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Having read this article [“Who’s Listening to Diane Roark?,” WW, Sept. 5, 2012], I found it chilling. Not only by the account from Ms. Roark and how she had been targeted in such an outright criminal way, but also by the federales’ gestapo tactics against her. These tactics have also been used against various people/households (including myself ) here in the Northwest since last year.... So, yeah, it’s pretty fucking clear this sort of pattern is being employed against helpless citizens, activists and whistle-blowers alike. —“Damos Abadon” Great article! Thanks for alerting the public to this. You’ve reinforced my desire to vote for a third-party candidate this year. —“Freedom Lover”
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Oregon is a die-hard blue state— and anyway, since the conventions, Obama’s been running away with the election. So, as a Portlander, why should I bother voting? —Derpa the Sherpa We’re not as blue as you might suppose, Derp. Sure, Portland is lousy with Che Guevara mustaches and fixed-gear bikes made out of goat cheese. But we’re still attached to a Wild West rodeo called Oregon. Our House of Representatives is half Republican, for example, and Oregon was recently touted as flippable by GOP overlord Karl Rove. (Granted, that was before his party made the mistake of putting its convention on TV, where everybody could get a good look at Romney’s constipated eyebrows.) Still, I’m not gonna lie to you: New York Times pollster Nate Silver puts the likelihood of Oregon deciding the presidential election at 0.2 percent. But you should still vote. Here’s why:
First of all, there’s more to elections than the presidency. Sure, eight-term Democratic Congressman Earl Blumenauer isn’t exactly sweating the challenge from—ahem—TriMet bus driver Ron Green. But there is a contested mayoral race, y’know. Choose your side! Is it worse to be disingenuously vague about your state of residency to avoid taxes, like Charlie Hales? Or to be genuinely vague about whether you have a driver’s license because you’re kind of a spaz, like Jefferson Smith? As it happens, I’m pulling for Charlie—if I thought we needed a mayor who can’t keep his license current, I’d have run myself. But I’m an asshole—vote, and cancel me out! Go democracy! Plus, there’s always the chance that by voting, you can improve things for other people— marriage-minded gays, pregnant Mississippians, Afghan civilians. It’s literally the least you can do. As a lazy American, how can you say no to that? QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com
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One of Mayor Sam Adams’ pet projects, the Oregon Sustainability Center, is back on the table—this time with a private tenant. The proposed $62 million building is supposed to be the world’s tallest without a carbon footprint. But it’s been criticized as a waste of money, and lawmakers last year refused to authorize state bonds to help finance it. But WW has obtained a 10-year lease proposal between the city and Portland-based Interface Engineering, dated Sept. 10, that calls for the company to help design the building, rent about a third of its space, and give it an option to become an owner. The new price tag is about $50 million. Oh, and it has a new name: the Innovation Center. As WW reported earlier, Gov. John Kitzhaber has renominated Portland lawyer Elisa Dozono for the Oregon Lottery Commission. Three current commissioners—including Mary Wheat, a Portland cop—are protesting Dozono’s nomination because her law firm, Miller Nash, represents video lottery retail giant Dotty’s delis. “We believe these ties could possibly be perceived as special influence for Oregon’s most profitable video poker retailer,” Wheat wrote Kitzhaber on Sept. 5. The governor earlier withdrew Dozono’s name after others raised the same concerns. The Oregon Senate is set to vote on Dozono’s nomination Sept. 12. “I’ve talked to other commissioners and hope we’ll have a chance to work together,” Dozono says. Budget-slashing newspaper bosses have cost Oregon another valued journalist: Longtime Albany Democrat-Herald editor Hasso Hering has been forced out as a cost-savings move by the paper’s owners, Lee Enterprises. Hering—editor since 1978 and mentor to many Oregon journalists—was famous for his contrarian editorials (which he signed) and his sharp commentary on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s public affairs show Seven Days. “All HERING I’ve tried to do is comment on the stories I saw in Oregon,” Hering, 68, says, “and give a voice to issues that really mattered.” Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt.
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Between now and the Nov. 6 election, promoters of a vast new 3,500-slot-machine casino in Wood Village hope to keep voters’ attention off gambling and on other shiny features of their proposed development—a water slide, concert venue and farmers market. And they will repeat the sunny claims (echoed by the news media) that the casino would create 2,000 new jobs while generating $100 million annually for Oregon schools and other public services. “Fun for you,” the casino backers say. “Good for Oregon.” But supporters of Measures 82 and 83, which would authorize the casino, probably won’t be talking about one financial analysis that sinks their arguments. The analysis, obtained by WW, was written by the nonpartisan Legislative Revenue Office and takes into account all the impacts—positive and negative—from a huge casino in east Multnomah County. The bottom line: The casino would probably cost state and local governments money and, on a broader basis, actually shrink the Oregon economy. “In most of these scenarios, they are claiming a nega-
tive result for both the private sector and the public sector,” says University of Oregon economics professor Tim Duy, who reviewed the analysis at WW’s request. Two Lake Oswego businessmen, Bruce Studer and Matt Rossman, have been promoting the casino idea for years and first brought it to the ballot in 2010. That time, Oregon voters trounced the measure to authorize a Wood Village casino, 68 percent to 32 percent. Now the businessmen and the casino’s chief financial backer—Canadian gaming giant Clairvest—are hoping Oregonians will eventually change their minds if they have to answer the same question on the ballot often enough. This year, Measure 82 would amend the state constitution to allow private casinos in Oregon. Only Native American tribes, empowered by federal law, are allowed to run casinos in the state. Measure 83 would amend state law to set up the approval process for the casino, which backers would locate at the defunct Multnomah Kennel Club. Tribes that fought the 2010 measure have lined up in opposition again this year, saying the state’s nine tribal casinos (especially the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde’s Spirit Mountain Casino, 62 miles southwest of downtown Portland) would suffer. But the broader rub is the Oregon Lottery, the state’s second-largest source of revenue after the income tax. Lottery officials believe people who might otherwise spend their money on video poker would gamble instead
at the proposed casino, which backers have dubbed “The Grange.” They say the state would end up a loser. The Grange’s backers have argued that while the lottery may be hurt, the state would more than make up its losses when the casino (as spelled out in the proposal) paid the state 25 percent of its gross revenues. Who’s right? This summer, a state economist who has studied the casino came up with an answer. In July, Mazen Malik, a senior economist in the Legislative Revenue Office, prepared an analysis for the Financial Estimate Committee, which includes State Treasurer Ted Wheeler and Secretary of State Kate Brown, assigned to evaluate the fiscal impact of the casino. Malik evaluated three scenarios in which the casino would operate 2,200 slot machines, and three more scenarios in which it had 3,500 slots. Only two of the six scenarios Malik ran showed a net gain for the state, ranging from $32 million to $53 million, if a smaller casino is built. Those are the numbers the committee accepted. In doing so, however, the committee dismissed the scenarios involving 3,500 slots—the size of casino Clairvest and other backers seek in their ballot measures. Under those scenarios, far more money is diverted from the lottery than comes back to the state. Oregon government coffers would lose as much as $63 million a year—even after the casino’s seemingly generous payment is factored in. Stacey Dycus, a spokeswoman for the casino’s proponents, says the fiscal impact committee was right to reject the four scenarios in which the casino is a losing proposition for Oregon’s public finances. But the analysis’ figures CONT. on page 8 Willamette Week SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 wweek.com
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overstate lottery losses, Dycus says, citing surveys that show most lottery players gamble within three miles of their homes and would continue to do so. “We think they are overestimating Lottery losses and underestimating economic benefits,” Dycus says. A study paid for by the casino’s proponents shows significant economic benefits from the project. Meanwhile, Steven Ungar, a former chairman of the lottery commission, says Oregon’s independent analysis is proof the state will be hurt by the casino. “A private casino is ill-conceived and not in the public’s best interests,” says Ungar, a Portland lawyer now advising the opponents’ campaign. “I’m confident that the measure would result in a net financial loss to the people of Oregon.” The state economic analysis does more to refute backers’ claims the casino would create jobs. Think of the Oregon economy as a bucket half filled with water. To increase the number of jobs in the state, you have to add to the bucket so the water level rises. Instead, the state’s economic analysis shows, the casino punches a hole in the bottom of the bucket. To a large extent, money gambled away at the casino would come from within Oregon—and that doesn’t add to the economy; it just circulates money that’s already here. The analysis does take into account the estimated $83 million to $126 million added to the economy—mostly from out-of-state gamblers or Oregonians spending their gambling money here rather than in Nevada. But that money is no match for the cash flowing out of state to the casino’s owners and lenders. According to the analysis: The Oregon economy could shrink by as much as $74 million a year. That’s what economists call “leakage,” the net amount of cash that would leave the state to cover the casino’s financing costs and the owners’ profits. (One scenario in the analysis showed the Oregon economy would grow, but only by $9 million a year.) One implication of the outflow of cash is jobs lost here and created elsewhere. “By shifting revenue away from Oregon,” says Duy, the UO economics professor, “that implies a loss of jobs somewhere in the state.” Dycus disagrees, saying Malik’s analysis does not account for construction and permanent employment.
“I’M CONFIDENT THAT [A PRIVATE CASINO] WOULD RESULT IN A NET FINANCIAL LOSS TO THE PEOPLE OF OREGON.” —STEVEN UNGAR
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“We believe it’s a net positive, even without those impacts,” she says. Many Oregonians, including Gov. John Kitzhaber, have long decried the state’s dependence on gambling since it became legal here in 1984. But the lottery, which generates more than $500 million annually for the state, is not only lucrative but a far more stable source of funding than income taxes. Most of that money comes from video poker, which Kitzhaber, as Senate president, helped approve in 1991. Kitzhaber, who until now has not taken a public position on this year’s casino measures, in a statement says he opposes private casinos in Oregon generally. He says a plan such as those in Measures 82 and 83 would hurt the state budget, increase the number of addicted gamblers, and unfairly punish tribal casinos, which operate under agreements with state government. What’s more, Kitzhaber wrote in an Aug. 28 letter to the Portland City Club, a private casino would “primarily benefit a few wealthy executives and foreign investors while creating increased opportunities for corporate corruption and organized crime.” Dycus notes that in 2006, when the Grand Ronde tribe wanted to open a casino in Portland, it argued against the points Kitzhaber now advances. “This is a highly regulated industry coming into a state that needs more investment,” Dycus says. “It’s a good deal.”
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Ben Stein has gotten a lot of traction out of his turn as a droning teacher in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (“Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?”). He’s since hosted his own game show and talk show, written books and starred in his own documentary. He’s also a lawyer who wrote speeches for Presidents Nixon and Ford, bills himself as an economist and collects between $30,000 and $100,000 a speech. But as one Rogue tipster puts it, “Stein is an economist like Groucho was a Marxist.” Stein does have a bachelor’s degree in economics from Columbia University and worked briefly in the field for the U.S. government. He also has an ethically troubled history of proffering economic advice while selling his name and droll visage to hawk questionable products. His lapses have been documented by Gawker and The Washington Post. Reuters journalist Felix Salmon writes an online feature called “Ben Stein Watch.” In 2009, The New York Times let Stein go as a columnist after he became a paid spokesman for FreeScore.com, which advertised “free” credit reports while luring consumers into $29.95-a-month subscriptions. In 2011, Stein became a paid spokesman for Accredited Members Inc., a penny-stock investment firm. But, as Salmon points out, Stein argued in his 2004 book, How to Ruin Your Financial Life, that penny stocks will do just that. Stein also promotes and hosts seminars featuring Ray Lucia, a financial guru accused by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of making false financial claims. Stein is scheduled to host another Lucia seminar Sept. 22. Five days later, Stein is scheduled to appear in Portland as keynote speaker at the annual economic summit of Greater Portland Inc., a nonprofit economic development group funded in part by taxpayers. “He is controversial, but he brings a humorous and interesting take on the economy,” says Maggie Davis, Greater Portland’s vice president. Some people don’t think Stein is funny. He appeared in and co-wrote Expelled, a 2008 film that promotes teaching creationism in schools. The film connects the theory of evolution to Nazi atrocities. In a promotional interview with Crosswalk, Stein said, “Darwinism led—in a pretty much straight line—to Nazism and the Holocaust.” Ticket revenues and private sponsorships will pay for Stein’s speech. But Greater Portland (with local governments funding 38 percent of its annual budget of about $1.6 million) grants taxpayer-sanctioned legitimacy to an actor/huckster. Is there a reason WW shouldn’t name Greater Portland Inc. Rogue of the Week? Anyone? Anyone?
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Portland loves its culture—and loves that so many people are also fascinated by it. But just how cultured is Portland? Turns out just a bit. City Vitals 2.0 ranks Portland as the eighth-most cultured city in the nation. (The study by CEOs for Cities, a nonprofit urban affairs group, looked at the nation’s 51 biggest cities.) The group looked at how likely Portlanders were to attend a cultural event in the past year as opposed to own a high-definition television. Portland scored a ratio of 108—meaning residents are 8 percent more likely to attend the opera or ballet than own a glowing wall monster. (We’re essentially tied with Austin.) No. 1? A virtual tie between San Francisco and San Jose. New Orleans was dead last. SAM STITES.
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Put on the pressure, help find the tenant, whatever it takes to turn that eyesore into a smart, green, new building in downtown Portland. Putting on the pressure to not leave it like that any longer—in other words, the carrot and the stick. The carrot is, I’ll help find tenants. I’ll call Columbia Sportswear and see if they’re willing to come to downtown Portland for their downtown headquarters instead of being out there in that rented space in Beaverton. But also there are sticks available to the city in terms of code enforcement, to say, “Come on. This is an eyesore and a public nuisance.”
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This is a place where the market is likely to solve it. The market is likely to see the enormous opportunity there— right next to Nordstrom, right near parking, and right across from Director Park. I don’t think we should set an expectation of spending a lot of public money on it. What I’d be concerned about is buying high and selling low, or spending a bunch of public money when we likely will not need to. If there is an opportunity for the city to get a decent return on its investment, there might be the possibility for an investment opportunity or at least a loan opportunity.
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ARTBREAKER Fall is the snootiest season. In summer, Portlanders drink cheap red wine in the park while watching Top Gun on an inflatable screen or take their kids to see Spock pinch Klingons under the St. Johns Bridge. But as the air chills and yellow creeps up the leaves, the sense of shared wonder that vibrates through the warm months goes into hibernation. Portland’s “serious” art aficionados retreat to more refined environs. There’s only a thin and jagged line separating fine and popular art, though, and context is important. The Washington Post demonstrated this in 2007. In Gene Weingarten’s Pulitzer Prize-winning feature story “Pearls Before Breakfast,” he took world-class violinist Joshua Bell busking at a subway station. Bureaucratic drones buzzed right past Bell—some tossing pennies—as he played a $3.5 million Stradivarius. Only one woman recognized she was watching one of the world’s best classical musicians. Would Portlanders do better? We wanted to find out. So we took an Oregon Symphony violinist offstage to play for loose coins on the street. We also took Oregon Ballet Theatre dancers to a sweaty, vodkafueled Old Town nightclub. We watched an artist who sells his work for thousands at one of the city’s top galleries hawk his wares in the madness of Last Thursday. We sent a bestselling author to a writer’s workshop to discuss Harry Potter erotic fanfiction before getting a critique of her soon-to-be-published book. How did the artists fare outside their gilded bubbles? Did highfalutin Portland know talent when it saw it offstage? And what is Ginny Weasley’s favorite position?
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A BALLERINA WALKS INTO A BAR...: Oregon Ballet Theatre dancer Olga Krochik (top) gets crunk at Jones.
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No one is dancing when I arrive at Jones. I’m here to meet Oregon Ballet Theatre dancers Olga Krochik and Lucas Threefoot and their friends, ostensibly for a night on the town. But it’s early on a Saturday night, and the Old Town club is still hosting a speed-dating event. By the end of the night, we will be sweaty, and we will have answered a few questions: What happens when professional dancers dance off the clock? Are they able to switch off their ballet brains for a night and let loose? If so, are they still obviously better than the people dancing around them? Will anyone notice or care? And if you do something fun for a living, is it still fun? Jones—an ’80s- and ’90s-themed bar geared to youngsters who don’t remember Posh Spice before she was Mrs. Beckham—could have been a fern bar 30 years ago. The brick walls and disco ball above the DJ booth are a stark contrast to Krochik and Threefoot’s usual home, the balconied Keller Auditorium, which holds nearly 3,000 people. There isn’t a tuxedoed conductor or tutuwearing toddler to be found, though there are a lot of towering heels and tiny skirts. Krochik, 27, wears a striped tank top and skinny jeans. Her boyfriend, Chris Martuza, 34, enjoys dancing with her, but they haven’t been to this club, preferring Holocene, Rotture or Lola’s Room. Shortly after Threefoot settles into a vinyl booth next to Krochik and Martuza, we’re joined by two more OBT dancers, Julia Rowe, 22, and Javier Ubell, 23. Talk turns to social dancing. “It’s hard,” says Krochik, who started ballet in New York as a grade-schooler. “You make plans at the beginning of the week to go dancing, but by the time Friday comes around, you’re so tired.” In some ways, being a ballet dancer is like a regular job, she says. You come in, work and go home at the end of the day. “Someone in an office, maybe they do a report and then they do another report,” Ubell says. “With us, it’s do one rehearsal, have a break, and have another rehearsal for 45 minutes. It’s very schedule-based.”
But when they do go out dancing, these pros don’t worry about what non-dancers think. When you dance in front of thousands of people for a living, Ubell points out, you get over selfconsciousness pretty quickly, and since many dancers go pro at a young age—he came to OBT at 17—you know you already have what it takes to outperform some pretty serious competition. If the dancers do feel self-conscious, it’s more often from learning new dance styles after they’ve mastered another. For fun, Krochik has tried hiphop, which she finds challenging: Technique-wise, it’s the polar opposite of ballet, with turned-in feet and grounded movement. “I saw some ballet guy doing hip-hop on So You Think You Can Dance and he looked kind of awkward, and I thought, ‘I wonder if that’s how I looked?’” says Krochik, laughing. Ultimately, Ubell says, the ballet world is like any other: It has both conservative types and free spirits. About this time, Krochik swings one leg over the back of the booth and vaults herself over the back to get some napkins. It’s the kind of artless maneuver that would give the average person muscle spasms. At 10 pm, our conversation is abruptly drowned out as the DJ cranks up the music. We relocate to the dance floor, where nobody else seems to notice they are bumping up against people who can do 32 consecutive fouette turns in pointe shoes—that is, until Threefoot dips Krochik deeply toward the floor. There is some nudging among onlookers, one of whom reaches for her cellphone camera. As the Beastie Boys’ “Brass Monkey” squawks from the speakers, a competition seemingly develops between Threefoot and Ubell over who can get the lowest. A bachelorette party wearing neon togs and hair bows watches admiringly from the sidelines. “I gotta go dance with Olga—she’s my partner!” Threefoot declares before hopping onto a raised platform, where Krochik and Mantuza are already pressed close. In a move you’re unlikely to see at a Portland club, Threefoot hoists Krochik into an overhead lift and turns her in a circle. Two guys from a nearby group look up. “Aww, yeah!” they exclaim, pumping their fists approvingly. They don’t know what’s up, exactly, but it’s all good.
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WORDS TO THE WOLVES WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A BEST-SELLING AUTHOR JOINS AN AMATEUR WRITERS’ GROUP? BY L AU R I E N OTA R O
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I have read Harry Potter erotica. Sometimes, life is like that. One moment, you’re getting ready to read what you think will be a fun short story about a magic girl and boy, and in the next, Ginny and Draco are getting it on during a study session. Three days later, you’re sitting at a small table in a cafeteria surrounded by strangers and it’s your turn to say something about it to the person who wrote it. “Well,” I say to the woman sitting next to me, “It feels like you just had a lot of fun with this.” I smile. I think she wants me to say more. I simply can’t. “But is it commercial?” an older man in a hat asks. “Absolutely,” the author replies. “Fifty Shades of Grey was originally Twilight fanfic.” When I entered the cafeteria a half-hour before, I felt nothing but complete terror, even though I was just here for an experiment. I had agreed to join a writers’ group comprising people I had never met, and submitted an essay for the other members to critique. Yes, I was scared. Writers can be too easily insecure and Hunger Games competitive when hierarchy is being established in a room where more than one of
richest, most famous author on Earth. “I checked it out,” she assures me. “It’s a gray area.” “Oh,” I say. “You sure do use the word ‘pussy’ a lot,” the man in the hat comments. “I’m playing off the cat in the room,” the author defends. I am still feeling a little faint when we move onto the next writer, another older man with thick glasses who shows the group a book cover of two pretty young girls and a dog in a hat. The older man in the hat takes up the charge. “You lost me when the dog is writing a letter to the girl about how she needs to open herself up to people more,” he says to the older man in the glasses. “Dogs would never do that. A dog needs to earn your trust. That’s dog nature.” “No, no, no,” the man in glasses says. “I don’t agree. You forget that the dog is her dad, but her mother is a robot, so she has the DNA in her too that has no emotion. Her dad is just trying to balance that out.” “I think your cover is awesome,” I say. The man in the hat is not giving up. “I also don’t understand why the dog is suddenly putting on a sports coat,” he says, looking annoyed. “Where did the sports coat come from?” “The dog wears clothes,” the man in glasses says, clearly irritated. “That’s clear from the beginning of the chapter.” The next writer who is up is a woman about my age who wrote about a film consultant/demonologist who I suspect is
“YOU FORGET THAT THE DOG IS HER DAD, BUT HER MOTHER IS A ROBOT, SO SHE HAS THE DNA IN HER TOO THAT HAS NO EMOTION.” them is present; it’s like watching wolves hashing it out to establish dominance before tearing into a fresh kill. It is rarely pretty, and someone usually gets too drunk and is found hours later unconscious and uncomfortably close to a litter box. I know this because I am a “writer.” By trade, occupation, tax returns, whatever. My background, in a nutshell: journalism school, columnist at a large daily paper, self-published my first book after years of rejections, fired from the newspaper the same week that book unexpectedly landed on The New York Times best-seller list. I’ve seen my books do well; I’ve seen my books sputter and sink. It’s how I’ve made my living for a long time. At the cafeteria table in downtown Portland, I don’t have any of that history. I don’t have a bio. I am simply a girl named Laurie who is waiting for her essay to be led up to the workshop altar. So, sure, I am frightened beyond belief, but in the meantime, we’re still discussing the commercial value of the Harry Potter porn, which I am having trouble grasping. “By commercial, do you mean publishing this?” I ask earnestly. “Because there might be some copyright issues with characters created by someone else.” Like the 20
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about to have sexual relations with a lady ghost. But I like it. There is not a single cat in the whole thing. Others, however, find fault in several paragraphs, calling them “info dumps,” and I have to ask what that is, too. Apparently, it’s when a writer gives information in a block, otherwise known as “backstory.” “I love the part when he blurts out that he used to be a priest,” I say. “I was surprised!” The woman looks at me and smiles. No one agrees with me. Now it’s the man in the hat’s turn. “So while I think that your opening paragraph is great with description of the sunrise, the next paragraph had such a vivid image with Mamoud removing his bronze, unadorned helmet,” the man in the glasses asks the man in the hat. “Maybe you could switch those paragraphs, and open with that picture?” The hat goes quiet, although his eyes dart to the man in the glasses. “No,” the hat says. “Why are the two clans at war?” I ask. “I would love to know that right up front so I can understand the conflict better.” The hat laughs at me. “You have to
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read the whole book to find that out,” he discloses. “Oh,” I nod. “I loved the image of the slaves gnawing at the hides,” the Harry Potter lady says. And then it’s my turn. I brace myself, already nervous, for the oncoming barrage. All faces go blank when Harry Potter asks for comments on my piece. “I didn’t read that one,” the demonologist says. “I didn’t either,” the man in glasses says. “I only read that copy you had,” the man with the hat says. Harry Potter crinkles her brow and shrugs. “Well, I glanced through yours, and had a problem telling where the rising and falling action was, but I guess I didn’t
upload it to the website. Maybe we can do yours next time.” “Oh,” I nod. And with that, everyone puts their notes away and the demonologist closes her laptop. Several people stay behind to chat, but I stick my folder in my bag, say “thank you,” to Harry Potter and then leave, feeling vastly insignificant and with a terrific sigh of relief. LAURIE NOTARO is the author of a bunch of books, including It Looked Different on the Model. She lives in Eugene and will not leave the state of Oregon until she sees Bigfoot. Her new book, The Pottymouth at the Table, will be published in May by Simon & Schuster.
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The Willamette River divides Portland’s art scene. Tony galleries in the Pearl District and Northwest exude First Thursday hauteur, while street artists turn Northeast Alberta Street into a freewheeling Last Thursday hippie-fest. Think of Northwest as Bergdorf Goodman, Northeast as Burning Man. If any artist can bridge the two, it’s Tom Cramer. The man is a walking lingua franca between lowbrow and highbrow, equally renowned for populist murals and cerebral paintings that marry Eastern mysticism with Art Nouveau. What would happen if Cramer, now an established First Thurs-
day star, returned to his roots to hawk his wares at Last Thursday? Cramer, 52, was curious to find out. A third-generation Portlander, he graduated from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 1982, then moved to New York and fermented in the East Village’s nascent graffiti-art movement. Later in the ’80s he returned to Portland, on fire with the influences of Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, who combined street- and folkart aesthetics with Warholian cool. Cramer painted public murals downtown and in Northeast, including one on the outside wall of what is now Ciao Vito restaurant (2203 NE Alberta St.). Then, in 1987, when he was tapped for the Portland Art Museum’s prestigious Oregon Biennial, he began a steady transition from “the people’s artist” to an elite success story. Four more Biennials followed, galleries picked
him up, and his paintings were collected by multimillionaire philanthropist Jordan Schnitzer and influential curator Paige Powell. His May 2012 show at Laura Russo Gallery sold an impressive two-thirds of all pieces on view, with top prices fetching $12,000. It would seem his days of hustling the street-art scene are long behind him. To find out if the Last Thursday hoi polloi would recognize artwork of Cramer’s caliber among Alberta’s more democratic fare, I enlisted the help of up-and-coming Alberta exhibitor Aaron Trotter, who agreed to let Cramer share his booth at 1627 NE Alberta St., just six blocks from Cramer’s mural. Trotter, 34, has never been represented by a blue-chip gallery but is making a decent living at art fairs and markets selling playing cards adorned with his penand-ink sketches of Portland landmarks. He advertises the cards on Etsy and sells them through his website (aarontrotter.com) and in person, taking credit-card info with his Square-equipped smartphone. When Cramer arrives at 5 pm at the August event, the two get to know each other.
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“I admire your business sense,” Cramer tells the younger artist as they set up their booth. “What you’re doing is the future.” “Poverty was the motivating factor,” Trotter says. “I was eating canned food donated to churches. I decided I’d rather eat good food.” Cramer sets out six colorful sculptures from his American Totem Doll series. With their oddly cocked eyes, crooked mouths and stacked oval bodies, they look like miniature snowmen that took a wrong turn and wound up at Mardi Gras. Cramer decides to offer them at bargain-basement prices: $75 apiece for large dolls and $50 for smaller ones. With work this affordable by an acclaimed artist, they’re bound to sell out within minutes, right? It doesn’t take long for a woman to stop at the booth, but she goes straight for the playing cards. Trotter leans in and chats her up, and soon she’s whipping out a $20 bill. Cramer studies the transaction but doesn’t seem too interested in working the crowd himself. He’s used to First Thursday openings, where artists have the leisure to mill about while gallery staff handles the hard sell. Another woman approaches Trotter about the cards as Cramer’s dolls stand wide-eyed and unattended on the table, like wallflowers at the homecoming dance. An hour goes by, and Cramer is no longer just milling about. He’s making a deal with Julie Benois, co-owner of Local Discoveries, the arts, crafts and foodstuffs shop behind the booth. Rather than keep manning the table, Cramer will leave the sculptures under her care to sell on consignment at a 60/40 split—artist’s favor. He signs a consignment form, bids Trotter goodbye, hops on his bike, and is gone by 6:30. Later that night, a man sees one of the dolls and asks Trotter if it’s a Tom Cramer. He says he bought a Cramer doll 20 years ago. Another man stops by and says the dolls remind him of the mural up the street at Ciao Vito. The next day, Benois sells one of the dolls in her shop—as of press time, the only one that has sold. What’s to be learned from this experiment in context? Cramer was philosophical: “I don’t know why people buy. As an artist, you’re rejected 90 percent of the time. My advice to any artist is, ‘Don’t think of it as a career, think of it as a lifestyle.’”
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It’s just after noon on a gorgeous late summer Friday at Pioneer Courthouse Square, and one of the best and most versatile violinists on the West Coast is getting ready to do some busking. Dressed in jeans and a short-sleeved shirt, Greg Ewer unfolds his battered, yellowish violin case, puts out a tip jar, and launches into some Bach sonatas. He snags $3 in the first five minutes. This is going to be easy. Not that easy, it turns out. He’s quickly busted by a polite Portland cop and another city worker who explain it’s illegal to busk in Pioneer Courthouse Square. They
wish him luck, then give him the boot. Already, the afternoon has been more eventful than world-famous violinist Joshua Bell’s morning busking in the nation’s capital in 2007, the subject of a Washington Post story. Actually, a skilled classical musician playing for his supper on a street corner isn’t actually unheard of. Ewer has played corners before, while traveling in Europe and even on Portland’s Northwest 23rd Avenue, when he needed rent money. Ewer is more comfortable now. The transplanted Texan is the only member of both of the state’s premier orchestras: the Oregon Symphony and Portland Baroque Orchestra. He also performs with Pink Martini and Third Angle New Music ensemble, teaches at Lewis & Clark and Reed colleges, and leads 45th Parallel, a chamber-music series that features some of the best Northwest classical musicians. Walking away from Pioneer Square, his
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old instincts kick in. “Oh, sandwich stand,” he says, eyeing a line of people in front of a kiosk on the Southwest 6th Avenue bus mall. “This could be a good spot.” Despite Ewer’s incontrovertible skill, evident from his gorgeous performance of the famous Chaconne from a J.S. Bach solo partita, people stroll or sprint by, many rendered impervious to the music by headphones, cellphones and conversations. With the violin’s sound disappearing half a block away amid the rumble of cars and the MAX, even the undistracted have only a few seconds to perceive the quality of Ewer’s playing. At 1 pm, Ewer scrambles to claim a less noisy yet more heavily trafficked spot directly across from Pioneer Courthouse Square, resuming the Bach partita. Over the next half-hour, most passersby don’t spare Ewer a second glance, though several stop to watch for a few minutes. Ewer switches from Bach to a flashy Pablo
de Sarasate riff. As he plays, Erwin Avendano, the proprietor of a nearby jewelry cart, explains there are two types of street musicians, “good ones and shitty ones.” He likes Ewer. “That guy,” he says as a smile spreads across his face, “he’s really good.” We head for Fox Tower, where Ewer sets up next to a line of people waiting for movie tickets and plays the Bach Chaconne. At one point, four people converge to drop a buck in his case, and one applauds as he finishes Fritz Kreisler’s Praeludium and Allegro with a flourish. Later, a dreadlocked young man who’s trading jokes for spare change walks up to Ewer and stares intently at his fingers for several minutes, nodding appreciatively. A bearded man on a bike carrying bottles and cans searches through his pockets for some coins and shyly drops them in the case. A woman watches for a while. Puzzled, she drops in some bills. “You’re so good!” she exclaims. “Why are you doing this?” By about 2:30, Ewer packs up his violin, rubs his bow arm, and calls it a day. Not counting travel breaks, he’s played a bit less than two hours and made $22.42. It’s not quite as much as Joshua Bell made busking in a Washington subway station, yet Ewer is encouraged. In a recession-wracked city, when few people pay for music anymore, a couple dozen people—none prosperous looking, only one an avowed classical music fan—recognized the quality of Ewer’s playing, and found it worth paying for. “It’s situational,” Ewer concludes later. “People who are waiting in line for movie tickets aren’t rushing off to work in the morning. It’s the middle of the day and the sun is shining and they’re open to being moved by the music.” He notes that when he played an Irish fiddle tune or bluegrass number, no one stopped. It’s the classical pieces that draw attention—and contributions. “Maybe classical is the novelty on the street,” he says. “In classical music, we worry all the time—is the art dying? But if so many people randomly stop and enjoy it, if it’s got universal appeal, how could it possibly be dying? The level of acceptance I felt is very gratifying for me. It gives me more hope.” Ewer strolls past another busker playing a guitar. He pauses. “Just a second,” he says, leaning over to drop a dollar in the open guitar case.
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GOSSIP THAT RULES THE ROAD. WIZARD WAR: The first Rose City Comic-Con was held last weekend, aiming to become a mainstream comics and pop-culture convention à la San Diego Comic-Con or Seattle’s Emerald City Comic-Con. Scoop visited on Sunday, Sept. 9, and found a packed house with a friendly, home-grown Portland atmosphere. But on Friday, Sept. 7, Wizard World, a comic-convention empire that runs huge Chicago and Philadelphia events, announced it would be holding a convention in Portland in February 2013. Wizard World has a reputation for using Walmartstyle tactics to push smaller competitors out of their hometowns. Rose City organizer Ron Brister told WW : WIZARD WORLD “I don’t think it really has an impact on Rose City Comic-Con, since we’re at the other end of the convention season. However, their announcement regarding their date is a little bothersome to me as a fan of Emerald City Comic-Con [next weekend]. The last thing I would want is for people to spend themselves out before heading north to the greatest convention on the West Coast.” SAD SONGS: Away from the citywide party of MusicfestNW, it was a bummer of a week for Portland music. On Sept. 7, Bill Martin, a pillar of the Portland roots-music scene, passed away after a long battle with cancer. He was 65. A veteran fiddler and square-dance caller, Martin is credited with sparking an interest in American folk styles among the city’s younger musicians. “He was really responsible, I feel like, for breathing life into this new wave of old-time music in Portland,” says local caller Caroline Oakley, who, along with Martin, established the weekly Sunday square dance night at Northeast Portland’s OBO ADDY Village Ballroom. >> Awardwinning Ghanaian percussionist Obo Addy is in the final stages of his own fight with liver cancer. Addy, who moved to Portland in 1978, established the nonprofit Obo Addy Legacy Project in 1986, a cultural center serving the African diaspora. Donations to help with his medical bills can be made at indiegogo.com/OboAddy. THAT’S ED-UTAINMENT: Nine months after relocating to Los Angeles, Aaron Ross—better known as Ed Forman, the bawdy host of the live comedy-variety program The Ed Forman Show with Me! Ed Forman!—is returning. Unlike performers who scurry home after a failed shot at the big time, Forman will be resurrecting The Ed Forman Show at Al Den’s in the Crystal Hotel for a three-shows-per-week run, beginning Oct. 4. The show is also expanding online, with each installment shot as a multi-camera television show. How Ed-citing! TBA TBC: In addition to previews on pages 49 and 55, Willamette Week’s coverage of PICA’s Time-Based Art festival continues online. Follow our arts writers’ TBA diaries at wweek.com/tba2012. 28
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THURSDAY SEPT. 13 HOT CHIP [MUSIC] Hot Chip has gotten better and better at moving people—physically as well as emotionally. With this year’s In Our Heads, the group continues to question how much dance music can mean, while keeping listeners bobbing their heads to the inquiry. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 9 pm. $35.
FRIDAY SEPT. 14 KICKSTARTING THE ARTS WITH XOXO FESTIVAL. It’s easy to make fun of Kickstarter. God knows we do: A project involving vegan cookies delivered by unicycle is a running joke in the WW office. But setting cynicism aside for one page, it’s becoming increasingly clear that Kickstarter—the online crowd-funding platform that has bankrolled almost 30,000 projects in its three-year existence—embodies a profound cultural shift taking place in the relationship between creators and commerce. A utopian idea, perhaps. But these are things happening right now: Hollywood directors and screenwriters are freeing themselves from studios by making fan-funded movies and shows; musicians are bypassing record labels, earning a real living by releasing and promoting their own music through YouTube and Bandcamp; independent video-game developers are shaking up the industry with innovative, boundarypushing titles that receive rave reviews. Maybe we’re on the precipice of something huge or maybe this will just continue to exist on the fringe of late capitalism, but whatever is happening here, it’s worth celebrating. As it happens, the celebration is happening in Portland this weekend. Local bloggerati and former Kickstarter Chief Technology Officer Andy Baio is throwing “disruptive creativity” a party, called XOXO Festival. Baio and Belfast-based organizer of the Build festival Andy McMillan funded the party through, you guessed it, Kickstarter, hitting its $125,000 funding goal within two days. The conference itself—featuring speakers like the CEO of Etsy, the founder of 4chan, Community showrunner Dan Harmon and MythBuster Adam Savage—is already sold out. But there are also a bunch of other free public events: an indie video-game arcade curated by Kickstarter-funded gaming site Venus Patrol; a music show with independent, Internet-famous bands and artists like the Kleptones and Julia Nunes; screenings of crowdfunded films including Indie Game: The Movie and Star Wars Uncut: The Director’s Cut; and a two-day street market with local creators, artists and food. XOXO will also be hooking up with the Mini Maker Faire taking place at OMSI, an offshoot of MAKE magazine’s popular festival of art, craft, engineering and science. Even if it doesn’t change the world, it should be a lot of fun. RUTH BROWN.
STRIP CLUB CRAWL [STRIPPERS] Pub crawls are fun and all, but have you ever found yourself wondering, “Where are all the naked women?” Well, Redhook Brewing has just what you’re looking for: a strip-club crawl on the Brewvana bus. The tour stops at Sassy’s, Acropolis and Club Rouge. Spirit of 77, 500 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. 8 pm. $35. 21+. bit.ly/RedhookStripClubCrawl. DANGEROUS DESIRES: FILM NOIR CLASSICS [MOVIES] The NW Film Center’s two-week retrospective of rare 35 mm film noirs kicks off with 1951’s The Prowler, the story of a crooked cop’s twisted obsession with a lonely housewife, written by the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Ave., 221-1156. 7 pm. $6-$9.
SATURDAY SEPT. 15 BRANDED TO KILL [MOVIES] Wild-man director Seijun Suzuki’s 1967 pop-art noir confused Japanese studio Nikkatsu so much it ended up firing him. The movie still seems exceptionally crazy today. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 493-1128. 9:30 pm. $5-$7.
SUNDAY SEPT. 16 LAURIE ANDERSON [PERFORMANCE] Anderson returns to the Time-Based Art Festival for Dirtday!, the third installment in a trilogy of solo storytelling. Don’t expect the kind of electrifying multimedia concert that vaulted the New York violinist-composer-artist beyond the artsy niche in the 1980s and ’90s. Anderson instead offers low-key, trenchant to ironic to wry musings on life, politics, history, Darwin and even her late canine. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm. $15-$75.
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THE GOURDS [MUSIC] Austin quintet the Gourds is more than a novelty act that did a bluegrass cover of “Gin and Juice”; the damn fine alt-country band remains one of the most overlooked of its rootin’, tootin’ brethren. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 8 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.
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Salty’s on the Columbia hosts a pinot noir tasting with 16 local wineries pouring, plus paired appetizers from the kitchen, like prosciuttowrapped, smoked steelhead lollipops and pinot-braised crimini mushrooms stuffed with lamb and blue cheese. Salty’s on the Columbia, 3839 NE Marine Drive, 505-9986. 6 pm. $35. 21+.
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SUNDAY, SEPT. 16 Savor Southern Oregon
It’s Southern Oregon without all the rednecks. Area wineries will pour their plonk alongside a food court, pairing Portland chefs with Southern Oregon farmers and fishermen. The lineup includes Troy MacLarty of Bollywood Theater with Ashland’s Willow-Witt Ranch; David Padberg, formerly of Park Kitchen, with Port Orford Sustainable Seafood; Tyler Malek of Salt & Straw with Talent’s Rogue Valley Brambles; and Aaron Woo of Natural Selection with Applegate’s Blue Fox Farm. Director Park, 815 SW Park Ave. 2-6 pm. $39 in advance, $50 at the door; $79 in advance for VIPs. 21+.
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We came. We saw. We went wild under the stars in Pioneer Courthouse Square, were nearly driven to tears inside the Old Church, got baptized in beer at Backspace and slipped on vomit in the Holocene bathroom. Some of us even danced. None of us slept much. For five straight days, MusicfestNW kicked our collective ass. And it was awesome. Here are some of the things WW’s music staff saw, heard and experienced:
FROM THE COURTHOUSE TO THE OUTHOUSE: Girl Talk’s toilet-paper cannons unload at Pioneer Square.
WEDNESDAY 6:30 pm @ Instrument (Kickoff party) “Here’s to Musicfest!” I exclaim with a mix of joy and regret as Bob Ham and I knock together plastic cups full of complimentary Heinekens. And we’re off! MATTHEW P. SINGER. 8:48 pm @ Roseland Theater The terribly placed marquee at the Roseland has tonight’s headliner listed as “Hot Shakes.” A great name for a soul/R&B combo. Terrible idea for a dessert treat. ROBERT HAM. 9:25 pm @ Crystal Ballroom A surprising amount of people are dancing to LP. None better than a short, shoeless man in the back, who has created a 10-foot radius around him by awkwardly rubbing his body against anyone who crosses his path. REED JACKSON. 10:18 pm @ Hawthorne Theater Is it wrong of me to have thought Against Me! would sound different, considering the singer formerly known as Tom Gabel is now Laura Jane Grace? The band is still a punk powerhouse, ripping through anthem after anthem with no breaks and turning the Hawthorne into a humid swamp full of crowd-surfing teens with patchy facial hair. MPS.
Four’s Dave Allen is onstage laying into a software engineer from Spotify over how little he makes as an artist from its streaming content. It is both awesome and super awkward. RB. 9:35 pm @ Aladdin Theater The crowd just cheered on a guy who’s wearing a blinking neon green outline of Minnesota on the back of his jacket with the words “Let’s Party” written in sequins below it. He’s a true Trampled by Turtles fan. EMILEE BOOHER. 10:10 pm @ Backspace The crowd for Ceremony finally opens up a bit when the mosh pit starts. I take two steps forward and am immediately doused with other people’s beers being knocked out of their hands by the flying bodies. Punk rock-style baptism. RH. 10:15 pm @ Holocene The bathroom floor is blanketed by vomit. I’m ice-skating on it just to reach the sink. MARK STOCK. 11:15 pm @ Ted’s Berbati’s Pan And Purity Ring said, “Let there be light: light-up electronic drums, a light-up bass drum, light-up decorative wasp’s-nest-looking things.” Looks like a quaint nighttime garden party up there. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG.
10:37 pm @ Crystal Ballroom Passion Pit have a packed house taking full advantage of the Crystal Ballroom’s bouncing floor. I’ve made a lot of jokes about Passion Pit over the last several years, but I’m ready to take a break from that. ARYA IMIG.
11:17 pm @ Branx Omar Souleyman isn’t a dynamic performer. But I get caught up in the rapid-fire beats and trills of his keyboardist, and the joy of the folks surrounding me. I clap along heartily and find myself dancing joyously. RH.
11:20 pm @ Roseland Theater Ever wonder why the Stooges’ reunion album was such a pile of shit? All the puckish punk energy available in the universe got sopped up by the men of Hot Snakes. They are tearing through their set with barely a second between each song. RH.
11:20 pm @ Star Theater Brooklyn’s the Men are absolutely destroying this place right now with buzz-sawing, big-hearted throwback punk. The band is nothing but a blur of hair and flailing limbs onstage. And it’s loud in here! Gloriously, miraculously loud! MPS.
11:45 pm @ Roseland Theater A spectacular piece of crowd surfing. The guy leapt—flew— 2½ meters from the top of the crowd to the stage, sprinted through the band, and jumped straight back in. Security looked awestruck. RUTH BROWN.
THURSDAY 3:40 pm @ Leftbank Annex Meanwhile, at Portland Digital eXperience: Gang of
12:20 @ Wonder Ballroom Flying Lotus is smoking joints with the audience and asking people what they want him to play. If it weren’t for the elaborate stage setup, this would seem more like a huge house party than a concert. RJ.
FRIDAY 8:15 pm @ Pioneer Courthouse Square This year solidified it: Pioneer Courthouse Square is made for music. Beirut sounds rich. Seeing the MAX go by while
onlookers from Departure clap makes me feel nostalgic, and I’m not sure why. MS. 9:05 pm @ Roseland Theater What’s not to say about Danny Brown’s appearance? He’s got a haircut that resembles Donald Trump’s comb-over after a ride in a convertible and less teeth than my 2-yearold nephew. RJ. 10:15 pm @ Old Church I’ve only ever cried at one show, but Mirrorring, the duo of Liz Harris (Grouper) and Jesy Fortino (Tiny Vipers), have me near tears. The music is so simple—Harris and Fortino laying ghostly vocals and delicate guitar lines over a bed of prerecorded ambient noise tracks—but so affecting. I know I’m not alone in my stunned awe as no one else can bring themselves to applaud between songs. RH. 10:35 pm @ Roseland Theater The crowd is going absolutely berserk for Yelawolf. Tattoo-covered girls wearing booty shorts seem to be one of his main demographics. RJ. 11:29 pm @ Branx The air in here is roughly the consistency of a milkshake. I have gone running in the middle of the dry season in Thailand, and this is worse. Future Islands is great, though. RB. 12:20 am @ Bunk Bar Talkdemonic sounds rich through the windows, and it has the added support of a huge, shroomed-out guy chanting what sounds like Army shouts and throwing things at the bouncer. NORA EILEEN JONES. 12:40 am @ Dante’s It takes 10 minutes for Fucked Up’s frontman to strip down to his tighty-whities (well, saggy grays). I like a man who prioritizes comfort over fashion, but I think he would really benefit from something sweat-wicking and better fitting. RB.
SATURDAY 12:05 pm @ Doug Fir Lounge (KEXP session) I didn’t attend any MFNW on Friday so I would be wellrested and awake early enough to see Dinosaur Jr. at noon in a small club. The legendary trio had no set list and welcomed shouted-out requests from the audience. AI. CONT. on page 37 Willamette Week SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 wweek.com
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DANTE’S COMES TO LIFE: Fucked Up rages on West Burnside.
8:45 pm @ Pioneer Courthouse Square The Pioneer Courthouse Square shows have leaned understandably toward mellower fare in past years, but Girl Talk’s ability to instigate mayhem on a grand scale argues for a reversal of this policy. I’d feel pretty well-served if I paid the price of admission and was only able to see his light show and toilet-paper cannons, to say nothing of the courtyard-spanning dance party that sets everyone from pinnacle to pit into motion. SHANE DANAHER. 9:37 pm @ Hawthorne Theater Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu is screaming about abortions while clawing at an autoharp and theremin simultaneously. A guy in the balcony yells, “It’ll be OK!” MPS. 10:10 pm @ Doug Fir Lounge Kishi Bashi sports a suit and a coiffure as feathery as the actual feather in his jacket buttonhole. Dude’s got violin skills. Bashi is neither the headliner nor even the opener to the headliner, but Doug Fir is packed, and when he steps back from the mic, you can hear the crowd singing the words. JF. 10:58 pm @ Hawthorne Theater Swans start tearing into the title track from its new album, The Seer. Nearly 40 minutes later, the band will end the song, riding waves of shuddering volume and dynamics, and enveloping tribal rhythms. For Swans, it looks like another sweaty day at the office; for everyone in the audience, it’s a religious experience. RH. 11:50 pm @ Branx Rather than the booty-shaking contests or the rapid-fire onslaught of club bangers, the best part of Big Freedia’s set winds up being the string of hard-assed a cappella verses she delivers by way of a closer. SD. 12:30 am @ Doug Fir Lounge Moonface is finally on, and Spencer Krug just announced that Doug Fir is concerned about time and the band is going to “muscle through” its set. Boo, Grandpa Doug Fir! NEJ. 12:30 am @ Dante’s I haven’t seen any band having more fun onstage at this festival than Redd Kross. Jeff McDonald just has this giant goofy grin on his face the whole time, playing songs he wrote like two decades ago. I think this is my favorite show—just a bunch of weirdos on stage and in the crowd getting crazy. RB.
SUNDAY 7 pm @ Pioneer Courthouse Square School of Seven Bells looks way more like rock stars/art-gallery personnel than anyone else at MFNW. MARTIN CIZMAR. 8 pm @ Rontoms I have no interest in Silversun Pickups, so I’m closing out MFNW with Marmoset Music’s free, all-day showcase of local bands on the back patio at Rontoms. Although at this point of the weekend, the slow, gentle harmonizing of Pearly Gate Music is not what I want or need. I’m taking my burger home. Fare thee well, MFNW 2012! MPS. READ MORE: See the complete MFNW diaries and more photos at wweek.com. Willamette Week SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 wweek.com
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FRIDAY, SEPT. 14 Buckethead, Samples
[SHREDDING] Sometimes it takes decades to suss out the legitimate weirdos from the imitators, and after 24 years of observing the exploits of Buckethead, I think it’s safe to say this dude is the genuine article. A metal-guitar virtuoso who performs in a Michael Myers mask and a KFC bucket worn as a hat, Buckethead has not only earned himself a place among the present day’s finest shredders, but he has also proven himself loopy enough to be ejected from Guns N’ Roses for his “inconsistent and erratic” behavior. And it’s not like the man is suffering a midcareer slump, either. Buckethead has released 15 albums in the past four years, of which this month’s The Shores of Molokai is the latest. SHANE DANAHER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. All ages.
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LONESOME COWBOY: Dwight Yoakam plays the Crystal Ballroom on Wednesday, Sept. 12.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 12 Dwight Yoakam, Jake Ray
[CLASSIC COUNTRY] Even in the BG (Before Garth) era, Dwight Yoakam was a throwback country star. More interested in capturing the perfect twang and writing classic songs of heartbreak than exploiting his Southern drawl or touting a red-state agenda, Yoakam cut his teeth in the Los Angeles bar scene, giving his music a particularly cool West Coast sound. Though the hits don’t flow like they used to, and Yoakam’s marquee studio sound was diluted when he split with longtime collaborator Pete Anderson in 2004, he’s spent the last decade growing bolder and braver. Next week sees the release of 3 Pears—Yoakam’s first proper studio album in seven years—which mixes classic-sounding originals and covers. CASEY JARMAN. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 9 pm. $55. 21+.
Animal Eyes, Fanno Creek, Pigeons, DJ Hunnyprawnz
[WORLDLY INDIE] It’s easy to pour faith into small-town bands born from childhood friendships. These relationships are not only more likely to withstand the hardships of a group’s infant years, but they also give the band members space to grow together during some of the most influential years of musical wanderings. Animal Eyes, an energetic collaboration of five Portland transplants originally from Homer, Alaska, derives from said history. Though young and very much in the DIY phase of development, the music sounds the product of a longer exploration of genres, particularly evident through worldly electric guitar sprawls and deft drum rhythms. Animal Eyes and tourmates Fanno Creek celebrate dual record releases tonight—Animal Eyes unleashes a new EP and Fanno Creek an album of live recordings— and kick off a West Coast tour. EMILEE BOOHER. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $3. 21+.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 13 Hot Chip, YACHT
[TRANSCENDENT ELECTROPOP] Hot Chip has gotten better and better at moving people— physically as well as emotionally. In the eight years since releasing its first studio record, the
London quintet has evolved from a twee electro-pop group to a full-blown dance act, even as its songs have become more substantive and affecting. With this year’s In Our Heads, the group’s fifth album, Hot Chip continues to question how much dance music can mean, while keeping listeners bobbing their heads to the inquiry. Opening, appropriately, is another pop-expanding act, the “band, belief system and business” known as YACHT. “Why not consider the mantra as a kind of cosmic pop music?” exPortlanders Jona Bechtolt and Claire Evans suggest on YACHT’s must-visit website. Indeed, why not the inverse? JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 9 pm. $35 advance, $35 day of show. All ages.
The Fresh and Onlys, Grass Widow, Terry Malts
[BAY-AREA BLASTS] The evershifting universe of power pop and pop punk has again located its epicenter in the Bay Area, with album upon album of fuzzy, jangly and catchy brilliance firing out of that urban center like a sparkler. Take this all-San Franciscan bill as a prime example. All three acts—the impish, neurotic lashings of Terry Malts, the all-female post-punk of Grass Widow, and the heart-on-sleeve jangle of the Fresh and Onlys—have absorbed many of the same influences but apply them to their art in unique, energetic and pleasure-filled ways. ROBERT HAM. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12.
Fever Dreams, Globe and Beast
[HARDCORE] Fever Dreams and tourmates Globe and Beast specialize in the metal-inflected strain of hardcore that Southern Lord Records has been pushing of late. While neither band belongs to that label’s vaunted roster, both deserve a place in the same breath that might sing the praises of Heartless, Nails, Enabler, et al. You know the drill: Integrity’s sinister aggression mates with His Hero Is Gone’s powerviolence dirges to give birth to goosebumps on necks about to break from very thoughtful headbanging. Which is all well and good until someone gets hurt—at which point it gets way better. CHRIS STAMM. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. Call club for ticket information. 21+.
[CLASSIC GUITAR POP] If someone snuck a few antidepressants into Real Estate’s languid jangle, it might sound something like Brooklyn’s Nude Beach. Although the band emerged from the gutters of its home borough’s antagonistic punk scene, considering the classic sound of its debut full-length, II, the group probably didn’t get along too well with its iconoclastic peers. These dudes clearly love some ’70s rock radio: “Walkin’ Down the Street” is like a young, drunk Bruce Springsteen covering Big Star, and “Keep It Cool” and “Love Can’t Wait” are so indebted to Tom Petty they might qualify as rip-offs if they weren’t so goddamn perfect. Maybe it’s all a bit derivative, but with the youthful warmth the entire record gives off, who cares? MATTHEW SINGER. Slabtown, 1033 NW 16th Ave., 223-0099. 9 pm. Call venue for ticket information. 21+.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 15 Nurses, Aan, Hookers, DJ JD Samson
[MAGICAL RHYTHMS] Presented by local upstart magazine Eleven to celebrate the launch of its new issue, Nurses take the stage of Mississippi Studios to perform live for the first time in months. With an assortment of keyboards, guitars and bass on hand, Nurses re-create the group’s textured pop tunes to an enthralling effect in concert. Expect frontman Aaron Chapman, co-leader John Bowers and drummer James Mitchell to unleash a parade of charming melodies alongside vocals and rhythms that are a mix of haunting, magical whimsy. Hopefully, the trio will air new material created during its hibernation. NILINA MASONCAMPBELL. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $11. 21+.
Anthrax, Testament, Death Angel
[METAL ICONS] In the days when I saw heavy metal as a lesser genre, I always had a begrudging respect for thrash titans Anthrax. The band didn’t seem to take itself too seriously and was gutsy enough to admit a huge love for hip-hop. Now that I’ve accepted metal into my heart, this legendary New York group has become one of my favorites, especially in the wake of 2011’s Worship Music. The album welcomed singer Joey Belladonna back into the fold, and exhibits a more mature attitude that warms my nearly 40-year-old heart as I pump my fist along with every note. ROBERT HAM. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 7:30 pm. $25 advance, $28 day of show. All ages.
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You may not have heard of Asher Fulero, but odds are you’ve heard him play.
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GRANDMASTER SLAM: Saul Williams plays Doug Fir Lounge on Tuesday, Sept. 18.
Time-Based Art Festival: Claudia Meza, Daniel Menche, Luke Wyland (of AU), Matt Carlson, Mary Sutton, Eric Mast, Holland Andrews, Thomas Thorson
[PLAYING WITH SPACE] This TimeBased Art festival event is the culmination of a weeklong project conceived by Claudia Meza, in which 30 Portland composers and sound artists picked their favorite sound spots—the natural echo chamber formed under a bridge when cars pass over it, for example—to create a 10-day audio tour of what they consider the city’s most compelling, naturally occurring soundscapes. On Saturday, several of those musicians will convene for a live outdoor performance based on those sounds and spaces. BRETT CAMPBELL. Southeast Water Avenue and Morrison Street. 9 pm. All ages.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 16 Time-Based Art Festival: Laurie Anderson
[ENHANCED MONOLOGUE] The queen of performance art returns to the Time-Based Art Festival for Dirtday!, the third and final installment of her trilogy of solo storytelling works. Don’t expect the kind of electrifying multimedia concert that vaulted the New York violinist-storyteller-composer-artist to levels of fame beyond the niche of the artsy in crowd in the 1980s and ’90s. Anderson instead offers low-key, trenchant to ironic to wry musings on life, politics, history, Darwin and even her late canine, accompanied by atmospheric incidental electronic music and delivered in her trademark warm, soothing, occasionally arch voice and that of her alter ego, Fenway Bergamot. BRETT CAMPBELL. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm. $15-$75. All ages.
Sundaze, Jatun, The Appendixes
[INDIAN SUMMER] Sundaze chose its name wisely. The warmth of the Portland trio’s recently released EP, Snow Falling—one inspired by shoestring-staring pop groups like Slowdive and Chapterhouse— provides a great core, while the knotty guitar lines and somnolent vocals of June Kang fill the surrounding air like thick, dizzying incense smoke. Opening act Scott Worley, on the other hand, uses a mysterious moniker that runs counter to the rather open and expansive quality of his waves of shimmering ambience and occasional discordance. We can only hope the other band on the bill doesn’t prove to be as unnecessary as its chosen handle: the Appendixes. ROBERT HAM. Valentine’s, 232 SW Ankeny St., 248-1600. 9 pm. $3. 21+.
MONDAY, SEPT. 17 The Jealous Sound, Daytrader
[JIMMY EAT WORLD MUSIC] Back
when the keening angst of a peculiarly entitled and dispossessed generation swamped post-millennial Los Angeles in guyliner and lyrical free-writes, nobody imagined emo would age gracefully. Of all the troupes to emerge during that first outpouring, precious few critics bothered to look beyond the skinny jeans and prefab pop-punk backdrops, but on the heels of a critically adored 2003 debut, the Jealous Sound might have been odds-on favorites to keep recording songs of interest a decade later. A Gentle Reminder, their just-released follow-up, certainly won’t embarrass former fans—for better or worse, it’s like the past nine years never happened—but it seems hard to believe they’ll find the emotive immediacy quite so urgent this go-round. JAY HORTON. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
The Gourds, James McMurtry
[NEWGRASS] Chill out, dude. Yes, they’re almost certainly going to play the bluegrass cover of “Gin and Juice” you heard over the bubbling noise your bong made in college, so just shut up for a minute. Austin quintet the Gourds is more than a novelty act, and if you can hear beyond the frat dudes who still long for the Napster days, you’ll hear a damn fine alt-country band that, over the course of 16 years and nine albums, remains one of the most overlooked of its rootin’, tootin’ brethren. It’s stomp-along country at its basest, a group unfortunately associated with douchiness that will absolutely change perceptions for those who look beyond the accidental shtick. AP KRYZA. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 8 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 18 Saul Williams
[AVANT HIP-HOP] He might be the world’s most famous slam poet, but Saul Williams is more than just the face of a niche art form: It’s hard to find a performer, in any medium, who possesses the same level of intensity. Already a cult phenomenon, Williams left the coffee-house circuit with 2001’s Amethyst Rock Star, a powerfully unique if overwhelming album setting his fiery spokenword rants against an aggressive mix of electro punk, drum ’n’ bass and avant hip-hop. He refined his approach with 2007’s The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust, finding the perfect collaborator in Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor. Last year’s Volcanic Sunlight found Williams’ everexpanding palette, ranting over production incorporating everything from disco and garage rock to dubstep. At this point, though, the guy is a genre unto himself. MATTHEW SINGER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 8 pm. $15, $13 for students with valid ID. 21+.
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Acoustic Minds consists of Portland natives and identical twins Jenni and Amanda Price, Aaron Altemose on two phantom Roland keyboards, Josh Lorenzen on bass/key bass (KORG) and Josh Burns on the drums. Together they blend the perfect mix of drum ‘n’ bass, dubstep and down tempo music. Acoustic Minds is now set to release their highly anticipated new album, ‘Electric Sol.’
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MIKE COYKENDALL TUESDAY 9/18 @ 6 PM
Portland-based songwriter, performer and producer Mike Coykendall’s new record ‘Chasing Away The Dots’ is the latest in a long and winding musical journey that has taken him from the rural farmlands of Kansas to television and concert stages around the world. If integrity, experience and artistry still count for anything, this record will be his most well received to date.
BEN TAYLOR WEDNESDAY 9/19 @ 5 PM
Benjamin Taylor is the son of folk rock artists James Taylor and Carly Simon. He bears a striking resemblance to his famous father and has a singing voice akin to him as well. Ben’s new album ‘Listening’ seamlessly merges the sounds and styles of folk, pop, soul, urban, reggae and country/ western, running the gamut from sonically spacious acoustic numbers to multi-layered vocals and fresh beats.
VICCI MARTINEZ WEDNESDAY 9/19 @ 6 PM Though only 27, Vicci Martinez writes, sings and plays guitar with the touch of a veteran performer. When leading her accomplished, intuitive band (guitarist Rod Cook, drummer Darin Watkins, bassist Jeff Leonard and keyboard player Eric Robert), she turns her concerts into full-on events, taking her fans on thrilling journeys of emotional peaks and musical adventures.
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[GIVE THE SIDEMAN SOME] The latest solo effort by Mike Coykendall is probably going to be the one that finally gets this erstwhile backup musician some long overdue attention. Unfortunately, that notice will probably come as a result of the marquee names that contributed to the album, including both members of She & Him, M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel; Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard; and Eric Earley of Blitzen Trapper. But once the rubberneckers get past the obvious hooks, chances are they’ll tap right into Coykendall’s playful and sincere take on the last 50 years of pop-music history. Because goodness knows it is hard not to be charmed by Chasing Away the Dots. The album has a comfortable, lived-in feel, the perfect match for Coykendall’s unburnished vocals. Ambling cuts like “Mumbo Jumbo” and lead single “The Hippie Girl” (featuring sweet background singing by Deschanel) sound like they were tossed together in an hour fueled by a couple of beers and a joint. Quieter moments—“Mr. Fly” and the spectacular album closer “They’re Gone”—feel closer to musings captured in the wee hours, committed to tape before inspiration wanes. The most surprising element of Chasing is how well it flows considering Coykendall recorded a double-album’s worth of material and had to pare it down (if you buy a vinyl copy, you’ll get the additional 11 tracks in a digital download). While it will be interesting to hear how it would come across in an expanded form, the album as it stands is a tidy little diamond in the rough, ripe for discovery by the world at large. ROBERT HAM.
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[PUNK METAL] A name like Gaytheist is meant to antagonize, and on Stealth Beats, the new full-length from this pulverizing trio, that is precisely what the band does. Armed with a rumbling low end, spasming drums, concrete slabs of guitar and darkly hysterical lyrics expressing a general disdain for humanity, the group has actually been cattleprodding the underbelly of the local music scene for over a decade now. But this record, Gaytheist’s third, is the one that could make the rest take notice. Taking the sarcastic sneer of Mclusky and the tightly coiled menace of Jesus Lizard and hot-wiring it to Lightning Bolt’s metallic seizures, the album registers as a sledgehammer to Portland’s sometimes all-toopolite society. Don’t worry, though. You can still hum along to a lot of it. Indeed, the thing that makes Stealth Beats so deadly is its melodicism. Even on the album’s all-out bruisers, such as cannon-blast opener “Stampede of Savings” and the frenetic, blastbeat intensive “Talk Doctor,” there is a tunefulness hiding under the squalls of noise. Other times, such as on the slow-swaying “Hand Holder,” the band edges toward something resembling pop—despite it being a song calling for the erasure of the human race. Occasionally the record swings too far in that direction, such as on “Can’t Go to Mecca,” which recalls At the Drive-In’s overwrought early years. Regardless of what he’s singing over, singer-guitarist Jason Rivera never quite loses his sense of sarcasm. He rarely screams, preferring a snide quaver pitched between Jello Biafra and Future of the Left’s Andy Falkous. It isn’t until “Condemn the Condemners,” Stealth Beats’ wrecking-ball finale, that Rivera really rips his throat open. Turns out, he’s got a lovely larynx. He should let it bleed more often. MATTHEW SINGER. SEE IT: Mike Coykendall plays Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., on Saturday, Sept. 15. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+. Gaytheist plays the Kenton Club, 2025 N Kilpatrick St., on Friday, Sept. 14. 9 pm. Free. 21+. Willamette Week SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 wweek.com
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Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Dan McCoy
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Acoustic Minds
Original Halibut’s II
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2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb
Peter’s Room 8 NW 6th Ave. Aaron Watson
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Street Metal, Witch Velvet, Old Hand, Super Desu, Swiss Army Jeff, Erik Anarchy
Savoy Tavern & Lounge 2500 SE Clinton St. De La Warr
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Sentimental Gentlemen (9 pm); Lone Madrone (6 pm)
Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. Anna-Lisa, Trinium Project
Someday Lounge
SO FRESH, SO ONLY: The Fresh and Onlys play Mississippi Studios on Thursday, Sept. 13.
WED. SEPT. 12 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Tango Alpha Tango
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. SONiA, Eric Skye
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Jason Okamoto
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway Crosby, Stills and Nash
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Alligator vs. Crocodile, Country Trash, Sleepy Creek, Good Wolf
Hunter Paye, John Elliott, Honig, Gillian Grassie (9 pm); The Barbeque Orchestra (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Bright Light Social Hour, Future Historians
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Culprit, Backpocket Memory, Animal R&R, Leeris Perth, Jet Force Gemini
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Stumbleweed
Palace of Industry
5426 N Gay Ave. Flat Rock String Band
Red and Black Cafe
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320 SE 2nd Ave. Rose Funeral, Only Zuul, Southgate, How the West Was Won, Fear the Slaughter
400 SE 12th Ave. Tooth Soup, Shitty Weekend, Living Rheum, Cottontail, Dani Kordani
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The Blue Diamond
1332 W Burnside St. Dwight Yoakam, Jake Ray
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Brianne Kathleen, JOHNA, Naomi Hooley
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Oreganic, Zindu, Omiza River
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Static-X, Winds of Plague, The Browning, Davey Suicide, Amerakin Overdose
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Animal Eyes, Fanno Creek, Pigeons, DJ Hunnyprawnz
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. 3DK & One
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Adam Brock, Karyn Partridge, Brandon McCarron
LaurelThirst 2958 NE Glisan St.
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Nancy King
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Marisa Anderson, Neal Morgan
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Melissa Buchanan
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. World’s Finest
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Band with Michalangela
THURS. SEPT. 13 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Tango Alpha Tango
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Matt the Electrician, John Elliott
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Greg Wolfe Trio
Artichoke Community Music
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project Blues Jam
3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Succotash
The Know
Ash Street Saloon
2026 NE Alberta St. Nux Vomica, Spectral Tombs, Adelitas, DJ Toilet Tooth
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Blessure Grave
The Works at Washington High School
225 SW Ash St. Erotic City (Prince tribute), Heartworm (Heart tribute) (music performance and literary reading)
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Bear & Moose
Biddy McGraw’s
531 SE 14th Ave. Time-Based Art Festival: Parenthetical Girls (10:30 pm); Yo La Tengo (live documentary scoring, 8 pm and 6:30 pm)
6000 NE Glisan St. Vanport Drifters Jam
Thorne Lounge
Camellia Lounge
4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Amy Bleu
Tillicum Club
8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Chad Rupp
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Mike Winkle
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St.
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Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. John “JB” Butler & Al Craido 510 NW 11th Ave. Joe Manis Trio
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Mesi & Bradley
Corkscrew Wine Bar 1669 SE Bybee Blvd. Frank Tribble
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. Hot Chip, YACHT
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Adventure Galley, Minden, Shy Girls
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Barnyard Stompers, Blast-O-Casters (late show); Tough Woodpyle (early show)
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. Stefan Andrews
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. House of Light, Tender Age, Appendixes
Gemini Lounge
6526 SE Foster Road James McDermott
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Nix, Device Grips, Boomer
125 NW 5th Ave. Wild Bells, Rick Bain & the Genius Position, Little Beirut
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Sam Densmore
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Delaney & Paris, Whorehound, Di Di Mau, Foreign Orange, Bennyrox
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones Jam
The Eastside Taproom 1618 NE 122nd Ave. Desideratum
The Firkin Tavern
1937 SE 11th Ave. Deaed Language, Strife, Northern Draw, Rey Holliday
The Know
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
2026 NE Alberta St. Fever Dreams, Globe and Beast
Jade Lounge
The Works at Washington High School
1435 NW Flanders St. Frontline 2346 SE Ankeny St. Brian McGinty
Jimmy Mak’s
531 SE 14th Ave. Time-Based Art Festival: Alexis Blair Penney
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown B3 Organ Group
Tiger Bar
Kelly’s Olympian
Tonic Lounge
426 SW Washington St. Rare Monk, Smiley Get Dressed, Mufasa
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Scree, Dracula And Friends
LV’s Sports Bar
3530 N Vancouver Ave. Chance Hayden
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Sleeper Smiles (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Egg Plant, S.S. Curmudgeon (9 pm); Mo Phillips with Jason & Johnny (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Fresh and Onlys, Grass Widow, Terry Malts
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell 3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Coastlands
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Cabaret Chanteuse
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Jim’s Gypsy Jazz Jam
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Hivemind (8:30 pm); Brothers of the Hound (5:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar
800 NW 6th Ave. Ellen, Jean and Gene Trio
Andina
LV’s Sports Bar
Thorne Lounge
Ash Street Saloon
Laughing Horse Books
Tonic Lounge
Backspace
LaurelThirst
Tony Starlight’s
Biddy McGraw’s
Mississippi Pizza
1314 NW Glisan St. Sambafeat Quartet 225 SW Ash St. The Vibrators, Boats!, Blue Skies for Black Hearts, The Cry 115 NW 5th Ave. Dancing Hats, Eidolons, Kelsey Morris, Midnight Kitchen 6000 NE Glisan St. Mexican Gunfight (9:30 pm); Lynn Conover (6 pm)
Bipartisan Cafe 7901 SE Stark St. Whiskey Puppy
Branx
3530 N Vancouver Ave. Ben Jones 12 NE 10th Ave. Kevin Hufnagel, Reptilian Shape Shifters, Bearcubbin 2958 NE Glisan St. Garcia Birthday Band (9:30 pm); Woodbrain (6 pm) 3552 N Mississippi Ave. Underscore Orkestra (9 pm); Jeff Jordan, Josh Shepski (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Juno What?!, Netherfriends
320 SE 2nd Ave. Bury Your Horses, Virtues, The Dead Sea Vents, Hands for Battle, Censure
Mount Tabor Theater
Brasserie Montmartre
Muddy Rudder Public House
626 SW Park Ave. Djangophiles
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. White Water Ramble, Twisted Whistle
Buffalo Gap Saloon
8105 SE 7th Ave. The Sportin’ Lifers Trio
Bunk Bar
3158 E Burnside St. Helio Sequence
6835 SW Macadam Ave. The Sale
Music Millennium
1028 SE Water Ave. Broncho, Bad Weather California, Lovely Bad Things, Jaret Ferratusco
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe
Camellia Lounge
6535 SE Foster Road Muddy River Nightmare Band, The Fuckin’ Fucks, Kittenhead, Charlie Don’t Surf
510 NW 11th Ave. Chris Riffle and Jimi Zhivago
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Norman Sylvester
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. Buckethead, Samples
4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music
O’Malley’s
Oregon Zoo
4001 SW Canyon Road Chicago
Original Halibut’s II
Dante’s
2527 NE Alberta St. Ellen Whyte
Doug Fir Lounge
2314 SE Division St. Forest Bloodgood
350 W Burnside St. Steel Horse (Bon Jovi tribute) 830 E Burnside St. Angus Stone, Tumbleweed Wanderers
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. The Lonesomes, Jawbone Flats (late show); The Hamdogs (early show)
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. Closely Watched Trains
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Jr. B Fresh, Liquid Anthraxxx, Prince R.O.B, Tre Mac, Iron Fist
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Left Spine Down, The Gentry, Adrian H & the Wounds
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. C-Money, The Sindicate
Island Mana Wines 526 SW Yamhill St. Joe Marquand
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. The Sean & Fred Show
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Boog, Anna Spackman (8 pm); Father’s Pocket Watch (6 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Trixie & the Nasties (Hall & Oates tribute)
Katie O’Briens
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Scnd Best, Benson Jones, Three Round Burst, Dwight Dickinson
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Excruciator, Blood of Kings, Revolution Overdue, Gladius
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Hooded Hags, Western Hymn
Red Room
4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Houswife, Whim 3100 NE Sandy Blvd. When the Broken Bow, I Am the Lake of Fire, Fur Coats 3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Shanghai Woolies
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. John Stowell
Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Sultans of Slide
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Pheasant (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Greta Matassa Quartet
SAT. SEPT. 15 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Tango Alpha Tango
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Wanderlust Circus Orchestra, Page of Cups
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Rum Rebellion, Pirate Radio, Manoverboard, Thorntown Tallboys, Dirty Kid Discount
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Mournful Congregation, Velnias, Hail, Anhedonist
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Volifonix (9:30 pm); The Barkers (6 pm)
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Ritual Healing, Foal, Tanagra, Terraclipse, Dead Sea Vents
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Martin Zarzar
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Holgate, The Kilowatt Hour, Boston T. Rex, Ghost Town Waltz
Bunk Bar
Secret Society Lounge
Camellia Lounge
116 NE Russell St. The Clambake Combo (9 pm); Pete Krebs and His Portland Playboys (6 pm)
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Nude Beach, Divers
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
8635 N Lombard St. Objects in Space, Donkey the Lion, Charming Birds
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Hannah Glavor, Josh Hoke, Annie Bethancourt, Wesley Randolph Eader Jr.
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Drop Dead Red
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Worth, Just People, Ruby Pines, Barisone
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Stephens Freak Flag Fly
The Blue Monk
1028 SE Water Ave. Scott Kelly (of Neurosis), Jason Traeger 510 NW 11th Ave. Hurqalya
Club 21
2035 NE Glisan St. A Happy Death, Black Pussy, The Autonomics
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Elite
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Mike Coykendall, 1939 Ensemble
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. DK Stewart with the Soul Survivor Horns
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Xinr, Danava
Ella Street Social Club
714 SW 20th Place The Sorry Devils, Stephen Fisk, Nordic Forts
Foggy Notion
3416 N Lombard St. Dinosaur Heart, RLLRBLL, Child Children
Gemini Lounge
Kelly’s Olympian
3341 SE Belmont St. Mike Damron, Jeremy Wilson
303 SW 12th Ave. Tango Alpha Tango
426 SW Washington St. The Winebirds, Damn Divas, Mercy Graves
2845 SE Stark St. Earphunk, The Waydowns
Alberta Rose Theatre
Kenton Club
2026 NE Alberta St. Bison Bison, Crag Dweller, Fellwoods
The Lovecraft
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Rehab, Moonshine Bandits, The Rodeo Clowns
FRI. SEPT. 14 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
3000 NE Alberta St. Keystone Revisited, Tony Saunders, Miriam’s Well
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Gaytheist, Minoton, Cougar
The Know
421 SE Grand Ave. DJ BoyThinG
6526 SE Foster Road Rebel Radio
Goodfoot Lounge
Hawthorne Theatre
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Time-Based Art Festival: Laurie Anderson
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Kongos, Find Your Smile
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Felim Egan
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. The Aggrolites, The Disliked
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Flobots, Astranautalis, Forrest Day
Jade Lounge
OPENING ACT: Just a stone’s throw from Wonder Ballroom, Tavin’s Pub (102 NE Russell St., 719-4890, tavinspub.com) is your classic pre-game bar. The interior is clean. TV sets, including a big projector, are split between ESPN and a Seattle Mariners game. A nice set of taps graces the bar, though—oddly— Eugene handles outnumber ones from Portland. People are the only thing missing. “It usually depends on what’s going on at the Ballroom,” a server admits. This Friday must be unbooked. Half the people here—meaning five—ramble on about working at one of the restaurants that occupied this spot in recent years. Just as the drunklings’ stories begin to get interesting, it’s closing time. That’s 11 pm. No, Tavin’s is not a post-show hangout. Check back at breakfast, starting at 8 am, when you’ve got a hangover from a long night at a more interesting place. JOHN LOCANTHI.
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
Terry Robb, Lauren Sheehan
1435 NW Flanders St. The Cheryl Hodge Quartet featuring John Stowell
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe
Jade Lounge
2527 NE Alberta St. Jim Wallace
2346 SE Ankeny St. Sus Quartet (8 pm); The Just Reverie & Logan Ulavale (6 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Michael Allen Harrison
Katie O’Briens
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. My Fellow Traveler, Marie Black & the Love, Anchors of Ascension
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Hot Bodies in Motion, Common Dear, Dearborn
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Gnash, Inferno of Joy, Bitch School
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Will West & the Friendly Strangers, The Druthers (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)
Lion’s Eye Tavern
5919 SE 82nd Ave. Hey Lover, Pataha Hiss, The Bugs
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Joni Mitchell Tribute: Rachael Rice, Mel Kubik, Rebecca Sanborn, Belinda Underwood, Alexa Wiley, Karyn Ann Patridge, Renee Marquiz, Laren Harkness, Natalie Burgess, Annie Vergnetti, Miriam German, Amaya Villazan, Wynter Byrnes, Janet Julian, Dan Haley, and Christian Groth (9 pm); Fradreck and Sam Mujuru (6 pm); Toy Trains (4 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Nurses, Aan, Hookers, DJ JD Samson (of Men)
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave.
4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music
Original Halibut’s II
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Almost Is Nothing, Jean Grey, Dusk’s Embrace
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Abash’t, Disenchanter, Sabatuer
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Anthrax, Testament, Death Angel
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Nick Peets, Amanda Breese, Thom Lyons (9 pm); Everything’s Jake (6 pm)
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Felecia and the Dinosaur
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
8635 N Lombard St. Silverhawk, Sam Wegman & the Upper Lower Class
Southeast Water Avenue and Southeast Morrison Street
Time-Based Art Festival: Claudia Meza, Daniel Menche, Luke Wyland, Matt Carlson, Mary Sutton, Eric Mast, Holland Andrews, Thomas Thorson
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Cool Breeze
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Bottleneck Blues Band
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Ukeladies
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Boors, Turbo Perfecto, Two Hands
The Vern
2622 SE Belmont St
Muddy River Nightmare Band, Barbarian Riot Squad, Therapists, Youth Bitch
Thorne Lounge
4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Delaney & Paris
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Nemesis, Bloodoath, On Enemy Soil
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Favela Walls
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Tony Starlight Show
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Peter Boe Duo
Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Acoustic Minds
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Jam-O-Rama: The Rising Sons, The Wayds, Whiskey Hill, The McFadden Project, Redline, The Stags, The Executives, DC Malone and the Jones, Loose Change
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Jean Ronne Trio
SUN. SEPT. 16 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Star Anna, Angels and Anvils
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. SearchingforSanity, Mark Hatting, Le Printemps, The Greencarts, Stark Heroes, Jen Ambrose, Ozymandias
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway
2346 SE Ankeny St. Alexa Wiley, Gary Furlow, Michael Henchman, Carl Solomon, Sean Nowland
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Floorboards, Negative Zen, The Dungeon Brothers
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Dan Haley and Tim Acott (9:30 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Jami Lynn
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. 1939 Ensemble (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 50th anniversary, 7:30 pm); School of Rock (Black Keys and White Stripes tribute, 2 pm)
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music
NEPO 42
5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic
PCPA Music on Main Street
Southwest Main Street and Southwest Broadway Portland Taiko, Festival Brass (PCPA 25th Anniversary)
Pioneer Courthouse Square 701 SW 6th Ave. Portland Gay Men’s Chorus, Portland Gay Symphonic Band, Soromundi
Rontoms
600 E Burnside St. Monarques, New Move
Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave. Atmosphere, I Self Devine, Carnage
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. The Mad Caps, Wormbag, Gutters, Magic and the T-Cells, Jordan and His Broken Heart-Ons
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. The Tomorrow People, Patti King, Just Lions
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. The Angel Bouchet Band Jam
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. The Quadraphonnes
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Pauses, Havania Whaal
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Sundaze, Jatun, The Appendixes
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Sam Eliad
MON. SEPT. 17 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Star Anna, Kasey Anderson
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Faithless Saints, News from the Front, Heart Full of Snakes
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. The Jealous Sound, Daytrader
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Glassbones, Aina Haina, Blood Owl
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Susie & the Sidecars
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Hot Apostles, Pheasant, Poe and Monroe
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Scott Deams
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band
LaurelThirst
115 NW 5th Ave. Horse Eats Horse, Caroline Bauer, DMLH (Bridge Town Sound benefit)
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Lost Lander, Ravenna Woods, Royal Canoe
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Saul Williams
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Quartet (9:30 pm); Trio Bravo (6 pm)
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place TV, Hot Apostles, The Autonomics
116 NE Russell St. Carlton Jackson-Dave Mills Big Band
The Back Door Theater
4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Chris Riffle
1435 NW Flanders St. Jazz Jam with Carey Campbell and the Hank Hirsh Trio
303 SW 12th Ave. Star Anna, Kasey Anderson
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Vicci Martinez, Laura Ivancie
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Neftali Rivera
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Office Diving, Right Hand of Doom, Owl Howl
The Crown Room
Groove Suite
2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw 3552 N Mississippi Ave. Trevor Green
Mississippi Studios
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Mike Coykendall
Secret Society Lounge
116 NE Russell St. John Craigie, Ashia Grzesik, Anna Tivel
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. Open Mic
Star Theater
White Eagle Saloon
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Danny Dodge
LaurelThirst
3530 N Vancouver Ave. Ron Steen Jazz Jam
The Lovecraft
TUES. SEPT. 18
125 NW 5th Ave. J-Sweet, DJ Colleague, Ryan Organ
Beech Street Parlor
The Blue Monk
128 NE Russell St. The Gourds, James McMurtry
8635 N Lombard St. DJ AM Gold
LV’s Sports Bar
426 SW Washington St. The Sindicate, SXO, Item 9, Chris Baron
Valentine’s
Wonder Ballroom
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
1465 NE Prescott St. Sweet Jimmy T
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet
The Blue Diamond
836 N Russell St. Father Figure, Pheasant, Leo London
511 NW Couch St. TRONix with DJ 808
Kelly’s Olympian
2346 SE Ankeny St. Margaret Wehr
Tiger Bar
232 SW Ankeny St. Plaided, Alto!
Ground Kontrol
Jimmy Mak’s
Jade Lounge
13 NW 6th Ave. The White Buffalo, Root Jack, Jay Ray, DJ Split Ditch
317 NW Broadway AC Lov Ring
830 E Burnside St. Halo Refuser, Sporeganic Sounds, Potato Finger
205 NW 4th Ave. Proper Movement: B-Rilla, Doug De La Fresca, Mario Maroto, Shrubbery, JD Dyslexic
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Tom Grant Jazz Jam
Doug Fir Lounge
Star Bar
3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Defibulators, Renegade Stringband
Secret Society Lounge
412 NE Beech St. Bill Portland
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
Mississippi Pizza
8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones
Beech Street Parlor
Someday Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Radula
Mississippi Pizza
Muddy Rudder Public House
WED. SEPT. 12
Goodfoot Lounge
2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens (9 pm); Portland Country Underground (6 pm) 3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mr. Ben
MUSIC CALENDAR
Backspace
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Sportin’ Lifers 3341 SE Belmont St. Pagan Jug Band 421 SE Grand Ave. Altered Beats
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. PX Singer-Songwriter Showcase
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Bo Ayars
Trader Vic’s
1203 NW Glisan St. Sneaky Tiki and the Lava Lounge Orchestra
Valentine’s
Tiga
THURS. SEPT. 13 412 NE Beech St. DJ “Chains” Crumley
440 NW Glisan St. Jamie 3:26, Tom Mitchell, Demetre Baca
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. Landau Boyz
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. I’ve Got a Hole in My Soul
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Jake Cheeto
The Crown Room 205 NW 4th Ave. Counter Culture
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Chauncy Pops
FRI. SEPT. 14 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Grapefruit
Foggy Notion
3416 N Lombard St. BENT
Gemini Lounge
6526 SE Foster Road Gush: DJs Minds Eye, LunchMoney, InfinityFace, Matty B
Groove Suite
440 NW Glisan St. Cock Block: Kristina Childs, The Perfect Cyn, Anna Langley, Miss Vixen
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. Super Cardigan Bros.
Jack London Bar
529 SW 4th Ave. Top 40 Freakout with DJ Common Denominator
Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave. Dillon Francis
232 SW Ankeny St. Everybody’s Robots, Carletta Sue Kay, Hard Power USA
Rotture
White Eagle Saloon
The Conquistador
836 N Russell St. Amaya Villazan, Her Ghost, Aubrey Jessen, The Waking Guild
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. The Expendables, Iration, Cisco Adler
315 SE 3rd Ave. Live and Direct: Slimkid3, Rev. Shines, DJ Nature 2045 SE Belmont St. DJ Drew Groove
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. Noise Fridays with Doc Adam
The Whiskey Bar
Recess: Mochipet, Doc Riz, Claetron, Mystral
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Rndm Noise
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Cuica
SAT. SEPT. 15 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Arcadia
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. DJs I Heart U, Avery
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Gaycation: DJ Snowtiger, Mr. Charming
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St. Come As You Are
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Breton, Chrome Wolves, Other People’s Problems
Sloan’s Tavern
36 N Russell St. The Witching Hour with Dark Daughter
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Ron Trent, Tom Mitchell, Jamie 3:26, Dave Bate
Ted’s Berbati’s Pan
231 SW Ankeny St. Balkan Night: DJs Shaka, Kypros
The Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave. Andy Moor, DJ Zoxy, DJ Eddie
The Works at Washington High School
531 SE 14th Ave. Time-Based Art Festival: Fade to Mind
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Hostile Tapeover
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Tom Tom DJ Night with Nadia Busye
SUN. SEPT. 16 Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Noland Nocount
MON. SEPT. 17 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Roxie Stardust
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. Project Monday Mayhem with Bubbles and Bass
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. DJ J One Ill
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. KM Fizzy
TUES. SEPT. 18 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Tony Remple
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Bradly
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. Stenchman, ekiM, Anok?, Kellan, Avery
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Steve C. & Mike V.
31 NW 1st Ave.
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La Luna Nueva: Flor y Canto
As part of its La Luna Nueva Festival, Miracle Theatre presents an Englishlanguage reading of Cindy Williams Gutiérrez’s play, which imagines a Mesoamerican literary debate circa 1490. Gerardo Galderón provides live accompaniment on pre-Columbian flutes, water drums and rattles. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7 pm Friday, Sept. 14. $12-$15.
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 Wednesday-Friday; 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday; 1 and 6:30 pm Sunday, Sept. 12-16. $25-$75.
Cold Sores of Comedy
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Curious Comedy Stand-Up Showcase
A stand-up sampler featuring local comics. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 10 pm first and third Saturdays. $5.
Helium hosts Maz Jobrani, one of the founding members of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 and 10 pm FridaySaturday, Sept. 13-15. $22-$32.
Instant Comedy
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Nick Clements hosts a half-dozen stand-up comedians, including Nathan Brannon, Bri Pruett and Luke Clements. Mississippi Pizza, 3552 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3231. 9 pm Wednesday, Sept. 12. $5 donation.
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.
Family-friendly improv in Vancouver. Magenta Theater, 606 Main St., Vancouver, 360-635-4358. 7:30 pm Saturday, Sept. 15. $5-$10.
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Brody Theater’s popular elimination-style improv competition. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Fridays. $8-$10.
Monologic
Improvisers and storytellers craft intertwined monologues and scenes. Brody
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AND SO IT GOES
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 and 7:30 pm Sundays through Oct. 7. $20-$50.
Art
New company Theatre Now presents Yasmina Reza’s popular French comedy about a man who buys a white-on-white canvas for an extraordinary sum of money. As the play ponders the value of art, audience members can look around and do the same—each weekend, the performance will move to a different Pearl District gallery. Multiple venues. 7:30 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 4 pm Sundays. Closes Oct. 21. $12-$20.
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, through Sept. 30. $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.
Far Away
As the audience enters before the play begins, the character of Harper (a skillful Patricia Hunter) futzes around her quaint country home. She sips tea, jots a note. In the background, birds warble and chirp. These sounds, so innocuous at first, become portentous as the action unfurls in Caryl Churchill’s devilishly fanciful drama, presented here by Shaking the Tree. Far Away is a brief but suggestive play: From the first scene’s mysterious shrieks to the full-blown war described in the third (to reveal much more would spoil the production), Churchill leaves the audience puzzling out the dystopian details. But Far Away is no transparent allegory for a single political or social issue—it’s too ambiguous and too fantastical for that. Sharp moments of surrealistic and grotesque comedy (we learn, for example, that the mallards are allied with the elephants and the Koreans, and that deer are terrorizing teenagers at shopping malls) add to the play’s complexity, and to its appeal. It speaks to the talents of the cast (anchored by a compelling Beth Thompson and a fluid John San Nicolas) that Churchill’s absurd propositions carry dramatic, haunting heft. Director Samantha Van Der Merwe confidently steers the tension between fantasy and reality, all the way through to the production’s atypical—but not unsatisfying—conclusion. REBECCA JACOBSON. Shaking the Tree Studio, 1407 SE Stark St., 235-0635. 7 pm Thursdays-Sundays. 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 Sunday, Sept. 16; 2 pm Sundays. Closes Sept. 23. $10-$14.
Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner and the Farewell Speech
Celebrated Japanese theater troupe Chelfitsch presents three vignettes that capture the absurdities and the banalities of modern office life. Washington High School, Southeast 12th Avenue and Stark Street, 224-
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Original Practice Shakespeare Festival
The Original Practice Shakespeare Festival bills its performances as more championship sports game than stodgy theatrical production, featuring minimal rehearsal, improvised blocking and energetic audience interaction. This summer, the company stages As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night in parks around Portland. Multiple locations, 890-6944. Times vary, see opsfest. org. Closes Sept. 30. Free.
Portland Playback Theater
Audience members tell stories, which Playback’s actors and musicians improvise on the spot. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 719-6328. 7:30 pm Saturday, Sept. 15. $10-$17.
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. 16 and 23. Closes Oct. 14. $32-$35.
Storython
Portland Storytellers Guild presents an evening of five-minute stories. Hipbone Studio, 1847 E Burnside St., 358-0898. 7 pm Friday, Sept. 14. $5-$10.
The Tempest
HumanBeingCurious, a new specialevents production company, brings Shakespeare’s stormy play to a fitting arena, the Oregon Maritime Museum’s stern-wheeler. Drinks and hors d’oeuvres included. Oregon Maritime Museum, 115 SW Ash St., 224-7724. 6:30 pm Friday, Sept. 14. $60.
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.
The Comedy Bull
Stand-up comics fight to stay in the saddle in this competitive event. Two judges evaluate their chops, but the audience has veto power and can suggest new topics to floundering participants. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Thursday, Sept. 13. $6.
ComedySportz
Fast-paced, competitive, family-friendly improv. ComedySportz, 1963 NW Kearney St., 236-8888. 8 pm FridaysSaturdays. $12.
Diabolical Experiments
Improv jam show featuring Brody performers and other local improvisers. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 2242227. 7 pm Sundays. $5.
BODY OF EVIDENCE: Marilyn Stacey in The Detective’s Wife.
A STEADY RAIN/THE DETECTIVE’S WIFE (HELLFIRE PRODUCTIONS)
Plays with plenty of pulp and not enough juice.
Both A Steady Rain and The Detective’s Wife, presented by Hellfire Productions, take place on stormy nights. At least that’s what the thundery sound effects suggest—the exact context of each play remains uncertain. Squally darkness fits these two gritty cop dramas by Keith Huff, stuffed as they are with intrigue, conspiracy and corruption. But it’s almost too fitting, as is much else in these two neat and tidy plays. Pat Patton directs A Steady Rain, the earlier of Huff’s plays. Don Alder and David Sikking play two Chicago beat cops, friends since childhood and steady allies on patrol. Joey (Sikking) is the strait-laced one, clean-shaven in a tie and sports coat, who coughs out the occasional “effing” as his friend unleashes a steady fire of expletives. Denny (Alder) is rougher and gruffer, a family man who shakes down prostitutes to make ends meet at home. In intersecting monologues, Joey and Denny recount the spiral of mistakes that threatens their careers and undoes their friendship. It’s an overwritten yarn, but Sikking and Alder keep it afloat. Alder’s performance is hardboiled without devolving into one-note cynicism. Sikking is softer, both sympathetic and flawed. The Detective’s Wife, directed by JoAnn Johnson, takes a similar storytelling format but cuts the cast to one. Marilyn Stacey stars as Alice, the wife of a homicide detective gunned down on the job. Alice is a voracious consumer of mystery novels, and she, predictably, works to crack the story behind her husband’s death. It’s not altogether satisfying. Stacey’s performance is fine, if somewhat lacking in range, and she benefits from the dynamic staging, including the clever use of slide projections to show crime-scene photos and pages from murder files. Still, The Detective’s Wife is the more nuanced play. Its outcome is less apparent than A Steady Rain’s, and it handles some of the same moral questions—the conflict between loyalty and duty and whether the end justifies the means—with greater subtlety. Both plays are too neat, but The Detective’s Wife is just a bit more rumpled, just a tad richer. REBECCA JACOBSON.
SEE IT: A Steady Rain and The Detective’s Wife play at the Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 757-6836. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Sundays, 4 pm Sundays. Through Oct. 7. $20 for each individual play or $35 for both. Willamette Week SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 wweek.com
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The Neutrino Project
Groups of improvisers race against the clock to whip up a movie, relying on audience participation for title suggestions, donated props and cameo performances. Each night features a genre chosen at random, and the improvised frenzy goes straight to the big screen. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays through Oct. 13. $12-$15.
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DANCE Faustin Linyekula
There is a political edge to the work of choreographer Faustin Linyekula: Le Cargo, his first solo piece to date, reflects years of war and all its attendant horrors in his native Congo. Linyekula now lives and works in Kisangani, where he runs Studios Kabako, a training ground for young Congolese dancers, actors, musicians and video artists. His isn’t a dour outlook; that studio
work, which has taken him on tours through Africa, Europe and the U.S., is at heart the creation of an optimist who sees a future populated by Congolese artists in various disciplines. Winningstad Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 6:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, Sept. 13-15. $20-$25.
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Comedian Ralphie May, the runner-up in the first season of Last Comic Standing, makes a Portland stop on his “Too Big to Ignore” tour. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 946-7272. 8 pm Friday, Sept. 14. $39.
Two for the Show
Double the improv, double the fun: The Brody Theater showcases two improv twosomes at each performance. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 9:30 pm Saturdays through Oct. 6. $8-$10.
Weekly Recurring Humor Night
Weekly comedy showcase hosted by Whitney Streed. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 238-0543. 9 pm every Wednesday. “Pay what you will,” $3-$5 suggested.
CLASSICAL Cascadia Composers
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With help from expert singers like Nancy Wood and Mel Downie Robinson, various pianists and string players, some of Oregon’s top composers—Tomas Svoboda, David Bernstein, Jeff Winslow, Paul Safar and more—offer new works, including a string quartet by Michael Hsu that draws on New Order-style synth-pop dance rhythms and other rock and pop influences. In addition, there will be a piece by Lewis & Clark College professor Michael Johanson based on Joseph Conrad’s novel Under Western Eyes. Colonial Heights Presbyterian Church, 2828 SE Stephens St. 8 pm Saturday, Sept. 15. $5-$20.
Helen Hollenbeck and Merridee Holdsworth
The organist and pianist play music by Debussy, Haydn, Brahms, Emma Lou Diemer and more. Tabor Heights United Methodist Church, 6161 SE Stark St. 4 pm Sunday, Sept. 16. Donation.
Oregon Symphony
The orchestra does a classy crossover with classical singer Sylvia McNair, who joins pianist/singer Kevin Cole and dancer Danny Gardner in an all-Gershwin multimedia show including songs, dance, video and music. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353. 7:30 pm Saturday, Sept. 15. $25-$95.
Ragmakam Ensemble
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Canadian-born, Prague-based composer/luthier Edward Powell plays a double-necked hybrid of the Indian sarod and Turkish oud he created and dubbed the ragmakamtard. For this rare Portland appearance (at the former Vino Vixens), he’ll play his original music with Eugene tabla and oud player Josh Humphrey and local Middle Eastern music specialists David Reihs on percussion and Mia Baki on ney flutes. Shaker and Vine, 2929 SE Powell Blvd., 2318466. 7:30 pm Saturday, Sept. 15. $10-$20.
Tatiana Kolchanova and Eddie Parente The talented violinist and violist play a recital of classical and jazz works. Kairos-Milwaukie United Church of Christ, 4790 SE Logus Road, Milwaukie, 654-6770. 2 pm Sunday, Sept. 16. Free.
TURBULENCE
TURBULENCE/LE CARGO Getting political in week two of the Time-Based Art Festival.
Recent financial upheaval and the roller-coaster ride of the ongoing culture wars 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. But that shouldn’t come as any big surprise, considering Hennessy has danced away from whatever might be considered safe since his ’80s days in San Francisco’s wonderfully wild and woolly Contraband company. In the intervening years, he co-founded San Francisco’s experimental performance-art coalition 848 Community Space and has taught and performed the world over, winning two Isadora Duncan Awards and a New York Dance and Performance Award (better known as a Bessie) in the process. Turbulence, which Hennessy began developing in June as part of a working residency in Portland, is about turmoil, and not only the financial sort. Hennessy also touches on torture, war, justice, capitalism and queer politics. Hennessy is joined in this endeavor by Jules Beckman, a multi-instrumentalist and former fellow Contraband member. Additional Circo Zero members include aerialist-dancer Emily Leap and performance/installation artist Seth Eisen. There is a political edge to the work of choreographer Faustin Linyekula, too. Le Cargo, his first solo piece, reflects years of war and all its attendant horrors in his native Congo (formerly Zaire). Linyekula now runs Studios Kabako, a training ground for young Congolese dancers, actors, musicians and video artists. His isn’t a dour outlook; that studio work, which has taken him on tours through Africa, Europe and the United States, is at heart the creation of an optimist who sees a future populated by Congolese artists in various disciplines. Le Cargo is about memory, but also about the suppression of memory. Like Turbulence, it was inspired in part by financial collapse and the anxiety that comes with it, although it is a more stripped-down performance than Circo Zero’s: just one man, plus music and text, to tell the tale. HEATHER WISNER.
SEE IT: Turbulence is at the Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave. 8:30 pm Tuesday-Friday, Sept. 11-14. $20-$25. Le Cargo is at Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway. 6:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, Sept. 13-15. $20-$25. Visit pica.org/TBA.
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Sara Siestreem: For Children in Cold Climates
REVIEW
In For Children in Cold Climates, Sara Siestreem unveils her most invigorating series of paintings in years. Texturality and rhythm are the hallmarks of the piece Caviar for Winter Food, as they are in So I Hear You Like Sunsets, with its counterposition of small and large ovular forms. Delicate scratch-work and smudges nicely mitigate the brash palette of blacks, whites and reds. Throughout this assured body of work, Siestreem balances thoughtfully planned compositions with more than a dash of intuition. Through Sept. 29. Augen Gallery, 716 NW Davis St., 546-5056.
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Aaron Yassin: Beijing
The woozy geometries in Aaron Yassin’s Beijing alternate between vertical and horizontal axes of symmetry. His strongest works, such as The Red Nest, enliven coldly impersonal compositions with bursts of color. The weakest, such as Linked Hybrid, have a forced artificiality, like too much C.G. in a superhero movie. Through Sept. 29. Chambers @ 916, 916 NW Flanders St., 227-9398.
Annemieke Alberts and Maya Sikorska: Portraits of Perception and Place
Annemieke Alberts returns for a second month at Victory, sharing the gallery with emerging Polish artist Maya Sikorska. Sikorska’s oil paintings employ a foggy, faded palette appropriate to their subject matter: portraits and groupings of figures whose faces are as grainy and blue as stonewashed denim. You can almost hear the Beatles’ “Nowhere Man” in your inner iPod when you encounter the pieces Jurek, Adam, Gabriel and Boys, in which amorphous blobs of color clump together, loosely depicting slumped shoulders and downwardcast eyes. Yes, these sad-sack studies are relevant to the human condition, but they’re also soul-leachingly depressing. This is a worthwhile show, but you might want to pop a Zoloft before you see it. Through Sept. 30. Victory Gallery, 733 NW Everett St., 208-3585.
Elise Wagner: Event Horizons
In monotypes and paintings such as Cartography Study III, Collision Transits and Spacetime Compass, Elise Wagner frames imagery of black holes in antiquarian contexts. The pieces’ edges resemble parchment paper and illuminated manu-
scripts: irregularly scalloped and silver-edged, like alchemical formulas unearthed from a hidden chamber in some medieval monastery. The effect is heightened by the runelike characters with which Wagner surrounds imagery of nebular clouds being sucked into black holes’ event horizons, never to escape. Through Sept. 29. Butters Gallery, 520 NW Davis St., 2nd floor, 248-9378.
Hannah Stouffer: Magic of the Woods
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. Through Sept. 30. Nine Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 227-7114.
Crowds wrapped around the block on opening night (Sept. 6) of PICA’s TBA: 12. Once inside Washington High, festivalgoers were treated to a cavalcade of visual-arts offerings under the rubric of curator Kristan Kennedy’s group exhibition, End Things. American and European artists included Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan (Netherlands), Isabelle Cornaro (France), Alex Cecchetti (France and Italy) and U.S. home-teamers Morgan Ritter, Erika Vogt and Claudia Meza. The dynamism of opening night dissipated on subsequent viewings, however, owing to a confusing layout, green rooms that seemed indistinguishable from exhibition spaces, and a thwarting succession of locked doors and black partitions blocking hallways. Fortunately, there are two additional visual-arts venues, PICA headquarters and U of O’s White Box, offering alternatives to Washington High’s not-so-fun funhouse labyrinth. Alex Cecchetti, Morgan Ritter, Erika Vogt, and Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan at Washington High School, Southeast Stark Street and 13th Avenue. Noon-6:30 pm through Sept. 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 through Sept. 16, then noon-6:30 pm Thursday-Friday and noon-4 pm Saturday, Sept. 20-29.
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. Through Oct. 27. Graeter Art Gallery, 131 NW 2nd Ave., 477-6041.
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EVA SPEER’S PAGES FROM THE BOOK OF LASTS I AND II
COLLIDER Is painting dead or alive?
Since the advent of photography, when French painter Delaroche reportedly declared, “From today, painting is dead,” thinkers have been busy burying and exhuming the enduring art form. Curator Jeff Jahn endeavors to keep painting alive in his well-conceived and thoughtprovoking group show, Collider. He deploys a sextet of Northwest artists in the exhibition, whose title refers to the particle accelerator. Like the scientists who run such accelerators, contemporary painters want to see what happens when they smash their own forces together: suspended pigment, new media, old traditions and the nearly unfathomable complexity of 21st-century life. In this sparsely hung show, Jahn allows the artists plenty of room as they nudge viewers to question whether today’s painters are respectfully referencing, or derivatively ripping off, the painters of the past. Jesse Hayward’s SHIFTY escapes the confines of the formalist rectangle by jutting out beyond the picture plane and onto the wall. It’s a whimsical conceit, but Roy Lichtenstein pulled it off with considerably more finesse in his Perfect/Imperfect series of the late 1970s and ’80s. Likewise, Calvin Ross Carl’s clever Watching Over or Just Watching challenges ideas about surface by draping an unstretched canvas over a stretched one—a tactic that renowned painter Sam Gilliam has been deploying since the 1960s. Amy Bernstein’s Sun Flares references Abstract Expressionism with fuchsia and orange brush strokes sometimes so thick they look like banana slugs. Meanwhile, Nathanael Thayer Moss updates Op Art in the dizzying Suspended Threshold, while Victor Maldonado recalls the history of protest art in his politically informed Strike Zones. But the piece that goes furthest in establishing a healthy pulse for contemporary painting is Eva Speer’s diptych Pages From the Book of Lasts I and II. Speer overlays sumptuous gold and silver leaf with marbled paint and pixel-like circles, suggesting an image that is degrading into static. The works evoke the fade-out of the analog era, as cinema and television yield to Internet platforms and traditional notions of community give way to social networking. Could it be that the digital age might actually succeed in killing off painting itself? It’s a high achievement for this artist to float that idea, only to immediately disprove it by ravishing the viewer’s eye within an inch of our collective lives. RICHARD SPEER. SEE IT: Littman Gallery, Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 250, 1825 SW Broadway. Closes Sept. 26.
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Mark Leibovich
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If politicians always told the truth, we might not even need political reporters. And if a frog had wings, he wouldn’t bump his ass when he hopped. That’s why New York Times Magazine chief national correspondent Mark Leibovich will speak at Lewis & Clark College about the importance of the press in our democracy. Having interviewed everyone from Hillary Clinton to Prince of Darkness Dick Cheney, the man knows what he’s talking about. Agnes Flanagan Chapel at Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, 7687461. 7 pm. Free, tickets required.
The Books of Esther
After losing her voice to larynx cancer, Willa Schneberg’s mother wrote down everything she would have normally spoken. Now opening a new multimedia exhibit, Schneberg is presenting a collection of sculptures, photographs, audio clips and writings that tell the story of her mother’s life. Oregon Jewish Museum, 1953 NW Kearney St., 2263600. 5:30 pm. Free.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 13 Atheneum Induction and Faculty Reading
EVOLVE THIS FALL
Lovingly preparing the next batch of great local writers, the Attic Institute’s Atheneum program will welcome the 2013 class with a reading by the faculty, including Karen Karbo, Lee Montgomery, Merridawn Duckler, G. Xavier Robillard, David Biespiel and Wendy Willis. It’s like getting a free class in literary genius. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St. 7 pm. Free.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 14 Memorial HC Release Party
As has happened to so many of us, young protagonist Em wakes up in a Portland hospital with no memory of her past. Things are further complicated when she inherits a magical shop. New York Times bestselling author Chris Roberson (iZombie) chronicles the supernatural conflict in his new graphic novel, Memorial. Roberson will sign autographs along with artist Rich Ellis and colorist Grace Allison to celebrate the novel’s release. Bridge City Comics, 3725 N Mississippi Ave., 282-5484. 6 pm Friday, Sept. 14. Free. 21+.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 16 Junot Diaz
WE’RE YOUR COMMUNITY FILM SCHOOL
To put it plainly, love is a bitch. But to put it much more eloquently, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz will be reading from his new collection of stories, This Is How You Lose Her, exploring the oft-explored topic with both humor and devastation—because, seriously, it’s a bitch. Bagdad Theater & Pub, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 236-9234. 7 pm. $26.95, includes a book copy. 21+.
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For nearly four decades, Calyx Journal has offered a creative outlet for women’s voices—including emerging writers and minorities—to stand as a beacon in feminist publishing. With the release of the summer 2012 issue, a group of contributing writers will gather for a reading, including Stephanie Lenox, Katherine Malmo, Darlene Pagán and Penelope Scambly Schott. You go, girls. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
Whether we’re sending robots to Mars or breeding super-intelligent chimps, science fucking rocks. Giving the keynote speech at the 2012 Science Without Limits Symposium at Lewis & Clark College will be acclaimed Harvard physicist and author Lisa Randall. With a new book out, Knocking on Heaven’s Door, Randall will speak about the nature of scientific thinking and how it relates to creativity. Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Road, 768-7000. 7 pm. Free.
Ron Pernick
While we’ve been standing around trying to figure out how to make leaf blowers even louder and cellphones more disposable, the rest of the world is leaving us in the dust when it comes to clean technology, paving the way with green buildings, electric vehicles and smart-grid technology. To help us avoid looking like a bunch of chumps, Ron Pernick is advocating a plan to put America on a cleaner technology track with his
new book, Clean Tech Nation: How the U.S. Can Lead in the New Global Economy. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 18 Paulann Petersen
Celebrating her Indian heritage in a collection of 13 poems, Oregon poet laureate Paulann Petersen will read from her new chapbook, Shimmer and Drone. Mirroring the vibrant culture itself, each book is handsewn and filled with intricate embellishments and visuals. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.
Nancy Mullane
After reporting on the high cost of incarceration, journalist Nancy Mullane found herself wondering what it would take for a murderer to be accepted back into society. Documenting the stories of five convicted killers sentenced to life, Mullane explores what it takes for a second chance in her new book, Life After Murder: Five Men in Search of Redemption. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
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REVIEW
CALEB SCHARF, GRAVITY’S ENGINES From what sounds like static, astronomers can discern an image of the entire universe. Explaining how they pull off this trick is the job of writers like Caleb Scharf, director of astrobiology at Columbia University. In Gravity’s Engines (Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 272 pages, $26), Scharf attempts to turn A Columbia astronomer two centuries of science about blows bubbles. black holes into popular nonfiction. It’s a bumpy ride. To see where Scharf fails to achieve orbit, let’s start with the mental picture he draws to explain how black holes work: These massive pinpricks in the fabric of space-time, he explains, swallow huge gulps of interstellar dust and gas and then “blow bubbles” measuring tens of thousands of light-years across. It’s not an image Scharf invented, but neither is it one he explains very well. Do the bubbles inflate outward in all directions like ripples on a pond, or sideways like a baseball player blowing bubble gum? Do the bubbles appear one at a time or in a swarm? Scharf’s book is unclear. It’s important, because it is this cycle of black holes gobbling up matter and blowing out bubbles of hot gas, Scharf argues, that both drives and impedes the formation of new stars, new planets and, ultimately, life in the cosmos. Scharf’s vague metaphors dumb down these complex processes. Gravity’s Engines would also benefit from illustrations to untangle some of this graduate-level science for the general reader. Instead, it includes only a few grainy, black-and-white photos and diagrams that look as if they were drawn on a cocktail napkin. Where Scharf shows his star stuff is in conveying the vast scope of the universe, whether he’s detecting X-rays from a galaxy 12 billion light-years away or describing the Perseus galaxy cluster, which, if visible to the naked eye, would fill a patch of sky four times the size of the full moon. Too bad he never quite captures the wonder of scientific endeavor with the same sense of grandeur. MATT BUCKINGHAM. GO: Caleb Scharf reads at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651, on Wednesday, Sept. 12. 7:30 pm. Free.
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2016: Obama’s America
Not screened for critics, probably due to some kind of Democrat-socialistMuslim-terrorist conspiracy. PG. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Bridgeport, Evergreen Parkway, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Sandy.
Arbitrage
B It is strange to discover this, but
Arbitrage is the first and only time that actor Richard Gere (Days of Heaven) and director Paul Verhoeven (Showgirls) have ever worked together. Never mind, of course, that the film is actually directed by feature-film rookie Nicholas Jarecki, rather than Paul Verhoeven. Jarecki so thoroughly channels the hollow-man ambitions, smug moral posturing and incongruous driving-synth atmospherics of Dutchera Verhoeven that the director hangs in gross plasticene effigy over the entire proceedings. The plot? Richard Gere is terribly suave and terribly rich and he done so wrong with his money and he can’t make it right, no matter how often he tells his daughter and mistress and wife he loves them all. Arbitrage is putatively a story of financial misdeeds—wrapped up in arcana of derivative, doubled bookkeeping and hamfisted industrial espionage— but at its heart it is the fable of Icarus. Richard Gere has gotten too gosh darn close to the sun, and for his sins his charred feathers and tarnished helm will be ceremonially stripped from his body, Shirley Jackson style, by every single aggrieved woman who survives him. No one in this film is likable, all are wrong, all is wretched isolation, and somewhere a young Michael Mann is beating a very angry drum. R. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Living Room Theaters.
Bachelorette
C The presence of Bridesmaids alum
Rebel Wilson makes the comparisons inevitable, but there are fewer teachable moments and less redemption to be found in Bachelorette, yet another example of weddings bringing out the shrill harpies apparently latent in every woman. As the bride, Wilson is blissfully unaware that her bridesmaids, the “bitch faces” crew from her high-school days, are truly awful. Rather than shaking its fist at the bridal-industrial complex, Bachelorette skewers the women who populate this disjointed hen night: Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Caplan and Isla Fisher are reluctant, bitchy and coked out. They resent the hell out of the bride, and when she turns in for an early night, they ruin her gown and embark on a nightlong odyssey through New York to fix it. (It’s a shame they have an errand and aren’t behaving badly just for fun’s sake; still, they get their fair share of semen jokes.) What follows is not a good movie by any standards, but with the exception of a fairly useless Fisher, the bridesmaids are fun to watch: Caplan and Adam Scott give us an unofficial Party Down reunion, while Dunst’s impressive pre-ceremony dash to pull the wedding party together plays out like an unintentional testament to the restorative powers of blow. R. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Hollywood Theatre.
Beasts of the Southern Wild
A Although showered with festi-
val 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, Moreland Theatre, Tigard.
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, though, it’s Jeremy Renner— continuing his quest to appear in every single action franchise ever—as Aaron Cross, who finds himself dodging missiles, brandishing assault rifles and seeking to find more of the medication that transformed him from a learning-disabled grunt into a super-agile, hyper-intelligent warrior. While Damon is certainly missed, Renner is an apt replacement. The only real problem here is Gilroy’s direction, which lacks the unique style of his predecessors. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Forest Theatre, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Sandy.
Branded to Kill
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Wildman director Seijun Suzuki’s 1967 pop-art fever dream—about a yakuza hitman with a fetish for the aroma of boiled rice—so thoroughly baffled the studio bosses at legendary Japanese production house Nikkatsu that it got him fired. Their loss. Presented by Floating World Comics. Hollywood Theatre. 9:30 pm Saturday, Sept. 15.
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. R. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lake Twin, Bridgeport, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Tigard.
Celeste and Jesse Forever
C+ Few of these recent, allegedly more mature romantic comedies ever really break free of Hollywood convention themselves. Their premises tease subverted relationship norms—guiltfree 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. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Fox Tower.
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. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Bridgeport, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall.
Dangerous Desires: Film Noir Classics Series: The Prowler
A [ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Short of watching the Republican National Convention, few viewing experiences implicate you so thoroughly in seedy covetousness as Joseph Losey’s 1951 lawn noir The Prowler, which makes the entire baby boom seem conceived in sin. The picture opens by peeping in a Los Angeles window at Evelyn Keyes in a bath towel. She snaps the shade shut, but we get in anyhow under the cover of uniform: An unscrupulous police officer (Van Heflin) with designs on unhappily married Keyes and the bankroll of her radioDJ husband. Heflin is a fidgety wonder, constantly gulping, slurping, preening—every Michael Shannon perfor-
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TWO DOMES: R. Buckminster Fuller in the 1950s.
FROM STAGE TO SCREEN DIRECTOR SAM GREEN GOES LIVE WITH THE LOVE SONG OF R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER. BY MATTH EW SIN GE R
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In The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, Sam Green builds a movie from scratch. Instead of presenting the life of the titular 20th-century theorist and engineer as a traditional, fully finished and fine-tuned documentary, the director—who earned an Oscar nomination in 2004 for The Weather Underground—pieces the film together in front of an audience. He narrates from the stage, cuing images and footage from his laptop, while beloved indie rockers Yo La Tengo provide the soundtrack, right there in person. Green calls the project, which he brings to the Time-Based Art Festival this week, a “live documentary”—though if you think it sounds more like an elaborate PowerPoint presentation, Green won’t get offended. “It is a PowerPoint presentation,” he tells Willamette Week over the phone from New York. “It’s just a kick-ass PowerPoint presentation.” WW: Why Buckminster Fuller? Sam Green: Last year, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art got in touch with me. They were doing a show about Fuller, and they asked me to do a live documentary about him. They mentioned that at Stanford University were Buckminster Fuller’s papers. His collection of papers is the largest there is belonging to a single person. Any telegram, photo, letter—everything that came over his desk, he saved. I love archives and I love going through people’s papers. I quickly became completely obsessed with it, and really fascinated by him. And the more I looked through his stuff and the more I learned about him, the more I saw him as a complex but very relevant figure, especially today. How is he relevant today? Starting in the ’20s, his message was pretty consistent: Through smart design, by doing more with less and building things more efficiently, we could save resources. And if we could distribute resources more fairly, there’d be no more wars. His idea was that through design, we could solve basic human prob-
lems. From very early on, he made this point over and over again. In some ways, he’s more relevant now than ever. The tenor of our time is cutbacks and belttightening and scarcity, and he’s a great reminder that it doesn’t have to be the case. The reality is there are plenty of resources, we just don’t distribute them well, or fairly. That, to me, is a radical idea. Why do the documentary live? As a filmmaker today, you have to accept that people are going to be watching your work on their phone or on their laptop while checking their email, or in any number of particular contexts. I don’t have anything against the Internet or down-
“IT IS A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION. IT’S JUST A KICK-ASS POWERPOINT PRESENTATION.” —SAM GREEN loading stuff or watching QuickTimes, but the work I make—I don’t want to be too precious about it, but I do hope people really give themselves to it and are subsumed by the experience. So if you don’t want your work to be experienced on an iPad or iPod, you’ve got to make something that can’t be engaged in that way. I like this form because it holds on to the magic of cinema—that feeling when you’re in a theater with strangers and the lights go down. I love that feeling. Some say that a movie in a theater or a movie watched on your iPad on the subway is all the same movie, but I profoundly disagree with that. The context is hugely significant in shaping your experience of a work. As an artist, what inspiration do you draw from Fuller? I see him as a utopian. I mean that in the best sense of the word. He’s someone who really did believe this world could be radically different, and radically better. I wish that was in the air a little more these days. SEE IT: NW Film Center presents The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller at Washington High School, 531 SE 14th Ave. 6:30 and 8:30 pm Wednesday, Sept. 12. $20 for Silver Screen members, $25 general admission. Tickets available at pica.org/tba. Willamette Week SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 wweek.com
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mance should be graded against this work. The movie has a political subtext so blatant it’s a text (blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo provides the voice of the cuckold over the wireless, signing off each broadcast with, “The cost of living is going down”), but The Prowler is too strange and offbalance to register as a sermon. Supporting characters behave irrationally, in innocuous ways that become creepy over the run time, and the lead couple descends into a kind of blank, open-highway ebullience that bears the mark of James M. Cain. If the movie’s opening is the stuff of Hitchcock, the ending is the Greed-inspired fuel of nightmares: Fleeing into the desert to raise a nuclear family, Heflin is exposed to terrible light. Also screening: The Hunted (9 pm Saturday, Sept. 15); Nobody Lives Forever (7 pm Sunday, Sept. 16). AARON MESH. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Friday, Sept. 14. Dangerous Desires: Film Noir Classics continues through Sunday, Sept. 30. See nwfilm.org for full schedule.
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Knight Rises is the best entry in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, Indoor Twin, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Bridgeport, Evergreen Parkway, Movies On TV, Tigard, Sandy.
Dreams of a Life
B- [FIVE NIGHTS ONLY] In the
face of a lonely death—London woman Joyce Vincent died in her apartment with her television on, and was somehow not discovered until three long years later—Carol Morley’s documentary Dreams of a Life aspires beyond simple forensics and procedural mystery and reaches toward a solitudinous existentialism in which no one is truly known and all is longing. Vincent wanders as a beautiful cipher through the lives of countless men, drifting without apparent emotion into an eventual life of utter, unabating loneliness. Everyone describes her as “happy” or “full of life,” but there is a hole in every story, unfortunately filled in by upward of 50 minutes’ worth of content-free, moody re-enactments of Vincent’s life—in the spirit of hammy America’s Most Wanted re-creations or gauzy CSI flashbacks—in which the lovely stand-in Zawe Ashton climbs stairs, carries a grocery sack or stares remorsefully at her own feet. Each man Vincent meets still keeps a damp flame in his heart for her. Those she dated are still in love. Those she didn’t date nervously believe in what could have been. Seemingly with no dreams of her own, Joyce Vincent had become the repository for every other dream of the tenement flats. Perhaps this is why no one took note of her death: They were already living their lives so heavily through her that she became no longer necessary. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Friday-
Saturday, Monday-Wednesday, Sept. 14-15, 17-19.
An Evening with Maureen Selwood
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] A selection of recent work from the animator, a member of the experimental animation faculty at the California Institute of the Arts. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Saturday, Sept. 15.
The Expendables 2
A bunch of leathery, ’roidedup Republicans invade a foreign country and explode the shit out of it. Again. But this time…it’s personal. Not screened for critics. R. Lloyd Center, 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Evergreen Parkway, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Sandy.
Finding Nemo 3D
Keep your eco-conscious trash compactors and grumpy old men and even your toy cowboys: For my money, the movie about the emo clownfish is still Pixar’s best, and even the crass cash grab of a useless 3-D re-release won’t change that. G. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
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.
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
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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. Evergreen Parkway, Vancouver.
The Imposter
A- As simply as I can put it, this non-
fiction film from director Bart Layton focuses on the disappearance of 13-year-old Texan Nicholas Barclay back in 1994 and how, more than three years later, his family received the impossible news that he had been found in, of all places, Spain. The reality was that the person claiming to be Nicholas was, in fact, Frédéric Bourdin, a French-Algerian con artist in his 20s. Like a good piece of longform journalism, The Imposter turns over every detail. Layton’s 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. R. ROBERT HAM. Living Room Theaters.
The Inbetweeners
British teenagers get horny, too. Not screened for critics. R. Fox Tower.
Iron Sky
Moon Nazis! Why the hell wasn’t this screened for critics? 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 stereotypes. Gawking at one clan of slack-jawed, dirt-poor rednecks in particular, the movie wrings scum-black humor from yokels heehawing 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. 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.
Kung Fu Theater: Crippled Avengers
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] It’s the Paralympics of martial arts flicks! No, seriously. That’s basically the concept. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Sept. 18.
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, the kind of crowd-pleasing, Western-style thriller that used to get Kevin Costner nominated for Oscars back in the ’90s. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Roseway Theatre, Sandy, St. Johns.
Looking Through a Glass Onion: Deconstructing the Beatles
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A multimedia presentation on—arguably—the Beatles’ best album, hopefully answering such questions as, “How the heck are you supposed to do blow off this record cover?” Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Sept. 12.
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. CineMagic, Hollywood Theatre, Fox Tower, St. Johns.
Moving Mountains
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING, REVIVAL] A 1991 documentary from Elaine Velazquez on the Yien Mien, refugees from the mountains of Laos who escaped to the Pacific Northwest during the Vietnam War. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Thursday, Sept. 13.
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. The ensuing story, albeit saccharine and silly, is genuinely adorable. It’s a squeaky-clean, super-sweet watch that’s perfect for kids and parents. PG. EMILY JENSEN. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Sandy.
ParaNorman
B+ Norman Babcock sees dead
people. As the portmanteau title of ParaNorman—the second feature from Portland animation house Laika— suggests, he is mostly cool with that. After all, the spooks don’t judge him, unlike the living. A drama geek with an electroshock hairdo, Norman is an easy target for bullying. The only flesh-andblood 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. As long as we’re measuring the films against each other, though, let it be said: ParaNorman is a lot more fun. PG. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport,
Forest Theatre, Lake Twin, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard.
The Possession
Pro: Sam Raimi produced this movie, an alleged true story involving curses and angry spirits. Con: He didn’t direct it. And it’s not rated R. Eh, think we’ll pass. It wasn’t screened for critics, anyway. PG-13. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Evergreen Parkway, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Sandy.
Potty Talk
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] The premiere of a new, locally produced sketch comedy program from Brenan Dwyer. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Sunday, Sept. 16. .
Premium Rush
C+ Premium Rush envisions a lefty
dystopia: a gleaming, immaculately planned Manhattan where all the action chases are conducted on fixie bike. 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 slambang thriller with the cast of Rent. PG-13. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Cornelius, Living Room Theaters, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV.
trait 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. PG-13. 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 and music scholars who revel in the darker recesses of the psychedelic era. In the
documentary Searching for Sugar Man, freshman director Malik Bendjelloul reveals that in South Africa, a world away from where they were recorded, his albums were revered. Bendjelloul plays out the story of Rodriguez like a detective novel. About halfway through Sugar Man, it is revealed that Rodriguez is alive, well, and still living in Detroit, working as a manual laborer. Once that is uncovered, the now nearly 70-yearold musician is placed in front of the camera. Only then does the film take flight. PG-13. ROBERT HAM. Fox Tower.
Seven Samurai
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] A 35 mm print of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 feudal masterpiece, telling the story of a group of samurai coming together to protect a small village from marauders. Hollywood Theatre. 3 and 7:30 pm
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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 grown-ups”—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. PG-13. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Eastport, Bridgeport, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard.
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[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Snowboards! Guitar solos! Energy drinks! Green initiatives? Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Friday, Sept. 14.
Robot & Frank
B 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 ASIMOlike 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. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Fox Tower.
Samsara
A Samsara, the title of the new word-
less, 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 hurricane-ravaged New Orleans to East Africa, from Egyptian apartment complexes built in view of the pyramids to a Bangkok strip club full of undulating “ladyboys”—and paints an astounding por-
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RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION Not surprisingly, the latest Resident Evil film did not screen for critics. Astonishingly, though, it’s the fifth in the series. Somebody has to be watching these things. To figure out why, we called upon the biggest fan of the franchise we know: Willamette Week Production Manager Kendra Clune. What it’s about: The zombie apocalypse will happen. It’s just a matter of time before some monstrous Umbrella Corporation-like superpower decides to mass-produce a nasty virus, like the T-virus featured in the Resident Evil franchise. Sure, it will start deep underground. But people always get curious, go in to check it out, and then—surprise! zombies! Fortunately, the same company will have performed some unethical human experiments, and created an extraordinary zombiekilling machine named Alice (Milla Jovovich). She’ll also wear bitchin’ tattered outfits. Latest film: Resident Evil: Retribution takes Alice on a world tour to save what’s left of humanity on a planet quickly becoming a giant desert. She has more powers, wears a tight vinyl jumpsuit and has a great haircut. And Oded Fehr is back! Best scenes: A chamber full of lasers meant to cut a person into hundreds of little pieces? Sure! A sky full of zombie crows (my worst nightmare) lit on fire by Alice’s superpowers? Yup! An ax man chopping some dude in half from the top down? Let’s see it again! A badass heroine propelling herself off a rooftop, leading a horde of zombies to their last fall? Why not?! Why it’s awesome: I really can’t get enough of the Resident Evil franchise. Paul W.S. Anderson has used the video game as a loose template for the movies, but departed enough to make them interesting on their own. In fact, Alice doesn’t appear in the video game, but she has become an icon for the film series. She is a refreshing departure from the typical stiletto-wearing, ass-kicking females dominating many action films. She’s believable—as much as you can believe slow-motion bullet-dodging—and a strong female lead who doesn’t need a man to save the day or screw her to make her feel feminine and worthy. And did I mention Oded Fehr is back?! R. KENDRA CLUNE. SEE IT: Resident Evil: Retribution opens Friday at Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville. Willamette Week SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 wweek.com
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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, outsidercoming-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 Friday-Wednesday, Sept. 14-19.
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“A FUNNY AND INSIGHTFUL FILM. I COULD’VE WATCHED IT FOR TEN HOURS.” Mike Birbiglia Lauren Ambrose
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Ira Glass co-writes a fulllength 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 rapideye-movement behavior disorder makes him act out night terrors, which ultimately lead to his leap from a closed secondstory 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. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Cinema 21.
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No, this is not a Rolling StonesKenny Chesney mash-up, nor is it bestial pornography. It’s a documentary about horses—wild ones— and the people who ride them in a competition called the Extreme Mustang Makeover in Fort Worth, Texas. One hunnerd untamed mustangs are given out at random to a hunnerd horse trainers, who have one hunnerd days to get ’em tamed ’n’ ready for the horse show. The horses are then auctioned off to—er, adopted by—the highest
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Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up?
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A look at the volatile relationship between the U.S. and Cuba as told through the story of the infamous “Cuban five,” a group of now-imprisoned intelligence agents who infiltrated alleged Cuban terrorist groups exiled in Miami. Clinton Street Theater. 7 and 9 pm Thursday, Sept. 13.
The Words
D Bradley Cooper has played a convincing author in the past. In Limitless, he was a promising talent who whittled away his advance until he stumbled onto a kind of psychotropic form of Adderall that provided him intense focus and a completed manuscript. That was a far more authentic view of the creative process than anything The Words offers up. First-time writer-director Brian Klugman never feigns any interest in the complexities of the publishing world. Instead, The Words registers as a mandatory Intro to Playwriting assignment, supervised by Nicholas Sparks. Cooper plays Rory Jansen, an aspiring writer who stumbles across a yellowing manuscript and is so smitten with it he begins to type out the unpublished novel word for word. His wife, Dora (Zoe Saldana), finds it and insists he show it to an agent, and the goofily charming Cooper plays his descent into plagiarism as a kind of accident. In this clunky time-tripping narrative, we see the much-celebrated The Window Tears play out as told by the old man who actually lived and wrote it (Jeremy Irons). All this is framed within yet another book by supposed real-world author Clay Hammond (Dennis Quaid). But Klugman is not content to leave this as a simplistic—and pointless—novel-withina-novel. To tease out Hammond’s pain, we get Olivia Wilde in the role of Daniella, a rather sociopathic fan who uses her sexuality to tease out an incredibly predictable plot development . PG-13. SAUNDRA SORENSON . Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Sandy.
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ONE-PERCENTER BLUES: Meet Jackie Siegel. Half Miss Havisham, half Stifler’s mom, she presides—in a state of well-intentioned oblivion—over eight children and a gaudy empire in Orlando. Three years ago, she was meant to be the subject of a study on decadence called The Queen of Versailles. But in the middle of director Lauren Greenfield’s filming, the economy crashed, and this fortysomething trophy wife found her kingdom being foreclosed on. The Siegels had started construction on what would have been the most expensive single-family residence in the U.S.: a 90,000-square-foot mansion named—with no hint of prescience—Versailles. Between the camera and Jackie there’s a sense of cautious intimacy; Greenfield seems to feel sympathy despite herself. But Greenfield hardly editorialized—this nouveau riche lifestyle was built on smarmy sales tactics from the start. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Showing at: Laurelhurst. Best paired with: Hopworks Velvet ESP. Also screening: The Amazing Spider-Man (Academy).
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): ARIES (March 21-April 19): You will never be able to actually gaze upon your own face. You may of course see a reasonable likeness of it in mirrors, photos, and videos. But the real thing will always be forever visible to everyone else, but not you. I think that’s an apt symbol for how hard it is to get a totally objective view of your own soul. No matter how sincere you may be in your efforts to see yourself clearly, there will always be fuzziness, misapprehensions, and ignorance. Having said that, though, I want you to know that the coming weeks will be an excellent time to see yourself better than ever before. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I’ve got four related pieces of advice for you, Taurus: 1. The most reliable way for you to beat the system is to build your own more interesting system. 2. The most likely way to beat your competitors is not to fight them, but rather to ignore them and compete only against yourself. 3. To escape the numbing effects of an outworn tradition, you could create a fresh tradition that makes you excited to get out of bed in the morning. 4. If you have a problem that is not only impossible to solve but also boring, find yourself a fascinating new problem that will render the old problem irrelevant. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Dear Doctor of Love: My heart is itchy. I’m totally serious. I’m not talking about some phantom tingle on the skin of my chest. What I mean is that the prickling sensation originates in the throbbing organ inside of me. Is this even possible? Have you heard of such a crazy thing? Could it be some astrological phenomenon? What should I do? - Itchy-Hearted Gemini.” Dear Gemini: I suspect that it’s not just you, but many Geminis, who are experiencing symptoms like yours. From what I can tell, you have a lot of trapped feelings in your heart that need to be identified, liberated, and dealt with. CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you make a conscious decision to combine plaids with stripes or checks with floral patterns or reddish-purples with greenish-oranges, I will wholeheartedly approve. If, on the other hand, you absent-mindedly create combinations like that, doing so because you’re oblivious or lazy, I will soundly disapprove. The same holds true about any hodgepodge or hybrid or mishmash you generate, Cancerian: It’ll receive cosmic blessings if you do it with flair and purpose, but not if it’s the result of being inattentive and careless. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Should we boycott the writing of Edgar Allan Poe because he married his 13-year-old cousin when he was 26? Should anti-drug crusaders stop using their iPhones when they find out that Steve Jobs said that “doing LSD was one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life”? Should we stop praising the work that Martin Luther King Jr. did to advance civil rights because he engaged in extramarital affairs? Those are the kinds of questions I suspect you’ll have to deal with in the coming days, Leo. I encourage you to avoid having knee-jerk reactions. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Arthur Turner, a Virgo reader from Austin, is upset with my recent horoscopes. In his email, he wrote the following: “You’re making me mad with your predictions of non-stop positivity, Brezsny. I need more dirt and grit and muck. I’ve got to have some misery and decay to motivate me. So just please shut up with your excess projections of good times. They’re bringing me down.” Here’s my response to him and to any other Virgo who feels like him: I’m afraid you’re scheduled to endure even more encounters with cosmic benevolence in the coming week. If these blessings feel oppressive, try to change your attitude about them. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The humorous science journal Annals of Improbable Research published a paper entitled “The Effects of Peanut Butter on the Rotation of the Earth.” Signed by 198 Ph.D. physicists, it came to this conclusion: “So far as we can determine, peanut butter has no effect on the rotation of the earth.” If possible, Libra, I suggest you summon a comparable amount of high-powered expertise for your own purposes. But please make sure that those purposes are weightier than the question of peanut
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butter’s role on our planet’s movements. Round up the best help you can, yes; call on all the favors you’re owed and be aggressive in seeking out brilliant support; but only for a truly important cause. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): September 16 is the first day of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. So begins ten days of repentance. Whether or not you’re Jewish, Scorpio, you are entering an astrological phase when taking stock of yourself would be a brilliant move. That’s why I invite you to try the following selfinventory, borrowed from the Jewish organization Chadeish Yameinu. 1. What would you like to leave behind from the past 12 months? 2. What has prevented you from living up to your highest standards and being your very best self? 3. What would you love to bring with you into the next 12 months? 4. Who served as a teacher for you in the past year? 5. Were you a teacher for anyone? 6. Is there anyone you need to forgive? 7. How will you go about forgiving? SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If I’m accurately interpreting the astrological omens, the coming months will be a soulful feast in which every day will bring you a shimmering revelation about the nature of your soul’s code and how best to activate it. Reasons for grateful amazement will flow so freely that you may come to feel that miracles are routine and naturally-occurring phenomena. And get this: In your dreams, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty will get married, win the lottery, and devote their fortune to fostering your spiritual education until you are irrevocably enlightened. (I confess there’s a slight chance I’m misinterpreting the signs, and everything I described will be true for only a week or so, not months.) CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A reader named Marissa begged me to insert a secret message into the Capricorn horoscope. She wanted me to influence Jergen, a guy she has a crush on, to open up his eyes and see how great she is. I told her I wouldn’t do it. Why? For one thing, I never try to manipulate people into doing things that aren’t in alignment with their own desires. For another, I faithfully report on my understanding of the tides of fate, and refuse to just make stuff up. I urge you to have that kind of integrity, Capricorn. I suspect you may soon be invited or coaxed to engage in what amounts to some tainted behavior. Don’t do it. Make an extra effort to be incorruptible. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “The far away, the very far, the farthest, I have found only in my own blood,” said poet Antonio Porchia. Let’s make that thought your keynote, Aquarius. Your assignment will be to search for what’s most exotic and unknown, but only in the privacy of your own heart, not out in the great wide world. For now at least, the inner realm is the location of the laboratory where the most useful experiments will unfold. Borrowing from novelist Carole Maso, I leave you with this: “Make love to the remoteness in yourself.” PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It would be an excellent time for you to elope, even if you do so with the person to whom you’re already mated. You might also consider the possibility of wearing a wedding dress everywhere you wander, even if there is no marriage ceremony in your immediate future, and even if you’re a man. And if neither of those ideas appeals to you, please at least do something that will symbolize your intention to focus on intimacy with an intensified sense of purpose. Fling rice at yourself. Seek out someone who’ll give you lessons in how to listen like an empathetic genius. Compose and recite vows in which you pledge to become an utterly irresistible and reliable ally.
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THE BODY OF AN AMERICAN
Remember the classical curves of the Venus de Milo statue? The ripped abs and tight pecs of the Kouros? These ideals of Western beauty were brought to us by ancient Greece in all its glory, and while those specific pieces are not included in The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece, scores of other important artifacts are: statues, armor, vases and more. This traveling exhibition, which originated at the British Museum, touches down in Portland to remind us of the contours and proportions that have stood as paragons of physical perfection through the millennia and still retain their ability to inspire, ennoble and, yes, even arouse us. 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-2811. Oct. 6-Jan. 6.
The title of Dan O’Brien’s play references a photograph of a dead American soldier being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu. War journalist Paul Watson won a Pulitzer Prize for that 1993 shot, but it haunted him long after the shutter snapped. O’Brien’s play, receiving its world premiere at Portland Center Stage, is both a portrait of Watson and a story of the relationship between the two men as they bear witness and seek absolution. At the helm of this promising production is ambitious risk-taker Bill Rauch, artistic director of Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700, pcs.org. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Sundays, 2 pm Sundays, noon select Thursdays, Oct. 2-Nov. 11.
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GREG PALAST
Fed up with our Monopoly-style government where the ultra rich simply purchase the politicians and policies that suit them, investigative journalist Greg Palast is indicting the whole process with his new book, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps. Partnering with political cartoonist Ted Rall, Palast is going after smalltime abusers of voting laws and the Bond villains of democracy, intending to “name and shame” them all. The reading will also serve as a fundraiser for community radio station KBOO. Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St., 238-5588. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Sept. 26. $35 (includes copy of book).
The double bill of Rene Rickabaugh and Francis Celentano offers an invigorating study in contrasts. Rickabaugh’s earthtoned, hyper-detailed still lifes could not be more dissimilar in subject matter or technique from Celentano’s bold op-art abstractions, with their dizzying patterns and circus-ready color palette. The works are apt to counterbalance one another with a dynamic tension between fastidiousness and bravado. Laura Russo Gallery, 805 NW 21st Ave., 226-2754. Oct. 4-27.
THEM’S FIGHTIN’ WORDS
MK GUTH
WHITE BIRD
“What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,” unless you’re artist MK Guth. Guth turned her 20-day residency at Las Vegas’ Cosmopolitan Hotel into a photographic and sculptural exhibition destined for the bluest of Portland’s blue-chip galleries, Elizabeth Leach. A 2008 exhibitor at New York City’s prestigious Whitney Biennial, Guth is one of the Northwest’s most respected conceptual artists. Like nearly all of her past shows, this one promises to mix populist appeal with a winning sense of whimsy. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0844. Oct. 4-Nov. 24.
BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON
In this election year, Portland Playhouse looks back on American political history—way back. The company stages its first musical, an emo-rock tale about our seventh president, the man behind the Trail of Tears. Heavy on narcissistic numbers and oversexed characters, this is populist politics squeezed into a pair of skinny jeans. Expect brassy (but not irrelevant) relief from contemporary political muck—The New York Times said Bloody Bloody “presents a wild and woolly chapter in American history that feels anything but distant.” Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St., 488-5822, portlandplayhouse.org. Oct. 11-Nov. 11.
DANCE Portland dance presenter White Bird celebrates its 15th season with two choreographers who’ve made headlines recently. Former New York City Ballet principal dancer Benjamin Millepied—better known as Mr. Natalie Portman—strikes out on his own with the L.A. Dance Project, a company whose collective repertoire spans Nijinska to Petronio. The other will be 1964’s Winterbranch, from modern legend Merce Cunningham. (7:30 pm Wednesday, Sept. 26, at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall). Then there’s Akram Khan, whose choreographic tribute to victims of terrorism you didn’t see during the Olympics opening ceremonies— if you were watching in the States, that is, as NBC supplanted it with Ryan Seacrest’s Michael Phelps interview. The Akram Khan Company brings Vertical Road, an eveninglength work inspired by Sufi tradition and the Persian poet Rumi. Whirling dervishes may come to mind in this propulsive and mesmerizing work. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, whitebird.org. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Oct. 17.
STEPHEN STUBBS AND PACIFIC MUSICWORKS WITH LES VOIX BAROQUES
Young playwright Annie Baker has a good thing going. She’s a writer of delicate but probing works, quiet plays that have a way of sneaking up on you. Artists Rep produced her Obie-Award winning Circle Mirror Transformation last season, and this fall CoHo Productions will stage her play about a Body Awareness Week at a fictional Vermont college. The comedy, which Time Out New York called “marvelously deft and humane,” explores sexuality and all its pain and humor. CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 205-0715, cohoproductions.org. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays, Oct. 18-Nov. 10. $20$25, Thursdays are pay-what-you-can.
Some of North America’s most accomplished early music experts perform one of the first masterpieces of the Baroque era, Claudio Monteverdi’s stirring 1610 choral orchestral classic, Vespers of the Sacred Virgin. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 147 NW 19th Ave., 222-6000. 5 pm Sunday, Oct. 21. $26-$54.
CAPPELLA ROMANA AND PORTLAND BAROQUE ORCHESTRA
A PORTLAND CIRCUS ON CAGE’S SILENCE
Two of the Northwest’s finest historically informed ensembles perform popular masterpieces by the three of the greatest Baroque composers: Handel, Vivaldi and J.S. Bach. First Baptist Church, Southwest 12th Avenue and Taylor Street. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday, Oct. 12-13. Kaul Auditorium, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 222-6000. 3 pm Sunday, Oct. 14. $18-$49.
THE HOMECOMING
Never a company to shy away from a challenge, Defunkt Theatre opens its 13th season with Harold Pinter’s enigmatic play about a son who brings his American wife to meet his working-class family in North London. The Tony Award-winning drama, described by critic John Lahr as “both a family romance and a turf war,” exposes thorny issues of morality, sex and violence. Paul Angelo directs. Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 418-2960, defunktheatre. com. 8 pm Thursdays-Sundays, Oct. 12-Nov. 17. $15-$20, Thursdays are pay-what-you-can.
OPERA THEATER OREGON
With help from the protean voices of Willamette Radio Theater, the plucky indie opera group revives one of the first operas ever created for radio, American composer Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief. The production will be staged with the audience in a 1939 radio studio (contrived by Portland all-classical radio station KQAC), and will include a show-within-a-show plotline, an original short film, a live score performed by a chamber ensemble and more. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 3140256. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday and ThursdayFriday, Oct. 5-6, 11-12, and 2 pm Sunday, Oct. 7. Ticket prices not available at press time.
It’s easy enough to play six degrees of separation in the dance world: About the time White Bird shares work by Merce Cunningham—and Trisha Brown, a Cunningham acolyte—Portland choreographer Linda Austin joins in a 100th birthday party for Cunningham’s longtime musical collaborator. Austin and sound artist Seth Nehil have collaborated on A Portland Circus on Cage’s Silence, an hourlong movement and music performance supplementing the Pacific Northwest College of Art exhibit Happy Birthday: A Celebration of Chance and Listening. Cunningham and Cage came to be known for “chance dance,” in which random events such as the roll of a dice could shape movement and music phrases. Austin and Nehil, like their inspirations, are working separately. The first time their creations will merge will be in the PNCA Commons, where 16 dancers, 10 musicians and a poet will wander among viewers, on balconies and in hallways. An oversized projected stopwatch will coordinate the performers to the score. A who’s who of local contemporary dancers—including Mike Barber, Tere Mathern and Carla Mann—are slated to perform. PNCA
PA R A M O U N T P I C T R U E S
THAT HOPEY CHANGEY THING
Main Campus, 1241 NW Johnson St., 226-4391. 7 pm Wednesday, Oct. 3.
WHITE BIRD
CLASSICAL
BODY AWARENESS
If Akram Khan didn’t quite get his full due at this summer’s Olympics, Portland’s Northwest Dance Project certainly did. The young company jetted off to London to dance Ihsan Rustem’s State of Matter at the 2012 Cultural Olympiad after winning the 2012 Sadler’s Wells Global Dance Competition with it. At its “New Now Wow” program this fall, NWDP offers three contemporary-dance world premieres, including Rustem’s elegant new work for sets of partners, Mother Tongue, and one each from New York-based Gregory Dolbashian and Brazilian dancemaker Alex Soares, winners of the company’s annual Pretty Creatives International Choreographic Competition. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1633 SW Park Ave., 725-3421. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 4-6. $32-$39.
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COKIE ROBERTS
You’ll no doubt recognize her soothingly authoritative tone as the senior news analyst for National Public Radio. Cokie Roberts’ extensive 40-plus-year journalism career has garnered her the highest praise, including three Emmy awards and induction into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame. Speaking as part of the Voices lecture series, which hosts some of the most accomplished women of the professional world, Roberts will speak about an insider’s view of Washington, D.C. Tickets for the simulcast (which includes the reception) are still available. First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park Ave., voicesinc.com. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Oct. 3. $39.
OREGON BALLET THEATRE
The Olympics also factor into Oregon Ballet Theatre’s season opener, Body Beautiful, a collaboration with the Portland Art Museum. While the museum boasts the U.S. premiere of The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece, a British Museum sculpture collection shown in London during this summer’s Olympic Games, OBT offers a program celebrating the beauty of the human form in motion. Apollo, Balanchine’s first collaboration with Stravinksy, celebrates the god and his muses with sculptural neoclassical movement; Kent Stowell takes on the tragic love story of Orpheus and Eurydice with the pas de deux Orpheus Portrait, and William Forsythe’s lean and rhythmic ensemble piece shows off dancers for the physically gifted beings they are. Artistic Director Christopher Stowell and artist John Grade collaborate on the final work, a world premiere called Ekho. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 248-4335. 7:30 pm Saturday, Oct. 13; 2 pm Sunday, Oct. 14; 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday, Oct. 19-20. $25$150.
LANE HUNTER DANCE
Shortly before Fox Searchlight releases the biopic Hitchcock, Portland dance-theater company Lane Hunter Dance revives its dance interpretation of Psycho, based on Hitchock’s film and the Robert Bloch novel that inspired it. Hunter and Laura Haney play Norman Bates and Mary Crane. They’ll be joined by Polaris dancers Krista Loveless and Mike Dawson and Broadway dancer Brad Hampton in the piece, which blends dance and video in a seasonally appropriate choreographic chiller. World Trade Center Auditorium, 121 SW Salmon St., 464-8688. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Saturday, Oct. 17-20. $25.
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ANDREA SCHWARTZ-FEIT
& BISTRO
NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT
FILM
VISUAL ARTS
ArtBa r
Celebrating all things gritty and kinda badass—like strippers with black eyes—the new reading series Them’s Fightin’ Words, curated and hosted by local slam poet Johnny No Bueno, brings together local authors and regular working stiffs to share their writing. After kicking off the evening with an open mic, this month’s reading will host writer and artist Matty Byloos (Don’t Smell the Floss) and Robert Lashley (Songs My City Taught Me). Don’t show up wearing Izod. St. Johns Booksellers, 8622 N Lombard St., 283-0032. 7 pm Friday, Sept. 28. Free.
C ATA L I N A K U L C Z A R
Profile Theatre produces a full slate of plays by a different playwright each year, devoting this season to Athol Fugard, a South African dramatist known for political, persuasive plays about apartheid. “Master Harold” is a semi-autobiographical work about three friends—one white, two black—grappling with the tangles of bigotry and institutionalized racism in 1950s South Africa. Director Jane Unger’s strong cast includes Bobby Bermea, who gave a stirring performance in Portland Playhouse’s Brother/Sister Plays last season. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 242-0080, profiletheatre.org. Oct. 3-Oct. 28.
Andrea Schwartz-Feit’s wax-based paintings gain a fresh freedom in her latest body of work. For years, the artist used tightly controlled grids to depict abstract patterns and natural scenes in twinkly blocks of color. Now, she has deep-sixed the grid and unleashed a gift for flowing gesture. Most of her forms are ovals that loop up, down, over and around, in patterns that variously resemble trees, flowers, chain link and other natural and human-made objects. Light-hearted, even dainty, in their compositions despite their heavy grayscale palette, the paintings make thrifty use of negative space and subtly textured surfaces. Butters Gallery, 520 NW Davis St., 248-9378. Oct. 4-29.
Portland institution Jackpot Records hosts its ninth annual film festival, this year featuring documentaries on unsung heroes ranging from Southern California punk legends the Circle Jerks to soulman Charles Bradley to gay icon Jobriath, once referred to as “the American Bowie.” Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 236-9234. 8 pm MondayFriday, Sept. 24-28. $5. See jackpotfilmfest. wordpress.com for a complete schedule.
RENE RICKABAUGH AND FRANCIS CELENTANO
“MASTER HAROLD”... AND THE BOYS
Third Rail Repertory resurrects the words of Sarah Palin (she coined the play’s title phrase) with this Richard Nelson work, set on election day 2010. It’s the first in a planned cycle of four plays about the Apple family, a clan of devoted Democrats exploring the shifting currents of politics and relationships. Third Rail, one of just two theaters in the country to tackle the cycle, pulls out a top-notch cast for this first installment: Bruce Burkhartsmeier, Maureen Porter and Mike O’Connell, among others. Winningstad Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 235-1101, thirdrailrep.org. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays, Oct. 5-28. $22.25-$41.25.
JACKPOT RECORDS FILM & MUSIC FESTIVAL
BENJAMIN MILLEPIED
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM: THE BODY BEAUTIFUL IN ANCIENT GREECE
Journey into the dark heart of cinema with NW Film Center’s retrospective of rare film noirs. Among the 35 mm prints screening during this two-week celebration of dames, detectives and dirty dealings: 1951’s The Prowler (7 pm Friday, Sept. 14), the story of a crooked cop’s twisted obsession with a lonely housewife, written the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo; The Blue Dahlia (9 pm Friday, Sept. 22), which earned legendary crime writer Raymond Chandler an Oscar nomination in 1946; and 1954’s ultra-rare Loophole (5 pm Sunday, Sept. 30), described as “a B-movie version of Les Miserables.” NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Ave., 2211156. Sept. 14-30. Multiple showtimes. See nwfilm.org for a complete schedule.
KELLER CAFÉ
DAVID BYRNE
DAVID BYRNE WITH CARRIE BROWNSTEIN
David Byrne knows a little about music, having served as a founding member and principal songwriter of the Talking Heads. He’s won a Grammy, a Golden Globe and an Oscar, been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and is now releasing a book, How Music Works. Joining him to discuss his journey through music and passion for the craft will be Portland mascot Carrie Brownstein. Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 236-9234. 7 pm Friday, Oct. 19. $34 (includes copy of book).
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Anyone who has ever read the devastatingly beautiful writing of Barbara Kingsolver (The Poisonwood Bible, Animal Dreams, The Lacuna) understands the magic quality that words can acquire in the hands of a true master. Hear the author herself in conversation with Portland’s Literary Arts Director Andrew Proctor as part of the organization’s lecture series. Tickets are only available with a subscription, but with other upcoming guests including Jonathan Franzen and Stephen Greenblatt, it’ll be worth it. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm Friday, Nov. 16. $75.
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