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Whatever happened to kids just doing kid stuff? [“Teenage Wasteland,” WW, July 4, 2012]. It’s like you are implying if you are a teenager and not into watching bands or drinking coffee, then your life must suck. Maybe you guys had a boring teenage life in your suckass Midwest town. There is lots of stuff to do besides seeing crappy emo bands and smoking cigarettes. —“Tom says this article...” I have a few words about your review of Aliviar Coffeehouse: It SUCKS! [“Totally Grounded,” WW, July 4, 2012]. The business is thriving and successful, is a staple of the Hollywood District, and has some of the best coffee in Portland. The service is not “slow.” You are. Either that or you are too hopped up on the downtown ADD lifestyle. Try taking less Ritalin next time. Ethan Berleman Northeast Portland After reading this “article,” I’m glad none of the subjects are allowed in the spots I frequent [“The Last Ring Pop,” WW, July 4, 2012]. Couldn’t you have featured decent writing, WW? —“Michael”
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on some issue of consequence in their lives. Instead, we are treated to what is essentially watercooler gossip. —“Nicholas Caleb” Anyone who has ever known “that guy” who gets kicked out of rec leagues, more than once, knows that he’s probably not the guy you want leading a major metropolitan city. —“Chuck” I’m not sure Portland can deal with another immature man-child as mayor. And this guy wants to be in charge of the Police Bureau? No thank you. —“MM” What’s so unusual about pushing and punching at pick-up basketball games? When I played, that was the norm. If you didn’t draw blood, it wasn’t a foul. Maybe the writer should go to some of the gyms and watch what really happens, then write about something that matters. —“Larry Scruggs” A pattern of behavior that strongly suggests the guy is a serial douchebag. Which makes his race against the serial liar [Charlie Hales] all the more distasteful. Lose-lose. —“RJ Bobby”
I can’t believe this is newsworthy [“Red Card, WW, July 4, 2012]. Last year, [Jefferson Smith] had confrontations in pick-up sports. Great. A respected Portland newspaper wastes space that could have been used to educate the public
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Oregon was the last British territory in the U.S.—did the English stick around when the New Englanders took over and influence the culture? I can’t see our hedonistic, Brit-like vibe coming from Yankee Puritans. —Puscifer
And while the Brits and the U.S. did share dominion over Oregon for a while (with each other, not—God forbid—with the natives), this agreement ended by 1846, and probably didn’t contribute much to the preponderance of cozy pubs, Vespa scooters and poor oral hygiene the Rose City enjoys today. If there’s a cultural similarity between Cascadia and Old Blighty, I’d argue it’s not history but climate that’s to blame. Both Portland and, say, Liverpool enjoy (suffer might be a better word) what’s called “oceanic” or “marine west coast” climate—cool summers, mild winters, minimal sunshine. Thus, both here and in the U.K. the weather is never so bad that you can’t make it to the pub, but never so good that you can do anything else. This leads to a city and/or nation of sad, damp, doughy people drinking to kill their pain—and starting a lot of bands, because we’re sure as hell not gonna get laid via our sculpted abs.
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Did City Commissioner Amanda Fritz violate her campaign-contribution limits? Fritz has based her political career on her independence from undue influence. In her re-election campaign, she’s refusing union and corporate contributions, and she capped individual donations at $50. But on June 22, Fritz announced she would increase that limit to $250. Seems FRITZ there was some backdating. Records show Fritz accepted a $250 contribution June 8 from former City Commissioner Gretchen Kafoury. Fritz tells WW she decided to alter her limit after taking Kafoury’s check. But, Fritz argues, she did not violate her pledge because she didn’t actually deposit the check until she had announced her campaign’s new limits. Her challenger, Rep. Mary Nolan (D-Portland), raised $344,000 in the primary. Fritz raised $229,000—almost all of it in loans and contributions to herself. Mayoral candidate Rep. Jefferson Smith (D-East Portland) last week joined the liberal wave opposing Oregon coal exports, calling for a largely symbolic anti-coal resolution from the City Council. If he wins, Smith can expect some largely symbolic opposition. City Commissioner-elect Steve Novick writes in a wweek.com comment that he won’t support a coal ban. Novick says coal fuels the region’s electrical supply (especially PacifiCorp’s), and it’s hypocritical to denounce it. “If I came out against any and all coal exports,” Novick writes, “I’d feel like a heroin addict denouncing drug trafficking.”
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New fire chief Erin Janssens’ illegal-fireworks crackdown (see “Fahrenheit 4th of July,” WW, June 27, 2012) didn’t silence the holiday skies above Portland. But firefighters and police issued 120 citations, up from 90 last year; fireworks-related blazes fell from 19 to 12. The fire bureau confiscated two truckloads of explosives, worth $35,000. What happens to all that starspangled loot? Bureau spokesman Michael Silva says the fireworks will be kept at a secret location until they’re burned in a Tualatin incinerator in November (see photo). “On the street I heard, ‘You guys are just going to take those home,’” Silva says. “No. They’re going to be destroyed.” Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt.
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Numbers may not lie, but they don’t always tell the whole story, either. When former City Commissioner Charlie Hales finished first in May’s mayoral primary, he seemed to be sitting in a strong position. He finished with 37 percent of the vote, ahead of his closest competitor, state Rep. Jefferson Smith (D-East Portland), who finished with just shy of 33 percent. But WW’s analysis of the primary vote shows Hales’ first-place finish leaves him without any meaningful electoral advantage for his fall runoff with Smith. And it all has to do with those who didn’t bother to vote in May but who will probably find a stamp for their ballot by November. The precincts Hales won had higher-than-average turnouts. Smith’s strongest precincts had lower turnouts— but tend to vote more heavily in fall elections. In other words, voters who will decide this race didn’t cast their ballots in May. And the parts of the city most likely to surge in turnout in November are full of Smith voters. The analysis suggests Smith will have a hard time continuing to credibly play the underdog—a role that seems to have served him well so far.
At a bare minimum, though, WW’s analysis shows that Smith’s chances of winning increase along with overall turnout. The analysis shows Smith strongest when looking at 2008 as a model, compared to 2004. Four years ago, Barack Obama’s candidacy drew an unprecedented number of young voters and drove MultThe primary electoral terrain shows a clear divide. nomah County turnout to 86 percent. Hibbitts predicts 80 Hales won every precinct west of the Willamette River, percent for 2012—more typical for a presidential election. “I want to at least win one precinct on the west side, and the higher-income neighborhoods of Laurelhurst, Irvington and Alameda. Smith won a large swath of his but not to aim at a particular place,” Smith says. “The eastside turf. objective we set for our campaign is to build...the strongest “If you look at the upper-income areas, Hales carried grassroots campaign in the history of the city.” Both Hales’ and Smith’s campaigns hit the streets in those,” says Portland pollster Tim Hibbitts, a partner in DHM Research. “It had something more to do with socio- the primary, but there is evidence Smith’s ground game made a meaningful difference. economic status and less to do with east-west.” Hibbitts says upper-income voters tend to turn out On primary election night, the early returns showed more reliably in primaries. That would explain the higher Smith 9 percentage points behind Hales. As the night wore turnout in precincts Hales won (45 percent on average) on, the gap narrowed to less than 5 points. These later ballots are ones that came in during the compared to Smith’s (38 percent). Citycampaign’s final days—suggesting Smith’s wide, turnout was 40 percent. FACT: In May, Smith won his But WW’s analysis shows that Smith’s home precinct in Hazelwood last-minute efforts to get out the vote had an impact. precincts will come close to matching the with 39 percent. He finished turnout of precincts Hales won in the fall, behind Brady in Eastmoreland, For his part, Hales says he doesn’t know Hales’ turf, where Hales won why the vote appears to have broken if 2004 and 2008 are any guide. with 52 percent. between precincts with higher household Precincts Hales won have 10,000 fewer incomes and those with lower. total potential votes than those won by Smith, whose support came from areas with more young, “I won precincts in every part of the city,” Hales says. “It happens that I won all of them on the west side—including middle- and lower-income voters. The 135,000 ballots cast in the mayoral primary—if in [Smith’s] legislative district.” One question remains: Where will voters who suprecent history is reliable—will double in the general election, with a bigger proportion of new votes coming from ported Eileen Brady go in the general election? Brady, who finished a distant third, won about 29,000 precincts where Smith’s performance was strongest. All of which means, Hibbitts says, “If everything holds votes in the primary, or about 21 percent. If, as WW’s analysis assumes, those voters divide proportionally between equally—yes, it will be a benefit to Smith.” WW’s analysis doesn’t dare predict the outcome. A lot Smith and Hales, the effect could be a wash. “I don’t anticipate any candidate getting that block of things can and will happen between now and Nov. 6: unflattering news coverage, flip-flops on issues, more staff vote,” Hibbitts says. “Even if Brady endorses, I don’t think they’re going to go en masse.” shake-ups or even natural disasters. Willamette Week JULY 11, 2012 wweek.com
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Mayor Sam Adams doesn’t usually attend Metro’s Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation—the board of elected officials and bureaucrats that sets regional transit priorities. But when he’s there, he makes an impression. “We frequently have tense meetings when the mayor shows up,” says Multnomah County Commissioner Deborah Kafoury. “He’s very vocal, and doesn’t like it when people disagree with him.” Adams is expected to attend Thursday’s JPACT meeting. He can expect an even frostier reception than usual. The mayor waited until after TriMet approved its already controversial 2013 budget before leveling a threat at the transit agency: Restore the YouthPass program—free bus and MAX rides for all high-school students in Portland Public Schools—or the city would pay for it by jacking up annual fees on TriMet’s bus shelters by $2 million. (The agency now pays $24,380.) The passes were among the many services slashed by TriMet to cover a projected $12 million shortfall. Higher bus-shelter fees charged by Portland, TriMet says, would mean even deeper cuts. That’s left leaders of other local governments worried that Adams is endangering regional service for a perk enjoyed only by Portland students. “It’s an equity issue,” Washington County board chairman Andy Duyck tells WW. “We have our problems as well. Why should their problems be solved at our expense?” Adams says TriMet left him no choice. He says he and Neil MacFarlane, TriMet’s general manager, had a “handshake agreement” that the transit agency wouldn’t do away with the YouthPass. Adams says he traded his support for doing away with the downtown Free Rail Zone in exchange for that agreement. The mayor says he wasn’t paying attention to the details of the TriMet budget until after it was approved because he assumed the YouthPass
would be protected. “This is not my style of politics,” Adams says. “A handshake agreement with TriMet, in the past I could take it to the bank. I did not expect to play hardball.” MacFarlane says through a spokeswoman that he made the handshake deal but warned Adams the TriMet board might not approve it. The board didn’t. Adams and the agency are now negotiating a compromise deal. “It is an interesting position the mayor has gotten himself into,” Kafoury says. “Not only has he alienated Washington County, but there’s also the other school districts that don’t have this program.” On June 27, the day after Adams issued his threat to hike TriMet shelter fees, Duyck says he called TriMet boss MacFarlane to ask that Portland—not other jurisdictions—bear the brunt of any cuts forced by Adams’ move. Duyck tells WW that MacFarlane was sympathetic but made no promises. “I can get along with a lot of people,” Duyck says, “but Sam has no respect for anyone else. Here he is again, asking for something special for Portland. That’s typical Sam Adams.” Clackamas County board chairwoman Charlotte Lehan hasn’t talked to TriMet about protection from service cuts in an adjusted budget. But she agrees with Duyck’s concerns about the potential for more TriMet service cuts. “Clackamas County shouldn’t be subsidizing Portland Public Schools,” she says. Adams says critics forget Portland took a hit when TriMet ended the Free Rail Zone. And he notes Portland Public Schools is Oregon’s only district without school buses for high-school students. “In terms of the Washington County chair’s demand that Portland pay for changes to Portland service, we did that,” Adams says. “We more than did that.” In the early days of his term, Adams fashioned himself as an “education mayor,” emphasizing schools even though they don’t fall under City Hall’s purview. When asked, Adams insists this stand isn’t part of an effort to leave a legacy on education as he leaves office after this year. “That’s a stupid question,” Adams says. “This isn’t about legacy. I always work on what the city needs. Sometimes it’s glamorous. Sometimes it’s not. It’s usually controversial.”
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Occupy Portland protester Cameron Whitten is camped out in front of City Hall, where’s he’s been on a hunger strike for 40 days. As many as three dozen people have joined him, living and sleeping on the sidewalk along Southwest 4th Avenue to demand the city do more for the homeless. The protesters say they have not witnessed much change from city officials, but they do see one thing all the time: rats—lots and lots of rats. Rats have nested in Terry Schrunk Plaza across Southwest 4th Avenue from City Hall for several years. But officials and neighbors say the rat population exploded after Occupy camped in Lownsdale and Chapman squares near the plaza, last fall. Sally Mayberry, spokeswoman for the U.S. General Services Administration, which maintains the federally owned plaza, says her agency has an “action plan” to deal with the infestation. Protesters say they witnessed GSA officials baiting rat holes this week. The sidewalk in front of City Hall looks like a small version of Occupy Portland’s
fall camp—but without tents. Bicycle racks are covered in signs and blankets. About two dozen people share meals, sit on lawn chairs and rest on sleeping bags. Plastic food wrappers lie scattered between the newspaper boxes. Across the street, rats could be heard rustling and squealing in the Terry Schrunk Plaza shrubs, and more than 20 could be seen during a short visit July 9. Occupiers say they routinely see the rodents crossing 4th Avenue toward their protests. “Do not blame Occupy,” says Michael Withey, a protest organizer. “We are not feeding the rats. They just had a bunch of babies. We didn’t help them.” One protester, identifying himself as Charles, walks up a trail through the plaza bushes to where rats have dug half a dozen holes under the concrete slab. He says protesters relieve themselves around the dens when the city closes the public restrooms in Chapman Square at night. “I’m not a biologist,” he says. “But I think they’ve been kicking it there for quite a while.” But others link the infestation to Occupy’s arrival. Teresa Chrisinger, who lives in the Essex House Apartments at 1330 SW 3rd Ave., says she’s seen as many as six rats at a time during the day. “I am no rodent expert,” says Chrisinger, who has walked by Terry Schrunk Plaza nearly every day for two years. “All I am saying is people camped, took over the parks, and now I see rats. Simple as that.”
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Chrisinger was walking her dogs on a Sunday afternoon last month when she saw a rat approach a man sleeping in a pile of blankets in the grass. “The rat went to the person’s bag, shoes, and was about to crawl onto the person’s head and blanket,” she says. “I threw a pine cone at it. Missed, but it ran away.” Mayor Sam Adams confirms to WW he’s become aware of the rat problem since the Occupy camps. “Yes, we’ve had complaints,” he says—and tells people to con-
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HAULING TRASH: Stacy Jones of Cloudburst Recycling says garbage is more interesting than compost because of the possibility of finding “treasures.” “The best thing I ever found was a Popeye collection,” Jones says. “There were Popeye watches, jewelry and toys. I sold it for $1,500—that was my biggest score ever.”
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Stacy Jones rolls a green composting cart up to the Cloudburst Recycling truck he’s parked at Southeast 21st Avenue and Pine Street. Jones latches the metal bar on the front of the bin to his truck. He flips a lever. A hydraulic lift called a “stinger” elevates the bin, then dumps it. The cart vomits yard debris and food waste into the truck. Moldy bread, rotten bananas, greenish-tinted hot dogs and carrots swim in a bilious sludge. Inhaling the essence makes me feel like I’m spinning around in the bottom of a garbage disposal. “Pretty nasty, huh?” Jones says with a grin. A belch of diesel exhaust as Jones pulls away from the curb provides relief from the sickly sweet smell of decay. CONT. on page 14
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Jones’ employer, Cloudburst, is one of 19 companies that have contracts to collect Portlanders’ waste, recyclables and debris. Cloudburst owner David McMahon operates from a dusty command post located close to grain terminals and concrete plants on the Willamette River’s east bank. His company provides service to thousands of eastside homes and commercial or multifamily accounts. Founded in 1975, the company calls itself the city’s oldest full-service recycler. Cloudburst and its drivers, including Jones—who like most of his peers operates a one-man truck—are the first link in the chain of the city’s new composting system, taking mixed yard debris and food waste from curbside to transfer station. Although other leading recycling cities, such as San Francisco and Seattle, started recycling food waste before Portland took its program citywide last Oct. 31, Jerry Powell of Resource Recycling magazine says no other large city combined such a program to cutting garbage collection in half. “That is a huge change,” Powell says. And it came fast. Haulers weren’t ready at first. “It took people three or four months to get used to it,” Cloudburst’s McMahon says. “But it seems now to be accomplishing the city’s goals.” Those goals: to increase the recycling rate, currently 58 percent, to 75 percent by 2015, and to reduce the amount of waste trucked to Portland’s primary landfill in Arlington, Ore. Lisa Libby, Mayor Sam Adams’ planning and sustainability director, says the city is happy with the progress—garbage is down 44 percent, recycling is up 12 percent, and composting is up by almost three times. “The program has exceeded our expectations,” Libby says. For Jones, the change means that two days a week he handles nothing but green
bins. Since Oct. 31, figures show, the program has collected 59,000 tons of what the city calls “residential organics”—the equivalent of 260 million rotting apples. To see how the system is working, WW followed residential organics from curbside to a transfer station to the composting facility. It’s a dirty, smelly journey that only a seagull could love. Tracking food waste from beginning to end, it’s clear that after some initial problems, Portland has successfully implemented a program reliant on voluntary compliance and a mixture of high-tech and old-fashioned processing techniques. Cloudburst’s McMahon says he’s had to add some man hours to accommodate the changes, but the financial picture is about the same. Metro, the regional government in charge of solid-waste disposal, says the money it saves by not hauling waste to Eastern Oregon is offset by higher processing costs. Residents of North Plains, where the organics turn into compost, don’t like being Portland’s compost bucket. But even there, things are improving. “It works pretty well,” says Jones, the Cloudburst driver. “Most people try to do the right thing.” It’s just before 6:30 am on a Tuesday when Jones fires up his 20-ton compost truck in the shadow of the Fremont Bridge. For the past eight years, he’s driven Cloudburst’s territory on the central east side. The Milwaukie High School graduate earns $18 an hour. That’s less than Cloudburst’s competitors have offered him, but he says he likes his colleagues and bosses. A rafter and soccer player, Jones looks younger than his 36 years. He previously worked construction, laid turf for athletic fields and labored in a mill. But he’s content
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BACK SPLATTER: Bags of commercial food waste spill and explode as they’re unloaded at the Metro Central Transfer Station in Northwest Portland.
“PEOPLE KEEP TALKING ABOUT HOW BAD IT’S GOING TO GET IN THE HEAT. BUT IT’S ALL THE SMELL OF MONEY.” —STACY JONES, DRIVER FOR CLOUDBURST RECYCLING
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driving a one-man truck with nobody looking over his shoulder. “This is a good job,” says Jones, who with his girlfriend, a chef, is raising two foster children. “People think it’s a real dirty job. It’s not.” Piloting his truck through Southeast Portland, Jones can block driveways, stop in front of hydrants and claim right of way from shiny new SUVs. He’s king of the road. “Me and the mailman,” he says. It’s dangerous work—sanitation workers such as Jones die on the job at a rate 60 percent higher than police officers. Last year, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics ranked garbage collecting as the seventhmost dangerous occupation in the U.S., just a little less dangerous than roofing. Although his shiny white rig is enormous, noisy and topped by a flashing yellow light, Jones says he’s invisible to impatient motorists. That’s the biggest danger in the job, he and McMahon say—getting run over by an impatient driver. Jones says he’s had more than one close call. “Drivers just come flying by,” he says. “They don’t respect us like they do police cars or tow trucks.” There are also a lot of moving parts in his truck, which can handle trash or compost: The hydraulic “packer panel” slides back and forth like the jaws of a shark, crushing the greenery and slop into the truck’s gaping storage chamber. “A guy I know got his arm caught in one of those,” Jones says. “Tore him up pretty good.” When the city introduced roll carts for yard debris in 2008, Jones’ job got easier. “Before, you’d come around the corner in Laurelhurst and there’d be a yard with six cans and 20 bags lined up,” Jones says. Barrels often filled up with rainwater or the liquid from decomposing material. Hoisting them manually meant you got sore and often soaked. McMahon, Jones’ boss, refers to the oldstyle compost containers as “man-killers.” The roll carts are better, but since he can’t see inside them, Jones raises the lid of each one to inspect for forbidden material. “It’s added a little time,” he says. All food scraps—including meat and CONT. on page 16
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fish, pizza boxes and napkins—can now go in with yard debris, but diapers and pet waste cannot. Jones wears greasy-looking leather gloves when he handles the bins. He goodnaturedly pulls soda and beer cans and more than the occasional bag of dog poop from the green roll carts before dumping them in his truck. “One person left a dead duck in their bin,” he recalls. “I wrote them a note.” If there’s a lot more that shouldn’t be in the bin, Jones will leave a pre-printed note affixed to the bin handle. (The City Council considered elevating those warnings to fines, but decided last month not to do so.) As we stop at a home on Southeast 28th Avenue, Jones’ truck pees out a brown liquid, the result of a faulty seal. Jones peeks under the lid of one debris bin and shakes his head in disgust: full of garbage. “These are folks I write up almost every week,” he says, attaching a note to the bin. Compliance generally seems high—city figures show fewer than 1 percent of households put out contaminated material—and he writes only a couple of tickets in more than 75 stops. Jones says people have mostly accepted weekly composting and have adjusted to every-other-week garbage pick-up. Then again, it’s just started to get warm. “People keep talking about how bad it’s going to get in the heat,” he says. “But it’s all the smell of money.” Jones says residential composting bins are largely vermin free. That’s not true of the commercial dumpsters he unloads on other days. “I’ve had rats and mice jumping over me,” he says. “You hear about that guy who got the plague down in Redmond? It’s something to think about.” At the end of his day, Jones drives his 5 tons of compostable material across the Willamette and down Highway 30 to the Metro Central Transfer Station, located next to a sea of oil tanks six miles northwest of the Fremont Bridge. Metro Central receives most of Portland’s garbage, recyclables and household organics on the second leg of their journey. Calling Metro Central a transfer station does no justice to the glorious landslides
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PREDATORY PROTECTION: Falconer Chris Fox twirls food to lure one his birds back to the Metro Central Transfer Station. Metro has hired Cox and his falcons to harry seagulls that congregate around the transfer center.
of junk, trash and aromatic organics that flood the site each day. Engorged garbage and compost trucks queue up at the facility’s gate like a line of fat beetles waiting to discharge their cargoes. Metro, the tri-county regional government responsible for waste disposal, contracts the facility ’s operations to California-based Recology, which handles San Francisco’s food-composting program. Paul Ehinger, Metro’s director of solid waste operations, oversees Recology’s work. “It’s not an overly exciting business,” Ehinger, 63, a former consulting engineer, says of his oversight role. “But it’s more enjoyable than I ever thought waste could be.” Garbage gets dumped in the west end of the facility, where it is sorted and loaded into semitrailers and driven 136 miles east to Arlington for burial. Recyclable material—glass, metal, paper and plastic—is sorted at the north
WHERE YOUR GARBAGE BILL GOES Based on the typical bill for a 32- to 35-gallon rollcart. OPERATING MARGIN 9%
SOLID WASTE 19%
COMPOST 29%
RECYCLING 16%
OVERHEAD 22%
SOURCE: CITY OF PORTLAND AUDITOR
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wall of the building and shipped out for reprocessing. But since Oct. 31, the action is in the south side of the transfer station, where the residential organics come in. In some ways, dealing with this material is a grown-up version of playing in a sandbox. Jones and other drivers dump their loads on the concrete floor, where it is immediately attacked by a madly beeping Caterpillar front-end loader that slides on a sheen of goo as it brakes. The loader quickly shoves the material toward a Rube Goldbergian contraption called a slow-speed shear grinder. The material is ground and chopped as it travels up a conveyor belt at a 45-degree angle. At the top of the device, the processed material plunges off the belt and into a waiting semitrailer truck. With beeping alarms, roaring diesel engines, the grinder and an even larger garbage-sorting operation in an adjacent space, there’s so much noise at the Metro transfer station that it’s easy to forget the smell—except when a load of commercial food waste arrives. Commercial food waste comes in large plastic bags, which are pretty juicy by the time they get to Metro. The bags pop like enormous zits as the loader shoves them toward the shear grinder. Murky liquid spurts across the floor alongside fish parts, potatoes, bananas, pineapples and lots of mush that a CSI sleuth would struggle to identify. “Even when a load is solid food, it’s not so bad,” Ehinger claims with a smile. Ehinger says commercial food composting, which Metro began eight years ago, is where the real growth opportunities remain. Commercial establishments in Portland produce 150,000 tons of food waste annually and recycle less than onefifth of that amount.
One reason the transfer station doesn’t smell worse is because the compostable material gets shoved out the door. As soon as one semitrailer fills, another takes its place. “We want to move it out fast,” Ehinger says. “Quick turnover is really desirable.” In addition to minimizing the smell, Ehinger wants to keep varmints at bay. Last fall, around the time Portlanders began mixing food with yard debris, airborne scavengers descended on Metro Central. “An awful lot of seagulls showed up,” Ehinger recalls. The swooping, pooping seagulls quickly “turned everything white,” he says. “They made it miserable around here.” Some public agencies use noise cannons, sharpshooters or even poison to get rid of pests. Ehinger’s team hired Airstrike Bird Control LLC, which specializes in “falconry-based bird abatement.” Airstrike brought in three falcons—Oscar and Phantom, gyr-peregrine hybrids, and a prairie falcon named Malice. Chris Fox, the birds’ trainer, patrols the transfer station in an orange hardhat, keeping his eye out for gulls. He says the falcons rarely kill the seabirds. “They just scare them away,” Fox says. Within an hour of entering Metro Central, the material Jones brings from Southeast Portland can be on a truck on its way out of the facility, passing the falcons’ cage just before exiting. Next stop—North Plains. It seems a lot more than 21 miles from the oil tanks and chemical plants that surround Metro Central to the fertile, rolling fields that surround the Washington County hamlet of North Plains (pop. 1,947). CONT. on page 19
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Residents of North Plains typically farm or work at either Oregon-Canadian Forest Products, the town’s biggest employer, or in Washington County’s high-tech belt. But lately, the highest-profile part of North Plains is a 67-acre parcel just north of the Sunset Highway called Nature’s Needs. Nature’s Needs, now owned by Recology, is the third and final leg of Portland’s composting program. Jon Thomas, the facility’s operations manager, is on the receiving end of the material Stacy Jones picks up curbside and Paul Ehinger grinds and ships. Thomas, 40, is a sturdy engineer who came west to Oregon State University and decided to trade Ohio’s pastures and cornfields for Oregon’s mountains and rivers. Now he finds himself facing a torrent of Portland’s residential organics—and a PR problem. “Stop the Stink,” reads a roadside sign near the entry to Nature’s Needs. Some neighbors hate the smell and resent being Portland’s compost bucket. “The kingdom is shipping the stuff out where the peasants can’t do anything about it,” says Tony Spiering, owner of Valley Machine Service, a high-tech manufacturer located next to Nature’s Needs. On July 3, the deeply tanned Thomas fretted over a new high-tech compost processing system on which he says Recology has spent “millions,” and also tended to the company’s public-relations issues. Based on its permit, Recology can accept 50,000 tons of material annually, enough to give each North Plains resident 50,000 pounds of compost. That avalanche of the sometimes-fragrant city waste has engendered bad blood and hundreds of written odor complaints. So Thomas needs to tend to public relations as well as processing a never-ending stream of material. “Who wants to ride in the [Fourth of July parade] and throw candy?” he asked on a recent afternoon, as he handed his 10 dusty employees long-sleeved Recology T-shirts and encouraged them to be visible during North Plains’ Independence Day celebration. The highlight of that celebration? An elaborate fireworks show launched from Recology’s facility and paid for by the company.
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BERMED OUT: Loaves of compost cook at Nature’s Needs in North Plains, where the locals have complained about the stink since the Recology-owned site started taking food wastes last fall.
“THE KINGDOM IS SHIPPING THE STUFF OUT WHERE THE PEASANTS CAN’T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.” —TONY SPIERING
SMELL PATROL: Recology’s Jon Thomas says the science of controlling food-waste odors is straightforward. “But the art comes in,” he says, “because it rains a lot more in Oregon.”
Like Portland’s waste haulers, Recology hoped to have more time to get ready for food composting. At first, the flood of material overwhelmed the plant, leading to odor problems and a temporary reduction in the amount of waste Nature’s Needs was allowed to accept. “Legislation preceded infrastructure,” Thomas says. When the program started in October, Nature’s Needs was still transitioning away from being a rudimentary facility that since 1995 handled only yard debris and wood waste. Now, Thomas says, his operation is taking in about 900 tons a week, most of it from Metro. Since last fall, Thomas says, Recology has upgraded the facility in an effort to reduce odor. “Once the material gets here,” he says, “the chefs start to work.” The “recipe” calls for adjusting the porosity, moisture content, temperature, oxygen and pH balance of the compost. “It’s a combination of art and science,” Thomas says. Sometimes he gets the formula right, but then the ambient temperature shifts or it rains. “We have all this heavy technology,” he says, “and then Mother Nature throws us a curveball.” After trucks from the transfer station dump the compost, a front-loader shapes it into big loaves about 85 feet long, 28 feet wide and 6 feet high. Air pipes about 8 inches in diameter run through the loaves, and tarps are placed over the top. Fans suck air through the pipes, drawing out moisture as microbial action breaks down the food elements of the compost as it cooks at about 145 degrees. The exhaust is filtered through berms of wood chips that remove more than 95 percent of the odor, Thomas says.
After 15 days, the loaves are “flopped” over, to cook under the tarps for another 15 days. The material then cures for 30 days, gets ground up, sifted, and then sold for $12.50 a cubic yard as certified organic garden compost. Spiering says he’s noticed some improvement in the smell as Recology upgraded technology. “It’s gotten somewhat better,” he says. “But I still worry about the long term because the volume will only grow.” The facility smelled better than Metro’s transfer station, which in turn smelled better than Jones’ truck. On July 3, at least, Nature’s Needs had the aroma of a Christmas tree lot after a rainstorm. When Chris Fox, the falconer at the Metro Central Transfer Station, wants his birds to return to him, he puts a treat at the end of a string and whirls it in the air. The falcons zoom back for their reward. The reward for Portlanders who put their table scraps in a green bin and forgo weekly trash pick-up is less dramatic. But Metro’s Ehinger says the city is on track to divert nearly 90,000 tons of organics next year—that’s 2,900 truckloads of waste that can be sold as compost or burned as hog fuel rather than dumped in a landfill. The result may be that Jon Thomas of Recology has to have a fire sale on organic compost—he’s already undercutting the competition with his current price—or even give the stuff away. There are worse outcomes. Stacy Jones, the Cloudburst driver, thinks the initial concerns about composting are over and it’s time to move to the next challenge—how to deal with toxics like paint and chemicals left at curbside. “I don’t mind what I’m picking up,” he says. “It all pays the same.” Willamette Week JULY 11, 2012 wweek.com
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SCOOP HENCEFORTH, LET TODAY BE KNOWN AS GOSSIP DAY. BREAKING BEARD: Last month, a deal was finally inked for the planned James Beard Public Market. The giant indoor market, named for Oregon native and foodie hero James Beard, would look something like Seattle’s Pike Place Market and sit at the west end of the Morrison Bridge. But the current king of Portland stall sellers isn’t bowing to kiss Beard’s ring just yet. Portland Farmers Market boss Trudy Toliver told Capital Press that the markets have “somewhat similar value sets,” but told WW that public markets are a “different animal.” Toliver says PFM prioritizes local vendors, but public markets “aren’t a place where you go to meet a farmer.” While the Beard group says it will commit to local vendors, public markets have a history of starting off local before selling out.
RETURN OF THE TURK: Maybe you remember Secret Kebab, the sporadic delivery-only Adana-style lamb kebabs fronted by a delightful Twitter character called Alparslan the Turk? (Sample tweet: “Fresh lamb this day and every!! My saus is boss!! My spice is so nice!! My bread mess up you head!!”) It disappeared as mysteriously as it appeared in 2011. The Turk wants to resurrect Secret Kebab for one week in August. He’s trying to raise $1,500 on Indiegogo for a plane ticket. Rewards for donating include a copy of his book, Lamb Goes in Town!!, and a chance to win a dinner cooked by the Turk himself. If you don’t know who the chef behind the Twitter handle is, we won’t spoil it for you, but this is a good prize. Check it at igg.me/p/159239. BOOM BOOM. ICY ENCORE: Shackleton’s Antarctic Nightmare, a solo show by Portland Story Theater’s Lawrence Howard, is headed to New York for the United Solo Theatre Festival in late October. Scoop hears that before Howard’s expedition, there will be a warm-up show at Portland’s Hipbone Studio on Saturday, Oct. 20. SAINT SCOOP: Portland bakery Saint Cupcake has quietly begun making some seriously good ice cream. The ice-cream sandwiches are a no-brainer, but push-pops, frozen cupcakes dipped in chocolate, and simple Dixie Cups also impress. We recommend the buttered pecan praline. >> Speaking of ice cream, WW’s month-long Portland ice-cream crawl, Scoops’ out for Summer, continues at wweek.com/scoopsout. 22
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CHAMP’S COFFEE: Downtown’s West End Bikes has a new tenant: Maglia Rosa, a coffee shop owned by Phuong Tran, winner of the 2005 United States Barista Championship. Tran also is the owner of the well-regarded Lava Java in Ridgefield, Wash., and was previously the lead trainer at Zoka Coffee in Seattle. The location was previously operated by excellent eastside roaster Heart but has been empty since April. The “bike-thru” curbside coffee service is its biggest selling point over downtown’s other top coffee shops.
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THURSDAY JULY 12 MARK BAUMGARTEN [BOOKS] Exploring underground music through K Records—which helped launch Modest Mouse, Beck and Gossip—former WW music editor Mark Baumgarten’s new book is full of interesting anecdotes and commentary. You’ll even learn why K passed on Nirvana’s demo. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
FRIDAY JULY 13 BRONX LEGENDS TOUR [MUSIC] Some nearly forgotten hip-hop forefathers—Percee P and Coke La Rock among them—unite, cross the country and remind the masses it wasn’t always about the Benjamins. Ted’s at Berbati’s Pan, 231 SW Ankeny St. 9 pm. $15. 21+.
Paris in Portland ZEE PERFECT WAY TO CELEBRATE BASTILLE DAY. WAW-HAW-HAW!
Portland celebrates Bastille Day. We can’t tell you why—there hasn’t historically been any significant French presence here—but we do. Paris had a Portland festival recently, so it seems only fitting we should return the favor. Grab your Nicolas Batum jersey, a copy of Camus’ Le Mythe de Sisyphe and a pack of Gauloises to surrender your July 14 to France. JOHN LOCANTHI.
6 am: Tour De France at Oblique
While Le Mans may be more interesting, the Tour de France is by far the most important race in France. Oblique Coffee Roasters (3039 SE Stark St.) will be showing every leg live.
9 am: Brunch at St. Honoré Bakery
Portland has plenty of frou-frou French bakeries, but St. Honoré (2335 NW Thurman St.) is owned by a real-life French person. Stop by for a croque monsieur or a chocolate brioche.
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Noon: Bastille en ville at Director Park
5 pm: Champagne at Ambonnay Bar
This is the serious Portland Bastille Day celebration, self-proclaimed to be the largest on the West Coast (suck it, Seattle). Director Park (815 SW Park Ave.) will be filled with stands offering French-language books, imported products, food from local French restaurants and, of course, wine.
2 pm: Portland Waiters Race at Director Park
Because all French people wear berets. Bonnet Boutique (412 NW 11th Ave.) has a number of très chic options.
In a show of propriety, garçons race around the park without running or spilling their customers’ drinks. First prize takes home $250 (about 200 Euros).
11 am: Monet at the Portland Art Museum
3:30 pm: Croissant at Little T American Baker
Five Monet paintings are on display at the Portland Art Museum (1219 SW
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Shout yourself a glass of le vin du diable at Portland’s only Champagne bar, Ambonnay (107 SE Washington St.).
7 pm: Dinner at Brasserie Montmartre
Yeah, you could go to Little Bird, but you’re more likely to get a table at Pascal Chureau and Michael Hanaghan’s reawakening of Portland’s classic French eatery, Brasserie Montmartre (626 SW Park Ave.).
9:50 pm: Americano at Living Room Theaters
Living Room Theaters (341 SW 10th Ave.) is screening several French imports, but the choice here is Americano. What better bridge between French and American culture than knowing we can both make movies featuring Salma Hayek dancing in a sleazy nightclub?
PUCKERFEST [BEER] Belmont Station’s celebration of “sour, wild and funky” beers is back. There’s a rotating lineup of 10 to 14 beers on tap through the festival’s six days, plus meetthe-brewer events with Oakshire, Logsdon, Block 15, Upright, Double Mountain, the Commons and New Belgium. See puckerfest.com for the full lineup. Belmont Station Biercafe, 4500 SE Stark St. July 13-19. ALPENROSE VELODROME CHALLENGE [BIKES] Like an amusement park’s rotor ride, a velodrome track uses centrifugal force to stick cyclists on its 43-degree banked walls. Drop below 12.5 mph, and they’ll fall. Racers from around the world compete on one of the nation’s most challenging tracks. Alpenrose Dairy, 6149 SW Shattuck Road, alpenrosechallenge.com. FridaySunday, July 13-15.
SATURDAY JULY 14 MISSISSIPPI STREET FAIR [BLOCK PARTY] Kitschy crafts, fried foods and a sea of dads with sunglasses on their heads: It’s getting harder to tell the Mississippi Street Fair from an average day on the block, but the music helps. This year’s highlights include blues/gospel queen Linda Hornbuckle, autoharp-driven jam-rock act Old Light and catchy upand-coming trio Fanno Creek. North Mississppi Avenue between Fremont and Skidmore streets, mississippiave. com. 10 am-9 pm. Free.
SUNDAY JULY 15 RAY DAVIES DAY [ROCK ICON] Proving again that our city is batshit crazy—and has impeccable taste—Portland celebrates Ray Davies Day, which begins with a 3 pm reception for Davies at the Hollywood Theatre followed by a 4 pm screening of the Kinks frontman’s 1984 film, Return to Waterloo; moves to the Aladdin Theater at 8 pm, where Davies will play a show; and wraps up at Holocene for British Invasion cover acts, including Kinks tribute band Young Eduardians. Various venues. Willamette Week JULY 11, 2012 wweek.com
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Longtime Portland DJ Gregarious T. Cline had a simple dream: to open for famed Kinks frontman Ray Davies at the Aladdin Theater. He pitched the theater’s owner, Mark Adler, on a DJ set called “A Love Letter to Ray Davies.” Adler wasn’t sold on the unconventional idea of hiring a local DJ to open one of his biggest summer shows. Cline needed cachet, so he turned to the same hype machine so many others have: Portland Mayor Sam Adams. It started with an email. “It’s the 21st century,” Cline says excitedly. “I had nothing to lose, I didn’t even need to knock on the door.” A week passed with no response from the mayor. Then, on June 19, Adams retweeted a message: “RT if you love the #Kinks and want make July 15th RAY DAVIES Day in Portland!” Only nine people retweeted the mayor, but Cline wasn’t deterred. “I emailed and said, ‘Look, a friend of mine had Wonder Woman Day declared,’”
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Sock Knitting Week (Aug. 6-9, 2009)
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Just seems sorta vague.
Norwegian Constitution Day (May 17, 2010)
Portlandia Day (Oct. 15, 2010)
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Portlandia in Portland for Portlanders Day (Jan. 14, 2011)
It had been nearly three months since the first Portlandia day.
Mel Blanc Day (June 29, 2011) Meep meep!
Portland Pancake Day (Sept. 3, 2009) Sea Otter Awareness Week (Sept. 24-30, 2009)
National Basketball & Hip-Hop Culture Month (June, 2010)
Awesome Day (April 26, 2012
The day on which we watch Above the Rim and try not to cry.
It really doesn’t get any better than having your mayor declare a day “Awesome Day.”
Salsa Sunday (Aug. 29, 2010)
Gluten-Free Beer Day (May 16, 2012)
Double Tenth Day (Oct. 10, 2010
Ray Davies Day (July 15, 2012)
Wonder Woman Day (Oct. 25, 2009) Everybody forgets about Wonder Woman.
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Cline says. “She’s a cartoon character.” The mayor’s office responded by asking Cline to write up a proclamation for Adams to sign. (Sample line: “Whereas Ray Davies has supplied Portland with a soundtrack for every day, every mood, and every conceivable scenario in our fair landscape.”) “He loves it,” Cline says of the mayor’s tendency toward increasingly ridiculous proclamations. “I’ve been telling all my friends, ‘You better get your day in before he leaves office.’” The evidence suggests Cline is right. After years of incidentally funny proclamations (“Sock Knitting Week”), our city calendar has been increasingly stuffed with novelty-themed days such as “Portlandia in Portland for Portlanders Day” and “Awesome Day.” With Adams not seeking another term, we’re living in the final days of a Golden Age of ridiculous proclamations. Cline—a true Kinks fanatic who also plays in a Kinks cover band—says Ray Davies has, through management, approved his special day. DJ Gregarious’ opening slot, however, still hasn’t been confirmed. Oh well. Cline has a new goal in mind: “I’m going to get ‘Gregarious Year.’ I’m going to try and trump them all with the stupidest thing for the longest time.” He has his work cut out for him.
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Bastille in the City
Apparently the largest Bastille Day celebration on the West Coast, Portland’s Bastille-a-palooza 2012 will be at downtown’s Director Park. There will be food from Brasserie Montmartre, Allium Bistro, the Heathman, St. Honoré Bakery, C’est Si Bon, Cocotte and others, plus a French book sale, “Frenchthemed” music, and, of course, the annual waiters race. Director Park, 815 SW Park Ave. Noon-6 pm. Free.
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Because for some reason Portland celebrates Bastille Day, Belmont Street creperie Suzette is getting in on the action with a cocktail party and prix-fixe dinner. The cocktail party kicks off at 4 pm, with Lillet cocktails, mini-crepes and tricolore ice cream. Then at 6:30 pm, a $25 set menu will be available, with dishes like gougères with fig-onion jam, three types of crepes, and cherry-and-frangipane tart. Suzette, 3342 SE Belmont St., 546-0892. 4 pm and 6:30 pm. Dinner $25.
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ALAMBIC 13 BRANDY (EDGEFIELD DISTILLERY) The Sisters Brothers beckoned me to Oregon City. After reading Portland author Patrick deWitt’s brilliant novel, I wanted another look at the place and perhaps a glass of brandy. The Pig-King, unfortunately, has closed. But there is a McMenamins pub with a view of the river and a very fine bottle of Alambic 13 brandy. McMenamins’ Edgefield Distillery made this spirit, aging pinot noir grapes for 13 years in French oak barrels. The bar served it warm by pouring the brandy into a cognac glass that was then tilted onto its side and suspended on the rim of a tumbler filled with boiling water. I had never seen brandy served by this method, which the bartender called “an old trick.” I admit the heat brought forth the essence of the stuff, a thick backbone of grape with touches of vanilla, cinnamon and maple syrup. I drank it slowly and left, not wishing to grow hoggish before exploring this most curious town. Recommended. MARTIN CIZMAR.
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Even for a town rife with butterfly collectors eager to net especially rarefied species, Monarques’ fitful approach toward maintaining band loyalty would ordinarily test the patience of even the fiercest advocates. The Portland pop troupe hasn’t played a proper show since last November’s opening slot for similarly time-swept critical darling Sharon Jones (should one disregard Monarques’ annual Valentine’s Day covers concert), and the whole of the group’s summer-fall tour schedule extends from Doug Fir Lounge to Rontoms to Bunk Bar. Traversing the mile that separates those Eastside Industrial nightspots takes about six minutes, or just over one-fourth the length of Monarques’ exceedingly long-in-gestation debut, Let’s Make Love Come True. In the two-plus years it took for songwriter-vocalistmonarch of Monarques Josh Spacek and his ever-changing corps of master musicians to appropriately set down these seven songs according to their composer’s unsparing standards, scores of local groups have sprung forth, released a few discs, ebbed momentum and faded from memory. Meanwhile, judging by the relatively extensive press coverage (this paper included) granted the prospect of fully formed recordings, Monarques needed only to sit out a few seasons for tastemaker attentions to be honed toward fever pitch, and the band still effortlessly surpassed all expectations. “We’re following a path,” says Spacek, 29, of his band. “I don’t know where it’s going to head, but we’re not where we started doing Buddy Holly songs. There’s still an influence of early R&B and early rock ’n’ roll—there’s still the barroom piano—but it’s evolved into a totally different thing.” Since its inception as a raucous party band—then hosting seven or eight members, including a pair of female singers—Monarques has been prone to basement afterhours gigs and performances at clubs-of-the-moment. But Spacek’s group has always musically keyed in to decidedly older pop influences. Tiring of the fairly successful indiefolk group Oh Captain, My Captain that he co-founded with boyhood friend Jesse Bettis, Spacek accepted a challenge from Bladen County Records chief Matt Brown in 2009 to form a group from scratch in time for the label’s MusicfestNW showcase. Putting an ad on Craigslist for musicians to flesh out the early rock ’n’ soul-inspired sound he’d wanted to incorporate, the newly christened Monarques cut a rough demo to hand out as a festival favor before it had ever played a show. The band has been among the most talked-about in Portland ever since, despite its sporadic concert schedule. Though primitive compared to the eventual levels of sophistication the members would attain, the five-song EP nevertheless propelled the band through a SXSW slot and, bizarrely, an April 2010 appearance on Prairie Home Companion’s “battle of the bands,” alongside four other acts chosen seemingly at random from across the country and musical spectrum by Garrison Keillor. Around this time, Monarques underwent a radical transformation, adding guitarist Michael Slavin and bassist Richard Bennett, followed shortly thereafter by drummer Scott Magee (Y La Bamba) and multi-instrumentalist Dave Depper (Fruit Bats, Loch Lomond). After a disastrous attempt at recording locally, the band traveled to the Family Farm studio of Beau Raymond—whose diverse credits include Xzibit, Joss Stone and Devendra Banhart—and began what turned out to be an even more arduous process. “When we went into the studio and worked out what
was underneath all of that, like the actual songs, that was a turning point,” Spacek says. “The original idea of Monarques was to be a fun party band, and that’s exactly what we were. Eight people getting drunk and playing rock and roll with the girls dancing around, us dudes doing our thing, and it was awesome. When Dave and Scott joined the band, we were able to experiment with the way that we played and develop into something more.” At Family Farm, “we just put our amps in a circle and played the songs live,” Spacek says. “No click track, no headphones—nothing but feeling.” Impeccably tailored in vintage tones but neither fashion forward nor backward leaning, the band draws heavily from a retro palette to create a sound uniquely its own. On the opening title track of Let’s Make Love Come True, just-so spurts of adenoidal energy chug upward through a daisy chain of hooks seamlessly interwoven. Spacek’s vocals limn the nervousness of adolescence, dawning recognition of their own powers and borne upon the sheer ebullience of unfiltered passions. Throughout, Slavin’s guitar darts and parries, eddying shimmering waves of finely tuned frustration or licking a tasteful tumescence against rhythms to make toes bleed from the tapping. While so much of the music keyed to the touchstones of classicist pop either betrays an archival bloodlessness or exploits a thoroughly imagined virgin ur-teen cultural wilderness, Monarques are awash in swaggering restraint. This music is elegantly ecstatic, the aural equivalent of a Life magazine photo essay capturing Buddy Holly’s first threesome. “We’re not purists,” Spacek says. “We live now. There are elements of everything that’s happened in the last hundred years in the music.” “I love honest music,” Slavin says. “There’s no laptop, there’s no synthesizers, just a group of guys playing music and singing harmonies. Recording the instrumental takes
in a room as a band and not doing a million overdubs. You don’t see that a lot these days, and that’s pretty cool to me. There’s a nostalgia, there’s an emotion that comes from that, and you can hear it relayed in the music. Every Sunday, my mom cleaned the house and listened to the Beatles, and then she’d play Beatles songs on the piano. That’s something ingrained. Even though I kind of rebelled against that music as a youth, I later came to love it and think it was the best music in the world. I think it’s in my DNA.” This is music utterly absent the faux naivete and orchestrated innocence of That Thing You Do!-styled postnostalgic whitewashing of unremembered pasts. Even the band’s clearly dated aspects seem as respectful and casually worn as Spacek’s father’s ’50s watch (and, perhaps, haircut), niftily counterpointing thrift-store flannel and jeans. Some of that coolness came naturally, and some had to be learned through careful observation. “When I first started writing these songs,” Spacek says, “I was listening to a lot of Etta James, a lot of Motown, and was really infatuated with the whole concept. The band playing behind her is a major part of what makes it so good. The jazz players have that subtlety, they know that they’re in the moment, they’re feeling every note, every bit of dynamic swell. That’s where the impact is, the emotion is—the swell of the band, the dying back down, pulling it back and pushing it forward. The give-and-take where they’re all fighting within the same space, that’s good music. What we’re making—without restraint, it’d be boring. Without pulling it almost down into nothing, that little tiny step isn’t so meaningful, and that’s something we had to discover along the way.” SEE IT: Monarques play Doug Fir Lounge on Thursday, July 12, with Beisbol and Houndstooth. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+. Willamette Week JULY 11, 2012 wweek.com
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 11 Agalloch, Taurus, Eight Bells
[DRAMATIC BLACK METAL] You want epic? Portland metal masterminds Agalloch will give you epic. How does a 21-minute, two-part track based on the famed Goethe work Faust sound? That song—released online and as a limited-edition vinyl release to be sold on the band’s upcoming tour— takes full advantage of frontman John Haughm’s gurgling vocals and the band’s daring interplay between thoughtful folk themes and raw aggression. The track unfolds with the intensity we’ve come to expect from Agalloch, employing some well-placed samples from a dramatic reading of Faust that will send delicious shivers through your coccyx. ROBERT HAM. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 8 pm. $14. All ages.
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[NOCTURNAL FOLK] A couple years ago, Laura Veirs nearly upstaged the Decemberists when she opened for their MusicfestNW show at Pioneer Courthouse Square with a set that choreographed itself perfectly to a waning, 72-degree sun. Having realized the inherently complementary nature of Veirs’ gossamer, literate folk and the activities of certainly heavenly bodies, the Oregon Zoo has slated her for a 6:30 pm headlining slot at the first installment of its Sunset at the Zoo concert series. With last year’s Tumble Bee, Veirs added a clutch of children’s songs to her existing repertoire of hypnotic lullabies, making her an almost impossibly well-suited candidate for this particular gig. Future Sunset at the Zoo acts: You have a tough act to follow. SHANE DANAHER. Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Road, 220-2789. 5 pm. $10.50 (includes zoo admission). All ages.
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[GARAGE] There are a lot of specters floating around the gritty, distorted sounds put out by Hungry Ghost, and on the PDX trio’s self-titled full-length debut, they walk the soundscape like spirits in a haunted rock club. The garage trio—with former Unwound and current Corin Tucker Band drummer Sara Lund in the pocket—takes a cue from the lo-fi garage thump of the White Stripes, but there’s so much more going on here: Andrew Price shreds out everything from blues and funk to post-punk rowdiness, all while grittily singing about heartbreak like a wounded badass. There are even classical interludes tossed in. These are the ghosts of music past brought into a
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The Young, Still Caves, Lubec
[TEXAS IS THE REASON] When Austin-based quartet the Young set to record its second album, the band retreated to an isolated cabin in Texas. Not to bust out some moody, navelgazing experimentation à la Bon Iver
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K RECORDS SONGS I CAME TO LOVE WHILE WRITING LOVE ROCK REVOLUTION. “Youth,” Beat Happening This 1984 ditty is a fitting prologue to the whole K story. “I thought there must be more to this world than we’re being told,” Calvin Johnson sings. “When you’re young, you can afford to be bold.” “Rollin in the Tide,” The Few Bryan Elliott is one of the minor characters in the story of K who had a huge impact on the label. K returned the favor by teaching him that punk did not require a leather jacket. Elliott went on to form the Few. “C is the Heavenly Option,” Heavenly The more you hear Calvin Johnson’s deep, off-key baritone voice, the better it sounds. This brilliant duet with Brit Amelia Fletcher is my favorite unexpected collaboration. “Virginia Reel Around the Fountain,” Halo Benders Doug Martsch’s intricate, meandering guitar and Calvin’s beat-cool poetry are one of indie rock’s great unlikely pairings. “One Small Step,” Lake I spent relatively little time listening to current K artists. But Lake was an exception. I played this song every time I finished a chapter. “One small step for the author,” Eli Moore sings, “who gathers evidence to offer.” Then the groove kicks in and I dance a little bit. SEE IT: Mark Baumgarten reads from Love Rock Revolution on Thursday, July 12, at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St. 7:30 pm. An after-party (featuring covers of K Records songs) takes place the same night at Valentines, 232 SW Ankeny St. 9 pm. $3. 21+.
DON’T QUIT YOUR DAY JOB CODEINE GETS BACK TOGETHER—SORT OF. BY CASEY JA R MA N
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When one Googles the name “Stephen Immerwahr,” the first result is a LinkedIn profile. And there on his résumé between “Researcher: Public Agenda” in the late ’80s and “City Research Scientist: NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygeine” in the present, there’s a lowercase nod to the five years that made the frontman and his bandmates legends to a stripe of patient indie-rock fans: “bass. Codeine. 1989-1994.” Immerwahr doesn’t usually mention this chapter of his life to his coworkers. “People at my job have been finding out, partly because I’ve been carrying my bass to work, to then go to rehearsals,” he says. “So that had to come out, which is blowing my reputation as a very formal, crotchety older guy at work. It’s my shameful rock ’n’ roll past.” Almost two decades after a quiet and amicable breakup, Codeine is back. Like countless ’90s indie-rock outfits, the trio has found that sentimentality and Internet access have made for a more fertile fanbase than it ever experienced the first time around. But Codeine’s members are as skeptical of these reunions as you are. When his bandmates asked Immerwahr about getting the group back together—the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival had been asking them for some time—he emailed his response: “I would be willing to do up to 10, or possibly 11 live performances.” In all, the band will play something closer to 16. Rare are the groups that pioneer a sound, but Codeine did. The band traded in heavy, feedbackladen guitar and a glacially slow, minimal rhythm section—often dubbed “slowcore”—that bucked the quick and dirty conventions of the era. Immewahr’s vocals dredge along with the music’s low-end, mimicking the guitar lines and only occasionally peaking above the muck. The result is tense and sometimes disheartening music that retools the classic rock ’n’ roll rewards system. Verses often become indistinguishable from choruses, but the band’s emotional releases—as rare as goals in a soccer game—are entirely addictive to fans. That wasn’t how the band began. “At the time
of our first show, there was a wider array of styles,” says guitarist John Engle. “We thought it couldn’t all be this slow, clanging, morose-sounding stuff. But by the time of our second or third show, we said, ‘Wait, yes they can.’” “We wanted a coherent aesthetic,” Immewahr says. “A coherent visual aesthetic and style, and something that integrated the emotional content of the songs, as primitive as the lyrics might have been. Limiting ourselves to that gave us a certain kind of strength, but it may have made it ultimately more difficult for the band to grow and keep going.” Codeine did grow, albeit—like most things in the band’s world—in small increments. Where 1990 debut Frigid Stars was aching, brutal and lo-fi, the Barely Real EP introduced newly descriptive songwriting and cleaner instrumentation that allows listeners to discern between instruments. The band’s swan song, White Birch, opens with a sevenminute epic called “Sea” and digs deeper valleys and builds higher peaks than either of its predecessors. But taken as a whole (perhaps not in a single sitting), the catalog—recently reissued on vinyl by the Numero label—offers a peculiar feeling of relief and resolution. The world doesn’t need another Codeine album. But for those influenced by the records—a list that includes bands from Bedhead to Mogwai—a tour is a very welcome prospect. “For a long time we’d say, ‘Maybe we’ll be the one band from the ’90s that doesn’t get back together,’” says drummer Chris Brokaw. “And we felt pretty good about that.” But in playing just a handful of shows, the band members hope each night will feel special. So far, they all have. “We never had such receptive audiences back in the day,” Immerwahr says. “I hadn’t thought about people living with those records for a long time and what it might mean to them. I also didn’t know how much I’d like being back onstage.” He hasn’t missed it enough to return to music full time, though Immerwahr admits the experience may change his work apparel. “I thought about coming back from our tour with leather pants,” he says. “And maybe a Jimi Hendrix hat with the wide brim and the silver buckles on it.” SEE IT: Codeine plays Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., on Wednesday, July 11. 9 pm. $15. 21+. Willamette Week JULY 11, 2012 wweek.com
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NOW THIS IS ROCK: Agalloh plays Branx on Wednesday, July 11. but instead to bust out 10 tracks of rough-and-ready garage pop (when the group wasn’t barbecuing, playing horseshoes and fishing, that is). That laid-back vibe is reflected in the resulting album, Dub Egg. This is the grungy, slightly dank sound you would expect from four dudes in blue jeans and ripped tees to make after soaking in sun and beer for five days straight. ROBERT HAM. East End, 203 SE Grand Ave., 232-0056. 9 pm. Cover. 21+.
Laura Gibson, Grandparents
[FOLK FAERIE] There isn’t much about Laura Gibson’s outward appearance, which generally includes an earth-tone dress and an acoustic guitar, that would suggest that she is much more than another willowy female folk singer. Her waifish, whimsical voice and experimental aesthetic choices, however, quickly dispel any possibility of Gibson’s ordinariness. She has been recording her own brand of atmospheric freak folk since her debut album, If You Come to Greet Me, in 2006, and her newest release, this year’s La Grande, is a mature opus from a true (native) Oregonian gem. By running in the huge circle of Pacific Northwest folk stars—she has worked with Laura Veirs, Ethan Rose and the Decemberists’ Colin Meloy, among others—Gibson has created her own sound, full of the laid-back whimsy of West Coast acoustic songsmiths but with a surrealist touch. Named for a place that, as Gibson herself says, “people usually pass through on their way to somewhere else,” La Grande points to newer and even more exciting destinations for Gibson. NORA EILEEN JONES. Ecotrust, 721 NW 9th Ave., Suite 200, 227-6225. 5:30 pm. Free. 21+.
Fault Lines, Animal Eyes, Tango Alpha Tango
[MANICURED PUNK] Just for clarity’s sake: The Angry Orts are no more. The old Portland guitarrock group added Emily Seabroke and Molly Wiltshire for a more robust, vocally dominant sound, and the group is now known as Fault Lines. An album is due next spring, and it’s engineered by Larry Crane, who has worked with genre siblings Sleater-Kinney and the Thermals. Tonight’s show is part of BePortland’s first anniversary party, fit with free Burnside Brewing beer (while supplies last). Drink up and kindly request Fault Lines’ stellar cover of Quarterflash’s “Harden My Heart.” MARK STOCK. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $6. 21+.
Denver, Son Arc
[COUNTRY] It’s nice to hear some good ol’ country music in this town. I’m not talking about the stuff in alt-country limbo, but the straightup country that’s filled with rough, Southern-tongued harmonies, lyrics about heartbreaking women and solitary travels on vast terrain— plus some lonesome harmonica running against rolling electric-guitar riffs. Like any true country act should, Denver plays music that’ll make you want to roam wild and
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crack open a bottle of something strong. The Portland supergroup— which includes Mike Elias, Birger Olsen, Tom Bevitori (Alela Diane’s husband and bandmate), Eric Earley (Blitzen Trapper), Michael VanPelt and Sean MacNeil—will release a new full-length album in August. So, expect some fresh material to kick your freewheelin’ boot heels to this evening. EMILEE BOOHER. Kenton Club, 2025 N Kilpatrick St., 2853718. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
Steve Poltz, Rachel Taylor Brown
[FOOLISH GAMES] While a careerist troubadour seemingly destined to be forever best known as the ex-boyfriend of Jewel—a tour partner during the salad years and co-author of signal hit “You Were Meant For Me”—would be forgiven more than a shade of bitterness, Steve Poltz long ago retreated to the presumable comforts of an all-encompassing whimsy. His globe-trotting performances are dominated by unstructured play (beat-boxing, lie-downs, all rather like a sugared-up 10-year-old’s VH1 Storytellers), his string of solo acoustic songwriting (2010’s Dreamhouse the sixth proper release) veers between immaculate-if-dully-saccharine AOR balladry and coffeehouse-Weird Al daftness. Poltz’s peculiar celebrity (he was named San Diego’s most influential artist of the 1990s, which seems damnably apropos) leaves little hope of late-life reinvention. Opener Rachel Taylor Brown shall unfurl an expansive but far more disciplined muse with a strippeddown rendering of her own soonto-be-recorded sixth album. JAY HORTON. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $15. 21+.
Slash with Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators, Monster Truck
[WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE BOOK] Memorably anointed as children’s folk hero during last season’s South Park and soon to receive a Hard Rock Cafe-adjoining star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame, Slash has not just outshone the dimming legend of Axl Rose (prone to rather less flattering Santa Claus comparisons these days) but somewhat miraculously transfigured his dirt-strewn past to serve as the smiling-through-theshadows face of rawk’s seamier roots: Mr. Bojangles meets Mr. Brownstone. After a baffling Iggyto-Ozzy-to-Fergie cavalcade of golden throats graced his 2010 solo debut, recently released follow-up Apocalyptic Love installs Myles Kennedy as a perfectly serviceable vocalist to climb aboard the enlightened blues riffs, and, if Kennedy happens to exploit an eerily familiar aggrieved glam nasality through bloodless lyrics or if backing band the Conspirators at times resembles an early Guns N’ Roses utterly shorn of predatory menace, it seems pretty clear by now we’re meant to use our illusions. JAY HORTON. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave. 8 pm. $35$45. 21+.
[RISING STAR] Marina and the Diamonds encapsulates everything lovable about modern pop music. Frontwoman Maria Lambrini Diamandis is glamorously European, has a penchant for slathering herself in paint and glitter, and shares the studio with longtime underground hero-turned-pop tastemaker Diplo. Lambrini Diamandis’ stage name refers not to Marina and a backing band, but to Marina and her precious fans, a base that’s growing ever larger in the U.K. and beginning to pick up steam in the U.S. as well. Diamandis has a strong, clear voice and a style that she says has been influenced by eclectic artists from PJ Harvey to Daniel Johnston to Britney Spears. A listen to “Primadonna,” a cut from her newest album, Electra Heart, would attest to this: It has all of Spears’ pop sparkle, Harvey’s smoldering attitude, and a little bit of Johnston’s haunting realism, all rolled into one paradoxically genuine package. NORA EILEEN JONES. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.
Lyle Lovett and His Acoustic Group
[COUNTRY] Lyle Lovett’s new covers- and duets-heavy full-length Release Me—thusly titled because the album ends Lovett’s 26-year run with Curb Records on reportedly amicable terms—finds the great country songwriter and former celebrity husband stretching his legs and then kicking off his boots in favor of shinier kicks. The creeping blues and gospel influence (think horns, churchy backing vocals and the occasional piano roll) is nothing new for Lovett, who often tours and records with a big band—and it’s also a pretty standard career transition for middle-aged white musicians in general—but one wonders whether the break from his longtime label is bringing on another change in direction as he embarks on an acoustic tour without his buddy John Hiatt. Lovett has far too many fan favorites to play in a single concert (people will set fire to the Schnitz if he doesn’t sing “If I Had a Boat”), but he’s in sort of a scatting mood lately. So, to recap, tonight’s twang level remains a bit of a mystery. CASEY JARMAN. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 8 pm. $43$64. All ages.
Pegasus Dream, Aan, Forest Park
See album review, page 33. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $5. First 100 concertgoers get a free copy of Pegasus Dream’s In Absentia EP. 21+.
Ghoul, Witchaven, Wehrmacht, Speed Wolf, Weregoat, Lord Dying
[PRECIOUS METAL] As openingnight headliners of the inaugural Revelations Of Death festival, selfstyled splatterthrashers Ghoul—from Creepsylvania, evidently part of of the Bay Area—mine the fringes of extreme metal for comedy gold through theatrical costuming, exaggerated lyrical morbidity and, on recently released fourth full-length Transmission Zero, 3-D glasses. To the uninitiated, the relentless Grand Guignol onslaught might appear indistinguishable from acts far, far more serious about their apocalyptic visions, but, with 14 West Coast bands spread over two nights, we’ll assume ticketholders can spot the tongue-in-cheek, a phrase that never sounded quite so macabre. Lord Dying, local doom-metal quartet just returned from a national tour supporting Witch Mountain, will open. JAY HORTON. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 6:30 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.
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PEGASUS DREAM IN ABSENTIA (SOHITEK) [SPACE DISCO] Even more so on In Absentia than on its previous releases, Pegasus Dream achieves a sunny, seamless concatenation of melodies similar to that perfected by Starfucker and attempted to lesser degrees by a great many would-be party starters. Key to the band’s Möbius strip of chirpy synthesizer and guitar work is an excess of time spent tinkering, massaging and reworking—a sluggish process of maturation has at last allowed Pegasus Dream to make it seem easy. Now in its fifth year, the Portland-by-way-of-Spokane trio has had ample opportunity to sand the edges from its dense blend of dance psychedelia. In Absentia comes after a yearlong silence from the trio, and the EP’s roomy production makes it appear the group has made good use of its time. “Spring Break” builds its chorus by feeding a crystalline melodic lead through a series of engrossing mutations; “Righteous Tiger” places a flinching guitar figure in juxtaposition to a similarly obtuse synthesizer line and lets the two push each other through the song’s runtime. As on previous Pegasus Dream releases, frontman J.T. Lindsey’s lilting, “wimp’s tenor” dictates the EP’s essential aesthetic. Lindsey’s rhymes flirt with schmaltz though never quite make the plunge. On “Oxen Free”—the title itself tests the appropriate uses of coy—Lindsey sings, “Do you long to be somewhere far away from me?” before breaking the cliché with the second half of the couplet: “Or far away from you?” Both the emotional and sonic components of In Absentia threaten to overindulge in these broad Technicolor tendencies, but Pegasus Dream’s pitch perfection ensures the whole business goes off without a hitch. SHANE DANAHER.
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OZARKS SELF-TITLED (SELF-RELEASED) [BAROQUE POP] Robbie Augspurger may have been born in the wrong decade. In his photography, the Portlander captures contemporary characters in classic formal poses, their hair neatly slicked or brushed or defiantly feathered. His subjects, awash in gold, cast vacant stares somewhere out of the frame. These are senior photos gone awry, and stuffy business portraits meant to be hung in drab government offices. None of them look like products of the last 30 years. Augspurger’s musical project, Ozarks, evidences a similar relationship with the past. He doesn’t long for the golden age of minimal psychedelic pop, he’s just hell-bent on rebuilding it—every delicate acoustic guitar strum, doubled electric guitar solo, organ blast, tambourine hit and druggy bass line—for his own contemporary purposes. On that obsessive-compulsive front, Ozarks—built by Augspurger and his friend Eric Adrian Lee—is a huge success. The record opens with “I’m Never Bored,” a floaty slow-dance number that gives nods to both Pet Sounds’ vocal harmonies and the Velvet Underground’s most lethargic deep cuts, and never considers betraying its own aesthetic for the next 40 minutes. The Beatles-inspired sound is nothing less than majestic throughout. Augspurger isn’t quite as mature a songwriter as he is a producer—his best songs are lyrically vague and often terrifying, as on “Her Hands” and the thickly orchestrated “Red in Tooth and Claw”—but when lucid he resembles a hippied-out Alex Chilton, with whom he also shares a natural, if anxious, delivery. Function takes such a back seat to form on Ozarks’ debut, though, that one hardly notices shortcomings. High on ’60s flattery as the disc may be, it works hard enough to earn itself authenticity in the process. Like Augspurger’s portraits, the meaning here is eclipsed by a wholly realized, almost blinding excess of style. Ozarks is a really amazing soundtrack in search of a film. CASEY JARMAN. SEE IT: Pegasus Dream plays Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., on Friday, July 13. 9 pm. $5. 21+. Ozarks plays the White Eagle, 836 N Russell St., on Friday, July 13. 9:30 pm. $6. 21+. Willamette Week JULY 11, 2012 wweek.com
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[BARNYARD BANSHEES] It was a good call for North Carolina quartet Chatham County Line to release a live record in Sight & Sound. The razor-sharp bluegrass act is hemmed in by its own creation, especially live, often crowding around a single microphone to provide more foot-stomping opportunities than the fourth quarter of a tight Blazers game. While the dust has settled some since CCL released Wildwood in 2010, Dave Wilson and company continue to play as hard and harmoniously as a radio-era folk band starving for airplay. Banjoist Chandler Holt deserves mention, adding a shimmering coat to every flee-flowing track. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
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[ROCK] In an indie-rock ouroboros of impressive scale, KZME Fest is providing a venue for Portland’s rock-’n’-roll torch bearers to ply their trade, which will in turn provide financial support for KZME to fulfill its mission of helping Portland’s rock-’n’-roll torch bearers to ply their trade. Having recently secured noncommercial educational status from the Federal Communications Commission, Gresham-based KZME (91.1 FM) broadcasts local Portland music across the Willamette Valley and in general promulgates the good works of Portland-area artists. This show (and others of its ilk) will help fund KZME while also providing a platform for such rock-’n’-roll classicists as Blue Skies for Black Hearts and 1776 to fuse midcentury rock with modernist pop pluck. SHANE DANAHER. Plan B, 1305 SE 8th Ave., 230-9020. 5 pm. $5-$15 sliding scale. 21+.
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[HIP-HOP HISTORY LESSON] “The story is to be told, not to be sold,” reads the headline of the Bronx Legends Tour’s website. The line is poignant, considering that none of the tour’s headlining acts ever reached much mainstream fame, even if they danced and rapped alongside it. Hailing from Brooklyn, the all-but-undisputed birthplace of hip-hop, host Coke La Rock and his accompanying DJs and rappers represent the first generation of America’s most recent culture-shifting artistic wave. Coke rapped over the now-mythical DJ Kool Herc’s beats; rapper Busy Bee Starski gained his renown from an incendiary 1981 rap battle with Kool Moe Dee; Percee P was one of the original Fast Rappers. The tour features a few newcomers deemed worthy to perform with their esteemed elders as well— it’s the Legends’ story, however, that should not be missed. NORA EILEEN JONES. Ted’s (at Berbati’s), 231 SW Ankeny St., 248-4579. 9 pm. $15. 21+.
Ozarks, Leisure, Pony Village
See album review, page 33. White Eagle Saloon, 836 N Russell St., 282-6810. 9:30 pm. $6. 21+.
SATURDAY, JULY 14 Young Magic, Quilt, Imaginary Cities, Swahili
[EXPERIMENTAL POP] While the shoegaze trip-hop trio met in 2007, Young Magic didn’t put out a record until this year’s debut album, Melt, was released. During the in-between years, Isaac
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RINGO STARR & HIS ALL STARR BAND Formed: In 1989, thanks to producer David Fishof, who envisioned a show where “everybody onstage is a star in their own right.” Sounds like: The Travelling Wilburys with a stoned Caveman on vocals. For fans of: The Beatles, Toto, Journey, Santana, Mr. Mister, Todd Rundgren and people who like to sneak joints into Edgefield on a sunny summer’s eve. Why you care: Though he is sometimes the butt of jokes, it’s next to impossible to dislike Ringo Starr. In his own words, “I’ve always been more of an optimist than a pessimist—that’s just how I was born.” It took a healthy outlook to rise from the ashes of the Liverpool skiffle scene to the greatest heights of world notoriety, but his bubbling enthusiasm, unwavering backbeat and talented friends have always buoyed the man in perpetual Starrdom. Without the Beatles in tow, Starr’s solo output has always been a mixed bag—luckily, his copper throat and basic arrangements are supported by a host of rock legends. For his latest solo album, Ringo 2012, Joe Walsh peels off blues licks on nine Beatlesque tracks of wistful and glib pop-rock tunes. Starr nods to his hero Buddy Holly on a cover of “Think It Over” and gives the Starr treatment to Leadbelly-via-Lonnie Donegan on “Rock Island Line.” But the real album highlight occurs when the arrangements get weirdly brilliant thanks to a Van Dyke Parks’ collaboration on “Samba.” Starr’s handful of hits will get the All Starr treatment this evening, with a little help from his friends Steve Lukather (Toto), Gregg Rolie (Santana, Journey), Richard Page (Mr. Mister), Todd Rundgren, Mark Rivera and Gregg Bissonette. SEE IT: Ringo Starr & His 13th All Starr Band play Edgefield on Sunday, July 15. 6:30 pm. $93 reserved ticket, $53 general admission. All ages.
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DIAMOND, NOT JEWEL: Marina and the Diamonds play the Aladdin Theater on Friday, July 13. Emmanuel and Michael Italia traveled separately to Europe and South America, where a good chunk of the material on this record was created using portable equipment. The trio’s third member, Melati Malay, continued to make music in New York, where the members met and would later come to reconnect. Melt is the sound of years of music-centric traveling, which is not an easy sound to pin down and label. Young Magic’s sound is filled with ghostly chants paired with heavy tribal drum beats—influenced by hip-hop but featuring a dreamy pop influence as well. It’s bright and dark at the same time, a mix of emotions and stories and experience, like a sonic travel log. NIKKI VOLPICELLI. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 8:30 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
Autopsy, Black Breath, Hellshock, Vastum, Aldebaran, Knelt Rote, Murderess, Dr. Loomis
[EXTREME METAL] I don’t know who’s responsible for this insane lineup, but thank ye metal gods. Normally when venues like the Hawthorne Theatre pack in an eight-band bill, it’s a game of Russian roulette to decide when to arrive, thanks to the club’s general “no re-entry” policy. But with death-metal über-legend Autopsy reuniting in 2010, tonight will be more celebration than torture. Spawned from the same scene as Floridian legends Death, Autopsy currently boasts three-quarters of its original lineup (the bassist slot has never been constant with this gruesome group). Every band on this show absolutely kills, but take special note of Vastum—currently the best death-metal band operating out of the Bay Area. NATHAN CARSON. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 4:30 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. All ages.
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[POP PUNK] Formed by a gang of skate bums-and-proud-of-it in 2009, Angeleno garage-punk five-piece FIDLAR named itself an acronym that stands for, “Fuck It, Dog, Life’s a Risk” (meaning, “dial a 9 and 1 before I try this,” in skater’s parlance) and names its songs stuff like “Wake Bake Skate.” ’Nuff said, right? Actually, dumb as all that sounds, FIDLAR’s surf-tinged pop punk is good, not-so-clean fun. What it lacks is the redeeming thoughtfulness that has made the Thermals one of Portland’s best-known, best-loved bands. The local culture icons haven’t played much since touring behind their last album, 2010’s Personal Life, so don’t miss the chance to see them—free, if you RSVP—at this Vans-underwritten show. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8 pm. Free. 21+.
Stephanie Schneiderman, Sara Jackson-Holman
[SINGER-SONGWRITER] To celebrate the release of her sparse, intimate album Live at the Old Church, Stephanie Schneiderman is home in Portland to give a show that is much the opposite in scale: folk musician Tony Furtado, local producer Keith Schreiner, a full string section and a choir are among the accompaniments for Schneiderman’s upcoming performance. For an artist whose studio releases rely mostly on Schreiner’s finesse at production—their previous two releases, Dangerous Fruit and Rubber Teardrop, sound like the Postal Service teamed up with Four Tet and dropped Ben Gibbard for someone prettier—Live at the Old Church is a lovely and refreshing reminder of Schneiderman’s own vocal and acoustic guitar talents and her lyrical artistry. Schneiderman’s whole body of work now suggests that she is more of a musical chameleon, and one can only wonder what color she’ll be next. NORA EILEEN JONES. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.
For the Lash, The Silent Numbers, WL
[NUGAZE] Local trio WL (pronounced “well”) looks backward and downward for musical inspiration, to the turn-of-the-’90s “shoegaze” sound. The band faithfully reproduces the short-lived yet farreaching genre’s characteristic guitar-and-effects “wall of sound” and indiscernible vocals. Though formed just this winter, WL’s membership—including players from rising local bands Blouse and Houndstooth—is propitious. So are the couple of tracks the group has on its Bandcamp site: The songs offer a beautiful, stirring contrast between singer Misty Mary’s otherworldly, immaculate vocals and all-too-this-worldly grungy guitar and drums. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Record Room, 8 NE Killingsworth St. 8 pm. Free. 21+.
Tearist, DBC, Nightmare Fortress, DJ Black Dog, DJ Henry Dark
[AVANT-ELECTRONIC] In a showcase presented by formerly local label Sweating Tapes, L.A.’s experimental, electronic-leaning duo Tearist is touching back down in the Rose City after a couple years away. Led by daring frontwoman Yasmine Kittles, the rhythmic twosome is known for arresting and unpredictable performances. The singer-actress is the focal point of the group’s show, whether it be her fearless interactions with the audience, oft-pantsless fashion sense or her unique percussion habits and melodic wails that guide the songs. NILINA MASONCAMPBELL. Rotture, 315 SE 3rd Ave. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
Drunk Dad, Elephant Rifle, Gaytheist [SCUM PUNK] Portland’s punk scene can be fairly neatly segmented into clusters of bands that keen and scream in similar ways. That’s not a bad thing, but
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NEVER GONNA CHANGE MY HAT: Slash with Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators play the Roseland Theater on Thursday. it is exciting when a band stands alone with a sound that doesn’t quite jibe with contemporary categories. Drunk Dad, back in action after a brief hiatus, is just such an anomaly. Like Florida’s bygone sludge king, Cavity, this Portland quartet strafes in stoned blurs, like a hardcore 45 played at 33 1/3 that ends up sounding somehow better as an accidentally elongated dirge. Which is not to say that Drunk Dad doesn’t rage, for it most certainly knows from speed, but the band’s knack for druggy elasticity renders every song a dark and singular trip unlike any punk rock I’m hearing in town these days. CHRIS STAMM. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.
Corin Tucker Band, Holcombe Waller, Ben Landsverk, Rachel Taylor Brown, Danny Seim and more (Woody Guthrie tribute)
[FOLK PROGENITOR] As if further testament were needed, the performers at this tribute provide an indisputable argument for the truism that folk-Americana progenitor Woody Guthrie influenced almost all corners of modern popular music. From Holcombe Waller’s acoustic romanticism to the Corin Tucker Band’s bareknuckled rawk and the computerbent perversities of Danny Seim’s glitch spirituals, this lineup plays like a real-time guide to the best ways in which Guthrie’s Okie influences have mutated in the century since his birth. Pop music remains largely a folk tradition, and this church-hosted show offers both an education in and a celebration of its stylistic bedrock. SHANE DANAHER. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 147 NW 19th Ave. 7 pm. Free with donations accepted. All ages.
SUNDAY, JULY 15 Kelli Scarr, Harlowe and the Great North Woods, Kites and Crows
[SINGER-SONGWRITER] Kelli Scarr’s sophomore LP, Dangling Teeth, veers away from her soft, piano-driven 2010 debut, Piece, instead heading down the dustier path of country folk. Between the presence of a pedal steel, the definite bite in the guitar riffs and an added twang to her timbre, the Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter’s recent tracks swing a little more than they lull. Scarr’s voice sounds seasoned and comfortable, and even with a change in style, it retains the crisp, sultry sound and jazzy, sentence-capping trills that made her earlier work appealing. With Portland’s Harlowe and the Great North Woods, fronted by Mark Robertson, the bill tonight will showcase a set of alluring and soulful singers. EMILEE BOOHER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 8 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
Whiskey Flats Brass Band
[FIGHTING HORNS] The 150th anniversary of the conflict that
killed more Americans than any other has occasioned plenty of tributes. Viewers of Ken Burns’ Civil War series on PBS might imagine the period’s soundtrack as Jay Ungar’s 1982 fiddle and guitar piece “Ashokan Farewell,” but a more authentic accompaniment would be the marches, schottisches, waltzes, and other dance music played by brass band music in mid-19th-century American towns and military bands. Whiskey Flats plays the music of that time and place in historically authentic style, enhancing the performance with informative, often humorous anecdotes and other contextual material. BRETT CAMPBELL. Tabor Heights United Methodist Church, 6161 SE Stark St. 4 pm. $5. All ages.
MONDAY, JULY 16 Wild Moth, Speedy Ortiz, Lunge, Tyrants
[POST-PUNK] While Wild Moth’s squalling, be-flanneled post-punk is definitely de rigueur at the moment, this San Francisco outfit sets itself apart with a syncretic approach that stitches a number of timeworn sounds into something that sounds new enough to thrill and quicken. This decade’s pursuit of Dinosaur Jr.’s magic formula continues apace on Wild Moth’s self-titled EP, but beneath the fuzz and feedback there is evidence of abiding affections for Jawbreaker’s sodden pop punk and Guy Piccioto’s wailing contributions to Fugazi and Rites of Spring. Consider these comparisons mere hints, however, because Wild Moth’s post-everything mélange of brooding melody and deafening electricity finds a latter-day niche of its very own. CHRIS STAMM. Laughing Horse Books, 12 NE 10th Ave., 236-2893. 9 pm. $5-$10. All ages.
TUESDAY, JULY 17 Parson Red Heads
[HARMONY-DRIVEN FOLK POP] If there were any lingering doubts that the Parson Red Heads were really a Portland band—not that bands really move to L.A. to “make it” anymore, but the stigma remains—this free show in Portland’s Living Room ought to erase them. The group, which released the rich and honeyed Murmurations EP in March, has kept busy locally as well as on the national front, most recently recording a rather obscure and wonderful Nick Lowe cover, “Don’t Lose Your Grip on Love,” to the forthcoming Lowe Country benefit compilation. There are few local acts better fit for a daytime show on the Square than this quartet, whose members harbor a shared affinity for loose-fitting white clothing. CASEY JARMAN. Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave. Noon. Free. All ages. Event info and website and dates.
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UPCOMING IN-STORE PERFORMANCES MELINDA ORTNER SUNDAY 7/15 @ 5 PM
With a song already on the charts, no less in the top 100 on Itunes Finland, and recent grand prize winner of MTV’s “Steal The Spotlight” Contest, Melinda Ortner is quickly climbing in the music industry, both abroad and at home. Melinda was chosen as one of 15 songwriters of the year for ASCAP’s Johnny Mercer Project. She performed at SXSW in Austin, Texas. She was invited to perform at several film premieres that led to writing the theme song for a feature film in Finland called “Gone With The River.” Melinda’s debut full-length CD is titled ‘I Wanna Be OK.’
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Comprised of seasoned local rock veterans, Wilkinson Blades is a 5-piece Portland based rock group on the fast track: just six months ago, the band hadn’t even played their first gig. Centered around songwriter/vocalist/guitarist Steve Wilkinson, the band is rounded out by Johnny Huck on bass, Jon Beyers on drums, Grant Cumpston on guitar and backing vocals, and Rich Lander on keyboards, mandolin, and backing vocals.‘4:00 AM,’ Wilkinson Blades’ debut album, is an eleven track collection of rootsy-pop, Stones-y rock, sunshine pop, and rainy-night melodies.
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[ JULY 11-17] Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Vanport Drifters
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. John “JB” Butler & Al Craido
Buffalo Gap Saloon
WED. JULY 11 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. Ryan Sollee (of the Builders and the Butchers), Autopilot is for Lovers
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Open Mic
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Big Shell, Ashe Blonde, Sleepy Creek
Mississippi Pizza
Irish Music Jam
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Fixed Gear Bicycle (9:30 pm); Mr. Hoo (12 pm)
East India Co.
821 SW 11th Ave. Josh Feinberg
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place The Shy Seasons
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Skerik’s Bandalabra
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Scene Aesthetic, Crown Point, Painted Grey
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
Beaterville Cafe
1435 NW Flanders St. Reggie Houston/Janice Scroggins
Branx
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet
2201 N Killingsworth St. James Faretheewell
Jimmy Mak’s
320 SE 2nd Ave. Agalloch, Taurus, Eight Bells
Kenton Club
Buffalo Gap Saloon
Ladd’s Inn
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Tyler Stenson
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Jazz Jam with Errick Lewis & the Regiment House Band
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Codeine, Scout Niblett
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam (9 pm); High Flyer Trio (6 pm)
East Burn
1204 SE Clay St. Lynn Conover
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Hungry Ghost, Jason Anderson, Father Figure
Oregon Zoo
4001 SW Canyon Road Laura Veirs, Boka Marimba
PCPA Music on Main Street SW Main St. and SW Broadway The Nowhere Band
Palace of Industry
5426 N Gay Ave. Flat Rock String Band
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Anne, Wild Moth, Lunge, Industrial Park
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Whales, Shortwave, The Sorry Devils
The Blue Diamond
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray and the Cowdogs (9:30 pm); Bob Shoemaker (6 pm)
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Brown Chicken Brown Cow, Son Ark, Lewi Longmire (9 pm); Alameda, Hip Hatchet (6 pm)
Lents Commons
9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project Blues Jam
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Amusia
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Gary Smith’s Mardi Gras All-Stars
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Nancy King
Valentine’s
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. World’s Finest
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Trio with LaRhonda Steele
THURS. JULY 12 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Ryan Sollee (of the Builders and the Butchers), Sean Flinn
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Duniven (9:30 pm); Leo J & the Melee (6:30 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Greg Wolfe Trio
Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band
Artichoke Community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Acoustic Village
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Andrew’s Ave., LiquidLight, Ambush Party
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Kat Jones
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Rocktown PDX, Chris Margolin
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Doug MacDonald Trio
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. DJ Liberator, The Grand Yoni
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Fanno Creek, Charts, My Autumn’s Done Come
Holocene
Chapel Pub
1001 SE Morrison St. Fault Lines, Animal Eyes, Tango Alpha Tango
Clyde’s Prime Rib
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin 5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Mesi & Bradley
Corkscrew Wine Bar 1669 SE Bybee Blvd. Laura Ivancie
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Monarques, Beisbol, Houndstooth
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Grady Champion (9 pm); Tough Lovepyle (6 pm)
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. Stefan Andrews
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. The Young, Still Caves, Lubec
Ecotrust
721 NW 9th Ave., Suite 200 Laura Gibson, Grandparents
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Eidolons, C.C. Swim, Leverage Models, In One Wind
Goat’s Head Manor 14 SE 15th Ave.
232 SW Ankeny St.
1435 NW Flanders St. Lee Wuthenow, David Evans, Dave Frischberg, Tom Wakeling, Todd Strait (Al Cohn and Zoot Simms tribute)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown B3 Organ Group
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Future Historians, Johnny and the Bells, Bevelers
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Denver, Son Ark
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Super Saturated Sugar Strings, Michael Howard (9:30 pm); Counterfeit Cash (6 pm)
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Strangled Darlings, The Missing Parts (9 pm); Mo Phillips with Johnny & Jason (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Steve Poltz, Rachel Taylor Brown
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb
Pioneer Courthouse Square
FOFMUSIC.NET
1800 E Burnside St.
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Aranya, IX, Fever
Mississippi Studios
Jason Urick, Grape God, Grapefruit
Goat’s Head Festival: The Ghost Ease, Lore Acts, Somniative, MetaPinnacle, E.A.R.T.H., New Pioneers
701 SW 6th Ave. Brownish Black
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. The Sentiments, Middle Age Ska Enjoy Club, The Longshots, Monkey
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Feral Depravity, Hyborian Rage, Gate of the Gods, Sarcalogos
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Cabaret Chanteuse
Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Douglas Fox
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Clea Patridge, Grey Anne, Alan Singley, Misti Miller, Ben Meyercord, Reverend Mrs., Santi Elijah Holley, His Name Shall Breathe, Sarcastic Dharma Society, Padraic Finbar HaggertyHammond (K Records tribute and book release)
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Hivemind, De La Warr (8:30 pm); Kory Quinn (5:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar
800 NW 6th Ave. Mike & Haley Horsfall, Kevin Deitz, Mark Griffith
FRI. JULY 13 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Ryan Sollee (of the Builders and the Butchers), Bright Archer
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Marina and the Diamonds
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Poeina Suddarth, Baron Sisters (9:30 pm); Mikey’s Irish Jam (6:30 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Sambafeat Quartet
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway Lyle Lovett and His Acoustic Group
Artichoke Community Music
3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Friday Night Coffeehouse
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Beringia, Foal, Into the Storm
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Natasha Kmeto, Plantrae, Adventures! with Might, Scissors to Tape
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Stacy Jones Band, Gusto Brothers (9 pm); The Hamdogs (6 pm)
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. Dogtooth
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. MOTO, Youthbitch, Piss Test, The Hot LZs
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Western Haunts, Hidden Knives, Autronic Eye
Graeter Art Gallery
131 NW 2nd Ave. Mojave Bird, Log Across the Washer
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Ghoul, Witchaven, Wehrmacht, Speed Wolf, Weregoat, Lord Dying
Island Mana Wines 526 SW Yamhill St. Joe Marquand
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Ed Bennett Quintet
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Eddie Martinez
Katie O’Briens
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Centaurpalooza: The Hot LZs, Isolated Cases, Burn Champion, Erik Anarchy
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Black Pussy, Whorehound, Antique Scream, Sugar Sugar Sugar, Branden Daniel & the Chics
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Missing Parts, Jarad Miles in Ancient Wave, Kelly Blair Bauman (9:30 pm); Woodbrain (6 pm)
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. 12th Avenue Hot Club with Jenny Houser (9 pm); Level 2 (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Chatham County Line, Denver
Nel Centro
1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew
Beaterville Cafe
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe
8 NW 6th Ave. Slash with Myles Kennedy, The Conspirators, Monster Truck
Biddy McGraw’s
Original Halibut’s II
Sellwood Public House
Bipartisan Cafe
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
Slabtown
Branx
Roseland Theater
8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic
1033 NW 16th Ave. Blood Buddies, Vises
2201 N Killingsworth St. Old States 6000 NE Glisan St. Her Ghost (9:30 pm); Lynn Connover (6 pm) 7901 SE Stark St. Jason Okamoto
Spare Room
320 SE 2nd Ave. Lemonade, Kingdom, Brenmar
The Blue Diamond
626 SW Park Ave. Tablao
The Blue Monk
510 NW 11th Ave. The Disappointments
The Lovecraft
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Norman Sylvester
4830 NE 42nd Ave. The Sonny Hess Band 2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones
Brasserie Montmartre
Camellia Lounge
4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music 2527 NE Alberta St. Lloyd Allen
2314 SE Division St. Forest Bloodgood
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. KZME Fest: Blue Skies for Black Hearts, 1776, Slutty Hearts, Shut Your Animal Mouth (indoor stage); The Upsidedown, Boo Frog, Hawkeye, Fanno Creek (outdoor stage)
Red Room
Clyde’s Prime Rib
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Holgate, Trueheart Suzy, The Warshers, Silver Remains, Jetforce Gemini
421 SE Grand Ave. Penguin, Jenn O Cide, Hilary
Corkscrew Wine Bar
Secret Society Lounge
Tiger Bar
Dante’s
3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones Jam
317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell
Tonic Lounge
PEEK-A-BOO: Open Mike Eagle plays Ted’s (at Berbati’s) on Monday, July 16.
Tony Starlight’s
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Gnash, Random Axe, The Fuckin’ Fucks
1669 SE Bybee Blvd. Frank Tribble 350 W Burnside St. Smoochknob
116 NE Russell St. Buoy LaRue, De La Warr, Jeni Wren (9 pm); Pete Krebs and His Portland Playboys (6 pm)
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Pegasus Dream, Aan, Forest Park
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Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
Tearist, DBC, Nightmare Fortress, DJ Black Dog, DJ Henry Dark
1435 NW Flanders St. George Colligan Trio
Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave. The Winebirds
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Portland Soul AllStars
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Hip Deep
Katie O’Briens
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Centaurpalooza: Nasalrod, The Food, Advisory, Last Shot, Ghostwriter
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Crown Point
426 SW Washington St. Hema, Sleepwalk Kid, COBB
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Audios Amigos, Don & the Quixotes, DJ Hubbabubba
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Dr. Theopolis, Drive
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
231 SW Ankeny St. The Bronx Legends Tour: Percee P., Coke La Rock, Busy Bee, DJ Ice, Jendor, Medusa, Cali Kidd, Mighty Misc., The Early Bird Project, Buck Turtle, Amber Havana, Francheyes
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Arthur “Fresh Air” Moore’s Harmonica Party
The Gelato & Yogurt Lounge
13611 NW Cornell Road Cody Weathers & the Men Your Mama Warned You About
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Forever, Swearin’, Waxahatchee
The Slate
2001 NW 19th Ave, Suite 104 Goat’s Head Festival: Kable Roc, Guadalupe, Leah Bee, Kings and Vagabonds, Village Healers
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Wolfpussy, Amerakin Overdose, How the West Was Won, 30 Pound Test
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. PDX Punk Rock Collective, Green Flag, The Eric Tonsfeldt Experience
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Portland Woodshed Jazz Orchestra (MUSE benefit)
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Mike Winkle, Joe Millward
Trader Vic’s
1203 NW Glisan St. John English (Frank Sinatra tribute)
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Son Ark
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Ozarks, Leisure, Pony Village (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar
800 NW 6th Ave. Don Freeman, Dick Berk, Dave Captein
SAT. JULY 14 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Ryan Sollee (of the Builders and the Butchers), Kelli Schaefer
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Stephanie Scelza, Dude
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Hot Tea Cold, Sam Cauthorn
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Nicole Sangsuree, Andrew Goodwin
Centaur Guitar
Mississippi Pizza
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. ON-Q Band
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Wasteland Hop, The Echo Chamber
Crystal Ballroom
Nel Centro
Doug Fir Lounge
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe
1332 W Burnside St. Led Zeppelin Experience, No Quarter 830 E Burnside St. Young Magic, Quilt, Imaginary Cities, Swahili
Duff’s Garage
Artichoke Community Music
Ella Street Social Club
3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Danny Schmidt
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. A Happy Death, Vises, The Ex-Girlfriends Club, Hey Lover
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Sunday Last
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Radio Giants (9:30 pm); Honeycuts (6 pm)
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Caminhos Cruzados
1635 SE 7th Ave. The Buckles 714 SW 20th Place Goat’s Head Festival: Caroline, Cotton, Barry Brusseau, The Torn ACLs, Beth Wooten, Blind Lovejoy
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Dusu Mali
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Autopsy, Black Breath, Hellshock, Vastum, Aldebaran, Knelt Rote, Murderess, Dr. Loomis
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. The Thermals, FIDLAR, DJ Bobby Dangerous
4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Midnight Serenaders
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Gaea Schell, Dave Bones
Trader Vic’s
350 W Burnside St. Inspirational Beets
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. If Birds Could Fly, Alina Hardin
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Di Di Mau (The Damned tribute), Amphetamine Blue, Mike Aragon
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place The Torn ACLs
Hawthorne Theatre
1203 NW Glisan St. Xavier Tavera
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
147 NW 19th Ave. Corin Tucker Band, Holcombe Waller, Ben Landsverk, Rachel Taylor Brown, Buoy LaRue, Wendy & the Lost Boys, Josh Lava, Danny Seim (Woody Guthrie tribute)
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Origami Ghosts, Moon Debris, Northern, Old Friend (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar
800 NW 6th Ave. Don Freeman, Dick Berk, Dave Captein
SUN. JULY 15
Dante’s
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Julia’s Misfortune, The Knights Of Zoar, Brandon Bulanadi, Ian Uehara, The Surrealists
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Young Eduardians (Kinks tribute), Deep Joy, Paradise, Mr. Howl, DJ Baron Saturday (Ray Davies Day show and Oregon Music Hall of Fame benefit)
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Nucular Aminals, Palo Verde, Reynosa, Still Caves
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray
Laughing Horse Books 12 NE 10th Ave. Mahria, Sloths, Carrion Spring, Poitin
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Better Days
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Kelli Scarr, Harlowe and the Great North Woods, Kites and Crows (8 pm); Y La Orkesta, Luzelena Mendoza (3 pm)
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Nefarious Jones, 4 on the Floor, Philly’s Phunkestra
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Melinda Ortner
NEPO 42
5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic
Rontoms
600 E Burnside St. No Kind of Rider, Conveyor
Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave. Fete de Masque
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. The Angel Bouchet Band Jam
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Urban Sub All-Stars
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Liz Rognes, Matthew Lindley (9:30 pm); Megan Burtt, Brian Granse (6:30 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. A Moment of Substance, Meta the Man
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Free Will
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band (8 pm); Brandon and Liz of the Gemtones (6:30 pm)
Laughing Horse Books
12 NE 10th Ave. Wild Moth, Speedy Ortiz, Lunge, Tyrants
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Portland Country Underground, Kung Pao Chickens
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mr. Ben
O’Connor’s Vault
7850 SW Capitol Highway Gary Ogan, Dave Captein, Casey James
The Blue Monk
Plan B
6161 SE Stark St. Whiskey Flats Brass Band 3341 SE Belmont St. Supraphonics
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Scaphe, Valkyrie Rodeo, White Woman
Tillicum Club
8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Johnny Martin Quartet
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. White Fang
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Deathtrap America, VanMarter Project, Riot in Rhythm, Jacktown Road
MON. JULY 16 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave.
1305 SE 8th Ave. Sucker for Lights, WL, Mira Loma, Space Waves
Press Club
2621 SE Clinton St. The Super Saturated Strings, Michael Howard
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Carlton Jackson-Dave Mills Big Band
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Spraypaint, Sad Horse, Gutters, Light Brigade
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
231 SW Ankeny St. Open Mike Eagle, Cloudy October, Rafael Vigilantics
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Tom Grant Trio
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Mira Loma, WL, Sound Waves, DJ J One Ill
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Metal Machine
Unico Plaza
SW 6th Ave. and SW Oak St. Get a Life Marching Band
Valentine’s
Peter’s Room
232 SW Ankeny St. Speedy Ortiz, Peck the Town Crier, Cole Baby
8 NW 6th Ave. Otherwise, Red Line Chemistry
White Eagle Saloon
Plan B
836 N Russell St. Sea at Last, Edna Vazquez
1305 SE 8th Ave. The Punctuals, Race of Strangers, Friends Like Enemies, Shotgun Overdose, Bloodoath, God Denied, Murder Your Gods, Seasons of Suffering
TUES. JULY 17 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. The Golden Bears
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. The Silent Numbers, WL
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Neftali Rivera
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Fucktard, Common Human Trait, Ninja, Go Ballistic, The Boors, Chase the Shakes, Skatter Bomb
The Golden Bears
Tabor Heights United Methodist Church
2527 NE Alberta St. Robbie Laws
Rotture
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2833 NE Sandy Blvd. Centaurpalooza: Knox Harrington, Mother’s Whisky, Studfinder, Mormon Trannys, Beyond Veronica, The Anxieties, Avenue Victor Hugo, Thebrotheregg, The Cool Whips, Evil Egg, Pale Blue Sky, 6:37, Burnside Heroes, The Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers
Centaur Guitar
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Ringo Starr & His 13th All Starr Band
Original Halibut’s II
315 SE 3rd Ave.
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The Lovecraft
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Silent Theory, Static Parallel, The Rodeo Clowns
Mount Tabor Theater
1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew, Dave Captein, Randy Rollofson
6000 NE Glisan St. Felim Egan
Tonic Lounge
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Z’Bumba (9 pm); Boa Saida, Professor Banjo (5 pm); Mr. Ben, The Alphabeticians (kids’ show, 2:30 pm); Lorna & Ian Miller (kids’ show, 12 pm)
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero
Biddy McGraw’s
317 NW Broadway Horse Thief, Jim Strange, The Proud & the Damned, Bodybox
North Mississippi Avenue between Skidmore and Fremont streets NOPO Big Band, Parson Red Heads, Casey Neill and the Norway Rats, Linda Hornbuckle, Portland Intergenerational Women’s Choir, Old Light, Midnight Serenaders, Lewi Longmire Band (Main Stage, at N Shaver St.); James Lowe, Norman Sylvester, 1939 Ensemble, Fanno Creek, Mexican Gunfight, Animal Eyes, Sneakin’ Out (Courtyard Stage, at Bar Bar); PHAME Academy Singers, Sarah Gwen, Keep Your Fork There’s Pie, Philly’s Phunkestra, Brothers of the Baladi, The Way Downs, Andrea Wild (Dance Stage, at N Fremont St.); Rachel Robinson, Slater Smith, Suzanne Tufan, dkota, Neighbors (Parlor Stage, at N Skidmore St.)
Andina
2026 NE Alberta St. Drunk Dad, Elephant Rifle, Gaytheist
Tiger Bar
Mississippi Avenue Street Fair
2833 NE Sandy Blvd. Centaurpalooza: Pitchfork Motorway, Minty Rosa, Eastside Speed Machine, 48 Thrills, Gimme an X, The Iron Lords, The Ransom, Pity Fucks, Primitive Idols, Dr. Stahl, Tina, The Decliners, Flight 19
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Borikuas
1624 NW Glisan St. Stephanie Schneiderman, Sara Jackson-Holman
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Ray Davies
The Know
2001 NW 19th Ave, Suite 104 Goat’s Head Festival: J Simpson, Dodge Logic, Kings and Vagabonds, Blind Lovejoy
Mission Theater
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ELIOT ROCKETT
CHIC LIT: After walking through a brightly lit hall of middleaged men playing pool and watching UFC, it’s vaguely disconcerting to descend a staircase and suddenly find yourself in a dim room full of effete art-school kids selling zines, spinning glam rock on vinyl and doing spoken-word performances before a backdrop of crudely drawn penises. Somehow The Jack London Bar (529 SW 4th Ave., 228-7605), the resurrected basement lounge below the dingy Rialto, has established itself as the new downtown darling of Portland’s alt-lit crowd, quietly playing host to lectures, readings and art shows while scary dudes with big bellies play video poker upstairs. Dark, grungy and graffitied, the bar suggests an edgier scene, but the Instagramming audience sipping box wine says otherwise. Still, something about the Jack London feels slightly illicit, like the folks upstairs might suddenly appear, brandishing their pool cues, to chase everyone back across Burnside. RUTH BROWN.
Aladdin Theater
2201 N Killingsworth St. Doc McTear’s Medicine Show (7 pm); Johnny Payola (2 pm)
The Slate
2958 NE Glisan St. Leaves Russell, Labradora (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)
303 SW 12th Ave. The Golden Bears
2958 NE Glisan St. Dan Haley & Tim Acott (9 pm); The Barkers (6 pm)
The Blue Diamond
421 SE Grand Ave. Myrrh Larsen
LaurelThirst
LaurelThirst
Beaterville Cafe
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Lady Kat
Kelly’s Olympian
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
Ash Street Saloon
EMOTIONAL DUDES: Old Light plays the Mississippi Avenue Street Fair on Saturday, July 14.
225 SW Ash St. Krack Sabbat, Armed for Apocalypse, Battle Axe Massacre
CALENDAR Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Jessie Rae
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. This Charming Man, Police Cars
Jazz Jam with Carey Campbell
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm); Fresh Track (6:30 pm)
Katie O’Briens
Doug Fir Lounge
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Hawthorne, Buddy Jackson, The Decliners
Ella Street Social Club
Kelly’s Olympian
830 E Burnside St. Liv Warfield
714 SW 20th Place I.H.M.C., Basil Outerspace
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Sugarcane
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Strung Out, Such Gold, Handguns, Rendered Useless
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St.
426 SW Washington St. Jobo Shakins, Moondog Matinee, Panther Power
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Jeremy Dion
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Deep Time, Bouquet
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Hamsa Lila
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Wilkinson Blades
Pioneer Courthouse Square
701 SW 6th Ave. Parson Red Heads
Red Room
Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Yard Sale
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Trick with DJ Robb
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Pretty Ugly
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. TRONix with DJ 808
Matador
1967 W Burnside St. DJ Whisker Friction
Red Cap Garage
1035 SW Stark St Riot Wednesdays with Amy Kasio
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
231 SW Ankeny St. World Music Dance Party with DJ Jason Catalyst
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. DJ Wizard Sleeve
Manchester Night: DJs Bar Hopper, Selector TNTs
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ El Dorado
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Sethro Tull
FRI. JULY 13 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Ghost Train
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Flamin’ Fridays with DJ Doughalicious
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. ‘80s Video Dance Attack with VJ Kittyrox
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Hostile Tapeover (late set); Rev. Shines (early set)
Tiga
Tiger Bar
Fez Ballroom
317 NW Broadway DJ Detroit Deisel (fashion show)
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Creepy Crawl
Yes and No
20 NW 3rd Ave. Death Club with DJ Entropy
THURS. JULY 12
1135 SW Morrison St. Chris Alice
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Shadowplay: DJs Ghoulunatic, Paradox, Horrid
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. I’ve Got a Hole in My Soul with DJ Beyondadoubt
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Matt Nee, Dave Bate, Romo/ Grimes, James Anthony (9 pm); Mr. Romo, Michael Grimes (3 pm)
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave.
232 SW Ankeny St. Pollens, Ben Schaub 836 N Russell St. Amaya Villazan, Karyn Patridge Project, Michelle Kopper, Lyman Louis
Blank Fridays
Dollar Bin
The Blue Monk
Matador
Tiga
1967 W Burnside St. Next Big Thing with Donny Don’t
Tube
1305 SE 8th Ave. Hive with DJ Owen
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Easy Ian 18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Neil Blender
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Mercedez
SAT. JULY 14 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. DJ AM Gold
Beech Street Parlor
412 NE Beech St. DJ Big Drum and Hostile Tapeover
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Revolution with DJ Robb
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Montel Spinoza
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. ‘80s Dance Attack with DJ Revron
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Singalong with DJ The Shadow
Foggy Notion
3416 N Lombard St. BENT
Goodfoot Lounge
Ground Kontrol
316 SW 11th Ave. Popvideo with DJ Gigahurtz
Foggy Notion
2845 SE Stark St. Soul Stew with DJ Aquaman
511 NW Couch St. DJs Destructo, Chip
Groove Suite
Mississippi Studios
CC Slaughters
736 SE Grand Ave. Newrotics
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Bo Ayars
The Blue Monk
3416 N Lombard St. Riot Grrrl Karaoke: KJ Freddie Fagula, DJ Slutshine
Holocene
Dig a Pony
Tony Starlight’s
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Sportin’ Lifers
316 SW 11th Ave. Decadent ‘80s: DJ Non, Jason Wann; Rewind with Phonographix DJs
Beech Street Parlor
219 NW Davis St. Hip Hop Heaven with DJ Detroit Diesel
317 NW Broadway AC Lov Ring
White Eagle Saloon
Fez Ballroom
440 NW Glisan St. Cock Block: Miss Shelrawka, Mercedes, The Perfect Cyn, Miss Vixen
412 NE Beech St. DJ Jeffrey Jerusalem
Tiger Bar
3341 SE Belmont St.
Element Restaurant & Lounge
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Hero Worship
71 SW 2nd Ave. PX Singer-Songwriter Showcase
Secret Society Lounge
3341 SE Belmont St. Blue Wave
WED. JULY 11
SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS
Thirsty Lion
Valentine’s
The Blue Diamond
NIG ONE HT ONL Y
Pagan Jug Band
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Neldoreth, Vulkodlak, Truculence 116 NE Russell St. Lindsay Pavao, Olivia De La Cruz, Naomi Wachira, Brett Hinders, Valerie Orth
MUSIC
1001 SE Morrison St. ATLAS: DJs Anjali, E3, The Incredible Kid, Massacooramaan (9 pm); Aperitivo Happy Hour with Strange Babes DJs (5 pm)
Red Cap Garage
1035 SW Stark St Mantrap with DJ Lunchlady
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Live & Direct: Slimkid3, Rev. Shines, DJ Nature
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Mrs. with DJ Beyonda
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
231 SW Ankeny St. International Night: DJs Shaka, Kypros
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ RNDM Noise
Tube
Spare Room
232 SW Ankeny St. Stayathome Mob DJs, Kiffo, Rymes
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St.
Valentine’s
SUN. JULY 15 Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave.
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2415 NE Alberta St. Country Music Record DJ
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MON. JULY 16
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Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Robert Ham
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CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Maniac Monday with DJ Doughalicious
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Tre Slim
SELL YOUR SOUL MUSIC SECTION
Ground Kontrol
WillaMette Week
511 NW Couch St. Service Industrial with DJ Tibin
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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 Yusimov
TUES. JULY 17 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Mercedez
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Girltopia with DJ Robb
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Mint Revolver, Last Call
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. DJs Tom Jones, Erica Jones
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
The Alleyway Cafe and Bar
The Crown Room
18 NW 3rd Ave. Saturdazed with DJ GH
4830 NE 42nd Ave. DJ Drew Groove
231 SW Ankeny St. Deacon X’s Fetish Night with DJ Ubercake
Eagle Portland
3341 SE Belmont St. DJ OG One
The Very Loud Ending of
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
The Blue Monk
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Let It Go: Grime, Breaks, Future Garage
Plan B
835 N Lombard St DMTV with DJ Animal 205 NW 4th Ave. See You Next Tuesday: Kellan, Avery
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. DJs Margo, Stallone
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ One Crate
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Tubesday (10 pm); DJ Overcol (7 pm)
Yes and No
20 NW 3rd Ave. Idiot Tuesdays with DJ Black Dog
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THEATER Beauty and the Beast
Broadway Rose presents a children’s musical of the venerable tale. The show runs about 50 minutes and features an adult cast and a kid-filled ensemble. Deb Fennell Auditorium, 9000 SW Durham Road, Tigard, 6205262. 11 am Wednesday-Saturday, July 11-14. $8.
Hamlet
Shakespeare’s doomed Danish prince in Portland’s oldest cemetery? Spooky! Portland Actors Ensemble presents the tragedy. Lone Fir Cemetery, Southeast 26th Avenue and Stark Street, 4676573. 7 pm Thursday-Saturday, July 12-14. Free.
Irregardless
CoHo Productions’ solo summer wraps up with a show from Curious Comedy founder Stacey Hallal. The show probes the concept of happiness, incorporating songs, stand-up, sketches and storytelling. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 2202646. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday, July 12-14. $15.
Lear’s Follies
Portland Shakespeare Project stages a King Lear double-header: one show with the script intact, and this adaptation written by Portlander C.S. Whitcomb. Lear’s Follies reimagines the legendary king as a tobacco magnate in Depression-era Virginia. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 313-3048. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays and Saturday, Aug. 4. Closes Aug. 5. $18-$30.
The Match.com Monologues
Apparently, one in six relationships starts online. Who knew? CoHo Productions delves into that virtual world in this multimedia performance, written by former Mercury editor Phil Busse and directed by Debbie Lamedman. Keep the kiddos at home— this show’s got naughty onscreen images and spicy language. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 2202646. 10:30 pm Fridays-Saturdays through July 21. $10.
Measure for Measure
Northwest Classical Theatre Company closes its season with a production of Shakespeare’s last comedy—and his most nihilistic. Butch Flowers directs. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 971-244-3740. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays. $18-$20.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Post5 Theatre presents an alfresco performance of Shakespeare’s fairyfilled comedy, reimagined in Athens, Ga. Milepost 5, 900 NE 81st Ave., 971258-8584. 7 pm Thursdays-Sundays through July 20. Free.
November
Abraham Lincoln was the first president to spare a turkey’s life at Thanksgiving. From the silly annual gesture comes November, David Mamet’s political satire skewering electoral campaigns and the naive beliefs about democracy. President Charles H.P. Smith (Brian Harcourt) is whining his way through his last few days in office, assuming his reelection is already lost given poll numbers “lower than Gandhi’s cholesterol.” A meeting with a representative of the National Association of Turkey and Turkey Products Manufacturers to arrange the annual pardoning ceremony becomes an opportunity to extort funding for his failing campaign. Because this is a Mamet play, the real star is the dialogue. The cast handles it admirably, batting conversations back and forth
like high-speed pingpong and spewing obscenity-laced rants to comic effect. Harcourt’s President Smith is such a helpless buffoon that even his vitriolic tirades against the Chinese and his own lesbian speechwriter (Kim Bogus) come across hilariously endearing. Seeing the giblets of the political process may kill your appetite for democracy, but at least November makes you laugh. PENELOPE BASS. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 816-5444. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 4 pm Sundays through July 21. $20.
The Odd Couple
The familiar plot of Neil Simon’s classic comedy The Odd Couple: Oscar Madison (Tim True), a newly single sportswriter, lives alone in a rumpled New York City apartment. Felix Ungar (Michael O’Connell) is finicky and neurotic, the kind of guy who wears his seat belt at a drive-in movie. When his wife tosses him out, he moves in with Oscar. The cheerful slob and the depressive neat freak, together for our amusement. But Oscar and Felix are not stock characters. The enduring strength of Simon’s droll comedy is not in the plot, but in the effortless way he exposes these regular guys as flawed and sympathetic as they fire impeccably constructed zingers at one another. Longtime friends True and O’Connell have the chemistry to do it. Sometimes squabbling like a couple, they also take turns playing the petulant child to the other’s scolding parent. Their comic pacing is perfect and their physical comedy unfussy but hilarious. David Smith-English keeps the direction straight, wisely leaving the focus on a strong script and cast. Sometimes, it just feels good to relax with a wellworn show. With actors as skilled and funny as True and O’Connell driving it, this is a well-oiled production delivering an evening of easy entertainment. REBECCA JACOBSON. Clackamas Community College, Osterman Theatre, 19600 S Molalla Ave., 594-6047. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2:30 pm Sundays through July 22. $12-$24.
See How They Run
Lakewood Theatre presents Philip King’s very British farce of mistaken identities. Scott Parker directs. Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, 635-3901. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays; 7 pm Sundays July 15, 22 and 29; 2 pm Sundays July 22 and Aug. 5, 12 and 19. Closes Aug. 19. $25-$28. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays; 7 pm Sundays July 15, 22 and 29; 2 pm Sundays July 22 and Aug. 5, 12 and 19. Closes Aug. 19. $25-$28.
The Sound of Music
The hills (of Tigard?) are alive, as the heartwarming Rodgers and Hammerstein musical makes it way to the Broadway Rose stage. Isaac Lamb, of lip-dub proposal fame, stars as Captain Von Trapp. Deb Fennell Auditorium, 9000 SW Durham Road, Tigard, 620-5262. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays; 2 pm Sundays; 2 and 7:30 pm Saturdays July 14 and 21. Closes Sunday, July 22. $20-$42.
COMEDY AND VARIETY H.O.T. Comedy Tour
Comedians Andy Haynes, Sean O’Connor and Nick Turner (note the first letters of each last name) join forces for a stand-up show. Action/ Adventure Theatre, 1050 SE Clinton St. 9 pm Monday, July 16. $7.
Jon Reep
The winner of season five of NBC’s Last Comic Standing takes the Helium stage. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 pm and 10 pm FridaySaturday, July 12-14. $15-$27.
Late-night comedy show with improv, sketch and stand-up. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 10 pm every second and fourth Saturday. $5.
CLASSICAL Chamber Music Northwest
On Wednesday, the venerable summer series continues at Someday Lounge with the latest installment in its Protégé Project, which stars rising, young ensembles performing in rock and music venues—and, this time, focuses on brand-new music. In a highly recommended concert, the Orion Quartet returns Monday and Tuesday (at Catlin Gabel School) with guests including Shifrin, pianists Gilbert Kalish and Robert Blocker, singers Sasha Cooke (a star of last summer’s festival) and Nicholas Phan and others in the world premiere of Perpetual Chaconne, a new work for piano and string quartet by one of America’s leading composers, Aaron Jay Kernis. Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 294-6400. 8 pm Wednesday-Thursday, Saturday and Monday-Tuesday, July 11-12, 14 and 16-17. 6:30-8:30 pm Friday, July 13 and 3 pm Sunday, July 15. $10$50.
DANCE Le Gran Continental
is 4 to 6 pm Saturday, July 14. PCPA Brunish Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, whitebird.org.
If you didn’t attend dance camp in your youth, here’s a second chance: In honor of its 15th anniversary season, White Bird is staging the West Coast debut of Le Grand Continental, a community dance performance starring you and your neighbors. Even if your dance experience began and ended on prom night, you can participate: Montréal-based choreographer Sylvian Émard, will cast 150 performers, ages 10-75, to perform a contemporary version of a traditional line dance. Three different recruitment sessions will be held in the Portland Center for the Performing Arts. Session 1 is 7 to 9 pm Friday, July 13; Session 2 is 1 to 3 pm Saturday, July 14; and Session 3
Obonfest 2012
Celebrate your ancestors and the loved ones you’ve lost at the Japanese Buddhist celebration Obonfest 2102, a daylong family party that has elements in common with Mexico’s Day of the Dead. Per Japanese tradition, the event features the lovely, lantern-lit Bon Odori (Obon dance, which Sahomi Tachibana will teach on Tuesdays and Thursday beginning July 17), and performances by Portland Taiko and Shotokan Karate Do. Oregon Buddhist Temple, 3720 SE 34th Ave. Dance classes beginning Tuesday, July 17; celebration 3 to 9 pm Saturday, Aug. 4.
REVIEW BAG&BAGGAGE
PERFORMANCE
Joe Powers
In this Oregon Bach Festival concert, the Oregon native, who studied tango at the source in Buenos Aires, deploys his harmonica virtuosity, his band (guitar, bass, percussion, piano) and local tango master dancer Alex Krebs and Miwa Elle in traditional and contemporary tangos, milongas and waltzes by Carlos Gardel, the great Astor Piazzolla and other composers. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 541-346-4363. 7:30 pm Wednesday, July 11. $10-$25.
Opera Theater Oregon
The plucky, alternative opera company winds up its delightful Opera vs. Cinema series, which pairs classic silent films with a live soundtrack improvised from the score of a famous opera, with F.W. Murnau’s 1927 silent masterpiece, Sunrise. Portland State University music-faculty members saxophonist Kim Reece and pianist Douglas Schneider, both veteran solo performers, and singer Helen Funston will spontaneously create a new soundtrack from Puccini’s music for the opera La Bohème, which shares themes with the movie. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 7 pm Friday, July 13. $9-$12.
Portland International Piano Festival
The annual summer piano extravaganza concludes with a slew of workshops, master classes, talks, lecture recitals, film screenings and much more. The prime recital pick Thursday features the great contemporary music pianist Gilbert Kalish, recently seen here accompanying singer Dawn Upshaw, performing the modernist landmark Synchronisms by Mario Davidovsky, nocturnes and mazurkas by Chopin and one of the milestones of American music, Charles Ives’ mighty “Concord Sonata.” World Forestry Center, 4033 SW Canyon Road, 228-1388. 9 am-4:15 pm Wednesday, 9 am-9:45 pm Thursday and Saturday, 9 am-5:15 pm Friday and 1-6:15 pm Sunday, July 11-15. $10-$360.
Wayward Sisters
Fans of Portland Baroque Orchestra, Wildwood Consort and other historically informed early music groups should welcome this opportunity to hear one of the most acclaimed nextgeneration period-instrument ensembles, winners of last year’s Early Music America/Naxos Recording Competition. They’ll play music by the great English Baroque composers Matthew Locke and Henry Purcell and more on recorders, Baroque violin, theorbo, guitar and cello. Grace Memorial Episcopal Church, 1535 NE 17th Ave., 287-0418. 7:30 pm Wednesday, July 11. $10-$20.
YOU’RE A MYSTERY TO ME, KABUKI GIRL: Anne Mueller as Lavinia.
KABUKI TITUS (BAG&BAGGAGE) In Japanese Kabuki theater, tricks of costuming and staging assist actors as they undergo swift transformations or make sudden revelations. It’s a theme applied to bold effect in Bag&Baggage’s Kabuki-inspired adaptation of Titus Andronicus, which successfully unites the exaggerated grotesquerie of Shakespeare’s grisliest tragedy with the haunting grace of Kabuki movements. For Kabuki Titus, adapter and director Scott Palmer has reduced Shakespeare’s cast to six and trimmed his text to focus on the vengeful feud between the Romans and the Goths. Where the original play had nine onstage killings, a live burial and several acts of cannibalism, Palmer has wisely cut much of the gore. Yet this hardly translates to a diminished emotional charge. The dramatic focus sharpens once those sudden Kabuki-style transformations begin to occur. The first involves the wicked goth queen Tamora (Melissa Murray) as she transforms into the character of Revenge, her black kimono whipped off to reveal an orange one underneath. But the show’s most arresting moments of transformation come after the appearance of Titus’ daughter Lavinia (Anne Mueller). Mueller, a former Oregon Ballet Theatre principal dancer, brings graceful curiosity, spellbinding artistry and painful anguish to the role. The rest of the cast also inhabits the Kabuki physicality well, most notably Ty Boice, who portrays Titus with authority of movement and speech. Murray is appropriately venomous as Tamora, hissing and twitching in ways that are almost reptilian. Grounding the 90-minute production is Tylor Neist’s original score. The blend of Japanese and Western musical styles heightens the drama without overpowering the action. Ambitious shows such as this one require considerable confidence from director and cast. Kabuki Titus does have moments of hesitation and doubt, and not all the actors are as comfortable in Shakespeare’s language as Boice. But each time Mueller returns to the stage, all else seems superfluous. Her aching, silent portrayal of Lavinia is the undisputed force behind this inventive production. REBECCA JACOBSON.
Turning Shakespeare Japanese.
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A Culinary Legacy
VISUAL ARTS
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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By RICHARD SPEER. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit show information—including opening and closing dates, gallery address and phone number—at least two weeks in advance to: Visual Arts, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: rspeer@wweek.com.
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Ben Young: I Think I’m Free
To follow up its three-month series of German artists, Victory Gallery heads northwest across the English Channel for London-based painter Ben Young’s I Think I’m Free. Interestingly, Young gives German titles to many of his paintings, including Dasein (German for “existence”) and Ohne Titel (“Without Title”). Using oil paint and spray paint, he counterposes the elegance of gestural abstraction with the grittiness of urban graffiti, often buffering his compositions within a framing device of gray or salmon color. Works that are more painterly and diffuse in imagery, such as Art Antichrist and Gain Inches, are more traditional in overall look and do not pack the contemporary punch of the text-based compositions. Through July 31. Victory Gallery, 733 NW Everett St., 208-3585.
to create swirling or striped effects. Although these images could never be seen with the naked eye, they are unabashed eye candy that celebrate the ephemeral moment. Through Sept. 1. I Witness Gallery Northwest Center for Photography, 1028 SE Water Ave., Suite 50, 384-2783.
Steel Environics. Eric Holt, Stephen A. Miller, Brian Mock and Garrett Price Deep Field is a brand-new gallery in the Pearl District, run by Chroma curator Jennifer Porter. In 2010, Porter co-curated a show called Centrifuge, which pointed out common ground between artistic and architectural practices. The
current show follows up by focusing on materiality as it relates to the built environment. Stephen A. Miller’s video installation, Garrett Price’s acid-etched steel tableaux, and Brian Mock and Eric Holt’s metal sculptures complete a lineup that should make for a strong opening for this latest addition to the local art-scape. Through July 31. Deep Field Gallery, 1126 NW 13th Ave., 473 7226.
The Poetic Pen
Calligraphy is a lot more than the fancy lettering you see on diplomas and wedding invitations. At its best, it captures the emotional core of the written word in ways that exploit the physical contours of alphanumeric characters to suggest metaphysical qualities. In this exhibition, 36 artists from around the world display works that set poetry to calligraphic text, blending the two art forms. Through July 28. 23 Sandy Gallery, 623 NE 23rd Ave., 927-4409.
PROFILE
Generations: Betty Feves
To conclude the museum’s 75th anniversary celebration, curator Namita Gupta Wiggers presents Generations: Betty Feves, exploring the output of a groundbreaking but underappreciated artist. Feves (1918-1985) worked predominantly in ceramics, but her appeal transcends stylistic ghettoization. She studied with Abstract Expressionist master Clyfford Still, and her highly organic, primeval-meets-Space-Age forms betray the influences of that illustrious lineage. Through July 28. Museum of Contemporary Craft, 724 NW Davis St., 223-2654.
Lisa Gronseth: Dubai
With its indoor snowskiing “mountain” and lagoon with islands in the shape of the seven continents, the city of Dubai is built upon the ideas of simulation and illusion. Lisa Gronseth reflects these qualities quite literally in her depictions of dazzling reflections that adorn Dubai’s skyscrapers. The works on paper are based on vistas she saw through her hotel window during a recent trip to the United Arab Emirates. The views are hermetic, with no people anywhere in sight but myriad funhouse-mirror reflections snaking across the façades of futuristic buildings. Gronseth’s collages of cut paper are especially sophisticated. Through July 28. Chambers @ 916, 916 NW Flanders St., 227-9398.
Mark Steinmetz: Summertime
It’s fitting that photographer Mark Steinmetz’s new show is called Summertime, because the ambiences he captures resplend with the sunny glow of halcyon memories. He excels in photographing young people in their natural habitats: hanging out at swimming holes (as in Portland, Connecticut), sitting on porch swings (Momence, Illinois), making out with their girlfriends and boyfriends while sitting on the hoods of cars (Derby, Connecticut), and checkin’ out the chicks while riding shirtless on their motorcycles (Revere, Massachusetts). Steinmetz is a loving chronicler of white trash and the middle class, and these photographs, which date mostly from the 1980s, feature plenty of feathered hair, baggy T-shirts, and beater cars. The pictures are time capsules, yet still feel timeless. Through July 28. Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, 134 NW 8th Ave., 287-3886.
Martin Waugh: Liquid Sculpture II
“Gee whiz!” is a perfectly valid reaction to Martin Waugh’s photographs of water droplets. Waugh uses ultra-fast exposures to capture the beauty of droplets as they appear suspended in space and time. He also colors the water with food coloring and other materials
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CAN THESE ANTIQUES EVER PROVE DANGEROUS AGAIN?
ANNA GRAY + RYAN WILSON PAULSEN, MAYBE IT TAKES A LOUD NOISE First came hieroglyphs, then epic poems, stage plays and operas. Then there were books, newspapers, movies, radios and televisions. Now, smartphones, iPads and Kindles. The methods by which we retell our creation myths and dispense our latest memes have morphed radically over the last 6,000 years. Each form withers to make room for the next’s bloom, as old-timers mourn the old era and fetishize its dusty souvenirs, be they printing presses, Victrolas or the Atari 800. This battle between technology and nostalgia is at the heart of Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen’s thought-provoking exhibition, Maybe It Takes a Loud Noise. Gray and Paulsen, a wife-and-husband duo who make art collaboratively, are especially interested in whether technology—and the content-delivery platforms through which we communicate—aids or impedes political change. They address this issue cogently in Can These Antiques Ever Prove Dangerous Again?, an installation of 101 miniature protest signs imprinted with slogans such as “FOLK SONGS” and “RESIDUAL POPULISM.” The piece directly references the shrinking impact of old-fashioned, 1960s-era protest marches and picket lines in our current era, when Facebook and Twitter fuel revolutions such as the Arab Spring. Then there is Clearance, a for-sale sign on which the artists have turned the letter “a” into an anarchy sign with spray paint. If these works sound reactionary, morose, and tritely Marxist, it’s probably because they are. But they are winningly so. Expansively composed and chromatically airy in their crisp, white palette, they counterbalance conceptual ponderousness with endearing idealism and sincerity. Gray and Paulsen do not browbeat; they gently probe. It’s a strategy appropriate to a gallery whose director, Jane Beebe, has long promoted what she calls “quiet art.” Maybe revolution requires a loud noise. If so, Gray and Paulsen want to find out who’s paying for the sound system. RICHARD SPEER.
Hey hey, ho ho, protest signs gotta go.
SEE IT: Maybe It Takes a Loud Noise is at PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063, pdxcontemporaryart.com. Closes July 28.
BOOKS
JULY 11-17
= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By PENELOPE BASS. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit lecture or reading information at least two weeks in advance to: WORDS, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: words@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 11 Joe Meno and Nathan Larson
Capturing the excitement and paranoia of 1999, Chicago writer Joe Meno’s novel Office Girl is a romance for twentysomething hipsters trying to create an art movement. Nathan Larson’s The Nervous System follows his returning character Dewey Decimal, a “germaphobic war veteran and renegade librarian,” as he takes on the military industrial complex in an anarchic near-future. Hijinks are bound to ensue at this joint reading, with special musical guest Kim Baxter. Annie Bloom’s Books, 7834 SW Capitol Highway, 246-0053. 7 pm. Free.
Wild Wolfer Wednesday
Because not all wolves are inappropriately burly teenage boys in disguise, Carter Niemeyer, author of Wolfer: A Memoir, will talk about his work with federal wolf-recovery plans and the future of wolves in the wild. Jam on Hawthorne, 2239 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 234-4790. 6:30-8 pm. Free.
Socrates Cafe
Joined in a quest to better understand human nature, the Socrates Cafe is a worldwide movement gathering together people from different backgrounds to share in a little civilized dialogue. Don’t worry, you probably won’t be poisoned for your opinions—unless you’re a real jerk. The Pied Cow, 3244 SE Belmont St. 7-9 pm. Free.
THURSDAY, JULY 12 Mark Baumgarten
Exploring the underground-music culture of the ’80s and ’90s through the heyday of K Records—which worked with artists like Modest Mouse, Beck and Gossip—former WW music editor Mark Baumgarten ties it all together with unheard anecdotes and clever commentary in Love Rock Revolution: K Records and the Rise of Independent Music. Learn why Nirvana’s demo was passed on, how cassette tapes were crucial to the underground-music scene and how K Records influenced international pop culture. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
SUNDAY, JULY 15 The Return of Sander Hicks
Journalist, editor, activist and founder of the much-acclaimed Soft Skull Press, Sander Hicks returns with his feather-rufflin’ new book, Slingshot to the Juggernaut, about 9/11 and what he calls an “experiment in truth.” Sellwood Community Center, 1436 SE Spokane St., 8233195. 2-4 pm. Free.
MONDAY, JULY 16 Unchaste Reading Series
Smart and sassy ladies get together to read what’s on their minds at Unchaste, a new, locally based reading series. Guests will include Kira Clark, Margaret Elysia Garcia, Nina Rockwell, Domi J. Shoemaker, Lisa Wells and Lidia Yuknavitch. Sing it, sisters. Jack London Bar, 529 SW 4th Ave., 228-7605. 7 pm. Donations suggested.
Science Fiction Reading Series
Depending on your outlook, science fiction is either an enjoyable pastime or a dire prediction of things to come. Why can’t it be both? Join the paranoid revelry with Portland author and New York
Times bestseller Daniel H. Wilson (Robopocalypse, Amped), along with fellow Northwestern writers Isaac Marion (Warm Bodies) and Rhiannon Held (Silver) for an evening of sci-fantastic readings. Kennedy School, 5736 NE 33rd Ave., 249-3983. 7 pm. Free.
TUESDAY, JULY 17 Lois Leveen
Historical novels are like a more entertaining (and less accurate) history lesson that still make you feel like a smarty pants. In The Secrets of Mary Bowser, Lois Leveen tells the story of the former slave who is freed, educated and becomes a spy in the Jefferson Davis White House of the Confederacy to pass information to Union commanders. Oh, the intrigue! Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.
Pauls Toutonghi
Evel Knievel holds the world record for most broken bones during a lifetime, with 433. Poor Khosi Saqr, the protagonist in Portland author Pauls Toutonghi’s second novel, Evel Knievel Days, is not nearly as cool. Living in Knievel’s hometown of Butte, Mont., Khosi is half-Egyptian, burdened by nervous habits and severely out of place. But he’ll take a daredevil risk to discover the truth about his family. It might just be a book reading, but see if you can get Toutonghi to do something crazy. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
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REVIEW
JESSE BERING, WHY IS THE PENIS SHAPED LIKE THAT? As its provocative title suggests, Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That? (Scientific American, 320 pages, $16) is a book unafraid of topics most of us don’t typically have the balls to bring up. It’s perhaps an unfortunate choice in title gimmick, as research psychologist Jesse Also, why do people Bering ’s essays have more eat other people? breadth and depth than it suggests. Besides profiling the penis, Bering also explores laughter, religion and cannibalism from an evolutionary angle. Cannibalism, he argues, is part of humanity’s evolutionary repertoire, no more a perversion than vegetarianism or a strong sweet tooth. Many of the essays also delve into sexual preferences Western society has deemed perverse or the result of mental illness, including foot fetishes and the neurology of pedophiles. Bering’s findings have obvious ethical implications. He invites readers to form their own opinions, but his remain clear. His moral musings eventually question the very notion of free will, since all a body’s kinks and quirks are the result of unalterable brain chemistry. Is it Joe’s fault that he’s turned on by giraffes? Or if he enjoys the taste of human flesh? Bering thinks not. However, he says people are responsible for how they act upon these urges. You may not be able to blame pedophiles for a biological affinity for little boys, but that doesn’t excuse their behavior. Presenting an unflinching look at our society’s mores through empirical research is risky, but Bering handles it well. In so many other ways, this book could go very wrong. Thankfully, Bering manages to dodge most bullets. He doesn’t hide behind psychobabble, yet he grounds his conclusions in research. The jokes come fast and readers will find themselves thoroughly entertained by his cheekiness, but he doesn’t leer over the juicy details. Instead, his candid approach succeeds in putting even the most bashful at ease, allowing them to get over their own discomfort long enough to learn something about penis shape. KIMBERLY HURSH. GO: Jesse Bering will speak at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., on Wednesday, July 18. 7:30 pm. Free.
DINE OUT.
DIG IN. MAKE A
DIFFERENCE.
Eat at participating restaurants during the month of July and 10% of your check will be donated to Sisters Of The Road and matched $-for-$ through our campaign, Full Plate Project. Learn more at
www.sistersoftheroad.org.
july 2012 Supper Club at Davis Street Tavern Pacific Pie Co. Sisters by Whole Mississippi Pizza Dovetail Bakery Foods Pearl
Tin Shed Cafe
The Bent Brick
Beulahland
Portobello
Ciao Vito
The Original
Biwa
Mi Mero Mole
DeNicolas Restaurant
Havana West
Cafe Hibiscus
Prasad
Dove Vivi
Davis Street Tavern Beulahland
The People’s Sandwich Kenny & Zuke’s
Grain & Gristle
Davis Street Tavern Beulahland
Back to Eden Bakery Boutique Ping
Por Que No Green Beans The Big Egg Coffee & Tea Big-A Sandwiches Florida Room
St. Jack Patisserie 3 Doors Down
Salvador Molly’s
Lincoln Restaurant Savoy Tavern
Pine State Biscuits (Belmont)
Davis Street Tavern Beulahland Davis Street Tavern Beulahland
The Blue Monk
Pastini on 9th and Taylor Jade Teahouse
Ruby Jewel (Mississippi) SubRosa
The Observatory
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JULY 11-17 REVIEW
= WW Pick. Highly recommended.
JESS PINKHAMZ
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.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
and highlight. PG-13. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre, Tigard.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Yes, it’s surprising to see Honest Abe battle the undead, but novelist Seth Grahame-Smith’s mashup earned great reviews by playfully weaving together history and fanged fantasy. Vampires using the institution of slavery to cover up killing until stopped by an ambitious young shopkeeper? The opinions of semi-literate cinephiles aside, as vampire-themed action movie plots go, this is Type A. But Lincoln goes hunting in all the wrong places. For starters, there’s the total lack of cleverly plied history. The film culminates on a train ride from Washington to Gettysburg, but other than that, and the trip to the theater that closes things out, you’d be hard-pressed to assign a date to any event. The vampires are similarly slippery. They look like Predators when ready to kill and may or may not prefer to wear sunglasses. They are invisible, superhumanly strong and fast, and yet totally destroyable with a swing of a hefty silver-bladed ax. Does anything other than silver kill them? Try trampling them with cheesy CGI horses. R. MARTIN CIZMAR. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Forest Theatre, Lloyd Mall.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
C- An odd premise is not what slays
The Amazing Spider-Man
B Peter Parker has come unstuck
in time. Only five years ago, our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man was a grown-up who looked a lot like walking homunculus and worked as a photographer. Do we really need to see Pete get bitten again, or see poor Uncle Ben blown away, a mere decade after Sam Raimi ushered in the golden age of comic-book films? Of course not. But then, maybe we do. These are comic-book movies, based on pulp fiction that essentially recycles origin stories whenever a new writer picks up the panels. It’s not about whether we’ve seen it before. It’s about how we’re seeing it now, and through the lens of sophomore director Marc Webb, The Amazing Spider-Man is a pretty kick-ass bucket of popcorn, full of great effects, sly performances and enough original thought that it makes a studio cash grab into a solid piece of pulp. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
Americano
Mathieu Demy, son of iconic French filmmaker Jacques, makes his directorial debut in a film about a man (played by Demy) coming to grips with his mother’s death. And what better way to grieve than to go down to Mexico and hang out with a stripper who looks like Salma Hayek?. Living Room Theaters.
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The Avengers
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 Joss 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, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway.
Bernie
B- 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 double-wide, three-bedroom, two-bath asshole”—form the film’s backbone
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C It’s The Darjeeling Aged. PG-13. AARON MESH. Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower.
Beyond the Black Rainbow
[THREE NIGHTS ONLY] A freaky sci-fi allegory for the Reagan Era, made in 2011 by nutcase director Panos Cosmatos. Clinton Street Theater. 9 pm Saturday-Monday, July 14-16.
Brave
B- Can it really be true that through a dozen films, Pixar—the North American animation titan celebrated for its multilayered storytelling and uncommonly complex characters—declined to come up with a single female protagonist? Indeed it is. Introducing a touch of femininity to the anthropomorphic sausage fest should register as a progressive step forward, but Brave, the company’s 13th feature and its first charged by a current of girl power, is the most conventional movie the studio has yet produced. A fable pitched directly at the princess demographic, it’s set in medieval Scotland, features run-ins with witches, excursions into deep, dark woods, and a few very expressive bears, and concerns itself with a rebellious daughter of royalty. In short, it feels like a classic Disney picture. Normally, that’d be a compliment. In Pixar’s case, it represents a regression. PG. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
A Cat in Paris
B+ This year’s token hand-drawn nominee for the Best Animated Feature Oscar, A Cat in Paris is an eye-popping beauty, with a unique style employing elements of cubism. It helps that the story of a cat burglar and his feline buddy protecting a girl from mobsters is breezy fun, coming off as a kaleidoscopic combination of To Catch a Thief, Spider-Man, and Cassavetes’ Gloria, with our heroes bounding across Parisian rooftops while eluding bumbling goons and the fuzz. It proved too arty to grab the gold, but it’s certainly evidence that hand-drawn animation is an art form in dire need of preserving. AP KRYZA. Living Room Theaters.
Cinefamily at the Hollywood
[TWO NIGHTS ONLY] L.A. film scoundrels Cinefamily come to Portland for two nights of wacko programming, including compilations of bizarre sex scenes (7:30 pm Friday, July 13) and the first five minutes of a series of cinematic curiosities (7:30 pm Saturday, July 14), plus a screening of the absurdly twisted South African “kids’” movie Lost in the Desert (9:30 pm Friday, July 13). Hollywood Theatre.
Eco Warriors
C - [ONE NIGHT ONLY] Spending
45 minutes with the self-congratulatory environmentalists in Eco Warriors makes hanging out in a tree for weeks seem exciting by comparison. Presented by the Red Octopus Collective, a group of conservationist filmmakers, Eco Warriors seeks to humanize the important struggles faced by environmentalists. It fails by lazily focusing on hard-liners without bothering to include actual supporting data or counterarguments. That’s a disservice to the struggle, and to the few heroic people featured in the film, including 91-year-old Vancouver, B.C., conservationist Ruth Masters. She’s overshadowed by ramblers like author Derrick Jensen, who dazedly refers to spanking as terrorism and can’t understand why an activist was sentenced to 22 years for burning SUVs: “Clearly, that was an attempt to
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BORN ON THE BAYOU: Quvenzhane Wallis on the family “boat.”
THE LAND OF MUD & HUSHPUPPY BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD IS A DAMP, MUGGY, BEAUTIFUL TRIUMPH. BY MATTHEW SIN GE R
msinger@wweek.com
In the Bathtub—the fictional Louisiana bayou settlement that forms the backdrop and lifeblood of the enchanting Beasts of the Southern Wild—the price of existing off the grid is living in waterlogged squalor. Its residents take shelter in flimsy tin shacks decorated with scattered mounds of garbage and clutter. Stoves are ignited by blowtorches and used to fry up sautéed cat food and condensed milk. The popular mode of travel is by “boat,” which constitutes anything from an empty clothes trunk to a truck bed mounted atop oil drums. Everything is damp, muddy and rusted. To Hushpuppy, the film’s tiny protagonist, the Bathtub is “the prettiest place on earth.” Only 6 years old, she knows nowhere else. But after spending time there, immersed in the muck and the overgrowth and the people too busy shouting and shooting off fireworks to lament their poverty, the landscape does begin to take on a rough, rare beauty. It gradually transforms from a blighted, forgotten slum into a muggy, magical Junkyard of Eden, a ramshackle paradise worth preserving and defending—against the wrath of nature, the encroachment of the outside world, and the mammoth horned pigs coming to devour its citizens. A fantastical paean to those who stay behind in the face of disaster, Beasts argues that the universe is a patchwork of communities, and allowing even the smallest and most impoverished to simply wash away upsets the entire balance. Shot among the ravages of post-Katrina New Orleans but set on the eve of the hurricane’s arrival, the film is a clear allegory for the Ninth Ward, an area certain authorities were seemingly happy to see drowned out of existence. Although showered with festival accolades, some have labeled the movie’s director and cowriter, a white Wesleyan graduate named Benh Zeitlin, a “cultural tourist.” It’s a dubious criticism, considering that where Beasts really takes us is on a tour of a child’s imagination. As far as we know, the Bathtub we experience
only exists in the mind of Hushpuppy (Quvenzhane Wallis), who narrates the film in the mannered poetry of a fairy tale. And it’s got giant, mythical creatures in it, for crying out loud. Accusing Zeitlin of making—in the words of one critic—an “art-house minstrel show” is like accusing Maurice Sendak of misrepresenting imaginary monsters. The movie is a fable, not a documentary. It’s like Southern-fried, live-action Miyazaki. Of course, it’s understandable that some might confuse Beasts for neo-realism, given the two raw, unaffected performances at its center. Already the subject of Oscar handicapping, dynamo first-timer Wallis dodges precociousness with a remarkably lived-in toughness. Trudging through the mud in a stained white T-shirt, orange underwear and dirtcaked workboots, an explosive Afro billowing from her head, she confronts her community’s impending apocalypse with a piercing scream and the motto, “There’s no time to sit around crying like a bunch of pussies.” Nothing about her is artificial. And her hard-drinking father, Wink (Dwight Henry)—like the rest of the cast, a non-actor— finds a similarly stern heart. His love for his daughter, whom he refers to with an impersonal “man,” is almost purely instinctual: Dying of an indeterminate ailment, his only goal is to teach Hushpuppy how to survive before casting her out on her own. (Where’s her mother? She “swam away” years ago.) Wink shows her how to catch fish and crack open a crab with only her hands, like a bear with its cub. Keeping her alive is his obligation. As the storm bears down, he shoves her arms into a pair of water wings and assures, “I’m your daddy, and it’s my job to take care of you.” Then he grabs a bottle of moonshine and a shotgun, goes outside and fires at the raging sky. Is it messy? A bit. But like the Bathtub, that’s part of the film’s charm and power. It manipulates waterworks at its emotional climax, which isn’t necessary. Beasts clamps its jaws down on you long before then. I would’ve been crying like a pussy regardless. A SEE IT: Beasts of the Southern Wild is rated PG-13. It opens Friday at Cinema 21.
JULY 11-17 scare people into not doing the same act.” No fucking shit, dude. And then there’s Tre Arrow, who gained notoriety in 2000 for perching himself on Portland’s U.S. Forest Service building and subsequently ran for Congress before being imprisoned for arson. Arrow—seen climbing trees, doing the Christ pose and talking about his music—mistakes braggadocio for martyrdom, seemingly beaming with pride over being included on the FBI’s Most Wanted list. The film treats him like a superhero messiah, but from my treetop perch, he comes across as a self-righteous egotist inadvertently discrediting the movement he wants to advance. The screening will feature a Q&A and musical performance by Tre Arrow and the Primordial Sound Sisters. AP KRYZA. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Wednesday, July 11.
Forbidden Zone
[THREE NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] It’s an Elfman family vacation in the Sixth Dimension! Richard Elfman directed this 1980 midnight movie oddity, featuring his then-wife, Marie-Pascale, and his famous composer-songwriter brother Danny, who plays the Devil. More than anything, the film is famous for introducing the world to the music of perpetually underrated cult faves Oingo Boingo. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Saturday-Monday, July 14-16.
Ice Age: Continental Drift
D- The world didn’t need a fourth Ice Age movie, let alone one rendered for 3-D and released in the swelter of a pretty hot summer film calendar. But when the first three installments of this computer-animated series have raked in nearly $2 billion in box-office receipts, there was no way 20th Century Fox was going to let this cash cow dry up. So, why not slap together a half-assed storyline about the gang of prehistoric creatures trying to survive the separation of the world’s continents and dodge a gang of pirates led by a snarling monkey? And while you’re at it, why not throw in a little coming-of-age love story for a young woolly mammoth, and comic relief via a trash-talking elderly sloth voiced by Wanda Sykes? The more troubling question of this film is how its intended audience of youngsters will withstand the overwhelming deluge of imagery and antics pushed, quite literally, right into their faces. Ice Age: Continental Drift provides its audience with scant few moments to catch its collective breath before the next whiplash-inducing set piece. PG. ROBERT HAM. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
The Intouchables
C Can there be a more insulting “fish out of water” trope than putting a bored black man in front of a chamber orchestra, then holding for laughs? It’s where poor Omar Sy finds himself as Driss, the street-savvy, reluctant caretaker of Philippe (François Cluzet), a charming and disenchanted quadriplegic. Yet the film doesn’t collapse on itself, thanks to the palpable chemistry between Cluzet and Sy. R. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Fox Tower.
Janadhaar
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ATTENDING] Warning: The title is Pahari for “grassroots,” and this earnest, narcolepsy-inducing documentary considers community organizing in the Himalayas in numbing, blade-by-blade detail. The movie, codirected David Meek and Portland’s Jade Ajani, deserves plaudits for renouncing the Western myopia that sees India as a white-person enlightenment factory, and asking the locals how they feel about burgeoning ecotourism. But did they have to ask every local? The movie takes that twerpy, pious approach to environmental justice, where all stories must be heard even if they are rehearsed or repetitive. It’s not a movie so much as a public hearing. Rather unforgivably, Janadhaar squanders a fascinating premise: During the Cold War, the CIA tried to spy on Chinese nuclear opera-
tions by setting up plutonium-powered cameras atop a holy Hindu mountain called Nanda Devi. But they lost five pounds of the plutonium on the slopes. (Maybe in an avalanche?) The fiasco led to the Indian government creating a national park and closing the peak to everybody—shepherds or tourists. You can’t tell me that’s not dynamite material! Nobody knows where the plutonium is! This documentary spends all of three minutes on the intrigue, and the next 90 on “participatory economic development,” which I understand is important but maybe you could tell me about it in 20 minutes or less? Because I’d really rather hear about the missing plutonium in the sky. I don’t think I’m alone here. I think the people are with me. AARON MESH. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Thursday, July 12.
Katy Perry: Part of Me
A “documentary” on the Sesame Street-scandalizing pop-tart. Not screened for critics. PG. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
The third installment in the inexplicably popular, exceptionally loud animated animal franchise. Sorry, parents, but WW was way too hungover to make the Saturday morning press screening. PG. 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
Lola Versus
D The business of rebounding is messy. Unfortunately, so is this script. Co-screenwriter Zoe Lister Jones, it seems, is using Lola as a vehicle to play a foul-mouthed wingwoman in an increasingly unpleasant, emotional slapstick comedy. As Lola, Greta Gerwig appears to be the love child of Alicia Silverstone and Hope Davis, who occupied her own (far better) chronicle of the heartbroken condition in 1998’s underrated Next Stop Wonderland. That, at least, had a tone of solitude and reflection; Lola opts to lose her shit and steal 40s from a sketchy bodega (and miraculously avoid being robbed and/or raped). See, she’s three weeks short of her own wedding (and in spitting distance of 30) when she’s given her walking papers by her pretty but less-than-compelling fiancé (Joel Kinnaman). Her subsequent suffering happens within the prism of Upper East Side privilege, where very little is demanded of her—certainly not by her parents (Bill Pullman and Debra Winger), who own their own frequently vacant penthouse and ostensibly support Lola as she finishes her thesis on uses of silence in French poetry. And her friends supplement her downward spiral, too, specifically Henry (Hamish Linklater), with whom she sometimes shares a bed but absolutely no chemistry. The uninteresting details of Lola’s process are from the book of breakup clichés: She eats too much, agrees to an ill-fated date with a certifiable weirdo (he rollerblades and listens to Ani DiFranco during sex!), and hits on a friend who we (and she) are unconvinced is a good gamble. There’s little to no magnetism between any of the characters who are conveniently matched up, so the heartbreak and hope we’re prompted to feel is lazy and inauthentic. The combative title is cute, but in the end, we’re forced to conclude that Lola attempts to face down—with a whimper—some kind of adversity, but ultimately triumphs over nothing. R. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Fox Tower.
Magic Mike
B Odds were that Steven Soderbergh’s career of genre hopscotching would eventually land on a male stripper movie. Taking bits from Midnight Cowboy, Boogie Nights and, strangely, Coyote Ugly, the film is a study of a character we’ve seen before: the professional beefcake flush with money and women…but what he really wants is love (and his own furni-
ture business). But after the emotionally cold formal exercises of his last few films, it’s nice to find Soderbergh focusing on character at all. If nothing else, Magic Mike is his first project since The Informant! that has some blood flowing through its veins. What’s unexpected is Channing Tatum’s performance. As Mike, a sex object whose true passion is building actual objects, Tatum—heretofore a set of abs masquerading as an actor—slips into the part with a natural ease. Soderbergh bolsters the performances with his signature visual style, bathing the douche haven of Tampa in his trademarked golden sepia tone, but the movie meanders too long before finding a dramatic sticking point, and you get the sense that the whole reason it even exists is so the director could cross “film choreographed dance sequences” off his career bucket list. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Living Room Theaters, Oak Grove, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
Men in Black 3
C A decade after the wack sequel, the prospect of resurrecting the original Men in Black’s scattershot whimsy is a welcome idea. But hey, what about Will Smith’s daddy issues? Or the father-son relationship forged between Smith and Tommy Lee Jones? An even better question: Who gives a fuck about any of that? PG-13. AP KRYZA. Indoor Twin, Clackamas, Forest Theatre, Stadium 11, Lloyd Mall, Tigard.
Monsieur Lazhar
B It was most startling image of this year’s Portland International Film Festival: A boy peeks into his middleschool classroom, and through a sliver of doorway sees his teacher’s lifeless body hanging from the ceiling. Not a conventional way of starting a “magical schoolteacher” movie, but don’t worry: It gets conventional pretty quick. The titular Mr. Lazhar (Mohamed Fellag) is hired as the dead woman’s replacement, and soon he’s not just teaching these kids...they’re teaching him. Still, writer-director Philippe Falardeau keeps things simple enough, allowing the sincere performances from Fellag and the young Sophie Nélisse and Émilien Néron—both from the “so mature it’s unnatural” class of child actors—to bolster the film beyond its clichés. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters.
Moonrise Kingdom
A- Of all the Wes Anderson
movies in the world, this is the Wes Andersoniest. Those who find everything that follows Bottle Rocket fussy and puerile have fair warning: Moonrise Kingdom is Anderson’s Boy Scout film, set on an imaginary island. Without the leavening influence of Owen Wilson, Anderson’s melancholy can feel brittle, even with Robert Yeoman providing his most agile cinematography. Yet a fresh breeze airs out Moonrise Kingdom in every scene where the 12-year-old runaways Sam Shakusky and Suzy Bishop (Jared Gilman and an astonishing Kara Hayward) arrange an elopement from their Norman Rockwell world. Anderson has rarely been funnier, or his compositions more packed with detail, than in the epistolary montage in which the young rebels make plans (while Sam is menaced by greasers). He has never handled delicate material so deftly as when the couple—in shades of Badlands and Godard— reaches a blue lagoon. Here, Sam pitches several tents. Indeed there is a core of tough-minded wisdom in this movie’s treatment of sexual discovery—not leering, not dodging, but frankly enchanted. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Moreland, Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall.
Ne Change Rien (Change Nothing)
B- [TWO NIGHTS ONLY] This is a por-
trait of French blues chanteuse Jeanne Balibar. Name mean anything to you? It better, sonny—because this is almost literally a still portrait, in charcoaland-white, with the singer frozen in the frame, crooning and humming.
Director Pedro Costa (Colossal Youth) uses his trademark static shots, usually between four and eight minutes long, and Balibar’s voice is very soothing, beyond hypnotic, the aural equivalent of Sleepytime tea. If you were always hoping she’d get her Don’t Look Back, check it: She did! Everybody else will find it a pleasant background noise. There’s a notable close-up of a house cat curled up in Balibar’s practice space. It looks very peaceful. In fact, it is asleep. AARON MESH. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Friday and 5 pm Sunday, July 13 & 15.
Night of the Living Dead
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] This screening of the zombie phenomenon’s Patient Zero is bookended at 6 and 10 pm by Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated, a collaborative reimagining of the 1968 George Romero classic in animation styles ranging from CGI to puppets to tattoos. Clinton Street Theater. 8 pm Friday, July 13.
People Like Us
Chris Pine meets Elizabeth Banks, the sister he never knew he had. Michele Pfeiffer also does something. WW skipped the press screening. PG-13. Bridgeport, Evergreen Parkway.
Prometheus
serker butchery of Natural Born Killers. (But in Mexico!) For more than an hour, it is a very bad movie—mostly because it stars Gossip Girl’s Blake Lively, a water-resistant bronzer in search of a spontaneous gesture. She’s the center of a leggy three-way with Taylor Kitsch and Aaron Johnson, Laguna Beach weed kingpins who fall into escalating negotiations south of the border. These are television actors exposed and embarrassed on the big screen. But then everybody here is discredited a little: Salma Hayek vamping as a cartel boss, John Travolta inflated into a bulging, cartoon smiley face. The second half of the movie might also be bad, although it’s hard to say, since it’s also breathtakingly violent. The torture and slaughter are so extravagant—bullwhips, dangling eyeballs, ice chests—that the characters and audience both show symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. If Savages has no political compass (as a treatise on Mexican drug wars, it makes Will Ferrell’s Casa de mi Padre look like a William Finnegan report), well, golly: It has no conscience whatsoever. R. AARON MESH. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Living Room Theaters, Oak Grove, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
Snow White & the Huntsman
A- A think piece on the origins of
man probably doesn’t sound much like the Alien prequel you were expecting. Well, for starters, Prometheus isn’t a true prequel. It’s an “expansion of the Alien mythos.” As such, it has mythology on the brain. Just look at the title, which hints at the big ideas Scott and screenwriters Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof are considering here. But the heft of their musings cannot weigh down the sheer, sprawling spectacle of the film’s vision. Scott isn’t a great philosopher. He is, however, a magnificent stylist, and Prometheus is a stunning, horrifying success. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, Bridgeport.
Return to Waterloo
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] In honor of Portland’s inaugural Ray Davies Day, the Hollywood Theatre screens the Kinks frontman’s 1985 directorial debut, which he made for British television. Davies himself will be in attendance for a pre-screening reception beginning at 3 pm. Hollywood Theatre. 4 pm Sunday, July 15.
Rock of Ages
C- For a little while, at least, Rock of Ages—director Adam Shankman’s bigscreen adaptation of the Broadway pop-metal musical—exudes a certain innocent charm. But oh, Christ, the music. They call these things “jukebox musicals,” but this is more like a sixdisc Monsters of Rock compilation come to life, with songs piling up one on top of another. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. 99 West Drive-In, Bridgeport.
Safety Not Guaranteed
A There is something heartbreakingly
true in witnessing a wizened writer in his mid-30s demand of an intern: “Why are you sitting there in front of that screen? You’re a young man!” Why are we sitting in front of that screen, indeed? That’s a truer basis for Safety Not Guaranteed than its origins as an Internet meme, a late-’90s want ad of sorts that sought a time-travel companion. For our purposes, screenwriter Derek Connolly has reimagined the infamous clipping by tracing it back to a sleepy seaside town in Washington. It’s there that tenured magazine contributor Jeff (Jake M. Johnson) drags two listless interns (Karan Soni and Aubrey Plaza) in an attempt to secretly profile an earnest if unhinged grocery-store clerk who fancies himself a regular Doc Brown (Mark Duplass). The skeptical trio stumbles onto what is possibly the greatest space-time paradox: You can never go back, except when you can. R. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Fox Tower, Hollywood Theatre.
Savages
C Savages is Oliver Stone without even the affectation of ideas. It takes the saint-and-sadist duality from Platoon and tosses it into the ber-
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beautifully, blessedly graphic. It goes far beyond threats of dismemberment and filicide. There’s the dark forest, which provides Snow White (Kristen Stewart) with questionable sanctuary but plays out like an LSD-laced fever dream, populated by banshee marsh creatures and every infestation imaginable. And, of course, there’s the Queen (Charlize Theron) and her method for keeping things tight, which is a little bit bloody Countess Báthory, a little bit The Leech Woman. It’s unfortunate that soldier Stewart was made to be so much the center of the film and its marketing. While it offers a great message for young girls to be proactive, another scene of Theron wining and dining on the blood of the innocent might have made for more compelling cinema. PG-13. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Indoor Twin, Clackamas, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Wilsonville.
Swing Time
[ONE DAY ONLY, REVIVAL] The 1936 Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers classic, still charming after all these years. Hollywood Theatre. 3 pm Saturday, July 14.
Taxi Driver
[THREE NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] Is this the one with Queen Latifah and Jimmy Fallon fighting crime in a tricked-out yellow cab? Because that movie is hilarious. R. 5th Avenue Cinema. 7 pm and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday, July 13-14; 3 pm Sunday, July 15..
Ted
D- Contempt fuels the comedy of Seth MacFarlane. He’s disdainful toward his own meal ticket, the Simpsons rip-off Family Guy. He sneers at other performers: His new talkingbear movie Ted has the gall to shit-talk Razzie winners before it manages to land a single joke of its own. Most of all, MacFarlane—Ted’s writer, director and vocal star—bullies any member of the audience who dares take offense to his putatively outrageous poon-’n’minstrel humor. Ted only values a joke if it makes people uncomfortable— never mind whether it’s funny, or if it even makes any sense. (Talking bear to Norah Jones: “Thanks for 9/11.”) It may be the first feature-length movie to exist primarily as an act of trolling. Yet somehow this sniggering abortion manages to fail at even this meager goal. The bear (voice by Peter Griffin, body by Snuggle fabric softener) is racist, sexist and forgettable. Mark Wahlberg joins, in raging fetal-alcohol Masshole mode, and the combination suggests an episode of Unhappily Ever After... hosted by Jeff Dunham. Family Guy is notorious for mistaking a pop-culture reference for a joke about
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To Rome With Love
C+ Woody Allen doesn’t owe anyone another masterpiece. It’s a good thing, too, because a masterpiece To Rome With Love is not. Interweaving four stories linked only by setting and loose themes of celebrity and adultery, it’s like Allen emptied his notebook of a few half-conceived ideas, then used them to fund a Roman holiday. So what, though? If Woody wants to spend his golden years making movies purely as an excuse to visit the world’s greatest cities, he’s earned the right. Make no mistake— To Rome With Love is terribly uninspired. In Midnight in Paris, the City of Light clearly inflamed Allen’s passion: He opened the film with the same montage of location photography he lavished upon his beloved New York in Manhattan. Despite the affectionate title, he isn’t nearly as enamored with the Eternal City. None of the crosscutting vignettes have much to say about Rome itself. But the film still has its moments, and most of them belong to Allen. His arc culminates in a hacky sight gag, but it helps explain the impulse that compels Allen, after almost a half-century, to continue working: It’s better to perform Pagliacci in an onstage shower than quietly submit to age. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Hollywood Theatre, Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower.
Where Do We Go Now?
B- Director and star Nadine
Labaki’s second feature proves notoriously dour Lebanese cinema can be downright whimsical. Until a kid gets shot, anyway. Before that happens, Where Do We Go Now?, about the women of a remote village attempting to quell a sectarian prank war from escalating into full-on Christian-on-Muslim violence, resembles one of those lighthearted English community comedies. Then a boy is killed, and the weeping starts. A delicate hand is needed to guide such tonal zigzags; jolting from a mother cursing the Virgin Mary to ladies singing about baking hash cookies, Labaki’s hands must be made of lead. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Fox Tower.
Why I Am a Feminist
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A 1975 interview with famed French author Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber about—you guessed it—feminism. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with local feminist leaders. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Thursday, July 12.
You Are All Captains
[TWO NIGHTS ONLY] Director Oliver Laxe explores the nature of filmmaking in areas of economic destitution in a film starring himself as a “neo-colonialist” auteur making a documentary in Tangiers. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Saturday, July 14; 7:30 pm Sunday, July 15.
Your Sister’s Sister
B Seattle director Lynn Shelton’s
two most recent films are uncomfortable silences that, viewed in tandem, feel like improv sketches at the Pacific Northwest’s most pofaced comedy club. Humpday featured two straight men who dare each other to boink on camera. Go! Your Sister’s Sister regards a bereaved bloke (Mark Duplass) ferried to the Puget Sound cabin
of his longtime best friend (Emily Blunt), where he immediately and drunkenly tumbles into bed with her lesbian big sister (Rosemarie DeWitt). Go! Both movies take these contrivances—the mumblecore equivalents of high concept—and work out the results as naturalistically as possible, even making the heroes’ penchant for uniquely bad ideas into an ongoing subtext. (It helps that Shelton keeps turning to Duplass: a doughy Colossus of wrongheaded good intentions.) If Your Sister’s Sister feels good in the moment but doesn’t hold up under scrutiny, that’s probably because DeWitt’s character, Hannah, is so indelible
(and intelligently performed) that she throws the love triangle out of balance, like a penny-farthing tricycle. A porcupine with a ticking biological clock, bestowing baggies of dried bananas as peace offerings, Hannah is that rare pious lefty not treated as an object of sport—she’s the woman the moms in The Kids Are Alright wanted to be. By comparison, the other two thwarted lovebirds seem like a stock romcom couple in slow motion. But DeWitt’s in enough scenes, so you don’t notice. AARON MESH. Fox Tower.
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said pop-culture reference, but in Ted the non sequiturs arrive slower, and stay forever. It opens with a narrator describing the fate of former child stars: “Eventually, nobody gives a shit.” The movie’s box office portends that Seth MacFarlane is nowhere near that ultimate obscurity—instead, he’ll keep helping us to think less of each other. R. AARON MESH. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, CineMagic, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Sherwood, Wilsonville, St. Johns.
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TURN ME ON, DAMMIT! I would love this movie to become the Risky Business or Pump Up the Volume for a generation of small-town Norwegian teens raised on Internet pornography. Even with its opening scene of a nubile young woman masturbating and a main plot point involving a teen boy surprising a not-unwilling girl by poking her thigh with his turtlenecked penis, this is essentially a warm, goofy story of an outsider coming of age, albeit one that takes place in a Norwegian hick town. When Turn Me On, Dammit! arrived at the Portland International Film Festival in February, it felt far truer and more difficult to assimilate than any of the self-conscious artistic gestures visited upon us by a crop of ironical Greeks and ponderously meditative Thais. The film centers on a very, very horny 15-year-old girl named Alma (played with tender naiveté by amateur actress Helene Bergsholm), who is ostracized with all of adolescence’s wild cruelty after she tells a friend about the aforementioned dick-poking by her love interest, Artur. No one believes her, he denies it, and she descends into a leprous social Coventry, seeking comfort from phone-sex operators while battling her own distracted mother. In true Nordic filmmaking style, the film maintains a cinema verité ungainliness and mostly natural lighting, which is flat and cold and a bit unforgiving. The town looks equally grim, a place of bus shelters and furtive drinking in parking lots, where parties are held at a municipal youth center. But, you know what? Small-town adolescence actually is grim, and deeply funny, and mostly badly improvised by a pack of nervous idiots with social-adjustment issues and a tendency to blow the world wildly out of proportion. So kids go to stupid lengths to get a joint, consider bad hygiene a political statement and throw up in the weeds when they drink too much vodka. Mom dates the boss at the turnip plant and they wear matching jackets. Such is life. The deadpan filming style makes these quirks feel small and human. The film’s got a beating heart, and never seems to exploit teen sex for anything but sympathy. The bawdiness and awkwardness all read largely true until the too-pat ending, which seems more at home in the smooth-polished ’80s of director John Hughes than it does amid kids who spent the whole film cruelly appending a penis to the main character’s name. But I didn’t mind. Even the Norwegians need a little sunshine, sometimes. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
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STAB YOU IN THE EYE: Horny teenagers deserve to die. It’s the basic premise of the entire slasher genre, which arguably reached its apex with 1982’s Friday the 13th Part 3. Mind you, that’s not because it’s any less of a mindless hack-a-thon than the other 9 million sequels. It’s significant because it was shot in 3-D. In this entry, we are the horny teenagers, and we all deserve to get slaughtered with a meat cleaver. In the three decades since the movie’s original release, three-dimensional film technology has grown more sophisticated, with auteurs like Ridley Scott and James Cameron using it to invent tactile new worlds. Also in that time, Jason has fought Freddy Krueger and been shot into space. Sometimes, crudity works best. MATTHEW SINGER. Showing at: Bagdad. 8 pm Friday, July 13. Best paired with: Terminator Stout. Also showing: Days of Heaven (Laurelhurst), Grosse Point Blank (Academy). Laurelhurst Theatre
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Wed 12:25, 03:35, 06:05 ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:35, 03:25, 06:20, 09:25 MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:10, 03:05 KATY PERRY: PART OF ME 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 03:30, 06:30, 09:30 ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER 3D Wed 09:25 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 3D Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 03:00, 06:00 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 09:00 TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S WITNESS PROTECTION Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 03:20, 06:25, 09:05 MOONRISE KINGDOM FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:05, 03:10, 06:35, 09:20 KATY PERRY: PART OF ME Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:30 BRAVE 3D Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:10 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 03:15, 08:55 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:15, 06:15 SUMMER MOVIE EXPRESS - TUES. & WED. 10AM Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN Tue-Wed 10:00 PUSS IN BOOTS Tue-Wed 10:00
Clinton Street Theater
2522 SE Clinton St., 503-238-8899 ECO WARRIORS Wed 07:00 WHY I AM A FEMINIST NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: REANIMATED Fri 06:00, 10:00 NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD Fri 08:00 FORBIDDEN ZONE SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:00 BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 07:00
2735 E Burnside St., 503-232-5511 DARK SHADOWS Wed 09:30 THE CONVERSATION Wed 06:50 THE HUNGER GAMES Wed 07:10, 09:15 THE DICTATOR Wed 10:00 THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT Wed 06:40 HEADHUNTERS Wed 07:20 THE CABIN IN THE WOODS Wed 09:40
Fifth Avenue Cinemas
510 SW Hall St., 503-725-3551 TAXI DRIVER Fri-Sat-Sun 03:00
Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-281-4215 TO ROME WITH LOVE FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:10, 09:20 SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:00 WESTERN GOLD Wed 07:30 BERNIE FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:00 CINEFAMILY: LOST IN THE DESERT Fri 09:30 CINEFAMILY’S 100 MOST OUTRAGEOUS F...S! Fri 07:30 CINEFAMILY: 5 MINUTES GAME Sat 07:30 SWING TIME Sat 03:00 RETURN TO WATERLOO Sun 04:00 BREAKING BAD Sun 10:00 SNAKE IN THE EAGLE’S SHADOW Tue 07:30 SABERTOOTH DRAGON VS THE FIERY TIGER Tue 09:30
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Academy Theater
7818 SE Stark St., 503-252-0500 THE HUNGER GAMES Wed 11:50, 03:35, 06:30, 09:25 CHIMPANZEE Wed 11:40, 01:45 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS Wed 12:00, 02:00, 04:00 MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL Wed 06:00, 10:00 THE DICTATOR Wed 08:00 THE CABIN IN THE WOODS Wed 02:45, 09:40 DARK SHADOWS Wed 04:50, 07:15
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MISCELLANEOUS 6TH COMMANDMENT:
You shall not Murder! (Ex 20:13) For who-so-ever sheds Man’s blood, by Man shall his blood be shed - for in the Image of God, made HE Man! (Gen 9:6) And also... Blood! Blood! It defiles the Land; And it cannot be cleansed, but by the blood of him that shed it! (Num 35:33)
MURDER (Hate, Racism)-6:
You have heard that it was said by them of old: YOU SHALL NOT MURDER! ... But I [Jesus] says unto you, that who-so-ever is Angry [Hates] his brother without a JUST CAUSE [Due Process of Law] shall be in danger of the [Court] Judgement! (Matthew 5: 21-22)... For GOD has made of ONE BLOOD for ALL Nations of men, who dwell upon the earth [thus, no Racism]! (Acts 17:26-27)... As... there is neither Greek [Gentile] nor Jew... Barbarian [Northman] or Scythian [S.Russia], Bondmen or Free - but Christ is for ALL [Salvation], and in you ALL! (Colossians 3:11)
(for future parents and parents with children under 3) July 18, 6:30pm - 8:30pm Session I: Preparing the Home for the 0-3 child July 25, 6:30pm - 8:30pm Session II: Preparing the Kitchen for the 0-3 child Montessori Institute Northwest 4506 SE Belmont Street 503.963.8992 www.montessori-nw.org for more information
HEALTH WERE YOU IMPLANTED WITH A ST. JUDE RIATA DEBIBRALLATOR LEAD WIRE between June 2001 and December 2010? Have you had this lead replaced, capped or did you receive shocks from the lead? You may be entitled to compensation. Contact Attorney Charles Johnson 1-800-535-5727.
LESSONS CLASSICAL PIANO/KEYBOARD $15/Hour Theory Performance. All levels. Portland 503-989-5925 and 503-735-5953.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is hosting two public meetings to review and gather comments on the Draft Portland Harbor NRDA Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement and Restoration Plan (PEIS/RP) released by the Portland Harbor Natural Resource Trustee Council on July 9, 2012. The Draft PEIS/RP establishes an approach to planning, selecting and implementing restoration to compensate for injuries to natural resources in Portland Harbor. The document also addresses potential environmental impacts from the restoration plan. Public meetings will be held on July 17, 2012 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at the St. John’s Community Center, 8427 North Central St., Portland and August 2, 2012 from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm in Room 238, Smith Memorial Student Union, 1825 SW Broadway, Portland. The meetings are child friendly. For additional information or to obtain a copy of the Draft PEIS/RP, contact Megan Callahan Grant at 503-231-2213, portlandharbor.restoration@noaa.gov or visit www.fws.gov/oregonfwo/ Contaminants/PortlandHarbor/.
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42 Steal a parachute pants-wearing rapper’s plane? 45 Kate’s sitcom partner, in the 1980s 46 Guy’s counterpart 47 “___ du lieber!” 50 Malfunctions, like a printer 52 Endodontist’s degree: abbr. 53 Razor line introduced by Gillette 54 Inventor Whitney 55 Leader of the course “Denial 101”? 58 Actor Cheadle 59 Heidi of “Project Runway” 60 Ultimate
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): During an author tour a few years ago, I was a guest on San Francisco radio station KFOG. For a while, the host interviewed me about my book and astrology column. Then we moved into a less formal mode, bantering about psychic powers, lucid dreams, and reincarnation. Out of nowhere, the host asked me, “So who was I in my past life?” Although I’m not in the habit of reading people’s previous incarnations, I suddenly and inexplicably had the sense that I knew exactly who he had been: Savonarola, a controversial 15th-century Italian friar. I suspect you may soon have comparable experiences, Aries. Don’t be surprised if you are able to glean new revelations about the past and come to fresh insights about how history has unfolded. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Tease and tempt and tantalize, Taurus. Be pithy and catchy and provocative. Don’t go on too long. Leave ‘em hanging for more. Wink for dramatic effect. Perfect your most enigmatic smile. Drop hints and cherish riddles. Believe in the power of telepathy. Add a new twist or two to your body language. Be sexy in the subtlest ways you can imagine. Pose questions that no one has been brave or smart enough to ask. Hang out in thresholds, crossroads, and any other place where the action is entertaining.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): American political leaders who have never been soldiers tend to be more gung-ho about sending U.S. fighting forces into action than leaders who have actually served in the military. So said former Marine captain Matt Pottinger in TheDailyBeast.com. I recommend that you avoid and prevent comparable situations in your own life during the coming weeks, Gemini. Don’t put yourself under the influence of decision-makers who have no direct experience of the issues that are important to you. The same standard should apply to you, too. Be humble about pressing forward if you’re armed with no more than a theoretical understanding of things. As much as possible, make your choices and wield your clout based on what you know firsthand. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Let’s hypothesize that there are two different kinds of freedom possible for you to pursue. One is simplistic and sterile, while the other is colorful and fertile. The first is characterized by absence or emptiness, and the second is full of rich information and stimulating experiences. Is there any doubt about which is preferable? I know that the simplistic, sterile freedom might be easier and faster to attain. But its value would be limited and short-lived, I’m afraid. In the long run, the tougher liberation will be more rewarding. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Some people believe that a giant sea serpent lives in a Scottish lake. They call it the Loch Ness Monster, or Nessie for short. The evidence is anecdotal and skimpy. If the creature actually lurks in the murky depths, it has never hurt any human being, so it can’t be considered dangerous. On the other hand, Nessie has long been a boon to tourism in the area. The natives are happy that the tales of its existence are so lively. I’d like to propose using the Loch Ness monster as a template for how to deal with one of your scary delusions. Use your rational mind to exorcise any anxiety you might still be harboring, and figure out a way to take advantage of the legendary story you created about it. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “The soul should always stand ajar,” said 19-century Emily Dickinson poet in one of her poems, “That if the heaven inquire, He will not be obliged to wait, Or shy of troubling her.” Modern translation: You should keep your deep psyche in a constant state of readiness for the possible influx of divine inspiration or unexpected blessings. That way, you’re likely to recognize the call when it comes and respond with the alacrity necessary to get the full benefit of its offerings. This is always a sound principle to live by. But it will be an especially valuable strategy in the coming weeks. Right now, imagine what it feels like when your soul is properly ajar. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Some people wonder if I’m more like a cheerleader than an objective reporter. They think that maybe I minimize the pain and exaggerate the gain that lie ahead. I understand
why they might pose that question. Because all of us are constantly besieged with a disproportionate glut of discouraging news, I see it as my duty to provide a counterbalance. My optimism is medicine to protect you from the distortions that the conventional wisdom propagates. Having said that, I’d like you to know that I’m not counterbalancing at all when I give you this news: You’re close to grabbing a strategic advantage over a frustration that has hindered you for a long time. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment,” said Zen teacher Charlotte Joko Beck. “This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath.” While I appreciate Beck’s advice, I’m perplexed why she put such a heavy emphasis on lessons that arise from difficult events. In the weeks ahead, you’ll be proof that this is shortsighted. Your teachers are likely to be expansive, benevolent, and generous. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A lathe is a machine that grips a chunk of metal or wood or clay and rotates it so that someone wielding a tool can form the chunk into a desired shape. From a metaphorical point of view, I visualize you as being held by a cosmic lathe right now. God or fate or whatever you’d prefer to call it is chiseling away the non-essential stuff so as to sculpt a more beautiful and useful version of you. Although the process may be somewhat painful, I think you’ll be happy with the result. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I’m hoping you will take maximum advantage of the big opportunity that’s ahead for you, Capricorn: an enhancement of your senses. That’s right. For the foreseeable future, you not only have the potential to experience extra vivid and memorable perceptions. You could also wangle an upgrade in the acuity and profundity of your senses, so that your sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch will forevermore gather in richer data. For best results, set aside what you believe about the world, and just drink in the pure impressions. In other words, focus less on the thoughts rumbling around inside your mind and simply notice what’s going on around you. For extra credit: Cultivate an empathetic curiosity with everything you’d like to perceive better. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): What kind of week will it be for you? It will be like you’re chewing gum while walking down a city street and then suddenly you sneeze, catapulting the gooey mess from your mouth onto the sidewalk in such a way that it gets stuck to the bottom of your shoe, which causes you to trip and fall, allowing you to find a $100 bill that is just lying there unclaimed and that you would have never seen had you not experienced your little fit of “bad luck.” Be ready to cash in on unforeseen twists of fate, Aquarius. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Having served as executive vice-president of the Hedonistic Anarchists Think Tank, I may not seem like the most believable advocate of the virtues of careful preparation, rigorous organization, and steely resolve. But if I have learned anything from consorting with hedonistic anarchists, it’s that there’s not necessarily a clash between thrill-seeking and self-discipline. The two can even be synergistic. I think that’s especially true for you right now, Pisces. The quality and intensity of your playtime activities will thrive in direct proportion to your self-command.
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