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NEWS DOES NOT COUNT AS A SERVING OF VEGETABLES. Multnomah County has resigned from the Oregon Housing Alliance because of the Alliance’s lobbyist, Mark Nelson. County Commissioner Deborah Kafoury says Nelson’s role in a signature-gathering firm working on a proposed constitutional ban on a real-estate transfer tax is contrary to the Housing Alliance’s interest in developing more affordable housing. Kafoury says the county’s $4,250 annual dues will no longer help pay Nelson. “Mark Nelson lobbies against nearly everything we [the county] stand for,” Kafoury says. Nelson says he is only a board member of the signature-gathering firm and has no advocacy or financial role in the measure. “She’s just wrong,” he says. Left without a staging ground since the Nov. 13 removal of its tent city at Chapman and Lownsdale squares, Occupy Portland now plans to set up camp in another park on Saturday, Dec. 3. “Why? Because,” the group explains on its website, “we have the right to peacefully assemble...and we’re not done!” At 3 pm, Occupiers plan to march from the Salmon Street Springs Fountain (north of the Hawthorne Bridge in Tom McCall Waterfront Park) to an undisclosed location where they’ll set up tents and break out the Hula-Hoops. Earlier that day, at Southeast 37th Avenue and Hawthorne Boulevard, Occupiers “who still want to participate…but don’t necessarily want to go downtown” are encouraged to bring their pets (on a leash) to a “Dogcupy Portland” protest outside local bank branches. Why? Because crossing the river is too much trouble, even for the 99 percent. “The Portland Plan is a beautiful document,” says a recent announcement by the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, “but its length and complexity can be overwhelming.” By way of soliciting public comments on the 183-page draft of the city’s 25-year comprehensive plan, the city produced two how-to videos, posted at pdxplan. com. In one, “How to Comment on the Portland Plan,” Portland Planning and Sustainability Commission Chair Andre Baugh urges, of all things, concision. “It’s important to be brief and hold your testimony to three minutes,” Baugh says. But brevity, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. The other instructional video, called “How to Read the Portland Plan,” runs just over four minutes. Correction: Last week’s story “Not What the Doctors Ordered” misnamed State Rep. Mitch Greenlick (D-Portland) and described his district too narrowly. WW regrets the errors. Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt.

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For a brainy Sanskrit scholar with decades of high-level administrative experience in state university systems, recently fired University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere displayed a stunning failure of two basic skills: He apparently could neither read nor count. Hundreds of U of O faculty and alumni showed up to support Lariviere at a State Board of Higher Education meeting Nov. 28 in Portland. But ardent Ducks such as board member Allyn Ford, whose family is one of the university’s biggest financial supporters, and Senate Education Committee Chair Mark Hass (D-Beaverton) knew Lariviere had to go. “I’m a Duck,” Hass says. “Yet I’m completely supportive of this move.” So where did Lariviere, who replaced former president Dave Frohnmayer in July 2009, go wrong? His first big misstep occurred within a year of his arrival in Eugene. Lariviere began in 2010 to promote “The New Partnership,” which envisioned the state selling $800 million in bonds and fundraising an equal amount. The proposal was as risky as it was bold. Skeptics also viewed it as an attempt to further separate Oregon from the state’s six other public universities. Rather than seeking support from his boss, Chancellor George Pernsteiner, and the higher-ed board, he pushed forward on his own. In October 2010, the board spoke with Lariviere and asked him to table “The New Partnership” until after the 2011 legislative session, when Gov. John Kitzhaber would pursue substantial education reform. Oregon University System board president Matt Donegan says Lariviere agreed. But soon Donegan learned the U of O foundation had hired a team of lobbyists to promote the New Partnership. Lariviere himself wrote an opinion piece about it for The Wall Street Journal. “When The Wall Street Journal piece [appeared], it was like a bombshell,” Donegan says. This June, Lariviere barely survived a performance review. Donegan says a number of board members were prepared to fire Lariviere for “repeated breaches of trust.” In the review, Lariviere and then-board president Paul Kelly, formerly Nike’s general counsel, sat nose-to-nose, their faces reddening as their voices escalated. Kelly insisted Lariviere had repeatedly violated the board’s trust while Lariviere argued the board was unqualified to oversee a seven-campus system. “They kept going back and forth and it kept getting louder,” Donegan says. “It was extraordinary, like nothing I’d ever seen before.” After that meeting, Donegan says, even some of Lariviere’s supporters called the president’s behavior “unconscionable.” Donegan, who says he was Lariviere’s strongest backer at the time, wanted “to give him another shot.” The Board extended Lariviere’s contract July 11. Even a cursory glance at the new contract suggests Lariviere’s firing resulted from his failure to read and follow it. “The President agrees…to do the following,” the contract

NOT ALL GONE: Richard Lariviere remains a tenured professor paid at the “equivalent to the highest-paid member of the University of Oregon faculty,” per his contract.

states. “Refrain from opposing any legislative proposal adopted by the Board and/or advanced by the governor.” In short: He needed to be part of the team. But at a meeting in July, Kitzhaber’s representative asked all seven OUS college presidents to restrict pay hikes. Lariviere reportedly offered no objection. Then, in September, board members learned from news reports that not only had Lariviere boosted salaries above the ceiling for 1,300 U of O faculty members, but that he had already agreed to do so before the July meeting. Donegan felt betrayed. “I said, ‘Do you know what chaos this is causing on other campuses? This is causing a complete lack of confidence with the governor, the Legislature and other campuses,’” Donegan recalls telling Lariviere. Lariviere’s contract also requires him to engage in “active participation in Board, Board committee, and OUS discussions on governance…[and] financing models.” Despite that instruction, Lariviere blew off key meetings, including a Nov. 17 presentation from a national consultant OUS had hired to help achieve the devolution of central authority Lariviere wanted. “It was the biggest meeting of the year,” Donegan says. “He didn’t give any excuse and when I talked to him later, he had scant knowledge of what we’d discussed.” Ultimately, Lariviere showed he could not count—or at least not the right numbers. He failed to tally the votes he needed to keep his job. Not just board members, but also the governor and, close behind, key lawmakers. He alienated Senate President Peter Courtney

(D-Salem) and other legislative leaders with his lobbying tactics. He lost former Gov. Ted Kulongoski when he ignored orders to furlough university workers and, most important, burned Kitzhaber with pay raises. Two other key relationships left Lariviere vulnerable. First, the man most responsible for his hiring, a former OUS board member John Von Schlegell, a private equity executive, resigned shortly after Lariviere came on board. Second, Lariviere cast blame on his predecessor, Frohnmayer, for the botched handling of former athletic director Mike Bellotti’s contract. Lariviere may have been right, but Frohnmayer, U of O president for 15 years, remains enormously influential. So Lariviere’s political miscalculations meant that when he needed protection, he had few political allies. “I strongly believe that the proposals advanced by the University of Oregon—for a strong, independent institutional governing board and for a new approach to stabilizing our funding—provide our best chance of securing an affordable, high-quality university education for Oregonians,” Lariviere said in a Monday statement. In the end, Donegan says, the OUS did not reject Lariviere’s message; rather, it rejected the messenger. “If people are nervous that this board and chancellor are trying to protect the status quo, that’s just missing the point,” Donegan says. He points to reform bills that passed this year and will yield more independence for all Oregon campuses. Hass, who helped engineer those reforms, agrees. “Giving the university more autonomy is much bigger than the coming and going of a new president,” Hass says. Willamette Week NOVEMBER 30, 2011 wweek.com

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Inmates in custody of the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office as of Nov. 28: 1,167 Inmates arrested by the FBI: 3 Number of inmates charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction: 1 Weeks since the FBI arrested that inmate, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, for what prosecutors call a plan to bomb the Christmas tree-lighting ceremony at Pioneer Courthouse Square: 52 Mohamud’s age: 20 Age at which Mohamud, who was born in Somalia and grew up in Oregon, allegedly told an undercover FBI agent that he had begun thinking about armed jihad: 15 Age at which Mohamud first came under government surveillance after allegedly reading jihadist magazines: 16 Age at which Mohamud’s hard drive was secretly searched by FBI agents, in the course of a state police investigation at Oregon State University involving an unsubstantiated date-rape claim by anoth-

a government informant or undercover agent: 41 Percentage of informant cases that included a sting operation: 15

er student there: 18 Maximum number of days after the secret computer search found emails between Mohamud and a friend in Pakistan that a federal agent, masquerading as a terrorist named “Bill Smith,” emailed Mohamud to ask if he would “do violence in the United States”: 7 Months after the government’s first attempts to entice the teenager via email that undercover agents arranged their first face-to-face meeting with Mohamud: 9

Rough share of sting cases that went to trial in which government agents failed to record crucial meetings: “most” Terrorism defendants in U.S. courts since 9/11 who argued entrapment, meaning they would not have committed a crime without government inducement: 10 Number of those entrapment defenses that have succeeded, according to a New York University study: 0 Minimum number of face-to-face meetings between Mohamud and undercover FBI

Approximate length, in minutes, of that meeting, at which the Pioneer Courthouse Square plot was first discussed: 30

agents prior to the Christmas tree plot: 7 Amount the FBI paid Mohamud for an apartment and bomb components to be used in the plot: $2,800 Gallons of diesel fuel used to lend a convincing odor to the inert bomb constructed by FBI technicians, and placed in the van driven to Pioneer Courthouse Square by Mohamud and an undercover agent last year: 1 Maximum prison term Mohamud faces if convicted: any term of years or for life Registered FBI informants: 15,000 Pentagon estimate of al-Qaida’s worldwide membership: 3,000 to 4,000 Percentage of post-9/11 terrorism defendants who, like Mohamud, are not affiliated with any known terrorist group: 40 Percentage of defendants who, like Mohamud, are U.S. citizens: 42

Minutes of that meeting successfully recorded, on account of dead batteries in the FBI’s bugging device: 0

Federal terrorism prosecutions in Oregon since 9/11, including Mohamud’s case: 10 Number involving informants: 10

Hours of other video and audio recordings of Mohamud the government did manage to capture during its investigation: “hundreds”

Number of defendants who pleaded guilty: 7 Number found guilty at trial: 1

Approximate pages of investigative material, including emails and text messages, the FBI collected on Mohamud before his arrest: 6,000

Weeks remaining until Mohamud’s scheduled trial date: 24 D E N N I S C U LV E R

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Jihadist terrorism cases brought into U.S. courts since 9/11: 578 Percentage of those cases involving use of

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“People are responding in the way they know how to,” she tells an enraptured crowd. “It happens in Argentina, it happens in Bolivia, it happens in Brazil...and every time it happens, those who would prefer the status quo or those who do not understand the movement are quick to try and contain it.” After the presenters wrap up, a handful of audience members dart to a lonely microphone for the obligatory Q&A session. What happens, mostly, is bloviating—some of it passionate, some of it painfully disjointed. “I go to a health club where I had a screaming argument with [City Commissioner] Nick Fish once,” says Jeremy, a stocky middle-aged agitator in stiff brown Carhartts pants who rambles on without asking a question. “Well, he didn’t yell back, he just walked away.” Suddenly, a well-curated teach-in becomes a microcosm for the same criticisms Occupy detractors love to point out: The movement’s tent is too big, its fringe is too readily embraced. And now it has been evicted. In cities where Occupy is now less a physical presence than a collection of big ideas, some wonder where to look for the seeds of revolution that seemed to be sprouting two months ago. In Portland, it’s not hard to find stories about regular people working to solve some of the problems that Occupy Portland spotlighted. Here are four of them. CONT. on page 15

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Big businesses—especially fast-food chains—rob money from the local economy, ruin the environment and often exacerbate our country’s health problems. A SOLUTION: Redefining corporate success. THE SOLVER: Burgerville CEO Jeff Harvey. THE PROBLEM:

Burgerville’s one-story headquarters in downtown Vancouver, Wash., looks like any other office building, save for the comically large knife and fork that serve as its front-door handles. Just through those doors, across from the desk of a bubbly receptionist, is an open office door belonging to Burgerville CEO Jeff Harvey. Harvey’s close-cut hair, rosy cheeks and wide frame make him as unassuming and folksy as one of Burgerville’s restaurants. But like Burgerville itself, Harvey’s looks are deceiving. His admission that he’s basically vegetarian—you’ve got to eat the odd hamburger to be the boss—is a bit more surprising. For 50 years, the family-run company has been inextricably linked to local farms and ranches. After all, its parent company, the Holland, started as a dairy. It wasn’t until the ’80s that then-boss Tom Mears gave the company an official mission: Serve With Love. The phrase can seem trite to those outside the company, but when Harvey came to Burgerville eight years ago, he realized how seriously the business took its mantra, which he’s helped expand on. To that

end, Burgerville—which has 38 locations in Oregon and Washington—offers its employees $15-a-month healthcare plans and plays local music in its restaurants. But perhaps most impressive is Burgerville’s commitment to staying both green and local. The company has invested heavily in sustainability over the past decade, buying 100 percent of its energy from wind power, converting its cooking oil to biodiesel for its fleet of trucks, and investing in an elaborate in-restaurant composting program. (Burgerville’s packaging is almost all compostable, though Harvey looks pained while addressing straws and salad-dressing packets.) The company’s ingredients come almost exclusively from the Northwest, from hormone-free beef to cage-free hens: Even the dried cranberries it uses on its salads are from the Willamette Valley. While there are financial benefits to being green—composting efforts, for example, save around $200,000 a year by reducing packaging and garbage-hauling fees—mostly it doesn’t pencil out well. Burgerville is different because the yardsticks by which it measures success are different. The key to getting businesses to look beyond the

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basics has been “getting a business case that looked at all the potentials for benefit, as opposed to ‘did it sell more burgers today?’” Harvey says. “That narrow look will never justify these sustainable approaches.” Burgerville, which is privately held but reportedly has annual revenues of more than $60 million, has looked at the idea of offering shares to the public, but ultimately backed out because it wanted to retain control of the direction of the brand. Harvey uses the same sort of business vernacular to explain that he sympathizes

with Occupy protesters. “The level of dissatisfaction is high across the board,” he says. “That means wholesale change of social structures. I don’t think we’ve got a model for that. I’ve long believed that business probably has a whole lot more to contribute to social solutions than government ever could. [But] how do you get businesses to talk about that with a conscience to the community and not the almighty dollar? I think the time is just about here.” CONT. on page 17

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The same big banks that caused the financial collapse are still doing shady shit with our money. A SOLUTION: The 99 percent should keep its money in small, local banks. THE SOLVERS: Move Your Money Portland’s Rachel Blumberg, Sam Coomes, Neal Morgan and Lisa Schonberg. THE PROBLEM:

Two things generally happen when musicians throw house parties: Someone plays the piano and at least one new group is drunkenly born. When Sam Coomes got to talking with Neal Morgan, Lisa Schonberg and Rachel Blumberg at a party at a local music producer’s house shortly after the initial Occupy Portland march, a supergroup was hatched. “We were all standing around being like, ‘Marching is cool, but it’s a symbolic thing and not a substantive thing,’” says Coomes, 47, a local music veteran with three-day stubble and wild streaks of white hair. “We just started talking about ideas and it snowballed.” The assembly of notable Portland indie rockers—Coomes fronts Quasi, Morgan plays drums for Joanna Newsom and Bill Callahan, Blumberg has drummed for the Decemberists and M. Ward, and Schonberg plays with STLS and Kickball—will probably never take the stage together, but they did manage to build a website. That site, moveyourmoneyportland.com, has thus far gathered more than 150 digital pledges from bands, venues and individual members of the music community who have pledged to put their money in local banks or credit unions. The

Portland, cool. Maybe the visual artists do it in Portland. Maybe the poets do it in Portland...I’m going to put some of the larger businesses in Portland on notice. We’ll come knocking after this. Businesses that brand and advertise themselves as being community-focused and local, I’m going to ask them where they bank.” Morgan may not have to do much persuading. Portland’s Mississippi Studios, which put its name on the Move Your Money website, switched from Bank of America in 2008. “I would never go back in a million years,” says Mississippi Studios founder Jim Brunberg. “Albina Bank doesn’t have any of the hidden fees, and they call me if I’m stupid and about to bounce a check. As a small-business protector, they have made it possible for Mississippi Studios to weather the recession.” The Thermals’ Hutch Harris switched from Chase to Advantis Credit Union after Morgan contacted him, and his band is in the process of evaluating its local options. “It was something I just didn’t know very much about,” Harris says. “For the band, you want to make sure you can deposit money on the road, and that’s where

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Chase was good. But I guess a lot of credit unions are linked together.” Bands aren’t the only entities evaluating where their money is kept. Taking a cue from the Occupy movement and similar legislation in Seattle, the City of Portland is considering a reassessment of its banking strategies. Occupy protesters should take credit (no pun intended) for the increased focus on banking politics, as well. “You need the demonstration to bring the attention and build the energy,” Morgan says. “But you need things like this that are concrete. That’s what [Occupy] did for me: It made me do the research.” CONT. on page 18

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The first thing you notice about Right 2 Dream Too—especially if you spent any time at Occupy Portland’s encampment—is just how tidy the place is. About 80 people stay here each night, in a half-block camp on the northeast corner of Northwest 4th Avenue and Burnside Street that spent its summer as an empty gravel parking lot. Now it’s basically a high-functioning commune run by those without housing. Tents of all shapes and sizes sit in neat rows on wooden pallets. Perhaps unexpectedly, a camp that is self-monitored by Portland’s homeless is far safer and cleaner than the political protest that famously attracted homeless campers. When Ibrahim Mubarak, who described himself over the phone as “the Muslim,” appears on the street in front of Dream Too—where security plays pop songs from a cheap FM radio—his vague description makes more sense. The 55-year-old’s eyes are hidden behind sunglasses, and his face is partially covered by a white headscarf

ing Bureau counted 2,727 homeless living on the streets or in emergency shelters in January, with another 1,928 in transitional housing. Most were individual adults, but couples and families are a significant share. This place started with a joke. When embattled Old Town property owner Michael Wright told The Portland Tribune in June that he’d donate this lot to local nonprofit Dignity Village (a permanent North Portland campsite that Mubarak co-founded), it came across as an empty threat; a middle finger to city officials who had fined him for hosting food carts on his property. But Mubarak saw the quote as an opportunity. So he called Wright. There are a number of important differences between Dream Too and the area’s church-sponsored shelters. For one, campers can stay with their significant others or spouses. They are also allowed to bring pets. “Tenants,” as Mubarak prefers to call them, say it’s also more stringent. Fernando, 44, an ex-construction worker with leg injuries

“THIS SHOWS THAT WE CAN GOVERN OURSELVES, WE CAN BE SELF-SUFFICIENT.”—IBRAHIM MUBARAK that falls over a knit kufi skull cap. Over his shirt he wears a flowing, hand-stitched gray shawl. He offers a handshake and a warm smile that reveals a chipped silver front tooth. Mubarak and the other volunteers who keep this place running don’t refer to the lot as a camp—Portland has strict, controversial anti-camping laws—but rather a “rest area” available for overnight stays. Right 2 Dream Too’s guests adhere to a strict anti-drug and -alcohol policy while also contributing to the upkeep of the camp. Quiet time starts at 10 pm. These are decisions made to keep the space operating smoothly and to minimize criticism from local businesses and the City of Portland. Nevertheless, it would be hard to argue that Dream Too is legal under city law. It’s also hard to argue that Dream Too isn’t sorely needed. The Portland Hous-

who stays at Dream Too with his girlfriend, says it was perfect for him. “It’s very strict; it’s stricter than shelters,” he says. “But by the same token, you’re a lot safer in the sense of your belongings and yourself. I think this is the best thing they could have done with this space.” When the camp started coming together in early October, the community was quick to help: Tents and blankets came by way of donation. The ReBuilding Center on Mississippi Avenue donated dozens of doors, which provide privacy from busy Burnside Street. As they set up for the camp’s Oct. 10 opening, the project’s founders knew they ran the risk of being shut down quickly. Then, on Oct. 6, Occupy Portland happened. “We kinda went under the radar,” Mubarak says. Though some surrounding businesses complained to the city about Dream Too,

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We’re on a light-blue bus named “Cool,” which is being driven by an old hippie named Joe, who wears a sailor’s cap like the one favored by Oregon’s most famous revolutionary, Ken Kesey. Cool is taking 30 adults—among them a British graduate student, an ex-Evergreen State College professor, a twentysomething graphic designer and an adorable Japanese grandmother who speaks very little English—to look at trash. Yes, everyone here has paid $25 to take a school-style field trip to see giant heaps of stinking trash. The bus makes its way down a muddy gravel road to a composting center, Nature’s Needs, which is in the midst of a makeover so it can house its piles of yard debris and zoo shit alongside rotting food from Portland’s new residential composting program. The tour guide explains the subtle differences in pH levels between food waste and leafy waste when a white-haired woman from the tour raises her hand. “This has got to be the dumbest question ever, but...what’s so unique about dog poop that it can’t go near the food scraps?” she asks. Thomas chuckles at the question, but he can’t seem to answer it. Will Elder, a smartly dressed business waste reduction planner at Metro, saves our guide from discomfort. “If you think about our human waste, it goes through a whole treatment process,” Elder says. A handful of side conversations about feces (“keep in mind that herbivore poop is very different from omnivore poop and carnivore poop,” one person insists) break out among the crowd, but the white-haired woman’s curiosity hasn’t been sated. “So what do I do with my dog poop?” she asks again. Believe it or not, this is civic engagement, brought to you by the Dill Pickle Club. Marc Moscato, 35, might not have pictured elaborate conversations about poop when the then-unemployed University of Oregon graduate co-founded the organization (“with zero capital,” he notes) in 2009. Still, Moscato—a slim, shy Portlander with Elvis Costello-style glasses—insists that asking dumb questions has always been part of the plan. “We’re just as interested in these things as our members are,”

Moscato says. “I think, as humans, we should never stop learning.” The Dill Pickle Club’s stated mission is “broadening knowledge of Portland’s past, present and future,” and it tackles that mission by hosting lectures, organizing workshops and printing educational magazines and comic books. The Club hosts two or three events a month—recent tours included “How Does the River Work?” and “How is Justice Served?” “People desire to connect with the place that we call home,” says club organizer Amanda Miller. “And they desire to connect with people who have that same passion. We put that all together. And when you connect people, you build a stronger city.” Nick Blackbourn, a 26-year-old Ph.D. candidate from the U.K. living in Portland, is one of those people. “I think it’s important to understand how we’re able to live where we live,” he says. “Especially in today’s world, where we forget what government does. It seems like a good time to see what’s happening behind the scenes.” The Dill Pickle Club’s long-term plans include a storefront, more involvement in the public schools, and a smart-phone app that provides users with virtual tour guides for various Portland locales. All of the projects aim to give Portlanders a better sense of place. “The city doesn’t have one history,” Moscato says. “That’s what makes any community great, is that there are many different stories and many different ways in which to see something.” For Moscato, the Occupy protests represent living, breathing history in the making. “It has been amazing to watch the last few months unfold,” he says. “It has made me think critically about the work we do here. Honestly, it has been very inspiring to see so many people talking about these issues of inequality. I know there are big questions about direction and focus, but I am really curious to see what direction it takes.” So, too, were the people gathering at the Club’s Occupy teach-in. No one knows yet, of course, but groups like the Dill Pickle Club and Move Your Money Portland, along with people like Jeff Harvey and Ibrahim Mubarak, are quietly helping chart the course.

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SCOOP GOSSIP THAT’S BOOMSHAKALAKA ’BOUT THE BLAZERS. TÁBORIAN TRIVIA: Schnitzelwich peddler Karel Vitek just released a new iPhone app. Portlandivia is a trivia game app that pairs Vitek’s arty black-andwhite photos of the city with questions about things like what the Union Station’s 150-foot Italian Renaissance tower encourages you to do (answer: “Go By Train”). So far we’ve found no questions that double as advertisements for Tábor, his Czech food cart, though some of us have been a bit humbled. BOARDING BEER: Beer and skateboards seem like a potentially disastrous combination, but Burnside Brewing plans to make it happen in honor of Burnside Skate Park, according to ESPN, as the park turned 21 in October. Since it’s now old enough to drink (if a patch of concrete could drink, which it obviously cannot), brewmaster Jason McAdam, who grew up skating there, wants to pour something in its honor. The brewery hasn’t yet settled on a style, recipe or name, but proceeds will go back to the park.

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HIGGINS CONT’D: As mentioned previously in this space, Portland chef Greg Higgins (of downtown’s Higgins restaurant) is in Mongolia, sharing his sausage and charcuterie expertise with local butchers as part of Mercy Corps’ Farmer to Farmer project and blogging about it for wweek.com. Recent posts find him in locales such as Ulaangom, tackling subjects like “the Mongolian sausage conundrum.” Vegetarians be forewarned, Hig’s vacation photos are heavy on the red and pink. DOUBLE TREE: Portland has not one but two Christmasonly stations this year. KYCH (“Charlie”) 97.1-FM is the new addition, going Xmas-only for the first time. It joins KKCW (“K103”) 103.3-FM, which is an adult-contemporary station in less festive months.

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SO HOT RIGHT NOW: Interurban, the new bar on North Mississippi Avenue from chef John Gorham (Toro Bravo, Tasty N Sons), barkeep Dan Hart (Prost) and restaurant mogul Kurt Huffman (St. Jack, Ping, Grüner, Wafu, etc.) that opened last week, is temporarily closed. The culprit? A twoalarm electrical fire that broke out Sunday morning and burned the upstairs kitchen. Firefighters had to cut into the walls to find the flaming wires, which Gorham told WW “could have been smoldering for days.” Gorham added that he plans to reopen the bar by Thursday, Dec. 1, and he’ll use the Toro Bravo kitchen as a commissary until the building is fully repaired. MORE AUTENTICA: Oswaldo Bibiano, chef of Mexican restaurant Autentica at Northeast Killingsworth Street and 30th Avenue, has opened a second restaurant, Mextiza, at the other end of the street (2103 N Killingsworth St.). It shares a roof with the recently opened Old Gold bar (see Bar Spotlight, page 38).

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WEDNESDAY NOV. 30 HOLIDAY ALE FESTIVAL [BEER] The biggest event on Portland’s winter beer calendar, the annual Holiday Ale Festival gives Portlanders the chance to sample them all under one big tent. Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave. 2-10 pm Wednesday, 11 am-10 pm Thursday-Saturday, 11 am-5 pm Sunday. Advance general admission $25, advance VIP $50. See holidayale.com for tickets.

FRIDAY DEC. 2 SURFACING [THEATER] Portland singer-songwriter Holcombe Waller premieres his latest blend of music and theater. Past efforts have been very good. BodyVox, 1201 NW 17th Ave., brownpapertickets.com. 9 pm. $12-$25. TYPHOON [MUSIC] It’s time for Portland’s epic big-band rock outfit Typhoon to take a deep breath, look around and feel good about its accomplishments. In the past 18 months, the group has grown up and blown up. Its two-night stay at Mississippi Studios should give it an opportunity to reflect. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+ (Typhoon also plays Mississippi Studios twice Saturday, including an early all-ages show.)

SATURDAY DEC. 3 THE MISFITS [MOVIES] A week after seeing My Week With Marilyn (or, you know, not), see the actual Marilyn Monroe on 35 mm, acting for John Huston. This is the movie that wrecked her marriage to Arthur Miller, if you care. (We do!) 5th Avenue Cinema, 510 SW Hall St., 725-3551. 7 and 9:30 pm. $3. Free popcorn.

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HEED INDIGENOUS ELDER OMEAKAEHEKATL’S WARNINGS ABOUT 2012. The 2012 thing was pretty much over before it started. The End seemingly came and went way back in aught-nine (such simpler times!), when Hollywood mocked doom prophecies based on the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar in the harshest way possible—with a John Cusack flick. It’s not actually 2012 yet. So Portland State University brings “Guatemalan teacher and healer” OmeAkaEhekatl Erick Gonzalez to give a talk called “Mayan Spiritual Teachings for the Dawning of the New Era.” We asked OmeAkaEhekatl (who also answers to the name Gaada, meaning “supernatural light”) what to expect. MARTIN CIZMAR.

WW: So what’s going to happen in 2012? OmeAkaEhekatl Erick Gonzalez: In the ancient calculations of the Maya, it is called 13 Baktun, a planetary and galactic alignment. It is a cosmological alignment that is giving us an opportunity for a great spiritual evolution and a planetary shift. So should we be afraid about that? You should be afraid or worried if you have become dependent on the modern way of life and have disconnected from being in harmony with nature. We are witnessing that the world is not prepared for the planetary shift, but there are spiritual and

elemental instructions from the Original Peoples that have kept the relationship alive with nature. Now we call them prophecies. Is it possible that tlachtli will replace the NBA as a result? If so, can you put in a word with other elders to get Portland a replacement for the Blazers? PLEASE! Get out of your limited illusions. You’re asking how to shift from this destructive world and the consequences that will become of it. I would suggest you focus better on what your priorities are. SEE IT: OmeAkaEhekatl Erick Gonzalez will speak at PSU’s Native American Student and Community Center, 710 SW Jackson St., 709-8875. 7 pm Friday, Dec. 2. $10-$20 donation requested.

CHRISTMAS IN SPACE [MOVIES] A cornucopia of tacky ’70s seasonal TV, with yuletide commercials hawking Planet of the Apes and Star Trek toys. Also, even though the programmers aren’t free to say they’re showing the Star Wars Holiday Special, they totally are. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 7:30 pm $5. REPEAL DAY CELEBRATION [COCKTAILS] Cocktail nerds are absolutely effing obsessed with all things Prohibition—the clothes, the drinks, the speakeasies. For something they claim to despise, they spend an awful lot of time LARPing and cosplaying about it. Teardrop Lounge marks Repeal Day with a dress-up party. Daniel Shoemaker and his team will be slinging cocktails from 1904 to 1920, plus free punch and a special secret food menu—for which you’ll need to email daniel@teardroplounge.com to get a “secret phrase.” Teardrop Cocktail Lounge, 1015 NW Everett St. 4 pm. 21+ Willamette Week NOVEMBER 30, 2011 wweek.com

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The biggest event on Portland’s winter beer calendar, the annual Holiday Ale Festival gives brewers the chance to show off their Christmastime seasonals, and Portlanders the chance to sample them under a big tent in Pioneer Courthouse Square. Delightfully terrible names this year include Natian Brewery’s HOLLA-day Ale, Bison Brewing’s Barry White’s Voice in a Barrel and Lompoc’s Cherry Christmas. Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave. 2-10 pm Wednesday, Nov. 30; 11 am-10 pm Thursday-Saturday, Dec. 1-3; 11 am-5 pm Sunday, Dec. 4. Advance general admission $25, advance VIP $50. 21+.

THURSDAY, DEC. 1 Pix Pâtisserie’s Bubbly Spectacular

Pix kicks off its monthlong annual celebration of all things sparkling and alcoholic. Night one will be “bubbly roulette,” giving boozers the chance to spin to win a $6 pour from 7 to 9 pm. More than 100 different sparkling wines from around the world will be featured across the month, with regular spotlights on winemakers, tastings and special events (including a cork-sabering class) to keep things bubbling over. Pix Pâtisserie-North, 3901 N Williams Ave., 282-6539. 7-9 pm. $6 per glass. 21+.

SATURDAY, DEC. 3 House Spirits Distillery’s Annual Holiday Booze Bazaar

Stock up on hard liquor to get you through the dreaded festive season (or, y’know, to give as gifts, if that’s your thing) at House Spirits’ holiday bazaar. The distillery will be serving free mini-cocktails and spirit samples, as well as releasing the second incarnation of its coffee liqueur. Others offering samples and selling their wares include Stumptown Coffee, Som drinking vinegars, Steven Smith Teamaker, Chop Butchery, Sassafras Catering and Portland Pepper Sauce. House Spirits, 2025 SE 7th Ave., 235-3174. 11 am-5 pm. Free. 21+.

SUNDAY, DEC. 4 PDX Txoko

Crown Paella—the new catering business of former Heathman chef Scott Ketterman—and Viridian Farms are hosting a dinner series called PDX Txoko (it’s pronounced “choco” and it’s a type of Basque dining club), highlighting regional cuisine of Spain. The first event will focus on La Rioja, with dishes like fire-roasted Spanish chestnuts, pimientos del piquillo stuffed with handmade morcilla, and grilled lamb chops with caparrones de Anguiano. There will also be wine from the Rioja region and a flamenco guitarist for some Spanish serenading. Beaker & Flask, 727 SE Washington St., 395-0110. 6-8 pm. $65 including wine and gratuity. Email info@pdxtxoko.com.

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CROSSBRED BEAST: Bacon-topped brisket.

BRISKETS Bacon-topped brisket seems gratuitous. Really, how much could sufficiently tender and smoky cuts of beef benefit from extra fat and salt? Briskets, a newish cart in the Q-19 pod, has unleashed that crossbred beast. It does feel a little decadent, but the thick strips of bacon—the cart’s one twist on otherwise very traditional and very good barbecue—justify themselves as more than a gluttonous gimmick. This taxi-yellow cart makes only its titular dish, using an electric smoker that chars wood chips as the meat slowly cooks. Spatter on bourbon barbecue sauce, Order this: Wood-smoked brisket sandwich on ciabatta, with mac and then top with bacon, and you cheese ($7.50). have the bulk of the menu. I’ll pass: Roasted garlic mashed The meat and a sweet sauce potatoes, which didn’t have much flavor beyond starchiness. work well together, offering layered flavors suggestive of a Bolognese ragu—especially when served atop one of the springy house-baked ciabatta rolls. The cart does three types of brisket, and while they were out of the Dijon and apple-glazed variety on our visit, the wood-smoked and old-fashioned pot roast varieties really impressed, as did a vegetable-freshened black bean salad and the lightly crusted and slightly piquant mac and cheese that’s exactly as you’d expect from a high-end barbecue joint. The flaky biscuits, which come with a squeeze pack of honey, are good but not a showstopper. Given the brash headliner, they’re well placed in a role of quiet support. MARTIN CIZMAR. EAT: Q-19 cart pod, Northwest Quimby Street and 19th Avenue. 11 am-2 pm Monday-Friday.

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TOUR DIARY

PHOTOS COURTESY OF JACK LEWIS

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DAY 6 We have to wake up at 5 am to catch an early train to Zhengzhou to ensure that we get night-train tickets to Beijing to ensure that we arrive in Beijing early enough to ensure we get a two-hour taxi ride to the Great Wall. After visiting the Shaolin Temple, we catch the bus back. We all take separate seats as the bus is empty, but after a few stops it fills up and a kid who’s maybe 10 or 11 sits next to me and falls asleep against my arm. I look out at the state-sponsored billboards: “Happy family starts from fewer and healthier births.” “Promote gender equality and eliminate sex discrimination.” DAY 7 We all pass out on the five-hour trip to the Great Wall, and I wake up in the countryside. We buy tickets for a gondola up the mountain to the Great Wall, and we buy tickets to slide down in a toboggan thing. The total for the two trips is about $18, a bargain for such a fine wall. It feels amazing to be on the Great Wall. It’s quite a wall. We walk a while and finally reach the slide area. I can’t believe we’re doing this. I usually don’t come to great monuments in order to take amusement-park rides down them. To be clear, you don’t ride the slide on top of the wall, you just ride it down the mountain. WE BUILT THIS FORBIDDEN CITY ON ROCK AND ROLL: (From left) Jack Lewis, Jeffrey Lewis and Dave Beauchamp in Beijing.

LITTLE CHINA WHIRL JEFFREY LEWIS TOURED THE FAR EAST THIS PAST SUMMER. HIS BROTHER JACK TOOK NOTES. BY JAC K L E W I S

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This summer, acclaimed New York City singer-songwriter/comic artist Jeffrey Lewis toured China for 10 days. Portland’s own Lewis, Jack—a singer-songwriter in his own right who often doubles as his brother Jeffrey’s bassist—was by Jeffrey’s side, as usual. To mark the occasion (and to vent some of his fast-mounting travel anxiety), Jack kept a tour diary. As Jeffrey hits Portland behind excellent new disc A Turn in the Dream-Songs, we thought we’d excerpt some of the sweeping and hilarious original tour blog. Jack is currently working on a book about his travels. DAY 1 We fly from London to Amsterdam and then 10 hours or so to Shanghai. Sleep a little bit. Watch two movies, The Fighter and Source Code. When we get off the plane, I am shocked by the heat and humidity. Our host/promoter here in China is an American guy, Abe. Originally from Idaho, he moved here nine years ago to study martial arts; now he sets up tours for bands like Fucked Up and Das Racist. We go from the airport to a bus to a train to a taxi. The taxi ride is crazy. Lots of aggressive weaving in and out of traffic with motorbikes and other cars. Abe warns us that the first show might be awkward, and it is. It’s at a bar/club that has a big, rough Bob Marley mural on the back wall. It has a large, nice stage and fancy gear for us to use, but we are warned that no one will care about us playing—they’ll just play dice. Mostly true. We play a pretty rocking set to little or no applause. When we finish performing, though, we are asked for autographs. This becomes a pattern: They don’t really care about the music, but they want pictures and autographs. DAY 2 There is a typhoon coming. We arrive at the airport and get picked up in a van. The van driver is crazy like all the others. Jeff says I shouldn’t look out the window or sit in the front seat anymore. It’s a two-hour drive. When we arrive at the hotel, it’s some sort of beach resort town, though I never see the beach.

Shit. I’ve forgotten my prized sleeping bag on the airport van. I’ve lost it before and gotten it back. Once I left it in Brighton, England, and had it mailed home to me. I’ve had it since I was 13. Outside the hotel, some kids from the festival want to talk about the NBA to Jeff. “Sokee Ryan?” Ahh, Kobe Bryant? Yes, yes! “Reron Yames?” Yes, LeBron James! A van comes and returns my sleeping bag. Amazing luck. DAY 3 There are two big stages at our festival show today. We play one of them. In the backstage tent there are lots of volunteers. Slowly, one by one, they ask us to sign our picture in their program. Then more come. Then they come with three books each. We play to maybe 100 people. We had to send in our set list ahead of time, and the lyrics. I told Jeff I really didn’t think they’d notice if we go off the set list, but he wants to stick to it. I want to play the cover we’ve been doing of Tom Petty’s “Runnin’ Down a Dream.” We don’t. I wonder if it would be viewed as too political. We play our song “Time Machine,” which starts with Jeff and I yelling out years: “2424! 2010! 1980! 1974! 1950!” I worry this also might sound too political. After we play, we try and sell merch in front of the stage. The night before, we weren’t sure of the exchange rate and sold CDs and shirts for too cheap—near cost. Today, we double the prices and I feel very guilty. We sell a few things. Stuff is cheap here. Our semi-fancy dinner at the hotel was about $25 for the four of us.

HELLO, BEIJING: Jeffrey Lewis and band rock one of many hot, shirtless shows.

MOUNTAIN SLIDE: Jack (foreground) and Jeffrey exit the Great Wall in style.

DAY 9 After a five-hour train ride back to Shanghai, Abe takes us for a walk and then out to eat. Our tourmate Xiao He (a great local underground musician) shows Jeff how to write his name in Chinese. It starts pouring rain. We grab a cab back to the hotel and then walk to the venue. Tonight’s show can make or break the finances of the trip. Before the show, three French people come to the door. “Do we get a free drink with a ticket?” The answer is no, so they leave. We play a pretty good show for a packed house of about 230. People dance. We sweat. It’s good. Near the end of the set, one American guy shouts at Jeff and tells him he has to play “The History of Communism in China.” He’d seen Jeff do it in Beijing and come back to see it again. Jeff refuses. Later the guy comes by the merch table. He’s disappointed, he says. “I understand you guys like to play different sets, but you guys gotta play the hits.” DAY 10 A local opener plays acoustic cover songs of Oasis, the Doors and more to an empty room. Xaio forces us to drink a lot before the show, but we don’t drink as much as he does. He doesn’t appear drunk, but he plays for a very long time. Later, Abe tells us there was a man from the local government at the show recording our set. He wasn’t happy that we hadn’t submitted our songs/lyrics to get official approval from the local government. Abe tells us there are now stricter rules for foreign bands playing Shanghai: Each must pay $300 for an official to check their lyrics. SEE IT: Jeffrey Lewis & the Junkyard (with his brother Jack) plays Mississippi Studios on Sunday, Dec. 4, with Almost Nearly and Awkward Energy. 9 pm. $10. 21+. To read Jack’s entire tour diary (with more photos, video and typos), go to thepinata.wordpress.com.

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Imelda May, born in Dublin and raised in the Liberties, may be an unknown name to some, but to many she is already a superstar. She is unmistakable both in her music (a fusion of surf guitars, blues and rockabilly) and her style. ‘Mayhem’ sees Imelda continue to develop her uniquely modern fusion of classic musical genres. The record not only showcases her exceptional songwriting ability, but also displays some more disparate inﬂuences like PJ Harvey and Chrissie Hynde.

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While never being pinned down stylistically but retaining a signature sound altogether, ‘Culture Of Fear’ is just like all the rest. That is if you’re counting on smart, consciously-centered music still bestowing plenty of appeal on the average listener. The albums sophisticated lounge sound invites anyone and everyone to feel the music.

Considered by many to be one of America’s greatest living songwriters, Williams lives up to that and more by delivering 12 songs that cover an even wider emotional spectrum than her previous work. Don Was co-produced ‘Blessed’ with Eric Liljestrand and Tom Overby, who co-produced Williams highly-praised ‘Little Honey.’ Guests include Rami Jaffe on keyboards, Matthew Sweet on vocals Greg Leisz and Elvis Costello on guitar.

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Having spent the last two years building a considerable reputation with their high-voltage brand of blues, dirty soul, and rock `n’ roll, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears take it to another level with ‘Scandalous.’ Produced by Jim Eno of Spoon and featuring 11 new songs, the album ﬁnds the young band returning with their modem and original take on classic American musical styles.

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‘How To Become Clairvoyant’ is Robertson’s ﬁfth solo album and ﬁrst record in more than 10 years. Guitar virtuosos Eric Clapton, Tom Morello and Robert Randolph guest on the album, which Robertson co-produced with Marius de Vries. The album also features Steve Winwood, Trent Reznor and vocalists Angela McCluskey, Rocco Deluca, Dana Glover and Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes.

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Richmond Fontaine’s tenth studio album, The High Country is a song-novel: a fully realized, novel-sized story set to music. Set in a rural logging community in Oregon, it is a Gothic love story between a mechanic and an auto parts store counter girl, whose secret love inspires an effort to escape the darkness of the world that surrounds them.

PJ HARVEY LET ENGLAND SHAKE

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‘Showroom Of Compassion’ Cake’s ﬁrst album of new material since 2004’s ‘Pressure Chief.’ The album was recorded over the last two & a half years and was produced and engineered by the band at Cake’s own solar electric powered studio in Sacramento, CA.

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‘Small Source of Comfort’ is Cockburn’s ﬁrst studio album in six years – a rhythmic and highly evocative collection inspired by his renowned unusual and diverse muse - recent trips to Afghanistan and ponderings on the re-incarnation of Richard Nixon, to road trips and unreturned phone calls. Guests include violinist Jenny Scheinman, former Wailin’ Jenny Annabelle Chvostek, and long time collaborators Gary Craig, Jon Dymond and producer Colin Linden.

PANDA BEAR TOMBOY

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Recorded at his studio in Lisbon, and mixed by Pete Kember (Sonic Boom, Spacemen 3), ‘Tomboy’ sees Panda Bear stepping away from the sample-based parameters of his previous record and incorporating more guitar and synthesizer. Still prevalent, though, is the interest in texture that made ‘Person Pitch’ such a dense record; crashing waves and cheering crowds bounce against the gurgling arpeggios and give the tracks an immense sense of space.

‘City of Refuge’ is a sublime marriage of old-time and indie-pop. Washburn pairs venerable folk elements with far-ﬂung sounds, and the results feel both strangely familiar and unlike anything anybody’s ever heard before. The album features My Morning Jacket’s Carl Broemel, The Decemberists’ Chris Funk, Turtle Island Quartet’s Jeremy Kittell, Bill Frisell, Kenny Malone, Old Crow Medicine Show’s Ketch Secor and Morgan Jahnig, Wu Fei, master of the guzheng, and the Mongolian stringband Hanggai.

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THE BUILDERS AND THE BUTCHERS DEAD RECKONING

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Portland’s own The Builders And The Butchers live and die for its connection with the audience. On their third album, ‘Dead Reckoning,’ the band went into the studio with the idea of peeling back layers to where the essence of the song lies, and captured the magic of their raucous, impassioned live show.

ZIGGY MARLEY WILD AND FREE

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The overall theme of Ziggy’s fourth solo album is a powerful one, as it propels Marley to challenge social injustice along with the political weapons of ignorance and fear. ‘Wild And Free’ may be his most political and personal to date. With themes of freedom and responsibility, tempered hope and intemperate love, it afﬁrms Marley as a master storyteller with an innate sense of soul.

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‘Let England Shake’ was recorded in a 19th Century church in Dorset, on a cliff-top overlooking the sea and was created with a cast of musicians including such long-standing allies as Flood, John Parish, and Mick Harvey. What is remarkable about ‘Let England Shake’ is bound up with its music, its abiding atmosphere and in particular, its words. Its songs centre on both her home country, and events further aﬁ eld in which it has embroiled itself.

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WARREN HAYNES MAN IN MOTION Warren Haynes continues to be one of the most lauded straight-ahead rock lead guitarists performing today. But with his latest album his superior vocals are also at the forefront. The album features Ivan Neville on organ and background vocals, Ian McLagan on piano, Ruthie Foster on background vocals, George Porter Jr. on bass and Ron Holloway on saxophone.

Keb Mo since Suitcase in 2006. These twelve songs are the product of an important period of personal and professional growth for the artist formerly known as Kevin Moore. ‘The Reﬂection’ is not, in essence, a blues album. In sound and spirit, it’s closer to the work of African–American “folk soul” singer/songwriters like Bill Withers, Bobby Womack and Terry Callier.

RICHMOND FONTAINE HIGH COUNTRY

Rosie Ledet takes Zydeco by the scruff of its neck and drags it into the 21st Century. Zydeco is a wonderful musical form - funky, danceable and with cultural and musical roots deeply embedded in Louisiana’s melting pot. Rosie has a bunch of fresh ideas and the ability to take them to a wider audience.

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‘Paper Airplane’ is Alison Krauss and Union Station’s ﬁrst album together since 2004’s ‘Lonely Runs Both Ways.’ Produced by Krauss and Union Station with studio legend Mike Shipley engineering and mixing, the album contains 11 songs of poignancy and austere beauty.

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‘Crime-A-Billy Christmas’ is ﬁlled with Christmas time standards delivered as only The Strange Tones can, plus a couple of new tunes. They are joined on the album with friends including Jim Wallace, Chris Alexander, Randy Yearout, Jim Tousaaint and Elvin Alfred Priesley.

“Holiday Carole’ is legendary Carole King’s first-ever holiday album. Produced by her daughter Louise Goffin, the album’s 12 songs artfully blend the sacred and the secular with an eclectic mix of wellchosen standards and newly-written material. Goffin also co-wrote three original tracks on the album.

‘A Time of Peace’ is an instrumental collection of Christmas songs performed on traditional Middle Eastern instruments. No one has ever presented such a gorgeous collection of Middle Eastern instruments playing favorite holiday songs. Features Ishmael, master of the kanoon (an eighty-four-string Middle Eastern hammer dulcimer) as well as Stephen Skaggs on oud and Steve Flynn on Turkish ney (ﬂute).

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With 12 old world countries represented in music spanning more than six centuries, this CD is a joyous collection of traditional carols, poetry, and songs in celebration of the winter solstice. “The Christmas Revels is a terriﬁc community celebration; it draws on the older traditions of the winter solstice ... bursting with warmth” –Oregon Public Broadcasting

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Hayes Carll hasn’t been resting on his laurels since topping critics polls and winning awards for his 2008 album, ‘Trouble in Mind.’ He’s been on the road nearly nonstop with his band, The Poor Choices, blasting through honky-tonks and rock clubs across the U.S. and beyond. Along the way, he’s been inspired to write a crop of new tunes. The result is the sharply drawn collection ‘KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories).’

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The Exploding Boy is one of the most talked-about Swedish alternative pop/rock bands in Europe, where the band got amazing reviews for their previous album ‘Afterglow’ (2009). The singles “London,” “Heart Of Glass,” and “40 Days”—from the Afterglow EP—are included as bonus tracks on this North American version; all climbed to the Top 10 on the ofﬁcial German alternative chart (DAC).

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Two recent works from Michael Torke, written for the Liverpool Philharmonic’s new music group, evoke the humidity, perfume, and leisure of the South Paciﬁc islands. The techniques used here have their antecedents in earlier works like Rapture, Adjustable Wrench, and Four Proverbs, as well as Torke’s continuing exploration of melodic development from the past 10 years.

Blending elements of new-wave, post-punk, and shoegaze, The Foreign Resort have taken the aforementioned and created a sound that is unique to this Danish export. The quartet has already created a wealth of noise on the West and East Coasts, and were met with bombastic applause at their various appearances during 2011’s SXSW music conference in Austin, TX.

IN MEDIAS RES

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Thee Oh Sees, Total Control, Grave Babies

Immortal Technique, Chino XL, Da Circle, DJ GI Joe

[GARAGE ROCK] Oh, you really didn’t think you’d be getting only one album from Thee Oh Sees in 2011, did you? If so, then you don’t know how singer-guitarist-mastermind John Dwyer operates. Playing in zillions of bands—generally speaking, all tweaks of the psych-garage variety—the dude is overflowing with too much creative energy to ever stop with just one collection of songs per calendar year. As the band did in 2009 with Help and Dog Poison, it released Castlemania early this year then followed with Carrion Crawler/The Dream EP this month. Instead of being simply continuations of one another, both were flip sides of the same coin, the former a shambolic pop record, the latter wilder and rockier. As with most hyper-prolific artists, Dwyer’s efforts tend to get overlooked, but just about everything he’s done is worth a listen. Also deserving attention: opener Total Control, a dark, minimalist synthpop spinoff of Australian cult favorites Eddy Current Suppression Ring. Good things, apparently, come in twos: On Wednesday the band plays an allages gig at Doug Fir, but Thursday’s show is a normal 21-and-over affair. MATTHEW SINGER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 5:30 pm Wednesday, Nov. 30. $13. All ages. 9pm Thursday, Dec. 1. $12. 21+

Sam Adams

[NO, NOT THE MAYOR] It might have caused some mix-ups in recent years (City Club members showing up at night clubs, etc.), but really, local singer-songwriter Sam Adams sharing a name with Portland’s mayor can only help the musician stand out from the pack. Not that Adams needs the name to distinguish himself; his ambitious avant-rock does that perfectly well. On this summer’s Draw This Bitter Blood EP, Adams uses an expansive instrumental palette and digital textures to raise what might have been standard-issue boy-meets-guitar songs to inspired, even experimental, compositions. And if the arrangements don’t set him apart, Adams’ dynamic, haunting voice (think Radiohead’s Thom Yorke) certainly will. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Ella Street Social Club, 714 SW 20th Place, 227-0116. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

Litanic Mask, The Crow, DJ Cenobites

[POST-PROTO-INDUSTRIAL] As subsub-subgenres of music get mined and dissected by nerds and collectors, the bottom of the barrel is often scraped. Sometimes amazing gems are yielded and new inspiration strikes. One collector of such music is Jed Bindeman, who knows a lot about albums you have never heard of. He is also part of the DJ Cenobites collective, which will be spinning the aforementioned jewels amid assorted travesties in an attempt to outsmart fans of industrial music, early minimalist techno and post-punk. Opener the Crow seems to mine the most generic forms of proto-electronic sound with maudlin results. Litanic Mask, on the other hand—the coupled duo of Mark “Silentist” Burden and his lovely foil, Kenna Gair—takes the most inchoate elements of underground weirdness, making something entirely new and inspired. NATHAN CARSON. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 2397639. 9 pm. $3. 21+.

See Primer, page 31. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $17 advance, $19 day of show. All ages.

FRIDAY, DEC. 2 Mickey Hart Band

[COSMIC CHARLIE] Former Grateful Dead drummer and Stephen King doppelgänger Mickey Hart says he mined the cosmos, working with NASA to transform 13-billion-year-old light waves into sounds that inspired his new eight-piece band. Apparently, the Big Bang sounded like the Grateful Dead. Like those of guitarist Bob Weir and bassist Phil Lesh, Hart’s shows include many Dead songs, plus new compositions similar to spacier Dead tunes with extra percussion. Hart is among the most gifted and diverse drummers alive, just don’t expect his cosmic ambitions to be as epic in scope as 2001—unless you count the summer of love as the beginning of time. AP KRYZA. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $25 (minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian).

Wehrmacht, Hammered Grunts, Blood Freak, Dethproof, Dr. Loomis

[SPEED FREAKS] Back in the 1980s, there wasn’t a faster band in the Northwest than Portland’s Wehrmacht. Aspiring to bridge the gap separating the punk and metal scenes, the five-piece earned the tag “speedcore,” thanks to its use of grindcorestyle blast beats delivered with such blinding velocity that singer Mezzi “Tito” Matos often struggled to keep up. Overwhelming speed became the band’s defining characteristic, as did its love of beer. Although its name, which translates generically to “defense force,” conjures up images of war and fascism, the group’s actual ideals were more Animal House than brown shirt; the cover of the band’s second album, 1987’s Biermacht, depicts a cartoon version of the band flanking a keg-shaped tank. After releasing two albums now considered regional underground classics, the band broke up in the early ’90s, only to reconvene for sporadic reunion gigs in 2009. Last year, Wehrmacht re-recorded a few old tracks for an EP, and while its members no longer drink as much as they did when they were younger, age hasn’t slowed the band down a single BPM. MATTHEW SINGER. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 2345683. 7:30 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. All ages.

Mosley Wotta, Tango Alpha Tango, Symmetry/Symmetry, Ben Union

[YEAR OF THE MOLLUSK] This show celebrates one year in the business for Octopus Entertainment. In those 12 months, the company has mostly made good on its stated goal of being not only a record label but also a design firm, tour manager, copyright lawyer and (insert music-related occupation here) agency. In typically maximalist fashion, this showcase brings together a healthy sampling of the Octopus roster, as well as some fond friends thereof. Jam-rap collective Mosley Wotta heads up the night, with the workman’s pop of Tango Alpha Tango in the middle and the ambitious, technical rock of Symmetry/ Symmetry opening the evening. SHANE DANAHER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

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[INDUSTRIAL GODFATHERS] Nivek Ogre has been a crucial flag-waver for the industrial scene since the early ’80s, when he co-founded Skinny Puppy. While that group has folded and reunited into something a bit more tempered than it was in its Wax Trax days, Ogre’s solo output has grown more harsh. He’s also landed some late-career bonus points by participating in the cult film Repo! The Genetic Opera, which, for some latex-clad youngsters, has somehow achieved a sort of atrocious Rocky Horror appeal. Be that as it may, Ogre is returning to town, and bringing friends and labelmates. Left Spine Down (LSD, wink, wink) is a self-described cyberpunk group from Vancouver, B.C., fronted by Front Line Assembly keyboardist Jeremy Inkel. NATHAN CARSON. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 8:30 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. All ages.

FRESH: Africa Hitech, !!! (DJ set), Jonwayne, Dibia$e, Lincolnup, Ben Tactic

[ECLECTIC BASS] Combining the expertise of Australian electronic music mavens Steve Spacek and Mark Pritchard, Africa Hitech’s debut fulllength, 93 Million Miles, cross-pollinates a galaxy’s worth of contemporary dance styles, from dubstep (the nondouchey kind) to funky to garage to juke. Of course, to the non-club kids, those words probably mean nothing. But that’s the project’s great success: Its combination of styles makes for a thrilling listening experience that transcends electronica’s obsession with genres. This tour, being hosted by Holocene’s dance party FRESH., features several other hot-shit DJs, but the sleeper might be Allan Wilson, percussionist for dance-punk ensemble !!!. Given that his band knows its funk better than most in the indie world, he could well deliver the freshest set of the night. MATTHEW SINGER. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 2397639. 9 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

Typhoon, Mimicking Birds

[BIG BAND] Somewhere around the release of Typhoon’s first proper fulllength, Hunger & Thirst, the Portlandvia-Salem collective grew up. The band, which fist garnered attention for its unbridled passion, brute strength and sheer size, transformed seemingly overnight into a hive-minded squad that could be just as intriguing during the quiet bits as it could when all 10 (or 11 or 12) members were thrashing away. A New Kind of House, the excellent follow-up EP released this March, was a centered evolutionary step for the band, as it found frontman Kyle Morton focused on writing reflective, haiku-style lyrics around spare piano, lilting horn lines and the occasional mossy guitar riff. With the musicians’ skill set now fully developed, expectations of what’s next are getting kind of ridiculous, so Typhoon is right to take a deep breath and reflect on it all with a two-night-stand at Mississippi Studios. On Friday, the band plays Hunger & Thirst in its entirety (spoiler warning: It ends with a tear-jerker). Tomorrow night (after an early-evening grabbag all-ages benefit show), the band tackles the EP and previews some brand-new material. If you can make it out both nights, you should. CASEY JARMAN. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

Latyrx, Vursatyl, Josh Martinez, Destro, DJ Spark

[WEST COAST CLASSIC HIP-HOP] It has to be a bit of an unexpected treat for underground hip-hop heads who came of age in the mid-’90s to see sleeper cells from the Solesides/ Quannum Records roster coming back for another tour of duty. Blackalicious hit Portland in October; Portland’s Lifesavas are said to be deep in the recording process for a new album; and now Latyrx—the most elusive act of them all—is kicking back into gear. Lyrics Born has kept a reasonably high profile in the nearly 15 years since the duo’s avant-garde debut, The Album—

S A R A PA D G E T T

MUSIC

AU THURSDAY, DEC. 1 AU comes back from the land of the lost lighter but not lite-r.

[ART-ROCK REVIVAL] Buttoned up in a wool-lined jacket and working his way through a massive pork chop at Podnah’s Pit on Northeast Killingsworth Street, Luke Wyland exudes a mixture of relief and concern as he discusses what has happened to himself and his band AU over the past three years. The relief comes from finally having recently put to bed a new collection of songs and having found a new label for the album (Portland’s Hometapes). The singer/guitarist/keyboardist also glows a little bit from how well rehearsals are going for Thursday’s performance at Mississippi Studios. The concern seeps in when Wyland wonders how much of an audience he and bandmate Dana Valatka still have with their emotionally wrought brand of whirligig art pop. “We haven’t put an album out since 2008, and this new one’s not coming out until 2012,” he says. “There has been waves of music that’s happened since then. It does feel like we’re starting over.” Renewal is something that has weighed on Wyland since AU recorded its last album, 2008’s Verbs. That frenetic collection of mathy, highly percussive material was met with critical indifference, but found a passionate fan base thanks to AU’s intensely joyous live performances. After Verbs’ recording sessions, two band members left, and following two exciting but grueling years on the road in support of the LP, Wyland lost touch with the community of musicians and artists he says helped inspire him. Add to the equation the end of a 10-year relationship just before the tour, and it’s not surprising Wyland says he was “just spun” by the time he came back. AU had made great strides—three European tours, supporting slots opening for top-notch acts such as Deerhoof and Why?—but the band felt discomfort in the pressure to keep moving forward. “Our publicist and bookers told us, ‘Just put out the next album and keep going,’” Wyland says. What followed were months of unsuccessful tries to get locked into some kind of creative groove. “Once that stress stacked on top of everything else, I seized up,” Wyland says. “I was writing things, but I didn’t believe in them.” Wyland labored intensely over his latest batch of songs, but the forthcoming LP, Both Lights, and the 7-inch that the band releases this week don’t show any strain. The same iridescent haze and metronomic flow of previous AU albums are present, as are Wyland’s wafting, fervent vocals. What is evident in the new material is a cathartic charge that soars from the songs. Demons are exorcised musically as Valatka’s circuitous and urgent drumming pushes and pulls against lilting horns and Wyland’s fiery guitar and piano work. And the emotional ante is upped via guest vocals by Holland Andrews of Like a Villain and Sarah Winchester of A Weather. Free from the anxiety of making music, Wyland looks back on the “spun” months proudly. “I feel light again,” he says. “I had dug myself into a hole for a few months there. But it was good for me, I think. Ultimately those experiences are about what you do with them afterwards. There are such profound messages that come from those experiences. It was well worth it.” ROBERT HAM. SEE IT: AU plays Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 2883895, on Thursday, Dec. 1, with Appetite, Stay Calm and Like a Villain. 9 pm. $6 advance, $8 day of show. 21+.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY but then his sticky, bubbly flow stands out as perhaps the most distinct in West Coast hip-hop since a skinny kid named Snoop Dogg hit the scene. Lateef the Truthspeaker has been harder to trace, though the ambitious and genuinely stylish October mixtape Truth at Sea helped remind folks of his talent. Neither MC has lost his luster, and we expect the duo’s much-anticipated follow-up to take huge risks and, hopefully, reap huge rewards. CASEY JARMAN. Ted’s (at Berbati’s), 231 SW Ankeny St., 248-4579. 9 pm. $16. 21+.

SATURDAY, DEC. 3 Chris Robinson Brotherhood

[BLACK CROWE SUNFLOWER] It’s tempting to imagine some of the larger implications behind the title of the first project Chris Robinson formed after placing the Black Crowes on indefinite hiatus—what if, say, one memorable old touring partner started the Noel Gallagher Brotherhood without inviting along his brother? The CRB, though, features the Cardinals’ Neal Casal on lead guitar instead of Rich Robinson. Artists planted barefoot through three hours of psychedelic meanderings tend to highlight cosmic unanimity at expense of niggling details. While exploiting rock celebrity to promote a decidedly more high-minded idiom free from hits or a recognizable template (the Crowes’ template, that is; Deadheads should be well pleased) seems a dangerous game, Robinson’s vocals have lost none of their power. His harmonies with Casal are utterly distinct from normal jam-band dross, and he somehow, amid swirling, jazztinged suites lasting the length of one of his old album’s sides, retains an enviable swagger. JAY HORTON. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show (minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian).

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Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 8 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show (minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian).

Dan Deacon, Purple and Green, Jason Urick

[BARNYARD BEATS] Dan Deacon is a kid in an electric candy store, pushing buttons and twisting dials, laying faraway vocal samples over a mess of distorted, exaggerated sounds. The 30-year-old started building his high-energy act while attending the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College, about an hour outside of New York City. After graduating, he moved on to co-create Wham City, the artist collective based in Baltimore, where his career in computer music took root. Despite its silly name, last year’s EP, Woof Woof, is a lot less gimmicky than his earlier stuff, mixing classic house with icy, straightforward drum beats. Still, Deacon’s signature weirdness is apparent less than 40 seconds into the original “Woof Woof” mix. That’s when the barnyard animals start chiming in. NIKKI VOLPICELLI. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 8 pm. $10 advance, $13 day of show. All ages.

Chris Funk (of The Decemberists), Rob Wynia, The Water Tower Bucket Boys and more: Pink Floyd’s The Wall

[THE FENCE] What is Pink Floyd’s epic, generation-defining concept album, The Wall, without all the electric guitars and synthesizers? Well, we’re about to find out. An odd brotherhood—it’s mostly dudes—of Portland musicians from Decemberist Chris Funk to Floater’s Rob Wynia and punky bluegrass wunderkids the Water Tower Bucket Boys are getting together to craft what we can only expect will be a roots-rock-folkpop-bluegrass-type interpretation of the epic Pink Floyd classic. Wynia’s credentials seem just about right, and Funk has shown his stoney tendencies in many a side project, but where the other

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BY RE ED JAC KSON

IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE Born: Feb. 19, 1978, in Lima, Peru. His family moved to Harlem two years later to escape Peru’s internal conflict. Sounds like: A political watchdog with a microphone. For fans of: Public Enemy, X-Clan, the Coup, Paris. Latest release: The Martyr, a free download album of new songs that boasts guest appearances from Brother Ali, Dead Prez and Chuck D. Why you care: After earning a reputation as a ferocious battlerap MC in the late ’90s, Immortal Technique (born Felipe Andres Coronel) decided in 2001 to take on his biggest opponent yet: the U.S. government. That year, his debut, Revolutionary Vol. 1—a seething look into the causes of civic unrest in America’s low-income areas—was released to underground acclaim. Tech followed the format of controversial rap veterans Paris and Public Enemy, who made music designed to enrage the listener out of complacency and into action. Since then, Tech has continued to craft aggressive, politically charged hip-hop from a candid perspective. He draws equal amounts of criticism and praise for his content, including 9/11 conspiracy theories, but his talent as a rapper is often overlooked. Tech’s commanding delivery and heavy growl make his songs magnetic, even if you find his lyrics extreme. SEE IT: Immortal Technique plays the Wonder Ballroom on Thursday, Dec. 1, with Chino XL, Da Circle and DJ GI Joe. 9 pm. $17 advance, $19 day of show. 21+.

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EARLY SHOW DOORS AT 7:30PM SHOW AT 8:00PM

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 7 • $16 ADVANCE SWIRLING JAZZ-ROCK FROM GARAGE-A-TROIS ORGANIST

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THURSDAY DECEMBER 8 • $12 ADVANCE A SPECIAL EVENING WITH THE GODFATHER OF ALT-COUNTRY

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PICKWICK/ BRYAN JOHN APPLEBY - 1/13 THE MILK CARTON KIDS - 1/18 ALABAMA SHAKES (early show) - 1/28 CRAIG FINN (The Hold Steady) - 2/23 METRONOMY - 4/10 FIRST AID KIT - 4/12 All of these shows on sale at Ticketfly.com

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CHRISTMAS Beatles Tribute and Holiday Circus Spectacular featuring

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LOVELY DAY: Onuinu plays Bunk Bar on Tuesday, Dec. 6. folky/rootsy types fit in we’re not entirely sure. But then that’s part of the fun. One thing seems almost certain: The kids from the School of Rock are going to be singing “We don’t need no education/ We don’t need no thought control” over mandolin. I’d say that’ll be pretty much worth the price of admission right there. CASEY JARMAN. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 9:30 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

The Sea and Cake, Lia Ices, 1939 Ensemble

[SMALL CHANGE] Before the band’s latest album dropped in May, one needed ears as sensitive and carefully calibrated as a California seismograph to hear the hiccups of sonic evolution in the Sea and Cake. As unflappable as it is inimitable, the Chicago quartet has always seemed perfectly happy polishing the pleasing contours of its jazzy post-rock pop. The Moonlight Butterfly, the Sea and Cake’s ninth LP, might not delve into dubstep or black metal, but the title track’s exploration of cosmic synthesizers and the frilly 10 minutes of motorik that go into “Inn Keeping” are damn near cataclysmic considering the tidy universe that birthed them. CHRIS STAMM. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $15. 21+.

Peter Murphy, She Wants Revenge, Hussle Club

[GOTH GODFATHER] Despite the success he found with the 1989 release of his third solo LP, Deep, vocalist Peter Murphy will always be overshadowed by his first band, Bauhaus. Yet, since leaving that group in 1983 (reunion tours notwithstanding), he’s shown more pop tendencies in his best solo work than his former band would have dared. This is especially the case with his latest album, Ninth, a disc that pays homage to his longtime idol David Bowie on glammy tracks like “Peace to Each” but also gives way to some moments of pensive beauty. ROBERT HAM. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 8:30 pm. $25 advance, $30 day of show. All ages.

MarchFourth Marching Band

[BRASSY, SASSY CIRCUS FUNK] Portland’s MarchFourth Marching Band, the go-to brass ensemble for block parties, political rallies and food co-op grand openings, has its shtick down to a science. With a live show that’s a cross between a New Orleans funeral procession and a low-budget Cirque du Soleil knockoff—the collective features stilt-walkers, dancers and plenty of hair dye—the group is as much

about spectacle as it is about big, brassy party jams. You haven’t really experienced the whole Keep Portland Weird scene until you’ve been caught in the middle of an M4 performance in the middle of downtown. It’s hard not to appreciate the fine musicianship that keeps MarchFourth more than just a curiosity. On new album Magnificent Beast, the squad delivers all the organic/explosive live energy that fans of M4’s carnivalesque live shows could ask for, even if the exceedingly obnoxious ska-rap number “Soldiers of the Mind” nearly spoils it early on. CASEY JARMAN. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 9 pm. $13 advance, $16 day of show. 21+.

Portland Piano Club

[88 KEYS AND A GOOD CAUSE] What started out as a Portland State University club has morphed into a citywide outlet for pianophiles and local music fans. The Portland Piano Club’s enjoyable inaugural concert last spring featured classic American music (Gerswhin, Bolcom) and new music by PSU student composers, with the audience voting on the winner, who received a scholarship. This one will showcase members’ favorites, including music by Erik Satie, Duke Ellington, Chopin, Ravel, Liszt and more (including some originals). PPC also fulfills the credo of its university birthplace to serve the city by making the concert a food-drive benefit, so bring something nonperishable to donate to hungry Portlanders. BRETT CAMPBELL. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. 8 pm. Donation. All ages.

All-Night Dance: The Miracles Club, Etbonz, Genevieve D and more

[11-HOUR PARTY PEOPLE] There are a handful of wonky things you might want to know about this dance party: that it was produced with help from the Regional Arts Council; that its promoter wrote an elaborate case study on the social benefits of all-night dancing; that Oregon liquor laws make an event like this extremely hard to put on. But what you really need to know is that The Woods is hosting an 11-hour-long, 18-and-up dance party headlined by Portland house favorites the Miracles Club. There will be alcohol until 2 am for those of legal drinking age. This should be a pretty ridiculous party at one of our favorite venues, and it’s the kind of thing that never happens in Portland without the fear of police showing up and closing things down. CASEY JARMAN. The Woods, 6637 SE Milwaukie Ave., 890-0048. 8 pm-7 am. $5. All ages.

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503.288.3895 info@mississippistudios.com 3939 N. Mississippi Best known for his work with illustrious metal band Neurosis, Scott Kelly shines w/solo work that carries the same emotive hardcore darkness that is so inspiring

SCOTT KELLY

JAY MUNLY (of Slim Cessna’s Auto Club) +BOB WAYNE WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 30 $10 Adv An exclusive performance from a much-lauded Portland 13-piece, featuring songs from their album “Hunger and Thirst”

TYPHOON +MIMICKING BIRDS

FRIDAY DECEMBER 2

+FOREST PARK (Early Show) +AAN (Late Show)

EARLY ALL AGES SHOW: 6:00 Doors, 6:30 Show LATE SHOW 21+: 9:00 Doors, 9:30 Show

SATURDAY DECEMBER 3

$10 Adv

With songs that mix acoustic and punk, a selfdeprecating humor, and a unique singing style, Jeffrey Lewis is a singer/songwriter whose music is rife with complex lyrics and imaginative imagery

JEFFREY LEWIS & THE JUNKYARD ALMOST NEARLY +AWKWARD ENERGY

SUNDAY DECEMBER 4

$10 Adv

Seething rock and four-part harmonies from Springfield, Missouri natives, jamming songs from their new album, “Buckle in the Bible Belt”

HA HA TONKA SOMEONE STILL LOVES YOU BORIS YELTSIN +TIGER HOUSE

TUESDAY DECEMBER 6

Au celebrates a 7-inch release show tonight, showcasing avant-garde, pop, and rock at its finest

Open Every Day 11am to 2:30am

APPETITE STAY CALM +LIKE A VILLAIN

THURSDAY DECEMBER 1

$6 Adv

OTHER LIVES

VEIRS ALL AGES MATINEE SHOW! *CHILDREN UNDER ONE YEAR OF AGE ARE ALLOWED FREE ENTRY 3:00 Doors, 3:30 Show

$10 Adults $5 Children

SUNDAY DECEMBER 4

An exclusive showcase from one of Portland’s favorite psychedelic roots and electronica bands, whose debut album found a home w/Isaac Brock’s (Modest Mouse) Glacial Pace Recordings

MORNING TELEPORTATION

GRANDPARENTS +THE WE SHARED MILK $8 Adv MONDAY DECEMBER 5 “The Entrance Band’s new music is the most alluring and, yes, entrancing vibe I’ve yet to experience in this new age. A soundtrack for the new groove.” - Thurston Moore

+HELLO ELECTRIC

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 7

$12 Adv

A quartet of up-and-coming Portland favorites who show us just why this city is so musically prodigious

NUCULAR

AMINALS

THE RESERVATIONS HEY LOVER +YOUR CANVAS

THURSDAY DECEMBER 8

+JBM $10 Adv

An artist who plays notably intimate live shows, nibletts music is minimal and accompanied by drums or guitar, sometimes gentle, sometimes thrashing. The new york times has called her a fierce singer-songwriter, and we could not agree more

SCOUT PICASTRO +HOOKERS

$12 Adv

QUIZZY

SUNDAY DECEMBER 11

12/14 - EMPTY SPACE ORCHESTRA 12/15 - ALLEN STONE 12/16 - FEDERALE 12/17 - MRS w/ DJ BEYONDA 12/17 - ELECTRIC OPERA COMPANY 12/18 - BRANDI CARLILE 12/21 - BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA 12/22 - QUEERLANDIA 12/23 - SCREENING OF “HOME ALONE & “HOME ALONE 2” 12/29 - STAR ANNA & THE LAUGHING DOGS

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GIVING YOU THE FINGERS: Dan Deacon plays Branx on Saturday.

SUNDAY, DEC. 4 The Cave Singers, My Goodness

[FOLK ROCK, EMPHASIS ON ROCK] Formed by Pretty Girls Make Graves’ Derek Fedusco after that group’s interment in 2007, Seattle folk-rock outfit the Cave Singers has always differentiated itself from other aughties neo-folkies like Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver with a more rollicking sound (not to mention singer Pete Quirk’s wonderfully twangy vocals). Third full-length No Witch, which came out in February, follows the logical musical progression to a brasher— and, for the first time, occasionally plugged-in—roots-rock style. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $14. 21+.

Jeffrey Lewis & the Junkyard, Almost Nearly, Awkward Energy (9 pm); Laura Veirs (kids show, 3:30 pm)

See Jeffrey Lewis music feature, page 27. Also see Laura Veirs album review, page 35. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

MONDAY, DEC. 5

+SPELLCASTER

$10 Adv

6:30-8:30 FREE - PRIZES! at Bar Bar w/ Quizmaster ROY SMALLWOOD

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Progressive heavy metal from San Francisco favorites, performing songs from their muchlauded recent release, “17th Street”

CHRISTIAN MISTRESS

SATURDAY DECEMBER 10 TUESDAYS

FRIDAY DECEMBER 9

HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE

NIBLETT

(503) 222-6600 • 2839 NW St. Helens Rd

LAURA

SONS OF HUNS

Orchestral rock sound steeped in romanticisim and nostalgia, a gorgeous soundscape that draws on historical inspiration, and the wealth of sorrow and survival that surrounds it

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Our favorite local folk charmer returns with a raved-about childrens album, “Tumble Bee.” It’s a gem that captures the hearts of adults and kids alike

THE ENTRANCE BAND $10 Adv

13 topless bartenders & 80 dancers each week!

Young the Giant, The Kooks, 1776

[CHARMING MEN] Fresh-faced, scruffily excitable but well mannered, and appealingly multicultural (beyond talented vocalist Sameer Gadhia’s Indian heritage, there are British, Persian, French Canadian and Jersey shore strains), Young the Giant is the latest bandof-the-moment to launch a thousand texts after a showstopping MTV performance. But however large the teen market and however short their memories—Young the Giant’s singular fan of a certain age remains Morrissey, who always had a soft spot for jumpedup pantry boys—the warmedover Coldplayisms of the Orange County quintet’s eponymous debut shamelessly stand upon the shoulders of pop leviathans past, if only

to pose unmolested. JAY HORTON. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St.. 8 pm. Sold out. All ages.

The Kooks, Yawn

[RETRO ROCK] There isn’t a lot of originality in the Kooks’ third album, Junk of the Heart, but the band seems uniquely at peace with the fact that originality is just not its strong suit. The Kooks’ stylistic grandparents are the Rolling Stones, and their fashionable older brothers are the Strokes, both of whom the group cribs with a fan’s devotion. On Junk of the Heart, as well as the highlights from the rest of its catalog, the Brighton-based quartet succeeds by virtue of how much fun it appears to derive from its pop-rock couplets and gratuitous pants. In the Kooks’ imagination, the British Invasion is still a thing, and if they’re willing to play back-to-back shows in one night just to prove it, then more power to them. SHANE DANAHER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 10:30 pm. $20. 21+.

TUESDAY, DEC. 6 Copy, Onuinu

[DANCY COMPUTERS] There are few Portland-bred electronic artists whose music holds up favorably against the Nintendoon-speed wizardry of Copy, but this show has managed to unearth one of them. With an LP on the way from Bladen County Records, and a string of impressively stylish singles already spackling the Internet, Onuinu is shaping up to be a major contender. The solo project from Dorian Duvall (whom you may know from his job working the door at this very sammich-slinging nightspot) indulges in fuzzy, loping melodies and laptop-skewed beats reminiscent of Toro Y Moi. Though much more conservative in BPMs than Copy, Onuinu’s songs still manage to fall in the pleasantly danceable territory that exists just this side of chillwave. SHANE DANAHER. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 10 pm. $3. 21+.

TUESDAY

Foster the People

[LOWER MGMT] Congratulations, Maroon 5: You’re no longer every cranky pop critic’s favorite punching bag. In record time, L.A.’s Foster the People has taken that mantle. It’s not hard to figure out why: As the brainchild of a former ad jingle writer, the band gives off the stench of “faux-indie” prefabrication. Its three members look like Abercrombie models, and its synth-driven dance pop has no balls to speak of, both in the figurative and literal senses, since singer and namesake Mark Foster has the voice of a eunuch. It’s lightweight, fluffy and filled with empty hooks, and its references go only as deep as 2008, back when MGMT—a band whose abandoned space on commercial radio it’s clearly aiming to Occupy—actually had an interest in writing songs people liked. But, y’know, there’s something to be said about a song you can’t extricate from your head no matter how much you want it gone, and “Pumped Up Kicks,” FTP’s ubiquitous hit single, is 2011’s most persistent musical parasite—with emphasis on the parasitic part. MATTHEW SINGER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 2250047. 8 pm. Sold out. All ages.

The Black Heart Procession, Chelsea Wolfe, Dramady

[GOTHIC AMERICANA] Few contemporary acts share the Black Heart Procession’s power to unite disparate listeners under the banner of romantic melancholy. I have seen punks, preppies and pricks alike weep to the waltzing “Blue Tears.” Sworn enemies of sincerity have been known to break beneath the sodden weight of “Your Church Is Red.” Play “Waiter No. 2” for me and watch a man melt. Last year’s meandering, filler-friendly Blood Bunny/Black Rabbit EP was a rare misstep for San Diego’s masters of the woeful dirge, so here’s hoping the Black Heart boys pass over it in silence before leading our forlorn souls into the sorrowful gloom. CHRIS STAMM. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $15. 21+.

Mumford & Sons, Nathaniel Rateliff, Apache Relay

[BRITS DO BLUEGRASS] Uh, trade violation, anyone? London fourpiece Mumford & Sons has mined American musical traditions such as folk and bluegrass; gilded its yield with vaguely Gaelic strains and accented vocals (against which Americans are defenseless); and sold this fool’s gold back to us at an unseemly profit. The group’s debut full-length, Sigh No More, was released stateside in 2010 and went platinum here last winter. The worst part? The singles off the album— though played nearly to death by commercial radio—aren’t half bad, using rousing banjo finger-picking and practically spiritual choruses to craft uplifting, impressively assured tunes. Those sly buggers! JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Rose Garden, 1401 N Wheeler Ave., 2358771. 7:30 pm. $30-$40. All ages.

Elitist, Heartless, Full of Hell

[MALEVOLENT CREATIONS] Hear me, heathen scum: Genuflect before the great beast and pray you emerge from the Know’s dank humidity with flesh and bone partnered still, for brutality reigns tonight. Full of Hell and Heartless, both out of Pennsylvania, specialize in baleful metallic hardcore that conjures a universe wherein Jeffrey Dahmer got spun on Integrity and Converge and started a band instead of turning his pad into an abattoir. Portland’s infernal Elitist manages to pull off something similarly disquieting: Its brain-bending blend of sludge and grind, available in record form on this year’s epic Fear in a Handful of Dust, is straight-up monstrous. CHRIS STAMM. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.

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ALBUM REVIEWS

LAURA VEIRS TUMBLE BEE (RAVEN MARCHING BAND RECORDS) [TWEE FOR TOTS] I love kids, but I hate kids’ music. This is a major reason I don’t intend to have children: I’m just not willing to spend six or seven years of my life listening to Uncle Woody’s Rubber Ducky Band or whatever DayGlo awfulness the Disney Channel, Nick Jr. and PBS Kids conspire to force-feed my hypothetical spawn. I get the impression Laura Veirs doesn’t much care for kids’ music, either. Sure, her new kids disc, Tumble Bee, has its moments of hammered repetition and unnecessary animal noises, but for the most part it presents Veirs—accompanied by an impressive list of Portland players and special guests like Karl Blau, Bela Fleck and Basia Bulat—singing in her natural pitch and timbre. She’s cutting children a little slack, introducing them to a slate of songs—mostly traditionals, though the disc’s best track might be the Woody Guthrie-penned “Why Oh Why”—that they might not grow into rather than out of. Among the disc’s most pleasant surprises are the Blau-penned near-title track, “Tumblebee” (which sounds a tad twee—can kids’ songs be twee?—but not particularly childish), and the traditional “The Fox,” which makes great use of both Veirs’ own subtle harmonies and the big Portland choir. As we all know from Lord of the Flies, children left to their own devices soon become loud, inappropriate and violent. Kimya Dawson’s clattering recent children’s offering, Alphabutt (as in, “B is for butt/ C is for cat butt”), is probably more along the line of something the little monsters would choose for themselves. But if Veirs seeks to strike a balance between unmedicated children and their NPR-loving parents, Tumble Bee—which includes some much-needed lullabies and instrumental breaks—should do the trick. Should your children reject acoustic guitars and sweet harmonies, try soundtracking their time-outs with Tumble Bee. That oughta teach ’em. CASEY JARMAN.

JACKSTRAW SUNDAY NEVER COMES (SELF-RELEASED) [BLUEGRASS] Contemporary pickers have a very real dilemma: They can play strictly traditional bluegrass and run the risk of flying completely under the radar, or they can attempt to modernize the form and risk the revulsion of their peers. The ones I’ve never heard of do the former, and the ones I tend to hate do the latter. Then there are great bands like Jackstraw, that write modern songs so well-versed in the classics that they achieve a timeless quality of their own. Jackstraw’s dual frontmen, Darrin Craig and David Pugh, are able singers and pickers, but more important, they share a clear musical vision on Sunday Never Comes. Jackstraw is classic without feeling precious; highly instrumental but not jammy; funny but never cute. The band can tackle songs of vastly different emotional weights and keep them safely under the same aesthetic roof: “Hurts When I See You” is a haunting, lovely waltz that stands in stark contrast to the title track, which mixes sepia-toned sentimentalism and gallows humor as it trades train-whistle verses and galloping instrumentals. All of these songs could just as well be traditional numbers—you won’t find songs about Facebook or cellphones in the collection— but one hears Jackstraw’s unique bent throughout the disc. This is decidedly Northwest music—Jackstraw covers the best song from Portland songwriter W.C. Beck’s recent Kansawyer disc, “Poor Man,” and co-penned the cooking instrumental closer “If I Die” with Caleb Klauder—right down to an elusive darkness that surfaces in the voices of Jackstraw’s singers and in the full-bodied Adam Selzer production. To be clear, there’s nothing particularly new about Jackstraw making a great modern roots record. This one is just particularly great. CASEY JARMAN. SEE IT: Jackstraw plays the Alberta Rose Theatre on Saturday, Dec. 3. 8 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. All ages (minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian). Laura Veirs plays Mississippi Studios on Sunday, Dec. 4. 3:30 pm. $10 adults, $5 kids 12 and under, free for babies.

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WED. NOV. 30 Afrique Bistro

102 NE Russell St. The Javier Nero Quintet

Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Redwood Son, RedRay Frazier, Matt Brown

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Open Mic

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. No More Train Ghosts, Raw Dog and the Close Calls, Pink Slip, The Valley

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Lowell John Mitchell and The Triplets of BeaterVille

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Half-Step Shy

Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Mary Flower

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Jazz Jam

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Thee Oh Sees, Total Control, Grave Babies

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam (9:30 pm); High Flyer Trio (6 pm)

Club

Ella Street Social

714 SW 20th Place Ryan A. Miller, Sam Adams, Cristina Cano

Goodfoot Lounge

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Dogtooth, Harlowe and The Great North Woods (9 pm); Fruition, Green State (6 pm)

Lents Commons

9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Billy D

Mississippi Pizza

Red and Black Cafe

400 SE 12th Ave. Music for the Working Class

Someday Lounge

125 NW 5th Ave. The Volt Per Octaves

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project Jam Session

The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Karla Harris

2845 SE Stark St. Left Coast Country, Cold Hard Ground

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Hidden Knives

Hawthorne Theatre

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Scott Kelly, Mike Scheidt, Jay Munly, Bob Wayne

2026 NE Alberta St. The Estranged, Atrocity Exhibition, DJ Ken Dirtnap (Green Noise Records show)

O’Connors

The Old Church

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Jamie’s Elsewhere, We Rise the Tides, Her Death and After, Above the Broken, Bury Your Horses

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Litanic Mask, The Crow, DJ Cenobites

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Jokers & Jacks, The Ecology

Mississippi Studios

7850 SW Capitol Highway Kit Garoutte

Palace of Industry

5426 N Gay Ave. Flat Rock String Band

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Impetuous Ritual, Ritual Necromancy, Knelt Rote, Shroud of the Heretic, Grave Upheaval

Press Club

2621 SE Clinton St. Swing Papillon

The Know

1422 SW 11th Ave. Kay Robbins

Thirsty Lion

71 SW 2nd Ave. Mark MacMinn

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Rudy Treasure

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. PCC Student Showcase

[NOV. 30-DEC. 6] Touché Restaurant and Billiards

Siren & the Sea, Gallop, Joel Kraft

1425 NW Glisan St. Nancy King with Steve Christofferson

Andina

Trail’s End Saloon

Andrea’s Cha Cha Club

1320 Main St., Oregon City Danny O’Brien & Ken Brewer

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Zenda Torrey & Mike Doolin

Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Ali Ba and the Groove, The Dusu Mali Band

White Eagle Saloon

1314 NW Glisan St. 3 Leg Torso 832 SE Grand Ave. Dina & Bamba Y Su Pilon D’Azucar with La Descarga Cubana

Artichoke Community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Songwriters Roundup

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Heroin Mascara, Bonneville Power, Ape Machine, I’m Dirty Too

836 N Russell St. Alexa Wiley and the Wilderness, Michael Manning

Biddy McGraw’s

Wilfs Restaurant and Bar

626 SW Park Ave. John “JB” Butler & Al Craido

800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Trio with Rita Marquez

Yukon Tavern

5819 SE Milwaukie Ave. Open Mic

THURS. DEC. 1

6000 NE Glisan St. John Ross

Brasserie Montmartre

Buffalo Gap Saloon

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Scott Hammock

Camellia Lounge

510 NW 11th Ave. Alma Brasileira Duo

Chapel Pub

Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin

Alberta Rose Theatre

350 W Burnside St. Cellar Door, Tentacle Burn, Aptera

Alberta Street Public House

830 E Burnside St. Thee Oh Sees, Total Control, The Mean Jeans

303 SW 12th Ave. Redwood Son, Laura Ivancie 3000 NE Alberta St. The Coats

Dante’s

Doug Fir Lounge

1036 NE Alberta St.

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Tongue and Groove (9 pm); Tough LovePyle (6 pm)

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. The Dictators, DJs Dennis Dread, Smooth Hopperator, Nate C, Mike V, Moderhead, Total Fucker, Tessa Coil, Adam Mullet (East End’s fouryear anniversary)

Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Father Figure, Pheasant, The Deadcoats

Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave. McDougall

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Philly’s Phunkestra

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Chariot, Vanna, Former Thieves, The Greenery, Listener, The Reeds Mill Investigation

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Midday Veil, Swahili, Datura Blues, Os Ovni

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown B3 Organ Band

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Verner Pantons, The Dandelions, Souvenir Driver

Kennedy School

5736 NE 33rd Ave. Snail People, Rick Huddle

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Cat Nasty, DJ F. Star, The Fantastic T.A.D.

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Billy Kennedy Band (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)

Matador

1967 W Burnside St. Animal Eyes, Youth, And And And

McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Succotash

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Lynn Conover & Gravel

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Loose Change

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. AU, Appetite, Stay Calm, Like a Villain

Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Acoustacats

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Lauren Sheehan

Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb

Pints Brewing Company

412 NW 5th Ave. Switchgrass, Noah Peterson

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Erik Anarchy, Angry Patria, Mentas Ajenas, Taint Misbehavin’, Davey Jones’ Locker Combo

Red Room

HERE’S EVERYBODY: The Sea and Cake Plays Doug Fir on Saturday.

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Livid Minds, Echoic, American Roulette

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Mournful Congregation, Aldebaran, Anhedonist, Merkstave

Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave. The Instigators

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Tom Grant Jazz Jam Session

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones Jam

The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Johnny Martin

Thirsty Lion

71 SW 2nd Ave. Beth Willis Rock Band

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Longshots, Toucan Sam and The Fruitloops, The Israelites

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Sing for Your Supperclub with the All-Star Horns

Trail’s End Saloon

1320 Main St., Oregon City Rae Gordon

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. Psychic Feline, Mattress, Family Stoned

Twilight Café and Bar

1420 SE Powell Blvd. Ataxia Cab, Animal R&R, Johannin

Village Ballroom

700 NE Dekum St. Louis Paine, Edwin Coleman, Mike Doolin, Tim Bryson, Tara Williamson, BJoy, Twin Life (World AIDS Day fundraiser)

Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Gordon Goldsmith

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Bad Assets (8:30 pm); Will West & Tanner Cundy (5:30 pm)

Wilfs Restaurant and Bar

800 NW 6th Ave. Mike Horsfall, Karla Harris, Todd Strait

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Immortal Technique, Chino XL, Da Circle, DJ GI Joe

FRI. DEC. 2 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Redwood Son, Michele Van Kleef, AG Donnaloia

Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Mickey Hart Band

Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Viva Voce, Telekinesis (Live Wire! live radioshow taping)

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Lucky Jumping Voices, Dogtooth (9:30 pm); Mikey’s Irish Jam (6:30 pm)

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The Blue Monk

R O TA M

3341 SE Belmont St. Eddie Martinez

The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Pete Krebs Trio

The Know

350 W Burnside St. Chris Funk (of The Decemberists), Rob Wynia (of Floater), The Water Tower Bucket Boys, Sneakin’ Out, Twisted Whistle, Skip vonKuske, The Billy Shears Orchestra, School of Rock Kids Chorus (performance of Pink Floyd’s The Wall)

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Lovesores, Queued Up, Heaven Generation

Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Laura Ivancie Quartet

Trail’s End Saloon

1320 Main St., Oregon City Lisa Mann & Her Really Good Band

Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Patria Jodida, Scumbucket, Scatterbomb

Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Rich Layton & The Troublemakers

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Olina, Deepest Darkest (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)

Winningstad Theatre

1314 NW Glisan St. JB Butler Trio

Artichoke Community Music

3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Friday Night Coffeehouse

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Feral Pigs, Iron Lords, Isolated Cases

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Cheap Dinosaurs, Animal Style, Dakota Clark

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Lewi Longmire Band (9:30 pm); Billy Kennedy & Jim Boyer (6 pm)

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Wehrmacht, Hammered Grunts, Blood Freak, Dethproof, Dr. Loomis

Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Al Craido & Tablao

Camellia Lounge

714 SW 20th Place Pillowfight, The Moss, DJ Eclecto

Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave. Josh and Mer, Mateo Bevington

Greeley Avenue Bar & Grill 5421 N Greeley Ave. Mosby

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge 1503 SE 39th Ave. Wendy and The Lost Boys

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. ohGr, Left Spine Down, Violet Tremors

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Mick Schafer, Lance Leonnig, Steve Hefter

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Marilyn Keller

Kelly’s Olympian

510 NW 11th Ave. David Friesen, John Gross

426 SW Washington St. Mr. Howl, Satin Chaps, The Resolectrics

Clyde’s Prime Rib

Kenton Club

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Muthaship

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Orgone, Sola Rosa, The Staxx Brothers

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Mosley Wotta, Tango Alpha Tango, Symmetry/ Symmetry, Ben Union

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Too Loose Cajun/Zydeco Band, The Bridgetown Sextet

East Burn

1800 E Burnside St. Andrew’s Ave., Cascadia Soul Alliance

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. YOB, Lord Dying, Wizard Rifle

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Marmits, Drats!!!, Old Junior

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Baby Gramps (9:30 pm); The James Low Western Front (6 pm)

Lents Commons

9201 SE Foster Road Crazy Mountain Billies

McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Mark Alan

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro The Lansings

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave.

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Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Typhoon, Mimicking Birds

Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Gothic Outhouse

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. The Sportin’ Lifers Trio

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Korey Dane, Sam Outlaw

Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Traditional Hawaiian Music

Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Norman Sylvester

Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli

2314 SE Division St. Lynn Conover

Pints Brewing Company

412 NW 5th Ave. Karyn Patridge, Zay Harrison

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Poison Idea, SS Kailert, Embrace the Kill, Rendered Useless, MDC

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. The Head and the Heart, Mayer Hawthorne, Graffiti6

Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Swing Papillon

Someday Lounge

125 NW 5th Ave. Glitter Express, Purse Candy, The Fascination Movement, Lilly Wolf and Dr. Nu

Ted’s (at Berbati’s)

231 SW Ankeny St. Latyrx, Vursatyl, Josh Martinez, Destro, DJ Spark

6835 SW Macadam Ave. The Old States, Los Perros Olvidados

Thirsty Lion

317 NW Broadway Lip Service, Akkadia

Ella Street Social Club

Buffalo Gap Saloon

Clyde’s Prime Rib

Tiger Bar

Andina

626 SW Park Ave. Gravy (9 pm); Al Craido & Tablao (5:30 pm)

2026 NE Alberta St. Wobblies, Muddy River Nightmare Band, Absent Minds 71 SW 2nd Ave. Will Bradley Band

SOLID GOLD: There are plenty of reasons for Willamette Week to dis new North Portland bar The Old Gold (2105 N Killingsworth St., 894-8937). For starters, it’s co-owned by former Portland Mercury music editor Ezra Caraeff. More important, Old Gold beat WW’s team in bar league softball this year, and the championship trophy now looms on top of a refrigerator behind the bar. So, readers, know that when I say the Old Gold is actually a great little bar, I’m not blowing smoke up your asses. It’s perhaps not destination drinking, but a cozy local watering hole that, after just one month, has already acquired a genuine neighborhood atmosphere. On the back wall is a large wooden “Drink in Oregon” white stag sign—an ethos that extends to a localish tap and bottle menu and a wellpriced cocktail menu that’s heavy on kombucha. Pair one with the surprisingly good tofu banh mi and sit back to admire that trophy— it won’t be there for long. RUTH BROWN.

Brasserie Montmartre

Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway Julianne Johnson

SAT. DEC. 3 15th Avenue Hophouse 1517 NE Brazee St. Switchgrass

Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Redwood Son, Tate Peterson (of the Resolectrics)

Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Chris Robinson Brotherhood

Alberta Rose Theatre

3000 NE Alberta St. Jackstraw, Martha Scanlan

Alberta Street Public House

1036 NE Alberta St. The Begonias (9:30 pm); Camille Bloom (6:30 pm)

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio

Artichoke Community Music

3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Carolyn Cruso, Carl Thor

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Korban vs. Elevated, Pill Brigade vs. Public Drunken Sex, The Sindicate vs. Reign Pro, Johnny Blaze vs. David Matthew Daniels (Bands vs. MCs show)

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Leaves Russell, Violet Isle, Age Sex Occupation

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Rob Stroup & the Blame (9:30 pm); Twisted Whistle Happy (6 pm)

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Dan Deacon, Purple and Green, Jason Urick

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Cool Breeze

Dante’s

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. The Sea and Cake, Lia Ices, 1939 Ensemble

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Billy D and The Hoo Doos, Aryon Jones

East Burn

1800 E Burnside St. Stagger and Sway

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Soft Metals (upstairs); Deathcharge (downstairs)

First Christian Church 1315 SW Park Ave. Peter Zisa, Doug Smith, Marilynn Keller

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Ben Darwish’s Commotion, The Doo Doo Funk All-Stars

Hawthorne Hophouse 4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Sons of Malarkey

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Peter Murphy, She Wants Revenge, Hussle Club

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Bobby Torres Ensemble

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. The Lonesome Billies, Angry Moofah and the Joints, Donovan Breakwater

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Metropolitan Farms

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Pagan Jug Band (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)

McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Matt Meighan

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Lewi Longmire Band

Memorial Coliseum

1401 N Wheeler Ave. Kaivama (Scandinavian Christmas fair)

Mission Theater

1624 NW Glisan St. Pert Near Sandstone, Left Coast Country

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Heavy Brothers (9 pm); Supervisor (6 pm); Aaron Nigel Smith (4 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Typhoon, Aan (9 pm, 21 and up); Typhoon, Forest Park (6:30 pm, all ages)

Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Donna and the Side Effects

Mount Tabor Theater

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

The We Shared Milk, Technicolor Caterpillar, Mode (Apocalypse Then! multimedia show)

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Kinzel and Hyde

Multnomah University, The A-Frame 8435 NE Glisan St. Tim Reed

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Lincoln’s Beard

Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Traditional Hawaiian Music

Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Chris Mayther

Pints Brewing Company

412 NW 5th Ave. Richie Rosencrans, Ray Dodd

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Extirpatients, Ghost Alien, Angie and the Car Wrecks, Blank Station, Lefty

Press Club

2621 SE Clinton St. Reiko and the Poolside Slippers

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Tetramorphic, Boston T-Rex, Hooker Vomit, Stepper, Slight of Hand, Fuzzy Thunder

Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. AnnaPaul & The Bearded Lady, Eric Stern, Russell Bruner

A La Mode, Sam Wegman, Wizard

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Rachichi

Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. 29 Steps (8 pm); Portland Casual Jam Group (2 pm)

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Broken Soviet, Trevor, Ras Safire (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)

Wilfs Restaurant and Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Tom Grant, Linda Hornbuckle

SUN. DEC. 4 Acadian Ballroom

1829 NE Alberta St. Tom Grant, Jeffrey Frankel, Ron Steen, Shelly Rudolph, Marilyn Keller, Nancy King, James Benton (Potluck in the Park benefit)

Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Drew Grow

Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Keb’ Mo’

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Dolorean

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs

NEPO 42

5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic

Rontoms

600 E Burnside St. Porches, Animal Eyes

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Tim Paxton

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave. Aaron Meyer

Tillicum Club

8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Johnny Martin

Trail’s End Saloon

1320 Main St., Oregon City Robbie Laws

Tupai at Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero Trio

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Hornet Leg, Blood Beach, ZotZ, Past Desires

Village Ballroom

700 NE Dekum St. Rabbit Foot with Montana Jane and Steph Noll

Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Galen Fous

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Open Mic/Songwriter Showcase

MON. DEC. 5

Ash Street Saloon

Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

Biddy McGraw’s

Alberta Street Public House

4830 NE 42nd Ave. Hollywood Tans, Houndstooth, And And And

Clyde’s Prime Rib

Andina

Star Theater

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. The Cave Singers, My Goodness

Ash Street Saloon

Someday Lounge

125 NW 5th Ave. Oregon Guitar Quartet

Spare Room

13 NW 6th Ave. MarchFourth Marching Band

Ted’s (at Berbati’s)

231 SW Ankeny St. KP (of Good Biz), Risky Star, Steveo (aka TripleSB)

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. James Faretheewell

The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Mary Kadderly

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave. Portland Piano Club (8 pm); Michael Allen Harrison, My Father’s House Kids’ Club Choir (11 am)

Thirsty Lion

71 SW 2nd Ave. Brian Odell, DJ Soulshaker

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Mental Hygiene, Demimonde Pyjama Party

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Tony Starlight Christmas Extravaganza

Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Farnell Newton Soul3, Tryone Hendrix

Trail’s End Saloon

1320 Main St., Oregon City Curtis Salgado

225 SW Ash St. Kimosabe, Iron Mic 206, Metatheric 6000 NE Glisan St. Felim Egan 5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Naomi LaViolette, West Coast Songwriters

Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Eidolons

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Hurt, Crown Point, Animal R&R

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Billy Kennedy & Tim Acott (9:30 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)

McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Trevor Ras

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Elizabeth Nicholson & Bob Soper

1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs 225 SW Ash St. Open Mic

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Battery-Powered Music

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Mike D.

Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Eric John Kaiser with Todd Bayles

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Young the Giant, The Kooks, 1776

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. The Kooks, Yawn

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Lily Wilde

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Korpiklaani, Arkona, Polkadot Cadaver, Forged in Flame, Dusk’s Embrace, Beyond the Red Horizon

Mississippi Pizza

Jade Lounge

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Portland Groove Collective (9 pm); Scott Browning (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

Twilight Café and Bar

University of Portland, Mehling Ballroom

Muddy Rudder Public House

5000 N Willamette Blvd.

1036 NE Alberta St. Fear of Flowers

1401 N Wheeler Ave. Kaivama (Scandinavian Christmas fair)

Memorial Coliseum

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard, Almost Nearly, Awkward Energy (9 pm); Laura Veirs (kids’ show, 3:30 pm)

1420 SE Powell Blvd. Wizard Boots, Black Black Things

303 SW 12th Ave. Drew Grow

8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music

2346 SE Ankeny St. Elie Charpentier

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band (8 pm); The Woodshed Big Band (6:30 pm)

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. David Gerow

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Portland Country Underground

CALENDAR McMenamins Edgefield Winery

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Skip vonKuske with Cellotronik

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Bob Shoemaker

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Hombres Sin Nombres, Keith Carter (9 pm); Bluegrass Jam (6:30 pm); Mr. Ben (5 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Morning Teleportation, Grandparents, The We Shared Milk

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones

O’Connor’s Vault

7850 SW Capitol Highway Cal Scott, Richard Moore, Ashleigh Flynn

O’Connors

7850 SW Capitol Highway Kit Garoutte

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Willie Basse

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Renato Caranto Project

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Landlord, DJ Just Dave

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Pony Village, Charts, Ferns

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Root Jack, Paul Brainard

TUES. DEC. 6 15th Avenue Hophouse

1517 NE Brazee St. Sons of Malarkey

Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

303 SW 12th Ave. Drew Grow

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Namoli Brennet

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. JB Butler

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Straight No Chaser

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Jolliff, My Robot Lung, Amy Bleu

Buffalo Gap Saloon

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Open Mic

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Copy, Onuinu

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Foster the People

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. The Black Heart Procession, Chelsea Wolfe, Dramady

Buffalo Gap Saloon

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Open Mic

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Quartet (9 pm); Trio Bravo (6 pm)

Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place

Ross McLeron and The World Radiant, The Greencarts, Pale Tourist, Holy Tentacles

1305 SE 8th Ave. Last Prick Standing, Child Children, Bison Bison

Hawthorne Hophouse

Rose Garden

4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Kelsey Morris

Hawthorne Theatre 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Fair to Midland, Dead Letter Circus, Aficionado

Jimmy Mak’s

1401 N Wheeler Ave. Mumford & Sons, Nathaniel Rateliff, Apache Relay

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. The Jazzistics (8 pm); Pagan Jug Band (6:30 pm)

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm); The Metropolitan Youth Symphony Jazz Bands (6 pm)

The Foggy Notion

Kelly’s Olympian

2026 NE Alberta St. Elitist, Heartless, Full of Hell

426 SW Washington St. Kids Like Color, The Movie, Mike Brown

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw

McMenamins Edgefield Winery

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Louis Ledford

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Open Bluegrass Jam

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Pokey Twig and the Yuletide Kindling

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Ha Ha Tonka, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Tiger House

Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St.

18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Neil Blender, Hot Mess

Plan B

2845 SE Stark St. Scott PembertonTrio

Goodfoot Lounge

Tube

Johnnie Ward & Eagle Ridin’ Papas

3416 N Lombard St. Punk Rock Name That Tune with DJs Skull & Bones

The Know

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Tom Waits Night

Thirsty Lion

71 SW 2nd Ave. PDX Singer-Songwriter Showcase

Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Open Mic with The Roaming

Valentine’s

SAT. DEC. 3 WED. NOV. 30 Devils Point

5305 SE Foster Road ‘80s Night with DJ Brooks

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Last Wednesday on the Left with DJ Dennis Dread

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. TRONix with Logical Accession

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Dirty Red

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Nate C

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. DJs Starbird, Sethro Tull, Party Dogg (9 pm); DJ Loyd Depriest (early set)

THURS. DEC. 1 Fez Ballroom

232 SW Ankeny St. Tom Greenwood, Ilyas Ahmed, Vodka Soap

316 SW 11th Ave. Shadowplay: DJs Horrid, Ghoulunatic, Paradox

Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar

Ground Kontrol

2929 SE Powell Blvd. Arthur “Fresh Air” Moore Harmonica Party

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Kelly Anne Masigat, Focus! Focus!

511 NW Couch St. DJs Brokenwindow, Strategy

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Jonny Cakes

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. DirtBag

The Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave. Damage with Ajapai

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. Fast Weapons Night: DJs Nate Preston, Linoleum

FRI. DEC. 2 Goodfoot Lounge

Beauty Bar

111 SW Ash St. Fever: Heatesca, Lionsden

Bossanova Ballroom

722 E Burnside St. Krampus Nacht Ball: DJs Rhienna, Encrypted, Medusa

Greeley Avenue Bar & Grill

2845 SE Stark St. DJ Magneto

5421 N Greeley Ave. Eye Candy with VJ Rev. Danny Horton

Ground Kontrol

Holocene

511 NW Couch St. DJ Epor 1001 SE Morrison St. FRESH.: Africa Hitech, !!! (DJ set), Jonwayne, Dibia$e, Lincolnup, Ben Tactic (9 pm); Aperitivo Happy Hour with New Dadz DJs (5 pm)

Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St. ‘80s Video Dance Attack

Press Club

2621 SE Clinton St. DJ Miles (art reception)

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Deep Cuts with Bruce LaBruiser

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Brickbat Mansion

The Woods

6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. In the Cooky Jar with DJ Cooky Parker

511 NW Couch St. DJ Daddy Longlegs 1001 SE Morrison St. Booty Bassment: Ryan & Dimitri, Maxx Bass

MUSIC

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. Saturdazed with DJs GH, Czief Xenith; DJ Freaky Outy

Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St. DJ Yaz (8th Annual Charity Ball)

SUN. DEC. 4 Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. DJ Nate C

Irish Town Public House

11600 SE Mill Plain Blvd., Vancouver, Wash. DJ Solace D

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. Hootchie Koo! with DJ Danny Dodge

MON. DEC. 5 Tube

Refuge

18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Toilet Love

Rotture

Jade Lounge

116 SE Yamhill St. Derrick Carter, Mercedes, Ritch, Ryan Walz, Wiggles

TUES. DEC. 6

315 SE 3rd Ave. Andaz with DJ Anjali & The Incredible Kid

2346 SE Ankeny St. DJ Zia McCabe

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Smooth Hopperator

639 SE Morrison St. Go French Yourself with DJ Cecilia Paris

Star Bar

Tube

31 NW 1st Ave. Nadastrom

18 NW 3rd Ave. Tubesday with DJ Freaky Outy (late set); DJ Dirty Red (7 pm)

The Woods

Yes and No

The Whiskey Bar

6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. All-Night Dance: The Miracles Club, Etbonz, Genevieve D, Arohan, New Osaka Sound System

20 NW 3rd Ave. Idiot Tuesdays with DJ Black Dog

Friday 12-2

DSL COMEDY hosted by

BRISKET LOVE-COX FREE IN THE SIDESHOW LOUNGE 21+ 9PM

Saturday 12-3

APOCALYPSE THEN!

NEWS

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Since 1974

featured artists;

SAM KINNEY AARON TAFT JIM LOOMIS BREEZY VAN WINKLE NADJA SVENSON BRANDON REPPERTON ETHAN HOMAN JASON WAICUNAS, VOZZ & MIKE VOSBURG

Never a cover!

upcoming in-store performances

SAM OUTLAW / KOREY DANE FRIDAY 12/2 @ 6PM

Buffalo gap Wednesday, November 30th • 9pm

Buffalo Bandstand

new films by:

Hosted By: live artist Network

DAN ACKERMAN

Thursday, December 1st • 9pm

Scott Hammock

lighting & visuals by

(acoustic pop country)

TREY SCHULTZ

Sam Outlaw wasn't raised on country music but he stumbled upon CMT's "Top Country Songs" countdown and was mesmerized by George Jones, Conway Twitty, Porter Wagoner, etc. Mostly George Jones. Sam’s current live band seeks to emulate the musical dynamic of ‘60s pop country - country ballads, heavy with pedal steel and harmony vocals. Korey Dane is a singer-songwriter living in and out of Long Beach and Hollywood, California. Awarded five days of recording at a local studio in Long Beach, California, after winning a street busking contest, Dane, with his band, managed to record the thirteen track record titled ‘Loomer.’

LINCOLN’S BEARD SATURDAY 12/3 @ 5PM Lincoln’s Beard—Kris Chrisopulos, Tyler Morgan, Dwayne Spence Eddie Esparza—has released their third album, the self-titled ‘Lincoln’s Beard.’ What is unique about this album is the addition of some new guest players. Ross Morgan, Conner Ghormely and Aram Arslanian play guitar along with some lap steel, which adds a nice layer to their overall sound. This album best demonstrates Lincoln’s Beard’s growth as a band.

friday, December 2nd • 9pm

featured debut of:

Ken Hanson Band

MEGA-TUN BREWERY

(blues funk soul)

Saturday, December 3rd • 9pm

live performances by:

The old States w/ los perros olvidados

THE WE SHARED MILK, TECHNICOLOR CATERPILLAR & MODE 7

(folk rock)

Sunday, December 4th

faN-aTTIC

“all your Nfl favorites” 9:30am

21+ 7PM

WEST CoaST SoNgWrITErS

(portland Chapter Songwriter Competition) 6pm

Sunday 12-4

Tuesday, December 6th • 9pm

WIN $50!!

KARAOKE

opEN MIC NIgHT Hosted By: Scott gallegos

on the big screen with

6835 SW Macadam Ave | John’s Landing

SEAN BAILEY

RICHMOND FONTAINE WEDNESDAY 12/7 @ 6PM Richmond Fontaine was formed in 1994 at Portland Meadows racetrack in Portland as songwriter/vocalist Willy Vlautin and bassist Dave Harding pored over the racing form and talked music between races. The two took their mutual love of Husker Du, Willie Nelson, X, The Blasters, and The Replacements and started playing music together. Before long, Fontaine was a solid four-piece outfit with an avid fan-base in the US and abroad.

THE STRANGE TONES THURSDAY 12/8 @ 6PM

Special Christmas Performance! Hailing from Pacific Northwest, this highly entertaining and talented combo puts their unique and original stamp on American roots music. The band draws upon the rich traditions of blues, rockabilly, surf, and R&B, mixed with film noir sonic hues, and combines all of these ingredients with well-crafted song writing and dynamic performances. The Strange Tones now take their distinct brand of Crime-A-Billy music and infuse it with the holiday spirit in their new album ‘Crime-A-Billy Christmas.’

21+ 7PM

COOL INDIE GIFT IDEAS ‘Misery Loves Company’ finds Mary hosting eleven musicians who join her for a series of duets. Along with Mary’s dazzling guitar and unmatched lap steel, the record features empathetic performances from some of blues and roots music’s most accomplished practitioners.

‘A Retrospective’ features a kaleidoscope of favorites studded with a bevy of unreleased gems. The powerful vocals of China Forbes and the retro mystique of the arrangements make for some great moments in this eye-opening exploration of 15 exciting years in the life of America’s favorite “little orchestra.”

MARY FLOWER MISERY LOVES COMPANY ON SALE $12.99 CD

PINK MARTINI A RETROSPECTIVE ON SALE $13.99 CD

OFFER GOOD THRU 12-24-11

Willamette Week NOVEMBER 30, 2011 wweek.com

Spare Lead have stepped up their skills to a new level that will leave punk fans begging for more. ‘Let’s Run Faster’ offers a unique blend of all punk genres, from hardcore to pop, with fast-melodic guitar riffs, technical drumbeats, and an original vocal style. This is a definite must for any fan of aggressive punk in the vein of Rise Against, Good Riddance, or Strike Anywhere.

SPARE LEAD LET’S RUN FASTER WHEN WE HAVE LOST OUR WAY ON SALE $9.99 CD

800 OCTANE REQUIEM ON SALE $9.99 CD

800 Octane’s fifth studio album completes a trilogy of CDs recorded with Conrad Uno (of Seattle’s legendary Egg Studios). Although the title may suggest a somber series of songs to honor the dead, it’s ironically their most lively album to date, with more speed, more melody, and more variety than prior albums. Topics range from movies and girls to monsters, and then back again before you realize it.

NOV. 30-DEC. 6

= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Most prices listed are for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply, so it’s best to call ahead. Editor: BEN WATERHOUSE. Stage: BEN WATERHOUSE (bwaterhouse@wweek. com). Classical: BRETT CAMPBELL (bcampbell@wweek.com). Dance: HEATHER WISNER (dance@wweek.com). TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit information at least two weeks in advance to: bwaterhouse@wweek.com.

THEATER The Big Bang

The inventive premise of the 1997 play The Big Bang (staged here by Triangle Productions, with direction by Donald Horn) is that the audience is a group of potential investors being pitched a musical by two endearingly sincere guys with nothing but a sorry assortment of props and a dream. Unfortunately for our wannabe producers, it’s a heaping pile of a dream, a comically overambitious production that (in four three-hour parts) would tell the complete history of the world. The thankfully much abridged version that co-leads Benjamin Sheppard and James Sharinghousen pitch us “investors” will delight Mel Brooks fans and make the politically correct uneasy: The humor is dated and hammy, and it employs pretty much every racial stereotype. Still, when this PC viewer wasn’t tugging at his collar, often clever lyrics had him chuckling. Sharinghousen and Sheppard’s performances deserve plaudits, too: The pair runs the intermission-less 90-minute dash—singing, I might add—with impressive stamina. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd., 239-5919. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Dec. 11. $15-$35.

Brie

Watching Brie is less like seeing a play than like seeing dean-enraging talent-show sketch comedy by your high school’s fuck-ups. The two-act tale of a MySpace courtship is an altogether punk production: Written by John Walterich and presented by Jedediah Aker, it’s performed by a largely amateur, very tattooed cast at the decidedly un-theatrical Tonic Lounge, and scored live by rotating punk-rock acts. I suppose it’s in keeping with punk sensibilities that Brie is a crass play, but that doesn’t mean the unimaginative cursing, distasteful (even if self-conscious) misogyny and homophobia and puerile onstage antics don’t get obnoxious. Hilariously overacted cybersex somewhat makes up for it, though, and a sense of fun and camaraderie among cast members does shine through the grime. If you go, take full advantage of the staging’s bar location, and take the play only as seriously as those onstage do. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 238-0543. 9:30 pm Mondays through Dec. 12. $5. 21+.

Cavalia

You are living under a rock if you haven’t heard about Cirque du Soleil co-founder Normand Latourelle’s horse show. Between the giant, quadruple-towered tent the production has set up under the Fremont Bridge; the adjacent building-sized, draped banners; and the flood of advertisements all over the city, the show’s logo of a white, doe-eyed horse with long flowing locks of humanlike hair is forever ingrained in my mind. It is pure spectacle: The acrobats and aerialists have rubber bands for bodies and are seemingly immune to gravity, but the real performance is by the “four-legged artists,” as Latourelle calls his horses. In one of the most touching acts, a trainer coaxes six loosely running horses into a perfect concentric trot around her and, with the slightest change in her body, the steeds simultaneously turn the other direction as if all seven figures are one breathing, moving entity. The mood quickly changes from elegance and obedience to a heart-racing cowboy-clad atmosphere. One by one, horses gallop against a vast desert landscape as daring riders perform a number of tricks, including hanging upside down, sideways and backward off the saddle. Soon a rider’s head

is only inches away from thundering hooves, and the audience is somewhere between astonished and horrified. EMILEE BOOHER. Cavalia Big-top, Northwest 12th Avenue and Pettygrove Street, 866-999-8111. 8 pm Nov. 30 and Dec. 1-3, 10, 13-14, 17, 19-23, 26, 28 and 30; 2 pm Dec. 4, 11 and 18. 3 pm Dec. 3, 10, 17, 24, 27, 29 and 21 and Jan. 2. $24.50-$189.50. All ages.

A Christmas Story

For those in need of your annual fix of A Christmas Story, there are a couple options: You can wait for the 24-hour Ralphie-fest on TNT, or you can watch Portland Center Stage’s reprise of last year’s stage adaptation of the everpopular 1983 holiday flick. With the live rendition, you not only get the classic story of a child’s fervent desire for a Red Ryder BB Gun, you get it in an auditorium full of families adorned with snowflake turtlenecks and mistletoe sweaters. If that combination makes you jolly, then you best bust out the reindeer antlers and buy your tickets. Traditionalists may want to stay at home, though, because, as with any theater adaptation, director Rose Riordan’s version takes a few liberties and adds a few twists to the narrative. Despite the deviations, the production stays true to the film’s most beloved moments: Flick’s tongue sticking to the flagpole; Randy’s puffball of a snowsuit; the “fra-gee-le” leg lamp; and of course, the constant fear of Ralphie shooting his eye out. EMILEE BOOHER. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm TuesdaysFridays, 2 and 7:30 pm SaturdaysSundays. Noon and 5 pm Saturday, Dec. 24. Closes Dec. 24. $29-$64.

Crossing Delancey

Trish Egan directs the classic Susan Sandler rom-com for the Portland Civic Theatre Guild. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. 10 am Tuesday, Dec. 6. $6.

Ebenezer Ever After

Stumptown Stages reprises the company’s musical sequel to Dickens’ story. PCPA Brunish Hall, 1111 SW Broadway, stumptownstages.com. 7:30 pm Dec. 1-3, 9-10, 16-17 and 23, 2 pm Dec. 18 and 24. $26.30-$34.30.

Happy Hollandaise

Beaverton Civic Theatre presents a play by Tim Koenig about dinner and robbery. Beaverton City Library Auditorium, 12375 SW 5th Ave., Beaverton, 754-9866. 8 pm FridaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Dec. 11. $5-$15.

Irving Berlin’s White Christmas

It’s ridiculous, I know, but Lakewood Theatre opened its Christmas show three weeks before Thanksgiving. Heaven help us all. It consists of exactly what it says. Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, 635-3901. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays Dec. 4 and 18, 2 and 7 pm Sunday, Dec. 11. Closes Dec. 18. $29-$32.

Live Wire!

The radio variety show welcomes nonconformity advocate Chris Guillebeau, Happiness Initiative directors John de Graaf and Laura Musikanski, Argyle winemaker Rollin Soles and SpongeBob SquarePants voice actor Tom Kenny, with music by Viva Voce and Telekinesis. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 7:30 pm Friday, Dec. 2. $18-$20.

Rocket Man

In the program notes for this Twilight Rep production, director Aimé Kelly says Rocket Man “lays the foundation for a quantum-meta cognizant journey.” Whatever that means, Steven Dietz’s play is certainly slip-

pery. The first act proceeds with relative straightforwardness: melancholic Donny (a compelling Mark Twohy) has dumped all his possessions on the lawn with a sign reading “Here’s my life—make an offer.” His friends and family respond with predictable alarm. Donny speaks vaguely of a trip he plans to take. He fiddles with a mysterious machine in his attic. He talks about the stars. A disco ball spins. The second act finds us in a parallel universe, where time moves in peculiar ways and temperaments have shifted. In this well-paced, well-intentioned production, you want to feel for Donny and clan. But just as Donny is told that his “application for empathy has been denied,” so too does Dietz’s zigzagging between sentimentality and sarcasm make it tough to care all that much about any of his characters. REBECCA JACOBSON. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 312-6789. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Dec. 12. $10-$15.

C R A I G M I TC H E L L DY E R

PERFORMANCE

The Santaland Diaries

Jim Lichtscheidl dons the booties for Portland Center Stage. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 pm Saturdays-Sundays. Noon and 5 pm Dec. 24, no show Dec. 25. Closes Dec. 31. $25-$51.

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol

Every time I think the annual crop of holiday schlock that takes over America’s stages every November has reached its nadir—the cynical, artless stagings of beloved films; the Christmasy spinoffs of successful secular revues; the endless, “subversive” camp spoofs of Dickens— someone comes along a lowers the bar again. This latest Christmas Carol perversion at Artists Rep, by Seattle playwright John Longenbaugh, achieves the dubious feat of being even more long-windedly dull and moralistic than the usual version. A morose Holmes (Michael Mendelson) takes the place of Scrooge, who is visited at 221B Baker Street on Christmas Eve by a chaindraped Moriarty (Tobias Andersen, in his usual in grumpy Mark Twain mode) who warns that hellfire awaits the great detective because he, like his dead nemesis, “[has] never loved, and that is the greatest sin of all.” Then on come the spirits, who whisk Holmes through scenes both mawkish (a stop by the 1914 Christmas truce) and corny (a cameo by an aged Tiny Tim), each ending in an obvious epiphany delivered with typical Holmsian precision. With the exceptions of Mendelson, who plays Holmes as clipped, irritable and maybe just a tad coked, and Todd Van Voris, an absolutely perfect Watson, most of the cast seem as bored with this exercise as the audience. The show lacks the whiz-bang stagecraft that make some Christmas Carol productions tolerable, and concludes with a moral so dire even Dickens would find it laughable: If you don’t open your heart to Christmas, not only will you die alone, but you will cause the horrible deaths of thousands. Humbug! BEN WATERHOUSE. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 pm Sundays. Closes Dec. 24. $20-$50. All ages.

Surfacing

Portland singer-songwriter Holcombe Waller premieres his latest blend of music and theater. His past efforts have been very good. BodyVox Dance Center, 1201 NW 17th Ave., brownpapertickets.com/event/207493. 9 pm Friday, 7 and 9:30 pm Saturday, Dec. 2-3. $12-$26.

Tales of Miracles and Wonder

Batya Podos tells stories of a woman who turns into a wolf, a young man who falls down a magical well and other oddities. Multnomah Arts Center , 7688 SW Capitol Highway, 823-2787. 7 pm Saturday, Dec. 3. $10, $7 children.

A Very Merry PDX-MAS

This year’s Broadway Rose Christmas show is largely a rehashing of the company’s 2008 holiday revue, Celebrate Home. It’s a fine thing. That show was

A VERY MERRY PDX-MAS a refreshing antidote to the tired camp that fills most of America’s stages each December. It was funny, sincere and exceptionally well performed. Two members of that cast (Amy Beth Frankel and Anne McKee Reed) are back this year, along with all of the very funny songs director Abe Reybold and his writing partner, Jay Tumminello penned for Celebrate Home. They’ve added a few more numbers this year, including a seasonal affective disorder-inspired rewrite of “My Favorite Things” and “Joy to the Burbs,” a halfserious paean to life beyond Southwest 65th Avenue. Don’t like funny? Maybe cute kids and jazzy arrangements of carols will get you in the door. No? How ’bout Sara Catherine Wheatley in a slinky, sequined evening gown? BEN WATERHOUSE. Broadway Rose New Stage Theater, 12850 SW Grant Ave., Tigard, broadwayrose.org. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Fridays, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Dec. 17. $28-$35.

A WWII Radio Christmas

Tapestry Theatre is taking a hiatus this year from its perennial Christmas from Home nostalgia-fest, but you can still get your fill of foley thanks to the students of Oregon Children’s Theatre’s Young Professionals program, who have created their own production based on Tapestry’s faux radio show. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 228-9571. 2 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Dec. 11. $10.

You Can’t Take It with You

Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman’s comedy about one screwy family colliding with another, somewhat less screwy one. Magenta Theater, 606 Main St., Vancouver, 635-4358. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Dec. 17. $12-$15.

COMEDY Brody All-Star Jam

The Brody’s improv crew is joined by troupe veterans and guest from Brainwaves and The Liberators. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7:30 and 9:30 pm Saturday, Dec. 3. $10, $8 students.

Girls! Girls! Girls!

All-women improv. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7:30 pm Friday, Dec. 2. $8-$10. All ages.

The Shame Company

This year’s edition of the 3rd Floor’s annual sketch-comedy show is all about shame. Newsies, unitards, homophobes, jazz drummers and the entire year of 1985 get to hang their heads. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., the3rdfloor.com. 8 pm FridaysSaturdays and Thursday, Dec. 1. No show Dec. 2. Closes Dec. 17. $14-$16.

CLASSICAL Richard Goode

In this Portland Piano International recital, Richard Goode, one of the most accomplished and famous classical pianists alive, returns with two minor-key Mozart gems, a Beethoven sonata and an assortment of Chopin miniatures and masterpieces. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 228-1388. 4 pm Sunday, Dec. 4. $14-$28.

Metropolitan Youth Symphony, Cleveland High School Choir and Pilgrim Lutheran Handbells

The annual holiday concert features excerpts from Haydn’s oratorio, The Seasons and Handel’s Messiah, plus music by Percy Grainger, J.S. Bach and Bizet. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 239-4566. 2 pm Sunday, Dec. 4. $18.90-$45.

Aaron Meyer Charity Christmas Concert

Joined by guitarist Tim Ellis and pianist Jean-Pierre Garau, the classically trained rock violinist leads a concert to benefit Saint Child, which serves “the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of pregnant young women who are caught in a cycle of abuse, poverty and neglect, and who are seeking help in transitioning from poverty and hopelessness to sustainability and faith.” Includes wine tasting and Christmas bazaar. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 648-4227. 7 pm Sunday, Dec. 4. $25.

Oregon Guitar Quartet

The prolific aggregation of some of the Northwest’s finest fretboarders previews its forthcoming CD, the third in two years, including tunes by Joanna Newsom, Tom Waits, Herbie Hancock and original arrangements of jazz classics like “Autumn Leaves” by OGQ member and PSU professor Bryan Johanson. Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th Ave., 248-1030. 5 pm Saturday, Dec. 3. $8-$10. 21+.

Oregon Symphony, Pinchas Zukerman

This month’s celebrity soloist not only plays the violin in Haydn’s Violin Concerto in C, but also conducts the orchestra in that work, a Rossini overture, Tchaikovsky’s powerfully dramatic Romeo and Juliet fantasy overture and Schumann’s Symphony No. 2. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353. 7:30 pm Saturday-Sunday, 8 pm Monday, Dec. 3-5. $21-$92.

Portland State University Choirs

This wintry program features traditional and classical compositions from Russia, plus music by Debussy, Estonian contemporary composer Veljo Tormis, Elgar, Randall Thompson and J.S. Bach. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave. 8 pm Friday, Dec. 2. $5-$10.

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Sounding better than ever these days, the students, conducted by Ken Selden, play Darius Milhaud’s jazzy, Harlem Renaissanceinspired “The Creation of the World”; the early, surprisingly sweet Coyote Blues by Finland’s Magnus Lindberg; and a suite from Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave. 8 pm Saturday, Dec. 3. $10, free with PSU student ID.

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Comfortably ensconced at the pinnacle of any short list of the planet’s finest string quartets, the 35-year-old, Hungarianborn classical-music institution offer two shows in this Friends of Chamber Music series, both highly recommended. Monday features one of Haydn’s delightful mid-period quartets (nicknamed The Lark), Beethoven’s epic lateperiod Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131 and Bartók’s somber yet intense, folk-music influenced Quartet No. 2. Tuesday’s all-20th-century program comprises Janácek’s anguished 1924 first quartet, inspired by a Tolstoy tale of romantic failure; Benjamin Britten’s ruminative, then lively 1941 String Quartet No. 1 and at least the third performance of Ravel’s only Quartet here in the past year. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 224-9842. 7:30 pm Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 5-6. $14-$40.

DANCE CircOddyesey

The annual benefit for the Circus Project, a nonprofit performance group that works with homeless and at-risk Portland youth, takes its theme this year from the legend of Odysseus, as told by dancers, musicians, acrobats and aerialists. Gypsy Heart Tribal belly-dance troupe, Night Flight Aerial and other guests artists will perform, along with Circus Project students and graduates. Vibrant Table Catering provides dinner, and there will be silent and live auctions, all held in the Kridel Ballroom. Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 764-9174. 7 pm Friday, Dec. 2. $125 (individual tickets).

Do Jump!

If the Nutcracker isn’t your speed, consider Do Jump!’s holiday show Ahhh Ha!, a greatest-hits col-

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lection from the company’s last three decades. Ahhh Ha! offers artistic director Robin Lane’s signature blend of contemporary dance, aerial and acrobatic work, live music and theatrical flourishes. The costumes are colorful, the subject matter and staging are family-friendly and a Nutcracker send-up is included. (That said, this town actually is big enough for more than one holiday show, so this doesn’t have to be an either-or decision.) Ahhh Ha! features special guests Jeff George (BodyVox-2) and Kailee McMurran (SubRosa Dance Collective), plus music from Klezmocracy and Do Jump! resident composer, Joan Szymko, in collaboration with the Grammy-nominated, professional choral ensemble Conspirare. Refreshments will be available. Echo Theater, 1515 SE 37th Ave., 231-1232. 7:30 pm Friday, Dec. 2; 3 and 7:30 pm Saturday, Dec. 3; 4 pm Sunday, Dec. 4, 11 and 18; 7:30 pm Friday, Dec. 9 and 16; 3 and 7:30 pm Saturday, Dec. 10 and 17; 3 and 7:30 pm Tuesday, Dec. 20; 7:30 pm Wednesday-Thursday, Dec. 21-22; 3 and 7:30 pm Friday, Dec. 23; 3 and 7:30 pm Monday, Dec. 26; 7:30 pm Tuesday, Dec. 27; noon and 4 pm Wednesday, Dec. 28, 7:30 pm Thursday, Dec. 29; 3 and 7:30 pm Friday, Dec. 30; 4 pm Sunday, Jan. 1. $20-$32.

Kaj-anne Pepper

Performer and drag artist Kajanne Pepper makes his choreographic debut this winter with Genderfantasy, a theatrical dance exploring glamor, identity and power. The piece—set in a faux nightclub where four dancers pulse, grapple, prance and lip sync—incorporates collage, movement and a pre-show installation featuring Fliptography flip-book technology. This show contains brief nudity. The Headwaters, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9. Installation at 7:30, show at 8 pm ThursdaySunday, Dec. 1-4. $10-$15.

Trey McIntyre Project

Boise-based contemporary choreographer Trey McIntyre makes wonderfully moving (in every sense of the word) use of music, as the program his company will dance during its welcome return visit should demonstrate. Included are In Dreams, a 2007 work driven by Roy Orbison’s romantic ballads and the 2011 creation Gravity Heroes, a paean to early thrillseekers who sent themselves over Niagara Falls in barrels; Antony and the Johnsons, the Sex Pistols and Benjamin Britten provide its varied soundtrack. Last, but certainly not least, there is The Sweeter End (2011), created in collaboration with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band—it contemplates the pleasures and pain of modern life in New Orleans. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday Dec. 1-3. $26-$64.

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Hosted by the Institute for Aesthletics’ Tom Russotti, this annual holiday fundraiser comes from the creative minds of TBA and always proves to be one of the region’s best pre-holiday spirit rousers. Aside from photo-booth sessions, there are feisty live performances from Noelle Stiles, Linda Austin and Feyonce. Add in an evocative silent auction (prizes include a private jet ride and a cocktail-making class at Kask). Oh, and did I mention a drinking-anddancing competition? Union/Pine, 525 SE Pine St., 242-1419, ext. 225, pica.org. 8 pm Saturday, Dec. 3. $50-75.

In Christmas in America: Happy Birthday, Jesus, Jesse Rieser’s work puts a microscope to the traditional depictions of cheery warmth in scenes of cocoa and cookies made fresh for Santa. The photographer takes an in-depth view at the outrageous and exotic practices of those who celebrate with bright lights, awkward figurines and miles of wires, illuminating a snow globe in the middle of the Arizona desert. The subjects might take the theme of decking the halls a bit far, you be the judge. Rieser was selected among the top 50 of Photolucida’s Critical Mass this year. Newspace Center of Photography, 1632 SE 10th Ave., 963-1935, newspacephoto.org. Dec. 2-24.

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Welcome to My World, a group show curated by Robert Tomlinson and 23 Sandy’s Laura Russell, is centered on a globe. More than 20 artists used a vintage world globe as their muse, playing ball by thickly coating, smelting and otherwise reshaping the planes that make up the state of our world. The artists have conceptually shape-shifted the basis of this whirling wonder by taking a second look at its formal geometries. Some have gone in a political direction while others skewed toward the absurd. Watch for kinetic, wild translations by Linda Hutchins, Kerry Davis, Tamara English and Heidi Kirkpatrick, among others. 23 Sandy Gallery, 623 NE 23rd Ave., 927-4409, 23sandy.com. Dec. 2-31.

Winter

Corvallis-based photographer Jeffrey Conley presents a Zenlike vision of the Northwest in the dark and cold of Winter. These silver gelatin gems breathe of the quietude of the still forest after a dusting or more of snow. Works such as Woven Branches (2005) leave stark space with thin lines of tree limbs masked by a dense white cascade of fresh powder that looks as though it could be made of goose feathers. The scenes are startlingly immediate, in both their solitude and occasional vastness, like a ghostly watercolor echoing itself. In Zen Hillside 1 (2009), tall embers stand like sticks, fading into the whispery backdrop. A monograph under the same title was recently published by Nazraeli Press. Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, 134 NW 8th Ave., 287-3886, hartmanfineart.net. Closes Jan. 14.

If you are traveling for the holidays, don’t miss Mechanics of Hither and Yon, the Portland airport’s yearlong installation by Brenda Mallory. By all accounts, you will witness her grandest scale to date, a large wall work made from cotton coated in beeswax, with blackened hardware that emerges about 20 feet from floor to ceiling. Evoking nests or hives, Mallory uses thin, black steel rods that help direct the eye to starbursts. Others are clustered, folded and outstretched like limbs, dark orchids and even microscopic life-forms explored through a new lens. The piece is accessed after the security checkpoint, so get your ticket early and stop by on the way to your gate. Portland International Airport, flypdx.com. Closes November 2012.

Honeydrippers

Molly Vidor’s raw, gutsy work might leave her best described as a punkrock painter. She’s toyed with pure abstraction over the years, but in Honeydrippers she brings back floral work. In works like Dark Ranunculus and Flavor Hearts, she shreds the notion of the standard still life with visceral black plums on a near-monochrome backdrop. It’s as if she is channeling the siren song of Lydia Lunch in the 1983 film Vortex. The artist’s fascination with the succulent flesh of white peaches, after all these years, obviously steals desire itself, as they sear before disappearing. PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders Ave., 222-0063. Closes Dec. 24.

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At this bingo night, instead of shouting “B9” and “N30,” the callers will shout Portland-centric finds like “Subaru Outback” and “Voodoo Doughnut.” The event is hosted by Skint Press, the publisher of Skint Portland, a guidebook to the city. As might be expected, the game, snacks and music by DJ Joe Bear are free. Billy Ray’s Neighborhood Dive, 2216 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 287-7254. 8 pm. Free. 21+.

FRIDAY, DEC. 2 Roslyn Farrington

PSU professor Roslyn Farrington is a “spiritual guide, teacher and public intellectual,” according to the folks at In Other Words, a feminist community center. In the vein of bell hooks and Martin Luther King Jr., her goal is to “build beloved community.” She’ll be speaking about her new book, Anna Holy Woman: Saying Yes to Divine Love. In Other Words, 14 NE Killingsworth St., 2326003. 6 pm. Free.

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Celebrate the second annual Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day by, well, taking your kid to a bookstore. Show them what Mommy and Daddy used to read before everything came in a touchscreen version. Broadway Books is a featured participating bookstore. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. Free.

Friends of Baltimore Woods Used-Book Sale

Even many NoPo dwellers don’t know about Baltimore Woods, the native oak- and maple-lined corridor connecting Cathedral Park to Pier Park along the bluff of the Willamette. The Friends of Baltimore Woods used-book sale offers a chance to find out more about this natural resource and score some new titles for your bookshelf or bathroom book stash. Or, unload those titles Powell’s refused to buy— donations are accepted until the event opens. Cathedral Park Place Atrium, 6635 N Baltimore Ave. 10 am-6 pm. Free.

Holiday Comic Signing Party

Cross the Columbia for Odyssey Comics’ holiday signing party, where a passel of artists will be on hand to meet fans and sign autographs. Confirmed attendees include artists Kurt Busiek (Avengers, Conan) and Randy Emberlin (Spider-Man, Carnage). As an additional incentive, there will be free coffee, and cookies for the kids. Many artists will have original art for sale. Odyssey Comics, 10711 NE Highway 99, 360-573-6172. 9 am-7 pm. Free.

MONDAY, DEC. 5 Storytime for Grownups

Storytime for Grownups is back for a holiday-appropriate reading of a Sherlock Holmes tale titled “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.” Apparently, a carbuncle is not only a gross skin lesion but also a type of gemstone. Hopefully it’s the latter that Holmes and Watson will be chasing around London at Christmastime. Longtime host David Loftus, who has read stories on OPB and at Powell’s, will lend his theatrical voice to the story. Grendel’s Coffee House, 729 E Burnside St., 595-9550. 7:30 pm. Free.

Drunk Poets Society

This poetry open mic takes place every Monday at the horror-themed Lovecraft bar. RUTH BROWN. The Lovecraft, 421 SE Grand Ave., 971270-7760. 8 pm. Free. 21+.

TUESDAY, DEC. 6 Native American Storytelling

History keeper Esther Stutzman comes from the Coos and Komemma Kalapuya tribes. She will share her family legends about the founding of the Kalapuya tribe that have been passed down through

generations. This event belatedly rounds out Multnomah County Library’s Native American Heritage Month events. Multnomah County Library–Albina, 3605 NE 15th Ave., 988-5362. 6:30pm. Free.

Oregon Archaeological Society

Geek out about the rocks on the Acropolis of Athens with Dr. Scott Pike of Willamette University. In a talk titled “The Archaeology of the Marbles of the Athenian Acropolis: What can Science Tell Us?” he’ll discuss the mystery of the red patina found on much of the white marble used to construct the Parthenon and other temples. It might get technical, but sounds interesting. OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave., 797-4000. 7 pm. Free.

Writers in the Schools Anthology Release

Portland teens are the stars at the launch for Writers in the Schools’ (WITS) newest anthology, No One Carries an Umbrella Here. After a semester-long creative-writing residency sponsored by Literary Arts and taught by local professional writers, the students are now published writers who have the chance to read their work in the Pearl Room with Suzanne Collins and Michael Chabon before them. Lucky kids. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

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I AM BETTER THAN YOUR KIDS Doting yuppie parents are annoying. Maddox, the onename blogger and writer of the bestseller (!) The Alphabet of Manliness, has staged a bloodletting that’s worse than the migraine. In his nauseating new book, I Am Better Than Your Kids, Maddox spends 300 pages being an asshole. Funny, Maddox already He writes short captions for graded his book for us. pictures drawn by real children, attached with grades of F, F- and F+. Sometimes, just to up the fun factor, he will juxtapose a drawing he’s done with a child’s drawing. Maddox writes a short defense of this premise as an introduction to the book, arguing that children should be discouraged from drawing if they suck at it: “If a kid wants to impress me, he has to draw something awesome, just like an adult would. Kids don’t get a free pass just for being kids.” A problematic caveat arises when he actually pseudo-praises a drawing (“I can only infer that you want to eat your cat. Awesome.”) but still gives the kid an F. C’mon, Maddox. His commentary ranges from straight-up mean (“Look, Emily, I’m not going to sugarcoat this: your entire family is retarded”) to just plain dumb (“I realized that this picture was upside down after I put it in the book and left it that way because it looks about the same right side up”) to cringingly vulgar (“This artist deserves a beer and a blow job, simultaneously”) to borderline misogynistic (“This is so boring it could make women miscarry”). There are 43 sections. Standouts include “Bowls to Throw Up In,” “Unintentional Hitler,” “Nice Boner!” and “Sexism, Drugs, AIDS and Crib Death.” Yup, there’s a little something for everyone. So if you like the idea of an adult providing abusive commentary on children’s innocent artwork, have at it. If you have a killjoy relative who gets off on that sort of thing, I Am Better Than Your Kids would be a great Christmas present. MAGGIE SUMMERS. GO: Maddox will speak at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W. Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm Monday, Dec. 5. Free.

MOVIES

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Arthur Christmas

An Aardman animation about the son of Santa. WW, being naughty, missed the press screenings. PG. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cornelius, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Tigard, Wilsonville. NEW

B-Movie Bingo: First Action Hero

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL, BINGO] Spot the inanities in a 1994 movie with the same gun as Last Action Hero, but nothing else in common!. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Dec. 6.

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey

77 With a Portland release timed to coincide with a larger Muppet resurrection, here’s a documentary about Kevin Clash, the hand that rocks the Children’s Television Network. It’s made with the approval of kiddie entertainment behemoths Disney and Henson, so the social message is softened, but Being Elmo is the genuinely affecting success story of a young African-American man who dared to be a nerd. His narrative is constantly compelling, though there’s not enough contextual material to pad out a fulllength documentary. But the explanation of how puppets are brought to life, both in Baltimore bedrooms and TV studios, is animated by Clash’s astounding vocal and tactile skill, along with his sheer delight at giving and receiving so much love. Even people (like me) a few years too old to ever adore the shrill mugging of Elmo may finally understand the fuzzy red guy’s appeal to young hearts: He fulfills the human need to be wholeheartedly wanted. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters.

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[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] A cornucopia of tacky ’70s seasonal TV, with yuletide commercials hawking Planet of the Apes and Star Trek toys. Also, even though the programmers aren’t free to say they’re showing the Star Wars Holiday Special, they totally are. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Monday, Dec. 5.

The Descendants

72 George Clooney, who may be the

closest thing we now have to a Cary Grant, seems of late to be reversing Grant’s career trajectory. While Grant went from pratfalling acrobat to ironically self-aware sex symbol, Clooney has recently made room in his usual Teflon-suave scoundrel persona for roles that place him more as a bruised emotional clown. In Alexander Payne’s The Descendants, Clooney puts in a nuanced, wincing performance as the Dickensianly named Matt King, a workaholic real-estate lawyer and haole heir of Hawaiian royalty, who finds himself suddenly at sea when his wife of many years is knocked into a terminal coma by a high-speed motorboating accident. Not only does he not know how to relate to his two daughters—stock indie-quirky 10-yearold Scottie (Amara Miller) and acidtongued boarding-school teen Alex (Shailene Woodley)—but he is left to discover that his lonely, stay-at-home wife had fallen in love with another man behind his back. Clooney makes the most of his underwritten role—it is a comedic wonder to watch him lope awkwardly in flip-flops, or register his polite, pride-sucking pain over and over—but it is difficult nonetheless for the viewer to invest emotionally in the film, despite its easy charisma. R. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, City Center, Fox Tower. NEW

Double Tide by Sharon Lockhart

[TWO NIGHTS ONLY] Cinema Project presents two stationary, 49-minute shots of a woman digging for clams in the mudflats of Seal Cove, Maine. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm TuesdayWednesday, Dec. 6-7.

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Dragonslayer

25 [DIRECTOR ATTENDING] The 1981

fantasy film Dragonslayer tells the story of a young wizard who must kill a 400-year-old dragon named Vermithrax Pejorative. Sadly, this is not that Dragonslayer. This Dragonslayer follows a year in the life of 23-yearold pro skateboarder Josh “Skreech” Sandoval. Sandoval leads an itinerant, largely aimless existence drifting to minor skateboarding competitions in and around his native Southern California. He likes to skate in abandoned swimming pools. He smokes a lot of pot. He drinks a lot. He lives off Cup Noodles. He throws up a lot. Occasionally he visits his infant son. “I’m just gonna do what I wanna do,” Sandoval sums up his life plan in one of the film’s few informative soundbites. “I’m gonna travel and see things and do things. And hopefully my kid won’t hate me for doing it.” (Yes, Skreech, he will.) Somewhere along the line, Sandoval manages to woo a more intelligent 17-year-old girl into dating him. They smoke pot together. Filmmaker Tristan Patterson’s beautiful cinematography in this pic has been rightly lauded, but the firelight silhouettes and artfully lit hash pipes attempt to glorify a completely unlikable subject and his wasteful, boring life. I wish I’d watched the wizard film instead. RUTH BROWN. Hollywood Theatre. Tristan Patterson will attend the opening screening at 7:30 pm Friday, Dec. 2.

Drive

95 Drive, the luxurious new L.A. noir

from Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, is the most brutally antisocial movie of the year. It is also the most romantic—but it is primarily spellbound by the romance of isolation. It is also exhilarating filmmaking, from soup to swollen nuts. It contains half a dozen white-knuckle action sequences— starting with a Ryan Gosling robbery getaway timed to the final buzzer of an L.A. Clippers game—yet its closest relative is the lightheaded, restrained eroticism of Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love. R. AARON MESH. Fox Tower, Valley.

Eames: The Architect and the Painter

44 [HELD OVER] Add this to the pile of documentaries about creative, intriguing 20th-century figures profiled in films that share none of their ambition. Charles Eames and his wife, Ray—the architect and the painter, respectively—are widely regarded as the parents of modern American design. You’ve sat in an Eames chair even if you couldn’t identify one; similarly, you’ve seen some interpretation of “Powers of Ten,” the most famous of the short films the pair made during the Cold War. Directors Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey dutifully chronicle the couple’s long list of accomplishments while attempting to delve into their guarded, complicated relationship, but the film’s bland presentation makes it feel like an informational video for a museum exhibit. Some of the talking heads are interesting on their own, particularly those who worked in the Eames Office: Most speak of the duo, who deigned to share credit with underlings, with an admiration bordering on Stockholm syndrome. Others were less impressed by the Eameses’ artistic pretensions: One colleague recalls a dinner party at their famous home in Pacific Palisades, Calif., which ended with a serving of flowers—a “visual dessert,” they called it. “I was really fucked off by that,” he says. “I got in my car and drove to the nearest Dairy Queen.” MATTHEW SINGER. Clinton Street Theater. 7 and 9 pm Wednesday-Thursday, Nov. 30-Dec. 8.

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82 There’s a scene in Everyday Sunshine in which Angelo Moore is bouncing, in tandem with his tweener

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Our cinemas are being overrun with garbage, and it’s glorious. Portland’s hunger for all things trashy has hit a nexus, flooding cinemas with amateurish depravity. Hollywood Theatre programmer Dan Halsted balances the venue’s artsy fare with ample fartsy, including monthly B-Movie Bingo and regular grindhouse flicks. Cinema 21 is getting trashier, screening Tommy Wiseau’s surreally shit-tastic The Room with a regularity trumped only by Clinton Street Theater’s Repo! The Genetic Opera screenings. Beer and Movie—the festival curated by WW screen editor Aaron Mesh and schlock purveyor Jacques Boyreau—has brought everyone from Chuck Norris to Tom Six to theater pubs. Yet we’re pretty snooty when it comes to locally sourced film. The conversation for most begins with Mala Noche and ends with Gus Van Sant’s next project. It’s centered on documentaries like How to Die in Oregon. Few know about the city’s smutty roots. Sure, there’s a big-ass photo of Raquel Welch in the Kenton Club, but few know how the bar featured in Kansas City Bomber, a 1972 roller-derby pile-up that somehow isn’t screened before every Rose City Rollers bout. Tom Shaw doesn’t even register in the archives of Movie Madness, but the “Ed Wood of Portland” was instrumental in the rise of young Portland filmmakers such as Van Sant, to whom he lent his equipment. David Walker is bringing the garbage back home. This Sunday, the filmmaker, historian and former WW movie critic takes the Hollywood Theatre stage for PDX B-Movies, recalling our rich history of disreputable cinema—particularly lost flicks from the boom era of 1972 through the early ’90s.

“If people are coming expecting to see a bestof-Gus Van Sant reel, they’re not going to see that, because Gus Van Sant made good movies,” says Walker. The presentation features a reel of clips from Portland-filmed crap. There’s Ironheart, a 1992 Van Damme knockoff with Bolo Yeung. Then 1990’s Fatal Revenge, a batshit-stupid cop flick in which Walker himself meets an untimely death. Don Gronquist’s elusive 1975 opus Rockaday Ritchie & Queen of the Hop is followed by Shaw’s maniacally inept and wonderful Death Wish knockoff, Courier of Death. “There are more films that people forget, and more filmmakers that people forget, than they actually remember,” says Walker. “That’s a hard truth. Movies get made, and they can be forgotten really, really quickly.” With the possible exception of the 1993 Andrew Dice Clay wank job Brain Smasher…A Love Story, these are obscure films. But it’s amazing they haven’t resurfaced amid the current Portland cinema climate. Crowds like the ones that pack the Hollywood on exploitation nights would erupt in glee at a scene in Courier of Death in which the hero

“THE ED WOOD OF PORTLAND” LENT GUS VAN SANT HIS EQUIPMENT. bites a woman’s leg so savagely that she flips over, or at the sight in Fatal Revenge of the banks of the Willamette River playing host to a kung fu melee apparently coordinated by a yellow belt. These are time capsules of the city itself, showcasing an era when the Pearl was a suitable setting for a drug den and pastel suits weren’t the least bit ironic. Walker’s presentation is a great primer, but in a town so proud of its DIY image, it’s crazy to think that we’ve barely canvassed our contributions to video junk bins. Somewhere out there is a canister containing a film by the late Mr. Shaw just waiting to be resurrected—pulled from the trash bin and finally shown in all its schlocky glory. SEE IT: PDX B-Movies screens at the Hollywood Theatre at 7:30 pm Sunday, Dec. 4. $7. Willamette Week NOVEMBER 30, 2011 wweek.com

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daughter, dangerously high on a trampoline in his mother’s backyard in suburban Los Angeles. “There’s cement under, don’t jump so high!” Mrs. Moore yells at the pair. Angelo—who, broke and entering his 40s, has recently moved back home—tries to pull a backflip before landing awkwardly. “Yaaay!” he hollers after taking a hard fall to the ground and curling into a ball. It’s a hilarious moment in a movie that’s jam-packed with them. It’s also a metaphor for Angelo Moore’s life as frontman for Fishbone, one of the most influential punk bands of the past 30 years. As indestructible as he seems in concert—often throwing himself into mosh pits, fighting with mic stands and diving off stacks of speakers—his career has had more concrete-lined downs than ups. Everyday Sunshine attempts to find out why, and discovers that—while the racial politics of the music industry certainly hindered the band— Moore may have just bounced too recklessly for the rest of his group to follow. I honestly can’t remember the last time I came away from a movie feeling so inspired and emotionally drained at the same time. Fishbone fought like hell to make music on its own terms, and its members have nothing but memories to show for their journey. Well, memories and an excellent documentary, anyway. CASEY JARMAN. Hollywood Theatre. Director Lev Anderson will attend the opening screening at 9:30 pm Friday, Dec. 2, and will host a workshop at NW Documentary at 2 pm Saturday, Dec. 3.

Happy Feet Two

Dance, penguin, dance! WW did not attend the screening. PG. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Tigard, Wilsonville.

The Hedgehog

80 The morbid yet sentimental cult

classic Harold and Maude lives on in the tangled blond hair of an 11-yearold Parisian girl named Paloma. The Hedgehog, a French coming-ofage drama, opens with the clichéd (and videotaped) monologue of this young, wealthy and intelligent child who says she’d rather die than succumb to the adult conformity that surrounds her. Paloma (Garance Le Guillermic) plans to kill herself on her 12th birthday to avoid the fate of “the fishbowl, where adults beat against the glass like flies.” But as the 165 days leading up to her birthday begin to dwindle, Paloma becomes an observer to more than the superficiality of her Champagneguzzling mother and self-absorbed sister. As the film progresses, The Hedgehog transitions from a trite account of the weight of privilege to an unexpectedly thoughtful and gently provocative narrative of the process of learning how to love. SHAE HEALEY. Living Room Theaters.

Hugo

80 Martin Scorsese’s decision to

helm the 3-D adaptation of Brian Selznick’s Caldecott-winning novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, seemed an odd and possibly addled one at first blush. But look at Scorsese’s filmography sideways and this august director’s late-career digression into family-friendliness makes a strange sort of sense, for beneath the blood and unpardonable French of films like Goodfellas and Casino, one finds a freewheeling and wide-eyed reverence for the antic, the cartoonish, the downright silly. (Two words: Joe Pesci.) Set in a vivid version of 1930s Paris so edibly adorable it might as well have been born in a crocodile tear sliding down Amélie’s pristine cheek, Hugo drapes its bittersweet study of broken dreams over a plot of fairy-story simplicity. The titular pipsqueak (played by extraterrestrially cute Asa Butterfield) is an orphan living inside the rather capacious walls of a sprawling train station patrolled by a guttersnipe-hunting station guard (Sacha Baron Cohen) and enlivened by a Tati-esque flow of murmuring humanity. Scorsese pulls off a few

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Immortals

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they POKE US IN THE EYE. R. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cornelius, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Tigard, Wilsonville.

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. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas.

J. Edgar

66 Spread over four decades and leached of any bright hues, Clint Eastwood’s biopic of intelligence-hoarding FBI director J. Edgar Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio) 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 is shooting nearly half the movie with Hoover and confidante Clyde Tolson (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. R. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills,

Clackamas, Cornelius, Lake Twin, Oak Grove, Fox Tower, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Tigard, Wilsonville.

Jack and Jill

Adam Sandler is Adam Sandler’s sister. Not screened for critics by WW press deadlines. PG. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Forest, Oak Grove, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Tigard, Wilsonville. NEW

Japanese Currents

[THREE WEEKS ONLY] Highlights from the opening weekend include Haru’s Journey (6:30 pm Friday and 8:30 pm Saturday, Dec. 2-3), a drama that harks back to Tokyo Story, and Pyuupiru 2001-2008 (4 pm Saturday and 7 pm Sunday, Dec. 3-4), a documentary about a transgendered artist whose self-transfigurations transfix Tokyo. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. Look for full reviews of Japanese Currents films in next week’s edition.. NEW Kill All Redneck Pricks: A Documentary About a Band Called KARP

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Though ’90s Olympia, Wash., indie-metal band KARP dropped the acronym early in its career, Kill All Redneck Pricks was a manifesto that the three highschool friends wrote in zines and scrawled on lockers. Great bands and stories are often derived from childhood friendships, and this caring, low-budget documentary collects the raw, surviving footage of a power trio that was poised for success before an unavoidable implosion. Musically, KARP was a breath of fresh air in the K Records scene—loud, unapologetic, highenergy Melvins acolytes. But for all the aggression, Jared, Chris and Scotty come across (in the beginning) as very good-natured dudes. KARP was an astoundingly powerful live band, but its albums were sadly under-produced documents. This film is similarly rough-edged, with archival footage being haphazardly shot and collected over the past 4 1/2 years by New York fan and filmmaker William Badgley. De-interlacing was apparently not in the budget. But what does make it into the film is solid audio, and plenty of heart. The story arc of three friends on the verge of success on their own terms is real history at this point. What makes this an underground legend is the triumph and tragedy of KARP’s surviving members. NATHAN CARSON. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Wednesday, Nov. 30.

The Lie

71 [DIRECTOR ATTENDING

OPENING NIGHT] “Don’t forget the organic diapers!” There, in a single line of dialogue, is the battle cry of the neo-bohemian parent, and it should be enough to give this movie a paying audience of indie musicians otherwise busy child-proofing their rental bungalows. Come for the camaraderie, stay for the relationships: The Lie is an above average (if not quite outstanding) micro-indie about people who feel they are living that title. It’s no accident that the movie’s vision of adulthood without adult compromise is to “pack up a car, join Jeff and Alice at the advocacy group in Portland.” Writer, director and star Joshua Leonard (he had the Will Oldham part in Humpday; without the bushy beard, you can’t miss his resemblance to Owen Wilson) has in many respects remade Office Space without hypnosis helping the hero stop caring about his job. No need: A little medical reefer suffices. The Lie isn’t especially distinctive among tiny, droll comedies about aimless creatives in L.A., but it has one very smart twist, sharp timing and carefully cutting performances from Leonard and Jess Weixler. In their climatic dialogue, the two feel out betrayal and forgiveness in real time, and give voice to what might as well be Portland’s official creed: You Deserve a Life You Feel Proud Of. R. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters. Joshua Leonard will attend the screening at 7 pm Friday, Dec. 2.

Margin Call

59 Perfectly primed to capitalize on

current interest in just how majestically wrecked we all are and shall seemingly forever be, Margin Call dramatizes 2008’s financial death rattles by isolating a 24-hour span in which one fictional Wall Street firm tries to figure out what to do with all of the shit falling into its huge, shiny fan. Writer-director J.C. Chandor’s central premise, that these guys bathing in cash and Drakkar Noir were simply doing their jobs, is a steep slope to climb at the moment. R. CHRIS STAMM. 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. R. KELLY CLARKE. Fox Tower.

Midnight in Paris

77 Sorry to break it to you, New

York, but Woody Allen is cheating on you. He’s had trysts in the past,

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Like Crazy

55 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. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Fox Tower.

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Mala Noche

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Gus Van Sant’s debut feature was a tale of lust and unrequited desire that served as a gritty love letter to the city of Portland. Twenty-six years later, the lust and unrequited desire—courtesy of Walt Curtis’ novel—are still evident in heartbreaking spades; but the affectionate glimpse at Portland has now become a time capsule for the city that was. Very little in the urban backdrop that would become a signature character in Van Sant’s early work is still around, which makes films like Mala Noche all the more important. Not only does it serve as a wonderful marker for the growth of the city’s most cherished filmmaker, it also helps chart the metamorphosis of the city itself. Shot in glorious black and white, Mala Noche stars Tim Streeter as Walt, a writer who longs to be with Johnny (Doug Cooeyate), an illegal immigrant who does not feel the same way. Later works like Elephant and Last Days have solidified Van Sant’s reputation as a minimalist filmmaker; Mala Noche shows that he was an expert with this aesthetic from the start. DAVID WALKER. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Monday, Dec. 5. Screens in honor of the NW Film Center’s 40th birthday. Pay what you will.

SLOUGH OF DESPOND: Kirsten Dunst in a pond.

MELANCHOLIA Lars von Trier’s restless formal experimentation makes him difficult to pin down, but the Dane responsible for Dancer in the Dark and Dogville tends toward an obsession with wretchedness. The results are often insane (the fate of Willem Dafoe’s poor penis in Antichrist), sometimes painfully funny (the absurd theater of The Idiots) and frequently just plain stupid (almost everything else he’s touched). With Melancholia, von Trier has finally struck on a subject and a story perfectly suited to his fixation on the epically fucked; he has, at last, made a masterpiece. A disaster movie hiding a Bergmanesque character study, Melancholia investigates the farthest, darkest edge of depression, that point at which a besieged mind begins craving obliteration. Because von Trier never met a bummer vibe he didn’t want to beat to death, psychic suffering is here imagined on the largest possible scale, with the earthly tribulations of a select few humans mirrored by an impending collision of cosmic proportions. Von Trier begins at the end, with surreal eschatological visions rendered in extremely slow motion: Birds fall from the sky, and a woman sinks into a golf course’s pristine lawn as two planets, one of them our own, move in for a potentially cataclysmic meeting. The two hours following this grandiose prologue hitch a ride to what might be Earth’s final minutes with Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), fragile sisters beset by complementary bouts of crushing depression and mounting panic. Justine is a mess who manages to sabotage her lavish wedding with her sadness, while Claire’s nurturing instinct morphs into bitterly obsessive worry over Melancholia, a newly discovered planet on course to barely miss crashing into our wet rock. A planet called Melancholia hurtling toward Earth at 60,000 mph while a Wagner plaint plays the entire species off and Kirsten Dunst scowls? Ridiculous, I know. But listen: There really are soul-searing kinds of sadness that can stretch minds to cruel and impossible limits, and perhaps such states can only be comprehended with the help of something as absurd and terrifying as a new blue planet rising on Earth’s horizon. What is certain is that von Trier brings us perilously close to understanding the horrible shape of utter disconsolation. It hurts to watch. It should. R. CHRIS STAMM.

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but in Midnight in Paris his flirtation with the City of Light blossoms into a full-blown affair. If it’s any consolation, Paris isn’t about Paris in the way Allen’s classic New York films were about the experience of actually being in New York. It’s more about the idea of Paris, and really the idea of any time and place that aren’t our own. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Hollywood Theatre, Pioneer Place.

The Misfits

[THREE NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] A week after seeing My Week With Marilyn (or, you know, not), see the actual Marilyn Monroe on 35 mm, acting for John Huston. This is the movie that wrecked her marriage to Arthur Miller, if you care about that sort of thing. (We do!). 5th Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm FridaySaturday, Dec. 2-3. 3 pm Sunday, Dec. 4.

Moneyball

90 If the dehydrated poetry of

sports-page chatter fails to tickle you even a little bit, I can almost guarantee Moneyball will leave you cold. For although director Bennett Miller (Capote) and his elite writing team (Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian) pad Oakland A’s GM Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) with paternal longings and past defeats, there’s not a whole lot of squishy human interest to dig into here. This is a movie about baseball and the obsessed men who devote their lives to it. Make no mistake: There is heart in Moneyball, but it’s the part of the heart that swells at the sight of numbers on the back of a Topps card and breaks beneath tacky banners commemorating past championships. PG-13. CHRIS STAMM. Cinetopia Mill Plain, Living Room Theaters.

The Muppets

85 Every Muppet movie—hell,

even the ’70s television show—is about pining for a bygone era, whether it be that of the vaudevillian variety show that The Muppet Show romanticized so well, or the caper flick, or even Treasure Island. This reboot, coordinated by Jason Segel, asks: Can’t we just be happy with an old-fashioned, MGM-style musical number (with puppets)? The tear stains on my jacket are proof I’m not too hard to please. Some of my favorite moments were the original songs by Flight of the Conchords’ Bret McKenzie. Conchords fans will notice parallels to his other stuff, but these compositions are a delight. (The only misstep is when Chris Cooper’s villain goes all rappin’ granny on us.) Amy Adams is upstaged by the new Muppet, Walter, who is 2 feet tall and her rival for Segel’s companionship. Walter’s a perfect addition to the gang, serving as an avatar for all us grown children who still love the plush. I have quibbles: In a movie that had an a cappella “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and chickens clucking Cee-Lo’s “Fuck You,” why were “The Rainbow Connection” and “Mahna Mahna” the only songs from the older movies included? But this film made me feel the same joy that The Muppet Movie stirs decades later. That’s pretty impressive. PG. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, CineMagic, Cornelius, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Tigard, Wilsonville, Roseway.

My Week With Marilyn

44 Michelle Williams steps off the Oregon Trail to play Marilyn Monroe, and gets about halfway there. She has the look of Marilyn—her features are like a portrait of Tinker Bell carved from a ripe peach—and nails the calculated-naif pout of the public persona, but she’s never quite convincing as Norma Jeane Baker. Her efforts to seem wounded and confused are always a smidgen too knowing and telegraphed. The surrounding movie looks at Monroe from the least interesting possible angle, that of snooty Anglos. It is a typical Weinstein Company property in the wake of The King’s

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DOUBLE TIDE BY SHANNON LOCKHART Speech: light, British and shapeless. (It’s built around a romance with some sappy little gofer played by Eddie Redmayne, but I couldn’t say where the affair begins or ends.) Director Simon Curtis, a BBC vet, might be trying to win a bet over how much of the Empire’s acting talent he can waste. He plows through Julia Ormond, Toby Jones, Emma Watson and Dominic Cooper with terrible editing—uniformly clumsy and groping. Judi Dench holds her ground for a few lines, and Kenneth Branagh sneaks in the movie’s sole fully realized performance as a preening and furious Laurence Olivier. He also delivers the only scene that hints at how Monroe’s charisma lit up the screen, as he watches dailies from The Prince and the Showgirl and quotes The Tempest: “We are such stuff as dreams are made on.” The rest of the movie is the weak, soporific stuff poured out of teapots. R. AARON MESH. Fox Tower. NEW Portland Latin American Film Festival Encore

[TWO NIGHTS ONLY] Two popular films from this fall’s fest: Sins of My Father (7 pm Thursday, Dec. 1) and The Silly Age (7 pm Saturday, Dec. 3).. Hollywood Theatre.

Puss in Boots

Antonio Banderas makes his Garfield. WW did not attend the press screening, as WW was at Occupy Portland instead of the cat movie. PG. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Tigard, Wilsonville. NEW

Seducing Charlie Barker

A comedy about an unemployed actor who is seduced, apparently. R. Living Room Theaters. NEW

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[TWO NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] The dialectical montage continues with Ivan the Terrible, Parts I and II (7 pm Wednesday, Nov. 30) and Alexander Nevsky (8 pm Thursday, Dec. 1). NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium.

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 dressup games of Vertigo had been conducted by James Whale around the time he made Bride of Frankenstein. The mad scientist, a plastic surgeon to be exact, is played by Antonio Banderas, and he is most certainly insane. Other characters keep mentioning this to him, in case he had forgotten. 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. Hollywood Theatre, Fox Tower.

Tower Heist

57 Tower Heist pulls off an astounding 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. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Tigard, Wilsonville.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1

29 The Twilight saga is finally getting to the good stuff. And by good stuff I mean the vampire batshit crazy stuff: rough girl-onvamp sex, demon babies, blood health tonics and wolf mind links. And yet, with all this delightfully bizarre fodder, much of the fourth movie (otherwise known as “the one where Edward and Bella get married, finally do it and Bella gets impregnated with his vampire baby”) is about as fun as a pelvic exam. All three leads—scowl-faced Kristen Stewart, sad alabaster puppet Robert Pattinson and shirtshredder Taylor Lautner—act as if they were expecting another press junket and wandered on to a movie set by mistake. And yet, it’s not all terrible. Or, to be clear, the last third of the film is so fabulously awkward and silly as to approach camp-classic status. Forced to endure an insatiable fetus draining her body from the inside out, Bella looks truly chilling. As her due date nears, her body is reduced to a skull attached to what looks like a wind chime made of gnawed chicken bones. It’s the only unsettling image the movie franchise has ever produced. Even better, the much anticipated birthing scene (a fan favorite during which, true to the book, Edward performs Bella’s emergency C-section with his teeth) is a masterpiece of the histrionic and the ridiculous that ends with both Team Edward and Team Jacob artfully covered with smears of blood and womb goo. It’s the kind of scene that makes you want to invent a drinking game and watch it a half-dozen times on repeat while you laugh uncontrollably and squirt whiskey out of your nose. PG-13. KELLY CLARKE. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cornelius, Moreland, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Tigard, Wilsonville, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub.

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YOU BETTER NOT POUT: Hans Gruber is Santa Claus. This should be obvious even to those disadvantaged souls who didn’t grow up with Die Hard on TV as the family yule log. Consider: Both have murky European origins, both promise punishment to those who do not obey their edicts, and both bring annual delight to the world by plunging out of the sky. They also share terrific beards, though Hans is more fastidious about trimming. Alan Rickman even spent the better part of the past decade playing another fearsome children’s character, as if unable to let go. AARON MESH. Showing at: Bagdad, 11 pm Friday, Dec. 2. $3. Best paired with: Terminator Stout. Also showing: The Ref (Laurelhurst).

Avalon Theatre

Mon-Tue-Wed 05:30, 08:00

3451 SE Belmont St., 503-238-1617 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:05, 10:35 FOOTLOOSE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:50, 07:00 REAL STEEL Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 03:10, 07:20 DOLPHIN TALE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:45, 04:55 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 09:35 THE SMURFS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:15, 05:25

Fifth Avenue Cinemas

Clinton Street Theater

Hollywood Theatre

2522 SE Clinton St., 503-238-8899 EAMES: THE ARCHITECT & THE PAINTER FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:00, 09:00 REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA Fri 11:30 THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Sat 12:00

Lake Twin Cinema

106 N State St., 503-635-5956 THE IDES OF MARCH FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:35, 05:00, 07:10, 09:20 J. EDGAR Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 02:00, 05:00, 08:00

Roseway Theatre

7229 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-282-2898 THE MUPPETS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 01:30, 04:15, 07:00, 09:45

St. Johns Twin Cinemas and Pub

8704 N Lombard St., 503-286-1768 THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:45, 07:15, 09:45 J. EDGAR Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 05:30, 08:20

CineMagic Theatre

2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-231-7919 THE MUPPETS Fri-Sat-Sun-

510 SW Hall St., 503-725-3551 THE MISFITS Fri-SatSun 03:00 NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY MonTue-Wed

Forest Theatre

1911 Pacific Ave., 503-844-8732 JACK AND JILL Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:00, 09:00 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-281-4215 THE SKIN I LIVE IN Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:00, 09:20 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:15 DRAGONSLAYER Fri-Sat-Sun 03:30, 05:30 EVERYDAY SUNSHINE: THE STORY OF FISHBONE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:45 LA EDAD DE LA PESETA Fri 07:00 PDX B-MOVIES Sun 07:30 CHRISTMAS IN SPACE Mon 07:30 B MOVIE BINGO: FIRST ACTION HERO Tue 07:30 CINEMA PROJECT: DOUBLE TIDE TueWed 07:00 AMERICAN TEACHER

Regal Fox Tower Stadium 10

846 SW Park Ave., 800-326-3264 DRIVE Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:15, 02:40, 04:45, 07:35, 09:45 THE IDES OF MARCH Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:55, 02:10, 04:30, 07:10, 09:25 THE SKIN I LIVE IN Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:50, 02:20, 04:55, 07:30, 10:05 J. EDGAR Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:50, 04:10, 07:00, 09:50 MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 02:30, 05:10, 07:40, 09:55 LIKE CRAZY FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:30, 02:45, 04:50, 07:25,

09:40 THE DESCENDANTS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:10, 12:45, 02:35, 04:15, 05:05, 07:05, 07:45, 09:35, 10:10 MY WEEK WITH MARILYN Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:05, 12:35, 02:25, 02:55, 04:40, 05:15, 07:15, 07:50, 09:30, 10:00

NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park Ave., 503-221-1156 HARU’S JOURNEY FriSat 08:30 THE CHEF OF SOUTH POLAR Fri-Sat 06:00 PYUUPIRU 20012008 Sat-Sun 07:00 2011 BRITISH ARROW AWARDS Sun 02:00 SAPPORO SHORTS PROGRAM Sun 04:00

Pioneer Place Stadium 6

340 SW Morrison St., 800-326-3264 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:10, 03:50, 07:10, 09:45 ARTHUR CHRISTMAS FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:00, 09:50 ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED! FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE -- GHOST PROTOCOL Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed TOWER HEIST FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:40, 04:20, 07:40, 10:15 IMMORTALS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 01:45, 10:20 THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:30, 04:15, 07:30, 10:10 THE MUPPETS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 01:00, 03:45, 07:00, 10:00 IMMORTALS 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 04:30, 07:45 ARTHUR CHRISTMAS 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:20, 07:20

Century 16 Cedar Hills Crossing

3200 SW Hocken Ave., 800-326-3264 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue 12:50, 03:10, 05:30, 07:50, 10:35 IN TIME Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-

Tue 12:00, 05:35, 10:10 TOWER HEIST Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue 02:35, 07:40 PUSS IN BOOTS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue 11:00, 03:25, 07:55 J. EDGAR Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue 01:00, 04:00, 07:00, 10:00 IMMORTALS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 02:35, 07:45 JACK AND JILL Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 12:15, 02:30, 04:40, 07:10, 09:30 HAPPY FEET TWO Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue 02:55, 07:45 THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 11:55, 01:20, 02:45, 04:10, 05:35, 08:45, 09:40, 10:20 ARTHUR CHRISTMAS FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue 02:50, 07:40 HUGO Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue 01:25, 04:25, 07:25 THE MUPPETS FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue 11:30, 12:50, 02:10, 03:30, 04:50, 06:10, 07:30, 08:45, 10:10 THE DESCENDANTS FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue 11:20, 02:00, 04:40, 07:20, 10:00 2 FOR 1 - MONEYBALL / THE IDES OF MARCH Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon 02:00, 07:10 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 01:15, 05:40, 10:10 IMMORTALS 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 12:00, 05:10, 10:20 HAPPY FEET TWO 3D Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue 12:30, 05:20, 10:10 ARTHUR CHRISTMAS 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 12:25, 05:15, 10:05 HUGO 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 11:55, 02:55, 05:55, 09:00

Academy Theater

7818 SE Stark St., 503-252-0500 DOLPHIN TALE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:50 50/50 Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 07:15, 09:35 THE THREE MUSKETEERS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:25 REAL STEEL FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:45 THE RUM DIARY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:25 THE HELP Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:05, 07:00 FOOTLOOSE FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:50 THE SMURFS SatSun 12:00 CARS 2 Sat-Sun 02:15

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Valley Theater

9360 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway, 503-2966843 THE HELP Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 06:20 THE RUM DIARY Fri-Sat-Wed 08:15 50/50 Fri-Sat-Wed 07:00 REAL STEEL FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:20 DOLPHIN TALE FriSat-Sun 11:30 FOOTLOOSE Fri-Sat-Wed 06:40 DRIVE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:05

Living Room Theaters

341 SW 10th Ave., 971-222-2010 THE LIE Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:10, 01:45, 05:30, 07:30, 09:20 THE HEDGEHOG Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 05:00, 09:25 SEDUCING CHARLIE BARKER FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:30, 07:15 HUGO 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:50, 01:10, 03:00, 04:00, 06:00, 07:00, 09:00, 09:40 BEING ELMO: A PUPPETEER’S JOURNEY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 03:40, 07:40 50/50 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 11:40, 04:35, 09:30 MARGIN CALL Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:40, 05:10, 09:35 MONEYBALL Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:50, 06:45

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