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I am an alumnus of Lewis & Clark Law School and a victim of child molestation [“Barred,” WW, Aug. 22, 2012]. What [Aaron L. Munter] did was horrible and he deserved to be punished. I am concerned that he had that much child porn on his computer— this screams pedophile. However, it is worth acknowledging that he did not sodomize or otherwise physically assault this minor; “just” exposed him to porn. Again, while still terrible, not all child molestations are the same. Still, I do not believe he should be re-admitted [to law school]. Attending law school is a privilege, as is practicing law. Part of attaining that privilege is adhering to a higher than normal ethical standard. His actions substantially breach that standard. —“Learned Hand” Former criminals who have paid their debt to society are rehabilitated and deserve to be reintegrated back into society 100 percent. That’s what you expect in democratic republics where there is an emphasis on freedom, equality and justice for all. I hope Lewis & Clark Law School will allow [Munter] and other former wrongdoers in our society to have an equal opportunity. They have been restored as full citizens with full rights like everybody else. —“Tom Madison” Too often we condemn people for their past mistakes. I’m just glad that a well-educated white male with connections finally has the opportunity for a second chance. —“Mike”

There’s no evidence to support the claim that drinking water with fluoride has benefits to our oral health. Just take a look at the World Health Organization chart on fluoridated vs. non-fluoridated countries. —Mia N. It’s funny you should cite the WHO as a source. I happen to have right here its gripping 134-page “Fluoride in Drinking Water,” which states—and I quote—“Fluoride has beneficial effects on teeth at low concentrations in drinking water.” It’s not difficult for an uninformed layman to go on the Internet and find evidence that fluoride kills. (In fact, the less well-informed you are, the easier it is!) It’s also not difficult to go on WebMD and convince yourself you have cancer. Much of the confusion seems rooted in the fact fluoride occurs naturally in some groundwater, sometimes in high enough doses to cause health problems. Most credible sources cited by fluoride opponents (including this WHO report) 4

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State Rep. Jefferson Smith (D -East Portland) says the change he drives is more important than how he drives his car. As The Oregonian dribbled out news this month of Smith’s seven driver’s license suspensions, his mayoral campaign has urged voters to focus on the totality of his accomplishments. “I think my legislative record is relevant to seeing how I process problems and try to solve them,” Smith says. In speeches and campaign materials, Smith cites his teamwork in Salem as a leading argument for why he’s the right candidate to lead the city of Portland. “My experience working in the Legislature, on bills with folks from all over the state and on both sides of the aisle, will be an asset in our ‘weak mayor’ system,” he writes on his campaign website. Yet an examination of what’s actually resulted from three of the bills Smith most often touts raises questions about just how much he achieved in Salem, where the twotermer has served since 2009. His record reflects diverse enthusiasms that make for good sound bites but have produced limited impact. Smith, 39, often talks about his co-sponsorship of House Bill 3369B, also called the Oregon Water Reinvestment Act of 2009. On his legislative website, he refers to the bill as a “landmark” achievement responsible for “creating sustainable jobs in Eastern Oregon.” First, some background: For years, farmers in the Umatilla basin have looked jealously across the Columbia River, where Washington farmers use far more river water to grow higher-value crops. State Rep. Bob Jenson (R-Pendleton), who represents those Eastern Oregon farmers, had tried, unsuccessfully, to pass legislation that would allow his constituents to tap the Columbia. In 2009, enjoying a 36-24 majority, Democrats paired Smith, then a rookie, with Jenson. Lobbyist John DiLorenzo, who represented Eastern Oregon interests, says Smith worked well with disparate groups to help pass the bill. “Nobody has applied for the money,” says Brenda Bate“I thought he did a great job,” DiLorenzo says. man, a spokeswoman for the Oregon Water Resources But the bill’s promise has not materialized. A $2.5 mil- Department. lion pilot program to store Columbia water underground A task force did achieve a secondary goal of the bill, during the winter for use the following writing the state’s first integrated watersummer proved disappointing. Cracks management plan. In 2011, Smith sat on caused a long-depleted aquifer to leak. FACT: But farmers—the people the water legislathe House Transportation Secondary storage is very expensive, a and Economic Development tion was supposed to benefit—feel the bill is project review found, and the costs of and General Government a bust, not only because the Umatilla projand Consumer Protection environmental mitigation were high. ect fell short but because the legislation committees. As a result of such challenges, even raised the bar for future irrigation work. though the state set aside $10 million in “It has not been effective,” says Katie Fast, state bonding capacity in 2009 and another $15 million a lobbyist for the Oregon Farm Bureau. “It has been conin 2011 to fund projects for Smith’s bill, there have been troversial since the bill passed because the environmental no takers. restrictions go far beyond what was already in place.

“There are other water needs throughout the state,” Fast adds. “And this bill may have made things worse for everybody.” Smith acknowledges nobody has tapped the state money his bill appropriated. And his claim the bill is “creating sustainable jobs” is not true—he cannot point to any jobs created other than temporary work on the pilot project. He remains optimistic, however, that the aquifer-filling scheme may work, and makes no apologies for the environmental demands farmers dislike. “There are people who’d like to pull water out with the least payback possible,” he says. “But there’s no free lunch.” CONT. on page 8 Willamette Week AUGUST 29, 2012 wweek.com

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Smith also regularly touts a job-creation program he passed last year called “economic gardening.” Although the name may be confusing, the concept isn’t new. Smith modeled his legislation on a program city officials in Littleton, Colo., began in 1987. Their approach called for catering to the requirements of small, homegrown companies rather than using subsidies to recruit larger companies from elsewhere. Locally, the Portland Development Commission highlighted economic gardening in a June 2009 jobs plan—a year before Smith introduced his legislation. In 2010, Smith got approval for a task force. The next year, he succeeded in getting $300,000 in funding for a pilot program. So what does economic gardening actually do? It refines the approach of a 30-year-old state program, the Oregon Small Business Development Network. Directed by Michael Lainoff, the network includes offices at 17 Oregon community colleges and two regional universities. It has a $4 million budget. Lainoff ’s agency had previously assigned one former CEO to mentor a targeted small company. But in Smith’s economic gardening pilot program, Lainoff provides two executives rather than one. “We’ve also engaged additional resources in terms of [geographic information systems] market research and digital media tools,” Lainoff says. Since the program began in July of last year, 11 Oregon companies have received economic gardening services. The results to date? “We are showing one new job so far, quite frankly,” Lainoff says. “The bill hasn’t shown the promise its sponsors had hoped for,” says state Rep. Jules Bailey (D-Portland), who is supporting Smith’s opponent, former City Commissioner Charlie Hales. Smith says it’s too soon to judge the pilot program. But he says economic gardening is a more effective approach than enterprise zones, a state economic development program in which each job can cost $100,000 in subsidies. He adds that gardening is helping shift the state’s focus to homegrown companies, which historically generate far more jobs than out-of-state employers. “That is the bigger thing,” Smith says. A third major Salem accomplishment Smith touts is 2009 legislation that enabled online voter registration, continuing a focus he developed as executive director of the Bus Project. Yet the number of Oregonians actually registered to vote has lagged since Smith’s bill went into effect. “Jefferson deserves some credit for making it easier to update your registration,” says Seth Woolley, the Pacific Green Party candidate for secretary of state. “But I don’t think it’s been very effective.” State figures show that voters have used the system 160,000 times since February 2010, when online registration began, but most users simply updated existing registrations. The number of voters registered actually increased by a small fraction of that number—15,000. Over the same period, the state’s population increased by more than 100,000. Even without online registration, that population increase should have led to a bigger voter registration increase than has occurred. In the two-year spans starting in February 2002 and again in 2006 (which like 2010 were non-presidential election years), registration also grew more than it has since online registration began. Smith defends his bill. “If there are 160,000 people who have been able to interact without driving to a government building and taking up the time of a government worker, that is positive,” he says, adding that keeping a voter on the rolls is as important as signing a new one. But Smith says the Internet can’t replace human contact. “A passive system will never take the place of voter education or voter registration drives,” he says. In fact, says public-interest lawyer and elections activist Dan Meek, online registration is “a misnomer.” Registered voters can use the Internet to update their addresses or party registration—but many Oregonians, Meek notes, cannot use the tool at all. That’s because the system requires a valid Oregon driver’s license.

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The company moving into an 8,500-square-foot office above Rock Bottom Brewing in downtown Portland on Sept. 7 is the sort of tech-sector success story Mayor Sam Adams would usually trumpet. It’s a local startup in the “software cluster” the mayor identified as one of his top four economic priorities in 2009. Adams even went to the company’s co-founder, Raven Zachary, for advice on how to create that strategy. The startup Zachary and James Keller founded in 2009 created mobile applications for Whole Foods, ZipCar and the Democratic National Committee. And in January, it became one of the few examples of a successful “exit”—a sale to an outside buyer—that didn’t result in the programming talent packing their bags for California. Instead, the company has nearly doubled its local head count to 20 and is taking up residence along the MAX tracks. But Adams hasn’t been touting this victory. Because the company moving in is Walmart. “My first choice would be for a Portland-based company to take over the world,” Adams says. “If one of our companies is going to be bought out by a larger company, keeping it in Portland is my second choice.... I maintain my concerns about Walmart’s business practices. I hold those two things simultaneously.” The transformation of Small Society, the company Zachary and Keller started, into the mobile division of WalmartLabs, the Bentonville, Ark., shopping giant’s e-commerce division, is an ironic outcome for Adams. As a city commissioner from 2004 to 2008, Adams hung an anti-Walmart sign in his City Hall window on Southwest 5th Avenue. “This is a company that has my enmity,” Adams told The Oregonian in 2005. “They treat their employees poorly and the communities they go into with total disdain.”

Adams wasn’t just posturing. When Walmart tried to open a second Portland retail location in Sellwood in 2005, Adams led the opposition, and the following year he authored a moratorium on all development on Hayden Island when the retailer tried to move there, saying Walmart “fails the basic test of ethical capitalism.” Walmart’s supercenter at Southeast 82nd Avenue and Holgate Boulevard remains the retailer’s only location within city limits. But by purchasing Small Society, Walmart invaded Portland more completely than Adams could ever have imagined: Developers sitting at WalmartLabs, seven blocks from City Hall, will now build the phone apps that guide customers through every Walmart store in the nation. Portland will become a company nerve center. “Just talk into your phone,” says Ravi Jariwala at Walmart Global eCommerce in San Bruno, Calif., “and say, ‘I need eggs, milk, peanut butter and M&Ms,’ and it will put them on your list.” The Portland-coded Walmart app, launched in May, is more than a digital shopping list. It offers customers the ability to walk into any supercenter, speak their desired items into their phones, and be directed to the aisles with products they’re looking for. It also lets people tally local prices before shopping. “By allowing [shoppers] to see the prices before they walk in the store, it allows them to walk in with confidence that they’ll get the most for their money,” Keller says. Keller says she doesn’t share Adams’ fears that Walmart threatens Portland’s values. “I have worked with a lot of local brands, like Nike, and this is another one,” she says. “At the end of the day, I really believe in Walmart’s brand. I feel lucky.” (Disclosure: Keller speaks next week at the WW-sponsored Portland Digital eXperience.) Neither of the current mayoral candidates echoes Adams’ aversion to Walmart. “It’s not appropriate for the city to conduct an acid test for what kind of mobile work you’re doing in your office,” says ex-City Commissioner Charlie Hales. “Maybe this is an opportunity to bring a little of the Portland ethic to penetrate Walmart, rather than the other way around.” “It’s a tough one,” says state Rep. Jefferson Smith (D-East Portland). “I don’t think Walmart stores fit within our strategic plan very well. But if a company is making an investment, how much do we sacrifice our ideology? There are times that we say, ‘No Chick-Fil-A.’ And there are times we say the mayor isn’t supposed to be the morality police.”

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tion [in the bids], so it’s closed right now,” says bureau spokesman Dan Anderson. The other company being considered, B-Cycle, is a considerably larger operation. It owns a large portion of the nation’s bike-share market, with programs in 11 locations, including Denver, Houston and the big island of Hawaii. B-Cycle didn’t respond to WW’s calls. Portland perennially ranks among the nation’s top bicycling cities. But it has lagged in developing a bike-share system. Twenty-five American cities have successfully launched such programs. Bike-sharing systems in Boston, Denver and Washington, D.C., have proved

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Harking back to the days when everything that mattered in politics was decided in smoke-filled rooms, the Western states seem poised for an insurrection. This November will mark the first time in U.S. history that three states— Oregon, Washington and Colorado—have marijuana legalization measures on the ballot at the same time. Since 1972, only eight other full-on legalization measures have made it to state ballots. Each failed. The only previous time Oregon tried to fully legalize pot was in 1986, amid booming Reaganomics and the generous self-congratulation of a Grammy-winning “We Are the World.” Oregon voters were much less generous, however; they defeated the proposed measure with a 74 percent rejection rate. The situation has changed quite a bit since then. Seventeen states and the District of Columbia have approved the cultivation and use of medical marijuana to treat specific conditions defined by law. In Oregon, these conditions include glaucoma, cancer, HIV, severe pain, Alzheimer’s-associated agitation, nausea and muscle spasms. The proliferation of medical marijuana laws is a broadly supported development. In a Mason-Dixon poll conducted this year, 74 percent of Americans said they wanted the federal government to respect medical marijuana laws. Even a majority of Republicans (67 percent) and people 65 and older (64 percent)— approved keeping the federal government from enforcing marijuana laws in states that had voted to allow medical marijuana use. Last year, national Gallup polling showed for the first time a parchment-thin majority of Americans

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favored out-and-out legalization of pot, by a margin of 50 percent to 46 percent. This is a jump from the 44 percent who favored legalization in 2009 and the 31 percent in favor back in 2000. Much of this change is demographic. Boomers and younger adults tend to favor legalization, while the Greatest Generation isn’t quite so keen. These inexorable demographic shifts, combined with organized political will, might just make 2012 a sea-change year in national marijuana politics. One of the chief figures in this upswing is Paul Stanford, primary author of the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act— otherwise known as Measure 80—which will be up for voter approval in November. Stanford has been a longtime pot activist and an often controversial figure in Oregon, in part for his founding of an organization called the Hemp and Cannabis Foundation (THCF), which charges a fee to hook up would-be medical marijuana patients with 420-friendly physicians in order to help them obtain medical marijuana cards. Stanford has also been the author of a number of failed marijuana legalization efforts since 1988, each one a slight recasting of the last. This is the first time one of Stanford’s measures has made it onto the ballot via the initiative process. Stanford and his supporters gathered more than 165,000 signatures. Just 88,887 of these were determined to be valid, but it was enough to push the initiative over the 87,213 needed to qualify as a ballot measure. The Oregon Cannabis Tax Act is by far the most expansive and least restrictive of the legalization measures currently before voters in the three states. The other two, Washington state’s New Approach

Washington (I-502) and Colorado’s Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act (A-64), would both put strong limits on personal possession and cultivation. (See comparison table.) The Oregon Cannabis Tax Act, on the other hand, offers no restrictions whatsoever on the personal use, growth or possession of marijuana by anyone over the age of 21. If you have 16 acres packed tightly with premium bud and intend to keep it all for yourself (or give it away to charity), you’ll be perfectly legal under this law. According to Allen St. Pierre, executive director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), “The Oregon [initiative] has the most idealism built into it; it’s the most encompassing. It’s a genuine activist-born initiative.” But expansiveness is not necessarily a good thing in political contests, St. Pierre acknowledges. “Generally speaking,” he says, “the more expansive the initiative, the less likely it is to pass.” The Oregon Cannabis Tax Act is certainly ambitious. It doesn’t merely eliminate criminal penalties for possession, it sets up a new broad-based framework of regulation. The Act would create a state-run commission called the Oregon Cannabis Commission, which would operate similarly to the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. Every person who wanted to do more than simply grow pot for themselves, such as grow, process or sell marijuana for commercial purposes, would need to obtain a license through this commission. CONT. on page 16

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The OCC would be the sole buyer of all marijuana in the state, and it would also be the sole seller. The commission would determine the prices that marijuana growers were allowed to charge, and set prices at its own OCC-run retail stores. Anyone apprehended selling marijuana outside the state-run OCC licensing and distribution system would be charged with a class C felony. These stores would essentially be analogous to liquor stores, but they would sell marijuana instead. Nonetheless, the language of the initiative would not prohibit bars or cafes from becoming OCC stores, as long as they were off-limits to anybody under age 21. All other commerce in marijuana would be illegal, although you’d be perfectly free to give it away to adults. The current medical marijuana system would remain intact, however; card-carrying patients could continue to receive free marijuana from private growers, or could buy it at cost from the OCC. The proposed makeup of this commission has drawn some criticism. Two of the OCC’s commissioners would be appointed by the governor, while the other five would be appointed by the marijuana growers and processors. According to Clatsop County District Attorney Josh Marquis, “It’d be like having an OLCC where everybody was a liquor distributor.” The Oregonian called it “hard to take seriously.” Oregon marijuana activist John Sajo—who was responsible for 2010’s failed Measure 74 that sought to legalize medical marijuana dispensaries in the state—points to the Oregon State Board of Pharmacy, which has five pharmacists and two members of the public. “I think marijuana farmers obviously ought to have input into how the industry is regulated,” he tells WW. “As long as it isn’t too incestuous, I think there’s an easy legislative fix.” Because this measure is statutory—that is, it doesn’t amend the Oregon Constitution—a lot of other items in the measure might also be subject to such legislative tweaks. Umatilla County Sheriff John Trumbo, who opposes the measure, says, “The law as written has no oversight; it’s got holes all over it. They don’t talk about what the tax is going to be. They don’t talk about what the fees are going to be.” But unlike most government agencies, the OCC wouldn’t run on taxes. It would operate on pure profit.

POSITIONS OF ELECTED OFFICIALS AND CANDIDATES Some politicians want to avoid the issue of marijuana legalization. According to Jim Moore, assistant professor of politics and government at Pacific University and director of the school’s Tom McCall Center for Policy Innovation, candidates aren’t yet sure that it’s a mainstream issue. “All you do by taking a position is maybe tick off a section of voters,” he says. “You bring their attention to it.” We contacted (or tried to contact) a number of elected officials and candidates for office to get their opinions.

SUPPORT MEASURE 80 City Commissioner Randy Leonard: “I see it as an interesting contradiction that we allow drinking and prohibit marijuana. I think arguably marijuana is the less harmful of the two.” Mayoral candidate Charlie Hales: “I think that the criminalization of marijuana has not worked, is costly and does not reduce drug abuse.” SUPPORT MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION, BUT NO COMMENT ON MEASURE 80 U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon, 3rd District), City Commissioner-elect Steve Novick. LEANING IN SUPPORT Mayoral candidate Jefferson Smith: “This is a decision for the voters of Oregon, not the mayor of Portland. As mayor, I’ll be focused on making the city work better for more people. As a voter, I think marijuana prohibition isn’t working very well—diverting money away from incarcerating serious offenders and vital services like treatment and prevention. I’m inclined to favor the measure, but I want to hear more from the proponents and opponents before I cast my vote.”

And because it sets its own prices at both ends of the business pipeline—and makes all other trade in marijuana illegal—the OCC’s income would presumably be more guaranteed than that of your average strong-armed mafia contractor.

OPPOSE MEASURE 80/LEGALIZATION U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-Oregon, 5th District) opposes the measure; Gov. John Kitzhaber opposes marijuana legalization. U.S. Rep. Greg Walden (R-Oregon, 2nd District) voted against allowing medical marijuana in Washington, D.C., in 1999. DECLINED TO GIVE AN OPINION City Commissioners Nick Fish and Amanda Fritz; City Council candidate Mary Nolan; U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Oregon, 4th District); Congressional candidates Ronald Green (R) and Art Robinson (R). DIDN’T RETURN OUR PHONE CALLS U.S. Reps. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Oregon, 1st District) and Greg Walden (R-Oregon, 2nd District); Congressional candidates Delinda Morgan (R) and Fred Thompson (R); U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon). (Wyden has issued statements against marijuana legalization in the past, but alongside Merkley co-sponsored a bill that would have legalized industrial hemp farming.)

Most of this revenue would then wash back up into the state budget’s general fund, after operating expenses were paid. CONT. on page 19

Oregon Cannabis Tax Act (MEASURE 80)

New Approach Washington (I-502)

Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act (COLORADO AMENDMENT 64)

21 years

No limit on personal possession.

1 oz. usable marijuana, 16 oz. of solid “marijuana-infused products” (e.g., brownies), 72 oz. of liquid products (e.g., tea).

One ounce or less in public.

For personal use only, no limit.

No.

Up to six plants, only three of which are in bloom.

CAN YOU GROW IT FOR SALE?

Only with a license from the Oregon Cannabis Commission. All sales are to the OCC, and the OCC sets all prices.

With a license from the state. All sales only to licensed retailers or processors.

With a license from the state. All sales only to licensed processors, who sell to retailers.

CAN YOU SMOKE IT IN PUBLIC?

Only in specially designated areas inaccessible to minors.

No.

WHERE WOULD YOU BUY IT?

State-run stores.

State-licensed stores.

State-licensed stores that sell only marijuana.

WHAT’S THE TAX SITUATION?

The OCC sets its own buying and selling price. Profit goes to the state, after costs.

25% excise tax at every transaction.

Taxed 15% excise tax at wholesale.

After costs: 90% to the state general fund, 7% to drug-abuse treatment, 1% for promotion of hemp industry, 1% for hemp-biodiesel development, 1% for drug education.

Largely split among treatment, education, the Washington Basic Health Plan and the state general fund.

First $40 million goes to school construction; the rest goes to the state general fund.

LEGAL AGE LIMIT POSSESSION CAN YOU GROW IT FOR PERSONAL USE?

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The bill’s co-sponsor, Paul Stanford, expects $140 million in annual revenues for the state, but at press time he was unable to account for how he obtained that figure. Stanford also estimates a $61 million annual savings in law-enforcement costs, based on a 2010 study by prolegalization Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron. That same study by Miron estimated only $37 million in potential tax revenues for Oregon. When asked about Stanford’s revenue projections, Miron wrote, “Some legalizers use estimates that, in my judgment, are extreme.” Art Ayre of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services—who was charged with determining the potential financial effects of the Cannabis Tax Act—says he threw up his hands when it came to estimating potential tax revenue. “I pulled up information on marijuana cafes in Amsterdam,” he tells WW. “After spending probably a day on that, I realized I was making heroic assumptions.” Ayre subsequently marked all forms of potential revenue as “indeterminate.” Ayre’s estimates for lawenforcement savings—gleaned from the Department of Justice—were significantly lower than Stanford’s and Miron’s: They were a mere $1.4 to $2.4 million. To underscore this general uncertainty surrounding the finances of marijuana measures, the Washington State Office of Financial Management estimated this August that Washington’s legalization initiative might bring in anywhere between zero and $2 billion over five years— which is another way of saying that pretty much anything could happen. One perceived benefit of the Oregon measure that has nothing to do with getting high is, if it passes, it will finally allow large-scale industrial hemp farming in Oregon, a state whose climate is well suited for it. Hemp is an agricultural variant of marijuana that has a very low amount of THC, the chemical component in marijuana that gets you high. Hemp is the agricultural equivalent of a worker drone, robust and utilitarian but far from exciting. It’s used to make rope and clothing and even ethanol fuel. Hemp is legal to cultivate in Oregon, but the Oregon Department of Agriculture has balked at challenging the federal prohibition of all strains of cannabis. Hemp products sold here are imported from Canada and China. But under the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act, hemp would be unregulated. “In short order, the hemp market will dwarf the marijuana market,” Stanford says. This hope for hemp’s agricultural utility is precisely why one of the largest labor unions in Oregon has endorsed Stanford’s marijuana legalization effort. According to Dan Clay, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 555, “The fact of the matter is we have the opportunity to get on the ground floor of what could be a really big deal. There are so many uses [for hemp], and it seems like it grows very well in the Northwest.” Clay professes to not be overwhelmingly interested in legalizing recreational marijuana. But he has been frustrated by recent economic setbacks and is convinced agricultural hemp might be an answer for the workers in his union. “We’ve represented employees at an ethanol plant

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for a number of years,” he says. “The problem is getting corn to make into ethanol. They actually ceased production of ethanol and laid everybody off. It just makes sense to me, instead of relying on corn from the Midwest, why not work out applications for a local product that we could grow in our area? [Ethanol] can be made from hemp, or at least I’m told it can.” There appears to be no organized opposition to the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act, yet some think it will have a steep climb into the law books. A June survey by Public Policy Polling showed 43 percent of Oregonians support marijuana legalization, with 46 percent opposed. Eleven percent were undecided. Polling in Colorado by the same company showed 46 percent in support of legalization, with 38 percent opposed. Washington showed even stronger support, with 50 percent in favor and 37 percent opposed. Of course, the Colorado and Washington initiatives have received millions of dollars from backers, producing television advertising campaigns. “Oregon’s measure doesn’t enjoy nearly the same amount of support,” says Allen St. Pierre, NORML’s director. For one thing, the measures in the other two states are receiving lots of support from billionaire Progressive Insurance Chairman Peter Lewis: $1.1 million in Washington and $875,000 in Colorado. Also, the measures in Washington and Colorado, St. Pierre says, “are more narrowly tailored to polling and focus groups. They found out what people would vote for.”

JOHNNY CAN WEED ALL BY HIMSELF An aspect of Measure 80 some might find more than a little surprising is that the seeds for marijuana could legally be sold at your local 7 Dees or the Portland Nursery. This is because all seeds are classified as hemp, which is unregulated under the measure. Even 12- or 16-year-olds, who are otherwise restricted under the Cannabis Tax Act from possessing marijuana, could legally buy seeds. The measure’s sponsor, Paul Stanford, isn’t perturbed by this. “It’s the same way a kid can make wine or beer these days,” he says. “Except once they have the wine or beer, it’s illegal. Like when I was a kid in Dallas, Texas, I bought a wine-making kit at a local store. I never got around to making the wine, though.”

Since mid-March, Stanford’s campaign has raised only $330,000. Most of this money came from Stanford’s own THCF. And nearly all of that money is gone, spent on paid signature-gatherers. The campaign has about $960 cash on hand and $3,700 in debts. By comparison, the Oregon casino initiatives, Measures 82 and 83, have already raised more than $1 million and are expected to raise and spend millions more. The campaign to end gillnet fishing (Measure 81) has raised $500,000, and the real-estate companies’ initiative to lower taxes on themselves (Measure 79) has raised a little over $800,000. None of Measure 80’s endorsers—the NAACP, United Food and Commercial Workers or Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association—has contributed any money to help bolster the measure. But singer Willie Nelson, a notorious pothead, did throw $5,000 into the kitty. The same lack of money holds for the opposition. According to the Oregon Secretary of State’s office, no funded organization has stepped up to campaign against the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act. The Oregon District Attorneys Association, the Oregon State Sheriffs Association and the Oregon Association Chiefs of Police are all in opposition but don’t intend to raise money. If the Oregon legalization campaign does manage to succeed, it would likely cause a faceoff with a federal government that still considers marijuana highly illegal. “Are the feds going to go nuts in court?” asks Washington marijuana activist Philip Dawdy. “Yeah. Will they win? Nobody knows.” Steve DeAngelo, the owner of a chain of medical marijuana dispensaries in California, says the federal response in his state—which has a medical marijuana law with a retail component—has been for the feds to shut down the individual operations of each medical marijuana vendor. “There have been dozens of actions,” DeAngelo says, “threatening landlords with the seizure of their property.” St. Pierre, NORML’s director, says the Oregon landscape would be different. Because the marijuana would be administered through the state itself, passage of the bill would all but force a federal showdown. He welcomes it. “The federal government is laying waste to the medical marijuana industry in California,” he says. “Looking forward, the state has to be involved. Let’s go to the Supreme Court. It’s not a great court to get before, but the court was set up to resolve these types of conflicts. “And if all of these measures lose, it doesn’t matter. There will be initiatives in 2014, in 2016. It’s not going away.” Willamette Week AUGUST 29, 2012 wweek.com

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DEERAOKE: San Francisco quartet Deerhoof and Portland’s Baby Ketten Karaoke are putting a new twist on the albumrelease party. On Tuesday, Sept. 4, Mississippi Pizza hosts a very special karaoke session, wherein the entire new Deerhoof album, Breakup Song, will be sung by fans. Baby Ketten’s John Brophy says this was Deerhoof guitarist John Dieterich’s idea: “He said the album’s vibe is about going out with friends and drinking, dancing, singing karaoke, etc. This seemed like the perfect way to DEERHOOF celebrate its release.” The storied experimental pop band provided Baby Ketten with album tracks—sans vocals, of course—making this your best opportunity to front Deerhoof. For those who would like a little practice, NPR’s website is streaming Breakup Song now. FUTURE DRINKING: ChefStable mogul Kurt Huffman is a 25 percent owner and the “managing member” of Trigger, the new Bunk Sandwiches Tex-Mex joint underneath Wonder Ballroom. Eventually, we predict this entire city will be owned in equal shares by the McMenamins and Huffman. >> Popular pie purveyor Lauretta Jean’s is taking over one of Pix Pâtisserie’s former locations at 3402 SE Division St. The other space, at 3901 N Williams Ave., will be occupied by Kenny & Zuke’s Deli Bar, a bagel shop and bar. >> Captured By Porches has applied for a brewpub license at 7316 N Lombard St. in St. Johns, where it currently operates its beer bus on weekends. >> Western Bikeworks at 1015 NW 17th Ave., which already has an in-house cafe, has applied for a license to serve beer and wine. >> Art space YU Contemporary (aka Yale Union) has applied for a full liquor license. But will anyone go to an art show where the wine isn’t free? HACK SAW: Portland Digital eXperience, the new tech arm of WW ’s MusicfestNW, has announced an event that brings the digital and musical realms together—and it’s going to be free and open to the public. PDX’s Music Hack Day will crack open the APIs from Spotify, Rumblefish, MapQuest and Twilio for hackers to play with. p ortland d igital e x perience And why not mash it up Capturing the creative spirit and drive of Portland’s start-up scene with Portland’s extensive open-data sets? We’d love to see someone build an app that makes your cellphone play the Law & Order “chung-chung” every time you walk past a recent crime scene. Hack Day will take place Saturday, Sept. 8, at Puppet Labs (411 NW Park Ave., Suite 500) starting at 1 pm. BEAM ME OUT: Trek in the Park wrapped up its fourth and penultimate season at Cathedral Park on Sunday, Aug. 26, with Garrett Wang—Ensign Harry Kim from Star Trek: Voyager— making a cameo appearance on the bridge. Next summer will be the final Trek voyage for theater company Atomic Arts, and it’s going out with a fan favorite: The Trouble With Tribbles.

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WEDNESDAY AUGUST 29 AND SO IT GOES [THEATER] Aaron Posner directs the world premiere of his own play, which weaves together several short stories by Kurt Vonnegut. Posner first staged a straightforward version of the show in the 1980s, but the current production, which features three love stories set in an imaginary American town, promises to be a more fluid exploration of bitterness and love. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm WednesdaysSaturdays, 2 pm and 7:30 pm Sundays, through Oct. 7.

THURSDAY AUG. 30 SUPERFEST! KICKOFF [MUSIC] The four-day electronicmusic festival kicks off when two of Portland’s biggest dance acts—Glass Candy and Chromatics, both signed to the influential Italians Do It Better imprint—take the stage to celebrate the bustling local dance scene and raise money for music programs in local schools. The festival continues, at various venues, through Sunday. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St. 8 pm. $12. All ages.

FRIDAY AUG. 31 YEASAYER [MUSIC] Brooklyn-based Yeasayer’s vibe is one that blows minds wide open. This month’s Fragrant World finds the group adding more dance beats and ’80s synths to its freakfolky sound to create a monster musical hybrid. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St. 8 pm. $22 advance, $25 day of show. All ages. KILLER JOE [MOVIES] At 77, William Friedkin has ceased giving any semblance of a fuck. In this nasty slice of cornpone depravity, the director bashes Emile Hirsch’s skull in with a can of pie filling; transforms Matthew McConaughey into the skeeviest, scariest sleazebag since Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet; and makes Gina Gershon...well, you don’t want to know. Fox Tower, 846 SW Park Ave., 221-3280. Multiple showtimes. ROMANIAN FESTIVAL [FESTIVAL] Portland’s Romanian Orthodox Christian community invites you to “party like a Transylvanian,” which includes eating traditional homemade sausages and pastries, drinking Romanian wine and beer and watching folk singing and dancing. St. Mary’s Romanian Orthodox Church, 13505 SE Stark St. 11 am-8 pm Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 1-2. Free.

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SEE IT: Eric Erlandson will speak at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., on Tuesday, Sept. 4. 7:30 pm. Free. (Letter by John Locanthi)

LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS [MUSIC] After getting lost in recordlabel limbo in the ’70s and disappearing into relative obscurity, Lee Fields made a comeback with the recent revival of old-school funk and soul. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+. Willamette Week AUGUST 29, 2012 wweek.com

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The Beaverton Farmers Market celebrates the town’s ethnic diversity with its Latino Fiesta. There will be tamale- and pupusa-making classes, alongside live music and, er, Zumba. Beaverton Farmers Market, Hall Boulevard between 3rd and 5th streets, 643-5345. 8 am-1:30 pm. Free.

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Portland’s Romanian Orthodox Christian community invites you to “party like a Transylvanian,” which includes eating traditional homemade sausages and pastries, drinking Romanian wine and beer, and watching folk singing and dancing—not, apparently, wearing cheap, fake fangs and saying in a terrible accent, “I vant to suck your blood!” Dispel my offensive stereotypes by partying down with some actual Transylvanians. Noroc! St. Mary Romanian Orthodox Church, 13505 SE Stark St. 11 am-8 pm Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 1-2. Free.

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Portobello Vegan Trattoria is hosting a vegan soul-food dinner in order to raise money to put on a Youth Hip-Hop Green Dinner, which will introduce urban youth to healthy vegetarian food. Yeah, good luck with that. Still, a worthy cause, and the dishes for this dinner sound decidedly unhealthy (in a good way): mac ’n’ cheese, barbecue, biscuits, cornbread, sweet-potato pie and red velvet cake, among others. Tickets at vegansoul-eorg.eventbrite.com. Portobello, 1125 SE Division St., 754-5993. Seatings at 5 pm and 7:30 pm. $40.

TOP DESTINATIONS FOR CHICKPEA DISHES Wolf & Bear’s

3925 N Mississippi Ave.; SE 20th Avenue and Morrison Street. The best falafel in Portland; it’s a ballsy (geddit?) proclamation, but I’m going to make it about these Israeli vegetarian food carts. Unlike the dry, deep-fried nuggets from most Middle Eastern eateries, Wolf and Bear’s falafel are big, thick, herby patties, made with sprouted chickpeas, grilled fresh for every order and served in a warm, slightly charred pita wrap with vegetables, hummus and plenty of creamy tahini. RUTH BROWN.

Ya Hala

8005 SE Stark St. This Montavilla restaurant is a much-loved neighborhood staple, but Ya Hala pulls in crowds from all over the city for its superior Middle Eastern food and festive atmosphere. The mezza menu is extensive, and while most of its dishes won’t be new territory for anyone familiar with Lebanese cuisine, the bright, fresh flavors breathe new life into some old standards. The veggie mezza assortment features a nigh-perfect hummus and falafel that pop with fresh herbs. RUTH BROWN.

Cedo’s Falafel and Gyros

3901 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Cedo’s makes the best falafel I have tasted in town: hot, craggy, golf ball-sized orbs of chickpea goodness that crunch as you bite into them, revealing a moist, intensely herby center tinted light green. They are truly awesome. You will probably shovel at least two in your mouth with a greedy mmmraphgh, gasping for air between bites, before it occurs to you to ask why they taste so good. KELLY CLARKE.

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2601 NW Vaughn St. The epic selection of starters includes the strangely satisfying chickpea fries, which occupy an odd zone between falafel and Burger King french-toast sticks. It shouldn’t work. It does work. CHRIS STAMM.

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REVEREND NAT’S DELIVERANCE GINGER (REVEREND NAT’S HARD CIDER) Portland may be the least religious city in the country, but something tells me the Reverend Nat will find his flock here. He may not save us from our fornicating or slothful or asscoveting ways, but this new Woodlawn neighborhood cidery may just deliver us from the sinfully syrupy ciders that plague so many of our bars. Reverend Nat’s Deliverance Ginger, a ginger beer/hard-cider hybrid, may sound like an unholy union at first—especially when you consider his flagship cider, Revival, is about as dry as a nun’s tit—but yeah, I bear witness that it is delicious. Ever so slightly sweeter than the basic cider from which it was made, it tastes of tart, fresh apple, kicked up with enough ginger juice to tickle, but not burn, the back of the throat. And lo, pour it over ice on a hot summer day, and you too will see that it is good. Recommended. RUTH BROWN.

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CIBO It’s surprisingly easy to guess which guys are headed through the mirrored door to the adult theater. Grandfatherly gentleman in a plaid shirt scurrying down the sidewalk like he’s late for a dentist appointment? Yup. Giant cowboy hat? Oh yeah. Handlebar mustache and tiny track shorts? Hmm, maybe. People-watching is a pleasant diversion at Cibo, the new Division Street Italian joint from Bastas chef-owner Marco Frattaroli. Frattaroli must have known that when he installed giant picture Order this: Plain cecina ($8). windows facing the Oregon Best deal: Sopressata pizza ($12). Theater, along with vintage desk I’ll pass: Salt-baked fish ($12). lamps, bar stools made from the ribs of old wine barrels and a tin-tiled bar. It’s a plentiful source of delight at a restaurant that offers as many puzzled squints and frustrated furrows. Why are we cutting our pizza with plastic-handled kitchen shears? Did we order an octopus salad? How did this fish benefit from being baked under a pile of salt? Why is everything on the menu that’s not round—focaccia, steak, salad and fish, priced between $2 and $19—grouped together as “Etcetera”? And, wait, where is that guy in a red sweatshirt and jean shorts going? First, what Cibo does well: round things. Cecinas—chickpea flour pancakes baked in an imported oven—are the reason to come. Otherwise unknown in Portland, these falafel-crepe hybrids come plain ($8) or with pesto ($10), eggplant ($10) or sausage ($12). The plain cecina, topped with a grind of black pepper and slightly charred, was my favorite. It’s a simple and filling appetizer loaded with protein and fiber. The pizza isn’t worth waiting for, but it is solidly above average; like at Nostrana it’s built on a crust thin enough to slice with scissors and kissed with smoke. Our sopressata ($12) was light on cheese but had a full sandwich worth of salami along with shavings of red onion and a few olives. I couldn’t promise your pizza would look the same given young Cibo’s inconsistency. The Etcetera section of the menu is a minefield. Only the malfatti al ragu ($12), simple square pasta with a beefy tomato sauce, was up to the standard of the pizza and cecinas. The focaccia ($2) was a little soggy. The octopus ($9), which was advertised as coming with “blanched potatoes and arugula,” is actually a large plate of arugula with several chewy, browned tentacles and a few small chunks of potato. Arancini ($6), two plum-sized fried balls of rice and mozzarella, begged for tomato sauce. The salt-baked fish ($19) is a big miss. The dish is a fryer-size pompano covered in salt crystals and baked whole in the restaurant’s oven, then wheeled out to the table on a cart. Our server was impressed with the fish as he scraped away the salt and skin: “Oh, this one looks good,” he said. “They’ve been burning some of them.” The show yielded two small fillets that, doused in a grassy olive oil, tasted exactly like fish baked in tin foil. That fish dish belongs back in the pond. Cibo would be wise to toss it before facing competition from the Woodsman Tavern and Stumptown owner Duane Sorenson’s upcoming Italian restaurant, which will sit two blocks away. Then again, it’ll be hard to beat Cibo during trenchcoat season. MARTIN CIZMAR.

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FREE SHOWS TO SET THE DANCE FLOOR ON FIRE It’s now officially a tradition: Once again, Nike+ has teamed up with MusicfestNW to unleash a pair of shows that are sure to rattle the windows and rumble the foundation of the Wonder Ballroom. And, once again, they’re totally free for all. It all starts Sept. 6 with Flying Lotus and Nosaj Thing, two DJ/producers who are driving the sound of L.A.’s underground hip-hop scene. FlyLo comes to town in support of his latest album, Until the Quiet Comes, a somnolent collection of low-hanging beats and psychedelic atmospherics featuring appearances by up-andcoming whippersnappers Erykah Badu and Thom Yorke. He’s joined by Nosaj Thing, who has produced deliciously warped tracks for Kid Cudi and Kendrick Lamar, and created hyper-intelligent beats that feel at home in both high-end boutiques and illegal block parties. Sept. 7 brings A-Trak, the Montreal DJ who

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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 29 Bomb the Music Industry!, Absent Minds, Andrew Link, Metallica 3000

[SKA-PUNK STEW] New York’s genredefying Bomb the Music Industry!, which recently announced plans to break up after its current tour, never did deliver on its incendiary promise to take down an empire—but mastermind Jeff Rosenstock’s expansive project did make consistently impressive displays out of pop shrapnel. Bomb the Music Industry!’s glittering blend of various be-dashed punk styles—ska, pop, folk—occasionally tipped into too much too-muchness, but Rosenstock’s undeniable way with classic pop hooks always kept the beautiful mess in check. Rest in whatever passes for peace in your crazy world, BtMI! CHRIS STAMM. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. 9 pm. $7 advance, $10 day of show. All ages.

The Yardbirds, The Parson Red Heads, DJ Gregarious

[HAPPENINGS 50 YEARS’ TIME AGO] To younger audiophiles solely familiar with the Yardbirds as a farm club for British guitar wizards, a revivified troupe led by the rhythm section might hold all the appeal of a touring model of the Black Hills absent Mount Rushmore, but more than just good fortune once attracted the staggering array of talent to a band of steadily gigging blues purists-turned-psych pioneers who staffed Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page as successive lead guitarists their half-decade of existence (interior designer Top Topham, original axman, stands by his decision to remain in art school). Opening act DJ Gregarious leads a master class on the group’s sweeping influence throughout the wide world of rock, and though the twentysomething currently playing lead seems best described as tasteful, the founders have probably earned the benefit of the doubt. JAY HORTON. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 2250047. 9 pm. $25. All ages.

Sandro Perri, 1939 Ensemble

[EXPERIMENTAL SINGERSONGWRITER] Since 1999, Torontobased artist and producer Sandro Perri has released over a dozen records. His repertoire spans multiple genres, with earlier work (made under the moniker Polmo Polpo) spilling into the instrumental electronica realm. But his most recent albums, which he now stamps with his own name, spin with equal parts electronic music, singer-songwriter fare, folk, jazz, psychedlic rock and total improvisation. Built around his washy guitar riffs and soothing vocals, Perri’s latest LP, Impossible Spaces, fuses organic and synthetic textures into a cohesive yet sonically jarring combination. The songs become a surprisingly palatable whole—despite complicated compositions that often surpass the seven-minute mark. Such lofty ambitions landed Perri on the long list for Canada’s 2012 Polaris Prize—well-deserved acclaim for a shape-shifting, genre-dodging musician. EMILEE BOOHER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

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[ST. JOHNS SCHOLAR] When they’re not embracing them, MCs are constantly battling stereotypes. In Portland, the biggest stereotype is that you can’t cop to a hard-knock life when the streets are lined with food carts, record stores and privilege. That’s some bullshit, and St. Johns native son Vinnie DeWayne knows it, so he meets doubters headlong on his powerful Castaway mixtape. Here’s a whip-smart rapper

boasting a vast array of skills—from smooth gutter flow to machine-gun staccato—who reps his rough-andtumble ’hood with a believable mix of anger and intelligence. In DeWayne we have a poet who isn’t afraid to go to war, an MC wise beyond his 21 years who knows goddamn well that people are always going to question his credibility. He has answered by destroying expectations and elevating an entire scene. AP KRYZA. Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., 228-3669. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

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[SPACEY INDIE] Lost Lander’s music is vast and explorative. Some percentage of this can be credited to Brent Knopf of Ramona Falls, a musician with a knack for expansive and spacey sounds who produced the band’s debut LP, DRRT. The track “Cold Feet” builds a surefooted opening of bold synth textures, a driving drumbeat, and frontman Matt Sheehy’s layered vocals. From there, the album trudges between swells of fullness and quiet moments of relief, creating a backand-forth soundscape that moves through the track list. With some nice guitar work and accompanying keys, strings and electronic elements, DRRT exudes careful craft and thoughtfulness in its arrangements. Even if Knopf’s influence surfaces, the catchy collection has Sheehy’s fingerprints all over it. Tonight’s performance at OMSI should prove a fine setting for the science nerds in the band. EMILEE BOOHER. OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave., 797-4000. 7 pm. $15 general admission, $9 OMSI members. 21+.

THURSDAY, AUG. 30 Pheasant, Ryan Sollee (of the Builders and the Butchers), Pony Village

[GARAGE FOLK] Pheasant’s weeklong residency at Al’s Den suggests that keen curatorial judgment lies among the garage-folk quintet’s talents. In addition to tonight’s show, which features a solo set from Ryan Sollee of local barnstormers the Builders and the Butchers, Pheasant has invited such local pleasantries as Log Across the Washer, Animal Eyes and Eidolons to share its crowded stage. As for Pheasant itself, the group’s Black Field LP, released in February, is an emotive hellion of a folk record, replete with overdriven compositions and gloriously dog-eared edges. SHANE DANAHER. Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel, 303 SW 12th Ave., 972-2670. 7 pm. Free. 21+.

Superfest!: Glass Candy, Chromatics, Litanic Mask, Etbonz, DJ Maxx Bass

[SUPERSIZED FEST] If ever there were any doubt, this year there can be none: Superfest has earned its prefix. The 2012 iteration of the annual allages, all-local dance music festival is easily the biggest yet, doubling down from last year for a four-night, fourvenue dance-travaganza. Fest curators Manny Reyes, E*Rock and Evan Neuhausen (the high-school-aged president of arts-education advocacy group Music in the Schools, which this year’s event benefits) will use their increased stage time to present a yet more panoramic view of Portland’s dance scene. Tonight’s kick-off show is illustrative: Headliner Glass Candy, formed in 1996, is about as old school as local electronic music gets—though, it must be said, the duo is still kicking: New single “Warm in the Winter” is a summer jam for the rainy season. Opener Litanic Mask, meanwhile,

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EVERYTHING IN ITS RIGHT PLACE WHY? KEEPS ITS MUSIC NICE AND TIDY WHILE LAUGHING IN THE FACE OF DEATH. BY C ASE Y JA R MAN

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The emotional high point of Why?’s latest EP, Sod in the Seed, comes near the close of the third song, “The Plan.” After a line addressing the fun one can have in planning for one’s own death (“Or plan none/ And leave it to the whims of your unborn little one”), the shuffling typewriter beat and rich piano bars begin to swell, and a churchy organ sound that recalls the one Al Kooper played on Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” begins spinning out into the atmosphere. Then everything falls away, and frontman Yoni Wolf’s echo-laden selfharmony begins the song’s stirring final verse, one both gorgeous and grotesque: “All the small tools/ For an heirloom pocket watch/ And the watch kept warm and working/ In a raw skank’s crotch.” “Rock skank’s crotch,” Wolf corrects me via phone from his home in Cleveland, where he’s packing for a tour. Oh, like a crackhead? “No, no, like in the ’80s, hanging out in the parking lot waiting for Stryper to come out,” he clarifies again with a laugh before trying to explain lyrics he hasn’t entirely figured out himself. “She’s hiding this precious time-keeper in her womb, essentially. It’s about death, I guess. The whole song is about death. It’s about not dwelling on it.” But death, and our attempts to trivialize it, have long been themes Wolf has labored over. On 2008’s Alopecia, the Anticon Records co-founder and MC-turned-frontman sings, “I sleep on my back because it’s good for the spine and coffin rehearsal.” On the band’s most recent LP, Eskimo Snow, he addresses life and death from the perspective of a reawakened pharaoh in a museum: “Left not even with my death mask on/ Heart and other organs missing for so long/ Features faded and dated in estimation/ And even the good wood gone.” “I’m not morose. I’m not goth or anything like that,” Wolf insists. And he’s right. Why?’s music addresses death in the same fashion it addresses everything else: with a sense of humor and deep

well of feeling. On Sod in the Seed, Wolf’s selfeffacing humor collides with hip-hop bravado (perhaps slightly tongue-in-cheek at this point) and a savant’s eye for detail. The trend continues on forthcoming full-length Mumps, Etc., the sometimes impenetrably verbose full-length that will see release in October. The disc, more cluttered but also more direct than Why?’s last, occasionally finds Wolf returning to his MC roots after a hiatus from rapping on albums. Its lyrics remain as vivid— and, sometimes, as confounding—as ever. “As far as where the ideas spawn from, I really don’t know,” Wolf says. He doesn’t read a lot of books, he says, and he’s not “a digger,” obsessing over rare records like some of his bandmates. He occasionally gets ideas from TV shows or movies, but more often, inspiration strikes at inopportune times, so Wolf draws from piles of receipts, show fliers and envelopes with verses scribbled on their backs to glean new material. “It’s when something touches me deeply or it’s funny to me,” he says. “But in some way, it has to touch the tender part of me for me to want to go forward with it.” Wolf’s tenderness, which seeps through his nasal and half-spoken vocal delivery even during his songs’ ugliest or most sarcastic passages, plays beautifully against his band’s meticulously crafted sound. In the seven years since Wolf turned his avant-hip-hop project into a full “rock band”—with Wolf’s brother Josiah on drums and keys, plus multi-instrumentalist Doug McDiarmid—Why? seldom chooses to rock out. Instead, the recorded fare seems constructed by a pint-sized orchestra with boners for Massive Attack and Wes Anderson soundtracks. Sparkly, minimal instrumentation— bells, marimba, vibes and exotic percussion— elbows electric guitar nearly all the way out of the frame. This is tidy music, something Wolf says is integral to his character. “I used to hold my poop in when I was a kid,” he admits. “It’s all related. I don’t like a mess. I like things neat and clean.” But on this afternoon, Wolf is feeling less concerned about space than usual. “Bring everything, I’d say,” he hollers to an unnamed tourmate in his kitchen. “Everything’s just gonna go bad.” SEE IT: Why? plays Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., on Saturday, Sept. 1. 9 pm. $15. All ages. Willamette Week AUGUST 29, 2012 wweek.com

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formed only last year, but its airy, uneasy music (it could score Twin Peaks) made for one of the most impressive performances at July’s PDX Pop Now! Festival. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm. $12. All ages.

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Vektor, Witch Mountain, Stovokor

[METAL MÉLANGE] Vektor does not care to be pinned down. The quartet from Philadelphia (by way of Arizona) works in prog-rock time signatures while thrashing away like a gang of young punks. Frontman David Disanto screeches his way through the group’s tunes like a black-metal demon. On paper, that may sound like a schizoid splatter painting, but Vektor makes it appear effortless, turning the headsnapping anthems on the band’s most recent album, Outer Isolation, into downright essential listening for anyone who identifies as a metal fan. Get to the show early for an increasingly rare outing by local Klingon metal quintet Stovokor. ROBERT HAM. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

The Body, Author & Punisher, Hot Victory

[ORCHESTRAL DOOM] To call the Body simply a doom-metal band is to diminish what makes the Rhode Island duo’s sound so moving and transcendental. The group often adds gentle touches like xylophone and cello to the mix—or, as on 2011’s Nothing Passes, it enlists the work of drone merchant Braveyoung and the 13-piece all-female choir Assembly of Light. The combined sound of those collaborations is an orchestral swell that overwhelmed the senses like a shot of 80-proof liquor. Things will be stripped down considerably with just the guitardrums attack of the Body onstage tonight, but brace yourself all the same for a slow-building assault on your mind and body. ROBERT HAM. Rotture, 315 SE 3rd Ave., 234-5683. 9 pm. $8. 21+.

Kayo Dot, Toby Driver

[CHILLED MADNESS] The subhead for Kayo Dot’s performance tonight is a “special chilled-out set” by the Brooklyn-based experimentalists. What does that mean, exactly? The beauty is that it could mean anything. On an album, this far-ranging group can do chamber pop, woodwind-spattered art rock with death-metal vocals, or clattering anti-jazz. Granted, Kayo Dot will probably lean more toward easyon-the-ears fare, but the group’s idea of “chilled-out” could be very different from mine. The band will also spend part of the evening breaking into its constituent parts to perform solo tunes from each member’s impressively vast discography. ROBERT HAM. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 7 pm. $7. All ages.

FRIDAY, AUG. 31 Diana Krall

[TORCH] A cover can be just as groundbreaking as an original. The Grammy-winning Diana Krall, who is married to cult favorite Elvis Costello and has herself been on the scene since 1993’s Stepping Out, has a voice like soot: It’s dark, it’s fine, and it sticks to you. Her newest album, Glad Rag Doll, slated for release in October, continues Krall’s tradition of covering jazz standards with her own characteristic twist: Her version of “There Ain’t No Sweet Man That’s Worth the Salt of My Tears” has more than a little country twang to it. In 50 years, hipsters will rave about her; for now, widespread mainstream acclaim will have to do. NORA EILEEN JONES. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 8 pm. $69.50$89.50. All ages.

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AMON TOBIN SUNDAY, SEPT. 2 [SOUND AND VISION] If you ever want to hear the sound of grown men and women reduced to the giggly wonder of 10-year-olds, cue up some YouTube videos of Amon Tobin’s current live show. The 40-year-old Brazilian electronic musician has been on the road for the better part of a year in support of his latest album, ISAM. And rather than stick himself “in front of a wall of LEDs or having some ginormous production behind me showing everyone what a big star I am,” Tobin says via phone, he thought he’d try something new. “Something that’s a genuine narrative, both visual and musical. Almost like a visual soundtrack to an audio score.” To do that, he and a team of audio engineers, computer animators and set designers concocted an immersive 3-D experience that doesn’t require clunky glasses to enjoy. Tobin and his beat machines and noisemakers are ensconced within a 25-foot-tall, 14-foot-long structure upon which is projected a precisely coordinated series of images, colors and visuals—everything from swirling psychedelic patterns to churning steampunk gears and pipes—that correspond to each track in his hour-plus set. The result is an immersive multimedia experience, and the perfect complement to an album that, though it was released more than 12 months ago, still carries a great deal of enveloping and overwhelming power. ISAM was a step away from what was expected from the already beloved producer. Or as Tobin bluntly wrote on the Web after the album’s online release: “Anyone looking for jazzy breaks should look elsewhere at this point.” ISAM moved away from the funky drummer beats and bouncing intrusions by MCs in place of a grander, more synthetic approach. Or, as Tobin puts it, “a contrast between advanced futuristic sound and clunky dust-covered mechanisms.” So, a track like “Goto 10” will balloon out with huge bass notes and frizzy overtones while being pricked from underneath with distorted guitar stabs and cheeky vocal samples. “Kitty Cat” features a campfirelike singalong and a 2/4 shuffle tumbling with the sound of flying cars hovering over the scene. The only potential downside to this type of live show is, Tobin can’t deviate from the set list, nor can he improvise on his material. The only time he can change things, he says, is “if something goes wrong.” But that’s exactly what he was looking for from the start of this project. “It’s been a choice to do something structured,” he says. “That’s how I approach DJ sets anyway: working on something for years that will only be half an hour long. I very much like that approach, as opposed to jamming.” That said, though, with this huge stage show and the structured audio-visual overload it provides, does Tobin need to be there at all? Couldn’t he have someone push “play” on his behalf while he stays cozy in his adopted hometown of Montreal? Not so, Tobin says. “The whole point is to integrate myself into a visual presentation of the music,” he says. “I’m very much in the place. I just don’t feel like I need to be the focus.” ROBERT HAM. An electronic-music pioneer thinks outside the box...by putting himself in a big box.

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[ALL HALLOW’S EVE OF SEPTEMBER] Ain’t English great? There’s a perfect word to describe Seattle trio the Tempers, one that communicates both the denotation “scary” and the connotation “in a fun way”: That word is spooky. Yes, when the sibling coven of Chalia, James and Corina Bakker take the stage with their histrionic, synth-heavy stylings, it’s instant Halloween. The Bakkers are touring behind their new EP, Together We Are the Love Vortex, which features generous use of vocoder and typically batshit singing from huskyvoiced Corina. Their venue for the evening, “DIY multimedia classroom and performance space” Boom Bap!, opened last year and has fast become a local-music locus. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Boom Bap!, 640 SE Stark St., 617-5434807. 8 pm. Cover. All ages.

Yeasayer, Daughn Gibson

[MODERN PSYCHEDELIA] Yeasayer’s name suggests a band of positives, of affirmatives, of yeas. The Brooklyn band’s music does nothing to dispute that; its eclectic collection of sounds, instruments, moods, and vibes encapsulates all the experiences of a mind blown wide open. Since 2006, the group has released three full-length albums, the most recent of which is the explosive Fragrant World, released Aug. 21. Yeasayer is now saying “yes” more than ever, adding dancey beats and ’80s synth vibes to their freak-folky sound and creating a monster musical hybrid that’s nearly impossible to resist. NORA EILEEN JONES. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm . $22 advance, $25 day of show. All ages.

Ben Macy, The Blake Lyman Trio

[LOCAL JAZZ] One of the regulars of the Portland jazz scene over the past decade or so, pianist Ben Macy has spent less time performing in local clubs recently, and the release of his splendid new CD, Of Scars and Permanence, explains why. Recorded in the warm acoustic of an east Portland church over the past year, it comprises appealing, relaxed new Macy originals that reflect his current influence: the atmospheric, open-space cool jazz of Polish pianist-composer (and recent Portland Jazz Festival guest artist) Tomasz Stanko and other ECM artists like Bobo Stenson. It’s a natural fit for a musician who has long cultivated the still-fertile late-night ground plowed by Bill Evans and his successors. Bassist Jon Shaw, drummer Kyle Owen and trumpeter James M. Gregg, who appear on the album, will join Macy for this CD and vinyl release concert. BRETT CAMPBELL. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 8 pm. $10. 21+.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 1 Ian Hunter, The Minus 5

[ALL THE DUDES OF A CERTAIN AGE] Even emblazoned with the silliest couture and moniker of those glory days of glam, Mott the Hoople’s peculiar blend of cranked pub R&B and shyly transgressive music-hall balladry always contained an elegiac quality distinct from its ’60s forebears—“Don’t want to stay alive when you’re 25,” from the Bowie-penned “All the Young Dudes,” isn’t precisely the same sentiment as hoping to die before we get old—that presaged their remarkable 2009 reunion shows. One could certainly argue that septuagenarian frontman Ian Hunter, nearly three decades from the troupe’s split, looks a bit less ridiculous these days. His best-known solo works have been perhaps unfairly co-opted by Great White (“Once Bitten, Twice Shy”) and, er, Drew Carey (“Cleveland Rocks”), but upcoming 20th album When I’m

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GREYLAG WEDNESDAY, AUG. 29 [INDIE FOLK] In 2007, Daniel Dixon left his home in California to chase a girl in Louisville. Instead, his stay in Kentucky yielded a fateful encounter with Andrew Stonestreet. The first night the pair met, they jammed together, immediately hitting it off. “I was like, ‘Fuck, this guy can play everything,’” Stonestreet recalls. “‘We should definitely play music together.’” Neither of them could have predicted they’d wind up in a band in Portland. Soon after their Louisville introduction, Dixon visited Nashville to help Stonestreet lay down a Christmas album he was recording for his family (in lieu of buying gifts). That collaboration marked the beginning of a fond friendship—and of a band, Greylag. Though the group’s look—long hair, cigarettes and guitars—is familiar, Greylag stands out for its simple, folky arrangements of dueling acoustic and electric guitars, which, along with bass and percussion, frame Stonestreet’s magnetic vocal melodies beautifully. His vocals vary from soft croons to expressively high falsettos that, when pushed to their limit and backed by Dixon’s lead guitar, unfold as some of the purest moments in the music. Some of the band’s strength comes from juxtaposition of styles: Stonestreet, 25 and originally from West Virginia, comes from a self-taught singer-songwriter background. Dixon, 28 and originally from San Francisco, draws from formal composition-based training. “We make each other better by collaborating,” Dixon says. “We balance each other’s strengths and weaknesses.” After their initial meeting, the two attempted long-distance musical projects. But after skipping around the country with his music, Dixon settled in Portland in 2009. Stonestreet followed in early 2010. With help from current bandmate Brady Swan and friend Brandon Johnson, the freshly rooted pair quickly recorded the excellent seven-track EP The Only Way to Kill You, released in May. “The idea behind it was that it would be capturing the birth of the band,” Dixon says. Most of it was recorded in a living room. Writing most of the songs amid his transition out West, Stonestreet’s lyrics on the EP are introspective. On “Tiger,” he sings, “We spout off whatever feels and works/ Our good intentions don’t mean shit, tiger.” The singer-guitarist, who describes himself as “mouthy,” says he wrote the line to himself. “I was like, ‘Why don’t you just shut the hell up for five minutes and witness what’s happening around you?,’” he says of the lyrics. “When I listen back now, it kind of sounds like a kid waking up to a lot of stuff.” Since signing with the California-based label Ninth Street Opus and wrapping up separate national tours with Gomez and Augustana, Greylag has been working on new material and letting life sink in. The next record will move toward a full-band vision and be heavier than the debut (Stonestreet has lost three grandparents and two childhood friends in the past year). But catharsis has always been at the heart of the group’s music. “It’s a huge release. It’s in me to do, and I gotta put it out,” Stonestreet says of making music with Greylag. “It’s like sleeping now. It’s part of me.” EMILEE BOOHER.

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SATURDAY President continues a proud legacy of propulsive, poignant and everso-slightly daft recordings. JAY HORTON. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $35. Minors must be accompanied by a parent. All ages.

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[LIVE SCORE] For the third consecutive year, a handful of excellent local musicians—with the psychedelic/hypnotic Datura Blues and the delicate/orchestral Ocean Floor leading the charge—will gather in this (likely quite crowded) Southeast Portland backyard to watch and soundtrack Akira Kurosawa’s sprawling, lovely 1990 film Dreams. Best of all, viewers can still follow the plot, because the film will be subtitled. CASEY JARMAN. Mad Haus, 3737 SE Madison St. 9 pm. Free. All ages.

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ments of Lewis & Clark College’s Venerable Showers of Beauty ensemble. Sunday includes Masumi Timson’s Japanese music for koto zither, shakuhachi flute and violin, plus Jessie Marquez’s Cubanjazz-Brazilian hybrid, and No Passengers’ Latin folk rock. Monday brings the Kalabharathi Orchestra visiting from India before Nigeria’s Nojeem Lasisi takes the outdoor stage to sing and play talking drum later in the day. The festival concludes with Bon Ton Roulet playing and singing that most danceable and upbeat of American musical forms, zydeco, with a little Cajun and folk spicing to boot. BRETT CAMPBELL. North Park Blocks, Northwest 8th Avenue between Burnside and Glisan streets. 11 am-6 pm. Free. Continues through Monday, Sept. 3. All ages.

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[CHAMBER FOLK] As easy as it is to poke fun at Portland’s oft-toothless acoustic folk-pop scene, any local music watchers who are really paying attention usually run out of fingers to count exceptions on. Were you to strip Alameda’s new record, Procession, down to Stirling Myles’ guitar and voice—one earthy and raspy enough that he could probably do a damn good Eddie Vedder if he wanted to—I’m not sure the resulting collection would rise above Portland’s quiet but relentless orchestra of singer-songwriter fare on first listen. But Procession (unsurprisingly, produced by Point Juncture, WA’s, Skyler Norwood at his Miracle Lake studio) is immaculately orchestrated in a way that not only grabs attention but underscores the finer points of Myles’ punchy poetry. That helps put the band on at least one of those aforementioned “exceptions” lists: mine. CASEY JARMAN. Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th Ave. 9 pm. $7. 21+.

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SUNDAY, SEPT. 2 Gotye

[TINKER’S POP] Gotye, brainchild of Belgian-Australian producer Wally De Backer, has achieved the sort of viral giganto-success that takes on a life independent of the music that spawned it. If you’ve seen the video for Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” (and at 304 million views on YouTube, it’s very likely you have), then you’re familiar with De Backer’s airy, electronic pop tinkering. Gotye’s cultural ubiquity can appear perplexing to students of his 11-year career as a midsized blip on the Australian pop radar, but given his talent as a songwriter and his tasteful ear for samples, it’s fair to say that breakout success has visited a deserving candidate. SHANE DANAHER. McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 669-8610. 5 pm. $49.50. All ages.

Paper Brain, Brass Bed

[POWER-POP] I’ve got to admit something. Somewhere between its fine 2009 release, Ain’t Nobody Cares, and a warehouse party this summer wherein I ran into the band’s drummer, I forgot about Paper Brain. What a huge mistake that was. New EP Begin Again is a beautifully produced collection of four airtight pop songs that finds crunchy guitars and ghostly harmonies wrapped in a glossy, psychedelic skin. Frontman Mike Wroblewski’s vocals are better than ever here, reminding a touch of Alex Chilton and a little of Julian Casablancas. Wroblewski’s band evidences the rare restraint and adventurous spirit necessary for building intriguing songs in the last days of rock ’n’ roll, and it does so with a real, tangible sweetness. The quiet parts are trippy and the loud parts are exacting and callous in a way that reminds of the first Rentals album (one of those seminal nerd-rock records most bands learned exactly the wrong lessons from). I’m not going to forget this band again. Louisianabased headliner Brass Bed is similarly inventive (and trippy, for that matter), so tonight should be a

real good one. CASEY JARMAN. Rontoms, 600 E Burnside St., 2364536. 9 pm. Free. 21+.

Soft Metals, Cosmetics, Lighthouse, DJs Maxx Bass, Musique Plastique

[SLUTS!] Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I think you’ll agree: Soft Metals has not been faithful. Exhibit A: After forming in Portland a few years ago, the duo of vocalist Patricia Hall and electronicsguy Ian Hicks dumped our cute, smart and sensitive city (which had done everything—everything!—to support the pair’s music) for the admittedly hotter, but clearly vapid, Los Angeles. Exhibit B: On the duo’s 2011 self-titled debut (which received the imprimatur of trendsetting Brooklyn label Captured Tracks), Soft Metals shamelessly flirts with house, techno, experimental electronic and any other EDM genre with a pulse right in front of its surreal, synth- and drum machine-centered sound. Indeed, Soft Metals are stylistic slatterns, beyond any reasonable doubt— but the red A never sounded so good. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Rotture, 315 SE 3rd Ave., 234-5683. 9 pm. $7. 21+.

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Rattus, Trauma, Vicious Pleasures

[CLASSIC PUNK] My familiarity with vintage Finnish punk does not run deep—I believe Terveet Kadet marks the limit of what little was limned for me back in the day—but I spent some quality time with Rattus records as a patch-curious kid, and although the band’s frenetic ’80s hardcore didn’t click for me back then, a recent reassessment won me over. While Rattus’ metal crossover period still fails to thrill, the Finnish band’s early work does a wonderful dance on the quaking middle ground between melodic pleasure and aggressive menace. Let’s hope it’s that version of Rattus that visits Portland tonight. CHRIS STAMM. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.

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[GOTH BALLADS] Since disembarking from seminal goth-pop outfit Bauhaus in the early ’80s, David J has pursued a solo career as morose as his origins would suggest and simultaneously surprising in its playful proclivity for vaudeville, Americana and camp. Over the course of eight albums, David J has cast himself as something of a goth Leonard Cohen, crafting spare dirges that revel in their breathy poetry. Last year’s Not Long for This World feels not like a cash-in or a simple repetition of the motions, but like the work of a songwriter still able to draw fresh blood. SHANE DANAHER. Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel, 303 SW 12th Ave., 972-2670. 7 pm. Free. 21+.

The Joey DeFrancesco Trio

[PAST AND FUTURE JAZZ ICONS] Joey DeFrancesco has never been a particularly humble organist— his collaboration with the legendary Jack McDuff was titled It’s About Time, and a more recent disc heralds him as The Baddest B-3 Burner in the Business. DeFrancesco’s website welcomes fans to the home of “The Finest B-3 Organist on the Planet”—but the hype is pretty well justified, and when Miles Davis picks you as a sideman at 17, a little ego is probably going to follow. The kid (41 is still quite young in jazz years) may run the risk of being upstaged tonight, though. Drummer Jimmy Cobb, twice DeFrancesco’s age, is perhaps the most storied living jazz drummer this side of Roy

Haynes. Cobb’s last Jimmy Mak’s appearance, playing Coltrane tunes with Javon Jackson, spotlighted an understated player capable of making maximum impact with minimal effort. Guitarist Larry Coryell, who cut his teeth with the Chico Hamilton quintet and went on to record some seminal fulllengths of funky fusion, is somewhat of a cult icon in the jazz world. Hopefully, DeFrancesco’s own fire pushes his bandmates to fire back tonight. CASEY JARMAN. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 7 pm and 9:30 pm. $27 (guaranteed seating), $22 (general admission). First show All ages, second show 21 . All ages.

311, Slightly Stoopid, SOJA

[FUNKY RAP-ROCK] What’s to be said for a band that pioneers and perfects a genre of which it is the only real practitioner? While legions of copycats tried to replicate Rage Against the Machine’s furious punk/hip-hop hybrid and Sublime’s drunken rap-reggae, 311 remains relatively lonely as a collective that melded ultramelodic vocal hooks (and, it must be said, pitch-perfect harmonies) with angular riffs and positive raps not entirely dependent on the drug references of most peers. Nick Hexum and Doug “SA” Martinez were never the dopest MCs on the block, but their perfectly serviceable flows mostly served as grout between infectious hooks, and the nonsensical choruses from “Visit” and “Don’t Stay Home” still sound fun and inventive to me after a decade of being shamed by my cooler peers for being an “ex-” 311 fan. Even if the band seemed to run out of ideas by the mid-aughts and latest disc Universal Pulse is more sweetly sentimental than compelling, the truth is that when an old 311 song comes on the radio, I’m still Down. CASEY JARMAN. Sleep Country Amphitheater, 17200 NE Delfel Road, Ridgefield, Wash., 360-8167000. 7 pm. $48.45. All ages.

Drunk Dad, Heavy Medical, Bubonic Bear, Big Black Cloud

[PUNK SCUM] Heavy Medical and Bubonic Bear, the Philly duos composing this stacked bill’s meaty center, do right by the two-dude attack pioneered by Godheadsilo in the mid-’90s. The former bass-anddrum pair doses the pummeling formula with just enough pigfuck scumbaggery to scare the kids, while the latter guitar-and-drum dyad enters the fray in search of sludge grooves and post-hardcore panic. Both bands will fit right in with Portland’s newly reunited Drunk Dad, whose grimy punk rock somehow manages to sound both stoned beyond mobility and tweaked to the point of permanent brain vibration. CHRIS STAMM. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 4738729. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.

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Wednesday, August 29 8pm (doors open at 8pm) Bloodtypes • The Glowing Stars Crashfaster • minusbaby • DJ Tracer

$5.00 at the door.

Thursday, August 30

Buffalo gap Wednesday, august 29th • 7pm

9pm Fabulous Downey Bros. • Airpocalypse Slabtown’s own game show, “Name that Solo,” before the bands.

Friday, August 31

“Dinner Show”

w/Brian Harrison & andrew paul Woodworth Thursday, august 30th • 9pm

from The Well presents (songwriters in the round)

9pm Poor Luckies

Saturday, September 1 9pm Neon Sigh • Anne • Whirr • Lycus

Monday, September 3 9pm Labor Day Uprising--Money To Staff

friday, august 31st • 9pm

Begin oliver (pop rock)

Saturday, September 1st • 9pm

lost and found w/ Blake Noble

STEELHYMEN • others tba In celebration of Labor Day, all net proceeds from the bar will go to staff as a bonus. Drink special for card-carrying union members.

Tuesday, September 4

(folk pop rock)

9pm Highway Poets • Tater and Craig • TBA

gapfest 2012

1033 NW 16th Ave. • 971.229.1455

Rock and Rollback anniversary party

Within Spitting Distance of The Pearl

Mon - Fri 2pm - 2:30am Sat - Sun Noon - 2:30am

october 8th – 14th

Happy Hour

6835 SW Macadam Ave | John’s Landing

Mon - Fri 2-7pm • Sat - Sun 3-7pm Pop-A-Shot • Pinball Skee-ball • Air Hockey • Free Wi-Fi

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[AUG. 29 - SEPT. 4] The Lovecraft

Con Brio (late show); Tough Woodpyle (early show)

The Blue Monk

The TARDIS Room

Goodfoot Lounge

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Altai 1218 N Killingsworth St. Nathan Leigh, Joshua Stephens, Celia Grace, Jim Strange

Tillicum Club RICHARD BERNARDIN

8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Chad Rupp

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Liz Bacon, Jon Stuber

Torta Landia

4144 SE 60th Ave. Humidors, Open Jam

Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Nancy King

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Bitterroot, Science!

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar

800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Band with Wendy Goodwin and Joe Millward

THURS. AUG. 30 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

303 SW 12th Ave. Pheasant, Ryan Sollee (of the Builders and the Butchers), Pony Village

Alberta Street Public House

Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Pheasant, Eidolons

Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Storm Large (9:30 pm and 7 pm)

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Open Mic

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Manx, Dr. Velvet and the Social Drinkers, Thundering Asteroids, Proof and Proving

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Bomb the Music Industry!, Absent Minds, Andrew Link, Metallica 3000

Buffalo Gap Saloon

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Brian Harrison and the Last Draw, Andrew Paul Woodworth

Camellia Lounge

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

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St.

The Yardbirds, The Parson Red Heads, DJ Gregarious

Ladd’s Inn

Doug Fir Lounge

Landmark Saloon

830 E Burnside St. Sandro Perri, 1939 Ensemble

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam

East Burn

1800 E Burnside St. Irish Music Jam

East India Co.

821 SW 11th Ave. Josh Feinberg

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Trio Subtonic, Con Brio

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. Franco Paletta and the Stingers

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Gil Paradise

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. TxE, Vinnie Dewayne, Kruse

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Tiny Knives, Fist Fite, Sei Hexe, Lunge

1204 SE Clay St. Lynn Conover 4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray and the Cowdogs (9:30 pm); Bob Shoemaker (6 pm)

LaurelThirst

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

Lents Commons

9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic

Mississippi Pizza

Palace of Industry

5426 N Gay Ave. Flat Rock String Band

Parklane Park

Southeast 155th Avenue and Southeast Main Street La Tropikana

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Open Mic

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Refused, Sleigh Bells

Sengatera Restaurant

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Sirloin Sunrise (9:30 pm); Mr. Hoo (12 pm)

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

Mississippi Studios

Slabtown

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Greylag, Catherine Feeny, Suzanne Tufan

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. 21 Horses

OMSI

1945 SE Water Ave. OMSI After Dark: Lost Lander, Blue Skies for Black Hearts

Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Cool Breeze

PCPA Music on Main Street

Southwest Main Street and Southwest Broadway Jujuba (5 pm); Red Yarn Puppet Band (12 pm)

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Eyehategod, Dirtnap, Kingdom Under Fire, Never Awake

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Maga Bo, Gulls, DJ E3

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Gus Pappelis

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Her Ghost, Patti King, Ashia Grzesik

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown B3 Organ Group

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. KaleidoSkull, On Holiday, Sweeping Exits

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Manx, Snarl!, The Bottom Feeders, Brain Capital

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Sam Adams’ Band (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Vektor, Witch Mountain, Stovokor

Andina

Muddy Rudder Public House

Andrea’s Cha Cha Club

8105 SE 7th Ave. Eric John Kaiser

Ash Street Saloon

7850 SW Capitol Highway Kathy James Sextet

832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band

WED. AUG. 29

Hawthorne Theatre

1036 NE Alberta St. Queen Bitch (David Bowie tribute) 1314 NW Glisan St. Borikuas

BACK-TO-SCHOOL FASHIONS: Glass Candy plays the Crystal Ballroom on Thursday, Aug. 30.

2845 SE Stark St. Eric Schwieterman, Mike D, Brad Parsons

O’Connor’s Vault

225 SW Ash St. Pool Party, One Movement, New Pioneers, Eminent, Buck Turtle

Original Halibut’s II

Backspace

1305 SE 8th Ave. The Infected, The Wobblies, Dun Bin Had, Yo Adrian

115 NW 5th Ave. Muscle & Marrow, C3, Jupiter Monday (poetry reading)

Berrydale Park

Southeast 92nd Avenue and Southeast Taylor Street The Stolen Sweets

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Afroknot

2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb

Plan B

Record Room

8 NE Killingsworth St. Jeremy Burton Band, Whore Hound

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Taitered Oats, Dusty Grimm, Highwater

Rotture

Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. A Tiempo

315 SE 3rd Ave. The Body, Author & Punisher, Hot Victory

Buffalo Gap Saloon

Sellwood Public House

6835 SW Macadam Ave. John Rankin, Chris Margolin

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Ruth Beck, Jamie Palmaymesa

8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Fabulous Downey Bros., Airpocalypse

Slim’s Cocktail Bar

1033 NW 16th Ave. Bloodtypes, The Glowing Stars, Crashfaster, Minus Baby, DJ Tracer

Chapel Pub

Ted’s Berbati’s Pan

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Mesi & Bradley

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

Corkscrew Wine Bar

Star Theater

231 SW Ankeny St. The Gnome Sorcery Foundation, Rotten Musicians, Mark Dago

The Back Door Theater 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Daffodils

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Di Di Mau, For the Lash, DJ Ken Dirtnap

430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin

Clyde’s Prime Rib

1669 SE Bybee Blvd. Joseph Appel

8635 N Lombard St. Melody Guy

Spare Room

13 NW 6th Ave. Pojama People (Frank Zappa tribute)

3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones Jam 421 SE Grand Ave. Electrozeitzone

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Brown Bear, FMPM, Sphyramid

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Sneaky Tiki & the Lava Lounge Orchestra

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. John Dover Big Band

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Garcia Birthday Band (9 pm); Will West & Tanner Cundy (5:30 pm)

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar

800 NW 6th Ave. Alan Broadbent and Dick Berk

FRI. AUG. 31 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Pheasant, Nathan Baumgartner (of And And And), The Morals

Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. The Soul Rebels

Alberta Street Public House

1036 NE Alberta St. John Courage & the Great Plains, Matty Charles

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Rueda

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Diana Krall, Denzal Sinclaire

Ash Street Saloon

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Funk Shui (9:30 pm); Lynn Conover (6 pm)

Bipartisan Cafe

7901 SE Stark St. Kory Quinn and the Comrades

Boom Bap!

640 SE Stark St. The Tempers, Daniel Severin, Magic Fades, William Ingrid

Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Pete Krebs Trio

Buffalo Gap Saloon

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Begin Oliver

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Will Coca, Kelsey Lindstrom

Clyde’s Prime Rib

Doug Fir Lounge

The Back Door Theater 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Kayo Dot, Toby Driver

1635 SE 7th Ave.

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones

East Burn

1800 E Burnside St. Pagan Jug Band

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. The We Shared Milk, Charts, The Harm, Loaded for Bear

Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Karl Blau, Thanksgiving, The Pajama Party, I Am the Lake of Fire

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Prong, Witchburn, Nemesis, Separation of Sanity, Guillotine

Island Mana Wines 526 SW Yamhill St. Joe Marquand

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. Rebecca Kilgore, Tom Wakeling, Dave Frishberg, David Evans

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Darlin Blackbirds (8 pm); Racquel Russo, David Krom (6 pm)

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Ben Macy, The Blake Lyman Trio

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Neutralboy, 48 Thrills, Bitch School, Therapist, Murderland

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Billions and Billions, Sons of Huns, 100 Watt Mind

Kenton Club

LV’s Sports Bar

115 NW 5th Ave. Superfest!: Magic Mouth, Beyondadoubt, Massacooramaan, White Rainbow, Miracles Club DJs

1332 W Burnside St. Yeasayer, Daughn Gibson

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Can’t Hardly Play Boys (9 pm); The Hamdogs (6 pm)

Backspace

Ted’s Berbati’s Pan

830 E Burnside St. Vintage Trouble

Duff’s Garage

2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Silent Numbers, Sundaze, Lubec, Jetman Jet Team

1332 W Burnside St. Superfest!: Glass Candy, Chromatics, Litanic Mask, Etbonz, DJ Maxx Bass

231 SW Ankeny St. Volifonix, Marca Luna

830 E Burnside St. Civil Twilight, Morning Parade, Vanaprasta

225 SW Ash St. Hellokopter, Violet Isle, Just Lions

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Planet Krypton

Crystal Ballroom

Doug Fir Lounge

Crystal Ballroom

Disjecta

8371 N Interstate Ave. Matt Carlson, Jason Urick, The Tenses (multimedia event)

3530 N Vancouver Ave. Ben Jones

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. The Barn Burners, Medicine Family, Copper & Coal (9:30 pm); Mary Flower Trio (6 pm)

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. All the Apparatus (9 pm); Steady Boys Cajun Band (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound, Kay Kay & His Weathered Underground

Mount Tabor Theater

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Jet Force Gemini, She’s Not Dead, The Wandering Minds, Another Night with the Pornographers

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. BassMandolin

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Civil Twilight, Morning Parade

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

Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Suburban Slim

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BAR SPOTLIGHT

Brasserie Montmartre

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Blake Noble

Datura Blues, The Ocean Floor, Ed and the Red Reds, Rainbow Riders, Brothers of the Sacred Cloth, Firs of Prey, SSS Music, Die Geister Beschworen

Clyde’s Prime Rib

Mississippi Pizza

ROSANPS.COM

626 SW Park Ave. Eddie Parente Trio

Buffalo Gap Saloon

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Cool Breeze

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. Fruit Bats

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Ken Derouchie Band

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Chemicals, Isaac Rother & the Phantoms, The Hookers, Country Trash

Ella Street Social Club

TIPPLE THE ICEBERG: If the first round of Alberta Street gentrification brought families with biodynamic veggie patches and a penchant for naked fire-twirling, the second will bring whoever is intended to live inside the concrete bunker being built at the intersection with 21st Avenue. The corner is already home to bourgie Indian joint Bollywood Theater and tourist magnet Salt & Straw. Hidden out back is Bin 21 (5011 NE 21st Ave., 336-5266, bin21pdx.com), an airy wine bar full of elegant long-legged ladies sipping rosé and nibbling bruschetta. Easy-drinking pours hover around $6 to $9. The menu was, on my visit, skewed toward local regions and Spain, with three wines and three beers on tap. Sip your white peach sangria on the patio and marvel at the rollerderby store and punk bar across the road, which will soon be hilariously called “Old Alberta.” RUTH BROWN.

714 SW 20th Place Prince R.O.B., Yung HD, Jlew, BMP503, Ogtweez, Mean Mr. Green, Monsta, SupaNova, Blackwater, YunG Savages, BDP, 919, Spike Roscoe, Wes Guy & PDXtra Fly, Great Dain, Ton B. Fresco, Hook Broz featuring Joelz Soul

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Brownout

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Fishbone, The Sentiments, The Longshots, The Sindicate, Nighttrain

Touché Restaurant and Billiards

Record Room

Trader Vic’s

2314 SE Division St. Forest Bloodgood 8 NE Killingsworth St. Gresham Transit Center, Paul Iannotti, Towering Trees

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Potbelly, Blastfemur, No Red Flags, Yo! Adrian, Faithless Saints

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Drawn and Quartered, Scorched Earth, Ceremonial Castings, Fornicator

Scoreboard Sports Bar 4822 SE Division St. Cirijaye Band, Lowdown Sophisticates, Primitive Idols

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Poor Luckies

Slim’s Cocktail Bar

1425 NW Glisan St. Horsfall Duo

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

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Everything’s Jake

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Stan McMahon Band, Counterfeit Cash, Duover (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Tony Pacini Trio

SAT. SEPT. 1 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Pheasants, Michael Rowan (of Charts), Blake Mackey

8635 N Lombard St. The Twangshifters

Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Ian Hunter, The Minus 5

Artichoke Community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Simon Lynge

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Faithless Saints, Secnd Best, Stuck on Nothing, Big Electric

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Superfest!: Beisbol, Arohan, Palmas, Grapefruit, American Girls DJs

Boom Bap!

640 SE Stark St. Silverhawk, Subterranean Howl, Michael the Blind, The Els

Bossanova Ballroom

722 E Burnside St. Ravenna Woods, Mimicking Birds, Brothers Young, Rare Monk

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Tony Morrettii (Tony Sinatra tribute)

Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. David Friesen

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Nathaniel Talbot, Lincoln Crockett, Jeff Martin (9 pm); The Applicants (6 pm); Petty Cash (4 pm)

Mount Tabor Theater

North Park Blocks

Wonder Ballroom

Northwest 8th Avenue between Burnside and Glisan streets Art in the Pearl World Music Stage: Venerable Showers of Beauty, Toshi Onizuka Trio, Hanz Araki and the Mighty Few, Shabava, Gypsy Heart

128 NE Russell St. Why?

SUN. SEPT. 2 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Adrian H

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

Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Tyrone Wells, Justin Klump

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. System and Station, Marmits, RLLRBLL, The Crash Engine

Ash Street Saloon

Red Room

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

Jade Lounge

116 NE Russell St. Dominic Castillo

Katie O’Briens

1033 NW 16th Ave. Neon Sigh, Anne, Whirr, Lycus

1435 NW Flanders St. Soul 3 & Michal Angela

Secret Society Lounge

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. The Hot LZs, Thee Four Teens

Slim’s Cocktail Bar

Kelly’s Olympian

Someday Lounge

426 SW Washington St. Aan, Kithkin, Tartufi, Exploring the Depths

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Ghostwriter, Spanish Galleon, Land Between the Lakes

Laughing Horse Books

12 NE 10th Ave. Duck, Little Brother, Duck; Darto; Your Rival; Beach Party

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Blvd. Park, Everyday Prophets (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)

Mad Haus

3737 SE Madison St.

830 E Burnside St. The Heavy, The Silent Comedy

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Andy Coe Band, Cats Under the Stars (Jerry Garcia tribute)

231 SW Ankeny St. Swiggle Mandela, Dead Teeth

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Dan Cecil

The Blue Diamond

Kelly’s Olympian

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Undercover Band

426 SW Washington St. The Embalming Process

The Blue Monk

Kenton Club

3341 SE Belmont St. Eddie Martinez

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Thee Four Teens

2026 NE Alberta St. Diesto, Winter Ox, Towers

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Evvnflo, The Greencarts

Bunk Bar

Doug Fir Lounge

Ted’s Berbati’s Pan

116 NE Russell St. Dominic Castillo

640 SE Stark St. Dunes, The Caldonia, Nucular Aminals

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam

125 NW 5th Ave. Alameda, Ezza Rose, Hip Hatchet

The Secret Society Ballroom

Boom Bap!

Clyde’s Prime Rib

8635 N Lombard St. Countryside Ride

The Know

225 SW Ash St. The Small Arms, Horse Bodies, Bumpin Nastys

1028 SE Water Ave. Ty Segall

Slabtown

McMenamins Edgefield

Vie de Boheme

836 N Russell St. De La Warr, The Glyptodons, Leigh Marble (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)

4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music

1332 W Burnside St. Ana Tijoux, Tope

Mississippi Pizza

White Eagle Saloon

Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe

Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Gotye

1530 SE 7th Ave. Contigo

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Northbound Rain (Grateful Dead tribute)

Dan Haley & Tim Acott (9 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)

Trader Vic’s

1203 NW Glisan St. Xavier Tavera

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Zombie Messiah, Fear the Slaughter, Unruly Instinct, Echoic, 2 Headed Beast

2346 SE Ankeny St. Ryan Short, Lucas Biespiel

Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli

Tony Starlight’s

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray

Laughing Horse Books 12 NE 10th Ave. Lee Corey Oswald, Our First Brains, Palisades

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St.

MON. SEPT. 3 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Adrian H

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Open Mic

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Sirloin Sunrise (9 pm); Doc McTear’s Medicine Show (6 pm)

830 E Burnside St. Lee Fields and the Expressions

Mississippi Studios

Duff’s Garage

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Brent Amaker & the Rodeo, Dollywood Babylon

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

Doug Fir Lounge

1635 SE 7th Ave. Lily Wilde Orchestra

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic

Hawthorne Theatre

NEPO 42

5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. My Children My Bride, Betrayal, Lions Lions, Famous Last Words, Verah Falls

North Park Blocks

Jade Lounge

Northwest 8th Avenue between Burnside and Glisan streets Art in the Pearl World Music Stage: No Passengers, Jessie Marquez, Al-Andalus Ensemble, Mary Flower, Masumi Timson with Larry Tyrrell and Fumino Ando, Youth Expression Project

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Sizzle Fest: YOB, Lord Dying, Rabbits, Thrones, Taurus, Party Foul, Weird Fear, DRC3, Billions And Billions, Redneck

Portland State University

1825 SW Broadway Superfest: Strategy, Phone Call, DJ Nathan Detroit, DJ Freaky Outty (Southwest Park Avenue and Southwest Montgomery Street)

Rontoms

600 E Burnside St. Paper Brain, Brass Bed

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Soft Metals, Cosmetics, Lighthouse, DJs Maxx Bass, Musique Plastique

Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. Suburban Slim

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. George Colligan Quartet

Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St. The Wombats

2346 SE Ankeny St. Elie Charpentier

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mr. Ben

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Chris Sand, Dan Weber

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Terry Robb

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Will West, Lew Jones, Jack McMahon (7 pm); Lee Fields (2 pm)

North Park Blocks

Northwest 8th Avenue between Burnside and Glisan streets Art in the Pearl World Music Stage: Bon Ton Roulet, Nojeem Lasisi, Hula Hālau ‘Ohana Holo‘oko‘a, Kalabharathi Orchestra, Youth Expression Project

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Erik Anarchy, Raw and Order, Synesthesia, Hepsi, Feral Drollery

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Steelhymen

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Tom Grant Jazz Jam

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Rattus, Trauma, Vicious Pleasures

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway AC Lov Ring GARY ISAACS

Someday Lounge

125 NW 5th Ave. Bazillionaire, Tianamen Bear, My Autumn’s Done Come, Souvenir Driver

Ted’s Berbati’s Pan

231 SW Ankeny St. Ilima Considine and the Sexbots

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Deep Blue Soul Revue

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Au Dunes, Wooden Indian Burial Ground, Woolen Men

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. A Gatherin’ Storm, The Caste, The Pyrenees, Fathers and Sons

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Tony’s AM Gold Show

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CALENDAR White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Father Figure, Surfs Drugs, Son Lok (8:30 pm); The Lustful Monks (7 pm)

TUES. SEPT. 4 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

303 SW 12th Ave. David J (of Bauhaus) and Adrian H

Alberta Rose Theatre

3000 NE Alberta St. Josh Garrels (film showing)

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. The Orchestrion, Animal R&R

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. De La Warr, Ruby Pines, Geoff Baker, Sam Cooper

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Foreign Orange, Eidolons

Duff’s Garage

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

Glenn & Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center 527 E Main St., Hillsboro Rio Con Brio

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Radula

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Jazz Jam with Carey Campbell and the Hank Hirsh Trio

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Colin Johnson

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Joey DeFrancesco Trio (9:30 pm and 7 pm)

Keller Auditorium 222 SW Clay St. Jane’s Addiction

Kelly’s Olympian

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Highway Poets

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Sale, Acoustic Minds, The Druthers

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps

O’Connor’s Vault

7850 SW Capitol Highway Gary Ogan, Dave Captein, Casey James

Slabtown

LaurelThirst

The Blue Diamond

8635 N Lombard St. Open Mic

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. The Down Stroke: DJs N-Able, Void

The Crown Room

Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Hero Worship

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Trick with DJ Robb

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. TRONix with Logical Aggression

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. 13 Months of Sunshine: DJs Peace Pipe, Sahelsounds, Cuica, Jason Urick, Spencer D

LV’s Sports Bar

3530 N Vancouver Ave. Deep Infinite Grooves with DJ OSO

Matador

1967 W Burnside St. DJ Whisker Friction

Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. DJ Bobby D

The Crown Room

205 NW 4th Ave. Proper Movement: Hater Rian & Uncle Sam, The Dirtmerchant & Jon AD, Ewok, Senseone

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. Zac Pennington

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway DJ Detroit Diezel

Yes and No

20 NW 3rd Ave. Death Club with DJ Entropy

THURS. AUG. 30 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Bill Portland

CC Slaughters

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

Fez Ballroom

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

The Crown Room 205 NW 4th Ave. Counter Culture

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. Alex John Hall

Trader Vic’s

1203 NW Glisan St. DJ Drew Groove

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Invisible Ziggurat

FRI. AUG. 31 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Anjali & the Incredible Kid

Element Restaurant & Lounge 1135 SW Morrison St. Chris Alice

Fez Ballroom

316 SW 11th Ave. Decadent ‘80s: DJ Non, Jason Wann; Rewind with Phonographix DJs

Foggy Notion

3416 N Lombard St. Apocalysp: DJs Weinerslav, Pork Belly

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Soul Stew with DJ Aquaman

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Snap!: DJs Dr. Adam, Colin Jones, Sean Cee (9 pm); Aperitivo Happy Hour with DJ Rom Com (5 pm)

Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St. ‘80s Video Dance Attack with VJ Kittyrox

Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Holiday

Red Cap Garage

1035 SW Stark St Mantrap with DJ Lunchlady

Thirsty Lion

71 SW 2nd Ave. PX Singer-Songwriter Showcase

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Bo Ayars 232 SW Ankeny St. Mufasa, Talkative, Mars Water 836 N Russell St. Bottlecap Boys

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Missy Higgins, Katie Herzig, Butterfly Bouche

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Sportin’ Lifers

639 SE Morrison St. Blank Fridays

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

2026 NE Alberta St. Drunk Dad, Heavy Medical, Bubonic Bear, Big Black Cloud

White Eagle Saloon

Slim’s Cocktail Bar

Someday Lounge

The Know

Sleep Country Amphitheater

Star Bar

WED. AUG. 29

3341 SE Belmont St. Pagan Jug Band, Superposition State Quartet

Valentine’s

426 SW Washington St. U Sco, Stupid Man Suit, Electro Kraken 2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw

The Blue Monk

1033 NW 16th Ave. Highway Poets, Tater and Craig

17200 NE Delfel Road, Ridgefield, Wash. 311, Slightly Stoopid, SOJA

MUSIC

205 NW 4th Ave. Blown: Keys, Uncommon Sense, Dan Cin, D Poetica

The Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave. Kinetic Emcees, Landon Wordswell, Task1ne, Bad Habitat, Kable Roc, Pirhanna Jawz, Alexander the Great, Eminent, Hoyt Latte

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. Beacon Sound

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Nine Inch Nilina

SAT. SEPT. 1 CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Revolution with DJ Robb

SUN. SEPT. 2 Groove Suite

440 NW Glisan St. Freaky Flow

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Super Cardigan Brothers

Matador

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

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave. Amon Tobin

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Justin Rayfield, Gogosnap Radio, The Sorry Devils

MON. SEPT. 3 CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Maniac Monday with DJ Doughalicious

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy VJs

Star Bar

Fez Ballroom

639 SE Morrison St. Metal Mondays with DJ Blackhawk

Holocene

Tiga

Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom

Beech Street Parlor

316 SW 11th Ave. Popvideo with DJ Gigahurtz 1001 SE Morrison St. Booty Bassment: Ryan Poulsen, Dmitri Dickinson, Maxx Bass, Nathan Detroit

1332 W Burnside St. All Decades Video Dance Attack with VJ Kittyrox

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Mrs.: DJs Beyonda, Noelle, Mr. Charming, Il Trill, Il Camino

Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Folklore

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Andaz with DJ Anjali & the Incredible Kid

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave. Sugar Town: DJs “Wild Man” James Maeda, Action Slacks

The Lovecraft

1465 NE Prescott St. City Baby

TUES. SEPT. 4 412 NE Beech St. DJ Mercedez

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Girltopia with DJ Robb

Eagle Portland

835 N Lombard St DMTV with DJ Animal

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Tom Waits Night

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Coldyron

Yes and No

20 NW 3rd Ave. Idiot Tuesdays with DJ Black Dog

421 SE Grand Ave. Miss Prid

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Sweet Relish

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Kiffo

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PERFORMANCE

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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Most prices listed are for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply, so it’s best to call ahead.

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Editor: MATTHEW SINGER. Theater: REBECCA JACOBSON (rjacobson@ wweek.com). Classical: BRETT CAMPBELL (bcampbell@wweek.com). Dance: HEATHER WISNER (dance@wweek.com). TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit information at least two weeks in advance to: msinger@ wweek.com.

CLASSICAL Liz Bacon and Jon Stuber

It’s understandable to be a little suspicious when classical singers go slumming in pop music. The results are often not pretty—or rather, too pretty, not to mention stiff and pretentious. But in her lively performances with the Julians vocal ensemble (who’ll also make a guest appearance, along with accordionist-pianist Rob Fishel and guitarist-violist Chris Fotinakis), the classically trained Bacon has shown a natural aptitude for relaxed, sly and even saucy treatments of pop material commensurate with her superb vocal chops, and the versatile pianist Stuber has demonstrated his ability to handle just about anything. Their foray into jazz, cabaret and musical theater should be a treat. Tony Starlight’s, 3728 NE Sandy Blvd., 517-8584. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Aug. 29. $10.

Oregon Symphony, Portland Youth Philharmonic

CONTINUUM

THEATER The 24-Hour Production

This Labor Day, the Quick and Dirty Art Project will labor for 24 hours to mount a new, fully realized one-act play. With help from playwright Matthew Zrebski and plenty of local actors, designers and technicians, this could prove to be a fruitful experiment. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St. 8 pm Monday, Sept. 3. $15.

And So It Goes

Aaron Posner directs the world premiere of his own play, which weaves together several short stories by Kurt Vonnegut. Posner first staged a straightforward version of the show in the 1980s, but the current production—which features three love stories set in an imaginary American town— promises to be a more fluid exploration of bitterness and love. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays, 2 pm and 7:30 pm Sundays through Oct. 7. $20-$50.

Continuum

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

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., 971258-8584. 7 pm Fridays-Sundays; 7 pm Thursdays Aug. 30 and Sept. 6. Closes Sept. 8. 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

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COMEDY AND VARIETY Brendon Walsh

Helium hosts the twisted comedian, who sometimes makes crass jokes about puppies. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-6438669. 8 pm Wednesday-Thursday, Aug. 29-30; 7:30 pm and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, Aug. 31-Sept. 1. $10-$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.

Curious Comedy Stand-Up Showcase A stand-up sampler featuring local comics. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 10 pm first and third Saturdays. $5.

Diabolical Experiments

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

Instant Comedy

With a list of audience-suggested topics, five comics compete for the title of comedic champ. The Curious Comedy Playas also perform improv sets. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 4779477. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays through Sept. 15. $12-$15.

Micetro

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

Summer in Brodavia

For this long-form improv show, the Brody team travels back to the tiny fictional nation of Brodavia, which lacks written or oral history and must have its stories crafted anew each time they’re told. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Saturdays through Sept. 1. $7-$10.

The Smutty Clown

An X-rated comedy open mic hosted by Sterling Clark and Whitney Streed. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 9:30 pm every last Thursday. Free. 21+.

Every Labor Day weekend, this free, family-friendly outdoor concert heralds a bittersweet moment: the impending end of summer, but also the imminent return of the classical-music season and the state’s greatest big band. For the 5 pm opening act, the OSO is abetted by its able, young sidekick: the excellent young musicians of the national’s first youth orchestra, the Portland Youth Philharmonic. Dancers from Oregon Ballet Theatre will also take the stage to perform a duet from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake before the orchestra locks, loads and unleashes the concluding big bang: the composer’s grandiose “1812 Overture,” augmented by the other guest artist, Oregon Army National Guard 218th Field Artillery. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Southwest Naito Parkway between Southwest Harrison and Northwest Glisan streets, Portland. 5 pm Thursday, Aug. 30. Free.

Portland Festival Symphony

Conductor Lajos Balogh’s 32-year mission to present free classical music in local parks concludes at Foothills Park. The orchestra will play a Rossini overture; Beethoven’s stirring Symphony No. 3; the so-called “Toy Symphony,” which probably wasn’t by Haydn; a suite from the popular score of the 1953 film/TV documentary Victory at Sea by Robert Russell Bennett and Broadway composer Richard Rodgers; and of course that explosive end-of-summer perennial, Tchaikovsky’s booming “1812 Overture,” guest conducted by Michael Allen Harrison. Foothills Park, 199 Foothills Drive, Lake Oswego, 245-7878. 5 pm Sunday, Sept. 2. Free.

DANCE The Nearly Naked Bee with the Mad Marquis

It’s like strip poker for English majors: People who enter this spelling bee have to remove an article of clothing when they get a word wrong. The winner gets a cash prize; losers get a second chance to win more cash and prizes by competing for best improv striptease. The Dolly Pops perform at intermission and a night of hilarity, no doubt, ensues. Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th Ave., 248-1030. 9 pm every first Tuesday of the month. Free for competitors, $3 for spectators. 21+.

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AUG. 29-SEPT. 4

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

Coming Soon

Heather Watkins: Movement of Objects at Rest

James Florschutz and Hibiki Miyazaki

Two enervatingly 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 in the world today. These two would surely be on the far side of the velvet rope. Through Sept. 1. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 224-8182.

October 12, 13, 14 Sign up Now! Ping-Pong

Jesse Hayward: Beating to Windward

TACKING ON A HEADER BY JESSE HAYWARD

Aaron Yassin: Beijing

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

Annemieke Alberts: See You When I Get There

Netherlands-based painter Annemieke Alberts has a knack for abstracted cityscapes that lead the viewer on escapist reveries 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., 208-3585.

Anniversary group show

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

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

Barry Johnson

Like the rickety tracks of an 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., 227-7114.

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.

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.

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 eye-pleasing. 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., 819-9656.

Golf Concert

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Sept 8 7:30 pm Colin Currie returns for one high-energy evening to open our season with percussion front and center!

Colin Currie is Opening with a Bang!

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.

Call: 503-228-1353 Click: OrSymphony.org Tickets start at $21 while they last!

Martin Waugh: Liquid Sculpture II

“Gee whiz!” is a perfectly valid reaction to Martin Waugh’s photographs of water droplets. Waugh uses ultra-fast exposures to capture the beauty of droplets as they appear suspended in space and time. He also colors the water with food coloring and other materials to create swirling or striped effects. Although these images could never be seen with the naked eye, they are unabashed eye candy that celebrates the ephemeral moment. Through Sept. 1. I Witness Gallery Northwest Center for Photography, 1028 SE Water Ave., Suite 50, 384-2783.

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 methamphetamine-fueled 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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BOOKS

AUG. 29-SEPT. 4

= 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. 29 OMSI After Dark

The Joey DeFrancesco All-Star Trio with Jimmy

Cobb and Larry Coryell

celebrating Jimmy Smith and Wes Montgomery TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4TH Two shows: 7:00pm & 9:30pm advanced tickets at TicketTomato.com hurry, tickets going fast!

MORE GREAT MUSIC COMING TO JIMMY MAK’S! 8/31, Ben Macy CD release event 9/7, Intervision 9/8, Soul Vaccination 9/14, Adult Education: A tribute to Hall & Oates with Trixie and The Nasties 9/15, Michael Allen Harrison’s Superband 9/20, Jacqui Naylor Mon-Sat. evenings: Dinner from 5 pm, Music from 8 pm 221 NW 10th • 503-295-6542 • jimmymaks.com

It’s science for hipsters as OMSI After Dark explores Chic Geeks: Fashion, Music and the Science of Style. Make duct-tape wallets, get henna tattoos, watch oobleck dance on a subwoofer and listen to old-school Game Boy tunes. Live music by Blue Skies for Black Hearts and Lost Lander. OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave., 797-4000. 7 pm. $9 for members, $15 for nonmembers, free for OMSI After Dark members. 21+.

THURSDAY, AUG. 30 Poetry Anthology Release and Reading

Some issues are so difficult to deal with that only poetry will do, such as falling in love with your cousin. But the new anthology addressing relations between Jews and Arabs in the modern world might actually be helpful to people. Several of the contributing poets from Before There is Nowhere to Stand: Palestine–Israel: Poets Respond to the Struggle will read at the release party. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.

MONDAY, SEPT. 3 Authors in Pubs

Looking for a way to make your tortured prose seem more legitimate? Try a little alcoholism. The monthly reading series Authors in Pubs will bring together a slew of local writers, poets, bartenders, actors, archaeologists and sailors to share their writing. This month will include readings by Melina Holl, Grant Keltner, Danielle Gembala, Bob Ferguson, Cowboy Don and many others, including live music from the Consort Symbiotic. Bukowski would be proud. Jack London Bar, 529 SW 4th Ave., 228-7605. 7:30 pm. Free. 21+.

Paul Louis Metzger with Kyogen Carlson

Like the odd couple of religious studies, evangelical theologian Paul Louis Metzger and Zen Buddhist priest Kyogen Carlson will discuss the divide between faiths in relation to Metzger’s new book, Connecting Christ: How to Discuss Jesus in a World of Diverse Paths. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

Josh Garrett-Davis

You can’t go home again, but, of course, everyone does. Josh Garrett-Davis revisits the South Dakota Great Plains of his childhood in his new book, Ghost Dances, exploring his own family’s history as homesteaders and the Native American “ghost dancers” who attempted to ward off destruction from settlers. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 4 Eighth Annual Zinesters Talking

Celebrating the release of the small-press literary journal We’ll Never Have Paris, the annual Zinesters Talking gathering will include a comic-strip reading and slide show by Gabby Holden

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(My Time at Fabric Depot), readings by editor Andria Alefhi, Jaime Borschuk, Bob Soper, Seth Kaplan and headliner Martha Grover. Central Library, 801 SW 10th Ave., 988-5123. 6:30-7:45 pm. Free.

Colleen Houck

It can be a perilous quest for the Rope of Fire, especially when the evil sorcerer Lokesh is on your trail and you’re trying to break the tiger’s curse. How will Harry Potter do it? Oh, wait, wrong book. Author Colleen Houck will read from her fourth book in the Tiger’s Curse series, Tiger’s Destiny. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651. 7 pm. Free.

Eric Erlandson with William Todd Schultz

Exploring the ether of the rock’n’-roll life, from fame and sex to drugs and suicide, Eric Erlandson (who formed the band Hole with Courtney Love) has crafted 52 prose poems to Kurt Cobain in his new book, Letters to Kurt, a collection that has been called part Bukowski and part Ginsberg. Joining Erlandson to discuss the book is William Todd Schultz, psychology professor and author of An Emergency in Slow Motion: The Inner Life of Diane Arbus. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

Susan Fletcher

Although many helpful hints for aspiring writers—such as including nipples on your book cover whenever possible—might not apply to young-adult author Susan Fletcher, she still knows her stuff having spent 25 years in the business. Speaking at the Willamette Writers organization, Fletcher will share 25 Tips Over the Course of a 25-Year Writing Career, covering everything from the practical to the psychological. But really, nipples. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. 7 pm. $5 for guests of members, $10 for nonmembers, free for members.

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AUG. 29-SEPT. 4 REVIEW

= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Editor: MATTHEW SINGER. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, send screening information at least two weeks in advance to Screen, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: msinger@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.

2016: Obama’s America

Not screened for critics, probably due to some kind of Democrat-socialistMuslim-terrorist conspiracy. PG. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Wilsonville.

2 Days in New York

B- It’s a disservice to judge 2 Days in New York by the same standards as its prequel, 2007’s 2 Days in Paris. It’s not that photographer Marion (Julie Delpy) and her new partner, radio host Mingus (Chris Rock), are mismatched. Their problems are just less interesting in New York. There’s less time for us to witness their actual relationship, what with the chaos of a blended family (each has a child from a previous relationship; Marion’s was fathered by Jack), but the writing seems equally rushed, and the humor is predictable when the Marion-Mingus unit is put to the test by a visit from Marion’s father, Jeannot; sister Rose and Rose’s boyfriend; and, inconsequentially, Marion’s ex, Manu. But New York has its moments: Mingus’ hypnotic disgust at what he perceives as a very French hedonism toward food; Rose’s convenient way of disposing of her boyfriend; Marion’s change of personality around her family, as well as her photo exhibit, where she literally puts a decade of her sexual history on display. Here, perhaps, the film has grown. Sexual history isn’t a point of contention between Marion and Mingus. They have far too much else going on. R. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Living Room Theaters.

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

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

All I Wanna Do

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] When an all-girls boarding school threatens to go co-ed, a group of students hatch a scheme to stop the gender integration. Presented by Bitch Media. PG-13. Mississippi Studios. 7 pm Monday, Sept. 3.

The Apparition

An aggressive spirit torments a couple. Well, at least it’s not about, like, a haunted iPad or something. PG-13. Clackamas.

The Avengers

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A It’s hard to imagine anyone who’s

spent the past five years playing out a vision of an Avengers movie in their head being disappointed with what Whedon has come up with. It’s big and loud, exhilarating and funny, meaningless but not dumb. It is glorious entertainment. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Tigard, Sandy.

B-Movie Bingo: Showdown in Little Tokyo

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee team up to punch and kick the Yakuza. R. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Sept. 4.

Beasts of the Southern Wild

A Although showered with festival

accolades, some have labeled Beasts of the Southern Wild’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. Living Room Theaters, Hollywood Theatre, Moreland, Tigard.

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 Alex 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 superagile, hyper-intelligent 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. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.

Brave

B- A fable pitched directly at the princess demographic, Brave is set in medieval Scotland, features run-ins with witches, excursions into deep, dark woods, and a few very expressive bears, and concerns itself with a rebellious daughter of royalty. In short, it feels like a classic Disney picture. Normally, that’d be a compliment. In Pixar’s case, it represents a regression. PG. MATTHEW SINGER. Indoor Twin, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Tigard, Sandy.

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LEAN AND MEAN: Matthew McConaughey (right) chats with Emile Hirsch.

SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS KILLER JOE WILL DISTURB AND OFFEND YOU. WILLIAM FRIEDKIN DOESN’T CARE. BY MATTH EW SIN GE R

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Generally speaking, inviting a guy who goes by the name “Killer Joe” into your home is a spectacularly unwise idea. Then again, the characters populating this unhinged slice of depravity from William Friedkin could never be mistaken for Rhodes scholars, or even elementary-school graduates. They are breathlessly stupid people snared in a web of their own stupid decisions, and Friedkin shows them no pity. He is particularly malicious toward Emile Hirsch’s trailerpark drug dealer, a deep-in-debt Texas lowlife who hatches a woefully ill-conceived plot to murder his mother and collect her life insurance. In the span of about 20 minutes, Hirsch has the crap kicked out of him by mob enforcers, a gun shoved in his face by a naked Matthew McConaughey, and his skull nearly caved in via repeated blows to the head with a can of pie filling. But the director saves his greatest act of degradation for Gina Gershon. Let’s just say KFC stock is likely to plummet in its wake. At age 77, Friedkin has ceased giving any semblance of a fuck. Such depreciation of regard for social decorum is common in folks who reach a certain advanced age. For the average senior citizen, it might manifest in, say, a tendency to back out of driveways without looking. In Friedkin’s case, it means making a movie like Killer Joe. Adapted from a play by Tracy Letts, who wrote the screenplay, it is maybe the most skin-crawlingly nasty picture to come from a major American director since David Lynch’s Blue Velvet. Set against the burnt-out landscape of the American Southwest, in an unnamed town on the outskirts of Dallas, it indulges in the ugliest of “white trash” stereotypes. Gawking at one clan of slack-jawed, dirt-poor rednecks in particular, the movie wrings scum-black humor from yokels hee-hawing at televised monster truck rallies and attending funerals dressed in ripped suits and baseball caps. So mentally and morally destitute are they that a contract killer with a fried-chicken fetish comes off looking virtuous.

He’s been hired to snuff out the family matriarch, but Friedkin has condemned them all to death, in a climax wet with blood and sexual brutality. Then, in a final twisted joke, he fades to black and cues up Clarence Carter’s hysterically horny “Strokin’.” If Killer Joe were the product of a younger filmmaker, the cruelty and condescension would translate as desperately attention-seeking. But Friedkin has been pushing, prodding and provoking audiences for decades. If the provocation seems emptier here, that’s because he has lived long enough to cast off the burden of restraint. Killer Joe

AS A PRIMAL GUT-PUNCH, KILLER JOE CAN’T BE CALLED ANYTHING OTHER THAN A SUCCESS. has no underlying message to leaven and redeem the violence and perversion. It only has the visceral charge of a master shit-disturber going all-in on his basest instincts. As a primal gut-punch, the movie can’t be called anything other than a success. It’s disgusting, but just try looking away. You can’t. Let’s not misrepresent the film: It isn’t torture porn. While much of its imagery is certainly gratuitous—Gershon’s pubic hair appears before she does—the film earned its NC-17 rating more for how icky it feels than anything it depicts. Even if Friedkin edited out Hirsch’s bludgeoning or that queasy scene with the chicken drumstick, the movie still would’ve been slapped with that damning rating for McConaughey’s performance alone. He finds his best role yet as the titular Joe—lawman by day, hitman by night, intangibly frightening always. He slithers across the screen draped in leather, his mouth agape, hiding derangement behind a cloak of gentility. Eventually, he wraps himself around Juno Temple, the movie’s lone symbol of virginal innocence, in a scene that ends up only the second-most disturbing in the film. McConaughey gives himself over so completely to sleaziness that, like Killer Joe itself, you can’t help but admire him for it. A- SEE IT: Killer Joe is rated NC-17. It opens Friday at Fox Tower.

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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 Southern-mammy dialect to baby-punching. And as in any no-holds-barred political dragout, everyone loses. R. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Lloyd Center, 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Pioneer Place, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard.

Celeste and Jesse Forever

C+ “The more we consume crap, the more we want crap,” declares Rashida Jones’ author and trend analyst in Celeste and Jesse Forever. As the latest post-Apatow rom-com that desperately does not want to be a romcom, that quote can be interpreted as a knowing jab at the chick-flick assembly line. Here’s the thing, though: Few of these recent, allegedly more mature romantic comedies ever really break free of Hollywood convention themselves. Their premises tease subverted relationship norms—guilt-free sex! platonic parenthood!—but the conclusions are always staunchly conservative. Celeste and Jesse has a less bold concept than even Friends With Benefits or Friends With Kids, but it still ends up the same way. In this case, the titular couple (Jones, who co-wrote the film, and Andy Samberg) insist that getting divorced doesn’t have to mean severing their friendship. You can probably predict the bittersweet ending from that synopsis alone. As with all these films, it rises and falls with the performances. Jones’ radiance carries her—and the whole movie, really—but Samberg apparently thinks “dramatic acting” means draining himself of any life whatsoever. The movie isn’t quite crap, but like Samberg here, it is incredibly boring. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower.

Computer Errors

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A critical beatdown of the most egregiously terrible computer-generated images captured on film. So it’s basically a marathon of Syfy Original Movies, right? Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Aug. 29.

Cosmopolis

C+ The folly of order—an obsession that unites capitalists and fascists— is the central theme of Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg’s patience-testing adaptation of Don DeLillo’s polarizing 2003 novel. He’s called the movie a “hardcore art film,” but the word “hardcore” suggests something throttling, bludgeoning. Instead, Cosmopolis is simply numbing. Ostensibly, the movie is about an obscenely rich man (Robert Pattinson, appropriately dead-eyed) traveling across near-future Manhattan to get a haircut. In terms of a plot syn-

opsis, that’s pretty much it. Plenty of things happen around the film—the manager of the International Monetary Fund has his eyes stabbed out on live television; a beloved rapper gets a funeral procession that ties up the streets of New York; anarchists launch a riot in Times Square—but in the movie itself, that stuff is only talked about, or watched on TV or through a car window. Cronenberg makes no attempt to untangle DeLillo’s dense thickets of language. Characters talk at each other in streams of prose that fly by so fast the emptiness of what they’re saying is almost imperceptible. And yet, like all Cronenberg films, Cosmopolis is hard to dismiss outright. It’s somehow boring and transfixing at the same time, like a melting glacier. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Fox Tower.

The Dark Knight Rises

A 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? PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, Indoor Twin, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Forest Theatre, Pioneer Place, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Sandy.

Do the Right Thing

[FOUR NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] Hey, remember when Spike Lee made good movies? R. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Friday-Monday, Aug. 31-Sept. 3.

The Expendables 2

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. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Sandy.

Hit & Run

C- Scraggly comedian Dax Shepard apparently has two loves in his life: his fiancee, Kristen Bell; and peeling out in muscle cars. So for his feature directorial debut, that’s all he does. Opening in bed with his sexy girlfriend (Bell), Hit and Run tells the story of “Charlie Bronson” (Shepard), a former getaway driver who ditches witness protection so he can get in his big-ass vintage car and take Annie to a job interview across the country (apparently, planes have yet to be invented). He’s pursued by a motley crew of comedy stereotypes that include Tom Arnold as a hapless fed who looks exactly like Meat Loaf, a gay cop who uses a casual-encounters app to track criminals/potential partners, and his former gang, led by a dreadlocked Bradley Cooper. What results is a 100-minute cross between a Burt Reynolds hillbilly flick and the worst of the post-Tarantino crime-comedy crop from the ’90s: a hodgepodge of limp-dick and rape jokes, homophobia and car chases in which everybody drives up to one another and

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then does donuts until Shepard—who did his own amateur driving—peels off. Hit and Run wants to be an action lover’s The Hangover. Instead, like its hero in a pickle, it just goes around in endless circles. R. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.

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-Z-Boy, but the other partner (Streep) isn’t ready to throw in the dishtowel. It has been tagged with the dreaded label “a movie for grownups”—three cheers for muesli!—but it’s a cusp-of-retirement riff on the virginity-loss comedy, with the protagonists getting laid again for the first time. And without the rampant dishonesty 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 theater-seat erotic pleasuring, a tradition stretching from from Mickey Rourke to Eugene Levy. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

Ice Age: Continental Drift

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

The Imposter

A- As simply as I can put it, this non-

fiction film from director Bart Layton focuses on the disappearance of 13-year-old Texan Nicholas Barclay back in 1994 and how, more than three years later, his family received the impossible news that he had been found in, of all places, Spain. The reality was that the person claiming to be Nicholas was, in fact, Frédéric Bourdin, a French-Algerian con artist in his 20s. Somehow, through a series of administrative hiccups, wishful thinking and Bourdin’s charm, the

ruse was kept up for a full five months before a private investigator figured out something was amiss. Like a good piece of long-form journalism, The Imposter turns over every detail. Layton is lucky he was able to secure interviews with Nicholas’ mother and sister, both of whom still seem baffled by the bizarre turn their otherwise quiet life took. But his grandest coup is getting Bourdin to expound at length about how he was able to convince a grieving family and authorities from the FBI and the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children that he was—in spite of glaring physical differences and his obvious accent—a young boy from Texas. Through those talking-head interviews, you quickly grasp Bourdin’s charm and guile, even though you want to smack him for what he put the Barclays through. Barton also doesn’t dare try to press any firm answers as to the motivations

of Bourdin and the Barclays, leaving those judgments to the viewer. R. ROBERT HAM. Living Room Theaters, Hollywood Theatre.

Moonrise Kingdom

A- Of all the Wes Anderson

movies in the world, this is the Wes Andersoniest. Those who find everything that follows Bottle Rocket fussy and puerile have fair warning: Moonrise Kingdom is Anderson’s Boy Scout film, set on an imaginary island. Without the leavening influence of Owen Wilson, Anderson’s melancholy can feel brittle. 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, Fox Tower, St. Johns.

REVIEW RICHARD FOREMAN JR.

MOVIES

BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD: Shia LeBeouf in mid-charge.

LAWLESS Here is Australian director John Hillcoat’s idea of a good time: A Prohibition-era period piece about a real-life clan of Virginia bootleggers, in which throats are slashed with knives and crushed with brass knuckles; a cripple gets his neck snapped; a man is scalded by hot tar; and at least one pair of testicles is severed, packaged and left on a doorstep. If only a puppy had gotten kicked down a flight of stairs, then we’d really have a swinging party on our hands! But seriously, folks. In an oeuvre defined by overbearing bleakness—this is the guy who thought The Road would make a great movie—Lawless is the most easily digestible of Hillcoat’s bitter pills. Based on the book The Wettest County in the World, author Matt Bondurant’s investigation into his family’s history as outlaw moonshiners, the film blends truth and myth into the kind of crowd-pleasing, Western-style thriller that used to get Kevin Costner nominated for Oscars back in the ’90s. Adapted by musician Nick Cave, who wrote Hillcoat’s masterful outback Western The Proposition, it’s still got the filmmaker’s stamp of brutality (need I remind you of the thing with the testicles?). But for him, this is a popcorn flick. There are moments of humor and everything! Lawless isn’t flawless, though. Apropos of a movie about alcohol, its biggest problem is balance. Hillcoat roped in a stellar cast, and draws strong performances from every actor. Pity he couldn’t keep track of them all. He puts the focus on Shia LeBeouf, playing the youngest and most timid of the three Bondurant brothers. Despite a shaky Southern accent, LeBeouf does well of what’s asked of him, but not well enough to excuse him for stealing screen time from everyone else. As the eldest brother, Tom Hardy—for the second time this summer, excelling as a physically imposing, totally incomprehensible brute—fares best. But Guy Pearce, biting heartily into the role of a ruthless special agent imported from Chicago, dressing like a ventriloquist’s dummy and delivering lines with the zeal of a Dick Tracy villain, goes missing for long stretches of time. Most egregiously misused is Gary Oldman, who mesmerizes as notorious gangster Floyd Banner, only to disappear after two scenes. R. MATTHEW SINGER. There will be blood. And whiskey.

B SEE IT: Lawless opens Wednesday at Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.

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MOVIES SAMUEL GOLDWYN FILMS

Oslo, August 31

A drama from Norway, centered on a man and his battle with drug addiction. Living Room Theaters.

ParaNorman

B+ Norman Babcock sees dead

people. As the portmanteau title of ParaNorman—the second feature from Portland animation house Laika—suggests, he is mostly cool with that. After all, the spooks don’t judge him, unlike the living. A drama geek with an electroshock hairdo, Norman is an easy target for bullying. The only flesh-and-blood human who understands him 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. Is ParaNorman as good as its predecessor? No. 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. As long as we’re measuring the films against each other, though, let it be said: ParaNorman is a lot more fun. It’s a supernatural caper not far removed from an old Scooby Doo episode. It is also much funnier. A streak of sly, subversive humor charges co-director Chris Butler’s screenplay. If nothing else, ParaNorman has a healthy sense of mischief. Sometimes, that’s all a film needs. PG. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, St. Johns.

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 backyard 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, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Wilsonville, Sandy.

The Possession

Pro: Sam Raimi produced this movie, an alleged true story involving curses and angry spirits. Con: He didn’t direct it. And it’s not rated R. Eh, think we’ll pass. It wasn’t screened for critics, anyway. PG-13. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Wilsonville, Sandy.

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Premium Rush

C+ The seventh-highest-grossing

movie at last weekend’s box office was 2016: Obama’s America, a rightwing documentary warning that the president is going to destroy the nation with his socialist ambitions. The sixth-highest-grossing movie was Premium Rush, which also envisions a lefty dystopia: a gleaming, immaculately planned Manhattan where all the action chases are conducted on fixie bike. (Somewhere, Jack Bogdanski just died a little more inside.) Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in his least charismatic work since The Lookout. There, his character was brain-damaged. Here, he’s a bicycle messenger. The plot involves a lot of Google Maps, and a strange kind of Street View where Gordon-Levitt can see how his route through traffic might lead to stubbed toes or spilled coffee. Bicycles can be enjoyably fluid onscreen (cf. Breaking Away), but let’s agree they are not ideal actionmovie transportation: It’s hard to do a lot of exciting sound mixing with the whizzing noise of chains and pedals. Also, it’s hard to say why the filmmakers thought people wanted to see a slam-bang thriller with the cast of Rent. The movie sporadically becomes engrossing whenever Michael Shannon appears as a corrupt, dominoes-addicted NYPD detective. His storyline is seedy, violent and tragic. He drives a car. PG-13. AARON MESH. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Living Room Theaters, Oak Grove, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.

Qarantina

C- [ONE NIGHT ONLY] There are two narratives running through the postwar Iraqi drama Qarantina. One revolves around a family enduring constant abuse at the fists of its patriarch. The other involves a hit man whose crisis of self leads him back to the university and friends he left behind (some of whom he also wants to murder). Conveniently, these lives are connected, since the hit man is lodging with the family. What we get, then, is two clichéd, half-baked movies in one, both so enamored with depicting sorrow that nothing else—characters and motivations included—seems to matter. AP KRYZA. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Wednesday, Aug. 29.

Rear Window

[TWO DAYS ONLY, REVIVAL] Jimmy Stewart is watching you masturbate. PG. Hollywood Theatre. 2 pm Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 1-2.

Robot & Frank

B+ Indirectly answering the ques-

tion of what happened to Rocky’s cousin Paulie and his robot maid as they grew old together, freshman director Jake Schreier’s touching Robot & Frank asks big questions about the automation of elder care while avoiding the tendency to milk tear ducts. The film follows

an elderly, retired cat burglar (the great Frank Langella) who lives in isolation in the near future, struggling with kleptomania and bouts of dementia to the chagrin of his son (James Marsden), who purchases an ASIMO-like robot (voiced by Peter Sarsgaard) to cook, clean, and care for him. Plagued by boredom and the yuppies who seek to digitize and close his local library—and thus sever his relationship with librarian Susan Sarandon—Frank begins to plot a series of heists, and finds a companion and capable partner in his robot friend. This all sounds rather precious, but Schreier’s is a small film examining the surprisingly poignant relationship between man and machine, families and societal changes without teetering into saccharine preaching. Langella gives a cantankerous performance of subtle pain, and the film fully utilizes the great actor in every single scene, allowing you to get inside his wilting brain and explore the impact of his waning memories. It’s a buddy film in which the buddy is a computer, yet somehow it all registers on a deeply human level. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Fox Tower.

Salute to Nikkatsu: Suzaki Paradise: Red Lights

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Director Yuzo Kawashima’s 1956 film observing life in postwar Japan, focused on a couple struggling to survive in Tokyo’s red light district. Screening as part of a monthlong tribute to Nikkatsu, Japan’s oldest movie studio, which turns 100 this year. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Saturday, Sept. 1.

Searching for Sugar Man

B- Gaining an appreciable level of success outside of one’s home country is not an unusual feat. 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 recognized in the U.S. only by crate diggers and music scholars who revel in the darker recesses of the psychedelic era. In the documentary Searching for Sugar Man, freshman director Malik Bendjelloul reveals that in South Africa, a world away from where they were recorded, his albums were revered. Bendjelloul plays out the story of Rodriguez like a detective novel, adding pieces to the puzzle via interviews with producers who worked with the musician, as well as a South African record-store 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-yearold musician is placed in front of the camera. Only then does the film take flight. PG-13. ROBERT HAM. Fox Tower.

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Sleepwalk With Me

A- In what can unofficially be con-

sidered This American Life’s first feature film, Ira Glass co-writes a full-length dramatization of Mike Birbiglia’s popular stand-up routine about chronic sleepwalking and brushes with death—and it holds up in translation. As comedian autobiographies go, it’s among the more humane. The conflict is almost a cliché: As “Matt Pandamiglio,” Birbiglia is ambivalent about marrying longtime girlfriend Abby (Lauren Ambrose), partly due to the fact his comedy career has stalled. But the dream sequences do far more than communicate his agonized state of mind—they spill into his waking life as Matt’s rapid-eye-movement behavior disorder makes him act out night terrors, which ultimately lead to his leap from a closed second-story window at a La Quinta Inn (yes, Birbiglia really did that). Birbiglia’s narrative pretense—that he is a road comic speaking to a camera riding shotgun as he drives between gigs in the present day— allows him to include some of the delivery that made “Sleepwalk” land as a live performance. This also preserves some of Sleepwalk’s bite as it moves from stage to screen and Birbiglia becomes a hapless in player in his own surreal story. In hindsight, it is possible to look back and laugh. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Cinema 21.

humor and satirical underpinnings of the 1990 original would’ve been the wrong move. No director can balance ridiculous action, over-thetop gore and sledgehammer political commentary like Paul Verhoeven, who blew up Philip K. Dick’s short story We Can Remember It For You Wholesale into the most awesomely crazed sci-fi flick of the ’90s, so Wiseman—the auteur behind the Underworld series, as well as the Die Hard sequel in which Bruce Willis fist-fights a jet—didn’t even try. Instead, he went in the opposite direction, extracting everything that made Verhoeven’s film distinctive and fun and turning it drab, self-serious and painfully generic. Is it unfair to compare the two? Well, OK then: Take away the title, and the movie is still just a dull, feature-length chase

scene through a dystopian cityscape, with Colin Farrell muttering fauxprofound 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. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Bridgeport, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV.

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Sparkle

C Sparkle could have been the beginning of Whitney Houston’s climb back to relevancy and a potential second act to her once bright career in music and film. Sadly, it is merely a footnote in the rockier pages of her life story, coming as it does some six months after Houston passed away. It renders her performance as the disapproving mother of a late-’60s girl group far more melancholic than it should be. Even though she cedes top billing to former American Idol winner Jordin Sparks, Houston serves as the heart of this fantastical story set in Motown-era Detroit. Her character, Emma, is a God-fearing woman whose own shot at musical stardom fell short. Her daughters, Sister (Carmen Ejogo), Sparkle (Sparks), and Dee (Tika Sumpter), are forced to sneak out of the family home to perform their sultry, poppy tunes. Urged on by their manager (and Sparkle’s beau) Stix (Derek Luke), the group, Sister & Her Sisters, catches fire from the get-go, earning a televised spot opening for Aretha Franklin. There are, of course, dramatics along the way, but this is a story of redemption and self-realization peppered with musical performances. It’s cinematic comfort food in that respect, and knowing that will help you navigate past the more ridiculous plot points, the sketchy racial politics, and some fairly shallow acting. PG-13. ROBERT HAM. Division, Lloyd Mall.

The Story of Film: Part V

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The T.A.M.I. Show

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] One of the very first concert films, from 1964, featuring the Rolling Stones, Marvin Gaye, Chuck Berry and the Beach Boys, and highlighted by a knockout performance from James Brown. Screening as part of Top Down, the NW Film Center’s outdoor summer cinema series. Hotel deLuxe. 8 pm Thursday, Aug. 30.

Total Recall

C- Give Len Wiseman credit: At least he recognized that remaking Total Recall with the same hammy

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360 Fernando Meirelles’ leap into the worldcinema scene, 2002’s City of God, had more velocity than substance, but at least it was going someplace. Since then, the Brazilian director’s conscience has regressed into resignation, and he shrugs into a pronounced mo’-money-mo’-problems slough with 360, a movie whose title and themes refer to mostly affluent people driving ’round in circles until they end up where they started. This may be the sad result of whatever revolutionary instincts Meirelles has left colliding with a screenplay by Peter Morgan—the bard of the British petit bourgeois. In much better pictures like The Queen and The Damned United, Morgan has peered at microscopic shifts in establishment attitudes. 360, which I think is supposed to chronicle the human casualties of late capitalism or some such, is about those attitudes staying sedentary, which means it’s not really a motion picture at all. It’s more like a cross-stitched Serenity Prayer. God grant us the wisdom to know the difference between moping and art. You know the drill with this formula of global hit-and-runencounters flick: Every character has a single defining problem, which they rub against a stranger met at random until one of them starts crying (or, in a more interesting case, masturbating). In such a movie, if two characters are straying spouses, they will be revealed— in an extraordinary second-act non-surprise—to be married to each other. It’s a dramatic technique learned from Rupert Holmes’ Aristophanean single “Escape (The Piña Colada Song).” The stock figures are all here: Jamel Debbouze as the religious man with sensual yearnings; Rachel Weisz as the wife guilty about taking a beefcake lover; Anthony Hopkins as the father who cannot forgive himself for his daughter’s disappearance. Most annoyingly, there’s Ben Foster doing the jittery half-psychotic thing that seemed so exciting until we realized it was his only trick. Here he’s a mustachioed “sex offender”—that designation is repeated half a dozen times with no more specificity, until he meets a heartbroken young woman (Maria Flor) in a snowbound Denver International Airport and gets very uneasy. I don’t wish 360 to be icky, but it’s hard to feel any tension in this moment when we don’t know what he’s trying so hard to avoid doing. Because it isn’t like he’s going to do it—not in this movie. This picture is pure abstention. It exposits two character arcs in an AA meeting. I’ll have what they’re not having. R. AARON MESH.

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GLEAMING THE CUBE: A common joke among music fans these days is to point out how Ice Cube, once the sneering, uncompromising face of West Coast gangsta rap, is now the star of family-friendly comedies and a commercial in which he allows a bottle of Coors Light to ejaculate frost in his face. But what about John Singleton? In 1991, the director’s debut feature, Boyz n the Hood, tapped into the American zeitgeist’s fascination with Los Angeles ghetto life. He cast Cube for authenticity but removed his genre’s penchant for glorification and mythmaking and came away with a still-poignant dramatization of the plight of the African-American underclass. Flash forward 20 years, and Singleton’s last movie was the Taylor Lautner action vehicle Abduction. Maybe that’s not as big a fall as being forced to take a money shot from a container of shitty beer, but it’s close. MATTHEW SINGER. Showing at: Laurelhurst. Best paired with: BridgePort Kingpin Double Red. Also screening: The Evil Dead in 35 mm (Hollywood Theatre).

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