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“Hey, do you want to know your Native American spirit animal?” No, transplant dork, I do not. [“Best New Band,” WW, May 9, 2012.] This is actually the Top Ten Hipster Douche Bands, correct? This town had a music scene before this self-serving joke that is the current one. That’s OK, I don’t need to know the new local “it”-scene band. I’m good. We used to be known for cutting-edge bands; now we are known for emo and hipster trash and whatever it is that Zooey Deschanel does. —“Terence” My favorite part about the annual Best New Band issue? The same unoriginal comments complaining about the lack of originality of the list. Every. Year. It makes me giggle. Carry on. —“klc” Same, incestuous stuff. Open your eyes, Portland. Your [music] scene is not as awesome as you think it is. —“Kevin” Listening to this music, I wish I had stock in the company that produces reverb machines. —“James Miller” It’s all the same over-effected, uninspired ehh. There’s a lot of outstanding talent in the Northwest. Why can’t WW’s music insiders ever seem to find it? —“ed”
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So Jefferson Smith is the only mayoral candidate who has actually created any jobs and who hasn’t stretched the truth about his own record [“Scrubbing All Their Jobs Talk,” WW, May 9, 2012]. He should be elected just to send the message “stop the BS” to politicians. —“Dean Packer” Employing a person is not necessarily creating a job. To create a job requires creating a new source of revenue that supports a new position. Taking over the grocery market does not create jobs. New Seasons didn’t create any grocery-store jobs—it replaced Albertsons and Thriftway and other grocery-store jobs. (Whether they are “better” is arguable—good benefits, but nonunion....) —“Van”
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Lately, I have noticed an increase in helicopters around the new lightrail bridge. The cops suggest asking the news stations, but no big news stories correspond to the time and place. Any idea why the skies are so noisy these days? —Jessica D. First, allow me to congratulate you on having reached a level of success and comfort in life that unidentified buzzing noises in the sky are your biggest challenge. That said, as a member of the international liberal-media-Illuminati-Herbalife conspiracy, if I told you what we’re really doing up there with our black helicopters and chemtrails and so on, I’d have to kill you. Hell, I may have to kill you anyway. In the meantime, I called up the FAA’s Allen Kenitzer to find out what I could. “Our radar coverage [downtown] is limited by the West Hills, so at low altitudes it’s extremely unlikely
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that we’d have any radar data,” he said. Kenitzer also said you could try opening a Freedom of Information Act inquiry, which is governmentese for “ram it.” There have to be flight plans on file somewhere, though, right? Surely you can’t just fly whenever and wherever you want without checking in with a control tower somewhere? As it turns out, you can. If you’re taking off from a non-PDX helipad, not planning on any instrument flying and staying low enough to keep clear of jet traffic, you can just kind of buzz around and hope you don’t run into anybody. Kenitzer noted it’s pretty common for construction firms to use helicopters for surveying big jobs. Yeah, sure. Personally, I’d suggest you think about what the difference is—really— between a full-size helicopter a mile away and a teeny-tiny one hovering just a few feet over your head. Forever. Just sayin’. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com
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What began two years ago as a passion-fueled street brawl involving two foodies and a foreign pig has moved to an only slightly more civilized venue: the county courthouse. WW first reported the porcine fisticuffs following the May 17, 2010, visit of Cochon 555, a touring competition of chefs and winemakers co-founded by Brady Lowe. In a lawsuit filed April 14, Lowe demands BECHARD compensation for the battery he allegedly suffered at the hands of chef Eric Bechard, co-owner of Thistle restaurant in McMinnville. Witnesses told police and WW that Bechard was incensed that the competition included meat from an Iowa pig instead of one from Oregon. Portland police arrested both men—after administering pepper spray and Taser jolts—after a fight outside Magic Garden in Chinatown. Lowe’s attorney, Sonia Montalbano, declined to comment. Bechard did not return a message left at his restaurant. Good news for utility customers: Jason Eisdorfer, the longtime attorney for the Citizens’ Utility Board, a rate-payer advocacy group, has been named the top staffer at the Oregon Public Utility Commission. Eisdorfer, who most recently worked for the Bonneville Power Administration, will oversee a staff of 77 who evaluate the rate requests filed by PacifiCorp, Portland General Electric, NW Natural and other utilities. Eisdorfer was traveling and couldn’t be reached. “It’s a good sign,” says Bob Jenks, Eisdorfer’s former boss at the watchdog group. “Having somebody with a consumer advocate’s background in that job should give ratepayers confidence.”
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Former Portland State University Vice Provost Mike Burton pleaded guilty to official misconduct in Multnomah County Court on May 14. As WW first reported, a 2011 audit turned up fraudulent travel expenses, leading to Burton’s resignation and a criminal investigation. But Burton’s plea revealed an easily overlooked warning. As wweek.com also reported, PSU didn’t want a criminal investigation of Burton, who BURTON had offered to reimburse the university. The Multnomah County District Attorney’s office and Oregon Department of Justice say they’re concerned about PSU’s reluctance to pursue a criminal case—and about the adequacy of the university’s new spending controls. “We remain concerned about issues that came to light during the course of this investigation and whether adequate controls and procedures exist,” says a joint letter from Gary Meabe of the DA’s office and the DOJ’s Andrew Campbell. ELECTION NEWS: The May 15 primary results rolled in after WW went to press, but see our complete coverage of winners and losers at wweek.com/pdxvotes. Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt.
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If insanity is repeating the same behavior and expecting a different result, the people behind a proposal to develop a private casino in Wood Village might seem a little crazy. After all, voters in 2010 crushed their plan to build the state’s first private casino on the site of a defunct dog track in Wood Village, despite the backers spending $2.3 million on their campaign. But the same proponents—Bruce Studer and Matt Rossman of Lake Oswego—are back. They are again financed by Clairvest, a Canadian investment firm that specializes in gambling. And they’re pushing a proposal that is broadly similar to their 2010 measure, which failed 68 percent to 32 percent. So what’s different in 2012? For one thing, Studer and Rossman aren’t talking. This time, they are paying experienced pros to speak for their campaign and avoiding the kind of DIY effort that failed last time. Their campaign consultants include the longtime adviser to the group that led the fight against them in 2010. Studer and Rossman have also dropped plans to create a monopoly on private casinos that would have benefited their Wood Village site. The new version of their proposal would kick open the doors to more private gambling palaces across the state.
And they have reformulated how they would share gambling revenues with education and interest groups—a key part of their earlier strategy to get a buy-in from voters The basics of the casino proposal are the same. Studer, Rossman and their Clairvest backers want to build a destination casino on the site of the former Multnomah Kennel Club. Their vision includes a hotel, a theater and a fun park, including a giant water slide. The casino would include up to 3,500 slot machines and 150 card and roulette tables. To win this jackpot, the backers have to change the state constitution, which prohibits gambling. (Native American tribes enjoy a federal exemption to operate casinos.) This time, they’ve spent nearly $1 million to gather more than 100,000 signatures each for a measure to amend the constitution (which requires 116,284 valid signatures) and a statutory measure that lays out the financial terms of the casino (that petition requires 87,213 signatures). They face a July 6 deadline to submit both petitions to the state. The change in strategy is first evident when a reporter calls the once-talkative Studer and Rossman. Those calls now get returned by Anna Richter Taylor, the former spokeswoman for ex-Gov. Ted Kulongoski. Richter Taylor now works for Gallatin Group, an influential downtown lobbying and consulting firm. Gallatin is no stranger to casino wars. For most of the past decade, the firm advised the Grand Ronde tribes, owners of Spirit Mountain, the state’s largest casino, in their long-running battle to keep the rival Warm Springs tribes from relocating their Kah-Nee-Ta casino from its remote location to Cascade Locks. Spirit Mountain stands to be the biggest loser if the
Wood Village casino goes in; a gambling expert estimated two years ago the tribal casino could lose two-thirds of its business. But now Gallatin has switched sides. Grand Ronde spokesman Justin Martin says he’s “very disappointed” by Gallatin’s move. “We had a long relationship with Gallatin,” Martin says. “Their decision was somewhat of a surprise.” The casino proponents have also recruited Portland political consultant Mark Wiener, who specializes in campaign mail, and Kevin Looper, a veteran campaign strategist who primarily works on ballot measures. Looper teamed up with Wiener to help Gov. John Kitzhaber win election in 2010. Both will start helping the casino campaign after the May 15 primary. Last time out, the casino campaign stressed job creation and the benefits to state and local government. But those arguments wilted under studies finding that the casino might do more economic damage than it was worth. Opponents said a Wood Village casino would take money away from Oregon’s nine tribal casinos and the Oregon Lottery, the state’s second-largest source of funding after income taxes. And a state financial-impact study gave credence to those fears, predicting that more money would flow out of Oregon to the casino’s owners than remain in the state to create jobs. Looper, who has fought to increase tax revenue in Oregon, says the casino could be a winner for the state. “Any way in which we might be able to secure more funds for schools and more jobs for Oregon deserves a fair and full hearing,” Looper says. But the group representing the state’s largest employment sector, the Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association, will need a lot of convincing. Lobbyist Bill Perry says his group continues to oppose any off-reservation casino. CONT. on page 8 Willamette Week MAY 16, 2012 wweek.com
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And he’s convinced the Wood Village casino would merely shift spending from other Oregon entertainment and gambling enterprises, and such losses would not be outweighed by new money coming in from outside the state. “When you look at the casinos and bigger gambling, you lose discretionary spending in a 15-mile radius,” he says. “Any retail business should be concerned.” The 2012 casino campaign is already shifting toward a different focus: Oregon versus Washington. The Cowlitz tribe wants to build a destination casino in La Center, Wash., 15 miles north of Portland. That long-held desire
“THE COWLITZ CASINO IS A GAMECHANGER. THERE WILL BE A CASINO ACROSS THE RIVER. THAT’S NOT AN ‘IF’ BUT A ‘WHEN.’” —ANNA RICHTER TAYLOR, GALLATIN GROUP got a big boost in late 2010, when the U.S. Department of the Interior gave the tribe permission to move forward. The pro-Wood Village casino campaign will argue the Cowlitz will grab potential gambling revenues that could stay here—unless Oregon voters act fast and get into the gambling business first. “The Cowlitz casino is a game-changer,” Richter Taylor says. “There will be a casino across the river. That’s not an ‘if’ but a ‘when.’ The question is, can there be an Oregon solution that will keep the money on this side of the river?” Martin, a member of the Grand Ronde tribes as well as their spokesman, has been watching the Cowlitz’s plans carefully for years—and he scoffs at the idea that the Cowlitz casino is close to approval. He says the Cowlitz must still overcome a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that restricts gambling operations to tribes that were federally recognized before 1934. (The Cowlitz won federal recognition in 2002 but began talking about opening a casino at least five years before that.) The Cowlitz are also embroiled in federal litigation with Clark County and the city of Vancouver, Wash., which oppose the plan. And Martin notes that based on public filings, the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority—the Connecticut group that is supposed to finance the Cowlitz casino—remains mired in serious financial trouble. “You’ve got all these hurdles that are nowhere near being resolved,” Martin says. Tribes in Oregon currently pay no taxes on gambling revenues, although the Grand Ronde tribes have donated more than $100 million to charity since 1995. But another big form of gambling feeds public treasuries. The state-run Oregon Lottery chips in about 70 cents of every dollar it raises to the state budget for schools, parks and other programs. The Wood Village casino plan proposes that 25 percent of gross gambling revenues go to politically popular causes such as K-12 education, with less going to counties than last time and more to adjacent cities and Clackamas County. (The new plan also includes more money dedicated to law enforcement, which was shortchanged by the 2010 measure.) And while the measure would allow other private casinos, it would prohibit any new gambling operation within 60 miles of an existing tribal casino. And 3 percent of gross revenues would be earmarked for tribes. Martin says such concessions would do little to lessen the impact on tribes and the Oregon Lottery—or to change the underlying concerns voters had when they rejected the casino measure in 2010. “It really burns my ass,” he says, “that we are going to have to spend tribal dollars that could be dedicated to causes like education, health care and poverty to fight these guys off again.”
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The return address was listed 2413 NW Burnside St., Portland—a nonexistent location. The sender was “The MIB, LLC”—a nonexistent business. The more than 100 recipients, however, were real—as was their fear upon opening the envelopes and seeing white powder inside. The threatening letters supposedly sent from the same bogus Portland address were mailed to the offices of U.S. senators and various media organizations across the country in early March. They proved a frightening reminder of the postal anthrax attacks of 2001 that killed five people and infected 17 others. The powder in these letters was inert—and federal officials say they know who mailed them. On May 14, a federal magistrate in Portland ordered the conditional release of Christopher Lee Carlson, 39, the Vancouver, Wash., man charged with 12 felony counts of mail threats in connection to the hoax. Carlson had been held in the Multnomah County Detention Center since his March 30 arrest. U.S. Magistrate Judge Janice M. Stewart released him to a halfway house, ordered him not to drink alcohol and to keep appointments with his psychiatrist. Now, previously unreported documents in the case against Carlson reveal new details about his alleged crimes: He may be among the first accused domestic terrorists to claim sympathy with the Occupy Wall Street movement and the hacker group Anonymous. The records also include the letters themselves—also previously unreported—in which Carlson predicted more hoax letters would be sent, slowly bleeding the government of resources as officials respond to the threats. In fact, they have. In a two-week span starting April 26, six envelopes containing white powder were delivered to government buildings,
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universities and other public places around Portland. On May 11, the local FBI office said it had “stopped the sender or senders’ ability to continue this stream of threats,” but didn’t say how. Hoax terror threats have been on the upswing in the past decade. Investigations by the Los Angeles Times and USA Today found hundreds of white-powder letters are investigated every year by the FBI and the U.S. Postal Service. Carlson was an exception in that he got caught. Court records and Internet posts show Carlson to be a fan of Johnny Cash, using Cash’s picture on a Twitter account and blog, where (the FBI says) he called himself “The Man in Black.” “Hi,” began one batch of letters to U.S. senators. “If you just opened the envelope and pulled out this letter, you should know…that powdery stuff that just fell out of this letter along with my calling card is just cornstarch and celery salt. It won’t hurt you, promise. =)” The letters taunted the futility of official security measures: “You know how much this little hoax cost me to put on? About 60 bucks. How much will it cost the government? What if a lot of other people start getting ideas like this and implementing them? We can’t afford that, can we?” He also declared common cause with Anonymous and Occupy, but said he wasn’t affiliated with either group. Police and prosecutors have alleged no connection between Carlson and the latest hoax letters. In addition to the seven recent incidents, there were two such threats in Portland in the preceding year, according to Portland Fire & Rescue spokesman Paul Corah. The costs are adding up. The L.A. Times investigation put national bioterrorism-preparedness costs at more than $50 billion since 9/11. The Portland Fire Bureau’s full-time hazmat team— one of three in the metro area—was subsidized this year by a $23,000 federal grant. Local numbers are harder to pin down. But Corah says the hoax letters divert the hazmat team from responding to real, life-threatening incidents such as chemical spills. The letters are clearly accomplishing one goal: They have government workers on edge. Last week, the city’s printing and distribution division published a flier instructing employees who spot a suspicious letter or package to evacuate the area, call 911 and wash their hands with soap and water. Warning signs of a suspicious mail item, the flier says, include excessive postage or other indications that it may have been mailed from a foreign country, as well as a “strange odor” or “protruding wires.”
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Before President Barack Obama declared his support for same-sex marriage last week, he had been talking with Terry Bean about the issue for four years. Bean, a Portland real-estate broker, is a national power player in advocating for gay and lesbian rights, and a Democratic Party fundraiser who befriended Obama in 2007. “He has the president’s ear,” says former Oregon Gov. Barbara Roberts. Bean won’t take credit for Obama’s decision or discuss details of his recent conversations with him about samesex marriage. “Just like the rest of America, he was evolving on this issue,” Bean says, “and thought it was time he told people where he’d evolved to.” Gay-rights activists in Oregon are counting on the same kind of evolution among the state’s voters, who almost a decade ago banned same-sex marriage with a constitutional amendment. Bean thinks voters are growing more comfortable with the idea of same-sex marriage—and gay-rights forces could put the question on the ballot again in two years. “It’s moving faster than anything I’ve ever seen,” he says. This year, two states, New York and Washington, became the fifth and sixth states to pass laws legalizing same-sex marriage, adding to the sense of political momentum behind the idea. National polls show more than 50 percent of Americans support same-sex marriage. But in Oregon, only voters can change the state constitution. Voters passed the ban, Measure 36, by 57 to 43 percent in 2004. Voters are often reluctant to change their mind on ballot measures—even ones that aren’t so controversial. Plus, civil-rights advances are rarely made at the ballot box. Polling numbers haven’t shown the kind of sea change same-sex marriage advocates had hoped for. “Ultimately, we have to win a pretty challenging political fight,” says Jeana Frazzini, executive director of Basic Rights Oregon, the state’s largest gay-rights organization. “We are looking to move mountains in this state.” And opponents of same-sex marriage will be waiting. “We don’t know if they will put it on the ballot in
CIVIL UNION: Oregon gay-rights activist Terry Bean greets President Barack Obama in front of Air Force One on a Portland visit in October 2010. Then-candidate for governor John Kitzhaber looks on. Obama has also spoken at the Human Rights Campaign, which Bean co-founded.
2014,” says Teresa Harke, a spokeswoman for the Oregon Family Council, which founded the Defense of Marriage Coalition in 2004 to pass Measure 36. “We’re not sure if they even know. If they do, we will fight it, and we will fight it hard.” Last November, Basic Rights Oregon announced that it would not pursue a ballot initiative this year to overturn the state’s same-sex marriage ban. The decision by the state’s largest gay-rights organization came after a threeyear, six-figure media campaign. “Any time you have one side of a message going out, and the other side sitting by, you’re going to see a move in the polls,” Harke says. “If we had a ballot campaign, then you’ve got two sides.” Frazzini says Basic Rights Oregon’s polling showed support for same-sex marriage spiked by 10 percentage points from March 2010 to November 2011. That same polling showed it wasn’t enough. Basic Rights Oregon won’t release the results of its polling last fall, but three sources tell WW that the poll, conducted by Grove Insight, showed support for same-sex marriage statewide was between 46 and 49 percent. “It would have been a toss-up,” says Frazzini, who declined to confirm the actual numbers. The close margin didn’t provide same-sex marriage advocates the kind of cushion they thought they needed. Basic Rights Oregon and its 31-member advisory group,
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SCOOP ROTH-ERA GOSSIP (WITHOUT WOLFIE). WHY CAN’T THIS BE LOVE: Last week, someone dropped what we thought was a box of Voodoo Doughnuts at the WW office. Naturally, it sat for a few hours before anyone opened it. But in the box was something special: a gigantic doughnut emblazoned with the Van Halen logo. At first this made us Jump, because you just Can’t Get This Stuff No More (unless you import it from Panama). We reached down between our legs and eased the seat back only to find it tasted kind of like Poundcake. No, we Ain’t Talkin’ ’Bout Love here—the doughnut didn’t exactly make us want to Dance the Night Away. But we’re still pretty excited about Van Halen hitting the Rose Garden in August.
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In other round-bread news, fallout from the Kettleman Bagel sellout continues, with news that Kenny & Zuke’s will fill a big hole (geddit?) in the local market as the new bagel supplier to Portland Whole Foods markets. That’s a huge increase in production for the West End deli. Can it maintain the quality? In possibly related news, Michael Madigan’s upcoming Bowery Bagels will now be supplying Stumptown shelves—which have until now stocked Kenny & Zuke’s. We also notice Kenny & Zuke’s has switched from Stumptown coffee to Ristretto Roasters. Coincidence? Bad blood? No word back as of press time.
ODD COUPLE: Sterling Coffee Roasters and M Bar are about to become roommates. Although details are still being sorted, Sterling co-owner Aric Miller says the plan is for the local microroaster to operate out of the bar’s building on Northwest 21st Avenue during the day, then switch back into a bar at night. It’d be one of the only spaces of its kind in Portland. Once confirmed, the transition would occur “within a month,” Miller says. ALBUM WATCH: Three Portland bands of note have recently wrapped up recording new albums. Menomena is making its first record without singer/multi-instrumentalist Brent Knopf and planning a very special listening party for the new release. Wild Ones made last year’s Best New Band list and has been blowing our minds in concert ever since. TxE, the hip-hop trio, has been collecting samples from Portland bands (including And And And, Starfucker and Nurses) to use as the backbone of its next album. 14
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THURSDAY MAY 17 THE MAN WHO QUIT MONEY [CASHED OUT] Who hasn’t dreamed of quitting society and going to live in a cave? Author Mark Sundeen tells the story of Daniel Suelo, a guy who actually did just that. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free. CHAD CHATS [POWERPOINT] Portland’s only dedicated presenter of satirical PowerPoint presentations returns with another evening of funny lectures on subjects such as “Where Babies Come From, Where They Go When They Die, and Why This All is Your Fault.” The Jack London Bar, 529 SW 4th Ave., 228-7605. 8 pm. $5-$10.
YOUR NEIGHBOR’S CAR, IN PINEWOOD DERBY FORM. Sometimes you’re toast before the green flag falls. We couldn’t compete with the swell of creative force fueling the Stumptown 40 adult Pinewood Derby. Past races have seen models made to look like a pierced cock (complete with hairy balls), a whiskey bottle and Optimus Prime. One year, three turd-shaped race cars rolled down the ramp—one in the shape of South Park’s Mr. Hankey, the other two with corn kernels. But when someone is reprising the most exciting day on the Cub Scout calendar—with booze and without homophobia—it’s worth whittling up something. So WW turned our little block of wood into Portland’s flagship car, a Subaru Outback wagon just like the one your neighbor drives. There’s a miniature rack to hold a tiny mountain bike or windsurf board. You’ll find plenty of cargo space to haul native plants, recycled lumber, a craft keg or several sweaty yoga mats. And, of course, it’s covered in bumper stickers hitting all the right notes: preachy, nerdy and provincial. We’re pretty pleased with ourselves. Just like every other Outback owner. MARTIN CIZMAR.
FRIDAY MAY 18 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JACKPOTS [MUSIC] Dual record-store/recording-studio businesses Jackpot and Jackpot! celebrate their respective 15th birthdays in style, with an epic show headlined by the local heros of Quasi and legendary Northwest rock outfit the Minus 5 (plus System and Station, the Alialujah Choir, Blue Skies for Black Hearts and more). You’d be hard-pressed to find a more fitting tribute to the Portland experience than this one. Bagdad Theater, 3702 Hawthorne Blvd. 8 pm. $10. 21+.
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MAIFEST [BAVARIAN PARTY] Maifest? Oh, yeah, you know her—Octoberfest’s shy kid sister. For the first time, new German cultural group Zeitgeist Northwest will welcome spring with a yodeling workshop, music from Bodacious, and a maypole dance. Oh, and beer, which is how big sis got popular at parties. Oaks Park, 7805 SE Oaks Park Way. Free. 10 am-7 pm. zeitgeistnorthwest.org. HARRY SMITH TRIBUTE [MUSIC] The release 60 years ago of Harry Smith’s epochal Anthology of American Folk Music series was one of the most consequential acts of musicology ever perpetrated. Tonight, Portland bluesman Joe McMurrian has curated an ambitious tribute to that achievement, in which some 14 local acts will perform material from the stillunmatched collection. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St. 7 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show. All ages (minors must be accompanied by a parent).
MONDAY MAY 21 HARI KONDABOLU [COMEDY] A font of bile spewing in the direction of America’s culture of idiocy, the Queens-born comic is cut from the same scabrous cloth as Bill Hicks, aiming pointed broadsides at society’s most hateful and hypocritical. That said, he seems like a pretty chill dude. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 9 pm. $10.
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The next iteration of Din Din supper club will pop up for two nights, matching French dishes cooked by Courtney Sproule with Italian wines selected by bartender Kelley Swenson. The draft menu includes foie-gras dumplings, roasted pheasant and Meyer lemon parsley sorbet. They request you declare your allegiance to France or Italy when you RSVP. Reservations at 971544-1350 or courtney@dindinportland.com. Robert Reynolds Chefs Studio, 2818 SE Pine St., 544-1350. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, May 18-19. $95 plus gratuity. 21+.
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If you’re up for a drive to the windy banks of Hood River, Columbia Gorge wineries and eateries will be sampling their wares alongside live music. There will also (presumably) be some pears, although fruit is at the bottom of the basket. Proceeds go to the Rotary Club of Hood River Scholarship Program. Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum, 1600 Air Museum Road, Hood River. Noon-8 pm Saturday, noon-6 pm Sunday, May 19-20. $20 general admission, $35 weekend pass. Children free.
TUESDAY, MAY 22 The Truck Food Cookbook
Because God knows how many times you’ve thought, “If only I knew how to cook deep-fried bacon wrapped in bacon at home,” someone has finally committed the nation’s mobile, culinary miracles to print with The Truck Food Cookbook. Entries from Portland include Potato Champion’s poutine, Whiffies’ fried pies, Brunch Box’s grilledcheese cheeseburger and Koi Fusion’s kalbi-beef sliders. Testament to just how long it takes to publish a freaking book (or perhaps the impermanence of the Portland cart scene), four of the Portland carts aren’t even around anymore, so if you’re still jonesin’ for that Garden State chickpea sandwich, that’s in there, too. Author John T. Edge will be at Bunk Bar to talk Portland street food with the Portland Culinary Alliance and flog copies of the book. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 6-8 pm. Free.
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FRIED EGG I’M IN LOVE Which comes first, the pun or the menu? “We knew we wanted to do breakfast,” says the guy inside the bright-yellow Fried Egg I’m in Love cart on Hawthorne. “We thought about something NPR-themed.” This American Egg? “Yeah, that was one. Or All Eggs Considered.” Having cured the name problem another way, Fried Egg put together a simple menu that’s impressive in quality, if not variety. Everything at the cart, which opened in April, is a sandwich served standard on lightly toasted sourdough bread. All but the peanut butter and jelly ($4) and a veganfriendly black bean and veggie Order this: The Yolko Ono, $6. blend ($5) are built around the eggs. I’ll pass: For 75 cents you can Shrewdly, owners Jace Krause and upgrade to a “farm-fresh” egg. We didn’t notice much of a difRyan Lynch, who are bandmates ference from the regular egg. in a spacey folk group called Fort Union, also grabbed a bunch more egg puns off the table. Sorry to would-be operators of Huevo Mutilation and Free-Range Against the Machine—those are now items on another cart’s menu. The eggs really are just like a dream. Lightly fried with an orange-colored spice they call “magic egg dust” (I won’t ask them how they do that trick, but it has a dash of the familiar), they’re a great foundation. The Yolko Ono ($6), topped with pesto, Parmesan and hand-pressed sausage, is one of the best breakfast sandwiches in town. The OK Commuter ($5.50), bacon, cheddar and an over-hard egg that’s just a little runny in the middle, is a great quick, clean-fingered breakfast on the go. It’s also notable that service is shockingly fast—important and sadly rare in a breakfast-sandwich game where too many carts make it feel like you’ve waited hours for this. Take a big bite. It’s not quite a gorgeous sight, but it’s a damn good sandwich. MARTIN CIZMAR. EAT: Fried Egg I’m in Love, 3217 SE Hawthorne Blvd., friedegglove.com. 8:30 am-3 pm Wednesday-Friday, 9 am-3 pm Saturday-Sunday.
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Plankton Wat, Spirits (Thrill Jockey) Weirdness scale: 5/10 What kind of weird: Watching the slow-motion moments in a David Lynch film on repeat weird. It would appear that the men of Eternal Tapestry are slowly taking over indie label Thrill Jockey. Soon after signing with the Chicago-based imprint, the full band quickly put out two albums, and it has another on the way. Soon thereafter, Tapestry’s Nick Bindeman used Thrill Jockey to release a solo release under the name Tunnels. Now, the band’s other guitarist, Dewey Mahood, is getting in on the action with Spirits, a new LP from his solo moniker Plankton Wat. Whereas Tunnels seemed to be Bindeman’s chance to prove his ability to write funhouse-mirror pop, Mahood’s effort is a further exploration of the sunburnt psychedelics and dust-covered folk that is the full Eternal Tapestry experience. Where Portland’s Mahood breaks off from the fold is in his rather sedate approach to those mind-altering sounds. That isn’t to say this is a quiet record. Rather, the building of volume and dynamics here are more subtle and restrained. When the layers of keyboard drones and multiple undulating guitar lines crescendo on “Stream of Light,” it feels like a gentle wave instead of a quickly building tsunami. Other tracks like “Islands” and “Broken Slumber” maintain a steady roll thanks to live and programmed percussion and a quieter volume. This tempered approach suits Mahood brilliantly, as Spirits flows by with a steady calm that would go well next to a rippling stream or lost in the throes of a particularly righteous LSD trip. Better yet, these songs combine the two. ROBERT HAM. Ramona Falls, Prophet (Barsuk) Weirdness scale: 6/10 What kind of weird: Brent Knopf’s brain is a spaceship weird. Allow me to introduce you to Brent Knopf. He parted ways with Menomena last year to pursue his own project, Ramona Falls. He invented a music-looping software known as Deeler, which built the foundation for both of the aforementioned bands. For this, Ramona Falls’ second LP, he concocted album art that’s more of a physical activity than a visual resting place. Knopf is an unrelenting experimenter—and the 11-track journey through Prophet is ripe with new inventions. The album has a vastly different feel than the band’s 2009 debut, Intuit. Compared to the relative calm of Knopf’s first effort, Prophet oozes a more ambitious and hard-hitting sound. Which is ironic, considering it took a much smaller roster of contributors this time around. The key in listening to this album is persistence: It’s a lot to consume at once. Knopf’s piano-driven compositions and spacey vocals evoke a wide range of moods, resulting in a somewhat jarring first impression. The bright and catchy first half of the album delivers little warning for the impending intensity in later songs. “Archimedes Plutonium” grabs listeners with hand claps and peppy riffs, “Brevony” hits you with abrasive metal-inspired guitar odes and “Proof” yields an arresting fit of internal
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contemplation. Each spin unearths new details and, eventually, the album takes shape as a solid collection. I’m still figuring out where Prophet sits on a scale of good to excellent, but the record justifies Knopf’s decision to step away from Menomena. His settled-in home as Ramona Falls’ frontman provides the vocal and lyrical intimacy I had hoped to hear in his previous collaborations, while giving him even more room to play around in his workshop. But like I said, this album takes persistence to crack. EMILEE BOOHER. Strangled Darlings, Red Yellow & Blue (Self-released) Weirdness scale: 7/10 (But, compared to last year’s The Devil in Outer Space, more like a 1.) What kind of weird: Vaudevillian sideshow circa 1878 weird. There’s something wrong with the demented duo of George Veech and Jessica Anderly. They have honed the art of vividly eerie storytelling—from death marches to operatic numbers about the devil himself. Last year, the Darlings dropped The Devil in Outer Space: An Operetta, which showcased the group’s extensive musicality while also limiting its reach with its arthouse tendencies. With its new record, Red Yellow & Blue, however, the group hones its complex influences—including the aforementioned opera, plus a little rock, country, jig, plus gypsy jazz and funk for good measure—into its most satisfying and (gasp) fun record yet. That’s not to say the group has slackened its hold on morbidity—everybody from Lucifer to murderers and half-wits make appearances here—but there’s a new pep behind Veech’s Southern preacher-meets-Jack White vocals, which bound from jarring on the sharp and disquieting opening track, “Snake & the Girl,” to outright giddy on the peppy “J Howard Marshall,” a song that sounds almost peppy before Veech bitch-slaps the listener with “Anna Nicole, girl, your tits have grown cold.” Anderly, meanwhile, is a monster as the backbone, switching from Cab Calloway-style melodies to dark, thudding thunder with no discernible effort. Her exceedingly eerie violin and thumping cello dances with Veech’s jagged, off-kilter stabs of mandolin. And then Strangled Darlings really shock the listener, with a sweetly jazzy instrumental interlude called “My Love” that points to a soft spot in the group.
That’s hugely important for a band that thrives on its devilish side. Whether carrying us through a haunted caravan or into the arms of Death himself, the Darlings serve goosebumps with a demented grin. Red Yellow & Blue solidifies Veech and Anderly as prime attractions at a musical freakshow you can’t help but be swept into. AP KRYZA. Wizard Boots, Five Years on Earth With Wizard Boots (Self-released) Weirdness scale: 8/10 What kind of weird: Grown man living in his parents’ basement weird. Portland is home to many Wizards. There’s Wizard, teenage synth-rockers originally from Pendelton; epic math-metal band Wizard Rifle; and, of course, Jizz Wisard. But none of these other Wizards feign British accents and drop sloppy, oddly majestic songs like “Speedfreak4yrlove” and “Yogurt (I Just Ate Some).” Wizard Boots is the weirdest wizard band. Of course, song titles only begin to tell the story of a band that opens its stylistically diverse ( jangle-pop-folkmetal?) 21-track album with the line: “Who’s that man/ In the big black van.” When Wizard Boots isn’t relating Stones-y tales of jealous and occasionally masochistic love, the band is either getting real silly or real dumb. The ratio is just silly-heavy enough to make Five Years on Earth with Wizard Boots a worthwhile listen. Behind the Robyn Hitchcock accents and lo-fi aesthetic, there’s a sweet-and-sour sense of humor that keeps Wizard Boots compelling. The dark and immature folk-rock jam “You Better Stop Fucking Around” builds up what seems to be a twisted tale of infidelity before revealing the disappointing reveal: “I’ll tell you how/ I found you out/ You left your email logged on/ To my computer.” At other times, Wizard Boots can be misguidedly sweet, as on “Ten Years (3650 Days),” where singer/guitarist Christopher Elsken details crazy ways he’d like to woo his crush. It may have been worth Wizard Boots’ time to cut this gigantic collection down to the 10 or 15 sharpest songs. But then, depending on how twisted you are, your picks may be different than mine. CASEY JARMAN. SEE IT: See music listings, page 21, for these bands’ release-show information.
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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Prices listed are sometimes for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply. Event lineups are subject to change after WW’s press deadlines. Editor: CASEY JARMAN. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, go to wweek. com/submitevents and follow submission directions. All shows should be submitted two weeks or more in advance of event. Press kits, CDs and especially vinyl can be sent to Music Desk, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Please include show or release date information with all physical mailings. Email: cjarman@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 16 Jolie Holland, Stefan Jecusco
[GIN-SOAKED GIRL] Blessed with an endlessly inventive approach to vocal phrasing that ever stumbles over the thin line ’tween artful and bonkers, Jolie Holland has a burgeoning oeuvre (last year’s Pint of Blood was her fifth album since leaving the Be Good Tanyas) that has been described as folk, blues, jazz, the altiest of country and just about every homegrown genre beyond pop, which it most certainly is not. In truth, like her presumable inspiration and tireless booster Tom Waits, Holland draws from an all-encompassingAmericana that resists sepia overtones and bleeds emotive urgency through every addled syllable and ineffable pause: For Holland, it really is about the notes she doesn’t sing. JAY HORTON. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $15 advance, $17 day of show. 21+.
Mimicking Birds, When the Broken Bow, Casey Montgomery
[SOFT STORMS] They’re still spectral waifs, as hard to pin down as they are to catch sight of in the first place, but rumors of Mimicking Birds’ sophomore album are indeed circling around out there in the ether. Whilst we await that second installment of Nate Lacey’s whisper-sung dark lullabies, Portland’s When the Broken Bow is primed to offer a morethan-adequate holdover. Tonight marks the release of that trio’s debut record, We, the Dangerous Weapons, a specimen redolent with the jaunty pluck and broad emotional dynamics of theater folk (both the hyphenate genre and the sociological subphylum). SHANE DANAHER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10.
THURSDAY, MAY 17 U.K.
[U.K. IN THE U.S.] In the band U.K.’s first incarnation, it was a much-vaunted prog-fusion supergroup featuring members of King Crimson, Yes and Curved Air—it found some decent success here in the States with the three albums it released before splitting up in 1980. After circling around one another for years, three original members of the group—keyboardist Eddie Jobson, bassist John Wetton and drummer Terry Bozzio—have finally reconvened for a U.S. tour that will show off the band’s love of tight-knit vocal harmonies, ever-shifting time signatures, and electric violin solos. ROBERT HAM. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $39.50. Minors must be accompanied by a parent. All ages.
Wizard Boots, Objects in Space, The Slutty Hearts
See music feature, page 19. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 2266630. 9 pm. Cover. 21+.
Sean Flinn and the Royal We, The Lower 48, Great Wilderness
[NICE ’N’ EASY] Sean Flinn’s selfreleased 2010 debut, Write Me a Novel, is infectiously catchy. An under-recognized guitar-playing staple in Portland’s music scene, Flinn knows how to write simple yet enticing melodies that’ll get
stuck in your head. Especially when be brings in talented friends like Laura Gibson, Jolie Holland and Luz Elena Mendoza, all of whom contributed backing vocals on the album. Nearly two years later, Write Me A Novel is nice and settled, and Flinn and his Royal We are back at work on a second album that’s expected to near completion by the end of the summer. Having spent a lot of the last two years on the road, Flinn is growing ever more comfortable as a frontman. EMILEE BOOHER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
Amina Figarova Sextet
[ELEGANT JAZZ] The latest in PDX Jazz’s excellent series at the Mission brings back Azerbaijanborn, Berklee-trained, Rotterdambased jazz pianist Amina Figarova, who won plaudits at the 2007 Portland Jazz Festival. Her touring band includes strong soloists on flute, trumpet and sax, plus bass and drums. Along with her easygoing pianism, her breezy new 12th album reveals a strong composer, skillfully deploying her soloists’ skills as well as her own in openhearted, mostly straight-ahead originals that should delight fans of pianists from Brad Mehldau to Eliane Elias and other accessible jazz keyboard stars, whose ranks Figarova seems poised to soon enter. BRETT CAMPBELL. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 2234527. 7:30 pm. $15. 21+.
Celilo, Ghost to Falco, You Are Plural
[AMERICANA DRIFTERS] Celilo is either one of Portland’s bestkept secrets or I haven’t been looking in the right places for good music. After taking a two-year break between albums, the group released its newest disc, Buoy Bell, last August in honor of friend and bandmate Kipp Crawford, who died in a tragic accident in 2009. The album is loaded with atmospheric, rootsy instrumentation and absorbing melodies, taking the listener from start to finish before you know it. Frontman Sloan Martin sings with a subdued voice that soaks into the compositions like another well-used instrument. Hopefully it won’t be another two years before we hear new music from this band, because now I’m hooked. EMILEE BOOHER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $8.
Sunspot Jonz, Aceyalone, J Natural, DJ Tram, MY-G, DJ Wicked
[CALI-HOP] Artists from the Cali underground rap scene have long held a special place in my heart for their cleverly playful lyrics and their warm, Bob James-sampling beats (see Souls of Mischief, Pharcyde, et al.). For years, Los Angeles-based rapper Aceyalone and his crew Freestyle Fellowship have played a big part in that scene. Aceyalone’s early albums, like All Balls Don’t Bounce and the beautifully constructed Book of Human Language, were chock-full of thought-provoking lyrics, outstanding wordplay and an overall sense of fun. However, as time passed in the 2000s, Aceyalone started to experiment with other genres, most frequently reggae, and his albums suffered from being too serious and overthought. Even in his recent work, the MC shows flashes of a more lighthearted brilliance, where his humorous side
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WHAT HEARTS SUNDAY, MAY 20 [HOMEMADE POP] Julie Vitells grew up in what she calls “a pop-culture vacuum.” With hippie parents and a natural proclivity toward “old-timey stuff,” the young musician—who spent her early years between Albuquerque, N.M., and an ashram in India before her family moved to Portland—learned banjo and guitar primarily as a means of playing traditional folk and bluegrass songs. That style, learned while hopping trains as a teenager, translated well to Portland venues like the LaurelThirst and Alberta Street Pub, where she was long a staple. Then, about five years ago, Vitells decided to try writing her own pop music. “I had an ex-boyfriend who wrote songs, and I’m kind of a word nerd,” Vitells says via phone from Pendelton, where her band, What Hearts, just played the Great Pacific bakery and bar. “I thought, ‘If he can write songs, surely I can write songs, too.’” The pop songs Vitells began penning as she built a small allfemale band, some of which were featured on What Hearts’ 2010 Songs From Marjorie EP, are perhaps most notable for their lack of influences. Vitells’ conversational songwriting style reminds at times of Kimya Dawson or Paul Simon, but mostly it sounds like an extremely skilled amateur teaching herself the ropes. That’s not to suggest that Vitells is a novice songwriter. The 10 tracks collected on What Hearts’ new self-titled full-length are not only extremely catchy and well-crafted with airy vocal harmonies that take unexpected dives and flights and toy with twang, they’re also a little mysterious. On “Dear Brother,” Vitells is both loving and scolding her sibling. “Undoubtably in your new town, you have better weather/ Undoubtably in your new town, the bands that come through are better,” Vitells sings. “But if you were in a coma, the people who would care for you are here.” “It’s about an ex-boyfriend who wanted to move away and go to grad school in Philadelphia,” Vitells admits. “I thought I’d cleverly disguise this by calling him my brother and no one would ever know.” (It didn’t work.) Other songs on What Hearts are just as fascinating in riding the line between autobiography and fiction; revealing and teasing—Vitells’ songs are as clean and narrow as nature slides seen through a View-Master. (Her sister is a recurring character—but only sometimes, she explains, is her sister really her sister.) She does credit one strong influence, ex-Portland quartet A Weather, for shaping that songwriting style. “It would make me so happy to listen to their album and feel like I was getting a glimpse into Aaron Gerber’s universe,” she says. “But not fully, because he wasn’t giving me everything.” Vitells’ is such a unique artistic vision that you’d almost hate to see it tamed, but she says her What Hearts bandmates are certainly schooling her on contemporary music. “It’s really fun for me to try to catch up on the stuff everyone else knew 100 years ago,” she says. “My method so far has been so intuitive that it would be good to come at it with a little more knowledge.” As What Hearts grows, Vitells also hopes the band will seem a little less “cute,” a word she’s sick of hearing. So far, the results have been mixed. “I keep on making decisions I think will take us farther away from that—like, I’ll get an electric guitar,” she says. “But people just keep thinking it’s cuter than ever.” CASEY JARMAN. A journey from oldtimey Americana to pop that would rather not be called cute.
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FRIDAY, MAY 18 Ramona Falls
See music feature, page 19. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show.
Witchburn, Black Pussy, Objects in Space, LSD&D
[ROCK AND ROLL] Black Pussy— still Portland’s least Google-able band—has been a welcome boon more to the city’s live devotees than to its sequestered audiophiles. As should come as no surprise from a group that shares most of its membership with sludge-metal outfit White Orange, Black Pussy favors pummeling noise of the guitar-driven variety, though its heart remains faithful to the rawk posturing of the 1970s rather than the metallic violence of its sister group. On Blonde, the sextet’s debut LP, is a respectable specimen, but the group makes more sense in the flesh. Bedecked in leather, aviators and ascots and howling paeans to women, weed and wasted weekends, Black Pussy is just a hell of a lot of fun. SHANE DANAHER. Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., 228-3669. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
Lord Dying, Wizard Rifle, Bell Witch, Sioux
[METAL] Good luck getting through this bill with your sanity and any semblance of joie de vivre intact. The heaviness, man, it is too much. The slow-burning doom of Seattle’s Bell Witch will conjure tenebrous visions of blackened, coagulating blood before Portland’s Wizard Rifle, recently returned from a crosscountry spree, shocks your slowed system back to terrified life with its ranging brand of spastic punishment. It’ll fall to the musicians of Lord Dying to deliver the fatal blow, and trust that they will deliver: This Portland quartet is the reason words like “riff” and “shred” and “holy shit” exist. CHRIS STAMM. Plan B, 1305 SE 8th Ave., 230-9020. 8 pm. $8. 21+.
Kottonmouth Kings, Twiztid, Blaze, Big B
[GREEN-NOSERS] I think of the message the Kottonmouth Kings send to America’s young people and I feel so sick I almost have to roast a doober to feel better. Despite what these Northern California MCs would have you believe, indulging in the occasional marijuana cigarette will not make you a single-minded ganja zombie or destroy your good taste in music and graphic design. I would venture to say that any act capable of writing 20 albums almost exclusively about light-
ing up—or of producing a cartoon whose protagonist is a marijuana-smoking marijuana leaf—is playing with some far more dangerous substances than the sticky stuff. The band’s truly unlistenable, reggae-and-dubstep-injected 2011 album Sunrise Sessions only reinforces the worst stereotypes about perfectly NORML weed-loving Americans: We are not, in fact, what we smoke. If you’ve been rapping (poorly) about getting high for almost two decades, it’s probably time to dry out and re-evaluate. CASEY JARMAN. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $22 advance, $25 day of show. 21+.
Pickwick, Radiation City
[BEST NEW BAND] As everyone in Portland now knows, after its coronation last week as the city’s Best New Band, Radiation City is a dreamy pop collective destined to go national. In essence, the band is right where Seattle’s Pickwick was last year. Emerging as one of its hometown’s best new acts with a deeply soulful, near-gospel take on indie rock, the band wowed at last year’s MusicfestNW, and is about to play the main stage at Sasquatch. Consider this bill a look into the future of buzzedabout Northwest music. MATTHEW SINGER. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $13. All ages.
SATURDAY, MAY 19 Rvivr; Dogjaw; Chin Up, Meriwether!
[PUNK SOUL] Olympia’s Rumbletowne Records specializes in an exuberant class of punk rock that marries indomitable optimism to world-weary compassion, and tonight’s all-ages label showcase gathers four beautiful bands bent on lifting spirits and breaking hearts. Rvivr’s bike-punk poetry recalls the wide-eyed, halfdrunk soulfulness of early Avail, and the Olympia band’s headlining set will surely send a few kids out into the night with dreams of the perfect Dumpster dive. Speaking of which, show up early for Divers. This Portland quartet, fronted by ex-Drunken Boat dude Harrison Rapp, adds punk grime to Bossworthy grandiosity, and it is gorgeous. CHRIS STAMM. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. 9 pm. $6. All ages.
Mode Moderne, Blouse
[NEON SEDATIVES] Credit Johnny Jewel for serving up dose after dose of syrupy synth pop until the city of Portland finally got it. And tip your hats to Blouse, a band that pounced on hungry ears, feeding the rediscovered need for the fluid, druggy, drowning-light electronica that sounds at once straight from the ’80s and of the distant future. Wrapped in tinfoil and bent toward the moon, Blouse is science taught by Hollywood—seductive and brimming with hooks that are
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[SEXY EARNEST DANCE MUSIC] Though they have only a single EP between them, Wild Ones and My Body are already two of Portland’s most exciting new acts. The core of the former rose from the ashes of one of Portland’s finest-ever groups, Eskimo & Sons, to create something more shimmery and positive and electronic. Wild Ones combines expert musicianship and some of the most haunting vocals PDX has to offer with a giddy dance-floor aesthetic that makes audiences sway when they’re not busting a full-on move. My Body, an even more beat-oriented project that has only played a couple of shows to date, signals the return of ex-Typhoon/Double Dutch singer Jordan Bagnall and the lovely and talented Darren Bridenbeck, a longtime staple of the house-show circuit. The music the duo makes together is sexy and shiny and hip-hop-influenced. Together these bands sound like the future of PDX pop. CASEY JARMAN. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 10 pm. Free. 21+.
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[FOLK APOTHEOSIS] “I’m glad to say my dreams came true,” said beatnik shaman and Portland native Harry Smith in 1991, upon receiving a special Grammy Award. “I saw America changed by music.” Indeed, the release 60 years ago of Smith’s epochal Anthology of American Folk Music series was one of the most consequential acts of musicology ever perpetrated. Smith—also an experimental filmmaker, photographer and archivist—curated 84 tracks of traditional roots music from his trove of obscure old 78’s, effectively salvaging American folk culture, in the nick of time, from electronic media’s usurpation of oral and regional tradition. The six-LP set, which helped spark the ’60s folk revival, also fostered interracial solidarity by juxtaposing white and black artists on vinyl for the first time. Portland bluesman Joe McMurrian has curated tonight’s
ambitious tribute to Smith’s—and the original artists’—achievement, in which some 14 acts will perform material from the still-unmatched collection. JEFF ROSENBERG. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 7 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show. VIP tickets available. Minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. All ages.
The We Shared Milk, Log Across the Washer, Plum Sutra
[BITE-SIZED BEDLAM] Just one point shy of our Best New Band top-10 list, the We Shared Milk is a freshly lit Piccolo Pete bomb. Alaskan-born but Portland-set, this garage-rock outfit sculpts ever-droning, surprisingly succinct tidbits, evidenced by two brief but potent self-released 2011 works in SUH and Jesuses. When feeling poetic, TWSM takes on a Walkmen-like quality—contemplative but volatile. Ever-steaming, the band’s pinched playing style gives way to inevitable and frequent firestorms of headstrong experimental rock coupled with scorching, blown-out vocals. MARK STOCK. Rontoms, 600 E Burnside St., 236-4536. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
Bobby Torres Ensemble, Lisa Mann and Her Really Good Band, Soul Vaccination
[FEEL-GOOD BLUES] There should almost be another name for what Lisa Mann plays. The Portland blues singer/bassist crafts the kind of rowdy, juke joint blues that prompts folks of a certain age to dance with wild abandon. So gutlevel and shack-shaking is Mann’s music that one almost misses just how forceful and effortless a vocalist she is on first pass (she won the Cascade Blues Association’s Vocalist of the Year award in 2009). While the blues is often lost on ironic young folks, Mann and her aptly named Really Good Band are earnest enough to shake even the cool kids into submission. I’ve seen it happen. Tonight’s spendy cover is for a good cause: Local pianist Mark Simon needs a liver transplant, and this gig—which also features an auction—is going to help pay for it. CASEY JARMAN. Vie De Boheme, 1530 SE 7th Ave. 5 pm. $30 advance, $35 day of show. All ages.
MONDAY, MAY 21 Best Coast, Jeff the Brotherhood
[BROKE-DOWN BEACH POP] Best Coast funnels breaking up through a tape deck. With wit and bellowing charm, Bethany Cosentino slays songs riddled with insecurities, like “Goodbye” off 2010’s Crazy for You (“My highs are high/ My lows are low/ And I don’t know which way to go/ Every time you leave this house/ Everything falls apart”). The L.A.-grown group writes songs about jealousy, love and other symptoms of hormonal
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TUESDAY, MAY 22 Roger Waters
[ANOTHER GOLD BRICK] Since Pink Floyd has no original members left and relies on hired songwriting teams when it bothers to do anything at all, Roger Waters is left to do the reunions on his own. It’s painfully clear that The Wall was his life’s great work. All those meddling dark sides, atom heart wishes and saucers full of animals were invaluable practice. The message that walls of fear, war and religion separate us from one another is just as valid today as it was in 1979. Waters has even gone so far as to invite anyone with a “fallen loved one” (civilians count, too) to submit their photos and stories to be used in the stage show. It’s an inclusive sentiment, and a reminder to tear down the walls that separate us all. NATHAN CARSON. Rose Garden, 1401 N Wheeler Ave., 235-8771. 8 pm. $35$200. All ages.
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[ROARING INFERNO] On its blistering full-length debut, New Distances, intercontinental quintet Narrows sounds like a band on fire. The guitars blister. The vocals scrape. The drums pulverize. It’s not a straightforward bludgeoning, however. Made up of members of bands such as These Arms Are Snakes, Unbroken and Makeout Boys, the group has rhythms that zig and zag, and its expressive guitars conjure various landscapes. Of course, those landscapes are typically of the hellish variety— rapid devil dogs, burning flesh, that kind of thing—but the bloodletting is movingly cathartic. MATTHEW SINGER. Rotture, 315 SE 3rd Ave., 234-5683. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
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[PDX PUNK] Boy, is it ever good to have Batmen back. After nearly a year of silent hibernation, Portland’s reigning king of Wipersstyle punk bluster is finally playing out on a regular basis again, and even though Batmen would do well to bless this city with a proper follow-up to its impeccable 2010 demo ASAP, the fiery force of this quartet’s live show renders the waiting as sweet, sinister seduction. To spend 25 minutes in Batmen’s blast radius is to be pummeled by the promise of future brilliance: The new songs, as dark and twisting and anthemic as the old songs, will absolutely melt turntables one day. Let that day
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[may 16-22] Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Eric Nassau, Rob “Big Water” (9:30 pm); Arto Järvelä, Kaivama (7 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Matices
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Andrea’s Cha Cha Club
2201 N Killingsworth St. Miriam’s Well
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Biddy Acoustic Jam
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. John “JB” Bulter and Al Criado
303 SW 12th Ave. Jack Wilson, Vacilando
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. The Kingsmen, Jocko (of Sha Na Na), Frederico Cardella, Arvel Bird, Aubrey Logan
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Open Mic
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. The Dark Backward, Amy Bleu
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Secnd Best, DC Fallout, Absent Minds, Faithless Saints
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Music Showcase with Robert Richter
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Stringed Migration
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Open Jazz Jam with Errick Lewis and the Regiment House Band
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Jolie Holland, Stefan Jecusco
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
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Rodina, Pocket
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Ave. Ask You in Gray
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. When the Lights Go Out, Whispers of Wonder, Chin Up Rocky, Above the Broken, Censure
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Goodnight Billygoat, Wooden Indian Burial Ground, Blood Beach (live film scoring of “Mala Morska Vila”)
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Mitzi Zilka Quartet (8 pm); Tom D’Antoni (4:30 pm)
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Music Showcase with Jeffree White
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Tierney
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Books on Tape, Caught in Motion, The Winebirds
Ladd’s Inn
1204 SE Clay St. Lynn Conover
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray and the Cowdogs (9:30 pm); Bob Shoemaker (6 pm)
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Camping in a Cadillac, Chris Juhlin Collective (9 pm); Michael Hurley & the Croakers (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Crown Point
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Billy D
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Lucky Lincoln (9:45 pm); Mr. Hoo (12 am)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Mimicking Birds, When the Broken Bow, Casey Montgomery
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Sleepy Eyed Johns
Palace of Industry
5426 N Gay Ave. Mystery String Band
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Dadz, Axton Kincaid, Heart for a Tin Man
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Technicolor Caterpillar, The Autonomics, Team Evil
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Lovedrug, Violet Isle, Run for Cover
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Project: Neurotica
Sundown Pub
5903 N Lombard St. Waffle Taco, Aux. 78, Migi Artugue
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project Blues Jam
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Arctic Flowers, Criminal Code, Freedom Club, Happy Noose
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Dez Young Trio
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Farnell Newton’s Band
Tualatin Heritage Center
8700 SW Sweek Drive, Tualatin Johnny Connolly, Cary Novotny
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Maymay, Barna Howard, Birger Olsen
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Jenny Finn Orchestra
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Community Jam
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Halfwit Adlib, Focus Motel
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Trio with Cheryl Alex
Thurs. MAY 17 Agenda
2366 SE 82nd Ave. Jungle Warfare
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. Jack Wilson, The Mermaid Problem
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. U.K.
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Matt Wertz, Seth Philpott
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Celilo, Ghost to Falco, You Are Plural
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Jake Powell, Weekend Assembly
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Wizard Boots, Objects in Space, The Slutty Hearts
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Sean Flinn and the Royal We, The Lower 48, Great Wilderness
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Kirsten Thein (9 pm); Tough Lovepyle (6 pm)
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Pinkslime, Still Caves, Moonbell, DJ Lamar Leroy, DJ Copy
Ella Street Social Club
Peter’s Room
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Big Black Cloud, Glass Knees, Valkyrie Rodeo
Refuge
116 SE Yamhill St. Sunspot Jonz, Aceyalone, J Natural, DJ Tram, MY-G, DJ Wicked
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Animal Eyes, Coast Jumper, Fanno Creek, Talkative
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Chuck Pyle, Ray Bonneville
Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. Jobo Shakins, Jolliff
Ford Food and Drink
Star Theater
2845 SE Stark St. The Polyrhythmics, True Spokes
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Supervillains, The Quick & Easy Boys, Kayavibe
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Ed Bennett Quintet (8 pm); Ron Hughes (5 pm)
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Acoustic Oceans with Colin Fisher
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Janiva Magness
Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Ave. Sonny Hess
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. James Low Western Front, Fox & Woman (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)
Ella Street Social Club
2929 SE Powell Blvd. AngelRhodes
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Rare Monk (8:30 pm); Will West and Tanner Cundy (5:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Mark Simon, Larry Bard, Bill Athens
Fri. MAY 18 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Jack Wilson, Widower
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Lindsey Buckingham
Alberta Rose Theatre
Alberta Street Public House
Spare Room
Goodfoot Lounge
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
Original Halibut’s II
8105 SE 7th Ave. Jerry Zybach
714 SW 20th Place James London, Siren & the Sea, Sam Adams 2505 SE 11th Ave. The Low Bones
East End
1530 SE 7th Ave. Dawid Vorster
3000 NE Alberta St. James Harman, Nathan James, Kevin Selfe and the Tornadoes
Chapel Pub
1669 SE Bybee Blvd. Adlai Alexander
Vie de Boheme
Muddy Rudder Public House
8 NW 6th Ave. Schoolboy Q
Corkscrew Wine Bar
Sean Fred
Mississippi Studios
Camellia Lounge
430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin
9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Andrews Avenue, Solomon’s Hollow (9 pm); Open Choir with Anne Weiss (6 pm)
2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb
510 NW 11th Ave. Montana Skies
Lents Commons
Mission Theater
Mississippi Pizza
Beaterville Cafe
The Ghost Ease, Dead Beat, Roselit Bone
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Mexican Gunfight
Ash Street Saloon
115 NW 5th Ave. Ninja, Towers, Child Children, Electro-Kraken
Wed. MAY 16
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
1624 NW Glisan St. Amina Figarova Sextet
Backspace
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Henry Hill Kammerer
832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band
225 SW Ash St. Dethroner, Psychosynapsis, Jesus Wears Armani, I Digress, DEB
when the barn is a-ROCKIN’, maybe turn the music down a touch: The BoDeans play the Aladdin Theater on Tuesday, May 22.
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
4830 NE 42nd Ave. The Brazz Band 13 NW 6th Ave. Rob Wynia & the Sound, McDougall, Rich Landar, Peter Cornett
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Tom Grant Jazz Jam
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones Jam
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Johnny Martin
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Crag Dweller, Baal Beryth, Horus
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Tom Jones, Erica Jones
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Brian Odell
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Love Satellite, Ian James
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Matthew Gailey Band
1036 NE Alberta St. Alder Street All-Stars (9:30 pm); Mikey’s Irish Jam (6:30 pm)
203 SE Grand Ave. The Blind Shake, Di Di Mau, Boats, Polaroids 714 SW 20th Place Log Across the Washer, Fair Weather Watchers, Pheasant
Foggy Notion
3416 N Lombard St. Placentapede, Black Magic Dragon, Pinkzilla
Ford Food and Drink
2505 SE 11th Ave. Tate Peterson, Katie Roberts (8 pm); Josh and Mer (5 pm)
Glenn & Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center 527 E Main St., Hillsboro Claude Bourbon
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers, Massey Ferguson
Island Mana Wines 526 SW Yamhill St. Joe Marquand
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Gary Hobbs Trio (8 pm); Jazzesque Duo (5 pm)
Jade Lounge
Andina
2346 SE Ankeny St. Midnight Sun (8 pm); Alex Nicole, Gresham Transit Center (6 pm)
Ash Street Saloon
Jimmy Mak’s
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs Trio 225 SW Ash St. Motorbreath (Metallica tribute), Unchained (Van Halen tribute), Deaf Leppard (Def Leppard tribute), Shotgun Overdose (A Sound Change and Oregon Food Bank benefit)
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Broadway Calls, Dead to Me, The Arteries, Lee Corey Oswald
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Marianne Flemmings and Jan L Hutchison
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Counterfeit Cash (9:30 pm); Lynn Connover (6 pm)
Bijou Cafe
32 SW 3rd Ave. After Six Jazz, Graham Covington, Dennis Caiazza, Ron Steen
Bipartisan Cafe 7901 SE Stark St. Colleen Raney
Brasserie Montmartre
626 SW Park Ave. David Tull Group (9 pm); Tablao (5:30 pm)
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Will Coca, Kelsey Lindstrom
Carvlin Hall
1636 SE Hickory St. Padam Padam, Mona Warner
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Andy Stokes
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Lawn Boy (Phish tribute)
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Ramona Falls
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Billy D and the Hoodoos, Ayron Jones (9 pm); The Hamdogs (6 pm)
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. 4 on the Floor
221 NW 10th Ave. The Portland Soul AllStars presenting a tribute to Etta James
Katie O’Briens
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Dr. Stahl
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Tierney
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Witchburn, Black Pussy, Objects in Space, LSD&D
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Dogtooth, Bad Mitten Orchestre (9:30 pm); Ducky Pig (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Muriel Stanton Band
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Lex Browning Trio
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Melao d’Cuba (9 pm); McCrae Sisters (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Bear & Moose, PWR HAUS, Here Come Dots
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. The Adequates
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Lucy Hammond, Tracy Klas Band, Belinda Carroll, The High Desert Hooligans, Sally Tomato, Growler, Twig Sullivan, DJ Kate Duckquack, Fanina, Henna, Emilie Lauren (concert hall); High Beamz & the Dust Settlers (Sideshow Lounge)
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Mike Brosnan
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Beyond Veronica
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VIVIANJOHNSON.COM
203 SE Grand Ave. Mode Moderne, Blouse
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Rabbits, Fist Fite
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Sick Kids XOXO, Don & the Quixotes
Foggy Notion
3416 N Lombard St. Northern, Scheisshosen, Manx
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Philly’s Phunkestra
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Devin Phillips Quartet (8 pm); Phil Goldberg (5 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
BIKER BAR: I dunno, man, it’s hard to explain. If you ride, you get it. But if you’ve never shown up to work late and dripping, your teeth tingly from some potholed street, you won’t understand. For us 5.8 percenters—Portland’s bike commuters—a place like Velo Cult (1969 NE 42nd Ave.,922-2012, velocult.com) makes sense. It’s a cavernous bicycle shop with beer on tap, a stage and a makeshift museum. Sitting at the bar fashioned from scrappy wood, admiring the collection of old mountain bikes and drinking a can of Anderson Valley—shit, it’s cool. If you ride, you get why the owners moved this shop up from San Diego. The plan to serve pour-over coffee and tamales makes sense, too. And you’re stoked they held a screening of Smokey and the Bandit director Hal Needham’s 1986 cult classic Rad, about a kid who skips the SAT for a BMX race. If not, this ain’t your scene. MARTIN CIZMAR.
221 NW 10th Ave. Intervision, They Bylines
Katie O’Briens
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. 48 Thrills, Danger Death Ray, Brigadier
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Tierney
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Alameda, Gallop, Alina Hardin
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Night Lion, Paradise, Hong Kong Banana
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Ridgerunner Summit (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)
Little Axe Records
Nel Centro
The Linda Myers Band
1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew, Sam Howard, Randy Rollofson
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Ellen Whyte
Pacific Crest Grand Ballroom
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Bobby Torres
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. The Tanked, Bonneville Power, Primitive Idols
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Audio Syndicate
610 McLoughlin Blvd., Oregon City Norman Sylvester, Sarah Billings
Tiger Bar
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
Tonic Lounge
2314 SE Division St. Forest Bloodgood
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Lord Dying, Wizard Rifle, Bell Witch, Sioux
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Boo Jays, Moon Bell, Silent Numbers
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Empire Rocket Machine, Holgate, No Good and the Deeds, Chloroform
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Kottonmouth Kings, Twiztid, Blaze, Big B
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Happy Noose, Sharks from Mars
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
8635 N Lombard St. Tin Silver, Wendy and the Lost Boys
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Jessey Zepeda, Speaker High, The Mercury Tree, Kitchen Blake
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Les Etrangers Band (‘60s French music tribute)
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Rosehip Revue
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd.
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317 NW Broadway Basketball Jones, The Big Small 3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Cry, Queued Up, The Piniellas
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Jazz Express Big Band
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Jarrod Lawson and Reinhardt Melz
Trader Vic’s
1203 NW Glisan St. John English (Frank Sinatra tribute)
Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Ritual Healing, Tanagra, Revolution Overdue, Aethyrium
Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Geezer Band
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Basin and Range (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Cavalcade Cabaret
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Pickwick, Radiation City
SAT. MAY 19 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Jack Wilson, Shawn Hawkins
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Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Herb Ohta Jr.
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Russell Turner, Rachel Fishman, Matt Jones (9:30 pm); Whiskey Puppy (6:30 pm)
5012 NE 28th Ave. Plankton Wat, Tunnels, Sun Cycles, Cussing
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Kris Deelane
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Will West & the Friendly Strangers
Ash Street Saloon
Mississippi Pizza
Andina
225 SW Ash St. The Longshots, The Georgetown Orbits, Original Middleage Ska Enjoy Club
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Rvivr; Dogjaw; Chin Up, Meriwether; Divers
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Lew Jones Trio
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Play/Start (9 pm); Clambake Swing (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Wild Ones, My Body (9 pm); Rachel Platten, Madi Diaz (7 pm)
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. NoPo Mojo
Boom Bap!
Muddy Rudder Public House
Bossanova Ballroom
Music Millennium
640 SE Stark St. Poppet, Goomy, Appendixes 722 E Burnside St. Ooh La La (burlesque show)
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Caminhos Cruzados (9 pm); Tablao (5:30 pm)
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Toque Libre
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Elite
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Proven, Ditch Digger, We Have Guns, How the West Was Won
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. The Red McKenzies, Civet
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. DK Stewart Sextet
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. Bottleneck Blues Band
8105 SE 7th Ave. Terry Robb & Lauren Sheehan
3158 E Burnside St. Jaime Leopold and the Short Stories
Nel Centro
1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew, Tim Gilson
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Jim Wallace
Mohawk Yard, Matt McCourts, Ace of Spades, Staller, Set to Burn
Secret Society Lounge
116 NE Russell St. Strangled Darlings, Ezza Rose
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. The Bloodtypes
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
8635 N Lombard St. Dinosaur Heart, Bubble Cats, Child PM, Wolf in the Dreamcatcher
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Jerry Abstract, Nora Posch, Ava, Centrikal
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Cool Breeze
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Stone in Love, Steel Horse, Guy Dilly & the Twin Powers (Journey tribute show)
TaborSpace
5441 SE Belmont St. Tim Connell, Allen Matthews
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Amy Keys
The Blue Monk
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave.
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Vs. the Queen, A Moment of Substance
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Brad Creel and the Reel Deel (9:30 pm); Felim Egan (8 pm); Jenny Sizzler (6 pm)
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. 7 Horns 7 Eyes, Stealing Axion, The Diggers, Seventh Gate, Skies Above Reason
Doug Fir Lounge
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam
1001 SW Broadway Tom Grant, Shelly Rudolph
830 E Burnside St. Margot & The Nuclear So & So’s, Dinosaur Feathers, Whispertown
The Know
Ford Food and Drink
2026 NE Alberta St. The Mallard, Woolen Men, The Happening
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Back Alley Barbers, Voodoo Doll Dancers
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Jonny Smokes
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Delaney and Paris
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Gaytheist, Fruit of the Legion of Loom, M?ystr?r, Warvette
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Midnight Serenaders
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Heather Keizur and Steve Christofferson
Townshend’s Alberta Street Teahouse 2223 NE Alberta St. Vice Cooler, Stay Calm, Jizz Wisard
Trader Vic’s
1203 NW Glisan St. Xavier Tavera
Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Lip Service, Sugar Tits, Bad Rabbit
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Mark Ferguson, Mitsue “La Pura” Johnson, Miyuki Kezuka, Paul Brady (flamenco show)
Plan B
8 NE Killingsworth St. Stuck on Nothing
Andina
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar
White Eagle Saloon
Record Room
3000 NE Alberta St. Ural Thomas, Joe McMurrian, Lewi Longmire, Baby Gramps, James Low, Mark Lemhouse, Lauren Sheehan, Michael Dean Damron, Bob Shoemaker, Mike Midlo, PDX Country Underground, Miz Kitty, Kory Quinn, Jane Keefer, Tin Pan Alley Killers, Joe Hickerson, Dick Weissman, Whiskey Puppy (Harry Smith tribute)
Clyde’s Prime Rib
PINTS Urban Taproom
1305 SE 8th Ave. Nonsequiturus Illogicuus, Cult of Zir, An Exquisite Corpse, Acroyear, Nostalgia, Mahatma Bob and the Cattle Prod, Chad Carver
Alberta Rose Theatre
3341 SE Belmont St. Icanlickanysonofabitchinthehouse
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
412 NW 5th Ave. Edge of Land
Luzelena Mendoza (of Y La Bamba)
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Miriam’s Well
836 N Russell St. Alder Street All-Stars, Brad Parsons Project (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)
SUN. MAY 20 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave.
2505 SE 11th Ave. Tim Roth
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. End of Agony, Hollywise, Fast Fox, Hiero, Two Burning Seals, Horse Eats Horse, Kami Bastard, Kabenzi, Pops Couch, Chelsea Lovelle
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Mike Longo Trio
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Singer Songwriter Night with Alexa Wiley
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Pat Buckley (9 pm); Irish Sessions (6 pm)
Kenton Street Fair
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale The Old Yellers
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Ramsey Belle McNabb
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Dale Russ & Johnny B. Connolly
Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan St. Pete Droge (film screening)
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Gloomcatcher, Ugly Flowers (9 pm); Brad Parsons (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. What Hearts, Houndstooth, Calico Rose
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Scott Cossu
NEPO 42
5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Toxic Holocaust, Excruciator, Death Machine, Wretched of the Earth
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Grrrl Friend, Jesse Carsten, Memory Boys
Red and Black Cafe
400 SE 12th Ave. Protege, Stand Back!, Profcal, Our First Brains
Rontoms
600 E Burnside St. The We Shared Milk, Log Across the Washer, Plum Sutra
Secret Society Lounge
1332 W Burnside St. Yarn
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Double Booked
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Ron Thompson (8 pm); Paula Sinclair (5:30 pm)
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Julia Holter, Jib Kidder, CLOAKS
In Other Words
14 NE Killingsworth St. Broken Water, Reynosa, Hausu
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Scott Dreams, Morgan Quinn, Mark Iris, Phil Dickson
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Pat Buckley
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Skip vonKuske
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Bob Shoemaker
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Steve Wilkenson (6:30 pm); Mr. Ben (5 pm)
Muddy Rudder Public House
4830 NE 42nd Ave. The Angel Bouchet Band Jam
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Urban Sub All-Stars
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom
Andina
Spare Room
Landmark Saloon
2958 NE Glisan St. Dan Haley & Tim Acott (9:30 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Best Coast, Jeff the Brotherhood
Mississippi Studios
The Blue Monk
LaurelThirst
303 SW 12th Ave. Luzelena Mendoza (of Y La Bamba)
116 NE Russell St. Hanz Araki and Kathryn Claire
N Denver Ave. between N Willis Ave. & N Watts Ave. IX, Oden, The Hand That Bleeds, Rocket Stove Workshop, Bubble Cats, Necessary Means, Alabama Black Snake, Absent Minds, Brotheregg, No More Parachutes (Kenton Club); Jupiter Guru, Tierrasanta Jimmy, Yep!, Blake Makey, Gwakylu, Cody Weathers (Kilpatrick Stage); Marmits, Mustaphamond, Sexbots, Moodring, Holiday Friends, Sarah Moon and the Night Sky (McClellan Stage); Bronson!, Crow Kane, Flesh Lawn, Valkyrie Rodeo, Gnash, Power of County, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Skillet Grease (Salvage Works); Lunar Grave, LPS, Otis Heat, When the Broken Bow, Threadbare, A Quints (Scholfield Stage) 4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
3341 SE Belmont St. Joel Freun
Tillicum Club
8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Johnny Martin Quartet
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Freedy Johnston
8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Soulmates featuring Jay “Bird” Koder
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Rotties, The Slutty Hearts, Pink Slip, We Buy Diamonds, DJ One Ill, Toiletooth
Tonic Lounge
Tiger Bar
Tupai at Andina
18 NW 3rd Ave. Batmen, Lunge, Haukness, DJ Matt Scaphism
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Potential Lunatics, Saucy Yoda, Tiny Knives 1314 NW Glisan St. Duo con Brio with the Portland Waldorf Middle School Girls Choir
317 NW Broadway Metal Machine
Tube
Valentine’s
Twilight Café and Bar
232 SW Ankeny St. Catherine Feeny, Anna Blair, Kat Jones
Vie de Boheme
White Eagle Saloon
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Piojo Profeta
1530 SE 7th Ave. Bobby Torres Ensemble, Lisa Mann and Her Really Good Band, Soul Vaccination (Mark Simon benefit)
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Laurel Brauns
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Open Mic/Songwriter Showcase
MON. MAY 21
836 N Russell St. Pheasant, Joliff
TUES. MAY 22 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Luzelena Mendoza (of Y La Bamba)
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. BoDeans, Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St.
CALENDAR Tumbleweed Wanders, Infantree
We Are Serenades
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. JB Butler
1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Quartet (9 pm); Trio Bravo (6 pm)
Ash Street Saloon
Goodfoot Lounge
225 SW Ash St. Riot in Rhythm
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Barcelona, Terraplane Sun, Hannah Glavor
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Black Pussy, Riastad
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Ezra Weiss Quartet
Club 21
2035 NE Glisan St. Autistic Youth, Haute Couture, Freedom Club, Sleepless Eyes
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Jamestown Revival, Lusitania, Bellamaine, McDougall
Doug Fir Lounge
Duff’s Garage
2845 SE Stark St. Radula
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Ave. Lewis Childs
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Flight to Mars, Vendetta Red, Hedley Grange (Led Zeppelin tribute)
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Jazz Jam with Carey Campbell (7 pm); Tom D’Antoni (4:30 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm); Vancouver School of Arts Jazz Band (6:30 pm)
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Pat Buckley
MUSIC
Roger Waters (The Wall performance)
Rotture
LaurelThirst
315 SE 3rd Ave. Narrows, Retox, Blowupnihilist, Bronson Arm
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
The Blue Monk
2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Elizabeth Nicholson & Bob Soper
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Supadupa Marimba Brothers
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Jon Dee Graham, Mike June
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Kill the Kids, 3 Round Burst, Hit the Switch
3341 SE Belmont St. Pagan Jug Band
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Cerebrate, Druden, Age of Collapse, Mass Exit
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway AC Lov Ring
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Ayars Vocal Showcase
Valentine’s
Portland Police Athletic Association
232 SW Ankeny St. The Greencarts, Jacob Balcom, Nalin Silva
Rose Garden
836 N Russell St. Mikah Sykes, Jacob Arnold, Time and the Bell
618 SE Alder St. Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble
White Eagle Saloon
bloodtypes
1401 N Wheeler Ave.
830 E Burnside St.
RECORD RELEASE EXTRAVAGANZA!
Thursday May 17
local indie/rock/pop
Red Cap Garage
1035 SW Stark St Mantrap with DJ Lunchlady
Refuge
WED. MAY 16 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Bang Tidy
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Trick with DJ Robb
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. The Wriffs
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. TRONix: Mike Gong, Bliphop Junkie
Matador
1967 W Burnside St. DJ Whisker Friction
Red Cap Garage
1035 SW Stark St Riot Wednesdays with Bruce LaBruiser
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. Benny Utah
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. Proper Movement: Slantooth, Dunjin, Ewok, Broke-N
The Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave. Whiskey Wednesdays: American Girls, Token, Killa K, Anok?
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. KM Fizzy
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Juicy Wednesdays
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Creepy Crawl
Yes and No
20 NW 3rd Ave. Death Club with DJ Entropy
THURS. MAY 17 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Maxamillion
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Hip Hop Heaven with DJ Detroit Diezel
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Newrotics
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Shadowplay: DJs Ghoulunatic, Paradox, Horrid
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. RAC Presents!: Cyclist, RAC, American Girls
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Mixer: Perfect Cyn, Tom Mitchell, Mercedes, Keane, Mr. Romo, Darling Instigatah, Grimes Against Humanity (9 pm); Mr. Romo & Michael Grimes (3 pm)
The Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave. Nadastrom, Sabo, Simon Says
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Dog Daze
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Sethro Tull
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Nathan Carson
FRI. MAY 18 Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. The Polish Ambassador
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Fusion Dance
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Flamin’ Fridays with DJ Doughalicious
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. ‘80s Video Dance Attack with VJ Kittyrox
Dig a Pony
116 SE Yamhill St. Worthy, Thugfucker, The Perfect Cyn, Miss Vixen, Chris Firenze
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. BMP/GRND: DJ Kasio Smashio, DJ Rhienna, Hammercise
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. DJs Horrid, Tamar, Barhopper
The Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave. Fine Results: Richie Stax, Heatesca, Anok?
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Freaky Outy (10 pm); DJ Saturdazed (7 pm)
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Radiation City DJs
SUN. MAY 20 Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. NoFader!
Holocene
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Dark Sundays with Josh Dark
1465 NE Prescott St. La Jefa 18 NW 3rd Ave. Townbombing: Doc Adam, DJ Nick Dean (10 pm); DJ Neil Blender (7 pm)
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Lovecamp DJs
SAT. MAY 19 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Womb Service
Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Roxie Stardust
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Revolution with DJ Robb
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Maxamillion
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Popvideo with DJ Gigahurtz
Element Restaurant & Lounge
Holocene
1135 SW Morrison St. Chris Alice
1001 SE Morrison St. Gaycation: DJ Snowtiger, Mr. Charming
Ground Kontrol
Mount Tabor Theater
511 NW Couch St. DJs MT, RAWIII
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Stahlwerks with DJ Non
Holocene
Saucebox
5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Yeti
Tube
Tiga
Ground Kontrol
Palace of Industry
1465 NE Prescott St. Hostile Tapeover
1001 SE Morrison St. DJs Peace Pipe (of Brainstorm), Grapefuit, Mighty Moves
736 SE Grand Ave. Chazz Madrigal (late set); Nealie Neal (early set)
1001 SE Morrison St. Rockbox: Matt Nelkin, DJ KEZ, Dundiggy (9 pm); Aperitivo Happy Hour: Evan Way (of the Parson Red Heads), DJ Bill Portland (5 pm)
Tiga
511 NW Couch St. DJs Destructo, Avery
214 SW Broadway Connected: DJ KEZ, Computer Fam
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. Club Crooks: DJ Izm, Easter Egg
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Cobra
Tube
MON. MAY 21 Beech Street Parlor
412 NE Beech St. DJ Xander Gerrymander
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Tre Slim
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy VJs
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Gentleman Matthew Yake
TUES. MAY 22 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Jeffrey Jerusalem
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. James & Atkins
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Gumar & His Magical Midi Band, Natasha Kmeto, The Great Mundane, DJAO, Ghost Feet, Citymouth, Brownbear, Bone Rock, Rap Class
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. See You Next Tuesday: Hatcha, Distance, AKA, Tyler Tastemaker
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Death Club with DJ Entropy
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJs Sunny 1550
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Tubesday (10 pm); DJ OverCol (7 pm)
Weekend assembly Jake poWell
8:30pm • 21+ in the ConCert hall
Friday May 18
Women rock For betHany House with:
lucy Hammond tracy klas band belinda carroll tHe HiGH desert HooliGans sally tomato GroWler • tWiG sullivan dJ kate duckquack ritim eGzotik • W/belly dancers Fanina, Henna, emilie lauren 8pm • 21+ in the ConCert hall
PDX ROCKERS JOIN THE BLOODTYPES LIVE ON STAGE TO PERFORM SONGS FROM THEIR DEBUT RECORD.
FEATURING:
ROXY EPOXY
open mic comedy
dsl comedy with brisket love-cox 8:30pm • 21+ in the SideShow lounge
Jazz/Jam • HiGH beamz
10pm • 21+ in the SideShow lounge
Saturday May 19
(Epoxies)
VIZ SPECTRUM
(Epoxies)
ANDREW FOSTER (Polaroids)
RYAN SCOTT
dJ House
(Automatics, Minds)
industrial, GotH, Hard dance dJs
JESSI LIXX, DOUBLE A, JOSEPHINE JONES
9pm • 21+ in the ConCert hall
staHlWerks
10pm • 21+ in the SideShow lounge
Sunday May 20
(Suicide Notes)
JOEL GOODMAN
2nd occasional cannabis comedy Festival FeaturinG:
nGaio bealum, ron FuncHes, kristine levine 7:30pm • 21+ in the ConCert hall
(Polaroids, Leaders, Denizens)
CECELIA
(No-Talents, Operation S)
JOEL JETT
Monday May 21
punk rock! • Hit tHe sWitcH 8:30pm • 21+ in the ConCert hall
Tuesday May 22
open mic niGHt!
(Minds)
OLGA V, JONNY CAT, JEFF TRUHN (Chemicals) HOWIE HOTKNIFE
neWbie tuesdays with simon tucker
(Suicide Notes)
8:30pm • 21+ in the SideShow lounge
LIVE! @ SLABTOWN
Wednesday May 23
SAT. MAY 19, 2012
bank sinatra
9PM (DRS. @ 8) $5
9pm • 21+ in the ConCert hall open to all skill levels, brinG or borroW
percussion! drum circle! 8pm • 21+ in the SideShow lounge
Now On Sale Fruition, pigs on the Wing (pink Floyd tribute), idigenous, potluch, outpost, JGb w/melvin seals, kevin brown (30 rock), Hamsa lila (two nights)
tickets and info
www.thetabor.com
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS:
BOTTLENOSE KOFFINS THE POLAROIDS S.S. CURMUDGEON ROCK N ROLL DANCE PARTY TO FOLLOW!!!
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Dangerous Liaisons
Twilight Repertory Theatre presents James McLure’s connected short comedies about life during wartime in small-town Texas. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 312-6789. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes June 17. $10-$15. Sundays are “pay what you will.”
Black Pearl Sings!
Huddie William Ledbetter, better known as Lead Belly, was unknown outside West Texas until 1933, when the great musicologist John Lomax found him in a Louisiana prison serving time for attempted murder. Lomax recorded Ledbetter singing hundreds of songs, helped him secure an early release and eventually took him on tour.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. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm TuesdaysFridays, 2 and 7:30 pm SaturdaysSundays. Closes June 17. $36-$51.
Christopher Hampton’s adaptation of the 1782 novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses might be best known for its higher-than-usual level of onstage nudity, but it’s also a thrilling study of sex, power and deceit. Bag&Baggage’s production, which features Adrienne Flagg and Scot Carson, should burn up Hillsboro. The Venetian Theatre, 253 E Main St., Hillsboro, 345-9590. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. $19-$25.
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.
Girls! Girls! Girls!
Improv comedy by Kerry Leek, Marilyn Divine, Lisa Brousseau, Ashley Dawson and Domeka Parker. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Saturdays through May 26. $12, $8 students and seniors.
Gracie
Improv comedy to benefit various nonprofits. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 520-8928. 8 pm Saturdays through May 19. $10.
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.
Broadway Dreamers: On Our Way!
Hard Times
Brainwaves
NW Senior Theatre performs songs about cities and states. Alpenrose Dairy Opera House, 6149 SW Shattuck Road, 503-227-2003. 2 pm Wednesday-Saturday, May 16-19. Free.
CHAD Chats
The CHAD Institute, Portland’s only dedicated presenter of satirical PowerPoint presentations, returns with another evening of funny lectures on subjects such as “Where Babies Come From, Where They Go When They Die and Why This All is Your Fault.” The Jack London Bar, 529 SW 4th Ave., 228-7605. 8 pm Thursday, May 17. $5-$10.
Cannabis Comedy Fest
Ron Funches, Ngaio Bealum and Kristine Levine tell weed jokes. Mount Tabor Theater, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 7:30 pm Sunday, May 20. $10. 21+.
Citizens of Brodavia, Unite!
Long-form improv at the Brody Theater. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 10 pm Saturdays through June 2. $7.
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, 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.,
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Coho Productions ends its season with an adaptation of Dickens’ finest polemic against the evils of utilitarianism, featuring Ted deChatelet, David Janoviak, McKenna Twedt and Camille Cettina. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 715-1114. 8 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes June 2. $20-$25. Thursdays are “pay what you will.”
Hari Kondabolu
Hari Kondabolu is the smartest, funniest young comedian in America. He tends to make Portland audiences uncomfortable, but not quite in the ways we expect. He is awesome, in the vernacular and, sometimes, the literal sense. And, you can see him perform on Monday for just $10. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 9 pm Monday, May 21. $10.
I:you
Well Arts presents a show created by participants in previous Well Arts productions, inspired by Rashomon, featuring stories told from opposite points of view, across time and space. Concordia University, 2800 NE Liberty St., 459-4500. 8 pm ThursdaySaturday, May 10-12 at Concordia University. 8 pm Friday, 2 pm Saturday May 18-19 at Launch Pad Gallery. Tickets “pay what you will.”
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
...you’re gonna have a bad time. Oregon Children’s Theatre goes ahead and ignores all the warnings in this adaptation of the popular kids’ book. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 228-9571. 2 and 5 pm Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes June 3. $13-$30.
In the Red and Brown Water
If you’re going to run from the swamp, you’d best keep running. Oya runs fast
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enough to earn a track scholarship, but stays behind to care for her ailing mother. When autumn rolls around again, the scholarship is gone. Then she turns down the affections of a responsible but boring man, Ogun, in favor of Shango, a Lothario who swaggers through life with his hand on his cock. Oya’s misfortunes unfold as in a dream, one scene rolling suddenly into the next with a terrible logic. We are all dreaming. In the Red and Brown Water is the first of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s three interrelated “Brother/ Sister Plays.” (Portland Playhouse is presenting all three in repertory. The remaining two open April 21.) The 31-year-old playwright’s words flow as if they’d been passed down from generations long forgotten, sometimes unintelligible but always moving. The characters voice their stage directions before they perform them, or at least those that can be performed. Brian Demar Jones doesn’t quite “enter like the moon,” but he gets as close as one could hope. Director Victor Mack emphasizes McCraney’s mythic tone with repetitive choreography and naturalistic emotion. The cast is among the finest I’ve seen on stage this season. Ramona Lisa Alexander sweeps up the audience in Oya’s bad decisions while Damian Thompson, full of erotic menace, seduces and repulses. Jones seems to float delicately through the scene, his angular frame astonishingly graceful. Their performance is entrancing; days later, I feel I’ve yet to awake. Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St., 205-0715. 4 pm Saturdays and 7:30 pm Fridays April 21-May 19; 2 pm Sunday, May 13. $12-$23.
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 My 26. $20-$30.
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, 620-5262. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Fridays, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes May 20. $30-$40.
The Black Lizard
Imago Theatre presents the Englishlanguage premiere of a play by the Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima—who infamously committed suicide after a failed coup d’état—about a brilliant private detective on the tale of Black Lizard, the female leader of a gang of jewel thieves. Imago’s production, directed by Jerry Mouawad and featuring Matt DiBiasio and Anne Sorce, promises equal parts kabuki and ’60s camp. Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave.,
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Million Dollar Quartet
Fred Meyer Broadway Across America Portland (whew!) presents the touring cast of the musical about Cash, Perkins, Lewis and Presley recording together in 1956. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 241-1802. 7:30 pm Tuesday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday, 1 and 6:30 pm Sunday, May 22-27. $35-$90.
Next to Normal
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. PENELOPE BASS. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm WednesdaysSaturdays, 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’s 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.
Pipes
Musical improv comedy. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm FridaysSaturdays through June 9. $12-$15.
Red Light Winter
Portlanders have been getting plenty of Adam Rapp in our dramatic diet of life. This time it’s the shock-loving playwright’s story of a pair of longtime pals who take an eventful trip to Amsterdam. Former Tygres Heart Shakespeare Company director Jenn Gartner directs. Brooklyn Bay, 1825 SE Franklin St., 890-6944. 8 pm FridaysSundays. Closes June 3. $15-$18.
Japanese Jewel: Mishima’s profane surprise.
the black lizard (imago) Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima’s work is filled with seeming contradictions: the confluence of sex and death, the modern grotesqueries that result from the unremitting pursuit of the timeless and beautiful. His 1961 play, The Black Lizard, adapted into English for the first time by director Jerry Mouawad and translators Laurence Kominz and Mark Oshima, is no stranger to these obsessions. It revolves around a slinky minx of a criminal, the Black Lizard (the excellent Anne Sorce), who kills and preserves naked youthful bodies so she can admire their beauty forever. But The Black Lizard is no dreary, dark parable. It is a thing of wit and intelligence and fun, a post-Brechtian, genre-bending romp at play with the deformed heart of the 1930s detective thriller. It reminds one, more than anything, of the ecstatic formal play of the early French New Wave. Characters spout existentialist tropes in the exaggerated cadences of camp noir. Everyone kills the ones they love, or dies trying. It’s Alphaville meets Pierrot le Fou, on a kabuki stage. On the surface, the story is simple. The Black Lizard has kidnapped the daughter of Japan’s richest jeweler, to be ransomed at the price of a fabulous jewel. Detective Kogoro Akechi (played by Matt DiBiasio with a hilarious vocal resemblance to Patrick Warburton’s The Tick) must catch her and save the girl. Criminal and detective—two sides of the same coin—are, of course, in terrible, impossible love. Director Mouawad smartly plays Mishima’s script for maximum estrangement, breaking up the acts with staid Caucasian kabuki and allowing the characters to exist as satirical archetypes. Their inner monologues emerge in red-lit interludes, with sudden and uncanny poetic intensity. It is the sound, especially (designed by John Berendzen and Kyle Delamarter), that gives the play its flavor: abrasive Orientalized music, the recorded “tock!” of struck wood blocks thrust amid dialogue, the screeing city sounds of Tom Waits’ “Midtown” instrumental. The sound is a knowing John Zorn-style pastiche, and one of the biggest cues to how Mishima’s play is to be viewed: not as kabuki detective thriller, and certainly not as a philosophical meditation on beauty and control, but rather as a heavily ironized postmodern stew of the serious, the formal and the downright trashy. Rather than farce, it is a detached quotation of farce, a precise clockwork of profane surprise. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Die young, stay pretty.
see it: Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave., 231-9581. 7:30 pm Thursdays, 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays. Through June 2. $15-$30. Production contains nudity.
MAY 16-22
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.” The plays share characters and dramatic conceits, but each episode is less fantastic and more claustrophobic than the last. For the latter two, McCraney doubles down on the theme of captivity: 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. Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St., 205-0715. 7:30 pm May 3, 5, 11-12, 17 and 19. 2 pm Sundays, May 6 and 20; 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., 541-351-8386. 10 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes May 20. $10-$25.
The Happy Family
The debut production of Tightrope Theatre is a musical adaptation of a 1969 horror film Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly, itself adapted from a stage play, The Happy Family, by the English writer Maisie Mosco. The plot: A family of psychotic upper-class twits lure male loners back to their country house and murder them, until one of their would-be victims turns the family on itself. Lents Commons, 9201 SE Foster Road, 839-0127. 8 pm FridaysSaturdays through June 9. $15-$20.
The Loman Family Picnic
No, not a wicker basket full of sales samples and rubber hoses. In this Donald Margulies’ comedy, presented by Jewish Theatre Collaborative, the struggles and frustrations of middleclass 1960s Jewish life are turned into humorous, rather than tragic, ends. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont
St., brownpapertickets.com. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes June 3. $10-$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.
The Weekly Recurring Humor Night
A comedy showcase hosted by Whitney Streed and featuring Nathan Brannon, Will Woodruff, Boomer, Marcia Belsky, Angela Olson, Trevor Thorpe and Jesse Priest. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 238-0543. 9:30 pm Wednesdays. “Pay what you want,” $3-$5 suggested. 21+.
U.S.S. Improvise The Next Generation
The Unscriptables improvise a spoof of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave. 8 pm Saturdays through May 26. “Pay what you want.”
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The Unscriptables improvise six fourminute 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.”
Northwest’s—and the country’s—finest vocal ensembles celebrates its 20th anniversary with six world premieres (including two Oregonian composers, Robert Kyr and John Vergin), as well as their source material: medieval Byzantine chants from the 8thcentury Eastern Canon of St. John of Damascus. St. Mary’s Cathedral , 1716 NW Davis St., 236-8202. 8 pm Saturday, May 19. . $22. All ages.
Claude Bourbon
The virtuoso London-based fingerstyle guitarist performs original music that fuses jazz, classical, Spanish, Latin and other influences. Walters Cultural Arts Center, 527 E Main St., Hillsboro, 615-3485. 7:30 pm Friday, May 18. $10-$12. All ages.
Alfredo Muro, Sellwood String Quartet, Brian Healy
In this Portland Classic Guitar concert, the Peruvian-born, Portland classical/ world-music guitar fixture returns from his new home in Boulder (where he teaches at the University of Colorado) to play music by Albéniz, Luiz Bonfá, Baden Powell, Vivaldi, Boccherini and Muro’s own compositions and arrangements. Marylhurst University, 17600 Highway 43, 699-1814. 8 pm Saturday, May 19. $20-$49.
Cantico Portland Chamber Singers
The 17-member vocal ensemble joins guests violinist Ann Christensen and flutist Kristine Parker to perform music by Aaron Copland, Mozart, Duke Ellington, Dolly Parton and one of the most popular, recent choral compositions, L.A. composer and sex symbol Eric Whitacre’s lovely Five Hebrew Love Songs, a setting of Hebrew poems written by his wife (Sorry, gals.), the singer Hila Plitmann. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. 8 pm Friday, May 18. $10-$12.
Cappella Romana
Some of the newest choral music joins some of the oldest when one of the
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Irish Dancers from the Comerford School premiere new choreography for this concert of folk, gospel and German songs, along with the expected Irish treats. First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park Ave., 228-7219. 7:30 pm Saturday, May 19. $12-$18.
Michael Kleinschmidt
To close this season’s fine Celebration Works series, the relatively new music director at Trinity Cathedral, who before moving to Portland was an acclaimed organist at churches in Boston and New York, steps into the spotlight with a concert of some of J.S. Bach’s mightiest organ music. First Presbyterian Church, 1200 SW Alder St., 228-7331. 2 pm Sunday, May 20. $10-$12.
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PERFORMANCE
The band saves its best for last by finally performing a major 21st-century work—California composer John Adams’ bustling jazz- and cinemainspired, three-movement 2009 symphony City Noir, along with Adams’ nimble orchestration of Franz Liszt’s The Black Gondola. Then comes the mother of all modernism, still the most exciting work in 20th-century— or any—music: Igor Stravinsky’s shattering ballet score The Rite of Spring, still startlingly powerful a century later. If you can see only one orchestra concert this season, this is it. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm Sunday, May 20. $21-92. All ages.
Portland Opera
The company revives its decade-old production of Leonard Bernstein’s 1956 Candide, one of the century’s great (though flawed in clunky construction) works of musical theater. Portland Opera artistic director Christopher Mattaliano’s own adaptation of Voltaire’s wry classic about corruption contains some of the composer’s finest music, which—along with a superior all around performance by tenor Jonathan Boyd and worthy dramatic contributions from Ann McMahon Quintero and Robert Orth—helps overcome some stretches of curiously leaden pacing, labored
humor and an unfriendly setting that makes some of the decor hard to see and lyrics hard to hear. Still, it’s worth seeing for the able performances, sharp satire and glorious classics like “Glitter and Be Gay” and “Make Our Garden Grow.” Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 241-1802. 7:30 pm Friday and 2 pm Sunday, May 11 and 13. 7:30 pm Thursday and Saturday, May 17 and 19. $20-$140.
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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. 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.
Portland Peace Choir
The singers celebrate the earth’s beauty with appropriate songs. St. David’s Episcopal Church, 2800 SE Harrison St., 232-8461. 7:30 pm Saturday, May 19. Free.
Stumptown Winds, Cascadia Quartet, Him and Her
Musicians from the Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra divide into chamber ensembles to a play a delicious potpourri of smaller-scale music by Brahms, Mendelssohn, Ravel, Schubert, J.S. Bach and more. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. 7:30 pm Thursday, May 17. Free.
TopShakeDance
It’s refreshing to report that TopShakeDance, the company founded by local contemporary dancer Jim McGinn, is still in business after its debut at Conduit Studios last year. McGinn, whose day job includes dancing for local choreographers like Mary Oslund, is staging a new work called Jamb, which explores the physical and mental limitations of confinement. McGinn performs with Dana Detweiler, Chase Hamilton, Pamela James and Amanda Morse; Loren Chasse provides the score. Conduit Dance , 918 SW Yamhill St., Suite 401, 221-5857. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, May 17-26. $12-$25. All ages.
DANCE NW Choreographers Concerts
The Dance Coalition of Oregon offers its annual weekend sampler of local dance, ranging from hip-hop to masked theater, and showing off the talents of newbies and veterans alike. (On that end, longtime Portland choreographer Mary Oslund, a Conduit cofounder, will receive a well-deserved Lifetime Achievement Award at the event for helping grow local dance.) Friday’s program includes contemporary work from Luciana Proaño and more classical offerings from the Portland Youth Ballet, among many others; Saturday’s program emphasizes the individual, with work by performers ranging from Sahomi Tachibana to Janet Towner. This mini-festival concludes Sunday night with the PDX Dance Collective, PAX International Dance, Mythobolus Mask Theatre and vintage-social-dance specialists the Dolly Pops, to name but a few. Concordia University, 2800 NE
We Two Boys
Walt Whitman’s poem “We Two Boys Together Clinging” serves as a springboard for the butoh-influenced contemporary-dance duet We Two Boys. In it, two men—Chip Sherman and Meshi Chavez—offer a narrative work touching on issues of love and sexuality, attraction and surrender. Studio Two, 810 SE Belmont St., 893-5999. 8:30 pm Friday-Saturday, 7 pm Sunday, May 18-20. $15.
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BEYOND VERONICA FRIDAY 5/18 @ 6 PM
Beyond Veronica cites a diversity of influences ranging from The Ronettes and Blondie to The Runaways and The Avengers. In 2006, founding members Bonnie Veronica and Kirk Larsen relocated to Portland, Oregon and teamed with bassist Neesie Doss and drummer Kurt Steinke. Their album ‘Hard Times For Dreamers’ is an edgy, power pop explosion.
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Former Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks member Jaime Leopold now fronts his own band. On his debut self-titled release, every tune’s a tale, every tale’s a journey, and every journey’s a one way street to soulsville, where you’ll find Jaime, once more, casting off the devil’s voice and hoping for angels. The album also features former Hot Licks member Sid Page.
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Barbara Stafford: Evening
PDX follows up last month’s restrained showing of Tina Beebe’s floral still lifes with an equally restrained showing of Barbara Stafford’s landscapes. Discreetly sized paintings of mountains, clouds, waves, trees, cliffs and sky add up to an exhibition that is so calmative and trance-inducing, you may need a double espresso just to make it back out the gallery door. Through June 2. PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.
Daniel Robinson: Now and Then
Generations: Betty Feves
Rusty Bandsaw SATURDAY 5/19
MONDAY 5/21
Saturday, May 19th • 9pm
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. Through June 30. I Witness Gallery Northwest Center for Photography, 1028 SE Water Ave., Suite 50, 384-2783.
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SUPERMOUNDS BY EMILY NACHISON AT PERCEPTUAL CONTROL
There are no people in Daniel Robinson’s paintings of grain silos, farmhouses, factories, fields and city streets. It’s as if humankind has been vaporized. Sadly, along with it has been any sense of soul in these paintings, which presumably aim to evoke wheat-cracked Americana but actually recall Stalin-era social realism. The paint application is flat and dry, and so is the emotional impact of these desolate images. Through June 16. Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, 134 NW 8th Ave., 287-3886.
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and decidedly unwonky light sculptures during the heyday of minimalism in the 1960s and ’70s. Another notable work is Heechan Kim’s #9, an intricate hanging sculpture made of thin wooden wafers held together with copper staples. The piece warps around itself, caving in and bowing out, looking for all the world like a giant cochlea that got sucked into a black hole. Through June 2. PDX Across the Hall, 929 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.
To conclude the museum’s 75th anniversary celebration, 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, primeval-meets-Space-Age forms betray the influences of that illustrious lineage. Through July 28. Museum of Contemporary Craft, 724 NW Davis St., 223-2654.
Heidi Schwegler: The Known World
The Known World is an ambitious title for the subject matter of an art show, and if Heidi Schwegler doesn’t fulfill that manifest destiny, she still has fun trying. The coolest piece here is This Is You, a silicone sculp-
ture of a lamb that sits on a pedestal and vibrates like a molded Jell-O dessert. This is pure, unabashed Jeff Koons-style kitsch, and unfortunately the rest of the show is too unfocused and heterogeneous to match its wit and imagination. Through June 23. Chambers @ 916, 916 NW Flanders St., 227-9398.
Ian Anderson
Ian Anderson is a symbolist, which is to say, his paintings use imagery as symbolic stand-ins for other objects or ideas. Generally he does this with neither subtlety nor sophistication. His work features sharks, wolves, eagles, naked women, an octopus, roosters and cobras. There is a sincerity in his approach, but the work would seem more at home in a tattoo shop than an art gallery. Through May 30. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900.
JoEllyn Loehr: Intimate Symmetries
Like a song in which the same note repeats incessantly, JoEllyn Loehr’s abstract paintings present the same general Gestalt over and over. Basically, the only element that varies is the color palette: pastels for Shir Hashirim; earth and sky tones for Steens; blues, predictably, for Azul; and greens for Nansene. This is perfectly innocuous, workmanlike abstraction that is going to look great in somebody’s foyer in Lake Oswego. One last point. For the second month in a row, Blackfish played insipid light jazz over its sound system, lending a soundscape of pure cheesiness. Galleries rarely play music at openings, with good reason: Artwork, like wine, needs to breathe. Silence and ambient crowd noise allow the work to find its own voice. Through June 2. Blackfish Gallery, 420 NW 9th Ave., 234-2634.
Jost Münster
Based in London and Ulm, Germany, painter Jost Münster borrows from the lineage of minimalism and geometric abstraction. His most satisfying pieces, Spot and Forever Young, incorporate holes and layering effects. This is the second installment in Victory Gallery’s series of three one-month shows spotlighting German artists—a refreshing infusion of international blood into our art scene. Through June 6. Victory Gallery, 733 NW Everett St.
LIGHT
This group show examines the multifarious ways in which artists address the phenomenon of light. A highlight is Johannes Girardoni’s Peak Light Extractor—Grey/Yellow, an elegant construction comprising mustardcolored paint, fluorescent lights and wires trailing off nonchalantly to the closest electrical outlet. It strikes the viewer as a cheeky, wonky, postmodern response to Dan Flavin’s elegant
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 ostensibly more interesting activities such as fireworks displays, picnics and star-gazing parties. But RossPaul resists the temptation to wag fingers at the perpetually loggedon young’uns, instead depicting the screens’ light with the same mystical reverence seen in Renaissance paintings of candles, halos and stainedglass windows. Through June 2. Froelick Gallery, 714 NW Davis St., 222-1142.
Perceptual Control
Perceptual Control, a group show curated by artist-in-residence Emily Nachison, deftly fills Worksound’s challenging, Hydra-headed exhibition spaces with artwork by Nachison herself, along with Kyle Raquipiso, Amy Bernstein, Nathanael Thayer Moss and Jamie Marie Waelchli. Nachison’s blue walk-in interactive sculpture and Moss’ Op-style black-and-white wall paintings are the show’s most compelling components, but what’s most impressive is the show’s overall cohesion, which bodes well for the gallery’s ongoing artist-in-residence series. Through June 9. Worksound, 820 SE Alder St., myspace.com/ worksoundpdx.
Renee Zangara: Mirth
At this late date, it’s hard to say anything new within the genre of the oil-painted landscape, but somehow Renee Zangara manages to put a new spin on an old trope. Her luscious daubs, dabs and jots of color add up to trees, flowers, grass and all the standard trappings, plus that extra something that makes a painting seem fresh instead of tired. Through June 3. Nine Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 227-7114.
Ryan Pierce: New World Atlas of Weeds and Rags and Deborah Horrell: Celebrating Beauty
Ryan Pierce’s allegorical paintings are ambitious in their scale and archetypal subject matter, but in the Adam-and-Eve redux Devil’s Thread and the Noah retread of Chance Ark, Pierce’s conflation of Christian symbolism and environmental apocalypse risks triteness. He is more satisfying in more direct depictions such as Sun Scorched, whose central sunflower motif radiates peach-colored petals before a background of mother-of-pearl clouds. Through June 23. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521.
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. Through June 2. Laura Russo Gallery, 805 NW 21st Ave., 226-2754.
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BOOKS
MAY 16-22
Rose City
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 16 Shawn Gascoyne-Bowman
SUNDAY, MAY 20 The Literary Gong Show
Need a hand-knit cozy for your Glock? Because crafting is more fun when you’re up to no good, author Shawn Gascoyne-Bowman presents 30 projects themed around notorious criminals in his book Criminal Crafts. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651. 7 pm. Free.
Combining Portland’s love for literature with its equally strong feelings for beer and titties, the Literary Gong Show will pit 12 of Portland’s most renowned authors against each other in a literary recreation of the ’70s game show. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 8 pm. $7.
Leni Zumas
MONDAY, MAY 21
Portland author and PSU creativewriting professor Leni Zumas’ new novel, The Listeners, follows the downhill slide of former punk rocker as she tries to ignore the tragedy of her past. Like Courtney Love, but likable. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
Andrew Bacevich
When we’ve been at war for so long we tend to forget we’re even at war, it’s time to ask some serious questions. Army veteran and Boston University professor Andrew Bacevich, who wrote Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War, will present the lecture A Decade of War examining what the war on terror has actually achieved and what it has cost. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 147 NW 19th Ave. 7 pm. Free.
THURSDAY, MAY 17 Kim Stafford and Matt Love
As part of the Comma monthly reading series, which hosts regional authors to share new work or work in progress, poet and Northwest Writing Institute founder Kim Stafford will read from his poetry book Prairie Prescription. Author and publisher Matt Love also will present his new book, Sometimes a Great Movie: Paul Newman, Ken Kesey and the Filming of the Great Oregon Novel. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.
Ann Packer
Weaving her narrative like a lush psychological tapestry, Ann Packer, author of Songs Without Words and The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, links two novellas to chart the transformation of a family during a lifetime in her newest book, Swim Back to Me. Don’t forget your water wings. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651. 7 pm. Free.
Mark Sundeen with Daniel Suelo
Who among us hasn’t dreamed of leaving behind our consumerist culture to live in a cave? Author Mark Sundeen tells the story of Daniel Suelo, the man who actually did. In The Man Who Quit Money, Sundeen describes how and why Suelo has lived without money, barter or government aid for the past 12 years. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
FRIDAY, MAY 18 Rose City Used Book Fair
Every hoarder must start somewhere. The Rose City Used Book Fair brings book dealers from across the Northwest with stacks of yellowed and rare paper, along with prints and various paper ephemera. Bibliophiles, rejoice. Kindle owners may be refused entry. DoubleTree Inn, Lloyd Center, 1000 NE Multnomah St., 249-0344. 2-8 pm Friday, 10 am-5 pm Saturday, May 18-19. $2, or $1 and one can of food.
Jackson Galaxy
Having trouble with the finicky feline in your life? Cat behaviorist and host of Animal Planet’s My Cat from Hell Jackson Galaxy, aka Cat Daddy, is here to help. Powell’s Books at
Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651. 7 pm. Free.
Augusten Burroughs
Yes, self-help books are obnoxious, particularly when written by celebrity authors. But Augusten Burroughs, who launched to fame with the memoir of his astoundingly fucked-up childhood in Running with Scissors, keeps the preaching and mantras in check, while offering advice on topics like “How to Feel Like Shit” and “How to be a Good Mental Patient” in his newest book, This Is How. Proclaiming it the book he was born to write, Burroughs laces each topic with his cynical sense of humor as he explains why it’s probably not a good idea to kill yourself. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
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REVIEW
JAMES BERNARD FROST, A VERY MINOR PROPHET James Bernard Frost’s new zine-style novel, A Very Minor Prophet, couldn’t be any more Portland if it were topped with bacon and served at a food cart by a man wearing an ironic T-shirt. This is both a criticism and one of the book’s endearing Too Portland for Portland? qualities, and it’s something Frost meets with a sigh. “Portland is a city obsessed with itself. Some Portlanders are going to say it’s too derivative and too ‘Portland’ because Portlanders think about nothing but Portland,” Frost laments. “I started the thing long before Portlandia or Stumptown or even ‘hipsterism’ became household names. So it annoys me that the slow process of bookmaking has turned the book into a trend.” Frost began writing the book in 2004 after relocating to Portland from San Francisco. The city is as much of a central character as it is the backdrop, encouraging both the creativity and aimlessness of its inhabitants. The story follows Barth Flynn, a 22-yearold college grad with an English degree from the University of Iowa and little on the horizon beyond his job as a barista and his half-hearted zine, Octogonal Table Talk. The prophet comes in the form of Joseph Patrick Booker, a dwarf preacher (illustrated as Tattoo from Fantasy Island) who claims to have found his religious calling after a chance encounter with two lesbians in Arkansas. When Flynn gets a flat bike tire and is invited into Booker’s ramshackle church (where the baptismal fonts are filled with Stumptown coffee), he finds himself the test audience for Booker’s first sermon, delivered from a stack of milk crates. More creatively inspired than religiously moved, Flynn turns Booker’s sermon into a zine, becoming the dwarf preacher’s unwitting scribe. Told with the tangential quality of a Tom Robbins novel (including his penchant for quirky characters), A Very Minor Prophet manages to relay its sermon, and its love song to Portland, with humor and charm. Although the book documents the religious revelations of Booker—who, it is no spoiler to reveal, ends up beheaded—the real enlightenment comes in the form of Flynn’s own struggle to find purpose. It’s a common enough theme, but Frost manages it with such authenticity that it is almost depressing for those of us still caught in the struggle. But that’s what the doughnuts are for. PENELOPE BASS. GO: James Bernard Frost reads Saturday-Sunday, May 19-20. Saturday’s reading is at the Independent Publishing Resource Center, 917 SW Oak St., No. 218. 7:30 pm. Sunday’s reading and performance is at Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St. 8 pm. $7. hawthornebooks.com.
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21 Jump Street
A The unapologetic go-for-broke
spirit of the thing results in a few painful misfires (cop-on-perp sexual assault is probably never going to be funny to me, no matter how playful the dry hump), but 21 Jump Street’s episodic anarchy works far more often than it doesn’t. R. CHRIS STAMM. Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV.
The Avengers
A In helming The Avengers—the longawaited 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. 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, 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. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, CineMagic, Cornelius, Moreland, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, St. Johns.
Battleship
Tim Riggins and Rihanna in Transformers on the Water. So much snark, so little space. Not screened by WW press deadlines, so look for the board game-related jokes on wweek. com. PG-13. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, St. Johns.
The Beatles: The Lost Concert
[TWO NIGHTS ONLY] A documentary about the Fab Four’s first concert on American soil. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Thursday, May 17; 9:30 pm Tuesday, May 22.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
C “For the elderly and beautiful,” runs the rest of the name dreamed up by Sonny (Dev Patel) for his dilapidated retirement resort in India. The arriving Little England expats qualify for both adjectives: Marigold Hotel is nothing but the dotty-pensioner scenes from British ensemble comedies, always the best parts. But for crissakes, don’t call it a “movie for grown-ups.” The film, directed by fustian Shakespeare in Love hack John Madden, is hardly more mature than The Avengers, and plays to the same desire to see big names join forces. I’m happy to see Bill Nighy, Judi Dench and Tom Wilkinson in any context, even if it’s a geriatric version of a summer-camp movie, with a similar late-afternoon poignancy and corny lines. (Dench’s voice-over is so packed with reassuring bromides that I eventually stopped hearing it, like Muzak.) It’s not dealing in harsh truths—it’s a sorbet to cleanse your palate after too much Mike Leigh—but the banalities are undermined by real disappointment and abandonment. If Maggie Smith’s early racism is a touch too violent for her character arc, otherwise everyone is wonderfully sympathetic. Wilkinson in particular grounds the
project with a typically righteous performance as a gay judge seeking forgiveness from a former lover. Marigold Hotel’s only serious drawback, in fact, is its tendency to treat India as a place for white folks to find catharsis—a wellintentioned flaw it copies from a Wes Anderson movie. It’s The Darjeeling Aged. AARON MESH.Clackamas, Bridgeport, Fox Tower.
Bill Cunningham New York
A [THREE NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL]
Arriving with the prized imprimatur (and fonts) of the Sulzberger Times, director Richard Press’ graceful documentary is deceptively spontaneous—a quality it shares with fashion photographer Cunningham’s “On the Street” column. It requires real concentration to find the patterns and connections between haute Paris runways and harried Manhattan commuters, just as it surely took effort to get Cunningham to reveal any detail of his personal life—or even to sit still long enough to take questions. As the octogenarian cyclist pedals through Times Square in search of great jackets and better legs, it’s clear that the movie, while belonging to the milieu that gave us profiles of Anna Wintour and Valentino, is also one of the great recent New York street-life films; it does for newspaper photography what I Like Killing Flies did for diner cuisine. Himself darting along the sidewalk like a Kennedy-accented lightning bug with a handheld flash, Cunningham eventually begins to seem a frail bulwark of civilization. “He who seeks beauty will find it,” he declares, and his work is a natural subject for the movies: the physical ecstasy of truly and uniquely seeing a thing, and immortalizing a glimpse of it. AARON MESH Fifth Avenue Cinema. 7 pm and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday, May 18-19; 3 pm Sunday, May 20.
The Cabin in the Woods
A How does someone in my position
discuss The Cabin in the Woods? It’s pretty much guaranteed I’m going to ruin something without even meaning to, so it’s probably best to avert your eyes right now. Before you do, though, allow me to offer a painfully generic imperative: Go see this film. It’s some of the craziest fun you’ll have at the theater all year. Cabin’s sharply satirical edge will engender comparisons to Scream, but that franchise celebrated the conventions it gleefully subverted, while this film demolishes tropes with a tinge of disdain. In truth, a more apt companion piece is Rubber, the 2010 French curio ostensibly about a murderous, sentient car tire. It’s a movie that openly questioned its own existence, wondering—aloud—why anyone would want to watch a film about a killer tire. Similarly, Cabin questions the use of the slasher flick, with its ever-revolving casts of stupid kids making stupid decisions and getting their stupid heads snared in bear traps. Its response is to throw the whole institution out. In its exhilarating, blood-smeared climax, the movie sends enough horror clichés flying at the screen to give fanboys an aneurysm, and it feels like one great, giant purge—the end of horror as we know it. And really, after witnessing a dude get stabbed through the chest by a unicorn, what else is there to even see? Oh no, I’ve said too much. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall.
Castles in the Sky: Miyazaki, Takahata, and the Masters of Studio Ghibli A 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 con-
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WOLF EYES: A scene from Vanessa Renwick’s Charismatic Megafauna.
BACK TO THE FRINGE THE EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL RECONNECTS PORTLAND’S AVANT-CINEMA COMMUNITY. BY MATTHEW SIN GE R
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Experimental media in Portland is fractured. If that meant abstruse, mind-splattering and totally fucking bonkers, it’d be a good thing. But it’s more literal. In the last three years, the local scene became decentralized as Matt McCormick’s Portland Documentary and eXperimental Film Festival went on indefinite hiatus. The fest, oftabbreviated as PDX Fest, folded following an eightyear run that established Portland as a stronghold for convention-busting, non-narrative cinema. Without a unifying event tying them together, the city’s video artists and avant-garde filmmakers scattered. They were left innovating into a void. It’s a void Grand Detour has labored to fill. Established in 2010, the art collective hoped to pick up the mantle, producing programs with local and international work in galleries and art spaces across town. Taking a looser do-it-yourself approach than its comrades at Cinema Project, Grand Detour is, in the words of founder Dustin Zemel, “the house shows of experimental media.” On Saturday, May 19, Grand Detour launches its inaugural Experimental Film Festival Portland (or EFF Portland, for short). Featuring 85 short films, 15 video installations and seven performance pieces, it’s the biggest showcase of experimental media in Portland since PDX Fest went dark. For Zemel and partners Hannah Piper Burns and Ben Popp, the festival is the culmination of two years of networking, and the work has caught up to them. “We bit off more than we can chew,” Burns says. A festival of this size and scope was never Grand Detour’s ultimate aim. “We didn’t know what we were going to be at first,” Zemel says. “Our main goal was just to facilitate experimental media. There was so much of it going on, but there was no real communication, in the city but also outside the city.” Screening films from around the country—and some from as far away as Sweden and France—that wouldn’t have made it to Portland
otherwise, audiences grew to the point that putting on a festival seemed almost obligatory, Zemel says. Sifting through more than 400 submissions, the group sorted the final selections into six themed programs presenting a fluid definition of experimental film: Eruption, culling together the festival’s most “amped-up” films; Mycology, a psychedelic brain-melt; the Near Side and the Far Side, highlighting local and global artists, respectively; Magma Flow, a diverse Saturday matinee; and the Upper Crust, a two-part best-of chosen by the curators. Included among those is everything from Bryan Boyce’s Walt Disney’s Taxi Driver—a clever mash-up in which Travis Bickle’s prophecy
“THERE’S A VIDEO WITH MONSTER TRUCKS IN IT. IT’S BEAUTIFUL AND POETIC, BUT IT’S ALSO...MONSTER TRUCKS!”—DUSTIN ZEMEL of a great rain washing the scum off the streets is brought to fruition by Tinkerbell—and Charlotte Taylor’s The Edge of Summer, an installation using mirrors to create the illusion of a 3-D film shot in 16 mm. “There’s a video with monster trucks in it,” Zemel adds. “It’s unlike any other monster-truck documentary you’ve ever seen. It’s beautiful and poetic. But it’s also…monster trucks!” On the festival’s final day, May 27, at the Hollywood Theatre, veteran Portland filmmaker Vanessa Renwick presents Charismatic Megafauna, a documentary on her life growing up in Chicago with a pet wolf dog. The screening is preceded that afternoon by a panel discussion on the history of experimental filmmaking in Portland, featuring McCormick. It’s a means of paying homage to PDX Fest, Burns says, while also connecting EFF Portland to its legacy of support. “There are new experimental filmmakers being spawned every day,” Burns says, “and we want to create a community where they can thrive.” SEE IT: The first Experimental Film Festival Portland runs May 19 and 22-27. Check effportland.com for full schedule. Willamette Week MAY 16, 2012 wweek.com
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structed to blow away all others. As the NW Film Center’s monthlong retrospective shows, it just about has. Screening this week: Ocean Waves (7 pm Friday, May 18; 5 pm Sunday, May 20), an adolescent drama directed by Ghibli outsider Tomomi Mochizuki; Miyazaki’s underrated World War II fantasy Porco Rosso (8:45 pm Friday, May 18; 7 pm Saturday and Tuesday, May 19 and 22); and My Neighbors the Yamadas (4:30 Saturday, May 19; 7 pm Sunday, May 20), studio cofounder Isao Takahata’s adaptation of a popular Japanese comic strip with a visual style and sense of humor unlike anything else in the Ghibli catalog. MATTHEW SINGER. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. Check nwfilm.org for a complete schedule.
Chimpanzee
The life and times of a presumably adorable 3-year-old chimp, narrated by fellow simian Tim Allen. Not screened for critics. G. Clackamas, Bridgeport, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall.
Dark Shadows
C+ Tim Burton takes a lot of guff.
Admittedly, much of it is justified. Any director brazen enough to think the world was clamoring for a mallgoth interpretation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is clearly jumping his own train. But the knee-jerk critical reaction these days to any film bearing his name is snickering derision. There’s something unfair about that kind of groupthink. All this probably reads as buildup to a glowing review of his newest project and a declaration that classic Tim Burton is back to silence the haters. Not quite. Dark Shadows, his adaptation of the ’60s cult television drama, is a minor Burton, neither grazing the highs of Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands nor wallowing in the muck of his rancid Planet of the Apes remake. Visually, Burton can still make eyes go wide, but his mall-goth spectacle isn’t spectacular enough here to compensate for the film’s utter lack of focus. Although intermittently fun, Dark Shadows ends up reminding of another of Burton’s adaptations: It’s sleepy and hollow. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
Darling Companion
C Perhaps the Kasdans—director
Lawrence and wife, writer Meg— were trying to work through their deep-seated if asinine marital issues when they decided to pen Darling Companion. In a move to figuratively neuter Mr. Kasdan, I imagine Meg took the part intended for Kevin Kline and said, “The charisma he showed in The Big Chill be damned! As Dr. Winter, he will be wooden and have absolutely no compassion for his wife, and he’ll dislocate his shoulder!” Perhaps Lawrence used the key plot element, the disappearance of a beloved family dog, as some kind of revenge fantasy against Meg. Whatever their intent, the story of an affluent Colorado couple brings together a genuinely likable supporting cast (Dianne Wiest, Richard Jenkins, Sam Shepard) for a weekend’s worth of white-people problems with strange pacing and an inexplicable animated sequence somewhere toward the end. While the disappearance of a dog is tragedy in my book, nothing else about these people’s personal snags rings true. Like how, after three decades of marriage, Mrs. Winter finally manages to tell her husband he always worked too much—which might explain why the bulk of the action takes place at their weekend home in the Rockies. PG-13. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Fox Tower.
Daughters of the Dust
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] The first full-length movie by an AfricanAmerican woman ever released in theaters, director Julie Dash’s 1992 film observes the enduring folk traditions of the Gullah community living on the islands off the Southern coast of the United States at the turn of the 20th century. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7:30 pm Monday, May 21.
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The Deep Blue Sea
B 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. The best scene is a euphemistic squabble between Hester and her wealthy mother-in-law (Barbara Jefford). “Beware of passion, Hester,” she warns. “It always leads somewhere ugly.” And then, of course, it does. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters.
The Dictator
B- The most notable thing about
the new Sacha Baron Cohen movie is how quaint it seems. In The Dictator, Cohen is a North African despot named Admiral General Aladeen who loses his signature beard and unintentionally goes into hiding in New York as, well, Sacha Baron Cohen. It’s an obvious riff on Chaplin’s The Great Dictator, though it scans like a screwball comedy from an even earlier era—albeit one in which the balls are smashed more than screwed. So, yes, while the film is Cohen’s first scripted effort since 2002’s near-unwatchable Ali G Indahouse, it features the same kind of scatological shocks found in the confrontational situationism of Borat and Bruno. Those bits, however, feel more strained in this context than the conventional gags based in wordplay, satire and misunderstanding. To the end, Cohen meshes well with Jason Mantzoukas (Rafi, television’s greatest dirtbag, on FX’s The League), playing Chemical Ali to his displaced Saddam, and the two are particularly good in a scene in which a conversation during helicopter ride over Manhattan is misconstrued as a terrorist plot. Where does a provocateur go when he’s all out of provocation? In the case of a talent like Cohen, anywhere he wants, though hopefully it’s down the road with less dick shots. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, Tigard, Evergreen Parkway, Cornelius, Movies On TV, Oak Grove, City Center, Sherwood, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Wilsonville.
The Five-Year Engagement
C- 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-plus-hour crawl through a disintegrating relationship with intermittent moments of unrelated comedy occurring around it. Somewhere, there’s a wall in desperate need of a scrubdown because of all the shit Segel and Stoller tossed against it. This is a movie where Emily Blunt gets shot in the thigh with a crossbow and the incident is never brought up again. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Movies On TV.
God Bless America
C- Bobcat Goldthwait is mad as hell,
and he’s not gonna take much of anything anymore. A wailing infant and its miscreant parents are the first victims of God Bless America, the comic auteur’s vituperative assault on the country’s decaying sense of decency, and the body count rapidly swells to include the Westboro Baptist Church, the American Idol judges, Sean Hannity, and a group of loudmouth teenagers yapping on cell phones in a movie
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theater. Using Joel “Brother of Bill” Murray and moonfaced young’un Tara Lynne Barr—a bargain-bin Ellen Page, though don’t call her Juno—as avatars for his rage against contemporary society, Goldthwait vents his spleen by sending the (strictly platonic) MayDecember hit-squad on a spree of cultural vigilantism. Call me desensitized, but the rampage gets tiresome quick, and the duo’s scabrous monologues—targeting everything from the mainstreaming of pedophilia to Diablo Cody—eventually sound less like Howard Beale than Grandpa Simpson shaking his fist at a generation that’s forsaken the simple pleasures of carnivals, Star Trek and Alice Cooper. “When was the last time you had a real conversation with someone?” asks Murray’s on-the-edge every-schlub. A fair point, but it’s disingenuous. God Bless America isn’t interested in creating dialogue. It’s a one-way airing of grievances. Hey, Bobcat: Put down the guns and get a blog. MATTHEW SINGER. Hollywood Theatre.
International Youth Silent Film Festival
[THREE NIGHTS ONLY] Modern silent films made by kids ages 20 and under, accompanied by live music. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm TuesdayThursday, May 22-24.
Jesus Henry Christ
“A boy who was conceived in a petri dish and raised by his feminist mother follows a string of Post-it notes in hopes of finding his biological father.” Sounds insufferable, but Toni Collette and Michael Sheen have worked miracles before. Not screened for critics. Living Room Theaters.
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
B+ Like the sushi master himself, the
documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi moves a bit ponderously and occa-
sionally repetitively. But as Jiro would be the first to tell you, patience and perseverance will pay off in the end. PG. RUTH BROWN. Living Room Theaters.
Juan of the Dead
C+ It makes sense that Cuba’s first horror film (that isn’t a documentary, at least) is the zombie 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? 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. The problem is, its characters are pre-
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[FOUR NIGHTS ONLY] A New Zealand spaghetti Western framed around cowboy erectile dysfunction. Curiouser and curiouser. Look for a review at wweek.com. Clinton Street Theater. 4:30, 7 and 9 pm Monday-Thursday, May 21-24 (no 9 pm screening Tuesday, May 22).
H.P. Lovecraft Double Feature: The Whisperer in Darkness and Call of Cthulu
[THREE NIGHTS ONLY] In case Cthuluthon failed to satiate your desire for cinematic celebrations of H.P. Lovecraft’s unspeakable horrors, here’s a double shot to help you sleep worse at night. Clinton Street Theater. FridaySunday, May 18-20. Multiple showtimes. Presented by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society.
Headhunters
A- A high point of nerve-wracked
Norwegian thriller Headhunters finds its protagonist, a corporate recruiting agent named Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie), desperately navigating a rainslicked road on the rural outskirts of Oslo. He’s behind the wheel of a tractor with a pit bull impaled on its forks, clad in nothing but underwear and human excrement. Adapted from a book by Jo Nesbø, Morten Tyldum’s Headhunters initially portrays itself as something much less unsavory. Its opening moments tease a sleek heist picture: Roger’s secondary occupation is art theft, and the film begins with a primer on the rules of that particular game. Then Roger discovers his partner’s lifeless body in his garage, and the film turns, on a dime, into a bloodstained, shit-caked, bruisedblack comedy of mounting indignities resembling Martin Scorsese’s After Hours. Bitten, stabbed, sprayed with bullets and rammed off a cliff by a semi truck while pinned between a pair of overweight cops in the back of a police car, Roger crawls from the wreckage of his life not exactly a changed man but a man who’s finally earned the respect he’s always assumed he deserved. Hennie transforms him into the rarest of heroes: the douchebag worth rooting for. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Cinema 21.
The Hunger Games
A In an era where YA books are often
boiled down beyond recognition for film treatment, The Hunger Games is a vivid KO that stays mostly true to great source material. It’s like The Running Man…but with high-schoolers killing each other with bricks and swords in the woods. KELLY CLARKE. Indoor Twin, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
Inter-Action: Animated Shorts
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Filmmaker Tess Martin presents a program of short animated films from the Seattle Experimental Animation Team. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Thursday, May 17.
GRANNY PANTIES: Jack Black folds Shirley MacLaine’s underwear.
BERNIE Richard Linklater’s new movie contains all the “outrageous” elements obligatory to deadpan, small-town true crime. Nice-guy killer? Meet Bernie Tiede, hymn-singing assistant mortician with a penchant for wooing blue-haired ladies. Macabre corpse disposal? The body of Marjorie Nugent, Tiede’s 81-year-old benefactor, was stashed in a garage freezer for nine months. Ironic upshot? Tiede was so popular after giving Nugent’s fortune away, his trial had to be moved out of town. Yet the one truly daring element in Bernie is the one that makes it seem not like a movie at all. Linklater is a Texas native whose best movies (Dazed and Confused, Waking Life) exploit his easy rapport with his shambolic Lone Star compadres. For the first half of Bernie, he uses mockumentary interviews with the main-street gossips of Carthage, Texas, as a kind of Greek chorus. Their piquant observations—“she’d tear you a doublewide, three-bedroom, two-bath asshole”—form the film’s backbone and highlight. They also make its structure fall somewhere between a Herzog documentary and an episode of Radiolab. (Actually, what Bernie most resembles is Calvin Trillin’s great piece of Kansas reportage, “Rumors Around Town,” all the way down to scandal and rubbernecking draped in church-supper piety.) The fake interviews, however, make the bits of drama in between seem artificial and secondhand: It’s impossible to suspend the knowledge that you’re watching a reenactment, because the picture itself keeps using a distancing effect. Imagine Waiting for Guffman if all the talking heads were audience members thinking back on the big play. It doesn’t help that Bernie Tiede was essentially a real-life Corky St. Clair, ceaselessly directing musicals and in deeply unpersuasive denial of his flamboyant orientation. He’s played here by Jack Black, who, in a striking reversal from his own predilections, is good in the small moments and bad in the big ones. Bernie screams to a halt every time Black starts caterwauling a hymn like he’s trying to lay down Tenacious D’s contemporary Christian record. Matthew McConaughey is better as a publicity-hungry district attorney, but Shirley MacLaine barely registers before being dispatched—except in one brilliant scene where she silently insists on chewing her refried beans 25 times before swallowing. That’s the one moment you need to see for yourself. Everything else is better in the telling. PG-13. AARON MESH.
Texas is the reason the old lady’s dead.
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sented as inherently lovable, but they are actually just as menacing as the monsters they fight. AP KRYZA. Hollywood Theatre.
The Lucky One
C- Romance novel czar Nicholas Sparks’ film adaptations aren’t terrible; they’re just usually scripted and shot for people with bad emotional eyesight. Every plot point is over-emphasized and backlit with the hazy gleam of autumn sunlight to alert you to the fact that feelings are happening. After returning home from his third tour of Iraq, Marine Logan (Zac Efron, yes, as a Marine) doesn’t get PTSD counseling: He walks from Colorado to Louisiana to track down the woman pictured in the lucky photo he found in a pile of war-strewn rubble. Because he’s hurting and confused. Get it? His standoffish mystery blonde, Beth (Taylor Schilling), turns out to run a dog kennel and wear nothing but sundresses and rubber boots. She doesn’t just cry, she tears at rosebushes and smashes pottery. Because she’s grieving. Get it? Beth’s ex-husband/token love obstacle, Keith, doesn’t frown; he furrows his brows and clenches his fists like a cartoon villain. Because he’s an abusive dickwad. Get it? Tiny moments of natural humor and sweetness bloom amid the rote drama before a truly asinine ending—involving a storm, a rickety tree house and Iraq friendly fire— wraps everything up with the biggest, dumbest bow imaginable. But mostly it’s just Efron using his newly gained 20 pounds of muscle to play Alpo beefcake, whispering cheeseball lines like, “You should be kissed every day, every hour, every minute.” Because that’s what sells movie tickets. Get it? PG-13. KELLY CLARKE. Clackamas, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Movies On TV.
Mansome
C An undercurrent of sadness runs
through this documentary on male grooming habits. Directed by popumentarian Morgan Spurlock and produced by Will Arnett and Jason Bateman, it’s not surprising that it never gets picked up on. It’s there, though: in the story of a 35-yearold Sikh man, teased so much as a kid he later developed an addiction to manscaping; and in the profile of a “professional beardsman” who sports a waist-length, rust-colored shag carpet from his chin and unconvincingly argues “this is just how a human male looks.” Instead of probing the psychic wounds caused by America’s “Adonis complex,” Spurlock, in his usual way, keeps the proceedings light, breezy and utterly unenlightening. It’s left to the talking celebs to make things at all worthwhile. Comedian Adam Carolla, the thinking-man’s chauvinist, and Scott Ian of Anthrax—who’s cultivated a style of goatee best described as the Half-Swallowed Raccoon—share an amusing befuddlement with modern gender roles. Judd Apatow and Paul Rudd, seemingly having no idea why they’re here, toss off a few sarcastic quips. Best of all is Zach Galifianakis, who hits on the pointlessness of this whole endeavor in his response to a question about his well-fed hobo look: “Would you ask Adrien Brody why he has a giant nose?” MATTHEW SINGER. Fox Tower.
Mirror Mirror
D- By the time the credits roll (accompanied by an inexplicable Bollywood-style music video), you’ll wish someone had offered you some poisoned fruit. PG. PENELOPE BASS. Indoor Twin, Bridgeport, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV.
Northwest Animation Festival
[TWO NIGHTS ONLY] High-class animation, including several Oscar contenders and a presentation from Laika featuring a sneak peek at the Portland studio’s upcoming feature, Paranorman. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, May 18-19.
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Payback
C+ No, it’s not Mel Gibson as the
criminal Parker, scornfully chasing his money and attendant revenge. This documentary isn’t based on the Richard Stark novels, but on the meditations of another fine genre writer, Margaret Atwood. Her book Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth portrays all society as Parker: an implacable machine seeking reparation. Atwood’s Canadian countrywoman Jennifer Baichwal translates the author’s essays into images of inequality and confinement—apt subjects for a director who trained her camera on sublimely vast sweatshops and ecological disasters in 2006’s outstanding Manufactured Landscapes. The pollution is back—the Deepwater Horizon explosion flinging fire and crude into the Gulf of Mexico— but that’s just one ingredient in a goulash that also includes Albanian blood feuds, Florida migrant laborers and the unrepentant Canuck media rascal Conrad Black. For all that swirl, the movie is too abstract and linear: You can all but see the chapter outlines, and then you can actually see Atwood writing the chapters. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters.
The Perfect Family
A dramedy about the collision of Catholic conservatism and secular eccentricity within a family, starring Kathleen Turner, Jason Ritter and the Other Deschanel. Living Room Theaters.
Pina 3D
A+ German auteur Wim Wenders’
Pina—an elegiac documentary about the work of late, iconoclastic choreographer Pina Bausch—is a brokenhearted Billie Holiday to the 3-D form’s usual emptily virtuosic Ella Fitzgerald. PG. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Living Room Theaters.
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
B After detouring into conven-
tional 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. With The Pirates!, Lord leaves the English countryside for a romp on the high seas, but he maintains his distinctly British sense of silliness. Following a not-so-fearsome pirate captain named the Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant, whose droll comedic timing is long underrated) 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. The jokes and visual gags, deployed at the expense of swashbuckling clichés (and Charles Darwin), fly by at an equally breakneck
pace, with even more lurking in the background. Speaking of, 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. Clackamas, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
Safe
Jason Statham blows some shit up, probably. Not screened for critics, because only pussies critique the Stath, bro. R. Clackamas.
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
D The problems of three little people add up to a pile of dead salmon. PG-13. AARON MESH. Fox Tower.
Sound of My Voice
C+ Tract houses and taupe shag carpeting: For the tight few opening minutes of Sound of My Voice, this is the mundanely hellish world of the modern cult. But the cult of Maggie (Brit Marling), a fetching self-proclaimed savior who claims to hail from 40 years in the future, resembles a Silver Lake book club more than teeming masses looking for answers. Director Zal Batmanglij strives for psychological tension over much sense of immediate danger, throwing in lowbudget smoke and mirrors to hint at actual risk. We’re kept guessing to the point of absurdity, trying to piece together red herrings and a delightfully inconsistent genre. After the mess that was Marling’s previous attempt (Another Earth), Sound of My Voice is blessedly free from pseudo-physics. But not only is there no real threat posed by where Maggie might lead everyone (it could be Santa Barbara just as easily as Jonestown), on the question of who or what Maggie is, it’s as if, after the overreach of Another Earth, Marling and Batmanglij simply didn’t want to weigh in. R. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Fox Tower.
Sing-Out: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
[ONE DAY ONLY] Forget Sweeney Todd—the original Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is the most disturbing film musical ever made. Those dead-eyed Oompa Loompas? Gene Wilder playing Wonka as a psychotic dandy barely containing his own madness? It’s creepy as hell. And the songs! This afternoon singalong might be the only one of its kind to end with the entire audience weeping in the fetal position. Hollywood Theatre. 2 pm Saturday, May 19.
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C Ah, failed synergy. Considering the source material is comedian Steve Harvey’s self-help entreaty that ladies not give out free milk (for at least 90 days), Think Like a Man almost succeeds as a faux-Altmanesque study of dating paranoia. A Los Angeles-area pick-up basketball team features every archetype of boyfriend Mr. Harvey would warn us about, each matched, at varying degrees of involvement, with a woman who is secretly steering the conversation according to Harvey’s brash advice. And really, it hardly matters that Harvey’s philosophy is equal opportunity in its sexism; the film clips along on the strength of a balanced cast and a few genuinely funny moments. The problem is Chris Brown. Any argument that this was a fair fight between the sexes is undermined by his tasteless casting as Alex, the quintessential man-to-avoid—not because he might leave you choked in his car, and not because he is a criminally arrogant hack with no appreciation for his undeserved second chances. It’s because, as Alex, he plays a graceless one-night stand who takes the coffee and runs. And just like that, the jokes become too cheap for what would otherwise have made a solid Brew Views screening. PG-13. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV.
We Have a Pope
C+ Filling a void left since 1991’s The Pope Must Diet, papal satire We Have a Pope is a rare film shot at the Vatican. It finally answers the burning question: What would a Top Gun-style volleyball tournament between 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.
What to Expect When You’re Expecting
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PORTLAND QUEER DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL It’s fitting that the flagship offering of the sixth annual Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival is Jeffrey Schwarz’s Vito (7 pm Sunday, May 20), a eulogy for the man who documented the depiction of gays and lesbians in cinema. GLAAD co-founder Vito Russo took more than a decade to pen The Celluloid Closet, outlining the devolution of queer characters on the silver screen. It isn’t simply that Russo’s subject matter was so apropos: It’s his unapologetic and beautifully outraged spirit, recalled in footage of the man himself and in interviews with contemporaries Lily Tomlin and Armistead Maupin, that makes Vito so symbolic of this year’s lineup. Another near-euphoric tale of activism is Love Free or Die (4 pm Sunday, May 20), the story of New Hampshire’s openly gay and partnered Bishop Gene Robinson, whose 2003 ascent in the clergy was enough ultimately to bring the Episcopal Church, the American branch of Anglicanism, up to date on electing gay officials. We follow the unassuming but eloquent Robinson to Canterbury, where he’s locked out of a convocation of bishops, to his opening prayer prior to Obama’s inauguration, and finally to a churchwide debate on whether to allow gay and lesbian bishops to serve—an opportunity several clergy members take to come out publicly. It’s a rare coup that director Macky Alston uses religion to support and promote LGBT rights. But then, it could be argued that coming out in Nashville is nearly as harrowing as coming out in the church. Country music darling Chely Wright documents her countdown to truth in the softer-in-touch Wish Me Away (7 pm Thursday, May 17). Wright does it big, identifying herself as lesbian on The Today Show the day her autobiography drops (she then, understandably, dodges her mother’s calls). Rounding out the entertainment angle and adding just the right shade of camp is Jobriath A.D. (9:30 pm Saturday, May 19), about the unrealized career of a Hair alum who pushed the boundaries of glam rock while being open about his sexuality. This is one of the more fascinating films in the lineup, leaving open the questions of whether Jobriath was given a fair shake, given that the public could clearly abide androgyny but not homosexuality in their rock stars, or if he was simply a self-sabotaging performance artist with delusions of grandeur. SAUNDRA SORENSON. A little bit country, a little bit glam rock.
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man expression. They seem to believe that you love harmony and balance too much to fall under the spell of a bewitching passion that rivets your focus. I disagree with that view. It may be true that you’re better able than the other signs to be objective about your fixations. But that doesn’t necessarily dilute the intensity you feel when they rise up and captivate your imagination with the force of a thousand love songs. My advice? Have fun and stay amused. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “The chains that bind us most closely are the ones we have broken,” said Scorpio poet Antonio Porchia. In other words, the oppression from which we have freed ourselves may continue to influence us long after we’ve escaped. The imprint it left on our sensitive psyches might keep distorting our decisions and twisting our emotions. But I’m here to tell you, Scorpio, that you’re entering a time when you have an enhanced power to dissolve the lingering taint your broken chains still impose. You finally have the resources and wisdom to complete the liberation process. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In the coming weeks, you will have an excellent chance to develop more skill in the art of high gossip. High gossip has almost nothing in common with the mindless prattle that erodes reputations and fosters cynicism. It’s not driven by envy, pettiness, or schadenfreude. When you engage in high gossip, you spread uplifting whispers and inspirational hearsay; you speculate about people’s talents and call attention to their successes; you conspire to awaken generosity of spirit and practical idealism. High gossip is a righteous approach to chatting about the human zoo. It might not flow as easily as the cheap and shabby kind -- at least at first -- but it lasts a whole lot longer and creates connections that help keep your mental hygiene sparkling clean. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Sometimes I have a dream that seems cryptic or meaningless when I first wake up, but a few days later I realize it was a brilliant insight into what I most needed to transform about my life. If you don’t recall many of your dreams, that might not be a familiar experience for you. But you’ve probably had waking-life experiences with a similar arc. I predict you will be given at least one of those in the coming week. It may confound you while you’re in the midst of it, but will eventually reveal choice clues that have the power to change your life for the better. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You may not have heard about the “forbidden colors.” And you certainly haven’t seen them, even though they exist. They’re reddish green and yellowish blue, which the cells of your retina are not built to register. However, scientists have figured out a trick by which these hues can be made visible. A few lucky people have actually caught a glimpse of them. I bring this to your attention, Aquarius, because I suspect you are close to experiencing a metaphorical version of this breakthrough -- seeing something that is supposedly impossible to see. (If you’d like to read more about the forbidden colors, go here: tinyurl.com/ForbiddenColors.) PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “There’s no such thing as a wrong note,” said jazz pianist Art Tatum. “It all depends on how you resolve it.” Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis had a similar philosophy. “It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note,” he said. “It’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.” I think that’s an excellent understanding for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks, Pisces. Be wary of coming to premature conclusions about alleged mistakes. Wait to hear the entire song and see the bigger picture.
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