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If [Charlie Hales] really loved Portland so much, then why didn’t he support it with his tax dollars? [“The Road to Hales,” WW, April 11, 2012.] He could and should have paid taxes on 100 percent of his income using his Hayden Island condo, the same place [where] he was registered to vote. He could have slept in Stevenson, Wash., every night and used his Oregon residence for tax and voting purposes, and no one would care. Instead he saved $30,000. You know we could pave some roads with $30,000. Thanks for screwing us over, Charlie! —“bh” Charlie [Hales] is the complete package: vision, experience and leadership...plus he’s a good, fair, decent guy. What more could we possibly want in a mayor with all of the challenges we are facing in the next 10 to 15 years? He begins with the end in mind....and is open to the full range of possibilities in between. He’s got my vote. —“Harley Leiber”
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This would have been a great addition to Portland’s entertainment scene [“P Palace Pileup,” WW, April 11, 2012]. Really sad that it was stopped before it could start. Any ideas on sharing the burden of seismic upgrades? The older buildings are the ones with character—but these required upgrades are prohibitive. —“Peculiarium”
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Changing political parties, changing residencies and lying about it...this guy is untrustworthy, period. I’m not enamored of either [Jefferson] Smith or [Eileen] Brady just yet, but Hales would definitely be my LAST choice for mayor. — “PDX citizen”
The Lake Oswego Corp. seems to be an “elitist” corporation [“Locking Up Oswego Lake,” WW, April 11, 2012]. Not what Oregon is supposed to be about. They should be sued ad nauseam for their arrogance. That selfishness and arrogance is unbelievable. They have plenty of money to live anywhere in the world, but to self-appropriate themselves water rights on a public lake is outrageous. Where is the governor? What is his take? Something is wrong here. —“Sammy da Truth”
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The nice weather got me thinking: Is there a local upside to climate change? If the weather changes everywhere, some places are bound to improve—why not us? I’m willing to sacrifice a few polar bears if we wind up with L.A.’s warm, dry climate. —Tom in San Portlando
That would be hard to notice were it not for the fact that rain will be arranged differently: even wetter winters and drier summers. Those wet winters will also include more extreme high-precipitation events—what dirt-munching yokels like you and me call “floods.” Drier summers sound nice, though, right? Unfortunately, one effect of our expected 3.2-degree-by-2040 temperature bump will be a major reduction in the snowpack whose melting provides our water supply. Thus, drought will be the first of our biblical plagues, though I’m sure locusts, frogs and rivers of blood will be close behind. If it’s any consolation, most of the rest of the world is in the same boat: There are very few places on the globe that would benefit from more extreme, energetic weather. Outside of maybe one Russian guy who paid peanuts in 1998 for a soon-to-be-productive orange grove in Siberia, we’re all equally screwed.
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An elections-law complaint against former City Commissioner Charlie Hales threatens his campaign for mayor. Portlander Seth Woolley, a Green Party activist, filed complaints late Tuesday with the city auditor, Multnomah County and the state Elections Division based on facts reported by WW over the past year. The complaint alleges Hales wasn’t a legal voter in Oregon when HALES he filed to run for mayor—a requirement in the city charter. Hales last registered to vote in Oregon in 2008 after purchasing a Portland home. But from 2004 all the way through 2009, Hales was a resident of Washington, not Oregon, according to his tax returns. Records show Hales continued voting in Oregon during those years even though state law appears to prohibit it (see “State of Charlie,” WW, April 18, 2012). Woolley says Hales’ voter registration is invalid and he was therefore ineligible to enter the mayor’s race and should not be on the ballot. “It’s a ridiculous complaint,” Hales says. “I received my ballot at my Portland address in the most recent election because the State of Oregon lists me as a registered voter at that address. You can’t take away anybody’s right to vote in Oregon because they used to live in California or Washington or anywhere else.” Hales and chief foes Eileen Brady and Jefferson Smith face off in their first live televised debate, hosted by WW and KATU. Watch it Sunday, April 22, at 7 pm, or attend in person at David Douglas Performing Arts Center, 1400 SE 130th Ave. Get free tickets at KATU, 2153 NE Sandy Blvd., or WW, 2220 NW Quimby St. The big local news from this year’s David Foster Wallace-snubbing Pulitzer announcements: Seattle may have all the prize-winning reportage, but Portland has the best cartoonists. This year’s Pulitzer winner for editorial cartooning went to VERA KATZ, BY WUERKER Matt Wuerker, a Portlander who only recently moved to Washington, D.C. Wuerker won for his work for Politico. He drew editorial cartoons for WW starting in the 1980s. The Oregonian’s Jack Ohman—long overdue for the big prize—was a finalist, as was Matt Bors, whose syndicated work appears in the Portland Mercury. Timothy Hutton lives outside the law. Jody Stahancyk is a divorce lawyer. Now they are the last candidates standing in WW’s Mayoral Madness. Hutton, an Oscar winner and Leverage star, easily dispatched Columbia Sportswear chief Gert Boyle despite her feisty endorsement interview and Hutton’s failure to show. Stahancyk sidelined University of Portland soccer star Micaela Capelle. The end is near. The time to choose the winner is now. Voting starts today at wweek.com. Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt.
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SLEEPLESS IN ABU DHABI AN OREGON MUSLIM SAYS HE WAS JAILED AND TORTURED IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES FOR 106 DAYS AFTER REFUSING TO TURN INFORMANT. BY R AC H E L G R A H A M CODY
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A Muslim man from Oregon says he was imprisoned and tortured for 106 days last year in the United Arab Emirates after he refused to become a U.S. government informant and answer agents’ questions about Portland’s largest mosque. Yonas Fikre, 33, tells WW that Emirates officials denied him sleep, kept him in a freezing cell, beat him with wooden sticks and plastic pipes, and threatened to kill him if he didn’t cooperate with U.S. agents. A U.S. citizen, Fikre says his captors repeatedly grilled him with the same questions Portland-based law enforcement agents had asked him a year earlier about his mosque, the Islamic Center of Portland, Masjed As-Saber. Fikre, living in Sweden, is telling his story now because his lawyer is preparing a lawsuit against the U.S. government and individuals involved in his imprisonment. The case highlights the lengths federal agents have gone to investigate the Portland mosque and its imam, Sheik Mohamed Kariye. WW has been unable to corroborate some of Fikre’s story, including his allegations of torture. But U.S. State Department officials did confirm to WW that Fikre was held in a United Arab Emirates prison without charges for 3½ months in 2011.
A State Department spokesman also confirmed to WW that one of the agents who questioned Fikre works for that agency, employed in diplomatic security. Using public records, WW established that the agent is based in the offices of the Portland FBI. The FBI office houses the Joint Terrorism Task Force, which employs individuals from a variety of federal agencies. FBI spokeswoman Beth Anne Steele declined to talk about the agent or Fikre’s story. Calls to the United Arab Emirates embassy in Washington, D.C., were not returned. As-Saber has been the focus of a U.S. government inquiry for more than a decade. In 2003, five men who attended the mosque pleaded guilty to conspiracy to levy war against the United States, and a woman was convicted of providing material aid. That same year, Kariye pleaded guilty to Social Security and welfare fraud. Fikre, a muscular man with a long face, scruffy beard and large, dark eyes, says he is working to regain the 40 pounds he lost while imprisoned, along with a sense of trust and confidence in his American citizenship. “It breaks my heart that the country I thought would protect me put me in this position and let me down,” Fikre said in a telephone interview. Fikre’s account comes from WW’s interview; an affidavit written by his attorney, Tom Nelson; public records; and conversations with State Department and FBI officials. Fikre says he was born in Eritrea and spent his early childhood in Sudan before coming with his family to Southern California as refugees in 1991. Raised as a Roman Catholic, he says he converted to
Islam in 2003 while attending California State University, Los Angeles. Three years later, records show, he lived in Lake Oswego. Fikre says he managed a Cricket wireless phone store. Fikre says he attended the As-Saber mosque, located in Southwest Portland, because it was the closest to where he lived and worked. He says he has never heard anyone involved with the mosque advocate violence. He says people who attend As-Saber are aware they are under intense scrutiny by the FBI. “Muslims right now are scared,” he says. Fikre says he traveled to Sudan in 2009 to develop an import business; once there, he says, a U.S. Embassy official in Khartoum encouraged him to stay and focus on consumer electronics. WW was unable to confirm Fikre’s business in the Middle East or learn about his business partners or associates. In mid-April 2010, Fikre says officials at the U.S. Embassy invited him to a lunch to hear a security briefing related to local elections. Once there, he says, he was taken into a room and grilled for four hours by two men who Fikre says flashed badges and identified themselves as FBI agents. The agents told Fikre they needed his help on a case involving the As-Saber mosque. Fikre says they asked detailed questions about As-Saber: What did Kariye talk about in conversations and during sermons? Who attended the mosque? Who raised funds there? He says agents assured him they didn’t suspect him, but Fikre says he declined to answer questions without a lawyer. After that, he says, one agent told Fikre he was now on the no-fly list and could not return to the U.S. Fikre says he believes the agents were offering to pay for his cooperation. One agent, he says, asked him, “Don’t you want to make good money?” He left the embassy shaken. Neighbors later told him Sudanese police had been asking questions about him. CONT. on page 8 Willamette Week APRIL 18, 2012 wweek.com
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told him he was being deported. He was never charged with a crime or accused of any wrongdoing. Prison officials told him he was on the U.S. no-fly list, drove him straight to the airport and put him on a plane to Stockholm, where Fikre has family. “I was extremely paranoid,” he says. “I felt like I had been out of the world. It was great to see the sun.”
UNDER SCRUTINY: U.S. government officials have questioned Fikre and others on the U.S. no-fly list about activities at a Southwest Portland mosque, the Islamic Center of Portland, Masjed As-Saber.
Fikre, who still has family in the Portland area, says an agent visited a member of his family at work. The agent told the family member Fikre had been interviewed in Sudan and that it was in Fikre’s best interest to cooperate. One agent who interviewed Fikre at the embassy later sent Fikre an email from his State Department account. “Thanks for meeting with us last week in Sudan,” the email said. “While we hope to get your side of issues we keep hearing about, the choice is yours to make. The time to help yourself is now.” The employee’s LinkedIn page listed him as an attaché for the State Department with a degree in criminology. A State Department spokesman says the employee works for the agency but declined to say more. The employee’s LinkedIn page was removed after WW asked State Department officials about him. Using public records, WW was able to confirm that the employee has also worked in Kabul and out of the FBI’s Portland office. This newspaper agreed not to name the agent out of concerns about his security. Unnerved by the attention, Fikre moved to the United Arab Emirates in September 2010. Nine months later, on June 1, 2011, local police grabbed him at his apartment in Al Ain, handcuffed and blindfolded him and drove him to a prison in the capital, Abu Dhabi, 133 miles away. According to Fikre, he was placed in a windowless concrete cell. He was interrogated and beaten regularly with
sticks and black plastic pipes on his back and the soles of his feet. He also says guards subjected him to sleep deprivation, stress positions and death threats. Fikre demanded to know why he was being held. He says his captors told him it was because of his link to the As-Saber mosque. At first Fikre refused to an answer any questions. “But the beatings were unbearable,” he said. “I sometimes collapsed.” Fikre says his interrogators asked him for details about the Portland mosque: what the imam talked about, who attended, even where the restrooms were located. He also says they knew he had declined to become a U.S. government informant. Fikre answered questions about himself but said he had no incriminating information about the mosque. The State Department confirms that a U.S. Embassy official visited Fikre in prison on July 28, 2011. The official says she saw no evidence of mistreatment. Guards, he says, had threatened him not to reveal the torture, and two of his captors attended the meeting. Fikre says he was dehydrated, had lost 40 pounds and was almost incoherent from lack of sleep. He says the embassy official inquired if he was being fed regularly and had access to the restroom but never asked if he was being mistreated or hurt. “It was devastating,” Fikre says. “She was the only person who could help me. It was a green light for them to keep doing the same thing.” Fikre says the interrogations and beatings continued over the next six weeks. In September 2011, prison officials
Fikre wants to return home to the U.S. In the meantime, he says he has applied for political asylum in Sweden and remains concerned for his safety. “I don’t want anyone to go after me,” he says. “Until I met [the agents], I never looked over my shoulder in the United States. Now I have to live like this for the rest of my life.” Fikre’s family hired Nelson, a Portland lawyer who attends As-Saber and also represented Brandon Mayfield, the Portland lawyer wrongly accused by the FBI in the 2004 Madrid bombing. Recently, Nelson has represented Muslims associated with As-Saber who have been put on the no-fly list. The no-fly list is intended to stop known or suspected terrorists from flying in American airspace. Two of Nelson’s clients, Jamal Tarhuni and Mustafa Elogbi, were recently stranded in Tunisia but were allowed to fly home in February after public outcry. Nelson says the FBI has offered to help his clients get off the no-fly list if they answer questions. In a January email, Portland FBI counsel Jared Garth wrote to Nelson, “If your clients provided full and truthful cooperation, starting with an interview overseas, perhaps the FBI can facilitate a more expeditious mode of travel back to the U.S.” Fikre says he wants more people to know about the methods U.S. officials are using against American citizens. “I want to get off the no-fly list,” Fikre says. “I don’t want to be branded. And I want to shed light on this practice for everyone.” If Fikre’s story is true, it appears to be a twist on the U.S.’s use of “extraordinary renditions,” the practice of transferring captured suspects to countries lacking human rights standards. In this case, Fikre was allegedly held and tortured in an Arab country and told he couldn’t fly to the U.S. until he cooperated with investigators. Human rights lawyers call the practice “proxy detention” or “rendition lite.” “Yonas’ case highlights a new trend we think we are seeing from Portland, where third parties are doing what would be illegal or unconstitutional if done by U.S. agents,” says Gadeir Abbas, a lawyer for the Council on AmericanIslamic Relations. “You can’t just deprive someone of their liberty to return home, especially without due process. It isn’t consistent with the concept of citizenship.” Steele, the FBI spokeswoman, says agents are thoroughly trained about what is acceptable under U.S. law. “Our job is to protect people’s safety and their civil rights,” she says, “and we take both duties very seriously.”
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After an optimistic start this season, the news is grim: The Portland Timbers have staked undisputed claim to Major League Soccer’s Western Conference basement. The Timbers (1-4-1) are mired in a fourgame losing streak–the longest in their brief MLS history—and have only four points after six matches. Their only win is against another lowly team, Philadelphia, and they lost to teams they should have handled, New England and Chivas USA. The Timbers have shown this year they can hold their own against quality teams. Portland confidently maintained a lead against contender Real Salt Lake until the 89th minute, and it bedeviled the defending MLS champion Los Angeles Galaxy throughout the first half of an eventual 3-1 loss April 14. But the Timbers’ last three games— against the Galaxy, Chivas USA and Real Salt Lake—have ended in last-minute heartbreaks after solid starts. Portland’s back line has been on its heels, under fire, struggling to clear the ball or even get to midfield. Goalkeeper Troy Perkins has looked helpless against open strikers who were able to finish off the wilting Timbers. If this all feels familiar, it should. In a two-month span during the 2011 season, the Timbers lost the lead or fell out of a tie seven times after allowing goals after the 70th minute. The late collapses robbed the Timbers of 11 points last year, probably costing them a playoff berth. They missed the postseason by five points. A focused, motivated Timbers team that can win games—and reach the playoffs—hasn’t taken the field this season for an entire 90-minute game. And as Woody Allen has said, 80 percent of success is showing up.
Even at this early stage of the 2012 season, it makes sense to ask: Why are the Timbers losing? And is it likely to continue? There are daunting challenges the Timbers must face: Shaking off the slump. If the Timbers’ failure to maintain focused play for 90 minutes is a mental lapse, then it belongs
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Kurt Thomas can’t compete with Blaze. The NBA’s oldest player and his team’s mascot are representing the Trail Blazers at Russell Academy’s rundown elementary school gymnasium in Northeast Portland. These wound-up students earned the chance to meet a basketball star through the NBA’s Read to Achieve program. Instead, they got Thomas, a big man who has lately spent game nights cheering the rebuilding Blazers from the bench. CONT. on page 15
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The sassy waitress at Stanich’s, a pennant-lined burger joint on Northeast Fremont Street, is mildly disturbed that such a big man doesn’t eat red meat. She’s flat-out confused when Thomas declines cheese on his tuna melt. “You need protein,” she insists, her hands at her hips. Slowly picking at a pile of french fries and glancing over at a seemingly endless stream of incoming text messages, Thomas meets the waitress’s heckling with a syrupy smile. His long legs stick out into the aisle and he leans back against the booth. He’s a quiet guy. You have to push for stories about hanging out with Spike Lee and touring a young Jay-Z’s studio, or about how he waited until he’d been in the league 10 years to buy himself a Bentley. As he talks, Thomas is prone to bursts of random laughter that shake his shoulders and cause his facial features to scrunch together. He laughs a lot—often as the punch line to one of the extended, intimidating stares that earned him the nickname “Crazy Eyes.” Thomas is a hard guy to get a handle on; always has been. “The kids from my neighborhood always thought I was the worst basketball player of all my friends,” he says. “I was just a young, skinny, lanky kid. When I graduated high school, I was about 6-7 and a half, 170 pounds. I was skin and bones.” Thomas was an extremely shy kid from a middle-class background. His father is retired from Texas Instruments, and his mother still works at a post office in his native Dallas. “I’ve been hoping she’ll retire before I retire,” he says, laughing again. “I’ve looked up to her my whole life. When I see that she gets up every day, busts her butt, that makes me want to go out there and keep doing what I do.” There are no other athletes in Thomas’ family. “Playing in the NBA was definitely a goal of mine, but it wasn’t
FOR THE CHILDREN: Thomas (center) and Jonny Flynn make a pit stop before heading to the court. C O U R T E S Y O F TC U AT H L E T I C S
Thomas emerges from behind a black curtain and the kids gasp at his 6-foot-9 frame and broad shoulders. He’s not famous, but he is a real-life pro, and that’s enough to awe. In loose-fitting jeans and a staid Blazers fleece, he quickly blends into the backdrop. He giggles along with the kids while the big-headed cat-creature does the running man and pretends to bite off the heads of young Lakers fans. Thomas seems at home with the students, who later swarm him for autographs and hugs, but he’s comfortably aware he’s not the main attraction. That’s the story of Kurt Thomas’ NBA career. He has never been an All-Star. The Blazers don’t sell his jersey. He’s never been on the cover of a magazine. But Thomas is the last guy standing, the oldest man in the league as he nears his 40th birthday in October. He’s unknown to casual fans, but among NBA insiders, Thomas is legendary. In a league of soft perimeter defense and showy dunks, he’s a fierce old-school relic who can hit a midrange jumper and set a brutal pick without drawing a foul. That’s why he’s still playing 15 years after injuries nearly destroyed his career. And while Thomas would be a valuable role player on a contending team—hard fouls and clutch shooting made Robert Horry a seven-time NBA champion, and Dirk Nowitzki’s dead-on jump shot destroyed the Miami Heat in last year’s Finals—he’s of little use to the woeful Blazers. Thomas signed with the team hoping to help it reach the NBA Finals. Instead, he’s stuck on the bench under a rookie coach six years his junior, wasting his last days sitting for an injury-riddled team ending its season this week with a whimper. Yet Thomas doesn’t complain. He’s been through worse.
A YOUNG MAN’S GAME: Thomas posting up at TCU; with NBA Commissioner David Stern on draft night, 1995.
plummeted. Nearby Texas Christian University was one of the few schools still interested in him. “I was fortunate enough to get a scholarship so that my parents wouldn’t have to pay,” Thomas says. “I was focused on just graduating from college and getting a job.” By his sophomore season of college, Thomas was showing glimmers of promise on the court. Then he broke his other ankle. He would miss an entire year with the injury
“KURT’S NOT A GUY THAT YOU CALL AND SHOOT THE BULL WITH. IF YOU WANT TO TALK TO HIM, YOU TALK AND GET OUT.” —BILLY TUBBS my first goal,” he says. “My first goal was to graduate from college. That’s what my parents pushed me for. They knew the NBA was going to be a long shot.” Playing NBA ball was a longer shot for Thomas than most pros. He didn’t start playing for Hillcrest High School until his junior year, after sitting on the bench as a sophomore. In his senior year, he broke his right ankle. His stock
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and lose the attention of NBA scouts. But in that year off, Thomas bulked up and studied the game from the sidelines. When he returned for his junior season at TCU, he exceeded all expectations, averaging 20.7 points and 9.7 rebounds. Thomas thought he could do better. “Going into my senior year, I just wanted to average a double-double,” he says.
Instead, Thomas exploded, averaging 28.9 points and 14.6 rebounds in the 1994-95 season. He became just the third player in NCAA history to lead the nation in scoring and rebounding in the same season, a feat no one has accomplished in the subsequent 17 years. He did it with a pin in his wrist from an unhealed fracture and one in his left ankle from the previous break. Billy Tubbs, Thomas’ coach during his senior season at TCU, says he never heard Thomas complain about pain. “He was a badass,” says the 77-year-old Tubbs, who came to TCU to turn around the failing program. “He thought the paint was his territory and you shouldn’t venture into his territory. It pissed him off if you did.” “I was more of a fighter when I was younger,” Thomas acknowledges. “If you didn’t give me my respect, I basically went out there an earned it.” Thomas’ technical fouls and occasional fights led to big criticism. Lakers legend Jerry “The Logo” West once called Tubbs to tell him he should teach his young center to get CONT. on page 16 Willamette Week APRIL 18, 2012 wweek.com
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along with the refs. It didn’t bother Tubbs much. “You know how people are—they want you to be the ultimate [good] sport,” he says. “At that stage of my career, I could have cared less about that.” The Horned Frogs didn’t reach the NCAA Tournament, but they had a winning record (16-11) and Thomas performed well enough to reconsider dropping his business major for psychology. Within a year of graduation, he’d make his first million with the Miami Heat and go to the NBA playoffs, where his team lost to Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls in the first round. Then Thomas trudged through the most depressing 18 months of his life. In his second season with the Heat, he broke his right ankle twice. He played only 18 games before being traded to his hometown Dallas Mavericks. The injuries continued, and he played only five games
“WHEN I FIRST CAME INTO THE LEAGUE, THE GAME WAS A LOT MORE PHYSICAL. THERE WAS A LOT MORE CONTACT, WHICH WAS ALLOWED. I DEFINITELY MISS THOSE DAYS.” —KURT THOMAS
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in a year and a half with Dallas, spending most of his time helping out at practice. “It really taught me how important family is,” Thomas says. “They really took care of me.” It’s hard to imagine that the oldest man in the league was once considered fragile. There’s no great secret to longevity, Thomas says. He credits God, luck and yoga—in that order. When he arrived in Portland, Thomas sought out perennially injured top pick Greg Oden, another big man plagued with lower-body injuries. Thomas relates all too well. “I’m pretty sure he’s beat himself up going through it,” he says. “I know I did. But he’ll get another opportunity.” Whether Thomas will get another opportunity is anyone’s guess. With a year left on his contract, the veteran faces the possibility of spending an entire season as a mentor without taking off his warm-up pants. He is tight-lipped
but clearly troubled by the prospect. “I’ve always played,” he says simply. Would being stuck on the Blazers’ bench compel Thomas to ask for a trade? “I don’t know,” he says with a shrug. “I’ve never asked for a trade.” In his 17 seasons, Thomas has played for a nearly a third of the NBA’s teams. If he has left a legacy, though, it was with the New York Knicks, where he played for seven seasons starting in 1998-99. Still young but coming back from injuries, Thomas for the first time had a say in where he’d play. Knicks center Patrick Ewing was Thomas’ basketball idol, so he signed with New York despite the fact he would be fighting for every minute. “A lot of people thought my playing days were over,” he recalls. Practicing against Ewing was rough, he says, “but it was fun, you know? If I didn’t take those whippings early, I wouldn’t still be able to play. “When I first came into the league, the game was a lot more physical. There was a lot more contact, which was allowed. I definitely miss those days. It was just a lot more fun. I think that’s how the game should have always been played.” In New York, Thomas quickly gained a reputation as a bruiser and a loose canon. Though he was ejected from only six games in seven years, he was criticized in the press for being unable to control his emotions. He says there was never illintent behind his trash-talking and hard fouls. Even a reminder that soon-to-be Hall of Famer Reggie Miller called Thomas “a punk” doesn’t make him bristle. “Great scorer,” he deadpans of Miller, before laughing. “Reggie talked a lot of trash, but he backed it up on the court.... The thing is, I don’t hold grudges. I can beat the crap out of you on the court and we can still go out and get a beer after the game.” Veteran guard Derek Fisher was around to see the fightin’ side of Thomas, including a storied throw-down with then-Lakers forward Dennis Rodman. “I’m fortunate to play a perimeter position,” Fisher says, his ankles in a tub of ice in the visitors’ locker room at the Rose Garden. “Because not having to bump around with Kurt Thomas every night is probably the reason I’m still in the league 16 years later.” CONT. on page 19
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Thomas’ “Dirty Kurt” reputation still follows him. As recently as 2010, Boston Celtics announcer Tommy Heinsohn referred to Thomas as “a thug,” and Fisher’s old teammate, Kobe Bryant, talks about his battles with Thomas in the Spike Lee-directed documentary Kobe Doin’ Work. “Kurt and I, we always play around with each other when we compete,” Bryant says in the documentary against footage of the two doing battle. “He’s always hitting me with illegal screens, and I’m always throwing him little elbows.” Off the court, Thomas says, he is “an entirely different person.” He has been heavily involved in charitable organizations since his days in New York. He teaches kids about financial responsibility. He practices meditation and lives what he calls “a pretty simple life.” In October 2002, Thomas was arrested for third-degree assault and risk of injury to a minor for assaulting his then-wife, Amber, while she was holding their 2-year-old daughter. The New York press was quick to connect the dots between Thomas’ on-court outbursts and the allegations
“NOT HAVING TO BUMP AROUND WITH KURT THOMAS EVERY NIGHT IS PROBABLY THE REASON I’M STILL IN THE LEAGUE 16 YEARS LATER.” —DEREK FISHER of abuse. Thomas said little about the incident at the time. “All I can say is, don’t believe everything you read,” he told The New York Times. “People who really knew me knew I wouldn’t do anything like that,” Thomas says now, insisting there was never abuse in the relationship. “Divorces can be ugly. And mine really wasn’t really that ugly, it just started out that way.” Amber Thomas dropped all charges against her husband shortly before their divorce in January 2003. She currently lives in Dallas in a home Thomas bought for her. He pays alimony, but “I’m from a Republican state,” Thomas says. “It’s not that much.” Thomas has a 5-year-old son, Kurt II, with his fiancée. They met in New York and have been engaged for four years. She also lives in Dallas.
Thomas left New York at a trying time in the franchise’s history: Retired Detroit Pistons Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas started his troubled stint as Knicks president in 2003. Kurt Thomas’ final season with the Knicks was 2004-05, arguably his best as a pro. He was traded to the Phoenix Suns on draft night 2005 to make room for a promising rookie named Channing Frye. The Knicks wouldn’t make it to the postseason for another five years. Thomas’ playoff fortunes were far better, but he never found another long-term home. He’s been bouncing around the league since, hoping to catch on with a team where he can win that elusive championship. He thought the Blazers might be it. He was wrong. Though he jokes with teammates and hollers at shooters from the sidelines, Thomas often looks squeamish on the bench. Tonight the Blazers are on their way to another home loss—this time to a Houston Rockets team fighting for a playoff spot—and he’s sitting for the seventh game in a row as the team’s interim coach and interim general manager see what their younger players can do in a game. This time last year, things were very different. Thomas was in the playoffs with the Chicago Bulls. He started 37 regular-season games for the team, logging a younger man’s minutes in place of the injured Joakim Noah. The Bulls finished the season with the NBA’s best record, but lost to the Miami Heat in a drawn-out Eastern Conference Finals series. Still, Thomas’ strong play gave him options in the offseason. Reports linked him with the Knicks, Suns, Heat and Celtics. He chose Portland. In retrospect, Thomas might have heeded signs of the Blazers’ bad luck. Two days before he signed, Brandon Roy, the face of the franchise, announced his retirement because of knee problems. One day before, Oden’s season-ending knee surgery was announced. But if signing with the Blazers was a mistake, he won’t admit it. “I liked the way we looked on paper,” Thomas says now, citing Gerald Wallace’s hustle and playing with former Knicks teammate Marcus Camby as selling points. “I still like the way we looked on paper.” Camby, Thomas’ buddy, is on the other side of the court tonight. They used to play cards on the CONT. on page 21
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team plane, but the former NBA Defensive Player of the Year was sent to the Houston Rockets as one of the draft-day trades that blew up the Blazers’ roster after a series of embarrassing road losses. Longtime coach Nate McMillan was fired. Suddenly, Thomas was left alongside All-Star forward LaMarcus Aldridge and a bunch of kids, some of whom weren’t yet born when he was trying to impress college teams, and the league’s youngest head coach, Kaleb Canales, with little chance of making the playoffs. “I was shocked,” Thomas says. “You’re going to have some bad nights. But I would have liked for them to keep the team together a little longer. Guys were competing, playing hard every night.” Thomas fell out of the Blazers’ rotation in early April. Still, he praises Canales, whom he thinks will stay with the team next season. Thomas also likes late-season pickup JJ Hickson, the young player most responsible for keeping him on the bench. “I’ve been playing a long time and I understand that when you’re on a team and it gets to a certain point, management is going to want to look at their younger guys,” he says. “I understand that. No hard feelings.” Of course, Thomas didn’t get to be the oldest player in the NBA by talking shit. What probably started as rehearsed cliches—“it’s a business,” “you’ve just got to take it day by day” and “I just try to go out there and play hard” are some of his mantras—have been internalized. Forged under intense media scrutiny in New York, they’re now inseparable from his Zen-like persona off the court. But Thomas says he has more in the tank. “I’m going to keep playing as long as I can,” he says. “My body feels good.” When Thomas was drafted 10th in the 1995 NBA draft, Barack Obama was a civil rights attorney in Chicago, O.J. Simpson was on trial for murder and no one had heard of a DVD. Early on he was known for injuries—much like Oden. Imagine Oden playing until he’s Thomas’ age: He’ll be looking at retirement in 2027. “It’s amazing how the world turns,” Thomas laughs. “I used to crack jokes with Kevin Willis my rookie year, which I think was his 12th year in the league. And now I’m getting those same jokes that he was getting.” Willis would play until two days short of his 45th birthday, making him the oldest career player in NBA history. Thomas CONT. on page 23
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will have to play five more seasons to catch up. He doesn’t rule it out. But, if he does stick in the league, it probably won’t be with Portland. That’s more a reflection of the Blazers’ lack of shortterm hope than his declining skills. At the Blazers’ practice facility in Tualatin, Thomas meticulously autographs hundreds of basketballs for season-ticket holders. “If I go too fast, they won’t even be able to read it,” he says. He just sighs when asked to estimate how many autographs he’s signed in his career. Signing basketballs and hanging out with mascots is all he can do right now, but he does it as well as he can, something that doesn’t surprise his old rival Fisher. “He was willing to adjust from being a prolific scorer in college to playing whatever role any team he’s been on needed him to play,” Fisher says. “That’s how you survive and excel in this league.” The NBA is constantly searching for younger, more athletic players. Promise is rewarded with ridiculously lucrative contracts while experience can be bought on the cheap. Thomas’ best playing days are behind him. He’s built a very comfortable life, earning around $65 million in total salary and buying homes in New York, Miami and Dallas. He says he’s been smart about money, and that his family is “very well taken care of.” He could quit while he’s ahead. He won’t. “People don’t understand that I’m addicted to it,” says Thomas, who watches NBA games on his days off and checks scores on his phone immediately after Blazers games. “I’m a junkie for the game of basketball. “I don’t want to walk away from the game and say, ‘Agh, I could have played another one or two years,’” Thomas says. “I never want to have that in the back of my mind. When I walk away from this game, I’m moving on.” What he’ll do when he leaves is anybody’s guess. “Golf,” he says. Retired players often tell him to start planning a postretirement career before he retires, but Thomas says he’ll have plenty of time to think about that after he’s done. Presently, he just wants to get on the court somewhere, throw a few elbows and knock down a jumper from 8 feet. The lost Portland Trail Blazers don’t need him to do that. But Thomas, despite being retirement age in his line of work, knows a secret. “In the real world,” he says, “I’m not old.”
Ellen has 36 years of legal experience in Oregon. She’s seen it all. After graduating from the University of Oregon School of Law, Ellen entered a private practice in Eugene representing small businesses and struggling families. As a federal prosecutor, Ellen took on a foreign company for illegally dumping steel in the U.S. And as a state court judge she presided over thousands of cases involving Oregon consumers and victims of financial fraud. The same can’t be said for her opponent. Dwight Holton hasn’t tried a single case in an Oregon state courtroom. Not one. He only became licensed to practice law in Oregon in 2009, and even called Oregon’s Medical Marijuana Act a “train wreck.” Ellen Rosenblum. A record of fighting for Oregonians. Today, Ellen is running for Attorney General to be the people’s advocate. She’ll put her experience to work for us by standing up to protect Oregonians from criminals who target them and corporations who rip them off. She’d also be the first woman ever to hold this job.
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GOSSIP FILED AS HEAD OF YOUR HOUSEHOLD. R.I.P. THEORY: Portland MC and producer Gavin “Theory” Soens died of cancer April 10. The 27-year-old was in his home, surrounded by friends and family. Soens is best known for his band, Hives Inquiry Squad, which made psySOENS chedelic hip-hop infused with dance/electronica. Soens—who had a leg amputated in early 2010—remained musically active throughout his fight with cancer, and unsentimental about the disease. “I promised myself I wouldn’t regress to religion,” Soens told WW in a 2010 profile. “Cancer is just something that happens to people.” In a letter to WW, Soens’ bandmate, Lucas Dix, explained their relationship. “The two of us have always been extremely competitive with each other,” he wrote. “Sometimes, it brought the best out of both of us. Sometimes, it was to our detriment. I can fully admit, though, that there was never really any competition, just me trying to chase the shine of a man that I saw as the guiding light through the tunnel.” GOOGLE HOLE: First, Voodoo Doughnut owner Tres Shannon’s new venture, Portland P Palace, was felled by (zoning regulations related to) an earthquake. Now, Voodoo is resorting to Web coupon deals usually favored by failing businesses in need of a quick cash infusion. For $2, Google Offers will sell you a coupon for five doughnuts, one of which has a Google theme. “It’s really just a raised glazed doughnut with vanilla frosting and Google colors,” says an unexcited Voodooer.
LOTSA LEGOS: Portland artist Zachary Pollock needs $26,400 to buy Legos. He’s using the cash to replicate the first level of Super Mario Bros. pixel-for-brick. “No one that I am aware of has done a Lego mosaic on this scale before,” Pollock explains on his Kickstarter page. The final project will be 90 feet long—no word on where he’ll store it. YOU’RE THE BEST AROUND: WW’s annual Best New Band showcase is Friday, May 11, at Mississippi Studios. While we can’t yet reveal the lineup—or any of the annual poll’s top 10 finalists—we can tell you the show will be free (yay!), 21+ (boo!) and very, very good. 26
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PRÉSERVEZ L’ÉTRANGETÉ DE PORTLAND: The infatuation of serious newspapers with our moist city continues with a 2,100-word feature titled “Portland, the Home of Artists” in the April 13 edition of Le Monde. Pegged to the upcoming Keep Portland Weird festival in Paris, the story touches on the house show scene, the mysterious attraction of the city and our unbearable whiteness of being. “The homogeneity of this population probably favors a form of cultural expression, but [is] also the tragedy of the city,” laments screenwriter Jon Raymond in the article. It’s a fair portrait of the city, even though it overstates the number of food carts in town—700, rather than about 400.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 19 MARC MARON [COMEDY] America’s leading podcaster and confessional poet is in town for three nights. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7 and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday, April 19-21. $20-$25. 21+. U.S. BARISTA CHAMPIONSHIP [COFFEE] Finally, a sport Portland can win at! The U.S. Barista Championship and Brewers Cup are being held on home turf this year. Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 235-7575. Thursday 9 am-5 pm, Friday 9 am-6:30 pm, Saturday 10 am-6 pm, Sunday noon-5 pm, April 19-22. $10.
FRIDAY, APRIL 20 REBOOTING DEMOCRACY [POLITICS] American politics are so fucked that a KBOO host recently made a pretty convincing argument for scrapping our constitution for the parliamentary system. Most ideas floated at the Rebooting Democracy festival will be comparatively mild. Kickoff party at Union/Pine, 525 SE Pine St., 6 pm Friday, continues Saturday-Sunday. rebootingdemocracy.org. $99 for a three-day pass. PUPPET SLAM! [PUPPETS] The latest iteration of Beady Little Eyes’ semiannual showcase of adult puppet theater has a “heroes and villains” theme. Dress as either for $1 off. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave. 8 pm. $8. 21+.
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It’s a big weekend for the smug and self-congratulatory. Saturday is Record Store Day, a celebration of crass consumerism and the fetishization of impractical and outdated technology. Sunday is Earth Day, when big-money corporate marketers will exploit our best intentions and smiling children in face paint to gin up interest in their products. Which is better? Let’s review the facts. MARTIN CIZMAR. BEGINNINGS
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The first EARTH DAY was founded by U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson in 1970. Nelson is also known for presiding over politicized hearings about the “danger” of birth-control pills. Only men testified at his hearings, feminist activists disrupted them, and the pill stayed on shelves.
Celebrating two decades in 1990, EARTH DAY organizers split into two rival groups, each sniping at the other’s corporate sponsors. The more honorable group set its big party in Washington state and tapped noted environmentalist John Ratzenberger (Cliff from Cheers) to emcee.
Bridgestone, one of the world’s largest tire makers, is sponsoring a big EARTH DAY party on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The company operates rubber plantations all over the world and manufactures tires primarily for gasoline-powered automobiles.
Metallica kicked off the first RECORD STORE DAY in 2008 with a concert at a Northern California record shop. The band’s drummer, Lars Ulrich, would like you to give him your money and will sue someone if you don’t.
By 2010, RECORD STORE DAY was both a cultural touchstone and a cash cow as stores doubled profits from a typical Saturday. Sensing opportunity, organizers launched a spinoff, “Black Friday Record Store Day,” to get a piece of holiday shoppers too cool to wait in line for $49 Blu-Ray players.
Katy Perry will release a special remix of “Part of Me” on pink vinyl for RECORD STORE DAY. It will be delivered on a big truck and will never decompose. (It is also available on iTunes for 99 cents.)
GO: Earth Day events are listed throughout this week’s paper. Record Store Day events are on page 36.
CHEERS TO BELGIAN BEERS [BEER] Fifty Oregon breweries make one-off Belgian-style beers from the same strains of yeast— and you drink them! Metalcraft Fabrication, 723 N Tillamook St. oregonbeer.org/pctbb. Noon-9 pm. $15 for five drink tickets and a tasting glass, $20 for 10 tickets and a tasting glass. $1 for additional tastes. 21+. MARLEY [MOVIES] Even with its cheeky April 20 release date, a 2½-hour Bob Marley documentary clearly isn’t aimed at the ganja-smoking frat boys for whom Marley is little more than a High Times Hall of Famer. For hardcore Bobology majors Kevin Macdonald’s film offers a bongload of rare recordings, candid home movies and electrifying live footage. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 481-4215. Multiple showtimes.
SUNDAY, APRIL 22 EARTH DAY [EARTHY] A bunch of do-gooder organizations set up booths (native plant creation station!) and host workshops and classes! Ride your bike and enjoy the valet bike parking! Bring your old batteries, because they’re recycling them! PCC Cascade Campus, 705 N Killingsworth St., earthday.cityrepair. org. 11 am-6 pm. Free. Willamette Week APRIL 18, 2012 wweek.com
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Tree-humping dendrophiliacs aside, few interpret the mantra “Love the Earth” literally. Leave it to Annie Sprinkle, the porn star-turned-performance artist, to take it as far as anyone. Best known for her Public Cervix Announcement shows—a speculum, a flashlight and her ladybits—Sprinkle is now exploring the sexy side of environmentalism with her longtime partner and collaborator, Elizabeth Stephens. They call it “sexecology” and it involves shows, symposiums, workshops and “ecosex” walking tours of various natural locations, including Oregon’s Clackamas River. Based in San Francisco, Sprinkle has been researching and exploring sexuality for 30 years. A former prostitute of 20 years, she’s long been an advocate for hookers, championing the sexpositive feminist movement, and authoring several books. We spoke with Dr. Sprinkle—she has a doctorate in human sexuality—to learn more about her new environmentalist take on sex and to get some tips on celebrating a sexier Earth Day without those dreaded splinters. WW: How do sex and ecology relate to each other? Annie Sprinkle: [Sexecology] explores the places where sexology and ecology intersect in our culture. We have found many examples, such as a wide variety of nature fetishes, the use of marijuana and psychoactive plants combined with sex, super-sexy environmental activists, orgasmic experiences with the ocean, Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno, vegan sexuality, ecosexuality, nature-inspired high couture, mud wrestling, flagellation with oak leaves, bondagefairy comic books, watching bees pollinating, fuckforforest.com, the 64dakinioracle.com, Robert Mapplethorpe flower photographs, Marina Abramovic’s Balkan Erotic Epic.
How do we treat the earth like our lover? Where’s its G spot? We connect with nature erotically through our senses. The G spot is very well known—as ecosexuals, we have what we call “E spots,” which are ecosexy or ecosensual spots. So you can be walking in nature, or even in a city, and find a super sexy tree, or want to take your shoes off and massage some moss with your feet. Smell her, taste her, touch him all over! Let the ocean waves pound you naked from behind! Make love outside. There are hundreds of ways to have sensual, erotic and sexual experiences with nature— thousands. We take groups of people on ecosex walking tours, and they can experience nature as a lover.
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What plant, tree, rock or other natural formation is the most erotic? I couldn’t possibly choose. But once we went to the museum to view what’s called a giant corpse flower found in the Amazon. When the flowers open, they supposedly smell like a corpse. But we didn’t get a whiff. It wasn’t open yet. Apparently in the Victorian age, women weren’t allowed to see them lest they get too aroused and faint in ecstasy. Well, I have to admit, it was indeed totally arousing, and I almost fainted in bliss. What’s your sexiest suggestion for celebrating Earth Day? Lay on top of the earth, or let the earth get on top of you. Press your body close. Put your third eye on the grass. Press your pelvis down into the earth. Just relax, breathe and let erotic energy flow back and forth between you and the earth. Happy horny Earth Day! SEE: Learn more about the sexecology movement and see Annie Sprinkle’s calendar of events at sexecology.org.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 19 Mountains to Metro
Hope you like pinot. Approximately 35 wineries from the Chehalem Mountains American Viticultural Area will descend on Portland to pour their vino alongside food from local and wine-country restaurants, including Allium Bistro, Olympic Provisions and Irving Street Kitchen. Governor Hotel, 614 SW 11th Ave., 224-3400. 5-9 pm. $35-$40. 21+.
FRIDAY, APRIL 20 SCAA Event and U.S. Barista Championship
The Specialty Coffee Association of America’s annual “Event” (yes, that’s what it’s called) is in Portland this year: the coffee industry’s big love-in, where serious men with silly mustaches get together to discuss all of the notes. The trade side of the event is probably only interesting to people in the industry (and a ticket costs over $1,000), but the events surrounding it should be great: parties, tastings, awards and, most notably, competitions, including the U.S. Barista Championship and Brewers Cup. Go and cheer on hometown hero Devin Chapman from Coava Coffee. He’ll take on the best in the country in both competitions. Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 235-7575. 10 am-5:30 pm Friday and Saturday, noon-5 pm Sunday, April 20-22. $10 for three-day pass to the “activities hall” (i.e. the good bits).
SATURDAY, APRIL 21 UPCOMING IN-STORE PERFORMANCES BILL DANT
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REGISTER TO VOTE! MEET THE CANDIDATE!
Come hear and meet singer/songwriter and now mayoral candidate Bill Dant musically celebrate the 2012 election season. Register to vote, talk about the issues important to your city and hear songs classic and soon-to-be classic celebrating the sound of democracy in action at Music Millennium.
Who The Hell Is Bill Dant? Bill Dant is a Portland native, father, real estate broker, volunteer, musician and currently the president of his neighborhood association. Bill believes it’s going to take a mayor for the city but outside the system to make the bold changes needed to make Portland “The City That Works For Everyone.”
THE NORTHSTAR SESSION
MONDAY 4/23 @ 6PM
Influenced heavily by the rock and roll sound emanating from Hollywood, CA and the surrounding areas in the 1960s and 1970s, The Northstar Session chose to pay homage to many of these bands by recording two of their albums in studios in historic Laurel Canyon. This “Laurel Canyon Experience” as they call it, breathes life and energy into their most recent live acoustic album ‘Echoes From The Canyon.’
BILL RHOADES RETIREMENT PARTY!
TUESDAY 4/24 @ 6PM
Join us as we celebrate Bill Rhoades’ 19 years working at Music Millennium, with free refreshments and live performances by Henry Cooper, Alan Hager, Michael Osborn, and more to be announced. Bill will continue playing music and turning people on to great blues on the radio. Bill Rhoades has been called the “Godfather” of the Northwest Blues scene. Bill is also the founder and organizer of the Blues Harmonica Blow Off and the Blues Harmonica Summit. Bill won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2011 Muddy Awards from the Cascade Blues Association. He currently hosts “Voice of the Blues,” on KMHD Wednesdays at 9:00 PM.
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Portland Cheers to Belgian
Now in its sixth year, Cheers to Belgian Beers will see 50 Oregon breweries making one-off Belgianstyle beers from the same strains of yeast. Mmm, incestuous. Drinkers may vote on their favorite beer, and the winner will have the honor of choosing the yeast strains for next year’s festival. Metalcraft Fabrication, 723 N Tillamook St. Noon-9 pm. $15 for five drink tickets and a tasting glass, $20 for 10 tickets and a tasting glass. $1 for additional tastes. 21+.
SUNDAY, APRIL 22 Portland Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale Those who enjoy their baked goods without delicious dairy goods (not me, obviously, but hey, it’s a lifestyle choice) will gather at bake sales all over the world to trade pastries and extol the virtues of Earth Balance and Tofutti. There also will be many “gleegan” (that’s gluten-free vegan) goods available. Mississippi Marketplace, 4233 N Mississippi Ave. 11-4 pm. Free entry.
MONDAY, APRIL 23 Taste Washington Portland
Want to enjoy Washington’s viticultural bounty without paying the sales tax, or actually stepping foot into the stinkin’ state? Now, Washington wineries are coming to us. Taste Washington will bring 75 Washington wineries to Portland, along with nibbles from local eateries. Pure Space, 1315 NW Overton St. 6-9 pm. $50 per person, $90 per couple. 21+.
BOSTON EXPORT: New England clam chowder in Sellwood.
CHOWDAH Clam chowder generates strong opinions. Adding tomatoes to clam chowder in place of cream (making it “Manhattan-style”) was at one point so contentious that, in 1939, the Maine state Legislature introduced a bill to ban the practice. Portland chowder purists will be pleased with Chowdah. Chris Langley, owner and chef at the Sellwood food cart, spent 26 years living just north of Boston. In the heart of New England, where local Order this: New England parlance drops R’s altogether (hence clam chowder ($3 cup, $5 bowl, $10 quart). the name), clam chowder is made I’ll pass: Philly cheesesteak with a rich, creamy base. “I absolutesandwich ($7). ly refuse to make Manhattan clam chowder,” Langley says. “Especially after the Giants beat my Patriots again.” Langley’s chowder, which took home a top prize in Lompoc’s annual Chowder Challenge in 2006, is creamy without being stew-thick, and pleasingly salty. It boasts all the standard ingredients—onions, potatoes, celery and tender clams—as well as the all-too-Portland addition of bacon, which adds a subtle smokiness. Keeping with the Northeastern theme, Langley also grills up Philly cheesesteaks topped with traditional American cheese. While it might have been a good sandwich, all I could taste was the tongue-coating slime of processed cheese. If you need a sandwich to complement your soup, opt for the “Killah Grilled Cheese,” which comes on bread from Marsee Baking and can be customized with a variety of cheeses and toppings. Langley offers a soup du jour as well, such as a tasty roasted red pepper bisque. But the reason to go is the wicked good clam chowder. PENELOPE BASS. EAT: Chowdah, 7875 SE 13th Ave., 867-2475. 11 am-8 pm Tuesday-Wednesday, 11 am-9 pm Thursday-Saturday. $.
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BATCH 69 BALTIC PORTER (LOMPOC BREWING) Just as British pale ales brewed to higher gravity to survive the seafaring voyage to India became known as India pale ales, British porters fortified with extra alcohol to survive the sojourn to various ports in the Baltic Sea (Estonia, Lithuania, and, er, Ukrania) became known as Baltic porters. Later, once they started to be brewed in the Baltics, brewers switched from top-fermenting yeast to the bottom-fermenting strains that dig colder temperatures. Hence, neo-traditional Baltic porters are technically lagers, though missing the crisp, clean flavors associated with refreshing summer lagers. Lompoc once again brings out its Batch 69 as a spring seasonal offering. It pours a cola brown and, while it opens with dark roasted coffee notes, warms to a flavor of what might be called an imperial nut brown ale. Not sure why this 7.7 percent boozer equates to a spring beer, but so long as you’re enjoying the warmer, longer evenings around your fire pit, this certainly complements toasted marshmallows. Recommended. BRIAN YAEGER.
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“We felt sorry for Portlanders because they don’t have good falafel,” says the tall, trim man with a smile. “So we had to come here.” That’s Sam Hazza, a Palestine native who moved to town from Atlanta last summer with his wife, Jyme, and opened Cedo’s Falafel and Gyros two months ago in the Northeast Portland space last home to Wayne’s Chicago Red Hots. And, yes, he can back up the aforementioned claim. He makes the best falafel I have tasted in town: hot, craggy, golf ball-sized orbs of chickpea goodness that crunch as you bite into them, revealing a moist, intensely herby center tinted light green. They are truly awesome. You will probably shovel at least two in your mouth with a greedy mmmraphgh, gasping for air between bites, before it occurs to you to ask why they taste so good. The not-so-secret “secret,” according to Hazza, is “fresh ingredients” like fresh chopped garlic and fresh parsley; he even toasts whole coriander seeds and gives them a whirl in a coffee grinder before adding them to his falafel mix. He squeezes fresh lemons for the nutty tahini sauce and makes his own yogurt for the puckery tzatziki. He carefully fries each ball to order—like Order this: Falafel anything, but especially Cedo’s Plate. a father giving his newborn baby Best deal: A giant falafel sanda bath in hot corn oil—which wich with a side of Cedo’s spuds means your food might take a for $9 (you will have leftovers). while to get to you. It’s worth it. I’ll pass: Gyros if you’re alone, because you really should get Those balls are served all by falafel. If there’s more than one themselves ($5) as well as in a of you, then fine, get meaty. sandwich ($7), cradled in a giant pita with big hunks of cucumber and tomato all slathered with that tasty tzatziki. Even better is Cedo’s Plate ($9), which serves four falafel atop a big, zingy salad busting out with tomato, cucumber and peppers and sprinkled with dill, parsley and even more tahini. It comes with hot pita and a side of Hazza’s creamy hummus, made fresh from the garbanzo beans he’s had simmering on the stove since 6 that morning. I could eat this for lunch every day for a week and not get sick of it. There’s other stuff on the menu, from a very large, respectable lamb-and-beef gyro ($7, the meat is the only thing not made in-house and, therefore, less awesome) and some very tasty, twice-fried spicy potato rounds ($4). But, really, it’s all about the falafel. The screaming red space, decorated with drawings of Jerusalem and old jazz posters, is charming but not designed for lingering: Seating is limited to a pair of tall tables up front and a long counter along the side of the room. Still, it feels homey, from the funky wallpaper Jyme’s son made from old Middle Eastern condensed-milk labels that decorates the front counter to the bright pansies planted in old olive cans on the picnic tables outside. And while the couple is focused on falafel right now, that doesn’t mean they don’t have plans to dominate other menu items in the future. “I make the best chicken kebabs,” Hazza says with a smile. KELLY CLARKE.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18 Jeff Mangum
[FUZZ-FOLK DEITY] The possibility that Jeff Magnum is simply too weird and mercurial for a Neutral Milk Hotel reunion is actually somewhat comforting. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea remains one of the finest employments of the album as an artistic form to emerge from any age, and the occasional solo show and an upcoming NMH box set notwithstanding, Magnum’s meandering obsolescence is as fitting a dénouement as could be asked of such an achievement. After Aeroplane, almost anything else would be a disappointment, and if Magnum wants to spend his quasi-retirement working on a desultory series of artistic projects, then he’s more than earned that right. SHANE DANAHER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8:30 pm. $32 advance, $35 day of show. All ages.
Animal Eyes, The Dig, The We Shared Milk
[INDIE ADVENTURE] After a week spent writing songs in the woods, Portland (by way of Alaska) quintet Animal Eyes returns to the Rose City to headline an evening of ambitious indie rock. The group’s repertoire ranges from sea shanty-esque epics to wild, adventurous sojourns. It’s a bigger group than its numbers imply, charging forth with strings, accordion, the steady pulse of a drum and lulling vocals. Animal Eyes’ songs have a pied-piper quality to them, capable of guiding the listener to a whole other place entirely. Support comes from angular and bluesy rock trio the We Shared Milk and Brooklyn quartet the Dig. NILINA MASON-CAMPBELL. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
SBTRKT, Machinedrum, Celoso
[FACELESS FUNK] By choosing the name SBTRKT—pronounced “subtract”—DJ and producer Aaron Jerome says he’s trying to remove himself and his life from his art, hoping that his electric dance pop gets talked about on its own merits. To emphasize this facelessness, he performs behind a tribal mask of his own design. To Jerome’s credit, no one could mistake his work for anyone else’s. Tracks like
the undulating “Atomic Peace” and his daring dub-style re-edits of soul singer Frank Ocean give off intoxicating pheromones and urge you closer to the fire. ROBERT HAM. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.
THURSDAY, APRIL 19 Polyrhythmics, Lucky Brown
[WEST COAST AFROBEAT] The I-5 corridor between Frisco and Seattle is littered with decidedly non-African musicians creating decidedly amazing Afrobeat-inspired music, and Seattle’s Polyrhythmics have figured out a way to ground it in the Pacific Northwest: add some fuckin’ intergalactic groove. With a new 7-inch dropping for this weekend’s Record Store Day celebrations, the octet has realized a wonderful balance between the traditionalist school and psychedelia. As a result, the music is loyal to its highly danceable roots but, unlike many others, the group uses the past as a springboard into weird and wonderful funk grooves that give a glimpse into what would have happened if the mothership had crash-landed in Nigeria in 1977. AP KRYZA. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 8 pm. $10. 21+.
Hot Panda
[ANARCHY IN THE CA] The lads and ladies of Hot Panda sure sound like they have fun. Last album How Come I’m Dead? was an unpredictable mess of angular art rock and cute, dancey numbers, mixing the pop sensibilities of the New Pornographers with the chaotic grit of the Fall. It sounded thrown together in the shortest possible time with a minimum number of takes while everyone was having a ball. But Hot Panda’s upcoming disc, Go Outside, reveals a band that is angrier, more polished and maybe a little sadder. This is not necessarily a bad thing; lead single “Future Markets” is a delightfully snarling, tension-filled foot-stomper with shades of Les Savy Fav and early Rapture. But watching this band is a bit like watching kids grow into cynical teenagers who paint their fingernails black and lock themselves in their rooms. You’re happy to see them mature, but you miss seeing
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TOP FIVE PORTLAND-CENTRIC RECORD STORE DAY RELEASES. Portland Cello Project, Homage LP The local pop-classical outfit tackles such timeless classics as Kanye and Jay-Z’s “That’s My Bitch” and 50 Cent’s “Lollipop.” Starfucker, Heaven’s Youth LP The well-loved Portland electronic squad lifts the curtain on its creative process with early demos and alter-ego remixes. Blitzen Trapper, Hey Joe/Skirts on Fire 7-inch Portland’s own freaky country rockers cover Hendrix. Whaa? M. Ward, Primitive Girl 7-inch Continuing Blitzen Trapper’s covers theme, the B-side of Ward’s new single features covers of “The Twist” and “Roll Over Beethoven.” Black Prairie, Singers Vol. 1: Portland 7-inch The Decemberists-ish roots collective invites special guests Sallie Ford and James Mercer to sing ditties. WE LOVE DITTIES. SEE IT: Record Store Day is Saturday, April 21, at various independent record stores. See listing, page 36, for details.
PLAYING LIFE LONNIE SMITH ON GETTING FUNKY AND FREE. BY MATTHEW SIN GER
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All Lonnie Smith wants for his birthday is complete control. After five decades as a recording artist, it’s not too much for the soon-to-be 70-year-old organist to ask. If you tour his discography—particularly the four classic albums he cut for Blue Note in the 1960s—it’s hard to imagine he was ever stifled much creatively: Across the 30-plus records bearing his name, Smith’s music has ranged from gritty funk workouts to Afro-Latin grooves to psychedelic head-trips. His live shows are among the funkiest experiences known to man. But as he discusses his life and still-ongoing career—winding through tales of performing with fellow jazz legends Lou Donaldson and George Benson, of witnessing firsthand the transformations of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, of jamming with James Brown—Smith casually mentions moments of bending to the will of producers, getting his parts cut in post-production, and being ripped off by greedy execs. That’s why, as he approaches a milestone birthday, Smith is giving himself a gift: His own label. Later this year, Smith will launch Pilgrimage Productions. Its first release is a live-in-the-studio session Smith recorded last month with a septet of hot, young musicians in a refurbished warehouse in Queens. Clips from the session—available on the Kickstarter page funding the project—show Smith, with his white, wispy beard and ever-present turban (he’s a converted Sikh), delivering a fiery, near-spiritual performance. At this point, the man doesn’t play an instrument—in his words, he simply “plays life.” “The organ ain’t nothing,” he says in a convivial rasp, over the phone from New York. “It don’t breathe until I breathe.” WW: What initially drew you to the organ? Lonnie Smith: I first discovered the organ in the church. I loved the sound. It had a full sound. It was
warm. It had everything that I loved. It vibrated. I was drawn to it right away. You don’t read music, and you’ve had no formal training. Where did your musical ability come from? I think it had a lot with being around that kind of vibe. My mother was a vocalist. She used to sing gospel with her sister, and her mother used to sing. My cousins would come over, and I would sing with them. I was young, and I used to jump in with the harmony. As far as the instruments are concerned, that’s a gift from God. I remember when I was in second or third grade. I went to visit my aunt, and she had a piano. I had never seen a piano, not really. And I got up on the piano, and I remember the first song I picked out [to play] was a song called “Crying in the Chapel.” My parents came out and they didn’t believe it. It was strange. I didn’t believe it, but I picked it out and played it like it was nothing. It was a gift. You’ve always played the Hammond B3, which is a massive instrument. That must be difficult to haul around. Sure, sure. But you got to admit, when you see me, you see how buff I am. [Laughs] I’m pretty big. When we’d play, you’d be trying to move it and the guy would say, “I have to go to the bathroom,” or, “I have to go to a car,” and you’d sit there and wait for them and they’d [have] gone. So I’d have to move it myself. It’s really that tough. You speak often about “playing life.” Explain that concept. When you play life, it’s like everyday living. When you wake up, you got a feeling that day. Sometimes people feel bad. You had a bad day. Somebody hurt you. Play that, instead of fighting against it. When you fight against it, you fight against the grain. If you’re hurt, play hurt; sorrow, play it. If you’re happy, play it. But if you fight it, it’s like a circle and a square. Don’t force it. A lot of musicians get frustrated, because they hear someone else play, and they say, “Ah, I wish I could play like that.” I always tell them, you’re only great within. Play within yourself. In other words, play to your potential, and you’re just as great as that other person. SEE IT: Lonnie Smith plays Mississippi Studios on Monday, April 23. 8:30 pm. $20. 21+. Willamette Week APRIL 18, 2012 wweek.com
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[ELECTRONIC DANCE] Fresh from releasing his own teaser Keep Shadows From the Sun EP full of thumping electronic goodness, Jeffrey Jerusalem will be holding down the decks as DJ for April’s edition of hotly tipped remixers RAC’s monthly club night at Holocene. Just as the EP’s set of six fully realized, catchy songs sound sure to guide him into a larger sphere, his DJ’ing tastes are guaranteed to escort attendees to the dance floor and keep them there. Expect an electric mix of house music, international dance tracks and current disco cuts to keep the bodies moving. NILINA MASON-CAMPBELL. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 2397639. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
[ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS] A little bit stoner, a little bit psych, a little bit rock and fucking roll, Virginia’s Pontiak plays music that draws from 50 years of hard-riffing history—Floyd, Sabbath, Mudhoney, Kyuss and a Kerrang! magazine’s worth of longhaired, guitar-faced rockers are all lurking behind the crunchy bass, droning vocals and blues-tinged guitar licks. No, it’s not staggeringly original, but this trio of brothers manages to mash it together its own way (like you at a Coldstone Creamery) and winds up with something tasty and distinctive at the end. RUTH BROWN. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
FRIDAY, APRIL 20 Gaytheist, Fruit of the Legion of Loom, The Invention Machine
[FURIOUS ROCK] As soon as manabout-town Jason Rivera happened upon Nick Parks—drummer from Elitist and Hauler (and if you go way back, Nihilist)—and bassist Tim Hoff, a monster was born. Gaytheist is a trio that rips rock music apart like a paper shredder, and does so with infectious and gleeful abandon. Fans of Black Elk, Scratch Acid and all manner of hard-edged metal deconstruction will find plenty of bile to swish between their teeth. Also of note tonight is the debut of the Invention Machine, a new group comprising former members of Gay Marriage, Rapids and Thor Ark. NATHAN CARSON. Kenton Club, 2025 N Kilpatrick St., 285-3718. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
Soul’d Out Festival: Bombino
[DESERT BLUES] Omara “Bombino” Moctar managed one of the top 50 records of 2011, according to NPR, and you probably don’t even know who he is. The North African guitarist fast-forwards American rock’s lengthy journey from tribal ritual to arena spectacle in a single sitting. Moctar crafts bluesy, ’60s-era rock atop a backdrop of stunning traditional Saharan musical phrasing. The result is Agadez, a collection of scampering percussion, multilayered guitar melodies and incredibly infectious verses sung in his native Tuareg tongue. MARK STOCK. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 7 pm. $15. 21+.
Screaming Females, Hurry Up!, Guantanamo Baywatch
[VOICE LESSONS] While Screaming Females is certainly not the only youngish band with a jones for Dinosaur Jr.’s intoxicating guitar swirls, it’s probably the lone Mascis acolyte fronted by a singer-guitarist capable of bending her voice into crazy shapes as gorgeous and perfectly ungainly as anything a Fender can conjure. Over eddies of nervous distortion that split the difference between post-punk and classic rock,
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MEAN JEANS FRIDAY, APRIL 20 [DUMB PUNK] When I arrive at Zach’s Shack to interview Portland’s pop-punk savants Mean Jeans, guitarist-singer Christian (aka Billy Jeans) is hunched over a sketch pad, his attention split between a casual conversation with drummer-singer Andrew (aka Jeans Wilder) and the workin-progress coming to life on his pad: a rather convincing likeness of Macho Man Randy Savage sporting a penis that defies all anatomical reason. I’d planned to somehow trick the Jeans dudes—who decline to provide their last names for press or promotional materials—into illuminating the gulf between the intentional idiocy of their new album, Mean Jeans on Mars, and the real-life guys responsible for twisting a pro-partying, anti-seriousness ethos until it attains affecting pop perfection. But my nagging doubts about carefully constructed personas are put to rest by Savage’s ridiculous wang. Mean Jeans are totally serious about being totally dumb. “I don’t think it’s a persona we’ve tried to create for the band,” Christian explains. “I think it’s just us talking and acting the way we do. Which involves partying a lot and being a retard and fucking stuff up.” “Yeah, we party a lot,” Andrew says. Bonded by a mutual love for pop-punk bands like the Queers and Riverdales, Andrew and Christian started Mean Jeans in 2006 and moved to Portland from Washington, D.C., soon after. By the end of 2009, they’d recruited a bass player (Howie Doodat, who has since been replaced by Jr. Jeans), established themselves as this city’s premier party band and released, via Dirtnap Records, an album (Are You Serious?) of fast and silly Ramones-style pop punk that heralded the arrival of a Screeching Weasel for our time, our place. Mean Jeans on Mars, out this week, slows down and refines the Mean Jeans’ sound. It is still haunted by the ghosts of Joey and Johnny, but it owes more to the spacious Pleasant Dreams than the Ramones’ buzz-sawing early work. It is, in its way, a more mature version of Mean Jeans. And it turns out the Jeans aren’t entirely allergic to strategy and premeditation. Referring to the Queers and Screeching Weasel, Christian avers that “they both went south by doing the same shit over and over again.” Pair that awareness of souring singularity with an expanded range of influences—Andrew cops to deep appreciation for Rick Springfield and ELO—and the Mean Jeans’ evolution into slightly more elegant party animals resembles something like a conscious effort, although the Jeans’ pop pursuit is still a humbly dumb one, which Christian makes clear: “We’ve been mutually operating under the credo, since the beginning of the band, that no idea is too retarded.” “The most important thing to me,” Andrew says, “is having a good time and hoping you can get away with it.” Dismiss that as cheap philosophy if you must, but for now, it seems to be keeping Mean Jeans on the right side of a certain kind of imbecilic brilliance. CHRIS STAMM. Mean Jeans grow up a bit, but keep an ’80s teenager’s sense of humor.
SEE IT: Mean Jeans play the East Portland Eagles Lodge, 4904 SE Hawthorne Blvd., on Friday, April 20, with Therapists, Bi-Marks and the Bugs. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
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[CHRISTMAS FOR MUSIC NERDS] ’Tis the season when we music geeks blow our paychecks on rare new releases and reissues on vinyl. That said, Record Store Day offers something for everyone—not just record collectors. This year’s festivities are as follows: Music Millennium opens at 8 am, with coffee and doughnuts for the early birds starting at 7 am. There will be free gift bags, contests and coupon books, as well as an early-morning listening party for the new Jack White album. Jackpot Records’ downtown location opens at 10 am with Mudhoney’s Steve Turner and Talkdemonic’s Kevin O’Connor providing special DJ sets. The store’s Hawthorne location also opens at 10 am and will be giving out free vinyl and gift bags. Everyday Music’s downtown store opens at 8 am, with DJ sets from the Thermals (11 am) and Radiation City (1 pm) before moving on to live music from the Lower 48, John Heart Jackie and Evan Way of the Parson Red Heads later in the day. The Northeast Sandy Boulevard location opens at 8 am and will feature Mudhoney’s Steve Turner (busy man!) DJ-ing at noon and Mike Scheidt of Yob playing a rare solo set at 5 pm. The Record Room opens at noon and hosts a free, all-day bash with bands like Death Songs, Orca Team, the Shivas and Hooded Hags headlining (minors are welcome until 7 pm). There will also be tacos. Other stores are participating, so keep your eyes peeled: Record Store Day comes but once a year! CASEY JARMAN. See advertisements in this paper and/or the Internet for record store addresses.
Delhi 2 Dublin, Dj Anjali & The Incredible Kid
[GLOBAL DANCE POTPOURRI] This Soul’d Out Music Fest show brings back the Vancouver, B.C.-based Panjabi/Celtic sextet Delhi 2 Dublin for another dance party featuring a mischievous mishmash of global beats, including reggae, dub, hiphop, bhangra and more, with the electronics flavored by live tabla, electric sitar, dhol, fiddle, guitar and voice. It works a lot more seamlessly than it sounds, and the dancing will go on till the wee hours. DJ Anjali and the Incredible Kid open with their usual intoxicating bhangra-meets-Bollywood brew. BRETT CAMPBELL. Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside St., 206-7630. 9 pm. $15. 21+.
The Infamous Stringdusters
[TWANG] Bluegrass is as saturated as a field down-river from the Smoky Mountains after a flood, so it takes real finesse to stand out in the genre. Nashville quintet the Infamous Stringdusters manages to do so by pickin’ its way beyond Appalachia into more slide guitardriven country territory. The group handles the kissin’-cousin genre crossover beautifully, relying on its musicians’ mastery to bridge the gap in a way that’s startlingly earnest and pure on its fifth studio effort, this year’s Silver Sky. And just when you think the purism of the band’s balladry is too straightfaced and rigid, the boys drop a twangy cover of “Walking on the Moon” just to remind us that this is music as comfort food, no matter how professionally it’s presented. AP KRYZA. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $16 advance, $18 day of show. 21+.
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HORSE FEATHERS CYNIC’S NEW YEAR (KILL ROCK STARS) [SUBDUED CRAFTSMANSHIP] Horse Feathers is a band of subtleties. Creating a rich sonic space using soft arrangements and minimalist instrumentation is quite a feat. Yet, the Portland band’s fourth album, Cynic’s New Year, is swarming with delicate musical conversations. Violinist Nathan Crockett and cellist Catherine Odell’s sweetly talking strings are careful not to overpower singersongwriter Justin Ringle’s creaky voice and crisp acoustic guitar. Horn, woodwind, bells, upright bass, piano and banjo sneakily fill the spaces in between, and percussion makes its presence known only when it needs to. The instruments coax as much as they pull, guiding forward while appropriately framing through omission. The style risks being passively dismissed as melancholy, pretty songs filled with jumbled familiarity. Some people might skip through the disc before soaking it all in. Horse Feathers’ new disc doesn’t strike with obvious leaps and bounds, but the meticulous compositions in Cynic’s New Year encourage active listening. Even Ringle’s mumbling vocals demand a closer lean-in. Those with the patience for it discover a 12-track collection that’s neither neglected nor overworked; one that’s packed with enough understated variety that it leaves listeners wanting more. Lyrically, Ringle continues oblique explorations of seasons, passing time, and Mother Nature. He sings of sun and storms and the realities of the Pacific Northwest’s unabated rain. The standout track “Fit Against the Country,” a dialogue between a marching beat and a surrendering chorus, describes banded working men and women who are tired yet relentless. Ringle utters, “But nearly every day we earn a lower wage/ Does it tell you what we’re made of, or are we just what we’re paid?/ It’s a hard country we made.” Even with the painfully relatable imagery, the hopeful and serene melodies provide enough sunshine to soak through the gray—Horse Feathers is never dark enough to depress, but never bright enough to blind. EMILEE BOOHER.
SERGE SEVERE AND TERMINILL SERVICE WITHOUT A SMILE (SELF-RELEASED) [HIP-HOP] We’re used to Serge Severe being the Sharon Jones of boom-bap (boom-Baptone?). On his last two records, the Portland MC has branded himself as a throwback, flowing over jazz and funk-fueled beats that took listeners back to the golden age of hip-hop. His most recent mixtape, Severe Over Premier, proved the point—this dude loves the ’90s. But Service Without a Smile, the MC’s first collaboration with prolific local producer Terminill (who has worked with Portland headliners like Luck-One, Cool Nutz and Illmaculate), is a decidedly high-tech affair. The wobbly, synth-driven “Switchitup” is all societal critique, but its central hook—“Tired of that same old thing/ Gotta switch it up on ’em”—could pass for the album’s mission statement. Terminill is known for crisp, squeaky clean and booming beats less sample-driven than studio-built, and most of Service Without a Smile’s tracks fit that mold. “Monstrosity,” a straightforward boast track with a Kanye-indebted hook and cuts from DJ Wels, sounds like the Prodigy’s “Firestarter,” but that’s not the side of the ’90s that Severe’s work usually brings to mind. The album works best when stepping outside the collaborators’ comfort zones. “Know the Truth,” built around a hollering blues sample and big-picture politics from Severe and Luck-One, isn’t the kind of beat one normally associates with Terminill’s Flatline studios, but it leaves the listener hoping for more. The bassy “Rare Flow” finds Severe in an uncharacteristically loose mood, mixing lazy bars with double-time tighten-ups as Terminill’s beat coasts. Terminill and Serge make an odd couple, but when they bend a bit, it proves both artists’ considerable range. Even with all the stylistic leg-stretching here, though, Severe’s crystal-clear verses tend to buoy the beats rather than slip between them. You can take the MC out of the old-school, turns out, but you can’t take the oldschool out of the MC. CASEY JARMAN. SEE IT: Horse Feathers plays the Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., on Saturday, April 21. $15 advance, $18 day of show. All ages (minors must be accompanied by a parent). Serge Severe and Terminill play Ash Street Saloon, 225 SW Ash St., on Friday April 20. 9:30 pm. $5. 21+.
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Thursday, April 19th
SOUL’D OUT FESTIVAL PRESENTS
POLYRHYTHMICS & LUCKY BROWN Friday, April 20th
HAROLD AND MAUDE MOVIE WITH SQUAD CLASSIC LIVE SOUNDTRACK! Saturday, April 21st
FLAT FOOT FOLLIES SWING TIME VAUDVILLE
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RACC PRESENTS
YOUR CAREER IN MUSIC A PANEL DISCUSSION
Thursday, April 26th
SALMON POET FILM SHOWING WITH LIVE PERFORMANCES BY:
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Friday, April 27th
VICTOR LITTLE AND FRIENDS PAST & PRESENT
Saturday, April 28th
LIVE WIRE INCLUDING COMIC MOSHE KASHER Tuesday, May 1st
VOCALDENTE Sunday, May 13th
SPECIAL MOTHER’S DAY SHOW!
KELLY CARLIN
A CARLIN HOME COMPANION
GEORGE CARLIN’S DAUGHTER PRESENTS A POWERFUL, HILARIOUS AND TOUCHING ONE WOMAN SHOW ABOUT GROWING UP CARLIN
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[DREAM POP] It’s tempting to think of School of Seven Bells as that other Brooklyn-based, stylishly electronic boy-girl duo with “bells” in its name. However, close investigation reveals that the gods of success have once again picked a questionable champion, leaving School of Seven Bells in an undeserving second place. Currently in its sixth year and third album cycle (Ghostory being the LP in question), School of Seven Bells plays stygian, atmospheric pop that on occasion builds its momentum to the thrashing volume of shoegaze, but often as not opts for patient exploration of its brooding moods. SHANE DANAHER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.
Behemoth, Watain, The Devil’s Blood, In Solitude, Stoneburner
[NERGAL RETURNS] Do you hear that growling sound coming from the outskirts of town? That is the collective celebration taking place in anticipation of the return of Behemoth. This Polish blackened metal giant has gone through some trying times over the past two years. Frontman Adam “Nergal” Darski has been in treatment for leukemia since 2010, forcing the cancellation of a previous North American tour. Nergal has now regained his vocal and physical strength and is ready to slash and burn his way across the countryside, blast beats and shredding guitar work providing the fuel to his unholy fire. ROBERT HAM. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 6:30 pm. $22 advance, $25 day of show. All ages.
Damien Jurado, Peter Wolf Crier, Kelli Schaefer
[STRANGE FOLK] Oregon-based musician and producer Richard Swift is quickly building an esteemed and ubiquitous reputation. His ear for production has pushed Seattle singer/songwriter Damien Jurado’s music from good to triumphantly great. Jurado is no new name in music, as the poetic Seattleite songwriter has been releasing records for 15 years, but after Jurado collaborated with Swift on his last two albums, his name is swarming in the popular buzz. His recent albums, 2010’s Saint Bartlett and 2012’s Maraqopa, bring a dynamic range of instruments, sprawling arrangements, and a knack for oddly irresistible background singing. EMILEE BOOHER. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St. 8:30 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
Caveman, Aan, Pure Bathing Culture
[BIPEDAL ROCK] Tonight’s Mississippi Studios bill is the best kind—where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, but the parts are pretty great, too. Headliner Caveman is a Brooklyn five-piece the hype machine has been whirring over at least since the band released its first disc, Coco Beware, last fall. It’s easy to see why: Otherworldly, many-voiced harmonies bred with lush, textured instrumentation result in pretty—and pretty highly evolved—rock. Caveman gets local support from the always-on Aan and Pure Bathing Culture, a duo (made up of Vetiver members Daniel Hindman and Sarah Versprille) that has warmed up about every crowd in Portland in recent months with its seductive take on late-’70s, early-’80s soft rock. The pair makes easy listening listenable. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
Loop 2.4.3, 1939 Ensemble, Hot Victory
[HERE COME THE DRUMS] When performing together as Loop 2.4.3, Lorne Watson and Thomas Kozumplik stand facing each other,
LIL’ DRUMMER BOYS: Loop 2.4.3 plays Sunday, April 22, at Rotture. often meeting each other’s eyes while giving silent cues about where a particular piece is going. It’s an unusual setup and can be slightly intense to watch. But they ease the situation through their music, an allpercussion barrage of rhythm and electronics. You can dance to it, but you might be better off immersing yourself in the audio-visual experience of watching two master musicians face off for one common musical goal. ROBERT HAM. Rotture, 315 SE 3rd Ave., 234-5683. 9 pm. $7. 21+.
Japanther, Boys Who Say No, Nightshade Shadow Puppet Theater, Hurry Up
[ARTY PUNK] Japanther has a sterling reputation as an adventurous and always worthy live act, but the Brooklyn duo’s recorded output usually leaves me feeling either ambivalent or mildly annoyed. Something always seems to be missing. Seemed, that is, because last year’s Beets, Limes and Rice finally won me over by adding the missing ingredient I’d previously been unable to name. The thing I’d been craving was a tinge of sadness, a little melancholy to cut the antic, life-affirming boisterousness that Japanther specializes in. The band still sounds like it’s having a blast with its art-school punk, but I feel like I’m finally being allowed into the tender part of Japanther’s heart that gets bummed after a party. CHRIS STAMM. Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th Ave., 248-1030. 8 pm. $8. 21+.
Allen Stone, Snarky Puppy, Worth
[SOUL] Not since the heyday of Hall and Oates has a white man this dorky looking been this so seminal a figure in R&B music. Allen Stone, a small-town kid from Washington state who has lately hit the charts with his groovy Stevie Wondermeets-Jamiroquai cut, “Unaware,” is setting the new standard for gifted soul belters with thick-rimmed glasses. All of this should make him popular in Portland—especially since Stone doesn’t take himself too seriously on his formidable new selftitled disc. Fans of Maxwell and the Daptone Records crew should sign up for this one—Stone may have been raised in the Northwest, but he’s about to go international. CASEY JARMAN. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St. 8:30 pm. $18 advance, $22 day of show. All ages.
MONDAY, APRIL 23 Tragedy, The Estranged, Arctic Flowers, Druden
[PDX PUNX] I wish someone would trust me with an impressionable sullen teenager tonight, for this allages extravaganza is the perfect gateway kick for kids looking to tap into Portland’s amazing punk scene, and I’d like to have a hand in hooking at least one moldable mind. Druden’s baleful black metal should lend a shade of menace to this PDX Punk 101 class, which features anarcho-punk lessons from Arctic Flowers and a demonstration of post-punk gloom courtesy of the Estranged. And, of course, no local primer would be complete without an appearance from crust luminary Tragedy, which will be teaching the young ones a little something about getting old and keeping it real. CHRIS STAMM. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. 8 pm. $8. All ages.
The Naked and Famous, Vacationer, Now, Now
[THE FAST AND FAMOUS] The Naked and Famous’ rise to fame is reminiscent of that of Foster the People. Both possess extra-large band names, both released singable yet relatively unoriginal debut albums, and both took the young indie crowds by storm—quickly. It seems the formula for creating a big radio hit is taking a catchy beat and adding electric guitar, synthesizer and power-pop vocals. The male-female one-two punch in the New Zealand group’s single “Young Blood,” from its album Passive Me, Aggressive You, is catchy—I’ll give it that. Innovative? Not really. The music sounds like a jumble of the past five years’ synthy pop bands that’s perfect for nights when highschoolers want to feel infinite during a 3 am surge at a house party. EMILEE BOOHER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm. $25. All ages.
Frankie Rose, Dive, Orca Team, Ghost Mom
[SPACE-AGE POP] Frankie Rose comes from a garage-rock background that included stints in Dum Dum Girls and Crystal Stilts, among other hyped acts. That’s why the critics are all a little sur-
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MONDAY-TUESDAY prised by her own personal pop effort, the glittery, synth-ridden solo record Interstellar. Glamorous and dreamy, Rose’s own product mimics the starry-eyed work of fellow ’80s-adoring Brooklyn acts CANT and Bear in Heaven. Drastic as the shift has been, Rose hasn’t completely abandoned her postpunk upbringing. She still prefers straightforward song structures prone to abrupt experimentation. Only now she’s doing so with a new slough of instruments and wavy effects. MARK STOCK. East End, 203 SE Grand Ave., 232-0056. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
WTF Fest: John Sinclair, Dave Archer, Rick Shapiro, Dave Densmore with Alexa Wiley, Ugly Shyla and more Even for an itinerary as overstuffed with signature celebratory events as John Sinclair’s—the iconic poet, weed martyr, White Panther head and manager of ’60s protopunks MC5 essentially spends his 70s lending an enviable imprimatur to one passingly countercultural gala after another—WTF Fest 2012 seems particularly apropos. Though the Northwest-traveling cavalcade is as impishly dangerous as, well, the joints for which Sinclair was once sentenced to a decade’s imprisonment (John Lennon and Stevie Wonder aiding his release after only a few days), there’s nonetheless an appealingly odd array of backward-leaning provocateurs in attendance. The continually evolving lineup currently includes Star Trek TNG artist Dave Archer, documentarians Shane and Amy Bugbee, “Scream Princess” Ruby LaRocca, dollmaker Ugly Shyla and one-woman band Esmerelda Strange. JAY HORTON. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 9 pm. $6 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
Brothers Young, Pigeons
PEDRO WINTER
[BAND OF BROTHERS] Brothers Young mixes twangy, classic country guitar riffs with tropical tones to create a busy, bleached sound that’s best heard on “The Roman Sun,” from the Portland group’s Good People EP. The song is less than four minutes long but filled with enough layers of flickering drums and plucky guitar chords to seem longer than a classic rock ballad. The group, made up of three brothers (Dustin, Michael and Dillon Young) and three others (new drummer Darrell George with Trevino Brings Plenty and Travis Girton), uses its sibling singers to place shadowy vocal harmonies over delicately dynamic instrumental transitions that make
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the group complex without sounding like it’s trying to be. NIKKI VOLPICELLI. White Eagle Saloon, 836 N Russell St., 282-6810. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
TUESDAY, APRIL 24 Coldplay, Metronomy, The Pierces
[STADIUM ROCK] I get why people love Coldplay: Like U2 and Radiohead before it, the massive U.K. group is one whose members who care deeply about texture and sonic depth. Coldplay crafts infectious walls of sound that make good use of inflated major-label studio budgets, and it’s hard not to engage with whatever coolsounding shit they do to each new single. But I also get why people hate Coldplay: Here’s a band with the whole world at its fingertips, and more often than not, frontman Chris Martin’s lyrical messages are made up of hollow, clever rhymes and shallow platitudes passed off as something profound. Dive deep enough into the band’s oftgorgeous-sounding album Mylo Xyloto and you’re likely to crack your head on the concrete. At best, creative but chart-captive bands like Coldplay serve as arbiters of underground music, but a look at tonight’s meh major-label openers prove it’s not a role this group has embraced. Coldplay records songs that are vast and deep compared to most other stuff on radio, but it’s all very much intended for radio. It would be foolish to expect the group to grow much within those confines. CASEY JARMAN. Rose Garden, 1401 N Wheeler Ave., 2358771. 7 pm. $29.50-$99.50. All ages.
The Makai, Mongoloid Village, Wretched of the Earth
[EVERYTHING METAL] Taking a cue from Skarp’s syncretic approach to extreme sounds, the Makai speeds through the vaunted halls of modern music and lifts as many precious metals (heavy, black, doom) as can fit in the pockets of a punk vest. The Chico, Calif., outfit’s 2010 LP, Embracing the Shroud of a Blackened Sky, is a wild and unpredictable ride, as the aforementioned horn-throwing tendencies are designed to blur into ominous crust-punk dirges and stoned post-rock passages. The last word in this write-up has been rendered virtually meaningless by overuse, but damn it, I have to say it: The Makai is epic. CHRIS STAMM. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.
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JUSTICE Formed: In Paris, in the mid-aughts. Sounds like: Skrillex and Freddie Mercury roughed up Daft Punk in an alley behind the duo’s stadium show and donned the famous robo outfits themselves. For fans of: Daft Punk, Simian Mobile Disco, MSTRKRFT. Latest release: Last fall’s Audio, Video, Disco, on which the terrible twosome, having thoroughly pillaged the discothèque, turned to the arena, plundering from prog and metal to maraud in an invigorating, more rock-influenced direction. Why you care: Distant fathers, low self-esteem, masculine insecurities: Justice’s music is so relentlessly big and cocky, one can’t help but feel it’s somehow compensatory, like an ostentatious sports car. (And that’s leaving to the analysts the grandiose name and the group’s symbol—a blocky, assertively three-dimensional cross. Christ.) Since crashing the electronic-dance-music party in 2007 with †, the French producer duo has been derided by EDM snoots for its midrange mixing and overall lack of subtlety. The haters are right and wrong: Justice’s creole of disco, house and hard rock is anything but nuanced—and it’s great fun. SEE IT: Justice plays the Roseland Theater on Tuesday, April 24. 8 pm. Sold out. All ages. Willamette Week APRIL 18, 2012 wweek.com
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[APRIL 18 - 24] Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Rick Bass and Stellarondo
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. 3 Leg Torso
Andrea’s Cha Cha Club
RON WYMAN
832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band
Artichoke Community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Songwriter Roundup
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Speaker High, The Hoons, Dead Remedy
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Lunge, Industrial Park, Sluagh
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Open Bluegrass Jam
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. John “JB” Butler & Al Craido
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Storm Nilson
Chapel Pub
430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin
Clyde’s Prime Rib
BURNING UP THE CHARTS: Bombino plays the Star Theater on Friday.
WED. APRIL 18 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Sara Jackson-Holman
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Todd Snider, Reed Foehl
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Open Mic
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Space Waves, SuckerForLights, DJ Mindwave, DJ John Jenne (Smiths/Morrissey tribute show)
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. A La Mode, Rocket 3, Scott Brockett
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Brad Creel, Troy Richmond Dixon, Wild Mountain Bell
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Henry Hill
Blitz Twentyone 305 NW 21st Ave. Crown Point
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Trashcan Joe
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Jazz Jam with Errick Lewis & the Regiment House Band
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. Jeff Mangum (of Neutral Milk Hotel)
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Headless Pez, Wild Dogs
Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. K. Flay, Cherub
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave.
Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam (9:30 pm); High Flyer Trio (6 pm)
Jake Ray and the Cowdogs (9:30 pm); Bob Shoemaker (6 pm)
East Burn
LaurelThirst
1800 E Burnside St. Irish Music Jam
East India Co.
821 SW 11th Ave. Josh Feinberg
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Noltern, White Guilt, Lazy Boy
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Soul’d Out Festival: The Skatalites, The Sentiments
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. In Fear and Faith, For All Those Sleeping, Dream On Dreamer, Casino Madrid, Adestria, We Rise the Tides
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. White Hinterland, Pure Bathing Culture, DJ Jen O, Carl Sagan’s Turtleneck (music show/literary reading)
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Bryant Allard Quartet (8 pm); Tom D’Antoni (4:30 pm)
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Jeffree White Music Showcase with Hunter Paye
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. David Ross
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Mbrascatu, Goldenboy, Bevelers
Ladd’s Inn
1204 SE Clay St. Lynn Conover
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St.
2958 NE Glisan St. My Fellow Traveler, Laurel Brauns (9 pm); The Phoreheads (6 pm)
Lents Commons
9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Alma Desnuda
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Billy D
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Solomon’s Hollow (9:45 pm); Mr. Hoo (kids’ show, 12 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Animal Eyes, The Dig, The We Shared Milk
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Dub and Jender, Beejan Iranshad
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Sleepy Eyed Johns
Palace of Industry
5426 N Gay Ave. Flat Rock String Band
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Falling Still, Lord, Mercury Tree
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Kansas with the Pacific University Orchestra
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Father Figure, My Autumn’s Done Come, The World Radiant
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Verso/Recto, Rose City Horns
Sundown Pub
5903 N Lombard St. Tickle Fight, Print(the) Seas
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Phoenix Project Blues Jam
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Shirley Nanette
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Lord Dying, Towers, Avi Dei
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Farnell Newton Trio
Trail’s End Saloon
1320 Main St., Oregon City Ken Brewer & Danny O’Brien
Tualatin Heritage Center
8700 SW Sweek Drive Kevin Carr
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Deep Cuts with Ramsey Embeck
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen, Karen Maria Capo
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Soul’d Out Festival: SBTRKT, Machinedrum, Celoso
THURS. APRIL 19 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Sara Jackson-Holman
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Tuck & Patti, Adlai Alexander
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Soul’d Out Festival: Polyrhythmics, Lucky Brown
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Mesi & Bradley
Conga Club
4932 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Mango Nights Orchestra
Corkscrew Wine Bar 1669 SE Bybee Blvd. Joseph Appel
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. Jeff Mangum (of Neutral Milk Hotel)
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Hot Panda
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Can’t Hardly Playboys (9 pm); Tough Lovepyle (6 pm)
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. Stefan Andrews
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Towers, Lamprey, DJ Pardeedog, DJ Booze Crooze
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Fun Yeti, Doom Dong, The Thoughts, Danny Delegato
Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave. The Low Bones
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Lawn Boy
Hawthorne Theatre
David Ross
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Wesley Allen Hartley
Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Ave. Adam Sweeney and the Jamboree
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Erik Anarchy, American Roulette, Raw Dog and the Close Calls, Myself Destruct, Mr. Plow
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Jack Ruby Presents, Melville (9:30 pm); Lynn Conover & Gravel (6 pm)
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Tim Acott
Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan St. The Bridge Quartet (Thelonious Monk tribute)
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Travis Larson Band (9 pm); Milo Duke (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Pontiak, Eternal Tapestry, Mike Scheidt
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Josiah Payne
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Maria in the Shower
Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Irie Idea
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. MarchFourth Marching Band
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones Jam
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Johnny Martin
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Ripper, Frenzy, Contempt
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Hair Assault
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell 3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Mystic Reason, Stump Train, Zen Thesis
Tony Starlight’s
Trail’s End Saloon
1320 Main St., Oregon City Rae Gordon
529 SW 4th Ave. Sombras Borrachos!, Moe Bowstern
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Jade Lounge
Vie de Boheme
112 SW 2nd Ave.
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Tara Williamson Trio
FRI. APRIL 20 Agenda
2366 SE 82nd Ave. The Filthy Nightmares, Torture Me Elmo, Wett Jenni
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Sara Jackson-Holman
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Dar Williams, Alex Dezen
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. The Harold and Maude Squad (“Harold and Maude” live score, 9:30 pm and 7 pm)
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Mike Simmons, Colby Rae Jackson (9:30 pm); Mikey’s Irish Jam (6:30 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
Artichoke Community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Friday Coffeehouse
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Serge Severe & Terminill, Luck One, Big Bang, Elevated, JRitz & Saywords, Diction One, DJ Wels
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Tigress, The Hoons, The Autonomics
Biddy McGraw’s
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Tom Grant Jazz Jam Session
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Matthew Gailey Band
Kells
836 N Russell St. Strangled Darlings (8:30 pm); Will West and Tanner Cundy (5:30 pm)
The Blue Diamond
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
2346 SE Ankeny St. Colin Fisher Acoustic Oceans
White Eagle Saloon
Beaterville Cafe
Tonic Lounge
Jack London Bar
2929 SE Powell Blvd. AngelRhodes
231 SW Ankeny St. Christopher Neil Young, Mangled Bohemians
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Fear the Slaughter, For Those Alive, She Preaches Mayhem, Guillotine, Trials and Traces
1435 NW Flanders St. Kerry Politzer/George Colligan Quartet (8 pm); Laura Cunard (5:30 pm)
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
18 NW 3rd Ave. Mattress, DJ Casual Sax 1530 SE 7th Ave. David Friesen Circle 3 Trio
2201 N Killingsworth St. Hollowdog Band 6000 NE Glisan St. Counterfeit Cash (9:30 pm); Lynn Connover (6 pm)
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Solovox, VTRN, Mosley Wotta, Shadows on Stars
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Darrell Grant Quartet, Tablao
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. The Sale
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Superjazzers
Carvlin Hall
1636 SE Hickory St. Lou and Peter Berryman
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ocean 503
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Cash’d Out (Johnny Cash tribute)
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Fruition, Water Tower
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. The Phoreheads (9 pm); The Hamdogs (6 pm)
Eagles Lodge, Southeast
4904 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Mean Jeans
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. Left Coast Country
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. King Clifton, Ex-Girlfriends Club, Holy Children, Welsh Bowmen, DJ Lamar Leroy, DJ Noah Sweat
Ella Street Social Club
714 SW 20th Place The Hugs, Snow Bud and the Flower People
Foggy Notion
3416 N Lombard St. Helstrom 5, The Gams, Broken Arm
Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave. Jacob Arnold (8 pm); Josh Cole (5 pm)
Glenn & Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center 527 E Main St., Hillsboro Bottom Line Duo
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Eve 6, The Audition, NameSake
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Mark Simon Trio (8 pm); Jim Templeton (5 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Soulmates
Katie O’Briens
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Mormon Trannys, Broken Bodies, Clackamas Baby Killers
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Grafton Street
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Gaytheist, Fruit of the Legion of Loom, The Invention Machine
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Garcia Birthday Band (9:30 pm); The Barkers (6 pm)
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. ‘80s Video Dance Attack with VJ Kittyrox
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale The Northstar Session
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Rogue Bluegrass Band
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Melao d’Cuba (9 pm); Back Porch Revival (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. YOB, Nether Regions, Diesto, Norska, White Orange
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Tin Silver
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Simon Tucker Group, Bitterroot, Chris Carpenter
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Mike Brosnan
Nel Centro
1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew, Sam Howard
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music
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Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Amaya Villazan
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Jim Boyer Band (9:30 pm); Twisted Whistle (6 pm)
Bossanova Ballroom
722 E Burnside St. Soul’d Out Festival: Delhi 2 Dublin, Dj Anjali & The Incredible Kid
2527 NE Alberta St. Lloyd Allen
PINTS Urban Taproom 412 NW 5th Ave. Alex Nicole (9 pm); Slim Bacon (7 pm)
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Forest Bloodgood
Plan B
231 SW Ankeny St. R/D, Sporeganic, Tiger Fresh, Tribal Spectrum, DMLH
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ashbolt Stewart Band
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Bobby Torres
The Know
1305 SE 8th Ave. The Hague, Calling Morocco, Habits, Cursebreaker, Ugly Flowers
2026 NE Alberta St. Screaming Females, Hurry Up!, Guantanamo Baywatch
Press Club
The Piano Fort
2621 SE Clinton St. Oh Captain My Captain
Red Room
1715 SE Spokane St. Run On Sentence, Bramble, Nick Jaina
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Hyding Jekyll, Dead Remedy, Tinmantle, Dan Coyle, Bronson, Unicornz
The Waypost
Roseland Theater
Thirsty Lion
8 NW 6th Ave. Soul’d Out Festival: Greensky Bluegrass, Pert’ Near Sandstone
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Regular Music, Maxx Bass, King Fader, Freaky Outy, Jimme Jamma, Stormy Roxx, Darkcloud
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Brian Copeland Band, Safire (9 pm); Lincoln’s Beard (6 pm)
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
8635 N Lombard St. When the Broken Bow, Zouaves, Giggle Fit
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. The Longwood Soul Review, Flying Spiders, Dungeon Brothers, DJ Papi Chulo
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Hip Dip
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Soul’d Out Festival: Bombino
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Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Dilana, Ben Union, The Plastic Revolution
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Cats Under the Stars (Jerry Garcia Band tribute), Jenny Sizzler (Phish tribute)
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Chuck Israels Jazz Orchestra (Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn tribute)
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Nancy Curtin
Trader Vic’s
1203 NW Glisan St. John English (Frank Sinatra tribute)
Trail’s End Saloon
1320 Main St., Oregon City Kenny Lavitz
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Ezza Rose
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Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. The Twangshifters, Dollypops
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Robbie Laws
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Tango Alpha Tango, Redwood Son, Cody BeeBee, Eternal Fair (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Barbara Lusch Trio
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Soul’d Out Festival: Midnite, Higher Reasoning Sound
SAT. APRIL 21 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Sara Jackson-Holman
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Horse Feathers, Weinland, Petoskey
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Shanghai Woolies (variety show)
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Scott Alan Knost, Spitzer Space Telescope
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway Storm Large with the Oregon Symphony
Artichoke Community Music
3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Jimmy Lott
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Chapters End, Soilroot, Bad Rabbit
2026 NE Alberta St. Usnea, Kohosh, Old City, DJ Just Dave
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Frame by Frame
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Kinder Bison, Mighty Cascades (9 pm); Level 2 Music (6 pm); The Alphabeticians (4 pm)
The Lovecraft
1001 SE Morrison St. Damien Jurado, Peter Wolf Crier, Kelli Schaefer
Thirsty Lion
2346 SE Ankeny St. Zak Borden
421 SE Grand Ave. House of Light 71 SW 2nd Ave. Gentlemen’s Club
Threads Count
1536 NW 23rd Ave. The Ben Darwish Experience
Tiger Bar
626 SW Park Ave. Trashcan Joe (9 pm); Tablao (5:30 pm)
Mock Crest Tavern
Tonic Lounge
Camellia Lounge
Muddy Rudder Public House
510 NW 11th Ave. Anandi
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Elite
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Three Bad Jacks, Dragstrip Riot, Back Alley Barbers, All-Star Burly-Q Revue
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Y La Bamba, Ravenna Woods, Death Songs
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. D.K. Stewart Sextet with the Soul Survivor Horns 1800 E Burnside St. Southern Skies
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. The River Project (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)
The Know
Behemoth, Watain, The Devil’s Blood, In Solitude, Stoneburner
317 NW Broadway Mohawk Yard, Kleverkill, Earth to Ashes
East Burn
Original Halibut’s II
Tom Grant, Shelly Rudolph
Mississippi Studios
Brasserie Montmartre
SMOKIN’ WHEELS: Thanks to the war on tobacco, it’s no harder to get a joint than a good stogie in this town. While so much of Portland’s diet is bacon-based, and food carts will soon be allowed to pour $2 well whiskeys, hookah bars were banned last year without much fuss. It’s like we’re hangin’ with Mr. C. Everett Koop. So the bright red cigar cart opened by Broadway Cigar Co. (Southwest Oak Street and Broadway, 473-8000, broadwaycigar.com) feels a little puckish. A custom-built, rolling walk-in humidor, the “Lounge and Safe Haven for Cigar Smokers” opened last month on the ground floor of a parking garage across from the posh Benson Hotel. Inside it’s got a few thousand good cigars, ranging from $5 to $40. The covered patio isn’t anything fancy—propane heat and lawn furniture—but it’s a comfortable place to sit and smoke, chatting about this town’s odd politics. MARTIN CIZMAR.
Watch It Sparkle, Hey Lover, Nightrain, Dad & Dad
Ella Street Social Club
714 SW 20th Place The Shoguns, The Parlour Suite
Fifteenth Avenue Hophouse 1517 NE Brazee St. Kelsey Morris
Foggy Notion
3416 N Lombard St. Atrocity Exhibition, The Mishaps, Zotz, Poison Apple DJs
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Soul’d Out: Will Bernard, Wil Blades, Simon Lott
Hawthorne Hophouse 4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Ben Larsen & Austin Moore
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Ave. Ninja with Syringes
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Our Lady Peace, Water & Bodies
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. David Friesen Trio (8 pm); Gaea Schell (5 pm)
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. The Spodee-o’s (8 pm); Rachel Fishman (6 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Debra Arlyn
Katie O’Briens
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. 42 Ford Prefect, Stumblebum
Keller Auditorium 222 SW Clay St. Celtic Woman
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Grafton Street
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. The Lower 48, Johnny and the Bells, Evan Way
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St.
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Stephen Ashbrook 3435 N Lombard St. Bottleneck Blues Band
8105 SE 7th Ave. Lauren Sheehan
Nel Centro
1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew, Tim Gilson, & Randy Rollofson
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. AC Porter
PINTS Urban Taproom 412 NW 5th Ave. Edge of Land
Plan B
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Wolfman Fairies, The Carnabetian Army, Metropolitan Farms
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Tony Starlight, Barbara Ayers, Marianna Thielen (Dean Martin tribute)
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Haley Horsfall
Trader Vic’s
1203 NW Glisan St. Xavier Tavera
Trail’s End Saloon
1320 Main St., Oregon City Franco & the Stingers
Twilight Café and Bar
1305 SE 8th Ave. The Boors, Stinkbug
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Puro Desmadre, Patria Jodida, Hepsi
Press Club
Vie de Boheme
2621 SE Clinton St. Jennie Wayne, Alina Hardin
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Death Songs, Surfs Drugs, The Shivas, Orca Team, Hooded Hags, Nathan Baumgartner, DJ Hero Worship, DJ Listen Lady, DJ My Holy Shoes, DJ Bob Ham, DJ Ted (Record Store Day show)
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Riastrad, Echoic, American Roulette, Foal
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Soul’d Out Festival: Wanda Jackson & the Dusty 45s, Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside, Larry and His Flask
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Aldebaran, L’Acephale, Winter in the Blood
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Billie Holiday tribute (9 pm); Dominic Castillo (6 pm)
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Pillowtalk, Alga Rhythms Collective, Onuinu
1530 SE 7th Ave. African Music Festival
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Sam Densmore
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Chris Juhlin and the Collective, Tummybuckles, Sewblue
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Mia Nicholson Trio
Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St. The Infamous Stringdusters
SUN. APRIL 22 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Death Songs
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway Storm Large with the Oregon Symphony
Ash Street Saloon
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Cool Breeze
225 SW Ash St. Aechoes, Consumed by Silence, Impurity of Mriya, Betrayed by Weakness, OpenFate
Star Theater
Biddy McGraw’s
13 NW 6th Ave. Ancient Heat, DJ Zimmie
6000 NE Glisan St. Felim Egan
TaborSpace
Branx
Spare Room
5441 SE Belmont St. Dia do Choro (Brazilian music festival)
320 SE 2nd Ave. Enter Shikari, Letlive, At the Skylines
The Blue Diamond
Doug Fir Lounge
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Margo Tufo
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Tasha Flynn, The Excellent Gentleman
The Guild Public House 1101 E Burnside St. Lowenbad, 2Shea, Rudefish
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway
830 E Burnside St. School of Seven Bells, Exitmusic
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. The Woolen Men, Timmy the Terror, The Winter Coat, The Eiger Sanction, DJ Noah Fence
Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave. Tim Roth
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Holocene
Jade Lounge
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Pat Buckley (9 pm); Irish Sessions (6 pm)
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. The Slutty Hearts, The Slidells, The Verner Pantons
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Dan Haley, Tim Acott (9 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St. The Shook Twins
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Cary Novotny, Tim Connell
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Eight53 (9 pm); Wicky Pickers (6:30 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Caveman, Aan, Pure Bathing Culture
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Liquid Assassin, ADR Lavey, Bobby Sick, Hellusin8, DezLooca, BlackHandPath, Logik
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music
NEPO 42
5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic
Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Ave. Plum Sutra
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Chris Sutton, Plankton Wat, Polyps
Rontoms
600 E Burnside St. DoublePlusGood, Adventures! with Might, My Body
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Loop 2.4.3, 1939 Ensemble, Hot Victory
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Peter Bradley Adams, Stephanie Schneiderman
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Japanther, Boys Who Say No, Nightshade Shadow Puppet Theater, Hurry Up
Star Theater
Trail’s End Saloon
1320 Main St., Oregon City Robbie Laws
Tupai at Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Alex Krebs Tango Quartet
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Evyn Oliver, The Ghost Ease, Roselit Bone
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones, Duffy Bishop, King Louis and Sweet Baby James, Henry Cooper, Ty Curtis, Kevin Selfe and the Tornadoes, Dover Weinberg, Dave Kahl, Chris Carlson (Big Monti Amundson benefit)
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Charlie Blue and the Black Market
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Open Mic/Songwriter Showcase
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Soul’d Out Festival: Allen Stone, Snarky Puppy, Worth
MON. APRIL 23 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Death Songs
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Dan Coyle, Heart and Hammer, Acrid Intent (9:30 pm); Mangled Bohemians, Sue Zalokar, Traashbeat (6:30 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Open Mic
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Tragedy, The Estranged, Arctic Flowers, Druden
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. The Naked and Famous; Vacationer; Now, Now
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Bridgecreek (8 pm); Paula Sinclair (5:30 pm)
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Frankie Rose, Dive, Orca Team, Ghost Mom
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Jaime Leopold
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Pat Buckley
13 NW 6th Ave. Rites of Spring, Sonia Ochoa, Gypsy Caravan, NagaSita, Sedonah, Karolina Lux, Katy Swensen, Gypsy Roots, Apsara
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
The Blue Monk
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Max’s Midnight Kitchen (9 pm); Jimmy Pardo (6:30 pm); Mr. Ben (kids’ show, 5 pm)
3341 SE Belmont St. Sam Foulger Quartet
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave. Rllrbll, Shenandoah Davis, Ian Cooke
Tillicum Club
8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Johnny Martin Quartet
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Boo Jays
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Skip vonKuske with Cellotronik
Mississippi Pizza
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Soul’d Out Festival: Dr. Lonnie Smith, Lord Smithingham
Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave. Ingrid Michaelson
SoHiTek Records
625 NW Everett St., Suite 102
CALENDAR Like a Villain, Briana Marela, The Sarcastic Dharma Society
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. WTF Fest: John Sinclair, Dave Archer, Rick Shapiro, Dave Densmore, Ugly Shyla, Ruby LaRocca, Esmerelda Strange, Shane and Amy Bugbee, Dingo Dizmal, Bottleneck Blues Band, Tokyo Death Stare, Lonnie D. Wages
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Jay “Bird” Koder’s Soulmates
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Deep Cuts
The Know
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Death Songs
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Matthew Sweet, The Summer Twins
Alberta Street Public House
2346 SE Ankeny St. Colin Johnson
Jimmy Mak’s
Andina
Kells
1314 NW Glisan St. JB Butler
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Sioux Falls, Burst Suppression, On Holiday
Valentine’s
Camellia Lounge
836 N Russell St. Brothers Young, Pigeons
Jade Lounge
1036 NE Alberta St. Betty and the Boy
Bunk Bar
White Eagle Saloon
1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Ave. Whistlepunk!
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm); Rosemont Ridge Middle School (6:30 pm)
2026 NE Alberta St. Cam Lasley, Tensions Fort, Dolorean 232 SW Ankeny St. Welsh Bowmen
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1028 SE Water Ave. Pocketknife, Your Rival 510 NW 11th Ave. Nancy Curtin with the Ezra Weiss Quartet
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Radula
TUES. APRIL 24
112 SW 2nd Ave. Pat Buckley
Laughing Horse Books
12 NE 10th Ave. Power, Cast Out, Get Wise
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Caleb Klauder and Sammy Lind
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Inky Shadows
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Trick with DJ Robb
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. The Wriffs
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. The Smooth Hopperator
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. TRONix: Mike Gong, Bliphop Junkie
Matador
1967 W Burnside St. DJ Whisker Friction
Red Cap Garage
1035 SW Stark St Riot Wednesdays with Bruce LaBruiser
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Phantasmagoria
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. Proper Movement: Concord Dawn, Elementry and George of the Jungle, Josh D and Believe, Mulchfactor
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. DJs Rhys, Ogo, Traci
The Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave. Whiskey Wednesdays: American Girls, Tiger Beat, Danny K, Anok?
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Coldyron
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Paint It Black with DJ Freaky Outy (10 pm); DJ Creepy Crawl (7 pm)
Yes and No
20 NW 3rd Ave. Death Club with DJ Entropy
THURS. APRIL 19 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Anjali & the Incredible Kid
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Hip Hop Heaven with DJ Detroit Diezel
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Newrotics
Holocene
36 N Russell St. Help Me Make It Through the Night with DJ Action Slacks 205 NW 4th Ave. Blast Fridays: Myrryrs, Graintable, Spekt1
The Crown Room
31 NW 1st Ave. Fine Results: American Girls, Heatesca, Danny K
31 NW 1st Ave. R3hab, Jamie Meushaw, Nathan Jenkins
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Rat Creeps
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Sethro Tull
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Bad Wizard
FRI. APRIL 20 CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Flamin’ Fridays with DJ Doughalicious
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Mikie Lixx, Dirty Red (late set); Nealie Neal (early set)
Element Restaurant & Lounge 1135 SW Morrison St. Chris Alice
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. DJ Nate C
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Rockbox: Matt Nelkin, DJ KEZ, Dundiggy (9 pm); Aperitivo Happy Hour with DJ E*Rock (5 pm)
Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Yeti
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. DJs Lorax, Bob Ham
13 NW 6th Ave. Lady Rizo
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. The Makai, Mongoloid Village, Wretched of the Earth
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Lavonna Zeller-Williams
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Ryan Francesconi
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Arthur “Fresh Air” Moore Harmonica Party
White Eagle Saloon
The Whiskey Bar
116 SE Yamhill St. Soul’d Out Festival: Starkey, Ill Gates, Gladkill, Roommate, Subterrain, Mr. Wu
The Lovecraft
The Whiskey Bar
Star Theater
Refuge
125 NW 5th Ave. Mixer: Brian Zentz, Ben, Josh Romo & Mike Grimes (9 pm); Mr. Romo, Michael Grimes (4 pm)
421 SE Grand Ave. DJ MisPrid
8 NW 6th Ave. Soul’d Out Festival: Justice
The Lovecraft
The Crown Room
The Lovecraft
Roseland Theater
Red Cap Garage
Mount Tabor Theater
205 NW 4th Ave. Lush
1401 N Wheeler Ave. Coldplay, Metronomy, The Pierces
3939 N Mississippi Ave.
Sloan’s Tavern
Someday Lounge
Rose Garden
836 N Russell St. Will West, The Druthers, The Sale
1001 SE Morrison St. RAC Presents!: DJ Jeffrey Jerusalem, RAC, American Girls 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Papadosio
Bright Light Social Hour, Otis Heat, Beisbol
Mississippi Studios
1035 SW Stark St Mantrap with DJ Lunchlady
WED. APRIL 18
MUSIC
421 SE Grand Ave. Kiss Me Deadly DJs, DJ Horrid
The Whiskey Bar
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Survival SKLZ
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Townbombing: Doc Adam, DJ Nick Dean (10 pm); DJ Neil Blender (7 pm)
SAT. APRIL 21 CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Revolution with DJ Robb
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. DJs I Heart U, Avery (The Cool Cat)
Holocene
421 SE Grand Ave. Cobra with DJ Stallone 31 NW 1st Ave. Jamie Meushaw, Evan Alexander, Tyler Hart
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Hostile Tapeover
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Freaky Outy (10 pm); Saturdazed with DJ GH (7 pm)
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Lovecamp DJs
SUN. APRIL 22 Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Battles, Lamar
MON. APRIL 23 CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Maniac Monday with DJ Doughalicious
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Roane
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. La Jefa
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Matt Scaphism
TUES. APRIL 24
1001 SE Morrison St. Gaycation: DJ Snowtiger, Mr. Charming
CC Slaughters
Mississippi Studios
Dig a Pony
3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Do Right Saturday Night Soul Party with DJ Beyonda
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Dark Faerie and Fantasy Ball
Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Folklore
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Tae’s Dance Party
Saucebox
214 SW Broadway Connected: DJ KEZ, 100Proof
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
231 SW Ankeny St. Balkin Night: DJs Shaka, Kypros
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. Club Crooks: DJ Izm, Easter Egg
219 NW Davis St. Girltopia with DJ Robb 736 SE Grand Ave. James, Atkins
Eagle Portland
835 N Lombard St DMTV with DJ Animal
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. DJ Mis Prid
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Eye Candy with VJ Rev. Danny Norton
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Death Club with DJ Entropy
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Nate C.
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Tubesday (10 pm); DJ OverCol (7 pm)
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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Most prices listed are for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply, so it’s best to call ahead. Editor: BEN WATERHOUSE. Stage: BEN WATERHOUSE (bwaterhouse@wweek. com). Classical: BRETT CAMPBELL (bcampbell@wweek.com). Dance: HEATHER WISNER (dance@wweek.com). TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit information at least two weeks in advance to: bwaterhouse@wweek.com.
THEATER The 39 Steps
If you didn’t catch Portland Center Stage’s production of this madcap, three-man adaptation of the Hitchcock thriller last season, you can head to Vancouver to see it for much, much cheaper. Magenta Theater, 606 Main St., Vancouver, 360-6354358. 7 pm Thursday-Saturday, April 19-21; Wednesday-Friday, April 25-27; Sunday, April 22; and 2 pm Saturday, April 28. Through April 28. $12-$15.
The American Pilot
In the opening monologue of David Greig’s 2005 play, the farmer—we never learn his name—tells the audience that “the American pilot was unsettling.” The same could be said of Theatre Vertigo’s production, the saga of an American soldier who crash-lands in an unnamed war-ravaged country and finds his fate in the hands of a rebel leader. Greig’s play has heavy-hitting potential, but the geographical ambiguity proves frustrating and numerous characters are reduced to hollow stereotypes. Matthew Zrebski’s heavy-handed direction doesn’t help either, particularly not in the production’s blunt, overlong conclusion. There are some well-intentioned performances here, notably Gary Norman as the morally conflicted farmer, and the humors and mishaps of cross-cultural communication elicit genuine laughs. But the production straddles an uncomfortable, unsatisfying line, and we’re left with neither a story of great geopolitical import nor a compelling characterdriven drama. REBECCA JACOBSON. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 306-0870. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through April 28. $15. Thursdays are “pay what you will.”
The Andrews Brothers
Broadway Rose Theatre Company presents a new musical by Roger Bean about three brothers who find themselves filling in for the Andrews Sisters when the latter contract a terrible flu before a big USO show. Broadway Rose New Stage Theatre, 12850 SW Grant Ave., Tigard, 620-5262. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Fridays, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Through May 20. $30-$40.
The Brothers Size and Marcus: Or the Secret of the Sweet
Portland Playhouse presents the second half of Tarrel Alvin McCraney’s Brother/Sister Plays, Performed in repertory with part I, In the Red and Brown Water. Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St., 205-0715. 7:30 pm April 19-20, 21, 26, 28, May 3, 5, 11-12. 2 pm Sundays April 22-May 26, 5:30 pm Sunday, May 13. $12-$23.
Electric Meat Parade
Two-man long-form improv stories. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St. 10:15 pm Saturday, April 21. $1-$6, depending on a die roll.
Fire Island
Defunkt finishes its season with Charles Mee’s disjointed jumble of musings on love. Like a lot of Mee’s work, Fire Island is a medley of short conversations between characters— young and old, gay and straight, cowboys and murderers—who share the same voice and penchant for extended metaphor, like an Altman film in which all the parts are played by Alan Alda. It is funny and boring in more or less equal measure. Director Grace Carter and cast have injected some variety into the mix with a grab-bag of accents, constant projection of beach views and blowing grass and swan wings, and a lovely ambient soundtrack by Corrina Repp.
The evident joy the performers take in the show supersedes Mee’s chinstroking tone, especially in the second half. There’s a lot to love in this production, not the least Tom Mounsey’s impressively expressive eyebrows, even if it doesn’t reach the emotional highs of some of Carter’s previous work with the company. Take a date. BEN WATERHOUSE. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 481-2960. 8 pm Thursdays-Sundays. Through April 28. $15-$20.
Goldilocks
Lakewood Theatre continues its Lost Treasures Collection series of rarely performed musicals with this Hollywood comedy by Jean and Walter Kerr. Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, 635-3901. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, April 20-21. $18.
Holy Ghosts
Portland Actors Conservatory performs Romulus Linney’s play about a love triangle at an eccentric Southern church. Portland Actors Conservatory, 1436 SW Montgomery St., 274-1717. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Through April 29. $10-$25.
In the Red and Brown Water
If you’re going to run from the swamp, you’d best keep running. Oya runs fast enough to earn a track scholarship, but stays behind to care for her ailing mother. When autumn rolls around again, the scholarship is gone. Then she turns down the affections of a responsible but boring man, Ogun, in favor of Shango, a Lothario who swaggers through life with his hand on his cock. Oya’s misfortunes unfold as in a dream, one scene rolling suddenly into the next with a terrible logic. We are all dreaming. In the Red and Brown Water is the first of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s three interrelated “Brother/ Sister Plays.” (Portland Playhouse is presenting all three in repertory. The remaining two open April 21.) The 31-year-old playwright’s words flow as if they’d been passed down from generations long forgotten, sometimes unintelligible but always moving. The characters voice their stage directions before they perform them, or at least those that can be performed. Brian Demar Jones doesn’t quite “enter like the moon,” but he gets as close as one could hope. Director Victor Mack emphasizes McCraney’s mythic tone with repetitive choreography and naturalistic emotion. The cast is among the finest I’ve seen on stage this season. Ramona Lisa Alexander sweeps up the audience in Oya’s bad decisions while Damian Thompson, full of erotic menace, seduces and repulses. Jones seems to float delicately through the scene, his angular frame astonishingly graceful. Their performance is entrancing; days later, I feel I’ve yet to awake. BEN WATERHOUSE. Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St., 205-0715. 4 pm Saturdays and 7:30 pm some Fridays through May 13. $12-$23.
Much Ado About Nothing
Re-imagining Shakespeare can be a tricky business, with results either enjoyably clever or painfully horrid. Fortunately, Northwest Classical Theatre Company’s rendition of Much Ado About Nothing falls mostly under the former category. Here, the Bard’s romantic comedy takes the form of a kitschy ’60s beach party, with characters arriving via surfboard and trickery afoot at the masked luau. The campy vibe is played to pleasing effect and on the whole works well with the playful nature of the material. The dialogue remains unchanged and is delivered rapid-fire with sass and sarcasm as the warring romantic leads, Benedick and Beatrice, profess their loathing for one another while
the others conspire to make them fall in love like the blissful Claudio and Hero. Unique additions include a bouncy musical number set to Shakespeare’s lyrics of “Sigh No More” and an ill-advised Beach Boys number at the end. The only things missing are Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. PENELOPE BASS. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 971-244-3740. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 and 7:30 pm Sunday, April 19-22. $18-$20.
Pulling Ivy
Northwest Academy seventh graders present an original play about a Sudanese girl to raise funds for Mercy Corps. Northwest Academy’s Blue Box Theater, 1130 SW Main St., 312-1804. 7:30 pm Friday, 2 pm Sunday, April 20 and 22. $10-$50.
Vincent River
Based around the fatal beating of a gay man in East London, Sowelu’s production of Philip Ridley’s Vincent River (directed by Barry Hunt) is a claustrophobic, often harrowing two-act tête-à-tête between the mother of the victim and the man who found her son dead in a train station bathroom. As in Carnage or Luis Buñuel’s The Dinner Party, the characters do not remotely like each other but are compelled by
mysterious force—in this case, trauma and the shared memory of the victim— to remain together in the mother’s barren apartment through countless uncomfortable re-enactments of the victim’s life and death. Lorraine Bahr, as Anita, is very effective as a self-dramatizing lower-class woman deeply ill at ease with her son’s sexuality and in even deeper grief over his death; Charlie Hamby, as Davey, is
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Puppet Slam!
The latest iteration of Beady Little Eyes’ semiannual showcase of adult puppet theater has a “heroes and villains” theme. Dress as a hero or villain for $1 off. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave. 8 pm Friday, April 20. $8. 21+.
Something Epic/Everyday
Action/Adventure and the Working Theatre Collective present a new performance about finding happiness in the post-job era. Action/Adventure Theater, 1050 SE Clinton St., 893-9075. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through May 5. $10-$15.
Something’s got a Hold of My Heart
Hand2Mouth Theatre presents two work-in-progress performances of the company’s new show about love songs, falling in love and ’70s folk music. The first performance, in February, was excellent. Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate Ave., 286-9449. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, April 20-21. Free.
Sonnetscape
Fuse Theatre Ensemble presents a new performance that weaves Shakespeare’s sonnets into a homosexual love story. Q Center , 4115 N Mississippi Ave., fusepdx.org. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and Monday, April 23 (Shakespeare’s birthday); 3 pm Sundays. Through April 28. $15-$20.
Standing on Ceremony
In the first short play of the evening, a gay couple vow to be “lawfully civilunioned or domestic-partnered” partners. In a later piece, two lesbian partners eschew “bride” and “groom” in favor of “broom.” Though this collection of nine short plays about samesex marriage occasionally preaches to the choir (some of the proceeds benefit Basic Rights Oregon), it also showcases some seriously smart and frequently hilarious bits of script and performance. Playwright Paul Rudnick’s two contributions are riotous, namely “My Husband,” about a competitive New Yorker rushing her gay son to the altar. Moisés Kaufman’s “London Mosquitoes” is the most moving piece, with David Bodin as a man eulogizing his partner of 46 years. Jon Kretzu and Stephanie Mulligan direct the staged reading, which features a strong, rotating cast of local actors (standouts on a recent evening included Torrey Cornwell and Sharonlee McLean, who moves her mouth and tongue in hysterical ways). Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm FridaySunday, April 19-21. $25.
Stellaluna
Tears of Joy revives its puppet play about an adorable bat, adapted from Janell Cannon’s book. Winningstad Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-0557. 11 am Saturday, 2 and 4 pm Sunday, April 21-22. $17-$20.
Tuesdays with Morrie
Chris Murray and George Fosgate star in sports writer Mitch Albom’s play about visiting his former professor, Morrie Schwartz, during the last weeks of the latter’s life. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 9220532. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. $19-$24.
KELLEY CURRAN
ANNA KARENINA (PORTLAND CENTER STAGE) Tolstoy’s masterpiece Anna Karenina is a uniquely difficult novel to adapt into a play. It is a long and somewhat baggy affair that constantly swings between two contrasting main plots stitched within a broad quilting of Russian aristocratic life. One is a tempestuous tale of a woman (Anna) swept into impossible adultery with a noble but trifling military fop named Vronsky; the other is a much slower, more philosophic journey toward settled contentment by a landed gentleman and armchair lefty (Levin) who doubles for Tolstoy himself. Director Chris Coleman and writer Kevin McKeon make of this a breezy and impressive stage spectacle of movement and costume. Distant, counterpoised scenes are staged together in the same tableau, with segues as easy as a shift of lighting. Where context is felt to be needed, the ensemble players become a Greek-style chorus and recite Tolstoy’s narration from within the scene—a practice that feels like a cross between storytime for the audience and a spooky episode of Doctor Who in which the characters’ minds have been hijacked by aliens. Kelley Curran’s Anna is a passionate creature built of regal, theatrical imperiousness. And while this is more appropriate to the weighty reputation of Tolstoy’s novel than to the ingenuousness and unlikely youthfulness actually described in the book, it is nonetheless an effective dramatic shorthand in a play staged mostly for agility. Indeed, the first two-thirds of the play is timed mostly to the beats of comedy. Anna’s husband, Karenin (Keith Jochim), for example, is broadly made into an entertainingly punctilious buffoon rather than a creature of pride and hollow capability—which makes his later rages and contritions difficult to fathom. The production’s comedic gloss works best with Levin’s radicalized brother Nikolai (Michael Mendelson), who steals every scene he’s in with beautifully pained deadpan. On the whole, the play’s three hours waft quite amiably by in a show of finery and fine feeling; each scene performs its function quickly and efficiently before slipping into the next on a deft emotional turn or hammered punch line. And so Levin (James Farmer) is bewildered and decent, Kitty (Kayla Lian) is naive and warm-hearted, Stiva (R. Ward Duffy) is a caddish George Clooney, etc. But in the production’s rush to create a sumptuous and friction-free experience of highly telegraphed gesture, the fundamental tragedy of Anna herself goes lost and must be forced into high-gloss, hallucinogenic spectacle. It is, in the end, a sort of slide-show version of Karenina—a pleasant diversion that asks very little, but which contains a great many beautiful landscapes. And as the stage dims, so does the memory of it. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
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SEE IT: Anna Karenina is at the Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700, pcs.org. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Sundays, noon Thursdays, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturdays-Sundays. Through May 6. $34-$64. Willamette Week APRIL 18, 2012 wweek.com
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new to the stage and still a bit nervous up there (oddly, this shows up as less natural when the character himself is meant to be nervous), but at home with the character’s increasing desperation as the victim’s story becomes increasingly his own. The play’s many, often plodding set pieces do lead to a somewhat distancing effect, however, so that the play evinces less direct empathy than the feeling of watching someone repeatedly ram his head against a clear box in which he’s been trapped: grueling and grim, but also entirely self-contained. Still, the play remains a powerful examination of prejudice’s effects on not only on its victims but its perpetrators. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., $18. 7:30 pm ThursdaySaturday, April 19-21. $18, $12 students.
We Are Still Here
Well Arts Institute and the National Alliance on Mental Illness present a performance created from the stories of people living with mental illness. Village Baptist Church, 330 SW Murray Blvd., Beaverton. 7:30 pm Friday, April 20. Hillsboro Artists’ Repertory Theatre, 185 SE Washington St., Hillsboro. 2 pm Saturday, April 21. 4594500. $8-$10.
COMEDY AND VARIETY The Late Now
Portland artist Leo Daedalus debuts a new live talk show, with guests Craig Florence (bookseller), Ním Wunnan (research clubber) and Koen Dijkman (Dutch artist). Performance Works NW, 4625 SE 67th Ave., 777-1907. 8:30 pm Saturday, April 21. $8-$20.
Marc Maron
America’s leading comedy podcaster and confessional poet is in town for three nights. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7 and 9:30 pm FridaySaturday, April 19-21. $20-$25. 21+.
Rick Shapiro
The L.A. comedian and former male prostitute performs as part of WTF Fest. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., wtffest.com. 9 pm Monday, April 23. $10.
Two Houses
An improvised love story ending in a wedding. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7:30 pm Saturday, April 21. $8-$10.
The Weekly Recurring Humor Night
A comedy showcase hosted by Whitney Streed and featuring Alice Wetterlund, Drew Michael, Whitmer Thomas, C.J. Toledano, Grant Pardee, Jacqueline Novak and Jimmy Newstetter. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 238-0543. 9:30 pm Wednesdays. “Pay what you want,” $3-$5 suggested. 21+.
CLASSICAL 45th Parallel
The busy-presenting organization moves from classics to a new work: Portland singer and theater artist Theresa Koon’s decade-in-the-making musical drama Promise, based on the tragic life of 19th-century French sculptor Camille Claudel. A protégée and lover of Rodin who spent her last 30 years confined in a mental institution, Claudel was the focus of a 1988 film starring Isabelle Adjani and Gérard Depardieu. Kevin Yell directs the four-member cast, and Portland Youth Philharmonic’s David Hattner conducts a quartet including Opera Theater Oregon’s Erica Melton, Oregon Symphony’s Greg Ewer, and more. Scottish Rite Center, 1512 SW Morrison St., 800-494-8497. 7:30 pm Friday and Saturday, April 20 and 22. $15-$20.
Bridge Quartet
The all-star quartet of Portland jazz paragons—pianist Darrell Grant, saxophonist Devin Phillips, drummer Alan Jones, bassist Tom Wakeling— celebrate the music of one of jazz’s greatest composers, Thelonious Monk.
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Chanticleer
Friends of Chamber Music presents the sublime San Francisco men’s chorus, probably the most-renowned choir on the planet, in a typically fascinating program of contemporary music by one of the greatest living composers, Arvo Pärt; the esteemed British composer John Tavener; and 20thcentury French composer Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur. And it looks to the future with works featuring one of classical music’s great, young American hopes, Mason Bates, and other 21st-century voices, including New England’s Patricia Van Ness, Australia’s Sarah Hopkins and Sweden’s Jan Sandström. Reversing the usual formula, they’ll also play a historical work by Spanish Renaissance composer Sebastián de Vivanco. St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1716 NW Davis St., 224-9842. 7:30 pm Friday, April 20. $27-$45.
FearNoMusic
California composer Terry Riley’s 1964 proto-minimalist classic, In C, is one of those rare works that really changed music, and did so by inviting people in—not just listeners, but also the players, who get to choose which phrases they play and when— and bathing them in sonic beauty. It exemplifies the 20-year-old new music ensemble’s name and philosophy: that there’s nothing to fear from contemporary music but fear itself. To perform this quintessentially communitarian work, FNM has invited 30-plus musicians from the Portland music community, including members of 45th Parallel, Portland Youth Philharmonic, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Portland Opera and Oregon Symphony orchestras. The concert also includes music by two of Riley’s minimalist successors, Steve Reich and John Adams, plus works by two of Portland’s finest composers, Tomas Svoboda and Bonnie Miksch, and music by Osvaldo Golijov, Somei Satoh and DJ-composer Gabriel Prokofiev. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. 8 pm Thursday, April 19. $10-$20.
Gundecha Brothers
In this Kalakendra concert, two of the planet’s finest singers perform Indian classical music in the ancient Dhrupad vocal style. Originally chanted by Vedic priests, then in medieval courts, the music began a revival in the 1960s, which has continued thanks in part to the efforts of this trio of siblings (singers Ramakant and Umakant, accompanied by Akhilesh on doubleheaded pakhawaj drum, and Shraddha on tanpura), who’ve made more than two dozen recordings and run an institute dedicated to preserving the form. A must for world music and vocal music fans. Evans Auditorium at Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, 523-8690. 7:30 pm Saturday, April 21. $15-$25.
Jurg Hanselmann
The acclaimed Liechtenstein pianist and composer plays originals, as well as music by Beethoven, Schubert and Josef Rheinberger. Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-0973. 4 pm Saturday, April 21. $7-$15.
setting of sometimes-racy Benedictine monk songs, cantata Carmina Burana. O, Fortuna! First United Methodist Church, 1838 SW Jefferson St., 2300652. 4 and 7:30 pm Sunday, April 22. $10-$30.
Oregon Symphony
Rock violinist Aaron Meyer and singer Storm Large join the band for a rockoriented concert of originals (including, of course, her vaginal anthem, “8 Miles Wide”) and pop classics. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353. 7:30 pm Saturday, 3 pm Sunday, April 21-22. $26-$110.
Paris Guitar Duo
The prize-winning young pair perform in this Portland Classic Guitar concert. Marylhurst University, 17600 Highway 43, 654-0082. 8 pm Saturday, April 21. $30-$49.
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In the latest installment of the Filmusik series, the excellent, straight-ahead jazz ensemble accompanies Buster Keaton’s 1924 silent comedy Sherlock Jr. and 1921’sThe Goat. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 8 pm Thursday, April 19. $12.
DANCE Ancestral Beads: A Confluence of Dance, Music and Poetry
The South African-born, Londonbased percussionist and poet Eugene Skeef joins Luciana Proaño for a performance and workshop exploring the interconnectedness of rhythm and dance. Skeef, whose past projects included composing work for the Dutch National Ballet and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, specializes in African drumming. Conduit Dance, 918 SW Yamhill St., Suite 401, 221-5857. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, April 20-21. $15-$25.
Miss Kennedy’s Cabaret Presents: The 27 Club
Nothing says sexy like dead rock stars: On the 18th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death, Miss Kennedy’s Cabaret offers The 27 Club, an evening of burlesque, fire and aerial dance— plus music and comedy—paying tribute to famous singers who died at age 27, among them Jimi Hendrix and Amy Winehouse. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 8 pm Sunday, April 22. $10-$12. 21+.
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Tango Revolucion
The excellent choir closes its season with Carl Orff’s ever-popular 1936
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Remember the “Cell Block Tango” number from Chicago? That’s the one in which jailed women describe the various ways they killed their menfolk, and why the menfolk had it coming. The women of Pendulum Aerial Arts will offer a version of that song at its annual spring show, but this being
Brian Tierney Benefit
In this Celebration Works concert, the piano-flute-oboe trio adds horn, bassoon and clarinet to its intoxicating mix in a fascinating and strongly recommended program of 20th-century dance music by Ravel, the great Argentine Tango Nuevo composer Ástor Piazzolla, Paul Harris, L.A. composer Miguel del Aguila, the great jazz clarinetist and composer Paquito D’Rivera, and more. First Presbyterian Church, 1200 SW Alder St., 228-7331. 2 pm Sunday, April 22. $10-$12.
The percussion-based duo performs. Rotture, 315 SE 3rd Ave., 234-5683. 9 pm Sunday, April 22. $7.
Up, Up and Away!
Pendulum, the action will take place as the performers zip through the air. The company, you see, is known for aerial dance—involving ropes, harnesses and no small amount of grace—as well as acrobatic contemporary dance. French American International School, 8500 NW Johnson St. 7:30 pm FridaySaturday, April 20-21, 2 pm Sunday, April 22. $10-$20, free for kids under 6.
This concert, featuring many of the city’s most accomplished musicians (Cappella Romana, soprano Angela Niederloh, 45th Parallel, Resonance Ensemble, Cantores in Ecclesia, the Julians, and more), helps pay Brian Tierney’s medical expenses and benefits the family of the superb tenor, a mainstay of several of the city’s top choral ensembles, who is recovering from a shooting last month. All Saints Catholic Church, 3847 NE Glisan St., 971-212-8034. 7 pm Sunday, April 22. $20-$500 donation.
Chase Brock provided choreography for Broadway’s Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark this season and lived to tell about it, which is lucky not only for him, but also for the pre-professional young members of the NW Fusion Dance Company. Brock’s riff on relationships, Going Going Gone, debuts at the company’s fourth annual spring concert, which shows off the performers’ versatility with contemporary, jazz, tap and ballet pieces. Éowyn Emerald, from BodyVox/BodyVox 2, offers a currently untitled contemporary work, while Autumn Dones ties up her dancers with a stage-length drape in Bitter Earth. That leaves NW Fusion’s artistic director Brad Hampton’s Bob Fosse-inspired Sing Sing Sing, Dana Bliss’ balletic Deux Oiseaux and a fastpaced tap number. World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St. 2 and 7 pm Saturday, April 21. $12-$15.
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to live music from Mango Tango. Free snacks and raffle prizes are included. Conga Club, 4932 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. 7:30 pm lessons, 8:30 pm practice Thursday, April 19. $8.
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At this masked milonga, Argentine tango lessons are followed by practice
MATJASH MROZEWSKI
CHROMATIC QUARTET OREGON BALLET THEATRE What’s the appeal of flash mobs? Canadian choreographer Matjash Mrozewski thinks it might be the endorphin-boosting power of moving in unison with a large group, in the way a singer might feel within the swell of a chorus. Having set two consecutive flash mobs on hundreds of people for International Dance Day—“a bit of nail-biter,” he says—the 36-year-old dancemaker knows a thing or two about them. But Mrozewski does not want to be known as the Guy Who Does Flash Mobs (“at least, not for less than $500,” he jokes) and considering his breadth of work, he shouldn’t be. A former National Ballet of Canada dancer, he has created work for classical and contemporary companies worldwide, as well as choreographing for film and runway. Right now, he’s making his Oregon Ballet Theatre debut with The Lost Dance, a new work for seven dancers. He doesn’t want to say too much about the piece, but he does drop a few tantalizing hints. It will be a contemporary ballet with elements of social dance. It will be edgy and a little mysterious. He has worked with composer Owen Belton on an atmospheric score layering elements of rock, blues and pop music. And local designer Adam Arnold is providing clothing with a vintage vibe. Challenged by OBT Artistic Director Christopher Stowell to step out of his comfort zone of duets, Mrozewski is paying special attention to arms and hands, which he feels are underused in ballet. The Lost Dance will appear on OBT’s Chromatic Quartets program alongside Christopher Wheeldon’s lyrical duet Liturgy, George Balanchine’s tricky neoclassical ensemble piece, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, and Val Caniparoli’s genteel balletic safari, Lambarena. Mrozewski thinks it’s a good mix; he describes his place in it, cautiously, as a classicist. “I like form. I like structure. I like some restraint,” he says. That said, he thinks what ties his disparate work together is a desire to catch a glimpse of humanity: “I don’t like doing movement just for movement’s sake,” he says. “I want to see that there’s a person doing it.” HEATHER WISNER.
Matjash Mrozewski loses the mob, keeps the flash.
SEE IT: Newmark Theatre at Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 222-5538, obt.org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Friday, April 19-20; 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday-Sunday, April 21-22; 7:30 pm Wednesday and Friday, April 25 and 27; 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday, April 28. $23-$140.
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Benny Fountain: Kitchen Paintings
A Bundt cake inside a glass-domed cake platter. A half-used stick of butter on a plate. Kitchen cabinets as seen from several different angles. Are you excited yet? If so, then Benny Fountain’s Kitchen Paintings is the show for you. Fountain’s paintings, rendered in an affectless style and a palette of drab neutrals, do not transcend their prosaic subject matter. You have to wonder what Fountain will turn to next for inspiration. Garden hoses? Dust bunnies? Through April 28. Froelick Gallery, 714 NW Davis St., 222-1142.
compass. Conceptually, the result is poignant: a year seen through the conceit of a single day and a single axis as the camera gazes out at a changing world. Unfortunately, the photos themselves are uninventively composed and poorly printed, devaluing the high concept with execution worthy of a high-school science fair. Through April 29. Nine Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 227-7114.
With their subtle colorations and deft palette-knife work, Tina Beebe’s floral still lifes are thoroughly inoffensive, if not particularly captivating. More notable are the vegetable studies in her series Eat Your Vegetables. Drolly portraying leaves of lettuce and cabbage, the works dare you to guess whether Beebe is presenting these prosaic studies in earnest or with a wry, post-ironic wink. Through April 28. PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.
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Cologne-based Britta Bogers leads off a three-month inquiry into German art with abstract compositions on paper and fiberboard. With rigor and a panache that never devolves into flash, Bogers reminds us that there is still much to be mined from the controlled interplay of line and color. Through May 2. Victory Gallery, 733 NW Everett St.
Debra van Tuinen: Candescent
If you’ve ever laid eyes on Lake Louise in Alberta, Canada, you know how preternaturally blue glacial lakes can be. Candescent is Debra van Tuinen’s artistic recollection of a trip she took to the lake in October of last year. In oil and encaustic paintings such as Spring Willows and Chinese Garden, she reconjures the vast array of ultramarines, turquoises and azure tones of the flour-rock waters of the Canadian Rockies, enlivening her tableaux with swaths of contrasting and complementary colors. Through April 28. Butters Gallery, 520 NW Davis St., 2nd floor, 248-9378.
Jonnel Covault: Linocuts
Jonnel Covault’s yawn-inducing suite of linocuts depicts well-worn Oregon tourist territory: Mount Hood, Willamette Falls, the many bridges of Portland, and, in Feels Like Heaven, a sailboat cruising down the Willamette as the KOIN Tower looms in the background. You will love this artwork if you’re the type to seek out galleries in Cannon Beach that are tucked between T-shirt emporiums and taffy shops. Through April 28. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 224-8182.
Laura Fritz: Entorus
It takes a couple minutes for your eyes to adjust to the dark room that houses Laura Fritz’s Entorus. Happily, the time invested in ocular acclimation pays off big-time. In the inky-black room, Fritz has carefully placed a black table and two inscrutable rectangles lined with wire mesh. In one of these rectangles, cast-resin shapes emit an eerie blue glow, looking for all the world like radioactive ice cubes. Inside the other rectangle, a hidden video projector throws the silhouette of an insect’s flitting wings onto the floor. Entorus isn’t supposed to “mean” anything specific; it’s a serene spatial experience that evokes whatever you want it to. Fritz has always been a poet of light, darkness and enigma, but with this installation she kicks her haunting vision into overdrive. This is easily her best show yet. Through April 29. Special Project Space, 1231 NW Hoyt St., Suite B5.
Maria T.D. Inocencio: Everywhere All the Time
Photographs ring the room, lined up in a hymn to cerulean blue. For the installation Everywhere All the Time, Maria T.D. Inocencio snapped photographs on the 21st day of each of the year’s 12 months, aiming her camera in the four directions of the
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JOHN FAIER’S QUEEN OF HEAVEN Oh, how we love to tart up death! Out with the blood, in with the embalming fluid, pancake the face, rouge the cheeks, and suddenly Grandma looks 10 years younger than when she died! The perversity of America’s relationship with death underlies Chicago photographer John Faier’s formally immaculate, thematically challenging exhibition, Queen of Heaven. In the midst of Portland’s April celebration of all things photographic, Faier reminds us of this medium’s unique capacity to marry realism with symbolism. Over the course of four years, Faier took ravishing pictures of funeral homes and mausoleums throughout the Windy City and its suburbs. There are no people in these photographs, no family members or officious undertakers filing through sad hallways en route to wakes or casket showrooms, yet in every shot you see and sense the presence of the bereaved and the professionals who turn their profits off of others’ losses. You see their footprints trailing down sage-green carpeting and sense the stale, bourgeois aspiration of the dead in the chintzy decor: wood-paneled hallways, démodé sofas in avocado greens and dusty-rose pastels, and chandeliers—chandeliers everywhere—looking for all the world like they were lifted from Zsa-Zsa Gabor’s powder room. The dearly departed may have lived and died in the middle class, this decor telegraphs, but inside these halls an upgrade is possible. Faier’s unpeopled vignettes are genuinely spooky, not because they demand we confront our mortality, but because the euphemisms we build around mortality are so frightfully tacky. Death need not be feared by the intrepid, but bad taste is another matter. With the addition of a few slot machines, the funeral parlors Faier visited could pass for casinos in downtown Vegas. Maybe the Grim Reaper doesn’t look like Bengt Ekerot in The Seventh Seal; maybe he looks like Steve Wynn or Donald Trump. Still, Faier manages to ferret out passages of beauty among all the cheapness and cheese. In one mortuary chapel, stained-glass windows cast their glow across faux-marble floors, the scene suddenly transmuted into an abstract expressionist painting of fuzzy, overlapping light chunks. If death and regrettable decor are equally inevitable, the photographer suggests, at least there are pretty colors to ogle on the way into that long white tunnel. RICHARD SPEER.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 20 Chicks Dig Comics
In case you missed the memo, chicks dig comics! A new anthology with that title celebrates the work of women writers and artists working in the graphic realm. Plenty of Portlanders are represented— Jen Van Meter, Sara Ryan, Erica McGillivray and Rachel Edidin will be at the launch—alongside industry heavyweights like Carla Speed McNeil and Gail Simone. Bridge City Comics, 3725 N Mississippi Ave., 282-5484. 6 pm. Free.
We Heard the Heavens Then
At the time of the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Aria MinuSepehr was the 10-year-old son of one of the shah’s highest-ranking military officers. In We Heard the Heavens Then: A Memoir of Iran, Minu-Sepehr tells his story of the historic events that have shaped the Iran of today. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.
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p:ear is celebrating 10 years Join us for p:ear blossoms X – story, our largest fundraiser, dinner, auction and performance of the year featuring Y La Bamba & NW Dance Project. SATURDAY MAY 12, 2012 5:30 p.m. Leftbank Annex - 101 N. Weidler St. TICKETS $125/ticket or $1,000/table of 10 www.pearmentor.org 503.228.6677
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Gershon Hundert
Calling all Hebrew speakers! Portland’s Congregation Neveh Shalom is hosting a series of intellectual conversations held solely in Hebrew. This month’s offering should be particularly fascinating for oenophiles: McGill University professor Gershon Hundert discusses “A Jewish Wine Merchant Among the Gentiles of Galicia: Experiencing the Transition to Modernity.” Congregation Neveh Shalom, 2900 SW Peaceful Lane, 246-8831. 7 pm. $10.
Oregon Book Awards
It’s time again to celebrate our state’s literary wealth at the 25th annual Oregon Book Awards, sponsored by Literary Arts. Finalists have been named in more than six genres. National Book Award winner Timothy Egan will host the event. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm. $17-$50.
Mini-Sledgehammer Writing Contest Writers, start your pens! As part of the festivities surrounding the Oregon Book Awards, Literary Arts will host a shortened version of the annual Sledgehammer writing contest. Up to 15 participants will be given four writing prompts and 36 minutes to weave all four into a short story. Afterward, each story will be read aloud for the judge, and the winner will be announced at the 25th annual Oregon Book Awards on April 23. The winner will receive a complete set of every winning title from the first 25 years of the OBA. Sign up early, and start clearing some bookshelf space. Literary Arts Center, 925 SW Washington St., 227-2583. 10 am. Free, but registration is limited.
Paulann Petersen and Poetry by Children
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MONDAY, APRIL 23
National Geographic once named Andrew Skurka the Adventurer of the Year; he’s spent months at a time in the wilderness and has plenty of stories to tell about it. It’s worth the drive to Hood River just to meet Skurka and see his slide show about his adventures in Alaska titled “Circling Alaska and Yukon: A 4,700-mile, 6-month Journey by Foot, Skis and Packraft through Big Wilderness.” If that’s not enough incentive to get out to the Gorge, Hood River’s Blossom Festival is also this weekend. Columbia Center for the Arts, 215 Cascade Ave., Hood River, 541-3878877. 7 pm. $10.
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Carl Adamshick, Geri Doran, Emily Kendal Frey, Ursula K. Le Guin and Daniel Skach-Mills/ Round out the evening’s bill. Literary Arts, 925 SW Washington St,. 227-2583, 7 pm. Free.
Kids love poetry, and Oregon Poet Laureate Paulann Petersen knows it. Petersen will host a reading of poetry by children, as well as contribute a few of her own pieces. Children are invited to submit their words to Green Bean’s second Green Bean Rhyming Machine Poetry Zine by sending poems (rhyming or not) to greenbeanpoetryzine@gmail.com. Green Bean Books, 1600 NE Alberta St., 9542354. 2 pm. Free.
Oregon Book Awards Poetry Reading The state’s premier poets gather to read/ On a Sunday evening sure to please/ All finalists for the Oregon Book Award’s top poetry prize/ Reading poems of various size/
Ken Jennings
Jeopardy! champ Ken Jennings is a total geography wonk who slept with an atlas under his pillow as a child. In his new book, Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks, he charmingly introduces even the most directionally challenged to the world of geography nerds. With chapters on diverse subjects such as the GPSdriven sport of geocaching or a visit to the London Map Fair, he covers plenty of territory with surprising wit. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651. 7 pm. Free.
TUESDAY, APRIL 24 Oregon History Night
Oregon history buffs, drink your hearts out. William D. Layman will show historic photos and lecture on “Changing Shores: The Then and Now of the Columbia,” explaining how drastically the river has changed in the past century. The event is sponsored by the Oregon Encyclopedia, an online publication that documents the state’s significant people, places and historical events. McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 6698610. 6:30 pm. Free. 21+.
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Editor: MATTHEW SINGER. 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: msinger@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.
21 Jump Street
81 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. R. CHRIS STAMM. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Forest, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, St. Johns.
American Reunion
22 The defining scene of American Reunion—and maybe of the entire pastry-inseminating franchise that dies another little death this month— finds Jason Biggs nude from the waist down in his parents’ kitchen, squashing his genitals behind a transparent glass saucepan lid. There’s no explanation how he got there, and nothing comes of it. (For that matter, his dong bears no scars from when he crushed it in a laptop a few minutes before.) There’s a little more rationale for the movie’s existence—vast openings in the cast’s social calendars, nostalgia humping of the most literal kind—but the project has a similar immediate amnesia: It can’t remember anything but high school. “I missed your wedding; there’s no way I would miss this!” cries Chris Klein as he arrives at the 13-year reunion. Most of the laughs here are equally unintended—Tara Reid in particular is a comedy gold mine, mainly because directors Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg do everything to edit her blank stare out of scenes, up to and possibly including replacing her with a Tara Reid wax figure. But the desperation turns to hostility, and the chief feeling one gets from American Reunion is sadness. These were supposed to be movies about growing wiser (the 7 Up series with hard-ons), but the characters have flattened into hostile menaces. They’re just dicks now. AARON MESH. R. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
The Artist
64 Repressed memories drive The Artist. It’s a silent-film homage to silent films—or, rather, the fond, slightly condescending recollection of silent films. Lavished with Oscars, the comedy from Michel Hazanavicius (who directed the two OSS 177 spoofs) is yet another take on A Star Is Born, with a slam-bang energetic Jean Dujardin trading places in the spotlight with flapper Bérénice Bejo at the cusp of talkies. The period is apt, since most of the movie’s charms are technical gimmicks: the interstitial cards, the tight aspect ratio on glamorous black-and-white marquees, and the sneaky intrusion of ambient noises into the soundtrack. Days after seeing The Artist, I find it hard to place any individual moments that resonated (aside from the doggie heroism), and I suspect that, title aside, the movie feels a complacent cynicism toward art. Its pitfall is much like that of its four companions: It can’t resist showing off, and in those moments it feels like so much artificial product. Let’s get back to nature. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre.
Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour
[THREE NIGHTS ONLY] Rock climbing! Paragliding! Skiing! Extreme weather conditions! Guitar solos! Get
some!. Bagdad Theater. 7 pm TuesdayThursday, April 24-26.
Blue Like Jazz
67 Blue Like Jazz is an odd beast: a
pro-Christian movie condemned by multiple evangelical groups, an earnest and often affecting Igby Goes Down for the puppeteering-for-Christ set. The Igby in question is Don Miller (Marshall Allman), a Texas Baptist in the land of ’80s hair whose ostensibly devout mother sleeps with his youth pastor, sending Don angrily off to a stereotypically exaggerated Reed College for auto-reprogramming as a pagan rider of tall bikes who uncombs his neat locks and sneers at God to be accepted (while inwardly, of course, remaining terribly conflicted). He falls in love, while losing his way, with a honey-haired and milk-faced lefty do-gooder (Claire Holt), and also befriends a superhot lesbian (Tania Raymonde) and ironical “pope” (Justin Welborn). That Don comes back to Jesus in a terribly hamfisted way after hitting a predictable drug-fueled bottom should surprise no one. What is surprising is that largely due to Allman’s nuanced performance as Miller, the often laughably broadstroked film actually takes on a tender, human emotional weight—laden with ambivalence, with doubt not only possible but sensible—before the movie’s insultingly hackneyed final acts of contrition. PG-13. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Lloyd Center, Clackamas, Bridgeport, Fox Tower.
Bloodlust 3D
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A locally produced 3-D send-up of ’70s Italian horror movies, about an amateur cage fighter’s descent into the world of gay S&M. Yeah, this seems like a good place to formally retire our running POKE YOU IN THE EYE joke. Q Center. 7:30 pm Thursday, April 19.
Boy
67 Taika Waititi, in the first part of
Boy, applies the same broad Napoleon Dynamite ain’t-we-retro-trashy popculture brush as in his first feature, Eagle vs. Shark, but this time around the batshit antics are balanced with a slow-dawning reality principle that eventually impinges on the characters’ fantasy-addled lives. Title 11-yearold character Boy and his shantytown Maori cohorts (other characters are named Rocky, Falcon Crest and Michael Jackson) improvise amid the rubble until Boy’s oafish dad resurfaces from prison and pretty much screws everything up so consistently that even his young children are forced to notice; what had been an exercise in style and suspended disbelief becomes something instead much closer to home, if perhaps too late to fully register. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Fox Tower.
Bully
72 Hell is other children, as anyone
who came of age in the public school system is well aware. For the average kid, absorbing cruelty from one’s peers is just an accepted part of growing up. In his much-discussed documentary on bullying in U.S. schools, Bully director Lee Hirsch doesn’t attempt to explain the brutal nature of adolescence. He merely films it. To do much more would exceed the scope of a 99-minute movie. Like any social ill, bullying cuts to the cancerous heart of American culture. It’s an issue that touches on everything from the erosion of school funding to media desensitization. Instead of rolling out statistics and a parade of talking heads, Hirsch simply turns the camera on and lets the abuse speak for itself. To some, that might sound overly reductive. It’s a fair criticism. Often, the film starts discussions that Hirsch’s dedication to nonconfrontation won’t allow it to finish. But if Bully understands anything, it’s the visceral power of human experience. In simply giving
THE GREAT PUMPKIN HAS COME TO KILL YOU, CHARLIE BROWN: A scene from Trannysnatchers.
GENDER-ENDERS TRANNYSNATCHERS IS FOR THE CHILDREN. THE WEIRD CHILDREN. BY MATTHEW SIN GER
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Slitting the little old church lady’s throat was a cathartic moment for Caedmon Jamonsta. It happens about two-thirds of the way into Trannysnatchers, a locally produced horror-comedy which Jamonsta wrote, scored and co-directed. Understandably, the scene was less pleasant for the woman. Kept in a cage for days by the film’s cult of “gender outlaws,” she’s finally dragged into the barn of the farmhouse that serves as the group’s headquarters, tied to a pentagram and sliced across the neck with a knife, her blood pooling into a mixing bowl. It wasn’t the killing the actress minded so much, really: It was the rant she had to recite just before her murder. “Fucking diseased faggots!” she screams at her cross-dressed tormentors. “Die of AIDS and rot in damnation!” As the mother of a gay son, she struggled to get the venom out. “We all assured her that what’s really important here is you’re representing all this hatred and oppression we’ve had to deal with in our lives,” Jamonsta says, “and we are being vindicated by that oppression being destroyed.” If John Waters made a Satanic horror flick, he’d still have to drop some serious acid to come up with Trannysnatchers. Cheekily dubbed “an occult classic,” the movie centers on a gang of transgendered hitmen (er, hit-people?) attempting to summon a hermaphroditic being which, when conjured to earth, will allegedly bring about “the end of gender.” Let’s just say the “sex change via hacksaw” scene might only be the second-nuttiest thing in the picture. It’s crazed, but also deeply angry—at homophobia, the so-called “gender binary,” even the conservatism within gay culture itself—and releases its frustrations via plasma-drenched satire. Beneath all that lysergic madness and serrated social commentary, however, beats an empathetic heart. “We kept saying, throughout the process of making this movie, that it was basically a valentine to 16-year-old gay kids in Kansas who feel alone and don’t think there’s anybody that’s like them or thinks like them,” Jamonsta says. Adds co-director
James Jamonsta: “It’s kind of like our It Gets Better video.” Trannysnatchers grew out of SICK., the conceptual dance night the Jamonstas and co-writer Benjamin Porter used to produce at Holocene. To promote their events, the duo, along with a group of collaborators, would upload short videos to MySpace. “I never went to film school, James never went to film school, but we really liked making short films,” Caedmon says. “So we were like, fuck it, let’s make a movie. How hard could that be?” Casting the regulars from their promo videos—musicians and performance artists of various stripes—Caedmon and Porter wrote a 16-page outline, with only six lines of dialogue, and allowed the actors to develop their own characters through improvisation. Shooting primarily on an old dairy farm in Beavercreek, using props leftover from their SICK. parties, Trannysnatchers took shape
“LET’S JUST SAY THE ‘SEX CHANGE VIA HACKSAW’ SCENE MIGHT ONLY BE THE SECOND-NUTTIEST THING IN THE PICTURE.” literally as it was being shot. That feeling of raw discovery—along with the sense of exuberant, doit-yourself amateurism—gives the film a distinct, punk-style energy that fuels it along, even when the plot gets a bit muddy. For all its anarchic zaniness, though, Trannysnatchers has emotional wounds at its core. All the creators have experienced the barbs of prejudice and the loneliness of alienation, from outside and inside the gay community. And that’s a crucial point: They didn’t make the film only for kids in the Midwest coming to grips with their sexuality. It’s for weirdos of any orientation. “I refer to this film as our FUBU: It’s for us, by us,” says actress Nandi La Sophia. “But I think anyone can enjoy it who likes horror films, who likes ’80s flicks, drag, who’s interested in gender nonconformity—and who wants to kill the Westboro Baptist ministry.” 73 SEE IT: Trannysnatchers screens at the Hollywood Theatre, 7:15 pm and 9:30 pm Friday, April 20.
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voice to the victims, the film generates enormous empathy. Still, you can’t help wishing that Hirsch, like the kids he observes, would push back once in a while. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Fox Tower.
The Cabin in the Woods
90 How does someone in my position
discuss The Cabin in the Woods? It’s pretty much guaranteed I’m going to ruin something without even meaning to, so it’s probably best to avert your eyes right now. Before you do, though, allow me to offer a painfully generic imperative: Go see this film. It’s some of the craziest fun you’ll have at the theater all year. Cabin’s sharply satirical edge will engender comparisons to Scream, but that franchise celebrated the conventions it gleefully subverted, while this film demolishes tropes with a tinge of disdain. In truth, a more apt companion piece is Rubber, the 2010 French curio ostensibly about a murderous, sentient car tire. It’s a movie that openly questioned its own existence, wondering—aloud—why anyone would want to watch a film about a killer tire. Similarly, Cabin questions the use of the slasher flick, with its ever-revolving casts of stupid kids making stupid decisions and getting their stupid heads snared in bear traps. Its response is to throw the whole institution out. In its exhilarating, blood-smeared climax, the movie sends enough horror clichés flying at the screen to give fanboys an aneurysm, and it feels like one great, giant purge—the end of horror as we know it. And really, after witnessing a dude get stabbed through the chest by a unicorn, what else is there to even see? Oh no, I’ve said too much. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
Chimpanzee
The life and times of a presumably adorable 3-year-old chimp, narrated by fellow simian Tim Allen. Not screened for critics. G. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Evergreen, Movies On TV, Sherwood.
Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax
61 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. 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. Indoor Twin, Clackamas, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Tigard.
A Drummer’s Dream
34 [SIX NIGHTS ONLY] Director
John Walker has won awards and acclaim for his sociopolitical documentaries and extremely personal films that weave together fictional elements and nonfiction reportage. Knowing Walker’s sparkling reputation only makes his decision to turn his cameras on a weeklong drum camp in the woods of Quebec that much more puzzling. The Dream in question belonged to Nasyr Abdul Al-Khabyyr, a percussionist who has spent time backing up folks like Dizzy Gillespie and Kenny Garrett. In 2008, Nasyr decided to bring a half-dozen of his favorite drummers together to impart some knowledge to a group of students. The resulting documentary is 90 minutes of drum solos cut with interviews about how these musicians got their respective starts. What you take away from this film really depends on your relationship with the music being performed throughout. If you spend your off hours perusing YouTube clips featuring 47-piece kits and the grimacing, sweaty faces of the players, this will be a dream come true. For the rest of the world, the movie will play out
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like a particularly excruciating drum instruction video, albeit one with cinematic production values. ROBERT HAM. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm and 9 pm Friday-Thursday, April 20-26.
Filmusik Organ Grinders: Sherlock Jr. and The Goat
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Composer Ezra Weiss, a three-time recipient of the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award, provides the live score to a pair of Buster Keaton classics. Hollywood Theatre. 8 pm Thursday, April 19.
Friends With Kids
53 A thirtysomething take on the 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 hotbodied besties. In this film, the characters are driven by an even more naïve and selfish impulse: to make a baby with no strings attached. It reverses the direction of the typical casualshtup 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 Greater Good
58 [ONE NIGHT ONLY] Everyone
knows vaccines are invaluable medical tools that have saved millions of lives from once-rampant diseases, and that any risk is far outweighed by their overall benefit. What this documentary presupposes is…maybe they aren’t? Joining the controversial and often grossly misinformed vaccination debate, The Greater Good seeks to find a middle ground but only partially succeeds. The tear-jerking experiences of three families adversely affected by vaccines smother the bits of science and data scattered throughout: There’s the Portland couple whose son was diagnosed autistic, the Wichita teen who began suffering strokes and seizures after she took the new Gardasil vaccine, and a Tulsa couple whose infant daughter died after receiving her vaccinations. The film does raise interesting questions about the ties between pharmaceutical lobbying dollars, government mandated vaccinations and the fast-tracking of vaccines with the potential to make a boatload of money, such as Gardasil, which is intended to prevent HPV and cervical cancer and was tested for less than two years. The doc has been making the film-fest circuit to tempered acclaim, and if it can avoid creating a herd immunity to reasonable argument, perhaps it will be for the greater good. PENELOPE BASS. Cinema 21. 4 pm Saturday, April 21.
Happy Together
[THREE NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] Wong Kar-wai directs this beautifully melancholic 1997 romantic drama. Fifth Avenue Cinema. 7 pm and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday, April 20-21; 3 pm Sunday, April 20.
Homegrown DocFest
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTORS ATTENDING] A new batch of films from NW Documentary students; subjects include a lady on an electric motorcycle and LGBT love for Barbie dolls. Mission Theater. 7 pm Friday, April 20.
Hugo 3D
80 The message: Life, though brief, admits of magic. The messenger: a master magician still. PG. CHRIS STAMM. Living Room Theaters.
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 hallucinationinducing bees. There is no way in hell anybody will mistake your beloved young-adult “girl battles dystopian regime” series for Twilight. In fact, director Gary Ross’ movie version of The Hunger Games is more than a big-
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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 highschoolers 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 to 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’ lollipop-hued coifs and elaborately carved facial hair says it all. Never before has the color hot pink been used to convey such epic douchebaggery. PG-13. KELLY CLARKE. Lloyd Center, 99 West, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, CineMagic, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lake Twin, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy, St. Johns.
eringly 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 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. At its best, it’s what people wanted from the Star Wars prequels. PG-13. AARON MESH. Indoor Twin, Movies On TV, Lloyd Mall.
The Kid With a Bike
74 Another slice of lower-class life
from Belgium’s Dardenne brothers, The Kid with a Bike focuses on Cyril (Thomas Doret), an 11-year-old whose future abandonment issues we witness being seared into him. Disregarded by every male figure in his life—his father, his foster mother’s boyfriend, the slickhaired street tough who recruits him for a robbery—he is left to survive alone in a boy’s school until literally falling into the arms of a local hairdresser. International cineastes already know of the Dardennes’ warm, realist touch, but the revelation here is Doret. He plays Cyril as a bomb not waiting to explode but silently begging to be defused. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters.
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The Interrupters
94 [ONE NIGHT ONLY, PRODUCER
ATTENDING] Chicago epidemiologist Gary Slutkin likens societal violence to bubonic plague in its capacity to spread uncontrollably through a cycle of retribution and domination. His urban organization, CeaseFire, tackles the Windy City’s never-ending epidemic of gang violence much like a doctor might attack an outbreak: on a case-by-case basis. The group comprises reformed gangbangers and hustlers who take to the most crime-riddled areas of the city to coax enraged thugs to lay down their arms, if only for a moment. Hoop Dreams director Steve James’ searing new documentary, The Interrupters, follows CeaseFire’s team for a year in the trenches—2009-10, when gangrelated killings reportedly outnumbered U.S. casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq, and when the beating death of 16-year-old Derrion Albert caused a media storm in the projects when it appeared on YouTube. With unparalleled access, James follows three principal “violence interrupters”—charismatic reformed gang leader Ameena Matthews (daughter of notorious gangster Jeff Fort), haunted Latino murderer-turned-street savior Eddie Bocanegra and former hustler Cobe Williams—as they mediate between various rival gangs to help prevent bloodshed. Their work is endlessly inspiring, and James’ presentation of their stories is a triumph. AP KRYZA. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 8 pm Wednesday, April 18.
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. 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? R. AARON MESH. Lake Twin, 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 restaurant in a Tokyo subway station. His apprentices work 10 years before they’re allowed to cook an egg. They spend 40 minutes every day massaging octopus tentacles. His eldest son, aged 50, works obediently under his father’s exacting command until the day he may inherit the business. Jiro’s customers book months in advance and pay upward of $350 for his set 20-piece sushi meals; each item—a morsel of rice, a sliver of fish—is constructed tenderly with a few swift hand movements and a brush of soy sauce. Many admit to being scared to eat under his unwav-
IRON LION ZION SMILIN’: Bob Marley.
MARLEY Talkin’ Bob.
Of all the martyr figures in 20th-century pop music, death did Bob Marley the greatest disservice. Succumbing to cancer in 1981, the reggae icon exited the planet a Third World demigod, but posthumous deification has a way of undermining the life an artist actually lived. In Marley’s case, it flattened his whole existence into a poster tacked to a dorm-room wall. Three decades after his passing, the prevailing image of Jamaica’s favorite son is not of a brilliant, culturally transcendent songwriter. Thanks to the ganja-puffing frat boys and trust-fund hippies who co-opted his iconography, when most people think of Bob Marley these days, it’s as the patron saint of collegiate potheads. Clocking in at nearly 2 1/2 hours, Kevin Macdonald’s Marley is a hefty rebuke against such marginalization—cheeky April 20 release date notwithstanding. It is by no means the first thorough examination of Marley’s life, and other than snippets of rare recordings and a few candid home videos, hardcore fans won’t find much more here than in any of the numerous other books and films about him. As a onestop doc for the fledgling reggae fiend, however, Macdonald has made a precious resource. He presents Marley’s biography linearly—from cradle to grave, with a brief stopover in Delaware…yes, Delaware—and without much cinematic flash. The movie doesn’t need it, not with talking heads as entertaining as former Wailer Bunny Livingston and legendary freakazoid Lee “Scratch” Perry, and the archival live footage is electrifying enough to power the film on its own. Is it overlong? Certainly, there are moments that could’ve been cut. But considering how Marley’s journey from impoverished mixed-race outcast to global superstar encompasses the entire modern political and musical history of his home country, it might not be long enough. In terms of illuminating the closely guarded person behind the exalted myth, that’s where Marley falls short. It’s not for a lack of trying: Macdonald interviewed seemingly everyone who could conceivably be called part of Marley’s inner circle, and he doesn’t shy away from the contradictions of the singer’s public persona (hyper-spiritual philanderer, humble servant of Jah possessed of such a large ego he’d gloat about beating his young kids in a foot race). Even after two-plus hours, Marley emerges as a man as unknowable in life as he is 30 years after his death, but maybe that’s as accurate a portrait as anyone can hope to paint. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. 75
SEE IT: Marley opens Friday at Hollywood Theatre.
MOVIES WA LT D I S N E Y P I C T U R E S
APRIL 18-24
King Kong vs. Godzilla
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] A rare 35 mm print of the Alien vs. Predator for our parents’ generation. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, April 24.
Lockout
It’s Taken in space! Are throat chops effective in zero gravity? Not screened for critics. PG-13. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Bridgeport, City center, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
The Lucky One
52 Romance novel czar Nicholas
Sparks’ film adaptations aren’t terrible; they’re just usually scripted and shot for people with bad emotional eyesight. Every plot point is over-emphasized and backlit with the hazy gleam of autumn sunlight to alert you to the fact that feelings are happening. After returning home from his third tour of Iraq, Marine Logan (Zac Efron, yes, as a Marine) doesn’t get PTSD counseling: He walks from Colorado to Louisiana to track down the woman pictured in the lucky photo he found in a pile of war-strewn rubble. Because he’s hurting and confused. Get it? His standoffish mystery blonde, Beth (Taylor Schilling), turns out to run a dog kennel and wear nothing but sundresses and rubber boots. She doesn’t just cry, she tears at rosebushes and smashes pottery. Because she’s grieving. Get it? Beth’s ex-husband/token love obstacle, Keith, doesn’t frown; he furrows his brows and clenches his fists like a cartoon villain. Because he’s an abusive dickwad. Get it? Tiny moments of natural humor and sweetness bloom amid the rote drama before a truly asinine ending—involving a storm, a rickety tree house and Iraq friendly fire—wraps everything up with the biggest, dumbest bow imaginable. But mostly it’s just Efron using his newly gained 20 pounds of muscle to play Alpo beefcake, whispering cheeseball lines like, “You should be kissed every day, every hour, every minute.” Because that’s what sells movie tickets. Get it? PG-13. KELLY CLARKE. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Moreland, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
Mirror Mirror
27 Another in a tedious line of recent fairytale adaptations, Mirror Mirror is a picture-book retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves with impressive costumes and scenery and little else. By the time the credits roll (accompanied by an inexplicable Bollywood-style music video), you’ll wish someone had offered you some poisoned fruit. PG. PENELOPE BASS. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Living Room Theaters, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
The Monday Knights: Season 1
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] The biggerscreen premiere of a made-in-Portland interactive Web series about a group of friends and their adventures in RPG’ing. Hollywood Theatre. 5 pm Saturday, April 21.
Odds and Ends Presents Old Friends and a Toast to New Beginnings
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A collection of experimental shorts curated by Karl Lind and featuring, among other things, Matt McCormick’s Sincerely, Joe P. Bear. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Thursday, April 19.
Pina 3D
95 Up to now, 3-D in film has been
an enterprise largely extraneous to the character of film itself: moviedom’s version of the 10,000 love-
CHIMPANZEE fattened cherubs overwhelming the interior of a baroque church. German auteur Wim Wenders’ Pina—an elegiac documentary about the work of late, iconoclastic choreographer Pina Bausch—is something else altogether, a brokenhearted Billie Holiday to the 3-D form’s usual emptily virtuosic Ella Fitzgerald. Pina is, in fact, the most emotionally affecting film I saw last year. PG. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Cinema 21.
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The Raid: Redemption
Count The Raid: Redemption as Indonesia cinema’s first big KO. It’ll be all action and martial-arts movie fans talk about this year. 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 pencak 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. The plot? Yeah, there’s one in there somewhere. Iko 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-youreyes 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. R. RUTH BROWN. Cinema 21, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Bridgeport, City Center, Lloyd Mall.
Red Tails
45 [ONE NIGHT ONLY] Apparently
tired of meddling with his own history, with Red Tails, George Lucas is going ahead and fucking up actual history. Sorry, that’s not totally fair. In truth, Lucas has been trying to get this film about the Tuskegee Airmen—the first AfricanAmerican fighter pilots to serve in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II—off the ground since the late ’80s, back when the only thing fanboys held against him were Ewoks. As a rare Hollywood blockbuster with an all-black cast and a subject that does not equate to easy profit, it’s the very definition of a “passion project.” Here’s a question, though: Why, after having 20 years to consider how to honor these barrier-breaching, pre-civil rights-era heroes, did he conclude the best route would be turning them into a live-action cartoon? Not even a good cartoon,
either; more like an outdated comic book from the 1940s. What makes the Tuskegee pilots fascinating is not just their bravery in ably facing down the fearsome German Luftwaffe, but that they did so at the behest of a country that thought of them as little more than extra bodies to throw at the Axis powers, and decades before their efforts could be linked to a widespread social movement happening on the ground. Red Tails, directed by The Wire alum Anthony Hemingway, reduces their accomplishments to antiquated, flag-waving war-movie clichés. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Mission Theater. 7 pm Tuesday, April 24. Presented by the Portland African-American Film Festival.
Relentless: The Global Formula Racing Pursuit of Perfection
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A documentary following an Oregon State University-based formula racing team on its bid to win an international title. The OMNIMAX Theater at OMSI. 7:15 pm Wednesday, April 18.
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.” PG-13. AARON MESH Cornelius, Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower.
The Salt of Life
74 An enjoyably droll little satire
about a retired Charlie Brown surrounded by football-pulling Lucys, when all he wants is his fair share of Berlusconi’s Age of Bunga Bunga. Director and lead actor Gianni Di Gregorio—who also did the besieged Roman everyman routine in Mid-August Lunch—plays the abashed old goat, whose efforts to score a little strange on the piazza are undermined by his hesitancy, his mother (Valeria De Franciscis, same as in Mid-August Lunch) and his fondness for white wine. It is essentially a sophisticated Italian version of The 40-Year-Old Virgin. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters.
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Soul Train Express
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A compilation of highlights from television’s longrunning soul and R&B danceathon, in memory of the show’s late, great host, Don Cornelius. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Monday, April 23.
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MOVIES
APRIL 18-24
Think Like a Man
65 Ah, failed synergy. Considering
the source material is comedian Steve Harvey’s self-help entreaty that ladies not give out free milk (for at least 90 days), Think Like a Man almost succeeds as a faux-Altmanesque study of dating paranoia. A Los Angeles-area pick-up basketball team features every archetype of boyfriend Mr. Harvey would warn us about, each matched, at varying degrees of involvement, with a woman who is secretly steering the conversation according to Harvey’s brash advice. And really, it hardly matters that Harvey’s philosophy is equal opportunity in its sexism; the film clips along on the strength of a balanced cast and a few genuinely funny moments. The problem is Chris Brown. Any argument that this was a fair fight between the sexes is undermined by his tasteless casting as Alex, the quintessential man-to-avoid—not because he might leave you choked in his car, and not because he is a criminally arrogant hack with no appreciation for his undeserved second chances. It’s because, as Alex, he plays a graceless one-night stand who takes the coffee and runs. And just like that, the jokes become too cheap for what would otherwise have made a solid Brew Views screening. PG-13. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Bridgeport, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV.
inflated with writerly quirk, which is dispelled throughout the movie from the air holes where their mouths would be. Everyone is living a delusion, and the suggestion is that deluding oneself is a crucial mechanism for surviving in New York, but their fantasy lives are infinitely more interesting than those we’re forced to endure for 90 minutes. Hollywood Theatre.
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. The deranged kid of the title comes into crisp focus as a sadistic horror-film villain, with Ramsay exaggerating every loath-
some 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 halfbaked importance. Rent Orphan instead. CHRIS STAMM. Fox Tower.
Wrath of the Titans
42 The indifferent plot—Grandpapa was a volcanic stone—is recouped by some evocative imagery. But the movie gets its only human life from Bill Nighy, who sports a Babylonian soothsayer’s beard and mutters half-heard mermaid-seduction techniques. He’s killed off pretty quick. PG-13. AARON MESH. 99 West, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Forest, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
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It turns out the heart does go on: Titanic is the latest cash cow to be re-milked in 3-D. The release will cause slight heart palpitations in some people and a twinge of bile in others. But it’s also a reminder of a phenomenon never since equaled at the movies. (Sure, James Cameron made even more money with Avatar, but you can’t tell us it felt the same.) Titanic was a romance that defied snide jokes about how everybody already knew the ending, because people returned to watch that ending again and again. PG-13. AARON MESH. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
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A trio of developmentally disabled adults POKE EACH OTHER IN THE EYE. Not screened by WW press deadlines. PG. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
To the Arctic 3D
The life and times of a mama polar bear and her presumably adorable cubs, narrated by fellow great white creature Meryl Streep. Not screened for critics. G. Lloyd Mall.
The Trouble with Bliss
36 In this awkwardly dull indie
comedy, Michael C. Hall plays Dexter, who lives at home. Actually, his name is Morris Bliss, a thirtysomethingish layabout who lives in a drab East Village apartment with his disapproving father (an almost literally sleepwalking Peter Fonda), wears the same combination of illfitting beige khakis and baby-blue Members Only jacket every day, and subsists financially on the wads of small bills borrowed from his “daddy.” Naturally, women find him irresistible. In the opening scene, he’s just bedded a pixie-ish, though possibly psychotic, 18-year-old (eminently cute Brie Larson, made insufferable); later, he makes out with the married woman down the hall (Lucy Liu). Other characters include Morris’ best friend, who claims to be clandestinely involved with a criminal cartel, and the jovially clueless construction-worker father of Morris’ much-younger girlfriend, who happens to be a former high-school classmate of his. All of them are less actual people than human-sized sacs
PUSSY GALORE: The Rabbi’s Cat.
20TH PORTLAND JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL Of all the annual cinematic celebrations of group identity, the Jewish film festival seems the least necessary. Call me self-loathing, but I do not think my ancestors have been underrepresented in Hollywood, and the days when studio bosses changed the names and hair of promising actors to keep them from seeming “too Jewish” are long passed. The upshot of this history is that a first-rate movie about Jewishness—from A Serious Man to Footnote—is likely to secure a mainstream release, or at least a slot in broader festivals. So the Portland Jewish Film Festival must content itself with the last dregs from the Manischewitz cup: movies so preoccupied with tradition that they never leave the roof. Entering its second week, this 20th-anniversary festival occasionally ventures further afield, mostly in its repertory selections. (If I were seeing one picture here, I’d make it My Architect, the 2003 Oscar-nominated documentary on brutalist builder Louis I. Kahn, who cantilevered three families. It screens at 4 pm Sunday, April 22.) But the lineup is heavily weighted toward the usual coming-of-age tales. Rare is the evening that passes without a bar mitzvah. Joel Fendelman’s David (7 pm Thursday, April 19) varies up the formula by making its pint-sized hero a Muslim who tries to pal with the yeshiva boys; the film has the steady sympathy of dramatic vérité, but none of the ecumenical puckishness of Philip Roth’s “The Conversion of the Jews.” Friendships across the Fertile Crescent’s religious divide are also central to The Rabbi’s Cat (7 pm Friday and 8:30 pm Saturday, April 20-21), an Algerian cartoon by Joann Sfar and Antoine Delesvaux that in early scenes appears as some dire cross-species retread of All Dogs Go to Heaven, using many of the same drawing techniques. As soon as titular cat starts talking, it demands—you guessed it—a bar mitzvah. But while the animation never gets less crude, the story grows more sophisticated, turning into something closer in spirit to the Flashman books (or the Tintin comics, which it openly mocks). There’s sex, scimitars, a blind-drunk Russian nobleman, scimitars in the nobleman, and a lost Jerusalem in central Africa. The feline is eventually jettisoned, which is for the best. There are no cats in Judaica. AARON MESH. Why is this festival not like every other festival?
60 SEE IT: The 20th Portland Jewish Film Festival continues through Monday, April 30, at the NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. Visit nwfilm.org for complete showtimes.
APRIL 20-26 Regal Cinemas Bridgeport Village Stadium 18 & IMAX
BREWVIEWS
SUBTERRANEAN BLACKBOARD JUNGLE: Essentially the Ramones’ A Hard Day’s Night, 1979’s Rock ’n’ Roll High School takes place in a parallel dimension to our own, a Bizarro World where preppy pretty boys pine after weirdo punk girls and Joey Ramone is a teen idol. It’s self-consciously campy, but the musical numbers—particularly the band’s grand entrance, performing “I Just Wanna Have Something to Do” from the back of a convertible while simultaneously gnawing on fried chicken—are legit awesome. Fun fact: Roger Corman originally wanted to name the film Disco High. After changing the script to focus on a rock band, the directors were unsure who the starring group should be. As if there was any question: Who else but the Ramones could occupy such a brilliantly stupid universe? MATTHEW SINGER. Showing at: Bagdad, presented by Jackpot Records. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, April 20-21. Best paired with: PBR. Also showing: The Getaway (Laurelhurst). EXPRESS Mon 07:30 KING KONG VS. GODZILLA Tue 07:30 THE BUS Wed 07:00 TWIN PEAKS Wed 09:30
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2522 SE Clinton St., 503-238-8899 A DRUMMER’S DREAM Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:00, 09:00 REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA Fri 11:30 THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Sat 11:30
Laurelhurst Theatre
2735 E Burnside St., 503-232-5511 THE IRON LADY Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:45 CHRONICLE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:15 TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 07:00 CASA DE MI PADRE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:45 WANDERLUST Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 07:15 GET A WAY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 09:25 THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:00 A SEPARATION Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:30
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Hollywood Theatre
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846 SW Park Ave., 800-326-3264 WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 02:30, 07:20 FOOTNOTE Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 04:55, 09:50 FRIENDS WITH KIDS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:30, 05:10, 09:40 BULLY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:10, 02:25, 04:35, 07:00, 09:35 CORIOLANUS FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:45, 04:25, 07:05, 09:50 THE LADY Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:05, 07:10 JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:50, 07:30 SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:15, 02:40, 05:00, 07:25, 09:45 AMERICAN REUNION Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:40, 04:30, 07:15, 09:55 DELICACY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:05, 02:35, 05:05, 07:40, 10:05 BOY Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 03:00, 05:05, 09:55 BLUE LIKE JAZZ Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:20, 02:55, 05:20, 07:50, 10:05 LOCKOUT Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:25, 02:45, 05:25, 07:45, 10:00
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BUILDING/REMODELING ARIES (March 21-April 19): You had to take the test before you got a chance to study more than a couple of the lessons. Does that seem fair? Hell, no. That’s the bad news. The good news is that this test was merely a rehearsal for a more important and inclusive exam, which is still some weeks in the future. Here’s even better news: The teachings that you will need to master before then are flowing your way, and will continue to do so in abundance. Apply yourself with diligence, Aries. You have a lot to learn, but luckily, you have enough time to get fully prepared.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A starfish that loses an arm can grow back a new one. It’s an expert regenerator. According to my understanding of the astrological omens, you are entering a starfish-like phase of your cycle. Far more than usual, you’ll be able to recover parts of you that got lost and reanimate parts of you that fell dormant. For the foreseeable future, your words of power are “rejuvenate,” “restore,” “reawaken,” and “revive.” If you concentrate really hard and fill yourself with the light of the spiritual sun, you might even be able to perform a kind of resurrection.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Let’s see if you know what these exquisitely individuated luminaries have in common: Salvador Dali, Martha Graham, Stephen Colbert, David Byrne, Maya Deren, Malcolm X, Willie Nelson, Bono, Dennis Hopper, Cate Blanchett, George Carlin, Tina Fey, Sigmund Freud. Give up? They are or were all Tauruses. Would you characterize any of them as sensible, materialistic slowpokes obsessed with comfort and security, as many traditional astrology texts describe Tauruses? Nope. They were or are distinctive innovators with unique style and creative flair. They are your role models as you cruise through the current phase of maximum self-expression.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Too much of a good thing isn’t necessarily good. (Have you ever hyperventilated?) Too little of a good thing can be bad. (Have you ever gotten dehydrated?) Some things are good in measured doses but bad if done to excess. (Wine and chocolate.) A very little of a very bad thing may still be a bad thing. (It’s hard to smoke crack in moderation.) The coming week is prime time to be thinking along these lines, Scorpio. You will generate a lot of the exact insights you need if you weigh and measure everything in your life and judge what is too much and what is too little.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In December 1946, three Bedouin shepherds were tending their flock near the Dead Sea. They found a cave with a small entrance. Hoping it might contain treasure hidden there long ago, they wanted to explore it. The smallest of the three managed to climb through the narrow opening. He brought out a few dusty old scrolls in ceramic jars. The shepherds were disappointed. But eventually the scrolls were revealed to be one of the most important finds in archaeological history: the first batch of what has come to be known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Keep this story in mind, Gemini. I suspect a metaphorically similar tale may unfold for you soon. A valuable discovery may initially appear to you in a form you’re not that excited about. CANCER (June 21-July 22): The devil called together a committee meeting of his top assistants. He was displeased. Recruitments of people born under the sign of Cancer had fallen far below projected totals. “It’s unacceptable,” the dark lord fumed. “Those insufferable Crabs have been too mentally healthy lately to be tantalized by our lies. Frankly, I’m at wit’s end. Any suggestions?” His marketing expert said, “Let’s redouble our efforts to make them buy into the hoax about the world ending on December 21, 2012.” The executive vice-president chimed in: “How about if we play on their fears about running out of what they need?” The chief of intelligence had an idea, too: “I say we offer them irrelevant goodies that tempt them away from their real goals.” LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “If you don’t run your own life, someone else will,” said psychologist John Atkinson. Make that your motto in the coming weeks, Leo. Write it on a big piece of cardboard and hold it up in front of your eyes as you wake up each morning. Use it as a prod that motivates you to shed any laziness you might have about living the life you really want. Periodically ask yourself these three questions: Are you dependent on the approval, permission, or recognition of others? Have you set up a person, ideology, or image of success that’s more authoritative than your own intuition? Is there any area of your life where you have ceded control to an external source? VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Here are the last words that computer pioneer Steve Jobs spoke before he died: “OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.” I’d propose that we bring that mantra into as wide a usage as Jobs’ other creations, like the iPhone and iPad. I’d love to hear random strangers exclaiming it every time they realize how amazing their lives are. I’d enjoy it if TV newscasters spoke those words to begin each show, acknowledging how mysterious our world really is. I’d be pleased if lovers everywhere uttered it at the height of making love. I nominate you to start the trend, Virgo. You’re the best choice, since your tribe, of all the signs of the zodiac, will most likely have the wildest rides and most intriguing adventures in the coming weeks.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sculptor Constantin Brancusi had a clear strategy as he produced his art: “Create like God, command like a king, work like a slave.” I suggest you adopt a similar approach for your own purposes in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. With that as your formula, you could make rapid progress on a project that’s dear to you. So make sure you have an inspiring vision of the dream you want to bring into being. Map out a bold, definitive plan for how to accomplish it. And then summon enormous stamina, fierce concentration, and unfailing attention to detail as you translate your heart’s desire into a concrete form.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through,” writes novelist Anne Lamott, “you must. Otherwise, you’ll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you’ve already been in.” I think the coming weeks will be your time to slip through that forbidden door, Capricorn. The experiences that await you on the other side may not be everything you have always needed, but I think they are at least everything you need next. Besides, it’s not like the taboo against penetrating into the unknown place makes much sense any more. The biggest risk you take by breaking the spell is the possibility of losing a fear you’ve grown addicted to. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When rain falls on dry land, it activates certain compounds in the soil that release a distinctive aroma. “Petrichor” is the word for that smell. If you ever catch a whiff of it when there’s no rain, it’s because a downpour has begun somewhere nearby, and the wind is bringing you news of it. I suspect that you will soon be awash in a metaphorical version of petrichor, Aquarius. A parched area of your life is about to receive muchneeded moisture. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Forty percent of Americans do not know that the dinosaurs died out long before human beings ever existed. When these folks see an old cartoon of caveman Fred Flintstone riding on a Diplodocus, they think it’s depicting a historical fact. In the coming weeks, Pisces, you need to steer clear of people who harbor gross delusions like that. It’s more important than usual that you hang out with educated, cultured types who possess a modicum of well-informed ideas about the history of humanity and the nature of reality. Surround yourself with intelligent influences, please.
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Understanding Our Moment in History. Using insights from depth psychology and archetypal astrology, Dr. Tarnas will offer a context for understanding and action during this time of accelerating change. Friday, April 20th at 7:30 pm. First United Methodist Church, 1838 SW Jefferson, Portland. Public $12; Students $6; OFJ members free. Cash or check only. For more information go to www.ofj.org.
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Gundecha Brothers Hindustani Vocalists
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