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Laurie Notaro came to our writers’ group using a fake name (Laurie Upton) and representing herself as a writer looking for feedback and critique [“Words to the Wolves,” WW, Sept. 12, 2012]. We welcomed her; we’re a friendly bunch. (Her feeling “nothing but complete terror” and being “frightened beyond belief ” might have been a result of her conscience troubling her over the fraud she was about to perpetrate.) But she certainly did not tell us the truth about her real motives. She had been recruited as a reporter for WW, as we all found out when we read the article. In that article, attempted humor was pursued at the expense of truth. She chose not to mention the considerable amount of time we spent critiquing her work.... She ridiculed other writers...in [her] attempts at humor.... I wish the sarcasm and mean-spirited attitude had not been aimed toward the other writers. As the group leader, I don’t mind laying myself open for criticism (although this dishonest behavior wasn’t exactly what you’d call “criticism.”) Yes, I’m a longtime NC-17 Harry Potter fanfic writer. That part was true, and I’m proud of it.... I have an email database of over 3,000 readers who have sent me fan letters.... There are also several other self-published writers in the group, a piece of news that did not make it into the article. This isn’t an article this paper should feel particularly proud of, and Notaro, as a published writer, should not have stooped to these techniques. Yes, it was easy to do. But to paraphrase Dumbledore’s words to Harry Potter: We should do what is right, not what is easy. Anise Leinen Tigard

So what was the point of this article? WW sends a published author into a group of unsuspecting amateur writers to what? Make fun of them? Is there supposed to be a point to this story? Was it supposed to at least be entertaining? It just comes off as arrogant and insulting. I vaguely recall when WW had articles that were actually worth a damn. Seems like a distant dream. —“Jason Alvarez”

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As usual, it’s never about how evil gambling is, it’s about who gets to control the gambling, be it the natives or the Oregon Lottery [“Crapping Out,” WW, Sept. 12, 2012]. It’s all about the money. Gambling income is more stable than income tax. Well, that’s great. Even when the economy goes in the crapper, people will still gamble. So in the end, anyone who currently has their finger in the gambling pot wants to keep everyone else out because it threatens their gravy train. —“meh”

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In cycling the highways and byways surrounding Portland, I’ve run across several old buildings with names like “Tigard Grange” or “Milwaukie Grange.” What’s a grange? Were these the pioneers’ casinos? —Lance Legstrong Very funny. Lance is referring to plans to build a non-tribal casino near Portland, which may be called “The Grange,” even though it’s not likely to have very much in common with the fraternal organization known as the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry. That’s right, Lance: Just for being a wisenheimer, you’re about to get lesson in 19th-century U.S. agrarian history. You’re welcome. After the Civil War, a government clerk named Oliver Kelley wanted to find a way for North and South to pull together. Because at the time over half the U.S. population were farmers, Kelley decided the shared misery of trying to scratch a meager living from the hard and barren earth

could be the common ground he sought, and in 1867 founded an order kind of like the Masons, but for farmers. In addition to a secret handshake and schmoozing opportunities, the Grange provided farmers with political clout, lobbying for issues like rural mail delivery. The Grange also took up causes that would later be called “progressive,” like women’s suffrage (yay!) and temperance (boo!), and, unusually for the time, admitted women as full members. These days, farmers make up just 2 percent of the U.S. population, and Grange membership is down 80 percent from its peak of 1.5 million. Join up if you want—technically, you have to be sponsored by a current member, but they’ll take anybody who shows interest. Meanwhile, there’s at least some life left in the Grange—it threatened to sue the casino folks over the name last week. Better not tell them that ZZ Top’s “La Grange” is about a whorehouse. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com

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WE ARE THE 47 PERCENT. It’s rare for charitable groups to make political contributions—federal law discourages them from converting donations (deductible to the giver) into political cash. But a couple of local 501(c)3 organizations, the Oregon Symphony and the Portland Opera, each donated $25,000 to support an arts tax on the November ballot. Both stand to benefit from the $35-perhead tax, which would split $12 million annually between arts nonprofits and schools. “Because it syncs so tightly with our mission, our board approved a donation,” says Symphony spokesman Jim Fullan. “It’s our understanding that we can’t support candidates, but we can do this.”

Gov. John Kitzhaber’s ambitious education reforms depend in part on “achievement compacts” that have school districts writing plans on how they’ll improve classroom outcomes. Oregon Chief Education Officer Rudy Crew and some Education Investment Board members wanted parents included in discussions. But the Oregon Education Association, which opposes many of Kitzhaber’s reforms, told the board Aug. CREW 31 that parents weren’t specifically included in the enabling legislation. “We do not agree that parents or other non-education professionals ought to be appointed to the Achievement Compact Advisory Committees,” OEA wrote. Board members agreed to OEA’s demand but will seek a legislative fix that includes parents in the compacts. An Oregon Heath & Science University researcher is co-author of a study that slams the U.S. military for not effectively addressing a binge-drinking and drug-abuse “culture.” Dennis McCarty, a professor of public health and preventive medicine, helped present the study to the Defense Department in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 14. “One in three active-duty service members scores on a screening test at a level that suggests an alcohol-use disorder,” McCarty tells WW. “They’ve got individuals that have been deployed seven or eight times, and as a result, they’ve got high risk for drug and alcohol abuse.” Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt. 6

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The marijuana campaign has suddenly lit up. The Oregon State Sheriffs’ Association last week created a political action committee to oppose Measure 80, which would legalize pot in Oregon. Now there’s a new group supporting the measure: Oregonians for Law Reform, which hopes to distance itself from the initiative’s sponsor, Paul Stanford, and re-brand Measure 80 as a mainstream fight against prohibition and wasteful law enforcement. “We want to appeal to soccer moms and grandparents,” says group co-chair Sam Chapman. The group hopes to attract big donors such as Progressive Insurance chairman Peter Lewis, who’s been dumping millions into the Washington and Colorado marijuana campaigns.

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FAILURE TO COMPLY THE FEDS HAVE USED INDEPENDENT MONITORS TO REFORM POLICE AGENCIES ELSEWHERE. BUT PORTLAND LEADERS DON’T WANT ONE HERE. BY WW STA F F

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The U.S. Department of Justice last week released a damning report about the Portland Police Bureau’s use of force. The details may have been shocking, but the conclusion wasn’t necessarily a surprise: The Bureau’s leaders have failed to rein in brutal treatment of mentally ill Portlanders. The feds have had the Police Bureau under investigation for more than a year. In response to the findings, Mayor Sam Adams and Police Chief Mike Reese quickly agreed to work toward adopting the feds’ recommendations, including better training and faster investigations of officer misconduct. The city officially doesn’t agree with the report’s conclusions that police have a pattern and practice of excessive force in dealing with the mentally ill. But the eager compliance with the Justice Department’s recommendations helps portray City Hall and the police as cooperative—while potentially reducing the degree of oversight Portland will get from the feds. City leaders want to avoid one remedy that has succeeded in cleaning up other police departments around This story was reported by Andrea Damewood, Aaron Mesh, Nigel Jaquiss and Matthew Korfhage.

the country: the appointment of an outside, independent monitor who can bring down the hammer. Outside monitors have worked to bring about big changes in the police forces in Los Angeles, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, and they are going into effect in New Orleans and Seattle. The Police Bureau has often resisted outside oversight and been slow to adopt reforms regarding use of force— although Reese insists the Bureau is changing. Local officials hate the idea of giving up the city’s largest and most powerful bureau to outside control—even though doing so has been effective in other cities to force lasting change in police tactics. During last week’s announcement of his agency’s report, U.S. Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez said he expects the Justice Department to seek a consent decree in federal court, essentially binding the city to agreed-upon reforms. But absent from the announcement was any talk of an independent monitor. Instead, Perez talked of local oversight. The Justice Department says it has already agreed with the city to “create a body to ensure increased community oversight of reforms.” DOJ officials didn’t respond to WW’s requests for comment. The candidates for mayor, Charlie Hales and Jefferson Smith, both tell WW they oppose an independent outside monitor to oversee reforms. So does Reese, who made clear last week he disagrees with the report’s findings but points to progress, including a reduction by one-third in use-of-force incidents over the past four years. “We’ve been talking about use of force and adapting

to meet community expectations,” Reese says. “We have made changes.” Portland Police Association President Daryl Turner says he also disagrees with the feds’ conclusions. “None of the cases I saw in there was an excessive use of force,” he tells WW. Turner says the police union will work to help address the Justice Department’s concerns, but he says the biggest challenge is the region’s broken mental health system that has put police into more contact, and at times conflict, with the mentally ill. The feds’ report also portrays the mental-health system as a big factor. Turner says police training is already changing to deal with the challenge, but that nothing short of a sharp increase in police staffing—he says the city should up the number of officers by 25 percent—will make a meaningful difference. “We are dealing with people with mental illness more, therefore there are more uses of force,” Turner says, adding that officers are “being scrutinized for being in those no-win situations and for not being 100 percent perfect.” Four of the five incidents cited in the report cite police use of stun guns. Take, for example, the naked man repeatedly hit with a Taser. In May 2010, three officers showed up at an apartment on Southwest 13th Avenue after they received reports of a man screaming inside his apartment. According to police records, the officers found 48-yearold Anthony Charles Caviness unarmed and naked on his floor, screaming for help. When he saw the officers, Caviness stood up and ran toward them. Without warning, Officer Joshua Sparks leveled Caviness with a Taser shot, and Caviness fell back to the floor. At this point the officers should have handcuffed Caviness, the Justice Department report said, but instead they hit him with three more Taser shots of five seconds each. The Justice Department said the threat to the officers was CONT. on page 8 Willamette Week SEPTEMBER 19, 2012 wweek.com

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“slight,” but their violation of his constitutional rights was “substantial.” The bureau has discouraged officers from firing a Taser more than three times. Reese says he has implemented a new policy that discourages the use of more than one Taser cycle and requires far greater documentation than in the past. But in November 2010, the city auditor called on police to use Tasers only when a subject was actively resisting arrest or about to harm someone. Such a change would put the Bureau’s outdated approach in line with nationally recognized standards. That has not happened.

“SOMEBODY HAS TO BE ABLE TO MONITOR THIS, AND IT NEEDS TO BE SOMEBODY WHO’S PAID TO DO IT, WHO HAS AUTHORITY, WHO CAN ASK TOUGH QUESTIONS. IT’S A STUPID IDEA NOT TO MONITOR.” —JOHN ECK “They frequently say ‘we agree,’ and then implement something that is not exactly what the report says,” Dan Handelman of Portland Copwatch, a volunteer organization promoting police accountability, says. “They started making changes while the DOJ investigation was going on. But those are not necessarily the right changes.” John Eck, a University of Cincinnati criminal justice professor, was involved in the oversight of that city’s police force when the feds pushed for a 2002 consent decree over use of force and racial bias.

Eck says the independent monitor was crucial in Cincinnati’s success in reducing the number of complaints about police use of force. He says Cincinnati officials had some say in who was named to enforce the decree—but the monitor’s independence increased accountability and forced police commanders to become more transparent about how they trained and disciplined officers. “The Department of Justice will negotiate—whether good, bad or indifferent—and for all practical purposes will walk away,” Eck says. “They won’t stick around and see the details. They’ll be seeing things from 10,000 feet away.” Eck says there’s no point for the Justice Department to go through an investigation and then not bring in an independent monitor. “Somebody has to be able to monitor this, and it needs to be somebody who’s paid to do it, who has authority, who can ask tough questions, ask for interviews and do on-site observation,” Eck says. “It’s a stupid idea not to monitor.” Justice Department reports say one area in which Pittsburgh police saw big improvements with an independent monitor was in a so-called “early warning” system to identify officers who have trouble reining in their use of force. That’s been a problem here, left to Portland police commanders to oversee. The city auditor has said it took the bureau 18 years to create an early warning system that meets national standards, except in one key area: Supervisors aren’t required to track the progress of officers who might pose a problem. Reese says he’s already proven the Police Bureau is being responsive to the Justice Department’s concerns. He also did his homework ahead of time, studying what has happened in other cities in hopes of emerging from the investigation with more control than chiefs in other

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cities have maintained. The chief says the Bureau has already adopted the Justice Department recommendations on investigating use of force—a change he says the Bureau made in March. “I said if you see areas where we aren’t following best practice, tell us and we will make course corrections,” he says. “Anytime we have a use of force now, we are investigating. We are always going to be adapting.” Both candidates for mayor, Hales and Smith, say they want to maintain local control of the police as the city seeks to enact the feds’ recommendations. Smith—who has the endorsement of the police union— says he favors community oversight and cooperation with the police bureau, similar to the current system. “I think the key thing is that we follow the DOJ recommendations—both the letter and the spirit,” Smith says. “I’m hopeful that the proposed [local] oversight committee will provide that.” Smith says he doesn’t favor an independent monitor but won’t resist one if “the Department of Justice suggests that there needs to be not only independent oversight but a federal government dictatorship.” “I just haven’t heard the Department of Justice even offering a special monitor—or offering to pay for one,” Smith adds. Hales also doesn’t want an outside monitor, saying as mayor he would oversee the Police Bureau and guarantee the feds’ recommended reforms would be carried out in the same way he worked to change the Fire Bureau as city commissioner. Hales says he has no plans to change the Police Bureau’s leadership. “I’m open to having Chief Reese continue, but there are changes that need to be made,” Hales says. “I’m neither presuming that he’s incapable of making those changes, nor presuming that it will be easy.”

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Greg Palast guarantees one thing to people who read his book or hear him talk: “If I don’t make you laugh, then I’ll give you your money back.” A progressive journalist famous for taking on peak oil and voter suppression, Palast doesn’t touch on funny topics. He injects caustic humor, he says, because “if I don’t laugh, I cry.” While published in the U.S., including in Rolling Stone, Palast, 60, is perhaps better known in the U.K., where he often appears in The Guardian and on the BBC. Yet he’s dug deep into problems with American politics. His breakout book, 2003’s The Best Money Democracy Can Buy, exposed Florida’s efforts to purge AfricanAmericans from voting rolls. Palast is now touring for his latest book, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps, which takes on the Koch brothers and Karl Rove. He talked to WW about protecting Americans’ right to vote, what’s wrong with the media, and why he wrote new endings for the Harry Potter series. WW: You’ve written about voter suppression for years. Only now are the mainstream media writing about cases in Florida and Pennsylvania. It was an episode of Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom. How does that feel? Greg Palast: Actually, Sorkin is a big fan of my work; that’s where he gets it. I’d love to see actual newsrooms cover this goddamn subject. I’m talking about billionaires stealing our government. Your book says Oregon is the only state that contacts voters about errors or questionable signatures. How would you rank the overall health of democracy in Oregon? The health of democracy in Oregon is sick, damaged and terrible, which means it’s the best in the country. Oregon is the least worrisome, but you still have to worry.

Your work has appeared in Project Censored, which features stories mainstream media ignore. Why do you think it’s overlooked? I’m a prophet outcast in my own land. In America, we don’t have reporting—we have repeating. It’s totally infotainment. Does the rhetoric you use—like calling U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, the Republican vice presidential nominee, a “sick little monster”—just help you stand out to your fan base? I must have been in a very polite mood that day. You’ve said, “I’m a reporter. It’s not my job to preserve Democrats.” Yet almost all of your stories champion traditionally liberal causes. I didn’t say I wasn’t progressive. That certainly wouldn’t make me a Democrat. I’m completely driven by anger and resentment toward the rich. I fuckin’ hate ’em. I hate these people with my heart and soul. I hate the fact they go after the defenseless and the voiceless. At this moment in history, the Republicans are more sophisticated; that’s why they’ve been rented out by billionaires to do their work. If I thought my job was to elect schmucks like Al Gore, I would jump off a building. He should have been inaugurated, even though he didn’t think so. Some of your most pointed critics come from the left. For example, the Daily Kos said you were dangerous and failed to document charges about voter suppression. Do I follow the catechism of the left? No. I say convince me. Give me the facts, ma’am, and convince me. The Daily Kos is a sponsor of [Billionaires & Ballot Bandits]. I’ve run big corrections to articles. I’m not talking papal infallibility here. Give me the facts, and if I’m wrong, I’ll change my work. You once published alternate endings for the Harry Potter books, which you claimed J.K. Rowling shared with you. Did you just make that up? The Harry Potter thing was fun. Especially when it went into translation, it went nuts. The Portuguese lost the ironies. It would be nice to have magic wands to get rid of evil people. The reason I wrote that alternate ending to Harry Potter is, it’s not how it works. The most you can do is make evil retreat until it resurges. Evil doesn’t get wiped out with a magic wand. GO: Greg Palast appears Wednesday, Sept. 26, at 7:30 pm at the Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St., clintonsttheater.com. Admission is $35 and includes a copy of the book.

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The best way you can predict the economic success of a city is by figuring out how many adults have finished college. Certainly, people who have a college degree tend to earn more—but so do people who lack a diploma when they live in a city with high college attainment. When it comes to Portland, our city gets a B-minus. The U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey shows 33 percent of people 25 or older have earned a four-year degree. That puts Portland No. 17 out of 51 top metro areas. First place? Washington, D.C., with 46.8 percent, followed by the Bay Area and Boston. Riverside, Calif., is last. SAM STITES.

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SHOULD PORTLAND HAVE OK’D FLUORIDATION WITHOUT A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE? The Portland City Council voted unanimously Sept. 12 to fluoridate Portland’s water by mid-2014. Foes, seeking to refer the question to voters, say the council acted without regard to public opinion. We ask the candidates for mayor: Did the council do the right thing? AARON MESH.

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CHARLIE HALES:

No. “We should have done one of two things. One is have a citizen jury process—a group of people not limited to the most ardent proponents or opponents, that has the time to peel back the veneer on the science, get deeper than email subject headings, and look at data. Actually do taste tests, rely on credible information, and make a recommendation. If their recommendation had some air of consensus, then we could spare the expense of a public vote. If their reasoned recommendation were as cacophonous as the Twitter postings, then the city referring it to the voters would have been an appropriate step.”

Yes. “I think the scientific evidence is very clear and overwhelming. It’s always important to have a good, deliberative process and give people a fair hearing. Then if some folks disagree, they can go to the ballot with an initiative petition. And I guess that’s what some people are planning to do. I don’t think it should be referred by the council. And I don’t plan to sign the petition. But certainly people have a right to send that out for a vote. It’s controversial. There’s some folks that might send it to the ballot. But I support the decision the council’s made.”

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Judah Gold-Markel has trouble parking in front of his house these days. He’s lived in his green bungalow on Southeast Sherman Street, two blocks north of Division Street, for eight years. He’s watched Division transform from a gritty thoroughfare to a trendy destination, making his once-quiet corner of the Richmond neighborhood busier and more congested. But it’s only recently he has seen big apartments—gleaming threeand four-story buildings that look like cuboid spaceships—land on Division, with more on the way. Seven of the 11 new buildings won’t have on-site parking—thanks to a city zoning rule that exempts developers from having to provide it. That’s 224 new rental units in 13 blocks without a single new parking space. cont. on page 14 Willamette Week SEPTEMBER 19, 2012 wweek.com

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sTreeT hassle: homeowners (from left) richard melo, judah Gold-merkel and elisabeth Varga have formed a volunteer group to fight big apartments in the richmond neighborhood. They’re sitting in front of Wafu—on a deck built over a street-parking space.

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“Charlie was a champion,” says former Commissioner Erik Sten, who voted for the zoning change. “You have to see this in the context of a debate he was leading about the need for more transit-friendly development: The harder you make it for cars, the less people will drive.” And for good reason. Increased housing density, less reliance on cars and creating a walkable city have all been hallmarks of Portland’s smart approach to planning. Both candidates for mayor say they are champions of this kind of growth and planning. But as opponents to parking-free apartments grow louder citywide, the candidates have joined their side. State Rep. Jefferson Smith (D -Portland), for example, says he wants a more sustainable city in which planning takes into account “climate change, multimodal transportation, environmental protection and environmental justice.” Yet Smith has joined the chorus of critics opposing the parking-free buildings. Hales’ election-year turnaround is more striking. He’s become such a convincing ally to these activists that many didn’t know he was the one who pushed the original policy 12 years ago. “The city can’t blow the time-out whistle,” Hales tells WW. “But what the city can do is reassess. All these good-hearted neighborhood activists support the big idea of Portland being dense and livable, but they want it to be done right.” Long a sleepy little sister to Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard, Division Street is a time warp. Many businesses are still momand-pop shops that offer basic services: Division Hardware. Ralph Colby & Son Furniture Refinishing. Village Merchants— a flea market in a wooden building, with Formica tables on sale. The Oregon Theater, one of the last big-screen porno-

graphic movie theaters left in America. But if you want a snapshot of what Portland chic has become, just drive—well, maybe you’d better bicycle—down Division Street between Southeast 31st and 44th avenues. Celebrated restaurants with interchangeable names—Xico, Cibo and Roe—are opening around the city’s most beloved Thai destination: Andy Ricker’s Pok Pok. There’s a Little Big Burger—the gastronomic seal of approval for any Portland “it” district. Townshend’s Tea serves kombucha on tap. Last month, the ramen spot Wafu became the first Portland eatery to install “Street Seats,” a tiny, wooden dining deck built atop what was once a street-parking space. Developers are putting up housing to catch the heat: an estimated $60 million to develop the 11 new apartment complexes— two of them finished, two under construction and another seven issued permits by the city. The pressure all of this is putting on the neighborhood includes traffic congestion

Nobody in city politics pushed for density as fiercely as Hales, a commissioner described by The Oregonian in 2001 as “the current crown prince of transportation alternatives.” The previous year, Hales oversaw the Portland Bureau of Transportation when the city reached a breakthrough in its planning for density: remove the requirement

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The Portland City Council more than a decade ago created this exemption—a huge financial benefit to developers—to increase density and discourage people from owning and driving cars. If there’s a single fragment in the zoning code that encapsulates the ambition of city planners and the ethos of Portland, this may be it. But the policy has its costs, and nearby residents such as Gold-Markel are paying for it. He and his neighbors have become increasingly loud in their opposition to these new apartments—including what one local calls “a dormitory without a college.” Gold-Markel, a 38-year-old physician assistant, says he has tried repeatedly to get city officials to listen to him. So he turned to Charlie Hales for help. Hales, a former city commissioner and current candidate for mayor, in July went on a tour led by Gold-Markel and other neighborhood activists. They showed him big, new buildings without on-site parking at Southeast 31st and 38th avenues, and the weedy lot at 37th Avenue where a new, parking-space-free building with 81 units has already been approved. Gold-Markel says Hales didn’t like what he saw. And, he says, Hales offered this suggestion: “What about a moratorium on building until we figure out the zoning laws?” Hales has since wrung his hands over this kind of development and promised to seek a stop to such development until the city can reassess the policy. It’s a curious position for Hales. No one worked more fiercely than he did to push dense development on Portland’s east side, and to pass the no-parking-space requirement. His love of promoting streetcars won him the nickname “Choo-Choo Charlie,” but he could just as rightly have been called “High-Density Hales.”

on Division and commuters speeding down side streets. But the prospect of seven of those buildings not providing residents with parking has neighbors fuming over a building that’s not even there yet. The northeast corner of Southeast 37th Avenue and Division used to be home to the Egyptian Room, an ivy-covered lesbian bar. It was razed to make way for a fourstory, 81-unit apartment complex—one with bicycle racks on every floor but not a single automobile parking space. “It really seems like a monstrosity,” says Elisabeth Varga, whose house at 37th Avenue and Caruthers Street will be in the new tower’s shadow. “Not everybody can understand what it’s going to be like until it goes up. And then it’s going to be too late.” The developer refuses to scale back the project to meet homeowners’ demands. Opponents are so upset that they’ve broken away from the neighborhood association—which has stayed neutral—to form their own group, Richmond Neighbors for Responsible Growth. And few homeowners buy the idea that a policy that exempts developers from offering parking will produce the kind of socially engineered results the city wants. “This is America,” says Blake Sliter, who lives on Caruthers near Southeast 33rd Avenue, near two new apartments. “Everybody’s got a frickin’ car in America.” Portland has spent years trying to reduce the use of cars. City officials had outside motivation: the state’s 1991 Transportation Planning Rule, designed to “promote the development of safe, convenient and economic transportation systems.” The state and Metro, the regional planning agency, told cities to reduce parking spaces by 10 percent. For nine years, the city couldn’t find a way to meet those goals. Enter Charlie Hales.

space jam: Traffic can back up for blocks on southeast Division street at the cesar chavez Boulevard stop light.

cont. to build parking at new housing constructed within 500 feet of public transit that arrives within every 20 minutes. Meanwhile, the city increased the requirements for bicycle amenities at new residential projects. In short, a new apartment complex outside downtown is now required by the city to have 1.1 bicycle parking spaces for each unit, but not necessarily a single car parking space. Sten says Hales battled then-Mayor Vera Katz to get the zoning change through— with the intention of motivating developers to build bigger projects at less expense. “If you want to build a city with less cars,” Sten now tells WW, “you have to divert some of the substantial amount of money that goes into underground parking into other things.” The code offers developers the chance to save a bundle: Each surface parking space costs $2,000, according to Planning Bureau figures, and each parking space in a structure costs $20,000. For years, few developers took the city up on the offer: Banks wouldn’t finance projects without parking, and nobody was building apartments anyway. That’s changed. Pent-up pressure on development and growing demand for housing helps: The economy is waking up, Portland’s rental vacancy rate is the nation’s second-lowest, and banks have changed their attitude to financing these buildings because the market is changing. For young people moving to Portland— the “millennial” generation born after 1980—an apartment without a parking garage isn’t a deal-breaker. “Developers aren’t building parking because their own studies and market research are showing they don’t need to supply it,” says Megan Gibb, a transit-oriented development planner at Metro. “Research shows that demographics are changing: Millennials are driving less, and have a lower car ownership rate than in the past.”

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The builder behind the most hated of the new apartment complexes on Division won’t talk about it. Dennis Sackhoff is a Beaverton-based developer whose Arbor Custom Homes, co-founded with Wally Remmers, builds suburban tract housing across Multnomah

and Washington counties. (He’s the father of a local celebrity: Katee Sackhoff, the actress who played Starbuck on television’s Battlestar Galactica.) Sackhoff ’s company, Urban Development Group, is seizing the opportunity to build large, parking-free apartment complexes like no other developer. It has finished one 50-unit building in the Irvington neighborhood, and it is completing construction on a 47-unit project in the Hollywood neighborhood that partially obscures the iconic marquee of the Hollywood Theatre. And it has four more buildings in the works: another 47 units in Hollywood, 50 units on Hawthorne, 71 units in Buckman, and the 81-unit Division Street building on the former Egyptian Room site, which it’s calling the 37th Street Apartments. Neighbors don’t have a lot of options for stopping Sackhoff—or even getting him to scale back his plans. The city has already issued permits. Even before that, developers often aren’t required to submit plans for design review unless they want an exception to development standards. His company hasn’t asked for special treatment. Sackhoff declined repeated interview requests, saying further publicity wouldn’t benefit him. But he allowed his development manager, David Mullens, to give WW a tour of the finished building on Northeast 15th Avenue and Hancock Street. The building, called Irvington Garden Apartments, is a fairly anonymous fourstory compound with peaked-roof turrets and blue siding, four blocks north of the Lloyd Center mall. It opened last summer, and rented all of its 50 studio and onebedroom apartments, for rates starting at $650 a month, within three months. The building has innovative features, most of them centered on bicycles. There are no elevators, but the stairwells all have grooved metal runways for people to slide their bicycles up and down the stairs. The building’s centerpiece is a four-story bike tower with 54 bike racks; Sackhoff gives each new tenant a complimentary bicycle lock. But the building has no storefront space—or any engagement with the street other than gates. Its concrete stairs and siding, and the closely spaced units, suggest a complex built cheaply for economy living. It feels like a bicycle-themed Comfort Inn.

rAising hAles: neighbors in July give charlie hales (far left) a tour of the Move the house Apartments at 38th Avenue and Division.

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bicycle rights: the irvington garden Apartments near lloyd center has a four-story tower of bike parking.

Sackhoff’s Division Street project will have 3,000 square feet of street-front retail. But its design—boxy and without on-site parking—is otherwise what many Division-area homeowners dread. Not all developers think the city’s policy is a good idea. Randy Rapaport, a longtime developer of condominiums and apartments on the east side, including the Belmont Dairy Apartments and Lofts, disagrees with the parking exemption. He says it simply allows developers to cut costs while creating gridlock for the neighborhood. “These are sophisticated developers,” Rapaport says. “They know they can fill their units because this area is so hot. They know better. But they’re not required to know better.” On a recent weeknight, Mike Gerel jogs with his chocolate Lab, Mocha, outside his new home: Move the House Apartments, at 38th Avenue and Division, one of the noparking buildings that neighbors dislike. Gerel, a 41-year-old project manager for environmental nonprofit Sustainable Northwest, usually gets around on foot or bike. He rarely uses his Subaru Outback, which he parks in front of someone else’s house on Southeast Ivon Street.

“It sits there,” Gerel says, “getting crapped on by birds.” Gerel is a recent transplant from Richmond, Va., which he says has far worse traffic and parking problems than Portland. He appreciates living in a building that represents the city’s goals—and that Portland is a place “where people live the ethic.” WW conducted a survey of residents at Gerel’s 23-unit apartment complex. We talked to 10 residents, who own a total of 11 cars and 14 bicycles. Every resident owns a car, but many of them say they rarely drive. Many of the residents work in the environmental and sustainability fields. “Personally, I don’t mind the extra motivation to not drive,” says Andy Davidhazy, a creative director who designs MAX stations. “I’d like to ride my bike more. So it’s a good challenge.” All the residents WW spoke to said they liked their new building, even though some don’t like the lack of parking, or worry they’re alienating neighbors. “It wasn’t built with the neighborhood in mind,” says Abbie Murray, a Portland State University community-development major. “If you tell people you live in the apartments, I can tell that they’re not cont. on page 16 Willamette Week SEPTEMBER 19, 2012 wweek.com

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super thrilled.” The building ’s developer is Urban Development Partners, not Sackhoff ’s Urban Development Group. This company had been here first, before Sackhoff’s sound-alike firm came along. Urban Development Partners executive Eric Cress is getting used to fielding irate phone calls about Sackhoff’s 81-unit project one block away. Cress’ firm has two finished new buildings, one without on-site parking along Division. “Quite frankly, we worry and talk about the concerns of the neighbors quite a bit,” he says. “We’re building a responsible city.” Cress says about half of his renters own cars—and that number doesn’t vary much at either location, regardless of parking availability. That matches a study issued last month by sustainability think tank Sightline Institute showing weekly gasoline consumption in Oregon dipped to 7.1 gallons per capita in 2011—the lowest level in decades. Robert Liberty, a former Metro councilor who now directs the University of Oregon’s urban planning think tank Sustainable Cities Initiative, says less parking is a good sign for Division—his own neighborhood. “Would you want to live in a neighborhood with abundant parking because no one goes there?” Liberty asks. “Neighborhoods change. They are constantly changing. The people who live there now are not the people who will live there 20 years from now.”

gooD fences: apartments without parking near 43rd avenue and Division are reflected in the caption goes here windows of fox fence—which is slated to be demolished to buildphoto apartments without parking.

The candidates for mayor are moving faster. Jefferson Smith is the darling of environmental activists, social-justice advocates and bike-firsters. He presents himself as pressing for eastside growth and public transit. But Smith made infill housing an issue in the mayoral primary, attacking Hales for enabling cheap, skinny houses in East Portland. Now Smith is careful to walk both sides of the debate. “We need to have housing for 5,000 to 6,000 new people a year, and that’s a lot of people,” Smith says. “Do we need this many units in this many blocks? My hunch is that whenever this was happening, the folks were saying, ‘Whatever you want to build, let’s build.’ We were a little too lax.” Hales is a different story. The moratorium presentation to the City Council included a quote attributed to Hales: “Division Street is facing the perfect storm of developers taking advantage of outdated zoning codes.”

If this is the Portland ideal—and it’s working—where are the city leaders to champion it? Slowly backing away, from the looks of things. On Sept. 12, Richmond neighbors and residents of other parts of town who have seen these new apartments going up packed a City Council hearing. During the presentations, Judah Gold-Markel presented his plan for a moratorium—the idea he’d gotten from Charlie Hales. By the end of the week, Commissioners Nick Fish and Amanda Fritz told WW they want to find a way to increase parking requirements for new construction. Mayor Sam Adams, who has stood his ground on the issue, told the activists the city is studying whether there’s a parking crunch. “Not fast enough!” someone shouted.

The irony, of course, isn’t just that Hales pushed this policy, but that the code is hardly outdated. It’s just now beginning to bring the kind development Hales and other city leaders foresaw. In his nearly two terms as city commissioner, Hales was routinely described as a “new urbanist,” a mantle he embraced as he shepherded the streetcar and argued for density as the proper outcome of the Urban Growth Boundary. In 2001, he spoke at a conference in Hungary titled “A Vision of Car-Free Cities in Central and Eastern Europe.” The same year, he told The Oregonian’s Steve Duin that Portland—by emphasizing walkability, transit and density—was becoming “the best European city in America.” Hales tells WW that when the city was rewriting the zoning code in 2000 to eliminate the parking requirement, he never thought developers would actually build apartments without parking. “We were trying to get developers to put in one [parking] spot instead of two,”

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he says. “I certainly wasn’t smart enough to anticipate that banks would finance projects with no parking whatsoever.” Hales says he wants to halt any new building permits on Division until the city reconsiders the no-parking rule, as well as the details of design review. “Live in the present day, even while you’re making the changes to get to a different future,” Hales says. “That’s not just words. We’ve got to keep people on board. We’ve got to adapt as we go along.” With his new take on the issue, Hales is on one hand defending his creation, while offering so much sympathy to opponents it’s as if he’s handing out ammunition for the revolt. “I don’t see pitchforks and I don’t smell torches,” he says. “We’re pioneers in Portland. We keep trying things that other cities haven’t done yet. We will have to make adjustments, because we’re making the map.” Liberty says Hales runs the risk of clouding the rules so much that developers will stop building. “People need to know what they can count on,” Liberty says. “He knows this.” But Liberty says Hales also knows he can’t dismiss homeowners’ fears in an election year. “Charlie had a tendency to dismiss people as NIMBYs,” Liberty says. “Can he demonstrate that he listens to people? It may seem like just political opportunism, but it’s also a lot of common sense.” Gold-Markel is just happy to have Hales—whom he didn’t know had once championed the policy—on his side. “It doesn’t bother me,” Gold-Markel says. “People make laws in the time that they live in. He’s listened to us.” News intern Troy Brynelson contributed reporting to this story.

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hugs and kisses: “This is so much better than SXSW.” Scoop must have heard this at least a dozen times during last weekend’s new arts and technology festival, XOXO. Indeed, while the Kickstarterfunded festival sounded similar in premise to SXSW Interactive—a bunch of bigname Internet people get together to talk about doing cool shit on the Internet— it couldn’t have been more different. XOXO was small (400 attendees), friendly and inclusive (no exclusive VIP parties), without a single logo or corporate sponsor in sight. It was vocally anti-greed and pro-social responsibility, and most important, focused on people eschewing big business, large sums of money and the establishment to follow their creative passions. Prediction: XOXO 2013 will be the hottest ticket in all of geekdom. jarmageddon: Remember Casey Jarman, ex-Willamette Week music editor? Though gone from these pages, he still wields great influence over the Portland music scene. For instance: He’s getting the Shaky Hands back together! For one night, anyway. On Friday, Oct. 5, the beloved Portland jangle-rock group is reuniting its classic lineup—which performed its last show in 2008, though a version of the band continued until 2010—to play Backspace for Jarman’s 32nd birthday party. Other groups on the bill, which stretches to neighboring Someday Lounge, include the Chicharones; Point Juncture, WA; and Illmaculate. “It didn’t feel like playing old songs. It didn’t feel weird or nostalgic,” says Shaky Hands bassist Mayhaw Hoons of the group’s rehearsals. “I’m surprised we remembered them all.” new naany: Metro Portland’s best Indian restaurant, Chennai Masala, is doubling in size and quadrupling in atmosphere. Discreetly tucked away in a Hillsboro strip mall, the restaurant has a notoriously drab dining room, with chairs and tables fit for a fast-food joint. Owner Sumathi Raj gave Scoop a tour of the impressive new space, which has banquettes and wood floors, last weekend. >> Earlier this year, we reported Korean-Mexican food-truck fleet Koi Fusion bought the former Stadium Flowers space at 2010 W Burnside St. near Jeld-Wen Field, with the intention of building an indoor dining room and serving beer. Now, Koi has finally filed for a beer-and-wine license for the space. >> Profile Theatre at 3430 SE Belmont St., which performs only the works of one playwright every season (this season it’s Athol Fugard), has applied for a beerand-wine license. CorreCTion: Last week’s Scoop had a photo of OB Addy instead of his uncle, legendary Ghanaian drummer Obo Addy, who died Sept. 13 at age 76 after a five-year battle with liver cancer. This is especially unfortunate as WW made the same mistake in 2009, and because the men were involved in a bitter legal dispute over their names in 2003. Our apologies to OB and condolences to the family of Obo.

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WEDNESDAY SEPT. 19 SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET [THEATER] Somehow, Portland Center Stage made it 25 years without a single Stephen Sondheim musical. That drought is over with this grisly tale of madness, revenge and meat pies. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 pm Sundays with alternating Saturday matinee and Sunday evening performances. Noon select Thursdays. Through Oct. 21. $30-$70. ignite portland [woRdS] The 11th iteration of Portland’s Ignite series, in which folks have five minutes and 20 slides to give a lightning talk. Topics this round include “Bronyism in Modern Culture,” “How to Climb a Mountain without Killing Yourself” and “Tales of Living in an RV in Portland.” Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 467-7521, 6 pm. Free. All ages. STAR WARS yoga [YoGA] Like most things in life, yoga can only be improved when paired with Star Wars. Use the spirit and strength of your favorite Star Wars characters to enhance your flexibility while practicing hatha yoga. do the bound butterfly while channeling your inner frozen-in-carbonite Han Solo or focusing metalbikini Leia to perform the Ananta. May the Force be with you. Manifest Men’s Studio, 4906 NW 22nd Ave., 223-8822. 7:30-9 pm. $15.

WHAT CAN YOU LEARN PLAYING EDUCATIONAL VIDEO GAMES? Education is the measuring stick of civilization. But not everyone can sit through a lecture about Teddy Roosevelt’s later years without getting distracted by squirrels frolicking outside. Some of us need to bump into a dysentery-stricken Roosevelt in the middle of the Amazon while looking for cinchona to save the Incan people to earn at least partial credit. For this, we have educational games, says Jane McGonigal, one of Oprah’s 20 most inspirational women, coming to town to speak about “The Power of Gaming and Education.” Willamette Week had one of our always-eager-to-learn interns spend a few days playing the video games of our youth. Here’s what he learned.

FRIDAY SEPT. 21 COMPLIANCE [MoVIES] writer-director Craig Zobel’s torture-chamber piece is most definitely a painfest— it is essentially a 90-minute rape sequence—but it smartly skirts titillation to get at unsettling truths about a species robbed, ruled and defeated by discipline and punishment. It is a very scary movie because it is all too true. Cinema 21, 616 NW 21st Ave., 223-4515. Multiple showtimes. $9.

SATURDAY SEPT. 22 The Amazon Trail

Teddy Roosevelt and Henry Ford romped around the South American jungle together. Too bad neither carried anything to treat the bubonic plague contracted after my canoe capsized.

The Incredible Machine

You can power a treadmill by stringing a rubber band between the treadmill and a mouse wheel then dropping a bowling ball on top of a mouse cage.

Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?

Even after you’ve gathered enough evidence to identify a criminal, you need to call a warrant robot before you can arrest him. Also, Afghanistan’s chief exports are nuts, wheat and fruits—not opium. Beware, one motivated thief can steal the entire dome of the Rock.

DinoPark Tycoon

Jurassic Park has a point: dinosaur theme parks need guided tours. with only one lame ornithomimus on display, parkgoers just wander around aimlessly. Also, don’t cheap out on fences and staff.

go: Jane McGonigal presents “The Power of Gaming and Education” at Concordia University Gymnasium, 2811 NE Holman St., on Thursday, Sept. 20. 7 pm. $8-$15.

Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work

Apparently the porn industry, the main reason VHS dominated Betamax, is controlled by drug dealers. Scoring is difficult even in a sporty leisure suit, but you can still get in a girl’s pants by giving her money to “invest in junk bonds.” JoHN LoCANTHI.

St. JoSef’S winery grapeStomping feStival [wINE] Celebrate the beginning of “crush” with a very literal interpretation of the word, by stomping barefoot around a 1,200-gallon barrel of grapes. There will also be live German music and 400 pounds of St. Josef’s sausages and housemade sauerkraut. St. Josef’s Winery, 28836 S Barlow Road, Canby. Noon-6 pm Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 22-23. $10.

TUESDAY SEPT. 25 wilco [MUSIC] Sure, you’ve got the bootleg of the February show at the Schnitz. But seeing wilco is even better when you drive five hours to do it. Britt Festival, Britt Pavilion, Jacksonville. brittfest.org. 7 pm. $39-49.

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Feast Portland

It’s the Portland food scene’s coming-out party. Sure, it’s super expensive and most of the good events are sold out, but if you want to pay $45 to learn how to use an Aeropress from Andrew Knowlton or $200 to eat Reuben sandwiches made with Dungeness crab and sturgeon caviar, you can still get tickets for a few things. Visit feastportland.com to see what’s left. Thursday-Sunday, Sept. 20-23. $45-$200 for individual events; $100-$650 for packages. See page 23.

Man vs. Pie Challenge

Oh, look: a gimmicky event at the Original. This time it’s a pie-eating contest. At least it’s for charity: All proceeds benefit the Cascade AIDS Project. Whoever eats the most pie in 10 minutes gets a night at the downtown Courtyard Marriott and a $100 gift certificate to the Original. The Original, 300 SW 6th Ave., 546-2666. Noon. Free admission; free pie slices and coffee.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 21 Ken Forkish, Diane Morgan and Julie Richardson

Ken Forkish (of Artisan Bread and Artisan Pizza fame), local food writer Diane Morgan and Julie Richardson from Hillsdale’s Baker & Spice each have new cookbooks coming out. They’ll be at Powell’s, talking recipes and signing copies. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

Oktoberfest at Der Rheinlander

Der Rheinlander raises a big outdoors tent and oﬀers German food, imported beers and polka music for Oktoberfest. A portion of the cover charge goes to the Northwest Down Syndrome Association. Rheinlander German Restaurant, 5035 NE Sandy Blvd., 288-5503. 5-10 pm FridaySaturday, Sept. 21-22. $5. 21+.

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Fresh Hops Workshop

Saturday, Sept. 22, 3–6 pm Local chefs’ signature tapas pair with Spanish wines & ciders from De Maison Selections

★ Starring ★ ★ Ethan Powell, Tobias Hogan (EaT/The Parish) ★ Anthony Cafiero (Ración) ★ Greg Perrault (June) ★ Anthony Walton (Beaker & Flask) ★ Jason Barwikowski (Woodsman Tavern) ★ Megan Walhood & Jeremy Daniels (Viking Soul Food) ★ Bob Pullen & Jolene Rutherford (Nicky USA)

Featuring Txakoli Bar Sherry Bar Porron Contest!

Festivities $30

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It’s hop-harvesting time, and Portland Beer Week is running a workshop on what to do with the hops once they’re picked. Brewers from Ninkasi, Double Mountain, Hopworks and Breakside will each present one of their fresh-hopped beers. You can also French-press your own beer with fresh hops, sample hop-infused olive oils and join in discussions on growing and packaging fresh hops. So... hop to it. Tickets at pdxbeerweek. com. Saraveza Bottle Shop & Pasty Tavern, 1004 N Killingsworth St., 206-4252. 6 pm. $10.50.

Grape-stomping Festival at St. Josef’s Winery

Celebrate the beginning of “crush” with a very literal interpretation of the word, by stomping barefoot around a 1,200-gallon barrel of grapes. There will also be live German music and 400 pounds of St. Josef’s sausages and housemade sauerkraut. St. Josef’s Winery, 28836 S Barlow Road, Canby, 651-3190. Noon-6 pm Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 22-23. $10, includes wine glass and wine tasting.

SEE THE LITE: Is this the burger of the future?

JACKSON’S LITE-N-TASTY Americans are fat because our lifestyles have evolved faster than our diets. Those all-American foods—burgers, fries, milkshakes— were sustenance, not indulgence, for generations stained with oil and soil. So what happens now that we’ve traded lunch pails for Aeron chairs? I’ve thought a lot about that in the three years since I lost 100 pounds by counting calories. It’s possible we’ll get more active— because you can eat at Pine State Biscuits every morning if you bike to Southeast Belmont Street from St. Johns. It’s also possible we’ll develop a taste for lighter and more worldly fare—because a banh mi has about a third the calories of a pastrami sandwich. Order this: Burger, fries and a chocolate shake—$9.97 and But my clearest vision of the future 660 calories. actually looks more like downtown I’ll pass: Salmon burger Portland’s newest burger joint, Jack($6.99, 348 calories) and organic beef burger ($5.99, son’s Lite-N-Tasty. 305 calories). Jackson’s doesn’t feel particularly futuristic—it’s only a little less drab than The Office break room—and the menu, which has burgers, chicken sandwiches, fries, shakes, cookies and salads, doesn’t read much differently from that at Joe’s Burgers a block away. But for people looking to slim down by changing their habits gradually, this is an exciting development. A quarter-pound burger ($3.99) has only 305 calories— compared to 410 for McDonald’s cheeseless version. It’s better than a standard fast-food burger, too, though it’s punching a few weight classes below the better bistro burgers in town. The secret, I suspect, is the very lean ground beef, and a special roll, which resembles ciabatta more than a traditional hamburger bun. It is topped with a low-calorie Thousand Island-type sauce. My dining companion didn’t know he was eating something “healthy.” The “fries” and shakes have an even bigger calorie cut. Waffle-cut potatoes, baked instead of fried and covered in an orange pepper powder with more flavor than salt ($1.99), have only 120 calories per serving, about a third of what typical fast-food fries pack. Vanilla, chocolate and strawberry shakes ($3.99) each have less than 250 calories. You can tell they use low-fat ice cream by the thinner consistency, but I happily slurped them down. Low-calorie desserts actually account for about half the menu, including a dry and granola-y oatmeal cookie (100 calories, 55 cents) and a thin slice of an appropriately rich chocolate espresso cake with airy icing (228 calories, $3.95). How is it all possible? The cooks weren’t talking, saying only, “It’s amazing what you can do when you substitute one or two things in a recipe.” That’s fine—I think more restaurants are going to figure out how to cut these corners in our great national Biggest Loser episode to come. MARTIN CIZMAR. EAT: Jackson’s Lite-N-Tasty, 515 SW 4th Ave., 969-7384. 11 am-4 pm Monday-Friday. $.

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10 THINGS YOU CAN SEE AT FEAST Portland’s restaurant scene is all grown up, and that means we get a fancy food festival to call our very own. Feast Portland, the brainchild of former WW contributor Mike Thelin and PR consultant Carrie Welch, debuts this week and it’s a bona fide big deal: marquee chefs, national media attention, its own flavor of Salt & Straw ice cream. It’s pretty spendy and much of it is sold out, but we couldn’t let it pass without comment. If you are going, or just planning to be in downtown Portland sometime over the next four days, here are 10 things to look for: 1. East Coasters This festival had its Travel Oregon-sponsored launch party 3,000 miles away in New York. Feast Portland costs $650 for a full weekend pass, so we assume moneyed New Yorkers are its target demographic. 2. White guys cooking Thai food One of Feast’s biggest coups has been scoring London-based Australian chef David Thompson, whose Michelin-starred restaurant, Nahm, charges $37 for a red curry. Naturally, he’ll be hanging out with Pok Pok’s Andy Ricker all week, cooking together at the $125-per-person night market, doing a guest dinner at Pok Pok, and railing against ignorant farang who dare put chicken in their pad Thai. 3. The 15th best chef in the world French chef Inaki Aizpitarte’s Le Chateaubriand is ranked the 15th best restaurant in the world. His dinner, a collaboration with San Francisco chef Daniel Patterson, is sold out, of course.

8. Just these two barbecue guys; you’ve probably never heard of them Aaron Franklin, from Austin’s celebrated hipster barbecue joint Franklin Barbecue, and Rodney Muirhead, from Portland’s celebrated hipster barbecue joint Podnah’s Pit, will compete against each other at the $95-per-ticket “Sandwich Invitational.” Did we mention gourmet stoner food? 9. Celebrity chefs galore If you like your chefs to come with a five-book deal and their own line of cookware, Feast delivers: The Next Iron Chef contestants Marco Canora, Brad Farmerie and Amanda Freitag; Top Chef Masters contestants Naomi Pomeroy, Anita Lo and Paul Qui; Ace of Cakes’ Duff Goldman; Cheap Bites’ Eddie Huang; and 2 Dudes Catering’s Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo will all be there. 10. New York Times reporters working on their next big trend piece It’s a tired joke at this point, but almost certainly true. Brownie points if they can resist using a Portlandia reference. RUTH BROWN. Go: Feast runs Sept. 20-23 at various locations around Portland. Visit feastportland.com for more info.

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6. The prodigal son returns Former Castagna chef Matthew Lightner, whose new restaurant Atera is the toast of New York, returns to Portland for a collaboration with South Carolina rock-star chef Sean Brock. The $150-a-head dinner is sold out. Atera also charges $150 per diner, and is booked until November. And to think that only a little over a year ago, you could get his food here any night of the week for just $65. Now you’re regretting never going to Castagna, aren’t you? See, Portland, this is why you can’t have nice things.

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4. Andrew Knowlton being an expert on everything Restaurant editor of major Feast sponsor Bon Appétit magazine, The Next Iron Chef judge and dreamboat Andrew Knowlton will be presenting classes on coffee-making, weird beers, cocktails and Thai street food. Hopefully, he will also find time to explain his recent bizarre pronouncement of good but hardly revelatory Portland restaurant Luce as one of the 10 best new restaurants in America. 5. Your tax dollars at work This for-profit event received $75,000 from state tourism body Travel Oregon and $20,000 from the city of Portland’s Travel Portland. So even if it’s not you chowing down on a $150 dinner of artisan charcuterie, you can feel good knowing you still played an important part in the meal. Just not the part where you get to eat anything.

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food, the most expensive event at Feast is a $200-per-person “showcase” of high-end chefs doing comfort food. Among other things, the program promises “a Reuben sandwich...made with Dungeness crab and sturgeon caviar.” Fun fact: for the same price, you can give two ducks, a pig, goat and sheep to a Third-World family.

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Don’t Talk to the Cops, ShowYouSuck

Polarity Taskmasters, Eet

[WTF HIP-HOP] So there’s this beanpole white dude dressed like a b-boy caricature named djblesOne and a tiny Asian chick named emecks dressed as a 1980s version of a hipster gangbanger, and they’re on stage dancing in unison and rapping over thick synthesizer and 808-style bass. They’re called Don’t Talk to the Cops. The Seattle oddity just released Let’s Quit, a collection of excellently produced funk-soul beats interspersed with robotic grooves and bursts of manic, faux chest-beating anthems and goofy dance-hall rhythms. I have no idea what the fuck to make of this as they bound from R&B to LMFAOesque weirdness. Is it parody? A weird art project? A sincere throwback? Whatever it is, it’s impossible to look away. AP KRYZA. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. 9 pm. Contact venue for ticket information. All ages.

Sondre Lerche, Fancy Colors

[ECLECTIC POP] Norwegian singersongwriter Sondre Lerche turned 30 this month. He also released his first album of live recordings, as well as vinyl reissues of his first four records. He forces the introspective question: “What have I done in the last 10 years?” His maturation is evident in his decision to dismantle the control that goes into crafting a studio album. On Bootlegs, a compilation of live performances drawn from a tour supporting his 2011 self-titled album, Lerche’s voice cracks, and mistakes are audible through the raw energy and crowd noise. Popular songs like 2004’s “Two Way Monologue” find new life in the concert atmosphere. So even if you miss tonight’s show, you always have something to fall back on. EMILEE BOOHER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $15. 21+.

The Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou Project

[PIANO TRIBUTE] Emahoy TseguéMaryam Guèbrou is one of dozens of Ethiopian musicians receiving worldwide attention thanks to the peerless Ethiopiques CD series. Unlike many of those collections, Guèbrou’s disc has no driving backbeat or even vocals. It is nothing more than gorgeous piano instrumentals played with passion and delicacy. You can catch the dual influences of jazz and classical, as well as the Arabic-inspired melodies embraced by her male peers. Tonight, the music of Guèbrou will be given a loving tribute via Mary Sutton, an incredible musician who has gained renown within the experimental and classical music scenes here in Portland. ROBERT HAM. Sengatera Restaurant, 3833 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 288-3787. 8 pm. $1-$5 suggested donation. All ages.

Bob Mould (of Hüsker Dü)

[SILVER ROCKER] After a few years of moonlighting as a techno DJ and adding some electronic punch to his power pop, Bob Mould decided to re-embrace his inner rocker on the recently released Silver Age. Recorded with the crack rhythm section of Jason Narducy and Jon Wurster, the album harks back to his days fronting the loudly melodic outfit Sugar—so much so that on this tour, Mould will be playing that former band’s album Copper Blue in its entirety, as well as cuts from his new album and select gems from his first band, the seminal punk trio Hüsker Dü. ROBERT HAM. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 8:30 pm. $22 advance, $23 day of show. 21+.

[APPROXIMATELY EXPERIMENTAL IMPROV] In their various projects together and apart, L.A.-based improvisers Emily Hay (flute, electronics and vocals) and Brad Dutz (percussion) have always had more wit and post-classical sensibility than is commonly heard in avant-jazz, a territory that can be pretty shrieky and inward-looking. Joining with virtuoso pianist Motoko Honda to form Polarity Taskmasters, they’ve somehow managed to retain their singular quirkiness while expanding their range. The group is gentle and melodic while also being wild and far-out. Fans of adventurous jazz and contemporary post-classical music should give it a whirl. BRETT CAMPBELL. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 7196055. 8 pm. $10-$12. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

XDS, Hume, Fang Moon

[BLISSED OUT] The Baltimorebased quartet Hume refers to its music as “concrete pop,” which is a strangely tactile, earthbound descriptor for a sound this slippery and misty. The band burbles under the clatter of the world with a quiet intensity. Simmering, processed guitars and ambient effects roil alongside Britton Powell’s hypnotized vocals and Eastern-inspired rhythms. Hume also trucks in more angular freakouts that emphasize volume and time signatures that are impossible to dance to. Don’t let that throw you off. Just breathe deep and wait for the warm glow to return. ROBERT HAM. Ella Street Social Club, 714 SW 20th Place, 2270116. 9 pm . $5. 21+.

Onuinu, Shy Girls, Magic Fades, DJ Bobby Dangerous, DJ Zack

[POST-CHILLWAVE] This is Onuinu’s party, celebrating the release of the Portland electro-pop wunderkind’s highly touted debut full-length, Mirror Gazer, but he better prepare to have his big night stolen from him by Shy Girls. While still shrouded in mystery— it’s been reported the project is the creation of producer Dan Vidmar, but few are willing to double down and state that as a certain fact—the tracks available online hint at a group certain to take over the city in the coming months: Its blissfully synthed-out, lightly funky take on modern blueeyed soul is too seductive to resist. With Onuinu going national, a space is open for Portland’s next great hype. Shy Girls should fill the gap quite nicely. MATTHEW SINGER. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. Free. 21+.

Serj Tankian, Viza

[CHOP SUEY] Serj Tankian is the voice of a generation. Unfortunately, it’s the generation that grew up listening to nu metal. But System of a Down—the band Tankian led to platinum album sales and Grammy Awards before it fizzled into the state of purgatory where it remains today—never deserved to get placed under that umbrella in the first place. The group was always light-years more creative, more aggressive and more legitimately bonkers than its peers, much of that owing to Tankian’s shape-shifting persona, surging from end-of-days preacher to deranged carnival barker often in the span of a single verse. His solo work has found the singer stretching his elastic vocals over orchestral arrangements, and while this year’s Harakiri is an OK-ish return to stan-

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M. Ward has been busy. Aside from building his own well-established repertoire, the guitar-savvy, gravelly voiced musician and producer—who moved to Portland from Los Angeles in 2000, though he isn’t around much—has collaborated in projects such as She & Him (with Zooey Deschanel) and Monsters of Folk (with Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Jim James). In April, he released his eighth solo album, A Wasteland Companion, a relatively upbeat travelogue of sorts he recorded with a plethora of friends. Willamette Week spoke with Ward, who plays a long-delayed homecoming gig at the Aladdin Theater this week, about writing and conceptualizing his new album. WW: Explain the concept behind A Wasteland Companion. M. Ward: I’ve had this idea over the last couple records to make some kind of record or some kind of photograph of the years when I was making [the album]. The last few years I did a lot of traveling, so for this new record there’s a lot of traveling built into the production. We used about a dozen different studios all over the place. What considerations are most important in putting together an LP? The big picture. I believe the best songs recognize there is a dark side of the street, but they don’t stay there. I personally like music that’s somewhat hopeful and has some sort of light at the end of the tunnel. But at the same time, I don’t really like music that’s pure sunshine and happiness. I don’t think that’s telling the true story about people’s lives. You told The New York Times you can trace your songs to a particular moment. What are some significant moments tied to these songs?

They’re all significant. What I said to the NYT was a little bit of an exaggeration, maybe. The most significant moment that I can think of for every song is that moment when you’re introducing a new song to a talented musician who’s never heard it before. That’s a great moment to get the tape going, get first instincts on the tape, and more often than not, that’s when a song comes alive in the studio. Tell me about your relationship with your voice. I don’t think about my voice so much. I started just playing guitar, so the vocals have always been an extension of the guitar. That has rescued me from over-thinking the vocals. It has probably also been a little bit of a curse because, more often than not, what you hear on the record is my first or second take. You’ve talked a lot about the influence of dreams in your songwriting. A lot of my favorite books and movies have that feeling of a dream, where anything can happen. I’ve always loved the idea that music can give you that same sensation. That means creating space for the listener to fill in blanks and not beating them over the head with some idea. I’m interested in the dreams I’ve had that shed some light on something in my life or something going on in the world. That’s a little bit where “Watch the Show” comes from on this new record. It’s a strange story, but to me, it seems to put certain things in perspective— which the subconscious is very good at doing if you stop and listen. So you feel like you’re making new realizations by writing about the subconscious? Every once in a while, I write down the interesting dreams I have. Some of them are just weird. There’s useless weird and there’s useful weird. I try to put the useful weird in the record. SEE IT: M. Ward plays the Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., on Thursday, Sept. 20, with Mike Coykendall. 8 pm. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian. Sold out. Willamette Week SEPTEMBER 19, 2012 wweek.com

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[FoX on tHE RUn] After four years of faultless service drumming for Seattle indie-folk darlings Fleet Foxes and a string of critically admired lo-fi solo albums, Josh tillman had assembled a remarkably consistent and woefully dullish oeuvre. It hinted only the barest glimpse of Father John Misty’s devilish wit, restless muse and showman’s temperament. the ’70s AM-drenched delights and diversions of Fear Fun, released last May under the Misty sobriquet after tillman quit the Foxes and embarked on a psilocybin-fueled march down the coast to write a novel amid a Laurel canyon haze, suggest he’s finally found his voice. JAY HoRton. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $15. 21+.

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[WEIRD FoLK] tonight’s show features a lineup of charming and charismatic Portland frontwomen. Identical twins Katelyn and Laurie Shook play quirky folk songs using a variety of tools, including seamless harmonies, acoustic guitar, banjo, ocarina, glockenspiel, a telephone microphone and even beatboxing. together, with help from bassist Kyle Volkman, the Shooks sing about everything from garage sales to eating acid while their music time-travels back to the ’60s. Also performing is Y La Bamba’s Luz Elena Mendoza, whose entrancing stage presence has made her one of Portland’s most distinctive female leads. EMILEE BooHER. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

Slug Guts, Arctic Flowers, Bellicose Minds

[nU PIGFUcK] In the first few seconds of Slug Guts’ Playin’ in Time With the Deadbeat, traces of fellow Australian nutcases the Birthday Party are immediately recognizable, in the clattering drums and scraping guitars and singer Jimi Kritzler’s wild howl. As the album—the band’s third— goes on, shards of no wave, gothic rockabilly and even clamorous avant-jazz (courtesy of a blurting saxophone, rumbling somewhere low in the mix) spray off from the band’s blizzard of postpunk pastiche. It’s an unabashed homage to the dark and experimental ’80s rock underground. In a time when punk has been watered down beyond recognition, a quality reminder of how deranged and adventurous the form can be is always welcome. MAttHEW SInGER. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. Call venue for ticket information. 21+.

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ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Formed: In 1999 in Baltimore. Sounds like: A surrealist Beach Boys with 21st-century editing software. For fans of: The Flaming Lips, Dan Deacon, Vashti Bunyan. Latest release: After pushing the marriage of analog instruments and digital manipulation to its outer limits, Animal Collective—the past decade’s pre-eminent touchstone for “weird”—has thrown its fans a curveball with this month’s Centipede Hz, a kind of rock record. Why you care: Born from the millennial tinkerings of two NYU dropouts—David “Avey Tare” Portner and Noah “Panda Bear” Lennox—Animal Collective wound up having a wider effect on the sonic and sartorial style of a generation than almost any of its contemporaries. Over the course of nine albums, from 2000’s Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished through 2009’s Merriweather Post Pavilion, the group, swelling at times to a quartet, went through an unparalleled artistic evolution. By decade’s end, Animal Collective’s propulsive psychedelic pop and nouveau tribal aesthetic could be found informing genres as diverse as electro, rock and folk. Forever servant to its curiosity, the group adopted a harsher tone for this year’s Centipede Hz, citing reasons no more profound than its own whimsy. SEE IT: Animal collective plays the crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., on thursday, Sept. 20. 8 pm. $26 advance, $30 day of show. All ages.

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[BASEMENT PSYCH-POP] Prodding a band for the story behind its name is typically a major faux pas, but the guys in the We Shared Milk were asking for it. “We were basically just making fun of hipster band names,” says bespectacled drummer Eric Ambrosius, explaining the group’s exceptionally awkward moniker from the couch in singerguitarist Boone Howard’s weed-scented Southeast Portland living room. Why milk, though? “We were drinking milk at the time,” he says, giggling. See why you never ask that question? Still, as unrevealing as that response might seem, it says quite a bit about where the We Shared Milk is coming from. It reflects the loose, shrugged-off approach the band takes to its languidly hooky, casually stoned psychedelic pop. And it exemplifies why, for a long time, the band existed on the outskirts of the local music scene. For Howard and Ambrosius, Alaskan expats who grew up in towns where pizza parlors doubled as the only rock clubs for miles, the worst thing a band can do is take itself too preciously. No wonder, then, that when they started the We Shared Milk in earnest in 2008, the group felt alienated from the Portland music in-crowd. “It just seemed like every time you’d approach another band or go to a show, it was just that whole ‘cool kids in high school’ sort of thing,” says Howard, sitting across from Ambrosius and bassist Travis Leipzig, dressed in a loose-fitting tie-dyed shirt and sporting what looks like a caterpillar above his upper lip. “As opposed to now when you go to a show, and the band finishes, and they go to the opening band and they’re shotgunning beers together.” “It’s much more friendly,” Ambrosius adds. That newfound sense of unity is represented on the We Shared Milk’s full-length debut. Instead of isolating itself in the studio, the band turned the recording into a kind of community project, inviting its friends—including And And And, Hustle and Drone, Grandparents and Tyler Keene’s Log Across the Washer— to each produce a different track on the album. As a result, The History of Voyager and Legend Tripping (let’s not even get into the origins of that title) serves as a de facto survey of the Portland underground in 2012, filtered through the smeary lens of a single band. Although it has a uniform sound—bright riffs channeled through woozy guitars, languorous melodies flooded with lightheaded euphoria—the group says each contributor exerted an influence on the record. “If we had put out all the demos of this album, it would’ve been a punk-rock album, mostly,” Howard says. “And it wouldn’t have been that good.” Indeed, History of Voyager is a long way from the two-man thrash Howard and Ambrosius bashed out in the We Shared Milk’s early days. But even with the album’s invigorated sense of songcraft, the band insists its attitude is still laid-back. “I just don’t want it to seem like we’re taking ourselves too seriously,” Howard says. “And that’s perfect for our band name. We’ve already branded ourselves as not being super serious.” MATTHEW SINGER. It took a village to make the psych-pop trio’s new album.

SEE IT: The We Shared Milk plays Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., on Saturday, Sept. 22, with Charts, Talkative, Old Age, Operation Mission and Log Across the Washer. 8 pm. $6. 21+.

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Sean D. Roberts West Coast Celebration of Awesomeness: Team Dresch, Slackjaw, Ralf Youtz, Trevor Solomon, Paul Haines

[LoUD MEMoRIAL] In June, Sean Roberts, singer-bassist for ’90s Portland rockers thirty ought Six, passed away at his parents’ home in Virginia. three months later, his friends and admirers are getting together for a memorial service. Appropriately, it’s going to be a loud one, with performances and remembrances from such peers as the feminist punks of team Dresch, a reunited Slackjaw, ex-Built to Spill drummer Ralf Youtz, former Roberts bandmates Ryan Paravecchio and David Blunk, and MusicfestnW executive director trevor Solomon. MAttHEW SInGER. Clinton Street Theater , 2522 SE Clinton St., 238-8899. 7 pm. Donations accepted.

Matisyahu, Dirty Heads, Pacific Dub

[SEcULAR REGGAE] cynics had a field day upon hearing that Matisyahu, ostentatiously Jewish reggae star, had renounced his Judaism. the announcement seemed to prove that the singer’s faith was a publicity stunt all along. I’d argue, however, that Matisyahu—aka Matthew Miller—is the genuine article, simply because he is the type of seeker who has trouble separating his spiritual and earthly motives. Whatever the case, Matisyahu’s latest album, Spark Seeker, provides more of the solid reggae that cemented his reputation, with slightly fewer references to the Almighty. SHAnE DAnAHER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm. $30 advance, $35 day of show. All ages.

Sassparilla, And And And, the Jackalope Saints

[PUnKISH ALt-RocK] Sassparilla’s rollicking country-punk sound makes for extremely energetic live performances. With harmonica, guitar, washtub bass, washboard and accordion at its disposal, the group creates a kind of layman’s music that feels gritty and familiar. tonight, the band celebrates the release of its fourth full-length album, Magpie, which exemplifies a push in instrumentation and song styles for the Portlanders. tracks like “two Black Hearts” and “All the Way In” maintain the spunk and liveliness known well in

the band’s shows, while songs like “You took It All” and “Broke Down Engine” display an ability to slow down the tempo and make use of a broader horn- and string-filled palette. EMILEE BooHER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

Martyn, Max Cooper, Ben Tactic, Lincolnup

[LIVE-SAVInG DJS] Resident Advisor is the source online for news, reviews and exclusive mixes from the world of electronic dance music. to celebrate the site’s 10th anniversary, it’s hitting the road, bringing DJs to cities that boast vibrant club cultures. Lucky us, Portland is the tour’s first U.S. stop, and RA is bringing along two incredible DJs: Martyn, a Dutch producer who dabbles in everything from techno to dubstep, and U.K.-based Max cooper, whose work has been slowly evolving from deep-house bangers into heady, glittering electro. RoBERt HAM. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

Dispatch

[coLLEGE FoLK] Like Guster, Massachusetts trio Dispatch appeals to the granola collegerock set—the group hails from preppy Middlebury—with a blend of rock and folk that garnered the band a huge following over the course of four albums. the group took a 10-year hiatus that ended this year with Circles Around the Sun. the record, and no doubt the subsequent tour, offers more of the same: jam music for people who don’t really like hippies (except that dude who sold them weed at school), laced with extra distortion, three-part harmonies, and pop lyrics to mask the noodling. AP KRYZA. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 7 pm. $41. All ages.

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[PoP PUnK] nardwuar the Human Serviette is best known as a charmingly obnoxious, borderline brain-damaged interviewer of famous people—imagine Harpo Marx if Harpo Marx found his voice and used it to bug the fuck out of Henry Rollins—but the Vancouver, B.c., performance artist and professional pest also fronts the charmingly obnoxious, borderline brain-damaged power-pop/ punk outfit the Evaporators, which marries the nardwuar knack for childish aggravation to legit hooks. Although song titles like “(I’ve Got) Icicles on My testicles” grate in all the wrong ways, beneath the goofball bluster is a sincere reverence for the kind of simple joy that lives in pop music. Get on board and laugh with nardwuar before he has a chance to laugh at you. cHRIS StAMM. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8:30 pm. Call venue for ticket information. 21+.

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[INDIE POP] Stevie Jackson typically isn’t identified as one of the songwriting forces behind Glasgow-based twee-pop institution Belle and Sebastian, for which he supplies guitar and backup vocals. When it comes to his solo output, that plays to his advantage: (I Can’t Get No) Stevie Jackson, his debut LP, simply has more guts than the work of his notoriously fey sister group. While maintaining Belle and Sebastian’s emotional insights, he manages to summon a sexuality, energy and wit entirely his own. The end result sounds like a mix of Beulah and the New Pornographers, both in its sophistication and abundant levels of fun. SHANE DANAHER. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

[NORTHERN CALI-HOP] Before New York babyface A$AP Rocky took “cloud rap” all the way to the MTV Video Music Awards, the genre’s fuzzy, spaced-out sound was being cultivated in the Bay Area by Oakland duo Main Attraktionz. Mixing glassy, reverbdrenched vocals and ambient production with lyrics about drugs and youthful bliss, the group’s latest proper album, 808s and Grapes II, is music for reflection—a perfect soundtrack to the fading summer. San Francisco MC Roach Gigz, meanwhile, combines boastful hyphy music with meditative lyrics, bringing the show back down to earth. REED JACKSON. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. 8 pm. $12. All ages.

Otep, Butcher Babies, One-Eyed Doll, Separation of Sanity

TUESDAY, SEPT. 25

[METAL] The rumors of cannibalism and dark-arts chicanery that trailed Otep’s 2001 debut always smacked of marketing department hyperbole. After all, the quartet was signed to Capitol right out of the gate and enjoyed a brief run during which frontwoman and namesake Otep Shamaya marketed herself as the female Marilyn Manson. Though mainstream success never really panned out, the group has proven itself capable of surviving on its own terms, churning out a decade’s worth of slick pop metal with a unique vocal profile. Up through 2011’s Atavist, Shamaya has maintained a defiant political edge to her lyrics and a judicious singing-to-screaming ratio. SHANE DANAHER. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 7 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show. All ages.

PDX Rock Fest: Shinedown, Godsmack, Staind, Adelita’s Way, Deuce, Redlight King, Candlelight Red, P.O.D., Fozzy, Thousand Foot Krutch, Mindset Evolution

[FAIRGROUND METAL] Each year, painted-faced hordes descend on the Gathering of the Juggalos to participate in an annual event curated by a posse of Insane Clowns. The fans spend all year washing their brains, imbibing their body weight in drugs, alcohol and Faygo, and—often literally—rocking out with their cocks out. A growing blogosphere of hipsters has also found guilty pleasure in witnessing the phenomenon from afar—and with a lineup that includes Creed, Rebecca Black, and Nickelback, there’s plenty to chuckle over. But this year…oh, wait. This isn’t the Gathering. This is PDX Rock Fest. And it’s much, much worse. Never mind. Move along, my ninjas. See you in Illinois. NATHAN CARSON. Sleep Country Amphitheater, 17200 NE Delfel Road, Ridgefield, Wash., 360-816-7000. 1 pm. $27-$90. VIP packages also available. All ages.

Minden, Moon by You

[RETRO POP] As a chronicler of Portland’s music scene, discerning which acts’ stars are rising is sometimes just a matter of association: Whom are they playing with? And where are they playing? Case in point: retro-pop six-piece Minden. The group, which relocated from Kansas City, Mo., this summer, recently played one of Rontoms’ Sunday Sessions and an unofficial MusicfestNW show with a secret headliner that turned out to be Kishi Bashi. Earlier this month, the band played Doug Fir to celebrate the release of its debut fulllength, Exotic Cakes, a daydreamy record of twinkling keys, gauzy vocals and lively percussion. Keep one eye open to watch these guys. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $3. 21+.

Grouplove, Alt-J

[IMMODEST MOUSE] Well before “Tongue Tied” reached No. 1 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart this July—nearly a year after the song’s iPod Touch ad placement first spurred downloads—Grouplove had already been labeled a singles band, the highest of honors from the British press and a bit more troubling stateside, where critics abhor the aggressively frivolous. The SoCal quintet’s 2011 debut fulllength, Never Trust a Happy Song, boasts an embarassment of Indian summer jams long on hand claps and sugared choruses, on which singers Hannah Hooper and Isaac Brock-alike Christian Zucconi parry and play with unshaded abandon. JAY HORTON. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $18.50. All ages.

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BLACK PRAIRIE A TEAR IN THE EYE IS A WOUND IN THE HEART (SUGAR HILL) [ WORLDLY ACOUSTIC] For the five members of Black Prairie—all of whom come from well-established acts such as the Decemberists and Dolorean—the band is an experimental melting pot. Letting loose its weird curiosities, the Portland group explores the possibilities of standard acoustic instruments while also utilizing some that are less common, like the dobro, bazouki and archtop guitar. Although signed to the traditional bluegrass label Sugar Hill Records, Black Prairie isn’t really a bluegrass band. With influences ranging from Eastern European folk to rootsy Americana, and with half an album’s worth of instrumental tracks, the group’s second record, A Tear in the Eye Is a Wound in the Heart, ebbs and flows like a film score. Instrumental tracks such as “Evil Leaves” and “34 Wishes: The Legend Of” show songwriters capable of compelling, nearclassical arrangements. Other songs, like “Rock of Ages” and “What You Gave,” center on singer-violinist Annalisa Tornfelt’s countrified vocals, blending Alison Krauss’ sweetness with Patty Griffin’s earnestness. The two styles, however, often feel disconnected from song to song. It’s difficult not to imagine what these musicians could do within a more cohesive narrative. In the moments when the compositional artistry complements the vocals, the band’s possibilities feel endless. The seductive “How Do You Ruin Me?,” one of the album’s darker tracks, places Tornfelt’s simple, echoing vocals against flurries of accordion, percussion, bass and violin, which weave in and out of focus. While there’s no denying that, separately, all its parts are strong, the band’s sprawling creativity could use a filter. But then, that might defeat the purpose of Black Prairie’s existence. EMILEE BOOHER.

Buffalo gap Wednesday, September 19th • 7pm

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w/ alison Rice Thursday, September 20th • 9pm

Jolliff & poe and Monroe (indie folk rock)

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Saturday, September 22nd • 9pm

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PICTORIALS LEARNING EP (DEJA VIEW) [PACIFIC NORTHWEST BRITPOP] One of the bona fides touted by the trio Pictorials in its bio is how the head of Badman Recording Co., Dylan Magierek, asked the band to record an EP after the group had been together only four months. This is supposed to read as a testament to how fully formed the group was right out of the gate—a localized version of Creation Records head Alan McGee jumping onstage to sign Oasis after hearing one song. But hearing the trio’s debut release, it seems more like a band being encouraged to skip steps in its maturity process. As pleasant and poppy as these four tracks are, not one song on Learning feels fully baked. Oasis is actually a great example to use in relation to Pictorials, as each group wears its respective influences proudly. For Pictorials, it is a love of cult U.K. pop icons. “Mystery Matter” ably apes the soulful jangle of ’80s Scottish band Orange Juice, and EP closer “Movement” sidles from an early synth-pop sound into a fist-pumping, Suede-style rocker. Trouble is, these fine homages are undercut by the band and its producer. They decided to lay down the tracks as quickly as possible, letting flubbed drum fills and weak-kneed vocal performances slide by unchecked. For a demo, that might be excusable, but not for a legitimate release with PR muscle behind it. There’s definitely something to Pictorials. There is a melodic power hiding under the rough-hewn surface of this debut EP. But it’s a force the band needed much more time to hone before rushing to stake its small claim in the overpopulated world of modern music. ROBERT HAM. SEE IT: Black Prairie plays Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., on Friday, Sept. 21, with Shelley Short and Darron Hanlon. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+. Pictorials play Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., on Wednesday, Sept. 19, as part of Labelmates Local Label Record Fair and Showcase. 8 pm. Free. 21+. Willamette Week SEPTEMBER 19, 2012 wweek.com

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FRIDAY 9/21 @ 6 PM Northwest veteran musicians Phil Smith, Tom Easlon, Mark Wills and Don McFadden make up the McFadden Project, formed in 2008. Since completing their highly anticipated debut CD ‘First Sixty Years, the group continues to create, record and perform a musical style derived from an eclectic range of influences, including pop, rock, country, R&B and jazz.

AARON NIGEL SMITH

SATURDAY 9/22 @ 3 PM Aaron Nigel Smith, known for his work on PBS-TV and his award-winning music for children, has released ‘Welcome to the Village!’ a globe-shrinking collection of songs featuring the voices of hundreds of children from New York, Los Angeles, Portland and a school near Nairobi, Kenya. A portion of proceeds from the sale of the CD will help build a music program at the Cura Rotary Home, an orphanage and school in Kenya.

LOS STRAITJACKETS

SATURDAY 9/22 @ 4 PM When it comes to delivering high-energy rock and roll instrumental music, no one equals the finesse, power and perseverance of Grammy-nominated Los Straitjackets. Their latest release ‘Jet Set’ is a collection of 14 carefully crafted guitar-driven songs that prove to be the most diverse and inventive of Los Straitjackets’ oeuvre.

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[SEPT. 19-25] touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Nancy King

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. James Delos Reyes, Gresham Transit Center, Cait Olds

PETER ELLENbY

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Jenny Finn Orchestra

White eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. The Magic Beets, Those Willows, Sloe Loris

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Trio with Katrina

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Bob Mould (of Hüsker Dü)

tHuRS. Sept. 20 Al’s den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Star Anna, Mark Pickerel

Aladdin theater

832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band

Artichoke Community Music

3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Open Mic

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Scheisshosen, The Scree, Vollwrath Eleven

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Sanjaya Malakar, Reign the Arcade, Samsel and the Skirt

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Shelly Segal

Bossanova Ballroom

Al’s den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Star Anna, Mark Pickerel

Alberta Rose theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Matt Schofield, Joe McMurrian

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Don’t Talk to the Cops, ShowYouSuck

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Stringed Migration

Burgerville (Gresham) 2975 NE Hogan St., Gresham Crown Point

Camellia Lounge

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

dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Scott H. Biram, Restavrant

doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St.

duff’s Garage

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

Ladd’s Inn

east Burn

east India Co.

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

ella Street Social Club

2958 NE Glisan St. The Barbeque Orchestra

1800 E Burnside St. Irish Music Jam 821 SW 11th Ave. Josh Feinberg

1204 SE Clay St. Lynn Conover

Landmark Saloon

Laurelthirst

714 SW 20th Place Crooks, Stay at Home Moms, Horus

Lents Commons

Goodfoot Lounge

Mission theater

2845 SE Stark St. Garcia Birthday Band

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. DJ E*Rock, DJ Cuica, DJ Sahelsounds, Pictorials, Unkle Funkle (local record-label fair)

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. The Tommy Hogan Band

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St.

9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic 1624 NW Glisan St. Ben Taylor, Milow

Mississippi pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mr. Hoo

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Holograms, Dangerous Boys Club, Vice Device

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Vicci Martinez, Ben Taylor

palace of Industry

5426 N Gay Ave. Flat Rock String Band

plan B

722 E Burnside St. GlobalRuckus, Mr. Wu, Icarus (fashion show)

Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. A Tiempo

1305 SE 8th Ave. No More Parachutes, Guillotine Necktie, Legacy Pack, The Sindicate

Camellia Lounge

Record Room

430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin

8 NE Killingsworth St. Forscorcerers, Labris

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Open Mic

Sengatera Restaurant

3833 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. The Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou Project

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Coastlands, Skinny Jezus, Mars Water

Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave. Folding Space

the Blue diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project Blues Jam

thorne Lounge

4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Open Mic

tillicum Club

8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Chad Rupp

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. From Here to Eternity, I Reckon, Mosby, Subverse, The Cicada Cycle, Upon a Broken Path

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Onuinu, Shy Girls, Magic Fades, DJ Bobby Dangerous, DJ Zack

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

510 NW 11th Ave. The Steppe

Chapel pub

Clyde’s prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Mesi & Bradley

Corkscrew Wine Bar 1669 SE Bybee Blvd. Boy and Bean

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Animal Collective, Micachu & the Shapes

doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Terraplane Sun, The Mowgli’s

duff’s Garage

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

east end

203 SE Grand Ave. Estocar, The North Wind

ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place XDS, Hume, Fang Moon

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

the Blue diamond

the Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones Jam

the eastside taproom 1618 NE 122nd Ave. A Blinding Silence

Valentine’s

Kelly’s Olympian

White eagle Saloon

Kenton Club

2958 NE Glisan St. Portland Gumtree Undergrad (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)

Mississippi pizza

1530 SE 7th Ave. Carrie Bella

836 N Russell St. A Leaf (8:30 pm); Brothers of the Hound (5:30 pm)

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Greg Goebel Trio

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Father John Misty, Jenny O.

FRI. Sept. 21

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Swansea, Patti King, Kelly Anne Masigat (9 pm); Counterfeit Cash (Johnny Cash tribute, 6 pm)

Al’s den at the Crystal Hotel

Mississippi Studios

3000 NE Alberta St. Coyote Grace, Fast Rattler

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Reptar, Rubblebucket, Icky Blossoms

Muddy Rudder public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Joe McMurrian

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Ned Evett

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

Record Room

8 NE Killingsworth St. No Jesus

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Criminal Mastermind, Silver Remains, The Wandering Minds, Boys Without Toys

Roseland theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Serj Tankian, Viza

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Natural Child, Dude York

Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. The Conjugal Visitors (9 pm); Libertine Belles (6 pm)

Sellwood public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Sundaze, The Upside Down, Ringo Deathstarr, WL

Slim’s Cocktail Bar

8635 N Lombard St. Sockeye Sawtooth, Hank Floyd

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave. Julian’s Ride

Star theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Orgone, Manimalhouse

ted’s Berbati’s pan 231 SW Ankeny St.

3416 N Lombard St. K-Tel ‘79, Surfs Drugs, Fine Pets, Havania Whaal

Gemini Lounge

Glenn & Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Beacon Street Titans

Vie de Boheme

426 SW Washington St. John De Conqueroo

Foggy Notion

tony Starlight’s

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Jacqui Naylor

714 SW 20th Place A Happy Death, Lydian Gray, Grrrl Friend, Manhattan Murder Mystery

6526 SE Foster Road Precious Darlings, Big Monti Amundson

317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell

232 SW Ankeny St. Art Sorority for Girls, Dibson T. Hoffweil, Paul Schutz Jr.

2346 SE Ankeny St. Colin Fisher Acoustic Oceans

ella Street Social Club

tiger Bar

Jade Lounge

Laurelthirst

Andrea’s Cha Cha Club

Jeremy Burton Band, Kyle and the Holy Children, Bath Party

Hawthorne theatre

2845 SE Stark St. True Spokes, Huckle

Alberta Rose theatre

1314 NW Glisan St. Matices Trio

Sondre Lerche, Fancy Colors

SurfsDrugs, Brother Nature, Bright Giant

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Blast-O-Casters, Susan and the Surftones

Andina

Wed. Sept. 19

Goodfoot Lounge

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. M. Ward, Mike Coykendall 3000 NE Alberta St. Polarity Taskmasters, Eet

COppeR GRAy: Bob Mould plays Wonder Ballroom on Wednesday, Sept. 19.

George Winston

303 SW 12th Ave. Star Anna, Vacilando

Alberta Rose theatre

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Nat Hulskamp Trio

Artichoke Community Music

3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Friday Night Coffeehouse

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. December in Red, Riverpool, The Hunt

527 E Main St., Hillsboro George Winston

Hawthorne theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Raveonettes, Melody’s Echo Chamber, The Upsidedown

Island Mana Wines 526 SW Yamhill St. Joe Marquand

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Gary Hobbs Sextet

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Regina LaRocca, Paul Davies

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mike Phillips Project

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Delaney & Paris, Slutty Hearts, Old Wars, Little Volcano

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Frame by Frame, City Faire, Crown Point, Justin Klump

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Power of County, Baki

LV’s Sports Bar

3530 N Vancouver Ave. Andy Stokes Band

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Hank Sinatra and the Atomic Cowboys

Laurelthirst

115 NW 5th Ave. Chemical Channel, Most Custom

2958 NE Glisan St. Stripmall Ballads, Matt Sircely, Shiftless Rounders Reunion (9:30 pm); Ducky Pig (6 pm)

Biddy McGraw’s

Macadam’s Bar & Grill

Backspace

6000 NE Glisan St. Counterfeit Cash (9:30 pm); Lynn Conover (6 pm)

Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Djangophiles

Buffalo Gap Saloon

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Dryland Farmers Band

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Circle 3 Trio

Clyde’s prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ocean 503

dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Zepparella (all-female Led Zeppelin tribute)

doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside, Old Light

duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. The Midnight Serenaders (late show); The Hamdogs (early show)

east Burn

1800 E Burnside St. All the Apparatus

east end

203 SE Grand Ave. Guantanamo Baywatch, Warm Soda, Youthbitch, Dead Ships, Piss Test

5833 SW Macadam Ave. Cody Weathers and the Men Your Mama Warned You About

Mission theater

1624 NW Glisan St. Shook Twins, Luz Mendoza

Mississippi pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Melao de Cuba (9 pm); Level 2 (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Black Prairie, Shelley Short, Darren Hanlon

Mount tabor theater

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Melvin Seals, Cats Under the Stars, Twisted Whistle

Muddy Rudder public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Never Strangers

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. McFadden Project

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

Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Kenny Lavite

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Youthbitch (ShangriLas tribute), The No Tomorrow Boys (Sonics tribute), Wild Mohicans (Charged GBH tribute), Defiance and Long Knife (Cockney Rejects tribute)

Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Technicolor Caterpillar, C.C. Swim, The Volt Per Octaves

Foggy Notion

3416 N Lombard St. P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S., Crag Dweller, Don’t

Gemini Lounge

6526 SE Foster Road The Lovely Lost

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Jujuba

Hawthorne Theatre

BUNK MATES: Tucked away in a nondescript storefront in Montavilla, Beer Bunker (7918 SE Stark St., 254-8200) is a neighborhood hangout as much as it’s a bottle shop. Antique beer cans sit on the shelves and hang from the ceiling, serving as lampshades, above mismatched and durable furnishings. On a Tuesday, the Bunker is filled with several small groups, a couple on a date, and a large party celebrating something. Everyone seems relaxed, here to unwind by sipping a beer on a metal stool atop a concrete floor. With 12 rotating taps and three glass sizes ranging from the 5-ounce “shorty” to a full pint, there are options. Four tasters run $5, and there are more than 100 bottled beers cooling in the glass cases around back—mostly from Oregon, with a smattering of imports and ciders. You could grab those bottles to go, but what’s the hurry? JOHN LOCANTHI.

Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli

2314 SE Division St. Forest Bloodgood

Record Room

8 NE Killingsworth St. The Be Helds, Needlecraft, Slidells

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Sickness in September: Minenwerfer, Slaughter Box, Crime Machine, Succor, Blood Culprit, Legion of Death, Bunk Dope, Spawn, Killgasm, Crush Your Enemies, Dead in a Ditch, Pre Embalmed, Heathen Shrine, Burning Monk

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Ladyhawke, American Royalty, Copy, Lionsden

Secret Society Lounge

116 NE Russell St. Trashcan Joe (9 pm); Boy & Bean (6 pm)

Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. Wamba

Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave. Ted Theiman

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave. Lost and Found

Ted’s Berbati’s Pan 231 SW Ankeny St. Cody Chacartegui

The Back Door Theater 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Michael Hurley, Zeb Dewar, Ripe Mangos

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Pat Stilwell Band

The Firkin Tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave. Michael the Blind & the Els, Towering Trees, Gresham Transit Center

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Slug Guts, Arctic Flowers, Bellicose Minds

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Fang Moon, Mechlo

Thorne Lounge

4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Unstable Atmospheres

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway The Glory Stompers, Experience Jimi Hendrix

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Flu, The Wandering Minds

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Tony Starlight Show

Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Mike Winkle, Tom Grant

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Great Wilderness, Gallop (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)

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

SaT. SEPT. 22 al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

303 SW 12th Ave. Star Anna, Sara JacksonHolman

aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Portland Cello Project

alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Saeeda Wright, Ashley Seamster, Tamara Stephens, Blacque Butterfly

andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio

artichoke Community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Tom May

ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Chloraform, Tinzen, Supervisor

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave.

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Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Whiskey Puppy

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Jimmy Boyer Band (9:30 pm); Wayward Vessel (6 pm)

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Tomorrow’s Bad Seeds, Through the Roots, The Sindicates, The Longshots

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Doug Webb/David Valdez Quartet

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Darlin’ Blackbirds

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Soulmates

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. The Dick Solomons, Taint Misbehavin, The KOS

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Alabama Black Snake, Dinner for Wolves, The Tomorrow People

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Husqvarna, Feral Pigs, The Flatcars, Lance Warvette

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. NoPoMojo, Tracey Fordice (Willie Nelson tribute, 9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)

Mississippi Pizza

640 SE Stark St. Banh Mi, Hawk Jones, The Cookie Sound, Good Intentions

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Fair Weather Watchers (9 pm); Shores of Astor, Stoneface Honey (6 pm); The Alphabeticians (4 pm)

Brasserie Montmartre

Mississippi Studios

Boom Bap!

626 SW Park Ave. Trashcan Joe

Buffalo Gap Saloon

6835 SW Macadam Ave. I Digress

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. The Wildish

Clinton Street Theater 2522 SE Clinton St. Sean D. Roberts West Coast Celebration of Awesomeness: Team Dresch, Slackjaw, Ralf Youtz, Trevor Solomon, Paul Haines, Ryan Paravecchio, Dave Blunk

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Planet Krypton

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Matisyahu, Dirty Heads, Pacific Dub

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Los Straitjackets, The Jim Jams, Guantanamo Baywatch

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Sassparilla, And And And, The Jackalope Saints

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. The Buckles

East End

203 SE Grand Ave.

3939 N Mississippi Ave. The We Shared Milk, Charts, Talkative, Old Age

Mount Tabor Theater

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. McFadden Project, Jake Blair Band, Lydian Gray

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. James Clem

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Dispatch

Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Z’Bumba (9 pm); The Martens Combination (6 pm)

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Whales, Old Junior

Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. Ruby Feathers

Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave. The Satin Chaps

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave. Teri and Larry

St. Josef’s Winery

28836 S Barlow Road, Canby The Original Donaumusikanten

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Davis Rogan

SuN. SEPT. 23 al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Sam Cooper, Ben Meyercord (of Y La Bamba)

andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero

ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Fontaine Classic, Those Bottom Feeders, The Blackout Dates, Invivo

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Doc McTear’s Medicine Show

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Felim Egan

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Stevie Jackson (of Belle and Sebastian)

The Blue Monk

714 SW 20th Place Yards, Whorehound, Lick

Ella Street Social Club

3341 SE Belmont St. Trio Subtonic, Blue Cranes

Foggy Notion

The Know

Hawthorne Theatre

4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Tortune

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Wolfpussy, Witchburn

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Mad Macka Experience, The Pity Fucks, Muddy River Nightmare Band, Jim Jams

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Billy & the Rockets

Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Horsfall Duo

White Eagle Saloon

3416 N Lombard St. Nasalrod, Ubik, Ix

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Otep, Butcher Babies, One-Eyed Doll, Separation of Sanity

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Chuck Israels Jazz Orchestra

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Morgan Quin

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Miracle Falls, Magic Mirror, Cuchillo

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Dan Haley with Tim Acott (9:30 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)

836 N Russell St. Great Wilderness, Shadows on Stars (9:30 pm); Laura Ivancie (4:30 pm)

Mississippi Pizza

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar

3939 N Mississippi Ave. School of Rock (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young tribute)

800 NW 6th Ave. Linda Michelet (Burt Bacharach tribute)

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Sickness in September: O.R.D.M. Prz Roast, Truculence, Psychosynapsis, Lyceum, Damaura, Wonderland Syndrome, Aethyrium, Gate of the Gods, Sarcalogos, Livid Minds, Hyborian Rage, Anus Disease, Set to Burn, Battle Axe Massacre

Rontoms

600 E Burnside St. The Lower 48, Shy Girls

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Kreator, Accept, Swallow the Sun, Wehrmacht

Sleep Country amphitheater

1635 SE 7th Ave. Maria Muldaur

Thorne Lounge

5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic

Duff’s Garage

The Blue Diamond

2026 NE Alberta St. The Evaporators, The Tranzmitors, The Bloodtypes, Youthbitch, DJ Ken Dirtnap

NEPO 42

Slabtown

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Norman Sylvester

8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music

Clyde’s Prime Rib

Ted’s Berbati’s Pan 231 SW Ankeny St. Public Drunken Sex

Muddy Rudder Public House

3552 N Mississippi Ave. The Get Ahead (9 pm); Leela Grace (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

1033 NW 16th Ave. Elliot Tinsley, Val Bauer

17200 NE Delfel Road; Ridgefield, Wash. PDX Rock Fest: Shinedown, Godsmack, Staind, Adelita’s Way, Deuce, Redlight King, Candlelight Red, P.O.D., Fozzy, Thousand Foot Krutch, Mindset Evolution

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave. The Angel Bouchet Band Jam

St. Josef’s Winery

28836 S Barlow Road, Canby The Original Donaumusikanten

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Ben Macy Group

The Know

Sam Cooper, Payne and Money

andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs

ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Open Mic

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Roach Gigz, Main Attraktionz, A-1, Baby E, Nima Fadavi

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell

Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Battwat, Animal Lover, Jon Benet’s Lip Gloss, Joel

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Jaime Leopold

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Animal Lover

LaurelThirst

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

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mr. Ben

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

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Bonded by Blood, Weresquatch, Headless Pez, Gladius

Rotture

2026 NE Alberta St. Mad Macka, Therapists, Hot LZs

315 SE 3rd Ave. Inter Arma, Heathen Shrine, Crawlin’, Rolling Through the Universe

Tonic Lounge

The Blue Diamond

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Woolen Men, Sad Horse, Needles and Pizza, The Spookies

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Barry Brusseau, East Forest, Free, Wavor Clamor Bellow

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Shannon Stephens, Ed & the Red Reds, Tennis Pro

MON. SEPT. 24 al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Tom Grant Jazz Jam

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. BPM (John Coltrane tribute)

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway AC Lov Ring

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Grrrl Friend, Hauksness, Moon Debris

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Father Figure, Charts, Log Across the Washer

303 SW 12th Ave.

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Los Straightjackets, Aaron Nigel Smith

Emma Garr

MUSIC

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

Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Kevin Selfe

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Courage, The Kerbys, Hit Me Baby

Portland Police athletic association 618 SE Alder St. Bon Ton Roulet

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Sickness in September: American Roulette, Beast Hammer, Deadly Sins, End of All Flesh, Enslave the Creation, Ottis, Cursed, Tiamat’s Destroyer, Krystos, Short Fuse, Blastfemur, Blood Hunger, L.B.!, Devour, Compulsive Slasher, Nekro Drunkz

THE FOx aND HIS COFFEE: Father John Misty plays Wonder Ballroom on Thursday, Sept. 20.

Calendar tueS. Sept. 25 al’s den at the Crystal hotel

303 SW 12th Ave. Sam Cooper, Paul Laxer (of Typhoon)

alberta Rose theatre

3000 NE Alberta St. Paul McKenna Band, Hanz Araki & Kathryn Claire

andina

1314 NW Glisan St. JB Butler

ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Poe and Monroe, The Lovely Lost

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Brooklyn Brothers (music performance and film screening)

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Minden, Moon by You

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Chevelle

doug Fir Lounge

Jazz Jam with Carey Campbell and the Hank Hirsh Trio

Slim’s Cocktail Bar

duff’s Garage

Jade Lounge

the Blue diamond

830 E Burnside St. Zambri

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

east end

203 SE Grand Ave. Autronic Eye, The Killing Floor, The Glazzies, The Choices

ella Street Social Club

2346 SE Ankeny St. Colin Johnson

Jimmy Mak’s

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

LV’s Sports Bar

3530 N Vancouver Ave. Ron Steen Jazz Jam

714 SW 20th Place Ten Million Lights, House of Light, The Legendary Black Mark Savage, Language

Laurelthirst

Goodfoot Lounge

1624 NW Glisan St. William Topley

2845 SE Stark St. Radula

hawthorne theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Faster Pussycat, Black Pussy, Wolfpussy

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St.

2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw

Mission theater

Mississippi pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Samsel and the Skirt

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Mindy Smith, Jay Nash

Roseland theater 8 NW 6th Ave. Grouplove, Alt-J

MUSIC

8635 N Lombard St. Open Mic

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Sportin’ Lifers

the Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Fresh Track (8 pm); Pagan Jug Band (6:30 pm)

the Know

Wednesday, September 19 8pm

Quizzy! Quiz Master Roy Smallwood

FREE! Go up against Slabtown’s hometown heros and heroines Team Vodka Twat., The ﬁrst place team each week wins up to $20 off their bar tab. Good lord that’s a lot of money!!!

2026 NE Alberta St. Warcry, Side Effects, Deathcount, Frenzy

Wednesday, September 19

thirsty Lion

Coastlands • Skinny Jezus • Mars Water

71 SW 2nd Ave. PX Singer-Songwriter Showcase

tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Bo and Barbara Ayars

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Luke Wyland

White eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Will West, The Druthers, The Sale

10pm (doors open at 9:30pm) $5 at the door.

Thursday, September 20 9pm

Sundaze • The Upside Down Ringo Deathstarr • WL

Friday, September 21 9pm

Rat City Ruckus

$3-5 sliding scale. Show will be held in the back game room.

Saturday, September 22 9pm

Whales • Old Junior • TBA

Roseland theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Sub Focus with MC ID, DJ Craze

Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave. Solid!: DJs Ted, Bill

Wed. Sept. 19 Beech Street parlor 412 NE Beech St. Andy Fish

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Trick with DJ Robb

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. TRONix: Mike Gong, Bliphop Junkie

Matador

1967 W Burnside St. DJ Whisker Friction

Red Cap Garage

1035 SW Stark St Riot Wednesdays with Bruce LaBruiser

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

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Chris Crusher

the Firkin tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave. VJ Norto, Eye Candy VJs

the Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. DJ William the Bloody

tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Blackwell

Yes and No

20 NW 3rd Ave. Death Club with DJ Entropy

thuRS. Sept. 20 Beech Street parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Maxamillion

CC Slaughters

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

Fez Ballroom

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

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Joystick

palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Eagledog

Someday Lounge

125 NW 5th Ave. Mixer (9 pm); DJs Mr. Romo, Michael Grimes (3 pm)

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Greyskull

the Crown Room

Star Bar

205 NW 4th Ave. Counter Culture

639 SE Morrison St. Blank Friday with DJ Paultimore

the Know

the Lovecraft

2026 NE Alberta St. Eye Candy VJs

the Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Synthicide: Tom Jones, Erica Jones, Jared White, Luke Buser

tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Womb Service

421 SE Grand Ave. DJs Kiss Me Deadly, Volva

the Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave. B.P.M., Mason Roberts, DJ Pierre Amador, Kid Logic, DJ Sacrilicious

tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ RW

Valentine’s

FRI. Sept. 21 Beech Street parlor 412 NE Beech St. Lord Smithingham

CC Slaughters

232 SW Ankeny St. Loved Up: DJs Looops, Amy Kasio

Sat. Sept. 22

219 NW Davis St. Flamin’ Fridays with DJ Doughalicious

Beech Street parlor

Crystal Ballroom

Branx

1332 W Burnside St. ‘80s Video Dance Attack with VJ Kittyrox

element Restaurant & Lounge 1135 SW Morrison St. Chris Alice

Fez Ballroom

412 NE Beech St. DJ Quincy Host

320 SE 2nd Ave. Blow Pony: DJs Airick X, Just Dave, Stormy Roxx, Jay Douglas, G-Luve, Kasio Smashio

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Revolution with DJ Robb

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

Fez Ballroom

Goodfoot Lounge

511 NW Couch St. Roxy’s Ego Hour

2845 SE Stark St. Soul Stew with DJ Aquaman

Groove Suite

440 NW Glisan St. Trifecta: Offline, King of Misfits, McCabe Reed

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. DJs MT, RAWIII

holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Rockbox: Matt Nelkin, DJ Kez, Dundiggy (9 pm); Aperitivo Happy Hour with No Ouais (5 pm)

palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Kerouac

Red Cap Garage

1035 SW Stark St Mantrap with DJ Lunchlady

Refuge

116 SE Yamhill St. Shift: Random Rab, Govinda, Nicoluminous, AfroQBen, Meltingpot Soundsystem

316 SW 11th Ave. Popvideo with DJ Gigahurtz

Ground Kontrol

holocene

VJ Norto, Phantom Hillbilly, Eye Candy VJs

Matador

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

plan B

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

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Joey Prude

MoN. Sept. 24 Beech Street parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Honeydripper

219 NW Davis St. Maniac Monday with DJ Doughalicious

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Service Industrial with DJ Tibin

Kelly’s olympian

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639 SE Morrison St. Metal Mondays with DJ Blackhawk

the Crown Room

205 NW 4th Ave. Project Monday Mayhem: Nathaniel Knows, The 700 Klub

tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Pattern & Shape

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eagle portland

219 NW Davis St. Girltopia with DJ Robb

529 SW 4th Ave. Wax It Up! with DJ Kryptic

835 N Lombard St DMTV with DJ Animal

palace of Industry

Star Bar

5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Chapassaurus

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Smooth Hopperator

Star Bar

the Lovecraft

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Trim

421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Straylight

the Lovecraft

tiga

421 SE Grand Ave. Darkness Descends with DJ Maxamillion

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Zac Eno

tiga

1203 NW Glisan St. Temptation Tuesday with DJ Cabana

trader Vic’s

Yes and No

118 NE 28th Ave

Within Spitting Distance of The Pearl

1033 NW 16th Ave. • 971.229.1455

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Jack London Bar

Beulahland

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426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy VJs

CC Slaughters

SuN. Sept. 23

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CC Slaughters

1001 SE Morrison St. Martyn, Max Cooper, Ben Tactic, Lincolnup

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Mercedez

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

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THEATER 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. Through Oct. 21. $12-$20.

A Steady Rain and The Detective’s Wife

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. In intersecting monologues, Alder and Sikking recount the spiral of mistakes that threatens their careers and undoes their friendship. It’s an overwritten yarn, but the actors keep it afloat. The Detective’s Wife, directed by JoAnn Johnson, takes a similar storytelling format but cuts the cast to one. Marilyn Stacey stars as Alice, 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 case of her husband’s death. 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. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 757-6836. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Sundays, 4 pm Sundays. Through Oct. 7. $20 each or $35 for both.

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.

Back Fence PDX

The unscripted storytelling show returns for the fall season with an evening of nerdy tales. Lots of writers on the lineup, including thriller writer Chelsea Cain, comic-book writer Matt Fraction and Nerdist writer Kiala Kazebee, among others. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 8 pm Saturday, Sept. 22. $12-$15.

End Days

Clackamas Rep stages Deborah Zoe Laufer’s bittersweet comedy about a splintered family. Lots of oddball characters here: A teenage goth girl who idolizes Stephen Hawking, a Jesus-obsessed mother and an Elvis-impersonating boy next door. Clackamas Repertory Theatre, 19600 Molalla Ave., Oregon City, 594-6047. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2:30 pm Sundays through Oct. 7. $12-$24.

F*ck Me Later

In this workshop production of his solo show, Nikolas Hobackdraws from children’s literature and religion to uncover the challenges of becoming an adult. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE

Belmont St., 971-238-3873. 7:30 pm Thursday-Sunday, Sept. 20-23. “Pay what you will.”

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 fullblown 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 productions atypical—but not unsatisfying—conclusion. Shaking the Tree Studio, 1407 SE Stark St., 235-0635. 7 pm ThursdaySaturday, Sept. 20-22. $20-$25.

Fight Night

Portland Area Theater Alliance gathers several local companies for a vaudeville-style showcase of dramatic duels. Donna Kay Yarborough emcees. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 241-4902. 7:30 pm Monday, Sept. 24. $15-$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., Hillsboro, 693-7815. 7:30 pm Friday-Sunday and 2 pm Sunday, Sept. 21-23. $10-$14.

La Luna Nueva: Aventuras de Don Quixote

Miracle Theatre’s celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month continues with a bilingual, family-friendly production about a girl pulled into the world of Cervantes’ novel. Best for ages 5 to 10. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 2367253. 2 pm Sunday, Sept. 23. $4-$7.

La Luna Nueva: Don Quixote and Sancho Panza: Homeless in Seattle

Miracle Theatre stages a reading of Rose Cano’s new bilingual play, which imagines two characters from Cervantes’ novel navigating homelessness and the healthcare system in Seattle. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 5 pm Sunday, Sept. 23. $7-$10.

La Luna Nueva: El Ultimo Coconut

Seattleite Gerald Alejandro Ford (Yes, that does seem to be his real name.) presents his one-man Englishlanguage show about coming-of-age as a Mexican-American, weathering family pressures and managing a World of Warcraft addiction. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7 pm Monday, Sept. 24. $7-$10.

Little Shop of Horrors

Broadway Rose presents the doo-wop

horror spoof about a loser florist who acquires a reckless carnivorous plant. Abe Reybold and Mont Chris Hubbard direct a strong cast, including Rebecca Teran as Audrey and Brian Demar Jones as her sadistic dentist boyfriend. Broadway Rose New Stage Theatre, 12850 SW Grant Ave., Tigard, 620-5262. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays; 2 pm Sundays; 2 pm Saturdays, Sept. 29, Oct. 6 and Oct 13. Through Oct. 14. $20-$40.

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PERFORMANCE

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, 6353901. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays and 7 pm Sunday Sept. 23. Through Oct. 14. $32-$35.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Somehow Portland Center Stage made it 25 years without a single Stephen Sondheim musical. That drought is over with this season’s opener, Sondheim’s grisly tale of madness, revenge and meat pies. Chris Coleman directs this promising production. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Saturdays, 2 pm and 7:30 pm Sundays with alternating Saturday matinee and Sunday evening performances. Noon select Thursdays. Through Oct. 21. $30-$70.

COMEDY AND VARIETY Brody Theater Open Mic

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

Comics to Watch Showcase

The Comedy Central showcase hits Portland with a lineup of local comics. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, Sept. 20. $5-$10.

Comedy Monster Open Mic

Open mic hosted by Jen Allen and Mandie Allietta. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 9:30 pm every first and third Thursday. Free.

Diabolical Experiments

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

Micetro

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

Mixology

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

Monologic

Improvisers and storytellers craft intertwined monologues and scenes. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7:30 pm Saturdays through Oct. 6. $8-$10.

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 FridaysSaturdays through Oct. 13. $12-$15.

Open Court

Team-based, long-form improv open to audience members and performers of all stripes. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm Thursdays Sept. 6 and 20. $5.

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APPLES TO APPLES: Tim True and Valerie Stevens.

AND SO IT GOES (ARTISTS REPERTORY THEATRE) The love songs of Kurt Vonnegut.

Welcome to North Crawford, Conn. As narrator Tom Newton (an impeccable Tim True) assures us, this is a place where things “change just about as quickly as the rules of chess.” It’s 1962, and the No. 1 topic of conversation in this quaint town is love. Yes, love: “Pure and complicated,” says True. And So It Goes, which opens Artists Repertory Theatre’s 30th season, takes love as its subject and handles it with the utmost skill. The play’s source is a somewhat unlikely one: Kurt Vonnegut, better known for dark comedy and science fiction than for schmaltz. But in adapting three short stories from the author’s Welcome to the Monkey House for this new play, writer-director Aaron Posner highlights Vonnegut’s gentler—yet still keenly observant—side. As the play’s guide, True hams for the audience with toothy smiles, screws of the eye and suggestive glances. He has a spectacularly malleable face, and ribs the audience in ways that are endearing rather than grating. In the hands of a lesser actor, the character—and arguably the whole production—could collapse into an embarrassing Our Town knockoff. The trio of linked sketches, which True steers us through with ease and wit, begins with a sweet scene about a young soldier (Andy LeeHillstrom) who goes AWOL to chase the girl he adores. With his measured cadence and raw sincerity, Lee-Hillstrom captures both the fear and the buzz of love. Playing the subject of his affections, Kayla Lian has no choice but to seize and squeeze him, and I’m betting a good portion of the audience wanted to do the same. True interjects himself in charming ways. “They were now in an apple orchard,” he says, setting a single apple atop a ladder. The second sketch is even funnier, with Alex Hurt transforming from timid hardware store clerk to fiery lead actor in the town’s production of A Streetcar Named Desire. This sketch elicits some of the production’s strongest performances: Leif Norby as a riotous would-be Marlon Brando; Valerie Stevens as an amateur actress battling errant stage props; Lian as the new girl overcome by Hurt’s bravado. One might quibble that And So It Goes presents a one-dimensional representation of love: heterosexual, monogamous, traditional. True, there is no queer polyamory here. But Posner is unapologetic and sincere in his approach, and while the production doesn’t explore love’s darkest corners, it does tiptoe toward the shadows. In the final sketch, Sarah Lucht plays a five-times-divorced movie star and Norby a repentant husband, and True is summoned to the chaos. Once our trusty puppeteer, he seems to lose hold of the strings, which is disorienting at first. But it’s also a reminder of the vagaries and snags of love—it’s a “pure and complicated” thing, remember? The overwhelming message, though, is one of hope, delivered with humor and heart by a marvelous cast. It’s not the most probing production that will hit a Portland stage this season, but it is one of the most delightful. REBECCA JACOBSON.

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The city’s most inventive orchestra opens its season with a world premiere: Czech composer Jan Jirásek’s new organ concerto,Dance with the Universe, written for the great German organist Juergen Essl, who’ll perform the solo part and join the

composer for a lecture demo about the new work. PCO music director Yaacov Bergman describes the new concerto as “pointillistic,” “colorful” and “spacious,” with traces of impressionism, Messiaen and minimalism. The concert also includes a rarely heard organ concerto by Haydn (which Essl will play on the smaller, portative instrument) and one of the greatest of all orchestral works, Mozart’s final symphony, No. 41. Agnes Flanagan Chapel at Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, 771-3250. 7:30 pm FridaySaturday and 3 pm Sunday, Sept. 21-23. $5-$25.

Portland Opera, Vagabond Opera, Rose City Swing Band

The company’s annual Big Night gala, which benefits its education efforts in schools and other public spaces, features performances by some of its best singers of some of opera’s greatest-hit arias (by Verdi, Mozart, Puccini, Wagner and more), with orchestra and chorus conducted by George Manahan. Freeloading/impoverished music fans can enjoy the fun from outside Keller Auditorium by watching a simulcast on a big screen while ticket holders gambol inside. Along with performances by Vagabond Opera and Rose City Swing Band at the pre-concert street fair, the event concludes with a free screening of the Marx Brothers’ wacky classic, A Night at the Opera. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 2411802. 5 pm for the street fair, 7:30 pm for the concert, 9:15 pm for the movie, Saturday, Sept. 22. $20-$100.

Portland Vocal Consort

The choir composed of some of Portland’s finest voices sings one of the great works of the Renaissance, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s “Pope Marcellus Mass.” Plus, there will be other magnificent works of the period by William Byrd, Thomas Tallis, later pieces by Brahms and more. The Grotto, 8840 NE Skidmore St., 209-7539. 7:30 pm Saturday, Sept. 22. $10-$20.

Prasanna and M. Lakshman

The opening concert of the wonderful presenting series Kalakendra’s season brings a touch of the modern to South Indian classical music. Rock, jazz and classical Indian guitarist/composer Prasanna, who’s worked with jazz stars like Dave Douglas, Esperanza Spalding and Joe Lovano, gave a terrific performance with Vijay Iyer’s Tirtha trio at this year’s Portland Jazz Festival. With percussionist Lakshman, he’ll play South Indian classical music in the Carnatic tradition, for which he’s won renown by adapting it to guitar. Evans Auditorium at Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, 523-8690. 7:30 Saturday, Sept. 22. $10-$20.

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mulas 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

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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.

Anna Fidler: Vampires and Wolf Men

Anna Fidler seductively re-imagines Oregon history in a terrific new show called Vampires and Wolf Men. What if the state’s founding fathers and mothers were actually vampires and werewolves à la Twilight and True Blood? Using sepia-tinted antique portraits as her source material, the artist has turned diminutive photos into large-scale, psychedelic-colored fantasias, full of woozy washes, intricate outlining and lots of beady, weirdly glowing eyes. The pieces are virtuosic and, apropos of the show’s fanciful conceit, more than a little unnerving. Through Sept. 29. Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, 134 NW 8th Ave., 287-3886.

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 stone-washed 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 downward-cast 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 manuscripts: irregularly scalloped and silver-edged, like alchemical for-

With psychedelia-inflected light play and symbolic motifs such as eyeballs, triangles and rainbows, San Francisco-based 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.

Margaret Shirley

What if you could distill the beauty of ferns, flowers and leaves into an aesthetic essence that never faded, wilted or dried up? That’s what Margaret Shirley does in her elegant studies of the vegetal world. With only one or two colors, her mixedmedia works layer materials into insouciant portraits of plant life, winningly composed and utterly charming. Through Sept. 29. Laura Russo Gallery, 805 NW 21st Ave., 226-2754.

Matthew Dennison: A Current History of Encroachment

In heavily varnished, willfully naive paintings, Matthew Dennison troops out girls and boys pulling toy wagons, bunnies and foxes, bears and tigers, and a menagerie of other juvenile tropes. If you’re predisposed to finding a certain creepy charm in childhood idylls, you’ll probably dig this show. If you find such motifs tired and cloying, you’ll probably find Dennison’s shtick, well, tired and cloying. Through Sept. 29. Froelick Gallery, 714 NW Davis St., 222-1142.

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.

Reynier Leyva Novo: The Novo Anniversary Collection

Reynier Leyva Novo, a Cuban artist who has exhibited in the prestigious Venice Biennale, shows his work here in Portland for a limited engagement. Novo’s politically influenced silk-screens, posters and T-shirts are themed around the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and its lingering influence over Cuban culture. Through Oct. 29. The Best Art Gallery in Portland, 1468 NE Alberta St., 203-1219.

Storm Tharp: Holding a Peach

Departing from the eccentric faces that established his signature style, Storm Tharp turns his attention to the body and fashion in his September show, Holding a Peach. In ink and gouache works on paper,

Tharp deploys a precise technique to depict hybridized body parts clad in sumptuous plaids (Spring Picture: Knee), fishnets (Strut With Collar), stripes (Athlete), and floral prints (Peonies & Plaid Sleeve). Much of this imagery is repurposed in fabric-stuffed sculptures displayed inside pedestal-mounted vitrines, all lined up in a row. There’s a perverse, serial-killer fastidiousness to these displays, as if Tharp has gleefully dismembered bodies and sewn them back up, Frankenstein-style, in unholy new configurations. Through Sept. 29. PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.

TBA: 12 End Things

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. hometeamers 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 ThursdayFriday 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 TuesdaySaturday through Sept. 22. Isabelle Cornaro and Morgan Ritter at PICA headquarters, 415 SW 10th Ave., Suite 300. Noon-6:30 pm ThursdayFriday and noon-4 pm Saturday, Sept. 20-29.

The Unseen Eye: Photographs From the W.M. Hunt Collection

“To engage you, to provoke, to excite you, and most importantly, to delight you.” That’s how prominent art collector W.M. Hunt describes the mission of photography, and the lion’s share of photos in this salon-style exhibition live up to that vaulted purpose. Hunt’s tastes are assertive, favoring portraits and nudes (mostly male), with a few still lifes and architectural studies peppered throughout. An insinuating portrait of Truman Capote numbers among the show’s highlights. Through Sept. 30. Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 225-0210.

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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from his resulting book of poems, In This Forest of Monks. If a monk falls down in the woods, does he call for help? Lan Su Chinese Garden, Northwest 3rd Avenue and Everett Street. 3 pm. Free with garden admission.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 19 Hedrick Smith

Piecing together the pivotal moments in political and economic decisions from the past four decades, veteran reporter Hedrick Smith explores the changing landscape of our lives in his new book, Who Stole the American Dream? Freedom haters, that’s who. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651. 7 pm. Free.

Library Lovers Unite Rally

Hell hath no fury like a librarian scorned. The Friends of the Multnomah County Library will host a rally to help garner support for creating a permanent source of funding for the library rather than renewing temporary levies. KPOJ host Carl Wolfson will emcee, with special-guest authors including Willy Vlautin and Ursula K. Le Guin. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. 6-8 pm. Free.

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Henry Hughes and Robert Michael Pyle

Poet Henry Hughes publishes highly acclaimed books with titles that make us giggle, such as Men Holding Eggs (which won the 2004 Oregon Book Award for poetry) and his 2011 release Moist Meridian. Essayist and biologist Robert Michael Pyle has plenty of award-winning books under his belt, including The Thunder Tree and Chasing Monarchs, and writes the column “The Tangled Bank” for Orion Magazine. Both authors will read and discuss their connection to nature at this month’s Comma Reading Series. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.

Alan Greenberg

Having worked with the likes of Martin Scorsese, Jim Jarmusch and Werner Herzog, author, filmmaker and screenwriter Alan Greenberg probably has an interesting story or two. Find out if Scorsese’s eyebrows function independently from his body when Greenberg reads from a selection of his work, including his new book, Every Night the Trees Disappear: Werner Herzog and the Making of Heart of Glass. Daedalus Books, 2074 NW Flanders St., 274-7742. 7 pm. Free.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 22 Daniel Skach-Mills

Poet, author and 2012 Oregon Book Award finalist Daniel SkachMills will recount his experience of living in near silence for almost six years as a Trappist monk and read

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Celebrating all things geeky this go-around: Local storytelling showcase Back Fence PDX will host comic-book scribe Matt Fraction (Invincible Iron Man), thriller writer Chelsea Cain (Kill You Twice), Jezebel staff writer Lindy West, co-host of the Geek & Sundry podcast Kiala Kazebee, former mathlete Gabe Carlton-Barnes and video-game creator Bruce Oberg for the theme of Hashtag Nerd. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 8 pm. $12-$15. 21+.

36-Hour Sledgehammer Writing Contest

Writing is a toilsome, solitary activity and even the most lighthearted of blogs can begin to feel like a harsh master with time. Spice things up a little with a scavenger hunt, writing prompts and the promise of fame and glory (and lots of prizes) that come with winning the 36-hour Sledgehammer Writing Contest. Portland Rock Gym, 21 NE 12th Ave., 232-8310. Noon Saturday, Sept. 22, until midnight Sunday, Sept. 23. $35.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 23 Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis

Revisiting the dark fantasy world created in Forest Park in their first book, Wildwood, Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis continue the adventure in Under Wildwood. Young protagonist Prue is drawn back into Wildwood to help her friend Curtis, a bandit-in-training, after the Bicycle Coup. So, pretty much what happens in Forest Park anyway. Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 236-9234. 4 pm. $17.99, includes book copy.

MONDAY, SEPT. 24 E. L. James Book Signing

Hard to believe it was barely a year ago that the erotic Fifty Shades trilogy unlocked the inner BDSM freak in every soccer mom on the block. The first book, Fifty Shades of Grey, now ranks as the fastest-selling paperback of all time. Powell’s will host author E.L. James for a book signing only, where she will sign up to three books per person but not, we imagine, any handcuffs, ball gags or chaps. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 6 pm. Free.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 25 Oregon Encyclopedia History Night

Raised near Troutdale in the ’30s and ’40s, retired teacher Clarence Mershon grew up with many Japanese-American friends and neighbors, and witnessed firsthand their wartime extraction from local communities. Through photos, research and his own experiences, Mershon recounts the history of Japanese-American families in east Multnomah County for the presentation Along the Sandy: Our Nikkei Neighbors. McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 6698610. 6:30 pm. Free.

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17 Girls

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things are going to come from 15 girls saying, “Let’s all get pregnant at the party on Saturday!” Especially when they’re 16 years old. Delphine and Muriel Coulin’s 17 Girls begins with just such a declaration. Based on the so-called “pregnancy pact” made among a group of teenage girls at Gloucester High School in Massachusetts in 2008, the story has been transplanted to a blue-collar town in Brittany, France. Initially, Camille (Louise Grinberg) gets pregnant the old-fashioned way: unintentionally. A social outcast then gets pregnant to fit in. Then everyone follows suit. 17 Girls treats this as the ultimate act of rebellion against unhappy lives, arguing that these girls will give their children the loving family they desperately crave themselves. The problem is that 17 Girls doesn’t have anything profound to say about pregnancy pacts or broken homes. It just trails off. Screening as the second half of a double feature with local filmmaker Bob Moricz’s teen pregnancy movie, Bumps (7 pm Friday, Sept. 21). JOHN LOCANTHI. Clinton Street Theater. 9 pm Friday, 7 and 9 pm Sunday-Tuesday, Sept. 21 and 23-25.

2016: Obama’s America

Not screened for critics, probably due to some kind of Democrat-socialistMuslim-terrorist conspiracy. PG. Bridgeport, City Center, Movies On TV.

Apocalypse: A Bill Callahan Tour Film

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] On the road with the deadpan, baritone-voiced folk singer best known as Smog. Bill Callahan performs following the screening. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Saturday, Sept. 22.

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 hollowman ambitions, smug moral posturing and incongruous driving-synth atmospherics of Dutch-era 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.

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.

The Bourne Legacy

B Now Matt Damon-less, and suffering a bit from the residuals, screenwriter Tony Gilroy’s Bourne series moves in a slightly different direction with Legacy…but not that different. This time it’s Jeremy Renner—continuing his quest to appear in every single action franchise ever—as Aaron Cross, who finds himself dodging missiles, brandishing assault rifles and seeking to find more of the medication that transformed him from a learning-disabled grunt into a super-agile, hyper-intelligent warrior. While Damon is certainly missed, Renner is an apt replacement, bringing a startling physical prowess and easy charisma. The only real problem here is Gilroy’s direction, which lacks the unique style of his predecessors. As such, the movie comes off as generic, especially given the dumbed-down storyline. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Lloyd Mal, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Wilsonville.

The Camino Documentary

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A screening of Portland filmmaker Lydia B. Smith’s as-yet-unfinished documentary about Spain’s sacred, much-traveled Camino de Santiago. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Sept. 19.

The Campaign

D- Zach Galifianakis and Will Ferrell have become the paunchy, awkward Wayans brothers of American comedic film, broad-stroked and choked up with cheap gags, sweaty and desperate for the audience’s love. Their comedic affinity for each other is so pronounced it was only a matter of time before they finally starred together onscreen: In The Campaign, they play small-town North Carolina political candidates bent on utterly destroying each other. But no matter how obvious the pairing might have seemed during backroom Hollywood meetings, it was a terrible, terrible mistake. Like two needy over-talkers in the same conversation, Ferrell and Galifianakis engage throughout the film in a kind of scenic tug of war, a nuclear escalation of comedic ADHD that threatens to flatten the entire landscape. Galifianakis plays his usual brand of effete mental instability as a family-money misfit tapped by evil industrialists (Dan Aykroyd and John Lithgow) to run as Ferrell’s opponent. Ferrell’s performance, on the other hand, draws from an oddball hodgepodge of past presidents—most notably Bushes I and II—mélanged together into an aggressively retarded Republican stew. Strange, then, that he plays a Dixiecrat who pals up to Bill Clinton. And in comedy, as in politics, absolutely no stunt is beyond bounds, from childhood bestiality to Asian women talking in a Southernmammy dialect to baby-punching. And as in any no-holds-barred political drag-out, everyone loses. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Lake Twin, Pioneer Place, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall.

Dangerous Desires: Film Noir Classics: The Blue Dahlia

B [ONGOING SERIES, REVIVAL] The NW Film Center’s noir lineup is keeping James Ellroy fans in clover. The retrospective kicked off last week with one of the Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction’s favorite pieces of filmic filth, The Prowler. This week, the spotlight is on The Blue Dahlia, the movie that provided a popular nickname, the Black Dahlia, for the murdered woman who obsessed orphaned Ellroy for much of his early work. The Blue Dahlia turns out to be an

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GET BEHIND ME, THETAN: Joaquin Phoenix.

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As you might have heard, The Master is the film Scientology maybe, sort of doesn’t want you to see. But based on some of Joaquin Phoenix’s acting choices, director Paul Thomas Anderson must’ve told him he’d be appearing as a psychologically tortured live-action Popeye. Playing a sailorman and World War II vet just released back to civilian life and left to deal with a sex addiction, rage issues and a slate of other psychic wounds, Phoenix keeps one eye in a perpetual squint and slurs out the side of a curled mouth. He doesn’t eat much spinach but slams back plenty of homemade hooch, mixing together whatever happens to be lying around at the time, including paint thinner. He’s a bit of a loose cannon, whose explosions contain all the sense of a silverback gorilla’s reaction to getting kneed in the testicles. In one scene of especially unhinged physicality, Phoenix is shoved into a prison cell, where he smacks his head against a bunk bed, gnashes at the mattress and destroys a porcelain toilet, all with his hands cuffed behind his back. It’s an astounding performance in a confounding movie. The Master makes deliberate allusions to L. Ron Hubbard’s sci-fi pseudo-religion, but that’s not what it’s actually about. It’s a picture that’s nearly impenetrable on first viewing. But few directors’ films are as worthy of their challenges as Anderson’s. With The Master, Anderson creates a mind trap that pulls tighter the more you try to solve it. It’s a film you’ll feel the need to watch again immediately out of sheer obligation. For the movie’s first 30 minutes or so, we’re alone with Phoenix’s Freddie Quell. It’s an uncomfortable half-hour. In that time, he mimes intercourse with a female-shaped sand sculpture, then masturbates into the ocean; undergoes a Rorschach test in which he reports seeing only genitalia; and attempts to choke a customer at his postwar job as a mall photographer. Although claustrophobic in their intimacy, these early scenes don’t help

us understand Quell any better, but then, we’re dealing with a character who doesn’t understand himself. Instead, Anderson frames Phoenix in tight close-ups, gazing upon his creased features. That’s where the real exposition is: in the face of a man whose insecurities and lack of self-awareness have caused him to fold in on himself. Stowing away on a boat, Quell eventually encounters Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a pink-hued huckster selling salvation through “the Cause,” a self-help movement based in a variation of repressed-memory therapy, suggesting followers can revisit past lives going back trillions of years. It’s here that Anderson drops in

THE MASTER IS A FILM YOU’LL FEEL THE NEED TO WATCH AGAIN IMMEDIATELY OUT OF SHEER OBLIGATION. bits of Hubbard’s biography. But as Quell and Dodd become increasingly intertwined, the Scientology allegories fade into the background, and the movie becomes, like Anderson’s work stretching back to Boogie Nights, a portrait of American masculinity under duress. The true nature of their relationship stays ambiguous, and Dodd, for all his palpable charisma, is just as unreadable as Quell. His ego is overstuffed enough for him to subtitle a book “A Gift to Homo-sapiens,” but Hoffman imbues Dodd with enough unspoken doubt that it’s never clear just how much of his own bullshit he is actually buying. Anderson is fascinated by these two unknowable characters, to the point of eschewing traditional narrative just to focus in on them. Abetted by grandiose 65 mm cinematography and a crazymaking score from Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, The Master is an ambitious enigma that never figures itself out, and that’s precisely what makes it one of the year’s best films. A SEE IT: The Master is rated R. It opens Friday at Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower.

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The Dark Knight Rises

A Let’s keep this simple: The Dark

Knight Rises is the best entry in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy. It’s tighter and better paced than its hyperbolically praised predecessor. Its set pieces, including a midair plane hijacking and an imploding football field, are more spectacular. And, despite ongoing themes of torment and loss and a zeitgeisty plot involving the 1 Percent’s heavily armed chickens coming home to roost, it’s the most exciting, purely pleasurable entry in the series. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Indoor Twin, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cornelius, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV.

Dredd 3D

A remake of the 1995 Sly Stallone vehicle, with less incomprehensible mumbling and more POKING YOU IN THE EYE. Not screened for critics. R. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Living Room Theaters, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

End of Watch

From the writer of S.W.A.T., Dark Blue and Training Day comes a film that’s pretty much exactly like those other movies, except this one’s got Jake Gyllenhaal. Not screened for critics. R. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Pioneer Place, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

The Expendables 2

A bunch of leathery, ’roidedup Republicans invade a foreign country and explode the shit out of it. Again. But this time…it’s personal. Not screened for critics. R. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Stadium 11, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mal, Movies On TV, Sherwood.

Filmusik Organ Grinders: West of Zanzibar

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Portland indie rockers the Subterranean Howl perform an original live soundtrack to Tod “Freaks” Browning’s 1928 silent film. Hollywood Theatre. 8 pm Thursday, Sept. 20.

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, Cornelius, Pioneer Place, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Wilsonville.

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.

Grindhouse Film Festival presents Rolling Thunder

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] A Vietnam-scarred revenge flick from 1977, starring William Devane and Tommy Lee Jones and written by Taxi Driver scribe Paul Schrader. R. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Sept. 25.

Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Answer (at least according to this documentary): A clandestine 1971 memo from Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, which allegedly predicts (and calls for) the economic collapse that hit the world almost four decades later. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Monday, Sept. 24.

Hello I Must Be Going

D Breakups are tough. Divorces

are even worse. But not everyone gets to move back into her parents’ mansion while her family tries to set her up with a wealthy investment banker. Three months removed from the divorce from her “big entertainment lawyer” husband, Amy (Melanie Lynskey) has been moping about the house ever since. That is, until she meets an angsty 19-year-old actor named Jeremy (Christopher Abbot), the stepson of one of her father’s wealthy potential clients. Despite the noticeable lack of chemistry, a torrid love affair ensues. Age and fear of interfering with their parents’ business deal force them to keep it on the down-low. Amy’s parents are also going through some money problems, which apparently don’t prevent her mother from buying expensive lip sculptures. Hello I Must Be Going has some important messages about moving on with life and the rejuvenating power of a good shag, but they’re attached to a story about two whiny trust-fund babies bonding over how hard they have it in their parents’ mansions in Westport. R. JOHN LOCANTHI. Fox Tower.

Hope Springs

B 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 (Meryl Streep) isn’t ready to throw in the dishtowel. It has been tagged with the dreaded label “a movie for grownups”—three cheers for muesli!—but it’s a cusp-of-retirement riff on the virginity-loss comedy, with the protagonists getting laid again for the first time. And without the rampant dishonesty of Nancy Meyers, at that. PG13. AARON MESH. Moreland Theatre, Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower, Movies On TV.

House at the End of the Street

We preferred it’s working title, Jennifer Lawrence Wears a Tank-Top and Screams a Lot. Not screened for critics. PG-13. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills,

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Icon Motorsports Film Festival

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] The premiere of the extreme motorcycling documentary The Raiden Files: Portland to Dakar. Extreme! Clinton Street Theater. 7 and 8 pm Thursday, Sept. 20.

The Imposter

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

fiction film from director Bart Layton focuses on the disappearance of 13-year-old Texan Nicholas Barclay back in 1994 and how, more than three years later, his family received the impossible news that he had been found in, of all places, Spain. The reality was that the person claiming to be Nicholas was, in fact, Frédéric Bourdin, a French-Algerian con artist in his 20s. Somehow, through a series of administrative hiccups, wishful thinking and Bourdin’s charm, the ruse was kept up for a full five months before a private investigator figured out something was amiss. Like a good piece of long-form journalism, The Imposter turns over every detail. Layton’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.

ing party on our hands! But seriously, folks. In an oeuvre defined by overbearing bleakness—this is the guy who thought The Road would make a great movie—Lawless is the most easily digestible of Hillcoat’s bitter pills. Based on the book The Wettest County in the World, author Matt Bondurant’s investigation into his family’s history as outlaw moonshiners, the film blends truth and myth into the kind of crowd-pleasing, Western-style thriller that used to get Kevin Costner nominated for Oscars back in the ’90s. Adapted by musician Nick Cave, who wrote Hillcoat’s masterful outback Western The Proposition, it’s still got the filmmaker’s stamp of brutality (need I remind you of the thing with the testicles?). But for him, this is a popcorn flick. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center,

Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood.

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.

The Odd Life of Timothy Green

B+ Jim and Cindy Green (Joel

Edgerton and Jennifer Garner) lead a life of exceptional blandness. He works on the assembly line in a pencil factory while she toils under the thumb of a tight-lipped old biddy at a pencil museum. They live in the town

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awfully conventional piece of work, distinguished mostly by Raymond Chandler dialogue far snappier than the whodunit plot requires. Alan Ladd returns from fighting in the South Pacific to find wife Doris Dowling has become a cruel, boozy vamp. (Maybe she’s traumatized because she drunk-drove their kid into a wall, but the movie doesn’t much explore her feelings.) When she ends up on the wrong end of a revolver, Ladd pulls an O.J. and goes looking for the real killers. Suspects include Howard Da Silva as a louche nightclub owner and William Bendix as Ladd’s war buddy, who has a steel plate in his head and probably shouldn’t be allowed to pet any rabbits, if you see what I mean. As this summary suggests, much pleasure is derived from junky archetypes talking real wise—including Veronica Lake, whose smirk was engineered for Chandler’s lines. Also screening: Pitfall (7 pm Thursday, Sept. 20); The Window (7 pm Sunday, Sept. 23). AARON MESH. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 9 pm Saturday, Sept. 22. Dangerous Desires: Film Noir Classics continues through Sunday, Sept. 30. See nwfilm. org for a full schedule.

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Iron Sky

Moon Nazis! Why the hell wasn’t this screened for critics? Living Room Theaters.

It’s Such a Beautiful Day

Cult favorite animator Don Hertzfeldt combines his existentialist “Bill” trilogy of shorts into a single dark comedy. Hollywood Theatre.

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 slackjawed, dirt-poor rednecks in particular, the movie wrings scum-black humor from yokels hee-hawing at televised monster truck rallies and attending funerals dressed in ripped suits and baseball caps. So mentally and morally destitute are they that a contract killer with a fried-chicken fetish (Matthew McConaughey) comes off looking virtuous. If Killer Joe were the product of a younger filmmaker, the cruelty and condescension would translate as desperately attention-seeking. But Friedkin has been pushing, prodding and provoking audiences for decades. Killer Joe has no underlying message to leaven and redeem the violence and perversion. It has only the visceral charge of a master shit-disturber going all-in appealing to his basest instincts. As a primal gut punch, the movie can’t be called anything other than a success. It’s disgusting, but just try looking away. You can’t. NC-17. MATTHEW SINGER. Fox Tower.

Lawless

B Here is Australian director John

Hillcoat’s idea of a good time: a Prohibition-era period piece about a real-life clan of Virginia bootleggers, in which throats are slashed with knives and crushed with brass knuckles, a cripple gets his neck snapped, a man is scalded by hot tar, and at least one pair of testicles are cut off, packaged and left on a doorstep. If only a puppy had gotten kicked down a flight of stairs, then we’d really have a swing-

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TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE Get off Clint Eastwood’s field of dreams, you damn dirty vegans!

If you wanted to know whether Clint Eastwood yells at chairs in his new movie, the answer is a resounding yes. He yells at chairs, bleachers, doors, garages and Amy Adams. He drinks Schlitz beer and unironically jeers at the “Interweb,” makes old-man wisecracks at his vegan daughter and his own recalcitrant genitalia. Because, oh gosh, Clint Eastwood is old. Trouble With the Curve, directed by longtime Eastwood producer Robert Lorenz, reminds us of this in countless demeaning ways that relentlessly kneecap the red-blooded, American-born, deeply self-sufficient man he has always portrayed. Still, Trouble is one American icon grinding its teeth on another, and for this it is in some small part irresistible. Eastwood plays an aging Major League scout named Gus Lobel who lives, breathes and loves baseball. And he does it for America’s team, the Atlanta Braves. Justin Timberlake, as a cocksure young scout with a heart of gold, is likewise winning as the little dog circling the big dog with a stream of endlessly cheery yips. But the film’s a bit confused about itself, and much more confused about what to do with the bounty of sunshine and worried care that is Amy Adams. Adams, as Gus’ daughter Mickey, works tirelessly at a law office full of soulless silverbacks who—in hilariously legally actionable terms—question whether a girl is really cut out to be a law partner, and dates a chiseled suit who tells her, with equal soullessness, that they should “take it to the next level” because they “look so good on paper.” But in a strange turn, the film slowly morphs from a tale about a hardbitten old-timer facing the end of his relevance to the story of a bright, young career woman who finally comes to know herself and find love with a boy-band singer while on the road with her dad. It is a funny world in which everyone always witlessly says what they mean, every life episode is dubiously calculated for your favorite character’s benefit, and every incompetent person is also morally repellent and physically grotesque. But it is the world we live in during this movie. The young men get Amy Adams, the old men get redeemed, and Adams gets everything. Great world, I guess. But as a movie, it’s peanuts. PG-13. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. C+ SEE IT: Trouble With the Curve opens Friday at Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Lake Twin, Pioneer Place, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV. Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, St. Johns.

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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 “lady-boys”—and paints an astounding portrait of human existence. (Narrowing down any single moment for highlighting is difficult, but for me, it might be the procession of pallbearers carrying a coffin shaped like a handgun.) Whether or not it’s as profound as the filmmakers want it to be depends on your predilection toward enlightenment, but as a travelogue, Samsara is simply goddamned beautiful. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Fox Tower.

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of Stanleyville, the “Pencil Capital of the World.” Yikes. Even bleaker, the couple struggles with infertility issues, and learn after countless failed medical procedures that they cannot conceive. Drunk on misery and red wine, they scrawl characteristics of their imaginary child on slips of paper, stuff them listlessly into a wooden box, and bury them in the backyard along with their hopes of ever becoming parents. And then something less depressing happens: A 10-year-old child comes busting out of the ground where the box was buried, slathered in mud and sprouting leaves around his ankles. The ensuing story, albeit saccharine and silly, is genuinely adorable. PG. EMILY JENSEN. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Forest Theatre, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood.

Opus Diaboli

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A documentary on black metal. Cinema 21. Midnight Saturday, Sept. 22.

ParaNorman

B+ Is ParaNorman as good as the

first Laika picture, 2009’s Coraline? No. It doesn’t have the depth of imagination, nor the emotional pull. Although it contains moments of impressive visual pow—it’s animated in remarkable stop-motion— it doesn’t match the barrage of sheer awe that made Coraline such a wondrous experience. As long as we’re measuring the films against each other, though, let it be said: ParaNorman is a lot more fun. PG. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, Indoor Twin, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Stadium 11, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies On TV.

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, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Wilsonville.

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. PG-13. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Movies On TV, Wilsonville.

Queen: Live in Budapest

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Watch as Freddie Mercury has a crowd of 80,000 people eating out of his hand. Probably because they’re so Hungary. Heyooooo!. Living Room Theaters. 7:30 pm Thursday, Sept. 20.

Resident Evil: Retribution

The fifth movie in the Resident Evil series takes extraordinary zombie-killing machine Alice (Milla

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Jovovich) 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! Not screened for critics, but what the hell? We’ll recommend it anyway. R. KENDRA CLUNE. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Pioneer Place, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Wilsonville.

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

Rosemary’s Baby

[ONE WEEK ONLY, REVIVAL] Between this and Eraserhead,’60s and ’70s horror cinema made a pretty good case against ever having kids, didn’t it? R. Hollywood Theatre. 9:30 pm Friday-Thursday, Sept. 21-27.

Samsara

A Samsara, the title of the new

wordless, non-narrative documentary from the creators of 1992’s similarly structured Baraka, is a Sanskrit word referencing, more or less, the circle of life. If that doesn’t reek of patchouli enough for you, the film is also bookended by trips to a Buddhist temple, features a score that sounds taken from a CD purchased at the counter of an organic food co-op, and, through its juxtaposition of images, expresses a disapproving view of the modern industrialized world. Anyone allergic to New Age-isms will break out in hives. Put aside those aversions, however, and Samsara is, without question, the most visually intoxicating film of year. Shot in gleaming 70 mm by Ron Fricke and Mark

B- Gaining an appreciable level of success outside of one’s home country is not an unusual feat. What’s stranger is for that artist to have no clue about his or her fame in some far-flung country until nearly 30 years after the fact. Such is the case with Rodriguez, a Detroit-born musician recognized in the U.S. only by crate diggers and music scholars who revel in the darker recesses of the psychedelic era. In the documentary Searching for Sugar Man, freshman director Malik Bendjelloul reveals that in South Africa, a world away from where they were recorded, his albums were revered. Bendjelloul plays out the story of Rodriguez like a detective novel, adding pieces to the puzzle via interviews with producers who worked with the musician, as well as a South African record-store owner and a journalist who both worked tirelessly to uncover the truth behind Rodriguez’s “disappearance”— the prevailing rumor being that he committed suicide onstage. About halfway through Sugar Man, it is revealed that Rodriguez is alive, well, and still living in Detroit, working as a manual laborer. Once that is uncovered, the now nearly 70-year-old musician is placed in front of the camera. Only then does the film take flight. PG-13. ROBERT HAM. Fox Tower.

Side by Side

B Documentarians, take notice: If

you’re making a film about a niche topic steeped in scientific processes, get an unshaven Keanu Reeves to be the viewers’ avatar. Throughout Side by Side, Reeves, with a fluctuating haircut that goes from militaristic to hedonistic between cuts (the film was shot over several years), shows up like an eager cub reporter to talk to famous directors, cinematographers and actors about the slow eclipse of traditional film by HD digital. It’s been a topic of film-geek argument ever since camcorders ushered in the indie movement of the ’90s, and director Christopher Kenneally positions Reeves as the dude at the party confusedly listening to people talk about things that are going over his head. We’ve all been there, and Reeves’ blank nodding is especially helpful when nerds like George Lucas, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron and David Fincher prattle about technical processes. But the film (shot on digital, by the way) plays less like a point-counterpoint discussion on the merits of both media and more like a CliffsNotes of film history, eventually ditching photochemical altogether to ogle the prettiness of Avatar and, even worse, Attack of the Clones. Still, it’s impossible not to take a cue from Reeves and be fascinated by smart people talking about crazy shit, then zone out to myriad movie clips for a while. Whoa. AP KRYZA. Hollywood Theatre.

Sleepwalk with Me

Ira Glass co-writes a full-length dramatization of Mike Birbiglia’s popular stand-up routine about chronic sleepwalking and brushes with death—and it holds up in translation. As comedian autobiographies go, it’s among the more humane. The conflict is almost a cliché: As “Matt

SEPT. 19-25 fers into the body of a newborn Labrador puppy. Were this deeply silly plot twist treated with a selfaware, campy tone, Walk-In could have been more enjoyable. Alas, Blum goes for mushy and inspirational, and with the help of flat dialogue and glacial pacing, ends up with a final product that is beautifully shot but downright corny. EMILY JENSEN. Laurelhurst Theater.

We Grew Wings

B- [ONE NIGHT ONLY] These days,

it’s hard to imagine an era in which there were no women’s races longer than 1500 meters in the Olympics, or a time when women weren’t allowed to participate in the pole vault. It’s even harder to imagine that the latter ended just 12 years ago. We Grew Wings is a cluttered

documentary that compares the University of Oregon’s women’s track and field team across two eras: the 1985 championship team and the current powerhouse program. Jumping sporadically from past to present through interviews and archival footage, the film captures the different environment and cultural attitudes these women faced. Lack of women’s athletics pre-Title IX, track strategy, injuries, cancer, bulimia—all these issues are addressed or paid lip service over the course of 80 minutes. That’s a lot of ground to cover—enough to fill a miniseries—and this plodding untold story never seems to figure out what exactly needs to be told. JOHN LOCANTHI. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Sunday, Sept. 23.

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When I saw the trailer for Compliance a couple months ago, I let loose with one of those deliberate groans that insecure pseudo-intellectuals use to let strangers in the vicinity know that one highly refined set of sensibilities is being rubbed the wrong way. “Great,” the groan expressed, “another fake-deep painfest hiding behind a ripped-from-the-headlines conceit and feeding cheap thrills to middlebrow crowds who like their junk food gussied up in arthouse attire.” Never trust a first impression, especially one triggered by a marketing department. And immediately disregard any huffy noise issuing from a snob’s talk hole. Because I was wrong. Compliance is a great and important film. Writer-director Craig Zobel’s torturechamber piece is most definitely a painfest—it is essentially a 90-minute rape sequence—but it smartly skirts titillation to get at unsettling truths about a species robbed, ruled and defeated by discipline and punishment. Based on a true story you are probably already familiar with, Compliance transpires over one long and terrible day in the back office of a fast-food restaurant, where manager Sandra (Ann Dowd), instructed by a sadistic caller posing as a police officer, holds one of her employees hostage on trumped-up theft charges and reluctantly plays the phony cop’s surrogate interrogator and torturer. The cruelty depicted in Compliance doesn’t come anywhere near so-called torture porn’s visceral shock tactics, but it is, in its way, as unnerving as anything in the contemporary canon of body horror. As Becky (Dreama Walker) submits to her boss’s increasingly invasive inspections, and as various bystanders become assistants to the man on the phone, a horrible portrait of just how fucked we all are begins to emerge. Although the pleasures of the suspense thriller play some small part in Zobel’s film, Compliance is essentially a carefully constructed and keenly observed dissertation on internalized oppression, a study-in-miniature of the way a patriarchal power structure becomes a prison with invisible walls, a place where desires are repressed, wages reduced to a trickle and mutual distrust stoked at every turn until it merely takes a voice on the phone to tip passive fear over into active cruelty. It is a very scary movie because it is all too true. R. CHRIS STAMM. A

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): For every trillion dollars the U.S. government spends on the military, it creates about 11,000 jobs. That same expenditure, if directed toward education, creates 27,000 jobs. Personally, I’d rather have the taxes I pay go to teachers than soldiers -- especially in light of the fact that the U.S. spends almost as much money on its military as all the other nations in the world combined spend on theirs. I suggest that in the coming months you make a metaphorically similar move, Aries. Devote more of your time and energy and resources to learning, and less to fighting. Ironically, doing that will ultimately diminish the fighting you have to do. As you get more training and wisdom, you’ll become more skilled at avoiding unnecessary conflicts. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Now is an excellent time to cull, prune, and winnow. I urge you to look for opportunities to pare down and refine. On the other hand, don’t go too far. Be careful that you don’t truncate, desecrate, or annihilate. It’s not an easy assignment, Taurus. You will have to be skeptical about any temptation you might have to go overboard with your skepticism. You will have to be cautious not to allow your judicious discernment to devolve into destructive distrust. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Why did people start drinking coffee? Who figured out that roasting and boiling the bitter beans of a certain shrub produced a stimulating beverage? Historians don’t know for sure. One old tale proposes that a ninth-century Ethiopian shepherd discovered the secret. After his goats nibbled on the beans of the coffee bush, they danced and cavorted with unnatural vigor. I urge you to be as alert and watchful as that shepherd, Gemini. A new source of vibrant energy may soon be revealed to you, perhaps in an unexpected way. CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Hello Dear One: My name is Lorita. I am a beautiful heartfelt woman from Libya. I was browsing online through the long night when I came across your shiny dark power, and now I must tell you that I am quite sure you and I can circle together like sun and moon. It would give me great bliss for us to link up and make a tender story together. I await your reply so I can give you my secret sweetness. - Your Surprise Soulmate.” Dear Soulmate: Thank you for your warm inquiry. However, I must turn you down. Because I was born under the sign of Cancer the Crab, I have to be very careful to maintain proper boundaries; I can’t allow myself to be wide open to every extravagant invitation I get, especially from people I don’t know well. That’s especially true these days. We Crabs need to be extra discriminating about what influences we allow into our spheres. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Questions and more questions! Will the monkey on your back jump off, at least for a while? Will the sign of the zodiac that you understand least become an X-factor in the unfolding plot? Will a cute distraction launch you on what seems to be a wild goose chase -- until it leads you to a clue you didn’t even know you were looking for? Will a tryst in an unsacred space result in an odd boost to your longterm fortunes? The answers to riddles like these will be headed your way in the coming weeks. You’re at the beginning of a phase that will specialize in alluring twists and brain-teasing turns.

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