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The Wood Village casino promoters keep coming back, like the clap [“Trying to Beat the Odds,” WW, May 16, 2012]. The water slide and other family attractions are honey traps for future gamblers—your children. They’ll bait the teenagers and young adults with prizes like fabulous cars...come on in as soon as you have an adult ID and try your luck... It’s a shame to see the political whores staffing this, very disappointing. This one is going to go down in defeat like the last. We’ll fight this until [Matt] Rossman and [Bruce] Studer go broke, looks like. —“sean cruz” If they want to sell Wood Village down the evil path so badly, they should first sell out their own neighbors in Wilsonville, Charbonneau, Lake Oswego and West Linn. Let’s get rid of a fancy golf course so we can invite more crime and debauchery into our quiet community. —“007” Photo: Jason Britton
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interested in home roasting as a hobby, but why not support the myriad of local roasters who are doing a great job of roasting the best coffee available and educating consumers about how great coffee can taste? Anyway, thanks for the piece, some nice recommendations in here (other than the aforementioned “skillet roasting”). —“ahotay”
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Recently, I was unnerved that a canvasser who called my house seemed to know that my roommate hadn’t voted yet. Is it legal for election authorities in Oregon to disclose to individual campaigns who has voted and who has not? —Jessica D.
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Some powerful interests want to light a fire under lawmakers who are considering giving the seven campuses of the Oregon University System more autonomy. As first reported at wweek.com, five men, including Nike Chairman Phil Knight, former University of Oregon Athletic Director Pat Kilkenny, Columbia Distributing Chairman Ed Maletis and Endeavour Capital Managing BOYLE Director John von Schlegell have each written $65,000 checks to Oregonians for Higher Education Excellence. Columbia Sportswear CEO Tim Boyle, one of the PAC’s founders, gave $62,500. “If the PAC is to be used, it wouldn’t be supporting candidates but instead focused on an initiative petition,” Boyle tells WW. “Our preference is to see a legislative solution.” Dept. of Shameless Self-Promotion: WW won Oregon’s biggest journalism award and 18 first-place prizes at the annual Society of Professional Journalists banquet May 20. Nigel Jaquiss won the top prize, the Bruce Baer Award, for his coverage of the Columbia River Crossing, including “A Bridge Too False” (June 1, 2011). Among Pacific Northwest alternative weeklies, WW won seven first-place awards: Corey Pein, government and political reporting, “The Other Portland” (Oct. 12, 2011), on the city east of Interstate 205; and lifestyles reporting, “Cheat Local” (Aug. 17, 2011), on Groupon’s impact on small businesses. Art director Ben Mollica for page design. Nigel Jaquiss, commentary, the CRC. Casey Jarman, arts and entertainment reporting, “Mack to the Future,” (Sept. 7, 2011), on hip-hop artist Macklemore. Aaron Mesh, personalities reporting, “Voodoo Child” (Dec. 21, 2022), on Voodoo Doughnut co-founder Tres Shannon. Jonathan Crowl, sports reporting, “Gang Green” (Aug. 31, 2011), on the Timbers Army. WW also won 11 first-place awards among Oregon nondaily papers, circulation above 8,000: WW staff, spot news, “Bucked!” (Nov. 16, 2011), on the shutdown of Occupy Portland camps. Corey Pein, government reporting, “The Other Portland”; and consumer reporting, “Cheat Local.” James Pitkin, news feature, “The Gun” (Aug. 2, 2011), on buying a gun on the street; and general feature, “Dirt Roads, Dead Ends” (May 11, 2011), on the city’s unpaved roads. Ben Waterhouse and Ruth Brown, food reporting, “Drip City” (April 6, 2011), on Portland’s coffee scene. Nigel Jaquiss, comprehensive coverage, the CRC; and education reporting, “Your Teacher is F’ed” (March 23, 2011), on school funding. Ben Mollica and Cameron Browne, best page design, “Drip City” (above). Aaron Mesh, religion and ethics reporting, “Children of a Higher God” (March 2, 2011), on the Santo Daime church. Vivian Johnson, news photography, “Chaos to Checkmate” (Nov. 16, 2011), the shutdown of Occupy Portland camps. Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt.
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Fresh off his May 15 primary victory, mayoral candidate Charlie Hales fired most of his staff last week. As a gesture of appreciation, Hales handed each an autographed photo of himself posing with the staffer he had just canned. Meanwhile, Rep. Jefferson Smith, the surprise secondplace finisher, says he wanted “healing ” after a tough campaign. So his backers swarmed Twitter, Facebook and blogs to pitch for the support of the candidate whose hopes Smith had extinguished, Eileen Brady. Voters may be sick of the campaign just finished, but Smith and Hales are already working to win in the November general election. And no one has truly answered the question that Portlanders are still asking: How did Brady—a candidate who started with every advantage and spent a record $1.3 million in the primary—fail in such epic fashion? Until the primary, former City Commissioner Jim Francesconi, who spent nearly $1 million in the 2004 mayoral primary, only to lose in the general election to a former police chief, Tom Potter, was the high-water mark for political folly. The title now belongs to Brady. She won just 22 percent, spending a jaw-dropping $46 per vote—three times what her opponents spent per vote, and more than double Francesconi’s historic $21. Many of Brady’s faults overshadowed Hales’ and Smith’s own shortcomings, and with her gone, their weaknesses will stand in stark relief. The way this race played out has provided lessons for Smith, Hales and future city candidates—but most important, lessons for voters as well.
Know Thyself. Brady’s early polling showed an unbeatable combination: a 50-year-old businesswoman with ties to a beloved Portland institution, progressive cred and no connection to City Hall. Her potential was “off the charts,” say two people familiar with Brady’s early numbers. There are struggles in running for office that can be daunting even for someone with a successful career, including establishing one’s identity with voters. Brady sought to define herself as the sustainability candidate who could bring jobs to Portland. But Brady often contradicted herself. While draping herself in green, she flip-flopped on the proposed $3.5 billion Columbia River Crossing and adopted a “build, baby, build” approach to win business and labor support. She was also unprepared for scrutiny. When her claim of being a co-founder of New Seasons Market came into question, Brady attacked the news media for questioning her; her son, Colin O’Brady, recently blogged that his mother was the target of an “unfair and editorialized sexist negative campaign.” (Brady didn’t return WW’s calls.) When WW reported that a police officer had excluded her from Tom McCall Waterfront Park in 2003—and noted her threat to call “friends” at City Hall to help her get out of the ticket—she responded by calling the cop a liar. When her answers ran long during KATU’s debate, Brady on live TV complained that the floor director (who stood in plain view) was making it difficult for her to see when her time was up. By contrast, Smith and Hales took their knocks in stride. Smith dealt with public exposure of his attentiondeficit disorder, spoke frankly of the medication he takes to manage it, and acknowledged a history of managerial mishaps without getting defensive. Hales faced revelations that he’d avoided Oregon taxes as a Washington resident while continuing to vote here— and at first didn’t tell the truth about it. But he apologized (sort of ) and addressed the issue directly (if incompletely) at campaign events.
They also showed they knew who they were and weren’t afraid to run on that image. When Smith entered the mayoral race last September, he was five months late to the party and, because of an injury, wore a patch over one eye. The two-term state lawmaker—ostensibly the “Keep Portland Weird” candidate—promised to run a “fun” campaign. He cracked jokes, turned cartwheels in the street and tweeted madly. As a former city commissioner, Charlie Hales also had an identity: He’d championed the streetcar, knew City Hall and promised steady (if slightly dull) leadership as mayor, not unlike the campaign he ran. Hales’ persona was as gray as his hair. “I’m pretty comfortable in my own skin,” Hales says. “I also, unlike others in politics, have an actual life to go back to if voters disagree. This gives me an even greater freedom to be myself than someone who might be desperate for the next office.” Know Thy Audience. Brady oftentimes left events having won more votes for her opponents than for herself. She was the guest of honor at a dinner hosted last summer by two of Portland’s busiest networkers, Stimson Lumber CEO Andrew Miller, the city’s largest political contributor, and divorce lawyer Jody Stahancyk. Neither Miller nor Stahancyk would comment on the 20-person gathering, but others who attended describe the evening as a debacle for Brady. Stephen Houze, a leading criminal defense lawyer, and other guests pushed Brady without success to describe the rationale for her candidacy. Such scenes repeated throughout the campaign. In private meetings, Brady (and her advisers) told people she would be mayor and they needed to start dealing with her. Smith and Hales, with more campaign experience, learned long ago to listen and respond. Hales stuck to CONT. on page 8 Willamette Week MAY 23, 2012 wweek.com
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the script he knew from experience that voters wanted to hear: He would return basics to City Hall. Smith knew his audience as well—progressive Portland. He’d oppose the CRC and fight for equity. Going forward, however, both may encounter tension as they try to serve competing interests—a challenge a mayor must face. While folksy, Hales’ campaign took in more than $200,000 from development and real-estate interests, and spoke of giving breaks in fees worth millions to business. Smith has to reconcile his divided image as both the Occupy Portland candidate (as The American Prospect called him) and the choice of the Portland Police Association (which endorsed him and kicked in $10,000). Know Thy Opponent. Brady and Hales expected to run against a weakened incumbent, Mayor Sam Adams. But Adams changed the game in July by announcing he would not seek re-election. Hales—traditionally the proverbial tortoise in his campaigns—changed his message to fit the new circumstances, but the recalibration was subtle. Smith jumped in after Adams was out. Brady never found a way to rebut Hales’ “experience” claim. Nor did she take Smith seriously—until it was too late.
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consultants, yet ignored basic media strategy, including cable TV and direct mail. She finished deeply in debt after loaning herself $250,000. Hales ended up loaning himself $100,000 while taking another $25,000 loan from a contributor. Smith’s campaign hoarded its limited cash, making DIY ads out of footage recycled from campaign events. “I’m somewhat proud of being the only candidate to not go six figures into debt,” Smith says. But Smith and Hales handled their early money well
PRIVATELY, BRADY TOLD PEOPLE HER ELECTION WAS INEVITABLE. “What she was saying behind closed doors in terms of how real our candidacy was, I don’t know,” Smith says. “But it was not Eileen but Charlie who told me I didn’t have a chance.” Smith and Hales are already trying to define each other. Hales is calling for more results and less rhetoric—a jab at his opponent, as Smith talks about an era of new ideas—a poke at Hales’ being a retread. Watch Thy Cash. In his winning campaign, Hales spent $798,000. Brady burned through nearly that much cash by April and hadn’t yet bought a TV ad. Her campaign had big overhead costs, as if it were a stimulus package for political
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and kept pace with Brady in the most important area: cash on hand. That’s what buys TV time, and Brady’s spending allowed them to overtake her. Know Thy City. Portlanders see politics similarly to artisanal meats—they want to know how the sausage is made. They want a personal touch and know the difference between grass roots and AstroTurf. Smith had a head start on his opponents in amassing and deploying an army of volunteers to canvass the city. His focus on the “ground game” was bolstered by the endorsement of key labor unions. Similarly, Hales, a vet-
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Becky Corkill got laid off May 15. Corkill, 53, works for the Oregon Education Association, the state’s biggest teachers union. She drove from her Klamath Falls home to the OEA’s Portland headquarters last week pondering an irony. OEA has wielded its power in Salem to protect a fundamental principle in teachers’ contracts: seniority. In Oregon, unlike in many states, when school districts lay off teachers, they must do so beginning with the teachers who are most junior. But as Corkill learned last week, OEA doesn’t apply the principle to its own staff. “It’s hypocritical,” says Corkill, a 19-year employee. “I am appalled.” Seniority is a critical issue when school districts cut budgets, as many are currently doing. A senior teacher can earn twice what a beginning teacher makes. So districts facing layoffs must dismiss twice as many teachers to achieve the same savings. Oregon is one of only 15 states that
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follow that practice. Others, including Illinois, which abandoned seniority last year, have moved to “merit-based” layoffs, in which principals try to keep their most able teachers, regardless of experience. OEA executive director Richard Sanders says seniority equals effectiveness. “I believe in seniority,” Sanders says. But by laying off senior OEA employees last week, Sanders may have undermined the position he’s staked out for tens of thousands of Oregon teachers. Sanders says OEA needs to eliminate jobs in some of its 16 offices statewide. “The reason positions are being eliminated has nothing to do with seniority,” he says. “The final determination of who—if anybody—will lose their jobs hasn’t been worked out yet.” Although Corkill and her colleagues are OEA employees, they are not OEA members. They belong to the National Staff Organization, which represents employees of unions nationwide. Corkill is president of OEA’s Associate Staff Organization, representing about four dozen employees providing support services, as do members of another group, the Professional Services Organization. Last week, Sanders notified 20 employees—about one-quarter of the combined
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says one laid off colleague has 30 years’ experience, and another has 39. OEA says it’s eliminating positions regardless of when the person who holds that job joined OEA. Corkill says OEA is violating its contract with its staffing unions, denying laid-off workers preference when applying for open positions. “OEA is a very large and powerful union,” Corkill says. “We stand up for [teachers] every day, but a basic value that we stand up for for members of this organization is not being offered to us.”
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On a warm morning last June, Mayor Sam Adams stood in front of a crowd of computer geeks at the Eliot Center in downtown Portland wearing a scarf stitched with “Open Source Citizen.” Adams was boasting about the city’s achievements in information technology, saying that “software and digital design companies” are one of four key industries the City of Portland has targeted for its economic development strategy. “Give yourselves a round of applause,” he said. “You are one of the most diverse, robust, creative and fleetfooted, smart and good-looking group of industry folks in the City of Portland.” It’s true that in this sector, business is good. Hightech startups are multiplying downtown like a cocoon of wet gremlins, raking in headline-grabbing investments from venture capitalists and hiring like it’s 2007. “Robust,” “creative,” “fleet-footed” and “smart”? Almost certainly. But “diverse”? CONT. on page 14
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The tech industry in Portland is lacking in racial diversity, but then again, Portland itself is no great melting pot. The real story is that this industry, in many ways the most creative, exciting and promising sector in the Portland economy, is overwhelmingly male. A survey of 11 recent Portland tech startups, ranging from companies with four employees to 80, reveals that their total workforces were typically 70 percent to 80 percent male, while their development and engineering teams—i.e., the people who write the actual code—have even fewer women. In many cases, none. Females are even scarcer in the open-source software community—people who work on free and open projects like Linux and Firefox— which is particularly active in Portland and which the Portland Development Commission cites as a major “strength” of the local software industry. According to a 2006 study funded by the European Union, about 1.5 percent of opensource contributors are women. “It’s a huge problem,” says Alex Payne, a former Twitter engineer and founder of local online banking startup Simple. Payne’s opinion is publicspirited, but it’s also practical: Groups of young, white men can’t necessarily make products and software that appeal to a broad consumer base. “Portland is a very liberal place, a very egalitarian place,” Payne says. “It would be nice if people’s staff was reflecting that.” Portland is not alone in this challenge, and startups are handicapped by the lack of females with degrees in the right fields. (Chart, page 16.) But the male-dominated atmosphere can often feed on itself. According to the National Center for Women & Information Technology, 56 percent of technical women leave the field at the “mid-level” point of their careers—double the rate of men, and higher than for science and engineering. Besides, many tech startup executives in Portland say they’re open to hiring engineers and developers without degrees in the field. So what’s keeping the women away? “Brogrammer.” It’s the latest buzzword in the industry: A supposed new breed of coders who buck the traditional shy-geek image with a testosteronefueled “code-hard, play-hard” lifestyle reminiscent of The Social Network. Programmer, so the stereotype goes, is the new stockbroker. Are these overgrown frat boys infiltrating Portland’s startup scene? It depends whom you ask. “This is not a brogrammer kind of shop,” says Sam Blackman, the CEO of startup Elemental Technologies, which makes video software at its downtown office and employs 69 people, 15 of whom are female. But, he believes, “there are certain companies that really celebrate that kind of culture.” While some consider startup offices decked out with kegerators, pingpong tables, pinball machines and video games to be a dream workplace, to others, they look like, well, frat houses. “I left [startups] running and screaming,” says Christie Koehler, who now works as a Web product engineer at Mozilla (the Firefox people), where she says she’s no longer pressured to put in ridiculous hours or work next to pinball machines. “There’s a huge overlap with brogrammers and startup culture,” Koehler says. “If you follow the money aspect, what is more appealing to a CONT. on page 16
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[venture capitalist]: the [guy] who’s going to—grrr!—work 68 hours a week, or the mom with three kids who’s going to stay at home and have a more balanced life? Of course the brogrammer. That’s free money.” Last year, OSCON—a huge annual open-source convention held in Portland—was forced to adopt a code of conduct amid allegations of sexist presentations, parties staffed by “Hooters girls,” and men stalking, harassing and grabbing the butts of women attendees. Several speakers pulled out of the 2011 conference until O’Reilly Media, the producer of OSCON, agreed to write a code. “When we learned in more detail about issues of harassment that had happened at past OSCONs and at other tech conferences, we wanted to take steps to prevent harassment from happening again,” says Suzanne Axtell, O’Reilly’s communications manager. “It’s an unfortunate fact that harassment and discrimination still happen in our industry.... More and more evidence points to diversity as a key to making technologies, products and teams better.” Jessamyn Smith is an engineer at Urban Airship, one of Portland’s most successful new startups, with $21.6 million in venture-capital funding to its name. Smith is an easygoing woman with short-cropped hair, a strong Canadian accent and a pendant of Ada Lovelace (a 19th-century British countess who is regarded by some as the world’s first computer programmer—ironically, computer programming was considered “women’s work” as late as the 1960s). She is among four CONT. on page 19
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female “technical” employees out of 48 at the company. (An “engineer” at a tech company in the U.S. is not necessarily a qualified engineer, just as people titled “architects” and “ninjas” in the industry are typically neither. Smith is a qualified engineer, one of four women who graduated from computer engineering at her university in Canada.) Smith says like many women in the industry, she distanced herself from being a “feminist” and wouldn’t speak up when she heard a sexist joke. Now a 10-year programming veteran, she’s finding her voice. “I went through a real change in the last few years, from sort of feeling we just have to make it work to ‘Why should we do all the accommodating?’” she says. “Maybe the guys should accommodate us sometimes.” A few months ago, Smith decided to make it happen. Someone at Urban Airship had created a “bot” that periodically inserted the phrase “that’s what she said” into conversation on the work IRC (it’s a sort of chat network) channel. “This bot was just getting on my nerves,” she said. “I was trying to explain why the joke was sexist and not a very good joke, and they weren’t really listening. It was frustrating. And then it came to me in a flash one night after work....” Smith created her own bot, one that would respond to every “that’s what she said” with a quote from a notable woman like Eleanor Roosevelt, Jane Austen or even Madonna. “I was amazed by some of the really quiet guys, who hardly say anything, who said, ‘Thank you for doing that,’” she says. But not everyone appreciated it. Smith posted the story and code on her personal blog, and it soon spread online. “There are plenty of employees who like their company that way and if she didn’t she is not really suited for the company culture. She can (and should) seek employment elsewhere. She will be better of [sic] there,” opined one online commenter. “This proves that— women—python programmers have no sense of humor,” said another. “Before we had Jessamyn, we didn’t have any women,” says Mike Herrick, Urban Airship’s vice president of engineering. “We didn’t have any diversity at all—it was all a bunch of white men. While we were still a success as a company, there was definitely something lacking.... Software
is a creative pursuit and an art form. Diversity makes it happen better.” According to a 2007 study conducted by Stanford University, the future diversity of a startup is established early—tech startups that hire the fewest number of women tend to be those that emphasize finding employees that “fit” with the company culture, where “employees exhibit strong feelings of belonging to the firm as they belong to family.” Alex Payne of Simple, the online banking startup, employs 35 people, five of whom are women, though none of those are engineers. He says having no female engineers is a big concern for the company. At Twitter, he says, one of the company’s first engineering hires was a woman, which set a precedent and helped the company diversify its workforce. “I’ve seen other companies start out who don’t have women on their core engineering team, and they never break out of that cycle,” Payne says. Working for a startup can be incredibly demanding. It’s rarely a 9-to-5 job for those in technical and leadership roles. It is not unusual for engineers to be “on call” all night or weekends. “It’s an all-in proposition,” says Monica Enand, the founder and CEO of Hillsboro-based startup Zapproved, which makes Web-based legal-compliance software and has four female employees out of 14. “And I think that’s harder for women than it is for men; you have to have a really supportive family structure, or you have to be young enough that you don’t have kids. And that’s a big part of why women don’t stay in it.” Enand was the only female computerengineering graduate in her year at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University, one of the country’s top technology schools. After graduating in 1993, she flew straight to Hillsboro to work at Intel, where she worked on advanced microprocessor technology. “There was this young culture, smart people, you worked all the time and we loved it,” says Enand, a small woman with a big smile and polished patter that belies her MBA (she’s got one of those as well) more so than her CE degree. But after having kids, she found it impossible to be “all in” like the men were, and although
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Intel—which by many accounts has a strong humanresources department and is a positive place for a woman— was supportive, she decided to move on. Enand says this is just the way it has to be. “If you’re going to push the envelope of technology, there’s going to be a core group of really smart people who work all the time to make it happen,” she says. And tech startups are no different. “It’s not a job,” says Enand, who has been back working “all in” at Zapproved for four years. “It’s a lifestyle.” Enand says she doesn’t think her gender has held her back in securing funding, although she does acknowledge that there is a bit of a “boys’ club” in town. “There’s a sort of male bravado around the startup,” she says, laughing. “The culture around the startup CEO, it’s very—testosteroney! There’s a lot of that: You’re up against the odds! And you never quit! A lot of those startup leaders, y’know, drink at the Teardrop [Lounge in the Pearl District], and it’s about how much drinking they do.” Zapproved does not have a kegerator. Despite the low numbers of women working in the tech industry here, Portland does have a vibrant community of female geeks. Christie Koehler runs two monthly meet-ups for women in Portland’s tech community: Women Who Hack, where women get together to work on their computer projects, and Code ’n’ Splode, a women-majority event she compares to knitting group Stitch ’n Bitch. “The first part of it is a technical presentation, and then we go out to a pub, and that’s when people talk through shit they’ve had to go through in the last month at work, what’s the latest thing on Hacker News—people who are regular members save up things for that part of the meeting,” Koehler says. “I feel good about working and providing a space where, two or five hours a month, we can just work on the tech and know a guy’s not going to take away the keyboard or ‘mansplain’ something.” Last year, the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology held its annual Grace Hopper Celebration of
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Women in Computing conference in Portland, with almost 3,000 women from 34 countries attending. And in March, around 65 women attended Portland’s inaugural Geek Girl Dinner, an event with chapters all over the world where women in the local tech industry get together to network and listen to talks. Many say Portland’s community of female geeks is already more supportive and cohesive than in Silicon Valley. It’s up to the local companies to connect with it—and even market it to attract potential female recruits from across the country. On a drizzly March evening, in the big concrete bowels of the event space at Urban Airship, is another event geared toward women—though it may not look like it at first. Of the 40-odd people tapping away on laptops, eating Hot Lips pizza and helping themselves to beer from Urban’s two kegerators, just five are women. But the event’s organizer, Michelle Rowley, says this is a great success. Four months ago, she was the only woman attending the local Python programming-language user group. A self-taught, self-employed programmer, she says she was discouraged by her college from studying computer science at a tertiary level (she studied French and geography instead), and began teaching herself Python in
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2005 after hitting a “thick glass ceiling” doing tech support in the beer industry. She’s hoping to replicate a project by the Boston Python User Group, which grew from 2 percent to 15 percent women and up to 1,700 people in six months, by inviting women as beginners and training them as Python programmers and community members. Rowley has created this new monthly “hack night” so the women she plans to invite—and the friends she hopes they’ll bring—will have a place to learn and practice their new skills. One woman, who works as an intern at TriMet doing computer mapping, is here for her first lesson in Python. She is
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“IF WE WORK THROUGH THE PIPELINE, IT’S GOING TO TAKE FOREVER. WE JUST NEED TO GET GIRLS WHO ARE DOING DIFFERENT JOBS AND WANT NEW JOBS TO GET INTO PROGRAMMING, AND WE COULD CHANGE IT IN A COUPLE OF YEARS.” —Jessamyn Smith
paired up for a one-on-one session with an experienced programmer. “I feel like if I keep working at this, I might have a chance at making more money than [my husband] some day,” she says. As if to emphasize the point, a representative from online-search startup Trapit immediately stands on a table to announce his company is hiring. “We’re right across the street from Bunk Bar!” he says. Rowley is not alone in her vision. Many in Portland believe that programs like this could help turn the numbers of women in computing around, making up where the university system is failing. Payne says Simple runs classes for its customer-service staff in a programming language, while one of his female customer-service employees is also learning a second. When an accountant at Urban Airship expressed a desire to become an engineer, Herrick says he organized for her to be mentored in learning Python. “If we work through the pipeline, it’s going to take forever,” says Urban’s Smith. “We just need to get girls who are doing different jobs and want new jobs to get into programming, and we could change it in a couple of years. That’s what I want to see happening.” Rowley is holding the first open Python workshop for new female programmers and their friends in June. By this time next year, she too wants 15 percent of Portland’s Python programmers to be women. “I did an experiment a few months back where I picked a couple women in my mind, and I just personally pinged them [online] and said, ‘Hey, do you want to come to this thing?’” she says. “One said, ‘I don’t know anyone, I don’t really want to go,’ and I said, ‘What if we met beforehand and got coffee, and then we would know each other?’ and she said OK. All she needed was a personal invitation and to feel like ‘I do belong, I am welcome here.’” The culture of the tech industry won’t change until there’s a critical mass of women, Rowley says. And the only way she can think to help change that is to systematically invite the women, one by one. “Hey,” she asks me, “are you interested in learning to code?” FULL DISCLOSURE: 35 percent of Willamette Week’s employees are women, including 22 percent in the news room.
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BYE, BEN: Ben Waterhouse, WW’s assistant arts & culture editor, is leaving to take a position at Oregon Humanities. Ben arrived at WW as an intern in 2006, and has been our lead theater critic and special-section honcho. He’s our most gentlemanly and scholarly culture staffer and we’ll miss him a lot. In related news, Matthew Singer will now oversee our theater and comedy coverage (with help from Rebecca Jacobson), and Ruth Brown will take over most of our special sections.
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THURSDAY MAY 24 WHITE BREAD: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE STORE-BOUGHT LOAF [FOOD] Bread! It’s way more interesting than you think it is. Aaron Bobrow-Strain has written a book on the history of the humble white sliced loaf and its role in our nation’s culture, diet and politics. Grand Central Bakery, Northwest Portland location: 2249 NW York St. 5:30 pm. $5 for Slow Food Portland members, $7 for non-members. More at slowfoodportland.com.
FRIDAY MAY 25 HERE WE GO MAGIC [MUSIC] Luke Temple is on a hot streak. The former Seattleite’s third record with his excellent Brooklynbased band Here We Go Magic, A Different Ship, is a masterpiece. It doesn’t hurt Temple and company that famed Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich is on board, but this record has been a long time coming. The live shows are great, too. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave. 9 pm. $10. 21+. POINT BREAK IN HECKLEVISION [MOVIES] Text-heckling the greatest Zen-surfing-skydriving-bankrobbingfootchasing-homoerotic buddy cop movie of all-time? In the oddly delivered words of Anthony Kiedis, “That would be...a waste of time.” Hollywood Theatre. 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 7:30 pm. $7, $4 for members.
THE LIFE OF A VETERAN OREGON WINE DOG. Before people buy your wine, they want to pet your dog. Alex Sokol Blosser has accepted this. “I don’t know why—it’s gotta be that when you go to a farm, you expect to see a dog,” he says. “It’s pretty crazy, though. People get out of the car and say, ‘Do you have a dog?’” Up runs Andre. The yellow Labrador has roamed the Sokol Blosser spread—86 acres of organic grapes beside other notable Willamette Valley vineyards like Eyrie, Domaine Drouhin and Archery Summit—for 13 years. Oddly, winery dogs are a big deal. There are dueling books on the subject. Wine Dogs, published in Napa, includes photos and essays from noted wine writers Robert Parker and Huon Hooke. Winery Dogs prints four regional editions, including an Oregon book featuring Andre. Oh, and there’s also a wine dog calendar. Sokol Blosser, a second-generation vintner tending pinot vines planted in 1971 on what was then a dilapidated fruit orchard, thinks people appreciate a little slobber. “In the wine industry, we do a good job of taking ourselves too seriously, so sometimes dogs help bring it down to earth,” he says. “You arrive at these fancy places, but when you’ve got a dog taking a leak in the middle, it just brings it down a notch.”
Andre will hopefully get a few pets this Memorial Day weekend, the 22nd anniversary of the Willamette Valley’s biggest party of the year. More than 150 wineries will open their doors, including many small farms without public tasting rooms. “I don’t let Andre out as much anymore, because he can’t see as well so he starts barking at people,” Sokol Blosser says. “But he’s a very good boy.” If you do see Andre, keep your cheese plate close. “El Bandito” is a master poacher, once swiping from a meal prepared by well-known local chef Greg Higgins. “He’s an old dog. He can’t jump up on tables anymore, so things are pretty safe,” Sokol Blosser says. Andre also doesn’t play much fetch at age 13—that’s about 90 in human years—but he’s still romping around. It’s a ruff life, but someone’s gotta charm the customers and do quality control. “The vet always says don’t let your dog eat grapes, but Andre eats grapes like crazy,” Sokol Blosser says. “Maybe it’s the grapes that do it for him.” MARTIN CIZMAR. GO: Memorial Weekend in the Wine Country is Saturday-Monday, May 26-28, throughout the Willamette Valley. Info at willamettewines.com. Meet Andre at Sokol Blosser Winery, 5000 NE Sokol Blosser Lane, Dayton, 864-2282, sokolblosser.com. 10 am-4 pm daily. Tasting fee $15.
SATURDAY MAY 26 WATER BALLS [FAIR FUN] Bumper cars are out. The new thing at the Multnomah County Fair? Enclosing yourself inside a 7-foot plastic sphere and rolling around the surface of a giant kiddie pool. Be Jesus—or that poor little Bubble Boy, God rest his soul— for a day. Multnomah County Fair, 7805 SE Oaks Park Way. Noon-7 pm through May 28. Free admission to fair, $8 for water balls. HERO/VILLAIN POWER STRUGGLE [DRESS-UP] The battle between good and evil comes to town, cleverly disguised as a drunken pub crawl. Dig out your skintight Lycra and embrace your destiny. Heroes meet at Hawthorne Hideaway. Villains meet at the Vern. The final battle goes down at the Wonder Northwest after-party. The Firkin Tavern, 1937 SE 11th Ave. 5 pm. Free.
MONDAY MAY 28 NICK WATERHOUSE [MUSIC] Nick Waterhouse is Amy Winehouse tenfold. The 24-year-old producer-musician oozes old-school R&B soul everywhere from the bigband backdrops to the perfectly combed hair on his head. His style isn’t kitschy or forced, though—quite the opposite. This is a convincing take on a sound you’ve probably heard only on your grandpa’s gently used jazz records—and it’s dancing music. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St. 8:30 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+. Willamette Week MAY 23, 2012 wweek.com
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Inner-southeast Portland winery ENSO celebrates its first birthday on Memorial Day weekend, with tastings of its new 2011 releases, a preview of its 2010 Chateauneuf du Stark wine and food from Steve’s Cheese and Olympic Provisions. ENSO Winery, 1416 SE Stark St., 6833676. Noon-10 pm Saturday-Monday, May 26-28. $10. 21+.
Memorial Day Weekend at Island Mana Wines
Well, this is certainly the most unusual Memorial Day wine event: New downtown tasting room Island Mana Wines will have live Hawaiian music, a luau buffet (dishes like teriyaki chicken, kalua pork, lomilomi salmon and haupia pudding) and hula dancing. Doing this while looking out onto Pioneer Square sounds...surreal. Surreal is good. Island Mana Wines, 526 SW Yamhill St., 971-229-1040. Noon-6 pm Saturday-Monday, May 26-28. $20 for the buffet and a glass of wine. 21+.
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Beer blog Brewpublic is celebrating 3½ years in Cascadia with— what else?—a beer festival at Bailey’s Taproom. The event promises “one-of-a-kind craft beers” from more than 20 local breweries, with unpronounceable names like “Bavarianish,” “non-Reinheitsgebotique” and “Belgique.” Bailey’s Taproom, 213 SW Broadway, 2951004. 2 pm. Prices vary. 21+.
PRIMAL PINOT: David Lett with the vines that birthed Oregon’s wine industry.
BUILDING BLOCK In 1965, a young upstart arrived in Oregon “with 3,000 grape cuttings and a theory.” As the story goes, 25-year-old David Lett wanted to grow grapevines and make wine here. His University of California, Davis, professors said it was too cold and wet for the grapes to ripen. He started a winery anyway. Those first pinot plantings, in the red, volcanic soils of the Dundee Hills, quite literally bore fruit. Other rebellious pinotphiles got the same idea. Today, the names read like a who’s who of Oregon wine: Dick Erath, Dick Ponzi, David Adelsheim, Bill Blosser and Susan Sokol Blosser. But it was Lett’s Eyrie Vineyard that would put Oregon wines on the map. The prime real estate at Eyrie is less than an acre. The South Block holds only 10 rows of pinot noir. Lett bottled these grapes separately, rarely releasing them to the public. In 1979, Eyrie’s 1975 South Block Reserve Pinot Noir was entered into the “Wine Olympics” in Paris. It came in 10th. Burgundy winemaker Robert Drouhin of Maison Joseph Drouhin called for a rematch. This time, the 1975 South Block came in second, behind Drouhin’s best Grand Cru. In 1988, the Drouhin family founded its own Oregon winery. This weekend, Oregonians will crawl across Willamette Valley’s wineries, dyeing their teeth red and staining their new sundresses. Few probably realize the debt this yearly pilgrimage, and our state’s wine industry, owes to those 10 rows of vines. For that reason, we chose to taste Eyrie’s 2007 South Block Pinot Noir, the last wine made by Lett before he passed away in 2008. Happily, we didn’t blow $189 on a lemon. This light rose-colored wine offered plenty of earthy aromas on the nose, with notes of cherry and watermelon rind. The wine has a beautiful silkiness to it, with more cherry, strawberry and a touch of spice on the palate, giving way to a long, pleasantly acidic finish. Personally, I’d have rather cellared it much longer, but alas, deadlines loom. Still, it drank very nicely for a relatively young drop, balanced and elegant, delighting both novice and liver-weary tasters. Reportedly, this is not the finest vintage of the South Blocks. It is, however, the only one we’re ever likely to try—it’s the first one released to the public since 1976, and the final one ever made. RUTH BROWN. DRINK: The Eyrie Vineyards, 935 NE 10th Ave., McMinnville, 472-6315, eyrievineyards.com. Tasting room open noon-5 pm Wednesday-Sunday. $5 tasting fee.
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CHEVRE OFF We had wine on our minds. Then we got a little hungry, so we staged a raid on the cheese case at Irvington’s Foster & Dobbs specialty foods store. What should you pair with an Oregon pinot noir? Five tasters put eight wildly varied types of hard and soft Oregon goat cheese through a blind taste-off. Here are the cheesemakers’ claims and our tasting notes. KIMBERLY HURSH.
PUR ET SIMPLE Goldin Artisan Goat Cheese, Molalla, $30 per pound. They say: “A slightly cakey paste that nonetheless breaks down unctuously in the mouth.” We say: “A runny, goopy cheese.” “It has a certain goatiness to it, but it’s not as strong as I would want it to be.”
CAPRICORNS Tumalo Farms, Bend, tumalofarms.com, $32.50 per pound. They say: “The occasional pop of pepper just accentuates the smooth flavor.” We say: “The flavor’s so strong that it’s pointless to pair it with wine.” “This would make a great grilled cheese.”
TUMALO TOMME Juniper Grove Farm, Redmond, junipergrovefarm. com, $27.95 per pound. They say: “Pleasantly salty with a sweet, slightly nutty flavor that lingers.” We say: “This one’s a flop.” “Sharp in a bad way. Acidic and yuck.”
REDMONDO Juniper Grove Farm, Redmond, junipergrovefarm. com, $31.95 per pound. They say: “Terrific for noshing, grating over pasta and shaving onto salads.” We say: “Tastes like baking soda, or toothpaste.” “I wouldn’t put this on anything I liked.”
CASCADIAN FRECHETTE Goldin Artisan Goat Cheese, Molalla, $30 per pound. They say: “Pair with crisp, light, effervescent whites that won’t overpower this delicate cheese.” We say: “A damn fine cheese. It’s soft but has rich flavor.” “This is what I want on my Little Big Burger.”
CUMIN TOMME Juniper Grove Farm, Redmond, junipergrovefarm. com, $28.95 per pound. They say: “Subtle hints of cumin fly by on the finish of this grassy tomme.” We say: “Tastes like it was left out in the sun, in the dirt.” “A goaty-ass cheese.”
CERTOUX Goldin Artisan Goat Cheese, Molalla, $30 per pound. They say: “Tangy and bright with a delicious saltiness and wisps of wet stone and mineral flavors.” We say: “Goes well with wine.” “Refreshing; almost like an after-dinner palate cleanse, but not in the toothpaste way.”
TOMME CUIVRÉE Goldin Artisan Goat Cheese, Molalla, $30 per pound. They say: “The supple paste has a rich mouthfeel under the slightly toothsome thin rind.” We say: “Nice texture. Creamy, with beautiful edges and a nice crust.” “Good with a little red.” OUR PICK: Cascadian Frechette, a delicate, semi-firm cheese, paired with either white or a light, fruity red wine.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 23 Loudon Wainwright III
[DARK, FUNNY FOLK] Loudon Wainwright has, for better or worse, always been a brutally honest songwriter. “People will know when they see this show, the kind of a guy I am,” he sings on “One Man Guy,” and that’s exactly the appeal of Wainwright’s music. Sometimes he’s crude, sometimes he’s sentimental, sometimes he’s funny, and quite often he’s eyerollingly unfunny. But if you listen to enough Loudon Wainwright records, you can build a more complete biography of the 65-year-old singer-songwriter than is possible with any of his contemporaries. Wainwright has never shied from covering uncomfortable topics, but it’s clear on his latest record, Older Than My Old Man Now, that he’s been thinking mostly about death lately. As always, that leads to story-songs both hilarious (“My Meds,” “I Remember Sex”) and uncomfortable (“The Days That We Die,” with his son Rufus)—but always unflinching and true. CASEY JARMAN. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $25. Minors must be accompanied by a parent. All ages.
Avengers, Pansy Division, Moral Crux, Therapists
[FEMME PUNK ICONS] The original incarnation of Avengers only lasted two years. But the ripples from that massive splash in the punk-rock pond have been only growing bigger since the band initially broke up in 1979. Much of that legacy, rightfully, surrounds its tough-as-nails frontwoman Penelope Houston. She may not have possessed the most dynamic voice, but she was a magnetic presence, daring you to flinch at her in-your-face approach to performing. The group has been on active duty again since 2004, although with no new material to show for it. When the old material is as strong and politically potent as the band’s ’70s work, there’s no need to rewrite the playbook. ROBERT HAM. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
THURSDAY, MAY 24 Hey Marseilles, Lemolo
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Seattle’s Hey Marseilles if you’re a fan of any of the following: bands with trumpets and pretty string instruments; frolicking through a sunny meadow; the Decemberists. The group’s melodic sound disappears into the long list of ornately decorated Northwest indie-folk bands, but the seven-piece produces songs that are hard to argue with. With a handful of classical instruments accenting a typical guitar-bass-percussion setup, Hey Marseilles delivers lovely crescendos and waltzing tempos that easily coast from track to track. The band’s full roster makes for a pretty enchanting live performance. EMILEE BOOHER. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. Minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. All ages.
Starfucker, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Wampire
[DANCE PARTY] Starfucker’s special Record Store Day release, Heaven’s Children, was largely stripped down enough to make longtime fans of the band a little sentimental for the old days, when you could catch Josh Hodges’ instrumental one-man band in your neighborhood basement. The fact that the now-quartet bothered to release the album of demos and early sketches makes us wonder if the group that taught America’s least enthusiastic city to dance is thinking long and hard about its own creative process as expectations mount for its third full-length. Hodges has been living in exile on the Oregon coast during the band’s recent (and very rare) touring hiatus, so regardless, we expect to see a revitalized Starfucker tonight. The band’s basement days may be over, but the safe money is on a new evolution in the Starfucker’s sound in the near future. CASEY JARMAN. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 8 pm. $10. All ages.
Tycho, Active Child, Lord Huron
See Primer, page 38. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
Mattress, Ghost Animal, WL, ...Worms, DJ Comidienne (Scott Walker tribute show)
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ACTS WE’RE EXCITED TO SEE AT SASQUATCH! Santigold (7:10 pm Friday, Sasquatch stage) Well, we’re not above a little stargazing. The Helio Sequence (6:20 pm Saturday, Bigfoot stage) It has been a long time, and we hear great things about the forthcoming record. The Roots, (11:30 pm Saturday, Bigfoot stage) Every festival should have a set from the Roots. And almost every festival does. The Walkmen (7:30 pm Sunday, Bigfoot stage) The new album is fun and summery—hopefully that’s how it feels at Sasquatch, too...though rain is looking a bit more likely. Beck (10 pm Monday, Sasquatch stage) A music-biz icon with deeply entangled Northwest roots, we don’t see Beck much around here these days. Should be a pretty funky festival-closer. SEE IT: The Sasquatch! music festival is Friday-Monday, May 25-28, at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Wash. Sold out. All ages.
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Chevelle Wiseman had never played bass when she agreed to be the bassist for Guantanamo Baywatch, a handicap she overcame by showing up to the band’s first practice sporting acrylic nails that depicted, appropriately enough, an “island scene.” “I had to rip off every nail,” Wiseman says. “And then we didn’t actually play. We just got fucked up.” Call it the philosophy of “40-ouncers over finesse,” but for the first year after its 2008 inception, Guantanamo Baywatch gained a local following mostly by virtue of its willingness to press the adjective “apeshit” into new and fascinating variations. The group played well over 100 shows in its first year, distinguishing its performances by dint of makeup, stage names and questionably functional amps. Drummers came and went, but the papier-mâché lizard masks remained. According to guitarist-vocalist Jason Powell, “All my friends would come because it was like, ‘These guys are just going to get as drunk as possible, and they don’t know how to play their songs.’” That the group wound up developing strict aesthetic convictions was almost as much a surprise to the band as it was to fans who had repeatedly attended their pantsless, shit-faced performances. Fond of histrionics though they might be, Wiseman and Powell, the two original members still in the group, had started Guantanamo Baywatch as an outlet for their love of 1950s surf rock. Owing in part to technical necessity, and in part to a penchant for all things DIY, the duo filtered this fetish through a chaotic scrim of reverb, distortion and gutter-punk filth worship. After two years of growing up in the public eye, Guantanamo Baywatch found a sound suggestive of a beach-blanket party taking place downstream from an oil spill. “I love the old surf people who come up to us at shows,” Wiseman says. “They don’t think we know a lot about surf music. They want to school us, like, ‘Have you ever actually seen Dick Dale?’ And we’re like, ‘Yeah, we actually have.’”
The most common point of comparison for Guantanamo Baywatch’s grimy bedlam is camprockabilly demiurges the Cramps, though Powell insists this comparison misses the mark. Indeed, Guantanamo Baywatch’s rigid dedication to the conventions of surf music distinguishes it from the Cramps’ rock-’n’-roll fetishizations, but one can’t ignore the similarities between both groups’ adoration of Americana kitsch. “I think just being poor and trashy in general attracts you to that aesthetic,” Wiseman says. Guantanamo Baywatch’s hydra-headed fan base seems content to take or leave the irony as it pleases. In addition to surf-rock die-hards, in regular attendance at the group’s shows are rockabilly enthusiasts, crust punks and the basement-show set in front of whom the trio’s sound developed. After two years of such formative bedlam, Powell and Wiseman started working with drummer Chris Scott (also of Boom!), and Guantanamo Baywatch began a wholly relative shift toward maturity. Shortly after Scott joined the group, a fortuitous deal with Dirtnap Records set Guantanamo Baywatch about the recording of Chest Crawl, its sophomore LP, which was released May 22. Whereas the group’s first album, Postcards From the Tar Pitz, fell short of capturing the trio’s live enthusiasm, a tighter control over Chest Crawl’s production allowed Guantanamo Baywatch to craft a record in keeping with its unique skill set. Bursting with Powell’s screeching vocals and the skull-piercing treble of 1950s-style reverb, Chest Crawl sounds like an enthusiastically rendered, 30-minute record scratch. Previously infamous for song titles in the vein of “Cum Fart Food,” Guantanamo Baywatch has on this outing scoured its surprisingly love-hurt lyrics to provide monikers such as “Sad Over You,” “We Came With Dottie” and “Pina Colada.” Chest Crawl makes it abundantly clear that “surf” should grab the premier spot in any hyphenated genre tag relating to the group. Like trash-culture auteurs John Waters and Quentin Tarantino, Guantanamo Baywatch excuses its gaucheries by dint of a genuine love for its formative schmaltz. “If I wasn’t in this band,” Powell says, “I’d be in a band that was exactly like it.” SEE IT: Guantanamo Baywatch releases Chest Crawl at Club 21 on Wednesday, May 23, with Jr. Member and Youthbitch. 9:30 pm. Free. 21+. There will be a hot dog eating contest.
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MBILLY SATURDAY, MAY 26 [SINGER-SONGWRITER] William Helfrich woke up one morning a few years ago and realized he was a grown-up. It was something none of his previous life experiences— not going to college, not holding down a day job as a general manager of Fresh Pot, not fathering twins at age 22—made him feel. It was just something he woke up with. “I definitely felt older once I had my kids,” says the now-32year-old songwriter. “That changed my thinking. But actually feeling like an adult—that’s new. And strange.” Helfrich’s newfound maturity, funny enough, has led him to think an awful lot about his teenage years in Eastern Oregon. His excellent new album, Malheur, is named after his home county, and spends much of its time meditating on the landscape, the people who lived there, and the faith of his family and friends. On the title track of Mbilly’s second full-length album, he sings of Malheur County and his hometown of Ontario, Ore.: “It’s a part of me/ Like the brown in my eyes/ Couldn’t get it out if I tried.” Ontario is where Helfrich started his first band, Ullen Waters. It was with that group that he wrote the song “Billboards,” the jaded hometown anthem that appears on Malheur. And it was in Ontario that he learned to shoot guns with his bandmate Raul Ugalde, the Portland musician who died in October 2010. Helfrich and Ugalde drifted apart long before the former penned the songs on Malheur, but Ugalde has haunted him nonetheless. The album’s dedication reads “For Raul, the biggest Mexican I have ever known. I missed you before you were gone.” For Helfrich, Ugalde was part of the Ontario landscape. And Malheur paints a compelling portrait of that town and the people in it. “Your Famous Name” was penned shortly after Amy Winehouse’s death, but it’s more about people he grew up with who turned to drugs and alcohol. “It annoys me that, with addiction, famous people get a pass,” Helfrich says. “If you’re poor and you’re an addict, it’s a sign of weakness, but if you’re rich and you’re an addict, it’s charming as long as you get clean and apologize.” Other songs are more personal. On “The Man Who Prays (for Me),” Helfrich sings about someone who prays for the narrator, a nonbeliever. “That’d be my dad,” he admits. “My parents are very Catholic. And my grandfather would always say ‘I’m praying for you.’ I’m not religious at all, but I appreciated that.” There is no agnostic equivalent to “I’m praying for you,” Helfrich notes. “You can’t say, ‘I’m going to think about you tonight at 9—I’m going to commit a minute and a half to thinking about you.’” That said, the songs on Malheur often sound like hymns, with drum-machine soul and fingerpicked guitar that might as well be harp. “All Lives Lived” is the most haunting of these hymns, and over the course of the song it becomes increasingly clear that the rebellious badass being mourned on the track is Ugalde. Only, even as he was writing these songs, Helfrich wasn’t quite sure why the death of a best friend he’d long drifted away from had affected him so much. “The person I had those experiences with was pretty different than the person who died,” he says. “But I think it really made me mourn for that kid.” I’m pretty sure there are two kids being mourned on Malheur. CASEY JARMAN.
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[TRIBUTE] In celebration of Bob Dylan’s 71-year metamorphosis from fetus to folk Moses to rock prophet to Wilbury to bad actor to human California Raisin to satellite-radio master to creepy lingerie spokesman, Mississippi Studios has assembled an army of locals to speak to the diversity of the man who changed music. Headlined by the Builders and the Butchers’ Ryan Sollee and featuring an all-star lineup, including Lewi Longmire, Kory Quinn, Lauren Sheehan and many more, the show promises to run the gamut from Dylan’s epic protest songs to his funkier side—from his playful eskimo kisses and everything in between… although if Sollee shows up in a garter belt, things could take a disturbing turn. AP KRYZA. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 8 pm. $8. 21+.
Ashia Grzesik and the Bison Rouge, Libertine Belles
[PORTLAND MEETS POLAND] Poland-born Vagabond Opera/ Portland Cello Project cellist-chanteuse Ashia Grzesik kicked off her solo career last year with a splendid EP that sounded like no other band. Now her group is raising funds (including the proceeds from this concert) for a new full-length recording featuring accordion, violin, guitar, ukulele, bass and, of course, Grzesik’s classically inflected cello—it’s music full of riveting cabaret-style vocals, tongue-incheek theatrical performance style and evocative songwriting. BRETT CAMPBELL. Secret Society Lounge, 116 NE Russell St., 493-3600. 8:30 pm. $5-$15 sliding scale. 21+.
FRIDAY, MAY 25 Here We Go Magic, Hospitality
[THE BEST OF THE BUZZ] Luke Temple, long one of the finest unheralded singers and songwriters of his generation, is on a particularly hot streak. Last year’s solo comeback record, Don’t Act Like You Don’t Care, was his best album to date, and the former Seattleite’s third record with his excellent Brooklyn-based band Here We Go Magic, A Different Ship, is a downright masterpiece. It doesn’t hurt Temple and company that famed Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich is along for the ride here, but even without him, this high-water mark and new wave of popularity have been a long time coming. Somehow Temple’s influences, from Pink Floyd to the Talking Heads, seem wholly integrated now with his own warm delivery and subtle sense of humor. If you were looking for a bandwagon to hop on, this one is going all the way to the top. CASEY JARMAN. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
Trampled by Turtles, Brown Bird
[SLEEP COUNTRY USA] ’Tis better, they say, to be trampled by turtles than to be lulled to sleep by them. Wait, no they don’t. But that aptly describes Minnesota’s Trampled by Turtles, which has spent the past decade drawing audiences with
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to make for a fascinating evening, thanks to his varied and unusual musical career. Thrown into the celebrity deep end as a member of ’60s boy band the Walker Brothers, he moved into rarefied air after that group’s breakup. His first four solo albums (all named Scott) are classics of moody, theatrical pop that singes your eyebrows with daring production and arrangements. Since then he’s tried his hand at country pop, glossy MOR tunes, and, most recently, chilling Gothic expressions of discontent and discomfort with mankind. Tonight’s acts are almost as eclectic—and often experimental—as Walker’s oeuvre is. ROBERT HAM. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St. 8:30 pm. $5. 21+.
SAD DAD: Loudon Wainwright III plays the Aladdin Theater on Wednesday, May 23. a beautifully melodic mix of folk, country, hippiegrass and rock that calls to mind everything from Neil Young to the Avett Brothers and Charlie Daniels. That robustness, though, is as hard for the band to balance on last month’s Stars and Satellites as it was on the band’s previous five records: TBT gets you buzzing with electricity (the preshow gooballs you ate help), then drops into slow lullabies that would be better enjoyed from a hammock (the gooballs don’t help with that one). More uppers, please! AP KRYZA. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. All ages.
Red Fang, Lopez, Nether Regions, Hell’s Parish
[HEAD BANGERS] Portland is the birthplace of sonic diplomacy. Hence Murder in the Mountains, which combines the stoned-tooblivion rock of Red Fang and the production smarts of the Decemberists’ Chris Funk. Only here can two seemingly opposite ends unite. And why not? As grinding and relentless as Red Fang is, the band is damned accessible for a metal outfit. Which is to say that amid the commando vocals and accelerated distortion, there are obvious hooks any fan of music theory can grab onto. But hold on tight, for safety’s sake, during this rare all-ages show. MARK STOCK. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 7:30 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. All ages.
Deer Tick, Turbo Fruits
[THE MANY SIDES OF…] You can never be certain what you’ll get with Deer Tick. Nothing can ever hide frontman John McCauley’s sandpapery vocals, but if you enjoy the cleaner, folkier songs in the group’s earlier repertoire, then its most recent LP, Divine Providence, might feel like a kick in the teeth. Which is exactly what Deer Tick wants you to feel. It’s no secret McCauley and crew get loud and rowdy during live performances, but until recently, the raucousness was a side of the band that stayed somewhat separate from its recorded stuff. Divine Providence is messy, more punk rock and, as McCauley slurs in between tracks, is likely to have you repeating the band’s phrase, “Let’s go get drunk,” as you listen. EMILEE BOOHER. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 8 pm. $20. 21+.
Spiritualized
[PSYCHEDELIC GOSPEL] I sound like an awfully old man admitting that I first saw Spiritualized on Radiohead’s OK Computer tour in 1998, but I sound like an asshole saying that show was terrible. The Salem Armory isn’t a venue, though, it’s a bomb shelter. Spiritualized has changed very little since the late ’90s—new disc Huh? doesn’t throw too many curves, although it is the most mature distillation yet of that whole drugged-wall-of-sound-gospel, Chuck-Berry-in-panic-mode aesthetic the U.K. group has been perfecting since it was born out of the ashes of Spacemen 3. But the fact this show is at the Wonder and
not at some other venues, which shall remain unnamed, should make it awfully special. Just don’t be surprised in the likely event frontman J Spaceman spends the entire concert fully seated. These brutal, brilliant songs make everyone’s legs tremble. CASEY JARMAN. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.
SATURDAY, MAY 26 John C. Reilly Band
[FOR YOUR ROOTS!] How many singers get to headline the Aladdin with only a couple of singles under their belts? John C. Reilly has gone from beloved character actor to full cult icon in the acting world these past couple of decades, but he’s still relatively unknown as a singer-guitarist, something his two recent singles of old country covers on Jack White’s label did little to change. While Reilly has sung in films— Boogie Nights, Chicago and of course Walk Hard, where he played the pervy, Johnny Cash-cribbing country balladeer Dewey Cox—his notable sideman, Nebraska/Los Angeles crooner Tom Brosseau, should be considered as much of a draw as Reilly (Lavender Diamond’s Becky Stark is also on board). CASEY JARMAN. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 2349694. 9 pm. $25. Minors must be accompanied by a parent. All ages.
Pictorials, Neo G Yo
[OPPOSITES ATTRACT] After finishing up a tour of this side of the country with Black Moth Super Rainbow, Portland’s Pictorials is still not ready to throw in the towel. The mood-pop group, fronted by Morgan Nicholson (who used to tour with Tobacco) is a mix of calculated, spaced-out sounds. The outfit is set to release its second postpunk product of the year, the Sense of Vanity EP, next month. Tonight’s all-ages show at Backspace includes the added bonus of Neo G Yo, the tweaky math-rap duo with an affinity for slow and sexy sentences. NIKKI VOLPICELLI. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. 9 pm. $6. All ages.
Boat, The Angry Orts, Zoo Animal, Orca Team
[AMERICA’S BAND] Whereas Boat’s 2009 album, Setting the Paces, was an instant singalong classic, last year’s Dress Like Your Idols was a bit of a grower. Though “Changing of the Guard” and “(I’ll Beat My Chest Like) King Kong” were stirring, ballsy acceptances of the dreary realities of suburban life, a lot of the latest album’s tunes were harder nuts to crack (I’m still not quite sure what “Classically Trained” is all about). That’s OK: Boat’s increasingly upbeat, sports-and-diet-colaobsessed catalog probably needed a few nods to the slippery subject matter of its first record, Songs That You Might Not Like. The more I listen to Idols, the more I feel like I’m being let in on Boat’s inside jokes. And this band has yet to write a song I can’t sing along to until my voice goes out. Boat is the best. CASEY
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TRAGEDY DARKER DAYS AHEAD (SELF-RELEASED) [CRUST PUNK] Tragedy is justly revered the world over for its dense and crepuscular take on crust punk, but an album-length masterpiece has eluded this staunchly DIY Portland quartet since its 2000 inception. Until now. With Darker Days Ahead, its longawaited fourth LP, Tragedy messes with its own formula and makes sinister magic in the process. By trading its standard D-beat fleetness for a measured and metallic plod, Tragedy is reborn on Darker Days Ahead as a more dynamic and expansive outfit. The album is just as bleak and blackened as anything in the band’s back catalog, but for the first time, Tragedy has crafted a work that breathes, swivels and swirls, and it is not only intense and punishing but creepily pretty as well. Undeniably indebted to the dread visions and scabrous riffage of prime Amebix, Tragedy sounds impossibly huge and menacing in 2012, like there are 30 guys in the band, or like it’s not even a band at all anymore but a blood-spattered locomotive making its slow and ineluctable way through smoke-choked tunnels and over crumbling mountains. It’s a captivating listen with a narrative shape: the album’s sequencing fashions the nine blasts of crusty metal into a sonic story of post-apocalyptic ruin, as gruff dirges give way to meditative interludes before the whole lumbering, fire-breathing thing takes off into a panicked gallop. Which might all sound a bit hyperbolic, especially since this is a slightly more refined Tragedy we’re talking about here, but listen: That’s the end of everything you hear in the distance. That’s the kind of thing we need flowery language for, and it’s the sort of sublimity Tragedy has finally summoned. CHRIS STAMM.
ARJAY LOVE STRONG (SELF-RELEASED) [HOMETOWN R&B] Arjay lives, like many urban singers of his generation, at the intersection of hip-hop and R&B. If you know his name, it’s probably from the former: The Portland staple has been featured on songs from the list of usual suspects from Cool Nutz and Bosko to Oakland’s E-40, and he’s been known to steal the spotlight on those tracks. Crafting a cohesive R&B album is a tougher prospect than shining on the odd guest spot, of course, which is probably why Arjay has taken over a decade in releasing his debut. I don’t envy the task: Not only does Portland boast little infrastructure for R&B, but the production trends in mainstream urban radio change almost daily. Arjay’s debut, Love Strong, doesn’t attempt to ride on the tailwinds of mainstream R&B so much as it throws a little of everything in the listener/radio programmer’s direction to see what sticks. It feels a little like a musical demo reel or an especially broad-minded mixtape: Some of the album’s songs—like the title track, “Drift Away” and “Lover”—choose organic, Maxwell-esque instrumentation over the genre’s current obsessions while “Patiently Waiting” and “Life of the Party” sound like products of their era, replete with their respective Jeezy-isms and air horns. While a number of Arjay’s rapper friends—from young guns Mikey Vegaz and Fli Boi Moe to old-Portland MCs Cool Nutz and Kenny Mack—stop by to keep the disc hood-appropriate, Arjay actually sounds most at home when solo and balancing the current R&B futurism with his own tendency toward tangible melody. “Overdrive” is a legit banger that nudges dubstep but keeps the focus on the singer’s vocal prowess while remaining Auto-Tune free; “So Sexy” has an early-MJ heart and an R. Kelly soul, but Arjay’s sugary/straightforward vocals remain in command. There are a few big misses here as well, but that’s sorta par for the course on a 15-track R&B album. Love Strong remains an impressive, radio-ready showing from a singer whose patience— and hustle—has finally paid off. CASEY JARMAN. SEE IT: Tragedy plays the Know on Thursday, May 24, with Stoneburner and Spectral Tombs. 8 pm. Cover. 21+. Arjay plays Someday Lounge on Saturday, May 26, with Cool Nutz, KP, Stevo Triple SB and DJ Danny Merkury. 8 pm. $10. 21+.
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Frank McComb & Patrick Lamb
[HOT STUPID FUNK-ROCK] Jennifer Herrema had been doing just fine continuing on with the classic rockinspired spirit of her band Royal Trux, but the 40-year-old vocalist wants to prove she still has some original spark with new project Black Bananas. The group’s debut, Rad Times Xpress IV, is some of the most unhinged, funky rock around, akin to the work of ’70s icons like Betty Davis and Parliament. The mix of sounds is dizzying: Auto-Tune, chugging metal guitar leads, splashy disco beats and good old-fashioned noise all make appearances. Herrema holds it all together with her signature tossed-off sexy flair. This is hot stuff, Jack. ROBERT HAM. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
[CRUSTY DOOM] The time has come to rejoice as Providence, R.I., duo the Body will soon be known as Portland duo the Body. Currently crossing the country with its equipment and personal possessions, the band is following the scent of progress and westward migration that has been in the country’s blood since Leif Ericson’s day. To make this evening even heavier, doom-churner Uzala is appearing. Primarily based in Boise, Idaho, Uzala includes Nick Phit of local goth-metal merchant Atriarch. But it’s the haunting vocals of Darcy Nutt that set the band apart from so many other down-tuned plodders. Uzala’s first full-length album is available on cult vinyl and cassette formats. Bring earplugs. Bring courage. Bring deodorant. NATHAN CARSON. Plan B, 1305 SE 8th Ave., 230-9020. 8 pm. $8. 21+.
MONDAY, MAY 28 Karaoke From Hell
[COVER MODELS] Tonight, the Karaoke From Hell band celebrates two decades of enabling rock-star fantasists through hundreds of handpicked tunes played by esteemed area musicians livening up a dizzying array of area nightspots. Though garnering the most fame (including a documentary currently near completion and recent contest with thousand-dollar prize to the best singer) for the past eight years at Dante’s Mondays, the band has played casinos, dive bars and even stints at late lamented punk meccas Satyricon and X-Ray Cafe—the latter being the first venture of doughnut impresario/ KFH ringleader Tres Shannon, who promises this evening’s reunion of all past and present band members to be merely the midway point before the next 20 years of raucous, slightly ragged renditions of songs you’d better know by heart. JAY HORTON. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St. 10 pm. Free. 21+.
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[OLD-BOY SOUL] You remember when Amy Winehouse released Rehab and everyone was psyched to hear something so soulful and nostalgic? Nick Waterhouse is Amy Winehouse tenfold. The 24-year-old producer-musician oozes old-school R&B soul everywhere from the bigband backdrops to the perfectly combed hair on his head. His style
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Dum Dum Girls, Young Prisms, Ghost Animal
[INTROVERTS] An unexpected delay at an airport can do wondrous things for a band. Especially if your calling card is highly introspective, head-scratching lo-fi. Sure, San Francisco’s Young Prisms had promise early on, but it was during a rare London snowstorm that the group conceived its masterpiece. Inside-out from then on, Prisms now writes reeling art rock. Current record In Between is a glowing example of musical self-questioning, creamy in delivery but riddled with heavy delay and prickly static. Artists in noise Dum Dum Girls headline. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
Destruction, Vital Remains, Warbringer, Pathology, Bloodoath
[GERMAN THRASH ATTACK] Destruction’s first show in Portland since the ’80s was at Ash Street Saloon in 2002. It was a modest return, made large by the fact that the band absolutely stole the show from headliners Kreator and supporters Cephalic Carnage. In the past 10 years Destruction has smartly made touring the world a priority again. It’s also released four more albums, including 2011 offering Day of Reckoning. Bassist-vocalist Schmier is still the leather-clad wildman up front, and trusty guitarist Mike Sifringer has been wielding his ax in Destruction since 1983. They’ve had enough drummers to make Spinal Tap proud, but who even cares as long as they play “Thrash Attack”?! NATHAN CARSON. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 7:30 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.
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[OLD ROMANTICS] A man gifted, some might say burdened, with a voice of supple power and immediate emotive authenticity, Mark Lanegan has essentially been thrown the keys to the Cash legacy despite ever more diverse rovings. Near 50, Lanegan continues to offer his services as throat-for-hire to acts as distinct as Isobel Campbell, Soulsavers, Greg Dulli and Queens of the Stone Age, but his recent comments about a love of ’80s electro seemed almost a conscious tease toward the guardians of rootsy heritage who believe grunge is just murder ballads with feedback. With his seventh solo album, Blues Funeral (his first in eight years), though, the former Screaming Trees frontman exploits every inch of eclecticism to fine effect, and tracks such as “Ode to Sad Disco” leave no doubt about the depths of his passions. JAY HORTON. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 2848686. 9 pm. $20 advance, $22 day of show. 21+.
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SATURDAY-TUESDAY isn’t kitschy or forced, though—quite the opposite. Shaky bass beats and brash horns play with Waterhouse’s pitch-jumping vocals to create a sound you’ve probably heard only on your grandpa’s gently used jazz records, and you best believe this is dancin’ music. NIKKI VOLPICELLI. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 2397639. 8:30 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show.
TUESDAY, MAY 29 Xiu Xiu, Yamantaka// Sonic Titan, Father Murphy
[LONG-SUFFERING ART POP] The beauty and frustration of Jamie Stewart’s long-running musical project Xiu Xiu is that you never know what you’re going to get with each album. The only mainstay in over a decade of recordings has been Stewart’s wavering, emotive vocals and unblinking lyrical ideas (sample song title: “Dear God, I Hate Myself”). For the latest Xiu Xiu release, Always, the sound is full-bore techno pop that has been cut to ribbons by a jagged piece of glass. Get too close and you’re going to get cut. But the pain is exquisite and absolutely unforgettable. ROBERT HAM. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.
The Moondoggies, Gold Leaves
[NEO-ROOTS ROCK] The Moondoggies have been compared to groups like the Band and Crosby, Stills and Nash. I’m not usually fond of jumping to such comparisons when discussing the sound of a band, but I guess I can understand why the Seattle outfit is so often referenced this way. Its 2008 debut is covered with fun-filled three-part harmonies, twangy electric guitar and punchy organ that force ’70s roots-rock nostalgia through the listeners’ ears. But the Moondoggies’ second effort, Tidelands, departs from such pinpointed comparisons by including a little more driving rock and a little less giddyap. Tidelands sounds somewhere between the past and the present, like a band trying to find its sound but unsure of which direction to go. This talented bunch will be successful whichever path it chooses. EMILEE BOOHER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
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TYCHO Formed: 2002 in San Francisco. Sounds like: A Saturday Night Fever-style dance floor made of melting chocolate. For fans of: Boards of Canada’s Geogaddi, anything on the Ghost Box label, Luke Vibert’s Big Soup. Latest release: Dive, one of 2011’s finest albums, found producermusician Scott Hansen painting pastoral sonic landscapes that are a little off-balance with wobbly synths and arrhythmic beats that don’t quite match your heart rate. Why you care: The music Hansen creates as a sideline to his acclaimed career as a graphic designer unfolds gently and calmly, even when it pushes a speedy BPM. That cool mood is as much a result of his love of glossy, downtempo beats as it is of the methodical pace with which he writes and records. The 10 songs on Dive took Hansen five years to craft. As he told XLR8R magazine late last year, “If I start a song, I finish it. But taking [an] idea to what I consider to be a finished product is a very, very long, winding road of meticulously going over every detail.” That care pays off not only on record, but also when Hansen fleshes the songs out further live, accompanied by a drummer and bassist. Melodies balloon and take flight, the low end echoes in your abdomen, and nirvana seems within reach. SEE IT: Tycho plays Doug Fir Lounge on Thursday, May 24, with Active Child and Lord Huron. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
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[MAY 23-29] The Lovecraft
= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Editor: Jonathan Frochtzwajg. TO HAVE YOUR EVENT LISTED, send show information at least two weeks in advance on the web at wweek.com/submitevents or (if you book a specific venue) enter your events at dbmonkey.com/wweek. Press kits, CDs and especially vinyl can be sent to Music Desk, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Please include show or release date information with all physical mailings. Email: music@wweek.com. For more listings, check out wweek.com.
421 SE Grand Ave. Psychopomp with Ogo Eion
Tony Starlight’s
Touché Restaurant and Billiards
Duff’s Garage
1425 NW Glisan St. Nancy King and Steve Christofferson
1635 SE 7th Ave. Two Man Gentleman Band (9 pm); Tough Lovepyle (6 pm)
Valentine’s
Ella Street Social Club
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Community jam
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Mission Spotlight, The Lonesome Billies
THURS. MAY 24 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Luzelena Mendoza (of Y La Bamba)
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Greg Lake
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Hey Marseilles, Lemolo
ADAM GRANO
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Lasher Keen, Waldteufel (9:30 pm); Jim Keaveny, Gerald Collier (6:30 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Borikuas
Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band
Artichoke Community Music
3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Ukelele Cafe
Ash Street Saloon
WED. MAY 23 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Luzelena Mendoza (of Y La Bamba)
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Loudon Wainwright III
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Open Mic
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero
Club 21
2035 NE Glisan St. Guantanamo Baywatch, Jr. Member, Youthbitch
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Avengers, Pansy Division, Moral Crux, Therapists
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Spittin’ Cobras, Brothers of the Last Watch, Lost City
Duff’s Garage
225 SW Ash St. The Oldest Profession
1635 SE 7th Ave. Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam (9 pm); High Flyer Trio (6 pm)
Backspace
East Burn
Ash Street Saloon
115 NW 5th Ave. Vice Riot, Witch Throne, Pinkzilla, Revolution Overdue
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Songwriter Showcase with Lewis Childs
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Half Step Shy
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Hair Assault
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Bad Veins, Aan
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave.
1800 E Burnside St. Irish Music Jam
East India Co.
821 SW 11th Ave. Josh Feinberg
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Strategy, Apartment Fox
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Simon Tucker Group, Brad Parsons Band
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Eric Hutchinson, Sara Jackson-Holman
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St.
Bria Skonberg Quintet (8 pm); Tom D’Antoni (4:30 pm)
The Ascetic Junkies, Fanno Creek, The We Shared Milk
Jade Lounge
Mount Tabor Theater
Jimmy Mak’s
Music Millennium
2346 SE Ankeny St. David Walker 221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Pat Buckley
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. The Dirty Words, Beautiful Lies, Jeremiah of the Hill People
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Drum Circle 3158 E Burnside St. Alexa Wiley
Palace of Industry
5426 N Gay Ave. Flat Rock String Band
Plan B
Ladd’s Inn
1305 SE 8th Ave. No More Parachutes, Curious Hands, Outer Space Heaters, Race of Strangers
Landmark Saloon
1502 NW 19th Ave. Soulmates
1204 SE Clay St. Lynn Conover
Quimby’s At 19th
4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray and the Cowdogs (9:30 pm); Bob Shoemaker (6 pm)
Rotture
LaurelThirst
Someday Lounge
2958 NE Glisan St. Santi Elijah Holley, Mike Elias, Jennie Wayne (9 pm); Michael Hurley & the Croakers (6 pm)
Laurelhurst Cafe
4611 E Burnside St. The Stomptowners
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Sam Cooper (9:45 pm); Mr. Hoo (kids’ show, 12 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave.
315 SE 3rd Ave. Vice Cooler, $kull$, Dropa, DJ BJ 125 NW 5th Ave. Steady Riot, Undefined, Crazy T, Evan Bond
Sundown Pub
5903 N Lombard St. The Crenshaw, Jeremiah, Migi Artugue
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project Blues Jam
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Sean Fred
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Tycho, Active Child, Lord Huron
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
Open Jazz Jam with Errick Lewis & the Regiment House Band
350 W Burnside St. Water Tower, The Dwells, Wy’East
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Mitzi Zilka and the Django Philes
232 SW Ankeny St. Federer
HUH?: Spiritualized plays Wonder Ballroom on Friday, May 25.
Dante’s
225 SW Ash St. Heavy Voodoo, 42 Ford Prefect, Mother’s Whiskey, The Vacillators
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Vanity Theft, Enemies, Year of the Rabbit, The Robinson Age
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Jeremy Burton Band, Whorehound, Darlin Blackbirds, Anne
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Biddy’s Acoustic Jam
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Starfucker, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Wampire
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. John “JB” Butler and Al Criado
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. This Not This, Brian Grayson
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. The Goatee Brothers
Chapel Pub
430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin
Club 21
2035 NE Glisan St. Fist Fite, Billions and Billions, Party Foul
Corkscrew Wine Bar 1669 SE Bybee Blvd. The Bridge City Jazz Ensemble
714 SW 20th Place U Sco, Wishyunu, Soft Skills, The Dognut
Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave. W.C. Beck
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Mattress, Ghost Animal, WL...Worms, DJ Comidienne (Scott Walker tribute show)
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Anandi Gefroh with George Colligan (8 pm); Gordy Michael (5 pm)
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Jason Simpson, Alex Geer, Barry Brusseau, 3 Moons
Jimmy Mak’s
Secret Society Lounge
116 NE Russell St. Ashia Grzesik and the Bison Rouge, Libertine Belles
Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Nekked Bonz
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
8635 N Lombard St. Moon Child, Luminaer
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Original Music Showcase with Sam Densmore
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. Tragedy, Stoneburner, Spectral Tombs
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Robert Meade
Tiger Bar
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown B3 Organ Group
317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell
Kells
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Doc Brown Experiment, Pocketgroove
112 SW 2nd Ave. Pat Buckley
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. The Small Arms, Sorta Ultra, Quong
Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Ave. Pagan Jug Band
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Dan Haley/Mike Danner Band (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Matt Zeltzer
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro John Shipe
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Brooks Robertson (9 pm); Jeff Martin (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Bob Dylan Birthday Tribute: Ryan Sollee (of the Builders and the Butchers), James Low, Will West, Lewi Longmire, Hunter Paye, Kory Quinn, Lauren Sheehan, Bob Soper, Elizabeth Nicholson, Mimi Naja, WC Beck, Michael Sheridan, Blind Bartimaeus, Brad Parsons, Jay Cobb Anderson, Simon Tucker
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Ozymandias, Gordon Avenue, Never Awake, The Roaming
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Barrett Johnson
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb
Quimby’s At 19th
1502 NW 19th Ave. Chris Baum Project
Tonic Lounge
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Tyrants, Timmy The Terror & the Winter Coats, Flesh Lawn, DJ Matt Scaphism
Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Shouter
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Modern Lives, My Autumn’s Done Come, Pictorials
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Max Ribner Band
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Anna and the Underbelly
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Rollie Fingers, Doc Ocular, Like Years (8:30 pm); Will West and Tanner Cundy (5:30 pm)
FRI. MAY 25 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Luzelena Mendoza (of Y La Bamba)
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Obo Addy, Mic Crenshaw, Alan Wone
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Muscle & Marrow (9:30 pm); Mikey’s Irish Jam (6:30 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Dan Diresta Quartet
Artichoke Community Music
3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Friday Night Coffeehouse
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Splintered Throne, Jetpack Mistress, Madame Torment
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. No Tomorrow
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Funk Shui (9:30 pm); Lynn Conover (6 pm)
Bijou Cafe
32 SW 3rd Ave. The Bryant Allard Quartet
Bipartisan Cafe
7901 SE Stark St. The Don of Division Street
Bossanova Ballroom
722 E Burnside St. Dirtnap, On Enemy Soil, O.A.K., Kingdom Under Fire
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Stories and Soundtracks, She Preaches Mayhem, Toy Gun Conspiracy, Burnside Heroes
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Tablao
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Ken Hanson, The Novelists
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Here We Go Magic, Hospitality
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Superjazzers
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Norman Sylvester Band
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. Trampled by Turtles, Brown Bird
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Kvn Rudn, Chervona, Russian Disco
Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. Coeur de Pirate
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Greg Georgeson Band, Jon Koonce (9 pm); The Hamdogs (6 pm)
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. Boy & Bean
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Spellcaster, Witches Mark, Panzergod, Sarcologos
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Dangerous Boys Club, Bestial Mouths, Hot Victory
Ford Food and Drink
2505 SE 11th Ave. Nick Peets (8 pm); Brian Granse (5 pm)
Gov. Tom McCall Waterfront Park
Southwest Naito Parkway between Harrison and Glisan streets Rose Festival: Hit Machine, Nu Wave Machine
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Red Fang, Lopez, Nether Regions, Hell’s Parish
Hinson Baptist Church 1137 SE 20th Ave. Portland Community Wind Band, NoPo Big Band
Island Mana Wines
526 SW Yamhill St. Joe Marquand & Friends
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Frontline Quintet (8 pm); Kit Taylor (5 pm)
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Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Pictorials, Neo G Yo
Beaterville Cafe
Mock Crest Tavern
2201 N Killingsworth St. Wild Mountain Bell
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Jim Boyer Band (9:30 pm); The Barkers (6 pm)
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Gravy (9 pm); Tablao (5:30 pm)
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. The Love Loungers, Bobby Bracelin Band
Bunk Bar
VICTORY PROVISIONS: Under the watchful eyes of Abraham Lincoln in two slightly creepy paintings on the walls of Free House (1325 NE Fremont St., 946-8161), a dozen or so drinkers maintain a vibe of laid-back camaraderie. Re-opening a couple months ago under the joint ownership of Victory Bar chef Eric Moore and Olympic Provisions co-owner Martin Schwartz, the revamped Free House now boasts the best influences of both, with better-than-average bar food (banh mi, anyone?) and a rotating list of house cocktails that fall into the “Portland eclectic” category. I had a Tusken Raider (pisco, lemon, pineapple gomme and prosecco), which I assume you’re supposed to drink one at a time so as to conceal your numbers. A partially covered patio is one of the bar’s new features and offers plenty of space for summertime drinking. Although it probably never gets too rowdy at Free House—after all, Honest Abe is watching. PENELOPE BASS.
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Kyrstyn Pixton (8 pm); Taylor Williams (6 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Dimes, The Shook Twins, Brothers Young, Jack Ruby Presents, Birds & Batteries
Katie O’Briens
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Muddy River Nightmare Band, Sick Broads, the Ransom
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Pass the Whiskey
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Wizard Boots, JJCNV, Stepper
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Axxicorn, Lamprey, Avi Dei
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. The Pickups, Garett Brennan, The Dirt Floor (9:30 pm); RedRay Frazier (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Justin Klump
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Kris Deelane Band
Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan St. Deer Tick, Turbo Fruits
Mississippi Pizza
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Never Strangers
Original Halibut’s II
2527 NE Alberta St. Steve Kerin & Jim Miller
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Forest Bloodgood
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Ape Machine, Lo-Pan, Wolfpussy
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Cobalt, Melting Wreck, Ves, Virgin Blood
Red Room
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Bureau of Standards Big Band
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Los Gallos
Twilight Café and Bar
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Musuji, The Rodeo Clowns, Tall as Rasputin, Dead Remedy
836 N Russell St. Alexa Wiley, Rachael Rice, Dan Haley (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
116 NE Russell St. Saloon Ensemble (9 pm); Pete Krebs and His Portland Playboys (6 pm)
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Jake Powell, On Holiday, The Numbats
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. Basketball Jones
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Tope, BigMo & J Burns, Portland George, Eman, Jermaine Malone, Dj Eps
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Grouplove, Reptar
The Blue Diamond
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar
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317 NW Broadway Chapters End, Sketch the Rest, Staller
Secret Society Lounge
Mississippi Studios
3435 N Lombard St. Gusto Brothers
Tiger Bar
Vie de Boheme
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Sporting Lifers
Mock Crest Tavern
71 SW 2nd Ave. Ants in the Kitchen
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Iron Circus, Perseverance, Battle Axe Massacre, Ergot
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Welfare, The Rob Whitfield Project, Denim Wedding (9 pm); Pagan Jug Band (6 pm) 3939 N Mississippi Ave. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Darcys, Sun Angle
Thirsty Lion
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. The Waydowns
1001 SW Broadway Johnny Martin
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. The Estranged, Vanna Inget, Sundaze, Futility, DJ Unruly
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White Eagle Saloon
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Spiritualized
SAT. MAY 26 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Luzelena Mendoza (of Y La Bamba)
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. John C. Reilly with Becky Stark and Tom Brosseau
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Boat, The Angry Orts, Zoo Animal, Orca Team
1028 SE Water Ave. Tim Rogers, Scott McCaughey (of the Minus 5), Kasey Anderson
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Amy Steinberg, Laura Berman
Club 21
2035 NE Glisan St. Bison Bison, Crag Dweller
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Randy Star Band
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Sumerland, Adrian H & the Wounds, This Assention, Trance to the Sun, DJ Curatrix, DDDJJJ666, MAGNOLIA BOUVIER
3435 N Lombard St. Blueprints
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Fruition, The Blackberry Bushes (concert hall); Northbound Rain (Grateful Dead tribute, Sideshow Lounge)
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. James Clem
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Billy Martin & Wil Blades
Original Halibut’s II
Ella Street Social Club
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Thrones, Uzala, The Body, Low Sky, Fellwoods
Quimby’s At 19th 1502 NW 19th Ave. Levi Warren
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. School of Rock (Minor Threat tribute), DJ Bob Ham
Red Room
8 NW 6th Ave. Fiji, Common Kings, Trey Smoov
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Get Rhythm (9 pm); The Martens Combination (6 pm)
714 SW 20th Place Mark McGuire, Eye Myths, Synaptic Foliage, Matt Carlson
Slabtown
Go Dog
2730 N Killingsworth St. Chris Baron
8635 N Lombard St. Power of County, Bad Assets, Damn Family
Goodfoot Lounge
Someday Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Billy Martin and Wil Blades Duo
Gov. Tom McCall Waterfront Park
Southwest Naito Parkway between Harrison and Glisan streets Rose Festival: Curtis Salgado Band, Patrick Lamb Band, Linda Hornbuckle Band
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Voltaire, Mortal Clay, Pink Noise, All the Apparatus
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1033 NW 16th Ave. 100%, Murdo
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Hit Machine, Nu Wave Machine, Metal Machine
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Hi Fi Mojo
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. The Planet Jackers
The Know
1001 SW Broadway Linda Lee Michelet
2026 NE Alberta St. Effluxus, Bloodkrow Butcher, Silencer, DJ Skell
The Lovecraft
1036 NE Alberta St. Will Stenberg, You Are Plural
Kells
The Old Church
Andina
Kelly’s Olympian
Thirsty Lion
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio
Artichoke Community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. John Shipe and Dan Jones
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St.
426 SW Washington St. Jackrabbit, Riviera, James Low
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Mbilly, Que, The Whats
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Cedro Willie (6 pm); Toy Trains (kids’ show, 4 pm)
421 SE Grand Ave. Witchthrone, Krack Sabbat, Space God Ritual 1422 SW 11th Ave. Kate Davis Band 71 SW 2nd Ave. Boys Next Door
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Neversleep, Lidless Eye, Wild Boar Cannery, Nemesis
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Rawkeye, Pink Slip
Duover, Highway, Leviathan
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Dan Haley & Tim Acott (9 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale James Low and Lewi Longmire
Mississippi Pizza
Vie de Boheme
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Landon Earth (9 pm); Lazy Champions (6:30 pm)
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
Mississippi Studios
1530 SE 7th Ave. Kode Bluuz
836 N Russell St. Jack Ruby Presents, Log Across the Washer (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Mark Lanegan Band, Sean Wheeler & Zander Schloss
SUN. MAY 27 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Sloan Martin (of Celilo), Matthew Zeltzer
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Dita Von Teese (burlesque show)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero Trio
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Common Dear, Find Your Smile
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Felim Egan
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Nasum, From Ashes Rise, Massgrave, Night Nurse
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam
Ford Food and Drink
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Teri and Larry
Jade Lounge
112 SW 2nd Ave. Pass the Whiskey
1420 SE Powell Blvd. The Working Class Zeroes, Staller
Spare Room
221 NW 10th Ave. Denver, Parson Redheads, Great Wilderness, Quiet Life, Norman
Alberta Street Public House
Twilight Café and Bar
Doug Fir Lounge
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar
Jimmy Mak’s
1203 NW Glisan St. Xavier Tavera
125 NW 5th Ave. Cool Nutz, DJ Fatboy, Arjay, Stevo & Triple SB, DJ Danny Merkury
1435 NW Flanders St. Anton Schwartz Quartet (8 pm); Jazzesque Duo (5 pm) 2346 SE Ankeny St. Adlai Alexander
Trader Vic’s
White Eagle Saloon
412 NW 5th Ave. Paul Mauer (9 pm); Jackie Mitchell, Jabi Shriki (7 pm)
Roseland Theater
203 SE Grand Ave. Bloodlust (Venom tribute), Mysticism Black, Infernus, Banishing
1425 NW Glisan St. Seffarine
PINTS Urban Taproom
East Burn
East End
Touché Restaurant and Billiards
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Seth Myzel
1635 SE 7th Ave. Rae Gordon, Mia Vermillion 1800 E Burnside St. Val Bauer & Chon Travis
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Frank, Dino and the Wham of Sam with the All-Star Horns (Rat Pack tribute)
2527 NE Alberta St. DK Stewart
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Nekro Drunkz, Godenied, Battle Axe Massacre, American Roulette, Bowel Nutrition, Pre-Embalmbed
Duff’s Garage
Tony Starlight’s
830 E Burnside St. Dum Dum Girls, Young Prisms, Ghost Animal 2505 SE 11th Ave. Tim Roth
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Billy Martin and Wil Blades Duo
Gov. Tom McCall Waterfront Park
Southwest Naito Parkway between Harrison and Glisan streets Rose Festival: Alabama Shakes, Vintage Trouble, Imagine Dragons, Everest
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Electric Guest, Themes
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Radiation City
NEPO 42
5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Bass Line Bums, The Longshots, Chase the Shakes
Rontoms
600 E Burnside St. White Orange, Sons of Huns
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. The Angel Bouchet Band Jam
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Kurt Vile and the Violators, Black Bananas, True Widow
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. George Colligan Ensemble
The Firkin Tavern 1937 SE 11th Ave. Open Mic
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Youthbitch, Cafeteria Dance Fever, The Shivas
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave. Kate Davis Band
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. The Bradley Band
Tillicum Club
Southwest Naito Parkway between Southwest Harrison and Northwest Glisan streets, Portland Rose Festival: Everest, Vintage Trouble, Alabama Shakes
Tonic Lounge
Valentine’s
1001 SE Morrison St. Broncho, The Shrine, PinkSlime, Jaret Ferratusco
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
White Eagle Saloon
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Dave Ross (9 pm); Irish Sessions (6 pm)
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St.
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Open Mic
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Battery-Powered Music
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell (20th anniversary)
Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. Dry the River
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Teeph, Foal, Habits
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Viking Moses, Teenage Mysticism
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic
Gov. Tom McCall Waterfront Park
Southwest Naito Parkway between Harrison and Glisan streets Rose Festival: Johnny Limbo & the Lugnuts, Lock Stock & Barrel, Randy Foote and the Skankin’ Yankees
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Nick Waterhouse, DJ Beyondadoubt, DJ Cooky Parker
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Jaime Leopold
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Dave Ross
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Forsorcerers, Magic Animal, Hot Victory
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens (9 pm); Portland Country Underground (6 pm)
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mr. Ben
Muddy Rudder Public House
1305 SE 8th Ave. Ether Circus, Scumbucket, Catch Hell, King Ghidora
Holocene
2346 SE Ankeny St. JD Dawson and the Cosmic Roots
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
Tom McCall Waterfront Park
232 SW Ankeny St. Sweeping Exits, Poison Arrow, The Mighty Sequoyah, You Are Plural
Jade Lounge
Andina
8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones
Hawthorne Theatre
1435 NW Flanders St. Mike Winkle and Jim Templeton
1036 NE Alberta St. Clouds on Strings
8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Johnny Martin Quartet
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. James Dean Kindle & the Eastern Oregon Playboys, The World Radiant, On the Stairs
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Destruction, Vital Remains, Warbringer, Pathology, Bloodoath
Alberta Street Public House
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Gumbo Americana
836 N Russell St. Open Mic/Songwriter Showcase
MON. MAY 28 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Sloan Martin (of Celilo)
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Dita Von Teese (burlesque show)
Plan B
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Soulmates featuring Jay “Bird” Koder
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Weekend Nachos, Transient, Raw Nerves, Sidetracked
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Metal Machine
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Pheasant, Hollywood Tans, Jesse Hughey
TUES. MAY 29 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Sloan Martin (of Celilo), Harlowe and the Great North Woods
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Neftali Rivera
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Gresham Transit Center, Paul Iannotti Group, Cotton
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave.
CALENDAR Old Light, Parson Red Heads, Chuck Johnson
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. Walk the Moon, Battleme
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Xiu Xiu, Yamantaka//Sonic Titan, Father Murphy
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Quartet (9 pm); Trio Bravo (6 pm)
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Hussy, Stay Calm, Free Weed
Ella Street Social Club
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Jazz Jam with Carey Campbell (7:30 pm); Tom D’Antoni (4:30 pm)
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Colin Johnson
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet (9:30 pm); The Bobcat Jazz Band (7 pm)
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Dave Ross
714 SW 20th Place Professor Gall, Not Waving But Drowning, The Libertine Belles
Kennedy School
Goodfoot Lounge
2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw
2845 SE Stark St. Radula
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge 1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Ave. Brad Creel & the Reel Deel
5736 NE 33rd Ave. Uncle B & Auntie E & J Dog
LaurelThirst
Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan St. Jon McLaughlin, Bob Stamper
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave.
Daniel Flynn
Mississippi Studios
Tiger Bar
Quimby’s At 19th
Tony Starlight’s
Roseland Theater
Twilight Café and Bar
Rotture
Valentine’s
1502 NW 19th Ave. Tom Grant 8 NW 6th Ave. Fun.
315 SE 3rd Ave. The Shivas, Mr. Elevator, Bath Party
Slabtown
The Know
Tiga
412 NE Beech St. DJ Zac Eno
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Trick with DJ Robb
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Sex Life DJs
Matador
1967 W Burnside St. DJ Whisker Friction
Saucebox
214 SW Broadway Nealie Neal
The Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave. Felix Cartal, Clockwork, Evan Alexander, Simon Says
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Ramophone
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Sethro Tull
FRI. MAY 25 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
Tiga
303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Ghost Train
Tiger Bar
412 NE Beech St. DJ Rat Creeps
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Bad Wizard 317 NW Broadway Juicy Wednesdays
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJs Trans Fat, Ill Camino (10 pm); DJ Creepy Crawl (7 pm)
Yes and No
20 NW 3rd Ave. Death Club with DJ Entropy
THURS. MAY 24 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Mudslide McBride
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Hip Hop Heaven with DJ Detroit Diezel
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. ParmaJohn (late set); DJ Nealie Neal (early set)
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Shadowplay
Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. Lord Smithingham
Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. Lord Smithingham
Saucebox
214 SW Broadway Evan Alexander
Someday Lounge
Beech Street Parlor
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Sound Glitter with Peter Calandra
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Cooky Parker (late set); DJ Squinty Jones (early set)
Fez Ballroom
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Ronin Roc (10 pm); DJ Neil Blender (7 pm)
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Sex Life DJs
SAT. MAY 26
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St. ‘80s Video Dance Attack
Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Holiday
Red Cap Garage
1035 SW Stark St Mantrap with DJ Lunchlady
Saucebox
214 SW Broadway Sticks & Stones
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. Blank Fridays
The Crown Room
The Lovecraft
The Lovecraft
205 NW 4th Ave. Blown: Crmnl, Tyler Tastemaker, D Poetica, Robarsky 421 SE Grand Ave.
128 NE Russell St. Ben Howard, Bahamas
Artillery: Chase Manhattan, Nathan Jenkins, Yo Huckleberry, Albino Gorilla
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Party Dad
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Wels (10 pm); Saturdazed with DJ GH (7 pm)
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Genderfucking Takeover: Queen, Please!
Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Yuccan Woman
Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St. PDX Zombie Prom
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Revolution with DJ Robb
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Freaky Outy 316 SW 11th Ave. Popvideo with DJ Gigahurtz
Holocene
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St. Jai Ho! with DJ Prashant
Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Folklore
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Blow Pony: AME, Bulimianne Rhapsody, DJ Airick X, DJ Just Dave, DJ Stormy Roxx, DJ Freeq, DJ Porq, DJ Jay Douglas
Saucebox
214 SW Broadway DJ Roane, Dundiggy
Sassy’s
927 SE Morrison St. DJ Statutory Ray
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Maxamillion
The Whiskey Bar 31 NW 1st Ave.
BuFFALo GAP Wednesday, May 23rd • 7pm
J-Fell Presents
THURSDAY
Michael Lewis Martinez FRIDAY
“Acoustic Wednesdays”
Schwing SATURDAY
w/Hair Assault
David Brothers
Thursday, May 24th
SUNDAY
This Not This & Brian Grayson
(classic acoustic rock)
“Instrumental night” w/ Trio Subtonic
Friday, May 25th • 9pm
MONDAY
Ken Hanson
Mt Air Studios “Open Showcase”
(blues funk)
Saturday, May 26th • 9pm
Love Loungers
TUESDAY
w/Bobby Bracelin Band (R&B groove soul)
“Total Request w/WILL Bradley
6835 SW Macadam Ave | John’s Landing
206 SW Morrison St. Portland, OR 97204
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Dig a Pony
203 SE Grand Ave. DJ Mayhem
832 SE Grand Ave. DJ Sonero
7 NIGHTS A WEEK
Guy Dilly and The Twin Powers
SUN. MAY 27
Andrea’s Cha Cha Club
303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Machoslut
1001 SE Morrison St. 13 Months of Sunshine: Awesome Tapes from Africa, DJ Sahelsounds, DJ Cuica, DJ Spencer D
1001 SE Morrison St. Snap!: Dr. Adam, Colin Jones
Wonder Ballroom
736 SE Grand Ave. New Jack City DJs
Goodfoot Lounge
Holocene
836 N Russell St. Will West, The Sale, Lincoln Crockett, Erin & Kirk, Tanner Cundy
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
Fez Ballroom
125 NW 5th Ave. Mixer: Perfect Cyn, Tom Mitchell, Mercedes, Keane, Mr. Romo, Darling Instigatah, Grimes Against Humanity 421 SE Grand Ave.
1465 NE Prescott St. Beacon Sound
316 SW 11th Ave. Decadent ‘80s: DJ Non, Jason Wann; Rewind with Phonographix DJs 2845 SE Stark St. Soul Stew with DJ Aquaman
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Arthur Moore
2026 NE Alberta St.
31 NW 1st Ave. Trance Mission: The Blizzard, Zoxy, Radius, Gotek
Beech Street Parlor
232 SW Ankeny St. CC Swim, Adventures! with Might, Ilima Considine and the Sexbots
White Eagle Saloon
3341 SE Belmont St. Blue 502 Trio (8 pm); Pagan Jug Band (6:30 pm)
FREE LIVE MUSIC
WEDNESDAY
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Open Mic with the Roaming
Someday Lounge
The Whiskey Bar
Mutant Disco
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Emily Beleele
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
The Blue Monk
Never a cover!
317 NW Broadway AC Lov Ring, Franco Pietta
1033 NW 16th Ave. Wild Assumptions, Social Graces, Pink Slime, Claw vs. Claw, DJ Callie Danger 125 NW 5th Ave. The Mesa State
Since 1974
Antisect, Deathcharge, Vicious Pleasures
3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Moondoggies, Gold Leaves
DJ Horrid
WED. MAY 23
MUSIC
East End
Matador
1967 W Burnside St. Next Big Thing with Donny Don’t
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Hive with DJ Owen
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Dark Sundays with DJ Josh Dark
MON. MAY 28 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Tones
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Roane
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. DJ Tibin
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy VJs
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. Metal Mondays with DJ Blackhawk
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Alex Hall
TUES. MAY 29 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ noFADER
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Girltopia with DJ Robb
Eagle Portland
835 N Lombard St DMTV with DJ Animal
Tiga
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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Most prices listed are for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply, so it’s best to call ahead. Editor: MATTHEW SINGER. Stage: REBECCA JACOBSON (stage@wweek. com). Classical: BRETT CAMPBELL (bcampbell@wweek.com). Dance: HEATHER WISNER (dance@wweek.com). TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit information at least two weeks in advance to the relevant writer.
THEATER 1959 Pink Thunderbird Convertible
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.”.
The Black Lizard
Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima’s 1961 play, The Black Lizard, adapted into English for the first time by director Jerry Mouawad and translators Laurence Kominz and Mark Oshima, 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 show 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. Characters spout existentialist tropes in the exaggerated cadences of camp noir. Everyone kills the ones they love, or dies trying. 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 John Zorn-style pastiche is the biggest cues to how Mishima’s play is to be viewed: 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. Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave., 231-9581. 7:30 pm Thursdays, 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays. Closes June 2. $15-$30.
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 has been passed over for professorships in favor of less deserving men. She discovers Alberta “Pearl” Johnson in a Texas prison and persuades her to record the pre-Civil War songs she knows. Together, they unsubtly grapple with every dilemma of the early 20th century. Both Lena Kaminsky, as Mullally, and Chavez Ravine, as Johnson, turn in commendable performances. Kaminsky nails the insensitive brashness endemic to ambitious, indignant academics, but she is overshadowed by Ravine’s quivering fury and gorgeous singing. The play is worth attending for the music alone, which is good, because Higgins’ tendency to overwrite means it has little else to offer. BEN WATERHOUSE. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturdays-Sundays. Closes June 17. $36-$51.
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Dangerous Liaisons
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 features Adrienne Flagg and Scot Carson. The Venetian Theatre, 253 E Main St., Hillsboro, 3459590. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. $19-$25.
Death/Sex: Portland
Milepost 5’s resident theater company, Post5 Theatre, presents a collection of comic pieces. Milepost 5, 900 NE 81st Ave., 729-3223. 10:30 pm FridaysSaturdays through June 23. $10.
El Zorrito: The Legend of the Boy Zorro
Northwest Children’s Theatre presents a new musical by local composer Rodolfo Ortega and Milo Mowery. NW Neighborhood Cultural Center, 1819 NW Everett St., 222-4480. 7 pm Friday, 2 and 6 pm Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, May 25-27. $13-$22.
Fifth of July
Profile Theatre presents Lanford Wilson’s play about family dysfunction in the wake of the Vietnam War. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 242-0080. 7:30 pm WednesdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays. $15-$30.
Gracie
Triangle Productions premieres a musical by company honcho Don Horn about the life of Gracie Hansen. Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd., 239-5919. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, May 24-27. $15-$35.
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.
Hard Times
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.”
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
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.
It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues
Portland Center Stage closes out its season with a revue of the evolution of the blues. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm TuesdaysFridays, 2 and 7:30 Saturdays-Sundays. Closes June 24. $39-$69.
The Loman Family Picnic
In this Donald Margulies’ comedy, presented by Jewish Theatre Collaborative, the struggles and frustrations of middle-class 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.
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PERFORMANCE
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) tries to pretend that everything is going to be fine, and their overachieving teenage daughter is all but completely ignored. Mars delivers a stellar performance, portraying the utter frustration of struggling with a disease that can’t be seen. The Tony- and Pulitzer-winning musical questions the way mental illness is perceived and makes tangible the destruction it can have, both on the person suffering with it and the people who love her. PENELOPE BASS. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 2411278. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 pm Sundays. Closes June 3. $25-$50.
Oedipus El Rey
Oedipus means “swollen foot” in Greek, a moniker the ill-fated character receives after he is abandoned in the mountains with his ankles pinned together. In playwright Luis Alfaro’s gritty Chicano riff on the ancient tragedy, set in the ganglands of East Los Angeles, Oedipus’ father does not bind his son’s ankles but slashes the soles of his feet. These injuries give Oedipus a distinctive gait, a limp Nick Ortega converts into a gangster swagger in this muscular Miracle Theatre production, directed by Elizabeth Huffman. Ortega is brilliant as Oedipus, tightly wound but with a crackling temper. As Jocasta, the mother Oedipus never knew and then marries, Olga Sanchez matches Ortega’s commanding presence with mournful sensuality—their romance reviles as it seduces. Alfaro’s characters ache for certitude, searching for it in crime, in religion, in love. Though the pace slows as the play progresses, and the chorus, so powerful in the first act, largely disappears in the second, these yearnings for conviction resonate long after the production’s brutal close. REBECCA JACOBSON. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7:30 pm Thursday, 8 pm FridaysSaturday, May 24-26. $15-$29.
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. New York actress Jenn Gartner is a guest performer. Jan Powell, formerly of Tyger’s Heart, directs. Brooklyn Bay, 1825 SE Franklin St., 890-6944. 8 pm Fridays-Sundays. Closes June 3. $10-$15.
Spring Awakening
Following a group of kids growing up in a pious community, Spring Awakening explores the lust and confusion of the adolescents discovering their sexuality while being kept in the dark by their parents, teachers and clergy. Adapted from an 1892 German play—which was banned for its frank depiction of sex, homosexuality, abortion and abuse—it opened as a rock musical in 2006 and won eight Tony Awards. Juxtaposing the antiquated attitudes with upbeat, poprock melodies, the music brings the students’ inner turmoil to the forefront with songs like “The Bitch of Living,” “Totally Fucked” and the surprisingly heartfelt “My Junk,” all performed with a fresh sincerity. Presented on the sparsest of sets, the frenetic choreography depicts palpable tension as the cast stomps, slams down chairs and practically twitches and vibrates. Although the plot begins to snowball in the second act, the emotional theme pulls through in the spirited performances. PENELOPE BASS. World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St., 207-1742. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays through May 26. $20-$30.
OEDIPUS EL REY
COMEDY AND VARIETY Action Comics No. 3
Whitney Streed hosts Ian Karmel, Alex Falcone, Marcia Belsky and Jon Washington. Action/Adventure Theater, 1050 SE Clinton St. 8 pm ThursdaysSundays through June 23. $5.
Back Fence PDX
The storytelling/variety show ends the season with a star-studded lineup: L.A. Moth Story Slam champ Carlos Kotkin, advice columnist and memoirist Cheryl “Dear Sugar” Strayed, singer Laura Gibson, PDX Pipeline editor Nathalie Weinstein, “accidental salesman” Brian Tibbetts and the Long Winters singer John Roderick. (Where’s the album, John? We want the fucking album!) Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., backfencepdx.com. 7:15 pm Thursday, May 24. $12-$15.
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.
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.
Pipes
group of some of the city’s top classical musicians will perform music from the 18th to the 21st century, including works by Shostakovich, Brahms, Vivaldi and, one of the greatest living composers, Arvo Pärt. The project promises to update the tired recital formula by using technology (e.g., projections, sound reinforcement), unusual arrangements, focusing on the “good parts” (à la The Princess Bride) and leaving out the boring or background music that burdens so many classical concerts. He calls it “acoustic rock’n’roll”—not dumbed down, not rock for strings, but classical music with an audience-friendly, entertaining attitude. Who knows if it’ll work, but at least he’s trying something different, and with this level of talent involved, it’s certainly worth a try. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave. 8 pm Friday, May 25. $5-$15.
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
With help from OMSI, the orchestra performs that ever-popular cosmic classic, Gustav Holst’s colorful 1918 orchestral suite The Planets, accompanying a projected 3-D interstellar voyage. Linda Lorati Barker is the soloist in one of the 20th century’s most dazzling orchestral works, Maurice Ravel’s jazzy 1931 Piano Concerto in G, plus a surprise piece chosen by an audience vote. Skyview High School, 1300 NW 139th St., Vancouver, 360-735-7278. 3 pm Saturday, May 26 and 7 pm Sunday, May 27. $10-$48.
Musical improv comedy. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm FridaysSaturdays through June 9. $12-$15.
DANCE
U.S.S. Improvise The Next Generation
Brad! Janet! Rocky! Hooters! Imagine The Rocky Horror Picture Show with lotsa larfs and sex (as per the original) but lacking in major dialogue and you have The Rocky Horror Pastie Show; Grant Frey and Lovie Havok play Brad and Janet, Zora Phoenix is Frank-NFurter, Burk Biggler takes a turn as Dr. Scott and Miss Kennedy stars as Columbia. Burlesque performers such as the Infamous Nina Nightshade will be integrated into the plot somehow, and prizes will be awarded to the best RHPS-inspired audience-member costume. Clinton Street Theater , 2522 SE Clinton St., 238-8899. 8 pm Friday, May 25. $10-$12. 18+.
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.”
CLASSICAL Filmusik
The latest entry in the popular series devoted to matching new sounds with often obscure and/or cheesy silent films is—The Wizard of Oz?! Ah, but we’re not in Kansas or MGM or even 1939 anymore. Toto, Judy Garland, Ray Bolger and the rest are nowhere to be found in this earlier (1925), allegedly much lamer and farcical version with a very different plot: a kidnapped Dorothy who’s involved in a love triangle with Oliver Hardy (of Laurel and…), a trained duck and a brand-new score performed live by the unexpected stars of the 2010 Portland Jazz Festival, the acclaimed young Norwegian trio In the Country, whose music ranges from contemplative pianism to fusion textures enhanced by guitar, percussion and electronics. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 493-1128. 9:30 pm Thursday, May 24. $12.
The Orchestra
Portland Baroque Orchestra/45th Parallel violinist Adam LaMotte, a familiar figure on local stages, aims to “rewire classical music” with his new project, The Orchestra. He and a small
The Rocky Horror Pastie Show
TopShakeDance
It’s refreshing to report 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 including 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 ThursdaysSaturdays, May 17-26. $12-$25.
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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, peacock feathers, an octopus, roosters, cobras and roses. There is a sincerity in his approach, but the work would still seem more at home in a tattoo shop than an art gallery. Closes May 30. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900.
Jost Münster
Based in London, England, 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. He also has a gift for coining wry titles such as Drunken Angels Go Blind and its variant, Drunken Angels Go Blind Near Capri. 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 own art scene. This is reason enough to check out the gallery. Another reason is that they serve a mean Alsatian riesling on First Thursdays. Through June 6.RICHARD SPEER. Victory Gallery, 733 NW Everett St.
Perceptual Control
Perceptual Control, a group show curated by Modou Dieng, deftly fills Worksound’s challenging, Hydraheaded exhibition spaces with artwork by artist-in-residence Emily Nachison, 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 Renée 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. Her pieces, Herhoneyness and Whassup, are rhythmic rhapsodies in which earth tones and pastels sing in dynamic harmony, and winsome gestures add up to more than the sum of their parts. Through June 3.RICHARD SPEER. Nine Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 503-227-7114.
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. In the back gallery, Deborah Horrell uses glass and Plexiglas to create oversized wing forms in a palette of sumptuous sorbet tones. Through June 23. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521.
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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. It will be fascinating to see where Cramer takes his ever-shifting, polymorphously perverse vision this go-round. Through June 2. Laura Russo Gallery, 805 NW 21st Ave., 226-2754.
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PROFILE
LAURA ROSS-PAUL AT FROELICK GALLERY “Live in fragments no longer,” E.M. Forster urged in Howards End. “Only connect.” Today, 102 years after the novel was published, we increasingly connect by tweeting, streaming and texting people across the globe as we ignore the people across the dinner table. Laura Ross-Paul confronts our logged-on, checked-out zeitgeist with refreshing nuance in her series Connect. In paintings that marry expressionistic brush strokes with a palette by turns muted and jewel-toned, she depicts young people staring into laptops, iPads and cellphones, oblivious to the natural and human-made wonders that surround them. The teenagers in Light Up and Streaming couldn’t care less about fireworks and bonfires during a nighttime beach party; they’re too busy IM’ing their friends. Ditto for the girl in Night Lights, who ignores not only her family, but a night sky spectacular enough to rival van Gogh’s The Starry Night. It would be easy to stereotype Ross-Paul, a soulful baby boomer who religiously attends the hippie-flavored Oregon Country Fair, as a holdout for love-ins, encounter groups and the quickly vanishing phenomenon of primary experience. Basically, that’s the kind of connection you feel when you give somebody a bear hug, look them in the eye and converse with them so intimately you can smell their hair, their skin, their sweat. But Ross-Paul isn’t interested in playing the fogy who condescends younger generations’ communications tools. Instead, she paints the glow of iPhone screens with the same reverence and mystical sfumato with which Giotto and Raphael painted the nimbuses of angels and saints. In these works, she poses a strikingly open-ended question: What if the newfangled light of com-
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puter displays is every bit as transcendent as the honeyed light that once flickered atop candles and filtered through stained glass? Nowhere is the artist’s aesthetic neutrality and moral ambiguity on clearer display than in the show’s most haunting work, Open. In it, a group of tourists poses for a phone pic inside a European cathedral, impatient to upload their collective narcissism into the ether of social media. Behind them stands a lone figure, conspicuously bereft of portable electronic devices, content to “merely” soak up the beauty of Gothic arches and rosary windows. Ross-Paul bathes the figure so completely in the sunlight pouring into the church that its silhouette blanches out into a ghost-white blur, a specter lingering from a past when inhabiting an experience was more pressing than tweeting it. RICHARD SPEER. SEE IT: Laura Ross-Paul’s Connect is showing at Froelick Gallery, 714 NW Davis St., 222-1142, froelickgallery.com, through June 2.
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Because everyone has a story to share, community group Write Around Portland hosts writing workshops in schools, hospitals, homeless youth shelters, prisons and treatment facilities. The release of its 38th book, Roundabout, will also include a reading from some of its authors. First United Methodist Church, 1838 SW Jefferson St., 234-4077. 6:30 pm. Free, donations accepted.
Kristine Kinoko Evans
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Epic poems of ancient Mesopotamia can be a little hard to get into, so Portland illustrator Kristine Kinoko Evans created a comic book retelling of The Epic of Gilgamesh. In addition to signing copies of the book, the author will read and discuss her research into the history, art and culture of the ancient society. Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St., 241-0227. 6 pm. Free.
Verse in Person
For its monthly poetry readings with Oregon authors, the Multnomah County Library will present The Bear Deluxe magazine editor Casey Bush, co-founder of Cafe Lena and laborprotest poet Steve Sander, and bohemian contemplator David Matthews for Three Gentlemen of Leisure. Don’t forget your pipes and fineaged whiskey. Multnomah County Library—Northwest Branch, 2300 NW Thurman St., 988-5560. 7 pm. Free.
Peter Carey
What do you get when you combine a secret affair, death and a duck automaton? A new novel, The Chemistry of Tears, from two-time Man Booker Prize winner Peter Carey. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651. 7 pm. Free.
Carlos Kotkin
Comedy Central regular and master of the awkward (but funny because it didn’t happen to you) story, Carlos Kotkin now explores his bumbles through crushes, dating and sex in his book Please, God, Let it be Herpes. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
Justin Halpern
Sometimes something truly entertaining is said on Twitter, which turns it into an Internet sensation, then a book and then an unfortunate CBS sitcom starring William Shatner. At least, that’s how it happened for Justin Halpern, creator of Shit My Dad Says. In his new book, I Suck at Girls, Halpern explores his dating history before proposing to his girlfriend. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7 pm. Free.
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As a child growing up in revolutionary Iran, Aria Minu-Sepehr witnessed the clash between the modern and traditional sects of his country, before seeking asylum in America. He recounts his experiences in his new memoir, We Heard the Heavens Then. Daedalus Books, 2074 NW Flanders St., 274-7742. 7 pm. Free.
Back Fence PDX: Live Storytelling
Celebrating the art of the extemporaneous story (and its fourth anniversary), Back Fence PDX will host a cavalcade of writers, musicians and entertainers including John Roderick, Carlos Kotkin, Laura Gibson, Cheryl Strayed, Nathalie Weinstein and Brian Tibbetts, all
sharing stories based on the “At a Crossroads” theme. Kicking off the event will be a swimwear fashion show performed by local dance troupe the Dolly Pops—Sure, why not? Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 7:15 pm. $12-$15. 21+.
Satanic Summer: A Night of Bizarro and Alt-Lit Readings
Currently on tour for the release of his poetry collection Crunk Juice, Steve Roggenbuck will join authors Mykle Hansen (Help! A Bear is Eating Me), Bradley Sands (Sorry I Ruined Your Orgy), Cameron Pierce (Ass Goblins of Auschwitz) and Diana Salier (Letters From Robots) for readings from funny poetry, underground fiction and just plain weird shit. Red and Black Cafe, 400 SE 12th Ave., 231-3899. 7 pm. Free.
Mystery Short Stories: A Panel
Local literary group Friends of Mystery wraps up its Bloody Thursday series with a panel discussion on the resurgence of mystery short stories with Northwest authors Bill Cameron, Evan Lewis, Kristine Rusch, and Dean Wesley Smith. P.S. It was the butler. Terwilliger Plaza, 2545 SW Terwilliger Blvd. 7 pm. Free.
SATURDAY, MAY 26 Dan Thomas-Glass and Phoebe Wayne
Chapbooks are ideal for toting in your pocket or pretending you’re a giant. Spare Room will host a poetry reading with two chapbook authors—San Francisco-based Dan Thomas-Glass and local author and librarian Phoebe Wayne. It’ll be adorable. Mother Foucault’s Bookshop, 523 SE Morrison St., 236-2665. 7:30 pm. Free.
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REVIEW
MATT LOVE, SOMETIMES A GREAT MOVIE Sometimes a Great Movie: Paul Newman, Ken Kesey and the Filming of the Great Oregon Novel (Nestucca Spit Press, 158 pages, $30) is a failure. Harsh Not this time a words, but its author might great book. agree. Matt Love, a native of Oregon City, set out to authenticate what he calls “the greatest drinking story in Oregon history.” In 1970, while shooting the film version of the Ken Kesey logger novel Sometimes a Great Notion in Newport, Paul Newman allegedly ambled into a bar in nearby Toledo brandishing a chainsaw. He proceeded to cut the legs off the bar’s pool table, then turned around and walked straight back out the door, without uttering a word. Here’s the thing about great bar stories: They’re best left unverified. Attempting to parse truth from local lore was Love’s first mistake. No surprise, he comes up with nothing—only a dead-end email exchange and the soused remembrances of a few grizzled, old drunks. That put Love in an awkward position, writing about the adaptation of one of his literary idol’s most admired works into a film he doesn’t particularly care for. As the book’s title suggests, to Love, the movie is only intermittently great. That is probably overstating his opinion: He mostly just enjoys the logging shots. He might be selling the movie a bit short, though. It features very good performances from Newman, Michael Sarrazin and Henry Fonda, plus one of the most gripping protracted-drowning scenes in cinema. If the film fails to translate Kesey’s hallucinatory tone, that’s probably because, partway into filming, Newman replaced original director Richard Colla, who was fired essentially for being too visionary. Love couldn’t persuade Colla to speak with him, a regret he mentions repeatedly. With no confirmed celebrity billiard-table destruction, no bitter former director, and a dispassion for his own subject, Love struggles to fill even the book’s meager 158 pages. It’s padded with pictures, many of which are blurry photos of the cast standing around. A section in the middle is taken up by first-person accounts from extras, some conveying charming nostalgia but most boiling down to, “These Hollywood folks got on mightily well with the smalltown locals. And man, could Newman put away cans of Olympia.” In a footnote toward the end, Love claims the real reason he wrote this book was to persuade people to read the Kesey novel. So why didn’t he just write about the damn book? MATTHEW SINGER. GO: Matt Love will read from Sometimes a Great Movie on Friday, May 25, at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St. 7:30 pm. Free.
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MOVIES
Editor: MATTHEW SINGER. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, send screening information at least two weeks in advance to Screen, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: msinger@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.
The Avengers
A In helming The Avengers—the long-
awaited convergence of four Marvel Comics properties into one gargantuan nesting doll of a summer blockbuster—Joss Whedon is burdened with glorious purpose. Those are his words, not mine, and they’re actually spoken by Loki, the effete alien overlord presenting the avenging force with its first challenge. Still, what an apt and appropriately fustian description of the monumental task Whedon has taken on. 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. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Moreland, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
Battleship
C- Battleship is generic and forgettable, a glorified Navy recruitment video full of lobotomized patriotism and loud noises in lieu of narrative. But that’s all it is. It is not the unprecedented affront to the art of cinema it was pegged as being before anyone saw a single second. And for its first 45 minutes or so, the movie actually emits a kind of dimwitted charm. It helps that star Taylor Kitsch spent five years playing a charming dimwit on Friday Night Lights. Once aliens crashland off the shore of Oahu, though, and Kitsch’s dialogue turns to barking orders and coordinates, any hope of Battleship emerging as a movie with an actual heart and brain get blowed up real good. Indulging in refried Michael Bayisms, director Peter Berg swoops up, down, through and around an endless barrage of CGI explosions, the soundtrack alternating between AC/DC and what sounds like a nu-metal cover of the Emergency Broadcast System alarm. Somehow, Berg decided that what this cartoonish, effects-laden, blow-’em-up alien invasion picture really needed was a dose of authenticity. Along with Rihanna and frat pinup Brooklyn Decker, he casts a real, double-amputee Iraq war veteran in a small but substantial role. How does the movie honor this true American hero? By having him punch an alien’s teeth out. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Movies On TV, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy, St. Johns.
Bernie
B- Richard Linklater’s new movie contains all the “outrageous” elements obligatory to deadpan, smalltown 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 mainstreet gossips of Carthage, Texas, as a kind of Greek chorus. Their piquant observations—“she’d tear you a dou-
ble-wide, three-bedroom, two-bath asshole”—form the film’s backbone and highlight. 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 re-enactment, 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. PG-13. AARON MESH. Fox Tower.
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. Marigold Hotel’s only serious drawback, in fact, is its tendency to treat India as a place for white folks to find catharsis—a well-intentioned flaw it copies from a Wes Anderson movie. It’s The Darjeeling Aged. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall.
SENDING YOU FORGET-ME-NOWS: Will Smith, galaxy defender.
JUST THE TWOS AND US WILL SMITH SEQUELS MORE NECESSARY THAN MEN IN BLACK III. BY MATTHEW SIN GE R
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Bully
B In his much-discussed documentary on bullying in U.S. schools, Bully director Lee Hirsch doesn’t attempt to explain the brutal nature of adolescence. He merely films it. But if Bully understands anything, it’s the visceral power of human experience. In simply giving voice to the victims, the film generates enormous empathy. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters.
The Cabin in the Woods
A Cabin’s sharply satirical edge will engender comparisons to Scream, but that franchise celebrated the conventions it gleefully subverted, while this film demolishes tropes with a tinge of disdain. In its exhilarating, blood-smeared climax, the movie sends enough horror clichés flying at the screen to give fanboys an aneurysm, and it feels like one great, giant purge—the end of horror as we know it. R. MATTHEW SINGER. 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 constructed to blow away all others. As the NW Film Center’s monthlong retrospective shows, it just about has. Screening this week: Spirited Away (7 pm Thursday, May 24; 1:30 pm, Saturday May 26), the Miyazaki masterpiece that made history in 2001, becoming the first foreign film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature; co-founder Isao Takahata’s environmentalist fable Pom Poko (7 pm Friday, May 25; 2 pm Sunday, May 27); the fantastical coming-of-age tale Whisper of the Heart (4:30 pm Saturday, May 26; 7 pm Sunday, May 27), directed by Ghibli outsider Yoshifumi Kondo; and Miyazaki’s hallucinogenic classic Howl’s Moving Castle (7 pm Saturday,
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Something is terribly wrong with the world when we’re getting a third Men in Black movie and still don’t know what happened after Will Smith and Kevin Kline rode that giant mechanical spider into the sunset at the end of Wild Wild West. Nothing against the Barry Sonnenfeld sci-fi action-comedy franchise, but there are several other Big Willie properties for which sequels are long overdue. With MIB3 not screening before WW press deadlines (look for a review at wweek. com), we had time to consider a few. Thank us later, Hollywood. Hitch 2: The Hitchening How the original ended: Romance coach Hitch (Smith) learns he may be a playa, but in the chess game of love, every king needs a queen. The sequel: Alone, ravaged and decaying from unnamed diseases contracted during his days as a professional Lothario, Hitch lurks beneath the city of New York, feeding on unsuspecting speed daters who chance by open manholes. In truth, he’s trying to get the attention of Sara (Eva Mendes), now a pathologist racing against time to prevent herself— and all the women of New York—from succumbing to Hitch’s highly mutated viral strain. Kevin James appears briefly to be kicked in the balls. Ali 2: Thrilla in the Retirement Villa How the original ended: Ali beats George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle. Greatness is declared. The sequel: Wacky retirees Cassius (Smith) and Smokin’ Joe (Cedric the Entertainer) are still at it, hurling insults at each other day in and day out at the Shady Acres Retirement Villa in Orlando. But their fragile peace is broken when a sassy—and very available—new nurse (Diana Ross) appears at the front desk with a prescription for 22 cc’s of hilarity. Also starring Andy Serkis as all 14 of George Foreman’s sons.
Seven Pounds II: Rise of the Spineless Samaritan How the original ended: After donating his organs in atonement for a fatal car accident he caused years earlier, guilt-ridden Tim Thomas (Smith) commits suicide by taking a bath with his pet jellyfish. The sequel: Awakening in a morgue, Thomas is shocked to find himself still alive. Even more astonishing, he discovers his pet jellyfish is radioactive. Imbued with all the powers of an invertebrate, Thomas rechristens himself the Spineless Samaritan, and dedicates his new life to altruistic superheroism, stealing organs from the cruel and giving them to the kind. Having already given away his own eyes, heart, lungs and kidney, he is largely ineffective. 12 Degrees of Separation How the original ended: Smith’s Ivy League con man, who charms his way into high society claiming to be Sidney Poitier’s son, is arrested, his true identity and ultimate fate unknown. The sequel: A high-class Hollywood actor named Will Smith (Smith) is relaxing in his city-blocksized trailer when someone knocks at the door. He is greeted by an elderly man (Sidney Poitier) claiming to be…Will Smith?! The two slowly form a bond, but both Smiths are forced to ponder their own mortality when another visitor appears at the trailer, this time a prepubescent boy (Jaden Smith) claiming to be…Will Smith?! Darren Aronofsky’s The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air How the show ended: The Banks family moves out of their Bel-Air mansion and heads for the East Coast. The movie: With Uncle Phil succumbing to a fifth heart attack, Carlton back on speed pills, and the two Aunt Vivs dissolving into each other à la the twin Ron Silvers in Timecop, the young prince is finally free to ascend his throne…but at what cost? In this contemplative look at the alienation of royalty, the corrosive nature of power and the folly of Cross Colours, Will is left pondering, “Just how did my life get so flipped turned upside down?” SEE IT: Men in Black III opens Friday at Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, CineMagic, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Roseway, Sandy. Willamette Week MAY 23, 2012 wweek.com
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painterly translation, but this is an actors’ film. Rachel Weisz burns radiantly even while playing a woman whose light is slowly being snuffed. And Tom Hiddleston is tremendously amusing as her dashingly dim lover. His finest moment comes in the middle of an argument at a museum over his lack of culture, ending with him stomping off in a huff. “I’m going to see the Impressionists!” he shouts. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters.
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The life and times of a presumably adorable 3-year-old chimp, narrated by fellow simian Tim Allen. Not screened for critics. G. Clackamas, Forest Theatre.
Chinese Takeaway
A curmudgeonly shop owner in Buenos Aires begrudgingly helps a Chinese immigrant find his lost uncle. Will cockles be warmed? Look for a review at wweek.com to find out. Living Room Theaters.
Cheney wants you to add light pollution to an ever-growing list of things to be concerned about. The City Dark might inspire a trip to the planetarium, but it inspires little else. The central danger seems to be that we are losing touch with our own piddling insignificance, something that can only be avoided by frequent encounters with the heavens. Also, we are apparently losing the ability to detect killer asteroids. But that’s secondary. Cheney also links the deaths of baby turtles, swallows and breast cancer patients to light pollution by tenuously supported hypotheses. Peppered with statements like “Americans are not known for their knowledge,” made by professionals who probably believe in the existence of UFOs, the film lacks credibility. Cheney’s argument, instead, rests on his morose narration, somber soundtrack and alarmist hyperbole. The film does include creative graphics, as well as fantastic nighttime shots, which may or may not inspire a spiritual awakening, but these can’t compensate for the lack of content. At the end of the day, the director’s job is to document something people already care about, or make people care about what is being documented. Cheney does neither of these. KIMBERLY HURSH. Clinton Street Theater.
The Deep Blue Sea
B Adapting Terence Rattigan’s
1952 play, Terence Davies gives the postwar British drama a gauzy,
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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 mall-goth 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, 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lake Twin, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Movies On TV, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
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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
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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 provo-
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May 26; 4:30 pm Sunday, May 27). MATTHEW SINGER. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. Check nwfilm.org for a complete schedule.
MIGHT AS WELL JETÉ: Joan Zamora in First Position.
FIRST POSITION Moppets in motion.
According to one expert in First Position, the keys to making it in the cutthroat world of ballet are “body, training, passion, personality.” Freshman director Bess Kargman manages to find six dancers who possess all four—and none are old enough to vote. Like Joan, 16, who left his family in Colombia to put his talent to better use in America, and Aran, an 11-year-old prodigy who wears camouflage shorts and shoots BB guns when not flawlessly pirouetting while dressed like a magician. Most intriguing is Michaela, 14. Adopted from Sierra Leone by a Philadelphia couple after the murder of her biological parents, she saw her first ballerina on the cover of a magazine while in an orphanage and determined her future right then, even though “black girls can’t dance ballet.” As she chronicles the dancers’ preparation for the prestigious Youth America Grand Prix in New York, Kargman maintains an inspirational tone, even when delving into the harsher side of ballet life. A montage of injuries, compiling close-ups of mangled feet and young dancers splayed out across practice room floors, resembles one of those commercials advocating for abused animals. But the intent is to emphasize how hard these kids work, not question the ethics of putting children through such rigorous physical strain. Questioning isn’t Kargman’s objective at any point in First Position. It’s merely to show the fruits of youthful ambition. That’s fine enough to make a compelling documentary, especially when the payoff is a series of dazzling performances. Still, our eyebrows are raised and never really come down. Is it natural for preteens to be so driven? Whose dream is this, really? It’s hard not to feel at least a tiny bit creeped out by some of the instructors, forcibly contorting lithe, barely pubescent bodies into unnatural positions. (It doesn’t help that Aran’s teacher is a cigarette-puffing Italian who looks like Lou Reed on a bender.) An issue the film does address, in some small measure, is whether the intense dedication to forging a career is robbing these kids of a normal adolescence. “I think I’ve had the right amount of ballet and childhood,” contends Miko, 12. But like all of Kargman’s subjects, she displays a striking maturity that’s at once endearing and disconcerting. “She becomes an adult when she dances,” says one mother of her child. She, and Kargman, regard this as a good thing. I’m not so sure. MATTHEW SINGER. B
SEE IT: First Position opens Friday at Cinema 21.
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cateur 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, Lloyd Mall, Tigard, Evergreen Parkway, Wilsonville, Cornelius, Division, Movies On TV, Oak Grove, City Center, Eastport, Sandy, Pioneer Place, Cedar Hills, Clackamas.
Filmusik Organ Grinders: Wizard of Oz
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] No, not that Wizard of Oz, but the original film adaptation from 1925—which presumably retains the racist spirit of author L. Frank Baum’s book more than the MGM version. Norwegian jazz group In the Country provides the live soundtrack. Hollywood Theatre. 9:30 pm Thursday, May 24.
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. Somewhere, there’s a wall in desperate need of a scrub-down because of all the shit Segel and Stoller tossed against it. A few things stick, but mostly, the non-sequiturs and loose improvisation just makes every scene go longer than it needs to. Even Stoller, who directs, can’t keep up with everything, losing track of characters and narrative threads and the various injuries suffered by the cast. This is a movie where Emily Blunt gets shot in the thigh with a crossbow and the incident is never brought up again. On the plus side: Every scene involving Segel sporting mutton chops? Pure gold. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Fox Tower.
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 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-theedge 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.
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 rain-slicked 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 life-
THE CITY DARK less body in his garage, and the film turns, on a dime, into a bloodstained, shit-caked, bruised-black 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. Hollywood Theatre, Living Room Theaters.
Hit So Hard
C- Director P. David Ebersole
deserves some credit for his respect for the human mind’s ability to absorb a lot of information, because for his first feature documentary, the young filmmaker packs a lot into Hit So Hard’s 100-plus minute running time. The unanticipated result of that, though, is a mental exhaustion that overwhelms the viewer at about the halfway point. Granted, Ebersole had a lot to work with. The core of the footage came from hours of video recorded by Hole drummer Patty Schemel during that band’s most successful and most turbulent period (the release of Live Through This, the deaths of the group’s bassist Kristen Pfaff and Courtney Love’s husband, Kurt Cobain). The film’s focus is supposedly on Schemel and her struggles with drugs and fame, but through recent interviews with the other members of Hole, and Patty’s family and friends, so much ends up getting piled on: the history of and issues within the band; being a lesbian musician; the weirdness of the “Alternative Nation” days of the mid-’90s; and more. A more clearheaded filmmaker could have teased out at least five docs from all this material. What we get instead is a fascinating but unwieldy mess. ROBERT HAM. Hollywood Theatre.
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. PG-13. KELLY CLARKE. Indoor Twin, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Forest Theatre, Oak Grove, Division, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Wilsonville.
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
B+ Like the sushi master himself,
the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi moves a bit ponderously and occasionally repetitively. But as Jiro would be the first to tell you, patience and perseverance will pay off in the end. PG. RUTH BROWN. Lake Twin, Living Room Theaters.
The Lucky One
C- 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 warstrewn rubble. Tiny moments of natural humor and sweetness bloom amid the rote drama before a truly asinine ending—involving a storm, a rickety tree house and Iraq friendly fire—wraps everything up with the biggest, dumbest bow imaginable. PG-13. KELLY CLARKE. Oak Grove, Movies On TV.
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+ 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. PG. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Oak Grove, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV.
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
D The problems of three little people add up to a pile of dead salmon. PG-13. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters.
Saving Private Ryan
[THREE NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] Really? You need a description of this movie? What are you, a Communist? R. Hollywood Theatre. 2:45 pm Saturday-Sunday, May 26-27; 7 pm Monday, May 28.
Sometimes a Great Notion
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] A 35 mm screening of Paul Newman’s 1970 adaptation of Ken Kesey’s great Oregon novel about a defiant family of loggers, filmed along the Oregon Coast. Hosted by Matt Love, author of Sometimes a Great Movie: Paul Newman, Ken Kesey
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Sprung! A Bike Smut Retrospective: Poly-Nomadic
[WEEKLY SERIES] This week in bike fucking: a look at the pros and cons of polyamory. On bikes! Featuring a screening of the 1982 sci-fi porno Cafe Flesh. Clinton Street Theater. 9 pm Tuesday, May 29.
Sound & Vision Presents Charismatic Megafauna
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Avant-garde Portland documentarian Vanessa Renwick screens her latest mesmerizing work, juxtaposing footage of biologists reintroducing wolves into the wild with her own 16 mm home movies of growing up in Chicago with a pet wolf-dog. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Sunday, May 27.
serving as a prop to show (in countless other films) that a reluctant dad-to-be is accepting his fate. But director Kirk Jones adds little to the conversation, focusing only on the foibles of four somewhat ridiculous couples at various stages of fecundity. Meanwhile, a far funnier subplot–a Fight Club-esque group of dads who meet in the park–doesn’t get nearly enough screen time. They don’t dispense much wisdom on gestation either, but the chemistry between Thomas Lennon, Chris Rock and Rob Huebel is far stronger than what you’ll find between any
of the expectant couples. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Lloyd Mall, Tigard, Evergreen Parkway, Wilsonville, Cornelius, Division, Movies On TV, Oak Grove, City Center, Eastport, Sandy, Cedar Hills, Mill Plain, Clackamas.
Yeti Bootleg presents DRONE: Minimalism & Meditation
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Trip a variety of balls via archival footage courtesy of programmer Mike McGonigal. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Monday. May 28.
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[THREE NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] Abbas Kiarostami’s powerfully minimalist portrayal of the everyday lives of women in Tehran. Fifth Avenue Cinema. 7 pm and 9:30 pm FridaySaturday, May 25-26; 3 pm Sunday, May 27.
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Think Like a Man
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. 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. Division, Lloyd Mall.
Trannysnatchers!
B [ONE NIGHT ONLY] If John
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Waters made a Satanic horror flick, he’d still have to drop some serious acid to come up with Trannysnatchers. Cheekily dubbed “an occult classic,” the locally produced horror-comedy centers on a gang of transgendered hitmen (er, hit-people?) attempting to summon a hermaphroditic being that, when conjured to Earth, will allegedly bring about “the end of gender.” Let’s just say the “sex change via hacksaw” scene might be only the second-nuttiest thing in the picture. It’s crazed, but also deeply angry—at homophobia, the so-called “gender binary,” even the conservatism within gay culture itself—and releases its frustrations via plasma-drenched satire. Beneath all that lysergic madness and serrated social commentary, however, beats an empathetic heart. Set primarily on an old dairy farm in Beavercreek, Trannysnatchers took shape literally as it was being shot. That feeling of raw discovery—along with the sense of exuberant, do-ityourself amateurism—gives the film a distinct, punk-style energy that fuels it along, even when the plot gets a bit muddy. MATTHEW SINGER. Clinton Street Theater. 11:30 pm Friday, May 25.
What to Expect When You’re Expecting
C - Adapting a self-help book into a romantic comedy is often a wasted opportunity. This year’s Think Like a Man perhaps did it better than the rest by using its actual source material to frame the plot. Similarly, What to Expect When You’re Expecting is already its own punchline, often
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FACE WRAP: From Plympton’s “Your Face.”
IT’S BILL PLYMPTON DAY! Even in a town known for incubating distinctive animation talents, Portland-born Bill Plympton is special. Not only is he one of the most iconic animators currently working—his work is recognizable from the first penciled squiggle—he is probably the most fiercely independent filmmaker alive. Oh sure, he does the occasional odd job to pay the bills: Madonna music videos, for example, and anarchic early MTV commercials. But then, so did John Cassavetes. In his personal work, including six animated features and multitudes of shorts, Plympton’s grotesque, beautiful, joyously tasteless and puerile vision runs completely unchecked. And he still draws every single frame himself. In pencil. What this means is that Plympton is not beholden even to the world. He creates his own, populated by blank-faced functionaries and bloated dogs with nonfunctional bodies, craggy-browed misanthropes and women cantilevered by impossible curves. The essence of his films’ humor is contained in the grotesquery of the drawings themselves: the football hero’s giant square body; the visible dental work of a screaming man; the various medically impossible indignities to which Plympton subjects the human form. Like much of the best humor, Plympton’s broad and expressive caricatures of humanity embody an almost moral vision. Characters’ flaws and virtues are embodied in their very physical forms. But more than this, humanity is rendered both vulnerable and indestructible, profane and stoic. In Plympton’s classic short “Your Face,” a gin-blossomed W.C. Fields of a man has his face erased, imploded, grown from its eyes, reduced to molecules and twisted like a wet dishrag. His face is violated by his own face, from the side. Its features are made to turn on his skull as if on a conveyor belt. And yet he reconstitutes just as quickly as he is destroyed. In much of Plympton’s animation, especially in his shorts and in the sublime, dialogue-free and categorically misanthropic feature Idiots and Angels, the body is a modular thing, constantly invaded from without and betrayed from within. Its dignity is in withstanding these rude shocks; the comedy is that it can. Anyway, they’re giving Bill Plympton a day here in Portland. It’s May 26. If you can’t make it down to see the Adventures in Plymptoons! documentary making the rounds at McMenamins movie theaters, I advise you to get very drunk and celebrate the holiday on YouTube. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Celebrating Portland’s master of grotesque.
SEE IT: Bill Plympton Day! is Saturday, May 26. Adventures in Plymptoons! screens at the Bagdad Theater at 3 and 7 pm, preceded by a community event outside the theater at 2 pm.
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NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium
PUT DOWN THE CELLPHONE, SQUID BRAIN: “If you want the ultimate, you have to pay the ultimate price.” It’s one of the many pearls of wisdom Patrick Swayze’s Zen-surfing/bankrobbing/skydiving/beach-footballing villain Bodhi spouts over the course of Point Break, and it’s apt for Hecklevision. The ultimate is a rare big-screen showing of Kathryn Bigelow’s true masterpiece. The price you pay is dealing with a sea of people texting wiseass remarks to the screen, their cellphones acting as a horde of blinding fireflies so distracting, you probably won’t notice that, yes, Keanu Reeves just drop-kicked a pit bull. What’s to heckle here, anyway? This should be shown nightly, in a dark theater to maximize the rush of watching the Swayz and Johnny Utah blow a bunch of shit up while almost kissing at every turn. AP KRYZA. Showing at: Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Friday, May 25. Best paired with: Miller High Life. Also showing: 12 Angry Men (Laurelhurst).
CineMagic Theatre
2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-231-7919 MEN IN BLACK 3 Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:30, 07:45, 09:55
807 Lloyd Center 10 and IMAX
1510 NE Multnomah Blvd., 800-326-3264 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:15, 03:35, 07:05, 10:25 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 11:45, 03:05, 06:35, 09:55 THE DICTATOR Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 12:50, 02:30, 03:00, 04:50, 05:20, 07:50, 09:35, 10:10 DARK SHADOWS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:30, 03:15, 06:55, 09:40 BATTLESHIP Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 12:35, 03:25, 03:55, 06:45, 07:25, 09:50, 10:30 MEN IN BLACK 3 Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:05, 02:40, 03:45, 05:15, 08:00, 09:20, 10:40 MEN IN BLACK 3 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 01:00, 06:30 MEN IN BLACK 3: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:30, 02:05, 04:40, 07:20, 10:00
Regal Lloyd Mall 8 Cinema
2320 Lloyd Center Mall, 800-326-3264 THE CABIN IN THE WOODS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 06:35 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS 3D Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 03:10 THE HUNGER GAMES FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:55, 03:05, 06:05, 09:15 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:05, 06:15, 09:20 WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:15, 03:15, 06:20, 08:55 THINK LIKE A MAN Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 03:25, 09:05 MEN IN BLACK 3 Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:30, 03:00, 06:30, 09:30 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 03:30 THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:10, 03:20, 06:10, 09:10
CHERNOBYL DIARIES FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:25, 03:35, 06:25, 09:25 MEN IN BLACK 3 3D FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 06:00, 09:00
Bagdad Theater and Pub 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-249-7474 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX Fri-Sat-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:00 21 JUMP STREET Fri-Sat-Mon-Tue-Wed 08:15 ADVENTURES IN PLYMPTOONS! Sat 03:00, 07:00
Cinema 21
616 NW 21st Ave., 503-223-4515 FIRST POSITION Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:45, 07:00, 08:55
Clinton Street Theater
2522 SE Clinton St., 503-238-8899 THE CITY DARK FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:00, 07:00, 09:00 TRANNYSNATCHERS! Fri 11:30 SPRUNG! POLYNOMADIC Tue 09:00
Laurelhurst Theatre
2735 E Burnside St., 503-232-5511 THE ARTIST Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 06:50 JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:00 12 ANGRY MEN Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:00 FRIENDS WITH KIDS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:15 21 JUMP STREET Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 07:15, 09:40 JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:30 SAFE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 09:25 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX Sat-Sun-Mon 01:45
Kennedy School Theater
5736 NE 33rd Ave., 503-249-7474 21 JUMP STREET Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:30, 07:35 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 05:30 THE RAVEN Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 09:55 MIRROR MIRROR Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon 03:00
Fifth Avenue Cinemas
510 SW Hall St., 503-7253551 TEN Fri-Sat-Sun 03:00 NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY Mon-Tue-Wed
Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-281-4215 HIT SO HARD Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:15 HEADHUNTERS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 07:10, 09:20 GOD BLESS AMERICA FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:40 HECKLEVISION: POINT BREAK Fri 07:30 SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION Sat 07:00 SAVING PRIVATE RYAN Sat-Sun-Mon 07:00 SOUND & VISION PRESENTS CHARISMATIC MEGAFAUNA Sun 07:30 MAD MEN Sun 10:00 YETI BOOTLEGS PRESENTS DRONE: MINIMALISM AND MEDITATION Mon 07:30 SQUIRM Tue 07:30
Regal Fox Tower Stadium 10
846 SW Park Ave., 800-326-3264 THE HUNGER GAMES Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:05, 03:00, 06:55, 09:45 THE CABIN IN THE WOODS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 04:45, 07:30, 09:50 THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:35, 04:30, 07:20, 09:55
1219 SW Park Ave., 503-221-1156 POM POKO Fri 07:00 SPIRITED AWAY Sat 01:30 WHISPER OF THE HEART Sat-Sun 07:00 HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE SatSun 04:30 NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY Mon-TueWed LAST CHANTS FOR A SLOW DANCE PARABLE
Pioneer Place Stadium 6
340 SW Morrison St., 800-326-3264 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:10, 10:40 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS 3D FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:00, 04:25, 07:35 THE DICTATOR Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:40, 03:45, 07:05, 09:50 DARK SHADOWS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:50, 04:10, 07:10, 10:05 BATTLESHIP Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:20, 04:20, 07:20, 10:15 MEN IN BLACK 3 Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:30, 04:05, 07:00, 10:00 MEN IN BLACK 3 3D Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:30, 07:30, 10:30 SNOW WHITE & THE HUNTSMAN Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed
Academy Theater
7818 SE Stark St., 503-252-0500 MIRROR MIRROR FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:30 21 JUMP STREET Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:45, 09:10 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 05:45 JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:45, 09:35 THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:30 THE ARTIST Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:35 THE RAID: REDEMPTION Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:45 MAD MEN Sun 09:00
Living Room Theaters
341 SW 10th Ave., 971-222-2010 CHINESE TAKE-AWAY FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:50, 02:20, 04:30, 06:50, 09:10 HEADHUNTERS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 02:50, 05:10, 07:45, 09:50 BULLY Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:10, 02:30, 07:05, 09:30 SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:40, 02:10, 04:50, 07:20, 09:40 THE PERFECT FAMILY Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:20, 05:00, 09:55 THE DEEP BLUE SEA Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:30, 05:30, 07:35, 09:45 JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 03:00 PINA 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:40, 04:40 SUBJECT TO CHANGE. CALL THEATERS OR VISIT WWEEK.COM/MOVIETIMES FOR THE MOST UP-TODATE INFORMATION FRIDAY-THURSDAY, MAY 25-31, UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED
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COUNSELING
MUSICIANS MARKET FOR FREE ADS in 'Musicians Wanted,' 'Musicians Available' & 'Instruments for Sale' go to portland.backpage.com and submit ads online. Ads taken over the phone in these categories cost $5.
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INSTRUMENTS FOR SALE TRADE UP MUSIC - Buying, selling, instruments of every shape and size. Call 503-236-8800. Open 11am-7pm every day. 4701 SE Division & 1834 NE Alberta. www. tradeupmusic.com
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ACTIVISM Organize The 99% Working America / AFL-CIO is hiring field staff to organize for a just economy & the 99%! Working America is an Equal Opportunity Employer Committed to Diversity. Women, LGBT & People of Color Encouraged to Apply. $11.44/Hr + Bens Apply Today: 503.224.1004
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Indian Music Classes with Josh Feinberg
Specializing in sitar, but serving all instruments and levels! 917-776-2801 www.joshfeinbergmusic.com Learn Jazz & Blues Piano with local Grammy winner Peter Boe. 503-274-8727. Passion for music? GUITAR/ VOICE/ BASS/ KEYBOARD/ THEORY/ SONGWRITING. Beginning and continuing students with performing recording artist, Jill Khovy. 503-833-0469.
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LESSONS CLASSICAL PIANO/KEYBOARD $15/Hour Theory Performance. All levels. Portland 503-735-5953 and 503-989-5925.
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ADOPTION A loving professional woman with wonderful extended family seeks to adopt a newborn. In return I offer a lifetime of love, security, joy and promise! Expenses paid. Please call; Deborah @ 1-877-236-7806
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ANNOUNCEMENTS Candidate Nominating Convention for Fall Elections 2012: Pacific Green Party
June 2 & 3, 2012 10am-4pm Willamette University, Salem Eaton Hall, Room 308. Directions & details: pacificgreens.org All registered Pacific Greens and other progressive Oregon citizens are invited to attend. Register Green Online!
Kaiser Permanente, OHSU & Sacred Heart Perform Controversial “Electro-Convulsive Therapy.”
Billion dollar industry. Risk extensive permanent long-term memory loss and cognitive difficulties, then to children as young as twelve. Inform yourself. Citizens commission on Human Rights. Book by Linda Andre called Doctors of Deception QUALITY CRAFT SHOW Yachats On the Coast Inside Yachats Commons This Sat-Sun. 10AM 70 Booths Arts, Food, Demos, Fun FREE ADMISSION 541-547-4664 Expect the Exceptional!
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Pacifica Warehouse Is Closing! This Friday, May 25th From 11am-4pm is the LAST OPENING BEFORE THE BLOW OUT SALE.. Sadly, our store is closing at the end of this month, Hurry over this Friday and get 20% off your order Cash, Check or Credit Cards. Blowout Dates: June 1st & 2nd Check it out at our warehouse: 3135 NW Industrial St. Portland 97210
WEST COAST PIANO MOVING & STORAGE invites you to our 2nd ANNUAL PIANO DOCK AUCTION! DATE: MAY 31st TIME: VIEWING AT 9:00 AM AUCTION STARTS AT 10:00 AM LOCATION: 310 SE 6th Ave Portland, Or 97214 (delivery NOT included) bidding starts at $50.00! For questions contact: jason@wcpianomoving.com Or call Monday - Friday 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM 503-234-2226
MISCELLANEOUS 4th COMMANDMENT
Six days you shall labor, and do all of your work; But the seventh Day is the Sabboth of the Lord your God: in it you shall NOT do any work - Not you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your maidservant [wife], nor your manservant, neither your ox nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle; NOT even the stranger that is within your gates [borders], that they shall REST as well as you. Therefore, KEEP THE SABBOTH DAY to sanctify it, as the Lord has Commanded you! (Deuteronomy 5: 13-14, 12) chapel@gorge.net Like TWILIGHT? Then you’ll LOVE www.HorrorMoviesForGirls.com
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The Trust Deed to be foreclosed pursuant to Oregon law is referred to as follows (the “Trust Deed”): Grantor: Guy C. Schoen and Lalah J. Schoen, as tenants by the entirety Trustee: Fidelity National Title Insurance Company Beneficiary: Oregon Community Credit Union PO Box 77002, Springfield, OR 97475 Date: August 27, 2007 Recording Date: August 30, 2007 Recording Reference: Reel 2860, Page 126 County of Recording: Marion County The Successor Trustee is Thomas M. Orr and the mailing address of the Successor Trustee is: Thomas M. Orr, Successor Trustee, Hutchinson, Cox, Coons, Orr & Sherlock, P.C., PO Box 10886, Eugene, OR 97440. The Trust Deed covers the following described real property in the County of Marion and State of Oregon, (“the Property”): Lot 22, Dillon Estates, in the City of Salem, Marion County, Oregon. Commonly known as: 5363 Kali Street SE, Salem, OR 97306 Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured by said trust deed and a notice of default has been recorded pursuant to Oregon Revised Statutes 86.735 (3). The default for which foreclosure is made is: $9,723.42. The Grantor’s failure to pay when due the following sums: Monthly installments of $1,620.57 beginning September 1, 2011 through the installment due February 1, 2012, plus late charges of $324.12 and interest through and including February 6, 2012 in the amount of $6,579.40. The sum owing on the obligation that the Trust Deed secures (the “Obligation”) is: $272,342.85, together with Trustee’s fees, attorney’s fees, foreclosure costs and any sums advanced by the Beneficiary pursuant to the Trust Deed. By reason of the default, the Beneficiary and the Trustee elect to sell the Property to satisfy the Obligation and to foreclose the Trust Deed by advertisement and sale pursuant to ORS 86.705 to 86.795. At public auction, the Trustee shall sell to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the Property which the Grantor had, or had the power to convey, at the time of the execution by Grantor of the Trust Deed, together with any interest Grantor or Grantor’s successors in interest acquired after the execution of the Trust Deed, to satisfy the Obligation. The date, time and place of the sale is: Date: August 1, 2012 Time: 11:00 o’clock a.m. Place: Marion County Courthouse, 100 High Street Northeast, Salem, OR 97301 NOTICE TO TENANTS If you are a tenant of this property, foreclosure could affect your rental agreement. A purchaser who buys this property at a foreclosure sale has the right to require you to move out after giving you notice of the requirement. If you do not have a fixed-term lease, the purchaser may require you to move out after giving you a 30-day notice on or after the date of the sale. If you have a fixed-term lease, you may be entitled to receive after the date of the sale a 60-day notice of the purchaser’s requirement that you move out. To be entitled to either a 30-day or 60-day notice, you must give the Trustee of the property written evidence of your rental agreement at least 30 days before the date first set for the sale. If you have a fixedterm lease, you must give the Trustee a copy of the rental agreement. If you do not have a fixed term lease and cannot provide a copy of the rental agreement, you may give the Trustee other written evidence of the existence of the rental agreement. The date that is 30 days before the date of the sale is July 2, 2012. The name of the Trustee and the Trustee’s mailing address are listed on this notice. Federal law may grant you additional rights, including a right to a longer notice period. Consult a lawyer for more information about your rights under
503-445-2757 • tbetts@wweek.com federal law. You have the right to apply your security deposit and any rent you prepaid toward your current obligation under your rental agreement. If you want to do so, you must notify your landlord in writing and in advance that you intend to do so. If you believe you need legal assistance with this matter, you may contact the Oregon State Bar and ask for the lawyer referral service. Contact information for the Oregon State Bar is included with this notice. If you have a low income and meet federal poverty guidelines, you may be eligible for free legal assistance. Contact information for where you can obtain free legal assistance is included in the next paragraph. There are government agencies and nonprofit organizations that can give you information about foreclosure and help you decide what to do. For the name and phone number of an organization near you, please call the statewide phone contact number at 1-800-SAFENET (1-800-723-3638). You may also wish to talk to a lawyer. If you need help finding a lawyer, you may call the Oregon State Bar’s Lawyer Referral Service at (503) 684-3763 or tollfree in Oregon at (800) 452-7636 or you may visit its Website at: http://www.osbar.org. Legal assistance may be available if you have a low income and meet federal poverty guidelines. For more information and a directory of legal aid programs that provide legal help to individuals at no charge, go to http://www.oregonlawhelp.org and http://www.osbar.org/public/ris/lowcostlegalhelp/legalaid.html RIGHT TO CURE The right exists under ORS 86.753 to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the Trust Deed reinstated by doing all of the following at any time that is not later than five days before the date last set for the sale: (1) Paying to the Beneficiary the entire amount then due (other than such portion as would not then be due, had no default occurred); (2) Curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the Trust Deed; and (3) Paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the Obligation and Trust Deed, together with Trustee’s and attorney’s fees not exceeding the amounts provided by ORS 86.753. In construing this notice, the singular includes the plural, the word “Grantor” includes any successor in interest to the Grantor as well as any other person owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by the Trust Deed, and the words “Trustee” and “Beneficiary” include their respective successors in interest, if any. We are a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information we obtain will be used to collect the debt. Cashier’s checks for the foreclosure sale must be payable to Oregon Community Credit Union. Dated: May 14, 2012. /s/ Thomas M. Orr Thomas M. Orr, Successor Trustee Hutchinson, Cox, Coons, Orr & Sherlock, P.C. Attorneys at Law PO Box 10886 Eugene, OR 97440 Phone: (541) 686-9160 Fax: (541) 343-8693 Date of First Publication: 05/23/2012 Date of Last Publication: 06/13/2012
LOST & FOUND Ipad found in February 2012 on United Airline flight arriving in PDX from San Francisco. If making a claim be prepared to provide details about the device and/or flight info. Claims must be received before May 30th 2012. Respond to: rncare2469@gmail.com
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4 Michael’s “Batman” successor 5 Jazz legend Fitzgerald 6 Downhill event 7 Postal creed word 8 River through Russia 9 Attack the attacker 10 Maid of honor at William and Kate’s 2011 wedding 11 Words said while raising glasses 12 It’s dissolved into a solvent 13 Ultimatum ending 18 Khloe’s sister 23 It’s just him or her on stage 25 “Dancing With the Stars” judge Carrie Ann ___ 27 “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” regular Colin 30 Paul Anka hit subtitled “That Kiss!” 32 Go bad 36 Sky-blue 38 With really long odds 39 Toothpaste variety 40 Smooth player 41 Aptly-named precursor to Wikipedia 44 Jargon with lots of bold claims 45 Andean animal 46 Plus in the dating world 47 “The Sweet Hereafter” director Atom ___ 49 Gary who played Lieutenant Dan 52 Egg-shaped 54 Quebec rejection 57 Singer formerly of the group Clannad 59 Make tire marks 63 Tierra ___ Fuego 64 What some golfers use as a scoring goal
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “My soul is a fire that suffers if it doesn’t burn,” said Jean Prevost, a writer and hero of the French Resistance during World War II. “I need three or four cubic feet of new ideas every day, as a steamboat needs coal.” Your soul may not be quite as blazing as his, Aries, and you may normally be able to get along fine with just a few cubic inches of new ideas per day. But I expect that in the next three to four weeks, you will both need and yearn to generate Prevost-type levels of heat and light. Please make sure you’re getting a steady supply of the necessary fuel. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Here’s a great question to pose on a regular basis during the next three weeks: “What’s the best use of my time right now?” Whenever you ask, be sure to answer with an open mind. Don’t assume that the correct response is always, “working with white-hot intensity on churning out the masterpiece that will fulfill my dreams and cement my legacy.” On some occasions, the best use of your time may be doing the laundry or sitting quietly and doing nothing more than watching the world go by. Here’s a reminder from philosopher Jonathan Zap: “Meaning and purpose are not merely to be found in the glamorous, dramatic moments of life.” GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Sometimes I think and other times I am,” said French poet Paul Valery. Most of us could say the same thing. From what I can tell, Gemini, you are now entering an intensely “I am” phase of your long-term cycle -- a time when it will be more important for you to exclaim “woohoo!” than to mutter “hmmm;” a time to tune in extra strong to the nonverbal wisdom of your body and to the sudden flashes of your intuition; a time when you’ll generate more good fortune by getting gleefully lost in the curious mystery of the moment than by sitting back and trying to figure out what it all means. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’t pretend you can’t see the darkness. Admit to its presence. Accept its reality. And then, dear Cancerian, walk nonchalantly away from it, refusing to fight it or be afraid of it. In other words, face up to the difficulty without becoming all tangled up in it. Gaze into the abyss so as to educate yourself about its nature, but don’t get stuck there or become entranced by its supposedly hypnotic power. I think you’ll be amazed at how much safety and security you can generate for yourself simply by being an objective, poised observer free of melodramatic reactions. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It’s OK with me if you want to keep the lion as your symbolic animal, Leo. But I’d like to tell you why I’m proposing that you switch over to the tiger, at least for now. People who work with big cats say that lions tend to be obnoxious and grouchy, whereas tigers are more affable and easy to get along with. And I think that in the coming weeks it’ll be important for you to be like the tiger. During this time, you will have an enhanced power to cultivate friendships and influence people. Networking opportunities will be excellent. Your web of connections should expand. By the way, even though lions are called kings of the jungle, tigers are generally bigger, more muscular, and better fighters. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1977, the first Apple computers were built in a garage that Steve Jobs’ father provided for his son and Steve Wozniak to work in. (You can see a photo of the holy shrine here: tinyurl.com/AppleGarage.) I suggest you think about setting up your own version of that magic place sometime soon: a basement, kitchen, garage, warehouse, or corner of your bedroom that will be the spot where you fine-tune your master plan for the coming years -- and maybe even where you begin working in earnest on a labor of love that will change everything for the better. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I have a head’s up for you, Libra. Do your best to avoid getting enmeshed in any sort of “he said/she said” controversy. (Of course it could be a “he said/he said” or “she said/she said” or “trans said/intersex said” brouhaha, too -- you get the idea.) Gossip is not your friend in the week ahead. Trying to serve as a mediator is not your strong suit.
Becoming embroiled in personal disputes is not your destiny. In my opinion, you should soar free of all the chatter and clatter. It’s time for you to seek out big pictures and vast perspectives. Where you belong is meditating on a mountaintop, flying in your dreams, and charging up your psychic batteries in a sanctuary that’s both soothing and thrilling.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In some Australian aborigine cultures, a newborn infant gets two names from the tribal elders. The first is the name everybody knows. The second is sacred, and is kept secret. Even the child isn’t told. Only when he or she comes of age and is initiated into adulthood is it revealed. I wish we had a tradition similar to this. It might be quite meaningful for you, because you’re currently navigating your way through a rite of passage that would make you eligible to receive your sacred, secret name. I suggest we begin a new custom: When you’ve completed your transformation, pick a new name for yourself, and use it only when you’re conversing with your ancestors, your teachers, or yourself. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Please raise your hand if you have ever sought out a romantic connection with someone mostly because of the way he or she looked. You shouldn’t feel bad if you have; it’s pretty common. But I hope you won’t indulge in this behavior any time soon. In the coming weeks, it’s crucial for you to base your decisions on deeper understandings -- not just in regards to potential partners and lovers, but for everything. As you evaluate your options, don’t allow physical appearance and superficial attractiveness to be the dominant factors. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The 21st flight of the 4.5-billion-pound Space Shuttle Discovery was supposed to happen on June 8, 1995. But about a week before its scheduled departure, workers discovered an unforeseen problem. Northern Flicker Woodpeckers had made a mess of the insulation on the outer fuel tank; they’d pecked a couple of hundred holes, some quite deep. To allow for necessary repairs, launch was postponed for over a month. I’m choosing this scenario to serve as a useful metaphor for you, Capricorn. Regard it as your notice not to ignore a seemingly tiny adversary or trivial obstacle. Take that almost-insignificant pest seriously. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s official: Dancing increases your intelligence. So says a report in the New England Journal of Medicine. Unfortunately, research found that swimming, bicycling, and playing golf are not at all effective in rewiring the brain’s neural pathways. Doing crossword puzzles is somewhat helpful, though, and so is reading books. But one of the single best things you can do to enhance your cognitive functioning is to move your body around in creative and coordinated rhythm with music. Lucky you: This is a phase of your astrological cycle when you’re likely to have more impulses and opportunities to dance. Take advantage! Get smarter. (More info: tinyurl.com/DanceSmart.)
“Speech Curve 2” mixed media on paper
by Marian Kidd
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your animal totem for the next phase of your astrological cycle is a creature called a hero shrew. Of all the mammals in the world, it has the strongest and heaviest spine proportionate to its size. This exceptional attribute makes the tiny animal so robust that a person could stand on it without causing serious harm. You will need to have a backbone like that in the coming weeks, Pisces. Luckily, the universe will be conspiring to help you. I expect to see you stand up to the full weight of the pressures coming to bear on you -- and do it with exceptional charisma.
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