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If prison is our method of getting women the drug treatment they need, then we are in trouble [“Jail Birds,” WW, Jan. 18, 2012]. Drug-treatment programs have been cut, and now funding is almost nonexisitent. I work as a volunteer at Coffee Creek [Correctional Facility]. The women I know want better lives for themselves and their children. They want to get into the drug-treatment programs but can’t because there isn’t enough room. Not everyone is even eligible—it’s contingent on their crime and sentence. Of those who are deemed eligible, I’d say about 25 percent are able to get into the treatment programs. In a population where 89 percent have drug problems, what does this say about the rate of rehabilitation? —“Volunteer at Coffee Creek” Great look at a very under-reported problem. The piece is well-researched and well-written. Thank you for bringing these issues to light. This is the kind of stuff that will keep me picking up WW every week. —“Sam Elliott” Dawn Pearson should not be in prison. Obviously, she scored high enough on crime severity and criminal history on the sentencing-guidelines grid to “get” prison, but the guidelines can be deviated from with [the help of ] a willing judge and prosecutor. Pearson is a small-time crook, and the state is wasting money on her (not that any lights would be turned off if she wasn’t there). County jail, restitution to the
Can I change my party preference to Republican just so I can vote in the primary, and change back before the general election? Is it legal? I can’t stand to see Republicans having all the fun. —Martha F. Republicans are having a lot of things right now— emergency meetings, panic attacks, that third martini—but I’m not sure “fun” is particularly high on the list. Still, one man’s train wreck is another man’s sweet schadenfreude, so I can understand your temptation. What you’re contemplating is called “strategic crossover voting” or “mischief voting,” depending on the speaker’s mood. If your state has open primaries, where anyone can vote in whichever party’s primary they choose, it’s easy to do. Oregon, of course, has closed primaries, so Democrats who want to cross over will need to reregister as Republicans. Even so, a 1998 study found that strategic crossovers accounted for around 3 4
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What strikes me most about Eileen Brady [“Extra Seasoning,” WW, Jan. 18, 2012] is that she’s new to politics and doesn’t have a record the public can judge her by. We only have her past experience. And on that front, if this story is any indication, we don’t know who the real Eileen Brady is, but this version seems like a fraud. —“Left Coast” Faithful WW readers will, of course, be waiting breathlessly for your exposés on your boy Jeff Smith. This Brady story is so much ado about nothing. —“Per Plexed” In the first 30 seconds of her interview, [Brady] says she was a “full-time volunteer,” but in the article it states she was a full-time employee of other organizations. I just don’t trust someone who exaggerates so much and so consistently. She does not come across as having enough integrity to be mayor of Portland. —“Curlove” LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include the author’s street address and phone number for verification. Letters must be 250 or fewer words. Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Fax: (503) 243-1115, Email: mzusman@wweek.com
percent of the vote in closed-primary states. Logistically, there’s nothing to it. You can register for Oregon’s May 15 primary as late as April 24—and change back at your leisure, since your party affiliation won’t prevent your voting for whomever you like in the general election. Whether it’s legal in other places is another matter. Political junkies may recall that talkradio blowhard Rush Limbaugh got into a small amount of hot water in 2008 for encouraging Republicans to vote for Hillary Clinton in Ohio’s Democratic primary. This would prolong Clinton’s bruising battle with Barack Obama, Limbaugh thought, making Obama easy pickings for the GOP in November. Since Ohio requires voters to swear allegiance to their party on penalty of fraud, what Limbaugh and his minions did was probably illegal, but no charges were ever filed. Either way, the story illustrates a second problem with “strategic” voting: It can backfire. Just ask President McCain. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com
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Oregonians love marijuana. Take a walk along Southeast Clinton Street some summer evening and you’ll get contact confirmation. The most recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health, from 2009, estimated that between 7.7 and 11.3 percent of adult Oregonians had blazed in the previous 30 days. That’s the seventh-highest rate in the nation, behind a bunch of states like Alaska and New Hampshire whose citizens are essentially snowed into their grow houses half the year. We harvest it by the bale, too. Oregon’s marijuana crop was valued at more than $210 million in a 2006 paper by activist Jon Gettman. That makes it the state’s fourth-largest cash crop behind hay, wheat and onions. And yet, for a state that prides itself on its progressivism, Oregon lags behind California and Colorado, where medical marijuana patients are free to shop at for-profit dispensaries. Here, as in Washington, Montana and New Mexico, patients must grow their own or persuade another cardholder to grow it for them without state oversight. That’s hardly a reasonable way to dispense “medicine.” Will 2012 be the year we finally make progress? Here’s a primer to the state of weed in the state.
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Hey, man, what’s up with Oregon’s 420 laws? Well, it’s still illegal. Possession of more than an ounce is still a class B felony, and possession of less than an ounce is punishable by a fine of up to $1,000. The Portland Police Bureau investigated about 860 marijuana-related cases in 2011, according to bureau spokesman Sgt. Greg Stewart. Bummer, dude! Are we gonna, like, fix that? Possibly by the end of 2012. There are three organizations gathering voter signatures to place legalization measures on the ballot in 2012. The Hemp and Cannabis Foundation, headed by activist Paul Stanford, is pushing the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act. Oregon NORML is behind Sensible Oregon, a legalization measure similar to NORML-backed initiatives in California and Colorado. Oregon Marijuana Policy Initiative director Robert Wolfe has written a constitutional amendment legalizing the personal use, possession and production of marijuana by adults. Whoa, there are three different legalization plans? That’s weird. Are they super different? The initiatives vary mainly in complexity. The first plan, the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act, is five pages of legislation allowing Oregonians over the age of 21 to grow and use marijuana without a license and establishing an Oregon Cannabis Commission, similar to the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, to govern the licensing and taxation of commercial cultivation and sale. OCTA is the latest version of the project to which Stanford has dedicated his career. “This initiative, I started drafting it in 1988, and I’ve had input from over 100 experts and lawyers around the world,” he says. The biggest change to the new OCTA, according to Stanford, is the separation of the OCC from the OLCC—since a 2011 poll indicated “people don’t want to see people buying alcohol and marijuana at the same time.” The second plan, Sensible Oregon’s measure, takes a less proscriptive approach. Instead, it just repeals the Oregon statutes banning the manufacture, delivery and possession of marijuana and replaces them with language that prohibits the restriction of those activities by adults over the age of 21. It also directs the Oregon Health Authority to come up with rules governing the legal sale of marijuana by the beginning of 2014. “Sensible Oregon is a statutory initiative that would remove all civil and criminal penalties for the possession, the transportation, the cultivation and the use of marijuana for adults, and it allows [you] to cultivate in your yard as long as you give it away,” says Oregon NORML director Mary Anne Sanford. “We’re leaving everything else intact.” The third plan, OMPI’s measure, is the simplest of the bunch. It’s only three sentences enshrining the right of adults to grow, possess and use marijuana in the state constitution. “There’s two ways to go with these things,” says Wolfe of legalization. “You can write 10 to 30 pages and impose on Oregon a fully conceived new marijuana economy, or you can ask a simpler question that’s relevant to a lot more
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“We had a benefit that wasn’t beneficial in July,” Stanford says. “I’ve donated about $80,000 [from the Hemp and Cannabis Foundation], which amounts to about 80 percent, maybe 95 percent, of the funds raised so far. I’m ready to contribute another $5,000.” OMPI’s campaign has fewer signatures but more cash, thanks in large part to $45,500 in donations from the Foundation for Constitutional Protection, a group based in Austin, Texas, that funds marijuana legalization efforts. “I don’t think OCTA or the Sensible Oregon measure has any chance at all,” Wolfe says. “[Sensible Oregon] CONT. on page 10
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doesn’t have any resources. OCTA [has been] stalled out for months. We, on the other hand, are just now developing, and we have the funding in place to push forward.” As of press time, Sensible Oregon’s ballot title had not been approved by the state. The campaign has recorded donations of $534. “They’re all trying to get to the same end,” NORML’s Sanford says of the measures. “One’s really long, one’s absolutely one sentence, and ours is just trying to get to provide it to people.” If any of the initiatives succeeds in making the 2012 ballot, Oregon will not be alone in voting on legalization. The backers of Initiative 502, a Washington state measure similar to OCTA, say they’ve turned in over 100,000 more signatures than they need to qualify for the ballot, and the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act of 2012, a legalize-and-tax initiative in Colorado, claims to have submitted sufficient signatures to qualify as well. Whoa, déjà vu! Haven’t we voted on this before? Speak for yourself, gramps. Marijuana legalization last made the ballot in 1986, when supporters of the Oregon Marijuana Initiative spent about $50,000 only to see the measure fail with just 26 percent support. Previous versions of Stanford’s Oregon Cannabis Tax Act have failed to make it to the ballot in 1996, 1998 and 2010. So what will this mean for all my friends with little cards for their backaches and nausea? The many dispensaries, co-ops, delivery services and other assorted businesses that have sprung up to serve the 57,389 patients enrolled in the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program continue to exist in a regulatory vacuum. Two Washington County dispensaries, Wake n Bake and Serene Dreams, were shut down by police in 2011. At least one Portland dispensary, Foster Healing Center, closed its MEDICAL MARIJUANA IN doors voluntarily after thenOREGON BY THE NUMBERS U.S. Attorney Dwight Holton The most common ailment issued a warning in June that among Oregon Medical “the sale of marijuana for any Marijuana Plan patients: purpose—including as medSevere pain (95 percent) icine—violates both federal and Oregon law and will not The least common: Agitabe tolerated.” tion related to Alzheimer’s Holton’s warning didn’t stop disease (0.099 percent) OMMP cardholders from opening dispensaries and delivery Cost of an OMMP card services in disused storefronts application: $200 across the city. Potlocator.com Average number of OMMP lists 21 dispensaries in Portpatients per referring physiland, each of them operating cian: 28.65 within their own interpretation of Oregon law. Percentage of Oregonians enrolled in OMMP: 1.5
Can’t trust the Man, man. Indeed. In the absence of Number of new OMMP clarified rules from the state, patients approved in 2011: 15,982 Don Morse, director of Human Collective, a Tigard “OMMP County with the greatest membership support group,” number of OMMP patients is seeking to bring some order per capita: Josephine (5.27 to his industry through the crepercent) ation of a trade group, the Oregon Greener Business Bureau. Marijuana plants seized by Created in December at Rogue Area Drug enforcethe first-ever OMMP Business ment, which includes the Conference in Clackamas, the Josephine County Sheriff’s Department, in 2011: 2,467 OGGB requires its five members to abide by strict rules: They must document all transactions, test all dispensed marijuana for pesticides, use medicine vials with childproof caps, and not dispense more than an ounce per week to any one patient, and will not business names or carry merchandise that “reflects recreational use.” “Because there are no legislative rules or guidelines for this industry, we have created our own,” Morse says. “Believe me, there are plenty of resource centers and dispensaries that are not applying this level of common sense.” Morse says the organization is seeking to hire a lobbyist, and hopes to get some of its self-regulations enshrined in law in 2013. 10
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but would not permit a visit to his home.) And nowhere is that nervousness more apparent than in so-called “grow shops.” In Portland, indoor gardening supply stores have become nearly as ubiquitous as strip clubs and breweries. Based on WW’s review of online and yellow pages listings, there are now more than 20 such businesses in the city. Ask owners how much of their business comes from growers of medical marijuana, however, and they will say “zero percent.” At many stores, “marijuana” is a forbidden word. Most have strict policies against advising customers on anything related to growing pot, legal or otherwise. But with 7,193 registered growers in Multnomah County alone, it’s fair to assume the amount of marijuana-related business coming through grow shops is much higher than “zero percent.” “In a grow store, everyone is talking about ‘tomatoes,’” says Don Morse, director of Tigard’s Human Collective clinic. “‘My tomatoes are getting ready to ripen,’ or ‘I’m having a problem with leaf discolorization on my tomato plants.’ It’s a game retailers are forced to play, according to Reid Rodgers, owner of Portland Hydroponics & Organics. It’s not just the fear of a federal conspiracy charge, he says: Stores sign contracts with wholesalers promising not to discuss the cultivation of marijuana in regard to their products. Some deal with the situation differently than others. At Roots Garden Supply on North Interstate Avenue, a sign below the cash register warns that anyone asking
Michael Johnson entered the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program two years ago, decades after he quit smoking pot recreationally, to help cope with a debilitating back injury. The 55-year-old residential contractor also began cultivating marijuana plants inside his Southeast Portland home, for himself and two other patients for whom he is a registered caregiver. Always a bit of a green thumb, he figured it shouldn’t be too difficult to grow what’s essentially just a weed. “When I was a kid, we used to take seeds and throw them along the riverbank, and there would always be something there,” he says. “I didn’t think anything beyond that.” As Johnson soon learned, indoor gardening is a difficult and pricey pursuit. He happens “very frequently.” initially made several small mistakes, like This “game” is another example of the trying to use aluminum foil to reflect light. many ways the Oregon Medical Marijuana He also had to deal with spider mites, a Act, which passed in 1998, fails the very pest common to the Pacific Northwest and patients it was intended to help. Because disparticularly to marijuana growers. pensaries are outlawed in Oregon, patients And he was surprised by the sheer cost must identify growers to provide them with of maintaining a grow site. Johnson estitheir medicine, or grow it themselves. mates his expenses average between $100 But the state does not offer any informaand $130 per ounce. He receives a financial tion on how to find growers, nor on how assist from the two patients he grows for, to grow. (The OMMP website states that who reimburse him for questions regarding finding supplies. seeds or plants fall outside “PATIENTS ARE GIVEN CARDS WITH NO Another thing he the program’s purview, and DIRECTION FROM THE STATE, THEN JUST quickly learned: “You provides a link to Google.) don’t talk about it.” KICKED OUT TO THE CURB.”—MIKE MULLENS And patients can’t solicit Although Oreg on help from the most readily state law allows OMMP patients to grow about marijuana may be refused service. available resource: the grow shops popping a minimal amount of marijuana at a Others will simply “redirect” the con- up all over the metro area. time—24 total plants, though only six can versation. If someone comes into Rodgers’ “Patients are given cards with no direcbe mature—the ongoing federal prohibi- store looking for advice on growing mari- tion from the state, then just kicked out to tion of the plant still makes many growers juana, he informs them that talking about the curb,” says Mike Mullins, who teaches nervous about even discussing the process. medical marijuana is a federal offense and courses on marijuana growing through (Johnson agreed to a telephone interview ends the discussion. Rodgers says that Portlandsterdam University, a business
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Big Head Buck’s story is a familiar one in this economy: A 27-year-old special-education teacher for Portland Public Schools, Buck—who declined to give his real name and provided his own alias—was laid off at the end of the 2010-11 school year. Financially, he was stable, with paychecks filtering in through the summer and unemployment benefits on the horizon. But Buck says he needed structure. And money. So he went to Northern California to trim marijuana plants near Ukiah, a Mendocino County city known less for its majestic landscapes than for the psychotropic treats produced in its forests and farmlands. For one month, Buck lived on a friend’s legally licensed farm, trimming stalks of marijuana for 14 hours a day, shaping the sticky nuggets that light up pipes nationwide. He lived out of his car (most of his colleagues slept in tents) and spent 30 straight days trimming leaves from the dried buds, netting $200 per pound. This part of Buck’s story is also familiar in Oregon. “For some of the people, this is the money that they make for the year,” Buck says. Marijuana is big business in Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity counties, popularly referred to as the Emerald Triangle. A Mendocino County-sponsored report says cannabis accounts for two-thirds of the were out in the middle of nowhere.” says economy of that county, with economic Daddy, 30. “The escape route is, you just go gains of more than $1 billion annually. down a couple hundred yards, you go down That’s a tremendous amount of money a couple football fields [on a country road] from three counties with a combined and you’re on a different property.” population of approximately 236,000—less than half that of the city of Portland. Daddy says he’s noticed fundamental Like any agrarian industry, the Emerald changes in the atmosphere of the Triangle Triangle’s medicinal and illegal growers over the years. New farms sprouted up, alike rely on manual labor—a scissorrun by folks whose images weren’t exactly wielding, seasonal worker army rivaling attuned to the scene’s usual hippies. Aspen’s ski industry. “Once I saw some of the shady people “It’s like this tall tale that’s actually who moved down there, some of the gangtrue,” says Gomo (who, like Buck, chose ster dudes with pit bulls and guns—it got his own nickname), a weird,” Daddy says. “You’d be Eugene native who has staying at somebody’s house and “WE LIVE IN FUCKING OREGON. OF seen scores of his friends you’d hear gunshots. It was like COURSE YOU GO WORK ON POT FARMS.” the Old West.” migrate south and return with sticky fingers and But the gunshots—which —“GOMO,” A POT-FIELD WORKER pockets full of cash. Asked Daddy admits were probhow vast numbers of people discover these ing that, due to the low number of arrests ably from country boys just being country opportunities, Gomo simply shrugs. “We on the sites, it’s impossible to say how many boys—were no match for another threat: live in fucking Oregon. Of course you go Oregonians are working on grows. the “Dark Rainbow,” a sinister contingency work on pot farms.” Portland DJ Professor Daddy—again, that has descended to harsh the mellow of It’s impossible to get an accurate count his chosen moniker—has worked on farms the entire scene. of the number of people who participate, off and on since 2004. He agreed that “The Dark Rainbow—which I coined— but those interviewed for this story claim escape routes are essential. But he, like refers to those often emaciated, dreadlocked, they trimmed with four to 15 other people every other person interviewed for this snotty, pretentious, pseudo-spiritualist, at sites ranging from huge greenhouses story, said his fear of being busted was megalomaniac, insecure assholes that travel glowing with fluorescent lights to small short lived. the globe thinking they’re better than everyyurts with dirt floors. Some grows were “When it took me hours to get where one else,” Daddy says, sounding a bit like a described as “summer camps for pot- I was going to, [I stopped worrying]. We yokel whose vacation town has been invaded 16
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WINNER! Annie’s Organic Bunny Fruit Snacks “I thought they’d be gummy, but they’re gooey. I feel like this is false advertising. You look at this box and you think they’re going to be gummy bears. And all the flavors taste the same. But I guess if you wanted a juice box without actually drinking a juice box this would be cool.”
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Place all ingredients into a large vacuum bag and seal it according to your sealer’s instructions. Get your immersion circulator set to 85 degrees Celsius—’cause science, yo—and toss the bag of ganja and butter in. If you don’t have an immersion circulator, you can use a large stock pot filled with water and a candy thermometer. You’ll have to adjust the heat so as to not hit a full rolling boil. Shoot for 185 degrees Fahrenheit. Three hours later, remove the bag and set it aside to cool a bit. Use a strainer to strain out all the weed mash. You can take this mash and wring it through cheesecloth or an old T-shirt to get all the precious green. Take the now-green butter and pour it into a usable shape. I like icecube trays. Just freeze ’em and pop ’em out as you need ’em. You can also achieve similar results by slowly simmering the ingredients for 12 to 20 hours over a low flame. Take care not to burn the butter, which means frequent stirring. And your
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SCOOP HELLA COOL: TrackersPDX, which runs camps on skills like wilderness survival and wildlife tracking, is collaborating with Dark Horse Comics and artist and writer Mike Mignola to run a summer camp based on the Hellboy comic. According to the website: “We immerse you in tactical training of all forms, including survival skills in any environment (both earthly and non), martial arts and self-defense specific to preternatural entities, hand-to-hand weaponry (we train foam swords, bows and more) and forensic investigation.” Sadly, you have to be between the ages of 9 and 17 to attend.
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THE DREAM OF THE ’90S IS ALIVE IN BROOKLYN: The emergence of Portlandia as a national sensation reached its inevitable climax on Friday, Jan. 20, when Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen appeared at the Williamsburg Music Hall in Brooklyn for Portlandia the Tour. The show was adoringly received by an almost exclusively white audience, one of whom asked Brownstein in a Q&A what Portlanders thought of the IFC series. “I feel like they understand the show less than anyone else,” she said. “But they’re awesome.” WW polled audience members in the beer line. Most had visited Portland, all wanted to. “It reminds me of the Village back in the ’70s,” said one man. His wife added: “The Goodwill there looks like Nordstrom’s.” For more reactions, visit wweek.com. FUTURE DRINKING: Coming soon to Division Street is Cibo pizzeria, the second restaurant of Bastas owner Marco Frattaroli. >> HJ Mini Mart & Deli at Southeast 82nd Avenue and Holgate Boulevard is becoming Giants NY Pizza & Convenience. >> Hollywood burger joint Killer Burger is opening a second location in the former Hash space in Sellwood. >> BeaumontWilshire bar Fremont Ridge has changed owners and its name to the Fremont Ridge Inn. >> 82nd Avenue’s 68-year-old Chinese restaurant Canton Grill has also changed hands. The new owner, Cindy Louis, is the latest in three generations of family who have run the restaurant. HOPPY ENDING: Roger Rabbit, the bunny stolen from the backyard of Portland Meat Collective farmer Levi Cole, was returned to his owner Thursday, ending nearly a week of hostage negotiations with the animal-rights activist who kept him. “He made it home,” said Cole. “He’s hopping around our living room as we speak.” But Roger would not be staying in Cole’s house for long. The farmer, who teaches DIY butchery classes at the Meat Collective, didn’t want his breeder bunny stolen again, so he sent him to a farm outside Newberg. “He’s being moved to a happy home in the countryside,” Cole told WW. Commenters at wweek.com were divided on the outcome. ENDIT: Acid Christ author Mark Christensen has written a tribute to his late cousin Marty Christensen, the Portland poet, for wweek.com.
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THURSDAY JAN. 26 AUSTRALIA DAY [FOOD] Crikey! Pacific Pie Co. is throwing a bonza bash for Australia Day. There’ll be snags on the barbie, schooners of true blue piss at the bar, grouse movies on the telly and, of course, dog’s eye with dead horse. Seppos are welcome, but there’ll be discounts for dinky-di Aussies. Bring your cricket bat, you little ripper! Pacific Pie Company, 1520 SE 7th Ave., 381-6157. 11 am-9 pm. Free entry.
THEY SAID GARY MARCUS WAS TOO OLD TO LEARN GUITAR. HE WHAMMIED THEM WRONG. Think you’ve gotta be 14 and full of hormones to learn guitar? Nope, says NYU psychology professor Gary Marcus. Nearing the big 4-0, Marcus enjoyed sparring with his wife on Guitar Hero so much he got the itch to learn to play the instrument, happily unencumbered by what he describes as “an obvious lack of talent.” His book, Guitar Zero, chronicles middle-aged ax grinding and the “science” of the brain’s ability to learn an instrument. Zero has the support of men too old for such childish things: Quadragenarian Portland bands Tabor Graph and Steer Crazy will rock out with him at Powell’s.
FRIDAY JAN. 27 PINA [MOVIES] Wim Wenders made angels dance in Berlin in Wings of Desire. Now he makes Pina Bausch’s dancers poke you in the eye! But seriously, we loved it. Cinema 21, 616 NW 21st Ave., 223-4515. Multiple showtimes. $6-$9.
SOMETHING’S GOT AHOLD OF MY HEART [THEATER] Hand2Mouth Theatre presents an early look at the company’s upcoming show inspired by love and singing duos. The Mouth, Inside Zoomtopia, 810 SE Belmont St., hand2mouththeatre.org. 7 pm Friday-Sunday. $8.
WW: How ’bout them calluses? Gary Marcus: At first, I was really annoyed, and even feared losing sensation in my fingers. But after a few weeks they became less of a burden.
SATURDAY JAN. 28 THE RED SHOES [MOVIES] A showbiz fairy tale with a sting, this British classic by filmmaking duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger is so satanic and dreamy that it inspired many people to become dancers, and others— Brian De Palma, Dario Argento—to make horror movies. 5th Avenue Cinema, 510 SW Hall St., 725-3551. 7 and 9:30 pm. $3.
Did you have the desire to write your own music or cover songs? I’m totally about making my own music. Early on, I discovered that if you want to make up music, if you know the pentatonic scale, you can let that be a playground.
JASON ROBERT BROWN AND SHOSHANA BEAN [BROADWAY] Brown, the composer of Songs for a New World and 13, and Bean, the Beaverton High School grad who originated the role of Elphaba in Wicked, play a concert together in advance of Staged!’s upcoming production of 13. First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park Ave., stagedpdx.org. 7:30 pm. $25-$70.
What’s the brain’s role in learning to play? Playing the guitar is an astonishing skill. It requires the physical dexterity of an athlete, the memory of a chess player, the ability to work fast without making mistakes. Playing music requires activation of your entire brain. One might imagine a particular, small part of the mind that is the “music center,” but it doesn’t work that way. You need many parts of the brain to essentially rewire themselves. Is gaming a good foundation for learning to play guitar? Guitar Hero, in particular, is helpful. Video games help with hand-eye coordination, which translates to the ability to play guitar without watching your fingers. Rock Band III has an option to play with a real guitar, but there’s room for more tutorial games to be developed.
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Do you have groupies yet? A 71-year-old lady drummer wrote to say she wasn’t sure if she’d rack up the 10,000 hours [of practice required to learn an instrument, according to one theory] because her husband only
lets her make the noise an hour a day. MELINDA HASTING. GO: Gary Marcus will appear at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm Thursday, Jan. 26. Free.
WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM [MUSIC] Last year was a good one for Wolves in the Throne Room. The black-metal band—led by Olympia, Wash.-based brothers Aaron and Nathan Weaver—released one of the most amazing albums of 2011: the terrifying and beautiful full-length Celestial Lineage. Its incredible swirl of blast beats and beehive guitars, augmented by ethereal female vocals and a delicate symphonic touch, brought it to the attention of no less than The New Yorker, which featured the band prominently in its assessment of American black metal. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 2345683. 10 pm. $11 advance, $13 day of show. All ages.
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NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon celebrates 39 years of Roe v. Wade by eating chocolate. Twenty Portland sweet spots, including Cacao Drink Chocolate, Salt and Straw, the Meadow and Pie Spot, will cater a “dessert showcase” and compete to be the best in show. Annoyingly, buying tickets is a bit of a hassle: You need to read the instructions on the Facebook event page, then go to a donation page and type in some specific wording. Hopefully, you can figure it out. Ford Food and Drink, 2505 SE 11th Ave., 236-3023. 6-9 pm Thursday, Jan. 26. $20.
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If you’re the kind of Portlander who likes to see photos and know the name of a chicken before you eat it, Slow Food Portland is hosting a discussion on the ins and outs of small-scale meat production in Oregon. Panelists will be Bob Dickson (Dayton Natural Meats), Tyler Jones (Afton Field Farm), David McKibben (McK Ranch), Chris Roehm (Square Peg Farm) and Lauren Gwin (OSU Extension Service). “I’m gonna ask you just one more time: Is it local?” Buy tickets here. KitchenCru, 337 NW Broadway, 226-1900. 7 pm. $5.
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Some 224 years ago, the British invaded Australia (fun fact: They called it “New Holland” back then) and founded a penal colony. Today, Australians celebrate this glorious achievement by taking the day off work and getting drunk. In Portland, you can do just that at Australian pie shop Pacific Pie Co. There will be Aussie beer on tap (please be Coopers and not Foster’s), a sausage sizzle, pavlova, three screenings of the classic Australian film The Castle (“Dale dug a hole.”) and discounts for Australian citizens. They also ask
that you “bring your cricket set,” which should make for an incredibly wet game of backyard cricket, but a time-honored tradition, nonetheless. Suggestion: If you can hit a cyclist on Hawthorne Boulevard, it’s six and out. Pacific Pie Company, 1520 SE 7th Ave., 381-6157. 11 am-9 pm Thursday, Jan. 26. Free entry.
FRIDAY, JAN. 27 Oakshire Brewers at Madison’s Grill
Madison’s Grill is teaming with Oakshire Brewing for a four-course beer-pairing dinner. Dishes include lamb chop with juniper-infused demi-glace, paired with a special release of Ill-Tempered Gnome winter ale, and a cayenne-chocolate flan with Overcast espresso stout. Oakshire’s brewmaster Matt Van Wyk will be on hand to tell diners and drinkers all about what their brews. Madison’s Bar &Grill, 1109 SE Madison St, 503-230-2471. 7 pm Friday. $35. 21+.
Daggawalla Seeds and Herbs Launch Party New Portland-based online heirloom seed store Daggawalla.com is having an offline launch party. The site’s wares include seeds for growing heirloom vegetables, medicinal herbs, grains, beans, tobacco and medicinal plants, including “legal smoking mixes,” and everything comes from owner Kollibri Sonnenblume’s own farm (you may remember him from “The Bike Farmer,” WW’s Feb. 20, 2008, story about him growing food in his neighbors’ yards). The party promises food, music, samples and Dagawalla’s entire inventory on sale. PDX Seamsters, 1412 SE Stark St., 548-6319. 4-10 pm. Free.
SATURDAY, JAN. 28 Naturopathic Wellness Dinner: Weight Loss
The Open Kitchen’s latest Wellness Dinner this month focuses on weight loss. In collaboration with a “naturopathic physician” (who appears to be into some pretty dubious stuff, like homeopathy and applied kinesiology), the dinner purports to focus on ingredients that “burn more calories than they create.” Is that even scientifically possible? These dishes include lemon lentil cakes with dandelion pistou, venison ragout and hazelnut-lavender coconut truffles. Abby’s Table, 609 SE Ankeny St., 503-828-7662. 7 pm Saturday, Jan. 28. $45.
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WEDNESDAY, JAN. 25 Sunbears!, Blue Cranes, Log Across the Washer
[LIPS SERVICE] If Florida’s Sunbears! ever run into Wayne Coyne, they should probably buy him a beer, if not give him a cut of whatever royalties they’re collecting at this point. That’s how indebted the band’s prismatic psychedelia is to the Flaming Lips. On the duo’s debut full-length, You Will Live Forever, Sunbears! rather shamelessly reproduce the joyous freak-pop symphony of Oklahoma City’s favorite perma-fried sons’ best albums, particularly The Soft Bulletin. Which isn’t to say there’s anything wrong that— the songs are still pretty good. But if a confetti shooter, a guy in an animal costume or a giant plastic space bubble show up at this show, Coyne might have a good case for copyright infringement. Wait, what’s this in the band’s bio?: “[T]heir live show is not to be missed. Interactive visuals and lighting astound the eyes and ears.” Uh-oh. Two fine local openers round out the bill. MATTHEW SINGER. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 8 pm. $8. Minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. All ages.
Eidolons, Sam Adams, Glass Teeth, Missy May Morris
[FREAK FOLK] Eidolons’ mood often seems to be a copy-pasted variation of the loping spontaneity first made famous by Pavement. But unlike so many would-be Malkmuses, the folk entrepreneurs of Eidolons have managed to capture the sensation, essential to slacker rock’s success, that anything can and probably will happen. Now, just as in the early ’90s, the key to sounding off the cuff is hard work. Founded by four Lewis & Clark College students back in the stone ages of 2010, Eidolons has released three EPs in its short lifespan, using each to further refine its mixture of laconic rock and weirdo folk. Though the group’s best moments come from its quieter offerings, both of last year’s EPs manage to offer plenty of indierock specimens that swing well above their weight class. SHANE DANAHER. Ella Street Social Club, 714 SW 20th Place, 227-0116. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
Joe Michelini
[FREAK FOLK] We music writers struggle with Joe Michelini, the enigmatic singer-songwriter behind sprawling New Jersey band River City Extension. His evasive sound winds near, but not exactly through, everything from roots rock and hard country to calypso, even church music. The rural New Jersey native’s stony rasp and highly combustible song structures are reminiscent of Deer Tick or Langhorne Slim. Tonight’s show is part of McMenamins’ Small Batch Tours, with a fitting emphasis on Michelini’s downsized, more acoustic side. Expect new and more orchestral material from the soon-to-be-released Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Your Anger. MARK STOCK. White Eagle Saloon, 836 N Russell St., 282-6810. 8:30 pm. Free. 21+.
THURSDAY, JAN. 26 Jessie Baylin, The Watson Twins
[IN COUNTRY] While wedding the drummer of the Kings of Leon shouldn’t exactly be confused with marrying into Nashville royalty, Jessie Baylin’s recent move to the erstwhile Music City showed rewards with the quality of collaborators on her justreleased third album, the first in four years. Little Spark employs an enviable selection of Americana all-stars— guitarist Waddy Wachtel, pedal-steel man Greg Leisz, back-up singers the Watson Twins—alongside legendary strings puller Jimmie Haskell (“Bridge Over Troubled Water”) and instrumental arranger and Shins member Richard Swift. The resulting songs aren’t quite country and not far removed from the Hotel Cafe mainstay’s jazz-inflected pop-chanteuse beginnings, but the ever-beguiling retro soundscapes perfectly caress and tease Baylin’s limited range and evidently overpowering charms. JAY HORTON. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
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TOP FIVE TOP SELLERS AT MUSIC MILLENNIUM, 1/15 - 1/21 1. Black Keys, El Camino The Akron, Ohio, outfit—which headlines the Rose Garden in May—has gone from baby-faced blues-rock duo to total rock and roll juggernaut. 2. Kathleen Edwards, Voyageur It sounds like the Cranberries to us. Is that a weird thing to say? I mean, everybody likes the Cranberries. 3. Tom Waits, Bad As Me Still barking after all these years! 4. Adele, 21 Well, duh. 5. Wilco, Whole Love This record is a sleeper. I mean, a sleeper hit. SEE IT: To see charts from Music Millennium, Jackpot Records and other local stores, check PDX Charts, wweek.com’s weekly record store round-up. What else are you going to do on a Monday night?
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“A lot of black-metal bands have an agenda where they actually say, ‘We want you to kill yourself,’” bemoans Ghost’s frontman. “We don’t have an agenda. Our uppermost goal is not to make people change anything. We want to change people into attenders of our concerts.” For an anonymous Swedish rock frontman who goes by the cryptic nomer “A Ghoul With No Name,” he’s pretty sincere. Ghost is a Swedish pop-metal supergroup that chooses to hide its identity behind dark robes and satanic pomp. The singer goes by Papa Emeritus, and could easily double for Skeletor at a He-Man convention. Despite all the darkness, the group’s 2010 debut album, Opus Eponymous, is filled with shockingly hook-oriented retro metal. But the occult themes have helped capture the imagination of the underground metal scene, leading in short order to a key performance at Britain’s Download festival and a cover story in Decibel magazine. The debut disc begins with a haunting church organ, guaranteed to whet the appetites of vintage horror fans; then a rollicking bass line kicks in and seven classically composed rock songs follow. Fans of Mercyful Fate will recognize the vocal conventions that Papa Emeritus employs—banshee wails one instant, a demon bellow the next. Comparisons to Blue Öyster Cult abound in reviews, but one can hear dark twists on Foreigner and Journey, too. There are moments when Papa’s voice recalls no one more vividly than Weird Al in the latter’s original horror camp piece “Nature Trail to Hell.” “We as a group, we don’t have a militant agenda,” says the Ghoul, via telephone, when asked how serious his band is about the Devil. “We are entertainers. We are here to entertain everybody with a very horrid mind. Obviously, we’re six dudes playing in unison. So we’re a rock band. But we are drawn to create something that has more in common with theater or going to see The Omen at the cinema. Traditionally everything that’s remotely rock is devilish, and basically the first transparently really
blasphemous artist was probably Elvis, with his sexually pulsating rock.” Resting lyrically on the sensational aspects of Satanism and penning such catchy tunes as fan favorite “Ritual,” Ghost has drawn a large female audience. “Ironically, we are a band surrounded by women,” the Ghoul laughs. “It’s by chance, I guess. We aren’t as ‘male stereotype’ as you can expect from a lot of other bands. Just for example, [the song] ‘Stand by Him,’ it’s about witches. But it’s actually about male stupidity. It’s about superstition. And retardedness. And fear. There are a lot of aspects in what we are singing about that are based on the dualism between man and woman and the confusion that occurs when the attraction between the two are very natural.” As accessible as the recorded music is, Ghost emphasizes that it’s a live band, with goals to make a future stage show on par with the best of Alice Cooper or KISS. “Obviously, being such an imageoriented band, you need to see the band live in order to get the full experience. We want people to step into that black bubble for an hour and a half,” the Ghoul says. “We are painting a picture with very, very, very clear messages to get attention, yes. We are using [horror films and philosophy and religion] in order to build an atmosphere of fear, authority and speaking from a kid point of view— just cool stuff that makes you shiver.” This short U.S. tour presents the Opus Eponymous album live in its entirety, but a new disc is almost ready. “The old record was about the forthcoming doom of the arrival of the Antichrist,” relates our friendly Ghoul. “The new album is about the present of the Antichrist, the presence of the Devil, and how mankind relates to that. And the Devil can come in literal shapes. A good looking woman is the Devil. Any kind of lust that you might have is the Devil. And any kind of doubt, confusion itself is the Devil. It can come in terms of an occult rock-’n’-roll band. That’s the Devil. And laughter is the work of the Devil.” You can almost see the wink from the darkness beneath his hood. SEE IT: Ghost plays the Hawthorne Theatre on Tuesday, Jan. 31. 7 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.
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FRIDAY, JAN. 27 Boy and Bean
[SWING] The snap-along jingles of Portland swing-jazz trio Boy and Bean seem plucked straight from Depression-era radio commercials. Catchy, upbeat and cool as a cucumber, the band is made of husband-and-wife team Luke and Amber Short, who tackle duets with the love-struck chutzpah of honeymooners. And while B&B utilized Kickstarter to launch its selftitled debut, its musical tactics are unmistakably in the past tense, bent around a springy upright bass and the brushy, shuffling guitar, both befitting of a backroom lounge from the FDR days. MARK STOCK. EastBurn, 1800 E Burnside St., 236-2876. 10 pm. Free. 21+.
Nightmoves, Grandparents, 1939 Ensemble (Into the Woods 2nd anniversary)
[COOL MEDIA B-DAY] It didn’t take long for Into the Woods to expand beyond its arboreal namesake into the grassroots
media micro-empire it is today. With 10 ongoing, devastatingly stylish video series, plus intermittent show sponsorships, Into the Woods has made good use of its scant two years of existence. This anniversary party will feature a representative group of standout acts, all of whom fit nicely into ITW’s local and scarcely belowthe-radar brand. Indie-psychedelic coven Grandparents is fresh off the release of its immaculate Fumes EP, and Nightmoves might be the only band in Portland that can cite the Police as an influence without suffering from the inevitable comparison. SHANE DANAHER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
Three 6 Mafia, Yukmouth, Luni Coleone, Portside
[SOUTH IN YOUR MOUTH] Hate all you want on Memphis crunksters Three 6 Mafia, but members Juicy J and DJ Paul have truly lived the American dream. They started out as a gangsterfied horrorcore group (triple 6—get it?) that mixed street folklore with beats that sounded like they were built by the boogeyman himself. Now they’re an Academy Award-winning rap act; that’s like Insane Clown Posse winning a Kids’ Choice Award! To be fair, Three 6 has something ICP has never had: the ability to make club music. Paul and J (along with now-departed members Crunchy Black, Gangsta Boo and Lord Infamous) made a name for themselves by mixing their sinister, spooky sound with hard-hitting 808 drums. The now-duo has abandoned its dark roots for more pop-oriented, synth-based songs, but maybe this Portland winter weather will inspire it to bring back some of the ominous stuff. REED JACKSON. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $25. All ages.
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[SINGER-SONGWRITER] Michael Dean Damron—Mike D to his friends—stands out in Portland in part because of just how un-Portland he appears. The burly, tatted-up songwriter looks more like the offspring of outlaw country icons like Merle Haggard and Steve Earle than he does your average scrawny Portland indie-rock frontman. But beneath the surface, Damron—a misfit and political radical whose recent solo work has grown more personal than the fiery anti-bullying rants from his heyday with Portland country-rock outfit I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House—is Portland through and through. Tonight, he and harmonica beast David Lipkind join forces to record a live album to be released in April, which the duo has already titled Nah, Mr. Death— I’m A-Comin’ for You! CASEY JARMAN. The Blue Monk, 3341 SE Belmont St., 503-595-0575. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
SATURDAY, JAN. 28 Whiskey Puppy
[DIRTY BLUEGRASS] Bluegrass is too clean. Angelic harmonies and intricate finger-picking are indeed impressive, but often lost is the music’s dirt-poor roots. That history isn’t overlooked by Portland trio Whiskey Puppy, a group that revels in its off-kilter vocal imperfections and instrumental simplicity. On its fourth album, September’s Chewgrass, the group wallows in the murky rivers, lonely mountainsides and dusty cabins that spawned the American art form, misplaced vocal cues and thudding bass in tow to remind us that imperfection is what makes this music so special. AP KRYZA. Alberta Street Public House, 1036 NE Alberta St., 284-7665. 6:30 pm. Cover. 21+.
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Chilean-born Latin funk brothers, Pablo and Ricardo Ojeda (from Rubberneck), add one Iranian-born flamenco guitarist (Mehdi Farjami), garnish with Afro-Cuban rhythms, and you somehow wind up with one of Portland’s most appealing world ensembles. Pushed by their pulsating guitars, the trio’s crisp, hook-laden songs (sung in Spanish), floating on Ricardo’s yearning, high-in-the-range lead vocals, should fill this tea shop and nightclub’s wonderfully intimate space with irresistible grooves and memorable tunes. “Belita” is as pretty a ballad as I heard all last year. BRETT CAMPBELL. Camellia Lounge, 510 NW 11th Ave., 221-2130. 9 pm. $5. All ages.
“An evening with moe.”
[PROG JAM] Moe. holds a unique position among jam bands: Its combination of prog orchestration, classic-rock mentality and psychedelia can bridge the gap between those who enjoy extended improv and those who think jammers are masturbating for money. With a new album, What Happened to the La Las, out this month, the band shows a maturity honed in the 20 years since it exploded out of the Buffalo college scene, but the 30-plus-minute songs remain. To fans, myself included, the experience can be mind-blowing. To the unconverted, though, moe. tends to waste opportunities to make new believers. An evening with moe. can feel like a lifetime. AP KRYZA. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 9 pm. $22 advance, $25 day of show. All ages.
Beat Connection, Wampire, Jeffrey Jerusalem, Sex Life DJs
[SANDBLASTED SYNTH POP] Despite its Seattle upbringing, Beat Connection is a Southern California outfit at heart. 2011’s Surf Noir boasts tracks like the catchy star-pop anthem “Silverscreen” and the strikingly lo-fi rocker “Sunburn” that, while completely different in sound, are best listened to while sweating through your
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VOODOO GLOW SKULLS Formed: 1988 in Riverside, Calif. Sounds like: Cheech and Chong’s horn-metal novelty classic “Earache My Eye” sped up until the music almost can’t keep up with itself, overlaid with shouted bilingual vocals and repeated for 24 years. For fans of: The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Suicide Machines, Leftover Crack, Blue Meanies Latest release: Southern California Street Music (2009), the Skulls’ eighth studio album, featuring yet more frantically upstroked guitar, blurted brass beats and singer Frank Casillas’ guttural hollering. Why you care: Skacore is an easy genre to ridicule—taking the more lunkheaded aspects of hardcore and outfitting them with hyperactive horns isn’t exactly a path to critical acceptance—but there’s something to be said about a band that genuinely does not give a fuck about what’s cool. After more than two decades of refusing to tweak their music in the slightest, Voodoo Glow Skulls clearly do not give a fuck. At this point, the band is basically the ska-punk Motörhead, putting out albums that don’t deviate one iota from the frenzied cacophony it innovated. Even when fellow travelers the Bosstones went pop and hit it big, the Skulls stayed the course, bulldozing through the ska renaissance and continuing on into the new millennium, never seeming to lift their heads to see if anyone else was still following. There’s something admirable about that, even if the music isn’t always listenable. SEE IT: Voodoo Glow Skulls play the Hawthorne Theatre on Wednesday, Jan. 25, with Authority Zero, Skyfox and Rendered Useless. 6:30 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show. All ages.
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FRIDAY FEBRUARY 3 •
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LOST LANDER
Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm - EARLY SHOW! $12 ADVANCE
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 2 •
INDIE DREAM POP FROM LONG ISLAND
YOURS
TWIN
AFTON presents
THE ALPHABETICALLY HOW TO BUILD A FIRE SEAN THOMAS PINECONE QUADRIVA plus guests
+HOUNDSTOOTH
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a FREE celebration of the man and his music
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shirt on some busy beach or in a dark, overpopulated club. Despite its foreign tone, Beat Connection was able to garner a lot of attention from its native city last year, playing both the Capitol Hill Block Party and the 8th annual Decibel Festival (held in Seattle). Tonight, with the Sex Life DJs, Wampire and DJ Jeffrey Jerusalem sharing the bill, you can count on that whole sweating-through-your-shirt-in-adark-and-overpopulated-club thing. NIKKI VOLPICELLI. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $5. 21+.
Wow and Flutter, Orchids, Fellwoods
See album review, coming soon. ROBERT HAM. Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., 228-3669. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
EPIC PSYCHEDELIC ROCK FROM SWEDEN
THE
SATURDAY-SUNDAY
ALICE
DIMICELE WITH
JEFF PEVAR & DAMIAN ERSKINE Saturday, Feb 4th
AN EVENING WITH
THE LIV WARFIELD
EXPERIENCE
Alberta Rose Theatre (503) 764-4131 3000 NE Alberta AlbertaRoseTheatre.com
The Black Swans, Flash Flood and the Dikes, The Fishermen T3
[CRYIN’ COUNTRY] I’m illequipped to give you a seismographically accurate reading of the Black Swans’ dour Americana. There are no doubt some craggly Appalachian crooners from whom chief Swan Jerry DeCicca nicked a few choice moves, but the twangy regions of our great nation’s soundscape don’t overlap much with my areas of expertise. I have earholes and a tender heart, though, so I can tell you that 2011’s Don’t Blame the Stars is a shattering collection of haunted country tunes, a stricken work similar to Richard Buckner’s Devotion and Doubt in that it sounds both timeless and totally attuned to whatever is weighing on your heart right this second. You can cry. It’s OK. Let it out. CHRIS STAMM. Kenton Club, 2025 N Kilpatrick St., 285-3718. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
Fujiya & Miyagi, Adventures! With Might, Here Come Dots
[ROBOT ROCK] The plaintive musical phrase that begins Fujiya
& Miyagi’s latest disc, last year’s Ventriloquizzing, almost sounds as if it were played with a violin. In reality, it’s synth-generated—a technological mimesis of human emotion. That’s an apt opening statement from this Brighton, England, quartet: Fujiya & Miyagi’s danceable art rock has always felt somewhat mechanical, but where singer David Best’s nearwhisper breathed something like human warmth into 2006 effort Transparent Things, the band’s new record is its deadest-eyed yet. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
SUNDAY, JAN. 29 Hieroglyphics, Animal Farm
[VINTAGE WEST COAST RAP] Oakland rap collective Hieroglyphics is legendary for so many reasons: Its founder, Del the Funky Homosapien, is blessed with one of the most commanding voices in hip-hop and has been a part of a number of important groups—from the experimental Deltron 3030 to the genre-bending Gorillaz. Four of the collective’s other members make up the Souls of Mischief, a group responsible for creating one of the most beloved rap songs (and my personal favorite) in history: “93 ’til Infinity.” Hiero’s three-eyed logo is one of the most recognizable emblems in music today. Collectively, its members have not released anything since 2003’s stellar Full Circle, and some of its members, including Del, have begun to slow down a little on the mic. But, with so many classics under their belts, witnessing Hiero is still something special. REED JACKSON. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm. $16 advance, $18 day of show. All ages.
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ALBUM REVIEW
WOW AND FLUTTER DOUBLE DEUCE EP [7.5% ABV, 100% ROCK] The arrival of new music by Wow and Flutter is exciting not only for the aural treats on the new Double Deuce EP but also for how the band is releasing it: as a download accessible only after buying a bottle of a specially brewed Double Deuce Imperial Ale from Alameda Brewing. The combination is fitting considering how far the band has moved from a spacier sound that worked best under the influence of psychoactive drugs. These days, Wow and Flutter has embraced its inner power trio, stripping down to a meatier, starchier attack that pairs well with a head-buzzing brew. The songs on Double Deuce are a furious lot, with the band’s punk upbringing coming boldly to the fore on “Big Guns” and “Little Red Scooter,” while still letting a little of the psychedelic sunshine in on longer tracks like the set closer “Black River.” What’s most fascinating on Double Duece is hearing Cord Amato embrace his role as a singer with both abandon and authority. Even after almost 15 years leading this outfit through various permutations and sonic fluctuations, he sounds like he’s finally coming into his own. You can hear it in the brave yowl with which he closes out “Big Guns” and in the pleading tone he takes on “Big River”—both songs that provide goose-bumpinducing moments. The rest of the band must have felt equally emboldened by Amato’s confidence, as bassist Ryan Matheson and drummer Jack Houston provide a complex yet sturdy backdrop that evokes the rhythm sections of Wire and Gang of Four. Drink this EP in slowly and savor every moment. Then ask for more. ROBERT HAM. SEE IT: Wow and Flutter plays Kelly’s Olympian on Saturday, Jan. 28, with Orchids and Fellwoods. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
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Finding inspiration in the Delta Blues of the Mississippi, David Jacobs-Strain pulls from the blues of his youth, along with a myriad of influences, from Afro Pop star Salif Keita to John Lennon
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Portland’s own folk chanteuse returns with a remarkable new album, La Grande, out January 24, 2012
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Woodchuck Cider Sweet ‘n Local presents
Portland’s Premiere Gentlemen’s Club
Join us
ADVENTURES! WITH MIGHT +HERE COME DOTS
DAVID JACOBS-STRAIN JAMES APOLLO +MIKE BROWN & THE SWEET UNKNOWN
7:30 Doors, 8:00 Show
THUR FEB 2nd
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Illustrious experimental rock band hailing from Montreal, Quebec bring us dynamic songs of wonder
THEE SILVER
MT. ZION
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FRI FEB 3rd
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“The Tennessee indie-rock foursome peppers its third album, Wilderness, with keyboards, energetic drum riffs and hand claps to spur along front man Matt Pelham’s plaintive wails. But the important thing is this: The Features can rock.” -Time magazine The
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Affecting pop from an intimate and lyrically captivating performer, with band members from MGMT, Caribou and Be Your Own Pet
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THE SUICIDE NOTES FRIDAY, JAN. 27 [GIRL- GROUP PUNK] Before the band even truly existed, the Suicide Notes staged a photo shoot. It was the idea of Jessi Garver, one of the group’s three female singers and, other than fellow vocalist Anna Andersen, the only member of the six-person ensemble with no previous experience being in a band. For some of the band’s surlier vets, the notion of putting a focus on image—especially an image involving color-coordinated outfits—was a bit foreign. “No band I’d been in had ever done anything like that,” says guitarist Patrick Foss, formerly of Portland blooze-punk twopiece Pure Country Gold, tucked into a booth at the B-Side Tavern on East Burnside Street with four-sixths of the other Notes. “I might have been vocally resistant a little bit at the beginning, but that was me just being grumpy.” Taking promo pictures before playing a show might seem like the mark of a band that doesn’t take itself too seriously, but it’s right in line with the Suicide Notes’ unofficial raison d’être: having fun. Certainly, that’s apparent in its music. Combining gory lyrics (the Cramps would approve) with a peppy mix of garage punk and girl-group pop that the band (accurately) describes as Shangri-Las meets Ramones, it’s hard to listen to and not smile— even as the songs discuss lupine love triangles and bashing a cheating boyfriend’s head in with a spade. Appropriately for its deceptively effervescent and easygoing sound, the band came about on a whim. Asked by pranksters the Punk Group to contribute a song to its “self-tribute” album, Tim Connolly—known as Ray Cathode when drumming for New Wavers the Epoxies—called upon Garver, Andersen and Bugs of Lightning bassist Josephine Jones to provide backing harmonies. It wasn’t supposed to be much more than a recording project, but reaction to the band’s early songs was positive enough for Connolly to try bringing it to the stage last August. That’s when he called upon Foss and Howie Hotknife of Mean Jeans to fill out the lineup, making the Notes something of a local punk supergroup. Even though it’s evolved into more than a pure studio act, keeping things loose and open is still Connolly’s primary goal. “There are no expectations for this band. There’s a certain style and sound we all want to adhere to, but the parameters are set way wider for Suicide Notes,” he says. “It was hard to write songs for [the Epoxies] because you had this way songs have to be written. For this band, there’s no way songs have to be written.” The band’s other veterans agree. “It’s not that it’s not serious. We take it all seriously, but it’s fun. Singing a really sweet ballad about chopping people up is fun,” Jones says. “We all had different issues with our previous experiences, and for me, anyway, it’s like, this is the fun band.” Adds Connolly: “There’s nothing we have to do. It’s nice.” MATTHEW SINGER. They’re ready for their close-up.
SEE IT: The Suicide Notes play the Know on Friday, Jan. 27, with the Flip Tops and the Cry. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.
MUSIC CALENDAR Joe Michelini
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Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Sunbears!, Blue Cranes, Log Across the Washer
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Open Mic
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Ascetic Junkies, The Glyptodons, California Stars
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Renegade String Band
Billy’s Bar
13095 SW Canyon Road, Beaverton Jay Purvis
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Rachel Fishman, Brian Harrison and the Last Draw, Andrew Paul Woodworth
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Open Jazz Jam
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Cheap Meat, Denizenz, Youth Bitch, Don’t
Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. Atomic Tom
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 Eidolons, Sam Adams, Glass Teeth, Missy May Morris
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Whistle Pig, World’s Finest
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Voodoo Glow Skulls, Authority Zero, Skyfox, Rendered Useless
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Scout Niblett, Tunnels, Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner, DJ Hostile Tapeover, DJ Sleep Less
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Chuck Israels Jazz Orchestra
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. David Walker
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Danny O
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Tater and Craig, Biscuits and Gravy
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Lynn Conover & Little Sue (9 pm); Green State (6 pm)
Lents Commons
9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Radical Revolution Duo
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Billy D
Mississippi Pizza
THURS. JAN. 26 Alberta Street Public House
Andina
Kenton Club
1314 NW Glisan St. Borikuas
Andrea’s Cha Cha Club
Mississippi Studios
Ash Street Saloon
3158 E Burnside St. Sunbears!
Palace of Industry
5426 N Gay Ave. Flat Rock String Band
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Violet Lights, Lesser Known Characters, Fear of Flowers
Press Club
2621 SE Clinton St. Swing Papillon
Recess
1127 SE 10th Ave. Zack Osterlund, Michael McManus, Matt Shandorf, Matt Doyle, Alieta Train, Madelyn Villano, Chris McKelway, Seth Thomas, Jonathan Russell, Alex Maguire (Portland Eye & Ear Improv Night)
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Phantasmagoria
Sundown Pub
225 SW Ash St. Jaynor, Jlew, Benji Pachino, Richy Qwavoo, Leek & Yung HD, AP the CEO, S. James, Portland George, Zany the Mic Smith, Curly When Wet
2026 NE Alberta St. Hornet Leg, Hey Lover, Dad & Dad, DJ Ken Dirtnap
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave. Michael Allen Harrison (Old Church fundraiser)
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Eric John Kaiser
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Nancy King with Steve Christofferson
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Kele Goodwin
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. The Sale, Chris Worth, Max Ribner, PettyFever
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Joe Michelini, Joshua English, Evan Way
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Trio with Tara Williamson
Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Ave. Danny Barnes 2025 N Kilpatrick St. Jeremy Burton with Kyle Morris, Jackie Alan Denise
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Jim Boyer, Lynn Conover, Billy Kennedy Band (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6:30 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale
3939 N Mississippi Ave. dKOTA, V & The Dirty Pretty, Fanno Creek
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. John Bunzow
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Gift of Gab, DNAE Beats, Speakerminds
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Kinzel and Hyde
O’Connor’s Vault
7850 SW Capitol Highway Kathy James Sextet
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Invivo, Manx, The Warshers, Max Pain & the Groovies
Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
8635 N Lombard St. The Hill Dogs, Slow Loris, Porter Jones
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic with Sam Densmore
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
231 SW Ankeny St. Kimosabe, Big Mo, Eminent, LeRoy Jerome, Scott Brockett, Ugly Flowers, Freestyle Image
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Tom Grant Jazz Jam
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St.
Martin Sexton, Adam Gontier
Tiger Bar
3000 NE Alberta St. Josh Garrels, Josh White
71 SW 2nd Ave. Brian Odell 317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Hornet Leg, The Behelds, K-Tel ‘79
Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Grand Tragic, The Filthy Nightmares, Ob-Nobs
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Wendy & The Lost Boys
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Garcia Birthday Band (9 pm); Will West and Tannery Cundy (5:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Randy Porter Trio
FRI. JAN. 27 Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave.
Alberta Rose Theatre
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Will Stenberg, Roselit Bone, The Chelsea Set (9:30 pm); Mikey’s Irish Jam (6:30 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Dan Diresta Quartet
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Kimosabe, Eddie Valiant, Joint Venture, Metatheric, Mighty Misc, Jonathan Star
Barilé Wine and Beer 4759 NE Fremont St. Gary Furlow and the Loafers
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Anna Lisa
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Billy Kennedy
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13095 SW Canyon Road, Beaverton Jay Purvis
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Doomtree, Sapient
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. John “JB” Butler & Al Craido
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Acoustic Minds
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Ivory Leaves with Levi Warren
Doug Fir Lounge
Duff’s Garage
The Know
426 SW Washington St. Saints, Hello the House
Mississippi Studios
Red Room
Thirsty Lion
Alan Jones Open Jam
Billy’s Bar
The Blue Diamond
832 SE Grand Ave. Thief Scario, Mz Lala
Mississippi Pizza
1305 SE 8th Ave. Dirth Filthy Mugs, Rum Rebellion, Drunken Debauchery, Dirty Kid Discount
115 NW 5th Ave. Drew De Man & Old Custer, Fast Rattler, Izza Kate
830 E Burnside St. Jessie Baylin, The Watson Twins
The Grand Cafe
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Bingo
Plan B
Backspace
5903 N Lombard St. Migi Artugue, How to Build a Fire 2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project Blues Jam
112 SW 2nd Ave. Danny O
Kelly’s Olympian
832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band
Music Millennium
Kells
1036 NE Alberta St. Brian Ledford & the Cadillac Desert, Leigh Marble, Shoeshine Blue (9:30 pm); Justin Jude, Dan Weber (6:30 pm)
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Thumptown 3939 N Mississippi Ave. Stephen Ashbrook, Sarah Gwen Peters
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
3552 N Mississippi Ave. The Sale
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WED. JAN. 25
[JAN. 25 - 31]
1635 SE 7th Ave. Kirk Fletcher, Kevin Selfe (9 pm); Tough Love Pyle (6 pm)
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Confessions, Atrocity Exhibition, Taurus, Death Cult
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place KaleidoSkull, Jaret Ferratusco, Mesa State, DJ Eclecto
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. The Polyrhythmics
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The 4onthefloor, Root Jack, Black Black Things
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Jeremy Jay, Seapony, Ghost Animal
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Christian McBride (8:30 pm); Mark Simon (5:30 pm)
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. J Elwood Johncox
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown B3 Organ Band
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The Blue Monk
Dante’s
The Foggy Notion
830 E Burnside St. The Alabama Shakes
3416 N Lombard St. Sugar Tits, Race of Strangers
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. The Suicide Notes, The Cry, Flip-Tops
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. The Brian Krichevsky Band
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Max Pain and The Groovies, Crooked Toad, Ol’ Devols
Tonic Lounge
FROM THE ASHES: A less brazen publican might have taken an opening-weekend fire as a sign to throw in the towel, but the men behind Interurban (4057 N Mississippi Ave., interurbanpdx. com) are no shrinking violets. When an electrical fire scorched the kitchen of the gastropub the morning after its debut, they went ahead and soft-opened anyway. Now that everything’s ship-shape, it’s time to pass judgment: Interurban feels as though someone opened a Portland-themed bar in Los Angeles, what with the bare wood, animal heads and bridge silhouettes on the walls, rotisserie meats and fried starches on the menu, Abyss on tap and negronis by the bottle. Good times are mandatory for everyone in the building, including the servers, who have been known to sing along to deafeningly loud roller-rink oldies and even dance the twist behind the bar. BEN WATERHOUSE.
Billy’s Bar
13095 SW Canyon Road, Beaverton Jay Purvis
Bipartisan Cafe 7901 SE Stark St. The Nameless
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Tablao
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Will Coca, Kelsey Lindstrom
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. LaRhonda Steele
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. Beats Antique
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Security in Numbers, The Autonomics, Bloody Mess & The Hollowbodys, Cellar Door, Lumus
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Scars on 45, Anya Marina
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. California Honeydrops (9:30 pm); The Hamdogs (6 pm)
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. Boy and Bean
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. X-Ray Press, Wax Fingers, Hello Electric
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Tusli, The Gnu Deal, Elevated, DJ Showbot
Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave. Kelly Anne Masigat (8 pm); Josh Cole (6 pm)
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Whitest Kids U Know
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Templeton Trio with Pete Petersen (8:30 pm); Gordy Michael (5:30 pm)
Jade Lounge
Music Millennium
Jimmy Mak’s
Nel Centro
221 NW 10th Ave. Naomi LaViolette, Upper Left Trio
Katie O’ Brien’s
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Scnd Best, Minty Rosa, Faithless Saints, Absent Minds
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Tom May
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Broken Arm, Truckstop Darlin’, Riviera
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Bad Assets, Power of County, Ghostwriter
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Joe McMurrian (9:30 pm); Alice Stuart (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Muriel Stanton
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Will West, Groovy Wallpaper
Mississippi Pizza
3158 E Burnside St. Brooks Robertson 1408 SW 6th Ave. Dan Balmer and Dave Captein
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Traditional Hawaiian Music
Norse Hall
111 NE 11th Ave. The Pranksters
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Suburban Slim
Plew’s Brews
8409 N Lombard St. Equal of Kings
Press Club
2621 SE Clinton St. The Three Leg Torso Quartet
Proper Eats Market and Cafe 8638 N Lombard St. David Geare
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Chase the Shakes, Roadkill Carnivore, Zombies Love Gizzards, The Shirt
Rontoms
600 E Burnside St. Sun Angle, E*Rock
Roseland Theater
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Redwood Son (9 pm); Tim Snider, Troy Dixon (6 pm)
8 NW 6th Ave. Three 6 Mafia, Yukmouth, Luni Coleone, Portside
Mississippi Studios
116 NE Russell St. The Ukeladies, Libertine Belles (9 pm); Pete Krebs and His Portland Playboys (6 pm)
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Nightmoves, Grandparents, 1939 Ensemble (Into the Woods’ 2nd anniversary)
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Reverb Brothers
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Brothers Grow, Synrgy
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave.
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2346 SE Ankeny St. Alex Nicole (8 pm); Michael the Blind (6 pm)
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Secret Society Lounge
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. The Tumblers
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Sonny Hess
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
231 SW Ankeny St. Outpost, John Wayne & The Pain
Plew’s Brews
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3341 SE Belmont St. Michael Dean Damron and David Lipkind, Dylan Summers
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Jetpack Mistresses, Stone Creep, A Decade Apart
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Bureau of Standards Big Band with Tara Williamson and Tony Starlight
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. David Friesen Trio
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Robert Moore and the Wildcats
350 W Burnside St. Monsters of Rock PDX
Duff’s Garage
Red Room
Curious Comedy
1635 SE 7th Ave. Roy Kay Trio, Barn Door Slammers
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. The Big Ideas
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Jujuba
Hawthorne Hophouse
SAT. JAN. 28 15th Avenue Hophouse 1517 NE Brazee St. Ron Hughes
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. The Alphabetically, Sean Thomas, How to Build a Fire, Pinecone
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Northeast Northwest (9:30 pm); Whiskey Puppy (6:30 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Panzergod, Cult of Unholy Shadows, Sarcalogos, Blut Der Nacht
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Banner Pilot, Broadway Calls, Lost City, Ninjas with Syringes, Angry Lions
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Los Cow Tones
Billy’s Bar
13095 SW Canyon Road, Beaverton Jay Purvis
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Reggie Houston’s Box of Chocolates (9 pm); Tablao (5:30 pm)
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Brian Krichevsky
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Toque Libre
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Randy Star Band
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St.
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Angry Axe, Empire Rocket Machine, T.O.A.S.T., Protons
Secret Society Lounge
116 NE Russell St. Caravan Gough (9 pm); The Martens Combination (6 pm)
Slabtown
4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Ben Larsen & Austin Moore
1033 NW 16th Ave. Beyond Veronica, Ex-Girlfriend Club, The Cry!
Holocene
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
1001 SE Morrison St. Beat Connection, Wampire, Jeffrey Jerusalem, Sex Life DJs
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. George Colligan Quartet (8:30 pm); Gordy Michael (5:30 pm)
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Carl Solomon
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Soul Vaccination
Kells
White Eagle Saloon
800 NW 6th Ave. Tony Pacini Trio
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
Clyde’s Prime Rib
426 SW Washington St. Wow and Flutter, Orchids, Fellwoods
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar
Valentine’s
2201 N Killingsworth St. John Reischman & the Jay Birds
2621 SE Clinton St. Whistlepunk!, The Lonesomes
112 SW 2nd Ave. Tom May
836 N Russell St. Matthew Lindley, Miriams Well (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
Press Club
Beaterville Cafe
Doug Fir Lounge
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Jim Mesi
8409 N Lombard St. Hauksness
Kelly’s Olympian
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Black Swans, Flash Flood and the Dikes, The Fishermen Three, Sir Richard Bishop
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Freak Mountain Ramblers (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Chris Margolin
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro John Bunzow Trio
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Buttonjaw, Mighty Cascades (9 pm); Boa Saida (6 pm); Petty Cash (4 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Fujiya & Miyagi, Adventures! With Might, Here Come Dots
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Blueprints
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Original Middle Age Ska Enjoy Club, The Israelites
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. James Clem
Nel Centro
1408 SW 6th Ave. Dave Captein and Randy Rollofson
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Traditional Hawaiian Music
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. AC Porter
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Grim Ritual, Black Black Things, Sons of Dirt, Mormon Trannys, Warm Gadget
8635 N Lombard St. Vises, Child Children, Curious Hands
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Sonny Hess
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Poison’us (Poison tribute), AC/DDC (AC/DC tribute)
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. LadyKat Blues
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Planet Jackers
The Foggy Notion
3416 N Lombard St. The Pathogens, Pony Time, Zouaves
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Confessions, Barbarian Riot Squad, The Lordy Lords
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Boys Next Door
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Hot ‘n’ Bothered, Set in Stone
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Neil Diamond Tribute
Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Welfare, Sorta Ultra, In Cahoots
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Hwy 7, The Ghost Train!
Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Mango Nights
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. IanJames, Ben-E Band, Mycle Wastman (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Devin Phillips Quartet
SUN. JAN. 29 Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Roundhouse; David Cutler; Dennis Gunn; Bill Murlin and Jim Portillo; Tom May, Dylan May and Donnie Wright; Shanghaied on the Willamette; Sarah, Caitlin and Travis Rae; Reilly and Maloney; Hank Cramer & Mark Iler; Richard Columbo/Artichoke Music; The Method; Brian Cutean; Curtis and Nikki Chamberlain (David Rea tribute)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Oslo In September, The Dark Backward, Daniel Novak
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Jugapalooza: Trashcan Joe, Eagle Ridin’ Papas, How Long Jug Band, Federal Cigar Jug Band, Stumptown Jug Thumpers, KingniK
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Rosie Ledet and the Zydeco Playboys
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Hieroglyphics, Animal Farm, Living Proof
232 SW Ankeny St. MSHR, Thirsty Surfer
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Josh Nielsen & Justin Rayfield
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Open Mic
MON. JAN. 30 Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Open Mic with DJ Streetz
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Wolves in the Throne Room, Tragedy, Druden
Jade Lounge
Duff’s Garage
Kells
East End
2346 SE Ankeny St. Steve Rodin 112 SW 2nd Ave. Dave Ross (9 pm); Irish Sessions (7 pm)
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Paul Iannotti Group, Brittle Bones, Vellarest
Laughing Horse Books
12 NE 10th Ave. Trevor Dunn, Travis Laplante, Thicket, U Sco
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Billy Kennedy & Tim Acott with Jake Ray (9:30 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St. Danny Barnes
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Jesse Young
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
1635 SE 7th Ave. Blues Train 203 SE Grand Ave. Doomsower vs. Gorgon Stare, DJ Nate C (Portland Metal Winter Olympics)
Ella Street Social Club
714 SW 20th Place Jobo Shakins, The Golden Hour, Normandie Wilson
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Elie Charpentier
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Dave Ross
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. David Gerow
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens (9 pm); Portland Country Underground (6 pm)
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Bob Soper & Elizabeth Nicholson (6 pm); Ramsey Belle McNabb (4 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
Mission Theater
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
1624 NW Glisan St. School of Rock: Queens of the Stone Age
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Opa Groupa, Kef, Balkan Dance Party (8:30 pm); Back Porch Revival (5:30 pm)
Mississippi Studios
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Skip vonKuske with E Wells
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Bob Shoemaker
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Focus Motel, The Mesa State (9 pm); Bluegrass Jam (6:30 pm); Mr. Ben (5 pm)
3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Parson Red Heads, Tommy Keene, Sally Crewe & The Sudden Moves
Mississippi Studios
Muddy Rudder Public House
8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones
8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music
NEPO 42
5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. The Dunbar Number, Mutiny Mutiny, JR Worship
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Brett Netson Band, Lonnie Winn, Norman, Miss Massive Snowflake
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. T8
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Neil Diamond Tribute
Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Tinmantle, Synesthesia, Warm Gadget
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Doldrums, Chrome Wings
Muddy Rudder Public House
Peter’s Room
8 NW 6th Ave. Stolen Babies, Deathtrap America
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Headless Pez
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Pigeons, Jeffrey Jerusalem (poetry reading/music show)
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. The Resolectrics, Blue Skies for Black Hearts, Sean O’Neill
TUES. JAN. 31 15th Avenue Hophouse 1517 NE Brazee St. Kelsey Morris
CALENDAR Alberta Street Public House
Sucker for Lights, Foreign Orange
1036 NE Alberta St. Pickled Okra (9:30 pm); Cotton, Cait Olds & Lance Leonnig (6:30 pm)
Camellia Lounge
Andina
830 E Burnside St. Graveyard, Radio Moscow
1314 NW Glisan St. JB Butler
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. The Bumpin’ Nastys, Social Club, The Dirty Words
Billy’s Bar
13095 SW Canyon Road, Beaverton Jay Purvis
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Emilie Autumn
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Open Mic with Frame by Frame and Chris Margolin
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave.
510 NW 11th Ave. Tim Wilcox SuperJazzers
Doug Fir Lounge
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Quartet (9:30 pm); Trio Bravo (6 pm)
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Scott PembertonTrio
Hawthorne Hophouse 4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Switchgrass
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Ghost, Blood Ceremony, Ancient VVisdom
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Jazz Jam with Carey Campbell
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Colin Johnson
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm); The Metropolitan Youth Symphony Jazz Combo (6:30 pm)
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Dave Ross
Kelly’s Olympian
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Caleb Klauder and Sammy Lind
203 SE Grand Ave. Last Wednesday on the Left with DJ Dennis Dread
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. TRONix with Logical Accession
Matador
1967 W Burnside St. DJ Whisker Friction
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. DJ AM Gold
Sloan’s Tavern
36 N Russell St. The Endless Mixtape with DJ CocoBlaque
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Dylan Freak Recordings
Valentine’s
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. TLC Country Night
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Baby Dollar$
FRI. JAN. 27
SAT. JAN. 28
111 SW Ash St. Fa$t Life: DJs Danny Merkury, Yo Huckleberry, Shoelace
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Fusion
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Decadent ‘80s: DJ Non, Jason Wann; Rewind with Phonographix DJs
The Whiskey Bar
Goodfoot Lounge
31 NW 1st Ave. Whiskey Wednesdays: American Girls, Keys, A-Trane, Tony Mafia
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Copy
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Loyd Depriest, Muscle Milk
Yes and No
20 NW 3rd Ave. Death Club with DJ Entropy
THURS. JAN. 26 Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Shadowplay: DJs Ghoulunatic, Paradox, Horrid
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Mixer: Selectress Instigatah, Michael Grimes, Josh Romo, Forest Avery, John Simmons
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. DJs A-Trak, Isaiah Summers
Swift Lounge
1932 NE Broadway Funky Broadway! with DJ Drew Groove
The Crown Room 205 NW 4th Ave. Red Fyah
The Whiskey Bar 31 NW 1st Ave. Damage
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Hoodrich with DJ Ronin Roc (10 pm); DJ Neil Blender (7 pm)
639 SE Morrison St. DJs Moderhead, OverCol
Star Bar
1465 NE Prescott St. Beacon Sound
Tube
Beauty Bar
2845 SE Stark St. Soul Stew with DJ Aquaman
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. DJ Ghostdad
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Snap!: Dr. Adam, Colin Jones (9 pm); Aperitivo Happy Hour with DJ Troubled Youth (5 pm)
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St. ‘80s Video Dance Attack
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Free Up Fridays: Soljah Sound, Small Axe Sound, XACT Change Hi-Fi, Jagga Culture
Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Kerouac
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Catsup and Mustard DJs
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. DJ Ted
Sassy’s Bar and Grill 927 SE Morrison St. DJ HazMatt
Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave. Max’d Out
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. Blank Fridays
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Walls, Dead Boomers, Banishing, Das Butcher 317 NW Broadway Bottleneck Blues Band 232 SW Ankeny St. The Reservations, Karl and the Jerks, DRC3
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Will West and the Friendly Strangers
3552 N Mississippi Ave.
Tiga
18 NW 3rd Ave. Expressway to Yr Skull with DJ Mistina La Fave
3341 SE Belmont St. Pagan Jug Band
Mississippi Pizza
421 SE Grand Ave. DJs Automne Zingg, Horrid
1465 NE Prescott St. Tony Remple & Cody Brant
The Blue Monk
Valentine’s
The Lovecraft
East End
1305 SE 8th Ave. Fast Fox, Scheisshosen, White Chocolate and the Cigarettes
LaurelThirst
205 NW 4th Ave. Blown with D. Poetica
Tiga
Plan B
Tiger Bar
The Crown Room
WED. JAN. 25
Supadupa Marimba Brothers
426 SW Washington St. Damn Glad to Meet You, Darcy Pudding, Pecos 2958 NE Glisan St. Bingo & Lewi Longmire Duo (9 pm); Jackstraw (6 pm)
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Beauty Bar
111 SW Ash St. Crew Love, Easter Egg
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Popvideo with VJ Gigahurtz
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Stahlwerks with DJ Non
Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Pippa Possible
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. DJ Roxie Stardust
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Blow Pony: Boy Funk, DJ Airick, DJ Just Dave, DJ Linoleum, DJ Stormy Roxx, DJ Porq, Jay Douglas
Venue 82
1441 SE 82nd Ave. Resolution 2012: Phutureprimitive, DJ Flave, Ionik, Land, Jimm, Phoenix Knight, Sweet T3A, Tribal Spectrum
SUN. JAN. 29 Matador
1967 W Burnside St. Next Big Thing with DJ Donny Don’t
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Hive with DJ Owen
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Tessa
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Dog War with DJ Golden Wilson (10 pm); Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Tennessee Tim (7 pm)
UPCOMING IN-STORE PERFORMANCES
TONIGHT!! SUNBEARS! WEDNESDAY 1/25 @ 6PM BROOKS ROBERTSON FRIDAY 1/27 @ 6PM
MON. JAN. 30
On ‘Into The Trees,’ his debut CD, Brooks Robertson utilizes his superb technical abilities to play bass, rhythm and melody simultaneously and surpass the borders of conventional genres. He merges hauntingly beautiful compositions, country rhythms and jazzy harmonies with funky licks into his very own art form – sometimes delivered with a punch, sometimes with a smile.
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. Into the Void with DJ Blackhawk
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. DJ Party Animal
THE BLACK SWANS
Tiga
SATURDAY 1/28 @ 4PM
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Coldyron
Jerry DeCicca and The Black Swans have been winning hearts with their highly unique and beautiful folk sound since the early 2000s. Their newest album ‘Don’t Blame the Stars’ was recorded live in a garage in Columbus, Ohio. It is a batch of songs about being agnostic and finding meaning in friendships, identity, and music instead of a higher power.
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Toilet Love
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Alga Rhythms Collective: The Perfect Cyn, Sappho, Apolinario Ancheta, Tyler Morrison
East End
Star Bar
Music Millennium
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Uriah Creep
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
TUES. JAN. 31 203 SE Grand Ave. DJ Tessacoil 3158 E Burnside St. Courtney Taylor-Taylor (DJ set)
231 SW Ankeny St. Thriftworks, Sporeganic, Sporezilla, Spekt1
Star Bar
The Crown Room
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. Life is a Party: Happy Endings, DJ Zimmie, Doc Adam
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Darkness Descends with DJ Maxamillion
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Discos Humeantes Showcase
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. DJ Cecilia
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Wels (10 pm); Saturdazed: DJs GH, Czief Xenith (early set)
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Smooth Hopperator 205 NW 4th Ave. See You Next Tuesday: Kellan, Avery
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Death Club with DJ Entropy
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Plaid Dudes
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Tubesday (10 pm); DJ Dirty Red (7 pm)
Yes and No
FREE
POSTER WITH PURCHASE OF THE ALBUM! (while supplies last/in-store purchases only)
ONE MODEL NATION featuring COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR (DJ Set & Signing) TUESDAY 1/31 @ 6PM
From The Dandy Warhols’ frontman Courtney TaylorTaylor comes a work of historical fiction set in Berlin 1977 during a fascinating period of political and cultural turmoil. Courtney Taylor-Taylor and Donovan Leitch spent many days and nights both in Los Angeles and Portland creating a fantasy band in their heads. Inspired by Kraftwerk, CAN, David Bowie, Tangerine Dream, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Klaus Nomi, Jobriath, and other esoteric Glam and Kraut Rockers, they got together for three sleepless nights and, along with Jon Fell and Elliott Barnes, created the techno/industrial pop group One Model Nation.
LAURA GIBSON
THURSDAY 2/2 @ 6PM
Laura Gibson’s previous record ‘Beasts of Seasons’ was split into two parts (Communion Songs and Funeral Songs), and its confidence and scope caught the ear of a wide audience. La Grande is a town just east of the Wallowa Valley in northeastern Oregon where Laura Gibson found inspiration while writing the songs that would become her new album of the same name.
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[EXPERIMENTAL] Probably best known for co-founding Mr. Bungle, Trevor Dunn also works with MadLove, the Melvins, the Nels Cline Singers, John Zorn’s Electric Masada, John Hollenbeck, Erik Friedlander and other leading New York avant-jazzers, including solo tenor saxophonist Travis Laplant, who in turn has collaborated with Anthony Braxton and other experimental musicians. Thicket features local innovators Ben Kates (Naked Future) on sax, John Niekrasz (Why I Must Be Careful) on drums and Brian Mumford (Dragging an Ox Through Water, Jackie-O Motherfucker). U Sco includes guitarist Ryan Miller, bassist Jon Scheid and drummer Phil Cleary. This Creative Music Guild show is a must for fans of out-there, improvised sounds. BRETT CAMPBELL. Laughing Horse Books, 12 NE 10th Ave., 236-2893. 8 pm. $5-$15. All ages.
The Resolectrics, Blue Skies for Black Hearts, Sean W. Spellman
The Parson Red Heads, Tommy Keene
[RETRO METAL] How ironic is it that a retro Swedish metal outfit named Graveyard is playing Doug Fir the same night that retro Swedish metal act Ghost is playing at the Hawthorne Theatre? For such a small country, Swedish inter-band communication appears to have broken down. Cut from vaguely similar cloth (Graveyard tends toward the bluesier side, with direct nods to Pentagram and Witchcraft), the bands offer stage shows that could not be more opposed. While Ghost wears robes and skull masks, Graveyard is all about keeping it real, with Levi’s, flannels and unapologetic mustaches. NATHAN CARSON. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
[POP] No offense to Portland’s Parson Red Heads, who are great, but this bill’s opener might just steal the show. Seldom-sung power-pop hero Tommy Keene has spent the last few decades penning tunes that Big Star/Replacements diehards would die for—his 2010 retrospective, You Hear Me, is full of shoulda-been hits (even if his lyrics don’t always hold up to his catchy songs’ promise). Keene might be best known for his 2006 collaboration with Guided By Voices’ Robert Pollard, but the dude has built an elaborate catalog of slightly off-kilter pop tunes on his lonesome as well. CASEY JARMAN. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
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[CASCADES OF BLACKNESS] Last year was a good one for Wolves in the Throne Room. The blackmetal band—led by Olympia, Wash.-based brothers Aaron and Nathan Weaver—released one of the most amazing albums of 2011: the terrifying and beautiful fulllength Celestial Lineage. That record popped up on best-of lists aplenty last month. And its incredible swirl of blast beats and beehive guitars, augmented by ethereal female vocals and a delicate symphonic touch, brought it to the attention of no less than The New Yorker, which featured the band prominently in its assessment of American black metal. ROBERT HAM. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave.,
[GET RHYTHM] The White Eagle Saloon has grown into a comfortable home for the Resolectrics, and tonight the quartet plays its last show to wrap up a January residency with the venue. With only 2010 EP The Newspaper Demos under its belt, the band is flying under the Portland music radar while still finding plenty of shows to play. The Resolectrics’ sound is a blend of classic rhythm and blues and rock and roll with pulsing tempos, bluesy guitar licks and endearingly untrimmed harmonies. EMILEE BOOHER. White Eagle Saloon, 836 N Russell St., 282-6810. 8:30 pm. Free. 21+.
TUESDAY, JAN. 31 Graveyard, Radio Moscow
Walls, Dead Boomers, Banishing, Das Butcher
[PUNK SICK] This apocalyptic year is still but a mewling baby, and I’ve sampled only a portion of Walls’ forthcoming The Future Is Wide Open, but I suspect it will find its way onto a number of my bestof-2012 lists come December. Best Soundtrack for a Fake Snuff Film, for instance. Most Discomfiting Combination of Exhilarating Fury and Despairing Madness, for another instance. And just plainold Best Punk Album, if you want to get simple about it. Although there are precedents for this kind of brutality—Dead and Gone’s dark approach comes to mind, as do the grimier bits of Born Against’s discography—Walls is adding an exciting new chapter to the history of dark and damaged punk rock. CHRIS STAMM. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.
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FERTILE GROUND FESTIVAL The festival of world-premiere theater
and dance returns for its fourth year, with more than 100 full productions, readings and workshops taking place all over the city during the course of 10 days. Fertile Ground productions . Multiple venues. are marked with a Through Jan. 29. Full festival pass $50 at fertilegroundpdx.org, individual tickets vary.
THEATER 4x4=8 Musicals
Live on Stage presents eight short musicals by Portland composers, each performed on a 4-by-4-foot stage. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., liveonstage.us. 7:30 pm ThursdaySaturday, Jan. 26-28. $25.
At Home at the Zoo
After writing The Zoo Story in 1958, Edward Albee worried he had created a 11/2 character play rather than a twocharacter one, with the voluble Jerry overshadowing the mild, quiet Peter. Nearly 50 years later, Albee penned a new one-act, a sort of prologue to his earlier play, to flesh out Peter and to introduce his restless wife, Ann. At Profile Theatre, Pat Patton directs the combined work, a gripping, unsettling and darkly comic production. The first act, a spare yet revealing conversation between Peter (Don Alder) and Ann (Karla Mason), is something of an intellectual exercise. The second act, a volatile encounter between Peter and Jerry (James Sharinghousen), is less meta and more visceral, but no less calculated. At Home at the Zoo proves both fascinating and vexing. Viewers may disagree whether Albee did right to unite the two acts, but no one expects Albee to comfort or coddle, and in this light, Profile succeeds. REBECCA JACOBSON. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 242-0080. 7:30 pm WednesdaySaturday, 2 pm Sunday, Jan. 25-29. $16-$30.
Big Plastic Heroes
A pair of solo performances about childhood heroes: In Teenage Commando, Portland comedian Augi describes his adolescent yearning to be Rambo; in Last American Gladiator Part 3, New Yorker Slash Coleman recounts his youthful obsession with Evel Knievel and his thirdgrade teacher, with dire consequences. In between, Portlanders tell their own stories of misplaced childhood heroes. Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd., 804-353-3799. 7:30 pm Jan, 26-28 and Feb. 3-4. $15-$17.50.
Jason Robert Brown and Shoshana Bean
Brown, the composer of Songs for a New World and 13, and Bean, the Beaverton High School grad who originated the role of Elphaba in Wicked, play a concert together in advance of Staged!’s upcoming production of 13. Bean will also teach a master class on Sunday, Jan. 29, at 1785 NE Sandy Blvd. from 2 to 4 pm, which the public may observe for $10. First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park Ave., stagedpdx.org. 7:30 pm Saturday, Jan. 28. $25-$70.
Collapse
It’s a setup for farce: Hannah (Rebecca Lingafelter), a tightly wound lawyer, desperately tries to stay in control despite a series of increasingly absurd challenges—her husband is watering the houseplants with beer, her sister has started casually running drugs and her only confidant is a stranger she meets at a Sex Addicts Anonymous meeting. Given Third Rail’s predilection for door-slamming, we expect the
story to escalate until it implodes in a cloud of improbable coincidences. But playwright Allison Moore seems less interested in dramatic silliness than in the more mundane absurdity of living. Everything in the play collapses, from Minneapolis’ Mississippi River bridge, fallen pieces of which compose Larry Larsen’s rubbly scenic design, to the story itself. Collapse is a drama of disappointed expectations, in which seemingly important coincidences turn out to be meaningless, and the anticipated madcap climax is dealt with quietly, offstage. Moore’s ingenious refusal to play by the assumed rules lends emotional weight to what might have otherwise been a trite tearjerker. BEN WATERHOUSE. Winningstad Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 800-982-2787. 7:30 pm ThursdaySaturday, 2 pm Sunday, Jan. 26-29. $29.50-$38.50, $14.50 students.
Fight Call
A musical comedy sendup of murder mysteries, Shakespeare and theatrical superstition by brothers Billy and Steve Rathje. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., chooseculture.org/ event?id=164885. 2 pm Saturday, Jan. 28, at the CoHo, and 7 pm Sunday, Jan. 29 at Vanport Studio, 5229 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Suite 102. $10 suggested donation.
Fully Loaded Russian Roulette
[NEW REVIEW] I don’t quite understand the title of this show from Contagious Theatre and Gorilla Bomb Productions, which comprises six short plays by Portland writers—is one of them supposed to kill you? If I had to pick one that kills (in a good way), it would be the cute depiction of a budding romance between a noun and a verb. Adorable. If I had to pick one that made me wish I were dead, it would be the depressing enactment of a crumbling relationship between a noncommittal dick boyfriend and his girlfriend who just joined the military. If I had to pick an act that makes me want to kill myself, I’d have to go with the ridiculous finale about a guy who kills his mother with a bit of “news” and then goes on losing my interest with lofty dialogue. In all, you get six acts with very different consequences. So spin the chambers. AARON SPENCER. The Hostess, 538 SE Ash St., fertilegroundpdx.org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2:30 pm Sunday, Jan. 26-29. $10.
Grand Guignol 4: Psychosis
[NEW REVIEW] The Grand Guignol was a Parisian French theater that reveled in the kind of horror you’re not supposed to like but do. The fourth installment of Third Eye Theatre’s experiment with the genre features eye gouging, the mentally disabled and a guy who thinks he’s a glass of orange juice. The four acts in the production don’t exactly inspire fear, but the venue, the Kenton Masonic Lodge, is just secluded and creepy enough to make any performance feel like a stroll through your dead grandmother’s house. The “stage”—actually the floor of the lodge’s huge ballroom—has sparse, improvised seating that would make you feel isolated if it weren’t for all the awkwardness in the room. The performers are zany, and the show is, at times, interactive. So your real fear is of what these crazy people might do to you out here in Kenton. AARON SPENCER. Kenton Masonic Lodge, 8130 N Denver Ave., 970-8874. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 7 pm Sundays. No show Jan. 28. Closes Feb. 12. $12-$15.
Hunter Gatherers
The reunion begins with a sacrifice. Milquetoast computer programmer Pam (Kerry Ryan) arrives home to find her metalworker-novelist husband, Richard (Mario Calcagno), preparing
a lamb for slaughter in the middle of their living room. Their high-school friends Wendy (Brooke Fletcher) and Tom (Joel Harmon), with whom they shared a double wedding and terrible secrets, are coming to celebrate their mutual anniversary, and this dinner will be very special. In Hunter Gatherers, Playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb joins the spate of plays exposing the hidden savagery of modern life and tops them all. His characters are not merely shown to be hypocrites—in 90 minutes, they devolve into a state of near-incoherent paleolithic savagery. Theatre Vertigo’s finest productions have been chaotic, absurdist farces, and this one is no exception. BEN WATERHOUSE. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 306-0870. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays. Closes Feb. 4. $15. Thursdays are “pay what you will.”
(I Am Still) The Duchess of Malfi
Joseph Fisher’s ebulliently sordid play is less an updating of John Webster’s Jacobean revenge drama Duchess of Malfi than it is a romp in its macabre sandbox. The plot and characters have been jumbled and streamlined into a violently dissonant two-act that winkingly borrows tropes from camp and noir. Thus, the title amounts to an interesting bit of sport on the play’s identity; it, like the titular duchess, slyly insists on remaining itself. The widowed duchess of Malfi (Sara Catherine Wheatley) is forbidden ever to remarry by her two brothers, the insane Ferdinand (Jake Street) and the sociopathic cardinal (Todd van Voris, in a beautifully deadpan performance), but nonetheless secretly marries her poised steward, Antonio (Vin Shambry). Retribution ensues. In Fisher’s take, Bosola (Chris Murray), the instrument of that retribution, is reimagined as a wisecracking, immoral war vet with posturing straight out of The Wild One; the duchess vamps like a celebutante; and once-stolid confidante Delio (Nicholas Hongola) is recast as a comic, dandified Perez Hilton figure in cahoots with the audience. In director Jon Kretzu and set designer Daniel Meeker’s staging, the duchy of Amalfi is a steampunk assemblage of Gothic past and present, where a church and a discotheque amount to essentially the same thing—red, black, white and flickering light. The play’s second act tilts more serious, and here only some of the characters survive, literally and figuratively. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm TuesdaysSaturdays, 2 and 7:30 pm Sundays. Closes Feb. 12. $25-$50, $20 students.
Cafe Baghdad
Jewish Theatre Collaborative presents staged readings of a play by Sacha Reich about life in Jewish Baghdad in 1928. Jewishteatrecollaborative.org. 7 pm Wednesday, Jan. 25 at Lewis & Clark College Smith Hall, 615 SW Palatine Hill Road; and Monday, Jan. 30 at Food for Thought Cafe in PSU’s Smith Memorial Student Union, 1825 SW Broadway. $10.
Karaoke Night! The Musical
Fuse Theatre Ensemble presents a participatory musical theater event. Local Lounge, 3536 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 282-1833. 10 pm Thursday and Saturday, Jan. 26 and 28. $5 suggested donation. 21+.
Lear’s Follies
Portland Shakespeare Project presents a staged reading of C.S. Whitcomb’s contemporary adaptation of King Lear, which the company will present in a full staging this summer. Tobias Andersen play’s the titular king. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., boxofficetickets.com. 11 am Saturday, Jan. 28 and 7:30 pm Monday, Jan. 30. $10 suggested donation.
A Live Dress
A staged reading of Martha Jane Kaufman’s play about America’s first onstage lesbian kiss, in the 1923 play G-d of Vengeance, and the Yiddish theatre in which that play came to be. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, alivedress.org. 7:30 pm Thursday and Saturday, Jan. 26 and 28. $5-$8.
The Magic School Bus Live: The Climate Challenge
Oregon Children’s Theatre sends Ms. Frizzle and the gang around the world to learn about global climate change. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 228-9571. 2 and 5 pm Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Feb. 19. $13-$30.
A Noble Failure
CoHo Productions presents a staged reading of the winner of the company’s NewXNW Competition. The play, by Portland’s Susan Mach, recounts the troubling fallout from a public school converted into a test scoreobsessed, for-profit corporation. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 503-205-0715. 2 pm Sunday, Jan. 29. Tickets are “pay what you will.”
The North Plan
In this world premiere comedy by playwright Jason Wells the U.S. government is torn asunder by a military coup and the flag-waving goons
behind it begin rounding up anyone who might be a threat to the regime. The only hope for the future is a single State Department employee (Brian Patrick Monahan), who’s ready to go public with the enemies list. But he’s stuck in a small-town jail, and his only hope is the foulmouthed redneck waitress (Kate Eastwood Norris) he begs to sneak the list out from under the noses of a pair of Homeland Security thugs and expose the plan. BEN WATERHOUSE. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 pm Sundays. Closes Feb. 5. $20-$64.
Oil Change the Musical Comedy
Brent and Klay Rogers present a work-in-progress staging of their new musical about love at the NASCAR track. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday, Jan. 27-28 at Portland Actors Conservatory, 1436 SW Montgomery St. $10. boxofficetickets.com/OilChange.
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REVIEW CHRISTINA RICCETTI
PERFORMANCE
JESSICA WALLENFELS AND ISAAC LAMB
FAMISHED (PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE) Given the amount of ink spilled on our other basic desires—sex, love, wealth and power—the number of plays that address hunger is surprisingly small. This is not true of any other art form; there have been books about eating as long as there have been books (see Genesis) and food, in its still-running form, was the subject of the earliest human paintings. A good fifth of Carmina Burana is devoted to eating and drinking, not to mention The Nutcracker. And yet, save for Little Shop of Horrors, onstage eating remains a rarity. Eugenia Woods seeks to make up for her fellow writers’ indifference to hunger in a big way in Famished, a new drama presented by Portland Playhouse as part of the Fertile Ground festival. A mash-up of recorded interviews, composed scenes and striking, silent movement, the performance encompasses every imaginable food neurosis: anorexia and stress bingeing; the irrational pickiness of children and the moralistic pickiness of adults; the conflation of feeding and love, hunger and lust. The narrative portion of the play follows a family through three generations’ evolving food hang-ups, exploring the ways emotions and food are intertwined, for better or worse. Presiding over the story is Our Lady of Insatiable Desire, a dancer (Jessica Wallenfels) in a dolllike white dress adorned with an outline of the alimentary system in bright LEDs, who performs the characters’ unspoken hungers. Not all of the story makes sense—the heavyset husband’s affair with a tacotruck cook is nonsensical and verges on overt racism—but much of it rings true. Sharonlee McLean gives a poignant performance as the butter-loving matron, who expresses her love for her family through carbs but cannot share the food she makes them out of fear of her own heft, and Michael Cline hogs the laughs as an Escoffier-quoting teenage foodie. But most delightful of all is Isaac Lamb’s scathing rebuttal of his Pollan-apostle girlfriend’s objections to his eating a hamburger: “How do you generate so much talk,” he asks, “on so little food?” BEN WATERHOUSE. Eugenia Woods nibbles away at our neuroses.
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One Day
Unexpected Company presents a new musical about a day in the life of a modern high school. Village Free School, 8660 SE Foster Road, villagefreeschool.org. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, Jan. 20-21; 7 pm Saturday, Jan. 28; 2 pm Sunday, Jan. 29. $10.
Pulp Diction III
The reading series of new, pulpinspired plays returns for this year’s Fertile Ground Festival with a sampler of seven shorts and two new full-lengths: Fengar Gael’s Gift of a Thousand Tongues, about highly advanced linguistics and genetics; and Matt Haynes’ The Night I Died, about some murders. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, thepulpstage.weebly.com. “Pulp Sampler” 10:30 pm Saturday, Jan. 28; “Red Hands” 7:30 pm Sunday, Jan. 29. $10.
Rapunzel Uncut!
Northwest Children’s Theatre premieres a rock-’n’-roll musical adaptation of the tale of the girl with the very long hair, written by brothers James and Richard E. Moore. NW Neighborhood Cultural Center, 1819 NW Everett St., 222-4480. 7 pm Fridays, 2 and 6 pm Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Feb. 19. $15-$20.
Shackleton’s Antarctic Nightmare
Lawrence Howard revives his solo performance about Ernest Shackleton’s doomed expedition to the southern extremes. Hipbone Studio, 1847 E Burnside St., portlandstorytheater. com. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, Jan. 27-28. $15-$20.
Something’s Got Ahold of My Heart
Hand2Mouth Theatre presents an early look the company’s upcoming show inspired by love and singing duos, featuring choreography by Seattle’s awesome Allie Hankins. The Mouth, Inside Zoomtopia, 810 SE Belmont St., hand2mouththeatre.org. 7 pm FridaySunday. Jan. 27-29. $8.
Stories From Survivors of the Sex Trade
Lunacy Stageworks presents three women who survived human trafficking and prostitution telling their own stories. One of them, Jeri Williams, is running for Portland City Council this year. Sellwood Masonic Lodge, 7126 SE Milwaukie Ave., 800-494-8497. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, Jan. 27-28. $7-$10.
The Penguins of Ithaca
Readers Theatre Repertory presents a workshop reading of David Berkson’s play about the unlikely friendship of a neurotic underachiever and a 10-yearold prodigy. Northwest Academy’s Blue Box Theater, 1130 SW Main St., 1800-494-8497. 7:30 pm FridaySunday, Jan. 27-29. $10-$12.
The Queen’s Women
A play by Mary Alice Ka’iulani Milham about the efforts of native Hawaiian women to fight the annexation of the islands by the U.S. Midland Library, 805 SE 122nd Ave, 988-5392. 6:30 pm Monday, Jan. 30. Free.
The Tripping Point
Shaking the Tree Studio presents a series of eight installations by members of Portland’s Playwrights West riffing on transformative moments in fairy tales. Audiences may choose in which order they wish to see the 10-minute solo performances. Shaking the Tree Studio, 1407 SE Stark St., 235-0635. 7:pm Thursdays-Fridays, 2 and 7 pm Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Feb. 5. $15-$17.
They
[NEW REVIEW] It’s no wonder Polish playwright and painter Witkacy wrote a play called They about art’s idiosyncratic, transgressive nature. The man was bounds ahead of his time, anticipating absurdist theater by a generation; “they” labeled him eccentric and denied him recognition until his death. Buck Skelton’s production of Witkacy’s 1920 work is the play’s American premiere, and it’s a shame it took so long:
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It’s an intriguingly strange, blackly funny piece. They’s single act unfolds in the villa of aesthete and windbag Callisto Balandash (played to overdone perfection by Brian Allard) and tracks developments after Balandash gets new neighbors: a shadow-government committee to whom Cubism is a stumbling block on the path to a society of “automation.” Peering from behind beautifully wrought commedia dell’arte masks, They’s characters pinball in dialogue from intellectual trend to intellectual trend, decimating each with vapidity and contradiction. In the end, only one truism (and only one of Balandash’s Picassos) is left standing: “Art is social lawlessness” and, perpetually and in all places, the law is coming to town. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 236-8734. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through Feb. 18. $15.
Triptych Americana
A trio of short plays by Karen Alexander-Brown, featuring a sex golem, a burning artist and a libidinous shopkeeper. Hipbone Studio, 1847 E Burnside St., 358-0898. 1 pm Sunday, Jan. 29. $8.
Waxwing
New company String House Theatre premieres a play by Emily Gregory and Anna Crandall, about a fallen angel, an agoraphobic writer and a delivery girl who face down the end of the world, maybe. The Headwaters, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9, stringhousetheatre. com. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, Jan. 26-29. $12, $10 students.
COMEDY Late Night Action with Alex Falcone
Action/Adventure, the folks behind Fall of the House, move to fill the hole in our hearts left by Ed Forman’s move to L.A. with a new live talk show featuring local luminaries, bands and comedians. Action/Adventure Theater, 1050 SE Clinton St., 380-8679. 8 pm FridaysSaturdays, through Feb. 18. $7.
Irregardless
Curious Comedy founder Stacey Hallal premieres a solo performance that employs stand-up, storytelling and songs to explore the nature of happiness. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays through Feb. 18. $12-$15.
Demetri Martin
The star of Taking Woodstock comes to PCPA. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7 pm Friday, Jan. 27. $42.95.
The Unscriptables
Improv-comedy troupe The Unscriptables celebrates the opening of its new, permanent home with Secrets and Lies, an improvised drama of cruelty in the manner of Albee. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., theunscriptables.com. 8 pm Friday, Jan. 20. “Pay what you want.” 21+.
CLASSICAL Brooklyn Rider
Friends of Chamber Music continues to prove that (post-) classical music isn’t just for old people by bringing to Portland this acclaimed young quartet, whose 2008 album with Persian composer Kayhan Kalhor put it on the national map. Brooklyn Rider’s collaborations also include work with 2 Foot Yard, Suzanne Vega, Osvaldo Golijov, Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble and indie-classical orchestra the Knights. Their program here includes an original work by violinistcomposer Colin Jacobsen, inspired by teaching at Mark O’Connor’s bluegrass camp, that morphs from a wistful reverie into a hoedown; John Zorn’s Kol Nidre; a characteristically dramatic suite from Philip Glass’ score to the film Bent; a haunting composed/ improvised original called Seven Steps that the group created as a complement to one of the real glories of all
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chamber music: Beethoven’s sevenpart Op. 131 quartet, which it will also play here, and which fits this otherwise all-new music program because it still sounds as radical as any music created in the 19th century—or the 21st. Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 224-9842. 7:30 pm Saturday, Jan. 28. $14-$40.
Naomi LaViolette
Classical fans will recognize her as accompanying pianist for the Oregon Repertory Singers. Jazz fans might have heard her performing in regular gigs at the Heathman Hotel and McMenamins pubs. Now, with her delightful new album, LaViolette finds a new niche as singer-songwriter, incorporating jazz and classical elements into a folky pop style. Guitarist Tim Ellis, bassist Bill Athens, drummer Ken Ollis, the Classical Revolution PDX String Quartet and singers Michele VanKleef and Aliyih Bristol will accompany the CD-release concert. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 8 pm Friday, Jan. 27. $10.
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aerial, flamenco and classical dance works by local artists. The Greenhouse schedule is as follows: NW Fusion, Dance Coalition of Oregon, Polaris (8-9:30 pm Friday, Jan 27); Laura Onizuka with members of Portland Flamenco Events, Agnieszka Laska Dancers, A-WOL Dance Collective (5:30-7 pm Saturday, Jan. 28); Cerrin Lathrop and Carlyn Hudson with members of SubRosa Dance Collective and Polaris (8-9:30 pm Saturday, Jan. 28); and Beat BangerZ, Jennifer Camp with members of Pacific Dance Ensemble and Polaris (4:30-6 pm Sunday, Jan 29). Polaris Contemporary Dance Center, 1501 SW Taylor St., 3805472. $10-$15 per showcase. All Ages.
Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals
Retired Oregon Ballet Theatre principal Anne Mueller continues her journey from dancer to dancemaker with a workshop production of a new children’s ballet, set to composer Camille
Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals. The showing, part of the Fertile Ground Festival, includes a discussion about the process of creating ballet. Oregon Ballet Theatre Studios, 818 SE 6th Ave., 227-0977. 1 and 4 pm Sunday, Jan. 29. $5 suggested donation.
“…or be dragged”
Butoh teacher and acolyte Meshi Chavez offers “…or be dragged,” a movement meditation about the choices we make (and the consequences thereof), and how multiple choices can pull our hearts and minds in different directions. Lisa DeGrace contributes original music to the work, which plays as part of the Fertile Ground Festival. Momentum Studio, 1028 SE Water Ave. No. 250. 7 and 8:30 pm Friday-Saturday, Jan. 27-28. $12.
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PERFORMANCE
Portland Opera’s excellent series of studio artist recitals continues with the young soprano, accompanied by always engaging associate music director Robert Ainsley, in music by Mozart (the perennial Exsultate, Jubilate), Francis Poulenc (“Whimsical Betrothal”) and Rachmaninoff. Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Ave., 241-1407. 7 pm Tuesday, Jan. 31. Free, reservations required.
Portland Youth Philharmonic
Music director David Hattner is turning the nation’s oldest youth orchestra into a vital artistic force in the city’s classical music scene. Along with the usual first-rate full-orchestra shows, he’s instituted chamber orchestra concerts at Wieden & Kennedy’s splendid Pearl District atrium. This utterly compelling contemporary program features the nonet Last Round, Osvaldo Golijov’s powerful tribute to the great new tango composer Astor Piazzolla; Henry Cowell’s gorgeous Persian Set, which features soloists Hossein and Bobak Salehi playing the Persian instruments Cowell encountered in his travels in Iran; and an original cross-cultural composition by Salehi, who also leads the splendid Portland Persian music ensemble Shabava. Wieden & Kennedy Atrium, 224 NW 13th Ave., 223-5939. 4 pm Sunday, Jan. 29. $15-$20.
Kim Reece
Abetted by musicians from Portland State and the Oregon Symphony, the saxophonist performs music by some of today’s greatest composers: Bang on a Can’s David Lang and Michael Gordon, Philip Glass, Louis Andriessen and a world premiere by Drew Krause. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave. 7 pm Saturday, Jan. 28. Free.
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Young Spanish violin virtuoso Francisco Garcia-Fullana is the soloist in Sibelius’ brilliant 1904 Violin Concerto. The orchestra also plays Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 3 and the famous polonaise from his opera Eugene Onegin. Skyview High School, 1300 NW 139th St., Vancouver, 360-735-7278. 3 pm Saturday, 7 pm Sunday, Jan. 28-29. $10-$48.
DANCE Conduit Guest Artist Series
Former Jefferson Dancer Alexander Dones, now based in New York City, comes home for a visit with collaborative dance partner Cori Marquis to show and discuss work they have created for their dance company, the Nines (IX). Conduit Dance , 918 SW Yamhill St., Suite 401, 221-5857. 6:30 pm Saturday, Jan. 28. Free.
Groovin’ Greenhouse
Groovin’ Greenhouse, the dance component of annual performance spree the Fertile Ground Festival, returns with series of 90-minute triple-headers featuring new contemporary, tap,
MAKE/BELIEVE (TEETH) We’re expressing ourselves through more channels than ever before, but what are we saying? That might well be the question driving this riveting new contemporary dance work by Portland performance company Teeth, which debuts this week. In it, two men (Philip Elson and Noel Plemmons) and two women (Molly Sides and Shannon Stewart) embody the image manipulation, incessant chatter and selective hearing of the information age. Well-articulated unisons give way to self-conscious posturing, rough partnering and the herkyjerky movement of wind-up toys. Some of the imagery is provocative, and much of it is intentionally unpretty, although the dancers, with their technical chops and laserlike focus, do it beautifully. Their onstage vocals, from mumbles to yelps, are also manipulated as part of the ambient score, which is partially prerecorded and partially digitized live, cocooning the audience in white noise. Local dance presenter White Bird has commissioned Make/Believe, with choreography by co-director Angelle Hebert and music by her composer and partner Phillip Kraft. This is not the first time Hebert and Kraft have tackled identity and communication issues. A previous work, Grub, drew inspiration from the time they found themselves emailing each other from laptops perched on the same table. Since its 2006 inception, the company has moved from elaborately staged shows toward the more emotionally raw aesthetic of their 2010 duet, Home Made, which White Bird cofounder Paul King described as “an earnest depiction of who they are.” Hebert and Kraft continue to peel away artifice in part, they say, because they’d like to tour internationally (less baggage or all kinds makes you more attractive to promoters), but also out of a desire to communicate more effectively with viewers, and with each other. For her part, Hebert is reluctant to discuss the work before its debut, for fear of feeding viewers preconceived ideas. But, she added with a laugh, “We can talk afterward.” HEATHER WISNER. Ten million channels and nothing but noise.
SEE IT: Lincoln Hall at Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 725-3307. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday, Jan. 26-28. $20-$30. Tickets at whitebird.org.
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Asia 2011
Inveterate globe-trotter Larry Cwik has long brought his colorful travelogues to viewers in Portland and across the country. Artgoers with long memories will remember his 2004 exhibition at Gallery 500, showcasing elegant idylls from Morocco. Cwik has also taken us along on his treks through Mexico and Antarctica. Now, in his first major Portland show since 2008, he shows us sights from his recent journey across Asia. As always, the photographer imbues his imagery with vibrant color and a sense of humanity that distinguishes his work from that of other travel photographers. Through Feb. 25. Milepost 5, 900 NE 81st Ave., 729-3223.
Facture: Artists at the Forefront of Painterly Glass
When we think of painting, we think of oils, acrylics and egg tempera. But for a sextet of artists in Bullseye’s new show, painting brings to mind a different medium: glass. Kari Minnick, Martha Pfanschmidt, Ted Sawyer, Jeff Wallin, Abi Spring and Michael Janis all use glass to mimic the liquidity, texturality and other surface effects we normally associate with paint. Using a variety of techniques, they aim to prove glass every bit as worthy as other media to enter the pantheon of painterly media. Of particular inter-
est in this show will be Abi Spring’s minimalist studies and Ted Sawyer’s evocative channelings of Abstract Expressionism. Through Feb. 25. Bullseye Gallery, 300 NW 13th Ave., 227-0222.
Memory
In past exhibitions, Ellen George and Jerry Mayer have used unconventional materials in their installations in the boxily intimate Nine Gallery. Now they are at it again with Memory, a materially simple but conceptually complex work consisting of a single sheet of paper spanning an entire wall. Working on site, George and Mayer will crumple, rumple, crease and crunch the paper, deciding where and when to create surface effects. Once a crease is made, it can’t be unmade. Its record is there, out in the open, irreversible, subject to the viewer’s judgment. Like these collaborators’ previous exhibitions, Memory invites allusions to the irretractability of the decisions we make in everyday life. Through Jan. 29. Nine Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 227-7114.
Recent Contemporary Print Acquisitions
An eerie sun hovers over an exploding shape, enveloped in an atmosphere of sooty acid rain: This is the iconic Burst series by late Abstract Expressionist Adolph Gottlieb. The
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artist used simplified imagery to convey imagery that concretized his generation’s fears of atomic cataclysm. Gottlieb’s print, Expanding, is part of a selection of modern and contemporary prints culled from international collections by Robert Kochs, one of the Northwest’s most well-versed experts on prints. The work is at once cautionary, horrifying and haunting. Through Jan. 28. Augen Gallery DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 546-5056.
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The Horse
After Froelick’s and Butters’ equinethemed exhibitions this past summer, it’s time for a moratorium on horses on gallery walls. A big whinny of disapproval, then, for Blackfish’s The Horse, a six-monthsbehind-the-curve celebration of a noble animal that has, through no fault of its own, become a hackneyed artistic muse. Curator Steve Tilden adds his own take to this group show featuring 13 additional artists. Tilden contributes cringeworthy sculptures of unicorns, Trojan horses and other variations on the theme in steel, wood, ceramics and old automobile parts. The works appear to hail from a junkyard and would meet a welcome end in similar environs after the show ends. The only works that begin to recontextualize this weary trope are Friderike Heuer’s digital collages, which update the immediacy of cave drawings and pictographs with welcome postmodern pastiche. Through Jan. 31. RICHARD SPEER. Blackfish Gallery, 420 NW 9th Ave., 234-2634.
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Fledgling arts organization YU Contemporary announced last week that director Sandra Percival was suddenly leaving her post after less than two years at the helm. YU co-founders Curtis Knapp and Flint Jamison made the announcement, with Knapp assuming duties as acting director the next day. The announcement came two years after the organization promised much—setting expectations somewhere north of the moon— and delivered little. YU’s stated mission is to bring internationally known artists to Portland, eventually filling the old Yale Union Laundry building with jaw-dropping contemporary art. The main exhibition hall is 14,000 square feet, a glorious, light-filled venue any artist would kill to show in. So far, however, not much of anything has been exhibited there—actual visual-arts programming has been anemic—while YU plods along a development trajectory that has been markedly nontransparent in its aims. Events designed to introduce the space to the public have consisted largely of art-scenesters walking the vast hall, wishing it were available immediately to local artists rather than promised eventually to out-of-towners. Some think YU is a gigantic machine for the production of hot air. Others support its goals and chastise any naysaying as counterproductive to artistic growth in Portland’s notoriously delicate creative ecosphere. That ecosphere is informed by Great expectations fall short.
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the belief that big-money arts donors ally with one institution at the expense of others. Old money—so conventional wisdom goes—goes to the Portland Art Museum while nouveau-riche Pearl District types support PICA, and rich gay collectors buy art at the annual Cascade AIDS Project auction. The rest of the pot is divided among the galleries, with nonprofits competing for dollars like dogs growling and baring their teeth for the same bones. YU stuck its snout into a crowded pack, and there was much yelping. Either way, YU’s goals are being accomplished in town. There already is a nonprofit bringing in international art stars to mount exhibitions of remarkable caliber: Disjecta. On Jan. 21, it opened an installation by world-renowned art star Peter Halley, perhaps the biggest curatorial achievement since 1974, when the Portland Center for Visual Arts brought in late minimalist master Donald Judd. As Disjecta’s cultural currency soars, YU wrings its hands with bureaucratic reshuffling. Don’t count me among YU’s advocates or detractors; I just wish the organization would show us the goods and put that glorious space to use. RICHARD SPEER. PHOTO COURTESY OF
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THURSDAY, JAN. 26 Leanne Grabel
The folks at Broadway Books call Leanne Grabel “Portland’s one-of-akind literary hurricane.” That sounds reason enough to stop by to hear her read from her new memoir, Brontosaurus. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.
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In case you missed celebrating poet William Stafford’s birthday last week, the celebrations continue. This pair of lectures by Greg Simon and Paul Merchant, the Stafford archivist at Lewis & Clark College, will cover recurring images in Stafford’s work and a discussion of Stafford’s and other poets’ (literary) relationships with rivers. Eliot Chapel, First Unitarian Church, 1034 SW 13th Ave., 985-6746. 7 pm. Free.
FRIDAY, JAN. 27 Megan Miranda
Fracture is a debut novel about the
thin line between life and death: After an accident that should have killed her, a woman finds that she has strange powers related to the dying. Another man with similar skills uses his talents more maliciously. Author Megan Miranda will read excerpts alongside another MM—Marissa Meyer, author of Cinder. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651. 7 pm. Free.
Ben Marcus
In The Flame Alphabet, Ben Marcus has created a fictional world where the voices of children are deadly to their parents. Whoa. See full review this page. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
SATURDAY, JAN. 28 Olinka Broadfoot
Believe it or not, Niche Wine Bar in Vancouver has its own poet laureate: Christopher Luna. He’s hosting an evening of poetry in Czech and English with sculptor Olinka Broadfoot. Broadfoot’s sculptures
and paintings often incorporate mythical or religious figures, and it’s not a far leap from myth to poetry. Niche Wine and Art Bar, 1013 Main St., Vancouver. 6:30 pm. Free. 21+.
MONDAY, JAN. 30 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, JAN. 31 Julian Smith
Julian Smith’s travel and science writing has been featured in all the right places: National Geographic Traveler, Smithsonian, Wired, Outside and more. Smith will be at Lewis & Clark to read from his most recent book, Crossing the Heart of Africa: An Odyssey of Love and Adventure. Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Road, 768-7000. 7 pm. Free.
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REVIEW
BEN MARCUS THE FLAME ALPHABET My favorite short story of last year was a New 2005 Harper’s essay that pitted experimental Yorker piece by Ben Marcus, “What Have You fiction as the great hope to defeat the banaliDone?,” that never answered its title question. ties of Jonathan Franzen) lead him to abstract, It related the homecoming of a 40-year-old man alienating flights. Swaths of the text are nearly as who traveled to a family reunion in Cleveland unreadable as the written words that eventually after a long self-imposed exile, only to find him- cause seizures across the globe. (The toxicity of self trapped again in the language extends beyond role of abusive son, unable kiddie voices and even the to explain or even indicate aural, until silence turns how he had changed. No the world’s population one understood him. “into a kind of emotive So it is unsurprising cattle.”) There is also an that Marcus was finishextensive subplot of Jewing a novel, The Flame ish mysticism, involving Alphabet, about a plague the sermons of rabbis that makes children’s transmitted through a speech poisonous to their series of tubes under the parents. It’s a terrifically ground, that reads like evocative allegory for a congressman trying generational hostility: In to explain the Internet. the book, simply hearBut it is brave of Marcus ing the words of anyone to attempt a novel set in under 18 wracks adults a world after words: As with convulsive pain, Esther’s family expels her causes sores to break out to stay alive, this book has on their backs and their the dystopian queasiness faces to constrict against of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. their skulls, slowly shrivThe conceit also makes eling their tongues in dialogue more precious Children should be their mouths. They die for being so painful and seen and not heard. in shrunken, voiceless rare. It helps that Marcus agony. The book’s narragives much of it to the best tor, Samuel, and his wife, Claire, are reduced to character: a hulking, redheaded, anti-Semitic hiding in their bathroom with the faucets run- scientist named LeBov. He is a kind of Bond vilning, terrified of overhearing the teenage babble lain of religious doubt, and his calculating corof their daughter Esther. “There was a soiled rosion of faith wakes The Flame Alphabet from quality to her words,” Samuel tries to explain, occasional stupor. “Is there anything more basic “something oily that made them, literally, hard than having people believe things?” he sneers. to hear.” “There’s not even that much artistry required. This is plenty of material for a book—though, You should try it.” It is an experiment Marcus is unfortunately, it is not enough for Marcus. When ultimately unwilling to conduct. AARON MESH. he chooses to be blunt and explicit, The Flame Alphabet is a scintillating novel, but his avant- GO: Ben Marcus reads at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm garde inclinations (Marcus is notorious for a Friday, Jan. 27. Free.
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The Adventures of Tintin
86 [ONE OSCAR NOMINATION] In
the film’s early scenes, even Tintin’s lovable dog, Snowy, seems to have gone Hollywood. But as we prepare ourselves for another action movie by the numbers, something funny happens. Something really funny. His name is Captain Haddock. Played by Andy Serkis, Haddock is the film’s true lead, and he is absolutely brilliant. As soon as he is introduced, we start to care. It may be classic Spielbergian spectacle more than Hergé understatement, but damn it feels good, whether you’re familiar with Tintin or not. PG. CASEY JARMAN. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd Mall.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked! Dancing rodents on an island. WW did not brave the horror. G. 99 Indoor Twin, Clackamas.
The Artist
64 [10 OSCAR NOMINATIONS] Repressed memories drive The Artist. It’s a silent-film homage to silent films—or, rather, the fond, slightly condescending recollection of silent films. Already the Oscar front-runner, the comedy from Michel Hazanavicius (who directed the two OSS 177 spoofs) is yet another take on A Star Is Born, with a slam-bang energetic Jean Dujardin trading places in the spotlight with flapper Bérénice Bejo at the cusp of talkies. The period is apt, since most of the movie’s charms are technical gimmicks: the interstitial cards, the tight aspect ratio on glamorous black-and-white marquees, and the sneaky intrusion of ambient noises into the soundtrack. Days after seeing The Artist, I find it hard to place any individual moments that resonated (aside from the doggie heroism), and I suspect that, title aside, the movie feels a complacent cynicism toward art. PG-13. AARON MESH. Clackamas, City Center, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall.
Beauty and the Beast 3D
Tie your napkin ‘round your neck, cherie, and we’ll POKE YOU IN THE EYE. G. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, City Center, Evergreen, Sandy.
Carnage
76 Considering the standard result in Roman Polanski movies of yuppies breeding in fancy New York apartments—birthing the spawn of Satan in Rosemary’s Baby, that sort of thing— it’s a wonder little Zachary Cowan has merely knocked out two of his classmate Ethan Longstreet’s teeth with a stick to begin Carnage. The bitter comedy, which observes the hostilities that escalate when the Cowan parents visit the Longstreet pad to make a formal apology, has likewise been already consigned to the status of minor Polanski. But an opportunity for a quartet of actors—Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz—to play self-regarding louts hasn’t been grabbed with such relish since Mike Nichols made Closer. R. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre, Fox Tower.
Contraband
37 A thriller about the exciting, mentally challenged world of international smuggling, directed by Baltasar Kormákur, which is Icelandic for “Tony Scott.” Kormákur starred in the European version, called ReykjavikRotterdam; in the New Orleans remake, he is replaced by Mark Wahlberg as the retired smuggler. We know his trade because people are often mentioning it in awkwardly unambiguous ways. (“You are such a good smuggler!” “That’s why I love smuggling!” And so on.) Wahlberg is always a credible lunkhead, and for 60 minutes Contraband hovers just above boring thanks to his pissed-off brah routine and the outlandish accents of co-stars Giovanni Ribisi (Cajun lizard) and J.K.
Simmons (Foghorn Leghorn). But at a certain point—the point where Diego Luna shows up in a duct-tape mask for a Panamanian gun battle, actually—the film crosses into the hopelessly ridiculous. R. AARON MESH. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Pioneer Place, City Center, Evergreen, Sandy.
A Dangerous Method
81 So...tell me about your father. The
new David Cronenberg film about the salad days of psychoanalysis, A Dangerous Method isn’t a horror movie until you consider what isn’t shown. There are terrible memories of childhood beatings, recounted by Keira Knightley as Carl Jung’s patient-turnedprotégée Sabina Spielrein, as the specter of European genocide looms over the talking cures. The movie’s first 30 minutes take place in nearly unbroken sunshine, in the setting of Swiss lake holidays, punctuated by screaming. And while the movie includes lots of sex and spanking, it’s chiefly about the thrills, arousals and perils of conversation. R. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre, Fox Tower.
The Descendants
72 [FIVE OSCAR NOMINATIONS]
George 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-year-old Scottie (Amara Miller) and acid-tongued 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. Lloyd Mall, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Moreland, Oak Grove, Fox Tower, City Center, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub. NEW
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An Evening with Joanna
76 [ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] Pluto lost planetary status in 2006. At about 1/400th the size of Earth, scientists said it was just a wittle too wittle. Bumper stickers, jokes and some sincere outrage followed. No wonder: The plutoid Pluto is downright adorable. I’m perhaps biased given that I grew up in Flagstaff, Ariz., the town from where the icy little guy was first spotted in 1930. We ’Staffers don’t have many badges on our sash, but dammit, we had the planet Pluto—until those eggheads stripped it from us. So I watched Portland animator Joanna Priestley’s new short Dear Pluto with great interest. She’s premiering the film and a few others, along with a slide show, at the NW Film Center. Rendered in lovely 3-D animation with retro cartoon graphics, Dear Pluto is Pixar-meetsSchoolhouse Rock with the titular planet personified as an outcast struggling to find his place in the universe. He’s an adorable rubber ball with a frown. Slam poet Taylor Mali provides indignant narration, making his case for Pluto’s return to planethood with his poem “Pizza.” After all, he points out, without Pluto to represent the pizza in the planetary mnemonic device (“my very educated mother just served us nine pizzas”), children everywhere would starve. PENELOPE BASS. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Saturday, Jan. 28. Joanna Priestley will attend the screening.
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Up to now, 3-D in film has been an enterprise largely extraneous to the character of film itself: moviedom’s version of the 10,000 love-fattened cherubs overwhelming the interior of a baroque church. Objects within traditional 2-D framing are thrust pointlessly at the viewer, announcing themselves often at the cost of engagement and suspended disbelief. Even in Werner Herzog’s stunning Cave of Forgotten Dreams this past year, the lushly tactile projections of cave drawings were a surface spectacle of gee-whiz wonder, much like the HD in the Discovery Channel’s Planet Earth animal documentaries: One marvels at the object and then at its unlikely, otherworldly rendering. German auteur Wim Wenders’ Pina—an elegiac documentary about the work of late, iconoclastic Berlin choreographer Pina Bausch—is something else altogether, a brokenhearted Billie Holiday to the 3-D form’s usual emptily virtuosic Ella Fitzgerald. “I’m not interested in how people move,” Bausch has famously said. “I’m interested in what makes them move.” In Wenders’ film, the viewer is placed not only inside the space of that movement but into the feeling that animates it. Pina is, in fact, the most emotionally affecting film I saw last year. This is achieved, nonetheless, with a quite formal awareness of the medium—one that Wenders shares with the viewer. As the film opens, we are placed first in a curtained theater that is largely contiguous with the movie house we’re already in, and then pass gently across a diaphanous stage scrim to share the stage with the dancers themselves, who are performing Bausch’s violent, visceral Rite of Spring on a carpet of richly color-saturated soil. Whenever 2-D archival footage is shown, it is witnessed from the vantage of that same curtained theater, a constant reminder that the past is a world we cannot enter. But this also convincingly sets up the 3-D stage as an actual, near-tangible reality; we are asked at every turn to accept it as such, and
the highly physical medium of dance does uniquely lend itself to treatment in three dimensions. The film is resolutely plotless, I should mention, and it shows only passing interest in any sort of biography and none whatsoever in demystification; viewers expecting explicit understanding or narrative or even halfhearted explanation instead of homage will be disappointed. Rather than illuminate Bausch’s singular art, the film attempts—and largely succeeds—to inhabit it through enactment of some of Bausch’s most famous works, including her tour de force Café Müller, and in impromptu performances out in the world of people and
A GENTLY SNAKING CONGA TO LOUIS ARMSTRONG’S “WEST END BLUES” ATOP AN ENDLESS SAND DUNE. things: on populated trains and in empty stations, in tennis courts and on cliff tops. Bausch’s “dance theater” always existed in an inhabited world, after all, her stages filled with boulders and chairs and endless cascades of water. And Bausch’s dancers—like the forlorn bar and whorehouse singers in John Cassavetes’ Faces or Husbands—always seem to be acting out of both whimsy and desperation at the same time. There are, for example, the exhausted performers who suddenly, surprisingly squirt water they’ve been carrying in their mouths into each others’ faces, and the woman who wears shoes full of meat. Or—in a staging I believe to be Wenders’ own—a procession of every living person Bausch has ever worked with doing a gently snaking conga to Louis Armstrong’s “West End Blues” atop an endless sand dune. It was a funeral procession, surely, but terribly full of life. Wenders’ film about his longtime friend was begun before her death and so was not originally meant as an elegy, but in retrospect the film has now become much the same thing: a wake that succeeds in bringing the dead around for one last dance. 95 SEE IT: Pina is rated PG. It opens Friday at Cinema 21.
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Thomas Horn plays Oskar Schell, a nerdy 9-year-old who recently lost his beloved father (Tom Hanks) in the Sept. 11 attacks. Oskar looks and moves like a normal boy—first-time actor Horn is naturally precocious onscreen—but he talks like Woody Allen, with a neurotic, atheist superiority. People who condescend to children or religion may find this faux naïf rather adorable. A bluestate holy fool, he touches the lives of lonely grownups in the vague, cloying fashion of many stories about cute kids. So it’s not surprising that Oskar’s father is played by Forrest Gump, and that the screenplay is by Eric Roth, who wrote that movie about a red-state holy fool. Like the American history in Forrest Gump, in this movie, 9/11 is not a reality to be examined, but instead, a boy’s symbol of adult tragedy, what Oskar calls “the worst day.” You almost expect to see that dastardly airplane peeking impishly around a corner, or Rudy Giuliani. PG-13. ALISTAIR ROCKOFF. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, City Center, Fox Tower, Evergreen, Sandy. NEW
element is Rooney Mara. As the hacker detective Lisbeth Salander, she benefits from lucky miscasting: Her big, emotive eyes belie the heroine’s traumatized unfeeling. R. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall. NEW
The Grey
Liam Neeson, wolf fighter. Why was this not screened for critics? Inexplicable. R. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, City Center, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Sandy.
Haywire
91 Are actors necessary? Many of
cinema’s powerhouse directors, from Hitchcock to Kubrick, pre-
ferred to think of their performers as nonessential furnishings, but only Steven Soderbergh has tried to eliminate them entirely. In espionage thriller Haywire, his weapon of choice is Gina Carano: an ultimate-fighting champion uncaged to destroy Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender and Antonio Banderas. It’s as if Soderbergh sent a bouncer to clear out Wolfgang Puck’s Oscar afterparty. Haywire is a sly triumph. Carano, who plays a blackops mercenary and resembles a beefed-up Danica Patrick, struggles in early dialogue exchanges— but then Channing Tatum attacks her with a coffee mug and she’s freed to communicate with her thighs, which she uses to put GQ cover boys in lethal headlocks.
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looking for a film about famed mythologist Joseph Campbell and an intelligent discussion of his philosophies of life, you will not—ironically enough—find it in Finding Joe. If, however, you want to know how the guy who wrote Batman and Robin and A Beautiful Mind became such a successful Hollywood hack, then you’re probably a douchebag who deserves to endure the 80 minutes of this glorified self-help video. Over a never-ending chorus of faux-inspirational piano music, a cavalcade of grating celebrities and “bestselling” and/or “awardwinning” authors, screenwriters and playwrights—for a guy who preaches against consumerism, director Patrick Takaya Solomon sure likes to point out when one of his talking heads has sold a lot of books—tell us how Campbell’s teachings inspired them to be so awesome. MATTHEW SINGER. Clinton Street Theater. 7 and 9 pm Friday-Thursday, Jan. 27-Feb. 2.
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos
75 This movie is apparently a pretty big deal in the anime world, and rightfully so—set in a steampunkish world where early-20th-century Europe meets medieval alchemy, it’s a classic story of struggle and rebellion against an oppressive government regime, with a well-developed plot and plenty of ridiculous action scenes. But those not already familiar with the Fullmetal Alchemist world (it was a manga series, and this is the second film) are going to have some questions. Namely, why is one of the main characters a giant robot with a unicorn horn? If you can’t answer that, I recommend either a thorough study of the Wikipedia page before viewing, or simply tuning out the robots, wolf man, flying bat people and other bizarre, unexplained plot points and just absorbing the story well enough to get to the epic final battle scene, which features a city being torn apart by giant lava hands and the main protagonists shooting magic lightning at each other. RUTH BROWN. Living Room Theaters.
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58 [FIVE OSCAR NOMINATIONS] A movie all too proud of its refurbished shock value. David Fincher’s take on Stieg Larsson’s froth of woman-killing and woman’s revenge is less repellent than the flat noserubbing of the Swedish version, maybe because Fincher mostly gets his jollies from digital showboating. The movie looks like somebody found the pornography stash of Steve Jobs; the snow and the torture chamber both look like they were designed by Apple. The only human
VICTOR/VICTORIAN: Glenn Close can act like a man.
ALBERT NOBBS The gender-bending Albert Nobbs offers a buy-one-get-one-free coupon of butch, with two central heroines masquerading as dudes. The titular Albert (Glenn Close) is an awkward, finicky little man, while Albert’s inspiration, Hubert Page (Janet McTeer), is strong and, well, normal. Albert should, by all rights, be a sympathetic character. He’s damaged and frightened by the Dublin around him, desperately hanging on to his secret identity in a way that has stifled his ability to actually live. But poor Albert is so one-dimensional that the film surrounding him becomes a complete and utter drag. Hubert and his wife, Cathleen, are happy in their love that dare not speak its name, offering the picture its one and only example of either joy or sexuality. That’s odd for a movie that revolves around Albert’s attempt to marry a young woman. Perhaps it’s the 42-year age difference between Close and Mia Wasikowska, who plays the object of Albert’s attentions, that makes the proposal seem overtly creepy, or perhaps it’s Albert’s complete lack of romantic affection. Whatever it is, watching Close and Wasikowska kiss is about the most asexual, uncomfortable thing to hit the screen since the ponytail-fucking in Avatar. Where Albert should arouse pity in viewers, he instead skeeves them out with his creepy plastic face and old-man perving on a young, naive girl. That’s not to say Albert Nobbs isn’t watchable. Once past 20 minutes of dull 19th-century Dublin scene-setting, Nobbs picks up the pace, largely due to a fantastic performance from McTeer. But the movie suffers, much like Albert himself, from a fear of the transgressive. The secretive lives Albert and Hubert live aren’t cause for celebration, or even examination; they’re merely vehichles to drive a clunky plot chock-full of Victorian-era working-class stereotypes about men and women. It seems strange that Close worked for 15 years to bring Albert Nobbs to the screen. Her passion for the film is less apparent from her performance than from her credits as screenwriter and producer (and the writer of an original song, “Lay Your Head Down,” that’s as bland as a Sarah McLachlan ballad). Albert Nobbs is an obvious award-baiting film for Close, and while it has received a handful of nominations, it’s utterly forgettable as a flick, lacking either the drama to make it great or the camp to make it a joy. R. PATRICIA SAUTHOFF. You can call him Al.
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Her native expressionlessness ups the ante on the macho inscrutability affected by would-be Bonds, and her onslaught against debonair foes (all of them at their most iconically suave) feels like a sabotage of male ego. Other than the gender somersault, this is an unremarkable action script: double-cross and revenge, studded with fights. Its delights are all in the deployment of style. With its sequences divided into different color and location motifs—blue mesa, golden Dublin, pink Mexico—Haywire is Soderbergh making a remix of the spy flick. R. AARON MESH. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, City Center, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Sandy.
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80 The morbid yet sentimen-
tal cult classic Harold and Maude lives on in the tangled blond hair of an 11-year-old Parisian girl named Paloma. SHAE HEALEY. Living Room Theaters.
Hugo
80 [11 OSCAR NOMINATIONS] 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 fairystory 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 wonderful tricks with Hugo. It is a film populated by uncanny visions—dreams, films, dummies, trompe l’oeil expanses—and resonant with wonder, dolor and regret. PG. CHRIS STAMM. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Clackamas, Living Room Theaters.
The Iron Lady
35 [TWO OSCAR NOMINATIONS] At least half the picture is dedicated to an elderly Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep) wandering through her quarters in a housedress, like Kermit the Frog at his mansion in The Muppets, talking to her late husband Denis (Jim Broadbent). The Iron Lady’s failure of taste is even more incredible when you remember that Thatcher is alive. The only equivalent I can imagine is if somebody made a Ronald Reagan movie in 1994 called The Gipper’s Got Alzheimer’s. Why would the filmmakers possibly choose this approach? For a very simple reason: It draws attention to Streep’s acting chops—not only can she play Margaret Thatcher, she can play a senile Margaret Thatcher!— and away from a moral reckoning. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, City Center, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall.
Joyful Noise
31 And lo, the Lord said, “Let ye
not be resigned to watch that wornout VHS copy of Sister Act during church lock-ins and charter-bus trips to the casino. Let thou enjoy the musical styling of the prophets Sly Stone and Usher, with their hymns reconfigured to substitute My name in the place of drugs and fornication in soaring gospel numbers. And we shall see miracles like breakdancing redneck gingers and the rise of the Queen of Latifah as she and St. Parton of Dollywood—the patron saint of Botox—unite to saveth a beloved choir from demise and win the national singing championship. You will know it is My time when the ghost of choir director Kris Kristofferson rises from his tragic death during the opening credits and waltzes in the moonlight with the good wife Parton. Interracial couples will holdeth hands and sayeth ‘gee whiz’ while kissing cheeks, and the multiracial world of Southern black gospel music will rise to the forefront of popularity. And it will be mediocre at best.” Amen. PG-
AN EVENING WITH JOANNA PRIESTLEY: DEAR PLUTO 13. AP KRYZA. Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Cinema 99, Lloyd Mall. NEW
Le Havre
60 Aki Kaurismäki is a vital step-
ping stone on the footbridge to formalist quirk: He’s seen every crime picture with Alain Delon, and no way Wes Anderson and Jared Hess haven’t studied everything he’s made since Leningrad Cowboys Go America. His latest work, Le Havre, stays in close proximity to industrial shipping containers and outcast oddballs in modernist bars, but moves that setting from Finland to France. It’s a disappointing leap: The trademark stoicism of Kaurismäki’s heroes doesn’t translate into French bonhomie, and the project ends up feeling ruinously whimsical. To Le Havre’s credit, the story—about a chain-smoking shoeshiner (André Wilms) trying to smuggle an African immigrant child (Blondin Miguel) to London—is engaged with contemporary worries and closer to the true spirit of silent melodrama than The Artist. But none of the characters are sketched with the care Kaurismäki showed in The Man Without a Past, and the movie may mark the point where directorial distinctiveness crosses into affectation. It’s certainly patience-trying. Probably all you need to know about Le Havre is that the fate of the boy hinges on a charity concert performed by an aged country-rock singer called Little Bob. Here the cowboys go again. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters. NEW
Man on a Ledge
Get him off this ledge! WW missed the screening; look for a review on wweek.com. PG-13. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, City Center, Cinema 99, Evergreen, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
Melancholia
90 Lars 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. R. CHRIS STAMM. Laurelhurst, Living Room Theaters.
Mission: Impossible— Ghost Protocol
83 In only three magnificent films— The Iron Giant and Pixar smashes The Incredibles and Ratatouille— director Brad Bird has honed an eye: one of uncanny imagination, one that envisions a chaotic urban battlefield and a small kitchen as scenes of similar peril. That’s essential to a film in which crawling through a ventilation shaft and dangling from the world’s tallest building are equally dangerous. Luckily, Bird’s eye for the real world more than matches his animated ingenuity. Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol finds Tom Cruise’s generic super-agent Ethan Hunt sprinting from set piece to set piece to stop a madman from blowing up the world. That’s it. No talky exposition. Just kinetic action. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Forest, Cinema 99, Fox Tower, Evergreen, Sandy.
The Muppets
85 [ONE OSCAR NOMINATION]
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. PG. AP KRYZA. 99 Indoor Twin. NEW NW Film Center’s Movers and Makers
71 [ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTORS ATTENDING] The NW Film Center presents a raft of films made by people who work at the NW Film Center. So the whiff of cronyism is undeniable, and irresistible. Jessica Lyness has been the PR manager at the Film Center for as long as I’ve been the movie critic at WW, and it would cross all kinds of ethical boundaries for me to say that her directorial debut is assured and giddily funny. But what to do with the fact that her directorial debut is assured and giddily funny? Tough shit, ethicists: The Lost Van Gogh is an alarmingly entertaining little caper farce, with a steady comedic deployment of POV shots combined with some laugh-out-loud performances (especially from Darius Pierce). I promise I’m underselling this, if anything. One of Lyness’ actresses is a redhead named Jack Wells, who also stars in another program standout: Positive, a relational vignette by Liz Lewis that understands abortion as part and parcel of love between people not ready to choose one future. Wells is the most powerful performer this evening, if not the busiest—fellow actress Laurel Degutis plays all four characters in the housemate drinky-drama Rachel, Ryan, Jamie & Katie. Such germinating presences stroll through each other’s movies, and there’s the warm feeling that this is how a community affirms its talents—and makes art. AARON MESH. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Thursday, Jan. 26.
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Katherine Heigl, bounty hunter. Why was this not screened for critics? Inexplicable. PG-13. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, City Center, Evergreen, Sandy. NEW
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The Red Shoes
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77 [THREE NIGHTS ONLY,
REVIVAL] A showbiz fairytale with a sting, this British classic by filmmaking duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger is so satanic and dreamy that it inspired many people to become dancers, and others—Brian De Palma, Dario Argento—to make horror movies. Freshly restored with the support of Martin Scorsese, The Red Shoes offers sympathy for the devil, in this case a Russian ballet director based on Diaghilev and played by the incomparable Anton Walbrook. He seduces into his theatrical company a boy and a girl, a composer and a dancer. Life imitates Art; Art imitates Hell. “Colour by Technicolor,” announce the credits. As that spelling suggests, it’s a very British sort of Technicolor, loud and muddy. The Red Shoes is certainly something to see on the big screen, a ripe old chestnut roasting on an open fire. If you like ballet, it’s probably already a favorite. ALISTAIR ROCKOFF. 5th Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday, Jan. 27-28. 3 pm Sunday, Jan 29.
Red Tails
45 Apparently tired of meddling with his own history, with Red Tails, George Lucas is going ahead and fucking up actual history. Sorry, that’s not totally fair. In truth, Lucas has been trying to get this film about the Tuskegee Airmen—the first African-American fighter pilots to serve in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II—off the ground since the late ’80s, back when the only thing fanboys held against him were Ewoks. As a rare Hollywood blockbuster with an all-black cast and a subject that does not equate to easy profit, it’s the very definition of a “passion project.” Here’s a question, though: Why, after having 20 years to consider how to honor these barrier-breaching, pre-civilrights-era heroes, did he conclude the best route would be turning them into a live-action cartoon? Not even a good cartoon, either; more like an outdated comic book from the 1940s. Lucas has said he purposely targeted the film at teenagers; if that’s the case, he must not think much of America’s youth. The problem is not that it’s an oldfashioned action flick; frankly, if the goal was to reach a younger audience, packing the film full of whizbang aerial dogfights—which, to be honest, only look decent—is probably the best way to get its attention. The problem is, whatever attention the movie earns, it does nothing with it. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Evergreen, Lloyd Mall.
Shame
86 “I find you disgusting.” These
are the first substantive words spoken in director Steve McQueen’s sex-negative new film, aptly titled Shame. They are a misdirection, delivered after a crafty cut to a luxe office meeting, but they are spoken immediately after the film’s subject—Brandon Sullivan, played by a Bale-intense Michael Fassbender— has bought himself a high-end prostitute. And thus, the main focus and dichotomy in the movie: a constant swing between Sullivan’s clinically posh New York life and his lonely, seamy, uncontrolled sexual obsessions. NC-17. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Living Room Theaters.
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LE HAVRE gold, game-obsessed friend. This is not a Holmes who first discovers a mystery and then sets about solving it with uncanny precision; Downey is a dimly wisecracking blunderbuss whose main talents seem to be intellectual bullying, all-around asskicking and the art of disguising himself as women or furniture. And so we travel from action-packed setpiece to action-packed setpiece along a distressingly loose causal chain, and with any luck we don’t care much why. PG-13. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Evergreen, Lloyd Mall. NEW
Sing Your Song
[TWO NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] A documentary celebrates Harry Belafonte’s battle for civil rights. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Friday and 2 pm Saturday, Jan. 27-28. NEW
Sound + Vision: Sunrise
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL, LIVE SOUNDTRACK] Composer and cellist Lori Goldston debuts her score to F.W. Murnau’s cautionary tale about big-city temptations. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Saturday, Jan. 28. NEW
Suspiria
85 [ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Italian shock purveyor Dario Argento’s films, from quality splatterfests such as 1980’s Inferno to his almost unwatchable latter-day catalog, are frequently unintelligible chunks of loose exposition lumped between gruesome set pieces. 1977’s Suspiria—screening here on a rare 35 mm print—is no exception. The film takes a fairly simple premise (American ballerina Jessica Harper travels to a gothic European Juilliard run by a coven of witches) and renders it nearly incomprehensible. But the film’s surreal, unrelenting assault on comprehension is what makes Suspiria Argento’s enduring masterpiece. Like a slasher take on a David Lynch film, Suspiria feels like being immersed in somebody else’s nightmare. Argento bathes—nearly drowns—each scene in bright reds and glowing blues, augmenting tension and electrifying the gruesome murders. The throbbing synth score by Goblin—which recalls The Exorcist’s “Tubular Bells” with added monster noises—guides Harper through the school’s sprawling hallways and headlong into dead ends, traps and scenes of slaughter. Nothing makes sense in this glowing, pulsing world. Everything is a threat. It’s almost unbearably goofy. Yet Argento snares us in a mental bear trap, hypnotizing viewers into terrified submission as the seeds of future nightmares are planted in our minds. AP KRYZA. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Jan. 31.
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Watson (Jude Law) are here polymathic Victorian fratboys, prone to pranking, with earnest do-gooder Watson terminally at the mercy of his sociopathic-with-a-heart-of-
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leisure gravely serious. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre. 10 pm Friday, Jan. 27. Mission Theater. 7 and 10 pm, with variety show “The Friday Night TV Party & Theater Club Neighborhood Association” in between.
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23 [THREE OSCAR NOMINATIONS] British author John le Carré answered James Bond fantasy with his realistic sense of class politics and moral disillusionment in a faded
empire. His 1974 novel, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, filled six hours when the BBC adapted it for television. In this version, a mere two hours are supposed to convey agent George Smiley’s search for a Soviet mole among his colleagues at MI6, or “the Circus.” Like many young boys, director Tomas Alfredson seems enamored with the movies of David Fincher, in which pale, paranoid men discover horrible corpses, and all the politics and emotions of adult life have conveniently taken place off camera. R. ALISTAIR ROCKOFF. Cedar Hills, CineMagic, City Center, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall.
Underworld: Awakening 3D
Kate Beckinsale finds Lycans and POKES YOU IN THE EYE. Not screened for critics. PG-13. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, City Center, Evergreen, Sandy, Lloyd Center, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub.
War Horse
48 [SIX OSCAR NOMINATIONS]
Steven Spielberg has directed a twin bill of holiday films, but the ostensibly more mature entertainment, War Horse, has the exact same plot as a children’s film: 1945’s Son of Lassie. In both pictures, a British Isles pet— substitute plow horse for collie— is dropped behind German enemy lines, and has encounters with innocents who promptly die. It is typical of Spielberg to make a World War I picture in which the central players emerge unharmed, like E.T. and Elliott on the Western Front. PG-13. AARON MESH. Eastport, Evergreen.
We Bought a Zoo
70 Everybody feels oh so very
much in We Bought a Zoo, but that’s to be expected from Cameron Crowe, whose heart has been perpetually on his sleeve since Say Anything. The movie is explicitly about risking embarrassment: the possibility of ridicule that comes from carrying a capuchin on your shoulder, playing Cat Stevens songs loudly, or...well, buying a zoo. It’s not quite the glop of Elizabethtown, but no humane sentiment goes unremarked (or unreiterated), and with Matt Damon playing a newly single parent trying to salve his kids’ bereavement, it’s essentially The Descendants for people who don’t get subtlety. I must be one of those people: Large sections of We Bought a Zoo worked me over. (Not the parts with the monkey.) PG. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Evergreen. NEW
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FORGET IT, JAKE: Anyone outraged by Tuesday’s Oscar snubs (I can’t quite imagine these people existing, but there they are on my Twitter feed) would do well to remember that Chinatown—the best movie ever made about corruption, Hollywood or father-daughter incest—didn’t win Best Picture in 1974. (Losing to The Godfather Part II, but still. And Jack Nicholson lost to Art Carney in Harry and Tonto, a movie about an old man hitchhiking with his cat.) Moreover, Roman Polanski’s masterstroke is a reminder that Hollywood was built on a bedrock of brazen robbery. “How much better can you eat?” Nicholson wonders in disgust, but he’s too late with his protest. Might as well follow the example of John Huston digging into his fish supper, and just devour the dead thing. AARON MESH. Showing at: Academy. Best paired with: New Belgium Belgo IPA. Also showing: Dazed and Confused (Laurelhurst). Mission Theater and Pub
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807 Lloyd Center 10 and IMAX
1510 NE Multnomah Blvd., 800-326-3264 CHRONICLE FriSat-Sun-Mon-TueWed UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING -- AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:10, 02:30, 04:50, 07:20, 09:35 THE GREY Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 01:00, 03:50, 07:15, 10:05 MAN ON A LEDGE Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:05, 02:40, 05:15, 07:50, 10:20 ONE FOR THE MONEY FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 02:35, 05:10, 07:45, 10:15 HAYWIRE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 02:45, 05:05, 07:35, 09:55 CONTRABAND Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:45, 03:35, 07:30, 10:10 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 3D Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:30, 03:20, 06:45, 09:30 EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:40, 03:40, 06:50, 09:45 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE -GHOST PROTOCOL Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:55, 03:55, 07:00, 10:00 HUGO 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:25, 03:25, 07:05, 10:00 THE GOAT RODEO SESSIONS LIVE FEATURING YO-YO MA, CHRIS THILE, EDGAR MEYER AND STUART DUNCAN Tue 08:00 KEVIN SMITH: LIVE FROM BEHIND
Regal Lloyd Mall 8 Cinema
2320 Lloyd Center Mall, 800-326-3264 RED TAILS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:25, 03:15, 06:05, 09:05 JOYFUL NOISE Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:15, 03:05, 06:30, 09:10 THE IRON LADY Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:30, 03:25, 05:55, 08:45 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:10, 03:30, 06:50 THE ADVENTURES
OF TINTIN 3D Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:05, 09:00 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 03:20, 06:10 TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:00, 03:00, 06:00, 08:55 THE ARTIST Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:35, 03:10, 06:20, 08:40 THE DESCENDANTS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 03:35, 06:15, 08:50
Bagdad Theater and Pub
3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-249-7474 HAPPY FEET TWO Fri-Sat 02:00, 05:30 DRIVE FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 08:30 MY WEEK WITH MARILYN Sat-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:00
Cinema 21
616 NW 21st Ave., 503-223-4515 PINA 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 04:30, 07:00, 09:15
Clinton Street Theater
2522 SE Clinton St., 503-238-8899 FINDING JOE Fri 07:00, 09:00 THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Sat 12:00
Laurelhurst Theatre
2735 E Burnside St., 503-232-5511 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:45 MELANCHOLIA Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:00 THE IDES OF MARCH Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:10 DRIVE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:30 THE MUPPETS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:30 DAZED AND CONFUSED Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:45 MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:15 MONEYBALL Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 06:30 PUSS IN BOOTS Sat-Sun 01:45
1624 NW Glisan St., 503-249-7474 THE MUPPETS Sat-SunMon-Wed 05:30 MY WEEK WITH MARILYN Sat-MonWed 07:50 THE SITTER Sat-Mon-Wed 09:50
CineMagic Theatre
2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-231-7919 TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 05:30, 08:15
Kennedy School Theater
5736 NE 33rd Ave., 503-249-7474 DRIVE Fri-Sat 10:35 J. EDGAR Fri-Sat-Sun-TueWed 02:30, 07:50 THE MUPPETS Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 05:30 HAPPY FEET TWO Sat-Sun 12:30
Fifth Avenue Cinemas
510 SW Hall St., 503-725-3551 THE RED SHOES Fri-SatSun 03:00
Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-281-4215 A DANGEROUS METHOD Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:15, 09:15 CARNAGE FriSat-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:45 PORTLANDIA Fri 10:00 YETI BOOTLEG 2: THE IN SOUND FROM WAY OUT Mon 07:30 SUSPIRIA Tue 07:30
Regal Fox Tower Stadium 10
846 SW Park Ave., 800-326-3264 ALBERT NOBBS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:50, 02:20, 04:50, 07:25, 09:50 THE GREY Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 02:30, 05:05, 07:35, 10:05 THE ARTIST Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:15, 02:25, 04:35, 07:10, 09:35 THE DESCENDANTS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:10, 02:40, 05:10, 07:45, 10:10 TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:35, 03:15, 07:20, 10:00 THE IRON LADY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 11:55, 02:15, 04:30,
1219 SW Park Ave., 503-221-1156 SING YOUR SONG FriSat 02:00 EYELINER Sat 07:00 SPLIT ENDS Sat CHOKING HAZARD Sat DEAR PLUTO SLIDESHOW Sat DEAR PLUTO Sat MISSED ACHES Sat PASKENTA NOMLAQA BODA Sun 04:00
Pioneer Place Stadium 6
340 SW Morrison St., 800-326-3264 ONE FOR THE MONEY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 01:10, 04:20, 07:30, 10:00 MAN ON A LEDGE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 01:30, 04:30, 07:10, 09:50 RED TAILS FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:00, 04:10, 07:20, 10:10 UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING 3D Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:45, 04:00, 07:00, 09:40 CONTRABAND Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 01:20, 04:40, 07:40, 10:20 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 01:15, 04:15, 07:15, 10:15
Academy Theater
7818 SE Stark St., 503-252-0500 CHINATOWN Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 09:20 THE MUPPETS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 04:40, 07:00 PUSS IN BOOTS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:30 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:30 J. EDGAR Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 08:40 THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 04:15 MONEYBALL Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:45 DRIVE ANGRY FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:30
Living Room Theaters
341 SW 10th Ave., 971-222-2010 THE WICKER TREE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:40, 01:30, 05:40, 07:40, 09:45 LE HAVRE Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 03:00, 05:10, 07:30, 09:35 THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:10, 02:30, 04:50, 07:15 SHAME Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 03:30, 09:40 MELANCHOLIA Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:00, 03:45, 06:30, 09:15 THE HEDGEHOG Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:35, 06:45, 09:00 HUGO 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:10, 04:00, 07:00, 09:30 FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: THE SACRED STAR OF MILOS Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 11:50, 02:15
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