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While I generally agree with the premise that large corporations should not receive public subsidies, understanding the longstanding distortion of transportation economics in the U.S. causes me to disagree with the story by Kara Wilbeck [“Gravy Train,” WW, Feb. 8, 2012]. This distortion does immeasurable harm to our economy and health. Roadways (especially trucking) are heavily subsidized (both directly and indirectly). Freight rail is the only mode of transportation that is generally expected to acquire, develop, maintain, police, signalize and pay taxes on all of its rights of way. All other modes (highway, aviation and waterways) rely in part or in whole on tax dollars to acquire, develop, maintain, police and signalize their tax-free rights of way. Now, tell me, who is being subsidized?! Taxes on railroad rights of way help pay for schools, law enforcement, fire departments— even roads, airports and waterway-navigation improvements. So when a relatively small amount of public funds is invested in a rail line that will help keep heavy trucks off the “freeways” to avoid increased burdens on the taxpayer, please don’t complain about “subsidizing” Union Pacific. Rail is far more efficient in terms of labor, energy, land use, the environment and health (trauma and other diseases) than roadways. Investment in rail and public transportation is a key to a healthy future. —Dan McFarling Vice President Association of Oregon Rail and Transit Advocates Northwest Portland
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If you’re not sure what Mayor Sam Adams is doing these days, you can still see his idea of fine cuisine: Turns out he loves everything. The mayor is writing food reviews on Yelp—more than 60—and all but one place get a five-star score. Among his many faves: Bridges Cafe & Catering (“The scrambled eggs and grits combo go together like Fred and Ginger”), Albina Press (“They really do make Stumptown coffee using French presses...”), Mexican restaurant Trébol (“I enjoyed the Cuban music”) and Le Happy (“It is wonderful each and every time. Crepetastic!”) Every Asian restaurant seems to be the best, except Full Kee Restaurant, which Adams gave three stars. “Typical decent food,” he writes. Ron Abell (1932-2012) was an early and dear friend to this newspaper. Ron lived many lives— journalist, novelist, teacher, political insider, activist and all around Oregonian of honor. He died Feb. 11, choosing to take advantage of Oregon’s Death with Dignity law after a long fight with leukemia and emphysema. Please see a full remembrance at wweek.com. Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt.
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A union strike, City Commissioner Amanda Fritz says, defined her commitment to public service long before she ran for office. She recalls walking picket lines when her nurses’ union struck Oregon Health & Science University in 2001 for better wages and safer working conditions. Fritz tells the story at almost every campaign stop as she faces a difficult fight to win re-election. On Jan. 27, she attended a candidates’ forum sponsored in part by Occupy Portland. The audience members were told if they got bored by a speaker, they should give a wrapit-up hand motion. Fritz was only a minute into her nurses’ strike story when someone gave her the sign. “No,” Fritz told him sharply. “You can’t do that to me right now. This is my story. I’ve got to tell my story. It’s why I’m on the Council.” Even though her identity as a union member remains key to her message, labor has largely abandoned Fritz. Firefighters, police and other city workers this year have endorsed Fritz’s main challenger, state Rep. Mary Nolan (D-Southwest Portland). That means unions are opening their checkbooks—and unleashing their members as volunteers—against Fritz. Nolan has already taken a $20,000 donation from the firefighters’ union, the biggest donation in the race so far. Labor leaders say Fritz hasn’t been there for them on key issues, from wages and benefits to city services critical to doing their jobs. That’s left many union members—some still angry about the city’s change in overtime rules—eager to see her off the Council. “I don’t want to say they felt betrayed,” says Joe Baessler, political coordinator for Oregon Council 75 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. “But for a person who is, ‘I’m labor, I love labor, I love working people,’ to push the idea of rolling back benefits for our folks was worse than if someone who wasn’t a friend of labor had done it.” Fritz says some unions have mischaracterized her record. “I was on strike for 56 days for protecting the work week and workers’ rights,” she says of her days as an OHSU nurse. “I was disappointed that apparently people don’t know who I am, if they suppose I was attacking them.” In her three years in City Hall, Fritz remains an outsider when it comes to many big issues facing the city. She’s struggled to show results on most of her initiatives and has often been on the losing end of Council votes. But Fritz says she has not lost touch with voters—she probably attends more community events than anyone else on the Council—and refuses to change her principles, despite pressure to go along. Fritz has also imposed campaign contribution limits
LOSING ALLIES: City Commissioner Amanda Fritz faces a tough re-election race after serving one term in City Hall.
on herself. She will take money only from individuals, and no more than $50 a year from any one person. Her self-imposed controls hark back to 2008, when she won election using the city’s public campaign finance system. (Voters killed the program in 2010.) Had she won over unions this time, Fritz says, she still wouldn’t have taken their PAC money. But she could have cut off what promises to be a major cash supply for Nolan. Nolan’s challenge to Fritz has left some union leaders uneasy about choosing between the two. “We have great respect for both,” says Susan King, executive director of the Oregon Nurses Association, “and wish they weren’t running against each other.” The nurses’ union, which has contributed to Nolan’s legislative campaigns in the past, endorsed Fritz this year because of their longstanding connection. But other unions have not hesitated to take a stand against re-electing Fritz. Firefighters’ union president Jim Forquer says his members think Fritz has not stood up for them on a range of items, especially in her oversight of the Bureau of Emer-
gency Communications. The No. 1 issue: Fritz’s handling of the troublesome new 911 system, the $14 million VCAD, installed last spring. Police, firefighters and other emergency workers say the system is full of bugs: Officers were sent to wrong addresses, and the command center couldn’t keep track of where they were. Other local governments (the county and other cities contribute to the 911 system run by the city) were stuck paying for maintenance on an expensive system that didn’t work right. “I don’t think Commissioner Fritz grasped the seriousness of those issues,” Forquer says. Fritz says she stands by the 911 changes, which she says replaced an outdated system that was far worse. “There was no question in my mind to go ahead with buying the new system,” Fritz says. “I’m really proud of it.” Notably, the 911 mess started with the firefighters’ closest friend on the City Council, City Commissioner Randy Leonard, who pushed through a $2 million, no-bid contract with the consultant helping guide the 911 planning. CONT. on page 8 Willamette Week FEBRUARY 15, 2012 wweek.com
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Fritz inherited the job of implementing the system and is now taking the heat. Fritz isn’t surprised she has lost the support of firefighters and police, whose union, the Portland Police Association, is also backing Nolan. (Daryl Turner, president of the Portland police union, declined to discuss the endorsement.) Fritz says she has opposed firefighters over staffing and budgets, and voted against the 2010 bond measure for new fire equipment. She says she has also been outspoken about police discipline cases, demanding more accountability from officers. “I say what I believe is right,” Fritz says, “and if the voters decide that’s not what they want, then that’s what they decide.” The loss of one endorsement, Fritz says, did surprise her: AFSCME Local 189. “That was a heartbreaker,” she says. The union represents 950 city workers. AFSCME and other public employee unions are still smarting over the city’s efforts to curb overtime pay. The city pushed to end overtime for workers who had not yet put in 40 hours in a week. AFSCME representative Rob Wheaton says this rule would have ended overtime for workers who go beyond eight hours in a day. “There is a perception that Amanda was behind the eight-hour-workday attack, but we do not know what was said in executive session,” Wheaton wrote in an email to WW. “The membership was upset at City Council as a whole for this, and she is just the first incumbent that is asking for our endorsement.” Fritz says that isn’t true and blames the city’s humanresources department for proposing those terms. She says she only wanted what the city finally got: to stop workers who called in sick during the week from volunteering for overtime during the weekend. Wheaton1says2/10/12 Fritz wanted VW_12_JohnniePaxson_Ad_r1.pdf 4:53 PM to go even further in restricting overtime.
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AFSCME has yet to donate to Nolan, but Wheaton says the money will follow—and so will union members making phone calls and knocking on doors. “When we endorse, we intend to put as much into it as we can,” he says. Nolan says she isn’t surprised that she’s winning union support. Nolan says she’s heard complaints that Fritz isn’t good at compromise or finding agreement, and points to her legislative record as proof she’ll do a better job. “I think the distinction is pretty clear,” she says. “I have been an advocate for middle-class families and working folks and specifically unions for 30 years.” Nolan—who is barred from raising money during the February legislative session—is sitting on a cash balance of $171,502—most of that raised since she announced for City Council last July. Fritz, meanwhile, has $41,064 (after loaning herself $50,000) and few prospects of raising much more. Janice Thompson, executive director of government watchdog group Common Cause Oregon, says Fritz has to be ready to mobilize her supporters to fight back. “Any candidate, regardless of why they don’t have money, had better be positioned to run a people-powered campaign,” she says. Thompson says a fundraising strategy like Fritz’s can work when the opponent is unknown, or when the disparity in fundraising hurts the richer candidate. That happened in 2004, when former Police Chief Tom Potter ran against then-Commissioner Jim Francesconi for mayor and limited donations to $25. Potter was wellknown and popular, Thompson says, and Francesconi’s aggressive fundraising turned off voters. Fritz says she’s confident she’s going to win—and that she wouldn’t run her campaign any other way. “I don’t want anybody to have to worry or wonder, ‘Is she voting that way because she got a boatload of money from X, Y person or corporation or union?’” she says. “It is really hard, though.”
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GRANT HIGH STUDENTS SPEAK OUT ABOUT THE LOCKER-ROOM ASSAULTS. BY H A N N A H H O F F M A N
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For the past four weeks, Grant High School in Northeast Portland has been under a cloud of scrutiny and shame. Four of its students face criminal investigation for allegedly assaulting two of their junior varsity boys basketball teammates in the locker room. One assault, police say, may have been sexual: A player is accused of trying to stick his finger in the anus of a boy held down by teammates—a practice known as G-ing. The media have lit up with speculation about how widespread this practice has been, with parents understandably concerned and school officials trying to control the damage with cautious statements—or silence. But to a large extent, Grant High students haven’t been heard. WW spoke to nearly two-dozen Grant students, including athletes and friends of the alleged attackers and their victims. The practice of G-ing elicits disgust and mystification from many students—while others shrug it off as no big deal, telling WW that G-ing is an open secret at Grant: The closer your social circle is to the football team, the more you hear about it. Students who say they have previously heard of G-ing say it’s not a hazing ritual. Instead, it’s used by some older players to enforce a pecking order. But students worry about the stigma their school now carries and say they feel Grant has been singled out for something they think has happened at other schools. “It’s not at all as it’s been described,” says one Grant football player, a senior. “It’s not sexual. It’s more because it’s a weak spot.” School officials, including Grant Principal Vivian Orlen, declined repeated requests to talk to WW, as did varsity football coach Diallo Lewis, who has led the team since 2005. On Jan. 12, four JV basketball players allegedly attacked two of their teammates in the Grant locker room after a game against Centennial, more than a month and a half into the season. Their coach, Jon Blumenauer, had left the locker room, and someone turned off the lights. One player said teammates held him down while another tried to insert a finger in his anus. His compression shorts stopped them. The other player reported being beaten up by teammates as he tried to leave the locker room after the first attack.
UNDER SCRUTINY: Students at Grant High School, located in Northeast Portland, say locker-room assaults between basketball players don’t reflect their school as a whole.
G-ing is a widely known term among students and isn’t a play on the name of Grant High. Instead, it’s a mocking reference to stimulating a woman’s G spot. People familiar with the case say the four boys involved in the attack are African-American; the two alleged victims are white. Three of the students involved in the attack were suspended and have returned to school; a fourth has been expelled for the school year. All four have been kicked off the JV basketball team. Portland police opened a sex-crime case, and said they have expanded their investigation after hearing reports that other students may have experienced similar attacks in the past. Students told WW they don’t think the incident was prompted by race. Others say they feel sorry for the boys who got in trouble, believing they were caught up in locker-room clowning that got out of control. Ellie Johnson, a senior, says she has spoken to basketball players who say it was “all in good fun. Prior to this experience, the victims would have considered [the alleged attackers] friends. It’s just boys being boys.... But I don’t want to underplay what happened.” Fewer than half the students WW spoke to say they had not heard about G-ing before the news broke about the police investigation. These students tended to have little or no contact with athletes, and many say they were disgusted by the reports. “I think it’s a huge deal,” says Anna Langston, 17, a junior. “It made me so mad I wanted to throw up.” But more than half the students say they had heard
about the practice. Students who aren’t directly involved in athletics say they had heard of G-ing as if it were an urban myth—strange tales from the locker room they couldn’t be sure were true. “We’d heard about G-ing, but we thought it was a joke,” says Alex Lygo, 16, a sophomore. “This is the first time it’s ever come to light and been like, ‘This actually happens.’” Katie Feller, 15, a sophomore, says, “In my health class, there was a guy it happened to. He was like, ‘It’s no big deal, it’s happened to me.’” Students say they were asked to talk about their feelings in English classes. “People are still talking about it,” Feller says. “A lot of people thought the media blew it out of proportion.” Feller and other students say most students feel safe at Grant. Portland Public Schools discipline records obtained by WW show that only two students were suspended or expelled at Grant last year for incidents involving harassment, hazing or intimidation. That’s down from 15 cases six years ago. Teri Geist, the principal at Beverly Cleary School, a K-8 that feeds into Grant, says she knows many students have taken the incident seriously. But Geist—who says she’s talking as a community member, not a principal—says too many others have been cavalier. “If you are a kid at Grant and this has happened to you,” Geist says, “and you’ve heard others say ‘it’s no big deal,’ why would you speak up if you are feeling threatened and there’s a ‘no-tell’ culture among the kids?”
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FIONEER: New Portland Fire & Rescue Chief Erin Janssens.
CHIEF LOOKS LIKE A LADY COMMISSIONER LEONARD TAKES A FIRE AX TO THE GLASS CEILING IN CHOOSING A CHIEF FOR A TROUBLED FIRE BUREAU. BY N I GEL JAQU ISS
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Twenty years ago, Portland Fire & Rescue employed only four female firefighters. Last week, City Commissioner Randy Leonard stunned many in the bureau by naming one of those four chief. Fire Marshal Erin Janssens, 47, will be the bureau’s first-ever female top officer. Leonard’s outside-the-box choice flummoxed the bureau’s rank and file, who expected the other finalist, Division Chief John Nohr, who commands emergency operations, the bureau’s largest, most visible function, to get the job. “I think the rank and file puts a lot of stock in operational and technical experience, and Nohr may have an advantage there,” says Portland Firefighters Association Local 43 President Jim Forquer, who sat on a seven-member panel that grilled the finalists. “Janssens has strengths in other areas, like communication, that may matter more at City Hall.” She will probably need them. Janssens inherits a bureau facing a potential cheating scandal and tougher scrutiny of how fire stations are staffed. Leonard has ordered an investigation into whether a former senior training officer improperly shared details about the exams firefighters must take to advance in rank and salary. That probe into alleged cheating on exams goes right to the heart of the bureau’s clannish nature. The new chief isn’t part of that tradition. Janssens joined the bureau in 1988 and worked her way up to her current post, which she’s held since 2009. She is, in many ways, the opposite of the typical Portland firefighter. Janssens listens to NPR instead of sports radio, and prefers to dine at epicurean restaurants, such as Lincoln and Toro Bravo, rather than chow down at steakhouses. She counts neither a pickup as her primary vehicle nor any blood relatives as firefighters. (Current Chief John Klum and his predecessor, Dave Sprando, both come from extended fire12
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fighting families.) Janssens lives in a house she built herself in rural Multnomah County, and she likes to spend time with Knute, her husky-shepherd mix, and her cats, Cumin, Vindaloo and Max. But her self-effacing, by-the-book manner does fit with the bureau’s low-key culture. “I had to contemplate it quite a bit whether to apply for the job,” she says. “But I felt like it was an opportunity to make a positive difference.” Janssens has risen through the ranks even though she is female and a lesbian. She says neither her gender nor her sexual orientation has created any difficulties for her in her 24 years with the male-dominated bureau. “That hasn’t been an issue at all,” she says. “ We work together really well in the Fire Bureau.” The Fire Bureau has lagged far behind the city’s other large public safety agency, the Portland Police Bureau, in terms of promoting women. Penny Harrington became Portland’s first female police chief way back in 1985, and two other women have held the job since then. And in the Fire Bureau—despite more than a decade of diversity efforts—four out of five of the 700 sworn firefighters are white males. Leonard knows that better than anyone: He worked for the bureau from 1978 through 2002, including 12 years as union president. Leonard is also a student of history and, as his own political career comes to an end next January (he insists he will not run for office again), he is making a choice that will resonate with the broader city, even if it discomforts some firefighters. He notes that he has previously chosen minority candidates to head bureaus he directs. But he says Janssens’ ability to articulate the bureau’s mission—more than diversity concerns—was the main reason he picked her. “She has an ability to explain in a way that makes people understand why the bureau does what it does,” Leonard says. Janssens is short on details about how she might change the bureau and its culture when she replaces Klum in June. She wants to make better public education about safety issues a top priority. And she’d like to see more diversity in the ranks. “I’d like to see us represent the demographics of the community better,” she says.
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Most teenage boys make money the oldfashioned way. They mow lawns, wash cars or flip burgers. But one 13-year-old in Portland is the envy of his friends for the way he makes his money. He gets $50 for donating his feces. The boy (who, for reasons that will soon become obvious, asked not to be named) is part of a burgeoning business in fecal transplantation: a medical procedure in which—and here’s where you might want to put down that doughnut—donors’ poo is injected into a patient’s body. In Portland, fecal microbial transplantation is being promoted by a naturopath for a wide range of maladies. The treatment isn’t approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. But the procedure—used in experiments since the 1950s—is getting approving articles in medical journals and increased use in mainstream hospitals, such as the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, as a procedure to treat a very specific intestinal ailment. Bacteria from another person’s feces are delivered into the patient’s digestive system—usually through an enema—to fight Clostridium difficile, nasty bacteria that can rage in the digestive system and cause severe diarrhea and other unpleasantness. Natural defenses usually fight off C. diff, which can get out of control if anti-
There are about 500,000 cases of C. diff each year, and only a small number get the treatment. Anecdotal reports in journals give fecal microbial transplantation a 90-percent success rate in fighting it. “I thought it was icky at first,” says Dr. Christina M. Surawicz of the University of Washington School of Medicine, who first did the procedure in 2006. “But the results were dramatic.” Doctors and naturopaths can use the procedure without FDA approval (it doesn’t involve drugs or tissue). “Certainly, this treatment isn’t ready for prime time,” Dr. Colleen Kelly of the Alpert Medical School at Brown University tells WW in an email, “but there are a number of doctors who are interested in studying this further.” Portland naturopath Mark G. Davis, who opened the Bright Medicine Clinic four months ago, is using fecal microbial transplantation for other health problems, including autoimmune disease, eczema, asthma, multiple sclerosis and depression. “What makes me unique,” Davis says, “is that I’m doing it for other ailments.” Retreats at his North Portland clinic range from one to 10 days. The five-day “colon health retreat” runs $4,000. Davis needs “clean” excrement from a donor who hasn’t taken antibiotics or been sick recently. He dilutes the sample in saline, filters the slurry and injects the liquid into the patient via enema. Davis says he was “self-taught” after watching the procedure as a student at Portland’s National College of Natural Medicine. (Davis graduated in 2011 and got his state naturopathy license fast fall.)
“I DIDN’T BELIEVE IT AT FIRST. BUT IT’S A REALLY, REALLY EASY JOB.” —A 13-YEAR-OLD FECAL DONOR biotics inadvertently kill the body’s good bacteria. A different, stronger antibiotic often works. If that fails, some doctors are turning to fecal microbial transplants, letting someone else’s good bacteria go in and kill the bad.
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“I was sort of surprised you have to scoop out the poo and wash the container,” he says. “That’s the downside of the job.” Nor did he expect that, when the clinic calls, he would have to donate on demand. “I feel a little pressure,” he says. “One time when I couldn’t go, the doctor had to find another donor.” When he’s not working, the 13-yearold, who lives in Irvington, plays basketball and tennis. He estimates he has made $500 so far with his donations, but isn’t sure how much longer he wants to continue the work. “I raked leaves and baby-sat before. This is a lot easier,” he says. “I would probably like it to go on for a couple of more years—but I’d like to have a break every now and then.”
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Four years ago, things were great for Gayle Goschie. She was growing hops on the same 1,000 acres in the Willamette Valley that her parents and grandparents had tended, selling a key ingredient to AnheuserBusch. The sharp-eyed, soft-spoken farmer vacationed in Nepal and Peru and had plans to summit Mount Hood. Everything changed in the summer of 2008. Belgian conglomerate InBev purchased Anheuser-Busch. Although the company had billboards trumpeting the Oregon hops in Budweiser beer, Goschie was fearful. Oregon grows the nation’s best flavor hops and was once the top hop producer, but it can’t undersell the cut-rate version grown in Washington’s Yakima Valley. “It was a scary time,” says Goschie, 56. “We really had no idea what was going to happen.” CONT. on page 16
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Sure enough, Budweiser backed away from Oregon, as the new owner weened the brew off so many Willamette aroma hops. Oregon’s hop acreage dropped 30 percent between 2009 and 2011, according to the USDA. Rather than be another sad story about an old industry plowed under by the grinding efficiency of global commerce, the Goschies and their neighbors fought back. That battle is changing your beer. Craft beer, an industry that’s seen explosive growth, showcases the flavorful hops Budweiser abandoned. Craft brewers—who have long used the same raw materials as the big boys—now want better new hop breeds that tap the plant’s extreme complexity. Jim Solberg, a boyishly enthusiastic ex-Nike executive with a surfer’s drawl and a few strings of gray in his shaggy hair, can provide them. Solberg runs Indie Hops, a well-funded upstart Portland hop brokerage that’s already donated $1 million to refuel Oregon’s hop research program, and built a $2 million processing mill. His company brings big ideas to a staid business controlled by a small cabal for a century. “Indie Hops has brought a marketing sense, and they really want to highlight Oregon hops,” Goschie says. “That’s never been done before. I’m now thinking more like a grape grower than a hop farmer.” Solberg wants to do more than just save farms. His company is asking scientists to develop bold new hop varieties to grow on the land Bud abandoned. Oregon researchers are exploring a Willy Wonkaesque assortment of exciting new hops that taste strongly of coconut, blueberry and garlic. With help from scientists and brewers, Goschie and Solberg could create the beer of the future that shames the suds you’re drinking now.
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business in the Willamette Valley. Hops and craft beer are something I can get passionate about again.” “You really shouldn’t drink barley wines a pint at a time,” Solberg chuckles. “But I told him I’d research it.”
Solberg and Roger Worthington have deep pockets and even deeper roots in the Willamette Valley. The men, each 49, grew Solberg found fertile ground: There was no hop seller up together in Corvallis, where they snuck into Oregon State anywhere focused solely on craft brewers, a market which basketball games. Solberg went on to be a vice president at exploded by 41 percent between 2006 and 2010, according Nike while Worthington became a lawyer, suing companies to the Brewers Association. As it happens, Solberg and Worover asbestos-related illnesses. They’re beer lovers who thington’s home turf, the Willamette Valley, has the nation’s wanted to unknot their neckties—and revbest climate for aroma hops, an ingreolutionize what you drink in the process. dient that sets craft beers apart from Saturday is Zwickelmania, the annual open house for Oregon In 2000, Solberg quit his job to finish macro-brewers, who often substitute breweries. Breweries all over the building the 36-foot sailboat he tacked canned acid made from bigger, hardier state will be open for tours and along the Pacific coast. He also took new-hop varieties. With Bud’s lessening samples. 11 am-4pm. Free. More info at oregonbeer.org. up home brewing, seeking the perfect demand—which a company statement Northwest version of a Pilsner, a lager attributes to a surplus caused by “favorhe describes as “crisp, clean, well-balanced, but has some able crop yields, improved efficiencies and continued hoppiness to it.” In September 2008, just as Goschie was changes in brand mix”—Willamette Valley farmers needed finishing her last big harvest for Anheuser-Busch, Wor- new partners to fill their empty trellises. thington flew up from Southern California and button“Where there’s chaos there’s opportunity,” Solberg holed Solberg at the bottom of a third pint of Hopworks says. “Before Bud pulled out, we probably couldn’t get anyUrban Brewery’s powerful Noggin Floggin barley wine. one to grow 20 acres for us. But now they’re willing to take “I’ve amassed a small fortune with my law practice, a chance on a start-up, and put maybe 5 acres of something but haven’t produced a tangible product my whole life,” in for us to see how it does.” Worthington said in 2008. “I’m enamored with hops and In 2009, Solberg and Worthington set up Indie Hops. the beers that showcase them. I want to be in the hops Their plan: to sell hops to craft brewers. To do that, they first
Hop Back Hops are the flower cluster of a plant native to both Europe and North America. A relative of cannabis, they have only one commercial use, providing a flavor to beer. Beer has been fermented with various bittering herbs for 9,000 years, but hops, which double as anti-microbrials, have had the lead role for the last 1,000. There are two big classes of hops— aroma/flavor and bittering—added at different times in the brewing process. Aroma hops are mainly used for smell and flavor while bittering hops balance out the syrupy sweetness of beer’s other ingredient, malted barley.
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Aroma hops haven’t traditionally been a focus of American agriculture, says OSU’s Thomas Shellhammer. “The big guys are hopping beer solely for bitterness, not for hoppiness—the herbal, floral, maybe a little bit spicy flavors from hops,” Shellhammer says. American hop farms like the Goschie’s 1,000-acre spread outside Silverton, about 40 miles from Portland, began as a hedge against European blights. The Willamette Valley’s temperate climate, which mirrors traditional hop-growing regions, was an ideal place to start, producing flavorful aromatic hops like what you’ll find in Europe’s great beers. The Wil-
need a unique product, which is why, in May 2010, Indie Hops promised $1 million to Oregon State University to recharge the school’s once-vaunted hop research program. “To think we were snot-nosed 11-year-olds growing up in Corvallis, getting chased by campus police when we tried to sneak in to watch John Wooden’s UCLA squads, and now we’re giving the university a million bucks,” Solberg says. “It’s pretty cool.” Next, the two need to persuade farmers to grow those varieties and then figure out an efficient way to process and distribute them. They expect to sink about $4 million into the project before they start reaping. The two set up a picture-windowed office in the Ford Building on Southeast Division Street, around the corner from two of Portland’s best new beer-centric bars: The BeerMongers and Apex. Solberg found eager ears on small brewers burned by big hop brokers—multinational corporations like Hopsteiner, Hopunion and the Barth-Haas Group—who cut tough deals during “the great hop shortage” of 2007, when a series of calamities spiked prices. “In the process of that hop shortage, craft brewers were kinda forced to contract long term at ridiculously high prices— prices well over $20 a pound when they had been paying $5 or $6,” Solberg says. “So we knew there would be an audience.” Indie Hops also invested in infrastructure, building a $2 million hop processing plant in Hubbard that preserves fresh hops in easy-to-store-and-use pellets. Without it,
lamette cultivar, for example, is nearly identical to English Fuggle, the hop up front in old-timey British beers like Young’s Bitter. In the 1940s, Oregon hops fell victim to the same mildew problems that challenged their European cousins, forcing farmers to Washington’s hotter, drier high desert. Big, hardy Yakima Valley hops with names like “Zeus” offer bigger yields and more of the bitter alpha acids big brewers seek. Their super-acidic resins are sometimes turned into a canned extract that can be stored for years. Unfortunately, Yakima’s higher temperatures also seem to cook out the delicate flavors found in Oregon
hops, says Shellhammer. Yet Washington grows four times as many hops as Oregon and Idaho combined. Together, the Northwest produces about a quarter of the world’s total supply. Hops are a very specialized crop. Only 30,016 acres were harvested in the U.S. last year, compared to 72 million acres of corn. Losing its entire 4,600-acre, $23 million hop industry wouldn’t exactly decimate Oregon agriculture—the state has six times as many acres of hazelnuts, for example—but it would suck for beer lovers, since everyone agrees Oregon’s aroma hops are among the world’s best.
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Oregon farmers would have to ship their hops to the Yakima Valley, increasing their costs. The science is exciting, too. Hops are extremely complex plants; their potential as flavoring agents has scarcely been sipped because most research has been focused solely on upping bitterness or replicating the flavor of traditional European varieties. “It’s quite mysterious—there’s something like 350 compounds in hop essential oils,” Solberg says. “Contrast that with an orange that might have six. A lot of them haven’t event been identified yet. It’s still a specialty crop, and so it’s not like that kind of money has been thrown into it to solve some of the mystery.” The young, American craft-brewing industry has mostly relied on hand-me-down ingredients from big breweries, says Thomas Shellhammer, professor of the fermentation science program at OSU that’s getting Indie Hops’ cash infusion. It’s a task not unlike trying to make fine Italian food with ingredients from the same distributor supplying Olive Garden. “Up until the last five years, they couldn’t buy enough volume to dictate the specs,” Shellhammer says. “There’s a change now where the craft-brew business is now over 5 percent of the U.S. market, and they’re using hops like they’re going out of style, so they’re consuming more than just 5 percent of the market, and they’re capturing the attention of hop growers.”
Craft brewers, in fact, use exponentially more hops. A 31-gallon barrel of Deschutes Hop Trip, for example, uses more than 5 pounds of hops per barrel. Sam Adams uses 1 pound in its flagship Boston Lager. Budweiser and Miller are made with only a couple of ounces per barrel. “[Craft brewers] are using 20 times the hops the big guys are putting in, so that got the hop growers all excited,” says Dave Losh, a statistician for the USDA’s Washington state office. “Even when it’s a small group, those quantities make a big difference.” National hop acreage has dropped 5 percent in the last five years as demand decreases and farmers boost yields. For the first time, craft brewers were the buzz of a recent conference of hop farmers, most of whom come from families who have been in the business for generations, Losh says. Part of the reason hop acreage has declined is that American macrobrews have been getting less hoppy over time, Shellhammer says. Tests show Budweiser was twice as bitter in the 1970s as it is today. Hops are the most expensive ingredient in beer, so cutting them helps the bottom line. “They take it out slowly and no one really recognizes it’s changing,” Shellhammer says. Considering hops have been cultivated for 1,000 years, we still don’t know much about them, Shellhammer says. Future breeds could taste strongly of coconut, mango, pineapple, onion, sage, garlic, leather or tobacco. “I think
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you’ll find that brewers will use them like cooks use spices—as a blend,” he says. Demand comes because craft brewers are faddy, Shellhammer says, always looking for something new. The industry embraced sour beers, barrel aging and the use of European yeast strains in recent years. He thinks boutique hops could be the next big thing. “They’re in a business that’s more like fashion—trends and flavors and trying to stay ahead of it instead of being behind it,” he says. The hop shortage piqued the interest of a number of big craft brewers who previously took their supply for granted. Some are actually growing their own, including Sierra Nevada, the third-largest American-owned brewery, which planted 40 acres around its massive brewhouse in Chico, Calif. Downstate, Rogue Ales is growing seven varieties of hops in Independence. The 40-acre farm provides enough hops— standard varieties roguishly renamed “Freedom,” “Rebel” and “Liberty”—for about a third of the brewery’s needs. “During the hop crisis we said, ‘Let’s make sure we never have to tell our brewer he can’t use as many hops as he wants because it’ll crush his spirit,’” says Brett Joyce, Rogue’s president. “And now our hops clearly have their own flavor because they have their own land. They taste like nothing else anywhere.... We call it ‘dirt-oir.’” The idea of terroir in beer, ridiculous until very recently, is exciting to people like Shellhammer: “If you have a cabernet grown in [Napa], they have a different quality [than] a cabernet that’s grown in Sonoma. I’m certain those differences exist for hops.” While other craft breweries are two time zones away from the farms growing their ingredients, Oregon brewers can have their pick from farms growing hops and barley in their backyard. “It could lead to some pretty cool stuff,” Shellhammer says. There’s a big, green mess inside the tasting room at Hood River’s Full Sail Brewing. Led by brewmaster Jamie Emmerson, a jolly Hoosier who jumped into beer from organic chemistry, Full Sail’s brewers are gathered around 14 hand-numbered and vacuum-packed samples of experimental new-hop varieties. The baggies look like pot—cannabis is a cousin to hops (see sidebar)—but smell strongly of garlic, citrus and freshly mown grass. The men rub the hops into sticky grounds then cup the mess over their noses and inhale. They finish by recording their opinions on a form. “Oh, that one’s really nice,” says brewer Jim Kelter, inhaling deeply. “It’d do really well in a lager.” These are Indie Hops’ competition. They’re Washington hops, sent by a new company started by the people behind two of the biggest blockbuster hop varieties of the CONT. on page 19
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Beer The largest American-owned brewing company doesn’t sell beer in Oregon. Miller, Coors and Bud are now owned by foreign companies, which left Sam Adams on top until last year, when it was surpassed by Pennsylvania’s Yuengling. Founded in 1829, Yuengling claims to be the nation’s oldest brewery. Oregon doesn’t have the most breweries in the U.S. or the most breweries per capita. With 245 breweries, California has by far the most. Tiny Vermont has only 21 breweries, but the most per capita. Oregon has 121 breweries, which is third most total and second most per person. Beer styles go far beyond “light” and “dark.” There are 83 different styles judged at the Great American Beer Festival, including sour beers, oatmeal stouts and barrel-aged beers stored for a year in whiskey barrels before bottling. Beers made with herbs instead of hops are called gruits and were popular until the 1500s. They’ve seen a minor revival in recent years, partly spurred by Dogfish Head’s Midas Touch, a brew developed from an analysis of the 2,700-yearold drinking vessels found in the tomb of King Midas. Portland’s Buckman Brewing, housed inside the Green Dragon on Southeast Yamhill Street, is a leader, flavoring beers with chamomile, ginger and sweet potatoes.
Some beer goes bad, other beer gets better with age. Mass-market lagers like Budweiser and Miller are best at their freshest. Full Sail’s Session lager, for example, is meant be consumed within 120 days, says brewmaster Jamie Emmerson. However, some high-alcohol, bottleconditioned styles, including Imperial stouts and barley wines, can be cellared for years to allow flavors to mellow and mature. Portland’s Hair of the Dog is a leading advocate of bottle aging.
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The top-selling craft beer in the U.S. is Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. Oregon’s top offering was Widmer Hefeweizen, which ranked seventh among craft brews in 2010. The world’s largest beer market is China. The most popular Chinese beer— and the top-selling beer in the world—isn’t well-known Tsingtao. It’s Snow Beer. Tsingtao is China’s biggest export but a distant second domestically. The almost-clear Snow Beer is not available outside China and moved 16.5 billion pints in 2010, twice as much as Bud Light, which is second worldwide. The most popular imported beer in the U.S. is Corona. Heineken holds second place, followed by Modelo Especial and Corona Light. Mexico sends the U.S. five of its 10 most popular imports. This is a recent trend. A decade ago, Guinness (Ireland), Foster’s (Australia) and Amstel (the Netherlands) were in the top 10 instead of Tecate, Dos Equis and Corona Light.
Dark beers are not “heavier” in calories than light beers. The color of beer depends on how long and hot the barley was roasted. Stouts, which use darker malts, are often lower in calories than brighter beers. Guinness, for example, is lighter than Heineken, Budweiser, Miller or Stella Artois.
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“Stuff that smells promising does not always turn out,” Emmerson says. “We had one that smelled like caramelized pineapple. We were really excited and put it in a batch. It ended up smelling like a boys’ locker room, musty and gross.” Full Sail typically tests new hops only a few times a year. If Indie Hops succeeds, hands will be green and oily more often. Solberg’s ambitions include bringing a new variety to market every year, instead of every 10 years. In the meantime, Indie Hops is looking back to heritage varieties. Just as Budweiser’s retreat from the Willamette Valley has opened up land, decades of Budweiser-funded research left a legacy. “In that effort to copy traditional European hops, there were a bunch of hops that came out of that that generated some interest, but the craft industry wasn’t there yet,” Solberg says. “We’re going to resurrect some of those old hops.” One is Santiam, a heritage hop from the early 1980s that has all but disappeared. When Indie Hops sent samples to brewers, it heard back from people who remember the hop fondly and from new brewers wowed by it. Goschie Farms knows Santiam well because Gayle’s father planted the first test plot for Anheuser-Busch. “It was a gorgeous hop—beautiful—but it ended up not storing well enough, so Anheuser-Busch dropped it,” she says. Now the farm has a few acres of Santiam again, planted on land that used to grow the Willamette variety for Budweiser. The Goschies hope it helps them ride things out until new varieties from Indie Hops take root. Maybe then they’ll take down Budweiser curios hanging alongside black-and-white family photos in their farm office. If the Goschies could make it through prohibition—their hops went to a prescription tonic that “tasted a lot like beer”—they expect to survive this. In the farm office hangs a picture from the farm’s 100th anniversary party, when the Goschies set up enough chairs to seat half of Silverton under a canopy of white oak, and fed everyone sausages washed down by Bud. The Goschies invited wrinkled men who’d picked hops by hand for their grandparents to tour barns where banda music and big machinery now reign. “We about ran the grocery store out of longneck bottles,” says Gayle Goschie. “It was a great day.” It was also, Goschie says, the day she began to realize her farm shouldn’t exist in a vacuum. “In so much of agriculture, the farmer doesn’t have a relationship with the people who ultimately use the product,” she says. “Now, we get to walk the fields with the brewer before harvest. It’s pretty special.” As she talks, you can hear Goschie unhitching her wagon from the Clydesdales. “Craft brewers are artists and they have a passion for what they’re doing that is constantly evolving,” she says. “They’re always reaching out for something new, some new twist, which is exciting.”
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SCOOP WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, DOLLY DID IT WAY BETTER. AGESANDOBAMAS: President Obama is an AgesandAges fan. The Portland band’s catchy, choral folk-pop tune “No Nostalgia” showed up on a Spotify playlist posted to the president’s re-election campaign Facebook page, much to the surprise of frontman Tim Perry, who told Rolling Stone that the nod was “the most random thing that’s happened in [his] life.” Perhaps Obama would be similarly surprised to learn that the song appears on a loose concept album about “the earlier days of a secluded commune,” KICKSTART MY HEART: Is this the most Portlandy Kickstarter project that ever Portlanded? Beekeeper Damian Magista is trying to raise $5,000 on the crowd-funding website to make “micro-batch honey produced in urban neighborhood varieties.” Magista produces honey from beehives in four different Portland neighborhoods: Mount Tabor, Brooklyn, Powellhurst and Laurelhurst, each of which he says has its own “terroir,” or unique flavor profile based on the area. Magista tells WW that Mount Tabor tastes “bright, very exotic, like lots of tropical flowers,” while Laurelhurst is “really nutty and spicy; I think it’s a result of all the walnut and maple trees the bees are foraging on.” >> In other Kickstarter news, the Elevation Dock, an aluminium iPhone dock project by Portland designer Casey Hopkins that broke Kickstarter records by raising $165,350 in 24 hours, ended its funding round at just under $1.5 million. The docks will be machined and assembled entirely in Oregon. THEATER VS. THE MAN: After a nine-month application process, Portland’s Bureau of Development Services concluded that Portland Playhouse cannot resume presenting plays at its King neighborhood converted church from which the company has been exiled since summer because theater, absurdly, falls under the category of “commercial, retail sales” rather than “community service.” Portland Playhouse and the King Neighborhood Association encourage the community to support the Playhouse at the City Council meeting at 3:30 pm Thursday, March 1, at City Hall. GATE CLOSED: The Dragon Gate Seafood Buffet at Pioneer Place has closed. It’s the second big seafood buffet to fail at the downtown mall in as many years, proving mallgoers aren’t into fish when there’s perfectly good Sbarro’s around. GRAMMY SNUB: Portland’s Decemberists left the Grammys empty-handed after being beaten twice (in the Best Song and Best Performance categories) by the Foo Fighters, but at least they looked nice on TV. >> In other TV news, the Wieden+Kennedy-produced Clint Eastwood Chrysler advert refuses to die—it received an SNL send-up on Feb. 11. Federale frontman Collin Hegna, who produced the music for the spot, told WW, “I didn’t realize the extent to which it would grow legs of its own. It obviously struck a chord.” 22
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THURSDAY FEB. 16 THE COUP, BUCK 65, BUSDRIVER [MUSIC] We wouldn’t be surprised if songs like “5 Million Ways to Kill a CEO” and “My Favorite Mutiny” were played throughout Occupy camps across the country. All three acts on tonight’s bill are underground hip-hop royalty. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St. 9 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.
FRIDAY FEB. 17 VIVA RIVA! [MOVIES] Through the lens of firsttime director Djo Tunda Wa Munga, the Congolese capital of Kinshasa feels like Las Vegas—a wasteland glowing with seedy glamour— except the casinos and strip clubs are replaced with outdoor bazaars, whorehouses and crumbling domiciles. The centerpiece film of the Cascade Festival of African Films. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 493-1128. 7 pm. Free. FEARNOMUSIC DOES CAGE [MUSIC] The terrific, local newmusic ensemble’s John Cage concert features Oregon Symphony music director Carlos Kalmar intoning Cage’s famous Zen-inspired “Lecture on Nothing,” as well as the striking voice and piano piece “Litany for the Whale,” 20 harpists playing an improvisation based on Indian ragas, a chance-derived work for strings and winds performed by the Portland State University New Music Ensemble, the landmark 1942 “Credo in Us” (which uses Cage’s famous prepared piano, radio and various percussion), a work for conch shells, an audio installation, a work to be performed by the audience and more—including, of course, those notorious 4½ minutes that are not really about silence at all. YU Contemporary, 800 SE 10th Ave., 236-7996, yucontemporary.org. 8 pm. $12.50-$25.
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One might assume when the United States’ first- and secondranked pinball pros hit the same tournament, it’s all strobe lights and smoke machines and Zoolander-esque ego. Not so, says Seattle’s Cayle George, who never quite grabbed the crown from fellow Seattleite Keith Elwin. “I wouldn’t say I was naturally competitive,” George says. “But I’m the kind of person that plays better under pressure.” To simulate that pressure at home, where George keeps about 15 machines, he sometimes holds tournaments...with himself. In the busy season, he practices for about two hours a day. The 31-year-old Berkeley native, who honed his flipper fingers on pinball in bars and laundromats around the University of Oregon before finding work—somewhat scandalously—as a videogame designer, says he and the top-ranked Elwin have similar games with subtle differences. “Keith, I would say, plays a bit more of a relaxed game than I do. He has a better intuition about where the ball is bouncing…I usually take more of a proactive approach and brute-force the ball to get it to do exactly what I want.”
At the end of the day, both players—and other competitors from Portland and around the world who will compete at this, the fourth annual Showdown—are monsters of a game whose glory days are behind it. Stern Pinball’s new AC/DC-themed game premieres at Goodfoot this week, but it’s a blip on the radar compared to the Showdown, which focuses on the golden-era machines of the 1990s. “Every game that Stern has been releasing has been worse than the one that came out before it,” George says. “The programming is awesome...but they aren’t trying to be trendsetters. They have had a couple of gems come out, but most of them are a bit lacking.” George is currently building his own pinball machine. He estimates it will be completed in 2018. CASEY JARMAN. SEE IT: Stern’s AC/DC Tournament is Wednesday, Feb. 15, at the Goodfoot, 2845 SE Stark St. 6 pm. 21+. The Rose City Showdown IV runs Friday-Sunday, Feb. 17-19, at Slingshot Lounge, 5532 SE Center St. 21+. See rosecitypinball.com for info and full schedule.
ZWICKELMANIA On this day, breweries across the state will open their doors to beer lovers for tastings, classes, new releases, tours and other festivities as part of the Oregon Brewers Guild’s annual Zwickelmania brewery open house. For those who can’t find a designated driver and don’t wish to die in some horrific drunkdriving-related car accident, there will be several shuttle-bus services driving around the Portland area. Check out oregonbeer.org/zwickelmania for a full list of events and participating breweries. 11 am-4 pm. Free. 21+.
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WW: What do you think is the attraction of getting hands-on with your own meat? Camas Davis: On purely a tactile level, I think it’s important with anything we eat to have the experience of producing it or harvesting it or curing it. I just think food tastes better if you have an involvement with how it got to you. I also think there’s a lot of political reasons. One being that I think the entire way that we get meat to our tables in America is pretty horrific…. I do think we would make very different choices about how we eat it if we were actually involved in that process. And, ultimately, I think we eat too much meat in America, and part of that is we don’t have to engage with all of the terrible parts of getting meat to our tables. And when you do slaughter and you do realize how much work it is to break down a side of pig, you do eat less pig. But is it practical for people to do that? Can’t you just buy from an ethical farmer? I don’t believe that everyone should be raising their own pigs and butchering them themselves.... My problem is that each part of the process is so specialized. So you have just the slaughterhouse and just the farmers. The farmers don’t know how to slaughter the meat, the slaughterhouse doesn’t know how the meat was raised. You have consumers who don’t have any idea about any of those processes.
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When Roger Rabbit was bunnynapped, Camas Davis was blogging. The response to her daily updates on the Portland Meat Collective website wasn’t pretty. “I was deeply saddened by your recent loss of 18 rabbits intended for slaughter for your rabbit butchery class,” snarks a commenter on the website the 2-year-old organization that teaches hands-on meat skills—butchery, sausage-making, curing and, yes, slaughter—to nonprofessional cooks. “The idea that a room full of smug, pugnacious, privileged, bourgeois would-be urban homesteaders might have been given another opportunity to jeer at some petty inconvenience really burns me.” Such comments flooded the site—and every news site in Portland— last month when news broke that 18 rabbits, including a breeder buck named Roger, were stolen from the yard of a PMC instructor ahead of a slaughter class the next day. Who are these Portlanders learning to raise and slaughter their own animals: Urban hipsters looking for foodie street cred or devoted locavores who want to take DIY agriculture to its extremes? Davis, a former Portland Monthly food writer, told WW who really wields the clevers in her classes.
What kind of people take your slaughter class? Most of the people who take my classes are taking it for education—I would say maybe 40 percent of the students are actually hoping to, over time, learn how to kill one pig a year, one cow a year, do everything themselves, and that’s all they’re going to eat, if that, and that’s their goal. There have been a lot of people over the age of 50 who grew up on farms, and they’ve gotten away from that and now want to go back in terms of how they source their food…. We have a significant number of people who are vegans and vegetarians who come to the class to discover if they kill something, if they’re OK with it again…. It seems like most people come to see if they can do it. It’s like a personal test they go through to see if they can justify eating meat. How do they typically react? Surprisingly, a lot calmer than I thought. It may be the way we teach our classes is like: Look, this is a really hard thing to do, and you either have to commit or not; you can’t waver in this because the animal will suffer…. And people typically commit. And some people cry and some people hesitate and some people don’t do it right, and that’s really hard to watch. So there’s all kinds of reactions. What’s interesting to me is after everyone’s done their slaughter is the discussion that occurs. It’s pretty much everyone working through out loud if that felt good or not. A lot of times it doesn’t.
What was your first time slaughtering an animal like? It’s hard, it’s a complicated moment…. It’s a moment where you both distance yourself from the animal and you become very close to it in the exact same moment. And that is a complicated moment for anyone. Physically, it’s hard to hold a live thing in your hands and have it not be alive all of a sudden. It’s a moment I have trouble writing about and a moment I have trouble talking about, and it’s different for everyone. The thing I always say is if it ever becomes easy, then you probably shouldn’t do it. Because it is hard. And if it becomes easy, then you might have something wrong with you. Although there is a strong movement toward local, sustainable food at the moment, there is a concurrent movement toward an almost sexualization or fetishization of food, and especially of meat. Do you worry about what you’re doing getting swept up in that? I remember when I was in France, The New York Times came out with an article that declared butchers the “new rock stars.” And they had all these guys who started butchering in bars and people would drink cocktails and watch the pig on the bars. And I’m not into that. I don’t like any of the fetishization of bacon, or meat or whatever. The bacon thing for me is like: I love bacon, it’s great, but it’s just fucking bacon. Get the fuck over it. It’s part of a pig, and when you butcher a whole pig, you realize that every part of the pig can be cooked or cured in an amazing way. But Americans don’t know that. For me, the bacon thing is just another way to distance us from the meat itself. So I’m very wary of that, and I’m wary of being put into that category, and I try very hard to not come across as someone who fetishizes it or gets off on it or thinks they’re a rock star because of it. Do you feel like the PMC was fairly portrayed in the whole rabbit story? It’s not so much how it was portrayed as it is how few interesting discussions came out of it. People reported on what did happen and didn’t happen, and then the comments were insane. I do think that the whole rabbit thing was, and still is to some extent, really engaging in an important discussion about what this means. And what it means for an organization who is like, “Yup, we’re going to be totally open about everything we do, and you can either choose to see it or not”—why that kind of organization gets attacked versus all these other places who are like, “No, we’re not going to talk about this, just look the other way.” It’s interesting on so many levels, and yet I have no idea how to create an open dialogue, because it’s so polarizing.
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On this day, breweries across the state will open their doors to beer lovers for tastings, classes, new releases, tours and other festivities as part of the Oregon Brewers Guild’s annual Zwickelmania brewery open house. For those who can’t find a designated driver and don’t wish to die in some horrific drunkdriving-related car accident, there will be several shuttle-bus services driving around the Portland area. Check out oregonbeer.org/zwickelmania for a full list of events and participating breweries. 11 am-4 pm. Free. 21+.
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Mardi Gras at Acadia
Acadia offers a slightly more understated Mardi Gras celebration than the rest, with a four-course set dinner. The menu includes blue crab, crawfish and shrimp cake; Cajun, dirty-rice-stuffed quail; and, of course, king cake. There will also be beads, masks and doubloons, and unlike most Mardi Gras dabblers, as far as we know, you won’t have to flash your tits to get some. Acadia, 1303 NE Fremont St., 249-5001. 5 pm. $45 per person.
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Oregon’s Evening Land winery and noted French winemaker Dominique Lafon team with the Heathman for a five-course, wine-pairing dinner. Diners will chow down on lamb loin, squab, arctic char and diver scallops, while Lafon and Evening Land’s Isabelle Mugnier talk them through eight of their wines. Heathman Hotel, 1001 SW Broadway, 241-4100. 6:30 pm. $175 per person. 21+.
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They don’t call it Fat Tuesday for nothing—Southern-influenced Pearl restaurant Irving Street Kitchen will be celebrating Mardi Gras with a blowout party and all-you-caneat food. Chef Sarah Schafer will be there roasting a whole Carlton Farms pig on the patio, which will be served with jambalaya, dirty rice, fresh oysters and king cake, alongside New Orleans cocktails like hurricanes and sweet-tea punch. They also promise live music, tarot-card reading, dancers and magicians. Irving Street Kitchen, 701 NW 13th Ave., 343-9440. 6-10 pm. $45 per person in advance, $50 at the door.
Mardi Gras at Tapalaya
Tapalaya—the self-proclaimed “World’s first Cajun/Creole smallplates (tapas-style) restaurant”—will be allowing large plates for its Mardi Gras celebration, with an all-youcan-eat buffet. For $24, diners may load up their plates big and tall with Louisiana staples like crawfish étouffée, gumbo, jambalaya and collard greens. There will be live music from Reggie Houston, and Janice Scroggins and Friends, as well as a fire performer, a drag queen and, of course, there will be beads. Tapalaya, 28 NE 28th Ave., 232-6652. 4:30 pm. $24, $18 before 6 pm.
A-HUY THERE: Knuckle-free broth bursting with flavor.
PHO HUY That a great bowl of pho need not be all gizzards and tail is blasphemy to some. So call mine the ignorant opinion of a margarine-raised Midwesterner, but I like really nice, clean shaves of neatly trimmed meat on top of plain rice noodles in a richly flavorful broth. The broth—made with bony bits better not seen—is the real draw. Opinions about pho perfection are largely a matter of personal taste, but I believe great broth elevates your sense of well-being. Some get that from Ha VL, Pho Hung or Bun Bo Hue Minh. I don’t, so I’ve been driving south down Southeast 82nd Avenue in Order this: Pho tai chin ($7.50). Broth with search of a narcotic blend rice noodles, round steak and brisket. of umami and starch, I’ll pass: Canh ga chien don ($5.95). Double-fried chicken wings that cost about finally finding the herbal, $1 each and aren’t great. sweetly beefy bowl of pho tai nam gau ($7.50) at Pho Huy. The lean meats make it the perfect bowl—for me, anyway. Conveniently located in a Happy Valley strip mall where you can also pick up lottery tickets and beauty supplies or refill your printer cartridges, Pho Huy has neon signs in the window and a waitress who does that endearing knee-on-your-green-pleatherbooth thing when she brings your sprouts, sprigs and slices. Pork salad rolls, made on request ($4.95), were better than average, with the shredded meat neatly wrapped in an outer layer around vermicelli and crisply fresh cilantro. The bun bowls aren’t bad, either. The bun ga ($8.95), made with grilled lemongrassmarinated chicken and a salad of daikon, bean sprouts, cucumber and lettuce, freshened up our afternoon. The Vietnamese-style chicken curry with sweet yams and potatoes ($8.95) had a sauce a bit heavier than purists prefer, but will, presumably, satiate someone not in the mood for pho. Yes, those people exist—at least until they taste a broth like this. MARTIN CIZMAR. EAT: Pho Huy, 11342 SE 82nd Ave., Happy Valley, 353-6646. 10 am-9 pm daily. $.
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BETSY ROSS GOLDEN ALE (PHILADELPHIA’S) Portland has nearly 40 brewing companies, which get wildly varying amounts of hype. Among the most neglected is Philadelphia’s Steaks & Hoagies. It doesn’t help that the word “Brewing” isn’t in the name. Yet only a half dozen local breweries have been around longer than this Sellwood cheeseteak shop. With its three-barrel system, Philadelphia’s was Oregon’s smallest licensed microbrewery until Portland U-Brew & Pub set up down the block six months ago. Nine of Philadelphia’s 10 beers are on the lighter, “sessionable” side. The only knockout beer is the barrel-aged Betsy Ross Golden Ale. Starting with a lighter, golden ale that’s 5.2 percent alcohol, it’s aged in a Syrah wine barrel. It picked up no alcohol, but has abundant oak, fruit and enough vinous sour zing to make this an interesting and unusual session beer. The Syrahmatured Betsy Ross is worth the price of admission, though it’s not quite sequel-worthy. BRIAN YAEGER.
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LAS PRIMAS In most every language, “sandwich” is a synonym for delicious. Case in point, Las Primas, a new Peruvian joint on North Williams Avenue next to the Box Social, which ditches ceviche for street-food offerings punched up with creamy South American sauces. Not everything at this eatery works, but Lima-born cook Catalina Acuña’s juicy sandwiches, from thin-sliced pork to spicy chorizo, are great. The best one I’ve tasted so far is the pollo a la brasa ($8.50). The kitchen roasts chickens marinated in beer, soy sauce and “Peruvian spices” and gives them a quick smoky Order this: Pollo a la brasa, papas fritas sear on the grill just before with cheesy salsa huancaina, puckery passion fruit juice. stuffing big hunks of the Best deal: Lomo saltado sandwich with moist bird into crunchy, fries ($8.50). pillowy, football-shaped I’ll pass: Dry mushroom empanada and loaves that Fleur De Lis super-saccharine Pisco Punch cocktail. Bakery makes special for the restaurant. There’s also a bunch of iceberg lettuce, tomato and a creamy, spicy sauce made with Peruvian red rocoto peppers. All the sandwiches are served in plastic baskets, nestled next to big piles of very thin, very tasty fries or a citrus-spritzed salad. You could not ask for a simpler, more satisfying lunch. That is, unless your tablemate orders the perfectly seared lomo saltado steak sandwich ($8.50), piled high with fat grilled onions and doused in garlic sauce, so you can go halvsies on both. There’s also a handful of less successful housemade empanadas ($3.50)—the spicy chicken is good, the bland, dry mushroom is not—topped with the traditional funky sprinkle of powdered sugar as well as a trio of uninspiring salads ($6-$8), chicken wings ($5) and yuca fritters ($5). And that’s about it, aside from a lineup of beers and sweet Pisco and rum cocktails. That abbreviated menu makes Las Primas, Spanish for “the cousins” and a nod to Acuña and her cousin/co-owner Sadie Morrison, a bit odd. The sunny yellow, light-filled space is huge, with long, family-style tables, two- and four-tops, a foosball table and an Incan coin-toss game called sapo—all below a festive mural of ponies and birds that the cousins painted. It looks ready to host an entire fútbol team and its fans for a postgame celebration, complete with servers carrying huge platters of food and bottles of that piss-colored, bubble gum-flavored Peruvian obsession Inca Kola ($2) to the table. Although those wonderful sandwiches are good for a quick takeout lunch, Las Primas needs to offer more variety of dishes, from seafood to a chicken entree, as well as table service in order to lure a sit-down dinner crowd. Right now, the outsized space is a ghost town at most hours. You order at the counter, and the nice server gives you a free taste of shocking purple corn juice ($2) while you debate if you should get a churro from the hot case ($1, yes you should). Then you sit and quietly chew in time to the pan-flute tune on the sound system. I’m rooting for this place to turn into a bigger Peruvian party in the future. KELLY CLARKE.
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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 15 Vektor, Transient, Spellcaster, Theories, Night Nurse
[THRASH] The recent thrash revival has yielded a few capable practitioners—Warbringer and Havok are, to these novice’s ears, especially good at turning on all the right dimes—but it is to Tempe, Arizona’s Vektor that I am swearing my allegiance. With songs that regularly stray past the fiveminute mark while taking detours into prog territory, Vektor’s Outer Isolation breathes almost as often as it batters. Which is not to say that it doesn’t all sound like war being waged inside your brain. Worry not, Vektor can pummel with the best of them. Just count on your mind being blown before it’s blown up. CHRIS STAMM. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. 9 pm. $6. All ages.
THURSDAY, FEB. 16 Grimble Grumble, Space Waves, Souvenir Driver, Sundaze
[SHOEGAZE POP] Chicago’s Grimble Grumble has been a going concern since the late ’90s but hasn’t made much of an effort to pull its head out of the dream pop/shoegaze underground. This is a shame, as the quartet’s amazing run of releases leans heavily on the experimental and psychedelic freak-out side of its chosen bailiwick. GG has tempered its approach into dreamier territory, if the band’s lovely 2011 release, September Sun, is anything to go on. Live, though, all bets are off. You could get placid, furious or some devilish mixture of the two. You won’t want to miss it, one way or the other. ROBERT HAM. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. 9 pm. $5. All ages.
Lawn Boy (Phish tribute)
[PHANPHARE] Don’t pretend you never liked Phish. Vermont’s finest jam band opportunistically grabbed
the baton passed on by the Grateful Dead and has been turning out technically flawless 45-minute renditions of “Reba” ever since. Instead of bitching about how the real band doesn’t tour enough and charges $50 a ticket, see Portland tribute act Lawn Boy, composed of personnel from both Mars Retrieval Unity and Philly’s Phunkestra. Mike Gordon’s proficient bass work is a tough act to follow, but Brett McConnell (no relation to Page) ought to make his role model and phans everywhere mighty proud. MARK STOCK. Goodfoot Lounge, 2845 SE Stark St., 503-239-9292. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
Jacques Renault, RAC, American Girls
[PRODIGAL PRODUCERS] RAC, a.k.a. Remix Artist Collective, doesn’t DJ around town much, despite the fact that two-thirds of the remixing-production-DJ trio calls Portland home. That’s probably because its members are, umm, kind of a big deal. RAC has risen to national prominence on the strength of its head-nodding jiggerings of indie-rockers like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Phoenix and the Shins: Earlier this month, the collective performed a set in Mexico; later this month, it’ll spin records in Vegas. In between, RAC is showing its sorta-hometown some love with this first installment in a new RAC-curated monthly at Holocene. February’s featured guest is Jacques Renault, a Brooklyn-based DJ with disco and house predilections. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
Maria Volonte
[BLUE TANGO] Argentine singer-songwriter Maria Volonte’s tango mastery already incorporated folk tunes from Chile, Brazil and elsewhere by the time she met expatriate blues harmonica player Kevin Carrel Footer in a Buenos Aires cafe where she had a regular gig. They turned out to have simpa-
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FREE PORTLAND JAZZ FESTIVAL EVENTS Jazz Conversation: Roy Nathanson & Curtis Fowlkes with Marty Hughley, Sunday, Feb. 19, at The Art Bar These Jazz Passengers know an awful lot about the New York scene, and hopefully they’ve got some good Debbie Harry stories. 5 pm. Youth Jazz Showcase, Monday, Feb. 20, at Jimmy Mak’s This 3 pm showcase features saxophonist Charles McPherson and other players alongside young players from various programs. Jazz Conversation: Mel Brown and Roy Haynes, Friday, Feb. 24, at PSU’s Lincoln Hall (room 75) Two legendary jazz drummers chat it up about the creative spark, playing with the greats, and living forever. Hope someone has a video camera handy. Trio Subtonic, Friday, Feb. 24, at The Art Bar The funky Portland group debuts its new disc, I’ll Meet You There Tomorrow, this week. You can see it free. 9:30 pm. Midnight Jam Session, Saturday Feb. 24, at Mission Theater The folks behind PDX Jazz Fest will tell you that this is what the thing is all about: bigshots and locals tearing the roof off the place together at the end of the night. SEE IT: Go to pdxjazz.com to see times, addresses and more events.
BEAUTY IN PAIN THERE’S ONE SONG LINCOLN CROCKETT CAN’T BRING HIMSELF TO SING. BY MATTHEW SIN GER
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Alicia Crockett knew something was wrong with her pregnancy. All the tests said otherwise, that everything was fine, but she couldn’t shake the overwhelming feeling of unease. “I couldn’t describe it. I couldn’t even tell you, to this day, what was going on,” she says. “But I’ve never laid on the bathroom floor in tears, sobbing, so many times in my life.” At the time, she thought it might just be the nervous insecurity a lot of expectant mothers experience. Health concerns were part of it, too: Kyron, Alicia and her singer-songwriter husband Lincoln’s then-3-year-old son, was born with cystic fibrosis, and they were aware the chances of having another child with the disease were high. Her anxiety was foreshadowing something much worse: Joseph Phoenix Crockett died shortly after birth, asphyxiating on his umbilical cord. It’s a nightmarish story, one that would leave most parents emotionally shattered. Sitting in the dining room of their brick-lined Northeast Portland home one year later, however, the Crocketts hardly seem like broken people. They smile and laugh easily. It’s not denial; in fact, it’s the exact opposite. Already spiritual folks—Lincoln dabbles in “energy healing”—the couple sought meaning in Joseph’s death. In doing so, they came across two organizations, the Dougy Center and Grief Watch, which assist the recently bereaved in coping with loss. Grieving, the Crocketts learned, is a process too many people deny themselves, causing depression to calcify into a burden carried around for years. “The tragedy isn’t whether somebody lives or dies,” Lincoln says. “The real tragedy is if somebody does die and the living are lost in that pain.” Through the help of those programs, the Crocketts began to heal. In processing their ordeal, the purpose of Joseph’s all-too-brief life opened up to them. For Alicia, it led her to find her calling, in
what she calls “grief coaching.” And for Lincoln, it confirmed his job description as a musician: “To help people be healthy and happy and deal with life.” Lincoln Crockett grew up in a musical family: His dad was a church organist and avid jazz fan. He didn’t start writing songs until after college, when he took a job at an outdoor education school in Colorado. In the mountains, without easy access to amplifiers, he was forced to buy an acoustic guitar. Then he tried a mandolin. After moving to Portland in 2000, he joined the popular bluegrass party band Cross-eyed Rosie. In 2006, in the instrumentcheck room of the RiverCity Bluegrass Festival, he met Alicia. Within three months, she was pregnant with Kyron. A year and a half later, they married. Around the time of their marriage, Cross-eyed Rosie went on hiatus. “I had all kinds of modern angst the band wasn’t interested in,” Lincoln says. He poured that angst, and every ounce of creative energy, into his first solo album, 2007’s Angels & Devils Alike. However, not wanting to be on the road, away from Alicia and his young son, Lincoln didn’t try to spin the album into a career. In 2010, he digitally released two more, less-labored-over records, then went to Thailand with his family for five months, unsure if he’d ever record anything again. Soon after returning to Portland, Alicia found out she was pregnant for the second time. In the aftermath of Joseph’s death, Lincoln is just starting to think about a new album. He says the experiences of the past year haven’t changed him as a songwriter. He does, however, admit the tragedy produced a first for him: He’s written a song he’s not sure he can play live. It’s about Joseph. He wants to perform it at this week’s benefit, but in practice, he’s yet to get through without crying. “If I’m going to do it,” he says, “I have to be willing to completely break down.” It will certainly be difficult. But what could help those mourning their own loss better than showing them the light on the other end of heartache? “There’s always beauty mixed in with the pain,” Alicia says. “If you know how to look for it, you can find it.” SEE IT: Lincoln Crockett plays the Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., on Saturday, Feb. 18, with Chris Kokesh. 7:30 pm. $15. All ages.
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THURSDAY-FRIDAY tico and complementary aesthetics, as they showed in a delicious appearance at the Old Church last year, which revealed a performer who connects easily with folk, world music and even jazz fans. BRETT CAMPBELL. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave. 8 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.
Christopher Neil Young, Ronnie Molen, Scotty Del, Will West, All The Apparatus [SINGER-SONGWRITERS, ETC.] Christopher Neil Young must be tired. Tonight marks the last of the local songwriter’s six-week-long series, wherein he has showcased funk, soul, hip-hop, rock and everything in between while also exposing his own jazzy folk tunes to diverse local audiences. Tonight’s special guests keep the spirit of mishmashing alive and well—from Will West’s funky singersongwriter fare to busking skarock-gypsy outfit All the Apparatus. Somewhere in the thick of it, Young will play some tunes from his brandnew EP, Cut, Cut, Loose!. CASEY JARMAN. Ted’s (at Berbati’s), 231 SW Ankeny St. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
The Coup, Buck 65, Busdriver
[GANGSTA FUNK] Even though Oakland hip-hop duo the Coup hasn’t had a proper release since 2006’s Pick a Bigger Weapon, I’m guessing the band’s music has gotten plenty of play recently. Rapper Boots Riley and DJ Pam the Funkstress make songs that invoke the political funkiness of the ’70s while referencing the brutal realism of ’90s gangster rap—perfect pump-up music for those who have a beef to settle with the Man. So I wouldn’t be surprised if songs like “5 Million Ways to Kill a CEO” and “My Favorite Mutiny” were played throughout Occupy camps across the country as protesters prepared to duke it out with police. With that said, the Coup’s music, unlike that of many other political rap groups, is still very accessible
even if you don’t connect with Boots’ lyrical content. Both members have tremendous ears for beats and cherish the genre’s ability to incorporate music from multiple decades at once. So even if the Coup may be preaching for a revolution you’re bored with, it’s still a revolution you can dance to. REED JACKSON. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 8 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.
FRIDAY, FEB. 17 Too Slim and the Taildraggers, Lloyd Jones
[BLUES ROCK] Before ZZ Top was on MTV, they billed themselves as “that li’l ol’ band from Texas.” Too Slim and company could easily use “that li’l ol’ band from Spokane,” as they are now as good a Texas roadhouse band as those guys with the beards. Too Slim (Tim Langford) keeps the guitar thick and greasy while the bass (Polly O’Keary) and drums (Tommy Cook) churn out a party groove that will make both you and your parents want to boogie. Slim is one of the few slideguitar players to make the most of his instrument’s strengths; his music features both roaring chords and notes being slowly squeezed out of the guitar. Blues and R&B powerhouse Lloyd Jones kicks things off. DAN DEPREZ. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 8 pm. $18 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
Bombay Bicycle Club, The Darcys, Lucy Rose
[BRIT POP] The British music press— much like Freckles, my sixth-grade class’s pet hedgehog—is notorious for eating its young. London’s Bombay Bicycle Club was subject to all the top-heavy hype that usually presages a whiplash-inducing shift in munificence, NME’s favored tool for keeping fey, young, working-class
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lads in psychological check. Despite being shouldered with the hyperbolic title of “biggest U.K. rock act since Arctic Monkeys,” however, the Club has mostly made good on its spritely potential. Last April’s A Different Kind of Fix, the band’s third album, returns to BBC’s bounding pop roots after an excursion into acoustic sad-making with 2010’s Flaws. While the quartet is still far from charting in the U.S., its gold-status releases in the U.K. have established it as a fixture of the British pop environment. SHANE DANAHER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $11 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
Con Bro Chill, Adventure Galley, Lion Tooth Tiger
[LAX ROCK] It’s too easy to hate on lacrosse bro-turned-rocker Con Bro Chill. The 23-year-old Lake Oswegan has made a name for himself by crafting neon-clad stadium anthems that ride the cheesy techno fad currently smothering pop radio. His newest project, 3D Music, is built for frat parties and fist-pumping—two things most people don’t usually associate with good music. And on half the tracks, Con feels the need to give goofy (and rather odd) voice-overs that make him sound like a bro’d-out Pee Wee Herman. It’s a very niche market this tongue-in-cheek bro is catering to, but, once in a while, like on the album’s lead single “Power Happy,” Con and his band step away from the Greek scene to add a little funk to their step. REED JACKSON. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm. $7. All ages.
A Stevie Wonder tribute by Patrick Lamb Productions and TeeFamm Music with members of Stevie Wonder’s band, including Nate Watts, Errol Cooney, Tyrone Hendrix and featuring Patrick Lamb, Liv Warfield,
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Paul Creighton, and Jarrod Lawson
[BLIND AMBITION] If there’s any vocalist in Portland who can hit Stevie Wonder’s tremendous vocal range while still remaining in possession of a set of testicles, it would be Intervision crooner extraordinaire Paul Creighton. He’s proven it as part of tribute king Joey Porter’s ensemble, and now he’s joining up with local sax phenom Patrick Lamb for an all-star show featuring performers who have actually shared the stage with the legend. Unlike Porter’s show, Lamb’s set at Jimmy Mak’s is likely to be less jamhappy—it features actual members of Stevie Wonder’s band who may want to do them the Stevie way—and the sound system should prove Creighton’s status as one of the most velvety and talented vocalists in town. AP KRYZA. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 7:30 pm (All ages) and 10 pm (21+). $20-$25. 21+.
Witch Mountain, Sons of Huns, Bison Bison
[DOOM METAL] Portland doom mainstay Witch Mountain plays again for a hometown crowd in celebration of its 2011 full-length South of Salem, which is about to see re-release on the lauded Profound Lore label. The album was the band’s first full-length in 10 years, and NPR’s fourth-favorite album of 2011. Since its previous LP release in 2001, Witch Mountain (which features WW freelancer Nathan Carson on drums) has toured extensively, received international press, and experienced several lineup changes. With the 2009 addition of frontwoman Uta Plotkin, the band demonstrated a revived yet still heavy sound and feel. Plotkin’s sultry, near-operatic and clean vocal stylings are rooted in traditional doom, and they mesh awesomely with
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Formica Man, Footwork, Psychic Feline
[DIRTY DANCING] You will be tempted to move your body to the sounds of Seattle’s frantic Footwork. A dance-punk groove will emerge from a white squall of feedback, inviting you to do something rhythmic with your limbs. You will heed the call and almost immediately regret the decision, as Footwork’s deft drummer will have led his comrades into a rabid no-wave seizure before you’ve even had a chance to arrange your flailing into a sightly display. I say go for it. Rare is the band that is this skilled at striking a balance between chaos and control. Your body could use the lesson in liberation. Break a leg. CHRIS STAMM. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, Vacationer
[HYPERSOUL] One cannot overestimate just how dearly the indie press would loathe Asteroids Galaxy Tour were they native English speakers. It’s not just the lyrics, jumbled-together movie-poster tropes tirelessly trilled by DayGlo chanteuse Mette Lindberg, nor the band’s route to relative success: memorable iPod and Heineken adverts. The sonic smorgasbord assembled on just-released sophomore album Out of Frequency—a lounge-steeped electo-pop orgasmatron—throws Stax brass atop psychedelia swirls and original synth with arrogant disdain for all but the merest glimpse of transcendence ’midst thumpingly similar choruses. Beyond fortunate, then, that the troupe (Danish duo gigging as sextet) is Scandinavian and thereby granted a presumed gravitas and nobility for the very silliest of jingle fodder. JAY HORTON. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $15. All ages.
100 Years of John Cage with Fear No Music
[CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION] 2012 marks the centenary of composer and artist John Cage’s birth, and like any good benchmark year, it is likely to be celebrated the world over. Modern classical ensemble Fear No Music is taking the reins here in Portland, putting on an impressive event at the muchmaligned YU center. Multiple performances will go on throughout the space over the course of the evening, including the gorgeous vocal piece “Litany for the Whale”
and the structured cacophony of “Credo in Us” (performed by percussion, radio and prepared piano). Oregon Symphony’s Carlos Kalmar will also be on hand to read some of Cage’s written work, and the whole night will be capped off by a “performance” of the famous silent piece 4’33”. ROBERT HAM. YU Contemporary, 800 SE 10th Ave., Portland, 236-7996. 8 pm. $25 general admission ($12.50 for students, $15 seniors). All ages.
SATURDAY, FEB. 18 Portland Mardi Gras Ball: Philly’s Phunkestra, Too Loose Cajun Band, Atomic Gumbo, Transcendental Brass Band
[FUNK] If you’ve got to get blindingly drunk and flash your titties for beads—and, let’s face it, if you’re the type of person who celebrates Mardi Gras outside of Nola, you’re definitely the kind of person who gets blindingly drunk and flashes your titties for beads—you might as well do it right. For its Big Easy throwdown, Bossanova Ballroom boasts local brass-balled superheroes Philly’s Phunkestra. With the Transcendental Brass Band bringing the horns, zydeco spice from Too Loose Cajun Band and nasty Louisiana-style funk rock by Atomic Gumbo, this is the closest you’ll get to the actual Bourbon Street experience in Portland. Minus the pickpockets, hopefully. AP KRYZA. Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside St., 206-7630. 8 pm. $25 advance, $30 day of show. 21+.
Polica, Onuinu
[ELECTRIFIED R&B] There’s a chilly desolation about Chany Leaneagh’s Polica. The electro duo, which enlists the sampling work of producer and bandmate Ryan Olson, creates poppy, pulsating dreamscapes with a nightmarish side. Like parent group Gayngs (from which this new project was born), Polica is trigger-happy when it comes to effects, falling into frequent swells of modified electronica that sound as if they came straight from an old arcade game. With one record to its name—last year’s Give You the Ghost—Polica has much more to give but could use a bend or two in its somewhat linear structure to make this a ghost story worth repeating. MARK STOCK. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
Brainstorm, Sugar Tits, DJ Mark Madness
[WORLD BEATS] The release of Brainstorm’s second record, Heat Waves, probably should have come with a bit more pomp and circumstance than 10 tracks dumped on a Soundcloud page. The Portland
duo—whose West African-inspired guitar flourishes, polyrhythms and Devo-esque vocals helped land them a third place spot in last year’s Best New Band poll—has recorded a pretty excellent record (albeit one featuring a few old favorites from its first album), but Brainstorm is still waiting for a label to come along and pick it up. The waiting, as Tom Petty likes to sing, is the hardest part. So Brainstorm went ahead and recorded two AutoTune-heavy covers of songs by Nigerian musician Mdou Moctar. The covers’ phonetically translated lyrics (“we have no idea what Moctar is singing about whatsoever,” the band admits) actually add another surreal layer to the tunes, and the quite odd recordings help prove the twopiece’s surprising versatility, which is best witnessed in concert. I’m a believer. CASEY JARMAN. Portland State University’s Smith Ballroom, 1825 SW Broadway Ave. 8 pm. $5. All ages.
Die Antwoord
[HIP-HOP RAVE] From Cape Town, South Africa, Die Antwoord (meaning “the answer” in Afrikaans) is an all-white, next-level hip-hop trio that raps in Xhosa, Afrikaans and English. The group’s beats comprise old-school simplicity, recycled Euro tech and futuristic-sounding studio effects. The songs and performances are the offspring of an unprecedented hybrid of hip-hop and rave cultures, seen in the impressive light and smoke shows that bump along to the bass at sold-out concerts worldwide. Lead MC Ninja flows with a lizard tongue (perhaps literally) over quickening techno-paced beats as Yo-Landi Vi$$er, his coquettish and curiously sexy counterpart, provides the hooks in a distinctive high-pitched wail. Is it ironic? Revolutionary? Tongue-in-cheek? It’s fucking great! COLLIN GERBER. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 9 pm. Sold Out. All ages.
Chicharones, Cool Nutz, Vursatyl, ManimalHouse, Living Proof, DJ Spark, Eminent
[RAP INSURANCE] The leading lights of Portland’s hip-hop scene are playing an old-fashioned superbill tonight in order to assist local booker extroardinare Anthony Sanchez pay medical bills from a nasty fall he took just after New Years’ Eve. Sanchez is a fantastic dude, and more than anything, his fans—myself included—are happy to hear that he’s recovering nicely. But this opportunity to chip in and witness a gathering of the mouthiest folks in local hip-hop, from Lifesavas’ Vursatyl (who is wrapping up a solo album) and the Chicharones (who are gearing
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[ITALIAN JAZZ] The Portland Jazz Festival has brought some of the finest European jazz performers here over the years, and also cultivated a productive relationship with one of the world’s most acclaimed record labels, ECM, so you know that Italy’s greatest jazzer, Enrico Rava, will be floating out moody, atmospheric sounds from his darkly beautiful new ECM disc, Tribe, alongside highlights from his stellar four-decade career. But the Trieste-born trumpeter, who’s worked with jazzers ranging from Paul Motian to Joe Henderson to Pat Metheny, can also revisit the rugged territory of his earlier, freer excursions, and somehow make it all sound of a piece. Local star Pacini’s trio, featuring drum legend Mel Brown and bassist Ed Bennett, will open this highlight of PDX Jazz’s first week with a complementary set of music by ItalianAmericans like Mancini, Sinatra and Anthony Dominick Benedetto (aka Tony Bennett). BRETT CAMPBELL. Winningstad Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm. $22-$42. All ages.
SUNDAY, FEB. 19 Keys to the Rose: Steve Kerin, DK Stewart, Andrew Oliver, Asher Fulero, Classical Revolution PDX, Galen Clark, Ali Ippolito, Lara Michell, Rebecca Sanborn, Scott Docherty, Mike Danner, Rich Landar, Kris Deelane, Anne Weiss, Dan Gaynor
[PIANO FORTE] The Alberta Rose Theatre’s stately interior is about to get…statelier, I guess. This concert is a fundraiser to help the Rose finance its purchase of a Boston parlor grand piano, a charming centerpiece that fills a parlor with an air of refinement you simply can’t get from a machine as common as the Victrola. Helping bring this dream to life is an extensive collection of Portland piano talents, headed up by Louisiana jazz-funk expat Steve Kerin and the reliably entertaining coven of Classical Revolution PDX. Entry is being offered on a sliding scale from “Chopsticks” ($5) to “Thomas Lauderdale” ($200), so you can pay according to your wants, ability and tolerance for charm. SHANE DANAHER. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 7 pm. $5-$200. All ages (minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian).
See a Little Light With Bob Mould
[SEE A LITTLE LIGHT READING] Bob Mould never had the best of timing. His ’80s hardcore band Hüsker Dü never quite capitalized on influencing a generation, and the melodic majesty of his alt-pop combo Sugar was somewhat lost in the endless distortion of early-’90s radio. A late-life embrace of gay identity led to ill-starred electronica efforts, and even his ’90s cable forays—appearing on Craig Kilborn’s Daily Show (he wrote the theme) and choosing WCW ’midst a brief tenure as a wrestling scriptwriter— seem just a little off. It’d all make a fascinating book, you’d think, and this evening’s concert combines solo acoustic numbers with readings from his recently published memoirs. It’s not quite the first-ever live rendition of epochal Sugar debut Blue Copper, which Mould will perform in its entirety later this week in San
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CURSIVE SUNDAY, FEB. 19 [CONCEPTUAL ROCK] Broken homes are one of Tim Kasher’s favorite subjects. From the arguments and broken dishes strewn across Cursive’s masterful 2000 relationship epic, Domestica, to the claustrophobic beach-house setting of Kasher’s 2010 solo record, The Game of Monogamy, he’s long focused on what happens behind closed doors and shuttered blinds. “I think it’s the intimacy of where you live,” Kasher says. “All the darkest secrets we have are contained within that structure.” The house that provides the setting for most of Cursive’s new album, I Am Gemini, keeps darker secrets than most. The album’s epic, Queen-esque opening song, “This House Alive,” spends most of its time introducing the house itself, and it’s pretty clear the place is haunted. “This doesn’t really come out in the story, but it’s intended to be the main protagonist’s biological parents who willed the house to him after they passed away,” Kasher says, laughing at himself for disclosing such minutiae. “There’s all this additional story that I wrote—it was frustrating that I couldn’t get it all into the lyrics.” “This House Alive” is as graceful and as teeth-gnashingly heavy as anything in Cursive’s discography, but for Kasher, it serves a very specific purpose. “Mostly, it’s setting a tone for—it sounds kind of silly for an album—but it’s setting a tone for a mystery,” he says. Even for a band that’s known for meta, self-referential albums that reward repeated listens, the story of Cassius and Pollock— conjoined twins separated at birth who drive each other to madness when reunited later in life—is pretty unusual. While Kasher’s lyrics have dabbled in the fantastic and fairy tale-esque before (see 2003 record The Ugly Organ, which features a handful of Pinocchio references), this is Cursive’s clearest concept album. Musically, it’s also the band’s weirdest, honing Cursive’s carnival-like qualities and exploring its tendency to play “wrong” notes for dissonance. This has always been a band with a sense of humor, but I Am Gemini is less funny than willfully operatic—almost cartoonish. Kasher says he prefers a blend of “stark realism” and theatrics in Cursive’s music. And “as much as we’ve tried over the years to deny this, I think we really lean toward [being] goth,” Kasher says, laughing. “I love Dresden Dolls—I can hardly get any of my friends to listen to it. We wish so badly that we could be not a part of a Hot Topic world, but at the same time, I go into Hot Topic and I think I like all the stuff in there.” Cursive is not, at the end of the day, a Hot Topic band—even if the haunted-house album cover of I Am Gemini would look good on a teen-sized black T-shirt. Kasher is widely (and fairly) regarded as one of indie rock’s finest songwriters—albeit one whose introspective writing has lately leaned toward self-ridicule. “As I’m getting older, it’s getting harder to take any of this seriously at all,” Kasher admits. “I’m probably in danger of becoming an absurdist.” Besides, rock ’n’ roll always seemed a bit of a joke to Cursive. “We don’t believe in ourselves enough to pump our fists and take it seriously,” Kasher says. Funny, then, that the band should find a certain gravity in a story about conjoined twins and a haunted house. CASEY JARMAN One of indie rock’s stalwart acts finds a rather Grimm calling.
SEE IT: Cursive plays Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., on Sunday, Feb. 19, with Ume and Virgin Islands. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
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[BIG BAND] There are plenty of multipiece indie bands trying to produce a big sound. More instruments, more vocalists, more top-of-the-lungs harmonies. With all of the competition for listening ears, it takes a lot for a band to stand out these days. The septet Fierce Creatures from Fresno, however, caught my attention immediately. The allure isn’t necessarily the band’s big sound or a particularly unique flavor—it’s the members’ chemistry. Some bands just have it, and Fierce Creatures is one of them. Combining exceptional male and female vocals with tight instrumentation, the young band flaunts its stuff on its 2010 EP. The five-songer, I Mostri Feroci, is an aural trip through slick falsettos and atmospheric reverb that ends way too quickly. Luckily, the band is planning to release its first full-length album this year. EMILEE BOOHER. Rontoms, 600 E Burnside St., 236-4536. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
Rae Spoon, Timmy Straw, Oh Cody
[MUSIC FOR LOVERS] Could be my Portland bias is showing, but I’m hearing evidence of international appreciation for Lovers’ downbeat electro in the work of Montreal songwriter Rae Spoon, who, like Portland’s shepherds of the stray hearts before him, has ditched a past of spare folk plaints for chilly, moonstruck synth pop. And like Lovers’ risk, Spoon’s gambit has paid off. I Can’t Keep All of Our Secrets beats and throbs like something that wants to get out on the dance floor, while Spoon’s voice, crystalline and kinda bummed, finds every shred of resignation and regret hiding amid all the bliss. It is absolutely lovely. Let’s kiss and break up. CHRIS STAMM. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.
Golden Retriever, Grapefruit, Light House
[THE FINAL FRONTIER] Local synth-clarinet duo Golden Retriever heads tonight’s bill; whetting the audience’s experimental appetites is opener Grapefruit. This latest project from Charlie Salas (of Sun Angle and, formerly, Panther) could score a space documentary: Synth loops orbit one another to form stoney, sci-fi electronic compositions evoking Pluto (R.I.P.) or Saturn’s rings perfectly. These songs occasionally coalesce into a beat, but more often remain ambient as stardust. Musical cosmonauts will love it; those who prefer the ground under their feet should stay Earthbound. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Valentine’s, 232 SW Ankeny St., 248-1600. 9 pm. Cover. 21+.
The Jazz Passengers with Dan Balmer and The Farnell Newton Quintet
[JAZZ TRANSFORMERS] The Jazz Passengers have been a lot of bands. Not only has the group— which formed in New York in 1987—had more than a few membership shuffles over the years (saxophonist Roy Nathanson and trombonist Curtis Fowlkes founded the group, and remain active in this newly reformed iteration), but the Passengers have changed up musical approaches as often as anyone in jazz. At its outset, the group played avant-garde big-band compositions, but soon changed to accommodate a number of superstar frontpeople including Jimmy Scott, Mavis Staples, Elvis Costello and the unlikely frontwoman who would stay with the group for a number of years, Debbie Harry. The group’s 2010 comeback disc, Reunited, featured a little of everything, from Latin numbers to sax freakouts and familiar covers—including a rendition of Blondie’s “One Way or Another” with Harry. The group is
ALBUM REVIEWS
VARIOUS ARTISTS LET IT RAIN (PDX POP NOW!) [PORTLAND MUSIC] Why shouldn’t the navel-gazingest city in the country have a compilation of its current bands covering important bands from its past? We’ve got our own TV show, after all. Rudeness aside—don’t take the critique too seriously; I run a local music blog—Let it Rain actually serves as the handiest primer on Portland’s musical past since those I-5 Killers compilations of the early ’90s. While the new comp, a fundraiser for PDX Pop Now! pasted together by PPN! and the Oregon Historical Society, leans heavily toward the doom-rock of Portland’s heyday, it also enlists a pretty nice cross-section of the contemporary scene’s talent, from singer-songwriter Kyle Morton (Typhoon) to disco big band Ancient Heat, to serve as translators. While the obvious choices here are nice—Red Fang doing the Wipers’ “Over the Edge”; Portland Cello Project covering Elliott Smith; the Angry Orts’ Heart-esque rendition of Quarterflash’s “Harden My Heart”—the curveballs are where the real fun is at. Two odes to Fred Cole bands stand out: Kelli Schaefer shows her tough side (and earns some scene cred) by rocking the Lollipop Shoppe’s “Mr. Madison Avenue” while Grouper’s fuzzed-out, apocalyptic and pretty much unidentifiable take on Dead Moon’s “Demona” is perhaps the album’s most striking song. There are more recent cuts, too: Alan Singley’s Arrow of Light does a jazzy version of Quasi’s “It’s Hard to Turn Me On” while Nick Jaina does his best Danny Seim impression on his acoustic version of Menomena’s “Rotten Hell.” Both find less-than-obvious melodies to focus on and celebrate. As a record of a time and place that seems to always be longing for the same place in another time, Let it Rain performs its task more than admirably, and the comp makes a nice closing chapter for the Oregon Historical Society’s Oregon Rocks! exhibit. And, frankly, I’m stoked that no one did “Louie, Louie,” which is kind of a stupid song. CASEY JARMAN.
PHEASANT SELF-TITLED (SELF-RELEASED) [INDIE ROCK] Somewhere between And And And’s carefree, swaggering basement pop and Typhoon’s controlled and confessional rock operettas, Pheasant is holding its ground. The local quintet’s sound fits nicely into the “shit Portlanders play” category—dude pop that’s distorted but stops short of tough; loose but not experimental; professionally casual, even—and frontman Matt Jenkins is likable: understated and natural. In fact, I’m pretty sure his singing is just his talking voice turned up a bit. So even when Jenkins is singing about “shooting at cops” on “The Gun and the Moon,” this dude seems pretty all right. Jenkins’ band follows suit: Pheasant is easy to like—especially on the jangly, uptempo party numbers. “Feathery Flu” has the kind of cute-and-crafty hooks that Portland is known for, but it also has a sweet guitar solo. “Health” is a twangy piece of American pub rock that swings just enough and contains enough twists and turns to keep jaded pop fans listening. Closer “The Wind” crosses poppunk pacing with a decidedly Northwestern nihlism. And while one particular slow-jam, the moody “Kid + Hammer”—a torchy dark ballad with the swagger of ’90s Brit pop acts like Pulp and Blur that features some of Jenkins’ finest lyrics— proves the band’s versatility, the record’s other slow tunes can get a little tough to bear. “Colors Start to Separate” feels much longer than its three minutes, and a satisfyingly dramatic finish can’t stop “Visions” from feeling similarly heavy. I have a theory about this. See, nobody wants to hear about the nice guy’s problems. Jenkins, and Pheasant, by extension, are real nice. And real promising. But once you get acquainted with the band’s formidable fun-loving side, you just kind of want to keep the party going. Nothing wrong with that. CASEY JARMAN. SEE IT: Kelli Schaefer, Napalm Death and Ancient Heat play the Let it Rain release show Sunday, Feb. 19, at the Oregon Historical Society, 1200 SW Park Ave. 6 pm. $10 with CD. All ages. Pheasant plays Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., on Tuesday, Feb. 21, with American Royalty and Tiger House. 9 pm. $6 advance, $8 day of show. 21+.
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Sponsored By: live artist Network HÜSKER YÜ: Bob Mould speaks and sings at Doug Fir Lounge on Sunday. known for its boisterous onstage humor, but then it’s also known as one of the more important jazz ensembles of the last 30 years, and recent video footage hints at an extremely tight—if playful— incarnation of the group. CASEY JARMAN. Winningstad Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway Ave. 7 pm. $22-$42. All ages.
MONDAY, FEB. 20 Carlton Jackson-Dave Mills Big Band
[RESPECT THESE YEARS] Last year’s reformation of the city’s top big band and consequent regular third Monday gig at Secret Society were good news for jazz fans. The dozen-and-a-half-member roster boasts many of the town’s top players, including sterling drummer/leader Jackson, Soul Vaccination trumpeter Mills and Derek Sims, trombonist Stan Bock, bassist/arranger Charley Gray, and too many others to list. With a cumulative 800-ish years of jazz experience, the group plays as tight as a small combo but with as big a sound as a symphony orchestra. This year’s partnership with PDX Jazz Fest may bring some deserved new fans to a mainstay of the city’s jazz scene. BRETT CAMPBELL. Secret Society Lounge, 116 NE Russell St., 493-3600. 7:30 pm. $5-$7. All ages.
TUESDAY, FEB. 21 Father Figure, Pigeons
[SERENDIPITOUS SONGWRITING] Father Figure’s February EP, Tremmels, is the soundtrack you wanted to get your little cigarette-smoking paws on when you were 17 and in the throes of some melodramatic, puberty-stricken crisis. The album, released by the Portland band, which started playing together only last year, is filled with jangly coming-of-age tunes all about premature remorse and dirty hope. And that’s great, because it reminds me of the first time I ever listened to Bright Eyes. (I was chain-smoking on some rooftop with my high-school boyfriend, who was going to rehab the next morning. I thought my life was over, and then I heard “First Day of My Life” and, as clichéd as
it was, I started feeling OK again.) Father Figure’s “Antimacassar” (“It’s a shame you need a hasty remedy to put you straight/ your intent was true/ you’ve got the moves to have a clean slate/ spit out the sin, you’re asking for all of that weight”) strikes the same kind of chord. There’s something special about songwriting that can take you back to a day when everything was so much simpler but still felt so impossibly hard. NIKKI VOLPICELLI. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 10 pm. $3. 21+.
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Jenny Owen Youngs, Little Hurricane [SINGER-SONGWRITER] Jenny Owen Youngs’ voice is often soft and delicate. When she uses it to cover songs such as Nelly’s “Hot in Herre,” though, it quickly reveals the singer-songwriter’s multifaceted and quirky musical personality. Oddly, she makes the Nelly hit sound kind of pretty—until you realize what she’s saying. Youngs’ music is full of contradictions: Laying abrasive lyrics over sweet melodies, she’ll repeat questions like “What the fuck was I thinking?” against a beautiful cello-led waltz. Compared to her previous work, Youngs’ third full-length album, An Unwavering Band of Light, is bulkier and beefier in terms of instrumentation, production, vocals and genre-pushing (it covers pop, punk and balladry). Although I’m not a big fan of the constantly changing sounds, I gotta credit Youngs for experimenting. EMILEE BOOHER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
Grimes, Born Gold, Swahili
[IMPISH ELECTRO POP] Claire Boucher, the young musician who plays under the name Grimes, is primed to make that essential trust fall into the waiting maw of the “big-time” music industry. Though her earliest efforts—a pair of quiet and tingly electronic pop albums released in 2010 on a small Halifax label—generated ample amounts of chatter among bloggers and music junkies, Boucher really hit the radar after being snapped up by the venerable label 4AD, which will be slinking out her latest full-length, Visions, on Tuesday, Feb. 20. It’s a move that will ensure a much louder buzz surrounding Grimes for months to come. ROBERT HAM.
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Islands’ new album continues the band’s penchant for adventuresome art-pop music; this time with a personal and emotional resonance.
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Dan Zanes & Friends newest album ‘Little Nut Tree’ is a return to the age-desegregated mixed musical bag approach that has earned Zanes his place at the forefront of the family music genre. Guests include Andrew Bird, Sharon Jones, the Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars and Joan Osborne. Zanes also traveled to downtown L.A. for a very special recording with the scrappy and soulful youth orchestra of the nonprofit organization The Harmony Project.
SELENA GOMEZ & THE SCENE
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‘Sunny Day’ brings us “handmade” music of the finest kind, for folks of all ages. Elizabeth Mitchell, joined by her husband Daniel Littleton, daughter Storey and lots of musical friends including Levon Helm, Dan Zanes, Jon Langford, and the Children Of Agape Choir from South Africa, weaves a tapestry of loving and spirited songs. ‘Sunny Day’ reminds us of the beauty of the natural world and the magic found in the simplest moments of everyday life.
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ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
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ON SALE $9.99 CD Gifted singer songwriter Sarah Lee Guthrie brings charm, freshness, and feeling to her debut recording of music for children and families. Joined by her husband Johnny Irion, their two young daughters, and a host of other family and friends including Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Tao Rodriguez Seeger, Guthrie presents thoughtful yet playful recordings of traditional songs and new compositions, including three songs featuring lyrics by Woody Guthrie never before put to music and eight songs written by Sarah Lee and family.
Don’t miss out on the soundtrack to the All-New movie event...”The Muppets”. Jam-packed with music, the movie has all of the Muppets performing classic and new songs including “Rainbow Connection,” “Mahna, Mahna,” “Muppet Theme Song” and more! Also includes newly recorded songs written by Bret McKenzie (Flight of the Conchords) like “Man or Muppet” featuring Jason Segel and Peter Linz, “Life’s A Happy Song” and “Me Party” performed by Amy Adams and Miss Piggy.
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Once in a great while we encounter an artist who stands When renowned musician-singer-songwriter Chip ON SALE $12.99 CD consciously and directly in the tradition of children’s Taylor - who penned “Wild Thing” & “Angel Of The music that Folkways has carried for nearly 60 years, Selena Gomez & The Scene return with their third album. Selena worked with an A-list team of writers and producers Morning” – became a grandfather, he directed his and Elizabeth Mitchell is one such artist. Her lovely including Katy Perry, Britney Spears, Pixie Lott, Toby Gad creative energy to writing new songs with & for his voice brings a fresh sound to cherished American folk (Fergie, Beyonce), E-man (Backstreet Boys, Whitney Housgrandkids. ‘Golden Kids Rules’ melds the husky, time- songs and other melodies from around the world. ton), Priscilla Renea (Cheryl Cole) Tim James & Antonina Featuring homespun renditions of songs by Woody Armato, Greg Kurstin (Ke$ha, Mike Posner), Midnight Beast/ worn vocals & the musical instincts of a seasoned performer with the charming artistry of his three Stefan Abingdon and many more. Guthrie, Bob Marley, The Velvet Underground, Vashti young grandchildren. Bunyan, Gillian Welch and more!
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In ‘A Life of Song’ Ella Jenkins “The First Lady of Children’s Music” offers stories and songs that speak to her youthful years as an African American child in a multi-cultural world. Her career of more than a half-century earned her the first Lifetime Achievement Grammy award for a children’s music artist, and her more than thirty recordings teach us to learn from one another while taking pride in our own heritage.
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ON SALE $13.99 CD In their 20 years of creating innovative rock music, They Might Be Giants have broken many music conventions but had never before put together a children’s CD. ‘NO!’ focuses on children’s topics, including crossing the street safely and getting to bed. In addition to music, every track on their new CD has an “enhanced” animated section, with visuals complementing the music when played on a computer.
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Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Aaron Bergerson, Andy Bristol, Jake Tillo, Sad Little Man (9 pm); The Wishermen (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Eternal Tapestry, Sun Angle, Blood Beach
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. David Brothers
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Vultan and the Hawkmen, Northern, Gregory Miles Harris, Jake Powell, Radio Way
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Mike Brown
Penguin Pub
8117 SE 17th Ave. Wizard Boots
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Bronson, Mr. Plow, Scheisshosen
SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE: Bombay Bicycle Club plays Doug Fir Lounge on Friday.
WED. FEB. 15 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Henry Hill Kammerer, Michael Dean Damron
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Neftali Rivera
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Blackout Dates, Chaotic Karisma, Mohawk Yard, Slag
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Vektor, Transient, Spellcaster, Theories, Night Nurse
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Half-Step Shy
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Open Jazz Jam with Errick Lewis and the Regiment House Band
Dante’s
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Jobo Shakins, Sam Emmitt
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray and the Cowdogs 2958 NE Glisan St. Counterfeit Cash (9 pm); Casey Neill & The Norway Rats (6 pm)
Lents Commons
9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Pete Krebs
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mr. Crabfeathers, Izzakate
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Sleepy Eyed Johns
Palace of Industry
Doug Fir Lounge
Plan B
5426 N Gay Ave. Mystery String Band
830 E Burnside St. Christopher Marshall and the August Light, Ezza Rose, Patti King
1305 SE 8th Ave. Krack Sabbat, Space God Ritual, Doomsower, Witchthrone
Ella Street Social Club
Someday Lounge
714 SW 20th Place De La Warr, Mojave Bird, The Ghost Ease
125 NW 5th Ave. Mind Alien, Eye Myths, Toning
Hawthorne Theatre
Sundown Pub
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Serious Business, Beisbol, Palmas, DJ E*Rock
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Valdez/Colligan Latin Quartet
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Adolfo Angel Cuellar IV
1425 NW Glisan St. Nancy King
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Trio with Neal Grandstaff
LaurelThirst
350 W Burnside St. Vinegar, Husqvarna, Not Right Now
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. D.R.U.G.S., Hit the Lights, Like Moths to Flames, Sparks the Rescue, We Rise the Tides
Touché Restaurant and Billiards
5903 N Lombard St. Scott Schaus, Symbolism, Migi Artugue
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project Blues Jam
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Slower Than, Lord, Dwarfhorse
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Hang the Old Year, Fall the Giants
THURS. FEB. 16 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. Henry Hill Kammerer, Joe McMurrian
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Eric Himan (9:30 pm); Arbielle, Brent Alan (6:30 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. 3 Leg Torso
Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. DEB, Phillasofic, I Digress, Alligator vs. Crocodile, Darcy Pudding
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Grimble Grumble, Space Waves, Souvenir Driver, Sundaze
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Lew Jones Trio
Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St. The Visitors
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Dan Duval & Andrew Oliver (late set); John “JB” Butler & Al Craido (5:30 pm)
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. The Trainwreckers, Aaron Shinkles Band
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave.
Galen Fous and Brooks Robertson
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Panzergod, Banishing, Kuranes, DJ Calostomy
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
Strangled Darlings (8:30 pm); Will West & Tanner Cundy (5:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Greg Goebel Trio
Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St. The Coup, Buck 65, Busdriver
FRI. FEB. 17 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Henry Hill Kammerer, Dylan Summers
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Too Slim and the Taildraggers, Lloyd Jones
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Hooded Hags, Psychic Feline, Sedan, Craig Extine & Exhile (9:30 pm); Mikey’s Irish Jam (6:30 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs Trio
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Bad Rabbit, Fallen Intent, Gordon Avenue, Eight53
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Leaves Russell, Lincoln’s Beard, Patina
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Tyler Fortier
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Mesi & Bradley
8635 N Lombard St. Anna-Lisa, Elke Robitaille, Alexa Wiley
Biddy McGraw’s
Dante’s
Spare Room
Brasserie Montmartre
Clyde’s Prime Rib
350 W Burnside St. Los Headaches, Starlight Girls
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Yogoman Burning Band, VTRN, Larry Yes
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Supervisor PDX (9 pm); Tough Lovepyle (6 pm)
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Nasalrod, Lord Dying, DJ Booze Crooze, DJ Party Dogg
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Sioux Falls, Solar Shade, The Idealist, The Filthy Nightmares
Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave. Watertower
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Lawn Boy (Phish tribute)
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Symphony X, Iced Earth, Warbringer
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Pete Petersen, Jim Templeton, Jon Shaw, Mike Snyder (8:30 pm); Laura Cunard (5:30 pm)
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Acoustic Oceans
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Still Caves, Support Force, Youth
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Bingo Band (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)
6000 NE Glisan St. Billy Kennedy
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Michael the Blind & the Els
626 SW Park Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Tablao
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
Buffalo Gap Saloon
231 SW Ankeny St. Christopher Neil Young, Redwood Son, Myrrh Larsen, Ugly Flowers, The Hugs
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Tom Grant Jazz Jam
The Old Church
6835 SW Macadam Ave. David Brothers, Valerie Lopez, The Brothers Todd
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: David Friesen and John Gross
Clyde’s Prime Rib
1422 SW 11th Ave. Maria Volonte
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ocean 503
Thirsty Lion
Crystal Ballroom
71 SW 2nd Ave. Brian Odell
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Autonomics, Roselit Bone, Jollapin Jasper
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Mia Nicholson and the Two Daves
Torta-Landia
4144 SE 60th Ave. Acoustic Open Mic
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Fast Weapons Night: Blessure Grave, Formica Man, DJ Casual Sax
Vancouver Brickhouse 109 W 15th St., Vancouver, Wash. Jerome Kessinger
Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Cronin Tierney
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. AngelRhodes
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St.
1332 W Burnside St. Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Roger Clyne
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Michael Schenker Group, Anvil
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Bombay Bicycle Club, The Darcys, Lucy Rose
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Too Loose and Atomic Gumbo (9 pm); Honey and the Hamdogs (6 pm)
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. Left Coast Country
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Paradise, Pataha Hiss, Kings Kids
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place No Tomorrow Boys, Los Headaches
Ford Food and Drink
2505 SE 11th Ave. Nick Peets (8 pm); Mateo Bevington (5 pm)
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Ave.
Ron Rogers
Hawthorne Theatre
Luz Elena Mendoza (of Y La Bamba), Rememory
Heathman Hotel
248 E Main St., Hillsboro Micah Gorans
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
8638 N Lombard St. Stumptown Jug Thumpers
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Con Bro Chill, Adventure Galley, Lion Tooth Tiger 1001 SW Broadway Portland Jazz Festival: Bobby Torres
Primrose & Tumbleweeds
Proper Eats Market and Cafe
1435 NW Flanders St. Portland Jazz Festival: Late Night Jam with George Colligan (11:45 pm); Ezra Weiss Sextet (8 pm); Frank Tribble (5 pm)
Red Room
Jade Lounge
1510 SW Harbor Way Portland Jazz Festival: John Stowell and Rob Davis
2346 SE Ankeny St. Dan Pelley (8 pm); Ronno Rutter (6 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Patrick Lamb, Nate Watts, Tyrone Hendrix, Liv Warfield, Paul Creighton, Jarrod Lawson (Stevie Wonder tribute, 10 pm and 7 pm)
Katie O’ Brien’s
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. The Angries, Bad Luck Blackouts, The Wobblies
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. My Autumn’s Done Come, Charts, Global Guts
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Tyler Jakes, Don’t, P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S., The Forgotten Ones
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Lynn Conover & Gravel (9:30 pm); Michael Hurley & The Croakers (6 pm)
Lents Commons
9201 SE Foster Road JL Stiles
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Mark Alan
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro The Box of Chocolates
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Melao d’Cuba (9 pm); Gary Furlow & the Loafers (6 pm)
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Jack Town Road, Heaven Generation, Antique Scream, Big Moose
RiverPlace Hotel
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Mat Kearney, Robert Francis
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. 9DM & Dirtbag Dan vs. Everybody Knows & Uno Lavos
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Opa Groupa, Kafana Klub, Trio Tsuica (9 pm); Portland Jazz Festival: AnnaPaul & The Bearded Lady (6 pm)
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. Otis Heat
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Rick Bain & The Genius Position, Hypatia Lake, Brush Prairie
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
231 SW Ankeny St. Quick & Easy Boys, Acorn Project, The Trouble
The Bing Lounge 1210 SW 6th Ave. Wampire, Tunnels
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Lisa Mann
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Formica Man, Footwork, Psychic Feline
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Brian Odell, DJ Soulshaker
Tiger Bar
Mississippi Studios
317 NW Broadway Set in Stone, Staller
Mock Crest Tavern
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Tomorrow People, Starlight Girls, Mollusk
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Witch Mountain, Sons of Huns, Bison Bison 3435 N Lombard St. Sneakin’ Out
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Speaker Minds (9 pm); Adam Warrock, Kirby Krackle, The Doubleclicks (6:30 pm)
Tonic Lounge
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Portland Jazz Festival: 3 Leg Torso
Touché Restaurant and Billiards
Muddy Rudder Public House
1425 NW Glisan St. Portland Jazz Festival: Robert Moore and the Wildcats Quartet
Nel Centro
1530 SE 7th Ave. Ty Curtis Band
8105 SE 7th Ave. Mike Brosnan
Vie de Boheme
1408 SW 6th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Damian Erskine & Carlton Jackson
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
Original Halibut’s II
West Cafe
2527 NE Alberta St. Linda Hornbuckle Trio
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. New York Rifles, Red Ships of Spain, Fellwoods, Alabama Black Snake
Portland Prime
121 SW 3rd Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Tony Pacini
Press Club
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Madman Sam
1201 SW Jefferson St. Portland Jazz Festival: Chance Hayden and Marc Hutchinson
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Tango Alpha Tango, Ecology, Kris Orlowski (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
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CALENDAR The Autumn Electric, Johnny Unicorn
BAR SPOTLIGHT MIKE GRIPPI
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Brownish Black
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro The Old Yellers
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. MBRASCATU, Goose & Fox, De La Warr (9 pm); Rocky Butte Wranglers (6 pm); Petty Cash (4 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Portland School of Rock show with Paradise
Mock Crest Tavern
3435 N Lombard St. DC Malone & the Jones
Montavilla Station
SPANISH FLY: Since it opened in December, The Conquistador (2045 SE Belmont St.) has been one of the most popular neighborhood spots in Southeast Portland. It’s a creation of Casey Maxwell, owner of the Matador on West Burnside Street, though its decor is evocative of the more lavish Casa del Matador restaurant. To furnish the place, Maxwell cashed in his sizable collection of Spanish-style adornments, including several velvet paintings of guys who look like Don Quixote. The bar features an intentional retro-lounge vibe with its dark leather booths and ’70s jukebox; upstairs are arcade games and a sweet gold sofa. The menu is vegetarian, but as a proud carnivore I have to admit the rice-and-bean bowl ($4.50) is delicious. The Sweet Suggestions cocktail ($8), served hot or cold with Bulleit bourbon and chamomile liqueur, isn’t bad either. AARON SPENCER. Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Greta Matassa
Winningstad Theatre 1111 SW Broadway Portland Jazz Festival: Thara Memory
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, Vacationer
YU Contemporary
800 SE 10th Ave. 100 Years of John Cage with Fear No Music
SAT. FEB. 18 15th Avenue Hophouse 1517 NE Brazee St. Kelsey Morris
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Henry Hill Kammerer, Andy Ferguson
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Andy McKee, Antoine Dufour, Andrew Gorny
Alberta Rose Theatre
Beaterville Cafe
Goodfoot Lounge
Biddy McGraw’s
Hawthorne Hophouse
2201 N Killingsworth St. Sockeye Sawtooth 6000 NE Glisan St. The Barkers
Bossanova Ballroom
722 E Burnside St. Portland Mardi Gras Ball: Philly’s Phunkestra, Too Loose Cajun Band, Atomic Gumbo, Transcendental Brass Band
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Chance Hayden Trio (9 pm); Tablao (5:30 pm)
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Jordan Harris, Kelleny and Cloey
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Polica, DJ Copy
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: The Disappointments
Clyde’s Prime Rib
3000 NE Alberta St. Live Wire!: Blitzen Trapper, Hey Marseilles
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Elite
Alberta Street Public House
350 W Burnside St. Smoochknob, The Smoochgirls, Wolf Pussy, The Casualties of Awesome
1036 NE Alberta St. HeartRoot, The Tummybuckles (9:30 pm); Kate-Lynne Logan (6:30 pm)
Aloft
9920 NE Cascades Parkway Portland Jazz Festival: Dan Balmer Trio
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Kingdom Under Fire, Titarius, Rise from the Fallen, Sausage Slapper
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Music in the Schools benefit
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Dante’s
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. And And And, Aan, Sky White Tiger
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. DK Stewart Sextet
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. Bottleneck Blues Band
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Los Headaches, Primitive Idols, No Tomorrow Boys
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Animal Eyes, Holiday Friends, Ironwood Run
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2845 SE Stark St. Reeble Jar
4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Renegade String Band
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Ave. Joey Briggs, Matt Stares
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Regiment 26, Betrayed by Weakness, Nemesis, Perseverance, Filth Machine
Heathman Hotel
1001 SW Broadway Portland Jazz Festival: Tom Grant and Shelly Rudolph
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Portland Jazz Festival: Late Night Jam with George Colligan (11:45 pm); Tom Wakeling and Steve Christofferson Quartet (8 pm); Gordy Michael (5 pm)
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Dan Cecil and Mick Schafer (8 pm); Suzanne Tufan (6 pm)
417 SE 80th Ave. Pseudophiles
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Crown Point, dKOTA, Frame by Frame, Mosby
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Terry Robb & Lauren Sheehan
Nel Centro
1408 SW 6th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Joe Manis, Dave Captein & Randy Rollofson
New Copper Penny
5932 SE 92nd Ave. Winter Blues Festival: Madman Sam, Wood Works, Lisa Mann and Her Really Good Band, Tongue & Groove, Slim & Wallace, Return Flight
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Traditional Hawaiian Music
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Richard Arnold
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Thrones, Darsombra, Eight Bells, Taurus
Plew’s Brews
8409 N Lombard St. Miriam’s Well
Portland Prime
121 SW 3rd Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Tony Pacini, Ed Bennett, Mel Brown
Portland State University Smith Ballroom
1825 SW Broadway Brainstorm, Sugar Tits, DJ Mark Madness
Press Club
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Pagan Jug Band, The Slaves (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)
Lents Commons
9201 SE Foster Road
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Angel Bouchet
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Libertine Belles, AnnaPaul & the Bearded Lady
The Foggy Notion
3416 N Lombard St. Dirt Castle, No More Train Ghosts, The Beauty
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave. Lincoln Crockett & Enemies (Grief Watch and Dougy Center benefit)
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Will Bradley Band
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Acrid Intent, Useless N Pointless
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Rare Monk, Neighbors, Fjords
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Portland Jazz Festival: The Tony Starlight Show featuring the All-Star Horns (Copa Cabana tribute)
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Portland Jazz Festival: Kelley Shannon Quartet (Sarah Vaughan tribute)
Twilight Café and Bar
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Psycosynapsis, Dead in a Ditch, Grim Ritual
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Clea Partridge, Key Losers, 1939 Ensemble
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Faerabella
West Cafe
1201 SW Jefferson St. Portland Jazz Festival: Dave Brothers, Terry Robb and Rob Busey
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Matthew Gailey, The Tomorrow People (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar
Winningstad Theatre
248 E Main St., Hillsboro EJ Baeza
Red Room
Roseland Theater
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Bad Assets, Audios Amigos, Flash Flood and the Dikes
The Blue Diamond
Primrose & Tumbleweeds
Kelly’s Olympian
Kenton Club
1111 SW Broadway Portland Jazz Festival: Better Homes & Gardens
2621 SE Clinton St. Nevele Nevele
221 NW 10th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: The Devin Phillips Band 426 SW Washington St. James Angell, Lance Dinauer and the Dandelions, Ashia and the Bison Rouge
The Art Bar & Bistro
800 NW 6th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Greta Metassa
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Truculence, Godenied, Ritual Healing, Stonecreep, Separation of Sanity, Lidless Eye
Jimmy Mak’s
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
231 SW Ankeny St. Chicharones, Cool Nutz, Vursatyl, ManimalHouse, Living Proof, DJ Spark, Eminent
8 NW 6th Ave. Die Antwoord, Tyler Tastemaker
1111 SW Broadway Portland Jazz Festival: Enrico Rava
SUN. FEB. 19 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Lewi Longmire
Alberta Rose Theatre
Spare Room
3000 NE Alberta St. Keys to the Rose: Steve Kerin, DK Stewart, Andrew Oliver, Asher Fulero, Classical Revolution PDX, Galen Clark, Ali Ippolito, Lara Michell, Rebecca Sanborn, Scott Docherty, Mike Danner, Rich Landar, Kris Deelane, Anne Weiss, Dan Gaynor
Star Theater
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero Trio
Secret Society Lounge
116 NE Russell St. Portland Jazz Festival: The Portland Soul Revue (9 pm); Shicky Gnarowitz
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
8635 N Lombard St. Bottlecap Boys, The Hill Dogs, Brianne Kathleen 4830 NE 42nd Ave. Cool Breeze 13 NW 6th Ave. Just People, Ben Union, Age Sex Occupation
Andina
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St.
White Chocolate and the Cigarettes, Dead Remedy, The Hoons
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Rogue Bluegrass Band
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. The Dangerous Summer, Weatherbox, Ten Second Epic, Tigress
Bunk Bar
Winter Blues Festival: The Sale, Franco Paletta & The Stingers, Rae Gordon, Knuckleheads
Rontoms
600 E Burnside St. Fierce Creatures, Animal Eyes
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Rvivr, Divers, Fucking Dyke Bitches
1028 SE Water Ave. Cursive, Ume, Virgin Islands
Star Theater
Center for Self Enhancement
The Blue Monk
3920 N Kerby Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: SEI’s Sounds of Soul Choir
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Portland Jazz Festival: Ron Steen Jazz Jam
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Bob Mould (reading and show)
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Josh and Mer, Pressed And, Echo Pearl Varsity, Indigo Gnosis
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Crowned for the Slowdown, SoulPower Activate!, Reigning Parade, Stark Heroes, Lion and the Mouse, Strange Moss, Watch Out Meteor, Bridge City Prophets
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Portland Jazz Festival: George Colligan Trio with Nicole Glover
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Singer/Songwriter Night with Alexa Wiley
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Her Ghost, Suzanne Tufan
Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Ave. The Farewell Drifters
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Dan Haley & Tim Acott (9:30 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
13 NW 6th Ave. Urban Sub All-Stars 3341 SE Belmont St. Portland Jazz Festival: The Quadraphonnes
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Rae Spoon, Timmy Straw, The Crossettes
Torta-Landia
4144 SE 60th Ave. Open Bluegrass Jam
Valentine’s
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Natasha Kmeto, The Great Mundane, Danny Corn
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Jacktown Road
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music
NEPO 42
5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic
Nel Centro
1408 SW 6th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Dave Captein & Randy Rollofson
New Copper Penny 5932 SE 92nd Ave.
2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens (9 pm); Portland Country Underground (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Skip vonKuske with Rena Jones
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Bob Shoemaker
Mississippi Pizza
Muddy Rudder Public House
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Jill Cohn Duo
8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Secret Society Lounge
1624 NE Hancock St. Portland Jazz Festival: Westminster Jazz Ensemble
116 NE Russell St. Portland Jazz Festival: Carlton Jackson-Dave Mills Big Band
White Eagle Saloon
The Blue Monk
836 N Russell St. Open Mic/Songwriter Showcase
3341 SE Belmont St. Deep Cuts
Winningstad Theatre
232 SW Ankeny St. Duover, Love Menu
1111 SW Broadway Portland Jazz Festival: The Jazz Passengers with Dan Balmer and Farnell Newton Quintet
MON. FEB. 20 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Lewi Longmire
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Anna Hoone, Margaret Wehr
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Open Mic
Dante’s
Mississippi Studios
LaurelThirst
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Hungry, Hungry Hip Hop (9 pm); Lazy Champions (6 pm)
426 SW Washington St. Half-Step Shy
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Roak, Jackie Alan Denise (9 pm); Mr. Ben (5 pm)
Backspace
Mississippi Pizza
Kelly’s Olympian
232 SW Ankeny St. Golden Retriever, Grapefruit, Light House
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Billy D
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Hanz Araki & Kathryn Claire
Portland Jazz Festival: Charles McPherson and Randy Porter Trio (tribute to Lester “Prez” Young and Charlie “Bird” Parker, 9:30 pm); Charles McPherson and the PSU Jazz Ensemble (7:30 pm)
115 NW 5th Ave. Battery-Powered Music 350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. The Fresh and Onlys, Disappears
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Freewill
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Michael Rowan, Danny Delegato, Gregory Miles Harris, Alex Arrowsmith, Matt Jenkins
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Frank Tribble Combo
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Mikah Sykes Nettels
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave.
Valentine’s
West Cafe
1201 SW Jefferson St. Portland Jazz Festival: Nancy King and Mary Kadderly Winter 2012 Jazz Singing Workshop Performance
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Sarah Gwen Peters
TUES. FEB. 21 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Lewi Longmire
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. New Iberians, Too Loose Cajun Band, Bon Ton Roulet
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. James Low Western Front (live radio broadcast)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Neftali Rivera
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. A Crab’s Life, Zen Thesis, Stump Train
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Eidolons, Kelsey Morris
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. The Maddigans, The Last Department, The Toy Gun Conspiracy, Above the Broken
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Trashcan Joe
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Open Mic with Chris Margolin
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Father Figure, Pigeons, The Charts
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Tom Wakeling, Steve Christofferson, David Evans, Todd Strait
CALENDAR Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Budos Band
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Jenny Owen Youngs
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Quartet (9:30 pm); Trio Bravo (6 pm)
Ella Street Social Club
714 SW 20th Place Fake Hospital, Dracula Lewis, JAWS, Eye Myths, The Beguiling Isles
Grimes, Born Gold, Swahili
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Portland Jazz Festival: Jazz Jam with Carey Campbell
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Margeret Wehr
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: The Mel Brown B3 Organ Band (8 pm); The Sherwood High School Jazz Band (6:30 pm)
Portland Jazz Festival: Bridgetown Sextet with Andrew Oliver, Devin Phillips and Marilyn Keller
Thirsty Lion
Mississippi Pizza
Tiger Bar
3552 N Mississippi Ave. The BrassRoots Movement
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. American Royalty, Pheasant, Tiger House
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. A Volcano, Singing Knives, Stellar’s Jay
Goodfoot Lounge
LaurelThirst
Secret Society Lounge
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
Tapalaya
Hawthorne Theatre
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
The Blue Monk
2845 SE Stark St. Scott Law Reunion Band; Erskine, Fulero and Griffith
1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Ave. Rich West Blatt, Kat Jones 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Mayday Parade, We the Kings, Downtown Fiction, Anarbor
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St.
2958 NE Glisan St. Bingo (9 pm); Jackstraw (6 pm)
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Caleb Klauder & Sammy Lind
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Open Bluegrass Jam
Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan St.
116 NE Russell St. 82nd Avenue Brass Band, Professor Gall 28 NE 28th Ave. Reggie Houston, Jannice Scroggins 3341 SE Belmont St. Pagan Jug Band
The Know
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ RNDM Noise
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave.
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. The Wriffs
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. DJ Smooth Hopperator
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Sethro Tull
FRI. FEB. 17 Beauty Bar
111 SW Ash St.
Fez Ballroom
Jet Set: DJs 100 Proof, Swervewon
Enduser, Too Many Moths, Paradox, Penpointred, Carrion
Dig a Pony
316 SW 11th Ave.
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St.
DJs Benny Utah, Broke B
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Blackwell
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Paint it Black with DJ Freaky Outy (10 pm); DJ Loyd Depriest (7 pm)
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Bill Portland
THURS. FEB. 16 Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Deux Jews
Holocene
736 SE Grand Ave. Chazz Madrigal (late set); Nealie Neal (early set)
Element Restaurant & Lounge 1135 SW Morrison St. Chris Alice
Groove Suite 440 NW Glisan St. Trifecta with Christian Alvarez
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. DJs MT3, ROB
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Rockbox: DJ J Boogie, Matt Nelkin, DJ Kez, Dundiggy (9 pm); Aperitivo Happy Hour with DJ Magic Beans (5 pm)
Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave.
1001 SE Morrison St.
DJ Holiday
Jacques Renault, RAC, American Girls
8 NE Killingsworth St.
Saucebox
214 SW Broadway Evan Alexander
Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave.
Mixer: Miss Vixen, Lil Hoodlyn, Scifi Sol, Darling Instigatah, Blacque Butterfly, Triana Del Fuego (9 pm); Mr. Romo, Michael Grimes (4 pm)
Swift Lounge
1932 NE Broadway DJ D Poetica
The Crown Room 205 NW 4th Ave. Lush
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Misprid
Record Room DJ Marcel
Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave.
DJ Cooky Parker, DDDJJJ666
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Sugar Town: DJs Freaky Outty, Action Slacks
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. Blank Fridays
Swift Lounge
1932 NE Broadway DJ Saltfeed
The Crown Room 205 NW 4th Ave. Blast with DJG
The Foggy Notion 3416 N Lombard St.
The Whiskey Bar 31 NW 1st Ave.
‘80s Name That Tune and Dance Party with DJ Serpico
Damage: Reso, Evol Intent, Aksion, Anok
The Lovecraft
Tiga
DJs [Product], Horrid
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Nate C
421 SE Grand Ave.
The Whiskey Bar 31 NW 1st Ave.
71 SW 2nd Ave. Singer/Songwriter Showcase with Reverend Hammer 317 NW Broadway Crooked Toad
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Portland Jazz Festival: Ayars Times Two (Plus Two)
Townbombing with Doc Adam (10 pm); DJ Neil Blender (7 pm)
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ vs. Nature, DJ Grizz
SAT. FEB. 18 Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Fusion
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Safi
Fez Ballroom
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Open Mic with The Roaming 232 SW Ankeny St. Scout Niblett, Privacy, Tom Blood, Jordan Dykstra
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Arthur “Fresh Air” Moore Harmonica Party
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Brad Creel and the Reel Deel
SUN. FEB. 19 Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. NoFader
Plan B
1001 SE Morrison St. Gaycation: Lauren Flax, DJ Snowtiger, Mr. Charming (Gaycation 6th anniversary)
Mississippi Studios
Hootchie Koo with DJ Danny Dodge (10 pm); Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Tennessee Tim (7 pm)
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. DJ Soup
MON. FEB. 20 Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave.
511 NW Couch St. Service Industrial Night with DJ Tibin
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. Into the Void with DJ Blackhawk
DJ Toilet Love
18 NW 3rd Ave.
TUES. FEB. 21
Record Room
Dig a Pony
DJ Skyhawk
Mint Revolver, Last Call
Saucebox
East End
DJs Ujjayi, Mystral
DJ Mis Prid
Someday Lounge
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
King Britt, Josh Romo, DJ Michael Grimes
DJ Juggernaut
Swift Lounge
205 NW 4th Ave.
1932 NE Broadway
736 SE Grand Ave.
203 SE Grand Ave.
231 SW Ankeny St.
The Crown Room
DJ Sknny Mrcls
See You Next Tuesday: AKA, Keys v. Matt Rock
The Crown Room
The Lovecraft
Club Crooks: DJ Izm, Easter Egg, Mr. Marcus
Death Club with DJ Entropy
The Lovecraft
1465 NE Prescott St.
205 NW 4th Ave.
421 SE Grand Ave. Cobra with DJ Stallone
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St.
421 SE Grand Ave.
Tiga
DJ Coloured Glass
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave.
Hostile Tapeover
Tubesday (10 pm); DJ Dirty Red (7 pm)
Tube
Yes and No
DJ Freaky Outy (10 pm); Saturdazed: DJs GH, Czief Xenith (7 pm)
Idiot Tuesdays with DJ Black Dog
18 NW 3rd Ave.
KEYS TO THE ROSE
PORTLAND PROFESSIONAL PIANISTS PIANO PURCHASE PARTY FEATURING
DK STEWART•STEVE KERIN ANDREW OLIVER•DAN GAYNOR ALI IPPOLITO•LARA MICHELL ASHER FULERO & MANY MORE! Tuesday, Feb 21st
MARDI GRAS
1465 NE Prescott St.
Tube
125 NW 5th Ave.
Sunday, Feb 19th
Tiga
Palace of Industry
214 SW Broadway
IAN KARMEL, BLITZEN TRAPPER, & SEATTLE'S HEY MARSEILLES
18 NW 3rd Ave.
Musique Plastique, Tony Remple
8 NE Killingsworth St.
LLOYD JONES
Tube
Mrs.: DJs Beyonda, Trans Fat, Il Camino
The Walk of Shame with Pippa Possible
WITH
Hive with DJ Owen
3939 N Mississippi Ave.
5426 N Gay Ave.
& THE TAILDRAGGERS
1305 SE 8th Ave.
Ground Kontrol
Holocene
TOO SLIM
LIVE WIRE
Tre Slim
DJs I Heart U, Avery (The Cool Cat)
Open Every Day 11am to 2:30am www.CasaDiablo.com (503) 222-6600 • 2839 NW St. Helens Rd
Saturday, Feb 18th
Popvideo with DJ Gigahurtz 511 NW Couch St.
Friday, Feb 17th
Valentine’s
316 SW 11th Ave.
Ground Kontrol
13 topless bartenders & 80 dancers each week!
Twilight Café and Bar
2026 NE Alberta St. Bonneville Power, Late to the Party, Manx
American Girls
WED. FEB. 15
MUSIC
20 NW 3rd Ave.
WITH
THE NEW IBERIANS
TOO LOOSE CAJUN ZYDECO BAND
BON TON ROULET
Friday, Feb 24th
DEFENDER • JET FORCE GEMINI • ORION • JEN AMBROSE • BREATHE KID BREATHE • SETH MYZL • THE LUCY HAMMOND BAND • ACRID INTENT • JACKTOWN ROAD Saturday, Feb 25th
MYSHKIN’S RUBY WARBLERS
“THAT DIAMOND LUST” CD RELEASE
Alberta Rose Theatre (503) 764-4131 3000 NE Alberta AlbertaRoseTheatre.com
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THEATER 13
Staged! presents Jason Robert Brown’s 2007 musical about a 13-yearold dealing with the awkwardness of moving from New York to Indiana, performed by a cast of 13 young actors. Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd., 971-322-5723. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Feb. 25. $18-$24.
Beauty and the Beast
Disney Theatrical’s unstoppably cheery juggernaut rolls through town thanks to Fred Meyer Broadway Across America Portland. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 241-1802. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday, 1 and 6:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 15-19. $21-$63 plus fees.
Boleros for the Disenchanted
Miracle Theatre presents a drama by José Rivera (who wrote the screenplay for The Motorcycle Diaries) about a Puerto Rican immigrant in New York whose world is shaken by an angelic visit. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7:30 pm Thursdays, 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through March 3. $15-$30.
Bunkin’ with You in the Afterlife
Lesbian cowgirls have been enticing audiences since Tom Robbins penned Even Cowgirls Get the Blues in 1990. BroadArts’ new show ups the ante by featuring six singing lesbian cowgirls trekking around Southern Oregon. The traveling cowpokes talk and sing about coming out, finding spirituality and meeting their partners while the others act out the stories and sing backup. Much of this feels like listening in on a gay slumber party, and the zeal with which the actresses tackle these mimed scenes can be tiresome to watch. The show is saved by a few good voices, and an entertaining dynamic between Jan (Jean Hiebert) and her Texan aunt Zet (Mollie Hart). The original music by Adam Brock and Melinda E. Pittman (with clever lyrics by playwright Jody Seay) is pretty good—the best bits are the eponymous “Bunkin’ With You in the Afterlife” and a duet titled “The Boy I Fell in Love With Is a Girl.” There’s also a few riffs on popular songs, as with the rewrite of “Love Potion No. 9” into a lament about Oregon ballot Measure 9. Beneath the silly hijinks, there’s an unexpectedly moving heart to the piece, in the story of a woman who is held hostage by the memory of a hate crime. Women who love women and talking about spirituality will enjoy this musical, but don’t expect to see a lot of smooching going on. These cowgirls are too busy singing. MARIANNA HANE WILES. Ethos/IFCC, 5340 N Interstate Ave., 288-5181. 8 pm Fridays and Saturdays through March 10. $8-$10.
Circle Mirror Transformation
[NEW REVIEW] You might be tempted to write this play off as another tired meta experiment of theater about theater. Don’t. Written by Annie Baker, this Obie Award-winning comedy about four students in a community drama class is poignant, thoughtful and fun. The show begins by giving winks to anyone who has ever been at the mercy of a theater teacher (“James, will you be my bed?”), but before long, the characters have skillfully crept into your thoughts. One is a quiet teenager, one a recent divorcée, but all of them end up learning more than how to act. Acting becomes a kind of personal therapy. When trying to embody someone else, people learn about themselves. They explore new emotions. They face their demons. Circle Mirror Transformation playfully presents this process in a way that
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allows the audience to indulge in its own self discovery. That’s a big bill for small show, but what’s remarkable is how seamlessly it pulls it off without taking itself too seriously. AARON SPENCER. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 pm Sundays. Closes March 11. $20-$50.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [Abridged]
Likely aware that the universe will implode should we go more than 12 months without a production of this West End chestnut, Post5 Theatre has valiantly taken upon itself the burden of summarizing 37 plays in two hours. Eat Art Theater, 850 NE 81st Ave., 548-4096. 7 pm Thursdays-Sundays through Feb. 25. Free.
Day of the Docent
CoHo Productions premieres a comedy by Portland’s Ebbe Roe Smith about a crook and would-be Hollywood hack who abducts his favorite screenwriter (played by Smith) for a forced partnership. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 205-0715. 8 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes March 24. $20-$25.
Deadly Murder
Lakewood Theatre presents a thriller by David Foley: A wealthy Manhattanite (Camille Dargus) picks up a waiter (Ty Boice) for the evening, but when he won’t leave her apartment, she calls in her security guard (Leif Norby) to throw him out. Intrigue ensues. Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, 6353901. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, Feb. 16-19. $28, $25 seniors.
For Better
Hillsboro Artists Regional Theatre presents a comedy by Eric Coble about a pair of globe-trotting sweethearts struggling to put together a wedding despite never being in the same city. Hillsboro Artists’ Regional Theatre, 185 SE Washington St., Hillsboro, 693-7815. 7:30 pm FridaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Feb. 26. $12-$14.
GGG: Dominatrix for Dummies
[NEW REVIEW] If you’re sex-positive but can’t handle sitting through the Vagina Monologues for the umpteenth time this February, Dance Naked Productions’ Good Girls’ Guide: Dominatrix for Dummies is a fun alternative. Written and performed solely by Eleanor O’Brien, the show begins like any good S&M scene— with Mistress Madeline outlining the ground rules for the encounter. O’Brien skillfully portrays more than half a dozen characters while dancing her way through a tale of a young actress apprenticing to become a dominatrix. The stories run the gamut from tender to raunchy—there’s a reason she gives the audience a safe word. Audience participation is demanded, but the spankings are optional. MARIANNA HANE WILES. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., dancenakedproductions.com. 8 pm Thursdays-Sundays, Feb. 16-19 and 23-26. Sunday shows followed by an open mic. $15-$20.
Hairspray
Tracy Turnblad dances the racism away in Milwaukie with New Century Players. Rex Putnam High School Auditorium, 4950 SE Roethe Road, Milwaukie, 367-2620. 8 pm ThursdaySaturday, 2 pm Sunday, Feb. 16-19. $10-$15 at newcenturyplayers.org.
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.
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Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 228-9571. 2 and 5 pm Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, Feb. 17-19. $13-$30. All ages.
Orphans
[NEW REVIEW] Lyle Kessler’s 1983 play Orphans is the story of three: adult brothers Treat and Phillip, each of whose personal growth has been somehow stunted by a parentless upbringing, and Harold, an older man who comes into the brothers’ squalid Philadelphia home and introduces into their destructive Philadelphian codependence a germ of change. Because they number so few, Orphans’ roles are highly demanding. In Offshoot Theater Company’s production, Bruce Chessé is perfectly grandfatherly as Harold, but the other performances are a half-step flat, rising in volume, but not always emotional pitch, for the play’s resonant scenes. Fortunately, Kessler’s script is a paragon; concise, replete with symbolism and crafted with many thoughtful symmetries, it practically carries itself. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. The Hostess, 538 SE Ash St., 224-8499. 7:30 pm FridaysSaturdays, 2:30 pm Sundays through Feb. 26. $15.
Othello
The Space 10 Minute Play Festival
Monkey with a Hat on (that’s a theater company) presents a dozen short plays about space. Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th Ave., monkeywithahaton.com. 7 pm Sunday, Feb. 19. $5.
They
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: 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.
Twelfth Night
The students of Portland Actors Conservatory don the yellow stockings, cross-gartered for Shakespeare’s greatest comedy. Portland Actors Conservatory, 1436 SW Montgomery St., 274-1717. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes March 4. $10-$25.
We Are Still Here
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Twilight Repertory Theatre heads to Venice, with Ken Dembo on Desdemona-smothering duty. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 3126789. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes March 11. $10-$15, cash only.
Pump Boys and Dinettes
The title of this musical revue made me think I was going to see a hypersexual version of Grease. So imagine the glee draining from my face as I realized the show is actually more like something your parents would take you to see at Dollywood. As it turns out, a “pump boy” is a mechanic, and the average age of the patrons at this show is about 65. There’s very little drama to be found here, with just two or three lines of setup dialogue followed by a musical ditty involving banging on pots, light tap dancing and jokes about fishing. I’m not saying the show is bad—the performers are really talented, and the set design is delightful, as is the pie served at intermission. But I’d put this one under “Plays to Take Your Mother To.” AARON SPENCER. Broadway Rose New Stage Theatre, 12850 SW Grant Ave., Tigard, 620-5262. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes March 4. $20-$40.
Pygmalion
The Public House Theatre presents a staged reading of the Shaw play that inspired My Fair Lady. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 9220532. 7:30 pm Monday-Wednesday, Feb. 20-22. $8.
Rapunzel Uncut!
This reinvention of Rapunzel at Northwest Children’s Theater is a lot like the recent Disney movie Tangled—a modern twist on a classic. Written by brothers James and Richard E. Moore, Rapunzel Uncut! features a student indie-rock band that remains onstage throughout the show. It’s a fun idea, but the kids in the audience seemed to get more of a thrill out the cheesy physical humor than the songs, which often drowned out the vocals. The real rock star in the show is its villain, the crone. Played by a hilarious Jenny Standish Bunce, the crone is a black-sequined diva with the delivery of Kathy Griffin. My only quibble is that the writers didn’t give her a death scene. Instead, the PC police made her see the error of her ways and lovingly give Rapunzel back to her parents. Snore. AARON SPENCER.. NW Neighborhood Cultural Center, 1819 NW Everett St., 222-4480. 7 pm Friday, 2 and 6 pm Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, Feb. 17-19. $15-$20. All ages.
Sense and Sensibility
Magenta Theater does Austen in Vancouver. Magenta Theater, 606 Main St., Vancouver, 360-635-4358. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Feb. 25. $12-$15.
RYAN McCARTHY AND KELLEY CURRAN
SHAKESPEARE’S AMAZING CYMBELINE (PCS) It just wouldn’t be Shakespeare without a little sexual subterfuge. Though it’s one of his lesser-known tales, Cymbeline employs many of the playwright’s favorite plot devices—mistaken identity, forbidden love, girls disguised as boys, scheming queens, betrayal, beheadings, etc. But Portland Center Stage’s new production, Shakespeare’s Amazing Cymbeline, presents a show stripped down to its barest elements with a cast of only six actors performing on the sparsest of sets. In addition to the minimalism, director Chris Coleman’s adaptation includes a thirdparty narrator on the piano (Michael G. Keck). A congenial fellow reminiscent of Sam in Casablanca, the narrator presents Cymbeline through his own eyes, serving both to clarify the more complex scenes and offer his interpretation of the story’s theme of love betrayed. King Cymbeline (Scott Coopwood) discovers his daughter, Imogen (Kelley Curran), has secretly wed a man unworthy of the court, Posthumous (Ryan McCarthy), whom he casts away to Rome. A wily Roman wagers Posthumous that he can bed the chaste Imogen, who is despondent at the loss of her lover and the sleazy proposals of her throne-seeking stepbrother. After being falsely accused of adultery, Imogen flees, leaving her father with no heir apparent (his two sons were kidnapped at birth 20 years earlier, you see) as his evil wife ails and a war with Rome trudges closer. Shakespeare’s typically convoluted plot nevertheless sparkles to life in the hands of a truly adept cast, several of whom portray up to five different characters. But it is Curran in the role of Imogen who, despite bearing an uncanny resemblance to Miley Cyrus, performs as if the role was written for her. She steals scenes even when not speaking. For those unfamiliar with the story of Cymbeline, it proves exciting to watch a play by Shakespeare where the ending is unknown. Though we’ve seen these themes many times before, Coleman’s adaptation feels lively as the narrator engages the audience, urging it to examine not only what the play means, but why it is important. PENELOPE BASS.
Scaling down the Bard of Avon.
SEE IT: Portland Center Stage at the Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700, pcs.org. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturdays-Sundays. Through April 8. $20-$41.
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pants in a writing class for seniors at Friendly House. Hollywood Senior Center, 1820 NE 40th Ave., 4594500. 8 pm Fridays, 3 pm Saturdays through Feb. 25. $8-$10.
COMEDY ComedySportz
Fast-paced, competitive, familyfriendly improv. ComedySportz, 1963 NW Kearney St., 236-8888. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays. $12.
Perlman
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Irregardless
The most memorable segment of this one-woman show from Curious Comedy founder Stacey Hallal isn’t funny and isn’t supposed to be. Well, maybe it’s a little funny. Hallal tells a story about floating in Lake Michigan, tripping on some hallucinogen and having an epiphany: Though we’re all adrift in this grandest scheme, her motivating force is joy. Happiness—how to attain it and what it even is—is a theme to which Irregardless keeps bobbing back as it eddies from monologue to video skit to comedy sketch. It sometimes seems as if Hallal, who has a Liz Lemon-esque faux-pathetic charisma, is trying out material on the audience, and she probably is: Irregardless premiered during the Fertile Ground festival (showing through Feb. 18) as a work-inprogress. A couple of sections feel underdone—most conspicuously a near-complete retelling of The Ten Commandments’ plot in a vaguely New York accent. On the whole, however, Irregardless is funny, wellconceived and, for a comedy show, unexpectedly poignant. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, Feb. 17-18. $12-$15.
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, hosted by Alex Falcone. Action/Adventure Theater, 1050 SE Clinton St., 3808679. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, Feb. 17-18. $7.
Live Wire!
The radio variety show features comics writer Brian Michael Bendis, comedian Ian Karmel, cheesemonger Steve Jones and former WW staff writer and current dog fancier Susan Orlean, with music by Blitzen Trapper and Hey Marseilles Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 7:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 18. $18-$20.
Micetro
The Brody Theater revives its popular elimination-competition improv format. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Fridays through Feb. 24. $9-$12.
Triad
The Brody presents double-headers of improv trios. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7:30 and 9:30 pm Saturdays through March 3. $8-$10.
The Weekly Recurring Humor Night
A comedy showcase featuring Travis Jones, Adam Dahl, Marcia Belsky and Mandie Allietta, hosted by Jimmy Newstetter. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 238-0543. 9:30 pm Wednesdays. $3-$5. 21+.
CLASSICAL FearNoMusic
The terrific, local new-music ensemble marks the centenary of one of the 20th century’s most influential and thought-provoking artists, cultural figures and thinkers, with one of the most compelling Portland arts events of the year so far. This John Cage concert features Oregon Symphony music director Carlos Kalmar intoning Cage’s famous Zen-
Saturday, February 25 | 7:30 pm CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION inspired Lecture on Nothing (“I have nothing to say, and I am saying it,” it begins), the striking voice and piano piece Litany for the Whale, 20 harpists playing an improvisation based on Indian ragas, a chancederived work for strings and winds performed by the PSU New Music Ensemble, the landmark 1942 Credo in Us (which uses Cage’s famous prepared piano, radio and various percussion), a work for conch shells, an audio installation, a work to be performed by the audience and more—including, of course, those notorious four-and-a-half minutes that are not really about silence at all. YU Contemporary, 800 SE 10th Ave., Portland, 236-7996. 8 pm Friday, Feb. 17. $12-$25.
Filmusik
F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent classic Nosferatu has long been as irresistible to modern composers as a juicy neck is to a vampire. This time, the period-costumed Strangled Darlings provide the spooky original score in the ideal setting of Portland’s 1926 theater. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 8 pm Saturday, Feb. 18. $12.
Gerald Robbins
In this performance sponsored by the Portland Chamber Orchestra, the jazz pianist plays three solo works by Mozart in memory of longtime PCO board president and supporter Ellwood Miller. Sherman Clay/ Moe’s Pianos, 131 NW 13th Ave. 7:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 18. Donation.
Music at Trinity
Reaching beyond the church crowd to bring the greater Portland community to Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, recently arrived music director Michael Kleinschmidt enlisted Portland singer/impresario Stephen Marc Beaudoin to put together a program of music celebrating the transition from winter to spring. (That doesn’t really happen here till June, of course, but give Kleinschmidt a break—he’s a newcomer from Boston.) In this benefit for programs serving homeless and needy Portlanders, musicians including the nonpareil vocal ensembles In Mulieribus and Cappella Romana, koto mistress Mitsuki Dazai, Portland Cello Project, players from the Oregon Symphony, Portland Baroque Orchestra and Oregon Poet Laureate Paulann Petersen offer words and music by Hildegard of Bingen, W.H. Auden, J.S. Bach and others, with special lighting effects in the gorgeous cathedral space that make this fascinating event more a performance installation than a concert. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 147 NW 19th Ave., 4781201. 5 pm Sunday, Feb. 19. $10 donation.
Oregon Symphony
Longtime Oregon Bach Festival regular and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (and former Colorado Symphony) music director Jeffrey Kahane takes the keyboard in Mozart’s grand Piano Concerto No. 25. The orchestra also per-
forms Edward Elgar’s postcard of turn-of-the-20th-century London, Cockainge, and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ pastoral Symphony No. 5—a very different piece from his previous symphony, which the OSO played so ferociously at Carnegie Hall last year. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353. 7:30 pm Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, Feb. 18-19. $21-$92.
Robert Beall, Erin Adair, Margaret Murer, Lisa Florentino, Renee Favand-See
The local classical performers will sing and play music by Mozart, Handel, Bartók and Cécile Chaminade for flute, voice, piano and viola. Community Music Center, 3350 SE Francis St., 231-7585. 8 pm Saturday, Feb. 18. Free.
DANCE
Carlos Kalmar, conductor • Itzhak Perlman, violin The great master returns, this time to perform Mendelssohn’s beloved violin concerto in a concert led by Music Director Carlos Kalmar.
Schubert: Overture in C, “In the Italian Style” • Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto Brahms (arr. Schoenberg): Piano Quartet in G minor
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Fifth Annual Sean-nos Northwest Festival
Enjoy old-school Irish dance and music without the Michael Flatley treatment at this three-day party. Workshops and performances are open to the public: Singer Micheál Ó Cuaig and dancer Ronan Regan headline the festival. Other guests of note include Sean-nós dancer and instructor Maldon Meehan, Irish-language instructor Traolach Ó Riordáin and accordionist Sean McComiskey, who performs with fiddler Cleek Schrey and Sean-nós dancers Kieran Jordan and Shannon Dunne as The Kitchen Quartet. The festival opens with a social dance held Friday night at PPAA (618 SE Alder St.), and continues Saturday and Sunday with events at the Multnomah Arts Center (7688 SW Capitol Highway) and the Lucky Labrador (7675 SW Capitol Highway). Multnomah Arts Center , 7688 SW Capitol Highway, 8232787. Various times Friday-Sunday, Feb. 17-19. $35-$70 for daily/ weekend passes.
Postneshin Jelaleddin Loras
The Mevlevi (the sect from whom the term “whirling dervish” originates) meditate with a whirling dance. Learn how it works, or watch from the sidelines, as Turkish practitioner Postneshin Jelaleddin Loras offers a class and performance as part of his West Coast spring tour. He will present the turn class in the afternoon (wear socks for better mobility) and share Mevlevi Zikr (remembrance of the divine through chanting and movement) in the evening. No previous experience is necessary. Both will feature live music in the classical Turkish Ilahi style. Dharma Rain Center, 2539 SE Madison Street, 239-4846. 1-4 pm Saturday, Feb. 18 at Collins View Dance Center, 318 SW Palatine Hill Road; 7:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 18 at Dharma Rain Zen Center, 2514 SE Madison St. $10-$30.
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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 interest 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.
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko (1903-1970) was among a handful of artists who defined Abstract Expressionism in the middle of the 20th century. It is little known in most modern-art circles that Rothko lived in Portland during his formative years, from age 10 to 18. Local artist-curator Jeff Jahn has forcibly suggested that Portland’s misty atmospherics subliminally influenced Rothko’s mature style, in which misty sfumato separates blocky color fields. Now, Portland Art Museum chief curator Bruce Guenther brings us a largescale retrospective considering the
David Hockney: Prints, 1965-1998
Best known for his flat-hued paintings of Southern California swimming pools, British artist David Hockney has also enjoyed a long career as a printmaker. His prints, however, lack his paintings’ tension between image and surface, and therefore stand among the weaker elements of his output. That is bad news for Augen’s current show, which consists solely of Hockney’s works on paper. Word to the wise: If you’re pressed for time, don’t linger too long with Hockney; head to the back gallery and check out Arless Day’s sumptuous gouacheand-collage works. Augen Gallery, 716 NW Davis St., augengallery.com. Through Feb. 25.
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The floaty, woozy techno-lite music wafting from the speakers announces instantly that this is not your typical, stuffy gallery in the Pearl. No, this is the brand-new Gallery @ The Jupiter, only a few paces from ever-hip-and-happenin’ Doug Fir. The gallery comes on the scene with a strong opening show, entitled Gargantua, by Christopher St. John. In paintings such as Red Is The Sky, the artist layers scratchwork and other textural effects over luxuriant, highly saturated color. The imagery suggests southwestern kachina figures updated with postmodern angst—reminiscent of local painter Sara Siestreem’s work before she moved to gestural abstraction. While St. John’s paintings are haunting, his best works are the smaller drawings he has installed in a wallspanning grid. Eccentric and erotically provocative, the works pull you into a haunting world. Through March 1. Gallery @ The Jupiter, 800 E Burnside St., 230-8010.
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Onetime Portlander and current Los Angelino James Boulton has shown his luscious oil paintings at Pulliam for the better part of a decade. His works tend to feature strong central motifs such as abstracted windshield wipers, geometric shapes, and graffitilike scrawls, which draw the viewer’s eye and imagination into his compositions. But his latest work is equivocating by comparison. In paintings such as Orionid No. 2, his gestures meander about without any oomph, as if pacing a subway platform waiting for the next train. The surfaces occupy an indeterminate middle ground between creamy-looking and dry. Boulton has always been interested in the history of gestural painting and painterly effects, but simply doing nifty things with paint is not enough. Boulton needs to rediscover his sense of composition to give the viewer a reason to care. Pulliam Gallery, 929 NW Flanders St., pulliamgallery.com. Closes Feb. 25.
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into psychedelic reveries. Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, 134 NW 8th Ave., 287-3886. Through Feb. 25.
artist’s entire output. It is sure to number among the year’s most challenging exhibitions. Feb. 18-May 27. Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-0973.
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In this 30-year retrospective, Charles Hartman leads us through the life’s work of photographer Joseph Sterling (1936-2010), whose output ran the gamut from corporate/commercial work to photojournalism and fine art. This exhibition shows his strengths and weaknesses across that range. His photojournalistic series, for example, are lackluster. A 1961 series titled The Age of Adolescence exudes quaint nostalgia, but prints such as (women screaming behind fence) do not rise above documentarian passivity. This is not the case with Sterling’s Pictus Twistus series of the 1970s, in which he deploys woozy distortion to turn otherwise conventional cityscapes
HEROIN
HEAVY HAND, SUNKEN SPIRIT AT BLUE SKY It is a gorgeous, heartbreaking image: A woman shooting heroin into her bruised leg while her boyfriend and a friend’s child sit beside her on a bed. As it turns out, she is babysitting the boy for the friend, who is out working as a prostitute. Nonchalant, wearing his pajamas, the kid munches on a cookie. The room’s dirty sheets and dirty laundry-littered floor presents a vignette of poverty, squalor and addiction—and yet the composition is so perfectly balanced, the light cascading over the woman’s body so deliciously golden, the spectacle of her Rubenesque curves spilling out of her tank top so captivating, it’s hard to turn away. There is a seductiveness to the image that draws the viewer complicitly in, as the voyeuristic impulse jostles up against a progressive heart. This kind of moral complexity is what makes David Rochkind’s photograph, Heroin, and the exhibition from which it is drawn, Heavy Hand, Sunken Spirit, so complex and rewarding. For this body of work, the Port-au-Prince, Haiti-based photographer traveled through Mexico, capturing the human face of the ongoing war between drug cartels and the government. Rochkind’s approach is far from photojournalistic. He deploys a gift for symbolism in works such as Border, a hilly cityscape darkened by gathering storm clouds, the composition slightly off-kilter. In Jail, he uses motion blur to obscure a prisoner’s face, while in Prostitute he again hides his subject’s face, this time clicking his shutter just as she pulls off her top on a bed in a dingy motel room. Does it matter what the individual looks like, the photographer seems to ask, or are they interchangeable pawns in a larger game? This finessing of symbolism and the push-pull between thematic subtext and beauty exemplifies what theorist Charles Jencks calls “double-coding,” where moral outrage and optical delight stand at cross-purposes. In photography, the phenomenon was pioneered by Larry Clark’s 1971 series, Tulsa, which sumptuously portrayed the sex-and-drugaddled lives of teenagers in Middle America. Rochkind has taken Clark’s ball and run with it, traveling territory often harrowing and always thought-provoking. RICHARD SPEER.
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SEE IT: Heavy Hand, Sunken Spirit is on display at Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 225-0210. Through Feb. 26.
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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 15 Frank Reade by Land, Sea and Air
What if a steampunk inventor and explorer had made electric vehicles work 100 years ago? Frank Reade: Adventures in the Age of Invention, a new graphic novel from Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett, celebrates the life and times of a mythic inventor named Frank Reade Jr., whose exploits were first chronicled in dime novels in the late 1890s. Guinan and Bennett are best known for writing Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel, a clever historical tale about a robot soldier from the same time period. This week’s SEAthemed launch will feature a mock battle between Frank Reade (played by Guinan) and some pirates. Bridge City Comics, 3725 N Mississippi Ave., 282-5484. 6-9 pm. Free.
THURSDAY, FEB. 16 Storytime with Fancy Nancy
To celebrate the release of the latest Fancy Nancy picture book, Fancy Nancy and the Mermaid Ballet (what 6-year-old girl isn’t into mermaids and ballet?!), young readers are encouraged to dress up for story time. Illustrator Robin Preiss Glasser will be on hand to sign books. Barnes &Noble Clackamas Town Center, 12000 SE 82nd Ave., 7863463. 7 pm. Free.
Arthur Goldwag
As any follower of modern politics
knows, hatred is a huge driving force in today’s elections. In The New Hate: A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right, Arthur Goldwag investigates how these feelings have affected politics since the dawn of our nation, with special attention to how mainstream these extremist attacks have become. Goldwag was recently featured in The Atlantic and The Huffington Post, discussing the current primaries. Perhaps his book should be required reading for understanding the 2012 election. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
FRIDAY, FEB. 17 Nathan Englander
Masterful storyteller Nathan Englander will be in town to read from his latest collection of short stories, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank. His writing veers from hilarious to gutdroppingly intense at the drop of a question mark. The title story is haunting. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
SATURDAY, FEB. 18 Skint Portland Reading and Bingo
After a reading from Skint Portland, a new guidebook to the city for broke folks, the evening will shift to a bingo night that could be right out of a Portlandia sketch. For this bingo game, instead of shouting “B9” and “N30,” the callers will shout
Portland-centric finds like “Subaru Outback” and “Gluten-free, but not allergic.” As one might expect, the game, snacks and music by DJ Skyhawk are free. Record Room, 8 NE Killingsworth St. 8 pm. Free. 21+.
SUNDAY, FEB. 19 Emily Winfield Martin
In Oddfellow’s Orphanage, a new chapter book for young readers, author and illustrator Emily Winfield Martin introduces us to characters that include an onion-headed boy, a child-sized hedgehog and a tattooed girl who all live together at an orphanage for, well, odd fellows. Martin will follow her reading with a craft event. Green Bean Books, 1600 NE Alberta St., 954-2354. 2 pm. Free.
MONDAY, FEB. 20 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+.
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THE NEW HATE We love to hate. Reality television aside, few about the far right’s organizations and pundits, arenas highlight our hatred better than poli- often to shudder-inducing effect. “The New Hate tics. In the 1800 presidential election, Thomas is less about prejudice than it is about America’s J e f f e r s o n ’s c a m p a i g n long-standing penchant c a l l e d Jo h n A d a m s “ a for conspiratorial thinkhideous hermaphroditiing, its never-ending quest cal character with neither for scapegoats,” explains the force and firmness Goldwag. “The most salient of a man, nor the gentlefeature of what I have come ness and sensibility of a to call the New Hate is its woman.” A dams’ camp sameness across time and retaliated, claiming that space. The most depressif Jefferson were elected, ing thing about the dema“murder, robbery, rape, gogues who tirelessly adultery and incest will be exploit it—in pamphlets openly taught and pracand books and partisan ticed” and that the man newspapers two centuries himself was “the son of a ago, on Web sites, elechalf-breed Indian squaw, tronic social networks, sired by a Virginia mulatto a n d t w e n t y- f o u r- h o u r father.” Fox News pales. cable news today—is how New York writer Arthur much alike they all turn Goldwag explores the out to be.” history of hatred and conWhether seeking to better tinuing right-wing conunderstand the complaints Haters Gonna Hate. spiracies in his new book. of the populist right or just Loaded with insightful and reaffirm your understandobscure information about groups and move- ing that they’re nut bags, The New Hate proves ments, from the John Birch Society and the both informative and deeply unsettling. If you Freemasons to the tea partiers and “Birthers,” are easily roused into rage by the blind ignoThe New Hate has enough conspiracy fodder to rance of others, this is not a book for bedtime give Dan Brown a boner. reading. PENELOPE BASS. Though Goldwag ’s biases are obvious, he mostly lets his information make his point, GO: Arthur Goldwag reads at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm drawing on historical texts and current affairs Thursday, Feb. 16. Free.
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doesn’t have the masterful atmosphere of Onibaba or Kuroneko, but it does feature an oddly slapstick-y fight scene in which one combatant busts out an old-school airplane spin, so, y’know, that’s pretty cool. It’d be better if: It contained more of the elemental flair Shindo brings to his best films. MATTHEW SINGER. LT, 6 pm Thursday, Feb. 16. C21, 5:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 18.
Rose
62 [POLAND] A familiar story of love blossoming amid horrific circumstances. In the days following World War II, the Masuria region becomes akin to an apocalyptic wasteland, complete with marauding bandits, deranged Russian soldiers who conduct daily public gang rapes, and conspiratorial former German officers exploiting the land. Amid this horrific violence, a soldier with a secret cares for the widow of a fallen comrade. It’s a compelling story, but director Wojciech Smarzowski’s decision to employ rapid editing and confusing chronological shifts frequently derail comprehension. It’d be better if: Having shattered the record for most graphic rapes in a motion picture, the director had decided 40 was enough. Overachiever. AP KRYZA. WH, 6:15 pm Thursday and 7:45 pm Sunday, Feb. 16 & 19.
Clown: The Movie
(did I mention the teddy bears with erect, plush penises?), but Surviving Life builds to a bathtub swim as disturbing as anything Svankmajer’s ever done. And this is the guy who made a film called Greedy Guts. It’d be better if: Oedipus were less complex. AARON MESH. WH, 8:45 pm Wednesday, Feb. 15.
85 [DENMARK] This is a movie in which a man poses with a little boy’s micropenis as leverage for blackmail, and also ejaculates in the eye of his sleeping girlfriend’s mother as an attempted gesture of love. (She wears a patch now, and her eye’s healing fine, thanks.) Which is to say, this is a grotesquely comedic gross-out-witha-heart-of-gold to shame the Brothers Farrelly and team Hangover into submission-dominance games—although this one’s filmed in grainy verité style and unflattering light suitable more for a ’90s Dogme film, which means every punch lands hard in the uncomfortable gut rather than sliding off the polish. If you have no shame whatsoever, you will nonetheless discover it while watching this film. It’d be better if: …Oh, who cares? Quality is an almost unethical consideration here. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. WH, 8:45 pm Thursday, Feb. 16. LM, 5:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 18. PP, 8 pm Monday, Feb. 20.
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Patagonia
The Kid With a Bike
SURVIVING LIFE
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After a certain point—we’re going to say it’s this Saturday, Feb. 18—the trickiest part of navigating the Portland International Film Festival is summoning the will to get out of bed. Don’t take this the wrong way: The second week of PIFF offers some very good movies, and even a couple of great ones. (It also promises the first weekend of the PIFF After Dark genre-film showcase, a recent fest high point, but neither Headhunters nor Let the Bullets Fly were screened by WW press deadlines.) It’s just hard to read the program clearly when you’re helplessly weeping. No way around it: PIFF 2012 is hellbent on selecting movies so gloomy they’ll make you long for the sweet release of Mayan apocalypse. But we continue, undaunted, on our quixotic and pissy quest to identify how each of these pictures might be slightly improved. Chin up. We have a lot of stages of grief to get through.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 15 Habemus Papem
[ITALY] Filling a void left since 1991’s The Pope Must Diet, papal satire Habemus Papam is a rare film shot at the Vatican. It finally answers the burning question: What would a Top Gun-style volleyball tournament between the College of Cardinals look like? They’ve got leisure time because the newly elected Pope has gotten cold feet and fled. We follow His Holiness as he cruises around Rome for self discovery, and kick it with the Cardinals as they screw around and wait for him to return. It’s lighthearted 66
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fun, but tonal shifts toward the serious derail the film’s spirit. It’d be better if: Father Guido Sarducci was among the reporters covering the story from outside the Vatican. AP KRYZA. LT, 6 pm Wednesday, Feb. 15. C21, 6 pm Friday, Feb. 17.
Bonsai
56 [CHILE] A sad young literary man rogers his college girlfriend after reading her bedtime selections from Proust. Eight years later, he rogers another girlfriend while writing a Proustian novel surreptitiously about rogering the first girlfriend. Sorry to be so coarse, but the movie could use some puncturing. Its opening scenes
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have an affectionate irony that recalls early Noah Baumbach comedies, but director Cristián Jiménez believes this material is profoundly sad, or sadly profound, or something. Also, the hero (Diego Noguera) grows a bonsai tree in honor of his lost relationship instead of calling his ex, which: seriously, dude. It’d be better if: The women had fully developed personalities—though if they did, they would not be sleeping with this guy. AARON MESH. LM, 6:15 pm Wednesday and 8 pm Saturday, Feb. 15 & 18.
The Orator
[NEW ZEALAND] Don’t let that “Made in New Zealand” stamp fool you: This is the first feature film ever made in Samoan, by Samoans, about Samoans. It is a languid film, steeped in loss, in which the main character, Saili—as a little person in a country of quite large people—has been denied his familial chiefly title and therefore also the ability to protect his land and family. The film doesn’t insult with easy redemption, and painstakingly maintains its integrity throughout. Also, there are rock and machete fights, and passive-aggressive yam mutilation. It’d be better if: We maybe got to smile once in a while, just a little. But if it’s all a bit weighty, what’s the director gonna do? He’s Samoan. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. LM, 8:45 pm Wednesday and 2:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 15 & 18. PP, 2:30 pm Monday, Feb. 20. 70
Surviving Life
79 [CZECH REPUBLIC] Stop-motion sicko Jan Svankmajer claims a budget shortfall forced him to resort to a new medium—paper cutout animation, in the style of Terry Gilliam’s Monty Python cartoons and the dancing Saddams of South Park—but his id remains unchecked. In this lark about a man hitting the psychoanalyst’s couch to summon more dreams about his mum, the director also indulges his longtime oral fixation: There’s plenty of thick, clotted food churning in and out of mouths; tongues entwined like snakes; and a woman blowing up a watermelon like a balloon. Its repetitions are soon a bit much to stomach
[GREAT BRITAIN] Something about Spanish-speaking countries, especially in film, always makes the northern and pale go wild with deeply self-involved notions of the romantic. Patagonia brings a wonderful symmetry to this, however. Taking as its subject the utopian Welsh communities formed in 19th-century Argentina, the film sends Welsh-ethnic Patagonians back to their chilly roots and a pair of contemporary Welsh out to document a faraway past in Argentina. That love is found and lost and found again in these countrysides shouldn’t surprise anyone, nor that it’s all stirringly pretty. But the film is also believable and unforced and patient in its romance—much in the manner of an early Atom Egoyan film, but without ever seeming schematic. It’d be better if: The viewer didn’t nonetheless see it all coming. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. CM, 6 pm Thursday, Feb. 16. 82
Postcard
66 [JAPAN] “The war has not ended!” screams a former soldier in Kaneto Shindo’s post-World War II melodrama, to no one in particular. At age 99, the director can’t be blamed for articulating his message so bluntly. Postcard is not his first antiwar film—he’s spent much of his six-decade career contemplating the fallout from Hiroshima and Nagasaki—but it’s allegedly his most personal. Best known stateside for his ’60s excursions into supernatural horror, Shindo looks at war as a kind of evil spirit, taking up residence in the home of a widow whose husband died in combat. The movie
74 [BELGIUM] Another slice of lower-class life from the Dardenne brothers, The Kid with a Bike focuses on Cyril (Thomas Doret), an 11-yearold whose future abandonment issues we witness being seared into him. Disregarded by every male figure in his life—his father, his foster mother’s boyfriend, the slick-haired street tough who recruits him for a robbery—he is left to survive alone in a boy’s school until literally falling into the arms of a local hairdresser. International cineastes already know of the Dardennes’ warm, realist touch, but the revelation here is Doret. He plays Cyril as a bomb not waiting to explode but silently begging to be defused. I’ve already seen a few powerful performances from child actors at this year’s PIFF; his might be the best. It’d be better if: It were a bit longer. These are characters you want to spend more than 80-something minutes with. MATTHEW SINGER. WH, 6:15 pm Friday, Feb. 17. LM, 7:45 pm Sunday, Feb. 19.
Woman in the Septic Tank
26 [PHILIPPINES] It aims to provide a derisive antidote to fest-filler miserabilism, but this jape at callow filmmakers revising their slum-degradation epic never gets itself past the storyboarding stage. So the film inside the film opens in the style of a Sally Struthers infomercial, then warps (like the vulgarized death-row film Habeas Corpus inside Altman’s The Player) into a musical and a soap opera, each version featuring a mother selling her tiny son into prostitution. But the only shock is that a comedy this amateur-
PIFF 2012 can take on this. “In the history of art, late works are the catastrophes,” said Theodor Adorno. “Why would anybody want to watch a movie where a horse is just dying?” asked one of my passing co-workers. Why would anyone do anything? It’d be better if: You wanted to watch a movie where everything is just dying. AARON MESH. C21, 8:15 pm Saturday and 7 pm Tuesday, Feb. 18 & 21.
dawn comes a grappling with how much truth any man should be forced to see before it stains him permanently. A monumental achievement. It’d be better if: The subtitles offered more nuanced summary of the night’s stream of conversation. AARON MESH. C21, 7:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 19.
[BRAZIL] Those whose hearts have been broken will recognize the anguish on the face of Violeta (Alessandra Negrini) when her husband leaves her: a mix of confusion, hurt, anger, introspection and hopelessness. If you don’t know it, well, spend 83 minutes with The Silver Cliff, which follows Violeta as she searches for her man in Porto Alegre. We spend no less than 14 minutes of the film’s short running time watching her sob in cars and cabs. She also cries at airports, in the shower, in her hotel and on the beach. Then she meets a down-on-his-luck man and his daughter. They brood together, then take a long, silent taxi ride. It’s the cinematic equivalent of being stuck next to a quiet, grief-stricken stranger on a bus. It’d be better if: One of Violeta’s sob sessions became the most dour episode of Cash Cab ever. AP KRYZA. CM, 8:45 pm Friday, Feb. 17. C21, 2:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 19.
Footnote
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Gerhard Richter
Pelotero
ishly lit, framed and acted is making the international rounds. Even the most outre gag—a singing pedophile— is a ripoff of that neighborhood perv in Family Guy, which isn’t funny either. It’d be better if: Anything progressed beyond the initial joke. AARON MESH. WTC, 6:15 pm Friday, Feb. 17. WH, 8 pm Monday, Feb. 20.
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[GERMANY] Corinna Belz’s documentary of iconoclastic painter Richter doesn’t dwell much on the backstory and the “Capitalist realism” that made him famous—he’s famous enough, we suppose—but rather submerges us into the day-to-day of Richter’s studio life and into the creation of the massive expressionist paintings he’s devoted much of his late career to. As such, it’s somewhat formless and opportunistic in its subject matter but also an important document of Richter’s working process, baroquely well-appointed studio, self-doubt, charm and barely concealed prickliness. It’d be better if: It were at all possible to capture the textural qualities of Richter’s painting—especially the side-to-side trompe l’oeil of his black-and-white portraits—in film. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. WH, 3 pm Saturday, Feb. 18. 76
How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?
83 [GREAT BRITAIN] Filmed not only in the sonorously reverent tones but also the angelic color-clarity and oft-heavenly camera vantage of true hagiography, this documentary about legendary architect Norman Foster succeeds largely because its subject remains resolutely equal to the treatment he’s given. Aside from being the goddamned baron of Thames Bank, flying daredevil planes and skiing alpine marathons well into his 70s, the man came from working-class birth to help pioneer eco-friendly, monumental architecture and also to build London’s massively comic and beautiful Gherkin, the new German Reichstag dome and the world’s largest manmade structure (the airport in Beijing). Props where props are due, people. It’d be better if: We got to see some chinks in the shiningly heroic armor. What is public here was already public, no matter how beautifully captured. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. WTC, 6 pm Saturday, Feb. 18. C21, 3 pm Monday, Feb. 20.
The Turin Horse
[HUNGARY] Bela Tarr concludes his notoriously snail-like career with a 146-minute meditation on the eventual fate of the whipped horse that Friedrich Nietzsche hugged in the street just before going mad from syphilis. This death rattle is a blackand-white beauty, beyond Bergman parody, with a wind that pounds sand into the grimacing faces of the two doomed peasants who own the dirtcaked plow animal. There is a recognition that all life will be snuffed by darkness. There are several minutes of a woman just looking at potatoes. There are two positions you 75
[ISRAEL] The academic-jealousy comedy is such a rare and delightful sighting (the last good one I can remember is Wonder Boys) that it magnifies the minor pleasures of this filial scuffle between Talmud scholars. (The dueling Shkolniks are basically the Archie and Peyton Manning of Jewish Studies, if Archie kept running back on the field during Colts games.) Joseph Cedar’s direction has the fluid ridicule of a Payne or Coen: The brothers would especially relish a scene of rabbinical sages packed into a filing room like it’s a clown car. The study in tiptoeing past obvious facts builds to two confrontations with a heavy named Grossman, a department chair with a forehead like a basket of pugs. It’d be better if: Cedar had remembered to write a third act. The anticlimax here rivals that of the Torah. AARON MESH. WH, 8:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 18. C21, 5 pm Sunday, Feb. 19. 80
72 [UNITED STATES] In the Dominican Republic, baseball players are a cash crop. Following two teenage prospects on their way to harvest—that is, the day they become eligible to sign with an American club—this doc isn’t exactly Field of Hoop Dreams. For decades, Major League Baseball treated the island like its own personal estate sale, picking up all-star talent at bargain prices. Now that young peloteros (Spanish for “ballplayers”) are finally wising up to their actual worth, teams are devising more creative ways to take advantage of their economic desperation. Devoid of much “for the love of the game” sentimentality, Pelotero is less inspiring sports doc than geopolitical allegory, presenting pro ball as not much different from America’s other favorite pastime: exploiting impoverished nations for their natural resources. It’d be better if: It delved more into the subjects’ daily lives. Poverty is the backdrop, but it should be in the foreground. MATTHEW SINGER. WH, 2:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 19.
Qarantina
47 [IRAQ] There are two narratives running through the post-war Iraqi drama Qarantina. One revolves around a family enduring constant abuse at the fists of its patriarch. The other involves a hit man whose crisis of self leads him back to the university and friends he left behind (some of whom he also wants to murder). Conveniently, these lives are connected, since the hit man is lodging with the family. What we get, then, is two clichéd, half-baked movies in one, both so enamored with depicting sorrow that nothing else—characters and motivations included—seems to matter. It’d be better if: The hit man and his college buddies decided to lay down their guns and finally take that springbreak trip to Cancun. AP KRYZA. LM, 2:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 19.
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
[TURKEY] If there’s any justice, this is the festival picture that will leave Portland awed and arguing. As the title hints, it’s a kind of western: A small-town posse (police chief, prosecutor, stenographer and coroner) drive by night through the Turkish steppe, trying to illuminate the shallow grave where a confessed murderer dropped his victim. Cannes darling Nuri Bilge Ceylan zooms toward his actors’ weathered, warped faces for Leone-iconic close-ups, but the showdowns are all internal. There’s a holy moment at the film’s center, with a candle revealing buried souls, but at 95
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MONDAY, FEB. 20 76 [UNITED STATES] The most terrifying type of documentary: Director Gianfranco Rosi can simply point a microphone and a camera at his subject and make your blood curdle. Said subject is a black-veiled Mexican cartel hit man claiming responsibility for some 200 murders in two decades. He is filmed sitting in a hotel room, sketching his history coldly in a book as he describes scenes of mass murder like a high school football coach outlining a new play. Just a killer talking about his job like any other working stiff. The stoicism is jarring, the claustrophobic setting a vise. When the killer’s voice breaks while describing the sensation of strangling innocent women, it’s utterly suffocating. It’d be better if: It weren’t real. AP KRYZA. C21, 12:45 pm Monday, Feb. 20.
CLOWN: THE MOVIE
Elena
72 [RUSSIA] Class division is omnipresent in Russian cinema, but Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Elena excels in finding a unique intersection between the rich and working class. The film focuses on its titular character (the powerful Nadezhda Markina), a former nurse whose marriage to wealthy Vladimir (Andrey Smirnov) is more indentured servitude than marital bliss. Love is there, but understanding is not. When Vladimir suffers a heart attack and decides to re-tool his will to prevent Elena from financially aiding her troubled grandson, she is faced with a daunting moral conundrum. This is a drama of quiet grief that succeeds due to its sympathetic performances and overarching sense of uncertainty. It’d be better if: Philip Glass’ stabbing, Bernard Herrmann-inspired score was more present. AP KRYZA. CM, 5:15 pm Monday, Feb. 20.
FOOTNOTE
Aurora
24 [ROMANIA] Director and star Cristi Puiu (The Death of Mr. Lazarescu) deserves credit: Only a filmmaker wholly committed to his storytelling style could mold the tale of a mentally unstable man balancing his dull life with multiple murders into such an overlong, pretentious and dull effort. We watch Puiu walk around, take a shower, clean his apartment, go shopping, sit at his desk, kill a guy, walk around, talk to his kid, visit his mom, walk around, kill a couple, wander, visit a friend and talk to some cops. For three hours. This is part two of a planned six-part series that will become essential viewing for insomnia patients. It’d be better if: It were 140 minutes shorter. AP KRYZA. LM, 6 pm Monday, Feb. 20.
TUESDAY, FEB. 21 Life Without Principle
71 [HONG KONG] Who’d like the global economic meltdown to feel more like an ’80s erotic thriller? Yeah, me too. So would bullet-symphony conductor Johnnie To (Triad Election, Vengeance), who has made a financial message movie that bemoans bank speculation and investor greed—until it gets distracted by the slaying of a loan shark with a greasy comb-over. It’s brassily lurid and characteristically overblown (the title pun could be Unnatural Interest or Toxic Assets), but that’s also its virtue: Instead of pious speeches about how “this country used to make things,” we get a broker screaming at the stock market to keep dropping, while he clutches the bejeweled fire poker stabbed through his heart. It’d be better if: The soundtrack was all synth and Mario dying sounds. AARON MESH. LM, 6:15 pm Tuesday, Feb. 21.
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PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL TICKET OUTLET: Portland Art Museum Mark Building, 1119 SW Park Ave., 276-4310, nwfilm.org.
General admission $10, Art Museum members, students and seniors $9, children 12 and under $7, Silver Screen Club memberships from $300.
VENUE ABBREVIATIONS: C21—Cinema 21, 616 NW 21st Ave. CM—CineMagic, 2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd. LM—Regal Lloyd Mall Cinema, 2320 Lloyd Center Mall LT—Lake Twin Cinema, 106 N State Street, Lake Oswego PP—Regal Pioneer Place, 340 SW Morrison St. WH—Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Ave. WTC—World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St. Showtimes listed are for Feb. 15-21 only. Some of these films will show again next week. Another 26 films showing this week were not screened by WW; 16 were reviewed last week. Visit wweek.com for full listings. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 15, 2012 wweek.com
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Albert Nobbs
40 The gender-bending Albert Nobbs offers a buy-one-get-one-free coupon of butch, with two central heroines masquerading as dudes. But poor Albert (Glenn Close) is so one-dimensional the film surrounding him becomes a complete and utter drag. R. PATRICIA SAUTHOFF. Fox Tower.
The Artist
64 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. PG-13. AARON MESH. Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall, Moreland, St. Johns, Lake Twin, City Center, Bridgeport.
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Attack of the Flix #02
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, CONTEST] A monthly competition for local films less than 10 minutes long. Curious Comedy Theater, 5225 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. Film submissions at 7 pm, show at 8 pm Sunday, Feb. 19.
Big Miracle
58 About 15 minutes into the new inspirational family film Big Miracle, an insufferable Drew Barrymore exclaims, “But this is different— whales are in danger!” I rolled my eyes so hard I almost had a seizure. But when people work together despite their differences (cue orchestra’s sentimental crescendo) that warm, blubbery feeling is priceless. PG. PENELOPE BASS. Lloyd Mall, Clackamas, Bridgeport, Cintetopia Progress Ridge, Evergreen, Cascade.
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Bike Smut
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] After premiering at the Portland Underground Film Festival, these dirty cycle flicks played in 72 cities. Here they come again. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Friday, Feb. 17. NEW
Black Swan
53 [THREE NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] Darren Aronofsky constructs a sadistic, upscale horror flick starring Natalie Portman as the dancer whose metamorphosis from “frigid little girl” to ballet queen—complete with the subsuming of a dark twin—is accompanied by madness and molting. R. AARON MESH. 5th Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday, Feb. 17-18. 3 pm Sunday, Feb. 19.
Chronicle
81 Dopey in all the right places and
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just mean enough to draw blood, Chronicle strings together a series of increasingly ludicrous set pieces to frequently thrilling effect, and it’s not too shabby as an all-purpose allegory for every messy thing teens get up to, either. Soon after massaging a mysterious object found in a dark hole behind a ridiculous rave—we’ve all been there—three very cute guys find themselves endowed with telekinetic powers. Read it as a study of sexual awakening or pubescent PTSD or high-school hell or teen invincibility—it’s all there—but try to enjoy it first as a blast of pure visual pleasure. PG-13. CHRIS STAMM. Lloyd Center, Living Room Theaters, City Center, Tigard, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Cinema 99, Cinetopia Progress Ridge, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Evergreen, Division, Cascade, Sherwood.
A Dangerous Method
81 “All those provocative discus-
sions helped crystallize a lot of my thinking,” Michael Fassbender’s Jung tells Viggo Mortensen’s Freud. And while the movie includes lots of sex and spanking, it’s chiefly about the thrills, arousals and perils of conversation. R. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters.
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Declaration of War
60 A light-footed, almost fanci-
ful film framed by a child’s battle with cancer, Declaration of War sounds like a Lifetime movie via Jacques Demy. It’s a bit better than that, though. Actress-director Valérie Donzelli, who wrote the semiautobiographical screenplay with co-star and real-life baby daddy Jérémie Elkaïm, keeps the movie from devolving into a weepy disease drama by declaring “the boy lives!” right at the onset. It’s not about him, anyway. Like Mike Mills’ Beginners, War is about adults reacting to life’s tectonic shifts. Also like Mills, Donzelli doesn’t trust her own story. She gussies it up with distracting, New Wavy quirks— three different narrators, an ill-fitting musical number—and relies on the performers (herself included) to salvage its heart. And they do, barely. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters.
The Descendants
72 George 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. Fox Tower, City Center, Clackamas, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Cinetopia Progress Ridge, Cascade.
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
15 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. Oskar’s visions of his father’s death are like a morbid picture book that doesn’t teach you anything. You almost expect to see that dastardly airplane peeking impishly around a corner, or Rudy Giuliani. PG-13. ALISTAIR ROCKOFF. Fox Tower.
NEW Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance 3D
Nicolas Cage fights Satan, POKES YOU IN THE EYE. No, we are not getting tired of this joke. Is Hollywood getting tired of this gimmick? Not screened for critics. PG-13. Lloyd Center, Pioneer Place, City Center, Tigard, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Division, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Cinema 99, Cinetopia Progress Ridge, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Evergreen, Movies on TV, Sherwood. NEW
Girl Walk // All Day
78 [TWO NIGHTS ONLY] I did not
want to see Girl Walk // All Day. Dizzy despair overcame me when I
read about it. The concept is horrifying, an idea that might have been born in an especially loathsome mumblecore movie before suckling on Miranda July’s brain stem until it was strong enough to make its fully formed, monstrous self known to the world. Check it out: Three dancers (one woman, two men, all comely and lithe) do some improvisational gallivanting on the streets of New York City while Girl Talk’s All Day does its shape-shifting thing on the soundtrack. For 75 minutes. That’s it. But wait. Don’t run away. Really. This extended music video, directed by Jacob Krupnick with the help of Kickstarter cash, is an endearing and frequently rousing attempt to enliven public space with spastic quirk. Imagine the dickheads-in-Japan sequences from Jackass if they were directed by the pervert who thought a Dave Matthews Band video about a guy hugging strangers was a good idea. And then imagine, if you can, that the result was a life-affirming celebration of movement and music that did not suck at all. Crazy, right? It’s no Pina, but Girl Walk // All Day is alive with an irresistible boisterous joy. CHRIS STAMM. The Cleaners at Ace Hotel. 7:30 pm WednesdayThursday, Feb. 15-16. $11.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
David Fincher’s take on Stieg Larsson’s froth of woman-killing and woman’s revenge is less repellent than the flat nose-rubbing of the Swedish version, maybe because Fincher mostly gets his jollies from digital showboating. R. AARON MESH. Fox Tower, Tigard.
The Grey
55 Liam Neeson’s latest box-office smash is essentially the John Miliuspenned USS Indianapolis speech in Jaws—“so, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out, and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945”—if you culled the initial survivors down to seven, replaced the sharks with wolves, and replaced John Milius with nobody. R. AARON MESH. Lloyd Mall, Fox Tower, City Center, Clackamas, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Cinetopia Progress Ridge, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Evergreen, Cascade, Wilsonville.
Haywire
91 Are actors necessary? 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. R. AARON MESH. Lloyd Center.
Hugo
80 Set in a vivid version of 1930s
Paris so edibly adorable it might as
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The Iron Lady
35 The biopic 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. This movie doesn’t grant Thatcher the dignity of being a real bitch. PG13. AARON MESH. Fox Tower, Tigard.
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D
This Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson sequel was not shown 2: critics in time 2: meet press deadlines. PG. Lloyd Mall, Pioneer Place, City Center, Tigard, Clackamas, Bridgeport, Cinema 99, Cinetopia Progress Ridge, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Evergreen, Cascade, Wilsonville.
Le Havre
in conjunction with the Portland International Film Festival.
Portlandia Season 2
[TV ONSCREEN] It’s a horror show about happiness. The residents get too much of what they want, and obsess over the proper and moral forms of gratification. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre. 10 pm Friday, Feb. 17. Mission Theater. 7 and 10 pm, with variety show “The Friday Night TV Party & Theater Club Neighborhood Association” in between.
Safe House
39 The wily, wryly sagacious version of Denzel Washington born in Training Day reached full absurd maturity in Unstoppable and fossilized soon after, when Saturday Night Live newcomer Jay Pharoah’s devastating impression nailed the magic tics that make latter-day
Denzel tick. (YouTube it. It is funny and frightening.) The seemingly effortless creation of a second self somehow doesn’t look so effortless once someone else has made it seem easy, and so Denzel’s irascible rascal mode now registers as the mugging of a skilled impostor (see: De Niro, Bob and Pacino, Alfredo). Which isn’t to say watching Washington do his popcorn-movie thing is an utterly joyless experience. Safe House is proof that even revealed magic can sing and sting a little, for Washington’s performance as rogue CIA agent Tobin Frost—he knows things people don’t want him to know, and he’s got the ridiculous name to prove it—is the film’s only semiprecious asset. Ryan Reynolds is also present, and he is nearly as engaging as a Wheat Thin in his role
SPY VS. SPY VS. VAGINA: Chris Pine, Reese Witherspoon and Tom Hardy.
THIS MEANS WAR
this omnibus of Oscar-nominated animated shorts lacks the visionary spirit that makes bite-sized cinema sing. However, the lot is redeemed by the wonderful Wild Life, a 10-minute delight that sets an Englishman’s smug refinement against an early-20th-century Alberta (the western Canadian province, not the Portland street) that doesn’t much care for his presence. Pray it plays at program’s end so that you have something splendid to look forward to. CHRIS STAMM. Hollywood Theatre.
This is the story of two secret agents. They are best friends. They are terrible secret agents, though the movie seems only dimly aware of this. After all, it is directed by McG, whose idea of spycraft in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle included a bikini car wash. Anyway, the agents meet a girl and they decide they will compete for her, but in a friendly way, because nothing is more important than the two of them staying best friends. Forever. And fighting crime. People complain Hollywood is making movies for 13-year-olds. Well, This Means War is pinpointed at someone around the age of 9½. It contains no small parts anyone could choke on. Chris Pine (Kirk in the Star Trek reboot) and Tom Hardy (some muscular person in Inception) play the spies. Pine affects a magnetic facetiousness and Hardy a wounded gentility, while both also seem somewhat mentally incapacitated by a car accident or something. The object of their rival advances (and wiretapping) is Reese Witherspoon, who is less relaxed with each movie—a difficult feat, considering she started out playing Tracy Flick. But you can see where the attraction kicks in. These are resourceful men, and they know if they were stranded in the wilderness with this woman, they could all rub their chins together and start a fire. Soon enough, Witherspoon learns the truth about the two men she’s dating (“I trusted you!”) and makes an arbitrary decision based on a Chelsea Handler aphorism about self-improvement. (Yes, Chelsea Handler is in this movie. No, I don’t want to talk about it.) Meantime, the only other young lady in the picture is deployed as a fallback option, because penises gotta go somewhere. Speaking of which: The two secret agents are rather obviously less interested in the girl than in each other’s movements, though the movie seems only dimly aware of this. It’s almost an interesting question whether this winking incomprehension is an improvement from complete ignorance or panicked denial. Anyway, you can send your 9-year-olds with the assurance they won’t learn homophobia. Or anything else. PG-13. AARON MESH.
Pina 3D
THURSDAY] 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. German auteur Wim Wenders’ Pina—an elegiac documentary about the work of late, iconoclastic choreographer Pina Bausch—is something else altogether, a brokenhearted Billie Holiday to the 3-D form’s usual emptily virtuosic Ella Fitzgerald. Pina is, in fact, the most emotionally affecting film I saw last year. PG. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Cinema 21. Wim Wenders will attend screenings at 7 and 9:45 pm Thursday, Feb. 16
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The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012: Animated
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Organ Grinders: Nosferatu
40 There will come a time when the general public’s lack of interest in the shorts categories will embolden the Academy to honor the oddballs and risk takers who are trying to push cinema in new and wild directions. Maybe next year? For now, here’s to middling and inconsequential work that leaves no stains, slight stuff like Pentecost, which finds a sulking altar boy’s soccer obsession merging with his ecclesiastical duties in a way that might make grandpas chuckle. CHRIS STAMM. Hollywood Theatre.
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Katherine Heigl, bounty hunter. Why was this not screened for critics? Inexplicable. PG-13. Clackamas, Bridgeport, Evergreen, Cascade.
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60 Aki Kaurismäki 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. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters.
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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. PG. CHRIS STAMM. Living Room Theaters.
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DECLARATION OF WAR as a green Agency man charged with babysitting a recently apprehended Frost at CIA’s titular crash pad. Washington’s shtick is still just charming enough to weather the beating doled out by such mediocrity, but watching the fight is hardly fun. R. CHRIS STAMM. Lloyd Center, Lloyd Center, Pioneer Place, City Center, Tigard, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Cinetopia Progress Ridge, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Evergreen, Cascade, Wilsonville. NEW
The Secret World of Arrietty
A boy befriends a tiny fairy in this anime from Hiromasa Yonebayashi. Not screened for Portland critics. G. Lloyd Center, City Center, Tigard, Clackamas, Bridgeport, Cinetopia Progress Ridge, Evergreen, Cascade.
A Separation
90 A marriage is all over but
the shouting, and there’s a lot of shouting. But the movie is riveting, even exhilarating. Iranian director Asghar Farhadi tracks the fallout as if preparing a legal brief. PG-13. AARON MESH. Fox Tower. NEW
Shaolin vs. Lama
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] A drunken master trains a young warrior in 1983. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Feb. 21. NEW
Splinters
[ONE WEEK ONLY] A documentary about the national surfing team in Papua New Guinea. Clinton Street Theater. Friday-Thursday, Feb. 17-23.
Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace 3-D
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These are not the droids POKING YOU IN THE EYE. Not screened for critics this time around. PG. Lloyd Center, Pioneer Place, City Center, Tigard, Clackamas, Bridgeport, Cinetopia Progress Ridge, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Evergreen, Cascade. NEW
Stuck Between Stations
Josh Hartnett attends his 10-year high school reunion in this drama. Hollywood Theatre.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
23 John le Carré’s 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.” Because the English actors look distinctive, you can almost follow the plot. R. ALISTAIR ROCKOFF. Fox Tower.
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Viva Riva!
64 [TWO NIGHTS ONLY] Viva
Riva! is both a film we have seen hundreds of times before and one we’ve literally never seen. In terms of story, it’s a standard crime thriller stocked with recycled character types. As the first movie from
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the Democratic Republic of Congo to be distributed in the United States, however, Riva! drops us into a corner of the world underrepresented in cinema. Through the lens of first-time director Djo Tunda Wa Munga, the Congolese capital of Kinshasa feels like Las Vegas—a wasteland glowing with seedy glamour—except the casinos and strip clubs are replaced with outdoor bazaars, whorehouses and crumbling domiciles. The location, and the energy Munga brings to shooting it, sparks a movie that is ultimately a bit of a mess. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Screens as the centerpiece film of the Cascade Festival of African Films. Portland Community College’s Cascade Campus, Moriarty Building room 104. 12 pm Thursday, Feb. 16. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Friday, Feb. 17. Free. Festival continues through Saturday, March 3.
The Vow
22 The amnesia plot was a chestnut by 1961, when Walker Percy noted in The Moviegoer that it was a potentially useful cliché, what with providing the protagonist an opportunity to taste the world existentially afresh. The problem with The Vow, an unusually tearduct-shriveling weepie, is that Rachel McAdams does not begin anew after a car windshield erases her memory. She just becomes the sorority-girl twit she was five years before she met Channing Tatum and fell into the kind of ardent, spiritually entwined love proved by hot-boxing with each other’s farts. (Reading over this last sentence, I see there are several problems with The Vow, but let’s stick with the main one.) McAdams is a savant of the sulky and vacant, and this role—which tries to re-create the final manipulation of The Notebook for more than an hour— hews so fast to those qualities that the movie feels closer to horror than romance. Imagine spending your life trying to get a sympathetic emotion out of this girl! She is upstaged by Tatum, who is upstaged by his Panama hat. PG13. AARON MESH. Lloyd Center, City Center, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Cinema 99, Cinetopia Progress Ridge, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Evergreen, Division, Cascade, Sherwood.
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West Side Story
[TWO DAYS ONLY, REVIVAL] Just kiss a girl named Maria. Hollywood Theatre. 2 pm Saturday-Sunday, Feb. 18-19.
The Woman in Black
Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets. Not screened by WW press deadlines; look for a review on wweek.com. PG-13. Lloyd Mall, Pioneer Place, City Center, Clackamas, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Evergreen, Cascade, Wilsonville.
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12:10, 02:40, 05:10, 07:45, 10:10 A SEPARATION FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:25, 03:20, 07:00, 09:35 ALBERT NOBBS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:50, 02:20, 04:50, 07:25, 09:50 THE IRON LADY Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:55, 02:15, 04:45, 07:15, 09:30 TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:35, 03:15, 07:20, 10:00 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:45, 04:40, 07:55 THE GREY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 02:30, 05:00, 07:35, 10:05 CARNAGE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 03:00, 05:05, 09:55 EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 07:10
DR. ROSENPENIS: I think of Fletch as a sunny film noir. Though Chevy Chase prefers Lakers jerseys to crumpled suits and plays a slacker newspaperman rather than a two-bit detective, the film is surprisingly similar to genre-pushing latter-era noirs like Chinatown and The Long Goodbye. Fletch (no disguises: It’s presented by Aaron Mesh’s BAM) isn’t as visually arresting as either aforementioned film, but it casts Chase as a cool, sarcastic antihero and serves as a love letter to that mythic Los Angeles where a man could truly reinvent himself—as a mechanic, a doctor, a hobo, a white basketball player with a huge afro, an undercover mattress-tag inspector... the possibilities were pretty much endless back in 1985. CASEY JARMAN. Showing at: Laurelhurst. Best paired with: New Belgium Clutch Dark Sour Ale. Also showing: Young Adult (Academy, Laurelhurst, Mission).
Lloyd Center 10 and IMAX
1510 NE Multnomah Blvd., 800-326-3264 JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND -AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE Fri-Sat-Sun 12:10, 02:40, 05:15, 07:50, 10:20 GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE 3D FriSat-Sun 12:00, 02:35, 05:10, 07:45, 10:25 GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE Fri-SatSun 03:40, 07:05, 09:55 THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY Fri-Sat-Sun 12:05, 02:25, 04:50, 07:15, 09:45 THIS MEANS WAR Fri-Sat-Sun 12:15, 02:50, 05:20, 07:55, 10:30 STAR WARS: EPISODE I -- THE PHANTOM MENACE 3D Fri-Sat-Sun 12:50, 03:55, 07:00, 10:05 SAFE HOUSE Fri-Sat-Sun 01:00, 03:50, 07:20, 10:10 THE VOW Fri-Sat-Sun 12:00, 02:30, 05:05, 07:40, 10:15 CHRONICLE Fri-Sat-Sun 12:25, 02:45, 05:00, 07:30, 10:00 HAYWIRE Fri-Sun 12:45 HUGO 3D Fri-SatSun 12:30, 03:30, 06:50, 09:50 LA PHIL LIVE: DUDAMEL CONDUCTS MENDELSSOHN Sat 02:00
Regal Lloyd Mall 8 Cinema
2320 Lloyd Center Mall, 800-326-3264 SAFE HOUSE Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:15, 03:15, 06:30, 09:05 JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 06:20 JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 03:05, 09:00 THE WOMAN IN BLACK FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 03:30, 06:15, 08:45 BIG MIRACLE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:05, 06:10 THE GREY Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:10, 06:00 UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 03:20, 08:55 RED TAILS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 03:00, 08:50 THE ARTIST Fri-Sat-Sun-
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Bagdad Theater and Pub
3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-249-7474 THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1 Fri-Sat 02:00, 05:15 MY WEEK WITH MARILYN FriSat-Sun-Tue-Wed 08:55 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS SatSun-Tue-Wed 06:00 NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY Mon
Clinton Street Theater
2522 SE Clinton St., 503-238-8899 BIKE SMUT Fri 07:00 SPLINTERS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 07:00, 09:00 THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Sat 12:00
Lake Twin Cinema
106 N State St., 503-635-5956 THE ARTIST Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 05:30, 07:40 HUGO Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 04:30, 07:05
Laurelhurst Theatre
2735 E Burnside St., 503-232-5511 YOUNG ADULT Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:00 SHAME Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 09:15 FLETCH Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:55 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:15 MY WEEK WITH MARILYN Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 06:45 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE -- GHOST PROTOCOL Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 09:00 THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon 01:10, 04:30 THE MUPPETS FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:25 DRIVE Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 09:45
Mission Theater and Pub 1624 NW Glisan St., 503-249-7474
PORTLANDIA Fri 07:00 YOUNG ADULT Sat-SunMon 05:30 SHAME SatSun-Mon 10:10 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS Sat-Sun-Mon 07:35 NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY Tue-Wed
Kennedy School Theater
5736 NE 33rd Ave., 503-249-7474 THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 05:30 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:30 CONTRABAND Fri-Sat-Sun 10:25 ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED Fri-Sat-Sun 03:00 THE MUPPETS SatSun 12:30
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Thirty-two carrier pigeons were awarded medals by the United Kingdom for their meritorious service in the World Wars. Of course, they probably would have preferred sunflower seeds and peanuts as their prize. Let that lesson guide you as you bestow blessings on the people and animals that have done so much for you, Virgo. Give them goodies they would actually love to receive, not meaningless gold stars or abstract accolades. It’s time to honor and reward your supporters with practical actions that suit them well. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The caterpillar-tobutterfly transformation is such an iconic symbol of metamorphosis that it has become a cliche. And yet I’d like to point out that when the graceful winged creature emerges from its chrysalis, it never grows any further. We human beings, on the other hand, are asked to be in a lifelong state of metamorpho-
sis, continually adjusting and shifting to meet our changing circumstances. I’ll go so far as to say that having a readiness to be in continual transformation is one of the most beautiful qualities a person can have. Are you interested in cultivating more of that capacity, Libra? Now would be an excellent time to do so. Remember that line by Bob Dylan: “He who is not busy being born is busy dying.” SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This would be an excellent time to round up a slew of new role models. In my astrological opinion, you need to feel far more than your usual levels of admiration for exceptional human beings. You’re in a phase when you could derive tremendous inspiration by closely observing masters and virtuosos and pros who are doing what you would like to do. For that matter, your mental and spiritual health would be profoundly enhanced by studying anyone who has found what he or she was born to do and is doing it with liberated flair. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): WD-40 is a spray product that prevents corrosion, loosens stuck hinges, removes hard-to-get-at dirt, and has several other uses. Its inventor, Norm Larsen, tried 39 different formulas before finding the precisely right combination of ingredients on his fortieth attempt. The way I understand your life right now, Sagittarius, is that you are like Larsen when he was working with version number 37. You’re getting closer to creating a viable method for achieving your next success. That’s why I urge you to be patient and determined as you continue to tinker and experiment. Don’t keep trying the same formula that didn’t quite work before. Open your mind to the possibility that you have not yet discovered at least one of the integral components. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A person who emits a huge angry shout produces just .001 watt of energy. Even if he or she yelled continuously 24/7, it would still take a year and nine months to produce enough energy to heat a cup of coffee. That’s one way to metaphorically illustrate my bigger point, which is that making a dramatic show of emotional agitation may feel powerful but is often a sign of weakness. Please take this to heart in the coming week, Capricorn. If you do fall prey to a frothy eruption of tumultuous feelings, use all of your considerable willpower to maintain your poise. Better yet, abort the tumult before it detonates. This is one time when repressing negative feelings will be healthy, wealthy, and wise. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Jeep vehicles always feature seven slots on their front grills. Why? For the manufacturer, it’s a symbolic statement proclaiming the fact that Jeep was the first vehicle driven on all seven continents. Let’s take that as your cue, Aquarius. Your assignment is to pick an accomplishment you’re really proud of and turn it into an emblem, image, glyph, or talisman that you can wear or express. If nothing else, draw it on dusty car windows, write it on bathroom walls, or add it to a Facebook status update. The key thing is that you use a public forum to celebrate yourself for a significant success, even if it’s in a modest or mysterious way. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A sign outside the Apostolic Bible Church in Bathurst, New Brunswick invited worshipers to meditate on a conundrum: “Why didn’t Noah swat those two mosquitoes?” After all, if the builder of the Ark had refused to help the pesky insects survive the flood, we’d be free of their torment today. (Or so the allegorical argument goes.) Please apply this lesson to a situation in your own sphere, Pisces. As you journey to your new world, leave the vexatious elements behind.
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LEGAL NOTICES IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR LANE COUNTY Juvenile Department In the Matter of DAKOTA RAY JELINEK A Child. Case No. 08-511J-04 PUBLISHED SUMMONS TO: Dustin Lee Jelinek IN THE NAME OF THE STATE OF OREGON: A petition has been filed asking the court to terminate your parental rights to the above-named child for the purpose of placing the child for adoption. YOU ARE REQUIRED TO PERSONALLY APPEAR BEFORE the Lane County Juvenile Court at 2727 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Eugene, OR 97401, on the 5th day of April, 2012 at 1:30 p.m. to admit or deny the allegations of the petition and to personally appear at any subsequent court-ordered hearing. YOU MUST APPEAR PERSONALLY IN THE COURTROOM ON THE DATE AND AT THE TIME LISTED ABOVE. AN ATTORNEY MAY NOT ATTEND THE HEARING IN YOUR PLACE. THEREFORE, YOU MUST APPEAR EVEN IF YOUR ATTORNEY ALSO APPEARS. This summons is published pursuant to the order of the circuit court judge of the above-entitled court, dated January 31, 2012. The order directs that this summons be published once each week for three consecutive weeks, making three publications in all, in a published newspaper of general circulation in Multnomah County. Date of first publication: February 15, 2012 Date of last publication: February 29, 2012 NOTICE READ THESE PAPERS CAREFULLY IF YOU DO NOT APPEAR PERSONALLY BEFORE THE COURT OR DO NOT APPEAR AT ANY SUBSEQUENT COURT-ORDERED HEARING, the court may proceed in your absence without further notice and TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS to the above-named child either ON THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THIS SUMMONS OR ON A FUTURE DATE, and may make such orders and take such action as authorized by law. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS (1) YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO BE REPRESENTED BY AN ATTORNEY IN THIS MATTER. If you are currently represented by an attorney, CONTACT YOUR ATTORNEY IMMEDIATELY UPON RECEIVING THIS NOTICE. Your previous attorney may not be representing you in this matter. IF YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO HIRE AN ATTORNEY, and you meet the state’s financial guidelines, you are entitled to have an attorney appointed for you at state expense. TO REQUEST APPOINTMENT OF AN ATTORNEY TO REPRESENT YOU AT STATE EXPENSE, YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY CONTACT the Lane County Juvenile Department, 2727 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Eugene, Oregon 97401, phone number 541/682-4754, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. for further information. IF YOU WISH TO HIRE AN ATTORNEY, please retain one as soon as possible and have the attorney present at the above hearing. If you need help finding an attorney, you may call the Oregon State Bar’s Lawyer Referral Service at (503) 684-3763 or toll free in Oregon at (800) 452-7636. IF YOU ARE REPRESENTED BY AN ATTORNEY, IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MAINTAIN CONTACT WITH YOUR ATTORNEY AND TO KEEP YOUR ATTORNEY ADVISED OF YOUR WHEREABOUTS. /// (2) If you contest the petition, the court will schedule a hearing on the allegations of the petition and order you to appear personally and may schedule other hearings related to the petition and order you to appear personally. IF YOU ARE ORDERED TO APPEAR, YOU MUST APPEAR PERSONALLY IN THE COURTROOM, UNLESS THE COURT HAS GRANTED YOU AN EXCEPTION IN ADVANCE UNDER ORS 419B.918 TO APPEAR BY OTHER MEANS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, TELEPHONIC OR OTHER ELECTRONIC MEANS. AN ATTORNEY MAY NOT ATTEND THE HEARING(S) IN YOUR PLACE. PETITIONER’S ATTORNEY Sarita D. Glassburner, #012611 Assistant Attorney General Department of Justice 975 Oak Street, Suite 200 Eugene, OR 97401 Phone: (541) 686-7973 ISSUED this 2nd day of February, 2012.
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