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This is a problem that has been looming on the horizon for years, and [The Oregonian] has nobody but itself to blame [“Stop the Presses,” WW, Aug. 8, 2012]. I remember several years ago, to celebrate Oregon’s 150th anniversary, it published a whole bunch of reprinted front pages from past years. I was struck by how much information used to be in the paper, compared to today. The Oregonian barely qualifies as a newspaper anymore, but it wants a buck for what amounts to, essentially, a local version of “headline news.” If it would go back to the older model, I think it could have success. I, for one, am sick of having all my news—especially local news—compartmentalized and truncated. There are, after all, alternatives for national news stories, but where can you go to find in-depth news and analysis of the 23rd-largest metro area in the country? Certainly not this rag—[WW] can’t afford to take any space away from those valuable ads for “sexual services.” —“Mick” When I returned to Oregon in 1999, The Oregonian had reporters stationed throughout the state. A couple years later, the regional offices closed. A couple years after that, staff reductions tore apart the investigative-reporting department and reduced deliveries south of Eugene. Today, the level of news coverage and distribution hardly befits the paper’s name. Too bad The Oregonian didn’t aggressively acquire smaller dailies around the state and relaunch them as regional editions of its flagship. That would have strengthened its brand statewide. —“Jared Castle”

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City Commissioner Amanda Fritz is shopping for pool covers. Fritz has been making the rounds at City Hall pushing a plan to install plastic floating “membrane” covers to protect Portland’s open-air drinking-water reservoirs at Mount Tabor and Washington Park. The feds are requiring cities to cover their open reservoirs—a response to growing concerns about drinking-water safety. Portland has already committed $275 million to cover one reservoir and build new ones underground—a plan Fritz supported in 2009. But Fritz appears to have changed her mind as her re-election fight against Rep. Mary Nolan (D-Portland) moves toward a runoff in November. Fritz has always sought to portray herself as a thrifty commissioner willing to take on big spending and question conventional wisdom at City Hall. Her

iconoclastic style has fed her image as an ineffective outsider often on the losing end of 4-1 votes. But Fritz’s election-season switch on the reservoirs could give her campaign a new issue at a time when it seems low on ideas and short of evidence that she has much to show for her first term on the City Council. Fritz, who’s currently in England, declined to be interviewed for this story. But she told WW in an email that it “seems likely that using membrane covers would not only be less expensive at a time when ratepayers are desperate for rate relief, but also provide more storage capacity that will be needed in the future due to climate change.” Commissioner Randy Leonard, who oversees the Water Bureau, says Fritz’s about-face comes too late. “I’m a little mystified why at this late date Amanda would be pushing for an alternative that could have come up any one of a number of times,” Leonard says. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has pushed for ways to prevent cryptosporidium from spreading to drinking-water systems. The protozoan, which comes from fecal waste, can cause severe gastrointestinal ailments and was linked to

more than 100 deaths in Milwaukee, Wis., in 1993. Portland is under the gun to finish covering its reservoirs within eight years. The current plan calls for covering one reservoir at Washington Park, building two underground reservoirs on the city’s east side, and disconnecting the remaining ones. But last month, Fritz asked the Portland Water Bureau to look into the costs of plastic covers for all of the existing reservoirs. Similar covers are in use in Astoria and Corvallis. The reservoir covers look like the floor of a massive bouncy castle. Floating membrane covers are generally very inexpensive compared to building concrete caps or constructing entirely new reservoirs. In 2004, the Water Bureau estimated that placing floating covers on two reservoirs at Washington Park would cost $2 million. Fritz told WW in an email that “ratepayers deserve careful analysis and reevaluation by the entire Council, to find the least-cost alternative that complies with federal and state mandates.” Tom Bizeau, Fritz’s chief of staff, says the Council in 2009 was never given the option of using floating covers. “Why hadn’t we had a thorough analysis done a long time ago?” Bizeau says. Leonard says floating membranes won’t save ratepayers much money because the existing reservoirs would still require expensive seismic upgrades and repairs. Portland Water Bureau administrator David Shaff says the 115-year-old reservoir

system is leaky and “wearing out.” The linchpin of the current plan, a 50-milliongallon underground reservoir at Powell Butte, is already under construction, and the city has spent $41.7 million of its $129 million project budget. “The columns are rising,” Shaff says, “and there are 80 trucks of concrete there every day.” Fritz has taken credit for persuading the City Council to reject a $700 million sand-filtration water treatment plant required by regulators—her plan, building an ultraviolet treatment system instead, would have cost $200 million. This year, the Water Bureau convinced the feds and the state that Portland’s Bull Run water supply didn’t need a filtration system—blunting Fritz’s claim she saved the city $500 million. Meanwhile, Fritz has picked up an unlikely ally in the activist group Friends of the Reservoirs. The group has long lobbied to keep the reservoirs open and uncovered—and it opposes plastic covers such as those Fritz now advocates. But the group is backing Fritz’s plan for strategic reasons. Its co-founder, Floy Jones, says she hopes Fritz’s change of heart will work as a delaying tactic against the city’s plan to get rid of the open-air reservoirs. “That’s one of the options, putting on a cover,” Jones says. “They’re all onerous options. Whether we bury the reservoirs or put plastic covers on, it’s all onerous.” Willamette Week AUGUST 15, 2012 wweek.com

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At the rate he’s going, Metro Council President Tom Hughes will need to add new pages to his passport faster than you can say “Oregon-Japan Friendship Week.” Since taking office in January 2011, Hughes has traveled to five countries, including two trips to Japan, at taxpayer expense—$20,738 in all. That’s a lot of travel for the top elected official of the regional government—and more than other politicians. Portland Mayor Sam Adams has often been criticized for his frequent travels. Yet Adams’ calendar shows the mayor has traveled 43 days for business since January 2011. For Hughes, it’s 50 days. That’s also more than Gov. John Kitzhaber (35) and Multnomah County Chairman Jeff Cogen (four.) Hughes says the travel is part of the economic development mission of Metro, which includes Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties. Hughes says he’s been trying to drum up jobs and improve business ties —something he campaigned on in 2010. “The reality is, there is no elected official who can speak for the entire region other than the president of Metro,” he says. Metro isn’t primarily an economic development agency, according to its charter. It’s more of a regulatory and plan-

ning agency, setting the region’s urban growth boundary while also overseeing garbage disposal and recycling, the Oregon Zoo and the Oregon Convention Center. In 2011, Hughes went on a trip to Germany, organized by the Portland Business Alliance, aimed at recruiting and retaining businesses and to study energy production from waste materials. That same year, he joined Gov. Kitzhaber’s trade mission to South Korea and China. And his two trips to Japan were with Business Oregon, the state’s economic development agency, to meet with corporate officials at Panasonic Eco Solutions, Mitsubishi, Asahi Glass and Sanyo. Metro records say this year’s trip was in honor of Oregon-Japan Friendship Week. Hughes says his travel helps the region’s smaller cities, such as Oregon City and Milwaukie, that “don’t have the kind of economic development component in their government that you would find in Portland, Beaverton, Hillsboro or Gresham, for example.” (Records show

that companies Hughes visited overseas include Daimler and Adidas, which have U.S. headquarters in Portland; and SolarWorld, whose U.S. headquarters is in Hillsboro.) “The travel I’ve done, quite frankly, has been pretty hard work,” Hughes says. “Flying isn’t all that fun. There are a lot of parts of travel that aren’t that fun.” Some of the trips, he adds, have involved spending long days at trade shows. “Anybody who says ‘trade show’ and ‘fun’ in the same sentence hasn’t been to a trade show,” Hughes says. The Metro Council president also says such travel isn’t new for him. In his previous public office, as mayor of Hillsboro, he went to Japan six times to strengthen relationships with companies there. Metro officials say Hughes offered to reimburse the agency for any costs above the per diem rates set for federal employees. In reviewing Hughes’ travel records, WW noted the Metro president hadn’t fully reimbursed the public for $335.77 in excess expenses. Agency officials say that was an oversight, and Hughes says he was unaware of it. He has since written a check to cover the balance.

HITTING THE ROAD: Business travel days for Metro Council President Tom Hughes, from January 2011 through July 2012, compared to other politicians’. MULTNOMAH COUNTY CHAIR JEFF COGEN: 4 GOV. JOHN KITZHABER: 35 MAYOR SAM ADAMS: 43 HUGHES: 50 S O U R C E : M E T R O , O F F I C E O F T H E M AY O R , O F F I C E O F T H E G O V E R N O R , M U LT N O M A H C O U N T Y.

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Don Gronquist chose a lovely day to revisit the scene of his crime. Sunlight pours into the Pittock Mansion as he lumbers into the room once occupied by nieces of the newspaper magnate who built this posh West Hills manor-turnedmuseum. Ghostly paintings of the girls, vacant-eyed and porcelain-skinned, hang on the walls. As Gronquist leans his long, soft frame over the rope cordoning off the former occupants’ bed, he remembers putting a hatchet through the head of a young brunette in this exact spot 30 years ago. “We should’ve used a crab dolly for this shot,” he murmurs, mostly to himself. A tour group convenes outside the door. The guide does not mention that the cleanshaven, gray-haired man lurking inside made an infamous slasher flick here. Unhinged had it all: buckets of blood, topless women in the shower, a squealing synthesizer score and a jar full of pig eyeballs. It sounds silly now, but the lo-fi gore got the film, which was tearing up the video charts, banned in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain during the uproar over socalled “video nasties.” Unhinged was a botched cash grab and a poor follow-up to Gronquist’s debut as writer and producer, Rockaday Ritchie and the Queen of the Hop, a teenage exploitation film that became the first Portlandproduced independent feature to receive international distribution. But Unhinged makes a much better trailer for the scuttled ambitions of Portland’s most important forgotten filmmaker. A thin margin separates cult heroes and unknown pioneers. Gronquist, a 63-yearold Portland native, made three films in three different decades. Each failed, a victim of terrible luck and human frailty. But to understand what Portland filmmaking is today, you have to understand what it’s not. You have to understand Don Gronquist. With John Carpenter and Wes Craven hacking their way to success in the early ’80s, killing teenagers seemed like a shortcut to Hollywood. Made for the relative pittance of $100,000, Unhinged was Gronquist’s plan to cash in on the then-booming market for cheaply made, direct-to-video horror pictures. It was well on the way

DEATH ON THE STAIRS: Don Gronquist walks through the century-old Pittock Mansion in the West Hills, where he shot Unhinged from dusk until dawn. “It was like joining the circus,” says assistant cameraman Eric Edwards.

when it was pulled from video shelves by order of British parliament. Four years later, Gus Van Sant’s Mala Noche established an aesthetic for the Northwest—gritty, realistic, personal—and his version of Portland came to define the city onscreen. Meanwhile, only peers, local historians and the odd European horrorphile remember Gronquist.

Gronquist boasts that his films never lost money, and that he brought every script he wrote to wide distribution. This satisfies him. But among the handful of people who’ve actually seen his movies, there is a belief that if the winds of fate had blown another way, the independent filmmaking scene in Portland would’ve turned out much differently.

“If Gus had never made Drugstore Cowboy, and Mala Noche had been his pinnacle, crowning achievement,” says David Walker, ex-Willamette Week screen editor, “I’ve often felt there’d be more people running around town wanting to be the next Don Gronquist.” CONT. on page 14 Willamette Week AUGUST 15, 2012 wweek.com

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DINNER AND A MOVIE: Gronquist (far left) says this scene, shot in the Pittock Mansion dining room and featuring veteran Portland stage actress Virginia Settle (right, seated), was the most complex in Unhinged.

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A thumbnail sketch of Gronquist, from those who know him: He is infectiously enthusiastic. He has a miniaturist’s eye for detail. He is a little crazy. Above all, he is a film buff par excellence. “If the Internet Movie Database ever broke down,” says Ted Mahar, a former critic at The Oregonian, “you could just call Don.” “In grade school, I knew all the managers at the downtown theaters. I’d skip school and go to the movies,” says Gronquist from his table at Via Delizia, a cozy Mediterranean bistro by his apartment near the Broadway Bridge. As he talks, he exerts a nervous, fidgety energy. He picks at the sleeve of his loose-fitting purple sweater. He occasionally realigns my digital recorder and adjusts the position of my notebook. With his long nose, droopy eyes and a gap between his front teeth, it’s clear why old buddies called him “Goofy.” Gronquist talks in a raspy, rapid-fire stammer, as if he’s trying to stop the miscellany filling his brain from pouring out at once. Often, he punctuates stories—he’s got a lot of stories—by rearing back in his seat, letting out a loud laugh, then smacking the table. He claims to have danced with a young Laura Bush at a Washington fundraiser when George W. was too tipsy to stand. He says he talked fantasy baseball with Henry Kissinger in the lobby of a New York hotel. His favorite

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sunglasses were almost borrowed by Keanu Reeves for My Own Private Idaho. For all his difficulty keeping thoughts on track, once Gronquist set his path in life, he never strayed. “All I ever wanted to do my entire life was make movies,” he says. “Generally, most guys don’t even know what they want to do with their lives.” It’s been 17 years since Gronquist last tried. A lingering back injury, the result of a botched stunt performed in the early ’80s—he leapt out of a window and missed the crash pad—made the shoot for his most ambitious film, 1995’s The Devil’s Keep, a grueling ordeal. He’s had six surgeries since; he gets MRIs “like most people get haircuts.” Painkillers shroud his hyperactive head in a permanent fog. A script for what would’ve been his fourth film, about a jazz musician/ homicide detective’s slow descent into madness, turned into a planned novel, then into a pile of paper. These days, he lives alone. Each morning, he pops a Vicodin and a handful of Advil, then waits an hour before getting out of bed. He supplements his Social Security checks by hawking items on eBay: comic books, records, collectibles he’s held onto since childhood. He puts his obsessive mind to use playing fantasy baseball. He goes to dinner with friends twice a week. Otherwise, he watches movies from his maxed-out Netflix queue. Gronquist’s legacy is three feature films. Opinions on their quality vary, but nobody questions his ambition. In a small-batch city like Portland, Gronquist dreamt big. Instead of saying “fuck Hollywood,” his movies suggested Portland could be Hollywood. Gronquist’s vision has been realized— just not by him. NBC’s Grimm, a supernatural cop show that uses Portland as a

backdrop, has just begun its second season. It bears no resemblance to the achingly personal work of Van Sant or Todd Haynes, but does share some things with Unhinged: an acknowledgement that, behind the city’s façade of hip urbanism lurks an eerie backwoods. Of Portland’s homegrown, only Gronquist was willing to exploit it. “This is a city where people are trying to make art-house movies,” Walker says. “Maybe he’s a little too commercial for this city to fully embrace him.” Forty years ago, however—before anyone had made a film of any kind that

“IF THE INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE EVER BROKE DOWN, YOU COULD JUST CALL DON.” —TED MAHAR managed to escape the city’s borders— Gronquist had the opportunity to shape Portland’s cinematic sensibilities in his own image. It almost happened. In 1985, a year before Mala Noche, Van Sant set up a camera in a room at the Heathman Hotel and invited Portland filmmakers to discuss the future of cinema. He called the documentary Room 319. There’s Penny Allen, who directed two subversive comedies, Property and Paydirt, then moved to France. There’s Eric Edwards, who later lensed Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues in a successful career as a Hollywood cinematographer. There’s even the late Tom Shaw, an ex-porn peddler whose great contributions were his film CONT. on page 16

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equipment and 1984’s laughable revenge film-processing center TekniFilm Labs, thriller Courier of Death. then the epicenter of Portland filmmaking. And then there’s Gronquist. He introRockaday Ritchie had two things going duces himself as “erstwhile writer, direc- for it: a searing lead performance from tor, producer, stunt person, caterer.” In Portland stage actor Russell Fast and the loafers and sunglasses, you’d think he just ecstatic energy generated by amateurs got back from shooting his fifth block- learning on the fly. A few months after buster in the tropics. wrapping in 1974, Gronquist found himself “Hotshots will come out of the film presenting the film to Bob Evans and Frank schools, of the ghettos of the documentary Yablans, the heads of Paramount Pictures. ranks, and they will get their glory,” he pre“And they say, ‘Yeah, we’ll go with this,’” dicts, balancing a drink on the arm of the Gronquist says. hotel-room sofa. “Talent will definitely win Weeks later, the deal fell through. Paraout, but it will end up being swallowed by mount learned Warner Brothers had its the monied powers-that-be in Hollywood.” own account of the Starkweather killings, If he sounds cynical, he has reason. a movie called Badlands, in the pipeline. It At that time, he’d made two movies, each starred Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek and derailed by events out of his control. was directed by a young Texan named TerHis first film, Rockaday Ritchie and the rence Malick. Paramount backed out. Queen of the Hop, made “We went from thinking in 1973, follows a teenage we made pop gold, the next killer with a leather jacket great American teenage WEB EXTRA: For video clips from Don Gronquist’s films and pomade-slicked hair movie, and thinking we’d and a behind-the-scenes look on a killing spree through really have a shot at it, at the making of this week’s Happy Days America. The to ‘No, no one is going to cover, visit wweek.com. script, which Gronquist touch it,’” Hood says. started writing as a colEventually, Rockaday lege student in California, was based on Ritchie got picked up for distribution the murderous 1958 road trip taken by by a small, now-defunct company. It 19-year-old Charlie Starkweather and his premiered locally at the Northwest Film 14-year-old girlfriend. Center in 1975. A recut version of the Gronquist didn’t know what he was movie, with generic songs replacing the doing, but that didn’t stop him from doing pricey hits, appeared internationally at it. He prepared the contracts. He cast the the start of the home-video era, under actors. He found shooting locations. He the pun-intensive title Stark Raving Mad. set the budget—an astoundingly meager In a 1983 review, Variety praised Fast’s $50,000—and secured backers. He negoti- “brooding presence” and complimented ated the rights to several period-appropri- Hood’s “astute artistic decisions.” ate rock songs. The only thing Gronquist At the time, that’s the furthest any indedidn’t do was direct, but that was only pendent movie made by Portlanders had because, well, he couldn’t do everything. managed to get. Considering what could That responsibility fell to George Hood, an have been, it was of little consolation to upstart whose father, Frank, founded the Gronquist. 16

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Asked to recall the first movie he saw, Gronquist doesn’t strain: Disney’s The African Lion, 1955, at the now-shuttered Guild Theatre on Southwest 9th Avenue. “I felt like I was enveloped in warm hands,” he says. “And I never looked back.” Things were rougher at home. Born into a working-class Southwest Portland family, Gronquist grew up “in a house of fear and secrets.” His mother was a housewife. His father, who worked as an insulator, was a stern, short-tempered and abusive man. “He’d always ground me, then get liquored up and come pick fights with me,” Gronquist says. “It was just a hair-trigger situation all the time.” Theaters became sanctuaries during Gronquist’s time at Wilson High School. He consumed everything from Ingmar Bergman and Robert Bresson to Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Although he had friends, Gronquist would typically go to Portland’s art-house CONT. on page 19

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“It was demoralizing, even though we ended up selling the picture,” he says. “We had the president of Paramount Pictures saying, ‘Yeah.’ That’s a pretty big deal.” It would be eight years before Gronquist tried to make another movie. And this time, he would do everything.

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CONT. theaters, the Aladdin and Cinema 21, alone. “People didn’t watch the same movies I watched,” he says. At age 12, Gronquist saved the money earned from delivering newspapers and bought his first 8 mm camera. He spent his teenage years trying to mimic the shots of his favorite directors. He left Portland to attend film school at UCLA but dropped out when his father was dying of mesothelioma brought on by years of inhaling asbestos. That’s when Gronquist discovered other people in Portland watched the same movies. They’d been sitting alone at those screenings, too. And, like him, they wanted to make their own films. “We were all spellbound in darkness,” Gronquist says. “You can’t know someone if you can’t see them.” Unhinged, Gronquist’s second film, is not good. Even its director says so. It was, however, successful—before it became infamous. Unhinged began as a bet between Gronquist and co-writer Reagan Ramsey made over drinks downtown. “We were sitting there talking about, how cheap can we make a movie?” Gronquist says. “How cheap could we make a commercially viable 35 mm film?” Its plot, involving three teenage girls marooned at a spooky estate, couldn’t be more rote. Shooting at the Pittock Mansion in its off-hours, from dusk through dawn, for 19 straight nights, Gronquist had a rough time in the director’s chair. In a newsletter article about the shoot, cinematographer Richard Blakeslee wrote: “Don is going a little crazy by this time, zeroing in on something new every day.... The one we enjoy most is, ‘I’ve lost my pages!’ This is in reference to his script…which he has taken apart and carries around like a bundle of autumn leaves; at various times, these will be lost, splattered with stage blood, misplaced, left in other rooms, soaked with water, covered with muddy footprints....” Unhinged’s best reviews adorn the box of a 1988 VHS release: “Hideous!” raved Video Business. “Gore lovers will wallow in it!” exclaimed Music and Video Week. As far as anyone can remember, the movie screened only once in Portland, again at the Northwest Film Center. Yet, worldwide, Unhinged is Gronquist’s best-known movie. Ironically, its notoriety is based on the fact that, for 20 years, the movie went virtually unseen. In the early ’80s, a furor over direct-tovideo horror movies erupted in the U.K. With the advent of the unregulated home VHS market, British video shelves flooded with low-budget films filled with sex and violence. Public outcry against “video nasties” led to the creation of a law which retroactively banned 72 of the most reprehensible films. Oddly, Unhinged, which features only three murders, suggested only by sprays of blood, and two scenes of female nudity in 79 long minutes, wound up on the list next to Cannibal Holocaust, a purported snuff film that features the killing and eating of a live turtle, and the brutal rape-revenge fantasy I Spit on Your Grave. The details of exactly how that happened are murky, even to Gronquist. He’d secured a distribution deal in England and

VIDEO NASTY: Don Gronquist in his home office.

took a hands-off approach. A month after its release in the summer of 1983, Gronquist got a call from the distributor, saying Unhinged was banned in Britain. Unhinged was doing very well when it got yanked. There was a national television advertising campaign for the VHS version underway in Britain, with Video Trade Weekly reporting, “theatrical release is imminent.” The ban effectively killed the movie. Other foreign markets wouldn’t touch it. “I didn’t see the big picture at the

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time of what the echo effect would be,” Gronquist says. A decade went by before Gronquist would attempt another film. In between, he opened and closed a restaurant called Pink’s. He coached his two sons, Peter and Addison, in Little League. He did copywriting and corporate imaging for the prominent industrial-equipment manufacturer Cascade Corporation, the company founded by the family of his wife, Wendy Warren. They divorced in 1991. All the while, the back injury he sustained in the early ’80s worsened. What was initially diagnosed as a bone spur turned out to be a cyst pushing on Gronquist’s sciatic nerve. By 1992, he was in such daily “visceral” pain he had to have a chiropractor on the set his third film, The Devil’s Keep, a $460,000 globetrotting adventure film rooted in conspiracies about hidden Nazi gold. “We were all set to go, and he had the first of his major back surgeries,” says documentarian Brian Lindstrom, who worked on the film as an assistant director fresh out of film school. Gronquist gave it a go, though: He built, to scale, an Austrian castle complete with a moat and swamp, in a warehouse in Clackamas. “He was clearly in a lot of pain, and we were shooting under pretty grueling conditions,” Lindstrom says. “It was impressive to see, on a physical-endurance level.” The film did not find an audience. By then, acclaimed directors such as Steven Soderbergh, Spike Lee and, yes, Gus Van Sant had raised the bar on what could be achieved in a low-budget film. “If you look at the 1980s, there’s a whole lot of opportunity, because there’s always a need for product for home video and cable,” David Walker says. “But at the end

of the day, if you didn’t make a movie that really, really kicked ass, by the mid-’90s you were done.” In February, 200 people gathered inside Whitsell Auditorium at the Portland Art Museum to watch the first local screening of Rockaday Ritchie and the Queen of the Hop in 37 years. As part of its year-long 40th anniversary celebration, the Northwest Film Center launched Essential Northwest, a monthly series reviving forgotten regional movies. Bill Foster, the center’s director, asked Gronquist and George Hood for an original print of their film. There wasn’t one. Instead, the film had to be re-created from recuts released internationally under different names: Germany’s Rock Baby, Australia’s Murder Run, Canada’s Execution. The version they cobbled together is 25 minutes shorter than the original. Full scenes have been lost. Still, the reaction from the audience— made up of cast, crew and cinephiles—was one of positive surprise. The movie held up. “The assumption would be that if something went off into oblivion and never screened, it must’ve been bad,” Foster says. “Films have so many extenuating stories. A lot of good films never make it to the screen, because they were hobbled by legal disputes or bad reviews or something like that. Since it never made it, people assumed it was just a hobby.” It would seem that the night would represent a small measure of redemption for Don Gronquist. As far as he’s concerned, though, he doesn’t need redemption. He made the movies he wanted to make, and didn’t have to answer to anybody. “The people who care about me know what I’ve done,” he says. “I don’t need to impress a bunch of knuckleheads.” Willamette Week AUGUST 15, 2012 wweek.com

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For a brief span in May, Against Me! was not only one of the most popular punk bands in the country, but one of the biggest stories in music. Rolling Stone broke the news May 8: Tom Gabel, who founded Against Me! as a teenager in 1997, was no longer Tom Gabel. Having wrestled with gender dysphoria for years, the 31-year-old had finally decided to live as a woman named Laura Jane Grace. The buzzing, tweeting aftermath of Grace’s revelation marked a peak in the public’s awareness of Against Me!, but the news cycle seems to have run its course, and the band is once again back to the simple business of conjuring raw joy via loud sounds. The group certainly has a new lead singer, but she happens to sound a whole lot like the old one, so longtime fans need not fret. Against Me! is still Against Me! Which is not to say the group’s ever been easy to define. Gabel’s transformation into Laura Jane Grace is only the latest and most radical alteration to a band that has never felt much need to settle on a single identity. Early recordings such as Crime as Forgiven by Against Me! were minimalist affairs, with Gabel and then-drummer Kevin Mahon cranking out frantic folk-punk, while the band’s middle period found Against Me! taking on two additional members and expanding Gabel’s rough punk anthems into dynamic documents of youthful exuberance and political agitation. With 2007’s New Wave, the band’s major-label debut, Gabel and company switched tacks once again, emerging into the limelight as Springsteen-esque rabble-rousers capable of splitting the difference between basement-bound pique and radio-friendly melodies. It was a populist move that found its full expression on 2010’s White Crosses, on which Against Me! learned to stop worrying and love the midtempo pop song. Laura Jane Grace and her comrades are presently at work on an album called Transgender Dysphoria Blues, which, if the past is any indication, will sound just like Against Me! Meaning it won’t sound anything like Against Me! AgAinSt ME! plays MusicfestNW at the Hawthorne Theatre with Andrew Jackson Jihad and Joyce Manor on Wednesday, Sept. 5. First act 8 pm. Entry with MFNW wristband or $18 at the door. All ages.

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Andrew McLaughlin arrives at the Portland Digital eXperience (PDX)—a speaker series focused on technology, startups and digital creativity—trailing a terribly impressive list of accomplishments. The man could quit working now and retire with the knowledge that he hit it out of the park. His current stint as vice president of Tumblr is only the latest in a series of prestigious engagements. In the past 10 years, McLaughlin has worked for the White House as deputy chief technology officer, for Google as the head of global public policy, AndREw MClAUgHlin and as a lecturer at Stanford Law School. The New York-based McLaughlin is also affiliated with a number of nonprofits committed to digital activism and governmental transparency, because there are apparently enough minutes in McLaughlin’s day to do anything and everything. With his PDX appearance, expect an expansive and thorough schooling in how this sped-up century’s blur of human need and technological invention is looking right about now, and what it might look like tomorrow.

A longtime sponsor of Musicfest NW, industrial-design firm Incase has taken a more participatory approach this year by hosting two showcases at Ted’s at Berbati’s. While Saturday’s affair will be held in tandem with Brooklyn label Captured Tracks, Friday focuses on Room 205, an Incase internet project that brings together a rotating group of top directors, cinematographers, editors and set designers to work hand-in-hand with local and touring musicians who previously gathered to play a teensy titular Los Angeles recording space. Five artists who were previously featured in the Web series will have their MFNW sets recorded for future episodes. The folks at Incase—a leading manufacturer of iPod, iPad and iPhone covers—have developed a unique vision for a wide range of acts. Opening act Tropic of Cancer, the spectral solo venture of L.A.’s Camella Lobo (supported in concert by Taylor Burch), engendered noir chills with her Room 205 appearance. Meanwhile, Long Beach shoegazer unit Crystal Antlers indulged in its psychedelic side while powering through a set of chic fuzz-rock. Goth chanteuse Chelsea Wolfe inspired visuals as lovely and macabre as her song stylings, fellow Californian Justin Vallesteros’ bittersweet New Wave project Craft Spells fostered playful woodcut-laden abstractions, and lush, languid, slightly unnerving dreamscapes accompanied the utterly captivating PDX synthpop trio Blouse, which closes this showcase. How these innovators are going to dazzle the MFNW stage is a question that won’t be answered until the show, but rest assured that all your senses will be stimulated.

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WEED ’N’ FEED: In what reads like satire but appears to be true, an all-hemp cafe has opened in Portland at 2714 NE Alberta St. Billing itself as “Portland’s premier hemp foods restaurant,” Hempress Cafe—which also happens to be Portland’s only hemp foods restaurant—serves mostly hemp-flour flatbread sandwiches and salads made with hemp seeds. FUTURE DRINKING: Is delivery-only eastside pizza joint Lonesome’s taking over the hallowed pizza window at Dante’s? That’s what it looks like—the venue’s liquor license has been amended to add Lonesome’s as a partner. There was talk of a Lonesome’s window with the Grove Hotel redevelopment across West Burnside Street, but that project is now on hold. Dante’s pizza is not good, so this would be a welcome change. >> Goose Hollow’s Commodore Lounge is moving two blocks away to where the Bulldog Tavern currently lives at 1650 W Burnside St. >> Sergey Udalov is planning to open Cafe Theobroma at 1037 NW Flanders St. in the former Boyd’s Coffee in the Gregory building. >> Irah’s Coffee & Yogurt Lounge at 1755 SW Jefferson St. has applied for a beer and wine license. >> And in non-Portland news, someone is opening a brewpub in Bend called Rat Hole Brewing.

GIF FROM GOD: Tickets are on sale for the digital arm of this year’s MusicfestNW, Portland Digital eXperience. Speakers include Tumblr VP Andrew McLaughlin (we’re hoping his talk will be titled “Fuck Yeah Andrew McLaughlin” and just be a series of animated GIFs), Aaron Draplin of Draplin Design Co. (he invented those Field Notes memo books and is one of the most foul-mouthed and hilarious speakers you will ever encounter), Maggie Vail ANDREW MCLAUGHLIN of CASH Music (she was in the Bangs, was a VP of Kill Rock Stars, and her new nonprofit CASH Music is set to be a game-changer in music distribution) and a bunch of other interesting folks from the tech realm. A PDX wristband also gets you into Musicfest shows. Tickets and more info at musicfestnw.com/pdx.

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GRACEFUL WINS: Two people from Portland’s dance community have received Princess Grace Awards. One of the highest honors in performing arts, each year the Princess Grace Foundation—established 30 years ago by Monaco’s Prince Rainier III and named after his wife, actress Grace Kelly—awards emerging talent in the fields of theater, dance and film. Franco Nieto of the Northwest Dance Project is among six dancers in the country to receive a fellowship from the foundation. Rachel Tess of the Rumpus Room Dance Company received the Works In Progress Residency Award, a grant advancing the artistic development of previous winners. (She won as a performer in 2002.) It will allow her to continue developing a collaboration with designers Gian Monti and Michael Mazzola.

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THURSDAY AUG. 16 DESCHUTES STREET FARE [BEER] Deschutes’ annual street “fare” is a brewery festival where beer isn’t the big draw. Sure there are Deschutes brews to drink, but the main appeal is the food carts, which come from across the city to be enjoyed in one convenient location. This year’s lineup includes Oregon Ice Works, PDX 671, Prickly Ash, baoPDX, Gonzo, the Pie Spot and Touchdown’s BBQ. All proceeds go to Loaves and Fishes (the MealsOn-Wheels folk). Deschutes Brewery & Public House, 210 NW 11th Ave., 296-4906. 5-9 pm. $10, includes one food-and-beer tasting ticket. Additional tasting tickets are $4.

FRIDAY AUG. 17 LLOYD ALLEN SR. [MUSIC] That Lloyd Allen Sr. is not a household name in Portland is a crying shame. The blues and soul master is gifted in many arenas: His scorching guitar solos, pained vocal cries and original songwriting all add up to one of the finest shows in town. Blue Diamond, 2016 NE Sandy Blvd. 9 pm. Free. 21+.

SATURDAY AUG. 18

SCREW MARY SUE URKEL, MINNIE MOUSE AND OTHER SHADES OF AWFUL EROTIC FANFIC. Fan fiction, once the sole province of pathetic nerds, is now a profitable industry. The literary elite may scoff, but Fifty Shades of Grey, which began as Twilight fan fiction, has sold 40 million copies. Shitty though she may write, E.L. James—originally known by the pen name Snowqueens Icedragon—is the world’s most popular author. What’s the next Grey? Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction, a monthly series from Nerdist Theater in L.A. that comes to Portland this week, is looking. We dug around the Web for other future bestsellers. JOHN LOCANTHI. Sonic the Hedgehog “Sonic moaned quietly, whimpering ‘Tails…’ every few seconds. By now, the blue blur’s penis was fully erect, and Tails

could begin his work. The kit placed his hand around Sonic’s cock and began to rub. The hedgie’s moaning became louder and louder.” —“Passion of Love” by AlistairLowary The Terminator “[The Terminator] skimmed down her naked body, taking in every gorgeous thing that [Sarah Connor’s] body had to give for a man’s eyes and after choosing another scenario to perform, and after her acceptance, he pushed into her! She was whimpering sweetly at first in the many years without sex pain, but soon gotten used to it and to his massive size.” —“Sexual Feelings: Terminator” by Strangerthanstrange Nancy Drew meets the Hardy Boys “[Frank Hardy] echoed [Nancy Drew’s] throaty sigh as the relief of their initial joining sated the yearning to become one,

while igniting the first flicker of the more animalistic and basic need for release.” —“Interference & Intercourse” by KennaC Mickey Mouse “Minnie shook as she pushed [Mickey’s] head between her legs, her legs shaking violently around him, her toes curling, and her tail shaking wildly as she groaned, squeaked and panted in blissful ecstasy as the waves of hot, tingly pleasure pulsed through her body.” —“Latenight Snack” by Squad Unit 19 Family Matters “This is your pleasure and punishment” Steve [Urkel] said before he pushed all the way into Laura, burying his member to the hilt. Laura screamed in pleasure and pain, she was still sore from last night but she knew she deserved this, she wanted it.” —“The Fine Line Between Dreams & Reality” by Dragongirl4040 GO: Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction is at Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, brodytheater.com, on Friday, Aug. 17. 10 pm. $10. 21+.

EXPULSION [DANCE] What does home mean to you, and what is it like to leave it behind? These are the questions driving a collaboration between Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre/Northwest and Painted Sky Northstar Dance Company. Duckler does site-specific dance works, and this one, called Expulsion, is no exception: It will be staged in a vacant lot on three stories of scaffolding, and will allude to the tale of Cain and Abel. It’s designed as a cross-cultural exchange with Painted Sky, which specializes in traditional Native American dance done in full regalia. River Street Studios, 820 N River St. 8 pm. $5-$10. ADULT SOAPBOX DERBY [RACE] Watch racers roll down a volcano on homemade, wheeled contraptions. Unlike the kiddie versions powered by gravity alone, this one is fueled by sweet, sweet ethanol. Mount Tabor Park, Southeast 60th Avenue & Salmon Street. 10 am-4 pm. Free to watch. soapboxracer.com.

SUNDAY AUG. 19 PORTLAND CENTURY [BIKES] Ride 100 miles without braving the hinterlands. The Portland Century follows riding routes of 40, 80 or 100 miles with stunning views of Portland from Bull Run, Marine Drive and Smith and Bybee lakes. Oh, and it’s catered, with refreshments along the way. Ride begins at Portland State University. Check-in times 6-9 am, depending on route. $71.50 adults in advance, $10 under age 10. portlandcentury.com.

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Beef jerky is a primal pleasure. Drying meat for storage was practical for cave dwellers, of course, but we keep making it in an era of refrigerators because there’s something satisfying about gnawing on the stuff—with or without the grunts and snorts of yore. WW assembled an august panel of tasters— that is, whoever was around, which happened to be three staffers and two interns, divided about equally between XYs and XXs—to taste 10 Best: Western Meat Market Hot Peppered. varieties of jerky. We Most expensive: did a blind tasting, with Laurelhurst Market, each variety identified $40 per pound. only by a number. The Weirdest: Malaysia Beef Jerky of New York. judges rated each sample between one and 10. As the organizer, I picked up the entries around town and tasted them in advance to handicap the race. For fun, I also threw in a couple of ringers, namely a Malaysian-style jerky from New York and one bag from a local convenience store. The convenience-store stuff fared surprisingly well. I can’t say the same for the Malaysian jerky.

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Average score: 8.5 Price: $16/pound Wow, flavor! Lots of flavors, actually: Heat, salt, seasonings—and moisture too. The standard bearer of Portland jerkydom. Comments: “Like they added spicy Mrs. Dash.” “What I’d want in my backpack.”

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Available at convenience stores or directly from tcsjerky.com. Average score: 6.7 Price: $32/pound I figured all convenience-store jerky had to have the flavor and consistency of salted rope. Most does. This stuff was shockingly decent. Comments: “Serviceable bag jerky.” “Shit was bomb!”

OTHERS Gartner’s Regular

Gartner’s Country Meat Market, 7450 NE Killingsworth, 252-7801, gartnersmeats.com Average score: 4.8 Price: $17/pound Portlanders take numbers and wait to buy meat at Gartner’s, the legendary local butcher that opened in 1959. When it’s your turn, skip this junky jerky and grab a monster porterhouse instead. Comments: “Chewy and undelicious.” “Bland, tastes like baby food. Too dry.”

Chop (Teriyaki)

Chop Butchery & Charcuterie, inside City Market, 735 NW 21st Ave., 221-3012, and inside the Hub Building, 3808 N Williams Ave., 288-1901, chopbutchery.com Average score: 4.8 Price: $25/pound If I had to pick between any of the palate-pleasing pâtés at Chop and this jerky, it would be a pâté every time. Comments: “Honey and spice equals nice.” “Tastes like tough fruit chews.”

Laurelhurst Market

Laurelhurst Market Restaurant and Butcher Shop, 3155 E Burnside St., 206-3099, laurelhurstmarket.com Average score: 4.5 Price: $40/pound There is no jerky in the universe worth this price. When these guys ran the meat counter at City Market, their jerky was a lot better than this. Comments: “Tastes pleasantly like boot leather soaked in fennel juice.” “This is actually beef jerky, at least.”

The Country Cat

The Country Cat, 7937 SE Stark St., 408-1414, thecountrycat.net Average score: 4.2 Price: $20/pound Adam “Country Cat” Sappington knows his meat, but jerky isn’t his strong suit. The flavor was good, but the paper-thin slices ruined the experience. Comments: “Looks like snakeskin that’s see-through and caramelized.” “Smoky, leathery, like nori.”

Old Country Sausage

Old Country Sausage Co., 10634 NE Sandy Blvd., 254-4106 Average score: 3.9 Price: $11/pound “Blecch,” was my reaction to this Russian-market jerky. It was like someone threw a junk of beef into a bucket of unseasoned brine, then let in the sun to dry. Comments: “Too much moisture.” “Tastes like a Slim Jim, looks like raw meat.”

WESTERN WINS: Portland’s best beef jerky.

Gartner’s Teriyaki

Gartner’s Country Meat Market, 7450 NE Killingsworth, 252-7801, gartnersmeats.com Average score: 3.6 Price: $18/pound I thought the flavor was a little better than Gartner’s regular, with at least a hint of the typical teriyaki flavors of garlic, ginger and brown sugar. Comments: “Too thick, too bland. Tastes like stale steak.” “Not enough salt.” “Should it have flavor?”

LOSERS Malaysia Beef Jerky (Spicy Pork) Malaysia Beef Jerky, 95A Elizabeth St., New York, 212-965-0796, malaysiabeefjerky.com

Average score: 3.3 Price: $17/pound Instead of curing and slicing whole chunks of beef, meat for Malaysian jerky is chopped, spiced, formed into sheets and grilled. I love it, especially the pork. Comments: “Blandly acceptable.” “Too weird-tasting.”

Western Meat Market Regular (Teriyaki) Western Meat Market, 4707 N Lombard, 283-5174, westernmeatmarket.biz

Average score: 3.3 Price: $16/pound As good as its spicy jerky was, Western’s regular, which supposedly is teriyaki-flavored, was bland, stringy and uninspired. Comments: “Like pot roast that’s been left out for days.” “Both dry and fatty.”

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When news came that someone in Portland was raising money to open a cheese-and-cracker food cart, Willamette Week dedicated a whole paragraph of print space to mocking it as “artisan Lunchables,” dubbing the idea “spectacularly bad.” I’ll come clean: I was the one who penned those words. So when the proprietor did successfully raise $2,500 through Kickstarter to build his cart, Cheese and Crack, I felt the least I could do was put my money (by which I mean the paper’s money) where my mouth is. Then came word that a second cheese-andcracker food cart, the Cheese Plate, was opening. I briefly considered moving far away to watch the entire city implode in its own absurdity. Instead, I’m reviewing both, head-to-head. Cheese and Crack is a small cart parked behind Mag-Big on Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard. The menu is minimalist: For $8, you pick one type of cracker, two types of cheese or charcuterie and one “accoutrement”—olives, dried fruit, pickles and so forth. Or, the man in the cart offered to just put together a “sampling” of his choice. You should absolutely do this: $8 scored me a little pizza box with all three types of housemade crackers (savory oatmeal cookies made with Parmesan and herbs; a flat, crispy, seedy thing; and butter cookies), three cheeses (a tub of fromage blanc, three slices of white cheddar and a generous hunk of blue), olives, a handful of dried cranberries, a very good sweet-and-spicy housemade pickle relish, and a small square of mint chocolate. There are also sodas ($2), made to order with Fee Brothers bitters and some simple syrup in a sizable cup. It was a metric ass-ton of food, and would have been perfect for a picnic for two or a very large workday lunch. If only Cheese and Crack were downtown or near a park. Instead, it’s hidden in an alley with no shade. I ate my meal awkwardly on the curb. The Cheese Plate is a grander establishment, as cheese-andcracker food carts go. Housed in a handsome wooden cart with in-built seating at a pod on Northeast Alberta Street, it offers not just its namesake dish, but sandwiches, fried cheese sticks and a large selection of sides. Here, my $8 cheese plate came on an actual wooden cheese board, and I was able to dine at shaded picnic tables. A cucumber mint limeade ($2) was sweet and refreshing and every bit as good as its Southeast counterpart. Advantage, Cheese Plate. But Cheese and Crack wins the food battle decisively. The board came with two types of thin housemade crackers (one, a grainy, hippie number, was probably the best out of both carts, but the other had a staggeringly unpleasant soapy aftertaste), three much smaller servings of cheese (two pieces of white cheddar, a little wedge of brie and a slice of blue), three “chevre truffles” (tiny balls of chevre rolled in herbs), two unremarkable crostini spread with fromage fort and a small tub of nice housemade apple jam. Apart from the soap cracker, it’s a perfectly good snack, just not on par with the meal you’ll get at Cheese and Crack. Just artisan Lunchables? Yes, of course. But I’m willing to eat my words: Maybe artisan Lunchables isn’t such a bad idea after all. RUTH BROWN.

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TUNE IN: Of course Portland’s chiptune festival is older than New York’s.

PLAYING WITH POWER PORTLAND’S CHIPTUNE SCENE HAS GROWN UP, BUT IT STILL PLAYS GAME BOY. BY R U T H BR OW N

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My Game Boy sucks. Manufactured in 1992, it is a dirty, yellowing gray. The “select” button is clogged with a mysterious black goop, the batteries are held in with gaffer tape and only half of the screen still works. When you turn it on, the trademark Nintendo “ping” sounds drunk. But Matt Hunter’s Game Boy, circa 1990, is a spotless, gleaming yellow. The buttons have been replaced with superior concave versions from an NES controller. A neon red backlight makes the screen glow in the dark. The audio output has been modified to plug into a PA system. It sounds like a four-piece rock band is playing inside of it. For Hunter, stage name Mechlo, the Game Boy isn’t just for playing Metroid II: Return of Samus; it’s also an instrument. With a home-brewed cartridge in the back, he plays the internal four-channel sound chip like a synthesizer. Onstage, he plugs two Game Boys into a DJ mixer, tapping away at the buttons with one hand, pumping his other fist in the air, floppy hair bouncing against his black-rimmed glasses. For a bigger show, he might also play his NES with a midi keyboard (and he’s currently experimenting with adding a Sega Genesis). “When [people] see me get out my Game Boy and mixer, they look at me like ‘What the hell?’” Hunter says. “And then I hit my first song...and it hits with this dirty wavechannel assault on the ears, and that’s where I tell them: ‘Guess what? I’m not writing video-game music, guys.’” Chiptune, or chip music, can be difficult to take seriously at first encounter. Its adherents make music using the sound boards from 8-bit video game consoles—not just Nintendos, but Segas, Commodore 64s and Ataris. Despite the genre’s roots, they’re not just aping classic video-game soundtracks anymore. Although anyone over the age of 25 will probably feel sentimental over the sounds, the music made by chiptune artists runs the gamut from familiarly bouncy, bloopy pop tracks to rich, slow, multilayered soundscapes.

“People haven’t been making this music for a decade out of nostalgia,” says Hunter, who organizes most of Portland’s chiptune shows and regularly promotes local artists on his popular video-game podcast, A Jumps B Shoots. “They really, truly love the sounds they’re making. And people haven’t been fans of this for a decade out of nostalgia, they’re fans of people who are making really amazing music...we’re all talented songwriters and musicians.” Take Ray Rude, he says. By day, Rude is the drummer for folk-rock band the Builders and the Butchers, WW’s Best New Band of 2008. But armed with his Game Boys, a Roland Juno-106 synth and delay pedals, Rude moonlights as Operation Mission. “It’s not about trying to do songs that sound like video games,” says Rude. “I’m a huge synthesizer guy, so when I realized the Game Boy was an analog circuit you can manipulate, I was like, ‘Cool, I’m going to use that as a sound.’” Operation Mission’s brand of chip music is a spacey, droning electronica where the pixelated melodies seem to possess a particularly menacing air. Hunter and Rude are two of about six guys—as with gaming and programming, chiptune is a male-dominated community—who make up the core of Portland’s small but devout chiptune scene. Unlike bigger cities, which Hunter says have cohesive, identifiable “sounds,” Portland’s scene is characterized by its eclecticism—from the wonky bloops and beats of circuit bender Andreas to the schizophrenic IDM stylings of wunderkind Plain Flavored. Also unlike the Seattles or New Yorks of the scene (New York’s annual Blip Festival, the largest chiptune festival in the country, now lasts three days and this year hosted 30 artists from around the world), artists in Portland have struggled to capture even a slither of the recognition their counterparts in bigger cities enjoy. It’s ironic, says Hunter, because Portland’s own festival, Micropalooza, started by video-game arcade Ground Kontrol in 2003, predates those in most of the country by several years. “Chip music was introduced into the United States in 2001,” he says. “Blip Festival didn’t even start until 2006. It’s incredible how initially [people at Ground Kontrol] were able to think of something like this.”

But in the nine years since the local festival began, Portland’s chiptune scene has not grown with the same gusto. Each year, a similar lineup of chip musicians gather at Ground Kontrol to play to a crowd of about 60 to 80 people. It boggles the mind a little: although electronic music has always been second fiddle to Portland’s rock scene, a genre where one earns as much respect for hacking a ZX Spectrum as writing a good melody, it seems a perfect fit for a city that values open-source and DIY culture. The music being made in Portland is on par with bigger-name acts in other cities, and most in the local chiptune community seem to keep the faith that the audience is here—they just haven’t discovered chiptune yet. “It hasn’t found the right exposure in Portland,” says Paul Owens, a co-founder of local video production company 2 Player Productions, which captured the growth of the chip scene nationally in its 2008 documentary, Reformat the Planet. Owens’ company has brought some of the country’s biggest names in chip music to play Portland in recent years. “The shows were amazing,” Owens says. “But there were only 75 people there.” What’s missing, he says, is a dedicated venue where people don’t just discover chiptune, they learn how to make it themselves. “In New York there was a place called the Tank, that every month would have a chip night,”Owens says. “Seattle has the same thing. Portland hasn’t found the right home, a DIY space people can come in and explore...’cause part of the important thing is just getting people to make it.” Hunter believes seeing chiptune artists play live will convert the geeky young masses. While most of the genre’s artists do make albums—and sharing them free online is the norm—hearing songs blasting straight from the original chips, watching 8-bit video projections and witnessing lots of uninhibited “shitty dancing” is the ticket. “People need to hear it,” he says. “If you ask anyone in the programming scene or indie game development, or even open-source, all of them know about it—they just don’t leave the house, so they don’t go to shows! I love them dearly, though, they’re my people.... I just wish they would come out to see me and dance with me terribly.” SEE IT: Micropalooza is Sunday, Aug. 19. It begins at Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., with McFiredrill, Daddy Long Legs, Electric Children and Plain Flavored. 5 pm. $5. All ages. It continues at Ground Kontrol, 511 NW Couch St., with Mechlo, Operation Mission, Andreas and Producer Snafu. 7 pm. $5. 21+ Willamette Week AUGUST 15, 2012 wweek.com

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[DARK SEXY POP] Charli XCX is one of the biggest contemporary symbols of blog-driven success. The 20-year-old has managed to create a wellspring of Pitchfork-encouraged buzz solely on the strength of three singles and one short EP. But what a batch of songs those are. The U.K.bred singer’s most recent EP, You’re the One, features two white-hot blasts of dark, laser-etched techno pop (particularly the pleading, almost industrial-leaning title track). Charli hasn’t reached stadium-filling fame here yet, but she won’t be playing rooms as comparatively humble as Doug Fir Lounge for long. Catch this wave now before it hits tsunami heights. ROBERT HAM. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

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Crystal Shipsss, St. Even, Amores Vigilantes

[WEIRDOS] I get the buzz behind Berlin’s Crystal Shipsss. The solo project of Jacob Faurholt built some fine, slightly twee psychedelic weirdness with really minimal, catchy hooks on this year’s Yay EP (since when is 10 songs an EP, though?), and his voices sounds a bit like a 5-year-old doing a Nico impersonation. That said, I think Portland’s St. Even is going to upstage Mr. Faurholt. That may seem like a lot of pressure for Steven Hefter, because he’s all too humble about his music, but this guy is writing some of the finest lyrics and most hummable songs in all of the Rose City—and the album he’s recording right this very minute is quite likely to be totally flooring, as was his last album, Spirit Animal. CASEY JARMAN. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $8. 21+.

Jack White, Pokey LaFarge, The South City Three

[WHITE LIGHTNING] Jack White’s evolution from D-town barkeep and garage wannabe to rock god is one of stark simplicity: At their cores, the White Stripes and White’s solo debut, April’s excellent Blunderbuss, are the same blend of fuzzed-out guitars and throbbing drums bounding between old blues licks, country ballads, folk tunes and riff-heavy rock at its most jarringly simple. The evolution comes from simply adding new tricks to the bag. Violin swells here. A mariachi band there. Maybe a little fiddle or a guest spot by Loretta Lynn. To say White hasn’t changed his songwriting dynamic isn’t a slight. Dude’s been teetering on genius since he first rocked the red-and-white. But on Blunderbuss,

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Dear Norah Jones, You’ve never heard of me, but you’ve had a profound impact on my life. My name is Nora Jones. No “h.” I still remember that fateful day in sixth grade when a classmate casually informed me that I had the same name as an up-and-coming singer. At first, I thought it was cool; I could make a much-needed transition from “token black girl” to “girl with famous name.” Fast-forward five years to a visit to the dentist. “Did you know you have the same name as a famous singer?” the hygienist asked excitedly, ignoring my inability to speak (due to my mouth being propped open and full of teeth-cleaning implements and tubes). “Were you named after her?” I could only bug my eyes out at her question’s stupidity: You were only 11 when I was born. Norah, you would be shocked at how many times a day I get asked these kinds of questions. Other FAQs include “Do you sing?!” (I do, but I lie and say no) and “Did you know that you look like her, too?” The latter question is particularly hilarious; we’re both brown-skinned, but that’s about it in the look-alike department. So, Norah, I have but one request. Please keep your nose clean. You’ve done a great job so far. Just remember, any scandals you get bound up in—unbecoming public behavior or the like—and I’ll get shit for it too. I have nothing but respect for you and your career— your new single, “After the Fall,” is one of the prettiest songs I’ve heard in years, and your vocals on it chill me every time—and I wish you the best, Little Broken Hearts and beyond. But maybe, one day, someone will misspell your name without the “h.” That’s how I’ll know I’ve made a name for myself.

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Wymond Miles, 1776, The Woolen Men [REVERB NATION] Wymond Miles, whose day job consists of playing lead guitar for San Francisco’s the Fresh and Onlys, has shoehorned an intimidating collection of high-minded, retro conceits into his debut solo LP, Under the Pale Moon. In addition to an omnipresent sheen of lovingly tweaked reverb, the album contains such identifying traits as watery, electronic drums and a lyrical focus on “Gnostic and Hermetic symbolism.” Sometimes, these admixtures are better in theory than practice, but Miles’s ear for style salvages some of his more phlegmatic experiments. SHANE DANAHER. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

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we see all those ideas coalesce into something raw, yet stocked with intensely complex layers that still have the distinctive grit of being forged in a Detroit garage. AP KRYZA. Rose Garden, 1401 N Wheeler Ave., 235-8771. 8 pm. $35$65. All ages.

lineup of every street fair (or “fare,” I guess) from here on out? One of the rare groups for whom the epithet “inoffensive” can be applied without the intent of insult, Fruit Bats has spent 15 years creating effortless, charming acoustic rock, despite occasional breaks taken for participation in collaborative projects such as Califone and the Shins. Last year’s Tripper offered 11 more examples of comfortably restrained, sun-dappled pop, all of which match the lazy joy of late summer to a tee. SHANE DANAHER. Deschutes Brewery & Public House, 210 NW 11th Ave., 296-4906. 5 pm. $10. 21+.

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modern Americana movement, Helm set the world ablaze with his immediately distinct voice and precision drumming, and now it’s Portland’s turn to host a wake celebrating the stalwart. Taking the stage of the Goodfoot, Juno What and Radula key master Steve Swatkins has assembled a team of musicians, including members of the Druthers and Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, to help carry the weight of mourning the way Levon would have most appreciated—with a straight-up jamboree that’ll have feet stomping so hard it should be heard in the heavens. AP KRYZA. Goodfoot Lounge, 2845 SE Stark St., 239-9292. 9 pm. $7. 21+.

Fatha Green, Unicorn Domination, We Are Like the Spider, American Girls

[MONOCHROMATIC R&B] Justin Leon Johnson, the “Green” in local R&B duo Purple & Green, has been absent from the Portland scene for a while, and his over-the-top, sexedup showmanship has been missed. Fortunately, the self-described “messenger of truth, love, strength, freedom, perseverance and light” is in town for summer and playing a few shows under his solo stage name, Fatha Green. As unexpectedly well as “Green” and Adam “Purple” Forkner match up, Johnson’s Webreleased album as Fatha Green, Street Edition 3000, proves he’s a songwriting talent in his own right. The collection, a collaboration with producer Justin Griffin (aka Bass Daddy) sounds a bit more homespun than Purple & Green’s hightech jams, but Johnson’s divo vocals give it the same soulful heart. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 2397639. 8:30 pm. $5. 21+.

Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground, Hustle and Drone, The We Shared Milk

[PSYMPHONY] Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground are the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band of Seattle. The psychedelic philharmonic—whose numbers range from three to 11 in performance, always including the core duo of Kirk Huffman and Kyle O’Quin—is not as far out as the Beatles’ weirder moments, but the band has an excellently executed take on the Fab Four’s longhaired, Eastern-tinged pop—as well as a shared predilection for symphonic arrangements and theatrical experimentation. Expect Kay Kay and company to play not only tracks from their last album, 2011’s Introducing, but also unreleased material from the ensemble’s inthe-works third record. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

Hot Panda, Revel Switch, Sweeping Exits, Whorehound

[CANADIAN ALT-POP] To get a sense of the playfulness inherent in the work of Hot Panda, one need only check out the cover of its recently released LP, Go Outside. On it you’ll find a svelte gentleman preparing to dive—stark naked, with cock and balls exposed to a recordbuying public—into what we hope is a body of water. The Canadian quartet’s music shouldn’t be taken as a goof, though. The band displays some wicked pop smarts throughout and a sharp sense of dynamics that provides some simmering drama and intensity to even the most feathery of tracks. ROBERT HAM. Ted’s (at Berbati’s), 231 SW Ankeny St., 248-4579. 9:30 pm. $6. 21+.

FRIDAY, AUG. 17 Experimental Noise Fest: Daniel Menche, John Wiese, The Rita, Black Air, Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, Kakerlak, Rusalka, Okha, Scard

[NOISE AND NOTHING BUT] Stretched over two evenings, the Pure Harsh Noise Worship Festival

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GOLDEN VOICE: Nancy King performs at Touché.

NANCY KING WEDNESDAY, AUG. 15 [JAZZ QUEEN] On a recent Wednesday night at the Pearl District restaurant Touché, a large party of thirtysomethings chattered, laughed, drank and ate their way through the evening— oblivious to one of the world’s greatest singers turning familiar standards into little miracles just a few feet away. Decades from now, when your favorite Portland musicians are forgotten, the history books will proclaim that this city was home to Nancy King. Now 72 and getting around with the aid of crutches that help her deal with degenerative rheumatoid arthritis, King has an agile voice that sounds as fresh as a 20-year-old’s. Every note is informed by the natural gifts (immense range, musical sensitivity, spot-on pitch and rhythm) and experience—some of it devastatingly hard— she’s earned over half a century of performances with some of the best jazz musicians on the planet. At her weekly Touché gig and monthly appearances at the Bijou Cafe, she’s energetic and gregarious, performing with New York jazzers who practically genuflect at the opportunity to hear her. King’s take on a standard is as vital as the latest indie-rock breakthrough, yet durably unforgettable. “My main thrust was always music,” King says. “And I stay young because I’m in the music all the time.” King grew up on a farm outside Springfield, where her parents imbued in her a love for music and dance. She attended the University of Oregon on a music scholarship, where in 1959 and ’60, she sang and played drums in a band with two of the state’s other most renowned musicians, guitarist Ralph Towner and bassist Glen Moore, who later founded the seminal jazz and world-music ensemble Oregon. After being arrested in a protest in favor of racial equality for the school’s few African-American students, King journeyed to San Francisco, where she played often at the Jazz Workshop and performed with local greats like Vince Guaraldi, John Handy and saxophonist Sonny King, who became the father of the couple’s three children. King moved to Portland in 1978, gigging with pianist Steve Christofferson (still her musical partner) and managing what was called the “bebop hotel” on Southwest Alder Street. But her profile was international: King played festivals around the world and appeared on discs by Portland pianist Randy Porter, legendary bassist Ray Brown, singer Karrin Allyson and others, earning a Grammy nomination for her 2006 album, Live at the Jazz Standard With Fred Hersch. Her recent New York performances with pianists Hersch and Geoffrey Keezer and singer Kurt Elling earned rapturous reviews in The New York Times. After one such performance, the great opera singer Renée Fleming approached her. “I always wanted to be you,” the one-time jazz singer told King. Her accolades have not enabled King to escape the financial stresses imposed by her medical bills (she needs knee replacements) and jazz’s declining significance. King has also struggled against a lifetime of tough breaks: Family betrayals, near-death experiences and, worst of all, the recent death of her youngest son. But King’s triumphs and tragedies all inform her singing so deeply that every phrase is fueled by her unfiltered feelings. “I’m not singing for myself,” she says. “I really am singing for you. I want everyone to experience what I’m feeling.” That experience isn’t always easy, but it is hugely rewarding. BRETT CAMPBELL. A legendary jazz singer struggles to make ends meet.

SEE IT: Nancy King plays her weekly residency at Touché, 1425 NW Glisan St., on Wednesday, Aug. 15. 7 pm. $5. 21+.

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FRIDAY-SUNDAY brings some of the North American noise/power electronics scene’s heaviest hitters to the cozy confines of Ella Street Social Club. And when we say noise, we mean noise: huge rumbling walls of untethered sound pumped out at a teeth-rattling volume. Highlights include the riot grrrl-inspired Mass Marriage, Seattle’s slow-burning Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, and the roughly connected pieces of body noise and feedback unleashed by John Wiese. There’s plenty of local fare to be enjoyed, too, including Daniel Menche, Redneck and Smegma offshoot the Tenses. ROBERT HAM. Ella Street Social Club, 714 SW 20th Place, 227-0116. 8 pm. $8. 21+.

From Ashes Rise, Hard Skin, Trauma, Criminal Damage, Talk Is Poison

[CRUST PUNK] This is a downright ridiculous lineup, and by ridiculous I mean ridonkulous, and by ridonkulous I mean amazing. Althought the Portland punk trifecta of From Ashes Rise, Trauma and Criminal Damage would be enough to crush anything else happening in town, the presence of Talk Is Poison renders this show absolutely essential. After a decade of inactivity, the Oakland crust quartet returned in 2010 with tanks still brimful of piss and vinegar, its D-beat stampedes heavy as ever and its shout-along choruses still worthy of raised fists. Partying like it’s 1999 is usually a really bad idea—but not tonight. CHRIS STAMM. Plan B, 1305 SE 8th Ave., 230-9020. 9 pm. Cover. 21+.

SATURDAY, AUG. 18 National Flower, Celilo, Measure

[SOFT AMERICANA] Portland’s music scene is excellent when it comes to collaboration—you never know who will join whom on any given night. Such is the case with artist and producer Michael Sheridan and his group, National Flower. Originally a solo endeavor, Sheridan’s band, which can vary from gig to gig, now includes a rotating lineup of locals such as Scott Pemberton, Ji Tanzer and Rebecca Sanborn. With Sheridan’s soft and soothing vocals on top of a number of instruments—guitar, pedal steel, saxophone, accordion, glockenspiel, organ and melodica, to name some—the sound spans genres of folk, Americana and pop. Joining in will be Portland’s Celilo, a dynamic and underheralded psychrock outfit made up of a similar mix of talented ’round-town musicians. EMILEE BOOHER. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 7196055. 8 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. Minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. All ages.

Def Con 5: DJ Neil Armstrong, Don’t Talk to the Cops, Serge Severe, Luck-One, Mic Crenshaw, Theory Hazit, Rocket One, My-G, J-Ritz&Saywords, DJ Wicked, DJ Sake, DJ Reckless, DJ Mello Cee, DJ GrimRock, DJ Renz, DJ Deff Ro, DJ Tony Mafia, DJ Mighty Moves

[MEGA HIP-HOP] To celebrate 20 years in hip-hop, the Def Con 5 crew—known best for producing talented b-boys, though its tentacles clearly reach well into all four elements of hip-hop—is throwing a little party. And by “little party,” I mean it has amassed a pretty flooring lineup that includes the great New York City DJ Neil Armstrong, hell-raising Seattle duo Don’t Talk to the Cops and just about anyone who’s anyone from the Portland hip-hop scene, including a battalion of skilled turntablists. A host of b-boy crews and artists will also be on hand for this free, all-ages show. CASEY JARMAN. Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside St., 2067630. 5 pm. Free. All ages.

Denver, Bear & Moose, Barna Howard

[SAD COUNTRY] Denver sounds

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as if it were birthed from 25 years of LaurelThirst jam sessions, but the band is a relatively new enterprise, and its ensemble cast of singersongwriters are proving themselves as skilled as they are drunk and lovesick. Denver’s self-titled debut has a few moments competent ho-hum twangy business, but the far greater ratio of its 39 minutes are spent delivering pitchperfect Americana that seems destined to actually put a tear in your beer. On the devastating “Reno” and John Prine-esque “Rabbit Dancin’,” Denver pulls its rusty pickup truck between those of Dolorean and Richmond Fontaine, then revs the engines looking for a race. This is a strictly metaphorical pickup truck, of course, but were it real I’d imagine the Blitzen Trapper dudes (whose contributions to Denver further spit-shine an already sparkling release) would be plopped in the back, sporting coonskin caps and BB guns whilst pounding moonshine. CASEY JARMAN. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

Teengirl Fantasy, Gatekeeper, Thunder Horse

[EDM] Two shimmering jewels of the electronic dance music scene are on display at Mississippi Studios tonight. The shiniest is the New York-based duo Gatekeeper— practitioners of a sample-heavy and acid house-inspired subgenre known as vaporwave—which released one of 2012’s finest debuts, the science-fiction landscape-evoking Exo. Sharing the bill is the duo Teengirl Fantasy, a more grooveheavy project that takes cues from the gloss of ’80s R&B and the warm bath beats of deep house, which comes to town in advance of its soon-to-be-released second album, Tracer. ROBERT HAM. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

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[AUTO-TUNE WITH SOUL] When Minneapolis folk group Roma di Luna dissolved, frontwoman Channy Leaneagh set about in a different, electronic direction with Poliça. With producer and founding member Ryan Olson, Leaneagh began crafting haunting, melodic tunes led by her Auto-Tuned, soulful vocals. Poliça now performs live with dual drummers. Luckily, the group takes the two-drummer concept to another level, with each percussionist playing different parts to contribute to robust rhythms that can be achieved only by utilizing more than one set of arms. The electronics remain entirely programmed in the live setting, with Leaneagh concentrating on vocal duties and bassist Chris Bierden filling out the rest of the stage. It’s an intriguing show that carries a lot more soul than the Auto-Tuned top-40 songs one hears on the radio. NILINA MASON-CAMPBELL. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.

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Although Springfield, OH native Griffin House didn’t begin playing guitar and writing songs until he was 18, the power of his music struck an emotional connection with audiences immediately. He didn’t fully understand at first, but writing and recording songs about his “own issues” was the best sort of help he could possibly offer others, friends and strangers alike. From being featured on the CBS Sunday Morning Show, to touring with the likes of John Mellencamp and the Cranberries, House continues to gain national recognition and currently is headlining his own tour across the U.S.

KELLY JOE PHELPS TUESDAY 8/21 @ 6 PM

Kelly Joe Phelps has been doing lot of soul searching since his last record ‘Western Bell’ in 2009. Three years later, his journey has wound its way to a recording studio in Vancouver, B.C., and Kelly Joe has once again beaten a path to Steve Dawson’s door with a new batch of songs tucked into his satchel that reflect both the new insights gained along the journey as well as things that have been dropped by the wayside. The result is ‘Brother Sinner and the Whale’ a record that may very well come to be recognized as the best of an already very impressive body of work.

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KISS, Mötley Crüe

[SAME OL’ SITUATION] Some bands are born wearing makeup, others have superherodom thrust (and that would be the term) upon them. In the 30 years since KISS first brought Mötley Crüe along on one of its cross-country jaunts and demonstrated the importance of theatricality to a rawk act’s enduring relevance, lessons were quite obviously taken to kick-started hearts. As co-headliners, you can expect a lengthy wait between stage assemblage—as the Crüe’s post-apocalyptic erotic cabaret (featuring Tommy Lee drum set/ roller coaster and Cirque du Soleilstyled air-dancing girls, girls, girls) gives way to KISS’s portable rock city (featuring Paul Stanley’s zip line and more ambient flames than there are in hell)—but, as devotees know all too well, if you want the best, you have to wait for the best. JAY HORTON. Sleep Country Amphitheater, 17200 NE Delfel Road, Ridgefield, Wash., 360-8167000. 7 pm. $30-$151. All ages.

MONDAY, AUG. 20 The Cult, Murder of Crows

[ROCK] They just don’t make bands like the Cult anymore: huge, indulgent, explosive and leatherclad rock acts for whom stadium shows make total sense. The Cult, despite penning the mid-’80s hit “She Sells Sanctuary,” is still a bit of a mystery to stateside audiences beyond its die-hard fan base. For the true believers, though, frontman Ian Astbury (who has in recent years quite ably fronted the Doors) is perhaps the last great rock god. An intense, excess-prone enigma with a tortured but commanding wail, Astbury uses guitarist Billy Duffy’s riffage as a path to sonic salvation—injecting the Cult’s songs with mystical and naturalist imagery on a grand scale. This year’s Choice of Weapon is shockingly fun and

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perversely loud, which raises the question of why a band that splits the sonic difference between U2 and Guns N’ Roses—and knows its own strengths better than either— isn’t still selling out arenas. All the better for us, I suppose. CASEY JARMAN. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $30. 21+.

Tenement, Big Eyes, DJ J One Ill

[POP PUNK] Tough enough to dominate hardcore act Culo on a recent 7-inch and tender enough to pad its full-lengths with midtempo sappiness, Wisconsin’s Tenement evokes the golden years of East Bay punk, when a bill boasting Green Day, Crimpshrine and Blatz made perfect sense. “Blast Exhaust,” from Tenement’s recent split with Cheeky, is one of this year’s best songs—a 90-second demonstration of pop-punk prowess awash in just enough feedback and fuzz to lend the sentimental melody a raw reality. This young decade is shaping up to be heaven for pop-punk bands, and Tenement is among the best of the many groups returning to the genre’s dirty roots. CHRIS STAMM. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.

TUESDAY, AUG. 21 Tiger House, Pictorials

[DANCEABLE ROCK] Pictorials are the most appropriate prom band never to have graced the prom scene of an ’80s film. The local group’s modest guitar pop isn’t necessarily ’80s—it just has the same feeling as all those Molly Ringwald flicks. When the quartet performs live, the epicness of its indie gems comes alive with full-on energy. Led by frontman Morgan Nicholson’s monotone voice, there are nonstop beats and swelling keyboards here to win the hearts of babes, and a dance factor that made for a good match with Black Moth Super Rainbow, which the local band supported on tour earlier this year. NILINA MASONCAMPBELL. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $3. 21+.

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

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1435 NW Flanders St. Brian Casey, Jim Templeton, Charles Neal

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1036 NE Alberta St. Nate Weiner, Sam Densmore, Katie Roberts (9:30 pm); Dolorean (6:30 pm)

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

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225 SW Ash St. Mane of the Cur, Cutlass Supreme, The Warshers

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Profcal

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Stumptown Duo, Lace and Lead

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Vanport Drifters Jam

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320 SE 2nd Ave. Ocean of Mirrors, I Am the Monster, Mureau, Kingdom of Giants, Parley, Hands for Battle

WED. AUG. 15 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Mike Brown

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Open Mic

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1314 NW Glisan St. Jason Okamoto

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Wintermute, Sleepy Creek, Levi Vargas

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2201 N Killingsworth St. Robert Richter, Marianne Flemming, Margaret Wehr, Jan L. Hutchison

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6000 NE Glisan St. Stringed Migration

Buffalo Gap Saloon

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Sutton Sorenson

Camellia Lounge

510 NW 11th Ave. Jazz Jam with Errick Lewis & the Regiment House Band

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Lions

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Charli XCX

Duff’s Garage

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

East Burn

1800 E Burnside St. Irish Music Jam

East End

Paula Fuga, Mike Love Trio, Positive Vibrations, Dos Sorella

Slabtown

East India Co.

Mission Theater

Someday Lounge

203 SE Grand Ave. Swagatha Christie 821 SW 11th Ave. Josh Feinberg

Ella Street Social Club

714 SW 20th Place Drew Grow & the Pastors’ Wives, The Devil Whale, The Ecology

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Simon Tucker Group, The Giraffe Dodgers

Groove Suite

440 NW Glisan St. Om Unit, Danny Corn, Natasha Kmeto, Photon!

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Wymond Miles, 1776, The Woolen Men

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Rae Gordon Band

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet

Ladd’s Inn

1204 SE Clay St. Lynn Conover

Landmark Saloon

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

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Closely Watched Trains, Timberbound Revival (9 pm); The Quick & Easy Boys (6 pm)

Lents Commons

9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic

Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St.

1624 NW Glisan St. Alexz Johnson, Josh and Mer

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. My Robot Lung (9:30 pm); Mr. Hoo (12 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Crystal Shipsss, St. Even, Amores Vigilantes

Mount Tabor Theater

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. International Pop Overthrow: Wife & Son, Dave Rave, The Contestants, Phamous Phaces, 302, Flurries, The Upper Lower Class

PCPA Music on Main Street

Southwest Main Street and Southwest Broadway The Linda Hornbuckle Band (5 pm); Cascade Four Barbershop Quartet (12 pm)

Palace of Industry

5426 N Gay Ave. Mystery String Band

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Exhausted Prayer, Burials, Stoneburner, Honduran

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Open Mic

Rose Garden

1401 N Wheeler Ave. Jack White, Pokey LaFarge, The South City Three

Sengatera Restaurant 3833 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. The Tsegue-Mariam Guebrou Project

1033 NW 16th Ave. Bad Antics, Downstrokes 125 NW 5th Ave. Jesse Layne

Ted’s (at Berbati’s)

Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. A Tiempo

Buffalo Gap Saloon

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Jeordie, Lost and Found

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Kevin Mason Hull

231 SW Ankeny St. Flying Fox and the Hunter Gatherers, James London, Rare Monk

Chapel Pub

The Back Door Theater

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Mesi & Bradley

4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Eleanor Ellis, Mary Flower, Lauren Sheehan

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project

The Slide Inn

2348 SE Ankeny St. Jeffrree White Music Showcase

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway 8stops7

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Tony’s Tiki Voodoo Vibes Lounge Luau

Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Nancy King

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. The Steven Lasombras, Thelittlestillnotbigenough, The Crossettes

Ventura Park

SE 115th Ave. & SE Stark St. Chervona

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. 12th Ave. Hot Club

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

Holocene

Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Jessica Hoop, Jesse Harris

PRISM POWER: Crystal Shipsss plays Mississippi Studios on Wednesday, Aug. 15.

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Swingin’ Utters, Roll the Tanks, Rendered Useless, Burn the Stage 1001 SE Morrison St. Fatha Green, Unicorn Domination, We Are Like the Spider, American Girls

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Eric Johnson

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Hawthorne Theatre

430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin

Clyde’s Prime Rib

Corkscrew Wine Bar 1669 SE Bybee Blvd. Jason Okamoto

Couch Park

Northwest 20th Avenue and Northwest Glisan Street The Ty Curtis Band

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

Jam on Hawthorne

2239 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Hot Club of Hawthorne

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Coco Montoya Band

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. The Tomorrow People, Smiley Get Dressed, Local Dudes

LV’s Sports Bar

3530 N Vancouver Ave. Jarrod Lawson, Jay Bird Koder and Reinhart Melz

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Jimmy Boyer Band (9:30 pm); Garcia Birthday Band (6 pm)

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. The Dread Crew of Oddwood (9 pm); Sean O’Brien Duo (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground, Hustle and Drone, The We Shared Milk

Mount Tabor Theater

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. International Pop Overthrow: The Satin Chaps, The Hugs, Metropolitan Farms, The Cool Whips, SuckerForLights, Josh and Mer

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Jerry Zybach

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Cory Chisel

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

Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. Grecian Thunder

Pioneer Courthouse Square

Slim’s Cocktail Bar

8635 N Lombard St. Christopher Reyne, Howell & Wild, Liz de Lise

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave. Original Music Showcase with Sam Densmore

Ted’s (at Berbati’s)

231 SW Ankeny St. Hot Panda, Revel Switch, Sweeping Exits, Whorehound

The Back Door Theater 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Brad Parsons, Jay Cobb Anderson

The Firkin Tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave. PALS Fest: Talkative, Love Cuts, Consenting Adult, Glassbones

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Still Caves, Pink Slime, Painted Canyons

The Slide Inn

2348 SE Ankeny St. Krista Herring (8:30 pm); Colin Fisher, Ben Wolman, Sparkle Nation (6 pm)

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Lightsystem, Axxicorn, Excuses, Lunar Grave

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. PCC Student Showcase with Mitzi Zilka

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Jonah Parzen-Johnson, The Westerlies, Sean Spellman

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Catarina New Band

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Horse Thieves, Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers (8:30 pm); Kory Quinn (5:30 pm)

Wilfs Restaurant and Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Mike & Haley Horsfall

FRI. AUG. 17 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

Deschutes Brewery & Public House

210 NW 11th Ave. Deschutes Brewery Street Fare: Fruit Bats, Lewi Longmire and the Left Coast Roasters, Sneakin’ Out

Record Room

Alberta Street Public House

Doug Fir Lounge

1100 SE Grand Ave. The Blue Cranes Quartet, LoveBomb Go-Go, The Doubleclicks (Live Wire! benefit)

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Eddie Turner (9 pm); Tough Woodpyle (6 pm)

East Burn

1800 E Burnside St. Boy & Bean

Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Old Age, Chimney Choir

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. King Harvest (Levon Helm and the Band tribute)

Rejuvenation

Rontoms

600 E Burnside St. Wild Ones, And And And, Animal Eyes, Adventures! with Might, Ninja Turtle Ninja Tiger

Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. The Blueness, For the Lash, La Fin Absolute du Monde

Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Trashcan Joe

Buffalo Gap Saloon

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Kissdodger, The Darren Johnson Effort

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Circle 3 Trio

Crowne Plaza Hotel

3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones Jam

Alberta Rose Theatre

830 E Burnside St. Griffin House, Callaghan

7901 SE Stark St. Worn Out Shoes

The Blue Monk

1305 SE 8th Ave. Jesus Fucking Christ, Transient, Night Nurse, Pleasure Cross, Disavow 8 NE Killingsworth St. Wooden Indian Burial Ground, Coral Stabz, Bubble Cats

Bipartisan Cafe

Clyde’s Prime Rib

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones

Dante’s

Plan B

6000 NE Glisan St. Counterfeit Cash

The Blue Diamond

701 SW 6th Ave. Justin Jude

350 W Burnside St. Cody Canada & the Departed

Biddy McGraw’s

303 SW 12th Ave. Mike Brown

3000 NE Alberta St. Leroy Bell and His Only Friends

1036 NE Alberta St. Kevin Burke, Bronnie Griffin, Cul An Ti

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Nat Hulskamp Trio

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Rare Monk, Opie, Insomnia Project (9:30 pm); Back Alley Barbers, TheGoodSons, Johnny Credit and the Cash Machine (4 pm)

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. School of Rock Student Showcase

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Wendy & the Lost Boys

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ocean 503 1441 NE 2nd Ave. GEAR Con: Professor Gall, Rose City Vaudeville, Castiron Carousel

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Big Sam’s Funky Nation, The Quick & Easy Boys

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Otis Heat, Tango Alpha Tango, Paper or Plastic

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Susan & the Surftones, Wave Sauce, The Outer Space Heaters, The Del-Rods (9 pm); The Hamdogs (6 pm)

East Burn

1800 E Burnside St. Closely Watched Trains

Elizabeth Caruthers Park 3508 SW Moody Toque Libre

Ella Street Social Club

714 SW 20th Place Experimental Noise Fest: Daniel Menche, John Wiese, The Rita, Black Air, Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, Kakerlak, Rusalka, Okha, Scard

Foggy Notion

3416 N Lombard St. The Romanes, The Pathogens, Audios Amigos

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Bison Bison, Nudity, Turbo Perfecto, Fellwoods

Hollywood Theatre

4122 NE Sandy Blvd. Bent Knee (“Metropolis” live score)

Island Mana Wines 526 SW Yamhill St. Joe Marquand

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. Mike Progodich Quartet

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Steely Dawn, Trio Flux

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Faster Housecat, Absent Minds, Jercs

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. LA Velvet, New Liberty, The Gallery (Couvapalooza pre-party)

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Sex Wounds, Duty, Gusher, Haukness

LV’s Sports Bar

3530 N Vancouver Ave. Andy Stokes Band

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Pagan Jug Band (9:30 pm); Michael Hurley & the Croakers (6 pm)

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Fanno Creek, The Hoot Hoots, Talkative, Friends and Family, Pheasant, The Torn ACLs

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Lorna B Band

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Deception Past (9:30 pm); The Barkers (6 pm)

Bossanova Ballroom

722 E Burnside St. Def Con 5: DJ Neil Armstrong, Don’t Talk to the Cops, Serge Severe, Luck-One, Mic Crenshaw, Theory Hazit, Rocket One, My-G, J-Ritz & Saywords, DJ Wicked, DJ Sake, DJ Reckless, DJ Mello Cee, DJ GrimRock, DJ Renz, DJ Deff Ro, DJ Tony Mafia, DJ Mighty Moves

IN A MELLOW MOOD: Mellow Mushroom (1411 NW Flanders St., 224-9019, mellowmushroom.com) does not make good pizza. This is no great revelation. More surprising is that the Pearl District outlet of this Georgia-based chain has a bar with about 50 beers on tap. It’s populated largely with the usual craft-brew suspects— Deschuteses and Ninkasis and Sierra Nevadas—some macros and a handful of imports. I ask the affable bartender for something “summery” and receive a pint of GoodLife’s Sweet as Pacific Ale ($5.50), which is perfectly inoffensive. Still, I’d rather drink a serviceable draft at Mellow Mushroom’s shiny, wood-paneled bar than at Rogue across the street or Henry’s a few blocks away, if only because Mushroom is mostly filled with families quietly munching away on shitty pies and not the back-slapping, popped-collar crowd. Besides, the aroma of Parmesan cheese and freshly baked crust costs nothing and smells great. RUTH BROWN. Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Liftoff, Melvoy, Lunic, Varlet (Couvapalooza pre-party)

McMenamins Edgefield 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Norah Jones, Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Melao de Cuba (9 pm); Jeordie & the Mixology Project (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Rags & Ribbons, Fictionist, Violet Isle

Mount Tabor Theater

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Papafish, Uprooted (concert hall); International Pop Overthrow: The Quags, The Russ Tolman Band, Beautiful Lies, Beyond Veronica, Sweet Diss and the Comebacks, Sean Wagner and the Ne’er Do Wells (sideshow lounge)

Muddy Rudder Public House

Plan B

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Signatures

Red Room

1425 NW Glisan St. Gaea Schell, Essiet Essiet

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Nautical Mile, Shit, Town & the Writ, Manx

Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Her Ghost, Patti King (9 pm); Lincoln’s Beard (6 pm)

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. The Loathsome Couple, Tsepesch, Lamprey, Pancho Time

Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. Baby Gramps

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave. Erotic City

Ted’s (at Berbati’s)

231 SW Ankeny St. KaleidoSkull, Zouaves, Dinosaur Heart

The Back Door Theater 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. I Am the Lake of Fire

The Blue Diamond

8105 SE 7th Ave. Terry Robb & Lauren Sheehan

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Lloyd Allen Sr.

Music Millennium

The Firkin Tavern

3158 E Burnside St. Griffin House

Nel Centro

1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew

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

O’Malley’s

6535 SE Foster Road The Mormon Trannys, Yo Adrian, Mr. Plow

Oregon Zoo

4001 SW Canyon Road Buddy Guy, Jonny Lang

Original Halibut’s II

2527 NE Alberta St. Linda Hornbuckle Trio

Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli

2314 SE Division St. Forest Bloodgood

Tony Starlight’s

1305 SE 8th Ave. From Ashes Rise, Hard Skin, Trauma, Criminal Damage, Talk Is Poison

1937 SE 11th Ave. PALS Fest: Threadbear, Log Across the Washer, Le Printemps, De La Warr

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Hats Off!, Harshist, Mustaphamond

The Slide Inn

2348 SE Ankeny St. Rachael Rice, Wynter Byrnes (8 pm); Nate Weiner (6 pm)

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Cheese Cake & Ice Dreams

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Gemtones, Tim Alexander, Fast Fox, Flat Black Tomato, The Hunt, Blank Check

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Touché Restaurant and Billiards

Trader Vic’s

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

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Atmospheric Audio

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Ty Curtis

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Jack Ruby Presents, The Lonesomes, The Honeycutters (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)

Wilfs Restaurant and Bar

800 NW 6th Ave. Tasha Miller, Darrell Grant, Bill Athens

Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St. Luis de La Tota & Company

SAT. AUG. 18 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Mike Brown

Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. National Flower, Celilo, Measure

Alberta Street Public House

1036 NE Alberta St. How Long Jug Band (9:30 pm); John Wagner, Carl Solomon (6:30 pm)

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. 36 Crazyfists, Dirtnap, The Mediam, O.A.K.

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave.

Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Boy & Bean

Camellia Lounge

510 NW 11th Ave. Linda Lee Michelet Quartet

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Elite

Crowne Plaza Hotel

1441 NE 2nd Ave. GEAR Con: Adam Hurst, The Waking Guild, DJ GlobalRuckus

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Denver, Bear & Moose, Barna Howard

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. DK Stewart Sextet

East Burn

1800 E Burnside St. The Fabulous Downey Brothers, Airpocalypse, DJ Revron’s ‘80s Dance Assault

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Digital Leather, Denizenz, Sick Secrets, Ghost Power

Elizabeth Caruthers Park 3508 SW Moody Ave. Everclear

Ella Street Social Club

714 SW 20th Place Experimental Noise Fest: The Tenses, Macro, R. Jencks, Obstacle Corpse, Josh Rose, Taskmaster, Vasculae, Redneck, HHL, Striations

Esther Short Park

801 W 8th St.; Vancouver, Wash. Couvapalooza: LA Velvet, Melvoy, Liftoff, Lovebomb Go-Go, Varlet, Lunic, New Liberty, Battle Ground High School Jazz Band, The Gallery, Peter Chung, One from Many, Anthony John, Oiseau Bleu

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. The Way Downs, Erotic City

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. American Roulette, Beringia, Proven, Kingdom Under Fire, Bloodoath

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. David Friesen Trio

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Renato Caranto with Bernard Purdie, Louis Pain and Linda Hornbuckle

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Pokedasquid, End Notes

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Objects in Space, Alabama Black Snake, Hopeless Jack & the Handsome Devil

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Burning Brides, Qwong

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Kory Quinn & the Comrades, Blind Bartimaeus (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)

Midsummer’s Green Neighborhood Festival Northeast Sumner Street between Northeast 70th Avenue and Northeast 72nd Avenue Byrdland, Omiza River, Shannon Tower Band, The Sale, The Executives, Carley Baer

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. The Snapperheads (9 pm); The Jamblers (6 pm); Shoehorn (4 pm)

Mississippi Studios

Death Machine, Rat Damage, Contempt

Jake Ray

The Lovecraft

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

421 SE Grand Ave. Sungaze

The Slide Inn

2348 SE Ankeny St. Slater Smith, Adam Sweeney (8 pm); Matthew Heller (6 pm)

Mississippi Pizza

Tiger Bar

Mississippi Studios

317 NW Broadway Never awakE, Marching Mind, Halcion Halo

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. PDX Punk Rock Collective, Lord Master, Pale Blue Sky

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Tony Starlight with the All-Star Horns (Copacabana tribute)

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Teengirl Fantasy, Gatekeeper, Thunder Horse

Touché Restaurant and Billiards

Mount Tabor Theater

Trader Vic’s

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. International Pop Overthrow: Queued Up, Throwback Suburbia, The Cry, Blue Skies for Black Hearts, Ramune Rocket 3, The Ecstatics

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Mike Brosnan

Nel Centro

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

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

O’Malley’s

6535 SE Foster Road Bad Move, Steak Knife!, Sandi Leeper

Oregon Zoo

4001 SW Canyon Road Pink Martini

Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Lisa Mann

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Battalion of Saints, 13 Scars, Long Knife, Weird Fear

Record Room

8 NE Killingsworth St. Marmits, Havania Whaal, The Hand That Bleeds

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Back Alley Barbers, Working Class Zeroes, Wetsock, Thorn Town Tall Boys

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Jel & DJ Abilities, Tope, Cloudy October, Stewart Villain, Void Pedal, Zavala, Crushcon7

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Kayo Dot, Thrones, Hang the Old Year

Slim’s Cocktail Bar

1425 NW Glisan St. Belinda Underwood 1203 NW Glisan St. Xavier Tavera

Troubadour Studios

1020 SE Market St. Gnarfest: Cower, Crib Sweeping Exits, Protege, Caroline, Below the Belt Also with a Bat, Pure Dad, Censure, Pops Couch, Supermuff, The Yardmen, The Burlingwell, Fat People with Cake, Roman Satellites

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Wamba

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Wild Bells, Luminous Things, My Oh Mys (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)

Wilfs Restaurant and Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Band

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Poliça, Supreme Cuts

SUN. AUG. 19 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Yards

Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Jovanotti

4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Buzz Holland, Ron Rogers, Joe New

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Kevin Selfe and the Tornadoes

The Fixin’ To

8218 N Lombard St. Child Children, Last Prick Standing, Right On John

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St.

5530 SE 72nd Ave. Portland Taiko, Obo Addy Legacy Project, Medicine Bear, Mehixa Tiahui

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music

NEPO 42

5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic

Oregon Zoo

4001 SW Canyon Road Pink Martini

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Danava, Lecherous Gaze, Lord Dying, Pins of Light

Rontoms

600 E Burnside St. Pure Bathing Culture, White Hinterland, Jeffrey Jerusalem

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. The Numbats, Whales

Sleep Country Amphitheater

17200 NE Delfel Road; Ridgefield, Wash. KISS, Mötley Crüe

Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. Jelly Bread

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave. The Angel Bouchet Band Jam

The Back Door Theater 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Chair Project, Damn Family, Anne Mersereau

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. John Gross Quartet

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. American Lies

Tillicum Club

1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero

Backspace

2348 SE Ankeny St. Alexa Wiley 8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Johnny Martin Quartet

115 NW 5th Ave. Micropalooza: Mcfiredrill, Daddy Long Legs, Electric Children, Plain Flavored

Tonic Lounge

Beaterville Cafe

232 SW Ankeny St. Montgomery Word, Renfeild, Tuff Fuzz (late show); Rebecca Gates, Mike Coykendall (early show)

2201 N Killingsworth St. Jessie Rae

Doug Fir Lounge

The Back Door Theater

Mount Scott Community Center and Pool

Andina

3000 NE Alberta St. The Backyard Blues Boys

Someday Lounge

4830 NE 42nd Ave. Cool Breeze

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Ladies Rock Camp Showcase (main stage); Sarah Gwen Peters (patio)

The Slide Inn

Clyde’s Prime Rib

Spare Room

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Ataxia Cab (9 pm); Lazy Champions (6 pm)

Alberta Rose Theatre

8635 N Lombard St. Boxcar String Band, Harley Bourbon 125 NW 5th Ave. Roshan Maloney

LaurelThirst

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam 830 E Burnside St. Star Anna, Kasey Anderson

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Micropalooza: Mechlo, Operation Mission, Andreas, Producer Snafu

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. We Rise the Tides, Whispers of Wonder, Simon Says Die, Bury Your Horses, From Here to Eternity, Censure

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Brian Casey Jam

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St.

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Ian Fays, Datura Blues

Valentine’s

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Boxcar Stringband, Harley Bourbon

MON. AUG. 20 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Yards

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Northeast Northwest

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Free Will

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Treatment, American Bastard, Cellar Door

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band

LaurelThirst

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

Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St. The Moondoggies

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mr. Ben

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. The Cult, Murder of Crows

Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Carlton Jackson-Dave Mills Big Band

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Bleating Hearts, Pony Village

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Tom Grant Trio

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Tenement, Big Eyes, Crypties, DJ J One Ill

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. From Beyond, Dreams in Witch House, Cthulhu

The Slide Inn

2348 SE Ankeny St. Scott Deams

Unthank Park

510 N Shaver St. Ocean 503

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Daoud Tyler-Ameen, Dibson, Paul Shutz

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Early Hours

TUES. AUG. 21 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Yards

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Neftali Rivera

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. The Want Ads, Amy Bleu, AUX 78

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Kyla and Lara Avery

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Tiger House, Pictorials

Camellia Lounge

Andina

510 NW 11th Ave. Tom Wakeling and Steve Christofferson

Ash Street Saloon

830 E Burnside St. Three Mile Pilot, Dramady

1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs 225 SW Ash St. Tigress, Twin Suns

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. You May Die in the Desert, Holy Tentacles

Doug Fir Lounge

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Quartet (9:30 pm); Trio Bravo (6 pm)

Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place

CALENDAR Sue Scrofa, Ashe Blonde, Kite Sun Kid

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Radula

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 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); The Mountlake Terrace High School Jazz Combo (6:30 pm)

Kenton Park

8417 N Brandon Ave. Sarah Moon and The Night Sky

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St.

Casey Neill & the Norway Rats, Bronson, Drunk on Pines, Ask Sophie (Joe Strummer tribute, 9 pm); Jackstraw (6 pm)

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Biscuits and Gravy

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Eleni Mandell, David Dondero

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Kelly Joe Phelps

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Nicky Click, Scream Club, Sistafist

Slabtown

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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., 7151114. 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. Closes Aug. 19. $20-$40.

Henry IV Part I

Post5 Theatre takes a boisterous approach as it tackles its first Shakespearean history. Don Alder directs the production, which boasts a catchy tagline: “When the party ends, the war begins.” Milepost 5, 850 NE 81st Ave., 971-258-8584. 7 pm FridaysSundays; 7 pm Thursdays Aug. 30 and Sept. 6. Closes Sept. 8. Free.

Trek in the Park: “Journey to Babel”

Though true Trekkies will better appreciate the 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. REBECCA JACOBSON. Cathedral Park, North Edison Street and Pittsburg Avenue. 5 pm SaturdaysSundays through Aug. 26. Free.

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. 2 pm Sunday, Aug. 19. $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 familyfriendly show tours to various outdoor locations in Lake Oswego, Hillsboro and Beaverton. Multiple locations, 254-5104. 6:30 pm Fridays-Sundays through Aug. 26. Free.

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 Brian Posehn

Comedy’s preeminent “angry nerd”— perhaps best known for his role as one half of a highly atypical gay couple on The Sarah Silverman Program—returns to Portland. Helium Comedy Club. 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669, heliumcomedy.com. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, Aug. 16-18. $15-$25.

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.

Comedy Monster Open Mic

Open mic hosted by Jen Allen and Mandie Allietta. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 4779477. 9:30 pm every first and third Thursday. Free.

Diabolical Experiments

Improv jam show featuring Brody performers and other local improvisers. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 2242227. 7 pm Sundays. $5.

The Great Mistakes Tour

Rising L.A. comic Kyle Kinane headlines a bill also featuring regional talents Ian Karmel, Bryan Cook and Barbara Holm. The show will be followed at 10 pm by Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction (see Headout, page 23), featuring the same comics plus many others. Tickets must be purchased separately. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Friday, Aug. 17. $10.

Instant Comedy

With a list of audience-suggested topics, five comics compete for the title of comedic champ. The Curious

EXPULSION 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.

Open Court

Team-based, long-form improv open to audience members and performers of all stripes. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 4779477. 8 pm Thursday, Aug. 16. $5.

CLASSICAL Musica Maestrale

The expert early-music ensemble, featuring superb soprano Catherine Olson, lutenist/theorobist Hideki Yamaya, violinist and violist Victoria Gunn Pich and Seattle recorder and viola da gamba player Polly Gibson, performs Polish music from the Renaissance and Baroque eras, featuring rarely heard composers Milwid, Cato, Dlugoraj and the best-known of the bunch, Silvius Leopold Weiss. St. Stanislaus Church, 3916 N Interstate Ave., 233-0512. 7:30 pm Friday, Aug. 17. $10.

Northwest Oboe Seminar

Participants in the annual daylong seminar, headed by Lyric Opera of Chicago oboist and English-horn master Robert Morgan, perform at a recital. All Saints’ Episcopal Church, 4033 SE Woodstock Blvd., (360) 6964084. 7:30 pm Saturday, Aug. 18. $10.

Portland Festival Symphony

Conductor Lajos Balogh’s 32-year mission to present free, family-friendly classical music in the park each summer continues this week on the lawn at Marylhurst University, where the orchestra will play Prokofiev’s ever-popular Peter and the Wolf, a Biber “Battalia,” the so-called “Toy Symphony,” which probably wasn’t by Haydn and the stirring Symphony No. 31, which certainly was. Marylhurst University, 17600 Highway 43, 2457878. 6 pm Sunday, Aug. 19. Free.

William Byrd Festival

The internationally recognized annual summer celebration of England’s greatest Renaissance composer continues with three Mass services. Wednesday’s features music from Byrd’s Gradualia, Saturday’s with his Mass for Five Voices and Sunday’s includes the great Mass for Three

Voices. Cambridge’s Mark Williams plays an organ recital Sunday afternoon, followed by a choral evensong with Byrd’s Great Service. Holy Rosary Church-Rosary Hall, 376 NE Clackamas St., 800-838-3006. Various times and locations. Visit byrdfestival.org/ for details. $15-$20.

DANCE Burlesque Tribute to Grease

“Grease” is the word at this ’50s-themed shindig, where burlesque performers Angelique DeVil, Esequiel Esquire, Infamous Nina Nightshade, Lana Louche and Miss Kennedy do their thing. Viewers are encouraged to attend in ’50-style attire and show off their best hand jive. Richie Stratton hosts. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 8 pm Sunday, Aug. 19. $10$12. 21+.

Expulsion

What does home mean to you, and what is it like to leave it behind? These are the questions driving a collaboration between Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre/Northwest and Painted Sky Northstar Dance Company. Duckler does site-specific dance works, and this one, called Expulsion, is no exception: It will be staged in a vacant lot on three stories of scaffolding, and will allude to the tale of Cain and Abel. It’s designed as a cross-cultural exchange with Painted Sky, which specializes in traditional Native American dance done in full regalia. Expulsion will be preceded at 5 pm by the community’s own expulsion stories as part of the HDDT/NW’s Curbside Conversations program, which will be hosted by Disjecta, moderated by Tonisha Toler (an outreach specialist for the Regional Arts and Culture Council) and led by cultural, political and neighborhoodleaders. River Street Studios, 820 N River St., 8 pm Saturday, Aug. 18. $5-$10.

Naked Girls Reading

The Portland chapter of Naked Girls Reading offers a “book fair” theme on its third outing; burlesque performers Babs Jamboree, Kit Katastrophic, Miss Kennedy, Rayleen Courtney and Sophie Maltease take it all off to read young-adult classics. Angelique DeVil hosts. The Blue Monk, 3341 SE Belmont St., 595-0575. 10:30 pm Friday, Aug. 17. $13.

OBT Exposed

Hard to believe, but this edition of the annual weeklong open-air ballet event marks the first-ever official collaboration between Oregon Ballet Theatre and White Bird, which is bringing in Swedish choreographer/filmmaker Pontus Lidberg to work with the company. During OBT’s weeklong residency in Director Park, held Monday-Friday, Aug. 20-24, downtown denizens can watch OBT’s dancers take a company class from 11 am to 12:15 pm and rehearse Lidberg’s worldpremiere contemporary ballet work from 12:30 to 3 pm and 4 to 6:30 pm. (Bonus: Portland-born, Julliardtrained classical composer Ryan Francis is contributing the music for the piece, which makes its official debut next April on OBT’s American Music Festival program.) Additionally, there will be free daily creative-movement classes for kids from 3:05 to 3:35 pm and a free adult ballet class 6:30 pm Tuesday, Aug. 21. Lidberg will be on hand to answer questions before each day’s rehearsal and do a lecture/ demo at 6:30 pm Thursday, Aug. 23; a screening of his dance film Rain is scheduled for 8 pm Wednesday, Aug. 22. Director Park, 815 SW Park Ave. Various times. See obt.org for details. Free.

Water in the Desert Summer Soiree

The resident companies of Water in the Desert’s 2012-13 season, Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (PETE) and Wobbly, perform at a benefit for WITD’s artist-in-residence program. PETE shares a 20-minute excerpt from Song of the Dodo, a theatrical piece about extinction, featuring inventive vocalizing and choreography. Wobbly shares an excerpt from its upcoming show Underneath, an evening-length work made in collaboration with Mizu Desierto and Nathan H.G. It is being described as “one part butoh fairy tale, one part psychological thriller and one part geek love story,” which sounds like a pretty eventful 20 minutes. The Headwaters Theatre. 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9, 289-3499 7 pm Saturday, Aug. 18. witd.org.

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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 C.G. in a superhero movie. Through Sept. 29. Chambers @ 916, 916 NW Flanders St., 227-9398.

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Netherlands-based painter Annemieke Alberts has a knack for abstracted cityscapes that lead the viewer on escapist reveries to far-flung capitals. 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., 2083585.

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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.

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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, 520 NW Davis St., 2nd floor, 248-9378.

Barry Johnson

Like the rickety tracks of an oldfashioned 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. Then again, seriousness is not what this installation seems to be going for. Through Sept. 2. Nine Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 503-2277114.

Gabriel Liston: I Know Who’s Drowned—It’s Us

I Know Who’s Drowned—It’s Us is a morose title for Gabriel Liston’s lyrical painting show, but its evocation of Tom Sawyer jells with Liston’s imagery of childhood reverie. Notably, his luscious landscapes, with their calligraphic brushstrokes, are stronger when they dispense with the kitschy kids and simply hold forth as sylvan pastorales. Through Sept. 1. Froelick Gallery, 714 NW Davis St., 222-1142.

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With subtle but sumptuous color, Gregg Renfrow channels the California Light and Space movement and dazzles the eye. In works such as Ghosts and Storyland, he creates abstract color fields that look like Technicolor X-rays. Although the works whisper with minimalist elegance, their aggregate impact is maximal. This is the show to see in Portland this month. Through Sept. 1. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521.

Group show of gallery artists

An evergreen showcase of the Northwest’s most venerable artists, 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.

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.

Two drab shows at Augen thud like cans of Spam on vinyl flooring. It is hard to imagine a more uninspiring double bill. James Florschutz’s derivative assemblages gravitate toward a color palette reminiscent of cat puke, while Hibiki Miyazaki’s paintings feature aggressively amateurish pastiche. Together, the exhibitions lend credence to the theory that a limit should be imposed on the number of artists allowed to make art. These two would surely be on the far side of the velvet rope. Through Sept. 1. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 224-8182.

Jesse Hayward: Beating to Windward

One of the Northwest’s most polarizing artists, Jesse Hayward consistently endeavors to reimagine what painting does and doesn’t mean in our post-postmodern era. In past shows, he has taken materiality and surface to extremes in which paint becomes indistinguishable from pigsty slop. The work is frequently thought-provoking, if rarely eyepleasing. In his latest outing, Beating to Windward, Hayward reins in his gonzo instincts and lets the viewer glimpse the technique beneath his bluster. The work is surprisingly nuanced, rhythmic and chromatically diverse. Through Sept. 1. Gallery Homeland, 2505 SE 11th Ave., 8199656.

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.

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 (waxbased) 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.

Scott LaForce: Cum in Your Eye

Scott LaForce’s installation, Cum in Your Eye, chronicles the “PNP” (“party and play”) scene as he has experienced it within the queer community. LaForce shows queer men in the throes of methamphetaminefueled sex romps in a series of photographs that amble across gallery walls, interspersed with lines from the artist’s poem “I Am Recruiting.” It’s a kind of new-millennial update of filmmaker/photographer Larry Clark’s 1971 salvo, Tulsa, walking tricky lines between judgment, compassion and glamorization. Through Sept. 1. Cock Gallery, 625 NW Everett St., No. 106, 552-8686.

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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. 15 Padgett Powell

Like an extended conversation between Grampa Simpson and Larry King, Padgett Powell’s You & Me presents a Southern-style twist on Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. The two elderly gentlemen spend the novel sitting on a porch and waxing on about everything from sex and Cadillacs to the true meaning of nihilism. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.

THURSDAY, AUG. 16 Comma Reading Series

Joining their literary forces like a bookish band of avengers, three Oregon writers will share their work for the monthly Comma Reading Series. The event will include chapbook poet and founding director of the Oregon Writing Project Patty Wixon (Airing the Sheets), Lewis & Clark College archivist Vince Wixon (Blue Moon: Poems from Chinese Lines) and acclaimed poet Scot Siegel (Thousands Flee California Wildflowers). Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.

Yuvi Zalkow

Struggling to write a book within his book, Zalkow is a self-described neurotic Jew with an unsatisfied wife and equally demanding dead parents. But things get complicated when the characters in his book begin to intermingle with his life. We have a hunch that Zalkow and his debut novel, A Brilliant Novel in the Works, is just a figment of Charlie Kaufman’s imagination. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.

Kate Hopkins

Ignoring obesity and rampant Type 2 diabetes, Kate Hopkins takes a look at the lighter side of our obsession with candy in her new book, Sweet Tooth. Following its history from supposed curer of ills to a billion-dollar industry, Hopkins offers her own tasting notes and explores how candy shaped the Western world (big, bulgy, round). Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

FRIDAY, AUG. 17 SModcast Live

Like a live version of every Kevin Smith film ranting monologue about superheroes, Jesus and blow jobs, Kevin Smith himself, with longtime production partner Scott Mosier, will record his weekly podcast, SModcast, in front of a live audience for your enjoyment. We expect humor of the highest brow. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $32.50-$50. 21+.

Grammar Celebration and Book Release

Ever wished you could contort the rules of grammar to suit your own diabolical literary schemes? Join the authors of 8-Bit Grammar: A Flash Grammar Anthology as they explore various grammatical rules through humorous and poignant essays at the reading and release party. Ground Kontrol, 511 NW Couch St., 796-9364. 3:30 pm. Free.

Book Release Party

Local poet and poetry editor for online magazine Small Doggies, Carrie Seitzinger will celebrate the release of her new book of poems, Fall Ill Medicine, with not just a reading but a full-on “entertainment extravaganza,” including an opera performance by Sarah Cawley and

dance by Eva Darling. Independent Publishing Resource Center, 1001 SE Division St., Suite 2, 827-0249. 7:30 pm. Free, book purchase suggested.

SATURDAY, AUG. 18 Letterpress Day

Although not as cool as SpiderMan Day (Aug. 1) or as delicious as National Waffle Day (Aug. 24), Aug. 18 has been designated as Letterpress Day by the Independent Publishing Resource Center. In addition to a letterpress swap-andsell, there will be tours and demos in the IPRC letterpress studio. Independent Publishing Resource Center, 1001 SE Division St., Suite 2, 827-0249. Noon-6 pm. Free.

MONDAY, AUG. 20 Rick Bass

due to poaching and war. Writer Rick Bass, who makes a hobby of tracking down rare animals, studies the black rhino and its relationship with man in his new book, The Black Rhinos of Namibia. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

TUESDAY, AUG. 21 OMSI Science Pub

In 1993, the domestic dog was reclassified as a subspecies of the gray wolf because their mitochondrial DNA differs by no more than 0.2 percent. But before you go renaming your corgi White Fang, there are a few important distinctions to keep in mind. Dr. Ceiridwen Terrill, associate professor of science writing and environmental journalism at Concordia University, will explore the differences and similarities at the OMSI Science Pub discussion Are Dogs Really Just “Designer Wolves?” Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 7 pm. $5 suggested donation. 21+.

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REVIEW

JENNY LAWSON, LET’S PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED Dangerous things happen when bloggers get book deals. Yes, there are remarkably talented writers out there offering socially relevant content in blog form. But the blogosphere is a different sort of place—a place where TALKING IN ALL CAPS IS FUNNY and a picture of a cleverly captioned otter can circle the world while a I can has book deal? thoughtful essay is putting on its pants. Like many before her, Jenny Lawson (aka “the Bloggess”) walks a fine line between entertaining and annoying with her new book, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, 336 pages, $25.95). Lawson has lived a remarkably bizarre life and possesses the ability to relate the details of that life in a humorous way. While these are key ingredients in a successful memoir, her book too often reads just like a blog. With chapters such as “Phone Conversation I Had With My Husband After I Got Lost for the Eighty Thousandth Time,” and several sections where long excerpts from her blog were simply cut-and-pasted in, I wondered why I had spent $25.95. But as a storyteller, Lawson excels, recounting the bizarre and humiliating elements of her life with a solid mix of self-deprecation, relatable struggle and nonstop swearing. As a child, she saw her father, a taxidermist, use a dead squirrel as a hand puppet, pretending it was a magic squirrel that could do math. In high school, she got her arm stuck in a cow’s vagina. Even when tackling subjects like her near-crippling anxiety disorder, Lawson keeps things funny as she describes her inability to go to parties without bringing up necrophilia. Regardless, the book is entertaining enough to attract hordes of new followers, which will most likely serve her better than a publishing contract. PENELOPE BASS. GO: Jenny Lawson reads at Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651, on Wednesday, Aug. 15. 7 pm. Free. Willamette Week AUGUST 15, 2012 wweek.com

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48 Hour Film Project

[TWO NIGHTS ONLY] Selections from this year’s installment of the annual on-the-fly moviemaking contest are screened. Hollywood Theatre. 7 and 9:30 pm Wednesday-Thursday, Aug. 15-16.

The Amazing Spider-Man

B Only five years ago, our friendly

neighborhood Spider-Man was a grown-up who looked a lot like walking homunculus and worked as a photographer. Do we really need to see Pete get bitten again, or see poor Uncle Ben blown away, a mere decade after Sam Raimi ushered in the golden age of comic-book films? Of course not. But then, maybe we do. These are comic-book movies, based on pulp fiction that essentially recycles origin stories whenever a new writer picks up the panels. It’s not about whether we’ve seen it before. It’s about how we’re seeing it now, and through the lens of sophomore director Marc Webb, The Amazing Spider-Man is a pretty kick-ass bucket of popcorn, full of great effects, sly performances and enough original thought that it makes a studio cash grab into a solid piece of pulp. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas.

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. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Cinema 21.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

C It’s The Darjeeling Aged. PG-13.

AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre.

The Bourne Legacy

B Now Matt Damon-less, and suffering a bit from the residuals, screenwriter Tony Gilroy’s Bourne series moves in a slightly different direction with Legacy…but not that different. We’re still globetrotting. Our hero is still cracking skulls with random objects. Engines are still revving, and glances are still stoic. This time, though, it’s Jeremy Renner—continuing his quest to appear in every single action franchise ever—as Aaron Cross, who finds himself dodging missiles, brandishing assault rifles and seeking to find more of the medication that transformed him from a learning-disabled grunt into a super-agile, hyperintelligent warrior. (That’s right: Our hero’s a drug addict.) While Damon is certainly missed, Renner is an apt replacement, bringing a startling physical prowess and easy charisma. Unlike Bourne, Cross is a bit of a chucklehead who isn’t above cracking jokes or totally freaking out after he dispatches a group of baddies. The only real problem here is Gilroy’s direction, which lacks the unique style of his predecessors. As such, the movie comes off as generic, especially given the dumbed-down storyline. All is forgiven as soon as Renner’s knuckles go back to work. If only we had Jason Bourne’s condition and could forget Damon, this would stand as a solid start to a promising series. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Fox Tower, St. Johns.

Brave

B- It feels like a classic Disney picture.

Normally, that’d be a compliment. In Pixar’s case, it represents a regression. PG. MATTHEW SINGER. Oak Grove.

The Campaign

D- 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. 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 Bushes I and II—mélanged 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 Southernmammy dialect to baby-punching. And as in any no-holds-barred political drag-out, everyone loses. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place.

Dark Horse

Oh, hey, the new Todd Solondz joint is opening in Portland this week. We’re as surprised as you are. Look for a review at wweek.com. Living Room Theaters.

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 zeitgeisty plot involving the 1 Percent’s heavily armed chickens coming home to roost, it’s the most exciting, purely pleasurable entry in the series. Sure, it’s still plenty broody, but take away the grim veneer and you’ll find the framework of a traditional, rousing superhero movie. Perhaps the redemptive title should’ve been a clue: After seven years of Bat-cycling through the wreckage of human suffering, the takeaway ends up being an unambiguous message of hope. It goes to show that, for all the talk of Nolan reinventing the epic-sized box-office juggernaut, he’s still working with familiar templates. A certain segment of the audience will find that disappointing, as if the only way for this kind of movie to qualify as high art is to detach completely from its ink-and-paper roots. In the words of somebody we used to know, I ask: Why so serious? MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place.

Dead Alive

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Before mincing about Middle Earth with elves and hobbits, Peter Jackson splattered New Zealand with blood, entrails, spinal columns and brain fragments with this totally insane 1992 exercise in extreme gore. Screening as part of Top Down, the NW Film Center’s outdoor summer

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SHOCK AND AHHH!: Norman (second from left) and friends.

LIVING WITH THE DEAD IN PARANORMAN, LAIKA FOLLOWS UP CORALINE WITH MORE SUPERNATURAL ANGST. ONLY THIS TIME, IT’S FUN. BY MATTHEW SIN GER

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Norman Babcock sees dead people. As the title portmanteau of ParaNorman—the second feature from Portland animation house Laika—suggests, he is mostly cool with that. After all, the kid wakes up to a groaning zombie alarm clock every morning, and pretends to foam at the mouth while brushing his teeth. He obviously has no issues interacting with the spirit realm. Besides, the spooks don’t judge him, unlike the living. A drama geek with an electroshock hairdo and prone to vivid hallucinations that cause reality to strip away like rapidly peeling paint, Norman is an easy target for bullying. Things aren’t much better at home, where his dad wonders aloud how he raised such a strange boy. The only flesh-and-blood human who understands him—aside from Neil, the resident freckly fat kid at his middle school—is his estranged uncle, a schizophrenic hobo who insists Norman is the only person capable of stopping the town of Blithe Hollow from incurring the wrath of a witch’s curse. All that probably sounds familiar—if not from the countless other movies about misfits in search of redemption, then from the first Laika picture, 2009’s Coraline. In that film, a young outcast with absentee parents also traversed between worlds, and learned lessons about growing up and what it really means to “fit in.” Comparisons between the two are inevitable, so let’s compare. Is ParaNorman as good as its predecessor? No, it’s not. It doesn’t have the depth of imagination, nor the emotional pull. Although it contains moments of impressive visual pow—it’s animated in remarkable stop-motion—it doesn’t match the barrage of sheer awe that made Coraline such a wondrous experience. And while Coraline was based on a popular Neil Gaiman book, ParaNorman, an original story from Chris Butler, feels more like

something that’s come before. Directors Butler and Sam Fell are clearly channeling their own childhoods here: The movie starts with Norman enthralled by a cheap pan-and-scan zombie flick, complete with a throbbing synth score and visible boom mike. His bedroom walls are plastered with images of various nasties cut out from magazines. Heck, the ringtone on his cell phone is “Tubular Bells.” ParaNorman is a pastiche valentine to the horror genre, which makes it endearing, but not necessarily unique. As long as we’re measuring the films against each other, though, let it be said: ParaNorman is a lot more fun. It’s supernatural caper not far removed from an old Scooby Doo episode; eventually, Norman and his motley gang of reluctant cohorts—which comes to include Neil and his jock brother, Norman’s bubble-

PARANORMAN IS A VALENTINE TO THE HORROR GENRE. headed sister and a break-dancing bully—end up driving around in a van that looks suspiciously similar to the Mystery Machine. The action is bolstered by the cast’s standout voice work. Kodi Smit-McPhee imbues Norman with great empathy. Jeff Garlin is hilarious as Norman’s exasperated father. And scrawny Christopher Mintz-Plasse, as Alvin the bully, somehow conveys the insecurity of a doughy lunkhead even though, in real life, he was more likely the one who spent high school getting shoved into lockers. It is also much funnier. For all of Coraline’s gothic beauty, it never induced much laughter (which tends to happen in movies involving ghost children with buttons sewn over their eyeballs). But a streak of sly, subversive humor charges Butler’s screenplay. At one point, Norman walks into his kitchen from the living room. “What are you watching in there?” his father asks. “Sex and violence,” he replies. If nothing else, ParaNorman has a healthy sense of mischief. Sometimes, that’s all a film needs. B+ SEE IT: ParaNorman is rated PG. It opens Friday at Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lake Twin, Moreland, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, St. Johns.

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A bunch of leathery, ’roidedup Republicans invade a foreign country and explode the shit out of it. Again. But this time…it’s personal. Not screened for critics. R. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

Factory of One

[ONE DAY ONLY] A Portlander builds an installation for Burning Man. Hollywood Theatre. 2:30 pm Saturday, Aug. 18.

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.

Fat, Bald, Short Man

C- [ONE NIGHT ONLY] It’s the

summer of George! Strike that. It’s the summer of Farfán! He’s the linedrawing Costanza wobbling through the frames of this drab Colombian underdog tale. As an everyman conceit, Farfán is appropriately nondescript: Sometimes he looks like Mao Zedong drawn by Marjane Satrapi, sometimes he looks like the Pillsbury Doughboy rolled flat. He undulates amorphously across anodyne backgrounds, as if Richard Linklater rotoscoped Waking Life in an office park. The problem with the movie, which looks lively enough, is that a cubicle drama drawn with bright, rippling lines is still a cubicle drama—and a man bullied by his chess-player brother is only going to be compelling if the performance is more than a line drawing. In short, Farfán has no backbone. AARON MESH. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Wednesday, Aug. 15.

Filmusik Organ Grinders: Metropolis

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Crazed Boston rockers provide the live soundtrack to Fritz Lang’s immortal 1927 sci-fi epic. Hollywood Theatre. 8 pm Friday, Aug. 17.

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai 3D

C With Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai, a 3-D remake of Masaki Kobayashi’s 1962 classic, Harakiri, director Takashi 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,” 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 startlingly, 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. AP KRYZA. Living Room Theaters.

Hope Springs

B Here’s a movie that features Meryl Streep shopping for bananas on which to practice fellatio, yet the only cringes it elicits are ones of recognition. A blessedly measured (if, truth be told, a little stagy) chamber piece, Hope Springs, gently plumbs a marriage where one spouse (Tommy Lee Jones) is resigned to kvetching and regret until death parts him from the La-ZBoy, but the other partner (Streep) isn’t ready to throw in the dishtowel. It has been tagged with the dreaded label “a movie for grown-ups”—three cheers for muesli!—but it’s a cuspof-retirement riff on the virginityloss comedy, with the protagonists getting laid again for the first time. And without the rampant dishon-

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STREET BOY: Rodriguez in his ’70s heyday.

SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN Gaining an appreciable level of success outside of one’s home country is not an unusual feat. Just ask Alela Diane, a local singer-songwriter who can fill huge theaters in France while still flying relatively below the radar here in the States. What’s stranger is for that artist to have no clue about his or her fame in some far-flung country until nearly 30 years after the fact. Such is the case with Rodriguez, a Detroit-born musician only recognized in the U.S. by crate diggers and music scholars who revel in the darker recesses of the psychedelic era. His two albums—1970’s Cold Fact and 1971’s Coming From Reality—were flops upon their release, faring badly enough that Rodriguez hung up his guitar seemingly for good around that time. In the documentary Searching for Sugar Man, freshman director Malik Bendjelloul reveals that in South Africa, a world away from where they were recorded, the albums were revered. Rodriguez’s songs of personal and class struggle provided rich fodder for the burgeoning anti-apartheid movement. Bendjelloul plays out the story of Rodriguez like a detective novel, adding pieces to the puzzle via interviews with producers that worked with the musician, as well as a South African recordstore owner and a journalist who both worked tirelessly to uncover the truth behind Rodriguez’s “disappearance”—the prevailing rumor being that he committed suicide onstage. About halfway through Sugar Man, it is revealed that Rodriguez is alive, well, and still living in Detroit, working as a manual laborer. Once that is uncovered, the now nearly 70-year-old musician is sat in front of the camera. Only then does the film take flight. Up until that point, we are run through a gauntlet of slow exposition and breathless praise for the music and the man. Not that the raves aren’t warranted—his music ranks with that era’s best psych-folk— but the real meat of the film isn’t even captured by Bendjellou’s cameras. The heart of Sugar Man is in the camcorder footage shot by Rodriguez’s daughter during his first trip to Johannesburg in 1998. Only through that lens do you get an unvarnished look at how affecting it was for the musician to finally find the fame that eluded him for nearly three decades, and how much it meant for his fans to bask in his glow, if only for one night. PG-13. ROBERT HAM.

Rodriguez rises from the dead, goes on tour.

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yard along with their hopes of ever becoming parents. And then something less depressing happens: A 10-year-old child comes busting out of the ground where the box was buried, slathered in mud and sprouting leaves around his ankles. His name is Timothy (played by the tiny, magical CJ Adams), and he matches every quality his parents listed, from “honest to a fault” to “Picasso with a pencil” (we get it, you’re into pencils). The ensuing story, albeit saccharine and silly, is genuinely adorable. It’s a squeaky-clean, super-sweet watch that’s perfect for kids and parents. PG. EMILY JENSEN. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, Tigard.

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esty of Nancy Meyers, at that. As written by Vanessa Taylor, a creator of the HBO couples-therapy series Tell Me You Love Me, it feels like an episode of unflinching television somewhat awkwardly shoehorned into the mold of conventional rom-com cinema. (Very conventional, at times: The score would be forgettable if it didn’t refuse to leave, while Steve Carell is a little too unctuous as the bobbleheaded shrink.) Both leads are excellent: Streep resists her usual instinct to showboat, which makes her energy all the more ferocious. But it’s Jones who owns Hope Springs, subverting his laconic-asshole persona with vulnerable lifts of those shaggy eyebrows, creating a man pained by the conviction that his desires can only cause disappointment. As a reward for finally trying, he gets his own late entry in the canon of theaterseat erotic pleasuring, a tradition stretching from from Mickey Rourke to Eugene Levy. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Fox Tower.

Andersoniest. Those who find everything that follows Bottle Rocket fussy and puerile have fair warning: Moonrise Kingdom is Anderson’s Boy Scout film, set on an imaginary island. Without the leavening influence of Owen Wilson, Anderson’s melancholy can feel brittle, even with Robert Yeoman providing his most agile cinematography. Yet a fresh breeze airs out Moonrise Kingdom in every scene where the 12-year-old runaways Sam Shakusky and Suzy Bishop (Jared Gilman and an astonishing Kara Hayward) arrange an elopement from their Norman Rockwell world. PG-13. AARON MESH. CineMagic, Forest Theatre, Fox Tower.

Ice Age: Continental Drift

Monroe is getting a lot of play in the golden anniversary since her death. At first blush, Nobody Else but You threatens to add to the flooded field of morbid Marilyn tributes. But the setting—lovingly referred to as France’s “Little Siberia”—and the set-up mark this as an aesthetically pleasing murder mystery in the writer’s block genre. Scruffily charming Jean-Paul Rouve plays prolific crime writer David Rousseau, inspired by the potential homicide of Candice Lecoeur (Sophie Quinton), a thirtysomething bombshell whose alleged suicide took place near the FrancoSwiss border, a legal no-man’s land. Desperately on deadline, Rousseau breaks into Lecoeur’s house and reads her diaries, all the while being fed information by an equally dubious member of the local police. The mystery unfolds with the realization that Lecoeur fancied herself if not a reincarnated Monroe, then on the same life trajectory–albeit on a smaller, more European scale. (The unnaturally blond Lecoeur found fame as a pin-up model for local firehouses, as a sexy weathergirl and as the spokesmodel for La Belle de Jura cheese.) The ultimate reveal isn’t staggering, but it is a fresh take on what may have happened to Marilyn. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Clinton Street Theater. 9:15 pm Friday-Tuesday, Aug. 17-21.

D- The world didn’t need a fourth

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Kung Fu Theater: The Bastard Swordsman

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] An old, presumably unkempt member of the Wu Tang Clan attempts to master the elusive silkworm style in this 1983 martial arts adventure. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Aug. 21.

Laura

[THREE NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] Otto Preminger’s impossibly cool 1944 noir, about a detective in love with a dead woman…or is she? 5th Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday, 3 pm Sunday, Aug. 17-19.

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B 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, it’s nice to find Steven Soderbergh focusing on character at all. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters.

Moonrise Kingdom

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Mourning

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] An Iranian drama from Kiarostami compatriot Morteza Farshbaf. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Tuesday, Aug. 21.

Nobody Else but You

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The Odd Life of Timothy Green

B+ Jim and Cindy Green (Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Garner) lead a life of exceptional blandness. He works on the assembly line in a pencil factory while she toils under the thumb of a tight-lipped old biddy at a pencil museum. They live in the town of Stanleyville, the “Pencil Capital of the World.” Yikes. Even bleaker, the couple struggles with infertility issues, and learn after countless failed medical procedures that they cannot conceive. Drunk on misery and red wine, they scrawl characteristics of their imaginary child on slips of paper, stuff them listlessly into a wooden box, and bury them in the back-

[FIVE NIGHTS ONLY] A movie about healing family wounds, set against the vibrant backdrop of India’s biggest kite festival. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Friday-Tuesday, Aug. 17-21.

The Prize

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] An Argentine drama about the ravages of war on a child’s psyche. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Sunday, Aug. 19.

Project Youth Doc 2012

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A showcase of amateur documentaries made by kids ages 13-16. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Monday, Aug. 20.

Prometheus

A- The movie starts in a cave

of forgotten dreams, and it’s worth wondering whether director Ridley 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. Prometheus is 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-square-foot 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.

Ruby Sparks

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 followup. At the urging of his therapist

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Safety Not Guaranteed

A This is the rare film where dia-

logue 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 an ad that reads “I’ve only done this once before.” Keep these words in mind. Without saying too much, I’d suggest they add a gratifying, if unspoken, subplot. R. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Fox Tower.

Salute to Nikkatsu: Voice Without a Shadow

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] A 1958 potboiler from Japan’s master of the genre, Seijun Suzuki. Screening as part of a monthlong tribute to Nikkatsu, Japan’s oldest movie studio, which turns 100 this year. NW Film Center. 7 pm Saturday, Aug. 18.

Savages

C Savages is Oliver Stone without even the affectation of ideas. It takes the saint-and-sadist duality from Platoon and tosses it into the berserker butchery of Natural Born Killers. (But in Mexico!) For more than an hour, it is a very bad movie.The second half of the movie might also be bad, although it’s hard to say, since it’s also breathtakingly violent. 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.

Sparkle

A Supremes biopic—or something like it—starring Whitney Houston in her final film role. Not screened by WW press deadlines. Look for a review at wweek.com. PG-13. . Cedar

Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, City Center, Fox Tower.

Step Up Revolution

B The Step Up films, now num-

bering 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 the benefits of 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. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Clackamas.

The Story of Film: Part 3

[WEEKLY SERIES] The third installment in a five-part series on the history of cinema, covering the French New Wave, Easy Rider and the birth of new American filmmaking, Fellini, Bergman, blaxploitation, etc. The good stuff, basically. NW Film Center. 7 pm Friday and Sunday, Aug. 24 and 26.

Ted

D- Ted only values a joke if it makes people uncomfortable—never mind whether it’s funny, or if it even makes any sense. 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. R. AARON MESH. Pioneer Place.

This Is Now

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A guy wanders from Portland to Seattle in search of enlightenment. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Sunday, Aug. 19.

To Rome With Love

C+ Woody Allen doesn’t owe anyone another masterpiece. It’s a good thing, too, because a masterpiece To Rome With Love is not. Interweaving four stories linked only by setting and loose themes of celebrity and adultery, it’s like Allen emptied his notebook of a few half-conceived ideas, then used them to fund a Roman holiday. So what, though? If Woody wants to spend his golden years making movies purely as an excuse to visit the world’s greatest cities, he’s earned the right. Make no mistake—To Rome With Love is terribly uninspired. None of the crosscutting vignettes—which jerk the film uncomfortably from farce to fantasy—have much to say about Rome itself. But the film still has its moments, and most of them belong to Allen. 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

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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 Farrell 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, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Fox Tower.

Union Square

B- Though it feels like more of a

theater talkie-weepie than a film, Union Square is marred at times by a specifically cinematic shorthand: “Yuppies” are ’80s yuppies who buy organic (ohmigosh!), and girls from the Bronx wear wild patterns and kiss their phones and know nothing of Midtown. The class conflict feels just plain crazy. Also false. Nonetheless, the film—which revolves around a now-upscale Bronx woman (Tammy Blanchard) whose trashy sister (Mira Sorvino) turns her life upside down by coming to visit—manages to be oddly affecting, in part because of director Nancy Savoca’s patience in letting the two main characters slowly out-act their own stereotypes. Indeed, on the back of a brilliantly loopy and overwrought performance by Sorvino, the film constantly threatens to be more than it is. But though much of the dialogue is naturalistic and feels even loosely improvised, it’s always the writing that lets the film down, whether through contrived conveniences, telegraphed gesture or misplaced Hollywood speeches that seemed inserted by the producers. There’s also a startling lack of audio editing: Whispers carelessly drift into street noise. But while the film does lack every kind of subtlety, there is a very real sense of the human that manages to endure every indignity the script throws at it. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Living Room Theaters.

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