interesting. Simon is joined tonight by the similarly bouncy French producer DJ Cam and the New Yorkbased glitch-happy dubstep artist Gladkill. ROBERT HAM. Refuge, 116 SE Yamhill St. 9 pm. $15. 21+.
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[MORE THAN A DREAM] M83 is one of the many bands that are daring to embrace the oft-derided sound of glossy, heavily compressed ’80s pop (think Scritti Politti’s Cupid and Psyche or the Swedish trio a-ha). The latest album by the pop group, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, is an epic and lengthy effort (nearly 80 minutes stretched over two CDs) that frontman Anthony Gonzalez says is “a reflection of my 30 years as a human being.” One can also hear the influence of Gonzalez’s move from his native France to Los Angeles in the new disc—his relocation has infused the band’s new work with a sun-baked optimism that is a welcome arrow in his musical quiver. ROBERT HAM. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. Sold Out, but a limited number of $18 tickets available at the box office on the day of show. All ages.
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[PO-HOP] Sandpeople’s Illmaculate is hitting the road to promote the release of his new free EP (dropping later this month), Skrill Walton. The well-known rap champion continues to defy odds by translating his battle-rap skills onto wax, a feat rarely accomplished in hip-hop. His latest project, The Green Tape, a collaboration with local beat maker G_force, was his best work to date, as his hard-hitting lyrical jabs gave way to a more mature songwriting approach. Although Mac continues to get better in the booth, he’s still one of the more decorated battle-rap veterans around—from his Scribble Jam victory at age 17 (youngest ever), to his World Rap Championship crowns in ’06 and ’07—meaning the songs at the show will bump, but the freestyles will be world class. REED JACKSON. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 8:15 pm. $10. All Ages.
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[AMERICAN RETRO] On this September’s American Goldwing, Blitzen Trapper let its fetish for ’70s rock run rampant. At its best, the group calls on this obsession to strike a perfect balance between psychedelia, folk, pop and rock, and even though this zenith is reached only once or twice an album, the quality of tracks like “Furr,” “Wild Mountain Nation” and “Love the Way You Walk Away” are more than enough to earn this Portland band its distinguished status. This show finds Blitzen Trapper coheadlining with Los Angeles folk quartet Dawes. Careful study of the Neil Young playbook has allowed Dawes’ sophomore album, Nothing Is Wrong, to come in several cuts above its folk-pop contemporaries. SHANE DANAHER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 9 pm. $19 advance, $21 day of show. All ages.
The Appleseed Cast, Hospital Ships, The Hague
[MOSTLY INSTRUMENTAL ROCK] The phrase “return to form” is kind of ridiculous when applied to music. It implies that artists should cover sonic territory they’ve already mastered instead of moving along to something new. But the Appleseed Cast’s Middle States EP, released in June, is a return to form in the best possible way: The four-song disc finds the Kansas post-emo outfit returning to the wild and vague
sort of sonic experimentation that made its two-volume Low Level Owl records such a joy to behold 10 years ago. Middle States is not a reversion for the Appleseed Cast— ex-drummer Josh Baruth’s intricate drum patterns are pretty irreplaceable, though John Momberg takes able charge on the new EP—but one gets the feeling that performing the Low Level Owl discs on tour last year led frontman Chris Crisci and company to shift the balance of technical and emotional elements back into balance. Whatever they did, it worked. CASEY JARMAN. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St. 9 pm. $12 advance. 21+.
A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Benoit Pioulard, Ken Camden
[POST-BACH] While a chance 2010 meeting between esteemed minimalist composer Dustin O’Halloran and Adam Wiltzie (founding member of textured drone collective Stars on Lid and superstar audio engineer) may not have made much noise around popular culture—given their affinities, one hesitates to imagine devoted fans ever speaking above a whisper—their vague discussions of a future collaboration gained momentum and resonance after the suicide of mutual friend/Sparklehorse frontman Mark Linkous, whose Italian concert first brought them together. Throughout much lauded careers, both men have been anointed logical heirs to the legacy of Brian Eno, but the just-released debut of A Winged Victor for the Sullen veers well past the parameters of ambient proper, distilling the irreducible qualities of post rock and modern classical to highlight emotive intimacy. JAY HORTON. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639 6 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.
Mary Flower, Boy and Bean, Leonid Nosov, Whistling Mitch Hider (vaudeville show)
[VALLEY HOME COMPANION] Garrison Keillor might be off telling stories about Lake Wobewhateverthefuck, but the latest edition of Miz Kitty’s Vaudeville Revue sure looks a lot like a taping of A Prairie Home Companion in its wholesome weirdness. The night’s highlight is Mary Flower, whose matronly appearance belies a superhuman ability to turn her hands into hyperactive blues finger-picking machines, a talent the Portlander brings startlingly front and center on this year’s excellent Misery Loves Company. Throw in traditional Ukrainian accordion by Leonid Nosov, Portland trio Boy and Bean’s Mills Brothers-meet-Ella Fitzgerald jazz, and Eugene-based Whistlers Hall of Famer “Whistling” Mitch Hider and you’ve got the weirdest talent show this side of Minnesota. AP KRYZA. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 2234527. 7 pm. $12. 21+.
SUNDAY, NOV. 13 Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
[NUEVO SOUL] While Amy Winehouse brought the vintage soul revival to the masses in the late aughts, Sharon Jones and the DapKings were churning out vintage R&B long before Back in Black— for which, not coincidentally, the Dap-Kings served as Winehouse’s backing band—became a worldwide hit. And while hackneyed wannabes such as Fitz and the Tantrums
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BY CASEY JARMAN
MURS In his lyrics, Murs isn’t generally a change-the-world, peace-onEarth kinda rapper. While he has a choice few overtly political tracks in his songbook, the Los Angeles MC—born Nick Carter—is better known for empathetic raps about relationships and smart, character-driven songwriting. His new record, Love and Rockets: Volume One, is a bit of a departure: He tackles everything from Hunter S. Thompson-inspired mushroom trips to gangster-rap history and tunes about interstellar space travel. (All this from a man who says he doesn’t smoke marijuana.) Still, Murs wore his rogue politics on his sleeve in a conversation with WW last week (you can read the full text of his Q&A at wweek.com). After talking about his short-term goal of adopting African children and his long-term goal of starting the first black university on the West Coast (Fela Kuti University), Murs told WW that his main objective as a musician has always been to make a lot of money, then give it all back. Here he gets to the heart of his philosophy. Murs: “As long as you pay your taxes, I think America lets you do whatever you want. That’s the thing about black people—they think America is out to get us, but as we’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street, if they even thought about doing what they did in the ’60s and ’70s, they’d look so horrible on the world stage. They can’t attack black people—I dare them to. They’re in financial disarray, they’re not trying to stop us right now. And all I’m trying to do is create more people who are going to grow up and do positive things and pay taxes. I’m not against America, I love America. I love capitalism. I don’t love greed. I don’t think there’s anything wrong if we stick to the rules and we destroy this culture of greed. That’s all. I wish people didn’t eat fast food, but I even think there’s a place for McDonald’s.” SEE IT: Murs plays the Hip-Hop & Love tour at Refuge (116 SE Yamhill St., refugepdx.com) on Monday, Nov. 14. 8 pm. $15. All ages.
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Wednesday 11-9 DRUM CIRCLE! THINKIN’ ’BOUT STUFF: M83 plays Wonder Ballroom on Friday. suggest the trend has jumped the shark, Jones and company continue to prove genuine funk knows nothing of fads. A lot of that has to do with the band’s frontwoman and namesake. A fireball performer with a golden roar of a voice, the 55-year-old Jones taps into any number of classic Northern soul belters, with a hard-ass authenticity earned from her years spent as prison guard on Rikers Island. Don’t sell the players behind her short, though. As the house band for revivalist label Daptone Records, the group lives up to its lineage as a modern-day Funk Brothers or the MG’s. And unlike so many of the throwback acts that have followed, the Dap-Kings’ fun, fierce live show feels like a genuine soul revue, not a Disneyland attraction. MATTHEW SINGER. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $31. All Ages (Minors must be accompanied by a parent).
Honeyboy Edwards Tribute: Curtis Salgado & Alan Hager, Karen Lovely, Lloyd Jones, Bill Rhoades, Terry Robb, D.K. Stewart, Joe McMurrian, Mary Flower, Peter Dammann, Jerry Zybach, Steve Cheseborough, Don Campbell, Dave Kahl, Kenzil & Hyde, Johnny Ward, Kelly Dunn, Dave Meylan
[BLUES TRIBUTE] David “Honeyboy” Edwards will not be appearing this evening, as the legendary singer-guitarist died in August after an impressive 96-year run. He was often referred to as “the last of the Delta bluesmen,” denoting the impact of the powerful, earthy blues that emanated from his neck of Mississippi. To honor Honeyboy, a number of our region’s finest bluesmen—including local legend Curtis Salgado, who recently signed with the esteemed Alligator Records imprint—are coming together to pay their respects and raise money for Edwards’ memorial fund, which supports the construction of a National Blues Museum in St. Louis.CASEY JARMAN. Alberta Rose Theater, 3000 NE Alberta St. 5 pm. $20 (VIP packages also available). All ages (Minors must be accompanied by a parent).
Danava, La Otracina, Great Society Mind Destroyers, Macrocosm
[HEAVY PSYCH] Danava fans take heed. While the “boyz from Illinoiz” are out on an epic tour, this trio of psychedelic meddlers descends
on the East End to bring a heavy dose of lysergic rock to your starving third ears. Chicago’s Great Society Mind Destroyers plays things a bit safe—sounding a bit like an up-tempo Dead Meadow with plenty of fuzz and echo. On the other hand, Brooklyn’s La Otracina takes the opposite approach, following its own muses and taking chances. Whether it’s a moment of doom-metal prog (à la Big Elf), or a 20-minute Grateful Dead cover (don’t hate them for being fearless), or a fugue of Doctor Who synth horror—this band goes where it chooses. If Mammatus or Acid Mothers Temple are names you squiggle on your Trapper Keeper, this is one show not to miss. NATHAN CARSON. East End, 203 SE Grand Ave., 232-0056. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
Future Islands, Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, Jason Urick
[THE WIRED] The endlessly diminishing returns of pop electronica reverse-engineered to exploit extant emotive touchstones seems like a poor foundation for any band’s artistic ambitions, even a troupe lately from and very much of Baltimore (bittersweet nostalgia and evocative metaphor Central Maryland’s sole remaining industries) shouldn’t so heavily rely on the building blocks of FM past as Future Islands, but there are indeed games within the fucking game. Throughout just-released third album On The Water, an ecstatic undercurrent of Duran Duran synths and New Order basslines recede with measured grace and precisely orchestrated chilling regret, New Romantic flourishes confront the old-world romanticism and ever-present theatricality of vocalist Sam Herring for numbed placidity. The world going one way and people another, yo? JAY HORTON. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
The Happening, Ghostwriter
[GIRL GRUNGE GREATNESS] Alllady trio the Happening is the latest musical endeavor by former Swallows guitarist-vocalist Em Brownlowe. Where her former group felt spare and sometimes shaky, this new outfit has a confident steely edge. And, as heard on the band’s debut cassette release, Piranha, it openly embraces the oft-forgotten influence of ’90s groups like 7 Year Bitch and the Gits, girl-rock bands that flew in the face of the hypermasculine wave of grunge. The band
will be contrasted nobly by the one-man blues-folk-punk explosion Ghostwriter, who has finally decided to make the move from The Dalles to our fair city. ROBERT HAM. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 2380543. 9:30 pm. Cover. 21+.
MONDAY, NOV. 14 Austra, Grimes, Tasseomancy
[THE LADIES, THE LADIES] Triple bills don’t get much better than this all-Canadian, all-female evening. First up, you get Tasseomancy, a duo (formerly known as Ghost Bees) that uses tightly woven harmonies and the influence of collaborators Timber Timbre to create a haunting modern take on the ghost folk of the early 20th century. Follow that up with the childlike vocals and grownup beats and atmospherics of Claire Boucher, otherwise known by her stage name Grimes. And finish off the night with Austra, a Toronto-based trio that released one of 2011’s most arresting albums, the chilly techno-pop classic Feel It Break. ROBERT HAM. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
Sugarcane, Shook Twins, Renegade Stringband
[AMERICANA] I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Laurie and Katelyn Shook spoke their own secret twin language while growing up in Sandpoint, Idaho; listening to the Shook Twins’ music feels like eavesdropping on a private conversation in a vernacular that’s foreign yet strangely familiar. Case in point, their song “Long Time,” which sets up a trad-folk backdrop of earnestly strummed and plucked mando and banjo, but abruptly finds them singing about microchips and “blue light-bulb eyes.” “Time to Swim” incorporates beats behind their spooky sibling harmonies like a rustic Portishead. Their songs are witty and well-built, the performances poised, the production adventurous. Recently transplanted to Portland, Shook Twins are the most exciting local folk act I’ve heard in ages. Strike that word “local” and the sentiment still stands. JEFF ROSENBERG. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 8 pm. $10. 21+.
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Murs, Tabi Bonney, Ski Beatz & the Senseis, McKenzie Eddy, Da$h, Sean O’Connell
See Mic Check, page 34. Refuge, 116 SE Yamhill St. 9 pm. $15. All Ages.
New Found Glory, Set Your Goals, The Wonder Years, Man Overboard, This Time Next Year
[POP PUNK] Set Your Goals and New Found Glory have somewhat old-school punk intentions infused with a modern, sunny Vans Warped—er, Rockstar Energy Drink—Tour vibe. I once watched Set Your Goals open for Lifetime, and I guffawed in a jaded manner as the musicians bounced around the stage like a bunch of pierced, tattooed cheerleaders doing an out-of-sync Blink-182 impression. I figured this was music for my little brother and sister (who are perhaps much happier with their lives right now than I am). However, one can only resist these bands’ youthful, infectious energy for so long because the kids rip and, as H.R. of Bad Brains said, “[They’ve] got that PMA” (positive mental attitude). JOHN ISAACSON. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 7 pm. $20-$25. All Ages.
TUESDAY, NOV. 15 Old Wars, Sons of Huns
[MURKY POP ROCK] Old Wars (not to be confused with other geriatric local acts like Old Age, Old Growth or Old Light) takes pop songwriting and punk spunk evoking the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, filters it through simple drum-andbass instrumentation (summoning dearly departed PDX act Explode Into Colors’ ghost) and emerges
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with sludge-coated earworms suggesting tremendous potential. The duo, which comprises drummer Kathy Mendonca (of the Gossip) and bassist-singer Jen Moon, came together in 2010 and dropped a debut on local tape label Cassingle and Loving It last week. Punk virtuosos Sons of Huns set this show a-rockin’; do come a-knockin’. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 10 pm. $3. 21+.
The Civil Wars, Milo Green
[SOUTHERN FRIED] After a single on the Civil Wars’ debut album landed in the background of a Grey’s Anatomy episode and Taylor Swift tweeted her approval, the band should be all set up with a fan base chock-full of bored housewives and lovesick tweens. Thankfully, the duo’s enchanting cabaret of lengthy, picky guitar solos and smoky serenades appeals to a broader audience. After 2009’s Poison & Wine EP sparked the outfit’s national notoriety, this year’sBarton Hollow married country and classical music influences with vocals that are tip-toe soft one moment and sinfully hearty the next (think of Alison Krauss and Robert Plant’s Raising Sand). The new disc’s title track stands alone, with its loud, bulging whoops of pained, soulful singing and harsh guitar plucks that make you yearn for the Southern upbringing you never had. NIKKI VOLPICELLI. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 2250047. 9 pm. Event info and website and dates.
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[NOV. 9 - 15] Charming Birds, A Happy Death
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Wild Flag, Drew Grow & The Pastor’s Wives
WED. NOV. 9
Palace of Industry
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
1001 SE Morrison St. Holy Ghost!, Eli Escobar, Jessica 6, RAC
Alberta Rose Theatre
2346 SE Ankeny St. Renee Muzquiz
3000 NE Alberta St. Sue Zalokar, Kris Deelane, Sarah King, Bre Gregg with Dan Gaynor, Anne Weiss, Paula Sinclair (Joni Mitchell tribute show)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. No More Parachutes, The Legendary Superstars
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Animal Eyes, All the Apparatus, Gashcat, Fanno Creek
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Robin Greene
Brasserie Montmartre
RHAPSODY IN HERBIE: Herbie Hancock (with the Oregon Symphony) plays the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall on Friday.
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5426 N Gay Ave. Flat Rock String Band
Hawthorne Theatre
Afrique Bistro
303 SW 12th Ave. Jared Mees
626 SW Park Ave. Brooks Robertson
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St.
1305 SE 8th Ave. Oneiros, Day of Days, Blood Magic
Jade Lounge
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet
618 SE Alder St. Lil’ Brian & the Zydeco Travelers
Kenton Club
Press Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Child Children, Jizz Wizard, Lickity, DJ Tuff Gnarly
Mississippi Pizza
315 SE 3rd Ave. Animal R&R, The Volt Per Octaves, AM Exchange
2958 NE Glisan St. Like a Rocket (9 pm); Fancy Pants (6 pm)
303 SW 12th Ave. Jared Mees, Mike Midlo
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Rickie Lee Jones
Alberta Rose Theatre
Rotture
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Sarah Moon & the Night Sky
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Netherfriends, Adventure Galley, Paper Brain
1001 SW Broadway Key of Dreams
Muddy Rudder Public House
Thirsty Lion
510 NW 11th Ave. Blake Lyman & Ben Graves
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. They Might Be Giants
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Boots Electric
Doug Fir Lounge
Alberta Street Public House
1635 SE 7th Ave. The Shinkle Band (9 pm); Tough Love Pyle (6 pm)
1314 NW Glisan St. Greg Wolfe Trio
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Danger Thieves, Blow Up Dolls, Los Headaches, Race of Strangers
71 SW 2nd Ave. Mark Macminn
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Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Gauntlet Hair
830 E Burnside St. Wild Flag, Drew Grow and the Pastor’s Wives
Andina
The Know
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Drum Circle
626 SW Park Ave. John “JB” Butler & Al Craido
3000 NE Alberta St. Eric McFadden, Omar Torrez, Brian Copeland Band
1036 NE Alberta St. Floorboards, Chelsea Appel (9:30 pm); Russell Turner, Maria Webster (6:30 pm)
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar
2026 NE Alberta St. Bible Thumper, Raw Nerves
8105 SE 7th Ave. Stumbleweed
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. GWAR, Every Time I Die, Warbeast, Ghoul
2201 N Killingsworth St. Loose Change Trio
Camellia Lounge
2621 SE Clinton St. Swing Papillon
LaurelThirst
Brasserie Montmartre
THURS. NOV. 10
Portland Police Athletic Association
Jimmy Mak’s
White Eagle Saloon
800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Trio with Mitzi Zilka
Plan B
115 NW 5th Ave. Adam Sweeney and the Jamboree, The Lower 48, Lindsay Fuller
Beaterville Cafe
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar
2314 SE Division St. Billy Kennedy
Backspace
1425 NW Glisan St. Nancy King, Steve Christofferson
836 N Russell St. Left Coast Country
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
Holocene
Mount Tabor Theater
Touché Restaurant and Billiards
1111 SW Broadway Judy Collins, Walter Park
Ella Street Social Club
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Lights, Rubik
102 NE Russell St. The Javier Nero Quintet
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Barbara Lusch
Newmark Theatre
714 SW 20th Place Armorada
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East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Boom Boom Kid, Potsie, Youthbitch, Boom!
Ella Street Social Club
714 SW 20th Place Eidolons, Said the Whale, We Are the City, The We Shared Milk
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Camellia Lounge
Shoeshine Blue, John Vecchiarelli, Jenny Wayne, Ezza Rose
Clyde’s Prime Rib
Red Room
STEEL BROOKS
510 NW 11th Ave. Kindlewood
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Randy Star Band
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. Lotus, Keys N Krates, Tyler Tastemaker
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Rose City Vaudeville, Dingo Dizmal, Oliver Rootbeer Juniper, All the Apparatus, Vragi Naroda, The Unicorn Survival Guide (Circus Project benefit)
Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. The Radio Dept., Memoryhouse
Duff’s Garage
BEERMONGERS: Begun as a bottle shop before a bar was raised, BeerMongers (1125 SE Division St., 234-6012, thebeermongers.com) is still more warehouse than watering hole. That’s not a bad thing. Despite cruelly bright lighting and Goodwill-quality furniture, there’s something endearing about the place. It’s a little like drinking inside a buddy’s garage—if your buddy had eight taps sprouting from his kegerator, plus two long coolers of bottles organized by style to facilitate the matching of mood to brew. A glasswareexchange table (don’t drink that Heine out of a Grolsch glass, you barbaric clod!) was another nice touch. Two libertine bar policies are the real kickers: There’s no corkage fee to glug bottles on site and you’re free to bring your own food, with either the ’Mongers’ Banana Building neighbor, Portobello Vegan Trattoria, or Los Gorditos being quite convenient. MARTIN CIZMAR.
2505 SE 11th Ave. W.C. Beck
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Trio Subtonic, The Schwa
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Deelay Ceelay, Purple & Green, Tunnels, DJ Snakks
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Song Circle (8 pm); Will Koehnke (6 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown B3 Organ Group
Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Ave. Freak Mountain Ramblers
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Los Perros Olvidados
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Kathryn Claire, The My Oh Mys (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. The Big Ideas (9 pm); Mo Phillips with Johnny and Jason (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Little Scream, Bobby, Netherfriends
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Claes
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Cats Under the Stairs (Jerry Garcia Band tribute)
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Kory Quinn
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Rich Robinson
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Andrew Orr, Jen Howard
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Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Sleepwalk Kid, JGreen, Oslo in September
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. The Wombats, The Postelles, Static Jacks
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Silver-Tongued Demons, Wild Dogs, Cemetery Lust, Sarcologos, Stereotyped, Echoic
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. HiFi Mojo
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Rich Robinson, Dylan LeBlanc
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Tom Grant Jazz Jam Session
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones Jam
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Hungry Ghost, Ghostwriter, Spanish Galleons
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Hair Assault
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Lost City, Nuetral Boy, Koozebane
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Mary Flower, Natalie Gunn, Rebecca Teran
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Andrea Algieri Quartet
Twilight Café and Bar
FRI. NOV. 11 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Jared Mees, Tyler Keene (of Log Across the Washer)
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. John Wesley Harding & The King Charles Trio, the Minus 5
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. John McCutcheon
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Great Migration, Big Tree, Dreaming in Colors (9:30 pm); Mikey’s Irish Jam (6:30 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Sambafeat Quartet
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway Herbie Hancock
Ash Street Saloon
4904 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The New Iberians Zydeco Blues Band
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Spellcaster, Excruciator, Cemetery Lust, Dethproof
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Echo Pearl Varsity
Ford Food and Drink
2505 SE 11th Ave. Josh Cole, Josh and Mer
Hawthorne Theatre
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Faerabella
320 SE 2nd Ave. From Ashes Rise, Black Breath, Organized Sports, Sloths
White Eagle Saloon
Brasserie Montmartre
836 N Russell St. Gabby Holt (8:30 pm); The Sale (5:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ed Bennett Trio
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Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Krystyn
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Brothers Young, Celilo, Archeology, Sara Jackson-Holman
Kelly’s Olympian
Memorial Coliseum
1401 N Wheeler Ave. Winter Jam: Newsboys, Kutless, Matthew West, RED, Fireflight, NewSong, KJ-52, Dara Maclean, For King & Country, Patrick Ryan Clark, Tony Nolan
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Melao d’Cuba (9 pm); The Dapper Cadavers (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
Branx
626 SW Park Ave. Al Craido & Tablao
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Gauntlet Hair
Mock Crest Tavern
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Collie Buddz, Kalo Roots, New Kingston, Gappy Ranks
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Reverb Brothers
O’Connor’s Vault
7850 SW Capitol Highway Kathy James Quintet
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Atriarch, Hull, Stoneburner
Press Club
2621 SE Clinton St.
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Xavier Tabera & The Classic Band (9 pm); Al Craido & “Tablao” (5:30 pm) 5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Andy Stokes
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
1332 W Burnside St. Blitzen Trapper, Dawes, The Belle Brigade
8635 N Lombard St. Tomorrow People, Threadbear 125 NW 5th Ave. Manoj
Spare Room
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Linda Meyers Band
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Big Black Cloud, Big Buck Big Ups, Sex Church, Blood Beach
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Audio Syndicate
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Immortal Veterans, Dirtnap, On Enemy Soil, Chokeout
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Band Who Fell to Earth, Bill Dant & The Trailer Trashers, Oh My Mys (Spinal Tap tribute show)
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Signatures
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Pink Slip, Feral Pigs
2958 NE Glisan St. Patina (9:30 pm); Woodbrain (6 pm)
320 SE 2nd Ave. Illmaculate, The Saurus, Goldini Bagwell, Mikey Vegaz
1033 NW 16th Ave. Whiskey Avengers, Sleep for Oldominion, Item 9
Kenton Club
LaurelThirst
Branx
Clyde’s Prime Rib
Touché Restaurant and Billiards
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Beringia, Mendozza, Curse of the North
225 SW Ash St. Headless Pez, Gorgon Stare, Tanagra, NegativeZen
Slabtown
426 SW Washington St. Pinehurst Kids, Ape Machine, Throwback Suburbia, Nigel Tufnel Day
Backspace
Beaterville Cafe
116 NE Russell St. Get Rhythm (9 pm); Swing Papillon (6 pm)
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Megan James Band
3435 N Lombard St. Sockeye Sawtooth
2201 N Killingsworth St. Duoglide
Secret Society Lounge
Eagles Lodge, Southeast
225 SW Ash St. Mosby, The Greater Midwest, Smokey Brights, Supervisor
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Stumblebum, 42 Ford Prefect
116 SE Yamhill St. Blockhead, DJ Cam, Gladkill, Righteous Trash, Keys, Joe Nasty
Someday Lounge
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, Dusu Mali Band
115 NW 5th Ave. Boy Eats Drum Machine, Lilly Wolf and Dr. Nu, Decades
Refuge
1635 SE 7th Ave. Levi Dexter, The Lordy Lords (9 pm); Honey and the Hamdogs (6 pm)
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Dirty Heads, Wallpaper
Ford Food and Drink
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Stonewall Mistress, Jetpack Mistress
Ash Street Saloon
1425 NW Glisan St. Nancy Curtain Trio
Twilight Café and Bar
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Zenda Torrey Band
White Eagle Saloon
Crystal Ballroom
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Spindrift, Hawkeye, Federale
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. The Appleseed Cast, Hospital Ships, The Hague
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. The Buckles
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. The Atlas Moth, Norska, Kowloon Walled City, Mongoloid Village, Batillus (9 pm); Perfect Look, Wax Idols, Terry Malts, DJ Joel Lett (5 pm)
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place The Doubleclicks, Robot Uprise (hero/villain costume party and p:ear benefit)
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Jujuba
Gotham Tavern
2240 N Interstate Ave. The Disappointments
15th Avenue Hophouse 1517 NE Brazee St. Ben Larsen & Austin Moore
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Jared Mees, Ritchie Young
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Willy Porter, Dave McGraw and Mandy Fer
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Stolen Sweets (burlesque show)
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Justin Klump
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Laura Veirs
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Benoit Pioulard, Ken Camden 2346 SE Ankeny St. Teri Untilan 221 NW 10th Ave. The Linda Hornbuckle Band
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Hopeless Jack & The Handsome Devils, Sarsaparilla
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Lamprey, Broxa, Towers
Kir
22 NE 7th Ave. Alma Brasileira
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. The Billy Kennedy-Dan Haley Band (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)
Lewis & Clark College, Evans Auditorium
SUN. NOV. 13 3 Doors Down
1429 SE 37th Ave. Dennis Hitchcox
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Evan Way
Plan B
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
2527 NE Alberta St. Lisa Mann
1305 SE 8th Ave. Thunderstruck, Same Ol’ Situation (AC/DC and Mötley Crüe tribute show)
Press Club
2621 SE Clinton St. James Low, Lewi Longmire
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Saint Jack’s Parade, Jack Town Road, Isolated Cases, Tribe of the Outcast
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Shicky Gnarowitz
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. The Lovesores, The Needful Longings, The Ex-Girlfriends Club
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
8635 N Lombard St. Last Watch, Hong Kong Banana, Holy Children
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Marv Ellis & the Platform, Scarub, The Luminaries, DJ DV8
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Dwight Slade
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Jay Harris
The Blue Monk
205 NW 4th Ave. Tash (of Tha Alkaholiks), Black Silver, DJ Zimmie
The Foggy Notion
3416 N Lombard St. D.S.R., Coronation, Root Beer & French Fry
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Barbara Lusch
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Bottle, Elephant Rifle, Slower Than
Aladdin Theater
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Curtis Salgado & Alan Hager, Karen Lovely, Lloyd Jones, Bill Rhoades, Terry Robb and more (Honeyboy Edwards tribute show)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Animal R&R, Moondog Matinee, This Fair City
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Michael Dean Damron, Dead Cat Hat
Dublin Pub
6821 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Sons of Malarkey
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Frank Fairfield
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Danava, La Otracina, Great Society Mind Destroyers, Macrocosm
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Moon by You
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. 16Volt
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Fantom Fingers, Heroin Mascara, eight53, The Seventh Penalty, Grey for Days, Jen Ambrose Band, Middle Child Syndrome, R.T.A.
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Hellokopter, DJAO, BOOM!, Support Force, Prescription Pills (DJ set), Dropping Gems, Rad Ruckus, Fred Green
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Dark Black, Excruciator, Calderon
Kennedy School
Thirsty Lion
5736 NE 33rd Ave. Craig Carothers, Mark Alan
Tiger Bar
Mission Theater
71 SW 2nd Ave. Beth Willis 317 NW Broadway Sonicles, Hair Assault, Alterego
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Polaroids, The Bloodtypes, Lubec
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. 3 Leg Torso
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Kelley Shannon Trio, Sam Howard
0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd. Venerable Showers of Beauty Gamelan, Ki Midiyanto, Peni Candra Reni, members of Gamelan Pacifica, Northwest New Music, Lewis & Clark Community Chorale
Vie de Boheme
Mission Theater
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar
1624 NW Glisan St. Mary Flower, Boy and Bean, Leonid Nosov, Whistling Mitch Hider (vaudeville show)
Emmitt-Nershi Band, Infamous Stringdusters
Original Halibut’s II
The Crown Room
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Senses Fail, Stick to Your Guns, Make Do and Mend, The Story So Far
Jimmy Mak’s
SAT. NOV. 12
8105 SE 7th Ave. Alan Hagar
Hawthorne Theatre
4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Bitterroot
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar
Wonder Ballroom
Muddy Rudder Public House
Hawthorne Hophouse
Jade Lounge
128 NE Russell St. M83, Active Child
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Trevor Hall
3341 SE Belmont St. I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House, Two Car Garage
836 N Russell St. Radio Giants, The Snapperheads (9 pm)
800 NW 6th Ave. Sean Holmes & Fred Stickley
Mount Tabor Theater
1530 SE 7th Ave. Jay Koder & the Soulmates
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Winebirds (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)
800 NW 6th Ave. Bill Beach Trio
Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St.
1624 NW Glisan St. Brian Harrison, The Oh My Mys, Tim Bartlett (craft sale)
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Jon Solo, Will Knox, Dawn Clement (9 pm); The Ukeladies (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Future Islands, Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, Jason Urick
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Smurf Luchiano, Meezilini
Purest Cafe
115 SW Ash St. Elevation Youth Ensemble, Michele Van Kleef, Elevation
Rontoms
600 E Burnside St. Polyps, Log Across the Washer
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. TEG
CALENDAR The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Os Ovni, Moon Mirror
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Happening, Ghostwriter
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Jerry Stuart
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Hurry Up (members of The Thermals), Ghost Mom, Modern Marriage
Village Ballroom
700 NE Dekum St. Hoppin Jenny with Caroline Oakley (square dance)
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. We Were Promised Jetpacks, Royal Bangs, Bear Hands
MON. NOV. 14 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. Evan Way
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. The Sleeper Smiles
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
Ella Street Social Club
714 SW 20th Place Northeast Northwest
Hawthorne Theatre 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Blessthefall, The Word Alive, Motionless in White, Tonight Alive, Chunk! No Captain Chunk!
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Austra, Grimes, Tasseomancy
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Jaime Leopold
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. David Gerow, James London
Mississippi Pizza
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. New Found Glory, Set Your Goals, The Wonder Years, Man Overboard, This Time Next Year
TUES. NOV. 15 15th Avenue Hophouse
1517 NE Brazee St. Spodee-O’s
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. Evan Way
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Welfare, Oslo in September (9 pm); Bluegrass Jam (6 pm); Mr. Ben (5 pm)
Alberta Street Public House
Mississippi Studios
Andina
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Sugarcane, Shook Twins, Renegade Stringband
Refuge
116 SE Yamhill St. Murs, Tabi Bonney, Ski Beatz & the Senseis, McKenzie Eddy, Da$h, Sean O’Connell
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Ten Speed Warlock, Sure Sign of the Nail, Starvist
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Secret Century, Like a Villain, SLFM, It Foot It Ears
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Jack Ruby Presents, JohnHeartJackie, Violet Isle
1036 NE Alberta St. Howl & Wild, Moon By You 1314 NW Glisan St. Neftali Rivera
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Bryan Minus & the Disconnect, Space Waves, Sundaze
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Old Wars, Sons of Huns
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. The Civil Wars, Milo Green
Ella Street Social Club
714 SW 20th Place Brown Shoe, James Lesure
Hawthorne Hophouse 4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Steve Cheseborough
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave.
The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm); Marie Schumacher & The West Coast Players (6:30 pm)
Discos Discos: DJ Zac Eno, Michael Bruce
Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Holiday
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Alligator vs. Crocodile, Goose and Fox, Gordon Goldsmith
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Supadupa Marimba Brothers
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Wax Fingers, No Kind Of Rider, Yeah Great Fine
Palace of Industry
5426 N Gay Ave. Jem Marie The Ghost Ease
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. The Devil Wears Prada, Whitechapel, Enter Shikari, For Today
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Nightmare Fortress, Anne, Prescription Pills, Light House
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. The Jazzistics
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Outer Space Heaters
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Ensemble Economique, Futureless Vivid, Matt Carlson
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Brad Creel and the Reel Deel
The Crown Room
WED. NOV. 9 Devils Point
5305 SE Foster Road ‘80s Night with DJ Brooks
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. DJ Sandy Stilletto
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Future Beats: Ryan Organ, Carrier, Brazil
Gossip Restaurant & Lounge 11340 NE Halsey St. Bad Girl Wednesdays with DJ George
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. TRONix with DJ Palomitas
Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Jessicat
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. I’ve Got a Hole in My Soul with DJ Beyondadoubt
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Mixer: Lorin Atzen, Jesse Gay, Sky Wolfe, Michael Grimes and Mr. Romo, Selectress Instigatah
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. F*ck The Disco: DJs Evil One, Doc Adam, Tyler Tastemaker
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ A Train
THURS. NOV. 10 Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. A Matter of Public Records with DJ Noah Fence
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Survival Sklz
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Sex Life DJs
SAT. NOV. 12 East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. DJ Gray Matter
Holocene
Tiga
18 NW 3rd Ave. Paint It Black: DJs Josh Spacek, Freaky Outy
Tiga
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Bill Portland
Tube
31 NW 1st Ave. Recess: R/D, Subterrain, Doc Riz, Puffn’ Stuff
Ground Kontrol
Matador
1465 NE Prescott St. Plaid Dudes
The Whiskey Bar
The Whiskey Bar 31 NW 1st Ave. Damage
1967 W Burnside St. DJ Whisker Friction
205 NW 4th Ave. City Lock: Carrier & Josh T, Tyler Keys, Joe Nasty, Ben Tactic
Tube
511 NW Couch St. DJ Destructo 1001 SE Morrison St. Atlas: DJ Anjali, E3, The Incredible Kid
18 NW 3rd Ave. Expressway to Yr Skull: DJ Miss Prid, Hot Victory
Jam on Hawthorne
Valentine’s
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Genevieve D, DJ Alex Neerman (of Operative)
FRI. NOV. 11 Groove Suite
440 NW Glisan St. Cock Block: Mercedes, Monika MHz, Kay Lyn
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St.
2239 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Take Yo’ Praise
1332 W Burnside St. Jai Ho! Bollywood Bliss Dance Party
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Mrs. with DJ Beyonda
Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Pippa Possible
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave.
MUSIC
Bubblin: Monkeytek, Ryan Organ, The Perfect Cyn, Sappho, Rap Class, Lincolnup, Ben Tactic
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Pickle Barrel
Tube 18 NW 3rd Ave. Hollyhood with DJ Stray
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Drew Groove
SUN. NOV. 13 Groove Suite
440 NW Glisan St. O Face Sunday: Oliver $, Michael Gabriel, Miss Vixen, Crokoloco and DJ Xrstchn
Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan St. “Straight to Hell” screening: DJs Hwy 7, The GhostTrain
MON. NOV. 14 Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Sweet Jimmy T
TUES. NOV. 15 East End
203 SE Grand Ave. DJ Misprid
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. DJ Liz B
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Disorder with DJ Entropy
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Kev It Up
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Oregon Symphony and Herbie Hancock
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Moo-Murs
He’s best known as a jazz keyboardist, but Hancock actually made his public debut (at age 11) playing a Mozart concerto with the Chicago Symphony. It’s no stretch for Hancock to play with a really big band in music by George Gershwin (Rhapsody in Blue) and Duke Ellington (his version of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker), plus some solo versions of his own music. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353. 7:30 pm Friday, Nov. 11. $30-$125.
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One of Turkey’s most renowned musicians plays folk music, Sufi devotional songs and original sacred ballads using instruments such as the baglama long-necked lute and ney flute. Oregon Buddhist Temple, 3720 SE 34th Ave., 502-8227. 7-10 pm Saturday, Nov. 12. $6-$12.
Portland Opera
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THEATER Charivari
Pelú Theatre presents its second circus-theater spectacle. In this one, we see the sad life of an undocumented immigrant struggling to achieve the American dream. Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave., pelutheatre. com. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Nov. 19; 2 and 7 pm Sunday, Nov. 20. $10.
Cloud 9
Caryl Churchill’s 1979 play, produced here by Theatre Vertigo, is something of a social-science experiment: What happens when you take a randy but repressed British family from the Victorian era and put it into the anything-goes early 1980s? Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 306-0870. 8 pm ThursdaySaturday, Nov. 10-12. $15. Thursdays are “pay what you will.”
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Readers Theatre Repertory reads A.R. Gurney’s examination of WASP culture in the U.S. Blackfish Gallery, 420 NW 9th Ave., 295-4997. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, Nov. 11-12. $8.
Glengarry Glen Ross
Defunkt theatre’s take on the Mamet classic casts women in the swaggering roles of Shelly Levene and Richard Roma. The gender swap has little effect on the desperate, faded Levene (Lori Sue Hoffman), but Roma is transformed. Grace Carter gives the role’s slimy doubletalk a seductive tone, turning Roma into the sort of woman who strikes terror into the heart of men who hate women. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 481-2960. 8 pm Thursdays-Sundays. Closes Nov. 19. $10-$20. Thursdays and Sundays are “pay what you can.”
Mr. Darcy Dreamboat
For the inaugural production of her new company, Push Leg, Camille Cettina premieres her solo performance about the power of reading. A guided tour through one woman’s experience of English literature, the show combines physical theater and book-madness in a way that should be catnip for Portland audiences. Ethos/IFCC, 5340 N Interstate Ave., ethos.org. 8 pm Friday-Saturday and 2 pm Sunday, Nov. 11-13; 8 pm Wednesday-Saturday and 2 pm Sunday, Nov. 16-20. $15 in advance, $12-$15 at the door.
Pinkalicious: The Musical
Oregon Children’s Theatre presents a musical about a little girl who turns pink. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 228-9571. 2 and 5 pm Saturdays-Sundays through Nov. 20. $28.15-$37.35, fees included.
Pinocchio
Tears of Joy revives its puppetboy puppet play. Winningstad Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-0557. 7:30 pm Friday, Nov. 11; 11 am Saturdays, 2 and 4 pm Sundays through Nov. 20. $17-$20.
ScratchPDX
A performance showcase. Hipbone Studio, 1847 E Burnside St., 3580898. 9 pm Saturday, Nov. 12. $10.
¡Viva la Revolución!
Miracle’s Day of the Dead showdraws inspiration from the Occupy protests and the Arab Spring to pay tribute to activist women from the past and present. El Centro Milagro, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7:30 pm Thursday, 8 pm Friday and Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, Nov. 10-13. $15-$30.
COMEDY CHAD Chats
Whitney Streed, Virginia Jones, Christian Ricketts and other funny Portlanders perform satirical presentations in the style of those twee TED nano-lectures. Saratoga, 6910 N Interstate Ave., 719-5924. 8 pm Thursday, Nov. 10. Free. 21+.
Hari Kondabolu
The usual line on Hari Kondabolu goes something like this: He’s funny, he’s angry, he lives in Seattle, he makes white folks uncomfortable and his brother is one-third of Das Racist. I’ve written that line myself, but it doesn’t come close to doing Kondabolu’s comedy justice. For one thing, I don’t think he’s angry, really, so much as exasperated. Kondabolu takes a long, hard look at the peculiar excesses of contemporary, white city culture—vegan soul food, concert-goers in feathered headdresses and the homeless guy begging for Vitamin Water—and dismantles them with brisk swings of a comedic sledgehammer. If there’s any justice in this world, and especially if the TV pilot he’s working on with W. Kamau Bell is a success, you will soon no longer have the opportunity to witness Kondabolu’s humorous bludgeoning in a venue as intimate as The Woods. The Woods, 6637 SE Milwaukie Ave., 890-0408. 8 pm Wednesday, Nov. 9. $10-$12. 21+.
CLASSICAL 45th Parallel
Two string quintets by Dvorak (Op. 97) and Mendelssohn (Op. 87). The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 8029405. 8 pm Saturday, Nov. 12. $20-$25.
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. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 241-1802. 7:30 pm Thursday and Saturday, Nov. 10 & 12. $20-$135.
PSU Choirs
The program is diverse—music from India, works by the Renaissance composer/murderer Gesualdo, J.S. Bach, 20th-century Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera and Leonard Cohen—but the theme is universal: losing, and maybe regaining, faith. St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1716 NW Davis St., pdx.edu/boxoffice. 8 pm Friday, Nov. 11. $5-$10.
Portland Youth Philharmonic
The youth orchestra plays mostly 20th-century English music by Edward Elgar (Enigma Variations), George Butterworth and Malcolm Arnold. Piano competition winner Fred Lu plays the solo role in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 223-5939. 7:30 pm Saturday, Nov. 12. $11-$50.
Venerable Showers of Beauty Gamelan
The Lewis & Clark College-based ensemble performs traditional and contemporary works for the suite of Javanese instruments, including Lou Harrison’s 1982 Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Gamelan, and the American premiere of English composer Neil Sorrell’s Missa Gongso for gamelan and choir. BEN WATERHOUSE. Evans Auditorium at Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, 768-7460. 8 pm Saturday, Nov. 12. $10-$20.
DANCE Lane Hunter >Dance
Former BodyVox/Polaris dancer Lane Hunter is setting out on his own with a new company: Lane Hunter >Dance. The group, composed of BodyVox alumna Laura Haney, Polaris dancers Krista Loveless and Mike Dawson, Broadway tapper Brad Hampton and former Louisville Ballet principal dancer Melissa Framiglio, taps into its members’ varied technical strengths as it debuts with new work this fall. PSYkO is a dance interpretation, incorporating film footage, of Hitchcock’s horror classic, in which a lonely Norman Bates points a video camera at his toy collection to reveal something about himself and about us. World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Saturday, Nov. 9-12. $24.
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EVENTS
PROFILE
Alfredo Jaar
Chilean-born conceptual master installation artist Alfredo Jaar is always stirring up social and political concerns. Blue Sky hosts “It Is Difficult,” a lecture where Jaar, one of the most significant contemporary voices in the arts, talks about his work and the world. Blue Sky Gallery at 122 NW 8th Ave., 971-255-4165. 7-8:30 pm Monday, Nov. 14.
NOW SHOWING Object Poems
David Abel curated the visual manifestations of the words in Object Poems, but his show is anything but literal. Included are 30 writers cum artists from three continents. Standouts include Portland’s own Anna and Leo Daedalus, whose “Ten Rocks” books paired with their mineral components and “Rock Speak” are utter beauties and James Yeary’s Untitled for Sachiko M, in which the artist has transformed a copy of Beckett’s The Unnamable by highlighting all but the white breaths between sentences. 23 Sandy Gallery, 623 NE 23rd Ave., 927-4409. Closes Nov. 26.
Interior Margins
Dinner conversations about art and life can be powerfully appetizing. Interior Margins is a group show of eight Northwest female artists conceived around the dining room table and curated by Stephanie Snyder and Sarah Miller Meigs. Work comes from women of various generations and is housed in a two-story loft space. Each artist deals with abstraction with a personal signature—be it through small wall drawings, primordial body morphing or shapeshifting optical waves. The Lumber Room, 419 NW 9th Ave., lumberroom.com. Nov. 12-Jan. 30.
Kelly Rauer
In Kelly Rauer’s video installation P.O.V. (reflexive), she presents physical grace through involuntary and anonymous distortions of the feminine form. Seven differently shaped video monitors recall different body types, replaying various and distinct silent shorts atop lean black stands constructed for the presentation. The constantly moving figure is entrancing and non-confrontational, almost birdlike at times. Milepost 5/Studios Bldg., 900 NE 81st Ave., 729-3223. Closes Nov. 26.
Place
Place, a contemporary art laboratory occupying an expansive space atop the Pioneer Place Mall, celebrates its first full year of programming. The rooms all have small solo exhibitions, including new work from Rhoda London and Harrison Higgs, which pairs blurry pastoral video imagery with stark, gridded and striped works on paper presented installationstyle with objects that suggest aging and mortality. A simple work on canvas depicts a bowler cap, bringing somber quietude to the space. A grid also forms the passage within the installation Framed or Frame of Mind by Richard Schemmerer, which is his most cryptic and pared-down yet. Blacked-out faces, objet d’art assemblage and other surprises await. Particular standouts include a glass ladder in Jane Schiffhauer’s The Myth of Memory, and Wynde Dyer’s For Sale by Owner complete with scaled-down replica of the artist’s birthplace. Place, third level of the Pioneer Place Mall, 700 SW 5th Ave. Closes Dec. 4.
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Laurie Danial, David Eckard and Ellen George are not the freshest faces in the Portland art scene. They’re not exactly old school, either. All three have impressive midcareer shows this month, products of tenacity buoyed by neither novelty nor the rose coloring of a final retrospective. Their work is united by sensitivity to elusive spatial patterns, anatomical flux and a willingness to face the demons of our inorganic times. All three are fleetingly conceptual and abstract at first but glaringly obvious upon further consideration, a dichotomy that keeps them interesting. In Sensing Place, Ellen George breathes a spacious, colorful spirit into her dangling forms, recalling her early years in Texas. Pieces like Collection of Perfect Moments are sensually draped on the crisp white walls of PDX Contemporary Art like a lei of orchids. In Cotton, it’s as if a high wind has caught a pack of gulls as they drift into the pure white cumulus above. David Eckard has long been one of Portland’s most consistent artists, merging media in a broad, supple way. He asks himself as many questions as he poses to his audience, all the while remaining poker-faced. Deployment, his 20-year retrospective, showcases many of his sculptural objects, some never seen, and others used in performance-based works such as Scribe (2003), Float (2006) and his latest, ©ardiff (2011), which was also presented at this year’s TBA Festival. The White Box Gallery at the University of Oregon-Portland presents both beguiling works on paper, and video such as L’Homme du Fleuve (2005) and Patter (2009). Here he dabbles with an irrational documentary-style balance of mischief and pomp, showing off the poignant innards of his own process. Laurie Danial has been underestimated for years. Her new work, under the moniker Control Release Control, is as stunting as it is stunning. Danial’s style has shifted and tightened since her last solo show over three years ago. Gone are the looser, chaotic drips, replaced by solid forms that have been broken and toyed with. Print work like Scope and Open Close makes impressive use of the vestiges of gaming culture and architectural rendering. She has also upped the scale of the work Between a Rock and a Hunk, a formidable diptych in oils measuring 7 1/2 feet long. Aside from its natural forms, slabs and frills, it is the hidden message that permeates the subliminal world of this big, bold beauty. TJ NORRIS. SEE IT: Ellen George’s Sensing Place at PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063, closes Nov. 26. David Eckard’s Deployment at the White Box Gallery at the University of Oregon-Portland, 24 NW 1st Ave., 412-3689, closes Nov. 12. Laurie Danial’s Control Release Control at Froelick Gallery, 714 NW Davis St., 222-1142, closes Dec. 17.
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then the audience will walk to the Lucky Lab in Multnomah Village to eat pizza and watch the band Budget Airlines. Annie Bloom’s Books, 7834 SW Capitol Highway, 246-0053. 5:30 pm. Free.
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George Wright
Oregon writer George Wright reads from his newest novel set in the Beaver State, Newport Blues: A Salesman’s Lament, which tells the story of a traveling salesman on the Oregon coast. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.
Andra Rotaru and Zachary Schomburg
PICA is hosting Romanian poet Andra Rotaru for a five-week residency, and she’ll be doing a free public reading at Literary Arts alongside local poet Zachary Schomburg. Rotaru will read her work in Romanian, then poet Donald Dunbar will read a translation in English. Rotaru has written two collections of poetry, and has won the Mihai Eminescu National Poetry Prize and the Bucharest Writers Association Prize. Literary Arts Center, 925 SW Washington St., 2272583. 7 pm. Free.
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Chris Hardwick was already a standup comedian, actor, musician, podcaster and online entrepreneur. Naturally, the next step was to write a self-help book. The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life) instructs readers how to go from “geek to chic.” Yes, they actually use that phrase. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
others) is Out of Oz. “The Emerald City is mounting an invasion of Munchkinland, Glinda is under house arrest, and the Cowardly Lion is on the run from the law.” Of course. Bagdad Theater & Pub, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 236-9234. 7 pm. $26.99 (includes copy of book).
Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic
Cover to Cover’s bimonthly poetry reading features Peter Ludwin. Ludwin’s poems are inspired by his travels around the globe, having recently returned from western China and Tibet. Cover to Cover Books, 6300 NE St. James Road, Vancouver, 360-514-0358. 7 pm. Free.
Will Potter
Freelance journalist Will Potter will deliver Pacific University’s annual In Your Face Lecture, on the subject of “Green is the New Red: How Corporations Turned Environmentalists into ‘EcoTerrorists.’” Potter has written for the Chicago Tribune and the Dallas Morning News focusing on eco-terrorism, animal rights, the environmental movement and civil liberties. Pacific University, 2043 College Way, 352-2918. 7 pm. Free.
FRIDAY, NOV. 11 Go the F**k to Sleep
It’s a children’s book with swearing in it! Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
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Gregory Maguire
Dana Haynes
If you’re sick of hearing “Defying Gravity,” the man to blame is Gregory Maguire, who wrote the book Wicked, upon which the titular musical was based. His latest in the series (yes, there were
Portland author Dana Haynes releases Breaking Point, the sequel to his 2010 novel, Crashers. The new book is described as a “twisty, compelling thriller.” The launch kicks off with a reading at Annie Bloom’s,
Sci-Fi Authorfest V
Set phasers to “read”: Powell’s holds it fifth Sci-Fi Authorfest. Also in attendance will be the Cloud City Garrison: adults who dress up as Stormtroopers. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651. 4:30 pm. Free.
Amy Sonnie and James Tracy
Topical book reading alert: In Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power, James Tracy and Amy Sonnie question the popular wisdom that activism in America is the domain of middle-class liberal arts students. Their book tells the unknown stories of poor and working-class white radicals who worked with the Black Panthers, the Puerto Rican Young Lords and Martin Luther King to fight racism and inequality during the 1960s and ’70s. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.
The Studio Series
The Studio Series poetry reading and open mic features former Oregonian and Washington Post journalist-turned-poet Don Colburn and local poet Jon Seaman. Stonehenge Studios, 3508 SW Corbett Ave., 224-3640. 7 pm. Free.
Greg Palast
Journalist Greg Palast (The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Armed Madhouse) brings his new book and love of alliteration, Vultures’ Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Predators, to town. Bagdad Theater & Pub, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 236-9234. $12 advance, $18 at the door.
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The most interesting gem unearthed in James remarkable that they had mostly positive results. Fadiman’s book The Psychedelic Explorer’s Suspiciously remarkable, really. “Clifford” eats Guide? Francis Crick, discoverer of DNA, per- acid directly before an important final exam in ceived the double-helix shape college and it works out for while tripping balls on acid. him, which seems relatively The other 300 pages are dediunlikely. cated to outlining safe and The main problem with Fadieffective ways of using psyman’s subject matter is that chedelics, detailing their hispeople who use psychedelics tory, and relating first-person are disconnected from people accounts of various people who don’t. Those without who ingested psychedelics psychedelic experience genfor specific reasons, be they erally don’t want it, and those spiritual, therapeutic or probwho do don’t need Fadiman’s lem-solving. The result is an book. The guidelines he outunsurprisingly haphazard yet lines for “a successful voyinteresting discussion of psyage” are so basic it’s almost chedelic use for therapy that comical (“have at least eight doesn’t come close to blowing hours of music on hand”). up the familiar conversation He covers all the important with a rainbow laser. bases—history, possibilities, Fadiman (he has a Ph.D. user data—and unabashedly Tips for trips from the hubby of Ken Kesey’s ex. in psychology from Stanford drops the important names: University, though it was Fadiman’s wife is Ken Kesey’s awarded back in the loosey-goosey ’60s) makes ex, and he chats about Ram Dass, Aldous Huxley his strongest case for the benefits of what he and Timothy Leary. Unfortunately, it’s all been calls “psychedelic therapy” with myriad per- done better. MAGGIE SUMMERS. sonal reflections from those who experienced a guided session. It’s interesting to read accounts GO: James Fadiman will speak at Powell’s Books on Hawthorne on Sunday, Nov. 13, at of engineers, architects and furniture designers 4 pm. Admission is free. tripping to solve professional problems. It’s also
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SIX MILLION MODERN WARFARE 3 FANS CAN’T BE WRONG…CAN THEY? BY C AS E Y JA R M A N
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but feel like I was playing a very well-made expansion of the 2009 title. The graphics aren’t noticeably improved. The levels are as smart as ever but break no new ground. The actual game play has not significantly changed. The Call of Duty franchise knows what it does best, and, shit, it’s just going to keep doing that. There are, of course, a number of new gadgets (the drone helicopter being the most fun; a pop-up land mine called “Bouncing Betty” having the most
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About 24 hours ago, I started playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 online in the middle of the Willamette Week office. I have stopped for food, bathroom breaks and occasional unescapable professional obligations since then, but mostly I’ve just been playing Modern Warfare. I have killed 1,013 people. I have died 1,247 times. I have ended 71 lives by shooting my enemies right in their stupid faces. I know these things because Activision’s just-released game keeps track of every inane statistic possible. In fact, there are so many numbers that the game’s developers built an entirely separate Web app just to keep track of them. For $50 a year, it will pile even more obscure numbers on top of the already ridiculous numbers. By the game’s own calculations (more numbers!), it would take me about 10 work weeks of game time to jump through all of MW3’s hoops. In short, Modern Warfare 3 wants my life. I gave it 24 hours. I’ve done this sort of thing before. I was 13 years old the first time I ever stayed up all night for a game. A friend and I had rented Sonic the Hedgehog for the Sega Genesis, and we were dumbfounded. As I walked home the next morning, halfawake, the Casino stage’s 16-bit theme song was churned in my head and I could still see checkerboard patterns spinning out of control in every direction. I had played the game so intensely and for so long that I internalized Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog changed the way I looked at the world—just a little. Though my pacifist leanings make it hard to reconcile, I’ve also sunk a fair amount of time into the Call of Duty franchise. Modern Warfare 3’s predecessor, released in 2009, was a particularly vapid time suck. Its fantasy statistics, combined
with endlessly customizable variations of guns and special abilities, actually didn’t do much for me. The game’s ingenious level design and smooth animations pulled me in. MW2 was like a really violent ballet—all odd angles and strangely graceful movements, pulling together then pushing apart and retaining an incredible balance throughout. The controls and customization worked in tandem, allowing players to bring a great deal of individual style to the table—something previous shooting games hadn’t generally been sophisticated enough to offer. MW2 had a puzzle game’s mind and a war game’s body. It ruined a good number of my weekends, keeping me up until sunrise. This week’s 24-hour video-game bender hasn’t led me to internalize Modern Warfare 3 the way I did Sonic. That’s probably a good thing. I’d rather not be tormented by explosions, aerial drones and sneaky knife attacks on the bus ride home. Besides that, there’s just nothing groundbreaking here: While it does expand on its predecessor in a number of subtle ways, I couldn’t help
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troubling real-world implications), but you’ll find fewer major structural shifts in the game’s online component after the three-year hiatus than you would from one season of a sports game to the next. Did I forget to mention the story? Oh, I’m sorry. Well, the story is irrelevant. The fact that the game’s battles take place on Wall Street and in London’s Tube, among other settings—a crazed terrorist having attacked various postcard-perfect cities and baited Russia into war against the U.S.—will engage the average player’s brain only for a handful of hours. The multi-player game’s job is to pummel those singleplayer levels into organized submission and strip them of any meaningful context. In the overwhelmingly popular straight-up death-match mode, players are simply dropped into war-torn landscape, assigned a team at random (you might be the “African militia,” for example, and I might be the Russians), and asked to shoot the shit out of each other. Over and over and over again. For at least 10 working weeks. The shooting eventually gets old. It’s going to get old quickly this time around, and not just because MW3 avoids sidesteps innovation in favor of playing it safe. See, for a title that brings millions of diverse players (with headsets) from all over the world together every day, Modern Warfare 3 is oddly lonely. Where Electronic Arts’ graphically inferior Battlefield 3 title active-
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ly encourages teamwork, Modern Warfare only allows for it. And it turns out gamers can’t be depended on to work together—or even speak with one another, save for blurting “fuck,” “bullshit” or “faggot”—without a lot of encouragement. Maybe I’m a fool to expect that a game about something as abhorrent as war should encourage any sort of community. But in all my attempts to talk to MW3 players, I couldn’t even get anyone to tell me why they liked the game. Somewhere in my 23rd hour of marathon gaming, I got tired of the silence, so I changed up the question, asking: “Does anyone else not really care about the military but really like these games?” “Fuck the military,” one voice said. “Yeah, fuck the military,” another one added. “Bro, I was in the Army for four years. Fuck the military,” said a third. This wasn’t the response I was expecting. I wonder what the other 9,999,997 players might have to say if they felt like talking. Maybe other people like the Modern Warfare games for some of the same reasons I do. Maybe the franchise’s success has less to do with war than it does with movement, style and balance—the same traits that made me want to stay up late maneuvering a blue hedgehog around arches and over spikes. Or maybe I should just be thankful that Modern Warfare 3 can take my life 1,247 times in 24 hours without anyone getting hurt. KILL KILL! Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is out now. It retails for $59.99.
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hero’s odds of survival, the movie feels hesitant to explore the implications that one character might soon vanish from the company of all others. It 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. Eastport. Visit wweek.com for additional locations. NEW
All About Eve
[REVIVAL] The night: It’s still going to be bumpy. Living Room Theaters.
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, Clackamas. Visit wweek.com for additional locations.
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Austin Unbound
[THREE NIGHTS ONLY] A documentary about a deaf woman becoming a man. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Saturday and 3 pm Sunday, Nov. 12-13. Also screening at the Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival at 8:45 pm Tuesday, Nov. 15.
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 Indoor Twin, Clackamas, Oak Grove. Visit wweek.com for additional locations.
Drive
95 Drive, the luxurious new L.A. noir
from Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, is the most brutally antisocial movie of the year. It is also the most romantic—but it is primarily spellbound by the romance of isolation. It is also exhilarating filmmaking, from soup to swollen nuts. It contains half a dozen white-knuckle action sequences— starting with a Ryan Gosling robbery getaway timed to the final buzzer of an L.A. Clippers game—yet its closest
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relative is the lightheaded, restrained eroticism of Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love. R. AARON MESH. Fox Tower, Valley. Visit wweek.com for additional locations.
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 also likes to put glitter in a wind machine. PG-13. AARON MESH. 99 Indoor Twin, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove. Visit wweek.com for additional locations.
Happy, Happy
A woman envies her new neighbors in this Norwegian drama. R. Living Room Theaters.
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. The pessimism makes this more of a horror movie than a social analysis. It is a very good horror movie, and its savage iconoclasm is bracing. R. AARON MESH. Fox Tower, Lake Twin, Moreland. Visit wweek.com for additional locations. NEW
Immortals 3D
Greek gods cross swords that will POKE YOU IN THE EYE. Not screened for critics. R. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Pioneer Place, Lloyd Center, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub, Sherwood, Wilsonville, Roseway. Visit wweek.com for additional locations.
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 shaved-head Clyde, have shrugging, casual chemistry, which makes it more of a shame that the movie constantly forces them to utter stilted exposition and doctrine. I’d prefer to see them off the clock. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove. Visit wweek.com for additional locations.
Inni
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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. ROBERT HAM. Living Room Theaters. NEW
Jack and Jill
Adam Sandler is Adam Sandler’s sister. Not screened for critics by WW press deadlines. Look for a review (maybe) on wweek.com. PG. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Pioneer Place, Lloyd Center, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Division, Sherwood, Wilsonville. Visit wweek.com for additional locations.
Margin Call
59 Perfectly primed to capitalize on current interest in just how majestically wrecked we all are and shall seemingly forever be, Margin Call dramatizes 2008’s financial death rattles by isolating a 24-hour span in which one fictional Wall Street firm tries to figure out what to do with all of the shit falling into its huge, shiny fan. Writerdirector J.C. Chandor’s central premise, that these guys bathing in cash and Drakkar Noir were simply doing their jobs, is a steep slope to climb at the moment, and Chandor’s evident faith in essential goodness isn’t fuel enough to get us up to that peak of magnanimity with him. Like Moneyball, this year’s other numerary drama of note, Margin Call hits the root thrill of dudes fidgeting with digits—I’d be perfectly happy watching Zachary Quinto’s eyebrows dip and dart in front of a computer screen for half an hour—but once those many-zeroed figures merge with the messiness of human motivation, Chandor’s film collapses. As various handsomely coiffed traders grow spines, hearts and consciences, Jeremy Irons enters the picture as a sin-eating executive who will exculpate his soldiers by giving them excuses in the form of marching orders. If only it were that simple. R. CHRIS STAMM. Hollywood Theatre, Living Room Theaters.
Martha Marcy May Marlene
78 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. 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. Fox Tower.
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. PG-13. CHRIS STAMM. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Lake Twin, Living Room Theaters. Visit wweek.com for additional locations.
The Names of Love
84 Regular filmgoers may notice
that Michel Leclerc’s autobiographical rom-com The Names of Love bears more than a few similarities to Mike Mills’ autobiographical rom-com Beginners—e.g., the whimsical little conceits (subtitled dog conversations with dead grandparents), the parental secrets (closeted homosexuality, repressed Holocaust memories) and most of all the free-spirited French girlfriend. (Of course, everybody in The Names of Love is French. It’s a French movie.) No slight to Melanie Laurent, but Leclerc’s movie is elevated above all comparisons by the presence of
Sara Forestier—distressingly beautiful, endlessly personable, and very often naked—as Baya Benmahmoud, a halfAlgerian leftist political activist who raises awareness in bed. She sleeps with reactionaries until they, say, abandon stock trading to herd sheep, and adds Arthur (Jacques Gamblin), an avian necrologist, because she thinks he’s nice and could stand to be happy. The conceit is frothy, but with a core of daring—as written by Leclerc and Baya Kasmi, the character’s sexual liberation is a result of not just ideological enthusiasm but childhood abuse. The comedy busts this taboo along with any other it encounters, and when it turns slushy in the final act, the waterworks feel earned through honesty; there’s a scene with a Jewish child eating whipped cream in Vichy, France, that may be the most delicate bit of emotional manipulation I’ve seen this year. The Names of Love offers the
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J. EDGAR It is high time for another movie about the Lindbergh toddler, and who better to helm it than the man who directed Million Dollar Baby? Actually, Clint Eastwood’s best qualification for re-creating the kidnapping case is Changeling, his flatly bizarre picture about Depression-era child slaughter. So the central section of J. Edgar, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio as intelligence-hoarding FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, becomes a labyrinthine whodunnit, with Charles Lindbergh (Josh Lucas) hopping in his plane to follow false leads obtained through graveyard meetings, as Hoover leverages the publicity into more Bureau power and resources. Meanwhile, a tiny corpse rots in the woods behind a soon-to-be tarnished idol’s house. Had J. Edgar limited itself to that formative fiasco, it might have been a more cutting G-man picture than Michael Mann’s exhausting Public Enemies. The actual film, spread over four decades and leached of any bright hues, is complex and brave, if at times almost comically misguided. Though filled with lurid material—Hoover intimidating Robert F. Kennedy with a tape recording of his brother screwing, Hoover trying on his mother’s nightgowns and necklaces—it never lapses into exploitation. Such tastefulness is Eastwood’s hallmark as a filmmaker, and also his great weakness: It makes him almost as humorless as the man he’s chronicling. (DiCaprio’s performance as a coal-eyed, fussy tyrant who sincerely loves his country is more nuanced than I anticipated, if also a little monotonous.) Eastwood’s big miscalculation here is shooting nearly half the movie with Hoover and confidante Clyde Tolson (The Social Network’s Armie Hammer) in liver-spotted old-age makeup, so that by the end it looks like crotchety Muppets Statler and Waldorf are heckling Martin Luther King Jr. Despite this fundamental hitch (and a 137-minute aimlessness), J. Edgar has the virtue of being penned by Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, who takes the shamed relationship between Hoover and Tolson and finds a real love story. This eventually becomes the chief focus of J. Edgar, echoing the poignance of Harvey Milk’s passion for Scott Smith. Black’s empathy extends here to men not courageous enough to be lovers. He looks inside J. Edgar Hoover’s closet and finds more than skeletons. R. AARON MESH.
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Paranormal Activity 3
70 You’re recycling a fake documen-
tary 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. 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, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove. Visit wweek.com for additional locations.
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Antonio Banderas makes his Garfield. WW did not attend the press screening. PG. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Pioneer Place, Lloyd Center. Visit wweek.com for additional locations.
Real Steel
63 Real Steel is fundamentally a bad movie—obnoxious, incoherent and sloppy—resembling nothing so much as some ’90s summer family-film commodity fabricated to sell toys: Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, specifically. Somehow this also makes it seem like a more innocent movie, or at least reminds me of a time when I was more innocent about movies. Most kiddie blockbusters have become cripplingly wised up and knowing. Real Steel
knows nothing. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Forest. Visit wweek.com for additional locations.
Revenge of the Electric Car
64 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 wise-guy 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. PG-13. BEN WATERHOUSE. Hollywood Theatre.
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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. 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. R. AP KRYZA. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, CineMagic, Forest, St. Johns Twin-Cinema Pub. Visit wweek.com for additional locations.
The Skin I Live In 86 Very particular body-image
issues are at the core of The Skin I Live In, Pedro 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
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most appealing possible vision of liberalism, a cosmopolitan manifesto something like the old Woody Guthrie lines: “And all creeds and kinds and colors of us are blending/ Till I suppose 10 million years from now, we’ll all be just alike.” If we all look and act like Sara Forestier, it’ll be utopia. R. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters.
SOME GUY WHO KILLS PEOPLE 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. But Banderas’ 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 sexuality can be formed through victimization, yet leave room for a sense of self to emerge triumphant. 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. R. AARON MESH. Fox Tower.
isn’t your usual Jenna Jameson-type ski flick comes almost immediately, as a weathered gaucho whispers a few lines adapted from Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. In Spanish. The film leans heavily on atmospheric melancholy. There’s no techno music or pratfalls to relieve the tension—just lonely figures swooping through wind-swept moonscapes of ice and gravel to the wistful strains of Junip. A conspicuous lack of narration besides the pseudo-mystical Conrad bastardizations makes it hard to tell when the crew moves from Bolivia to Colombia to Peru. But these objections fade away when confronted with the staggering beauty of the southern badlands, and the terrifying, technically difficult escapades of the athletes. If you fall in powder, NEW you laugh and get up. But if you fall while zooming through a 5-foot-wide 84 [ONE NIGHT ONLY] Ski porn crack of rock, on ice, at 50 mph, you’re serves the same purpose as the other TITLE: Twilight SIZE (COLUMNS): toast. If Jenna Jameson could do that, kind of porn: to stoke desire. Most films 5.727" x 6.052" PUBLICATION: Willamette Weekly SIZE (INCHES): RUN this DATE: Nov 9, 2011 COLOR MODE: B&Wwe’d recommend her films as well. accomplish with endless footage ADRIENNE SO. Bagdad Theater. 6:30 of beefy dude-bros slaying luscious pm Wednesday, Nov. 9. pillow lines and gasping, “Gnarly!”
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minute documentary on the downtown Portland secondhand bookstore that has the tenor of a nature program capturing a creature in the wild just before its species goes extinct. MATTHEW SINGER. 7 pm Saturday and Friday, Nov. 12 & 18.
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“If you’re shovelin’ shit all day, we suggest you change some shit.” That’s the tagline pinned to the end of writerdirector Travis Swartz’s Nobody Cares, a comedy about a middle-aged Idaho man named Bob (Chris Thometz) who literally shovels manure for a living and whose life hasn’t registered a blip on anyone’s radar. Bob is a decent person who inhabits a world in which everyone else—his wife, his parents, his therapist—is an asshole of cartoonish proportions. He is also a coward. He is such an interminable pussy that even after discovering he only has days left to live, he continues going to his (ahem) shitty job and (ahem) taking shit from the 23-year-old kid who stole his promotion. It’s meant to be a farce, but Swartz piles the crap (ahem) so high onto Bob’s existence that only a Falling Down-style rampage would feel satisfying. Spoiler alert: It doesn’t happen. MATTHEW SINGER. 7 pm Sunday, Nov. 13. 49
Instead of the usual mid-life displays of sports car and trophy companion, the NW Film Center’s regional festival is celebrating its 38th year with a name change (it was the Northwest Film & Video Festival) and an ad campaign trumpeting its status as fertile ground for fresh talents. Also, it has taken an interest in binge drinking. The youthful indiscretion is earned: Even with encore screenings of work by the usual suspects—Gus Van Sant, Matt McCormick, Irene Taylor Brodsky—there is still more new material than we have space to consider. Here’s looking at you, kids.
Shorts I 65 The festival’s openingnight program is spasmodic in more ways than one: There’s an overemphasis on herky-jerky stop-motion animation, and few of the selections are fully realized. The best by a country mile is Basin, David Geiss’ ominous, wordless travelogue of Alberta’s oil sands. Images of factories shooting flames into the sky make Canada look like Mordor. Almost as fascinating is Mt. Parnassus, which tours a 727 jet plane turned into a rural Washington County house (in one absurd shot, the owner sweeps snow out the hatch door). The longer, dramatic features don’t resonate as deeply, and the overwhelming memory from this omnibus is of all that skittering stopmotion: Unspooling cassette tapes in Strands, screen prints in Old-Time Film, and typewriters with H.R. Geiger tendencies in Meta Aberratio. AARON
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Shorts II 70 So much odd stuff happens across these nine short films—an animatronic Abraham Lincoln reciting the Gettysburg Address as the universe implodes around him (The Gr8 Task Remaining B4 Us); two dudes digging holes and humping trees while making increasingly feral noises (With You)—that the few reprieves from experimentalism startle with their simplicity. Kosmos, by Portland director Fantavious Fritz, features avant-garde visual flourishes but swoons with energy from its story of a skateboarder “chasing the horizon.” Vanessa Renwick’s Mighty Tacoma is nine minutes of meditative wordless imagery juxtaposing industry and the natural world in the titular port city. Best— and most straightforward—of all is Cameron’s Books, a six-
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Confluence 79 Do the Pacific Northwest’s most talented directors live in Lewiston, Idaho? It remains a mystery. Jennifer Anderson and Vernon Lott submitted one of the stronger documentaries in last year’s festival, Bad Writing, and the husband-wife team returns this year with
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an even stronger, tauter work. In just 53 unnerving minutes, Confluence traces a sinister route through the disappearances of four young women into the scrubland at the mouth of Hell’s Canyon between 1979 and 1982. (Parts of three of them were found.) With a constant and only slightly pushy score by Peter Broderick backing choked-up interviews and shallow-focus montages of the dusty main streets where victims were last seen, the film feels like David Lynch directed an episode of Friday Night Lights. My only qualm is with the last 10 minutes, when Anderson and Lott take aim at the most likely suspect and, failing to obtain a Thin Blue Line-style revelation, skirt the borders of defaming him. The case, like their potential, is still open. AARON MESH. 7 pm Monday, Nov. 14.
Heart Breaks Open 38 When nights spent fucking dudes behind his boyfriend’s back result in HIV, LGBTQ activist Jesus (pronounced like the messiah, not a Puerto Rican baseball player, and played by Maximillian Davis) gets all Cleo from 5 to 7 on the streets of Seattle, scribbling poetry and longing for the man he once loved. After a suicide attempt, he’s rescued by an HIV-positive “glitter nun” (Brian Peters) who looks like a kabuki outcast from Darcelle’s. The two weep, hit the clubs, wax philosophical and…that’s about it. Still, director Billie Rain manages to overcomplicate a compellingly sparse examination of friendship amid fear by littering the decidedly unconventional story with every cliché imaginable, from the use of pseudo-doc-
umentary camerawork to pretentious voiceover poetry by the protagonist, complete with montages of him scribbling in a notebook. Jesus, man! Can’t we just tell a solid story without the freshman film-student tropes? AP KRYZA. 8:45 pm Tuesday, Nov. 15.
Faded: Girls + Binge Drinking 70 Like an episode of Intervention without the pesky intervention part, Portland documentarian Janet McIntyre’s Faded: Girls + Binge Drinking attempts to dissect the causes of destructive shit-facery among girls by spending three years with four Portland women in various stages of alcohol use. There’s the wild Rose City Roller and Sandy Hut bartendress in denial of her self-destructive persona, an Indonesian immigrant who flies off the handle and into homelessness, a struggling Parkrose student coping with abandonment and a precocious college freshman plunged into the world of college partying. McIntyre offers hypotheses about female binge drinking— from societal pressure to sexual acceptance—without ascending the pulpit. By simply letting her camera roll, McIntyre offers a stark snapshot of a multilayered problem many dismiss as youthful revelry. The film is appropriately paired with Portlander Brian Lindstrom’s Teens in Drug Treatment, a documentary focused on…yup. But in Texas. AP KRYZA. 7 pm Thursday, Nov. 17.
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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’ mashed-potato-sculpting scene distended to a two-hour daymare. This time, what the hero sees is looming thunderheads. He is played by Michael Shannon, a tender performer with the face of a maniac. What he plays, in fact, is a good man—something hard to find in the movies. It is easy to sneer that, as privileged Americans, we deserve whatever comeuppance we get, but Take Shelter brings a reminder that, whatever our fate, we still have the capacity to be righteous. R. AARON MESH. Fox Tower.
high on cocaine, forces Elias Koteas to eat ice cream, meanders into raunchy claymation, glues penises to poles, strips nuns naked and somehow gets Danny Trejo to don a Christmas sweater. Upon emerging from the theater, my companion reviewed my laughter thusly: “You liked the baby.” I did. I liked the baby. It was all high on cocaine. A baby all high on cocaine is funny. So is Doogie’s waffle-making robot. Take two and pass, kids. R. CHRIS STAMM. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Pioneer Place, Lloyd Center. Visit wweek.com for additional locations.
The Way
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directed by Emilio Estevez” should rightfully strike fear into the ardent cinephile’s heart, as you’re sure to witness a filmmaker overreaching his abilities to an embarrassing degree. This latest effort by the former Brat Packer is no exception. Enlivened only by cinematography that ably captures the beauty of the Spanish countryside, this Way leads to disappointment. PG-13. ROBERT HAM. Hollywood Theatre. Visit wweek.com for additional locations. NEW
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A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
69 The first two entries into what I’m now fairly comfortable referring to as the Harold & Kumar canon are, like vegan cookies and conversations with demure men who appreciate the work of Michael Franti, immensely satisfying—nay, nearly transcendentally dome-blowing—as stoned experiences, but they aren’t much more than pleasant diversions for a sober mind. Because I am nothing if not intrepid, I decided to flip the script and make my first encounter with the third installment, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, a stone cold plantless one, and I can assure you that it is just as peerlessly lukewarm as its predecessors. However, as someone who plans to see it again, I can say with some confidence that it is probably very, very funny if you decide to take a walk and get some air before it starts. A cute, irreverent tussle with America’s two stupidest religious beliefs—Santa Christ and pointless 3-D—A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas: Cheech and Chong Part 2: Part Three gets a baby
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Tower Heist
ing ruse: It is directed by Brett Ratner, it posits Ben Stiller as a hero of the economically downtrodden, it juices the arrest of a white-collar criminal by having his escape van flip over in the middle of a Manhattan street while Stiller is clotheslined by an FBI agent, and I still found myself thinking halfway through that it was a good deal better than I expected. Credit for this goes mostly to the cast, who all agreed to emphasize the least flattering aspects of their personas for comedy. Matthew Broderick and Casey Affleck take the most humiliation, playing a sad sack and an incompetent, respectively, and come off the best. Stiller channels his choked rage into a nuanced servility to ultra-rich boss Alan Alda in exchanges that accurately capture the pain of maintaining cordial relations with someone constantly exploiting you. Tea Leoni performs a lovely dance of a drunk scene. Eddie Murphy plays a more soured and violent Billy Ray Valentine. And then the movie gets to the heist itself, and grinds to an excruciating halt with a set piece featuring a car made out of pure gold, first dangling out a window, then stuffed atop an elevator. None of this finale is possible to explain, and, to be frank, I would rather pretend I never liked any of it, even momentarily. Deal? PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Lloyd Center. Visit wweek.com for additional locations.
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LIKE CRAZY Everyone has friends like Jacob and Anna, the twentysomething couple at the center of Like Crazy. They’re the kind of young lovers who, once they start dating anyone seriously, become so completely absorbed in a relationship that all traces of individual identity disappear. Suddenly, their lives become a Coldplay song. Nothing else matters except their love, and the rest of us just can’t understand because that love is so overwhelming, so powerful, so deep. In short, Jacob and Anna are kind of annoying. It’s not really their fault, though, and certainly not the fault of Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones, the actors who portray them. Both deliver warm, organic performances in this tiny, critically rhapsodized drama. But if a film is about two people drawn together with such gravitational force that it gradually repels them, the attraction needs to be palpable. Through much of Like Crazy, it is not. Blame, then, falls on director Drake Doremus (Douchebag). He tells a story that spans years yet zooms by so quickly—thanks to several montages and time-lapse sequences that are more artful than effective—the characters never become truly knowable outside the bubble of their all-consuming relationship. Jacob and Anna—he an American design student, she an aspiring journalist from Britain—meet cute at a college in Los Angeles. That happens in the film’s first 45 seconds; within minutes, they’re doing the stuff star-crossed kids always do in movies, like staring meaningfully into each other’s eyes, reading each other’s shitty prose, and that thing where they trace each other’s hand movements while standing on opposite sides of a pane of glass. Rarely do they have a conversation that brings the viewer inside this allegedly transcendent romance. We’re just supposed to accept that their connection is profound, because they drove Indy cars together and spent a weekend on Catalina Island. And maybe we would accept it, if the obstacles that challenge their relationship didn’t ring so false. Visa problems get Anna deported back to England; Jacob can’t relocate because his furniture-design business is miraculously recession-proof. So begins their long-distance courtship, fraught with multiple breakups and reconciliations, stopgap affairs and contrived symbolism. By the time the legal hurdles keeping them apart are cleared, it’s unclear whether their ongoing love is real or merely a habit. Only at the end does Like Crazy hit a grace note of painful, ambiguous truth, but by then it’s too late. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER.
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ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE: There’s a secularist party going on this weekend at Portland Humanist Film Festival, which includes a costume-contest screening of Monty Python’s Life of Brian (9 pm Friday, Nov. 11), and 8: The Mormon Proposition (2 pm Saturday, Nov. 12), which broadsides the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints’ well-financed campaign against same-sex marriage. Narrated by J. Edgar screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, this 80-minute counterattack feels overly apocalyptic—it might have taken a less ominous, more satirical approach to the Mormons’ unusually centralized religious authority and uniquely stupid beliefs about the afterlife. An approach more like...oh, Life of Brian. AARON MESH. Showing at: Cinema 21, Friday-Sunday, Nov. 11-13. Best paired with: Ninkasi Double Red Believer. Also showing: There Will Be Blood (Laurelhurst), The Help (Academy, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst).
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2735 E Burnside St., 503-232-5511 THE HELP Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 06:30 COWBOYS & ALIENS FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:20 CONTAGION FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:45 THERE WILL BE BLOOD Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 09:00 CRAZY,
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Mission Theater and Pub
1624 NW Glisan St., 503-249-7474 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. Fri-Sat-Mon 05:30 CONTAGION Fri-Mon 08:00 COLOMBIANA Fri-Mon 10:00 NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY Sun-Tue-Wed
Moreland Theatre
6712 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503236-5257 THE IDES OF MARCH FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:30, 07:40
Roseway Theatre
7229 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-282-2898 IMMORTALS 3D Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:30, 04:15, 07:00, 09:45
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CineMagic Theatre
2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-231-7919 THE RUM DIARY Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:30, 08:00
Kiggins Theatre
1011 Main St., 360-737-3161 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon 06:00 NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY Tue-Wed
Century Eastport 16 4040 SE 82nd Ave., 800-326-3264 CONTAGION Fri-Sat-Sun-
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Kennedy School Theater
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-Wed 05:30 CONTAGION FriSat-Tue-Wed 02:30 THE HELP Fri-Sat-Sun-MonWed 07:30
Fifth Avenue Cinemas
510 SW Hall St., 503-725-3551 A ZED & TWO NOUGHTS Fri-Sat-Sun 03:00 NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY Mon-Tue-Wed
Forest Theatre
1911 Pacific Ave., 503-844-8732 REAL STEEL Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 07:00 THE RUM DIARY Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 09:30
1219 SW Park Ave., 503-221-1156 SHORTS 1 Fri 07:00 SHORTS 2 Sat 07:00 RESTLESS Sat 09:00 SPOIL Sun 01:00 SAVING PELICAN 895 Sun QUEEN OF THE SUN: WHAT ARE THE BEES TELLING US? Sun 03:00 12 TAKES Sun 05:00 FREEDOM ON THE FENCE Sun NOBODY CARES Sun 05:00 NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY Mon-Tue-Wed
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9360 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway, 503-296-6843 CONTAGION Fri-Sat-MonTue-Wed 06:00 DRIVE FriSat-Sun-Wed 08:15 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Fri-Sat-Wed 06:40 COWBOYS & ALIENS FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 08:55 THE HELP Fri-SatSun-Wed 06:20 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:15 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 Sat-Sun 01:00
Living Room Theaters
341 SW 10th Ave., 971-222-2010 ALL ABOUT EVE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 03:00, 06:30, 09:15 THE NAMES OF LOVE FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 02:50, 05:20, 07:40 HAPPY HAPPY GA Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:40, 05:10, 07:15, 09:10 INNI Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:50 MONEYBALL FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:50, 01:30, 04:15, 07:00, 09:00 MARGIN CALL Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:10, 02:30, 05:00, 07:30, 09:45 MOZART’S SISTER Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 09:40 CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:45
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