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My former boss, Steve Novick, just flunked logic [“Murmurs,” WW, July 11, 2012]. Turns out he’s not in charge of all energy use in “the region”; he’s a player in protecting the PDX citizenry. Coal exports will hurt us in many ways. While we work to transition the region’s (and the city’s) energy use to renewables, let’s not hurt ourselves and others by making it worse. You’re not (yet) a hypocrite, Steve, you just haven’t thought this through. Sometimes you can outsmart yourself by being too quick with a quip. Ted Gleichman North Portland
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I love how grassrootsy this election is [“City Slackers,” WW, July 11, 2012]. Jefferson [Smith] is trying to build an unmatched connection with the city, and if his field campaigning is any indication, that is happening. I hope this election is one in which Portland does not just choose its next mayor, but also one in which Portlanders get engaged and involved again. If that happens, good things will follow. —“Peter W” How Jefferson Smith has convinced people he’s all about East Portland, when in fact his record in the area is nonexistent, is baffling. Let’s hope the voters in those areas look a little closer. —“JJ”
Sam Adams is the mayor of Portland, not the mayor of Milwaukie or Clackamas County [“Gimme Shelter,” WW, July 11, 2012]. He is protecting Portland. He chose to play hardball; if Metro doesn’t like it, I’m sure they can choose their own brand of hardball to lobby back. Suck it up and stop whining. Did the cut to the [downtown] Free Rail Zone impact the Clackamas County economy? No. If we’re going to talk about fairness, how about Clackamas County ponying up some $ for the Sellwood Bridge? —“Sarah”
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Early in his campaign for Portland mayor, Charlie Hales had a big money problem. His chief foe, Eileen Brady, was pulling in far more contributions, and a lot of that campaign cash was coming from the very business interests Hales had hoped to win over. That’s when Hales, a former city commissioner, floated an audacious idea: waiving fees called systems development charges for builders and business owners for two years—a giveaway city officials say is worth at least $28 million. Hales’ proposal got surprisingly little attention during the primary—except from the third major candidate, Rep. Jefferson Smith. “I don’t agree with Mr. Hales that we should give a sweeping break to the developers,” Smith said during an April 30 televised debate. “Before we talk about spending new money, or even spending old money, let’s make sure we don’t give away the money we already have.” Developers and architecture firms, prime beneficiaries of such a fee waiver, donated more than $200,000 to Hales’ campaign—about a quarter of his contributions. That might have made it tough for Hales to explain why his proposal wasn’t simply a sop to his backers. Except that Hales has changed his mind.
He tells WW he’s backed away from his proposal to waive development fees across the board. He says his plan all along was to help jump-start affordable housing and small businesses, which often pay onerous fees when they open, expand or remodel. And Hales says he no longer supports waiving fees on big developers. “I believed then, and I believe now, that we need to re-examine our systems development charges,” Hales says. “Do we need a moratorium as the wake-up call? Maybe not.” Hales says he changed his mind about waiving these fees because the demand for city permits is growing without giving developers a big financial incentive. “Reality is, construction’s not flat on its back anymore,” Hales says. But city records show another reality—real-estate development had come back well before the primary. Bureau of Development Services statistics show it received 3,503 permit applications for commercial properties in the fiscal year ending in June—nearly level with numbers before the recession. Residential construction is spiking too. The Oregonian reported last week that the city has issued permits to developers for more than 100 apartment buildings in the last 12 months. Proposals to build apartment buildings without onsite parking have attracted enough controversy that the Bureau of Development Services issued a FAQ sheet last month about the “sudden boom of upcoming multidwelling apartment projects in inner Portland.”
The bureau has been so buoyed by the apartmentbuilding spike that it’s hired back 40 of the 150 employees it laid off in 2010. And in March, Mayor Sam Adams used his State of the City address to brag about the “largest private-sector-only investment in years”—a 750-unit, four-tower project near the Rose Quarter called Lloyd Crossing. In other words, the only thing that’s really changed since the primary is Hales’ opponent. Through most of the primary campaign, Brady—not Smith—was Hales’ biggest worry. She landed the endorsement of the Portland Business Alliance—something Hales coveted. What’s more, Brady—with her business experience and ties to New Seasons Market—was making the case that she was the best candidate to create jobs in Portland. Systems development charges have been a favorite target of business. (Hales often battled over them while a lobbyist for the Home Builders Association of Metropolitan Portland.) They became especially controversial in 2002, when a Southeast Belmont Street restaurant, It’s a Beautiful Pizza, was charged $36,000 to move across the street. That was Hales’ last year on the City Council; the pizza parlor is now closed. Hales says he decided to pursue the systems development fee freeze last winter after talking to a food-cart owner who couldn’t afford a brick-and-mortar location. He presented his moratorium idea to the Building Owners and Managers Association of Oregon when he sought its endorsement over Brady in January. “I think there’s only one private-sector crane on the horizon in city of Portland today,” Hales was quoted in the Daily Journal of Commerce. “The rest of the cranes you see are all public works jobs or university construction. We can get things stimulated by having construction be less of CONT. on page 8 Willamette Week JULY 18, 2012 wweek.com
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a daunting prospect than it is now.” Hales now tells WW that aiding such big developments was never the goal. “They were not the source of this concern,” he says. “The source of this concern was these small businesses. And if you look at what’s happening in downtown right now with the big projects, they can bear the costs of these [fees]. We should not whack small business with that kind of a baseball bat.” But with Brady out of the race after the primary, Hales no longer needs to tack to the right of Brady on issues businesses hold dear. What’s more, the candidate he now faces, Smith, has repeatedly criticized him for his proposal. “I think we want candidates to change their minds based on changing facts,” Smith says. “The economy hasn’t changed that much in the past three months. [Hales’] original proposal is just as bad.” City Commissioner Nick Fish, who oversees the parks bureau, says the city is starting a review of systems development charges, something it does every few years. He says city officials
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are willing to look at “tweaking” the fees, but that a wholesale exemption—even a temporary one—isn’t part of the plan. “Speaking for myself,” Fish says, “I don’t support a moratorium.” If Hales’ proposal looked good to developers, it would have meant budget cuts in areas voters care about—for example, transportation and parks. Continuing to push an across-the-board ban on the fees also would have opened Hales to the charge that he’s penalizing the one area of the city where he’s most vulnerable to Smith—East Portland. Portland Parks & Recreation Director Mike Abbate says his department projected Hales’ plan would cost it $5 million to $6 million a year. “[Systems development charges] help us fill in the gaps to build facilities where there aren’t any,” Abbate says. “The general fund doesn’t supply anything for new construction. [A moratorium] would just limit our ability to do new things in those areas.” For example, systems development charges funded $4 million in parks bureau spending, including the building of Senn’s Dairy Park at Northeast 122nd Avenue and Prescott Street, and buying 26 acres of land atop Clatsop Butte. And Transportation spent $1.2 million from the fees on the Cully Boulevard Green Street project—sidewalks, cycle tracks and traffic signals over the five-way intersection at Northeast 60th Avenue—and another $1.4 million on paving sidewalks along Southeast 122nd Avenue between Harold and Raymond streets. Hales is still backing a limited waiver aimed at smaller developments and can’t say how much that might cost the city. But he’s aware that, if he gets elected mayor, he faces a fight over any plan that takes away revenue from the city budget. “My friends in the bureaus are very nervous about this discussion,” Hales says. “The city has become very dependent on fees.” Smith says Hales is looking at the issue in the wrong way. “If we don’t have the [systems development charge] money, we either don’t do the projects or take the money out of the general fund,” he says. “Either option is bad.” Smith also says the city’s sewer and water projects—which also benefit from the fees—wouldn’t stop. The city would just raise rates to cover the costs. Hales says his position on development fees wasn’t tied to the campaign contributions he received from real-estate and development interests. In June, he pledged to take contributions only from individuals and to cap the donations at $600—a move that blunts the impact of developer money. “I have, on development issues, been part of the Portland mainstream—the progressive mainstream—for a long time,” Hales says. “I do take in new information. And I’ll adjust my position on an issue to reflect reality, rather than just ideology.”
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Troy Perkins was tired of getting shelled. At the Portland Timbers’ practice July 16, the team ran a succession of Bugatti-quick six-on-six scrimmages. Perkins, the Timbers’ goalkeeper, tried to protect the net. But it seemed every time the offense moved in, the defenders who were supposed to keep the heat off Perkins left an attacker open on the wing. When Timbers forward Mike Fucito chipped a ball into the far corner of the net, the typically eventempered Perkins lost his cool. “Shit!” Perkins yelled at his back line. “It’s the same thing every time!” He was right, of course. In the Los Angeles Galaxy’s 5-3 pounding of the Timbers two days earlier at Jeld-Wen Field, Perkins watched as one opponent after another got open with penetrating runs or striking chances. Galaxy star David Beckham—still one of the most dangerous players in the game— had all the time he wanted to tee up a blistering shot to start L.A.’s scoring in the 19th minute. Within 10 minutes, the Galaxy had scored three more goals—including a free
what is becoming increasingly apparent but that no one wants to admit: It would take a miraculous sequence of events for the Timbers to see a postseason game this year. In recent years, Major League Soccer teams that make the playoffs typically average around 1.4 points a game. (Teams earn three points for a win, one for a tie, and none for a loss.) That translates to about 48 points for a team to have any real hopes for the postseason. But the Timbers—once again in the Western Conference basement—are stuck at 19 points after 18 games. With the season just past the midpoint, Portland needs to win or tie nearly every game that remains. That schedule includes nine away matches, when the Timbers have barely been able to score on the road—they’re the only MLS team that’s winless in any stadium other than their own. Interim coach Gavin Wilkinson said after the practice that his goal for the season is 45 points. “I’m not saying that will get us into the playoffs,” Wilkinson says, “but that would be an improvement on last year.” Timbers owner Merritt Paulson is probably already thinking beyond this season. He has to. He took the first step by firing Spencer and indicating that Wilkinson won’t remain as coach. The players showed signs the firing of
“I HATE TO SEE THINGS GO THE WAY THEY ARE.... I WANT TO DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO RIGHT THE SHIP.”—TROY PERKINS, TIMBERS GOALKEEPER kick from Beckham that could earn its way onto his already-crowded highlight reel. Part of the spin from the Timbers after the team fired coach John Spencer on July 9 was that the season was not yet a lost cause and they were still in playoff contention. But the Galaxy’s goalfest underscores
Spencer was a blow to their morale. But Kelly McLain of timbersinsider.com and the North American Soccer Network show Soccer Made in Portland says the firing is probably a good long-term move for the team. “There’s just no evidence to suggest that Spencer was going to turn things around
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THREE’S A CROWD: In front of an open goal, (from left) Timbers striker Kris Boyd, defender Hanyer Mosquera and midfielder Jack Jewsbury couldn’t put the ball in the net during a 5-3 loss to the Los Angeles Galaxy on July 14.
enough to make it into the playoffs,” McLain says. “Might as well get it done and over with and start moving forward. If there’s a dead man walking, make it a short walk.” Geoff Gibson of the blog Stumptown Footy agrees. The team’s “inability to win on the road is indicative of a deeper problem, something that obviously wasn’t going to be fixed under Spencer’s reign.” After the Timbers find a new coach, a roster shake-up is probably inevitable. One player who has felt the pressure so far is the team’s top-paid player, striker Kris Boyd. Boyd scored twice against L.A., but his team-leading seven goals for the season is a disappointment given the expectations for the highest scorer in the history of the Scottish Premier League. As WW said at the season’s start, Boyd had the reputation of a keen scorer who lacked broader skills. In Portland, he’s not shown significant athleticism, defense or ball-handling abilities. So far, the Timbers haven’t been able to afford this luxury: Boyd has received only intermittent service from his teammates.
Either Boyd has to change, or the team around him must. Midfielder Jack Jewsbury is also under some pressure. Wilkinson has hinted at taking away Jewsbury’s role as captain. The fill-in coach praised Jewsbury’s performance against the Galaxy, but added there were no guarantees about the future. “If any player looks to drop in form,” he said, “we’ll look to make honest moves.” Perkins, one of the league’s leading keepers in saves, has been the team’s rock. He’s in the best position to see the frequent defensive breakdowns all around him. And as the team’s hopes fade to black, he’s becoming increasingly candid about what he sees. “I love this club,” the nine-year veteran said after the July 16 practice. “I hate to see things go the way they are. For me, it’s a personal thing; it affects my family, it affects me, and it affects this club, which is an extension of my family. I want to do everything I can to right the ship. “Whether it’s the right way or the wrong way,” he added, “something’s got to be done.”
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Leal Sundet says it’s bad enough that the International Longshoreman and Warehouse Union is getting a raw deal at the Port of Portland. He thinks also it’s getting a bum rap. For more than a month, a labor dispute has clogged cargo at the port. The ILWU Local 8 has been accused of intentionally slowing work at Terminal 6, the port’s only international container-ship terminal—all in a dispute over two jobs. The jobs involve plugging and unplugging refrigerated containers, called reefers. The jobs went to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which has a contract with the port. But the longshoremen say their contract with the company leasing the terminal, ICTSI of Oregon, gives them the right to those jobs. A U.S. district judge issued a restraining order July 3 against the union’s slowdown. Meanwhile, ships have diverted cargo to other ports, costing the region millions. The port has set the media agenda, in part because the ILWU is notoriously press-averse. But the union has decided to tell its side. And it’s chosen Sundet—a burly Norwegian who worked the Portland docks from 1991 until elected a coast committeeman in 2006—to tell its story. WW: Tell me why this isn’t just about two jobs. Leal Sundet: I don’t think there’s any gained jobs for us or a loss of jobs for the IBEW. You have one rogue employer, is what it amounts to. One rogue employer that wants a special deal for itself.
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What are the jobs like? These reefers are big. They are the same size as a 40-foot truck. So this is skilled labor? The repairing of the reefer is highly skilled, and longshoremen repair all the reefers on the dock. It’s like a big refrigerator, and typically it’s highvalued cargo that’s sensitive to temperature. Actually plugging the cord in doesn’t take a lot of skill. It’s no different than plugging a cord into a house socket.
What’s usually in the reefers? It could be frozen meat; it could be vegetables; in some cases it could be electronic parts that have to be kept at a certain temperature. Medications. If it goes bad and it spoils, it’s very expensive to the customer, and then everybody points fingers. So these particular two jobs are not necessarily the most valued jobs in the world. It’s the principle of the thing. It’s the principle of whether or not one of our companies can pick or choose what part of the contract we have with them they are going to comply with. That’s it. It’s unfairly reported as this fight between two unions for two jobs. That’s not what the issue is. So how are things on the terminal? It’s got to be getting stressful out there at this point. Not a lot of work. Not too stressful. There’s very little cargo, if any, on the docks. We don’t have a problem with the electricians at all. That’s being improperly reported, I think, in the paper. I think the electricians understand what our position is. Why are the ships going elsewhere? The carriers don’t want to violate [our contract]. Remember: It’s their equipment. From a carrier’s perspective, ICTSI is their subcontractor. So if you tell your subcontractor, “I want you to do something with my stuff a certain way,” and a subcontractor says no, what are you gonna do? Obviously, it impacts Portland financially. The people of Portland can’t be very happy. Well, they might not be. So they should be upset with ICTSI. Not with you? There’s nothing that we did. We got an agreement to assign the work, and they refused to assign it. They say they won’t because of the lease with the port—and the port has a contract with IBEW. Sounds like a lousy lease. The judge described it as selling the same rock to two different people. There’s only one rock. And it’s your rock? It’s our rock.
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A IS FOR ADAMS
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FROM AX-WIELDING TO ZEMBLANITY, THE THINGS PORTLAND’S CONTROVERSIAL MAYOR HAS DONE RIGHT. Give Mayor Sam Adams some credit. We are. Finally. Perhaps no media organization has been tougher on Adams during his term as Portland’s mayor than WW— and for good reason. Weeks after he was sworn in as mayor in 2009, our reporting forced Adams to admit he had lied, repeatedly, about having sex with an 18-year-old legislative intern, Beau Breedlove, and that he tried to smear a whistleblower. Adams survived a state criminal investigation, newspaper editorials demanding his resignation and two recall efforts. But in the process, Adams was distracted; he lost allies and allowed Commissioner Randy Leonard to wield outsized power. Adams also lost a mayor’s most important assets: credibility and the appearance of authority. It took him at least two years to regain his footing. The city suffered for a lack 12
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of leadership at a time when businesses were closing and thousands of Portlanders were losing their jobs. The mayor became an easy target, a caricature that many Portlanders will not miss. And yet, hasn’t he accomplished some things? Anything? WW asked a score of politicians, bureaucrats, businesspeople, activists and constituents—including Adams’ friends, enemies, frenemies, colleagues and passing associates—what the mayor might deserve more credit for. Some asked if April Fool’s Day was coming early. Others only mustered a whistle. A few asked for time to think, and never called back. More than one pointed out that Adams—who hired a staff videographer to follow him around and whose collected press releases would fill volumes—rarely misses an opportunity to take credit for anything. And yet.
A cross section of the city’s political stakeholders applaud him (some with golf claps) for managing the budget, bailing out the schools and for many small-bore, behind-the-scenes efforts that don’t often win headlines. Some are now willing to say, however grudgingly, that Adams deserves credit for the ways he’s used the political skills—intelligence, persistence and creativity—that got him elected in the first place. It’s Adams’ last summer in City Hall. He leaves in January, after serving one term as an unpopular mayor, one term as a popular city commissioner and 11 years as chief of staff for former Mayor Vera Katz. Between Adams’ own senior year self-evaluation and outside opinions, we came up with an alphabet’s worth of accomplishments for which Adams deserves his props. CONT. on page 14
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is for AX-WIELDING It’s ironic that a mayor who can barely handle his own finances—Adams has three mortgage defaults and a bankruptcy—has proven to be one of Portland’s best mayors come budget time. Adams spent much of his term making cuts. Fortunately, he handles the proverbial budget ax like a butterfly knife. The contenders for his job—Charlie Hales and Jefferson Smith—agree he’s left the city’s accounts in decent shape for the next mayor. It’s true the city’s debt has grown on his watch. Adams angered his Council colleagues during the latest budget process by hoarding information and limiting communication. He angered some non-union city workers by freezing their pay, and others by scraping $7.1 million from the city’s distressed budget to give to Portland Public Schools. City unions that feared a huge loss in membership were relieved Adams cut chiefly from middle management. “We expected drastic cuts with frontline services,” says Megan Hise, spokeswoman for Laborers Local 483, which represents city park workers, “but the budget he rolled out really responded to the concerns of the community.”
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is for BRAIN PRESERVATION Sticklers who complained about how Adams paid for bicycle and pedestrian improvements miss the point: He’s saved lives and limbs. How many? Hard to say. “But we do know the more facilities that go in, the safer it is,” says Rob Sadowsky, executive director of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance. Adams pushed through bike boxes, green-striped lanes, special traffic signals and other subtle street improvements using money designated for sewer projects, sparking howls of protest. In a city awash in plans, most of which never emerge from the black hole of process, Adams acted so quickly on his bike master plan in 2010, even some cycling advocates wondered if he was moving too fast. Besides, the financing plan makes sense: Why not add bike and ped improvements while streets are torn up for sewer work? As Adams says, it’s a twofer.
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is for COMPROMISE Critics knock Adams for know-it-all-ism, and for bullying to get his way. But when he backs down—and he does—it tends to happen quietly. One recent example: Adams’ staff had suggested fines for people who put garbage and dirty diapers in their recycling or curbside composting bins. After hearing criticism of the idea, Adams did a 180. Now, if someone has difficulty separating their waste properly, the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability won’t immediately issue a fine, but will send a volunteer to the house to see what the problem is, talk through possible solutions and even let the bureau director give them a break. Council colleagues say Adams is often willing to cut a deal. He also picks battles more carefully than his predecessor, Mayor Tom Potter, a former police chief schooled in a command-and-control style of leadership. For example: In 2007, Potter pushed to rename Interstate Avenue as Cesar Chavez Boulevard. When other commissioners began on-the-fly negotiations at a public hearing that would delay a vote on the plan, Potter stormed out. “Potter walked off with the cameras rolling and said, ‘I’m irrelevant,’” Leonard recalls. “Sam watched that and said, ‘That will never happen to me.’”
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is for DEPTH Adams would rather be known as a wonk than a personality. But talk to him long enough, and it’s clear he is emotionally invested in certain issues he has championed as mayor. “The tougher the issue, basically, the more personally involved I get,” Adams says. “And I take it personally.” For instance: road safety. Adams was a know-nothing on the subject until, as Katz’s aide, he attended a Linnton neighborhood meeting. Residents wanted the Oregon Department of Transportation to lower speed limits on a 14
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FAIR TIMES AND FOUL: Adams visits the Mississippi Street Fair on July 14. “I’m not a natural suit-and-tie guy,” he says..
part of Highway 30. Adams took up the cause. During their campaign, a 14-year-old was killed trying to cross the street. “I felt incredibly angry and embarrassed,” Adams says. “Angry because this wasn’t a higher priority. And just embarrassed that I had been unable, from my position as chief of staff, to impact this in time. Then I realized that the city didn’t prioritize this, and that really pissed me off.”
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is for ENDURANCE Adams’ status as an openly gay, big-city mayor still stands as a symbol of progress for sexual minorities. As a symbol, Adams is flawed, but you’d think threeplus years in office might soften bigotry toward him. But it’s still possible to hear vile remarks about his sexuality on TriMet and the comments sections of local news websites. Adams’ inbox remains like a hate-crime tip sheet. “Part of the job,” Adams says. “It’s got to be.”
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is for FRASHOUR In January 2010, Portland police officer Ron Frashour killed an unarmed man, Aaron Campbell, by shooting him in the back. Adams and Police Chief Mike Reese fired Frashour 10 months after the shooting—a decision reversed by a state arbitrator. Adams refused to rehire him and said Frashour would not wear a Portland police badge on his watch. A futile gesture? Maybe. But a meaningful one. Even if he loses the Frashour case—city attorneys are making their case to the state Employment Relations Board—Adams has opened for debate some of the more questionable provisions of the Portland Police Association contract, which comes up for renegotiation next year. In the last round of closed-door contract talks, Adams showed his commitment to more police accountability by insisting the Albina Ministerial Alliance could sit in. “The police fought it,” says Jo Ann Hardesty, a former state legislator and spokeswoman for the alliance. “They didn’t want the public to know. He stood firm.”
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is for GOOOOOAAAAAL! Adams was not the first City Council member to embrace Portland Timbers owner Merritt Paulson’s plan to bring Major League Soccer to Portland. But his support was crucial. “There’s no way the deal would’ve gotten done without Sam,” Paulson says. Some worried Paulson would get too sweet a deal, and indeed, the city wound up absorbing $1 million in cost overruns on the stadium renovation. But today the Timbers are a phenomenon, drawing sold-out, rowdy crowds to Jeld-Wen Field.
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is for HOUNDING, MERCILESSLY Sometimes, a leader needs to be a jerk. During his years with Katz, Adams was known for tracking down and harassing anyone who said bad things about his boss. Now that same obsessive streak keeps him second-guessing staff and colleagues. “Sam doesn’t necessarily trust the people he appointed to give him unvarnished, unbiased answers,” Leonard says. Adams’ defenders argue it’s a good thing he lacks the Portland passive-aggressive gene. “This is not a town that burns people,” says Byron Beck, a KXL radio host and journalist (he’s an ex-WW staffer). “He doesn’t care, he’ll just do it. That’s part of him I’m really proud of.” Sometimes Adams’ severity serves the greater good. He scorched bridges this month by threatening a $2 million fee hike on TriMet unless it restored the YouthPass, which provides free bus and rail passes to PPS high-school students. They might thank Adams, if colleagues won’t.
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is for INCOME BONUSES Some think Adams embodies Portland’s unfriendliness to small business. But the person who gives Adams credit for helping small business with a controversial tax break is none other than Commissioner Dan Saltzman, who’s often crossways with Adams and nearly ran against him for mayor. For years, the Portland Business Alliance has wanted a bigger tax break for business owners: exempt their own salaries from city business taxes. The PBA wants the maximum deduction to be $125,000; it is $87,000. As a candidate, Adams pledged to go along, and this year met PBA halfway by finding a creative way to pay for it, using money coming in through the city’s tax-amnesty program. “It’s one thing to say ‘we’ll do it’ on the campaign trail, especially with all the flak one gets about helping the PBA,” Saltzman says.
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is for JOINDER It means “bringing parties together.” When Adams took office in 2009, the city, Multnomah County and the Portland Schools Foundation (now called All Hands Raised) each had separate, overlapping committees on how to improve the public schools. “Everybody had a good reason why we shouldn’t merge the organizations,” Adams says. “Meanwhile, everybody complained that we were having the same meetings with the same people.” It took two years, but Adams persuaded them all to merge. “He pulled it off,” says former Multnomah County CONT. on page 16
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is for KLEPTOCRACY COUNTERMEASURES Adams responded to Occupy Portland’s protests by moving $2.5 million in city funds to 10 local banks and credit unions, instead of U.S. Treasury Securities and accounts with the big national banks. The new policy has one bonus: The resolution also increased transparency by requiring the city to publish monthly online reports on the location and status of its investments.
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is for LIBERAL TWEETING One could call Adams’ Twitter addiction a waste of time. Consider a selection of recent citizen exchanges with @MayorSamAdams: Citizen: “Prostitution. Witnessed a women turning trix in the back of her pickup. 18th & Savier.” Adams: “On it.” Citizen: “Dumpsters on the street…almost cause wrecks daily.” Adams: “Yikes. On it.” Citizen: “Is your favorite pizza meat lovers?” Adams: “Yes.” Adams’ habitual tweeting keeps him up with the times—and responsive. “That’s how I stick my head out of the bubble,” he says.
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is for MATHEMANCY It means “divination by counting.” Adams wants to be known as someone who picked priorities and made decisions based on data. It’s hard to deny him that. Adams’ soft spot for charts, graphs and hard numbers was born of frustration. “The great
At least 183 people have been arrested in related demonstrations in Portland since last October. The award-winning photo in The Oregonian of a young woman pepper-sprayed in the face by police sure showed some ugliness, but it could’ve been much worse. Look at Oakland: rubber bullets, smoke grenades and batons all around.
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is for PASTA As in, throwing it against the wall to see what sticks. Adams may lack focus. But give him credit for experimentation and inspiration. Sunday Parkways—those car-free summertime street festivals—is one example. The city’s plastic bag ban—like it or hate it—is another. As is the new Office of Equity, which Adams devised but turned over to Commissioner Amanda Fritz to build. Adams runs with an idea from a magazine article, a random conversation or another city. “Staff will go screaming down the halls because I’m like, ‘Hey, I got this idea!’ and they’re like, ‘Aaaah! We’re busy,’” Adams says.
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is for QUITTING By announcing last summer that he wouldn’t seek re-election, Adams spared Portlanders the psychic ordeal of an election that would disinter his behavior and judgment during the Beau Breedlove scandal. Adams insists he could not have accomplished all he did this year (especially on the budget) while running for re-election. He still doesn’t acknowledge the role his mistakes in judgment played in undermining his prospects for a second term. “Everyone has made mistakes,” he says. “The finalists for mayor, the longer they spend in the spotlight, the more you get to know their
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strength of Portland is its willingness to be agile and move,” he says. “The weakness of Portland is, we make decisions a lot based on experience and not enough on data.” Adams tried to change this. He prioritized street improvements by targeting those places where the most accidents occurred, not where residents complained the loudest. He focused certain Portland Development Commission investments on commercial strips that weren’t generating enough profit for their owners to pay business income tax to the city. And he introduced “budget mapping”: tracking where various bureaus are spending money. “I don’t love how all the resources have been deployed,” says mayoral candidate Smith, “but getting a better sense of that was good.”
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is for NEEDLESS GIFTING Apparently, if you tell Adams you like his tie, he’ll often take it off his neck and give it to you. Friends say this happens a lot. “I think it’s good luck,” Adams says of his generosity. “Luckily no one has said, ‘I like your pants.’”
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is for OCCUPY Occupy Portland trashed two parks and cost the city more than $1 million in police overtime. Adams faced intense criticism for letting Occupy set up in Chapman and Lownsdale squares—and then he left for China on a business trip. But he also made a good-faith effort to engage with the Occupiers, and by making it clear he supported their cause, Adams let the movement know that confrontation was not the only option.
vulnerabilities—the vulnerabilities we all have as human beings.”
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is for REFLECTING PORTLAND Whatever his integrity problems, Adams reflects Portland’s unique values—what with his urban farming (three hens in his Kenton backyard), avant-garde paintings in the mayoral foyer and local indie rock on City Hall speakers.
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is for SAFETY NETS Commissioner Nick Fish gives Adams credit for consistently finding money for safety-net programs, including short-term rental assistance and emergency shelters, managed by the Portland Housing Bureau that Fish oversees. “He had a clear set of priorities,” Fish says. “I think that’s what we’re going to miss.”
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is for THINKING DIFFERENTLY Portland entrepreneur Josh Friedman recalls telling Adams of his frustration with finding seed money for high-tech startups in the city. “He sat back and he asked, ‘Why can’t the city do this?’” Friedman says. The result: the Portland Seed Fund. The city has so far invested $750,000 in the $3 million fund. Companies it has backed have found another $14 million in private capital. Jim Huston, a project co-manager, figures 75 people, including freelancers, have been employed by Portland Seed Fund-backed companies so far. Adams hopes the fund, overseen by PDC, CONT. on page 19
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provides an alternative model for economic development. “We were investing in hard sticks and bricks and concrete and not investing enough in people and their ideas,” he says. “It should be competitive. It shouldn’t be, ‘Who do you know at PDC?’”
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is for UNDERDOG PERSPECTIVE Adams didn’t just get a rough start as mayor. He got a rough start in life. Not a lot of closeted, bullied, small-town welfare kids with divorced parents grow up to be the mayor of a major U.S. city. Unlike some politicians, Adams has not made his personal story a platform. But his tough upbringing in Newport shapes his priorities. For example: His Neighborhood Prosperity Initiative, which put PDC’s urban-renewal tools to work in impoverished stretches such as Rosewood in outer East Portland, Parkrose, Northeast Cully Boulevard, and at Southeast 82nd Avenue and Division Street. “I thought that those parts of Portland were a lot like small, struggling cities in rural Oregon,” Adams says. “I know how many smart, hard-working people are trapped in bad circumstances.”
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is for VERA KATZYNESS Adams’ name was once inextricable from that of his former boss and mentor, Mayor Vera Katz. Then, for better or worse, Adams became his own public figure. What’s forgotten is how much of Adams’ playbook and priorities borrow from Katz. “With Vera, I learned that intuition isn’t enough,” he says. “Intuition needs to be tested by facts.” Adams also says he’s learned to take criticism better—which some may find hard to believe. “I’ve gotten a thicker skin,” he says.
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is for WHIMSY The mayor probably should have better things to do with his time, but Adams’ first-season Portlandia cameo as an eager aide to the fictional mayor was a well-played turn. “He really has taken the quirkiness of Portland and ridden it out,” says Len Bergstein, a political consultant who advised Adams’ opponent, Sho Dozono, in the 2008 mayoral race. “The young-and-restless, hip, quirky nature of it all is being written up in all kinds of magazines…and he has encouraged it and fanned it and made it into a positive in a way that a lot of mayors might not have been able to.”
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is for XENOPHILIA It means “love of foreigners”—and it’s maybe the best thing you can say about Adams’ often egregious traveling. Portland Business Alliance spokeswoman Megan Doern gives Adams credit for landing the U.S. headquarters of Vestas, a Danish wind-turbine manufacturer—although some say he gave away the store to do so—and foreign companies that employ Portlanders, including the Spanish wind-power company Iberdrola Renewables. “He’s quick to get on a plane,” Doern says, “and to go to bat for keeping jobs in Portland.”
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is for YOUR KIDS Adams’ recent moves to funnel $7.1 million from city budgets to Portland Public Schools is the latest proof his support of education isn’t political puffery. The David Douglas School District didn’t get a big bailout from the city, but Superintendent Don Grotting nevertheless credits Adams for meeting regularly with administrators and board members, speaking to students and providing patchwork funding for important programs. Grotting says Adams was “instrumental” in securing $100,000 in city funding to help David Douglas High School—the state’s largest in enrollment, as well as one of its most diverse and poorest—join a Multnomah County program offering after-school activities and social services.
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is for ZEMBLANITY It’s the antonym of serendipity. Put simply, it means an unpleasant surprise. Former New York Times language columnist William Safire defined zemblanity as “the inexorable discovery of what we don’t want to know.” Adams inflicted zemblanity on Portland. But his term has also proven to be an unpleasant surprise for those who would too easily dismiss him as a failure. “Give him a little credit,” Katz says. “He’s worked very hard. I’m prejudiced, and I’m biased. And I have a deep affection for him, even though he’s done some very stupid things.”
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FOOD: The Notorious S.M.A.L.L. MUSIC: The PDX Pop Now! yearbook. BOOKS: The Age of Miracles. MOVIES: So many Batmen.
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GOSSIP STRAIGHT FROM THE GOTHAM GAZETTE. INKY GLORY: Portland graphic novelist Craig Thompson won an Eisner Award for “Best Writer/Artist” for his epic 2011 tome Habibi. Presented at San Diego Comic-Con last weekend, the Eisner Awards are basically the Oscars of comic books. This was Thompson’s third win—he scored two in 2004 for his autobiographical graphic novel Blankets. The 672-page Habibi was the THOMPSON result of seven years of work and divided critics, with some taking issue with the depiction of sexuality and Orientalism, and others lauding its ambitious scope and striking illustrations. (WW declared it should be turned into a tabletop RPG. We stand by this statement.) THANKS, MOMS: Portland’s Menomena spoke with Pitchfork last week about its forthcoming album, Moms, revealing the somewhat confounding cover art and talking about its familial inspiration. The duo—which lost founding member Brent Knopf last January after group-infighting (see “Everyone Loves Menomena...Except Menomena,” WW, Sept. 8, 2010)—chose to write about family on the new record “because writing about the band would be predictable and boring,” Danny Seim said in the article. “Justin [Harris] and I are both bummed about how our entire press angle for Mines was negative...I guess it was true, but in retrospect, I’m not too proud of it.” Menomena plays this year’s MusicfestNW on Sept. 7.
PORTLAND JUST GOT YOUNGER: And a little lighter, too. Veteran Trail Blazers center Kurt “Crazy Eyes” Thomas, the oldest man in the NBA at age 39, and Raymond “Not My Fault” Felton made the long trip to New York City after a sign-and-trade deal Monday that sent both players to the Knicks. In return, the Blazers will land a whopping four role players, including two Greek dudes and another THOMAS of the league’s older players, Dan “Gadzooks” Gadzuric. The Knicks’ signing of Felton will probably be a relief to the chubby-cheeked point guard, who had a rocky relationship with Blazers fans during his one-year stay in Rip City. Felton has publicly suggested he will prove the doubters wrong by returning to PDX and “droppin’ 50 on ’em” with his new team. No word on whether he was referring to points or pounds. 22
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WE’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER SCREEN: The NW Film Center is raising money to purchase a bigger screen for Top Down, its popular outdoor summer movie series. For nine years, the center has shown classic films on the roof of the Hotel deLuxe, making do with a screen smaller than that of an average indoor theater. As audiences have grown, however, an upgrade is needed. Through Kickstarter, NW Film Center is hoping to raise $7,000 to buy a new 20-by-11-foot inflatable screen before the 2012 season, which kicks off July 26 with the 1942 Preston Sturges comedy The Palm Beach Story.
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THURSDAY JULY 19 THEATRE WITHOUT ANIMALS [THEATER] French absurdist playwright Jean-Michel Ribes’ work has been translated into 12 different languages—but until Brooke Budy came along, never into English. Now, Factory Theatre stages Budy’s English-language premiere of Ribes’ series of eight short absurdist pieces, which examine ridiculousness in our relationships. CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 2202646, cohoproductions.org. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays. $10-$15.
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CATHEDRAL PARK JAZZ FESTIVAL [MUSIC] A 32-year-old tradition continues in the lovely St. Johns neighborhood, kicking off tonight with performances from Pink Martini’s Martin Zarzar, Superjazzers and more. Cathedral Park, North Edison Street and Pittsburg Avenue. 5 pm. Free. All ages. Continues through Sunday, see cpjazz.com. PDX POP NOW! [MUSIC] You want to know what’s going on in Portland music? This free, three-day local pop marathon is your chance to dig in. Refuge, 116 SE Yamhill St. 6 pm. Free. All ages. Continues through Sunday, see pdxpopnow.com.
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KENNY & ZUKE’S 2ND ANNUAL PICKLEFEST [PICKLES] Last year, Kenny & Zuke’s held a pickle-making contest among local chefs, and the amount of people who showed up to taste the fruits of their labor was insane. This year, the deli is turning it into a full-blown Picklestock. In addition to sampling the submissions from this year’s contestants, attendees can taste pickles from local companies, eat barbecue and listen to live music. Pickle on, Portland, pickle on. Kenny & Zuke’s Delicatessen, 1038 SW Stark St. Noon-6 pm Saturday, July 21. Free. $7 to taste the pickle samples, barbecue costs extra. Willamette Week JULY 18, 2012 wweek.com
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WW: Most people would still see some of the things you talk about as pretty scary. Why don’t they scare you? Ramez Naam: I think new things are often very scary [to people], especially new biological things. There was a lot of pushback against blood transfusions. The first smallpox vaccine was derided as something that would turn humans into human-cow hybrids, because it’s actually made from taking tissue from cows. So things like that, especially the biological side, always scare people. I am a sciencefiction buff—I’ve always read science fiction. Actually my first science-fiction novel comes out this year, so I think I was already peppered with these ideas. It was a surprise to me to find out how real they actually were. Do you think despite all the debates, humanity will just wake up one day and realize all these technologies have slowly come into our lives without us noticing? That’s absolutely the case. Things look weird at first, then you see someone who’s done it, they ended up OK, or their kid ended up OK, and it looks safe enough, it looks cheap enough, “Well, maybe I should do it too.” How many people really embraced Lasik eye surgery the first year it was out? Not many.
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Ramez Naam wants to build a better human. Formerly a program manager at Microsoft, Naam is a “transhumanist”: someone who believes humanity can and should be improved through biotechnology. His 2010 book, More Than Human, argued for technologies that typically make frightening fodder for sci-fi novels: cloning, genetic engineering, “designer children,” neuroenhancing drugs, brains wired into computers. Far from the dystopian futures experienced by Jude Law in Gattaca, Jude Law in A.I. or Jude Law in eXistenZ, Naam says, this brave new world could see a happier, healthier, smarter society. Besides, he says, much of this technology already exists. Naam is in Portland this week to discuss his perspective at Oregon Humanities’ Think & Drink series. WW called him to find out just how soon we should be welcoming our new robot overlords.
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gets out to a wider audience, and so now there are more cellphone users in Africa than there are in North America. And who would have expected that 20 years ago? So that’s usually the trajectory of technologies. Can we keep biological meddling out of sports? I think for quite a while, for the next couple decades at least, we’re going to hold the line and at least put on the facade that people are not enhanced in sports.... There is an issue right now that some of the genetic enhancements...gene therapy that boosts muscle, are not detectable by current means. So if you want to detect that someone has done, let’s say IGF-1 therapy, injected by a virus to boost their muscle, you can’t do it via blood test today. You have to do a muscle biopsy. And they don’t do muscle biopsies. So we don’t even know that we don’t have genetically enhanced athletes in sports. There might be some already. It would not surprise me at all. It’s still the case that an athlete has an advantage because of the genes that she or he was born with over different athletes. It’s just kind of random luck gave them a different genetic starting point. A fellow in the 1964 Winter Olympics, [Finnish cross-country skier] Eero Antero Mäntyranta, who won [two] gold medals in those Olympics, has a mutation—and many of his family do—which causes the body to make more red blood cells.... They had this big edge because of being genetic mutants, ultimately. Wouldn’t it actually be more fair to let other people make the same change themselves? So about robot overlords... There’s no economic incentive to make robots that have that much volition. We make robots and A.I.s to do stuff for us. The human characteristics of having desires, having wants and goals, is something that seems economically superfluous to the devices we create. I don’t know anyone that would want to make a robot that would take over. That seems like a bad decision. GO: Ramez Naam speaks at Think & Drink at the Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 2234527, on Wednesday, July 18. 6:30 pm. Free. Minors allowed with parent or guardian.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 18 April Bloomfield Book Tour
Chef April Bloomfield (currently of New York’s Spotted Pig, the Breslin Bar Dining Room and the John Dory Oyster Bar) has written a cookbook called A Girl and Her Pig: Recipes and Stories, which is kind of creepy when you consider the girl in question plans to kill and eat the pig, and the cover features her with the dead pig slung over her shoulders. She’ll be stopping by North Williams Avenue restaurant Lincoln to cook a three-course meal with resident chef Jenn Louis where you, too, can eat that dead pig. Lincoln, 3808 N Williams Ave., 288-6200. 6:30 pm. $100 includes dinner, drinks and a copy of the book.
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Din Din supper club visits Portland Champagne bar Ambonnay for a five-course dinner paired with the bubbly stuff. Dishes on the draft menu include shaved porcini and beef carpaccio, leg of lamb and goat-cheese mousse with apricot coulis. Ambonnay, 107 SE Washington St., 575-4861 (for reservations). 7 pm. $120 including gratuity. 21+.
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It’s that time of year again: 150 beers from all over the world (though it must be said a disproportionate number are from the U.S., and specifically the West Coast) will be available during three days, alongside food from Koi Fusion, Potato Champion and others. The catch? You’ll have to pack into the North Park Blocks with some truly obnoxious people to drink it. If you can handle the bro factor, the ticket price gives you re-entry all weekend and the event helps raise money for animal charities, so that’s nice. North Park Blocks, Northwest 8th Avenue between Burnside and Glisan streets. 4-10 pm Friday, noon-10 pm Saturday and noon-7 pm Sunday, July 20-22. $25-$40. 21+.
SATURDAY, JULY 21 El Gallo Taqueria Third Anniversary y El Gallo Taqueria, a WW food-cart favorite, is turning 3. To celebrate, the cart will be offering free chips and salsa and giving away T-shirts
and gift certificates. Go grab a taco and wish ’em happy birthday. El Gallo Taqueria, 4804 SE Woodstock Blvd., 481-7537. Noon-7 pm. Free admission; food prices vary.
Kenny & Zuke’s Second Annual Picklefest
Last year, Kenny & Zuke’s held a pickle-making contest among local chefs, and the amount of people who showed up to taste the fruits of their labor was insane. So this year, the deli is turning it into a full-blown Picklestock. In addition to sampling the submissions from this year’s contestants (including the Woodsman Tavern, Ned Ludd, Oven and Shaker, Bluehour, Grüner, Wildwood, Little Big Burger and Biwa), attendees can taste pickles from local companies, eat barbecue (dishes include pastrami sliders, pulled pork and barbecue brisket) and listen to live music. Pickle on, Portland. Pickle on. Kenny & Zuke’s Delicatessen, 1038 SW Stark St., 222-3354. Noon-6 pm. Free. $7 to taste pickle samples, barbecue costs extra.
Tomato Battle
A bizarre event traveling across the country in which people get together to throw 300,000 tomatoes at each other. There will also be a costume contest and live music. The event comes with the following disclaimer: “In the event of a tomato shortage, we will hold a giant mud battle. The event will go on as planned, but with mud instead of tomatoes.” MacTarnahan’s Taproom, 2730 NW 31st Ave, 228-5269. Noon. $49.99 to participate, $29.99 to watch.
Recipe Writing Workshop with Diane Morgan
The Portland Culinary Alliance is hosting a recipe-writing class with local cookbook author and food writer Diane Morgan. The session will cover things like formatting, recipe titles, ingredients lists and how to tailor your copy to suit different publications (for instance, all recipes submitted to WW should include alcohol and chocolate). But seriously, folks: This sort of food writing is actually a skill unto itself, one you won’t learn in J-school, and it’s difficult to find a place to learn “on the job.” If you’ve ever dreamed of contributing Super Summer Salads to Martha Stewart Living, this is a valuable opportunity. Oregon Culinary Institute, 1701 SW Jefferson St., 961-6200. 9:30 am-noon. $35 for PCA members, $50 for non-members.
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DEVIL’S KRIEK (DOUBLE MOUNTAIN BREWERY) Traditional krieks were lambic beers spiked with cherries, and were once the sole provenance of Belgium’s Senne Valley. Nowadays, sour beers made with wild yeasts appear almost everywhere, and krieks are often built from other styles, often Flanders red ales, which have natural cherry notes. Flanders provides the base for Double Mountain’s Devil’s Kriek. The Bing cherries, on the other hand, come directly from brewmaster Matt Swihart’s own orchard. Last week was (apparently) National Rainier Cherry Day, and Hood River’s Double Mountain drew drinkers to the Fruit Loop. The brewery also makes a second kriek with goldenblushed Rainier cherries and a base of strong Belgian blond ale. Both are excellent and will come to Portland (BeerMongers and the Portland International Beer Festival) in very limited quantities. Recommended. BRIAN YAEGER.
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bottom. Ware and Wafu chef Trent Pierce seem interested in pushing their seafood offerings hard to landlubbers. And both have large portions of Japanese noodles as cheap crowd-pleasers, while Aviary makes no such concession. Smallwares’ noodles are in udon soup with chicken ($14) and the thinner somen ($13), which is lathered with a Korean chili paste and groundBY M A RT I N C I Z M A R mcizmar@wweek.com ed by the earthiness of black strands of fibrous hijiki seaweed. They pair well with chicken Portlanders are obsessed with authenticity, espe- lollipops—wing-sized pieces of chicken fried on cially when it comes to Asian food. We’ll huddle the bone served with Sriracha mayonnaise ($11). Bolder orders are rewarded. A tofu and strawfor an hour outside a tarp-sided shanty, poring over a menu and sprinkling pompous little anno- berry salad ($9) is a delight, with tartness from tations (“Yes, bread really is the normal accom- sherry vinegar and an unexpected umami kick paniment in Thailand”). Or we’ll venture into from shavings of dried and smoked tuna elevatplaces we’re more tolerated than welcome to eat ing simple, silky tofu. Fried kale ($10), coated in rice batter and covoffal our ancestors discreetly made into sausage. ered with smoky candied bacon All along, we congratulate and a light dressing of bright ourselves on being too sophisti- Order this: Mapo dofu ($9), fried kale ($10) and somen noodles ($13). mint and fish sauce, is culinary cated for pad Thai. wizardry—I can’t figure how Smallwares is a firecracker Best deal: Sho Chiku Bai sake ($4) one tiny plate can smoothly dropped at our feet. The North- I’ll pass: Chicken lollipops ($11). juggle five huge flavors. Mapo east Fremont Street restaurant is consciously inauthentic and refreshingly pecu- dofu ($9), on the other hand, sticks to rich and liar, gamely ripping flavor free from tradition meaty, with an egg custard and salty pork topping. I loved the heat of oxtail curry ($17) with with extraordinary results. The lanterns shed a lot of light. Not liter- crisp plantain chips and a salsa of Scotch bonnet ally, as Smallwares is dim even in daylight and peppers. Prying tender meat from a bony tail darker as the night goes on and its soundtrack always seems a chore, but I thoroughly enjoyed of MTV Jams-era rap and R&B gets louder. As scooping the curry gravy over rice. The heat drove me to drink, which is fine a metaphor, though, it’s hard to top the round bulbs enmeshed in nylon netting that hang from because Smallwares’ drink program is also the ceiling in the very De Stijl dining room that’s endearingly quirky. Rather than grouping by type modern and mainly red and black. They recall of alcohol, it’s organized by flavor, with fruity antique glass Japanese fishing floats, but the beers like Upright’s wheat ($5) sitting alongside mimeos were made on first-time restaurateur junmai sake and Elk Cove’s riesling ($11). Funky, earthy, fizzy and rich drinks also get their own Johanna Ware’s budget. Rather than skitter around Asia getting baked categories. It takes a moment to get your bearwhile learning to ape exotic street foods, Ware ings, but the odd format is ultimately effective. honed her techniques at Nostrana and New We found ourselves quickly alcohol agnostic, zipping between sake, rosé, cocktails and Pilsner as York’s Public and Momofuku Noodle Bar. Smallwares has often been compared to appropriate for each course. Drink and eat enough at Smallwares, and nearby Aviary, but I find it has more in common with Southeast’s Wafu. Wafu and Smallwares you may feel you’ve gone native—whatever that both put a big emphasis on drinks in their warm means for a restaurant of no particular place, but bars. Here, it’s a separate room that’s open until 2 very much of this time. am. While Aviary’s menu is anarchy, both Smallwares and Wafu arrange a selection of about 20 EAT: Smallwares, 4605 NE Fremont St., 971-229-0995, smallwarespdx.com. 11:30 am dishes in ambiguous groupings, with prices and to 2 am Monday-Friday, 4 pm-2 am Saturdayportions generally growing larger toward the Sunday. $$-$$$.
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Listen between the lines in JonnyX and the Groadies’ scream-along electo-thrash, and you’ll find themes of science experiments gone disastrously wrong and explosions in space. Or, at least, we think that’s what these songs are about. Kind of hard to understand anything Groadies frontman JonnyX is screeching over those blast beats, but with song titles like “Larvae” and “Metal Brain Part 2,” what else can these songs really be about? Most Likely to Throw an Awesome House Party While Their Parents Are Out of Town: THE MIRACLES CLUB
If kids these days just want to dance—isn’t Skrillex proof positive of this?—then the Miracles Club just wants kids to learn a little music history while they’re dancing. Made up of longtime fixtures from Portland’s experimental-electronic scene, this Club has been widely credited for helping usher in a resurgence in back-to-basics house music.
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Every year, the PDX Pop Now! festival offers a glimpse into the music that’s moving Portland. And despite this city’s recent reputation as a haven for confessional, tattooed singer-songwriters and beardy folk-pop bands, the past few years of PDX Pop Now! have shown a music scene moving away from the gentle sounds of yesteryear and in an entirely new direction. OK, maybe a dozen entirely new directions. This year’s festival—all-ages, free and totally exhausting, as always—is devoid of local superstars but overflowing with genre diversity from house music to experimental skronk to hard-hitting hip-hop and smooth, ’80s-inspired electropop. PDX Pop Now! is the only festival that brings all of these diverse local artists together. It feels a little bit like high school: The jocks, nerds and preps lumped together in one big, weekend-long experiment. Every high school deserves a document to call its own, so here’s our fourth annual PDX Pop Now! yearbook. Cutest Couple: THE PARSON RED HEADS The Red Heads’ Evan Way and his wife, Brette Marie—who also plays in PDX Pop Now! act Houndstooth—were pretty adorable to begin with. But now that the little lady is pregnant, the Parson Red Heads are cuter than ever. We’re guessing that having a baby slows a band down a bit, but there’s been no evidence of that thus far. Maybe they’ll draft the kid right into the band as the littlest Red Head. Most Likely to Save the Day: BATMEN The punk-rock constituency might feel underserved by this year’s PDX Pop Now! lineup, but any kids looking for a good moshing/slam-dancing/ground-punching opportunity need look no farther than Batmen. The quartet’s frenetic rhythm section and near-constant drum fills provide a fine opportunity for throwing one’s body around, while their catchy rhythms and lyrics give the old folks—the Wipers are a big influence here—something to nod along with.
Valedictorians: AU Au makes some of the smartest, mathiest music being played in Portland. Dana Valatka’s drumming is intricate and explosive, and singer-keyboardist Luke Wyland sings in a classical style and mans a table so cluttered with wires and switches that it’s a miracle he ever figures out how to turn on his keyboard. Most Likely to Test Your Knowledge of Spanish: EDNA VAZQUEZ
Most Likely to Live Abroad: DANA BUOY Between the African rhythms, summery south-of-theborder percussion and pulsing beats, Dana Buoy’s Summer Bodies LP proves that the Akron/Family frontman’s infectious songs would fly in just about any combination of latitude and longitude you can throw at him.
La pública internacional e hispanohablante comenzó conocer a Edna Vazquez cuando se presentó en Sábado Gigante, pero su música sería conocido incluso sin el concurso de canción del estilo de American Idol. Su música de mariachi tradicional, cantado en español, será un cambio de ritmo excelente para este festival de pop. Estamos casi seguro que Vazquez sea la contribución mejor de Vancouver, Wash., a PDX Pop Now!
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Super Seniors: SMEGMA How does one get to be notorious and unknown at the same time? Ask Smegma, the Portland-via-Pasadena experimental rock outfit that next year will celebrate its 40th anniversary (the vast majority of those years spent in Portland). Perhaps second only to Jandek on the obscureand-acclaimed scale, Smegma will have some concertgoers scratching their heads and some scratching their chins. Either way, you are seeing history. Class Clown: CLOUDY OCTOBER An MC with a great sense of humor is hard to find. An MC with a great, avant-garde sense of humor and knack for lyrical investigative journalism is pretty much unheard of. Kizzy Yokomura is set to unleash some surprises alongside DJ Hostile Tapeover and Rasheed Jamal during his PDX Pop Now! performance, but every night is kind of a surprise. Hell, we’d pay just to see him banter for a half hour.
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Most Mysterious: SHY GIRLS No, seriously, we don’t know anything about Shy Girls. The music—which nods toward Sade and Hall & Oates—sounds promising, though. Best Hair: PURE BATHING CULTURE When you make music this smooth and funky, you kind of have to have the hair for it. Like their music, Daniel
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BUBU FUNK ALL-STARS: Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang play Holocene on Wednesday, July 18.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 18 The Golden Bears
[ROCK-A-BYE BABY] Most couples shut down when a child is on the way, paralyzed by anticipation or downright fear. Portland duo the Golden Bears wrote a record about it. Dedicated to their daughter, Write It Like You Find It finds Seth Lorinczi and Julianna Bright dealing—musically—with a new child. Fittingly, the sound is bright and melodic, on the verge of a lullaby at times. Less expected is the band’s Quasi-like habit of turning a cute piano riff into a bracing altrock crescendo. The show is part of the Golden Bears’ weeklong residency at Al’s Den, wrought with special guests, many of whom are featured on the record. MARK STOCK. Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel, 303 SW 12th Ave., 972-2670. 7 pm. Free. 21+.
Melvins Lite, Retox
[MELVINS] Few bands are as prolific and active as the Melvins. These sludge lords helped draft the blueprint for grunge, taught doom metalers how to play even more slowly and heavily, and continue to “freak out” enough to satisfy the Zappa set. There aren’t many milestones left for the Melvins, but here they go trying to get into the Guinness Book with a record-breaking tour of 50 states and the District of Columbia in 51 days. In order to streamline things (and save on those pesky flights to Alaska and Hawaii), the band is traveling “lite,” as a trio featuring founders Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover with special guest bassist Trevor Dunn—the same lineup that recorded latest album Freak Puke. NATHAN CARSON. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show. All ages.
13 Months of Sunshine: Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang, DJ Jason Urick, DJ Peace Pipe, DJ Jeffrey Jerusalem
[BUBU MUSIC] Before fleeing his native Sierra Leone for Brooklyn, Janka Nabay reinvigorated a genre of music that legend says was stolen from witches some 500 years ago. It’s called bubu, and Nabay’s modern take on the style combines the feel-good rhythms of dance floor-friendly pop with the sailing guitarspeak and percussive spirit of West African music. In Brooklyn, Nabay wrote debut LP En Yay Sah between shifts at fast-food joints and teamed up with experimental rockers the
Bubu Gang (comprising members of Skeletons, Chairlift and others) to make the album a reality. The record embodies the escapism and glee of an hourly employee’s precious free time, combining traditional elements with contemporary ones for a sound that’s kind of like Dirty Projectors gone dubstep. MARK STOCK. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
12 Hour Turn, Company, Old Junior, John Sutherland
[CLASSIC SCREAMO] The members of Gainseville’s 12 Hour Turn—a millennial practitioner of actually good screamo—found Portland homes in Old Growth, Old Junior and Danava. Now it’s this fair city that’s being blessed with a rare reunion appearance by the long-sundered band. Although affiliated with No Idea Records and its roster of gruff punks, 12 Hour Turn’s heavy plaints had more in common with Gravity Records’ early-’90s stable of emotionally troubled post-hardcore dudes. Even typing the word “screamo” makes my teeth sting, but time was when that descriptor promised a tangled sound that actually deserved an etymological link to “emotion,” and 12 Hour Turn was especially adept at capturing the feeling of emotions nearing the brink. CHRIS STAMM. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.
THURSDAY, JULY 19 Geist & the Sacred Ensemble, Particle Being Ensemble, Datura Blues, Plankton Wat
[SACRED PSYCHEDELIA] Tonight marks the end of a West Coast tour for Geist & the Sacred Ensemble, a puckish gang of sonic wanderers from Seattle. I only mention that as extra encouragement to attend this show, as the psych-folk band will be road-tight, yet probably giddy with the prospect of home on the horizon. My hope is that this will elevate the quartet to greater heights, but also add an element of looseness that will allow it to expand its spacious Eastern modalities and percussionheavy moments into wider vistas of sound. Joining is the Particle Trio, a freak-jazz ensemble that enjoys lots of drones, processed sound and percussive metal. ROBERT HAM. East End, 203 SE Grand Ave. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.
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get when you take the ornithologist out of Okkervil River? You get Shearwater, the timeless alt-folk outfit headed by singer/guitarist/ musical genius Jonathan Meiburg. Since its debut with The Dissolving Room in 2001, Shearwater has written sonic poetry with instruments and arrangements just as eclectically beautiful as its lyrics. Though the band’s membership rotates and its sound always evolves, Meiburg’s artfully velveteen voice continues to render listeners speechless; this holds truer than ever with the band’s newest release, this year’s Animal Joy. Taking the band’s loosely zoological theme and running with it, the newest album is at once sophisticated and primal, playing off of animalistic metaphors to plumb the depths of human psychology. NORA EILEEN JONES. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
tions of whether the 32-yearold Cathedral Park Jazz Festival would survive, the annual event boasts a strong lineup of 26 performers, including such wellknown local improvisers as Pink Martini’s Martin Zarzar (who has a new solo album out), his fellow Martini horn man Gavin Bondy’s Shanghai Woolies, PSU prof and former New York jazz pianist George Colligan, Andrew Oliver and Dan Duval’s trio the Ocular Concern, Rich Halley, Tim Willcox Quartet, Dan Balmer’s Go by Train, Trio Subtonic, Quadrophonnes sax quartet and much more. Food and other vendors will be there, and it’s a great picnic opportunity. BRETT CAMPBELL. Cathedral Park, North Edison Street and Pittsburg Avenue. 5 pm. Continues through Sunday. Free. All ages.
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[SHAKE IT LIKE CELLO] Portland’s native legion of cellos is all set for its annual Extreme Cello Dance Party, and “extreme” it will be. PCP, whose first-ever performance was also at the Doug Fir in 2006, has one of the largest and most diverse repertories of any string ensemble this side of anywhere, and it shows: On the set list for a (typical?) Extreme Cello Dance Party are string-driven renditions of top-40 hits, unexpected indie smashes and enduring classics, all of which have a tempo to shake your rump to. Much like seeing a teacher outside of school, PCP’s Extreme Cello Dance Party is a great—and sometimes hilarious—way to see a proper classical instrument outside of its proper classical context. Besides, we hear Wild Flag is helping out tonight. NORA EILEEN JONES. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. Second show on Saturday. 21+.
[HIP-HOP HEAT SEEKER] Of the MCs populating Rick Ross’ surprisingly solid Maybach Music Group roster, a strong case could be made that Meek Mill is the highlight. On his Dreamchasers 2 mixtape, released earlier this summer, the Philadelphia MC once more provided evidence of his seemingly inexhaustible talent for laying down verses ripe with fastpaced lyrical parkour. Particularly when juxtaposed against Ross’ thunderous, vocal sea anchors, Mill’s nimble lyrics are among the most exciting in the game. By the time Mill’s studio debut, Dreams & Nightmares, drops later this year, the buzz surrounding the release should be rightfully deafening. SHANE DANAHER. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $33. All ages.
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THE WIGGLES Formed: In 1991 in Sydney by a group studying early childhood education. Sounds like: Sixties pop songs about eating fruit instead of making out with girls. For fans of: Afternoon naps, Fisher-Price, Goldfish crackers. Latest release: Surfer Jeff, the band’s 40-somethingth studio album. (Jeff Fatt, the 58-year-old purple Wiggle, was recently fitted for a pacemaker.) Why you care: While most child-free adults view the Wiggles as “those dorky guys in colored skivvies,” for two decades those dorky guys have been playing in one of the most successful bands on the planet. After dominating the land down under, the band took the act global via a Disney Channel TV show, spawning a multimillion-dollar brand, including clothing lines and theme-park rides. And while the quartet’s lyrics might be aimed at the preschool crowd, the band writes some really catchy, well-composed ditties. This was proven recently by ReWiggled, a 2011 tribute album featuring Australian artists like Architecture in Helsinki and the Living End that is surprisingly listenable. Despite album and DVD sales that would make Bieber green, the last few years have been less kind to the group, with illness, rumors of internal power struggles, and declining profits all playing out in the media. Three of the four Wiggles recently announced this would be their final tour, and a new cast of freshfaced kids have been hired to replace them. SEE IT: The Wiggles play Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, on Friday, July 20. 6:30 pm. $20.25-$89. All ages. Willamette Week JULY 18, 2012 wweek.com
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[MODERN MODERN ROCK] “Classic alt-rock” is a thing. Let’s be OK with this. Wheels don’t get reinvented but worn, discarded, replaced; music’s different only insofar as it no longer spins in circles to make itself known. Not to get too utilitarian or overly fond of a metaphor here, but what matters is being moved, and Cloud Nothings’ plundering of pop’s past accomplishes exactly that. The Cleveland band’s third LP, Attack on Memory, cops from ruffians with knacks for memorable melody—the Replacements, Nirvana, the Strokes—and while patrolling the album’s frenetic edges for obvious lifts might be fun, succumbing to Cloud Nothings’ squalling nostalgia is the only way to travel. CHRIS STAMM. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.
The Bouncing Souls, The Menzingers, Luther
[POP-PUNK/POST-OI] Bouncing Souls always looked like dudes who would kick the shit out of you for looking at them sideways, even if their lyrics suggested gentler forms of intimidation (“Bullying the jukebox/ Because it’s fun/ You can’t get near it/ Until we’re done”). That combination of sweet and prickly is probably what made the Bouncing Souls heartthrobs in the quartet’s late-’90s heyday, but a fine ear for melody and a knack for executing cutting, ska-inspired guitar lines filled with a soft-focus sentimentality for the punk rock present never hurt. The Souls are still softies in a hard shell, but new album Comet sounds more like a phoned-in latter-day Bad Religion record than it does any of the Souls’ previous output. Even if these Jersey punks have dipped just below relevant 25 years after they came together, I have the utmost confidence that the live show remains an awful lot of fun. CASEY JARMAN. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.
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[JAZZ] Rebecca Kilgore’s tone and timbre are reminiscent of big-band singers like Helen O’Connell and Anita Day. The singer makes regular appearances with pianist David Frishberg on public radio’s Fresh Air, as hostess (and jazz connoisseur) Terry Gross is a big fan. Kilgore brings more than a pretty voice and face to her work; the singer focuses on the meaning of a lyric, like an actress, rather than relying on vocal prowess alone. The Great American Songbook couldn’t be in better hands. Randy Porter, meanwhile, is one of the most in-demand pianists for vocalists. Porter solos are based on the melody—not simply complying with the chord changes—and this, combined with a sensitive touch, is the reason he’s such a popular guy. DAN DEPREZ. Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant, 1435 NW Flanders St., 241-6514. 8 pm. $10. 21+.
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VINNIE DEWAYNE SATURDAY, JULY 21 [HIP-HOP] In the middle of his 2010 mixtape, Solitary, over a sample from Wings’ “Band on the Run,” 19-year-old Portland MC Vinnie Dewayne crystallized his home life. “My family different/ We don’t talk a lot/ Just hi, where you going/ Be back at 12 o’clock/ And that’s a trait I take everywhere else/ I ain’t an outgoing person/ I just keep to myself.” Now 21 and home from Chicago’s Columbia College for the summer, the MC from St. Johns says his home life is exactly the same as it was when he wrote “Four Walls.” But when Dewayne’s on the mic, something inside him changes. “I feel like it’s the only opportunity to express what’s inside of me when I’m on the microphone,” he says, arms crossed as he pulls at the sleeves of his Notorious B.I.G. T-shirt. “That’s just where I feel comfortable. It’s hard to explain.” Harder to explain is how the immensely talented young rapper found his voice—one that sidesteps his generation’s swag-centric ear candy for brutal lyrical confessionalism and a clarity of vision reminiscent of East Coast rapper-poets like Rakim and Nas. Dewayne isn’t entirely sure, either. He charts his obsession with hiphop to age 6 and credits a mentorship program called Step-Up for turning his academic life around. When it comes to his flow, Dewayne credits his father—who occasionally shows up in his songs to deliver shards of tough love—for throwing away Vinnie’s written raps when he was 14. He never wrote down another verse. “Now I memorize all my raps,” he says with a sly smile. More impressive than Dewayne’s formidable delivery is his storytelling savvy—something that’s on full display on Dewayne’s latest mixtape, Castaway. On “Can’t Lie,” a wholly unglamorous story about theft, underage sex and entrapment, Dewayne is a ’hood Raymond Chandler, masterfully penning his protagonist’s downward spiral. “To me, it’s about the devil,” he says. “He wants us to contribute to our circumstances. He wants us to accept them.” Elsewhere on the record, the devil is something a bit closer to home. “What it mean to live a dream when your brother been shot and stop breathing,” Dewayne asks on “Come and Get Me,” “and your mother feel pain they’re not treating?” For Dewayne, who admits his confessional style can be painful for him and uncomfortable for his private family (Dewayne was raised Jehovah’s Witness), honest self-examination is a way to stay on the right path. In a way, he’s grateful to have grown up under tough circumstances. “I observe it,” he says of gang culture and hustling. “But I see a bigger picture. Growing up in St. Johns made me realize I had a chance.” Ironically, it was moving to Chicago that provided Dewayne with some much-needed stability. On scholarship money, he’s able to live in the wealthy Lincoln Park neighborhood with three roommates. “All I have to worry about is music and school,” he says. Coming home remains complicated. And though he’s proven himself the most promising young lyricist in Portland, Dewayne still wonders where it’s all going. “Sometimes I feel like I should be doing all the swag and the cars and the girls,” he says. “Sometimes I think I need to be more like my generation.” CASEY JARMAN. A young St. Johns MC puts his whole life—warts and all—on his brilliant new mixtape.
SEE IT: Vinnie Dewayne plays Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., on Saturday, July 21, with Dam-Funk. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
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SUNDAY, JULY 22 Portland Queer Music Festival: Imperial Teen; Magic Mouth; Kiss Kill; Boy Funk; Damon Boucher and more
[WAGES OF SYNTH] While organizers of the second annual Portland Queer Music Festival can’t be faulted for their ambitions—splitting 24 bands between Someday Lounge and Backspace for one loooong Sunday—scheduling grand old Bay Area electro-poppers Imperial Teen as headliners of the all-ages stage seems a curious choice. Half the quartet has never shied away from embracing a queer sexuality (though they also never allowed LGBTQ issues to become a defining band motif), but a full 16 years after the band’s critically acclaimed debut, would empirical teens have the slightest notion who they were? With momentum originally propelled through vocalist Roddy Bottum’s day job slinging keyboards for altmetal provocateurs Faith No More, the band edged closest toward mainstream relevance after 1998, when the movie Jawbreaker incorporated infectious trifle “You Hoo” for a memorable video. The band’s chicly clever blend of surf-party ebullience and proto indie dance dynamics proved well ahead of its time, and, name be damned, recently released fifth album Feel the Sound lyrically references middle-age doldrums with uncommon grace. JAY HORTON. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. 2 pm. $15. Also see Someday Lounge schedule. All ages.
Spoek Mathambo
[AFRICAN HIP-HOP] Could anyone have guessed that Sub Pop, the legendary Seattle label that brought the world Nirvana, the Shins and Mudhoney, would now be known for releasing some of the most ambitious hip-hop albums of the past decade? One of the most far-out signings the company has made in this regard is Spoek Mathambo. The Johannesburg-based rapperproducer’s second album, Father Creeper, is a devastating listen, incorporating grime’s slippery beats, Afropunk and some sci-fi soundtrack weirdness as a backdrop for angry political musings and messages of encouragement for his fellow South Africans. ROBERT HAM. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
Ziggy Marley
[REGGAE] Apparently, discarded cannabis seeds aren’t the only seed the Lion from Zion spread generously throughout the land: Bob Marley sired 13 cubs, and many followed his musical path. Along with brother Damien, firstborn Ziggy has become heir apparent to his dad’s legacy. But despite his uncanny physical and vocal resemblance to Pops, Ziggy’s career has pingponged between highs and lows. That hasn’t
stopped him from becoming one of the perennial reggae stars of the day, a man who, across six records, has tempered his father’s politics while keeping the spark alive. AP KRYZA. Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Rd. 7 pm. Sold Out. All ages.
Nick Jaina, My Autumn’s Done Come
[SONGWRITER] Nick Jaina could be classified as a singer-songwriter. He does plenty of singing, songwriting and guitar playing, and it’s all very good and engaging—but he’s proven himself as much more than his own frontman. In recent years, the Portland musician’s work has circulated through a variety of alternative avenues, such as composing music for a ballet in New York and a theater production in New Orleans. Jaina didn’t even sing his own songs on his latest album, 2011’s The Beanstalks That Have Brought Us Here Are Gone. Instead, he brought in a different female vocalist to sing each one for him. With names like Jolie Holland, Laura Gibson, Annalisa Tornfelt and Luzelena Mendoza attached, the album uses an impressive array of women to introduce listeners to yet another way to enjoy the man’s music. EMILEE BOOHER. Rontoms, 600 E Burnside St., 236-4536. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
Youth Lagoon, Father John Misty, Ava Luna
[ROUGH-AND-TUMBLE FOLK TROUBADOUR] It seems Josh Tillman has finally found a home in his California-soaked folk-rock outlet Father John Misty, even if the lyrics allude to him being an ambivalent, satirical nomad. Gone is the long hair from his days harmonizing as drummer for Seattle’s beloved folksters Fleet Foxes, replaced here with charisma and swagger to spare that defines the most iconic of frontmen. Tillman can still hit the high notes and has the ability to make any song sound like a lullaby, regardless of the tumultuous tales he’s singing—set primarily in Hollywood—on his FJM debut, Fear Fun. NILINA MASON-CAMPBELL. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.
MONDAY, JULY 23 John Nemeth
[BLUE SOUL] It’s a fine line between penning your own classic soul- and blues-inspired tunes and just pilfering existing ones, and that’s a line Oakland-based blues dude John Németh navigates pretty successfully on the not one but two albums that he’ll be releasing tonight. The discs, titled Soul Live and Blues Live for minimal confusion, are packed with Németh originals like the Wilson Pickett-esque “Blue Broadway” and the Muddy Watersmeets-Tom Waits cut “Daughter of the Devil” (just when you’d thought all the Satan songs had been written!). Experience is often considered a prerequisite to talent in the blues world, but in addition to his songwriting chops, the relatively baby-faced Németh has the
[DIRTY SOUTH] He’s only been on the scene for two years, but Big K.R.I.T. is already nipping at the heels of Southern rap royalty. Rather than be nervous, however, they’re embracing him: Big Boi just featured the young rapper on “Gossip” alongside UGK, and K.R.I.T. has also rapped with Ludacris. Born Justin Scott, K.R.I.T. has the chops to justify the hype: He produces prolifically for his fellow rising stars Mac Miller and Wiz Khalifa, and his debut mixtape, K.R.I.T. Wuz Here, was lauded by critics all over the blogosphere. Scott, with his prodigious talent and cabinet of famous friends, is poised to make a lasting imprint on rap; perhaps his name, which stands for King Remembered in Time, is a prophecy. NORA EILEEN JONES. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm. $20 advance, $23 day of show. All ages.
The Psychic Paramount, Phil Manley Life Coach, Eternal Tapestry
[EXPERIMENTAL ROCK] New York’s Pyschic Paramount is an instrumental rock trio that seems to take pride in being oblique. Its highly composed workouts manage to recall jam-based, latter-era rock explorers like Sonic Youth and Boredoms. After a six-year gap in album output, the band released its highly anticipated second record, II, in early 2011. Prepare for a serious musical meltdown, with extra oddity provided by Phil Manley Life Coach. Mr. Manley is best known for his work with Trans Am, Oneida and the Fucking Champs. His debut solo album for Thrill Jockey last year reveals a more subdued and textural approach that should appeal to fans of Cluster and Kraftwerk. NATHAN CARSON. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
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[FUTURE FUNK] Want to take ecstasy, but are afraid it’ll turn you into a slobbering, back-massaging freak? The musical equivalent of MDMA just might be New Yorkers Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter, the synth scientist and guitarist who together form Phantogram, which, last year touring in advance of its third stellar EP, Nightlife, turned the Doug Fir into the orgy scene from the second Matrix flick. Prodded by Barthel’s passively sexy voice and frequent synth jabs that musically resemble fucking up in a game of Operation, the duo’s sound is a futuresexxx blend of thumping electronic funk grooves that seemingly enters the bloodstream and forces you to undulate along. Hell, you might even find yourself giving inexplicable back rubs. AP KRYZA. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $16 advance, $18 day of show. All ages.
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1314 NW Glisan St. Matices
Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band
SEAN METELERKAMP
Artichoke Community Music
Ash Street Saloon
Original Halibut’s II
115 NW 5th Ave. Asteroid M, Kids Like Color, The Cicada Cycle, Jane Wade
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Biddy’s Acoustic Jam
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. A Tiempo
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Matt Vrba
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Leni Stern, Parfait Bassale
Chapel Pub
430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Mesi & Bradley
Corkscrew Wine Bar 1669 SE Bybee Blvd. Heart and Hammer
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. The Ascetic Junkies, Holiday Friends, Norman
Duff’s Garage
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. The Golden Bears
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Open Mic
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. The Modern Golem, Water District, The Cookie Sound
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Tigress, The Dirty Words, Dead Remedy
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Aireene Espiritu, Karyn Patridge, Rachel Lynn, Robert Richter
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Stringed Migration
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Tyler Stenson
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Jazz Jam with Errick Lewis & the Regiment House Band
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Midnight Ghost Train
Dawson Park
North Stanton Street and Williams Avenue Soul Vaccination
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. My Best Fiend, Black Whales
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam (9 pm); High Flyer Trio (6 pm)
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. Irish Music Jam
East India Co.
821 SW 11th Ave. Josh Feinberg
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Brothers Comatose, Water Tower
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge 625 NW 21st Ave. Karaoke
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Melvins Lite, Retox
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. 13 Months of Sunshine: Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang, DJ Jason Urick, DJ Peace Pipe, DJ Jeffrey Jerusalem
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. LaRhonda Steele Quartet
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The David Friesen Quartet
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. New Pioneers, Tonedefinite, Grape Juice Scott
Ladd’s Inn
1204 SE Clay St. Lynn Conover
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St.
1635 SE 7th Ave. Beacon Street Titans (9 pm); Tough Lovepyle (6 pm)
Jake Ray and the Cowdogs (9:30 pm); Bob Shoemaker (6 pm)
The Fenix Project Blues Jam
LaurelThirst
2026 NE Alberta St. 12 Hour Turn, Company, Old Junior, John Sutherland
East Burn
Tiger Bar
203 SE Grand Ave. Geist & the Sacred Ensemble, Particle Being Ensemble, Datura Blues, Plankton Wat
2958 NE Glisan St. Chris Thompson, Coral Creek, The Drunken Hearts (9 pm); Alameda, Calico Rose (6 pm)
Lents Commons
9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Solomon’s Hollow (9:30 pm); Mr. Hoo (12 pm)
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Hamsa Lila
PCPA Music on Main Street
SW Main St. & SW Broadway Redray Frazier (5 pm); Marti Mendenhall (12 pm)
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Grammies, Soup Purse, Ink Blot
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Sistafist, Juicy Karkass, MC Homeless, J E Double F, Vicious Pleasures, Greenlander
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. B Fifty-Thousand, Shy Seasons, Mycelium
Sundown Pub
The Know
317 NW Broadway Among the Weeds, Pink Noise, Strap-on Halo, Adrian H & the Wounds
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Nancy King
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Point Reyes
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Irie Idea, Sam Wegman, Sam Densmore
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar
800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Trio with Linda Michelet, Joe Millward
Willamette Park
Southwest Macadam Avenue and Nebraska Street Norman Sylvester Band
THURS. JULY 19 24Ten
2410 N Mississippi Ave. Buddy Wakefield, Timmy Straw
5903 N Lombard St. Kaelyn Schreiber, Too Long Sparks, Vinny Morgillo, Anna Tivel
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
The Back Door Theater
Alberta Street Public House
4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Super Saturated Strings, Michael Howard
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd.
303 SW 12th Ave. The Golden Bears
1036 NE Alberta St. The Weather Machine, Travis Ehrenstrom
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Shearwater, Husky, Gold Leaves
Oregon Zoo
Backspace
WED. JULY 18
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Rosie Burgess Trio, Cedro Willie (9 pm); SloeGinFizz (6 pm)
3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Open Mic with Miriam’s Well 225 SW Ash St. Dinner for Wolves, Disastroid, Mother’s Whiskey
INTO THE WOODS: Spoek Mathambo plays Doug Fir Lounge on Sunday, July 22.
Mississippi Pizza
1800 E Burnside St. Boy & Bean
East End
Ecotrust
721 NW 9th Ave., Suite 200 Holcombe Waller, Sarah Jackson-Holman
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Renegade String Band, The Student Loan
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Mike Pinto Band, Rootdown, Sol Seed, The Sindicate
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Jim Templeton
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown B3 Organ Group
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Fair Weather Watchers, Sam Adams, Minden
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Ultragoat
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Waiting on Trial, Wayward Vessel (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)
Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan St. The Devin Phillips Quartet (John Coltrane tribute)
4001 SW Canyon Road Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, ZZ Ward 2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb
Pioneer Courthouse Square 701 SW 6th Ave. Freewill Band
Rose Garden
1401 N Wheeler Ave. Colton Dixon, DeAndre Brackensick, Elise Testone, Erika Van Pelt, Heejun Han, Hollie Cavanagh, Jessica Sanchez, Joshua Ledet, Phillip Phillips, Skylar Laine (American Idol Live)
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Meek Mill, Youngest in Charge, Captain, Suave and Jevy
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. The Soft White Sixties, Black Pussy, The Ex-Girlfriends Club
Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Inkblot, Small Arms, The Numbats
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Original Music Showcase with Sam Densmore
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
231 SW Ankeny St. King Ghidora, The Must, The Sindicate
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones Jam
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Big Black Cloud, Prizehog, Billions and Billions
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Phantom Buzz
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Mars Water, St. Ranger, Triptides
Wallace Park
Northwest 25th Avenue and Raleigh Street Locust Street Taxi
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Vagabond and Tramp, Izzakate (8:30 pm); Kory Quinn (5:30 pm)
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Aesop Rock with Rob Sonic & DJ Big Wiz, Edison, Darktime Sunshine
FRI. JULY 20 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. The Golden Bears
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave.
Alberta Rose Theatre
Boy Funk, We Are Like the Spider, DJ Fuzzboxxx
Alberta Street Public House
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Ditch Digger, Guillotine, Fear the Slaughter, Gas Giant, Hell’s Parish
John Mayall 3000 NE Alberta St. Drunken Prayer, Henry Hill Kammerer, Naomi Hooley
1036 NE Alberta St. Bad Mitten Orchestra, Ruby Pines (9:30 pm); A Sudden Tradition (7 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs Trio
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway The Wiggles
Artichoke Community Music
3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Friday Night Coffeehouse
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. The Sindicate, Joint Venture, Neighbors
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Caught in Motion, Fanno Creek, The Torn ACLs
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Bathtub Toasters
Bipartisan Cafe 7901 SE Stark St. Julia Serafina
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Wild Dogs, Ceremonial Castings, Panzergod, Bloodlust
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Boy & Bean
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Dryland Farmers Band
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. White Arrows, Battleme, And And And
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Circle 3 Trio
Cathedral Park
North Edison Street and Pittsburg Avenue Cathedral Park Jazz Festival: AnnaPaul and the Bearded Lady, Libertine Belles, The Tim Willcox Quartet, Demolition Duo, Martin Zarzar (of Pink Martini)
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ocean 503
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Diego’s Umbrella
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Portland Cello Project’s Extreme Dance Party
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Roy Kay Trio (9 pm); The Hamdogs (6 pm)
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. The Ubuntu Project
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Antikythera, Drunk Dad, Palo Verde, Ariel Ruin
Ella Street Social Club
714 SW 20th Place X-Kid, ALB, Schizo, B.A.M, Twin the SuperB, Sleappwalkiin, ATM Money Movement, KAM the Kid, BK Live, OMG, DJ Audio, DJ Hardware
Hawthorne Theatre
Island Mana Wines 526 SW Yamhill St. Joe Marquand
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Prigodich Quintet
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Hailey Niswanger
Katie O’Briens
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Towers, Avi Dei, Doomsower, Witchasaurus Rex
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Mosby, Frame by Frame, Marca Luna
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Limes, Sad Horse, Bad Assets
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Garcia Birthday Band (9:30 pm); Sassparilla (6 pm)
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Melao de Cuba (9 pm); Back Porch Revival (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Parenthetical Girls, Extra Life
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Rittz, Ken DeRouchie Band
Nel Centro
1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music
Oregon Zoo
4001 SW Canyon Road The Head and the Heart, Damien Jurado
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Kevin Selfe
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Forest Bloodgood
Pioneer Courthouse Square
701 SW 6th Ave. Queued Up, Satin Chaps
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Jr. Membah, The Memories, Mope Groove (SMMR BMMR benefit)
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Reverend Mrs., Rotties
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. She Preaches Mayhem, Set to Burn, The Cold Ground, Ellis
Refuge
116 SE Yamhill St. PDX Pop Now! Festival: Radiation City, AU, The Shivas, TxE, Lord Dying, Litanic Mask, Arohan, Old Wars, 1939 Ensemble, The Parson Redheads
Secret Society Lounge
Fernhill Park
116 NE Russell St. Shoeshine Blue, Huck Notari, St. Even (9 pm); Lincoln’s Beard (6 pm)
Foggy Notion
1033 NW 16th Ave. The Purrs, Sundaze, Vibragun, Fang Moon
Northeast 37th Avenue and Ainsworth Street Stumptown Aces 3416 N Lombard St.
Slabtown
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SUN. JULY 22 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Worth
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Darryl Purpose, Chris Kokesh, Matt Meighan
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Town and the Writ, Ever So Android, Lydian Gray
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Portland Queer Music Festival: Imperial Teen; Magic Mouth; Kiss Kill; Boy Funk; Damon Boucher; Play/Start; The Blind Photographers; Naming Names; Kim DeLacy; The Happening; Me, Uke & Everyone We Know, The Sexbots
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Peter Boesen
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Felim Egan
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Pathology, Enfold Darkness, Fallujah, Fit for an Autopsy, Aegeon
Cathedral Park
GIVE THAT MAN A LABYRINTH BALL: SpaceGhostPurrp plays Branx on Saturday, July 21. Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Just People, Solovox, Medium Troy
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. NW Women of Blues (Etta James tribute)
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Rosehip Revue
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
231 SW Ankeny St. All the Apparatus, WinoVino, Love Bomb Go Go
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Stephens
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Rabbits, Hellgrammite, Order of the Gash
The Waypost
3120 N Williams Ave. Anna Hoone, Will Bruno
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Twenty Shades of Red, Never Awake, A((wake))
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Kill the Kids, The Shell Corporation, Benson Jones, The Mighty Fine, 3-Round Blast
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Jenny Finn Orchestra, Victor & Penny
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Horsfall Duo
Trader Vic’s
1203 NW Glisan St. John English (Frank Sinatra tribute)
Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. VAJ
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Twisted Whistle, Krista Herring (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Jean Ronne Trio
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Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Matt Brown, Justin Klump
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. The Cat Like Reflexes, Hazel Ra, The Nutmeggers
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Hurqalya
Cathedral Park
North Edison Street and Pittsburg Avenue Cathedral Park Jazz Festival: George Colligan 4, Fractal Quintet, Halie Loren, Quadraphonnes, Pete Petersen 7, ProtoHuman, Trio Subtonic, The Brass Roots Movement, Go by Train, PSU Jazz All-Stars
Andina
Clyde’s Prime Rib
Artichoke Community Music
Dante’s
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio
3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Adrian Martin (Beatles tribute)
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. ManRock, Dirtnap, Holy Grove
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Chin Up Rocky, Truth Under Attack, In Public View, Falling in Flight, The Toy Gun Conspiracy
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Carley Baer & Elke Robitaille (8 pm); Peter Boesen (2 pm)
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Ben Rice (9:30 pm); The Barkers (6 pm)
Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St. Back Alley Barbers, American Roulette
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. SpaceGhostPurpp, Trash Talk, TxE, Transient
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Pete Krebs Trio
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Zenda Torrey Band
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Cloud Nothings, Adventure Galley
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5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Elite 350 W Burnside St. Redwood Son & the Revelry, The Wilkinson Blades, Bryan Grayson
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Portland Cello Project’s Extreme Dance Party
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Get Rhythm (Johnny Cash tribute)
Duniway Park
3050 SW Terwilliger Blvd. Trashcan Joe
Ella Street Social Club
714 SW 20th Place Man Your Horse, Yourself and the Air
Foggy Notion
3416 N Lombard St. Honduran, Tyrants, Hauksness
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Fox Street All-Stars
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Bouncing Souls, The Menzingers, Luther
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Rebecca Kilgore, Dave Frishberg, Tom Wakeling, Randy Porter
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Soul Vaccination
Katie O’Briens
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Stolen Rose, Therapist
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Bear and Moose, Sad Face, Patti King
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Spirit Lake, Medicine Family
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Floating Glass Balls (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. I Heights, Wesickboss, Marie Black Band (9 pm); All Together Now (Beatles singalong, 6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Dam-Funk, Vinnie Dewayne
Nel Centro
1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew, Dave Captein, Randy Rollofson
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music
Oregon Zoo
4001 SW Canyon Road Apple Jam, Tara Williamson Quartet (Oregon Zoo Foundation benefit)
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Jim Mesi
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Antikythera, Mics, Prize Hog, Sloths
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Robert Anthony Robinson, VX36, She’s Not Dead, Sabateur
Refuge
116 SE Yamhill St. PDX Pop Now! Festival: The Miracles Club, Illmaculate, Jeffrey Jerusalem, Secret Drum Band, Cloudy October, Strategy, Vice Device, Youthbitch, Smegma, Grandparents, Eight Bells, Like a Villain, Neal Morgan, Chrome Wings, XDS, Houndstooth, Bruxa, K-Tel ‘79
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave.
Ydinperhe, Haistelijat, Terokai, Trauma
Sleep Country Amphitheater
17200 NE Delfel Road; Ridgefield, Wash. Kelly Clarkson, The Fray, Carolina Liar
Sokol Blosser Winery
5000 Sokol Blosser Lane, Dundee Y La Bamba, Pure Bathing Culture
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Violet Isle, Tango Alpha Tango, Symmetry/ Symmetry
Tango Berretin
6305 SE Foster Road Alex Krebs Tango Quartet
Ted’s (at Berbati’s) 231 SW Ankeny St. The Edge
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Jeff Frankel Trio
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. The Cry, The Disconnects, Crazy & the Brains, No Tomorrow Boys
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Myrrh Larsen
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Delaney and Paris, Stories for Money, The Bloody North, Autry!
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Splintered Throne, Earth to Ashes, Iron Circus
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Tony’s AM Gold Show
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Nat Hulskamp, Dan Balmer
Trader Vic’s
1203 NW Glisan St. Xavier Tavera
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar
800 NW 6th Ave. Dave Friesen, Greg Goebel, Charlie Doggett Trio
North Edison Street and Pittsburg Avenue Cathedral Park Jazz Festival: The Shanghai Woolies, Chuck Israels Jazz Orchestra, Joe Manis Trio, Bass-N-Drums, Pound for Pound, Andrew Oliver & David Evans, Krebsic Orkestar, Rich Halley 4, Damian Erskine Group, Midnight Honey
Oregon Zoo
Big K.R.I.T., Casey Veggies, Big Sant, Tito Lopez, Serge Severe
Plan B
Jimmy Mak’s
Record Room
LaurelThirst
4001 SW Canyon Road Ziggy Marley 1305 SE 8th Ave. Hive with DJ Owen 8 NE Killingsworth St. Detective Agency, Hurry Up
Refuge
116 SE Yamhill St. PDX Pop Now! Festival: Onuinu, Pure Bathing Culture, White Fang, Hausu, AAN, Dana Buoy, White Hinterland, JonnyX and the Groadies, Sons of Huns, Battle Hymns and Gardens, Edna Vazquez, Shy Girls, Pulse Emitter, Sean Flinn & the Royal We, Batmen, Charts, Sassparilla
Rontoms
600 E Burnside St. Nick Jaina, My Autumn’s Done Come
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Portland Queer Music Festival: Sacha Sacket, Secret Shoppers, Mattachine Social, Glitterbang, Purple Crush, Noddy, Jeau Breedlove, Kitty Morena, Jamie Treadwell, Queertet, Fein & Dandee, Jedadiah Bernards
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Angel Bouchet Band Jam
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Joe Manis Trio
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Heavy Voodoo, Bison Bison, Rolling Through the Universe
Tillicum Club
Clyde’s Prime Rib
8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Johnny Martin Quartet
Crystal Ballroom
Touché Restaurant and Billiards
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam 1332 W Burnside St. Relient K, Hellogoodbye, William Beckett, House of Heroes
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Spoek Mathambo (9 pm); Caleb Klauder, The Darlin’ Blackbirds (3 pm)
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Mewithoutyou, Kevin Devine, Buried Beds
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Michael Omer
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Slut River, Axxicorn, Dracula and Friends
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Dan Haley & Tim Acott (9:30 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
McCoy Park
North Trenton Street and Newman Avenue Linda Hornbuckle
McMenamins Edgefield 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Florence + the Machine, The Walkmen
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Hungry, Hungry Hip-Hop (9 pm); Wicky Pickers (6:30 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Crystal Stilts, Nucular Aminals, Blood Beach (9 pm); Casey Neill (3 pm)
NEPO 42
5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic
1425 NW Glisan St. Peter Boe
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. 3D Friends, Delenda, Low Haunts
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Youth Lagoon, Father John Misty, Ava Luna
MON. JULY 23 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Worth
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
Ash Street Saloon
221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band 2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens, Portland Country Underground
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. Freak Mountain Ramblers
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mr. Ben
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Psychic Paramount, Phil Manley Life Coach, Eternal Tapestry
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Pacific Dub, Katastro
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. The Twangshifters, Ghost Town Hangmen, Them Rude Boys, Johnny Credit and the Cash Machine
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. C. Animal
Sellwood Riverfront Park
Southeast Spokane Street and Oaks Parkway Z’Bumba
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Tom Grant Trio
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Bloco Alegria Samba Band
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Night Nurse, Biocidio, Oust, Silencer
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Metal Machine
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Souvenir Driver, Charts
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Sea at Last, Hunter Paye
TUES. JULY 24 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Worth
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Simple Matters, Saloon Ensemble
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. JB Butler
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Open Mic
225 SW Ash St. Sleepwalk Kid, Intangible Animal, Race of Strangers
Backspace
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Battery-Powered Music
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell
Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. King Tuff, Jaill, The Memories
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. John Nemeth (9 pm); Sweetback Sisters (6 pm)
115 NW 5th Ave. Teenage BottleRocket, The Dopamines, Elway, Drawback, Angry Lions
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Justin Rayfield
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Jeffrey Jerusalem, Pool of Winds, Shy Girls
Doug Fir Lounge
East End
830 E Burnside St. The Coathangers, Divers
Goodfoot Lounge
1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Quartet (9 pm); Trio Bravo (6 pm)
203 SE Grand Ave. Motley Crude, VJ Dusty Sparkles 2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Ave. Rose Bent, Halfmanhalf
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Duff’s Garage
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Sugarcane String Band
Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center
5340 N Interstate Ave. AmbondronA
CALENDAR Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Jazz Jam with Carey Campbell
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm); The Disappointments (6:30 pm)
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. The Satisfied Minds
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Hundred Waters
Red Room
Ayars Vocal Showcase
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Skaskank Redemption, The Longshots, Skatterbomb
Valentine’s
Southeast 60th Avenue and Salmon Street The Quick and Easy Boys
The Blue Diamond
White Eagle Saloon
Pioneer Courthouse Square
The Blue Monk
Mount Tabor Park
701 SW 6th Ave. Justin Klump
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Technicolor Hearts, We Are Like the Spider
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Sportin’ Lifers 3341 SE Belmont St. Lisa Forkish, Pagan Jug Band
The Know
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232 SW Ankeny St. Lavender Mirror
WIN TICKETS TO
836 N Russell St. The Lonesome Billies
Wonder Ballroom
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The Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave. BPM: Chase Manhattan, Nicky Mason, Albino Gorilla, The Best Dancers
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WED. JULY 20 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ “Chains” Crumley
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Trick with DJ Robb
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. The Wriffs
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. TRONix: Mike Gong, Bliphop Junkie
Matador
1967 W Burnside St. DJ Whisker Friction
Red Cap Garage
1035 SW Stark St Riot Wednesdays with Bruce LaBruiser
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. DJ William the Bloody
The Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave. Alvin Risk, James Renegade, Token
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CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Flamin’ Fridays with DJ Doughalicious
Crystal Ballroom
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Blackwell
1332 W Burnside St. ‘80s Video Dance Attack with VJ Kittyrox
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Tiga
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Creepy Crawl
Yes and No
20 NW 3rd Ave. Death Club with DJ Entropy
THURS. JULY 19 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Maxamillion
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Hip Hop Heaven with DJ Detroit Diezel
736 SE Grand Ave. Freaky Outy (late set); Katrina Martiani (early set)
Element Restaurant & Lounge 1135 SW Morrison St. Chris Alice
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Decadent ‘80s: DJ Non, Jason Wann; Rewind with Phonographix DJs
Gold Dust Meridian
3267 SE Hawthorne Blvd. DJ Drew Groove
Dig a Pony
Goodfoot Lounge
Fez Ballroom
Groove Suite
Ground Kontrol
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736 SE Grand Ave. Marti 316 SW 11th Ave. Shadowplay: DJs Ghoulunatic, Paradox, Horrid 511 NW Couch St. Joystick with DJ Darkcloud
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. PDneXt: Natasha Kmeto, Graintable, Plumblyne, Danny Corn, B. Bravo, Roane Numah & Rita DeVito
Refuge
116 SE Yamhill St. Awakenings: Desert Dwellers, Kalya Scintilla, DrumSpyder, Amani Friend, Treavor Moontribe, Rara Avis, Blue Spectral Monkey
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Mixer with King Britt (9 pm); DJs Mr. Romo, Michael Grimes (3 pm)
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Synthicide: Tom Jones, Erica Jones, Jared White, Luke Buser
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Lorax
2845 SE Stark St. Soul Stew with DJ Aquaman 440 NW Glisan St. Trifecta: Steven Lee & Erica Rhone, Ernest Ryan, Phyre 511 NW Couch St. DJs MT, RAWIII
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Rockbox: Matt Nelkin, DJ Kez, Dundiggy (9 pm); Aperitivo Happy Hour: DJs Erik Hanson, Michael Hughes (5 pm)
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Neil Blender 232 SW Ankeny St. Tom Tom DJ Night
SAT. JULY 21 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Gregarious
Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Endless Sumler
CC Slaughters
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. DJ His N Hers
Matador
1967 W Burnside St. Next Big Thing with Donny Don’t
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Black Church Metal Night
MON. JULY 23 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Coloured Glass
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Maniac Monday with DJ Doughalicious
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Roane
Ground Kontrol
219 NW Davis St. Revolution with DJ Robb
511 NW Couch St. Service Industrial with DJ Tibin
Dig a Pony
Kelly’s Olympian
Fez Ballroom
Star Bar
736 SE Grand Ave. Mikee Lixx & Dirty Red
426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy VJs
Ground Kontrol
639 SE Morrison St. Metal Mondays with DJ Blackhawk
Holocene
1465 NE Prescott St. KM Fizzy
Hungry Tiger Too
Beech Street Parlor
316 SW 11th Ave. Popvideo with DJ Gigahurtz 511 NW Couch St. DJs I Heart U, Avery 1001 SE Morrison St. Gaycation: DJ Snowtiger, Mr. Charming 207 SE 12th Ave Shoegeezer: Selector TNT, DJ Sarah Smut
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom
Tiga
TUES. JULY 24 412 NE Beech St. DJ El Dorado
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Girltopia with DJ Robb
1332 W Burnside St. All Decades Video Dance Attack
Dig a Pony
Matador
Eagle Portland
1967 W Burnside St. DJ Drew Groove
Sloan’s Tavern
36 N Russell St. The Witching Hour with Dark Daughter
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. DJ OG One
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Darkness Descends with DJ Maxamillion
The Whiskey Bar
736 SE Grand Ave. James & Atkins 835 N Lombard St DMTV with DJ Animal
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. DJ Colin Jones (“Clueless” screening and ‘90s dance party)
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. See You Next Tuesday: Kellan, Avery
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Straylight
31 NW 1st Ave. Summer House Session: Johnny Monsoon, Gabriel Driscoll & Evan Alexander
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1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Womb Service
18 NW 3rd Ave. Tubesday (10 pm); DJ OverCol (7 pm)
315 SE 3rd Ave. BMP/GRND: DJs Kasio Smashio, Rhienna
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Yes and No
Star Bar
Valentine’s
Red Cap Garage
1035 SW Stark St Mantrap with DJ Lunchlady
Rotture
639 SE Morrison St. Blank Fridays
Stark Street Station 6049 SE Stark St. DJ Nate C
18 NW 3rd Ave. Saturdazed with DJ GH
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Dirty Hands
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20 NW 3rd Ave. Idiot Tuesdays with DJ Black Dog
232 SW Ankeny St. Lovecamp DJs
SUN. JULY 22 Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. New Jack City DJs
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BEIRUT WITH MENOMENA & GARDENS & VILLA
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GIRL TALK WITH STARFUCKER & AU
SILVERSUN PICKUPS
SEPT. 9
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CRYSTAL BALLROOM
HOT SNAKES
WITH RED FANG & HUNGRY GHOST
PASSION PIT
SEPT. 5&6
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THE OLD 97S
PERFORMING TOO FAR TO CARE
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SEPT. 6
SEPT. 8
THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH WITH STRAND OF OAKS
YELAWOLF
ALADDIN THEATER
WITH DANNY BROWN & SANDPEOPLE
TYPHOON
WITH HOLCOMBE WALLER & AND AND AND
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DINOSAUR JR.
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WONDER BALLROOM
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THE HIVES SEPT. 8
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Portland Actors Ensemble presents Shakespeare’s jovial comedy in parks around the metro area. Multiple locations, 467-6573. Times and dates vary, check portlandactors.org for details. Free.
THEATER
COMEDY AND VARIETY
Jersey Boys
For those seeking a big show that’s been heaped with awards, Broadway Across America presents this wallop of a musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 241-1802. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Saturdays, 1 pm and 6:30 pm Sundays. Closes Aug. 12. $25-$69.
King Lear
For Portland Shakespeare Project’s summer of Lear, the reliably bold Jon Kretzu directs a production that keeps the Bard’s text intact but pares the cast to six. The show plays in repertory with Lear’s Follies. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 3133048. Dates and times vary, see portlandshakes.org. Closes Aug. 4. $18-$30.
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.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Post5 Theatre presents an al fresco 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 that 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 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. In Clackamas Repertory Theatre’s production, 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 SmithEnglish keeps the direction straight, wisely leaving the focus on a strong script and cast. REBECCA JACOBSON. Clackamas Community College, Osterman Theatre, 19600 S Molalla Ave., 594-6047. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2:30 pm Sundays through July 22. $12-$24.
The Original Practice Shakespeare Festival
The Original Practice Shakespeare Festival bills its performances as more championship sports game than stodgy theatrical production, featuring minimal rehearsal, improvised blocking and energetic audience interaction. This summer, the company stages As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night in parks around Portland. Multiple locations, 890-6944. Times vary, see opsfest.org. Closes September 30. Free.
Portland Outdoor Shakespeare Festival
Post5 Theatre hosts two packed weekends of all things Will: performances and adaptations of the Bard’s plays by several theater companies, workshops, lectures and an after party. Milepost 5, 900 NE 81st Ave., 971-2588584. Various times Friday-Sunday, July 20-22 and Friday-Saturday, July 27-28. Free.
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 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 Saturday July 21. Closes Sunday, July 22. $20-$42.
The Superior Casa Nova
Masque Alfresco adapts this Commedia dell’Arte farce, rich with hat juggling, theatrical slapstick and bombastic characters. The family-friendly show tours to various outdoor locations in Lake Oswego, Hillsboro and Beaverton. Multiple locations , 2545104. 6:30 pm Fridays-Sundays through Aug. 26. Free.
Theatre Without Animals
French absurdist playwright JeanMichel Ribes’ work has been translated into 12 different languages—but until Brooke Budy came along, never into English. Now Factory Theatre stages Budy’s English-language premiere of Ribes’ series of eight short absurdist pieces, which examine ridiculousness in our relationships. July’s shows are at the CoHo Theater (2257 NW Raleigh St.); August shows are at Theater! Theatre! (3430 SE Belmont St.). Multiple venues, 400-7320. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays July 19-Aug. 11 and Wednesdays July 25 and Aug.
Comedy Monster Open Mic
Open mic hosted by Jen Allen and Mandie Allietta. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 4779477. 9:30 pm every first and third Thursday. Free.
Comedy at Crush: A Benefit for Carmen Trineece
Belinda Carroll hosts a night of standup to benefit the family of local comedian Carmen Trineece, who died in June of thyroid cancer. Featured comics include Jen Allen, Tynan DeLong, Devin Monaghan, Carmen Garrison, Joe Hieronymus and Leah Mansfield. Crush, 1400 SE Morrison St, 235-8150. 9 pm Wednesday, July 18. $5.
in the dance world, although his opera A Soldier’s Tale might be less known than, say, The Rite of Spring or The Firebird. As the opening act to its 15th season, local contemporary dance company BodyVox has taken up that score in its second collaboration with Chamber Music Northwest. Company co-founders Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland will debut the work, which is set to live music performed by CMNW festival and Protégé artists and based on a Russian folk tale about a traveling soldier who makes a deal with the devil. The program will also include the repertory works Moto Perpetuo and Falling For Grace and Roland’s suite Two for One…Three for All…Four for Nothing!, set to Chopin. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 725-3307. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, July 20-21; 3 pm Sunday, July 22. $25-$50.
Northwest Dance Project’s Pretty Creatives
Northwest Dance Project’s Pretty Creatives show is an experiment, and in this fourth annual installment, choreographers Robyn Mineko Williams and Hanna Kiel are the mad scientists who created two brand-new contemporary-dance works in just 18 hours with 32 professional dancers whom they probably didn’t know beforehand. Both dancers and dance makers were selected from a much larger pool of national entries, so the results should be a distillation of top talent. Northwest Dance Project Studio & Performance Center, 833 N Shaver St., 421-7434. 7:30 and 8:30 pm Saturday, July 21. $10 suggested donation.
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Hal Sparks
Hal Sparks, of Talk Soup and Queer as Folk, brings his irreverent act to Portland. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 7:30 pm and 10:30 pm Friday-Saturday, July 20-21. $20-$25.
CLASSICAL Alex Krebs Tango Quartet
The city’s tango maven releases a new CD with original compositions by Krebs and Portland jazz pianist and composer Andrew Oliver. After a beginning tango lesson, the pair (with Krebs on the essential tango instrument, the bandoneón accordion) will join Oregon Symphony violinist Erin Furbee (who leads her own tango band, Tango Pacifico), Vancouver Symphony, 3 Leg Torso bassist Mike Murphy and Trio Subtonic percussionist Jesse Brooke to perform music with dancing till 2 am. Tango Berretin, 6305 SE Foster Road, 771-7470. Tango lesson 8-9 pm, dancing begins at 9 pm, quartet begins at 10:30 pm Saturday, July 21. $12-$15.
Chamber Music Northwest
The summer music festival continues its showcase of young rising stars with Thursday’s concert at Kaul Auditorium by Time for Three, a two violin-and bass trio of young Philadelphia Orchestra musicians who met in college at the celebrated Curtis Institute. They’ve won over new and younger audiences thanks in part to their fun, high-energy approach and by playing not only traditional classical repertoire but bluegrass, jazz, country, pop music and originals as well. Friday and Saturday at Lincoln Hall, the festival continues to extend beyond traditional chamber music stodginess by resuming its collaboration with BodyVox. Accompanied by CMNW musicians and BodyVox’s usual multimedia elements, the company’s dancers will move to music by 20th-century radical composer Xenakis, Chopin, Paganini and CMNW’s own young composing star, Katerina Kramarchuk. And the program includes Stravinsky’s ever-wry, ever-delicious fable A Soldier’s Tale. Monday at Kaul Auditorium and Tuesday at Catlin Gabel School, the excellent singer Sasha Cooke, a star of last year’s festival, sings music by J.S. Bach, and the program includes Dvorák’s great String Quintet No. 2. Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 294-6400. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday, July 19-21 and Monday-Tuesday, July 23-24. 3 pm Sunday, July 22. $25-$50.
DANCE BodyVox in Motion with Chamber Music Northwest
CYBER WRECKS: Brad Bolchunos, an actor in The Match.com Monologues.
THE MATCH.COM MONOLOGUES (COHO PRODUCTIONS) Looking for computer love.
Forgive me if this review is overly critical. I was pissed when I saw this show because my date flaked. Apparently, 10:30 pm is too late for a show when you have work in the morning. That left me sitting alone during a performance about online dating—not my ideal way to spend a Saturday night, however appropriate. Online dating promises to make dating easier, and many buy into that promise. One in five relationships begin on the Internet—at least, that’s what Match.com says. This show, by CoHo Productions and written by former Portland Mercury managing editor Phil Busse, takes a look at those online relationships that laughably fail. The actors tell stories of dates gone awry. Our sad-sack protagonist Carl (Nathan Crosby) struts around in his underwear, drinking beer, which is probably what a typical male Match.com user does. He speaks directly to the audience, offering strategy: Lie about your income and your age, and upload a photo of you and a dog. The female perspective is given through intermittent webcam interviews. Synopsis: The guys they meet via the Internet turn out to be losers. The stories are amusing, but they’re not true. Not totally, anyway. They were inspired by Busse’s interviews with his friends, and the storytellers are actors. This is theater, after all, but the show’s presentation straddles a line between theater and live storytelling that gives it a shot of authenticity that shouldn’t exist. I felt like I was sitting across from my friend at happy hour while he told me a hilarious story I knew he completely made up. Busse, coming from a notably sex-positive paper, has what must be an entire Rolodex of online daters with interesting stories. Hearing their stories from their lips would have been more satisfying. But the online dating follies are intriguing, and could be rewarding if you’re curious. The show could also benefit from a crowded house, so go if you can persuade enough of your friends to see a show at 10:30 pm. Drink before. Don’t ask a date. AARON SPENCER.
SEE IT: The Match.com Monologues is at CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 205-0715, cohoproductions.org. 10:30 pm FridaysSaturdays through July 21. $10.
Igor Stravinsky’s music is well known
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cars. The pictures are time capsules, yet still feel timeless. Through July 28. Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, 134 NW 8th Ave., 287-3886.
Mel George: Hazy
Australian artist Mel George uses kilnformed glass to guide viewers on a tour from the land down under to Istanbul to Venice, finally winding up right here in Portland. Inspired by the tiled mosaics she saw in Turkey and Italy, George created a mosaic of her own for Hazy, her thoughtful exhibition at Bullseye. The piece, Frame of Time, is made up of 366 small rectangles, one for each day of the year. The interior of each calendar entry is a different color, corresponding to the weather, mood or activities of each day during the artist’s year of far-flung travels. The result is a virtuosic visual diary, chromatically and emotionally powerful. Other works in the show incorporate architectural elements, including a fond paean to Portland’s 11 bridges. Through Sept. 1. Bullseye Gallery, 300 NW 13th Ave., 227-0222.
MEL GEORGE
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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.
Bobby Abrahamson: North Portland Polaroids
Between last July and March, Bobby Abrahamson took one photograph a day in North Portland. Using a Polaroid with black-and-white film, he captured neighborhood denizens in a shallow depth of field that spotlights their facial expressions and body language. In works such as David, Boston and Chadwick, the artist records moments of disarming openness. Most of the portraits have a gritty, lowbrow feel, reminiscent of film director Gus van Sant’s depictions of life on the fringes of Portland society. Through July 29. Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 225-0210.
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Unnaturally hued mountains, waterfalls and rivers lend a mythical quality to painter Adam Sorensen’s landscapes. In solo shows at PDX and the Portland Art Museum, his large tableaux have proved captivating, while smaller works felt underdeveloped. But Sorensen’s small (14-by-11-inch) paintings on paper this month show a newfound mastery of the miniature. The painter’s deceptively simple brushwork is immaculately shaded and rhythmical, leading the viewer’s eyes and imagination to fill in topographical details. It is gratifying to see Sorensen imbuing his more intimate works with the same sense of majesty that makes his monumental paintings so awe-inspiring. Through July 28. PDX Across the Hall, 929 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.
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 Andres: The Woman and the Ape
The trope of the fierce simian male interacting with a lily-white human woman has long stoked moviegoers’ and fiction readers’ primal fears and racial prejudices—see King Kong and Mighty Joe Young for starters. In Mark Andres’ exhibition, The Woman and the Ape, the artist uses acrylic paint on wooden panels to reinterpret the old yarn as depicted in antiquarian freak-show posters. Other paintings are themed around other traveling-circus personae such as sword swallowers, clowns, strongmen, fortune tellers, magicians and fortune tellers. The works are rendered in an unremarkable, straightforward style that does little to invigorate the tired subject matter. Through July 28. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 224-8182.
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
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., 4737226.
The Cohesion
In Breeze Block’s invigorating summer group show, the Cohesion, the artist known as St. Monci offers mixed-media geometric studies with a strong architectonic influence. Multicolored planes jostle against one another in jaunty slices, which interact bracingly with the compositions’ negative space. The futuristic-looking works contrast agreeably with Tommy Cinquegrano’s screenprints of old-timey brownstones. Through July 28. Breeze Block Gallery, 323 NW 6th Ave., 318-6228.
Theodore Soriano: Dark
In his exhibition Dark, Seattle-based artist Theodore Soriano creates highly symbolic ceramic sculptures that double as psychological portraits. In an eerily unsettling diptych, two golemlike figures crouch low to the ground, bony and hunched. One of them has bolts coming out of his ears, his eyes and mouth wired shut, in a terrifying but sympathetic portrayal of psychic disconnection. Another sculpture shows a nude female torso impaled by a metal rod, which emerges on the bottom side of the torso to pierce a human heart. This is a touching, haunting show. Through July 29. Cock Gallery, 625 NW Everett St., #106, 552-8686.
Willy Heeks: My Findings
Starburst, Good & Plenty, gummy bears—these are the sugary treats evoked by the wild color palette of Rhode Island-based painter Willy Heeks. In his show, My Findings, he engages in an internal dialogue between these dazzling colors and more neutral tones, and also between thin washes of paint and thicker application; open, honeycomblike forms and big fields of color; and intricate stencils and impulsive brushstrokes. At its best, the work is intuitive and exploratory; at its most labored, it verges on preciousness and loses compositional focus. Through July 28. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 2240521.
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BOOKS
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= 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 18 Think and Drink
Because deeper revelations about the truths of the universe typically occur with a cocktail in hand, Oregon Humanities continues with its Think and Drink lecture series. The third in a four-part series exploring how technology shapes the future, the discussion will focus on human and artificial intelligence with special guests Ramez Naam, author of More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement, and Mott Greene, affiliate professor of Earth and space sciences at the University of Puget Sound. Grab a drink and learn when to expect the killer robots. (See interview, page 24.) Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 6:30 pm. Free. Minors accompanied by an adult are welcome.
Jesse Bering
Like most great Americans you’ve no doubt spent a good deal of time pondering life’s mysteries, such as the neurological reasoning behind a person’s sexual attraction to animals, the history of cannibalism and those ever-baffling appendages testicles. Fortunately, columnist and research psychologist Jesse Bering is here to answer your questions with his new book, Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?, a collection of his essays from Scientific American and Slate. Maybe you’ll finally learn what’s a dickfer. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free. All ages.
THURSDAY, JULY 19 Buddy Wakefield and Timmy Straw
As if witnessing the extemporaneous talents of two-time individual World Poetry Slam champion Buddy Wakefield wouldn’t make you feel bad enough about your own lack of genius, musician Timmy Straw will be joining him to demonstrate her aptitude on piano, trumpet, drum machine, mandolin, banjo and synthesizer. Prepare to be amazed and feel like a loser. 24Ten, 2410 N Mississippi Ave. 8 pm. $12-$15. All ages.
George Estreich and Matt Yurdana
Bringing together two Oregon authors each month for its Comma reading and discussion series, Broadway Books will host awarded poet Matt Yurdana and poet/author George Estreich. Estreich’s recent book, The Shape of the Eye, about raising a daughter with Down syndrome, won the 2012 Oregon Book Award for creative nonfiction. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free. All ages.
FRIDAY, JULY 20 Captain Marvel No. 1 Release Party
After 35 years as Ms. Marvel, Carol Danvers has been promoted to the rank of captain in the capable hands of Portland writer Kelly Sue DeConnick. Celebrate the leap in comic-book feminism with the release of Captain Marvel No. 1 with DeConnick signing autographs. Bridge City Comics, 3725 N Mississippi Ave., 282-5484. 6-9 pm. Free. 21+.
SUNDAY, JULY 22 Elissa Schappell
We’ve all known them (or been them) at one point—the high-school slut, the artsy girl, the college partier, the good girl, the reluctant mother. Exploring a cast of female
archetypes in her much-lauded book Blueprints for Building Better Girls, fiction author Elissa Schappell examines the very nature of female identity. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free. All ages.
MONDAY, JULY 23 Paul Gerald
Whether you just need an afternoon escape or a premise for your next book, the Pacific Crest Trail offers myriad options for outdoor exploration. Paul Gerald will help you get there with his pragmatically titled book, Day and Section Hikes: Pacific Crest Trail Oregon. You probably didn’t know it was designated as one of the first National Scenic Trails in 1968. So, lace up and get out there. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651. 7 pm. Free. All ages.
Eric Berkowitz and Kerry Cohen
Did you know in Harrisburg, Pa., it is illegal to have sex with a truck driver in a tollbooth? And, in Connorsville, Wis., it’s against the law for a man to shoot a gun when his female partner orgasms? Just two examples of the Man trying to keep us from having any fun. In his new book, Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire, Eric Berkowitz explores the lengths to which every society has gone to attempt to regulate our most base natural instincts. Local author Kerry Cohen (Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity) will join Berkowitz to talk about sex. Woooo! Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free. All ages.
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KAREN THOMPSON WALKER, THE AGE OF MIRACLES For melodramatic adolescents, every little thing that goes wrong feels like the end of the world. For Julia, the tween protagonist of The Age of Miracles, this actually is the case. The debut novel from Karen Thompson Walker combines the pensive reflection of a coming-of-age tale with the worldwide destruction of What if the world impending global catastrophe. stopped turning? It’s a story both grand in scale and intimately personal, told from Julia’s perspective as an adult looking back. She’s 11 and living in Southern California when “the slowing” begins. Her biggest concern is that the boy she secretly adores doesn’t seem to know she exists. Then one morning the news spreads that Earth’s rotation has begun to slow. The disaster takes on a melancholy intrigue when told through simple yet elegant prose. “We did not sense at first the extra time, bulging from the smooth edge of each day like a tumor blooming beneath skin,” Julia laments. At first nearly undetectable except in the measurement of daylight and darkness, hours have been added to each day and night. World governments decide to cope by adhering to the clock anyway, and so Julia continues to go to school in the dark and attempts to sleep through “white nights.” Factions of “real timers” form their own colonies, refusing to live by a clock that is no longer relevant. But by the time days and nights have each stretched to 60 hours, it’s clear everyone is screwed. Crops and animals die, nights become freezing, and the sun blasts Earth with radiation through our disintegrated magnetic field. It’s an intriguing apocalypse, rendered with just enough detail to feel plausible. Julia continues to live her life—worrying about her parents’ increasingly fragile marriage, forming a bond with the boy— because what else can she do? Simple rites that would seem trivial when facing catastrophe become all the more important because of it. Though its momentum and direction begin to fizzle toward the end, The Age of Miracles manages to weave an endearing story about both the value and irrelevance of time. PENELOPE BASS. GO: Karen Thompson Walker reads at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651, on Thursday, July 19. 7:30 pm. Free.
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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. In the slick hands of Andrew Garfield (the emotional crutch of The Social Network), Spider-Man is the most three-dimensional part of the bombastic movie, playing Pete as a smartass archetype: the kid whose love of skateboarding and indie music gets him pummeled in high school, but will totally get him laid in college. While it never soars to the heights of Raimi’s first two films, it manages to be at once exhilarating, hilarious and bold. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Tigard.
The Avengers
A In helming The Avengers—the long-
awaited convergence of four Marvel Comics properties into one gargantuan nesting doll of a summer blockbuster—Joss Whedon is burdened with glorious purpose. Those are his words, not mine, and they’re actually spoken by Loki, the effete alien overlord presenting the avenging force with its first challenge. Still, what an apt and appropriately fustian description of the monumental task Whedon has taken on. The Avengers isn’t just weighted by the typical expectations of the normal box-office bulldozer. After five movies’ worth of prologue, the film has also absorbed the expectations of the individual franchises. That’s some heavy pressure. Luckily, there is perhaps no other mass producer of pop culture better equipped to handle it than Whedon. He is blessed with an intrinsic knowledge of what audiences want, and the ability, as a writer and director, to deliver with maximum satisfaction. In that regard, he does not stumble. It’s hard to imagine anyone who’s spent the past five years playing out a vision of an Avengers movie in their head being disappointed with what Whedon has come up with. It’s big and loud, exhilarating and funny, meaningless but not dumb. It is glorious entertainment. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV.
Beasts of the Southern Wild
A 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. 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 co-writer, 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
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(dynamo first-timer Quvenzhané Wallis, already the subject of Oscar handicapping). And it’s got giant, mythical horned pigs 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. 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. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Cinema 21.
Bernie
B- Richard Linklater’s new movie contains all the “outrageous” elements obligatory to deadpan, small-town true crime. Yet the one truly daring element in Bernie is the one that makes it seem not like a movie at all. Linklater is a Texas native whose best movies (Dazed and Confused, Waking Life) exploit his easy rapport with his shambolic Lone Star compadres. For the first half of Bernie, he uses mockumentary interviews with the mainstreet gossips of Carthage, Texas, as a kind of Greek chorus. Their piquant observations—“she’d tear you a double-wide, three-bedroom, two-bath asshole”—form the film’s backbone and highlight. The fake interviews, however, make the bits of drama in between seem artificial and secondhand: It’s impossible to suspend the knowledge that you’re watching a re-enactment, because the picture itself keeps using a distancing effect. Imagine Waiting for Guffman if all the talking heads were audience members thinking back on the big play. PG-13. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
C “For the elderly and beautiful,” runs the rest of the name dreamed up by Sonny (Dev Patel) for his dilapidated retirement resort in India. The arriving Little England expats qualify for both adjectives: Marigold Hotel is nothing but the dotty-pensioner scenes from British ensemble comedies, always the best parts. But for crissakes, don’t call it a “movie for grown-ups.” The film, directed by fustian Shakespeare in Love hack John Madden, is hardly more mature than The Avengers, and plays to the same desire to see big names join forces. I’m happy to see Bill Nighy, Judi Dench and Tom Wilkinson in any context, even if it’s a geriatric version of a summer-camp movie, with a similar late-afternoon poignancy and corny lines. (Dench’s voice-over is so packed with reassuring bromides that I eventually stopped hearing it, like Muzak.) It’s not dealing in harsh truths—it’s a sorbet to cleanse your palate after too much Mike Leigh— but the banalities are undermined by real disappointment and abandonment. If Maggie Smith’s early racism is a touch too violent for her character arc, otherwise everyone is wonderfully sympathetic. Wilkinson in particular grounds the project with a typically righteous performance as a gay judge seeking forgiveness from a former lover. Marigold Hotel’s only serious drawback, in fact, is its tendency to treat India as a place for white folks to find catharsis—a well-intentioned flaw it copies from a Wes Anderson movie. It’s The Darjeeling Aged. PG-13. AARON MESH. Lake Twin, City Center, Fox Tower.
Beyond the Black Rainbow
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A freaky sci-fi allegory for the Reagan Era, made in 2011 by nutcase director Panos Cosmatos. Clinton Street Theater. 6:45 and 9 pm Friday, July 20.
Brave
B- Can it really be true that through a
dozen films, Pixar—the North American animation titan celebrated for its mul-
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JUST FRIENDS: Batman and Robin, ca. 1966.
GONE BATSHIT
A CRASH COURSE IN THE DARK KNIGHT’S COLORFUL PAST. BY KIMB ER LY HU R SH
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When DC Comics created Batman, my parents weren’t alive. And when George Clooney nearly tarnished his career by donning the nipply Batsuit in 1997’s Batman and Robin, I was playing with Barbies. The only Dark Knight I’ve ever known is Christian Bale’s brooding, gloriously tortured Bruce Wayne. In terms of true Bat-fandom, I’m a novice. So, when Willamette Week decided to challenge the self-described “epicness” of Regal Cinemas’ July 19 Batman marathons—playing the first two installments of Christopher Nolan’s grimmer, more “realistic” Batman series, leading up to midnight screenings of the intensely anticipated series finale, The Dark Knight Rises (see review on page 45)—I was pegged as the perfect candidate to test how much kitsch the human brain can withstand. The test: watch all the original, considerably less gritty Batman flicks…in a row. Ten hours. Five movies. Four chins. 9:15 am: Batman (1966) I know the camp is intentional when Adam West starts punching a life-sized plastic shark in the face. Robin, all bright-eyed and spindly-legged, replies, “Holy sardines!” Speaking of Robin, he calls drinking alcohol a “filthy thing” done by “riffraff.” A surprisingly liberal Batman responds that drinkers are human beings, too. In the major fight scene, Batman deals weak punches as bad guys obligingly fling themselves overboard. Catwoman doesn’t get in on the action, because she’s afraid of water. Also because it’s 1966, and she’s a woman. Level of Batfatigue (1 being none, 10 being Bat-brained): 2. I’m in need of a Bat-room break. 10:55 am: Batman (1989) This Gotham City is darker and has a litter problem. Michael Keaton attempts to explain why he chose to dress like a bat. “They’re survivors,” he says. I guess, but so are cockroaches. I wouldn’t be
sad to see Vicki Vale (Kim Basinger) take a bullet, if only to stop her incessant screaming. Level of Bat-fatigue: 6. All that screaming! 1 pm: Batman Returns (1992) As a baby, the Penguin’s parents dropped him into an icy storm drain where he was raised by a colony of sewer penguins. O…K. Then there’s Michelle Pfeiffer, pulling off the role of “resentful feminist” flawlessly, convincingly delivering lines like, “I am Catwoman, hear me roar!” and “Life’s a bitch... now, so am I.” There seems to be a hint of an antijournalism theme running through this franchise: Alfred calls a Gotham periodical “rubbish,” and Catwoman wonders, “How do these hacks sleep at night?” Just fine, thank you. Level of Bat-fatigue: 8. Tim Burton is too much. 3:05 pm: Batman Forever (1995) Finally, we get the origins of Robin. A trapeze artist in green tights, he moves in with Bruce (Val Kilmer) after Two-Face kills his family. To counteract the overall homoerotic vibe, he rolls up to Wayne Manor on a motorcycle. How butch. Level of Bat-fatigue: 10. I’m speaking in monosyllables to conserve thought. 4:55 pm: Batman and Robin (1997) Sexy psychiatrist Nicole Kidman has already helped Kilmer’s Batman work through his repressed childhood memories, so George Clooney’s Batman is all boring and well-adjusted. Then Arnold Schwarzenegger, as Mr. Freeze, grunts one-liners such as, “The iceman cometh!” and I can’t imagine why any A-list actor was willing to attach his or her name to a movie that should’ve been titled Batman: Henchmen on Ice. Somehow, though, through the neon fog of my numbed mind, I can grasp the grand theme of the Batman universe. He is the most human of all superheroes. Same goes for the villains he’s up against. Adam West nailed it in 1966: Villains are people, too. How can Batman judge them when their darkness is his darkness? Level of Bat-fatigue: 15. Time for a Bat-nap. SEE IT: Regal’s Dark Knight Marathon begins at 6:30 pm Thursday, July 19, at Pioneer Place, Lloyd Mall, Lloyd Center, Tigard, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Movies on TV, Bridgeport, Wilsonville, Sherwood, Hilltop, Division.
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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.
The Cockettes
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] A 2002 documentary on the ’70s San Francisco art-drag troupe that inspired everything from the New York Dolls to The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Directed by Bill Weber and David Weissman, the latter of whom co-founded the Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival. R. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Saturday, July 21.
D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus Retrospective
[TWO NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL, DIRECTORS ATTENDING] Legendary cinéma vérité documentarian D.A. Pennebaker and his filmmaking partner, Chris Hegedus, come to Portland to present two double features of their groundbreaking work: 1993’s The War Room (7 pm Monday, July 23), an intimate look at Bill Clinton’s first bid for the White House; 1967’s pioneering Don’t Look Back (9:30 pm Monday, July 23), capturing Bob Dylan just before he sold his soul to electrified rock ’n’ roll; 2009’s Kings of Pastry, about the notorious Meilleur Ouvrier de France pastry chef competition (7 pm Tuesday, July 24); and 2000’s Down From the Mountain (9:30 pm Tuesday, July 24), highlighting the old-timey songwriters of O Brother Where Art Thou? fame. A reception at Magnolia’s Corner (4075 NE Sandy Blvd., 459-4081), which Pennebaker and Hegedus will attend, precedes the July 23 screenings at 4:30 pm. Hollywood Theatre.
Dirty Dancing
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Nobody puts Jerry Orbach’s eyebrows in a corner. Presented by Fleur de Lethal Cinematheque. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Saturday, July 21.
The Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Anal-retentive neatniks, rejoice: Somebody finally
made a Tetris movie! A documentary about the grand masters of a game that rewards a hyperactive impulse toward tidiness would be expected to play as a portrait of extreme obsessive-compulsive disorder, but the film, by Portland’s Adam Cornelius, gets by on sheer congeniality. Tracking local enthusiast Robin Mihara’s quest to gather together the world’s highest scorers and crown an undisputed champ, The Ecstasy of Order is no King of Kong, but that’s only because its subjects are too damn nice. (Of course, they’re also exceptionally geeky: One player wears retro videogame shirts exclusively and claims he learned to conquer the Rubik’s cube in order to impress women.) Although it lacks a strong anchoring personality, the movie gets a dollop of pathos from a former Nintendo World Champion named—no shit— Thor Aackerlund. A shy, tortured soul among affable nerds, he started entering gaming competitions as a kid after a fire consumed his childhood home and his mother was diagnosed with a heart ailment; for a time, his family lived solely off his winnings. The gulf of tragedy separating him from the rest of the players brings out the social autism of his gaming peers: After learning of an accident in 1996 that crushed Aackerlund’s skull and left him in a coma, Mihara’s reaction is to ask, “Did that affect your game at all?” MATTHEW SINGER. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Friday, July 20.
Filmusik: Modern Times
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] The Charlie Chaplin classic, presented with a live soundtrack composed by Kyle Williams of Retake Productions. Hollywood Theatre. 8 pm Thursday, July 19.
Forbidden Zone
[TWO 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. 9 pm Wednesday-Thursday, July 18-19.
Hipsters
D [THREE NIGHTS ONLY] “Every
hipster is a potential criminal,” comes the early warning from a Soviet apparatchik, but my hopes of vintage sunglasses crushed under Stalinist boot heels (“Moscow does not believe in Sparks!”) were dashed: The title would be more accurately translated as “hepcats.” These warbling Russian youngsters defy the state by listening to jazz and teasing their pompadours into towering parodies of Harry Connick Jr. (They also dress in shades of Technicolor: I haven’t seen costumes this garish since Dick Tracy.) Valery Todorovsky’s movie plays like Swing Kids directed by early JeanPierre Jeunet, with crude racial attitudes and a plot you could set your metronome by. It’s an unintentional paean to conformity. AARON MESH. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Friday-Sunday, July 20-22.
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, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Tigard.
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. To be fair, French cinema has been less plagued by minstrels and blackface. American audiences have much more baggage, knowing there has been a very deliberate effort to snuff out typecast racism in our films. In France, The Intouchables is experiencing record-breaking ticket sales. Stateside, there has been a bit more pearl-clutching, but for good reason. Yet the film doesn’t collapse on itself, thanks to the palpable chemistry between Cluzet and Sy. The victim of a paragliding accident, wealthy Philippe (Cluzet) is so bored with his situation that he has nothing to gain from standing on ceremony with Driss. Instead, he takes pleasure in Driss’ company and comes to admire his caretaker. Unlike the movie’s tone, there is no condescension here. Driss, for his part, is a joy to be around, lowbrow humor notwithstanding. It’s a testament to Sy’s comedic timing that he doesn’t come off as a caricature, even if this seems to have been writerdirector Olivier Nakache’s intention. R. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Fox Tower.
Master Pancake Theater vs. Twilight
[TWO NIGHTS ONLY] A Mystery Science Theater 3000-style live dissing of the vampire soap opera from the Austin-based comedy troupe. Cinema 21. 10:45 pm Friday-Saturday, July 20-21.
Men in Black 3
C Nobody ever gave a shit about the Men in Black. Not the movie—in fact, the original is pretty great, a lean, awesomely ridiculous creature feature in the vein of Ghostbusters. The characters were wonderfully broad, with Will Smith playing the scrappy wiseass to Tommy Lee Jones’ sourpuss while they turned aliens into goop. We weren’t really asked to care about them as people, and it was perfect. A decade after the wack sequel, the prospect of resurrecting the original’s scattershot whimsy is a welcome idea, especially given the setup, which involves Smith going back in time to prevent a gnarly alien biker (a snarling Jemaine Clement) from assassinating Jones’ younger self (Josh Brolin, doing a frighteningly accurate and hysterical impression of his No Country for Old Men co-star), all along encountering everything from racist cops to Apollo 11 and Andy Warhol. But hey, what about Smith’s daddy issues? Or Jones’ relationship with Agent O? Or the father-son relationship forged between Smith and Jones? An even better
question: Who gives a fuck about any of that? Director Barry Sonnenfeld does, and he lets it detract from the promising premise, wedging in forced emotion and pushing awesome Rick Baker-designed alien action to the background. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Indoor Twin, Movies On TV, Tigard.
Mind Zone: Therapists Behind the Front Lines
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ATTENDING] Since January, 154 active-duty American soldiers have committed suicide. That’s nearly one a day, the highest rate of self-inflicted casualty since the U.S. invaded Afghanistan over a decade ago. With suicide claiming 50 percent more lives than actual combat, American troops are facing the greatest threat from within their own minds as they grapple with the psychological effects of warfare. So what’s a military-industrial complex to do? In her pensive, stirring documentary, Portland State University professor and clinical psychologist Jan Haaken follows therapists in the Army’s 113th Combat Stress Control Detachment as they deal with the counterintuitive notion that their job is to care for soldiers’ mental wellbeing while simultaneously ensuring they remain on active duty, immersed in the same traumatic environment that’s causing the stress for which they’re being treated. For the most
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Katy Perry: Part of Me
A “documentary” on the Sesame Street-scandalizing pop-tart. Not screened for critics. Cedar Hills, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, Division, Tigard.
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. Forest Theatre, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, Movies On TV.
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 furniture business). But after the emotionally cold formal exercises of his last few films— including this year’s Haywire, a stylish action flick oddly dead behind its eyes—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. There’s only so much undulating man meat one can take before it all fades into a blur of pecs, cheeks and bulging thongs. Ladies, I suspect, will disagree. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Cornelius, Living Room Theaters, Oak Grove, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies On TV, Tigard.
MASKED RECKONING: Tom Hardy as Bane.
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES Holy inconvenient screening time! Inexplicably, the biggest movie of the year played for critics at 10 am on WW’s press day. We went to the screening anyway, of course, and hastily pecked out an immediate, unvarnished reaction. Look for a full review at wweek.com. Let’s keep this simple: The Dark Knight Rises is the best entry in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy. It’s tighter and better paced than its hyperbolically praised predecessor. It uses its actors better, including Christian Bale, who got shunted into the background of his own movie last time around. And it’s got one hell of a villain. Sorry, Heath Ledger doesn’t appear via hologram. But as Bane—a walking slab of concrete with Darth Vader’s voice box and the diction of Peter O’Toole—what Tom Hardy lacks in maniacal, tongue-smacking glee he makes up for in sheer, hulking physicality. He’s frightening just standing there. Oh, and despite the ongoing themes of pain and loss and a zeitgeist-y plot involving the 1 percent’s heavily armed chickens coming home to roost, this is the most fun of the three films. Really, what this relentlessly grim series needed was deputized orphans and a couple of Catwoman puns. Are you bummed to hear that Nolan’s Batman is, despite appearances, still a comic book franchise? In the words of somebody we used to know: Why so serious? PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. A SEE IT: The Dark Knight Rises opens Friday at Lloyd Center, 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, CineMagic, Cornelius, Lake Twin, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Roseway, St. Johns.
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tilayered 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. To be fair, the young lass at the film’s center is a piece of work. Her name is Princess Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald). She has eyes the color of the Tahitian ocean and a tangle of bright red curls erupting out of her head like magma from a porcelain volcano. Handy with a bow and arrow, she’s like Katniss Everdeen for the Dora the Explorer crowd. But in comparison to the movies of Pixar’s past, Brave feels stultifyingly simple. PG. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, Indoor Twin, Cedar Hills, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Movies On TV, Tigard.
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Monsieur Lazhar
B It was most startling image of this
year’s Portland International Film Festival: A boy peeks into his middle-school 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, writerdirector 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. PG13. 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. The director’s debt to Finnish colleague Aki Kaurismaki has never been more patent—Bruce Willis, Ed Norton, Frances McDormand and Bill Murray all have self-pitying stoicism down to a kind of kabuki. 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. “It’s hard,” Suzy whispers as Sam presses against her, after they’ve danced to Françoise Hardy like marooned Parisian mods. Indeed there is a core of toughminded wisdom in this movie’s treatment of sexual discovery—not leering, not dodging, but frankly enchanted. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Moreland Theatre, Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall.
MSG’s Peak of Excitement
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] A selection of comedic short films from Tim Wenzel spanning a decade-plus, culminating in a just-completed 30 minute video set to Wenzel’s music project, MSG. 9 pm Sunday, July 22. .
People vs. the State of Illusion
A docudrama produced by motivational speaker Austin Vickers, investigating reality and the power of perception. Clinton Street Theater. 6 and 8 pm Monday, July 23, through Wednesday, Aug. 1. No screening Sunday, July 29.
Piranha 3DD
In the trailer alone, you’ve got Christopher Lloyd wigging out, Ving Rhames shooting killer fish with his artificial legs, David Hasselhoff playing himself, “water-certified strippers” and a vagina piranha. Not screened for critics, but we don’t need to see the whole movie to recommend it. R. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas.
Possession
B+ [TWO NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] A
cousin to the icky brain-meets-body horror of early Cronenberg, 1981’s Possession depicts the psychological ravages of divorce with such disorienting intensity it makes the political and emotional trauma of A Separation look like a celebrity anullment. A young, wild-eyed Sam Neill plays Mark, a spy of some sort (the details of his occupation are vague) who returns home to Berlin after a job to find his wife, Anna (Isabelle Adjani), readying to leave him. The reins of reality loosen from there. Director Andrzej Zulawski keeps the camera circling around the disintegrating couple, conveying their growing shared madness by entrapping them in claustrophobic closeups. Neill is delightfully crazed, though he’s nearly outdone in that department by Heinz Bennent as Anna’s kung-fu fighting, motorcycle riding German lover. Both performances are so oddly histrionic they become unintentionally comedic. But Adjani legitimately disturbs. Screeching, crying and prone to hysterical fits, she’s like Shelley Duvall in The Shining channeling Diamanda Galas. In a remarkable scene in a subway station, Adjani whips herself into a convulsive ballet— in another setting, it would qualify as interpretive dance—before collapsing to the ground and kneeling in a froth of blood and other unidentified fluids. It’s bravely unhinged. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Hollywood Theatre. 9:30 pm Saturday-Sunday, July 21-22.
Prometheus
A- In Prometheus, Ridley Scott’s long-
anticipated return to the science-fiction genre, the director confronts a philosophical query that has dogged mankind since at least 1995: What if God were one of us? 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. The movie starts in a cave of forgotten dreams, and it’s worth wondering whether Scott took a tip from Werner Herzog’s documentary about the ancient pictograms of France’s Chauvet Cave, in which the German madman embraced 3-D as a way of crafting a more tactile viewing experience. With Prometheus, Scott folds in the technology with a similarly subtle hand. He uses it not to jab the audience in its nose, but to make palpable the wonder of discovering a new world, and the terror of actually exploring it. It’s a stunning, horrifying success. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Movies On TV.
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. It’s a genuine celebration of the big-glam ’80s, even though no one involved seems to have any recollection or knowledge of what that period was actually like. That’s OK, though. Somehow, a totally misremembered, idealized ode to an era defined by blatant inauthenticity feels appropriate. But oh, Christ, the music. It’s not really the songs themselves, bloated and pompous as they are. There’s just too many of them. Not two minutes go by without the screen erupting into a lavish performance number, giving the already thin story no chance to breathe and leaving the more dramatically talented members of the ensemble cast—Russell Brand, Paul Giamatti, a horribly bewigged Alec Baldwin, and an amusing Tom Cruise as Stacee Jaxx, the film’s resident decadent rock god—with little to do but primp, preen and, in the case of poor Bryan Cranston, get bent over a desk and spanked. They call these things “jukebox musicals,” but this is more like a six-disc Monsters of Rock
compilation come to life, with songs piling up one on top of another. By the time the camera pans over the “Hollywood” sign in the final moments, I prayed a plaid-patterned bomber would appear on the horizon and nuke the entire goddamned city. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Vancouver.
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 spacetime paradox: You can never go back, except when you can. This is the rare film where dialogue is natural; the major players gloss over their respective tales of love and loss, yet we know every detail through the kind of inference that makes us feel like a part of the conversation. Subtle, too, is what the film does with the source material—specifically, a line in the ad that reads “I’ve only done this once before.” Keep these words in mind. Without saying too much, I’d suggest they add a gratifying, if unspoken, subplot. 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 berserker 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. Cedar Hills, Forest Theatre, Living Room Theaters, Oak Grove, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Tigard.
Shut Up and Play the Hits
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Indie-music tastemaker and schlubby human chipmunk James Murphy prepares for LCD Soundsystem’s final show at Madison Square Garden. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 and 9:45 pm Wednesday, July 18.
Sunset Boulevard
[THREE NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] If you loved The Artist’s heartwarming tale of a silent film star’s rise, fall and redemption, then Billy Wilder’s classic story of fame’s irredeemable delusion will probably bum you out. You should probably see it anyway, though. 5th Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm FridaySaturday, 3 pm Sunday, July 20-22.
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 talking-bear 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 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, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies On TV, Tigard.
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part, Haaken deftly avoids using her film as a political vehicle. Instead, she takes a hard, honest look at therapists and soldiers alike slogging toward mental wellness in a world that inherently suppresses healthy emotional function. “Some of the best leaders get it,” explains Col. David Rabb, commander of the 113th, “that the soft stuff is the hard stuff.” EMILY JENSEN. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Thursday, July 19.
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CAPTURED BY PORCHES: Michelle Williams and Seth Rogen.
TAKE THIS WALTZ Take my marriage, please.
When last we saw Michelle Williams, she was impersonating Marilyn Monroe for an Oscar nomination. Now she returns to vivify Take This Waltz, a movie that is essentially a pensive, genderreversed The Seven Year Itch. Like that Billy Wilder comedy, this fraught romance from actress-turned-auteur Sarah Polley exists in a fevered state, an impossible dreamland where airlines provide gate-togate wheelchair service for anxious flyers, freelance writing affords a spacious garret, and young couples slow dance to Feist covering Leonard Cohen. This condition is also known as Canada. So Polley’s movie is unchecked by realism, and thank goodness: A new generation of actors needs big speeches and grand gestures to counter slovenly emotions and complicated defeats. Take This Waltz includes all these elements, but it’s a messy packing job. The Polleypenned dialogue heedlessly weaves until it lands meticulously on the nose. It’s a verbal field sobriety test. That electric unsteadiness begins when Williams’ heroine, Margot, repeatedly meets cute with Daniel (Luke Kirby), first at a historical reenactment, then in coach, and finally in a taxi’s back seat, where she confesses she’s married. Back home with her husband, chicken-cookbook author Lou (a splendidly grounded Seth Rogen), Margot engages in the same sort of impish flirtation, but with more baby noises and complacent wordplay. Take This Waltz is the first film I can think of that emerges from the Manic Pixie Dream Girl’s point of view. It is a roundly unsettling movie, because it portrays sexual chemistry as simultaneously irresistible and transitory—in short, cruel. Its visual motif is a camera swirling in helpless circles, making itself dizzy. This device is first deployed on a Toronto fun-park ride called the Scrambler, where Margot and Luke loop through strobe lights to the tune of the Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” before the attraction grinds to a halt. It returns for the movie’s most audacious sequence, a montage of erotic license set to Cohen’s titular song, until the coupling wears itself out. Polley’s movie has a self-excoriating subtext, like all the great breakup records we spin. There’s been a lot of cultural noise lately about whether derision toward entertainment aimed at the female libido—Fifty Shades of Grey, or the Twilight movies that inspired it—is just another mask for chauvinism. Well, maybe. But Take This Waltz, itself undeniably flawed, is a reminder that desire is a serious matter, volatile and consequential. And movies, those permanent time capsules for fleeting moments, exist to tell us this. Pictures came to break your heart. R. AARON MESH. A-
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To Rome With Love
C+ Woody Allen doesn’t owe anyone
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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—which jerk the film uncomfortably from farce to fantasy—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, Hollywood Theatre, Bridgeport, Fox Tower.
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Trishna
Turn Me On, Dammit!
A- I would love this to become
the Say Anything or Pump Up the Volume for a generation of young Norwegian teens raised on Internet pornography—never mind that all the film’s porn happens anachronistically on paper or over the phone. Even with its opening nubile masturbatory scene 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, outsider-coming-of-age story— albeit for a very horny 15-year-old girl (Alma, played with heartbreakingly tender naiveté by non-pro actress Helene Bergsholm). The bawdiness and awkwardness all read largely true until a too-pat ending more at home in the smooth-polished John Hughes ’80s than amid kids who spent the whole film cruelly appending a penis to the main character’s name. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Living Room Theaters.
We Grew Wings
[WEEKLY SERIES] A documentary on the historical impact of the 1985 national champion University of Oregon women’s track and field team. Hollywood Theatre. 7:15 pm Sunday, July 22.
Your Sister’s Sister
B Seattle director Lynn Shelton’s
two most recent films are uncomfortable silences that, viewed in
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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. R. AARON MESH. Fox Tower.
C+ Anyone who hasn’t read Thomas
Hardy’s 1891 novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles—myself included— will get sideswiped by Michael Winterbottom’s modern-day adaptation. Not because it engenders much awe, or because the setting swaps southwest England for India, but because for the first 105 minutes, the movie languishes in a state of stultifying inaction before swerving, jarringly, toward its tragic climax. It’s almost like a higher-brow version of Takashi Miike’s Audition, which deliberately lulls the viewer to sleep before taking a sharp left turn right off a cliff. Up until that moment, though, Trishna is the kind of sleepy, inert middlebrow fare that typically headlines the Portland International Film Festival, with nice location photography but little else. It does feature Slumdog Millionaire’s Freida Pinto in her most significant acting role yet, as the titular heroine, though it’s hard to tell if she’s playing it stoic or if her range is just that limited. Probably a bit of both. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters.
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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
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LONG MAY YOU RUN: Neil takes the wheel.
NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS Getting lost on the human highway.
Director Jonathan Demme has always been fascinated by how music affects a person. Think of the members of Talking Heads beaming with pure joy as they performed in the 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense, or the justly praised scene in the 1993 drama Philadelphia where Tom Hanks, shot in a tight closeup, loses himself in “La mamma morta,” an aria from the opera Andrea Chénier. Knowing this might help explain the decision by Demme and cinematographer Declan Quinn to keep so much of Neil Young Journeys focused on the titular singer-songwriter’s face. In capturing a solo concert Young performed in 2011 at Toronto’s Massey Hall, Demme and Quinn keep the camera close, letting the 66-yearold musician’s mug move in and out of the center of the frame. This shooting style gives you a chance to mull unabashedly over the jowls and stubble of Young’s face. More important, though, you get to appreciate how, even when performing “After the Gold Rush” or “Ohio”—songs he’s probably sung hundreds of times over—Young still loses himself within them. This is especially true of the extreme close-ups taken via a lipstick camera on the centerstage mic stand. It allows us to catch every sneer and smirk and, at one point, a bit of spittle right on the lens. When the focus isn’t on Young and his performance, Journeys feels lost. The film’s framing device, a car trip from Young’s hometown of Omemee, Ontario, to Massey Hall, with Young providing droll commentary from the behind the wheel, is quickly hurried through and fails to take off. Demme also can’t help showing his political hand by intercutting footage of the Kent State shootings during Young’s spirited rendition of “Ohio.” Even within the live footage, there’s a surprising restlessness to the film. Demme, a director whose best concert films (Stop Making Sense, Storefront Hitchcock) run solely on the energy coming from the people onstage, doesn’t seem to trust his subject enough here. Editor Glenn Allen abets this with quick jump cuts to overhead shots of Young onstage or footage of his tour bus idling outside the venue. But Demme is chief conspirator, wrangling in dizzying Super 8 shots of the audience and wobbly bits of hand-held work when simply keeping the focus on the man onstage would suffice. In spite of its title, Journeys works best when it remains still. PG. ROBERT HAM. C
SEE IT: Neil Young Journeys opens Friday at Fox Tower.
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FUN WITH FRANCOPHILIA: Amélie was once a charming little foreign film that had you longing for a simple life among long-faced Frogs who just wanted a little goddamn magic in their lives. You were transfixed by the romp’s quiet protagonist, whose cherry lips hung ever open with curiosity, her childlike mannerisms charming everyone she met. Even if you stopped following the subtitles, her porcelain skin danced against a palette of lime greens and fire-engine reds onscreen. As of late, though, you’ve been picking adorable little foreign films like Amélie to bits. You are so wary of vapid style, so eager to dismiss anything visually stimulating as the province of “hipsters,” that a film like Amélie feels cloying and twee. You need not travel to Montmartre to find whimsical characters with strange obsessions: That’s pretty much Portland. But there’s still beauty and wisdom here if you look for it—just keep reading those subtitles. CASEY JARMAN. Showing at: Academy. Best paired with: Miller High Life. Also showing: Hecklevision: Showgirls (Hollywood Theatre. 9:30 pm Friday, July 20).
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Acro-Yoga is a relatively new physical discipline. According to a description I read on a flyer in Santa Cruz, it “blends the spiritual wisdom of yoga, the loving kindness of massage, and the dynamic power of acrobatics.” I’d love to see you work on creating a comparable hybrid in the coming months, Aries -- some practice or system or approach that would allow you to weave together your various specialties into a synergetic whole. Start brainstorming about that impossible dream now, and soon it won’t seem so impossible. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Unless you grow your own or buy the heirloom variety at farmer’s markets, you probably eat a lot of tasteless tomatoes. Blame it on industrial-scale farming and supermarket chains. They’ve bred tomatoes to be homogenous and bland -- easy to ship and pretty to look at. But there’s a sign of hope: A team of scientists at the University of Florida is researching what makes tomatoes taste delicious, and is working to bring those types back into mainstream availability. I think the task you have ahead of you in the coming weeks is metaphorically similar, Taurus. You should see what you can to do restore lost flavor, color, and soulfulness. Opt for earthy idiosyncrasies over fake and boring perfection.
answers 63 Yaphet of “Alien” and “The Running Man” 64 Messes up 65 Alison of “Community” 66 Coffee stirrer 67 86,400 seconds 68 Do some door drama Down 1 Tetra- minus one 2 One billion years 3 11 years ago, in the credits 4 Where kings don’t rule 5 Opening for graph 6 Due to, in 7 It comes “after me,” in a Louis XV quote 8 What anchors face 9 Winchester product 10 Cop ___ 11 Hear (about) 12 More suitable for a film festival than the local multiplex, say 14 Thurman of “Bel Ami” 17 Jai ___ 21 Dir. opposite WSW 22 Foaming ___ mouth 23 Native Canadians 24 Caleb and John Dickson, for two 26 Be belligerent 28 Accounts head, for short 32 Without apologizing 34 They run with torches 35 New Zealand mystery writer Marsh 36 Indie band ___ and Sara 37 Heard tests 39 Shared, like a charac-
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Most change is slow and incremental. The shifts happen so gradually that they are barely noticeable while you’re living in the midst of them from day to day. Then there are those rare times when the way everything fits together mutates pretty quickly. Relationships that have been evolving in slow motion begin to speed up. Long-standing fixations melt away. Mystifying questions get clear answers. I think you’re at one of these junctures now, Cancerian. It’s not likely you’ll be too surprised by anything that happens, though. That’s because you’ve been tracking the energetic build-up for a while, and it will feel right and natural when the rapid ripening kicks in. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Lately you’ve been spending time in both the off-kilter parts of paradise and the enchanting areas of limbo. On one notable occasion, you even managed to be in both places simultaneously. How’d you do that? The results have been colorful but often paradoxical. What you don’t want and what you do want have gotten a bit mixed up. You have had to paw your way out of a dead-end confusion but have also been granted a sublime breakthrough. You explored a tunnel to nowhere but also visited a thrilling vista that provided you with some medicinal excitement. What will you do for an encore? Hopefully, nothing that complicated. I suggest you spend the next few days chilling out and taking inventory of all that’s changed. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The painter Philip Guston loved to express himself creatively. He said it helped him to get rid of his certainty, to divest himself of what he knew. By washing away the backlog of old ideas and familiar perspectives, he freed himself to see the world as brand new. In light of your current astrological omens, Virgo, Guston’s approach sounds like a good strategy for you to borrow. The next couple of weeks will be an excellent time to explore the pleasures of unlearning and deprogramming. You will thrive by discarding stale preconceptions, loosening the past’s hold on you, and clearing out room in your brain for fresh imaginings.
last week’s answers
Across 1 Worker from another company? 5 1/100th division: abbr. 8 Start of a refrain 13 Quarterback Tony who once dated Jessica Simpson 14 Bad thing to hear when remodeling 15 Deadly snake 16 He had the 1994 #1 hit “Here Comes the Hotstepper” 18 Key same as B 19 ___ vital 20 Vendors 22 Capital of Kofi Annan’s home country 25 Literary character who had a title “Prayer for” him 27 Totally sad 29 Away from the wind 30 Prefix meaning “times one trillion” 31 Poisonous fish 33 Sought out quickly 38 Emma Watson role in eight movies 41 City on the Ruhr 42 Filled with wonder 43 “Bad Romance” Lady 44 World Baseball Classic team 46 Kind of number 48 He played the bossy Stooge 53 Second largest city in France 54 Triangular houses 55 Checklist component 57 Hiccup, for instance 58 It may be involved in tallying the four theme
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It’ll be a humming, murmuring, whispering kind of week -- a time when the clues you need will most likely arrive via ripplings and rustlings and whirrings. Here’s the complication: Some of the people around you may be more attracted to clangs and bangs and jangles. They may imagine that the only information worth paying attention to is the stuff that’s loudest and strongest. But I hope you won’t be seduced by their attitudes. I trust you’ll resist the appeals of the showy noise. Be a subtlety specialist who loves nuance and undertones. Listen mysteriously.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Nineteenth-century author Charles Dickens wrote extensively about harsh social conditions. He specialized in depicting ugly realities about poverty, crime, and classism. Yet one
critic described him as a “genial and loving humorist” who showed that “even in dealing with the darkest scenes and the most degraded characters, genius could still be clean and mirth could be innocent.” I’m thinking that Dickens might be an inspirational role model for you in the coming weeks, Libra. It will be prime time for you to expose difficult truths and agitate for justice and speak up in behalf of those less fortunate than you. You’ll get best results by maintaining your equanimity and good cheer. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): For many years, ambergris was used as a prime ingredient in perfumes. And where does ambergris come from? It’s basically whale vomit. Sperm whales produce it in their gastrointestinal tracts to protect them from the sharp beaks of giant squid they’ve eaten, then spew it out of their mouths. With that as your model, Scorpio, I challenge you to convert an inelegant aspect of your life into a fine asset, even a beautiful blessing. I don’t expect you to accomplish this task overnight. But I do hope you will finish by May of 2013. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Interruption” will be a word of power for you in the coming days. No, really: I’m not being ironic, sarcastic, or satirical. It is possible that the interruptions will initially seem inconvenient or undesirable, but I bet you will eventually feel grateful for their intervention. They will knock you out of grooves you need to be knocked out of. They will compel you to pay attention to clues you’ve been neglecting. Don’t think of them as random acts of cosmic whimsy, but rather as divine strokes of luck that are meant to redirect your energy to where it should be. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You don’t have to stand in a provocative pose to be sexy. You don’t have to lick your lips or radiate a smoldering gaze or wear clothes that dramatically reveal your body’s most appealing qualities. You already know all that stuff, of course; in light of this week’s assignment, I just wanted to remind you. And what is that assignment? To be profoundly attractive and alluring without being obvious about it. With that as your strategy, you’ll draw to you the exact blessings and benefits you need. So do you have any brilliant notions about how to proceed? Here’s one idea: Be utterly at peace with who you really are. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I brazenly predict, my dear Aquarius, that in the next ten months you will fall in love with love more deeply than you have in over a decade. You will figure out a way to exorcise the demons that have haunted your relationship with romance, and you will enjoy some highly entertaining amorous interludes. The mysteries of intimacy will reveal new secrets to you, and you will have good reasons to redefine the meaning of “fun.” Is there any way these prophecies of mine could possibly fail to materialize? Yes, but only if you take yourself too seriously and insist on remaining attached to the old days and old ways. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Be alert for fake magic, and make yourself immune to its seductive appeal. Do not, under any circumstances, allow yourself to get snookered by sexy delusions, enticing hoaxes, or clever mirages. There will in fact be some real magic materializing in your vicinity, and if you hope to recognize it you must not be distracted by the counterfeit stuff. This is a demanding assignment, Pisces. You will have to be both skeptical and curious, both tough-minded and innocently receptive. Fortunately, the astrological omens suggest you now have an enhanced capacity to live on that edge.
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