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INBOX WHAT ARE THEY SMOKING? Celebrating 100 Years of the Historic Belmont Firehouse
From the beginnings of the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act, I have wondered why its proponents thought the already existing, years-in-the-making, brilliantly successful black market in cannabis would just go away [“Mari-Wanna?,” WW, Aug. 29, 2012]. Why does anyone think the literally thousands of existing growers would stand in line to sell their pot to the Oregon Cannabis Commission at a price controlled by the commission? These growers have been used to selling pot for about $200 to $240 per ounce to medical patients and thousands of non-medical smokers, too. What is there about the law of supply and demand that the proposed commissioners do not understand? It is idealistic nonsense to think the commission can control the price of pot as it is bought and sold in Oregon. A price of $50 per ounce has been bandied about if this measure becomes law; $50-per-ounce pot will never happen! —“Don DuPay” The whole thing is moot as long as marijuana remains a Schedule 1 drug to the Drug Enforcement Administration.... Much as I love him, President Obama and his minions seem to just love prosecuting users and growers. Sorry, federal law always trumps. People who think statelevel legalization is going to make them safe have been smoking too much of their favorite plant. —“Rick York”
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You probably saw there was a huge fire in Jantzen Beach over the holiday weekend. On the news, they called it a “five-alarm blaze.” What does it mean when they describe a fire in terms of a certain number of “alarms”? —Flamin’ Groovy In this particular case, it means Jantzen Beach was constructed over a Hellmouth (anyone who’s ever done any Christmas shopping there probably already suspected this). Likely, a stray balrog got lost on its way to Old Navy and, in its confusion, accidentally released the unholy flames of Dis. Happens all the time. Oh, wait; you mean what’s up with the terminology—one-alarm fire, two-alarm fire, and so on? Well, a lot of know-it-all blowhards (including, until very recently, this reporter) would tell you this naming convention refers to how many fire stations respond to the call. While this may have been true in the days when additional station crews were alerted by 4
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ers and counting [“Cracked Rearview,” WW, Aug. 29, 2012]. When he says “a passive system will never take the place of voter education or voter registration drives,” those aren’t empty words— it’s something he’s dedicated considerable time and energy to. It’s very surprising to me that the article would fail to mention this notable accomplishment directly related to voter registration. —“Robin” I like Jefferson Smith, but there is a growing body of evidence that says he isn’t ready to be mayor. There is a real question of maturity. I am deeply troubled at the way he has continually blown off his responsibilities. Sure, we’ve all let a parking ticket slide, but there is a reckless disregard to the way Smith has handled his driving citations. It speaks to his character. I don’t think he is a bad person because he is a bad driver. I think he is arrogant because he doesn’t have to play by the same rules as the rest of Portland. —“Dale”
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I get it. You got a pile of cash when [Walmart] bought your company [“Value Shopping,” WW, Aug. 29, 2012]. But at least don’t insult our intelligence with meaningless marketing-speak about “believing in the brand.” Portland can do much, much better than Walmart. —“Brad Whitaker” LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include the author’s street address and phone number for verification. Letters must be 250 or fewer words. Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Fax: (503) 243-1115, Email: mzusman@wweek.com
telegraph, in modern times the meaning is less literal. “It’s just about resources,” says Portland Fire & Rescue spokesman Ron Rouse. The higher the alarm number, the more firefighters and equipment are committed to the scene. Each successive “alarm” increment represents an additional three engines, one truck, one chief, two wizards and an orc. (I might have misread some of that.) By this reckoning, the Jantzen Beach fire, with 20 engines and seven chiefs on site, might have plausibly been a six- or seven-alarm blaze. However, like the Fujita scale for tornadoes, this rating system maxes out at five. In these all-hands-on-deck situations, crews from nearby departments—Tualatin, Vancouver, etc.—roll into town to fill the short-staffed station houses until additional off-duty Portland firefighters can be called in from home. This is why, even in their off hours, firefighters can’t be as drunk as journalists. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com
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WHO’S LISTENING TO DIANE ROARK? AN OREGON WOMAN WARNED THAT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WAS EAVESDROPPING ON ITS OWN CITIZENS. THEN IT TURNED ON HER. BY AA R O N M E S H
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Warrantless wiretapping may have faded from the headlines with George W. Bush, but one Oregonian is determined to focus attention on the federal government’s spying on its own citizens. Diane Roark, 63, is an unlikely activist. More comfortable with Dick Cheney than Noam Chomsky, the Stayton mother of two spent over 20 years inside Washington, D.C.’s, intelligence bureaucracy—not exactly an anarchist breeding ground. But since the summer day five years ago when a dozen FBI agents banged on
work to do.’” She changed her clothes, went outside and started weeding—under armed FBI guard. For most of her career, Roark was more likely to be helping federal agents than serve as their target. She worked as a Republican staffer on the House of Representatives’ Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. She pushed to fund NSA programs to monitor phone calls, emails and Internet use by possible terrorists abroad. Roark grew up in Sublimity and remains her front door, Roark has been a different a moderate conservative—a Glenn Beck person. On July 26, 2007, she had planned to book sits atop a cabinet in her home office. But for the past five years, the U.S. spend the day arranging an outdoor wedding reception for her son on her 3 acres in government has held her property withStayton, a town 12 miles southeast of Salem. out filing charges—because she admits But at 6 am the FBI came knocking. to giving The Baltimore Sun unclassified According to a 2011 investigation by The information about two surveillance proNew Yorker, the agents sought classified grams that were never implemented. NSA officials also suspected her of materials from the Nationblowing the whistle on a third al Security Agency—any wiretapping program used on top-secret documents that FACT: The NSA is the Department of Defense’s might prove Roark had told electronic spying operation. American citizens. She denies newspaper reporters that Its budget is classified, but doing so. In July, Roark filed suit the federal government was estimated by Wired in the tens of billions. against the federal governspying on its own citizens ment in U.S. District Court without legal permission. The agents took at least 10 boxes of in Eugene. She wants her computer back— papers, a Dell desktop computer, and a and she hopes to prove the NSA overstepped its bounds. combination printer and fax machine. “They want to keep making my life as “They wanted me to sit on the couch in my bathrobe,” Roark says. “I said, ‘I’ve got miserable as they can,” she says. “I think it’s
a form of punishment. They wanted to get me. They wanted to get me really badly.” Warrantless wiretapping may sound like ancient history. But a March 15 Wired magazine report shows electronic surveillance has increased under President Barack Obama, with a huge NSA data center under construction in Utah to store the fruit of government spying. And the federal investigation of Roark— along with concurrent raids on four other government employees who warned about NSA programs—has been continued by the Obama administration. “The broad-scale surveillance that the government has been doing involves the private affairs of millions of Americans who have done nothing wrong,” says Dave Fidanque, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon. “The only way we know what we do is because a handful of government employees risked everything to let the American people know. And the government’s response has not been to stop this surveillance, but to do everything it can to identify these leakers and send them to prison.” Roark’s relations with the NSA were combative well before the 9/11 terrorist attacks. “They were wasting an awful lot of money, so I got really tough,” she says. CONT. on page 8 Willamette Week SEPTEMBER 5, 2012 wweek.com
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“They hated me.” Roark criticized an NSA electronic surveillance program called Trailblazer, which The New Yorker says cost at least $1.2 billion and didn’t work. Instead, she pushed for a rival program called ThinThread, which Roark says kept the personal information of Americans encrypted. But in February 2002, Roark says, she learned the NSA had instead employed a spy program that discarded protections for U.S. citizens. Wired later revealed it was code-named Stellar Wind. “I thought it was a rogue operation,” Roark says. “I just could not conceive that, even in the wake of 9/11, they would do this.” She says she went to her congressional leaders and the NSA’s director, Gen. Michael Hayden, and asked why the protections against warrantless domestic wiretapping had been abandoned. “We had the power,” Roark recalls Hayden saying. “We didn’t need them.” But Roark says she didn’t take her frustrations to the press. She retired and moved back to Oregon in 2003, feeling “responsible” for advocating technology used to listen in on Americans. In 2005, The New York Times revealed the existence of Stellar Wind, and warrantless wiretapping became a political disaster for the Bush administration. Roark says she never spoke to anyone at the Times; she had, however, given unclassified information to a Baltimore Sun reporter who wrote about Trailblazer and ThinThread in 2006. When the FBI first contacted her, Roark assumed she’d be a cooperative witness for an investigation of illegal wiretapping. “I had no idea I would become the main target for it,” she says. But when FBI agents grilled her in Washington, D.C., Roark realized she was a central suspect in leaks to The Times. Then came the raid on her house. Based on the list of items in the FBI search warrant, Roark suspects agents had been inside her house before that morning. “It makes you feel very insecure in your house,” Roark says. “It’s not your refuge.” The FBI declined to comment. Hayden could not be reached. NSA officials referred WW to remarks made in July by the agency’s current director, Gen. Keith Alexander, who denied monitoring U.S. citizens. “Congress knows we’re not doing that,” he said. “All branches of our government see that we’re not doing it.”
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Although she did not vote for him, Roark says she hoped Obama’s election would end her ordeal. Instead, the new administration has prosecuted leaks at an unprecedented rate—more Espionage Act cases than all previous administrations combined, according to The New Yorker. “It has been very depressing,” Roark says. “What occurs to me is, if they do this to us—who are educated, who have at least some means to protect ourselves, who have connections—what are they doing to the guy in the street?” The ACLU’s Fidanque says local political activists should be troubled—but so should average citizens. “I imagine most activists figure they’re subject to surveillance and act accordingly,” Fidanque says. “It’s the rest of us that ought to be outraged.” Roark says she’s already spent $30,000 in legal fees, and is looking for a pro bono attorney. She’s also fighting breast cancer, now in remission. “The literature tells you to avoid stress,” Roark says. “I’m like, ‘Yeah, right.’” She wants her possessions returned and to contest the feds’ argument they can seize property if it contains any classified information—or even information that hasn’t been officially released. If she can’t stop the government from spying on its citizens, she wants to make it harder for them to keep it a secret. “Anything they want to cover up—and they have a lot they could cover up, including just plain incompetence—they can say they’ll seize all your stuff,” Roark says. “I just don’t understand why nobody cares about the Constitution.” Roark leans back in a deck chair and looks over the fir groves that surround her house. Intruders are again invading: Some burrowing animal—probably a mole—is digging next to her driveway. She’s determined to fight on. “I guess I figured out what I can do with my retirement now,” Roark says. 8
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Oregon medical marijuana patients might have reason to worry if the state of Washington’s dope legalization initiative passes in November—that is, if they ever plan on driving in Washington. “There’s a poison pill in the bill,” says No on I-502 campaign spokesman Steve Sarich, a pro-marijuana activist. At issue is a provision in the Washington measure establishing a maximum amount of THC, the intoxicant in marijuana, allowed in a driver’s blood. If I-502 passes, any amount above 5 nanograms of THC per milliliter of blood could result in a driving under the influence of drugs (DUID) charge. There’s reason for marijuana smokers to worry. More than 275,000 vehicles cross the Columbia River daily, and in them are some of Oregon’s 54,280 medical marijuana patients. Portlander Anthony Johnson, who heads the National Cannabis Coalition, says Oregonians should beware.
“It definitely affects anyone who uses cannabis heavily,” Johnson says. Activists in Washington argue the cutoff point is arbitrary, noting that THC stays in the blood of heavy cannabis users long after they’ve stopped smoking. A 2011 National Institute on Drug Abuse study found that THC could stay in the blood for up to 33 days at very low levels, and concluded the presence of THC in the blood does not necessarily indicate a state of intoxication or impairment. “NIDA people are pretty staunch antidrug advocates,” says Philip Dawdy, a Seattle pro-marijuana activist (and former WW reporter) opposed to the measure. “If you have federal researchers saying that, it’s explosive.” I-502 campaign manager Alison Holcomb says concerns about unimpaired drivers being arrested are unwarranted. “Nothing will change in terms of how the DUI laws are enforced,” Holcomb says. “The arresting officer still has to have evidence of impaired driving.” Under current Washington State Patrol procedure, officers must bring in a drug recognition expert if they suspect a driver of marijuana impairment. The expert then determines whether there is reasonable cause to have the driver take a blood test. The only thing that will change if the measure passes is the new THC standard.
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Holcomb says backers of Washington’s legalization measure added the DUID provision because voters like it. She notes that other medical-marijuana states, such as Ohio and Nevada, have stricter standards than Washington proposes: 2 nanograms of THC per milliliter of blood. Some states, such as Michigan, have zero THC tolerance. NIDA investigator Marilyn Huestis says some occasional users of cannabis can be impaired with THC levels as low as 1 nanogram per milliliter, which means Washington’s proposed limit is liberal. “Many people are looking for a per se
law for drugs in general that’s much lower,” Huestis says. Like Washington, Oregon has no fixed threshold for marijuana impairment. For minors, the proposed Washington law is much stricter. Drivers under 21 face a DUID for any trace of marijuana. Sarich, the spokesman for No on I-502, says that’s another reason his group opposes the measure. “We have medical marijuana patients who are under 21,” he says. “They have to decide whether to stop their medication or stop going to work.”
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DOWN, NOT OUT: Darrick T. Evenson.
NOTES FROM A NEWBIE HOMELESS PORTLANDER BY DA R R ICK T. EVE N SON
Editor’s note: Darrick Evenson is newly homeless. For the past five weeks, Evenson, 51, originally from Santa Monica, Calif., has been living in his 1996 Mitsubishi Galant. Prior to becoming homeless, he worked as a security patrol officer and a driving instructor. Evenson is different from many who live on this city’s streets—he’s a published author (The Gainsayers: A Converted Anti-Mormon Responds to Critics of the LDS Church, 1998, Horizon Publishing). He’s also battled mental illness—he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when he was 31. In the wake of Labor Day, it seems appropriate to portray Portland through the eyes of a man who wants only one thing—a job. If you’ve got work for him, his contact information is below. I’m a newbie homeless guy. I’m sleeping in my car until some police officer has it towed away. I’m living on $200 of food stamps. I can’t buy hot food with it, because, I guess, the powers that be think I may buy a couple of $1 slices of pizza with it. Instead, I have to buy a $4 small, cold sandwich, which eats up most of my daily allowance. I can’t buy a large hot dog for $2, which would give me far more protein than a small, cold sandwich, because somebody in a decision-making capacity decided that the homeless should eat “healthy” on their $200-per-month allowance. Thank you, powers that be. You’ve got me eating so “healthy” it’s gonna kill me. I have to park near a hospital, because it’s always open and always has a men’s room available. Maybe they won’t notice me coming in every day and night, and then leaving. If they catch on to what I’m doing, security will ask me if 10
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I’m sick. If I say no, they’ll tell me to leave. I’m sure when my clothes are dirty and ragged, and my hair is matted, and I’m unshaven, and my body odor smells like rotten eggs, I’m gonna hear a lot of “Get a job!” by passing motorists. I wish I could get one. I tried, a lot, before I was homeless. Millions upon millions of American jobs are now in China, so that we Americans can buy a nice shirt for $9 instead of $19. Sure, I can try to find a job. But how many employers are gonna want to hire me? What employer is gonna hire a guy who stinks, has ratty and dirty clothing, who is unwashed, with no address or transportation? Forty years ago, if you were a dishwasher, you could stay in a cheap motel room, with your own bathroom, and still have money left over; enough to eat and catch a movie once a month. Now, you can’t rent a cheap, seedy motel room for anything less than $265 a week! When I first came to Portland three years ago, I thought I was coming to Oz. I thought I was coming to see an enlightened liberal mecca. Then I saw the homeless. I’ve never seen so many in so many parts of a city. Sure, Los Angeles has more, but they’re all tucked around Skid Row. In Portland, the homeless seem to be spread about the city. When I first knew I would become homeless, I asked about services. I was given a little yellow booklet. I must admit, it all sounded good. Showers. Meals. Shelters. Clothing. But then I discovered the reality, and reality bites. To take a shower, one must stand in line between certain hours of certain mornings, once a week only, and I’m told get ready to have your ID and your things stolen, and don’t even think about bringing a wallet. In places like Santa Monica or Santa Cruz, Calif., homeless services are all within easy walking distance. But in Portland, you may have to travel 12 miles to your doctor’s appointment, and then back again to sleep. Shame on you, Portland. You should have been a shining example to all other cities on how to take care of your homeless. This is my first and last commentary on homelessness in Portland. I have to sell my old beat-up laptop for $40, if I can. With that, I can buy some toothpaste and a few rolls of toilet paper, and a little gas for my car, and some hot food. I’ll have to junk my car soon, for about $300. I’ll be sleeping under the stars, but at least I’ll have a little cash. With that, I won’t have to beg for about a month. That’s being homeless in Portland. CONTACT INFO: darrickevenson@gmail.com, 290-4213.
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I’ve never had to stand in line at MusicfestNW—being this paper’s music editor for five years does have its perks. But I’ve still spent an awful lot of time mulling around outside venues during this town’s biggest music festival. Sure, most of the action happens onstage and in the crowd, but MFNW isn’t just about seeing national heavyweights and local heroes. It’s also about shooting the shit with the opening band, sharing what you’ve seen thus far with friends, swapping stories with strangers and letting the breeze cool your sweat-soaked T-shirt. But if you’re going to chop it up with your fellow festivalgoers, you’re going to need something to talk about. That’s where this issue comes in. First, we’ve unearthed 12 pieces of local music trivia, from old-school punk drummers to mom-and-pop record stores to the legality of lighting a cigarette onstage. Second, we sat down with two veteran MusicfestNW bands to ask 12 questions about the changing Portland music landscape, the creative impulse and the merits (and pitfalls!) of bacon-maple doughnuts. MusicfestNW is the biggest five days of the local music calendar, as well as our best excuse to nerd out together about this city and the amazing sounds and sights it produces. Let the nerding out begin. CASEY JARMAN. MFNW CONT. on page 15 ADAM KRUEGER
IN CELEBRATION OF THE 12TH ANNUAL MUSICFESTNW, A LOOK AT THE PORTLAND MUSIC SCENE, PAST AND PRESENT.
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MusicfestNW began as the bastard child of SXSW Before MusicfestNW, there was NXNW. If that moniker sounds a bit familiar, it should: When North by Northwest first hit Portland in 1995, it was a co-production of Willamette Week and Austin’s (now massive) SXSW festival, which did all of the booking. It was, as former WW Music Editor Zach Dundas remembers, a rocky marriage from the start. “There was a lot of angst in the scene in general,” Dundas says. “It was perceived as being this outside thing…this kind of alien outgrowth.” In his role as music editor, Dundas was flown to SXSW headquarters in Austin for a few days each year, where he would hunker down and construct a festival guide. For two years, he found nice things to say about every band on the festival bill—even the awful ones. But for the festival’s third and final year, he changed his game plan. “I resolved to tell the truth that year in the guide,” Dundas says. “And no one stood in my way, which was to both Willamette Week’s credit and short-term detriment. And I wrote some very uncomplimentary things about the bands in the guide. I can see now how this would be a slap in the face. This was the official guide.” Shortly thereafter, relations between WW and
SXSW took a turn for the worse. The third year of NXNW would be the last—the inhouse MusicfestNW, which Dundas would initially help book, began in 2001—though WW Editor Mark Zusman insists Dundas was not to blame for the divorce. “It wasn’t really an exportable commodity,” Zusman says of the Austin-based festival. “But I’m forever grateful, because we learned how to do this at their feet. And, obviously, they do OK.” CJ. The (mechanical) ghost of “Louie Louie” still haunts Portland Most folks know that the classic version of “Louie Louie” was recorded by the Kingsmen in 1963 in the Rose City. What’s less well known is that the mastering machine used to cut that vinyl 45 is still here—and still in action. The 1954 Presto 88 record lathe is owned by Portland punk icons Fred and Toody Cole, previously of Dead Moon and currently of Pierced Arrows. Originally the property of radio station KISN, the lathe was acquired by Fred in four separate cardboard boxes in 1987. He managed to restore it to working order and has used it to master his bands’ vinyl releases ever since. The massive piece of old-school gear is mono only, but it has compensating advantages. “When it’s on, I don’t have to heat the bedroom it’s in,” Fred says. MS. Portland is an enclave for legendary punk drummers A few months ago, a transaction took place at Revival Drum Shop in Northeast Portland that would’ve sent the heads of old L.A.
punks spinning. Tim Leitch sold the bangedup set he thrashed for hardcore legends Fear to Bobby Schayer, who drummed for the equally iconic Bad Religion during the band’s early-’90s prime. While the Portland punk scene has produced its share of wellregarded skin-beaters—including Andrew Loomis of Dead Moon and Sam Henry of the Wipers—in recent years the city has become a magnet for old-school road warriors looking to settle down. “I thought I might retire here one day,” Leitch says. After relocating from New York in 2005, though, the former Spit Stix member didn’t exactly plant himself on the porch. He began producing local bands, and eventually wound up back behind the kit, drumming for freak punks Nasalrod. “I find myself with kindred spirits,” Leitch says. MPS. Never been Kissed Around Portland, Mel Brown is known as the “gentleman of jazz.” He was almost a face-painted member of Kiss. The smiling, congenial accountant-by-day now moonlights as the city’s most heralded jazz drummer. Some people know his résumé includes countless jazz pieces and a lengthy stint as a session player with Motown Records. But in the early ’80s, when Brown was playing drums for Diana Ross, he got an offer too juicy to refuse— from Kiss. “Gene Simmons was dating Diana at that time, and he enjoyed my playing,” Brown explains. With Peter Criss long out of the band—and a revolving door of longhaired rock drummers taking the stool in his stead—Simmons asked Brown to go on a one-month tour. Brown agreed, but when Simmons checked with his girlfriend, she refused to let Brown go. “She booked a one-nighter in the middle of the proposed tour, so that I wouldn’t be available,” Brown recalls. “Hence, my chance to be the drummer for Kiss was quashed.” Eventually, another Portlander would
take the job Brown always wanted. Tommy Thayer, a graduate of Beaverton’s Sunset High School and guitarist for Portland rock outfit Black ’N Blue, has been a longtime guitarist with Kiss. CJ. Let’s get physical, part one In a time when record stores nationwide are closing up shop, Portland is opening new ones: Beacon Sound, Clinton Street Records, Boom Wow! Records, Little Axe Records and bar/record-store hybrid Record Room have all opened in the past three years, while longtime indie record stores like 360 Vinyl and Anthem Records have chosen to move to new locales rather than shut down or go digital. According to Music Millennium owner Terry Currier, Portland has as many record stores as it did in the ’70s, and more per capita than any other U.S. city. “[We] could have the most record stores period,” Currier adds. Alice Larsen’s record store, the boxy, vinyl-only Mississippi Avenue shop Boom Wow Records, began 2½ years ago as a way to unload some 7,000 records she and boyfriend Tim Zagelow had boxed up in her dining room. The plan was to open a storefront for six months, sell all the LPs for $1 a piece, then shut down. But the store— originally called 99 Cent Records—turned out to be commercially viable. “We didn’t even think about the economy or the fact that record stores across the country were closing,” Larsen says. The couple tweaked their business model (though there are still plenty of $1 records), changed the store’s name to Boom Wow and became a real-life record store. Larsen, who recently quit her bartending job of 10 years to focus on the store, is happy to see other stores opening as well. “I think we all have something different to offer,” she says. “Maybe that’s why it works.” CONT. on page 16 Willamette Week SEPTEMBER 5, 2012 wweek.com
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Let’s get physical, part two Of course, record stores aren’t the only way this city moves music. Portland’s CD Baby—which claims to be the world’s largest distributor of independent music—sold 343,000 compact discs through July, a 1 percent uptick in sales from 2011. It doesn’t sound like much until you consider that nationally CD sales were down 13 percent for the year through Aug. 5, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Despite its name, CD Baby sells vastly more digital albums than it does CDs, but the uptick in physical sales is still surprising. “I don’t think anybody else can say that,” company president Brian Felsen wrote in a press release. “Not Walmart, not Best Buy, not the major labels.” Kevin Breuner, CD Baby’s director of marketing, says expanded distribution (from about 2,300 brick-and-mortar stores to 15,000) and new partnerships—especially abroad—have improved the company’s numbers. “The thing people tend to forget is that the whole world isn’t walking around with iPhones and access to iTunes,” he says. “In some pockets of the world, the CD is still the format of choice. We’re not just talking about Third World countries, we’re talking about [places like] Brazil.” But CD Baby has another advantage: Fans want to support the independent artists it distributes. “People feel like they’re buying a piece of the artist when they buy a CD,” Breuner says. CJ. The lady can surf Susan Surftone bills herself as having the only female-fronted instrumental surfrock band in the U.S.—and she’s pretty sure it’s true. “There’s a woman named Ronnie Lake in the Midwest; occasionally she pops up as having a band,” says Surftone—born Susan Yasinski—from her home in Portland. Though she has never surfed, Yasinski is inarguably the most prolific female surf frontwoman on the planet, having released more than a dozen albums over two decades in music. In 2000, she relocated from New York to Portland (“I love the weather,” she says) and rebuilt her band, the Surftones, with local musicians. Slowly but surely, she has connected with—and in some cases unearthed—local surf acts, a handful of which are featured on a new compilation called PDX A Go-Go: Making Waves Up North. None of those groups, of course, have women playing lead guitar. “I just play because I like to play,” Surftone says. “I didn’t set out to cut a path or anything. But if some girls pick the guitar up with the idea of being a lead guitarist because they heard my stuff, that would make me feel pretty good.” CJ. Think of MySpace’s band pages, but better MySpace pages may have been ugly and clunky, but there’s a reason just about every band had one: They provided musicians with an all-in-one portal to share MP3s, gig calendars, photos and videos in one place, free, with no Web design knowledge. Funny as it sounds, the decline of MySpace left a massive hole that has yet to be filled. Enter Portland-based CASH Music, which hopes to do for musicians “what Wordpress did for bloggers.” Helmed by former Kill Rock Stars VP Maggie Vail and designer Jessie 16
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PORTLAND ROCK TRIVIA CONT. von Doom, with input from some of the city’s top tech and marketing talent and musicians like Throwing Muses’ Kristen Hersh and geek god Jonathan Coulton, the nonprofit is building a product that could not only pick up where MySpace left off but genuinely shake up the industry. The free and open-source platform will allow bands to build sites where they can stream music, share tour dates, sell tickets, run mailing lists and competitions, and, most importantly, sell their music directly to fans with no middle man, keeping 100 percent of the profits. The CASH Music platform is already available to developers, and the full public hosted version is expected to go live in October. RB. Maggie Vail speaks at MusicfestNW’s sister tech and music conference, PDX, on Thursday, Sept. 6. Details at musicfestnw.com. The radio station of tomorrow is here today Transplants to Portland have bragged for years about the great underground radio in their hometowns. Stations like Seattle’s KEXP and New York’s WFMU became legendary by focusing on independent music that mattered. In spite of its vibrant music scene, historically Portland has had nothing like them—unless you count dancing to public-policy forums on KBOO. This sad state of affairs has come to an end with the advent of KZME-FM 107.1, a station whose stated objective is to follow in the footsteps of those awesome stations your new roommate won’t shut up about. (Full disclosure: This reporter’s band played a benefit show for the station in July.) The station’s focus on what KZME honcho Dennise Kowalczyk calls “music made here, heard here or discovered here” leaves plenty of wiggle room for out-of-town bands to find their way onto its playlists, but Portland acts still dominate its volunteer-staffed shows. “KEXP is amazing,” Kowalczyk says. “We want to be Portland’s version.” With the backing of established Gresham nonprofit Metro East Community Media, KZME seems to have a fighting chance in the challenging world of community radio. “We just want to keep growing and growing,” Kowalczyk says. “We’re just a baby station.” MS. Smoking-hot shows When Oregon banned cigarettes in bars and restaurants in 2009, smokers immediately started looking for loopholes. One of those, cited by musicians and showbiz folk often enough to become a local urban legend, is indeed written into the law: “A performer may smoke or carry a lighted smoking instrument…while performing in a scripted stage, motion picture or television production.” Comedian Doug Stanhope supposedly exploited it at a Dante’s performance, asking the audience onstage to smoke cigarettes with him. “You’re all part of my act,” local music PR man Alex Steininger remembers Stanhope telling the crowd. That’s the same exception that Casey Neill’s Pogues cover band, KMRIA, took advantage of while smoking onstage in a 2009 concert. “I don’t recall the Doug Fir complaining,” Neill says. “I do remember
they were bummed that we ended the show by firing cans of Silly String at each other.” Considering that Oregon is a state whose Supreme Court ruled to protect onstage sex in 2005, the smoking loophole makes sense. Other states—Arizona, Maine, Massachusetts and Minnesota among them—make similar exceptions for performances. There’s just one problem: While civilized smokers can argue over what is and isn’t “scripted,” the devil is in the details here. That ellipsis in the aforementioned legal mumbo-jumbo? We left out the part that says, “a lighted smoking instrument that does not contain tobacco.” Neill quit cigarettes and Stanhope no longer smokes onstage. “It irritates people,” he told an interviewer in 2010. “Not the nonsmokers. Fuck them. But the smokers see you smoke and then they’re just staring at your cigarette and not listening to the words.” CJ. A gathering storm…of metal! With a few notable exceptions, Portland has never been renowned for its metal exports. That has changed in the past five years. “I do more work [in Portland] than I do anywhere else in the world,” says Los Angeles-based super producer Billy Anderson. Can the man behind the board on countless albums by Sleep, Neurosis and the Melvins possibly be talking about our quaint little indie-rock town? Indeed. “There are more heavy bands here than there ever has been,” he adds. This year alone, Danava has toured Europe twice. Agalloch graduated from a van to a bus. Eugene-Portland doom metal band YOB has recently opened shows for Tool, Slayer and Ozzy. Portland hardrock act Red Fang just toured Russia. Still doubting Portland’s rep as an international metal capital? Pitchfork named Atriarch’s Forever the End one of its top 40 metal albums of 2011, and NPR dedicated a pod-
cast to the scene. We even have a heavy metal-themed pizza joint in Sizzle Pie. All of this has been enough to persuade Anderson to move here later this year. “It’s a no-brainer for me,” he says. NC. Tom Waits leered here, but where? Well before our sleepy burg achieved its renown as an indie-rock butcher for the world, we were widely regarded for our strip clubs. Tom Waits sings of ogling strippers and seeing “Portland through a shot glass” in “Pasties and a G-String (at the Two O’Clock Club),” from his classic 1976 album, Small Change. Local legend has it the icon had fallen for the charms of downtown mainstay Mary’s Club. Not everyone agrees. “I would find it surprising that he wrote it specifically about Mary’s Club,” says Lucy Fur. A favored dancer from 1998 to 2005—to signal her farewell, the marquee changed wording for the first time in decades—Fur is currently a burlesque performer in Los Angeles, but remains close to the bar’s ownership. “I feel like it’s more probable that it was written about the Carriage Room, which closed in ’82 or ’83. The Carriage Room was [owner Roy Keller’s] other club, and it was much larger. It would’ve had room for a band, while Mary’s only had a piano. “Mary’s tended to have the best stripclub music I’ve ever heard anywhere. It was something of a matter of pride for people, so the fact that lots and lots of girls danced to [the song] there doesn’t necessarily suggest anything to me,” Fur continues. “I know I’ve seen quite a few girls strip to that song at Mary’s, but Tom Waits’ music was popular in general—people would dance to ‘Hollywood and Vine.’” Mr. Waits declined to comment. “He doesn’t usually answer specifics about songs,” his publicist said. JH. MFNW CONT. on page 18
SINCE THE CITYWIDE ROLLOUT OF THE NEW CURBSIDE COLLECTION SERVICE...
GARBAGE IS DOWN 40% Portlanders are throwing away 40 percent less garbage (by weight).
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THE AMOUNT OF YARD DEBRIS AND FOOD SCRAPS COLLECTED HAS INCREASED 3X Three times more compost for fertilizing yards and gardens.
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The Helio Sequence and Menomena have a lot in common. Both are made up of Portland-area natives (Beaverton, specifically). Both are signed to influential Seattle-based labels. Both self-produce their records, and do so masterfully. Perhaps most impressively, both bands frequently challenge the limitations of their medium. Menomena is known for elaborate album packaging; pre-orders of the new Helio Sequence disc contain a second CD meant to be played in a separate player for trippy quadraphonic sound. The commonalities are all the more understandable when you get the two groups in a room together and see they also have the same sense of humor and favorite bands. Well before Menomena and the Helio Sequence were at the cutting edge of the Portland music scene, they were splitting bills together at intimate Portland venues. They grew up together. Both play this year’s MusicfestNW (the Helio Sequence for the 11th time since the festival’s origins as North by Northwest), and both sat down to talk with us about Portland, their new albums—the Helio Sequence’s Negotiations is out Sept. 11, Menomena’s Moms the following Tuesday—and each other. WW: What are your all-time favorite Portland bands? Brandon Summers of the Helio Sequence: Thirty Ought Six! Benjamin Weikel of the Helio Sequence: One of the most inspiring things I ever saw was King Black Acid’s first show, or one of their first shows, at AIM Fest, under the Hawthorne Bridge. Danny Seim of Menomena: I snuck my high-school girlfriend out of her parents’ house to go see the Dandy Warhols open for Oasis at the Roseland. But favorite bands? Maybe Thirty Ought Six or the Wipers. Everclear? See, these guys were cool. Justin and I were going to Dave Matthews Band concerts together. Justin Harris of Menomena: I had a major Dave Matthews Band phase. How about another 30 band? Let’s go with 31Knots. When did Helio start, 1999? Summers: Actually it was 1996. Weikel: But we couldn’t get a show in Portland until about ’98. You had to go to the club during the day, pound on
“YOU GUYS WERE COOL. JUSTIN AND I WERE GOING TO DAVE MATTHEWS BAND CONCERTS.” —MENOMENA’S DANNY SEIM the door, try to give them a tape. We never got any shows that way, but finally we had a few friends who hooked us up with Mt. Tabor [Theater]. So we opened up for bands there a few times. Where was Menomena around this time? Seim: I was working at a beauty-supply shipping place in Beaverton with Justin. I’d read all these Willamette Week articles about this band Helio Sequence, and they were these lads from Beaverton. We played the Blackbird, and we nervously invited [the Helio Sequence]. They were standing right in front of the stage with their girlfriends. No one else was standing. I was like, “Oh God, oh God, that’s them.” I 18
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SHOP TALK: (From left) Benjamin Weikel, Danny Seim, Brandon Summers and Justin Harris in Northeast Portland.
was totally sweating through my underwear. Harris: I was more intimidated by the beauty of [Brandon’s] hair than anything else. It was the perfect shape. Summers: I was intimidated by the beauty of my own hair. Seim: You looked like a hot woman. Was there an intimidation factor, coming out of that really tight-knit community of bands like Heatmiser and Hazel and Pond? Summers: It was actually really inspiring. Weikel: They were all gone, though. The whole scene was really just a big mess. None of them really [knew us] until we played NXNW. Summers: And the NXNW showcase was insane. The entire venue [Green Onion] was filled. I just remember being completely freaked out. Wasn’t the Helio Sequence pretty heavily hyped early on? Summers: Portland is so interesting in that way. A buzz can be so heavily generated within Portland and then it’s difficult for a band, because you’ve got this momentum going in Portland and when you try to step outside—we were like, “Now we need to go and play Seattle.” But no one in Seattle cared about Portland buzz. It was just like going out into the wilderness. That has probably changed. There was a period where there’d be like five people coming up to the merch table and saying, “I’m moving to Portland, man, where should I move?” How do you feel about bands moving here like that? Summers: Well, you could kind of feel that it was going to happen early on. [Journalists] would say, “Do you think Portland is the next Seattle?” There’s always been that hope. Maybe it’s an industry hope. But it essentially worked. Weikel: Now bands ask us, “What do we do?” Play a show! And if people like it, maybe they’ll come to the next one. Seim: We had zero aspirations when we started. Now Portland is seen as a springboard, because it’s so musically rich. I don’t remember ever looking at Portland that way. It was a great place to be. We’d get all these interview questions when we went overseas where people would say, “What do we do in Portland?” And I used to go to Voodoo Doughnut every night to get the bacon maple bar. I was so excited. So I’d say, “Go to Voodoo Doughnuts. It’s this weird, kinda wacky thing—the guys are maybe on meth, but it’s really good.” Now you go there and it’s...
Summers: Beaverton and Lake Oswego people. I’ve heard both of your new albums referred to as transitional. I mean, for Menomena there’s this physical transition. Harris: Going from male to female? Seim: We’re just growing our hair out! Summers: They all feel like transitional records to me, because we are always transitioning. Weikel: But I think this was the first time we’ve hunkered down and made something that achieves the sound we were going for. Summers: I had two kids from the point we started working on Keep Your Eyes Ahead until now. So I would watch them during the day and then come into the studio at night, so there’s some sort of a different reflective nighttime vibe. Which tied into Benjamin’s obsession with this downtempo, really minimal music he was getting into. The new Menomena record is pretty heavy. It took me a few listens to start to digest. Seim: I think this was the first time in our careers that we really tried to make the lyrics and vocals a real focal point. Not that they were pulled out of a hat in the past, but I think we tried harder to be vague. Muddying the waters to appear deep. Harris: As you age, you get less self-conscious about things. For Danny and I, [recently] it hasn’t been embarrassing anymore to talk about lyrics or share lyrics. Writing songs has become less about being cool, and we’re getting more in touch with ourselves. That’s scary. It can go either way. What was the scariest thing about Menomena losing Brent Knopf ? Seim: I have an infinite amount of respect Brent’s talent, and I had learned to use both Justin and Brent as these great sounding boards. And I’m not gonna lie and say I haven’t missed him for a second, but I’m really happy that the dynamic between the two of us works. I’ve learned to trust Justin more. We have these long debates about what a part will be like, but the person who feels the strongest wins. When we were a trio, two people could band together and outvote the other. We felt good because we were compromising, but by compromising it kind of did water it down, because the guy who felt super-passionate lost. CONT. on page 21
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TRAVELS WITH STELLA BEAN: Portland drummer/songwriter/teacher/painter/jill-of-all-trades Rachel Blumberg, a lifelong resident of Portland and one of the most recognizable faces in the city’s music scene, has left the Rose City to live in Providence, R.I. Though best known as an early Decemberist, Blumberg’s musical talents (she has played with Bright Eyes, Norfolk & Western, M. Ward, etc.) and visual art have helped enrich and define the Portland arts scene. She had considered moving to Los Angeles, Chicago or Barcelona in recent months, but a reunion and subsequent romance with musician Jeffrey Underhill (formerly of the band Honeybunch) led her to his hometown of Providence. “I still feel like RACHEL BLUMBERG this will always be my home, and I don’t intend to break from the community,” she says of Portland. “But I’m also really excited to move to such a beautiful, weird, small place.” Blumberg’s dog, Stella Bean, will accompany her on the car trip. In classic Blumberg fashion, she has at least two musical projects lined up in Providence.
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I was asked to speak at my high-school graduation. Not because of my grades (which were abysmal) or because of my community service (which was ordered by a judge), but because I had made fewer enemies than most of my peers and had somewhat of a reputation as a class clown—though I realize now it had more to do with my goofy, gap-toothed face than my jokes. Anyway, I had about a month to prepare for the speech, and I knew it would be the biggest moment of my life up to that point. I thought about it every single day, but in the end I had so much fun imagining the endless possibilities (do I quote Ferris Bueller or Rage Against the Machine?) that I never got around to writing a speech. When graduation finally arrived, I read vague scrawls from a torn sheet of notebook paper mostly covered with cartoons. I write this to you on my last day at Willamette Week.. I’ve known for a month that I’d have this page to say goodbye on. I’ve had plenty of ideas for it. And when I think of all the people who have mentored and inspired me these past six years— four of them as music editor, my dream job—my eyes well up and I get a lump in my throat and I have to stop thinking about it or I’ll cry at my stupid desk. So instead of telling you that “life moves fast and if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it,” I thought I’d show you some of the cartoons I’d scribbled in meetings over the years. Thank you for reading.
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WEDNESDAY SEPT. 5 MUSICFESTNW [MUSIC] Yes, this time of year we have kind of a one-track mind. But what starts tonight and runs for a thrilling/grueling five days is nothing less than the craziest stretch on Portland music fans’ calendars all year long. From Against Me! to Beirut to Flying Lotus, there are some wild times ahead. We hope you’re game for it. Multiple venues. The official MFNW guide is online at wweek.com. All ages.
THURSDAY SEPT. 6 NW HIP HOP FEST [MUSIC] The more the merrier, we say. The second annual Northwest Hip Hop fest gathers almost everybody who’s anybody in Portland hip-hop, and a few new recruits to boot, and throws a three-day party with them. Expect to keep your hands in the air an awful lot to the likes of Cool Nutz, Sleep, Serge Severe and many more folks. Ash Street Saloon, 225 SW Ash St. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+. Continues through Saturday at Ash Street Saloon and Kelly’s Olympian. TIME-BASED ART [TIME] PICA’s annual arts festival celebrates its 10th year putting weird art you don’t really understand on stages around the city. Through Sept. 16. See pages 49 and 51. Full details at pica.org/tba. FASHION’S NIGHT OUT [FASHION] Move to the left—Macy’s, Sephora and Columbia Sportswear and two dozen other downtown retailers are having special events. Fashion shows at Director Park, Southwest Yamhill and Park Avenue. Downtown, 4-9 pm. downtownportland.org/fashions-night-out.
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There was no stigma when I started playing Magic: The Gathering. In 1996, the game caught on like wildfire at my parochial school in Akron, Ohio. Being a dweeb was never part of the picture—tapping mana and summoning wizards felt as natural as riding a bike or tossing a baseball. As with most youthful pastimes, our interest waned in a card game that, like Hearts or Euchre, involves using luck and skill to outmaneuver an opponent but uses the Hill Giant and Throne of Azrael instead of aces and jacks. By high school, I found myself drifting from the fantasy world of elves, wizards and dragons. New music and better parking lots in which to smoke more potent marijuana became my priorities. My friends got married, had kids and bought houses on the country roads we used to speed down blaring crappy altrock and tossing empty Natural Light cans. So why did I find myself playing the game against 1,000 other sweaty guys in a convention-center basement at an intense Magic tournament in Atlanta in July? I’d sworn off the game a decade ago, but I imagined that showing up to an über-competitive MTG tournament—like the one happening in Portland this week—dressed like the guitarist of a shitty post-rock band who makes your latte would give me some sort of tactical advantage over a bunch of doofuses. I was wrong—very wrong. Those of you who spent your formative years lettering in varsity sports and attending various school dances might need a refresher: Magic: The Gathering is a collectible card game developed by Renton, Wash.based Wizards of the Coast in the mid-’90s. It has been wildly popular the world over since it was originally seeded in comic-book stores back in the pre-Internet dark ages. Game play is simple enough: Two players square off in one-on-one combat, each armed with a custom deck of at least 60 cards, the construction of which is considered the key. Each starts the game with a random selection of cards, which is where the skill of mastering a game that’s mostly random comes into play. While taking turns, each player dispatches a variety of threats and defenses to thwart their opponent’s plans. The cards are designed with rich storylines and a classic fantasy element in mind, but it doesn’t matter. “Hell, I’d bash with Justin Bieber cards if that’s what was in the arsenal. I just love playing Magic,” says one of my friends. This was a reference to my custom Justin Bieber playmat, an oversized mouse pad
one uses to keep dirt, bacon grease, bong resin, and everything else from mucking up the tables in a multiday tournament. I expected a Magic tournament to attract the geekiest hardcore gamers—guys fresh off the waterbed in their mother’s basement or the Astro van parked outside their ex-wife’s condo. I only met one guy who matched my composite sketch of an adult Magic geek. My fourth opponent of nine, the portly Rory, from Long Island, N.Y., had a shock of pink hair dangling from an Insane Clown Posse beanie and a faded Deadmau5 shirt, complete with armpit holes and an archipelago of grease stains on the chest. Rory was equally unimpressed with me. The second I sat down, he began scribbling feverishly in a well-worn spiral notebook, narrating his thoughts out loud. “Round four. Opponent: Portlandia. Justin Bieber playmat. Probably drinks PBR and listens to Pavement....” As Rory joylessly handed me a thrashing, I realized the stunt I thought I was pulling was a lot like ironically taking a date to Applebee’s: It’s hilarious only until you realize you’re at Applebee’s. On a date. The people who actually get it are patently unimpressed, and other people have no inclination to notice. A look of smug indifference and a neongreen fanny pack stocked with beef jerky and trail mix gives one little to no tactical advantage over the thousands of other bloodthirsty players when there’s $3,000 and glory on the line. I’ve now spent six months as a tourist in a world I thought I knew well. I’ve learned this: Showering daily is a non-factor. Go figure. Grown-up MTG players compete on a national scale at Grand Prix events, including my debut at a tournament held in the sub-basement of the Peachtree Center
Hyatt Regency in Atlanta over a weekend that averaged 105 degrees. Organizers describe it as “festival-like” and I can agree inasmuch as the food was fried, the air smelled like a petting zoo, and the restrooms were pushed to their limits. In that tournament’s format, called Legacy, the card pool is infinite and dates as far back as the game’s origin in the early ’90s. Given the scarcity of some of the more powerful cards, it’s fairly common to see players who have invested several thousand dollars in their deck. My average-looking opponent in round three wore a shirt that read, “My deck is worth more than your car.” Frank actually turned out to be an OK guy: married, two kids, owned
“HELL, I’D BASH WITH JUSTIN BIEBER CARDS IF THAT’S WHAT WAS IN THE ARSENAL. I JUST LOVE PLAYING MAGIC.” his own roofing business based in a small Alabama town. He beat me in under four minutes both games. In fact, with the exception of Rory, each of my opponents that day defied my assumption that being smug and cooler than this stupid game would win me prizes and glory. Christian, from Jacksonville, Fla., looked like a member of the Hells Angels but ended up being the nicest guy I met all day. After a hard-fought match that ended in his favor, we had a good 15-minute conversation about all sorts of things: instrumental metal, baseball, chicken, waffles and sportsmanship. The conversation became somber when I took notice of a tattoo on his
left shoulder that read “Ranger” above an outline of a paratrooper kneeling in prayer. “Mogadishu, 1993,” he said quietly as he set down his backpack on the table. “I still have no effing clue why we were there. I guess I never will.” “My dad was a Ranger in Vietnam,” I offered as a friend approached Christian, asking if he was ready to go. He filled out the paperwork from our match without a word, then looked at me squarely. “Tell your father I said ‘Thank you.’” He firmly shook my hand. As I put on my Yeasayer T-shirt and generic neon Wayfarers the morning of the tournament, I thought maybe having a detached, above-it-all mentality would put my head in the right place to flippantly win the whole shebang. Instead, I had a human moment involving someone I’d be unlikely to talk to outside a game of elves and wizards. Run-ins with dubstep-loving street urchins aside, I find myself having a blast at these tournaments. For every Timmy the Power Gamer you’re tempted to bludgeon to death with a bag of dice, there’s someone like Frank or Christian. Winning is fun, but so is having an excuse to go to a new city and peel yourself off a friend’s floor at 8 am after drinking 16 tall boys and dancing suggestively with a divorced kindergarten teacher at an electro show to play a gloriously dumb card game in the basement of a hotel. Forget the fanny pack. Forget the sunglasses. Hell, forget the shower. I’ll be at the StarCityGames.com Open in Portland this weekend, geeking out with everyone else. GO: The StarCityGames.com Open Series: Portland is at the Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., on Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 8-9. More information at starcitygames.com. Willamette Week SEPTEMBER 5, 2012 wweek.com
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SATURDAY, SEPT. 8 2012 Portland Baconfest
Even though living in Portland is one, big yearlong bacon festival, EastBurn is once again holding its annual Baconfest. The day includes a bacon-eating contest (you will have to down BLTs, maple-bacon bars, bacon-wrapped bananas, bacon-salt Peeps and bacon icecream sundaes), a bacon danceoff, a greasy Slip-’n-Slide contest, a “triathlon de pig” contest, novelty bacon vendors, non-novelty bacon vendors, a skate competition, live music, and lots of dickheads highfiving and shouting things like, “Everything tastes better with bacon!” EastBurn, 1800 E Burnside St., 236-2876. Noon-8 pm. $5 and suggested two cans of food.
MacTarnahan’s Scottish Festival
Sharpen your sgian-dubh and comb your sporran: MacTarnahan’s Brewing celebrates the release of its seasonal Scottish ale by toasting all things Caledonian. As well as the beer, the bar will offer Scottish food, Highland Games competitions, Gaelic henna tattoos, dancing, bagpipe performances and a “kilt costume contest.” Proceeds benefit Friendly House. MacTarnahan’s Taproom, 2730 NW 31st Ave, 228-5269. Noon. Free admission. All ages.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 9 Wild About Game
Local meat purveyor Nicky USA hosts the 12th installment of its Wild About Game event, where chefs battle head-to-head for culinary supremacy. This year is a Portland vs. Seattle showdown, with locals Chris Carriker (Gilt Club), Gregory Gourdet (Departure), Jenn Louis (Lincoln) and Christopher Israel (Grüner) facing off against Emerald City representatives Carrie Mashaney (Spinasse), Nathan Lockwood (Altura), Cormac Mahoney (Madison Park Conservatory) and Jonathan Sundstrom (Lark). Info at nickyusa.com/wag. Timberline Lodge, 27500 Timberline West, Timberline Lodge & Ski Area. 11:30 am-4 pm. $50. 21+.
Cakewalk
The Portland Pastry Chefs Association (I’ll be honest: I had no idea such a thing existed until now) is bringing together many of the city’s pastry chefs, bakers, chocolatiers and fromagiers—names like Bakeshop, Lauretta Jean’s, the Pie Spot, Pacific Pie Co. and the Sugar Cube—to raise money for Share Our Strength, Oregon Food Bank and Partners for a Hunger-Free Oregon. There will be no fewer than 14 cakewalks to win some of their wares, and everyone who participates gets a cupcake. Olympic Mills Commerce Center, 107 SE Washington St. 5-9 pm. $35. 21+. Tickets at portandpastrychefs.org.
MONDAY, SEPT. 10 Fox Chase Block Party
The area previously known colloquially as Camden Corner, and now apparently called Fox Chase (i.e., Northeast 30th Avenue and Killingsworth-ish), holds its fourth annual block party, featuring free food from Yakuza, DOC, Autentica and Cocotte, along with live music. Northeast 30th Avenue and Killingsworth Street. 6-9 pm.
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PAPA-PAU It’s not about the bacon. Yes, wrapping a hot dog in breakfast meat gets people riled like that mutt in the Beggin’ Strips commercial. But, frankly, it’s insulting to the Sonoran dogs served at the new Papa-Pau cart, sitting in a gravel lot on Southeast 82nd Avenue. Named for the Mexican state that invented it, this hot dog isn’t another applewood-smoked gimmick. A great Sonoran dog—and I had one at the famous El Güero Canelo in Tucson, Ariz., last week that wasn’t as good as Papa-Pau’s version—is subtle and complex. The bun is made from slightly sweet dough and lightly steamed so that it has a slightly gummy coating, not unlike Chinese bao. Papa-Pau bakes its own to get it right. The dog and that thing it’s wrapped in are topped with vegetables grilled (mushrooms, onions and peppers) Order this: Sonoran hot dog combo with homemade potato and ungrilled (onions, tomatoes chips and soda ($7). and jalapeños), plus pinto beans, I’ll pass: Vegetarian dog ($6). mayonnaise, nacho cheese sauce, a salty and smooth guacamole sauce, a tiny bit of chorizo and a sprinkle of powdery cotija cheese. No ketchup, please. And the bacon? Yeah, it’s in there—somewhere. If the lone dish on the Papa-Pau menu sounds messy, it isn’t, provided it’s not overloaded. It’s about the balance of flavors— salty and sweet, spicy and cool, Gringo y Chicano. The origins of the dog are also tidy, says Papa-Pau owner Luis Miramontes. The Sonoran Desert straddles Mexico and Arizona. Creation myths abound. Arizonans have variously given credit to Tucson and the Sonoran capital of Hermosillo. Some point to Ciudad Obregón, a smaller city south of Hermosillo. Americans don’t have the real story, Miramontes says. “I’ve met the guys who invented it. They’re brothers called Memo and Güero—those are their nicknames—and they both work carts on the same street, a famous street called Nainari, in Ciudad Obregón,” he says. Miramontes is from Obregón, so he’d be happy to claim credit for his city—except he knows better. “The truth is that the dog originated in a very small town in the mountains called El Chinal,” he says. “The story goes that an American went to El Chinal and he was eating hot dogs, and [brothers Memo and Güero] saw that and wanted to make it to Mexican tastes. They did and then they moved to Ciudad Obregón to sell them because it was a bigger city. It took off from there.” In Hermosillo, the Sonoran dog got fame and beans (“They’re the big city, the capital, so they get the credit,” Miramontes says. “And they did put the beans on it, which is important.”) Then it was on to Tucson, where The New York Times put the dog’s locus. Now, the Sonoran dog lands in Oregon. Not even in a cart pod—yet. “I talked to this guy who owns a pod and he said, ‘Why do we want a hot dog cart? I could do my own hot dog cart and put bacon on it,’” Miramontes laughs. “I tried to explain, ‘Sir, this is no ordinary hot dog.’” MARTIN CIZMAR. EAT: Papa-Pau, 9603 SE 82nd Ave., Happy Valley, 890-3853, facebook.com/papapauportland. 11 am-midnight SundayThursday, 11 am-9:30 pm Friday, 9 pm-midnight Saturday. $.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 5 MusicfestNW: Wednesday
[MFNW] Though the first flush of Musicfest has grown unrecognizably from the niche pursuits and wellintentioned no-hopers once scattered about the initial box of the MFNW advent calendar, the infernal logic of event planning must judge some bands more suitable for leading off the murderers’ row of assembled talent— think pleasant, poppy and eminently approachable—likely to attract the specific demographics starting their long weekend a few days early. The Crystal hosts ukulele sensation LP. Doug Fir features Scott McCaughey’s lineup-shifting dad rockers nonpareil the Minus 5, troubadour Bobby Bare Jr. (subject of a recent documentary shown at Mission Theater screening a few hours earlier), and un-grunge shoulda-been world-beaters Sloan. Meanwhile, singalong punkers Against Me! and reunited post-hardcore troupe Hot Snakes rock, respectively, the Hawthorne and Roseland—thus giving some taste of the angrier, noisier, more complicated pleasures to come. JAY HORTON. Multiple venues. See musicfestnw.com for details. The official MFNW guide is online at wweek.com. All ages.
Anna and the Underbelly, Jeffrey Martin, Jackalope Saints
[PORTLAND PORCH MUSIC] Portland’s own Anna Tivel has a kickass Kickstarter project. “I could steal all the neighborhood’s dogs for a week, then give ’em all back for rewards,” she warbles pleasantly in the page’s selling-points video, which contains a long list of maudlin ways she could raise money to make her first record. The folksy multi-instrumentalist, who goes by Anna and the Underbelly, is actually more DIY than her project’s name would suggest: She sings all her own self-harmonies, plays every stringed instrument you hear in her tinkly and whimsical recordings and has an incredibly accessible, down-to-earth public persona. And there’s no need to guard your dogs anymore, Portland: Anna has exceeded her goal by over $1,700. NORA EILEEN JONES. Ella Street Social Club, 714 SW 20th Place, 227-0116. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 6 MusicfestNW: Thursday
[MFNW] The bands everyone is going to be talking about on Friday morning are probably going to be the ones that make the biggest racket. Whether that’s a psychopharmacological take on hip-hop (Flying Lotus), mid-’80s-style punked-up jams (the Men, Ceremony), soul-dipped garage rock (King Khan and the Shrines), unhinged freak punk (Lightning Bolt), discofied pop (Passion Pit), or cheap-liquor-fueled countrified stomping (The Old 97’s) depends on where your particular tastes lie. Bring a pair of earplugs and an open mind, and prepare to have them both blown to pieces. ROBERT HAM. Multiple venues. See musicfestnw.com for details. The official MFNW guide is online at wweek. com. All ages.
NW Hip Hop Fest: Serge Severe, Theory Hazit, Destro, Load B, Chill Crew, Mighty Misc and more
[PO-HOP-ISH] Unimpressed by the number of hip-hop acts at this year’s MusicfestNW? No worries! A couple of local hip-hop fans-turned-promoters have got you covered. Northwest Hip-Hop Fest is back for its second year, spanning three days across some of Stumptown’s well-known open-mic
haunts. Admittedly, the festival’s bill is a little daunting in the sheer volume of artists being presented—even the biggest local hip-hop fans will have trouble recognizing some of the acts— but there is plenty here to enjoy. Look out for performances by some of the scene’s veteran greats, like Cool Nutz and L Pro, and some of the scene’s most exciting acts, like rap oddball Cloudy October and fiery spitter Serge Severe. Don’t forget about some of the talented newcomers, too, like University of Oregon alums Chill Crew (watch for gifted MC Jon Belz) and live hip-hop band Speaker Minds.. REED JACKSON. Ash Street Saloon, 225 SW Ash St., 226-0430. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
Willie Nelson and Family
[GOOD-HEARTED MAN] When a performer begins nudging 80, especially one trailing tales of whiskey rivers and White House tokes, even diehard fans will admit a whiff of morbidity and prize each tour like it may be the last—so many of the greats are little more than living legends by their final encore—and reports that breathing problems forced Willie Nelson to cancel a late-August charity gig spurred inevitable musings on the imminent passing of our last touchstone to an ur-Americana past. If anything, the media seemed sort of irritated after his daughter laughed off claims of the illness’ severity, the biodiesel-fueled family tour continued unabated, and more than a few wellwishers first took notice of his recently released Heroes. With Lukas Nelson dueting on most tracks (covering his father’s vocal fragility in an eerie inverse of the “Unforgettable” treatment), broad swaths of his 66th album are precisely the sort of dullish filler we’d expect from an icon in winter. But ailing paragons of heartland virtue aren’t supposed to invite Snoop along to record a rollicking stoner anthem, and anyone who can wring genuine poignancy from a solo rendering of Coldplay’s “The Scientist” just might outlive us all. JAY HORTON. Sleep Country Amphitheater, 17200 NE Delfel Road, Ridgefield, Wash., 360-8167000. 7:30 pm. $43.50. All ages.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 7 MusicfestNW: Friday
[MFNW] You can probably figure out which MFNW shows you’ll be attending Friday based on what you plan on drinking. Check it out: Pabst = The Pains of Being Pure at Heart at Star Theater. A 40 of Old English = Poison Idea at Dante’s. Exploitatively priced white wine = Beirut at Pioneer Square. Craft IPA = Trampled by Turtles at Aladdin Theater. Rum smuggled inside a Pepsi bottle = Future Islands at Branx. Water (because this Ecstasy is making me dehydrated) = DJ Beyondadoubt at Holocene. Water (because this coke is making me dehydrated) = A-Trak at Wonder Ballroom. Water (because have you seen what beer costs in this place?!) = Unknown Mortal Orchestra at Crystal Ballroom. SHANE DANAHER. Multiple locations. See musicfestnw.com for details. The official MFNW guide is online at wweek.com. All ages.
Intervision, The Damian Erskine Trio
[CYBERSOUL] Paul Creighton is a singer from another era, a dapper man with a small frame whose voice booms out like Stevie’s. The band behind him, quintet Intervision, is also from another era, though one light years away from Berry Gordy. Intervision appears
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There’s a track entitled “I Want More” midway through Lex Hives, the fifth LP from Swedish rock quintet the Hives, on which vocalist/hyper-kinetic human explosion Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist lays out a comically crass consumerist manifesto. “I want shit that’s made in India!” he yells. “I should be at peace with the world, but I still want more!” It’s hard to tell whether the song is an intentionally oversized criticism of consumer culture, or a bald-faced celebration of the same. Almqvist himself struggles with this distinction. “It’s kind of both,” he says, when reached via phone in his native Stockholm. “I really like the fact that it’s hard to tell.” For Almqvist and his fellow Hives, judicious use of such esurience has been essential to their 19-year career. While most of the group’s earlyaughts garage-rock brethren have faded from public consciousness, the Hives have soldiered on, repeatedly proving they not only want “more,” but they are also willing to put in the necessary legwork to get it. Consider a few of the essential figures: The band formed in 1993 in its hometown of Fagersta, Sweden (pop. 11,000), but spent nearly a decade wallowing in obscurity before attaining instantaneous fame as part of the early-’00s garage-rock revival. Most of the bands that rose with that tide faded with equal rapidity (when was the last time you listened to the Vines?), but the Hives remained stubbornly resolute. They continued storming stages in their signature, duo-chrome costumes and swinging around microphones with wanton abandon, paying no heed to the prevailing culture’s shift in taste. “We were bunched in with a couple of different genres or movements even before the sort-of ‘garage-rock revival,’” Almqvist says. “I felt like, ‘Oh, here’s another.’… We always knew that when that ended, we’d just keep going.” True to their word, the Hives followed their 2004 breakout album, Tyrannosaurus Hives, with an artistic and commercial leap into the void. The Black and White Album, released in 2007, featured a notable departure from the group’s spare punk-rock inflec-
tions. Horn sections were brought in; the Neptunes received a producing credit. Almqvist describes the record as “very much a studio product” in tones that suggest a certain distaste for that epithet. “I think it was really necessary, though, to move forward,” he says. “And we learned a lot from the process. But I think that control-freak aspect of us was probably screaming the entire time.” Though a concatenation of unrelated troubles (family, medical, label) created a five-year buffer between The Black and White Album and the group’s follow-up, the Hives returned to work in late 2011, ready to give their perfectionist tendencies free rein. Sans label obligations and armed with 18 years of hands-on experience, the group elected to form its own imprint, produce its own record and even film its own videos. Almqvist compares the unexpected difficulty of this agenda to, “this Buddhist quote that goes, ‘In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.’” Lex Hives, the result of nearly a year of machinations on the band’s part, draws equally from the group’s formative years as hyperactive, punk-rock brats and its latter-day experiments with studio polish. “1000 Answers” and “If I Had a Cent” serve as reminders that the Hives were once mentioned in the same breath as the Sex Pistols. Lead-off single “Go Right Ahead” suggests the group was taking notes throughout its various collaborations with Timbaland and Pharrell Williams. “There are two themes [to Lex Hives],” Almqvist says, “one of which is the revenge fantasy. Because we were away for such a long time, we want to come back and show the bastards.” He punctuates this statement with laughter, then goes on to reveal that the second half of the LP was inspired by the band’s aggravation over the past five years’ upheavals in international finance. Though those two points of inspiration seem incongruous at first blush, it bears mentioning that the Hives have built their entire career on an apparent contradiction: This is a rock band that simultaneously mocks and revels in rock-’n’-roll opulence. Even more remarkable as the group approaches its 20th year, it’s still able to summon the pure energy necessary to pull it off. SEE IT: The Hives play Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., on Saturday, Sept. 8, with Fidlar as a part of MusicfestNW. 9:30 pm. $22 advance, $25 day of show, free with MFNW wristband. All ages. Willamette Week SEPTEMBER 5, 2012 wweek.com
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BATTERED BY BEARDS: Trampled By Turtles plays the the Aladdin Theater on Thursday, Sept. 6, as a part of MusicfestNW. to come from a strange future of sexy funk and sleek synth spawned in equal measure by Jamiroquai (minus the dumb hats) and a spaced-out New Power Revolution. Combined, Creighton and his group craft one of Portland’s most unique soul sounds, with pulsing funk and shattering balladry showcasing the best qualities each musician has to offer. AP KRYZA. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 8 pm. $12. All ages until 9 pm. All ages.
than when they are. SHANE DANAHER. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 7:30 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. $34 reserved seating. Minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. All ages.
NW Hip Hop Fest: Speaker Minds, One Movement, Mosley Wotta, Sleep of Oldominion, L Pro, Cloudy October and more
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See Thursday’s Ash Street Saloon listing. Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., 228-3669. 8:30 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 8 MusicfestNW: Saturday
[MFNW] The first two hours, anyway, are easy. Mathy shiny people Au and hometown-bred electropop heroes Starfucker start things off at Pioneer Courthouse Square, and the latter set, especially, represents a rare and special fruition for those of us who’ve geeked out over Portland music this past half-dozen years. Concertgoers’ options get very tough very quickly later in the evening, especially at 11 pm, when Big Freedia bounces to an all-ages crowd at Branx, the legendary Dinosaur Jr. rocks Roseland and Portland heroes Hazel reunite at Star Theater. Redd Kross seems to be the consensus favorite at midnight, though Moonface’s last visit to Doug Fir was a blast. You may be exhausted by the end, but take solace: Some music festivals wrap up at 4 am, and you’ll be home by last call. CASEY JARMAN. Multiple venues. See musicfestnw.com for details. The official MFNW guide is online at wweek.com. All ages.
The Helio Sequence, Corin Tucker Band (LiveWire!)
[LOCAL STALWARTS] Both the Helio Sequence and the Corin Tucker Band have wooed Pacific Northwest audiophiles so assiduously that to snub the groups at this point would constitute a horrid breach of manners. Tucker formed her namesake group after the breakup of local godheads SleaterKinney, whereas Helio Sequence has spent a patient decade sanding even the most minute rough edges from its electronic-infused pop. Both groups have so thoroughly inculcated the Portland music game that it’s frankly more surprising when they’re not playing LiveWire!
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The World Radiant, Bear Feet, The Ghost Ease
[FLOATING INDIE POP] The World Radiant, the Portland quintet fronted by Ross McLeron, doesn’t overwhelm with volume. Each element, slight in scale but inversely effective, emphasizes the music through subtleties and selective exclusion. Light key melodies, fluttering acoustic guitar riffs and quiet harmonies seep behind McLeron’s humble Stuart Murdoch-esque voice. As a result, the music takes on a satisfying feeling of completion in the rare culminating moments when all of the pieces come together. The band recently released two singles from its upcoming full-length that exemplify the mechanics of McLeron’s deep and understated songwriting. Now less dependent on acoustic guitar than it was on its self-titled 2011 release, the group seems quite at home with a playfully nostalgic, well-balanced sound. EMILEE BOOHER. Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., 228-3669. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
My Morning Jacket, Shabazz Palaces
[COOL KIDS] A generation ago, Kurt Cobain, the biggest name in rock music, could be found shooting up heroin and nervously eyeing his shotgun. These days, you can make a pleasant afternoon of taking your kids to see My Morning Jacket— one of the most well-regarded rock groups currently in practice. From its solid basis of folk and psychedelic fundamentals, My Morning Jacket deploys frontman Jim James’ impeccable songwriting instinct to create magisterial, barn-sized pop. The band’s supersized melodies should find admirers both among the children for whom this show is ostensibly being staged and the parental sophisticates providing funding and transportation for the whole thing. SHANE DANAHER. McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 669-8610. 6:30 pm. $41 advance, $43 day of show. All ages.
Menomena, Deep Sea Diver, Brainstorm, Albatross
Dare I suggest that this could be the best Mississippi Studios’ MFNW day party to date? Granted, the Thermals have played this thing before, but the new Menomena record is a powerful and moody beast with tons of funky interludes—that iconic Portland band sorta demands a sellout (freeout?) crowd on its own. With Seattle’s excellent Deep Sea Diver, Portland afro-pop all-stars Brainstorm and a new project from those Builders and the Butchers dudes (Albatross) fleshing out the bill (there will be snacks and raffles and all kinds of other stuff, too), we’ve got a pretty good feeling about this one. CASEY JARMAN. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave. 11 am. Free. 21+.
Blondie, Devo
[NEW WAVE] Debbie Harry’s is the face—and voice—that launched a thousand copycats. Blondie, founded by Harry and guitarist Chris Stein in 1974, crafted the driving sound behind the ’80s pop music scene and the look behind nearly every blond bombshell-fronted musical act that followed. The New York City outfit’s loud, sparkling arrangements and Harry’s high siren’s cry are still shaking dance floors all over the world; if you’ve never heard “Heart of Glass” or “Call Me,” you must live under a soundproof rock on one of Saturn’s moons. Last year’s Panic of Girls, released almost 40 years after the band’s inception, has the same energy, electric buzz and pounding rhythm of Blondie’s early hits. NORA EILEEN JONES. Sleep Country Amphitheater, 17200 NE Delfel Road, Ridgefield, Wash., 360-816-7000. 8 pm. $29.50-$60. All ages.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 9 MusicfestNW: Sunday
[MFNW] It’s Sunday. Your arm’s chafed from the wristband sliding up and down your sweaty radius. You can’t remember what you’ve seen in the past four days, but you’re pretty sure you have tinnitus. Bed is your most anticipated venue. Well, wake the fuck up. It’s go time. Three performances to go, and they’re doozies—and luckily, they’re all in Pioneer Courthouse Square. First up’s Aussie indie-prog trio Atlas Genius, followed by sultry, tripped-out New York duo School of Seven Bells. But when L.A. grit poppers Silversun Pickups—perhaps the most radio-played and popular band of this year’s MFNW—hits the stage, the energy level’s sure to
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ONUINU MIRROR GAZER (BLADEN COUNTY RECORDS) [DISCO-HOP] While similarities between Onuinu (aka Dorian Duvall) and such electro-pop luminaries as Youth Lagoon, oOoOO and Washed Out can be easily established, Mirror Gazer, Onuinu’s debut LP, proves that Duvall’s songs owe their existence to a singular muse. Not only does this make Onuinu more interesting, it also goes a long way toward justifying Onuinu’s rapidly expanding renown. As it turns out, advance singles “Ice Palace” and “Happy Home” were but distilled examples of Duvall’s aesthetic agenda. The gauzy synthesizers and pulsing drums exemplified by those songs run rampant across Mirror Gazer’s nine tracks. Reverb, a favorite tool of Duvall’s, makes a resounding return as well, lending the proceedings a sound suggestive of a rave taking place underwater. However, close examination reveals that Duvall’s beats include sophisticated nods to hip-hop, electro pop and house music, combined into a mixture that doesn’t really fit among any of its source genres. Onuinu, which performs live as a threepiece, has adopted an ambient, almost somnambulistic mood as a stylistic signature on record, and Duvall has done a capable job of making that auditory house a home. While “Ice Palace” remains the most immediately danceable of Mirror Gazer’s offerings, tracks like “Always Awkward” and “Last Word” feature worthwhile variations on established themes. On “Always Awkward,” Duvall treats his subject to a typically disparaging analysis of, “You think you’re such a star/ I know you really are/ Always awkward.” Mirror Gazer’s lyrics often concern themselves with such sly commentaries on narcissism, love and the intermingling of the two. Regardless of your opinion of that source material, it’s hard to argue that Onuinu hasn’t done a fantastic job of bearing its musical testament. SHANE DANAHER.
BEN MASON ACAPULCO: VOLUME 2—PDX (SELF-RELEASED)
[VOX HUMANA] I don’t envy any new artist trying to get themselves noticed these days. Unless they’re packing some major-label heat, the only way to crack the full-tobursting head and hard-drive space of most modern-music listeners is to go viral: maybe get a song placed in a high-profile TV show or make a kooky YouTube video. Or those artists can do something quirky like Ben Mason has: record an a cappella EP full of cover songs. As the title suggests, this isn’t the first time the Australian singer-songwriter has attempted this. Volume 1 featured all-vocal reworkings of some of Mason’s favorite acts from his native country. But for this new disc, he tackles our hometown talent as a tribute to the month he spent in Portland befriending a number of local musicians. It’s tough to toss Volume 2 aside as a calculated attempt to draw attention to Mason’s own understated pop tunes. Especially as he chose some fine Portland songs to tackle, and for the most part, does it with aplomb. He wrenches the Shins’ “Fall of ’82” from its derivative New Wave roots, and beautifully echoes the haunted heart of Laura Gibson’s “Skin, Warming Skin,” all with the power of his own multiple mouths. But after those opening tracks, the EP quickly wanes. Mason’s multitracked voice is no match for the country swagger of Fruit Bats’ “You’re Too Weird,” nor is he as fragile a singer as Shelley Short, which gives his take on “Time Machine/Submarine” a strangely tart feeling. Instead of sending listeners to Mason’s original music, Acapulco Volume 2 could have the reverse effect, sending listeners toward the original versions of the songs covered here. Perhaps that’s what he wanted. But if that’s the case, wouldn’t a nice mixtape have sufficed? ROBERT HAM. SEE IT: Onuinu plays Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., on Thursday, Sept. 6, with Swahili, Strategy and John Maus. 9 pm. $15, or free with MFNW wristband. 21+. Ben Mason’s Acapulco: Volume 2—PDX is available for free streaming and paid download at benmason.com.au.
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DON’T STAND SO CLOSE TO ME: School of Seven Bells plays Pioneer Courthouse Square on Sunday, Sept. 9, as a part of MusicfestNW. explode back to the danger zone. When the smoke finally clears and the ringing in your ears subsides, well, consider your hibernation well earned. AP KRYZA. Multiple venues. See musicfestnw.com for details. The official MFNW guide is online at wweek.com. All ages.
Powerman 5000, Toxic Zombie, Amerakin Overdose, Stonecreep, Death Ride 2000
[INDUSTRIAL SCI-FI] Powerman 5000’s longevity can be attributed at least in part to the fact that no one else has had the temerity to encroach on the quartet’s bizarre niche. From its humble, mid-’90s beginnings to its platinum-certified conquest of MTV—and even into its latter-day lineup shuffles— Powerman has employed industrial menace, heavy-metal shredding and incongruous sci-fi thematic concerns to describe the cornerstones of its pop culture fiefdom. Last year, the group released a covers album (Copies, Clones and Replicants), officially sanctifying the notion that its time has passed. Still, ain’t nobody selling what these guys are selling. SHANE DANAHER. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 2337100. 7:30 pm. $16 advance, $18 day of show. All ages.
Red Dons, The Estranged, Bellicose Minds, Freedom Club
[POST-PUNK POP] Red Dons’ moddish post-punk has never lacked for melody, but the Dons’ new Dirtnap Records 7-inch might be the Portland quartet’s most comely pop product yet. A-side “Auslander” comes within spitting distance of the five-minute mark without ever threatening to overstay its welcome, which is a rare feat. The anthem flies by in classic Adverts fashion, with punk fury mellowed by a helping of melancholic world-weariness; it’s one of those expansive love songs in which romance escapes the trite ties of pair-bonding and attaches itself to existential equations. Which is to say you don’t need to be in love to love “Auslander.” You need only be alive.. CHRIS STAMM. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.
MONDAY, SEPT. 10 Gregory Alan Isakov, Jeffrey Foucault
[FOLK TROUBADOUR] On paper, Gregory Alan Isakov looks like just another acoustic guitar-slinging folky songwriter. But as memorable music goes, his transcends description. The South African-born, Colorado-based musician writes story songs that take you from feeling as large as the universe to as minuscule as a speck of dust inside a worn suitcase. He’ll sing you through love and heartbreak, through settling and uprooting, through questions and revelations, all with a lyrical voice that’s refreshing and lived. Considering that 2009 marked the release of his last album, This Empty Northern Hemisphere, and that his name is one that doesn’t tend to stick, he’s flown under the radar for years. I’d recommend committing the name to memory—GREGORY! ALAN! ISAKOV!—because his songs are pure poetry, and he’s working on a long-awaited new album. EMILEE BOOHER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.
Nommo Ogo, Headless Lizzy, Secret Society of the Sonic Six, Soriah, Mortal Clay and more
[DARK WEIRDNESS] The bio for headlining act Nommo Ogo states that the Bay Area-based psych group “focuses on the psychic effects of sonic manipulation.” It’s a great line, and one that could be attributed to all the bands featured as part of this expansive evening of dark entertainment. Organized by local event booker Iokaos, this minifest features groups from up and down the West Coast, each one dabbling in the smokier realms of industrial clamor and apocalyptic folk. Pay particular attention to the spiritually burdened Oakland outfit Headless Lizzy and the electronic fissures created by Candle Labra. ROBERT HAM. Plan B, 1305 SE 8th Ave., 230-9020. 8 pm. $7. 21+.
Time-Based Art Festival: Brainstorm, Sahel Sounds
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Saturday, September 8th GEARHEAD: Pat Metheny plays the Aladdin Theater on Tuesday, Sept. 11. West African music-influenced Portland duo Brainstorm (drummer-vocalist-keyboardist Adam Baz and guitarist-vocalist-tubist Patrick Phillips) teams up with local “amateur ethnomusicologist” and blogger Christopher Kirkley. Kirkley has made field recordings of musicians from the global musical hot spot of Mali for a danceable mash-up of live music and cellphone feeds, YouTube remixes, Skype video performances, remixes of recorded music from Saharan cellphones, highlife-style Afrobeat and much more. It promises to be a musical and visual representation of the fruitful collisions surrounding African and Western sounds and technology. BRETT CAMPBELL. The Works at Washington High School, 531 SE 14th Ave. 10:30 am. $5 members, $7 general admission. All ages.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 11 Pat Metheny Unity Band
[JAZZ STARS] As often happens when talented but sometimes selfindulgent musicians invite equally able players into their sphere (Mr. Lennon, meet Mr. McCartney), jazz guitar legend Pat Metheny often finds sharper focus when challenging himself in situations outside the comfort of his regular ensemble, which sometimes devolves into prolix displays of virtuosity or shallow mellowness. This time his complementary musical partner is one of contemporary jazz’s finest saxophonists, Chris Potter, who’s worth a headlining show all by himself and is one of the rare horn players—others include Dewey Reman, Ornette Coleman and Michael Brecker—whom Metheny has invited to collaborate. Rising young bassist Ben Williams and regular Metheny group drummer Antonio Sanchez complete the ensemble, whose new album travels surprisingly diverse pathways that belie the group’s moniker. BRETT CAMPBELL. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $55. Minors must be accompanied by parent. All ages.
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
[POLYPHONIC PRIX FIXE] Considering the troupe is led by an indie-rock survivor (Ima Robot’s Alex Ebert) taking on the persona of a messianic cult leader, and that the group’s greatest mainstream success has come from the commercial licensing of 2009 single “Home”—a whistleand drum-led chunk of horn-laden whimsy that resembles Sonny and Cher fronting Arcade Fire during summer camp talent night—one might expect Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros’ revivified Age of Aquarius musings to contain the slightest hint of cynicism. Sophomore release Here, though, continues to trade upon that aggressively dippy lovestrewn worldview ’midst backward-leaning strolls through funk-, soul-, folk- and, regrettably, reggae-inspired jams that tire out the instrumental possibilities of his burgeoning collective without quite arriving at an emotion less than painstakingly rehearsed. JAY HORTON. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 8 pm. $43. All ages.
This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb, Big Black Cloud, Divers
[PUNK BLISS] Florida’s folk-punk mainstay This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb has been plugging away at its dread-friendly rabble-rousing for 15 years now; I don’t need to preach to its sizable choir. So let’s talk about Portland’s very own Divers. Better to do so now, before fame finds them and we’re eating dust. This quartet plays heartfelt, heartbreaking, heartwarming, hearteverything punk that glances off the canons of RVIVR, Ted Leo and Arcade Fire on its way to sweaty transcendence. If you have not seen Divers live by now, you are missing out on one of Portland’s most essential musical treasures. Get blessed by this band immediately. CHRIS STAMM. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. 8 pm. $7. All ages.
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DESIGN OF THE TIMES Like many of America’s best well-oiled machines, Portland Digital eXperience presenter Aaron Draplin was made in Detroit, but it was when he heeded the call of the west and ended up in Bend that he became a design powerhouse. All he had to do was embrace his inner geek—Legos and Star Wars were instrumental in his hunger to create innovative designs, and led him to a coveted gig with Snowboarder magazine, an ideal spot for the young artist so enchanted with hitting the powder. After much bouncing around the country, Draplin finally began his own company in 2004, using his skills for everyone from Field Notes and Grenade Gloves to various snowAARon dRAPlin boarding companies and magazines, Absinthe films and RVL7 Apparel… all while designing his own unique T-shirt prints and other accessories on a whim. Not bad for a powder-chaser who cut his teeth playing with Legos. 42
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Michael Wayne Atha is a white-trash former skater kid from ’Bama covered in tats and road rash. He’s also one of the most unlikely hiphop prodigies to explode on the scene, and now he’s rolling with another unlikely superstar, one Mr. Marshall Mathers, to a beat all his own. Following a brief stint in reality TV alongside Missy Elliott, Yelawolf got a big-label break with BMG, but after learning that more money meant less creative control. He went underground, where sucker emcees become verbal warriors, and emerged from the world of battles and mixtapes with a flow and cadence that draws close comparison to Eminem’s but transitions between butter-smooth flow and machinegun bursts of wit, hubris and braggadocio, all set to thickly layered beats that cut through the air like battering rams, rattling floors and minds with equal ferocity. If that appearance served as a preview of what was to come, 2010’s Trunk Muzik was Yela’s coming-out party, an EP that opened with the plea to “Get the Fuck Up” and then made you do just that. It’s a chest-thumping triumph that runs the full gamut of Yela’s skills, from the staccato verbal acrobatics to the sly arrogance that marks any MC worth his salt, hammered home by a guest roster that includes undergrounders like Gucci Mane and an explosive spot by Raekwon. As dope as it is, though, Trunk Muzik seems like a warm-up to last year’s Radioactive, on which Yelawolf drops all pretenses to offer a cocky, scrappy and undeniably great collection of cock-swinging whitetrash anthems that serve as a counterpoint to Ludacris’ chicken-andbeer flow, here embracing yards full of busted cars and bumpkinism with a gangster lean. It’s so convincing, in fact, that the granddaddy of “straight outta the trailer” Kid Rock pops up on the album’s signature track, “Let’s Roll,” with street cred lent by Lil Jon, Mystikal and Em throughout the 15-track assault. All of that has translated to praise across the board, but more importantly, it’s made Yela one of the most electric stage entertainers on the circuit. Whether dropping science on another generation of skater kids at Warped or hitting a hip-hop-starved PDX during MFNW, listeners have had no choice but to get the fuck up. yElAwolf plays MusicfestNW at the Roseland Theater with Sandpeople and Danny Brown on Friday, Sept. 7. First act at 8 pm. Entry with MFNW wristband or $20 at the door.
SIX DEGREES OF DINOSAUR JR. RED BULL’S COMMON THREAD SHOWCASE Music geeks: get ready to have your trivia-stuffed brains stroked on Sept. 8, when Red Bull Common Thread hits the Roseland Theater for a first-of-itskind event at MusicfestNW. The idea is simple: Bring together a batch of bands that share members and have them converge for one night only. For the inaugural event, Red Bull Common Thread centers on Dinosaur Jr., the seminal post-punk outfit born in Massachusetts that defined a overdriven guitar sound and angstridden tension that still serves as an inspiring force today. The original lineup of that group, which reformed in 2005 to much acclaim, shares a member, bassist Lou Barlow, with one of the most important indie bands of the ’90s, Sebadoh. Barlow formed Sebadoh after leaving Dinosaur Jr. in 1988, creating a platform for his raw mixture punk, folk and experimentalism, and making public every bruise on his heart. Sebadoh
has gone through a number of iterations over the years, but now features Barlow, longtime cohort Jason Lowenstein and newest member, drummer Bob D’Amico. The Common Thread showcase begins with a set by Dinosaur Jr. guitar maestro J. Mascis, who will lend his distinctive vocals and mystically leaning lyrics to an all-acoustic solo performance that builds off his 2011 album Several Shades of Why. This is history in the making, culled from the roots of the art-rock movement and exploring those roots as they spider out into the present. Common Thread weaves into the Roseland Theater on Saturday, Sept. 9. First act at 8 pm. Admission with MFNW wristband or $25 at the door. Common tHREAd weaves into the Roseland Theater on Saturday, Sept. 9. First act at 8 pm. Admission with MFNW wristband or $25 at the door.
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Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Mel Kubik & Christopher Woitach
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Nancy King
R YA N R U S S E L L
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Mollusk
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Teresa James and the Rhythm Tramps
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. The Nutmeggers
THURS. SEPT. 6 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
1314 NW Glisan St. Tracy Kim
Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. NW Hip-Hop Fest: Serge Severe, Theory Hazit, Destro, Load B, Chill Crew, Mighty Misc, Raashan Ahmad, Kublakai, Gran Rapids, Eminent, Beejan, Diction One, Carmine, McQ
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. MusicfestNW: Ceremony, Cheap Girls, Lee Corey Oswald
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Adrian H, David J (of Bauhaus), The Dorian Fields, Visceral
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Lucy Wainwright Roche, Lindsay Fuller
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Open Mic
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Random Axe, Stepper, Fred Ped
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Jazz Jam with Errick Lewis & the Regiment House Band
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. MusicfestNW: Passion Pit, LP
Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St.
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. Irish Music Jam
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Deathraid, Frenzy, Life Form
East India Co.
821 SW 11th Ave. Josh Feinberg
Ella Street Social Club
714 SW 20th Place Anna and the Underbelly, Jeffrey Martin, Jackalope Saints
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Mother Shrew, Leo J and the Melee
Hawthorne Theatre
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Dave Fleschner Blues Band
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Adria Ivanitsky
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet
3939 N Mississippi Ave. MusicfestNW: Superhumanoids, JJAMZ, Adventure Galley
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Open Mic
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. MusicfestNW: Hot Snakes, Red Fang, Hungry Ghost
Sengatera Restaurant
Ladd’s Inn
3833 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. The Tsegue-Mariam Guebrou Project
Landmark Saloon
Ted’s Berbati’s Pan
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. Sam Eliad Band, Scott Law (9 pm); The Barbeque Orchestra (6 pm)
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. MusicfestNW: Against Me!, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Joyce Manor
Lents Commons
Holocene
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Sam Cooper (9:30 pm); Mr. Hoo (12 pm)
1001 SE Morrison St.
Mississippi Studios
9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic
Mississippi Pizza
231 SW Ankeny St. Hello Echo, Neutralino One
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project Blues Jam
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Grimace, Party Foul
The TARDIS Room
1218 N Killingsworth St. Open Mic with Andrea Wild
Tillicum Club
8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway
Goodfoot Lounge
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. MusicfestNW: The Growlers, Guantanamo Baywatch, Cosmonauts, Tenlons Fort
Burgerville (Hawthorne)
1122 SE Hawthorne Blvd. McDougall, New York Rifles
Chapel Pub
430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Mesi & Bradley
Corkscrew Wine Bar 1669 SE Bybee Blvd. Gumbo Americana
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. MusicfestNW: Passion Pit, The Hundred in the Hands
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. MusicfestNW: King Khan & the Shrines, Mrs. Magician, APACHE, The Pynnacles
Branx
Ted’s Berbati’s Pan
Brasserie Montmartre
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones Jam
Jam on Hawthorne
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown B3 Organ Group
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. The Bird Day
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Karl & the Jerks, The Gutters, The Slidells
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Jimmy Boyer Band (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Little Hexes, Shannon Tower Band (9 pm); Anna & the Underbelly, Jeff Martin (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. MusicfestNW: Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three, Alialujah Choir, Lemolo, Mbilly
Music Millennium
626 SW Park Ave. Dan Duval Duo
Star Theater
The Blue Diamond
2346 SE Ankeny St. Chris Juhlin
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Sean Gaskell, Njuzu Mbira 3158 E Burnside St. Sarah Gwen
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Another Night with the Pornographers, AC Lov Ring, Jet Force Gemini, Kilowatt Hour, Chaotic Karisma
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. MusicfestNW: Old 97s (performing “Too Far to Care”), Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Those Darlins
Savoy Tavern & Lounge 2500 SE Clinton St. Edna Vazquez
Secret Society Lounge
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones
The Blue Monk
The Secret Society Ballroom 116 NE Russell St. Libertine Belles
The Works at Washington High School
8635 N Lombard St. The Chancers
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. The Fashion Nuggets
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. MusicfestNW: Talkdemonic, Mimicking Birds, French Cassettes
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Muthaship
Crystal Ballroom
Dante’s
317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Rohit, Pleasure Cross, Permanent Ruin, Knelt Rote
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Sing for Your Supperclub with the All-Star Horns
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Max & Tim Ribner
Tupai at Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Neftali Rivera
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Eliza Fernand
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Tara Williamson, Bre Gregg, Matthew Gailey (8:30 pm); Brothers of the Hound (5:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar
800 NW 6th Ave. Mike & Haley Horsfall, Kevin Deitz, Mark Griffith
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. MusicfestNW: Flying Lotus, Nosaj Thing
FRI. SEPT. 7 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Adrian H, David J (of Bauhaus), Zia McCabe and Peter Holmstrom (of Dandy Warhols)
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. MusicfestNW: Trampled by Turtles, These United States, Erik Koskinen
Alberta Rose Theatre
1314 NW Glisan St. JB Butler
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
626 SW Park Ave. Gravy
Tiger Bar
Sellwood Public House
17200 NE Delfel Road; Ridgefield, Wash. Willie Nelson & Family
320 SE 2nd Ave. MusicfestNW: Future Islands, Fort Lean, Battleme
531 SE 14th Ave. Time-Based Art Festival: Venus X
3000 NE Alberta St. Duffy Bishop
Sleep Country Amphitheater
7901 SE Stark St. Ruby Feathers
1332 W Burnside St. MusicfestNW: The Helio Sequence, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Radiation City, Hosannas
116 NE Russell St. Shores of Astor (9 pm); Libertine Belles (6 pm) 8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic
6000 NE Glisan St. Lewi Longmire (9:30 pm); Lynn Conover (6 pm)
Bipartisan Cafe
1001 SE Morrison St. MusicfestNW: Tanlines, Brainstorm, Naytronix, Palmas, New Dadz DJs
1435 NW Flanders St. Belinda Underwood Duo
Biddy McGraw’s
639 SE Morrison St. Miracle Falls, Souvenir Driver
Holocene
Branx
Brasserie Montmartre
Star Bar
231 SW Ankeny St. MusicfestNW: Purity Ring, Evian Christ, Headaches
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. MusicfestNW: Lightning Bolt, QUASI, White Fang
Mount Tabor Theater
320 SE 2nd Ave. MusicfestNW: Omar Souleyman, Sun Angle, Stay Calm, Copy
125 NW 5th Ave. Doo Doo Funk All-Stars
Hawthorne Theatre
2845 SE Stark St. Philly’s Phunkestra
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. John Ross
Someday Lounge
13 NW 6th Ave. MusicfestNW: The Men, Mean Jeans, The People’s Temple
2239 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Hot Club of Hawthorne
Andina
Bruxa, We Are Like the Spider, Beyondadoubt, TR-187
1635 SE 7th Ave. The Billy T Band (9 pm); Tough Woodpyle (6 pm)
Aladdin Theater
3000 NE Alberta St. Slaid Cleaves, Eliza Gilkyson
MusicfestNW: Sloan (performing “Twice Removed”), Bobby Bare Jr., The Minus 5
Duff’s Garage
Jade Lounge
Alberta Rose Theatre
WED. SEPT. 5
830 E Burnside St. MusicfestNW: John Maus, Onuinu, Strategy, Swahili
303 SW 12th Ave. Adrian H, David J (of Bauhaus), Raymond Byron, Chelsea Wolfe
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. MusicfestNW: Trampled by Turtles, These United States, Erik Koskinen
STARS AND DEFINITELY BARS: Cheap Girls play Backspace on Thursday, Sept. 6, as a part of MusicfestNW.
Doug Fir Lounge
Andina
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Pierced Arrows, Paradise, The Lovesores, Shut Your Animal Mouth
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. MusicfestNW: Tender Forever, The Curious Mystery, Lake, Arrington de Dionyso, Kendl Winter
350 W Burnside St. MusicfestNW: Fucked Up (performing “David Comes to Life”), Poison Idea, Sons of Huns, Bison Bison
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. MusicfestNW: Black Mountain, Quest for Fire, Old Light, Grandparents
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Richard Cranium & the Phoreheads, Michael Hurley
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. Cascadia Soul Alliance, Andrews Ave.
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Matthew Heller
Foggy Notion
3416 N Lombard St. Drunk Dad, Swamp Buck, Duty
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. MusicfestNW: Melvins (Lite), Big Business, Federation X, Old Man Gloom
Island Mana Wines 526 SW Yamhill St. Joe Marquand
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Gordon Lee Trio
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Kyrstyn Pixton (8 pm); Timberbound Project/Joe Seamons (6 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Intervision, The Damian Erskine Trio
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. NW Hip-Hop Fest: Speaker Minds, One Movement, Mosley Wotta, Sleep of Oldominion, L Pro, Cloudy October, The Bad Tenants, New Pioneers, Das Leune, Sole Pro, The Sexbots, Andy Stack, Buck Turtle, Woodgrain Weaponry
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Lloyd Mitchell Canyon
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Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. MusicfestNW: Big Freedia, Serious Business, Don’t Talk to the Cops
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Martin Zarzar
Bunk Bar
1332 W Burnside St. MusicfestNW: The Tallest Man on Earth, Strands of Oak
Dante’s
McMenamins Edgefield 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Bonnie Raitt, Mavis Staples
Mississippi Pizza
13 NW 6th Ave. MusicfestNW: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Daughn Gibson, Moon Duo, Aan
Ted’s Berbati’s Pan
231 SW Ankeny St. MusicfestNW: Blouse, Chealsea Wolfe, Crystal Antlers, Craft Spells, Tropic of Cancer
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Town Mountain, Eric Schweiterman (9 pm); The Hill Dogs (6 pm)
The Blue Diamond
Mississippi Studios
2026 NE Alberta St. Divers, Something Fierce, Occult Detective Club, Chemicals
3939 N Mississippi Ave. MusicfestNW: Joe Pug, Brown Bird, Casey Neill & the Norway Rats, Sarah Gwen
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Larry Pindar Band
The Know
The Old Church
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe
1422 SW 11th Ave. MusicfestNW: Mirrorring, Dreamboat
Original Halibut’s II
The Works at Washington High School
4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music 2527 NE Alberta St. DK Stewart
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Forest Bloodgood
Pioneer Courthouse Square
701 SW 6th Ave. MusicfestNW: Beirut, Menomena, Gardens & Villa
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Neonates, Still Caves, Wild Things
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Trueheart Suzy, End of Now, The Applicants, The Kos
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. MusicfestNW: Yelawolf, Danny Brown, Sandpeople
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Swing Papillon
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Rags & Ribbons, Wax Fingers, Violet Isle
531 SE 14th Ave. Time-Based Art Festival: Christeene
Thorne Lounge
4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Modern Golem
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway The Choices, Mosby, Ben Union
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Collected Souls, HeartBeat
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Tony Starlight
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Trio 101 Group
Trader Vic’s
1203 NW Glisan St. John English (Frank Sinatra tribute)
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Catarina New/Pancho Sanchez
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St.
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar
800 NW 6th Ave. Tasha Miller with Sam Howard, Clay Giberson and Russell Kleiner
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. MusicfestNW: A-Trak, The Hood Internet, BAAUER
SAT. SEPT. 8 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Adrian H, David J (of Bauhaus), Luis Vasquez
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. The Mormon Trannys, Stumblebum, Sweetpea and Violence
Kelly’s Olympian
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Lonesome Heroes, Gary Newcomb
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Jake Ray & the Cowdogs, Lisa Miller & Her Kin (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)
350 W Burnside St. MusicfestNW: Redd Kross, Dante vs. Zombies, The Suicide Notes, The Needful Longings
McMenamins Edgefield
Doug Fir Lounge
Mississippi Pizza
830 E Burnside St. MusicfestNW: Moonface, Sad Baby Wolf, Kishi Bashi, The Last Bison, The We Shared Milk
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Bridgetown Sextet
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place His Name Shall Breathe, Log Across the Washer
Foggy Notion
2958 NE Glisan St. The Nutmeggers, The Student Loan (9:30 pm); James Low Western Front (6 pm)
221 NW 10th Ave. Soul Vaccination
426 SW Washington St. The World Radiant, Bear Feet, The Ghost Ease
Crystal Ballroom
Tyler Matthew Smith, Rhododendron (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
Camellia Lounge
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. On-Q Band
Star Theater
2346 SE Ankeny St. Adlai Alexander (8 pm); Christopher Reyne (6 pm)
Katie O’Briens
Clyde’s Prime Rib
LaurelThirst
Jade Lounge
1028 SE Water Ave. MusicfestNW: The Builders and the Butchers, The Drowning Men, My Goodness, Mission Spotlight 510 NW 11th Ave. Tabor Jazz Trio
HIDING IN THE BARN: Hidden away in a red shanty in the wasteland of far North Portland, Rooster’s Pub (605 N Columbia Blvd., 289-1351) feels like a place that doesn’t want to be found. The two staircases visible from the street do not lead into the club, instead rising to a forbidding upper floor. The actual entrance is a little door on the side. “I’ve been hiding out here for a while,” says one woman, part of the group huddling around the lottery machines in the back. This cash-only dive is the place to do it. Other patrons included some guys taking advantage of the free pool, a hobo spending his day’s earnings on pounders of shit beer and a stripper receiving a mustache ride onstage. Thank God, the beer is cheap ($3.75 a pint). In fact, everything feels cheap at Rooster’s, a place where people can sin their dark little hearts out in anonymity. JOHN LOCANTHI.
Best of Friends
3416 N Lombard St. Komal Sa, Comfort Zone, Guyve, Blake Mackey
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. The Goodfoot All-Stars
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. MusicfestNW: Swans, Xiu Xiu
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. MusicfestNW: Trust, Nite Jewel, Dangerous Boys Club, DZ Deathrays, Vice Device, DJ Musique Plastique
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St.
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale My Morning Jacket, Shabazz Palaces
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Z’Bumba (9 pm); Chad Hinman, Camping in a Cadillac (6 pm); Lorna Miller (4 pm)
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Alan Hagar
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Big Monti
Pioneer Courthouse Square
701 SW 6th Ave. MusicfestNW: Girl Talk, Starfucker, AU
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Erik Anarchy, Taint Misbehavin, Unspoken Word
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Bloodoath, Abash’t, Gladius, Battle Axe Massacre
Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave.
MusicfestNW: Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, J. Mascis
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Akabane Vulgars
Sleep Country Amphitheater
17200 NE Delfel Road; Ridgefield, Wash. Blondie, Devo
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. MusicfestNW: Hazel, Dirtclodfight, Snowbud & the Flower People, Pete Krebs
Ted’s Berbati’s Pan
231 SW Ankeny St. MusicfestNW: Wild Nothing, The Soft Moon, DIIV, Marc Demarco
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Margo Tufo
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Patrick Lamb
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. A Happy Death, Sunfighter, Magnetic Health Factory
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Virgin Blood, Of Two, Moon Mirror
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave. MusicfestNW: Julia Holter, Pure Bathing Culture
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Alabama Black Snake
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. String of Pearls
WTFbikes
1114 SE Clay St. Wild Ones, Hausu, Sweeping Exits
White Eagle Saloon
Tango Alpha Tango
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Al Stewart, Dave Nachmanoff
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Mary Gauthier, Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Felim Egan
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam
Corkscrew Wine Bar 1669 SE Bybee Blvd. Caterina New
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place The Hugs, Memory Boys, The Spirit Animals
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Powerman 5000, Toxic Zombie, Amerakin Overdose, Stonecreep, Death Ride 2000
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Vanessa Rogers
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Dan Haley & Tim Acott (9 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
Mississippi Pizza
Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave. The Hoons, Dead Remedy, Tigress
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Derek Sims and Rob Davis with Alan Jones, Greg Goebel and Andrea Niemiec
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Red Dons, The Estranged, Bellicose Minds, Freedom Club
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Palo Verde, Thrones
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Mike Curtis Big Band
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. The Sale
MON. SEPT. 10 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Tango Alpha Tango
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell
3939 N Mississippi Ave. MusicfestNW: Earlimart, Incredible Yacht Control, Genders (9 pm); School of Rock Summer Mixtape (2 pm)
NEPO 42
303 SW 12th Ave.
1033 NW 16th Ave. DvOd, Finn Doxie
Mississippi Studios
Wonder Ballroom
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
Slabtown
Ash Street Saloon
Muddy Rudder Public House
SUN. SEPT. 9
8 NW 6th Ave. Don Omar
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Ruby Pines. Hunter Payne (9 pm); Caryn Jameson (6 pm)
836 N Russell St. Five Pint Mary, Tin Silver (9:30 pm); Laura Ivancie (4:30 pm) 128 NE Russell St. MusicfestNW: The Hives, FIDLAR
Roseland Theater
8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music
5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic
Pioneer Courthouse Square
701 SW 6th Ave. MusicfestNW: Silversun Pickups, School of Seven Bells, Atlas Genius
225 SW Ash St. Open Mic
Dante’s
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Gregory Alan Isakov, Jeffrey Foucault
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Mark Hummel & the Blues Survivors, Little Charlie Baty
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Korpiklaani, Moonsorrow, TYR, Metsatoll, Anonymia
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Jaime Leopold
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band COURTESY OF SPEAKER MINDS
MUSIC
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. MusicfestNW: Typhoon, Holcombe Waller, And And And
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Helio Sequence, Corin Tucker Band (LiveWire!)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka
Artichoke Community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Kate Power, Steve Einhorn, Larry Murante
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. NW Hip-Hop Fest: Cool Nutz, Big Bang, Kimosabe, Kinetic Emcees, Risky Star, Brown Caesar, J Ritz & Saywords, Rose Bent, Beautiful Eulogy, Half Man Half, Arjay, Luci B, Dck Vnngt, Greench Mob
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. MusicfestNW: Touche Amore, Defeater, Young Turks
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Papa Coyote (9:30 pm); Sidestreet Reny (6 pm)
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2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens (9 pm); Portland Country Underground (6 pm)
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway AC Lov Ring
Valentine’s
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mr. Ben
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Prescription Pills, Ghosties, Murmuring Pines, Seance Crasher
Mississippi Studios
White Eagle Saloon
Mississippi Pizza
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Brian Blade & Mama Rosa, Scout Niblett
Muddy Rudder Public House
Plan B
TUES. SEPT. 11 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
1305 SE 8th Ave. Nommo Ogo, Headless Lizzy, Secret Society of the Sonic Six, Soriah, Mortal Clay, Thee Source ov Fawnation, Candle Labra, Sunfalls
303 SW 12th Ave. Tango Alpha Tango
The Blue Diamond
1314 NW Glisan St. JB Butler
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Tom Grant Jazz Jam
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Vomit Assault
The Works at Washington High School 531 SE 14th Ave. Time-Based Art Festival: Brainstorm, Sahel Sounds (multimedia show)
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Pat Metheny Unity Band
Andina
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Death Songs, Hosannas
Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. Eternal Summers
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Quartet (9:30 pm); Trio Bravo (6 pm)
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Radula
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Arsonists Get All the Girls, Exotic Animal Petting Zoo, Hypno5e, Above the Broken, When They Invade
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
Groove Suite
440 NW Glisan St. Suzanne Kraft, Etbonz, Break Mode, Acid Farm
Matador
1967 W Burnside St. DJ Whisker Friction
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
Backspace
Vortex: DJs Kenny, John, Skip
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Party Dogg
FRI. SEPT. 7 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Rescue
Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Musique Plastique
CC Slaughters
Star Bar
Eagles Lodge, Southeast
421 SE Grand Ave. DJs Nealie Neal, Unruly
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Lorax
Yes and No
20 NW 3rd Ave. Death Club with DJ Entropy
THURS. SEPT. 6 Beech Street Parlor
412 NE Beech St. DJs Audrey Horne, Wind Pillow
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Hip Hop Heaven with DJ Detroit Diezel
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Shadowplay: DJs Ghoulunatic, Paradox, Horrid
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. DJs Mr. Romo, Michael Grimes
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Dirtbag with DJ Gutter Glamour
The Lovecraft
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Sportin’ Lifers
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Pagan Jug Band
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Hornet Leg, Posse, Sad Horse
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm); The Enchanting Wizards of Rhythm (6:30 pm)
225 SW Ash St. Lighter Than Dark, Leafeater
8635 N Lombard St. DJ DirtyNick
The Lovecraft
8635 N Lombard St. Open Mic
Ash Street Saloon
219 NW Davis St. Flamin’ Fridays with DJ Doughalicious
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Chris Crusher
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
Valentine’s
The Lovecraft
219 NW Davis St. Trick with DJ Robb
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Missi & Mister Baker
Jimmy Mak’s
3341 SE Belmont St. DJ Mister Chill’R
CC Slaughters
Mississippi Pizza
Tony Starlight’s
The Blue Monk
412 NE Beech St. DJ Erich Zann
2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw
Jade Lounge
Blank Friday with DJ Paultimore
Beech Street Parlor
LaurelThirst
1037 SW Broadway Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
115 NW 5th Ave.
WED. SEPT. 5
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Sunfighter, De La Warr, A Happy Death
Thirsty Lion
2346 SE Ankeny St. Heather Flores
4904 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Limit: DJs Hippie Joe, Von Tussle
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
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. DJ Magneto
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. MusicfestNW: DJs Mr. Jonathan Toubin, Beyondadoubt, Cooky Parker, Eldorado
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St. ‘80s Video Dance Attack with VJ Kittyrox
Red Cap Garage
1035 SW Stark St Mantrap with DJ Lunchlady
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Deep Cuts: Bruce La Bruiser, Kasio Smashio
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St.
421 SE Grand Ave. Brickbat Mansion
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Bill Portland
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Allan Wilson
SAT. SEP.T 8 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Mudslide McBride
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Revolution with DJ Robb
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. ‘80s Dance Attack with DJ Revron
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Popvideo with DJ Gigahurtz
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. MusicfestNW: Milo Greene, Hey Marseilles, Tyler Lyle, The Dimes (8 pm); Menomena, Deep Sea Diver, Brainstorm (12 pm)
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Rewind
Secret Society Lounge
116 NE Russell St. Soulciety: DJ Drew Groove, Katrina Martiani
Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave. Manoj
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Trim
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Musick for Mannequins: DJs Tom Jones, Erica Jones
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Champagne Jam
Valentine’s
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1435 NW Flanders St. Jazz Jam with Carey Campbell and the Hank Hirsh Trio
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
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71 SW 2nd Ave. PX Singer-Songwriter Showcase 3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Bo Ayars 232 SW Ankeny St. Donald Beaman
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. XDS, The Stone Foxes
SUN. SEPT. 9 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ vs. Nature
Matador
1967 W Burnside St. Next Big Thing with Donny Don’t
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Natalie Merchant
8105 SE 7th Ave. Alan Hagar
836 N Russell St. Father Figure, Old Age, The Groundblooms
This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb, Big Black Cloud, Divers
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1305 SE 8th Ave. Hive with DJ Owen
Produce Row Cafe 204 SE Oak St. The Do-Over
MON. SEPT. 10 CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Maniac Monday with DJ Doughalicious
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy VJs
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. Metal Mondays with DJ Blackhawk
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ El Dorado
TUES. SEPT. 11 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Jason Urick
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Girltopia with DJ Robb
Eagle Portland
835 N Lombard St DMTV with DJ Animal
Red Cap Garage
1035 SW Stark St Never Enough with DJ Ray Gun
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Kelly H
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Joe Kelly
Yes and No
20 NW 3rd Ave. Idiot Tuesdays with DJ Black Dog
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Quincy
421 SE Grand Ave.
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THEATER 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 WednesdaysSaturdays, 2 pm and 7:30 pm Sundays through Oct. 7. $20-$50.
Asalto al Agua Transparente
In its second performance at PICA’s TBA Festival, the young Mexican theater collective Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol stages a multimedia production about the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan. The performance, in English with Spanish subtitles, blends fact and fiction as it recounts the history of the city’s water: Where there were once 770 square miles of lakes, less than four remain. BodyVox Dance Center, 1201 NW 17th Ave., 224-7422. 8:30 pm Monday; 6:30 pm Tuesday-Wednesday, Sept. 10-12. $20-$25.
Avenue Q
Triangle Productions stages the irreverent, Tony Award-winning adult puppet musical. Warning: raunchy scenarios, filthy language and explicit puppet nudity. Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd., 239-5919. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays, Sept. 6-30. No show Sunday, Sept. 9. $15-$35.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
The National Theatre Live series, which brings HD recordings from London to screens worldwide, returns for its fourth season. First up is Simon Stephens’ adaptation of Mark Haddon’s poignant novel about an extraordinarily intelligent but socially awkward boy who must solve the mystery of a murdered dog. World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St., 235-1011. 1 and 5 pm Sunday, Sept. 9; 2 and 7 pm Saturday, Sept. 15. $12-$20.
El Rumor del Incendio
Mexican theater collective Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol presents a documentary play (in Spanish with English subtitles) about revolutionaries in 1960s Mexico. The performance, part of PICA’s TBA Festival, weaves film, witness accounts and scale models, blasting political complacency. Winningstad Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 224-7422. 6:30 pm FridaySunday, Sept. 7-9. $20-$25.
Enjoy
In conjunction with PICA’s TBA festival, Boom Arts presents a reading of Toshiki Okada’s play about underemployed, listless Japanese hipsters at a Tokyo cafe. Sound familiar? Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St., 205-0715. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Sept. 5. Free.
Far Away
Shaking the Tree presents Caryl Churchill’s dystopian play, which turns from idyllic fairy tale to full-scale war. Samantha Van Der Merwe directs. Shaking the Tree Studio, 1407 SE Stark St., 235-0635. 7 pm ThursdaysSundays. Closes Sept. 22. $20-$25.
Gracie for President
In 1940, comic performer Gracie Hill ran for president. She represented the Surprise Party, with a kangaroo as her mascot and a motto (“It’s in the
bag”) to fit. Banking on contemporary political wackiness in this election year, Hillsboro’s HART Theatre stages a comedy about Hill’s bid, written and directed by Norma Hill. HART Theatre, 185 SE Washington St., 693-7815. 7:30 pm Fridays-Saturdays and Sundays, Sept. 9 and 16; 2 pm Sundays. Closes Sept. 23. $10-$14.
The Guys
Vancouver’s Magenta Theater presents a staged reading of Ann Nelson’s drama about a fire captain preparing eulogies for eight men killed on Sept. 11. Magenta Theater, 606 Main St., Vancouver, 360-635-4358. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday, Sept. 7-8. $10.
Heavens What Have I Done
As part of PICA’s TBA Festival, Miguel Gutierrez performs a meandering comic monologue that ruminates on teaching, travel and artistic practice. There will also be face paint, a rainbow-striped clown costume and exuberant dancing. Washington High School, Southeast 12th Avenue and Stark Street, 224-7422. 6:30 pm Friday-Sunday, Sept. 7-9. $15-$20.
Henry IV Part I
Post5 Theatre takes a boisterous approach as it tackles its first Shakespearean history. Don Alder directs the production, which boasts a catchy tagline: “When the party ends, the war begins.” Milepost 5, 850 NE 81st Ave., 971-258-8584. 7 pm FridaysSundays; 7 pm Thursdays Aug. 30 and Sept. 6. Closes Sept. 8. Free.
Memphis
In this slick, rollicking musical about 1950s Tennessee, a white radio DJ and a rising black singer embark on a daring affair. Broadway Across America brings the Tony Awardwinning show, written by David Bryan (of Bon Jovi) and Joe DiPietro, to the Keller Auditorium. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 241-1802. 7:30 pm Tuesday-Friday; 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday; 1 and 6:30 pm Sunday, Sept. 11-16. $25-$75.
South Pacific
Lakewood Theatre presents the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical about romance and prejudice during World War II. Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, 635-3901. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays and 7 pm Sundays Sept. 9, 16 and 23. Closes Oct. 14. $32-$35.
A Steady Rain and The Detective’s Wife
Hellfire Productions stages a twin set of gritty, pulpy plays by Keith Huff. In A Steady Rain, directed by Pat Patton, two Chicago cops have their friendship tested when they end up on opposite sides of the law. JoAnn Johnson directs The Detective’s Wife, a hardboiled mystery about a woman searching for her husband’s killer. The plays run in repertory. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 757-6836. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Sundays, 4 pm Sundays. Closes Oct. 7. $20 each or $35 for both.
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
COMEDY & VARIETY Brody Theater Open Mic
Comedy/variety open mic. Performers can sign up online. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 9:30 pm Wednesdays. Free with minimum purchase of one item.
Chris Fairbanks
Known for appearances on Reality Bites Back and the Fuel TV network, Chris Fairbanks brings his quirky, fastpaced act to Helium. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Wednesday-Thursday, Sept. 5-6; 7:30 pm and 10 pm Friday, Sept. 7. $10-$25.
Comedy Kamikaze
Philip Schallberger hosts a monthly comedy show, featuring sketch, standup and video. Clinton Street Theater , 2522 SE Clinton St., 502-4046. 8 pm every first Thursday. $6.
Team-based, long-form improv open to audience members and performers of all stripes. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm every first and third Thursday. $5.
Three Buck Yucks
The Brody gang kicks off its 17th season with an extra-long sketchcomedy extravaganza featuring members of improv groups from across the city. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Saturday, Sept. 8. $3.
CLASSICAL Charlotte Pistor and Alexandre Dossin
The award-winning Austrian soprano (and former University of Oregon and Portland State student) and UO piano professor perform art songs from Germany, France, Britain, Austria and the U.S. Lower Columbia College, 1600 Maple St., Longview, 360-442-2110. 7:30 pm Friday, Sept. 7. $5.
Oregon Symphony
The orchestra opens its concert season with music director Carlos
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Comedy Monster Open Mic
Open mic hosted by Jen Allen and Mandie Allietta. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 4779477. 9:30 pm every first and third Thursday. Free.
Dean Obeidallah for Vice President Comedy Tour
Described by The Washington Post as “an angsty Arab Chris Rock,” comic Dean Obeidallah tackles politics, pop culture and the Middle East. Melissa Shoshani and Khaled the Comic also appear. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 8 pm Saturday, Sept. 8. $15-$25. 21+.
Diabolical Experiments
Improv jam show featuring Brody performers and other local improvisers. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 2242227. 7 pm Sundays. $5.
Funny Over Everything
The monthly standup showcase welcomes Tim Harmston and Mary Mack, both alumni of Last Comic Standing. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 9:30 pm Saturday, Sept. 8. $10.
GAG: A Drag/Comedy Showcase
Drag stars and comedians collide in this monthly showcase hosted by comic Whitney Streed and drag queen Saturn. Red Cap Garage, 1035 SW Stark St., 226-4171. 9:30 pm every first Friday. Free. 21+.
Instant Comedy
With a list of audience-suggested topics, five comics compete for the title of comedic champ. The Curious Comedy Playas also perform improv sets. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays through Sept. 15. $12-$15.
Kevin Nealon
Kevin Nealon played Franz (of Hans and Franz) on Saturday Night Live. Now he has an ongoing role in Weeds. He’s a real cutup, and Helium is lucky to host him. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 7:30 and 10 pm Saturday, 7 pm Sunday, Sept. 8-9. $30-$35.
Micetro
Brody Theater’s popular elimination-style improv competition. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Fridays. $8-$10.
Micetro Tournament of Champions
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.
The Brody’s popular elimination-style improv contest, on steroids: All the weekly winners from the past halfyear will face off in a best-of-thebest competition. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Friday, Sept. 7. $9-$12.
Urban Tellers
Mixology
Portland Story Theater showcases personal, unscripted yarns from six tellers. Hipbone Studio, 1847 E Burnside St., 284-2226. 8 pm every second Saturday. $10-$15.
Open Court
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Late-night comedy show with improv, sketch and stand-up. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 10 pm every second and fourth Saturday. $5.
MIRIAM
MIRIAM/THE QUIET VOLUME Previews for week one of PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival.
Nora Chipaumire is a force of nature. The Zimbabwe-born, New York City-based choreographer has a style both visceral and regal, evoking a powerful and charismatic bird of prey. Chipaumire’s creative goals are as fierce as her physical movements: “My work is total propaganda, unapologetic agitations for human rights,” reads her website, and for the past decade her performances have engaged and interrogated African stereotypes and aesthetics. Miriam, Chipaumire’s first character-driven piece, investigates the conflict between women’s personal desires and public expectations, the burden of female objectification and the challenges of resistance. Miriam is both a tribute to legendary South African singer Miriam Makeba and an examination of the Christian iconography of Mary, with Chipaumire incorporating language and text into this dance-theater work. It’s heady stuff, from a performer known for tackling gender and race with propulsive energy. Chipaumire and fellow dancer Okwui Okpokwasili are riveting, sinuous performers, and with a live sound-score by composer and pianist Omar Sosa, this promises to be a provocative and assertive world premiere. Ant Hampton wants you to rethink audience participation. Wait, don’t groan yet—Hampton specializes in autoteatro, in which unrehearsed participants follow a series of instructions, usually via headphone. Autoteatro participants generate and sustain the action themselves, repeatedly crossing the quiet line between performer and audience. But Hampton won’t direct you to sing or dance before a gaping crowd, especially not in this collaboration with artist and writer Tim Etchells. In The Quiet Volume, which has been performed in libraries worldwide (for TBA, it will call the Multnomah County Central Library home), participants are issued iPods and headphones and then seated at tables stacked high with books. For the next 50 minutes, they’ll flip pages, turn books upside down, trace their fingers along text, scrutinize their hands. It encourages contemplation of the library as a place of silence and noise; as a site of public gathering and private concentration. REBECCA JACOBSON.
SEE IT: Miriam is at Portland State University’s Lincoln Performance Hall, 1620 SW Park Ave. 8:30 pm Friday-Saturday, Sept. 7-8. $20-$25. The Quiet Volume is at Multnomah County Central Library, 801 SW 10th Ave. Thursday, Sept. 6-Sunday, Sept. 16. Exact times vary; performances begin every 20 minutes. Call 224-7422 for reservations. $8-$10. Willamette Week SEPTEMBER 5, 2012 wweek.com
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Kalmar leading a rare and welcome performance of a U.S. premiere: Finnish composer Kalevi Aho’s sometimes-lyrical, sometimes-quiet, sometimes-frenzied new percussion concerto, Sieidi.Scottish percussionist Colin Currie, who totally captivated the audience in his two previous performances here, takes the spotlight on marimba, vibes, djembe, darbuka and more. The program also includes an earlier Finnish classic, Jean Sibelius’ tone poem Finlandia. Then the program heads south to Rome, with Ottorino Respighi’s picturesque and popular throwback tone poems Pines of Rome and Fountains of Rome. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm Saturday, Sept. 8. $21-$95.
Ten Tiny Dances
Having restrictions placed on the creative process can produce some fascinating art, a fact not lost on the founders of Ten Tiny Dances. A rotating cast of choreographers and performers contributes to this recurring show, in which the restriction is that dances must be done on a 4-by-4-foot stage. (That’s really small, for the spatially challenged among you.) This time the show coincides with, and will feature some of the artists of, PICA’s TBA Festival, including Miguel Gutierrez
and Keith Hennessy. This should be good. Washington High School, Southeast 12th Avenue and Stark Street. 10:30 pm Saturday, Sept. 8. $10-$15. All ages.
The Phoenix Variety Revue
A monthly variety show featuring a rotating cast of performers. Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., 228-3669. 6:30 pm every second Sunday. $7.
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DANCE Anjali School of Dance presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Romeo and Juliet has already inspired a classical ballet and a full-length hip-hop piece, so why shouldn’t A Midsummer Night’s Dream be told through Indian dance? Anita Menon, founder of the Anjali School of Dance, is prepared to do just that: She held open auditions for local dancers, as well as musician and actors, to cast in her version of Shakespeare’s comedy, which will incorporate dance styles including bharatanatyam, kuchipudi, kathak and native folk dances, plus ballet, tap and hip-hop. The score that accompanies the work is equally eclectic; a little classic music here, a little Bollywood soundtrack there. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 2 and 6 pm Saturday, Sept. 8. $17.25-$32.25.
Burlesque S’il Vous Plait
This monthly burlesque show features a rotating cast of performers. Crush, 1400 SE Morrison St, 2358150. 8:30 pm first Fridays of the month. $7. 21+.
Burlynomicon
At this one-year-anniversary of Burlynomicon, local burlesque performers Charlotte Treuse, Baby Le’Strange and Holly Dai perform. Niira Nonymous makes her debut and special guest Satira Sin pays a visit from New York City. The Lovecraft, 421 SE Grand Ave., 971270-7760. 9 pm Tuesday, Sept. 11. $10. 21+.
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Imago Theatre is seeking seven to 10 local movement actors and dancers to join a new company that will focus on movement and dance for the stage. No prepared audition material is necessary, but participants should bring a photo and résumé and wear dance clothing. Rehearsals for the new company will begin in late September, and compensation is available. Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave., 231-3959. 6 pm Wednesday, Sept. 5. Free. 18+.
Keith Hennessy/Circo Zero
Recent financial upheaval and the often queasy roller-coaster ride that is the culture war feed Keith Hennessy’s Turbulence. Hennessy and his contemporary dance-theater outfit Circo Zero mine Wall Street hijinks and Main Street disgust in a piece where orgiastic writhing and populist anger come together in chaotic and fascinating fashion. Turbulence, which Hennessy began developing in June as part of a working residency in Portland, is about turmoil, and not only the financial sort: It also touches on torture, war, justice, capitalism and queer politics. Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave., 231-3959. 8:30 pm Tuesday-Friday, Sept. 11-14. $20-$25.
ANDREW DICKSON IS THE LIFE COACH
LIFE COACH/THE PEOPLE—PORTLAND More previews for the first week of TBA.
Andrew Dickson wants to help. In his piece Life Coach, the performance artist and Wieden+Kennedy 12 teacher—he’s one of the people behind those crazy-ass Old Spice ads—will be exactly that onstage: a life coach to a local stranger. He’s invited Portlanders to apply to be coached about their problems, by him, in front of an arts audience in the Mark Spencer Hotel ballroom. It won’t be at all like the coordinated bitchy spectacle of your average Dr. Phil, he says, because it’s not necessarily meant as entertainment. “There is no agenda, no show,” he says. While he allows that someone might be funny or even come in character, “it could just be really sad. You could have someone boring, or really grating.” He wants instead to bring the audience into the interaction between coach and coachee, while still trying genuinely to help the person onstage. To that end, he’s even taken brief life-coaching workshops with expert million-watt smiler Carl Casanova. What the eight performances will turn out to be, Dickson doesn’t really know himself. “It depends on what happens in the moment,” he says, “and what that person brings to it.” The first person he accepted for coaching is an activist who worries he’s concerning himself too much with his work and not enough about himself—an uncommon problem, perhaps, in beautifully selfindulgent Portland, but Dickson is convinced that Portland’s three overachievers will be able to relate. If Dickson is concerned with the frustrations of the Portland individual, Big Art Group’s The People—Portland will concern itself with the noisy political ejections of the Portland masses. The New York-based group will film topical interviews with locals and use the projected footage—in combination with live theater—to loosely restage an ancient Greek tale of tabloid-style murder, murderous revenge and merciful justice: namely the Oresteia trilogy, which tells the story of the murders of Agamemnon and his wife, Clytemnestra. Through the magic of editing (and woozy-dreamy atmospherics, and some outright interviewer hostility), the Portland crowd becomes the Greek chorus. Expect a constant questioning and re-arrangement of form, po-mo thematics and more than a little disorientation, as what’s outside and what’s inside become constantly confused. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
SEE IT: Life Coach is at the Mark Spencer Hotel ballroom, 409 SW 11th Ave. 1:30-2:30 pm and 3:30-4:30 pm Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 8-9 and 15-16. Free. The People—Portland is at Washington High School, Southeast Stark Street between 12th and 14th avenues. 8:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, Sept. 6-8. $15-$20. All ages.
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Hannah Stouffer: Magic of the Woods
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With psychedelia-inflected light play and symbolic motifs such as eyeballs, triangles and rainbows, San Franciscobased artist Hannah Stouffer creates colorful phantasmagoria that are not so much landscapes as they are dreamscapes. In the piece Magic of the Woods, from which the exhibition takes its title, mountains climb above a forest of abstracted pine trees, which melt like stalactites in zigzag lines. It’s an invigoratingly trippy vision. Through Sept. 24. Antler Gallery, 1722 NE Alberta St.
Nine @ 25
Tucked inside Blue Sky Gallery is a diminutive, boxy space known as Nine Gallery. Despite its modest scale, it continues to host some of the most forward-thinking art installations in Portland. This month, Nine celebrates its 25th year with a retrospective featuring work by the Nine collective’s founders, as well as other members past and present. It will afford an opportunity to appreciate a small space that has had a disproportionately big impact on the local art scene for a quarter-century and counting. Sept. 6-30. Nine Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 227-7114.
P:ear: Get Up! Get Out!
Original artwork for 10 bucks? You can find pieces for $10 and up at the P:ear nonprofit’s house-cleaning sale, “Get Up! Get Out!” In all, 200 works will be for sale as part of the organization’s 10-year anniversary festivities. P:ear helps homeless and transitional young people, ages 15 to 24, with art-therapy programs that foster creativity and selfesteem. Artworks by these teens and young twentysomethings will be offered at the event. P:ear Gallery, 338 NW 6th Ave., 226-6677. 6-9 pm Thursday, noon-5 pm Friday-Saturday, Sept. 6-8. For more info, visit pearmentor.org.
KEITH CARTER IS PART OF AN OUNCE OF POWER, SHOWING SEPT. 6-30 AT COMPOUND GALLERY
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.
Carol Basch: Some Are Torn...Some Are Not
Destruction sometimes leads to beauty; that’s the thesis behind oil painter Carol Basch’s Some Are Torn...Some Are Not. Basch starts with monoprints she has made in the past, then rips them apart and reconfigures them into paintings. Having studied art in New York, as well as in Oregon at Portland State and Marylhurst universities, Basch has
been a figure in the Portland art scene since 1971. Her process speaks to our contemporary fascinations with deconstruction and repurposing. Through Sept. 5. Gallery @ The Jupiter, 800 E. Burnside St., 230-8010.
Elise Wagner: Event Horizons
An event horizon is the point at which escape from a black hole is impossible. For the past year or so, this idea has so captivated artist Elise Wagner that she created an entire series of encaustic (wax-based) paintings around the theme. In past work, Wagner has used motifs from star charts, runestonelike symbols, the sciences and pseudosciences such as alchemy, but this is the first time she has explored the concept of a black hole in such depth. It will be intriguing to see whether her concept and her technique sync up in the imagery. Through Sept. 29. Butters Gallery, 520 NW Davis St., 2nd floor, 248-9378.
Sara Siestreem: For Children in Cold Climates
A flair for rhythmic geometries pervades Sara Siestreem’s latest body of work, counterbalanced by smudges, drips and scrawls. In a suite of graphite and oil paintings on paper, she employs bold colors (most notably red, black and white) in a dynamic tug of war between abstract gestures and the suggestion of representation. Through Sept. 29. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 224-8182.
William Chad Willsie: Folklore
A little girl playing with a dead blackbird. A bikini-clad woman spreading her legs behind a children’s sand bucket at the beach. A little boy with neck tattoos and another boy in clown makeup, smoking a cigarette. These are some of the provocative and often disturbing images conjured by painter William Chad Willsie. With a solid realist technique and a proclivity for off-kilter humor, the artist shows us the dark underbelly of pop-culture imagery. Sept. 6-Oct. 27. Graeter Art Gallery, 131 NW 2nd Ave., 477-6041.
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END THINGS The challenge of visual arts at TBA.
On this yearlong eve of the Mayan apocalypse, as we bury our faces in digital displays, what is the relevance of the old-fashioned objet d’art? Can it engage the mind and uplift the spirit? Kristan Kennedy poses these questions in the exhibition End Things, a title apropos to the end-of-days that may arrive Dec. 21. Kennedy, PICA’s visual-arts curator, has put together a group show centered on these questions in three venues during the Time-Based Art Festival’s run. Regardless of whether the world ends this winter, we’re still living in an exponentially more technological age, and we’re still ultimately going to die, so Kennedy wants us to consider why we cling so direly to paintings, drawings, sculptures and, for that matter, knickknacks and ceramic-pig collections. Although she has no definite answers (the show, she writes, “is more of a question than a rallying call”), she has chosen seven artists to address the conundrum from a global perspective. Alex Cecchetti, based in France and Italy; the Dutch art duo of Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan; and French artist Isabelle Cornaro lend a continental accent to Kennedy’s investigation, while U.S.-based artists Morgan Ritter, Erika Vogt and Claudia Meza represent the home team. The visual-arts offerings at TBA walk a tricky line. In a festival that is largely performative, art that stands still can seem incongruous. Yet, because PICA puts so many eggs in the TBA basket, there’s pressure to make a big splash, since it gets short shrift the rest of the year. How will End Things negotiate the challenge? Check this space next week for a review of End Things, and in the meantime, check out the show yourself. RICHARD SPEER. SEE IT: Alex Cecchetti, Morgan Ritter, Erika Vogt, and Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan at Washington High School, Southeast Stark Street and 13th Avenue. Opening reception 10 pm Thursday, Sept. 6, with visiting hours noon-6:30 pm Sept. 7-16, then noon-6:30 pm Thursday-Friday and noon-4 pm Saturday, Sept. 20-29. Claudia Meza at White Box exhibition space, University of Oregon’s Portland campus, 24 NW 1st Ave., noon-6 pm Tuesday-Saturday through Sept. 22. Isabelle Cornaro and Morgan Ritter at PICA headquarters, 415 SW 10th Ave., Suite 300. noon-6 pm Sept. 7-16, then noon-6:30 pm Thursday-Friday and noon-4 pm Saturday, Sept. 20-29.
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BOOKS
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, SEPT. 5 Jonathan Evison with Willy Vlautin
Nothing helps you get over major loss like learning to insert catheters, which is why Ben, the protagonist in Jonathan Evison’s new novel, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, enrolls in a night class on how to be a caretaker, only to find himself woefully unprepared for his first patient. Joining Evison at the reading will be Lean on Pete author and singersongwriter for the band Richmond Fontaine, Willy Vlautin. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 6 Loggernaut Reading Series
Bringing together the fantastically brilliant and lovably eccentric among local authors, the Loggernaut Reading Series will host Propeller editor-in-chief Dan DeWeese, whose novel You Don’t Love This Man was nominated for a Ken Kesey Award for fiction. Also reading will be Carter Sickels (The Evening Hour). Literary Arts Center, 925 SW Washington St., 227-2583. 7:30 pm. $2 suggested donation.
Tom Hallman
Talking about religion can be tricky, especially when your illustrative doodles keep offending the pagans. To help start a useful dialogue, Oregonian senior writer Tom Hallman, author of A Stranger’s Gift: True Stories of Faith in Unexpected Places, will join a panel discussion about understandings of faith. University of Portland, Buckley Auditorium, 5000 N Willamette Blvd., 943-8000. 7:30 pm. Free.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 8 Lidia Yuknavitch
Gaining fame after the release of her fantastically depressing memoir, The Chronology of Water, Portland author Lidia Yuknavitch will read from her debut novel, Dora: A Headcase. The coming-of-age story is a retelling of Freud’s famous case study told from the patient’s point of view and loaded with dark humor and sexual antics. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
MONDAY, SEPT. 10 Nick Weber
Nick Weber’s Royal Lichtenstein Circus toured the country from 1971 to 1993. A former Jesuit priest, Weber claimed the circus fulfilled his mission of finding God in all things. Now promoting his new memoir, The Circus that Ran Away With a Jesuit Priest, Weber will read from the book and perform some of his old circus routines. Portland State University, Lincoln Hall, Room 121, 1620 SW Park. 5:30 pm. Free.
Giulio Tononi
Is there a neurological pathway between your brain and soul? Is it trying to escape when you sneeze? Neuroscientist Giulio Tononi explores consciousness using scientific findings in his book Phi: A Voyage From the Brain to the Soul. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.
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ROSE CITY COMIC-CON Can Portland build a con to rival the mighty Emerald City?
Stumptown, Kumoricon, Wonder Northwest, OryCon —does Portland really need another geek convention? Ron Brister sure thinks so, and he says he’s got the numbers to prove it. The first Rose City Comic-Con will debut at the DoubleTree Hotel this weekend, and Brister expects several thousand comics, anime, sci-fi and gaming fans to walk through the doors. By 2017, he’s hoping that number will be about 20,000. “We’re prepared to basically host 2,500 con-goers a day, but I think the reality will be somewhere between 1,200 and 1,500— based on our presales as a beginning metric, and assuming since we’re a first-year con, we’re probably not seeing more than 20 percent of our ticket sales go out in advance,” says Brister, who works as the IT director of a local software company by day. He has never put on an event of this size or nature before, and he isn’t a comic-industry insider. But he is a nerd, and has spent the past 3½ months analyzing other cities’ conventions, crunching numbers and working out the science behind building a successful con. Brister decided to start his own comic con after attending San Diego Comic-Con—the largest in the country—last year, and realizing it had become so focused on marketing to the 18-to-49-yearold demographic that his 11-year-old son wasn’t having any fun. “We thought, ‘Why don’t we have something here in Portland?’” he says. “I mean, most of these [comic] creators, or a lot of creators, live here in town, and we keep running into the same folks between [Seattle’s Emerald City Comic-Con] and San Diego and other conventions, but we didn’t have more of a mainstream pop-culture convention here in town.” Based on Brister’s projections, the event should be a financial success. But there are still plenty of real obstacles. The con is smack in the middle of Portland’s busiest festival season: a week after anime convention Kumoricon, the same weekend as WW’s MusicfestNW and PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival, and the weekend before the XOXO arts and technology festival. The lineup of comic artists, writers and vendors is for the most part made up of local and familiar names—folks like Greg Rucka (Punisher, Whiteout, Stumptown), Aaron Lopresti (Wonder Woman, Superman, Hulk) and Ron Randall (Trekker, Supergirl, Star Wars). It’s a great bill, but there are few guests you wouldn’t also see at the cheaper and more established Stumptown Comics Fest. The biggest out-of-town guests are the creators of the cult Web comic Axe Cop, which is being made into a series for Fox. The roster of “media guests” is not so strong: There’s Battlestar Galactica’s Richard Hatch, but otherwise it’s ’80s teen idol Noah Hathaway, Kathy Coleman from ’70s kids show Land of the Lost, and a Power Ranger. Other events include Magic: the Gathering and HeroClix card tournaments, tabletop game demos, performances by local “nerdfolk” duo the Doubleclicks, costume contests, geek trivia and a screening of role-playing movie Lloyd the Conqueror. It’s a modest offering, but it’s on par with Emerald City’s first year in 2003, which attracted 2,500 attendees. Almost a decade later, the Seattle con brings in about 53,000 fans and pulls Stan Lee and William Shatner. Not that Brister necessarily wants Rose City to go the same way. It all depends on what the numbers say. “At the end of the day,” he says, “it’s all about building solid metrics and analysis to predict and dictate where you’re going to go.” RUTH BROWN. GO: Rose City Comic-Con is at the DoubleTree Hotel, 1000 NE Multnomah St. 10 am-6 pm Saturday, 10 am-4 pm Sunday, Sept. 8-9. $12.50 for one day, $20 for a two-day pass; kids 12 and under free with paying adult. More info at rosecitycomiccon.com.
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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.
2016: Obama’s America
Not screened for critics, probably due to some kind of Democrat-socialistMuslim-terrorist conspiracy. PG. Multiple theaters. See wweek.com for up-to-date showtimes.
Amateurs and Auteurs
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Repressed Cinema’s monthly showcase of bizarre found footage. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Sept. 11.
The Ambassador
B+ If nothing else, Danish film-
maker and provocateur Mads Brügger has extremely large testicles. In his new documentary, The Ambassador, Brügger goes undercover inside the highly corrupt and very dangerous African diamond trade. Brügger buys himself Liberian diplomatic papers, travels to the Central African Republic and assumes the identity of a grotesque and farcical colonial businessman, dressing in safari suits, spewing racist rhetoric, hiring an entourage of pygmies and bribing everyone around him with fat envelopes of cash. The stunt has been compared to Borat, but Sasha Baron Cohen never puts himself in any real danger. In The Ambassador, real money—courtesy of Lars Von Trier’s production company, Zentropa— changes hands, real people die and real sleazy politicians and businesspeople are recorded on Brügger’s hidden cameras. But the attempted expose raises more questions than it answers: Just what is Brügger trying to achieve with his racist caricature? Does catching these crooks on camera justify Brügger funding them? Is Brügger really playing them, or is he ultimately just another victim? What is the impact of this business on the regular people of the CAR, who we almost never see? And in what appears to be such a overwhelmingly widespread and deeply entrenched problem, what can the viewer really do other than tut-tut and renew our Amnesty International membership? As a piece of journalism or call to arms, The Ambassador falls short. But as a bold piece of filmmaking that gives an unprecedented view inside African politics and the blood diamond trade—subjects that still don’t garner anywhere near the attention and outrage they should in the western world—it is very much worth watching. RUTH BROWN. Hollywood Theatre.
Beasts of the Southern Wild
A Shot among the ravages of post-
Katrina New Orleans but set on the eve of the hurricane’s arrival, the film is a clear allegory for the Ninth Ward, an area certain authorities were seem-
ingly happy to see drowned out of existence. Although showered with festival accolades, some have labeled the movie’s director and co-writer, a white Wesleyan graduate named Benh Zeitlin, a “cultural tourist.” It’s a dubious criticism, considering that where Beasts really takes us is on a tour of a child’s imagination. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Hollywood Theatre, Living Room Theaters.
Best of the Northwest Animation Festival
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Sixteen selections of audience favorites from this year’s Northwest Animation Festival, featuring international Oscar contenders, the 2012 winner for Best Animated Short and, of course, a film about a chicken loose on the streets of New York. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Saturday, Sept. 8.
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. This time, it’s Jeremy Renner—continuing his quest to appear in every single action franchise ever—as Aaron Cross, who finds himself dodging missiles, brandishing assault rifles and seeking to find more of the medication that transformed him from a learning-disabled grunt into a super-agile, hyperintelligent warrior. 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. Multiple theaters. See wweek.com for up-todate showtimes.
Brave
B- It feels like a classic Disney picture. Normally, that’d be a compliment. In Pixar’s case, it represents a regression. PG. MATTHEW SINGER. Multiple theaters. See wweek.com for up-to-date showtimes.
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 drag-out, everyone loses. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Multiple theaters. See wweek.com for up-to-date showtimes.
REVIEW VA R I A N C E F I L M S I N C
MOVIES
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. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Multiple theaters. See wweek.com for up-to-date showtimes.
The Cold Light of Day
Yet another variation on Taken, this one involving the family of a Wall Street trader, a mysterious briefcase and Bruce Willis. Not screened for critics. PG-13. Multiple theaters. See wweek. com for up-to-date showtimes.
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 deadeyed) traveling across near-future Manhattan to get a haircut. In terms of a plot synopsis, 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
THE PRAYER OF THREE: (From left) Toni Lysaith, Clarke Peters and Jules Brown.
RED HOOK SUMMER If Red Hook Summer, the latest slice of Brooklyn life from director Spike Lee, feels structurally unsound, that’s because the film is built atop a fairly weak foundation. As the movie begins, an Atlanta war widow ships her son, a fro-hawked pre-teen named Silas (Jules Brown), to New York to spend the summer with his preacher grandfather in the rapidly gentrifying Red Hook neighborhood. It’s never clear what spurred this decision. Aside from bouts of typical youthful insolence, Silas—who insists on being called Flik—isn’t particularly troubled. He’s a middle-class kid who goes to private school, eats vegan food and filters the world through his iPad. He questions the existence of God, but then, his mother rejected her own religious upbringing. She also rejected the man who forced it upon her: Before dropping Flik at his doorstep, she hadn’t seen her father in years. In light of the family secrets that eventually crash through the movie like a wrecking ball, the choice to leave her son in his care is not only curious but downright irresponsible. As much as the screenplay tells us, the only reason Flik is there is the same reason we are: Because Spike Lee needs someone to listen to his rants. In Red Hook Summer—Lee’s first narrative feature in five years—his mouth gets in the way of his ideas. He spends the film essentially debating himself, arguing, among other things, about the church’s place in contemporary African-American society, and whether it’s done the community more harm than good. It’s an intriguing discussion, one a lot of filmmakers wouldn’t have the courage to broach. It just isn’t much of a movie. But the sermonizing isn’t what sinks Red Hook Summer. In fact, the scenes set in the small, wood-paneled storefront church where Flik’s grandfather, Bishop Enoch Rouse (Clarke Peters), presides over a meager congregation, are the best in the film. They allow Peters, whose performance is by far the movie’s highlight, the chance to really stretch out. The movie has much more fundamental problems than Lee’s preachiness. Like acting. This has been a good year for untrained youth on film—see Quvenzhane Wallis in Beasts of the Southern Wild—but Brown and Toni Lysaith, who plays his coming-of-age love interest, are very untrained. Then there are the issues that typically plague Lee’s lesser films: An unrelentingly melodramatic score, and an ending that goes on five minutes longer than it should. And then there’s that family secret, revealed three-fourths of the way into the movie. It isn’t so much a plot twist as a pipe bomb detonated inside the film. If it appeared earlier, it may have taken Red Hook Summer in an entirely different direction, but it’s much too big for the movie to properly handle in its final 30 minutes. It totals the picture so thoroughly that it never recovers. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Spike Lee takes the pulpit.
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[ONE NIGHT ONLY] MusicfestNW kicks off with a screening of a documentary on folk troubadour Bobby Bare Jr. Presented by NW Film Center. Mission Theater. 7 pm Wednesday, Sept. 5.
The Expendables 2
A bunch of leathery, ’roided-up Republicans invade a foreign country and explode the shit out of it. Again. But this time…it’s personal. Not screened for critics. R. Multiple theaters. See wweek.com for up-to-date showtimes.
A Fierce Green Fire
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A macroscopic view of the environmental movement. A Q&A with members of the Sierra Club and Oregon Wild follows the screening. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Thursday, Sept. 6.
For a Good Time Call...
C- Bridesmaids not only proved
women could make a raunchy comedy but that there is a market for it, too. It split off into an unlikely branch of the feminist movement; For a Good Time, Call… is the low-hanging fruit dangling at the end. Lauren Powell (Lauren Miller) is an organized, driven prude fresh off a breakup with a boring, self-absorbed douche-nozzle. Katie (Ari Graynor) is a wild, free-spirited girl living in a swanky Manhattan apartment. Lauren needs a place to live. Katie needs a roommate. Faster than you can say “contrived,” it turns out they have a mutual friend, Jesse (Justin Long), who helps them move in together. At first, they don’t get along, stemming from a urine-soaking incident in college, but they gradually form a bond while starting up a lucrative phone-sex hotline (because people still pay for that, right?). Kinky sex jokes, dick jokes, menstrual jokes and, occasionally, even hilarity ensue. Cameos by Kevin Smith and Seth Rogen steal the show, but this foulmouthed, lighthearted comedy follows the arc of a standard romcom. Shallow, raunchy bro comedies are not just for men anymore. Should we really call this progress? R. JOHN LOCANTHI. Living Room Theaters.
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 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 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. Multiple theaters. See wweek. com for up-to-date showtimes.
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. 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. PG-13. AARON MESH. Multiple theaters. See wweek.com for up-todate showtimes.
Ice Age: Continental Drift
D- The world didn’t need a fourth Ice Age movie, let alone one rendered for 3-D. PG. ROBERT HAM. Multiple theaters. See wweek.com for up-to-date showtimes.
The Imposter
A- As simply as I can put it, this nonfiction 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.
Iron Sky
Moon Nazis! Why the hell wasn’t this screened for critics? R. Living Room Theaters.
Killer Joe
A- At age 77, William Friedkin has
ceased giving any semblance of a fuck. Adapted from a play by Tracy Letts, who wrote the screenplay, Killer Joe 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 stereo-
types. Gawking at one clan of slackjawed, 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 (Matthew McConaughey) comes off looking virtuous. 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. Killer Joe has no underlying message to leaven and redeem the violence and perversion. It has only the visceral charge of a master shit-disturber going all-in appealing to 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. NC-17. MATTHEW SINGER. Fox Tower.
Lawless
B 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 are cut off, 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, Westernstyle 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. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Multiple theaters. See wweek.com for up-to-date showtimes.
Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present
[TWO NIGHTS ONLY] A documentary on the Serbian performance artist. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, Sept. 7-8.
Moonrise Kingdom
A- Those who find everything that
follows Bottle Rocket fussy and puerile have fair warning: Moonrise Kingdom is Wes Anderson’s Boy Scout film, set on an imaginary island. PG-13. AARON MESH. Multiple theaters. See wweek. com for up-to-date showtimes.
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. 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. Multiple theaters. See wweek.com for up-to-date showtimes.
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 fleshand-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. Multiple theaters. See wweek.com for up-to-date showtimes.
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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 boxoffice 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. Multiple theaters. See wweek. com for up-to-date showtimes.
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BELOVED Christophe Honoré’s moody, multigenerational musical Beloved begins as a winkingly sex-positive romp in which the ’60s seem a wonderful time to buy clothing, and prostitution is promoted as a form of freedom. When young French half-time whore Madeleine (Ludivine Sagnier) ebulliently sings that she can live without her dashing Czech john and lover Jaromil (Rasha Bukvic) but cannot live without loving him, it seems we are entering a hazily nostalgic, alternate-universe The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, chockablock with campy bawd and high-strung passive aggression, with Sagnier’s wildly neurotic features taking the place of Catherine Deneuve’s clean perfections. But it is not to be. You pretty much always know what type of love story it’s going to be once the Soviet tanks roll into Prague. All romance in Beloved is mad, doomed, international, intermittent and utterly endless. Not content to merely let it rain when a character is sad, Honoré is willing to kill thousands of people to show you just how bad love hurts. If a marriage ends, the Russians take over your country. If a love is about to die, passenger planes strike the World Trade Center. Although, as it turns out, Sagnier was playing Deneuve all along. As the film slowly shifts its focus to Madeleine’s now-grown daughter Vera in the 1990s (a stunning Chiara Mastroianni, Deneuve’s real-life daughter), a regally disappointed Deneuve appears as the sexagenarian Madeleine, now remarried but still in love with her first husband, who visits. It would all be one big mopefest if it weren’t for the beautifully incongruous presence of Paul Schneider, who plays Vera’s main love interest. In many ways reprising his sincere screwup in David Gordon Green’s All the Real Girls, Schneider is a bumbling American archetype set loose in a stylish French film, and he pretty much breaks everything he touches. He is an unbridled mess of tics and emotional stutters, with the heart of a lamb and the soul of an asshole. But the real heart of this overstuffed movie lies with director Milos Forman, who plays the aged Jaromil. The once-formidable Forman is here doddering and rheumy, a stroke-victim Casanova who somehow seems smudged on each frame. He is, in fact, precisely what the movie is: diffuse, confused and somehow utterly convinced of his own charms. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Love hurts, love scars, love caused 9/11.
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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. Multiple theaters. See wweek.com for up-to-date showtimes.
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C+ Premium Rush 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 action-movie 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. Multiple theaters. See wweek.com for up-todate showtimes.
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[TWO NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] A double shot of the painfully stylish French proto-New Waver: Pickpocket (9 pm Saturday and 5 pm Sunday, Sept. 8-9), his 1959 classic about a Parisian thief; and 1979’s The Devil, Probably (7 pm Sunday-Monday, Sept. 9-10), his controversial work that allegedly sparked a wave of suicides upon release. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium.
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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: Charisma
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] A fallen detective fights a mutant tree in this 1999 eco-thriller. Seriously. 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 Wednesday, Sept. 5..
Samsara
A Samsara, the title of the new
wordless, non-narrative documentary from the creators of 1992’s similarly structured Baraka, is a Sanskrit word referencing, more or less, the circle of life. If that doesn’t reek of patchouli enough for you, the film is also bookended by trips to a Buddhist temple, features a score that sounds taken from a CD purchased at the counter of an organic food co-op, and, through its juxtaposition of images, expresses a disapproving view of the modern industrialized world. Anyone allergic to New Age-isms will break out in hives. Put aside those aversions, however, and Samsara is, without question, the most visually intoxicating film of year. Shot in gleaming 70 mm by Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson, the movie travels to 25 countries—from hurricaneravaged New Orleans to East Africa, from Egyptian apartment complexes built in view of the pyramids to a Bangkok strip club full of undulating “lady-boys”— and paints an astounding portrait of human existence. (Narrowing down any single moment for highlighting is difficult, but for me, it might be the procession of pallbearers carrying a coffin shaped like a handgun.) Whether or not it’s as profound as the filmmakers want it to be depends on your predilection toward enlightenment, but as a travelogue, Samsara is simply goddamned beautiful. PG13. MATTHEW SINGER. Fox Tower.
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
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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.
The Tenth Victim
B+ [ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL]
Imagine a world where gunfights in the streets are commonplace. A world where violence is not only expected but also a lucrative advertising opportunity. Italian director Elio Petri creates such a world in 1965’s The 10th Victim. The Big Hunt is a popular sport designed to let humans sate their innate appetite for violence for a chance at a million-dollar prize. “If, in 1940, the Big Hunt had existed, Hitler would’ve been a member and we could have avoided World War II,” the narrator assures us. Ursula Andress stars as Caroline Meredith, a hunter zeroing in on her 10th and final target: Marcello Poletti (Marcello Mastroianni). Ming Tea strikes a deal with Meredith to film the killing as an advertisement. The two experienced hunters go through a dance of intrigue and seduction—future America is a
sterile, sexless country, so Meredith cannot resist Poletti’s Italian sensuality—culminating in a trip to the Temple of Venus in Rome. Wacky cults, masochism clubs and robotic dogs are just a few of the phenomena shown in this campy dystopian future. Also, Andress shoots a dude with guns in her boobs. JOHN LOCANTHI. Hotel Modera. 7 pm Thursday, Sept. 6.
This Is Now
[FIVE NIGHTS ONLY] A guy wanders from Portland to Seattle in search of enlightenment. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm SaturdayWednesday, Sept. 8-12.
Total Recall
C- Give Len Wiseman credit: At least he recognized that remaking Total Recall with the same hammy humor and satirical underpinnings of the 1990 original would’ve been the wrong move. Instead, he went in the opposite direction, extracting everything that made Paul Verhoeven’s film distinctive and fun and turning it drab, selfserious and painfully generic. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Multiple theaters. See wweek.com for up-todate showtimes.
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[FIVE NIGHTS ONLY] I would love this to become the Say Anything or Pump Up the Volume for a generation of young Norwegian teens raised on Internet pornography—never mind that all the film’s porn happens anachronistically on paper or over the phone. Even with its opening nubile masturbatory scene and a main plot point involving a teen boy surprising a (not unwilling) girl by poking her thigh with his turtlenecked penis, this is essentially a warm, goofy, outsider-coming-of-age story— albeit for a very horny 15-year-old girl (Alma, played with heartbreakingly tender naiveté by non-pro actress Helene Bergsholm). The bawdiness and awkwardness all read largely true until a too-pat ending more at home in the smooth-polished John Hughes ’80s than amid kids who spent the whole film cruelly appending a penis to the main character’s name. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Clinton Street Theater. 9 pm Saturday-Wednesday, Sept. 8-12.
The Words
A romantic drama in which Bradley Cooper steals another man’s writing. Not screened by WW press deadlines. Look for a review at wweek.com. PG-13. Multiple theaters. See wweek.com for up-todate showtimes.
Writing Myself
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] Portland director Brian Lindstrom’s documentary on a playwriting program for at-risk youth. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Sept. 5.
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1911 Pacific Ave., 503-844-8732 PREMIUM RUSH Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:00 THE CAMPAIGN Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:00 HIT & RUN Fri-Sat-Sun 04:20
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SLACK TO THE FUTURE: There is something heartbreakingly real in witnessing a wizened writer in his mid-30s demand of an intern: “Why are you sitting there in front of that screen? You’re a young man!” That’s a truer basis for Safety Not Guaranteed than its origins as an Internet meme, a late’90s want ad of sorts that sought a time-travel companion. For our purposes, screenwriter Derek Connolly has reimagined the infamous clipping by tracing it back to a sleepy seaside town in Washington. It’s there that tenured magazine contributor Jeff (Jake M. Johnson) drags two listless interns (Karan Soni and Aubrey Plaza) in an attempt to secretly profile an earnest if unhinged grocery-store clerk who fancies himself a regular Doc Brown (Mark Duplass). The skeptical trio stumbles onto what is possibly the greatest space-time paradox: You can never go back, except when you can. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Showing at: Laurelhurst, Academy. Best paired with: Occidental Hefeweizen. Also screening: Batman (Bagdad Theater. 11 pm Friday, Sept. 7).
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616 NW 21st Ave., 503-223-4515 SLEEPWALK WITH ME Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:30, 07:00, 09:00
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2522 SE Clinton St., 503-238-8899 REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA Fri 11:30 TURN ME ON, DAMMIT! Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 09:00 THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Sat 11:00
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2735 E. Burnside St., 503-232-5511 THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:00 UNCLE BUCK Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 09:15 TO
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6712 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503-236-5257 BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:30, 07:35
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401 E Powell Blvd., 503-665-0604 BRAVE Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 05:00 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 07:00 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:25 MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED Sat-Sun 03:10
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BUILDING/REMODELING ARIES (March 21-April 19): Life tests you all the time. Sometimes its prods and queries are hard and weird; they come at you with non-stop intensity. On other occasions the riddles and lessons are pretty fun and friendly, and provide you with lots of slack to figure them out. In all cases, life’s tests offer you the chance to grow smarter, both in your head and heart. They challenge you to stretch your capacities and invite you to reduce your suffering. Right now, oddly enough, you have some choice in what kinds of tests you’d prefer. Just keep in mind that the more interesting they are, the bigger the rewards are likely to be. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): According to the religion of ancient Egypt, Tefnut is the goddess of moisture. In the natural world, she rules rain, dew, mist, humidity, and condensation. For humans, she is the source of tears, spit, sweat, phlegm, and the wetness produced by sex. In accordance with the astrological omens, I nominate her to be your tutelary spirit in the coming week. I suspect you will thrive by cultivating a fluidic sensibility. You will learn exactly what you need to learn by paying special attention to everything that exudes and spills and flows. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I’m guessing that you don’t know the name of the person who sent the first email. It was Ray Tomlinson, and he did it in 1971. You’re probably also unaware that he originated the use of the @ symbol as a key part of email addresses. Now I’d like to address your own inner Ray Tomlinson, Gemini: the part of you that has done valuable work hardly anyone knows about; the part of you that has created good stuff without getting much credit or appreciation. I celebrate that unsung hero, and I hope you will make a special effort to do the same in the coming week. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Busy editor Katie HintzZambrano was asked in an interview what she does when she’s not working at her demanding job. She said she likes to gets together with her “article club,” which is like a book club, except it’s for people who don’t have time to read anything longer than articles. I would approve of you seeking out short-cut pleasures like that in the next few weeks, Cancerian. It’s one of those phases in your astrological cycle when you have a poetic license to skip a few steps, avoid some of the boring details, and take leaps of faith that allow you to bypass complicated hassles. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Imagine you’re living in 1880. You’re done with work for the day, and are at home enjoying some alone-time leisure activities. What might those be? By the light of your oil lamp, you could read a book, sing songs, compose a letter with pen and paper, or write in your diary. Now transfer your imaginative attention to your actual living space in 2012. It might have a smart phone, tablet, laptop, TV, DVD player, and game console. You’ve got access to thousands of videos, movies, songs, social media, websites, and networked games. Aren’t you glad you live today instead of 1880? On the other hand, having so many choices can result in you wasting a lot of time with stimuli that don’t fully engage you. Make this the week you see what it’s like to use your leisure time for only the highest-quality, most interesting and worthwhile stuff. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I’ll bet that a-ha! experiences will arrive at a faster rate than you’ve seen in a long time. Breakthroughs and brainstorms will be your specialty. Surprises and serendipitous adventures should be your delight. The only factor that might possibly obstruct the flow would be if you clung too tightly to your expectations or believed too fiercely in your old theories about how the world works. I’ve got an idea about how to ensure the best possible outcome. Several times every day, say something like the following: “I love to get my curiosity spiked, my hair mussed, my awe struck, my goose bumps roused, my dogmas exploded, and my mind blown.” LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Disappointments should be cremated, not embalmed,” said the aphorist Henry S. Haskins. That’s good advice for you right now, Libra. It’s an auspicious moment for you to set fire to your defeats, letdowns, and discouragements -- and
let them burn into tiny piles of ashes. I mean all of them, stretching back for years, not simply the recent ones. There’s no need to treat them like precious treasures you have an obligation to lug with you into the future. The time is right for you to deepen your mastery of the art of liberation. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Columnist Sydney J. Harris told the following story. “I walked with a friend to the newsstand the other night, and he bought a paper, thanking the owner politely. The owner, however, did not even acknowledge it. ‘A sullen fellow, isn’t he?’ I commented as we walked away. ‘Oh, he’s that way every night,’ shrugged my friend. ‘Then why do you continue being so polite to him?’ I asked. And my friend replied, ‘Why should I let him determine how I’m going to act?’” I hope you’ll adopt that approach in the coming week, Scorpio. Be your best self even if no one appreciates it or responds. Astrologically speaking, this is prime time to anchor yourself in your highest integrity.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In the 1960 Olympics at Rome, Ethiopian runner Abebe Bikila was barefoot as he won a gold medal in the marathon race. Four years later, at the summer games in Tokyo, he won a gold medal again, this time while wearing shoes. I’m guessing this theme might apply to you and your life in the coming weeks. You have the potential to score another victory in a situation where you have triumphed in the past. And I think it’s even more likely to happen if you vary some fundamental detail, as Bikila did.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There’s a certain lesson in love that you have been studying and studying and studying -- and yet have never quite mastered. Several different teachers have tried with only partial success to provide you with insights that would allow you to graduate to the next level of romantic understanding. That’s the bad news, Aquarius. The good news is that all this could change in the coming months. I foresee a breakthrough in your relationship with intimacy. I predict benevolent jolts and healing shocks that will allow you to learn at least some of the open-hearted truths that have eluded you all this time. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A mother wrote to the “Car Talk” columnists to ask whether it’s possible to cook food on a car engine. She wanted to be able to bring her teenage son piping hot burritos when she picked him up from school. The experts replied that yes, this is a fine idea. They said there’s even a book about how to do it, Manifold Destiny: The One! The Only! Guide to Cooking on Your Car Engine! I suggest you engage in this kind of creative thinking during the coming week, Pisces. Consider innovations that might seem a bit eccentric. Imagine how you might use familiar things in unexpected ways. Expand your sense of how to coordinate two seemingly unrelated activities.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Wikipedia has extensive lists of the biggest unsolved problems in medicine, computer science, philosophy, and nine other fields. Each article treats those riddles with utmost respect and interest, regarding them not as subjects to be avoided but rather embraced. I love this perspective, and urge you to apply it to your own life. This would be an excellent time, astrologically speaking, to draw up a master list of your biggest unsolved problems. Have fun. Activate your wild mind. Make it into a game. I bet that doing so will attract a flood of useful information that’ll help you get closer to solving those problems. (Here’s Wikipedia’s big list: tinyurl.com/ListofProblems.)
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