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I’m afraid your recent Rogue of the Week designation for Sen. Chip Shields (D-Portland) was sadly misplaced [“Rogue of the Week,” WW, Feb. 1, 2012]. Oregon has a citizen legislature so members would bring real-world experience, insights and knowledge to public policy. Sen. Shields and I could not be further apart on political philosophy, but I truly respect and appreciate his knowledge of the issues surrounding health care and insurance. Your criticism of Sen. Shields follows a bigger issue of the growing practice of Salem moneyed interest groups using political power to exclude legislators—the people’s representatives—from closed-door deals on major public policy. Sen. Shields not only had a right to ask questions, he had the responsibility to get information on back-room deals being made on vital health policy. I have had the honor of serving as Sen. Shields’ vice chair of the Senate Committee on General Government, Consumer and Small Business Protection, where I disagree with him on most major policy. But with that said, I respect Chip’s integrity, and that is one quality of Sen. Shields that should not be questioned by your paper. The Rogue of the Week should have been given to the individual who fed you the story, not the public servant attempting to have vital policy discussed in an open public forum. Sen. Larry George (R-Sherwood)
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WW reported recently about the Oregon Department of Transportation program that has given Union Pacific— with billions in profits—state subsidies of $24.7 million to fix its own track under the lottery-funded ConnectOregon program (“Gravy Train,” WW, Feb. 8, 2012). Turns out it was news to legislators, many of whom were angered to learn that scarce state dollars were cushioning the rail giant. A half dozen House Democrats are now pushing for reforms: limited loans, not handouts, to forprofit rail companies. No word yet if the changes will come to a vote in the February session.
Despite plenty of reasons to do so, Rep. Mike Schaufler (D-Happy Valley) has not retreated. Last fall, legislative leaders jerked his House Business and Labor Committee chairmanship because of his boorishness toward a woman at an AFL-CIO convention. Last week he tangled with Gov. John Kitzhaber at a hearing, then held Democratic priorities hostage over water-use and timber-cutting bills. Many Democrats want the five-term incumbent gone and seek a May primary opponent. Among those looking to run: former Labor Commissioner Mary Wendy Roberts, 67, who served in the House and Senate in the 1970s. Roberts says of Schaufler, “I think his behavior is embarrassing.” Schaufler says he is working to create jobs and isn’t concerned about critics. “One cannot legislate out of fear,” he says. “And I don’t.” Occupy Portland is gearing SCHAUFLER up for F29: Shut Down the Corporations, a national day of protest to “challenge our society’s obsession with profit and greed.” Meanwhile, the movement is going hyperlocal: Offshoots have formed in Vancouver and Gresham. One prominent faction is Occupy St. Johns. The group meets Wednesdays, and its Facebook page says its Feb. 22 gathering will host a town hall with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, which wants to gather public input for the U.S. Department of Justice investigation into the Portland Police Bureau’s use of force. It’s at Anna Bannanas, 8716 N Lombard St., at 7:30 pm. Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt.
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NO SUCH THING AS FREE COFFEE Oregon Travel Experience already is paid by the state to run five rest areas. Lawmakers made the switch in 2009 after hearing how badly ODOT was running the stops. Among the worst were the Baldock rest areas on Interstate 5, just south of Wilsonville. As many as 100 homeless people lived there, says Oregon State Police Sgt. BY NIG E L JAQ UI SS njaquiss@wweek.com Fred Testa. Drug dealers and prostitutes operated openly, Testa says, and the “mayor” of Baldock created daily work For the Oregon Department of Transportation, February schedules for panhandlers, who took turns shaking down motorists. is the cruelest month. Legislators are wrestling with health-care and edu“It was a mess,” he says. cation reform while trying to keep the state budget in Since Oregon Travel Experience took over, state data balance. Meanwhile, they’re all but ignoring ODOT. show, calls for police service have dropped more than 50 The agency’s signature issue—the proposed $3.5 billion percent. And the restrooms get cleaned more often while staff members patrol the parking lots. Columbia River Crossing—still lacks funding. Now, though, ODOT officials might wish legislators But the better service comes at a hefty cost—contrary were paying even less attention to their agency. to the typical claim that specialized contractors can proLawmakers and a skilled lobbyist are preparing to strip vide the same service as public agencies for a lower price. In 2009, ODOT spent $3.8 million to millions from ODOT’s troubled budget maintain 41 highway rest areas. But under and send the money to a tiny agency most Senate Bill 1591, now before legislators, Oregonians don’t even know exists—all in FACT: More than 3,500 the name of safer, more pleasant rest areas vehicles per day stop at the the agency would be forced to pay Oregon Baldock rest area, 14 miles Travel Experience $6.55 million annufor motorists. south of Portland. The area Last week, the Senate Business and encompasses about 100 acres. ally to maintain just 28 rest areas. (ODOT would still maintain 13 rest areas, at a Transportation Committee voted unaniyearly cost of about $600,000.) mously to take control of 19 rest areas along highways and freeways away from ODOT and give “It’s more expensive because of the deferred maintethem to a quasi-public agency called Oregon Travel Expe- nance and increased staffing,” says Oregon Travel Experience CEO Cheryl Gribskov. rience. ODOT director Matt Garrett isn’t happy. “With the Oregon Travel Experience is the agency that sells advertising space to hotels, restaurants, gas stations and financial pie shrinking, is now the time to do this?” Garrett other businesses on those blue signs you see before exit asked legislators while testifying against the bill last week. Garrett’s agency finds itself in a serious financial bind ramps. Run by the Oregon Travel Information Council, it gets its $6 million-a-year budget from advertising, and for two big reasons. First, federal stimulus money is drying up. And second, ODOT has spent itself deeply into debt. increasingly from ODOT.
OREGON’S TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT IS LOSING CONTROL OF REST AREAS—AND THE COST OF KEEPING THEM SAFE AND CLEAN DOUBLES.
The department must make payments on the $2.9 billion in bonds it has issued to finance road projects over the past decade. The money that covers those debt payments— registration fees and the state’s 30-cent-per-gallon gas tax—aren’t keeping pace. That means ODOT has used up its buying power for new highway projects. There’s no money for the Columbia River Crossing or smaller projects such as widening Highway 217 or building the Newberg-Dundee bypass. “ODOT’s State Highway Fund resources,” Garrett told lawmakers in November, “are now essentially fully committed to debt service, the costs of running the agency, and maintaining highways, leaving virtually no state funding for new capital projects.” ODOT can usually muscle its way in Salem. So how does Oregon Travel Experience—an obscure private-public agency—wrestle an annual $6.55 million check from the state’s transportation colossus? Turns out the tiny agency has a pretty skilled lobbying and communications team of its own. It pays veteran lobbyist Craig Campbell (son of former House Speaker Larry Campbell) $5,000 a month, and former Sen. Rick Metsger (D-Welches), who used to chair the Senate’s transportation committee, gets nearly $4,000 a month for “coalition building.” But the real secret, Gribskov says, is knowing that the public likes clean, safe rest areas. ODOT made matters worse last September when it threatened to close the Mount Hood rest area at Government Camp. That encouraged Sen. Chuck Thompson (R-Hood River) to propose moving the Government Camp rest stop and a slew of others—along with the ODOT cash—to Oregon Travel Experience. Thompson also won over a powerful ally: Senate President Peter Courtney (D-Salem), who testified strongly in favor of the bill last week. At the hearing, Thompson joked that he knew the bill would appeal to Courtney, 68. “I figured, of anybody in the Senate,” Thompson told Courtney, “you would have the weakest bladder.” Willamette Week FEBRUARY 22, 2012 wweek.com
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has launched a criminal investigation into a large leak of ammonia from a Columbia County fertilizer plant in 2010 that went undetected for five days. Records show the plant—owned by an Australian chemical company—has a history of EPA penalties, including for other ammonia leaks. EPA officials won’t confirm the criminal investigation. But managers at the Dyno Nobel plant in Deer Island, about 35 miles north of Portland on U.S. Route 30, told employees about the investigation in a memo obtained by WW. The memo says employees are not required to answer investigators’ questions, and
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they should refer all inquiries to the company’s attorneys. Plant manager Greg Godfrey confirmed to WW that EPA criminal investigators interviewed workers Jan. 23 about the leak. “Because it’s a criminal case, I’m assuming that they think we intentionally violated the law, which isn’t the case,” Godfrey says. State and federal environmental officials occasionally impose civil fines on companies, but criminal cases are not common. The plant’s parent company, Incitec Pivot Ltd., is an Australian chemical company that posted $3.9 billion in sales last year. Its subsidiary, Dyno Nobel, is one of the world’s largest makers of explosives; its predecessor was founded by Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite and the international prizes that carry his name. The Oregon plant with 65 employees produces agricultural-grade nitrogen fertilizers, as well as chemicals used to reduce pollution from power plants. Officials for the state Department of Environmental Quality say ammonia isn’t a regulated pollutant, so neither the state nor federal regulators have limits on its release into the air. But ammonia is covered by a federal law that requires companies to notify the EPA right away if unexpected releases of dangerous chemicals occur. DEQ records reviewed by WW include a brief account of what Dyno Nobel said happened at its Deer Island plant in 2010: The plant shut down after a power outage on
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The EPA alleged that Dyno Nobel took 11 hours to report the 2008 leak. The EPA settlement required Dyno Nobel to install new leak-detection equipment. Godfrey says the plant did so, but the detectors did not pick up the 2010 leak. He said plant operators reported the leak as soon as it was discovered. “Why they’re looking at us with a criminal investigation, that’s a mystery to us,” he says. “We did everything that was required by the law.”
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In South Africa, F.W. de Klerk was an unlikely reformer. He had risen in that country’s white-minority power politics as a defender of apartheid. But in 1989 he emerged as a leader to end the practice. As president, he released African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela from prison and paved the way for free elections and majority rule. In 1993, de Klerk and Mandela shared the Nobel Peace Prize. Now out of politics, de Klerk, 75, continues to work for peace and democracy. He’s speaking twice in Portland on Feb. 29 (First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park Ave., 5:30 pm, $20; and Downtown Hilton Hotel, 921 SW 6th Ave., 7:15 pm, $100 includes dinner. Tickets must be purchased in advance; go to wholisticpeaceinstitute.com). WW caught up with de Klerk as he prepared for his visit. WW: Tell us a little about what you’re doing now. F.W. de Klerk: I have two foundations. One is the F.W. de Klerk Foundation, focused on South Africa, to a great extent a watchdog organization over our negotiated constitution. The other is the Global Leadership Foundation. I have brought together 29 former presidents, prime ministers, cabinet ministers and senior diplomats. All of us work in small teams to advise governments in the developing world on how to govern better. They are truly globally representative. What can everyday Americans do to improve the lives of people here and around the world? The heart of the problem lies in realizing that, with globalization, the world has become the proverbial village. We all need each other, and Americans cannot afford to be inward-looking. No matter how strong America might be, America can’t go it alone—particularly helping with other leading countries to stimulate economic development. The two biggest challenges we face in this century are the great divide between two-thirds of the world living more or less comfortably, and one-third living in abject desolation and poverty and bad health conditions and lack of education. The second is the challenge of managing diversity. With globalization, the world is become more and more diverse. How do we deal with important minorities? How do we make them feel accommodated, welcome, appreciated as building blocks of the greater whole rather than obstacles to the majority of the population? In South Africa, we have a microcosm. We recognize in our constitution 11 official languages.
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Which is the opposite of the U.S., where Spanish-language education is controversial. The fastest-growing entity within the American nation is the Spanish-speaking community and those with Spanish-based culture. We already know that in states like Arizona, California and New Mexico, you find recognition of those cultures. Don’t ask anybody to choose between different identities. All of us have multiple identities. I’m an Afrikaner and I’m a South African and I’m an African. President Mandela is a Xhosa and he’s a South African and he’s an African. If I am asked to say I am no longer an Afrikaner in order to be a good South African, it will bring a lot of pain to me. If anybody were to ask President Mandela to stop honoring his Xhosa heritage, then you would be doing him wrong. How do you, as a Nobel laureate, feel about the controversial awarding of the Peace Prize to Barack Obama? I wouldn’t like to comment on his Nobel Peace Prize specifically. The same committee, though maybe not the exact same individuals, who awarded it to me and Mr. Mandela awarded it to him. They have, over the years, I think, used the Peace Prize to promote peace. In our case, I can testify that giving it to both of us had a very positive effect. I think it was inspirational. I think it helped us to pursue our goal of a negotiated peace. It is my hope that in giving it to President Obama that it will likewise lead to dynamic pursuance of peace goals and peace initiatives. Thank you. Enjoy your travels. Is it very cold in Portland? Yes. And rainy. So I’d better bring my cap to cover my bald head.
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CONTENTS HOW TO: STAY WARM AND DRY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 FIND CHEAP GEAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 PEDAL BETTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 SEE AND BE SEEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 CHOOSE YOUR ROUTE TO WORK . . . . . . . . . . 21 KEEP IT ROLLING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 CARRY ANYTHING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
The rain will stop. When it does, thousands of smiling noobs will pedal shiny candy-colored cruisers and used mountain bikes with fake suspension forks along our streets. They’ll ride to work a couple times and to Apex for Soyrizo burritos and beer, and on the weekends they’ll swarm up and down Mount Tabor and Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard and the riverside paths. And then, when the first drops of autumn rain moisten their spring-loaded seats, they will stop. Don’t be one of them. If you want to commute year-round in this town, don’t wait until the weather’s so nice that your morning ride feels like a gift. Instead, earn your badges and chuckle at the fair-weather commuter crowd that retreats back to cars and buses at the slightest sign of cold. Start now—the worst of winter is over, but there’s still plenty of sodden weather ahead. If you can make it
through the next three months, the subsequent nine will pose no challenge. And you can ride year-round in Portland. This isn’t Minneapolis; knee-high snow is an unlikely problem. With a little forethought and fortitude, it’s easy. Maybe even fun. In the rain, the bike lanes are nearly empty—it’s just you, the road and the sweet, adrenal thrill of conquering the elements. In the rain, as the flying droplets sting your cheeks and the asphalt hisses in your wake, you are no longer just a rider—you are the cyclist god. Leave behind the fetid bus, the interminable waits and the daily road rage, and start riding today. There’s never been a better time, and we’ve assembled six guides to make the transition even easier. What’s the hitch, cupcake?
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HOW TO: STAY WARM AND DRY COPING WITH OREGON SUNSHINE THROUGH TRIAL AND ERROR. BY M A RT I N C I Z M A R
HEAD: First try: Just wear any old stocking hat—like a thin wool cap from H&M—under your helmet. The big foam-and-plastic helmet keeps you warm, right? Better yet: Any old hat will work until you start flying down hills or the wind swirls down the valley. Then it gets mighty chilly. Which is why it’s worth getting a Gore Windstopper stocking hat with big ear flaps (Outdoor Research, $25). Really, though: A balaclava made of sumptuous Smartwool ($35) would be wonderful on extra-cool days.
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It’s possible to cycle across town on the coldest, wettest day Portland has to offer without even the slightest chill. I suspect it is, anyway. Call me naive, but with an unlimited budget for gear I suppose cyclists can stay as comfortable as that asshat splashing up potholes in his SUV. Like most Portlanders, I lack the means to try such solutions. So solving the problems along my 13-mile round-trip winter commute has required some ingenuity. Wise people, and sad to say I am not one of them, buy what they need the first time. I’m plagued by poundfoolishness—always trying to scrape by with a more modest solution and often suffering in the process. All bike commuters seem to have different problems and peeves—some fear blue fingers, others fret a skunk stripe—so it’s hard to tell anyone where to spend their dough. But here’s what I’ve learned in four wet months of not driving to work despite having a nice little car I’m still paying off.
HANDS: First try: A cheap old pair of wool gloves from an army surplus store ($1) wicks the wetness away from your fingers and keeps the wind off. So does a pair of latex-palmed work gloves from a hardware store ($3). Better yet: A pair of 200-weight polar fleece gloves (cheap pairs can be found at Marshalls) are usually thick enough to not soak through until I get where I’m going. They need to be dried out at night, which is a hassle, but it’s definitely endurable. Really, though: I’ve got my eye on a pair of Pearl Izumi Cyclone bike gloves ($40) with a waterproof softshell, grippy synthetic leather palms and helpful reflective accents.
WHERE TO: FIND CHEAP GEAR Andy and Bax
324 SE Grand Ave., 234-7538. Portland’s sprawling military surplus store is the best place to go for inexpensive, often ugly rain gear. Head here for rain pants, hoods, ski masks, long underwear and oversized booties. They may not fit quite right, but they’ll be really cheap.
Next Adventure’s Bargain Basement 426 SE Grand Ave., 233-0706, nextadventure.net. The subterranean portion of the storied Portland outdoors store is packed floor to ceiling with great deals on closeouts and used gear. Come here for outerwear, bags, racks and helmets.
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Community Cycling Center refurbishes donated bikes into awesome riding machines, which it sells for a fraction of the new cost. Proceeds go toward teaching bike safety to kids, so you get a karmic benefit as well.
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Various locations, meetgoodwill.org. For all our talk of sustainability and upcycling and green this and that, Portlanders discard an awful lot of still-usable gear. Fortunately for everyone, much of it ends up at Goodwill stores, deeply discounted but still super-functional. A little regular browsing will turn up highquality rain gear. BEN WATERHOUSE.
CHEST: First try: A standard raincoat— which any Portlander should own— will work, though the unused hood tends to catch water and my trusty Columbia lacks armpit zips, causing a little too much condensation for comfort. Better yet: It takes some scouring, but you can score a decent used cycling coat at a thrift store or a secondhand sports store like Next Adventure. My Performance Bike coat (made in Canada, eh) runs about $129 new, but I found it at Goodwill for $7.99. It’s too big and muted red instead of eyeball-popping neon green, but it’s served me well. Really, though: When I run into a little cash, I’ll be buying an Endura Luminite cycling jacket ($139) made of waterproof material and with an LED fiber-optic strip sewn into the tail. LEGS: First try: A regular pair of camping rain pants, available for about $10 at an army surplus store or used camping-equipment shop, will protect your jeans from muck but probably not keep them dry. I just wore old Adidas running pants through December and changed into jeans at work. Better yet: Since the top of your legs are flat during much of your ride, they take the brunt of the falling rain. I finally decided it was worth getting a nice pair of seam-sealed pants with drawstring bottoms (Marmot Precip, $60). Really, though: Honestly, $60 solved my problems. It’d maybe be nice to have basically the same thing but with articulated knees, higher-end fabric and reflective accents sewn in (Vaude, $130). FEET: First try: Your feet are the hardest thing to keep dry on a bike commute, so why even try? I just put on a pair of wool socks and old shoes. Better yet: Cheap yellow nylon cycling shoe covers (Log House Designs, $15) without taped seams aren’t bombproof, but they do keep feet largely dry and shed the mud. A pair of cheap Planet Bike fenders ($12) helps you not ask too much of them. If you can’t deal with wet feet, a pair of rubber boots from the Urban Farm Store ($20) will keep you dry, though they tend to slip off the pedals. Really, though: Two Portland companies make cool water-battling footwear products. Shower’s Pass Club shoe covers ($40) are higherend than the cheapies I have, adding zippers and better fabric. The Bogs Hawthorne ($68) are ankle-high rubber shoes that look like sneakers and have a patch of ventilating mesh. It’s surprising more companies don’t make something like them. Then again, how many people outside Portland are crazy enough to have a need for such fancy rain boots?
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Whoever said doing the locomotion was easier than learning your ABCs—I’m lookin’ at you, Little Eva—wasn’t talking about biking. Pedaling healthily and efficiently requires at least A, B and C: (a) getting a frame that fits you and setting your saddle to the right position, (b) picking among several pedal options, and (c) working on your pedaling form. Having a well-fitted bike and a well-positioned saddle are inextricable from pedaling well. That’s because when you ride a bicycle that’s too big or small for you, or the saddle is too high or low, you’re not using the largest, strongest muscles in your legs—the quadriceps and hamstrings—to turn the pedals, says Dr. Tim Joslin, an assistant professor of family medicine at Oregon Health & Science University with a particular interest in sports medicine. “Those muscles aren’t getting lengthened and contracted at the optimal distance,” he explains. “You might be using more of your torso, when you should be using your hips and your buttocks.” Joslin—a bike commuter and competitive cyclocross racer—says poor frame fit or saddle position can result in knee or lower-back pain, sometimes necessitating physical therapy. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Finding a bike in your size is as easy as asking for help from your friendly local bike seller—like Ashley Mitchell, a worker-owner at co-op Citybikes. The basic rule of thumb for frame fit, Mitchell says, is when you stand over a bike’s frame with your feet flat on the ground, there should be an inch of clearance between your crotch and the top tube, and when you sit in the saddle with your hands on the handlebars, your arms and torso should form a 90-degree angle. Finally, with respect to saddle position, Mitchell says when you’re in the seat with your foot at the bottom of the pedaling cycle, your leg should be fully extended but your knees shouldn’t be locked. “Get the bike where, after you test-ride it a couple times, there’s no, ‘I like this bike, but this doesn’t feel right,’” Mitchell says. “You can make adjustments...but if you still have some things that don’t feel quite right, it’s not the right bike for you.” Once you’ve got the right bike, you need the right pedal setup. The most efficient, says OHSU’s Joslin, is clipless pedals—the kind riders lock their feet into using special cycling shoes. They provide the most efficient transfer of energy between rider and bike, he says, because they let riders put energy into the pedals at nearly every point in the pedaling cycle (rather than only on the downward stroke, as with regular platform pedals). Mitchell advises people wanting to go clipless to first find good cycling shoes, which start at around $75, and then buy pedals that are compatible with them, since not all shoes and pedals are a good match. “It’s very important that you have a shoe that’s comfortable and fits well, because you’re putting such specific weight on your foot when you’re riding clipless,” she says. “[If ] you get these $85 pedals and then you don’t like any of the shoes that come with them, that’s kind of a bummer.” The typical “starter” clipless pedals are a type called SPDs (Shimano Pedaling Dynamics) (See No. 1 in diagram). They’re inexpensive, ranging from $50 on up, and let riders either tightly lock in their feet or “float” a little. Mitchell recommends clipless pedals where the locking mechanism is integrated into a platform pedal, allowing riders to use the pedals with or without special shoes. At approximately $50 to $80, she says, “they’re more expensive, but they’re awesome.”
For new bike commuters, Mitchell advises starting with an option besides clipless, as being locked into pedals takes getting used to and needing to wear cycling shoes can be inconvenient. “It seems a little bit extreme to do that while your whole body is adjusting to cycling,” she says. The next best thing is a cage or a strap; both facilitate energy transfer on the upward stroke of the pedaling cycle, no locking in or special shoes necessary. Plastic cages (See No. 2) are cheap ($5 to $10) but don’t hold your feet very tightly (though you can supplement the hold with fabric “toe straps”). Metal cages (which run $12 to $25 and usually come with toe straps) grip your feet more firmly, but they scrape along the ground when not in use. Power grips (See No. 3)—straps worn across your feet diagonally—offer a firm hold sans scraping, but are pricier (approximately $30). The final option is both the costliest and the coolest: a large, BMX-style platform pedal with a special, wide strap (See No. 4). The strap alone costs perhaps $45 and BMX pedals run between $15 and $50, but, Mitchell says, the combo is “kind of the up and coming thing right now.”
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The last component you’ll need? Good form. “Getting on a bike, staying upright and propelling oneself forward is just the beginning,” says Russell Cree, founder of local cyclist/triathlete training center Upper Echelon Fitness. “Being efficient will greatly enhance your cycling experience.” Bikers with good, efficient form, Cree says, use their legs evenly, apply pressure to the pedals throughout the pedaling cycle using fluid ankle motion, and adjust their pedaling rhythm, which cycling geeks call “cadence,” to the riding surface. Cree tells bikers seeking to improve their form to begin by simply being more aware of their pedal stroke. “Make a conscious connection to your motion,” he says. “Can you pedal without rocking your hips, keeping your back stable? Are you ankles fluid through the pedal stroke, or do they stay rigid?” Riding at a low rhythm, try delivering power to the pedals throughout their revolution, he suggests. Your chain should be taut and your drivetrain should sound constant. Next, try upping your cadence—but stop before you start bouncing or rocking. Pedaling efficiently conserves energy and prevents injuries, but it does take work, Cree says. “Making two independent circles with each leg is harder than you think,” he says.
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It’s dark here. This far north, your commute is guaranteed to happen in the dark from the fall to the spring equinox, and our dismal weather makes for less-than-ideal visibility much of the rest of the year. While most of the city is lit well enough for an unlit bicyclist to find her way home, street lights are not bright enough to make sure others see you—and if drivers can’t see you, they’re more likely to hit you. The purpose of bike lighting is less to light your way than to announce your presence.
The bare minimum Oregon law requires bicycles be equipped with a white light on the front and a red reflector on the rear during “limited visibility conditions.” However, rear reflectors are not as effective as blinking taillights. A study for the Consumer Product Safety Commission found that overtaking drivers noticed a blinking red taillight 100 feet earlier than they did standard red reflectors. And fog can render reflectors useless, while lights remain partially visible. You can find a headlight-and-taillight set for as little as $16, but they won’t be worth much. Low-end bike lights are underpowered and, in my experience, cheaply made, with flimsy mounting hardware that tends to fail at the worst possible moment. But you needn’t lay out $700 for a 1400 lumen Light & Motion kit to get a good lighting set. Carl Larson, a bike and walk ambassador for the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, recommends Portland Design Works’ locally made Radbot taillight and Spaceship headlight, which can be purchased together for $50 at ridepdw.com or (shhh!) about $40 on Amazon. These lights are astonishingly bright for the price, are powered by convenient AA and AAA batteries, and come with versatile mounting hardware.
Good upgrades A starting bicyclist is unlikely to drop $250 on a lighting kit—isn’t biking supposed to save money?—but Larson says a dynamo hub-powered lighting system like those sold by Clever Cycles (900 SE Hawthorne Blvd., clevercycles.com) “are brighter than most battery powered ones, are always on your bike, don’t get stolen [and] don’t need charging.” As a long-term investment, he says, they can’t be beat: “I’ve wasted far more than $250 on batteries and stolen/lost lights over the years and none of them was as bright or dependable as these dynamo-powered lights.” There are also cheaper ways to improve the safety of your night rides. Pedal-mounted reflectors run about $5 to $10 for a set and, because they’re always in motion, tend to catch driver attention. The same goes for reflective ankle straps. Many bicycle tires now come with reflective sidewalls. In areas with poor lighting, it doesn’t hurt to throw on a reflective vest and maybe add another taillight or two to your frame and backpack. Bling The Internet is awash in blinking LED tire-valve caps, programmable spoke flashers and glowing fiber-optic cables. But for my money, the best way to make your ride unavoidably visible is Scotchlite reflective tape from 3M. It’s not exactly cheap at around $2 per foot, but it’s easy to apply and remove, looks unremarkable by daylight and glows like crazy in the beam of a car’s headlight. A 36-inch roll ($5.65 on Amazon) is enough to give any bike a reflective outline. You will be seen. RON ALFORD
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It may seem overwhelming at first, but the decision to commute to work by bike isn’t one you’ll regret. Maybe you’ve thought about it but haven’t figured out exactly how it’d work. Well, start scouting your route and you’ll see just how easy this biking-to-work thing is. Here is what seasoned bike commuters had to say on the subject. Get an overview of where you need to go. Yeah, Google Maps is great, but it’s no substitute for local maps like the “Portland By Bicycle” map from the city’s transportation bureau. “It folds up small and you can get it free at a lot of places around town,” says Stephanie Renfro, a statistician at a local healthcare nonprofit who commutes from Southeast Portland to her job downtown. Also, she says, keep your eyes peeled: “Take note of what streets experienced bikers seem to be using.” If you’re crossing the river, choosing the right bridge is key. Depending on the time of day, certain bridges may be more crowded with bikers than others. Stephanie’s husband, Jeff, a grad student at Portland State University, fears the popular Hawthorne Bridge at certain times of the day. “I’m happy that so many people are riding, but the bike traffic jams that happen on the Hawthorne remind me of the car traffic jams I ride my bike to avoid,” he says. Instead, if you’re also going north or south at some point, look at your options for the Steel and Broadway bridges. Also remember that you don’t need to take the same bridge every time you cross the river.
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Figure out how much traffic you can handle. Biking down streets with fast cars is scary—at first. Just ask Aaron Beatty, who works at Sellwood’s Bike Commuter shop. Beatty has relied on his bike as his main mode of transportation for six years. At first, he was more timid. “There would be times where I would dip into
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Don’t ignore public transit. The object of commuting by bike is to avoid driving, but that doesn’t necessarily require biking the entire distance. There are factors during your commute—rain, steep hills, rider laziness— that can turn an enjoyable ride into a chore. Next thing you know, you’re at the Suburu dealership. Don’t let it get that far. There’s no shame in hopping on a bus or train Dr. Randall Bluffstone, a PSU professor, has commuted by bike since 1989—longevity he attributes partly to his willingness to take the MAX when he just doesn’t feel like biking. “If I’m lazy and don’t want to climb up the hill to PSU, I’ll just put my bike on the nearby MAX line and let it haul me and my bike up the hill to PSU,” he says. Planning a route that incorporates the use of the bus or MAX is a great way to keep motivated when bad weather or fatigue creeps up.
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Don’t view cycling as a sacrifice. Rather than thinking of a bike commute as a social responsibility, the cycle commuters we talked to said it’s good for their bodies, wallets and psyche. Changing up his route, especially in nice weather, motivates Bluffstone: “There’s enough options that if sometimes if the weather’s really nice and you just want to ride along the river, you can.” Says Renfro: “Every year or so when I replace my tires or pay for a tune-up, I gripe at the expense until I remember that’s what a typical person spends on gas every two or three weeks.” “I don’t feel like I’m making a sacrifice when I commute by bike,” says her husband, Jeff. “I feel like it is just the better way to do it.”
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A LITTLE REGULAR CARE CAN SAVE YOU AN EXPENSIVE TRIP TO A MECHANIC. BY NATA L I E B A K E R
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If your bike is making ominous clicking, scraping or creaking noises—or, worse, if you can feel the equivalent of those sounds while pedaling—you need to take your bike into a shop immediately. If you’d like to avoid ever hearing those noises in the first place, this guide is for you. By doing the following five basic maintenance tasks, you can spare yourself all sorts of setbacks and mechanical and medical bills. Special thanks to Tom Daly at WTF Bikes for his advice in compiling this list.
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TIRE INFLATION The most important, simple and neglected way to make sure you don’t have problems on the road. Most tires will lose 1 to 3 pounds of air per day (depending on the type of tire), so a few weeks without fresh air will give you tires that are vulnerable to pinch flats, not to mention the sluggishness that comes with riding on mushy wheels. A simple rule of thumb is to give your tires a squeeze once per week, but if you aren’t sure what a slightly deflated tire feels like, consider giving them a little air. Your tires should have their optimum level of inflation printed on them, so make sure it’s always in that range.
LUBE YOUR CHAIN You can also clean your chain, but unless you’ve been leaving a lot of grease on it, your chain will tend to keep itself clean. To lube your chain, push your pedal counter-clockwise at a steady speed while dripping a thin, steady stream of lube onto the chain for four to six pedal rotations. Wait, at the very minimum, 15 to 20 minutes before wiping the chain down. If you have the time, wait much longer—the lube that actually helps your bike is what sinks inside the chain, not the stuff on the surface. After enough time has passed, wipe off the leftover lube from your chain by rotating your pedal counterclockwise while grasping the chain with a rag. Do this for a good amount of time, because any leftover lube is just going to collect gunk.
BRAKE PAD ADJUSTMENT AND REPLACEMENT It’s good to keep an eye on your brake pads’ level of wear because they can cause damage to your tires. Hearing scraping sounds while braking or having to pull your brake levers all the way up against your handlebars to stop are dead giveaways. Periodically take a look at your brake pads to make sure the rubber hasn’t worn down past the indented nubs. If your brake pads are getting pretty worn, make sure they are still aligned exactly with your rim and, most important, not touching the actual tire (as opposed to the rim) when you brake, which exhausted brake pads will sometimes do. As your brake pads get used, you will want to adjust their cable tension so you have adequate control over them while riding. You can tell when your cable tension needs adjustment based on how much you have to pull on your brake levers to come to a stop.
REGULAR VISUAL INSPECTION Intuition and a little logic can be powerful tools in preventing damage to your bike, and avoiding a major blowout or mechanical bill can be as simple as looking over your gears, chain, brakes, spokes and tires. Dents, cracks, severe wear and anything that doesn’t look right are signs you need to take your bike to a shop.
CLEAN YOUR BIKE This isn’t crucial unless you’ve been pedaling through mudslides, but it definitely doesn’t hurt. All you’ll need is a mild degreaser like Simple Green and a dry rag. Go wild. Make sure to get at your derailleur, spindle, bottom bracket tube and brakes. As long as you aren’t using solvents that are too strong and make sure to wipe everything down, you can’t go wrong.
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When it comes to switching from cars or public transit to bicycling, actual pedaling is only half the battle. Unless you’re funemployed in July and your only cargo is the precious U-Lock in your back pocket, converting to the bike doctrine requires determination, planning, and— you know it—gear. Here’s a rundown of the most popular ways that bicyclists carry their stuff, in order of how serious a rider you should plan to be. THE BACKPACK Often the cargocarrying mode of choice for newbie riders, the backpack is a convenient and versatile way to haul everyday things if you’re dabbling in biking—you probably have a pack lying around the house, after all. Fast-forward a few weeks to the first day you have to commute five miles in 40-degree driving rain, and you’re going to want something more waterproof and less cumbersome. There are suitable options, like the sporty Osprey Momentum ($130) or instantly recognizable Chrome Metropolis Buckle Bag ($160), but getting a quality pack like that costs about the same as a set of panniers. If you end up being in this for the long haul, consider investing in bags you don’t have to wear.
THE MILK CRATE Strapping a milk crate to your back rack is akin to wearing generic canvas shoes in Portland. It’s cheap, mildly hip and gets the job done. And the second it starts raining, you’ll wish you’d thought things through a bit. With the convenience of being able to throw whatever you fancy into that crate comes the added sluggishness of a carrying mechanism that pulls against your center of gravity. Unless you only do the twowheel thing during the summertime, your stuff is guaranteed to get soaked. Ask any bike-shop mechanic and they’ll tell you—the classic crate isn’t so convenient. But at least they’re free if you steal one from a local grocery store, like most folks do.
THE BASKET Bike baskets are like crates, but you actually have to pay for them. In return, you get to look cute at Sunday Parkways and solidify your neighborhood identity as an easygoing but respectable community member. Costs range from $40 for a quick-release wire contraption to $130 for charming wicker baskets built specifically for pets. PANNIERS They ’re waterproof, relatively heavy duty, detach easily and don’t throw off your bike’s efficiency. Panniers are, with few exceptions, a must-have for daily commuters. The downside is that it’s a slippery slope from your first pannier purchase into the eye roll-inducing spandex biker stereotype. Unless you’re careful, waterproof booties, Gore-Tex and pit zips may be in your future. Everything in moderation. Panniers run about $120 for a good pair. THE BIKE TRAILER Great for carrying kids and puppies or getting strangers to think you’re weird for toting paint supplies in what is generally considered a child’s travel device. On the plus side, you can haul a lot of stuff, but you’ll suffer in maneuverability. A quality trailer will put you a few hundred bucks in the deep, but there are decent options that cost about the same as a pair of Ortlieb bags. There is also a sub-genre of bike trailers designed with inanimate cargo in mind, but these tend to be great for touring, not commuting. And ultimately, if you’re actually planning to put a bike trailer to good use, you better have the stamina and muscles that the typical beginner only dreams of. XTRACYCLE OK, so you’re superserious about this biking thing. Forget water bottles and wallets— you just sold your car and want to be able to haul loads as if that hatchback were still connected to your fenders. There’s something appealing about the capacity and extreme bikeyness of cargo bikes, but you’ve already got a solid frame. Meet the Xtracycle, a popular add-on to standard bikes that converts most of them into longer cargo carriers for $100-$300. Xtracycles get xtra expensive once you move beyond the basic accouterments.
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SCOOP GOSSIP HOTTER THAN A TRINIDAD MORUGA SCORPION. ALL-STARRING ROLE: Before his appearance Sunday at the NBA All-Star Game in Orlando, Trail Blazers forward LaMarcus Aldridge is set for an appearance on Portlandia. On Friday, Feb. 24, the 6-foot-11 Aldridge will appear in a scene at Women & Women First, the feminist bookstore from Portlandia, where he plays the boyfriend of actress Penny Marshall. Two brief-but-memorable lines of dialogue have been confirmed: “I’m a professional basketball player,” and “I like bologna, too.” Give this man his Golden Globe! POSTERIZED: A Pina poster autographed by German director Wim Wenders auctioned for $2,000 on Feb. 16 during his Cinema 21 visit. PLAYING KOI: The KOi Fusion truck that often parks on West Burnside Street is getting an indoor dining room that will one day house a kitchen. Owner Bo Kwon confirmed he’s purchased the former Stadium Flowers at 2010 W Burnside St., which will be available for indoor dining. “For a year, we’ll work out of the truck because I can’t afford to build a kitchen yet,” he says. A liquor license and a sporty feel with TVs showing Timbers and Blazers games will follow. “It won’t be a sports bar—we’re not theming it out—but I’m definitely a sports fan and I’ll be working there a lot, so I’ll get the veto vote.” Craft brews “beyond what you can find in the area” are also planned, Kwon says.
MUSICAL CHAIRS: Some gossip about Gossip, the Beth Ditto-led blues-punk outfit that has been oddly quiet as of late: The band has added Katy Davidson, of Dear Nora/YACHT fame, on keyboards. Sadly, this means Davidson will be leaving the live incarnation of YACHT. >> In similar news, Menomena’s Danny Seim (who released an excellent free album under the name of his Lackthereof solo project online Feb. 10) will play some upcoming live dates (including Austin’s SXSW) with ex-WW Best New Band Talkdemonic. The lucky among us caught a sneak-peak at an expanded Talkdemonic on New Year’s Eve, when the duo joined Seim and Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock (BrockdeSEIM monic!). CORRECTION: A story in the Feb. 15 issue of WW misspelled the name of Lincoln Crockett’s son, Chiron. 26
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WEDNESDAY FEB. 22 GARTH FAGAN DANCE [DANCE] It’s a jazzy two-for-one deal: Dance presenter White Bird has teamed up, for the first time, with the Portland Jazz Festival to bring us Garth Fagan’s Griot New York, set to an original score by jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. Choreographed in 1991 by Fagan, the piece tells the story—as an African griot might— of urban life, invoking its sights and sounds, dissonances and harmonies. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm. $26-$64. All ages.
SATURDAY FEB. 25 PORTLAND CELLO PROJECT PLAYS PANTERA [MUSIC] Tonight PCP is performing, in full, one of the most ferocious metal records ever made: Pantera’s Vulgar Display of Power. On the surface, it seems like an odd choice, but cello makes a perfect standin for Dimebag Darrell’s power-drill guitar. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
SUNDAY FEB. 26 THE ENVELOPE PLEASE: OREGON GOES TO THE OSCARS [MOVIE HISTORY] Hours before the Academy Awards hit your TV (or the Bagdad, Hollywood and Mission theaters, if you feel like company), Oregon film historian Anne Richardson gives an illustrated primer on the state’s golden-statuette honorees. Hint: One of them rhymes with Mus Man Mant. Oregon Historical Society, 1200 SW Park Ave., 222-1741. 2 pm. Free with OHS admission and/or to Multnomah County residents.
THE RIGHT SHUFF WHITE-KNUCKLED, WHITE-HAIRED SHUFFLEBOARD AT HAVANA WEST.
Shuffleboard makes for strange bedfellows. Tonight my teammate—drawn at random—is Don, a white-haired old-timer with a sunny disposition helped by a decent Pabst buzz. As this is my first shuffleboard tournament, I ask Don—who has been playing at Havana West, the bar formerly Hal’s Tavern, for “quite a few years”—for a little advice. “I got one word for you,” Don says, squeezing my shoulder. “Win.” There are at least a dozen serviceable places to play shuffleboard in Portland, but the beautiful table at Hal’s, with its smooth wood and light-up scoreboard, is widely considered the finest. The bartender tells me she’s deadly serious about keeping beers away from it. “The first time I give people a warning,” she says. “And then the second time I might tickle them. But I’ll throw people out if I have to.” The loose crew of players who gather here for informal tournaments on Friday and Saturday nights—mostly men, mostly past retirement age—like to say the table is “faster than snot.” They disagree on the exact date this table landed at Hal’s, but the bar opened in 1944 and they figure it has been here since near the
beginning. “I’m not sure,” one of them tells me. “I’ve only been playing here since ’65. Ask Dan.” Dan is Dan Dobbek, who played a season with the Washington Senators before they became the Minnesota Twins. A blown-up 1960 rookie card hangs on the wall not far from where Dobbek is sitting with the same constant smile plastered on his face. He’s not sure on the date of the table, either, though he may well have misheard the question. With help from the regulars (“Use the edge!” “Throw it like you mean it!”), a particularly lucky throw, a trashed young opponent and a bye-round draw, Don and I make our way to the finals, where we lose focus and drop the game to the tune of 16-3. “Hey, we did all right,” Don says, shaking my hand firmly. Later I hear him telling his friends that “this was a real good one tonight.” I couldn’t agree more. CASEY JARMAN. SEE IT: Players at Havana West, 1308 SE Morrison St., hold informal shuffleboard tournaments most Friday and Saturday nights at 7 pm. A five-week tournament begins Tuesday, March 6, and continues every Tuesday until April 3 (with $1.50 Pabst pints during tournament play).
ULTIMATE CHEESE CHALLENGE [FOOD] Cheese Bar’s Steve Jones and Tabla Bistro team up for the Ultimate Cheese Challenge: Jones will select 36 cheeses (it’s, like, the largest Steve’s Cheese Plate ever!), and participants will get two hours to taste them all, along with cured meats from McMinnville’s Fino in Fondo, wines from Matello Wine and Teutonic Wine Company, beer from the Commons Brewery and Gigantic Brewing and cider from Bushwhacker Cider and Wandering Aengus Ciderworks. Tabla Mediterranean Bistro, 200 NE 28th Ave. 238-3777, tabla-restaurant.com. $49.
MONDAY FEB. 27 CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF [MOVIES] It’s Elizabeth Taylor’s 80th birthday and, as we can’t spend it in the heavenly tree house she shares with Michael Jackson, let us instead join her granddaughter Laela Wilding to watch Granny Liz take on Tennessee Williams. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 493-1128. 7 pm. $10 donation benefits Cascade AIDS Project and da Vinci Arts Middle School.
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Salty’s is hosting a five-course pairing dinner of food and bourbon. Dishes include braised octopus, baked venison and bourbon-braised rabbit, paired with drinks like the Kentucky mule and bourbon sweet iced tea. Weirdly, all the press info makes no mention of what bourbon will be used, which has me a little suspicious. Salty’s on the Columbia, 3839 NE Marine Drive, 505-9986. 6 pm. $55 per person. 21+.
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Special Snowflake Supperclub’s next dinner will be a mash-up of “the lands of ice and snow and the Kingdoms of the Sun.” The menu still isn’t out, but the press release promises “gravlaks, lefse, aquavit, beet soup, recovados (chili pastes), masa-harina dumplings, pastry snowballs and drinking chocolate,” in a meal that caters to vegans, vegetarians, pescetarians and omnivores. Get tickets here. Abby’s Table, 609 SE Ankeny St., 828-7662. 6:30 pm. $45 per person plus drinks.
SATURDAY, FEB. 25 The New School and Brewvana Present: A Day Trip to Astoria
Beer blog The New School and Brewvana Brewery Tours are teaming up for a brewery tour of Astoria. The bus will take drinkers from Portland to Rogue Brewery in Newport for beer and appetiz-
ers, Astoria Brewing for beer and a brewery tour with head brewer John Dalgren and Fort George Brewery for dinner, a tour and blind stout tasting. Register at experiencebrewvana.com. Noon-6 pm. $105 with beer, $85 without.
Sixth Annual Chowder Challenge
Lompoc Brewing’s annual Chowder Challenge is on again. This year’s competitors include Cascade Brewing Barrel House, Columbia River Brewing, D’s Bar, Deschutes Brewery, EaT: An Oyster Bar, El Gaucho, Fifth Quadrant, New Old Lompoc, Rogue, Salty’s and Trebol. Chowder heads can purchase a tasting tray of the entries for $10, with money going to Portland’s Community Transitional School. There will also be special beers on offer—including two from a collaboration between Lompoc and Ladies of Lagers and Ales—live music, a soda garden for the kids, a raffle and something called “Joe the Balloon Guy.” 5th Quadrant, 3901-B N Williams Ave., 288-3996. Noon-4 pm. Free admission, $10 for a sample tray of chowder and voting ballot.
SUNDAY, FEB. 26 The Reign of Spain: An Evening of Tapas
Kenny & Zuke’s Sunday dinner series returns, as does its longrunning Spanish dinner. Chef Ken Gordon will serve up 14 dishes to share, along with pomegranate sangria. Kenny & Zuke’s Delicatessen, 1038 SW Stark St., 222-3354. Seatings at 4:30 pm and 7:15 pm. $42.50 per person including wine, $35.50 without wine, $19.75 kids under 12.
Ultimate Cheese Challenge
Cheese Bar’s Steve Jones and Tabla Bistro team up for the Ultimate Cheese Challenge. Jones will select 36 cheeses (it’s, like, the largest Steve’s Cheese Plate ever!), and participants will get two hours to taste them all, along with cured meats from McMinnville’s Fino in Fondo, wines from Matello Wine and Teutonic Wine Company, beer from the Commons Brewery and Gigantic Brewing, and cider from Bushwhacker Cider and Wandering Aengus Ciderworks. Challenge accepted. Get tickets here. Tabla Mediterranean Bistro, 200 NE 28th Ave., 238-3777. 11 am-1 pm, 2-4 pm, 5-7 pm. $49 per person.
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Not many American craft brewers count a Pilsner—the stalwart style that includes big names like Beck’s and Stella—as their signature brew. For marketing purposes, they’re probably too close to their mass-produced and much-cheaper American cousins to convert fans. McMinnville’s Heater Allen Brewing, which focuses on German-style lagers, makes a great Pils that’s bright and refreshing with malty depth. The same balancing impulse recently drove brewer Rick Allen to tone down the smoke in his Schwarz dark lager. The resulting brew, which has only two-thirds as much smoked malt as it did when first released, is subtly impressive. Schwarzbiers are German beers similar to English porters and stouts in their black color and cocoa and coffee flavors. Heater Allen’s Schwarz has a little black coffee acridity and a lot of mild fruitcake-type nutty sweetness. Too many craft brewers make smoked malt beers that taste like ashtrays; Allen’s reconsidered restraint is appreciated. Recommended. MARTIN CIZMAR. 30
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500 NW 23rd Ave., 206-6251, portlandbagelco.com. Big seller: Everything bagel “It tastes like Safeway bagels are supposed to taste, but Safeway bagels are actually way better.” “This tastes like a baguette when you toast it.” “Was this made by Republicans?”
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1625 SE Bybee Blvd., 232-0000, marseebaking.com. Big seller: Asiago “It’s just a big, puffy piece of dough.” “It doesn’t appear to be boiled.” “I have nothing to say about this.”
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1700 SE 6th Ave., 546-4901, newcascadiatraditional.com Big seller: Everything bagel (gluten-free) “I can tell this is the gluten-free bagel, and bagels are made with high-gluten flour. You cannot have a gluten-free bagel; the gluten is inherent to its bagelness.” “This is the weightiest bagel I’ve ever held.” “I feel like I’ve taken a dare to eat cat litter.”
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123 SW Broadway, 225-1655 (picked up from the warehouse). Big seller: Sesame (no plain available), cheddar “It’s sweet and horrible.” “It’s a hamburger bun.” “I would enjoy this as a sandwich.”
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Kettleman Bagels is in zombie mode. Things have slipped fast since the beloved local bagelry sold out last November to Colorado-based Einstein Bros. Kettleman’s superb boiled bagels—the best in town, a great many said—are being replaced with bready, unboiled doughnut things. Dense, chewy vitriol has followed. There’s a bagel hole in the heart of this city. The hurt may never completely heal. But, at some point, we need to move on. So WW sought to anoint a successor to Kettleman’s bagels. This somber chore was not undertaken lightly. With eight staffers consuming the equivalent of five bagels each, it didn’t end lightly, Best plain bagel: Spielman either. Coffee Roasters. Our blind taste-off featured four Best overall: Kenny & Zuke’s everything bagel. sample bagels from 10 Portland Best non-bagel bagel: Nuvrei’s shops. All were purchased during jalapeño-cheddar pretzel bagel. the same three-hour window on a typical Wednesday morning. At each stop we ordered “two plain bagels and two of your most popular flavor.” Half were toasted, half were not. Each bagel—40 total—was cut into eight pieces. Plain cream cheese was optional. In the end, we found no shop can replace Kettleman alone. The title of Portland’s Best Bagel is now split. Newcomer Spielman Coffee Roasters, on the east side, has the best plain bagel, while Kenny & Zuke’s everything bagel was our consensus pick for best overall. An honorary mention goes to Nuvrei for its pretzel-dough bagels, which were deemed the “best non-bagel bagel.”
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FEB. 22-28 HISTORY
[PUNK] Prepare yourself, Portland, for a modest evening of punk rock and facepummeling thrash metal in a scenebending concert lineup that is sure to be remembered. Punk/crossover veterans the English Dogs as well as the Casualties bring a combined 40-plus years of rocking experience into the intimately spaced Branx, trucking in tow some leaders of the thrash-metal and crossover-revival movements. Portland’s own Toxic Holocaust makes a stop at home on its national tour, while Colorado thrash act Havok are set to unleash its own concoction of vintage metal madness, in support of their second major-label release, Time Is Up, from 2011. Mandatory studded denim vest not included with ticket purchase. COLLIN GERBER. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 8 pm. $16 advance, $18 day of show. 21+.
Jacob Balcom, Tiny Hearts
[SINGER-SONGWRITER STANDOUT] More surprising, even, than when a musician emerges from the great undifferentiated mass of singer-songwriters is hearing how fine the distinction is between a gifted songsmith and a boring one. Well-built tunes, a velvety baritone and masterly studio work place Portlander Jacob Balcom firmly on the talented side of this thin musical line. Balcom last played in local alt-country outfit Hungry Holler (alongside Wild Flag’s Rebecca Cole); his folksy roots show on So Long Everybody, the moseying, plaintive solo record he releases tonight. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., 228-3669. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
Dramady, Rollerball, Thebrotheregg
[PSYCH ROCK] On pure girth of musical catalog, Rollerball can go toeto-toe with anyone in Portland. With literally dozens of releases out under its name (including 14 or 15 albums, depending on how you count them, and an endless string of EPs), it’s hard to pin a true genre tag on the Portland psych group, but each release is generally something entirely different than the one before it. New EP Murwa Mbwa (you start running out of names
Neutral Uke Hotel, Golden Bloom, Michael J. Epstein
[TURN UP THE UKE] Neutral Milk Hotel’s 1998 album, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, is an indie-rock chef d’oeuvre, a sweeping portrait (apparently, and widely believed to be, about Anne Frank) in lo-fi fuzz and surreal, ghastly beautiful imagery. I mean,“Can’t believe how strange it is to be anything at all,” the title track’s last line, has to be one of the loveliest lyrics ever sung. Hyperbole? Perhaps— but In the Aeroplane inspires this sort of fanaticism. See: New Jersey’s Shawn Fogel, who’s touring the country with an all-ukelele rendition of the record. Neutral Uke Hotel is a pretty transparent marketing ploy for Fogel’s main project (and tonight’s opener) Golden Bloom, but whatevs—to hear this classic live (even uked out), we’ll take the bait. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
THURSDAY, FEB. 23 The Vandies, Year of the Rabbit, Madame Torment (Girls Kick Ash! all-female rock night)
[FATAL FEMMES] It goes to show that, while it’s commonplace to see female musicians in dude-heavy bands, the all-female rock band is still enough of a rarity that when someone puts together a bill featuring nary a Y chromosome, it’s a selling point. Really, though, with this lineup, gender is inconsequential—even if Beaverton’s Madame Torment refers to itself as “bitch rock.” Flipping cock rock on its, um, head, the band plays debauched party anthems with the raucous attitude (and big-time guitars) of Mötley Crüe. Year of the Rabbit is some-
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BY WATE R TOWER
REALLY PUNK BLUEGRASS SONGS. “Salty Dog Blues,” Morris Brothers Google “salty dog” while keeping in mind that this song is from the late ’30s. There is something just so filthy about the term. “Rye Whiskey,” Tex Ritter The lyric goes: “Them that don’t like me can leave me alone.” Punks were hardly the first degenerate antisocials. “Alabama High-Test,” Old Crow Medicine Show Driving around in a tour bus with all sorts of things. “Tennessee,” Jimmy Martin A song about where he was born and raised—similar to PDX punk pride. “Nobody’s Business,” Benton Flippen “I like to gamble/ Get drunk and ramble/ Nobody’s business what I do.” SEE IT: Water Tower (formerly Water Tower Bucket Boys) celebrates the release of Where The Crow Don’t Fly on Friday, Feb. 24, at McMenamins’ Kennedy School, 5736 NE 33rd Ave. 7 pm. Free. All ages.
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There’s no official theme for this year’s Portland Jazz Festival. That’s fine: They’re often contrived anyway. Still, the presence of Seattle’s Bill Frisell and Berkeleyite-turned-Brooklynite Charlie Hunter, along with several shows by Portland’s fretboard master, Dan Balmer, puts the guitar front and center at this year’s fest. We asked Balmer, who’s given private lessons to some of the city’s finest young guitarists—at Lincoln High School and Lewis & Clark College—for a quick overview of his instrument’s jazz legacy, beginning with the founding fathers and wrapping up with artists playing this year’s jazz festival. Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt “Those are the pillars that contemporary jazz guitar is built on,” Balmer says. In less than three years between the time he joined Benny Goodman’s sextet and his death at age 25 in 1942, Christian made the electric guitar into a powerful jazz instrument and influenced practically everyone who played it after him, whether they know it or not. Around the same time, the incomparable Belgian gypsy Reinhardt was developing the swinging “le jazz hot” with his partner, violinist Stephane Grappelli. Reinhardt is the deity most subsequent guitar heroes worship. Wes Montgomery The next generation brought two more tremendously influential voices. “One major school came out of Wes Montgomery, including his contemporary, Grant Green, George Benson, Pat Martino” and dozens more, Balmer says, praising Montgomery’s “playing of octaves, his swingingness, his advanced harmonic level, his chord-soloing ability, the logic with which he played.” Jim Hall “Guys like Pat Metheny down to Kurt Rosenwinkel came out of his approach—exploratory, less bluesy, less traditional, more surprising, more a b s t r a c t ,” B a l m e r says. “He influenced a lot of people that then themselves became influential, including a lot of the hip guys in New York.”
Bill Frisell “I’ll be introducing him at his concert Saturday,” Balmer says, noting that Frisell’s heady days in N e w Yo r k C i t y ’s famed avant-garde music scene of the 1970s through the ’90s gave him the credibility to attract fans when he started playing music that had a country or folk feel, almost a pedal steel sound. “From New York avant-garde to country and bluegrass to very pastoral folk stuff—that’s a pretty heavy body of accomplishment,” Balmer says. “What makes Frisell important is that he’s not only a great, prolific composer, but he also has his own immediately recognizable sound, and he’s managed to reach a wide audience with both.” Charlie Hunter Balmer acknowledges that the generationyounger Hunter hasn’t yet reached Frisell’s level of achievement, but with his eight- or seven-string guitar-plus-bass setup, “He’s come up with this completely crazy idea, something unique, new and different, which is hard,” Balmer says. “And it’s something people like to hear, which is even harder.” Despite covering everyone—from Marley to Monk to Nirvana—and flirting with jam-band, hiphop and neo-soul scenes, Hunter “has developed it and adapted it all completely G E to his own recognizable voice,” GR Balmer says.
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for things after a while) is surprisingly straightforward—sounding like everything from Low (on the catchy-as-hell “Wah Kitty”) to recent-era Radiohead (on opener “Coffee With Donnie”). Even from track to track Rollerball offers plenty of stylistic diversity, but the through line here is that these songs—a lot like this enduring band—kick ass. CASEY JARMAN. Kenton Club, 2025 N Kilpatrick St., 285-3718. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
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Dan Balmer His week at the jazz festival demonstrates Balmer’s stylistic range. Last Saturday, he played his own mainstream music with his trio, then on Sunday joined New York’s avant-garde Jazz Passengers. You can hear his harder-rocking, drum-andbass-influenced Go By Train trio, and Balmer plays still another style every week in Mel Brown’s band at Jimmy Mak’s. “I’m influenced by everyone on a daily basis,” he says with a chuckle. “My greatest strength and my greatest weakness is that I’m susceptible to anything. I’m big on Frisell, [John] Scofield, Metheny, [John] McLaughlin—there’s something to learn from all of them.” SEE IT: Dan Balmer’s Go By Train plays Rogue Distillery and Public House, 1339 NW Flanders St., on Thursday, Feb. 23. 9 pm. Free. 21+. Bill Frisell plays the Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., on Friday, Feb. 24. 9:30 pm. $25-$45. All ages. Frisell plays the Newmark Theater, 1111 SW Broadway, on Saturday, Feb. 25, with the 858 Quartet. 7 pm. $28-$58. All ages. Charlie Hunter plays the Crystal Ballroom on Saturday, Feb. 25. 9:30 pm. $25. All ages. For more Portland Jazz Festival events, see pdxjazz.com. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 22, 2012 wweek.com
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THE DARKNESS THURSDAY, FEB. 23 America never really understood the Darkness. In fairness, when the band hit stateside in the early 2000s, the country hadn’t seen a frontman regularly wear spandex unitards since David Lee Roth could execute a high-kick without pulling his groin. So audiences can be forgiven for thinking the group, with its glam-metal bombast and singer Justin Hawkins’ catdisturbing castrato, was just a Spinal Tap-ish put-on. Compared to the band’s native England, where it was, for a time, a national phenomenon, the American reaction to the Darkness was mostly one of confusion: Yanks couldn’t comprehend a rock band being, at once, totally ripping and utterly fucking ridiculous. According to guitarist Dan Hawkins, however, in some ways, the band feels more at home in the States than in Britain. “People can actually let go and have a good time here, whereas sometimes, in the U.K., there’s a ‘too cool for school’ kind of thing,” Hawkins says over the phone from Denver, where the Darkness is in the midst of its first North American tour in about eight years. “And in many ways, we’re possibly the most uncool band that’s ever existed.” If “uncool” is defined by being several decades out of step with the zeitgeist, well, then, yes, the Darkness is pretty uncool. Its 2003 debut, Permission to Land, mixed Def Leppard pomp with AC/DC stomp and a Queen-like sense of camp. Get past the lyrics about genital warts, masturbation and pingpong, though, and it’s a near-perfect hard rock record, full of monstrous riffs and hooks galore. Cool or not, the album exploded in the U.K., going five-times platinum and slingshotting the band from clubs to stadiums—precisely where its outsized live show, featuring multiple wardrobe changes and Justin flying over the crowd on the back of a life-sized tiger, belonged. In the United States, Permission to Land only sold a fraction of what it did across the pond, but the single “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” was too much of an amusing curiosity—and too crazy-catchy—to not become a hit. Things, as they’re wont to do, started going awry around the time of the band’s second album. Shortly after the release of 2005’s One Way Ticket to Hell...and Back, with the band’s hard partying catching up to it (“Instead of burning the candle from both ends, we took a fucking torch to it,” Dan says), Justin went into rehab, and the Darkness fell apart. In 2009, the band reconciled. Last year, it launched a fullfledged reunion, and is in the process of recording a third album. “There are some really heartfelt songs on this record, but there’s also some ridiculous stuff, and probably a return to the stupidly rocking kind of stuff,” Dan says. Looking back, he admits the Darkness probably could’ve helped itself by playing things a bit more straight, “instead of showering ourselves in glitter and running around like idiots.” But after doing time in more “serious” projects during the hiatus, he says it’s a relief to be back with a group where coolness isn’t much of a concern. “We’re all blessed to be in a band where it’s a necessity not to take yourself too seriously,” he says. MATTHEW SINGER.
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THURSDAY-FRIDAY thing different altogether: introspective and atmospheric, like fellow Portlanders Lovers minus the danceability and plus the dreamy experimentalism of Blonde Redhead. MATTHEW SINGER. Ash Street Saloon, 225 SW Ash St., 226-0430. 9:30 pm. $5. 21+.
Cate Le Bon, Key Losers
[DEADPAN FOLK] When singersongwriter Cate Le Bon left her parents’ farm in West Wales to play music, she credited her style to two things: burying too many dead pets in the yard and listening to her father’s extensive record collection. This makes sense somehow: Le Bon’s sound rings with a strangeness that’s hard to put a finger on (maybe it sounds like burying a cat?), but it also teems with similarities to classics like The Velvet Underground & Nico. Le Bon recently released her sophomore album, CYRK, which is the Polish word for “circus.” As the name suggests, the album flows with a little more playfulness than Le Bon’s previous work, but it still reveals the idiosyncrasies she’s known for. EMILEE BOOHER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12.
FRIDAY, FEB. 24 The Jealous Sound
[POST-ROCK/PRE-EMO] While you’d imagine any project featuring members of Knapsack, Jawbox and Sunny Day Real Estate—a super group, let’s say—held a decidedly niche appeal for post-millennial crowds, bringing together underappreciated favorites of ’90s post-rock wasn’t the worst way to excite the 2003 music press. The critical adoration blessed upon the Jealous Sound’s debut album fueled an enviable momentum that never quite dissipated those nine long years of unexplained hiatus. A Gentle Reminder, the newly reformed L.A. outfit’s long-awaited follow-up, picks up where we left off with an unhurried, meticulous assemblage of nervous disarray, though the still-strong vocals and
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Quasi, Young Prisms, Stay Calm
[OREGON ORGAN ROCK] I’ve got love for Quasi. Sam Coomes’ trio is one of the most consistently rad live acts in Portland, even if its shows have been less than regular as of late. Coomes sings his nightmares, his voice scratching at the edges while it tries to transcend this Earthly realm and strain for harmonies just out of range. Quasi’s music is youthful but cynical, bluesy but sick of the blues; it’s immediate and utterly bruising. It is rock ’n’ roll. The drummer and bassist are pretty good, too. CASEY JARMAN. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth Band
[BIG JAZZ] When you get to be Roy Haynes’ age, people start calling you a legend. But don’t doubt for a minute that Haynes deserves the title. The drummer, who turns 87 next month, has played with an exhaustive list of A-list jazz players so vast that his discography reads like a history of jazz itself. More impressively, Haynes stood out on all of his recordings—whether he was tapping the cymbals in Monk’s time on Misterioso or playing it cool on the definitive version of “My Favorite Things” with Coltrane at Newport. My personal favorite might be Haynes leading his own Quartet on the moody and lively 1962 Out of the Afternoon date. Last year’s Roy-alty finds Haynes alternating between sentimental cuts and oft-modal modern pieces. He’s as inventive as ever after all these years—as evidenced by last year’s PDX Jazz Fest date—and he’s an absolute joy to witness in
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CRAIG FINN Because frontman Craig Finn’s voice is the most easily identified part of his band the Hold Steady’s sound, one might assume Finn’s new solo debut, Clear Heart Full Eyes, would sound like Hold Steady unplugged. This is not the case. Finn’s new album is its own animal—more instinctual and organic than the Hold Steady, sans that band’s old party tricks. It comes off a little more like a diary than a play. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the first single, “Honolulu Blues,” which finds Finn rambling Dylan-like and describing what sounds like a fever dream set from sea to shining sea. It is the first song ever written to name-drop Graham Greene and Joan Didion in a single verse. The song, Finn says, was written about the touring life and inspired in part by two Didion stories about “the farthest most points of our country being used for devious means.” He talked about his own travels with WW.
“I was trying to capture this lifestyle of all this travel. Planes, trains, Honolulu, Maine. It’s sort of a discombobulation that happens. You’re jet-lagged and there’s this idea of being thrust into a show situation. But the worst is actually when you come home and you try to act like a normal human being and not, like, a rockand-roll dude. It takes a few days. After a long tour, you close your eyes to go to bed and you still think you’re moving.” SEE IT: Craig Finn plays Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., on Thursday, Feb. 23, with Mount Moriah. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 22, 2012 wweek.com
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Portland’s favorite indie rock trio explore bluesy psych with cool ferocity
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KZME and Woodchuck Cider Sweet N Local Presents
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[BIG BAND] These gol-durned whippersnappers with their Afrobeats and their bebop tea shades are ruining a perfectly good jazz festival! Luckily for the old-fashioned, Tony Starlight’s—that stalwart beacon of all things vintage, pure and swingin’—is offering an alternative to those dope-shootin’ beatniks with the Bureau of Standards Big Band. It’s exactly what it sounds like: a 20-piece Portland outfit specializing in cheery, horn-heavy takes on the golden age of jazz, from Sir Duke to Benny Goodman. So while the rest of you are busy Ginsberging your way straight to hell with that Niles David music, Tony Starlight’s will be swingin’ like we used to. AP KRYZA. Tony Starlight’s, 3728 NE Sandy Blvd., 517-8584. 8 pm. $12. 21+.
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[’90s NOISE REVISITED] In the early ’90s Northwest music scene, there were those who followed grunge (cool until early ’91) and those who rebuked it and dove into the nihilistic industrial scene (which many of us did midway through ’91 in protest and disgust). Threscher was the Ministry of Eugene, which is a claim to fame of sorts. Gashdig, on the other hand, was really onto something. Its blend of chaos, anger and goth trappings was a very exciting and completely forgotten moment in Portland music history. Luckily, Gashdig godhead Jasin Fell is still among us and will revivify the band’s corpse for a new generation that’s still confused about whether Joy Division influenced Interpol or if it was the other way around. NATHAN CARSON. Ash Street Saloon, 225 SW Ash. St., 226-0430. 9:30 pm. $5-$10. 21+.
Keller Williams
[SINGLE STRING] Even the most ardent detractors of the String Cheese Incident (or Butt Cheese Accident, as the haters like to say) swear by Keller Williams, the oddball one-man jam band that has frequently collaborated with SCI. The prospect of one goofball hippie carrying a show is a hard sell, but Williams is essentially Inspector Gadget with a proud weed habit, utilizing multiple instruments, loops and beatboxing (!) to craft a sound all his own. On last year’s Bass, Williams veered deeper into his stoned-out reggae influence, but even a genre that repetitive gets a boost by Williams, who can’t resist dumping a little bluegrass, rock and funk into the mix. His talent is immense. His charm is the icing. AP KRYZA. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 9 pm. $22 advance, $24 day of show. 21+.
Tirtha: Vijay Iyer, Prasanna, Nitin Mitta
[INDO-AMERICAN JAZZ] After more than a decade and 15 albums of steadily rising accomplishment and invention, 40-year-old New York-based composer-pianist Vijay Iyer’s state-of-the-art trio album Historicity deservedly swept most of that year’s jazz prizes, and jazz journalists named Iyer Musician of the Year. But his talents range beyond conventional jazz: He’s written for wind quintet, string quartet, dance, film scores, orchestra, installation art, his searching duo with saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, even a Mozart completion played here last summer by the Brentano String Quartet (and in December he completed a weeklong residency at the University of Oregon). Iyer’s Portland Jazz Festival set brings still another revelatory incarnation, involving two virtuoso Indian immi-
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THE JAMES LOW WESTERN FRONT SATURDAY, FEB. 25 [COUNTRY] James Low has his proverbial shit together. After years without inspiration—his 2009 The Blackguard’s Waltz EP was the first release since what Low calls an “awful” 2004 live album—the longtime Portland singer-songwriter has a new band, a fiancée, plans to quit his day job and tour Europe, and a new album out with another on the horizon. The future looks so bright, in fact, that Low can hardly focus on his excellent new disc, Whiskey Farmer, which he refers to as “the country record.” “The pop record” is on his mind. “The pop record is the first time I shifted gears from exorcisms to being something where I felt like I had a little more control over myself—where I started turning into an artist rather than the depressed drunk who wrote songs in order to not kill himself,” Low says. “A lot of these songs on the country record are still songs as me, just as a mess.” Of course, the best country songs are penned by messes, and Whiskey Farmer—a concept album of sorts about a musician who’s “too much of a fuckup to be successful in the straight world and not committed enough of a fuckup to be a rock star”—is loaded with great tunes of varying messiness. The concept record tag is a bit misleading, because unlike Low’s sometimes wrist-slittingly dark debut, Mexiquita, and rootsy sophomore effort, Blackheart, Whiskey Farmer avoids shacking up with a particular sound. Instead, Low’s band—the Western Front—plays twangy pop of all stripes. The result is a record that feels less like a mural and more like a stack of postcards sent from a Western road trip. Low is quick to credit his band for the sound, but admits it has taken him years to grow into the role of bandleader, and despite the fact Low often played with ace musicians from the LaurelThirst scene where he cut his teeth, the musical vision wasn’t always clear. “We played this show where the doorman was like, ‘You guys are awesome—you’re like a cross between Neil Young and Dave Matthews,’” Low says. “I was ready to quit right there. I thought, if I’m reminding some dude of Dave Matthews, then I’m just totally fucked. I’m doing this wrong.” Low won’t remind anyone of Dave Matthews on Whiskey Farmer, which finds his songwriting chops and vocals stronger than ever. His bold-but-warbling voice warms the shambling honky-tonk of “Stars Don’t Care” and stretches out over the Laurel Canyon-meets-Elliott Smith ballad “Thinking California.” There’s a little early Elvis Costello bitterness on “Medicine Show” (“They got a miracle cure that’ll stop your pain/ But when you run out you won’t ever feel the same/ At the medicine show”) and more than a hint of Bruce Springsteen on churchy closer “A Little More Time.” No matter how wide its stylistic net is cast, Whiskey Farmer feels focused. And after some years in the wilderness, Low is, too. He feels lucky that anyone is still paying attention. “I always thought of Oregon as this laid-back place, but if you take time off you’ll get your ass handed to you, creatively,” he says. “If you fade out on a heartbreak for a year, you can go from up-and-coming to has-been in no time at all.” CASEY JARMAN. Like whiskey, Portland’s James Low is getting better with age.
SEE IT: The James Low Western Front plays LaurelThirst Public House, 2958 NE Glisan St., on Saturday, Feb. 25, with the Sumner Brothers and WC Beck. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
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Howlin’ Rain, My Goodness, Datura Blues
[STONE-FREE ROCK] Ethan Miller, one of the driving forces behind blistering psych-rock combo Comets on Fire, seems a weird bedfellow for bearded musical guru Rick Rubin (who usually spends his time resurrecting the careers of aged icons or working his multiplatinum magic on bands like Green Day or the Red Hot Chili Peppers). Yet, Rubin has taken Miller’s side project Howlin’ Rain under his considerable wing, helping produce the band’s latest release, The Russian Wilds, and releasing said album on his long-running imprint American Recordings. Thankfully, Rubin has kept his oftenoverbearing presence in the background with Howlin’ Rain, letting the quintet’s soulful ’70s rock run wild, with slackened guitar solos and sly Latin influences set free to burn warmly and brightly. ROBERT HAM. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
Portland Cello Project
[CELLOS FROM HELL] If there’s a criticism to lob at the Portland Cello Project, it’s that its choice of covers is sometimes a bit too cutesy. Sure, everyone gets a kick out of a celloized version of a Britney Spears or Kanye West song, but it’d be nice if the group used those big, burly instruments to smash motherfuckers in the teeth once in a while. Well, bring a mouth guard. Tonight PCP is performing, in full, one of the most ferocious metal records ever made: Pantera’s Vulgar Display of Power. On the surface, it seems like an odd choice, but cello makes a perfect stand-in for Dimebag Darrell’s power-drill guitar. MATTHEW SINGER. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
SUNDAY, FEB. 26 Branford Marsalis and Joey Calderazzo Duo
[JAZZ] Branford Marsalis has one of those Forrest Gump-like careers. The saxophonist is best known as the eldest in a batch of extremely talented musical brothers, but Branford’s career has taken even more odd turns than that of his brother Wynton—whom you know from every music documentary of the past 20 years. Branford has played the roles of Leno sidekick, teacher, actor (he was in Spike Lee’s School Daze, among other performances), rap icon (he played the sax bits on Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power”), food critic (he was on Top Chef) and community activist (he and pal Harry Connick Jr. helped develop post-Katrina rebuilding effort Musicians’ Village). Alas, his finest role is that of sax man, and this intimate set with longtime piano player Joey Calderazzo should show just how deep a well Marsalis draws from. Last year’s duo disc, Songs of Mirth and Melancholy, is as moving and arty as its name would imply, especially on drawn-out ballads like “La Vaise Kendall.” CASEY JARMAN. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 3 pm. $28-$58. 21+.
The Business, The Downtown Struts, Rum Rebellion, Shock Troops
[OI!] Say what you will about Business-man Mickey Fitz and his tireless dedication to beating his legendary oi! outfit’s three great songs to death for three-plus decades, but dare not question the man’s unshakable faith in his band. It takes some crazy confidence in one’s headlining abilities to invite an upstart act as vimful and vigorous as the Downtown Struts to warm
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up a full house. There’s more than a little bit of the Business’ blood in this Chicago band’s roughhousing sound, but it’s been thickened by repeated exposure to latter-day bar brawlers like Swingin’ Utters and Dropkick Murphys. So go for the party and stay for the wake. CHRIS STAMM. Rotture, 315 SE 3rd Ave., 234-5683. 9:30 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.
MONDAY, FEB. 27 Atlas Sound, Carnivores, Frankie Broyles
[MUSIC FOR BEDROOMS] Bradford Cox’s primary concern, Deerhunter, makes music majestic enough to stand on its own—one need only cuddle up to a speaker and press play to access guitar-based bliss. Atlas Sound, Cox’s increasingly popular solo project, is a more reticent companion—a diaphanous background for heated moments. What I mean to say is that Atlas Sound’s Vicodin-triggered drifts and dirges, which sound a lot like Deerhunter’s quieter (slightly more boring) moments, make for amazing decorations in whatever room you choose to screw, cry or slowly die in. So please, feel free to cause a scene at the show. People might need it. CHRIS STAMM. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show. All Ages.
Princeton, Artifice
[STRING POP] After Princeton released its debut album, Cocoon of Love, in 2009, it was hard to find an album review that didn’t compare the young band to
Vampire Weekend. Maybe the name Princeton instantly reminded critics of Columbia University, Vampire Weekend’s alma mater. But really, Princeton is the name of the street in Santa Monica where band members and twin brothers Jesse and Matt Kivel grew up. And if we’re comparing, Princeton sports a laidback Southern California sound with pleasing string interludes and doo-wop claps that stray from the East Coast Ivy Leaguers. It seems the group may have taken those comparisons to heart, though. The band’s recently released second album, Remembrance of Things to Come, strips down the doo-wop and pumps up the strings, keys and electro-synth beats, revealing a whole new side of Princeton. EMILEE BOOHER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
TUESDAY, FEB. 28 Megaton Leviathan, Bell Witch, Spectral Tombs, Usnea
[CASCADIAN DOOM] I love it when great new bands generate deserved buzz. Case in point: Seattle’s Bell Witch. Formed from the ashes of the constantly fluctuating prairie doom act Samothrace, Bell Witch pares things down in size and intensity. As a duo, the bass and drums collaborate on far more atmospheric and plaintive pastures. It’s the Leonard Cohen approach to doom metal, and it works. While the genre and instrumentation will speak to OM fans, Bell Witch is carving its own sonic territory, and the underground is rapidly taking note. CHRIS STAMM. Rotture, 315 SE 3rd Ave., 234-5683. 9 pm. $6. 21+.
ALBUM REVIEW
TRIO SUBTONIC I’LL MEET YOU THERE TOMORROW (SELF-RELEASED) [JAZZ] If the kids pried jazz from the old institutions that keep the music on life support and reinvented it for themselves—could this music be cool again? And what would a generation of new jazz fans look like? These are questions that keep me up at night. Portland’s Trio Subtonic probably isn’t going to lead the jazz uprising—the music isn’t radical, just rad; these aren’t exactly “kids,” unless you measure in jazz years—but there is a refreshing wanderlust on the band’s new disc, I’ll Meet You There Tomorrow. Because the trio can leap from the down-anddirty funk of “High Country” to a sprawling ballad-turned-groove like “Garage & Grace” without throwing the listener off its scent (thank Jesse Brooke’s playful and unconventional drumming for that, in large part), this is a jazz trio for those of us with a Saturday morning cartoon attention span. That’s not to say that I’ll Meet You There Tomorrow doesn’t reward patience: The tidal changes of “Obsidian Blue” are subtle, showcasing the interplay between versatile keyboardist Galen Clark and bassist Bill Athens. But the compositions here stay intact throughout five- and six-minute songs, so the novice jazz listeners can follow most tunes all the way through while still enjoying solos and funky breakdowns that pepper the disc. That seems to me a trick learned from pop music far removed from jazz standards. For example, when Trio Subtonic gets to the now-customary Elliott Smith cover, Clark and company avoid well-worn and standard-esque songs like “Between the Bars” in favor of “Independence Day,” a tune that resists easy taming. Trio Subtonic’s version adds groove but resists giving Smith a cocktail-hour glow. Not every decision on I’ll Be There Tomorrow is a good one: It runs long by about one funk tune and Scott Pemberton’s electric guitar flourishes on “String Theory” are too showy to fit the album’s tone. But the disc is, on the whole, refreshingly driven and complete-sounding as an album. Hell, the kids might even like it. CASEY JARMAN. SEE IT: Trio Subtonic plays the Art Bar, 1111 SW Broadway, on Friday, Feb. 24. 9:30 pm. Free. All ages.
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Ridgerunner Summit: Jim Boyer, Lynn Conover, Bingo, Dan Haley Band (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St. The Farewell Drifters
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Mississippi Pizza ROBIN SILAS CHRISTIAN
3552 N Mississippi Ave. L & D, Airshow (9 pm); The Dapper Cadavers (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Cate Le Bon, Key Losers
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Claes
Newmark Theatre
1111 SW Broadway Portland Jazz Festival: Dee Dee Bridgewater (Billie Holiday tribute)
O’Connor’s Vault
7850 SW Capitol Highway Kathy James Sextet
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Outer Party, American Friction, I Like Your New Haircut
Portland Prime
121 SW 3rd Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Tony Pacini
Red Room
ALL TOGETHER NOW: Veronica Falls plays Doug Fir Lounge on Wednesday.
WED. FEB. 22 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Lewi Longmire
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Top Dolla, Barbie Bait, JLew, Jim Cole, Supa Nova, DJ Streetz
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Lindsay Clark; Hora Flora; Peace, Loving; Erich Haygun; Mike McGee; Muscle and the Marrow; Rob Gray; Carrie Seitzinger; Robyn Bateman; Myrbeck/ Schisko Duo
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Henry “Hill” Kammerer
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. English Dogs, The Casualties, Toxic Holocaust, Havok, Burning Leather
Brasserie Montmartre
T Putnam Hill, Eye Myths, Birch Cooper, Grape God
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Scott Law, The Deadly Gentlemen
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Youth, The We Shared Milk, Old Age
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Portland Jazz Festival: Chuck Israels Jazz Orchestra (Bill Evans tribute)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: The Mel Brown Quartet
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Jacob Balcom, Tiny Hearts, Charlie Blue & The Black Market
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Dramady, Rollerball, Thebrotheregg
626 SW Park Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Dan Duval & Bill Athens
Mississippi Pizza
Camellia Lounge
Mississippi Studios
510 NW 11th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Open Jazz Jam with Errick Lewis & The Regiment House Band
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Mark Bosnian, 2nd Time Through
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. The Fray, Scars on 45
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Hooded Fang, M-4, Emulator, The Sindicate
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Veronica Falls, Bleached, Ghost Animal
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Cyclotron, Meercazz, Little Queenie, Go Fuck Yourself
Ella Street Social Club
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Sam Cooper
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Neutral Uke Hotel (ukelele Neutral Milk Hotel tribute), Golden Bloom, Michael J. Epstein
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Your Rival, Lee Corey Oswald, Frazetta
Portland Prime
121 SW 3rd Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Randy Porter
Press Club
2621 SE Clinton St. Swing Papillon
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Krebsic Orkestar, The Underscore Orkestra, DJ Global Ruckus
Sundown Pub
5903 N Lombard St. OCD Love, Waffle Taco, Migi Artugue
714 SW 20th Place
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Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
231 SW Ankeny St. IAME, Ripynt, Oso Negro, Dedicated Servers, Exit Prose
The Gallery at Port City
2156 N Williams Ave., Portland Portland Jazz Festival: Sweet Baby James and King Louis
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Fools Rush, Beside Myself, Monster-Sized Monsters
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Gary Smith’s Mardi Gras All-Star Band
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Bonnie Montgomery, DJ Split Ditch
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. The Eventuals, On the Stairs
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Ron Steen Duo
THURS. FEB. 23 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Lewi Longmire
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. The Vandies, Year of the Rabbit, Madame Torment (Girls Kick Ash! all-female rock night)
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Hands for Battle, In Bloom, The Brightest, Stories and Soundtracks
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: John “JB” Butler & Damian Erskine
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Acoustic Minds
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave.
Portland Jazz Festival: Brett McConnell Lovetet
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Mesi and Bradley
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Craig Finn, Mount Moriah
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Sweetback Sisters (9 pm); Tought Love Pyle (6 pm)
Ella Street Social Club
714 SW 20th Place Symmetry/Symmetry, In Medias Res, Autronic Eye
Food for Thought Cafe 1620 SW Park Ave. Grandparents; Broken Water; Smiley, Get Dressed
Gallery 135
135 NW Park Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Portland Jazz Composers’ Ensemble
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Fruition
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Under a Blood Red Sky (U2 tribute)
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Portland Jazz Festival: Jim Templeton Quintet (8:30 pm); Mark Simon (5:30 pm)
Jack London Bar
529 SW 4th Ave. ElleMC (Cari Carter Show)
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Highway, Souvenir Driver, Little Volcano
Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Ave. Pagan Jug Band
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Redrick Sultan, The Harvey Girls
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St.
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Manx, The Warshers, Skatterbomb
Rogue Public House
1339 NW Flanders St Portland Jazz Festival: Go by Train
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. The Darkness, Foxy Shazam, Crown Jewel Defense
The Art Bar & Bistro
1111 SW Broadway Portland Jazz Festival: Rebecca Kilgore & Dave Frishberg
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Eric John Kaiser
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Drawing Board, Avi Dei, Party Trigger
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Clackamas High School A Capella Choir with Lavonna Zeller-Williams (choir benefit)
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Portland Jazz Festival: Ron Steen Jam Session
Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Circle 3 Trio
West Cafe
1201 SW Jefferson St. Xavier Tavera
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Garcia Birthday Band (9 pm); Will West & Tanner Cundy (5:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Randy Porter
FRI. FEB. 24 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Lewi Longmire
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Richard Marx
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St.
Defender, Jet Force Gemini, Orion, Jen Ambrose, Breathe Kid Breathe, Seth Myzel, Thelucyhammondband, Acrid Intent, Jacktown Road
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Jenn Rawling, Pillow Fight, The Librarians (9:30 pm); Mikey’s Irish Jam (6:30 pm)
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Shock Troops, Hounds & Harlots, The Israelites, Ramblin Rods Bastard Children
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Half Way There
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Oaks Bottom Boys
Benson Hotel
309 SW Broadway Portland Jazz Festival: Naomi LaViolette Duo
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Billy Kennedy
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Goatwhore, Hate Eternal, Fallujah, Cerebral Bore
Brasserie Montmartre
626 SW Park Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Alan Jones Sextet (8:30 pm); Tablao (5 pm)
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Matthew Price, Jettison Bend
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Breathe Owl Breathe, Michael Hurley
Camellia Lounge
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. The Cabin Project, A Severe Joy, Mojave Bird
Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Ave. Water Tower, Sassparilla, W.C. Beck
Kenton Club
Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan St. Portland Jazz Festival: Midnight Jazz Jam with Ezra Weiss
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. HyDrive (9 pm); Christine Havrilla (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Quasi, Young Prisms, Stay Calm
Mock Crest Tavern
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Drew De Man & Old Custer, Silverhawk, Michael the Blind
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Jealous Sound
Hotel Fifty
50 SW Morrison St Portland Jazz Festival: Justin Morrell Trio featuring Damian Erskine and Ben Darwish
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Portland Jazz Festival: Late Night Jam with George Colligan (11:45 pm); Farnell Newton Group (10 pm and 8 pm); Jim Templeton (5:30 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Linda Hornbuckle Band
Katie O’ Brien’s
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. The Hot LZs, Sick Broads, Carnabetian Army, The Lovesores
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Cougar, Bombs Away!, The Thornes, The Fuckin’ Fucks
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Portland Jazz Festival: The Bureau of Standards Big Band
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Portland Jazz Festival: David Friesen Trio
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Robert Moore and the Wildcats
Nel Centro
West Cafe
1408 SW 6th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Dave Captein & Randy Rollofson
Newmark Theatre
1111 SW Broadway Portland Jazz Festival: Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth Band
Norse Hall
111 NE 11th Ave. The Pranksters
North Portland Eagles 7611 N Exeter Ave. Justin Shandor (Elvis tribute)
Press Club
203 SE Grand Ave. Grave Babies, Shallow Seas, Cold Metal, Dead Cult
71 SW 2nd Ave. Audio Syndicate
3435 N Lombard St. The Student Loan
Dante’s
jadEast End
The Nines
Thirsty Lion
2958 NE Glisan St. Buster Blue, McDougall (9:30 pm); Alice Stuart (6 pm)
Portland Prime
830 E Burnside St. No Kind of Rider, Rags and Ribbons, Like Years, Yeah Great Fine
2026 NE Alberta St. Gaytheist, Monogamy Party, Wizard Rifle
LaurelThirst
Crystal Ballroom
Doug Fir Lounge
The Know
525 SW Morrison St. Portland Jazz Festival: Kelley Shannon Trio
Plan B
350 W Burnside St. I Can Lick Any SOB in the House, Truckstop Darlin’, The Twangshifters, Micah Schnabel
3341 SE Belmont St. The Bugs
2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Gnash
510 NW 11th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Tim Willcox Quartet with David Goldblatt 1332 W Burnside St. Portland Jazz Festival: Bill Frisell
The Blue Monk
1305 SE 8th Ave. Danava, Norska, Christian Mistress 121 SW 3rd Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Randy Porter
1201 SW Jefferson St. Portland Jazz Festival: Mary Kadderly & Dan Gildea (8 pm); Mary Kadderly (6:30 pm)
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Chuck Prophet and the Mission Express (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Tony Pacini Trio
SAT. FEB. 25 15th Avenue Hophouse 1517 NE Brazee St. Rogue Bluegrass Band
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Lewi Longmire Band
Aladdin Theater
2621 SE Clinton St. Oh Captain My Captain, Edna Vazquez
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Keller Williams
Record Room
Alberta Rose Theatre
Red Room
Alberta Street Public House
8 NE Killingsworth St. Slutty Hearts, Bath Party 2530 NE 82nd Ave. Holgate, Rate of Rise, Sindicate, Boston T Rex
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Rebelution, The Green, Pep Love
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Magic Mouth, DJ Huff N Stuff, Roy G Biv, DJ Stormy Roxx
Secret Society Lounge
116 NE Russell St. Portland Jazz Festival: Swing Papillon (9 pm); Pete Krebs and the Portland Playboys (6 pm)
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. The Caleb Klauder Country Band, Petunia and the Vipers
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. The My Oh Mys, RedRay Frazier, Little Beirut
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Wels, Wax Trap, Chill Crew
The Art Bar & Bistro
1111 SW Broadway Portland Jazz Festival: Trio Subtonic
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Hifi Mojo
3000 NE Alberta St. Myshkin’s Ruby Warblers
1036 NE Alberta St. Lincoln’s Beard, Student Loan (9:30 pm); Brian Cutean (6:30 pm)
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Gashdig, Threscher
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. 48 Thrills, 800 Octane, Burnside Heroes, Mourning Bed Head
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Zay Harrison Band
Beauty Bar
111 SW Ash St. South Rakkas Crew, Easter Egg
Benson Hotel
309 SW Broadway Portland Jazz Festival: Jon Lakey and David Kim
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Twisted Whistle
Brasserie Montmartre
626 SW Park Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Gary Hobbs Trio (9 pm); Tablao (5:30 pm)
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Verdelite, Travis Petersen Band
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Rich Halley Quartet
FEB. 22-28 BAR SPOTLIGHT VIVIANJOHNSON.COM
Pisces Birthday Party: DJs Mello Cee, Juggernaut
The Art Bar & Bistro 1111 SW Broadway Portland Jazz Festival: Upper Left Trio
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Jay Harris Jazz
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. The Planet Jackers
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Pigeons, Steel Hymen, The World Radiant
The Nines
525 SW Morrison St. Portland Jazz Festival: Nancy Curtin Trio
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave. Michael Allen Harrison (Old Church benefit)
LOW LIGHT: There are three magic words printed in all-caps on a sidewalk sign for The High Dive (1406 SE 12th Ave., 384-2285) that should, in time, make it a favorite neighborhood watering hole: CART FOOD WELCOME. The boxy bar—which bears no relation to the Seattle rock club of the same name—attached at the hip to Que Pasa Cantina Mexican restaurant, is cozy but unthrilling otherwise. Sitting at the dimly lit bar means staring at the Blazers game on the silent single corner television or contemplating the shiny wood flooring on the back wall while listening to a tatted-up bartender’s iPod selections (Björk, Atmosphere and Portishead on my visit). The low-key feel (four beers on tap and a crowded liquor shelf ) offers a nice contrast to the bright-and-busy Jolly Roger across the street, though High Dive still has that new-bar smell. We expect it to feel a lot different once the huddled food-cart masses notice just how close they are to sanctuary. CASEY JARMAN.
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Boys Next Door
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Suicide Notes, The Fucking Eagles, Pynnacles, DJ Hwy 7
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Jenny Finn Orchestra, Boy and Bean
Touché Restaurant and Billiards
1425 NW Glisan St. Portland Jazz Festival: Kelley Shannon Quartet with Dick Berk (Billie Holiday tribute)
Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Anandi
West Cafe
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. Portland Jazz Festival: Charlie Hunter, PDX Afrobeat Breakdown with Scott Pemberton Trio and Ben Darwish (9:30 pm); Tirtha (3 pm)
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. Tirtha: Vijay Iyer, Prasanna, Nitin Mitta (3 pm)
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix tribute)
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Howlin’ Rain, My Goodness, Datura Blues
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Chapter 24, Di Di Mau!, Pathogens, Neutral Boy
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Christopher Neil Young, Aaron Orbit, Anhedonia, Where Division Ends
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. The Doo-Doo Funk AllStars
Hawthorne Hophouse 4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Spodee-O’s
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Levi Dexter, The Twangshifters, The Notches
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. The Underlings, Taken Outside and Shot Twice, The Fasters
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Tumblers, On the Stairs
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. The James Low Western Front, Sumner Brothers, W.C. Beck (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)
Lincoln Hall, Portland State University
1620 SW Park Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: PDX Jazz Student Stage-Brubeck Institute, PSU Jazz Combo, Lincoln High School Big Band, Portland Youth Jazz Orchestra, Cleveland High School
Mission Theater 1624 NW Glisan St. Portland Jazz Festival: Midnight Jazz Jam with Ezra Weiss
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Cinnamon Girls (allfemale Neil Young tribute, 9 pm); Cedro Willie (6 pm); Toy Trains (4 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Tezeta Band, Toque Libre
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Blueprints
Mount Tabor Theater
1435 NW Flanders St. Portland Jazz Festival: Late Night Jam with George Colligan (11:45 pm); Portland Jazz Quintet (10 pm and 8 pm); Gordy Michael (5 pm)
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Heavy Brothers, The Quadraphonnes
Jimmy Mak’s
Newmark Theatre
221 NW 10th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Intervision, Marcus Eaton
Nel Centro
1408 SW 6th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Scott Hall, Dave Captein & Carlton Jackson 1111 SW Broadway Portland Jazz Festival: Bill Frisell, The 858 Quartet
Peter’s Room
8 NW 6th Ave. McFadden Project, The Hudson Rocket Band
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Pierced Arrows, The Lordy Lords, Terokal, Night Nurse
Portland Police Athletic Association
618 SE Alder St. Dwight “Black Cat” Carrier & the Zydeco Ro Dogs
Portland Prime
121 SW 3rd Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Tony Pacini, Ed Bennett & Mel Brown
Press Club
2621 SE Clinton St. Jaycob Van Auken, WhistlePunk!
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Cars & Trains, Big Pauper, DJ Bob Ham
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Ivan De Prumes, School of Rock, Nemesis, American Roulette, Psychosynapsis, Sabateur
Rogue Public House
1339 NW Flanders St Portland Jazz Festival: Louis Pain, Micah Kassell & Renato Caranto
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Portland Jazz Festival: The Stolen Sweets (8:30 pm); The Sentimental Gentleman (6 pm)
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. The Chemicals, The Bloodtypes, Defect Defect
1201 SW Jefferson St. Portland Jazz Festival: Mary Kadderly & Dan Gildea
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Just Lions, Deepest Darkest, Josh and Mer (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar
800 NW 6th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Devin Phillips Quartet
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Portland Cello Project (Pantera tribute)
SUN. FEB. 26 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. Archeology, Jon Garcia
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Etbonz, Tito Ramsay
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Felim Egan
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Grady Champion
Hawthorne Theatre 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Live Wyya, Duane Stephenson, Nuborn, Cansaman
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Frank Tribble
Jack London Bar 529 SW 4th Ave. Clyde Lewis
Kelly’s Olympian
Spare Room
426 SW Washington St. Heaven Generation, Secnd Best
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
5736 NE 33rd Ave. You Who: The Shins, Sneakin’ Out, DJ Anjali
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Get Rhythm (Johnny Cash tribute) 231 SW Ankeny St.
Kennedy School
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Thee Headliners, The Singing Knives, Power of County
Lincoln Hall, Portland State University 1620 SW Park Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: PDX Jazz Student Stage--Brubeck Institute, PDX Jazz Project, Lincoln High School Combo, Metropolitan Youth Symphony Big Band, Metropolitan Youth Symphony Combo, PSU Jazz Combo
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mitch Wilson Project (9 pm); The Satisfied Minds (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. “Woyzek” with Ryan Sollee (of The Builders & The Butchers), St. Even and Siren & the Sea (play with live score)
Mount Tabor Theater 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Stump Train, ZenThesis (8 pm); Portland Regional Battle of the Bands (6 pm)
Newmark Theatre
1111 SW Broadway Portland Jazz Festival: Branford Marsalis and Joey Calderazzo Duo
Rontoms
600 E Burnside St. Yards, Fanno Creek
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. The Business, The Downtown Struts, Rum Rebellion, Shock Troops
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Just Like Vinyl, Hail the Sun, Asteroid M, White Orange
Temple Beth Israel
1972 NW Flanders St. Portland Jazz Festival: Klezmocracy
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Portland Jazz Festival: Human Spirit
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Divers, Big Eyes, Freedom Club
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Bonnie Montgomery, Tennessee Tim
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Hornet Leg, Hurry Up, K-Tel ‘79
MON. FEB. 27 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. Archeology, Nevele Nevele
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Ciara Carruthers, Ezra Holbrook
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Susan and the Surftones, Wave Sauce, Surf Weasles
Ella Street Social Club
714 SW 20th Place Boo Frog, The Feeling of Love, The Singing Knives, Delacave
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Atlas Sound, Carnivores, Frankie Broyles
Jack London Bar 529 SW 4th Ave.
MUSIC CALENDAR
Fisher Poets, Moe Bowstern
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band (8 pm); The Reynolds High School Jazz Band (6:30 pm)
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. KRQ (9 pm); Mr. Ben (5 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Princeton, Artifice
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Deep Cuts
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Habits, Scheisshosen, Sky Above and Earth Below, Ugly Flowers
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Guantanamo Baywatch, No Tomorrow Boys, DJ Danny Dodge
TUES. FEB. 28 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. Archeology, Nathan Trueb
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Jabi Shriki
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Apophis Theory, Kabenzi, Seth Myzel
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Josh Tatum, The Martyrs
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Rabbits, Fist Fite, Aerial Ruin
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. The Ezra Weiss Quartet (Chaka Khan tribute)
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Scott Law Reunion Band; Erskine, Fulero and Griffith
Hawthorne Theatre
WED. FEB. 22 Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Pretty Ugly
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. TRONix with wavefront.01
Refuge
116 SE Yamhill St. Vert Sin, Charlie Drown, Chris Gentry, DJ HazMatt
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. DJ AM Gold
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. Proper Movement: Remarc, Broke-N, The Dirt Merchant, SenseOne
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Sean Spellman
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Muscle Milk: DJs Trans Fat, Ill Camino (10 pm); DJ Loyd Depriest (7 pm)
THURS. FEB. 23 Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Mikie Lixx, Dirty Red
Saucebox
214 SW Broadway Evan Alexander
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Mixer: Perfect Cyn, Tom Mitchell, Mercedes, Keane, Mr. Romo, Darling Instigatah, Grimes Against Humanity
Swift Lounge
1932 NE Broadway DJ Drew Groove
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. Last Call: Easter Egg, DJ Sacrilicious
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. I’m Dynamite
Valentine’s
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Every Avenue, We Are the In Crowd, Plug In Stereo, The Audition, Simple As Surgery
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Turbo Dracula
Jimmy Mak’s
3356 SE Belmont St Audio Cravateur with DJ Drew Groove
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm); The Portland Youth Jazz Orchestra (6:30 pm)
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Ugly Flowers, De La Warr, Moon Debris
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Tinh Mahoney, Rick Ruskin, Sean Smith, RC Johnston (John Fahey tribute)
Peter’s Room
8 NW 6th Ave. Mord Fustang, Hypster, Joe Garston, Evan Alexander
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Megaton Leviathan, Bell Witch, Spectral Tombs, Usnea
FRI. FEB. 24 Aalto Lounge
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Plain Flavored, Mechlo, Operation Mission, Oven Rake, Paul Owens
Beauty Bar
111 SW Ash St. Fa$t Life: DJ Lil’ Elle, Yo Huckleberry, Danny Merkury
Dig a Pony
1465 NE Prescott St. Beacon Sound
Valentine’s 232 SW Ankeny St. AV Club: VJs Cool Joel C, Sister Sister
SAT. FEB. 25 Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. DJ Sonero
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Freaky Outy
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Jai Ho! Bollywood Disco: Prashant, DJ Brett Bell (costume party)
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Blow Pony: Leslie & the Lys, Pennyhawk, Ramona & the Swimsuits, DJ Airick, DJ Just Dave, Kid Amiga, DJ RENTTECCA (Blow Pony 5-year anniversary)
Saucebox
214 SW Broadway DJs Kez, Roane
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Roots: Manoj, Mercedes, Merchants of..., Maximus, Mason Roberts
Swift Lounge
1932 NE Broadway DJ Sknny Mrcls
The Conquistador
2045 SE Belmont St. Hip Hits with DJ Drew Groove
The Crown Room 205 NW 4th Ave. Happy Endings: DJ Zimmie, Doc Adam
The Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave. Griz, Russ Liquid, Gold Rush, Guttstar
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJs Mercedez, Humans
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Cooky Parker
SUN. FEB. 26 Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Tragic Magic with Kid Midnight
MON. FEB. 27
Tiga
1135 SW Morrison St. Chris Alice
Saucebox
214 SW Broadway Mr. Charming, Roy. G Biv
Someday Lounge
Swift Lounge
836 N Russell St. Will West, The Druthers, The Sale
Tiga
Element Restaurant & Lounge
Valentine’s
White Eagle Saloon
421 SE Grand Ave. DJs Creepsss, Horrid
Dig a Pony
125 NW 5th Ave. Rewind with Phonographix DJs
232 SW Ankeny St. Neal Morgan, Pool of Winds, Onuinu
The Lovecraft
736 SE Grand Ave. Cooky Parker (late set); Icarus (early set)
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Dez Young Trio
Apocalysp: DJs Weinerslav, Pork Belly, Trashbag
736 SE Grand Ave. Roane 1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Pickle Barrel
TUES. FEB. 28 Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Dana James & Jeremy Atkins
East End
1932 NE Broadway DJ King Fader
203 SE Grand Ave. Fuzzed and Buzzed with DJ Baby Magdalin
The Crown Room
Tiga
205 NW 4th Ave. Blown: Nastynasty, Samples, Saltfeend, D Poetica
The Foggy Notion 3416 N Lombard St.
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Bad Wizard
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Eye Candy VJs
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NT Live: Travelling Light
= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Most prices listed are for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply, so it’s best to call ahead. Editor: BEN WATERHOUSE. Stage: BEN WATERHOUSE (bwaterhouse@wweek. com). Classical: BRETT CAMPBELL (bcampbell@wweek.com). Dance: HEATHER WISNER (dance@wweek.com). TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit information at least two weeks in advance to: bwaterhouse@wweek.com.
The latest in the National Theatre Live series is Nicholas Wright’s play about an Eastern European lad who discovers the cinema and becomes a director. World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St., 235-1101. 2 and 7 pm Saturday, Feb. 25. $15-20.
Orphans
THEATER 13
[NEW REVIEW] Oh, the living hell of being a tween—bullying, exclusion, gossipy bitches. Where it could have easily strayed into the cloyingly trite realm of Glee or High School Musical, Jason Robert Brown’s 13 instead keeps the music snappy and the dialogue snarky to charming effect. After his parents get divorced, 13-year-old Evan Goldman is forced to move from New York City to a small town in Indiana and is desperate to make friends with the cool kids before his bar mitzvah. Finding allies in the artsy outcast and the crippled kid, Evan schemes to get the jocks and the cheerleaders to think he’s worthy of the popular crowd regardless of whose feelings might get hurt. Will he learn the true meaning of friendship? Take a guess. But the music, performed by an impressive cast of young actors and musicians, makes 13 less pre-pubescent awkward and more first-kiss awesome. PENELOPE BASS. Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd., 971-3225723. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 23-25. $18-$24.
Boleros for the Disenchanted
[NEW REVIEW] “Pure truth is never undignified or trashy,” says the strong and stubborn Flora in act two of this Miracle Theatre production. They’re apt words—though some content tiptoes towards treacle, this emotional family drama is no sleazy soap opera. The script, by Motorcycle Diaries screenwriter José Rivera, begins in 1950s Puerto Rico, where young lovers Flora and Eusebio flirt and court and eventually marry. The second act propels us to 1992, where we find the couple in a cramped Alabama apartment, weathering the hardships of old age. The actors balance the play’s weighty themes—infidelity, illness, immigration—with smart injections of knowing humor and poetic selfawareness. Rivera’s female characters are more fully realized than the men, some of whom are reduced to mere machismo. Luisa Sermol, who plays Flora’s mother in the first act and Flora in the second, is a particular standout in a solid cast. It’s a tall order to leap forward 40 years, but under Antonio Sonera’s sensitive yet spirited direction, this production succeeds. REBECCA JACOBSON. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7:30 pm Thursdays, 8 pm FridaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays through March 3. $15-$30.
Bunkin’ with You in the Afterlife
In BroadArts’ new musical, six lesbian cowgirls trek around Southern Oregon and talk and sing about coming out, finding spirituality and meeting their partners. MARIANNA HANE WILES. Ethos/IFCC, 5340 N Interstate Ave., 288-5181. 8 pm Fridays and Saturdays through March 10. $18-$22.
Circle Mirror Transformation
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. AARON SPENCER. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 2411278. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 pm Sundays. Closes March 11. $20-$50.
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Club Morocco
Stumptown Stages presents a ’40s swing revue featuring Julianne R. Johnson-Weiss and Corey Brunish. PCPA Brunish Hall, 1111 SW Broadway, 800-982-2787. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays through March 3. $10-$30.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [Abridged]
Likely aware that the universe will implode should we go a year 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 Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 23-25. Free.
Day of the Docent
[NEW REVIEW] CoHo presents the world premiere of an ambitious and bizarre comedy by Portland actor and playwright Ebbe Roe Smith, about Mick (Casey McFeron), a career criminal and would-be screenwriter who abducts the writer of his favorite film and forces him at gunpoint to become his mentor. The writer, Francis, is a burnt-out, alcoholic hack, who after making one critical successful revenge flick squandered his talents on uncredited rewrites of Hollywood schlock; he is played by Smith, himself a former screenwriter who penned the Michael Douglas revenge flick Falling Down and then squandered his talents on uncredited rewrites of Nick of Time and U.S. Marshals. I don’t know if any portion of Francis’ tales of drugs, sex and mental illness is autobiographical, but Day of the Docent’s ambiguous line between actor an character is much more interesting than its thin plot. Scenes of Francis schooling Mick like a boozy, near-nude Mr. Miyagi are interspersed with filmed clips of Mick and his pregnant girlfriend (Laura Faye Smith, resplendent as ever) robbing liquor stores. Smith is as entertaining a writer as he is a performer, but his unhinged tirades are like cotton candy. Day of the Docent entertains right through its predictable ending, but when the high wears off you will find yourself still hungry. BEN WATERHOUSE. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 205-0715. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes March 10. $20-$25.
GGG: Dominatrix for Dummies
Written and performed solely by Eleanor O’Brien, this 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 Thursday-Sunday Feb. 23-26. Saturday performance followed by open mic. $15$20.
Lyle Kessler’s 1983 play Orphans is the story of three: adult brothers Treat and Phillip, each of whose personal growth has been 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. 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; it practically carries itself. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. The Hostess, 538 SE Ash St., 224-8499. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday, 2:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 24-26. $15.
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The Unscriptables present an improvised, Portland-themed take on Avenue Q. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave. 8 pm Saturdays through March 31. “Pay what you want.” 21+.
The Ed Forman Show
Ed Forman is back from L.A. for a week. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 9 pm Thursday, Feb. 23. $8. 21+.
A show about happiness by Stacey Hallal. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, Feb. 24-25. $12-$15.
Micetro
The Brody revives its popular elimination-competition improv format. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Friday, Feb. 24. $9-$12.
Mixology
A monthly late-night comedy variety
PREVIEW
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. AARON SPENCER. Broadway Rose New Stage Theatre, 12850 SW Grant Ave., Tigard, 620-5262. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes March 4. $20-$40.
Red
Portland Center Stage presents John Logan’s play about the artist Mark Rothko. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm TuesdaysFridays, 2 and 7:30 pm SaturdaysSundays. Closes March 18. $20-$64.
Shakespeare’s Amazing Cymbeline
Locomotion
Twelfth Night
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Stories from Emmett Montgomery, Shelley McLendon and Michael Fetters, Fogatron, Tynan DeLong, Aron Nels Steinke and Mindy Nettifee. Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate Ave., 286-9449. 8 pm Saturday, Feb. 25. $10-$12. 21+.
Twilight Repertory Theatre heads to Venice, with Ken Dembo in the title role. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 312-6789. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes March 11. $10-$15, cash only.
The North End Players present a farce of misunderstanding and murder by Monk Ferris. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 7600 N Hereford St., 7052088. 7:30 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes March 4. $10.
Oregon Children’s Theatre presents a play about 11-year-old orphan Lonnie Collins Motion, who finds purpose in poetry-writing. Winningstad Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 228-9571. 2 and 5 pm Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes March 18. $13-$28.
A performance conceived by participants in a writing class for seniors at Friendly House. Hollywood Senior Center, 1820 NE 40th Ave., 459-4500. 8 pm Friday, 3 pm Saturday, Feb. 24-25. $8-$10.
Othello
Though it’s one of Shakespeare’s 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 third-party 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. PENELOPE BASS. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturdays-Sundays. Closes April 8. $20-$51.
Let’s Murder Marsha
We Are Still Here
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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.
CHAUNCEY PARSONS AND YUKA IINO
GISELLE (OREGON BALLET THEATRE) What it’s like to dance ballet’s toughest role.
Yuka Iino has been feeling a little, well, emotional lately: “I tear up for small little things, not necessarily things that are making me sad,” she confesses via email. “I cry for something [that] makes me happy, too. The other day my friends [were] surprised and confused, because all of a sudden, I was crying. They were like, ‘What’s going on?’” What’s going on is Iino—along with Oregon Ballet Theatre colleagues Xuan Cheng, Julia Rowe and Haiyan Wu—preparing to dance the title role in OBT’s upcoming production of Giselle, a formidable challenge in the repertory and historically a star-making turn for many a dancer. No pressure or anything. Giselle is about the complexities of love. If you’ve ever fallen for someone who wasn’t what they seemed, you’ll relate. Its dramatic trajectory is boy meets girl, girl falls hard for boy, boy wasn’t serious, girl goes mad with grief. “I think of Giselle as the ultimate loss-of-innocence story,” Rowe says. “She’s fragile emotionally and physically. And when she falls head over heels for this guy, and he seems to love her in return, she is so ecstatic. But then he turns out to pretty much be a player, and she can’t handle it. It’s heartbreaking.” Generations of viewers have loved Giselle and generations of ballerinas have dreamt of performing it. San Francisco Ballet’s Lola de Avila is coaching the dancers in the Romantic-era style of the late 1800s, when Marius Petipa set it on the Imperial Russian Ballet. That style—“very strong technique, beautiful lines, solid balance, very light jumps, fast feet movement, soft and beautiful arms,” Chen says—tests performers in every way. “It is an ultimate role for a ballerina to dance,” Iino says. “Physically very demanding, of course, but also artistically, the dancer has [to] be mature enough to understand what is happening in her life.” It’s the kind of assignment that can take over your life. “Mentally, I think about the role all the time,” Wu says. “Even when I am cooking or resting, I still think about the role.” But when the curtain comes up, viewers and dancers can expect a payoff. “Every little movement has a purpose in the story,” Rowe says. “It’s a very clean way of moving, but it’s not dull. Especially in the first act, the dancing is mostly just there to support the emotion. I like that about Giselle.” And, she adds, “The story is definitely still relevant. I think we’ve all had our hearts broken at one point or another.” HEATHER WISNER. SEE IT: Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., obt.org. 7:30 pm Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, Feb. 25-26; 7:30 pm Thursday-Friday, 2 and 7 pm Saturday, March 1-3. $23-$156.
FEB. 22-28 show. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 4779477. 10 pm Saturdays, Feb. 11 and 25. $5.
The Smutty Clown
An X-rated comedy open mic hosted by Sterling Clark and Whitney Streed. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 9:30 pm every last Thursday. Free. 21+.
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.
CLASSICAL Adam Tendler
The New York pianist and newmusic ambassador celebrates the centennial of the last century’s most provocative and influential composer with a complete performance of John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 7253011. 8 pm Monday, Feb. 27. Free.
Choral Arts Ensemble
The choir completes its auditions for a new music director with David De Lyser, director of choral activities at the University of Portland, leading music about peace, love and understanding by Randall Thompson, Daniel Pinkham, Emma Lou Diemer, Eric Whitacre and other contemporary composers, Tom Lehrer, Samuel Barber and other American composers, with texts by authors as diverse as Rumi, Shakespeare, Christina Rossetti and William Blake. First Unitarian Church, 1011 SW 13th Ave., 488-3834. 7:30 pm Saturday, 3 pm Sunday, Feb. 25-26. $10-$15.
Nicholas Nelson
This latest in a series of terrific recitals by Portland Opera studio artists features an emerging, young bass-baritone singing music by Schubert, Eisler and RimskyKorsakov, accompanied by PO associate music director Robert Ainsley, and accompanying himself on lute in songs by the English Renaissance composer John Dowland. Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Ave., 241-1407. 7 pm Tuesday, Feb. 28. Donation.
Oregon Symphony, Itzhak Perlman
The legendary violinist takes the starring role in Mendelssohn’s everpopular second violin concerto, and the orchestra also offers an overture by Schubert and Arnold Schoenberg’s orchestral arrangement of Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 1. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353. 7:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 25. $35-$200.
Oregon Symphony, Pacific Youth Choir
In this kids’ concert, the orchestra plays John Williams’ score to a Harry Potter flick, plus music by Haydn, Vivaldi and Beethoven. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353. 2 pm Sunday, Feb. 26. $10-$35.
PSU Choirs and Symphony Orchestra
The excellent student musicians led by conductor Ken Selden perform that monument of orchestral music, Beethoven’s mighty Symphony No. 9, plus music by Brahms, Mendelssohn and Bruckner. First United Methodist Church, 1838 SW Jefferson St., 725-3307. 8 pm Friday, Feb. 24. $7-$12.
Portland Vocal Consort, Pacific University Chamber Singers
The professional chamber chorus’ annual concert of music by contemporary Northwest composers features music by UO faculty member Robert Kyr, Portland’s Jack Gabel and Joan Szymko (of Do Jump! Fame), PSU choral con-
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ductor Ethan Sperry and others, along with the world premiere of the winner of the Chorus’ young composer contest. First Presbyterian Church, 1200 SW Alder St., 209-7539. 7:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 25. $10-$20.
St. James Bach Choir and Orchestra The Bach Cantata Vespers series continues with the composer’s sacred Cantata No. 131. St. James Lutheran Church, 1315 SW Park Ave., 227-2439. 5 pm Sunday, Feb. 26. Donation.
Friday, Feb 24th
DEFENDER • JET FORCE GEMINI • ORION • JEN AMBROSE • BREATHE KID BREATHE • SETH MYZL • THE LUCY HAMMOND BAND • ACRID INTENT • JACKTOWN ROAD
Third Angle String Quartet
Next month, in conjunction with the art museum’s Mark Rothko exhibit, the new-music ensemble will perform Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel, a musical response to the Houston sanctuary that hosts the Portland-raised painter’s meditative mural canvases. Now, the group will further explore the connection between the famous American modernist painter and modernist composer by performing Feldman’s four-hour (!) String Quartet No. 2 before the sold-out performance of Portland Center Stage’s Red, based on Rothko’s life. Feel free to wander in and out of the performance. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 331-0301. 2 pm Friday, Feb. 24. Donation.
DANCE Garth Fagan Dance
It’s a jazzy two-for-one deal: Dance presenters White Bird have teamed up, for the first time, with the Portland Jazz Festival to bring us Garth Fagan’s Griot New York, set to an original score by jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. Choreographed in 1991 by Fagan, the piece tells the story—as an African griot might—of urban life, invoking its sights and sounds, dissonances and harmonies. Fagan set the work in eight sections on his veteran 14-member company, weaving modern, jazz, ballet and social dance into a colorful tapestry of movement. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Feb. 22. $26-$64. All Ages.
PDX Dance Collective
The internal struggles we all confront take physical form in the debut of the PDX Dance Collective’s group show Push/ Pull. Accompanied live by singersongwriter Matthew Lindley, the dancers explore the tug-of-war that life can play with our emotions. Former PDX Dance Collective members Jessi Haggerty and Amy Phillips join in. The Headwaters, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday, Feb. 24-25, 3 pm Sunday, Feb. 26. $12.
Victoria Marks Residency
UCLA choreography professor Victoria Marks swaps one academic environment for another with a three-day visit to the Reed College dance department. Marks initiates her residency with “Moving Seeing,” a workshop that gets choreography students to consider dance composition principally from the viewer’s perspective (4:10 pm Thursday, Feb. 23, Sports Center’s Gym II). Next up is the program “Four Dance Films,” which features work Marks has created in conjunction with British film director Margaret Williams (7 pm Friday, Feb. 24, Psychology Auditorium). The residency winds down with the “A Line, A Circle, A…,” workshop in which dance, music, theater and visual-arts students will build a collective work (10:30 am Saturday, Feb. 25, Sports Center’s Gym II). Reed College Sports Center, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Various times Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 23-25. Free, reservations required. Contact cathylee@reed.edu.
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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 gouache-and-collage works. Through Feb. 25. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 224-8182.
Facture: Artists at the Forefront of Painterly Glass
When we think of painting, we think of oils, acrylics and egg tempera. But for a sextet of artists in Bullseye’s new show, painting brings to mind a different medium: glass. Kari Minnick, Martha Pfanschmidt, Ted Sawyer, Jeff Wallin, Abi Spring and Michael Janis all use glass to mimic the liquidity, texturality and other surface effects we normally associate with paint. Using a variety of techniques, they aim to prove glass every bit as worthy as other media to enter the pantheon of painterly media. Through Feb. 25. Bullseye Gallery, 300 NW 13th Ave., 2270222, 227-0222.
Gargantua
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 brandnew 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, 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. While St. John’s paintings are haunting, his best works are the smaller draw-
ings he has installed in a wall-spanning grid. Through March 1. Gallery @ The Jupiter, 800 E Burnside St., 503-230-8010.
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 large-scale retrospective considering the artist’s entire output. It is sure to number among the year’s most challenging exhibitions. Through May 27. Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-0973.
Peter Halley: Prison
This is a big deal—maybe the biggest deal to hit the Portland art scene in a decade. New Yorkbased painter and printmaker Peter Halley, an international sensation since his breakout moment in the 1987 Whitney Biennial, is coming to Portland to create an enormous installation at Disjecta. Halley pioneered the style known as “neo-geo” (short for neo-geometric conceptualism), in which squares and rectangles stand in for cells and prisons, critiquing both the grandiloquence of modernist attitudes toward geometry and the insidiousness of present-day technology. The installation, Prison, is the last installment of Jenene Nagy’s remarkable curator-in-residence stint at Disjecta. The piece will wrap itself around the cathedral-like gallery space, with DayGlo paint and colored lights complementing printed “wallpaper” featuring Halley’s iconic prisons. Through Feb. 25. Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate Ave., 286-9449.
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To celebrate the latest incarnation of Burnside Review, Crow Arts Manor is hosting a reading and release party at Eat Art Theater. Readers will include Mary Szybist, Carl Adamshick, Barbara Drake and Molly Schaeffer. It’s also a great chance to check out Crow Arts Manor’s library, which recently began opening to the public. Eat Art Theater, 850 NE 81st Ave., 548-4096. 7:30-9 pm. $5 suggested donation.
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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 air-themed launch will include costumed crusaders from The Alter Egos Society and a model of a helicopter airship featured in the book. Things From Another World, 4133 NE Sandy Blvd., 284-4693. 7 pm. Free.
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Ismet Prcic
In Shards, a young Bosnian named Ismet Prcic has fled to California, where he tries to make sense of his past. Author Ismet Prcic’s debut novel is both a war story and a coming-of-age novel. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
FRIDAY, FEB. 24 Breena Wiederhoeft
Rendered in black and white with delicate crosshatching, Picket Line is a Xeric award-winning comic that examines land-use conflicts in California. Will the unpopular land developer or the do-gooder environmentalists win? The Arbor Lodge, 1507 N Rosa Parks Way, 289-1069. 7 pm. Free.
2012 ILLAHEE LECTURE SERIES
Isabel Wilkerson
For The Warmth of Other Suns, Wilkerson interviewed more than 1,000 people in order to tell the epic tale of the Great Migration. Between 1915 and 1970, nearly 6 million African-Americans left the South for urban areas in the Northeast and West. Wilkerson, whose family was part of this exodus, spent most of her career at The New York Times, and was the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for journalism. Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. 7:30 pm. Free.
The Arab Spring Conference
Organized by PSU’s Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights (SUPER), The Arab Spring: A Year that Changed the World is a daylong conference designed to analyze the events of the Arab Spring, including the regional and international implications and its effects on the future of Palestine. Featured speakers include Egyptian activist Shima’a Helmy and journalist-photographer William Parry, whose latest book explores the role of protest art in Palestine. Full listings available on the group’s Facebook event page. Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student Union, 1825 SW Broadway. 9 am-10 pm. Free for students, $10-$20 suggested donation for non-students.
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Yes, you read that right. After the success of this series in Chicago and other major literary cities, it was only a matter of time before Portland’s nudist bibliophiles (and literary gynophiles) got in on the fun. The event is just what it sounds like: naked women reading. This month features works by Northwest authors. Readers include NGRpdx founders Rayleen Courtney and Sophie Maltease. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 9 pm. $10-$25. 21+.
MONDAY, FEB. 27 Jeffrey Eugenides
Best known for writing The Virgin Suicides and his Pulitzer Prizewinning Middlesex, author Jeffrey Eugenides talks at the University of Portland as a part of the school’s Schoenfeldt writers series. Buckley Center Auditorium, 5000 N Willamette Blvd. 7:30 pm. Free.
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OH, THE PLACES WE’VE BEEN! MAPPING THE TERRAIN OF A LAND CALLED PIFF. BY M AT T H E W KO R F H AGE, AP K RYZ A, AA RO N M E S H
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No festival is an island. They’re regional importers, which is why the Portland International Film Festival shares so many titles with its sisters in Seattle, San Francisco and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Even as PIFF opens up avenues to the wider world, it exists within an insulated and unmistakable festival ecosystem. PIFF movies share so many common elements that, as you enter the third weekend of global tourism, you might miss the forest for the trees (weeping willows, probably). After reviewing 59 features—find our Week 3 favorites on page 48—we’ve identified the common ground. They dwell in Amador, Cafe de Flore, The Fairy, Mr. Tree and Toll Booth.
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There are penises onscreen in Aurora, Bonsai, Breathing, A Cat in Paris, Clown: The Movie, The Fairy, Invasion of the Alien Bikini, Rose, The Silver Cliff, Surviving Life, Turn Me On, Dammit!, Whores’ Glory and Woman in the Septic Tank.
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People stare wordlessly for long stretches in Amador, Aurora, Breathing, Elena, Eternity, The Forgiveness of Blood, Found Memories, The Loneliest Planet, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Qarantina, Rose, The Silver Cliff, Toll Booth and The Turin Horse.
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Dead dogs: Patagonia, Snowtown. Dead children: Darwin, Rose, Snowtown, Surviving Life, Where Do We Go Now? Dead relationships: Bonsai, The Day He Arrives, Elena, Goodbye First Love, The Loneliest Planet, Kiss Me, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, The Orator, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Snowtown, Surviving Life. Dying horse: The Turin Horse. Dead kittens: Corpo Celeste. Dead kangaroo: Snowtown.
Characters have overly close relationships with their mothers in Cirkus Columbia, Salt of Life, Snowtown, Surviving Life, Whores’ Glory and Woman in the Septic Tank.
Folks get all sad about their ex-GFs or ex-wives in Attenberg, Bonsai, Bullhead, Cafe de Flore, The Forgiveness of Blood, Found Memories, Goodbye First Love, Kiss Me, The Loneliest Planet, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia and Turn Me On, Dammit!
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Old people behave like children in Attenberg, Darwin, Footnote, Found Memories, Habemus Papam, Patagonia, Salt of Life and Surviving Life.
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We do not want to remember how flesh was mangled in El Sicario, Room 164, Extraterrestrial, Invasion of the Alien Bikini, Kill List, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Rose and Snowtown.
DON’T FORGET TO VISIT... The Albanian Breakfast Table! The Forgiveness of Blood: A long, static shot of a kid eating grapefruit in front of his kitchen window might not sound terribly thrilling, but in Joshua Marston’s Albanian coming-of-age drama, it ripples with quiet tension. Quarantined inside by the sins of his father, young Nik knows there are snipers aiming for him, but we’re much more concerned about it than he seems to be, and Marston lets the camera linger long enough to completely wrack the audience’s nerves. MATTHEW SINGER.
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The British Tunnel of No Love! Kill List: In spite of its hackneyed finale, Kill List manages pure terror as its protagonists are pursued by screeching cultists through a labyrinthine tunnel system. The chase is lit only with headlamps, creating a sequence of claustrophobic horror rivaling The Descent. AP KRYZA.
The Norwegian Penis Poking! Turn Me On, Dammit!: If they like a girl and want to show it, some guys hold hands, some lean in for a kiss. Others jab her in the thigh with their semi-erect penis and then run away embarrassed. That she takes this well—is thrilled, even—is the genius of the scene. It’s life as if dreamed: all surprise and stupidity. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
The Turkish Tea Party! Once Upon a Time in Anatolia: In a blackout, somewhere in the sticks, a gorgeous girl brings us tea by candlelight. Her face is enough to resurrect dead longings, dead hopes, dead friends. Then she’s gone: All we can do is go back to the sausage party and talk of the women we’ve actually known. AARON MESH.
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ROAD TO NOWHERE PIFF ENDS WITH HORRORS AND PROSTITUTES. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 22 Eternity
67 [THAILAND] Though it is at some level a ghost story, Eternity is much more about absence than presence: The spirit in question is a lone rider who sees nothing but the land itself, and the haunting is mostly by memory and loss. And so a film about a compulsively tittering lover boy and chatterbox is ruled by silence; the sentimental courtship at the center of the film is bookended by symmetrical depictions of the time after the wooer’s early death. The film’s pace and woeful single-mindedness, however, lend to a numbing hypnotism much more than grief or meditation. It’d be better if: It didn’t live up to its title so handily. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. LM, 6 pm Wednesday and 8:15 pm Saturday, Feb. 22 & 25.
Pink Ribbons, Inc.
80 [CANADA] Few threats are as amorphous and frightening as breast cancer: It is nature’s violent misogyny, sex and death bound up far too tightly. And as Léa Pool’s documentary shows handily, if also a bit diffusely, it is as ripe as any fear to be cynically manipulated for profit by Yoplait or Ford or Estée Lauder—or by the Komen foundation’s cheerily selfpropagating charity marketing—even as the money that pours in is siphoned away from research that might actually lead to prevention. It’s sort of a horror film in PR smiles, flower-painted cars and pink Niagara. It’d be better if: It presented hard numbers on spending, instead of frustratingly folding them into a brief pie chart. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. C21, 8:30 pm Wednesday, Feb. 22. WH, 3:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 25.
THURSDAY, FEB. 23 Corpo Celeste
85 [ITALY] Ah, the small urban Italian church. The priest is a middling, disappointed bureaucrat troubled by politics; his attendant is a lobotomized, sexually sublimated old maid; and the janitor beats a bag of 10 kittens against a sidewalk and drowns them in an inlet. Not a place for a 13-year-old girl from Switzerland, apparently, but that’s where she is, and it’s all quite confused and sweetly searching and shot through with disappointment, the way a gentle European coming-of-age story should really always be. It’d be better if: The kittens came back for their revenge, backed up by
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a vengeful, bloody-eyed Jesus. Or not. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. LM, 6:15 pm Thursday, Feb. 23. C21, 6 pm Saturday, Feb. 25.
Short Cuts VI: Made in Oregon
70 [PORTLAND] After three weeks of anguish tourism, this raft of local work feels gratifyingly insouciant and low-stakes. Most welcome is the return of Orland Nutt, two-time Peripheral Produce Invitational winner at the lamented PDX Fest, bring with him Dear Peter, Goats and Dear Peter, Yaks: twin mock-poetic animal meditations that may not mock anything. Also noteworthy: Kurtis Hough’s placid giant-slug doc Mossgrove/Bed of Moss, and Jesse Blanchard’s Shine, which communicates the same existential dread as The Turin Horse but in a three-minute 3-D puppet show about a barbershop quartet getting its limbs sliced off. It’d be better if: Oregon soundtracks didn’t employ acoustic fingerpicking quite so much. AARON MESH. WH, 6:15 pm Thursday, Feb. 23.
Whores’ Glory
38 [AUSTRIA] In pursuing the world’s oldest prurient interest, Michael Glawogger doesn’t uncover any bleak truths not grasped by, say, Born Into Brothels, but he does manage to be singularly invasive and detached. Trolling the colorful, ravaged lives of prostitutes in Bangkok, Bangladesh and Reynosa, Mexico, his camera gains staggering access to degradation. Many of the shots have a whiff of arty scorn, however, while the CocoRosie and PJ Harvey songs aestheticize the montages of suffering, not letting these women speak for themselves. But, look: a 200-peso blow job! The real thing! It’s a politically conscious mondo film. It’d be better if: The director had a heart of gold. AARON MESH. C21, 8:15 pm Thursday, Feb. 23.
The Day He Arrives
78 [SOUTH KOREA] The 12th film by Hong Sang-soo is, as ever, a metafilmic enterprise about a director—in this case, one who is unable to film. The flick is essentially a light, black-andwhite Godardian fillip, an ever-repeating set of drunkenly philosophical streetside and barside encounters that vary as in a fugue, or as the inconsistent humors of a man in a fugue state; memory seems impossible and life only improvisational. And as in Woody Allen movies, the awkward old director somehow always ungratefully gets the girl.
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It’d be better if: The aw-shucks main character had any charisma whatsoever that could make us believe he might get the girl. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. WH, 8:30 pm Thursday, Feb. 23.
Toll Booth
57 [TURKEY] After a panicked breakdown, insomniac checkpoint attendant Kenan (Serkan Ercan) is exiled to a sunflower-dappled countryside so sun-baked and sluggish I promptly dozed off. I awoke often enough to recognize the guy as an heir to those 1970s Bob Rafelson heroes clawing at the walls of their lives, and the movie as an Anatolian Five Easy Pieces. Don’t mistake early jauntiness as a sign pointing toward one of those droll little comedies about working stiffs; the road leads to something far more morbid and distressed. It’d be better if: I could get a side order of wheat toast. AARON MESH. PP, 8:30 pm Thursday, Feb. 23. LM, 3:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 25.
FRIDAY, FEB. 24 Snowtown
[AUSTRALIA] Every PIFF needs its walkout movie, and here’s the winner for 2012: Even the protagonist keeps trying to leave the room. A rangy kid who looks just like Jesse Eisenberg, Jamie (Lucas Pittaway) is molested by his mom’s boyfriend, raped by his older stepbrother, and finds a rosy-cheeked savior in John Bunting (Daniel Henshall), the worst serial killer in Australian history. Justin Kurzel’s film recalls Monster, not least because Dixie County, Fla., and Adelaide could be the same subtropical snake pit. But Snowtown achieves new lows in the unendurable and loftily gratuitous: Grok those artful closeups of contusions, and peer into the relieved eyes of torture victims allowed to finally die. Or don’t, and keep a little piece of your humanity. It’d be better if: You never walked in. AARON MESH. LM, 6:30 pm Friday, Feb. 24. WH, 8:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 25. 16
Extraterrestrial
[SPAIN] Following up on 2007’s much-venerated, sordid metaphysical puzzle box Timecrimes, director Nacho Vigalondo again cracks the genre box wide open. Across all of Spain, 4-mile-wide flying saucers have appeared above the cities, but rather than descend into an alien mind piece or shoot-’em-up, the film uses the saucers as an excuse to empty Madrid aside from a terrifically human, comedic love quadrangle in which everyone is in love with the same woman (Michelle Jenner). Indeed, the whole damn film is a testament to rampant, ridiculous love gone wild in the old Spanish style, and to its absolute distortion of the world. Ever-pendant apocalypse has never been so affectionate or endearing or sweetly sad. It’d be better if: I thought maybe Michelle Jenner might notice me, too. 95
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[LEBANON] The most pretentiously titled film of PIFF could also be the most touching. It sounds like a recipe for dour falafel, but Mahmoud Kaabour’s documentary, in which he interviews his 82-year-old granny in order to preserve her wisdom, is an absolute delight because of its subject. Teta Kaabour is a sass-pot for the ages, a loving, illiterate, ballbuster matriarch from another era who smokes her hookah and screams at street vendors from her apartment’s balcony all day. We get only 50 minutes with Teta in the doc (part of a grandmammy double feature, paired with the French homelessness short I Could Be Your Grandmother). I’d be content to listen to her for days. It’d be better if: Teta, irritated by the misleading title of her grandson’s film, went on a quest to fight 999 other matriarchs. AP KRYZA. WTC, 8:45 pm Friday, Feb. 24.
86 [SWITZERLAND] It’s a town in Death Valley, so you think you know exactly which 35 people would choose to live there. It’s an exploration of extreme Yankee eccentricity by a visiting European, so you think you know exactly what Nick Brandestini wants to find. And yes: There are elements here of the Paranoid Style in American Burnouts (the main street keeps catching on fire; we find one fat, bearded anarchist checking to see where he buried his guns). But there is also something credible in this portrait. Like the best contemporary essaying— the stuff by John Jeremiah Sullivan and John D’Agata—it finds dark and light rhythms running like rock strata through forlorn human lives. It’d be better if: Looniness weren’t the initial selling point. But that’s to say it’d be better if we lived in a different world. AARON MESH. C21, 1 pm Saturday, Feb. 25.
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[GERMANY] Featuring the most indelible scenes inside a tent since The Blair Witch Project, this subtitle-free study of engaged backpackers (Hani Furstenberg and Gael García Bernal) and their Caucasus Mountain tour guide (Bidzina Gujabidze) is based on a Hemingway-influenced short story by departing Portland writer Tom Bissell. As such, it hinges on one instinctual decision that colors every interaction before and after. That unthinking choice is made unforgettable by director Julia Loktev (Day Night Day Night), who stages it as a kind of dire dance step. It’d be better if: You didn’t know that crisis was coming. But then you might not go. AARON MESH. C21, 8:45 pm Friday, Feb. 24. 84
Kill List
67 [GREAT BRITAIN] For the first 84 of its 85 minutes, Ben Wheatley’s Kill List is an effectively unnerving descent into human depravity. It also features enough comedic bickering between the leads to resemble The Trip, if Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon were hitmen and, instead of touring Northern England’s finest dining establishments, they traveled around the country bludgeoning people to death with hammers. In other words, for its first 84 minutes, Kill List is the most intriguing (and most unflinchingly brutal) genre experiment of this year’s PIFF. As the violence grows more gratuitous, though, you get the sense that all it’s building toward is one big, empty shock. Then it happens, in a final reveal so preposterous it curdles everything that came before into waste. Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated? You will. It’d be better if: Wheatley went with literally any other ending. MATTHEW SINGER. C21, 11:30 pm Friday, Feb. 24.
41 [SWEDEN] Well, the movie certainly isn’t mistitled. In fact, making out is pretty much the foundation of the film’s central relationship, between two soon-to-be stepsisters. They kiss in a tool shed. They kiss in an elementaryschool restroom. They kiss in a dewy meadow populated by grazing deer. Occasionally, they augment the kissing with sensual lovemaking, sometimes while bathed in enough gauzy sunshine to light a toilet paper commercial. In between all the Sapphic tonsil hockey is a stultifyingly standard rom-dram that only faintly touches on Swedish mores regarding homosexuality, and even then so tritely it doesn’t matter. It’d be better if: It was just a twohour make-out session set in various odd locations: in the Vatican; inside a double-wide suit of armor; in the hollowed-out corpse of a dead camel, etc. MATTHEW SINGER. C21, 8:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 25.
Invasion of the Alien Bikini
41 [SOUTH KOREA] When you shoot a flick for $5,000, the one thing that isn’t typically compromised is inventiveness, particularly in a film about a sex-starved alien babe who crash-lands on Earth to slurp the sperm out of a virginal vigilante. While Invasion of the Alien Bikini looks great, it’s surprisingly unoriginal. The film starts well—a campy fight scene and an erotic game of Jenga—before devolving into a stew of South Korean cinematic clichés: the standard kink, shockingly brutal violence against women, martial arts, kitsch, oddball humor, and overwrought metaphors about sexuality and aging. It looks like most of the budget went into an overlong torture scene. Maybe a couple bucks could have been invested in a script rewrite. It’d be better if: There were actually a sentient bikini sidekick. AP KRYZA. C21, 11:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 25.
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40 The gender-bending Albert Nobbs offers a buy-one-get-one-free coupon of butch, with two central heroines masquerading as dudes. The titular Albert (Glenn Close) is so one-dimensional the film surrounding him becomes a complete and utter drag. R. PATRICIA SAUTHOFF. Fox Tower.
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inspirational family film Big Miracle, an insufferable Drew Barrymore exclaims, “But this is different— whales are in danger!” But when people work together despite their differences (cue orchestra’s sentimental crescendo) that warm, blubbery feeling is priceless. PG. PENELOPE BASS. Clackamas. NEW
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81 Set in the Flemish “hormone mafia underground,” freshman director Michael Roskam’s bleak (but not humorless) Oscar-nominated thriller centers on one slab of chemically enhanced beef in particular. His name is Jacky. His interests include cattle farming, naked shadowboxing, and sticking needles in his ass. Knotted with localisms, Bullhead’s crime story is too dense to really navigate; as a study of masculinity interrupted, it’s brutal and impossible to ignore. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Hollywood Theatre.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] It’s Elizabeth Taylor’s 80th birthday and, as we can’t spend it in the heavenly tree house she shares with Michael Jackson, let us instead join her granddaughter Laela Wilding to watch Granny Liz take on Tennessee Williams. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Monday, Feb. 27. $10 donation benefits Cascade AIDS Project and da Vinci Arts Middle School.
Chronicle
81 Dopey in all the right places and
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. PG-13. CHRIS STAMM. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, City Center, Division, Sherwood.
A Dangerous Method
81 The new David Cronenberg film about the salad days of psychoanal-
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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. Obviously, it’s the Oscar front-runner. PG-13. AARON MESH. Bagdad, CineMagic, Cornelius, Moreland, City Center, Fox Tower, Roseway.
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Declaration of War
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] An opportunity to make fun of Arnold Schwarzenegger with the Portland Mercury. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 25.
60 A light-footed, almost fanciful French 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. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters.
The Descendants
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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. Clackamas, Forest, Fox Tower, Sandy.
The Envelope Please: Oregon Goes to the Oscars
[ONE DAY ONLY, HISTORY] Hours before the Academy Awards hit your TV (or the Bagdad, Hollywood and Mission theaters, if you feel like company), Oregon film historian Anne Richardson gives an illustrated primer on the state’s golden-statuette honorees. Hint: One of them rhymes with Mus Man Mant. Oregon Historical Society, 1200 SW Park Ave., 222-1741. 2 pm. Free with OHS admission and/or to Multnomah County residents. NEW
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[ONE NIGHT ONLY] The Academy Awards, with Voodoo Doughnut food court and live acceptance speeches. Hollywood Theatre. 3 pm Sunday, Feb. 26.
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55 Liam Neeson is working as a wolf sniper on a Yukon pipeline and thinking about shooting himself in the face (say what you will about Liam’s recent testosterone surge, when you get Oskar Schindler to anchor your action flick, you get a guy with a flair for looking like he wants to shoot himself in the
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35 Meryl Streep bellowing like she’s rehearsing English Channel whale songs. PG-13. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Fox Tower.
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72 [TWO NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] The first-class curators of edutainment at Cinema Project have teamed with Reed College’s Cooley Gallery to lasso a grip of experimental films and videos that prod and poke at the human form’s charged territories. Although the exclusion of Jackass and Anal Invasions #84 strikes me as shortsighted, Is It My Body is a fine survey of films devoted to flesh containers. And by fine I mean historically significant and frequently crushingly dull. But in a good way? Tuesday night’s roundup features Willard Maas’ essential Geography of the Body (1943), which uses extreme close-ups to transform bodies into expansive landscapes. Unlike much of the work collected here, it fascinates sans any prior knowledge of art history; it might not be as radical as Vito Acconci’s junk-tucking and hair-burning Conversions (1971), but it is far less obnoxious. Wednesday’s screening is anchored by Representational Painting (1971), Eleanor Antin’s performance piece about applying makeup. It is 38 minutes and silent. I suggest attending to experience the awkward transcendence of such a hushed public spectacle. The true meaning of time will be revealed as a slow progression of sodden seconds hammering you deeper into half-sleep. But in a good way? CHRIS STAMM. Fourteen30 Contemporary @ 937, 937 NW Glisan St. 7 pm TuesdayWednesday, Feb. 28-29. Free.
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60 The trademark stoicism of Aki 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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On the Ice
53 A tweaked expansion of
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[TV ONSCREEN] 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. 24. Mission Theater. 7 and 10 pm, with variety show “The Friday Night TV Party & Theater Club Neighborhood Association” in between. NEW
Re:Generation
[THREE NIGHTS ONLY] A concert documentary with electronic DJs, including Skrillex. Cinema 21. 7 pm Sunday-Tuesday, Feb. 26-28.
writer-director Andrew Okpeaha MacLean’s 2008 short film of the same name, On the Ice comes front-loaded with a short’s worth of affecting scenes that offer quick glimpses into the snowblind lives of Inupiat teens, but it too quickly clicks itself into worn plot cogs. Those promising first 15 minutes ride a mellow Van Sant vibe into the endlessly fascinating (to me) world of teen dudes who communicate sexual confusion via roughhousing and jokes aimed at moms, and MacLean’s got a good sense for the ways in which the dumb shit that kids say and do hide the deep shit that kids feel and think. The piercing little moments—an awkward freestyle rap at a house party, a brief boy-girl flirtation in the white light of a sun that never goes down, a band of ruffians riding snowmobiles while hip-hop plays on the soundtrack—build to a killing that propels the rest of the film, but the heightened drama attending cover-ups and guilt-ridden flailing crashes into after-school-special territory. One gets the sense that MacLean doesn’t yet know what he’s truly capable of. I’d give him another shot. R. CHRIS STAMM. Fox Tower.
shouting, and there’s a lot of shouting. But the movie is riveting, even exhilarating. PG-13. AARON MESH. Fox Tower.
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012: Animated
NEW Sound + Vision: Have You Ever Had a Beard?
72 Like its live-action counterpart, 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. CHRIS STAMM. Hollywood Theatre.
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012: Live Action
40 The precious Tuba Atlantic will take home this year’s statue, as it is about a lonely old man reluctantly forging a few fleeting connections before flatlining. CHRIS STAMM. Hollywood Theatre.
Pina 3D
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Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds
Tyler Perry falls for Thandie Newton. Who wouldn’t? Not screened for Portland critics. PG-13. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Division, Lloyd Mall.
Pina—an elegiac documentary about the work of late, iconoclastic choreographer Pina Bausch—is a brokenhearted Billie Holiday to the 3-D form’s usual emptily virtuosic Ella Fitzgerald. PG. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Living Room Theaters.
Safe House
39 Denzel Washington’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. 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 this film’s only semiprecious asset. R. CHRIS STAMM. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, City Center, Division, Hilltop, Sherwood, Sandy.
The Secret World of Arrietty
A boy befriends a tiny fairy in this anime from Hiromasa Yonebayashi. Not screened for Portland critics. G. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, City Center, Division, Hilltop, Sherwood.
A Separation
90 A marriage is all over but the
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, SUBJECT ATTENDING] A documentary about K Records founder Calvin Johnson. Shown with a live musical performance by K Records founder Calvin Johnson. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Friday, Feb. 24.
This Means War
35 Two secret agents meet a girl and 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 9 1/2. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, City Center, Division, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Sherwood, Wilsonville, Sandy, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
23 British author John le Carré answered James Bond fantasy with his realistic sense of class politics and moral disillusionment in a faded empire. His 1974 novel, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, filled six hours
Typhoon DVD Release Party
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Local director Matthew Ross is pretty much the 41st member of Typhoon (get it? It’s like “fifth Beatle,” but Typhoon is a very large band). His handful videos for the breakout Portland orchestral rock band have helped define it almost as much as its horn section. So it was only fitting that he would direct the band’s first full-length concert film, captured at Mississippi Studios in December. The songs we’ve seen captured thus far are quite pretty (they used a crane!), and the music captured doubles as the band’s first live album. If you’ve ever wanted to experience a Portland rock club inside a Portland theater, tonight’s your lucky night. CASEY JARMAN. Clinton Street Theater. 9 pm Sunday, Feb. 26. Free. NEW
Vigilante
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] The Grindhouse Film Festival presents Robert Forster in 1983, with a death wish. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Feb. 28.
The Vow
22 Rachel McAdams is a savant of the sulky and vacant, and this amnesiac role 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 Channing Tatum, who is upstaged by his Panama hat. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, City Center, Division, Hilltop, Sherwood.
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Wanderlust
Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston move to a commune. Not screened by WW press deadlines; look for a review on wweek.com. R. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, City Center, Division, Hilltop, Sherwood. NEW
Windfall
40 [ONE WEEK ONLY] If you have
enough attention span to make it through this 83-minute doc, we commend you: Not because Windfall is particularly long, but because it’s boring as shit. However, Laura Israel’s film is not without its merits. Refreshingly deviating from the endless onslaught of idealistic green-energy films, Windfall explores the negative aspects of wind power through a case study on a small town in upstate New York. The first half of the film really won’t tell you anything you don’t already know. Wind turbine companies come into towns and offer to pay residents to allow turbines to be placed on their land. Turbines are noisy and disturb the pristine landscape. Et cetera. Windfall’s second half delves a bit deeper into some non-aesthetic issues with wind power, and might actually tell you something you haven’t heard before, although how “green” the turbines are isn’t ever genuinely discussed. As an effort to inform those whose lives may be affected by wind power of the potential drawbacks, this movie accomplishes its goal. But as for causing a greater social impact, it falls a bit short of its mark. KARA WILBECK. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm FridayThursday, Feb. 24-March 1.
The Woman in Black
Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets. Not screened by WW press deadlines. PG-13. Clackamas, Forest, Division.
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HUNGRY EYES: Next month’s The Hunger Games surely won’t open with Jennifer Lawrence’s head exploding, what with its Twihard demographic. But Suzanne Collins’ series owes a tremendous debt to Kinji Fukasaku, who first mashed up Lord of the Flies and The Running Man with the 2000 provocation Battle Royale. The film’s sadistic depiction of an island full of juveniles forced to gruesomely eviscerate one another at the whims of totalitarianism was so shocking, it was actually banned in several countries and never released theatrically in the U.S. As unsettling as it is corny, Battle Royale lacks teeth as a cautionary tale. It compensates by sending teeth— and everything else—flying across the screen. AP KRYZA. Showing at: Hollywood Theatre. 9:45 pm Friday-Saturday, Feb. 24-25. Best paired with: BridgePort Hop Czar. Also showing: The African Queen (Laurelhurst).
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Grand Lodge Compass Room Theater
3505 Pacific Ave., 503-249-7474 THE ARTIST Fri-Sun-MonTue-Wed 06:00, 08:30 NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY Sat
Academy Theater
7818 SE Stark St., 503-252-0500 THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 04:45 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE -- GHOST PROTOCOL Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 07:00, 09:45 WE BOUGHT A ZOO Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:10 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 06:45, 09:25 THE MUPPETS Fri-Sat-MonTue-Wed 05:00 MY WEEK WITH MARILYN Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:25 CARNAGE Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 09:35 ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED Sat-Sun 11:30 THE 84TH ACADEMY AWARDS LIVE ON THE BIG SCREEN Sun 05:30
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9360 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway, 503-296-6843 THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN Fri-Sat-Wed 05:40 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 08:20 THE MUPPETS Fri-Sat-Wed 05:55 MY WEEK WITH MARILYN Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 08:40 CONTRABAND Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 06:20, 09:00 ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED Fri 04:20 DOLPHIN TALE Sat-SunMon-Tue 04:00, 06:30
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I try to take one day at a time,” says Ashleigh Brilliant, “but sometimes several days attack me all at once.” I think you may soon be able to say words to that effect, Gemini -- and that’s a good thing. Life will seem more concentrated and meaningful than usual. Events will flow faster and your awareness will be extra intense. As a result, you should have exceptional power to unleash transformations that could create ripples lasting for months. Would you like each day to be the equivalent of nine days? Or would four be enough for you? CANCER (June 21-July 22): When actor Ashton Kutcher is working on the set of his TV show Two and a Half Men, he enjoys spacious digs. His trailer is two stories high and has two bathrooms as well as a full kitchen. Seven 60-inch TVs are available for his viewing pleasure. As you embark on your journey to the far side of reality, Cancerian, it might be tempting for you to try to match that level of comfort. But what’s more important than material luxury will be psychological and spiritual aids that help keep you attuned to your deepest understandings about life. Be sure you’re wellstocked with influences that keep your imagination vital and upbeat. Favorite symbols? Uplifting books? Photos of mentors? Magic objects? LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Veterans of war who’ve been wounded by shrapnel often find that years later, some of the metal fragments eventually migrate to the surface and pop out of their skin. The moral of the story: The body may take a long time to purify itself of toxins. The same is true about your psyche. It might not be able to easily and quickly get rid of the poisons it has absorbed, but you should never give up hoping it will find a way. Judging by the astrological omens, I think you are very close to such a climactic cleansing and catharsis, Leo.
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hearsed. It actually might be kind of fun as long as you play with the perspective Shakespeare articulated in As You Like It: “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Dear Rob: For months I’ve had a recurring dream in which I own a pet snake. Here’s the problem: The only cage I have to keep the snake in is sadly inadequate. It has widely spaced bars that the snake just slips right through. In the dream I am constantly struggling to keep the snake in its cage, which is exhausting, since it’s impossible. Just this morning, after having the dream for the billionth time, I FINALLY asked myself, what’s so terrible about letting the snake out of its cage? So I gratefully wrote myself this permission note: ‘It is hereby allowed and perfectly acceptable to let my dreamsnake out of its cage to wander freely.’ - Scorpio Devotee.” Dear Devotee: You have provided all your fellow Scorpios with an excellent teaching story for the upcoming weeks. Thank you! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): For million of years, black kite raptors made their nests with leaves, twigs, grass, mud, fur, and feathers. In recent centuries they have also borrowed materials from humans, like cloth, string, and paper. And in the last few decades, a new element has become quite popular. Eighty-two percent of all black kite nest-builders now use white plastic as decoration. I suggest you take inspiration from these adaptable creatures, Sagittarius. It’s an excellent time for you to add some wrinkles to the way you shape your home base. Departing from tradition could add significantly to your levels of domestic bliss. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There are many examples of highly accomplished people whose early education was problematical. Thomas Edison’s first teacher called him “addled,” and thereafter he was homeschooled by his mother. Winston Churchill did so poorly in school he was punished. Benjamin Franklin had just two years of formal education. As for Einstein, he told his biographer, “my parents were worried because I started to talk comparatively late, and they consulted a doctor because of it.” What all these people had in common, however, is that they became brilliant at educating themselves according to their own specific needs and timetable. Speaking of which: The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you Capricorns to plot and design the contours of your future learning. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Nigeria has abundant deposits of petroleum. Since 1974, oil companies have paid the country billions of dollars for the privilege of extracting its treasure. And yet the majority of Nigerians, over 70 percent, live on less than a dollar a day. Where does the money go? That’s a long story, with the word “corruption” at its heart. Now let me ask you, Aquarius: Is there a gap between the valuable things you have to offer and the rewards you receive for them? Are you being properly compensated for your natural riches? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to address this issue. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Gawker.com notes that American politician John McCain tends to repeat himself -- a lot. Researchers discovered that he has told the same joke at least 27 times in five years. (And it’s such a feeble joke, it’s not worth re-telling.) In the coming week, Pisces, pease please please avoid any behavior that resembles this repetitive, habit-bound laziness. You simply cannot afford to be imitating who you used to be and what you used to do. As much as possible, reinvent yourself from scratch -- and have maximum fun doing it.
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