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The public unions are all overpaid—especially when retirement benefits and health care are taken into account—compared to similar workers in the private sector. This issue is causing major budget problems in state and local governments all across the country. On the right we have the rich not paying their share of taxes; on the left we have the unions extorting unreasonable pay. They are equally bad. Firemen have gotten a free pass because they are all-American and wholesome and occasionally save some lives, but they deserve some scrutiny too. —“Joe”

Thank you so much for this article. A few months ago, I heard a similar story on NPR about the duplication between firefighters and ambulances in Boston. And then [last] week, I actually witnessed the same thing here in Portland. Responding to a minor medical emergency [was] a big red fire truck, an ambulance and a police car. Could the waste of resources in a time when money is scarce be any more obvious? —“Big Al”

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I feel the article was unbalanced, since I didn’t hear any of the numerous positives that the fire department does, which are many [“Burning Money,” WW, Sept. 26, 2012]. I’ve always seen the fire department as an insurance policy. Sure, it’s wasteful, unnecessary and all that—until you need it! Kind of like the military. I am willing to pay taxes to highly trained, professional folks who will arrive when I most need them. I do, however, see a need for more scrutiny. —“Aden”

After years in the fire service serving as a battalion chief, I know a little about the needs at the emergency scene. The emergency scene is all about staffing. For a medical emergency, it is important to have people and equipment necessary to complete the task rapidly. There may be extrication from a vehicle or bathroom. Special tools are usually required for such rescues. The typical SUV has no room to carry such equipment. —“James Hill”

I am a supporter of the Columbia River Crossing concept in general. However, I don’t support the light rail’s inclusion in the project [“Throw Voters From the Train,” WW, Sept. 26, 2012]. The reason is the I-5 corridor between the Columbia River and Portland has little to do with the people who could possibly ride the light rail. The real issue is the interstate traffic crossing the current bridge daily. The light rail would do nothing to relieve this congestion. I also believe the people of Clark County are far less likely to consider using alternative transportation methods. —“Jeff Cole”

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I found myself marveling at the rising full moon over Portland last Saturday night. It certainly seemed larger than usual. My friend says this effect is caused by light refracting through the cool autumn air. Is he right? —Alice P. You’re close. Oregon moons are about 20 percent larger than the national average this year. This is caused by a combination of high CO 2 levels, reflections off snow and ice on Mount Hood, and, of course, congressional redistricting following the 2010 census. Psych! I spin this line of bullshit not to mess with you—OK, maybe partly to mess with you— but also to remind you not to believe everything you hear. Your friend, to put it charitably, is full of crap. Actually, I guess that’s not very charitable. He’s

full of crap, but he has nice eyes? The point is that the size-distorting effect is caused not by the air but by humanity’s stupid brain. When we see the moon on the horizon—with trees, houses and hills for scale—it seems far away, so we process it as bigger. When it’s overhead, though, our puny minds can’t grok the distance. We subconsciously assume the high moon—and the flat, dishlike sky it’s so clearly glued to—is, oh, 200 or 300 yards away, and hence, not that big. If your friend doesn’t buy this (not that anybody would ever disagree with Dr. Know), tell him to compare the next big, low moon he sees with the size of his thumbnail at arm’s length. Then have him try the same trick when the moon is high in the sky. It’ll be the same size. In the meantime, if he tries to convince you that you can’t get pregnant with your shoes on— well, don’t say I didn’t warn you. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com

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Mayoral candidate Jefferson Smith has released a 1994 diversion agreement that got him off the hook for a misdemeanor assault charge. Smith, then a University of Oregon student, injured a woman during a scuffle with her at a party in late 1993. The agreement notes that the woman required stitches and received treatment in a hospital emergency room. In the agreement, Smith admitted his conduct was “wrongful”; promised to stay out of trouble for six months; perform 20 hours of community service and pay $400 to 500 in medical bills. Smith has said he was only defending himself from the woman, who witnesses say smith was striking him. Forest Grove-based Stimson Lumber has been pouring money into an independent campaign expenditure group called the Oregon Transformation Project political action committee—$630,000 since last fall. It’s trying to turn Clackamas County into a GOP stronghold and break the Oregon House’s 30-30 deadlock between Democrats and Republicans. Now the Oregon Transformation Project has unleashed some of that money in a mailer attacking Rep. Jeff Barker (D-Aloha) and government-employee pensions. “Jeff Barker says he wants to retire,” the mailer reads, “and if you had a government-funded pension worth more than $100,000 a year to retire on, wouldn’t you?” Barker, who earlier talked about leaving the House, is a former Portland cop who collects $79,104 annually through the city’s Fire and Police Disability and Retirement fund. Oregon Transformation Project’s Bridget Barton claims her group is guessing at Barker’s future pension benefits if he also collects for his legislative years from the Public Employee Retirement System. “They’re just making it up,” Barker says. “They’re just lying.” Forget the $160 million and the better part of a decade spent trying to string together plans for the Columbia River Crossing, which includes new Interstate 5 spans between Washington and Oregon. Why not just take the tunnel? Two friends who travel between Vancouver and Portland have produced a new “permit” sticker for a fictional Columbia River Tunnel. “We spend a lot of time in traffic and thought this was a fun way to make people smile as they do a double-take,” says project co-founder Jennifer Rego. CRC planners did briefly consider a tunnel, but Rego says she and her partner, Keith Mages, aren’t proposing one. They say theirs is just a humorous take that celebrates the beauty and splendor of the Columbia and nearby Gorge. The stickers are on sale at columbiarivertunnel.com or at Frock and Local Discoveries on Northeast Alberta Street. Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt.

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It used to be kids all over Portland came home from public school splattered in paint, smelling of papier-mâché paste and proudly carrying home their latest creation for the refrigerator door. Art projects were as much a part of grade school as learning to spell, navigating the cafeteria and surviving foursquare. But no longer. When local schools slash budgets, art education is often the first to go. Many school buildings now have a ghost music room where once students sang, played recorders and banged on xylophones. Over the past two years, Portland Public Schools, the city’s largest district, has eliminated art and music instruction in almost half its elementary schools. Parkrose, Centennial and Reynolds—other school districts within the city—have made similar cuts. The David Douglas district has maintained a full-time music teacher at every elementary school, but district spokesman Dan McCue acknowledges it may be impossible to fund them next year. A proposed “arts” tax on the Nov. 6 ballot is being sold to voters as a solution. The $35-per-resident city tax would, its backers say, raise $12 million a year and guarantee an art or music teacher in every elementary school. “We’re sowing the seeds for great arts education,” says Jessica Jarratt Miller, executive director of Creative Advocacy Network, a lobbying organization that’s pushing the tax measure. “Every student in every school will get arts education every week.” But the measure’s fine print raises serious questions about those claims and who, besides schoolchildren, will benefit from the new tax. Emily Nazarov, Portland organizer of Stand for Children, says her group has not yet taken a position on the measure, but its members are taking a skeptical view. “We have some serious concerns whether the measure will deliver on its promise of music and art teachers in every school,” Nazarov says. “The proposed tax imposes a financial burden on schools. And the tax is poorly structured and hits low-income working families hardest.” The tax promises money for schools but falls short on covering the costs of restoring all arts and music teachers. The measure is a boon to arts nonprofits, which will collect nearly half of the money from the tax. The measure creates permanent taxpayer funding for local arts groups, including the city’s wealthiest. Nearly $4 million a year would go to groups such as the Oregon Symphony, the Portland Art Museum and the Portland Opera—organizations that sell high-priced tickets, rely on private donors and already enjoy large endowments. Another approximately $1.6 million would go to K-12 schools and nonprofits that work with schools or underserved communities. The symphony and opera each gave $25,000 to the campaign for the tax, and records show they and other arts groups have been pushing for a dedicated funding stream.

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While the idea of an arts tax has been floating around for years, local school districts were only recently brought into the conversation. Only a month from the election—there are still no agreements about how the money will get handed out. Portland economist Eric Fruits has been waging a campaign against the measure, which he says is a cynical attempt to use schoolkids as an excuse to raise taxes and send the money to wealthy arts organizations, such as the symphony and opera. “These are just almost made-up arguments,” Fruits says of claims the tax will help schools in a meaningful way. “They are making promises they can’t keep.” And the tax is regressive. People in households with total income below the federal poverty line (currently $19,000 a year for three people, for example) would be exempt. But according to 2011 census data, almost 23,000 Portland households are above the poverty line but still

qualify for food stamps—and people in those households would still owe the $35-per-person tax. Records show the poor will have to file forms with the city’s tax officials proving they are exempt. The city plans to use voter rolls and driver’s license records to help identify people who should pay the tax, and will unleash bill collectors to go after residents who don’t pay. The arts tax is the inspiration of the Creative Advocacy Network, formed in 2008 to find a way to increase taxpayer money to local arts groups. The “Arts Access and Education Income Tax,” as the proposal is called, would provide the first dedicated revenue source from taxpayers to arts organizations. The plan has had the strong backing of Mayor Sam Adams, and the City Council voted in June to send the issue to voters on the November ballot. CONT. on page 8 Willamette Week OCTOBER 3, 2012 wweek.com

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The measure would provide funding for one arts teacher for every 500 elementary students in the city’s school districts. That doesn’t necessarily mean, however, that every elementary school would get a full-time art or music teacher paid for by the tax. If a district has, say, 1,000 elementary students divided among three schools, the arts tax would pay for two arts teachers and the district would have to pay for a third on its own. That’s a problem for Portland Public Schools, where most of the 58 elementary schools have enrollments well below 500. David Wynde, PPS’s deputy chief financial officer, says the tax could pay for as many as 45 full-time arts teachers in the district’s elementary schools, up from 32 currently. The district can only afford the existing arts teachers because of a one-time bailout from the city, and those positions could easily go away next year. But proposals tied to the arts-tax measure would compel the

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district to keep those positions funded—even if it means cutting in other areas, such as math and science. Wynde estimates the district’s financial burden to operate under the arts-tax plan could be $1.2 million a year. “One consequence of this tax,” Wynde says, “would be that we have to find that money. We can’t cut that.” The money would also go to schools regardless of need. Nine of the 16 schools that would get a full-time arts teacher from the tax have private foundations, and most of those already pay for arts education through parent donations. Ainsworth Elementary in Southwest, for example, already has a part-time art instructor and a full-time music teacher—and will get another full-time position funded by the arts-tax proposal. Meanwhile, King Elementary in Northeast, a high-poverty school, would benefit from the measure, according to arts-tax supporters. But the arts tax won’t cover even a half-time position at King, a K-8 with 292 students, and the district would be forced to make up the difference. (The measure would also send $45,000 to the Riverdale School District in tony Dunthorpe, perhaps the last district in Oregon that needs to tax the poor to pay for its arts programs.) Melissa Goff, executive director of the office of teaching and learning at Portland Public Schools, says arts-tax supporters brought the funding formula to the district as a done deal. “It’s a sad thing to say a 1-to-500 ratio would be a stark improvement,” she says, “but it’s true.” The tax measure might actually raise enough money to put an arts teacher in every school, but for the money that would go to private arts organizations. Under the measure, almost half the money raised by the $35-per-person tax would be distributed through the Regional Arts and Culture Council, a nonprofit that awards grants from private donors and some local governments, including the City of Portland and Multnomah County. The measure dedicates at least 5 percent of those funds to schools, or to nonprofits that work in schools, to support arts programs. The rest would provide taxpayer funding for the operating budgets of marquee organizations such as the symphony and the opera, but also Artists Repertory Theatre, Portland Baroque Orchestra and Film Action Oregon, which runs the Hollywood Theatre. “Funding schools is just a piece of it,” Jarratt Miller says. “No one in arts education believes it’s just about teachers.” Fruits, the Portland economist, says voters should be wary of claims that the measure puts schools first. “I value the arts,” Fruits says, “but the kids have been sprinkled on top like fairy dust.”

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Quick: Name a sitting Oregon Supreme Court judge. OK, we admit it—maybe it’s not a fair question. Most Americans can’t name any of the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices. So while we know WW readers are smarter than most (it’s election season—we’re pandering), coming up with the name of even one member of Oregon’s top court might be tough. The fact is, the seven-member court rules on the weightiest matters facing the state: death-penalty cases, environmental issues, public-employee benefits and the fairness of sentences meted out by lower courts. And it’s known as one of the most efficient and effective state supreme courts in the country. While the court’s judges can have a big impact on Oregonians’ lives, voters (and yes, the justices are elected) often have to rely on résumés and endorsements for guidance. The choice is made more difficult because the people who wear robes don’t state their opinions on matters that may come before the court—a setup that lends itself to dry and, well, judicious campaigning. But this year, there’s a bit more spark. In the Nov. 6 election, Oregon voters will choose between Portland attorney Nena Cook and Multnomah County Circuit Judge Richard Baldwin to fill the open seat vacated by retiring Justice Robert “Skip” Durham. Baldwin is taking the unusual step in a judicial race of questioning whether Cook has been telling the truth about her legal experience in speeches and the Voters’ Pamphlet. “I don’t think she’s highly qualified,” Baldwin tells WW. “I think she’s exaggerated her credentials.” Cook denies any résumé inflation, and says she has pledged not to engage in exchanging charges and allegations. “I have no idea where he could possibly make that statement with any credibility,” Cook says. Baldwin, 65, has racked up endorsements from mostly Democratic politicians, including former Govs. Barbara Roberts and Ted Kulongoski (himself a former Supreme Court justice). Baldwin, a judge for the past 11 years, recently won the Oregon State Bar’s preference poll and gained the support of all 12 of the current and former state Court of Appeals judges who have endorsed in this race. Cook, 46, has support from leading Republicans, including former Gov. Vic Atiyeh and Dave Frohnmayer, a former state attorney general and president of the University of Oregon. Twenty-six of the state’s 36 district attorneys have

JUDGMENTAL: Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Richard Baldwin (right) has raised questions about Portland attorney Nena Cook’s résumé as the two vie for an open seat on the Oregon Supreme Court.

given her the nod. In a video of a Washington County Public Affairs Working in private practice most of her career, Cook Forum held in May and posted online, Cook did note she served as president of the state bar in 2005 and was picked was a student during those years. But she claimed she by WW in the same year as one of Portland’s 50 most influ- “tried hundreds of jury trials and dealt with some weighty ential women. constitutional issues.” Cook has served as a pro tem judge in Multnomah Linda Love, a lawyer at Portland’s Williams Love O’Leary County since 2007, a volunteer position to fill in when & Powers who’s endorsed Baldwin, says there’s no way a law other judges are absent. student would try hundreds of jury trials in less than a year, Cook has said in speeches (as well as told WW) that as and it’s unlikely any of them would have constitutional a pro tem judge she has “heard and decided hundreds of importance. “That’s just impossible on its face,” Love says. cases and gained valuable judicial experience.” “When I said I dealt with hundreds of cases, I dealt with But Multnomah County court records obtained by WW them,” Cook responds. The misdemeanor cases, she added, show she’s written motions for summary “absolutely deal with weighty constitujudgment or dismissal on just 37 cases from tional issues—people’s rights, people’s FACT: Oregon Supreme Court 2008 to present. liberties and people’s freedoms.” Cook stands by her statement, saying justices earn $125,688 a year Clatsop County District Attorney Josh plus benefits and serve six-year the court records don’t take into account terms. Many are appointed Marquis, who has endorsed Cook, says cases where she provided preliminary rul- midterm by the governor. prosecuting criminal cases as a law stuings before other judges took over. dent “can mean quite a bit.” He says he Baldwin, a full-time judge for more has had third-year clerks in his office help than a decade, doubts her claim. He says he’s heard about try Measure 11 felony cases. 350 trials in his career. He says his stint as a pro tem judge To Marquis, that Cook has any criminal experience 20 years ago gave him a “glimpse” of what being a judge (which he notes Baldwin lacks) shows she has an interest was like. in cases that matter to him and other DAs. He added he “That’s step one, square A of becoming a full-time has no doubts about her experience level. judge,” Baldwin says. “It’s a bit of a sign of desperation,” Marquis says of Baldwin’s campaign points to another claim of Cook’s Baldwin’s comments. “Until I’ve heard this, I’ve never that she makes in the Voters’ Pamphlet: that her work heard anybody say Nena Cook is a fraud, she isn’t what experience includes the Marion County District Attor- she said she is. At least she brings a different perspective, ney’s Office from 1990 to 1991. of not just being one of the usual suspects—prominent What Cook doesn’t say is that she was a law student at middle-aged white guys from a particular ZIP code in the time. Portland.”

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eer is made from barley, hops, yeast and statute. We tend to forget, but the bearded men with sweaty brows who toil over copper tanks of wort have to appease not only drinkers but the people in wingtips and pantsuits gathered under the statehouse dome. In Tennessee, you couldn’t make Rogue’s classic Dead Guy Ale without a distillers’ license. In Kansas, no beer with more than 3.2 percent alcohol by volume can be sold in the grocery store, meaning an easysippin’ barbecue beer like BridgePort Summer Squeeze comes from a shady liquor store with barred windows. In Alabama, home brewing is totally illegal, with an upstart brewer facing a felony for boiling the kinks out of his recipes. And across the country, distribution laws are tilted to protect Big Beer, which is why Apex doesn’t pour anything from the acclaimed Three Floyds, and Cowboys fans in Portland can’t sip Lone Star while they watch America’s Team on Sunday.

Beer is liquid culture, and America’s tapestry of wildly varied laws creates very different visions of what’s popular or possible. Trivial issues, you might say, especially with an important election looming. Why write about beer instead of something “important”? A fair point. Except that beer birthed civilization. If, as many anthropologists believe, early human clans settled into cities to ferment grains, isn’t the beer a culture produces a fair benchmark of its peoples’ progress? Why even bother with civilization—entering a social contract, punching ballots and paying taxes—if we can’t get better beer out of it? Once every four years, America picks a leader through its only nationwide election. We thought the throes of that campaign would be a perfect time to also find out which state is making the best suds. So, months ago, WW started a project called the President of Beers, putting the flagship craft brew from each of the 50 states through a blind taste test. In keeping with American tradition, our

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methods were slightly flawed and the decks stacked in favor of monied elites. We didn’t necessarily choose the “best” beer from each state, but a candidate popular among its people which represents them well. We broke a lot of laws to get these bottles. Because its illegal to ship alcohol over many state lines, we had it bootlegged—stuffed inside teddy bears, disguised as tap handles, and labeled as live yeast samples. We called in favors and spent hundreds for a case of bottles stocked at grocery stores in their native land. Intern John Locanthi spent the better part of his summer staring at spreadsheets and calling unfamiliar area codes. Six-hundred Dixie cups, four hours, three pizzas and 12 beer-soaked ballots later, we had the returns. And we were shocked. cont. on page 14

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he last state without a single craft brewery in its territory, North Dakota entered our competition as an underdog. Because the sparsely populated plains state no longer has a craft brewery, WW contributor Brian Yaeger reached out to a home-brew club there. They sent us a bottle of something called “Beaverbear Barleywine” labeled with masking tape. But quality will win a blind taste test, and this humble bottle beat out America’s largest and most respected craft breweries—from Alaskan to Yuengling—in a contest judged by a dozen of Portland’s top tasters. Actually, Tom Roan and Nancy Bowser, a couple from Fargo, might not be underdogs. Having homebrewed together since 1996, when they were impressed by the kettles and carboys at Bowser’s brother’s house in a Thanksgiving visit, the couple have both become national-level competition judges. They make about 20 gallons of beer every month, and have brewed nearly every beer style. Beaverbear Barleywine is built from North Dakota barley and five varieties of hops. The dark, malty brew “represents the hearty character of the state,” where “winters are cold, harsh and long.”

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It blew our tasters away—scoring four points ahead of second place, the largest separation between any of the 50 beers we sampled. So, maybe the couple should open a brewery? “Why would you take a perfectly good hobby and turn it into a job?” says Roan, who works as a mechanical engineer for John Deere. Besides, Roan and Bowser, a CPA, have seen other North Dakota breweries flounder. In the mid-1990s beer boom, two brewpubs opened in Fargo. One aimed to crush kegs for the college crowd, the other, in a restored historic train depot, was aimed at a more upscale clientele. Both failed. With even President Obama drinking home-brew—the White House recipe was a minor Internet sensation in August—Roan’s victory here makes a compelling case for making either beer or friends who make beer. “If we want to make a chocolate stout we can seek out the best Belgian chocolate, which comes in sheets and is not cheap, and we don’t hesitate about the expense because we’re in it to enjoy it,” he says. “Think about what you’d pay for that—like, $14 a bottle—and I’m making out on the deal anyway.” Our congratulations to North Dakota—and home-brewers everywhere.

THE CANDIDATES  Island was bought out by AnheuserBusch last year, its inclusion might irk some beer geeks, but Demolition’s strong ﬁnish shows the Chicago brewer is still doing things the right way. Or, it was when this beer was made—it’s now discontinued, though still on Oregon shelves.

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DOGFISH HEAD, 90 MINUTE IPA

Also home to our nation’s No. 2, Joe Biden, Delaware’s Dogfish Head is known for its India pale ales, each named for how long the wort is boiled. The entry-level 60 Minute IPA is more common back East, but the West only gets the premium 90and 120-minute versions. In a field littered with similar brews, this classic’s impressive finish shows brewmaster Sam Calagione deserves his golden reputation.

3. SOUTH DAKOTA

CROW PEAK, PILE O’ DIRT PORTER

For possibly the first time ever, the Dakotas team up to dominate a national contest. This brewery, based in the Black Hills town of Spearfish (that’s an eight-hour drive from Fargo), makes a porter that’s canned velvet—smooth and rich with chocolate and roasted-coffee notes.

4. NEW HAMPSHIRE

SMUTTYNOSE, OLD BROWN DOG ALE

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usually outshined by its New England neighbors. Not today. Smuttynose has been making Old Brown Dog—a hoppier take on similar British brown ales—since 1988.

5. FLORIDA

FLORIDA BEER COMPANY, SWAMP APE IPA

Florida is the nation’s third-largest beer market, but craft beer sales have long been dismal down in swampland. Don’t blame the beer— this imperial IPA from the state’s largest brewery was great. It also won our informal “best label” poll.

6. ILLINOIS

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GOOSE ISLAND, DEMOLITION

Home to our ﬂesh-and-blood president, Illinois was represented by Goose Island. Given that Goose

7. OREGON

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DESCHUTES, BLACK BUTTE PORTER

The largest independently-ownedin-Oregon brewery’s malty ﬂagship, Black Butte, stands apart from the hop bombs of most Portland brews and above the rest of the West Coast. This Bend product is the best-selling porter in the whole country.

8. VIRGINIA

STARR HILL, DARK STARR STOUT

Dark Starr exists because of the Dave Matthews Band. Coran Capshaw, the magnate who funded this Charlottesville brewery, made his fortune managing the jam act. Brewmaster Mark Thompson became interested in beer while working on his master’s degree in biology at Portland State University.

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9. MARYLAND

FLYING DOG, DOGGIE STYLE CLASSIC PALE ALE

Known for labels designed by Ralph Steadman, the artist who illustrated Hunter S. Thompson’s work, and for moving its entire operation from Colorado to Maryland, Flying Dog also makes a very nice pale ale with a sexually suggestive pun name.

PRESIDENT OF BEERS 15. OKLAHOMA

MARSHALL, ATLAS INDIA PALE ALE A young and highfalutin brewery, Tulsa’s Marshall suggests you pair this IPA with oily fish or washedrind cheeses.

16. MONTANA

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BIG SKY, MOOSE DROOL BROWN ALE

Big Sky Brewing has been around since the mid-’90s, rapidly becoming the largest brewery in the state with the second-most breweries per capita. The incredibly malty Moose Drool can be found all over Oregon.

17. IOWA 10. ARKANSAS

DIAMOND BEAR, PALE ALE

Little Rock’s Diamond Bear was the first brewery in Arkansas, luckily opening its doors mere months before native son Bill Clinton left the White House and the economy went to shit.

11. UTAH

MILLSTREAM, JOHN’S GENERATIONS WHITE ALE John’s Grocery—lovingly called “Dirty John’s” by Iowa City natives because it once sold Playboy magazine—is 50 years old, but stocks the best selection of beer in the state. Millstream, which has been around since the ’80s, named this fruity witbier in its honor.

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UINTA, DUBHE IMPERIAL BLACK IPA

Are Mormonfolk pleased or embarrassed by the success of this Salt Lake City brewery? We’re curious how the Cutthroat Pale Ale, brewed specifically to clear the state’s 4-percent-ABV restriction for grocery stores and many restaurants, would’ve fared, but it’s only available in Utah. At 9.4 percent, the Dubhe imperial black IPA doubles the legal limit. It also uses hemp seeds. We’d humbly suggest Mr. Romney take the edge off with one of these on Nov. 6.

18. CALIFORNIA

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SIERRA NEVADA, PALE ALE

As the top-selling craft beer in the country, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale could make a case for being America’s flagship beer.

19. KANSAS

FREE STATE, AD ASTRA ALE

12. HAWAII

MAUI BREWING CO., COCONUT PORTER

That Hawaii produces a coconut beer is not surprising. That this particular beer wowed tasters is a testament to its great balance of sweetness and spice in a roasty porter. Many of the Kona Brewing beers found on the mainland are actually brewed right here in Portland, but this can was floated over from Maui.

13. VERMONT

MAGIC HAT, NO. 9

Vermont has more breweries per capita than any state. This styledefying ale is hoppy, malty and slightly fruity. The secret? Apricots. Magic Hat also purchased Seattle’s apricot-loving Pyramid in 2008, but remains unavailable west of the Rockies outside of a few stores in California.

14. INDIANA

THREE FLOYDS, ALPHA KING PALE ALE

Possibly the most lauded brewery in the field, Indiana’s Three Floyds also proved the hoppiest. Alpha King Pale Ale, not surprisingly, finished near the top of the heap. It does not distribute in Oregon, but you can find Axes of Evil, the brewery’s collaboration with new Portland brewery Gigantic Brewing. (See page 22.)

What’s the matter with Kansas? Well, lots of things, actually. It was the first state to prohibit alcohol, and did not ratify the 21st Amendment. This is the land of Carrie A. Nation and her barwrecking hatchet. But cheers to Free State’s Ad Astra Ale, a wellhopped amber.

20. GEORGIA

SWEETWATER, 420 EXTRA PALE ALE

This is one of several beers with a marijuana-themed name from Atlanta’s SweetWater Brewing. Founded in 1997 by a duo of carpetbagging beer enthusiasts from the West Coast, the largest brewery in the Deep South—it’s actually larger than Rogue—has helped modernize the backward Southern beer scene.

21. NEW JERSEY

FLYING FISH, ESB AMBER ALE

The Garden State is currently working out the kinks in its brewery laws, and one of the main proponents of these changes is Flying Fish Brewing. This brewery recently expanded, sadly discontinuing its flagship ESB in the process.

22. ALABAMA

GOOD PEOPLE, BROWN ALE

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23. IDAHO

GRAND TETON, TETON ALE

Grand Teton Brewing actually began in Wyoming before relocating to Idaho. Teton Ale is a relic from the brewery’s days in Jackson Hole. It’s a medium-bodied amber ale that, sadly, isn’t distributed to the neighboring Beaver State.

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Ale—not to be confused with Saranac Pale Pale Ale—is what you’d expect from a mass-produced pale ale from upstate New York.

30. SOUTH CAROLINA

THOMAS CREEK, RIVER FALLS RED ALE

Thomas Creek founder Tom Davis toyed with this recipe for years as a home-brewer. This rust-smelling red ale was finally ready for the public when the Greenville brewpub opened in 1998, and has dominated the country’s mobile-home capital ever since.

KENTUCKY ALE, BOURBON BARREL ALE

25. NEW MEXICO

SANTA FE BREWING CO., PALE ALE

Founded in 1988, New Mexico’s oldest brewery makes a pale ale described by as our experts as uniformly “decent.” As our friends at The Santa Fe Reporter called it, “not too strong, not too light, not too dark, not too light.”

26. WYOMING

SNAKE RIVER BREWING, LAGER

Lagers fared poorly in this election, but Snake River’s Vienna-style brew was an exception. It’s maltier, sweeter and altogether more flavorful than the American-style lagers that dominate this country’s macrobreweries. Twenty-sixth is not a bad finish for the least populous state in the union, which we can also thank for inventing the glass growler.

27. RHODE ISLAND

TRINITY BEER CO., IPA

This IPA from the smallest state, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, actually tasted more like a hoppy West Coast IPA. Trinity also has the distinction of being the only candidate in this election owned by a real politician, Rhode Island state Sen. Joshua Miller.

31. ARIZONA

FOUR PEAKS, KILT LIFTER

The Liberator Doppelbock was a ringer in this contest, boasting absurdly positive reviews throughout the beerosphere. This hoppy “liquid bread” may not have lived up to its high expectations in the election, but we really enjoyed drinking our second bottle.

29. NEW YORK

MATT BREWING CO., SARANAC PALE ALE

Matt Brewing Company is the second-oldest family-owned brewery in the country, but it’s only been brewing its Saranac line of craft beers since 1985. Saranac Pale

All 50 beers were tested during a four-hour marathon at the WW office on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Each beer was presented in a 1-ounce sample poured into a Dixie cup. There were no style notes. Each beer was assigned a movie-title code name so it could be discussed without confusion (Sunset Boulevard was our winner; The Lord of the Rings was last place). Voters scored each beer on a scale of 1 to 100, and the final results were tabulated by averaging those scores.

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36. MISSOURI

32. OHIO

GREAT LAKES, DORTMUNDER GOLD

Dortmunder is a style of lager most people confuse for a Pilsner. In his 1969 classic, A Treatise on Lager Beers, Portlander and tasting-panel member Fred Eckhardt argued Dortmunder deserves to be its own style, and he’s prevailed. Named for an industrial city that once boasted Germany’s largest brewery, Dortmunder used to be its nation’s best-seller. But the Dortmunder Union brewery was shuttered in 1994 and the style has been on a long, steady decline, with occasional stirrings of revival that don’t pan out. This Cleveland brewery has a dark sense of humor.

33. WISCONSIN

NEW GLARUS, SPOTTED COW ALE

37. NEBRASKA

THUNDERHEAD, GOLDEN FRAU HONEY WHEAT A canned wheat beer that’s high in alcohol and thick in body, with the flavor of honey-baked bread. Nebraska allows beer to be shipped to Oregon if you’d like to try some for yourself.

34. MICHIGAN

BELL’S BREWERY, AMBER ALE

The oldest craft brewery east of Colorado, Larry Bell’s company was founded as a home-brew supply shop and now produces an array of wellregarded beers. Oberon, a summer wheat beer, actually manages to outsell this stuff in just one season on shelves.

35. MASSACHUSETTS

SAMUEL ADAMS, BOSTON LAGER

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This Mexican-style ale was created to obey Tennessee’s strict limits on alcohol content in malt beverages. The very sweet Dos Perros comes with a paltry 3.5 percent ABV and uses corn to lighten its body. Yazoo recently started a distillery to skirt the strict ABV limits, and promises more potent beer in the future.

LAZY MAGNOLIA, SOUTHERN PECAN NUT BROWN ALE

Mississippi is one of several Southern states whose brewing industry has been held back by arcane laws. Two of our tasters said Lazy Magnolia’s Southern Pecan Nut Brown Ale, which tastes exactly like the name suggests, is normally very good, with our bottle coming from a bad batch.

Alaskan Amber is brewed from a Gold Rush-era recipe from a longgone Juneau brewery. Two decades ago, this beer won the consumer poll at the Great American Beer Festival. Today, this grocery-store standby is one of the slowest boats in the fleet.

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MAC & JACK’S, AFRICAN AMBER

What, not Red Hook or Pyramid? The former was not eligible because

46. WEST VIRGINIA

BRIDGE BREW WORKS, BELGIAN-STYLE TRIPEL

A Belgian-style tripel is not what one would expect from the hills of this rural Appalachian state. But, when the craft-beer scene is small, you never know what will emerge as the dominant brew.

48. LOUISIANA

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ABITA, PURPLE HAZE

The state famous for drive-thru daiquiri shops and the drunken hedonism of Mardi Gras entered an aggressively light, crisp raspberry beer. Abita’s Purple Haze is the kind of beer that everybody at a party can enjoy—especially people who don’t like beer.

49. MAINE

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SHIPYARD, EXPORT ALE

This is the top-selling brew from the Other Portland, though Shipyard’s poor results suggest the largest brewery in Maine isn’t up to our standards.

50. PENNSYLVANIA

YUENGLING, TRADITIONAL LAGER

SUMMIT, EXTRA PALE ALE

40. WASHINGTON

Quality beer starts with quality water—just ask Olympia. (Ed: On second thought, don’t.) So it stands to reason that desert states had a rough go in our contest. Considering how much drinking is done there, Las Vegas is a wasteland for beer lovers, and this brew doesn’t represent any oasis.

41. MISSISSIPPI

39. MINNESOTA

Like many of our flagships, this pale ale debuted with its brewery. This old-fashioned brew might’ve been something exciting back in 1986, but is painfully dull 25 years later.

TENAYA CREEK, CALICO BROWN ALE

it’s a subdivision of the Portlandbased Craft Brew Alliance, the latter because it was purchased by Vermont’s Magic Hat in 2008. Despite distributing only by the keg, Mac & Jack’s is one of the 50 largest craft breweries in the country and is ubiquitous north of the Columbia.

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YAZOO, DOS PERROS

45. NEVADA

Shiner Bock—actually a dark lager, not a bock—accounts for three-quarters of Texas’ largest brewery’s sales. It’s unavoidable in the Lone Star State but got a shrug in Oregon and was pulled from our shelves. Look for it around Seattle, where there’s a different standard.

42. ALASKA

38. TENNESSEE

Highland is the largest brewery in Asheville—“Beer City, USA” as determined by Internet ballot-stuffers. The poor finish of this Scottish-style ale, described by one of our tasters as a “benchmark of mediocrity,” suggests that online fanbois should spend less time deleting their cookies and more time traveling.

SPOETZL, SHINER BOCK

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Kansas City’s Boulevard makes some really great beers. This bottle, a simple Pilsner with a label puckishly designed to look like a European iteration of Budweiser, isn’t among them. But considering everything Missouri has done for this nation’s beer—the state is home to those Budweiser frogs—we thought it an apt candidate.

HIGHLAND, GAELIC ALE

47. TEXAS

BOULEVARD BREWING COMPANY, PILSNER

New Glarus’ owners sold their homes to start the brewery, now the 19thlargest in the country. Spotted Cow has been the most popular beer in the Badger State for five years running, but this Wisconsin-exclusive farmhouse ale earned a shrug from our voters.

28. CONNECTICUT

THOMAS HOOKER, LIBERATOR DOPPELBOCK

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Located in an old dairy just steps from the campus of the nation’s largest university, Tempe’s Four Peaks Brewing managed to become one of the nation’s 50 largest without distributing a single drop across state lines. This reddish-brown Scottish ale has unexpected heft considering it’s intended primarily for consumption inside the fiery Valley of the Sun. Kentucky’s better booze.

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Our goal was to get the “flagship” beer from all 50 states. Not the “best” beer, but a beer that best represents its state. Most candidates are the best-selling local brews in their homeland. Others are nationally known or symbolic. All were obtained during the same month from friends, breweries and retail stores and stored in a cool, dark place until election day.

Our tasting panel was made up of Hilary Berg of Oregon Wine Press, John Chandler of Portland Monthly, Anne Marie DiStefano of the Portland Tribune, legendary beer writer Fred Eckhardt, beer blogger and event organizer Ezra Johnson-Greenough, brewery aficionado John Lovegrove, famed “Beer Goddess” and author Lisa Morrison, Sarah Pederson of popular beer bar Saraveza and WW’s Martin Cizmar, John Locanthi, Ben Waterhouse and Brian Yaeger.

24. KENTUCKY

Confirming stereotypes, Kentucky proved the toughest state to deal with in this project. Crazy laws, general indolence and unintelligible accents made it extremely difficult to get someone—anyone—inside the Bluegrass State to send us beer. We finally ended up with an ale aged in the white-oak barrels used to make

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43. COLORADO

NEW BELGIUM, FAT TIRE AMBER ALE

Colorado is one of country’s great beer states. But Colorado’s largest brewery and its signature beer, named in honor of the brewmaster’s lifeshaping journey through Belgium by mountain bike, didn’t impress anyone in a blind taste-off.

The oldest operating brewery in the country—and largest beermaker in this election—finished dead last with a light American-style lager that impressed no one. What does it mean when a blind taste test of experienced beer drinkers ends with a home-brew in first place and the largest American brewery in last place? We report, you decide.

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GOSSIP THAT’S PREPPED A FEW ZINGERS. the true story: In June, the face of Portland screwed into a collective cringe of faux-disgust as MTV announced that our humble city—where people don’t even own TVs, man—would be the location for the 28th season of the once-pioneering reality program The Real World. Shooting wraps Nov. 1, with the premiere set for early 2013. Thanks to the prying eyes of one intrepid blogger, however, we already have an idea of what to expect. Chris Mathews, author of the blog CGMusings and the Twitter account @realworldpdxspy, has been keeping tabs on the cast via his Pearl apartment. Among the juicy tidbits reported so far: They eat at Pizza Schmizza a lot, one cast member allegtv dinner: edly gets replaced, another is What the stars eat. missing four fingers on their left hand, they go to a Timbers game, there is a dog that may be named Daisy, they play a game of dodgeball, and they apparently almost never cross the river.

future drinking: The previously announced westside outlet of John Gorham’s Tasty N Sons, Tasty N Alder, has applied for a full liquor license for the revamped Cox’s Dry Cleaners building at 580 SW 12th Ave. The restaurant is supposed to open early 2013, and will serve the original Tasty N Sons brunch menu as well as a new dinner menu focusing on “steak, chops and meat.” >> Awesome pun alert: A new cider-maker called OutCider has applied for a winery license. >> Bob and Alice’s Tavern at 6517 SE Foster Road has changed hands: from Bob and Alice’s LLC to Pants and Dreams LLC. The new owners are named Amanda and James. >> John’s Restaurant at 8608 N Lombard St. will now just be called “Dads.” Nope, no apostrophe—just multiple fathers. Quite progressive, really. nintendo champ: Last weekend’s Tetris World Chamneubauer pionships in Portland ended with Jonas Neubauer—the guy in the football jersey from the documentary Ecstasy of Order—winning the title for the third year in a row. Robin Mihara, profiled in last week’s WW, did not advance to the final eight. 20

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cart of gold: The cringe-inducingly-titled D-Street Noshery food-cart pod is officially closing Oct. 31. Our favorite Guamanian cart, PDX 671, has already moved to Northeast 52nd Avenue and Sandy Boulevard, the Pie Spot has moved to Northeast 24th Avenue and Sandy Boulevard in anticipation of its upcoming brick-and-mortar space there, and Blues City Biscuits is for sale. The Koi Fusion truck will move to a new pod called “The Row” at Southeast 2nd Avenue and Oak Street (that parking lot where you make out with sketchy people you meet at Rotture or Branx. Yeah, you know the one), joining forces with other power players in Portland’s food-cart “cartel,” including Whiffies, Big Ass Sandwiches and Pyro Pizza. So it will basically be the greatest food-cart pod ever. The Row is expected to open Oct. 26.

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Q: What is a “Bieber”? generational passage that A: The latest iteration of a peculiar American rite of hearts of our adolescents the grab to idol serves up one relatively palatable teen They tend to be slight nts. sentime without angering the blood or spurring radical . quality al of ﬁgure and possessed of a lingering adenoid

iﬁcally, though? Q: Who is Justin Bieber spec limited high vocal regsed with an appealing though bles and age A: Just 18 years of ce through the mentorship favorite son rose to prominen ister, Stratford, Ontario’s, full-length, My World 2.0. informed Bieber’s 2010 debut of Usher, whose bubblegum R&B greater sales. Forbes Magaved earlier this year to even Proper follow-up Believe arri e. most powerful celebrity aliv zine named Bieber the third

Q: How deserved is this bounty? A: Whether accident of timing or no, he rode the ascension of social media with unrivaled success by nabbing 27 million or so Twitter followers and ﬁlling a YouTube channel with fauxhomemade videos prior to album release. As well, he’s growing nicely into his looks—he best resembles a cherubic Margaux Hemingway—and he’s somehow steered clear of all trace of scandal.

Q: Is Bieber a musician? single, “Boyfriend,” critics hoped Believe’s first A: More or less. While lazier Justin Timberlake’s step into darker waters (a la would be the first tentative overpowering guests features an insistent core of “Cry Me a River”), the album wizardry and referencj), dully professional studio (Drake, Ludacris, Nicki Mina DJs should be guarannothing else, future wedding ing of kings of pop past. If floor-fillers. teed a few embarrassment-free

Q: On a scale of David Cassidy to Jacko, how dearly should we worry over Bieber? A: Much depends upon the hair, of course—even the ﬁercest Belieber won’t long endure the thinning of that tousled mop—but, as these things go, he seems eminently prepared. He’s also ﬁnally indulging his powers as tastema ker: The Bieber team recently signed South Korean super-meme Psy (“Gangnam Style”) and paved the way for tour opener Carly Rae Jepsen to unfurl nonpareil summer jam “Call Me Maybe.” is craaaaaaazy!” Q: Oh, I know that one! “Hey, I just met you, and this A: Precisely.

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THURSDAY OCT. 4 GRIZZLY BEAR [MUSIC] What began as a bedroom recording project for singer Ed Droste has evolved into one of the most compelling bands of its era. Shields, Grizzly Bear’s fourth album, ﬁnds the group continuing to map its own, resplendent cosmos. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 2484335. 8 pm. $36.25 advance, $39.50 day of show. All ages. ARJ BARKER [COMEDY] In addition to making the late-night rounds and appearing as skeevy pawn-shop clerk Dave on Flight of the Conchords, the standup comedian hosts a Flash series about his cat Poopy. Yup, Poopy. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, Oct. 4-6. $15-$27. 21+.

FRIDAY OCT. 5 STREETCAR MOBILE MUSIC FEST [MUSIC] Finally, someone figured out a useful application for the streetcar: as a venue for a music festival! For four hours, legit Portland artists—including Sun Angle, Jeffrey Jerusalem and Cloudy October—will set up on every streetcar between the Rose Quarter and OMSI. Multiple locations. 6 pm. Free with streetcar ticket, streetcarmobilemusicfest.org. THAT HOPEY CHANGEY THING [THEATER] This Richard Nelson work, set on Election Day 2010, is the first in a planned cycle of four plays about the Apple family, a clan of devoted Democrats exploring the shifting currents of politics and relationships. Winningstad Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Oct. 28. $22.25$41.25. THE LOST BOYS LIVE [THEATER] A stage adaptation of the greatest teen vampire film ever made. This could either be amazing or painful. We’re pulling for the former. Ethos/Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, 5340 N Interstate Ave., 283-8467. 8 pm FridaysSaturdays and select Thursdays through Nov. 3. $18.

SATURDAY OCT. 6 PORTLAND FRESH-HOPS FESTIVAL [BEER] Fresh-hops festival season is in full bloom. This one is at Oaks Park, with local breweries pouring fresh-hopped beer and free root beer for the kiddies. Oaks Park, Southeast Spokane Street and Oaks Park Way, 233-5777. Noon-8 pm. $13.50-$20. WAXX-A-THON [GROOMING] Urban Waxx is celebrating ﬁve years of removing unsightly body hair with a 24-hour Waxx-a-thon. Beer, wine and Voodoo Doughnuts will be available as you get that Brazilian you’ve always wanted just in time for winter-coat season. Urban Waxx, 1036 NW 18th Ave., 219-9299. 9 am. Willamette Week OCTOBER 3, 2012 wweek.com

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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 3 Skirt Steak Supper

Skirt Steak is a great title for an upcoming book about female chefs from Charlotte Druckman. The promotional vehicle is an 11-city tour of dinners cooked by female chefs. The Portland event will see Jenn Louis of Lincoln, Sarah Schafer of Irving Street Kitchen, Johanna Ware of Smallwares and Cathy Whims of Nostrana team up, with proceeds beneﬁting Janus Youth. For tickets, call 288-6200 or email oﬃce@lincolnpdx.com and include “skirt” in the subject line. Lincoln, 3808 N Williams Ave., 288-6200. 6:30 pm. $80 includes book copy.

FRIDAY, OCT. 5 Hardy Cognac Dinner

Benedicte Hardy, the ﬁfth-generation head of France’s Hardy Cognac, visits the Heathman for a ﬁvecourse dinner. On the food menu are dishes like foie-gras torchon and roast Peking duck, while the drink menu includes 140-year-old Hardy Perfection Cognac, in addition to six other pours. Great value at $80 per person. Heathman Hotel, 1001 SW Broadway, 241-4100. 6:30 pm. $80. 21+.

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North Willamette Vintners celebrates the beginning of harvest with its annual behind-the-scenes look at how the region’s wines are made. A tour bus (designated driver) will visit three wineries, where visitors tour the facilities, learn about the winemaking process and sip wine before the grand-tasting event, which includes wine and appetizers. Garden Vineyards, 12960 NW Dick Road. 10 am-6 pm. $79 for full day, $35 for grand tasting only. 21+.

Portland Fresh Hops Fest

Fresh-hops season is still going, which means even more fresh-hops festivals! This one is at Oaks Park, with local breweries pouring freshhopped beer and free root beer for the kiddies. Oaks Park, Southeast Spokane Street and Oaks Park Way, 233-5777. Noon-8 pm. $13.50$15 for a glass and five drink tickets, $18-$20 for a glass and 10 drink tickets.

Urban Farm Store Cider Pressing

The homesteaders at the Urban Farm Store are ﬁring up their handcrank cider press to raise money for Friends of Outdoor School. Apples will be provided, but you can bring your own if you want to go all-out DIY. Urban Farm Store, 2100 SE Belmont St., 234-7733. 9 am-6 pm Saturday, 11 am-5 pm Sunday, Oct. 6-7. $10 per gallon suggested donation.

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Rogue’s annual festival celebrates two of life’s ﬁner pleasures: beer and cheese. There will be some 30 cheesemakers with their wares. Other attractions include a cheeseeating championship, a grilledcheese bar, beer-and-cheese-pairing classes, and an intriguing-sounding “dairy princess.” Green Dragon, 928 SE 9th Ave., 517-0660. 10 am-4 pm. $5 suggested donation.

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Worth describes his solo music as “bohemian blues hop.” Often resorting to busking for artistic grounding, he claims to have developed most of his vocal style and performance ability on the street. In the past year, Worth has collaborated with the likes of Russ Liquid, Saqi, Unkle Nancy, and Marv Ellis on a variety of recordings and live performances, and recently released his solo debut, ‘Six Foot Soul.’

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Reminiscent of the family-based soul acts of the ‘60s and ‘70s, Brownish Black has grown into a formidable eight piece, accented by grooving horns and a rhythm section that locks in and won’t let go. Deciding the vinyl medium would most accurately convey the emotion in their music, Brownish Black released ‘Dancefloor’ on 45s manufactured by Archer Record Pressing, Detroit’s last vinyl pressing plant. ALSO LEGENDARY UK SINGER/SONGWRITER/GUITARIST

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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 3 Groundislava, Devonwho, D33J, Ghost Feet, Jeffrey Dahmer

[ELECTRONIC] Big things are happening for Portland-based electronic label and artist collective Dropping Gems. Last week, the imprint announced a partnership with Seattle’s Fin Records, allowing the group to start putting its records out on vinyl and also expand its core of associated performers. Meanwhile, the collective hosts this collaborative showcase, welcoming back from San Francisco the glitchy sound-shards of former Portlander Devonwho and teaming up with California’s Wedidit crew to bring up its own visionary producers, Groundislava and D33J. MATTHEW SINGER. Groove Suite, 440 NW Glisan St., 227-5494. 10 pm. $5. 21+.

Hot Water Music, Broadway Calls, Absolute Monarchs

[POST-HARDCORE] With its workmanlike consistency, lifelong commitment to the road and weakness for the grandiose, Hot Water Music could well be construed as punk rock’s answer to the E Street Band. Excepting a “breakup” that lasted all of 14 months, the group has been pounding the pavement sans interruption since 1995. This year’s Exister marks eight LPs for the quartet and, unsurprisingly, the band’s midtempo mix of punk rock, indie rock and “rawk” rock makes a return visit on the album, having only tightened thanks to years of repetition. SHANE DANAHER. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show.

Dirty Three, Centers

[INSTRUMENTAL AUSTRALIANS] Dirty Three is a rare group that hasn’t changed the core principles of its sound one iota since forming in 1992. The trio’s ninth album, Toward the Low Sun—its first in seven years—shows

some softening around the edges, with more folk textures and a smattering of organ and keyboards snaking into the mix. Otherwise, though, the record’s nine tracks are a further expansion on the trio’s signature instrumental soundscapes that spin off the delicate interplay of Warren Ellis’ violin melodies and the jazzy backdrop of drummer Jim White and guitarist Mick Turner. ROBERT HAM. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 8 pm. $25. 21+.

THURSDAY, OCT. 4 The Psychedelic Furs, The Chevin

[NEW WAVE] The work of early New Wavers the Psychedelic Furs has suffered gross over- and undervaluation through the years, thanks mostly to shifting attitudes toward the group’s finicky albatross of a genre. After gaining critical attention in the early ’80s by marrying Johnny Rotten’s sneer with Duran Duran’s oleaginous dance contraptions, the Furs went on to attain legitimate stardom in 1986, courtesy of the single “Pretty in Pink.” The early ’90s found the sextet entering a timely obsolescence, while a still-ongoing 2001 reunion served to remind the world from whence precisely the Rapture had been biting its steez. SHANE DANAHER. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 2349694. 8 pm. $30. Minors permitted with legal guardian. 21+.

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[HEY, JACQUES OFFENBACH] Following in the low-carbon footprints of Indigo Girls, Ben Folds and other acts equally befitting a ’90s dorm room or latter-day suburban pottery studio, Natalie Merchant has turned orchestral over the largely fallow decade since she abandoned Lilith

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An early hybrid of R&B and hip-hop, weaving romantic come-ons with streetwise raps, choreographed dance moves and flashy matching outfits. Imagine five Bobby Browns, all dressed as Afro-centric zebras.

Angst, addiction, misery, self-loathing—the usual ’90s stew—translated through gleaming power-pop which, despite accusations at the time, didn’t rip off Nirvana so much as predict the Foo Fighters.

ACTIVE ORIGINAL MEMBERS Four of five: Kevin Morse, Lavell Alexander, James “J. Mack” McClendon and Hakim Muhammad. Producer Larry Bell died in 2010.

One of three. Singer-guitarist Art Alexakis’ latest incarnation of the group features a new rhythm section, plus a second guitarist and keyboardist.

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FIVE MORE PORTLAND BANDS I WANT TO REUNITE. A Weather It’s hard for me even to talk about this band without getting all misty. They were so good and so heartbreaking, and I didn’t go see them enough. Eskimo and Sons I’d be pushier about this if Wild Ones, which features three of the Sons, weren’t such a fantastic band. The Joggers Longtime Portlanders will tell you the Joggers should have been huge. They are right. Kickball Technically an Olympia, Wash., band, but drummer Lisa Schonberg lives here. I know she’d be as excited about a reunion as I would.

“If U Were Mine” (1990), a synth club jam that cracked the pop charts—although some of its sales must’ve come from people thinking they were buying a cassingle of Prince’s “When You Were Mine.”

“Santa Monica” (1993), a song allegedly about Alexakis’ teenage suicide attempt, based around the kind of insipidly simple riff someone plays when noodling on a guitar for the first time.

HIGHEST MOMENT Appearing on Soul Train, where, after spiritedly miming through “Let Me Be Your Lover,” the group was asked by host Don Cornelius, “What’s it like trying to get funky and soulful in Portland, Oregon?”

Being named Modern Rock Artist of the Year in 1998 by Billboard magazine, beating out such stiff competition as Fastball, Eve 6 and that guy with the Gilligan hat who sang about beating up Hanson.

LOWEST MOMENT In 1991, while in the midst of a tour, U-Krew’s label, Enigma Records—also home to Slayer, Poison and GG Allin—went under, leading to the group’s breakup.

After the multiple tragedies of his youth, it’s hard to imagine Alexakis was affected by anything that happened in his music career…but “AM Radio” was pretty fucking terrible.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

The Mint Chicks After the Mint Chicks moved to Portland, I pitched WW Editor Mark Zusman a story in which I would follow them to their native New Zealand and watch them play stadiums instead of dingy Portland bars. His response: “I’m not going to fly you to New Zealand.”

Muhammad operates the recording studio Soul Deep Productions; Alexander designs sneakers for Adidas; McClendon runs Mack & Dub’s Excellent Chicken and Waffles, which serves just that.

SEE IT: Jarmageddon/Aryapocalypse, featuring the reunited Shaky Hands; Point Juncture, WA; Illmaculate; And And And; and others, is at Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., and Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th Ave., on Friday, Oct. 5. 8 pm. $6 for one venue, $10 for both. Backspace is all ages, Someday Lounge is 21+.

SEE IT: The Oregon Music Hall of Fame induction and concert, featuring Everclear and the U-Krew, is at the Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., on Saturday, Oct. 6. 7 pm. $25 advance, $30 day of show, $100 VIP. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

According to public perception, Alexakis is a broken, bitter ex-rock star who spends his days counting what’s left of his money. According to press releases, he spent the summer touring with fellow ’90s castoffs Sugar Ray and Lit. Not sure which is worse.

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divahood for family. Tonight, this extended tour of American symphonies visits the West Coast’s oldest. The program, whose second set utilizes only a handful of instrumentalists alongside a dressed-down costume change, draws heavily from Merchant’s 2010 album of highbrow lullabies, Leave Your Sleep, though the extended encore (further winnowing musical accompaniment) indulges a run through of solo hits, favorites from her days with 10,000 Maniacs, and singalong treatment of regionally appropriate standards. JAY HORTON. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm. See orsymphony. org for ticket information. All ages.

MUSIC

Laetitia Sadier, Orca Team

[POLITICO-POP] Silencio, Laetitia Sadier’s first solo effort since the dissolution of Stereolab, doesn’t take huge stylistic leaps away from the sleek, jazzy, motorik sound of her former band. Instead, it returns to a more direct sociopolitical tone that in previous efforts she hid under layers of metaphor. The adjustment is a much-needed one, especially in these fractious times. Sadier’s gentle croon is the perfect salve for the financial and democratic crises the world can’t seem to avoid. She’ll be joined on this bill by local surf-pop punkers Orca Team, swinging home briefly in the midst of a ridiculous three-month tour. ROBERT HAM. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

Glen Hansard, The Lost Brothers

[BATTERED FOLK] Not many musicians sport the Academy Award feather in their cap. Former Frames member and half of the Swell Season Glen Hansard does, winning for Best Original Song in 2007 for “Falling Slowly” from the film Once, which he also starred in. The onetime Dublin street performer is a singing example of the rags-toriches archetype—or, at least, ragsto-prominence. His latest, debut solo effort Rhythm and Repose, is modern folk at its finest, showing glimpses of Van Morrison or Justin Townes Earle. As a solo artist, Hansard lets us in to examine some of his darker corners, in the form of beautifully churning and emotionally trying piecemeal melodies. MARK STOCK. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm. $30. All ages.

Grizzly Bear

[AVANT-POP] Three years ago, Brooklyn’s Grizzly Bear roped unsuspecting listeners into its dusky, enigmatic mélange with “Two Weeks,” a buoyant, bliss-drunk, honestto-goodness pop song. A lot of those listeners came away from Veckatimest, the album that contained it, confused. Generally speaking, jazz-inflected avant-garde chamber-folk isn’t going to hold the masses’ attention for long. Those who stuck around, however, and allowed the mysteries of that 2009 masterpiece to fully sink in, discovered what others have known since 2006’s Yellow House: That singer Ed Droste’s onetime bedroom recording project has evolved into one of the most compelling bands of its era. There isn’t another “Two Weeks” on Shields, the group’s just-released fourth album—none of these songs will ever appear in a car commercial—but Grizzly Bear is continuing to map its own, resplendent cosmos, dotted with celestial harmonies, captivating arrangements and textural landscapes that grow grander the more you gaze upon them. MATTHEW SINGER. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 800745-3000. 8 pm. $36.25 advance, $39.50 day of show. All ages.

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See listing for Wednesday, Oct. 3. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 8 pm. $25. 21+.

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MICHAEL CHAPMAN TUESDAY, OCT. 9 [BRITISH FOLK] “I’m not very good at doing what I’m told,” says Michael Chapman through a crackling phone line from Leeds, England. That’s an understatement. At age 71, Chapman, one of the world’s most talented folk guitar players, is still touring, recording and making a living, completely on his own terms. “I like the freedom of playing solo,” he says. “There are great advantages—like no rehearsals!” While Chapman has maintained his “maverick troubadour” status for the last 40 years, he’s managed to collaborate with a host of big names. Mick Ronson played guitar on Chapman’s best-known album, 1970’s Fully Qualified Survivor; David Bowie heard the record and immediately plucked Ronson away to become a Spider From Mars. Around the same time, Elton John wanted Chapman in his band. He declined. “I’ve never joined other people’s bands,” Chapman says. “I’m not a follower. I even drive like that.” Chapman’s story begins a lot like that of John Lennon and Keith Richards. He started in a skiffle group and worshiped Elvis Presley. Soon, jazz and folk found their way into his music. As the legend goes, on a rainy night in Cornwall, Chapman—broke after having recently quit his job as a photography instructor at an art college—offered to play guitar in a pub in exchange for supper. By 1969, he had a record deal with Harvest, a progressive major label associated with Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett and Roy Harper. Chapman’s debut, Rainmaker, arrived that same year. Like most of his work, it didn’t sell. But with the backing of legendary English radio DJ John Peel, follow-up Fully Qualified Survivor produced Chapman’s only chart hit, “Postcards of Scarborough,” five melancholy minutes of electric British Bob Dylanism. After that fleeting bout of pop flirtation, Chapman’s career has continued to the present day. He’s released dozens of albums, and spent much of his life on the road. “Playing guitar has brought me around the world more times than I can remember, more times than I can count,” he says. The major labels never could fit him into a box. He cared nothing for heavy rock, and record execs couldn’t decide if he was a jazz artist, a folkie or a bluesman. His solution? “Basically, I make the records and lease them to the labels now,” he says. That includes this year’s The Resurrection and Revenge of the Clayton Peacock, released on Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace! imprint. Now a true elder statesman, Chapman is enjoying another cycle of recognition. Bill Callahan took him on tour last year. The Fleet Foxes have cited him as a prime influence. And last year, a remastered version of Fully Qualified Survivor was issued by the Seattle-based archival label Light in the Attic. It seems that decades of uncompromised music-making are finally starting to pay off—though it’s not something Chapman ever planned. “I used to read a lot of the French existentialist philosophers,” he says, “and I’m a firm believer in the accident and just letting things happen.” NATHAN CARSON. The British folk rebel you’ve never heard of.

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Spectral Tombs, Druden, Infernal Stronghold, Barrowlands

[BLACK METAL] Like cocaine, black metal is rarely found in its purest form these days. But perhaps that’s for the best. Pure cocaine can be deadly, and pure satanic black metal has led to murders and church burnings in the past. While local acts tend to cut their black metal with organic doses of post-rock and shoegaze, Philadelphia’s Infernal Stronghold employs harsher agents. Bleaching thrash and chunks of ’80s crossover hardcore keep things brutal and on point. Think Immortal covering the Accused while wearing a vintage “Metal Up Your Ass” Metallica shirt and you’ll be close. By the way, you’ve, uh, got something there on your nose…. NATHAN CARSON. Plan B, 1305 SE 8th Ave., 230-9020. 8 pm. $5. 21+.

getting serenaded by out-of-tune Bob Dylan covers? Wouldn’t you much rather watch sets from actual bands? That’s the idea behind the Streetcar Music Festival, placing legit Portland artists—including Jeffrey Jerusalem, Classical Revolution PDX and rapper Cloudy October—on every streetcar between the Rose Quarter and OMSI, for performances lasting the full hour of a single trip. Or, you know, you can just take the bus and listen to the soothing sounds of your fellow passengers’ hacking coughs and cellphone conversations. MATTHEW SINGER. Every streetcar running between the Rose Quarter and OMSI. 6 pm. Free with streetcar ticket. See streetcarmobilemusicfest.org for more info. All ages. After party with Dana Buoy and Sun Angle is at Union/ Pine, 525 SE Pine St., 818-292-1169. 9 pm. Free. All ages.

FRIDAY, OCT. 5

SATURDAY, OCT. 6

Fall Into Darkness: Worm Ouroboros, Subrosa, Wild Hunt, Aranya

Young Turks, Two Hands, The Great Sabatini

[METAL UP YOUR WEEKEND] This is the sixth installment of bookermusician-WW contributor Nathan Carson’s Fall Into Darkness festival, and as with previous years, Carson has put together a lovingly curated event, pulling from the various strains of metal and hard rock infecting the world with volume and power. The headliners of this weekend’s throwdown are enough to howl about: long-running doom metal icon Saint Vitus (see listing for Branx on Saturday, Oct. 6); the dark drones of Wolvserpent (see listing for Mississippi Studios on Sunday, Oct. 7); and the folk-tinged trudging of Worm Ouroboros. But pay close attention to the undercard bands like VHÖL, a new project featuring YOB leader Mike Scheidt and members of Hammers of Misfortune, and the deadly sludge of North Carolina’s finest metal band, Sourvein. ROBERT HAM. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. Free. 21+.

Streetcar Mobile Music Fest: Sun Angle, Classical Revolution PDX, Dana Buoy, Jeffrey Jerusalem, Edna Vasquez, Cloudy October, Sassparilla, Rick Huddle, New Pioneers, The Ocean Floor, Grapefruit, MC Rose, Josh and Mer, Vikesh Kapoor, What Hearts, Au Dunes

[BANDS ON THE CRAWL] Go ahead, laugh at the streetcar. Everyone does. We’ve heard all the jokes before: “It rolls through town at the speed of a ground sloth on quaaludes.” “You can get wherever it’s going faster by walking.” Y’know what, though? There’s never going to be a music festival on the MAX or the aerial tram. Those other modes of public transportation are too fast to accommodate anything more complicated than a busker with a guitar. And who wants to spend their trip

[HARDCORE] A fitting title, indeed. Named after the secret society-turned-reform party during the Ottoman Empire, Young Turks embody the malaise and mutinous nature of a group willing to stare an oppressive state square in the eye. The Portland five-piece released Where I Lie via Animal Style Records in August, a volatile, hot-to-the-touch collection of calculated hardcore rock with crust-punk tendencies. Catch the Turks before they embark on an ambitious U.S. tour that sees them playing 20 states in under a month. MARK STOCK. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. 8 pm. $6. All ages.

Fall Into Darkness: Saint Vitus, Weedeater, Sourvein, Ephemeros

See listing for Mississippi Studios on Friday, Oct. 5, for more information on Fall Into Darkness. MARK STOCK. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

Wolf Gang, The Royal Concept, Frank & Derol

[TINY DANCER MUSIC] Not just another iteration of the feral-bandname meme growling at the door of the late-’00s blogosphere, Wolf Gang has little interest in nature red in tooth and claw. Though running to a pack for performance, Wolf Gang’s debut album, Suego Falls, represents the sole efforts of multi-instrumentalist Max McElligott, who left the London School of Economics with boundless ambitions—the Wolf Gang moniker actually name-checks Mozart—for transcendent popcraft that, unfortunately, never quite evades comparison to rather more artfully rendered ’70s soft-rock anthems (Elton John, most obviously) and loved-up synthscapes of producer Dave Fridmann’s MGMT work. JAY HORTON. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-

Saturday-Sunday 9663. 9 pm. $11 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

Michael Kiwanuka, Nathaniel Rateliff, Foy Vance

[SINGER-SONGWRITER] This triple-bard bill features young artists from the U.K. and/or the American Midwest. Much-hyped headliner Michael Kiwanuka is the Londonraised son of Ugandan immigrants, tapped by Adele to open her 2011 world tour. Like perhaps any black acoustic performer, he’s been predictably compared to Bill Withers, though he thus far lacks Withers’ vocal or lyrical grit. Receiving an even more impressive imprimatur is Missourian Nathaniel Rateliff, who’s been big-upped by no less a golden god than Robert Plant. Opener Foy Vance is Irish by birth, but spent a chunk of his childhood in Oklahoma. JEFF ROSENBERG. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $15. All ages.

SUNDAY, OCT. 7 Bright Archer

[KEYS STILL KICKIN’] In recent years, the singer-songwriter label has become practically synonymous with the guitar, while that other species of songsmith, the piano balladeer, has gone out of fashion. With entrancingly repetitive piano melodies, expressive vocals and thoughtful lyrics, Hidden Systems, the latest record from Portland’s Bright Archer (aka Johanna Kunin), reminds us of the ivories’ potential. Kunin, who also plays with AgesandAges (among other local groups), begins a weeklong residency at Al’s tonight. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel, 303 SW 12th Ave., 972-2670. 7 pm. Free. Bright Archer performs nightly at Al’s Den through Saturday, Oct. 13. 21+.

MUSIC

Alanis Morissette

[VELVET HAND IN IRON POCKET] As much as there’s something admirable about Alanis Morissette’s reluctance to temper the stridency of passion that rewrote expectations for alt-rock’s better half in those waning days of grunge, a voice so perfectly pitched to howl the torments of the wronged still requires objects to fuel her disaffection. Traditionally, an artist with her peculiar gift for melding impossibly wordy sentiments to stirring melodies would’ve inevitably been drawn toward protest anthems. But clear perspective— this is a woman emotionally devastated by Dave Coulier and Ryan Reynolds—and interests beyond the strictly personal (no, thank you, India) have never been strong suits. Latest album Havoc and Bright Lights reveals a generally content young mother speaking about her life with aggression undimmed, and it’s all rather like cloudless skies on your wedding day: pleasant, we’re sure, but one needn’t yell. JAY HORTON. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm. $49.50 advance, $55 day of show. All ages.

The XX, John Talabot

[MINIMALIST POP] The XX has a talent for minimalism, which it extends to its entire iconography. From its block-lettered, duo-chrome logo to its spare membership to its frill-less pop dirges, the group has proven capable of building success from limited raw materials. Coexist, the trio’s sophomore album released earlier this month, revisits much of the territory previously mapped on 2009’s XX. While the law of diminishing returns adds a sour sheen to the LP, its tracks nonetheless warrant attention simply by having managed to strip the XX’s lean aesthetic of details so minute

JASON QUIGLEY

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CALOBO Formed: 1988 on Washington’s Orcas Island. Sounds like: Indigo Girls meet Blues Traveler, then go on to form Fleetwood Mac. For fans of: The ’90s; the Beavers; a wildly talented troupe of musicians with distinct-yet-approachable tastes that cared most about finding an audience for tunes well out of fashion. Latest release: Calobo itself hasn’t recorded a new album since before its 2001 split, but singer-mandolinist Caleb Klauder’s globe-trotting old-time outfit Foghorn Stringband and Americana supergroup Black Prairie (featuring pianist Jenny Conlee and bassist Nate Query, also of a little band known as the Decemberists) have issued, respectively, Outshine the Sun and A Tear in the Eye Is a Wound in the Heart over the past month. Why you care: Nostalgia plays a part, of course. Calobo moved around 150,000 albums—staggering sales figures for a band without notable radio play, label support or an established independent distribution network—through a decade’s worth of constant touring up and down the West Coast and maintaining a reliable presence at university campuses (chiefly Oregon State University and Lewis & Clark, where members attended school). At a time when the local music scene was relatively grasslands far as the eye could see, there simply was no other professionally organized and rigorously trained outfit concentrating upon songcraft that actually spurred onlookers to hit the floor and dance. Portland’s not the sort of city for collegiate homecoming events, but that’s the most relevant corollary to the sweeping bonhomie Calobo’s reunion engenders—most notably for the band itself, whose members have enjoyed such success through their individual projects that varying touring schedules never before allowed this serendipitous mutual break. SEE IT: Calobo plays Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., on Friday, Oct. 5. 9 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. All ages. Willamette Week OCTOBER 3, 2012 wweek.com

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MONDAY, OCT. 8 Thee Oh Sees, Sic Alps

[SEE THESE OH SEES] Why should you be excited about the return of Thee Oh Sees to Portland? Just ask anyone who witnessed the San Francisco-based band at this year’s Pickathon and watch them go all slack-jawed with wonder. Yes, this psych-garage quartet is just that good live, burning with sweaty intensity and pure joy. Don’t knock the band’s recorded material, either, especially its latest album, Putrifiers II (amazingly, the only full-length this prolific group has released in 2012), which adds Eastern drones, violins and tasty slower tempos to an already multicolored rock sound. ROBERT HAM. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 5:30 pm. $13. All ages. Thee Oh Sees also perform Tuesday, Oct. 9. 9 pm. $13. 21+.

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[SUN-BAKED COUNTRY] Fans of Arizona’s long-running Giant Sand might look at that name and think it’s either a typo or the result of some kind of legal schism within the band, but then, anyone familiar with the group knows such a breach could only happen if singersongwriter Howe Gelb suffered a total schizophrenic break from reality and decided to sue himself. Since 1988, the band has operated essentially as a one-man show, with Gelb firing and rehiring musicians at his leisure and recording pretty much whatever the hell whim dictated at the moment. His albums have run the gamut, from the Neil Young-ish guitar implosions to sunscorched alt-country to borderline stoner metal, though his best-loved material serves as a desert-mad precursor to the rootsy experimentalism of fellow statesmen Calexico (whose members have done time backing Gelb). For his latest, Tucson, the Pennsylvania native called upon a dozen players—hence the double Giants—to help create what he’s subtitled “A Country Rock Opera,” a panoramic ode to his adopted hometown. MATTHEW SINGER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 8 pm. $15. 21+.

TUESDAY, OCT. 9 Monarques, Sun Angle

[RETRO POP] Portland’s Monarques have unintentionally tested the notion that good things come to those who wait. The group, led by Josh Spacek, gained a following in 2009 with its energetic, soulwarming performances, despite only having a few demos to its name. The band’s sound is nostalgic and catchy, honest and lively. It’s the product of a kid who listened to ’50s and ’60s pop and R&B and eventually brought his honed ear to the front of a highly skilled group of musicians. But the feel-good guitar licks and doo-wops of the Monarques’ music aren’t so much paying homage to the oldies as they are interpreting the muchloved genres of yesteryear through a contemporary lens. Such a collision of worlds is why the release of the band’s 2012 debut, Let’s Make Love Come True, was worth the anticipation. EMILEE BOOHER. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $3. 21+.

ALBUM REVIEWS

THE WISHERMEN DRAWING PURPLE ORBITS (ALAN JONES ACADEMY OF MUSIC) [JAZZ] “Cool jazz” once meant exuding a marked restraint and letting delicate, simple melodies unfold naturally. Nowadays, most young players equate “cool” with “hip” and work tirelessly to prove how “with it” they are, covering indie rock or EDM tunes and unnecessarily complicating original compositions with tricky solos and tempos. That’s what makes Drawing Purple Orbits, the first album by local quintet the Wishermen, such a surprise and a balm to the system. These young players revert back to the original cool-jazz concept, imbuing their debut with tempered, graceful performances and writing. The band bucks the other convention as well, with drummer Barra Brown and guitarist Grant Sayler writing almost all the songs on Drawing. Thankfully, the two are able composers, bringing an assured yet understated edge to their tunes. They work especially well at capturing a dusky mood, as on the slowly simmering album closer “Farewell (To Ari Garella),” or Sayler’s shape-shifting “Love Don’t Lie, Here I Am.” There’s an openness to the tracks, too, that allows ample space for some nice vamping and harmonizing on the part of the group’s horn players. Trumpeter Cyrus Nabipoor shines brightest throughout, especially on “The One With Starry Eyes,” a ballad he commands with a Chet Baker-like elegance. If the Wishermen borrow anything from indie rock, it’s the sense of a group aesthetic, with all members being necessary pieces to this melodic puzzle. Take away any one tone or instrument and Drawing just wouldn’t work. ROBERT HAM.

COLOSSAL YES LOOSEN THE LEAD AND SPOIL THE DOGS (JACKPOT) [NEW CLASSIC ROCK] Utrillo Kushner is at his best when he’s hung-over. Loosen the Lead and Spoil the Dogs, the Comets on Fire drummer’s third more-or-less solo album under the name Colossal Yes, starts out good and drunk, with bent guitars, wailing saxophone and wobbly rhythms that feel just a quarter-step out of time. But the record reaches its highest points at its lowest moments, when Kushner seemingly stumbles into the early morning daylight and lurches through a series of groggy ballads. Assisted by fellow members of the long-on-hiatus Comets, as well as Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance, Loosen the Lead is the blooziest Colossal Yes album yet (it’s also the Bay Area outfit’s first release for Portland’s Jackpot Records). But all of Kushner’s projects are infatuated with the sounds of the ’70s. Where Comets on Fire dealt in mind-scrambling, hothouse garage-psych, and his first two solo efforts leaned toward the cosmically pastoral, this record is a dive-bar rendering of the Band’s rootsy traditionalism. The blustery rave-ups that begin the album—the up-tempo tumble of “Sterling Drums,” the inebriated instrumental “The Deputy’s Game”—are energetic, but a tad too indebted to the past to really resonate. It isn’t until Loosen the Lead gives way to its more languid second half, with Kushner’s voice pinching into a slight drawl, that the LP finds its identity. “Crowing Over Scraps,” a regretful, countryish slow-burner, is a particular highlight. You’ll get a headache out of sheer sympathy. MATTHEW SINGER. SEE IT: The Wishermen play Ivories, 1435 NW Flanders St., on Friday, Oct. 5. 8 pm. $10. Minors allowed until 9 pm. Colossal Yes plays Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E. Burnside St., with Six Organs of Admittance and Low Hums, on Thursday, Oct. 4. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

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4847 SE Division St. Johnny Credit and the Cash Machine

Laurelthirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Lone Madrone, McDougall (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)

Mission theater

Al’s den at the crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Woody Pines

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Wintermute, Sleepy Creek, Taiterd Oats

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. His Name Shall Breathe, Self Proclaimed Narcissist, Destroy Nate Allen, The Sarcastic Dharma Society, Zoe Boekbinder

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Adria

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet

Ladd’s Inn

1204 SE Clay St. Lynn Conover

Landmark Saloon

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

Laurelthirst

Bunk Bar

2958 NE Glisan St. Adam & Kris (9 pm); Dolorean (6 pm)

Burgerville (Gresham)

9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic

1028 SE Water Ave. Reignwolf 2975 NE Hogan St., Gresham Riverboat

Burgerville (Hawthorne)

Lents commons

Mission theater

1624 NW Glisan St. Dirty Three, Centers

Mississippi Pizza

1122 SE Hawthorne Blvd. McDougall

3552 N Mississippi Ave. The Big Naturals (9:30 pm); Mr. Hoo (12 pm)

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Mississippi Studios

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

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830 E Burnside St. Sean Hayes, Birds of Chicago

duff’s Garage

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

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Mono, Chris Brokaw, Swahili

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Sleepy Eyed Johns

Press club

2621 SE Clinton St. Rabbit Dreams, the Rosie Riveters

Red Room

1800 E Burnside St. Irish Music Jam

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Endrah, American Roulette, Truculence, Wunderland Syndrome

east India co.

Roseland theater

east Burn

821 SW 11th Ave. Josh Feinberg

Goodfoot Lounge

8 NW 6th Ave. AWOLNation, Imagine Dragons, Zeale

Hawthorne theatre

125 NW 5th Ave. The Jesse Layne Show, Nathan Junior, Haley Keegan, Jayke Webb

2845 SE Stark St. Hen House Prowlers, Renegade String Band

Someday Lounge

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Hot Water Music, Broadway Calls, Absolute Monarchs

the Blue diamond

Holocene

2026 NE Alberta St. Native Cats, Appendixes, Space Waves

1001 SE Morrison St. Jeffrey Jerusalem, Hosannas, Onuinu, WL (live film-scoring)

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St.

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project

the Know

the tARdIS Room

1218 N Killingsworth St. Open Mic with Andrea Wild

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tillicum club

8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Chad Rupp

tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Mel Kubik & Christopher Woitach

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Hush Hush Smut Club

White eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. The Nutmeggers

tHuRS. Oct. 4 Al’s den at the crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Woody Pines

510 NW 11th Ave. Tummybuckles

chapel Pub

430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin

corkscrew Wine Bar 1669 SE Bybee Blvd. Jason Okamoto

crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Glen Hansard, The Lost Brothers

doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Six Organs of Admittance, Low Hums, Colossal Yes

duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Jake Blair Band (late show); Tough Lovepyle (early show)

ella Street Social club

Aladdin theater

714 SW 20th Place Autronic Eye, The Ecology, Subterranean Howl

Alberta Rose theatre

Goodfoot Lounge

Andina

Hawthorne theatre

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. The Psychedelic Furs, The Chevin 3000 NE Alberta St. Ron Pope, Jerad Finck, Josh Putnam 1314 NW Glisan St. Tracy Kim Trio

Andrea’s cha cha club 832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band

Arlene Schnitzer concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Natalie Merchant with the Oregon Symphony

2845 SE Stark St. Philly’s Phunkestra, Sophistafunk

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Assault of Senses, Depopulator, Zodiac, Shark Party, Le Printemps, Out of Place, Flat Black Tomato, PandaSonic, Hollywise, Stark Heroes, Steady Riot

Holocene

Artichoke community Music

1001 SE Morrison St. Dubais, The Crow, Stepkid, VJs Super Cardigan Brothers, DJ Ill Camino

Ash Street Saloon

1435 NW Flanders St. Anandi, Randy Porter

Barlow tavern

2346 SE Ankeny St. Chris Juhlin, David Paulk, Jairus Minsky

3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Open Mic

225 SW Ash St. Slight of Hand, Lucky Beltran, Pure Dad

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

Jade Lounge

6008 N Greeley Ave. Wooden Indian Burial Ground, Still Caves, Au Dunes

Jam on Hawthorne

Biddy McGraw’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown B3 Organ Group (8 pm), WAHID (6:30 pm)

6000 NE Glisan St. John Ross

Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Dan Duval Duo

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Laetitia Sadier, Orca Team

2239 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Hot Club of Hawthorne

Jimmy Mak’s

Keller Auditorium

222 SW Clay St. Grizzly Bear

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St.

Katie O’Briens

231 SW Ankeny St. Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicides, The Tomorrow People, Crazy Eyes

the Blue diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Lloyd Allen Sr.

2026 NE Alberta St. Guantanamo Baywatch, Courtney & the Crushers, Denizenz

26000 Stark St., Gresham Sneakin’ Out, Skip Von Kuske

Andina

Kenton club

thorne Lounge

Muddy Rudder Public House

Artichoke community Music

Laurelthirst

tillicum club

Music Millennium

4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Open Mic

128 NE Russell St. Ben Howard

Jimmy Mak’s

426 SW Washington St. The Slutty Hearts, The Dandelions, Buzzyshyface

8105 SE 7th Ave. Johnnie Ward

camellia Lounge

Wonder Ballroom

221 NW 10th Ave. Worth, Michael the Blind, Bradley Wik and the Charlatans

836 N Russell St. Six60, Beisbol (8:30 pm); Brothers of the Hound (5:30 pm)

ted’s Berbati’s Pan

Kelly’s Olympian

Mt. Hood community college

thorne Lounge

White eagle Saloon

2346 SE Ankeny St. Delaney and Paris (8 pm); Whistlepig (6 pm)

Al’s den at the crystal Hotel

3552 N Mississippi Ave. White Fort (9 pm); The Sale (6 pm)

Trio Brasileiro, The Brazillionaires

1530 SE 7th Ave. Loose Change

1435 NW Flanders St. The Wishermen

Sun Angle, Classical Revolution PDX, Dana Buoy, Jeffrey Jerusalem, Edna Vasquez, Cloudy October, Sassparilla, Rick Huddle, New Pioneers, The Ocean Floor, Grapefruit, MC Rose, Josh and Mer, Vikesh Kapoor, What Hearts, Au Dunes

the Blue Monk

Mississippi Pizza

Wed. Oct. 3

1314 NW Glisan St. Neftali Rivera

526 SW Yamhill St. Joe Marquand

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. The Tanked, Qwong, Sleeping Weather, Avenue Victor Hugo

1624 NW Glisan St. Dirty Three, Scout Niblett

I ALWAyS FeeL LIKe SOMeBOdy’S WAtcHING Me: Grizzly Bear plays Keller Auditorium on thursday, Oct. 4.

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Sing for Your Supperclub with the All-Star Horns

3158 E Burnside St. The Lost Brothers

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

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Spectral Tombs, Druden, Infernal Stronghold, Barrowlands

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Secnd Best, Chase the Shakes, Eken is Dead, Faithless Saints

Roseland theater

8 NW 6th Ave. AWOLNation, Imagine Dragons, Zeale

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Rare Monk, NTNT, Torches

Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Anne Weiss, Laura Kemp, Beth Wood, Mare Wakefield (8 pm); Libertine Belles (6 pm)

FRI. Oct. 5 303 SW 12th Ave. Woody Pines

1314 NW Glisan St. JB Butler Trio

3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Friday Night Coffeehouse

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. My New Vice, No Red Flags, MDC, End Notes, Elvis

Backspace

Someday Lounge

125 NW 5th Ave. The Doo Doo Funk AllStars

Star theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Snow Bud and the Flower People, Ad Visory, Pillowfight, The Honus Huffhines, The Gnesh, Whorehound

tapalaya

28 NE 28th Ave. Milneburg Jazz Band

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Rum Rebellion, Hammered Grunts, P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S., Defect Defect, Barbarian Riot Squad

Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Martens Combination

Buffalo Gap Saloon

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Throwback Suburbia, The Wellingtons

1122 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Usual Suspects 510 NW 11th Ave. Andre St. James Quartet

clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Muthaship

crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Calobo, Lewi Longmire Band

doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. The Maldives, Celilo, Sara Jackson-Holman

duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Shanghai Woolies (9 pm); The Hamdogs (6 pm)

east Burn

ted’s Berbati’s Pan

1800 E Burnside St. Cascadia Soul Alliance, Andrew’s Ave.

the Blue diamond

203 SE Grand Ave. Zoobombs, Nostalgia, Super Rocks

231 SW Ankeny St. The Jelly Project, DEB, Centaurs of Attention 2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones

east end

ella Street Social club

the Blue Monk

714 SW 20th Place Skyburial, The Mercury Tree, Stochastic Mettle Union, Yeti Shaman

thorne Lounge

Foggy Notion

3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones Jam 4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Bridgetown 5

tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell

tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Bullets or Balloons, Outer Space Heaters

Mississippi Studios

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Autonomics, Lydian Gray, The Choices, DEB, Matt French

6000 NE Glisan St. Lynn Conover

camellia Lounge

8635 N Lombard St. Joe McMurrian

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Krebsic Orkestar (9 pm); Jenny Sizzler (6 pm)

Biddy McGraw’s

Slabtown

Slim’s cocktail Bar

Mississippi Pizza

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Fall Into Darkness: Worm Ouroboros, Subrosa, Wild Hunt, Aranya

Sellwood Public House

1033 NW 16th Ave. Those Bottom Feeders, Invivo, Eyepennies

2958 NE Glisan St. Baby Gramps (9:30 pm); The James Low Western Front (6 pm)

115 NW 5th Ave. The Shaky Hands, And And And, Your Rival, Holiday Friends, Rad City DJs, Taco Neck

Burgerville (Hawthorne)

8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Rubella Graves, The Happy Childhood

Mount tabor theater

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Reverb Brothers

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Worth

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

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

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Pataha Hiss, No Tomorrow Boys, The Cool Whips, Youth Bitch

Press club

2621 SE Clinton St. Eddie Mobbs

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. AC Lov Ring, The Applicants, Ponykiller, Onyx Guild

Roseland theater 8 NW 6th Ave. Ed Sheeran

Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. The Brothers Young (9 pm); Boy & Bean (6 pm)

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Green Flag

Slim’s cocktail Bar

8635 N Lombard St. Gabriel Trees, Garage Rats, David Bryan Wilson & Johnny Huck

Someday Lounge

125 NW 5th Ave. Kyle Morton (of Typhoon), Illmaculate, Point Juncture WA, Chicharones, DJ Zone, DJ Nine Inch Nilina

Star theater

3416 N Lombard St. The Weak Knees, Ross Beach & The Hellpets, We Speak Bocce

13 NW 6th Ave. Wax Tailor

Hawthorne theatre

Every streetcar running between the Rose Quarter and OMSI

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Kingdom Under Fire, Gladius, Bloodoath, Hell’s Parish, Sabateur

Streetcar Mobile Music Fest

3341 SE Belmont St. Bridgetown Sextet

the Know

4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Jesse White, Bradley Stauner 8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Blew Frogs

tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Magnetic Health Factory, Truth or AAAAA!

tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Tony Starlight Show

union/Pine

525 SE Pine St. Streetcar Mobile Music Afterparty: Dana Buoy, Sun Angle, Jeffrey Jerusalem, Greylag, Old Friend

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Lovecamp

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. The Sale, Belinda Underwood, Jazz Shack

White eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. The Spring Standards, Welfare, Evan Way (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)

Wilfs Restaurant and Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Nancy Curtin and Tom Grant

Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St. Steve Kimock

SAt. Oct. 6 Al’s den at the crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Woody Pines

Aladdin theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Everclear, U-Krew (Oregon Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony)

Alberta Rose theatre

3000 NE Alberta St. Andy Anderson, Richie Bellinger, Daniel Cecil, Pete Ekstam, Robin Greene, Michael Henchman, Martin Hill, Jack Kennedy, Paul Kwitek, Adrian Martin, Tom May, Therese Michaud, Tim and Sophie, The Tummybuckles, Don Wheatley, Alexa Wiley (Artichoke Music showcase)

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Ultra Goat, Alabama Black Snake, Highwater

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Young Turks, Two Hands, The Great Sabatini

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St.

OCT. 3-9 BAR SPOTLIGHT

tillicum club

leahnash.com

8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Versastyle

tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Dog Tribe, Cast Down, American Wrecking Company

tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Midnight Serenaders

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Ausland

Vie de Boheme

Portland Groove Collective (9:30 pm); The Barkers (6 pm)

Boom Bap!

640 SE Stark St. A God, Mufassa, Old Age

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Fall Into Darkness: Saint Vitus, Weedeater, Sourvein, Ephemeros

hawthorne hophouse 4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Kelsey Morris

hawthorne theatre 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Nemesis, American Roulette, Lidless Eye, Ritual Healing, The Suppression

Brasserie Montmartre

ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

Buffalo Gap Saloon

Jade Lounge

626 SW Park Ave. Wayward Vessel

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Planet Krypton

calvin Presbyterian church

10445 SW Canterbury Lane, Tigard Matt Carr, Mark Davey, Ward Griffiths, Jon Hughes, Sean Holmes, Fred Stickley

camellia Lounge

510 NW 11th Ave. Sam Foulger and Art Resnick

clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Cool Breeze

dante’s

350 W Burnside St. House of Floyd

doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Wolf Gang, The Royal Concept, Frank & Derol

duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. The Fondells Rhythm and Blues Burlesque Review

east end

1435 NW Flanders St. Best of Friends

2346 SE Ankeny St. The Just Reverie, Logan Ulavale (8 pm); Colin Fisher, Vanessa Rogers (6 pm); Christopher Worth (5 pm)

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Norman Sylvester (10 pm and 7 pm)

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Rvivr, Divers, Absent Minds

Keller auditorium

222 SW Clay St. SP Balasubramaniam, KS Chitra, SP Sailaja

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Silverhawk, Tony Smiley, Irie Idea, Stephanie Scelza (9 pm); School of Rock (Tool tribute, 7 pm)

Kenton club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Little Hexes, Ex-Girlfriends Club, Penifore

Laurelthirst

203 SE Grand Ave. Shivas, Dude City, Here Come Dots

2958 NE Glisan St. Jeff Crosby & the Refugees (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)

Foggy Notion

Mississippi Pizza

3416 N Lombard St. Almost Dark, Dramady, You

Gemini Lounge

6526 SE Foster Road StackCats

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Freak Mountain Ramblers, Jackstraw

3552 N Mississippi Ave. The Cry (9 pm); The Hill Dogs (6 pm); Shoehorn Kids Show (4 pm)

Mount tabor theater

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Sofia Talvik, Gallon House, Jacob Miller and the Bridge City Crooners

Muddy Rudder Public house 8105 SE 7th Ave. Dan McCoy

Noho’s hawaiian cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music

Original halibut’s ii 2527 NE Alberta St. King Louie Trio

Portland State university, Smith Memorial Student union

1825 SW Broadway Charts, Minden, KPSU DJs

Press club

2621 SE Clinton St. Sidestreet Reny

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Sugar Tits, 3Up 2 Down, Greyside

Roseland theater 8 NW 6th Ave. Steve Vai, Beverly McClellan

Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Dominic Castillo

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Runaway Rocket, Supercrow

Slim’s cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. Bumpin’ Nastys, The Motel Life

Someday Lounge

125 NW 5th Ave. The Kinky Brothers, Big Mo, Serious Business, Jermaine Malone, DJ Eps

the Blue diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Amy Keys

the Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Soul Vaccination

the Know

Landmark Saloon

Mississippi Pizza

Laurelthirst

Mississippi Studios

426 SW Washington St. The Stolen Sweets 4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray 2958 NE Glisan St. Dan Haley & Tim Acott (9 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)

Little axe Records

5012 NE 28th Ave. Waldteufel, Sangre de Muerdago, Vradiazei, Hell Mouth Yawns

Mississippi Pizza

White eagle Saloon

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Fall Into Darkness: Wolvserpent, VHOL, Bell Witch, Eight Bells

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Michael Kiwanuka, Nathaniel Rateliff, Foy Vance

SuN. Oct. 7 al’s den at the crystal hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Bright Archer

aladdin theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Alfie Boe

alberta Rose theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. David Choi, Clara C

andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero

ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. American Roulette, Fuzz Huzzi, Stepper

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Felim Egan

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. The Dandy Warhols; Jeremy Wilson; Marty Marquis (of Blitzen Trapper); DJ Anjali; DJ Papa Grassman; DJ Bar Hopper; members of the Portland Cello Project, the Builders and the Butchers, Y La Bamba, the Prids, Guantanamo Baywatch, The Shivas, 1776, Ruby Feathers, Suicide Notes, Sexywaterspiders, Hustle & Drone, the Verner Pantons, Souvenir Driver and Miracle Falls

clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam

crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Alanis Morissette, Souleye

doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Bad Books, The Drowning Men, Harrison Hudson

ella Street Social club

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Seth Myzel

Mississippi Studios

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

NePO 42

5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Chronological Injustice

Rontoms

600 E Burnside St. Old Kingdom, Modern Lives

Rose Garden

1401 N Wheeler Ave. Carrie Underwood

Roseland theater

8 NW 6th Ave. The XX, John Talabot

231 SW Ankeny St. Mega Ran, Mr. Miranda, DJ Dn3, Mouse Powell, Cloudy October, Destro

tupai at andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Gretchen Mitchell Band

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Grammies, Inkblot, Manhole

White eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Korby Lenker

MON. Oct. 8 al’s den at the crystal hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Bright Archer

andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs

ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Open Mic

ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

thorne Lounge

Jade Lounge

1435 NW Flanders St. Mousai Remix 2346 SE Ankeny St. Dan Cecil

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Odyssey, All Gussied Up, Sarcalogos, Echoic

1635 SE 7th Ave. Susie & the Sidecars

1332 W Burnside St. Shpongle, Phutureprimitive

Groove Suite

Ground Kontrol

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Tom Grant Trio

tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway AC Lov Ring

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Capillary Action, Federer, Log Across the Washer

White eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Leo

tueS. Oct. 9 al’s den at the crystal hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Bright Archer

aladdin theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Tom Rush 225 SW Ash St. Taint Misbehavin’, Scrumbucket

1028 SE Water Ave. Monarques, Sun Angle

camellia Lounge

510 NW 11th Ave. Jean-Paul DeRoover

Foggy Notion

511 NW Couch St. Tronix with Bryan Zentz

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Chris Crusher

the crown Room

205 NW 4th Ave. Proper Movement: Sense One, the Dirtmerchant

the Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. DJs Nealie Neal, Unruly

tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. Alina Hardin

Yes and No

20 NW 3rd Ave. Death Club with DJ Entropy

thuRS. Oct. 4 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Bill Portland

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Community Library DJs

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Barrett

ted’s Berbati’s Pan

3416 N Lombard St. The Abnorms, Ponykiller, Tigress

231 SW Ankeny St. Digital Stimulation: O. Blivion, Hawn Solo, Mistress Birmingham

Goodfoot Lounge

the crown Room

2845 SE Stark St. Kory Quinn, Simon Tucker Band

hawthorne theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Imperative Reaction, Ludovico Technique, Everything Goes Cold, The Witch Was Right

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Cynthia O’Brien

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Biscuits & Gravy

Mississippi Studios

dante’s

830 E Burnside St. Thee Oh Sees, Sic Alps

crystal Ballroom

the Blue diamond

Red Room

350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell

412 NE Beech St. DJ Little Axe

1401 N Wheeler Ave. Justin Bieber

Rose Garden

crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Youngblood Hawke, Aan

Wed. Oct. 3 Beech Street Parlor

440 NW Glisan St. Groundislava, Devonwho, D33J, Ghost Feet, Jeffrey Dahmer

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Admiral Fallow, Young Buffalo

duff’s Garage

5340 N Interstate Ave. Mecca Normal, Rebecca Gates, Amenta Abioto

8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones

Bunk Bar

hawthorne theatre

interstate Firehouse cultural center

Muddy Rudder Public house

ted’s Berbati’s Pan

doug Fir Lounge

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. From Here to Eternity, She Preaches Mayhem, Censure, Virtues, Whispers of Wonder

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Giant Giant Sand, Flash Flood and the Dikes

ash Street Saloon

315 SE 3rd Ave. See tonight’s Branx listing.

MUSIC CALENDAR

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mr. Ben

Rotture

714 SW 20th Place Ix, Hauksness, Flesh Lawn, Chris Birch

2026 NE Alberta St. Edaline, Duck Little Brother Duck, Touchie Feeley 4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Marca Luna

Kung Pao Chickens (9 pm); Portland Country Underground (6 pm)

1530 SE 7th Ave. Laura Stillwell Swing Jazz Quartet (8 pm); J-Cam (6 pm) 836 N Russell St. Broken Soviet, Hilltalks (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)

WARE IT WELL: Barwares (4605 NE Fremont St., 971-229-0995, smallwarespdx.com) exists only because of an architectural fluke. Chef Johanna Ware’s Asian-leaning restaurant, Smallwares, needs a bar the same size as its dining room about as much as drowsy Beaumont Village needs a swanky place to hang at 2 am on a Tuesday. Given a lemon, Ware slices it and serves it as a twist over a cocktail made with rye whiskey and garam masala syrup ($8). The Barwares space is a modern beauty done on a budget— concrete, wood and HVAC handiwork with accents like the incongruous orange sofa on loan from Al Bundy. The service is better and the food is best. There’s always something special coming out of the kitchen—corn fried on the cob and drizzled with fish sauce was a favorite—but I’m happy with a strong cocktail and a bowl of candied peanuts. MARTIN CIZMAR.

Kelly’s Olympian

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Toxic Zombie, Otto’s Daughter, Ion Storm, A Killing Dove

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Koffin Kats, The Silver Shine

tapalaya

205 NW 4th Ave. Counter Culture with DJ Coulter

the Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Dirtbag with DJ Gutter Glamour

Kenton club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Dragging an Ox Through Water, Dead Western, Derek Monypeny

Laurelthirst

2958 NE Glisan St.

232 SW Ankeny St. Coronation, Plumerai, Rollerball

White eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Hutson, Met City, Josh and Mer

Sat. Oct. 6 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Lorax

east Burn

1800 E Burnside St. DJ Zimmie

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. DJ Etbonz

holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Booty Bassment: Maxx Bass, Nathan Detroit, Ryan & Dmitri

Rotture

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

Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Soulciety: DJs Drew Groove, Katrina Martiani

ted’s Berbati’s Pan

231 SW Ankeny St. Greek Night: DJs Shaka, Kypros, Yanni, Hondro

the crown Room

205 NW 4th Ave. R.A.W.: DJ Nature, Ronin Roc, Doc Adam

the Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Miss Prid

tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Bikini Briefs

SuN. Oct. 7 Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. DJ Nate C

Star Bar

the crown Room

1203 NW Glisan St. DJ Drew Groove

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Matthius

FRi. Oct. 5 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Musique Plastique

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. DJ Magneto

holocene

Valentine’s

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Dad Jeans

trader Vic’s

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Coloured Glass

the Firkin tavern

221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band

tiga

Beech Street Parlor

Jade Lounge

Jimmy Mak’s

205 NW 4th Ave. Noise Fridays: Doc Adam, Dev From Above, Swerveone, DJ TJ

tiga

421 SE Grand Ave. Vortex: DJs Kenny, John, Skip

2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic

1937 SE 11th Ave. Jom Rapstar, Oxygen Elmo, DJ Wardove, Notorious BEN

the crown Room

the Lovecraft

Ground Kontrol

2346 SE Ankeny St. Jaime Leopold

231 SW Ankeny St. Mellow C

639 SE Morrison St. DJs Riff Randell, Baby Lemonade

28 NE 28th Ave. Reggie Houston, Janice Scroggins

Goodfoot Lounge

ted’s Berbati’s Pan

511 NW Couch St. DJ Epor 1001 SE Morrison St. Fresh.: Shlohmo, Natasha Kmeto (DJ set), Nathan Detroit, Magnetic Crew DJs

Red cap Garage

MON. Oct. 8 412 NE Beech St. Cowboys from Sweden 205 NW 4th Ave. Project Monday Mayhem: DJ King Fader, Nathaniel Knows, Sepkt1

tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Family Jewels

tueS. Oct. 9 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Jason Urick

Red cap Garage

1035 SW Stark St Never Enough with DJ Ray Gun

Someday Lounge

125 NW 5th Ave. Lift: Twitchdoctor, Echoik, DJ Colleague

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Smooth Hopperator

1035 SW Stark St Mantrap with DJ Lunchlady

tiga

Saucebox

trader Vic’s

214 SW Broadway Homodeluxe: Mr. Charming, Roy G. Biv

1465 NE Prescott St. Ministry of Information 1203 NW Glisan St. DJ AM Gold

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Since 1974

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DIANA KRALL DI Glad Rag Doll $14.95-cd $15.95-cd dlx $19.95-lp

Wednesday, October 3, 9pm.

David Everett Fisher’s Birthday

Thursday, October 4, 9pm.

Those Bottom Feeders Invivo Eyepennies FREE!

MUSE

The 2nd Law $14.95-cd $16.95-cd+dvd $27.95-lp

Buffalo gap Wednesday, october 3rd

Tree Top Tribe (roots rock)

Friday, October 5, 9pm.

Green Flag TBA Members of Timbers Army

Saturday, October 6, 9pm.

Runaway Rocket Supercrow

Thursday, october 4th —9pm

FLYING LOTUS

private Event

Until The Quiet Comes $12.95-cd $19.95-lp

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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Most prices listed are for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply, so it’s best to call ahead. Editor: MATTHEW SINGER. Theater: REBECCA JACOBSON (rjacobson@wweek. com). Classical: BRETT CAMPBELL (bcampbell@wweek.com). Dance: HEATHER WISNER (dance@wweek.com). TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit information at least two weeks in advance to: msinger@wweek.com.

THEATRE And So It Goes

And So It Goes, which opens Artist Repertory Theater’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. One might quibble that And So It Goes presents a one-dimensional representation of love: heterosexual, monogamous, traditional. 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. REBECCA JACOBSON. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm WednesdaysSaturdays, 2 pm and 7:30 pm Sundays. Through Oct. 7. $20-$50.

The BFG

Northwest Children’s Theater opens its 20th season with this Roald Dahl favorite about a young girl and a “Big Friendly Giant” who must save England from the BFG’s evil, child-eating counterparts. Best for ages 6 and up. NW Neighborhood Cultural Center, 1819 NW Everett St., 222-4480. 12 pm and 4 pm Saturdays and Sundays. Through Oct. 28. $18-$22.

The Black Lizard

Imago Theatre presents an encore performance of last season’s popular, genre-bending production, directed by Jerry Mouawad. Yukio Mishima’s play is about murder, diamond heists, seduction and deception. This paper called it “a thing of wit and intelligence and fun.” Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave., 231-3959. 7:30 pm Thursdays, 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Through Nov. 4. $15-$30.

The Body of an American

The title of Dan O’Brien’s play references a photograph: An image of a dead American soldier being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu. War journalist Paul Watson won a Pulitzer Prize for that 1993 shot, but it haunted him long after the shutter snapped. O’Brien’s play, receiving its world premiere at Portland Center Stage, is both a portrait of Watson and a story of the relationship between the two men as they bear witness and seek absolution. At the helm of this promising production is ambitious risk-taker Bill Rauch, artistic director of Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Sundays, 2 pm Sundays, with alternating Saturday matinee and Sunday evening performances, noon select Thursdays. Through Nov. 11. $25-$54.

Campaign 2012 10-Minute Play Festival

To mark the election season, community theater company Monkey With a Hat On presents 12 short plays with political themes. Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th Ave., 248-1030. 7 pm Sunday, Oct. 7. $5. 21+.

The Clean House

In Sarah Ruhl’s poignant, somewhatnutty comedy, a Brazilian cleaning woman dreams of being a comedian. Lunacy Stageworks presents the Pulitzer Prize-nominated play. Sellwood Masonic Lodge, 7126 SE Milwaukie Ave., 971-275-3568. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sunday, Oct. 7. Through Oct. 13. $10-$15, Thursdays are “pay what you will.”

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.

Legally Blonde: The Musical

Pixie Dust Productions presents a musical adaptation of the movie about a sorority girl who takes Harvard Law by storm. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 946.7272. 7:30 pm Fridays and Thursday, Oct. 4; 2 pm and 7:30 pm Saturdays; 2 pm Sundays. Through Oct. 7. $15-$57.

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 ThursdaysSaturdays; 2 pm Sundays; 2 pm Saturdays, Oct. 6 and Oct 13. Through Oct. 21. $20-$40.

The Lost Boys Live!

Forget Twilight. This Halloween season, it’s all about this ’80s teen vampire flick, starring Kiefer Sutherland as a blood-guzzling biker. Bad Reputation Productions, known for Road House: The Play!, takes on the horror classic in a live stage adaptation. Ethos/IFCC, 5340 N Interstate Ave. 8 pm FridaysSaturdays. Through Nov. 3. $18-$22.

“Master Harold”...and the Boys

Profile Theatre, which each year produces a full slate of plays by a different playwright, devotes this season to Athol Fugard, a South African dramatist known for political, persuasive plays about apartheid. The season opener is a semi-autobiographical work about three friends—one white, two black—grappling with the tangles of bigotry and institutionalized racism in 1950s South Africa. Director Jane Unger’s strong cast includes Bobby Bermea, who gave a stirring performance in Portland Playhouse’s Brother/Sister Plays last season. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 242-0080. 7:30 pm WednesdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Through Oct. 28. $16-$30.

Of Mice and Men

Bag&Baggage stages John Steinbeck’s tale of two migrant workers scraping to survive during the Great Depression. Scott Palmer directs the production, which features folk music and photography from the era. The Venetian Theatre, 253 E Main St., Hillsboro, 345-9590. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Through Oct. 14. $18-$26.

Seven Guitars

August Wilson’s 10-play The Pittsburgh Cycle, which explores AfricanAmerican life over the decades, has been mighty popular on Portland stages recently. Now, Artists Rep presents the Portland premiere of this installment, set in 1948 and directed by Kevin Jones. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Sundays, 2 pm Sundays. Through Nov. 11. $20-$50.

South Pacific

Lakewood Theatre presents the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical about romance and prejudice during World War II. Lakewood Center for the

Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, 635-3901. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Through Oct. 14. $32-$35.

A Steady Rain and The Detective’s Wife

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. The Detective’s Wife is the more nuanced play. Its outcome is less apparent than A Steady Rain’s, and it handles some of the same moral questions—the conflict between loyalty and duty and whether the end justifies the means—with greater subtlety. Both plays are too neat, but The Detective’s Wife is just a bit more rumpled, just a tad richer. REBECCA JACOBSON. 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.

Funny Over Everything

The monthly stand-up showcase returns to Hollywood Theatre, this time headlined by Andy Kaufman Award-winning comedian Brent Weinbach. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 9:30 pm Thursday, Oct. 4. $10.

Kathy Griffin

From the D-list to the The New York Times bestseller list—the comedian brings her brassy act to the Schnitz. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm Saturday, Oct. 6. $43-$90.50.

The Neutrino Project

Groups of improvisers race against the clock to whip up a movie, relying on audience participation for title suggestions, donated props and cameo performances. Each night features

a genre chosen at random, and the improvised frenzy goes straight to the big screen. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays through Oct. 13. $12-$15.

Once and for All for One

Mike Mathieu and Andrew Connor (better known as The Cody Rivers Show) bring their brand of cerebral, kinetic comedy to Portland. This latest genre-mashing show features marauding trees, chainsaw bluegrass and mixtapes. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday, Oct. 5-6. $10-$12.

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REVIEW

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

House lights still on, a rags-clad crowd shuffles about the stage, looking forlorn and doing little. Suddenly, two actors dressed as riot police storm the stage and haul off one of the men, exiting without explanation. Has director Chris Coleman converted Stephen Sondheim’s macabre musical into contemporary political commentary? Not really. Though Coleman places some emphasis on Sweeney Todd’s class struggles, those riot police are the only transparent contemporary reference. Otherwise, this Portland Center Stage production serves the play straight, dishing up plenty of grisly mayhem and a fair bit of gore but stopping short of wild melodrama. REBECCA JACOBSON. 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.

That Hopey Changey Thing

Third Rail Repertory resurrects the words of Sarah Palin (she coined the play’s title phrase) with this Richard Nelson work, set on Election Day 2010. It’s the first in a planned cycle of four plays about the Apple family, a clan of devoted Democrats exploring the shifting currents of politics and relationships. Winningstad Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 235-1101. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Through Oct. 28. $22.25-$41.25.

COMEDY AND VARIETY Arj Barker

In addition to making the late-night rounds (he’s appeared with Letterman, Leno and O’Brien.) and guest-starring on Flight of the Conchords, the standup comedian hosts a Flash series about his cat, Poopy. Yup, Poopy. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, Oct. 4-6. $15-$27.

Comedy Kamikaze

Philip Schallberger hosts a monthly comedy show, featuring sketch, standup and video. Clinton Street Theater , 2522 SE Clinton St., 502-4046. 8 pm every first Thursday. $6.

Comics Quitting

Local comics riff on how to quit with style, with appearances by Nathan Brannon, Belinda Carroll, Shawn Flack, Brian Blank, Jacob Christopher, Jessie McCoy, Jimmy Newstetter, Sean Jordan and Will Woodruff. Tom Jabbs hosts. Mt. Tabor Theater Lounge, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 360-1450. 10:30 pm Friday, Oct. 5. $5.

Dom-Prov

If your idea of fun is playing improv games with a leather-clad dominatrix as an audience hurls marshmallows at you, this Unscriptables show is for you. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 309-3723. 10 pm Saturdays except Oct. 20 through Nov. 24. “Pay what you will.”

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PERFORMANCE

BICKERING BUDDIES: (From left) Jonah Weston, Daniel Benzali, Sam A. Mowry

ART (THEATRE NOW) In 1934, an interviewer asked Gertrude Stein to explain a piece of her writing. “Look here,” Stein answered. “Being intelligible is not what it seems.” Understanding, she went on, is not about putting a piece of art into other words, but rather about pleasure. “If you enjoy it, you understand it,” she said. “If you do not enjoy it, why do you make a fuss about it?” Stein could just as easily have asked this question of Marc, one of three characters in Art, by French playwright Yasmina Reza and translated by Christopher Hampton. Marc definitely does not enjoy the piece of art recently purchased by his friend Serge. To Marc, this large, whiteon-white canvas (for which Serge paid $200,000) is “shit.” But Marc cannot let it go—he, like Gertrude Stein’s interviewer, makes a fuss about it. A giant, irrational fuss, which spirals into a viciously personal reassessment of the men’s friendship. Reza’s play, despite its title, has more to say about relationships than it does about art. But for such a widely produced play (it has been translated into more than 30 languages), Art doesn’t dig terribly deep. To be sure, it poses questions: Why are we so irked by our friends’ habits? Why do we cling so tightly to our opinions and our gripes? What holds our friendships together? Art gives these questions glossy and efficient treatment, though it never gets to the bottom of them. Fortunately, this casual and stark production by new company Theatre Now—cleverly staged at various Pearl District galleries, where the surrounding artwork offers an arresting counterpoint to Serge’s white canvas—benefits from a skilled trio of actors. As the anti-modernist Marc, Golden Globe nominee Daniel Benzali gives an assured and somewhat puckish performance, squashing his face into cannily subtle expressions. Sam Mowry is not as steady-footed as Benzali, but he brings injured complexity to Serge’s sophisticated aspirations. Caught in the middle and whacked about like a pingpong ball is Jonah Weston, whose raw portrayal of Yvan offsets his friends’ incessant bickering. Art does not demand explanation from Reza. It’s breezy and crisp and easy to like, with a fair share of well-crafted zingers and pithy one-liners. Where Reza has left it slight, this capable cast helps fatten it up, and the conclusion is undeniably cunning. Engaging yet somewhat detached, Art is unlikely to cause a fuss—for better or worse. REBECCA JACOBSON.

A portrait of friendship.

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full-length, improvised shows, heads to Swinemumps (a fictional Hogwarts rival) for a Harry Potterinspired show. In addition to the old witches and wizards, expect ninjas. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 309-3723. 8 pm Saturdays through Nov. 24. “Pay what you will.”

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Post5 Theatre presents Halloweenthemed sketch comedy, featuring macabre sex, vulgar scenarios and multimedia clips. Don’t bring the kids. Milepost 5, 850 NE 81st Ave., 729-3223. 10:30 pm FridaysSaturdays through Oct. 27. $10 suggested donation.

CLASSICAL The Ensemble

Some of the city’s most accomplished singers convene to sing rarely performed vocal chamber music by 20th-century French composer Francis Poulenc (his keening World War II chamber cantata “A Night of Snow”) and another moving elegy, Monteverdi’s “Ariadne’s Lament.” Then, singer Tim O’Brien and pianist Michael Barnes play the greatest-of-all art song cycles, Schubert’s “Winter Journey.” Grace Memorial Episcopal Church, 1535 NE 17th Ave., 287-0418. 3 pm Sunday, Oct. 7. $10-$20.

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Sensitively combining voice, sax and bass, New York-based free improvisers Tom Blancarte and Louise Jensen conjure up haunting, sometimes-ethereal, sometimes-dark, occasionally harsh soundscapes in this Creative Music Guild concert. Project Grow, 2156 N Williams Ave. 8 pm Tuesday, Oct. 9. $5-15. All ages.

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Michael Kleinschmidt and Jonathan Ambrosino

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of its mighty organ, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral’s music director improvises the pipe-organ concert while the Boston-based scholar narrates a demonstration of how the complex king of instruments really works. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 147 NW 19th Ave. 5 pm Sunday, Oct. 7. Free.

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Two acclaimed guest artists from the Bay Area’s rich early music scene join some of the Northwest’s Baroque specialists, including recorder master Bryce Peltier and lutenist/guitarist Hideki Yamaya, in uninhibited music from 17thcentury Italy, featuring composers such as Stradella, Marini and others rarely heard on Portland stages. Community Music Center, 3350 SE Francis St., 410-491-8828. 7:30 pm Saturday, Oct. 6. $12-$14.

Opera Theater Oregon

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The inventive, indie classical institution continues to explore new territory by creating its first radio opera, The Old Maid and the Thief: Italian-American composer Gian Carlo Menotti’s sly, funny and ultimately poignant one-act 1939 opera buffa about small-town gossip. With help from sound-effects artists from Willamette Radio Workshop and voice actors, the company transforms the Mission into a 1930s radio studio, with the audience there to witness the story and participate in the frame narrative: a live recording of the performance for chamber quintet and a cast of singers led by PSU professor and superb soprano Christine Meadows. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 314-0256. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday and 2 pm Sunday, Oct. 5-7. $14-$20.

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In an ideal concert for a city so vitally innovative in making its transportation choices, Portland Youth Philharmonic music director David Hattner conducts a kid’s concert featuring music about planes, trains, bikes, and more, from E.T.: the ExtraTerrestrial, Meet Me in St. Louis and

that hopey changey thing other sources. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353. 2 pm Sunday, Oct. 7. $10$36. All ages.

Portland Viol Consort

Using instruments made by Portland luthier Jess Wells, some of the region’s early-music performers (Portland Baroque Orchestra’s Joanna Blendulf, Tim Scott, Max Fuller and Lee Inman) join the excellent countertenor Tim Galloway in music by English Renaissance composer William Byrd and his contemporaries. Grace Memorial Episcopal Church, 1535 NE 17th Ave., 774 4231. 8 pm Saturday, Oct. 6. $15-$20.

Salar Aghili and Hamnavazan Ensemble

Iranian singer Aghili, who performs with the country’s national symphony, joins other Iranian music masters—lutenist Hossein Behroozinia and kamancheh (spiked fiddle) virtuoso Saeed Farajpouri, pianist Harir Shariatzadeh and Behnam Masoumi on tombak percussion—in traditional Iranian music and more. Reed College, Eliot Hall , 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 646-7673. 6:30 pm Saturday, Oct. 6. $40-$45. 18+.

Stephen Price and Janet Coleman

The veteran Oregon Symphony violist and Florestan Trio pianist join fellow OSO violist Viorel Bejenaru in Price’s annual Old Church concert, this time featuring music by Fauré, J.S. Bach, Marin Marais, Portland jazz pianist and composer Gordon Lee and more. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. 8 pm Saturday, Oct. 6. Free. 21+.

Swarmius

Since leaving Portland for San Diego, composer-keyboardist Joseph Waters has continued to develop his innovative post-classical/rock/world-music/industrial quartet, along with PSU/Fear No Music percussion master Joel Bluestone, plus fiddle and sax. When they describe a piece as reflecting the “musical dialects” of Gershwin, Charlie Parker, Lady Gaga and video-game soundtracks, it’s no exaggeration. The result: futuristic, pulsating, groove-based, occasionally wacky, eclectic, original and electrifying music that sounds like nothing else and is more fun than just about everything else. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 725-3307. Noon and 7:30 pm Thursday, Oct. 4. $10-$15.

DANCE A Portland Circus on Cage’s Silence

Portland choreographer Linda Austin joins in a 100th birthday party for Merce Cunningham’s longtime musical collaborator. Austin and sound artist Seth Nehil have collaborated on A Portland Circus on Cage’s Silence, an hourlong movement and music performance supplementing the Pacific Northwest College of Art exhibit

Happy Birthday: A Celebration of Chance and Listening. Cunningham and Cage came to be known for “chance dance,” in which random events such as the roll of a die could shape movement and music phrases. Austin and Nehil, like their inspirations, are working separately. The first time their creations will merge will be in the PNCA Commons, where 16 dancers, 10 musicians and a poet will wander among viewers, on balconies and in hallways. An oversized projected stopwatch will coordinate the performers to the score. Local contemporary dancers including Mike Barber, Tere Mathern and Carla Mann are slated to perform. PNCA Main Campus Building, Swigert Commons, 1241 NW Johnson St., 226-4391. 7 pm Wednesday, Oct. 3. Free. All ages.

Éowyn Emerald and Dancers

BodyVox founding member Éowyn Emerald premieres three new contemporary dance works twice in one night: the athletic Scrumba; the duet Games of Svee, which she’ll dance with Josh Murry of BodyVox; and a new ensemble work inspired by the waltz. BodyVox Dance Center, 1201 NW 17th Ave., 229-0627. 6:30 pm and 8:30 pm Friday, Oct. 5. $10.

Moonlight Masquerade

Orchestre L’Pow!, whose claim to fame is being the Northwest’s longest-running burlesque pit band, puts the boom in the chicka-wowwow at this clothing-optional group show. (To be clear, clothing is only optional for the performers; it is required for viewers, who are encouraged to attend in masquerade.) Featured performers include Vancouver B.C.’s Lydia DeCarllo, Charlotte Treuse (in her farewell performance), Madison Moone, Itty Bitty Bang Bang and Angelique DeVil. Vincent Drambuie emcees. Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside St., 206-7630. 8 pm Saturday, Oct. 6. $10-$40. 21+.

Northwest Dance Project

Northwest Dance Project jetted to London this summer to dance Ihsan Rustem’s State of Matter at the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, after winning the 2012 Sadler’s Wells Global Dance Contest with it. At its New Now Wow program this fall, NWDP offers three contemporary dance world premieres, including Rustem’s elegant new work for sets of partners, Mother Tongue, and one each from New Yorkbased Gregory Dolbashian and Brazilian dance maker Alex Soares, winners of the company’s annual Pretty Creatives International Choreographic Competition. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 725-3307. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 4-6. $32$39. All ages.

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Corey Arnold: Graveyard

Most of the year, Corey Arnold is a sought-after commercial photographer, but for a few months each summer he travels to Alaska and operates a fishing boat, taking fineart photographs while he’s at it. Arnold trains his lens on fish, seascapes, landscapes and his crewmates. The pictures that come out of the expeditions are more allusive than photojournalistic. His latest body of work documents a sockeye-salmonfishing sojourn in Bristol Bay, Alaska. Through Oct. 27. Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, 134 NW 8th Ave., 287-3886.

Francis Celentano: The Gemini Series

The groovy-baby Op Art movement of the 1960s and ’70s lives on in the work of Seattle-based painter Francis Celentano. His works are boldly patterned, often boldly colored, and always hyper-busy, with vertigoinducing effects that boggle the eye. In his latest series, he paints on many different shapes of canvases, including lozenges, which are diamondshaped. Many of the show’s standout pieces make use of patterns that are reminiscent of Native American decorative motifs. Oct. 4-27. Laura Russo Gallery, 805 NW 21st Ave., 226-2754.

MK Guth: Best Wishes

Internationally known since her wellpublicized exhibition at the Whitney Biennial in New York City, MK Guth often incorporates mythology and fantasy into her installations. Best Wishes came out of her fall 2011 residency in Las Vegas, a citywide monument to fantasy if ever there was one. It includes photographs and an installation loosely themed around longlocked fairytale heroine Rapunzel. Through Nov. 24. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521.

Marie Watt: Skywalker/Skyscraper

Marie Watt recently moved from Portland’s Brooklyn neighborhood to Brooklyn, N.Y. The artist, well known for her Native Americaninfluenced blanket sculptures and installations, reflects on her

move in Skywalker/Skyscraper. The works reference the skyline of Manhattan across the East River from her new home. Through Oct. 27. PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.

Reynier Leyva Novo: The Novo Anniversary Collection

Reynier Leyva Novo, a Cuban artist who has exhibited in the prestigious Venice Biennale, shows his work 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., 2031219.

Wid Chambers: Arc Volant

In some circles, it’s considered tacky for a gallery owner to show his own work. But when you’re as talented as Chambers owner Wid Chambers, who cares? Chambers’ last installation filled the gallery with exuberant shapes and colors and was easily the best Portland installation of the year. His new show, Arc Volant, is also a galleryfilling installation and incorporates arching shapes that connect floor to ceiling. Oct. 4-27. Chambers @ 916, 916 NW Flanders St., 227-9398.

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 images conjured by painter William Chad Willsie. With 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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You’ll no doubt recognize her soothingly authoritative tone as the senior news analyst for National Public Radio. Cokie Roberts’ 40-year-plus journalism career has garnered her the highest praise, including three Emmy Awards and induction into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame. Speaking as part of the Voices lecture series, which hosts some of the most accomplished women in the professional world, Roberts will speak about An Insider’s View of Washington, D.C. The main lecture hall is sold out—tickets for the simulcast are still available. First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park Ave., 228-7219. 7:30 pm. $39.

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Crazy Eights Author Tour

Bringing together eight Oregon authors at each of eight tour stops across the state, the Crazy Eights tour will give each author only five minutes to talk about their life and work. (Really? Five minutes? For some reason, we assumed eight.) In Portland, catch Brian Doyle, Robert Dugoni, James Bernard Frost, April Henry, Jane Kirkpatrick, Ron Lovell, Phillip Margolin, Naseem Rahka and George Byron Wright. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.

Tutankhamun’s Last Secret

Few shocking secrets come out of ancient Egypt these days. (Celebrity sex hieroglyphics lose something in translation.) But Nicholas Reeves, curator in the Department of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, reveals King Tut’s famous golden headpiece was never intended for the boy king at all. Gasp! Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student Union, 1825 SW Broadway. 7:30 pm. Free.

FRIDAY, OCT. 5 Reyna Grande

Having already explored the Mexican immigrant experience in two awardwinning novels, author Reyna Grande delves into her own past as an illegal immigrant in her memoir, The Distance Between Us. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.

SATURDAY, OCT. 6 Star Wars Reads Day

Just because stormtroopers are a bunch of mindless clones, it’s no excuse for illiteracy. Join Dark Horse Comics authors Jeremy Barlow, Mike Richardson, Randy Stradley and Paul Gulacy as they read from Star Wars Omnibus: The Other Sons of Tatooine and Star Wars Crimson Empire III: Empire Lost. Members of the Cloud City Garrison of the 501st Legion will join the festivities, because it’s not story time without Boba Fett. Barnes & Noble, Clackamas Town Center, 12000 SE 82nd Ave., 786-3463. 2 pm. Free.

Third Annual Oregon Archives Crawl

Comb through local history and get the juicy details from local archivists and historians at the third annual Oregon Archives Crawl at the Portland Archives and Records Center, Portland State University’s Millar Library, Central Library’s John Wilson Special Collections and the Oregon Historical Society. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Oregon women’s suffrage, each location will highlight women in local history. Central Library, 801 SW 10th Ave., 988-5123. 10 am-3 pm. Free.

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The Seventh Annual Text Ball

Logophiles unite for the annual literary fundraiser the Text Ball to benefit the Independent Publishing Resource Center. This year, the IPRC has partnered with Back Fence PDX to include a mini-storytelling showcase featuring Carson Ellis, Nicole Georges, Matt Bors, Arthur Bradford, Julia Kobos and host AC Dickson. There will be word games like Scrabble, a giant crossword puzzle and a dirty-limerick challenge. Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate Ave., 2869449. 7 pm. $12-$15. 21+.

MONDAY, OCT. 8 Karl Marlantes and David Abrams

Like the odd couple of mass destruction, authors Karl Marlantes and David Abrams each reflect on going to war in their new books. Marlantes critically examines the emotional experience in What It is Like to Go to War, while Abrams offers a satirical take on life in one of Baghdad’s forward-operating bases (FOBs) in Fobbit. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651. 7 pm. Free.

Davy Rothbart

Nothing entertains quite so much as the pain and misfortune of others. Following in the giant footsteps of David Sedaris, Davy Rothbart’s new essay collection, My Heart Is an Idiot, recounts his heartbreak with humor. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.

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JEFF PARKER AND ERIKA MOEN, BUCKO In the age of DVRs, Hulu, Netflix, iTunes and, let’s be honest, BitTorrent, there’s very little reason to buy DVDs of movies and TV shows—unless they come packed with extras. The director’s cut. That’s the attitude writer Jeff Parker and artist Erika Moen take in the print edition of their 2011 Web comic, Bucko. While the book’s primary purpose is bringing together 12 months of work into one physical package, it’s all the other bits that really make it worth buying. Each page has conversation-style commentary from Parker and Moen, explaining the story behind the characters, jokes and the bits they screwed up; each of the four “acts” is punctuated by longer behind-the-scenes pieces; and there are almost 20 pages of the literary equivalent of “bonus features,” including sketches, emails and extra strips. Featuring Periscope Studio artists Parker and Moen and published by Dark Horse, the comic is about as Portlandy as it could get without featuring a vintage Pendleton-print cover and a cameo by Sam Adams. The eponymous “Bucko” is an unemployed bike enthusiast who hooks up with a full-time Etsy seller and her uninhibited lesbian housemate. They find themselves in the middle of a murder mystery after Bucko turns up with a vicious hangover to a telemarketing job interview and finds a corpse on the bathroom floor. There are plenty of familiar tropes to snigger knowingly over: fixies, Suicide Girls, plug earrings, Juggalos, bridge-raising jokes, steampunks, hobos and ghost bikes. But fortunately Portland is a supporting character rather than the comic’s raison d’être. Much of the book’s appeal comes from Parker’s (who has worked on a number of titles for Marvel, including X-Men: First Class, and his collaboration with Steve Lieber, Underground) lowbrow sense of humor and fast-paced, off-the-wall storytelling, though it’s Moen (best known for her long-running autobiographical Web comic DAR) who really sells the story, with a lighthearted illustration style that keeps what is ultimately a violent story full of unpleasant people funny rather than dark, and a knack for conveying action and movement that propels the reader from one panel to the next. Paying real money for something you can see online may sound as antiquated a notion as a VHS box set, but by collecting not just the strips themselves, but the story behind how they came into existence, Bucko has set a high bar for Web-comic trade paperbacks, and gives even long-term online readers a reason to lay down $20 for a copy. RUTH BROWN. GO: Jeff Parker and Erika Moen release Bucko at Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651, on Thursday, Oct. 4. 7:30 pm. Free.

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

2016: Obama’s America

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

An Evening With Lawrence Johnson

C- [ONE NIGHT ONLY] Over the past 25 years, Portland-based filmmaker Lawrence Johnson’s work has spanned a variety of genres, though he’s perhaps best known for his ponderous documentary-cum-memoir Stuff. “Who the hell is Lawrence Johnson?” you still might be asking yourself. Well, based on this collection of his assorted short films, he cares deeply about the preservation of culture and probably spends a good deal of his time on acid. An Evening With Lawrence Johnson includes an informational short for the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Wyoming, a tale about a sentient mustache that controls whoever wears it, a documentary about the struggling tribes of Washington, a ’50s-style infotainment short about Oregon, and an Asian dude wandering around the wilderness with a girl he hired while a mumbling narrator rambles on. It’s a haphazard package of the informational and experimental, and you’ll either find parts of it interesting or agree with the flashing text during the looping footage of open water: “MAKE IT GO AWAY.” JOHN LOCANTHI. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Wednesday, Oct. 3.

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.

The American Scream

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] A documentary about three families in a small Massachusetts town, whose effort in decorating their homes each year for Halloween redefines the term “balls out.” Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Friday, Oct. 5.

Backspace

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Described as “SpongeBob meets Star Trek,” this animated sci-fi adventure concerns a group of animal astronauts attempting to halt the evil doings of a villainous space ostrich. Soundtracked by Moby, natch. G. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Saturday, Oct. 6.

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.

Bill W.

B [FIVE DAYS ONLY] Bill Wilson isn’t America’s most famous drunk, though he is arguably the most important. In the 1930s, he co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous, helping develop the Twelve-Step Program and becoming an icon for recovery. True to his dedication to anonymity, he remains a largely unknown 20th-century figure four decades after his death—at least, to those who’ve never gone to battle with the bottle. Through shadowed testimonies from friends, acquaintances and those who’ve simply benefited from his efforts to promote alcoholism as a conquerable disease, directors Dan Carracino and Kevin Hanlon craft an effective portrait of a complicated guy. Bill W. doesn’t treat Wilson as a saint, despite the fact he reached that level of reverence within the world of AA—a deification he was never comfortable with. The documentary is successful almost in spite of itself: Carracino and Hanlon adhere too closely to linear biography, and the dramatic re-creations of key moments in Wilson’s life, narrated by archival recordings of his own voice, unfortunately resemble lost Drunk History episodes. But the film is carried by Wilson’s presence. The archival footage reveals a man whose charisma and oratory skills made him the ideal person for changing the perceptions of alcoholism. And, like most drunks, he was funny, too. MATTHEW SINGER. Cinema 21. Multiple showtimes SundayThursday, Oct. 7-11.

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 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. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, City Center, Lloyd Mall, Tigard.

Chicken With Plums

B- Marjane Satrapi has made the

transition from graphic novelist and author to filmmaker with ease, ably transferring her 2000 graphic novel, Persepolis, into an Oscar-nominated success. Now, aided once again by codirector Vincent Paronnaud, Satrapi has turned her own Chicken With Plums into a fine live-action film. Trouble is, Satrapi and Paronnaud play everything way too safe this time around. They stick closely to the storyline of the source material, following the last eight days in the life of Nasser Ali Khan (Mathieu Amalric), a beloved Iranian musician. Despairing over the destruction of his beloved violin, he retreats to bed, willing himself to die in spite of the entreaties of his family. The timeline provides ample opportunity to flash back to his life and career, with fitfully funny and heartwarming moments arriving along the way. Why, then, populate the whole film with French actors instead of casting actual Iranians? And why change Khan’s instrument of choice from the traditional Persian tar to the violin? For a movie that speaks so passionately about the transformative power of art, Chicken With Plums doesn’t seem to trust its own message. PG-13. ROBERT HAM. Fox Tower.

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[TWO NIGHTS ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] French filmmaker Rose Lowder comes to Portland to present and discuss her mesmerizing avantgarde environmentalist films. Yale Union. 7:30 pm Monday-Tuesday, Oct. 8-9.

Dredd

B+ Director Pete Travis and screen-

writer Alex Garland understand that exposition and over-explaining are death for an action film. Just give people enough information to keep them engaged, then let the bullets fly. For their adaptation of the U.K. comics series Judge Dredd, all you need know is that Dredd (played with a massive sneer by Karl Urban) and new recruit Judge Anderson (Olivia Thirlby)—two members of an elite police force fighting crime in the dystopian metropolis Mega-City One—are locked inside a 200-story tower and working their way to the top floor to take out drug kingpin Ma-Ma (a scarified and scary Lena Headey). Of course, Travis and Garland do tart the story up with the inclusion of Slo-Mo, Ma-Ma’s drug of choice, which turns the brain down to 1 percent of its normal speed. They could have included any narcotic, but this one allows Travis to include a number of shots of slowly exploding exit wounds. The rest of the film is a quickly sparking blast of mindless fun capped by wisely understated performances from the three leads and genuinely thrilling set pieces. Turn off your mind, relax, and float upstairs with them. R. ROBERT HAM. Clackamas, Lloyd Mall.

End of Watch

C Are we sick of the found-footage conceit yet? Apparently it doesn’t matter, because the movies keep on coming. The latest attempt to add grit and realism to a well-worn genre is this shaky-cam, faux-documentary version of the buddy-cop movie. In an age where anyone can pick up a camera, make a movie and post it online for all to see, why do professional filmmakers feel the need to re-create this aesthetic? I’m not against all found footage movies. There are strong examples out there, like The Blair Witch Project, [Rec] or even this year’s Chronicle. But it’s beyond tired at this point, and I yearn for genre cinema to return to being, you know, cinematic. Jake Gyllenhaal and the great Michael Peña are two cops in South Central L.A. who say “dude” and “bro” a lot, kill bad guys, and run afoul of a nasty cartel. The near-constant action would be great, if only we could see it. Instead, the camera shakes, the editing sucks, and half the time when writerdirector David Ayer—who loves his L.A. crime movies—drops the foundfootage shtick, he still can’t compose a damn shot. The performances feel real, but the filmmaking—and the copout (sorry) of an ending—feel false. R. ERIK MCCLANAHAN. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Oak Grove, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Tigard.

Family Portrait in Black and White

C+ [FOUR NIGHTS ONLY] Olga Nenya

lives in the Ukranian city of Sumy and has 17 foster children. Sixteen of them are biracial—a result, for the most part, of relationships between visiting African students and local women— and although they are as Ukrainian as the blond-haired, blue-eyed kids who eye them warily in the playground, many of their compatriots do not agree. Russian-born, Canadian-based director Julia Ivanova doesn’t paint an entirely sympathetic portrait of Nenya in this documentary: She’s a tough old broad who, by her own admission, rules the brood with a very Soviet severity, prizing hard work and responsibility over the children’s desires to pursue passions like sport or music, or opportunities for them to be adopted into wealthier families in France or Italy. Yet her good intentions are unquestionable, and it does seem they’re all better off in this chaotic but safe home, where they are fed, clothed, sheltered and loved, and shielded somewhat from

DOG DayS NOT yET OvER: Sparky before the resurrection.

FRANKENWEENIE Tim Burton reanimated.

“Based on an original idea by Tim Burton,” it says in the credits. It’s hard to read that phrase and not snicker a little. In recent years, the popular knock on Burton is that he doesn’t have any original ideas left—that all he’s capable of now is taking someone else’s idea and turning it into gothic cotton candy. But Frankenweenie is, indeed, a Tim Burton original. Only, it’s an original idea that’s close to 30 years old. In 1984, a few years out of art college and working for Disney, Burton made his first live-action short film, about a young boy who screws bolts into his dead dog ’s neck and brings the pooch back to life a la Frankenstein’s monster. It got him fired from the House of Mouse, but it also caught the attention of Paul Reubens, who recruited Burton to direct Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, thus kicking off the most creatively prosperous period of Burton’s professional life. It’s probably no wonder, then, that after the last decade of diminishing inspiration, the director would want to revisit the story that—pun slightly intended—sparked his career in the first place. Or, if you want to be cynical about it, Burton has just taken the next logical step backward in his ongoing devolution from genuine visionary to one-trick magician: He’s now remaking himself. Maybe that’s what he should have been doing all along. Frankenweenie is easily the best thing Burton has done in many years. It is, by no means, a true sign of revitalization—how could it be, really?—but it is a reminder that the world wasn’t wrong for embracing Burton’s darkly cartoonish vision in the late ’80s. It’s not like he went and just made the same movie over again, either: Animated in gorgeous blackand-white stop motion (and shot in thankfully unobtrusive 3-D), the film goes places the original couldn’t, particularly with its creaturefeature climax. If it feels familiar, this time around it’s not because Burton is repeating himself, even though, technically, that’s exactly what he’s doing. By resurrecting one of his earliest works—once deemed “too scary for kids” by Disney, who, funnily enough, bankrolled this remake—he proves how much of an influence he’s had on modern movies. Just a few months ago, Laika released ParaNorman, another stop-motion flick about a preteen outcast obsessed with the macabre and learning to cope with death. It’s impossible to imagine its existence without The Nightmare Before Christmas, and it’s entirely probable that movie wouldn’t exist were it not for Frankenweenie. ParaNorman, as well as 2009’s similarly indebted Coraline, might plumb greater emotional depths; Frankenweenie, now and then, is the simple tale of a boy and his dog. But what it lacks in scope it makes up for with a tight, focused narrative. At 87 minutes, it hardly feels like a short story stretched too long. There are lessons to be learned here— for Burton especially. Hopefully it won’t be 30 years before he tackles his next original idea. PG. MATTHEW SINGER. B SEE IT: Frankenweenie opens Friday at Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

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Free Talk about Trisha Brown’s Artistry Sat, Oct 13, 1pm at PICA, 415 SW 10th

WHITE BIRD “Invariably sensuous and inventive.” The New York Times

prejudice and extreme poverty in the broader community. This documentary is, as it says on the box, a portrait. The unconventional family is portrayed as it is, at its best and worst. But it’s a rough sketch at best, composed mostly of scenes of the children going about their lives, without much of a narrative arc and little insight into Nenya herself. Western audiences with limited knowledge of Ukrainian society will probably leave the cinema with more questions than answers. RUTH BROWN. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, MondayTuesday, Oct. 5-6, 8-9.

Fever Year

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A daunting yearlong tour by musician Andrew Bird is chronicled. Hollywood Theatre. 9:30 pm Saturday, Oct. 6.

Fin de Cinema presents Fantastic Planet and Light Years

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] A double feature of ﬁlms by Rene Laloux featuring live scores from local musicians Jeﬀrey Jerusalem, Onuinu, Hosannas and others. PG. Holocene. 8:30 pm Wednesday, Oct. 3.

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. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Evergreen Parkway.

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[ONE NIGHT ONLY] How many Rafalca jokes can you make in one night? Hollywood Theatre. 6 pm Wednesday, Oct. 3.

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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. PG-13. AARON MESH. Oak Grove, Tigard.

Hotel Transylvania

C- Hotel Transylvania is yet another example of a studio-made animated picture cast as if the audience were expected to play Spot the Celebrity—only this one plays like the bastard love child of Grown Ups and several, much better Pixar ﬁlms. David Spade as the Invisible Man! Kevin James as Frankenstein! Adam Sandler as Dracula! Hold on: Adam Sandler is Count Dracula? It’s an idea even worse in practice than on paper. Imagine the same old, garbled

voice the former SNL great has been retreading for the better part of two decades, but this time with a half-assed Bela Lugosi accent mixed in. The plot, in which Dracula hosts a birthday party for his daughter at his monsters-only hotel, is wafer thin and annoyingly stretched to feature length. A more appropriate game for the audience would be Spot the Pixar Storylines: controlling widowed daddy unable to let go of his child (Finding Nemo); monsters scared of humans (Monsters, Inc.). The filmmakers seemed to think this laziness could be overcome by pacing Hotel Transylvania like an ADHD case on a three-day bender of Walter White’s blue meth. The camera zooms, things fly all over the frame (in worthless 3-D, no less). It’s all very flashy and dull, and so, so forgettable. PG. ERIK MCCLANAHAN. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Tigard.

House at the End of the Street

We preferred its working title, Jennifer Lawrence Wears a TankTop and Screams a Lot. Not screened for critics. PG-13. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Oak Grove, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall.

Iron Sky

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

Kinofest PDX

B Kinofest PDX—a selection of

seven different German films of the past two years—kicks off with Barbara (7:30 pm Friday, Oct. 5), Germany’s submission this year for the Best Foreign Film Oscar. As usual for Germany’s high-profile films of late, it is a somewhat grim interrogation of Germany’s past. Barbara is the third Oscar submission in 10 years about the East German police state. For the record, two prior submissions were about Nazis, two were about past terrorism, and two were about the difficulty of living as a Turkish guestworker. (At Kinofest, indeed, one film is about neo-Nazis and one is about heartwarming crosscultural friendship between a German and a disadvantaged Turkish girl.) For its part, Barbara is an effective and subtle—though also monotone and dreary—account of an East German doctor (Nina Hoss) exiled to a small Baltic town because she’d taken a Western German lover, to whom she plans to escape. Though its accounting of Stasi surveillance is uniformly damning, and though the film flirts with cliché the way a sailor flirts with the sea, the film’s psychology is personal, not schematic. In certain ways it is a spiritual heir to the landmark Divided Heaven of the 1960s: conflicted, anomieriddled, a world of no villains or heroes but rather merely occasional glimpses of decency amid unremitting bleakness. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. See nwfilm. org for a complete schedule.

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[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] A crazed 1982 martial arts flick about two brothers separated at birth, uniting to take on a villain known as Iron Fingers. We’re assuming it ends with an epic thumb war. R. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Oct. 9.

L.A. Confidential

[THREE NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] curtis Hanson’s classic 1997 neo-noir. R. Fifth Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday, 3 pm Sunday, Oct. 5-7.

Liberal Arts

D This needs to stop. I’m talking about this whole film subgenre of sensitive dudes played by sitcom stars who get new leases on life by returning to their hometowns to reconnect with a father figure, then meet a collection of colorful locals—including a precocious, possibly special-needs hot chick—that show them the world is beautiful because, “Hey, we’re all wacky and depressed, but mostly wacky.” Here, How I Met Your Mother’s Josh Radnor is a thirtysomething bookworm who returns to his Ohio alma mater to attend the retirement party of a professor, only to meet a saucy 19-year-old played by Elizabeth Olsen, an irritating manic pixie nightmare with whom he becomes infatuated when she tells him she totally likes improv, books, classical music and frolicking in the grass. Radnor reluctantly returns to court his creepily younger crush, and the two do wacky things like talk about Twilight and lay in the grass some more, until the eventual emotional confrontation (also about Twilight). Radnor, who wrote and directed, is so convinced he’s made a post-college, man-baby take on The Graduate he doesn’t realize his sloppy flick is a minefield of clichés (enlightened stoner, sagelike pixie, suicidal genius). If this doesn’t sound obnoxious enough, consider this: Olsen’s character is named Zibby. AP KRYZA. Living Room Theaters.

Looper

A Brain-bending sci-fi loses its snap when treated like homework, but you won’t really understand Looper unless you prepare by watching a few episodes of Moonlighting. They will prime you to better appreciate the lead Looper performance of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who delivers a precise, slyly parodic mimicry of Bruce Willis circa 1987. The ubiquitous trailers have revealed that Gordon-Levitt plays the same character as Willis, and that he’s been given a makeup job to recall a skinnier baby Bruce, but the previews barely scrape the forgery of mannerisms. Gordon-Levitt has been a regularly mesmeric actor for the last decade, so it’s peculiar that his breakthrough comes from impersonating an icon. But that paradox fits the aims of director Rian Johnson, who used Gordon-Levitt as a teenage Sam Spade in Brick, and with Looper throws 100 years of film noir into a blender. The picture is set in the future—2040, with a brief discursion to 2070—but it is breathlessly in love with movies past. Early buzz is praising the originality, but Johnson has in fact succeeded at repurposing familiar elements in unusually satisfying ways. At various junctures, Looper reminded me vividly of the following antecedents: Point Blank, Donnie Darko, Once Upon a Time in the West, Blade Runner,Chinatown, D.O.A., The Omen, Witness and the anime Akira. Forget neo-noir: This is retro-neo-futurist noir. In resurrecting sights and faces we never thought we’d see afresh, Looper knows what movie lovers always feel: The past is never dead. It’s not even past. And it’s got a gun. R. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Oak Grove, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Tigard.

The Master

A As you might have heard, Paul

Thomas Anderson’s The Master is the film Scientology maybe, sort of doesn’t want you to see. While it makes deliberate allusions to L. Ron Hubbard’s sci-fi pseudo-religion, 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. 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 Joaquin 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. 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 on a variation of repressed-memory therapy. It’s here that Anderson drops in bits of Hubbard’s biography. But as Quell and Dodd become increasingly intertwined, the Scientology allegories fade into the background. Anderson is fascinated by these two unknowable characters, to the point of eschewing traditional narrative just to focus on them. Abetted by grandiose 65mm 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. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, CineMagic, City Center, Fox Tower, St. Johns.

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. Hollywood Theatre.

Occupied Cascadia

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIREcTORS ATTENDING] A documentary on the Northeast Pacific Rim. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Sunday, Oct. 7.

ParaNorman

B+ Norman Babcock sees dead

people. As the portmanteau title of ParaNorman—the second feature from Portland animation house Laika— suggests, he is mostly cool with that. After all, the spooks don’t judge him, unlike the living. A drama geek with an electroshock hairdo, Norman is an easy target for bullying. The only fleshand-blood human who understands him is his estranged uncle, a schizophrenic hobo who insists Norman is the only person capable of stopping the town of Blithe Hollow from incurring the wrath of a witch’s curse. All that probably sounds familiar—if not from the countless other movies about misfits in search of redemption, then from the first Laika picture, 2009’s Coraline. Is ParaNorman as good as its predecessor? No. It doesn’t have the depth of imagination, nor the emotional pull. Although it contains moments of impressive visual pow—it’s animated in remarkable stop-motion— it doesn’t match the barrage of sheer awe that made Coraline such a wondrous experience. As long as we’re measuring the films against each other, though, let it be said: ParaNorman is a lot more fun. It’s a supernatural caper not far removed from an old Scooby Doo episode. It is also much funnier. A streak of sly, subversive humor charges co-director chris Butler’s screenplay. If nothing else, ParaNorman has a healthy sense of mischief. Sometimes, that’s all a film needs. PG. MATTHEW SINGER. Tigard.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

A The truest essence of this film can be stirred up from the angsty sediment in the YouTube comments section for its trailer, most pointedly: “HOLY FUcK I cAN’T HOLD BAcKK MY EMOTIONS AHHHHHH FUcKING YES.” Precisely. This teen movie, like most teen movies, harvests the raw power of adolescent passion in all its sloppy, horny glory to craft a cinematic confection that reflects, interprets and glorifies the

universally shared experience of being a teenager. In this rendition, charlie, a lonely, gazellelike high-school freshman (Logan Lerman), fumbles his way into that rare circle of upperclassmen mature enough to be kind to him but reckless enough to get him wasted. Among his newfound crew of misfit seniors is Sam (Emma Watson), an outcast indie goddess, and Patrick (Ezra Miller), Sam’s histrionic yet lovable half-brother. The trio proceeds to engage in a series of typical adolescent shenanigans and, of course, comes to life-altering realizations like, “We accept the love we think we deserve.” This line would be insufferable were it not delivered by Paul Rudd, who plays the Understanding English Teacher and friend to all weirdos. In fact, a slew of other clichéd and contrived teen-movie moments unrelated to Rudd’s sweater-vested performance somehow manage to eschew their intrinsic cheesiness and sound fresh. Perhaps it’s because, while such flicks typically stick to a certain level of fluff, Wallflower finds a way to come across as deeply, disarmingly sincere. It is wild, hormonal and hyperbolically emotional, a wellcalibrated film incarnation of an actual teenage life. It’s kind of perfect, actually. PG-13. EMILY JENSEN. Fox Tower.

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. 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.

Samsara

A Samsara, the title of the new word-

less, non-narrative documentary from the creators of 1992’s similarly structured Baraka, is a Sanskrit word referencing, more or less, the circle of life. Anyone allergic to New Ageisms will break out in hives. Put aside those aversions, however, and Samsara is, without question, the most visually intoxicating film of year. Shot in gleaming 70 mm by Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson, the movie travels to 25 countries—from hurricane-ravaged New Orleans to East Africa, from Egyptian apartment complexes built in view of the pyramids to a Bangkok

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Pitch Perfect

B Pitch Perfect isn’t pitch perfect. An underdog comedy about competitive collegiate a cappella groups—based, remarkably, on the nonfiction novel of the same name, which focused in part on UO’s all-female group, Divisi— and the cinematic debut from Avenue Q director Jason Moore, the film takes some obvious cues from Bring It On and Glee, but struggles with exactly what it wants to be: A grossout comedy like Bridesmaids? A selfaware meta-comedy like the best bits of Glee? The over-the-top absurdism of Dodgeball? Or a straight-up character-based comedy relying on the individual talents of supporting actors like christopher Mintz-Plasse and Rebel Wilson? More’s the pity, because the source material is such a rich pool of comedic potential, and with some sharper focus and a pointier pitchfork, this could have been one of the best comedies of 2012 (admittedly, it’s a pretty shallow pool this year). As it is, Pitch Perfect is just a very likable little musical comedy, which will nevertheless be disproportionately enjoyable to adults who love the campy, fresh-faced harmonizing of High School Musical and those plucky McKinley kids. The hackneyed plot is tempered by brisk pacing, jokes that—while scattershot— hit more often than miss, surprisingly minimal sap, and the fact that the cast regularly breaks into straight-faced but utterly ludicrous, heavily Auto-Tuned musical numbers. You can forgive quite a few off notes for that much dorky fun. PG-13. RUTH BROWN. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Stadium 11, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

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. Cedar Hills, Clackamas.

Radio Unnameable

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A documentary on DJ Bob Fass and his groundbreaking 1960s New York radio program. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Thursday, Oct. 4.

Resident Evil: Retribution

The fifth movie in the Resident Evil series takes extraordinary zombiekilling machine Alice (Milla 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. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall.

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V/H/S The horror anthology has long been a staple of sleepover parties—the modernday equivalent of sitting around a campfire listening to people tell eerie stories. Trouble is, some stories simply suck. We’ve heard all about the hook hanging from the rearview window. Even the genre’s finest entries—Creepshow, Trick-R-Treat, Tales from the Darkside: The Movie—are inconsistent at best. Along with bloat, V/H/S, the new six-parter launched by horror site Bloody Disgusting, also struggles because it utilizes six largely untested directors. The fact is, some kids are just better at telling scary stories than others. The framework is the tale of a group of thugs hired to break into an old house to find a videotape. Inevitably, they discover a body sitting next to a pile of cassettes. Instead of throwing them in a bag and, you know, getting the fuck out of there, they each decide to sit alone with a decomposing corpse and watch TV. We watch what they do. It isn’t pretty. While united by the tired found-footage trope, the stories presented are of incredibly disparate quality. House of the Devil director Ti West unsurprisingly steals the show with a slow-burner about a couple on a second honeymoon stalked by a knife-brandishing intruder. The series closer, film collective Radio Silence’s “10/31/98,” creatively uses one dude’s costume as a nanny cam (a teddy bear with a camera on its head) to document a satanic-panic nightmare in a house crawling with evil. “Second Honeymoon” and “10/31/98,” though, are diamonds in a very rough sea of motion sickness and contrivance. The most egregious offenders are the Skype-based medical-conspiracy dud “The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Young” and the nearly unwatchable “Tuesday the 17th,” the story of dipshit teens stalked by a digitalized murderer and featuring the worst found-footage performances since One Night in Paris. V/H/S is admirable in its ambition, but it can’t escape its amateurish execution and considerable mean-spiritedness. Worse, unlike its predecessors, the “tape” that binds it all together is simply another contrivance that leads nowhere. In no way are these stories related, except by the fact they were cobbled together by the same editors. It’s a series of campfire stories told by children who are waiting for their turn to talk, rather than working together to weave a collective nightmare. R. AP KRYZA.

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TAKEN 2 strip club full of undulating “ladyboys”—and paints an astounding portrait of human existence. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Fox Tower.

Sleepwalk with Me

A In what can unofficially be con-

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

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Look who’s getting throat-chopped now! Not screened by WW press deadlines. Look for a review at wweek.com. PG-13. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Moreland Theatre, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Tigard, Wilsonville, St. Johns.

Trouble With the Curve

C 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. But in a strange turn, the film slowly morphs from a tale about a hard-bitten old-timer facing the end of his relevance to the story of a bright, young career woman

(Adams) who finally comes to know herself and find love with a boyband singer (Justin Timberlake) while on the road with her dad (Eastwood). 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. 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. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Oak Grove, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall, Tigard.

Vincent Wants to Sea

B [FOUR NIGHTS ONLY] If the

movies have taught us anything, it’s that nothing cures teenage angst like a good, old-fashioned road trip. Troubled relationship with your parents? Road trip. Not able to fit in? Road trip. German film Vincent Wants to Sea takes this tried and true formula and adds a twist: The kids road tripping in this movie escaped from a mental institution. Vincent (Florian David Fitz) is checked into a clinic by his domineering politician dad to treat his Tourette’s, after Vincent’s tics interrupt his mother’s funeral. Vincent meets— and falls in mutual sexual attraction with—a fellow patient, the anorexic Marie (Karoline Herfurth). Comic relief is provided by Vincent’s new roommate, Alex (Johannes Allmayer), who suffers from OCD, the funniest of all mental disorders. They laugh, they learn and they love, as all cinematic road trips go. Vincent Wants to Sea is never entirely certain whether it wants to humanize or mock mental illness, but that doesn’t really matter. As cheesy and predictable as this comingof-age film can be, it works. JOHN LOCANTHI. Clinton Street Theater. 9 pm Friday-Saturday, MondayTuesday, Oct. 5-6, 8-9.

Walls of Sound: A Look Inside the House of Records

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] A documentary about Eugene’s music lovers’ paradise, House of Records. Clinton Street Theater. 8 pm Thursday, Oct. 4.

Won’t Back Down

C- I’m often puzzled by movies like Won’t Back Down. Here’s a story “inspired by actual events” that plays like a two-hour, liveaction equivalent of Rev. Lovejoy’s wife screaming, “Won’t somebody please think of the children?!” Or, to make another Simpsons comparison, this movie is basically Martin Prince. It means well, is full of energy, thinks it should be more popular than it is, and loves going to school, but in the end, it will never be cool. PG. ERIK MCCLANAHAN. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Tigard.

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HERE COMES THE BOOMSTICK: Horror buffs will argue that the moment Bruce Campbell became Bruce Fucking Campbell happened when he fought his own severed, possessed hand in 1987’s Evil Dead II. But the Campbell persona that cult movie aficionados worship today really came into full flower five years later in Army of Darkness. That’s where the iron-chinned adopted son of Jacksonville, Ore., truly evolved into a B-movie Humphrey Bogart, once again stepping into the embattled loafers of iconic demon destroyer Ash Williams and mowing down a horde of medieval skeleton warriors, masticating every ironic one-liner written for him by director Sam Raimi and doing battle with an army of murderous, pint-sized versions of himself. Sure, the film mostly abandoned the horror of its predecessor to cram in more slapstick, but Campbell makes all of it work. Hail to the king, baby. MATTHEW SINGER. Showing at: Laurelhurst. Best paired with: Lucky Lab Stumptown Porter. Also screening: The Shining (Hollywood Theatre), Psycho (Academy).

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Open Sundays till 5pm! ARIES (March 21-April 19): “In a full heart there is room for everything,” said poet Antonio Porchia, “and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.” That’s an important idea for you to meditate on right now, Aries. The universe is conspiring for you to be visited by a tide of revelations about intimacy. And yet you won’t be available to get the full benefit of that tide unless your heart is as full as possible. Wouldn’t you love to be taught more about love and togetherness and collaboration? TAURUS (April 20-May 20): As I turn inward and call forth psychic impressions of what’s ahead for you, I’m seeing mythic symbols like whoopie cushions, rubber chickens, and pools of fake plastic vomit. I’m seeing popcorn shells that are stuck in your teeth and a dog that’s eating your homework and an alarm clock that doesn’t go off when it’s supposed to. But as I push further into the not-too-distant future, exploring the deeper archetypal levels, I’m also tuning into a vision of fireflies in an underground cavern. They’re lighting your way and leading you to a stash of treasure in a dusty corner. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” That’s the opening sentence of Charles Dickens’ bestselling novel A Tale of Two Cities. The author was describing the period of the French Revolution in the late 18th century, but he could just as well have been talking about our time -- or any other time, for that matter. Of course many modern cynics reject the idea that our era is the best of times. They obsess on the idea that ours is the worst of all the worst times that have ever been. When your worried mind is in control of you, you may even think that thought yourself, Gemini. But in accordance with the current astrological omens, I challenge you to be a fiery rebel: Come up with at least five reasons why this is the best of times for you personally. CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life,” said Pablo Picasso. That’s certainly true for me. I can purify my system either by creating art myself or being in the presence of great art. How about you, Cancerian? What kinds of experiences cleanse you of the congested emotions that just naturally build up in all of us? What influences can you draw on to purge the repetitive thoughts that sometimes torment you? How do you go about making your imagination as fresh and free as a warm breeze on a sunny day? I urge you to make a study of all the things that work for you, and then use them to the max in the coming week. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.” So said literary critic Lionel Trilling. Now I’m passing his idea on to you, Leo, just in time for the No-Blaming Season. Would you like to conjure up a surge of good karma for yourself? Then for the next ten days or so, refrain from the urge to find fault. And do your best to politely neutralize that reflex in other people who are sharing your space, even if they love to hate the same political party or idiot fringe that you do. P.S.: For extra credit, engage in speech and activity that are antidotes to the blaming epidemic. (Hint: praise, exaltation, thanks.) VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): One of the reasons platinum is regarded as a precious metal is that it is so infrequently found in the Earth’s crust. A second reason is that there are difficulties in extracting it from the other metals it’s embedded in. You typically need ten tons of ore to obtain one ounce of platinum. That’s a good metaphor for the work you have ahead of you, Virgo. The valuable resource you’re dreaming of is definitely worth your hard work, persistence, and attention to detail. But to procure it, you’ll probably need the equivalent of several tons of those fine qualities. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): While doing research in South America four decades ago, anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss found an indigenous tribe whose people claimed they could see the planet Venus in the daytime. This seemed impossible to him. But he later consulted astronomers who told him that in fact Venus does emit enough light to be visible by day to

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