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So you guys like [Jefferson] Smith, think he has the best ideas, and understands the needs of the city better than anyone, but you are endorsing [Charlie] Hales [for mayor]? [“Election Is Coming,” WW, April 25, 2012.] Besides being somewhat of a dull character, and a lifelong bureaucrat, [Hales] also seems to have tread dangerously close to fraud. I don’t see how you can endorse the guy after he sent his taxes to Washington state, lied about it, then came back to present himself as the guy Portland needs. I just can’t wrap my head around that. [Eileen] Brady comes off like she’s acting how she thinks a politician should act. Of these three, Smith seems like the best bet. There are so many checks and balances, I seriously doubt he could “fail spectacularly.” —“Jason Alvarez” The Hales endorsement is a no-brainer. Experienced, talented, seasoned leader, manager. Can you imagine Brady in a meeting with the top commanders of the Police [Bureau]? Laughable. —“Harley Leiber”
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I can’t help noticing there have been an awful lot of sinkholes opening in the ground lately. Are we under attack from some malevolent, subterranean menace? How long before the Earth swallows us all? —Caryn S. You’re not just whistling Dixie there, C. There were at least two sinkholes on major Portland streets just last week, and another one earlier in April. What with all the sandworms, graboids and C.H.U.D.s honeycombing our formerly solid ground, it seems we can scarcely trot over to the Kwik-E-Mart for a pack of Ho Hos these days without pitching headlong into a sarlacc pit. Naturally, the city is trying to hush up the holes’ paranormal origins. “The ground has been settling, and the soil has become saturated. With hot weather, the asphalt softens, vehicles go over it, and if there’s an existing void, the asphalt can separate under the weight of the vehicles and form a sinkhole,” said the Transportation
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GAMBLING ON A NEW LOTTERY BOSS. The Oregon Lottery generates more than $500 million a year, most of it from video gambling machines in bars and taverns. Longtime Lottery Commission Chairman Steve Ungar is stepping down and Gov. John Kitzhaber expects to appoint Portland lawyer Elisa Dozono as his replacement. One issue: The Miller Nash law firm, where Dozono is a partner, represents the Dotty’s Deli chain, long among the largest Lottery retailers. “We are aware of that,” says Kitzhaber’s spokesman, Tim Raphael. “And we don’t expect any legal or ethical conflicts.” More bad news about Kettleman Bagels being purchased and chewed up by national chain Noah’s Bagels. First, Portlanders lost out on great (that is, authentic) bagels. Turns out the employees of the newly branded Einstein Bros. Bagels lost out, too: They’re no longer allowed to accept tips—even a little change in the jar. The Einstein Noah Restaurant Group tells WW: “[W]e want our employees to deliver on our hospitality and guest service commitment each and every time without any expectation of a cash tip from our guests.” Unhappy employees say the policy will cost them about $100 a week. Multnomah County commissioners are preparing to settle for $38,000 with a former jail inmate whose nose was broken when a sheriff’s deputy allegedly punched him. David Hindal was strapped into a restraint chair and on suicide watch in March 2010 when, he says, Deputy Jason Lowe put him in a choke hold and hit him in the face and head several times, breaking his nose. The suit cites nine other incidents dating to 2004 in which Lowe “repeatedly exceeded the use and amount of force necessary to maintain order.” County Corrections Division Chief Deputy Mike Shults tells WW some force used against Hindal was appropriate but that Lowe crossed the line. Shults says Lowe has been disciplined and will receive training. “It’s unreasonable use of force when you tie someone [down] and punch them in the face,” says Kenneth Kreuscher, one of Hindal’s attorneys. “It’s as clear-cut as it gets.”
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On the night he lost his race for U.S. Senate in 2008, Steve Novick gave one of the more extraordinary concession speeches in Oregon political history. In a freewheeling 18 minutes, Novick didn’t concede his Democratic primary race to Jeff Merkley so much as do stand-up comedy. He compared his failed candidacy to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the racehorse Alydar, and the 1975 Boston Red Sox. He said his campaign staff made him feel like “the young Castro.” But Novick also made a joke that showed he already understood two sets of numbers that night—and where his political future was headed. The first set showed he would lose to Merkley by 15,000 votes statewide. The second showed he would win Multnomah County—the bluest county in Oregon—by more than 17,000 votes. “In the immortal words of the Go-Go’s,” Novick told supporters, “this town is our town.” Four years later, Novick—a 4-foot-9 Harvard wunderkind who likes to make puns about the metal hook in place of the left hand he was born without—is running the only competitive city race that’s probably a safe bet. He faces six little-known candidates for the City Council seat being vacated by Commissioner Randy Leonard— who gave Novick advance notice he’d not seek re-election. Combined, his challengers have raised $12,000. (Novick has 21 times that.) And he is still riding the familiarity from 2008 that has made him Portland’s most distinctive political personality since Bud Clark. That’s given Novick, 49, a freedom to brainstorm out loud and use his City Hall campaign as a workshop for his agenda—spitballing ideas he pulls from books and magazines, and disregarding who he might antagonize. The hot potatoes he’s handling are ones that have submarined previous attempts to solve them, including health care, Measure 11 sentencing guidelines and—perhaps most perilously—adding parking meters in neighborhoods and popular business districts from Alberta to Hawthorne. It’s not so much that no one is listening—it’s that few are challenging his proposals. In 2008, Novick says, he’d stop and ask his political consultant if one of his ideas was going to cause any blowback. “I don’t feel like I have to do even that,” he says. That’s frustrated his opponents, such as neighborhood activist Mark White. “This whole coronation thing with Steve has been really disheartening,” White says. Novick was born in 1963 in Newark, N.J., without a left hand or fibulae in his legs. His family moved to Cottage Grove, Ore., where Novick proved his precocity: When the public school shut down after a failed tax levy, he started attending the University of Oregon at age 13. He got into Harvard Law at 18, graduated at 21 and worked as an envi-
ALL ABOUT STEVE: Novick on Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard, where he’s proposing new parking meters.
ronmental lawyer for the U.S. Department of Justice. He moved back to Oregon in the late 1990s and made his name in Salem as chief of staff for the Oregon Senate Democrats. But his own ambition wasn’t as clear until he wrote a cover story for WW in 2007 titled “If I Ran,” a strategy to defeat U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.), largely seen as unbeatable. Novick took his own advice and ran a stunning underdog race against then-Oregon House Speaker Jeff Merkley, who went on to beat Smith. This time out, Novick’s lack of an opponent to eclipse him—or even force him into a fall runoff—has allowed Novick to talk about issues far beyond the reach of city government. “We can strengthen our economy by making Portland the leader in reducing health-care costs,” he says in a TV ad that started airing last week. “We can make a deal with state government: If we send fewer people to their prisons, they send back the savings to spend on prevention.” The health-care plan Novick is shopping is based on
one used by the casino workers’ union in Atlantic City, N.J., which fights costs by making home visits and regular phone calls to “super-utilizers”: patients who have used medical care the most often. The New Yorker reported the program cut emergency-room visits by 40 percent. Novick’s proposed Measure 11 plan is even more audacious, and would require the participation—at least—of the Multnomah County District Attorney, the Legislature and Gov. John Kitzhaber. He’s proposing that the state give each county a lumpsum budget for public safety—including prisons. That could pressure prosecutors to consider the cost of prison sentences when deciding on plea bargains, and whether to seek convictions with expensive mandatory minimum sentences. “What I’m talking about is going where the money is,” Novick says. “What do we spend too much money on in this society? Health care. What’s another thing we spend too much money on? Prisons. If you can’t get money out of CONT. on page 8 Willamette Week MAY 2, 2012 wweek.com
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be able to support it,” Ranieri says. “A guy like Novick is going to be able to understand that.” Eilien Van Patten, co-chair of the Vernon Neighborhood Association, isn’t so sanguine about the prospect of parking meters on Alberta—with its famed Last Thursday events and surrounding thickets of residential streets. “People would be parking in driveways,” she says. “[Candidates] can have all the ideas they want, but before they just blurt out something, they should at least visit. Either he’s shooting from the hip, or he doesn’t care.” White, co-chair of the city’s charter review, says Novick regularly ignores neighborhood sentiment. “Steve’s notorious for not listening to people and just kind of doing his own thing,” White says. “You need to respect and value every person who comes before you. I don’t think he has that capacity.” Novick disagrees, but his performance at a March 4 candidates’ forum on the arts in Portland seemed as if he was honing an act for the Catskills, not City Hall. He offered to create a tournament to name the best rock band of all time, and to “find out if systems-development charges go down better with soothing music.” His jokes so dominated the event that Amanda Fritz contrasted herself against them. “I can’t pretend to be nearly as funny as Steve, or at all funny,” she said, “so I’m going to actually answer the question.” PLUGGING FOR VOTES: Novick’s proposal for a huge Stanley Penkin, co-founder of Oregon ArtPAC, orgaincrease in parking meters has largely gone unnoticed. nized the forum. “I had the sense he didn’t want to be there,” Penkin says. “I would say his behavior somewhat the gas tax, where can you go? Parking.” If anything shows the measure of Novick’s confidence, trivialized the subject.” “I really messed up at the arts forum,” Novick says. “I it’s his proposal for parking meters. Lots and lots of new was trying to make fun of myself, but I came across as not parking meters. The Northwest Parking Plan and its proposed meters respecting the arts and not respecting the people there. I remain mired in disputes between city officials, neigh- feel terrible about that.” Novick maintains he’ll keep pressing ambitious borhood associations and business owners more than a decade after it was first proposed. And when then-City changes to how the city works. He says his hero is Bill Commissioner Sam Adams suggested installing meters James, the “moneyball” statistician whose Sabermetric on Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard in 2006, he was theories transformed Major League Baseball. It’s that howled down so violently by business leaders that he desire to tackle large, speculative projects that Novick says kept him from running for withdrew the proposal. But Novick has been read“WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT mayor. He did mull it. He looked at ing Tom Vanderbilt’s book his personal finances, and saw Traffic. In his endorsement IS GOING WHERE THE he didn’t have enough money interview with WW, he volMONEY IS.”—STEVE NOVICK to take a year off work. He’s an unteered that meters could be analyst for the Oregon Health installed in Northwest, along Authority and is now campaigning part time. His girlHawthorne, and Northeast Alberta Street as well. “I think you have to look at putting meters on Haw- friend, Rachel Philofsky, didn’t want him all-out on the thorne, and [Northwest] 23rd,” he says. “I don’t know if campaign trail. And he talked to Erik Sten—the former commissioner it would make sense on Alberta, but I think you’d want to Novick says is his local model. Sten told him to run for a look at that.” Novick’s reputation in Portland means longtime council seat, not for mayor. “Each city commissioner has about 80 percent as meter foes give him the benefit of the doubt. Tom Ranieri, the Cinema 21 theater operator, organized fellow business much power as the mayor,” Novick recalls Sten saying, owners on Northwest 21st and 23rd avenues to oppose the “with a heck of a lot more time to focus on what particularly interests you. Because you’re not expected to show Northwest Parking Plan. But he says Novick could fix it. “When there’s a balanced plan, the businesses will up everywhere. And you can focus.”
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TAKE ME TO THE RIVER PORTRAITS OF THE WILLAMETTE. The Willamette River divides Portland. Not just physically, east from west, or in the inconvenient gulf that opens whenever a bridge is up. The Willamette shows us the ways we embrace, and betray, our best ideals. This river defines us. Sure, the Columbia is bigger and more renowned. We don’t know of any songs Woody Guthrie wrote about the Willamette. But this river is ours: The Willamette created this town, from the days when Capt. John Couch proclaimed the city the perfect place to load tanned goods. The wharves are gone, and so too are the timber rafts that fringed the shorelines, headed for export or mills, now closed. The river that pumps 20 million gallons of water a minute through Portland’s heart now floats ships as big as two football fields hauling wheat to Japan, and ships just as large coming from Japan to deliver cars. We are a major metropolitan area with salmon and steelhead runs, tailed by hungry sea lions, through city limits. But for decades we used the river as a ditch for our refuse, gagging it with sewage and offal. We brought the Willamette back from the dead in the 1960s and have given it a new chance with a recently finished, $1.4 billion sewer project intended to keep its waters safe. But a century of industry and pollution in Portland Harbor has resulted in an 11-mile Superfund
site chiefly distinguished by carcinogenic carp and a $1 billion cleanup bill no one wants to pay. We seek to span the river with a new crossing (who else in the country is building a car-less bridge?) while the east bank is a tangle of freeway concrete—eased slightly, but hardly ameliorated, by the Vera Katz Eastbank Esplanade. On a sunny afternoon, the Willamette waters are choked with sailboats, powerboats, Jet Skis, crew teams and even the brave swimmer. But access is often limited to those with enough wealth for a watercraft: The river has several launching places within five miles of the city center, but few public beaches. The one thing we can all do equally is the thing we don’t do enough: look at it. This weekend, hundreds of people are coming from all over the world to pay close attention. Two environmental nonprofits are holding the international River Rally conference in Portland to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act. So we are pausing as well to consider this wide ribbon that divides us, and yet holds the city together. Consider this Willamette Week’s Willamette week. We bring you images of this city, often from the water-level perspective, and explore what they tell us about how the river defines us, and unites us. In the Willamette, we find our reflection. AARON MESH. CONT. on page 12
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The Pacific lamprey could be charitably described as a homely creature. One of the Willamette’s primitive species at 450 million years old (salmon only go back 10 million), these gray bloodsuckers are anadromous: born in fresh water, they travel to the ocean and return to spawn. Feeding by latching on to larger ocean fish, such as sharks, the lamprey has no jaw, just a round, toothed mouth that resembles a suction cup with yellow fangs and a scarlet throat. It’s a traditional ceremonial meal for the tribes— Nez Perce, Umatilla, Warm Springs and Yakama—that make up the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission. Tribal members serve the oily meat smoked, dried or roasted on sticks next to a fire. A half century ago, more than 350,000 lampreys migrated past Bonneville Dam during daylight hours each year. Now the count is 18,315. Stuart Ellis, a Fish Commission harvest management biologist, says the Columbia dams might be to blame. The last place the tribes catch lamprey is Willamette Falls, at Oregon City and West Linn. At low water, tribal members net lampreys on the river rocks. They say the decline of lamprey is a warning. “The Creator told the people that the eels would always return as long as the people took care of them,” says Ron Suppah, vice chair of the Warm Springs tribe, “but if the people failed to take care of them, they would disappear.” AARON MESH.
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Emily Melina didn’t think she’d win the 2011 Portland Bridge Swim when she entered the 11-mile race in the Willamette last July. But she did anticipate one outcome. “To be honest,” she says, “I expected intestinal problems.” Given the image of the Willamette, that’s not surprising. The city’s principal waterway had long been known for the contamination that spurts from sewer pipes after a heavy rainfall. For decades, stormwater flooded the city’s sewer pipes, and the waters often overflowed and poured into the river through large outfalls (such as the decommissioned pipe, far right, located in Holgate Channel on the east side of Ross Island). But the city recently completed the $1.4 billion Big Pipe project, which collects virtually all of the combined sewage and stormwater and diverts it to the city’s Columbia Boulevard treatment plant. Portland undertook the massive project only after Northwest Environmental Advocates, a local environmental group, took the city to court under the Clean Water Act. Linc Mann, spokesman for Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Services, said before the Big Pipe was finished in December 2011, it took no more than one-tenth of an inch of rain in a 24-hour period to send the city’s wastewater cascading into the river. Now, Mann says, it takes 12 times as much. The city once issued 50 warnings a year because of combined sewer overflows. Mann says such alerts will be rare in the future. As the river gets cleaner, more people are beginning to use it. (The unidentified swimmer, near right, is midriver near Sellwood Riverfront Park.) A few swimming events now take place on the river, such as the Portland Triathlon. Melina, who won the Bridge Swim in slightly over four hours and 19 minutes, didn’t suffer any intestinal distress. “It tastes a little bit earthy, a little bit like gasoline,” she says of the Willamette’s water. “But that’s no different tasting than any other river.” ALEX TOMCHAK SCOTT.
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For the first time in nearly 90 years, the Willamette has two new bridges going in: a replacement for the crumbling Sellwood, and downriver a $134 million span for the new Portland-Milwaukie MAX light-rail line. No cars can use this one—TriMet officials say they believe it’s the first such bridge in the nation built only for rail and pedestrians. The light-rail bridge is the city’s first cable-stayed bridge—a design that suggests a spider’s web and was chosen for its high, long center span, which is needed to accommodate shipping traffic from either side of Ross Island. Crews recently poured 3,400 tons of concrete to cap the in-water footings, sunk deep beneath the river bed. Once the 180-foot towers are done, the bridge span will be built simultaneously in both directions from each tower, balanced like seesaws by temporary cables, until they reach the shore and meet in the center of the river. “It’s like building an IKEA bookshelf,” says project director Robert Barnard. “It isn’t real stable until you put the last piece in.” BEN WATERHOUSE.
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The rotting docks along the Willamette west-shore site called Arkema look like the haunted setting conjured in a campfire ghost story. At this Portland Harbor site, a chemical plant ran for 60 years—making DDT in the 1950s and, after that, ammonium perchlorate, a solid rocket fuel. Wastes dumped onto the ground back then still seep into the river. Arkema is among dozens of sites (including the Gunderson bargemaking site, right) experts suspect have contributed to the contamination at the mucky bottom of the harbor. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declared the Portland Harbor a Superfund site 12 years ago. Officials have tried to attack the polluted shores—or uplands—before the contaminated sediments. Legal challenges from the Arkema property owners delayed the cleanup. “It’s the last of the really highly polluted sites with a traditional chemical that we all know is really bad,” says Travis Williams of Willamette Riverkeeper. This week, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality begins an initial cleanup at Arkema, expected to last through March 2013. As WW recently reported (see “What the Muck?,” WW, March 28, 2012), deciding on the final cleanup costs of the entire harbor, and who must pay, will take many more years. AARON MESH.
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WILLAMETTE RIVER The promise that Ross Island would tranform from a gritty mining operation into its extraordinary promise as a city park keeps slipping into the future. The company had been carving away at the island’s core since the 1920s. In the late 1990s, controversy over Ross Island’s mishandling of contaminated wastes brought uncomfortable publicity down on owner Robert Pamplin Jr., accustomed to buying goodwill and good press with millions in charitable donations. Pamplin first promised a halt to the mining and, in 2001, pledged to give most the 390-acre island complex to the City of Portland within three years. The company would continue to process rock and sand in the Ross Island complex from materials dredged elsewhere. Pamplin’s gesture helped get his company out of an extensive restoration plan dating from the 1970s, in exchange for a more modest one. But in late 2004, Pamplin and city officials postponed the transfer because they couldn’t agree on environmental liability—and then in 2007 he deeded a 45-acre parcel on the northwest end of Ross Island to the city. Access to that site is limited, accessible only with city parks staff or designated visitors. Emily Roth, a naturalresource planner with Portland Parks & Recreation, says city workers and volunteers have eradicated invasive plants from the land and replanted native cottonwood and alder trees. The donated land hosts a blue heron rookery, and bald eagles have nested there. The island’s future remains in Pamplin’s hands. His company has told state regulators the island’s restoration work, originally scheduled to be completed by next year, will take another decade. Company officials didn’t respond to WW’s calls. NIGEL JAQUISS.
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The river supports more jobs than city government or local elementary schools, yet the maritime economy happens largely out of view to land-dwellers. 3,500: People employed by the Port of Portland’s maritime operation, according to a March 15 economic analysis for the Port. 7,300: People employed by private businesses around the harbor, including longshoremen, terminal operators, stevedores, trucking firms, railroads, steamship agents, freight forwarders and customhouse brokers, warehousemen, federal employees, towing companies, pilot organizations and marine construction companies. 10,800: Additional metro-area workers whose jobs depend on individual and business spending by Portland Harbor-related businesses and organizations, according to the Port’s study. 2,100: Approximate number of port and harbor workers who live in the city of Portland. 554: Oceangoing vessels calling at the Port of Portland last year. 766: Number of calls in 2008. 60,000: Approximate cargo capacity, in tons, of the Hanjin Washington, an average-sized, Panamanian-flagged, Koreanowned dry-cargo container ship that has made two visits to the Port of Portland so far this year. 13.4 million: Total tons of cargo that came and went through Port of Portland terminals last year. $12 billion: Value of that cargo, as estimated by Port officials. 4.7 million: Tons of grain that were loaded and unloaded. 5.2 million: Tons of minerals. 2.2 million: Tons of soda ash, a chemical used in the making of glass and for cleaning and washing, that Kinder Morgan loads onto oceangoing ships annually at Terminal 4. 234,000: Number of automobiles loaded and unloaded. 7.5: Percent decrease in total cargo tonnage handled so far this year compared to the same period in 2011. COMPILED BY COREY PEIN.
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For kayakers, Portland’s stretch of the Willamette River is one stream with a split character: an urban waterway with an active port and views of the state’s tallest buildings, but also shockingly natural. “You get an incredible view of the skyline,” says Mike McKoane, owner of Portland Kayak Company. “But at the same time you can go up around Ross Island and see bald eagles nesting and beavers slapping their tails and salmon rising.” McKoane’s shop on Southwest Macadam Avenue sits only a few feet from the river and offers tours. Tourists and locals like the trips, he says, because the view of Portland from a boat is like no other. In the winter, when currents are fast, debris is afloat and the water is cold, McKoane says the river should be attempted only by experienced paddlers. However, as summer arrives, the waters calm and almost anyone can feel comfortable. After dipping their paddles around Portland, kayakers might want to try the Willamette River Trail, which runs for more than 200 miles between Portland and Eugene. The trail is fully mapped with restrooms, picnic spots and public land open for camping. Find the map at willamette-riverkeeper.org/WTrail. MARTIN CIZMAR.
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Pauline and Lloyd Anderson’s was the first two-story houseboat at the Oregon Yacht Club, adjacent to Oaks Park in Sellwood, when the couple moved in 35 years ago. “Back then, it was low-cost housing,” Pauline Anderson says. The other moored homes— “little flatties,” she calls them—went for around $25,000. Today, their houseboat is one of the least ostentatious in the club, which experts say is the most expensive place to buy a houseboat in Portland. Graham Marden, a real-estate agent who specializes in houseboats, says this location and two other Willamette River moorages are highly sought after because of their closeness to downtown. Of the estimated 1,100 houseboats in the city, Marden says, only 87 are on the Willamette (including at Macadam Bay Club Marina, above). Houseboats can go for $400,000 and up. That doesn’t include membership fees and leasing rights. The Andersons, who are in their late 80s, have both held office in local government. Pauline was a Multnomah County commissioner. Lloyd served on the City Council and as Port of Portland executive director. All these years later, Pauline Anderson says, whenever they return to their houseboat, “It’s like going on vacation every time.” ALEX TOMCHAK SCOTT.
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California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) have long dogged the salmon runs at Columbia River dams. Biologists say since 2002, sea lions have become far more common in the Willamette. Look down from a Portland bridge during the spring salmon run—from April to May—and you might spot a 1,000-pound aquatic mammal chugging upstream. “These dudes are migratory animals,” says Garth Griffin of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “They’re all males. Their job in life is to eat and get big and strong so that when it’s summertime in the Channel Islands, they’re in position to get the girls.” At Willamette Falls in Oregon City, 128 miles from the Pacific, sea lions (such as the one whose head is visible at bottom right in the photo) gorge on pricey salmon. The state and feds spend millions annually to re-establish salmon runs that sea lions lazily pluck at the falls. To bust up the buffet, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has tried hazing sea lions with fireworks and rubber bullets. State officials say they lack the staff this year. Says Rick Hargrave of the ODFW, “These California sea lions have found a source of food they’re comfortable with, and they’re coming back.” MARTIN CIZMAR.
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WILLAMETTE RIVER I should be able to do this. I’m a fit 24-year-old. I’m getting in a dragon boat to paddle with 21 other people, a team called the Castaways, who are nearly twice my age. It’s 8:30 on a Saturday morning, and we’re going a few miles—easy. But I’m wrong. I pile into the 70-foot boat near Darrell Hames, a member of the Castaways race team and president of Portland-based Dragonsports USA, which boasts 1,600 members. Dragon boats, a 2,000-year-old Chinese tradition, came to the Willamette in 1988; the sport is now nationwide. At Rose Festival time, 80 teams (like the team at left) compete on the Willamette. As the Castaways climb onboard, the boat’s edges sink to within inches of the water. We paddle, slowly at first. Keep your back straight, someone tells me. But lean forward. Try to keep your elbow up and in…. I can do this. Then—Power now! The pace quickens and I try to keep up. My shoulders burn, arms ache, and I’m soaked from the spray. I think I’m doing fine, but I hear this: Watch the people near the front of the boat to keep time. After several minutes, the team eases back and the boat slides through the smooth water next to Ross Island, and I know we’ve just started, and I wonder how long I can do this, but then I look around I see how beautiful the city really is. Hames leans toward me. “I wonder,” he says, “what people are doing who don’t live in Portland.” CODY NEWTON.
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Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Travis Gullberg used to cruise the roads of the county in a patrol car. But for the past two years, he’s plied the Willamette River as part of the county’s 12-member River Patrol—a job that is not as relaxing as it might seem. People joke that Gullberg gets to put a fishing pole out off the stern. “I wish,” he says. Old-timers have told Gullberg (on the left, above, aiding an injured boater) action on the river used to be seedier, edgier, more unpredictable—much like the city itself. (The county also patrols the Columbia and Sandy rivers.) The River Patrol doesn’t see a lot of crime on the water. What they do see are plenty of recreational boaters without life jackets, unregistered boats and bridgeside graffiti. Much of Gullberg’s work entails what he calls “body recoveries.” During the last boating season—May through October—he says the patrol helped recover 13 corpses, including seven accidental drownings. “The thing that affects us the most are the people who commit suicides by jumping off bridges,” he says. “Sometimes we just don’t know how they ended up in the water. Did they walk in? Fall in? Did they purposefully jump?” A father of two teenagers, Gullberg grows irritated when he sees parents who allow children near the water without life vests. Days surrounded by the river, he says, turn out not to be calming. “Water scares me,” Gullberg says. “It will take your life, and it will take it quickly.” COREY PEIN. 26
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Three years ago, Josh White decided he longed for a missing part of his faith in Jesus: a church he could call his own. White and his wife, Darcy, gathered about two dozen friends and formed what became Door of Hope, a Southeast Portland church that now has 800 followers. White says in forming the church, he was influenced by the Jesus movement of the 1970s that focused on public demonstration of faith, including public baptisms in rivers and the Pacific Ocean. “Belief in Jesus is often treated as private,” says White, Door of Hope’s lead pastor. “We have sought to bring it into the open.” The church transforms the Willamette into a local Jordan during the spring and summer on the last Sunday of the month at Sellwood Riverfront Park. White (shown baptizing Door of Hope follower Alice Hoverkamp in July 2011) says about 75 people have been baptized—and that Door of Hope welcomes the hundreds of onlookers who gather to watch. “I was at first shocked at how much attention it got,” he says. “But it is very moving and powerful. People come forward and stand in the water and say why they want to be baptized. It takes a great deal of courage to make such a public declaration of faith.” BRENT WALTH.
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WILLAMETTE RIVER “This,” says Gary Rivera, “is a corner office.” Rivera’s station sits 25 feet above the Hawthorne Bridge deck, where he’s among seven full-time bridge operators employed by Multnomah County. “I was a senior systems analyst for 12 years,” Rivera says. “People in my other life would kill for this view.” The county maintains five Willamette bridges in the city: the Broadway, Sellwood, Burnside, Morrison and Hawthorne, which is 102 years old. To open the Hawthorne, Rivera starts the vertical lift with a tap on a computer touch screen that slowly releases two counterweights, 450 tons each. He likes the Hawthorne best because it has the finest view and is the central command for all the county’s bridges. “The Burnside and the Broadway are not staffed,” he says, “so if we need to lift those two bridges, the Hawthorne operator calls that out.” Bridge operators conduct daily inspections and perform maintenance. But the view isn’t all scenic vistas and sunsets. “I saw what was left of a truck that ran off the Marquam Bridge,” he says. “I’ve seen a couple fistfights and crashes.” One night while on duty at the Morrison, Rivera saw a man dressed like Ronald McDonald dancing in traffic in the middle of the span. “I called 911,” he says. “He kept going back and forth across all four lanes at night. Oh boy. I can’t believe he didn’t get hit.” RUTH BROWN. To see more photos of life on the Willamette River, go to wweek.com/willamette.
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MAY 11, 13m, 17, 19, 2012 Believing he lives in “the best of all possible worlds,” Candide struggles to preserve his optimism as he sails, flies, walks through war, earthquake, shipwreck, prison, prostitution, and more. It’s a once in a lifetime, fantastical, funny and jubilant journey with a jam-packed itinerary. You’ll love this humorous and touching romp from the composer of WEST SIDE STORY.
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OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD: Portland weirdo-pop outfit Nucular Aminals has a recording date with famed producer Steve Albini in July, but the band hasn’t exactly figured out how to pay for it. Instead of going a traditional route, the group has decided to sell a six-song demo EP—titled, appropriately, Please Help Us Record With Steve Albini—for $10 via its Bandcamp website. Because we prefer this no-bullshit fundraising model to the anticipation and occasional grave disappointment of Kickstarter, we thought we’d give Nucular Aminals a kickstart: Go buy the groovy record at nucularaminals. bandcamp.com. YACHT’S BIG DAY: A Day in the Life—a NUCULAR AMINALS Hulu exclusive series that follows a subject for 24 hours—has featured everyone from Richard Branson to will.i.am. This week it covered YACHT, the L.A.-based, Portland-bred solo project-turned-duo-turned-band-turnedcult-that’s-not-really-a-cult. In the episode, YACHT flies from Los Angeles to Portland for a show at Mississippi Studios. After filming a music video at a laser-tag warehouse, Jona Bechtolt and Claire Evans are met by a handsome young reporter (spoiler alert: It’s WW’s own Robert Ham!) for a very deep interview about spirituality and music. RETRO REVIVAL: Three old-Portland businesses that closed in the ’80s will be revived in the coming months. A new restaurant named for the Roadrunner Cafe, which had locations on Southeast Division Street and Northeast Sandy Boulevard, will soon open next door to Division Wines. Foster Road’s Bob White Theater has been under renovation since December, and is now hosting community events. Jefferson Smith will make a campaign appearance there May 12, accompanied by MarchFourth Marching Band. Most exciting to Portland boomers is the return of Yaw’s Top Notch, the storied Hollywood drive-in, which according to Stumptownblogger.com will soon reopen in Gresham at the current Gossip Restaurant & Lounge building. ATE MOBILE: Portland’s food-cart festival, Eat Mobile, was Saturday, and Scoop is only now feeling hungry again. KOi Fusion won the People’s Choice Award while Judges’ Choice went to PDX671. Lardo was the maid of honor in both categories. Taco Pedaler won the Style Award, with second place going to Fuego de Lotus. RE-KINDLED: Some people (read: portlandfood.org) had trouble finding Kindle Kart, which WW reviewed last week. It’s right across from the main entrance to Montgomery Park, on Northwest 27th Avenue between Vaughn and Wilson streets. You should go—the pizza’s great.
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THE OUTFIT Men: Your finest suit is probably not fine enough for the greatest horse race in the world. The Kentucky Derby’s website says: “Gentlemen leave their pinstripes at home and instead opt for seersucker suits, light-colored sport coats and the occasional madras plaid jacket.” I’m thinking $10 at the Bins and we’ll have this sorted. Women: “Ladies typically wear pastelcolored suits, frilly dresses or bold separates,” the Derby’s organizers explain. But women of the Derb are also expected to build elaborate, gigantic hats—dubbed “fascinators”—that test the limits of both fashion and neck muscles. You’re not just the arm candy of some rich Saudi Prince, you’re a trendsetter! THE DRINK We have a hard time understanding why a horse race needs an official drink, but Derb tradition insists you enjoy a mint julep at the race. There’s no great story behind this, but just as you must drink Champagne at weddings and tequila on your 21st birthday, the big race is all about whiskey, sugar and fresh mint. THE RACE While the live racing season at Portland Meadows (1001 N Schmeer Road, portlandmeadows. com) ended last month and there won’t be any ponies on offer, the track still goes all out on Derby day. The doors open at 7 am, at which point you can bet on your favorite horses (may we suggest Daddy Nose Best?) and the Meadows will keep feeding you all day with the $35 “Turf Club Buffet.” Those looking for something different can watch the Derb on the big screen at the Mission Theater (1624 NW Glisan St., mcmenamins.com), which will also be featuring $5 juleps, whiskey tastings and a fancy-hat contest. The Mission will also host punky bluegrass from Water Tower. CASEY JARMAN.
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THE GREAT NORTHWESTS [MOVIES] Local filmmaker Matt McCormick’s deeply moving 76-minute art project retraces a 3,400-mile road trip taken by four single thirtysomething women back in 1958—think On the Road meets an Eisenhower-era Sex and the City. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 1219 SW Park Ave., 221-1156. 7 pm Wednesday-Thursday, May 2-3. LAR LUBOVITCH [DANCE] The great contemporary dance company returns to Portland with 10 ensemble members performing a musically disparate program. On the one hand, you have North Star, a kind of amoeba-shaped group work set against Philip Glass’ driving score. On the other, there’s Robert Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes, Little Rhapsodies, which accompanies the company’s men as they test their athleticism and sensitivity. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, whitebird.org. 7:30 pm. $26-$64.
FRIDAY, MAY 4 WILD FLAG [MUSIC] Carrie Brownstein and company play hard in concert. The part-Portland quartet’s recent Coachella performance was second to none in terms of intensity; It was wrought with extended solos, whammy-bar noodling and truckloads of distortion. The SleaterKinney influence looms, but Wild Flag is its own avant-punk animal altogether. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St. 9 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show. All ages.
SATURDAY, MAY 5 INCREDIBLE EDIBLES PLANT SALE [PLANTS] Like all good Portlanders, you surely have a thriving edible garden, which provides a bounty of nourishing fresh produce to feed your soul and fuel your sense of self-righteousness. But, just in case you’re new around here, the Multnomah County Master Gardeners are holding a sale of organic vegetable starts. All Saints School, 601 NE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. 10 am-3 pm. Free. FREE COMIC BOOK DAY [COMICS] Charge your blasters and tell Mom you’ll be home late— it’s Free Comic Book Day. Comic shops across Portland offer special appearances by authors and artists, costume contests and a slew of giveaways. For a complete listing of events, visit freecomicbookday.com.
SUNDAY, MAY 6 GAPER DAY [SKI/BOARD] Essentially an uglysweater party with lift tickets, Timberline’s traditional Gaper Day has downhillers wearing their dumbest outfits. “Extra points for snowblades!” they say. Timberline Lodge, 27500 E Timberline Road, Government Camp, 231-5402, timberlinelodge.com. Willamette Week MAY 2, 2012 wweek.com
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Like all good Portlanders, you surely have a thriving edible garden, which provides a bounty of nourishing fresh produce to feed your soul and fuel your sense of self-righteousness. But, just in case you’re new around here, the Multnomah County Master Gardeners are holding a sale of organic vegetable starts, including tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, eggplants, squash, greens, lettuces and herbs, all chosen for their compatibility with the Northwest climate. Gardeners will be available to answer all your burning compost and fertilizer questions, and there also will be workshops and a raffle. All Saints School, 601 NE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. 10 am-3 pm. Free.
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Nothing says “celebrate Mexico’s military victories” like eating elephant ears and riding bumper cars. But, in addition to the standard carnival crap that fills Waterfront Park for every occasion, a number of Mexican restaurants, taquerías and panaderías usually also set up shop for Cinco de Mayo—last year the best ones were all tucked in the back of a tent near the Hawthorne Bridge. There also will be music, a battle of the bands, an attempt to break the Guinness world record for the most people wearing sombreros in one place, mariachi mass and a naturalization ceremony. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Southwest Naito Parkway between Southwest Harrison and Northwest Glisan streets. 11 am-11 pm Friday-Sunday, May 4-6. Free 11 am-3 pm Friday, May 4. $8 for adults, $5 for children ages 6-12 and seniors age 62 and up, free for children under age 6.
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Portland restaurants serve up a sample of their cuisine, which you gorge yourself on to raise money for starving children. Mmm, middleclass guilt. As usual, the lineup of restaurants is top notch: Beaker & Flask, Biwa, Clyde Common, Genoa, June, Irving Street Kitchen and St. Jack, to name a few, while 24 wineries, five distilleries and nine breweries will ply you with alcohol. But the thing to remember with these kind of events is they basically turn restaurants into caterers, and catered food is always a little bit shitty. It’s difficult to really enjoy food when you’re eating it with a toothpick off a paper plate, so don’t expect to actually get an $85 meal. Still, it’s a good cause, and a good time, and you might just stumble across your new favorite restaurant. JeldWen Field, 1844 SW Morrison St., 553-5400. 6:30-9 pm. $85-$185.
PLATANO SPLIT: Angel’s platanos con carne.
ANGEL’S CABANA Believe it or not, some people still saunter up to food carts with Spanish names expecting tacos. Take it from Angel Villalvir, owner and chef of Angel’s Cabana. “Everyone expects to see tacos and burritos,” he says. “But that’s not what we do.” Instead, the Cabana has traditional dishes from the Caribbean and Central America, with ingredients like plantains and yuca, a starchy root vegetable somewhat like a potato. Villalvir’s most popular item, the platanos con carne, is like a meaty banana split with a halved, grilled Order this: Platanos plantain topped with beans; ground beef con carne ($6). cooked with tomatoes, onions, peppers and I’ll pass: This horchata ($2) is definitely an celery; and a dollop of fresh crema. The acquired taste. equally delicious pupusas are masa griddlecakes stuffed with pork, beans and cheese. The portions are plentiful and nothing tops $7. The friendly and verbose Villalvir gladly explains the flavors and ingredients of anything on the menu, including his made-from-scratch horchata, which includes toasted pumpkin seeds. It’s thicker than the familiar Mexican horchata and brownish-gray in color with a flavor similar to cardamom. (I was not a fan.) The cart relocated from Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to the downtown Alder Street pod less than a year ago and has a loyal following. The first two times I went, the person ahead of me waited with a manic excitement and was quick to gush—without prompting—about a favorite dish. By my third visit, I was the manic one, mouth watering, preaching to passersby about trying the platanos instead of street tacos. PENELOPE BASS. EAT: Angel’s Cabana, Southwest Alder Street and 10th Avenue, 933-1515. 8 am-7 pm Monday-Friday, 11 am-5 pm Saturday. $.
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IMPERIAL PRAY FOR SNOW (10 BARREL BREWING) Bend’s 10 Barrel Brewing is locked and loaded, with the busiest of the many brewpubs at the foot of Mount Bachelor and plans to open a sister spot in Boise manned with talent poached from other Oregon operations. Sadly, the bombers that find their way over the Cascades to Portland are a disappointment. The standard IPA and the S1NIST0R Black Ale you’ll see around town aren’t anything special. Turns out they’re holding the good stuff back, pouring it only around the brewpub’s big stone fire pit. Take the Imperial Pray for Snow. How do you bring a winter warmer with 8 percent alcohol and 75 bitterness units into perfect balance? By using a base made of eight different malts of barley and giving it four months in brandy barrels, apparently. There’s a subdued sweetness of vanilla and candied fruit matched splendidly with earthy wood flavors. This beer is worth the haul—maybe even to Idaho. Recommended. MARTIN CIZMAR.
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REQUIEM FOR A VIEW People have stopped looking up in restaurants. We’re so busy Instagramming our plates, or poring over our meal’s backstory, that a great view seems superfluous. People now chat excitedly about a chef’s preferred oven; no one looks out the window. Amadeus Manor is a throwback to when a night out was an altogether different affair. With a cellar of dusty wine bottles and heavy European cuisine, it’s an old-fashioned vision of elegance. Order this: The wilted But the Milwaukie restaurant has spinach salad ($8.95) and Austrian sampler ($25.95). perhaps the best view in town, a I’ll pass: On any table not stunning look down at boats docked near a window. along the lazy Willamette and the West Hills in full blossom. The Wells Fargo Center, the state’s tallest building, peeks out from a piney bluff, marking the distance downriver to the cramped communal benches of trendier neighborhoods. In this old stone mansion filled with yellowed books and violin concertos from its namesake composer, the cookware is the kitchen staff’s concern and a grown woman reminds her date that she doesn’t eat mushrooms or tomatoes. The view, though, is incredible. Arriving without reservations after being baffled by the restaurant’s answering machine, we were prepared to settle for an interior table away from the 20-foot picture windows. Luckily, only four couples supped at the massive stone mansion on a Tuesday night, so the view was ours. Service is slow but friendly—it’s just the proprietress, an Austrian expat who carries two full wine glasses in one hand and a basket of warm bread in the other. She’s been doing this since 1994, when she took over this mansion, built during the Great Depression and converted into a restaurant by a Swiss chef in the 1960s. She’s prodded to dote on pictures of a baby left home by a young couple on their first date since the infant’s birth, and dutifully complies. Those curious about these four stories of stone might be scared off by the lack of prices on the online menu. They’re not so outrageous as to require concealment. An appetizer of brie en croute, an old-timey recipe for cheese baked in phyllo dough served with a salad of pineapple and melon, runs $9.95. I’d skip it and the dinner salad—which also comes with fruit and the giant flower garnishes that find their way onto most plates—and instead opt for the warm wilted spinach salad ($8.95) with salty bacon and a rich shallot dressing, the best offering of the night. The main courses include your grandparents’ favorites, items like beef stroganoff ($29.95), chicken cordon bleu ($23.95) and pork Leopold ($19.95) that have slipped from menus over the past 30 years. Portions are massive. I struggled to finish the meat and cabbage of the Austrian sampler ($25.95) and gave up, leaving half a juicy bratwurst, several forkfuls of caraway-heavy sauerkraut and half a salty ham steak on the plate. Nothing except the sausage was exceptionally good, but nothing suffered from obvious lack of attention, either. For dessert, we ordered bananas Foster. At first, I was disappointed that it was served chilled instead of being flambéed tableside as it typically was back when station wagons lined up outside places like this. Instead of a rum-fueled show, we ate a fancy ice cream sundae and watched the sun dip behind the hills. The view gone, the check was welcome. MARTIN CIZMAR. EAT: Amadeus Manor, 2122 SE Sparrow St., Milwaukie, 295-1735, amadeusmanor.com. 4:30 pm-close Tuesday-Saturday. $$$.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 2 Space Waves, The Soft Bombs
[BRITPOP TRIBUTE] The British press must be in full-on apoplexy mode these days, what with the return of Blur, Pulp and the Stone Roses. It’s the Roses that have caused the most shock waves, as members of the band always balked at the idea of playing together again until recently. Sadly, there’s little chance of the Roses making it across the pond to play for us, so Mindwave Productions is doing the next best thing: staging a tribute night to the Britpop icons. There’s a bittersweet note to the show as well, as it will be the final performance of great local shoegazey pop band Space Waves. What a way to go out. ROBERT HAM. Ash Street Saloon, 225 SW Ash St., 226-0430. 9:30 pm. $5. 21+.
Lambchop, Alina Hardin
[POST-COUNTRY] Though it won’t have Yo La Tengo for surprise openers (as happened at the start of this tour), a Lambchop concert remains a treasured event for the veteran quintet’s ever-worshipful admirers, and so too the release of another album. Mr. M, the band’s 11th disc, adds strings to the blueprint—sparsely textured alt-country surrounding vocalist-songwritergodhead Kurt Wagner’s ineffable wordplay and ur-Americana emotive whisper—while the live show continues to fuse soul and roots toward something their Nashville neighbors may dimly consider country through unshowy complexities and evocative minimalism that defies genre as neatly as Wagner’s lyrics challenge coherency. JAY HORTON. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $15 advance, $17 day of show. 21+.
Psychic Feline, Blood Beach, Zotz
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[DON’T GO IN THE WATER] The ocean in art has always represented the unknown and fear thereof. But for most of us, the seaside doesn’t seem like an especially scary place. It’s anybody’s guess, then, why our inland city has produced a subscene of bands that view the beach as if through slime-green-tinted sunglasses, surf’s-
up guitar riffs now slipping beneath the waves into discordant depths, now emerging from the garage-punk muck like from the Black Lagoon. Two of the finest specimens of this creepy/ fun twist on surf rock, Psychic Feline and Blood Beach, play tonight’s prettily put-together show, a release party for PF’s new 7-inch. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.
THURSDAY, MAY 3 Fellwoods, R.I.P., Broxa, Avi Dae
[NOUVEAU PROTO-METAL] Five years ago, Portland didn’t have a metal scene to speak of. Today, the renown of its heavy local artists is international, and there are groups covering the bases of each micro-subgenre. While Danava is certainly king of gracefully overturning every stone of early ’70s proto-metal, a few younger groups are trudging the same hoary path. Fellwoods does an excellent job of breathing new life into the terrain once stomped by Captain Beyond and Budgie. Avi Dei also “gets it,” focusing on hooky songs and enthusiasm over mossy pomp and fog machines. NATHAN CARSON. East End, 203 SE Grand Ave., 232-0056. 9 pm. $7. 21+.
Into the Woods: Stay Calm, Onuinu, Grapefruit, White Fang
[HIPSTER CROWN JEWELS] Stay Calm’s whole might be even greater than the sum of its already-impressive parts. Explode Into Colors, Panther and Parenthetical Girls have all contributed talent to Stay Calm’s reverb-slathered, muscular bouts of percussive bedlam, yielding a result that I hope to Christ is committed to record in the very near future. Opening the bill are the increasingly popular experimental-leaning dance cuts of Onuinu and the give-afuck-less hooliganisms of White Fang—a group that is pretty much Portland’s pasty, non-rapping answer to the Odd Future. Charlie Salas Humara (Panther, Sun Angle, et al.) will also use this show as an excuse to drop the debut album
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ROCKY VOTOLATO’S FAVORITE MOVIES. The Shawshank Redemption This is the best prison movie ever made. Doesn’t seem like something Stephen King would write, but I loved the short story too. Cool Hand Luke Strange that my two favorite movies are about men in prison…Paul Newman was such a bad-ass in this movie. The Royal Tenenbaums I love almost all of Wes Anderson’s movies, but this one is his absolute best. Gene Hackman is hilarious: “I’m not talking about dance lessons. I’m talking about putting a brick through the other guy’s windshield.” The Wrestler This is such a heartbreaking story, and I think it’s the best role Mickey Rourke ever delivered. I also really love the song Bruce Springsteen wrote for the soundtrack. Kung Fu Panda Jack Black is one of the funniest human beings on the planet—and he loses nothing in cartoon form. SEE IT: Rocky Votolato plays Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., on Wednesday, May 2, with Kevin Long. 9 pm. $14. 21+.
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Last year was a good one for the sax. From the commercial airwaves (Lady Gaga’s “Edge of Glory,” Katy Perry’s “Last Friday Night”) to the indie blogosphere (Destroyer’s Kaputt, Tune-Yards’ whokill), the saxophone, an instrument once believed to have lost its cred forever thanks to Kenny G, was everywhere last year—and damn, did it sound good. Perhaps no one did as much for the instrument’s redemption, though, as Montreal-based avant-garde saxophonist Colin Stetson. Whereas Gaga and Destroyer alike used the sax in their 2011 releases to winkingly evoke the instrument’s cheeseball associations, Stetson, with last winter’s experimental, solo saxophone album New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges, took the instrument we thought we knew and smashed it over his knee. Speaking by phone from his Los Angeles tour stop, the 37-year-old points out that what’s making a comeback is the ’80s pop sax of George Michael; the instrument more generally never lost relevance in, for instance, jazz. “It’s not about the instrument,” Stetson says. “The instrument has been completely alive and well in lots of different circles.” Stetson grew up in Ann Arbor, Mich., earned a music degree from the University of Michigan and cut his teeth in San Francisco and Brooklyn before settling in Montreal. A talented player with the ability to use circular breathing—an expert technique where, by simultaneously breathing in through the nose and out through the mouth, players can produce an uninterrupted tone—Stetson has been an in-demand backup musician, working with heavy hitters like Tom Waits and Bon Iver (with whom he currently plays). Stetson first stepped out from the session band with 2008 solo effort New History Warfare Vol. 1, but it was last year’s sequel that introduced a wider audience to the saxophonist’s original voice and ranked on critics’ year-end lists. Stetson recorded each of Judges’ complex-sounding tracks—on which one hears percussion, vocals and multiple
saxophone tones—with a single sax, in a single take and without looping or overdubbing. He achieves this by rigging the studio with 24 microphones, including mics across the room, on the saxophone and on his person. The percussion? That’s the clattering of the sax keys. The vocals? Those come from Stetson growling into the instrument. What results from this unconventional recording process is filed as often under free jazz as classical minimalism; Stetson splits the difference between Ornette Coleman’s wild improvisation and Terry Riley’s meditative repetition to yield experimental yet accessibly melodic, expressive compositions. Judges is often squallish—but from the storm extends a hand to lead the listener into the record’s inchoate but richly evocative narrative: Some story is being told. Spoken-word interludes, voiced mesmerizingly by experimental musician and performing artist Laurie Anderson, intensify the album’s cinematic feel, but most tracks need no lyrics to vividly summon imagery. On “From No Part of Me Could I Summon a Voice,” Stetson flings notes fluttering forth like swifts from a chimney; the sound is of something beautiful but disquietingly beyond control. Disquiet gives way to downright menace on “Red Horses (Judges II),” with Stetson’s ragged breath and half-human sax caterwauling. The theatrical vibe is intentional, as is the motif of existential dread. Envisioning Judges as part of a New History Warfare trilogy, Stetson says he is “trying to create some sort of modern mythology based on [his] own life experience.” Vol. 1, he explains, was about birth and coming of age; Vol. 2 explores the isolation of consciousness, fear and transcending that fear. “I wanted to set apart from everything a singular character,” he says, “and have the whole experience be one of absolute isolation.” Despite how involved his recording method is, Stetson insists his live performances—just him and his sax onstage—are intrinsically more robustsounding than the record. In fact, the whole reason Stetson devised his mode of recording was to try to capture live music’s three-dimensionality. “I really didn’t want to do the standard: throw up on a stereo mic and just record a two-dimensional snapshot of the instrument,” he says. “The recording is the way it is because I needed to make the music as dynamic as [it is] in the live context.” SEE IT: Colin Stetson plays Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi St., on Thursday, May 3. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+. Willamette Week MAY 2, 2012 wweek.com
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Tech N9ne, Machine Gun Kelly, Krizz Kaliko, Mayday, Prozak, Stevie Stone
[RAP] Tech N9ne, the face-paintwearing, 5-foot Kansas City MC, may be the most powerful independent artist in the country. He’s sold over 1 million albums with little or no radio play, and despite the fact that he plays more than 200 live shows a year, they almost always sell out. His success is built on Tech’s ability to make quality songs that tailor to all crowds—from drunken-party jams for college sorority chicks (“Caribou Lou”) to menacing horrorcore for the juggalos (“Psycho Bitch”) to Roger Troutman-assisted smoothness for the hip-hopheads (“Twisted”). Although his songs can sound different, they all feature Tech showing off his impeccable flow, which can go from lightning fast to silky smooth in a split second. Tech’s talent has allowed him to flirt with the mainstream, as he did recently on Lil’ Wayne’s Tha Carter IV, but based on the numbers, I’m guessing he’d rather stay in the underground where he’s become the undisputed king. REED JACKSON. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $30. All ages.
Gauntlet Hair, Yukon Blonde, Dana Buoy, Youth
[DRUM ROCK] Summer Bodies is easily one of the most eye-opening records of 2012, a shimmering serving of highly percussive samples and Dana Janssen’s infinitely echoey vocals. The Akron/Family drummer—who goes by Dana Buoy in his solo endeavor—simply couldn’t keep his talents to himself, releasing a storm of self-described “tropicore” from a bungalow in Thailand. Now based in Portland, Janssen is a true multi-instrumentalist, bouncing from iPad app to synthesizer to MPC100. Percussiveness rules throughout, outfitting every track with a certain springy charm. Gauntlet Hair, the mad-scientist hard-rock Denver duo, headlines. MARK STOCK. Rotture, 315 SE 3rd Ave., 234-5683. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
Motley Crude, The Lovesores, Ratpriest
[DUCT TAPE METAL] Portland’s Motley Crude is a Crüe tribute act that limits its set list almost exclusively to songs from the first two albums, Too Fast For Love and Shout at the Devil. This is quite possibly the best idea ever for a tribute band, despite the fact that the Crude chose the same name as an established, Atlanta-based tribute act. The Portland version, which formed last Halloween and played three shows in short order, is fronted (Vince Neil’d?) by Jamie LaRose, who also crafts dutiful era-appropriate Crüe outfits. LaRose, who is vegan, uses cardboard and colored duct tape to make the band’s fakeleather outfits—and does the male members’ makeup before shows. Motley Crude takes its job very seriously: Getting properly fucked up is all part of the act, folks. CASEY JARMAN. Slabtown, 1033 NW 16th Ave. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
Ty Segall, White Fence, Nucular Aminals, Youthbitch
[FRIED DUET] Well, whaddya know: The first of several promised collaborations between prolific psych-pop maestros Ty Segall and Tim Presley (a.k.a. White Fence) is a delightfully tossed-off mess! If it were anything else, that’d be cause for worry. As it is, the recently released Hair is the product of two songwriters who’ve never seen the point in hiring an editor. Swinging from garage-y fuzz rockers to acoustic noodlings to borderline pretty throwaways, the album doesn’t quite match up to the best of the pair’s solo work, but as a collision of lo-fi creative minds that seemingly never stop running, it’s still an interesting experiment. MATTHEW SINGER. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
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[GARAGE SOUL] Portland neo-soul quintet (sometimes octet, depending on the night) Brownish Black is by no means perfect. The music lands somewhere between Southern gospel, American gothic and dirty R&B of the Black Joe Lewis variety. The band strains around every turn, with M.D. Sharbatz’s Dr. John-esque voice cracking, horns occasionally misfiring, harmonies faltering and tempo stuttering. Thing is, those imperfections are what make Brownish Black a perfect fit for its climate. Souls aren’t pure, nor is soul. Especially when it’s rung through the garage with grit and grime the way Browninsh Black serves it. And despite being jagged, it’s hard to imagine the music going down more smoothly. AP KRYZA. White Eagle Saloon, 836 N Russell St., 282-6810. 8:30 pm. Free. 21+.
FRIDAY, MAY 4 Zoe Keating, FearNoMusic
[LOOPY CELLO] Bay Area-based solo cellist Zoe Keating blazed trails in the indie classical movement using laptop and loop pedals to create orchestral textures in her original music, first in late night shows in San Francisco warehouses, then in national tours and stints in Rasputina and her involvement in the formation of Portland Cello Project. She may join the city’s fearless new music ensemble (which celebrates two decades of delivering edgy contemporary sounds) in a piece or two, and they’ll also play music by composer John Adams, 21st-century London DJ-composer Gabriel Prokofiev, Portland’s own Tomas Svoboda, and more. BRETT CAMPBELL. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $16 (minors must be accompanied by a parent). All ages.
Wild Flag, The Thermals, EMA
[SUPERGROUP] Carrie Brownstein and company play hard in concert. The part-Portland quartet’s recent Coachella performance was second to none in terms of intensity; It was wrought with extended solos, whammy-bar noodling and truckloads of furry distortion. Being a supergroup, the parts are just as important as the whole, so expect plenty of vocal work and crafty guitar work from Mary Timony, who shares a leadership role with Brownstein. The Sleater-Kinney influence looms, but Wild Flag is a mostly different animal altogether, made of avant-punk restlessness and a catchy-as-hell hard blues-rock onslaught. MARK STOCK. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 2250047. 9 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show. All ages.
Joe Pug, Bailiff
[COUNTRY FOLK] Joe Pug sounds like a 1970s troubadour whose most cherished companions are his guitar, harmonica and pen. So I was surprised to found out the singer-songwriter just turned 28. His songs are often simple constructions built with bare acoustic strums and intermittent blues harp, but his lyrics channel the post-Dylan
folk heyday when words were more than just a piece of the music— they were personal revelations. Pug falls into the class of musicians whose writing trumps instrumentation, which works best when his compositions are kept minimal. His sophomore full-length album, The Great Despiser, produced by Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Iron and Wine), unfortunately strays from the stripped-down, acoustic roughness of his previous work, but Pug’s gift of storytelling remains. EMILEE BOOHER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
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[POP JOY] I caught the Shondes on their swing through our neck of the woods late last year, and the Brooklyn quartet’s contagious joie de vivre sent me out into a chilly October night feeling warm and blessed. That talent for tapping into bliss is definitely apparent on 2011’s Searchlights, but seeing the Shondes sporting milewide smiles while bouncing through a set of heartfelt, violin-spiked pop anthems is a gift—a welcome reminder that the thrill of creation is sometimes powerful enough to escape the stage and invade its witnesses. So bring your bad vibes tonight. The Shondes will kill them. CHRIS STAMM. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
Black Prairie, Perhapst
[[BLUEGRASS FOR BIG KIDS] The forthcoming effort from Black Prairie, that rootsy outfit featuring most of the Decemberists and a rotating cast of amazing local singers, is a little unusual. It’s called The Storm in the Barn, and it’s made up of music composed for a new play by Oregon Children’s Theatre. More a score than a soundtrack, the album isn’t exactly for kids—some of it is cute; some of it is downright creepy (sample track titles include “Bully Attack Theme” and “Dead Snakes”)—but
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Alexandra Coutinho, Rio Con Brio
[RIO TO PORTO, CHORO TO FADO] Guitarist Mike Burdette and mandolinist Tim Connell have been playing choro, the lilting early-20th-century Brazilian confection of European dance rhythms and various African beats, since 2005 as Rio Con Brio. In a kind of colonial connection, they’ve hooked up with recently arrived Lisbon-born singer Coutinho, who specializes in the plaintive, melancholy singing style called fado, which originated in 19th century Portugal and spread worldwide in the late 20th century thanks to singers like the great Amalia Rodrigues. This concert celebrates the band’s simultaneous release of two fine CDs, one in each musical style. BRETT CAMPBELL. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave. 7 pm. $15. All ages.
Delta Spirit, WATERS, Tijuana Panthers
[POP DONE RIGHT] When Delta Spirit emerged in the mid-aughts, its sound—a twangy, Beatles-based pop that was informed by Pavement— made it seem a natural successor to, or at least a little brother of, fine bands like Wilco and Dr. Dog. That post-Americana sound continued through decidedly darker 2010 effort, History From Below, but sorta slammed on the brakes with this year’s self-titled effort. Despite the San Diego quintet’s home on rootsloving New Rounder Records, Delta Spirit is a balls-out rock record with swagger and self-confidence that’s usually reserved for bands that are born that way. Somehow, Delta Spirit grew into a formidable riff-rock outfit that’s well-versed in the Beach Boys’ catalog but too bad-ass to try and replicate it. The reborn Delta Spirit is the kind of band that would have made a killing in the stadiumrock era and, if there’s any justice in the world, will get there despite the diminished state of the music business. CASEY JARMAN. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 2848686. 9 pm. $14 advance, $16 day of show. All ages.
SUNDAY, MAY 6 The World Radiant
[VARIED MELODIES] Ambitious local trio the World Radiant has recorded an abundance of songs (from stripped-down trio rock to jangly keyboard-driven jams) and loaded its calendar with a heavy slate of shows in an effort to push its growth forward during its half-year of existence. The group’s catalog has evolved from solo recordings made by chief songwriter Ross McLeron (who cut his teeth with Southern Belle) to incorporate the talents of members Benjamin Johnson on bass and drummer/multi-instrumentalist Connor Acott. Over warm chords and Rhodes keys, frontman McLeron examines the perplexities of life through a collage of references to nature and the outdoors in his lyrics. Delivered in a sing-speak voice, it’s an interesting combination that’s inviting, honest and haunting all at once. NILINA MASONCAMPBELL. Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., 228-3669. 9 pm. Cover. 21+.
MONDAY, MAY 7 Negura Bunget, Eclipse Eternal, Din Brad, Reficul, Anonymia
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LOTUS PLAZA MONDAY, MAY 7 [UNCHAINED MELODIES] The idolization of handsome young male musicians is not the sole province of Beatlemania, Tiger Beat magazine or the Jonas family. Lockett Pundt, Lotus Plaza’s frontman and a songwriting member of the revered indie-rock outfit Deerhunter, is the namesake of an enthusiastic Tumblr page, Fuckyeahlockettpundt, which posts candid photos of the recently engaged, baby-faced multiinstrumentalist with captions like “mmmmmm” and “I just found a photo of Lockett sleeping. My life is pretty much complete.” “Oh man, the Internet,” writes Pundt, who lost his voice en route to Memphis, Tenn., on Lotus Plaza’s tour and is conducting our interview entirely via iPhone from his tour van. “I never look at things on the Internet about me.” Were Pundt to Google himself, he’d find a bumper crop of fawning articles about Deerhunter and mixed reviews of his lo-fi debut solo record, The Floodlight Collective, released in 2009. The disc, a collection of alternating floaty and muddy tunes with obscured vocals and dizzying pedal effects, was markedly more restrained than Deerhunter’s choppy rock assault, but it failed to provide listeners with an intimate portrait of that band’s second-in-command. Instead, the Kranky Records-released disc—like a lot of the label’s other releases—felt experimental and slippery in nature. Spooky Action at a Distance, Lotus Plaza’s sophomore effort, is day to the first album’s night. Pundt still plays all the instruments on the record, but leaving his Atlanta bedroom for a studio in Detroit had a profound effect on his songs’ presentation. Beach Boys harmonies jet out from behind big, Phil Spector-esque percussion; clear and moving melodies emerge; one can even hear what Pundt is saying. “I wanted this one to be different and step into the light a little more,” Pundt writes. “I feel like the songs on the first record suffered a bit by my insecurities and I wanted to jump into this one even if I felt a little wary at times.” The humility isn’t entirely unwarranted—peeling back the fuzz of Pundt’s first record reveals a songwriter in progress whose songs would fizzle as solo acoustic numbers. But Pundt’s numerous gifts—his innate sense of melody, his knack for brilliant sonic collage and his vulnerability as a vocalist—can completely overwhelm on Spooky Action. The soaring “Out of Touch” has the churchy majesty of Grizzly Bear’s best songs without the stilted formality; “Monoliths” is a closing credits-worthy cut that reimagines John Lennon’s “Imagine” as a snotty, self-centered drug anthem: “There’s no world/ And no God/ And no fun/ And no faith/ And no God/ It’s just me/ Getting high.” Pundt’s live band replicates the new album’s most breathtaking moments with startling accuracy—but won’t stay like that forever. “I really want to go weird next,” Pundt says, pointing to a new, nineminute song called “Come Back” as a hint of things to come. “I like the structure of it, since it’s so free for improvisational moments and you can take it where you want to at any point.” The same could be said of Pundt’s career. Whether it’s his music or his looks (he does have an Edward Furlong/River Phoenix thing going on), the guy clearly has a following. “It would be interesting to see if anyone cared if I wasn’t already in another band,” Pundt writes. “But that’s for another universe.” CASEY JARMAN. Dreamboat/ Deerhunter Lockett Pundt takes his newly epic show on the road.
SEE IT: Lotus Plaza plays Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., with Wymond Miles and Frankie Boyles. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+. Willamette Week MAY 2, 2012 wweek.com
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MONDAY-TUESDAY a world tour, Negura Bunget is finally reaching U.S. shores. Led by its founding drummer, Negru, the new lineup released the Poarta de Dincolo EP in 2011. These Romanians wave the Transylvanian flag but focus lyrically on nature and spirituality instead of the requisite faux-Satanism many of their contemporaries used to gain notoriety in the 90s. Indeed, it is progressive acts like Norway’s Enslaved and Olympia’s Wolves in the Throne Room that share the most in common with Negura’s music and ideology. Cascadia, meet thy Transylvanian forebears. NATHAN CARSON. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. All ages.
AgesandAges, Sun Angle, Death Songs
[ALL THE PRESIDENT’S SONGS] Beside the fact President Obama chose AgesandAges’ track “No Nostalgia” for his campaign playlist, here is one more reason to keep an eye on the Portland band: The group is busy working on a second album to follow its acclaimed debut, Alright You Restless. This is a time-consuming process, unfortunately, as Ages is a big band. But out of love for making and sharing music, AgesandAges found a nice compromise with those awaiting new tunes by releasing some cover songs throughout the year while its highly anticipated LP is crafted. The band’s most recent cover is of the song “Willy’s Headache” by the 1970s British group Cymande—and the funky bass line and keyboard diddles create a nice backdrop for the sextet’s signature harmonies. Please do keep ’em coming, AgesandAges. EMILEE BOOHER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
The Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys
[BLUES ROCK] The Black Keys are a band started by two guys, Dan and Pat. They’re very funny and pretty smart. An important magazine loved their first record. They made a couple more good ones,
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too. The best one was recorded in an old factory in their hometown, and there’s a definite “holy fuck, the record company rented us a factory and we’d better make this shit good” vibe to it. In the last few years, Dan and Pat have gotten away from the blues thing and hired some other dudes to play with them who they don’t always even bother to introduce onstage. Dan and Pat are really rich. They moved to Nashville, where Jack, the guy who originally made the blues-rock-duo thing huge, also lives. It’s hard to tell if Dan and Pat are happy. Most of their songs are about unhappy situations involving women. Dan sounds sadder, which may be how he’s supposed to sound but might also be because he’s actually sadder. MARTIN CIZMAR. Rose Garden, 1401 N Wheeler Ave., 235-8771. 7:30 pm. $36.50-$56.50. All ages. For a much longer version of this preview, go to wweek.com.
TUESDAY, MAY 8 Amen Dunes, Prescription Pills, DJ Yeti
[HEAD TRIPPING] Given a few days and a grip of very good drugs, I’m fairly certain I could craft a hyphenated construction that would fit Amen Dunes’ sound like a glove. It would be an ungainly mother, though, a human centipede of syllables scrambling to match Dunes mastermind Damon McMahon’s genrebending pop experiments. Last year’s Through Donkey Jaw is a dreamscape soundtrack that finds McMahon and his brave band of trippers wending through psychfolk expanses, vespertine cloisters of hypnotic drone and realms of dread incantation. You know that feeling of infinite compression that sometimes accompanies halfsleep? That sense of simultaneous collapse and expansion? That’s Amen Dunes in a nutshell. A really freaky nutshell. CHRIS STAMM. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
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MAHMOUD AHMED Born: 1941 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Sounds like: The most heartfelt, amazing love letter imaginable in a language you probably don’t understand. For fans of: Aster Aweke, Mulatu Astatke, The Either/Orchestra, Budos Band, James Brown, John Coltrane, Nina Simone, the Skatalites. Latest release: The romantic and funky Jeguol Naw Betwa, a 1978 LP reissued last year by Portland’s own Mississippi Records. Why you care: Because opportunities to see luminaries of Ethiopian music are few and far between, and Mahmoud Ahmed is one in a handful of all-time greats. Beginning his career in the Ethiopian underground music scene in the ’60s but coming to prominence in the ’70s with the state-sanctioned Imperial Body Guard Band, the singer has remained a star in his home country—and among folks of Ethiopian descent living around the world—for decades. It’s easy to hear why, even if you don’t speak a lick of Arabic: Ahmed is an otherworldly singer whose slippery voice works minor miracles when it’s not moving mountains, and over the years he’s surrounded himself with funky, jazzy bands that could give the JBs a run for their money. Much of Ahmed’s work has been re-released in the Ethiopiques CD series (Ahmed’s early-’70s work with the IBGB was most recently collected in 2010 as the series’ 26th volume). But even when Ahmed is singing over contemporary Ethiopian music’s prerequisite cheesy keyboards—see his recent two-volume best-of collection, Tizita—his voice is haunting and technically masterful. SEE IT: Mahmoud Ahmed plays YU Contemporary, 800 SE 10th Ave., on Saturday, May 5, with Tezeta Band. 9 pm. $30. All ages.
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PELLET GUN GREAT DIVIDE (JEALOUS BUTCHER) [MINIMAL ROCK] A lot has changed since 2002. New president. Oklahoma City has a pro basketball team. Osama bin Laden? Totes dead. Another thing that’s changed in the 10 years since Pellet Gun last put out an album? Pellet Gun’s sound. A decade ago, the trio of Dave Snider, Brian Gardiner and Eric Jensen released Every Time I Yawn I Cry a Little, a record of knotty, mostly mid-tempo and sometimes expansive indie rock in the Built to Spill vein. Since the band got back together after doing time in other well-regarded projects—including Tractor Operator and Federale—its sophomore effort, Great Divide, is a wilder, woollier, more angular beast. It’s also leaner: Most of the songs here clock in at under three minutes. In some ways, it sounds like the work of a much younger band. So don’t call it a reunion. Call it a reinvigoration. The album opens with “All Your Hearts,” a loud-quiet-loud rocker in the Pixies mold, and the elements of Pellet Gun’s attack come into clearer focus on Great Divide’s second song, “Feed a Dead Egg.” Jensen’s fractured guitar snakes around Snider’s fluid, propulsive bass and Gardiner’s solid drumming, with someone’s voice—all three members share vocal duties—sneering, sinisterly, “It’s gonna be the best spring break ever!” “Knapsack” is even better, riding a great, slightly surf-flecked riff. Various reference points are scattered across the 11 songs: “Heavy Eastern Slopes,” sporting a metallic stomp and the heaviest guitars on the album, is damn near in Sabbath territory; the instrumental “Billy’s Lament” is tight, jagged and Wire-y; “Ovulate,” with tumbling drums and hyper-trebly guitar, resembles the Minutemen; and the closing “Held the Hand” has the slow-burn atmosphere of one of Quasi’s quieter dissolves. Even though the band wears its influences proudly, it filters them through a prism that’s still distinctly that of Pellet Gun. Hopefully the band sticks around a while this time. MATTHEW SINGER.
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IAME LAME$TREAM (SELF-RELEASED) [HEAVY HIP-HOP] Sandpeople’s Iame has gone through some fascinating changes in the past two years. Physically, he’s almost unrecognizable, having lost considerable weight after cutting alcohol and marijuana from his diet. His profile has changed, as well: He has gone from trying to sell the occasional album to making lots of records and giving them away for free. And as a lyricist, he has grown leaps and bounds, delving deeper in self-examination that’s taken him from being a tough guy with a soft spot to a truly vulnerable and soul-baring artist. The MC’s new album, Lame$tream—which finds him rapping over fantastically underrated local producer Smoke M2D6’s best approximation of mainstream rap beats (think Ying Yang Twins meets Daft Punk)—is easily his best album to date. It is a deep record that is begging for a weightier title. Whether it’s accessible, though, is another question. Lame$tream doesn’t sound like anything the Sandpeople crew has produced in the past—Smoke’s beats are dark and brooding rather than big and woozy—and never has Iame been this honest in facing his demons. “We’re so busy we only see each other for an hour a day/ And we’re so tired we don’t know what to say,” he explains to his wife on “April (No Thaw).” “And I just gotta make more, though it keeps me depressed/ ’Cause to sell it I gotta tour, which means I’ll see her even less.” For every bleak, heartbreaking moment that makes the listener ask why Iame doesn’t give up music entirely, there’s a high-concept song like “Ambien” or “Cleanup Crew” that shines a light on the MC’s powerful grasp of storytelling. This is an MC at the very top of his game, but it sounds like the game is killing him. Truth hurts, and Lame$tream is a difficult listen. It’s also a profoundly rewarding one that ranks with the best local hip-hop releases in memory. CASEY JARMAN. SEE IT: Pellet Gun plays the Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 4738729, on Saturday, May 5, with Shallow Seas and Old Kingdom. 8 pm. $5 cover. 21+. Iame plays Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900, on Saturday, May 5, with VTRN, Wildcard and Saint Warhead. 9 pm. $5 cover, $10 with CD. All ages.
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ON SALE $12.99 CD New Year’s Eve always suggests a new beginning and ‘Cynic’s New Year’ welcomes Horse Feathers’ fans with the promise of something new. Wrapped around Justin Ringle’s unique vocals are sparkling guitars, dancing fiddles, and smoky banjo woven through the foundation of the lower strings. The lyrics traverse familiar themes from natural disaster to the deeply personal, each through Ringle’s uniquely American linguistic lens.
STEVEN HALPERN DEEP THETA:
HIGH COHERENCE SOUNDSCAPES FOR MEDITATION AND HEALING ON SALE $11.99 CD ‘Deep Theta’, which debuted at #9 on the Billboard New Age Chart, is a pristinely recorded and artistically inspired soundscape that balances brainwaves in the Theta range associated with deep relaxation, healing, and creativity. Specially developed reverb settings create a cloud of sound heard ONLY on this recording, and set a new standard of excellence in three-dimensional stereo soundfields.
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III OLDER THAN MY OLD MAN NOW ON SALE $12.99 CD
At 65, Loudon Wainwright III is pondering the imponderables. Guests on ‘Older Than My Old Man Now’ include Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Dame Edna Everage, Chris Smither, Lucy Wainwright Roche, Suzzy Roche, John Scofield, and Martha & Rufus Wainwright.
HALIE LOREN HEART FIRST
ON SALE $12.99 CD Eugene Or’s Jazz singer/songwriter Halie Loren is the type of singer that leaves you begging for an encore when she sings. Soulful and sensual with a velvety tone that bears a hint of a rasp, Loren weaves magic with cool romance. She is joined by the laid-back vibes of her backing quartet of Matt Treder (piano), Mark Schneider (bass), Brian West (drums), and William Seiji Marsh (guitar), framing her voice in a contemporary yet classic corner jazz club sound.
NICK WATERHOUSE TIME’S ALL GONE
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT OUT OF THE GAME
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Nick Waterhouse is an R&B fanatic who combines an uncanny old-school sensibility with a charged, contemporary style. He joins the ranks of similar acts and producers of recent times - Mark Ronson, Amy Winehouse, Sharon Jones, Mayer Hawthorne, Aloe Blacc - that are all moving forward into the past, yet all quite different. For Waterhouse, his muse is the over-modulated sound of vintage ‘50s R&B and Rebel Rock n’ Roll.
Produced by the celebrated Mark Ronson, this is the seventh studio album from one of the most accomplished, contemporary singer-songwriters today. A labor of love for both Wainwright and Ronson, the twelve songs are hook-laden, memorably arranged tracks reminiscent of Rufus’ early work. Musicians on the album include the Dap-Kings, Wilco’s Nels Cline, Nick Zinner of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Andrew Wyatt from Miike Snow, Sean Lennon and Martha Wainwright.
KAYA BORN UNDER THE STAR OF CHANGE
ON SALE $12.99 CD Kaya, a worldwide bestselling author on dream interpretation, was also a platinum-selling Canadian recording artist before he was inspired by a series of visions to turn his attention entirely onto his spiritual path. Now, 15 years later, Kaya returns as a worldwide bestselling author and thought leader whose music has a new purpose as a vehicle to express the message of hope and inspiration that he has been refining for so many years.
AMINA FIGAROVA TWELVE
ON SALE $13.99 CD PDX Jazz @ The Mission Theater Presents the Amina Figarova Sextet on Thursday, May 17th @ 7:30pm. The internationally acclaimed Amina Figarova Sextet is on tour supporting the bands new CD and their 12th release titled ‘Twelve.’ They are one of the most successful international Jazz groups, having played the main stage of the Newport Jazz Festival, Chicago Jazz Festival, New Orleans Jazz Festival and many more. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see them in Portland.
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[MAY 2 - 8] Tracy Kim Trio
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Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Miriam’s Well
Brasserie Montmartre
WED. MAY 2 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. Jason Lytle (of Grandaddy), Candystairs
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Open Mic
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Space Waves, The Soft Bombs (Stone Roses tribute show)
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Gritty Friction, Stevie Schmidt, Duhand
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Open Mic with Troy Richmond Dixon
Brasserie Montmartre
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place WORK
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. World’s Finest, Mimi Naja/ Brad Parsons Duo
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Hunter Hayes
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Parenthetical Girls, Wampire, The Crow
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Andrew Oliver Trio (8 pm); Tom D’Antoni (4:30 pm)
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Hazel Rickard
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Cedar Walton Trio
Jimmy Mak’s
626 SW Park Ave. Zephyr Chanson Francaise
221 NW 10th Ave. The Cedar Walton Trio
Crystal Ballroom
112 SW 2nd Ave. Tierney
1332 W Burnside St. Snow Patrol
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Lambchop, Alina Hardin
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam (9:30 pm); High Flyer Trio (6 pm)
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. Irish Music Jam
East India Co.
821 SW 11th Ave. Josh Feinberg
Kells
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Sioux Falls, Night Surgeon, Mangled Bohemians
Jake Ray and the Cowdogs (9:30 pm); Bob Shoemaker (6 pm)
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Counterfeit Cash (9 pm); Michael Hurley & the Croakers (6 pm)
Lents Commons
9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Lynn Conover & John Mitchell
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Billy D
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Short Fiction (9:45 pm); Mr. Hoo (kids’ show, 12 pm)
Mississippi Studios
The Know
8105 SE 7th Ave. Sleepy Eyed Johns
Sundown Pub
5903 N Lombard St. Fair Stand the Field of Friends, Scumbucket, Migi Artugue
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. John Gross Trio
Chapel Pub
430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin
Corkscrew Wine Bar
The TARDIS Room
Doug Fir Lounge
1218 N Killingsworth St. Open Mic with Andrea Wild
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Mel Kubik
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Michelangela
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Community Jam 836 N Russell St. The Nutmeggers
800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Trio with Mary Ann Nicholas
Plan B
Someday Lounge
626 SW Park Ave. John “JB” Butler and Al Criado
2026 NE Alberta St. Psychic Feline, Blood Beach, Zotz
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar
Ladd’s Inn
4847 SE Division St.
1001 SW Broadway Bre Gregg
Muddy Rudder Public House
125 NW 5th Ave. Mbrascatu, De La Warr, Uke Ladies
Landmark Saloon
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar
White Eagle Saloon
Kenton Club
1204 SE Clay St. Lynn Conover
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project Blues Jam
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Rocky Votolato, Kevin Long
1305 SE 8th Ave. Brain Capital, The Messy Jacksons, The Happening
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Invivo, Avenue, Victor Hugo
The Blue Diamond
THURS. MAY 3 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Jason Lytle (of Grandaddy), Rusty Miller
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Hannah Glavor, Jonah Sissoyev, Caroline Belk
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St.
1669 SE Bybee Blvd. Gumbo Americana
830 E Burnside St. Anya Marina, Telekinesis (solo performance)
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Inspirational Beets (9 pm); Tough Lovepyle (6 pm)
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Fellwoods, R.I.P., Broxa, Avi Dae
Ford Food and Drink
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown B3 Organ Group
Kelly’s Olympian
Tonic Lounge
426 SW Washington St. The Revel Switch, Lindsey Clark
Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Ave. Jimmy Bivens
Laughing Horse Books
12 NE 10th Ave. Smooth Sailing, Antikythera, Cursebreaker
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Jim Boyer Band (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Jack McMahon
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Lynn Conover & Gravel
Mississippi Pizza
Goodfoot Lounge
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Colin Stetson, Sarah Neufeld, Gregory Rogove
2845 SE Stark St. Philly’s Phunkestra
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Into the Woods: Stay Calm, Onuinu, Grapefruit, White Fang, DJ Secret Kebab
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Bill Harris Quintet (8 pm); Phil Goldberg (5 pm)
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Chris Juhlin
Mississippi Studios
Mount Hood Community College
26000 SE Stark St., Gresham Toshi Onizuka, Reinhard Melz, Jarrod Lawson
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb
PINTS Urban Taproom 412 NW 5th Ave. Alex Nicole
Postergarden
630 NW 14th Ave. Mike Doolin, Arlie Conner, Ray Mann
MAXIMILLA LUKACS
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Tech N9ne, Machine Gun Kelly, Krizz Kaliko, Mayday, Prozak, Stevie Stone
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Gauntlet Hair, Yukon Blonde, Dana Buoy
Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
8635 N Lombard St. Sam Densmore, Jeremiah Sieber, Vanessa Rogers
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. The Doo Doo Funk AllStars
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. The Brazz Band
Star Theater
317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell 3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Gorgon Stare, Mad Moniker, Star Forged, Tanagra
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Sing for Your Supperclub
Torta Landia
4144 SE 60th Ave. Open Mic
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Martin ZarZar
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Jim’s Gypsy Jazz Jam
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Kelsey Lindstrom
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Brownish Black, Laura Ivancie (8:30 pm), Will West and Tanner Cundy (5:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Mikey & Haley Horsfall
FRI. MAY 4 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Jason Lytle (of Grandaddy), Rusty Miller
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Zoe Keating, FearNoMusic
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. 3 Leg Torso, Jessica Fichot, Wanderlust Circus
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Sam Adams, Michael Shoupe, Josh Hoke (9:30 pm); Mikey’s Irish Jam (6:30 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. JB Butler Trio
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway Brandi Carlile with the Oregon Symphony
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Tommy & the High Pilots, A B & the Sea, Thebrotheregg
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Wild Mountain Bell
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Lewi Longmire (9:30 pm); Lynn Connover (6 pm)
Bijou Cafe
32 SW 3rd Ave. Nancy King
13 NW 6th Ave. Ty Segall, White Fence, Nucular Aminals, Youthbitch
Brasserie Montmartre
The Blue Diamond
Camellia Lounge
The Blue Monk
Clyde’s Prime Rib
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Tom Grant Jazz Jam 3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones Jam
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar
WAITING FOR THE WITCHING HOUR: Father John Misty plays Doug Fir on Tuesday, May 8.
71 SW 2nd Ave. Hair Assault
Tiger Bar
112 SW 2nd Ave. Tierney
Fringe Vintage
1700 NW Marshall St. Animal Eyes, StormWrek, Support Force
Thirsty Lion
Kells
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Wheeler County Ramblers (9 pm); Cary Samsel Band (6 pm)
2505 SE 11th Ave. Kathryn Claire
Addictions
626 SW Park Ave. The Cavemen (9 pm); Tablao (5:30 pm) 510 NW 11th Ave. Circle 3 Trio
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Muthaship
Crystal Ballroom
1001 SW Broadway Johnny Martin
1332 W Burnside St. Wild Flag, The Thermals, EMA
The Lovecraft
Dante’s
421 SE Grand Ave.
Girl in a Coma, Pinata Protest, Sara Radle
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Joe Pug, Bailiff, Kasey Anderson
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Muddy Waters Tribute (9:30 pm); The Hamdogs (6 pm)
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. Andrews Ave., Cascadia Soul Alliance
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Hatred Machine, Heavy Voodoo, Ripper, Motley Crude
Eat Art Theater 850 NE 81st Ave. The Mesa State
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Grandparents, The We Shared Milk, SurfsDrugs, DJ Ted
Foggy Notion
3416 N Lombard St. Tinmantle, Bummer, The Silent Numbers
Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave. Vagabond & Tramp (8 pm); The Darlin’ Blackbirds (5 pm)
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Hurt, Veio, The Rise the Fall, Chapter’s End
Island Mana Wines 526 SW Yamhill St. Joe Marquand
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. John Gross Trio (8 pm); Rick Homer Duo (5 pm)
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Class M Planets (8 pm); Mick Shafer (6 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Steely Dawn
Katie O’Briens
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Headless Pez, Ritual Healing
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Grafton Street
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Silencer, The Cooks, Sick Broads
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Johnny Credit, Johnny Payola’s Hayride
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Baby Gramps (9:30 pm); The James Low Western Front (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Mark Alan
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Jon Koonce & One More Mile
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. The Adequates (9 pm); Boy and Bean (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Jezabels, Imagine Dragons, Benjamin Francis Leftwich
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MUSIC
CALENDAR
BAR SPOTLIGHT
Doug Fir Lounge
ROSNAPS.COM
830 E Burnside St. The Shondes, Tacocat, Bat Fancy
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Bad Assets, The Gams
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. Megafauna
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Boo Frog, The Soft Bombs, The Verner Pantons
New Iberians
Mount Tabor Theater
The Firkin Tavern
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Natural Vibrations
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Reverb Brothers
3341 SE Belmont St. Saloon Ensemble 1937 SE 11th Ave. Silverhawk
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Key of Dreams
The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Blue Angel Lounge
SAT. MAY 5 Agenda
1435 NW Flanders St. Art Resnick Trio (8 pm); Jim Templeton (5 pm)
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Twizzy Twitch, Blue Azul
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Bobby Torres Ensemble
Katie O’Briens
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Blood Owl, No More Parachutes, The Commons
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Grafton Street
Kelly’s Olympian
Alberta Rose Theatre
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe
Tiger Bar
4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music
Original Halibut’s II
2527 NE Alberta St. Franco & the Stingers
PCPA Antoinette Hatfield Hall 1111 SW Broadway Strings Attached
PINTS Urban Taproom 412 NW 5th Ave. Rachel Fishman
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Forest Bloodgood
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. X’s For I’s, My Only Ghost, In Aisles, Anne
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Tribe of the Outcast, Vandies, Holgate, Unicornz
Secret Society Lounge
116 NE Russell St. Portland Jazz Composers’ Ensemble (9 pm); Swing Papillon (6 pm)
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Motley Crude, The Lovesores, Ratpriest
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
8635 N Lombard St. Hifi Mojo, Special Ed & Boneless Chuck
The Blue Diamond
71 SW 2nd Ave. Sugarcookie 317 NW Broadway Witch Mountain, Tombstalker, Avi Dei
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Tulsi, Elevated, DJ Modul8r
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Tony Starlight and Barbara Ayars (Bing Crosby tribute)
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Mike Winkle
Trader Vic’s
1203 NW Glisan St. John English (Frank Sinatra tribute)
Twilight Café and Bar
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Everything Jake
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Twisted Whistle (9:30 pm); Wild Mountain Bell (6 pm)
Branx
White Eagle Saloon
Brasserie Montmartre
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Linda Hornbuckle, Louis Payne, Renato Caranto, Edwin Colman
Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St.
2016 NE Sandy Blvd.
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115 NW 5th Ave. IAME, VTRN, Wild Card, Saint Warhead (9 pm); School of Rock show (6:30 pm)
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Scotty Del and Tommy Bones, The Early Bird Project, Cray, NSFU, Novelous, Go Zone
836 N Russell St. Mood Area 52, Maria in the Shower (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
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12 NE 10th Ave. Skatter Bomb, Terminal Damage, I Have No Friends, Blood Sewer
LaurelThirst
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
Backspace
320 SE 2nd Ave. Water & Bodies, Icarus the Owl, Asteroid M, Delta Bravo 626 SW Park Ave. Boy and Bean (9 pm); Tablao (5:30 pm)
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Reid Perry and the Montana Avenue Band
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Cool Breeze
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Floater, Charming Birds
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Charlotte Treuse, Madison Moone, Itty Bitty Bang Bang, The Infamous Nina Nightshade, Emcee Vincent Drambuie (burlesque show)
303 SW 12th Ave. Trevor Reichman, Ali Ippolito
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Katie Herzig, Andrew Belle
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Ocean 503 (soul revue)
Andina
Beaterville Cafe
The Blue Monk
Biddy McGraw’s
3341 SE Belmont St. The Blue Cranes, Trio Subtonic
Clyde’s Prime Rib
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar
Dante’s
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Dan Haley
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Redwood Son
Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan St. Water Tower (Kentucky Derby party)
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Miriam’s Well
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Black Prairie, Perhapst
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Donna and the Side Effects
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Sophie Barker
Nel Centro
1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew, Dave Captein, Randy Rollofson
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Larry Pindar
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave.
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave. Alexandra Coutinho, Rio Con Brio
The Piano Fort
1715 SE Spokane St. Rags and Ribbons, Mosby, The Glyptodons, 1939 Ensemble, Ezza Rose, Kelly Anne Masigat
Thirsty Lion
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam
203 SE Grand Ave. Total Bros, All Your Sisters, Teenage Sweater, Pink Slime
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Padraic Finbar HagertyHammond
Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave. Tim Roth
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. DragonForce, Holy Grail, Huntress, American Roulette
Holocene
71 SW 2nd Ave. Brian Odell, DJ Soulshaker
1001 SE Morrison St. Willis Earl Beal, Colin Jenkins, Vikesh Kapoor
Tiger Bar
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
317 NW Broadway Warner Drive, Whitetrash Whiplash, From Ashes Fall
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Rare Monk, Josh And Mer
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Bylines
Torta Landia
4144 SE 60th Ave. Professor Yaz, Mortal Grey
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Marty Arrigotti
Trader Vic’s
1203 NW Glisan St. Xavier Tavera
Twilight Café and Bar
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Thorntown Tallboys, Mother’s Whiskey, Muddy River Nightmare Band, The Decliners
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Portland Casual Jam Group
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Sophie Barker, The Janks (9 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)
Jade Lounge
8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music
2346 SE Ankeny St. Elie Charpentier (cover songs show)
NEPO 42
Jimmy Mak’s
5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Fine Pets, Hooker Vomit, Mishaps
Rontoms
600 E Burnside St. The Horde & the Harem, The Ascetic Junkies
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Baba B, Ekolu, Josh Tatofi, Isiah Kekaualua, Positive Ibrations
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. Suburban Slim
Spare Room
Star Theater
225 SW Ash St. Snarl, Random Axe, ManX, Jeremy Burton Band
6000 NE Glisan St. Felim Egan
421 SE Grand Ave. Town and the Writ
Muddy Rudder Public House
Ash Street Saloon
The Blue Diamond
2026 NE Alberta St. Old Kingdom, Shallow Seas, Pelletgun
Negura Bunget, Eclipse Eternal, Din Brad, Reficul, Anonymia
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero
2201 N Killingsworth St. Spit and Shine
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Angel Bouchet Band
The Charlie Darwins (9 pm); Lincoln Crockett, Hale Lupe (6:30 pm)
4830 NE 42nd Ave. The Angel Bouchet Band Jam
The Lovecraft
Alberta Street Public House
225 SW Ash St. Beringia, A((wake)), Downrite Walnut
125 NW 5th Ave. Toucan Sam and the Fruit Loops
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
Langano Lounge
3000 NE Alberta St. Jerry Joseph
Ash Street Saloon
Someday Lounge
SUN. MAY 6
East End
2958 NE Glisan St. Nick Peets, The My Oh Mys (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)
1036 NE Alberta St. Shannon Tower Band
8635 N Lombard St. The Oh Daddies
YU Contemporary
800 SE 10th Ave., Portland Mahmoud Ahmed, The Tezeta Band
The Know
Laughing Horse Books
Thirsty Lion
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Delta Spirit, WATERS, Tijuana Panthers
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Sarah Moon and the Night Sky, Los Perros Olvidados
Kenton Club
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew, Dave Captein, Randy Rollofson
Nel Centro
The Know
1033 NW 16th Ave. Anxieties, Sorta Ultra, Green Flag
800 NW 6th Ave. Toni Lincoln
350 W Burnside St. The Twangshifters (cabaret show)
1435 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Charts, Souvenir Driver, Paul Dillon
303 SW 12th Ave. Jason Lytle (of Grandaddy), Buzzyshyface, Plus Extra Saturday Goodies
3158 E Burnside St. Michael Shoup
Secret Society Lounge
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar
1001 SW Broadway Shirley Nanette
2366 SE 82nd Ave. Diamond Dust
2026 NE Alberta St. Therapists, Sick Rats, DJ Jonnycakes
Music Millennium
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Kingdom Under Fire, The Suppression, Stepper, Livid Minds, 13 Mag, 30 Pound Test, Synesthesia, Caducus
Slabtown
426 SW Washington St. Ancient Heat, Foreign Orange, Palmas, Sex Life DJs
The Blue Monk
Red Room
Hawthorne Theatre
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
3435 N Lombard St. No Tomorrow Blues Band, Garry Meziere
2621 SE Clinton St. Hunter Paye, The Baron Robber, Michael Sherry
2845 SE Stark St. The Goodfoot All-Stars 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Jim Florentine, Don Jamieson, Eddie Trunk
Mock Crest Tavern
Press Club
116 NE Russell St. AnnaPaul and the Bearded Lady, Eric Stern, Russell Bruner
Goodfoot Lounge
MUST LOVE FISH: For a year, I lived with a guy named Scott. He had a somewhat alarming obsession with pet fish. Some months he’d fret about making rent, then come home with an African knife fish he bought off a black-market fish dealer for $80. Scott would love Uchu (3940 N Mississippi Ave., 281-8248, uchusushi.com). Not necessarily for the food—I never saw him eat anything other than Hot Pockets—but for the décor, which balances a sleek, airy wood design with two massive aquariums stocked with vibrantly colored tropical fish. Uchu’s happy-hour menu is killer, though. It features sushi rolls and subtly spiced fried chicken wings for $4, along with a selection of $5 cocktails, including the signature Uchu, a cloudy mixture of rum, lime and agave. That doesn’t sound like a drink Scott would enjoy much; but then I didn’t know him that well. MATTHEW SINGER.
Tomorrows Dream, Riastrad, Die Like Gentlemen
1435 NW Flanders St. Mousai Remix
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Joaquin Lopez
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Bill Tollner (9 pm); Irish Sessions (6 pm)
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. The World Radiant
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Dan Haley & Tim Acott (9 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
13 NW 6th Ave. Urban Sub All-Stars
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. John Stowell
221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band (8 pm); The Sunset High School Jazz Band (6:30 pm)
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Bill Tollner
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens (9 pm); Portland Country Underground (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale My Fellow Traveller
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Bob Shoemaker
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Interociter (9 pm); Never Strangers (6:30 pm); Mr. Ben (kids’ show, 5 pm)
Mississippi Studios
The Firkin Tavern
3939 N Mississippi Ave. AgesandAges, Sun Angle, Death Songs
The Know
Muddy Rudder Public House
1937 SE 11th Ave. Open Mic
2026 NE Alberta St. Old Wars, Baby Island, Memory Boys
8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones
Tillicum Club
Music Millennium
8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Johnny Martin Quartet
3158 E Burnside St. Community Day/ Songwriters Circle
Tonic Lounge
Rose Garden
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Awkward Energy, Mikey Kampmann, Newt Payne
1401 N Wheeler Ave. The Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys
Torta Landia
The Blue Diamond
4144 SE 60th Ave. Open Bluegrass Jam
Tupai at Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. The Ocular Concern
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. The Pleasure Salon
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Open Mic/Songwriter Showcase
MON. MAY 7 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Trevor Reichman, Dustin Hamman
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Open Mic
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Battery-Powered Music
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Eric John Kaiser
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Lotus Plaza, Wymond Miles, Frankie Broyles
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Soulmates featuring Jay “Bird” Koder
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Deep Cuts
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Rayliota, Tokyo Death Scare, Rebel Scum, DJ Just Dave
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave. James Peppers Memorial Concert
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Mister Chill’R
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Pheasant, Father Figure, Towering Trees
TUES. MAY 8 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Trevor Reichman, Matt Cadenelli
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. The Tomorrow People, Patti King
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. JB Butler
Ash Street Saloon
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale John Koonce
Duff’s Garage
225 SW Ash St. Alex Nicole, Scott Alexander, Ghost Toy Castle
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
East End
Bunk Bar
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Hanz Araki & Kathryn Claire
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave.
1635 SE 7th Ave. Lily Wilde 203 SE Grand Ave. Black Mackerel
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
1028 SE Water Ave. My Autumn’s Done Come, The We Shared Milk, Dylan Trees
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Father John Misty, Har Mar Superstar
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave.
CALENDAR Dover Weinberg Quartet (9 pm); Trio Bravo (6 pm)
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Simon Tucker Group
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Ave. Drew De Man & Old Custer
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Peelander Z, Youthbitch, Wizard, A Volcano
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Amen Dunes, Prescription Pills, DJ Yeti
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Jazz Jam with Carey Campbell (7:30 pm); Tom D’Antoni (4:30 pm)
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Jimmy Pardo
Open Bluegrass Jam
Brian Francis
Mississippi Pizza
Thirsty Lion
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm); The Reed College Jazz Bands (6 pm)
O’Connor’s Vault
71 SW 2nd Ave. PX Singer-Songwriter Showcase
Kells
Record Room
317 NW Broadway AC Lov Ring, Franco Paletta & the Stingers
Slabtown
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Ayars Vocal Showcase
Someday Lounge
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Open Mic with the Roaming
The Blue Monk
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Arthur Moore
Jimmy Mak’s
112 SW 2nd Ave. Bill Tollner
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Johnny B. Connolly and Cary Novotny
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern 10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro
3552 N Mississippi Ave. The Stumptowners 7850 SW Capitol Highway Gary Ogan, Dave Captein and Jack Charles 8 NE Killingsworth St. Mollusk, Rotties, Sista Fist 1033 NW 16th Ave. Another State of Mind 125 NW 5th Ave. Bradley Wik and the Charlatans 3341 SE Belmont St. Pagan Jug Band
Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. La Jefa
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Trick with DJ Robb
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. TRONix with Bryan Zentz
Matador
1967 W Burnside St. DJ Whisker Friction
Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Roxie Stardust
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. DirtyNick
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Nealie Neal
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Maxamillion
FRI. MAY 4 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. DJ E3
Ash Street Saloon
The Lovecraft
The Lovecraft
Tiga
Trader Vic’s
219 NW Davis St. Flamin’ Fridays with DJ Doughalicious
Tiger Bar
Element Restaurant & Lounge
Tube
Fez Ballroom
317 NW Broadway Juicy Wednesdays 18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Smooth Hopperator (10 pm); Creepy Crawl (7 pm)
Yes and No
20 NW 3rd Ave. Death Club with DJ Entropy
THURS. MAY 3 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Troubled Youth
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Hip Hop Heaven with DJ Detroit Diezel
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Shadowplay: DJs Ghoulunatic, Paradox, Horrid
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. DJs Brokenwindow, Strategy
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Ego Hours with DJ Roxy Epoxy
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Mr. Romo & Michael Grimes
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. DirtBag with DJ Gutter Glamour
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Cowboys from Sweden
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave.
1465 NE Prescott St. Bikini Briefs
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Hot Mess with Doc Adam (10 pm); DJ Neil Blender (7 pm)
SAT. MAY 5 Beech Street Parlor
219 NW Davis St. Revolution with DJ Robb
CC Slaughters
1135 SW Morrison St. Chris Alice
316 SW 11th Ave. Decadent ‘80s: DJ Non, Jason Wann; Rewind with Phonographix DJs
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. DJ Magneto
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. DJ Epor
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge 625 NW 21st Ave. DJ Velvet
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Fresh.: Addison Groove, Doc Daneeka, Tyler Tastemaker
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St. ‘80s Video Dance Attack
Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Yeti
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. DJ Snacks, Choncy Jones
Red Cap Garage
1035 SW Stark St Mantrap with DJ Lunchlady
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Deep Cuts: DJs Bruce LaBruiser, Kasio Smashio
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. DJ Cooky in the Jar
White Eagle Saloon
Plan B
Beech Street Parlor
722 E Burnside St. Nectar: Random Rab, Lulacruza, DJ Shawna, Manoj, Barisone, Paranome, Mr. Wu
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
Star Bar
412 NE Beech St. DJ L-Train
Bossanova Ballroom
Twilight Café and Bar
1937 SE 11th Ave.
225 SW Ash St. Subterrain, Eps, DJ Lava, Spekt1 412 NE Beech St. Musique Plastique
Tony Starlight’s
836 N Russell St. Welfare, Alyssandra Nighswonger, Brave Julius
421 SE Grand Ave. Brickbat Mansion DJ Casual Sax, Loose Values (10 pm); DJ Sethro Tull (7 pm)
Tiger Bar
The Firkin Tavern
639 SE Morrison St. Blank Fridays
WED. MAY 2
MUSIC
CC Slaughters
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Popvideo with DJ Gigahurtz
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. DJ Etbonz
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge 625 NW 21st Ave. DJ Velvet
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Booty Bassment: Ryan Poulsen, Dimitri Dickinson, Maxx Bass, Nathan Detroit (9 pm); DJ Hanukkah Miracle (6 pm)
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St. Video Dance Attack
Rotture
1305 SE 8th Ave. Hive with DJ Owen 421 SE Grand Ave. Dennis Dread 1203 NW Glisan St. DJ Drew Groove (fashion show)
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Dark Sundays with DJ Josh Dark
MON. MAY 7 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Baron
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Maniac Monday with DJ Doughalicious
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. Service Industrial with DJ Tibin
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy DJs
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. Metal Mondays! with DJ Blackhawk
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Valkyrie
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Matt Scaphism
TUES. MAY 8
315 SE 3rd Ave. Andaz with Dj Anjali & The Incredible Kid
Beech Street Parlor
Saucebox
CC Slaughters
214 SW Broadway Connected: DJs KEZ, DMP
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Sugar Town: DJs Action Slacks, Nitty Gritty, Gene
The Lovecraft
412 NE Beech St. Nick Bindeman & Ian Paige 219 NW Davis St. Girltopia with DJ Robb
Eagle Portland
835 N Lombard St DMTV with DJ Animal
Red Cap Garage
421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Horrid
1035 SW Stark St Never Enough with DJ Ray Gun
Tiga
The Crown Room
1465 NE Prescott St. Dan Bryant
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Freaky Outy (10 pm); Saturdazed with DJs GH, Grantichrist (7 pm)
SUN. MAY 6 Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St. Muse
Matador
1967 W Burnside St. Next Big Thing with Donny Don’t
205 NW 4th Ave. See You Next Tuesday: AKA, Tyler Tastemaker
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ RW
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Tubesday (10 pm); DJ Overcol (7 pm)
Yes and No
20 NW 3rd Ave. Idiot Tuesdays with DJ Black Dog
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THEATER The Andrews Brothers
Broadway Rose takes another shot at the senior-citizen demographic with a new musical featuring tunes from the 1940s. But this show has a twist. The Andrews Brothers are stage hands that manage to fill in for the famous Andrews Sisters (no relation) at a big USO show in the South Pacific. The musical starts off at Grandpa’s pace, but it makes up for everything in the second act when the Andrews Brothers come stumbling onstage in drag. The ladyboy act is more Some Like It Hot than To Wong Foo, but the girls sell the slapstick. They even pull some real-life World War II vets on stage for some uncomfortable but hilarious audience participation. It’s a hoot, I tell ya. AARON SPENCER. Broadway Rose New Stage Theatre, 12850 SW Grant Ave., Tigard, 6205262. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Fridays, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes May 20. $30-$40.
Anna Karenina
Tolstoy’s masterpiece novel is a long and somewhat baggy affair that constantly swings between a tempestuous tale of a woman (Anna) swept into impossible adultery with a noble but trifling military fop named Vronsky and a much slower, more philosophic journey toward settled contentment by a landed gentleman and armchair lefty (Levin). Director Chris Coleman and writer Kevin McKeon make of this a breezy and impressive spectacle of movement and costume. Distant, counterpoised scenes are staged together in the same tableau, with segues as easy as a shift of lighting. 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. 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 a sort of slideshow version of Karenina—a pleasant diversion that asks very little, but which contains a great many beautiful landscapes. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 4453700. 7:30 pm Tuesday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday-Sunday, May 2-6. $34-$64, $20 rush tickets.
The Brothers Size and Marcus; or, the Secret of the Sweet
The Brothers Size and Marcus; or, the Secret of Sweet, the two one-acts that complete Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Brother/Sister Plays, take place, like the first part, In the Red and Brown Water, in a hot, humid town in “the distant present.” In The Brothers Size, Oshoosi (Damian Thompson) struggles to escape the trauma of his prison sentence and his disastrous relationship with Legba (Brian Demar Jones). His brother, Ogun (Portlander Bobby Bermea, in his most affecting performance in years), tries to break him free with tough love and bluster, but in the end has to let him go it alone. It’s heartbreaking. Marcus has it even worse in The Secret of Sweet: He is trapped by his own body. Legba’s son, he has inherited both his deceased father’s desire for men and his prophetic dreams. Jones plays both father and son, and his transformation from the suave, manipulative Legba to the awkward and flustered teenage Marcus is perfect—the two characters are just similar enough to underline their differences. Sweet is almost derailed by the absurdity of Lava Alapa’i’s appear-
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ance in a fat suit as Shaunta, Marcus’ friend and foil, but she plays the part of the spirited and boisterous Shaunta with such enthusiasm that she pulls it off. She is a burst of joy in a grim work, but the pleasure of her performance soon fades in the face of claustrophobia. BEN WATERHOUSE. Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St., 2050715. 7:30 pm May 3, 5, 11-12. 2 pm Sunday, May 6. 5:30 pm Sunday, May 13. $12-$23.
The Centering
Chris Harder revives his solo show about a political prisoner, driven to the edge of madness by his interrogators, who retreats to a circus inside his head. Harder won a Drammy award for his performance in the role in 2007, but this time the part will be performed by Andy Lee-Hillstrom. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 541-3518386. 10 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes May 20. $10-$25.
City of Angels
Lakewood Theatre presents a musical parody of 1940s film noir, starring Isaac Lamb. Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, 503-635-3901. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 7 pm Sundays through May 20, 2 pm Sundays, May 13 and May 27-June 10. $29-$32.
Cleaners
Spring 4th Productions’ latest original work is a Greater Tuna-esque two-man performance about a pair of confidence men who buck heads with two sisters who run the only business left in a small Oregon town. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 971-2121020. 7:30 pm Thursdays and Sundays through May 20. $10-$12.
El Zorrito: The Legend of the Boy Zorro Northwest Children’s Theatre presents a new musical by local composer Rodolfo Ortega and Milo Mowery, starring Michael Kepler Meo. NW Neighborhood Cultural Center, 1819 NW Everett St., 222-4480. 7 pm Fridays, 2 and 6 pm Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes May 27. $13-$22.
Everyman
The students of PCC Sylvania perform the medieval morality play with enormous puppets. PCC Rock Creek Auditorium, 17705 NW Springville Road, 690-5906. 7:30 pm FridaysSaturdays through May 12. $10.
Gracie
Triangle Productions premieres a musical by company honcho Don Horn about the life of Gracie Hansen, a Washington housewife who started a Ziegfeld Follies-style cabaret show to raise money for the local PTA. She went on to open her own pavilion at the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, then moved to the Barbary Coast bar at Portland’s long-since-demolished Hoyt Hotel, and eventually ran for governor of Oregon in 1970. Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd., 239-5919. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes May 27. $15-$35.
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
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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.
the scenes that allow the four performers to loosen up. When they do, they’re an energetic, appealing bunch, dancing and pantomiming their way through foreclosures and layoffs and planning DIY craft nights with new friends at the unemployment office (“look at us, industrious motherfuckers!”). Their periodic “optimism breaks” are particularly endearing, and director Ashley Hollingshead keeps the sketches moving at a brisk, bouncy clip. REBECCA JACOBSON. Action/ Adventure Theater, 1050 SE Clinton St., 893-9075. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday, May 3-5. $10-$15.
Spring Awakening
Live on Stage presents the Tonysweeping musical of adolescent angst and lust. World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St., liveonstage.us. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through May 26. $20-$30.
The Storm in the Barn
Oregon Children’s Theatre presents an adaptation of Matt Phelan’s graphic novel by Eric Coble, with music composed for the production by Black Prairie (the Decemberists minus Colin Meloy and John Moen) performed live by the cast. Winningstad Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 228-9571. 2 and 5 pm Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes May 20. $13-$28.
Waiting for Godot
Wood Demon Art Theatre, a group of PSU students with a penchant for modern classics, stages Beckett’s comedy of impatience. Performance Works NW, 4625 SE 67th Ave., wooddemonarttheatre.blogspot.com. 8 pm Friday, May 4, at PWNW; 8 pm Sunday, May 6, at Gallery Homeland, 2505 SE 11th Ave. $5 suggested donation.
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Next to Normal
[NEW REVIEW] The reality of a family struggling to cope with mental illness is kind of a downer. But presented with dark humor and biting truth in the rock musical Next to Normal, the subject becomes heartbreakingly real—in a good way. Diana Goodman (Susannah Mars, in this Artists Rep production) has been battling a severe case of bipolar disorder for more than 16 years following a traumatic event, with a continually tweaked regimen of medications doing little to help. Her husband, Dan (William Wadhams—lead singer of ’80s band Animotion!) tries to pretend that everything is going to be fine, and their overachieving teenage daughter is all but completely ignored. Mars delivers a stellar performance, portraying the utter frustration of struggling with a disease that can’t be seen. The Tony- and Pulitzer-winning musical questions the way mental illness is perceived and makes tangible the destruction it can have, both on the person suffering with it and the people who love her. PENELOPE BASS. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 pm Sundays. Closes June 3. $25-$50.
Oedipus El Rey
Miracle Theatre presents Luis Alfaro’s play that places Oedipus’ tragedy in the gang-ruled streets of East L.A. Alfaro is one of the smartest playwrights in America today—this could be a great one. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7:30 pm Thursdays, 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes May 26. $15-$29.
Playtime! with Pete and Randy
Signal Light Puppet Theatre presents a hilariously violent puppet show for kids and adults, starring a pair of dogs with a penchant for explosives. Zoomtopia, 810 SE Belmont St., 2909684. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes May 13. $12-$15.
Singlehandedly
Portland Story Theater’s festival of solo performance is back: Eric Stern’s Accordion Pickpocket and Penny Walter’s Roots and Wings on May 4, Lynne Duddy’s Wabi-Sabi and Michele Carlo’s Fish Out of Agua on May 5, and an evening of stories from PST’s Urban Tellers program May 11. Hipbone Studio, 1847 E Burnside St., portlandstorytheater.com. 8 pm FridaysSaturdays through May 11. $15-$20 per show, $60 for all five.
Something Epic/Everyday
Described as “a mashup of found text, song lyrics and everyday life,” this collaboration between the Working Theatre Collective and Action/ Adventure Theatre explores the search for happiness in dark economic times. Given the form, it’s unsurprising that some segments feel disjointed, and a few early scenes, set in bygone but equally bleak times, take themselves a tad seriously. But better than the Bruce Springsteen singalongs or the convenience-store poetry (though Noah Dunham does deliver some nice lines here) are
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BLACK PEARL SINGS (PORTLAND CENTER STAGE) The story of Huddie William Ledbetter, better known as Lead Belly, is a classic American parable: A musician from a very early age, Ledbetter was unknown outside West Texas until 1933, when the great musicologist John Lomax found him in a Louisiana prison serving time for attempted murder. (It was his third prison term; he had previously secured a pardon by writing a song for the governor of Texas.) Lomax recorded Ledbetter singing hundreds of songs, helped him secure an early release and eventually took him on tour. The tour didn’t go well, and the two parted ways; Ledbetter never achieved the commercial success he desired, despite his enormous influence in the American folk movement. It’s a great tale, and one that merits dramatization, but it is not the story you will see in Black Pearl Sings. Playwright Frank Higgins, who apparently didn’t think the tensions of race and class were sufficiently complex, throws sex in the mix as well. In his version, Lomax becomes Susannah Mullally, a folklorist for the Library of Congress who, despite her wealthy upbringing, has been passed over for professorships in favor of less deserving men. She discovers Alberta “Pearl” Johnson in a Texas prison, sentenced for Bobbitizing her abusive lover, and persuades Johnson to record the pre-Civil War songs that only she knows. Together, they unsubtly grapple with every dilemma of the early 20th century. Both Lena Kaminsky, as Mullally, and Chavez Ravine, as Johnson, turn in commendable performances. Kaminsky nails the insensitive brashness endemic to ambitious, indignant academics. It is a wonder she ever manages to hold focus, however, against Ravine’s quivering fury and gorgeous singing. The play is worth attending for the music alone, which is good, because Higgins’ unfortunate tendency to overwrite means it has little else to offer. We don’t need Pearl to wonder aloud if she should trust Mullally with he song her ancestors brought from Africa—we just need her to sing it. Mullally shouldn’t tell us how the sexist snobbery of her male peers makes her feel. Kaminsky’s taut shoulders and weary eyes say it all. Higgins’ insistence on telling made me feel like I was in kindergarten. Pearl should sing more, and talk a lot less. BEN WATERHOUSE.
More like Black Pearl Talks. Zing!
SEE IT: Black Pearl Sings is at Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700, pcs.org. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturdays-Sundays. Through June 17. $36-$51.
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Long-form improv at the Brody Theater. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 10 pm Saturdays through June 2. $7.
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Sketch comedy by Cindy Tennant and Ritah Parrish. Waterbrook Studio, 2109 N Albina Ave., No. 108, 901-5101. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays through May 19. $12 at the door.
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Leaky Roof Comedy Open Mic 30th Anniversary Reunion
Dan DePrez, Art Krug, Dave Anderson, Susan Rice and Dwight Slade perform stand-up. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 7464131. 8 pm Tuesday, May 8. $15-$17.
The Unscriptables improvise six four-minute intros to TV shows, and the audience votes on which one they’d like to see performed to completion. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave. 10 pm Saturdays through May 26. “Pay what you want.”
CLASSICAL 45th Parallel
The organization that presents chamber music continues to branch out beyond straight-classical fare by inviting two amazing fiddlers from other traditions. Portlanders already know the England-born world’s greatest Celtic fiddler, Kevin Burke, who moved here years ago, and has himself crossed into classical fusion with his Irish suite for string quartet. He’ll join his longtime musical partner, Trail Band guitarist Cal Scott. The concert will also feature the great French violinist Gilles Apap, who excels in everything from gypsy tunes to Irish music to bluegrass to swing; plus 45th Parallel regulars Greg Ewer and Justin Kagan, who will perform music by J.S. Bach and 20th-century composer György Ligeti. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. 8 pm Thursday-Friday, May 3-4. $20-$25.
Kumaresh Rajagopalan and Dr. Jayanthi Kumaresh
This Rasika concert brings the renowned South Indian violin and Saraswati veena (the beautiful plucked, fretted instrument) duo to perform haunting Carnatic music. PCPA Brunish Hall, 1111 SW Broadway, 531-7266. 7:30 pm Friday, May 4. $12-$25.
Oregon Chamber Players
The ensemble honors its founder, Timoteus Racz, who died last month, with a program that features several of his compositions, Handel’s lovely “Organ Concerto in B Flat,” Mozart’s Flute Quartet No. 1, Haydn’s Symphony No. 88 and more. All Saints’ Episcopal Church, 4033 SE Woodstock Blvd., 888-627-8788. 7:30 pm Saturday, May 5. Donation.
Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra
The orchestra bids farewell to longtime music director Huw Edwards with a program of audience requests, including Verdi, Richard Rodgers, Delius, Berlioz and Rachmaninoff’s big Piano Concerto No. 2, with former Portlander Angie Zhang at the bench. First United Methodist Church, 1838 SW Jefferson St., 234-4077. 7:30 pm Friday, May 4. $10-$30.
Portland Piano International
This live taping of pianist Christopher O’Riley’s popular public-radio program From the Top features prize-winning teenage Portland pianist Ruta Kuzmickas, other young West Coast classical musicians and the Juilliard Horn Trio playing music by Brahms, Grieg, Tchaikovsky and William Bolcom. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 228-1388. 4 pm Sunday, May 6. $15-$65.
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Portland Symphonic Choir
The chorus begins this intriguing journey through the history of American vocal music with music by America’s first-published composer, William Billings; a Civil War sonata by Jeffrey Van; contemporary composer Eric Whitacre’s popular Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine; the Portland premiere of Eric Sayre’s In Paradisum; and music from Leonard Bernstein, Libby Larsen and Aaron Copland’s opera The Tender Land. St. Mary’s Cathedral , 1716 NW Davis St., 7151114. 7:30 pm Saturday, 1:30 pm Sunday May 5-6. $15-$40.
PSU Opera
One of the great 20th century operas, French composer Francis Poulenc’s 1953 Dialogues of the Carmelites tells the grim, mostly true story of French nuns who faced the guillotine at the height of the French Revolution’s reign of terror. As usual with PSU’s nationally renowned opera program, the high musical, dramatic, and design standards elevate this new production to near professional levels. Poulenc’s lush music, capably performed by the student ensemble led by Ken Selden, Carey Wong’s appropriately austere sets and Peter West’s particularly effective mood setting lighting design provide most of the interest in the relatively static and somber early convent scenes. The action picks up with the intrusion of the revolutionaries, culminating in one of the most powerful scenes in all of opera. Visiting veteran British director David Edwards’s inventive staging of the harrowing finale, accompanied by some of Poulenc’s most riveting music, is genuinely moving, devastatingly powerful and a shattering climax to a superior production. Lincoln Performance Hall, Room 175, 1620 SW Park Ave., 725-3307. 7:30 pm Wednesday and Thursday, May 4-5. $15-$26.
Portland Youth Philharmonic
The consistently amazing orchestra of young players performs one of the most popular contemporary pieces: Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon’s Coplandesque Blue Cathedral, which journeys from quiet contemplation to ecstatic celebration to peaceful resolution. Plus, Silvestre Revueltas’ Afro-Cuban-inspired Sensemaya; Ernest Bloch’s “Hebraic Suite”; and a chestnut, Brahms’ Symphony No. 2. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 223-5939. 4 pm Sunday, May 6. $11-$40.
DANCE The Cutting Room
BodyVox has always deployed film as part of its theatrical arsenal, often to comic effect. Filmmaker Mitchell Rose has collaborated frequently with the company on short dance films that unspool between live dance pieces; this spring, BodyVox openly acknowledges its love of movies with a new Mitchell film, plus scenes from classic, action and indie films remixed
through movement, to create a dance concert that blends humor and pathos with a bit of nostalgia. BodyVox Dance Center, 1201 NW 17th Ave., 229-0627, bodyvox.org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, May 3-5 and Thursday-Friday May 10-11, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday, May 12, 7:30 pm Thursday-Friday, May 17-18, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday, May 19. $36+.
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Jefferson Dancers
Jefferson Dancers has nurtured generations of dance talent, and continues to do so, despite budget cuts to Portland Public Schools. Admission costs and donations will help keep this storied program alive, thriving and able to bring in guest choreographers to set work on these versatile and well-trained young dancers. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, pcpa.com/tickets. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday, May 2-5. $8.50-$18.50.
Lar Lubovitch Dance Company
Lar Lubovitch has had more than 40 years to get contemporary dance right, and it shows. Lubovitch’s long history includes the gorgeous, Emmy-nominated Othello—A Dance in Three Acts for American Ballet Theatre, Into the Woods on Broadway and dances for Olympic skaters Dorothy Hamill and Peggy Fleming. And, of course, there is the solid repertory of the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, which returns to Portland with a musically disparate program. On the one hand, you have North Star, a kind of amoeba-shaped group work set against Philip Glass’ driving score. On the other, there’s Robert Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes, Little Rhapsodies, which accompanies the company’s men as they test their athleticism and sensitivity. The evening concludes with Brahms’ Piano Quintet in F Minor, against which The Legend of Ten uncoils, demonstrating the choreographer’s talent for intricately structured movement. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, whitebird.org. 7:30 pm Wednesday, May 2. $26-$64.
Portland Ballet
Former Oregon Ballet Theatre master Mark Goldweber was a significant figure in the ballet world, and not just in Oregon: He also danced with the Joffrey Ballet in the ’70s and ’80s. And, until his death last December, he was ballet master at Salt Lake City’s Ballet West. At its spring recital, the Portland Ballet stages the technically demanding Blue Boy variation of Sir Frederick Ashton’s Les Patineurs, set by Anne Huffington-Carroll as a tribute to Goldweber, who had been known for the role. That piece shares the bill with a revival of Marius Petipa’s gypsy ballet, Paquita, plus new work by Jason Davis and Portland modern choreographer Josie Moseley. Portland Ballet Studio, 6250 SW Capitol Highway, 4528448. 7:30 pm Friday, May 4; 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday, May 5. $15-25.
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The annual Cascade AIDS Project Art Auction, held Saturday, April 28, at Memorial Coliseum, grossed $570,000 for programs to combat HIV. The event’s 24th year took in $70,000 more than last year, despite relatively anemic bidding in the live auction. The highest bid was for Katherine Ace’s Island, which fetched $7,750. Singer Nicole Henry’s sultry voice and a performance by the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus enlivened the proceedings, as did tasty hors d’oeuvres provided by Portland restaurants including El Gaucho and Davis Street Tavern. For info about CAP and its programs, visit capartauction.org or call 223-5907.
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For more than a year, photographer Leah Nash (who has also shot for WW) shadowed five people who have Asperger’s syndrome, an autism-related condition that impacts social behavior. In A Different Kind of Normal: Stories of Asperger’s Syndrome, Nash explores the varieties of ways in which people cope with Asperger’s. Nuanced and compassionate, the series is apt to be especially cathartic for those who are, know, or love someone who has the condition. May 4-June 30. I Witness Gallery Northwest Center for Photography, 1028 SE Water Ave., Suite 50, 384-2783.
Dharma Strasser Maccoll: SPIN
Although Bay Area artist Dharma Strasser Maccoll is primarily known as a ceramicist, she now uses a plethora of media to create nuanced semi-abstract compositions that often reference nature. Clay, paper, glue, thread, porcelain and gouache are some materials in Maccoll’s arsenal. Her elegant studies sometimes resemble clouds, sunbursts, flowers and cellular forms, but never veer too far from the elegance and universality of abstraction. May 3-June 2. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 224-8182.
Generations: Betty Feves
Curator Namita Gupta Wiggers presents Generations: Betty Feves, exploring the output of a groundbreaking but underappreciated artist. Feves (1918-1985) worked predominantly in ceramics, but her appeal transcends stylistic ghettoization. She studied with Abstract Expressionist master Clyfford Still, and her highly organic, primevalmeets-Space-Age forms betray the influences of that illustrious lineage. Through July 28. Museum of Contemporary Craft, 724 NW Davis St., 223-2654.
Laura Fritz: Entorus
Laura Fritz’s pristine minimalist installation, Entorus, has been extended until May 8, and if you haven’t yet seen it, you need to. In a dark room, several mysterious rectangular objects loom. Some are lined with wire mesh, while others have video projectors hidden inside, which periodically emit images of furtive flying insects. We normally think of minimalism as the province of cold,
hard light and sharp edges (think Donald Judd and early Frank Stella). But Fritz, by cloaking her shapes in a blanket of soothing darkness, brings us a kinder, gentler minimalism: a maternal lullaby that sings the mysteries of the night. Extended through May 8. Special Project Space, 1231 NW Hoyt St., Suite B5.
Laura Ross-Paul: Connect
The light of cellphone screens and laptops illuminating their users’ faces in dark rooms provides inspiration for Laura Ross-Paul’s new body of work, Connect. The paintings depict young people staring at screens even in the midst of fireworks displays, picnics and star-gazing parties. But Ross-Paul resists the temptation to wag fingers, instead depicting the screens’ light with the same mystical reverence seen in Renaissance paintings of candles, halos and stained-glass windows. Through June 2. Froelick Gallery, 714 NW Davis St., 222-1142.
Tom Cramer: New Work
There is nothing like a Tom Cramer show. The iconic Northwest painter and sculptor heaps so much gold and silver onto his gleaming geometric compositions, it’s a wonder they aren’t bought and sold on a commodity exchange. Past shows have featured imagery inspired by trips to India and Egypt, as well as waterfalls in the Columbia River Gorge, rendered with a slippery, sexualized organicism that alludes to the female body. May 3-June 2. Laura Russo Gallery, 805 NW 21st Ave., 226-2754.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 2 Choose Privacy: What Are Your Rights? Why Should You Care?
Yes, those Facebook photos of you trying to ride a police horse were embarrassing. In conjunction with national Choose Privacy Week, the ACLU of Oregon and the Multnomah County Library host a discussion about personal privacy in the digital age. Central Library, 801 SW 10th Ave., 988-5123. 6-7:30 pm. Free.
Allison Moon
If the supernatural book genre was missing anything, it’s werewolf lesbians. Lunatic Fringe fixes that. In Other Words, 14 NE Killingsworth St., 232-6003. 6:30 pm. Donation.
THURSDAY, MAY 3 Chimamanda Adichie
Moving to the states from her native Nigeria at age 19, Chimamanda Adichie’s work includes two novels, Purple Hibiscus (which won the Orange Prize for fiction) and Half of a Yellow Sun. She was named one of the 20 best writers under 40 by The New Yorker and got a MacArthur genius grant. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm. $35.
First Thursday with Adam Parfrey and Peter Sotos
Secret societies run the country, so why not take a peek inside? With the release of Adam Parfrey’s book Ritual America: Secret Brotherhoods and Their Influence on Society, Powell’s will display memorabilia from secret societies. Fellow Feral House author Peter Sotos will read from his new book, Pure Filth, a collection of transcripts from famed pornographer Jamie Gillis. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. Arts reception at 6:30 pm, reading at 7:30 pm. Free.
SATURDAY, MAY 5 Free Comic Book Day
Charge your blasters, don your leather cat suit and tell Mom you’ll be home late—it’s Free Comic Book Day. Things From Another World will be hosting events at each of its locations, with artists Jonathan Case, Terry and Rachel Dodson, Steve Lieber and writer Jeff Parker— plus the pirates of PDX YAR—at its Northeast Sandy Boulevard shop. For a complete listing of events, visit freecomicbookday.com. Things From Another World, 4133 NE Sandy Blvd., 284-4693. 9 am-7 pm. Free.
SUNDAY, MAY 6 James Bernard Frost
Part book and part zine, local writer James Bernard Frost’s new release, A Very Minor Prophet, has Stumptown coffee, hardcore cyclists, twentysomething drifters and Voodoo doughnuts. Life lessons are learned by all. Voodoo Doughnut Too, 1501 NE Davis St., 235-2666. 1 pm. Free.
MONDAY, MAY 7 Authors in Pubs
The greatest writers are all heavy drinkers—Hemingway, Bukowski, Mother Goose—so it seems only appropriate the monthly event Authors in Pubs brings local writers together to share their work while having a few drinks to take the edge off. This month’s reading includes Gabriel Felton, Terry McLean, Patrick Hoyer, Grant Keltner, Jonathan Ems and Mark Bosnian. Jack London Bar, 529 SW 4th Ave., 228-7605. 7:30 pm. Free. 21+.
Leonard Mlodinow
You know all those times you’ve been sitting around in your beanbag chair, listening to Pink Floyd and pondering how the unconscious mind shapes your perceptions of the world? Leonard Mlodinow explains in Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
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ROBERT A. CARO, THE PASSAGE OF POWER Fed up as aides debated whether he should men- Rose.’ God bless you, Greer. Vote Democratic. tion civil rights in his first speech to Congress Bobby, turn off that fuckin’ ‘Yeller Rose.’” after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, LynIn the most famous photo of Johnson after don Johnson once asked, “What the hell’s the the assassination, Judge Sarah T. Hughes swears presidency for?” him in aboard Air Force One Robert A. Caro asks the same as Jackie Kennedy looks on. question of history in the fourth Caro puts the scene in context: volume of his monumental LBJ Johnson had asked Bobby Kenbiography, The Passage of Power nedy to nominate Hughes to the (Knopf, 736 pages, $35). If hisfederal bench in 1961, but Bobby torians cannot give their fullest refused, humiliating Johnson consideration—eventually five until House Speaker Sam Rayvolumes’ worth—to a hardburn intervened and Hughes drinking, profane, philandering, was appointed. Her presence on corrupt one-term president Air Force One was a signal. from the South too often conJust as LBJ was “Master of the signed to oblivion for his role in Senate,” Caro is Master of the the Vietnam War, then what the Sentence. After Johnson wins hell is history for? his first, crucial vote in the SenPassage begins with Johnate, Caro writes: “Another eleson’s reach for the White House ment had been his decisiveness: in 1958, and continues through his gift, equally rare, not only his pivotal role in the election What the hell is history for? for sensing in an instant, in the of JFK and his wilderness years midst of the cut and thrust and as vice president until Kenparry of debate on the Senate nedy’s assassination in 1963. The second half of floor, which way the Senate’s mood was running the book covers the transformative seven weeks on a bill, and not only, if the mood was running in between Kennedy’s funeral and Johnson’s first the wrong direction, for sensing the moment at State of the Union address. which the tide might be turned, but a gift as well Books like Theodore H. White’s The Making not only for sensing the moment at which the tide of the President 1960 virtually ignore Johnson’s might be turned, but for seizing it—for launching, indispensability to the Kennedy campaign. on the instant, maneuvers that turned the tide.” Caro hilariously recounts how Johnson, dur- Caro laps the sentence back and forth, repeating ing his whistle-stop tour of the South, would the words “not only” like waves in that tide. Writleave his microphone on as he pulled away from ing like this is enough to make other historians small towns like Greer, S.C. “The Yellow Rose of weep. It is what the hell history is for. MATT Texas” blared from the train’s loudspeakers, and BUCKINGHAM. Johnson’s mike would pick up his profane asides to assistant Bobby Baker: “Goodbye, Greer. God READ: Robert A. Caro’s The Passage to Power is on sale in bookstores. bless you, Greer. Bobby, turn off that ‘Yeller
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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 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. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Bridgeport, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall.
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Of all the Australian drag-queen road movies, Stephan Elliott’s 1994 dramedy is certainly in the upper tier. R. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Wednesday, May 2. Presented by Koalapalooza..
The Artist
64 Lavished with Oscars, the comedy from Michel Hazanavicius 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. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre.
Blue Like Jazz
67 Don Miller (Marshall Allman) is
a Texas Baptist in the land of ’80s hair whose ostensibly devout mother sleeps with his youth pastor, sending him angrily off to a stereotypically exaggerated Reed College for autoreprogramming 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). Largely due to Allman’s nuanced performance as Miller, the often laughably broad-stroked 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. PG13. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Fox Tower.
Bully
72 Hell is other children, as anyone who came of age in the public school system is well aware. 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, director Lee Hirsch simply turns the camera on and lets the abuse speak for itself. To some, that might sound overly reductive. But if Bully understands anything, it’s the visceral power of human experience. 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 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. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Forest, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, Evergreen Parkway, Tigard, Wilsonville.
Chimpanzee
The life and times of a presumably adorable 3-year-old chimp, narrated by
fellow simian Tim Allen. Not screened for critics. G. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Bridgeport, Evergreen Parkway, Wilsonville.
The Clean Bin Project
82 [ONE WEEK ONLY] Canadians
Jenny Rustemeyer and Grant Baldwin have created a tidy little documentary that depicts their yearlong effort to stop producing garbage. Agreeing not to buy any non-food goods and vowing off all packaging, the two give a surprisingly compelling 365-day chronicle of their efforts and all the inevitable ass-aches their noble mission brings. They manage to live alongside their minimal waste and explore the history of consumption in the Western world, breaking up the monotony of their daily struggles by interviewing relevant sources (including Charles J. Moore, who first discovered the Eastern Garbage Patch, or “plastic island,” in the Pacific Ocean). The project does fall under “upper-middle-class ambition” (Rustemeyer and Baldwin have the resources to shop farmers markets almost exclusively and the time to make their own toothpaste and detergent), but instead of framing their efforts in stuffy self-righteousness, the two are more focused on competition within their own home. And while there are some notable omissions (including the issue of toilet paper), the film doesn’t shy away from the logistics of cutting waste—specifically, the unbalanced division of labor and the inevitable strain it puts on even the most well-intentioned relationship. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm and 9 pm Friday-Wednesday, May 4-9.
Cycling Through China
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL, DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER ATTENDING] A 1983 television special produced in Portland following a group of early ’80s TV stars (including Ben Vereen) touring China by bike. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Monday, May 7.
Damsels in Distress
87 I can only imagine how foreign
Damsels in Distress must seem to someone who has never seen a Whit Stillman film before. For those of us who count his three previous movies as rare treasures, for we faithful who have kept vigil 13 years for another completed work, the movie is both an advent and an inevitable letdown. For the uninitiated, it must seem as baffling a world as anything in John Carter. Here is a movie about the mating habits of arrogant, mildly deranged dandies who talk like they stepped out of a Fitzgerald novella and care about nothing so much as starting a ballroom dance craze. Who are these persnickety loons? But if Damsels in Distress is the Stillman movie most out of step with the modern world, it’s also about the difficulty of achieving anything like normality, and the honor in trying. Whit Stillman can never be normal. He’s too good. PG-13. AARON MESH. City Center, Fox Tower.
The Deep Blue Sea
73 Not to be confused with the movie
in which Samuel L. Jackson got eaten by a motherfucking shark, this Deep Blue Sea is about a woman devoured by something else entirely: adulterous lust. It’s probably no coincidence that her name is Hester (Rachel Weisz). Trapped in a passionless marriage, she begins an affair with a handsome flyboy (Tom Hiddleston), and the guilt drives her to attempt suicide. Then things really go downhill. Adapting Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play, Terence Davies gives the postwar British drama a gauzy, painterly translation, but this is an actors’ film. Weisz burns radiantly even while playing a woman whose light is slowly being snuffed. As her betrayed husband,
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HAMMER AND SHIELD: Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans team up in The Avengers.
THE A-TEAM JOSS WHEDON GOES FOR GLORY WITH THE AVENGERS. BY MATTHEW SIN GE R
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In helming The Avengers—the long-awaited convergence of four Marvel Comics properties into one gargantuan nesting doll of a summer blockbuster— Joss Whedon is burdened with glorious purpose. Those are his words, not mine, and they’re actually spoken by Loki, the effete alien overlord presenting the avenging force with its first challenge. Still, what an apt and appropriately fustian description of the monumental task Whedon has taken on. The Avengers isn’t just weighted by the typical expectations of the normal box-office bulldozer. After five movies’ worth of prologue, the film has also absorbed the expectations of the individual franchises. As a geek God, Whedon knows the stakes. Succeed and become a Comic-Con immortal. Fail, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer suddenly seems so long ago. That’s some heavy pressure. Luckily, there is perhaps no other mass-producer of pop culture better equipped to handle it than Whedon. He is blessed with an intrinsic knowledge of what audiences want—a gift he displayed, albeit mockingly, in last month’s The Cabin in the Woods—and the ability, as a writer and director, to deliver with maximum satisfaction. In that regard, he does not stumble. It’s hard to imagine anyone who’s spent the past five years playing out a vision of an Avengers movie in their head being disappointed with what Whedon has come up with. It’s big and loud, exhilarating and funny, meaningless but not dumb. It is glorious entertainment. In some ways, Whedon actually had it easy. The foundation was already laid for him. Unhindered by the dull necessity of origin stories, which no one needs to know anyway, he’s free to laser straight to the good stuff. The opening scene yields the arrival, via space portal, of intergalactic fascist ideologue Loki. Played by Tom Hiddleston, he looks like a European house DJ. Appropriately,
his weapon of choice is a giant glowstick. Landing in the headquarters of a clandestine military agency, he massacres some anonymous guards and steals the Tesseract. What’s the Tesseract? Hell if I know. It’s the glowing, cube-shaped MacGuffin unearthed at the end of the Captain America movie, and its only purpose, as far as I can tell, is to give the billion-dollar ensemble an excuse to assemble. It takes about an hour for all of them to appear onscreen together at the same time, but from there, it’s on, with Whedon pairing them off for a series of dream fights pulled straight from a Marvel message board before the final battle royal with Loki’s army in midtown Manhattan gives us the inevitable Michael Bay-style wrap-around shot signifying that, yes, the gang’s all here. Amazingly, no one gets lost in the shuffle. The Avengers are an all-star team, and directing The Avengers is like coaching one: Half the work is ego management. Of all he accomplishes here, Whedon’s greatest achievement is the balance of his script. It’d be easy for Robert Downey Jr. to dominate as Tony Stark, but Steve “Captain America” Rogers (Chris Evans), Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo, replacing Ed Norton in the role of the pre-rage
THE AVENGERS IS GLORIOUS ENTERTAINMENT. Hulk) and even Chris Hemsworth’s Thor prove able sparring partners, verbal and otherwise. Even lesser heroes Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) emerge as more than side-players. Oddly, the only actor who ends up wasted is Samuel L. Jackson. As Nick Fury, the eye-patched military recruiter whose cameos in the previous films built this party, he’s the rug tying the room together, and that’s what he remains: a mere furnishing. Outside that misstep, Whedon never lets go of his characters, and it’s that act of heroism alone that earns him a pass to the pantheon. Welcome to immortality, Joss. 88 SEE IT: The Avengers is rated PG-13. It opens Friday at Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Division Street, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
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Simon Russell Beale looks like a wounded, declawed polar bear; his sympathy is well-earned. And Hiddleston is tremendously amusing as Hester’s dashingly dim lover. His finest moment comes in the middle of an argument at a museum over his lack of culture, ending with him stomping off in a huff. “I’m going to see the Impressionists!” he shouts. MATTHEW SINGER. Cinema 21.
Footnote
80 The academic-jealousy comedy is such a rare and delightful sighting (the last good one I can remember is Wonder Boys) that it magnifies the minor pleasures of this filial scuffle between Talmud scholars. (The dueling Shkolniks are basically the Archie and Peyton Manning of Jewish studies, if Archie kept running back on the field during Colts games.) Joseph Cedar’s direction has the fluid ridicule of a Payne or Coen: The brothers would especially relish a scene of rabbinical sages packed into a filing room like it’s a clown car. PG. AARON MESH. Fox Tower.
ematography and wisely restrained storytelling, make The Great Northwest a film that will awe—and quite possibly choke up—anyone who loves the green-tinted paradise we call home. RICHARD SPEER. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Wednesday-Thursday, May 2-3.
Harlan County U.S.A.
98 [ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL,
DIRECTOR ATTENDING] Barbara Kopple’s 1976 documentary of a coal miner’s strike in Harlan County, Ky., deservedly won an Academy Award when it was produced, and it remains just as relevant and moving today. Kopple followed the workers and their families for 18 long months, through fights with coal company Pinkertons, the continuing poverty of the miners and even the murder of one of the striking
workers. “I found out later that they planned to kill us that day,” Kopple said, in a discussion led much later by critic Roger Ebert. “They wanted to knock us out because they didn’t want a record of what was happening.” More than any Occupy Whatever demonstration led for the press’s attention and the country’s sympathy, this documentary shows the actual grit and determination needed to effect even low-level change for the bottom 1 percent of the nation’s working poor. The film’s pro-union message seems sometimes a bit anachronistic in a country that’s just as likely to complain about the management of the unions as that of the company they work for, but the dedication of the workers themselves to their basic rights and simple safety is undeniable. “Somebody die in there every
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51 Quite an interesting experiment Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller have cooked up here: A movie called The Five-Year Engagement that plays out in real time. At least, that’s what it feels like. Cashing in the creative capital earned from 2008’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall— somewhat surprisingly, the product of the Apatow hit factory that’s aged the best—and their triumphant resurrection of the Muppets franchise, the writing-acting-directing duo haven’t made a romantic comedy here so much as a two-plushour crawl through a disintegrating relationship with intermittent moments of unrelated comedy occurring around it. Somewhere, there’s a wall in desperate need of a scrub-down because of all the shit Segel and Stoller tossed against it. A few things stick, but mostly, the nonsequiturs and loose improvisation just makes every scene go longer than it needs to. Even Stoller, who directs, can’t keep up with everything, losing track of characters and narrative threads and the various injuries suffered by the cast. This is a movie where Emily Blunt gets shot in the thigh with a crossbow and the incident is never brought up again. On the plus side, every scene involving Segel sporting mutton chops is pure gold. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
Friends With Kids
53 It reverses the direction of the typical casual-shtup rom-com—love stumbling upon lust rather than the other way around—but it’s just a different route for ending up at the same place. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Lake Twin.
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DIRECTOR ATTENDING] Local filmmaker and artist Matt McCormick’s deeply moving 76-minute art project, The Great Northwest, retraces a 3,400-mile road trip taken by four single thirtysomething women back in 1958—think On the Road meets an Eisenhowerera Sex and the City. McCormick found the women’s hyper-detailed travel journal at a thrift store and set off in their footsteps and tire tracks 53 years later, juxtaposing shots of the journal (photos, motel receipts, national and state park passes) with present-day shots of the same sweeping vistas. There’s a melancholic tinge to the film: Where kitschy, old-school motor lodges once stood, a U.S. Bank branch now crowds alongside a supermarket and parking lot. And you wonder what happened to the women themselves (McCormick says at least two are dead; the other two, if alive, are in their 90s). These emotional undercurrents, along with spectacular cin-
A GIRL AND HER SQUIRREL-FOX: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
THE MASTERS OF STUDIO GHIBLI The films of Hayao Miyazaki and the other animators associated with Tokyo’s Studio Ghibli are renowned for their illustrative elegance and wondrous imagination. Funny, then, that the company originated in 1985 as a thumb to the eye of the rest of the Japanese anime industry. Its name translates to “Mediterranean wind,” the idea being that the studio was constructed to blow away all others. As the NW Film Center’s monthlong retrospective shows, it just about has. Although it actually predates his co-founding of Ghibli by a year, Miyazaki’s second feature, the 1984 post-apocalyptic folk tale Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (7 pm Friday, 1 pm Saturday, 4:15 pm Sunday, May 4-6), introduces the visual style and thematic principles that would become the studio’s hallmarks. In a dystopian future, mankind is not only wholly separated from nature but deathly afraid of it—which is understandable, considering nature consists of giant insects whose eyes glow red with rage whenever a human disturbs their habitat. Only Nausicaä, a hang-gliding ecowarrior Christ-figure in a short blue dress and thigh-high boots, possesses the interspecies empathy to bring harmony back to a war-ravaged planet. It’s a stunning environmentalist parable. In the subsequent years, Miyazaki broke through to international audiences with modern-day fables like My Neighbor Totoro (4 pm Saturday, 7 pm Sunday, May 5-6), Princess Mononoke (7 pm Saturday and Monday, 4 pm Sunday, May 12-14), and his grandest achievement, 2001’s Spirited Away (7 pm Thursday, 1:30 pm Saturday, May 24 and 26), the only foreign film to ever win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. Meanwhile, Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata established a reputation of his own, if primarily just in Japan, directing the coming-of-age period piece Only Yesterday (4 pm Saturday, 7 pm Sunday, May 12-13) and his own environmentalist fantasy Pom Poko (7 pm Friday, 2 pm Sunday, May 25 and 27). Strangely, his personal masterpiece, the powerful war drama Grave of the Fireflies, is conspicuously missing from the festival lineup, while his only intermittently amusing comic-strip adaptation, My Neighbors the Yamadas (4:30 pm Saturday, 7 pm Sunday, May 19-20), makes the cut. It’s the closest thing to Cars 2 in the studio’s otherwise spotless résumé. MATTHEW SINGER. A tour of Japan’s greatest animation studio.
92 SEE IT: Castles in the Sky: Miyazaki, Takahata, and the Masters of Studio Ghibli starts Friday. Check nwfilm.org for a complete schedule.
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day,” a worker says, pointing to the mine. “If I get shot,” says a longtime union family member, “they can’t shoot the union outta me.” This film feels like the America that still matters. PG. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Hollywood Theatre. 9:30 pm Friday, May 4. Presented by the Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival. Preceded at 7:30 pm by a screening of A Force of Nature, Kopple’s documentary on journalist and philanthropist Ellen Ratner.
Strong! by Julie Wyman A weightlifter struggles to defend her title as her career inches towards its inevitable end.
The Hunger Games
The Hunter
78 Willem Dafoe hunts a rare tiger
in the jungles of Tasmania? Sign me the fuck up! Like The Grey, whose trailer insinuated Liam Neeson would spend the movie killing wolves with his bare hands, a one-line synopsis of Daniel Nettheim’s outback thriller suggests a man-versus-wild free-for-all. It doesn’t quite turn out that way. Instead of depicting a crazed descent into primal madness, The Hunter winds up the story of regained humanity, with Dafoe giving a largely internalized performance, played through his eyes and the deep trenches carved into his skin. And while the climax never escalates into a blood orgy, it nevertheless achieves a stirring, quiet poignancy. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters.
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? They are, and the movie walks boldly through that door. R. AARON MESH. 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. 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.
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 slick-haired 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
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84 A few assurances for anxious
Hunger Games book fans: Actress Jennifer Lawrence doesn’t ruin bowwielding heroine Katniss. Death still comes by genetically engineered dog, spear and swarm of hallucination-inducing bees. There is no way in hell anybody will mistake your beloved young-adult “girl battles dystopian regime” series for Twilight. In fact, director Gary Ross’ movie version of The Hunger Games is more than a big-screen cash grab. It’s a tense drama with bursts of raw emotion and unsettling (if mostly unseen) violence. In other words: It’s a good movie all by itself. KELLY CLARKE. Lloyd Center, Indoor Twin, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lake Twin, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
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Kung Fu Theater: Invincible Shaolin [ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Big sideburns, disco clothes, homoeroticism and the kicking of ass. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, May 8.
Lockout
It’s Taken in space! Are throat chops effective in zero gravity? Not screened for critics. PG-13. Forest, Oak Grove.
The Lucky One
52 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. PG-13. KELLY CLARKE. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
Manhunter
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Michael Mann introduces Hannibal Lecter to the cinema zeitgeist, five years before The Silence of the Lambs. R. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Monday. May 7. Introduction by PSU Film professor Dustin Morrow.
Marley
75 Of all the martyr figures in
20th-century pop music, death did Bob Marley the greatest disservice. 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. He presents Marley’s biography linearly and without much cinematic flash. 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 por-
trait as anyone can hope to paint. Hollywood Theatre, Living Room Theaters. MATTHEW SINGER.
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. PG. PENELOPE BASS. Indoor Twin, Cedar Hills, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Tigard, Wilsonville.
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[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A documentary on the Cambodian genocide, produced in Portland. Smith Memorial Student Union at Portland State University. 7 pm Wednesday, May 8.
Pina 3D
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95 Up to now, 3-D in film has been
an enterprise largely extraneous to the character of film itself: moviedom’s version of the 10,000 lovefattened cherubs overwhelming the interior of a baroque church. German auteur Wim Wenders’ Pina—an elegiac documentary about the work of late, iconoclastic choreographer Pina Bausch—is something else altogether, a brokenhearted Billie Holiday to the 3-D form’s usual emptily virtuosic Ella Fitzgerald. Pina is, in fact, the most emotionally affecting film I saw last year. PG. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Living Room Theaters.
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
76 After detouring into conventional CGI with last year’s Arthur Christmas, Aardman Studios—home to Wallace and Gromit and 2000’s Chicken Run—returns to the vibrant claymation and madcap humor of founder and director Peter Lord. Following a not-so-fearsome pirate captain named the Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) on his quest to win the top prize at the Pirate of the Year Awards, the film fully earns its title’s exclamation point with whiz-bang action sequences to rival Spielberg’s similarly globetrotting Adventures of Tintin, the most fun involving a runaway bathtub, an Easter Island statue and a monkey in disguise. Stick around for the end credits, if only to see how the filmmakers refer to the Captain’s unnamed crew. Try to figure out which one is “the Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate.” PG. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
The Raven
22 The Raven—similar to director
James McTeigue’s previous film, V for Vendetta—is a sort of wish-fulfillment fantasy for gothic-minded 12-year-olds, a Victorian Never-Never Land for the lonely and “misunderstood” in which a series of murders based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe can be solved only by the lovelorn genius himself. Really, the film
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should be crimson candy for Poe’s natural fan base of boys who wear lipstick and girls who part their inkblack hair relentlessly in the middle. But it isn’t. In part, this is because the film hedges its bets into a bland, ploddingly humorless stew that refuses to be funny even by accident until the film’s genuinely rib-busting final shot. It’s almost petty, in this situation, to get upset with the wild implausibilities of the murders and motives, the shoddy police work and the gaping plot holes. But a movie that reminds us constantly of its hero’s genius should at some point convince us that human intelligence is a real thing, not merely an irritating and pretentious affectation. As it is, the film’s only homage to Poe is that it is, indeed, dreary. R. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Living Room Theaters, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Sandy.
at the Vatican. It finally answers the burning question: What would a Top Gun-style volleyball tournament among members of the College of Cardinals look like? They’ve got leisure time because the newly elected pope has gotten cold feet and fled. We follow His Holiness as he cruises around Rome for self-discovery, and kick it with the cardinals as they screw around and wait for him to return. It’s lighthearted fun, but tonal shifts toward the serious derail the film’s spirit. AP KRYZA. Living Room Theaters.
Wrath of the Titans
42 In Greek mythology, the god Kronos feared being usurped by his children, so he ate them. That scene,
which would probably make Bully pale in comparison, is missing from the CGI-heavy sequel to Clash of the Titans, but it’s still a fitting analogy for how special effects have swallowed such action movies. This one’s no slouch in the rocks-hurtling-atthe-screen department. The indifferent plot is recouped by some evocative imagery: Kronos recalls Chernabog from Disney’s “Night on Bald Mountain” sequence in Fantasia, flinging lava in swaths like an infernal Jackson Pollock. 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. Oak Grove.
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Safe
Jason Statham blows some shit up, probably. Not screened for critics, because only pussies critique the Stath, bro. R. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Bridgeport, Cornelius, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Tigard, Sandy.
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
BAND SHOWCASE Friday, May 11th Mississippi Studios 8 pm doors, 9 pm show Free. 21+
37 The problems of three little people add up to a pile of dead salmon. PG-13. AARON MESH. 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 MidAugust 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.
The Three Stooges
A trio of developmentally disabled adults POKE EACH OTHER IN THE EYE. Not screened by WW press deadlines. PG. Clackamas.
Visuals: A Community Film Festival
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Local short films selected by the PSU Film Committee. Also: free pizza! Fifth Avenue Cinema. 7 pm Friday. May 4.
Think Like a Man
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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. 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. PG-13. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Bridgeport, Lloyd Mall.
Titanic 3D
It turns out the heart does go on. PG-13. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Eastport, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, Lloyd Mall.
We Have a Pope
66 Filling a void left since 1991’s
The Pope Must Diet, papal satire We Have a Pope is a rare film shot
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GUT ROT: Juan of the Dead.
JUAN OF THE DEAD The Cuban zombie crisis.
No wonder they lumber and moan. Zombies are the hardest-working ghouls in cinema, walking hunks of rotting flesh forced, like shambling Atlases, to shoulder metaphors both fascinating and overwrought. They’ve been the vessels for symbolism ever since George Romero used them (inadvertently) to criticize rural racism back in 1968, and have since served to speak on everything from consumerism to the drudgery of mindless work, even in titty bars. So it makes sense that Cuba’s first horror film (that isn’t a documentary, at least) is the zed-head comedy Juan of the Dead—this is, after all, a country with a built-in fear of invasion from the outside, so what better way to communicate those fears than an invasion from the inside, with the government circumventing the crisis by blaming it on political revolution? The film centers on its titular hero (Alexis Díaz de Villegas) and his oafish buddy Lazaro (Jorge Molina), two well-intentioned con men who find themselves adept at zombie-slaying early on and get enterprising with a business wherein they, along with their estranged children, a slingshotwielding transgendered hooker, and a pimp with a Mike Tysonesque facial tattoo, eradicate the undead from people’s property for a reasonable price. Business, of course, is booming. Like in any movie of the genre, Juan’s best qualities are its zombie gags, which range from a terrifically gross multi-decapitation joyride and a killer harpoon scene to a well-meaning (if shoddy) underwater homage to Lucio Fulci. But where it loses its footing is in its characters. In more controlled horror comedies (like Juan’s closest cousin, Shaun of the Dead), there’s a bit of room for the characters’ motivations to be fleshed out amid the darkness, as even the biggest goofball is forced to confront moral quandaries amid the bloodshed. With Juan, director Alejandro Brugués expects us to follow the characters without questioning them, giving the film a chest-beating sense of righteousness amid the slapstick carnage. Maybe that’s the point. After all, this is—as all films in this genre tend to be—a reflection of the society in which it was made, here showing how the Cuban everyman might react to undead Armageddon. The problem is, its characters are presented as inherently lovable, but they are actually just as menacing as the monsters they fight. There’s a lot of fun to be had here, but when the heads stop rolling and we’re asked to care, well, the film only becomes symbolic of lazy writing. AP KRYZA. 67 SEE IT: Juan of the Dead opens Friday at the Hollywood Theatre.
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7818 SE Stark St., 503-252-0500 THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 04:30 AMERICAN REUNION FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:45, 09:10 THE RAID: REDEMPTION Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:00, 09:35 FRIENDS WITH KIDS Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 07:15 JOHN CARTER Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 04:20, 07:00 WANDERLUST Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 09:45 MAD MEN Sun 09:00
IT’S BAD BUSINESS: Let’s all take a moment to thank George Raft for The Maltese Falcon. Sure, he’s not actually in it—that’s why we’re grateful. The blank chorus boy with the tough-guy mug made a second career out of turning down plum Warner Bros. roles (along with Falcon, he rejected High Sierra and Casablanca), and each time the work fell to Humphrey Bogart. Sam Spade made Bogie: It set the template for how his predatory grin would be belied by eyes sadder than a basset hound walking through a puddle. Nobody did tragedy so casually as Bogart onscreen—except maybe Raft in real life. AARON MESH. Showing at: Laurelhurst. Best paired with: Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. Also showing: Cinco de Lebowski (Bagdad, 10 pm Friday, May 4). Regal Fox Tower Stadium 10
807 Lloyd Center 10 and IMAX
1510 NE Multnomah Blvd., 800-326-3264 SAFE Fri-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:20, 02:40, 10:05 THE HUNGER GAMES FriSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:25, 03:30, 06:50, 10:00 THE CABIN IN THE WOODS FriSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:05, 02:25, 04:55, 07:25, 09:50 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS 3D Fri-Sun-MonTue-Wed 02:30, 07:10 THE RAVEN Fri-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:40, 03:40, 06:40, 09:40 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS Fri-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:10, 04:50, 09:30 THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT Fri-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:50, 03:55, 07:15, 10:10 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:00, 04:15, 05:00, 07:30, 10:45 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:00, 01:30, 03:15, 06:30, 08:30, 09:45 DARK SHADOWS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:30, 03:45, 07:00, 10:15
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Clinton Street Theater
2522 SE Clinton St., 503-238-8899 THE CLEAN BIN PROJECT Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:00, 09:00 BIKE SMUT Tue 09:00
Laurelhurst Theatre
2735 E. Burnside St., 503-232-5511 TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 06:45 CHRONICLE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:35 THE MALTESE FALCON Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 07:00 WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:10 FRIENDS WITH KIDS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:30 CASA DE MI PADRE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 09:50 THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:20 WANDERLUST FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:10
CineMagic Theatre
2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-231-7919 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:30, 08:25
Fifth Avenue Cinemas
510 SW Hall St., 503-7253551 VISUALS: A COMMUNITY FILM FESITVAL Fri 07:00
Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-281-4215 JUAN OF THE DEAD FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:15, 09:15 MARLEY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 06:45, 09:20 THE ARTIST Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 07:00 A FORCE OF NATURE Fri 07:30 HARLAN COUNTY, U.S.A. Fri 09:15 JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI Sat-Sun 03:00, 05:00 MAD MEN Sun 10:00 MANHUNTER Mon 07:30 INVINCIBLE SHAOLIN Tue 07:30 TWIN PEAKS Wed 09:30
846 SW Park Ave., 800-326-3264 FOOTNOTE Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 02:20, 09:50 BULLY Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:10, 02:25, 04:35, 07:00, 09:35 CORIOLANUS FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:40, 04:25, 07:05, 09:40 DAMSELS IN DISTRESS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:25, 02:45, 05:15, 07:40, 09:55 21 JUMP STREET Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 02:30, 04:55, 07:35, 09:55 JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:00, 04:50, 07:20 SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:15, 02:40, 05:00, 07:25, 09:45 THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:35, 04:30, 07:15, 09:50 THE LUCKY ONE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:05, 02:35, 05:05, 07:30, 10:05 SAFE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:30, 02:50, 05:10, 07:45, 10:00 BLUE LIKE JAZZ Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:20, 02:55, 05:20, 07:50, 10:05
NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium
1219 SW Park Ave., 503-221-1156 NAUSICAä OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND Fri-SatSun 04:15 MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO Sat-Sun 07:00 CASTLE IN THE SKY SatTue 07:00 CYCLING THROUGH CHINA Mon 07:00 OPEN SCREENING Wed 07:00 KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE
Pioneer Place Stadium 6
340 SW Morrison St., 800-326-3264 THE HUNGER GAMES FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:50, 04:00, 07:20, 10:25 THE CABIN IN THE WOODS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:10, 03:50, 07:05, 09:50 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS 3D Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 02:55, 07:15 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:45, 05:05, 09:25 TITANIC 3D Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:40 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS
Living Room Theaters
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “My father-in-law was convinced that his sheepdogs picked up his thoughts telepathically,” writes Richard Webster in his article “Psychic Animals. “He needed only to think what he wanted his dogs to do, and they would immediately do it. He had to be careful not to think too far ahead, as his dogs would act on the thought he was thinking at the time.” To this I’d add that there is a wealth of other anecdotal evidence, as well as some scientific research, suggesting that dogs respond to unspoken commands. I happen to believe that the human animal is also capable of picking up thoughts that aren’t said aloud. And I suspect that you’re in a phase when it will be especially important to take that into account. Be discerning about what you imagine, because it could end up in the mind of someone you know! CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your right brain and left brain have rarely been on such close speaking terms as they are right now. Your genitals and your heart seem to be in a good collaborative groove as well. Even your past and your future are mostly in agreement about how you should proceed in the present. To what do we owe the pleasure of this rather dramatic movement toward integration? Here’s one theory: You’re being rewarded for the hard work you have done to take good care of yourself. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A South African biologist was intrigued to discover an interesting fact about the rodent known as the elephant shrew: It much prefers to slurp the nectar of pagoda lilies than to nibble on peanut butter mixed with apples and rolled oats. The biologist didn’t investigate whether mountain goats would rather eat grasses and rushes than ice cream sundaes or whether lions like fresh-killed antelopes better than Caesar salad, but I’m pretty sure they do. In a related subject, Leo, I hope that in the coming weeks you will seek to feed yourself exclusively with the images, sounds, stories, and food that truly satisfy your primal hunger rather than the stuff that other people like or think you should like. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There are only a very few people whose ancestors were not immigrants. They live in Africa, where homo sapiens got its start. As for the rest of us, our forbears wandered away from their original home and spread out over the rest of the planet. We all came from somewhere else! This is true on many other levels, as well. In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you Virgos to get in touch with your inner immigrant this week. It’s an excellent time to acknowledge and celebrate the fact that you are nowhere near where you started from, whether you gauge that psychologically, spiritually, or literally. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “When I’m good, I’m very good,” said Hollywood’s original siren, Mae West, “but when I’m bad I’m better.” I think that assertion might at times make sense coming out of your lips in the next two weeks. But I’d like to offer a variation that could also serve you well. It’s articulated by
my reader Sarah Edelman, who says, “When I’m good, I’m very good, but when I’m batty, I’m better.” Consider trying out both of these attitudes, Libra, as you navigate your way through the mysterious and sometimes unruly fun that’s headed your way. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The Weekly World News, my favorite source of fake news, reported on a major development in the art world: An archaeologist found the lost arms of the famous Venus de Milo statue. They were languishing in a cellar in Southern Croatia. Hallelujah! Since her discovery in 1820, the goddess of love and beauty has been incomplete. Will the Louvre Museum in Paris, where she is displayed, allow her to be joined by her original appendages and made whole again? Let’s not concern ourselves now with that question. Instead, please turn your attention to a more immediate concern: the strong possibility that you will soon experience a comparable development, the rediscovery of and reunification with a missing part of you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Seventeenthcentury physicians sometimes advised their patients to consume tobacco as a way to alleviate a number of different maladies, from toothaches to arthritis. A few doctors continued recommending cigarettes as health aids into the 1950s. This bit of history may be useful to keep in mind, Sagittarius. You’re in a phase when you’re likely to have success in hunting down remedies for complaints of both a physical and psychological nature. But you should be cautious about relying on conventional wisdom, just in case some of it resembles the idea that cigarettes are good for you. And always double check to make sure that the cures aren’t worse than what they are supposed to fix. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Outer space isn’t really that far away. As astronomer Fred Hoyle used to say, you’d get there in an hour if you could drive a car straight up. I think there’s a comparable situation in your own life, Capricorn. You’ve got an inflated notion of how distant a certain goal is, and that’s inhibiting you from getting totally serious about achieving it. I’m not saying that the destination would be a breeze to get to. My point is that it’s closer than it seems. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When most Westerners hear the word “milk,” they surmise it has something to do with cows. But the fact is that humans drink milk collected from sheep, goats, camels, yaks, mares, llamas, and reindeer. And many grocery stores now stock milk made from soybeans, rice, almonds, coconut, hemp, and oats. I’m wondering if maybe it’s a good time for you to initiate a comparable diversification, Aquarius. You shouldn’t necessarily give up the primal sources of nourishment you have been depending on. Just consider the possibility that it might be fun and healthy for you to seek sustenance from some unconventional or unexpected sources. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You wouldn’t want to play a game of darts with an inflatable dartboard, right? If you were a smoker, you’d have little interest in a fireproof cigarette. And while a mesh umbrella might look stylish, you wouldn’t be foolish enough to expect it to keep the rain out. In the spirit of these truisms, Pisces, I suggest you closely examine any strategy you’re considering to see if it has a built-in contradiction. Certain ideas being presented to you -- perhaps even arising from your own subconscious mind -- may be inherently impractical to use in the real world.
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-Soy and Pillar Candles -Solid and Spray Perfumes -Body Butter and more
Presents an evening of Indian Classical Instrumental Music with Grammy nominated musician,
Tejendra Narayan Majumdar on Sarod, accompanied by Indranel Mallick on Tabla.
Cash, Check or Credit Cards. Check it out at our warehouse: 3135 NW Industrial St. Portland 97210
ADOPTION Adopt: Fun-loving, financially secure, childless couple eager to adopt newborn. Ready and excited about becoming parents. Our home is filled with love, laughter, family and friends...and we want to share all these special gifts with your baby. Expenses paid, Legal & Confidential,Please Call Maria and Paul at 1-888-315-6516 Visit us at www.miaandpaul.weebly.com
ADOPTION: The First Baptist Church, 909 SW 11th Ave Portland OR 97205 7:30pm, Saturday, May 12, 2012 Tickets are $20 in advance and available through www.kalakendra.org or may be purchased at the door for $25. Students and children $15.
Active young successful creative musical couple lovingly await 1st miracle baby. Expenses paid Dave&Robin 800-990-7667 PREGNANT? CONSIDERING ADOPTION? Talk with caring agency specializing in matching Birthmothers with Families nationwide. LIVING EXPENSES PAID. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions. 866-413-6293 (AAN CAN)
NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that ANGELA CARRAWAY has been appointed as Personal Representative of the Estate of Madeline Doris Carraway, Deceased. All persons having claims against the Estate are required to present them with vouchers attached to the Personal Representative in care of her attorney Richard L. Larson at the address listed below, within four months after the date of first publication of this Notice, or the claims may be barred.
503-445-3647 • ahorton@wweek.com
LESSONS CLASSICAL PIANO/KEYBOARD $15/Hour Theory Performance. All levels. Portland 503-735-5953 and 503-989-5925.
SUPPORT GROUPS ALANON Sunday Rainbow
5:15 PM meeting. G/L/B/T/Q and friends. Downtown Unitarian Universalist Church on 12th above Taylor. 503-309-2739.
Got Meth Problems? Need Help?
Oregon CMA 24 hour Hot-line Number: 503-895-1311. We are here to help you! Information, support, safe & confidential!
HERPES?
Free support group meets monthly in NW Portland, First Fridays at 7:30pm. 503-727-2640, info: portlandareahelp@aol.com
SERVICES ALTERATIONS/SEWING
Spiderweb Sewing Studio 503.750.6586 custom sewing quilt making leather home decor apparel alterations
spiderwebsewingstudio@gmail.com
BUILDING/REMODELING
All persons whose rights may be affected by these proceedings may obtain additional information from the records of the Court, the Personal Representative, or her attorney. Dated and first published: April 25th, 2012.
HAULING/MOVING
Haulers with a Conscience
503-477-4941 www.anniehaul.com All unwanted items removed (residential/commercial) One item to complete clear outs
Free Estimates • Same Day Service • Licensed/Insured • Locally Owned by Women We Care
We Recycle
We Donate
LANDSCAPING Able
Trimming, Pruning, Edging, Rototilling, Aeration, Hauling. Cheap Prices, References. Sprinkler Systems. 503-252-1658 or 503-740-8441. Bernhard’s Professional MaintenanceComplete yard care, 20 years. 503-515-9803. Licensed and Insured.
TREE SERVICES
Richard L. Larson, OSB #77255 Johnson, Johnson, Larson & Schaller, PC 975 Oak Street, Suite 1050 Eugene, Oregon 97401 Telephone: 541-484-2434 Email: rlarson@jjlslaw.com
Steve Greenberg Tree Service
Pruning and removals, stump grinding. 24-hour emergency service. Licensed/ Insured. CCB#67024. Free estimates. 503-284-2077
CAMPS CLEANING
20th Year Anniversary
Classes in music, theater, dance and visual arts
on the stages of the Portland Center for Performing Arts for ages 7-12.
July 9-13 & 16-20, Monday-Friday 9am – 4pm
$200 for one week or $310 for 2 weeks if you register by May 18th, 2012
metroartsinc.org • 503-245-4885
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GENERAL CONTRACTING Shea’s Home Repair & Remodeling
Full Service Home Improvement Please Call Tim Shea at 971-212-5304 CCB# 189584
HANDYPERSON MILLS HANDYMAN AND REMODELING 503-245-4397. Free Estimate. Affordable, Reliable. Insured/Bonded. CCB#121381
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