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INBOX THAT JOKE ISN’T FUNNY ANYMORE I wanted to comment on a small piece that was published in Willamette Week [“Beer Bash,” Feb. 1, 2012]. The piece in question was, in and of itself, a relatively small portion of your publication that week. The premise, I think, was to inform the readers of an upcoming beer and movie film fest, complete with tongue-in-cheek summaries of well-known movies, and perhaps participate in some sort of inside joke along the way. What I find so curious about this selection was the way it was featured in your newspaper. When I first picked up the Feb. 1 edition, I saw running vertically along the left-hand side [of the cover] a banner advertising a “curdled romance between an autistic man and a gay computer.” I was intrigued, and then extremely disappointed once I found that the article this came from was some sarcastic interpretation of 2001: A Space Odyssey. I find no reason why such a reference would be used as a slur, in this day and age, and in a supposedly progressive newspaper. Last I checked, the conventional wisdom was that it is inappropriate to call somebody “retarded”—so why would using the name of a specific condition as an insult be appropriate? I’m sorry if I missed the inside joke here, but perhaps this is a joke that was perhaps better left “inside.” I don’t understand why a joke like this would make it past an office email and all the way to publication. I will continue to read Willamette Week, but I will do so with a great deal less respect. Sarah Nelson Southeast Portland
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Aaron Mesh, WW movies editor, responds: The 2001 review was indeed a bit of an inside joke— an attempt to puncture the hallowed reputation of films at my Beer and Movie festival—but its revisionist intent was unambiguous. Matthew Korfhage’s description of director Stanley Kubrick’s astronauts as “autistic” was meant as a straightforward description of affectless, unemotional performances. It was not intended as a pejorative.
LOCKING IN ON A KEY BIKING ISSUE
I read with interest and delight your recent article [“Bikin’ in the Rain,” WW, Feb. 22, 2012] regarding how to make it through Portland on a bike in the rain (which is essentially, let’s face it, nine months of the bloody year). But, zut alors, what’s this? You forgot the most important bit of information many consider sacred to any bicycling newbie: LOCKING YOUR BIKE. If I see another bike worth twelve hundred smackaroos chained to a tree sapling with a cable lock I could chew through with my teeth, I am going to cry. Always, always lock [your bike] to something that can’t be chopped down, kicked over, sawed through or chewed off. And even more important, for heaven’s sakes, invest in a solid U-lock. You can cut through the average cable lock in about three seconds with a pair of garden clippers.... Consider yourselves warned. Kirsty Teresa Hall Southeast Portland LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include the author’s street address and phone number for verification. Letters must be 250 or fewer words. Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Fax: (503) 243-1115, Email: mzusman@wweek.com
Portland attracted out-of-state migrants like bike messengers to an open bar throughout the recession, pushing the local jobless rate as high as 11.8 percent in 2009. It had dropped to 8.1 percent by December 2011, though, so your veiled call for an indie-rock Kristallnacht is a bit belated. Even so, anecdotal evidence suggests that the shallow end of the labor pool still has a few suspiciously warm, yellow spots. For instance, I see lots of young folks clinging for years to serviceindustry jobs that, in my day, would have been considered disposable. Welcome to Portland, home of the 10-year barista! In any case, get used to it. We’ll continue to attract the cool kids as long as we keep stacking up those youth-friendly amenities, not the least of which is a large contingent of like-minded singles. After all, if you can’t find a job anywhere, you might as well move somewhere where you can get a little action. Beaver State? You bet. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com
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Plans for a new charter school in Portland have hit tough times. Bridges Public Charter High School lost its contract with Portland Public Schools on Monday, Feb. 27. Bridges, a Waldorf school, was to open in September 2012 but didn’t get access to federal grants it was counting on. The district may give Bridges a second chance. Meanwhile, the school board also canceled the contract for the hip-hop REAL Prep Public Charter Academy, which failed to open its Pearl District campus last fall after questions about financial problems surfaced. Campaign cash updates: Sen. Bruce Starr (R-Hillsboro), running for state labor commissioner, has snagged a second $25,000 check from Stimson Lumber. Starr’s total contributions this year have hit $80,000; the incumbent, Brad SEN. BRUCE STARR Avakian, $38,000.... Corporations may be people, but have buildings started donating money in the mayor’s race? Charlie Hales got $2,500 from the “12th & Alder Building” and Eileen Brady got another $2,500 from “Glisan Property LLC.” No, it’s the Goodman family, of downtown parking lot and real estate fame, that controls both entities. Rep. Jefferson Smith (D-East Portland), the other major candidate, has not received a check from a Goodman edifice. For the latest in 2012 election news, go to wweek.com/pdxvotes. Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt. 6
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The former general counsel for Evergreen International Aviation—the McMinnville-based military contractor suspected of having intelligence agency ties—claims in a new lawsuit that chairman Tim Wahlberg fired her for asking too many questions. U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Monique DeSpain sued Evergreen on Feb. 23 in U.S. District Court in Portland, claiming sex discrimination, retaliation and violations of federal whistle-blower protections. DeSpain’s suit says she was “outspoken” in inquiring about the company’s legal risks. Wahlberg, the suit says, “expected her to work in a stereotypically appropriate manner for a woman. That is, he expected her to be deferential, compromising, affirming and quiet.” DeSpain’s suit also alleges company founder Delford Smith said of a job candidate, “He’s great, BUT, he’s Hispanic!” DeSpain declined to comment. Evergreen, with more than $1 billion in annual revenues, didn’t responded to WW’s questions.
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The Oregon Supreme Court has succeeded in doing what scores of public meetings, thousands of pages of reports, and endless public relations spin could not: Give us the original rationale behind the proposed $3.5 billion Columbia River Crossing. The answer, according to the court: The massive Interstate 5 bridge and freeway project is a “political necessity” to persuade Clark County residents to accept something they previously didn’t want—a MAX light-rail line from Portland to Vancouver. Project opponents filed a legal challenge to the way Metro, the regional planning agency, granted sweeping land-use approval to the project. The Oregon Supreme Court sided mostly with Metro. But Chief Justice Paul De Muniz, writing for the majority, highlighted an inconvenient set of facts for CRC backers. He wrote in the Feb. 16 opinion that most of the project—namely the 10-lane freeway bridge and new interchanges—was put forward to get Clark County to agree to the light-rail line. De Muniz cited statements that Metro made in the land-use process and Metro’s lawyer repeated before his court. “It was politically impossible for the light rail project to proceed without also building new interstate bridges across the Columbia River,” De Muniz wrote. “Or as Metro later summarized it: ‘There is no light rail without the freeway bridge[s] being replaced.’” Backers have cited traffic and safety issues as the top reasons to build the CRC. But the
court ruling means those and other justifications were created after officials decided to give a sop to Clark County, now worth $2.5 billion. Metro had used a law originally intended to site light-rail lines to justify the project. (Only 27 percent of the project’s cost—or about $950 million—will go to building the light-rail portion of the CRC.) Metro won every legal challenge, including at the state Supreme Court. De Muniz highlighted Metro’s landuse decision. In it, the regional agency explains the freeway bridge and associated improvements were necessary to get the light-rail line built after Clark County voters in 1995 overwhelmingly rejected funding for a new light-rail line. Supporters of the bridge project acknowledged the new freeway bridge and $1 billion in interchanges were necessary to sway Clark County to go for the deal. “To get light rail built, we need to have some highway improvements associated with it,” Mark Greenfield, an attorney for Metro and TriMet, told the Supreme Court in December. Mike Lilly, a lawyer for Plaid Pantry, a losing petitioner in the Supreme Court case, says the ruling exposes an expensive truth about the CRC. “We are stuck paying for a huge highway bridge and interchanges as an inducement to get Vancouver to accept light rail,” he says. CRC spokeswoman Anne Pressentin says the courts have established that Metro followed the law properly when it granted the CRC’s land-use approvals. Pressentin also says how the new freeway bridge and interchanges got on the drawing board in the first place no longer matters—the CRC project has proven the region needs both the freeway improvements and light rail. “There are a lot of things that happened along the way,” she says. “There’s no inconsistency here.”
SO...WHY DO WE NEED THIS BRIDGE? Supporters of the Columbia River Crossing have acknowledged in court that a new Interstate 5 bridge between Oregon and Washington is a tradeoff to persuade Clark County residents to accept a light-rail line. Along the way, CRC backers have offered a range of other reasons the bridge is necessary. These are some of them:
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The number of cars using the current Interstate bridge will grow, and congestion is already terrible.
Traffic is down on the bridge since 2004; a new bridge does little to relieve congestion in the Vancouver-toPortland commute.
SAFETY
The current bridge is unsafe for drivers and could collapse in an earthquake.
Other stretches of I-5 are more dangerous. Seismically, the Interstate bridge is sturdier than others, including the Marquam.
RIVER TRAFFIC
Frequent lifts of the Interstate bridge for Columbia River ships cause too many traffic delays.
Realigning a railroad bridge downstream would eliminate 95 percent of the Interstate bridge lifts. Cost: $50 million.
AFFORDABILITY
The bridge will pay for itself—after Oregon, Washington and the feds chip in billions.
Even with proposed tolls, traffic projections show the bridge will not cover its own costs.
TRAFFIC & CONGESTION
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Anonymous—the hacker group famous for Guy Fawkes masks and anti-Scientology protests—has raised the stakes. Earlier this month, the group secretly recorded an FBI conference call. On Feb. 27, it published thousands of emails stolen from a private intelligence firm, Stratfor. The feds are taking the irreverent, politically minded hacktivist group very seriously—as a previously unreported search here in Portland shows. The U.S. Secret Service executed a series of search warrants last fall targeting a Portland computer engineer, Jeffrey A. Hekmati. Agents searched Hekmati’s apartment and seized his iPhone, computers, USB thumb drives and other devices. The grounds for the search? According to the affidavit, Hekmati admitted to making a drunken prank call to one of Anonymous’ targets. The call apparently raised suspicions Hekmati had access to hacked information. According to court records and Anonymous postings, the hacker group broke into the network of Matrix Group, a Virginia-based Web development firm, on Oct. 21, 2011, and defaced the website of one of its clients, the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Two days later, Matrix Group’s CEO, Joanna Pineda, was chatting with a co-worker using Yahoo Messenger. “During this private chat session [Pineda] remarked that she should go into the pizza business, apparently in reference to the amount of pizza that had been consumed due to repair of the web site,” the affidavit says. Two minutes later, the affidavit says, the CEO got a call on her cellphone. When she answered, the caller said, “I heard you wanted a pizza.” Agents traced the number to Hekmati, who was interviewed by investigators at work two days later. He told them he had been drunk at a restaurant, checking his Twitter feed, and saw a tweet from Anonymous with Pineda’s cellphone number. “Hekmati dialed the number…and made a comment about pizza,” the affidavit says. The feds’ evidence does not prove Hekmati had any role in the original Anonymous hack of Matrix Group; it’s possible he simply pranked the wrong person at the wrong moment about the wrong topic—pizza. Hekmati, 49, declined to talk to WW. He works for engineering firm CH2M Hill’s downtown Portland office and doesn’t appear to have a criminal record. Public records show he drives a BMW but lives in a rented room in a house in Sellwood. Pineda, the target of the call, did not respond to a request for an interview; nor did Hekmati’s employer, CH2M Hill. Assistant U.S. Attorney Sean Hoar declined to talk about the case, except to confirm that no charges have been filed and that the feds are still investigating.
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Jefferson Smith, Eileen Brady and Charlie Hales hope you’ll “like” them. Brady also wants you to see pictures of her family and eavesdrop as she says “I love you” to her son. Smith weighs in on the Trail Blazers and has a Twitter account for his dog, George Bailey. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have become mandatory for modern campaigns: updating supporters and shaping the candidate’s image with a self-consciously natural intimacy. In the race for Portland mayor, Brady and Smith have both done well in connecting through social media. Natalie Sept, Brady’s campaign manager, says the campaign wants to use social media to help Brady appear accessible—and, she adds, Brady writes her own posts and tweets. “Anything from Eileen is authentically from her,” Sept says. Hales, meanwhile, has a Facebook page and Twitter account whose missives are far from habit forming. (He’s the only candidate on Google Plus, which he doesn’t use much.) He’s also running a more traditional campaign, knocking on thousands of doors. Campaign Manager Jessica Moskovitz acknowledges a generational gap in Hales’ target audience: Older voters engage early on, she says, and are less familiar with Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. “We don’t want voters to have to learn a new technology to talk to us,” Moskovitz says.
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VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE Smith (FwdWithJefferson): 6 | Brady (EileenBradyForMayor): 10 | Hales (HalesforMayor): 3
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Occupy Las Vegas is on the line. On Feb. 29, its members will join a national day of protest against corporations, and Occupy Las Vegas leaders are reporting in: They’re going to target the offices of NV Energy, one of that city’s biggest companies. Occupy Louisville is on the conference call, too. It’s going after KFC. Occupy leaders from other cities—Dayton, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Erie—chime in with their plans. In a friend’s Northeast Portland house, Kari Koch of Occupy Portland listens in. She monitors a computer screen and can see how many Occupy groups have joined the discussion. And she can see the protest that’s been named F29—hatched, publicized and coordinated by Occupy Portland—is going to be big. “People are looking to us,” Koch says. “It definitely seems like Occupy Portland is playing a leading role in figuring out what the movement will look like.” She should know. Koch, 31, has helped Occupy Portland, routed from its downtown park camps more than three months ago, emerge as a leader in the national Occupy movement. F29 Shut Down the Corporations, scheduled for the day this issue of WW hits the street, has spread to more than 60 Occupy movements around the country, as well as Mexico City, Sydney and London. Shane Patrick, a spokesman for Occupy Wall Street, the movement’s original faction, says it’s often difficult to tell where ideas within the disparate Occupy movement come from—but that’s not the case with F29. “It was a pretty clear-cut thing,” Patrick says. “Portland put out the call.” Plans for F29—plus the local response after being evicted from Lownsdale and Chapman squares Nov. 13—has turned national attention to Occupy Portland. “Obviously the Occupy in New York City was a clear protagonist in the beginning, but the resilience of the Occupy in Portland played a big role,” says Heather Gautney, a sociology professor at Fordham University in New York who has been watching the movement. How Occupy Portland has moved further into national leadership—and how the F29 turns out—could determine whether the growing rage over income inequality, corporate power and the corruption of the political system will evolve from a string of protests into a true political movement. CONT. on page 15
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The Occupy Portland activists gathered in the chilly basement of the St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Southeast Portland have momentarily forgotten how to vote. The question before them during this Feb. 16 meeting is whether they should support a local protest called “Clown the Police”: Occupiers would dress as clowns and play pranks on police officers, such as squirting them with trick flowers. Koch, who’s leading the weekly meeting of Occupy Portland’s “spokescouncil,” goes over voting rules for the fourth time that night. The group is required to discuss anything that people at the meeting believe violates their personal values. Occupiers still vote using “up twinkles”—wiggling their fingers in the air—if they are in favor, and “down twinkles” if they are not. The motion whether to take part in “Clown the Police” needs 90 percent approval to pass. “I swear to God, it could take 30 seconds if we all try hard,” Koch says. But the debate drags on for a half hour, with some people concerned the protest might actually create sympathy for the cops. The spokescouncil eventually votes down the idea. During the Lownsdale and Chapman encampments, Occupy’s obsession with granular democracy often left the protesters mired in debate and open for ridicule. Already during this meeting, the food committee chair has earnestly announced the need to find Tupperware lost during a recent Salem event. And Occupiers debate the meaning of “modified consensus” in a form for so long you could almost hear the document itself sigh. “The process is critical to the functions of Occupy Portland,” Koch says. “It tends to be chaotic at times and the process grounds us.” Occupiers eschew the idea there is any one group of true leaders, but in fact there is a tight-knit group behind the scenes of Occupy Portland that has started to transform its operations. And Koch—who has become something of a public face for Occupy Portland—is an example of how skilled political organizers and activists have stepped in to bring focus out of the chaos that followed the shuttering of the camps. Koch began as an unlikely radical. “I’m apparently an extremist,” she says. “I was a right-wing nut job, and now I’m a leftist.” She was born and raised in Ponca City, Okla., where a ConocoPhillips oil refinery sits on the horizon. Beyond it, oil derricks dot the countryside. Her father did manual labor. Her mother was a nurse. She grew up conservative, even libertarian, believing government had little role in people’s lives. But at Baker University, a United Methodist school near Lawrence, Kan., she was influenced by a political science professor who challenged her conservative views by forcing her to see racial inequality in America.
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MOVED INDOORS: Churches have become the primary gathering place for Occupy Portland. This Feb. 24 meeting at the First Unitarian Church of Portland was held to discuss social-media strategies.
FULL-TIME ACTIVIST: Kari Koch emerged as a public face for Occupy Portland during the Occupy the Ports protests in December.
THIS IS TWITTER: Ciara Doyle explains how to use social media to further Occupy’s cause. Social media has played a key role in organizing major protests such as F29.
When his message finally broke through, she says, “It crushed me.” She threw herself into progressive groups on campus. In 2002, after graduation, she moved to Portland to work for the Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group at Portland State University. Now, Koch says, she’s unemployed after working in town for union-backed groups opposed to free-trade agreements, most recently with the Portland Central America Solidarity Committee, a mostly volunteer nonprofit that works on social and climate issues in Central America. Koch says she was thrilled by news of Occupy Wall Street. The New York movement started Sept. 17 with more than 100 people camping out in Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan to protest federal bailouts for banks. A few days later, she joined 400 people under the west end of the Burnside Bridge to talk about forming Occupy Portland. She knew quite a few of the people there, many as fellow activists from around the city. “I walked away having some faith that Occupy might have some meaning here,” she says. During the Occupy Portland encampment at Chapman
and Lownsdale squares, Koch ran meetings of various committees—from safety to food—that tried to keep the camps running, and she helped lead the nightly meetings, called general assembly. Like many Occupy leaders, Koch spent few nights sleeping in the camps, which became overrun with street kids and often turned violent. “There were definitely times I was really frustrated,” she says, referencing the violence that happened in the squares. “What I ended up doing was to check myself. Camp was simply a microcosm of all the hard things people face every day.” Koch was there at midnight Nov. 13, Mayor Sam Adams’ deadline to evacuate the camps. She was inspired by the sight of thousands of people filling the streets to protect the camps from police and defy Adams’ order—a sign, she says, the Occupy message truly reached people. “Eviction night was one of the greatest nights of my life,” she says. CONT. on page 16 Willamette Week FEBRUARY 29, 2012 wweek.com
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BANKING ON PROTEST: Kari Koch was arrested during the N17 protests during a sit-in at Wells Fargo Bank in the Standard Insurance Center at Southwest 5th Avenue and Salmon Street. Koch later pleaded guilty to trespassing—a violation—and performed eight hours of community service.
TALK IT OUT: Nick Caleb, a Concordia University professor, says he got involved with Occupy Portland after the camps closed. “There’s a strong community-rights angle to it,” he says.
But the party died down and, like thousands of others, she went home to sleep. Police rolled in the next morning and cleared the camps. At first, Occupy Portland seemed to have momentum after the closing of the camps. Koch and others had already planned N17, when several hundred protesters tried to shut down Chase and Wells Fargo banks Nov. 17—followed by several more days of protests and clashes with Portland police riot squads. (The Oregonian’s now-famous photo of a cop nailing an Occupy protestor in the face with pepper spray came during the N17 protest.) In December, Occupy Portland again took center stage in the national news during the Occupy the Ports protests. The idea had started in Oakland, Calif., but got more attention in the Pacific Northwest, where the International Longshore and Warehouse Union had been at odds with port officials in Longview, Wash. Occupy Portland succeeded in shutting down two Port of Portland terminals. Koch was interviewed on Fox and Keith Olbermann’s Countdown. 16
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Then things got quiet, and Occupy Portland seemed to disappear. Occupy movements around the country seemed to be flailing, even as the overall message started to stick, and the nation’s political debate absorbed Occupiers’ broader messages. A Google search for the phrase “income inequality” during 2010 yields 307 hits. Since last September, the search returns 2,810 hits. Pundits handicap the presidential race based on which candidate will best appeal to the 99 percenters championed by the Occupiers. The lexicon of the protests has entered everyday language. The Atlantic magazine on Feb. 11 ran a story titled “Occupy Kindergarten: The Rich-Poor Divide Starts With Education.” The corpulent NBC TV executive Jack Donaghy, played by Alec Baldwin on 30 Rock, complained in a Feb. 16 episode about being mugged by a white man wearing a button-down shirt and Dockers. “There’s a war going on out there,” he says to Tina Fey’s Liz Lemon character, “and you’re going to have to pick a side.”
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) says he sees reverberations of the Occupy movement throughout rural Oregon, from Medford to Manzanita. “They come up after the meetings and say, ‘I’m part of Occupy,’ or ‘I’m part of the 99 percent,’” he says. “It seems like the conversation has changed.” But Occupy Portland was uncertain about what would happen next. Over the holidays, Koch took a train home and stopped along the way to meet with Occupiers in Chicago, Wichita, Kansas City and Tulsa. She saw other groups were also bickering and disorganized and lacked support in their communities. “I realized why Portland maybe is able to have a vibrant and strong Occupy because we have a history of activism here,” she says. “In Oklahoma City, for example, there’s not the same culture of social-justice activism.” On Jan. 4, Koch announced Occupy Portland’s plans for the F29 protest on her Twitter account. The announcement went unnoticed in the media, as did Occupy Portland’s efforts to rebuild. The local group had several things going for it. The city already had a strong network of full-time organizers and activist groups that had been working with and around each other for years. They brought expertise and acumen into the vacuum left by the closing of the camps. Occupy Portland started to attract others who had been turned off the by the mess at Lownsdale and Chapman squares but saw something lasting and worthwhile. For example, Nick Caleb, a geography professor at Concordia University, says Occupy shook him out of what he called “an ivory tower kind of liberalism—do I actually want to hang out with the people on the ground?” Caleb is among Occupy’s new activists, helping with F29 and pushing for reforms from City Hall and the Oregon Legislature. “Maybe I like [Occupy] because it’s not so easily pigeonholed,” he says. Occupy Portland also benefited from the media attention that came out of the clash with police at Chapman and Lownsdale squares, and other confrontations with police that followed the eviction. The fact that the N17 protests against the banks had already been planned— another national idea Occupy Portland is credited with— gave the local movement a sense of strength that was lacking elsewhere. “The antagonisms with police in Oregon, Denver and, of course, Oakland helped unify the movement and reinforce its narrative,” Fordham’s Gautney tells WW in an email. Occupy Portland is run loosely by dozens of committees, called “spokes,” that propose ideas and later vote on them. But Koch and others, building on the success of the N17 protests, formed a group called the Portland Action Lab, a collection of about 50 activists. It was out of meetings of this group that the idea for F29 emerged. Occupy movements in more than 60 cities are each planning their own approach to protesting corporations. The minutes from a series of conference calls conducted between various Occupy groups are posted online and show there are plans for the typical marches, speeches and sit-ins—plus street theater, including at least one mock funeral march. Past Occupy actions have been vague, generic assaults on corporations and wealth. Perhaps the most strategic move Occupy Portland leaders made was the decision to focus F29 at a very specific target: companies that support the American Legislative Exchange Council. According to its website, ALEC is ostensibly an association of state legislators to promote “limited government, free markets, federalism, and individual liberty.” ALEC, for example, is credited with being a major force behind anti-union legislation in Wisconsin last year and Arizona’s controversial anti-immigration laws passed in 2010. In April, the Center for Media and Democracy and The Nation magazine teamed up to report on 800 leaked “model bills” that they said exposed ALEC’s agenda to privatize public schools, roll back environmental rules, protect tax breaks for the wealthy, and enact a host of other corporate priorities.
The primary targets of the F29 protests appear to be corporations that have a seat on ALEC’s “private enterprise” board. Those board members include Kraft Foods, Pfizer, UPS, Altria, State Farm and ExxonMobil. Occupy leaders won’t say which companies they will target locally, but the minutes from conference calls to discuss plans elsewhere show that each Occupy movement will target companies in its own backyard. According to the minutes from conference calls, protesters in Charlottesville, Va., have been considering an action toward Verizon. Tampa, Fla., was considering targeting Outback Steakhouse or Chili’s restaurants over minimum-wage issues. A number of cities, including Harrisburg, Pa., are looking at Wal-Mart. In Madison, Wis., Occupiers were debating whether to go after Alliant Energy or Oscar Mayer. Koch expects at least 1,000 people to take part in Portland’s F29 protest. She says Occupy Portland can judge its success if the protest draws media attention to ALEC. She also hopes F29 will create momentum for more protests at ALEC conferences later this year. “We’re going to try actively to shut them down,” she says. Portland police officials say they are gearing up for F29 protests, which they say could include sit-ins, strikes, blockades, boycotts and banner drops. “We’ll have lots of resources ready to respond to calls of blocked streets, vandalism, trespassing, etc.,” Sgt. Pete Simpson, a Portland police spokesman, tells WW in an email. “What we hope for is lawful, peaceful demonstrations that don’t require a police response, but history shows that unpermitted events usually don’t play out that way.” The question for Occupy Portland isn’t so much whether it will continue here but whether it can make any lasting
difference in the movement nationwide. “Of course they’re leaders—we’re all leaders,” Shake Anderson, a spokesman for Occupy Oakland, says of the Portland group. “This is a worldwide movement—I think any city should be a part of it. It’s not about who is getting the most media attention.” To date, Occupiers have avoided the path of another upstart group that also rose out of middle-class angst and anger over economic disparity—the Tea Party movement. Its leaders have targeted conservative voters and worked within the existing political system. But unlike the Tea Party, Occupy has steered clear of backing candidates. “Don’t become a part of conventional party politics,” says Robert Liebman, a professor of sociology at PSU. “I worry that if Occupy becomes an ally, it will get co-opted.” Koch says her own family members—who usually see things very differently than her— are also engaged by the Occupy movement. They’re working class—worried about retirements, mortgages and losing their factory jobs. Oklahoma is a right-to-work state, so Koch says her family members have no union protection. “Politically, they’re conservative, but viscerally they really identify with what Occupy is about,” she says. “We have really different ideas about solutions, but on an emotional level, they identify.” Koch says Occupy needs people like her family to do more than cheer it on. Without broader support, and a willingness for people to act on their anger and frustration, Occupy will fail. “We just have to figure out how to light that fire under regular working-class folks,” Koch says. “Our future lies in an ability to create a mass movement instead of becoming a subculture.”
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FRIDAY MARCH 2 ENTER THE DRAGON [MOVIES] Cort and Fatboy resurrect Bruce Lee at his most kickin’. Their timing is, of course, a subtle love letter to Ruth Brown and her favorite childhood dragons. Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 236-9234. 11 pm. $3. 12TH PLANET [MUSIC] The bass-heavy wobble of dubstep is quickly becoming impossible to ignore. One person you can thank for that is John Dadzie, known to his fans as 12th Planet. The L.A.based producer has worked with Skrillex, Skream and Rusko, to name a few—and he’s one of the more stylish dubstep producers around. Peter’s Room, 8 NW 6th Ave., 219-9929. 9 pm. $5.
SATURDAY MARCH 3 KILL LIST [MOVIES] For the first 84 of its 85 minutes, Ben Wheatley’s Kill List is an effectively unnerving descent into human depravity. It’s building toward one big, empty shock but, for those 84 minutes, Kill List is the most intriguing (and most unflinchingly brutal) genre experiment from this year’s PIFF. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. Multiple showtimes. $5-$7. SHASHANK SUBRAMANYAM [MUSIC] The acclaimed Indian bamboo flutist, who’s recorded 50 CDs and performed with everyone from John McLaughlin to Zakir Hussain, is accompanied by violin and percussion in the alluring music of Southern India. First Baptist Church, 909 SW 11th Ave., 523-8690. 7:30 pm. $15-$25.
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LA SERA [MUSIC] For her solo project La Sera, Vivian Girls bassist Katy Goodman sheds the distortion and noise that cloud the Brooklyn trio’s melodies in favor of a more lush sound, driven by guitars and marked by vocal harmonies. The redheaded indie darling is soon to release her second solo album under the La Sera moniker, Sees the Lights. Her lilting vocals have the power to make even breaking up sound uplifting throughout the forthcoming album’s 10 tracks of retro-tinged pop. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St. 8:30 pm. $8. 21+. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 29, 2012 wweek.com
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Portland Food Adventures is celebrating the marvel of the Gregorian calendar that is Feb. 29 with a doubleheader dinner. Chefs Chris Carriker of Old Town restaurant Gilt Club and Rick Gencarelli of Belmont food cart Lardo team up for a six-course meal with cocktails and wine. As always, the ticket price includes gift certificates to the chefs’ favorite eateries, which include Cheese Bar, EuroTrash and the Bent Brick. Gilt Club, 306 NW Broadway, 222-4458. 6:30 pm. $125 including gratuity.
The Horde and the Harem boasts four voices that combine in harmony over a solid rhythm section, surrounded on all sides by sizzling and sputtering guitars, and anchored into place by the weight and grace of the piano. Sonically nomadic, lyrically vibrant and harmonically layered, these Pacific NW indie-rockers launch into 2012 with their long awaited full-length release ‘A Long Midwinter.’
Y LA BAMBA SUNDAY 3/4 @ 3PM
With their new album ‘Court The Storm’ Portland’s Y La Bamba return with a haunting second full-length of delicately crafted art folk. With four of the eleven songs in Spanish, singer Luzelena Mendoza embraced her heritage and personal experiences on this stunningly intricate and diverse blend of mariachi inspired folk songs.
Leap Day at Noble Rot
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ANNE WEISS • JEFF DAWSON • ANDY ANDERSON MONDAY 3/5 @ 7PM
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GARY OGAN TUESDAY 3/6 @ 6PM
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As a veteran of 40 years in the music business, Gary Ogan toured, played, and wrote with the venerable Leon Russell, accompanied, sang, and had his songs covered by various luminaries, and released a few albums. Now, Ogan comes forth with ‘Sound Ground,’ for which he played every instrument and self-recorded in his Portland home studio.
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Is Leap Day a “thing” now? Do we celebrate it? Apparently they do at Noble Rot, which will be opening an hour early at 4 pm with “oodles” of items priced at $4.29, half off much of the wine list and special Leap Day cocktails. Noble Rot, 1111 E Burnside St., 233-1999. 4 pm. Prices vary.
SATURDAY, MARCH 3 Beer Camp
The next installment of Sunshine Tavern’s Beer Camp will feature Lompoc Brewing. Lompoc’s brewmaster will take campers through educational tastings of its brews prior to a dinner with matched beer pairings. Beers on tap include Kick Axe Dry Hopped Pale Ale, Batch 69 Baltic Porter, Bob’s Memorial Braggot, Centennial IPA and Bourbon Barrel Aged LSD. Sunshine Tavern, 3111 SE Division St., 688-1750. 4 pm. $60.
SUNDAY, MARCH 4 Oregon Buddhist Temple Spring Food Bazaar
The Oregon Buddhist Temple’s annual spring food bazaar will allow all beings to mindfully munch their way through chow mein, sushi, yakisoba, udon and chicken and beef bento. There also will be flower arrangements, plant sales and gift booths. Earn some good karma by pre-ordering your lunch at oregonbuddhisttemple.com. Oregon Buddhist Temple, 3720 SE 34th Ave., 235-2493. 11:30 am-3:30 pm. Prices vary.
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Bastas Trattoria is holding the first in a quarterly “historical dinner series,” with an event exploring the advent of “Italian-American” cuisine. The dinner will be cohosted by Portland Monthly food blogger Allison Jones (whose chief qualification for teaching Portland about the history of Italian American food is apparently the fact that she “majored in religious studies at Reed College with a focus on the history of food”), who we’re sure will declare a conflict of interest every time she writes about Bastas from now on. Bastas Trattoria, 410 NW 21st Ave., 274-1572. 6:30 pm. $50, wine and gratuity not included.
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Dot-com serves crispy bahn xeo rice-flour crepes; essentially a giant yellow pancake filled with ground pork, shrimp and crunchy bean sprouts that tastes a bit like an Indian dosa on holiday. KELLY CLARKE. 7901 SE Powell Blvd., Suite K, 788-8877, atpho.com.
Chennai Masala
The dosa is a staple of Southern Indian cuisine, and though these giant, crispy pancakes look indomitable, they’re actually paper-thin and fillings are modest. For more of a challenge, tackle the denser Tamil variant, uttapam. 2088 NW Stucki Ave., Hillsboro, 531-9500, chennaimasala.net.
Shigezo
The okonomiyaki, an egg pancake filled with pork, squid and green onions, combines a lot of strong flavors into a griddle-seared blend, like a teriyaki seafood omelette. AARON MESH. 910 SW Salmon St., 688-5202, shigezo-pdx.com.
JCD Korean
The seafood scallion pancake that’s a staple at Korean restaurants kicks ass here as an entree, overfilled with fresh squid and scallions in an egg-and-rice flour batter that’s custardy and crisp. LIZ CRAIN. 3492 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., 644-7378.
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GINGER LIQUEUR (NEW DEAL DISTILLERY) Great things are happening at Portland’s New Deal. One of the first of the last decade’s explosion of small craft distilleries, the brand was for its first six years known only for vodka. Then 2010 brought two excellent gins, followed by a series of coffee liqueurs made in collaboration with local roasters, and now this sweet, alarmingly fiery concoction. The Ginger Liqueur, which contains only sugar, ginger and unspecified “spirits,” is a little too intense to drink on its own without ice. Drop a half-ounce of it and a jigger of bourbon on the rocks, though, and you’ve got the best whiskey ginger you’re ever likely to taste. Don’t like whiskey? Mix it up with vodka and lime for a Moscow Mule, or dark rum and soda for a perfect Dark and Stormy. Recommended. BEN WATERHOUSE.
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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 29 Elliott Brood
[ALT-COUNTRY] Elliott Brood’s third LP, Days Into Years, is fresh out this week—and it’s got some hefty boots to fill. The Toronto trio’s previous album, Mountain Meadows, was among an impressive list of 2009 Polaris Music Prize nominees, which included fellow Canadian artists as acclaimed as Wolf Parade and Leonard Cohen. Days Into Years doesn’t disappoint. The album, which the band wrote after visiting a World War I cemetery on a tour of the French and Belgian coasts, is wellcrafted and not as glum as its source of inspiration. Still brimming with energy and the group’s signature scratchyvoiced, big-roots sound, the album tones down the frantic spirit of earlier work and delivers a collection of more accessible, thoughtful and developed songs. EMILEE BOOHER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
The Woolen Men, Sun Foot, Rootbeer and French Fry, Pictorials
[RAW POWER] Your parents probably wouldn’t call what the Woolen Men make “music.” They might instead tell you to turn down the “racket.” Thankfully, you don’t live with those jerks anymore. And you know what that means: Play the Portland outfit’s latest album, The Hair of the Night (released late last January), as loud as your speakers will allow and dance around the kitchen banging pots and pans in your underwear. Go hard on the sweets. This is raw, chaotic punk; it’s music for a bull in a china shop. The seven-track album, recorded and mixed by the Portland group, is best heard while riding the most intense lightning-bolt sugar high possible. NIKKI VOLPICELLI. Valentine’s, 232 SW Ankeny St., 248-1600. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
THURSDAY, MARCH 1 The Growlers, The Allah-Las, The Reservations
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[SURFIN’ VAMPIRES] A bit less willfully obnoxious than Black Lips and not quite as blatantly Nuggets-y as Thee Oh Sees, Long Beach’s Growlers nonetheless fit a similar bill of ram-
shackle psychedelia. Coming from Southern California, though, beach culture is an unavoidable influence, and the group puts its stamp on retro garage with a darkly theatrical, shotthrough-with-reverb sound it calls “beach goth.” Imagine surfing an oil slick while high as a kite, and 2010’s Hot Tropics is probably the soundtrack to your thoughts. MATTHEW SINGER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
The Fix: Rev. Shines, DJ KEZ, Maseo, Rich Medina, Ohmega Watts, Dundiggy
[BIG CITY BEATS] The last installment of influential local DJ night the Fix—a recurring party worthy of a much larger city and yet somehow thoroughly Portland—marks the end of an era. Not only did resident DJs Rev. Shines, DJ Kez, Dundiggy and Ohmega Watts bring in some gargantuan names in their five-year run at Someday Lounge (Madlib! Erykah Badu! Large Professor!), but they helped keep Portland hip-hop and turntablism on the map in an era when the city’s indie-rock scene was grabbing most of the headlines. Tonight’s fittingly huge special guests—De La Soul’s Maseo and influential DJ/producer Rich Medina—will help close things out with a bang. Pay your respects. CASEY JARMAN. Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th Ave. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
FRIDAY, MARCH 2 Tim Berne’s Snakeoil, The Blue Cranes
[ANGULAR JAZZ] On the ECM Records website, the label refers to Tim Berne’s sax playing as “tough,” which is about as apt a description as you’re likely to find for the loud, muscular sounds that the 56-year-old draws out of his alto. Really, the sound of Berne’s lines on his 2011 release Snakeoil (his first for ECM) don’t sound as brutish as some of his late-’80s and early-’90s work. But there’s still a gruff directness to him and his band’s take on postmodern, deconstructionist bop that can definitely be hard for the more timid jazz fan to swallow com-
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BHI BHIMAN’S FAVORITE NBA PLAYERS C.J. Watson He’s an ex-Warrior, and when I say “Watson,” I’m imitating Arsenio Hall introducing Mr. Randy Watson in Coming to America. Derrick Rose Because he subs in for C.J. Watson sometimes ( joking!). He’s incredible all-around, but that alley-oop against Detroit last year was nasty. Kevin Durant The best offensive player in the NBA. His commercials aren’t bad either—especially the Nike one with Sam Cooke playing in the background. Monta Ellis One of the most underrated scorers in the game...and he’s a Warrior. Jeremy Lin Only because he’s Asian. SEE IT: Bhi Bhiman plays Doug Fir Lounge on Friday, March 2, with Chadwick Stokes. 9 pm. $15. 21+.
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The hookers were a bad idea. But, like so many stories about Hooves, a night of Vegas debauchery gone awry had a few silver tassels lining it. “We ended up in the presidential suite at the Golden Nugget and our manager at the time bought some hookers and they ended up—I wasn’t there, so I don’t know exactly what happened—but they ended up robbing us,” says Andrew Krissberg, the band’s frontman. “But the point of the story is we met another rock ’n’ roll band that night who was up all night partying with us, too. So there’s other groups out there doing what we do.” Making friends—in this instance, Oakland’s Bare Wires—isn’t easy for a young rock band lyrically self-described as “shit-kickin’, motherfuckin’ good ol’ boys that everybody knows.” Hooves occupy an odd niche: too arty to be bros, too old-fashioned and surly to hang with lo-fi punk types on DayGlo skateboards, and too drunk and disorderly for most introspective indie bands. Krissberg and Hooves drummer Chris Lamb met and started playing in Phoenix, Ariz. They were schooled in the methy western suburbs before moving to Roosevelt Row, a few blocks of Kryloncoated gringofication akin to Alberta Street. The band relocated to Bellingham, Wash., in June, a move timed to avoid a summer of haboobs and chemical temptation while finishing the album it had been working on for three years. Fetch, Little Doggie, which many (read: me, who covered Hooves in Phoenix) doubted the band would ever actually knuckle down and finish, came together quickly in the sleepy border town north of Seattle. “It’s not a huge city or anything, which is kind of what we were looking for,” Lamb says. “When you’re likely to just go out and blow all your money on booze, it’s easier to do that in a big city.” Fetch, Little Doggie—named for an insult hurled between female fans fighting over a tambourine at a show—suggests it was a smart move. It’s a hairy-chested rock album with burly licks, pianola
frills and what sounds like three heavily madeup women bumping puffy hairdos together while sharing a microphone on the choruses. It’s a ’70s sound, but there are few Zeppelinesque cock-rock pretensions—it’s more like a gritty version of the Doors or a smaller reboot of the Band. The nine-track album’s rollicking closer, “All Friends,” best captures the loose layers of the band’s shows, opening with a pitter-patter of keys and evolving through blaring brass and hootalongs before devolving into house-party chatter. It sounds like the band’s shows—minus the slurring, which could make the four-week tour that brings the band through Portland for the first time on the way to its South By Southwest debut a challenging proposition. Drunken antics have long been endearing and afflicting for Hooves. The band was once tossed out of an Arizona charity bowling tournament and banned from the alley. Krissberg, Lamb and bandmates Christian Reeb and Brad Bielesch just aren’t big on pacing themselves. “At our first show [in Bellingham], Christian puked all over the place and Andy fell asleep in the girls bathroom after the show,” Lamb says. Setting the Vegas hookers aside, one of Hooves’ better-known exploits involved trashing a hotel room in a small Arizona town, an incident that angered another local rocker who publicly shamed them as “some of the worst people I’ve ever met.” Destroying the room is not something Krissberg, surprisingly soft-spoken and thoughtful on the phone when he’s sober, feels badly about. “The thing was, the hotel room was literally infested with cockroaches, there were cum stains on the sheets,” he says. “My mindset at the time was, ‘This place is already fucked up.’” At least the boys from Hooves have a place to crash in Oakland. Hopefully their new pals in Bare Wires are keeping the place clean. “I don’t think anyone should be afraid to rent us a hotel room,” Krissberg says. “They should be afraid not to.” SEE IT: Hooves play Red Room, 2530 NE 82nd Ave., on Friday, March 2, with Stolen Rose, 8-Ohm-Prophet and the Unicornz. Cover. 8 pm. 21+. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 29, 2012 wweek.com
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[SINGER-SONGWRITERS] Chadwick Stokes is a perfectly good songwriter who reminds me, alternatingly, of a young Paul Simon, a young Britt Daniel and a young Eddie Vedder. Good instincts, good production. But in picking opener Bhi Bhiman, whose amazing voice and piercing songwriting chops threaten to upstage most folks he shares a stage with—”Guttersnipe,” the opening track from his second full-length, BHIMAN, ought to hook you—Stokes may have made a miscalculation. Either way, this show comes highly recommended. CASEY JARMAN. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St. 9 pm. $15. 21+.
effort Fathers Be Kind, a minimal but moving EP that falls somewhere between a Jim James solo project and a 3 am philosophical campfire conversation. In short, it’s ambient gospel, with several grains of salt. MARK STOCK. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
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Local lineups don’t come much more exciting than this, folks. Tonight AU celebrates a locals-only release for its furious new, beautifully packaged Hometapes album, Both Lights—which sounds something like Philip Glass playing prog rock and doesn’t officially drop until next month—and Tu Fawning is previewing material from its ambitious, wonderfully weird next record, A Monument. The ever-entertaining
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fortably. ROBERT HAM. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 7196055. 8 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. Minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. All ages.
MUSIC
THE ALLAH-LAHS +THE RESERVATIONS
THUR MARCH 1st
$10 Adv
KZME and Woodchuck Cider Sweet N Local Presents
Don Carlos, Dubvision Band, Ras Binghi and the 7th Seal and more
[REGGAE ROYALTY] One of reggae’s most enduring voices, Don Carlos is probably best known as a former member of Black Uhuru— odd, since he left the group and took his honey-sweet croon solo long before the group reached its apex, winning the first-ever Grammy for Best Reggae Album in 1983. Still, Carlos is no Pete Best: His own work, particularly 1981’s Suffering, places him on the second tier of Jamaican music’s Mount Rushmore. In terms of legacy, he’s below the likes of Bob Marley and Toots Hibbert, but as an artist who’s carried reggae’s torch from the Marley years onward, few have had his staying power. He’s a favorite on the international live circuit, and with good reason. MATTHEW SINGER. Mount Tabor Theater, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 8 pm. $20. 21+.
Ceremony of Sludge: Heavy Voodoo, Axxicom, Avi Dei, Zmoke
[DOOM FEST] In celebration of the sheer volume (!) of heavy bands in Portland, here comes the first installment of a two-night festival chock-full of distortion and decibels. Day one includes Avi Dei, one of the more exciting new rock acts in town. The band pays homage to Pentagram and Dead Moon in equal parts, with a singer whose maniacal laughter strides the line between Captain Beefheart and Gillan-era Sabbath. Day two showcases the mathematical juggernaut Towers, the ceremonial sludge of Doomsower, and riff worshipers Lamprey. Keep it heavy. NATHAN CARSON. The Alleyway Cafe and Bar, 2415 NE Alberta St., 287-7760. 8 pm. $4. 21+. Continues on Saturday.
SATURDAY, MARCH 3 Ivan and Alyosha, Battleme
[NONDENOMINATIONAL GOSPEL] God is no stranger to folk, but Seattle’s Ivan and Aloysha has an interesting way of examining the existential. Instead of exhibiting the churchy devotion of old-school country or the downright divine dismissal of the tragic troubadours, I&A engage in healthy religious debate to the tune of stark acoustic Americana. Last year, the duo of Tim Wilson and Ryan Carbary released sophomore
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Angelic harmonies and fireside folk make for pristine folk-pop songs from local up-and-comers
The Shivas, Orca Team, Pleassure
[SURF PUNK] Before packing up for its West Coast tour, the Shivas celebrate the release of their newest album, Whiteout!, which masters a combination of hard-hitting, beachy guitar rants and faraway, visual lyrics. From “Kissed in the Face,” a fleshed-out psychedelic surf rock track with a vintage “L.A. Woman” feel, to “Gun In My Pocket,” a playful, drum-heavy sprint featured on last year’s PDX Pop Now! compilation, this is an album with vibes hot and sticky enough to hold you off until July (or whichever month summer decides to show up this year). NIKKI VOLPICELLI. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. 9 pm. $7. All ages.
Funky power-pop from an Athens four-piece making high energy songs that will leave you hooked
SHOOK
LEWI LONGMIRE WILL WEST & THE FRIENDLY STRANGERS
+THE ASCETIC JUNKIES SAT MARCH 3rd
ANDREW W.K. MONDAY, MARCH 5 [PARTY MUSIC] Who could have predicted the longevity of Andrew W.K.’s career? He sprung into the world a decade ago fully formed, clad in white T-shirt and white jeans and heartily urging us to party till we puked. And he dared to appear on the cover of his debut album, I Get Wet, looking like he had just hopped out of the shower and had been punched square in the nose. It was a ridiculous conceit. Especially when the tastemakers of the world were caught in the sway of electroclash and a “garage revival.” Hell, when I agreed to see his performance at the Roseland Theater in 2002, it was purely for a laugh. But like everyone else in the room, he soon had me bewitched. W.K. banged his head mightily to his signature brand of power rock. He sang with a throaty fury and a disregard for the next night’s show. And during his theme song, “Party Hard,” 40 or more folks from the crowd joined him onstage. They danced and hoisted W.K.’s sweaty body above their heads. “Yes, I do remember that,” says the 32-year-old singer, calling from London. “I usually pick other people up. When I was lifted up, it was thrilling and terrifying and really moving. I was probably pretty heavy at the time, too, so they got some good exercise.” Impressively, W.K. has never gone out of favor in the popular consciousness, even if his musical output has slowed considerably. Apart from a strange and beautiful album of solo piano instrumentals released on Thurston Moore’s label, his follow-ups to I Get Wet were only released in Japan due to a variety of bizarre legal wranglings over the ownership of the music and W.K. image. Manufactured or not, W.K.’s image hasn’t been absent from the world. He has embarked on motivational speaking tours. He spent three TV seasons hosting a cathartic Cartoon Network reality show called Destroy Build Destroy. And he’s maintained a Twitter feed where he doles out a never-ending stream of “party tips” that range from the life-affirming (“What you believe about yourself will come true”) to the sublimely ridiculous (“The reason babies, kittens and burritos are so cute is to make us cuddle them”). Now, W.K. is raging a path toward more musical success by touring the world in celebration of the 10th anniversary of I Get Wet’s release. “The reaction has been surprisingly good,” he says. “It’s the biggest response to any tour that we’ve ever announced.” Does it upset him that after all this time and all the new music he has to offer, people still just want to hear “Party Hard”? “Not at all,” W.K. says. “To have anything that connects with anyone is a huge triumph. The mission isn’t to do anything but unite the human race. Whether it’s one album or one song...as long as it’s pushing toward that goal, we’re doing what we signed up to do.” ROBERT HAM. The world’s foremost party expert stops in Portland.
SEE IT: Andrew W.K. plays the Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., on Monday, March 5, with the Evaporators. 8 pm. $20 advance, $23 day of show. All ages.
$5 Adv
British four-piece rock band embracing big riffs and melodies, creating a buzz with their new album, Baby
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WED MARCH 7th
$8 Adv
Electro 80’s dance grooves from booty shaking funk stars
JUNO WHAT?!
TWINS JOHN CRAIGIE +ASHIA GRZESIK
7:30 Doors 8:00 Show
SUN MARCH 4th
$8 Adv
Jack Daniels presents
PRIORY +CAMPFIRE OK THUR MARCH 8th
$5 Adv
The Oregonian presents A&E Live
DARRELL GRANT MARIA CHOBAN +JENNY CONLEE
SAT MARCH 10th FRI MARCH 9th
$13 Adv
Islands return with a uniquely beautiful and personal new album, A Sleep & A Forgetting, out February 14th
ISLANDS
MRS w/ DJ BEYONDA
Partially seated only 200 tix avail
10pm - 2am
SAT MARCH 10th
$5 Adv
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+IDIOT GLEE
SUN MARCH 11th
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Mississippi Studios & Star Theater present
HUGH
Heartfelt and homespun folk of swelling strings and gorgeous vocals
CORNWELL GLEN MATLOCK of The Stranglers
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Coming Soon: 3/15 - BRAINSTORM 3/16 - WILLIAM FITZSIMMONS 3/17 - BABY KETTEN KARAOKE ST. PATRICK’S DAY 3/18 - ANIMAL EYES 3/20 - THE BROTHERS OF THE BALADI 3/21 - DUSTIN WONG (of Ponytail) 3/22 - LONEY DEAR
$12 Adv
JOHN HEART JACKIE +ALINA HARDIN
WED MARCH 14th
3/23 - MICHAEL GIRA (of Swans) 3/23 - OF MONTREAL (@ Crystal) 3/24 - PLANTS & ANIMALS 3/25 - LOCH LOMOND 3/25 - GUSTAFER YELLOW GOLD (early) 3/25 - LOCH LOMOND (late) 3/26 - HOWLER 3/27 - MARCUS FOSTER 3/28 - TERROR PIGEON DANCE REVOLT
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W.C. BECK FRIDAY, MARCH 2 In 2009, W.C. Beck’s life got complicated. All three of his bands imploded within a month of each other. Then he broke up with his girlfriend. Then his grandparents died. Then a close childhood friend committed suicide. So, he did what anyone in his position would do: He went to Mississippi and sold fireworks. “We were in a hot tent with fire ants and mosquitoes and chiggers,” says Beck, 28. “It was over 103 degrees every day for a month, and we were living in a tent with enough TNT to blow us to the moon.” Uncomfortable as it sounds, it turned out to be an oddly cathartic experience. It allowed Beck to take a time out and talk through everything with his best friend, who joined him down South. Most important, it gave him a chance to write songs. Although much of Sapling, Beck’s delicate, country-flecked new album, draws directly from that tumultuous period—the wordless elegy “Blood Harmony,” for instance, was literally written between funerals—it’s not just about that one difficult year. In fact, it’s made up of songs written over the course of three years. Beck thinks of the record as a chronicle of his own self-discovery, from coming to terms with the need to leave his hometown of Newton, Kan. (the lightly galloping “Rolling Hills”), to learning how to cope with loss (the wounded “Ticking Clocks”). As personal as it is, though, Beck says Sapling, in a way, is actually about the long, strange trip everyone takes in their 20s. “You’re in this weird no man’s land of getting to be a kid and do whatever you want and not have to have all the responsibility,” he says, “while at the same time not really knowing exactly where you’re headed.” Beyond the lyrical content, Sapling also represents Beck’s journey as a songwriter. Influenced by his composer grandfather, Beck as a kid studied classical music and jazz. He absorbed his country influences mostly “by osmosis,” he says. “It was always there, being in Kansas.” The turning point came at age 14, when he witnessed a performance by Portland-based string band Pig Iron. After that, Beck abandoned his formal training in favor of working less from the head and more from the heart. “It was really good to have the tools in the toolbox,” he says. “But it was nice to divorce myself from thinking about it and just do it, and sing what’s natural.” Beck self-released three albums— his first recorded when he was 18—before graduating from the University of Kansas and moving to Portland in 2006. Sapling is a culmination of his growth as a musician since, to the point where writing songs is now not just a means of processing pain but a compulsion. “When I get an idea, it’s like a train hurtling at me,” he says. “It becomes a priority above everything else. I’ll be sitting here eating a sandwich, and I can’t finish it because I’ve got a song bearing down on me.” MATTHEW SINGER. W.C. Beck’s roaring 20s were filled with fireworks and funerals.
SEE IT: W.C. Beck plays the Secret Society Ballroom, 116 NE Russell St., on Friday, March 2, with Huck Notari and Garrett Brennan and the Great Salt Licks. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
& THE BLUE CRANES Saturday, Mar 3rd
LIVE WIRE
GUESTS INCL. PARSON RED HEADS AND MICHAEL HURLEY Sunday, Mar 4th
NELLIE MCKAY
“Ia dreamlike WANT TO LIVE” musical...a brilliant piece of theater -The New Yorker Thursday, Mar 8th
PORTLAND YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA WITH SPECIAL GUESTS
THE QUADRAPHONES Friday, Mar 9th
RED MOLLY
Saturday, Mar 24th
DARRELL SCOTT
WITH ASHLEIGH FLYNN & CHRIS FUNK + GARY OGAN
Sunday, Mar 25th
DAN BERN
Tuesday, Mar 27th
AUSTRALIAN HALL OF FAME ROCKER
PAUL KELLY
Alberta Rose Theatre (503) 764-4131 3000 NE Alberta AlbertaRoseTheatre.com
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SATURDAY-TUESDAY Parenthetical Girls recently wrapped up their engaging Privilege EP series, and Grandparents are one of the most hyped young groups in town. This is the kind of show that makes out-of-towners move to Portland and should make us Portlanders realize just how lucky we are. CASEY JARMAN. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E. Burnside St. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
The Minders, Spookies, The Welsh Bowmen
[POWER POP] The Minders are probably too big to be playing the Ella Street Lounge. Martyn Leaper’s catchy, fuzzy pop outfit—think of the Beatles and the Replacements and Cheap Trick having a tryst—is not particularly good at self-promotion but retains a healthy fan base. It’s hard to bring up Leaper without mentioning his roots in the same Elephant Six songwriting collective that birthed bands like Neutral Milk Hotel and Of Montreal, but doing so suggests some level of pretension in the Minders, and the band has none: The recently reemerged rock quartet’s songs make perfectly epic party fodder, but they also hold up under close inspection. CASEY JARMAN. Ella Street Social Club, 714 SW 20th Place, 227-0116. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
Peter Case and Paul Collins, Summer Twins, Carnabetian Army
[PILLARS OF POWER POP] Peter Case and Paul Collins’ intertwining discographies represent a large chunk of the best power pop made post-Big Star, beginning in 1975 with the Nerves. Although together only long enough to release a foursong EP, all four of those songs were phenomenal; one of them, “Hanging on the Telephone,” was later immortalized by Blondie. After then playing together in the short-lived Breakaways, Case and Collins went their separate ways, with Collins forming the underrated Paul Collins Beat and Case gaining the most fame with the Plimsouls, whose “A Million Miles Away” is one of the great singles of the ’80s. On this reunion tour, the pair draw from both their songbooks, offering a history lesson in some of the most underappreciated music of the past three decades. MATTHEW SINGER. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 9 pm. $15. 21+.
Manimalhouse, DJ Weather
[FUNK] There’s a quiet sea change happening behind the scenes in Portland music. Horn-fueled funk, soul and even disco outfits are emerging from the shady fringes and finding themselves drenched in the stage lights of some of the city’s best clubs. Manimalhouse is one of the finer acts, and while most of its new album Move Your Soul places the band firmly in the “funky party band” genre (sample lyric: “Get your ass over here and mow my lawn/ Do you know what it means to really get it on?”), the disc has its tangents of deep, indulgent, jazzy groove as well. The KC and the Sunshine Band vibes aren’t for everybody, but the talent level here is pretty undeniable—as is the mounting evidence that Portland’s future is measurably funkier than its present. CASEY JARMAN. Ted’s (at Berbati’s), 231 SW Ankeny St. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
Dan Jones and the Golden Motors, Last Watch, The Double Yellow
[CRUNCH POP] On his new outfit’s self-titled debut, The Golden Motors, Eugene’s indie-pop bard Dan Jones gets perhaps closer than ever to the sound he hears in his head, which seems to be something like a record-store-geek fantasia of Hüsker Dü performing the Marshall Crenshaw songbook. Jones sometimes pushes his clear and winsome voice into sometimes rougher territory here, complicating his artistic persona in a good way by mitigating the cutesiness he occasionally threatens. Happily, the melodies remain ingratiating, the lyrics engaging, and the guitars still sparkle as
well as crunch. JEFF ROSENBERG. White Eagle Saloon, 836 N Russell St., 282-6810. 9:30 pm. $5. 21+.
SUNDAY, MARCH 4 Nellie McKay
[MUSIQUE NOIR] With her pretty party dresses and roots in schmaltz (though her branches extend into rock and hip-hop), Nellie McKay has always had more than a bit of old-fashioned showbiz about her. Her current album is titled I Want to Live after the noir biopic about an executed murderess (as it were) that won Susan Hayward a Best Actress Oscar. It’s a project perfect for McKay’s carefully calibrated balance of camp and pathos. Folding a handful of clever originals into a blend of idiosyncratically delivered standards to evoke both the historical era and her skewed take on it, McKay’s new show offers fresh context to the fortunate few who’ve seen her before, and should both charm and thoroughly disorient those sampling her for the first time. JEFF ROSENBERG. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 7196055. 8 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. Minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. All ages.
MONDAY, MARCH 5 Death Machine, Seas Will Rise, Old City, DJ Just Dave
[METAL PUNK] Death Machine is fueled by top-notch DNA: Members of Portland punk luminaries Warcry, Ripper and Bi-Marks contribute their considerable talents to this behemoth’s thick, rumbling sound. The influence of Ripper’s metallic incursions into scummy punk figures most prominently, but Death Machine takes the shredding a step further, adding twinned and twining guitar solos born in the stadiums Judas Priest built. Fans of Cleveland’s dark warriors Midnight should be especially stoked to
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have a Portland pusher of such filth to call their own. Except Death Machine seems a bit less intent on having sex with our skulls, which is fine by me. CHRIS STAMM. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 4738729. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.
The Early, Team Evil, Like a Villain
[MINIMAL MONSTERS] Like a Villain remains one of my favorite local oddities, owing mostly to its uncanny ability to ensorcell the clarinet into filling in for an orchestra, synthesizer or full-blown choir, depending on the day’s necessities. Tonight’s show is a release party for a split LP, the result of a collaboration between Like a Villain and three-piece New Jersey transplant the Early. Whereas Like a Villain is hauntingly minimalistic and sharply precise, the Early has tended toward recordings that rely on loose, gloomy jamming supported by a framework of midtempo rock percussion—“junk jazz”, let’s call it. SHANE DANAHER. Valentine’s, 232 SW Ankeny St., 248-1600. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
TUESDAY, MARCH 6 Ganglians, A Classic Education, Artifice
[CALIFORNIA DREAMING] Sacramento’s Ganglians stop at Bunk Bar on their West Coast tour, bringing some needed sunny atmosphere into the gray Portland winter. Last year’s Still Living is rich with catchy, heavily reverberated guitar melodies that give the music a pseudo-psychedelic tinge that’s hard to nail down. Those sounds play nice with the band’s thick, Beach Boys-style harmonies. With an echo hanging off every word and note, the album is dreamy, light and an ideal soundtrack for standing completely still with your arms crossed. COLLIN GERBER. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 8 pm. $8. 21+.
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WEDNESDAY FERUARY 29 • $10 ADVANCE AN EVENING WITH DISPATCH/STATE RADIO FRONTMAN & FRIENDS
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FRIDAY MARCH 2
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A LOG LOVE SHIN-DIG OF PDX ROCK
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ALBUM REVIEW
[CULTURES CLASHING] The idea of mashing together the disparate worlds of conjuntos from south of the border and modern, rainsoaked pop is a great one. But Y La Bamba has never really been able to put it into any clear practice. The sextet leans far too heavily on its American influences, opting too often for dewy-eyed twee drama. On Court the Storm, its second full-length, the Mexican folk side of the band’s personality either shows up subtly or takes over completely. If one muted the accordion lines and Scott Magee’s stuttering drumbeats, Y La Bamba’s work would be indistinguishable from the rest of the Northwest folk-pop rabble. It doesn’t help that Court the Storm shines when the band is full on cumbia or mariachi mode. A song like “Viuda Encabronada” or “Como Ratones” comes along and the album takes flight. Singers Luzelena Mendoza and Paul Cameron start harmonizing with a lusty earthiness. The rest of the band sounds similarly inspired, playing with a fearless abandon. Why, then, veer well away from this spirit throughout? Or add a stumbling near-arena-rock breakdown to the otherwise invigorating mariachi rave-up “Bendito”? I want to call it self-conscious, but if you’ve ever seen Y La Bamba live, you know the band isn’t lacking confidence. And I wouldn’t want to suggest the other songs on the album—the meanderingly lovely “Moral Panic,” the title track’s steady, dynamic, damn-near-epic album-closing march—are really coming straight from Mendoza’s heart. What I can’t shake is the feeling that the band is simply holding something back. I fear Y La Bamba is merely giving the people what they want: Intriguing small tastes of other cultures wrapped up in the safe and familiar. ROBERT HAM. SEE IT: Y La Bamba plays Music Millennium, 3518 E Burnside St., on Sunday, March 4. 3 pm. Free. All ages.
SONS OF HUNS THURSDAY!
WATER & BODIES +BLACK PUSSY
THURSDAY MARCH 1 •
CROCODILES
+BLEEDING RAINBOW
WEDNESDAY MARCH 7 •
$10 ADVANCE
HIP-HOP/SOUL FROM NIGERIAN-GERMAN TOUR DE FORCE
NNEKA +BAJAH + THE DRY EYE CREW Doors at 9:30pm Show at 10pm LATE SHOW! $12 ADVANCE
THURSDAY MARCH 8
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LONG-AWAITED ALBUM RELEASE SOIREE
VIOLET ISLE
AU
TU FAWNING PARENTHETICAL GIRLS +GRANDPARENTS
SATURDAY MARCH 3 •
$10 ADVANCE
FLAMBOYANT FOLK WITH EARTHY SWAGGER FROM LA
HE'S MY BROTHER, SHE'S MY SISTER BAD WEATHER CALIFORNIA +THE JOHN STEEL SINGERS
TUESDAY MARCH 6
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$8 ADVANCE
BURGEONING FOLK-ROCK FROM UK DUO
SLOW
CLUB +SIGNALS
THURSDAY MARCH 8 •
Doors at 6:30pm Show at 7pm EARLY SHOW! $10 ADVANCE
AN ALBUM RELEASE CELEBRATION FEAT. MEMBERS OF WEINLAND, M. WARD AND NORFOLK & WESTERN
ALIALUJAH CHOIR RYAN SOLLEE
MIKE COYKENDALL
& CARLOS FORSTER DUO +SHELLEY SHORT
FRIDAY MARCH 9
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$10 ADVANCE
EPICALLY SONIC INDIE ROCK FROM SCOTLAND
the TWILIGHT SAD
TANGO ALPHA TANGO +THE DIMES
SATURDAY MARCH 10
$5 ADVANCE
AN ALBUM RELEASE THROW-DOWN OF PDXPERIMENTAL POP
SATURDAY!
STOKES
POST-PUNK NOISE REVIVAL FROM SAN DIEGO
Y LA BAMBA COURT THE STORM (TENDER LOVING EMPIRE)
JACK DANIELS PRESENTS THE BLACK & BLUE SERIES
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SAUL
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SUNDAY MARCH 11
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$13 ADVANCE
AN INTIMATE EVENING WITH PIONEERING WORDSMITH
WILLIAMS
+CX KIDTRONIX
MONDAY MARCH 12
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$15 ADVANCE
PORTLAND CELLO PROJECT album release 4/13 & 4/14 on sale 3/2 Y LA BAMBA - 4/21 MY GOODNESS - 4/27 on sale 3/2 FATHER JOHN MISTY - 5/8 TYCHO + ACTIVE CHILD - 5/25 on sale 3/2 EMILY WELLS - 6/2 All of these shows on sale at Ticketfly.com
SCOTT PEMBERTON 3/16 • AMADAN 3/17 • VETIVER 3/18 • ROBERT SCHWARTZMAN 3/21 WHITE RABBITS 3/22 • MR. GNOME 3/23 • LOST IN THE TREES 3/25 • MILAGRES 3/26 AMY RAY 3/27 • ANAIS MITCHELL PRESENTS HADESTOWN 3/28 • LEIGH MARBLE 3/29 ADVANCE TICKETS AT TICKETFLY - www.ticketfly.com and JACKPOT RECORDS • SUBJECT TO SERVICE CHARGE &/OR USER FEE ALL SHOWS: 8PM DOORS / 9PM SHOW • 21+ UNLESS NOTED • BOX OFFICE OPENS 1/2 HOUR BEFORE DOORS • ROOM PACKAGES AVAILABLE AT www.jupiterhotel.com
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Booberamapaloozafest: Tiny Knives, Mustaphamond, Child PM
Korkage Wine Shop
6351 SW Capitol Highway Anson Wright
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Sam Adams’ Band, Adam Sweeney & The Jamboree, Anna Coogan (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)
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McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Pete Krebs
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Growlers, The AllahLas, The Reservations
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Cats Under the Stars, Quasi Horse, Stunt Poets
Muddy Rudder Public House
WED. FEB. 29 303 SW 12th Ave. Archeology, Violet Isle
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Open Mic
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Chillest Illest, Salary, Lame Free, John Lewis, Supa Nova, Rapture, The Krisis, O.M.G., Tramatic
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Josh Tatum, Frame by Frame
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Dryland Farmers Band, Stephen Baker
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Errick Lewis & The Regiment House Band
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Aranya, Beringia
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Elliott Brood
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam (9:30 pm); High Flyer Trio (6 pm)
East India Co.
821 SW 11th Ave. Josh Feinberg
Ella Street Social Club
714 SW 20th Place Electro Kraken, Bells, Like A Villain, The Ghost Ease
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Giraffe Dodgers, Twisted Whistle
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Adventures! With Might, Pocketknife, Grandparents, Doubleplusgood (DJ set)
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. The Journey Collective
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Jack London Bar
529 SW 4th Ave. Donna Show, Sideburns
The Blue Diamond
Jade Lounge
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project Blues Jam
Jimmy Mak’s
2026 NE Alberta St. The Cry, No Tomorrow Boys, DJ Ken Dirtnap
Kelly’s Olympian
4144 SE 60th Ave. Open Jam with Humidors
Ladd’s Inn
1425 NW Glisan St. Nancy King
2346 SE Ankeny St. Jeffrree White Music Showcase 221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet 426 SW Washington St. The Morals, The Double Yellows 1204 SE Clay St. Lynn Conover
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray and the Cowdogs
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Jim Page & Billy Oskay (9 pm); Casey Neill & The Norway Rats (6 pm)
Lents Commons
9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Empty Space Orchestra, The Ro Sham Bos, VTRN
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Puddletown Ramblers
OMSI
1945 SE Water Ave. OMSI After Dark: Brittany Walsh, AWOL Dance Collective
Palace of Industry
5426 N Gay Ave. Flat Rock String Band
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Pill Brigade, Delaney and Paris, DJ HazMatt, K-Dizzy, Artimus Treefrog, Vert Sin
Quimby’s at 19th 1502 NW 19th Ave. Gabe Rola
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. The Shrine, Burning Leather, Billions & Billions
Sundown Pub
5903 N Lombard St. Threadbare, Adam Brock, Migi Artugue
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Torta-Landia
Touché Restaurant and Billiards
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. The Woolen Men, Sun Foot, Rootbeer and French Fry, Pictorials
White Eagle Saloon
Steve Kerin
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Reckless Kelly, Rose’s Pawn Shop
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Sons of Huns, Water and Bodies, Black Pussy
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Bridge Creek (9 pm); Tough Lovepyle (6 pm)
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place The Autumn Electric, Johnny Unicorn, The Magic Beets
Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave. Ezra Holbrook
836 N Russell St. Bitterroot, Aliina Champion
Goodfoot Lounge
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar
Hawthorne Theatre
800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Trio with Barbara Lusch
THURS. MAR. 1 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. Archeology, Jessy Ribordi
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Ellis Paul, Peyton Tochterman
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Will Stenberg, Emily Jane White (9:30 pm); Sockeye Sawtooth (6:30 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Tracy Kim Trio
Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. The Husdown, Black Black Things, Objects in Space, The Hilldogs
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. John “JB” Butler & Michael Doughtery
Chapel Pub
430 N Killingsworth St.
2845 SE Stark St. Philly’s Phunkestra
2530 NE 82nd Ave. The Xaggerations, Chase the Shakes, The Children of the Plow, The Protons, Intentional Harassment
Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Original Music Showcase with Sam Densmore
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
231 SW Ankeny St. Christopher Neil Young, Michael Dean Damron, Miguel Artugue, Freddy Trujillo, Will Coca
The Blue Diamond 2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Tom Grant Jazz Jam Session
The Blue Monk
317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell 3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Vultan and the Hawkmen, Darcy Pudding
Torta-Landia
4144 SE 60th Ave. Acoustic Open Mic
Trail’s End Saloon
1320 Main St., Oregon City Rae Gordon
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Amy Bleu
White Eagle Saloon
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown B3 Organ Group
836 N Russell St. Brownish Black (8:30 pm); Lincoln Crockett (5:30 pm)
Kells
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Marty Marquis (of Blitzen Trapper), Evan Way, Jody Glenham
Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Ave. Petty Cash (kids’ show)
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St.
800 NW 6th Ave. Mike Horsfall, Karla Harris, Todd Strait
FRI. MAR. 2 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Archeology, Mike Midlo
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St.
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Baby Gramps (9:30 pm); The James Low Western Front (6 pm)
Lents Commons
9201 SE Foster Road Parfait Bassale
Memorial Coliseum
1401 N Wheeler Ave. MercyMe, Tenth Avenue North, LeCrae, Hawk Nelson, Disciple, Sidewalk Prophets, Rend Collective Experiment
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Reptar, Quiet Hooves, Adventure Galley
Monica Richards, DJ Curatrix, DJ Wednesday
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Jonny Smokes
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Jetpack Mistress, A Decade Apart, Titarius
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Cursebreaker, Blackheath, Subverse, At Wits End, O.A.K.
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Neil Diamond Tribute
Trail’s End Saloon
1320 Main St., Oregon City HiFi Mojo
Twilight Café and Bar
3435 N Lombard St. Joe McMurrian
Branx
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Uncle Pooch, Synesthesia, Warm Gadget
Mount Tabor Theater
Vie de Boheme
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Don Carlos, Dubvision Band, Ras Binghi and the 7th Seal, Gypsy Roots Island Fusion, Xact Change HiFi, Fyah Wyah
Clyde’s Prime Rib
Muddy Rudder Public House
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Muthaship
8105 SE 7th Ave. Reverb Brothers
Crystal Ballroom
Music Millennium
1332 W Burnside St. Railroad Earth
3158 E Burnside St. Shoebox Letters
Dante’s
Nel Centro
350 W Burnside St. Spittin’ Cobras, Flexx Bronco, My New Vice
1408 SW 6th Ave. Jeff Leonard
Duff’s Garage
4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music
1635 SE 7th Ave. Deke Dickerson
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Electric Jellyfish, No Threat, Grandparents, Jollapin Jasper
Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave. Strange Language (8 pm); Hanz Araki & Kathryn Claire (5 pm)
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
Hawthorne Theatre
Tiger Bar
6351 SW Capitol Highway Jeff Putterman
Mock Crest Tavern
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Merrill Lite
Korkage Wine Shop
134 SE Taylor Mojave Bird, DJ Jammies (art and music show)
3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones Jam
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
112 SW 2nd Ave. Danny Ohanlon
Bamboo Grove Salon
1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Ave. Wendy and the Lost Boys
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Sing for Your Supperclub with the All-Star Horns
Jimmy Mak’s
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. The Shivas, Orca Team, Pleassure
Red Room
1001 SE Morrison St. Old Wars, Pleassure, Coasting
2346 SE Ankeny St. Chris Juhlin
225 SW Ash St. Acrid Intent, Tentacle Burn, Cast Down, Swamp Surfer
Plan B
Tony Starlight’s
Jade Lounge
Ash Street Saloon
626 SW Park Ave. John “JB” Butler & Michael Doughtery
Holocene
529 SW 4th Ave. Spark
1314 NW Glisan St. JB Butler Trio
Brasserie Montmartre
Tonic Lounge
Jack London Bar
Andina
Original Halibut’s II
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Guttermouth, Boldtype, Rendered Useless, The Uncivil
1435 NW Flanders St. Cheryl Hodge and Jim Templeton (8:30 pm); Laura Cunard (5:30 pm)
1036 NE Alberta St. Spitzer Space Telescope, Jobo Shankins, Stephanie Nilles (9:30 pm); Mikey’s Irish Jam (6:30 pm)
8105 SE 7th Ave. Johnnie Ward
1305 SE 8th Ave. VAJ, Riastrad, The Fasters
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
Alberta Street Public House
320 SE 2nd Ave. Miniature Tigers, Geographer, Chain Gang Of 1974, Pretty & Nice
2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb
THE SPECIAL SAUCE IS PEOPLE!!!: G. Love and Special Sauce plays the Roseland Theater on Saturday.
Tim Berne’s Snakeoil, The Blue Cranes
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. American Bastard, The Punctuals, Deathtrap America, State of Balance, Tomorrow’s Dream
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Best of Friends (8:30 pm); Gordy Michael (5:30 pm)
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Jenna Ellefson and Beth Whitney (8 pm); Sold Only As Curio (6 pm)
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Jim Wallace
Peter’s Room
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Pass the Whiskey
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Sucker for Lights, Magic Fades, Sundaze
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Booberamapaloozafest: Musclebeach, Aranya, Sistafist, The Hand That Bleeds
836 N Russell St. Winebirds, Radio Giants (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Richard Arnold & Groove Swingers
SAT. MAR. 3 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Archeology, The Dimes
Alberta Rose Theatre
Alberta Street Public House
1305 SE 8th Ave. Ritual Necromancy, Shadow of the Torturer, Skinwalker
Quimby’s at 19th 1502 NW 19th Ave. Seth Myzel
Red Room
1036 NE Alberta St. The D’s, Galen Fous (9:30 pm); Mister Fisk (6:30 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Hooves, Stolen Rose, 8-Ohm-Prophet, The Unicornz
Ash Street Saloon
Reed College Student Union
Branx
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd Lucky Dragons, White Rainbow, Rob Walmart, Breakfast Mountain, Naomi Punk
Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave. SOJA
Secret Society Lounge
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. The Decliners, Bonneville Power, Party Trigger, Hairspray Blues
White Eagle Saloon
Plan B
Jimmy Mak’s
Katie O’ Brien’s
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Rich Layton & The Troublemakers
3000 NE Alberta St. Live Wire!: Parson Red Heads, Michael Hurley
2239 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Treva Jackson, Dan Lurie, Sam Adams 221 NW 10th Ave. Keegan Smith with Worth, Aliina Champion, Phil Bondy
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
8 NW 6th Ave. 12th Planet, Flinch, Kastle, James Steele
116 NE Russell St. W.C. Beck, Huck Notari, and Garrett Brennan and the Great Salt Licks (9 pm); Swing Papillon (6 pm)
Jam on Hawthorne
1530 SE 7th Ave. Quintillion
231 SW Ankeny St. Portland George, Illa, Mikey Vegaz
The Alleyway Cafe and Bar 2415 NE Alberta St. Ceremony of Sludge: Heavy Voodoo, Axxicom, Avi Dei, Zmoke
225 SW Ash St. One Movement, Mighty Misc, DJ HazMatt 320 SE 2nd Ave. It Prevails, Ocean of Mirrors, In Her Memory, Young Turks, Ethics
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Boy & Bean (9 pm); Tablao (5:30 pm)
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Ivan and Alyosha, Battleme
Club 21
2035 NE Glisan St. Audios Amigos, Don and the Quixotes
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. Railroad Earth
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Point Defiance, I Digress, Psychosynapsis, She Preaches Mayhem, Verdelite, Phillasofic
Doug Fir Lounge
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Lady Kat
830 E Burnside St. AU, Tu Fawning, Parenthetical Girls, Grandparents
The Blue Monk
Duff’s Garage
The Blue Diamond
3341 SE Belmont St. Eddie Martinez
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Flesh Lawn, 100 Watt Mind, Frog Burd
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave.
1635 SE 7th Ave. Deke Dickerson
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Nobunny, Mean Jeans, Guantanamo Baywatch, Boom!
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The Josh Cole Band (8:30 pm); Portland Casual Jam Group (2 pm)
Dangerous Boys Club, Bronze, Unicorn Domination
Palmas, Shadows on Stars, Foreign Orange
White Eagle Saloon
Torta-Landia
128 NE Russell St. Andrew W.K., The Evaporators
836 N Russell St. Dan Jones and the Golden Motors, Last Watch, The Double Yellow (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Linda Hornbuckle & Tom Grant
SUN. MAR. 4 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Hanz Araki, Cary Novotny
CAP OFF: The prospect of a new bottle shop and pub in Northwest Portland got us excited. The Alphabet district desperately needs someplace like Saraveza, Bottles or BeerMongers—a chill spot with a well-curated collection of bottled beers, salty snacks and comfy chairs. Unfortunately, Caps & Corks (1000 NW 17th Ave., 222-6435) isn’t it. Not yet, anyway. Taking over for Emanon Cafe, Caps has an ambitious menu and a number of beers, but it’s still got some kinks. It’s a pretty place—polished cement floors, exposed pipes, wood-topped tables—but not especially cozy. The collection of cooler beer is a bigger bummer: plentiful but not diverse, with a grab-baggy feel, as though someone loaded up a shopping cart with random bottles at a distributor’s warehouse. (Food Front grocery still has the quadrant’s best selection and advice.) Lunch didn’t wow us either, as our bourbon fried chicken ($9) came out bright pink in the middle. Caps is targeting the right niche, but the approach is clumsy. MARTIN CIZMAR.
Ella Street Social Club
714 SW 20th Place The Minders, Spookies, The Welsh Bowmen
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Goodfoot All-Stars Acoustic Band
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Ave. Greeting from Detroit!
Hawthorne Theatre
Lewi Longmire Band, Will West & the Friendly Strangers, The Ascetic Junkies
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Donna and the Side Effects
Montavilla Station 417 SE 80th Ave. Pseudophiles
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Kinzel and Hyde
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Sindicate, Fallen Intent, Gordon Avenue, Eight53, Otis Heat
Music Millennium
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
Nel Centro
1435 NW Flanders St. The Cheryl Hodge Quartet (8:30 pm); Art Reznick (5:30 pm)
Jade Lounge
3158 E Burnside St. The Horde and the Harem
1408 SW 6th Ave. Dave Captein & Randy Rollofson
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music
2346 SE Ankeny St. Carl Solomon and Friends (8 pm); Djinn Maury (6 pm)
Original Halibut’s II
Jimmy Mak’s
8 NW 6th Ave. The Dean’s List, Rockie Fresh
221 NW 10th Ave. Archeology, The Horde & the Harem, Andrew Woodworth
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. The Hoot Hoots, The Hollywood Tans, Father Figure, Toyboat Toyboat Toyboat
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Booberamapaloozafest: Nasalrod, Lopez, Transient, Valkyrie Rodeo, Monogamy Party
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Jim Boyer Band (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)
Madison’s East Wing
1125 SE Madison St. Gina Noëll and the Dot Dot Dots, Josie Phelan and Koshanin (music and art show)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave.
2527 NE Alberta St. Kevin Selfe
Peter’s Room
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Black Queen, Druden, Triplehorn, Aerial Ruin
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Wild Dogs, Raw and Order, Titarius, Echoic, Dethroner
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. G. Love and Special Sauce, Scott H. Biram
Secret Society Lounge
Peter Case and Paul Collins, Summer Twins, Carnabetian Army
Ted’s (at Berbati’s) 231 SW Ankeny St. Manimalhouse, DJ Weather
The Alleyway Cafe and Bar
2415 NE Alberta St. Ceremony of Sludge: Lamprey, Towers, Doomsower, Witch Throne
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Jay Harris Jazz Trio
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. David Ornette Cherry
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Forever, Tacocat, Modern Marriage
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Brian Odell and DJ Soulshaker
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Ambush Party, Mosby, Searchlights
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Mental Hygiene, Jim Jams
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Tony Starlight Show
Torta-Landia
4144 SE 60th Ave. Professor Yaz, Mortal Grey
Trail’s End Saloon
1320 Main St., Oregon City Margo Tufo
116 NE Russell St. First Saturday Swing, AnnaPaul & The Bearded Lady, Eric Stern, and Russell Bruner (9 pm); Eric John Kaiser (6 pm)
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Someday Lounge
1530 SE 7th Ave. Dawn Fitzgerald & the Dents
125 NW 5th Ave. Parfait Bassale
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave.
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Freaky Outty (10 pm); Saturdazed: DJs GH, Czief Xenith (7 pm)
Vie de Boheme
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
2929 SE Powell Blvd.
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Solas
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Nellie McKay
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Mikie Slapz, All Star Blazze, Major-911, Ngalula Dodjer, Field Music, Official Bishop, SupaNova, MGM, Copper Loc, DJ Proper Respect
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Missionary Position
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. HEMA, Ill Lucid Onset, Focus! Focus!
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Stolen Sweets, Emily Anne Band
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Countdown to Armageddon, Arctic Flowers, Bellicose Minds
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. La Sera, Cold Showers, WL
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Joaquin Lopez (7 pm); Slim Bacon (5:30 pm)
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Irish Sessions
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Dan Haley & Tim Acott (9 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Shook Twins, John Craigie, Ashia Grzesik
Muddy Rudder Public House
4144 SE 60th Ave. Open Bluegrass Jam
Trail’s End Saloon
1320 Main St., Oregon City Robbie Laws
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Eternal Tapestry, Psychic Feline, Sad Horse
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
2929 SE Powell Blvd. The Pleasure Salon
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Open Mic/Songwriter Showcase
MON. MAR. 5 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Hanz Araki, Kathryn Claire
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Open Mic
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Battery-Powered Music
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Zephyr Chanson Francaise
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Lily Wilde
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Tenses, Ancestral Diet, Taboo, White Gourd
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Cloud Nothings, Mr. Dream, Hausu, DJ Ghost Animal
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Eli Carpentier
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Tom May
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens (9 pm); Portland Country Underground (6 pm)
Mississippi Pizza
Muddy Rudder Public House
Rontoms
600 E Burnside St. Lost Lander, Dana Buoy
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Gunner Roads, Chad Rupp & The Ruppshakers, AC Porter & Live Wires, Boogie Bone, Robbie Laws Band, Duffy Bishop Band, Randy Oxford
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave.
8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Deep Cuts
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Death Machine, Seas Will Rise, Old City, DJ Just Dave
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18 NW 3rd Ave. Sons of Huns, Fellwoods, DJ Toilet Love
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. The Early, Team Evil, Like a Villain
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St.
736 SE Grand Ave. Sex Life DJs
East End
1036 NE Alberta St. Ryan David Orr
203 SE Grand Ave. Last Wednesday on the Left: DJ Dennis Dread, Thrones (synth set)
Ash Street Saloon
Ground Kontrol
225 SW Ash St. ManX, Mystery Ship, Bonneville Power
511 NW Couch St. TRONix with Logical Aggression
Backspace
The Lovecraft
115 NW 5th Ave. Young Turks, Sweet Weapons, Blackheath, Saints
421 SE Grand Ave. Ladies First with DJ Rhienna
Bunk Bar
1465 NE Prescott St. Plaid Dudes
1028 SE Water Ave. Ganglians, A Classic Education, Artifice
Doug Fir Lounge
1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinber Quartet
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
WED. FEB. 29 Dig a Pony
Alberta Street Public House
Andina
1036 NE Alberta St. Bua
Music Millennium
5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic
303 SW 12th Ave. Hanz Araki, Chris Hayes
Alberta Street Public House
8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music
NEPO 42
TUES. MAR. 6 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
830 E Burnside St. He’s My Brother She’s My Sister, Bad Weather Califonia, The John Steel Singers
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mr. Ben
3158 E Burnside St. Y La Bamba
Wonder Ballroom
Trail’s End Saloon
1320 Main St., Oregon City Rae Gordon
MUSIC CALENDAR
Tiga
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18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Neil Blender (10 pm); DJ Creepy Crawl (7 pm)
Yes and No
20 NW 3rd Ave. Death Club with DJ Entropy
Duff’s Garage
Glenn & Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center 527 E Main St., Hillsboro Anna Lee Foster
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Radula
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Ave. The Low Bones
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Jazz Jam with Carey Campbell
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Jazz Society of Oregon’s Jeff Cumpston Memorial Battle of the Bands, The Mel Brown Septet
THURS. MAR. 1 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
Someday Lounge
3341 SE Belmont St. Pagan Jug Band
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Sarah Moon & The Night Sky
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Bo Ayars
Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Open Mic with The Roaming
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Litanic Mask, Asss, Regular Music
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Ikon
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Hot Mess with Doc Adam
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Zac Pennington
SAT. MAR. 3 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Stargazer
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Cool Breze
Fez Ballroom
1001 SE Morrison St. Booty Bassment
Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Pippa Possible
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. R.A.W.: DJ Ronin Roc, Doc Adam, DJ Nature
205 NW 4th Ave. Verse Bass Music with Treyzilla
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Dirtbag with DJ Gutter Glamour
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Sethro Tull
FRIDAY, MAR. 02 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. DJ E3
Element Restaurant & Lounge 1135 SW Morrison St. Chris Alice
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Decadent ‘80s
315 SE 3rd Ave. Andaz with Dj Anjali & The Incredible Kid
The Crown Room
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Total Chaos with DJ Horrid
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Rat Creeps
SUN. MAR. 4 Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Metal Night: DJs He-Slayer, Witchthrone
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Tennessee Tim
MON. MAR. 5 Star Bar
Goodfoot Lounge
639 SE Morrison St. Into the Void with DJ Blackhawk
Ground Kontrol
Tiga
2845 SE Stark St. DJ Magneto 511 NW Couch St. DJ Epor
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. FRESH
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. ‘80s Video Dance Attack
Palace of Industry
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Arthur “Fresh Air” Moore Harmonica Party
5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Yeti
White Eagle Saloon
315 SE 3rd Ave. Deep Cuts: DJs Bruce LaBruiser, Kasio Smashio, Chelsea Starr
836 N Russell St. Bottlecap Boys
205 NW 4th Ave. House Party: Kellan, Avery
Rotture
Tube
The Blue Monk
The Crown Room
125 NW 5th Ave. The Fix: Rev. Shines, DJ KEZ, Maseo (of De La Soul), Rich Medina, Ohmega Watts, Dundiggy
LaurelThirst
3158 E Burnside St. Gary Ogan
639 SE Morrison St. Blank Fridays
Holocene
316 SW 11th Ave. Shadowplay: DJs Ghoulunatic, Paradox, Horrid
112 SW 2nd Ave. Tom May
Music Millennium
Star Bar
Fez Ballroom
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Kev It Up
3435 N Lombard St. Johnnie Ward & Eagle Ridin’ Papas
4830 NE 42nd Ave. In the Cooky Jar with Cooky Parker
316 SW 11th Ave. Popvideo with DJ Gigahurtz
Tiga
Mock Crest Tavern
Spare Room
303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Anjali & the Incredible Kid
Kells
2958 NE Glisan St. Bingo (9 pm); Jackstraw (6 pm)
Drum & Bass Showdown with Dirt Merchant
Rotture
Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave.
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Valkyrie
TUES. MAR. 6 The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. See You Next Tuesday: Kellan, Avery
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Tom Waits Night with DJ Full of Bourbon
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Erich Zann
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Eye Candy VJs
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THEATER Boleros for the Disenchanted
“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—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 self-awareness. REBECCA JACOBSON. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7:30 pm Thursday, 8 pm Friday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, March 1-3. $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. AARON SPENCER. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm WednesdaysSaturdays, 2 and 7:30 pm Sundays. Closes March 11. $20-$50.
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 ThursdaySaturday, March 1-3. $10-$30.
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea
Action/Adventure Theatre—the folks behind Fall of the House—presents its first-ever production of a scripted work with sociopathic romance of fear and self-loathing by John Patrick Shanley (Doubt). Action/Adventure Theater, 1050 SE Clinton St., actionadventure.org. 8 pm Thursdays-Sundays through March 24. $15. Thursdays are “pay what you will.”
Day of the Docent
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 burntout, 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. 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. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 205-0715. 8 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes March 10. $20-$25.
A Lesson Before Dying
Profile Theatre presents Romulus Linney’s stage adaptation of Ernest J. Gaines’ masterful novel. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 2420080. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. $16-$30.
Let’s Murder Marsha
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 Friday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, March 2-4. $10.
Locomotion
Oregon Children’s Theatre presents a play about 11-year-old orphan Lonnie Collins Motion, named by his deceased parents after the Little Eva single, who finds purpose in poetrywriting. 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.
NT Live: Comedy of Errors
Third Rail screens the latest from London’s National Theatre, a contemporary staging of Shakespeare’s double-twin comedy. World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St., 235-1101. 2 and 7 pm Saturday, March 3; 1 and 5 pm Sunday, March 11. $15-$20.
Othello
Twilight Repertory Theatre heads to Venice. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 312-6789. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes March 11. $10-$15, cash only.
Pump Boys and Dinettes
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 Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, March 1-4. $20-$40.
A Raisin in the Sun
The Public House Theatre presents a staged reading of Lorraine Hansberry’s drama of 1950s suburban racism. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., publichousetheatre.org. 7:30 pm Monday-Wednesday, March 5-7. $6-$8.
Red
The great abstract painter Mark Rothko was born 99 years ago this September. Portland, which was the Russian-born artist’s first American hometown and the site of his first solo show, is getting a jump start on next year’s inevitable centenary celebrations with an exhibit at the Portland Art Museum and Portland Center Stage’s production of John Logan’s play about Rothko’s ill-fated 1958 mural commission for the Four Seasons restaurant. Set in the artist’s cavernous, paint-splattered studio (impressively rendered here by Daniel Meeker), Red is mostly a series of artistic debates between Rothko and a fictional assistant, Ken. But what debates! The grandiosity of Logan’s screenplays finds suits the character of Rothko, famous for his verbosity, just fine. As performed by Daniel Benzali, who gives the artist the bombastic musicality of a thinner, snappier Orson Welles, the philosophical patter is hypnotic. It’s unfortunate that Ken is written (and performed, by Patrick Alparone) as a needy irritation, but his presence is made moot by Benzali’s
magnificence. BEN WATERHOUSE. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturdays-Sundays. Closes March 18. $20-$64.
Shakespeare’s Amazing Cymbeline
Portland Center Stage director Chris Coleman tries to get at the heart of Shakespeare’s strange and fantastical romance about ancient kings in a stripped-down, five-actor production (featuring our own, supremely talented John San Nicolas) with original music. 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.
Shakespeare’s R&J
Bag&Baggage presents Joe Calcaro’s play about four young boys at a Catholic boarding school who explore their own sexual awakenings, while performing Romeo and Juliet. The Venetian Theatre, 253 E Main St., Hillsboro, 345-9590. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes March 18. $12-$25.
Sight Unseen
CLASSICAL Bill Crane Birthday Bash
The local keyboard whiz celebrates his 60th with free concerts around town featuring Crane with his many collaborators. Wednesday’s show with BodyVox dancers and percussionists includes music by fellow birthday boy John Cage, Francois Couperin and Brahms. Thursday convenes singers and clarinetist David Hattner for music by Ned Rorem, Handel, Faure, Marc Blitzstein and Puccini. Friday’s recital seats Crane at Trinity’s organ for music by J.S. Bach and Durufle. 6 pm Wednesday, Feb. 29 at BodyVox Studio, 1201 NW 17th Ave.; 6 pm Thursday, March 1 at Community Music Center, 3350 SE Francis St.; and 6 pm Friday, March 2 at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 147 NW 19th Ave.; 226-0129. Free.
Influence of the Gamelan
This Northwest New Music concert explores works that borrow the sounds
of the Indonesian percussion orchestra by Debussy, Minoru Miki, Gareth Farr and Lou Harrison, performed by Fritz Gearhart, Diane Chaplin, Florian Conzetti, Elise Blatchford, Elise Yun and Lewis & Clark’s Venerable Showers of Beauty gamelan. Evans Auditorium, Lewis & Clark College, 615 SW Palatine Hill Road, nwnewmusic.org. 7:30 pm Tuesday, March 6. $20, $5 students.
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra
Not in person, alas, but The Dude—hot young conductor Gustavo Dudamel— and his two orchestras appear on the big screen from a performance in Caracas of Mahler’s colossal Symphony No. 8. Lloyd Center, 2201 Lloyd Center, 287-0338. 7 pm Wednesday, Feb. 29. $16-$20.
Metropolitan Youth Symphony
Concerto Competition winners Lanie Corrigan and Isabel Dammann star in
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PERFORMANCE
The Portland Civic Theatre Guild reads Donald Margulies’ play about an artist visiting with a former lover. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. 10 am Tuesday, March 6. $6.
Twelfth Night
The students of Portland Actors Conservatory don yellow stockings, cross-gartered in the Shakespeare comedy. Portland Actors Conservatory, 1436 SW Montgomery St., 274-1717. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, March 1-4. $10-$25.
Woyzeck
New company Ominous Horse presents a fresh translation of an 1836 play by Georg Büchner, about a young soldier who goes insane under the pressure of military humiliation and medical experimentation. The production features original music by Ryan Sollee, frontman of The Builders and the Butchers, performed live by the cast. Sollee’s bleak, imagistic lyrics should be a perfect fit for the play’s nightmarish tone. The Headwaters, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9, 984-5831. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through March 17. $10-$15. Thursdays are “pay what you will.”
COMEDY The Aces
Very funny people Michael Fetters and Shelley McLendon present a new sketch-comedy show. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., acespdx.wordpress.com. 8 pm FridaysSaturdays through March 17. $14-$17.
Avenue PDX
The Unscriptables present an improvised, Portland-themed take on Avenue Q, complete with singing puppets. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave. 8 pm Saturdays through March 31. “Pay what you want.” 21+.
Cowboy Little’s Big Wild West Show
A new cowboy-themed monthly showcase. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., cowboylittle.com. 8 pm Friday, March 3. $13-$18. 21+.
Funny Over Everything
A comedy showcase with headliner Sean Patton supported by Ian Karmel and Anthony Lopez, hosted by Shane Torres and Sean Jordan. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 7:30 pm Friday, March 2. $10.
Triad
The Brody presents double-headers of improv trios. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7:30 and 9:30 pm Saturday, March 3. $8-$10.
The Weekly Recurring Humor Night
A comedy showcase featuring Travis Jones, Adam Dahl, Marcia Belsky and Mandie Allietta, hosted by Jimmy Newstetter. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 238-0543. 9:30 pm Wednesdays. $3-$5. 21+.
KRONOS QUARTET PERFORMS MARCH 21
MARCH MUSIC MODERNE Bob Priest carpet bombs the city with new sounds.
In 1980, young composer Bob Priest visited Poland to attend Warsaw Autumn, one of the best known annual festivals of contemporary “classical” music. He resolved to create a similar celebration of new sounds in his own city; his Seattle Spring Festival grew to include more than a dozen concerts. Priest continued his new music advocacy when he moved to Portland, staging free-admission chamber music events under the rubric of his Marzena Performance Ensemble. Last year, he noticed that several new music events were happening in the month of March and decided to publicize a baker’s dozen of those performances collectively as the first March Music Moderne festival. This year’s edition, which begins Monday night, March 5, includes a staggering 28 events. Priest says MMM aims to “cross fertilize, invite everyone to come in, pull them together and create guilt by association.” Established institutions like Friends of Chamber Music and the Oregon Symphony list their events, like FOCM’s March 21 Kronos Quartet concert, on the MMM website and brochure “and it doesn’t cost them anything,” Priest says. “But anytime anyone goes to look up one event, they automatically see everyone else.” The lineup of performances, many of them free, at venues around the city is astonishingly broad, including composers and performers from Portland; Vancouver, B.C.; Eugene and Austin, Texas. There will be readings by poets and authors, film, mixed-media works, dance, soundscapes, multimedia installations, jazz and dueling theremins. Despite its vast scope, MMM omits some of Portland’s March concerts, such as Portland Opera’s staging of Philip Glass’ Galileo Galilei. A Columbia Symphony concert featuring a 1937 Shostakovich symphony as its “modern” offering doesn’t qualify, but an Oregon Symphony concert with a 1945 Shostakovich symphony does. That not even a festival of 28 performances can encompass every event in Portland in March shows how rich the city’s music scene has grown. BRETT CAMPBELL.
SEE IT: The March Music Moderne festival kicks off with a preview party featuring percussion master Florian Conzetti performing Iannis Xenakis’ explosive Psappha, the 4 Celli of the Apocalypse playing Metallica and a panel discussion. 7:30 pm Monday, March 5, at Hipbone Studio, 1847 E Burnside St. Free. Full schedule at marchmusicmoderne.org. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 29, 2012 wweek.com
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Rising young Israeli pianist Inon Barnatan, so impressive in his recent Portland Piano International recital, is the soloist in Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 2. The orchestra will also play a Mozart overture and Dvorák’s complete Slavonic dances. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353. 7:30 pm Saturday-Sunday, 8 pm Monday, March 3-5. $21-$92.
Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra
The Orchestra celebrates its 30th anniversary with its first conductor, Jerry Luedders, conducting Brahms’ Tragic Overture (the opening work of the group’s first concert in 1983), along with current director Huw Edwards conducting the first piece of his first CSO concert in 2000, Hérold’s Zampa overture, Mozart’s sparkling Piano Concerto No. 23 (with superb Third Angle pianist Susan Smith as soloist) and Shostakovich’s gripping Symphony No. 9. The first two works are led by Luedders’ successor and Edwards’ predecessor, the late John Trudeau. First United Methodist Church, 1838 SW Jefferson St., 234-4077. 7:30 pm Friday, March 2. $5-$30.
Portland State University Percussion Ensemble
The student musicians play music by leading contemporary composers like Eric Whitacre and Paul Lansky and a tribute to John Cage: his landmark First Construction (in Metal). Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave. 3 pm Sunday, March 4. Free.
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The acclaimed Indian bamboo flutist, who’s recorded 50 CDs and performed with everyone from John McLaughlin to Zakir Hussain, is accompanied by violin and percussion in the alluring music of southern India. First Baptist Church, 909 SW 11th Ave., 5238690. 7:30 pm Saturday, March 3. $15-$25.
Wildwood Consort
The excellent Baroque music ensemble performs the rarely heard music of 18th-century Scotland, including a cantata, sonatas, airs and reels, along with other works by other European composers like Haydn, Geminiani and others who set traditional folk tunes to instruments including Baroque flute, guitar, violin, cello and voice. Stonehenge Studios, 3508 SW Corbett Ave., 224-3640. 7 pm Sunday, March 4. $15.
DANCE 4 Men Only
Conduit presents a curated evening of solos by four performers. Among them are Portland contemporary dance veteran Gregg Bielemeier, who created and performs the intriguingly titled I chipped my tOOth on an Anchovy (a piece that may contain nudity, so consider yourself forewarned). Guest artist Bob Eisen, a specialist in post-modern movement who trajectory is not unlike that of Bielemeier’s, brings us For Lulu, a series of solos set to both Lou Reed and Metallica. Butoh-influenced artist Meshi Chavez stages Une fleur pour mon amour, with original music composed and performed by sometime collaborator Lisa DeGrace. That leaves Gregg Sax, whose work What is Not Still…?(featuring video images he created himself) has been inspired by his work as a Chinese medicine practitioner. Conduit Dance , 918 SW Yamhill St., Suite 401, 221-5857. 8 pm FridaySaturday, March 2-3. $14-$16.
BodyVox2
BodyVox—known for its blend of athleticism, comedy and theatricality—has a junior company, BodyVox-2, which is known for much of the same qualities. The younger set will dance repertory favorites by BodyVox company founders Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland—Seawater Tango, Beat, Primer, Fishers of Men and Rip/Tide—as well as new work by former company apprentice Eowyn Emerald at this almost-spring show. BodyVox Dance Center, 1201 NW 17th Ave., 229-0627. 7:30 pm Thursday-Friday, March 1-2, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday, March 3. $16$49.
Burlesque S’il Vous Plait
Monthly burlesque show with a rotating cast. Crush, 1400 SE Morrison St, 235-8150. 8:30 pm first Fridays of the month. $7. 21+.
SpeedBump: A NeoBurlesque Road Trip
Mix burlesque with drag, and what do you get? Boylesque. Not to mention performers with names like Wiggy Stardust. SpeedBump: A Neo-Burlesque Road Trip spotlights Seattle scenemakers including Wiggy (whose particular brand of burlesque contains digital elements), saucy stripteaser the Luminous Pariah, Mod Carousel founding member Paris Original and the said-to-be-tantalizing Randi Rascal. They’ll be welcomed by Portland performers Charlotte Treuse, Baby Le’Strange, Angelique DeVil, Elise Morris and Burlesquire. Boys will be girls, you see. Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th Ave., 248-1030. 9 pm Saturday, March 3. $12. 21+.
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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By RICHARD SPEER. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit show information—including opening and closing dates, gallery address and phone number—at least two weeks in advance to: Visual Arts, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: rspeer@wweek.com.
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Garrison Keillor Thursday, March 8 | 7:30 pm STAG PARTY AT FOR THE LOVE OF PORTLAND
For the Love of Portland
Without a doubt, this town leads a charmed life. Hailed since the early 2000s as “The Silicon Forest,” now subject of myriad national magazine profiles and our very own TV show, Portland has seized the national consciousness. In case we Portlanders have become inured to our civic fabulousness, along comes For the Love of Portland to remind us how cool we really are. Co-presented by longtime Goodfoot curator Jason Brown and ubiquitously prolific artist Chris Haberman, the show features some 150 artists across a gamut of styles, media and, yes, quality. What all the artists share is a deeply felt affection for this singular city, which is all too easy to take for granted until the moment we leave it. See this show and feel the love! Through March 4. People’s Gallery, Pioneer Place Mall, 700 SW 5th Ave., 3rd floor, Suite 4005.
James Lavadour: The Interior
Is there any Northwest artist more renowned and bankable than James Lavadour? The artist, who lives and makes art on the Umatilla Reservation in eastern Oregon, creates abstractions that obliquely refer to that region’s Spartan landscape. Widely exhibited, wildly successful, Lavadour paints works on panel that sell like proverbial hotcakes. The secrets of his success are both explicable and inscrutable. With their drips and color fields, they can pass for abstract or objective, according to the viewer’s preferences or mood. Once upon a time, this veteran painter’s loose conflation of landscape and abstraction may have seemed revelatory, but over time, he has become part of the regional establishment canon. Does he have anything new to say with paint and panel after all these years? Check this space next week for a fresh appraisal. Through March 31. PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.
Lucinda Parker and Rae Mahaffey
It would be hard to think of a higher-contrast aesthetic pairing than veteran artists Lucinda Parker and Rae Mahaffey. Parker is known for her sprawling, sloppy acrylic paintings, while Mahaffey has made a name with meticulous geometric compositions. Both work abstractly, but the approaches— Parker via creamy impasto, Mahaffey with fastidious prints and oil paintings—could not be further apart. Is this pairing inspired or disastrous? You be the judge. March 1-31. Laura Russo Gallery, 805 NW 21st Ave., 226-2754.
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.
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Rio Wrenn
Diaphanous, wraithlike swaths of fabric floating and fluttering in the wake of each passerby: These are the elements of Rio Wrenn’s trademark installations. Her hanging sheets of rust-stained fabric have enchanted gallerygoers in Portland for nearly a decade. In her latest installation, she continues her career-long fascination with the symbolism of rust, combining luxuriantly smooth fabric with the organic reality check of corrosion and decay. One of the few Portland artists to successfully integrate work in fine art and fashion design, Wrenn is a bona fide poet of fabric, metal and death. March 2-31. Launch Pad, 534 SE Oak St., 971-227-0072.
Shooting Through the Looking Glass
What would it say about contemporary art if an artist took a gleaming, reflective sheet of stainless steel, unceremoniously hauled it outside, and shot the living fuck out of it with a shotgun? Margaret Evangeline does just that, time and again, and the results of this firearm-toting, art-killing spree are as gorgeous as they are thoughtprovoking, recalling Andy Warhol’s infamous Oxidation series, in which the Wigged One had comely young men urinate on canvases, which he processed into stunning drip paintings. Similarly, Evangeline flips the art world a big bird by commingling beauty and desecration. Butters’ mini-retrospective will showcase the New York-based artist’s output over a decade and will also unveil her impressive coffee-table book, Shooting Through the Looking Glass. The exhibition will highlight Evangeline’s recent oil paintings in addition to her iconic shot-metal works. March 1-31. Butters Gallery, 520 NW Davis St., 2nd floor, 248-9378.
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BOOKS
THE CHIEFTAINS VOICE OF AGES
= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By MARIANNA HANE WILES. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit lecture or reading information at least two weeks in advance to: WORDS, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: words@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.
ON SALE $11.99 CD / $14.99 CD/DVD DELUXE Produced by Paddy Moloney and T Bone Burnett, ‘Voice Of Ages’ features The Chieftains teaming with like-minded musical visionaries from the worlds of indie-rock (Bon Iver, The Decemberists, The Low Anthem), country and Americana (The Civil Wars, Pistol Annies, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Punch Brothers), Irish and Scottish folk (Imelda May, Lisa Hannigan, Paolo Nutini) and more.
SATURDAY, MARCH 3 The 90-Second Newbery Film Festival
The Newbery Medal has been given annually for exactly 90 years. To celebrate, authors James Kennedy and Laini Taylor host a series of short films that compress the plot of each winning book into 90 seconds. Central Library, 801 SW 10th Ave., 988-5123. 3 pm. Free.
FARRAR/YAMES/ JOHNSON/PARKER NEW MULTITUDES
ON SALE $11.99 CD / $17.99 2CD LP ALSO AVAILABLE ‘New Multitudes’ is an intimate interpretation of American icon and musical legend Woody Guthrie’s previously unrecorded lyrics from a dream team of Americana torchbearers: Jay Farrar (Son Volt), Will Johnson (Centro-matic), Anders Parker (Varnaline), and Yim Yames (My Morning Jacket).
Y LA BAMBA COURT THE STORM
ON SALE $9.99 CD • LP ALSO AVAILABLE Portland’s Y La Bamba return with ‘Court the Storm,’ an enchanting album of delicately crafted art folk. With five of the eleven songs in Spanish, songstress Luzelena Mendoza embraces her heritage and personal experiences on this stunningly intricate and diverse blend of mariachi inspired folk songs. SPECIAL IN-STORE PERFORMANCE SUNDAY 3/4 @ 3PM OFFER GOOD THRU: 3/31/12
TUESDAY, MARCH 6 Heidi Durrow
What would happen if the whole city read the same book? The Everybody Reads program tries with Heidi Durrow’s The Girl Who
Thursday March 1
STEVE THUN’S 50TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT: CATS UNDER THE STARS & FRIENDS
(GRATEFUL DEAD / JERRY GARCIA TRIBUTE)
QUASI HORSE & FRIENDS (NEIL YOUNG TRIBUTE)
STUNT POETS & FRIENDS
(AN ALL-STAR CELEBRATION FEATURING PETER BACH, JIM BULL, SCOTT GILLAN, JHON GILROY, SCRAFFORD ORSER, BRAD ROSEN, BEN STURGILL, LEE TAYLOR, MIKE WALKER, JEFFREE WHITE & MORE 8pm • 21+ in the ConCert hall
Friday March 2
JIMMY MAK’S “One of the world’s top 100 places to hear jazz” - Downbeat Magazine FRIDAY, MARCH 2
Keegan Smith with Worth, Aliina Champion, Phil Bondy SATURDAY, MARCH 3
The Horde & The Harem CD release event with Archeology & Andrew Woodworth FRIDAY, MARCH 9
Jacob Merlin & Sarah Billings SATURDAY, MARCH 10
Justin Jude, EP release Jake Oken-Berg JUST ANNOUNCED!
Tickets available at TicketsOregon.com : 3/23, Eric John Kaiser, CD release 4/7, Jeff Lorber with the Patrick Lamb Band 4/10, Benny Golson with the Mel Brown Septet 4/13 & 4/14, Curtis Salgado CD release
DON CARLOS (BLACK UHURU) RAS BINGHI & THE 7TH SEAL GYPSY ROOTS ISLAND FUSION XACT CHANGE HIFI special guest FYAH WYAH 8pm • 21+ in the ConCert hall
DSL COMEDY
hosted by BRISKET LOVE-COX
9pm • Free! 21+ in the SideShow lounge
Saturday March 3
REDNECK COWBOY’S BIRTHDAY PARTY 7pm • 21+ in the ConCert hall
STAHLWERKS DJS spinning
CLASSIC INDUSTRIAL, GOTH, AND HARD DANCE MUSIC.
10pm • 21+ in the SideShow lounge
Sunday March 4, Monday March 5, and Tuesday March 6
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Fell From the Sky, brilliant fiction about growing up as a biracial youth in Portland. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm. $10-$35.
Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
In 1936, Alan Turing proclaimed it possible to invent a single machine that could compute any computable sequence, launching the digital revolution. Science philosopher George Dyson explores how Turing (eventually) spawned the birth of lolcats. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.
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MATTILDA SYCAMORE, WHY ARE FAGGOTS SO AFRAID OF FAGGOTS? Some gay people prefer to be called faggots. Well, let me rephrase that—some queers prefer to be called faggots. The word “faggot,” much like “queer,” has been reappropriated as a word of pride. Whereas so-called mainstream consumerist gays, with their chiseled bodies and designer loafers, take offense at the word, queers Queering consumerist like Mattilda Sycamore celculture. ebrate nonconformity. That’s how Sycamore arrived at the title of her book Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? (AK Press, 232 pages, $17.95). The explanation is admittedly reductive for a book dying to be rid of labels, but, essentially, it pits radical queer culture against what Sycamore says are the assimilationist attitudes of gays and lesbians who buy into heteronormative ideas about marriage and gender binary. Sycamore’s fifth anthology collects stories from queer people who face adversity not only from straight culture, but from gay culture: a fat man’s ode to self acceptance, a trans man rejected because he doesn’t have a penis, a West Texan who feels he’s always fetishized as a Latino or a faggot. Why explores perspectives of race, culture, sexuality, gender and body image, though, as you’ve probably guessed, it’s mostly about sex. A good deal of ink is dedicated to how white, masculine ideals have made gay sex too…vanilla. One polemic addresses gay guys on online hookup sites who only want “HIV-neg, STD-free, UB2. Masc only, no femmes or fatties. Straight acting, straight appearing. No blacks or Asians. Must be discreet.” As Sycamore writes, “We wonder what happened to our dreams of a world of sexual splendor only bounded by the limits of imagination.” A legitimate critique, but the free-love mantra gets uncomfortable at times, especially in passages that tread too closely to the joys of unprotected sex. But the book also makes an important point about the cruelty of ostracizing people who are HIV positive, as well as elders in the gay community. And for the record, Sycamore says she’s an advocate for safe sex. As anthologies go, writing styles vary wildly, from streamof-consciousness journal entries to academic papers. The ideas each author presents, while intended to be some variation on a theme, don’t always mesh perfectly. That’s perhaps what saves Sycamore’s anthologies: If you’re not on the same page with one author, you can turn to the next one. AARON SPENCER. GO: Mattilda Sycamore reads at Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm Monday, March 5. Free.
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Act of Valor
The many adventures of REAL NAVY SEALS. Not screened for WW by press deadlines. R. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Sherwood, Tigard, Sandy.
Albert Nobbs
40 The gender-bending Albert Nobbs offers a buy-one-get-one-free coupon of butch, with two central heroines masquerading as dudes. The titular Albert (Glenn Close) is an awkward, finicky little man, while Albert’s inspiration, Hubert Page (Janet McTeer), is strong and, well, normal. Albert should, by all rights, be a sympathetic character. He’s damaged and frightened by the Dublin around him, desperately hanging on to his secret identity in a way that has stifled his ability to actually live. But poor Albert is so one-dimensional the film surrounding him becomes a complete and utter drag. R. PATRICIA SAUTHOFF. Living Room Theaters.
The Artist
64 Repressed memories drive The Artist. It’s a silent-film homage to silent films—or, rather, the fond, slightly condescending recollection of silent films. The Academy’s muchdebated choice for Best Picture, the comedy from Michel Hazanavicius (who directed the two OSS 177 spoofs) is yet another take on A Star Is Born, with a slam-bang energetic Jean Dujardin trading places in the spotlight with flapper Bérénice Bejo at the cusp of talkies. The period is apt, since most of the movie’s charms are technical gimmicks: the interstitial cards, the tight aspect ratio on glamorous black-and-white marquees, and the sneaky intrusion of ambient noises into the soundtrack. Days after seeing The Artist, I find it hard to place any individual moments that resonated (aside from the doggie heroism), and I suspect that, title aside, the movie feels a complacent cynicism toward art. PG-13. AARON MESH. Clackamas, CineMagic, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Forest, Moreland, Oak Grove, City Center, Evergreen, Lloyd Mall, Tigard, Roseway, Sandy.
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B-Movie Bingo: Top Dog
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Play bingo with Chuck Norris and a dog. PG-13. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, March 6.
Better Than Something: Jay Reatard NEW
80 [ONE WEEK ONLY] Fans of Jay Reatard: You will see this documentary no matter what I say, because you know as well as I do the man born Jimmie Lee Lindsey Jr. was a heartbreaking jerk of staggering genius responsible for creating the most vital rock-’n’-roll music of this young century, and even a middling bit of opportunistic hagiography would scratch your nagging itch for more Jay and therefore be essential. But I am pleased to inform you that Better Than Something forgoes hack idolatry in favor of a thoughtful portrait of an undeniably talented man who seemed to funnel every good part of his being into making great art before dying at the ridiculous age of 29. You will fall in love all over again. Newcomers to the life and work Jay Reatard: I implore you to see Better Than Something so that you might groove to the raw and vicious work of a master songwriter who passed away at the top of his game after devoting 15 years to furious production and prickly behavior. Interviews with friends, family and the man himself shed light on a cursed dude who couldn’t help living in the red, for better and worse. You will fall in love. CHRIS STAMM. Clinton Street Theater. 7 and 9 pm FridayThursday, March 2-8.
Big Miracle
58 About 15 minutes into the new
inspirational family film Big Miracle,
an insufferable Drew Barrymore exclaims, “But this is different—whales are in danger!” I rolled my eyes so hard I almost had a seizure. Playing a Greenpeace activist fighting to help free a family of gray whales trapped in the rapidly freezing Arctic Ocean, Barrymore oozes with maudlin sap while still managing to be an obnoxious bitch—and I like Drew Barrymore. But when people work together despite their differences (cue orchestra’s sentimental crescendo) that warm, blubbery feeling is priceless. PG. PENELOPE BASS. Clackamas. NEW
Cascade Festival of African Films
[FINAL WEEKEND] Rather sorely neglected in these pages after its opening night, the 22nd annual Portland Community College celebration of African cinema concludes this weekend with I Sing of a Well (noon Thursday and 7:30 pm Friday, March 1-2), a historical drama about royal feuds in Ghana; Perfect Picture (1:45 pm Thursday and 7:30 pm Saturday, March 1 & 3), a comedy about women finding and losing love in Ghana; and War Don Don (7:30 pm Thursday, March 1), a documentary about a war-crimes trial in Sierra Leone. PCC Cascade Campus, Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building, Room 104. Thursday-Saturday, March 1-3.
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. Soon after massaging a mysterious object found in a dark hole behind a ridiculous rave—we’ve all been there— three very cute guys find themselves endowed with telekinetic powers. Like Cloverfield, the last successful foray into man-with-a-video-camera mode, we are strapped to the shoulder of an amateur cinematographer as the ride tilts and whirls and eventually spins out of control. First-time feature director Josh Trank and co-writer Max Landis are sharp enough to know what made Cloverfield work so well: an awareness that such junk food is so much better without too much bland exposition or character development dampening the sugar rush. And so the bulk of Chronicle’s swift running time is given over to play, as the three increasingly powerful lads figure out what their minds and bodies are capable of. Read it as a study of sexual awakening or pubescent PTSD or high-school hell or teen invincibility—it’s all there—but try to enjoy it first as a blast of pure visual pleasure. PG-13. CHRIS STAMM. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Living Room Theaters, Division, Evergreen, Lloyd Mall.
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Crazy Horse
52 A peek behind the scenes of a
famous Parisian strip club sounds like a good time, promising interpersonal drama, salacious gossip and maybe a little tragedy, but you will find none of the above in this pretty and characteristically tedious documentary by Frederick Wiseman. Shot without concern for coherence or a discernible point of view, the film drifts aimlessly through performances and production meetings at Le Crazy Horse, a club that aspires to elevate nude dancing to the realm of art, with occasional success. Long handheld shots of backstage butts give way to cheesy dance routines that pass to long interviews with a creepy little elf of a man with a head like a thumb. Only twice does Wiseman find any non-prurient interest in the world’s most pretentious titty bar: once, in a meeting where the revue’s director, Philippe Decouflé, begs fruitlessly for more time and money in the manner of all stage directors everywhere; and again, backstage, where dancers in stainless-steel G-strings watch the live feed and good-naturedly
WHITE JAZZ: Woody Harrelson takes in some California sun.
A PIG IN SHIT SPARKS FLY IN RAMPART AS WOODY HARRELSON MEETS JAMES ELLROY. BY AA R ON MESH
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The first thing you notice about Woody Harrelson in Rampart is how thin he is: His skin is taut over his bullet head and bulging temples, as if a skeleton decided to dress for Halloween as Woody Harrelson. The second thing you notice is his cigarette, cantilevered from his lips in a precarious balance as he pulls practiced drags of poison. For the first two minutes of the movie, a series of close-up shots inside a car, Harrelson holds that coffin nail in place without putting a finger to his mouth. These twin traits suggest a man both perpetually burning and ready to be extinguished. Los Angeles Police Officer “Date Rape” Dave Brown is a soldier—and old soldiers never die, they just flame out. “Date Rape” is not a nickname most men would suffer, but Dave has been slyly feeding off it for years. The story goes that Dave gunned down a serial rapist, and in the LAPD’s scandal-plagued Rampart division in the ’90s, this is what passes for good publicity. It is also the nicest thing about Dave. A brief list of his other qualities, as enumerated by his teenage daughter: “You’re a classic racist, a bigot, a sexist, a womanizer, a chauvinist, a misanthrope, homophobic, clearly—though maybe you just don’t like yourself.” That last bit is unfair. Dave adores himself. Just listen to his reasons for fighting a misconduct charge after beating a perp half to death on camera. “Because I’m a hard-charging, dutiful motherfucker, and I want to explicate the LAPD’s somewhat hyperbolized misdeeds with true panache, regardless of my alleged transgressions,” he recites to his lawyers, grinning at his verbal whirligigs. “In other words, I have nowhere else to go.” This eloquence—the music of brutality, the soft bullying of the outnumbered bigot—marks Dave, and the whole of Rampart, as a James Ellroy joint. The self-regarding master of sunbaked pulp novels, Ellroy has been adapted to the screen before (most satisfyingly in L.A. Confidential). But with Rampart, director Oren Moverman has made the first movie
based on a screenplay Ellroy wrote. (If the dialogue weren’t clue enough, Dave’s thuggishly chivalrous need to save and control women is another authorial hallmark.) Watching Rampart, it occurred to me that somebody needs to pair Ellroy with Aaron Sorkin for a project: They are equals, otherwise peerless, in silver-tongued soapboxing for characters of their own political persuasions. But Ellroy is far more rare—like some skewed Lorax, he speaks for the fascists. In Ellroy’s writing and Harrelson’s performance, you can detect a wary affection for Dave, like that of a herpetologist watching over a favorite snake. Rampart doesn’t register as any recognizable procedural, but then Dave isn’t following any defensible protocol. Moverman (he wrote the formidable scripts for Jesus’ Son and I’m Not There, then directed Harrelson to an Oscar nomination in The Messenger) has taken Ellroy’s script and frayed it.
“DATE RAPE” IS NOT A NICKNAME MOST MEN WOULD SUFFER, BUT DAVE HAS BEEN FEEDING OFF IT FOR YEARS. The camera is always darting and the editing moves contrary to the plot, as if trying to floor the gas pedal out of a bad neighborhood. (There’s barely enough time to savor a cast—including Robin Wright, Ice Cube and Ned Beatty—that’s almost distractingly good.) As Dave disintegrates within pills and booze, any threads of larger conspiracy dissolve along with him. But themes emerge. There’s no question Dave is guilty—of the beating, of the fabled murder, of much worse—but is he also gallant? In other words, will he get to define the terms of his own extinction? The movie gives him nowhere to run. Rampart remains excellent through its final frames, and Moverman earns credit for fully confronting his antihero. But like much of the director’s work, this movie feels overdetermined, too eager to define what it means. It’s as if Moverman is frightened by how powerful a ghoul he, Harrelson and Ellroy have connived to summon, and feels he must destroy him. There’s no need. Dave is managing that just fine by himself. 86 SEE IT: Rampart is rated R. It opens Friday at Fox Tower.
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A behind-the-scenes look at a famous Paris erotic revue.” –A.O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES
“CRITICS’ PICK!
Eye-popping, sensual, engrossing & mesmerizing!” –NEW YORK Magazine
“SPELLBINDING!
Allowing a viewer to lose oneself in pleasure.” –LA WEEKLY
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insult Philippe’s work. But then Wiseman wanders off, back to the human thumb and a soporific stream of breasts. BEN WATERHOUSE. Cinema 21.
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A Dangerous Method
81 The new David Cronenberg film
about the salad days of psychoanalysis, A Dangerous Method isn’t a horror movie until you consider what isn’t shown. “All those provocative discussions helped crystallize a lot of my thinking,” Michael Fassbender’s Jung tells Viggo Mortensen’s Freud. And while the movie includes lots of sex and spanking, it’s chiefly about the thrills, arousals and perils of conversation. R. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters.
The Descendants
72 George Clooney makes the
most of his underwritten role—it is a comedic wonder to watch him lope awkwardly in flip-flops, or register his polite, pride-sucking pain over and over—but it is difficult nonetheless for the viewer to invest emotionally in the film, despite its easy charisma. R. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Clackamas, Fox Tower.
TIM AND ERIC’S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE
NEW Double Indemnity and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
They’re kicking television.
[TWO NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] A twin bill of 35 mm prints unlikely to be soon viewed in that lamented format again: The Billy Wilder insurance-con classic, and Peter Cushing raping and stealing brains. We trust you’ll know which is which. Cinema 21. Wednesday-Thursday, Feb. 29-March 1. Double Indemnity screens at 7 pm; Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed screens at 9:15 pm. NEW
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Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax 3-D
61 It’s a classic children’s tale: Boy
living in a desolate, foliage-free world searches far and wide for a seedling to bring life back to the planet and a girl into his life. When that movie was WALL-E, it kicked ass. When it’s The Lorax, not so much. Here’s the thing: Dr. Seuss’ tale of a doomsaying critter called the Lorax doesn’t have a love story. It’s just a quick, rhyming tale of some forest creatures whose home is destroyed by an outsider with an ax and an idea. The Hollywood version tosses in lame backstory about people, and The Lorax is no longer about the environment. That point is made even clearer by the real-world advertising campaign that finds the Lorax shilling for Mazda. The Lorax isn’t terrible, but it’s certainly not great. The 3-D animation is some of the best to come about since the 3-D fad reappeared, and Danny DeVito is fantastic. He voices the fuzzy, mustachioed, tree-hugging grouch perfectly. It’ll be entertaining for kids, but it won’t spark their imaginations—none was used in the making of the film. The story is hackneyed, and the songs barely rhyme. The Lorax might speak for the trees, but clearly, no one is speaking for Dr. Seuss. PG. PATRICIA SAUTHOFF. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy. NEW
Enter the Dragon
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Cort and Fatboy resurrect Bruce Lee at his most kickin’. Their timing is, of course, a subtle love letter to Ruth Brown and her favorite childhood dragons. Bagdad Theater. 11 pm Friday, March 2.
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance 3D Nicolas Cage fights Satan, POKES YOU IN THE EYE. No, we are not getting tired of this joke. Is Hollywood getting tired of this gimmick? Not screened for critics. PG-13. Cornelius, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Oak Grove, Division, Eastport, Lloyd Mall.
Gone
Amanda Seyfried hunts a serial killer in Portland. Not screened for critics
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TIGHTY WHITIES: Eric Wareheim and Ray Wise (as Dr. Doone Struts).
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim are masters of their medium. That medium is television. Famous with teenage stoners and fans of absurdism for their ever-inscrutable Cartoon Network show, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, the two excel at being absolutely awful at everything. They perform first-draft jingles that exhibit a lack of even the most rudimentary songwriting skill. They employ uncomfortably long transitional CGI effects between sketches (even calling them sketches seems wrong somehow). They avoid satisfying punch lines at all costs. They are nihilist comics whose primary laugh-getting devices are the kind of faces you’d find on a Greyhound bus. Awesome Show’s endless string of bad takes is remixed and magnified, succeeding—when it doesn’t fail painfully—in large part because of the duo’s dedication to spot-on production values and its inherent grasp of the late-night TV audience’s attention span. A movie, though, is an entirely different venture than a 15-minute TV show. Tim and Eric have never been big on storytelling: They’d rather bend a tired plot device perversely until it shatters into a thousand unrecognizable pieces than see a story line to resolution. So by choosing to make their first film a loose send-up of the buddy-movie genre, they are playing on awfully unfriendly (and well-worn) turf. That explains why the least forgettable bits of Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie—elaborate opening and closing credits, in-movie commercials and vile montages that would make American Pie alumni shake their heads in disgust—are also the most tangential to the plot. To ask whether Billion Dollar Movie is funny is to kind of misunderstand the duo’s aim. There are laugh-out-loud moments—a mall manager’s insistence that Tim and Eric watch Top Gun twice before discussing business; Aimee Mann’s inspirational montage song, “Two Horses”; every scene with dual Wills Forte and Ferrell—but the humor that moves the actual plot along here is often painful and tired. The fact it’s intentionally painful and tired won’t necessarily make it fun. Where courageous filmmaking is still relatively easy to seek out, it only takes a leisurely stroll from channels 1 to 999 on your cable box to understand why television so desperately needs cultural critics like Wareheim and Heidecker. Theirs is a profoundly soul-sucking medium. Its triumphs—Mad Men, Downton Abbey, Breaking Bad—are artfully shot soap operas. Its celebrity-obsessed bottom-feeders are multiplying daily. Where Saturday Night Live playfully riffs off of the worst that VH1 and E! have to offer, Tim and Eric, using a visual language that’s familiar but unintelligible, seek nothing less than the utter destruction of meaning. If that visual language is a bit muddied and indistinct in Billion Dollar Movie, one subversive hallmark remains. Tim and Eric cast aspiring actors, too dreadfully ordinary to normally get a callback, into some of the movie’s most prominent roles. There’s a genuine shock that comes with seeing straight-faced, imperfect people blown up on the big screen. Our first impulse is to laugh at them. Our second impulse is to wonder why everyone is laughing. R. CASEY JARMAN. 66 SEE IT: Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie opens Friday at the Hollywood Theatre.
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Hugo
80 Set in a vivid version of 1930s
Paris so edibly adorable it might as well have been born in a crocodile tear sliding down Amélie’s pristine cheek, Hugo drapes its bittersweet study of broken dreams over a plot of fairy-story simplicity. PG. CHRIS STAMM. 99 Indoor Twin, Lloyd Center, Living Room Theaters, City Center, Tigard, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub.
The Iron Lady 35 Give The Iron Lady points for transparency: The film’s centerpiece is shots of Meryl Streep practicing her accent, the foundation of her biennial Oscar bid. She does impressions. This time it’s Margaret Thatcher. PG-13. AARON MESH. City Center, Fox Tower.
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D
This Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson sequel was not shown 2: critics in time 2: meet press deadlines. PG. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Sherwood, Lloyd Mall, Tigard, Sandy. NEW
Kill List
67 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 from this year’s Portland International Film Festival. 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. MATTHEW SINGER. Hollywood Theatre.
Metal Messiah: Born Again Sage NEW
44 [THREE NIGHTS ONLY] Local
music-video curator Nick “The Phantom Hillbilly” Wells takes his stand-up character of Sage the encyclopedic metalhead and puts him in a low-budget feature film, where he deliberates between selling his soul to Satan and finding salvation. (The Devil gets all the good tunes, and thus has the advantage. Plus Sage already wrote the lyrics to “Jesus Died of AIDS,” and how often does inspiration like that come around?) The Laurelhurst Theater had to turn
away 100 people from the premiere last fall, so apparently there’s an audience for this. I’m not it. But I found myself admiring Wells’ devotion to hesher antics and throwing up the horns, and I watched the picture with a smile on my face. People who get the jokes may laugh quite a bit more. AARON MESH. 5th Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday, March 2-3. 3 pm Sunday, March 4. NEW 71
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Norwegian Wood
Murakami fanboys (and girls), rejoice: Norwegian Wood has finally made it to American screens. Let’s keep that jubilation subdued, though, shall we? This is a film more about suicide than anything else, though healthy doses of love and sex keep it from being a total bummer. The movie, released in 2010 in Japan, is a neat little summary of Haruki Murakami’s 1987 novel, in which Watanabe (Kenichi Matsuyama) and Naoko (Babel Oscar nominee Rinko Kikuchi) fall for each other after the suicide of Naoko’s boyfriend, Kizuki. Their love in the time before antidepressants—those groovy 1960s—is brooding and tragic. Eventually, Watanabe hooks up with the film’s sole upbeat character, Midori (Kiko Mizuhara). Unfortunately, the sassy, modern, fun Midori is a footnote to the depression-fest put together by director Tran Anh Hung. This is a film to be watched alone, with a bottle of wine. Gorgeous closeups of beautiful, sad faces abound. Seasonal changes offer emotional cues. Jonny Greenwood’s string and orchestra soundtrack bathes the moviegoer in aural melodrama. Norwegian Wood is a pretty film, but ultimately an empty one. Despite drinking deep from their own sorrow, the characters are shallow. Their melancholy is aesthetic rather than emotional, the plot a device to move along a series of images. It’s a tale of teenage love, and like that love, it’s overwhelming when it’s happening, but ultimately fleeting and forgettable. PATRICIA SAUTHOFF. Fox Tower. NEW
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[ONE NIGHT ONLY] NW Documentary presents four of the five Academy-honored short documentaries, including the winner, Saving Face. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Thursday, March 1
Pina 3D
95 Up to now, 3-D in film has been
an enterprise largely extraneous to the character of film itself: moviedom’s version of the 10,000 lovefattened cherubs overwhelming the interior of a baroque church. German auteur Wim Wenders’ Pina—an elegiac documentary about the work of late, iconoclastic choreographer Pina Bausch—is something else altogether, a brokenhearted Billie Holiday to the 3-D form’s usual emptily virtuosic Ella Fitzgerald. PG. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Living Room Theaters.
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details. There’s no disputing the ingenuity and even the brilliance of this mind-bending mashup.’’
Portlandia Season 2
[TV ONSCREEN] Carrie Brownstein specializes in the screaming tantrum, while Fred Armisen identifies the many flavors of satisfied milquetoast. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre. 10 pm Friday, March 2. Mission Theater. 7 and 10 pm, with variety show “The Friday Night TV Party & Theater Club Neighborhood Association” in between.
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OMG, there’s a dog in the bouncy castle! Not screened for critics by WW press deadlines; read about it on the interwebs, kiddies. R. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
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39 The wily, wryly sagacious
version of Denzel Washington born in Training Day reached full absurd maturity in Unstoppable and fossilized soon after. Denzel’s irascible rascal mode now registers as the mugging of a skilled impostor (see: De Niro, Bob and Pacino, Alfredo). Which isn’t to say watching Washington do his popcornmovie thing is an utterly joyless experience. Safe House is proof that even revealed magic can sing and sting a little, for Washington’s performance as rogue CIA agent Tobin Frost—he knows things people don’t want him to know, and he’s got the ridiculous name to prove it—is the film’s only semiprecious asset. Ryan Reynolds is also present, and he is nearly as engaging as a Wheat Thin in his role as a green Agency man charged with babysitting a recently apprehended Frost at CIA’s titular crash pad. R. CHRIS STAMM. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Forest, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Pioneer Place, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Sherwood, Tigard, Sandy, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub.
A Separation
A TALE WITH TWISTS
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WORTHY OF HITCHCOCK AND DIALOGUE WORTHY OF THE COEN BROTHERS.” - David D’Arcy, SCREEN DAILY
STARTLING, SCARY AND FUNNY ALL AT ONCE.” - Colin Covert, MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE
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WICKEDLY ENTERTAINING.” - Pete Hammond, BOX OFFICE
90 Thanks in no small part to Jafar Panahi, Iranian cinema keeps its ear to the ground, preferring close observation of unfairness to broad political fusillade. With Panahi a political prisoner, that mantle falls to Asghar Farhadi, whose A Separation is rightly favored for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. This sounds like a downer, as does the plot: A marriage is all over but the shouting, and there’s a lot of shouting. But the movie is riveting, even exhilarating. Farhadi tracks the fallout between Simin and Nader (Leila Hatami and Peyman Moadi) as it extends to the pregnant caretaker (Sareh Bayat) whom Nader distractedly hires for his Alzheimer’s-stricken father. The film watches each character’s mixed motivations as if preparing a legal brief. PG-13. AARON MESH. Fox Tower, City Center.
The Secret World of Arrietty
A boy befriends a tiny fairy in this anime from Hiromasa Yonebayashi. Not screened for Portland critics. G. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Living Room Theaters, City Center, Evergreen, Sherwood, Tigard.
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man. It’s a wonder he can drum up any business, what with every movie from The Big Kahuna to About Schmidt to Cedar Rapids portraying him as either a dupe or a charlatan. Or, in the case of Thin Ice, both! Greg Kinnear plays a reflexively dishonest insurance agent in frozen Kenosha, trying to con a German bachelor farmer (Alan Arkin) out of a rare violin. Kinnear and Arkin are about what you’d imagine them to be in these roles if you closed your eyes. The movie’s glimmer of light stems from Billy Crudup playing his violent ex-con (possibly on purpose) as a thinned-out, methed-up Seann William Scott. It makes less sense than it should, but all the despera-
tion is explained away by the most condescending back-end exposition since the doctor appeared at the end of Psycho. (Kinnear actually asks the audience if they remember scenes from early in the picture.) It also has less tonal integrity than you’d hope, though that may be explained by the movie’s financier wresting control from directing/ writing team Jill and Karen Sprecher. The one thing the company demonstrably did was paste on a new score, a homey fugue aping Fargo. Which is really unfair to Thin Ice: I’ve seen many, many worse films, and they didn’t have music reminding me every five minutes that they weren’t as good as something by the Coen brothers. R. AARON MESH. Fox Tower.
This Means War
35 This is the story of two secret agents. They are best friends. They are terrible secret agents, though the movie seems only dimly aware of this. After all, it is directed by McG, whose idea of spycraft in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle included a bikini car wash. Anyway, the agents meet a girl and they decide they will compete for her, but in a friendly way, because nothing is more important than the two of them staying best friends. Forever. And fighting crime. People complain Hollywood is making movies for 13-year-olds. Well, This Means War is pinpointed at someone around the age of 9 1/2. It contains no small parts anyone could choke on. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Tigard, Sandy.
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 when the BBC adapted it for television. In this version, a mere two hours are supposed to convey agent George Smiley’s search for a Soviet mole among his colleagues at MI6, or “the Circus.” Like many young boys, director Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In) seems enamored with the movies of David Fincher, in which pale, paranoid men discover horrible corpses, and all the politics and emotions of adult life have conveniently taken place off camera. R. ALISTAIR ROCKOFF. Hollywood Theatre.
Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds
Tyler Perry falls for Thandie Newton. Who wouldn’t? Not screened for Portland critics. PG-13. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Division, Lloyd Mall, Tigard. NEW
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The Vow 22 The problem with The Vow, an unusually tear-duct-shriveling weepie, is that Rachel McAdams does not begin anew after a car windshield erases her memory. She just becomes the sorority-girl twit she was five years before she met Channing Tatum and fell into the kind of ardent, spiritually entwined love proved by hot-boxing with each other’s farts. McAdams is a savant of the sulky and vacant, and this role—which tries to re-create the final manipulation of The Notebook for more than an hour—hews so fast to those qualities that the movie feels closer to horror than romance. Imagine spending your life trying to get a sympathetic emotion out of this girl! She is upstaged by Tatum, who is upstaged by his Panama hat. PG-13. AARON MESH. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Forest, Pioneer Place, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Sherwood, Sandy.
Wanderlust
74 The Apatow dirty-improv era
has yielded two directors who are, if not auteurs, at least distinctive comedic sensibilities. One is Adam McKay (Anchorman, Step Brothers). The other is David Wain (Wet Hot American Summer, Role Models). McKay’s hallmark is the non sequitur; Wain specializes in a joke repeated so often it becomes a ritual. Wain’s absurdist litany is in fine effect in Wanderlust, a surprisingly frisky winter diversion that reunites most of the Wet Hot cast for another campout—this time at a hippie commune outside Atlanta. Leftist pieties get an affectionate skewering (this is the movie to see after an Occupy Portland G.A.), but then every form of moral posturing does: The very best bits feature co-writer Ken Marino as a khaki-clad Joe the Plumber manqué barely masking his racism and rage with backslapping humor. Jennifer Aniston is game and lithe as she adjusts to “intentional living,” but the movie belongs to Paul Rudd, a perpetually likable actor who here finds depths of priggishness and insecurity he’s never displayed before. He gives himself a mock-macho pep talk in front of a mirror as breathtakingly plastic as his epic lunchroom sulk in Wet Hot American Summer. He should work with Wain again and again and again. R. AARON MESH. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Tigard, Sandy.
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PREY FOR AMERICA: My Beer and Movie partner, Jacques Boyreau, has programmed Predator as follow-up to The African Queen—with Ahnold as the new Bogie, fighting a faceless jungle. But I suspect most observers have come to think of John McTiernan’s manhunted movie as a kind of political joke. Both Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura became governors, of course, and the film has informed at least one party’s approach to enemies foreign and domestic: Hit the flamethrower, then get to the chopper. And can you tell me with absolute certainly that Herman Cain is not Carl Weathers? AARON MESH. Showing at: Laurelhurst. Best paired with: New Belgium Fresh Hop Ale. Also showing: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Academy, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Mission).
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340 SW Morrison St., 800-326-3264 PROJECT X Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 01:45, 04:20, 07:45, 10:20 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX 3D Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:45, 07:00 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 01:00, 01:30, 05:30, 07:50, 09:30 GONE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 03:15, 10:10 ACT OF VALOR Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 01:20, 04:10, 07:20, 10:00 SAFE HOUSE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:10, 04:00, 07:10, 09:55 THE VOW Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 01:40, 04:30, 07:30, 10:15
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GARAGE/ESTATE SALES Latin American Art Collector’s Moving Sale
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Come see our specially prepared environments for children and meet our current students. Tour our facility and see presentations of Montessori materials at the Assistants to Infancy, Primary and Elementary levels. Saturday March 10 1:00pm - 4:00pm Montessori Institute Northwest www.montessori-nw.org 503.963.8992
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FIRST COMMANDMENT: You shall LOVE the lord your god, with all of your heart [spirit] with all your soul [mind], and with all your strength [body]. Matthew 22:37-38 chapel@gorge.net
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“Shashank Subramanyam on flute” Featuring Shashank Subramanyam on Flute, accompanied by HN Bhaskar on Violin and Sai Giridhar on Mridangam
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In the Matter of DAKOTA RAY JELINEK A Child. Case No. 08-511J-04 PUBLISHED SUMMONS TO: Dustin Lee Jelinek IN THE NAME OF THE STATE OF OREGON: A petition has been filed asking the court to terminate your parental rights to the above-named child for the purpose of placing the child for adoption. YOU ARE REQUIRED TO PERSONALLY APPEAR BEFORE the Lane County Juvenile Court at 2727 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Eugene, OR 97401, on the 5th day of April, 2012 at 1:30 p.m. to admit or deny the allegations of the petition and to personally appear at any subsequent court-ordered hearing. YOU MUST APPEAR PERSONALLY IN THE COURTROOM ON THE DATE AND AT THE TIME LISTED ABOVE. AN ATTORNEY MAY NOT ATTEND THE HEARING IN YOUR PLACE. THEREFORE, YOU MUST APPEAR EVEN IF YOUR ATTORNEY ALSO APPEARS. This summons is published pursuant to the order of the circuit court judge of the above-entitled court, dated January 31, 2012. The order directs that this summons be published once each week for three consecutive weeks, making three publications in all, in a published newspaper of general circulation in Multnomah County. Date of first publication: February 15, 2012 Date of last publication: February 29, 2012 NOTICE READ THESE PAPERS CAREFULLY IF YOU DO NOT APPEAR PERSONALLY BEFORE THE COURT OR DO NOT APPEAR AT ANY SUBSEQUENT COURT-ORDERED HEARING, the court may proceed in your absence without further notice and TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS to the above-named child either ON THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THIS SUMMONS OR ON A FUTURE DATE, and may make such orders and take such action as authorized by law. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS (1) YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO BE REPRESENTED BY AN ATTORNEY IN THIS MATTER. If you are currently represented by an attorney, CONTACT YOUR ATTORNEY IMMEDIATELY UPON RECEIVING THIS NOTICE. Your previous attorney may not be representing you in this matter. IF YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO HIRE AN ATTORNEY, and you meet the state’s financial guidelines, you are entitled to have an attorney appointed for you at state expense. TO REQUEST APPOINTMENT OF AN ATTORNEY TO REPRESENT YOU AT STATE EXPENSE, YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY CONTACT the Lane County Juvenile Department, 2727 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Eugene, Oregon 97401, phone number 541/6824754, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. for further information. IF YOU WISH TO HIRE AN ATTORNEY, please retain one as soon as possible and have the attorney present at the above hearing. If you need help finding an attorney, you may call the Oregon State Bar’s Lawyer Referral Service at (503) 684-3763 or toll free in Oregon at (800) 452-7636. IF YOU ARE REPRESENTED BY AN ATTORNEY, IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MAINTAIN CONTACT WITH YOUR ATTORNEY AND TO KEEP YOUR ATTORNEY ADVISED OF YOUR WHEREABOUTS. ///(2) If you contest the petition, the court will schedule a hearing on the allegations of the petition and order you to appear personally and may schedule other hearings related to the petition and order you to appear personally. IF YOU ARE ORDERED TO APPEAR, YOU MUST APPEAR PERSONALLY IN THE COURTROOM, UNLESS THE COURT HAS GRANTED YOU AN EXCEPTION IN ADVANCE UNDER ORS 419B.918 TO APPEAR BY OTHER MEANS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, TELEPHONIC OR OTHER ELECTRONIC MEANS. AN ATTORNEY MAY NOT ATTEND THE HEARING(S) IN YOUR PLACE. PETITIONER’S ATTORNEY Sarita D. Glassburner, #012611 Assistant Attorney General Department of Justice 975 Oak Street, Suite 200 Eugene, OR 97401 Phone: (541) 686-7973 ISSUED this 2nd day of February, 2012. Issued by: _________________________________________ Sarita D. Glassburner, #01261 Assistant Attorney General
ARIES (March 21-April 19): At one point in his book The Divine Comedy, the Italian poet Dante is traveling through purgatory on his way to paradise. American poet T.S. Eliot describes the scene: “The people there were inside the flames expurgating their errors and sins. And there was one incident when Dante was talking to an unknown woman in her flame. As she answered Dante’s questions, she had to step out of her flame to talk to him, until at last she was compelled to say to Dante, ‘Would you please hurry up with your questions so I can get on with my burning?’” I bring this to your attention, Aries, because I love the way you’ve been expurgating your own errors and sins lately. Don’t let anything interfere with your brilliant work. Keep burning till you’re done. (Source: “A New Type of Intellectual: Contemplative Withdrawal and Four Quartets,” by Kenneth P. Kramer.) TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If you’ve been holding yourself back in any way, Taurus, now’s the time to unlock and unleash yourself. If you have been compromising your high standards or selling yourself short, I hope you will give yourself permission to grow bigger and stronger and brighter. If you’ve been hiding your beauty or hedging your bets or rationing your access to the mother lode, you have officially arrived at the perfect moment to stop that nonsense. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the cult blaxploitation film The Human Tornado, the main character Dolemite brags about his prowess. “I chained down thunder and handcuffed lightning!” he raves. “I used an earthquake to mix my milkshake! I eat an avalanche when I want ice cream! I punched a hurricane and made it a breeze! I swallowed an iceberg and didn’t freeze!” This is the way I want to hear you talk in the coming week, Gemini. Given the current astrological configurations, you have every right to. Furthermore, I think it’ll be healthy for you. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Astrologer Antero Alli theorizes that the placement of the sign Cancer in a person’s chart may indicate what he or she tends to whine about. In his own chart, he says, Cancer rules his ninth house, so he whines about obsolete beliefs and bad education and stale dogmas that cause people to shun firsthand experience as a source of authority. I hereby declare these issues to be supremely honorable reasons for you to whine in the coming week. You also have cosmic permission to complain vociferously about the following: injustices perpetrated by small-minded people; short-sighted thinking that ignores the big picture; and greedy self-interest that disdains the future. On the other hand, you don’t have clearance to whine about crying babies, rude clerks, or traffic jams. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): L.A. Weekly praised the music of drone-noise band Barn Owl. Its review said that the listening experience is “akin to placing your ear against the Dalai Lama’s stomach and catching the sound of his reincarnation juices flowing.” That sounds a bit like what’s ahead for you in the coming week, Leo: getting the lowdown on the inner workings of a benevolent source . . . tuning in to the rest of the story that lies behind a seemingly simple, happy tale . . . gathering up revelations about the subterranean currents that are always going on beneath the surface of the good life. It’s ultimately all positive, although a bit complicated. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the coming days, you could do a lot to develop a better relationship with darkness. And no, I don’t mean that you should do bad things and seek out negativity and be fascinated with evil. When I use that word “darkness,” I’m referring to confusing mysteries and your own unconscious patterns and the secrets you hide from yourself. I mean the difficult memories and the parts of the world that seem inhospitable to you and the sweet dreams that have lost their way. See what you can do to understand this stuff better, Virgo. Open yourself to the redemptive teachings it has for you. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Sister Jessica, a character in Frank Herbert’s Dune books, says, “The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.” I encourage you to use
that theory as your operative hypothesis for the foreseeable future. Here are some specific clues about how to proceed: Don’t obsess on your crazy-making dilemma. Instead, concentrate on skillfully doing the pleasurable activities that you do best. Be resolutely faithful to your higher mission and feed your lust for life. Slowly but surely, I think you’ll find that the frustrating impediment will be drained of at least some of its power to lock up your energy. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A few years ago, the Hong Kong company Life Enhance sold briefs and boxer shorts that were supposedly designed by a master practitioner of feng shui. On the front of every garment was an image of a dragon, which the Chinese have traditionally regarded as a lucky symbol. To have this powerful charm in contact with your intimate places increased your vital force -- or so the sales rap said. By my estimates, Scorpio, you’re not going to need a boost like that in the coming weeks. Without any outside aids whatsoever, your lower furnace will be generating intense beams of magical heat. What are you going to do with all that potent mojo? Please don’t use it on trivial matters. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There are times in your life when you do a lot of exploring in the outer world, and other times when your pioneering probes are directed primarily inward. In my astrological opinion, you’re currently more suited for the latter kind of research. If you agree with me, here’s one tack you might want to take: Take an inventory of all your inner voices, noticing both the content of what they say and the tone with which they say it. Some of them may be chatty and others shy; some blaring and others seductive; some nagging and needy and others calm and insightful. Welcome all the voices in your head into the spotlight of your alert attention. Ask them to step forward and reveal their agendas. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The Oxford English Dictionary, an authority on the state of the English language, adds an average of two new words every day. In the coming weeks, Capricorn, I’d like to see you expand your capacity for self-expression with equal vigor. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’re due for an upgrade in your vocabulary, your clarity, and your communication skills. Here’s one of the OED’s fresh terms, which would be a good addition to your repertoire: “bouncebackability,” the ability to recover from a setback or to rebound from a loss of momentum. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): We turn to Dr. Seuss for help in formulating your horoscope this week. He told a story of dining in a restaurant with his uncle, who was served a popover, which is a puffy muffin that’s hollow on the inside. “To eat these things,” said his uncle, “you must exercise great care. You may swallow down what’s solid, but you must spit out the air!” Drawing a lesson from these wise words, Dr. Seuss concluded, “As you partake of the world’s bill of fare, that’s darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air. And be careful what you swallow.” I expect your coming week will be successful, Aquarius, if you apply these principles. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You should be like a rooster, Pisces: dispensing wake-up calls on a regular basis. You should be nudging people to shed their torpor and shake themselves out of their stupor. What’s your personal version of “Cockadoodledoo!”? It shouldn’t be something generic like “Open your eyes!” or “Stop making excuses!” Come up with attention-grabbing exclamations or signature phrases that no intelligent person can possibly ignore or feel defensive about. For example: “Let’s leap into the vortex and scramble our trances!”?
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