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The article [“Lies My Newspaper Told Me,” WW, March 14, 2012] addressed solar energy in Oregon but left out important aspects of Oregon’s celebrated—and growing—solar success story. From Pendleton to Portland, homeowners statewide understand the benefits of solar power. Families, communities and military bases see residential solar as a smart, responsible investment, and the path toward energy independence. Oregon has become a leading solar-industry hub, which has been critical to our economy and workforce. The manufacturing sector alone employs nearly 2,000, bringing jobs to Oregon throughout the recession while other industries shipped jobs overseas. Shifting to carbon-neutral energy requires reducing consumption, but also replacing fossilfuel generation with clean, renewable energy. WW opined that people should make their homes more efficient. People with solar know that better than most. Generally, homeowners who install solar are already more efficient than their counterparts. After installing solar, they become motivated to save even more. Incentive programs accelerate investments in both. Ninety percent of Energy Trust’s funds go toward efficiency. Thanks to demand created by solar incentive programs in Oregon and around the globe, the price of solar has dropped, and so have the incentives. Oregonians recognize the urgent need to stop burning fossil fuels; they are leading a national push to retire coal plants. They know that solar is Oregon’s most abundant clean-energy source, and the fuel is free. They know that generating [solar] power at home is efficient. And they know that spinning the meter backward is fun. —Claire Carlson Executive director, Solar Oregon
Like you, I’m a big fan of natural disasters. I’m especially keen on that volcanic time bomb, Mount Hood. Will it erupt? How soon? And how many souls will I be able to harvest when it does? —Satan, Lord of Darkness Ah, good old Satan—I always suspected you’d be a fan. As it happens, you’re in luck: Mount Hood is considered a lock to blow at some point. It’s just a matter of when. Hood has erupted twice in recent times: once 1,500 years ago, and again about 200 years back. If it kept to this schedule, we’d all have about 1,100 years to put our affairs in order. Unfortunately, as with most old things, there’s no guarantee Mount Hood will stay regular. Official estimates give the volcano a 5 percent chance of going postal over the next 30 years. If that happens, folks living on the moun4
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Voodoo Doughnut owner Tres Shannon for months now has been talking up his brainstorm for a nightlife project, a putt-putt golf and pool room called the Portland P Palace (see “Voodoo Child,” WW, Dec. 21, 2011). The bar was supposed to open earlier this year in a former Timberline Tire Factory and Auto Service Center at Northeast Sandy Boulevard and 24th Avenue. SHANNON He says his project is mired in the city-permits process, and he tells WW the dream of the Portland P Palace is over. “Presently in Purgatory,” Shannon tells WW by text. “Prior Planning (by all Parties, both Public & Private) would have Prevented Piss-Poor Performance...by us all.” Given Andy Wiederhorn’s track record, who would loan him money? Turns out Portland steel and property tycoon Howard Hedinger’s American Industries Inc. The company sued Wiederhorn and three of his Fog Cutter companies in U.S. District Court last week, seeking just over $5 million. Hedinger’s beef: payback of $2.6 million his company loaned Wiederhorn in 2008, with interest and non-payment charges. Wiederhorn, a key figure in the Capital Consultants fiasco, now lives in California. He tells WW he disputes the claims. “The parties are in settlement discussions,” Wiederhorn says via email. “We expect the matter to settle shortly.” From the Incumbency Is Power Department, Rep. Mike Schaufler (D-Happy Valley) was the lone House Democrat to vote against 2009 tax increases supported by teachers unions. His May primary opponent, Jeff Reardon, is an Oregon Education Association member. But Schaufler’s clout means the OEA, representing 48,000 teachers, has endorsed him, not Reardon, the union told Reardon last week. Although Schaufler is pitching hard for campaign support, he’s still using donors’ funds liberally, albeit legally. During the February session, he spent campaign cash on seven visits to Magoo’s tavern and a $750a-month apartment, despite drawing a $123 per diem. The Rosewood Initiative is a shoestring effort to create REARDON a community space in lowopportunity, high-crime East Portland, the city’s most diverse and fastest-growing area (see “The Other Portland,” WW, Oct. 12, 2011). The Rosewood, on the city’s edge along Northeast 162nd Avenue, has received seed funding from Multnomah County—while also raising money through car washes and scrap-metal drives. But the center had trouble finding the money to cover the salary of its one employee. On March 22, the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners voted 3-2 against spending $75,000 to help the project. Chairman Jeff Cogen—with commissioners Deborah Kafoury and Judy Shiprack—voted no. “In my heart I want to support this program,” Cogen says. “I just don’t think this is the way.” Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt.
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Mary Nolan looks uncomfortable. About 25 people have gathered for a candidates’ forum at the June Key Delta Community Center in North Portland. Everyone else is at ease moving around the room, shaking hands, chatting up voters. Not Nolan. She stands to the side, as if out of her element, with pursed lips and forced smiles. Only when it’s her turn to speak does Nolan relax. She introduces herself as a candidate for Portland City Council, and she’s running “because Portland is at a critical point and we need important results.” People who have worked with Nolan, 57, over the decades in business and government say she’s smart, honest and driven. “She keeps her nose to the grindstone, and she gets impressive results,” says Geoff Sugerman, who worked for House Speaker Dave Hunt when Nolan was majority leader in 2009. “But she’s not warm and fuzzy.” Nolan is challenging Commissioner Amanda Fritz, the City Council’s lone iconoclast. “[Fritz] says she wants to be watchdog, and that’s an OK thing to do,” Nolan says. “I don’t think that’s all a City Council member should do. We also need to produce results.” Yet Nolan is also the anti-Fritz in a way that also
reminds voters why they like Fritz, who is proudly unconventional, loves to attend community events and personally responds to thousands of emails. Nolan—blunt, direct and minimalistic—acknowledges she often counts on an aide for the little touches a politician often needs. “I am not always the one who thinks about sending a birthday card or making a call on those kinds of personal parts of people’s lives,” Nolan says. “But I’m smart enough to make sure somebody’s paying attention to that human piece of it.” Nolan has raised serious cash for her campaign—$217,000 since announcing her candidacy last summer. She’s shown an ability to draw contributions from business, unions and other interests that often disagree. Her biggest donation: $20,000 from the city’s firefighters union. (Fritz limits herself to contributions from individuals, of no more than $50 a year. She’s raised about $30,000—plus a $50,000 loan to herself.) Yet with less than seven weeks before Election Day, Nolan has yet to punch through and gain the name identification she’ll need to take out the better-known Fritz. Fritz’s campaign released a poll last week that purports to show her leading Nolan, 44 percent to 10 percent. Nolan says other polls show them closer and that twothirds of voters are still undecided. “This is why we hold elections,” Nolan says, “to talk about the record and accomplishments that people can count on.” Nolan grew up with five sisters in a Catholic family that lived in Chicago and Stamford, Conn. She was on the high-
school debate team, excelled in math and, in 1972, was part of the first class of women admitted to Dartmouth College. Interested in environmental work, Nolan moved to Portland in 1976 with a boyfriend and landed at the City of Portland’s Planning Bureau. She oversaw street lighting, public works maintenance and environmental services in the 1980s and early ’90s. She later worked for a PacifiCorp subsidiary and moved to New York to work for an international bank. U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, then a city commissioner, hired Nolan to run the Bureau of Maintenance, and later the Bureau of Environmental Services. “It was not the easiest environment for a woman manager who was about the size of some of the jackhammers people used,” Blumenauer says. “But she really impressed the workforce.” Nolan earned her pilot’s license in the 1990s after watching her husband, Mark Gardiner, fly. (Gardiner is the former city economist and chief financial officer.) Her experience led her to co-found a business, AvroTec, that makes GPS technologies for airplanes. She stepped down from an executive role when she was first elected to the Legislature in 2000. As a representative from Southwest Portland, Nolan focused on health care and environmental issues. She has been the Democratic caucus’s majority leader, served on the Joint Ways and Means Committee and co-chaired the budget subcommittee on public safety. Nolan has a reputation as a party-line Democrat, consistently scoring high with the American Civil Liberties Union, the Oregon League of Conservation Voters and Planned Parenthood. Nolan’s work on Ways and Means led to some of the work she says best defines her success in Salem. Her biggest legislative accomplishments, she says, include establishing a mechanism for funding the state’s CONT. on page 8 Willamette Week MARCH 28, 2012 wweek.com
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“IF SHE PISSES OFF ONE OF HER COLLEAGUES, I DON’T THINK SHE’LL CARE.” —JON CHANDLER done if the groundwork is done with a series of phone calls first. She’d make the call.” One of her best-known votes in Salem, however, created friction within her own caucus. In 2009, Democrats pushed through a 6-cent-per-gallon increase in the state’s gasoline tax—the first in 16 years. The $300 million transportation package also included higher vehicle fees—also unpopular. A lot of Democrats didn’t want to vote for the bill, especially those in swing districts who might face attack from Republicans in the next election for supporting a tax hike. Nolan, as House majority leader, lined up reluctant Democrats and persuaded them to vote for the package anyway. But when the bill came to the floor, Nolan herself voted no. She was one of only five Democrats who voted against it. Berger, the Salem Republican, joined Democrats to vote for the bill. She says her “jaw dropped” when Nolan defected. The vote left many people who had taken a risky vote feeling bitter. (One anonymous commenter in WW’s legislative ratings called Nolan’s vote “incredibly selfish.”) Nolan says she understood the importance of the bill to the state, but she personally disliked the way it favored certain pet transportation projects. “I had two responsibilities,” she says. “One to my constituents, and the other to my caucus. 8
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I am straightforward. I was really clear with the people who were counting the votes what I was going to do.” Nolan was also one of the leaders who fought for Measures 66 and 67, the divisive increases in corporate and personal income-tax rates on the wealthy that voters approved in January 2010. Some Democrats were accused of trying to extract payback from business lobbyists who had fought the measures. One was Jon Chandler, a lobbyist for the Oregon Home Builders Association. The Bend Bulletin reported that Chandler, after writing a July 2009 op-ed for The Oregonian critical of Democratic leaders, got a voice-mail message from Nolan that suggested he might pay a price in Salem for his opposition to the measures. “Hey, Chandler…I somehow managed to miss your retirement announcement,” the newspaper quoted Nolan as saying on the lobbyist’s voice mail. “When did you decide you were going to drop out of the lobbying business? Let me know if there’s a farewell party; I certainly wouldn’t want to miss it. Stay in touch. Thanks.” Nolan said it was a joke. Chandler wasn’t laughing. “Mary can rub folks the wrong way,” he says. “Obviously, she rubbed me the wrong way at one point.” But he argues the Portland City Council could use some “adult supervision.” In December, Chandler donated $250 to Nolan’s City Council campaign. “I don’t think a little doggedness would hurt that group at all,” he says. “If she thinks something is good, she’ll try to get done. If she thinks it’s stupid, I’m guessing she won’t. And if she pisses off one of her colleagues, I don’t think she’ll care.” Nolan says she’s confident her legislative strategies will translate to success on the council. Her priorities if she’s elected to City Hall will be investment in East Portland, better managing public utilities, and improving coordination between city police and the county sheriff. More than just issues, though, she promises she can change the way the council works. “I might very well find a disagreement with some of my future colleagues about where to prioritize this service or that service and disagree with them and vote differently than they did, but that doesn’t prevent us from working together,” she says. “The council as a whole doesn’t now demonstrate a capacity to do that.”
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race would not be settled in November? Brown says she would have ordered the race to be held in May after all—an answer that runs counter to the argument she made in court that she had to move the election to November. didates—waiting until May ballots were Gina Zejdlik on March 21. “I think she’s just making things up as being printed. Unfortunately for Starr, Legislative she goes along,” Starr says. “Our staff tracked and followed the Counsel’s opinion carries no legal weight. Dan Meek, a public interest lawyer and [2009] statute but did not apply a political Starr sued Brown in Marion County no fan of Starr’s, says the secretary of state filter,” Brown says. Circuit Court, where state lawyers said is trying to have it both ways. WW’s review of the legislative record there was insufficient time for a full trial. “Any primary election for the office shows lawmakers never discussed movBecause time was short, Starr’s only in 2012 must be ‘illegal,’ according to her BY NIG E L JAQ U I SS njaquiss@wweek.com ing the race from the May primary—as available legal remedy was to seek a tem- position,” Meek says. “The fact that only Brown acknowledges would normally be porary injunction. But Circuit Judge Ste- two candidates filed, instead of three or State Sen. Bruce Starr (R-Hillsboro) has the case—to November. Nothing in the law ven Price ruled Starr had failed to show he more, does not change the law, although cause to be irate. or in the legislative debate suggested the was likely to win at trial or that he’d suffer her office contends otherwise.” Starr is running for state labor commis- secretary of state should cancel the May irreparable harm in a November election. Starr says the primary, which has lower sioner, a nonpartisan race that suddenly primary vote for labor commissioner. That ruling did nothing to quell Starr voter turnout, offers him his best chance appears partisan. His foe, Democratic incumA newly released legal opinion under- and his Republican colleagues’ anger. “I am to unseat Avakian, who is still politically bent Brad Avakian, is in political trouble, scores the fact that Brown’s office badly incredibly frustrated,” says Starr. “I have a bruised from a blowout loss to now-U.S. and Starr thinks he had a strong Rep. Suzanne Bonamici in the chance of knocking him out in race to replace former U.S. Rep. the May primary. David Wu last fall. That’s when races for that The past two presidential office have traditionally been election years show a massive held—and that’s when Starr difference in voter turnout and Avakian assumed this between May and November. In year’s vote would take place. May 2008, the primary turnout On March 6, the state filing was 58 percent. In the general, deadline, Starr joined candiit was 86 percent. The 2004 gap dates, lobbyists and elected was even wider. officials in the Capitol to watch “My whole campaign has been as his name joined other cangeared toward running in May,” didates’ on a giant tote board. Starr says. But 10 days later, as WW Brown’s insistence that she AVAKIAN STARR BROWN first reported, a Starr staffer wasn’t playing politics suggests checked with the state Elecan alternative explanation: Her tions Division to make sure Elections Division is inept. “I THINK SHE’S JUST MAKING THINGS UP AS SHE GOES ALONG.” that office had received Starr’s Brown says she learned about —SEN. BRUCE STARR Voters’ Pamphlet statement for the controversy over the labor the May primary. It had—and commissioner race March 19. had also received Avakian’s. She says elections director But an elections official told Starr’s misread the law in Avakian’s favor. hard time believing politics is not involved.” Trout knew a week earlier but was so busy staffer the labor race would be in NovemWhen he learned of the change, Starr Brown and her elections director, Steve dealing with 300 candidate filings in other ber, rather than May. sought the opinion from Legislative Coun- Trout, acknowledge the Orestar filing sys- races he didn’t tell anyone. Without warning, Secretary of State sel, a nonpartisan office that drafts legisla- tem allowed both candidates to file for the Voters will hear more about the controKate Brown had upended the race by tion and advises lawmakers. May primary, although that system now versy later: Brown is running for re-elecshifting it to the fall, when heavier voter The response from that office was shows them running in November. tion and in the fall will face a well-financed turnout will favor her fellow Democrat, unambiguous—in Starr’s favor. The labor commissioner race is usually GOP challenger, Knute Buehler, a Bend Avakian. “We believe that the current law appli- settled in May: Any candidate who gets 50 surgeon. Brown has since been on the defensive, cable to the nomination or election of percent plus one vote wins outright. The “There is no question why they are insisting her move was not partisan. She nonpartisan candidates requires the office race moves to November only if no candi- angry,” Brown says of Starr and other crittells WW her staff was following a 2009 of Commissioner to be placed on the bal- date wins a majority in the primary. ics. “In hindsight we could have done a betlaw that she says resets the timing of the lot for the nominating election to be held So what would have happened if more ter job in notifying the public. We followed labor commissioner race. She admits her on the date of the primary election in May than two candidates had filed for labor com- the law. But I think we should have gone office did a poor job of telling the can- 2012,” wrote Deputy Legislative Counsel missioner, opening the possibility that the above and beyond that.” J O H N AT H A N R R O B E R T S . C O M
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A LOOMING SEWER CHARGE WILL HELP BIG INDUSTRY—AND COST YOUR CORNER CAFE. BY KA R A W I L B E C K kwilbeck@wweek.com
MAYORAL MADNESS! GETTING SQUEEZED: Small business owners like Marilyn DeVault, here at her Piece of Cake bakery in Sellwood, fear the impact of huge sewer-fee increases.
Marilyn DeVault has watched several businesses in her neighborhood close down in recent years. Her bakery, the award-winning Piece of Cake in Sellwood, remains popular and busy. But she fears that new city fees that will more than double her sewer bill could make her business the next one to close. City records show Piece of Cake’s sewer charges will go from $1,892 a year to as much as $4,380. “We’re a little tiny bakery,” DeVault says. “They’re going to put a lot of people out of business.” DeVault’s bakery and thousands of other small food businesses are being asked to start covering the cost of treating grease, food and other contaminants in the city’s wastewater. Officials at the city Bureau of Environmental Services acknowledge the new sewer fees will mean small businesses will take a big hit. “I don’t have access to any of the businesses’ books, but it’s possible that the charges could be tough on folks,” says John Holtrop, a program manager for the bureau. Holtrop says the new rates will shift between $3 million and $6 million in charges from large industrial users to about 3,000 food-related businesses, including coffee shops, delis, bakeries, brew pubs, doughnut shops, restaurants, caterers and hotels. About 20 years ago, the city started charging large industrial sites for handling contaminated wastewater. In recent years, the companies—about 72 currently— lobbied to shift some of those costs onto other businesses. The new fee has been labeled as the “Cut Through the FOG” program—FOG being an acronym for fats, oils and grease. Dean Marriott, director of the Bureau of Environmental Services, says fats, oil and grease clogging sewer pipes cost the city millions a year, and businesses that cause the problem haven’t been paying their fair share.
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“Their activities have been subsidized by everyone else,” he says. Marriott says the program is intended to create an incentive for companies in the food industry to put less waste down the drain. Businesses that do more to reduce wastes will see a smaller fee. “We’re trying to send a signal to change people’s behavior,” he says. The new rates show that—in many cases—businesses that reduce their wastes will still see steep increases. The shift in cost burden will lower residential rates by about 2 percent. But the city estimates big industrial users will see a cut of about 22 percent. They include Costco, Portland French Bakery, Alpenrose Dairy, Kraft Foods, Lloyd Center and Widmer Brothers Brewing. Portland International Airport is also on the list of beneficiaries. “I understand completely that it might put [smaller companies] out of business,” says Chuck Little of Portland French Bakery. “That’s why the city didn’t implement this sooner. They knew what kind of firestorm it was going to bring up.” The City Council approved the change with little public attention last fall. A number of businesses contacted by WW said they hadn’t heard about the program or didn’t know exactly how it would affect them. Marriott says his bureau has spent a year informing businesses of what was coming and sent each at least two notices. No business will see a rate increase, he says, until a city inspector visits and determines the proper rate. DeVault understands what the city is trying to do, but she thinks the impact on companies like hers is severe. “I think it’s crazy to do this to small businesses,” she says. “I think it’s a mean thing to do to Portland.”
IT TURNS OUT NEGATIVE CAMPAIGNS WORK, EVEN IN A FAKE ELECTION. BY AA RON MESH
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Jack Bogdanski had better hope an elephant does forget. The Lewis & Clark law professor and prolific blogger won his second-round Mayoral Madness contest against sentimental favorite Packy, the Oregon Zoo elephant, after resorting to an exuberantly negative campaign. The Oregon Zoo fought back with a Twitter account, Packy SuperPAC. But Bogdanski stomped his 6-ton foe with 56 percent of the vote by alleging Packy campaigned with Metro money and has taken part in elephant-on-rhino sex. (Sorry, Packy. He had photos.) “Even Portland doesn’t want to be this weird,” Bogdanski wrote. The victory shows the continuing importance of social media behind the winners. Radio harsher Victoria Taft beat soccer mascot Timber Joey like a peewee league goalie with appeals to her followers. Actor Timothy Hutton, also working the tweets, cruised past Mattress World’s Sherri Hiner. The biggest surprise has to be Micaela Capelle: The University of Portland soccer star beat Oregonian sports columnist John Canzano by just three votes. This week, Hutton should fear Patty, the Magic Garden bartender, who’s received more than 65 percent of votes in both her previous contests. Pink Martini leader Thomas Lauderdale had better watch out for Jody Stahancyk; the divorce lawyer has her practice sending out election alerts on its website. And this week, one inanimate object will be eliminated: It’s the Paul Bunyan statue vs. a bacon maple bar. As of now, neither is on Twitter. See the results and vote in the Sweet 16.
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In any good monster movie, the initial terror comes from knowing there’s something awful out there—even though you don’t get a good look at it. It lurks in the shadows or just beneath the water’s surface. When the monster finally appears, what’s really scary is not whether someone is going to die, but the gruesome way it’s going to happen. For the past 12 years, some of the most powerful companies in Oregon have lived in fear of an unspeakable
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The Willamette gives Portland its sense of identity: a working waterfront city connected to the wider world by what ships in and out of this river. The postcard views of bridges and barges have helped define Portland as a city that lives in harmony with its environment. But the river’s belly is also Portland’s great embarrassment. Its sediments are stained with decades of toxic pollution, coating the river bottom with chemicals, metals and tar so potent the U.S. government is demanding it be cleaned up. The fight over who must pay to do it has raged since before 2000, when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declared 5.7 miles of the Willamette to be a Superfund site. The EPA later expanded the designated area—and some would say the stigma—to a total of nearly 11 miles, running from about the Fremont Bridge downstream to almost where the river meets the Columbia. The companies suspected of causing the pollution in Portland Harbor—this stretch of the Willamette where industry hums—have spent more than $96 million determining how polluted the sediments are and if they pose a threat to public health. Depending on what the EPA decides, the cleanup could run as high as $2.2 billion and take another 30 years. The reckoning starts Friday, March 30. That’s when 12 companies, plus the City of Portland and the Port of Portland, will deliver to the EPA a study that offers a number of cleanup options. In the coming months, you’re going to hear a lot about this study. It’s going to be confusing, controversial and even tedious—but the future of the Willamette is at stake. WW has sifted through the river muck to help you understand how this really works and why it matters. We’ve found there are already two competing narratives here: One calls for scrubbing the Portland Harbor clean, and the other calls for a more cost-effective solution, even if that means burying the poison under more mud. What happens now depends on those scary bottom fish—and exactly how far we’re willing to go to make the monster go away. How dirty is the river? The water’s not bad, actually. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality says the river is safe to swim in, with one exception: Rain can send sewage out through stormwater pipes into the river, making the Willamette unsafe for a period of time. Portland’s just-completed “Big Pipe” project is supposed to divert almost all sewage away from the river. But the river bottom is a different story. The sediment at the bottom of Portland Harbor is a buffet of nasty chemicals: arsenic, mercury, metals, tar and even perchlorate, the main ingredient in rocket fuel. Near the Burlington Northern railroad bridge, for example, two abandoned pesticide plants once leaked deadly chemicals: one, DDT; the other, an herbicide that was used to make Agent Orange. Most of the worst pollutants ended up in the river during the past 60 years, primarily from shipbuilding, shipbreaking, manufacturing and other industrial work along the Willamette’s banks. The most common poison in the riverbed is also the most dangerous: an odorless, pale yellow liquid called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. They were widely used as coolants in the building of transformers and electric motors until Congress banned their production in 1979. It’s good all that crap is down where it won’t bother anyone, right? PCB and other chemicals don’t stay put. Tiny creatures that live in the mud (they’re called benthic organisms) eat the chemicals. Then they’re eaten by fish. Migrating fish, such as salmon, cruise through the harbor and don’t nibble too many of these tainted invertebrates. But the fish that call the harbor home—carp, smallmouth bass, crappie and bullhead—get fat on the toxic meals. The chemicals that stay in their tissue get passed on to people. A study three years ago found that, in many scenarios, people eating fish from the harbor face cancer risks as 16
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PILE-UP: Willamette Riverkeeper Travis Williams (left) and EPA project manager Chip Humphrey float alongside a pile of scrap metal at Schnitzer Steel. JAMES REXROAD
WHAT THE MUCK?
DDT DOCKS: The former Arkema site dumped pesticides into the groundwater.
“IT’S ABOUT FISH AND WILDLIFE, FROM THE OSPREY TO BALD EAGLE. AND IT’S ABOUT THE FISHERMAN WHO IS EXERCISING A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT—TO ACCESS A RIVER AND ITS SPECIES IN A FASHION THAT DOES NOT JEOPARDIZE HIS HEALTH. THIS IS OUR ONE SHOT TO GET THIS RIGHT.” —TRAVIS WILLIAMS, WILLAMETTE RIVERKEEPER
much as 100 times higher than the EPA’s guidelines. By far the biggest risk comes from those PCBs that travel from mud to fish to people. A 2006 report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says that people at risk from Portland Harbor fish are not just sportsmen but members of immigrant and ethnic groups that traditionally fish for food: African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, Eastern Europeans and Native Americans. Vietnamese and Slavic immigrants use carp to make soup and fish paste. Latino people traditionally catch bass, or tilapia. So do African-Americans. Almost all of the above in this story is widely agreed upon. Here’s where it starts to get contentious: No one can say for sure who eats the fish and how much fish they eat. I don’t eat these cancer fish. Why should I care? That’s just the attitude that bugs the heck out of the Willamette riverkeeper. Yes, that is Travis Williams’ official title. The 41-year-old native of Milwaukie is executive director of the environmental nonprofit Willamette Riverkeeper, and he’s putting pressure on government and businesses to clean up the harbor. Williams argues the Willamette deserves a clean slate and a safe food chain for the wildlife that depends on it. And anyone should be free to drop a line in the river without worry that there’s a carcinogenic time bomb wriggling on the hook. “It’s about fish and wildlife, from the osprey to the bald eagle,” Williams said. “And it’s about the fisherman who is exercising a basic human right—to access a river and its species in a fashion that does not jeopardize his health. This is our one shot to get this right.” Well, let’s get on with it! Why is it taking so long? The Willamette is under the control of the federal program known as Superfund, which suggests there’s actually a fund with a super amount of cash in it. Not anymore. It used to be that the federal government taxed oil and chemical companies to fill up the so-called Superfund, and then went ahead and paid for cleanups upfront. Then the feds would hunt down and sue anyone who contributed to the pollution to reimburse the government. But the Superfund is broke. Now, before a cleanup can begin, the EPA tries to get polluters to agree who will pay for it, and how much actual cleaning up is needed. In the case of Portland Harbor, the EPA has identified more than 130 entities that may be financially responsible for cleanup. They include the City of Portland and the Port
of Portland, but they’re mostly corporations that did the polluting, or the companies that own the old sites. Many companies are small or no longer exist. About a dozen companies with the bucks to pay for the cleanup hold sway in the Portland Harbor. They have yet to decide how those costs will be divided. “I don’t think you’ll find anybody who thinks it hasn’t gone on too long and cost too much money,” says Rick Applegate, who managed the Superfund project for the city for a decade until he resigned last year. “The agreement breaks down there.” So these companies are trying to get away with not cleaning up the river? Well, nobody’s rushing to volunteer. But at the same time, a lot of companies have stepped up to work on the problem—if only to make sure they have some control over the cleanup. Eight corporations, plus the port and the city, formed the Lower Willamette Group in 2001. That group has spent at least $96 million studying the river. And many say they intend to do right by the Willamette. “We voluntarily signed on,” says David Harvey, environmental director for Gunderson, a barge- and railcar-maker with manufacturing sites along the Willamette’s west banks that are suspected of having contributed to the sediment pollution. “For this stretch of the river, this is the most important thing that’s going to happen in the next 50 years.” How they define that “thing”—and the story these companies tell—is aimed at keeping their exposure limited. The Portland Harbor is home to more than 34,000 fulltime manufacturing and shipping jobs. And some of these companies say an extensive cleanup threatens those jobs. A 2009 report paid for by three companies on the hook— Gunderson, Schnitzer Steel and Vigor Industrial, which owns the Cascade General ship-repair site at Swan Island—claims a decade-long cleanup could cost $2.2 billion and 9,000 jobs. So the study coming out Friday—that will be the plan? Seven plans, actually. In 7,800 pages, the Lower Willamette Group’s feasibility study will propose a menu of options, ranging from doing little or nothing to dredging out nearly every hot spot of pollutants and hauling the contaminated sediment away.
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WHO’S ON THE HOOK? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will soon consider a range of proposals for cleaning up contaminated sediments in the 11-mile Portland Harbor Superfund site. The EPA has identified more than 130 businesses that may have contributed pollution to the Willamette River. Some companies and agencies with big potential liabilities (see map) have banded together under two organizations, the Lower Willamette Group and the Portland Harbor Partnership.
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NOVICK’S HARBOR DOUBTS THE CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE IS PITCHING A REDUCED WILLAMETTE CLEANUP.
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BY AA R O N M E S H
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Of all the positions taken in the wrangling over the Portland Harbor cleanup, none is more surprising than Steve Novick’s. Novick is best known for his campaign for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in 2008, losing narrowly to Jeff Merkley. In that race, Novick in part rode his reputation as an environmental crusader. In the 1990s, he worked as a lawyer for the U.S. Department of Justice, making his bones by prosecuting polluters on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency. He’s now running for City Council and is almost certainly a cinch to win. He also has some sharp
opinions about cleaning up the harbor. Novick says the potential cost of $2 billion to clean up the harbor may not be the best investment. Novick says he favors finding out how many people are eating Portland Harbor fish and basing the degree of cleanup on those results. Last month, Novick told a meeting of the Coalition of Communities of Color, a Portland advocacy group, that its members should consider asking the EPA for a less intensive cleanup of Portland Harbor in exchange for health clinics and a public heath fund. “I think public health dollars should be spent as effectively as possible,” he tells WW, adding, “While I’m as green as all get-out, I don’t think at a Superfund site we should assume the most expensive and extensive thing is the best thing to do.”
The most extensive cleanup of the Portland Harbor that Novick seems skeptical about would involve widespread dredging of contaminated sediments. Ironically, that’s the very thing Novick advocated in the Portland Harbor when he was a Justice Department lawyer nearly 20 years ago. In 1993, Novick compelled the Port of Portland to sign a consent decree that required it pay a $92,000 penalty for repeatedly spilling coal tar in the Willamette River at Terminal 4. Novick is so proud of the case, he uses it to introduce himself on his current campaign website. The decree—which Novick negotiated on behalf of the U.S.—also required the port to dredge contamination out of the river. There was virtually no evidence the coal tar sitting at the bottom of Terminal 4 threatened human health. Yet this lack of evidence is what Novick uses today to question an extensive harbor cleanup. So how do those positions square?
Novick says he was always skeptical of expensive cleanups. “I would find myself thinking, ‘Were we better off putting up signs rather than spending all that money?’” he says. Novick’s current stance has won him a few fans: companies in the Portland Harbor that face paying the cleanup bill. He’s received a $2,000 campaign contribution from Warren Rosenfeld, president of Calbag Metals Co., one of the Portland Harbor companies. Novick also got a big check from the Greenbrier Cos., owner of bargeand railcar-maker Gunderson. Novick says Greenbrier president and CEO Bill Furman asked him what was the largest contribution he had received so far. Novick said $4,000. Furman gave him a check for $4,001. Novick says he has made his views known about the Portland Harbor since he moderated a forum about the harbor in the fall of 2010. “It’s fair to say they had an indication of my thinking on the issue,” Novick says of his big contributors. “A year later, they donated.”
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The EPA will weigh those options and issue final recommendations. That could take another two years. “It’s the toolbox for the EPA,” says Barbara Smith, a spokeswoman for the group. The options, she says, range “from doing nothing to very intensive dredging over many, many, many, many years.” Doing nothing seems to make no sense—so the obvious choice is to dredge it out, right? Sure, if you’re not the one paying for it. Dredging contaminated river silt means digging it up, hauling it away, and treating it like the hazardous waste it is. (That means they’ll probably bury it in a landfill where the pollution won’t spread.) Or they could dredge the sediments and sink them in holding ponds. But there’s a far easier and cheaper solution laid out in the study that you’re likely to hear these companies promote: Why not just bury it in place by pouring lots of rocks and clean silt on top of it? This is called capping, and it’s been done at other Superfund sites. (So has dredging.) Capping is a lot cheaper and faster and more costeffective. But the pollutants are still in the river. Odds are the EPA will order a combination of dredging and capping. The big question is, how much of the cheaper method will companies be allowed to use? So the deciding factor will be based on science, right? Sure, if you mean political science. The EPA is already under pressure—thanks to the power and money held by these Portland Harbor companies—to propose a cleanup that will be far more limited than, say, what the Willamette Riverkeeper might want. In August, a barge owned by Vigor Industrial, one of the companies potentially on the hook, toured the Willamette with some very special guests: Oregon’s two U.S. senators, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, and U.S. Reps. Earl Blumenauer and Kurt Schrader. The tour gave the congressmen—all Democrats—a firsthand look at the harbor from the companies’ point of view. A few months later, all four signed a letter to the EPA expressing “concerns” that sounded very much like a press release from the harbor companies. The senators and congressmen kicked it off by reminding the EPA about how the harbor has been “an economic center for Oregon for over a hundred years by providing a regional gateway to global markets, family wage jobs, and tax revenue for our communities.” Sure, the river bottom is contaminated, they wrote, but these are tough economic times, and it would be unfortunate if the EPA ordered a cleanup that just didn’t make much of a difference. “Has any work been done,” the senators and congressmen wrote, “to establish the point of diminishing returns economically and environmentally for various cleanup strategies?” Blumenauer tells WW he responded to complaints from “dozens and dozens of businesses and hundreds of people.” “Anybody who didn’t have some concern over how much it’s going to cost and who’s going to pay for it would be suspect,” Blumenauer says. “These are not esoteric questions. This cleanup has already cost Portlanders hundreds of millions of dollars, and we haven’t started cleaning yet. “I’m hopeful,” he adds, “that I will live long enough to see some of the river actually cleaned.” What are these companies—with the clout of our elected officials—really trying to say? In short, if no one is eating the fish, why have clean fish? In raising these questions, the senators and congressmen echoed two other reports paid for by some of the companies as leverage against the EPA. The letter from Wyden, Merkley, Schrader and Blumenauer, in fact, drills down on this very point: Who eats these fish, how many do they eat, and how much risk does doing so pose for people’s health? So, the entire fight over cleaning up the Portland Harbor comes down to who is eating how many fish? 18
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PARTNERSHIP CAPTAIN: “I know some people are going to be skeptical,” says David Harvey of the Portland Harbor Partnership. “What are those critics and skeptics offering in place of our outreach?”
OUTREACH: The Portland Harbor Partnership’s leaflets (top) and website.
Yes—and also by the way in which the Portland Harbor companies frame the debate. Some have recently formed yet another group, Portland Harbor Partnership, that’s running a sleek, $500,000 campaign aimed at the ethnic groups whose members fish the river. The partnership’s campaign includes giving educational presentations, handing out surveys and creating alliances with organizations that represent many of these ethnic and immigrant groups. “It’s not a PR ploy,” says Gunderson’s Harvey, who’s running the campaign. On March 17, Harvey sat in the Portland City Council chambers and told a meeting of the Latino Network that people should not eat too many Portland Harbor fish. “The problem with the fish,” Harvey told the Latino Network, “is if you eat fish over a long period of time: 30, 40 years. You won’t get sick right away.” (A translator repeated his words in Spanish.) Some of the partnership’s materials imply there are other things that might be done with all the money that would otherwise be spent cleaning up the harbor.
“When you think about the Willamette River in the metro area,” one survey asks, “what improvements, new developments or enhancements would you like to see in or along it in the next 10-20 years? (Examples might include things like a park, a downtown beach, better access to the river for boats and kayaks, fishing piers, a community and education center, or redevelopment of vacant land. Be creative! We want to hear your ideas!)” The partnership has been paying some organizations to help it find people in the community to talk to about the harbor. The Urban League of Portland confirmed to WW that it received a $20,000 contract with the Partnership. The Latino Network said it has a $10,000 contract. And the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization received $12,500. Kamar Haji-Mohamed, a community services coordinator for IRCO, says the organization has set up forums with Vietnamese, Russian, Chinese, Somali and Tongan groups. “These communities are not asked for their input much,” she says. “So it’s great for them to feel that they’re part of Portland as well.” Jeri Williams, a program coordinator with the city’s Office of Neighborhood Involvement, says the Partnership is “trying to buy off” ethnic groups. Williams—no relation to Willamette Riverkeeper Travis Williams—is currently running for Portland City Council against Steve Novick (see sidebar on page 17). “I was shocked to hear that the groups I work with were taking money from these people,” she says. “That was alarming, to think that somebody’s spending a lot of money so they don’t have to spend a lot of money.” When will the cleanup actually begin? Don’t hold your breath—unless you’re willing to hold it until way past 2017. That’s how long it’ll take before any major cleanup starts, if Portland Harbor follows the same timeline as the Duwamish River Superfund project in Seattle. That cleanup is often referenced as a more successful model for Portland to emulate. But it took five years after the first feasibility study for the cleanup to begin. At that site, one major player, Boeing, took the lion’s share of financial responsibility. The Portland Harbor doesn’t have a single big player with deep pockets. “This site is so complicated because there are so many potentially liable parties,” Applegate says. “If they insist on fighting the remedy, the cleanup could be delayed and the costs could become extreme. And that’s a failure. Delaying is bad environmentally, it’s bad economically. It’s bad either way.”
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WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK IN ARTS & CULTURE
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28 SUGAR, SPICE AND EVERYTHING NICE [SWEETS] Ever wonder what would happen to a marshmallow Peep in the vacuum of space? Watch the sugary little guy’s fate, eat ice cream made with liquid nitrogen, learn about the spices used in teas, and chow down on candy and cupcakes (while learning about diabetes) at the OMSI After Dark event Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice (That’s what science is made of!). OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave., 797-4000. 6-10 pm, 21+, $6-$12.
FRIDAY, MARCH 30 CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS, SHOOK TWINS [MUSIC] Plucked from a rural backyard jam circa 1930, Carolina Chocolate Drops play traditional Piedmont string band tunes. With the exception of outlier track “Country Girl,” the trio’s latest release, Leaving Eden (produced by the legendary Buddy Miller), is thoroughly noncontemporary. It’s a charming and genuine quality in an era of faux-throwback artists. The Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St. 8 pm. $20 advance, $22 day of show. All ages.
SATURDAY, MARCH 31 LIVE WIRE! [LIVE RADIO] The radio variety show features advice columnist and hiker Cheryl Strayed, former The Daily Show with Jon Stewart producer David Javerbaum, former The Daily Show correspondent Lauren Weedman, Project Censored director Mickey Huff, jazz singer Reva DeVito and shy singer Laura Gibson. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 7:30 pm. $18-$34.
SUNDAY, APRIL 1
POTTY PARTY IS VANCOUVER READY FOR GENDER-NEUTRAL BATHROOM WEEK? If Ally McBeal taught us anything, it’s that unisex public restrooms would not lead to total social degradation, but rather to zany plot twists and dance numbers. Yet for all of our societal progress since that ’90s legal dramedy, designating a multi-stall bathroom gender-neutral still seems a radical idea to many. Now some Washington State University Vancouver students have made raising gender awareness and ending bathroom injustice their No. 1 and No. 2 missions. A student group promoting gender diversity has named April 2-6 “Gender-Neutral Bathroom Week.” Seven bathrooms across the campus will be open to any gender, with volunteer “toilet trainers” stationed out front. Student organizers Janae Teal and Meredith Williams agreed to answer the questions we had the hardest time holding. PENELOPE BASS.
WW: How did this idea come to a head? Students: We’re not sure how the bathroom became this sacred space where women feel they need to police gender to feel safe, or men need to beat up someone who isn’t masculine enough. No one looks like the silly icon on the sign, but I don’t question your presence in there—why question mine? Aren’t we just here to do our business? Who gives a shit? Are you hoping to flush out discrimination with the campaign? We are hoping to wipe away the fears people feel when confronted with someone [who] doesn’t meet with their image of what a man or woman should look like. We hope people will be willing to wash their hands of the need to harass, question or even physically attack people who are just trying to go to the bathroom. What are the duties of the “toilet trainers”? While they will not hold your backpack while you go or teach you how to aim, they will be stationed outside of each gender-neutral bathroom with a snazzy “Toilet Trainer” T-shirt and a walkietalkie. They will answer questions, direct confused people with full bladders, and overall make sure everyone gets to pee in peace. GO: For more information about Gender-Neutral Bathroom Week, check out wsuvgenderdiversity.wordpress.com.
TWEED RIDE [BIKES] Combining two of Portland’s favorite things—old-timey clothing and themed bike rides— the third annual Tweed Ride will parade through town Sunday afternoon. So don Grandpa’s blazer and Grandma’s crinoline and join the ride beginning at Kenilworth Park with an afterparty at Velo Cult bike shop with music, prizes, beer and silhouette portraiture. Kenilworth Park, Southeast 34th Avenue and Holgate Boulevard, tweedpdx.net. 1 pm. Free.
MONDAY, APRIL 2 DEFECT DEFECT, AUTISTIC YOUTH [MUSIC] I don’t quite understand what’s keeping Autistic Youth from becoming one of the biggest punk bands in the U.S. Its songs are consolidated blasts of anthemic, angry and invigorating punk rock that skaters, pop punks and crust crews alike can get behind. That’s a tough trick to pull off. Autistic Youth makes it look easy. Slabtown, 1033 NW 16th Ave. 9 pm. $3. 21+.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28 OMSI After Dark: Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice
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OMSI’s adults-only night puts on what sounds like its tastiest event yet, with demonstrations and activities like putting Peeps into a vacuum chamber, setting gummy bears on fire, making liquid-nitrogen ice cream and “flavor tripping” with miracle fruit tablets (if you’ve never tried it, this really is awesome). DJ Prashant will be there teaching Bollywood and Bhangra dance moves (er, India = spices, I guess?), and, as usual, there will be a bunch of vendors offering food and drink samples, including Saint Cupcake, Woodblock Chocolate, Xocolatl de David, Burnside Brewing Company and Girardet Wines. OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave., 797-4000. 6-10 pm. $6 for OMSI Members, $12 for nonmembers, free for OMSI After Dark members. 21+.
THURSDAY, MARCH 29 “C” is for Cooking Class at Salty’s
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Salty’s latest cooking class is all about the letter C: cucumber cocktails, crab cakes, cioppino and creme brulee. Executive Chef Josh Gibler will show you how to make these things, then feed them to you. Salty’s on the Columbia, 3839 NE Marine Drive, 505-9986. 6 pm. $49 per person.
SATURDAY, MARCH 31 North Willamette Wine Trail Weekend
North Willamette Vintners holds its fourth North Willamette Wine Trail Weekend, with 24 area wineries opening their doors for tastings, food pairings, tours, demonstrations, entertainment and other fermented-grape-focused festivities. Highlights include graft your own grapevine at Plum Hill Vineyards, a live barrel-making demonstration at Montinore Estate, a comparative food pairing against wine and sake at Abbey Creek Vineyard and a tractor tour at Tualatin Estate Vineyard—plus, of course, the parts where you drink wine. 11 am-4 pm Saturday-Sunday, March 31-April 1. $45 per person for full weekend, $30 for Sunday only. 21+.
Mead Class and Tasting
Prediction: Craft mead will be the new craft cider, which is the new craft beer. Yamhill’s Kookoolan Farms is getting ahead of the pack with a mead-making class. Doug Remington, manager of Main Street Homebrew Supply Store in Hillsboro and author of traditionalmead.com, will teach early adopters how to turn honey into wine, and lead a tasting of “world-class” barrel-aged wine from Europe. There also will be a tour of Kookoolan’s mead-making facilities, and a barrel tasting of its own two meads, which will be released later this year. Kookoolan Farms, 15713 Highway 47, 730-7535. 5-8 pm. $70 per person, includes tasting, small-plates pairing and a $10 coupon good for anything from Kookoolan Farms.
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PORKFECTION: Smokehouse 21 makes a mean pulled pork.
WARM AND KOOZIE The koozies are genius. There’s something inexplicably decadent and wonderful about a restaurant offering a cushy foam barrier to keep your beer cold and your hand warm. Sipping $2 cans of PBR from Smokehouse 21’s house-branded koozies, this crazy world makes sense. We’ve seen this bougiecue formula before: meat like what the Civil War’s losing side eats while watching stock car races and MMA bouts, plus sides that incorporate slightly more vegetable matter and less cheese. Factor in proper napkins, show-quality taxidermy and the Black Keys, and you can take a date to this Alphabet District spot. No, this bistro-style smokehouse in the former Tanuki space is not on par with our 2011 Restaurant of the Year, Podnah’s Pit. But, after trying most of the menu over three visits, it’s clear Smokehouse 21 does some things extremely well. Order this: Pulled pork sandwich with coleslaw ($10) and a $2 PBR. The pulled pork is the reason I’ll pass: The bacon molasses cornto come. It’s juicy, rich with bread ($2) is missing something. smoke and shredded into perfect pieces. Get a sandwich on a brioche bun from Ken’s, pick your favorite of the four barbecue sauces, and have at ’er. The sides are equally impressive. The greens are sharp with vinegar, but their perfect consistency—crisp yet fully cooked—makes up for it. Baked beans and macaroni and cheese, both topped with a cornbread crust and infused with leftover meat, are pleasantly rich. Fingerling potatoes, shallots and grainy mustard give the potato salad a wonderful earthiness. The other meats aren’t as great. The brisket was too dry with too little bark both times we tried it. Extra fat turned up on the ribs (both pork and lamb), which need be further rendered. The housemade hot link was totally forgettable, given there’s so much great charcuterie in this town. The trout isn’t bad, but it pales in comparison to Podnah’s. Then again, Podnah’s doesn’t have koozies. MARTIN CIZMAR. GO: Smokehouse 21, 413 NW 21st Ave., 971-373-8990, smokehouse21.com. 11:30 am-10 pm Sunday-Thursday, 11:30 ammidnight Friday-Saturday. $$.
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LITTLE SISTER ISA (EVERYBODY’S BREWING) India pale ales are getting increasingly boozy. The standard IPA was once between 5 and 6 percent alcohol, but topping 7 percent is now commonplace. Why? Well, people want bitter, hoppy IPAs, and balancing that bitterness also requires more malts. Those malts get fermented into alcohol and, before long, drinkers are on their ass. Enter the India session ale. The emerging style fits a niche like froyo: a passable imitation of the real deal. Everybody’s Brewing—based across the Columbia from Hood River in White Salmon, Wash.—has the stated mission of “focusing on session beers with all the flavor.” At 4.5 percent alcohol, Little Sister ISA is grassy and dry, as expected given the lighter malt bill. It does deliver a flowery aroma and bitter bite. Those of us who enjoy extra citrus and tart fruit notes might like to see the brewers play around with hop varieties, but this ISA is still a winner now and especially for the warm days ahead. BRIAN YAEGER.
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THE CANDYMAN CAN: Fizz isn’t too cool to bring your mom to.
FIZZ WITHOUT BUZZ If I wanted to get rich and famous in Portland, I’d open an old-timey soda fountain. I’d call it Dr. Pickwick’s Tonics & Elixirs. I’d fill it with vintage pharmacy bottles and old patent medicine advertisements and a gramophone that scratched and skipped away in the corner. The servers—I’d call them carOrder this: Mint Ginger Mama with phosphates ($2.50). bonologists—would wear bow ties I’ll pass: Milkshakes, which and sleeve garters and sport curly you can get anywhere. waxed mustaches. They would theatrically craft each drink with antique soda siphons, housemade syrups, local herbs and hand-churned ice creams. At night, they would serve alcoholic versions. There would be live taffy pulling every Sunday. The New York Times would be on it like a rash on a sailor. I would be wildly successful, but, alas, I would then have to kill myself for being such a twat. I can’t tell you how delighted I was to discover that Fizz— a new soda fountain and candy store off Southeast Belmont Street—does not resemble my nightmare of the 1890s. Modern, bright and minimalist in décor, its shelves are stocked with plenty of brand-name sweets from multinational food conglomerates. This suited my dining companions just fine. Felix, 6, was especially taken with the Angry Birds and Super Mario gummies. Zoe, 10, had been concerned “it would be, like, an old-fashioned place.” The only nods to retro are a stand of classic candies—Mallo Cups, Turkish Taffy, Goo Goo Clusters—some of the impressive 200-plus bottled-soda selections, and a “shrine” to departed children’s TV presenter Ramblin’ Rod, which is really just a jacket covered in buttons (you can add your own) attached to a slightly creepy cutout of his face. But the Fizz’s raison d’être is its soda fountain, which boasts a menu of about 30 flavors, ranging from four types of root beer to bananas foster, chocolate peanut butter and strawberry cheesecake. The syrups are from Pittsburgh (2,165 food miles!), though they’re made with cane sugar, and the ice cream is good old Alpenrose. Sodas ($1.75-$2.25) and floats ($3.50-$4) are mixed to order via a sleek soda tap. The servings aren’t quite the overflowing monsters you’ll get elsewhere, and the carbonation was a little gentle for my egg cream ($2.50, made with Fox’s U-Bet), but these are adult quibbles. The biggest concern for the kids was the overwhelming number of choices—our server recommended the butter beer (it’s apparently a Harry Potter thing), which tasted like butterscotch and root beer and was pronounced by Zoe to be “really yummy.” The weirder we went, the better everything was. For an extra 25 cents, you can add phosphoric acid to any drink. It should be added to everything, everywhere, as it imparts a wonderful tartness, magically enhancing everything you’d expect (mint ginger) and everything you wouldn’t (sarsaparilla float). Sharing sugary science experiments over a bag of gummy snakes is about the most fun you can have in Portland for under $5. Fizz probably won’t make The Times any time soon, but Zoe and Felix say its “cool,” which is good enough for me. RUTH BROWN. GO: Fizz is at 817 SE 34th Ave., 894-8980, fizzportland.com. 11 am-9 pm daily. $. Willamette Week MARCH 28, 2012 wweek.com
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28 Good Old War, Belle Brigade, Family of the Year
[SIBLING ROCK] It was always going to be music for Barbara and Ethan Gruska. Their grandfather is John Williams, the dude who scored Star Wars and Schindler’s List. The duo crafts gluey, drifting alt-rock bolstered by restless vocal harmonies. Belle Brigade’s self-titled debut testifies to a certain smoothness about the band, a dreamy, slightly folky roundness akin to Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac. Hang out for headliners Good Old War, Philadelphia’s answer to Blind Pilot. MARK STOCK. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $15. Minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. All ages.
13 Months of Sunshine: Nurses DJs, DJ Swami Davis Jr., DJ Jeffrey Jerusalem, DJ Jason Urick, DJ Cuica, DJ Spencer D
[ASTRAL PROJECTION] It’s tempting to claim Holocene’s new monthly “African Sounds Dance Party” taps into some recent revitalization of transSaharan music: To point to, there are Africa-enamored acts like, nationally, Tune-Yards and, locally, Brainstorm. Then again, there probably isn’t an act today whose musical genealogy doesn’t branch back to Mama Africa, right? So, let’s not overthink it: Tonight’s 13 Months of Sunshine, featuring DJ sets from Nurses and Swami Davis of Seattle world-music label Sublime Frequencies, is simply about tripping the light fantastic to a land more luminous than early-spring Oregon. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 2397639. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
THURSDAY, MARCH 29 Soulfly, Dirtnap, Separation of Sanity
[WORLD METAL] As a metal outsider, Soulfly always struck me as a weird name for a crushingly heavy band; it sounds more like a white funk jam band that would play a residency at the Goodfoot. Then again, leader Max Cavalera is an odd figure in the metal world. After leaving Brazilian behemoths Sepultura in 1996, the dreadlocked frontman formed Soulfly and began mixing pulverizing thrash with spiritual themes and tribal percussion, which alienated purists but drew in the adventurous. After 14 years, the band has nearly superseded the group it spun off from, with its latest album, Enslaved, continuing its furious run. MATTHEW SINGER. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. All ages.
Petunia & the Vipers, The Barn Door Slammers
[COLD-BLOODED OLD-TIMEY] I usually don’t fall for these sorts of things, but a line in Petunia & the Vipers’ bio describing the band’s frontman, Petunia, as David Lynch and Nick Cave’s hillbilly baby works for me. On one hand, the band plays a crystal clear brand of honky tonk- and bluegrass-inspired Americana (Canadiana?), and Petunia’s voice harks back to other mononymous artists like Hank, Buck and Cash. But there’s a cartoonish darkness to Petunia’s music that gives it a surrealist edge. The band’s self-titled 2011 full-length is a beautiful slice of psychedelic, spooky country that shouldn’t be missed. And the dude yodels. CASEY JARMAN. Mount Tabor Theater, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 8 pm. $8. 21+.
Foal, He Whose Ox Is Gored, Electric Falcons, Kings and Vagabonds
[POST HARDCORE] I have never liked Victory Records or music that sounds like it should be on Victory Records. Most of the apes on that label seemed far too concerned with beating their chests, shouting about their vegan diets and sporting their baseball caps. The very few exceptions are some of the most creatively heavy artists VR ever deigned to work with, namely Deadguy and Bloodlet— bands that tempered their ferocious anger with career-sinking originality. I’m really glad local outfit Foal does the metalcore thing in the exact vein I like. Thanks, guys. Also on the bill is Seattle band He Whose Ox Is Gored, which plays very loud shoegazey synth grunge. Worth seeing. NATHAN CARSON. Plan B, 1305 SE 8th Ave., 230-9020. 8 pm. $5. 21+.
Sun Araw Band, Eternal Tapestry, Matthewdavid, M. Geddes Gengras, DIVA
[DUBBY BURBLES] One of the most quietly powerful releases of 2011 was the smoky oracle known as Ancient Romans by Sun Araw. The eight tracks on it bubbled with a lackadaisical joy, a bong hit of muggy psych pop filtered through AM radio cheesecloth. Where that album, and most of the work released under the Sun Araw name, is the product of one man’s redeyed vision, this tour finds Cameron Stallones bringing a full band along with him to add some bluster and dutchie-passing camaraderie to the sonic mix. ROBERT HAM. Rotture, 315 SE 3rd Ave., 234-5683. 9 pm. $7. 21+.
FRIDAY, MARCH 30 The Shakers’ Ball: Casey Neill & the Norway Rats, Ian Moore & the Lossy Coils, Rob Stroup & the Blame
[ALADDIN SHAKES] I’d imagine Rob Barteletti isn’t big on being called “inspirational.” The local singer-songwriter, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2002, has taken a more workmanlike than Lifetime-movie approach to battling his affliction. Through his annual Shakers’ Ball concerts and last year’s Shakers’ Sessions album— which is packed with local guest stars and distributed through Burgerville restaurants—he has built an impressive Parkinson’s research fundraising machine via the music community he knows and loves. Though playing guitar has proven increasingly difficult for Barteletti as his disease has advanced, he’s a pretty commanding performer (hell, the inadvertent movements give his guitar playing a little extra style!), and we hope he takes the stage to play a couple tonight, alongside the fine local musicians performing the Bartelettipenned songs off his Shakers’ Sessions disc. CASEY JARMAN. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 7 pm. $15. Minors must be accompanied by a parent. All ages.
Carolina Chocolate Drops, Shook Twins
[REALLY OLD SCHOOL] Plucked from a rural backyard jam circa 1930, Carolina Chocolate Drops play traditional Piedmont string band tunes. The vocalist role is shared, with Rhiannon Giddens imparting a gospel feel and counterpart Dom Flemons adding the belly-aching rasp of a struggling postDepression man. With the exception of outlier track “Country Girl,” the trio’s newest release, Leaving Eden (produced by the legendary Buddy Miller), is thoroughly noncontemporary. It’s a charming and genuine quality in an
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PART-TIME POET JOHN K. SAMSON IS A GENIUS SONGWRITER. HE MIGHT QUIT. BY CASEY JA R MA N
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In his 15-year career as frontman for the Weakerthans and as a solo artist, John K. Samson has written dozens of increasingly masterful story songs from the perspectives of bed-ridden hospital patients, young revolutionaries, weary roadtrippers and (twice now) a bored house cat named Virtute. Samson is equal parts poet, investigative journalist and activist—he began his music career playing bass in seminal Canadian punk outfit Propagandhi—and in the last decade he has become one of the finest songwriters of his generation. He’s not exactly sure what he wants to do with his life. “I’ve always felt like a part-time songwriter,” Samson says via telephone from his home in Winnipeg, where he’s nursing a cold. “I’ve always had other jobs. I have a part-time job in the publishing industry; it’s an office job...so my days are pretty full when I’m at home. “I’m not totally sold on the idea that this is something I’ll do for the rest of my life. And I’m actually pretty comfortable with that.” It’s not the writing itself that gives Samson pause. He only writes three or four songs a year, and finishing them feels like “good, clean labor.” And while fronting a live band took years for Samson to feel comfortable with, he enjoys that now, too. It’s “the anxiety around the 40 percent of the job that isn’t creative,” he says, that makes the job tough. Being recognized in Winnipeg—a city he has penned countless songs for, including “One Great City” (the singalong chorus to which is “I hate Winnipeg”) and its quasi-sequel “Heart of the Continent,” which describes the town in similarly dark fashion (“Our demolitions punctuate/ All we mean to say then leave too late”)—is awkward for him. Being pinned as an artist that represents Canada—Samson considers himself a regional artist who has “more in common with an artist from Minneapolis than a songwriter from Vancouver”—is more difficult still. And yet Samson’s new album, Provincial, is both presented under his own name and loaded with
songs about his native Manitoba. It is a loose concept album that “starts in the middle and spreads out from there, in either direction,” Samson says. The two songs in the middle, about a burnt-out master’s student who can’t finish his thesis and an 80-year-old letter from a dying tuberculosis patient at Manitoba’s Ninette Sanatorium, respectively, are related. “It was this idea that maybe he had this letter in his desk drawer, but it was just sitting there untranslated, and would have really helped him finish his thesis...so it’s these two miserable guys who are connected but not connecting.” That Samson gives a procrastinating student and a dying Icelandic man the same dignity is a hallmark of his writing: Some of Provincial’s characters flirt with death, and some—the teacher who feels neglected after a fling with her school’s principal on “The Last And”; the computer nerd who tapes garbage bags to his windows so he can shut out the real world and play Call of Duty—seem ripe for judgment. Samson stays right there with them, taking their problems, their hopes and their dreams as seriously as the characters do. It’s not, perhaps, what one expects from a guy who got his start with a confrontational punk outfit. But Samson, who says he has tried to write directly political songs that never seem to come out right, says it comes from a similar place. “Songwriting shouldn’t be used as a weapon. It’s a more thoughtful and important art form than that,” he says. “I do think empathy is the hallmark of progressive politics. It’s the foundation of any kind of forward movement in this world.” What keeps Samson coming back to songwriting, though, has less to do with politics than it does with pop. “I’m so comforted by a pop song, by that mysterious thing a melody does, and a hook and a chorus,” he says. “There are certainly moments where you do feel like almost something kind of supernatural is involved in [writing] a song, but then there are also those days just spent sitting at a desk, super-frustrated, scratching out one line in a week and throwing it away and being incredibly mad. It’s about 98 percent of that for me, 2 percent of something else. “To dedicate a life to it? I’ve just kind of realized that isn’t for me.” SEE IT: John K. Samson and the Provincial Band play Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., on Monday, April 2, with Shotgun Jimmie. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+. To read a full Q&A, go to wweek.com. Willamette Week MARCH 28, 2012 wweek.com
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THE LUMINEERS FRIDAY, MARCH 30 [FOLK POP] Leaving New York is never easy, or so latter-day R.E.M. would have us believe. Ask Jeremiah Fraites of the Lumineers, though, and he’ll tell you it’s really not that difficult. He and songwriting partner Wesley Schultz grew up in the New Jersey suburbs, so when it came time to pursue music as a potentially legitimate career, they hit the Big Apple hard. After a few years of making little progress, and struggling to pay rent, the pair decided to pull up stakes and head for the greener pastures and higher altitudes of Denver. Going from the center of the universe to a city not exactly known as a musical hotbed seems like a step backward, but the relocation served the duo well. “When we were playing in New York City and we were from that area, we were just another band,” says Fraites by phone from a tour stop in San Diego. “When we returned to New York City, we were looked at as this band coming from Denver. It’s kind of funny that we had to move away to be more accepted.” Moving to Denver did more than increase the Lumineers’ novelty factor: It’s where the band found its identity. In their New York-based incarnation, Fraites admits he and Schultz lacked focus. Stripping away the excess, the two were left with the elements they valued most: heart-on-sleeve lyricism and old-timey instrumentation. Recruiting cellist Neyla Pekarek, the newly minted trio sharpened its sound into the kind of emotionally resonant folk associated with the likes of the Avett Brothers and Mumford & Sons. Only, on the group’s upcoming self-titled full-length debut, the band forgoes the stadium sheen that makes those other acts sound like Coldplay with banjos, keeping its feet planted in the beery Denver open-mic scene it grew from—especially when its joyous, celebratory live shows are concerned. It’s uplifting music from a band whose core members are bonded by tragedy. In 2001, Joshua Fraites, Jeremiah’s older brother and Schultz’s childhood friend, died of a drug overdose at age 19; in 2007, Schultz’s dad succumbed to cancer. “We’ve been through some rough stuff in our lives,” Fraites says. Still, the Lumineers’ MO is chanting down pain rather than wallowing in it. First single “Ho Hey,” with its “Chain Gang”-like vocal push and pull, is a brokenhearted love song catchy enough to become this year’s “Home,” the inescapable 2009 indie hit from fellow new-folk revelers Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes. Such comparisons are bound to dog the Lumineers, given the sudden explosion of groups making swollen-hearted pop with rootsy accents. But Fraites insists the group isn’t just riding the bandwagon, nor is it about to get off now that everyone else has caught on. “Genre doesn’t necessarily concern us,” he says. “It’s kind of coincidental that we’re seemingly cashing in on this thing. For us, we just simply had to write music for how we thought these songs should breathe. If it happens to be popular now, then so be it. We’re not going to rebel against that.” MATTHEW SINGER.
You can totally go home again.
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IT’S NEW OPEN SEASON ON PORTLAND’S POLITICOS!
CANDIDATES GONE WILD
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3-way tug of war between mayoral candidates Jefferson Smith, Charlie Hales & Eileen Brady! & even wilder!
Amanda Fritz and Mary Nolan teach tango! The secret talents of Portland politicians! Julian Assange!* Music by Radiation City! Hosted by Live Wire’s Courtenay Hameister!
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era of faux-throwback artists. MARK STOCK. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm. $20 advance, $22 day of show. All ages.
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A revolving band of musical party-throwers signed to David Byrne’s Luaka Bop record label rocking danceworthy, tropicalia-tinged music
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[NOSTALGIC ELECTRONIC] Naming his most recent mini-LP Lineage is only one layer of the nostalgic gloss that makes up Michiganbred musician Shigeto’s aesthetic. You’ll find the same backwardlooking bent in the cover art—a picture of his grandfather’s home in Hiroshima—and in song titles that provide small details from Shigeto’s life: “Ann Arbor Part 3 & 4,” “Field Trip.” The music carries the rest of the burden, throwing small dusty samples of easy-listening records in with flickering downtempo jazzhop. Portland’s own electronic wunderkind, Emancipator, headlines. ROBERT HAM. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
The Zeros, Chemicals, Youthbitch, Diskords, DJ Cecilia
[CLASSIC PUNK] With the exception of the Ramones rip “Beat Your Heart Out,” which spiked the proto-punk formula with rock-’n’-roll raunch and paved the way for Angry Samoans’ sleazebag brilliance, the Zeros’ revered late-’70s singles sound a bit limp in this millennium. But since death’s sure hand has deprived us of proper nostalgia trips led by the Dead Boys and the Ramones and the Germs, the Zeros will do just fine as representatives of 1977. CHRIS STAMM. East End, 203 SE Grand Ave., 232-0056. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
Petoskey, River Whyless, Little Tybee
[CHAMBER FOLK] You’ve got to really make something special to stand out in Portland’s crowded acoustic pop field, and Petoskey’s Bombs Away—produced by, wouldn’t you know it, Miracle Lake Studios’ Skyler Norwood—is a special record. From the summery, low-key swing of opener “Baby Bee” to the big spaghetti Westernesque title track, things kick off in fine form, and move from Western swing to balladry to the excellent near-classical “1627 Leffingwell” and matter-of-fact closer “You Get It.” A tight rhythm section and frontwoman Angie Kuzma’s fine vocals (think of a less little-kiddish Joanna Newsom) are the backbone here, but there’s an awful lot swirling on around them, which is why Petoskey plays live shows as a nine-piece. Don’t expect the band to blow out your eardrums, but you might carry some sort of mind protection, just in case. CASEY JARMAN. The Immortal Piano Company, 4011 SE Belmont St. 7 pm. Cover. All ages.
Reva DeVito, Grynch, Wax Trap
[R&B/HIP-HOP] Cloudshine, Portland R&B singer Reva Devito’s new album-length collaboration with producer Roane Namuh, is an aptly named disc. Its eight tracks are loaded with warm, mercurial beats that lock into a groove and stay there. Namuh’s capsules of hypnotic jazz and funk don’t leave a ton of room for DeVito to come to the fore, so she smartly presents her voice as another instrument in the tapestry, keeping things loose and improvisational-feeling. It’s a bit of a U-turn from her more traditional 2010 Catnip Collective EP, but it’s good to know that Devito is as comfortable blending in to trippy soundscapes as she is running the show. CASEY JARMAN. Ted’s (at Berbati’s), 231 SW Ankeny St., 2484579. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
Blue Cranes, Graham Reynolds, Classical Revolution PDX
[CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL AND JAZZ] Before the jazzy Blue Cranes take the stage in this March Music Moderne concert, Classical Revolution PDX cellist Erin Winemiller and violinist Lucia
Conrad will play music by Dvořák and Piazzolla with pianist Naomi LaViolette, who’ll also sing her original songs. They’ll be joined by the fascinating Austin composer Graham Reynolds in his upbeat rebootings of classics by Duke Ellington and his terrific triple concerto, The Difference Engine, based on the proto-computing device that also inspired the novel by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson. BRETT CAMPBELL. The Blue Monk, 3341 SE Belmont St., 503-5950575. 8 pm. $8-$20. 21+.
SATURDAY, MARCH 31 Toxic Zombie, Hands for Battle, Ditch Digger, Aftereverything
[DEAD HEADBANGERS] Portland sextet Toxic Zombie proves zombie culture isn’t exclusive to fans of death metal and long talks about feelings on AMC: It’s all about dressing up as a rotting corpse and partying balls. So that’s what TZ does, with deadite go-go dancers complementing a crunchy hybrid of psychobilly, punk and classic rock, plus a little Eagles of Death Metal skeez. And while any shtick can seem like beating an undead horse, TZ’s kitsch is offset by its commitment to skullbusting rock. AP KRYZA. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 7 pm. $10. All ages.
Don and the Quixotes, The Pynnacles, The Lonesome Billies
[SURF] Portland quartet Don and the Quixotes makes its mission abundantly clear on the title track of its debut, My Name Is Don!: “My name is Don, with the Quixotes/ We came to play surf music and we/
Insist that you get out of your seat/ So we can rock this little party.” What follows is a mostly instrumental surf odyssey marked by a quirk (dig the Ventures-ified take on Beethoven), a little sleaze, a lot of love and a glaze of grit. Consider the party rocked. AP KRYZA. Kenton Club, 2025 N Kilpatrick St., 285-3718. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
Ani DiFranco
[NEWPORT MENTHOL FOLK] Two decades and 17 studio albums into a terribly ’90s career, indie pioneer, bisexual activist and folk-’n’-run provocateur Ani Di Franco’s latest release, ¿Which Side Are You On?— her first in four years—appears designed to overcome the dinnerparty jazz trappings of the Grammywinning new wife and mother’s most recent work. Her signature fingerpicking guitar stylings remain instantly recognizable, the wit and directness of her autobiographical musings ring true, but her limp political statements—reducing the title track, an incendiary unionist ’30s screed, to a sloganeering jingle with Pete Seeger accompaniment—doth protest too much. JAY HORTON. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $35. 21+.
Donavon Frankenreiter, Matt Grundy
[SUNSHINE SONGS] Some of Donavon Frankenreiter’s best stuff is in his two-EP set of stripped-down acoustic cover songs, Recycled Recipes volumes one and two (released four years apart). He also caught attention with his funky, sunsoaked and relatively high-energy phase in 2006’s Move By Yourself.
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LEIGH MARBLE WHERE THE KNIVES MEET BETWEEN THE ROWS (LAUGHING STOCK) [SINGER-SONGWRITER] It has been more than four years since Leigh Marble recorded critically acclaimed sophomore album Red Tornado, and during the elongated gestation of latest offering Where the Knives Meet Between the Rows, a succession of personal setbacks small and large deepened the new tracks’ underlying emotive register. Here, the folk-tinged troubadour bends his signal genre well away from the self-styled punk Americana of his early efforts to embrace big-chorused indie pop and swaggering guitar rock, all of which meshes surprisingly well with his more introspective musings. While the former Tape Op scribe’s back catalog always revealed a certain familiarity with studio technique, his two previous full-lengths betrayed the nervous busker’s energy and both the strengths and weaknesses of singer-songwriterly traditions. Where the Knives Meet Between the Rows is a far more fully realized album, as Marble luxuriates in a comfortable, confident sense of space at the same time as he expands his sonic palate to best fit the considerably more challenging tunes. Though moments hark back to the gothic stomp/folk garage of past Marble works, a vein of measured experimentalism runs through the brooding pulse of “Walk” (postpunk doom-pop rootsiness; hinterpol, let’s call it) and the anthemic overdrive of “Pony,” while standout track “Jackrabbit” mines T. Rex and Midnight Oil for playful, scouring indie-rock drive-time thrills. Originally intended as a “band” album, he ended up incorporating the contributions of an enviable selection of local musicians (Erin McKeown, Jesse Emerson, Rachel Taylor-Brown) to flesh out the cinematic backdrops for his incisive, aggressive lyrical stabs on topics ranging from hipsterdom’s smarmy self-importance to the bitter fatalism of accepting life’s grimmer realities. The blend of a bristling intelligence and pulsating humanity— madman passion undercut with surgeon’s skill—informs and strengthens the polished (but never antiseptic) production to harrowing effect that ever trembles between clinical precision and gripping urgency. JAY HORTON. SEE IT: Leigh Marble plays Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., on Thursday, March 29, with the Ascetic Junkies and Kelly Anne Masigat. 9 pm. $6 advance, $8 day of show. 21+.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 1 Duffy Bishop, Lisa Mann, LaRhonda Steele, Rae Gordon, Amy Keys, D.K. Stewart Sextet, Bobby Torres (Etta James tribute)
[BLUES TRIBUTE] The kittenish Etta James hit the blues and R&B scenes in the ’50s like a freight train with her blasting, powerful voice. James died of leukemia Jan. 20, and this show is a benefit for Etta-indebted singer Candye Kane, veteran of many festival and club appearances in the area, who is undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer for the second time in four years. Portland favorite Duffy Bishop, no shrinking violet at the mic, is among the blues “divas” paying tribute tonight. DAN DEPREZ. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 6 pm. $20. Minors must be accompanied by a parent. All ages.
La Dispute, Balance and Composure, All Get Out, Sainthood Reps
[HARDCORE POETRY] One of last year’s late surprises, La Dispute’s Wildlife is an ambitious, discomfitingly sincere and deeply affecting entry into the post-hardcore canon, an album that rewards careful listening and repeated exposure. It is ultimately frontman Jordan Dreyer’s show: Spitting dense literature over a serpentine soundtrack that recalls At the Drive In, the frontman is a captivating presence on record, a singer in thrall to language and its beautiful, baleful rhythms. He is a bundle of possessed glory, and if even half of his power is on display tonight, get ready to be blessed. CHRIS STAMM. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 6:30 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. All ages.
Hot Snakes, Corin Tucker Band, Bangs
[POST-POST-HARDCORE] With everyone from At the Drive-In to Refused getting back together, we’re in the midst of a late-’90s, early-’00s post-hardcore revival, though the only resurrected act not likely to embarrass itself on the touring circuit is San Diego’s Hot Snakes. For three raging albums, the band—featuring members of cult legends Drive Like Jehu and Rocket From the Crypt—took Sonic Youth’s already warped guitars
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and twisted them into something even more mangled and vicious, with singer Rick Froberg’s detached screaming resembling an angry, post-op Kim Gordon. Like the Jesus Lizard, whose reunion a few years ago proved its screeching pigfuck only got better with time, something tells me middle age is going to agree with these guys. MATTHEW SINGER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show. 21+.
Craig Carothers
[SINGER-SONGWRITER] Craig Carothers built a national reputation performing exclusively in Portland for more than a decade. In 1998, Trisha Yearwood included Carothers’ “Little Hercules” on her multiplatinum Greatest Hits album. After moving to Nashville, the singer-songwriter has had songs recorded by Kathy Mattea and Peter, Paul and Mary, among others. As a vocalist, Carothers does “wry” and “aching” better than most, in songs with sometimes playful lyrics and instantly memorable melodies. DAN DEPREZ. Kennedy School, 5736 NE 33rd Ave., 249-3983. 7:30 pm. $10. All ages.
MONDAY, APRIL 2 Kathleen Edwards, Hannah Georgas
[SINGER-SONGWRITERGIRLFRIEND] I enjoyed Kathleen Edwards more before she started dating Justin Vernon (Bon Iver). Her January 2012 release, Voyageur (co-produced by Vernon), loses some of the roughness and charming twang that usually dwell in an Edwards album. Instead, it’s strewn with well-produced Bon Iver-esque instrumentals, wispy layers and softened vocals (including some of Vernon’s). That’s not to say I’m not a fan of Vernon’s music, and I definitely don’t want to talk smack about collaboration, but this album sounds like Edwards sacrificed her most endearing qualities in the name of love. But I suppose relationships are all about compromise. EMILEE BOOHER. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $20. Minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. All ages.
Races, NO
[DARK HORSE ROCK] With its just-released debut LP, Year of the Witch, Angeleno sextet Races has come out of the starting gate strong. The record introduces a band with none of the distasteful glossiness of so many L.A. exports, and whose music is hard to describe in the same good way as, say, the National’s: Both groups just make wellturned rock, bells and whistles not included. Unassuming though Races may be, the band’s expansive sound, melodious harmonies and slow-and-steady tempos make it a filly to watch. JONATHAN
MONDAY-TUESDAY FROCHTZWAJG. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
Defect Defect, Autistic Youth, Atrocity Exhibition, Whales, Pale Horse
[PUNK ROCK] I don’t quite understand what’s keeping Autistic Youth from becoming one of the biggest punk bands in the U.S. Its debt to the Wipers is pretty much standard for Northwest punk at this point, but this Portland band uses Sage sparingly, opting instead to range for scattered sounds from across the punk spectrum. The songs that result are consolidated blasts of anthemic, angry and invigorating punk rock that skaters, pop punks and crust crews alike can get behind. That’s a tough trick to pull off. Autistic Youth makes it look easy. CHRIS STAMM. Slabtown, 1033 NW 16th Ave., 2230099. 9 pm. $3. 21+.
TUESDAY, APRIL 3 The Black Dahlia Murder, Nile, Skeletonwitch, Hour of Penance
[CAREER DEATH METAL] It’s interesting that extreme metal has become so commodified that there’s even room for really good bands to be swept into career paths. Of course, there are all sorts of successful mallcore bands lurching through breakdowns and autotuning their mealy death roars. But there are also lifers like Nile, an Egyptian-by-way-of-Lovecraftthemed death metal act. And there’s Skeletonwitch—a group of Midwestern vikings that played the smallest room in Portland five years ago, yet last swept through supporting Danzig. It’s not fine art, perhaps, but it is good work. NATHAN CARSON. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 7:30 pm. $7 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.
The Cribs, Hurry Up, Needful Longings
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[OFF-KILTER GUITAR POP] The Cribs arose during the great wave of exciting, new British music that emerged in the mid2000s, marked by bands like Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, and the Futureheads. Originally hailing from Wakefield, England, the Cribs’ angular guitar pop fit in nicely even if the band never made it to the top of the heap. Then came
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the membership of Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr in 2008, which catapulted the Cribs’ recognition and sound further. After a three-year run, Marr left the trio of brothers last year, and the group is now supporting its forthcoming album, In the Belly of the Brazen Bull, due in May. NILINA MASONCAMPBELL. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8 pm. $14 advance, $15 day of show.
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[JAZZ] On “Hancho Pancho,” the second track from Los Angeles quartet Slumgum’s Quardboard Flavored Fiber, somebody clicks what sounds like a Big Muff pedal on Dave Tranchina’s stand-up bass. All of a sudden, this quartet you thought you were getting to know turns into something much more dangerous. And while the group touches on the straight-ahead, the Afro-pop-inspired and the tropical elsewhere on the disc, the fact it establishes such broad boundaries early on makes tunes like the “Big Fun (Street Puddle Rainbow)”— mellow save for a solo that finds Jon Armstrong’s saxophone sounding like it’s gasping for air—all the more engaging, and encourages pop-minded listeners to try to make sense of cuts like the chaotic title track. We expect this rare allages progressive jazz happy-hour show to keep the audience on its toes. CASEY JARMAN. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave. 6:30 pm. $5. All ages.
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MEGAFAUN Formed: 2006 in North Carolina. Sounds like: Improvisational folk musicians prone to frequent jazz, experimental and rock seizures. For fans of: The Grateful Dead, Blitzen Trapper, Akron/ Family, Bon Iver. Latest release: Last year’s Megafaun, the band’s fourth LP, released through Portland label Hometapes. Why you care: Because it’s like listening to five bands in one. After brothers Brad and Phil Cook met Joe Westerlund at jazz camp in 1997, the three played together in various projects, including the group DeYarmond Edison with Justin Vernon (Bon Iver). The early collaborations meant the trio accumulated nearly 10 years of practice before Megafaun’s conception, providing a comfortable and wide-ranging canvas to work with. Where far-flung eclecticism is a turnoff for some fans, Megafaun challenges the desire for consistency in a band’s sound by exercising curiosity for many forms of music-making—and all of its material is solid enough to make believers out of genre snobs. Although last year’s self-titled album boosted the acoustic roots and toned down the exploratory asymmetry of previous work, it still provided enough dissonant experimentation to spice up the steady stream of easy listening. SEE IT: Megafaun plays Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., on Saturday, March 31, with Field Report. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
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[POST-WEEZY] Compton rapper Tyga’s got friends in high places, though not the kind of friends you might imagine, considering his hometown. His cousin is Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes, who got him his first high-profile guest spot, rapping over a remix of a Fall Out Boy song. Yeah, not so gangsta. Still, the kid is poised to become 2012’s Wiz Khalifa. Signed to Lil Wayne’s Young Money imprint, he’s in the company of some of current pop rap’s most omnipresent figures, including Drake and Nicki Minaj. His second official studio album, Careless World: Rise of the Last King, features production from Pharrell and Cool and Dre, and his confident flow—usually used in service of supremely horny lyrics— sounds pretty good over sparse, 808 beats. MATTHEW SINGER. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. Sold out. All ages.
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Wednesday March 28
CODY’S WHEEL
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(THE NW TAKEOVER) MASTAMIND (OF NATAS), SCUM, SMALLZ ONE, BOBBY SICK, KRAZY K, PARALLAXX, DEZLOOCA, JUAREZ, LDP, BRUTHA FLO & JSWAGG 7pm • all ages in the ConCert hall
ELIGH (LIVING LEGENDS) and AMP LIVE (ZION I) ONRY OZZBORN (OLDOMINION, GRAYSKUL) AND ROB CASTRO SERGE SEVERE (SANDPEOPLE) 8pm • 21+ in the sideshow lounge
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2958 NE Glisan St. Dan Haley/Mike Danner Band (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Hanz Araki
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McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Crown Point
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Nilika Remi, Il Marzo (9 pm); Dag G. and the Zig Zags (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Yacht, Onuinu, Key Losers
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Noah Peterson
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Petunia & the Vipers, The Barn Door Slammers
O’Connor’s Vault
7850 SW Capitol Highway The Kathy James Sextet
PINTS Urban Taproom 412 NW 5th Ave. Lew Jones Act (9 pm); Slim Bacon (7 pm)
BACK TO NATURE: La Dispute plays Branx on Sunday, April 1.
WED. MARCH 28 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Sassparilla, Henry Hill Kammerer
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Good Old War, Belle Brigade, Family of the Year
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. The Sindicate, The Modern Golem, RAKSHA!
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Unicycle Loves You, Your Rival, Charts
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Half-Step Shy Happy Hour
Blitz Twentyone
305 NW 21st Ave. Christian Burghardt
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Electric Six, Aficianado, Andy D
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Anais Mitchell (“folk opera” performance)
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Avi Dei
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Memory Boys, Cousins, Jesse Carsten
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Dead Winter Carpenters, Big E, Mike D
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Set Your Goals, Cartel, Fireworks, Mixtapes, Super Prime
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Chuck Israels Jazz Orchestra
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St.
David Walker
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Pat Buckley
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Realization Orchestra, Why I Must Be Careful, T. Putnam Hill
Ladd’s Inn
1204 SE Clay St. Lynn Conover
Laughing Horse Books
12 NE 10th Ave. Adams & Eves, Ghost Toy Castle, Our First Brains
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Little Sue & Lynn Conover (9 pm); Bingo Band (6 pm)
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. PK Thunder (10 pm); Mr. Hoo (12 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt, Netherfriends
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Cody’s Wheel (8:30 pm); Drum Circle (7:30 pm)
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Good Old War
Palace of Industry
5426 N Gay Ave. Flat Rock String Band
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Last Prick Standing, Vises, Marmits
Quimby’s at 19th
1502 NW 19th Ave. Bridge City Prophets
Red and Black Cafe
400 SE 12th Ave. The Quiet American, Mike Xvx, I Wobble Wobble, Me & My Ego
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Black Tusk, East of the Wall, Bronson Arm, Usnea
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Boy & Bean
Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave.
Queued Up, Bubble Cats, Primitive Idols
Defender, Dropa, Pinscape
Sundown Pub
Brasserie Montmartre
5903 N Lombard St. Brandon McCarron, Migi Artugue, Gordon Goldsmith
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Grrrlfriend, K’Tel 79, DJ Ken Dirtnap
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. PCC Student Showcase featuring Mitzi Zilka
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Nancy King
Trail’s End Saloon
1320 Main St., Oregon City Danny O’ Brien & Ken Brewer
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Industrial Park, Fine Pets, The Dead Beat
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Bitterroot
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar
800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen, David Watson
THUR. MARCH 29 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Sassparilla, Scott McDougall
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Kelly Joe Phelps & Cahalen Morrison
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. The Ghost Ease
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Trio Cubano
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. King Ghidora, Akkadia, Broken
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave.
626 SW Park Ave. John “JB” Butler & Al Craido
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Acoustic Minds
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. The Wisherman
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Jim White, Blind Bartimaeus
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Leigh Marble, The Ascetic Junkies, Kelly Anne Masigat
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Lindy Gravelle (9 pm); Tough Lovepyle (6 pm)
Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave. Jacob Arnold
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Skerik’s Bandalabra
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Soulfly, Dirtnap, Separation of Sanity
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Mitzi Zilka Quartet (8:30 pm); Laura Cunard (5:30 pm)
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Pat Buckley
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Solander, Yards
Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Ave. Gimme Some Lovin’
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. San Pedro El Cortez, Hornet Leg, Los Perros Olvidados
Langano Lounge
1435 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Whines, The Slidells, Still Caves
[MARCH 28 - APRIL 3]
presented by
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Foal, He Whose Ox Is Gored, Electric Falcons, Kings and Vagabonds
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Stepper, Onoe, Invivo
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Sun Araw Band, Eternal Tapestry, Matthewdavid, M. Geddes Gengras, DIVA
Boy and Bean
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. The Shakers’ Ball: Casey Neill & the Norway Rats, Ian Moore & the Lossy Coils, Rob Stroup & the Blame
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Big Time Burlesque! with Orchestre L’Pow
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. John Craig, Ariel Rubin, Josh & Mer (9:30 pm); Mikey’s Irish Jam (6:30 pm)
Andina
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
225 SW Ash St. Shelter Red, Spatia, Element57
115 NW 5th Ave. The Menzingers, Cheap Girls, The Sidekicks, Ninjas with Syringes
Biddy McGraw’s
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Tablao
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Angel Rhodes, Whitney Monge
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Norman Sylvester
The Alleyway Cafe and Bar
350 W Burnside St. Eddie Spaghetti, Truckstop Darlin’, The Twangshifters
Thirsty Lion
830 E Burnside St. Emancipator, Shigeto, Marley Carroll
Dante’s
Doug Fir Lounge
Tiger Bar
East Burn
317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell
1635 SE 7th Ave. Get Rhythm
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
Glenn & Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Staller, Amerakin Overdose, The Berated, American Roulette, Beringia
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. The Oh My Mys, Delaney And Paris (8 pm); Steve Wilkinson (6 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Jessie Marquez, The Arnica String Quartet 2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Rvivr, Nasalrod, Old Junior
Mississippi Pizza
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Lumineers, Sean Spellman, Matt Bishop
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Dawn & the Dents
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Eligh, Amp Live, Onry Ozzborn, Rob Castro, Serge Severe
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Marc Black
Nel Centro
1408 SW 6th Ave. Damian Erskine & Randy Rollofson
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Lloyd Jones
PINTS Urban Taproom 412 NW 5th Ave. Brian Harrison (9 pm); Bob Heyer (7 pm)
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Boats!, Sons of Huns, The Bloodtypes, Blue Skies for Black Hearts
Press Club
Kells
2621 SE Clinton St. Ezra Holbrook, Stereovision
Kelly’s Olympian
Record Room
112 SW 2nd Ave. Gafton Street 426 SW Washington St. Fanno Creek, Renegade Stringband, The Darlin’ Blackbirds
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Ghostwriter, Old Highway, Lightnin’ JD O’Kelly, Ben Ballinger
LaurelThirst
1800 E Burnside St.
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Mark Alan
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Rocket Stove Workshop Brass Band, Papa Coyote (9 pm); Too Loose Cajun Band (6 pm)
2505 SE 11th Ave. Nick Peets (8 pm); Seth Bernard & May Erlewine Bernard (5 pm)
Katie O’Briens
Crystal Ballroom
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
Ford Food and Drink
1435 NW Flanders St. Pete Petersen Septet (8:30 pm); Jim Templeton (5:30 pm)
6000 NE Glisan St. Funk Shui (9:30 pm); Lynn Conover & Jimmy Boyer (6 pm)
Bingo Dream Band (9:30 pm); Counterfeit Cash (6 pm)
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro The Student Loan
Hawthorne Theatre
Backspace
Duff’s Garage
714 SW 20th Place Arrington de Dionyso’s Malaikat dan Singa, Rollerball, Free Weed, Skrill Meadow
1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Ave. Alex Hudjohn, Ike Fonseca
Ash Street Saloon
71 SW 2nd Ave. David Kessler, Poe & Monroe, Dustin Conant
Ella Street Social Club
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1037 SW Broadway Zakir Hussain
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
2415 NE Alberta St. Walls, Hunting Party, White Wards
203 SE Grand Ave. The Zeros, Chemicals, Youthbitch, Diskords, DJ Cecilia
527 E Main St., Hillsboro Jay Ungar & Molly Mason Family Band
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs Trio
1332 W Burnside St. Carolina Chocolate Drops, Shook Twins
8635 N Lombard St. RevoltRevolt, Jumpin’ Sharks, Freddy Trujillo
East End
8 NE Killingsworth St. Holy Tentacles, Bath Party, Bearcubbin’
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. The Vandies, Scheisshosen, The Halseys
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2958 NE Glisan St.
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Tribe of the Outcast, Mosby, The Unicornz
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Gaea Schell
Twilight Café and Bar
1420 SE Powell Blvd. AUX 78, Tinmantle, Uncle Pooch
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY
NYC – 2012
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Wendy and the Lost Boys
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Welfare, Brave Julius, Shoeshine Blue (8:30 pm); Will West & Tanner Cundy (5:30 pm)
Application must be complete & postmarked before April 2, 2012
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Gordon Lee Trio
FRI. MARCH 30 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
@RBMA @redbullPDX for more info:
303 SW 12th Ave. Sassparilla, Joe McMurrian
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Goodfoot Lounge
LEAHNASH.COM
2845 SE Stark St. Asher Fulero’s Keyboard Summit
Hawthorne Hophouse 4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Ben Larsen & Austin Moore
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Ave. Honky Tonk Union
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Nemesis, Neversleep, Heart Attack High, Tetramorphic, Ritual Healing
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Rubblebucket, JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound, Sex Life DJs
ROSE-COLORED GLASSES: The great big sign atop St. Johns recourse New Portland Rose (8728 N Lombard St., 286-2815) promises Chinese food and “RESTAURAT,” but neither are available after dark—if you don’t know to walk around to the back-alley bar entrance, you might end up resorting to the nearby Wishing Well. You’ll learn the two places share owners, bartenders, sexual partners and a karaoke machine (it’s at New Portland Rose Tuesday through Thursday, and at Wishing Well on the weekend). New Portland Rose is distinguished by a round wooden mallet on which the bartender has inscribed the names of her problem patrons. Also by its general lugubriousness: The only song played on the jukebox over a 30-minute period on a Friday night was Adele. “We don’t really have a happy hour,” said the barback. “It’s just kind of a bad day.” Still, a gin and tonic is $3.50, and poured strong enough to make you forget the many things you are here to forget. AARON MESH.
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Andrew Oliver Group (8:30 pm); Gordy Michael (5:30 pm)
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Padam Padam (8 pm); Marianne Flemming (6 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Linda Hornbuckle Band
Katie O’Briens
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Minty Rosa, The Disciples of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Somerset Meadows
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Grafton Street
Kelly’s Olympian Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Midnight Honey (9 pm); Lincoln’s Beard (6 pm)
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
Rebecca Kilgore
Trader Vic’s
1203 NW Glisan St. John English (Frank Sinatra tribute)
8635 N Lombard St. Dirty Words, Betwixties, Bubble Cats
Trail’s End Saloon
Someday Lounge
Vie de Boheme
125 NW 5th Ave. J Burns, Vocab, Serious Business, Cashis
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Stumptown Aces Cajun Band
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
231 SW Ankeny St. Reva DeVito, Grynch, Wax Trap
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Amy Keys
The Blue Monk
1320 Main St., Oregon City Hudson Rockets 1530 SE 7th Ave. Mango Nights Orchestra
White Eagle Saloon
1422 SW 11th Ave. Norma Gentile
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. DeeDee Foxx and the Stimulus Package
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway American Bastard, Castdown
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Warshers, Horus, L.I.A.R.
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Bureau of Standards Big Band
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St.
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Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Toxic Zombie, Hands for Battle, Ditch Digger, Aftereverything
Brasserie Montmartre
Club 21
800 NW 6th Ave. Tony Pacini Trio
SAT. MARCH 31
Aladdin Theater
The Old Church
6000 NE Glisan St. The Barkers
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar
The Know
421 SE Grand Ave. Mortal Clay
Biddy McGraw’s
836 N Russell St. Stan McMahon Band, Wild Bells, Magnetic Health Factory (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
The Lovecraft
2201 N Killingsworth St. No Tomorrow
626 SW Park Ave. Eddie Parente Trio (9 pm); Tablao (5:30 pm)
3341 SE Belmont St. Blue Cranes, Graham Reynolds, Classical Revolution PDX
2026 NE Alberta St. The Anxieties, City Mouse, Hooker Vomit, The Pathogens
Beaterville Cafe
303 SW 12th Ave. Sassparilla, Mike Brosnan 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Cheryl Wheeler, Kenny White
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Reva DeVito, Laura Gibson (Live Wire!)
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Hannah Glover, Josh Hoke, Joe Roberts, Kellen & ME (9:30 pm); Dave McGraw & Mandy Fer (6:30 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Dan Diresta Quartet
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Earth to Ashes, Move the Earth, Tanagra, The Punctuals, High Desert Hooligans, Necessary Means (Oregon Repertory Singers benefit)
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Wild Ones, Pure Bathing Culture, My Body
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Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Hurqalya
2035 NE Glisan St. Drats!!!, Fist Fite, Batmen
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ocean 503
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. Dark Star Orchestra
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. All the Apparatus, Chervona, Dingo Dizmal
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Megafaun, Field Report
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Rosie Flores, Marti Brom
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. Bottleneck Blues Band
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Los Vigilantes, Therapists, Denizen, Scavengercunt
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Ilima Considine and The Sexbots, Owlright, Thuggage
Fifteenth Avenue Hophouse 1517 NE Brazee St. Kelsey Morris
Go Dog
2730 N Killingsworth St. Steve Rodin, Tom Arnold, Teri Untalan, Katie Naylor
426 SW Washington St. Log Across the Washer, Pedal Home, The Jackalope Saints, A Thousand Swords
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Don and the Quixotes, The Pynnacles, The Lonesome Billies
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. The Can’t Hardly Playboys
Laughing Horse Books
12 NE 10th Ave. Joyce Manor; Duck. Little Brother, Duck!; Lee Corey Oswald
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Ruby Feathers, Brush Prairie, Darlin’ Blackbirds (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Jonah Luke
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro The Brothers Jam
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Saloon Ensemble (9 pm); Chad Hinman, Camping in a Cadillac (6 pm); The Alphabeticians (4 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Drew Grow & the Pastors’ Wives, Kelli Schaefer, Great Wilderness
Mock Crest Tavern
3435 N Lombard St. Johnnie Ward Sharkskin Review
Montavilla Station 417 SE 80th Ave. Pseudophiles
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Molly Bang, The Halseys, Salem’s Kazoo Orchestra (variety show)
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave.
Lauren Sheehan and Terry Robb
Nel Centro
1408 SW 6th Ave. Damian Erskine & Carlton Jackson
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music
PINTS Urban Taproom 412 NW 5th Ave. Noah Peterson
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. The Romanes, Toucan Sam and the Fruit Loops, PDX Punk Rock Collective
Press Club
2621 SE Clinton St. Moniker, Dan Miller, Dascha & the Bear
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Old Wars, Slutty Hearts, The Happening, DJ Slutshine, DJ Kit Fisto
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Deep Sea Vents, Battle Axe Massacre, The Suppression, Kingdom Under Fire
Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave. Ani DiFranco
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Z’Bumba (9 pm); Trashcan Joe (6 pm)
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
8635 N Lombard St. Lloyd Mitchell Canyon, The Ds
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Damon Boucher, Glitter Express, Neil Von Tally, Tiny Hearts, Jeau Breedlove, Kitty Morena, Boys & Mixtapes, Neo G Yo, Prostitute, Chanticleer Tru, DJ Pocket Rock-It, DJ Roy G Biv, Alex Boyce
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Caleb Klauder Country Band, The Buckles
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. Dead by Dawn, Heavy Voodoo
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
231 SW Ankeny St. Knowa Knowone, Psymbionic, Sporganic, Afroqben, Jesse D
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Jay Harris Jazz Trio
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. The Planet Jackers
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Kamikaze Queens, The Lordy Lords, DJ Roxy Epoxy
Valentine’s
Kells
Backspace
Vertigo
Kelly’s Olympian
Blitz Twentyone
232 SW Ankeny St. The Morals 4620 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Sally Tomato
Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. David Watson
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Seth Myzel
800 NW 6th Ave. Devin Phillips Quartet
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Donavon Frankenreiter, Matt Grundy
SUN. APRIL 1
1425 NW Glisan St. Nat Hulskamp
Trader Vic’s
1203 NW Glisan St. Xavier Tavera
Trail’s End Saloon
1320 Main St., Oregon City Billy D & the Hoodoos
Twilight Café and Bar
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Wizard Boots, Missing the 20th Century, Objects in Space
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Jack McMahon
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Hanz Araki & Cary Novotny
Mississippi Studios
Alberta Rose Theatre
Muddy Rudder Public House
303 SW 12th Ave. Davis Rogan
3000 NE Alberta St. Duffy Bishop, Lisa Mann, LaRhonda Steele, Rae Gordon, Amy Keys, D.K. Stewart Sextet, Bobby Torres (Etta James tribute and Candye Kane benefit)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Brian Capital, White Chocolate and the Cigarettes, City Squirrel
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Felim Egan
Billy Ray’s Neighborhood Dive
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Abigail Washburn, Calico Rose, Casey Neill
8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music
NEPO 42
5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic
Red and Black Cafe
400 SE 12th Ave. Aurora Roarers, Felecia and the Dinosaur, Garden City Refugee, Giggle Fit
Rontoms
600 E Burnside St. Support Force, Grandparents, Pigeons
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. Suburban Slim
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Urban Sub All-Stars
2216 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Old Highway, Thee Headless Horse Fuckers
The Blue Monk
Blitz Twentyone
832 SE Grand Ave. Logik, Kriminal Mizchif, Moreno, Statistic, Nocturnal Soldier, Bobby Sick, Embalming Process, Pele Won, King, Rizz, Rich James, Khaotik
305 NW 21st Ave. Megan Nelson
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. La Dispute, Balance and Composure, All Get Out, Sainthood Reps
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Karyn Patridge
Club 21
2035 NE Glisan St. Vicious Pleasures
Dante’s
Tony Starlight’s
Touché Restaurant and Billiards
2958 NE Glisan St. Dan Haley & Tim Acott (9 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
203 SE Grand Ave. Spider Fever, Billions & Billions
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Tony Starlight Show
4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Hoons, Dead Remedy, Blood Owl
Landmark Saloon
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
836 N Russell St. The Beautiful Train Wrecks, Boom Chick (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)
830 E Burnside St. Hot Snakes, Corin Tucker Band, Bangs
317 NW Broadway Eight53, Violent Majority, Broken
Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Ave. Craig Carothers
LaurelThirst
Tiger Bar
71 SW 2nd Ave. Ants in the Kitchen
426 SW Washington St. Prairie Empire, Daniel Dixon, Green Hills Alone
White Eagle Saloon
350 W Burnside St. Boot Camp Clik, Buckshot, Sean Price & Rock of Heltah Skeltah, Smif N Wessun, O.G.C., My-G
Thirsty Lion
112 SW 2nd Ave. Irish Sessions
Doug Fir Lounge
1435 NW Flanders St. Hal Galper Trio
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Joaquin Lopez
350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. John K Samson & The Provincial Band, Shotgun Jimmie
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Lily Wilde
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Devildriver, The Faceless, Dying Fetus, Job for a Cowboy, 3 Inches of Blood, Impending Doom, Wretched, The Odious
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Elie Charpentier
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Tom May
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. David Gerow, Half Step Shy
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens (9 pm); Portland Country Underground (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Skip vonKuske
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mr. Ben
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Alan Hagar
Tonic Lounge
Music Millennium
Trail’s End Saloon
O’Connor’s Vault
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Little Lord Fauntleroy, Unkle Funkle, Child PM 1320 Main St., Oregon City Robbie Laws (7:30 pm); Rae Gordon (3 pm)
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Denver
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Mousai Woodwind Trio
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
Ford Food and Drink
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
Dante’s
The Grand Cafe
836 N Russell St. Open Mic/Songwriter Showcase
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Change Your Mind, Candy-O, SoulPower Activate!, Steady Riot, Trevor Baldwin, Pops Couch, Jet Force Gemini, Tha K.I.D., Stars of da Bizarre
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Races, NO
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Bob Shoemaker
2929 SE Powell Blvd. The Pleasure Salon
Hawthorne Theatre
305 NW 21st Ave. Justin Froese
3341 SE Belmont St. Rich Halley Quartet
East End
2505 SE 11th Ave. Tim Roth
115 NW 5th Ave. Battery-Powered Music
White Eagle Saloon
MON. APRIL 2 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Davis Rogan
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Kathleen Edwards, Hannah Georgas
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Open Mic
3158 E Burnside St. Laurel Brauns, Jim Boland, Jack McMahon 7850 SW Capitol Highway Stephanie Schneiderman, Cal Scott, Richard Moore
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Defect Defect, Autistic Youth, Atrocity Exhibition, Whales, Pale Horse
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Jay “Bird” Koder’s Soulmates
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Deep Cuts
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. The Mishaps, The Plurals, The Crossettes, DJ Just Dave
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Pocketknife, Charts, Doubleplusgood
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Brothers Young, Ballads of Larry Drake
TUES. APRIL 3 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Davis Rogan
CALENDAR Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Seth Glier, The Cabin Project
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Broken Rodeo, Envelope Peasant, Serra Sewitch-Posey
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Neftali Rivera
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Buttonjaw, Siren & the Sea, Such Handsome Silver
Blitz Twentyone 305 NW 21st Ave. Steady Riot
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Protest the Hero, Periphery, Jeff Loomis Band, The Safety Fire, Today I Caught the Plague
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. System and Station, Sad Little Men, Nasalrod
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave.
The Dan Gaynor Quartet
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Quartet (9:30 pm); Trio Bravo (6 pm)
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Radula
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Black Dahlia Murder, Nile, Skeletonwitch, Hour of Penance
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. The Cribs, Hurry Up, Needful Longings
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Jazz Jam with Carey Campbell
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Momentary Fixation, Claire Lutts
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm); Slumgum (6:30 pm)
Kells
8 NW 6th Ave. Tyga, YG, Lil Twist
LaurelThirst
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
Lewis & Clark College, Evans Auditorium
0615 SW Palatine Hill Road Vanessa Paloma
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Caleb Klauder & Sammy Lind
Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan St. Renegade Stringband (Mission OE History Night)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Rusted Root, Skinny Lister
Mock Crest Tavern
3435 N Lombard St. Johnnie Ward & Eagle Ridin Papas
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Nit Grit, Two Fresh
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Trick with DJ Robb
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Last Wednesday on the Left with DJ Dennis Dread
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. 13 Months of Sunshine: Nurses DJs, DJ Swami Davis Jr., DJ Jeffrey Jerusalem, DJ Jason Urick, DJ Cuica, DJ Spencer D
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. DJ AM Gold
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Phantasmagoria
The Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave. Whiskey Wednesdays: El Cucuy, Token, Josh Burns, Cyrus
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Mild Child
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Muscle Milk: DJs Trans Fat, Ill Camino (10 pm); DJ Creepy Crawl (7 pm)
THUR. MARCH 29 CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Hip Hop Heaven with DJ Detroit Diezel
Palace of Industry
5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Philadelphia Freedom
Someday Lounge
Dave Fulton
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Sethro Tull
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Hostile Tapeover
FRI. MARCH 30 Aalto Lounge
3356 SE Belmont St Audio Cravateur with DJ Drew Groove
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Hwy 7
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Sound Glitter with Peter Calandra
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
1465 NE Prescott St.
71 SW 2nd Ave. PX Singer-Songwriter Showcase
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Blues Night
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Bo Ayars
Valentine’s 232 SW Ankeny St. Jeffrey Jerusalem, Lina Lamont, Pure Bathing Culture
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Bottlecap Boys
Beacon Sound
Ron Steen Jazz Jam
Tube
Matador
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Open Mic with Simon Tucker
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ AM Gold
SAT. MARCH 31 Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. DJ Sonero
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Revolution with DJ Robb
Foggy Notion
3416 N Lombard St. Sugar Town: DJs Action Slacks, Wam Bam Ashleyanne
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St. Jai Ho! with DJ Prashant
Original Halibut’s II
1967 W Burnside St. Next Big Thing with Donny Don’t
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Hive with DJ Owen
Produce Row Cafe
204 SE Oak St. Bridge Club: DJs Hold My Hand, Pocket Rock-It, Orographic, Huf ‘n’ Stuf
Sassy’s
927 SE Morrison St. DJ HazMatt
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. DJ D-Cup
MON. APRIL 2 CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Maniac Monday with DJ Doughalicious
Ground Kontrol
2527 NE Alberta St. Duffy Bishop
511 NW Couch St. Service Industrial Night with DJ Tibin
Palace of Industry
Star Bar
5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Kerouac
Rotture
639 SE Morrison St. Metal Mondays! with DJ Blackhawk
Saucebox
Tube
Groove Suite
Sloan’s Tavern
3416 N Lombard St. Apocalysp: DJs Weinerslav, Trash Bag, Pork Belly
214 SW Broadway Connected: DJ KEZ, King Tim 33.3, Standing 8
440 NW Glisan St. DJ Cyrus, Tyler Hart, Phoenix Knight
36 N Russell St. The Witching Hour
Ground Kontrol
2045 SE Belmont St. DJ Drew Groove
511 NW Couch St. DJ AZ
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Snap!: Dr. Adam, Colin Jones (9 pm); Aperitivo Happy Hour with DJ Zack (5 pm)
Palace of Industry
The Lovecraft
Tiga
Thirsty Lion
Foggy Notion
The Lovecraft
31 NW 1st Ave. Bad Boy Bill, Jamie Meushaw, Evan Alexander
3341 SE Belmont St. Pagan Jug Band
Tiga
5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Holiday
The Whiskey Bar
The Blue Monk
315 SE 3rd Ave. BMP/GRND: DJs Kasio Smashio, Rhienna
125 NW 5th Ave. Mixer: Richie Staxx, Dimitri, Mr. Romo, Mike Grimes, Christina, Carlo (9 pm); Mr. Romo, Michael Grimes (4 pm) 421 SE Grand Ave. Mutant Disco
8635 N Lombard St. Open Mic
Mount Tabor Theater
18 NW 3rd Ave. Black Friday with DJ Ronin Roc (10 pm); DJ Neil Blender (7 pm)
WED. MARCH 28
Roseland Theater
112 SW 2nd Ave. Tom May 2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. Blown: Joe Nasty, Pipedream, D Poetica, Shoxxxanne 421 SE Grand Ave. DJs Popeblack, Horrid
The Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave. Thrust: Simon Says, Token, American Girls, Dubadank
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St.
MUSIC
The Conquistador
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. Happy Endings: Four Color Zack, Doc Adam
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. DJs Entropy, Stallone
The Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave. Just Get Naked!: American Girls, Anok?, Cyrus
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Valkyrie 18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Toilet Love
TUES. APRIL 3 CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Girltopia with DJ Robb
Sassy’s
927 SE Morrison St. DJ HazMatt
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. See You Next Tuesday: Kellan, Avery
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Tom Waits Night
Tiga
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Mercedez
Tube
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Eye Candy VJs
1465 NE Prescott St. Plaid Dudes 18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Wels (10 pm); Saturdazed with DJ GH (7 pm)
SUN. APRIL 1 Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd.
Tonic Lounge
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Tubesday
Yes and No
20 NW 3rd Ave. Idiot Tuesdays with DJ Black Dog
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Sowelu Theater returns after a fiveyear hiatus with Philip Ridley’s play about a pair of desperate characters whose paths are destined to cross. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., $18. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 4 pm Sundays. Closes April 21. $12-$18.
Wicked
THEATER The American Pilot
Theatre Vertigo ends its season with David Greig’s drama about an injured American pilot who lands in a wartorn country where he does not speak the language and seeks refuge from the local militia in a farmer’s barn. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 306-0870. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through April 28. $15.
Fire Island
Defunkt Theatre ends its season with Charles Mee’s collage play about relationships and sunny beaches. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 481-2960. 8 pm ThursdaysSundays. Closes April 28. $15-$20.
In the Red and Brown Water
Portland Playhouse, finally back in its Northeast Portland home after nine months of legal wrangling with city planners, presents the first half of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s heavily mythological Brother/Sister Plays trilogy, set in a Louisiana housing project. Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St., 205-0715. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays through April 15; 4 pm Saturdays and 7:30 pm some Fridays April 21-May 13. $12-$23.
Jardin de Suenos
[NEW REVIEW] This acid trip at Miracle Theatre is like a Latino version of Alice in Wonderland: A young woman slips into a dream world filled with anthropomorphic creatures that serve as metaphors for her disappointing family members. The performances are ardent and often goofy, especially when paired with the chuckle-worthy costumes. But the star of the production is unquestionably the set, a lush garden that glows, drips and slowly evolves throughout the story. The play is the first locally produced show by Sofia May-Cuxim, who infused the story with elements of Latino folklore. It’s also an endorsement of the DREAM Act, a proposal that would provide a path to residency for illegal immigrant students, though the play’s final moments are heavy handed with the message. Subtitle-phobes beware—the entire thing is in Spanish. A translation runs on an overhead monitor. AARON SPENCER. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7:30 pm Thursdays, 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes April 14. $15-$30.
The Irish Curse
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 Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, March 29-April 1. $15-$35.
Much Ado About Nothing
Northwest Classical Theatre presents a ’60s beach party-themed production of the rom-com. 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.
NT Live: She Stoops to Conquer
Third Rail Rep screens the latest live recording from the National Theatre of London: Oliver Goldsmith’s 1773 comedy. World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St., 235-1101. 2 and 7 pm Saturday, March 31. $15-$20.
Race
In David Mamet’s Race, a pair of private 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 dickwagging 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 happily endure. BEN WATERHOUSE. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm TuesdaysSaturdays, 2 and 7:30 pm Sundays. Closes April 8. $25-$50, $20 students.
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 Saturday-Sunday, March 31-April 1. $18-$22 adults, $13-$18 youth.
Shakespeare Party: Macbeth
Attendees will be handed scripts and assigned parts at the door. It’s like a potluck, only with much more murder. The Waypost, 3120 N Williams Ave., 367-3182. 7:30 pm Thursday, March 29. $5 suggested donation. 21+.
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, scheming queens, etc. But Portland Center Stage’s new production, Shakespeare’s Amazing Cymbeline, presents a show stripped down to its barest elements with a cast of only six actors performing on the sparsest of sets. In addition to the minimalism, director Chris Coleman’s adaptation includes a third-party narrator on the piano (Michael G. Keck). A congenial fellow reminiscent of Sam in Casablanca, the narrator presents Cymbeline through his own eyes, serving both to clarify the more complex scenes and offer his interpretation of the story’s theme. PENELOPE BASS. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm TuesdaysFridays, 2 and 7:30 pm SaturdaysSundays. Closes April 8. $20-$51.
Oh, hey, Wicked is back, again. 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 AND VARIETY Action Comics
Comedy by Kristine Levine, Shane Torres, Christian Ricketts, Jen Allen, Danny Felts and Whitney Streed. Proceeds benefit Comedy in Action. Action/Adventure Theater, 1050 SE Clinton St. 9 pm Friday, March 30. $5.
East Coast Chamber Orchestra
In this Chamber Music Northwest concert, some of the nation’s most formidable string players join forces to play infrequently heard masterpieces for medium-sized orchestra, including Stravinsky’s gravely beautiful ballet music Apollo, and Supermaximum, a new work by Portland native Kenji Bunch, plus Shostakovich’s “Chamber Symphony” (an arrangement of his powerful String Quartet No. 8) and Beethoven’s “Great Fugue” (another orchestral arrangement of a quartet). Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 294-6400. 7:30 pm Wednesday, March 28. $15-$50.
Norma Gentile
The soprano sings healing chants by Hildegard of Bingen. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. 8 pm Friday, March 30. $15.
Oregon Symphony
Pianist Garrick Ohlsson joins the orchestra to perform Mozart’s first real masterpiece, his exuberant Piano Concerto No. 9.The splendid program also boasts a Haydn overture and one of the 20th century’s most popular and controversial symphonies, Shostakovich’s fifth. 228-1353. 7:30 pm Saturday-Sunday, 8 pm Monday, March 31-April 2. $21-$92.
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PREVIEW C O R Y W E AV E R / P O R T L A N D O P E R A
PERFORMANCE
Avenue PDX
Doing their part locally to celebrate the 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 who all live in the same apartment building in Portland. PENELOPE BASS. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave. 8 pm Saturdays through April 14. “Pay what you want.” 21+.
Back Fence PDX
Two nights of stories headlined by comedian Lauren Weedman and writer Beth Lisick, plus director Arthur Bradford, social worker Amber Jo, pet psychic Bridget Pilloud and animator Eric Scheur on Thursday; fashion designer Adam Arnold, defense lawyer Dayvid Figler, auctioneer Matt Smith, foosball champ Jeff Hardison and filmmaker Riley Michael Parker on Friday. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 7:30 pm Thursday-Friday, March 29-30. $12-$15. 21+.
Live Wire!
The radio variety show features advice columnist and hiker Cheryl Strayed, former The Daily Show producer David Javerbaum, former The Daily Show correspondent Lauren Weedman, Project Censored director Mickey Huff, jazz singer Reva DeVito and shy singer Laura Gibson. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 7:30 pm Saturday, March 31. $18-$34.
Molly Bang Variety Show Costume Party
Rock band Molly Bang presents a variety show featuring puppetry, poetry, music by the Halseys and Salem’s Kazoo Orchestra. Mount Tabor Theater, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 9 pm Saturday, March 31. $4-$7. 21+.
The Shadows: The Last of the Old Light
A “collaborative vaudeville spectacle” inspired by the works of Scottish writer George MacDonald, featuring the Dolly Pops, Helena and Mark Greathouse, Hazel Rickard, Lynnae Griffin and Meghan Sinnott. The Mouth, Inside Zoomtopia, 810 SE Belmont St., shadowsvaudeville.wordpress.com. 7:30 pm Friday, March 30. $10.
Shock Therapy
A benefit for comedian Ron Shock, who was diagnosed with a rare urethral cancer in December, featuring storytelling by comedians Dwight Slade, Belinda Carroll, Kristine Levine, Dan Weber, Brady Echerer, Chris Castles and Josh Lay. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 9 pm Saturday, March 31. $7-$10 donation. 21+.
CLASSICAL Cantores in Ecclesia
The superb choir sings music for Palm Sunday, Lent and Holy Week, including works by the great Renaissance composers Lassus, Palestrina and Allegri’s celebrated “Miserere.” St. Stephen’s Church, 1112 SE 41st Ave., 800-8383006. 3 pm Sunday, April 1. $15-$20.
BALL DROP: Galileo experiments.
GALILEO GALILEI (PORTLAND OPERA) Like the movie Memento, the play Betrayal and the musical Merrily We Roll Along, Portland Opera’s new production of Philip Glass’ Galileo Galilei proceeds backward in time. Directed by Kevin Newbury, who staged the company’s 2006 production of John Adams’ Nixon in China, the new production features PO’s young studio artists, including impressive singers Lindsay Ohse, Nicholas Nelson and Andre Chiang. The chamber ensemble is conducted by Anne Manson, who also helmed this season’s Madame Butterfly and the Opera’s acclaimed production of Glass’ Orphée in 2009. When Glass was here for that show, artistic director Christopher Mattaliano asked the composer if he had any candidates who might work well in the company’s annual production in the intimate Newmark Theatre. Glass proposed a revival of his 18th opera. Despite Glass’ reputation as a cerebral composer, Mattaliano loved the Galileo score’s emotional power. It’s much more lyric than Orphée’s score, particularly in the major scene in which church officials force the scientist to recant facts he knows to be true. “The score captures that anguish the character feels,” Mattaliano says. While the story touches on the faith-vs.-reason theme that powers Bertolt Brecht’s Life of Galileo, Glass’ opera focuses more on the wonder of scientific exploration. Glass, celebrated for metaphorical operas about history-changing figures like Einstein, Gandhi, Akhenaten and Columbus, originally brought the backward-in-time idea to the Tony- and MacArthur “genius grant”-winning director Mary Zimmerman, who co-wrote the original libretto with Glass and playwright Arnold Weinstein and directed its 2002 premiere at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre. Zimmerman found Glass, who started his career in the theater with the Mabou Mines company 40 years ago, “the perfect collaborator,” willing to adjust his ideas and music to the director’s vision. Their chamber opera’s 10 scenes comprise “a series of vignettes of key moments of his life going backwards, with music and lyrics that link those thematic moments together,” she says. Zimmerman added the closing childhood scene, in which the boy who would change humanity’s understanding of the universe attends an opera written by his father, who was a composer and musician in the circle of Italian artists who created the form. His father’s opera is about the blind hunter Orion, thus bringing Glass’ Galileo Galilei— which opens with the blind, dying scientist recalling his life—full circle. BRETT CAMPBELL.
And yet it moves— backward.
SEE IT: Galileo Galilei is at the Newmark Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 241-1802, portlandopera.org. 7:30 pm Friday, March 30. 2 pm Sunday, April 1. 7:30 pm Thursday and Saturday, April 5 and 7. $20-$115. Willamette Week MARCH 28, 2012 wweek.com
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March Music Moderne’s closing event focuses on mostly very short films (or clips) about music, including the Astoria Music Festival’s acclaimed 2011 production of Peter Maxwell Davies’ 1969 classic Eight Songs for a Mad King, conducted by Keith Clark and starring John Duykers; In Absentia, with a 2000 score by 20th-century modernist composer Karlheinz Stockhausen; Ludwig Van, with a 1970 score by Mauricio Kagel; Deception, an excerpt featuring Bette Davis and score by Erich Korngold; and a 1982 Russian cartoon with score by contemporary composer Alfred Schnittke. Hipbone Studio, 1847 E Burnside St., 358-0898. 9 pm Saturday March 31. Free.
Zakir Hussain and the Masters of Percussion
One of the best known figures in so-called “world music,” the Bay Area tabla master joins forces with other instrumental virtuosos on various percussion, string and wind instruments from several cultures. These performances are always a musical and visual treat, with the audience participating in the sound through the clapping of hands and stomping of feet. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353. 7:30 pm Friday, March 30. $25-$60.
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Tahni Holt and dancers will stage an excerpt from Sunshine, a duet involving Robert Tyree, Lucy Yim and a pile of cardboard boxes. The piece debuts in its entirety this fall. Better still, the eight-monthspregnant Holt will dance a duet with a stand-up bass, played by the Decemberists’ Nate Query. The rest of the evening will be given over to Linda Johnson’s dance lecture The Habit of Being, and Seattle choreographer Amy O’Neal’s modestly titled solo: The Most Innovative, Daring and Original Piece of Dance/Performance You Will See This Decade. The Mouth, Inside Zoomtopia, 810 SE Belmont St. 8 pm Saturday, March 31. $15-$100.
Hope Mohr Dance
In 2007, after training with San Francisco Ballet and performing with some of modern dance’s brightest lights, the Izzie Awardwinning artist Hope Mohr established her own company in San Francisco. This month, Hope Mohr Dance visits Portland with 2011’s Plainsong and 2012’s Reluctant Light. The former is a solo for Mohr, inspired by Penelope in The Odyssey. The latter is a sextet, created in collaboration with designer Zakary Zide and cellist Alison Chesley. Its central theme is the many forms of surrender (birth, sleep, sickness, ecstasy), which plays out in boxes that the dancers inhabit, stack and smash. The Mouth, Inside Zoomtopia, 810 SE Belmont St., brownpapertickets. com/event/227264. 7 pm Sunday, April 1. $15.
Jayanthi Raman Dance Company
Bharata Natyam, the classical Indian dance form, is spun into the full-length ballet Sampradaya: Traditions from Temple to Theater, performed by the Jayanthi Raman Dance Company, and accompanied by live music. Glenn & Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center, 527 E Main St., Hillsboro, 615-3485. 7:30 pm Thursday, March 29. $20.
Ricardo Lopez
Spanish flamenco dancer Ricardo Lopez, a soloist with Madrid’s Compañía Rafaela Carrasco is a regular on the festival circuit, hopping from the U.S.’s Flamenco Festival to the Venice Bienniale; you’ll know why after you see his fleet footwork. He’ll perform with Laura Onizuka, Nat Hulskamp and Diana Bright. Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th Ave., 248-1030. 7:30 pm Sunday, April 1. $22-$25.
Visual Music 2012
Which comes first in the choreographic process: music or steps? It varies from one dancemaker, and one dance, to the next. Visual Music 2012, part of Portland’s monthlong March Music Moderne festival, focuses on the connection between the two with new music and dance. Contemporary company BodyVox adapts Merce Cunningham’s chance-dance approach in The C’s Have It. The first time the company hears composer-pianist Paul Safar’s music will be the moment it hits the stage, giving viewers a feel for connectivity in real time. Safar also contributes A Trio in Four Dances and Four for Five; Portland Festival Ballet will perform work set to those pieces. Comet Crash 9, Jack Gabel’s electro-acoustic setting of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem “I Am Like a Slip of Comet,” is paired with a video montage by choreographer Agnieszka Laska. That leaves the world premiere of Derek Healey’s The Coast of Oregon: The Quest for Aztlan, set to soprano and chamber ensemble and text by Norman Newton, and Brian McWhorter’s performance of Robert Erickson’s “Kryl for Trumpet Solo.” BodyVox Dance Center, 1201 NW 17th Ave., 229-0627. 8 pm Thursday, March 29. $15-$22.
Yasmeen Godder
Johann Strauss might be surprised by Israeli-American choreographer Yasmeen Godder’s Love Fire, which makes its North American premiere by closing out this season’s White Bird Uncaged series. This duet between Godder, a Bessie Award-winner, and Matan Zamir is set to well-known waltzes by Strauss, Chopin and Shostakovich, but theirs is no waltzy ballroom movement. Love Fire is a no-holdsbarred, sometimes messy pairing with odd visuals and comic flourishes. Godder’s aim is to deconstruct romance, considering the many forms it takes, and how its meaning varies. Lincoln Hall, 1620 SW Park Ave. 8 pm ThursdaySaturday, March 29-31. $20-$30.
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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 offthe-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.
Disjecta’s “Portland 2012” at The Art Gym
This satellite show, part of Disjecta’s Portland 2012, is the biennial’s most materially eclectic iteration so far. Highlights include Jack Ryan’s tilting structure made of wood and flickering electric candles; Marie Sivak’s hanging-magnet installation; and Dustin Zemel’s four-channel synchronized video, which riffs on Terry Riley-style musical sequencing. Ben Killen Rosenberg’s amateurish cardboard cityscape misses the mark, as do Cynthia Lahti’s trite paper sculptures, but Future Death Toll’s bizarre BEEGAS wins points for bravado. A beeswax casting of a naked man, complete with hairy legs and hairy scrotum, hangs in the air at an odd angle, exuding a morbid charm reminiscent of the late installation artist Edward Kienholz. It’s unnerving to look at but simultaneously transfixing, like an auto accident you pass on the freeway. Through April 4. Marylhurst Art Gym, 17600 Pacific Highway, 699-6243.
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.
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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 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.
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 stone-cold 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.
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GOOD OLD WAR w/ THE BELLE BRIGADE WEDNESDAY 3/28 @ 6PM
Indie-folk trio Good Old War has captivated countless audiences with their acoustic-driven, sing-along-inspiring live performances. With the release of their new album ‘Come Back As Rain’ the Philadelphia-based band harnesses the high-spirited simplicity that makes their shows so unforgettable.
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS FRIDAY 3/30 @ NOON
On ‘Leaving Eden’ produced by Nashville stalwart Buddy Miller, the Carolina Chocolate Drops illustrate their own adaptability to growth and change as the original lineup expands from three to five players for this recording and their new repertoire incorporates more blues, jazz and folk balladry alongside brilliantly rendered string-band tunes.
THE JAMES LOW WESTERN FRONT SATURDAY 3/31 @ 3PM
The James Low Western Front’s new full-length ‘Whiskey Farmer’ evokes the sound of dusty country/folk/pop played with delicious and deliberate ease over a few cold bottles of beer and the occasional hot shot of whiskey. The band may come from the lush climes of Portland, but theirs is a sound that was born in towns like Nashville, Tennessee and Bakersfield, California.
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, 227-0222.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28 Verse in Person
Meet and listen to some local voices at Multnomah County Library’s Verse in Person. April’s writers are Ed Morris, Toni Partington and Lisa Wible. Multnomah County Library— Northwest Branch, 2300 NW Thurman St., 988-5560. 7 pm. Free.
THURSDAY, MARCH 29 Backfence PDX
If you like The Moth and This American Life, but haven’t been to a Backfence PDX reading, you are missing out. To celebrate four years of hilarious-but-true stories, the March event will include two backto-back nights featuring different themes and storytellers. Thursday night’s theme is “Be Careful What You Wish For,” while Friday evening will include stories of revenge, heartache and anticipation with the theme “Just Can’t Get Over It.” Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 7:30 pm Thursday and Friday, March 29-30. $12 in advance, $15 at the door. 21+.
Krishna in the Sky with Diamonds
I had no idea the Bhagavad Gita included an episode in which the warrior Arjuna takes psychedelic drugs with Krishna. Apparently, we skipped that section in my world humanities class. In his latest book,
Scott Teitsworth explores the spiritual side of psychotropics in Krishna in the Sky with Diamonds. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
The Last Testament: A Memoir by God
No word on whether the big guy will make an appearance in the Pearl Room at Powell’s, but his ghostwriter, David Javerbaum, will read portions of this ultimate celeb autobiography. Javerbaum is an alum of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and an 11-time Emmy winner, so hilarity will probably ensue. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
SATURDAY, MARCH 31 Lee White
Local illustrator Lee White is known among the kidlets for his whimsical watercolors in A Crazy Day at the Critter Cafe and Ducks Don’t Wear Socks. White will read his latest title, Sophie’s Fish, and sign autographs at Green Bean Books. Green Bean Books, 1600 NE Alberta St., 954-2354. 2 pm. Free.
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them into bars to share their work and receive feedback. With a boozesoaked audience hanging onto their every word (between ordering onion rings and checking their March Madness brackets), what could possibly go wrong? Still, it sounds like a worthy cause. April’s featured authors include Fredric Alan Maxwell, Gabriel Felton, Terry McLean, Danielle D.M. Gembala and Grant Keltner. Jack London Bar, 529 SW 4th Ave., 228-7605. 8 pm. Free. 21+.
Dancing Moon Press Poetry Reading
Three poets published by Newport’s Dancing Moon Press read at Three Friends Coffeehouse: Mary L. Slocum, Verlena Orr and David Filer. Three Friends Coffeehouse, 201 SE 12th Ave., 236-6411. 7 pm. Free.
TUESDAY, APRIL 3 Oregon History Night
Oregon history buffs, drink your hearts out. Kenneth Ames will discuss “The Archaeology of the Portland Basin, A.D. 1400-1830,” covering 400 years of messy interactions between Native Americans and visiting fur traders. The event is sponsored by The Oregon Encyclopedia, an online publication that documents the state’s significant people, places and historical events. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 7 pm. Free. 21+.
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Nearly 20 years ago, best-selling author Anne Lamott released Operating Instructions, a memoir of her son’s first year of life and her first year as a single mother. For her latest book, Some Assembly Required, she teamed up with her son, Sam, to write about the challenges and pleasures of raising her grandson. MARIANNA HANE WILES.
One of your biggest struggles during Jax’s first year was letting go of the need to control everything and giving Sam and his girlfriend, Amy, the space to be the parents. Have you heard from many new parents thanking you for being so candid about this? I never really write about stuff unless I’m pretty sure it’s uniWW: What has been the versal. If I thought I were the most astonishing thing only person…to feel this need to control and glom on and try about watching your son, Sam, become a father? to manage, then I would have Anne Lamott: He was so young, never written about it. I’ve talkand he was not that long ago— ed to so many women; I know it 10 years ago—a kid who would just comes with the territory. pick up branches and smash As mother and grandmother, and bash and poke. And now what do you think of all this he’s been changing diapers politicized conversation for 2½ years. It’s all kind of around women’s reproducmiraculous. To have somebody tive rights? who was a teenager when he I’m passionately pro-choice. became a father and has had I’m serious and just disgusted to grow so quickly in so many and kind of stunned that we’re Operating Instructions ways, and has had to learn to having these conversations in version 2.0. sacrifice in so many ways. 2012. I’m really…trying to get Reading your memoirs, it’s clear your faith the younger women to understand that this is and church community have been an impor- the most significant fight they could fight. And tant sustaining force in your life. How do I’m trying to convince the middle-aged and older you find that more secular readers respond women to find some younger women to come to these elements? stand with us at our rallies and marches. Well, people don’t come to my readings or my How old is your grandson, Jax, now? What’s books if they have a total aversion to someone your favorite book to read him? talking about God. It’s the same way that I’m He’s 2½. We are very heavily into Dr. Seuss, extremely political, extremely progressive. Prob- specifically Green Eggs and Ham and The Cat in ably if I weren’t, I might have a bigger audience. the Hat. But people know. This is my 13th book. People GO: Anne Lamott will speak at the Bagdad know if they have an aversion to God or left-hand Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., on Friday, politics, I’m going to probably be annoying. March 30. 7 pm. Tickets are $26.95 and include a copy of Some Assembly Required.
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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
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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. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen, Hilltop, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub.
Act of Valor
The many adventures of REAL NAVY SEALS. Not screened for WW by press deadlines. R. Clackamas, Forest, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Tigard.
The Artist
64 Repressed memories drive The Artist. It’s a silent-film homage to silent films—or, rather, the fond, slightly condescending recollection of silent films. The Oscar-lavished comedy from Michel Hazanavicius (who directed the two OSS 177 spoofs) is yet another take on A Star Is Born, with a slambang 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. PG-13. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre, Oak Grove, Fox Tower.
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[ONE NIGHT ONLY, BINGO] Fill in the squares with Jean-Claude Van Damme and Wilford Brimley in N’awlins. Yes, this is the movie where Van Damme bites the head off a rattlesnake. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, April 3.
Being Flynn
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
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[ONE DAY ONLY] A documentary defends pit bulls from breed bans. Hollywood Theatre. 5 pm Sunday, April 1. NEW
The Bride Wore Black
[THREE NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] The Truffaut movie Truffaut didn’t like, it stars Jeanne Moreau as a widow out for revenge. Hollywood Theatre. Friday-Sunday, March 30-April 1.
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 shiteating crazy monster babies,” Ferrell warns. Yes, we are the shit-eating crazy monster babies. Fair enough: Let’s eat some shit. R. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Bridgeport. NEW
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Chico & Rita
72 We’ve all been taken by a pretty
smile once or twice. Chico & Rita, the animated Spanish language romance/ jazz flick that lost out to Rango at this year’s Oscars, isn’t the deepest movie around—but it sure is damned seductive. Set primarily in a gorgeously illustrated Havana, Cuba (think of the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine crossed with comic artist Ben Katchtor’s scrawled New York cityscapes), the movie tells a pretty archetypal boymeets/loses/stalks-girl storyline via flashbacks and chase scenes. And while there’s an ambiguity to the relationship between the titular musicians that’s refreshing for cartoons—it’s also one of the few non-Bashki animated features to feature tits, weed, jazz, giant cars and lots of cursing—Chico & Rita hurries audiences through what could be great teaching moments in bullet-point fashion. Thin on dialogue but rich with great Cuban and American jazz, Chico & Rita is largely spectacle. But where its characters seem a little flat and incomplete (Chico’s trusted friend and manager Ramón being an exception), the cities around them are alive and breathtaking. I’ll take that over Rango (or Avatar, for that matter) any day. CASEY JARMAN. Fox Tower. NEW
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Perhaps you hadn’t noticed, but the Indonesian film industry has taken its share of blows over the years. In many ways, this is a mirror for the country’s political history in general: Interference by occupying countries, economic and political troubles and, most notably, censorship by the 30-year Suharto regime have all played a role in keeping it from ever blossoming to the size or quality of its counterpart in nearby Thailand—even though Indonesia is the fourth-most populous country on the planet. The moviemaking culture has seen a real resurgence in the post-Suharto era, with several films doing the international festival circuit, though a new law passed in 2009, increasing censorship and government control, was another kick in the nuts. Well, count The Raid: Redemption as Indonesia’s first big KO. It’ll be all action and martial-arts movie fans talk about this year. It’s not quite the perfect fairy tale: Writer and director Gareth Evans is a Welsh expat and made the film specifically for the foreign market. (“We haven’t screened it for the censorship board back home in Indonesia.... It’ll probably get cut pretty badly,” Evans said in a recent interview with website Dork Shelf.) U.S. distributor Sony has also had the soundtrack redone by one of the bros from Linkin Park (I haven’t heard the original, but it can’t possibly be worse). But the cast is Indonesian, the language is Bahasa Indonesia, and the setting is Jakarta. More crucially, the film showcases the little-known Indonesian martial arts of pencak silat. Evans discovered his enigmatic star and fight choreographer, Iko Uwais, while making a documentary at his silat school, and gave him his first role in Evans’ previous, also silat-focused film, Merantau. But The Raid will be pencak silat’s Ong Bak, and not just because it’s light years better than Merantau and will be seen by substantially more people. About 80 percent of the film is composed of brilliantly choreographed, blisteringly fast hand-to-hand
combat scenes, which manage to retain the unique and traditional flavor of silat (it’ll remind you variously of some kung fu styles, Muay Thai, judo and Filipino martial arts, but it’s got its own thing going on) while still delivering on the blood and body count. It’s a fresh slap to the face for audiences accustomed only to Hollywood and Hong Kong fight scenes. The plot? Yeah, there’s one in there somewhere. Uwais plays Rama, a rookie on an elite special forces team charged with taking out the city’s nastiest crime boss from his 15th-floor lair at the top of a derelict apartment building. That plan doesn’t go so well, and the team finds itself trapped inside a high-rise full of criminals, drug addicts and nonspecific bad guys armed to the teeth with giant knives. That’s about it: Rama and what’s left of his unit (mostly an assortment of appendages splattered against the stairwell) must fight their way out, floor by floor, apartment full of ruthless killers by apartment full of ruthless killers. So it basically plays out like a video game—Donkey Kong with more violence or Wolfenstein 3D with less robot Hitler. It’s avert-your-eyes violent and surprisingly nervewracking for at least 30 minutes, until it’s clear how it will all end and you become acclimatized to seeing men impaled on sharp, pointy objects. Then it’s just brutal, messy fun.
DONKEY KONG WITH MORE VIOLENCE OR WOLFENSTEIN 3D WITH LESS ROBOT HITLER. Naturally, a Hollywood remake is already in the works. But a $30 million budget, big-name stars and a Happy Meal tie-in couldn’t possibly replicate what an unknown director, a former truck driverturned-leading man, and a measly million have done here. When people hear of The Raid in years to come, they’ll still say, “Oh yeah, that Indonesian movie!” And that is no small thing. 89 SEE IT: The Raid: Redemption is rated R. It opens Friday at Cinema 21.
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61 It’s a classic children’s tale: Boy living in a desolate, foliage-free world searches far and wide for a seedling to bring life back to the planet and a girl into his life. When that movie was WALL-E, it kicked ass. When it’s The Lorax, not so much. Here’s the thing: Dr. Seuss’ tale of a doomsaying critter called the Lorax doesn’t have a love story. It’s just a quick, rhyming tale of some forest creatures whose home is destroyed by an outsider with an ax and an idea. The Hollywood version tosses in lame backstory about people, and The Lorax is no longer about the environment. That point is made even clearer by the real-world advertising campaign that finds the Lorax shilling for Mazda. The Lorax isn’t terrible, but it’s certainly not great. The 3-D animation is some of the best to come about since the 3-D fad reappeared, and Danny DeVito is fantastic. He voices the fuzzy, mustachioed, tree-hugging grouch perfectly. It’ll be entertaining for kids, but it won’t spark their imaginations—none was used in the making of the film. The story is hackneyed, and the songs barely rhyme. The Lorax might speak for the trees, but clearly, no one is speaking for Dr. Seuss. PG. PATRICIA SAUTHOFF. Lloyd Center, 99 Indoor Twin, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Living Room Theaters, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
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fuck-buddy comedy, Friends With 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 hot-bodied 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 ex-roommates 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. Fox Tower.
The Hunger Games
84 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
CHICO & RITA 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. It’s like The Running Man…but with high-schoolers killing each other with bricks and swords in the woods. Although the film hinges on Katniss, Games’ secret weapon is its costume and makeup team. Taking a cue from the book’s use of fashion as shorthand for greed and social decay, the film doesn’t waste time explaining economic schisms. A glance at District 12’s ragged calico frocks and the Capitol nincompoops’ lollipophued coifs and elaborately carved facial hair says it all. Never before has the color hot pink been used to convey such epic douchebaggery. PG-13. KELLY CLARKE. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, CineMagic, Cornelius, Lake Twin, Moreland, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub, Roseway.
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 confirms 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 slack-jawed, 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 wish-fulfillment 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, Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower.
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 res-
taurant 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—is 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. PG. RUTH BROWN. Hollywood Theatre, Living Room Theaters.
John Carter 3D
85 John Carter is a box-office
debacle. Pixar wunderkind Andrew Stanton decided to leap from WALLE 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. Probably not. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen, Hilltop, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Lloyd Mall.
Last Days Here
78 [HELD OVER] “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 selfdestruction 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
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There are only bodies in time and space, and all three units of existential measurement are heavy with menacing import. Monica Vitti, a resplendent vision of windswept dishevelment, stars as Giuliana, a woman for whom the sky is something to stare at in terror. She’s a fidgeting crisis on uncertain legs, who must fondle walls to confirm at least one small aspect of reality. There is not a plot in Antonioni’s celebrated film so much as there is constant drift and decay. Giuliana’s encounters meander into speechless steam, which is really for the best: The dialogues in Red Desert are brain-freezingly inane sketches of dread and emptiness, and Antonioni excels when he is free to pan around the apocalyptic landscapes of gray industry through which Giuliana staggers and moans. The film’s human element is about as soul-stir-
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an enterprise largely extraneous to the character of film itself: moviedom’s version of the 10,000 lovefattened cherubs overwhelming the interior of a baroque church. German auteur Wim Wenders’ Pina—an elegiac documentary about the work of late, iconoclastic choreographer Pina Bausch—is something else altogether, a brokenhearted Billie Holiday to the 3-D form’s usual emptily virtuosic Ella Fitzgerald. 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.
Project X
43 Aimed squarely at horny highschoolers and the dudes they will inevitably become (that is, grownass 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. 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. R. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Forest, Oak Grove.
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Like many of Ingmar Bergman’s pleasure cruises of the same period, Michelangelo Antonioni’s abyssal slog of 1964 navigates the cracks in a disturbed woman’s mind, only there is no promise of even a dispassionate God on Red Desert’s horizon.
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Julia Roberts plays the evil stepmother in a Snow White thing. How do you like them apples, Julia? (Poisoned!) Not screened for critics by WW press deadlines; look for a review on wweek.com. PG. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cinetopia Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lake Twin, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
An evangelical drama about a young woman who was supposed to be aborted, but wasn’t. Stupid clumsy abortionists! PG-13. Bridgeport.
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ring as an IKEA meatball, but as an environmental study of denatured spaces, Red Desert frequently startles and chills. Just don’t expect it to move. CHRIS STAMM. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Thursday-Sunday, March 29-April 1.
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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 latelife redemption in hard rock history. MATTHEW SINGER. Clinton Street Theater. 7 and 9 pm Wednesday, 7 pm Thursday and 7 and 9 pm Monday-Tuesday, March 28-29 and April 2-3.
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We need to talk about Cyril. He is the kid in The Kid With a Bike, and he’s got some issues. A pale, sinewy 11-year-old, he’s been discarded by his parents at a Belgian boys’ home. He’s almost feral: He scampers away from his state-appointed minders like a frightened rodent, biting and clawing at anyone who threatens to separate him from his beloved bicycle. A local street tough watches Cyril fight off a would-be bike thief and awards him the nickname “Pitbull.” It’s an alias that speaks to his toughness, but also to his desperate, doglike need to feel loyal to someone. Soon, at the hoodlum’s request, Cyril is waiting in the dark, ready to bash the owner of a newsstand in the head with a baseball bat. Usually, this would end up either a grim tale of lost youth or a saccharine redemption story. But The Kid With a Bike is the work of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, filmmakers noted for both their sensitivity and lack of sentimentality. The feeling one gets from the brothers’ movies is the one that Roger Ebert found in the films of John Cassavetes: the impression of raising the curtain on a play already in progress. It’s life presented as-is, without cinematic manipulation, the sense of empathy coming only from the directors’ humane touch. When the curtain is drawn back on Cyril (superb first-timer Thomas Doret), he is in the midst of an act that has become a troubling habit: dialing his father’s disconnected phone line, hoping someone will eventually pick up. He clings to the myth of his dad (Jérémie Renier) coming to claim him like a war orphan running to the door every time a car pulls up outside. When he finally tracks his father down, with the help of a kind hairdresser named Samantha (Cécile De France), the deadbeat barely bothers to turn down the shitty club music he listens to while prepping the restaurant where he works. No longer able to delude himself, Cyril comes to terms with his abandonment, but that hardly makes things easier. As usual with the Dardennes, The Kid With a Bike doesn’t assure the audience everything will be OK; it only offers hope. But that, sometimes, is enough. The last we see of Cyril, he’s on his bike, disappearing around a corner. The curtain lowers, but the play continues. MATTHEW SINGER. 74 SEE IT: The Kid With a Bike opens Friday at Living Room Theaters.
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ing the film’s first act neither surprise on a narrative level nor thrill as choreographed chaos, while the final twists are only surprising in that they seem to have taken days to arrive. Washington’s shtick is still just charming enough to weather the beating doled out by such mediocrity, but watching the fight is hardly fun. R. CHRIS STAMM. City Center, Evergreen, Lloyd Mall.
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
37 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 globe-hopping 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. ChetwodeTalbot” 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. A dead soldier is brought back to life so Blunt can face a notall-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. Clackamas, City Center, Bridgeport, Fox Tower.
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A Compelling and Inspiring Film About The Power of Imagination
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.
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. Hollywood Theatre, Fox Tower.
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
UNDEFEATED 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 (Reese Witherspoon) and they decide they will compete for her, but in a friendly way, because nothing is more important than the two of them staying best friends. Forever. And fighting crime. People complain Hollywood is making movies for 13-year-olds. Well, This Means War is pinpointed at someone around the age of 9 1/2. It contains no small parts anyone could choke on. 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. PG-13. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Evergreen, Sherwood.
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Undefeated
85 Maybe it seems lazy referring to
a documentary about a high school football team as “the real-life Friday Night Lights,” but in the case of Oscar winner Undefeated, it’d be almost irresponsible not to make the comparison. The Manassas Tigers bear more than a passing resemblance to the East Dillon Lions: Located in economically ravaged North Memphis, Tenn., the all-black team is so underfunded it’s forced to accept money from other schools in the state to act as human blocking dummies in scrimmage games. Things began to turn around six years ago with the arrival of volunteer head coach Bill Courtney. Essentially Eric Taylor in Buddy Garrity’s body, he spouts Southernfried proverbs like “Football doesn’t build character, it reveals it,” and assumes the role of a surrogate father for kids with no other male figure in their life. As he enters what’s probably his last season with the team, his goal isn’t a state championship: It’s to coach the Tigers to their first playoff victory in the school’s 110-year history. Shot véritéstyle by directors Daniel Lindsay and TJ Martin, the film unfolds in such a way that, if it were fiction, it would probably be dismissed as a clichéd sports movie—at least, until the end, which reminds us that reality isn’t a Disney production. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Fox Tower.
Wanderlust
74 The Apatow dirty-improv era
has yielded two directors who are, if not auteurs, at least distinctive comedic sensibilities. One is Adam
McKay (Anchorman, Step Brothers). The other is David Wain (Wet Hot American Summer, Role Models). McKay’s hallmark is the non sequitur; Wain specializes in a joke repeated so often it becomes a ritual. Wain’s absurdist litany is in fine effect in Wanderlust, a surprisingly frisky winter diversion that reunites most of the Wet Hot cast for another campout—this time at a hippie commune outside Atlanta. Leftist pieties get an affectionate skewering (this is the movie to see after an Occupy Portland G.A.), but then every form of moral posturing does: The very best bits feature co-writer Ken Marino as a khaki-clad Joe the Plumber manqué barely masking his racism and rage with backslapping humor. R. AARON MESH. Lloyd Mall.
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. CHRIS STAMM. Fox Tower.
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DANTE’S INFERNO: Rod Serling was all about the heavy-handed allocation of ironic fate, so maybe it was inevitable that the Spielbergian bloat of Twilight Zone: The Movie would be punished by being remembered only for the helicopter crash that killed Vic Morrow and two child actors. But the omnibus—presented by my Beer and Movie fest—should also be recalled as the garden where Gremlins director Joe Dante pruned his grafting of Warner Bros. cartoons and the real world. In Dante’s segment, the two mediums blend into a funhouse of the devil, with rock candy indistinguishable from brimstone. AARON MESH. Showing at: Laurelhurst. Best paired with: Woodchuck hard apple cider. Also showing: Chronicle (Academy, Bagdadm Laurelhurst, St. Johns, Valley).
807 Lloyd Center 10 and IMAX
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