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I think the R should stand for Resolutions [“A is for Adams,” WW, July 18, 2012]. Mayor [Sam] Adams sponsored a resolution declaring the city’s support for a U.S. constitutional amendment to establish that corporations are not people and that money does not equal speech. The resolution was passed unanimously by the Portland City Council last January. Then in June, Adams proposed a similar resolution to the U.S. Conference of Mayors that was also passed unanimously. These resolutions are essential in building support for a constitutional amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court has steadily wrecked our democracy with decisions bestowing constitutional rights on corporations and allowing unlimited spending to influence elections. The money pouring into the 2012 elections is obscene. Without a constitutional amendment, we will continue to be stuck with a corrupt and dysfunctional government that is incapable of solving any of this country’s growing problems. Therefore, we must start demanding that all elected officials and candidates are as committed to this issue as Adams has proven to be. Neil Johnson Northeast Portland
HALES’ CHANGE OF HEART
[Charlie] Hales is a true politician and bureaucrat [“Charlie’s Fee Fall,” WW, July 18, 2012]. He’ll say whatever it takes to get attention and votes, then do his own thing. Maybe that’s not a horrible thing, and maybe he would make a decent mayor, but I am sick of the same old political BS. [Jefferson] Smith at least seems to be true to what he says. He has reasons for his arguments that go beyond just getting votes. I’ll vote for someone telling me the truth over [someone] telling me what I want to hear every time. —“Marcus” LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include the author’s street address and phone number for verification. Letters must be 250 or fewer words. Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Fax: (503) 243-1115, Email: mzusman@wweek.com
(Author’s note: Final installment for “Oregon History Month.” By now, you should almost believe it’s real.)
says no. In this telling, our forebears were just trying to avoid the slave-state/free-state controversy that so paralyzed the nation in the years leading up to the Civil War. They figured (the story goes) that with the exclusion laws, they could sidestep all their racial problems by simply pretending there was no such thing as black people. (In so doing, they established a long-standing Oregon tradition, but I digress.) A major problem with this interpretation is the well-documented paranoia among settlers of the time about the prospect of free blacks joining forces with the local Native Americans to make war on Oregon’s whites. Given this, it seems more likely our ancestors heaped the injustice of exclusion atop their previous acts of enslavement and genocide to protect themselves from a maxim that holds true in any century: Payback’s a bitch.
You’ve gotta figure that any story about Oregon where Idaho is held up as a beacon of racial tolerance by comparison isn’t gonna be pretty. Beginning in the 1840s, territorial (and, later, state) officials instituted a series of “exclusion laws,” which made it illegal for blacks to settle, own property, or enter into contracts in Oregon. (Idaho couldn’t help, either, since it didn’t yet exist.) Were 19th-century Oregonians just dicks? It’s a tricky question. Recall that, at the time, pretty much all white people were dicks (not like now!), so the real question is not “Were they dicks?” but “Were they bigger dicks than anybody else?” The (ahem) whitewashed version of the story Willamette Week JULY 25, 2012 wweek.com
He is still the worst mayor of the last 35 years. —“Tony Columbo”
I think we will be hard-pressed to find a more engaged, competent and hardworking mayor as Sam Adams. Especially following “do-nothing” [Tom] Potter. Our current candidates can only hope to aspire to the level of work and commitment that Adams has set as his standard operating procedure for the past three years. —“Scott Osburne”
Was it once illegal to be AfricanAmerican in Oregon? I’ve heard that black travelers headed from California to British Columbia were forced to detour through Idaho. —Aaron F.
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Sam [Adams] was/is as savvy and intelligent and creative a mayor as you are going to find anywhere. He made some mistakes at the beginning of his term that cost him deeply and hampered his administration, but Portland is a better place as a result of his hard work. I think WW did a good job with this article, and I, for one, wish we could have gotten another four years’ worth of Sam Adams. —“Sean Cruz”
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Gunshots were fired at least 11 times in the last two months in the outer-eastside neighborhoods currently represented by state Rep. Jefferson Smith (D-Portland). “We need more police officers and more eyes on the street,” the mayoral candidate told the Portland Police Association in its endorsement questionnaire. Yet Smith has a clear record on guns: He’s for them.
Smith is, for example, the only member of the Portland legislative delegation supported by the Oregon Gun Owners Political Action Committee. That’s because he has voted in favor of the gun lobby repeatedly, including a bill to allow convicted felons to petition to regain their gun rights. As recently as March 2, Smith voted to exempt the names of those applying for and receiving concealed handgun licenses from public disclosure. The mass killing in Aurora, Colo., last week has rekindled the gun-control debate. Portland Green Party treasurer Seth Woolley says Smith’s gun votes are at odds with his calls for greater government transparency and his desire for safer streets. “Maybe he’ll change his mind if he’s elected mayor,” Woolley says. Not yet. Smith, though saying he is
“normally a supporter of gun control,” defends the vote in favor of sealing concealed handgun licenses. Disclosure creates “a shopping list for gun theft,” he says. “My record is my record,” Smith says. “I’m within the mainstream of Democrats in the Legislature.” To be sure, Smith is not the only mayoral candidate who’s taken contradictory positions. His opponent, Charlie Hales, recently flip-flopped on a proposal to give developers millions in fee waivers, and solicited big checks until the day he selfimposed contribution limits. But while Hales’ maneuvers may be in keeping with his self-image as a pragmatist, Smith’s inconsistencies fly in the face of his stump-speech persona as Portland’s liberal torchbearer. “We can elect a true, grassroots progressive, Jefferson Smith, as mayor of Portland,” his website says. The image is sticking. Polling before the May primary showed Smith to be the only candidate who won support merely for being “progressive.” He led among selfidentified liberals. The American Prospect, a national liberal magazine, called Smith “a mayor for the Occupy set.” “It is true,” Smith says, “that I’m the only lifelong Democrat in this race.” But Smith’s progressive reputation doesn’t always check out. In addition to his pro-gun stance, Smith has trumpeted his endorsement by the Portland Police Association, whose rhetoric often conflicts with Smith’s progressive pronouncements; he’s avoided the endorsement of the state’s leading reproductive-choice advocacy group; and he’s taken contradictory positions on Oregon’s potential role as a transshipper of fossil fuels. “This sounds like someone who was trying to triangulate and make Clintonesque political calculations about a future office,” says Jim Moore, a political-science professor at Pacific University. Smith says he defines being a progressive as “hard-minded and softhearted”— not as passing a series of litmus tests from lefty interest groups. He didn’t mind, however, taking the endorsement of the Portland Police Association—a union best known for aggressively defending officers accused of beating or killing minority and mentally ill Portlanders. Woolley says Smith’s embrace of the police union caused the Green Party to revoke its primary endorsement of Smith. Dan Handelman of Portland Copwatch says the police association is simply not progressive. “They are there to protect the 1 percent from the 99 percent,” he says. Smith says the cop union knows he won’t roll over on police-involved killings, and that he supports Mayor Sam Adams’ refusal to reinstate Officer Ron Frashour, who shot and killed an unarmed man, Aaron Campbell, in 2010.
This year, Smith called for a ban on proposed coal shipments through Portland. He explained his reasoning in a video titled “Coal Ain’t Cool.” “Not a whole lot of jobs or economic benefit from moving coal trains through our town,” he notes in the video, adding that selling a nonrenewable fossil fuel cheaply to foreign buyers is also a bad idea. But three years ago, Smith took the other side in another raging fossil-fuel controversy: Bradwood Landing, the site of a planned liquefied natural gas terminal on the lower Columbia River. Supporters of such projects wanted a so-called “LNG fast-track bill” that would speed the permitting of an LNG pipeline to Bradwood, even if landowners disagreed. Environmental groups termed LNG fast-tracking a major threat, much as they oppose the coal trains today. Smith—now opposed to coal for similar reasons—voted “yes” for the fast track. That bill was defeated. When the LNG issue came up again in 2011, Smith changed his vote, opposing an identical bill that passed anyway. Smith says he was misled by senior colleagues on the first bill, and changed his mind after learning more. Abortion is not an issue Portland’s next mayor is likely to confront. But in Salem, it is an ideological shibboleth. “I fully support a woman’s right to choose,” Smith tells WW. Yet in 2010, every Portland lawmaker got an endorsement from Planned Parenthood Advocates—except Smith. He did not get Planned Parenthood’s endorsement in 2008, either. Moore says that is surprising. “It makes very little sense to label yourself a progressive and not have that endorsement,” Moore says. Laura Terrill Patten, director of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon, says the reason Smith has not gotten her group’s nod is simple—in 2008, he did not fully fill out its questionnaire; in 2010, he did not seek the endorsement at all. Smith says he laid low in 2008 for competitive reasons. “The biggest risk in my district was a conservative Democrat who ran on an anti-choice, anti-immigrant platform,” he told WW via email in March. But Smith drew no opponent in either the primary or general election. In 2010, he says, he was too busy to complete the questionnaire. Roey Thorpe, former Planned Parenthood Advocates executive director, says the sticking point for Smith in 2008 was a commitment to mandatory sex education in public schools (even though Smith later voted for it). “When Planned Parenthood asked him to take a stand on very basic pro-choice issues, he didn’t do it,” Thorpe says. “He always voted the right way, but he was far from being a leader.” Willamette Week JULY 25, 2012 wweek.com
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The “Best of ” edition is a tired staple of the newspaper industry. Every year, alt-weeklies across the country, from The Athens News to the Wausau City Pages, anoint their city’s best happy hours and hair salons. Here’s an inside secret: These “Best ofs” are cheap to produce, journalistically challenged and about as alt as a Maroon 5 remix. This is not that “Best of.” Portland deserves better. A city that marches to the beat of its own homemade djembe doesn’t need the same list of best brunches and beers they’re doing in Fort Lauderdale and Indianapolis. You know this stuff already, and we have no interest in preaching to the choir. (Besides, we offer plenty of this information in Finder and our Restaurant and Drink guides.) Fact is, the best things in this city—the things that make Portland Portland—aren’t products and services. Instead, they’re things like losing yourself on a trek through an urban forest, finding a box full of poetry posted on a quiet neighborhood street, or an anonymous stranger constructing houses for feral cats under the Ross Island Bridge. So instead of asking our writers to nominate the city’s best bookstore (because, c’mon), we simply asked them to write about the people, places, stories and curiosities that make Portland the snowflake it is. Over the next 26 pages, you will not find the city’s best stylist, but you will meet Robert Ham’s 91-year-old barber (page 10). You won’t read about the city’s hottest new band, but you will read about music editor Casey Jarman’s favorite online punk-show calendar (page 22). We will not nominate the city’s best bar, but Aaron Mesh will blow the lid off his favorite bar mural east of 82nd Avenue (page 29). Here’s another inside secret: Most alt-weekly writers in other cities loathe writing their “Best of” edition. We love writing ours. RUTH BROWN.
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Thai Grilled Whole Fish with Coriander-Chili Sauce Prep and cook time25 minutes. Serves two.
Ingredients
• 1 small or medium-sized whole fish, gutted (e.g. trout, snapper, sea bass, sea perch, sea bream, or other white fish • sea salt • 2 limes (or 3-4 key limes) SAUCE: • 1/3 cup water • 1/2 Tbsp. tamarind paste (available at Indian/Asian stores) OR substitute 1 Tbsp. lime juice +1/2 tsp. dark soy sauce • 3 cloves garlic • 1 heaping tsp. brown sugar • 1 thumb-size piece galangal or ginger, peeled and sliced • 1 cup fresh coriander leaves and stems • 2 Tbsp. fish sauce • 1/2 red bell pepper, de-seeded and diced • 1-2 fresh red chilies, minced (de-seeded if you prefer less heat) • garnish: fresh coriander, sliced limes • optional garnish: slices of fresh cucumber and tomato • If Frying Fish: 1 cup canola or other vegetable oil for deep-frying
Preparation: Prepare fish by rinsing it, then patting it dry. Make 2-3 diagonal cuts into the side of the fish (with the blade of the knife on an angle facing the head). The cuts should be several inches apart (this will make the fish easier to eat and give it more flavor). Squeeze the juice of 1-2 limes over and inside fish. Sprinkle surface with sea salt and set aside while you prepare the sauce. Place water, tamarind (or lime juice + soy sauce), garlic, sugar, galangal (or ginger), coriander, chili, and fish sauce in a food processor. Process well (OR chop and mix by hand). Pour the sauce into a sauce pan. Add the diced pepper and simmer over medium-low heat for 5-8 minutes. Taste test the sauce for salt and soursweetness (note that it should taste tangy), adding more fish sauce if not salty enough, and more sugar if you find it too sour. Cover and keep warm while you cook the fish. Tip: the bell pepper should retain some of its crunchiness. Grill the fish on the barbecue or on a stove-top grill, or deep-fry it in a wok or large frying pan with 1 cup canola or other vegetable oil (oil should be at least 1 inch deep). Allow to fry about 5 minutes on each side, or until the flesh has browned and flakes easily. Fish Cooking Tip: Don’t flip the fish too early, or the skin will stick to the pan/ barbecue. Allow it to cook at least 2 minutes before turning (the natural oils of the fish will then come through and “unstick” it). To serve, plate the fish and pour the sauce over. Garnish with sprigs of fresh coriander and wedges of lime. Serve with plenty of Thai jasmine rice and enjoy with a cold lager or glass of white wine.
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TriMet driver Larry Porter was the most talkedabout man in the country for one night in May. On a Wednesday afternoon, Porter, 48, was about to begin his route when he saw a man by the side of the road beating a woman. He called 911, but for two minutes, he watched with growing anxiety. He yelled that the police were coming, but that just made the man punch harder. Feeling he had to do something, Porter pulled the bus over. At 5-foot-10 and over 300 pounds, he needed barely any effort to knock the man flat on his back. Then he easily pinned him down for the 20 minutes it took the police to arrive. The story made the night’s news and got syndicated across the country. Porter says friends called from out of town, but the attention became too intense for this accidental hero, and he and his wife had to leave town for a weekend. “It’s like I told my boss,” Porter said: “I’m not looking for a pat on the back.” ALEX TOMCHAK SCOTT.
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A few misconceptions exist regarding the power Thuyn Pham allegedly holds over reptiles. Among visitors to his store, Rose City Reptiles (3609 SE Division St.), the diminutive Vietnamese expat has earned a reputation as a kind of lizard whisperer. Pham laughs. “It looks like it’s true, but it’s not,” says the convivial, lightly whiskered 55-year-old, standing among the cages of snakes, frogs, spiders and other creatures that fill his tiny hole-in-the-wall on Southeast Division Street. To demonstrate, he reaches into a tank and gently lifts a small, bearded dragon into his palm. He flips the lizard upside down on the counter and gives its belly a rub. It immediately falls unconscious. As Pham explains, when placed on its back, the pressure on the critter’s brain causes it to pass out. It’s not meta-spiritual interspecies empathy; it’s simple biology. “We’ll just keep that whispering between you and me,” he says, letting out another amused chuckle. So he isn’t quite Dr. Dolittle. Still, when it comes to the animal kingdom’s scaly class, Pham knows his stuff. His interest developed at a young age. Growing up in Saigon, he would catch native snakes by scooping them up in a baseball cap. After the war ended in 1975, his family immigrated to Portland. He opened Rose City Reptiles at its original Lloyd Center location 14 years ago, moving to the Division neighborhood in 2002. Although he’s made a living helping newbies figure out which creepy-crawly thing is best for them—and, as a natural-born mischief maker, occasionally freaking them out by putting a live scorpion in his mouth— Pham doesn’t actually own any himself. It’s a matter of maintaining emotional distance. “You get attached to one animal or the other, and then it won’t stop,” Pham says. He admits that he’d eventually like a pet of his own, though. “I’m thinking about getting a dog.” MATTHEW SINGER.
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Dan Ross has been cutting hair for 35 years, but you need only look to the walls of his cluttered shop on Southeast Gladstone Street to know that, while barbering’s always been his job, it’s not his true vocation. There, enjoying pride of place between the mirror and the coat rack, hangs a platinum record: John Cougar Mellencamp’s 1983 Uh Huh, for which Ross wrote the song “Play Guitar.” Ask him how he came to write the song, though, and you won’t get much of an answer. “The usual way,” says the 60-year-old. “I got a pen, and some paper. I already knew how to play guitar. Then I sent out a lot of demos.” Ross’ musical career predates his work for Mellencamp. In the ’70s, he played guitar and pedal steel with the very talented but critically ignored prog-folk-rock band Sand, which included two future members of Quarterflash. Sand released two albums, both of which have since been re-released by itsaboutmusic.com. When Sand’s members went their separate ways, Ross moved to the East, where lived when he wrote the Mellencamp track. He eventually returned to the Northwest, running a barbershop in Oregon City for “a long-ass time.” In 2007, he opened Barber Dan’s Gladstone Street Barber Shop (3811 SE Gladstone St., barberdanportland.com), between Gladstone Pizza and the Gladstone Pub. (The Gladstone neighborhood is only two blocks long, but its citizens are fiercely patriotic.) He gives very good, if sometimes time-consuming, haircuts, and he charges just $14, which makes him a favorite of Reed students. “It’s the young people who keep small businesses going,” he says. Ross hasn’t let the years slow down his musical ambitions. It’s not uncommon to walk into the shop and find him playing guitar, and he treats his customers to an ongoing musicappreciation course: His regular stereo rotation includes Portuguese fado, old-school bluegrass and obscure Tom Waits recordings from the ’70s. He released a solo album, The Illusion, in 2010, and is working on another. But he doesn’t expect he’ll stop barbering any time soon. “John and me, we’re the same age,” Ross says. “But he’s got so much goddamn money it doesn’t bother him so much, and I’m still cutting hair.” BEN WATERHOUSE.
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Judge career coach Aubrie de Clerck, if you will, for a professional decision she made last year: After considerable success with her career coaching practice, Coaching for Clarity (coachingforclarity. net), she decided to apprentice with an astrologer. Now, as her clients ponder job changes, they can add their personal natal charts to the mix. “It gets to the heart of the matter really quickly,” says de Clerck, “more so than any other tool I have seen.” De Clerck had enjoyed a good reputation for her four years in the career-coaching community. Prior to that, she had gained street cred for her stint at Nike, working as project manager and business analyst, at one point heading up a company-wide survey (translated into seven languages) to gauge employees’ satisfaction with their work. De Clerck was fixated on the idea that people find purpose in day jobs. A couple years into her coaching practice, she began to give talks alongside Portland-based astrologer Emily Trinkaus, where they discussed planetary transits in relation to the job search. Trinkaus encouraged de Clerck to add astrology to the coaching practice. It was a bold move. Both career coaching and astrology have a bad rap for vagueness, but in de Clerck’s hands, the approach comes across as oddly scientific. A natal chart is an incredibly complex combination of signs, nodes and planets, all angled off to each other, unique to a person’s moment of birth; when a natal chart is laid over the current shifts of the planets, there’s meaning. Dense, nuanced meaning. Meaning you’re better off hiring a professional to sort through. Not convinced? De Clerck points out that, broadly speaking, we’re all experiencing Pluto (the shadowy planet of death and rebirth) and its presence in Capricorn (the sign of business and economy, among other things). Pluto brings days of reckoning. Since it’s in Capricorn, that means we might suddenly recognize, oh, entire economic systems that are faulty or doomed. We might experience some financial upsets here and there—on a personal level, perhaps, and worldwide. Luckily, this should only last for the next 16 years or so. And it’s a little bit different for everyone. SAUNDRA SORENSON.
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In the arts world, big stars and splashy productions tend to take the spotlight, but a lot of important work happens behind the scenes. For the last 16 years, George Thorn has been quietly but tenaciously working under the radar to help Portland’s leading arts organizations hit their strides, grow and thrive. Formerly a New York City-based theater producer, Thorn moved to Portland in 1996 and began counseling arts professionals through Arts Action Research (artsaction.com), a consulting business he runs with business partner Nello McDaniel. Thorn works mostly with small and medium-sized nonprofits across the gamut of visual arts, dance, theater and music. In all, he has helped more than 100 organizations, largely through an ongoing relationship with the Regional Arts and Culture Council. He doesn’t get involved in programming decisions, instead offering expertise in the less glamorous but equally vital matters that keep arts groups afloat: strategic planning, fundraising, and wrangling boards of directors. It’s a challenging job, but it’s also a labor of love and longstanding civic commitment; Thorn and his wife, Nancy, a former Broadway dancer and choreographer, were founding board members of the dance troupe White Bird, where they continue to serve as vice presidents. At 76, this savvy, articulate dynamo shows no signs of slowing down, with a roster of 20 active projects, among them Rock ’n’ Roll Camp for Girls, Fear No Music, Triangle Productions, 45th Parallel, Shaking the Tree and Jewish Theatre Collaborative. With all of the outfits he advises, Thorn’s dual mission to help organizations stay within their budgets and to encourage younger arts lovers to support the arts as older philanthropists fade away. “The ecology of arts and culture here is diverse, complex, and expanding,” Thorn observes. “The question is, how do we recognize, support, and celebrate that expansion? It’s not just a matter of money.” Portland’s art scene, he believes, could learn a thing or two from its culinary scene. “As a city, we take great pride in our restaurants, food carts, farmers markets, wineries, and breweries.... If we had the same pride in our arts and culture, we would be better able to build long-term support for this terrific community.” RICHARD SPEER.
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When Rev. C.E. Linville noticed people praying outside his 1987 Toyota Tercell, he assumed they were worshipping false idols. Turns out, they were actually praying for his very soul, which was sentenced, apparently, to eternal damnation, as the Tercell driven by the 60-year-old retired mail carrier is covered with assholes. Photos of dog anuses line the Tercell, with a statuesque canine posterior jutting from the hood of the car like a hotrod scoop. The onlookers sought to save Chuck, as his friends call him, from a fiery eternity. He thanked his saviors, offered his own blessing (he is, after all, a minister), and went about his business—until the cops stopped him, responding to a call from the same folks who sought to save him. The “Ass Car” is one of four art autos outside the Portland Cacophony Society co-founder’s green-andpurple-striped home in a pristine Sellwood neighborhood, where his front yard is a museum of oddball art including statues, zombie ephemera and a vintage metal detector. One car, a 1973 Torino, is covered in rusted figurines and features a gun barrel sticking out of the grill. In the street is another soul sucker: a yellow-and-blue Chevy Kingswood Impala wagon sporting flames on the side and a psychotic, red-eyed Jesus issuing a warning to tailgaters in the back. The interior is filled with baby dolls in horrifying positions made more horrifying by a PA blaring such phrases as, “Hey kids, your mom told me to pick you up.” On the side is an homage: the logo “Reverend Bill’s Vacation Bible Camp” and a photo of Bill himself…Chuck’s deceased Labrador, which was also ordained and helped Chuck perform weddings. Oh yeah, this man does weddings. In 10 minutes or less. In his yard. Often holding a shotgun. Get three weddings, and the fourth is free. Naturally, all this crazy draws attention to Chuck, whose investigation by the U.S. Postal Service at SantaCon’s inception was made famous by Chuck Palahniuk. He’s been pulled over and accused of road rage and smoking crack with children. Real-estate agents claim his home hurts potential sales in the neighborhood. But one quick exchange with the Rev, and all you can really call him is a sweet, Zen-calm, gentle dude who just happens to be one of the weirdest motherfuckers you’ve ever met. “People will say, ‘The devil lives in that car,’ or, ‘The devil lives in that house.’ The mailman tells people I’m harmless. I say, ‘Don’t tell them that,’” he says, chortling beneath his Stan Lee glasses. “I have a lot more fun getting harassed.” AP KRYZA.
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Some of the best patches of Portland flora are the random, less-manicured areas that make unsightly places a little easier to look at. On the corner of Northeast Oregon Street and North Interstate Avenue—nestled in between the Steel Bridge, the Rose Garden, an I-5 overpass, a U-Park lot and a ridiculously huge banner of LaMarcus Aldridge—lives a blossoming cluster of flowers brimming with oranges, pinks, purples and reds. Walk to the center of it and the freeway ruckus silences, Aldridge’s ginormous eyes vanish, and your mind floats away to a field of wild poppies, calendulas and bachelor’s buttons (yes, it’s a kind of flower). The daydream may only last a second, as a honking horn will probably scare the piss out of you and snap you back to the reality of crowded roads and bike paths. But that fleeting great-wide-open feeling gives fresh life to the typical hustle and bustle of the city. EMILEE BOOHER.
Barometer of the Real Estate Market
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When the Bitar Mansion (3316 SE Ankeny St.) sold in November 2006 for $1.825 million, it was the highest-priced home ever sold in Southeast Portland, but at that time, a screaming bargain relative to the market value the Multnomah County assessor placed on it that year—$3.99 million. Boy, did times change. The purchaser of the house, a former home-builder named Peter Fournier, hit hard times and made enemies in the neighborhood. The house slid into foreclosure, and what was once a one-of-a kind showplace and the unofficial Lebanese consulate in Portland was an abandoned wreck with waist-high grass and homeless folks sleeping in the driveway. Then on Dec. 29, 2011, a new buyer swooped in and bought the 10,000-square-foot, 17-room house that sits on the equivalent of seven standard residential lots for $870,000. (An attorney for the new buyers, who hid their identities by using a limited liability company, declined to comment or make her clients available for an interview.) Since then, the new owner has begun a painstaking and pricey-looking renovation, including cleaning and replacing hundreds of terra cotta roofing tiles, that’s putting smiles on neighbors’ faces and returning the Bitar Mansion to its original grandeur. Just as the 2006 transaction signaled a market top, the rapidly shrinking number of homes for sale in Portland may mean the December sale of the Laurelhurst landmark was the market bottom. NIGEL JAQUISS. COURTESY OF THE DAN VOLKMER TEAM
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Act of Grief
When Beastie Boy Adam Yauch—aka MCA—died in May, it surprised Portland dad James Winters just how much the loss hurt him. “It literally is like my big brother dying,” he says. Winters met Yauch only once, by chance, 20 years ago, leaving him so “blown away” he can barely remember any of it. But the group’s music had a much deeper effect on him and his wife, Kjirsten, 39. “[Their music is] kind of the soundtrack of my life,” Kjirsten says. To work through their grief, the couple conceived a weird and madcap tribute: A remake of the music video for the Beastie Boys’ 1994 single “Sabotage,” starring their two sons, Ezra, 7, and Ivan, 4, and nephew Indiana, 8. In the video, the rappers play actors in the opening sequence of a fictitious 1970s cop drama, skittering after criminals in over-the-top suits. “Just wrangling the talent was difficult,” Kjirsten says. “[Usually,] they are not allowed to climb on my car, we don’t really feed them doughnuts, and they’re not allowed to play with guns.” But they somehow got the restless boys through and got the video online on a Sunday. On Thursday Winters noticed—with dread—that it had gone viral. “It involved our children,” James says. “All of a sudden they’re everywhere, and their faces are everywhere. You weren’t intending that and you don’t know where it’s going, so it made me a little nervous.” But so far, everything has worked out. The clip was screened at the Seattle International Film Festival in June, as well as several MCA tribute nights in Portland. Now reporters as far away as São Paulo are calling for interviews, and the family received a hand-written letter from the Beastie Boys’ management. “Even though we’re heartbroken...I’m happy the world is really showing that they care,” Winters says. ALEX TOMCHAK SCOTT.
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The website for online used-vinyl emporium Records By Mail (recordsbymail.com) is daunting enough. But try visiting its storeroom, situated in a small complex in Northwest Portland between a zinc smelter and a wine tasting room. Twelve-foot-tall metal shelving groans under the weight of a dizzying number of 45s and LPs—at least a couple of million, owner Craig Moerer estimates—with the business’s few employees wandering the stacks to pull items for shipping and to cast slightly suspicious looks at a visiting reporter. “People ask me all the time if we have such-and-such a record,” says Moerer, who goes on record-sourcing trips several times a year, most recently to Brazil. He gestures at the room filled with the stock that hasn’t been added to his database. “I tell them if you can’t find it on the website, chances are it’s in there somewhere.” Not that he allows folks to just come in and browse the stacks, mind you. Instead, collectors can come search for a needed piece on an in-house computer. Or just do it the old-fashioned way and order it online. ROBERT HAM.
The delivery comes a few minutes into the show: green plant matter, stuffed into an old bread baggie. Finally, it seems, KBOO’s weekly Grateful Dead and Friends show is about to get truckin’. Except the baggie contains garlic scapes, tender stalks trimmed so the pungent plants can put their power into building bigger bulbs. “They won’t turn you on,” jokes the woman who hands them to host Andrew Geller. Geller doesn’t seem to mind—he’s got his hands full, reading from a meticulously researched and liberally highlighted script as he explains the context of each track from a little-known Bay Area band called the Great Society. If you figured this show would be recorded in a smoke-filled studio by a bunch of Deadheads content to spin the B-side of Shakedown Street as they debate the merits of lyricists John Perry Barlow (Weir’s man) and Robert Hunter (Jerry’s go-to guy), you figured wrong. Actually, for Geller, whose day job is heading KBOO’s fundraising efforts, his monthly turn as the volunteer host is a chance to do some serious scholarship on the Dead and their contemporaries. Geller, 41, saw the Dead “70 or so times, starting at 17—but it should have been younger.” He started trading tapes back when making a deal for 10 cassettes meant you were set. Now, you could replicate his collection of 1,500 shows in an afternoon. So his show—KBOO has had a Dead show for at least 20 years and no one remembers when it switched from syndicated to local—has delved even deeper. Following the Saturday bluegrass show, it’s the perfect soundtrack to a Saturday afternoon, a great blend of music and history. The first hour of this show goes to the Great Society— originally “The Great! Society” Geller explains—best known as Grace Slick’s first band. The Society never released a proper record, but Geller has listened to everything the band recorded, including early versions of “White Rabbit” and “Somebody to Love” (they called it “Someone to Love,” he points out), to put together this program. The listeners are digging it, judging by the incoming calls. “That guy used to play with Darby Slick,” he says, expecting instant recognition of the brother of Grace Slick’s first husband, Jerry, a guitarist. “It’s like, no shit, really? Far out!” MARTIN CIZMAR.
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The universe of talk-radio hosts is peopled by some of the most ill-informed and unpleasant scolds anywhere. So it’s Portland’s amazing good fortune to have Carl Wolfson (“Carl in the Morning,” KPOJ 620-AM, 6-9 am weekdays). For starters, he’s actually funny. But that’s to be expected, as Wolfson moonlights as a stand-up comedian. What sets him apart, way apart, are two qualities you’d ordinarily expect from your fellow human, but practically never encounter on the AM dial. First, Wolfson does his homework—day in and day out. If he’s interviewing the author of a book, he’s read at least a good chunk of it the night before and is well-versed in relevant material. If it’s the director of a play, he’s been to the theater. And if it’s a politician (Wolfson shines during election season), no matter what the ballot measure or candidate, he’s grounded in what the race is about. Second, Wolfson is respectful. Guests don’t feel dirty or abused after he’s interviewed them—though the questions they’re asked are anything but softballs. And he’s got those great commercials from Tom Dwyer to back him up. RICHARD MEEKER.
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It doesn’t have any deep soul cuts. It contains no obscure postpunk 7-inches. It can’t even play you the ubiquitous Top 40 pop hits of the moment. But the jukebox at Sloan’s Tavern (36 N Russell St.), the curious Boise-Eliot bar identified by the semitruck cab jutting out from its side, has something no other coin-operated music player in Portland can claim: a full band. Somewhere along the line in the tavern’s 30-year existence, the owners purchased an original Chicago Coin’s Big Box, manufactured in the 1950s and featuring a tiny, animatronic eight-piece orchestra. Drop in a quarter, pick out classic country 45s (or the lone Michael Bolton record, if that’s your thing) and the band, complete with singer, sways mesmerically to the rhythm. According to the company’s website, it’s one of only 10 still displayed and fully operational in the United States. Completing a décor which, with the exception of the high-def flat screen hanging over the bar, hasn’t changed since the Carter administration, it’s a perfect complement to Portland’s most mercurial watering hole. MATTHEW SINGER.
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Musical Time Machine
Portland’s Mississippi Records (5202 N Albina Ave., 282-2990, littleaxerecords.com) has quietly become one of the most important record stores and labels in the country. For the better part of a decade, owner Eric Isaacson (along with record trader Warren Hill in Montreal) has been mining the lost back channels and cul-de-sacs of music to reissue some of the most beautiful (and otherwise unfindable) music ever put to vinyl, and putting it back on vinyl. In the tradition of Moe Asch’s old Folkways label, it is an idiosyncratic project subject only to the benevolent whims of its owners. The store doesn’t have a computer, and the label’s records all sell for $10 and under. Legendary Portland rockers Dead Moon and folk singer Michael Hurley have been re-issued here, but Mississippi’s current in-print stock also includes a third pressing of one-man-band and troubadour Abner Jay, 1920s Greek singer Marika Papagika, Alan Lomax’s recordings of bluesman Fred McDowell, soul and gospel compilations, and collected music from Madagascar. A tip? Buy blindfolded. Run your hands over the record like old Blind Lemon, and get whichever one feels true. You’ll be right every time. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
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The best place to find concerts online in Portland isn’t via Willamette Week, The Portland Mercury, Portland Monthly or The Oregonian. The easiest, smoothest online show calendar in Portland is PC-PDX.com, an ad-free, mobile-friendly, minimally designed concert calendar run by Portland’s show-going community (PC-PDX means “punk connection Portland,” but anyone can post a show). The site plays host to message boards and serves as the city’s best source for finding underground, out-of-the-way concerts. While PC-PDX doesn’t have as many shows per week listed as some other sites, it does have an active user base that contributes—and edits the wiki-style site—regularly. The site often lists shows you can’t find anywhere else. “It is community-driven,” says founder Damian Vander Wilt, who has never made a dollar off the 5-yearold site. “People definitely know what they want the site to be, and that is something that isn’t polluted with egos and advertisements for Jägermeister or gross energy drinks.” CASEY JARMAN.
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Fantasy Espresso Machine
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How do you make a coffee shop stand out in a city full of them? Connect it to a motorcycle shop. Even better: custom-paint your espresso machine to resemble the colorful spawn of Lord of the Rings and a 1980s Heavy Metal magazine layout. That’s exactly what Thor Drake and his business partner, George Kassapakis, did at SeeSee Motor Coffee Co. (1642 NE Sandy Blvd., seeseemotorcycles.com). The original idea called for princesses and unicorns, but later became wizards, dragons and a flying 1980s Pontiac Firebird. When they were coming up with plans for the coffee shop addition to their motorcycle shop (something to keep them busy most the year when people can’t ride) Drake’s girlfriend proposed painting the espresso machine. The Linea espresso machine was given to Jason Prouty at Garage 31 Airbrush Studio on a Friday and came back the following Tuesday, freshly painted and easily the coolest and most original espresso machine in Portland. CODY NEWTON.
Reason to Drink More Coffee
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Portland is hardly a city in need of more coffee roasters, but we’re willing to make an exception for this one: Happy Cup Coffee ( happycup.com). The small Northeast Portland coffee-roasting venture stems from Full Life, a local nonprofit that provides employment and recreational opportunities for people with disabilities. The main goal in establishing Happy Cup was to create jobs for Full Life participants, who are part of a demographic for which finding employment is extremely difficult. “We figured if the jobs aren’t out there, let’s make our own and start teaching skills that are transferable,” says operations director Adam Bray. Employees not only learn production skills, but also basic communications and sales skills. After opening last November, Happy Cup currently employs about 15 workers and distributes its beans through local retailers such as New Seasons and Whole Foods, as well as a few small coffee shops. But hopes for expansion are high. And, even better, the coffee is quite tasty. EMILEE BOOHER. 24
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Hyperlocal Bread
As recently as 30 years ago, farmers in the fertile Willamette Valley produced half of what locals ate. Globalization changed that, as farmers switched to more profitable grass seed. But without new McMansion lawns to seed, more Oregon farmers are again growing something useful. NatureBake’s Oregon Grains bread (naturebake.com) is the flavor of that change, sliced for sandwiches. Inspired by an Oregonian columnist who complained she couldn’t find any bread to eat on her 100-mile diet, NatureBake’s young CEO, Shobi Dahl (nephew to Dave Dahl of Dave’s Killer Bread), decided to ask local farmers what they could grow. “Flax, red oats, wheat,” they told him. “Perfect,” he said. “That’s a loaf of bread.” A full 95 percent of the ingredients in Oregon Grains—everything but the gluten, yeast and salt— come from within 100 miles of the company’s Milwaukie plant. It’s a good loaf, too—very similar to Dave’s Killer Bread, and much tastier than any grass seed. MARTIN CIZMAR.
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Drinkable Dirt
So many things people think keep Portland weird are not actually weird. Even the phrase “Keep Portland Weird,” which was actually borrowed from Austin and is also used by the aspiring weirdo-meccas of Boulder, Santa Cruz and (improbably) Louisville, Ky. But Bula Kava House (3115 SE Division St., bulakavahouse.com) is genuinely weird. Not only because it’s the only kava bar within 1,000 miles, but because drinking an exotic intoxicant that tastes a lot like dirt is incontestably weird by any national standard. Kava is a mildly intoxicating beverage made from a Polynesian pepper plant. It gently numbs your mouth and provides a onetoke buzz that’ll make you chatty and, later, sleepy. Bula Kava House is a warm and friendly place to sit, sipping the stuff from a coconut shell cup and munching on island-y foods, many of which involve macadamia nuts. Again, don’t expect it to be tasty, but do expect it to be genuinely weird. MARTIN CIZMAR.
John Dovydenas in his self-made food cart
Hand-Made Food Cart
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If someone ever does Extreme Makeover: Food Cart Edition, they should talk to John Dovydenas. His cart-made sandwiches are great, but that’s not what makes his business special: it’s the 2½ years he spent meticulously building his cart, Picnic (1930 NE Everett St.), from scratch. Dovydenas documented the entire process on his blog, pdxpicnic.com, describing everything from the three days he spent making steel fastening brackets for the window shutters, sawing individual wooden letters for the signage (twice; he changed the font from Helvetica to Georgia and did it all over again), to installing the septic tank, in meticulous detail. The results are worth it: in a city full of sloppily painted trailers and shanty shacks, Dovydenas’s gorgeous turquoise-striped timber hut stands out as a real work of architecture. The DIY ethos extends to the menu as well: the honey comes from his backyard beehive, bacon is smoked in-cart, and he makes his own bread fresh every day. “I want to have a connection to everything,” he says. KIMBERLY HURSH.
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For only 25 cents, Belmont’s idyllic retro soda shop, Cosmic ( formerly Fizz; 817 SE 34th Ave., fizzportland. com), will add one-fourth of a teaspoon of “phosphates” to one of its many uniquely flavored sodas. The addition turns up the sour on an already delicious drink, magically enhancing all that it touches—everything on the menu, from a black cherry soda to a sarsaparilla float, tastes better. Despite the name, Cosmic uses citric acid (that’s the stuff coating the outside of Sour Patch Kids) rather than the phosphoric acid used in phosphate drinks when they were popular at soda fountains in the 1950s, though as your dentist will tell you, both are pretty terrible for your teeth. Maybe it’s all in my head, but I swear I can feel the enamel being stripped from my white-and-pearlies when I suck down a phosphate soda here. But let’s be honest: there isn’t a single sugar-loaded item in this shop that won’t lead to denture cream. Some just lead there faster than others. KIMBERLY HURSH.
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So your tech company works out of a refurbished factory with sky-high ceilings, polished concrete and an XBOX 360? Urban Airship and Emma ain’t got nothing on Cascade Web Development (2301 SE Water Ave., cascadewebdev.com). Ben McKinley, who founded Cascade in 2001, had joked with his wife about building a “kickass tree house” in the backyard to use as an office. The tree house never happened, but three years ago he moved his business into an old 1930s railcar, still on tracks in a gravel field on Portland’s inner east side near OMSI. If it were a character on Thomas and Friends, they say its name would be “Skookum.” The railcar was purchased and renovated 10 years ago by Ted Anderson, owner of a few Hertz Rent-a-Cars in Oregon. It has a beige and forest-green exterior, with a strip of wood paneling inside. It’s simple but elegant, and retains most of the original look. Cacade’s decision to move its shop into an old railcar came with some risk. “We could either re-up at the Ford Building, or put ourselves in a space unique enough to be a differentiator,” says McKinley. But the risk paid off, as his company is now known as the “railcar guys.” The railcar keeps the workplace interesting, not to mention serving as a great icebreaker for new clients. And, as McKinley points out, “there isn’t a lot of commercial tree house space in downtown Portland.” CODY NEWTON.
Panoramic photos are nothing new. But SpinCam (spincam.net), a free iPhone app by local augmented-reality shop Spot Metrix, is not like any panoramic image you’ve ever seen. The user turns in a circle, capturing a seamless 360-degree image, which other viewers can explore by “spinning ” the image with their finger. It’s surprisingly addictive, racking up a quarter of a million downloads in its first week. Fire up the app to spin around a political rally in Mexico, a coastline in Italy or a train station in Germany. Why is it different from just spinning in a circle and recording a video? It just is. Or, as Spot Metrix co-founder Josh Aller explains: “There is a ‘visceral threshold’ for the subconscious to accept an experience as natural. By scrubbing video, you don’t get a sufficiently tight connection to physical orientation.... [We] fool the brain into seeing the spin as directly controlled.” Yeah, what he said. RUTH BROWN.
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It’s buried about three pages deep within the Multnomah County Library website (multcolib. org), but it’s worth digging out: Any library member can download one MP3 a week—for keeps—from Freegal , an online music depository of Sony Music Entertainment’s catalog. From Lil Wayne to Sigur Rós, the choices are surprisingly extensive. For the least fortunate in our society, pirating music often isn’t even an option. Freegal affords every Portlander their God-given right to own a personal copy of One Direction’s “What Makes You Beautiful.” RUTH BROWN.
Tweeting Animals
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How difficult it is to resist the imploring face of @GeorgeBaileyDog, the Twitter presence of George Bailey, the puggle owned by mayoral candidate Rep. Jefferson Smith. (Sample tweet: “Was getting neutered supposed to stop my humping all my stuffed animals habit? Because it hasn’t.”) But Smith’s puppy is merely Portland’s second-most-followed political animal. The top prize goes to @ LunatheLamprey, an avatar for all Pacific lamprey struggling through the Columbia River dams to reach their spawning grounds. Luna is the brainchild of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employee Sean Connolly, who is trying to raise awareness of declining populations of jawless eels. (Sample tweet: “I’m sad. Louie is dead! He was swept away after repeated tries to naviagate [sic] through John Day Dam’s fish ladder.”) Luna would probably terrify George Bailey, but their tweets express the same fundamental yearning. They just wanna breed. AARON MESH.
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Hosting an online talk show on a bicycle may be the most normal thing Boaz Frankel has ever done. He holds the Guinness World Record for the “most high-fives in an hour” (408), curates a kazoo museum in South Carolina and recently made a documentarymusical about a near-extinct beetle in Lincoln, Neb. He got his start on the small screen in college television, hosting late-night talk shows On the Cusp and Clips & Quips, then, in 2009, he did a series for Halogen TV called The Un-Road Trip, where he traveled across the country using every mode of transportation except gas-powered cars: motorbikes, paragliders, crop dusters, camels, Segways, paddle boats. Now he just rides around Portland—well, his Pedal Powered Talk Show (pedaltalkshow.com) co-creator, Phillip Ross, rides; Frankel sits in front inside a carrier-turned-desk mounted onto the front of a cargo bike. The idea for the show came about a year ago when Frankel, who looks like a young Ira Glass, decided that all the satellites and equipment on the top of news vans weren’t necessary these days. “You can do so much more with so much less,” Frankel says, which was his inspiration when he took Ross aside and said, “we should do a talk show on a bike.” Ross co-owns Metrofiets Cargo Bikes, and teamed up with Bamboo Craftsman to build the 100-pound bike. Keen footwear paid the bill. Keen had helped Frankel sponsor The Un-Road Trip, so he went back to them, and when they asked what he was working on, he simply said, “Oh, I have this bike talk show.” Out came $3,000, and the rest is history. Well, not quite yet. The show is only in its first season, and although it’s had decent success in securing guests like Daniel Baldwin, Blitzen Trapper and graphic novelist Craig Thompson for its seven-minute clips, Frankel says it’s still building a reputation. The platform also seems to confuse people. “Agents are like, ‘So it’s a radio show?’” Frankel says, “No. ‘Then where do you shoot?’” To which Frankel explains they can shoot anywhere. “They want to do it in their hotel bathroom? Done. The acoustics would be great.” CODY NEWTON.
On an abnormally sunny April weekend, 17 teams of fledgling tech startup founders spent 54 hours inside Portland State University brainstorming, coding and hustling to launch their next great tech idea as part of Portland Startup Weekend. When the teams stood up to pitch their products to a panel of judges on Sunday evening, it was a Pinterest shopping plugin that won the top prize. But on Twitter, the buzz was all about another name: Jackson Gariety, a 15-year-old Web developer and the co-founder of startup HashTraffic, who won the crowd over and took home awards for audience favorite, best execution and best developer. “People just went wild; we got a standing ovation,” says Gariety, a skinny, bespectacled kid in an oversized hoodie who barely seems 15—until he starts talking—and strikes me as a cross between Max Fischer in Rushmore and John Connor in Terminator 2. “I think my age played a part—people were totally impressed by that.” A sophomore at Grant High School, Gariety is already a seasoned hand in the industry. He began learning to code five years ago, and has been earning money as a freelance Web developer for two years. “Conflicts come up,” Gariety says of his dual life. “Clients expect to be able to call me and say ‘Hey, this isn’t working,’ but I’m in class.” Earlier this year, Gariety co-founded HashTraffic—a tool that adds Twitter-style hashtags to weblogs—with tennis buddy, developer (and adult) Brian Hendrickson. Now his focus has shifted more toward the business side of the tech industry. He says he would rather spend this summer in a startup accelerator than doing an internship. “I’m totally into startups,” he says. “Six months ago, I would have said, ‘I want to go work for Twitter or Facebook.’ Now, no, I want to run my own company.” RUTH BROWN.
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Though best known for ugly shopping centers, house boats and one of the Portland area’s three Hooters franchises, Jantzen Beach is also home to a delightful string of a dozen businesses fast becoming known by locals as “Li’l Vegas Strip.” Sorry, that’s wrong. The stretch has actually been dubbed “Lottery Row.” Good things come in strips: comic strip, strip tease, Li’l Vegas Strip. Bad things come in rows: skid row, death row, Lottery Row. The strip-mall-style block has been heavily criticized by neighborhood activists and the Portland Tribune, which has reported that some area business owners split their establishments in half to double the number of lottery machines they can have on site, from six to 12 (business owners can make between 11 percent and 27.5 percent of the revenue from video-poker machines depending on sales). My recent Sunday-afternoon visit to Hayden Island’s much-maligned cluster of micro-bars, most of which sport ultra-tinted windows and neon signs, evoked the exact same set of feelings, in the exact same order, as Las Vegas always does: First the excitement, then the sadness, and finally a deep spiritual void. Yup, Li’l Vegas Strip is a good name for this place. At Cafe del Toro—a dimly lit and cavelike establishment where caricatures of regular customers clutter the walls—I was met with frog-throated laughter and stock-car racing on TV. A few doors down at Rachel’s Kitchen, the lighting was piercing and artificial. There were only four customers in sight, all of them plugging away at lottery terminals. When I took my $15 cash-out ticket to the counter, the sunny hostess clapped and said, “Winner! Winner!” After some initial trepidation over entering Bradley’s—the corner bar’s logo is a large-breasted girl riding a giant red hot sausage—I entered to see six abandoned lottery machines faintly flashing my name from their candylike screens. The bartender was all smiles in cashing me out for $10. No one stabbed me or stole my wallet. Out front, there was a steady line of stubbly, downtrodden-looking smokers on old cellphones. “I’m down at the machines,” I heard one man say into his. The phrase has a nice ring to it. I’m going to have to come back here. A lot. CASEY JARMAN. 28
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The opening of a new strip club is bound to cause protest in most neighborhoods, but the efforts by residents of once rough-and-tumble-but-now-trendy Sellwood trying to stop Casa Diablo from setting up shop in the former Wendy’s along Southeast McLoughlin Boulevard were especially notable. The club has made international headlines for its all-vegan menu, and opposition only brought out counter protests: Some showed up at an anti-strip club meeting in September where they promoted their love of animals and condemned Bible thumping. Neighbors said their concerns were more agnostic: public urination, public sex on private property and salacious propositions. They hoped the potential of city code violations would keep the place closed. But Casa Diablo II is scheduled to open within two months of receiving its license on June 7. With another strip club practically next door, the steakhouse Acropolis club, NIMBYers might only be worried about disputes between vegans and carnivores, differences quickly put aside before the evening ’s entertainment. KATY SWORD.
If the lutefisk-and-meatball dinners don’t draw you in, maybe the Viking pancake breakfasts or the Nordic fusion dancing will. Norse Hall (111 NE 11th Ave., norsehall.org), built in 1928, is the local home of the Sons of Norway Grieg Lodge fraternal organization. The all-volunteer nonprofit group supports the celebration of Norwegian and Scandinavian heritage with social, cultural and educational events. But Viking blood or no, all are welcome at Norse Hall. At once anachronistic and delightfully charming (like the set of a Wes Anderson movie), Norse Hall boasts a meeting hall, library, the Oslo Lounge (for challenging Vikings to drinking games) and the grandest of grand ballrooms, complete with a mural of the picturesque fjords. Any given week finds its event calendar packed with everything from bowling to dances to things we can’t pronounce, because that’s how Vikings roll. Who are we kidding? They had us at lutefisk and meatballs. PENELOPE BASS.
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It’s 1 am on an exceptionally rainy Friday night, and the hottest spot in Southeast Portland is the Belmont Bodega (2519 SE Belmont St., 235-6114). Seriously, it’s fucking sweltering in here. That’s what happens when you cram a few dozen people into a space the size of an average convenience store and throw a dance party. In the daylight hours, the building at Southeast 25th Avenue and Belmont Street actually is a convenience store. On the first Friday of each month, however, owner Dillon Rhomberg clears the shelves, throws turntables up on the counter, and transforms the tiny storefront into a throbbing, sweaty nightclub. Of course, this club is a bit different from the Old Town meat markets. Beers are sold directly from the fridge. Occasionally, Rhomberg’s mother stops by with cupcakes. And when a drink gets spilled, it’s an opportunity for the creation of a new dance craze. A patron grabs a mop and, like Fred Astaire with an umbrella or James Brown wielding a microphone stand, performs a duet while other revelers stand in a circle cheering him on. I have a feeling this will catch on. Call it “The Clean-Up on Aisle 5.” MATTHEW SINGER.
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Victory Bar (3652 SE Division St.) set a high watermark: Before the establishment purged all its board games (citing stragglers, according to one server) recently, it featured an array of vintage titles. There was a charmingly misogynistic edition of Careers circa 1963, for example—landing on spaces that read “acquire a pretty secretary” or “shore leave on Pago Pago” would score you serious “happiness points.” But The Basement Pub (1028 SE 12th Ave., basementpub.com) is quietly filling Portland’s board-game void, with overflowing shelves that contain no fewer than three varieties of Risk and such deliciously baffling titles as Telepathy and What’s Yours Like? Indeed, Basement Pub seems to welcome loitering, drunken gamers of the serious kind, providing a Scrabble dictionary and what appears to be the next level of Balderdash alongside its two choice pinball machines. Its commitment to strategized recreation includes the bar’s own cribbage league, which meets in the winter months. SAUNDRA SORENSON.
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On the east wall of Daily Double Sports Bar, on the corner of Northeast 168th Avenue and Halsey Street, someone has painted an incongruous vision of moneyed high living: Two pigs dressed in tuxedoes smoke cigars while clinking glasses, toasting their wealth. For some reason, they rise out of a football stadium, while the corporate mascot for Hamm’s Beer—a bear in a referee uniform—looks on. The denizens of Daily Double cannot remember who painted this fresco, but they know who is portrayed. “Looks like Larry!” says a woman planted next to the front-door coffee can that serves as a smoking section. “He’s the owner! He’s Boss Hogg.” The regulars—one of whom is nicknamed “Joemosexual”—have many tales of Larry and his bartender Jan, though they are hazy on some details. One man recounts a night when somebody attempted an armed robbery, and was chased out by a patron with a bar stool. He says I shouldn’t write about the mural. I should write about Jan. “She was here when I was coming here when I was 18.” AARON MESH.
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Thanks to Glee, Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” will forevermore be an overplayed song in karaoke bars around the world. If you choose this song at Nob Hill’s Voicebox Karaoke Lounge (2112 NW Hoyt St., voiceboxpdx.com), however, you can expect a unique experience. Instead of the usual irrelevant Korean drama, rainy scenes of a Portland love story flash before your eyes. Once a year, Voicebox gives its patrons the chance to leave their audiovisual mark with a video competition. Contestants are asked to revamp a top 10 song with a video of their own creation, which will play every time each intoxicated co-worker or tipsy bridesmaid chooses it. You can view last year’s submissions on the bar’s Facebook page, including a slightly disturbing interpretation of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” in which giant Jim Henson puppets lit up like neon signs shimmy across the screen. KIMBERLY HURSH.
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Team Guzzle Puzzle is stumped. They know that the bike light attached to a two-wheeler parked in front of Alberta’s Bye and Bye is flashing Morse code, but they haven’t yet figured out that the playing cards attached to its back wheels are semaphore. Or that the number puzzle they’ve been poring over for an hour is actually a word puzzle. Scattered around the bar, around 45 others are quietly scratching their heads over the same brain teasers. This is Puzzled Pint (puzzledpint.com). On the second Tuesday of the month, teams of puzzle fans gather in a Portland bar to work through logic puzzles (the first puzzle is the location of that month’s bar itself—published online the night before). There are no winners, there are no prizes. But each month, around 50 Portlanders show up just for the fun of solving puzzles. And also the beer, according to members of Guzzle Puzzle, who live up to their name. “This is the only event in the country where people get together in person to do these sort of puzzles,” says Matt Cleinman, one of five Puzzled Pint organizers. “Most other places have weekend-long things, or day-long things that happen periodically, but this is pretty unique to have a monthly recurring event, going on for two years.” Cleinman and the other organizers spend the whole night giving help and hints to the puzzlers. Each contributes one puzzle per event, which take from five to 40 hours to create. None receives a cent. “We had one puzzle that was just 16 cookies. A third were chocolate chip, a third were chocolate chip and walnut, and a third were raisin,” says Cleinman, who baked the cookies at home. “The raisin ones had letters spelled out in the raisins. The walnut and chocolate chip were Morse code. And the chocolate chips were Braille. So if you translated all these sets of cookies, they translated to ‘Pabst ribbon color.’ The solution was blue.” RUTH BROWN.
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“Oh! We have one of those in Georgia,” said a young intern at the Portland Garment Factory, when I mentioned I was about to visit a letterpress workshop housed in a van. “Same one,” I told her, as her eyes widened. “It’s been around.“ Over the last year or so, printmaker Kyle Durrie drove her Moveable Type mobile letterpress studio (type-truck.com) approximately 30,000 miles, to about 180 cities in 47 of the 48 continental states. (She swears there was nothing specifically wrong with South Dakota.) Durrie had run a successful Kickstarter campaign to buy an old linens delivery truck, and then get it retrofitted as a printing studio by a carpenter who usually works on movie sets. The van was equipped with an old Showcard sign press from the 1960s, and a Golding Official No. 3 tabletop platen press from the 1870s that was, when she acquired it, “a seized-up rusty piece of metal.” But it all cost more than expected; even though she doubled her $8,000 funding goal, the money was all gone before she even kicked the rocks out from under the tires. So Durrie took out her very first credit card and set out for nowhere and everywhere with nothing in the bank and a $500 limit. It was kind of like a ’70s road movie, but without all the crime. Turned out she didn’t need the credit card, though. Durrie slept almost exclusively in a tiny bed in her van (with a tiny ukulele hung overhead) and made trips to schools, farmers markets, community centers, libraries—wherever somebody might be interested in learning how to make a poster or card the old-fashioned way. Sometimes she was paid out of visiting-artist budgets, sometimes through donations in a jar, and sometimes she got her gas money by selling the fruits of her own design and printing company, Power and Light Press. “I think I actually came back with a little more money than I started with,” Durrie says, before remembering that she left with nothing at all. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
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For a couple years there, people shared their most personal problems with a complete stranger: Sugar, the anonymous advice columnist on online magazine the Rumpus (therumpus.net). But in February, Sugar revealed herself as none of than Cheryl Strayed, the Portland-based author of 2006 novel Torch, new memoir Wild, and an upcoming collection of Sugar columns, Tiny Beautiful Things. “It started to become one of those secrets that wasn’t so secret anymore,” Strayed says. Why? Because part of what makes Sugar so lovable is the heart-wrenching stories she shares from her own experiences—which obviously originate from the same life Strayed writes about, too. But don’t fear: Little else has changed. The column is still as kind and foul-mouthed as ever, and Strayed assures us she won’t shy away from the intimate biographical details. “I’ve never felt more connected to so many strangers in my life,” she says. Now, there’s just one less stranger in the equation. EMILEE BOOHER.
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It felt insidious, at first: Repurposed Realtor-brochure boxes and DIY display cases popped up in a handful of well-appointed front yards throughout Northeast and Southeast neighborhoods. Each displayed printed verses of (mainly published) poetry on regular rotation. It all seemed evidence of a half-assed campaign by homeowners looking to endear themselves to the younger, increasingly rental, neighborhoods that surrounded them. Or was it simply an earnest way to display a love of the written word? The movement has a more official title as Portland Poetry Posts, a community effort whose website (poetrybox.info) features a comprehensive map of participating homes, though there is also at least one enterprising local business that will set you up with your own HOAcompliant roadside art box (for $100-plus). So a tour of participating homes might give way to an agonizing struggle about the role of commerce in art—though isn’t that the spirit of poetry, after all? SAUNDRA SORENSON.
Ten years ago—on April 1, 2002—the newly gentrifying Alberta Street area was plastered with a number of terrifically authentic-looking signs marking the area as Portland’s Historic Redline District. “In Portland’s past,” read the signs, “‘redlining’ practices created exclusionary zones for ‘Negroes and Orientals’ by real estate, banking and insurance companies.” Two years previous, the neighborhood had caught a battery of sarcastic “Starbucks. Coming Soon” signs on the same date. But this prank, if it was a prank, had the merit of being true: Minorities in the Vanport, Albina and eventually Alberta Street neighborhoods were victimized by redlining practices that remained legal in Oregon until 1972 (and reportedly continued well into the 1990s). The mass displacement of minority renters caused by the ’hood’s new gentrification was also alluded to on the signs, but is no longer new; the historically black neighborhood is now majority-white, and the streets are lined with art boutiques, artisanal coffees and Salt & Straw. But one of the signs still remains, in futile protest. On the south side of Alberta Street between 21st and 22nd avenues, the sign peers out from behind a chain-link fence, carefully locked away from a neighborhood now lost to what it represents. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
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The passage to Wallace Books’ (7241 SE Milwaukie Ave.) inner cave for children’s begins at the front door of what was once someone’s home. Move through the living room, then the kitchen (is that a sink under all those books?) and out to what was the garage. Step down, way down, as if descending into a cave, and wander in the deep recesses of high shelves. Here, Julie Wallace, purveyor of one of the last great neighborhood bookstores, has created a child’s hideaway, a clubhouse, a den of wonder for kids’ books. For parents, it’s a moment of relief: Unlike other stores, where a child might wander off when you get engrossed in that poet you should have read years ago, there’s nowhere for the kids to go. Their room is the end of the line: They are safe, contained, and probably seeking treasure in the drifts of books Wallace has waiting for them. The sagging shelves and the teetering titles—there are more books crammed into this store than you would think possible—lend an air of suspense, as if a volume yet undiscovered might tumble into their laps, begging for its secrets to be revealed. Watch for the modest sign and screaming yellow paint. BRENT WALTH.
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It all started, as things in Portland so often do these days, with a Kickstarter project. In November 2011, artist and writer Sean Joseph Partick Carney was looking for $2,000 to help his label Social Malpractice Publishing release a book called Fucking James Franco, “a collection of erotic fiction that describes hypothetical sexual encounters with the greatest American actor, writer, and visual artist of all time.” “It kind of came out of hearing that phrase muttered— “Fucking James Franco!”—in a disparaging capacity by a lot of different artists I know,” says Carney of the dilettante actor. “At a certain point, I started thinking, ‘What about fucking James Franco?’” He approached artist friends from across the country to contribute, and set up the Kickstarter page to fund a short run. With such a provocative title, the Internet caught on quickly, with sites like the Onion’s A.V. Club, Gawker and Gothamist all writing about it—though most assumed it was ironic fan fiction rather than real art. Nevertheless, the project was a success. The book sold out of all 500 copies. Carney moved on to other things. Then in April this year, Franco slammed the book in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. Later that month, the actor tweeted, without comment, a video of him screen-printing the cover of the book over and over while sniggering. “I watched that in disbelief, laughing, not having any idea what he’s doing,” says Carney. “As a joke, I made screen prints of those screen prints he made.” In May, the true purpose of the prints was revealed. Franco, notorious for enrolling in artistic grad-school programs, unveiled his graduate thesis at the Rhode Island School of Design. The installation, “Love Shack,” was a small hut, wallpapered entirely in the prints, with a giant pink neon “Fucking James Franco” sign on top. Inside was a mattress, sex toys, and blaring videos. “I’m simultaneously flattered, but a bit confused, because I don’t know the intention,” says Carney. “But that’s part of the reason I like art.” Despite all the renewed interest, he says, there will be no more copies of Fucking James Franco printed. “I like that it’s not for sale, you can’t get it,” he says. “It was an edition, an art object, and that’s it.” RUTH BROWN.
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In bowling circles, unnecessary celebrating after getting a strike or nailing that elusive 7-10 split is known as “slapping off.” It’s not something Ryan Losli allows himself to do much of. Even when he rolled a perfect game at the 2012 Portland Masters tournament, the most he would allow himself was a small fist pump. So when he let out a loud whoop after hitting a strike at a recent team competition at 4 Seasons Bowling Center in Hillsboro, one of the women on the opposing team took umbrage: “Oh, your mom fucking raised you right, didn’t she?” Losli looked slightly aghast, but quickly shot right back: “Yeah, she fucking loves me.” “Fuck off, Losli! I’ll take you out to the parking lot!” For such a friendly sport, tense moments like this stand out. But a little professional jealousy toward Losli is understandable, considering the attention he’s been getting of late. His Portland Masters win in 2011 helped earned him Rookie of the Year honors from the Oregon Bowling Association, as well as a chance to compete at the national tournament in Las Vegas. “You can look for me in the standings for that one,” the 27-year-old says. “I’m somewhere down at the bottom.” Learning that Losli is a semi-professional bowler whose day job is manning the pro shop at 4 Seasons is something of a shock if you meet him outside of that world. In every other respect, he looks just like the metalhead he is: shaggy red hair and a slight beard, with a penchant for cargo shorts and black band T-shirts. Even his friends seem perplexed when they learn of his sporting life. “No one seems to believe it at first. No one really thinks that things like this exist anymore.” Oh, but they do. And there is big money to be had. Losli will be heading down to Baton Rouge, La., to go up against an estimated 60,000 bowlers for a $15,000 grand prize in the U.S. Bowling Congress Open Championship. For the moment, Losli is concerned about a good showing at this team tournament. If only because, “if it pays out, I’m going to go see [progmetal band] Animals as Leaders tonight. If not, I’ll just go do kickball instead.” ROBERT HAM.
The 4T (trail, tram, trolley and train) hiking loop begins, if you do it the right way, with a lurch; this is the aerial tram’s always ungainly acceleration from one highly moneyed planned development (the grimly under-tenanted South Waterfront) to another (Oregon Health & Science University). Be alone, please. After a short walk up Southwest 9th Avenue on the hill, a 4T sign will direct you to the Connor Park trailhead, and to the swift disappearance of the world you knew. The trail descends swiftly, down steep switchbacks, into the Shelter Trail and Marquam Ravine. The dense temperate rainforest affords no views of the city—indeed, no signs that the urban sprawl is out there— though it is never more than a half-mile away in any given direction. Of all our intra-city trails, those on both sides of the Marquam Ravine manage to exist amid some of Portland’s ugliest urban soup while betraying little of the city— neither noise nor foot traffic—until suddenly you emerge at a busy street crossing or find yourself sidling along someone’s totem-poled backyard. Perhaps this is what it is like to be a deer, and why they always seem startled. The path nonetheless continues, and beneath snags and pistol-butt trees the trailside is dotted with tiny five-petaled candy flowers; nature, here, apparently provides its own asterisks. But while the occasional streets and lonely houses seem comfortingly to belong where they are, when you emerge atop Council Crest, its bright green lawns and Frisbee players will seem like a violent and obscene incursion. The grass, for some reason, is the worst part. After a short slope down the bluff from there, you will feel like a stranger in a very strange land—an itinerant John Rambo at the edge of town—crossing I-26 on foot toward the zoo and its broken Icee machine, and the bracing chill of an underground MAX tunnel leading you back downtown. You won’t want to talk to anyone for at least an hour. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
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In 1948, Eddie Bertleson had just graduated from Cleveland High School and was looking for a place to put his energies. The way he remembers it, “three of my friends, we said, ‘Hey, we got to find something to do than just driving up and down Broadway on a Saturday night,’ and one of them mentioned a new gym that had opened up on Grand Avenue.” They went and signed up, and 64 years later, Bertleson’s still there. The gym is Loprinzi’s Gym (2414 SE 41st Ave. loprinzisgym.com), founded by Sam Loprinzi, a champion in the bodybuilding world who decided to bring what he knew to his neighborhood. Over a series of weekend welding parties, Loprinzi and his friends built the gym’s equipment—most of it still in use. Along with Johnny Johnson’s, the “ladies’ gym,” it was the only facility like it in Portland until the 1970s. How has the gym changed since then? “It hasn’t,” says the soft-spoken current owner, Bob Hill, who started lifting there in 1965. I don’t doubt him. From the outside, the building is inconspicuous, but the second you walk inside, you know you’ve found something special. Compared with the air-conditioned and sterile L.A. Fitness and 24 Hour Fitness, Loprinzi’s smells faintly like sweat and old leather. The giant, cast-iron weights along the back mirror were welded by a Portland smelter at Southeast 21st Avenue and Powell Boulevard. Black-and-white photos of bodybuilding stars line the walls, and a black cat, not-so-creatively named Blacky, sits curled up on the front desk. People are there to lift, not to look pretty. The clientele is a mix of young, tattooed blue-collar types and a few longtime loyal patrons like Eddie. As for personal trainers, Bob is a oneman show. And, taking a cue from Sam, he doesn’t charge. Besides a few years he spent in Vancouver, Eddie, now a spry 83, has always done his daily lunges at Loprinzi’s. “When I first got there, I told Sam I weighed 150 lbs. I was just a beanpole, and a year from that day I weighed 180,” he recalls. “I feel real blessed that I got to know that family. My mother always told me the best thing I ever did was join that gym.” KIMBERLY HURSH.
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Peter Gold has a gift—or so he’s been told. “Soon after beginning massage school, I began feeling as though I had an unfair advantage over my classmates,” he explains. “My teachers called it a gift.” That’s right: Gold has the gift of magic hands. The licensed massage therapist has been working in Portland (407 NE 12th Ave., petergoldmassage.com) for just over six years, but already he’s been embraced by the achy bodies of the Northwest, even serving as the go-to masseur for the Oregon Ballet. Gold shows his Portland appreciation in everything he uses, from locally crafted lotions and music to his Portland-built massage table. Once you’re on the table, he’s happy to treat your muscles to any number of techniques, from his bread-andbutter blend of deep tissue and Swedish to his personal favorite, the intriguing four-handed massage. Whatever you need, leave it to the magic hands. “I go as deep as people need…but not too deep!” PENELOPE BASS
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Commuting from Alberta to PSU by bike, Dave McPabe was riding along when he looked down, saw a lone glove in need, and decided to find it a new home. So began Portland’s gLove Orphanage (gloveorphanage.blogspot. com). Rather than leave perfectly good knits to rot along the side of the road, McPabe and his friends take them home, wash them, darn their holes and find them a friend. The orphanage stockpiles their finds, then donates pairs to the Community Cycling Center, which then sells the recently reborn to Portland’s gloveless masses for $1. In the process, they’ve discovered that people are more likely to lose a left-hand glove then a right, and that dirty, crumpled socks look deceptively similar to dirty, crumpled gloves. Would the orphanage ever expand to take in these socks? “I don’t think so,” says co-gLover Heather Morrill, “that’s not really our mission. And it would be weird.” KIMBERLY HURSH.
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The empty lots, closeout stores and fading fast-food joints huddled along Northeast 82nd Avenue north of I-84 lack the down-market charm of the Southeast stretch of the outer east side’s main street. But The Lumberyard, a new indoor mountain and BMX biker’s dream located at 2700 NE 82nd Ave., could change the neighborhood—or at least give kids from nearby Madison High a place to go. It’s a genius idea: a derelict former bowling alley destined to rot has been transformed into what co-founders Will Heiberg and Michael Whitesel say is the first indoor bike park west of the Rockies. Heiberg, a former video-game producer, says he visited an indoor riding park in Cleveland a few years ago and knew that bike-loving, sunshine-challenged Portland would welcome a similar facility. “I knew it would work here,” he says. But finding the right spot was a challenge because although Portland is littered with under-used warehouses, zoning constraints limit commercial operations inside them. But the old bowling alley was already zoned commercial. Inside the 48,000-square-foot space, there is a fast track and a slow track, ramps, jumps and even what’s called a “pump track,” where bikers move through jumps and bumps without pedaling, simply by shifting their weight. Scarred veterans and newbies alike can jump over stuff, fly through the air and perform tricks that would make their mothers very nervous. The ’yard rents bikes, helmets and pads ($20 for all three) and costs $14.95 per day for kids and $24.95 per day for adults. The price tag could seem steep, but it’s better exercise than playing video games or watching a movie, and a whole lot more social. Heiberg has already seen riders from the BMX/ skateboard run in nearby Glenhaven Park crossing 82nd to try his facility. Sean Meehan, 13, a Southeast Portland rider, found out about the place and visited a dozen times before its June opening. “Even though it’s bike-jumping, it feels safe,” Meehan says. “You think of BMXers as tough, messed-up drunk dudes, but the people there are really, really nice.” NIGEL JAQUISS.
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Hall of Fame center Arvydas Sabonis, easily among the best-loved Blazers of all time, is on Twitter. But his @ArvydasSabonis account is locked, meaning we can neither read his tweets—which would probably be in his native Lithuanian anyway—nor shake down his followers to tell us what wisdom he’s dropping in his transmissions. Sabonis has only tweeted five times to date, but we’re sure each of them is amazing. Instead we must follow another Twitter user calling himself Arvydas Sabonis: @He_Fr3akyAhHell, a sex-obsessed teenager whose last transmission as of press time was “Put your arms around me as I’m feelin on your boooooty.” CASEY JARMAN.
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HUSTLIN’ SPICE: If you frequent cheapie pizza joints, you may have noticed new spices popping up like dandelions all over the east side. Wesley Milleman has really hustled his Radical Brand Company spices, which have names like Mucho Mucho and Magic Bronson. “I walk in and pitch to the owner or whoever is there, offering to put up a sample bottle, and if the customers seem to like it, they can buy more,” Milleman says. “I use this little toolbox I decorated with Radical stickers.” It’s not just pizza, Milleman says. “We do street fairs, when we can afford the booth rent. When we can’t, I bring my sales box with me and walk around and pitch my goods…. We also do those old lady holiday bazaars.” SK8R BOI: Activision released Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD last week, a high-def redo of “the best levels” from the first two Hawk games you might remember making your thumbs sore on PlayStation, Dreamcast and N64. Not making the cut in the game? Burnside Skatepark, which the man himself ranks as one of the best in the world. But Hawk, who is touring with Birdhouse’s Left Coast skate tour, still likes Portland enough to skate here on his off time. On Sunday, Hawk made an unscheduled stop at Burnside Skatepark. The only “official” Oregon stop had been Grants Pass Skatepark the day before. HEART TRANSPLANT: Corazon, chef Chris Israel’s stab at a Mexican restaurant in the West End’s Indigo building, stumbled badly out of the blocks. It’s now been rebooted, right up to the top. Former Tabla skillet boss Anthony Cafiero is now running the Corazon kitchen, which will expand from Mexican to “Latin.” Cafiero’s plan to open his own Spanish place are on hold.
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CHAPPELLE SHOWED: Dave Chappelle didn’t take the Newmark Theatre stage until after 11:30 pm on July 21, but his Portland performance went smoothly compared to the Pioneer Square show he attempted three years ago. This gig was announced at 4 pm the day before and promptly sold out in the under-the-radar manner Chappelle has used since ditching Chappelle’s Show in 2006, which was also discussed in a fascinating, free-associative monologue that lasted until 2:10 am. Chappelle promised a long-overdue letter of apology for the 2009 fiasco. Don’t look for it in these pages—the comedian seemed swayed by the suggestion he submit it to Street Roots.
HATCHING QUICKLY: Roe, a new restaurant planned for the back room of Southeast Division Street fave Wafu, originally wasn’t going to open until late September. But now it seems the restaurant-within-a-restaurant, which Michael C. Zusman first wrote about for Portland Monthly, will be here sooner. Wafu chef Trent Pierce now says the construction work is “on a freight train” and an opening is set for early August. 42
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WEDNESDAY JULY 25 DIRTY PROJECTORS [MUSIC] Brooklyn-based experimental-rock sextet Dirty Projectors makes some of the most interesting music of our day. The group’s wonderful new LP, Swing Lo Magellan, makes as little a distinction between pop and the avant-garde as possible. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St. 9 pm. $22. All ages.
THURSDAY JULY 26 LA SERA [MUSIC] Sees the Light, Katy Goodman’s recently released second album, draws from the same well of summery hooks and lo-fi bristle as her other band, the Vivian Girls, but her collection of shimmering broken-up-but-not-broken balladry achieves heartfelt, unaffected depths that the Girls never quite reach. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+. OREGON BREWERS FESTIVAL [BEER] The biggest and best of Portland’s many, many beer festivals. Tom McCall Waterfront Park. Noon-9 pm July 26-28, noon-7 pm July 29. Free admission. oregonbrewfest.com.
FRIDAY JULY 27 GLENDI GREEK FESTIVAL [OPA!] St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church celebrates its annual Greek festival, featuring music, vendors, raffles and, of course, loads of Greek food. This year’s menu includes gyros, souvlaki, spanakopita, pastries, cookies and desserts. St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church, 14485 SW Walker Road, Beaverton. Noon-9 pm July 27-28, noon-7 pm July 29. glendigreekfestival.com.
SUNDAY JULY 29 WOLF HOTEL [MUSIC] Those familiar with the sprawling Oldominion crew know much of its output can be classified into categories of “dark” and “brutally fucking bleak.” Good Bye, the latest from Barfly’s new group Wolf Hotel, is the most recent to come down with a hard case of seasonal affective disorder. It sounds great. Mount Tabor Theater, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 9 pm. $7. 21+.
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BENFEST 2.0 [BENS] Fact: Portland has a lot of brewers named Ben. They celebrate this oddity with a beer festival called BenFest. Join Ben Engler of Occidental Brewing, Ben Dobler of Widmer Brothers, Ben Edmunds of Breakside Brewing, Ben Flerchinger of Lucky Labrador and Ben Love of Gigantic Brewing for beers brewed by men named Ben, and “Beninspired” food. The Hop & Vine Bottle Shop, 1914 N Killingsworth St., 9543322, thehopandvine.com. 5 pm. Free. Willamette Week JULY 25, 2012 wweek.com
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Plenty of Portland restaurants like to run Prohibition-themed events, but few were actually around during Prohibition. Besaw’s has been around for more than 100 years and, as part of a new series of “throwback dinners,” will be revisiting its menu from the 1920s, with fried-chicken dinners and dishes like trout amandine, and “prohibited” cocktails (if you grease the right palms). Besaw’s Cafe, 2301 NW Savier St., 228-2619. 3-10 pm. $25-$35.
Portland Food Adventures
We gave big props to Smallwares, the new Asianish restaurant on Northeast Fremont Street, in last week’s paper, and Portland Food Adventures has targeted the eatery as the site of its next event. Diners will get a six-course meal, plus drinks and gift certificates to some of chef/owner Johanna Ware’s favorite places to chow down, including Bunk Sandwiches, Salt & Straw and Random Order. With so many positive reviews rolling
in, this place is probably going to blow up soon, so go now before there’s a long line. Smallwares, 4605 NE Fremont St., 229-0995. 6:30 pm. $125, including gratuity.
FRIDAY, JULY 27 Glendi Greek Festival
St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church celebrates its annual Greek festival, featuring music, vendors, raffles and, of course, loads of Greek food. This year’s menu includes gyros, souvlaki, spanakopita, pastries, cookies and desserts. Opa! St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church, 14485 SW Walker Road, Beaverton, 481-4367. Noon-9 pm FridaySaturday, noon-7 pm Sunday, July 27-29. Free admission.
SATURDAY, JULY 28 Barn Dance and Barbecue Fundraiser The Sauvie Island Center, which educates young folks about food and farming, is hosting its fourth annual barn dance and barbecue fundraiser. The ’cue includes smoked pork with roasted peaches
and chicken with pickled-rhubarb glaze, to be downed between square dancing to live music. Howell Territorial Park, 13605 NW Howell Park Road. 5 pm. $20 adults, $5 kids.
MONDAY, JULY 30 The Last Hurrah at Pix Pâtisserie
Pix Pâtisserie is packing up its two longtime locations on North Williams Avenue and Southeast Division Street and moving to East Burnside Street. To celebrate the last night in its old digs, both locations will be offering cheap drinks and desserts at bargain-basement prices—starting at $5 at 8 pm, the price will drop by a buck every hour, which means if anything is left at midnight, it’ll be free. Pix Pâtisserie, 3402 SE Division St., 232-4407; 3901 N Williams Ave., 282-6539. 10 am-midnight. Prices vary.
TUESDAY, JULY 31 BenFest 2.0
Fact: Portland has a lot of brewers named Ben. They celebrate this oddity with a beer festival called BenFest. Join Ben Engler of Occidental Brewing, Ben Dobler of Widmer Brothers, Ben Edmunds of Breakside Brewing, Ben Flerchinger of Lucky Labrador and Ben Love of Gigantic Brewing for beers brewed by men named Ben, and “Ben-inspired” food. The Hop & Vine Bottle Shop, 1914 N Killingsworth St., 954-3322. 5 pm. Free admission. Drink and food prices vary. 21+.
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NO, BRO. NO. A brief but essential guide to beer-festival etiquette.
Beer festival—wooooo! Woooo? Come now, surely I can get a “woo” for this weekend’s Oregon Brewers Festival, known as the biggest and best of Beervana’s keg-based parties. There will be more than 80 distinctive craft brews served alongside the Willamette River. It’ll go down under sunny skies if the early forecast is correct. Ah, yes, but beer festivals are too often annoying. It only takes one drunken gang of broey buffoons arguing about the Sounders-Timbers rivalry precipitously close to a stroller and a flight of stairs to make you reconsider the entire venture. Beer festivals can be awesome. They should be awesome. And they would be awesome if people could follow a few simple rules of conduct. Leave the kids at home. Yes, by some quirk of Oregon state law, you are allowed to bring children to Portland beer festivals. This does not mean you should. People come here to imbibe serious amounts of alcohol; call me old-fashioned, but I strongly believe this is not something your children should witness. Sorry, but seeing someone with a baby strapped to them and a tasting cup in their hand depresses me. In the village I came from, parents had the unusual custom of hiring a local teenager to watch their children while they went out drinking. It’s something I’d very much like to see revived here. Don’t get a full glass of anything. The point of a beer festival is to sample
exciting new brews. People who use four tokens to get a full cup of something don’t belong there. Their money should be immediately refunded in Applebee’s gift certificates, and a large man in an ill-fitting polo shirt should be paged by radio to escort them to the exit. Don’t clog up the serving area. For some reason, people at beer festivals tend to congregate in circles right where the line might be expected to start. Do not do this, because it is very frustrating for everyone else who has to elbow past you. Don’t hassle the volunteers pouring your beer. These people are either cheapskates or beer groupies. Be nice to them, because this festival would cost a lot more if they were being paid. Stop flirting with the volunteers pouring your drinks. No, bro, she’s not into you. Don’t steal things. Having polled friends who volunteer at festivals and brewers, it seems they’re far more tolerant of obnoxiousness than thievery. Drunk people apparently seem to find stealing the many unguarded but valuable things at a beer festival funny. It isn’t. Don’t give people shit about pouring beer out. Some of us pour beer out because we don’t like it. Others of us pour beer out because we don’t want to get too wasted. Mind your own business. Do not Zoot Suit Riot. Even after you’ve thrown back a bottle of beer and pulled a comb through your coalblack hair while listening to the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies. MARTIN CIZMAR. DRINK: The Oregon Brewers Festival is at Tom McCall Waterfront Park on July 26-29. Noon-9 pm Thursday-Saturday, noon-7 pm Sunday. $6 mug, $1 sampling tokens. More information at oregonbrewfest.com.
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COD SAVE THE QUEEN GIVING THE GOLD TO PORTLAND’S BEST FISH AND CHIPS. BY M A RT I N C I Z M A R
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It’s tough to get behind Team USA at this year’s Olympics. It’s bad enough that both LeBron James and Mitt Romney’s dancing horse are representing our country in London, but now American corporate imperialists are denying the poor Brits their native chips. McDonald’s paid a king’s ransom for the exclusive rights to sell fries at this year’s Games, so other vendors are banned from selling spuds unless they’re part of a fish-and-chips plate. Yes, the hosts will eat the same fries people in Omaha eat. We’ll laugh right up until the moment we see Ronald McDonald carrying the Stars and Stripes into the opening ceremony as part of a sponsorship deal. As a modest act of contrition, we set out to crown Portland’s best fish and chips. Here are your best bets for eating like a Brit while rooting against Rafalca and the Preen Team.
Hawthorne Fish House
4343 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 548-4434, corbettfishhouse.com If it swims, the Hawthorne serves it. The crusty pub has the feel of a dockside dive, with a huge menu featuring fish tacos, calamari, oysters, grilled salmon and a boatload of fried fish at moderate prices. The fish: The Boatload sampler platter ($19.50) has small, chunky cuts of fish. The two most interesting are the oily catfish and a light but meaty walleye. The catfish is covered in a dark chili spice and has the greasy consistency of slowsmoked pork ribs. The walleye was pleasantly firm and a little sweet. The chips: Dry and very uniform in size, they reminded me of Wendy’s. I dub thee: Knight of Walleye.
Year of the Fish
Southeast 50th Avenue and Division Street, 971-258-6567, letseat.at/ yearofthefish This cart serves one of the most distinctive plates in town, starting with a tempura batter that’s rolled in Japanese panko to get a delightful crumb-y texture. A combo plate with two kinds of fish for $7.50 is a steal. The tartar sauce, packed with so much relish it’s almost like a salsa, was my favorite. The fish: The cod was excellent; oily but still very white and flaky. The snapper was drier but very good. The chips: Nice, fat potatoes cut and fried fresh. They’re crispy
enough for the masses but pack enough potato flavor to please purists. I dub thee: Grand Duke of Tartar.
Halibut’s
2525 NE Alberta St., 808-9600, theoriginalhalibuts.com This hippie-dippie Alberta Street restaurant is the beachiest of this bunch. You’ll pay tourist-town prices and you might wait 30 minutes for your food, but it’ll be good. The fish: The halibut (market price, $14 on our visit) is incredibly light and flaky in a crunchy golden batter. The chips: Lightly seasoned and crisp, with a pulpy interior. I dub thee: Prince of Greenback.
Rose and Thistle Public House
2314 NE Broadway, 287-8582 As a bartender sang along to “Anarchy in the U.K.,” I realized if I’d been way into first-wave British punk—the Damned, U.K. Subs, Sham 69—this would be my haunt. I would order fish and chips ($13) with my Guinness and be pleased to get a generous portion of decent food. The fish: The halibut came in a buttery golden batter. The chips: Just like what you’d get at an average American steakhouse, plain yellow and midsized. I dub thee: Duchess Nancy
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Located next to a freeway on-ramp, the Fish & Chip Shop was hosting a Doctor Who trivia night when we visited. No music, no television, no conversation—just a room of people listening closely to questions about Doctor Who and a large plate of cod with chips ($12). The fish: Thin slices of cod lightly fried in a very plain batter. The chips: Dry, crispy and square. I dub thee: Member of the House of Commons.
Horse Brass Pub
4534 SE Belmont St., 232-2202, horsebrass.com Horse Brass was created in the image of a British pub by guys who’d never seen a British pub. They did a remarkable job. You go for the beer, but the pub serves inconsistent-but-sometimes-great fare. The fish: Four big, dark pieces of halibut that benefit greatly from a brightening squeeze of lemon and a twinkle of vinegar ($14.25). The chips: My favorite chips are dark and almost soggy with a strong potato flavor. I’ve had them here, but not on this visit, when they were overcooked husks. I dub thee: Archduke of Publican.
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SW 9th Avenue & Alder Street 706-3841, thefryingscotsmanpdx.com You’ll know the fish at this cart is prepared by someone actually from the Revolution’s losing side when you encounter oft-dour chef James King. The Scotsman knows his trade, though, serving our town’s best and biggest plates at a bargain price. The fish: Huge planks of tender, flaky white cod ($8.50) in a light batter that’s golden like the sun and gets better with vinegar. The chips: Large jojo-style spears that taste even better covered in curry sauce ($3). I dub thee: King of Portland.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 25 Dirty Projectors, Wye Oak
[IMPERFECT REPRESENTATIONS] Dirty Projectors present the music journalist with his or her greatest temptation: telling the reader to just listen to the band. The Brooklynbased experimental-rock sextet’s music is some of the most interesting of our day, but trying to explain why tends to leave one rambling unsatisfyingly about intricate arrangements and unconventional time signatures and stylistic pastiche. Formed in 2002 as a solo project of frontman Dave Longstreth (who has lived in Portland intermittently and collaborated with many local music figures), Dirty Projectors broke out with 2007’s Rise Above, a reimagination—from memory—of the Black Flag album Damaged, then deepened critical crushes with 2009’s Bitte Orca, which found Longstreth et al. exploring West African guitar, R&B vocals and medieval singing techniques. The group’s wonderful new LP, Swing Lo Magellan, makes as little a distinction between pop and the avantgarde as the band ever has, offering familiar song structures and heartfelt lyrics right alongside the usual Dirty Projectors weirdness. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 9 pm. $20 advance, $22 day of show. All ages.
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[BANJO] Close your eyes and think of the cutest thing you can imagine that doesn’t involve kittens. Got it? OK, let me guess: You’re thinking of octogenarian banjo and washboard players in old-timey outfits, smiling broadly and singing songs that were hits before your mother was born. I’m pretty good, aren’t I? Well, welcome to Cute City, U.S.A., because the Rose City Banjoliers—a Portland institution since 1972—tonight make a rare post-bedtime club appearance alongside the much younger (but similarly dressed) Inspirational Beets. Not sure what the old-timers will make of all Goodfoot’s hip-shaking longhairs, most of whom are probably unfamiliar with the quite late Eddie Peabody, but the Banjoliers should prove a hit. CASEY JARMAN. Goodfoot Lounge, 2845 SE Stark St., 239-9292. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
Casey Neill & the Norway Rats with the Portland Horns
[HORNED ROCK] Bring on the horns! For his Norway Rats’ return to the Music on Main Street series, songwriter Casey Neill decided to add a little something extra to his band’s strident, muscular sound. Trumpeter Paul Brainard—perhaps best known as a member of Richmond Fontaine, but to list all his credits would take this entire column—has arranged some 15 tunes for a four-piece horn section, including Neill favorites such as the New Yorkinspired “Brooklyn Bridge” and “We Are the City,” songs from his forthcoming album, and selections from the Strummer and Springsteen songbooks. E Street meets Main Street—a fine intersection at which to pass a summer evening. JEFF ROSENBERG. PCPA Music on Main Street, Southwest Main Street and Broadway, 248-4335. 5 pm. Free. All ages.
THURSDAY, JULY 26 Organized Sports, Creem, Urban Blight, Long Knife
[HARDCORE] It takes a trained ear to parse the myriad classic hardcore sounds being brought back to varying shades of life by tonight’s impressive lineup of ’80s revivalists. And while I’m not sure I’m up to the task of identifying where Portland’s Organized Sports’ D.C. influence ends and Creem’s Boston steez begins, I can tell you that the latter New York band’s recently released self-titled 12-inch spiffs up the SSD formula with just enough fuzz and squall to make the old sound new(ish) and feral again. You want it short? You want it fast? You want it loud? You got it. CHRIS STAMM. Club 21, 2035 NE Glisan St., 235-5690. 9 pm. Cover. 21+.
La Sera, Magic Trick, Foxygen
[GIRLISH REGROUP] Whatever one thinks of the Vivian Girls—the fuzzand harmony-laden garage gals’ threeplus years as indie sweethearts hardly beg for passionate defenders—the dark Crystals pastiche does not rely upon sincerity. That renders their bassist’s beguiling side project all the more a welcome surprise. Sees the Light, Katy Goodman’s recently released second album as La Sera, draws from
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TOP FIVE UPCOMING LOCAL RELEASES WE’RE STOKED ABOUT. Golden Retriever, Occupied With the Unspoken (July 24) More majestic electronic craziness from these Thrill Jockey signees. There’s a release show for this one at Holocene on Aug. 1. Raymond Byron & the White Freighter, Little Death Shaker (Sept. 4) We sorta expected this album from the Castanets’ frontman to be a twangy Americana album, but it rocks really, really hard. The Helio Sequence, Negotiations (Sept. 11) Advance single “October” was a pretty nice whistle-wetter for this longtime Portland duo—still waiting to hear the full disc. Menomena, Moms (Sept. 18) The band’s first release without Brent Knopf is definitely a bit different, with heart-on-sleeve lyrics and a bit more bite than usual. Brainstorm, Heat Waves (Oct. 2) We’ve actually been sneaking listens to this one for a while. Groovy.
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Ed Kuepper has had one of the most admirable careers to come out of the ’70s punk scene, keeping one foot in the times and the other in a musical world of his own creation. He moved his first band, the Saints, from the buzz-saw punk of their 1976 single “(I’m) Stranded” to a moodier, horn-driven sound in less than two years before the original lineup split up. Kuepper delved more deeply into a twisted, freejazz-infused pop sound with Laughing Clowns, a group he fronted until 1985. Since then, Kuepper has leaned on more plainspoken pop music with a hint of melancholy and fuzziness around the edges, amassing a vast body of work along the way. A household name in his native Australia, the 56-year-old musician is a cult figure in these parts and hasn’t performed in the U.S. in at least a decade. The announcement of his appearance as part of the strange and wonderful Sometimes a Great Notion festival was a delightful surprise. He’ll be playing with longtime drummer Mark Dawson and dipping into his vast archive of songs for what promises to be an energetic and wily performance. We talked with Kuepper from his home in Melbourne. WW: When did you first want to make music? Ed Kuepper: There was never a time when I didn’t want to be a musician. I grew up in Brisbane—in those days, a fairly isolated, sort of country town. When I could afford to, I would buy albums, things that had a strange influence on me: Velvet Underground, the Stooges, the MC5. Those are kind of the ordinary influences these days, but in the ’70s they weren’t referenced as much. I feel like they’ve been taken away from me, in a way. What broke up the Saints back in 1978? We wanted to do things that were significantly different from each other, artistically. Chris [Bailey, the band’s vocalist] wanted to do a much more straightforward pop-rock kind of thing, which I
was not very keen on. I wanted to move it into a fairly intense, darker, more experimental direction. Prehistoric Sounds is a key album in some ways to explaining why we split because Chris hated that record. I had to do a combination of pleading and threatening to get him to finish it. You took Laughing Clowns to London soon after it formed. Why? It made sense to me because what the Clowns were doing was fairly radical in the Australian environment. Plus, I think I wanted to be closer to Europe, and it struck me that we’d have access to 10 times as many people. We made that move; it was the right thing to do. It just kind of went belly up for the band because drug problems came into it. Then my wife and I had a new baby, which put me right outside of the rest of that scene. Both of those bands have re-formed in recent years. Are there calls to keep them going? All the time. But with the Saints, Chris didn’t want to do it. He runs a new lineup of the Saints, so he feels it’s a conflict of his interest because people are more interested in the original lineup rather than the new band. You played with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on a recent tour. Is that a permanent gig? I think so. It started off as one-off thing. At the end of the tour, I was asked if I wanted to do more. But Nick operates on his own time. The tour ended two years ago, but nothing has happened since. What do you have planned for Portland? What we’re mostly going to be doing is reworking songs, doing sometimes radical reworkings of older material. There’s always an element of that in my live sets. I never can let songs sit. Is it frustrating that people here know you mostly from your earliest work? It’s something that I kind of resigned myself to. SEE IT: The Sometimes a Great Notion Festival is at Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate Ave., on July 27-29. Ed Kuepper plays Saturday, July 28. $22.50 daily pass, $50 weekend pass. All ages (with discounts for kids 14 and under). See full music schedule at sometimesagreatnotion.weebly.com. Willamette Week JULY 25, 2012 wweek.com
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The Builders and the Butchers, Kelli Schaefer
[ROOTS MUSIC] Based on name alone, the Builders and the Butchers might not sound like the most environmentally conscious of acts, but the critically acclaimed troupe values our green and pleasant land much as any other band of Portlanders. The Southern Gothic-tinged folk-rockers, whose bitterly cold Decemberist murder ballads betray socially progressive stirrings, headline the summer’s fourth and final flowering of 2012’s Sundown Concert Series. The decidedly green (carbon footprints tempered by solar/wind/ biodiesel generator, though we still question the bike valet) series of performances have lured audiences to an array of interactive kiosks based around a changing theme—“treasuring forests,” this evening—and, lord knows, a few heartrending moments from opening chanteuse Kelli Schaefer could lead anyone into the pines. JAY HORTON. Ecotrust, 721 NW 9th Ave., Suite 200, 227-6225. 5:30 pm. Free. All ages.
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[SAY HELLO, WAVE GOODBYE] Rumor has it that Michael Avishay, the dapper gent that fronts fuzz poppers Ghost Animal, is departing our fair city for Los Angeles. If that’s the case, he’s not taking off without leaving his mark on the local scene. To wit: Avishay has started a little boutique label called Death Party Records through which he is releasing a series of records by a handpicked selec-
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Charlie Parr, Tom Bevitori, Evan Way [PIEDMONT BLUES] Minnesota’s Charlie Parr makes me want to put in a hard day’s work. His raggedy, gospelized folk is a true treasure, the kind of music you could till a field or ford a river alongside. In addition to playing from 2011‘s perfectly titled Keep Your Hands on the Plow, Parr is in the process of re-releasing most of his breathtaking catalog. Woody Guthrie’s century-old self is surely dancing a jig to such great news. On stage, Parr is professorial, pairing breakneck 12-string guitar and openback banjo plucking with that high-country howl of his. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
Palmas, Adventures! With Might, Big Pauper, Cars and Trains, Harvey Girls
[DUO LABEL PARTY] Apes Tapes and Circle Into Square are two local labels that have released some of the more adventurous takes on pop and electronic music produced in the past five years. Tonight they join forces, showcasing some of the best acts working with either. Of particular interest is the set by Cars and Trains, Tom Filepp’s solo electro-acoustic, hiphop-influenced project, which will soon release We Are All Fire. The album is a gorgeously rendered, emotional effort that centers on the theme of family. Also on tap are the swirling psychedelia of the Harvey Girls and the synth-happy dance act Palmas. ROBERT HAM. Rotture, 315 SE 3rd Ave., 234-5683. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
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FIONA APPLE Born: 1977 in Manhattan. Sounds like: Nina Simone as a white product of ’90s pop. For fans of: Patti Smith, Tori Amos, Rufus Wainwright; music with equal parts brain, heart and fingers. Latest release: The Idler Wheel... is perhaps Apple’s barest, most characteristic album yet. She allows her voice to break many times throughout its course, letting her past experiences and pains seep through the cracks, and the mood varies wildly while engaging throughout. Why you care: Apple’s steamy contralto, when combined with her finger-breaking piano skills, is enchanting at the least and debilitating at the most. She first exploded into national consciousness with “Criminal”—a naughty, torchy number that is doubly so considering she was only 19 years old upon its release. Since then, she has released ingenious music on her own timeline and according to her own rules: Apple went on hiatus following both When the Pawn… (1999) and Extraordinary Machine (2005), and her sprawling songs defy genre by mixing innumerable influences at every turn. Apple exists slightly outside of explanation, and it’s evident in the company she keeps: She’s friends with oddball comedian Zach Galifianakis (see the 2005 video for “Not About Love”), dated odder-ball magician David Blaine, and was cited as one of oddest-ball rapper Kanye West’s biggest influences (he said Extraordinary Machine made him want to be the “hip-hop Fiona Apple”). “I just want to feel everything,” she warbles on The Idler Wheel..., and Apple may just have reached her goal in her music. SEE IT: Fiona Apple plays the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, on Thursday, July 26, with Blake Mills. 8 pm. $52.50-$68.50. All ages. Willamette Week JULY 25, 2012 wweek.com
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[COLLIDING SENSES] The Sound & Vision Fest, presented by the Hollywood Theatre and Nationale, brings filmmakers and musicians together for three conceptually explorative nights surrounding the complementing pair of senses. In celebration of Leonard Cohen, the first night begins with a screening of a short film collection based on Cohen’s 1974 album, New Skin for the Old Ceremony, followed by performances from members of Houndstooth and Neal Morgan and Robin Pecknold, among others. For the second night, video artist Sean Pecknold (Robin’s brother) teams with musician Rachel Blumberg for an evening of selected films and improvised live scoring by Blumberg and friends. Claire Evans of YACHT curates the final night, which matches science-centric visuals with live scoring by Jeffrey Jerusalem and Golden Retriever. EMILEE BOOHER. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd. 8 pm. $15 festival pass. Continues through Saturday. All ages.
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[GRISTLY FAMILY TUNES] The name Truckstop Honeymoon fits the band it represents quite well. Fronted by husband and wife Mike West and Katie Euliss, the vaudevillian bluegrass duo plays loose and quirky songs just raw enough to feel like an improvised roadside jam or an afternoon of family busking. Playful guitar riffs, upbeat banjo doodles and springing bass lines fill in the gaps, making it easy to get caught up in the love stories, family travails and witty domestic banter strewn about the nitty-gritty pair’s repertoire. EMILEE BOOHER. Alberta Street Public House, 1036 NE Alberta St., 284-7665. 9 pm. Cover. 21+.
Watsky, Dumbfoundead
[SPOKEN WORD/HIP-HOP] San Francisco-born George Watsky is the adorably brainy answer to today’s wave of mildly shitty everydude rappers, mostly because he’s not just a rapper. He has garnered international acclaim for his slam poetry (most notably appearing on Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry 6). Watsky weaves together clever wordplay, beautifully bald emotionality, and boyish humor in his rhymes. Just check out last year’s “Kidnap Your Boyfriend,” an adorable confession of love framed by creative and comical ways to get rid of the object of his affection’s boyfriend. Watsky is cute, clever, and most importantly, completely believable and genuine. NORA EILEEN JONES. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. 9 pm. $14. All ages.
The Hood Internet, Psalm One, Tanya Morgan
[MASHUP MADNESS] The Hood Internet is a real special knight in the kingdom of mashups that finds Girl Talk in the throne. By duct-taping mainstream hip-hop bangers to shit-hot indie rock— the Chicago duo has other formulas, but throughout the six-volume Hood Internet Mixtape collection, the indie-rock banger is marquee motif—the outfit essentially has two roles, one as an ambassador to the underground and one as a glorified Clear Channel DJ. The results are sometimes brilliant (Wiz Khalifa and Phantogram mesh surprisingly well together), sometimes trainwreckish and sometimes downright befuddling. Pairing R&B genius/urination fetishist R. Kelly with Steve Albini’s Shellac really, really shouldn’t work, but it does. CASEY JARMAN. Mississippi
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Pete Krebs and His Portland Playboys, Tezeta Band
[JAZZ] At the band’s recent Waterfront Blues Festival appearance, Krebs joked with the crowd that “bringing a swing trio to a blues festival is a little like bringing a knife to a gunfight.” The classic, drumless ’30s jazz-trio format indeed lives on in Krebs’ group. Since 2006, the former Hazel frontman has led bassist Keith Brush and guitarist David Langenes in a kind of swing and rock mash-up that is, in the band’s own words, “perfect for your drinking, dancing and dining pleasure.” Imagine “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter” sung by Randy Newman, with Django Reinhardt and Ray Brown in the background. Tonight’s show marks the Secret Society Lounge’s fourth anniversary. DAN DEPREZ. Secret Society Lounge, 116 NE Russell St., 493-3600. 5 pm. Free. 21+.
SATURDAY, JULY 28 Serge Severe feat. Zapata, Load B, Half Man Half, Chill Crew, Diction, Cray, DJ Spark
[PO-HOP] Portland’s Serge Severe is an MC built out of an old, East Coast hip-hop mentality. His lyrics are full of verbal assaults that take aim at weak MCs who abuse the craft, and he often raps over beats that are dusty, sample-based jams that follow the formula laid out by New York greats Pete Rock and DJ Premier. But at times on recent releases, he’s shown a more intimate and introspective side with songs that direct his battlerap persona inward. Hopefully on his upcoming EP, Silver Novelist, Severe continues to go down this road—as those stripped-down moments make his music that much more captivating. Regardless of what type of songs he plays live, though, Serge has always been a strong performer and loves to put on a rowdy show. REED JACKSON. Ash Street Saloon, 225 SW Ash St., 226-0430. 9:30 pm. $5. 21+.
Supraphonics, The Grind
[FINE-TUNED FUNK] This is sort of how I imagined Phish fading out: recruiting a horn section and sliding into lengthy, jazz-inspired jams at jazz clubs. Alas, Phish is still at it, and the rubbery, feelgood groves have been left to Portland’s Supraphonics. Eight members strong, this funk-loving group boasts the pulse and roundtable talent of a late-night talk show’s house band. Only instead of being cut off by commercial breaks, Supraphonics is encouraged to stretch solo-riddled numbers well over the 10-minute mark. MARK STOCK. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 8 pm (minors allowed until 9 pm). $10. All ages.
Acoustic Minds, Afro Massive, Lafa Taylor
[PORTLAND POP] Portland twin sirens Amanda and Jenni Price, known together as Acoustic Minds, specialize in their own blend of soul and new-millennium dance pop. Their work has two completely different, though not necessarily opposing, sides: a quiet, acoustic side rife with gorgeous blues and soul influences and a loud, club-banging side that is rich in synths and lyrics about the type of love at first sight that can happen only on the dance floor. Citing such influences as Rihanna and Katy B, the band is crossing over more fully to the latter’s side; its new album, Electric Sol, sports synthy club jams fit to get a little sauced and make out with a rando to. NORA EILEEN JONES. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
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OTTMAR LIEBERT and LUNA NEGRA
Saturday, July 28th •Don Bellairs •Enric Sifa
•Wm. “Scott” Browning •eRok •Taper •Matthew Hartman •Portico •Earth to Zack Sunday, July 29th
SHARAYA MIKAEL + DUSTIN RUTH SUN, AUG 26TH
PETER CASE Coming Soon 8.3 - JOE NEW • KURT HUGET 8.9 - KIM WEITKAMP 8.10 - THE TIPTONS
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DONALD MILNE
PROFILE
SQUAREPUSHER TUESDAY, JULY 31 Tom Wilkinson rediscovers his roots while reinventing the light show.
[A/V CLUB] Having some sort of visual accompaniment—usually films playing behind the musicians or an elaborate light show—is the norm for electronic musicians. Deadmau5 has the colorful mouse masks; DJ Shadow has a large white globe he performs inside of while videos are projected onto and around it. But one of the few artists to attempt to connect the audio and visual to the point the music affects what the audience is seeing is Tom Wilkinson, the polymath who records and performs as Squarepusher. The 37-year-old musician’s live setup finds him standing in front of a large panel of LED lights while wearing a mask that also has LED lights embedded in it. Using self-programmed software, the images or patterns that come to life on and around Wilkinson depend on what he plays on his keyboards and which knobs he twists on his sequencers. “The visuals are being produced in real time onstage,” Wilkinson says, speaking on the phone from Montreal prior to the start of his current tour. “There’s a degree to which it’s never the same each time you do it. So there is a potential for glitches, but I’ve tried to make a virtue of that.” Considering the often-mangled tone of Squarepusher’s music, those visual patterns could get downright dizzying. Wilkinson started his career in the early ’90s, carving off jagged slices of drum ’n’ bass and acid house (often augmented by his virtuosic bass playing). Unlike most of his peers, Wilkinson refused to sit still, trying his hand at electro played on live instruments, and letting the influence of jazz and modern classical music creep into his recordings with delirious results. Squarepusher was even ballsy enough to release a full album of solo bass instrumentals. Squarepusher’s most recent album, Ufabulum (released this May on Warp), finds him returning to the speedy beats and highpitched squeals of melodic drum ’n’ bass. But it’s a more mature approach to the genre, allowing one moments to catch one’s breath, with lighter melodies and ambient-style soundscapes as in the entirely beat-free “Red in Blue.” As an album, Ufabulum coheres more easily than some earlier Squarepusher efforts. The songs feel tonally connected and uniform even when they spin off in different directions. “I was hearing a sonic identity before beginning the project,” Wilkinson says. “And I was working on the visual material at the same time as the sonic material. There was a vision of what I wanted to see alongside what I wanted to hear.” With both elements now in place, Wilkinson can have fun with it all, deconstructing older as well as more recent material in real time, and reconnecting the pieces into a massive feast for the senses. “I’m generally trying to work with as much instinct as possible,” he says. “Once it becomes too intellectualized and too much speculation comes in over what I could be doing rather than what I should be doing, you’re taking a lot of energy away from that instinct. I feel like this is the way that suits me.” ROBERT HAM. SEE IT: Squarepusher plays Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., on Tuesday, July 31. 9 pm. $30 advance, $35 day of show. 21+. Willamette Week JULY 25, 2012 wweek.com
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[HAZE HOP] Do you smoke good? Lawz and G_Force, aka Green Team, sure do, and they’d like to tell you about it. On the duo’s new 10-track “concept album,” Official, the MC/producers rhyme over some pretty hot beats about bud and bitches. Both Portland artists have a hefty amount of work already under their belts, and considering this album was produced in three days under lockdown, the beats are nothing to shake a Thai stick at. Lyrically, though, Official leaves much to be desired. The album opens with “Wake & Bake,” a gorgeously arranged and sultry track featuring singer Caitlin Cardier’s smooth upper register and a nice climbing piano riff. The MCs spend the song talking about “money, tree and women,” revealing early (and, as will be proven, often) exactly how they live. It closes with a pretty hilarious interlude about rolling papers. The album’s midsection, though, is a weedy—if slightly frantic—haze. The production remains solid throughout, most notably on “Rolled Up” and “Blue City Lights,” both of which rely on jazz and orchestral samples for their epic scale and sense of grandeur. The latter song, though, lost me at the first mention of “swag”— the 21st-century equivalent to saying “word to your mother.” “Watch It Burn” rolls in, featuring fellow Portlander Illmaculate, with an 8-bit motif moving into a heavy electric-guitardriven bounce. It’s here that the lyrical subject matter broadens: The MCs talk about drama between friends and shooting cops. “Watch it burn, watch it burn/ And I mean that in a lot of ways,” they then chant, making sure we don’t forget about the green. The ’80s synths and mellow backing rhythms of “Blue Dreams” lend the track a Biggie-ish feel, eschewing the album’s previous haywire aesthetic for something slightly more at ease. Official is Green Team’s attempt at a day-in-the-life album. The record’s arc is appropriate for that—the duo even nods off for a “Weed Nap” on the penultimate track. But for artists with so much great work already behind them— G_Force and Illmaculate’s Green Tape was inspired; Lawz’s Standing in the Rain garnered a lot of deserved praise—I would have hoped their days included a bit more skillful rhyming. NORA EILEEN JONES.
FANNO CREEK END IS END (SELF-RELEASED) [BEAT POP] I really want to compare Fanno Creek to the Shaky Hands. It’s not that the trio’s sound particularly reminds of that gone-but-not-forgotten Portland act—sure, there’s some jangle here and a bit of harmony there—it’s just that Fanno Creek’s live show approaches the Shakies’ live energy and enthusiasm. That’s something Portland has been missing. The 13-minute End Is End EP compiles five songs Fanno Creek penned between 2008 and 2010, then recorded recently at the Southeast Portland studio of Emigrate Records. The songs aren’t as ambitious as those recorded for last year’s six-song Green Houses EP—they remind more of early Beatles tunes than anything else—but the EP’s harmony-laden cuts have become favorites at the Beaverton- and Forest Grove-bred trio’s live shows, so the band decided to finally commit them to tape. Opener “The Greatest” is a lyrically schizophrenic number that opens with a reverb-laden, doo-woppy a cappella featuring dual vocalists Quinn Mulligan and Evan Hailstone. It’s a fitting start to an album where Mulligan and Hailstone sing nearly every word in harmony: On “She Said” and “I Need You Here,” those vocals continue along the opener’s head-bobbing course, with dashes of twang and rockabilly influence spread throughout. It’s the lush “Man Beast” that hints at more mature Fanno Creek songwriting to come—and it does come—but the frantic title track that closes the collection proves just how good Fanno Creek has always been at writing structurally simple songs loaded with big ideas. Some people prefer early Beatles. Some people just want the Shaky Hands back. CASEY JARMAN. SEE IT: The Green Team’s Official is out now. Fanno Creek releases End Is End at Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., on Friday, July 27, with Talkative and Old Age. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
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503.288.3895 info@mississippistudios.com 3939 N. Mississippi
8pm Doors, 9pm Show Unless otherwise noted
A Minnesota treasure of traditional folk presenting a breakout new album with Heat
LUCY MICHELLE
& THE VELVET LAPELLES
“No matter where he plays, Parr attracts attention the way bug-Âzappers attract moths. His voracious your skin, whether its on his metallic resophonic guitar or beat-Âup 12-Âstring.â€? - Minneapolis Star Tribune
CHARLIE
PARR +ADAM SWEENEY & THE JAMBOREE
TOM BEVITORI (of Denver) +EVAN WAY (of Parson Red Heads)
A Chicago-Âbased production duo specializing in amazing musical mashups of hip-Âhop and indie rock, Mo Money Mo Problems +Ma$e +Diddy just the start
Authentic and crossover Indian dance music complemented with dance lessons, dance perfor-Â mances and LIVE singing.
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Mississippi Summer Sessions: No better for a summer-Â time jam then from our favorite of folk-Âjamming luminaries
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Portland actor and comedian Mikey Kampmann is a man about town, and, you might say, the world. Tonight is a mixed media presentation about his recent journey in Antarctica, with notable
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KZME Presents: Simple folk songs with sing-Â along harmonies harkening the dance beats of old time blues
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Coming Soon: 8/8 & 8/9 - JERRY JOSEPH & THE JACKMORMONS 8/10 - MATTACHINE 8/11 - MRS w/ DJ BEYONDA 8/12 - LEWI LONGMIRE (patio) 8/12 - ONRA 8/14 - FAMILY OF THE YEAR 8/15 - CRYSTAL SHIPSSS 8/16 - KAY KAY & HIS WEATHERED UNDERGROUND 8/17 - RAGS & RIBBONS 8/18 - TEENGIRL FANTASY
8/19 - LADIES ROCK CAMP SHOWCASE 8/19 - SARAH GWEN PETERS (patio) 8/21 - ELENI MANDELL 8/22 - ALL SONGS CONSIDERED 8/23 - KRISTIN HERSH 8/24 - RAYMOND BYRON & THE WHITE FREIGHTER 8/25 - BAND OF HEATHENS 8/26 - THE ALAN EVANS TRIO 8/27 - MOUNT EERIE 8/28 - ADAM ARCURAGI & THE LUPINE CHORALE SOCIETY
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THOUSAND-YARD STARES: Truckstop Honeymoon plays the Alberta Street Public House on Friday, July 27.
DMX, Tru Game, Mike Bars, Winkz, Bad Habitat, Grinchmobb
[RAP] DMX just can’t get a break. His first album in six years, Undisputed, blew its release date earlier this summer. His rap sheet has extended during this sizable silence to include (yet more) drug and assault charges. And no sooner does he land a day off (as he did last week) than he gets a concussion from wiping out on his four-wheeler. Though the salad days of the early aughts are “undisputably” (har) behind us at this point, DMX’s cavalcade of barking gangster-pop hits remain enshrined in the pantheon of crossover hip-hop success, offering a tantalizing reason to keep rooting for the man, even as he insists on making things as difficult for himself as possible. SHANE DANAHER. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave. 8 pm. $25. All ages.
Kissing Party, Shadow House, Lubec
[TWEE POP] I know the Know is by no means a punk-only place, but has Alberta’s best dive—and one of Portland’s most essential venues ever—hosted a band as achingly sweet and tender as Kissing Party before? The Denver band’s most recent album, Wasters Wall, is an anachronistic tweepop gem, a sugary bit of hearton-sleeve winsomeness that evokes indoor scarves, Belle and Sebastian, dorm-room smooching and LiveJournal outpourings. It’s an awesome drinking album if your drink happens to be tea, a gently stirring reminder of bygone wonder and innocence, a modest but deeply affecting collection aimed squarely at the chest’s most vulnerable spot. CHRIS STAMM. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.
SUNDAY, JULY 29 Wolf Hotel, IAME, Gepetto, Good Cop/Bad Cop, DJ Spark
[HIP-HOP HORROR SHOW] Those familiar with the sprawling Oldominion crew know that much of its output can be classified into categories of “dark” and “brutally fucking bleak.” The rainy weather has left its mark on many of Oldominion’s finest MCs, from Onry to Smoke. Wolf Hotel’s Barfly—whom you may know from the more colorful Saturday Knights crew—is the latest to come down with a case of seasonal affective disorder, as he proves on the
debut EP for his new group, Wolf Hotel, with producer Graves. The Good Bye EP moves in sticky, lo-fi slow motion across four tracks that share more with minor-keyfueled Northwest pre-grunge than they do with Macklemore or Cool Nutz—but Barfly and Graves show a strong grasp of songwriting that will appeal to those tired of repetitive rap hooks. CASEY JARMAN. Mount Tabor Theater, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 9 pm. $7. 21+.
MONDAY, JULY 30 The Ben Wolfe Quartet
[JAZZ HOMECOMING] You could make a pretty terrific jazz band—or 10—populated by expatriate Portlanders. The bass slot would probably go to Esperanza Spalding, but Ben Wolfe would be one of the first off the bench. Working early on as Harry Connick Jr.’s music director and duet partner, Wolfe also toured and recorded with Diana Krall’s band, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Wynton Marsalis’ excellent septet. These days he teaches at New York’s Juilliard School. Wolfe’s ambitious original compositions draw on bebop, swing and other influences. His band here includes a couple of fine local talents: drummer Alan Jones and saxophonist Rob Scheps. BRETT CAMPBELL. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 8 pm (Minors allowed until 9 pm). $10. All ages.
TUESDAY, JULY 31 Ghost to Falco, Wooden Indian Burial Ground
[DOOM POP] Portland’s Ghost to Falco has dragged its heels through a career far harder to classify than those enjoyed by many of its experimental-pop peers. Neither developing a steady upward arc of buzz nor gaining early success only to go just as quickly supernova, the band, led by songwriter Eric Crespo, has subsisted on a base level of notoriety for nearly a decade. But with releases popping up about once every three years (2010’s Exotic Believers is the latest), the group has quietly built itself a catalog of experimentalpop dirges equal to that of any of its iconoclastic cohorts. SHANE DANAHER. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $3. 21+.
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silversun pickups • passion pit • girl talk
beirut • nike a-trak • the hives • n i k e flying lotus red bull dinosaur jr. and sebadoh and j mascis common thread presents
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against me! • hot snakes • menomena • starfucker red fang • danny brown • jason isbell & the 400 unit
MELVINS LITE
SEPT 7 WITH BIG BUSINESS & OLD MAN GLOOM
AT THE HAWTHORNE THEATER
typhoon• swans• lightning bolt •school of seven bells king khan & the shrines • melvins lite • big freedia • hazel fuc ke d up • black mountai n • r e dd k r os s p e r f o r m i n g david comes to life
purity ring • the pains of being pure at heart • n i k e nosaj thing uknown mortal orchestra• future islands • lp • s loan • john maus presents
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moonface • omar souleyman • wild nothing • big business pokey lafarge & the south city three • joe pug • the growlers the men • strand of oaks • i break horses • tanlines • milo greene t r ust • t ou ch e a m o r e • d j m r . j onathan t ou bi n • cerem o n y
atl as geniu s • nite j e we l • che ls e a wo l fe • t he so ft m o o n • blouse cheap girls • julia
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alialujah choir • my goodness • quest for fire • evian christ • tender forever • the curious mystery onuinu • pure bathing culture • mac demarco • dante vs. zombies • dj beyondadoubt • sandpeople hungry ghost • brainstorm • mimicking birds • kishi bashi • lake • erik koskinen • white lung • tropic of cancer • naytroniX hosannas • headaches • dz deathrays • and many more...
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CRYSTAL BALLROOM
PASSION PIT
SEPT. 5&6
WITH LP (SEPT. 5) & THE HUNDRED IN THE HANDS (SEPT. 6)
PIONEER STAGE AT PIONEER COURTHOUSE SQUARE
SEPT. 8
SEPT. 7
THE HELIO SEQUENCE
THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH
WITH UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA RADIATION CITY & HOSANNAS
WITH STRAND OF OAKS
ROSELAND THEATER
BEIRUT WITH MENOMENA & GARDENS & VILLA
SEPT. 5
SEPT. 7
THE OLD 97s
HOT SNAKES
PERFORMING TOO FAR TO CARE
WITH JASON ISBELL & THE 400 UNIT & THOSE DARLINS
WITH RED FANG & HUNGRY GHOST
SEPT. 6
RED BULL COMMON THREAD featuring
SEPT. 7
YELAWOLF
DINOSAUR JR.
WITH DANNY BROWN & SANDPEOPLE
WITH SEBADOH & J MASCIS
SEPT. 8
SEPT. 8
ALADDIN THEATER
GIRL TALK
TYPHOON
WITH STARFUCKER & AU
WITH HOLCOMBE WALLER & AND AND AND
TRAMPLED BY TURTLES WITH THESE UNITED STATES & ERIK KOSKINEN
SEPT. 8
SEPT. 6&7
WONDER BALLROOM SEPT. 9
THE HIVES
SILVERSUN PICKUPS WITH SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS & ATLAS GENIUS
SEPT. 8
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Upcoming In-Store Performances ALBERTA CROSS FRIDAY 7/27 @ 6 PM After touring extensively on their debut ‘Broken Side Of Time’ with bands like Them Crooked Vultures, Oasis, and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and stopping at festivals like Bonnaroo and Sasquatch, Alberta Cross headed to an old, abandoned house in the middle of nowhere to envision ideas for a new record. The result is their new album ‘Songs of Patience.’
STUART DAVIS SATURDAY 7/28 @ 5 PM Stuart Davis hasn't quit his day job. He's still a full-time performing songwriter. Davis, the "punk monk" and the creator of the spiritual/ satirical TV show Sex, God, Rock 'n Roll, is just a bit more hyphenated these days; he's a Musician-Director-Comedian-Author. His latest release ‘Music For Mortals’ crackles with an intensity that owes much to his new band, including Justin Meldal-Johnsen on bass (Beck, Nine Inch Nails), Joel Shearer on guitar (Alanis Morissette, Annie Lennox), and Blair Sinta on drums (Alanis Morissette, Stevie Nicks).
Wednesday, July 25 6:30pm—FREE
NOW OPEN! Dodgeball
RICK ESTRIN & THE NIGHTCATS SUNDAY 8/5 @ 3 PM
W/ JOE MCMURRIAN – MONTI AMUNDSON – JACK MCMAHON
MONDAY 8/6 @ 7 PM
Gangster Computer God Mister Nick (of Skipp Coon) Big Shell• Puff’n Stuff
Thursday, July 26 9pm.
Ask Sophie Gresham Transit Center (Snoqualmie, WA)
Friday, July 27 Replica •Walls The Stops • Sick Rats $5.00 at the door.
It is literally from out of the blue that pianist/singer-songwriter Sara Jackson-Holman was launched onto the national music scene in 2010. For the then 20 year-old Whitworth University piano and writing student from Bend nothing could have prepared her for the trajectory her life was about to take; propelling her from student life to recording her first CD, all in a matter of months. Jackson-Holman’s new release ‘Cardiology’ expresses a very personal journey, specific to the study of her own heart over the course of this last year.
SONGWRITERS CIRCLE
Quizzy
9pm—FREE
(doors open at 9pm).
SARA JACKSON-HOLMAN SUNDAY 7/29 @ 3 PM
THE HAGUE SATURDAY 8/4 @ 5 PM
Sunday, July 29 8:30pm—FREE
Elliot Tinsley • Jonah Sissoyev Linda Brown • Aaron Cain Robyn Bateman Live music from genre-stretching musicians and poetry from local slam poets.
THE FIXXTUESDAY 8/7 @ 7 PM THE 44S THURSDAY 8/9 @ 6 PM
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Branx
Biddy McGraw’s
TOM COPS
6000 NE Glisan St. Biddy’s Acoustic Jam 320 SE 2nd Ave. Cobra Skulls, 48 Thrills, Absent Minds, Three Round Burst
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. John “JB” Butler & Al Craido
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Chris Margolin, Kent M. Smith
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Ben Macy Trio
Chapel Pub
430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin
Club 21
2035 NE Glisan St. Organized Sports, Creem, Urban Blight, Long Knife
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Mesi & Bradley
Corkscrew Wine Bar 1669 SE Bybee Blvd. Inspirational Beets
Doug Fir Lounge
RICH MAN, PARR MAN: Charlie Parr plays Mississippi Studios on Thursday, July 26.
WED. JULY 25 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Worth
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Open Mic
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Bellwether, Happy Pocket, Second Player Score
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Night Surgeon, Ninja Turtle Ninja Tiger, Endless Loop
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Abram Rosenthal, Planes Intersect, TeeCo
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Hair Assault
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Jazz Jam with Errick Lewis & the Regiment House Band
Club 21
2035 NE Glisan St. The Urges, Partyfoul, Scavenger Cunt, Dirty Graves
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. Dirty Projectors, Wye Oak
Dawson Park
North Stanton Street and North Williams Avenue Malcolm Noble’s Cool Breeze
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 End
203 SE Grand Ave.
Black Magic Horror Ritual, R.I.P., Dennis Dread
East India Co.
821 SW 11th Ave. Josh Feinberg
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Holy Tentacles, Zvoov, The Mercury Tree
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Inspirational Beets, The Rose City Banjoliers
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Mangled Bohemians, Wooden Indian Burial Ground, RLLRBLL, When the Broken Bow
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Chad Rupp & the Divine Fire Blues Band
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet
Ladd’s Inn
1204 SE Clay St. Lynn Conover
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray and the Cowdogs (9:30 pm); Bob Shoemaker (6 pm)
Laughing Horse Books
12 NE 10th Ave. Fools Rush, Myth of Democracy, Dark Country
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Stellar’s Jay, California Stars (9 pm); Alameda, Autopilot is for Lovers (6 pm)
Lents Commons
9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Trent Beaver (9:30 pm); Mr. Hoo (12 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles, Adam Sweeney & the Jamboree
OMSI
1945 SE Water Ave. OMSI After Dark: Wild Ones, Mimicking Birds
Oregon Zoo
4001 SW Canyon Road Portland Cello Project, Los Rumberos del Caribe
PCPA Music on Main Street
Southwest Main Street and Southwest Broadway Casey Neill & the Norway Rats with the Portland Horns (5 pm); The Bottlecap Boys (12 pm)
Palace of Industry
5426 N Gay Ave. Flat Rock String Band
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Fuzz Huzzi, Eric Sugar Larsen
Red and Black Cafe
400 SE 12th Ave. Stone Crowe, Izzakate, Deathrattle, I Wobble Wobble
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Lost Lockets, Technicolor Hearts, Magic Mouth
Sundown Pub
5903 N Lombard St. Sam Densmore, Adam Brock, Too Long Sparks
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project Blues Jam
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. The Stops, Sleepless Eyes
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Psychopomp with Ogo Eion
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Dez Young Trio
Torta Landia
4144 SE 60th Ave. Humidors, Open Jam
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Nancy King
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Bitterroot
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Trio with Anandi, Joe Millward
Willamette Park
Southwest Macadam Avenue and Southwest Nebraska Street The Bylines
THUR. JULY 26 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Worth
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Swing Time Vaudeville (Tom Waits tribute)
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. BeatRootBand, Mood Area 52
Alice Coltrane Memorial Coliseum
5135 NE 42nd Ave. Saything, Iraqasaurus, Maddy, The Mr. Bitches Experience
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Borikuas
Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway Fiona Apple, Blake Mills
Artichoke Community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Acoustic Village
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Find Your Smile, The Good Hurt, Commonly Courteous
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave.
830 E Burnside St. La Sera, Magic Trick, Foxygen
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Lipbone Redding, Los Perros Olvidados (8 pm); Tough Lovepyle (6 pm)
Ecotrust
721 NW 9th Ave., Suite 200 The Builders and the Butchers, Kelli Schaefer
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Antecessor, Ladyshapes, Leisure, Toning
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Pocket, Giraffe Dodgers, DJ Kelbel (of Fruition)
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Demon Hunter, Bleeding Through, Cancer Bats, The Plot in You, Willows
Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Blvd. Sound & Vision Festival: Robin Pecknold (of Fleet Foxes) and Neal Morgan, Katie Bernstein and John Gnorski, Laurel Knapp and Davis Hooker (live film score and Leonard Cohen tribute)
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Prescription Pills, WL, Mattress, Industrial Park, DJ Death Party
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. Gallons, XDS, Hats Off!, Excuses
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Growler, Jorge Brotheltrough, The Separatists
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. MacDougall, The Harmed Brothers (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Emmylou Harris & Her Red Dirt Boys, Steve Martin & Steep Canyon Rangers
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Annie Bethancourt (9 pm); Carley Baer (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Charlie Parr, Tom Bevitori, Evan Way
O’Connor’s Vault
7850 SW Capitol Highway Kathy James Sextet
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb
Pioneer Courthouse Square 701 SW 6th Ave. 3 Leg Torso
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Butt2Butt, Memory Boys
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Kris Ashby
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Palmas, Adventures! With Might, Big Pauper, Cars and Trains, Harvey Girls
Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Solomon’s Hollow, Evanglism, Ben Laing
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Dan Diresta Quartet
Artichoke Community Music
3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Friday Night Coffeehouse
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Character Assassin, Social Daze
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Watsky, Dumbfoundead
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Bevelers, Johnny Keener, Harrison Fulop
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Funk Shui (9:30 pm); Lynn Connover (6 pm)
Bijou Cafe
32 SW 3rd Ave. Gordon Lee, Dave Captein, Ron Stein
Bipartisan Cafe 7901 SE Stark St. Rene and Olivia
Boom Bap!
640 SE Stark St. Blood Beach, White Fang, Starskate, Kelsey Grammar & the Kenny G’s
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. E*Rock, Fatha Green, Unicorn Domination, Boy Funk, Hard Power USA, Matthew Heller & the Clever
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Gravy
231 SW Ankeny St. Bear and Moose, Charts, Twin Lens, Souvenir Driver
Buffalo Gap Saloon
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones
1028 SE Water Ave. Rare Monk, James Apollo, Damn Divas
The Blue Monk
Camellia Lounge
3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones Jam
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Outpost, Wooster
Torta Landia
4144 SE 60th Ave. Anthony Floyd Brady, Open Mic
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Ryan Dwyer
Wallace Park
Northwest 25th Avenue and Northwest Raleigh Street Nancy King Band
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Garcia Birthday Band (9 pm); Kory Quinn (5:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Randy Porter Trio
FRI. JULY 27 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Worth
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Ottmar Liebert and Luna Negra
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Truckstop Honeymoon, Lewi Longmire, Peter Wilde
6835 SW Macadam Ave. The Old States
Bunk Bar
510 NW 11th Ave. Nancy Curtin with John Keyser
Club 21
2035 NE Glisan St. Pitchfork Motorway, The Food, The Lovesores, The Decliners, Stumblebum
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Cool Breeze
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Red Elvises
Dilly’s Bar and Grill
2002 SE Division St. Proof151, Prick and the Burn, Dartgun and the Vignettes, Sorry Devils, Brain Lice
Disjecta
8371 N Interstate Ave. Sometimes a Great Notion Festival: The Felice Brothers, Dennis Coffey, Mattress, Holcombe Waller, Natasha Kmeto
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. The Prids, The Upsidedown, Sundaze
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. The D.K. Stewart Sextet featuring the Soul Survivor Horns
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. Hot Tea Cold
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Powder, Clorox Girls, Lens, Sweet Pups, Ballantynes
Fernhill Park
Northeast 37th Avenue and Northeast Ainsworth Street Kevin Selfe and the Tornadoes
Get Happy Studios
2119 N Kerby Ave. Mustaphamond, Year of the Rabbit, Autry!, Goomy, DJ Flash Gordon Quarterback New York Jets (art and music show)
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Emery, Heart Attack High, Verah Falls, Elenora
Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Blvd. Sound & Vision Festival: Rachel Blumberg (live film score)
Island Mana Wines 526 SW Yamhill St. Joe Marquand
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Kevin Deitz Sextet
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Jacob Merlin Band, Sarah Billings
Jolly Roger
1340 SE 12th Ave Synrgy
Katie O’Briens
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Feral Pigs, Axxicorn
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Talkative, Fanno Creek, Old Age
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Dead Beat, Surfs Drugs, K-Tel ‘79, The Ghost Ease
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Lisa Miller, Jake Ray & the Cowdogs (9:30 pm); Michael Hurley & the Croakers (6 pm)
Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan St. Paul Thorn, Uncle Lucius
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Sarah Gwen Peters, Scott Weddle, James Low (9 pm); Thistle & Rose, John Shipe (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Hood Internet, Psalm One, Tanya Morgan
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Stuart Davis, Lydian Gray
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Alberta Cross
Nel Centro
1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Suburban Slim
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Forest Bloodgood
Peter’s Room
8 NW 6th Ave. Alberta Cross, Everest, Aaron Lee Tasjan
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Angry Samoans, 13 Scars, Rum Rebellion, PDX Punk Rock Collective
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Mollusk, Scammers, Sister Mamie Foreskin
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BAR SPOTLIGHT
3416 N Lombard St. Lord Master, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Savage Lord
Glenhaven Park
Northeast 82nd Avenue and Northeast Siskiyou Street Pete Krebs & His Portland Playboys
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Everyday Prophets
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Otep, Butcher Babies, One-Eyed Doll, Veio, Separation of Sanity
Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Blvd. Sound & Vision Festival: Jeffrey Jerusalem, Golden Retriever (live film score)
Howell Territorial Park
EVERY ROSE HAS ITS THORN: “Did anyone talk to you yet?” asks the chestnut-haired bartender after I finally get her attention. No, no one did. Nor would any of the waitstaff address me for almost the entirety of my Saturday evening at Pink Rose (1300 NW Lovejoy St., 428-2165), a dark little nightspot tucked unceremoniously beneath Office Depot in the Pearl. Instead, I was smirked at by the gang of five bros in polo shirts huddled around the end of the uncomfortable U-shaped bar, knocking back shots of Patrón and straining to be heard over the din of a DJ doing a piss-poor job of mixing together ’70s soul classics. Rescuing the evening was the bar’s signature Rose Burger ($12, topped with bacon, Swiss, fried onion and a tangy Dijon aioli) and my amusement at watching patrons’ feeble attempts to work the sliding door to the bar’s sole restroom. ROBERT HAM.
13605 NW Howell Park Road Scott Law (Sauvie Island Center benefit)
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. The Yesberger Band
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Supraphonics, The Grind
Katie O’Briens
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. I Am the Lake of Fire, Animism, Waynhim
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Animal Eyes, Eidolons, Sam Adams
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Last Prick Standing, Moodring, The Hand That Bleeds
LaurelThirst Red Room
Tony Pacini Trio
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Manx, The Sindicate, Trueheart Suzy, Chloraform
Secret Society Lounge
116 NE Russell St. Pete Krebs and His Portland Playboys, Tezeta Band, DJ Cooky Parker
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Replica, Walls, The Stops, Sick Rats
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Hustle and Drone, Black Hills, Themes
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Trio Subtonic, The Quadraphonnes
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Still Caves, Shiva Trash, Electric Healing Sound, Bath Party
The Waypost
3120 N Williams Ave. Gridlords
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway When the Lights Go Out, Prepare for Impact, In Her Memory
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Bureau of Standards Big Band
Touché Restaurant and Billiards
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Medicine for the People, Marv Ellis, Worth, Dustin Thomas
SAT. JULY 28 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Worth
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Don Bellairs, Enric Sifa, Wm. “Scott” Browning, eRok, Taper, Matthew Hartman, Portico, Earth to Zack
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. New Slang, Marlene Marlene, Sorry Devils, Justin Rayfield Band
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Nat Hulskamp Trio
Artichoke Community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Paul Zollo
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Serge Severe featuring Zapata, Load B, Half Man Half, Chill Crew, Diction, Cray, DJ Spark
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. BilgeRats & Pyrettes
510 NW 11th Ave. Steve Hall Quintet
2958 NE Glisan St. Joe McMurrian & David Lipkind (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)
Club 21
Mississippi Pizza
Camellia Lounge
2035 NE Glisan St. Law of Falling Bodies, Young Dad, K-Tel ‘79,
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Muthaship
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Super Sonic Soul Pimps, Furniture Girls
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Miracles Club, Thanks, DJ Rev. Shines, DJ Cooky Parker (Dig a Pony oneyear anniversary)
Disjecta
8371 N Interstate Ave. Sometimes a Great Notion Festival: Ed Kuepper & Mark Dawson, White Fang, Ollo, Chris T-T, Swoop Swoop, Onuinu, Grapefruit, Good Night Billygoat (inside stage); Louis Inglis, Zac Pennington, The Great Mundane, Quim, Metal Postcard Soundsystem (outside stage)
Division/Clinton Street Fair
Southeast 25th Avenue and Southeast Clinton Street Magic Mouth, Palmas, Ancient Heat, The Slidells, Tiger House, Unicornz
Doug Fir Lounge
6000 NE Glisan St. The Mountain Ever
830 E Burnside St. Left Coast Country, The Bottlecap Boys, The Ruby Pines
Bossanova Ballroom
Duff’s Garage
722 E Burnside St. Night of Kink--Unicorns Gone Wild
1635 SE 7th Ave. The Buckles, The Hamdogs
836 N Russell St. Glue Horses (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
Brasserie Montmartre
East Burn
626 SW Park Ave. Tablao
1800 E Burnside St. Bottleneck Blues Band
Bunk Bar
Ella Street Social Club
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. The Thrones, Deep Fried Boogie
1425 NW Glisan St. Rob Scheps and George Colligan
Trader Vic’s
1203 NW Glisan St. John English (Frank Sinatra tribute)
White Eagle Saloon
800 NW 6th Ave.
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714 SW 20th Place Growwler
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Lincoln Crockett & Nicolas Miranda, Kathryn Claire & Hans Araki (9 pm); Casper Babypants (4 pm)
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Stuart Davis
DMX, Tru Game, Mike Bars, Winkz, Bad Habitat, Grinchmobb
Secret Society Lounge
116 NE Russell St. The Midnight Serenaders, DJ Miz Kitty (9 pm); The Martens Combination (6 pm)
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Acoustic Minds, Afro Massive, Lafa Taylor
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Franco Paletta and the Stingers
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. The Planet Jackers
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Kissing Party, Shadow House, Lubec
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Myrrh Larsen
Andina
225 SW Ash St. The Horrids, Cigarettes and Caviar, Bad Luck Blackouts
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Harry and the Potters, Potter Puppet Pals, Hank Green
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Doc McTear’s Medicine Show
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Felim Egan
Clyde’s Prime Rib
The Wild Hare Saloon
Dante’s
3120 N Williams Ave. Racing Heart, Worn Yarn 1190 SW 1st Ave., Canby Canby ‘80s Hare Fest: Stone in Love (Journey tribute), Appetite for Deception (Guns N’ Roses tribute), The Radical Revolution, Random Pressure, Guy Dilly and the Wonder Twin Powers
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Adrian H & the Wounds
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Zax Vandal, Matt James & Dave Ward, Leo
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. 3 Leg Torso
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. David Friesen
Trader Vic’s
1203 NW Glisan St. Xavier Tavera
White Eagle Saloon
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Devin Phillips Quartet
4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Dan Haley with Tim Acott (9 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm) 819 N Russell St. Dragging an Ox Through Water, Morgan Ritter, Jason Traeger, Tunnels
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. The Muriel Stanton Band with Tracy Kim (9 pm); Eden Hana (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Mikey Kampmann, Brainstorm, Interiors, Ian Karmel (multimedia show, 9 pm); James Low, Michael Jodell (3 pm)
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Wolf Hotel, IAME, Gepetto, Good Cop/Bad Cop, DJ Spark
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam
Music Millennium
350 W Burnside St. Eric McFadden Trio
3158 E Burnside St. Sara Jackson-Holman
Disjecta
8371 N Interstate Ave. Sometimes a Great Notion Festival: Peaking Lights, The Emergency, Pulse Emitter, Rake Wickman, ?Redo from Start, Das Butcher, Worng (inside stage); Jeffrey Jerusalem, Strangled Darlings, Swoop Swoop, Louis Inglis, Michael Hurley, Metal Postcard Soundsystem, Friends Sunday Sessions (outside stage)
Doug Fir Lounge
NEPO 42
5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic
Norse Hall
111 NE 11th Ave. David Elliker-Vagsberg
Rontoms
600 E Burnside St. On the Stairs, The Black Apples
Sherman Clay/Moe’s Pianos 131 NW 13th Ave. Bob Sterry
Slabtown
830 E Burnside St. Blind Bartimaeus, The Black Lillies, Audie Darling (9 pm); Jake Ray & Ian Miller, Ruby Feathers (3 pm)
1033 NW 16th Ave. Elliot Tinsley, Jonah Sissoyev, Linda Brown, Aaron Cain, Robyn Bateman
Someday Lounge
Doug Fir Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Monoliths, Gamma Repeater, Paul Notley
830 E Burnside St. Blind Bartimaeus, The Black Lillies, Audie Darling
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. The Angel Bouchet Band Jam
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. The Jitterbug Vipers
Hawthorne Theatre
1435 NW Flanders St. Linda Myers Band
Lowell
Ash Street Saloon
The Waypost
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe
Original Halibut’s II
Alberta Rose Theatre
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Teri and Larry
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
Landmark Saloon
Spare Room
Nel Centro
4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music
303 SW 12th Ave. Tim Snider
3000 NE Alberta St. Sharaya Mikael, Dustin Ruth
836 N Russell St. Just Lions, Welfare, Denim Wedding (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)
1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew, Dave Captein, Randy Rollofson
SUN. JULY 29 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
The Blue Monk
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. TCOR Radio’s Battle For Warped Tour
3341 SE Belmont St. Blake Lyman Ensemble
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St.
Solid Attitude, Youthbitch, Scavenger Cunt
The Waypost
3120 N Williams Ave. Amy Bleu
Tillicum Club
8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Johnny Martin Quartet
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Peter Boe
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Horizon Airs, Truman’s Water
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Open Mic
MON. JULY 30 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Tim Snider
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Kyle Sanna and Dana Lyn with Johnny Connolly
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Errol Hem, Milky Way, Codependents
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Nathan James & the Rhythm Scratchers
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Ben Wolfe Quartet
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens (9 pm); Portland Country Underground (6 pm)
Sellwood Riverfront Park
Southeast Spokane Street and Southeast Oaks Parkway Rich Layton & the Troublemakers
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Tom Grant Trio
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St.
2527 NE Alberta St. Margo Tufo
BIG HASSLE MEDIA
MUSIC
Overlook Village Street Fair
North Killingsworth Street between North Interstate and Greeley avenues Bad Assets, Kinzel & Hyde, Joe McMurrian, Donna Jose with Scotty Bickford & Gary Lapado, Posole, New Iberians, Almroth & Sons (Greeley Avenue Bar & Grill stage); On the Stairs, Gabby Holt and Hivemind, Sunday Last, Troy Richmond Dixon, Flash Flood and the Dikes, Lewis Childs, Aireene Espiritu (Killingsworth stage); Kat Jones, Wild Mountain Bell, Flat Rock String Band, Lady Elaine, Tim Connor (Denver stage)
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Zotz, Starskate, Fur Coats
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. RKC, Random Axe, Mouthwash Enema, Outer Space Heaters, Skatterbomb, The Unicornz
Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave.
Y’ALL GON’ MAKE ME LOSE MY MIND: DMX plays the Roseland Theater on Saturday, July 28.
CALENDAR Sea at Last, Nahko, Dustin Thomas
TUES. JULY 31 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Tim Snider
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Jason Okamoto
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. The Soapmakers, The Oldest Profession
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Fringe Class, Fear of Lights, CC Swim
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Hearts of Oak
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Ghost to Falco, Wooden Indian Burial Ground
Jimmy Mak’s
Camellia Lounge
Doug Fir Lounge
12 NE 10th Ave. Profcal, Rambush, Murray
125 NW 5th Ave. Ramune Rocket 3, Beautiful Lies, 78B
LaurelThirst
The Blue Diamond
Foggy Notion
2958 NE Glisan St. Spigot (9 pm); Jackstraw (6 pm)
Goodfoot Lounge
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Marie Black
3341 SE Belmont St. Backyard Blues Boys, Pagan Jug Band
Mount Tabor Park
Tiger Bar
510 NW 11th Ave. Superjazzers
830 E Burnside St. The Young Evils, The Lower 48 3416 N Lombard St. Dusty Grimm, Dads II 2845 SE Stark St. Sugarcane String Band
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Jazz Jam with Carey Campbell and Hank Hirsch
Laughing Horse Books
Mississippi Pizza
Southeast 60th Avenue and Southeast Salmon Street Franco Paletta & The Stingers
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. The Young Evils
13 NW 6th Ave. Daniel Ash (DJ set)
Stark Street Station 6049 SE Stark St. DJ Nate C
Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Nate C.
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Trick with DJ Robb
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Sex Life DJs
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. TRONix with Logical Aggression
Matador
1967 W Burnside St. DJ Whisker Friction
Red Cap Garage
1035 SW Stark St Riot Wednesdays with DJ Rhienna
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. The Cancer Beat-Down: DJs E3, B Flat
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Copy
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway DJ Detroit Denzel
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Creepy Crawl
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Tender, Love and Care
Yes and No
20 NW 3rd Ave. Death Club with DJ Entropy
THUR. JULY 26 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Bill Portland
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Hip Hop Heaven with DJ Detroit Diezel
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Safi
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Shadowplay: DJs Ghoulunatic, Paradox, Horrid
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. DJs Mr. Romo, Michael Grimes
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. DJ AM Gold
Swift Lounge
1932 NE Broadway Funky Broadway! with DJ Drew Groove
Pioneer Courthouse Square
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm); The Lew Jones Trio (6:30 pm)
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Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
Tiga
The Whiskey Bar
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FRI. JULY 27 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Anjali & the Incredible Kid
231 SW Ankeny St. WooHaa!
31 NW 1st Ave. Trance Mission: DJs Zoxy, Radius, Timmy, Gotek
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Beacon Sound
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18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Neil Blender
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. AV Club
Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Sandy Candy
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Sound Glitter with Peter Calandra
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Icarus
Eagles Lodge, Southeast 4904 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Shout!: DJs Drew Groove, Cecilia, Hwy 7, Fuzzboxxx
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
Foggy Notion
SAT. JULY 28 Alley 33
Southeast 33rd Avenue alley and Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard DJ Gregarious (fashion show)
Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. DJ Sonero
Beech Street Parlor
412 NE Beech St. DJs Debt Ceiling, Booty Futures
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Blow Pony
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Revolution with DJ Robb
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Popvideo with DJ Gigahurtz
3416 N Lombard St. Apocalysp: DJs Pork Belly, Weinerslav
Ground Kontrol
Goodfoot Lounge
Mississippi Studios
Groove Suite
Mount Tabor Theater
2845 SE Stark St. Soul Stew with DJ Aquaman 440 NW Glisan St. Juice: Method One, Advisory, MC Child, Aquasion, MulchFactor
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. DJ Adam
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Snap!: Dr. Adam, Colin Jones, Spies Like Us (Snap! 5-year anniversary)
Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Walking Tour
Red Cap Garage
1035 SW Stark St Mantrap with DJ Lunchlady
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. Blank Fridays
511 NW Couch St. Roxy’s Ego Hour 3939 N Mississippi Ave. Jai Ho! with Prashant 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Stahlwerks
Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Ghost Train
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Cobra with DJ Stallone
The Whiskey Bar
701 SW 6th Ave. Kory Quinn
Someday Lounge
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Sportin’ Lifers
The Blue Monk
317 NW Broadway Franco Paletta
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Orca Team, Still Caves, Surf Drugs
SUN. JULY 29 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Hwy 7
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Atom 13
Matador
1967 W Burnside St. Next Big Thing with Donny Don’t
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Hive with DJ Owen
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511 NW Couch St. Service Industrial with DJ Tibin
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy VJs
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. Metal Mondays with DJ Blackhawk
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Hostile Tapeover
TUES. JULY 31 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Old Frontier
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Girltopia with DJ Robb
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Mercedez
Eagle Portland
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The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. See You Next Tuesday: Kellan, Avery
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20 NW 3rd Ave. Idiot Tuesdays with DJ Black Dog
232 SW Ankeny St. Lovecamp DJs
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Sundays through Aug. 18. See qlit.org for details. $18-$20.
Homomentum: The Musical
Portland Outdoor Shakespeare Festival
The folks behind the monthly queer cabaret are expanding their act into a sci-fi fantasy musical. As part of Portland Center Stage’s JAW festival of new works, catch a sneak peek of the show, replete with mythical creatures, glitter and plenty of singing and dancing. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 3:30 pm Saturday, July 28. Free.
JAW: A Playwrights Festival
Portland Center Stage’s invigorating, annual festival of new works features readings of six full-length plays drawn from a national search. Highlights include The People’s Republic of Portland by former The Daily Show cast member Lauren Weedman and Elizabeth Heffron’s one-woman show Bo-Nita, about a 13-year-old girl with an unsavory family. The festival also features shorts from four high-school students and an evening of mini-plays by eight Oregon playwrights. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 8 pm Thursday, July 26; 4 pm and 8 pm Friday-Sunday, July 27-29. Free.
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.
Much Ado About Nothing
If your appetite for summer Shakespeare in the park has not yet been sated, get thee to Willamette Shakespeare’s production of the Bard’s lively comedy about two pairs of lovers, featuring an original score and live music. Performances take place at various locations in the Willamette Valley wine country (and yes, wine will be available for purchase). Multiple locations, 852-1564. 7 pm FridaysSaturdays, 6 pm Sundays through Aug. 19. Free.
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 Sept. 30. Free.
Persuasion
Quintessence Language and Imagination Theatre takes on Jane Austen, presenting two adaptations by company artistic director Connor Kerns. Playing in repertory with Northanger Abbey, Persuasion is a satire of the spoiled classes and a melancholy love story. Mago Hunt Center, University of Portland, 5000 N Willamette Blvd., 285-2826. 7:30 pm some Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm
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., 971-258-8584. 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 Sunday July 29; 2 pm Sundays Aug. 5, 12 and 19. Closes Aug. 19. $25-$28.
The Superior Casa Nova
Masque Alfresco adapts this Commedia dell’Arte farce, rich with hat juggling, theatrical slapstick and bombastic characters. The familyfriendly show tours to various outdoor locations in Lake Oswego, Hillsboro and Beaverton. Multiple locations, 254-5104. 6:30 pm Fridays-Sundays through Aug. 26. Free.
Theatre Without Animals
Jean-Michel Ribes’ collection of eight short plays is classic Theater of the Absurd: A giant ballpoint pen crashes through a family’s roof one Sunday morning. A father can’t remember his daughter’s name. Visitors to an art museum imagine reverse evolution. The situations are improbable, the speech irrational, the language inadequate. Unfortunately, this Factory Theatre production—the first show by this new company and the Englishlanguage premiere of Ribes’ work— unsettles for the wrong reasons. The primary shortcoming is the acting: The five cast members overplay their scenes, dramatically gesticulating and bellowing in ways that overpower the 99-seat CoHo Theater. Jessica Hillenbrand, a University of Portland drama student, better balances exaggeration and understatement than her fellow actors, but director Matthew Jared Lee would have done well to rein in his cast. Ribes’ repetitive dialogue and bizarre humor beg for subtlety and range, but this production plays the same loud and wearisome key throughout. July’s shows are at the CoHo Theater (2257 NW Raleigh St.); August shows are at Theater! Theatre! (3430 SE Belmont St.). REBECCA JACOBSON. Multiple venues, 4007320. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through Aug. 11 and Wednesdays July 25 and Aug. 8. Closes Aug. 11. $10-$15, Wednesdays are “pay what you will.”
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
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.
COMEDY AND VARIETY Action Comics
Jessie McCoy hosts a slate of local stand-up comedians, including Sean Jordan, Jimmy Newstetter, Veronica Heath and Dan Weber. Action/ Adventure Theatre, 1050 SE Clinton St. 10 pm Friday, July 27. $5.
Dave Hill
Curious Comedy hosts comedian and musician Dave Hill, author of the 2012 book Tasteful Nudes:..and Other Misguided Attempts at Personal Growth and Validation. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 10 pm Saturday, July 28. $5.
Improv jam show featuring Brody performers and other local improvisers. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 2242227. 7 pm Sundays. $5.
Doug Benson
Helium hosts Doug Benson, host of the popular Doug Loves Movies podcast and guest on Comedy Central Presents and Best Week Ever. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 7:30 pm Wednesday, July 25. $22.
Jeff Dye
Jeff Dye, host of Money from Strangers and recurring guest on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, takes the mic. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 pm and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, July 26-28. $16-$31.
CLASSICAL Abbey Bach Festival
That series down in Eugene isn’t the only Bach fest in Oregon. Out near Salem, you can hear Baroque music preceded by actual Benedictine monks singing psalms, a half-hour chamber or choral recital, a picnic and then a concert. Wednesday’s program features the Alcan Quartet playing music by Beethoven, J.S. Bach and a couple of his musically talented family members. Thursday brings the world’s most famous clarinetist, Richard Stoltzman, and pianist/composer Yehudi Wyner in his own music and works by Brahms, Gershwin and midcentury American composer Lukas Foss. Friday offers violinist Laurence Kayaleh and pianist Stéphane Lemelin in music by Bach, Brahms and Fritz Kreisler. Mount Angel Abbey, 1 Abbey Drive, St. Benedict, 845-3030. 8 pm Wednesday-Friday, July 25-27. $45$125.
Cathedral music director and pianist in art songs by Schumann and the great American composers Samuel Barber and Ned Rorem, plus songs from musicals including several by Stephen Sondheim. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 147 NW 19th Ave., 222-9811. 7 pm Thursday, July 26. $10.
DANCE Celebracion Peruana: Celebrate Peru
In honor of Peruvian Independence Day, choreographer Luciana Proaño and dancers Nestor Ruiz, Rachel Lidskog, Mike Eblen and Jack Lim offer an evening of movement, music and poetry celebrating Peruvian culture. Andina, 1314 NW Glisan St., 228-9535. 7 pm Sunday, July 29. $15.
Conduit DANCE+ Performance Series
The curated festival Conduit DANCE+ has been established to share the work these dancemakers have recently made with other forward-thinking artists, including musicians, fine
artists and multimedia types. Artists and projects were selected earlier this year by a panel of national and regional artists and arts administrators, and each group will receive an honorarium of $600 to $800 for works ranging from 15 to 30 minutes. Now in its second week, the series will feature The Loveliest Landscape by Danielle Ross and Christi Denton; Advantage, from Gaskin, Bielemeier & Bronchtien; the Friendly Pheromones Dance Company’s A Moment of Your Time; and Tsunami, by Luciana Proaño Dance. HEATHER WISNER. Conduit, 918 SW Yamhill St. 8:30 pm ThursdaySaturday, July 26-28. $15-$20.
TGIFF (Thank Goodness It’s Fourth Friday) Dance
Mary Ann Carter teaches dance lessons from 7:30 to 8:30 pm, followed by open practice to big band the Pranksters. Norse Hall, 111 NE 11th Ave., 236-3401. 7:30 pm fourth Fridays. $8.
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PERFORMANCE
Chamber Music Northwest
Thanks to his studio work in Nashville on legions of pop, country and rock hits, and to his own contemporary classical work, Edgar Meyer certainly merits a top position on any mythical “world’s-greatest bassist” list. On Wednesday, he and his composer/violinist son George join the excellent young musicians of Chamber Music Northwest’s Protégé Project, including the Amphion String Quartet, in various works for bass and violin, plus a movement from Meyer’s own string quintet. On Thursday, Meyer demonstrates the bass can be not only a lead instrument but even a solo star. Just as few music lovers regard the bass as a major solo instrument, too many still consider the recorder as an instrument best suited for elementary-school music lessons. However, during the Baroque era, the recorder (in various pitch ranges) was indeed a prominent lead instrument wielded by some of the period’s greatest musicians. There’s none finer today than Michala Petri. On Saturday, the Danish virtuosa joins some of the world’s other finest instrumentalists in a half-dozen concerts by the greatest Baroque composers. Thursday’s, Saturday’s and Sunday’s concerts are all at Reed College’s Kaul Auditorium. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 294-6400. 8 pm Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, July 25-26 and 28; 3 pm Sunday, July 29. $25-$50.
Kyle Sanna and Dana Lyn with Johnny Connolly
In his University of Oregon days, Sanna was a promising composer and guitarist. He’s fulfilled that promise in his project with fiddler and fellow Brooklynite Lyn. Together, they deliver a program that mixes traditional Irish tunes, originals and improvisations that should appeal to classical and Celtic fans alike. Alberta Street Public House, 1036 NE Alberta St., 284-7665. 6:30 pm Monday, July 30, at Alberta Street Public House. $5. 7 pm Tuesday, July 31, at McMenamins Edgefield, Troutdale, 669-8610. Free.
Stephen Marc Beaudoin and Michael Kleinschmidt
The WW Skidmore Prize winner (and former WW classical-music writer) is joined by the Trinity Episcopal
THE FAUX SEASONS: One of the Jersey Boys’ big-time production numbers.
JERSEY BOYS (FRED MEYER BROADWAY ACROSS AMERICA) We’ve got a situation... a nostalgic situation.
Highlighted by the legendary Elmo-onhelium vocal range of frontman Frankie Valli, the Four Seasons became one of the most popular music groups of all time, selling 175 million records worldwide. The musical Jersey Boys, now a global phenomenon itself, documents the band’s meager beginnings and meteoric rise. Played out like a frenetic episode of Behind the Music, complete with drug overdoses and debts to the mob (hey, it’s Jersey), the show—currently touring North America—is broken into four parts, with each band member narrating a different season: spring, summer, etc. The first season is a chaotic blur of changing sets, inconsequential characters and snippets of song as several years’ worth of events are crammed into about 30 minutes. Come summertime, the band finally makes it big with three No. 1 hits in a row: “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry” and “Walk Like a Man.” This is what we all came for, and the singeractors don’t disappoint, with Joseph Leo Bwarie delivering a particularly impressive Valli-esque falsetto. When the group makes its debut on American Bandstand—cool set work allows us to see them both onstage and on TV—the audience at the Keller shrieked like the teenagers who were actually there. The nostalgic tunes and stellar performances are the reason to see this show, and the show’s overall giddiness is infectious. But come fall and winter, things begin to decline, both for the band and the show’s momentum. It’s clear the story of the Four Seasons is really no more remarkable than other groups’ of the time whose fame eventually fizzled. Valli even still tours regularly (Aug. 19 at the Snoqualmie Casino!), but his current popularity, sadly, cannot match that of the musical about his own life. We’d rather live in the past where four boys from Jersey can become international music sensations—until the arrival of disco, anyway. PENELOPE BASS.
SEE IT: Jersey Boys is at the Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 2484335, pcpa.com. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturdays, 1 and 6:30 pm Sundays through Aug. 12. $25-$69. Willamette Week JULY 25, 2012 wweek.com
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ties quite literally in her depictions of dazzling reflections that adorn Dubai’s skyscrapers. Through July 28. Chambers @ 916, 916 NW Flanders St., 227-9398.
Mark Andres: The Woman and the Ape
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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.
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ADAM SORENSEN’S FANTASIA AT PDX ACROSS THE HALL
NEWS Finalists have been announced for
the Portland Art Museum’s biennial exhibition, The Contemporary Northwest Art Awards. From 239 nominees, the museum’s Northwest art curator, Bonnie LaingMalcolmson, and guest curator Apsara DiQuinzio narrowed the field to 28 finalists. After visiting the artists’ studios this summer, LaingMalcolmson will further narrow the field to a handful of selectees who will be exhibited in September 2013. One of the exhibitors will win the $10,000 Arlene Schnitzer Prize. Eight of the finalists are based in Oregon (Hayley Barker, Karl Burkheimer, Laurel Bustamante, Sang-Ah Choi, Laura Hughes, Donald Morgan, Heidi Schwegler, and the collaborative duo of Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson-Paulson).
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Ben Young: I Think I’m Free
To follow up its three-month series of German artists, Victory Gallery heads northwest across the English Channel for London-based painter Ben Young’s I Think I’m Free. Interestingly, Young gives German titles to many of his paintings, including Dasein (German for “existence”) and Ohne Titel (“Without Title”). Using oil paint and spray paint, he counterposes the elegance of gestural abstraction with the grittiness of urban graffiti, often buffering his compositions within a framing device of gray or salmon color. Works that are more painterly and diffuse in imagery, such as Art Antichrist and Gain Inches, are more traditional in overall look and do not pack the contemporary punch of the text-based compositions. Through July 31. Victory Gallery, 733 NW Everett St.
Bobby Abrahamson: North Portland Polaroids
Between last July and this March, Bobby Abrahamson took one photograph per day in North Portland. Using a Polaroid with black-andwhite film, he captured neighbor-
hood 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. Through July 29. Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 2250210.
Generations: Betty Feves
To conclude the museum’s 75th anniversary celebration, curator Namita Gupta Wiggers presents Generations: Betty Feves, exploring the output of a groundbreaking but underappreciated artist. Feves (1918-1985) worked predominantly in ceramics, but her appeal transcends stylistic ghettoization. She studied with Abstract Expressionist master Clyfford Still, and her highly organic, primeval-meets-Space-Age forms betray the influences of that illustrious lineage. Through July 28. Museum of Contemporary Craft, 724 NW Davis St., 223-2654.
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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 intimate works with the same sense of majesty as his monumental paintings. 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 quali-
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.
The Cohesion
In Breeze Block’s invigorating summer group show, 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. Through July 28. Breeze Block Gallery, 323 NW 6th Ave., 318-6228.
The Poetic Pen
Calligraphy is a lot more than the fancy lettering you see on diplomas and wedding invitations. At its best, it captures the emotional core of the written word in ways that exploit the physical contours of alphanumeric characters to suggest metaphysical qualities. In this exhibition, 36 artists from around the world display works that set poetry to calligraphic text, blending the two art forms. Through July 28. 23 Sandy Gallery, 623 NE 23rd Ave., 927-4409.
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. Painted a mottled brown, the body resembles bronze more than ceramic. The artist handles its backward arch with a strong sense of anatomy and movement. This is a touching, haunting show. Through July 29. Cock Gallery, 625 NW Everett St., No. 106, 552-8686.
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Kaya Oakes
Francine Mathews
Attempting to reconcile her liberal beliefs with her catholic roots, Kaya Oakes took a spiritual pilgrimage and, along the way, met feminist nuns, a sexy Italian priest and other misfits searching for meaning in an outdated institution. Oakes tells the story in her new book, Radical Reinvention: An Unlikely Return to the Catholic Church. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
FRIDAY, JULY 27 Waiting for October Release Party
If you were a child in the ’90s, odds are a good portion of your life revolved around Nickelodeon. Now celebrating arguably the best children’s TV show—The Adventures of Pete & Pete—the new comic Waiting for October: A Tribute to the Adventures of Pete & Pete compiles the work of 32 writers and artists for an epic Pete & Pete adventure. Five of the writers will be in attendance signing autographs, along with Pete & Pete on the projector, DIY Kreb Scout merit badges and super-cold Orange Lazaruses. Bridge City Comics, 3725 N Mississippi Ave., 282-5484. 6-9 pm. Free.
Joanna Macy
Hope is a bit of an intangible solution when you’re facing down an eco-sociological shitstorm. So deep ecologist Joanna Macy is trying to help with the release of her new book, Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in without Going Crazy. Join the conversation about transitioning to a sustainable society at the reading and book reception. First Unitarian Church, 1011 SW 13th Ave., 228-6389. 7 pm. $5-15.
SATURDAY, JULY 28 Steve Lafler and J.R. Williams
Combining his trilogy of Bughouse graphic novels (exploring addiction and the creative life) into one collection, cartoonist Steve Lafler will be signing autographs at Cosmic Monkey Comics for the release party of the 400-plus-page behemoth Ménage à Bughouse along with artist and comics veteran J.R. Williams. Stick around for the possibility of a musical performance by the author. Cosmic Monkey Comics, 5335 NE Sandy Blvd., 517-9050. 2 pm. Free. All ages.
Terra Tempo Time Travel Day
OK, so it’s really more of an interesting history lesson than actual time travel. But since you’ve already tricked the kids into coming along, learn about the formation of the Columbia River Gorge at the end of the Ice Age by the catastrophic Missoula Floods from the creators of the new graphic novel Terra Tempo: Ice Age Cataclysm! Don’t forget to have your photo taken in an Ice Age scene—it’s almost as cool as time travel. Crown Point State Park Vista House, Exit 22 off I-84 East, 6952261. Noon-3 pm. Free.
Fourth Annual Northwest Book Festival
Representing nearly every genre from romance to nonfiction, selfhelp to satire (and, dare we hope, satirical self-help), the annual Northwest Book Festival will bring together more than 75 acclaimed authors for the free, daylong event. Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave. 11 am-5 pm. Free.
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Weaving a sexy tale of espionage through a historical framework, author Francine Mathews explores what might have happened if John F. Kennedy had been a spy for President Franklin D. Roosevelt by infiltrating the Nazis on the cusp of World War II in her novel Jack 1939. It’s FDR meets James Bond. Powell’s Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., 228-4631. 7 pm. Free.
Eric Rutkow
Transitioning from terrifying wilderness to symbol of profit and progress to the measure of our sustainability, American forests stand as a historical record of our society. Author Eric Rutkow takes a 400year scope of forests to create a unique historical study in American Canopy: Trees, Forests and the Making of a Nation. Maybe he even solved that whole tree-falling-inthe-woods debate. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.
Tim Kreider
Nothing exposes our insecurity, hypocrisy and idiocy like political cartoons. And Tim Kreider has been a master of the format for more than 15 years. His new book, We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons (see review, below), will make you think, laugh and sigh. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
TUESDAY, JULY 31 Oregon Encyclopedia History Night
Ever been thwarted on a fishing trip on the Columbia? Native Americans have been fishing the river for millennia using handmade dip nets, and probably still have more luck than you today. Learn about the history of fishing the Columbia at Oregon Encyclopedia History Night, where Columbia Gorge historians Chuck Rollins and Steve Lehl will present Early Fishing on the Columbia River: From Native Americans to Commercial Operations of the 1930s through historic photos. McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 669-8610. 6:30 pm. Free.
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TIM KREIDER, WE LEARN NOTHING Political cartoons are drawn in stark black-and-white, snapshots that leave little room for nuance. As a political cartoonist, Tim Kreider was limited by the speech bubbles, but his collection of essays and cartoons, We Learn Nothing (Free Press, 240 pages, $20), gives him room to draw observations Unexpected nuance from a firebrand cartoonist. outside of the panels. Anticipating something like caustic wit from an artist who spent eight years cheerfully harpooning the Bush administration, I was relieved to find careful observations on life’s complexity. That Kreider is more than a little familiar with complexity is clear from his vibrant and relatable anecdotes. Could a friend’s sex change, or the condition of being addicted to love, or of meeting half-siblings for the first time at 40, ever be described as anything other than complicated? The focus being almost entirely on his own life, Kreider’s approach is not that of your typical, smug cultural commentator. While most columnists pull from their own experiences to tease out universals, the goal is usually to talk about something other than themselves. Kreider is engaging precisely because he turns his wit on himself. His unflinching self-awareness, aimed at even the most reprehensible corners of his character, allows readers to recognize their own questionable tendencies without feeling attacked. To offer a particularly timely example, in an essay entitled “When They’re Not Assholes,” Kreider catches himself hating on flag-waving, protesting bible-thumpers. After recognizing a student he respects among their ranks, he’s ashamed of the generalizations he’s made, indirectly suggesting that you might want to think about being ashamed of your own. In a political atmosphere as angry as this, his oblique, self-deprecating commentary may be the only angle to which party loyalists on either side are likely to respond. We Learn Nothing should be their required reading. KIMBERLY HURSH. GO: Tim Kreider will appear at Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651, on Monday, July 30. 7:30 pm. Free.
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[THREE NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] A 2007 mockumentary about a lonely, depressed giant who protects Japan from pesky monsters. Needless to say, it’s totally batshit. PG-13. 5th Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm FridaySaturday, 3 pm Sunday, July 27-29.
including a midair plane hijacking and an imploding football field, are more spectacular. And, despite ongoing themes of torment and loss and a zeitgeisty plot involving the 1 percent’s heavily armed chickens coming home to roost, it’s the most exciting, purely pleasurable entry in the series. Sure, it’s still plenty broody, but take away the grim veneer and you’ll find the framework of a traditional, rousing superhero movie. Perhaps the redemptive title should’ve been a clue: After seven years of Bat-cycling through the wreckage of human suffering, the takeaway ends up being an unambiguous message of hope. It goes to show that, for all the talk of Nolan reinventing the epic-sized box-office juggernaut, he’s still working with familiar templates. A certain segment of the audience will find that disappointing, as if the only way for this kind of movie to qualify as high art is to detach completely from its ink-andpaper roots. In the words of somebody we used to know, I ask: Why so serious? PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Eastport, CineMagic, Cornelius, Lake Twin, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Roseway, St. Johns.
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dozen films, Pixar—the North American animation titan celebrated for its multilayered storytelling and uncommonly complex characters—declined to come up with a single female protagonist? Indeed it is. Introducing a touch of femininity to the anthropomorphic sausage fest should register as a progressive step forward, but Brave, the company’s 13th feature and its first charged by a current of girl power, is the most conventional movie the studio has yet produced. A fable pitched directly at the princess demographic, it’s set in medieval Scotland, features run-ins with witches, excursions into deep, dark woods, and a few very expressive bears, and concerns itself with a rebellious daughter of royalty. In short, it feels like a classic Disney picture. Normally, that’d be a compliment. In Pixar’s case, it represents a regression. 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, 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Forest Theatre, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard.
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, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard.
= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Editor: MATTHEW SINGER. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, send screening information at least two weeks in advance to Screen, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: msinger@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.
The 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), SpiderMan 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. AP KRYZA. PG13. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard.
The Avengers
A 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, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, City Center, Milwaukie.
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 (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. PG-13. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
C It’s The Darjeeling Aged. PG-13. AARON MESH. Lake Twin, City Center, Fox Tower.
Big Man Japan
B- Can it really be true that through a
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Teles sparks this small, casually heartbreaking Brazilian film about the mercurial world of professional acting. Set against the backdrop of middle-class Rio de Janeiro, Teles plays Bianca, an actress making do impersonating Marilyn Monroe and Carmen Miranda for a talent agency and appearing in community-theater productions. She nails a dream audition for a role in a film by a noted French director, who’s so impressed he rewrites the part specifically for her. Teles herself exudes a natural, everyday vibrance, which makes the movie’s denouement of disappointment unexpectedly jarring. It’s no big revelation that catching the elusive “big break” has more to do with happenstance than talent, but Teles makes that well-worn truth sting like hell. MATTHEW SINGER. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Sunday, July 29.
The Dark Knight Rises
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. Its set pieces,
D- The world didn’t need a fourth Ice
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.
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LOOK TO THE SKIES: Michelle Jenner and Julián Villagrán.
EXTRATERRESTRIAL Love and other aliens.
Following up on 2007’s much-venerated, sordid metaphysical puzzle box Timecrimes, director Nacho Vigalondo again cracks the genre box wide open in Extraterrestrial. Across all of Spain, 4-mile-wide flying saucers have appeared above the cities. But rather than allow the film to descend into an alien think piece or shoot-’em-up, Vigalondo uses the saucers as an excuse to empty the entire city of Madrid aside from a terrifically human, comedic love quadrangle in which everyone—including the poor, impotent viewer—is in helpless love with the same woman. Julia (Michelle Jenner) is a fragile, wounded-eyed wonder, though she is less a fully fleshed character than a repository of affections, an achingly receptive pool of human sentiment. Julio (Julián Villagrán)— as the “other man” who wakes up from a post-coital blackout in Julia’s apartment before the arrival of her dimwitted survivalist partner, Carlos (Raúl Cimas)—is a rumpled jolie laide of a man, his head clouded by thoughts of romantic possibility. Angel (Carlos Areces) is the obsessively creepy next-door neighbor, who remained in Madrid only because Julia did. What follows is not quite romantic comedy, and certainly not science fiction. In form it is perhaps closest to a loopy, farcical meta-play on the psychological thriller, as the group’s claustrophobic situation and intense fixation on Julia become externalized as a hunt for the aliens among us. Each man, in turn, becomes the alien, but only as he becomes alienated from Julia. But all threat is blunted, made awkward and comic. The aliens, endlessly, merely hover. Empty buildings are blown up as largely symbolic gestures, guns remain unloaded except with tennis balls, and a massive, unopenable jar of peaches becomes the film’s most dangerous weapon choice, if also an oddly suggestive metaphor. After all, these are lovers, not fighters. Indeed, the whole damn film is a testament to rampant, ridiculous love gone wild in the old Spanish style, and to its absolute distortion of the world. Apparently, it takes a full-scale invasion to show that love makes you a stranger. There are certain quibbles, of course, that in other films might have been fatal flaws. Both Carlos and Angel are broad-stroked cartoons, dim lights characterized by bold actions. Areces’ Angel constantly carries the suspicious, startled expression of a fattened rodent in its last moments. Cimas’ Carlos is an improbably good-natured jock who always desperately wants you on his side against imagined enemies. But the heart of the movie remains the subtle interplay between Julio and Julia, in all their complicated, thwarted need for each other— and also in the ever-compounding, ever-slapstick pettiness of selfinterest even amid worldwide disaster. The alien invasion is no mere setup device, however. It is a necessary element in a film that otherwise might have been lighter than air. The situation’s beautiful impossibility infuses the whole proceedings with the slow-dawning wonder characteristic of adolescent love. Whatever adolescence follows takes part in that wonder. Love, in the end, plays the role of the aliens. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. A- SEE IT: Extraterrestrial screens at NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Friday, 9 pm Saturday, July 27-28.
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ATTENDING] By most standards, Vesper Geer never did anything worth a documentary, except realize that her death would leave part of the past irretrievable. Born on a farm in the Willamette Valley in 1917, like many multigenerational Oregonians, she had a strong sense of history and her place in it. So, toward the end of her life, she decided to document life on her farm, leaving behind a trove of footage and journals. The result is The Life of Vesper Geer, from director Michael Turner, a gentle meander through one woman’s average existence. Though not an exciting account, it is thorough, cleanly edited and wellresearched. Turner makes good use of the primary materials, especially toward the end of the film, when he draws from quotes taken directly from Geer’s journals. Her words reveal that, though the timeline of her public life may have been average, her inner life was not. Particularly revealing is this from Geer: “My world is big and round and boundaryless.” Thanks to her efforts, and this documentary, it’s now timeless as well. KIMBERLY HURSH. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Sunday, July 29.
(Neta Porat) who inflames his curiosity with her Western sensibilities (read: She doesn’t believe in bras), and an enigmatic Romanian by the name of Yankele Bride (Adir Miller), a professional cupid with a scar traversing his face like a river on a topographical map. Bride takes Arik under his wing, hiring him to spy on potential clients and imparting lessons of love. As you might imagine, the film is fraught with nostalgic sentimentality, but it’s also genuinely tender, and director Avi Nesher displays a hand delicate enough to balance the levity of the script with undercurrents of lingering Jewish pain post-World War II. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters.
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[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A documentary on animal testing. Proceeds benefit
the Open the Cages tour. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Wednesday, July 25.
Men in Black 3
C The original Men in Black is pretty great, a lean, awesomely ridiculous creature feature in the vein of Ghostbusters. 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 Will Smith going back in time to prevent a gnarly alien biker (a snarling Jemaine Clement) from assassinating Tommy Lee 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,
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Lost Bohemia
[THREE NIGHTS ONLY] A documentary on the legendary artist studios above Carnegie Hall—over the last century-plus, residents have included Marilyn Monroe, Enrico Caruso, Marlon Brando and Norman Mailer—which made a cameo in last year’s excellent Bill Cunningham New York. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 9 pm Friday, 7 pm Saturday, 5 pm Sunday, July 27-29.
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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. 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. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Forest Theatre, Living Room Theaters, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard.
The Matchmaker
B A coming-of-age story set in
late-’60s Israel but haunted by memories of the Holocaust, The Matchmaker centers on Arik (Tuval Shafir), a teenager living in Haifa whose summer vacation is jolted by the arrival of two outsiders: his best friend’s cousin, an alluring Iraqi girl
CAR CLUB: Ghostridin’ the whips.
STEP UP REVOLUTION Occupiers: Step it up. Your campouts are for Cub Scouts. Y’all need to learn to dance. Aggressively. Get up. Get down. Pop. Lock. Spin on your head. Do the worm. The world will stop and listen. For proof, look at the Step Up series. These films, now numbering four with the release of Revolution, seldom break formula: Cinderella meets Prince Charming. They connect pelvises on the dance floor. One dreams of dance school, the other leads a ragtag bunch of dancers to save their club or rec center or neon warehouse from a rival who is related to the girl somehow. They fall in love, have a falling out, and quit dancing in a reflective montage. At the last minute, they rejoin their crew and dance the shit out of the rival, saving the rec center and changing the world. This is a series that believes in the simple evolutionary tactic of doing the same thing each time, only with increasingly cooler props. In the last installment, the franchise introduced laser shirts. Revolution moves the heat to Miami, allowing the film to explore 3-D butt cheeks in salsa bars and the benefits of bungee cords, hydraulic El Caminos…and laser hats. The result is as visceral as most action flicks: These are athletes in highly choreographed routines so jaw-dropping the recycled story never matters. Look at those abs! Look at those laser hats! The revolution here is that the formula breaks: There’s no rival dance crew. Just the Mob, a multi-culti flash mob branded heroic by some and criminals by others when they burst into the streets to perform “protest art.” They face two foes. The first is the evil “Meow Dubstep Mashup,” an Internet meme out-clicking them on YouTube. But shit gets really real when an evil developer played by Peter Gallagher (!!) seeks to turn their ’hood into a hotel. So how do you save your neighborhood, get the girl and bring the ruckus? You know the answer. OK, maybe a flash mob dancing in suits as money rains on them in a financial center is a bit heavy-handed for a teenybopper movie. But these kids at least did something. You lazy-asses just sat in a park. Learn to crunk. And get some laser pants. The world depends on it. PG-13. AP KRYZA.
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THE MATCHMAKER what about Smith’s daddy issues? Or the father-son relationship forged between Smith and Jones? An even better question: Who gives a fuck about any of that? PG-13. AP KRYZA. 99 Indoor Twin, Movies On TV, Tigard.
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, writer-director Philippe Falardeau keeps things simple enough, allowing the sincere performances from Fellag and the young Sophie Nélisse and Émilien Néron— both from the “so mature it’s unnatural” class of child actors—to bolster the film beyond its clichés. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters.
Moonrise Kingdom
A- Of all the Wes Anderson movies in the world, this is the Wes Andersoniest. Those who find everything that follows Bottle Rocket fussy and puerile have fair warning: Moonrise Kingdom is Anderson’s Boy Scout film, set on an imaginary island. 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-yearold 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 tough-minded wisdom in this movie’s treatment of sexual discovery—not leering, not dodging, but frankly enchanted. PG-13.
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AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Cornelius, Moreland, Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall.
No Return Midnight Movie Madness presents Carnival of Souls
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] A surprisingly artful 1962 low-budget supernatural horror flick from one-and-done director Herk Harvey, set in an abandoned carnival. And as we all know, any film set in an abandoned carnival can never be bad. R. Clinton Street Theater. 10 pm Friday, July 27.
The Palm Beach Story
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Preston Sturges’ classic 1942 comedy kicks off Top Down, the Northwest Film Center’s outdoor cinema series. Hotel deLuxe. 8 pm Thursday, July 26.
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 through Wednesday, Aug. 1. No screening Sunday, July 29.
Re-Run Theater: Miami Vice Pilot
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] As it turns out, South Beach was a terrible place even before LeBron James took his talents there. Hollywood Theatre. 9:30 pm Monday, July 30.
Safety Not Guaranteed
A There is something heartbreak-
ingly true in witnessing a wizened writer in his mid-30s demand of an intern: “Why are you sitting there in front of that screen? You’re a young man!” Why are we sitting in front of that screen, indeed? That’s a truer basis for Safety Not Guaranteed than its origins as an Internet meme, a late-’90s want ad of sorts that sought a time-travel companion. For our purposes, screenwriter Derek Connolly has reimagined the infamous clipping by tracing it back to a sleepy seaside town in Washington. It’s there that tenured magazine contributor Jeff (Jake M. Johnson) drags two listless interns (Karan Soni and Aubrey Plaza) in an attempt to secretly profile an earnest if unhinged grocery-store clerk who fancies himself a regular Doc Brown (Mark Duplass). The skeptical trio stumbles onto what is possibly the greatest space-time paradox: You can never go back, except when you can. 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. Hollywood Theatre, Fox Tower.
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 waterresistant 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. Eastport, Living Room Theaters, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Tigard.
Shut Up and Play the Hits
Indie-music tastemaker and shlubby human chipmunk James Murphy prepares for LCD Soundsystem’s final show at Madison Square Garden. Hollywood Theatre. 9:30 pm Friday, July 27 and MondayThursday, July 30-Aug. 2.
Sound + Vision Festival
[THREE NIGHTS ONLY] A threenight celebration of, in order: the music of Leonard Cohen, via a collection of short films and performances from Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold, among others (8 pm Thursday, July 26); live, improvised film scores from Portlandbased music video directors Sean Pecknold and Rachel Blumberg (8 pm Friday, July 27); and, lastly, science, courtesy of YACHT’s Claire Evans, returning to Portland to present a selection of trippy cinematic voyages through the natural world with a live soundtrack from Jeffrey Jerusalem and Golden Retriever (8 pm Saturday, July 28). Hollywood Theatre.
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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 popculture 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, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard.
To Rome With Love
C+ Woody Allen doesn’t owe anyone another masterpiece. It’s a good thing, too, because a masterpiece To Rome With Love is not. Interweaving four stories linked only by setting and loose themes of celebrity and adultery, it’s like Allen emptied his notebook of a few halfconceived 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
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Take This Waltz
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, gender-reversed The Seven Year Itch. Like that Billy Wilder comedy, this fraught romance from actress-turned-auteur Sarah Polley exists in a fevered state. The 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. 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 (Williams) and her lover, Daniel (Luke Kirby), loop through strobe lights to the tune of the Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” before the attraction grinds to a halt. Polley’s movie has a self-excoriating subtext, like all the great breakup records we spin. It’s 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. Living Room Theaters.
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Toll Booth
B- [ONE NIGHT ONLY] After a pan-
icked breakdown, insomniac checkpoint attendant Kenan (Serkan Ercan) is exiled to a sunflowerdappled countryside so sun-baked and sluggish I promptly dozed off. I awoke often enough to recognize the guy as an heir to those 1970s Bob Rafelson heroes clawing at the walls of their lives, and the movie as an Anatolian Five Easy Pieces. Don’t mistake early jauntiness as a sign pointing toward one of those droll little comedies about working stiffs; the road leads to something far more morbid and distressed. AARON MESH. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Wednesday, July 25.
Trishna
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.
The Watch
Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller and Jonah Hill remake Attack the Block as a suburban American comedy. That’s what it looks like, anyway. Not screened by WW press deadlines. Look for a review at wweek.com. R. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, St. Johns.
We Grew Wings
B - [WEEKLY SERIES] These days, it’s hard to imagine an era in which there were no women’s races longer than 1500 meters in the Olympics, or a time when women weren’t allowed to participate in the pole vault. It’s even harder to imagine that the latter ended just 12 years ago. We Grew Wings is a cluttered documentary that compares the University of Oregon’s women’s track and field team across two eras: the 1985 championship team and the current powerhouse program. Jumping sporadically from past to present through interviews and archival footage, the film captures the different environment and cultural attitudes these women faced. Lack of women’s athletics pre-Title IX, track strategy, injuries, cancer, bulimia—all these issues are addressed or paid lip service over the course of 80 minutes. That’s a lot of ground to cover—enough to fill a miniseries—and this plodding untold story never seems to figure out what exactly needs to be told. JOHN LOCANTHI. Hollywood Theatre. Sunday, July 29.
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[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Sounds groovy, man. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Monday, July 30.
Your Sister’s Sister
B Seattle director Lynn Shelton’s
two most recent films are uncomfortable silences that, viewed in tandem, feel like improv sketches at the Pacific Northwest’s most po-faced comedy club. Humpday featured two straight men who dare each other to boink on camera. Go! Your Sister’s Sister regards a bereaved bloke (Mark Duplass) ferried to the Puget Sound cabin of his longtime best friend (Emily Blunt), where he immediately and drunkenly tumbles into bed with her lesbian big sister (Rosemarie DeWitt). Go! Both movies take these contrivances—the mumblecore equivalents of high concept—and work out the results as naturalistically as possible, even making the heroes’ penchant for uniquely bad ideas into an ongoing subtext. (It helps that Shelton keeps turning to Duplass: a doughy Colossus of wrongheaded good intentions.) If Your Sister’s Sister feels good in the moment but doesn’t hold up under scrutiny, that’s probably because DeWitt’s character, Hannah, is so indelible (and intelligently performed) that she throws the love triangle out of balance, like a penny-farthing tricycle. A porcupine with a ticking biological clock, bestowing baggies of dried bananas as peace offerings, Hannah is that rare pious lefty not treated as an object of sport—she’s the woman the moms in The Kids Are Alright wanted to be. By comparison, the other two thwarted lovebirds seem like a stock romcom couple in slow motion. But DeWitt’s in enough scenes, so you don’t notice. R. AARON MESH. Fox Tower.
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ON THE GRIND: It’s well acknowledged that the best part of Grindhouse— the 2007 Quentin Tarantino-Robert Rodriguez experiment in throwback exploitation—were the fake trailers that buffered the actual films. It’s also generally recognized that the worst thing about Grindhouse is the fact those trailers ended up spawning two feature-length movies. The whole point of a grindhouse trailer is that it gives the audience the most exposure anyone could ever need to the actual film, condensing the horrendous acting, shitty dialogue and laughable production values of low-budget ’70s and ’80s horror and martial-arts flicks to easily digestible quick hits of unintentional hilarity. The Hollywood Theatre’s annual Grindhouse Trailer Spectacular understands this principle, stringing together 75 minutes’ worth of gloriously wigged-out promos, and it’s always a crazy blast. MATTHEW SINGER. Showing at: Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, July 31. Best paired with: IPA. Also showing: Wet Hot American Summer (Academy), The Deep (Laurelhurst). Roseway Theatre
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of the glory we’re normally cut off from. The veil opens, and previously undetected beauty appears. The weeks ahead will be the closest you’ve come to this breakthrough in a long time. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Can you guess which European country has the best military record in the last eight centuries? It’s France. Out of the 185 battles its soldiers have engaged in, they’ve won 132 and lost only 43. Ten times they fought to a draw. Of all the signs of the zodiac, Scorpio, I think you have the best chance of compiling a comparable record in the next ten months. Your warrior-like qualities will be at a peak; your instinct for achieving hard-fought victories may be the stuff of legends years from now. But please keep in mind what the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu said in his iconic text The Art of War: The smart and powerful warrior always avoids outright conflict if possible, and wins by using slyer means. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): After consulting the astrological omens, I’ve concluded that during the next three weeks, you will deserve the following titles: 1. Most Likely to Benefit from Serendipitous Adventures; 2. Most Likely to Exclaim “Aha!”; 3. Most Likely to Thrive While Wandering in Wild Frontiers and Exotic Locales; 4. Most Likely to Have a Wish Come True If This Wish Is Made in the Presence of a Falling Star. You might want to wait to fully embody that fourth title until the period between August 9 and 14, when the Perseids meteor shower will be gracing the night skies with up to 170 streaks per hour. The peak flow will come on August 12 and 13. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You may have to travel far and wide before you will fully appreciate a familiar resource whose beauty you’re half-blind to. It’s possible you’ll have to suffer a partial loss of faith so as to attract experiences that will make your faith stronger than it ever was. And I’m guessing that you may need to slip outside your comfort zone for a while in order to learn what you need to know next about the arts of intimacy. These are tricky assignments, Capricorn. I suggest you welcome them without resentment. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): My daughter Zoe has been writing some fine poetry these last few years. I regard it as professional-grade stuff that has been born of natural talent and developed through discipline and hard work. You might ask, quite reasonably, whether my evaluation of her literary output is skewed by fatherly pride. I’ve considered that possibility. But recently, my opinion got unbiased corroboration when her school awarded her with the “All-College Honor” for her poetry manuscript. I predict you will soon have a comparable experience. Your views or theories will be confirmed by an independent and objective source. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The critic Dorothy Parker didn’t think highly of Katherine Hepburn’s acting skills. “She runs the emotional gamut from A to B,” said Parker. I realize that what I’m about to suggest may be controversial, but I’m hoping you will be Hepburn-like in the coming week, Pisces. This is not the right time, in my astrological opinion, for you to entertain a wide array of slippery, syrupy, succulent feelings. Nor would it be wise to tease out every last nuance of the beguiling vibes rising up within you. For the time being, you need to explore the pleasures of discerning perception and lucid analysis. Get lost in deep thought, not rampant passion.
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