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I found Aaron Mesh’s well-researched article on Multnomah County Library funding to be quite informative, but that’s because I’m skilled at untangling miswritten articles [“When Stacks Attack,” WW, Aug. 1, 2012]. A few points: First, I have been using the library computers on a daily basis for about three months. During that time, I have seen various problems there, mostly rising from the fact that the library is now being used as a social-service agency. But I have never seen any signs that anyone was watching porn, and I know that the librarians watch out for that kind of thing. Even if Mesh’s lead anecdote is true, his opening for the article is entirely misleading, and you have to ask why he chose it. (His disclaimer—“That’s wildly unfair, of course”—just makes him look like a moron. He didn’t have to put the porn anecdote in at all.) Second, the Multnomah County Library is not “costly” or “expensive” or “gourmet.” What the article tells us is that residents of Multnomah County are paying more per capita for library services because they are getting more library services per capita. As the article makes clear, Multnomah County residents check out more books, in absolute numbers, than do the residents of much larger cities like Chicago and Los Angeles. That’s why we pay more. To put it in terms that a freelance journalist can understand, if a $6 beer is an expensive beer and a $2 beer is a cheap beer, three $2 beers are still cheap beer—just more of it. Nothing in the article showed that the county library is “gourmet.”

The Hawthorne Fred Meyer has signs posted outside along the sidewalks, “No skateboarding or rollerblading.” Does Freddy’s really have dominion over the public sidewalks adjacent to its property? —Blade Runner Before I begin: Remember Saturday? Hottest day of the year? Somehow, I caught a bad cold that day. (God will be hearing from my lawyers.) Now my brain is boiling like the fevered brow of Trotsky, so pardon me if I bust this out quickly, before the mole-demons come. I know well the signs whereof you speak, B.R. Pretty convincing, no? Most folks who see them would probably assume they were put there by Fred’s (if not the city) to remind folks of an existing anti-skate ordinance in that neighborhood. But is that true? In a word, no. The Portland Bureau of Transportation’s Dan Anderson was only too happy to throw Fred’s under the bus: “These signs appear 4

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to be privately installed and not official signs.” In other words, they’re approximately as legally binding as those ones that say, “Italian Parking Only: You Take-a My Space, I Break-a You Face.” Anderson added that, while there are areas in the city where skateboarding is prohibited outright, and others where it’s allowed on the street but not the sidewalk, the Hawthorne location has neither rule. It may not be considerate to skate there, but it’s legal. While it’s always possible there’s more to the story—Fred Meyer corporate HQ did not immediately return calls requesting comment—at this point, it appears that Oregon’s favorite retailer is busted. I repeat: busted! Obviously, no one is more surprised than I am to see something approaching investigative journalism in this space. Still, even a blind hog finds an acorn once in a while. You alert the Pulitzer committee; I’ll start scraping the cat vomit off my awards tux. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com

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The Oregonian as a daily newspaper is facing a final deadline. The 162-year-old newspaper—once considered one of the nation’s best—is losing readers and advertisers in a state where it dominated the media landscape for decades. Soon, the newspaper may no longer be publishing every day of the week. The newspaper’s New Jersey-based owner, Advance Publications Inc., has declared it is moving to a Web-based model and publishing schedules are likely to change at many of its newspapers. Advance—controlled by heirs of press magnate S.I. Newhouse—has already announced the end of daily publishing at eight newspapers in Michigan, Alabama and Louisiana. The most stunning act of this emerging strategy came in May, when The New York

Times broke the news that Advance would publish New Orleans’ storied Times-Picayune only three days a week, fire nearly half the staff and leave the remaining reporters and editors to focus on publishing news on its website. For years, editors and executives at The Oregonian denied Portland’s newspaper would ever be less than a daily. But in the newsroom, the announcement in New Orleans shattered any illusions. Staffers here say Oregonian editors now indicate the paper is likely to follow suit, although no one is saying when that will happen or how many days the newspaper will drop from its publishing schedule. “There’s just not enough advertising,” says Ken Doctor, a news industry analyst for Harvard University’s Nieman Journalism Lab. “Newhouse is acknowledging that daily print has ended its lifespan. They definitely are looking at doing it in Portland and other places, but I don’t think a decision has been made about whether or when.” In many ways, the change would allow The Oregonian to adapt into a more nimble and relevant news organization. The paper

says its website, OregonLive.com, got more than 4.9 million unique visitors in June. The change would also allow the paper to get out from under the high costs of printing and its large newsroom staff. One longtime Oregonian employee says the paper’s staffers are dreading imminent cuts and layoffs—and senior editors don’t have any information to calm them. “The managers are just as blind as the rest of us,” the employee says. “We are living with the reality that any day might be the day when the people from Jersey walk in.” Jack Hart was an Oregonian editor for 26 years, serving as lead editor on two series that won Pulitzer Prizes before he retired in 2007. Now the interim director of the Turnbull Center, the University of Oregon’s Portland campus for journalism, Hart says resignations, buyouts and layoffs have already weakened the newspaper. “It’s still a big, highly skilled, powerful newsroom,” Hart says. “But I don’t think anybody at the paper would argue that there hasn’t been a loss of reporting power.” Hart says the crucial barometer is not how many print editions The Oregonian publishes in a week, but how much of the newsroom is preserved. “It’s not that my Monday morning would be ruined by not having a thin newspaper dropped on my doorstep,” Hart says.

“It’s that it would suggest more serious cutbacks in the offing.” This new reality was hard to imagine in the newspaper’s Southwest Broadway offices a decade ago. Led by publisher Fred Stickel and editor Sandra Mims Rowe, The Oregonian reached its zenith in quality: five Pulitzers, and eight finalists for journalism’s top award, in the 16 years Rowe ran the newsroom. The Oregonian’s circulation numbers— like those of many large dailies—have spiraled, falling by a third since 2002. These declines, and abandonment by advertisers, have already triggered big changes. The newspaper offered buyouts, cut pay and—violating its longtime pledge to fulltime employees—laid off 37 people, mostly from the newsroom, in 2010. Other layoffs throughout the company have followed. The Oregonian’s current publisher, N. Christian Anderson III, tells WW the newspaper has no plans to change its publishing schedule. Anderson says he’s talked to employees about what changes in New Orleans might mean for The Oregonian, but has told no one at the newspaper that such a change is coming here. “I have not told people that we’re changing our publishing schedule,” Anderson tells WW in an email. “Nor have I hinted at CONT. on page 8 Willamette Week AUGUST 8, 2012 wweek.com

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that. Any characterization to the contrary is simply incorrect.” Several sources tell WW that The Oregonian newsroom is being restructured to make its affiliated website, OregonLive. com, the first priority, with staffers evaluated primarily on their online productivity. A recent memo from editor Peter Bhatia said six new positions would be created to feed the Web—a move away “from our traditional devotion to print deadline work at night.” Some Oregonian editors have begun sending daily emails to congratulate reporters whose posts get the most traffic. But the loudest hints that change is coming in Portland come from one of Advance’s top executives. Advance’s media holdings include Condé Nast publications, The New Yorker, American City Business Journals and newspapers in 34 cities. Forbes pegged the privately held company’s revenues last year at more than $6 billion. Steve Newhouse—chairman of Advance.net, the company’s digital division—has defended the Web-first strategy after howls of protest in New Orleans about losing a daily Times-Picayune. “The rapid rise in digital adoption by consumers and advertisers is irreversible,” Newhouse wrote in an Aug. 3 editorial for the Poynter Institute, a journalism school. “We are in the midst of a digital revolution and instead of constantly being disrupted by our numerous online competitors, we decided to re-invent ourselves.” When a Poynter reporter asked him about plans for the company’s other newspapers, Newhouse replied: “We’re facing the same conditions everywhere. We’re looking at every market and trying to figure out what the right model is.” No one yet knows what a non-daily Oregonian would look like or how readers would be affected. But the picture in New Orleans is stark. The Times-Picayune won’t begin its three-day-a-week publishing schedule until October, and it’s still in the midst of a flurry of rehiring staff (often for jobs that pay less) and announcements. (It said last week it will amend its plan and publish a Monday sports tabloid to cover New Orleans Saints football games.) It’s also announced that, with a three-day-a-week publishing schedule, its monthly subscription price will drop from $18.95 to $16.95. But the transition at The Times-Picayune has been widely derided in the New Orleans area as a fiasco. New Orleans bigwigs, from the archbishop of the Catholic diocese to Democratic political consultant James Carville, have petitioned the Newhouses to reverse their position. And last week, the owner of the NFL’s Saints asked to buy the paper. Kevin Allman, who covered the firings and aftermath for Gambit Weekly, a New Orleans alternative newspaper, says one key difference between New Orleans and Portland could be in how ready the local audience is for Web-based news. “Portland’s a more wired city,” he says. “Portland’s a wealthier city. New Orleans, for better or worse, is still very bound to a print model.” Allman, who freelanced for The Oregonian and WW before CONT. on page 11 8

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Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party’s nominee for president, isn’t going to win in November. But were we to challenge him to a bike race, a 400-meter sprint or even water polo, the 59-yearold New Mexico ex-governor would skunk us. Johnson’s athletic accomplishments—he’s climbed Mount Everest and finished Ironmans— sound like the bucket list of an obsessive compulsive. But his biggest marathon might be his presidential run. He visited WW to talk about saving the country from bankruptcy, legalizing marijuana (but not necessarily all drugs) and ending government intrusion into Americans’ private affairs. WW: How is this campaign going vis-à-vis your expectations? Gary Johnson: Politics is two things. One thing is exceeding expectations. I think the expectation is zero. The other is momentum. I believe I am the voice for the fastest-growing segment of American politics today. It’s the same message as [U.S. Rep. and GOP presidential candidate] Ron Paul [R-Texas]. He says, “I’m not going to drop out—the people who are coming out to see me are growing in number, and this is where the action’s at.” That’s my vantage point. Do you and Rep. Paul differ on the issues? Not really. This is not a criticism, but Ron Paul has come off as labeled kooky. I don’t get the label kooky.

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sells for a buck arguably has 23 percent embedded, non-transparent taxes in it. Coke has to pay tax, and they pass it on to you. You can do away with all that [with] one very transparent federal tax. Coke isn’t going to have to sell the can for $1 anymore to make the same profit. They can sell it for 80 cents. Apply the consumption tax to it, it’ll still cost you a buck. And all federal tax subsidies—they go away? You’re kicking crony capitalism in the ass. You’ve proposed a 43 percent reduction in Medicaid and Medicare. Why not 41 or 47? Well, 43 being representative of the amount of deficit—43 percent [of the federal budget] a year. $1.4 trillion. For those that fall off their chair when you start talking about a 43 percent reduction in Medicare, the alternative is a collapsed government that’s incapable of delivering anything. The mathematics just don’t add up. We do it in the context of the money that we’re taking in.

“RON PAUL HAS COME OFF AS LABELED KOOKY. I DON’T GET THE LABEL KOOKY.”—GARY JOHNSON Your support for legalizing marijuana is well documented. What’s your attitude on drug laws for heroin or crack cocaine? The only drug I’m advocating legalizing is marijuana, but I think we are on a tipping point. When we do this we take giant steps forward toward rational drug policy, looking at drugs first as a health issue rather than a criminal justice issue.

What’s the consequence of cutting Medicare and Medicaid by 43 percent? That we survive as a country.

What would be the Johnson administration tax policy? I am advocating eliminating the income tax, corporate tax [and] the IRS and replacing all of it with a [23 percent] federal consumption tax. Ninety congressmen and -women have signed on to the “fair tax.” There are millions of followers to the fair tax. I’m not doing this in a vacuum.

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Beaverton native Charters already has big achievements under her belt: In 2009, she won the NCAA championship with the University of Washington, and she was part of the U.S. national team that won the 2010 World Cup. Charters is a triple-threat hitter—she can bunt, slap the ball to the infield, or hit away—and had a whopping .442 on-base percentage in 2011 for the USSSA Pride of the National Pro Fastpitch league, meaning she got on base nearly half the time she was up to bat. But after softball’s ouster from the Games, the one place she hasn’t been able to go is the Olympics. She currently is helping the Florida-based Pride to first place in the NPF standings two-thirds of the way through the 2012 season. Charters, who plays second base, says NPF games are much more competitive than international play. “You don’t play other countries where softball’s not as strong,” she says. “You’re playing all-stars every time.” Still, she says the atmosphere in World Cup play is unmatched in her career. “But since we won’t be having that in Olympic play,” she says, “that might be my only opportunity.” Watching the Olympics?: Absolutely, it’s on our TV almost 24/7. Earliest Olympic memory: It had to be 1996. Was it Atlanta? Sport she’d bump to make room for her own: Oh gosh, that’s tough. I don’t really want to pick a specific one. Any of them, just to put softball back in. Does softball belong in the Olympics?: Yes, absolutely. It never should have been taken out. It’s tough, because I was on the national team and we missed the Olympics. It’s disappointing.

Pannhara Mam, 25, TENNIS PLAYER Mam had already been a tennis star for McKay High School in Salem and for Eastern Washington University, but a phone call changed everything for him. The call came in 2011 from the secretary general of the Tennis Federation of Cambodia. Pannhara’s father is a Cambodian native who’d fled the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s, and that made Pannhara and his brother, Vetu, eligible for the national team. They found themselves on a plane to a Cambodian sports camp to help the country rebuild its tennis program. This April, Cambodia’s Davis Cup team ended up defeating Jordan, Myanmar, Qatar and Singapore. Mam won all of his singles matches. Although the Mams are two of the best tennis players in Cambodia, admission to the Olympics is tied almost entirely to rankings earned on the professional tennis tour. Because neither Mam nor his teammates play extensively on the professional tour, Cambodia has no tennis players in the Olympics. Watching the Olympics?: I watched the opening ceremony and that was about it. It’s strange, but I don’t really like watching sports all that much. Earliest Olympic memory: It was probably 1996, with basketball. I was really into basketball. Anyone you’d bump to allow Cambodia to participate?:

I feel like I wouldn’t want to bump someone out just so we could be in it. We’re happy to be in the Davis Cup. That’s pretty big for Cambodia already. Do you want to see Cambodian players in the Olympics for tennis?: Yeah, I feel like we got those wins. Once we see

that we can beat one team, we know we can beat others. Every day, anybody can beat anybody.

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Poor chases the wind. He lives in Hood River every spring and summer, then flits to Mexico, Venezuela or Costa Rica in the winter; he’s also one of the best windsurfers in the world. Poor finished second in slalom (a high-speed race weaving through buoys) at the U.S. Windsurfing National Championships last month in Hood River to Australian legend Phil McGain, who won by tiebreaker. Poor had to sit out his specialty—freestyle, which he handily won at the 2011 nationals—because of a shoulder he injured by diving headfirst into a submerged sandbar while windsurfing. “Midair I could see that was a bad idea,” he says. The Olympics does have RS:X-class windsurfing that uses a heavier, slower sailboard designed for low-wind conditions. “Never really appealed to me,” Poor says. “I got into windsurfing for the rush and jumping and going fast. The Olympics is always in a light-wind spot, so it’s more like yachting or sailing.” But even RS:X windsurfing has been voted out of the 2016 Olympics to make room for kiteboarding—a sport where a “surfer” is pulled along the water by a large kite. Watching the Olympics?: Trying to. Everything from water polo to swimming and gymnastics. Lots of beach volleyball. Earliest Olympic memory: Maybe the first time was watching the downhill super-G [skiing] stuff. I grew up on the East Coast, so a lot of winter sports. Sport he’d bump to make room for his own: There’s a ton! How about rhythmic gymnastics where they do the ribbons and twirling? Oh, and synchronized swimming. Does slalom windsurfing belong in the Olympics?: If there are the conditions for it, it definitely belongs.

Fiona Wylde, 15, WINDSURFER Hood River’s Wylde was 3 when she first got on a windsurfing board. “I just stood on the board and held the string to get used to being up there,” she says. “All I wanted to do was go fast.” And she has. By the time she was 12, she had already logged a firstplace finish at the La Ventana Classic windsurfing competition. And this July at the U.S. Windsurfing National Championships in Hood River, Wylde’s performance in the slalom not only put her at the top of the Junior Division, she also managed to outperform every woman in that event. It’s possible there are some genetics involved here, along with a lot of dedication: Fiona’s father, MacRae, is also a pro windsurfer, and finished third in his class at the nationals in slalom. “He was the first one to put me on a board,” Fiona says of her dad. Watching the Olympics?: I was in Mexico [at a windsurfing competition] with no TV and no cellphone. But I saw a little at the airport. Track and field. Earliest Olympic memory: I was lucky enough to watch my uncle compete on the horse-jumping team. [Peter Wylde won a gold medal with the U.S. in team jumping at the 2004 Athens Games.] Sport she’d bump to make room for her own: Kiting came in at our expense. I think it’s a great sport, but we shouldn’t get knocked out for it. I think we’re very compatible. Does slalom windsurfing belong in the Olympics?: I think slalom would be an incredible addition to the Olympics. We have a world tour, but the Olympics would be another goal to shoot for.

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Fall is on our doorstep again, and that means sweater fashion, corn mazes and hitting the books. While “back to school” once implied Trapper Keepers and heavy backpacks, it’s a whole other ballgame for adult students. We’ve highlighted some great universities, colleges and specialty schools for those looking to further their careers or learn a new skill. While we couldn’t list each school and program in the area, we feel this is a good cross section of Portland’s adult-education options. Whether you’re looking to complete a law degree, practice holistic medicine or learn Spanish for your upcoming trip to Central America, this compilation is for you. cont. on page 26

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For over 130 years, Berlitz has been teaching the world to communicate by revolutionizing the way languages are taught—with a method that has been proven successful everywhere it is used. Created by Maximilian D. Berlitz, the Berlitz Method remains at the core of our approach, supplemented by materials and techniques developed over more than a century of research in language acquisition. The Berlitz Method is a conversational teaching style that presents practical vocabulary and grammar in the context of real-life situations. All Berlitz students learn to speak their new language the way they did their first—through natural conversation. Our highly trained, native-fluent instructors always consider students’ personal learning style, interests and goals. Come visit us at our new location, 1234 SW Morrison St., contact us at 274-0830 or visit berlitzportland.com.

ClaCkamas Community College, musiC teChnology CertifiCate

The Clackamas Community College music technology certificate is Oregon’s only state-approved certificate of its kind, and the only music technology program in Oregon that qualifies for financial aid. We give students the core skills needed to enter the sound- and music-production industries. Our advisory board includes Fox TV’s Family Guy and American Dad! composer Ron Jones (CCC alumnus), who conducts regular residencies at CCC. Our new facilities include recording studios, specialized music/video computer labs and high-tech performance spaces. We regularly upgrade our software and hardware, providing students with the most up-to-date systems. Come be a part of our growth! Contact us at 594-3337 or 594-3340, email: brianr@ clackamas.edu. 19600 S Molalla Ave., Oregon City, depts.clackamas. edu/music/CCC_MUSIC_HOME/Welcome.html.

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Today’s licensed practical nurses provide individualized care in a variety of health-care settings such as acute care, long-term care, home health care, and other community health care agencies. Concorde Career College in Portland offers a practical nursing program you can complete in as few as 13 months. Clinical practice is one of the major strengths of Concorde’s nursing program. Much of the practical nurse training focuses on supervised clinical experiences with real clients in real health-care facilities. For information on graduation rates, the median debt of students who completed the program, and other information, visit concorde.edu/disclosures. Visit concorde4me.com or call 1-888-480-6843. 1425 NE Irving St.

east West College

East West College’s massage therapy program is committed to supporting you from our first connection until long after graduation. Our faculty teaches you how to think critically, communicate clearly and respond compassionately. Our alumni services coordinator supports you in finding work that meets your needs. And our continuing-education programs give you opportunities to continually expand your knowledge. We have both day and evening schedules that can fit into your busy life, and East West College is accredited by the Commission on Massage Therapy Accreditation. Financial aid is available for those who qualify. Please call to arrange a tour! 525 NE Oregon St., 233-6500, eastwestcollege.com.

montessori institute northWest

The Montessori Institute Northwest provides inspiring, rigorous AMI Montessori teacher training in programs designed for children at three age levels: birth-3 (assistants to infancy), 3-6 (primary), and 6-12 (elementary). Through cooperative programs, MINW students have the option of simultaneously earning either a B.A. or an M.Ed. through partnerships with Marylhurst and Loyola universities. MINW offers parent education, public lectures and professional development for teachers, administrators and classroom assistants. Visit montessorinw.org or call 963-8992 for more information.

nW film Center

The Northwest Film Center School of Film is a community-based education program offering evening/weekend classes and workshops for a wide range of community members including professionals in business, communications, education and the arts; the serious, careerbound film student; and those simply seeking enrichment. Faculty members are professional filmmakers immersed in the independent film scene. Classes are small and camera/editing equipment is provided. Whatever your goal, we are here to help you evolve into the maker you want to be. From casual workshops to full-term courses, signing up is easy. Options include Portland State University credit and a non-degree certificate program. Visit nwfilm.org/school or call 221-1156.

oregon College of art and Craft

Oregon College of Art and Craft is a mentor-based, student-centered, nationally acclaimed art college attracting exceptional students who wish to study the creative process through making. As a vibrant source of instruction and inspiration for aspiring artists and students of all ages, OCAC offers graduate and undergraduate programs, as well as classes and workshops for adults, youth and children. OCAC, located on a 26

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10-acre wooded campus, overlooks the coastal mountain range and is conveniently only 3.4 miles from downtown Portland. Experiment with new materials and ideas and meet a welcoming community of artists, designers and makers. Now accepting degree-program applications for 2013, plus adult and youth continuing education classes offered year-round. Contact us at 971-255-4192 or ocac.edu. 8245 SW Barnes Road.

OregOn COllege Of Oriental MediCine

OCOM trains master’s and doctoral students in acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine by integrating classical theory with a modern, practical approach to health and wellness. Our comprehensive programs incorporate acupuncture, Chinese herbs, nutrition, therapeutic massage (Japanese Shiatsu and Chinese Tuina), and a fundamental approach to qi cultivation for an in-depth understanding of Chinese medicine. OCOM’s three busy teaching clinics, including our new campus clinic location in Old Town/Chinatown, provide handson training to our interns while offering affordable health care to the community. Start your career in acupuncture and Chinese medicine by attending a free admissions seminar Sept. 21 or Oct. 19. Learn about our accredited master’s curriculum, clinical experience, financial-aid options and admissions requirements. Meet students, observe an acupuncture demonstration and receive a campus tour. Contact Teres Smith, admissions coordinator, at 445-0944 or tsmith@ocom.edu, 75 NW Couch St. Visit our website for more information: ocom.edu.

PiOneer PaCifiC COllege

Local is better—especially when it comes to your education. Pioneer Pacific College is locally owned, which means we have a genuine interest in your success. From the moment you walk through our doors, we help you find a career path that’s right for you. We know that when our students do well, we’re helping to make the Pacific Northwest a better place to live. So while you’re building skills you’ll need for the workplace, you’re also strengthening your community. Isn’t that a great way to go local? Pioneer Pacific College: Our life’s work is helping you find yours. Contact us at 866-772-4636 or visit pioneerpacific.edu.

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University Of Western states

The University of Western States offers a world-class education to our students and provides the community with an unsurpassed, integrative and natural approach to wellness. Our science-driven curriculum incorporates relevant health-care research and optimal practices. Building on our strong history in chiropractic, we integrate related fields of study creating a well-balanced and whole-body approach to health care. Students are well-supported as they embark on rigorous courses of study, equipped with resources that prepare them for successful careers in health service. In addition to our academic programs, we deliver premium care to our community with state-of-the-art clinics staffed by highly qualified providers and senior interns. Our vast network of partners in related fields makes us a valuable resource not only to students, but to health-care professionals throughout the country. UWS grants the doctor of chiropractic, bachelor of science in human biology, master’s in nutrition and functional medicine, and master’s in exercise and sports science degrees, and receives accreditation through the Council on Chiropractic Education and the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. In 2006, UWS introduced a one-year program in massage therapy. UWS is the only regionally accredited institution with a massage-therapy program. Contact us at 256-3180 or visit uws.edu. 2900 NE 132nd Ave.

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Get a world-class education close to home. With a student population topping 3,000 and a 1:14 faculty-to-student ratio, WSU Vancouver offers a small-school feel backed by big-school resources. The campus features new buildings and state-of-the-art technology on 351 gorgeous acres with ample parking. Just 10 miles north of the Columbia River via I-5 or I-205, WSU Vancouver offers 19 bachelor’s degrees, 9 master’s degrees and more than 37 fields of study. The Border Bill lets Oregon residents pay in-state tuition. Call. Visit. Apply. (360) 546-WSUV; vancouver.wsu.edu ;14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave., Vancouver.

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CULTURE: America’s karaoke capital. FOOD: An absurd happy hour at Carpaccio. MUSIC: Three’s good company for Pataha Hiss. VISUAL ARTS: The last launch.

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THIS GOSSIP WILL SHOW YOU ITS TAX RETURNS. LASER MOMS: For months, Menomena has been angling to give its forthcoming record, Moms, the laser treatment. However, to craft a laser light show looked prohibitively expensive…until the band found a loophole. “We discovered it was only $1,800 [as opposed to $10,000] to rent the [OMSI] planetarium without the techs,” Menomena’s Danny Seim writes. “As long as we’re cool with using the stock Pink Floyd lasers.... They’re not going to sync with our music, but I still think it’s going to be awesome.” At 11:15 pm Friday, Aug. 24, Menomena will present Dark Side of the Moms at OMSI. The band is charging just $5 for the laser show and a sneak peak of the disc. Says Seim: “I can’t wait to see where the cash machine and the flying pig end up!”

NEW BEAU: Beau Breedlove (yes, that Beau Breedlove) is opening a “French dance cafe” called Vie at the South Waterfront (0315 SW Montgomery St., No. 150). “We’ll have a small area for slow-dancing and such, and later in the evening expand it to a larger space for dancing,” Breedlove tells WW. The restaurant at first will only offer dinner, serving Provençal cuisine: “A little bit larger, heartier portions,” Breedlove says. “Not Americanized French, like small plates.” Breedlove is the cousin of restaurateur Bruce Carey of Bluehour, Clarklewis and Saucebox. STRANGER DANGER: The gadflies are buzzing all around the 28th season of MTV’s The Real World, currently shooting CHRIS MATHEWS’ VIEW in the Pearl. Local blogger and former WW columnist Byron Beck has basically been liveblogging the filming. Now, blogger Chris Mathews (cgmathews. blogspot.com), who says he lives “right above the house,” is posting videos shot from his perch and alerting readers where the seven strangers are going out. “I started posting my observations on Facebook for my friends to enjoy,” he says. “A bunch of them suggested I start a blog about it, so I figured I’d give it a try.” His goal? “My dream is to find evidence that suggests The Real World is scripted.” 30

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HIDE YO KIDS: Neko Case, playing a Pickathon festival MENOMENA overrun with babies and small children, made many references to kids during her performance Sunday night, Aug. 5. Case first referred to her own uterus as “pretty much a scab,” then discussed the prospect of eating backup singer Rachel Flotard’s new baby, Harry. Harry would, it was suggested, “taste like marzipan” if pan-fried. Flotard only had the child in the first place, the two singers agreed, so Case could enjoy it as a delicacy. “It was good loving you, Harry,” the pale-skinned frontwoman told the child from the stage. Case’s regular guitarist, Paul Rigby, did not make Pickathon, as his wife was giving birth in a Vancouver, B.C., hospital. In other news, Case told an adoring audience she would soon relocate to Portland for a month to finish a new album, and that during her stay she would be available for handiwork, including tile grouting and shed destruction.

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WEDNESDAY AUG. 8 THE 48-HOUR FILM PROJECT GIVES PORTLAND FILMMAKERS TWO DAYS TO MAKE A MOVIE. WE GAVE OURSELVES 48 MINUTES TO MAKE A CARTOON ABOUT IT. In this weekend’s 48 Hour Film Project, teams will make films based on a genre picked out of a hat. Every film must also include a required character, prop and line of dialogue, all of which will be announced at the kickoff Aug. 10 at the Jupiter Hotel. We asked for our own prompts, and teamed a writer and cartoonist to storyboard Clipping the Roach, a feminist tale about Janine Lawless and her trusty bowling ball, in less than an hour.

RAVI COLTRANE [MUSIC] For someone who has been in the business for more than two decades and who has such a famous family and so many notable collaborations on his résumé—with Carlos Santana, Wynton Marsalis and McCoy Tyner, to name a few— Coltrane knows how to keep it fresh and clean while still celebrating and acknowledging his history. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave. 7 pm (all ages) and 9 pm (21+). $25.

SATURDAY AUG. 11 PORTLAND ZINE SYMPOSIUM [ZINES] Celebrating Portland’s culture of creativity, DIY attitude and willful unemployment, the 12th annual Portland Zine Symposium will bring together hundreds of local zinesters, writers, comic makers and artists to share, sell and trade their work. Take a dip in the “Sea of Zines”—this year’s theme. Refuge, 116 SE Yamhill St. 10 am-5 pm Saturday, 10 am-4 pm Sunday. Free. ALBERTA STREET FAIR [BLOCK PARTY] Folks on Alberta Street worked long and hard to make their street a collection of bars and curio shops. Toast their success with a children’s parade and beer garden. Northeast Alberta Street between 10th and 30th avenues. 11 am-7 pm. $2 suggested donation. albertamainst.org.

SUNDAY AUG. 12 ANONYMOUS THEATRE: THE GOOD DOCTOR [THEATER] The Anonymous Theatre Company has a distinctive way of doing business: The cast members audition and rehearse individually, arriving at the theater in stage clothes. They don’t know their fellow actors until the first line is uttered from the house. This year, the group tackles Neil Simon’s dramatization of seven wry Chekhov stories. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 306-0870. 7 pm. $25. PROVIDENCE BRIDGE PEDAL [BIKES] Once a year, the bikes get the bridges. Nearly 20,000 bicyclists and pedestrians will cross the Willamette River’s bridges. Routes from three to 35 miles include the top decks of the towering Fremont and Marquam bridges, offering breathtaking views. The celebration continues at Jeld-Wen Field for a Providence Health and Wellness Expo. Starting location and time varies by route. $15-$50. bridgepedal.com.

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GO: Register or get information at 48hourfilm.com. See the films at the Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., on Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 15 and 16. 7:15 and 9:30 pm. $9.

ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO [MUSIC] Alejandro Escovedo has earned the right to lean back into the living-legend role ready-made for weary troubadours. Instead, the Texan’s effervescent output remains expansive, invigorated and impossibly fresh. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St. 8 pm. $20. 21+. Willamette Week AUGUST 8, 2012 wweek.com

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KARAOKE NIGHT AS ONLY PORTLAND CAN DO IT. BY JO H N LO C A N T H I

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A bespectacled man stands in the back corner of the dimly lit stage, about five feet from the stripper pole. Nervously tapping the microphone against the white cast holding his right arm in place, he’s ready to start. Or as ready as he’ll ever be. “Ladies and gentlemen, we’re going to take a short break while the dancer gets ready for the next song,” says the karaoke jockey at Devils Point. Then the opening chords of George Michael’s “Faith” start playing through the speakers. “Well, I guess it would be nice, if I could touch your body…” begins the man, only slightly off-key. A heavily tattooed dancer enters stage left, a nun’s wimple and veil sitting atop her bikini-clad body. She holds a plastic baby doll. This is the second song of her set, so her top is coming off. The small, eager crowd cheers and makes it rain with dollar bills as she pushes their faces into her silicone pillows. The singer keeps his composure admirably—right up until the stripper-cum-nun throws him off by rubbing his crotch with the face of the doll, which has an upsidedown cross on its back. Welcome to karaoke, Portland-style. This city has a giant songbook of wild and wonderful karaoke nights. Variety is king here. Look around town and you’ll find everything from traditional lounge fare, where the forlorn butcher “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” to exquisite renditions of indie B-sides. We’ve been tipped off that the New York Times is about to proclaim Portland the nation’s karaoke capital. Given the paper has called Kornblatts “one of the truly great New York delis outside the five boroughs” and proclaimed our city to be in “a Golden Age of Dining and Drinking” in 2007—we believe the rumor. Here are five karaoke nights that almost earn us such hype.

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SINGING IN THE STRANGE Stripperaoke Along with the nun dance, at Stripperaoke I’ve also seen a singer’s voice crack during the chorus of Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game” as a beautiful topless dancer wrapped herself around his legs. The singers sing and the strippers dance, sometimes playing off the music, sometimes as an attempted distraction. The dancers rotate every two songs before going off to mingle and give private dances. Sitting at the stage costs $1 per song. The dancers’ attractiveness and skill may vary, but your experience will not: It’s a fun, hedonistic way to start a new week. 9 pm Sundays at Devils Point, 5305 SE Foster Road, 774-4513. Karaoke From Hell Most karaoke consists of random people singing in front of a glorified jukebox, so it’s refreshing to see a live karaoke band backing the singers. Both the singers and the musicians responsible for so many chords will miss a few notes, but it makes for a much more organic experience. Listening to a screeching rendition of “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” instead of mere recorded karaoke, it felt like I was watching an actual band playing a cover of an obnoxious song. 9 pm Mondays at Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630, danteslive.com, $2 cover. 9:30 pm Thursdays at Tiger Bar, 317 NW Broadway, 467-4111, tigerbarpdx.com. Rock Band Karaoke Yes, people still play Rock Band. This hybrid uses the Xbox 360 game to offer a different, and more competitive, experience. There’s still singing—even a handy graphic to let you know if you’re hitting the pitch—but you can also play those plastic instrument-esque things. And unless one of the guitar players is missing every note, only the singer’s performance is truly noticeable. Be warned: If you sign up to play drums on one of your favorite songs here, you just might see it butchered by some random asshole slurring his way through it. 9 pm Tuesdays at Ground Kontrol, 511 NW Couch St., 796-9364, groundkontrol.com.

SONG AND DANCE: Some karaoke nights have more distractions than others.

The Danny Chavez Karaoke Show Feat. Rock’n Raymond The Spare Room doesn’t have a stage for singers, just a dance floor. And it needs one, too. The first thing you’ll notice when walking into the lounge is a sprightly man standing behind the KJ in a sparkling vest and baseball cap, frantically jittering and dancing, occasionally strumming on an unplugged Guitar Hero guitar. This is Rock’n Raymond. While belting out John Cougar Mellencamp’s “Hurts So Good,” he slides on his knees over to women sitting at a table and shouts, “Come on, ladies!” The crowd was small on this night, but the Flava Flav of Portland karaoke still had the crowd singing along and dancing. 9 pm Mondays-Wednesdays at the Spare Room, 4830 NE 42nd Ave., 287-5800, spareroompdx.com.

Burlesque Karaoke Every Thursday, Hamburger Mary’s encourages singers to put on a costume for karaoke. On the first Thursday of the month, they’re encouraged to take it off. Burlesque karaoke is a forum for an eclectic group of performers. There are women slowly stripping off their suits while singing onstage—seeking help unhooking their bras from the host, who rotated between a cocktail dress and a lacy thong throughout the night. Then there’s a woman performing an interpretive shawl dance to Evanescence. Before you know what’s happening, you’re watching the love child of Paul Stanley and William Wallace taking off his kilt while shouting, “Pour some sugar on me!” Come for the drag, stay for the burlesque. Regular karaoke 9 pm Thursdays, burlesque karaoke 9 pm first Thursday of the month, Hamburger Mary’s, 19 NW 5th Ave., 688-1200, hamburgermarys.com/pdx.

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Vancouver Brewfest

Vancouver (the little one over the border, not the good one way up north) is starting its own beer festival. The first Vancouver Brewfest will offer beers from local (Oregon and Washington, for the most part, but no actual beer list yet) breweries. There also will be food vendors (including something called Foody Blues BBQ) and live music. Esther Short Park, 801 W 8th St., Vancouver, 360-750-8840. 3-9 pm Friday, noon-9 pm Saturday, Aug. 10-11. $16-$21. 21+.

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You know what we don’t celebrate enough in this city? IPAs. St. Johns taproom Plew’s Brews rectifies this injustice with a two-day IPA festival. The lineup promises more than 22 single, double and imperial IPAs, both local and international. Come cheer on this underdog of Portland’s beer scene. Plew’s Brews, 8409 N Lombard St., 283-2243. Noonmidnight Friday-Saturday, Aug. 10-11. Glasses $5, tasting tickets $2. 21+.

The Bite of Oregon

The Bite of Oregon is far from the best food festival in Portland, but it is cheap: At $5 per ticket, you can’t really complain that the list of restaurants—featuring the likes of Rogue Brewery and Noodles & Company—is a little sad. Always a better option are the food carts, which this year will be represented by three of the city’s better mobile vendors: Koi Fusion’s Korean tacos, Hawaiian fare from 808 Grinds and authentic Greek grub from Nikki and Lefty’s. You should be able to get your $5 worth at those three. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Southwest Naito Parkway between Southwest Harrison and Northwest Glisan streets. 11 am-10 pm Friday-Saturday, 11 am-8 pm Sunday, Aug. 10-12. $5.

SATURDAY, AUG. 11 Txakparti

Escape the heat, noise and children of the Alberta Street Fair with Cork wine shop’s Txakparti Basque wine festival. Cork will pour 12 wines alongside food from Aviary, Bar Lolo, Ned Ludd, Tabla, Toro Bravo and Xocolatl de David. Proceeds benefit Alberta Main Street and the Urban Farm Collective. Cork, 2901 NE Alberta St., 281-2675. Noon-5 pm. $25 advance, $30 at the door. 21+.

MONDAY, AUG. 13 Indian Independence Day at East India Co.

Schmancy Indian joint East India Co. celebrates Indian Independence Day for a week (the real day is Aug. 15) with a four-course tasting menu. Diners choose an appetizer, barbecue dish, curry dish and a dessert. East India Co., 821 SW 11th Ave., 227-8815. 5 pm. $25.

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’MERICA AND CHEESE: Retrolicious is a cart of comforts.

RETROLICIOUS Kimberly and Roy Swope, owners of Retrolicious, believe the emotional benefits of comfort food outweigh the caloric costs. Roy’s father worked for an oil company, so he spent an itinerant childhood moving around South America. After each move, his mother would teach the new maid a rotation of traditional American mainstays that Roy remembers fondly as one constant in an otherwise unorthodox upbringing. So when the couple decided to trade in Arizona’s heat for Oregon’s gentle rains, they took inspiration from their past, devoting their sparkling, flamingo-pink cart at the Green Castle pod to the childhood comfort foods they most love. “We like to feed people the way we like to be fed,” Kimberly says. The resulting, made-from-scratch Order this: The mac ’n’ cheese—there’s nothing menu includes a mac and pimento more Southern than pimento cheese ($6), a Cuban called “Damn cheese. That Castro” ($7) and a barbecue Best deal: For $2 more, get a second chicken breast with meatloaf burger ($7). The brunch your waffle. special is a buttermilk biscuit and pan-seared ham, drowning in red-eye gravy and topped with a poached egg ($7). I enjoyed the chicken and waffles, a juicy Cajun fried chicken breast, marinated buttermilk-style and served with a yeasty cornmeal waffle and spicy syrup on the side ($6). For dessert, and in keeping with the retro theme, Kimberly, who sports dark Marilyn curls, also draws recipes for lemon bars and snickerdoodles ($1) from ’40s and ’50s Junior League cookbooks. With this kind of smart branding and great food—the kind that would sound even better on one of Portland’s wet winter days—Retrolicious is a restaurant waiting to happen. KIMBERLY HURSH. EAT: Retrolicious is at Green Castle Food Court, Northeast 20th Avenue and Everett Street. 11 am-7 pm Tuesday-Saturday, 10 am-2 pm Sunday. $.

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BLACK BUTTE XXIV (DESCHUTES BREWERY) Though it’s labeled a porter, Black Butte XXIV is as stout a brew as you’ll find. Stouts are basically stronger, thicker porters, often using roasted barley to give a beer more coffee and smoke flavor. But the line between the styles is thin and fuzzy, especially when porters are dark, high in alcohol and very roasty. Every year, Bend’s Deschutes Brewery puts out a special edition of its flagship porter that doubles everything about it. This year’s version, which came out last week, would be better labeled an imperial stout, with the consistency of canola oil and a studly 11 percent alcohol. Flavored with cacao nibs, dates and figs, it’s a beer meant to mellow in a cellar for a year. Peeling the wax cap off right away, we found it sips more like a bitter liqueur with sharp alcohol heat and strong burnt-coffee flavor. It’s hard to tell if it’ll develop a subtlety to match last year’s wonderful edition with time, but we’re hopeful. Recommended. MARTIN CIZMAR.

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CARPACCIO The ugly brick building at the corner of Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Fremont Street has not been kind to its ground-floor tenants. The first occupant, Terroir, shuttered after just six months. Its successor, Belly, managed to hold on for three years before succumbing. Janis Martin considered moving her restaurant, Tanuki, to the neighborhood last year, but was foiled by the priggish objections of a concerned neighbor. But the latest arrival, Carpaccio, may just break the curse. The restaurant, opened by an Italian chef, Francesco Solda, whose last American restaurant venture was a partnership with actor Jason Priestley, established itself as a neighborhood favorite immediately upon opening thanks to a happy hour so Order this: Orecchiette with hot absurdly generous that one Italian sausage and broccoli rabe. wonders if Solda understands You will inhale it. the concept. The bar, which Best deal: The complimentary basket of bread and spicy tomato occupies about half of the tapenade, which tastes kinda like 80-seat dining room, offers $4 Chinese smoked chili sauce. to $6 small plates and $4 draft I’ll pass: The squid-ink risotto is a big ol’ pile of boring black glop. beers from 4 to 8 pm nightly. At those prices you could bring in crowds with Tater Tots and Cheez Whiz, but Solda’s small bites are quite good: big bowls of mussels and clams, a generous $4 Caesar salad, good fried squid, and an excellent, if very small, steak with Gorgonzola. The happy-hour menu delivers the hearty, familiar Italian fare one expects from a restaurant decorated in a hodgepodge of art that looks like it came from Target, but Solda isn’t just playing the hits. The dinner menu contains much more interesting fare: butifarra, a sort of enormous cheese dumpling ($16); cold marinated beef tongue ($8), sliced so thinly that it dissolves in the mouth; enormous ravioli containing fat fillets of catfish ($15); and a daily carpaccio special, usually of beef, which is tender enough to make you question the very concept of cooking. Given that it has very little competition in the neighborhood, Carpaccio could probably skate by on a few crowd-pleasers, but Solda has chosen to take his customers seriously. We owe him the same courtesy. Go on—get the tongue. If you don’t like it, just wait until you try the Venetian tiramisu, a vast ocean of booze and cream that will leave you pleasantly stupefied. Doubly so when the happy-hour check comes. BEN WATERHOUSE. EAT: Carpaccio Trattoria, 3500 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 972-4252, carpacciotrattoria.com. 4-10 pm Sunday-Thursday, 4-11 pm Friday-Saturday. $-$$.

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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 8 Sharon Van Etten, Tennis

[MYSTIC FOLK] The aching, elegiac folk of Sharon Van Etten has traveled a rapid upward migration in terms of its scope and popularity. Starting out with two albums on venerable Chicago label Drag City, Van Etten soon made the jump to the equally illustrious Jagjaguar, on which she released her third LP, Tramp, earlier this year. Calling on a full band to add texture to her lovelorn laments, Van Etten employs Tramp to judiciously expand her sound beyond its intimate roots, granting it a larger character more befitting of her ever-increasing renown. SHANE DANAHER. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 2349694. 8 pm. $18. 21+.

Regina Spektor, Only Son

[BACK FROM THE USSR] The Russians really fucked up the freedom thing. Since Mr. Gorbachev let that wall be torn down, the Putinists developed an oligarchy that’s somehow got the worst components of communism and capitalism. Right now, they’re putting punk rockers on trial. But at least they let Regina Spektor return. Until last month, the born Muscovite hadn’t been back since her family fled in 1989. The piano-playing anti-folkie returned to flowers and comments like, “You gave us this priceless, intimate and longlasting feeling of happiness.” I had a similar experience at her show, and I’ve always owned blue jeans. MARTIN CIZMAR. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 8 pm. $29.50-$49.50. All ages.

The Ravi Coltrane Quartet

[POST-BOP DYNASTY] Tenor and soprano saxophonist Ravi Coltrane would seemingly have some pretty big obstacles to overcome to distinguish himself from his parents Alice and John (yes, that Alice and John), but he has done just that, effortlessly. Touring on the heels of his new album, Spirit Fiction, released in June, the Coltrane quartet approaches the resilient strain of post-bop from a contemporary, refreshing angle: polyrhythmic grooves, head melodies that are at once sophisticated and catchy and creative production techniques that make far more creative use of the mixing board than jazz outfits typi-

cally do. For someone who has been in the business for over two decades and who has so many notable collaborations on his résumé, Coltrane knows how to keep it fresh and clean, while still acknowledging and celebrating his history. NORA EILEEN JONES. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 7 pm (all ages) and 9 pm (21+). $25.

Ed Schrader’s Music Beat

[DRUM, BASS, VOICE, REVERB] You’d be hard-pressed to find a more minimalist band than Ed Schrader’s Music Beat. The setup for the group finds Schrader alternately crooning and barking into a microphone while he pounds on a floor tom as Devlin Rice rumbles along on the bass. The only high end that creeps in is the occasional pierce of feedback. By stripping it back so heavily, the Baltimore twopiece emphasizes the tribal aspects that underpin aggressive rock offshoots like punk and metal, that rhythmic pulse that takes over body and soul. ROBERT HAM. Tube, 18 NW 3rd Ave., 241-8823. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

THURSDAY, AUG. 9 Al Cisneros and Emil Amos

[OM SOUND SYSTEM] Here’s a treat for fans of ambient-metal act Om: Principal members Al Cisneros and Emil Amos are teaming up to fill the warm confines of the Beech Street Parlor with selections from their record collections. This DJ session comes on the heels of the band’s latest album, Advaitic Songs (released in July on Drag City), a stunning collection of heavy drones and Eastern modalities. What to expect from this DJ duo? The sky’s the limit, considering how everything from ’70s progressive rock, Tibetan chants and experimental music has touched Om’s work over the years. ROBERT HAM. Beech Street Parlor, 412 NE Beech St. 7 pm. Free. 21+.

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TOP FIVE SUMMER SHOWS IN ODD PLACES. The Great Idea, Friday, Aug. 10, at Enchanted Forest It’s a show in a creepy theme park for kids. And Quasi is playing. Come on, what more do you want? Pop-Up Pool Party, Sunday, Aug. 19, at Portland Meadows Perhaps you’ve never heard of DJ Four Color Zack? He’s kind of a big deal. And he’s playing a WW-sponsored pool party...at the race track. Laser Menomena, Friday, Aug. 24, at the OMSI planetarium Menomena’s new album. Lasers. Moms. Dig it. KPSU Kruise 2012, Sunday, Aug. 26, on the Portland Spirit Two of Portland’s finest young bands—Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Radiation City—hit the river to celebrate the radio station at PSU. This will be amazing, and so much cheaper than that Coachella Cruise. MusicfestNW, Sept. 7-9 at Pioneer Courthouse Square For the third year in a row, WW’s own music festival invades downtown. But this year brings Girl Talk to the Square, and that’s unprecedented.

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[POP GARAGE] Within minutes of meeting Chelsea McIntire and Lizzie Flick, who make up two-thirds of local garage-pop upstart Pataha Hiss, I am struck by something that is rarer than you might think: These people genuinely enjoy being in a band together. I am tempted to chalk the bonhomie up to the blessed summer sun beating down from a pictureperfect blue sky, but no, McIntire and Flick make it pretty clear that Pataha Hiss, which also includes drummer Dustin Schwindt, simply get off on each other’s company and dig making music together. “That’s the nicest thing about this band,” McIntire says. “There is no drama. Lizzie and I aren’t fighting over something stupid.” Flick avers: “I can bro down with Dustin and lady down with Chelsea.” An hour spent with the two women offers glimpses onto what said bro downs and lady downs look like, as the conversation detours into enthusiastic geekery touching on everything from Cher to KISS to Gram Parsons to Joan Jett. The two seem less intent on pushing Pataha Hiss than enjoying a digressive continuance of what appears to be an ongoing riff on shared passions. The band’s current lineup is only a year old, but the rosy portrait of wedded bliss should not be mistaken for a snapshot of a honeymoon period. McIntire and Schwindt have been partners (in the romantic sense) for five years, while Flick and McIntire used to play together in the Foxgloves, a power-pop outfit that called it quits a couple years ago. There’s a shared history at work here, then—a familiarity that emerges as mutual appreciation and easy collaboration. “There’s not one lead singer, there’s not one songwriter,” Chelsea says. “Everybody joins in.” That spirit of sharing is in abundant evidence on the band’s new 7-inch, Dirrty Love, a four-song romp

of Rhodes-driven bubblegum pop-punk swirling with cooing backup vocals and group-sung choruses. For eight ridiculously catchy minutes, Pataha Hiss manages to sound like a sweet, tight-knit greaser gang bound by a belief in teen lust and love. Although McIntire and Flick had done time in Foxgloves together, Pataha Hiss did not begin as an offshoot of that collaboration. Flick’s immediate post-Foxgloves projects included a stint with soul group Madison Concrete and a full-time pursuit of a music degree, while McIntire teamed with boyfriend Schwindt to flush her previous band out of her system. “I was tired of the super-poppy thing the Foxgloves were doing,” she says, “and that’s probably why [the first Pataha Hiss] record Dustin and I did sounded more like classic rock.” Written and recorded in the winter of 2010 at Scwhindt’s parents’ farm in Yacolt, Wash., Pataha Hiss’ self-titled debut only barely hints at the sugary garage-pop of the band’s present-day incarnation. “When we started playing music for the first record, it was just for fun. We were out in the middle of nowhere with a bottle of whiskey,” McIntire explains. The Flick-less album documents a duo searching for a sound. It allowed McIntire to achieve her modest aim. “It was the straight-ahead rock record I was looking to make after the Foxgloves called it quits,” she says. After Flick joined the duo for what was supposed to be a one-off set at last year’s Slabtown-hosted Nuggets Night, the three friends began experimenting as a trio, and Flick officially joined the band in September. Now, after a year of writing and playing out, the platonic ideal of Pataha Hiss has emerged in recorded form, and if nothing else, Dirrty Love defines what the band is and where it might go. But for the time being, the band’s goal is still a modest one. “Everybody in Portland has a band,” McIntyre says, “and you walk into their house and they’ve just got stacks of records sitting there that they haven’t peddled. They haven’t done anything. We don’t want 500 records sitting there.” A house full of Dirrty Love seems unlikely. SEE IT: Pataha Hiss plays The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., on Saturday, Aug. 11, with Hey Lover! and Piss Test. 9 pm. Cover. 21+. Willamette Week AUGUST 8, 2012 wweek.com

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THURSDAY-FRIDAY syncratic) bands. Its performance at the PDX Pop Now! Festival last month, during which the lunacy of singer Bud Wilson’s vocals was matched yelp for yelp by his bandmates’ fervent playing, served as a reminder of the band’s talent— just in time for the release of its long-awaited full-length debut this fall. Aan’s support for this Into the Woods-curated show exhibits the local music-media website’s usual finger on the pulse of the Portland scene. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $6. 21+.

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[AVANT JAZZ] Best known as a home for straight-ahead jazz, Jimmy Mak’s welcomes two new additions to the Northwest improvised-music scene that embrace a wide range of experimental influences. The biggest name at the top of Seattle’s Burn List is acclaimed trumpeter Cuong Vu, who’s worked with artists like Pat Metheny, Laurie Anderson, David Bowie and Dave Douglas. With saxophonist Greg Sinibaldi, keyboardist Aaron Otheim and drummer Chris Icasiano, Burn List draws on a wide range of influences: contemporary classical masters like Gyorgy Ligeti, classic avant jazzers like Albert Ayler, and even electronica wizard Aphex Twin. Portland’s Red #40 includes three composers who use extended instrumental techniques to add unusual textures to their partly improvised, partly composed creations. BRETT CAMPBELL. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 7 pm. $10. 7 pm (all ages) and 9 pm (21+).

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[METAL CHOIR] Prior to relocating to Portland, the Body had released a massively acclaimed 2010 double album, All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood. Aside from the Body’s overt, bass-rumbling heaviness, the hype was based on the group’s collaboration with the all-female Assembly of Light Choir—a Providence, R.I.based group of women who do choral work in a DIY mode. As luck

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[ORCHESTRA AWRY] Even when its music threatens inapproachability, Miss Massive Snowflake does us the courtesy of never, ever being boring. An orchestral-electronic collective spearheaded by Shane de Leon, the band has, since 2004, combined an all-elbows instrumental toy box into pop songs that consciously interrupt their crowdpleasing tendencies with curveballs in the form of atonal squalls, rhythmic degradations and clips of children talking about Iraq. This year’s Like a Book, the group’s third album, investigates how hard it is to write a book with an obtuseness befitting its subject matter. SHANE DANAHER. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. 9 pm. $3. All ages.

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[OLD NEW WAVE] If that genre tag seems harsh, “Rocket Roll” (the Phenomenauts’ preferred metier) sounds somewhat worse—redolent of mass-produced comfort food and lazily retro hijinx. The Bay Area troupe has thrived, relatively, the past decade as a period show band of denatured futurist nostalgia for folks too young to remember—like Sha Na Na, except it’s had the poor fortune to brush past acts employing the same vintage synths for genuine purpose. JAY HORTON. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

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FRANZ FERDINAND Formed: 2001 in Glasgow, Scotland. Sounds like: The Strokes’ artsier, scrappier Scotch cousins; the real-world incarnation of an unlikely Velvet Goldmine love child. For fans of: Bowie, golden-age CBGB, the Strokes: artfully smutty lyricism set to fuzz-drenched pop. Latest release: 2011’s Covers EP, a collection of fuzzed-out takes on Franz Ferdinand songs performed by acts like Debbie Harry, ESG and, perplexingly, Peaches. Why you care: When an iPod commercial introduced Franz Ferdinand’s “Take Me Out” to the U.S. in 2004, many predicted the preening Scottish quartet would be a one-hit wonder doomed to a brief stint of hubris-fueled stadium shows following its self-titled debut. Instead, the band thrusted crotch-first into the public consciousness for good. This is a band so keenly aware of Bowie-esque pan-sexual appeal that rail-thin frontman Alex Kapranos won’t hesitate to douse himself in water while cooing anthems about infidelity, movie-theater sex and trysts with saucy girls and dudes named Michael. With the follow-up, 2005’s You Could Have It So Much Better, the group honed its gritty pop sound, but showed a softer side on tracks like “Eleanor Put Your Boots On,” a side that cracked in two on 2009’s slinky, dark, synth-heavy Tonight: Franz Ferdinand. With a new album looming (and new songs being tested live), the quartet is now playing smaller venues but hasn’t adjusted the volume to accommodate.

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lived theirs.” As a lifelong Portlander, those words struck a deep chord with me—is it possible to be my best here? Or is Portland just some place where young people fall into limbo? The 21-year-old Cassow suggests the latter, and it’s a sentiment he shares often on his new album, Future Classic. The album, his best release to date after two attentiongrabbing mixtapes, is full of songs that detail the young MC’s journey toward something greater. “They’re going to love me for my dreams,” he proudly proclaims on “Dreams,” the album’s opener. It’s an admission that Cassow hasn’t done anything to prove himself to date, and that his legacy won’t start until his dreams become reality. Other tracks, like the slap-heavy “So Close” or the velvety “All Or Nothing,” have a decided eagerness to them—full of references to future fame and lights brighter than those of the White Stag sign. Despite all the big-time ambition, it’s easy to believe Cassow. That’s because the album—from its glossy, sample-based beats courtesy of regional heavyweights like Jake One and TROX to its catchy choruses and the grainy, vintage album cover—displays a maturity and cohesiveness that’s not often found in local hip-hop projects. Of course, Cassow will never leave Portland completely behind. He still raps about his childhood in Northeast; it’s part of what makes him unique. But Future Classic is built for a big audience and should ignite interest on a national level. Maybe this album will help him become one of those older people in Portland, coming back home after chasing his dreams. REED JACKSON.

THE CHICHARONES SWINE FLEW (CAMOBEAR) [POST-HIP-HOP] The Chicharones are best experienced live. This isn’t likely to change, barring the release of a high-budget 3-D live show on Blu-ray, because so much of what makes the Chicharones the Chicharones— the dance moves; the frenetic live band; DJ Zone’s pig-masked hijinks; the band’s innate ability to perform its silliest songs with heartbreaking earnestness—has to be seen to be believed. There’s no reason the duo of Sleep and Josh Martinez can’t make a hit record. Swine Flew just may be too ambitious to be the Chicharones’ breakthrough. Opening cut “Spotlighting” is a song entirely of this musical moment. Despite containing melodic and production nods to Taco’s 1982 version of “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” the song is catchy on its own merits and post-genre enough (think Black Eyed Peas or Cee Lo Green) to capture a national audience. The same can be said of the doo-wop and fast-rap-infused “Never Had it Easy” and the almost painfully smooth “Hi Hey Hello,” a longtime standout from the Chicharones’ live set. But the disc’s best songs are also its least marketable: The funny and inspiring “Burn it Down,” despite being the album’s de facto first single, feels a little too old-school to catch fire. “Gangsta Momma” is a laugh-out-loud story-song that feels plucked from the Fresh Prince era. Three of the album’s best tracks, “Good,” “5000” and “Smile?,” each run about five minutes. At its worst moments, Swine Flew tries to fly in a handful of directions at once—see the honky-tonked “Media Frenzy” or the laudable but confused “Banker’s Bonanza”—without ever quite soaring. At its best, it’s probably too personal, complex and funny an album to go supernova. Because the Chicharones are one of my favorite local bands—and I like seeing them live in intimate venues—I have mixed feelings about this. CASEY JARMAN. SEE IT: The Chicharones play Ted’s (at Berbati’s), 19 SW 2nd Ave., on Friday, Aug. 10, with Champagne Champagne and the Knux. 9:30 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+. Cassow’s Future Classic can be downloaded at freshselects.net. 40

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[ART-ROCK TRAMP] After helping pen at least a half-dozen timeless singles for British art-rock stars Supertramp, singer Roger Hodgson left the band in 1983, never to return. He cited “family time” as his reason, but after selling 60 million albums there clearly wasn’t much left to prove, nor any humane reason to continue working. Though Supertramp has continued on with various lineups to the present day, it has been without Hodgson’s voice or input since the frontman’s initial leave. But he here comes now with his first performance in Portland, leading a fourpiece band through all the hits. “Dreamer,” “The Logical Song,” “Take the Long Way Home” and all the rest will be trotted out at the zoo. NATHAN CARSON. Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Road, 2202789. 7 pm. $30-$55. All ages.

Rational Animals, Dente Na Mente, Mass Exit, Rad Habits

[HARDCORE] Rochester, New York’s Rational Animals aren’t the only contemporary punk band mucking about in Black Flag’s realm of despondent, tendonstretching hardcore, but the quartet’s 2011 LP, Bock Rock Parade, is one of the few modern Flag salutes that bleeds the legit biliousness and bellicosity of its progenitor. With just a hint of ’90s pigfuck scumbaggery informing its roiling midtempo anthems against joy, Rational Animals manage to pull off their throwback trick by foregrounding thorny guitar embellishments that rail and scream in the space between punk and pissed metal. CHRIS STAMM. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.

SATURDAY, AUG. 11 Northwest String Summit: Fruition, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Yonder Mountain String Band, 7 Walkers, Joy Kills Sorrow and more

[JAZZ FUNK] Karl Denson has found his following among an unlikely cult: That of the patchoulisoaked ranks of the hippie summer fest-dwellers. It makes sense: The San Diego sax master combines a little soul, a heap of jazz and a shitload of funk into an improv-happy, genre-crossing symphony that just doesn’t stop…quite literally. Which makes him the perfect soul man for crowds like the one at String Summit to get down to. Denson offers a fantastic break from the repetition and noodling indicative of what’s generically called jam music. Thing is, despite being lumped among the hippies, Denson doesn’t jam. He fucking wails. AP KRYZA. Horning’s Hideout, 21277 NW Brunswick Canyon Road, North

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The Satin Chaps, Don and the Quixotes, DJ Drew Groove

[RETRO WONDER TWINS] Following in the steps of peanut butter and sandwiches, whiskey and ginger, and Ice and Coco, Portland’s two best (and probably only) emerging retro instrumental party squads are embarking on the most logical team-up in years, and they’re sure to lay waste to the dance floor in the process. On its recent debut, Might I Suggest, sextet Satin Chaps brings a ’60s mod ruckus somehow combining beach-blanket shimmying with a Herb Alpert blend of cheese and funk. Meanwhile, quintet Don and the Quixotes blast forth like a beer can blowing down the beach with a nitty, gritty, skeezy-as-hell take on classic surf from the days of the Ventures…if the Ventures were dragged through glass. Together, these two bands bring a vibe that can be summed up in two words: “Fuck yeah.”AP KRYZA. Spare Room, 4830 NE 42nd Ave., 2875800. 9 pm. Cover. 21+.

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[NO, REALLY, GREAT IDEA] When I was a kid, Enchanted Forest was nothing more than a two-mile stretch of red-eyed screaming along the highway. My family was more inclined toward hot springs and hiking trails than Disney-style amusement parks—in its defense, this can probably be traced to the time we actually went to Disneyland and I got lost during the Main Street Electrical Parade and ruined the trip for everyone. As an adult, I still tense up when driving by the fairy tale-themed amusement park just south of town—but the Great Idea sounds like the perfect excuse to live out my crushed childhood dreams. While some of this festival’s lineup remains a mystery to me (and shouldn’t bands soundtracking Enchanted Forest be a bit mysterious?), Typhoon and the Builders and the Butchers each have perfect musical pedigrees to rock a run-down roadside attraction. Headliner Quasi’s powerful, bluesinspired keyboard pop is probably a bit more Thrill-Ville USA than Enchanted Forest, honestly, but the time for crying over spilled amusement parks has passed. Fuck ThrillVille. You’re a big kid now, and it’s time to get your ass down to Storybook Lane. CASEY JARMAN. Enchanted Forest, 8462 Enchanted Way SE, Turner. 2 pm. $22. All ages.

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Pierced Arrows, The Suicide Notes, No Tomorrow Boys

[PUNK] The Suicide Notes finally have a theme song—fittingly titled “Suicide Note”—and it’s a Misfitsesque bummer-by-way-of-melodicpunk. The track, which appears on the Brill- and Spector-inspired punk sextet’s new 7-inch of the same name, appears opposite the longer and markedly more upbeat—but still death-centric—”Beach Song,” which reminds of the Go-Gos and includes a refrain that nods to “Crimson and Clover.” Tonight the group opens for Pierced Arrows, which, fronted by the now-legendary Fred and Toody Cole, tends to bring out the best in everybody. CASEY JARMAN. Slabtown, 1033 NW 16th Ave. 9 pm. Cover. 21+.

MONDAY, AUG. 13 Alejandro Escovedo

[TEX-MEX-PLEX] After marking 60-some years on the planet and earning the eternal adulation of his peers—not to mention the evidently undying loyalty of mystical knob twiddler Tony Visconti, producer of just-released album Big Station (his third consecutive outing with our erstwhile hero)— Alejandro Escovedo should by rights lean back into the livinglegend role ready-made for weary troubadours. Instead, the Texan’s effervescent output remains expansive, invigorated and impossibly fresh. JAY HORTON. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 8 pm. $20. 21+.

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[ISLAND PUNK] When I was in Hawaii this January, I spent a little bit too much time wondering just how the islands and the kids marooned there coped without access to the mainland’s vantrapped touring bands. If Honolulu’s Harshist is any indication, I needn’t have worried, because there is some seriously beautiful noise pollution tainting that gorgeous state. Harshist’s recent cassette release, Mythologies, is a 10-minute scream of sound, a tangle of samples, no-wave skronk and anthemic punk tempered by a commitment to grooviness that keeps everything on course and earthbound. There must be something in the water. CHRIS STAMM. Laughing Horse Books, 12 NE 10th Ave., 236-2893. 9 pm. Cover. All ages.

Good Willsmith, Sombre Reptile, Mary Sutton

[BENEVOLENT DRONES] Chicagobased trio Good Willsmith released one of the more enveloping experimental releases of 2012 with The Food Your Family Eats Slowly. Recorded in one afternoon session in May, the album’s six tracks squish together ghostly vocals and spiraling electronic drones and squiggles, with guitar and bass providing atmospherics in place of rhythm or melody. The combined result is a blobby and beautiful mass that maintains a steady calm as it unfurls slowly before you. Also on the bill are brilliant local violinist Mary Sutton and Sombre Reptile, a collaboration between John Rau and Eternal Tapestry’s Dewey Mahood. ROBERT HAM. Valentines, 232 SW Ankeny St., 248-1600. 9 pm. $3. 21+.

[SYNTH ON WHEELS] George Lewis Jr., who calls himself Twin Shadow, has a motorcycle. You can tell by his music videos for “Five Seconds” and “Patient,” both songs from his recent sophomore album, Confess, and you can tell by the poster art for his current tour (called the “Ton Up” tour, after a ’50s U.K. motorcycling subculture). Lewis Jr.’s love for speed and danger is most engagingly evident, however, in his music: He provides nods to ’80s-era cop shows and street chases in his synth-heavy and momentous tracks, binding the high-velocity production together with romance, intrigue and narrative. Hooks be damned; Twin Shadow’s got wheels. NORA EILEEN JONES. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $15 advance, $17 day of show. 21+.

Drew Grow and the Pastors’ Wives, Sad Little Men, Pictorials

[GRITTY SOUL ROCK] With a typical palette of guitar, bass, drums and keys, Drew Grow and the Pastors’ Wives play a hodgepodge of styles between lo-fi garage rock and full-bodied folk. The Portland quartet’s 2011 selftitled LP gets fans moving to a gristly, electric guitar-led melody one minute and surrenders to a lilting swarm of powerful harmonies the next. Grow’s shape-shifting voice carries the mood—from the drawn-out soulful bellows of “Friendly Fire” to the jumpy hollers of “Bootstraps.” Blending genres and sounds is no new concept, but Grow’s influences make for a seamless mix that feels fresh and cohesive. EMILEE BOOHER. Ella Street Social Club, 714 SW 20th Place, 227-0116. 9 pm. $8. Second show on Wednesday, Aug. 15. 21+.

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Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Lindsay DiAnn

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. World’s Finest

Wilfs Restaurant and Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Band with Nancy Curtin and Joe Milward

THURS. AUG. 9 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Nik Sin (The Ed Forman Show)

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Dusty Santamaria, Sam Doores

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Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Laura Veirs (The Ed Forman Show)

Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Sharon Van Etten, Tennis

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Open Mic

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Regina Spektor, Only Son

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Day of Days, City in Ashes, Sicarius, Saints

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Shores of Astor, Belinda, Pop’s Couch

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Regina and Paul

Boom Bap!

640 SE Stark St.

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Monarques, Genders, My Autumn’s Done Come (Rigsketball finals afterparty)

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Noah Gabriel

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Futurebirds, Grandfather Child

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam (9:30 pm); High Flyer Trio (6 pm)

East Burn

1800 E Burnside St. Irish Music Jam

East India Co.

821 SW 11th Ave. Josh Feinberg

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Windy Hill, Left Coast Country, Gypsy Moon, 4 on the Floor

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Montana Skies

Ladd’s Inn

1204 SE Clay St. Lynn Conover

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray and the Cowdogs (9:30 pm); Bob Shoemaker (6 pm)

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. BBQ Orchestra (9 pm); The Quick & Easy Boys (6 pm)

Lents Commons

9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. South of Ramona, Kaleido Skull

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons

Muddy Rudder Public House

Southwest Main Street and Southwest Broadway The Bingo Band (5 pm); The Beat Goes On (12 pm)

Peter’s Room

8 NW 6th Ave. Dylan Jakobsen, DJ and Christian

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Slabtown

1669 SE Bybee Blvd. Counterfeit Cash

1033 NW 16th Ave. La Cerca

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13 NW 6th Ave. Honey Island Swamp Band, Pocket

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2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project

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2348 SE Ankeny St. Renee Muzquiz

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3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Mark Simon

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350 W Burnside St. Shonen Knife, The Mallard

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830 E Burnside St. Deathtrap America, Lesser Known Characters, Snarl

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1635 SE 7th Ave. The 44’s (9 pm); Tough Woodpyle (6 pm)

East Burn

1800 E Burnside St. Stefan Andrews

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3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones

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2026 NE Alberta St. Hot Victory, Haunted Horses, Dead Dawn

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2348 SE Ankeny St. Brian McGinty

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell

Tonic Lounge

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232 SW Ankeny St. Bergerette, Jake Ray & Paul Brainard, Myrrh Larsen

Kenton Club

White Eagle Saloon

2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Soapmakers, The Shy Seasons

836 N Russell St. Hivemind (8:30 pm); Kory Quinn (5:30 pm)

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Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. The 44’s

Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb

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1305 SE 8th Ave. Assembly of Light Choir, The Body, Braveyoung, Sioux

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2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones

426 SW Washington St. Purple Heart, The Food, Cheap Meats

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Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Open Mic

221 NW 10th Ave. Red #40, Burn List

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430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin

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3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Cabaret Chanteuse

Chapel Pub

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Mesi & Bradley

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626 SW Park Ave. John “JB” Butler & Al Craido

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231 SW Ankeny St. Ten Million Lights, Blue Light Curtain, The Silent Numbers

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Ted’s (at Berbati’s)

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. City in Ashes, Duty, A Collective Subconscious

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons

6000 NE Glisan St. Vanport Drifters Jam

Clyde’s Prime Rib

1435 NW Flanders St. Ryan Meagher with the Los Angeles Jazz Collective

Backspace

Biddy McGraw’s

Jimmy Mak’s

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Hush, Hush Smut Club (9 pm); Mo Phillips with Johnny & Jason (6 pm)

2201 N Killingsworth St. Kat Jones

221 NW 10th Ave. The Ravi Coltrane Quartet

21277 NW Brunswick Road, North Plains Northwest String Summit: Dead Winter Carpenters, The Shook Twins, Greensky Bluegrass, Jeff Austin, Pete Kartsounes Band

Ash Street Saloon

115 NW 5th Ave. Wimps, Pink Slime, The Happening

WED. AUG. 8

Horning’s Hideout

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Sigur Ros

225 SW Ash St. Moisture Farm, The Weather Machine, Kyle Castellani, Matt Brown

PCPA Music on Main Street

1001 SE Morrison St. Aan, Pure Bathing Culture, WL, Shy Girls, DJ Zack, DJ Sister Sister (Into the Woods quarterly)

Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band

Youthbitch, Grrrl Friend, Lindseys, Team Ugly

Holocene

2958 NE Glisan St. Sleeper Smiles (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)

1314 NW Glisan St. Greg Wolfe

ANGELS OF DEATH: The Suicide Notes play Slabtown on Saturday, Aug. 11.

2845 SE Stark St. The Dosumov Brothers, Max Ribner Band

Peter Murphy (of Bauhaus), Ours, Michael Shapiro

Plan B

Radio Room

1101 NE Alberta St. Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun, The Sour Notes, Joie

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Grandpa Shitstain & the Tampon Kickers, The Traveling Goodbye

Secret Society Lounge

800 NW 6th Ave. Gaea Schell, Dave Bones Quartet

FRI. AUG. 10 Agenda

2366 SE 82nd Ave. Bubble Cats, Mexican Hexagon

Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. The Tiptons, Battle Hymns and Gardens

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Fair Weather Watchers, Hannah Glavor, Broken Arm

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Sambafeat

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. The 5th Elephant, Say It Ain’t Weezer (Weezer tribute), The Fashion Nuggets (Cake tribute)

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Miss Massive Snowflake, The Gutters, Last Prick Standing

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. No Tomorrow

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Tin Silver

Bipartisan Cafe

7901 SE Stark St. Chris Miller, James Sasser

Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Tablao

116 NE Russell St. The Barn Door Slammers, Bret Ervin

Buffalo Gap Saloon

Sellwood Public House

Camellia Lounge

8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave. Julian’s Ride

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave.

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Jeni Wren, The Sale 510 NW 11th Ave. King Louie & Baby James

Club 21

2035 NE Glisan St. Rabbits, Gaytheist, Lick, Monogamy Party, Defenerate

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Randy Star Band 830 E Burnside St. The English Beat

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Radio Giants (late show); The Hamdogs (early show)

East Burn

1800 E Burnside St. The Wild Reeds

Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Northeast Northwest

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Soul Stew with DJ Aquaman

Graeter Art Gallery 131 NW 2nd Ave. Mojave Bird

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Phenomenauts, Prima Donna, The Bloodtypes

Horning’s Hideout

21277 NW Brunswick Road, North Plains Northwest String Summit: The Deadly Gentlemen, Yonder Mountain String Band, New Riders of the Purple Sage, BanjoKillers!, Elephant Revival, California Honeydrops, The Blackberry Bushes, Renegade Stringband, Big E

Island Mana Wines 526 SW Yamhill St. Joe Marquand

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Ryan Porter Trio

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. ITUTU

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. The Anxieties, Thundering Asteroids, 42 Ford Prefect

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. A Happy Death, Bath Party, Honey’s Dead

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Atlas and the Astronaut, Manx, Autronic Eye

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Ruby Feathers, The Dirt Floor, The Darlin’ Blackbirds (9:30 pm); Woodbrain (6 pm)

Mission Theater

1624 NW Glisan St. Goose and Fox (film screening)

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Three Fifths Compromise (9 pm); Level 2 (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Amber Martin

Mount Tabor Theater

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Mosby, Dead Remedy, Kyle Castellani

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. The Sportin’ Lifers Trio

Nel Centro

1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew

Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music

Oregon Zoo

4001 SW Canyon Road Roger Hodgson (of Supertramp)

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CALENDAR

BAR SPOTLIGHT

KIM + PHIL PHOTOGRAPHY

Vanport Sound, Dante Elephante (9:30 pm); Nutmeggers (6 pm)

Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Tablao

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Matthew Santos

Cathedral Park Place 6635 N Baltimore Ave. The Lucy Hammond Band, Butterfly Breakdown

Club 21

Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Jim Wallace

Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli

2314 SE Division St. Forest Bloodgood

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Noctis, Hallow, Usnea, The Rain in Endless Fall

Press Club

2621 SE Clinton St. Veronica Greene, Emerald Bros

Record Room

8 NE Killingsworth St. Palo Verde, Cinder Cone, For the Lash

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Blood Oath, Abash’t, Dead in a Ditch, Blood and Thunder, Blastfemur

Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. WhistlePunk!, Objects in Space, Wild Bells (9 pm); Sentimental Gentlemen (6 pm)

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Earwigs, UAV, The Graves of Gehenna, The Translucent Spiders, Vegan Steak Knife

Someday Lounge

125 NW 5th Ave. Future Historians, Toyboat Toyboat Toyboat, Scissors to Tape

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave. Juliet Howard Band

Ted’s (at Berbati’s)

231 SW Ankeny St. Champagne Champagne, The Knux, Chicharones, Cloudy October

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Bolt Upright

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. The Waydowns

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Rational Animals, Dente Na Mente, Mass Exit, Rad Habits

The Slide Inn

2348 SE Ankeny St. Worth, Ruby Pines, Moorea Masa (8 pm); Mick Schafer (6 pm)

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Dirty Little Fingers, Sonic Temple, The Choices

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. My Only Ghost, Grand Turantula, Idlehands

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Billy & the Rockets

Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Gaea Schell, Dave Bones

Trader Vic’s

1203 NW Glisan St. John English (Frank Sinatra tribute)

Tualatin Heritage Center

8700 SW Sweek Drive Noel Hill

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Mitch & Terry Robb

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Windy Hill, The Nutmeggers (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)

Wilfs Restaurant and Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ed Bennett Quintet

Big Shell, Sleepy Creek, Slow Cap, Pigeon Farmers Bernice

Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

303 SW 12th Ave. Emulator (The Ed Forman Show)

Alberta Street Fair

Northeast Alberta Street and Southeast 20th Avenue Sara Jackson-Holman, Brothers Young, Kat Jones & the Prophets, Strangled Darlings, Ezza Rose, Safire, Miriam’s Well, Bradley Wik & the Charlatans, Dropa (Main Stage); Brass Roots Movement, Ojos Feos, Riviera, Boys Without Toys, SambaGata, Gypsy Heart Tribal, Red Yam Puppet Band, Curious Garden (Center Stage); Reid Jamieson, Robert Richter Duo, Rachael Rice, The Weather Machine, Alexa Wiley, Paula Sinclair, Tyler Stenson, Pilar French, Parfait, Lyrical Strings Duo, Brianne Kathleen (Acoustic Stage)

Alberta Street Public House

1036 NE Alberta St. David Ramirez, Howth (9:30 pm); Lloyd Mitchell Canyon (6:30 pm)

East Burn

1800 E Burnside St. Howlin’ Houndog & the Infamous Loosers

Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Common Dear, Andrea Dawn, Nilika Remi, Annie Dang

Foggy Notion

3416 N Lombard St. Mollusk, Gang Radio, Collapsing Opposites, RLLRBLL

Gemini Lounge

6526 SE Foster Road Tater Famine, The Reverend, Country Trash

Horning’s Hideout

21277 NW Brunswick Road, North Plains Northwest String Summit: Fruition, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Yonder Mountain String Band, 7 Walkers, Joy Kills Sorrow, Kid Parade, Deadly Gentlemen, Windy Hill, Danny Barnes, Tyler Fortier, Big E

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. George Colligan Quartet

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Devin Phillips

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. No Red Flags, Proof, Scheisshosen, Erik Anarchy

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Surfs Drugs, Memphibians, Andrew Felts, Log Across the Washer

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Mosquito Hawk, Iron Goat

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Lewi Longmire Band, Bingo (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)

Mission Theater

Ash Street Saloon

Mississippi Pizza

225 SW Ash St. Find Your Smile, Volifonix, Raksha

Backspace

SAT. AUG. 11

2201 N Killingsworth St. Matthew Lindley

2366 SE 82nd Ave.

1635 SE 7th Ave. Willie Nelson Tribute

1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero

128 NE Russell St. Franz Ferdinand

Agenda

Duff’s Garage

1624 NW Glisan St. Redwood Son, Tim Snider and Sound Society (film screening)

Andina

115 NW 5th Ave. Point Juncture WA, The World Radiant

Wonder Ballroom

830 E Burnside St. The Tumblers, Ed & the Red Reds, Jake Ray

Beaterville Cafe

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St.

Music Millennium

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Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Mike Brown

1305 SE 8th Ave. The Meatmen, Therapists, Clackamas Baby Killers, Decapitated by Sperm

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero

Ash Street Saloon

Red Room

225 SW Ash St. Polarization, Mouth of the Serpent, Nemesis, Dusk’s Embrace

2530 NE 82nd Ave. The Embalming Process

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Heavy Kingdom featuring Wino and Conny Ochs, Mike Scheidt (of YOB), Aerial Ruin

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. The Great Train Robbery, Profcal, Bipolarbear, Tip, Bad Music, Our First Brains

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Pierced Arrows, Suicide Notes, No Tomorrow Boys

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Doc McTear’s Medicine Show (5:30 pm); Peter Boesen (11 am)

Someday Lounge

125 NW 5th Ave. Vocab, BigMo & J Burns, Jermaine Malone, DJ Eps

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam

Spare Room

Corkscrew Wine Bar

4830 NE 42nd Ave. The Satin Chaps, Don and the Quixotes, DJ Drew Groove

1669 SE Bybee Blvd. Caterina New

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Kyle Turley

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Peculiar Pretzelmen 5441 SE Belmont St. Eric Skye, Jamie Stillway, Teja Gerken 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Death Songs, Hungry Cloud Darkening, Bleating Hearts

The Enchanted Forest

Horning’s Hideout

8462 Enchanted Way SE, Turner The Great Idea: Quasi, Typhoon, The Builders and the Butchers, Hustle and Drone, Tango Alpha Tango, The Peculiar Pretzelmen, Porches, Apheliotropic Orchestra, Symmetry/Symmetry

21277 NW Brunswick Road, North Plains Northwest String Summit: The Drunken Hearts, Water Tower, The Harmed Bros, The Student Loan, Yonder Mountain String Band, Danny Barnes & Scratch Track Gospel Show, Doral Anger & the Furies, BanjoKillers!, Windy Hill, Big E

The Firkin Tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave. In Medias Res, Ponyhomie, Lazy Animals

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

The Know

1435 NW Flanders St. Linda Myers Band

2026 NE Alberta St. Pataha Hiss, Hey Lover, Piss Test

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Microbabies, Id, Little Pilgrims

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. The Limit Club, Three Imaginary Boys

The Slide Inn

2348 SE Ankeny St. Adlai Alexander, Steve Hall, Kenny Morse (8 pm); Land on Earth (6 pm)

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Crazy Like Me, Rabid Wombats, Tallboy

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell

Doug Fir Lounge

12 NE 10th Ave. Harshist, Drunk Dad, Riot Cop

830 E Burnside St. Alejandro Escovedo

LaurelThirst

1635 SE 7th Ave. Susie & the Sidecars

2958 NE Glisan St. Dan Haley & Tim Acott (9 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Dante Elephante (9 pm); Saturnalia Trio (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Onra, Matthewdavid (9 pm); Lewi Longmire, Bingo Richey (3 pm)

Duff’s Garage

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens (9 pm); Portland Country Underground (6 pm)

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mr. Ben

Muddy Rudder Public House

NEPO 42

Rotture

Rontoms

Slabtown

Star Theater

The Blue Diamond

The Blue Monk

The Know

8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music

5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic 600 E Burnside St. XDS, Hustle and Drone 13 NW 6th Ave. Kelly McFarling, Lia Rose 3341 SE Belmont St. Tim Wilcox’s Superjazzers

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Spectral Tombs, Autolatry, Dead by Dawn

The Slide Inn

2348 SE Ankeny St. Vanessa Rogers

Tillicum Club

8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway

Duff’s Garage

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Bad Rabbit, Ozymandias, Stark Heroes, Death Star Radius, Hiero, Jake Blecker, End of Agony, Hollywise, Tom Foolery, Sister Midnight

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Amy Keyes

Laughing Horse Books

232 SW Ankeny St. Good Willsmith, Sombre Reptile, Mary Sutton

Hawthorne Theatre

The Blue Diamond

4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray

Johnny Martin Quartet

1635 SE 7th Ave. Seth Walker

The Back Door Theater

Landmark Saloon

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Dave Depper, Nathan Trueb, Sam Cooper

TaborSpace

1425 NW Glisan St. David Friesen, Storm Nilson

8105 SE 7th Ave. Alan Hagar

SUN. AUG. 12

2527 NE Alberta St. AC Porter

Mount Tabor Theater

3158 E Burnside St.

4001 SW Canyon Road Melissa Etheridge

Tony Starlight’s

Muddy Rudder Public House

800 NW 6th Ave. Richard Arnold & the Groove Swingers

Oregon Zoo

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Z’Bumba (9 pm); Anna Paul & the Bearded Lady (6 pm); Lorna Miller (kids’ show, 4 pm) 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. McFadden Project

Wilfs Restaurant and Bar

4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music

Plan B

Doug Fir Lounge

836 N Russell St. Jambox Allstars, Brad Creel and the Reel Deel (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)

Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe

Clyde’s Prime Rib

350 W Burnside St. Murder by Death, Ha Ha Tonka

White Eagle Saloon

1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew, Dave Captein, Randy Rollofson

Original Halibut’s II

Dante’s

Arthur Moore’s Harmonica Party

Nel Centro

2035 NE Glisan St. P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S., Alarms, Riastrad 5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Andy Stokes

HELL OF A TIME: You’ll drive down a long farm road and under a wooden train trellis before arriving at the doors of Helvetia Tavern (10275 NW Helvetia Road, Hillsboro, 6475286, helvetiatavern.com). Since it first opened its doors on the day Prohibition was repealed in 1933, the sons and daughters of Hillsboro’s Swiss farming families have patronized this restaurant and bar nestled among the wheat fields north of Sunset Highway. The atmosphere is a reflection of that relationship. Hundreds of baseball caps hang from the ceiling, and if there’s a game happening somewhere, it’ll be on the TV. Helvetia is home to the half-pound Jumbo Burger ($8.75), with Budweiser on tap and young waiters probably sporting Oregon State University gear. A sign warns you that this isn’t Burger King: Here, you get what you get. But what you get is probably what you were after, anyway. KIMBERLY HURSH.

Jaime Leopold, Ron Rogers, Rich Layton, Greg Georgeson, Throwback Suburbia, Naomi Hooley, Rob Stroup

Valentine’s

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. The Sale

MON. AUG. 13 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Mike Brown

Alberta Street Public House

1036 NE Alberta St. Tai Shan, Emily Pica, Jeni Wren

8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones

315 SE 3rd Ave. Torche, Lozen, Norska 1033 NW 16th Ave. Mexican Hexagon 2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Tom Grant Trio 2026 NE Alberta St. Carrion Spring, Orwell, Speaker Eater, Lamprey

The Slide Inn

2348 SE Ankeny St. Jaime Leopold

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Coral Stabz, K-Tel ‘79, The Memories

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Early Hours

TUES. AUG. 14 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Mike Brown

Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Chris Chandler & Paul Benoit, Kazum

Alberta Street Public House

1036 NE Alberta St. The Washover Fans, Josh Hoke, Charlie Shaw

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. JB Butler

Andina

Ash Street Saloon

Backspace

1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs 225 SW Ash St. Open Mic

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Kelley’s Cabaret

Club 21

2035 NE Glisan St. Audacity, Big Eyes, Memories

225 SW Ash St. Fang Moon, Mechlo

115 NW 5th Ave. Barrett Johnson, Jane Wade, David Ganz

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Alexa Wiley, Seth Altshuler

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Surfs Drugs, Lubec

DUSDIN CONDREN

MUSIC

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Tony Starlight Show

Touché Restaurant and Billiards

Trader Vic’s

1203 NW Glisan St. Xavier Tavera

Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd.

A REAL HAIR-RAISER: Sharon Van Etten plays the Aladdin Theater on Wednesday, Aug. 8.

CALENDAR Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Orjazzum

Director Park

815 SW Park Ave. Sneakin’ Out

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Twin Shadow, Poolside

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Quartet (9 pm); Trio Bravo (6 pm)

East Burn

1800 E Burnside St. Gypsy Moon

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Rock and Roll Adventure Kids, Primitive Idols, No Tomorrow Boys, Piss Test, The Bugs

Ella Street Social Club

714 SW 20th Place Drew Grow and the Pastors’ Wives, Sad Little Men, Pictorials

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Radula

Holocene

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Family of the Year, The Colourist

1001 SE Morrison St. Brainstorm, Swahili, Sun Angle, DJ Sahelsounds

Music Millennium

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

Pioneer Courthouse Square

1435 NW Flanders St. Jazz Jam with Carey Campbell and Hank Hirsch

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm); Tree Palmedo (6:30 pm)

Kenton Park

8417 N Brandon Ave. Dr. Theopolis

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Benyaro, Future Historians (9 pm); Jackstraw (6 pm)

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Inspirational Beets

3158 E Burnside St. Denver

701 SW 6th Ave. Eric John Kaiser

Slabtown

Heather Flores

Thirsty Lion

71 SW 2nd Ave. PX Singer-Songwriter Showcase

2026 NE Alberta St. Lecherous Gaze, Age of Collapse, Ripper

The Slide Inn

Presented by PDX Jazz @ Jimmy Mak’s

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Bone Dance, Tigon, Habits, Worthless Eaters

Valentine’s

The Know

Ravi Coltrane

Tonic Lounge

The Blue Diamond

3341 SE Belmont St. Pagan Jug Band

“One of the world’s top 100 places to hear jazz” - Downbeat Magazine

317 NW Broadway Franco Paletta & the Stingers

Tony Starlight’s

The Blue Monk

JIMMY MAK’S

Tiger Bar

1033 NW 16th Ave. A Happy Death, Static Tones, Tigress 2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Sportin’ Lifers

MUSIC

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3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Ayars Vocal Showcase

Coco Montoya

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232 SW Ankeny St. Batmen, Fine Pets, Harshist

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Max Ribner

Karrin Allyson

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Beisbol, No Kind of Rider, Foreign Orange

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2348 SE Ankeny St.

The Joey DeFrancesco Trio

with Jimmy Cobb and Larry Coryell Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. Blank Fridays

The Conquistador

2045 SE Belmont St. DJ Drew Groove

WED. AUG. 8 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Hornet Leg

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Trick with DJ Robb

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. TRONix with DJ 808

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Benefits with Friends: DJs Chicklit, Tab Dansby

Matador

1967 W Burnside St. DJ Whisker Friction

Red Cap Garage

1035 SW Stark St. Riot Wednesdays with Amy Kasio

Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave. Folding Space

The Crown Room

205 NW 4th Ave. Proper Movement: DBridge, Jed Black, Azazel

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Amusia

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Manchester Night: DJs Bar Hopper, Selector TNTs

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Blackwell

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Creepy Crawl

Yes and No

20 NW 3rd Ave. Death Club with DJ Entropy

THURS. AUG. 9 Beech Street Parlor

412 NE Beech St. Al Cisneros and Emil Amos

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Hip Hop Heaven with DJ Detroit Diezel

Fez Ballroom

316 SW 11th Ave. Shadowplay: DJs Ghoulunatic, Paradox, Horrid

Refuge

116 SE Yamhill St. Justin Martin, Merchants Of, The Architects, Sappho

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave. Kaskade, Fareoh

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. I’ve Got a Hole in My Soul with DJ Beyondadoubt

Someday Lounge

125 NW 5th Ave. DJs Mr. Romo, Michael Grimes

The Crown Room 205 NW 4th Ave. Counter Culture

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Kev It Up

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Sethro Tull

FRI. AUG. 10 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Miss Martini

Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJs Arcadia, Primitiva

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Flamin’ Fridays with DJ Doughalicious

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

3416 N Lombard St. BENT

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Phasers to Stunna

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Booty Bassment: Ryan & Dmitri, Maxx Bass, Nathan Detroit

Jack London Bar

529 SW 4th Ave. Top 40 Freakout with DJ Common Denominator

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Mattachine with DJ John Cameron Mitchell

Red Cap Garage

1035 SW Stark St Mantrap with DJ Lunchlady

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Live & Direct: Slimkid3, Rev Shines, DJ Nature

Tiga

Matador

1967 W Burnside St. Next Big Thing with Donny Don’t

Plan B

1465 NE Prescott St. Lord Smithingham

1305 SE 8th Ave. Hive: DJs Owen, Brian Backlash

Tube

Spare Room

18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Neil Blender

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Magnetic Tape Deck DJs

SAT. AUG. 11 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Lord Smithingham

Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Whalewatchers

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Revolution with DJ Robb

Fez Ballroom

316 SW 11th Ave. Popvideo with DJ Gigahurtz

4830 NE 42nd Ave. The Angel Bouchet Band Jam

MON. AUG. 13 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Doug Ferious

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Maniac Monday with DJ Doughalicious

Jack London Bar

529 SW 4th Ave. Discotheque Cosmique with DJ Aurora

Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St. Come As You Are

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Mrs.: DJs Beyonda, Venus X (Mrs. two-year anniversary)

Ted’s (at Berbati’s) 231 SW Ankeny St. International Night

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. DJ OG One

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Musick for Mannequins: DJs Tom Jones, Erica Jones

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. Survival SKLZ

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. Saturdazed with DJ GH

221 NW 10th • 503-295-6542 • jimmymaks.com Since 1974

Never a cover!

FREE LIVE MUSIC 7 NIGHTS A WEEK

511 NW Couch St. Service Industrial with DJ Tibin

Star Bar

1001 SE Morrison St. Fifty--A Possible History of Summer Jams, 19622012: DJs Arthur M, Bobby Dangerous, Hanukkah Miracle

Mon-Sat. evenings: Dinner from 5 pm, Music from 8 pm

Ground Kontrol

Holocene

8/9, Red #40/Burn List with Cuong Vu 8/10, ITUTU featuring Chris Brown 8/11, Devin Phillips 8/17, Steely Dawn/Trio Flux 8/18, Renato Caranto & Friends

1332 W Burnside St. Felix Cartal, Matzerath, Bais Haus

Kelly’s Olympian

511 NW Couch St. DJs Destructo, Chip

MORE GREAT MUSIC COMING TO JIMMY MAK’S!

Crystal Ballroom

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Sick Bay DJs

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SUN. AUG. 12

426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy VJs 639 SE Morrison St. Metal Mondays with DJ Blackhawk

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Ramophone

TUES. AUG. 14 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Jason Urick

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Girltopia with DJ Robb

Eagle Portland

835 N Lombard St. DMTV with DJ Animal

Red Cap Garage

1035 SW Stark St. Never Enough with DJ Ray Gun

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. Alina Hardin

WEDNESDAY 8

“Hump Day” w/ Jordan Harris of Guy Dilly and Buffalo gap The Twin Powers • 9:30pm Wednesday, august 8th • 7pm

“Dinner Show” w/Tyler Stenson

Thursday, august 9th • 9pm

Yes and No

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Will Bradley 9:30pm FRIDAY 10TH

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The Sale

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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Most prices listed are for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply, so it’s best to call ahead. Editor: MATTHEW SINGER. Theater: REBECCA JACOBSON (rjacobson@wweek. com). Classical: Brett Campbell (bcampbell@wweek.com). Dance: Heather Wisner (dance@wweek.com). TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit information at least two weeks in advance to: msinger@wweek.com.

THEATER Anonymous Theatre: The Good Doctor

The Anonymous Theatre Company has a distinctive way of doing business: The cast members audition and rehearse individually, arriving at the theater in stage clothes. They don’t know their fellow actors until the first line is uttered from the house. This year, the group tackles Neil Simon’s dramatization of seven wry Chekhov stories. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 306-0870. 7 pm Sunday, Aug. 12. $25.

Cabaret

It’s the Kit Kat Klub in Oregon City as Clackamas Repertory Theatre stages the classic musical about 1929 Berlin. The performance features the delightful Sharonlee McLean as Fräulein Schneider and Brianna Rouse as Sally Bowles. Clackamas Community College, Osterman Theatre, 19600 S Molalla Ave., 594-6047. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2:30 pm Sundays. Closes Aug. 26. $15-$26.

Continuum

Matthew Zrebski directs a Playwrights West production about two brilliant frenemies, an astronomer and a mathematician, locked in a cycle of deceit and pain. The play, by Patrick Wohlmut, was commissioned by Portland Center Stage. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 715-1114. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Sept. 1. $20-$25, Thursdays are “pay what you will.”

The Drowsy Chaperone

Broadway Rose presents this showwithin-a-show about a musical theater aficionado who unleashes a Jazz Age extravaganza in his living room. Lyn Cramer directs this musical comedy. Deb Fennell Auditorium, 9000 SW Durham Road, Tigard, 620-5262. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays and Saturdays, Aug. 8 and 11. Closes Aug. 19. $20-$40.

Ghost Stories with Kim Weitkamp

Humorist and storyteller Kim Weitkamp tells spooky tales and sings songs from her album Head Bone Rattles. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 8 pm Thursday, Aug. 9. $10-$12.

Jersey Boys

Highlighted by the legendary Elmoon-helium 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 singer-actors don’t disappoint, with Joseph Leo Bwarie delivering a particularly impressive Valli-esque falsetto. 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, 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. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 241-1802. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Saturdays, 1 pm and 6:30 pm Sundays. Closes Aug. 12. $25-$69.

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.

Northanger Abbey

For its summer of Jane Austen, Quintessence Language and Imagination Theatre presents artistic director Connor Kerns’ adaptation of Austen’s gentle Gothic parody. Plays in repertory with Persuasion. Mago Hunt Center, University of Portland, 5000 N Willamette Blvd., 285-2826. 7:30 pm Thursday, Aug. 16; 7:30 pm Friday, Aug. 10; 7:30 pm Saturday, Aug. 11; 2 pm Sunday, Aug. 19. $18-$20.

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 Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Aug. 9, 17 and 18; 2 pm Sunday, Aug. 12. $18-$20.

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, 2 pm Sundays. 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 family-friendly 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 (August shows are at Theater! Theatre!). 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

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Cabaret 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. REBECCA JACOBSON. Theater! Theatre! 3430 SE Belmont St. 400-7320. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and Wednesday, 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 Brody Theater Open Mic

Comedy/variety open mic. Performers can sign up online. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 9:30 pm Wednesdays. Free with minimum purchase of one item.

Bruce Bruce

Helium hosts Bruce Bruce, best known for hosting BET’s Comic View and for having a curiously repetitive name. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., (888) 643-8669, heliumcomedy.com. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 pm and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, Aug. 9-11. $25-$30.

Diabolical Experiments

Improv jam show featuring Brody performers and other local improvisers. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7 pm Sundays. $5.

The Ed Forman Show

Aaron Ross, who relocated to Los Angeles after three years of sleazeball comedy at Dante’s, returns to Portland for a weeklong set of shows as his alter-ego Ed Forman. Expect oversexed humor and interviews with a variety of guests, including mayoral candidate Jefferson Smith, musician Laura Veirs and Blazers broadcaster Antonio Harvey. Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel, 303 SW 12th Ave., 972-2670. 7 pm nightly through Saturday, Aug. 11. Free.

A Fancy Night for Delightful People

Chicago-based improviser Adam Higgins brings his one-man variety show to Portland, promising samurai, animal sounds and a couple guest performers. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Saturday, Aug. 11. $10.

Instant Comedy

With a list of audience-suggested topics, five comics compete for the title of comedic champ. The Curious Comedy Playas also perform improv sets. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin

Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays through Sept. 1. $12-$15.

Micetro

Brody Theater’s popular elimination-style improv competition. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Fridays. $8-$10.

Mixology

Late-night comedy show with improv, sketch and stand-up. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 10 pm every second and fourth Saturday. $5.

classical Filmusik: Plan 9 From Outer Space

A top candidate for all-time “so-badit’s-good” film honors, Ed Wood’s notorious Plan 9 From Outer Space has often spawned new soundtracks. This one is composed by veteran Portland electronica artist Heather Perkins, who blends electronic with acoustic string sounds. Portland professional voice actors will dub the original, cringe-worthy lines, which should send giggles echoing through the park amphitheater. Washington Park, Head of Southwest Park Place. Show begins at dusk Sunday, Aug. 12. Free.

Heretic Opera

The company, which includes peripatetic keyboard player and Portland State University opera coach Douglas Schneider, director/librettist Madelaine Coffman and composer Kenneth Froelich, gives a “virtual presentation” premiere of its original “sci-fi opera,” Valentine, which involves a bat-cat, rats, house felines, a 1950s New York librarian and more. The event also includes live music by the excellent flamenco duo Seffarine, musician Bobak Salehi (from the Iranian music ensemble Shabava) and the opportunity to meet the artists. Vie de Boheme, 1530 SE 7th Ave., 360-1233. 7:30 pm Thursday, Aug. 9. Free.

Portland Festival Symphony

For the 32nd year, the indefatigable Lajos Balogh leads free classical-music performances in the park. Sunday’s Grant Park concert features a Biber Battalia; a Rossini overture; American composer Jerry Bilik’s Civil War Fantasy, which arranges mid19th-century tunes; the so-called “Toy Symphony” which probably wasn’t composed by Haydn; and the delectable Cello Concerto No. 1, which certainly was. Grant Park, Northeast 33rd Avenue and U.S. Grant Place, 503-245-7878. 6 pm Sunday, Aug. 12. Free.

Rhonda Ringering and Molly Wheeler

At this lunchtime concert, the pianists perform contemporary American works along with some of Dvorák’s Slavonic dances and Brahms’ waltzes. St. James Lutheran Church, 1315 SW Park Ave., 227-2439. 12:10 pm Friday, Aug. 10. Donation.

Summer Fest Opera in the Park Showcase

The cast of this summer’s The Bat (“Die Fledermaus”), including the great baritone Richard Zeller, sings arias and ensemble pieces from Johann Strauss’ popular opera. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 147 NW 19th Ave. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Aug. 8. $25.

William Byrd Festival

For 15 years now, the superb Portland chorus Cantores in Ecclesia has helped revive the luminous music of one of England’s—and the Renaissance’s— greatest composers. Directed by leading Byrd scholar Richard Marlow, from England’s Trinity College, the festival includes masses (performed in church services), lectures, organ music and Byrd’s sublime vocal music—with nothing in the main concerts repeated from earlier festivals. Friday’s opening chamber-choir concert with organist Mark Williams from Cambridge’s King’s College includes gorgeous verse anthems by Byrd and his English Renaissance contemporaries Orlando Gibbons and Thomas Tomkins. St. Stephen’s Church, 1112 SE 41st Ave. 7:30 pm Friday, Aug. 10. $15-$20.

DAnce 2012 Galaxy Dance Festival

A world—a universe, really—of dance awaits at the Galaxy Dance Festival, a weekend-long showcase of Portland talent. You’ll find everything from tap to tango here: The guest list includes Skinner/Kirk Dance Ensemble, A-WOL Dance Collective, Portland Flamenco Events and Beat Bangerz, plus student performances from Do Jump!, NW Fusion and Portland Festival Ballet. If this generous helping of dance talent makes you want to move your feet, you’ll be glad to know that DJ Prashant Kakad will lead a Bollywood dance party on site. Director Park, 815 SW Park Ave. 10:45 am-8 pm Friday, 10 am-6:15 pm Saturday, Aug. 10-11. Free.

Burlynomicon

Hosted by CHB co-founder the Mad Marquis, Burlynomicon features burlesque performances by local Lucky Lucy O’Rebel, Tana the Tattooed Lady and Hyacinth Lee, as well as belly dance by Endymienne. The Lovecraft, 421 SE Grand Ave., 971-270-7760. 9:30 pm Tuesday, Aug. 14. $5. 21+.

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Flex Dance Company

Santa Cruz-based contemporary troupe Flex Dance Company is doing a mini-tour that begins here in Portland with a showing of new and repertory works. The bill includes the premiere of Fragments, an exploration of relationships between small and large groups of people. Duets are woven into ensemble work, creating layers of narrative. Conduit Dance. 8 pm Saturday-Sunday, Aug. 11-12. $13-$15. All ages.

Frim Fram Foxies: In Living Color!

A burlesque show featuring featuring the Frim Fram Foxies, Tana the Tattooed Lady, Holly Dai, Dee Dee Pepper, Lippy Smack, Onyx Applique, Stilletta Maraschino, Mamie Demure and Rummy

PERFORMANCE

Rose. Funhouse Lounge. 2432 SE 11th Ave., 841-6743, funhouselounge.com. 10 pm Friday, Aug. 10. $10-$15.

Wanderlust Circus

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The merry band of pranksters that is the Wanderlust Circus hits the summer picnic circuit. Catch these acrobats, aerialists, jugglers and vaudeville types outdoors, accompanied live by a swing band. Washington Park Rose Garden Amphitheater, 400 SW Kingston Ave., 823-3636. 6 pm Thursday, Aug. 9. Free.

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REVIEW

PARK LIFE: Spock (Jesse Graff, left) ponders his new surroundings.

TREK IN THE PARK (ATOMIC ARTS) The audience at Cathedral Park looked so normal. They licked Popsicles, fanned themselves with their programs and drank bottles of craft brew. There were kids. And dogs! There were surely other Star Trek know-nothings in the crowd at Trek in the Park, right? Then I began to notice the Star Trek T-shirts. And overhear conversations about the show’s various incarnations. And then a trio nearby began ranking their favorite episodes. But there was no need for worry. Though true Trekkies will appreciate more in-jokes, Atomic Arts’ Trek in the Park series is broadly accessible. For four years running, the company has staged a different al fresco, lo-fi adaptation of a Star Trek episode each year. This summer, it’s “Journey to Babel,” which finds the Starship Enterprise transporting a bevy of intergalactic ambassadors to a conference while a devious assassin is at large. The installment has murder, deceit, family conflict, experimental surgery and blue-skinned aliens—not bad for an hourlong show. The cast gives the episode a loving retelling, milking the most dramatic lines and winking at the campiest. Actors from previous years have returned to their old roles, with Adam Rosko (who also directs) as the brash Captain Kirk and Jesse Graff deadpanning as Spock. Paul Pistey, who has some of the best comic timing in the bunch, gives a likable performance as the smug Dr. McCoy. Clownish physicality and one particularly spirited fight scene (Jaime Kirk, as the Andorian Thelev, somersaults onto the pavement) contribute to the show’s appeal. Synth sound effects and spacey music ham up the action and provide entertainment during transitions, which can be choppy. The company is still adjusting to its new digs at Cathedral Park, which provides far more space than the original Woodlawn Park location (and audiences are shaded by the St. Johns Bridge) but also requires actors to speak up. Sit close to the stage if you can. Or just find some Trekkies to sit beside and listen closely. That list-making trio? They delivered certain lines before the actors even got to them. REBECCA JACOBSON.

Set phasers to “mildly entertaining.”

SEE IT: Trek in the Park is at Cathedral Park, North Edison Street and Pittsburg Avenue, atomic-arts.org. 5 pm Saturdays-Sundays through Aug. 26. Free. Willamette Week AUGUST 8, 2012 wweek.com

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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By RICHARD SPEER. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit show information—including opening and closing dates, gallery address and phone number—at least two weeks in advance to: Visual Arts, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: rspeer@wweek.com.

Heather Watkins: Movement of Objects at Rest

Skeletons are a beautiful thing in the hands of Heather Watkins. Her Movement of Objects at Rest, a series of ink-on-paper works, resembles skeletal outlines of semiabstracted rosettes. Hung in a bobbingly rhythmic installation that saunters along the gallery wall, the works intersperse long lines with occasional dots and subtle textures. The aggregate effect recalls the stylized art nouveau rosettes of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Through Sept. 1. PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.

Aaron Yassin: Beijing

The woozy geometries in Aaron Yassin’s Beijing alternate between vertical and horizontal axes of symmetry. His strongest works, such as The Red Nest, enliven coldly impersonal compositions with bursts of color. The weakest, such as Linked Hybrid, have a forced artificiality, like too much CGI in a superhero movie. Through Sept. 29. Chambers @ 916, 916 NW Flanders St., 227-9398.

Annemieke Alberts: See You When I Get There

Netherlands-based painter Annemieke Alberts has a knack for abstracted cityscapes that lead the viewer on escapist reveries. In her show, See You When I Get There, she juxtaposes perpendicular planes to represent architectonic motifs across a broad range of urban features. The painting Night Fly, its teal hues offsetting periwinkle lines and diagonal slashes of camel and pink, evokes the interior of a swanky hotel designed by Philippe Starck or Marcel Wanders. The works exude a sexy, cosmopolitan vibe that dims slightly in the more quotidian subway-station views such as Platform or streetscapes such as Roads and Railways. Through Aug. 31. Victory Gallery, 733 NW Everett St., 208-3585.

Anniversary group show

Celebrating 24 years as a fixture of the Portland art scene, Butters Gallery troops out its finest colors for its anniversary group show. The semi-abstract imagery in Margaret Evangeline’s painting, Sleepless 7, rises like vapors from a geothermal pool, contrasting markedly with Andrea Schwartz-Feit’s Yeti Dispatches, a study in dense detailing and nuanced textures. Jeffrey Butters’ exuberant gestures in emerald, teal and chartreuse are counterbalanced by Matthew Haggett’s hyper-controlled patterning and Elise Wagner’s encaustic runes and raindrops. Robert Tomlinson’s series, Continents 1-16,

provides a jazzy exclamation point for the show: a highly intuitive suite of text-driven and biomorphic forms that riff like a Miles Davis solo. Through Sept. 1. Butters Gallery, 520 NW Davis St., 2nd floor, 248-9378.

Barry Johnson

Like the rickety tracks of an old-fashioned roller coaster, Barry Johnson’s wooden installation curves and arcs through Nine Gallery. With its black, yellow, red and blond-hued slats, it is perhaps too colorful for its own good; the loud contrasts tend to accentuate the Coney Island gimmickry of the show’s visual conceit. Yes, it’s a rollicking good time, but these forms would be easier to take seriously if they were all in cool, Scandinavian neutrals. Through Sept. 2. Nine Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 227-7114.

Carol Basch: Some Are Torn...Some Are Not

Destruction sometimes leads to beauty; that’s the thesis behind oil painter Carol Basch’s Some Are Torn.. Some Are Not. Basch starts with monoprints she has made in the past, then rips them apart and reconfigures them into paintings. Having studied art in New York, as well as in Oregon at Portland State and Marylhurst universities, Basch has been a figure in the Portland art scene since 1971. Her process speaks to our contemporary fascinations with deconstruction and repurposing. Through Sept. 5. Gallery @ The Jupiter, 800 E Burnside St., 230-8010.

Gregg Renfrow: Closer to the Water

Unlike PDX Contemporary Art’s Jane Beebe, Butters Gallery’s Jeffrey Butters, or Froelick Gallery’s Charles Froelick, Elizabeth Leach is a gallery owner whose taste—or, in art-speak, “aesthetic” or “eye”—is hard to pin down. She is resolutely—at times perplexingly—eclectic, unwedded to rigid internal consistency or the idea of a house voice. One common thread, however, that reappears within her roster is her advocacy of artists influenced by the California Light and Space movement. Hap Tivey is one such artist; another is Gregg Renfrow, who appears at the gallery this month. Based in Northern California, Renfrow pours polymer and pigment on cast acrylic, creating floaty, abstract lightscapes whose edges drip like petrified sap. If you can picture Morris Louis’ paintings crossed with stained-glass windows, then you have a general idea behind Renfrow’s new show, Closer to the Water. Through Sept. 1. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521.

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Laura Russo Gallery devotes the month of August to a group show highlighting its superb stable. A standout is the work of veteran abstract painter Francis Celentano. Based in Seattle, Celentano is a master of Op-style patterns that boggle and delight the eye. In this exhibition, his diamond-shaped canvases, resplendent in bold primaries, hark dually to the lozenge paintings of Piet Mondrian and the carpet and jewelry design of Navajo artisans. Through Sept. 1. Laura Russo Gallery, 805 NW 21st Ave., 226-2754.

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Group show

Standouts in this summer group show include G. Lewis Clevenger’s excavated studies in blood orange, pumpkin and cerulean, and Jerry Iverson’s street art-inflected sumi ink works on paper. Iverson’s engaging Darwin’s Tree No. 18 incorporates collage in a sprouting, spurting eruption of black forms—a buoyant étude on organic form. Through Sept. 1. Pulliam Gallery, 929 NW Flanders St., 228-6665.

WINGS OF DESIRE BY RICHARD CAWLEY

Kris Long and Roger Friedel

Oil painters Kris Long and Roger Friedel headline a two-person show at the Talisman arts collective. Long’s Floral Provocations and Friedel’s trippy organic forms share a common interest in the ways in which we experience nature. Through Aug. 26. Talisman Gallery, 1476 NE Alberta St., 284-8800.

Mel George: Hazy

Australian artist Mel George uses kilnformed glass to guide viewers on a tour from the land down under to Istanbul to Venice, finally winding up right here in Portland. Inspired by the tiled mosaics she saw in Turkey and Italy, George created a mosaic of her own for Hazy, her thoughtful exhibition at Bullseye. The piece, Frame of Time, is made up of 366 small rectangles, one for each day of the year. The interior of each calendar entry is a different color, corresponding to the weather, mood or activities of each day during the artist’s year of far-flung travels. The result is a virtuosic visual diary, chromatically and emotionally powerful. Other works in the show incorporate architectural elements, including a fond paean to Portland’s 11 bridges. Through Sept. 1. Bullseye Gallery, 300 NW 13th Ave., 227-0222.

Paula Blackwell

Eerie, phosphorescent seas and skies aflame with aurora borealis seem to float in and out of visibility in the dreamlike paintings of Paula Blackwell. Using encaustic (wax-based) media, Blackwell’s vistas have the feel of semi-abstracted landscapes. In pieces such as The Shore, the artist somehow turns an expanse of cool turquoise into a field of glowing, molten lava—an effect recalling the closing moments of the “Stargate” sequence in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Through Aug. 28. Guardino Gallery, 2939 NE Alberta St., 281-9048.

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RICHARD CAWLEY & GUSTAV SCULPTOR, METAL MYTHOS Launch Pad Gallery, which opened in December 2005 and closes with its current show, has always staked out unique terrain within Portland’s visualarts ecosphere. Its physical location is in Southeast Portland, but its soul is on the powdery playa of Black Rock City, site of the annual Burning Man festival in northern Nevada. It’s fitting for Launch Pad to say adieu with Metal Mythos, an exhibition in which Richard Cawley and the artist known as Gustav Sculptor have transformed scrap metal into Burning Man-ready phantasmagoria. Several sets of Sculptor’s interactive, human-sized dragonfly wings share the gallery walls with Cawley’s Wings of Desire, a stylized heart welded from car parts, hooks, tubes, a knife and a buzz saw, and Jackalope, which looks more like a techno-dancing Star Wars battle droid. Elsewhere, the performance-art duo Hellfire Weenie Roast used a blowtorch-appointed sculpture to cook hot dogs for opening-night crowds, while Ca-leb Lambides offered an altar with a poem summing up the gallery’s mission: “Team Love at Launch Pad/ worked amazing/ humble undertaking/ we are all the gallery/ cusp of something.” The humility alluded to in that poem is apt. Earnestness and inclusivity were always central to Launch Pad’s ethos, which was more about community-building than commerce or credentials. Founder Ben Pink says he opened the gallery because of “a disconnect I noticed in Portland.... All these artists who had incredible visions didn’t have a venue to show their work.” Pink pointedly made several of his shows open-call. He featured DJs or live musicians at openings and placed equal emphasis on social cross-pollination and aesthetic rigor. Jeremy Okai Davis’ invigoratingly composed paintings, Rochelle Koivunen’s drawings of environmental apocalypse and renaissance, and Jascha Owens’ thoughtprovoking, if jaw-droppingly ugly, collages were all pleasures. The diverse cross section of artists gave Launch Pad a compelling egalitarianism. It will be missed. RICHARD SPEER. Ashes of a burning man.

SEE IT: Metal Mythos is at Launch Pad Gallery, 534 SE Oak St., 4278704. Through Sept. 1.

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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By PENELOPE BASS. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit lecture or reading information at least two weeks in advance to: WORDS, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: words@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 8 Russell Potter

We love a charming, civilized pig— Wilbur, Arnold, Babe and now Toby, the star of Russell Potter’s debut novel, Pyg: The Memoirs of Toby, the Learned Pig. Presented as a found memoir merely “edited” by Potter, Pyg follows the title swine through 18th-century England as he escapes the butcher’s knife and joins a traveling circus—a story perfect for fans of adorable animals and delicious bacon. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

The Soft Show

Just like American Idol (but without the eerily ageless Ryan Seacrest and insufferable covers of “Against All Odds”), the Soft Show will pit local writers against one another in a literary read-off based on the show’s theme of softness. The writers/idols will include Wendy Bourgeois, Kate Nordbye, Jason Squamata, Mark Savage and Doug Dean. Suzette, 3342 SE Belmont St., 546-0892. 7:30 pm. Free.

SATURDAY, AUG. 11 Portland Zine Symposium

Celebrating Portland’s culture of creativity, DIY attitude and willful unemployment, the 12th annual Portland Zine Symposium will bring together hundreds of local zinesters, writers, comic makers and artists to share, sell and trade their work. Take a dip in the “Sea of Zines”—this year’s theme. Refuge, 116 SE Yamhill St. 10 am-5 pm Saturday, 10 am-4 pm Sunday, Aug. 11-12. Free.

Perfect Day Publishing Reissue Party Speaking of zines, Perfect Day Publishing will be reissuing the anonymously published zine Love Is Not Constantly Wondering If You Are Making the Biggest Mistake of Your Life—one of the most popular at last year’s symposium. The anonymous author will attend and read, along with Martha Grover (Somnambulist) and music by Point Juncture, WA, and the World Radiant. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. 7:30 pm. $5 suggested donation to benefit Portland Zine Symposium.

SUNDAY, AUG. 12 Coal City Review Publication Party

Feeling detached from the “real America” of the Midwest? Lawrence, Kan.-based literary mag Coal City Review will be celebrating its most recent release in Portland with some of the locally contributing authors, including Margaret Malone, Colin Farstad and Kathleen Lane, along with CCR fiction editor Mary Wharff. Jack London Bar, 529 SW 4th Ave., 2287605. 5 pm. Free. 21+.

MONDAY, AUG. 13 Bears’ Night Out

Bringing together four West Coast authors and contributors to The Bear Deluxe Magazine—a literary approach to environmental issues— Bears’ Night Out will feature readings by Jim Lynch (Truth Like the Sun), Kjerstin Johnson (Bitch magazine editor-in-chief), Bear senior editor Mateo Hoke and contributor Kristy Athens (Oregon Humanities). Jack London Bar, 529 SW 4th Ave., 228-7605. 7:30 pm. $5. 21+.

Kate Bornstein

Kate Bornstein began her life as a nice Jewish boy in New Jersey. Since then she has been a husband, a father, a lieutenant in the Church of Scientology’s flagship sea vessel and, finally, a “gender outlaw” and lesbian icon in ’90s Seattle. In her new memoir, A Queer and Pleasant Danger, Bornstein shares the moments that have shaped her remarkable life. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

William Bryant Logan

Although “air” might seem a bit broad of a topic to tackle, arborist and author William Bryant Logan is clearly not daunted by the merely invisible. Exploring the natural cycles that exist in the air, from fungal spores to our own breath, Logan ties it all together in his new book, Air: The Restless Shaper of the World. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.

TUESDAY, AUG. 14 The Conversation Project

Continuing its series of open-forum conversations to engage the local community, Oregon Humanities will present Your Land, My Land: Using and Preserving Oregon’s Natural Resources with Veronica Dujon, associate dean of Portland State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Join the conversation and learn a little something. Oregon Historical Society, 1200 SW Park Ave., 306-5270. 6 pm. Free.

Chuck Thompson

Like a foray onto the set of Deliverance, Chuck Thompson spent two years traveling the American South to better understand national divides. He encountered preachers decrying the evils of Islam, possum-hunting conservatives and gift shops with KKK memorabilia. The result is his political-but-humorous book Better Off Without ’Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

The Edge of Night

There are few good reasons to make the trek across the river to Vancouver, but an evening dedicated to Alfred Hitchcock seems like a valid one. The Edge of Night: An Evening of Mysteries in Honor of Alfred Hitchcock will celebrate his 113th birthday with a presentation of short stories loaded with suspense, mystery and murder. Vancouver Community Library, 901 C Street, 360-906-5106. 6:45 pm. Free.

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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

A As portrayed in Alison Klayman’s

moving documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Chinese artist and troublemaker Ai Weiwei is a complicated, deeply charismatic figure: puckish, brazen, empathetic, narcissistic, deeply politically committed but often immune to the concerns of those closest to him—his fearful mother and cuckolded wife, for example. Most protesters who become powerful symbols are similarly complicated—Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi were no saints—but rarely does one get to view the charms and faults of a revered iconoclast at so intimate a scale. Weiwei, as an artist, has a mostly aphoristic and provacateurish intelligence, a knack for visually pithy renderings of simple or even hamfisted concepts; but still, his statements are made no less beautiful by their often pointed simplicity. Klayman’s documentary moves seamlessly between the playfulness of Weiwei’s art persona and the ever-increasing seriousness (and Michael-Mooreish self-seriousness) of his political purpose and defiance of the Chinese dictatorship, from his sincere attempts to document the children killed in the Sichuan earthquake to his beating at the hands of the police to his eventual “disappearance” by the Chinese government. A massive public rock-crab dinner held at his art studio—on the eve of its demolition by the government—combined his two selves as perhaps the most warmly, winkingly joyous political protest I’ve ever seen. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Living Room Theaters.

The Amazing Spider-Man

B Peter Parker has come unstuck

in time. Only five years ago, our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man was a grown-up who looked a lot like walking homunculus and worked as a photographer. Do we really need to see Pete get bitten again, or see poor Uncle Ben blown away, a mere decade after Sam Raimi ushered in the golden age of comic-book films? Of course not. But then, maybe we do. These are comic-book movies, based on pulp fiction that essentially recycles origin stories whenever a new writer picks up the panels. It’s not about whether we’ve seen it before. It’s about how we’re seeing it now, and through the lens of sophomore director Marc Webb, The Amazing Spider-Man is a pretty kick-ass bucket of popcorn, full of great effects, sly performances and enough original thought that it makes a studio cash grab into a solid piece of pulp. In the slick hands of Andrew Garfield (the emotional crutch of The Social Network), Spider-Man is the most three-dimensional part of the bombastic movie, playing Pete as a smartass archetype: the kid whose love of skateboarding and indie music gets him pummeled in high school, but will totally get him laid in college. While it never soars to the heights of Raimi’s first two films, it manages to be at once exhilarating, hilarious and bold. PG-13. AP KRYZA. 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Stadium 11, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Movies On TV, 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 Joss Whedon has come up with. It’s big and loud, exhilarating and funny, meaningless but not dumb. It is glorious entertainment. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. City Center, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV.

Beasts of the Southern Wild

A In the Bathtub—the fictional Louisiana bayou settlement that forms the backdrop and lifeblood of the enchanting Beasts of the Southern Wild—the price of existing off the grid is living in waterlogged squalor. Shot among the ravages of post-Katrina New Orleans but set on the eve of the

hurricane’s arrival, the film is a clear allegory for the Ninth Ward, an area certain authorities were seemingly happy to see drowned out of existence. Although showered with festival accolades, some have labeled the movie’s director and co-writer, a white Wesleyan graduate named Benh Zeitlin, a “cultural tourist.” It’s a dubious criticism, considering that where Beasts really takes us is on a tour of a child’s imagination. As far as we know, the Bathtub we experience only exists in the mind of Hushpuppy (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.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

C It’s The Darjeeling Aged. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre, Lake Twin, Moreland Theatre, City Center, Fox Tower.

The Bourne Legacy

Maaatt Daaamooon. Oh, wait. Correction: Jeeereeemyyy Reeennerrr. Not screened by WW press deadlines. Look for a review at wweek. com. PG-13. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, St. Johns.

Brave

B- Can it really be true that through a dozen films, Pixar—the North American animation titan celebrated for its multilayered storytelling and uncommonly complex characters—declined to come up with a single female protagonist? Indeed it is. Introducing a touch of femininity to the anthropomorphic sausage fest should register as a progressive step forward, but Brave, the company’s 13th feature and its first charged by a current of girl power, is the most conventional movie the studio has yet produced. A fable pitched directly at the princess demographic, it’s set in medieval Scotland, features run-ins with witches, excursions into deep, dark woods, and a few very expressive bears, and concerns itself with a rebellious daughter of royalty. In short, it feels like a classic Disney picture. Normally, that’d be a compliment. In Pixar’s case, it represents a regression. 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. 99 Indoor Twin, Cedar Hills, Oak Grove, Stadium 11, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard.

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, including a midair plane hijacking and an imploding football field, are more spectacular. And, despite ongoing themes of torment and loss and a zeit-

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geisty 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-and-paper roots. In the words of somebody we used to know, I ask: Why so serious? MATTHEW SINGER. 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, CineMagic, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lake Twin, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Stadium 11, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, St. Johns.

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Donor Milk: The Documentary

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A documentary on breast-feeding. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Wednesday, Aug. 8.

An Evening with Leif Peterson

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] Portland filmmaker Leif Peterson screens two of his recent shorts, both based on biblical mythology. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Sunday, Aug. 12.

Farewell, My Queen

B+ Farewell, My Queen, Benoît

Jacquot’s upstairs-downstairs look at the last desperate gasps of the French monarchy, finds Léa Seydoux (who appeared in everything from Mysteries of Lisbon to Mission: Impossible–Ghost Protocol last year) as the underling and not-so-secret admirer of Marie Antoinette (Diane Kruger). Yes, it’s a film oozing with sexual tension and willful subservience–not to mention power plays, brinkmanship and backdoor politicking–but more front and center is a certain visual moodiness that compels all on its own. The aesthetic is both lush and understated, dolled up and softly lit. A bevy of dead rats (some drowned, others just rotting) remind us that this is indeed the end of an era. Other set pieces– frequent candlelight, an intercepted list of 286 heads to be cut off–are just as darkly alluring. Innuendo is both sexual and historical here, with hushed, anxious lines, such as “I heard something about the Bastille,” being the servants’ first clues to what’s happening beyond the gates of Versailles. So immersive is this milieu that, by the time Seydoux realizes what’s in store for her and her queen, we’re almost as surprised as she is. MICHAEL NORDINE. Fox Tower.

The Finger

A- [ONE NIGHT ONLY] What better

way to illustrate Argentina’s 1983 transition to a democracy than with a tale of small-town political intrigue? It is a story not unlike our own John Ashcroft’s 2000 Senate defeat at the hands of a dead man: The village of Cerro Colorado is eligible for reclassification as a proper town when mayoral candidate Hidalgo (Gabriel Goity), an appropriately Snidely Whiplash figure, finds himself suddenly unchallenged after the murder of his opponent, Baldomero (Martín Seefeld). But Florencio (Fabián Vena), the generalstore owner resembling comedian Paul F. Tompkins, is not prepared to let his brother’s political career die, too. Vowing vengeance on Baldomero’s killer, Florencio sets the dead man’s embalmed finger in a jar while keeping his brother legally alive—the village needs to keep its numbers up. This grisly decision leads to tongue-incheek insight for the entire village as Baldomero’s dismembered digit communicates advice in matters of health and the heart and, yes, stages a healthy campaign. The mind reels at director Sergio Teubal’s vague claim that his film is based on real events, but in spite of the high incidence of post-mortem maiming, The Finger

ATTACK CADS: Zach Galifianakis, meet Will Ferrell.

THE CAMPAIGN Pressing flesh, punching babies.

Zach Galifianakis and Will Ferrell have become the paunchy, awkward Wayans brothers of American comedic film, broad-stroked and choked up with cheap gags, sweaty and desperate for the audience’s love. Their comedic affinity for each other is so pronounced it was only a matter of time before they finally starred together onscreen: In The Campaign, they play small-town North Carolina political candidates bent on utterly destroying each other. But no matter how obvious the pairing might have seemed during backroom Hollywood meetings, it was a terrible, terrible mistake. Both Galifianakis and Ferrell play best as comedic foils for the straight men and women of the world. Against the world’s harshness, the sadness and anger underlying their mania is allowed to become a deeply empathetic human decency—a justified insanity in the face of the world’s bland, unreasonable demands for conformity. In Elf, the film I still consider to contain Ferrell’s best performance, Ferrell’s wide-eyed, cheery obliviousness is always both wrong and right, the result of an all-too-human spirit run wild in a world it doesn’t quite understand. But the world is always there to rein him back in. Galifianakis doesn’t rein him back in, though. He tries to one-up him. Like two needy over-talkers in the same conversation, Ferrell and Galifianakis engage throughout the film in a kind of scenic tug of war, a nuclear escalation of comedic ADHD that threatens to flatten the entire landscape. Galifianakis plays his usual brand of effete mental instability as a family-money misfit tapped by evil industrialists (Dan Aykroyd and John Lithgow) to run as Ferrell’s opponent. Ferrell’s performance, on the other hand, draws from an oddball hodgepodge of past presidents— most notably Bush I and II—melanged together into an aggressively retarded Republican stew. Strange, then, that he plays a Dixiecrat who pals up to Bill Clinton. And in comedy, as in politics, absolutely no stunt is beyond bounds, from childhood bestiality to Asian women talking in a Southern-mammy dialect to baby-punching. And as in any no-holds-barred political drag-out, everyone loses. One of the movie’s oddest turns, though, is the unhinged comedic effectiveness of Dylan McDermott, best known for his role as a flatlining-yet-hunky lawyer in TV’s The Practice. McDermott absolutely revels in his role as a hot-shit, bullying campaign manager, whose job it is to make his candidates “not suck.” He’s slick and amoral, and a Terminator in his relentlessness. He is also a strangely steadying presence in the film. Also slick is a role-reversal for Aykroyd, who now essentially is playing the old man from Trading Places who, in the previous movie, ruined his life. But mostly, I felt it was an inhuman movie that hated me, and hated all of you, and that ham-fisted director Jay Roach condescendingly despises his audience more than any director except maybe Michael Bay. And so I left the theater feeling as if there were no love left in the world. Why must it hurt so? R. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. D- SEE IT: The Campaign opens Friday at Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard and Wilsonville.

is a surprisingly sweet ensemble comedy about community amid widespread political upheaval. SAUNDRA SORENSON. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Tuesday, Aug. 14.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] Come for the botched sexual reassignment surgery, stay for the stirring songs about said botched sexual reassignment surgery! No, seriously, you should. Screening as part of Top Down, the NW Film Center’s outdoor summer cinema series. Hotel deLuxe. 8 pm Thursday, Aug. 9.

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cuff male-bonding vibe of Old Joy to Cassavetes’ tough-guy soul-searching, but Harris’ film lacks the psychological insight necessary to make his characters behave in believably messy ways. The trio’s post-funeral spree of drug use, self-loathing and mutual recriminations plays out at a hysterical pitch, as if the film and its actors envision an equation whereby volume equals truth, but it mostly amounts to shrill shouting sans affecting echoes. CHRIS STAMM. Clinton Street Theater. 9 pm Friday-Thusday, Aug. 10-16.

Ruby Sparks

Home: The Story of Valsetz

B- [ONE NIGHT ONLY] Twenty

years ago, the small company town of Valsetz in Oregon’s Coast Range mountains was home to some 300 people. Today, it has completely vanished, a few old beer bottles scattered among the Douglas firs the only remaining evidence that anyone ever lived there. This 2011 documentary endeavors to recapture Valsetz at its peak—an “idyllic” (or so goes the film’s narrative) mountain community of timber mill workers whose now-grown kids recall long, happy days of hiking, fishing and pick-up baseball games— and the story of its eventual demise. Between the tearful memories of the former citizens, a mournful score of piano refrains and the ponderous, baritone narration, you’re expecting a plague of locusts or a really prolific serial killer to have wiped Valsetz out of existence. Nothing so dramatic: Hard economic times forced the mill to close, and the town went with it. There’s a weighty scene in which residents recall burning down the mill, which had been filled with the remains of the town’s bulldozed houses. But, jeez, does it take a long time to get there. It’s lovely for the former residents of Valsetz that its history has been documented and immortalized on film, but just how many anecdotes about the old movie theater and the high school and the grocery store and the kids’ baseball games will non-residents want to endure? RUTH BROWN. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Wednesday, Aug. 8.

Ice Age: Continental Drift

D- The world didn’t need a fourth Ice

Age movie, let alone one rendered for 3-D and released in the swelter of a pretty hot summer film calendar. But when the first three installments of this computer-animated series have raked in nearly $2 billion in box office receipts, there was no way 20th Century Fox was going to let this cash cow dry up. So, why not slap together a half-assed storyline about the gang of prehistoric creatures trying to survive the separation of the world’s continents and dodge a gang of pirates led by a snarling monkey? And while you’re at it, why not throw in a little coming-of-age love story for a young woolly mammoth, and comic relief via a trash-talking elderly sloth voiced by Wanda Sykes? The more troubling question of this film is how its intended audience of youngsters will withstand the overwhelming deluge of imagery and antics pushed, quite literally, right into their faces. Ice Age: Continental Drift provides its audience with scant few moments to catch its collective breath before the next whiplash-inducing set piece. PG. ROBERT HAM. Cedar Hills, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Stadium 11, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard.

The Jim Henson Legacy

[FOUR NIGHTS ONLY] A series celebrating the life and work of the visionary puppeteer. Programs include: Muppet History 101 (7:30 and 9:30 pm Friday, Aug. 10), a collection of early Muppet footage; Inside the Sesame Street Vault (5:30 pm Saturday, Aug. 11), a reel of classic and rare clips from the Children’s Television Workshop; Commercials and Experiments (7:30 and 9:30 pm Saturday, Aug. 11), unearthing material from the far-out wing of the Henson vault; Muppet Fairytales (7:30 and 9:30 pm Sunday, Aug. 12), highlighting Kermit et. al.’s various interpretations of classic folk

MOVIES

THE BOURNE LEGACY stories; and Muppet Music Moments (7:30 and 9:30 pm Monday, Aug. 13), which is fairly self-explanatory. Hollywood Theatre.

La Rafle

B- La Rafle (The Round Up) is more

worthwhile than most claustrophobic horror vignettes about Holocaust survival, and larger in scope, but no less vexed. It stars Inglorious Basterd’s Mélanie Laurent as a pediatric nurse in Vichy France—this time she doesn’t kill Hitler, though you very much want her to—who helplessly watches as 13,000 Parisian Jews are thrown into the Winter Velodrome stadium before export to the gas chambers. (Echoes of the post-Katrina Superdome are unavoidable, but this atrocity was intentional.) As with any Holocaust drama, the sheer scale of inhumanity is dumbfounding, and the horror is not too much softened here. But Rose Bosch has Spielberg’s Little Girl in the Red Coat Problem: Make a movie about kids and the Shoah, and it is very hard to avoid sentimentality and false redemption. She doesn’t. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters.

Magic Mike

B Odds were that Steven Soderbergh’s career of genre hopscotching would eventually land on a male stripper movie. Taking bits from Midnight Cowboy, Boogie Nights and, strangely, Coyote Ugly, the film is a study of a character we’ve seen before: the professional beefcake flush with money and women…but what he really wants is love (and his own furniture business). But after the emotionally cold formal exercises of his last few films—including this year’s Haywire, a stylish action flick oddly dead behind its eyes—it’s nice to find Soderbergh focusing on character at all. If nothing else, Magic Mike is his first project since The Informant! that has some blood flowing through its veins. What’s unexpected is Channing Tatum’s performance. As Mike, a sex object whose true passion is building actual objects, Tatum—heretofore a set of abs masquerading as an actor— slips into the part with a natural ease. Soderbergh bolsters the performances with his signature visual style, bathing the douche haven of Tampa in his trademarked golden sepia tone, but the movie meanders too long before finding a dramatic sticking point, and you get the sense that the whole reason it even exists is so the director could cross “film choreographed dance sequences” off his career bucket list. There’s only so much undulating man meat one can take before it all fades into a blur of pecs, cheeks and bulging thongs. Ladies, I suspect, will disagree. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters, Division.

Moonrise Kingdom

A- Of all the Wes Anderson

movies in the world, this is the Wes Andersoniest. Those who find everything that follows Bottle Rocket fussy and puerile have fair warning: Moonrise Kingdom is Anderson’s Boy Scout film, set on an imaginary island. The director’s debt to Finnish colleague Aki Kaurismaki has never been more patent—Bruce Willis, Ed Norton, Frances McDormand and Bill Murray all have self-pitying stoicism down to a kind of kabuki. Without the leavening influence of Owen Wilson, Anderson’s melancholy can feel brittle, even with Robert Yeoman providing his most agile cinematography. Yet a fresh breeze airs out Moonrise Kingdom in every scene where the 12-year-old runaways Sam Shakusky and Suzy Bishop (Jared Gilman and an astonishing Kara Hayward) arrange an elopement from their Norman Rockwell world. Anderson has rarely been funnier, or his compositions more packed with detail, than in the epistolary montage in which the young rebels make plans (while Sam is menaced by greasers). He has never handled delicate material so deftly as when the couple—in shades of Badlands and Godard— reaches a blue lagoon. Here, Sam pitches several tents. “It’s hard,” Suzy whispers as Sam presses against her, after they’ve danced to Françoise Hardy like marooned Parisian mods. Indeed there is a core of toughminded wisdom in this movie’s treatment of sexual discovery—not leering, not dodging, but frankly enchanted. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Cornelius, City Center, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall.

Prometheus

A- In Prometheus, Ridley Scott’s long-

anticipated return to the science-fiction genre, the director confronts a philosophical query that has dogged mankind since at least 1995: What if God were one of us? A think piece on the origins of man probably doesn’t sound much like the Alien prequel you were expecting. Well, for starters, Prometheus isn’t a true prequel. It’s an “expansion of the Alien mythos.” As such, it has mythology on the brain. Just look at the title, which hints at the big ideas Scott and screenwriters Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof are considering here. But the heft of their musings cannot weigh down the sheer, sprawling spectacle of the film’s vision. Scott isn’t a great philosopher. He is, however, a magnificent stylist. The movie starts in a cave of forgotten dreams, and it’s worth wondering whether Scott took a tip from Werner Herzog’s documentary about the ancient pictograms of France’s Chauvet Cave, in which the German madman embraced 3-D as a way of

crafting a more tactile viewing experience. With Prometheus, Scott folds in the technology with a similarly subtle hand. He uses it not to jab the audience in its nose, but to make palpable the wonder of discovering a new world, and the terror of actually exploring it. It’s a stunning, horrifying success. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters.

The Queen of Versailles

B+ Meet Jackie Siegel. Half Miss

Havisham, half Stifler’s mom, she presides—in a state of well-intentioned oblivion—over eight children and a gaudy empire in Orlando. Three years ago, she was meant to be the subject of a study on decadence. But in the middle of director Lauren Greenfield’s filming, the economy crashed, and this fortysomething trophy wife found her kingdom being foreclosed on. Were this not a documentary, it would all play out like a lazy satire as the easy ironies pile up. Jackie is married to David Siegel, a 70-ish grump. David peddles timeshares in Vegas to people who cannot afford them, a microcosm of the predatory real-estate practices that ultimately become the Siegels’ ruin. The Siegels had started construction on what would have been the most expensive single-family residence in the U.S.: a 90,000-squarefoot mansion that David and Jackie named—with no hint of prescience— Versailles. Greenfield provides perspective by profiling the Siegels’ employees, as well as a childhood friend of Jackie’s who is about to lose her house (despite the $5,000 Jackie provides). Between the camera and Jackie there’s a sense of cautious intimacy; Greenfield seems to feel sympathy despite herself. But Greenfield hardly editorialized—this nouveau riche lifestyle was built on smarmy sales tactics from the start. PG. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Fox Tower.

Redlegs

C [ONE WEEK ONLY] I always root

for low-budget indies—hating on a labor of love is not pleasant—but I was especially keen on cheering Brandon Harris’ debut feature, Redlegs. Harris writes about movies when he’s not making them, so I feel like we’re on the same team, or at least playing in the same vaguely defined league, and the thought of a bedraggled critic transmuting theoretical know-how into affecting moving images warms my cockles and gives me hope. And while Harris proves to be an aesthetically deft filmmaker, with a sharp eye for the strange beauty of the human face and how a camera might best capture that shifting landscape, the rest of Redlegs falters and fails. Focusing on three friends in the aftermath of a buddy’s sudden, violent death, Redlegs attempts to weld the off-the-

B- In this metafictional rom-com, Paul Dano plays a bestselling novelist named Calvin Weir-Fields, a onetime prodigy whose genius peaked with the epoch-defining book he published at age 19. In the decade since, he’s wallowed in creative misery, unable to pen a follow-up. At the urging of his therapist (Elliott Gould), he begins to peck out the details of a fantasy relationship with the literal woman of his dreams (Zoe Kazan). He dubs her Ruby Sparks. She doesn’t drive or own a computer. She enjoys zombie movies and dance clubs and giving spontaneous blowjobs. Add all that up, and you’ve got yet another Manic Pixie Dream Girl—only in this film, she wanders directly out of the guy’s consciousness and into his car, his soullessly modern L.A. home and, eventually, his bed. It’s like a Woody Allen remake of Weird Science. But Ruby Sparks, written by Kazan and directed by Little Miss Sunshine’s Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, only grazes the potential of its premise. What should’ve been—and what Kazan probably wanted to be—a dig at the whole “dream girl” construction as a product of male insecurity quickly gives in to sentiment and convention. It’s hard to feel anything here. It doesn’t help that Dano shuffles through the film wearing an expression suggesting either great intestinal discomfort or that an invisible bully is tormenting him with perpetual Wet Willies. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, City Center, Fox Tower, Movies On TV.

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, Pioneer Place.

Salute to Nikkatsu: The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] A monthlong celebration of Nikkatsu, Japan’s oldest movie studio (it turns 100 this year), kicks off with this 1957 comedy. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Saturday, Aug 11.

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Savages

C Savages is Oliver Stone without

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even the affectation of ideas. It takes the saint-and-sadist duality from Platoon and tosses it into the berserker butchery of Natural Born Killers. (But in Mexico!) For more than an hour, it is a very bad movie— mostly because it stars Gossip Girl’s Blake Lively, a water-resistant bronzer in search of a spontaneous gesture. She’s the center of a leggy three-way with Taylor Kitsch and Aaron Johnson, Laguna Beach weed kingpins who fall into escalating negotiations south of the border. These are television actors exposed and embarrassed on the big screen. But then everybody here is discredited a little: Salma Hayek vamping as a cartel boss, John Travolta inflated into a bulging, cartoon smiley face. The second half of the movie might also be bad, although it’s hard to say, since it’s also breathtakingly violent. The torture and slaughter are so extravagant—bullwhips, dangling eyeballs, ice chests—that the characters and audience both show symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. If Savages has no political compass (as a treatise on Mexican drug wars, it makes Will Ferrell’s Casa de mi Padre look like a William Finnegan report), well, golly: It has no conscience whatsoever. R. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters, Division.

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.

Tales From Dell City, Texas

B+ [ONE WEEK ONLY] Dell City,

Texas, is a dusty desert town 80 miles from El Paso. About 500 people live there, and the population is shrinking. It looks, as one resident notes, like a ghost town. But hidden behind the peeling shacks and remote ranches is a community that loves its quiet, sleepy life amongst vast red horizons and vistas of the Guadalupe Mountains. New York-based filmmaker Josh Carter, who raised $23,000 on Kickstarter to fund the release of

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to learn to dance. Aggressively. 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. 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. The revolution here is that the formula breaks: There’s no rival dance crew. Just the Mob, a multiculti flash mob branded heroic by some and criminals by others when they burst onto the streets to perform “protest art.” 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. Movies On TV, City Center, Division, Hilltop, Sherwood.

The Story of Film: Part 2

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Strange Days

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HARA-KIRI: DEATH OF A SAMURAI Japanese director Takashi Miike has never met a provocation he didn’t want to amplify. Films as diverse as the terrifying Audition, the grim Ichi the Killer and the absurdist Zebraman are soaked with blood, entrails, semen, vomit and alien ooze. In Miike’s worlds, sadists are heroes, the Von Trapps are cannibals, and the innocent become the personification of grisly retribution for the sins of man. With 2010’s 13 Assassins, Miike set a high-water mark for himself by experimenting with subtlety, resulting in a wonderfully controlled narrative that exploded into an hourlong symphony of spurting arteries and flaming oxen. With Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai, a 3-D remake of Masaki Kobayashi’s 1962 classic Harakiri, Miike returns to feudal Japan for the tale of disgraced ronin Kageyu (Kôji Yakusho), who seeks to commit ritual suicide in the courtyard of a local samurai lord, so he may die with honor. Suspecting the ronin is attempting a “suicide bluff,” an act in which a pauper claims to be seeking seppuku but in reality wants the lord to pity him and send him away with money, the lead samurai regales him with the tale of Motome (Eita), whose bluff was called, forcing him to undergo a horrific ordeal. From the onset, it’s obvious these men are related, and that Kageyu’s bluff is one of vengeance. So it’s puzzling that Miike layers his film with extended flashbacks that take up 80 percent of the film. Through the long slog, we discover family drama isn’t Miike’s strong suit. It plays out like a soap opera: babies are stricken, proud men are forced to humiliate themselves to emotionally charged orchestral swells, and the changing colors of leaves symbolize the looming winter of discontent. Most startling, though, there’s no real payoff. Since we know the outcome of the overlong exposition, there is no tension, save for what will happen when these men of violence stop talking of honor and finally lock swords. When that does happen, it’s a short, inexplicably weak affair that rushes the film to a close. You could forgive Hara-Kiri’s lack of action and bloodshed if its layers were deeper, its performances more compelling and its message about perceived honor destroying one’s humanity not drawn in the broadest brushstrokes. It’s the one thing a Miike film has never before been accused of being: boring. AP KRYZA. Samurais talking...now in 3-D!

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LA RAFLE the film and spent 10 years on the project, paints an affectionate portrait of a town fading slowly from existence, as young people leave and bigger cities hungrily eye its rich underground water reserves. Carter gives four residents the chance to share Dell City through the lens of their own short films. Like the town itself, they’re uncomplicated and sincere—sheepherder T.D. Pope just wants to show his baby lambs “run and play” (it’s adorable); Rosita Martinez reflects on years cooking chile rellenos for the local farmers at her aging breakfast joint; and town artist Bonny Larreau captures a mostly dialogue-free day on the ranch, roping and branding cattle (less adorable)—but together, Carter and his subjects successfully capture the life and heart of a place most folks drive through without even noticing it exists. RUTH BROWN. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm FridayThursday, Aug. 10-16.

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. Cedar Hills, Pioneer Place, Stadium 11, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, 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. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Hollywood Theatre, Fox Tower.

Total Recall

C- Give Len Wiseman credit: At least he recognized that remaking Total Recall with the same hammy humor and satirical underpinnings of the 1990 original would’ve been the wrong move. No director can balance ridiculous action, over-thetop gore and sledgehammer political commentary like Paul Verhoeven, who blew up Philip K. Dick’s short story We Can Remember It For You Wholesale into the most awesomely crazed sci-fi flick of the ’90s, so Wiseman—the auteur behind the Underworld series, as well as the Die Hard sequel in which Bruce Willis fist-fights a jet—didn’t even try. Instead, he went in the opposite direction, extracting everything that made Verhoeven’s film distinctive and fun and turning it drab, self-serious and painfully generic. Is it unfair to compare the two? Well, OK then: Take away the title, and the movie is still just a dull, featurelength chase scene through a dystopian cityscape, with Colin Ferrell muttering faux-profound bullshit about the nature of memory in the small breaks between his endless triathlon of running, leaping and falling in slow-motion. At least we still get the three-breasted mutant prostitute. Wait. There aren’t any mutants in this version. So that third breast is actually just a grotesque deformity? Thanks for ruining my childhood, Wiseman. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Stadium 11, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard.

A Walk to Beautiful

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A documentary about the childbirth injury obstetric fistula and its effects on the lives of five Ethiopian women. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Thursday, Aug. 9.

The Watch

C+ Nobody plays Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Ben Stiller better than Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Ben Stiller, so luckily that’s who shows up for The Watch, a suburban commando pic in which four goofy,

F-bomb-loving, vagina-craving, Budswilling dudes form a neighborhood watch and end up swearing and shooting at aliens. Vaughn is his usual lovable man-child. Hill is a perverted, profane and slightly psychotic police academy reject. Stiller is his usual stick-in-the-mud who starts the watch when his friend, a drunken security guard, is murdered at Costco, which becomes ground zero for an alien invasion. It’s a fun—if insanely disjointed—diversion, with a Seth Rogen-penned script of shit talk and male idiocy going rapid fire like His Girl Friday as imagined by the editors of Maxim. But as the movie jumps between shouting matches and melees, nothing really sticks. By the time the gunfire stops and the well of dick jokes runs dry, it’s likely you’ll have forgotten pretty much everything that came before...although the final dick joke is pretty hysterical. R. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Stadium 11, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard.

Your Sister’s Sister

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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. Living Room Theaters.

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TEXAS IS THE REASON: Richard Linklater’s new movie contains all the “outrageous” elements obligatory to deadpan, small-town true crime. Nice-guy killer? Meet Bernie Tiede, hymn-singing assistant mortician with a penchant for wooing blue-haired ladies. Macabre corpse disposal? The body of Marjorie Nugent, Tiede’s 81-year-old benefactor, was stashed in a garage freezer for nine months. Ironic upshot? Tiede was so popular after giving Nugent’s fortune away, his trial had to be moved out of town. Yet the one truly daring element in Bernie is the one that makes it seem not like a movie at all. Linklater is a Texas native whose best movies exploit his easy rapport with his shambolic Lone Star compadres. For the first half of Bernie, he uses mockumentary interviews with the main-street gossips of Carthage, Texas, as a kind of Greek chorus. Their piquant observations— “she’d tear you a double-wide, three-bedroom, two-bath asshole”—form the film’s backbone and highlight. AARON MESH. Showing at: Laurelhurst, Academy. Best paired with: BridgePort Kingpin Double Red. Also showing: A Cat in Paris (Mission Theater). HUNTSMAN Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 02:30, 07:45

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“What’s That Sound?”–you tell me.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Apollo astronaut Russell Schweickart had a vision of loveliness while flying through outer space in his lunar module. “One of the most beautiful sights is a urine dump at sunset,” he testified. He said it resembles a “spray of sparklers,” as ten million little ice crystals shoot out into the void at high velocity. As you feed your quest for a lusty life, Aries, I urge you to be as quirky and resourceful as Schweickart. Come up with your own definitions about what’s gorgeous and revelatory. Take epiphanies any way you can get them. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): At the heart of this horoscope is a quote from Maya Angelou. While it may seem schmaltzy, I assure you that its counsel will be essential to your success in the coming weeks. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said,” said Angelou, “people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Can you see how valuable this principle might be for you, Taurus? If you hope to get what you desire, you should turn your empathy on full blast. If you’d like to supercharge your vitality, hone your skills as a judge of character. If you want to get the love you think you deserve, be a master at making people feel good in your presence. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The coming week will be prime time to celebrate your eccentricities and cultivate your idiosyncrasies. Do you like ketchup on your bananas? Is heavy metal the music you can best relax to? Do you have a tendency to break out in raucous laughter when people brag about themselves? I really think you should make note of all the qualities that make you odd or unique, and express those qualities with extra intensity. That may grate on some people, true, but it should have a potent healing effect on you.

59 Bronze medalist’s place 61 Amt. on a food package 63 Guy with a “Jaywalking” segment 64 HINT FOR SOUNDALIKE #4 67 Soccer’s Freddy 68 Spanish chant 69 Sitcom that featured Andy Kaufman 70 Go droopy 71 Steal cattle 72 Doctors who check out head colds, for short 73 With 1-across, phonetic representation of the four soundalikes Down 1 Odist with a type of ode named for him 2 Make royally angry 3 James Cameron movie that outgrossed his own “Titanic” 4 Gullible guy 5 Fusses 6 Not, in German 7 CNN host Fareed 8 1/100th div. 9 “Whether good ___...” 10 Doing some knitting, maybe 11 Many a Three Stooges melee 12 Morales of “La Bamba” 13 2000s Bengals running back Dorsey 19 With even distribution 21 On the ocean 25 Group of experts 29 “___ ever wonder...” 31 Swap cards 33 Ear-related prefix

34 U-turn from NNE 36 Urban crime 37 Tablets that don’t dissolve in water 38 Common tabloid subject 39 ___ Harbour, Fla. 40 Dreams up 45 “Can’t quite recall...” 46 Washington, e.g. 47 Outdated verb used with phones 51 Chicken piece 52 Martin who played Bela Lugosi in “Ed Wood” 53 “I give!” 55 Former “Access Hollywood” host Nancy 57 Phrase for the slightly miffed and disappointed 59 “The Avengers” character 60 One way to watch old shows 62 Send a quick message 65 Riddle-me-___ (old kids’ rhyme) 66 Member of the fam

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Across 1 Princess’s problem 4 “SNL” alum Horatio 8 Exploded 14 Patent holder, often: abbr. 15 Song from Sarah McLachlan’s “Surfacing” 16 Holmes’s former partner 17 Gun gp. 18 HINT FOR SOUNDALIKE #1 20 TV android with a pet cat 22 Former Heat star, familiarly 23 1966 Michael Caine role 24 Visibly shocked 26 Tony-winning one-man play of 1989 27 CCLI doubled 28 Go back to the book 30 “Can ___ least sit down?” 32 Gps. like CARE and Amnesty International, to the UN 35 HINT FOR SOUNDALIKE #2 38 Where, in Latin 41 End of most university web sites 42 Victory run, maybe 43 Pull a waterskier 44 HINT FOR SOUNDALIKE #3 48 Lemony Snicket villain 49 Reno and Holder, for short 50 Unlike wax fruit 54 Gunky stuff 56 “This ___ test...” 58 ___ Wrap

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here are my questions: Will you thrust your foot across that imaginary line, or will you back away from it, scouting around for an escape route? Will you risk causing a commotion in order to scratch the itch in your ambition? Or will you shuffle on back to your comfort zone and caress your perfect daydreams? Personally, Cancerian, I’m hoping you will elect to do what’s a bit unsettling. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you should. If you make a bold move, make sure you’re not angling to please or impress me -- or anyone else, for that matter. Do it as a way to express your respect for yourself -- or don’t do it. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): When Tchaikovsky wrote the musical score for his famous 1812 Overture, it included 16 cannon shots. Literally. These blasts weren’t supposed to be made by, say, a sledgehammer pounded against a wooden mallet, but rather by the detonation of an actual cannon. As crazy as that is, you’ve got to admire Tchaikovsky’s creative gall. He was going way out of the box, calling on a source of sound no other composer had ever done. In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to be inspired by his example, Leo. In your own chosen field, mess with the rules about how to play in your chosen field. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “And if nothing is repeated in the same way,” says poet Antonio Porchia, “all things are last things.” That’s a good principle to adapt for your own purposes, Virgo. A few weeks from now, I bet you’ll be enmeshed in an orgy of novelty, creating yourself from scratch and exploring experiences you’ve never heard of before. But in the meantime, as you bring this cycle to a close, be equally inventive about how you finish things off. Don’t imitate the approach you used in tying up loose ends in the past. Don’t put stale, boring karma to rest in stale, boring ways. Nothing repeated! All things last things! LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): All of us feel bad sometimes -- sad, discouraged, helpless, unloved, and all the rest. It’s a natural part of being human. Here’s the good news: I am not predicting you will go through a phase like that anytime soon. Here’s the even better news: The coming week will be an excellent time to come up with effective strategies for what to do in the future when you go through a rough period. For example, instead of wallowing in self-pity or berating yourself for your weakness, maybe you can resolve,

next time, to amble aimlessly out in nature, dance to cathartic music for three hours, or go to the gym and smack around a punching bag. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When a domesticated weasel captures some treasure or beats out a competitor for food, it performs a celebratory dance that’s referred to as the “weasel war dance.” During this triumphant display, it might hiss, arch its back, fluff out its tail, and hop around madly. I encourage you to come up with your own private version of this ritual, Scorpio. It can be more dignified if you like: snapping your fingers, singing a magical phrase, or raising your arms in a V-for-victory gesture. Whatever you choose, do it after every accomplishment, no matter how small: buying groceries, arriving at an appointment on time, getting a good new idea, or any other success. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): One out of every four of us is afraid that we have missed our calling -- that we have misread our soul’s code and failed to identify the labor of love that would provide our ultimate fuel for living. If you’re among this deprived group, I have good news: The next six weeks will be an excellent time to fix the problem -- to leave the niche where you don’t belong and go off to create a new power spot. And if you are among the 75 percent of us who are confident you’ve found your vocation, the next six weeks will be prime time to boost your efforts to a higher level. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You can take this as a metaphor if you like, but I’m getting a psychic impression that you will soon be drawing on the energy of one of your past lives. Will it be a 13thcentury Chinese lute player or a kitchen maid from 15th-century France? Will you be high on the vitality you had when you were a Yoruba priest living in West Africa 300 years ago or when you were a 16th-century Guarani herbalist in what’s now Paraguay? I invite you to play with fantasies like these, even if you don’t believe they’re literally true. You might be surprised at the boost you get from imagining yourself alive in a different body and historical era. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Italian mattress company Sogniflex has created a bed with features designed to facilitate love-making. It has straps and handles, plus a trench that helps you get better traction. The extra-strong springs produce an exceptional bouncing action. You might consider buying one for yourself. The astrological omens suggest it’s time to play with more intensity in the intimate clinches. You could also try these things: 1. Upgrade your licking and sucking skills. 2. Cultivate your ability to listen receptively. 3. Deepen your sincere appreciation for what’s beautiful about anyone you’re attracted to. 4. Make yourself even more lovable than you already are. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): My $10-an-hour counsel only requires a few seconds to deliver. Here it is: “Never try to be someone you’re not. Discover what you were made for, and do it with all of your passionate intensity.” On the other hand, Pisces, my $100-aminute wisdom is more complicated, subtle, and hard to impart in less than an hour of storytelling. Here’s a hint of it: There are times when you can get interesting and even brilliant results by experimenting with being something you’re not. Going against the flow of your instinctual urges and customary tendencies might tweak you in just the right way -- giving you an exotic grace and wild depth when you ultimately return to the path you were born to tread.

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