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It turned out that your lead story, [“Lies My Newspaper Told Me,” WW, March 14, 2012], wasn’t about lies other papers told me. It was an article of lies, or at best lame quarter-truths, being told me by WW. In an attempt to be contrarian, cynical and snarky, WW strayed deep into shoddy journalism and pants-on-fire territory. The part that ticked me off most is where WW twisted the truth to try to convince the good citizens of Portland not to do the right thing. Take buying local and organic veggies. Your writer started his attack by referring to “$9 tomatoes,” as if that’s what buying local involves. Balderdash! I’ve never seen anything approaching a $9 local tomato; $1 and $2, yes. I buy lots of local and organic tomatoes each year, primarily at the farmers market. Typically they cost only marginally more than supermarket tomatoes that are not worth buying at any price. Or take driving a fuel-efficient hybrid. Your writer’s line of attack is that hybrids burn so little gas that surely their drivers are tempted to drive so many additional miles they end up burning more gas than a Hummer. If that’s true, it doesn’t prove the point. Most American homes, like mine, have more than one car. In the eight years since we bought a hybrid, we have significantly reduced our overall miles driven, increasing the commuting we do by MAX and bike. We do put a lot of miles on our hybrid, but not because we drive more, but because we use the hybrid instead of the other car whenever possible. We have drastically cut our gas consumption and CO2 output, while also saving money on gas. —Steve Cook Southwest Portland
You made a huge miscalculation in your segment on home ownership [“Lies My Newspaper Told Me,” WW, March 14, 2012]: You assume that rents won’t rise for 30 years… —G.B.F. …remember, rents rise with house value, while mortgage payments stay the same… —Jim A. Uh-oh, the homeowners are revolting. (And they’re ugly, too! Ba-dum-BUM!) Here’s what they’re on about: In last week’s WW cover story, I took on (among other things) home ownership. I argued that the main reason buyers wind up with extra wealth (in the form of equity) is because they’ve been paying more all along. I showed if you rented for 30 years and invested the difference between your rent and your neighbor’s mortgage payment, you’d wind up with a portfolio worth about as much as his house. 4
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Every school has its ups and downs, and this year Lake Oswego High School has felt those ups and downs in the strongest way possible [“State Champs’ Personal Fouls,” WW, March 7, 2012]. In late November, a beloved fellow Laker lost her life in a tragic and sudden manner. Three weeks later, we won our first football state championship. Finally, in the past two weeks, we have faced something no one expected: cyberbullying on the popular social networking site Twitter. Two “LO Rumors” Twitter pages were created, as well as one impersonating our vice principal. The pages targeted a number of students, many of whom were extremely hurt and offended by the comments. The story doesn’t end there, however. A number of students aided the administration in trying to find the culprit behind these hurtful tweets. They quickly ended their activity when it was apparent the student body would not tolerate this behavior. Lake Oswego High is a community. I have never been to a school with a more supportive environment. As a member of the Associated Student Body, I see the support and love members of our school feel for each other. To stereotype us a group of spoiled, racist teenagers based on a handful of students who made unwise choices is not appropriate. —Hannah Williams, 18 ASB director of assemblies, Lake Oswego H.S. 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.
In the course of demonstrating this, I did some rough calculations—probably a little too rough, since I didn’t figure in rent inflation. Thus, I hereby issue a mea minima culpa. There are three reasons that it’s not a mea maxima culpa: (a) I’m kind of a dick; (b) I didn’t figure inflation on the homeowner’s side either; and (c) it doesn’t make that much difference. For example, I assumed monthly maintenance costs holding steady at $1,200 per year through 2042. That seems unlikely. Plus, since I was being so nice, my figures included an extremely attractive homeowner’s insurance premium of $0 per year, a tough rate to get in real life. When you figure in all this stuff on both sides, the numbers go from a $75K advantage for the renter to about a $10K deficit (out of a $1.4M total). That’s not nothing, but it still doesn’t put one strategy light years ahead of the other. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com
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Last September, State Rep. Mike Schaufler (D-Happy Valley) allegedly groped an aide to Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian at an American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations convention in Eugene. After the incident, for which Schaufler subsequently apologized, House leaders stripped the five-term incumbent of his co-chairmanship of the House Business and Labor Committee. Last week, the AFL-CIO endorsed Schaufler over his Democratic primary opponent Jeff Reardon, a teacher and former member of the David Douglas school board. AFL-CIO spokeswoman Elana Guiney says the union took into account Schaufler’s legSCHAUFLER islative record. Portlander Debi Coleman was once a top lieutenant to Steve Jobs at Apple and, later, served as CEO of local tech company Merix Corp. She’s since turned her attention to show biz. She’s the founder and general partner of Rainy Day Productions and is co-producer of her first Broadway production, Leap of Faith, which goes into previews April 3. “I’m walking on air,” Coleman says. “I’m very excited.” Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt. 6
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Portland Public Schools officials still aren’t getting a clear message as to why last year’s $548 million school bond measure failed. A “listening sessions” report reflects the views of business leaders, school officials and a wide range of other voices. Many people said the failed May 2011 bond measure “focused too much on a small number of schools.” Others said it was spread “too thin.” A lot of respondents said the bond was too expensive for Portland during the economic downturn. And some wanted PPS to link renovations at certain schools to academic performance and graduation rates. PPS spokesman Matt Shelby says the district plans to offer voters another bond measure, and “it’s not off the table for November.”
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Over the past two weeks, readers of The Oregonian have witnessed an extraordinary episode in the newspaper’s 162-year history. On March 10, Bob Caldwell, a respected Oregon journalist and longtime editor of the newspaper’s opinion pages, died of a heart attack at age 63. Two days later, the newspaper told readers Caldwell had suffered his fatal heart attack while in his car. The next day, March 13, the paper printed a correction—based on a police report—that revealed Caldwell had suffered the heart attack after a sex act in the Tigard apartment of a 23-year-old woman. The woman told police she had befriended Caldwell at Portland Community College, that Caldwell knew she didn’t have much money, and he occasionally gave her cash for books in exchange for sex acts. Suddenly, a local journalist’s obituary had become international news. In a March 16 column, Oregonian Editor Peter Bhatia explained that the original error came after one of the newspaper’s veteran editors provided false information about how and where Caldwell had died. Bhatia fired the editor, Kathleen Glanville, although he didn’t tell readers he had done so. Glanville apologized to the newsroom, explaining she had hoped to protect Caldwell’s reputation. WW has subsequently learned Glanville did more than provide a false story to her paper: She also drove to the young woman’s apartment and moved Caldwell’s vehicle from the scene. Glanville declined comment. Part of Bhatia’s message was that, once The Oregonian had the police report, the newspaper had done due diligence in checking out the young woman’s background. “We went to the apartment and talked to neighbors and the woman’s mother,” Bhatia told readers. “We checked her criminal record; again, a typical response. She has only minor offenses, none related to sex or prostitution.” Bhatia’s account is far from the whole story. The young woman Caldwell visited was a full-time call girl whom one admiring client, in an online review, called “the reigning princess of the West Hills.”
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She charges up to $200 an hour and tells prospective johns she won’t take them on as clients without at least two references from other prostitutes. As she put it in her ad on tnaboard.com, “I do not see newbies!” WW found no evidence Caldwell met the woman through the Internet. The woman declined to answer WW’s questions. She expressed sorrow about Caldwell’s death. “I feel extremely sad and helpless that I was unable to do more to save his life,” she said in a statement. “His death will haunt me for the rest of my life.” WW has chosen not to name the woman or use her online pseudonym. According to records, the woman was born in another Western state and moved to the Portland area about 10 years ago. She graduated from a local high school where she was a cheerleader. In 2007, the woman was convicted on a misdemeanor theft charge. In 2009, when she was 20, she began advertising as a prostitute on tnaboard.com. On her Web page on the site, she mentioned attending classes but said she was available to johns during the week, for a total of 43 hours Monday through Friday. She signed her posts with a quote from the Native American painter Fritz Scholder: “Life is short and death is long.” Clients who wrote reviews of her on tnaboard.com praised her technique—“to die for,” as one poster described. She said she took calls at her Tigard apartment, sometimes meeting clients at Portland strip clubs or private sex parties. She advertised herself as independent— no pimp or madam, a claim WW couldn’t independently verify. Her mother, who was at her daughter’s apartment when a WW reporter knocked on the door, says she was aware of her daughter’s work. In online posts, the young woman explained she called her mother before seeing clients to “check in” for safety reasons. The woman’s mother told WW that her daughter did not know who Caldwell was, or that he worked for The Oregonian, until after his death. Though his wasn’t a household name, Caldwell had influence in Oregon that surpassed many public figures. More than 600 people attended his March 17 memorial service, which was packed with politicians, business leaders and Oregonian employees who had known Caldwell for decades. He had spent a lifetime in Oregon journalism. A University of Oregon journalism graduate, Caldwell worked for newspapers in Albany, Springfield and Gresham, where he was publisher for the local newspaper, the Outlook. He joined CONT. on page 9 Willamette Week MARCH 21, 2012 wweek.com
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The clear lessons so far from Mayoral Madness: The only thing Portland loves more than an underdog is a self-promoter. The first round of WW’s bracket tournament to find a less-boring mayor produced many upsets, thanks to social-network campaigning by enthusiastic competitors. In the biggest surprise, No. 1 seed and Portlandia darling Carrie Brownstein fell to 16th seed right-wing radio host Victoria Taft, who won with 55 percent after urging her Twitter and Facebook acolytes to vote. “Next round is tougher,” Taft tweeted on Monday, anticipating a second-round, Tea Party-vs.-Timbers Army war with mascot Timber Joey. “But I’m drinking in the victory tonight.” Mattress World mogul Sherri Hiner eked out a lastminute, five-vote win over stripper and memoirist Viva Las Vegas. Oregonian columnist John Canzano barely escaped a challenge from his wife, Anna, after rallying his Twitter followers with “I do take out the garbage at the house.” One winner who didn’t campaign: holiday-tree bombplot suspect Mohamed Osman Mohamud, who blew up Lars Larson’s candidacy. “Don’t let me lose to that terrorist,” the conservative radio host pleaded on Twitter. This week’s key matchups: Columbia Sportswear boss Gert Boyle faces Fire Chief Erin Janssens, who scored the highest firstround vote: 76 percent. Packy the Elephant battles blogger Jack Bogdanski. And Pink Martini singer China Forbes goes up against Hawthorne Bridge entertainer “Working ” Kirk Reeves. RK JOHN CLA
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BUS BOY JEFFERSON SMITH BUILT A POLITICAL MACHINE. NOW HE’S TRYING TO DRIVE IT TO CITY HALL. BY N IGEL JAQU ISS
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On a recent Saturday morning, a sleepy-eyed retired auto-parts worker named Gavin Griffin opened the door of his Sabin-neighborhood home to find a blond giant on his doorstep. The stranger—at 6 feet 4—first greeted the man’s dog, Bella, a Belgian shepherd, before launching into his standard doorstep greeting: “I’m Jefferson Smith, and I’m running for mayor.” Griffin talked to Smith about crime: Thieves had broken into his pickup truck twice in the past three months. What was Smith going to do about that? Smith showed sympathy by turning the conversation back to his own experience: Crime in his outer-eastside neighborhood is a big problem. “I got my car swiped,” Smith said—and noted ruefully that police later found the vehicle, so he didn’t get an insurance settlement. Still, the two seemed to bond. But when Smith turned to go, he looked back at Griffin, who was wearing gym shorts and a T-shirt. “Get some shoes on,” Smith said. Puzzled, Griffin agreed he probably should. “I’m just glad you’re wearing pants,” Smith added. Normally, candidates who knock on doors to ask for votes steer clear of cutting humor and sarcasm. Normally. At another house, Smith talked education with a young father named Buddy Herrlinger for 10 minutes, then left the man gaping when he blurted as he stepped off the porch, “I’m opposed to public schools. I’m just against them.” Smith says his attempts at levity with voters make canvassing bearable. “I can only do this if it’s fun,” he says. Mocking the very voters he’s trying to woo captures the essential contradictions of Jefferson Smith. He’s a Harvard law graduate and two-term state legislator who founded a nonprofit that’s grown into one of the highest-profile Oregon political movements in decades— and yet he often still acts like a college freshman. “There are so many WTF moments with Jefferson,” says Caitlin Baggott, who last year succeeded Smith as 12
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executive director of the Bus Project, the voter-engagement group Smith co-founded. Baggott calls such moments “delightful.” But for others, the cerebral man-child now running for mayor is a head-scratcher—the smartest kid in class who’s too busy cracking jokes to bother buying textbooks. Smith joined the mayor’s race late and has scrambled to catch up with the other two leading candidates—businesswoman Eileen Brady and former City Commissioner Charlie Hales. Smith is a puzzling mix of brilliance, disorganization and earnestness at odds with his political wiles. Over the past decade, Smith drove the Bus—as his organization is known—with hard work and the motivational skills
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of a revival preacher. He made it a magnet for young people who never knew they cared about political activism. As the Bus grew, Smith’s dominance of the organization sometimes lent the appearance of a cult of personality. That’s transferred to this campaign, where Smith has presented ideas about making Portland a more equitable city but has mostly presented the idea of Jefferson Smith himself. Smith says he’s in politics to “do things, not be somebody.” His allies point out—accurately—that he passed up earning millions as a lawyer for poverty-level wages. Smith leads the campaign in volunteers and Facebook friends, and earned two key labor endorsements—from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the Portland Association of Teachers.
He campaigns like a July 4th sparkler: bright, firing off in many directions, and subject to abrupt flameouts. Smith’s energy is legendary. He penned the Bus Project’s best-known slogan—“VOTE, FUCKER”—at 3 am. He’s loud, pumps out words faster than a laser printer and windmills his arms around so much some lobbyists call him “the crab.” Salem insiders say Smith is, at 38, only now learning to listen more than talk. He can be folksy one moment and impossibly dense the next, spewing out lists laden with jargon and punched up with words like “cognizable,” “concomitant” and “technocracy.” He even baffles friends with the term he uses for his job-creation strategy: “economic gardening.” “Jefferson doesn’t talk to people the way they talk,”
says Joe Baessler, the Bus Project’s first employee and now political director for AFSCME in Oregon. “He has a tendency to come up with his own phraseology.” Smith’s ability to appear simultaneously brainy and incomprehensible isn’t his only challenge. There’s also the matter of experience. He wants to run the City of Portland, which has nearly 7,000 employees and an all-funds budget of $3.5 billion. His proof he can do it: his experience in leading the Bus, which has 14 employees and a total budget of about $1.25 million. Yet Smith is scattered and chronically late, and has shown an inability to handle basic administrative tasks. CONT. on page 15 Willamette Week MARCH 21, 2012 wweek.com
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The Bus has routinely filed paperwork late or inaccurately. And there are serious questions about how transparent the Bus has been and whether its claims of nonpartisanship are a ruse as it plays favorites with Democratic candidates. “Being mayor is not a job where you get to pontificate on the issues of the day,” says Liz Kaufman, a veteran Democratic political organizer who has worked with Bus volunteers. “It’s a serious job where you have to manage a big operation every day.” Kaufman says her dealings with the Bus convinced her not to support Smith, and she is leaning toward Hales. Smith says he’s worked hard to address his shortcomings, and takes pride in surrounding himself with the best and the brightest. “I move fast and I talk fast,” he says, “but I have the ability to zoom back and forth between the big picture and granular details.” Unbridled ambition and chaotic energy define Smith. But there is no greater influence on his political career than the unfulfilled ambition of his father. R.P. “Joe” Smith traces his family tree back to Joseph Smith, who in 1830 founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the founder was his great-great-great uncle). His great-grandfather became president of the Mormon Church. Although Joe Smith, 76, is estranged from the church, he treasures his Mormon upbringing in a small Utah town. “I grew up with a great sense of the gifts that I have enjoyed from my heritage,” he says. Joe Smith had lofty political goals. The legendary U.S. Sen. Wayne Morse was a close family friend. “When I was 16 years old, I knew I wanted to grow up and become a U.S. senator,” he says. But Joe Smith spent his career on the fringes of power. After winning election as Umatilla County district attorney, he lost bids for attorney general in 1972 and 1980. Still, he clung to a starry-eyed view of good government, which his son says he believes in above all else. “Dad’s first governing value was making the world better,” Jefferson Smith says, “which was different than taking care of your family.” Joe Smith, who is his son’s unpaid legislative intern, says he’s not living vicariously through Jefferson. “But I feel a strong desire to leave things better than I found them,” he says. “I feel Jefferson could be a great gift to those who come after me.” Jefferson Smith was born in 1973 and—he says—was probably conceived on the campaign trail. (His older brother, Lincoln, declined to be interviewed.) His parents split, and from sixth grade on Smith grew up with his father in a historic Irvington duplex family and friends call the “Smith compound.” “It was the kind of place where you would find a copy of The Federalist Papers on the bookshelf,” says John Wykoff, a boyhood friend of Smith’s. At Grant High School, Smith was student body president and was elected attorney general at Oregon Boys State. Smith was a high-energy prankster, better known for his quick thinking than for hitting the books. He says he was a comic-book nut and Blazermaniac, and aspired to be general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers. “He was a big, bouncy kid,” recalls Grant High teacher Doug Winn, Smith’s mock trial coach. “He knew how to boil things down to short phrases that condensed everything. His delivery was very measured but forceful.” Smith’s mother died when he was a senior, and he ended up at the University of Oregon. He was, by his own estimation, a distracted and lousy student. After two aimless years, his father suggested he take a year off. Smith worked with juvenile delinquents in Lane County and with underprivileged kids in Washington, D.C. That year, a friend suggested that Smith’s erratic behavior was a sign of a bigger problem. Smith was examined and began taking medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. “Medication helped,” Smith says. “More importantly, I
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BUS DAD: Joe Smith bought the first Bus, served on the group’s board and drives his son to Salem.
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learned coping mechanisms.” Years of unambiguous success followed. Smith excelled during the rest of his time at UO. At Harvard Law School, he landed prestigious summer associate positions at three of the nation’s leading law firms—Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles; Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C.; and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Silicon Valley—finished in the top 10 percent of his class, and won a coveted clerkship with Judge Alfred Goodwin of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Steve Calandrillo clerked with Smith and recalls his focus and extraordinary work ethic. “He pulled several all-nighters,” says Calandrillo, a professor at the University of Washington School of Law. “[He] put together really impressive memos for the judges.” One day in the basement of the federal courthouse in Pasadena, Calif., Smith and Calandrillo discovered a tiny elevator, its car about 3 feet tall. Smith folded his lanky frame and climbed in. Calandrillo hit the “door close” button and suddenly realized he had no idea where the elevator went or whether Smith could breathe. He ran upstairs and found the shaft led to the law library; the elevator was for hauling books. “He was fun-loving,” Calandrillo says, “and he was taking this ride even though he never knew where it would come out.” Despite enormous promise, Smith’s law career fizzled. After his clerkship, he joined Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Manhattan’s top-paying law firm, in 2000. He left a few months later, shortly after passing the New York state bar. Smith says he left because he did not want to represent tobacco companies. Smith says he failed to appreciate how big Wachtell’s role was in defending big tobacco in national litigation. “I should have come to grips earlier with how I felt about that,” he says. Smith returned to Portland and joined the city’s largest law firm, Stoel Rives. Stoel lawyers declined to talk about Smith on the record, but his brief tenure there is legendary. Smith usually arrived late, slipping in the back door, and never checked his voice mail, which was usually full. Says one former colleague: “He was a very difficult guy to find.” Instead of tending Stoel assignments, Smith was working on what became the Bus Project. The idea for the Bus percolated in 2001 among Smith and other friends interested in getting more young people CONT. on page 16 Willamette Week MARCH 21, 2012 wweek.com
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active in politics. John Wykoff says they wanted to capture the spirit of Demo Forum, which operated in the 1970s, and XPAC, which operated in the 1990s. Meanwhile, Stoel Rives wondered what it was paying Jefferson Smith for. As a law clerk, he had famously pulled all-nighters to write memos. But while at Stoel, he says, the only all-nighters he pulled were for the Bus. As the Bus got rolling, Stoel Rives and Smith had what he calls a “mutual” parting. “If I begged to stay,” Smith says, “I don’t know that the answer would have been ‘yes.’” Smith threw his energy into building a organization that over the next decade would claim to register nearly 70,000 voters, hit 300,000 doors and graduate nearly 160 PolitiCorps fellows from a 10-week political boot camp. The Bus has expanded to three other states, becoming a training ground for political staffers and at least three Democratic lawmakers, including Smith. (Disclosure: WW co-sponsors with the Bus the election-year revue “Candidates Gone Wild.”) Smith served as director until 2011. For the first three years, he lived with his dad. He had a modest trust left by his mother and didn’t take a salary until 2005, when he took $2,000. After that, his yearly salary never exceeded $40,000. Joe Smith recalls sorting through a stack of Smith’s unopened mail and finding an uncashed Stoel Rives paycheck for $4,000 that was two years old. Smith was disorganized in other ways. He racked up at least seven traffic violations, and in 2004 got his license suspended for failing to appear in court. The Oregon State Bar suspended his law license three times for failing to pay dues. “I’ve got weaknesses like anybody else,” Smith says. “If I’m attending to a particular objective and trying to accomplish it, I’ll neglect details in my personal life.” But his disorganization spilled into work as well. Of the three major mayoral candidates, only Smith has created something that is distinctly his. Hales ran city bureaus and worked in private business. Brady has management and marketing experience but has not run anything. But the Bus is Smith’s—in its ability to rally young voters, and in its sloppy record-keeping and lack of transparency. The Oregon Secretary of State Corporation Division canceled the Bus’ business registration three times—in 2002, 2004 and 2006—because it didn’t file paperwork on time. Between 2005 and 2011, the Oregon Secretary of State Elections Division fined the Bus at least 10 times, for failing either to disclose its campaign finance activities on time or accurately. In May 2010, the Bus was penalized 16
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GET ON THE BUS: “I am deeply proud of the work the Bus did and continues to do,” Smith says.
“I’VE GOT WEAKNESSES LIKE ANYBODY ELSE. IF I’M ATTENDING TO A PARTICULAR OBJECTIVE AND TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH IT, I’LL NEGLECT DETAILS IN MY PERSONAL LIFE.” —JEFFERSON SMITH
$632 for filing 107 transactions four to six months late. The Bus Project calls itself a nonpartisan organization devoted to furthering democracy through engagement in the electoral process. In effect, though, the Bus is part of the Democratic Party machine. Documents show it sent volunteers to canvass neighborhoods almost always on behalf of Democratic candidates and causes. (Smith’s stepmother, Meredith Wood Smith, is chair of the Democratic Party of Oregon, as Jefferson Smith’s father once was.) “I think it’s a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party of Oregon,” says Rob Kremer, treasurer of the Oregon Republican Party. Kremer’s concerns about the Bus are similar to those expressed by U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) in a March 12, 2012, letter to the Internal Revenue Service about Tea Party organizations. Merkley and other Democratic senators want the IRS to crack down on “groups devoted chiefly to political election activities who operate behind a facade of charity work.” The Bus is actually three organizations under one umbrella: a charity, a nonprofit corporation and a political action committee. Money flows back and forth among the groups, prompting Kremer and other critics to question whether the charity—which allows donors to write off their gifts—is improperly operating an advocacy group for candidates and causes. Smith and Baggott insist the Bus has an elaborate time-keeping system that tracks and allocates employee time among the three entities—that there is a strict separation between charitable and political activities and that everything is legal. The organizations have received a clean independent audit in each of the past two years. But the complex way the Bus operates means its work on behalf of political candidates isn’t always transparent. In 2010, WW questioned why the Bus’ political action committee wasn’t disclosing money it spent to send volunteers to help candidates. Only after that inquiry did the organization’s PAC disclose it had spent $28,000 on 28 canvassing trips—25 for Democrats, three in a nonpartisan race and one for a Republican. In terms of Smith’s mayoral hopes, a more pressing question for Portlanders may be whether the organization Smith built is effective. “There were legitimate concerns about whether the Bus was just a place for the cool kids to have fun,” says Josh Kardon, former chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and an Eileen Brady supporter. “But Jefferson created something that works and has proved its value over time.” Other political pros say the Bus provides scant benefit. “My experience was, the results weren’t great,” says Patton Price, who ran the campaign for Rep. Jean Cowan (D-Newport) in 2006. “I didn’t get reliable information back from the volunteers…many of them didn’t record the level of interest or didn’t do so reliably.” Political organizer Kaufman says the Bus may work in Portland, but its volunteers are a cultural mismatch in other areas. “Shoving Portlanders down the throats of rural Oregonians,” she says, “is fundamentally naive, lazy and ineffective.” Smith says political pros have long unfairly dissed the bus. “We went to districts that wanted us,” he says. “And I think the volunteers made a difference.” Smith used the Bus Project to launch his own political career, winning a seat in the Oregon House in 2008. After living most of his life in Irvington, Smith and his now-wife, Katy Lesowski, a Bus co-founder, moved into the East Portland legislative district then-House Speaker Jeff Merkley vacated. (Merkley that year defeated thenU.S. Sen. Gordon Smith.) Smith’s performance as a legislator has been uneven. WW’s 2009 legislative rating of Portland-area lawmakers scored Smith “bad.” CONT. on page 19
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“Truly scattered,” one lobbyist told WW. “Much better campaigner than legislator,” said another. His legislative focus raised suspicions he was already angling for statewide office. (He’s told friends he’d like to be governor someday, and twice during the campaign said “governor” when he meant “mayor.”) Despite sponsoring bills aimed at reducing crime on the MAX in East Portland, Smith voted with rural legislators to keep gun records secret and is the only Portland lawmaker supported by the Oregon Gun Owners PAC. In what he refers to as his biggest legislative achievement, Smith teamed with Rep. Bob Jenson (R-Pendleton) to make more Columbia River water available for Eastern Oregon agriculture. Smith’s rural focus amplified fears he was a carpetbagger. “My concern,” says Guy Crawford, an influential Smith constituent, “was that he was an opportunist and was taking advantage of a majority Democratic district as a steppingstone to higher office.” In his second term in the House, Smith improved. “I’d give myself an A-minus,” he says. Although classmates Rep. Jules Bailey (D-Portland) and Rep. Chris Garrett (D-Lake Oswego) got meatier committee assignments, Smith rated “good” in WW’s 2011 survey. (He helped his marks by lobbying lobbyists.) Smith passed bills to improve voter access and do energy retrofits for schools. But he got more attention for his staunch opposition to the Columbia River Crossing Project. Crawford and other constituents say Smith has become a strong voice for East Portland. “He has been a really outspoken advocate for a community that doesn’t really have a spokesman,” Crawford says. “And he’s everywhere.” But now, Smith is doing exactly what Crawford initially feared—using his district as a political steppingstone. Yet Crawford is knocking on doors for Smith. “He’ll do a hell of a job and is not going to forget where he’s from,” Crawford says. “He’s from here now.” Although Smith’s late entry into the mayoral race surprised City Hall watchers, House Democrats weren’t surprised to see him ditching the Legislature. “He’s shown an ability to dig in and find an issue and actually get a bill moved,” one says. “I think he sees himself as being limited here. Not caucus leader or speaker, because he’s a big personality and has a rep for talking too much and being on the edge of doing something a little weird.” Smith says his legislative constituents convinced him he can do more for East Portland from City Hall than from the Capitol. “It was serving my district that focused me on city issues,” he says. Smith is undeterred by critics such as former Mayor Vera Katz, who says he’s not ready to be mayor. He sees a generational issue. “We’re no younger than they were when they came into power,” Smith says. Now, he just has to convince voters, using his inimitable style. At campaign fundraiser at Bossanova Ballroom in late January, he gave hundreds of supporters a taste of what he gives voters on their doorsteps. “I will make a prediction in this race,” Smith said. “We will not raise the most money. So give nothing! Get the hell out of here!”
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MILE AWAY: Northeast Portland artist community Milepost 5 appears to be outsourcing its cafe and performance space Eat.Art.Theater. An ad on Poached Jobs says the organization is looking for an “experienced restaurateur/ promoter” to lease the space and take over the business. We question how much money there is in slinging food to starving artists—with the current menu charging $9 for a hummus platter and $7.50 for a turkey sandwich, we imagine most of them remain starving.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 KRONOS QUARTET [MUSIC] The world’s primary instigator of forward-looking new music returns to Portland to perform, among other works, Steve Reich’s latest haunting masterpiece, WTC 9/11. Unmissable. Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 294-6400. 7:30 pm. $25-$45. THE ART OF THE BRICK [LEGOS] New York-based artist Nathan Sawaya likes to play with toys—Legos, specifically, spending more than six figures annually on the plastic bricks. His obsession currently takes shape in The Art of the Brick, a collection of three-dimensional sculptures and large portraits assembled entirely from Legos. No touching! OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave., 797-4000. 9:30 am-5:30 pm through April 29. $9-$12.
FRIDAY, MARCH 23 NOIRVILLE [MOVIES] You want Bogie back to back in The Maltese Falcon, then The Big Sleep? You want ’em both on 35 mm? You got it, kid. Cinema 21, 616 NW 21st Ave., 223-4515. The Maltese Falcon screens at 7 pm; The Big Sleep at 8:55 pm. $6, or $9 for double feature.
SUNDAY, MARCH 25 NOT YOUR AVERAGE SUNDAY DRIVE [ART STUNT] The inaugural effort of Very American Theater is an artful road rally and scavenger hunt in which participants will follow written directions over an unmarked course in East Portland. Lunch is included. Powell Butte, 16160 Powell Blvd., veryamericantheater.org. 9:30 am. $40 per team (one driver and one navigator per vehicle).
MONDAY, MARCH 26
LADIES RASSLE IN WHITE GOOP: “IT’S EMPOWERING.” Forget mud, vegetable oil and Jell-O. In Pittsburgh, the ladies wrestle in pudding. Ashley Ryon, the woman who invented the sport, is hoping her particular brand of custard-based chaos will take off in Portland. In this Friday’s Portland premiere Pudding Wrestling Massacre, about 10 ladies—“a mix of average people, not just strippers,” Ryon assures us—will don costumes and stage names, then battle it out, tournament-style, in a wading pool full of pudding. Despite the dress-ups and desserts, the wrestling is the real deal, she says, with no WWE-style rehearsed bouts or predetermined winners. Competitors will have to struggle through sweet, creamy sludge and pin their opponent for three seconds to advance to the next round. Proceedings will take place under the
highly professional scrutiny of judges Portlandia producer David Cress, beard-about-town Jedediah Aaker and, of course, Voodoo Doughnut’s Tres Shannon. “I have had quite a few arguments with people who find it degrading,” Ryon admits. “But it’s the opposite. Girls get to have costumes, theme songs, and everyone is paying attention to them having fun. It’s empowering. It’s like roller derby. It’s a sport—they use skill to win.” So why pudding? “Pudding smells good, tastes good and when it dries, it’s easily cleanable. It looks more attractive than ketchup,” Ryon says. “We use vanilla—white looks a lot better than chocolate, which suggests something else.” Yup, white goop is way more innocent. RUTH BROWN. GO: Pudding Wrestling Massacre is at Mt. Tabor Theater, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd., on Friday, March 23. 10 pm. $10. 21+.
RERUN THEATER: TV KNOWS BEST [MOVIES] Nick Wells’ inspired monthly screenings of childhood boob-tube junk food, complete with commercials for actual junk food, continue with a program dedicated to Very Special Episodes—in this case, from Family Ties and Mr. Belvedere. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 7:30 pm. $5.
TUESDAY, MARCH 27 OREGON HISTORY PROJECT [ART] Collective historical organization the Oregon Encyclopedia Project is presenting a series of free events examining the history and culture of our region. Curator and anthropologist Rebecca Dobkins will present “The Masterpieces at Our Doorstep: Columbia River Native American Art History,” exploring the traditional iconography of the region and its interpretations in contemporary Native American art. Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale. 6:30 pm in the Power Station Theater. Free. oregonencyclopedia.org. Willamette Week MARCH 21, 2012 wweek.com
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Brewvana is taking some time out from running its usual Portland brewery tours to focus on the DIY aspects of craft brewing. The tour will visit Portland U-Brew and Pub, Uptown Market, the Green Dragon, Coalition Brewing and Widmer Brothers Brewing, where participants will learn the hows, whys, whats and wheres of home brewing. Noon-5 pm. $79 per person, including beer and food. 21+.
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The University of Portland’s Hawaiian Club holds its 36th annual luau. There will be Hawaiian food, live performances, and “snacks and souvenirs” from Hawaii. That’s all the information we’ve got—if you’re lucky, it might be kalua pork or lau lau; if not: Spam. Tickets are available at the University of Portland’s Pilot House, or at the door. University of Portland’s Chiles Center, 5000 North Willamette Blvd. 5:30 pm. General admission $20, senior citizens and kids $15, UP students and staff/faculty $10. All ages.
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It’s all high class at Kenny & Zuke’s for the deli’s annual crab feed. Tables will be covered in newspaper, diners will be wearing bibs, and hands and faces will be covered in flecks of crab parts as guests dive into 2 pounds of crustacean, then top it off with fruit crisp or cobbler and ice cream. Kenny & Zuke’s Delicatessen, 1038 SW Stark St., 222-3354. Seatings at 4:30 pm and 7:15 pm. $38.50 per person, kids under 12 $19.75.
Nob Hill’s Bastas Trattoria hosts the Selbach-Oster winery from Germany’s Mosel region for a fivecourse pairing dinner. Winemaker Johannes Selbach will talk diners through nine of his Rieslings, matched with dishes like speck dumpling in beef broth and smoked, grilled pork shank. Bastas Restaurant and Bar, 410 NW 21st Ave., 241-9463. 6:30 pm. $70 per person. 21+.
THREE PLACES FOR TASTY TACOS El Gallo
4804 SE Woodstock Blvd., 481-7537. The parking lot of a luxury furniture maker seems an odd place to get a taco, but there it is, El Gallo, a rooster-adorned trailer with a covered seating area and an evident affection for distressed type. Owner Jake Brown, who’s done time in the kitchens of Genoa and Meriwether’s, makes all the tortillas to order. BEN WATERHOUSE.
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607 SE Morrison St., 232-3707. For two bucks a go, the al pastor tacos at this eastside industrial late-night counter are a transport flight to a Mexican beach town. Even in our ballyhooed cartopia, this is as close as you’ll get to one of the Puerto Vallarta alley vendors that shaves pork from an openair pig roast and tops it with fresh slivers of pineapple.
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3360 SE Division St., 313-6864. The side of the truck says tortillas hechas a mano, which loosely translates as either, “handmade tortillas” or “tortillas worth standing in the cold for.” You pick the meat, Mexican-style, from a one-price list that includes asada, chorizo, carnitas, barbacoa, cabeza and lengua. It doesn’t matter what filling you pick. The fillings and salsas are good but the tortillas are what you’ll remember long after you’ve left Lindo’s dank covered eating area. MARTIN CIZMAR.
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The Austin food-cart scene is not all steak, tacos and steak tacos. In fact, on my visit to what’s often considered the nation’s No. 2 food-cart town (Portland is tops, natch), I even found a few items I can’t seem to track down here. Yup, Texas has us beat—on a few fronts, at least. Here are three items from Austin’s food-truck scene (they call them “trucks”!) we need here. Okonomiyaki Michael Pearson was partying hard in Osaka, Japan, the first time he ate okonomiyaki, the Japanese savory pancakes he now serves from his East Austin cart. He had worked in restaurants long enough to make “a damn good guacamole and pretty good omelets,” so he decided to try to make okonomiyaki for his girlfriend. “It took me two hours at the Asian market and I almost quit, but it was pretty much what I remembered,” says the 31-year-old proprietor of Yoko Ono Miyaki. “Then I made it for my mom, a 64-year-old white lady, and she liked it. I thought maybe I had something. About 30 days later, I started a food truck.” To Western taste buds, okonomiyaki tastes a bit like an inspired, textured cross between crab cakes and potato pancakes. It is dense and decorative, packed with roots, green onions, eggs and pork belly, though Pearson’s cart—one of two that serve okonomiyaki in the Austin area—also serves these amazing pancakes Texas- or Cajun-style (the former topped with a delicious lime-Sriracha sauce). It’s a beautiful-looking dish, with layers you want to eat as slowly as humanly possible. Ice Cream Sandwiches Austin is home to a number of cold-dessert carts—shaved ice and ice cream, especially—but Coolhaus is pretty special. Portland just might be the next destination for this design-yourown-ice-cream-sandwich cart chain with fleets
in Austin, Miami, New York and L.A. I tried the seasonal Guinness ice cream packed between two double-chocolate and sea salt cookies (at the suggestion of a backward-cap-sporting brah who insisted that “it’s the shit”), and once I fit the thing in my mouth, I loved it. Though Austin’s warm clime makes Coolhaus a natural fit, it’s easy to see the chain sending a truck to Portland. I mean, White Russian ice cream? Vegan chocolate banana truffle ice cream? Watch your back, Fifty Licks! Breakfast Tacos “What do people even eat in the mornings in Portland?” Amy McCullough, ex-WW music editor and current Austinite, asked me last week. “I mean, I really don’t understand what there is besides breakfast tacos.” Ah, breakfast tacos—only nominally for breakfast and a staple of the Southwestern diet. In Austin, food carts are the delicacy’s primary peddler. Nearly all of them serve my personal favorite, the migas taco, which is packed with eggs, crispy tortilla strips and jalapeño wrapped up in a soft taco shell (or two of them if the cart is legit). Locals often recommend Torchy’s for out-of-towners (one restaurateur described them to me as the “Michael Jordan of Austin Food Carts”), though breakfast tacos are honestly kind of a hard dish to fuck up. And yet Portland has so few carts open for breakfast—Pepper Box and Chopollos are exceptions. Why is this? And can we change it ASAP?
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Every year I learn a few more what-not-todos at Austin’s SXSW music festival: Don’t sleep in too late or you’ll miss the free tacos; RSVP for everything, just in case; don’t make elaborate plans or you’ll never hear anything new; try not to pay for beer. This year my best-laid festival plans fell apart early after a handful of early travel mishaps, but I learned a few festival-going tricks nonetheless. Learn Spanish Not only because it will help you get around, but because some of the best music in the city is delivered en Español. There are working-class Norteño bands that set up shop at dive bars on César Chávez Avenue (yup, every city has one) and groups flown in from Mexico City for official showcases, but some of the best music I saw at this year’s festival came from Spain. Guadalupe Plata is a raw blues-rock trio that seems more inspired by the Mississippi Delta than the Black Keys; frontman Pedro de Dios, he of the Liam Gallagher glasses and protruding chest hair, is a slide-guitar wizard whose picking hand looks twisted and clubbed as he sings in both English and Spanish (sample lyrics: “Baby baby baby baby/ Baby baby baby baby”). Vetusta Morla plays big, sweeping indie rock with theatric percussion and downright breathtaking build-and-release song structures.
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Take the Bus Unlike our own transit system, Austin’s Capital Metro is cheap; you can get most places for $1. But there are other helpful buses in Austin. During my visit, one such bus, covered in an awful hippie mural and blasting the Beatles’ white album, was parked atop a hill on East 6th Street. The passengers on board greeted visitors with, “What do you need, bro?” (I think they meant drugs.) Another roaming bus, this one white on the outside and glowing purple inside, housed the surprisingly
tight Austin-based prog-rock/jam band Interstellar Transmissions. The bus picks up strangers and fans at random as it creeps through the streets. And then there’s the RVIP Karaoke RV, which loads would-be rock star passengers on board for free beer and bad renditions of Journey songs. Party! There always seems to be one inescapable celebrity musician at SXSW—a performer who appears at every daytime showcase and late-night party. This year it was Andrew W.K., still celebrating the 10th anniversary of 2001’s ridiculous and excellent I Get Wet album. Rumor has it W.K. spent his week tipping pedicab drivers with hundred-dollar bills and giving party advice to strangers on the street. On Saturday afternoon, he hosted The Onion’s day party at Club DeVille in a “Party Hard” hat and leather jacket, looking stubbly and sleep-deprived. After being loudly booed for giving props to Texas Gov. Rick Perry (“and his lovely daughter Katy”), he led the crowd in a nonsensical chant of “apple Dutch” and sang a variation on his decade-old radio hit with new lyrics detailing the best strategies for roasting duck. Then he repeatedly introduced Scotland’s the Twilight Sad as “Twilight,” to which the band’s testy frontman—who actually looked kind of goth in his purpleand-black-striped T-shirt—eventually retorted, “We’re not called ‘Twilight.’ We’re not fucking vampires. Shite movies!” Perk up Your Ears Things I heard at this year’s SXSW panels: “I call them fanagers. They’re fans, but they want to micromanage your career.” —Nas “We are measuring proficiency in math and English and science. That’s great, right? But we’re not measuring how well kids are doing creatively or how active they are physically, and when you don’t measure something, ultimately you don’t value it and you don’t teach it.” —Dena Morris, legislative director for Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin “The first time I met Mick Jagger, I was 23 years old and so desperate to get any kind of crumb [of attention]. He just hit on my girlfriend...same thing with Eric Clapton. They wanted our youth and our girls. They were just old vampires.” —Ian Astbury, the Cult “Dre’s gonna make more money off headphones than he ever made off of music. And he made a lot of money off of music.” —Dre Hayes of the Foundation (a branding/ marketing group)
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carnivalesque, corporate-run Burning Man with ever-more-elaborate installations. It’s best for your soul to ignore all that stuff, keep your head down and see great bands in small clubs. Keep the Faith The best venues in Austin aren’t bars with tricked-out sound systems or oversized rooms at the convention center— they’re churches. Singer-producer the Dream headlined Central Presbyterian on Thursday night, appearing onstage in Marty McFly’s light-up Back to the Future shoes and singing through a golden microphone. His extra-funky backing band sounded like Whitney Houston’s ’80s production and the Dream, who seemed humbled by the setting, wiped his sexually charged set clean of cursing. On Saturday, March 17, Firehorse played St. David’s Historic Sanctuary on 7th Street, where sexy, pajama-clad frontwoman Leah Siegel closed out the show with an a cappella performance that had me believing she’s destined to be huge. Siegel cursed once. Make Lists Like this one: “Great bands I saw this year that I haven’t mentioned yet.” Nicolas Jaar The French beatmaker, with a live saxo-
phonist and guitarist on hand, delivered one of my favorite SXSW sets. Electronic music is rarely this warm and mercurial, and it felt especially moving because it was competing against an ocean of dubstep and house, which de-emphasize performance for danceability. Royal Canoe I’m not crazy about the name either, but this Canadian funk/electro/pop/psychedelia outfit put on a show that had kids jumping up and down and old-timers making the “ooh, that’s nasty” face. Hard to quantify what they do, but early Beck, Prince and Of Montreal are good sonic reference points. THEESatisfaction The Seattle hip-hop duo, now emboldened with a Sub Pop deal and a fine forthcoming record, are growing as performers. Radiation City/Typhoon/Y La Bamba Portland’s music scene can go toe-to-toe with any city in the world. Y La Bamba seemed to hit its stride in the Southwest, Typhoon was typically epic and Radiation City put on the most polished set I saw all festival long, ending with a jaw-dropping cover of Etta James’ “At Last” that had audience members hooting, hollering and— in a couple of cases—openly weeping. Willamette Week MARCH 21, 2012 wweek.com
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 [BACKWOODS BRILLIANCE] Easily one of the strongest young American singer-songwriters, Robert Ellis does take some getting used to. Sure, the Texan’s raggedy old batch of country is tried and true, but his voice—a marriage of Willie Nelson’s twang and John Denver’s lung capacity— defies his tender age, shockingly so. His breathtaking 2011 release, Photographs, borrows from heroes like Woody Guthrie and Lefty Frizzell while offering a fresh gust of contemporary Americana all its own. Southern rockers Drive-By Truckers captain the show, a 3 am keg stand compared to Ellis’ musical intimacy. A delightful one-two punch of pure rural magic. MARK STOCK. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 9 pm. $22 advance, $24 day of show. All ages.
years of dumb music. So we forgive the Magnetic Fields some silly instrumental decisions (cheap-sounding keyboard chorus effects, choruses repeated ad nauseam) and dry vocal deliveries (Stephin Merritt sounds like comedian Stephen Wright, Claudia Gonson a bit like an elementaryschool teacher), all because Merritt can write circles around just about everyone. Love at the Bottom of the Sea is, like most of the Fields’ discography, thoroughly compelling from start to finish. The Morrisseyesque “Andrew in Drag,” which Merritt probably wrote in about 20 minutes, manages heartbreak and humor within its cozy, two-minute confines, while closer “All She Cares About is Mariachi” is one of the most ridiculous-sounding songs I have ever heard. It is also a work of genius. What a band. CASEY JARMAN. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave. 8 pm. $30. All ages.
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[INSTRUMENTAL SCULPTURES] In Baltimore art-rock act Ponytail, guitarist Dustin Wong contributes to a lot of joyful noise. Oft compared to Deerhoof, the band expresses the kind of unrestrained enthusiasm of a Japanese game show. By himself, Wong makes music of a more reserved—though no less radiant— nature. He’s been called the one-man Battles, and that’s not far off. On Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads, Wong’s recently released second solo album, loops and layers of spindly, needling guitar interlock and fold into one another, creating vividly chiming soundscapes à la the Durutti Column. It’s a mesmerizing listen. MATTHEW SINGER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 2883895. 9 pm. $10.
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[PURE POP] A mere year after releasing the prom-friendly pop gem Too Young to Be in Love, Hunx (né Seth Bogart) returned sans Punx late last month with Hairdresser Blues, which manages to improve on Hunx’s saccharine formula by dialing down the camp and digging deeper into melancholy lovesickness. Hunx is still horny enough to come on strong (“Private Room”), but more often than not, Hairdresser Blues explores the sad stuff that happens after the slobbery sex, when someone leaves and sets your heart to spinning in circles. The Oakland-based Hunx is taking his Punx on tour with him, and one can only hope they don’t embolden him too much, because it turns out Hunx is at his best when he’s bummed. CHRIS STAMM. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
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UNDERRATED GRAPHIC NOVELS. Anya’s Ghost (First Second) A great coming-of-age tale with bonus spookiness and excitement. Sleeper (Wildstorm) An early work by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips who later took the comics world by storm with Criminal. Oddly enough, it may be my favorite work by them. Channel Zero (Dark Horse) Brian Wood’s subversive classic about a fight against Big Brother. About to be reissued by Dark Horse. No Hero (Avatar Press) This, like all of Warren Ellis’ creator-owned stuff at Avatar Press, is gory and intellectually intense. Ellis is a genius. Flex Mentallo (DC Comics) A lost gem from Vertigo Comics by Grant Morrison, spinning out of his Doom Patrol run. Seriously trippy stuff. New color reprint coming soon. SEE IT: Say Anything plays Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., on Sunday, March 25. 7:30 pm. $17 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.
ing one of the most fruitful periods of rock and pop from the U.K. in a long while, including contributions from Kaiser Chiefs. This quintet from Leeds— best known on both sides of the pond for its sharp, soccer-chant rockers “I Predict a Riot” and “Ruby”—is back in the U.S. in support of its fourth album, Start the Revolution Without Me. The new disc brings the glint and wobbles of synthesizers and programmed beats to the fore without sacrificing the cracking power of the Chiefs’ whipsmart rock. ROBERT HAM. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $22 advance, $24 day of show. All ages.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 23 Sharon Van Etten, The War on Drugs
[SING THE PAIN] Sharon Van Etten doesn’t have a particularly distinctive voice. Don’t get me wrong, she’s a good singer. She just has a fairly standard indie-chanteuse warble. It’s nowhere near the wailing moan of P.J. Harvey, who, after listening to her newest album, Tramp, you’d assume is one of her idols. Still, she makes good use of what she’s got. It’s an album that conveys a sense of emotional turmoil with only a few melodic gestures. Apparently, it was recorded under much distress for the New Jersey-born songwriter, following a breakup and a stretch of homelessness. She makes the words bleed through her band’s simple arrangements. Along with the buzzing War on Drugs—the Band to Kurt Vile’s Dylan, maybe?—this is quite a showcase bill of rising talent. MATTHEW SINGER. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 9 pm. $16. Minors must be accompanied by a parent. All ages.
Tracy Grammer
[FOLK] At the turn of the millennium, Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer were the Decemberists of Portland acoustica, scoring a No. 1 album on the nation’s folk charts with their kitchentable-recorded duo debut, When I Go, and being invited on tour as openers and backing musicians by top-dog diva Joan Baez. All that came to a sad, sudden end with Carter’s death by heart attack in July 2002. But last year, Grammer—who has maintained a solid solo career—dug up from her basement a tape of herself and Carter demoing several unreleased songs for Baez’s consideration. The songs have now emerged as Little Blue Egg, a fitting tribute to Carter a decade on from his untimely demise. JEFF ROSENBERG. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., $15 advance, $18 day of show. All ages.
Lupe Fiasco, Lloyd
[HIP-HOP STAR] Lupe Fiasco would probably be a bigger star if he could just learn to keep his mouth shut. Thank God he hasn’t done that. “We scared of almost everything/ Afraid to even tell the truth,” Fiasco raps on “Words I Never Said,” the second track on last year’s Lasers. “So scared of what you think of me/ I’m scared of even telling you.” This after spending four full minutes on 9/11 conspiracy theories, media takedowns, playing the race card, and explaining why he won’t vote for Obama. God, I love this guy. Yes, his music can get a little muddy with hyperactive stylistic cross-pollination (though I maintain that Lasers’ “The Show Goes On” was actually better than the Modest Mouse song it sampled), but that’s sort of the state of music. The fact that Fiasco uses his celebrity status to speak honestly and openly about his occasionally outlandish political positions makes me want to give him a big old hug. Then again, I’ve wanted to hug him since he rapped about skateboarding and enlisted ex-Far frontman Jonah Matranga for an unlikely guest spot on his first album. CASEY JARMAN. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335.
Of Montreal, Deerhoof, Kishi Bashi
[POP MANIA] At its best, Of Montreal enlists chief songwriter Kevin Barnes’ mania to produce hyperactive pop
MICHAEL GIRA FRIDAY, MARCH 23 [SINGER-SONGWRITER-BLEEDER] Watching footage of Michael Gira fronting the earliest incarnation of his band Swans, you almost expect him to either self-immolate onstage or spontaneously combust. Such was the fury and intensity that went into his physical performances and the crunch of his band’s industrialized minimalist rock. While the sound of Gira’s music has changed considerably since the first Swans release back in 1982, the ferocity of his performance hasn’t disappeared. Even when it’s simply him and an acoustic guitar—as will be the case on Friday at Mississippi Studios—the effect of his resonant vocals and unflinchingly direct lyrics (“When I look in the mirror/ I feel dead, I feel cold/ I am blind,” goes the song “Blind” from his ’95 solo release Drainland) is still riveting. “It’s just as intense for me,” Gira says from his home in upstate New York. “I throw absolutely everything into my performances. But I feel like that’s my job.” Gira tends to approach most of his creative endeavors with that same immersive and workmanlike mentality. Once he gets off the phone with me, he says, he’s back to rehearsing the chosen set of songs for his slate of West Coast performances and an upcoming European tour. In between practice sessions, he is hand printing the artwork for a limited edition live CD/DVD documenting the recent tour by a (as he puts it) “revivified” Swans, as well as putting the finishing touches on a new Swans studio album to be released in late summer. “I’ve learned over the years that to make a living as a working musician, I’ve got to do 20 things at once,” he says. “There’s never any time off, that’s for sure.” To that end, this quick jaunt through the Northwest and California was booked for purely utilitarian reasons: Gira simply had a break between the Swans sessions and the European dates. Once he gets home from his last solo date in Switzerland, he’s back into rehearsals for another Swans tour. One has to wonder just how long Gira can keep up the pace, though. He turned 58 in February and has a young daughter at home to fuss over. But in speaking to Gira, as frustrated as he gets about not being able to simply relax with a book or do some writing, there’s never a sense he regrets all the energy he is expending on his creative life. In fact, he insists that he plans to keep on making music until he physically can’t do it anymore. “When I regrouped Swans, I thought maybe I would keep going for five years,” he says with some gravity. “I feel now that this is what I want to do. What I was put on Earth to do is make this music. So, I’m going to push it until there’s no blood left in it.” ROBERT HAM. The Swans frontman has the energy of five punks half his age.
SEE IT: Michael Gira plays Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., on Friday, March 23. 9 pm. $15. 21+.
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Ten Million Lights, The Foreign Resort, Vibragun, Jatun
[OPAQUE POST-ROCK] Hailing from Copenhagen, Denmark, the Foreign Resort likes to throw around catch-all terms like “shoegaze” and “New Wave” to describe its sound. Those descriptors are close but don’t really get to the heart of the dark emotions pulsing at the quartet’s core. What makes the group’s self-titled EP (released late in 2011) so damned engaging is the desperation and angst that drips off Mikkel B. Jakobsen’s tongue as he sings, and TFR’s use of tar-thick electronic beats and loops. Just because the band likes to put itself in a genre box doesn’t mean you have to follow suit. ROBERT HAM. Ella Street Social Club, 714 SW 20th Place, 227-0116. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
Kool Keith, Serge Severe, DaiN, Big Bang
[BLACK ELVIS RAP] Before Lil’ Wayne called himself a Martian and Tyler, the Creator vomited cockroaches, there was Kool Keith—one of rap’s original oddballs. As legend has it, after creating a hip-hop classic in Critical Beatdown in ’88 as part of the Ultramagnetic MCs, Keith was institutionalized in a mental hospital in upstate New York. Although Keith has refuted the tale, it’s hard not to believe the guy is at least a little bit crazy. His albums, which are usually released under one alias or another, are full of twisted humor and vulgar subject matter. My favorite, his 1996 solo debut Dr. Octagonecologyst, serves as the soundtrack to a homicidal gynecologist, mixing funky hip-hop beats with creepy, sex-driven lyrics. Other aliases include Dr. Dooom, which finds Keith rapping from the perspective of a cannibalistic serial killer, and Black Elvis, who made a concept album about Keith being lost in space. His music goes beyond novelty, though, because he’s a veteran MC who’s rapped alongside some of the best. Still, I think this concert would be better if it were held at Enchanted Forest—Keith would really like it there. REED JACKSON. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm. $16 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.
The Slow Poisoner
[SPOOKY ACOUSTIC POP] I’ve always enjoyed Andrew Goldfarb’s artwork—he’s a comic artist in the Daniel Clowes/Peter Bagge tradition— and his outlandish press photos just a little bit more than I have dug the San Francisco songwriter’s music. As the Slow Poisoner, he makes countryand rockabilly-inspired stomp-alongs about death, witches, bones and other such spooky fare, all with tongue placed firmly in cheek. The tunes are lyrically clever but not always musically memorable, with the exception of last year’s Lost Hills, a story album that intermingles twangy, stomp-along horror tunes with Goldfarb’s spokenword story introductions. Goldfarb calls this “the least confusing concept album ever recorded,” and there is something refreshing about his clear storytelling (and, it must be said, his recently improved singing). You have to respect the guy for taking such a holistic approach to troubadourism, and even if the music isn’t your bag,
Goldfarb has the best merch in the biz. CASEY JARMAN. The Lovecraft, 421 SE Grand Ave. 8 pm. Free. 21+.
Lebenden Toten, Nu-kle-ar Blast Suntan, FrenZy, DJ Skell
[NOISE PUNK] My grandfather, a jazz musician of the very old school, believes music was ruined once and for all by rock ’n’ roll. Ten seconds in the vicinity of Portland’s Lebenden Toten would make the poor guy’s heart stop and head explode. Cloaked in thick layers of fuzz and feedback, this noise-punk quartet stabs and slashes its way through all that is beautiful in the world of sound to rejoice in a realm of barely controlled madness. Guitars scream and seemingly deliquesce, and the singer throws rapid-fire tantrums of the Melt Banana variety, while the rhythm section leans into the overwhelming squall. It is all so ugly and wonderful. CHRIS STAMM. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 4738729. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.
Michael Gira
See profile, page 29. Misssissippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave. 9 pm. $15. 21+.
Nada Surf, An Horse
[GUITAR POP] With Weezer subjecting itself to increasingly embarrassing contortions, it’s nice to see Nada Surf sticking to its guns in order to offer a reminder that the ’90s turned out some of guitar pop’s finer specimens. Since 1992, the band has released a steady stream of albums that feature some of the best rock songwriting of the past two decades. The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy, released last year, is yet another ludicrously tight offering. The album delivers hooks aplenty, a renewed focus on the trio’s rhythm section and, as usual, nary a hair out of place. SHANE DANAHER. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $17 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.
SATURDAY, MARCH 24 Malt Ball: The Builders and the Butchers, Weinland, Lord Dying, Quiet Life, Wow and Flutter, Lost Lander, Old Junior, Denver, Stay Calm, Golden Bears, Archers, Mission Spotlight
[BEER BASH] Why has it taken so long for something like the Malt Ball to come along? A combination of a daylong music festival and beerfest featuring 16 brewers and a dozen dope local bands? Seems logical to me: Portland can finally share its love of bitching about long lines for beer tastes and toilet queues while listening to sloshy sets by the likes of the Builders and the Butchers, Weinland, Denver and others. In other words, it sounds like the most wonderful collision of two regional traditions since titty bars and karaoke. AP KRYZA. Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside St., 206-7630. 2 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. 21+.
Norman Sylvester and friends
See Mic Check, page 35. The CandleLight Room, 2032 SW 5th Ave. 5 pm. Free. 21+.
Galactic, Corey Henry (of Rebirth Brass Band), Orgone
[FUNK] One of the nastiest funk outfits currently touring without benefit of Social Security checks, New Orleans quintet Galactic has spent two decades transforming venues and outdoor festivals into Carnivale. But it wasn’t until this year’s Carnivale Electricos that the band got the full Brazilian. The result is funk thunder that would have Thor’s ass dropping. Anyone in doubt need only watch drummer Stanton Moore attack the skins. The man is so overcome with energy that he can’t sit in his stool, opting to bounce up and down on his kit like a golf ball fired from a cannon into a small bathroom. Moore leads his crew—tonight featuring Living Colour’s Corey Glover and Rebirth Brass Band’s Corey Henry—by example. AP KRYZA. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 9 pm. $25.
Plants and Animals, Little Scream, Hosannas
PROFILE D AV I D M C C R I N D L E
symphonies that illuminate the stranger corners of their creator’s psyche. Unfortunately, the Georgiabased octet has been known to turn out albums that are the auditory equivalent of spilled glitter—pleasantly colorful, but a total mess. Paralytic Stalks, the group’s 11th album, finds the band taking a bit of a chill pill, and that’s not a bad thing. The electro-funk seizures of Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? have given way to dalliances in psychedelia and avantsound noodling. Barnes still insists on overburdening his couplets with words like “transubstantiation,” but Paralytic Stalks is probably his most emotionally intimate offering. The album doesn’t quite feature Of Montreal at its best, but it’s a welcome shift from nearly psychotic offerings like 2008’s Skeletal Lamping. SHANE DANAHER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 2250047. 9 pm. $15. All ages.
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[INDIE ROCK] Plants and Animals has mellowed out—relatively. The first few songs of the Canadian trio’s new album, The End of That, opens with candidly simple lyrics and foot-tapping rhythms, offering a more laid-back vibe than the band’s previous efforts. The overall sound is more cohesive and organic, which is all part of the design. In an attempt to replicate the style of a live performance, Plants and Animals recorded the album in two weeks. The result is stripped down and nostalgically fun. Singer Warren Spicer explores themes of reflection, transition and adulthood, but never lets the mood get too heavy. The End of That is less grooving and more acoustically focused than past work, but the band amps it up with some nice electric-guitar riffs and heavily sung patches that more characteristically decorate the tracks. EMILEE BOOHER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 2883895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
Of Monsters and Men
[ICE POP] Icelandic music is no longer restricted to fair-haired Satanists hypnotizing listeners into homicidal lucidity. Sextet Of Monsters and Men has invaded U.S. radio with “Little Talks,” an accordion-driven tune that evokes Edward Sharpe right down to the “Rawhide”-style “hey” yelps and cutesy male-female call-andresponse vocals. That poppiness belies a deeper side to the cherub-faced band that permeates its debut EP, Into the Woods, a record that gives us a glimpse of what Arcade Fire might sound like if properly medicated. The layered pop occasionally delves into saccharine, but is nonetheless impossible to shake, even if it means forgoing the goat sacrifice and simply singling along. AP KRYZA. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 9 pm. Sold out. All ages.
Robert Glasper Experiment
[HIP JAZZ] One one hand, the jazz world has been slightly hyperbolic about Robert Glasper’s excellent new record, Black Radio. It isn’t, as has sometimes been suggested, the first successful fusion of jazz and hip-hop (you might talk to DJ Premier or Digable Planets or even Herbie Hancock about that). On the other hand, they’re right: In the Robert Glasper Experiment’s live performances, the group is combining two branches of the same musical tree that have seldom, if ever, been as gracefully united. When saxophonist Casey Benjamin takes a solo, young crowds listen just as intently as they might to a run of verses from Talib Kweli. Glasper is framing jazz improvisation and explosive energy to drumbeats that make sense to the hip-hop generation. So, yeah, cue the hyperbole: Past groups have combined hip-hop and jazz on record, but those were studio creations. Glasper’s project is more about the means than the end— which is exactly why you need to see Glasper while he’s red hot. CASEY JARMAN. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 10 pm. $17. 21+.
Lucero, The Drowning Men
[COASTING IN MEMPHIS] It’s been three years since Lucero expanded its hard-charging country rock guitars to include a horn section and signature elements of Memphis soul, and the Tennessee boys evidently haven’t changed much else. Women & Work, the band’s just-released seventh proper album, finds frontman Ben Nichos’ lyrical preoccupations still focused upon the uglier side of the fairer sex and the vocational dangers that come from making a living playing at the bar. It’s the same subjects that have sustained the constantly touring quartet for decades, but, ’midst maturing tunes that ably soften country rock with Stax backdrop, perhaps it’s time to broaden outlook rather than just grab the bull by the horns? JAY HORTON. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St. 9 pm. $17 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.
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HOWLER MONDAY, MARCH 26 Howler’s Jordan Gatesmith is the first to admit he and his bandmates are adept at what the Brits call “taking the piss.” If you’ve ever read anything about the band—and it’s more likely you have if you live in England, where the group has so far received greater media attention than it has at home—then you’ve seen its Strokesian guitar pop described using such adjectives as “snarky,” “snide” or “sarcastic.” That’s what happens when you have songs like “Beach Sluts” and “You Like White Women, I Like Cigarettes.” Not that Gatesmith takes offense to the characterization. “We’re kind of a whole bunch of—what’s the word? We’re not dicks. I don’t know, we’re weird,” the 20-year-old singer-guitarist says while en route to his first South by Southwest in Austin. “We have a strange sense of humor. There’s no image thing. It’s just, this is who we are. We like to fuck around, and we bring it to the music as well.” Youth, attitude and guitars: It’s the stuff the British music press eats up like figgy pudding. No wonder, then, that Howler has caused a minor frenzy across the pond. Aligning the Minneapolis five-piece with other young-and-reckless buzz acts like the Vaccines and the Drums, the NME not only declared the band one of the best new artists of 2011, it also included the tall, lanky and permanently bed-headed Gatesmith on its list of the year’s “50 coolest people.” And that was before the group released its hook-heavy full-length debut, America Give Up, the title of which has certainly endeared the band to English critics even more. Given Gatesmith’s admitted penchant for fucking around, it’s hard to trust some of the things he says about Howler’s origins. Like how he and keyboardist Max Petrek met while waiting for their respective girlfriends in the lobby of a Planned Parenthood, bonding over a Ronettes song that came on the radio. Or how the band cut its teeth live by playing local farmers markets. (“We cleaned up, actually,” Gatesmith says. “We made more money than we do now.”) Nevertheless, the story of the band’s overnight rise is certifiably true: A journalist from the U.K. caught Howler at an early club gig, and was impressed enough to send a copy of its EP to tastemaking London-based label Rough Trade, which signed the band immediately. America Give Up is Howler’s chance to prove itself against the hype. With hand claps, backing harmonies and fuzzed-out riffs, the album twitches and kicks like a surf-flecked Is This It, with Gatesmith singing about boring make-out sessions and bloody romances in a voice pitched between Julian Casablancas and Joey Ramone. Are the songs as snarky, snide and sarcastic as the reviews suggest? A little. But Gatesmith confesses that’s mostly a defense mechanism. “They’re all kind of personal, but at the same time, I don’t want to give too much away,” he says. “I like to show myself a little bit, but hide it in some other bullshit.” MATTHEW SINGER. Howlin’ like loons.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 25 Dan Bern
[SONGWRITER] Dan Bern is that rare songwriter whose talent as a plain ol’ writer is equal to (or perhaps greater than) his talent as a songsmith. Since exploding onto the national folk scene with 1997’s self-titled album, Bern has written somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,000 songs, in addition to publishing a novel and releasing short fiction in intermittent bursts. Comparisons to Bob Dylan are both inevitable and pretty accurate. Bern is coming off of two consecutive live albums (2010’s Live in L.A. and 2011’s Live in New York), a format that allows his distinctive verbosity room enough to wander. SHANE DANAHER. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 8 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show. Minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. All ages.
MONDAY, MARCH 26 Milagres; 1,2,3
[INDIE HEAVEN] Hailing from Brooklyn and signed to local indie powerhouse label Kill Rock Stars, Milagres weaves its own lush world by way of its guitar-driven and synth-infused songs. The quintet released its ambitious full-length debut, Glowing Mouth, last year, an 11-track collection brought to life by frontman Kyle Wilson’s capable croon. The band’s name— which translates to “Miracles” in Portuguese—fits the group’s exotic rhythms and melodies perfectly. NILINA MASON-CAMPBELL. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
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Howler, Yellow Ostrich, Appetite
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Hildegard Westerkamp
[SOUNDSCAPE ARCHITECT] Renowned German-born, Vancouver, B.C.-based soundscape composer, radio host and film scorer Hildegard Westerkamp stops in Portland to present her environmental music, which often incorporates people’s conversations and voices, silence, noise, ambient sound from different cultures and other allegedly nonmusical elements. As a radio host and producer, she’s a pioneer,
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Loch Lomond, Dinosaur Feathers, Lemolo
[VARIETY SHOW] “Earth Has Moved Again,” from Loch Lomond’s latest album Little Me Will Start a Storm, is a wavy, ethereal assembly of piercing, layered vocals and plucky, cavernous guitar. “Elephants and Little Girls,” another track from last year’s full-length, is spacious and playful, reminiscent of some faraway fantasy world where ringleaders call the shots and trapeze artists fling themselves from sky-high swings. Tonight, the group—returning from its European tour, for which it kept a diary at wweek.com—plays its cool, tight-spun melodies alongside dream-pop duo Lemolo and Brooklyn’s ragged, chaotic tropical concoction, Dinosaur Feathers. NIKKI VOLPICELLI. Mississippi Studios, 3939 Mississippi Ave. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
Say Anything, Kevin Devine and the Goddamn Band, Fake Problems, The Front Bottoms
[FAIRLY PUNK] Cutting albums is old hat for Max Bemis and company, and this March marks the release of Say Anything’s best yet in Anarchy, My Dear. While the L.A. group is guilty of producing an overly manicured sound, its roots tend towards the gritty and free-range soil of punk rock. Their fifth and newest record echoes this tendency, crashing about in organic fashion and less-than-usual studio cleanliness. Anchored always by Bemis’ critically acclaimed lyrical delivery, Say Anything is a technically sound robot programmed to be flawed— and that’s a tough thing to pull off. MARK STOCK. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 7:30 pm. $16.99 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.
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A hypnotic balladry of instrumental psychedelics
See Swedish singer-songwriter Emil Svanangen perform a highly-anticipated solo showcase while on tour wiith of Montreal
WOODSMAN
+SISTER CRAYON
DUSTIN LONEY WONG (OF PONYTAIL) DEAR
CONT. on page 35
+WHITE FANG
WED MARCH 21st
$8 Adv
Mississippi Studios Presents at The Crystal Ballroom
OF MONTREAL
Lost in the Trees, Poor Moon
[POST-VIVALDI] I don’t know how Lost in the Trees isn’t huge already, but I see big things ahead for the North Carolina band. Fronted by singer and composer Ari Picker, the group combines the right pieces: awesomely skilled musicians, dynamic compositions and heartbreakingly honest songs. Picker, who studied film scoring at Berklee, uses his love for classical composers to build a sound that blends elements of an orchestra with the raw, acoustic traditions of folk. Following the Trees’ debut, All Alone in an Empty House—which indeed houses some beautiful songs, but undecidedly jumps between genres—the band’s new LP, A Church That Fits Our Needs, balances the band’s ideas with clearer vision and a more polished sound. Although the intimacy of Picker’s voice is somewhat lost in production, the album—a tribute to Picker’s deceased mother—is slathered with gorgeous full strings, operatic backup vocals and emotionally striking lyrics. EMILEE BOOHER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
friendly. sounds great. best burger. independent. musician-owned /operated
DEERHOOF +KISHI BASHI
@ Crystal Ballroom ALL AGES!
FRI MARCH 23rd
$14.99 Adv
Plants & Animals tours in support of their album, The End of That, on Secret City Records
PLANTS
& ANIMALS
Celebrated frontman of Swans graces our stage with innovative acoustic-based songs
MICHAEL
GIRA SIR RICHARD BISHOP +MIKE SCHEIDT (of YOB) FRI MARCH 23rd
LUCK-ONE & DEKK BEAUTIFUL MUSIC PART 2 [HIP-HOP] First things first: Beautiful Music Part 2 is the best album Luck-One has recorded to date. It’s a fine mix of the personal, the political and the spiritual. Dekk’s beats stagger drunkenly around the thin line between underground heat and commercial-sounding singles. Most important, Luck-One has never been as focused and resourceful in his storytelling as he is here. Unfortunately, this collection—the follow-up to Luck-One’s post-lock-up debut—is also likely to be the release the Portland MC puts the least amount of his famed hustle into promoting, as he has said on numerous occasions (including on recent single “Farewell”) that he’s getting ready for either a long hiatus from music or an early retirement. That eventual leave of absence should please MCs with whom Luck has had beefs—there are at least a couple—and those purists who think the music and vocal accompaniment on songs like “Black Seed” and “Murderers” (both featuring vocalist Dizz singing hooks) sound slick enough to back up Alicia Keyes or Jay-Z. But haters, as the saying goes, are going to hate. And the truth is that Luck’s thick verses—which are sometimes best listened to with a Bible, a Quran and a thesaurus handy—need room to breathe and beats dramatic enough to complement them. From this disc’s exotic, bumping introductory track to the lullabic industrial boom-bap of “Welcome Home,” these songs have exactly what they need, musically, to accompany a bruiser of a lyricist while he tells listeners about his family, his dreams and his world. On “Here,” Luck describes the world before his arrival (“Back when single-celled organisms were still swimming in slime”) as a dark and unwelcoming place. Now, the MC is evolving. “They say I switched the flow from underground to mainstream,” he explains. “But either way you cut it, we ain’t swimming in the same stream.” This time out, he’s right. So, until he hangs up the mic, anyway, let there be Luck. CASEY JARMAN.
“Gustafer Yellow Gold has made kids’ music so cool that teenagers and ultra-hip bands such as Wilco want to get in on the act … a shiny blend of pop art and pop tunes.” -The Chicago Tribune
$12 Adv
GUSTAFER YELLOW GOLD
LOCHDINOSAUR LOMOND FEATHERS $8 Adv
Surf-inspired rock from a breakout band, touring in support of their debut album release America Give Up
HOWLER
YELLOW OSTRICH +APPETITE
MON MARCH 26th
1:30pm Doors, 2:00pm Show ALL AGES MATINEE SHOW
SUN MARCH 25th
$13 Adv
Critically-acclaimed chamber folk from a Portland sextet
SUN MARCH 25th SAT MARCH 24th
$12 Adv
+LEMOLO
LITTLE SCREAM +HOSANNAS
SEE IT: Luck-One plays the White Eagle, 836 N Russell St., on Monday, March 26, with Shadows on Stars and TxE. 8:30 pm. Free. 21+. Beautiful Music Part 2 is available for free download at luckoneconscious.com.
THUR MARCH 22nd
$8 Adv
Esteemed London folk artist brings his raw and soulful music to the stage, performing songs from his critically acclaimed debut, Nameless Path
A revolving band of musical party-throwers signed to David Byrne’s Luaka Bop record label rocking danceworthy, tropicalia-tinged music
TERROR PIGEON DANCE REVOLT
MARCUS FOSTER
SAM BRADLEY +SAM WEGMAN 8:00 Doors, 9:00 Show
$12 Adv
NETHERFRIENDS +SPECIAL GUESTS
WED MARCH 28th
$8 Adv
MOSTLY SEATED SHOW
TUE MARCH 27th
$10 Adv
Our favorite folk band return with an anticipated debut album full of timeless melodies and soul-stirring lyrics
Eleven Magazine presents the first in a series of quarterly concerts at Mississippi Studios
THE LUMINEERS
ONUINU +KEY LOSERS
SEAN SPELLMAN +MATT BISHOP
YACHT
THUR MARCH 29th
$11 Adv
FRI MARCH 30th
$10 Adv
Coming Soon: 3/30 - THE LUMINEERS 3/31 - DREW GROW & THE PASTOR’S WIVES 4/1 - ABIGAIL WASHBURN 4/3 - RUSTED ROOT 4/4 - THE PRUITT-IGOE MYTH 4/5 - VIVA VOCE 4/6 - THROW ME THE STATUE (At Star Theater)
4/6 - MIKE DOUGHTY (Soul Coughing) 4/7 - THE WEDDING PRESENT 4/9 - OBERHOFER 4/11 - MAGIC MOUTH 4/12 - BEAR IN HEAVEN 4/13 - TEA LEAF GREEN 4/15 - COUNTRY MICE 4/16 - WILL HOGE
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RABBITS
THE RELATIONSHIP
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+BELLAMAINE
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THURSDAY MARCH 22 •
SATURDAY!
YPPAH
PT. JUNCTURE WA +SUN ANGLE
FRIDAY!
ANOMIE BELLE +CARS & TRAINS
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INDIE ROCK / CLASSICAL FROM CHAPEL HILL
LOST IN
SATURDAY MARCH 24
$10 ADVANCE
AN EVENING WITH BELOVED ROCKER/MEMBER OF THE INDIGO GIRLS WITH HER BAND
AMY
RAY
1,2,3 +KID SAVANT
MONDAY MARCH 26
•
$15 ADVANCE
A LOG LOVE SMORGASBORD OF NW TALENTS
LEIGH MARBLE
THE ASCETIC JUNKIES +KELLY ANNE MASIGAT
THURSDAY MARCH 29
•
$8 ADVANCE
$8 ADVANCE
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UPCOMING IN-STORE PERFORMANCES
PRESENTS
HADESTOWN
TRACY GRAMMER FRIDAY 3/23 @ 6PM
Tracy Grammer recently released ‘Little Blue Egg,’ an album of previously-unreleased Dave Carter & Tracy recordings. The CD includes eleven tracks, with five additional songs to be released throughout 2012 as part of a year-long celebration to mark the 10th anniversary of Carter’s death and what would have been his 60th birthday.
WITH VERY SPECIAL GUESTS INCLUDING: SLEATER-KINNEY’S CORIN TUCKER PLAYING THE PART OF PERSEPHONE, NICK JAINA IN THE ROLE OF ORPHEUS, AND MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON!
WEDNESDAY MARCH 28 •
$16 ADVANCE
ABSTRACT EARTH & DOUG FIR PRESENT PDX ELECTRO-PRODIGYHER BAND
Tracy Grammer will also be performing at the Alberta Rose Theatre on 3/23 at 8:00 PM.
EMANCIPATOR
CUBAN CIGAR CRISIS FRIDAY 3/23 @ 7PM
Cuban Cigar Crisis is a San Francisco/Bay Area based Rock ‘n’ Roll outfit. Their most recent record ‘Sourpuss’ has been growing its own underground following from fans posting and sharing their own homegrown music videos on YouTube.
SHIGETO +MARLEY CARROLL SOLD OUT
HEARTFELT EXPANSIVENESS ROOTED IN APPALACHIA
MEGAFAUN
•
CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED FOLK-OPERA FROM SINGER/SONGWRITER
+LINDSAY FULLER
TUESDAY MARCH 27
$10 ADVANCE
MILAGRES
THE TREES •
•
EARNEST AND ANTHEMIC INDIE ROCK FROM BROOKLYN
+POOR MOON
SUNDAY MARCH 25
$12 ADVANCE
A CO-HEADLINE AFFAIR OF WEST COAST ELECTRO/TRIP-HOP
MR. GNOME •
April 11, 2012
+GULL
$8 ADVANCE
THE RETURN OF SPASTIC ART ROCK FROM CLEVELAND
FRIDAY MARCH 23
WHITE
THURSDAY!
FRIDAY MARCH 30
•
TIX AT DOOR
$13 ADVANCE
LEGENDARY POST-HARDCORE FROM SAN DIEGO
TILLER’S FOLLY SATURDAY 3/24 @ 2PM
HOT SNAKES
Tiller’s Folly are the Pacific Northwest’s critically acclaimed, internationally traveled, ambassadors of song. Tiller’s Folly has released ‘Go The Road,’ an all-acoustic album, which continues the band’s musical move in a refreshing new direction and promises to introduce them to new audiences in the bluegrass, folk and Americana markets.
+FIELD REPORT
SATURDAY MARCH 31
• $12 ADVANCE
AN EVENING WITH THE SINGER/SONGWRITER FROM THE WEAKERTHANS
JOHN K SAMSON & THE PROVINCIAL BAND
+SHOTGUN JIMMIE
MONDAY APRIL 2
•
$12 ADVANCE
CORIN TUCKER BAND SOLD OUT +BANGS TIX AT DOOR
SUNDAY APRIL 1
•
Darrell Scott’s seventh studio album ‘Long Ride Home’ is a long time coming, both for his devoted fans and for his extensive creative cache. The project is an intimate homage to the music Darrell remembers from his childhood and the father and mother who presided over that country music baptism.
PORTLAND CELLO PROJECT album release 4/13 & 4/14 plus 4/14 all ages matinee Y LA BAMBA - 4/21 MY GOODNESS - 4/27 FATHER JOHN MISTY - 5/8 TYCHO + ACTIVE CHILD - 5/25 EMILY WELLS - 6/2
Darrell Scott will also be playing at the Alberta Rose Theatre at 8 PM on March 24th.
GOOD OLD WAR WEDNESDAY 3/28 @ 6PM
Over the past three years, indie-folk trio Good Old War has captivated countless audiences with their acoustic-driven, sing-alonginspiring live performances. Now, with the release of their third full-length record, Come Back as Rain, the Philadelphia-based band harnesses the high-spirited simplicity that makes their shows so unforgettable.
All of these shows on sale at Ticketfly.com
BOWERBIRDS 4/4 • SWERVEDRIVER 4/5 • FIREHOSE 4/6 • FANFARLO 4/7 CHAIRLIFT 4/8 • HANNI EL KHATIB 4/9 • METRONOMY 4/10 LEFT COAST COUNTRY 4/11 • PORTLAND CELLO PROJECT 4/13 & 14 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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DARRELL SCOTT SATURDAY 3/24 @ 3:30PM
$15 ADVANCE
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MUSIC
MARCH 21-27
JIM FERREIRA
MONDAY-TUESDAY
YOU KNOW YOU WANT ‘EM
BRAD MEHLDAU Ode
$14.95-cd
ESPERANZA SPALDING
Radio Music Society $11.95-cd $14.95-deluxe cd
ODD FUTURE
The Of Tape Vol. 2 $12.95-cd
SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLL: The Slow Poisoner plays The Lovecraft on Friday. scholar and proponent of the emerging field of acoustic ecology. Westerkamp’s electro-acoustic music (half of which will be presented here in two channels, the other half in eight) seems simultaneously to evoke and emerge from various acoustic environments, from the British Columbia rain coast to bustling New Delhi. She also sets poetry and other words (including her own) to music and has created sound installations all over the world, and scored soundtracks, including two for Portland filmmaker Gus Van Sant’s Elephant and Last Days. BRETT CAMPBELL. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. 8 pm. $10 adults, $5 students. All ages.
Luck-One, Shadows on Stars, TxE
See album review, page 33. White Eagle, 836 N Russell St. 8:30 pm. Free. 21+.
TUESDAY, MARCH 27 Paul Kelly, The Dunwells
[THE KELLY GANG] Most Americans, if they’re aware of Paul Kelly at all, only know the
Australian singer-songwriter for his 1989 track “Dumb Things”—or worse, they also remember that track was the soundtrack to the Yahoo Serious film Reckless Kelly. But in Oz, he’s right up there with Nick Cave, Peter Garrett and Greg the yellow Wiggle as one of the country’s most iconic singers of all time. Actually, he’s probably more consistently beloved across all ages and socioeconomic groups than any of those blokes; for almost four decades, Kelly’s been writing and singing the folkrock songs of everyday Australians, both black and white, and their struggles, big and small, without the parochial sentiment or macho rubbish that often pervades the genre. From what I understand, he is being joined on this tour by his nephew Dan Kelly, an accomplished musician in his own right, and together they’ll be running through his back catalog in alphabetical order—that’s 17 albums’ worth of classic songs you’ve probably never heard before in one night. RUTH BROWN. Alberta Rose Theater, 3000 NE Alberta St. 6:30 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show. All ages (minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian).
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THE CANDLELIGHT ROOM For the past 28 years, the CandleLight Room has been one of Portland’s most diverse and laid-back clubs. Though it sits on the edge of the Portland State University campus, the club has long been home to gigging blues and soul musicians well past college age—artists who rarely get high-profile press in their hometown but play on boldly nonetheless. The bar closes at the end of the month to make way for new TriMet construction, and it has invited a host of old friends back to play the club off “before the wrecking ball hits.” We asked for memories and got some surprising results (which you can read on wweek.com), including this note from longtime CandleLight devotee Starr Lara. “This picture was taken at the Candlelight Room April 26, 1980. I remember it so well. I had just arrived earlier that day, after a several months-long visit to my sister’s house in California. My friend Debbie is on the right. She and I and many of our PSU friends would often hang out in the CandleLight Room, especially on our way to the disco, which is what we were doing that night. The disco didn’t get started really until around 8 or 9, so we’d hang out at the Candlelight Room until then. We stopped there this night, too, on the way to the disco, and someone snapped a picture of us. The date is forever etched in my mind, as I met my future hubby later that night. We’ve been together ever since.” SEE IT: The CandleLight Room, 2032 SW 5th Ave., throws a going-away party on Saturday, March 31, featuring a host of regulars and special guests. 5 pm. Free. 21+. Willamette Week MARCH 21, 2012 wweek.com
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NARRATIVE PROGRAM SUNDAY MARCH 25 : 1PM
Cinema 21 : 616 NW 23rd Ave • MEMBERS $5, GENERAL $10
DAVID CRESS WALT CURTIS SHAWN LEVY DAVID WALKER Producer, Portlandia
Actor (Property, Pay Dirt ) • Writer (Mala Noche)
Film Critic,Oregonian
Filmmaker • Pop Culture Historian • Author
Never a cover!
“OMFG!” — Amado, Portland OR
Thursday, March 22nd
GIRLYMAN
Buffalo gap Wednesday, March 21st • 9pm
WITH
Throwback Suburbia (power pop)
Thursday, March 22nd • 9pm
919 NW 23rd
2011
Craig Carothers w/ Tim Ellis Jon Koonce
pbjsgrilled.com • 702-743-0435
$10 Cover
Willamette Week’s complete guide to nightlife in Portland.
TRACY GRAMMER
DRINK 2011
DRINK
(songwriter showcase)
SNEAKIN’ OUT
Friday, March 23rd KIM SCAFURO
A PLACE CALLED HOME: LECTURES ON FILMMAKING IN PORTLAND
Since 1974
LITTLE BLUE EGG
Willamette Week’s complete guide to nightlife in Portland.
CD RELEASE
friday, March 23rd • 9pm
Saturday, Mar 24th
Cloey & Kellen, Not amy & Redwood Son
DARRELL SCOTT
(soul americana)
Saturday, March 24th
Jeremy Telling Benefit with The Dragons
RAMOS GIN FIZZ
POK POK BLOODY MARY
Teardrop Lounge
Whiskey Soda Lounge
HOFBRÄU HELLES Beaker and Flask
ASHLEIGH FLYNN & CHRIS FUNK
Prost!
Tuesday, March 27th • 9pm
open Mic Night WIN $50!!!RAMOS GIN FIZZ
Hosted By: Scott gallegos Teardrop Lounge
+ GARY OGAN Sunday, Mar 25th
POK POK BLOODY MARY Whiskey Soda Lounge
6835 SW Macadam Ave | John’s Landing
For tickets and information, visit DILLPICKLECLUB.ORG SPANISH COFFEE
AVIATION
ZOMBIE
Local Lounge
Vintage
Gold Dust Meridian
DAN BERN
HOFBRÄU HELLES
Beaker and Flask
SCOW MULE
Lounge
Prost!
WITH
MIKE MIDLO
Tuesday, Mar 27th
AUSTRALIAN HALL OF FAME ROCKER
PAUL KELLYWITH
THE ALBERTA
NEGRONI
DEAD WEATHER
Branch
Clyde Common
Cruzroom
P Observatory
THE DUNWELLS
Thursday, Mar 29th
SPANISH COFFEE
AVIATION
Local Lounge
Vintage
KELLY JOE PHELPS & ZOMBIE SCOW MULE CAHALEN MORRISON
Gold Dust Meridian
Lounge
SOLO/DUO Friday, Mar 30th
BIG TIME BURLESQUE! WITH ORCHESTRE
L’POW
Saturday, Mar 31st
LIVE WIRE W/ REVA DEVITO & LAURA GIBSON NEGRONI
DEAD WEATHER
Branch
Clyde Common
Cruzroom
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THE ALBERTA
TELL MAMA: A TRIBUTE TO
Observatory
ETTA JAMES
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MUSIC CALENDAR
Chapel Pub
= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Editor: Jonathan Frochtzwajg. TO HAVE YOUR EVENT LISTED, send show information at least two weeks in advance on the web at wweek.com/submitevents or (if you book a specific venue) enter your events at dbmonkey.com/wweek. Press kits, CDs and especially vinyl can be sent to Music Desk, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Please include show or release date information with all physical mailings. Email: music@wweek.com. For more listings, check out wweek.com.
430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Hunx and His Punx, Heavy Cream, Adrian Piper Cover Band
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. White Rabbits, Gull
Duff’s Garage
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Rehab, Moonshine Bandits, Crown Point, The Rodeo Clowns, Mosby
Holocene
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Open Mic
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Space Waves (Joy Division tribute), Bryan Minus & The Disconnect (New Order tribute)
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Andrews Ave., Matthew Heller & The Clever, The Ecology
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Melody Guy
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Stringed Migration (9 pm); Henry “Hill” Kammerer (6 pm)
Blitz Twentyone 305 NW 21st Ave. Chris Margolin
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Jazz Jam with Errick Lewis & The Regiment House Band
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. Drive-By Truckers, Robert Ellis
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Vampillia, Hong Kong Banana, Manx, Notches
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Robert Schwartzman (of Rooney), Brian Bell (of Weezer)
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave.
East India Co.
821 SW 11th Ave. Josh Feinberg
Ella Street Social Club
714 SW 20th Place Whitman, Bee, Shark Shark
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Eternal Tapestry, Stay Calm, Hurry Up
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. John Butler, George Colligan, Todd Strait
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Adolfo Angel Cuella IV (8 pm); Emily Stebbins (6 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Cronin Tierney
Ladd’s Inn
1204 SE Clay St. Lynn Conover
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray and the Cowdogs
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. River Project (9 pm); Bingo (6 pm)
Lents Commons
9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St. Polecat
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Michele Van Kleef
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro
3552 N Mississippi Ave. My Robot Lung (9:45 pm); Mr. Hoo (12 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Dustin Wong, Woodsman, White Fang
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Sleepy Eyed Johns
Palace of Industry
5426 N Gay Ave. Flat Rock String Band
Portland Police Athletic Association 618 SE Alder St. TooLoose Cajun Band
Quimby’s At 19th
1502 NW 19th Ave. Bridge City Prophets
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. The Magnetic Fields, Holcombe Waller
Sundown Pub
5903 N Lombard St. Machine Gun Electric, Vytas, Migi Artugue
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project Jam Session
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Margo Tufo
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Blood Beach, Shist, Polyps
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Best of Friends
Trail’s End Saloon
1320 Main St., Oregon City Danny O’ Brien & Ken Brewer
Tualatin Heritage Center
8700 SW Sweek Drive, Tualatin Peter Yeates
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Community Jam
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen, Shelly Rudolph
THUR. MARCH 22 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Frank Fairfield
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. PHAME: The H is for Honored Showcase
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Girlyman, Sneakin’ Out
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Damn Family, Night Genes
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Borikuas
Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. The Ugly Flowers, Stellar’s Jay, Grey for Days
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Open Bluegrass Jam
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. John “JB” Butler & Al Craido
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. John “JB” Butler & Al Craido
The Know
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero Trio
Thirsty Lion
1037 SW Broadway Lupe Fiasco, Lloyd
2026 NE Alberta St. Barnaby Woods, My Only Ghost, WL 71 SW 2nd Ave. The Nutmeggers 317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Deanna and the Downbeats (Rosemary Clooney tribute)
1435 NW Flanders St. Mitzi Zilka & Jim Templeton Trio (8:30 pm); Laura Cunard (5:30 pm)
Jack London Bar 529 SW 4th Ave. Boo Frog
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. J Elwood Johncox
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Cronin Tierney
Kelly’s Olympian
Tony Starlight’s
Biddy McGraw’s
Vancouver Brickhouse 109 W 15th St.; Vancouver, Wash. Jerome Kessinger
Vie de Boheme
Brasserie Montmartre
Buffalo Gap Saloon
1530 SE 7th Ave. Max Ribner Band
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Anna and the Underbelly
Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Ave. The Mad Maggies, The Darn
836 N Russell St. Garcia Birthday Band (9 pm); Will West & Tanner Cundy (5:30 pm)
Kenton Club
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar
White Eagle Saloon
800 NW 6th Ave.
6000 NE Glisan St. John Brown Band (9:30 pm); Lynn Conover & Jimmy Boyer (6 pm) 626 SW Park Ave. Gary Hobbs Quartet (9 pm); Tablao (8 pm)
426 SW Washington St. Artifice, Thanks, 8th Grader
2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Whines, The Woolen Men, Nucular Animals
115 NW 5th Ave. Miss Massive Snowflake, D.S.R., Bill Horist, Communist Fire Drill 2201 N Killingsworth St. Eat Right Stay Fit
1320 Main St., Oregon City Rae Gordon
Ella Street Social Club
3416 N Lombard St. Vises, Hand That Bleeds, Dark Beach
Beaterville Cafe
Trail’s End Saloon
203 SE Grand Ave. The Whines
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Backspace
Tonic Lounge
East End
Andina
225 SW Ash St. Carmine, Kenchucky Darvey, Hello the House, Armorada
Tiger Bar
1635 SE 7th Ave. Bridgetown Sextet (9 pm); Honey and the Hamdogs (6 pm)
714 SW 20th Place Ten Million Lights, The Foreign Resort, Vibragun, Jatun
Ash Street Saloon
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Kabenzi, Pinkzilla, Tokyo Deathstare
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Redwood Son, Not Amy, Cloey and Kellen
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Bahamas, Mimicking Birds
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Song Dynasty, Nilika Remi
Foggy Notion
Ford Food and Drink
2505 SE 11th Ave. Jenna Ellefson, Amanda Breese (8 pm); Josh Cole (5 pm)
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Ave. Third Seven
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Kool Keith, Serge Severe, DaiN, Big Bang
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Tim Willcox, David Goldblatt, Bill Athens, Charlie Doggett (8:30 pm); Art Resnick (5:30 pm)
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Alex Nicole, Dany Oakes, Kyle P. (8 pm); The Darlin Blackbirds (6 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Eric John Kaiser, Macho Novela and Jerry Hannan
Katie O’Briens
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. The Tanked, 48 Thrills, Crimson Dynamite
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. ON-Q Band
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LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Ridgerunner Summit (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Kris Deelane Ostrara Celebration
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro John Shipe
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Loney Dear, Sister Crayon
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Steve Pulvers
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Buffalo Gap Saloon
Camellia Lounge
8105 SE 7th Ave. Kory Quinn
510 NW 11th Ave. Ivory Leaves, Mountain Bell
Duff’s Garage
The Blue Monk
1001 SE Morrison St. Ancient Heat, Click.Boom, Jeffrey Jerusalem, Sex Life DJs
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Oreganic, Outpost
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Jesse Terry, Craig Carothers, Tim Ellis
Aladdin Theater
1036 NE Alberta St. Lucky Jumping Voices (9:30 pm); Mikey’s Irish Jam (6:30 pm)
3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones Jam
350 W Burnside St. Boo Frog, 1776, Hairspray Blues 830 E Burnside St. Mr. Gnome, Pt. Juncture WA, Sun Angle
3000 NE Alberta St. Tracy Grammer
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Tom Grant Jazz Jam Session
Dante’s
Doug Fir Lounge
The Blue Diamond
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Sam Densmore, Shatterville
1332 W Burnside St. Of Montreal, Deerhoof, Kishi Bashi
303 SW 12th Ave. Frank Fairfield
Alberta Street Public House
Hawthorne Theatre
303 SW 12th Ave. Frank Fairfield with members of Black Prairie
315 SE 3rd Ave. Cursebreaker, Twohands
Crystal Ballroom
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
Alberta Rose Theatre
2845 SE Stark St. 4 on the Floor, Left Coast Country
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
Rotture
Spare Room
Goodfoot Lounge
Mississippi Pizza
FRI. MARCH 23
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Eric Sugar Larsen, The Sindicate, Rohr
East End
2505 SE 11th Ave. Jason Okamoto
Billy D
Red Room
128 NE Russell St. Kaiser Chiefs, Walk the Moon
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Sharon Van Etten, The War on Drugs
Ford Food and Drink
Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam (9 pm); High Flyer Trio (6 pm)
8 NE Killingsworth St. Stephanie, Asss, Psychic Feline
8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic
714 SW 20th Place Audrey Ryan, Laurel Brauns, Tim Emerson
WED. MARCH 21
Wonder Ballroom
Record Room
Sellwood Public House
Ella Street Social Club
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
ITUTU
Terry Robb
1635 SE 7th Ave. John Nemeth (9 pm); Tough Lovepyle (6 pm) 203 SE Grand Ave. Free Weed, Timmy Terror and the Wintercoats, Grrrl Friend, Donnie Blossoms, DJ Jose D, DJ Noah Sweat
KICK, PUSH, COAST: Lupe Fiasco plays the Schnitz on Friday.
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1111 SW Broadway THREE: Three Conversation with Taiko
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Nada Surf, An Horse
SAT. MARCH 24 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Frank Fairfield, Ryan Francesconi
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Darrell Scott, Ashleigh Flynn, Chris Funk, Gary Ogan
Alberta Street Public House
WINE HOUSE: The notion of a new wine shop and bar in the toniest, most made-over stretch of Nob Hill is worrisome. One imagines managers from Pottery Barn giggling incessantly over comically large glasses of Beringer chardonnay. But Taste on 23rd (2285 NW Johnson St., tasteon23rd.com) is no corporate imposter. The impeccably remodeled second-story room in one of the Avenue’s many converted houses is all white trim and warm hardwood, with a small selection of bottles organized eccentrically (“crisp,” “soft,” “juicy”) around the bar. The place is definitely more bar than store, with a nice menu of cheese and charcuterie to go with a generous pour of Red Blanket Tempranillo. The place was packed on a recent Thursday, and most of the crowd seemed to be regulars—a good sign in a neighborhood dominated by Pizzicato and Kornblatt’s. BEN WATERHOUSE.
Kells
Cuban Cigar Crisis
112 SW 2nd Ave. St. James Gate
Kelly’s Olympian
Nel Centro
1408 SW 6th Ave. Sam Howard
The Lovecraft
Kenton Club
PINTS Urban Taproom
The Old Church
6351 SW Capitol Highway Tim Roth
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. On the Stairs, Eggplant, Blind Bartimaeus (9:30 pm); Alice Stuart (6 pm)
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. ‘80s Video Dance Attack
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale John Bunzow
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Bingo Trio
Mickey Finn’s Brew Pub
4336 SE Woodstock Blvd. Pseudophiles
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Caleb Klauder Trio, New Country Rehab (9:30 pm); A Simple Colony, Lara Michell (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Michael Gira (of Swans), Sir Richard Bishop, Mike Scheidt
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. The Adequates
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. BassMandolin
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St.
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Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Forest Bloodgood
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Unruly Instinct, Guillotine Necktie, Mothers Whiskey, Aethyrium
Press Club
421 SE Grand Ave. The Slow Poisoner
315 SE 3rd Ave. Ninja, Mongoloid Village, Smooth Sailing, Serial Hawk, Rolling Through the Universe
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Madjestique (9 pm); Pete Krebs and His Portland Playboys (6 pm)
71 SW 2nd Ave. 90 Proof
Tiger Bar
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Torch and Twang
350 W Burnside St. Sonic Temple, Ramble On, Problem Child
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Levi Dexter
Trail’s End Saloon
East End
Twilight Café and Bar
Ella Street Social Club
1320 Main St., Oregon City Gordon Hermanson & the Double Comma 1420 SE Powell Blvd. The Mesa State, Somerset Meadows
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Ozarks, Pine Language
Victory Outreach Portland 16022 SE Stark St. Young Pro, DJ Tek
1530 SE 7th Ave. Dawid Vorster Quintet
2929 SE Powell Blvd. The Lucy Hammond Band
White Eagle Saloon
The Crown Room
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar
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Crystal Ballroom
Dante’s
3341 SE Belmont St. Zenda Torrey 205 NW 4th Ave. Black Milk, J. Piner, ADd , DJ Zimmie
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Andy Stokes
Tonic Lounge
836 N Russell St. Sea At Last, Turquoise Noise, Hunter Paye (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
The Blue Monk
510 NW 11th Ave. Tummybuckles
1332 W Burnside St. Galactic, Corey Glover, Corey Henry, Orgone
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
13 NW 6th Ave. Abney Park
626 SW Park Ave. Gravy (9 pm); Tablao (5:30 pm)
317 NW Broadway Delaney & Paris, Basketball Jones
Spare Room
Star Theater
Bossanova Ballroom
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Nancy Curtin Quintet (8:30 pm); Gordy Michael (5:30 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Bobby Torres Ensemble
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. St. James Gate
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. The Hague, Drag Like Pull, The Lion Oh My, Bearcubbin
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Shrouded Strangers, Sad Horse, Karl & the Jerks
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. The Resolectrics, The Low Bones (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Naomi LaViolette
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Peter Rodocker & So It Is
Mississippi Pizza
Mississippi Studios
Vie de Boheme
4830 NE 42nd Ave. 2nd Time Through
6000 NE Glisan St. Jimmy Boyer Band (9:30 pm); Twisted Whistle (6 pm)
1001 SE Morrison St. Raffa de Alaska y Sus Compas, Chaach, Michael Bruce, Papi
Clyde’s Prime Rib
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Marv Ellis & The Platform, Just People
Biddy McGraw’s
Holocene
Thirsty Lion
Tony Starlight’s
Rotture
115 NW 5th Ave. Kelsey Morris
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. I Set My Friends on Fire, Greeley Estates, A Bullet for Pretty Boy, A Lot Like Birds, The Reeds Mill Investigation, When the Lights Go Out
Camellia Lounge
Red Room
8 NW 6th Ave. Umphrey’s McGee, Vokab Kompany
Backspace
Hawthorne Theatre
1422 SW 11th Ave. Steve Thoreson & Andre Feriante
2621 SE Clinton St. Pete Krebs Swing Duo
Roseland Theater
225 SW Ash St. White Orange, Ancient Warlocks, Argonaut, Mars Red Sky, Case in Theory
1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Ave. Jeff Jordan, Nick Foltz
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Michelle Medler Quartet (9 pm); AnnaPaul & the Bearded Lady (6 pm); Toy Trains (4 pm)
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Unicorn Domination, Otis Heat, DJ Pipedream
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Livid Minds, American Roulette, The Entity, Echoic
Ash Street Saloon
Brasserie Montmartre
The Know
2527 NE Alberta St. Galen Fous (9 pm); Lisa Mann (7 pm)
Korkage Wine Bar & Shop
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio
2026 NE Alberta St. Lebenden Toten, Nu-klear Blast Suntan, FrenZy, DJ Skell
Original Halibut’s II
412 NW 5th Ave. Richie Rosencrans
Andina
722 E Burnside St. Malt Ball: The Builders and the Butchers, Weinland, Lord Dying, Quiet Life, Wow and Flutter, Lost Lander, Old Junior, Denver, Stay Calm, Golden Bears, Archers, Mission Spotlight
426 SW Washington St. Les Jupes, Jeremy Lee Faulkner and The FInal Dorm, Ferns 2025 N Kilpatrick St. Pitchfork Motorway, The Hot LZs
1036 NE Alberta St. Dan Kimbro, Cotton, Max Skewes (9:30 pm); Gypsy Fuzz, Christine Havrilla (6:30 pm)
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
800 NW 6th Ave. Randy Porter Trio
203 SE Grand Ave. Portland Metal Winter Olympics finals 714 SW 20th Place X-Kid, Sinoy Blaze, Mr. Twist, Yak Nasty, Ice the Light, Dougie, SpyVee, Yung Mil, Supa Nova, S. James, Horizun, M3licious
Fifteenth Avenue Hophouse
1517 NE Brazee St. Jack Dwyer, Kendl Winter
Foggy Notion
3416 N Lombard St. Prizehog, Big Black Cloud, Nucular Aminals
Fort Vancouver High School 5700 E. 18th St.; Vancouver, Wash. Vancouver Singers
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. The Polyrhythmics, Ben Darwish’s Commotion
Hawthorne Hophouse 4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Spodee-O’s
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Plants and Animals, Little Scream, Hosannas
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Blueprints
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Head for the Hills, The Student Loan, Renegade Stringband
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. James Clem
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Darrell Scott, Tiller’s Folly
Nel Centro
1408 SW 6th Ave. Tim Gilson
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. A.C. Porter
PINTS Urban Taproom 412 NW 5th Ave. Ray Dodd
Plan B
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. From Smoke, Holgate, A Season of Tanagars, Manx, Welfare, Town & the Writ
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Of Monsters and Men
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Blame Sally and Rebecca Pronsky (9 pm); The Martens Combination (6 pm)
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Blue Skies for Black Hearts, Small Arms, Ghost Office
Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave. Stephen Ashbrook
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Teri and Larry
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Jesus Montoya (flamenco show)
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Robert Glasper Experiment
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
231 SW Ankeny St. Dartgun & The Vignettes, Communist Fire Drill
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Arthur Moore Harmonica Party
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Devin Phillips Band
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Ratface, Trauma, Terokal, DJ Smooth Hopperator
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Iceland
The TARDIS Room
1218 N Killingsworth St. Andrea Wild
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Will Bradley Band
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Buzzy, The Contestants, Metropolitan Farms, Aaron Daniel’s One Man Banned
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Tony Starlight and the All-Star Horns (Rat Pack tribute)
Trail’s End Saloon
1320 Main St., Oregon City Lucy Hammond
Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. The Banished, After Everything, Bring the Dead, She Preaches Mayhem
Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Gaea Schell
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Kef, Bucharest Drinking Team (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Jean Ronne Trio
Winningstad Theatre
1305 SE 8th Ave. The Jabronis
1111 SW Broadway THREE: Three Conversation with Taiko
Plew’s Brews
Wonder Ballroom
8409 N Lombard St. Child Children, Moogwynd, Jeremy C. Long, Silent Numbers, Gang Radio (NoFest benefit)
Press Club
2621 SE Clinton St. Mike Coykendall, James Low
Quimby’s At 19th
1502 NW 19th Ave. Randy Foote & The Skankin’ Yankees
128 NE Russell St. Lucero, The Drowning Men
SUN. MARCH 25 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Sassparilla, Huck Notari
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Tyrone Wells, Joe Brooks
Alberta Rose Theatre
The Old Church
Andina
Trail’s End Saloon
Ash Street Saloon
Valentine’s
Biddy McGraw’s
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
3000 NE Alberta St. Dan Bern, Mike Midlo 1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero 225 SW Ash St. Mystic Reason, Zen Thesis, Stump Train 6000 NE Glisan St. Felim Egan
Blitz Twentyone 305 NW 21st Ave. Edge of Land
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Sinferno Cabaret, Hopeless Jack & The Handsome Devil, Derek Dunn, Lone Madrone
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Lost in the Trees, Poor Moon
Ella Street Social Club
714 SW 20th Place C.C. Swim, The Shrouded Strangers, Jollapin Jasper, Roselit Bone
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Wonder Years, Polar Bear Club, Transit, The Story So Far, Into It. Over It.
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Christopher Brown, Farnell Newton
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Zak Borden
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Pat Buckley (9 pm); Irish Sessions (6 pm)
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Hooves, Hey Lover
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Dan Haley & Tim Acott (9 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Jon Koonce
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Bob Soper Duo
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Great Migration; The Bruce Lees; Hungry, Hungry Hip-Hop
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Loch Lomond, Dinosaur Feathers, Lemolo (9 pm); Gustafer Yellow Gold (2 pm)
Rontoms
600 E Burnside St. The Loom, Pure Bathing Culture
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Ryan Higa & Kevin Wu, Victor King, Chester See, Domnic Sandoval, Andrew Garcia, JR Aquino
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Danava, Witch Mountain, Burning Leather, Shut Your Animal Mouth, The Chemicals, Cecelia Und De Sauerkrauts
Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave. Rags and Ribbons
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. John Savage
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Hooded Hags, Sir Coyler & His Asthmatic Band, Bear and Moose
1422 SW 11th Ave. Kimberly Giordano and Beth Madsen Bradford 1320 Main St., Oregon City Robbie Laws 232 SW Ankeny St. Copy, Stepkid, Grapefruit
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Doug Cohen
Waverly Heights Church
3300 SE Woodward St. LaRhonda Steele, Marietta-Collier Wells, Ron Shoals, Arietta Ward, Janice Scroggins, Ben Jones, Tyrone Hendrix, Renato Caranto, Norman Sylvester, Obo Addy
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Open Mic/Songwriter Showcase
Winningstad Theatre
1111 SW Broadway THREE: Three Conversation with Taiko
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Say Anything, Kevin Devine and the Goddamn Band, Fake Problems, The Front Bottoms
World Cup Coffee & Tea 1740 NW Glisan St. Beth Hamon
MON. MARCH 26 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Sassparilla, Casey Neill
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Sami.the.great, Jane Lynch, Katie Roberts
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
Blitz Twentyone 305 NW 21st Ave. Brian Krichevsky
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Milagres; 1,2,3; Kid Savant
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Blues Train (8 pm); Rosie and the Ramblers (6 pm)
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. White Mystery, Coathangers, Ghost Mom, Pataha Hiss
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. I Declare War, Under Cities, To the Wind, An Epidemic at Hand, Above the Broken, Prepare for Impact
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band (8 pm); The Chris Brown Band (6:30 pm)
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Pat Buckley
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Skip vonKuske with Seth & May
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Raised by Wolves (9 pm); Katie Colver, Purrbot (6:30 pm); Mr. Ben (5 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Howler, Yellow Ostrich, Appetite
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave.
CALENDAR
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Deep Cuts
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave. Hildegard Westerkamp
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Neftali Rivera
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Darkhorse High, Vultan and the Hawkmen, The Abnorms
Backspace
Tiger Bar
115 NW 5th Ave. The Great Train Robbery, Session
Tube
Blitz Twentyone
317 NW Broadway The Odious, Tetramorphic 18 NW 3rd Ave. Di Di Mau, P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S., DJ Toilet Love
305 NW 21st Ave. Elijah Johnson
Valentine’s
1028 SE Water Ave. Animal Eyes, Hollywood Tans
232 SW Ankeny St. The We Shared Milk, Fanno Creek, The No Tomorrow Boys
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Shadows on Stars, TxE
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. The Ting Tings, MNDR
TUES. MARCH 27 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. Sassparilla, David Lipkind
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Paul Kelly, The Dunwells
Bunk Bar
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. The Ezra Weiss Quartet
TOPS, The Reservations, Spencer Clark
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Colin Johnson
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm); Love Satellite (6:30 pm)
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Pat Buckley
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Appetite, Pwrhaus
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Bingo (9 pm); Jackstraw (6 pm)
Doug Fir Lounge
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
Ella Street Social Club
Mississippi Pizza
Hawthorne Theatre
Mississippi Studios
830 E Burnside St. Amy Ray, Lindsay Fuller 714 SW 20th Place Pree, Gresham Transit Center 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. We Came As Romans, Emmure, Blessthefall, Woe Is Me, The Color Morale
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St.
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Caleb Klauder & Sammy Lind 3552 N Mississippi Ave. Daniel Flynn 3939 N Mississippi Ave. Marcus Foster, Sam Bradley, Sam Wegman
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Open Mic with Simon Tucker
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Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Gil Paradise
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Rachel Sage, Mbrascatu
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. DC Malone
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Nucular Aminals, Cousins, Tiny Knives
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Bottleneck Blues Band
Twilight Café and Bar
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Open Mic with The Roaming
SCAN TO ENTER
Rat Face, Ripper, Peroxide, Bi-Marks, Happy Noose
MUSIC
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Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Aan, Desert Noises, John Heart Jackie
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Arthur “Fresh Air” Moore Harmonica Party
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Will West, The Druthers, The Sale
Thursday March 22
JAM/GROOVE/FUNK with: OREGANIC, OUTPOST
9pm • 21+ in the ConCert hall. Friday March 23 DJs Snacks, Choncey Jones
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. DJ Tuff Fuzz
Refuge
WED. MARCH 21 East End 203 SE Grand Ave. DJ Smooth Hopperator
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. TRONix: Mike Gong, Bliphop Junkie
Matador
1967 W Burnside St. DJ Whisker Friction
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
8635 N Lombard St. DJs Benny Utah, Broke B
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Phantasmagoria
The Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave. Whiskey Wednesdays: AKA, Danny K, Sasha
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Kid Midnight
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Creepy Crawl
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Atmospheric Audiochair with SamFM
Yes and No
20 NW 3rd Ave. Death Club with DJ Entropy
THUR. MARCH 22 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Anjali & the Incredible Kid
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Shadowplay: DJs Ghoulunatic, Paradox, Horrid
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. Joystick
Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Whalewatchers
Refuge
116 SE Yamhill St. DreamCatchers Volume 1: Bluetech, Halo Refuser, Fungineers, Plumblyne, Synchronic
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Mixer: Perfect Cyn, Tom Mitchell, Mercedes, Keane, Mr. Romo, Darling Instigatah, Grimes Against Humanity (9 pm); Mr. Romo, Michael Grimes (4 pm)
Swift Lounge
Sassy’s
421 SE Grand Ave. Darkness Descends with DJ Maxamillion
927 SE Morrison St. DJ HazMatt
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. DJ Marcel
Star Bar
The Lovecraft
1932 NE Broadway DJ King Fader
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Baron
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Expressway to Yr Skull with DJ Miss Prid (10 pm); DJ Sethro Tull (7 pm)
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Rian Bjornstad
FRI. MARCH 23 Element Restaurant & Lounge 1135 SW Morrison St. Chris Alice
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Decadent ‘80s: DJ Non, Jason Wann; Rewind with Phonographix DJs
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Soul Stew with DJ Aquaman
Groove Suite
Swift Lounge
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Horrid
The Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave. Trance Mission with DJ Zoxy
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Bad Wizard
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Neil Blender
SAT. MARCH 24 111 SW Ash St. DJ Juggernaut
Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Drew Groove
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Popvideo with DJ Gigahurtz
Jack London Bar
529 SW 4th Ave. Glam O Tron, DJ Auroura
Palace of Industry
Ground Kontrol
116 SE Yamhill St. Forward to Eden: Electrocado, Mr. Bill, Ryanosaurus, Manoj, Phidelity, Shaman Goa Constrictor, Sporezilla
Jack London Bar 529 SW 4th Ave. DJ Meow
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Free Up Fridays: Soljah Sound, Small Axe Sound, XACT Change Hi-Fi, Jagga Culture
Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave.
5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Roxie Stardust
Refuge
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Blow Pony: DJs Airick, Just Dave, Linoleum
Saucebox
214 SW Broadway Connected: Rev. Shines, DJ Roane
with: PUDDING WRESTLING MASSACRE
10pm • 21+ in the ConCert hall
DSL COMEDY OPEN MIC
Hosted by BRISKET LOVE-COX
The Lovecraft
9pm • Free! 21+ in the ConCert hall
The Whiskey Bar
DJS SPINNING REGGAE/ DUB/DANCEHALL AND HIP HOP
31 NW 1st Ave. Whiskey A Go Glow: Coral Slater, DJ Tronic, Douchebag Assassin
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Dan Bryant
SUN. MARCH 25 Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam
Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Blvd. DJ Drew Groove (“Mad Men” viewing)
Matador
1967 W Burnside St. Next Big Thing with Donny Don’t
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Hive with DJ Owen
Beauty Bar
440 NW Glisan St. Mono/Poly, Ryan Organ, Citymouth, Rap Class, Brownbear, Quarry, Hobess 511 NW Couch St. DJ Ghostdad
Swift Lounge
1932 NE Broadway DJ Sknny Mrcls
639 SE Morrison St. Blank Fridays
Tiga
125 NW 5th Ave. Filmistan with DJ Anjali & The Incredible Kid
116 SE Yamhill St. Orchard Lounge, Hoya, Mr. Wu, Sporeganic
1932 NE Broadway Funky Broadway! with DJ Drew Groove 421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Joe Preston
Someday Lounge
WRESTLING + DESSERT!
MON. MARCH 26 The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Lozen, Blasted Canyons, Hot Victory, DJ Matt Scaphism
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. KM Fizzy
TUES. MARCH 27 East End
203 SE Grand Ave. DJs Mistina, Mis Prid
Swift Lounge
1932 NE Broadway DJ Gwiski
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Death Club with DJ Entropy
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Avant to Party
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THEATER Danny and the Deep Blue Sea
Danny and Roberta have each done some bad things. Danny picks fights with anyone who looks at him wrong; Roberta has daddy issues, to put it mildly. Seeking solace in the isolation of a deserted Bronx bar, they instead find each other. They begin a hostile but curious conversation, sharing their most intimate secrets then lashing out just as quickly. Their encounter turns violent, then passionate, and they allow themselves to imagine a future where they might be happy together. John Patrick Shanley calls this early one-act an “Apache dance,” after the dramatic, early-20thcentury Parisian couple dance that mimics a violent encounter between a man and woman. Danny (JR Wickman) and Roberta (Dainichia Noreault) scream, slap and overturn benches. They make love with equal fury. The two actors fill every inch of the sparse set and small theater with their volcanic emotions, creating a reality both painfully uncomfortable and heartbreaking. They are seeking an escape from their own heads and forgiveness—if only from each other—for the things they’ve done. PENELOPE BASS. Action/Adventure Theater, 1050 SE Clinton St., actionadventure.org. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday, March 22-24. $15. Thursdays are “pay what you will.”
Fire Island
Defunkt Theatre ends its season with Charles Mee’s collage play about relationships and sunny beaches. Expect original music and video and gleeful strangeness. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 481-2960. 8 pm Thursdays-Sundays. Closes April 28. $15-$20.
For Better or Verse
A fundraiser for Portland Theatre Works featuring six new short plays by local writers to support the company’s upcoming production of William S. Gregory’s Saint in a Cage. Hipbone Studio, 1847 E Burnside St., ptwks.org. 7:30 pm Saturday, March 24. $20 donation.
French Theater Festival
Fabulations, Portland’s Frenchlanguage theater, presents a series of plays and storytelling events for children in venues around Portland. See fabulations.org for the complete schedule. Multiple locations, fabulations.org. Tour du Monde des pays Francophones 3 pm Saturday, March 24. Varies, mostly free.
The Irish Curse
[NEW REVIEW] The Irish have small penises, apparently, and this comedy by Triangle Productions is about five of these unlucky fellows. The guys unbelievably meet in a support group to talk about how their tiny wieners ruin their lives. The characters are diverse and include a big-talking fiancé, a gay Don Juan and a recent divorcé. A priest leads the group—they meet at a church—and a newcomer gets the guys to share more than they ever have. The plot of the play, written by Martin Casella, is straightforward and at times plodding. But just when you’re about to lose interest—boing!—up pops another penis joke. This is blue-collar theater, after all, and the analogies for the male member save the show from the pressure of being anything more (ahem, see what I did there?). AARON SPENCER Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd., 239-5919. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes April 1. $15-$35.
Jardin de Suenos
Miracle Theatre presents a play by Sofia May-Cuxim about a young woman who, disappointed by her
family’s obsession with the distractions of modern life, finds solace in a dream world of Latino folklore. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7:30 pm Thursdays, 8 pm FridaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes April 14. $15-$30.
Le Français dans Tous ses Etats
Students from Lewis & Clark College’s French program perform interactive theater for children en Français. Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Road, 768-7000. 7 pm WednesdayThursday, March 21-22. Free.
A Lesson Before Dying
Profile Theatre presents Romulus Linney’s stage adaptation of Ernest J. Gaines’ masterful novel about a frustrated teacher forced by his godmother to attempt to redeem the dignity of a young black man, wrongly convicted of murder, through the power of writing. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 242-0080. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, March 21-25. $16-$30.
Much Ado About Nothing
Northwest Classical Theatre presents a ’60s beach party-themed production (taglined “Messina Beach Party”) of Shakespeare’s rom-com, directed by David Sikking. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 971-244-3740. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 pm Sundays. Closes April 22. $18-$20.
Not Your Average Sunday Drive
The inaugural effort of Very American Theater, a new company consisting of Portland theater vets Jeb and Heather Rose Pearson, is an artful road rally and scavenger hunt in which participants will follow written directions over an unmarked course in East Portland. Lunch is included. Powell Butte, 16160 Powell Blvd., veryamericantheater.org. 9:30 am Sunday, March 25. $40 per team (one driver and one navigator per vehicle).
On Golden Pond
Lakewood Theatre presents Ernest Thompson’s family drama about generation gaps, marriage and a pond. Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, 635-3901. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 and 7 pm Sunday March 25, 2 pm Sundays April 1-April 15. $25-$28.
Race
In David Mamet’s Race, a pair of attorneys, one white (Todd Van Voris) and one black (Reginald Andre Jackson), attempt to construct a defense for a millionaire white guy (Jim Iorio) accused of raping a black woman. They are hindered by their client’s reluctance to discuss the incident, the incompetence of their assistant (Ayanna Berkshire playing an apparently bright black woman and graduate of a prestigious law school whom they have for some reason hired as a secretary), and a shared speech impediment that forces them to speak only in epigrams. Although the play begins with an admission that there is nothing a white man can say to a black man on the subject of race, Mamet spends 80 minutes explaining the differences ’tween white folks and black. In short: Blacks hate whites, and whites fear blacks. Not that it matters. The twists of Race’s thin plot turn on the question of which of its women is more treacherous. The accuser might be lying or the assistant might be a saboteur, unwilling to aid a rapist. Artists Rep’s production is satisfactory, but not so good as to overcome the playwright’s flaws. Director Tamara Fisch’s adept blocking smooths the play’s lurching transitions. Jackson quietly outperforms Van Voris’ thundering orations. Iorio seems as nervous as a he should. The dick-wagging patter flows fluidly, but not quickly
enough. Once you realize you’re not in for a drama so much as a dramatized Thanksgiving Day rant by someone’s loud, gynophobic, neocon uncle, even 80 minutes is too much to endure. BEN WATERHOUSE. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 pm Sundays. Closes April 8. $25$50, $20 students.
Recognition
A new musical by Christopher Tabor about a dance company made up of children with and without disabilities. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 294-4050. 7 pm Friday, 2 and 7 pm Saturday, 2 and 6 pm Sunday, March 23-25. $25-$32.
Richard Scarry’s Busytown
Northwest Children’s Theater and School presents a musical adaptation of Richard Scarry’s book What Do People Do All Day?. Answer: Sing! NW Neighborhood Cultural Center, 1819 NW Everett St., 222-4480. Noon and 3 pm Saturdays-Sundays through April 1. $18-$22 adults, $13-$18 youth.
lost art of puppetry, Portland improv troupe the Unscriptables is offering its own version of puppet obscenity with Avenue PDX. Being improv, the performance will, of course, be different every time. But the basic premise is a cast of characters (some human, some puppet) who all live in the same apartment building in Portland, including new-to-Portland Jack, sexy nerd Sally, Mayor Henry Weinhard and sexual deviant Mr. Jenky. Taking our audience’s theme suggestions of “vodka” and “being poor,” the troupe crafted a genuinely funny production complete with improvised musical numbers about “the bro code” and a loving ballad to happy hour. Although some moments are a bit rough around the edges, the overall performance manages the right balance of spontaneity and continuity—and puppets. PENELOPE BASS. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave. 8 pm Saturdays through March 31. “Pay what you want.” 21+.
The Liberators
Very funny improv comedy. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Saturday, March 24. $12-$15. All ages.
The Weekly Recurring Humor Night
A comedy showcase hosted by Whitney Streed. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 238-0543. 9:30 pm Wednesdays. “Pay what you want,” $3-$5 suggested. 21+.
CLASSICAL 1939 Ensemble, Gregg Skloff
The drums and vibes duo and bassist combine for improvisations. Revival Drum Shop, 1465 NE Prescott St., 7196533. 8 pm Wednesday, March 21. $5.
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Shakespeare’s Amazing Cymbeline
Though it’s one of Shakespeare’s lesser-known tales, Cymbeline employs many of the playwright’s favorite plot devices—mistaken identity, forbidden love, girls disguised as boys, scheming queens, betrayal, beheadings, etc. But Portland Center Stage’s new production, Shakespeare’s Amazing Cymbeline, presents a show stripped down to its barest elements with a cast of only six actors performing on the sparsest of sets. In addition to the minimalism, director Chris Coleman’s adaptation includes a thirdparty narrator on the piano (Michael G. Keck). A congenial fellow reminiscent of Sam in Casablanca, the narrator presents Cymbeline through his own eyes, serving both to clarify the more complex scenes and offer his interpretation of the story’s theme of love betrayed. PENELOPE BASS. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturdays-Sundays. Closes April 8. $20-$51.
Spider Baby, The Musical
[NEW REVIEW] The beauty of Jack Hill’s original cult movie Spider Baby was its ability to inspire both slowdawning suspense and genuine human sympathy (especially for the sad, dignified Lon Chaney Jr.) while also drawing laughs at the absurdity of the “Merrye curse,” which causes the family members at the Merrye house to regress to infantile, violent states. Spider Baby, The Musical, by the geekcentric Epiphany Theatre Company, has no such aspirations, making of the Merryes a purely camp-comic, post-Rocky Horror musical spectacle, appropriate mostly for those who’ve seen the film and want to revisit it in a version that in depicting retardation actually creates something retarded, a world of floppy knives and over-ebullient play-acting where all the major plot twists happen in song. (Depending on your predilections, this is either terrifically enjoyable farce or pain incarnate; I hope that by now you know who you are.) That said, with few exceptions, the cast has some genuine singing chops. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. TaborSpace, 5441 SE Belmont St., 971238-4335. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday, March 22-24. $8-$10.
Wicked
Oh, hey, Wicked is back, again. Where’d I put the green face paint? Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 241-1802. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturdays, 1 and 6:30 pm Sundays. Closes April 8. $43.50-$144.
COMEDY Avenue PDX
There’s something undeniably amusing about watching foul-mouthed puppets talk about sex, get stoned and vomit from a vodka hangover. It’s probably why the Broadway puppet musical Avenue Q won three Tony awards. Doing their part locally to celebrate the
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GERTRUDE STEIN (LIMINAL PERFORMANCE GROUP) Reversing entropy is no easy endeavor. “It’s crazy,” John Berendzen says as he crosses the threshold of the gutted office space where he’s summoning the ghost of Gertrude Stein. “I’ve been driving all over town picking up the stuff we gave away.” Berendzen—a composer, music director and sound designer who looks like a friendly Beethoven—is reassembling the dispersed remains of Liminal Performance Group, the company he co-founded in 1997. Over 10 years Liminal produced a dozen performances that tested the boundaries of Portland theater. Liminal went into hibernation when the group’s director, Bryan Markovitz, left for New York. There has been no production under the brand since 2007. Now Liminal is back—at least in name—with Gertrude Stein, a collection of performances inspired by the strange, hypnotic poems and plays of the enigmatic writer that will fill the entire first floor of the mid-renovation headquarters of the design firm Happylucky. Participants include poet David Abel, who will read early works by Stein; comics artist Sandra Gibbons, with panels drawn from Tender Buttons; Doug Theriault and Stephen Miller, with a sound and video installation adapted from Plays; and Markovitz and Ben Purdy, with an installation of objects based on The Making of Americans. The centerpiece of the event is two musical performances. The first is Virgil Thompson’s 1927 all-male setting of Stein’s odd play Capital Capitals, accompanied by new video by Anna and Leo Daedalus. It will be followed by Berendzen’s musical setting of One Dancing, Stein’s word portrait of the dancer Isadora Duncan. Berendzen was introduced to the piece by director Camille Cettina, who had long wanted to turn it into a performance. One Dancing is a repetitive-sounding prose poem that never actually repeats, so Berendzen composed musical phrases for Stein’s verbs, which come together in sometimes surprising combinations. “It goes from speaking to chanting...to almost operatic arias,” Berendzen says. He and Cettina are directing the four singers (all women) in a lengthy dance/song/theater event that will fill the space. Don’t worry—there will be beer. BEN WATERHOUSE.
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The pianist plays music by Liszt, Beethoven (that lunar sonata), Smetana and more. Sherman Clay/ Moe’s Pianos, 131 NW 13th Ave., 7775813. 3 pm Sunday, March 25. $10.
Janet Packer and Anthony Padilla
The Boston violinist and Wisconsin pianist present the Oregon preWILLAMETTE WEEKmiere of Polish composer Krzysztof Meyer’s 2010 Imaginary Variations, WED: 3/21 plus Claude Debussy’s magical 1917 Violin Sonata and more. St. 1 COL. (1.816") XStephen’s 4" VV Church, 1432 Episcopal SW 13th Ave., 593-7006. 2 pm ALL.SON.0321.WISunday, March 25. $10.
Kimberly Giordano, Beth Madsen Bradford, Janet Coleman
The well-regarded operatic sopranos and omnipresent pianist perform a wide-ranging program of music by Purcell, Gounod, Barber, Britten, Mozart, Gershwin, Sondheim and more. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. 3 pm Sunday, March 25. Donation.
Kronos Quartet
The world’s primary instigator of forward-looking new music returns to Portland with music by three of the brightest young stars in contemporary classical music: Brooklyn’s Missy Mazzoli (whose new opera is drawing critics’ raves), Bryce Dessner (also the guitarist for The National and Clogs) and recent Portland visitor Gabriel Kahane (the world premiere of The Red Book, inspired by Anne Carson’s novel). Also present will be contemporary Middle Eastern music by Palestinian electronica innovators Ramallah Underground and others, a work by new-music goddess Laurie Anderson and Steve Reich’s latest haunting masterpiece, WTC 9/11. Unmissable. Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 294-6400. 7:30 pm Wednesday, March 21. $25-$45.
Maria Choban
Under the nom-de-keyboard MC Hammered Klavier, the dynamic pianist leads a March Music Moderne chamber-music concert featuring sterling tenor Ken Beare and her fellow Moussai Ensemble members Janet Bebb and Ann van Bever on flute and oboe. In addition, there will be early music singer John Vergin as narrator in Philip Glass’ 1988 interpretation of Ginsberg’s “Wichita Vortex Sutra,” Portland jazzer-composer Art Resnick’s moody Toccanata, a two-piano arrangement of Portland composing legend Tomas Svoboda’s turbulent 1999 Storm Session and other intriguing music by today’s composers. Community Music Center, 3350 SE Francis St., 823-3177. 8 pm Saturday, March 24. Free.
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Portland Baroque Orchestra
Woodwinds seize the spotlight in this concert by the periodinstrument orchestra, which features oboist Gonzalo Ruiz, one of the starts of the historically informed performance world, and Eric Hoeprich on clarinet and its sweeter-sounding predecessor, the chalumeau, performing music by Telemann, Vivaldi and the underrated Tomaso Albinoni. First Baptist Church, 909 SW 11th Ave., 205-0715. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday, March 23-24. 3 pm Sunday, March 25 at Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. $18-$59.
Portland Chamber Orchestra
Attention, jazzheads: The innovative small orchestra brings guest violinist Lindsay Deutsch, and longtime music director of the Oregon Festival of American Music Dick Hyman to Portland for, incredibly, the first time. Best known for his encyclopedic knowledge of American jazz and pre-rock pop, his virtuosic piano playing, inventive arrangements and dozenplus Woody Allen soundtracks, the 85-year-old New York jazz legend will bring his new transcription of Rhapsody in Blue for violin and orchestra and originals for jazz trio and orchestra. Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 771-2250. 7:30 pm Saturday, March 24. $5-$25.
Portland Taiko
The Asian-American percussion ensemble continues to explore collaborations, this time incorporating traditional Japanese dance (nihon buyo, with guest dancers from Portland’s Fujinami Kai), and beautiful instruments (koto zither played by veteran Oregon koto master Mitsuki Dazai and haunting shakuhachi flute played by Hanz Araki/Araki Kodo VI). Winningstad Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 284-4335. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, March 23-25. $11.25$20.25.
Steve Thoreson and Andre Feriante
The Seattle tenor, keyboardist and drummer and guitarist-ukulele virtuoso team up in opera arias, flamenco flights, and Native American stories and songs. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. 8 pm Friday, March 23. $5.
DANCE A Head of Time
Hey, kids—I’ve got 300 blankets. Let’s put on a show! Performance Works NorthWest founder Linda Austin’s A Head of Time, which she debuted as a work in progress at the Art Gym not long ago, really
does have 300 blankets, stacked, as part of its set. Additionally within the piece, you can expect to find snippets of video imagery, text (original and otherwise) and a score by Seth Nehil. And, of course, there is the dancing: Eight performers execute movement that Austin characterized as detailed in gestures and “playfully awkward,” juxtaposing big ideas (time, space, mortality, memory, consciousness) with the everyday-ness of real life. Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave., 231-3959. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, March 23-24, 2 and 7 pm Sunday, March 25. $12$20.
Arte Eterno, Flamenco en Vivo
Take a mental vacation from the gloom with Arte Eterno, Flamenco en Vivo, a dance and music performance invoking sunnier climes. Dancer Savannah Fuentes and Seville-born singer Jesus Montoya join guitarists Gerardo Alcala and Tyson Kikuo Hussey for a rhythmic exploration of flamenco in its various forms. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 7 pm Saturday, March 24. $12-$25.
LAUNCH: 7 Auditions
Dancers ages 18 and older are welcome to audition for LAUNCH: 7, the Northwest Dance Project’s annual project that simultaneously serves as an audition process to get into the company itself. LAUNCH: 7 will be held July 10-21; selected dancers will work for two intensive weeks with NWDP artistic director Sarah Slipper and selected choreographers. Participants must demonstrate advanced ballet technique and be versatile and open to artistic direction. Pre-registration is required. Northwest Dance Project Studio & Performance Center, 833 N Shaver St., 421-7434. Registration 11-11:30 am, audition 11:30-2 pm Saturday, March 24. $25. 18+.
TGIFF (Thank Goodness It’s Fourth Friday) Dance
Mary Ann Carter teaches dance lessons from 7:30 to 8:30 pm followed by open practice to big band the Pranksters. Norse Hall, 111 NE 11th Ave., 236-3401. 7:30 pm fourth Fridays. $8.
The Ritim Egzotik Revue
Ritim Egzotik covers a lot of ground, culturally speaking, blending Arab, Turkish and Greek music played on traditional instruments, layered with modern electronics and Western rock flourishes. Against this sonic backdrop, look for solos, duets and trios by belly dancers Darshan, Kendra, Fanina and others. Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar, 2929 SE Powell Blvd., 231-8466. 9 pm Saturday, March 24. $5-$15.
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walls in elegant vertical steps. The tectonic compositions are highly allusive and visually appealing. One wishes, however, that the artist had resisted the urge to add prissy patterns and holes to the shapes, as these are redundant and unnecessary, detracting from the sculptures’ impact. Through March 31. Blackfish Gallery, 420 NW 9th Ave., 234-2634.
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Attraction and Repulsion
Making its debut on First Thursday at the Everett Station Lofts, the provocatively named Cock Gallery kicked off its programming with Attraction and Repulsion. That’s an accurate title for a show featuring art about sphincters and turds. For his sphincter drawings, Arthur Johnstone used a mirror to depict his own anus; he also used figure models and Google image searches. The drawings’ titles speak volumes: Hairy Spread, Red Eye, Puckered, Bleached and oh, how could we forget Prolapsed Pleasure? Notably, the drawings are well-rendered and chromatically nuanced. Meantime, Zach Speert sculpts ceramics shapes that evoke trumpet-shaped spores and sprouting growths that look like mycological/proctological hybrids. Loosely (ahem) based on human feces, the works suffer from sloppy execution, particularly in the slapdash affixture of the shapes to their bases. Artist Paul Soriano, the gallery’s director, aims to program monthly shows that advance transgressive subject matter. With this promising, if uneven show, he’s off to a running start. Through March 31. Cock Gallery, 625 NW Everett St., #106, 552-8686.
Cosmic Collages
Venus flytraps, hummingbirds, octopus tentacles, Transformer action figures, the Muppets, and Meso-American statuary—that’s just a sampling of the imagery in Christian Collins’ Cosmic Collages. Borrowing liberally from a multicultural grab bag, the artist combines incongruous elements into obsessive, generally symmetrical tableaux. In less skilled hands, this sort of thing can be tiresome and tacky, but Collins’ craftsmanship is so exacting and his vision so off-the-wall trippy, the works easily rise above collage’s pitfalls. Through March 31. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900.
Disjecta’s “Portland 2012” at PDX Across The Hall
The second adjunct exhibition of Disjecta’s Portland 2012, this intimate show features diverse works by Ben Buswell. While Buswell’s headless sculptural busts seem derivative (Matthew Barney via Ichabod Crane?), his mirrored floor sculptures are apt to capture viewers’ imaginations as well as their reflections. Meantime, Akihiko Miyoshi’s photographs, doctored with flecks of bold color, are visually arid and conceptually undercooked. Through March 31. PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.
Encyclopedia A-L
The best thing you can say about Allen Maertz’s series of photographic prints, Encyclopedia A-L, is that they’re nicely matted and framed. These arid images of sci-
entific imagery—dinosaurs, skeletons, the DNA double-helix—are uninspiringly composed and unremarkably printed. The miniature stage sets in some prints are apt to remind viewers of photographer Grace Weston’s recent work at Augen Gallery, except without any of Weston’s humor and charm. Through March 31. Chambers @ 916, 916 NW Flanders St., 227-9398.
James Lavadour: The Interior
The small paintings in James Lavadour’s latest show travel familiar ground: semi-abstracted landscapes in a palette of earth tones. But the artist’s large paintings have a wow factor that derives from a startling chromatic exuberance. The painting Torch looks like it’s on fire with searing striations of tomato red and mustard yellow. And then there’s Rose, a near-psychedelic rhapsody of hot pink unlike anything the artist has exhibited before. This gonzo, take-no-prisoners painting alone is ample reason to see the show. Through March 31. PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.
Joe Feddersen: Role Call
In the fused glass and relief prints that make up his exhibition, Role Call, Joe Feddersen uses grid-based motifs to render Native American archetypes. The works fare poorly in comparison with Feddersen’s vessels in silvered glass, showcased in previous shows. Those vessels married geometric rigor with visual glamour. The new works are clunkily composed and lack eye-catching surface effects. Beyond that, the gridded mosaic motif just doesn’t work. At his best, this artist integrates materiality and spirit. In this show, he fractures this integration into tiny squares, defeating his driving thesis. Through April 1. Froelick Gallery, 714 NW Davis St., 222-1142.
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 for herself with meticulous geometric compositions. Both work abstractly, but the artists’ 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. Through March 31. Laura Russo Gallery, 805 NW 21st Ave., 226-2754.
Mandy Stigant
Mandy Stigant’s stoneware works are the highlight of this month’s show at Blackfish. With their bonelike textures, the organic shapes in Stigant’s Divide series interlock like puzzle pieces and climb the gallery
Mark Rothko (1903-1970) was among a handful of artists who defined Abstract Expressionism in the middle of the 20th century. It is little known in most modern-art circles that Rothko lived in Portland during his formative years, from age 10 to 18. Local artist-curator Jeff Jahn has forcibly suggested that Portland’s misty atmospherics subliminally influenced Rothko’s mature style, in which misty sfumato separates blocky color fields. Now, Portland Art Museum chief curator Bruce Guenther brings us a largescale retrospective considering the 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.
Mitchell Freifeld
With an endearingly naive style, Mitchell Freifeld paints cityscapes that playfully warp perspective, integrating realism with geometry. The veteran painter deploys whimsy and regional pride in his affectionate tributes to all things Northwest. Through March 31. Caplan Art Designs, 1031 NW 11th Ave., 319-6437.
Night-tide Daytripping
Hilariously irreverent, Ralph Pugay’s paintings combine a cartoonist’s gift for concision with a social critic’s wit. Each of Pugay’s lowbrow vignettes illustrates a central conceit: Homo sapiens evolving from ape into corporate-drone family man; a group of convicts happening upon minimalist artist Robert Smithson’s famous Spiral Jetty; a blind man reading a Braille copy of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged; and a group of swingers having an orgy, despite the fact that they all have chicken pox. There is something simultaneously smart and stonecold dumb in these paintings, which will have you laughing out loud in spite of yourself. Through April 22. Rocksbox, 6540 N Interstate Ave., 971-506-8938.
Of Other Spaces
“Deliquesce” is a fancy word for what happens to mushrooms when they rot and liquify. It’s the concept at the center of Michael Endo and Emily Nachison’s exhibition, of other spaces. Sculpting mushrooms and other fungi out of cast glass, Nachison uses installations such as the circular Portal to illustrate the cycle of life and death as each of 20 mushrooms grows, withers and melts into the soil. These images of organic decay are complemented by Endo’s images of urban decay. Using oil paint and kiln-formed glass, Endo depicts desolate cityscapes with burning tires and derelict houses. It’s a thought-provoking thematic pairing. Through April 28. Bullseye Gallery, 300 NW 13th Ave., 227-0222.
Rio Wrenn
In her sumptuous works on paper, Rio Wrenn juxtaposes rusted brown metal and turquoise-colored patinas in inventive compositions. The works on paper are easily the show’s most engaging pieces, although the hanging fabric known as Core is more typical of her output. The show’s one misfire is an installation showing a rusted iron headboard and footboard, rendered from rust stains on diaphanous silk. The piece is marred by the addition of hanging doilies and a knitted spider web, which turn the work precious and hackneyed. Through March 31. Launch Pad, 534 SE Oak St., 971-227-0072.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 Amos Meron
Calling all Hebrew speakers! Portland’s Congregation Neveh Shalom is hosting a series of intellectual conversations held solely in Hebrew. The first evening is a talk by Amos Meron titled “Israel to PDX: One Israeli’s Perspective on the Portland Jewish Experience.” Congregation Neveh Shalom, 2900 SW Peaceful Lane, 246-8831. 7 pm. $10.
Mountain Writers Series
On the third Wednesday of each month, Portland literary series Mountain Writers brings together two Pacific Northwest writers to read at the Press Club. This month’s picks are La Grande-based poet David Axelrod and local poet and translator Carlos Reyes, who recently returned from poetic adventures in India. Press Club, 2621 SE Clinton St., 233-5656. 7:30 pm. Free. 21+.
THURSDAY, MARCH 22 James Bernard Frost
The premise of A Very Minor Prophet could be a Portlandia sketch: Career barista Barth
Flynn becomes the scribe for the gospel writings of a dwarf street preacher who rants outside Voodoo Doughnut. The launch party for Hawthorne Books’ newest title will include a Q&A with author James Bernard Frost and music by a Heart cover band. Mississippi Pizza, 3552 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3231. 7:30 pm. Free. 21+.
SATURDAY, MARCH 24 The Cloacina Project presents “Bathrooms Are Gross”
Cloacina was a minor Roman deity responsible for overseeing the sewer systems. In a presentation titled “Bathrooms Are Gross, So We’re Redesigning Them,” The Cloacina Project will present innovative design solutions to the wasteful and gross bathrooms of today. A model of a future bathroom will be on display. Project Grow, 2156 N Williams Ave. 6 pm. $5 suggested donation.
SUNDAY, MARCH 25 Chloe Caldwell
Future Tense Books is celebrating the release of its latest title,
Legs Get Led Astray, a collection of essays by New Yorker Chloe Caldwell. Joining Caldwell will be two local nonfiction writers, Aaron Gilbreath and Meg Worden. Future Tense publisher (and Powell’s bookseller) Kevin Sampsell hosts. Alberta Street Public House, 1036 NE Alberta St., 284-7665. 6 pm. Free. 21+.
Bumbling Into Body Hair: A Transsexual’s Memoir
Walla Walla-based Everett Maroon will read from his fabulously titled new work, Bumbling Into Body Hair: A Transsexual’s Memoir, at In Other Words. Following the reading, Maroon will lead a discussion of the themes addressed in his work, including community empowerment and LGBT civil rights. In Other Words, 14 NE Killingsworth St., 2326003. 2 pm. $5 suggested donation.
MONDAY, MARCH 26 The Ellington Century
Music lovers will find lots to love in Reed professor David Schiff ’s new book, The Ellington Century. Schiff examines 20th-century music by exploring how classical, jazz and popular music were all impacted by the music that was created during Duke Ellington’s lifetime. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
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CHERYL STRAYED, WILD Cheryl Strayed has come a long way since finishing a book about walking a long way. This year alone, she revealed herself as the writer of the candid advice column “Dear Sugar” on the Rumpus website, and she had her hiking memoir Wild optioned as a potential Reese Witherspoon movie. The Portland writer’s recognition is fully earned: Strayed’s book, about tackling much of the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995, is eloquently raw and unassumingly wise. She spoke with WW last week. AARON MESH.
like, look, I’m kind of this earnest, sincere type of a writer. Even though I love the snarky, funnier sorts of writers, I’ve never really been that person. I was afraid I would be on this hipster website and everyone would make fun of me and what I was doing, but the opposite happened.
What did you think you were going to get out of all that hiking? I had this idea before I went that I would always be really engaged in those spiritual WW: How do you feel about aspects in this really overt way. Reese Witherspoon as a Instead, I was so consumed doppelgänger? with the struggle to do things Cheryl Strayed: It’s pretty flatlike get water, cook my food, tering to have this beautiful cover those miles, carry my movie star saying, “Oh yeah, I’ll pack, take care of my feet that play you.” But I became even were horribly blistered, and more excited when we talked just endure the weather and the about the book, because she physical pain. It took me out of really understood it. And every my head and into my body in a writer, that’s what they hope way that was ultimately incredfor: the ideal reader, somebody ibly important and healing. who really gets what you were Now that all these years have trying to do. passed, and I’ve had a couple kids and I’m more grown up, I You must be used to having do think there’s a relationship A spoonful of Sugar an alter ego, with the “Dear between physical suffering helps the hiking go down. Sugar” column. How did and healing in some ways that that come about? I didn’t know existed before. One of the things I love the most about what hap- I’ve had two kids without the aid of drugs, I’ve pened with the “Dear Sugar” column was how had natural births, and they were both the most it just became popular because people liked it. painful experiences of my life, but also the most Which is so fun and so rewarding as a writer: It powerful and meaningful. I think most women doesn’t have to be all about marketing and pub- would tell you that. I think it’s the reason people licity. We didn’t do anything to put Sugar before run marathons. Because it’s hard, it’s really hard. readers except write the column and publish it on And it’s insane: Why would you run 26 miles, you the website. And readers told each other about it. know? And it’s because it’s hard and it hurts and I felt sort of surprised and gratified by how many it gives us something back that’s bigger than that. people were finding solace in something so sincere, rather than mocking it or making fun of it. SEE IT: Cheryl Strayed reads from Wild at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., Because that was my main worry about it. I was 228-4651. 7:30 pm Wednesday, March 21. Free.
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Editor: AARON MESH. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, send screening information at least two weeks in advance to Screen, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: amesh@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.
21 Jump Street
81 I’m betting the original 21 Jump
Street was not quite so explicitly fixated on dicks or as unapologetic about teen hedonism as its crass copy. And I can’t imagine it was this much fun. Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum star as Schmidt and Jenko, a mismatched pair of inept cops who bungle an arrest and get shunted to an undercover unit dedicated to sniffing out high-school crimes. The script might as well have been adapted from a rejected pitch for Harold and Kumar Go to 12th Grade. The unapologetic go-for-broke spirit of the thing results in a few painful misfires (cop-on-perp sexual assault is probably never going to be funny to me, no matter how playful the dry hump), but 21 Jump Street’s episodic anarchy works far more often than it doesn’t. The idiocy is even strangely liberating, devolving as it does from a neat subversion of the high-school-as-hell cliché that guides most teen comedies. In the imaginary world cooked up by screenwriter Michael Bacall and the co-directors who made Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, high school is an exceedingly tolerant realm of ethical nonmonogamy, experimentation and play. So Schmidt and Jenko aren’t cleaning up a mess so much as sneaking into a utopia where smart people do dumb things the right way. R. CHRIS STAMM. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Tigard, Sandy.
Act of Valor
The many adventures of REAL NAVY SEALS. Not screened for WW by press deadlines. R. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Tigard, Sandy.
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. Rewarded with a stack of Oscars, 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. Oak Grove, City Center, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Sandy.
Being Flynn
58 The problem with most film adaptations from memoirs is a simple one: The narrator does little except talk and think about what everybody else is doing. In film form, this can often mean its main character becomes a mopey cipher around whom (and to whom) terrible or amazing things happen. In Being Flynn, based on Nick Flynn’s drug-and-daddy-issue memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, every action and plot twist is given interior monologue, prepackaged through flashback, or bluntly narrated from the pages of the book. Paul Dano, as Flynn, therefore has the unenviable task of trying to wring emotional depths from hushed, flat, on-the-nose voice-over as he plays an anemically troubled, would-be writer who encounters his debilitatingly alcoholic father (the hamming Robert De Niro) as a resident in the homeless facility where Flynn works. In the meantime, Flynn develops the world’s fastest crack addiction and has the
world’s fastest recovery, played out in dialogue interspersed throughout the movie as follows: Flynn Jr.: “Am I my father?” FJ: “I’m not my father!” Flynn Sr.: “You are me!” FS: “I made you, but you’re not me.” Almost a Beckett play, really, apart from the numbing-if-capable reliance on cliché and the twominute heartwarming montage during which life gets suddenly awesome. R. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Fox Tower. NEW
Bicycle Dreams
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A documentary about the Race Across America. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Thursday, March 22.
Casa de Mi Padre
68 The best joke of Will Ferrell’s new
movie is that it exists at all. Nearly entirely in Spanish, with Ferrell playing a Mexican ranching heir alongside Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, the film is like an extended crank call from Mexico, so elaborately planned that you can’t bring yourself to hang up. It’s a parody of Mexican telenovelas so artificial that it becomes a send-up of the absurdity of making movies at all. On the scale of intentional ineptitude, Casa de Mi Padre falls somewhere between Machete and Hobo With a Shotgun—but it’s less slavishly dedicated to pastiche and more concerned with its own circumscribed strangeness. So once you’re hip to the gag, it’s transfixing but often boring—except when it gives voice to anti-American sentiments, which are vituperative and fiercely funny. When Ferrell’s brother Luna brings shame upon their family by becoming a narcotrafficante, the heroic objection is that its strategically foolish, not that it’s wrong to supply cocaine to the gringos. “We will kill each other feeding the shit-eating crazy monster babies,” Ferrell warns. Yes, we are the shit-eating crazy monster babies. Fair enough: Let’s eat some shit. R. AARON MESH. Lloyd Center, Clackamas, Bridgeport.
A Dangerous Method
81 So...tell me about your fathers.
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. R. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters.
Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax
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, treehugging 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. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Tigard, Lloyd Mall, Sandy, 99 Indoor Twin.
Friends With Kids
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A few assurances for anxious Hunger Games book fans: Actress Jennifer Lawrence doesn’t ruin bowwielding heroine Katniss. Death still comes by genetically engineered dog, spear and swarm of hallucination-inducing bees. There is no way in hell anybody will mistake your beloved young adult “girl battles dystopian regime” series for Twilight. In fact, director Gary Ross’ movie version of The Hunger Games is more than a big-screen cash grab. It’s a tense drama with bursts of raw emotion and unsettling (if mostly unseen) violence. In other words: it’s a good movie all by itself. In an era where YA books are often boiled down beyond recognition for film treatment, The Hunger Games is a vivid KO that stays mostly true to great source material. Suzanne Collins’ enormously successful scifi-ish series is as complex and political as a trio of books for teen girls can get. Every year, the government of post-disaster America (now known as Panem) holds the Hunger Games, a competition that plucks two kids from each of the nation’s 12 districts and forces them to fight in a televised death match, complete with American Idol-style pre-game interviews and costumed pageantry to rival the Olympic opening ceremonies. It’s entertainment for the rich asshats in the Capitol and a punishment for the other, poorer 11 colonies, which attempted to rebel against the government years ago, and lost. It’s like The Running Man…but with high-schoolers killing each other with bricks and swords in the woods. Enter Katniss Everdeen, a stone-faced 16-yearold from a starving coal mining town who actually volunteers to be one of the bloodbath’s “tributes” in order to save her little sister from competing. Her fellow District 12 tribute, Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), is a charming baker’s son with few survival skills besides cake decorating. Romance—real or manufactured for TV—and flesh wounds ensue. A big reason the books are a success is the prickly heroine, who is a tinder box of pride,
tongue-tied confusion and fierce warmth—she’s more adept at shooting squirrels for her family’s dinner than pimping herself on national TV. “To win the game, you have to make people like you,” her mentor, Haymitch (Woody Harrelson in surly drunk mode), explains. She’s not good at that. The plum part of Katniss went to little-known Lawrence, who, after getting beaten half to death by a pack of Ozarks meth wives in 2010’s Winter’s Bone, I’d argue has been training for the part for years. Although fans will bitch that she is too pretty and curvy for the book’s plain-faced, malnourished lead, Lawrence nails it—seesawing between determination and terror as she shimmies up trees and fends off psychotic teens and Stanley Tucci. The camera itself often acts as Katniss’ inner monologue, the unfocused lens shakily darting from eyes to lips and doors; as if it’s recovering from a blow to the head. The tense, quiet style works. So does the film’s understated soundtrack: At one point, birdsong and straining breath is all that backs the brutal sight of 24 kids trying to slaughter each other for a backpack and a machete. Although the film hinges on Katniss, Games’ secret weapon is its costume and makeup team. Taking a cue from to the book’s use of fashion as shorthand for greed and social decay, the film doesn’t waste time explaining Panem’s economic schisms. A glance at District 12’s ragged calico frocks and the Capitol nincompoops’ lollipop-hued coifs and elaborately carved facial hair says it all. Never before has the color hot pink been used to convey such epic douchebaggery. Government stooge Effie Trinket (Elizabeth Banks) is the crew’s masterpiece: a stomach-turning confection of fluttering pink Venus’ flytrap eyelashes and gold geisha lips topped off by a Marie Antoinette wig. “May the odds be ever in your favor,” she happily chirps to a crowd of stricken teens watching as their schoolmates are led off to their deaths. With this strong movie adaptation, sequels are the one sure outcome of this year’s Hunger Games. May they all be as good. 84 SEE IT: The Hunger Games is rated PG-13. It opens Friday at Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, CineMagic, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Lake Twin, Moreland, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Roseway, Sandy and St. Johns Twin.
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Gates of Hell
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] The Grindhouse Film Festival gives you even more Lucio Fulci zombies. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, March 27. NEW
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Ten inches long and nine inches back. Sing along with Fleur de Lethal’s presentation, complete with costume contest. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Saturday, March 24.
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 fairystory simplicity. The titular pipsqueak (played by extraterrestrially cute Asa Butterfield) is an orphan living inside the rather capacious walls of a sprawling train station patrolled by a guttersnipe-hunting station guard (Sacha Baron Cohen) and enlivened by a Tati-esque flow of murmuring humanity. Martin Scorsese pulls off a few wonderful tricks with Hugo. It is a film populated by uncanny visions— dreams, films, dummies, trompe l’oeil expanses—and resonant with wonder, dolor and regret. The message: Life, though brief, admits of magic. The messenger: a master magician still. PG. CHRIS STAMM. Living Room Theaters, Tigard, Avalon, Bagdad, Kennedy School, St. Johns, Valley.
The Iron Lady
35 At least half the picture is dedicated to an elderly Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep) wandering through her quarters in a housedress, like Kermit the Frog at his mansion in The Muppets, talking to her late husband Denis (Jim Broadbent). The Iron Lady’s failure of taste is even more incredible when you remember that Thatcher is alive. The only equivalent I can imagine is if somebody made a Ronald Reagan movie in 1994 called The Gipper’s Got Alzheimer’s. Why would the filmmakers possibly choose this approach? For a very simple reason: It draws attention to Streep’s acting chops—not only can she play Margaret Thatcher, she can play a senile Margaret Thatcher!— and away from a moral reckoning. This movie doesn’t grant Thatcher the dignity of being a real bitch. PG13. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre, Lake Twin, Fox Tower, Tigard.
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
77 The title tells you a lot about what
sort of movie this might be: downtrodden, acerbic, commuting between office parks and Mom’s basement. And for the first 45 minutes, it con-
firms those suspicions in spades. Jason Segel plays Jeff, Baton Rouge bong aficionado and holy fool. It often seems like he’s using acting tips garnered from one of the more slackjawed, tattered Muppets. Ed Helms, as his goateed brother Pat, is merely doing a Danny McBride imitation. They are paired on an adventure— well, Jeff sees it as an adventure; Pat sees it as an aggravation and then a crisis—because Jeff answers what he contends is a cosmically significant wrong-number call for somebody called Kevin, while Pat has sussed that his wife (the perpetually underused Judy Greer) is cheating on him. Then the movie makes an unlikely pirouette, and becomes something bewitching and lovely. Are directors Mark and Jay Duplass suggesting, after all this grungy stasis, that some kind of change is possible? They are, and the movie walks boldly through that door. It engages in the sort of freed wishfulfillment Charlie Kaufman half-parodied in the last reel of Adaptation. The movie’s final 20 minutes, which redeem all the failed comedy that came before, aren’t really comedy at all, but a kind of poetic ecstasy. R. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Fox Tower. NEW
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
80 Nothing moves quickly in the world of Jiro Ono. Considered by many to be the best sushi chef in the world, Jiro has been practicing his art for 75 years. At age 85, he still works every day, tirelessly and meticulously, in his tiny 10-seat restaurant in a Tokyo subway station. His apprentices work 10 years before they’re allowed to cook an egg. They spend 40 minutes every day massaging octopus tentacles. His eldest son, aged 50, works obediently under his father’s exacting command until the day he may inherit the business. Jiro’s customers book months in advance and pay upward of $350 for his set 20-piece sushi meals; each item—a morsel of rice, a sliver of fish—constructed tenderly with a few swift hand movements and a brush of soy sauce. Many admit to being scared to eat under his unwaveringly stern gaze. “I feel ecstatic all day,” he says, without breaking a smile. Like the sushi master himself, the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi moves a bit ponderously and occasionally repetitively. But as Jiro would be the first to tell you, patience and perseverance will pay off in the end. RUTH BROWN. Hollywood Theatre, Living Room Theaters.
John Carter 3D
Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Tigard, Sandy, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub.
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, Forest, Oak Grove, Division, Hilltop, Movies on TV.
78 “Anything bad for his heart, Bobby
Liebling will do it,” says Sean “Pellet” Pelletier of his friend and idol, the singer of ’70s proto-metal never-weres Pentagram. Indeed, as this documentary captures in unflinching detail, Liebling’s appetite for self-destruction is broader than his appetite for actual sustenance, as he seems to consume nothing but bacon pizzas and copious amounts of drugs. But Last Days Here isn’t another romanticized ode to a junkie cult hero. Such aggrandizement is difficult, anyway, when your subject lives in his parents’ basement at age 54, has grotesque open wounds covering his arms, and harbors simultaneous delusions of getting inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame and being devoured by parasites. Alternately compared by fans to Jesus and an unfrozen caveman—though if we’re going purely on looks, he’s more like Ronnie James Dio meets Gollum—Liebling wrote songs that read like transmissions from the brink of oblivion, and he stayed teetering perilously on the edge long after he sabotaged all attempts at establishing an actual music career for himself. Certainly, when directors Don Argott and Demian Fenton first met him, they must’ve thought they were literally chronicling a man’s final days. As it turns out, what they ended up filming is one of the more unlikely true stories of late-life redemption in hard rock history. MATTHEW SINGER. Clinton Street Theater. 7 and 9 pm FridayThursday, March 23-29. NEW
Mad Men
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, TV] Fleur de Lethal presents the AMC retro spectacular’s season premiere, with trivia contests during commercials. Screenings will continue weekly throughout the season. Hollywood Theatre. 9 pm Sunday, March 25. NEW
Oka!
An ethnomusicologist lives with the Bayaka people in this drama. Fox Tower.
85 John Carter is a box-office
debacle. Pixar wunderkind Andrew Stanton decided to leap from WALL-E into live-action filmmaking by adapting a series of penny dreadfuls penned in 1917 by the guy who invented Tarzan. The movie went through sweeping reshoots because the first cut didn’t make any sense, the budget surpassed $300 million, and the title was trimmed so women would want to see it. Women still don’t want to see it. John Carter is played by Taylor Kitsch (he was Tim Riggins on Friday Night Lights), and he often looks, to put it politely, confused about what actors do. The movie lurches wildly between moods, and the plot is nearly impossible to follow. None of these things matter. John Carter has tectonic flaws, but it’s fearless and exhilaratingly outlandish, the first hint that the CGI era can do something radically different than add bigger bubbles to soap operas. At its worst, it’s grin-inducingly idiosyncratic sci-fi—I haven’t seen this kind of blithe world-building since 2004’s The Chronicles of Riddick. At its best, it’s what people wanted from the Star Wars prequels. It makes you wonder if we still live in a time when new worlds can be discovered, and if something fresh can sprout in our own. This hope—that not everything is regurgitated junk—was also explored by Stanton in WALL-E, and here the redemption isn’t as radical: In a gorgeously orchestrated montage, John saves his princess (Lynn Collins) by knifing through a pile of aliens like a quarterback breaking tackles with a machete. But if the violence is conventional, the sense of exploration and grandeur is real. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cinetopia Mill
Last Days Here
NEW
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 love-fattened cherubs overwhelming the interior of a baroque church. German auteur Wim Wenders’ Pina—an elegiac documentary about the work of late, iconoclastic choreographer Pina Bausch—is something else altogether, a brokenhearted Billie Holiday to the 3-D form’s usual emptily virtuosic Ella Fitzgerald. Wenders’ film about his longtime friend was begun before her death and so was not originally meant as an elegy, but in retrospect the film has now become much the same thing: a wake that succeeds in bringing the dead around for one last dance. PG. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Living Room Theaters. NEW A Place Called Home: Lectures on Filmmaking in Portland
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, HISTORY] The Dill Pickle Club has a conversation with Portlandia producer David Cress, poet Walt Curtis, and critics David Walker and Shawn Levy. They’ll discuss narrative movie production in the Rose City. Cinema 21. 1 pm Sunday, March 25. NEW
Playback
A videotape is out to kill Christian Slater. R. Hollywood Theatre.
Project X
43 Aimed squarely at horny highschoolers and the dudes they will inevitably become (that is, grown-ass men who drink Bud, jerk off to Maxim and brag about all the pussy they pulled
in high school), Project X shoots for party-movie immortality by depicting a bash that mutates from small gathering to full-scale riot. For a short while it works, with Oliver Cooper playing Jonah Hill to Thomas Mann’s Michael Cera in the story of losers looking to get laid by throwing a kegger. Whereas most teen movies climax at the bash, pretty much the entirety of Project X is set amid the debauchery, with the found-footage shtick (ugh) lending a genuine sense of chaos. Like a real drug-fueled rampage, director Nima Nourizadeh composes his film as a series of fleeting images: a cacophony of tits, garden gnomes, liquor shots, strobe lights, a cock-punching midget and other insanity. Trouble is, the party is populated solely by unsympathetic dickheads and the moral—that popularity and happiness can be bought with drugs and disorderly conduct—is frighteningly irresponsible. Most egre-
gious, though, is how dull the chaos is eventually rendered. Like a drunken memory, Project X is just a jumble of disjointed, blurry ideas thrown up on a screen. R. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Sandy. NEW
Re-Run Theater: TV Knows Best
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Nick Wells’ inspired monthly screenings of childhood boob-tube junk food, complete with commercials for actual junk food, continue with a program dedicated to Very Special Episodes—in this case, from Family Ties and Mr. Belvedere. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Monday, March 26.
Safe House
39 The wily, wryly sagacious version of Denzel Washington born in Training
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Kids fancies itself more adult than those two other movies from last year about boffing BFFs, in which Justin Kutcherlake and Natalie Kunisman foolishly sought unencumbered sexual satisfaction in the loins of their hotbodied besties. In this film, the characters are driven by an even more naïve and selfish impulse: to make a baby with no strings attached. Adam Scott and writer-director Jennifer Westfeldt are old college pals who, for motivations never adequately justified, agree to have a child together and raise it as platonic parents. Staging a mini Bridesmaids reunion, Westfeldt gets good performances out of her supporting cast—Maya Rudolph and Chris O’Dowd make an enjoyably kooky couple; Jon Hamm gets to stretch out in at least one strong dramatic scene; and Kristen Wiig, well, she spends all her screen time weeping—but no one can escape from underneath the film’s contrived sitcom premise, particularly Westfeldt herself: It’s just hard to get behind someone who’d voluntarily reduce parenthood to the level of exroommates sharing custody of an Xbox. We all know where it’s heading from the first two minutes, anyway. It reverses the direction of the typical casual-shtup rom-com—love stumbling upon lust rather than the other way around—but it’s just a different route for ending up at the same place. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, City Center, Fox Tower.
MOVIES
I HAVE A BAD FEELING ABOUT THIS: Amr Waked and Ewan McGregor.
SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN What an extravagantly unnatural project this is! Not the billionaire sheik building a series of dams in the desert of the Arabian Peninsula to create a salmon run that might stimulate ecological and economic growth. That’s the part of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen that makes the most sense. No, what’s really unsupportable is how Lasse Hallstrom’s movie tries to blend political satire with globehopping adventure, and cosmopolitan relationships with soft spiritualism. That’s how we wind up with a romantic comedy in which the sophisticated banter is paused so Ewan McGregor can save the sheik from an assassination attempt, by using his fishing rod like a bullwhip to knock a gun from a terrorist’s hand. Accordingly, McGregor’s character is named “Dr. Jones.” He’s addressed by that title for most of the movie, and calls Emily Blunt’s wry consultant “Ms. Chetwode-Talbot” for months after they’ve been working together—formality that can only be explained as extreme passive-aggressive hatred or a Jane Austen fetishist’s form of flirtation. Depending on your mood, this game is either kinky or fantastically annoying. I had even less patience for the sheik (Amr Waked) waxing spiritual about how all fishermen are “men of faith,” not realizing that most people go fishing to escape from people yammering balls about God. Like the similarly grandiose hooey in the angler’s movie The River Why, Salmon Fishing is based on a book—this one’s by Paul Torday. I endured the page-bound contrivances of the story for the vulnerable chemistry between Blunt and McGregor, along with a spirited performance by Kristin Scott Thomas as an unscrupulous flack. What I couldn’t handle was Hallstrom, who made Chocolat, once again wrapping up junk food in classy packaging and selling it as art. The more Salmon Fishing preens in its own supposed profundity, the sillier it seems. When the fish start jumping, the movie is so proud of the significance that you’d swear Hallstrom had actually built the desert dams. Eventually, the movie undermines even its honest emotions for ostensibly significant payoffs. A dead soldier is brought back to life so Blunt can face a not-all-that-agonizing decision of the heart, and the love triangle is just like the one in Casablanca, but the exact opposite. The problems of three little people add up to a pile of dead salmon. PG-13. AARON MESH.
Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy and girl relocate fish.
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Day reached full absurd maturity in Unstoppable and fossilized soon after, when Saturday Night Live newcomer Jay Pharoah’s devastating impression nailed the magic tics that make latter-day Denzel tick. (YouTube it. It is funny and frightening.) The seemingly effortless creation of a second self somehow doesn’t look so effortless once someone else has made it seem easy, and so Denzel’s irascible rascal mode now registers as the mugging of a skilled impostor (see: De Niro, Bob and Pacino, Alfredo). Which isn’t to say watching Washington do his 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. R. CHRIS STAMM. Cedar Hills, Cinetopia Mill Plain, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Lloyd Mall.
A Separation 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. Indeed, all the players are soon arguing to a beleaguered magistrate who longs for his teatime. Cinema typically strains for the recognizable, so we don’t have to think, but in A Separation everyone has their reasons, and it does not matter if those are anyone else’s—let alone yours. PG-13. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Hollywood Theatre, Fox Tower.
The Secret World of Arrietty A boy befriends a tiny fairy in this anime from Hiromasa Yonebayashi. Not screened for Portland critics. G. Living Room Theaters, Tigard.
Silent House
Don’t go in the basement, Elizabeth Olsen! They’re keeping Arvo Part down there! Not screened for critics. R. Forest. NEW
Sound of Noise
46 Billed as “the first musical cop
movie” (how quickly we forget The Singing Detective!), Sound of Noise is a loose genre framework on which to hang a series of goofy if toe-tapping avant-garde percussion performances. A group of musicians—I quickly began thinking of them as the Baader-Meinhof Orchestra— decide to use their city as a giant bongo in a series of terrorizing drum performances: in an operating room, during a bank robbery, with backhoes. The little concerts themselves are kinetic, if a bit too snappily edited. Swedish directors Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson have style to burn. But nothing in the surrounding story— cop hates music, cop goes deaf, cop finds clues—raises the stakes beyond an impromptu street show by the Blue Man Group. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters.
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
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JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI 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. Chris Pine (Kirk in the Star Trek reboot) and Tom Hardy (some muscular person in Inception) play the spies. Pine affects a magnetic facetiousness and Hardy a wounded gentility, while both also seem somewhat mentally incapacitated by a car accident or something. The object of their rival advances (and wiretapping) is Reese Witherspoon, who is less relaxed with each movie—a difficult feat, considering she started out playing Tracy Flick. Meantime, the only other young lady in the picture is deployed as a fallback option, because penises gotta go somewhere. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Forest, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Movies on TV.
A Thousand Words
Eddie Murphy must stop talking or he’ll die. Not screened for critics. PG-13. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, City Center, Division, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV.
The Vow
22 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 ardent, spiritually entwined love. 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! PG-13. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Movies on TV.
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. 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.
W.E.
32 W.E. begins with a miscarriage. Not much changes. Madonna’s
sophomore outing as director is a drearily muddled, poorly edited biopic about Wallis Simpson, for whom King Edward VIII (played by a hilariously appropriately named James D’Arcy) abdicated the British throne in 1936. The romantic shattering of an empire is apparently not an interesting enough story on its own, however, and so it is framed in the dreamy obsessions of a dull-faced, present-day socialite namesake (Abbie Cornish) with a violent, impotent husband and a serious fetish for Sotheby’s antiques. It’s sort of a Julie & Julia for the unhappy social climber set— let’s call it Wallie & Wally. Wallis No. 2 spends the whole movie fondling the auctioned jewelry of Wallis No. 1 (a charming, if pinched, Andrea Riseborough) and slipping into schizophrenic fugues in which she imagines the uncomfortable courtship that made W & E the scandalous romance of the century. Turns out, the deep sacrifice Wallis Simpson made by dumping her earnestly devoted husband for a dashing prince is a suitable metaphor for domestic abuse—after all, the press can be so cruel. Wallis No. 2’s romance with the Russian security guard who stalks her provides the perfunctory happy ending that history does not, but little can save the movie—especially not an inexplicable sequence in which a Benzedrine-fueled Simpson jitterbugs to the Sex Pistols with an African woman, in an apparent (and appropriate) allusion to Sofia Coppola’s entire entitled, misguided oeuvre. Forget the king: God save us all. R. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Fox Tower. NEW
We Need to Talk About Kevin
27 Ten years after directing the
lovely Morvern Callar, Lynne Ramsay returns to her calling with a film so miserably ill-conceived and clumsy that it wobbles right past awful to collapse in the far sadder territory of the pitiable. Adapted from Lionel Shriver’s 2003 novel, We Need to Talk About Kevin dances back and forth in time with the stricken figure of Eva Khatchadourian (Tilda Swinton). Her son’s terrible crime strands her in the physical present with a community that reviles her while sending her mind casting backwards to retrieve evidence and explanations from the years leading up to Kevin’s awful spree. Ramsay’s knack for trapping moments of fleeting beauty and terror makes for a promising first 15 minutes, as a dense collage of image and sound initiates us into Eva’s post-traumatic stress. But when the film coheres into a more legible narrative, Ramsay loses control and We Need to Talk About Kevin gets worse with each passing minute. The deranged kid of the title comes into crisp focus as a sadistic horror-film villain, with Ramsay exaggerating every loathsome aspect of the character while simultaneously refusing to give into her material’s generic pleasures. The result is a B-movie mess that neglects filthy fun to pursue half-baked importance. Rent Orphan instead. R. CHRIS STAMM. Fox Tower.
MARCH 23-29 BREWVIEWS
MOVIES
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Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:30, 02:50, 05:10, 07:30, 09:55 A SEPARATION Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 03:05, 07:10, 09:45 THE IRON LADY Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 02:20, 04:45, 07:15, 09:30 THE ARTIST Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:15, 02:25, 05:00, 07:25, 09:35 THE DESCENDANTS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:35, 09:50
“LAUGH ALL YOU WANT... IT’S A BLAST.” Peter Travers,
NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park Ave., 503-221-1156 ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS Fri-SatSun 04:00 NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY MonTue-Wed
Pioneer Place Stadium 6
A KISS BEFORE DYING: The story goes that when Howard Hawks was making The Big Sleep, industry censors said his conclusion was too lenient toward organized crime. So he asked them to write the ending themselves, and they provided him with a terrific massacre. The moral? If celluloid must meet an untimely demise, it should at least go out in a hail of gunfire. So let us rejoice in the 35 mm titles playing this week in a festival called Noirville: The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon, Touch of Evil, The Killers, Kiss Me Deadly, Out of the Past, The Asphalt Jungle, Nightmare Alley and Night of The Hunter. That’s a breathtaking marquee, and a fitting bloodbath. AARON MESH. Showing at: Cinema 21. Full showtimes below. Best paired with: Laurelwood blonde. Also showing: The Fly (Laurelhurst). Kennedy School Theater
Regal Lloyd Mall 8 Cinema
2320 Lloyd Center Mall, 800-326-3264 THE HUNGER GAMES FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:45, 12:30, 02:45, 03:30, 06:00, 07:30, 09:00 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 03:20, 06:25 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 08:50 A THOUSAND WORDS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 03:00, 05:55, 09:15 SAFE HOUSE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:05, 03:05, 06:05, 09:05 STAR WARS: EPISODE I -- THE PHANTOM MENACE 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:55, 02:55, 06:10, 09:10 WANDERLUST Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:15, 03:15, 06:20, 09:20 ACT OF VALOR Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:25, 03:25, 06:15, 08:55
Bagdad Theater and Pub
3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-249-7474 HUGO Fri-Sat-SunMon-Wed 06:00 A DANGEROUS METHOD Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Wed 09:05 WE BOUGHT A ZOO Sat-Sun 02:00 THE SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MOVIE Mon 01:30 NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY Tue
Cinema 21
616 NW 21st Ave., 503-223-4515 THE KILLERS Fri-Sun 08:45 THE MALTESE FALCON Fri 07:00 THE BIG SLEEP Fri-Sat 08:45 SCARLET STREET Sat-Wed 04:45 KISS ME DEADLY Sat 03:00 THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER Sat-Mon 07:00 OUT OF THE PAST Sat 07:00 NIGHTMARE ALLEY Sat-Sun-Tue 04:45 TOUCH OF EVIL Sun 05:00 SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS Sun-Mon 04:45 THE ASPHALT JUNGLE Mon 08:45 THE KILLING Tue-Wed 09:00 KISS ME
DEADLY Tue 08:45 A TOUCH OF EVIL Wed 07:00
Clinton Street Theater
2522 SE Clinton St., 503-238-8899 LAST DAYS HERE FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:00, 09:00 THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Sat 12:00
Lake Twin Cinema
106 N State St., 503-635-5956 THE HUNGER GAMES FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:00, 04:00, 07:00, 09:00 THE IRON LADY Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:45, 03:00, 05:15, 07:30, 09:45
Mission Theater and Pub
1624 NW Glisan St., 503-249-7474 TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 05:30 A DANGEROUS METHOD Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue 08:05 RAMPART Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 10:10 TIM AND ERIC’S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:30 JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL Wed 07:00
Roseway Theatre
7229 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-282-2898 THE HUNGER GAMES FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 03:30, 07:00, 10:30
St. Johns Twin Cinemas and Pub
8704 N Lombard St., 503-286-1768 THE HUNGER GAMES FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:00, 07:55, 09:45 JOHN CARTER Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 04:45, 07:15, 10:45
CineMagic Theatre
2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-231-7919 THE HUNGER GAMES FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:35, 05:30, 08:25
5736 NE 33rd Ave., 503-249-7474 HUGO Fri-Sat-Tue-Wed 05:30 EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE FriSat-Sun-Tue-Wed 05:30 WANDERLUST Fri-SunMon-Wed 08:05 TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY FriSat-Mon-Tue-Wed 10:10
Forest Theatre
1911 Pacific Ave., 503-844-8732 SILENT HOUSE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:30 THIS MEANS WAR FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:00 JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:25
Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-281-4215 JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:30 A SEPARATION Fri-Sat-Sun 02:15, 07:00 THE IRON LADY Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:20 PLAYBACK Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 09:30 THE LADY VANISHES Sat-Sun 02:00 HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH Sat 09:30 MAD MEN Sun 09:00 FIRST DATE: SHORT FILM TRILOGY Sun 05:30 TV KNOWS BEST Mon 07:30 THE GATES OF HELL Tue 07:30 TWIN PEAKS Wed 09:30 INDIE GAME: THE MOVIE Wed 07:00
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846 SW Park Ave., 800-326-3264 OKA! Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 03:00, 07:05 SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:10, 02:40, 05:15, 07:40, 10:00 WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:00, 02:30, 04:55, 07:20, 10:05 JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:40, 02:45, 04:50, 07:00, 09:40 W.E. FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:35, 05:05, 07:35, 10:05 BEING FLYNN Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:25, 02:55, 05:20, 07:50, 10:10 FRIENDS WITH KIDS Fri-
340 SW Morrison St., 800-326-3264 THE HUNGER GAMES Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 01:00, 01:45, 04:10, 04:25, 04:55, 07:15, 07:30, 08:00, 10:20, 10:40 21 JUMP STREET Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:40, 04:30, 07:40, 10:30 JOHN CARTER 3D Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 01:10, 04:15, 07:20, 10:25 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX 3D Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:05, 07:00 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 01:30, 09:40 ACT OF VALOR Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:20
St. Johns Pub and Theater
8203 N. Ivanhoe St., 503-249-7474 HUGO Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 06:00 TIM AND ERIC’S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE Fri-Sat-Mon-TueWed 01:00, 08:45 MAD MEN Sun 09:30 THE MUPPETS Mon-Tue 01:00
Valley Theater
9360 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway, 503-2966843 THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN Fri-Sat-Wed 05:40 THE DESCENDANTS FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 08:00 UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING Fri-Sat-Wed 06:30 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 08:25 HUGO Fri-Sat-Wed 06:10 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE -GHOST PROTOCOL Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 08:45 ARTHUR CHRISTMAS MonTue 04:00, 06:30
“FLAT-OUT HILArIOUS.” Mara Reinstein,
“I’m WILLING TO BeT I WON’T See A FUNNIer cOmedY THIS YeAr.” Rene Rodriguez,
Living Room Theaters
341 SW 10th Ave., 971-222-2010 JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 03:00, 05:20, 07:50, 09:50 SOUND OF NOISE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:10, 02:30, 05:00, 07:30, 09:40 THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 05:10, 09:45 THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:50, 02:40, 04:50, 07:00 PINA 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:40, 02:00, 04:20, 06:45, 09:00 A DANGEROUS METHOD Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:30, 02:50, 07:40 CHRONICLE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:55 HUGO 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:00, 01:50, 04:30, 07:15, 09:10
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): This week you may learn the real reason the tortoise beat the hare, why two of the three blind mice weren’t really blind, and the shocking truth about the relationship between Cinderella’s fairy godmother and the handsome prince. Myths will be mutating, Aries. Nursery rhymes will scramble and fairy tales will fracture. Thor, the god of thunder, may make a tempting offer to Snow White. The cow’s jump over the moon could turn out to have been faked by the CIA. An ugly duckling will lay an egg that Chicken Little claims is irrefutable proof the 2012 Mayan Apocalypse is imminent. Sounds like a rowdy good time for all! TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Roots and wings. But let the wings grow roots and the roots fly.” That was written by Spanish poet Juan Ramon Jimenez, and now I’m passing it on to you. It will serve as a keynote for the turning point you’re about to navigate. In the coming weeks, you’ll generate good fortune by exposing your dark mysterious depths to the big bright sky; you’ll be wise to bring your soaring dreams down to earth for a pit stop. The highs need the influence of the lows, Taurus; the underneath will benefit from feeling the love of what’s up above. There’s one further nuance to be aware of, too: I think you will find it extra interesting to interweave your past with your future. Give your rich traditions a taste of the stories that are as-yet unwritten. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Is it possible you were a spider in a previous life? If so, please call on the abilities you developed back then. You need to create an extra big, super-fine web, metaphorically speaking, so that you can capture all the raw materials you will be needing in the coming weeks and months. If you’re not sure whether you are the reincarnation of a spider, then simply imagine you were. Stimulate daydreams in which you visualize yourself as a mover and shaker who’s skilled at snagging the resources and help you require. CANCER (June 21-July 22): British writer Kenneth Tynan asked a movie director about how he’d film an advancing army. Did it matter whether the action went from right to left across the frame or left to right? “Of course!” said the director. “To the Western eye, easy or successful movement is left to right, difficult or failed movement is right to left.” The director showed Tynan an illustrated book as evidence. On one page, a canoe shooting the rapids was going from left to right, while a man climbing a mountain was headed from right to left. Use this information to your benefit, Cancerian. Every day for the next two weeks, visualize yourself moving from left to right as you fulfill a dream you want to accomplish. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Hanadi Zakaria al-Hindi is the first Saudi Arabian woman to be licensed to fly a plane. But there’s an absurd law in her country that prohibits women from driving cars, so she needs a man to give her a lift to the airport. Is there any situation in your own life that resembles hers, Leo? Like maybe you’ve advanced to a higher level without getting certified on a lower level? Or maybe you’ve got permission and power to operate in a sphere that’s meaningful to you even though you skipped a step along the way? Now would be a good time to think about whether you should do anything about the discrepancy, and if so, how to do it. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Recent scientific studies have confirmed what Native American folklore reports: Badgers and coyotes sometimes cooperate with each other as they search for food. The coyotes are better at stalking prey above ground, and the badgers take over if the hunted animal slips underground. They share the spoils. I suggest you draw inspiration from their example, Virgo. Is there a person you know who’s skilled at a task you have trouble with and who could benefit from something you’re good at? It’s prime time to consider forming symbiotic relationships or seeking out unusual partnerships that play to both parties’ strengths. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): How did the Vikings navigate their ships through rough northern seas on cloudy and foggy days? Medieval texts speak of the
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503-542-3432 • 510 NE MLK Blvd www.pixieproject.org
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Familyautonetwork.com 1997 Subaru Legacy Auto, ONLY 125,000 Miles! $4495 503-254-2886
1997 Subaru Legacy 5 speed, Warranty $3995 503-254-2886
TOYOTA 1993 Toyota Camry 4 cylinder, Auto, Warranty, $3795 503-254-2886
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