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On behalf of Portland, let me just say, “You blew it!” [“Risky Business,” WW, Oct. 17, 2012.] What a steaming pile of crapola. First, I am struck by the absolute laziness of this endorsement piece. Basic message—we don’t give a shit. Are you really saying that having Laurie Monnes Anderson’s opponent win and having the [state] Senate become a 15-15 chamber with Ted Ferrioli making major decisions about the future of Oregon is a good plan? Do we really want a Republican with zero relevant experience being in charge of the secretary of state’s office? It’s nice that [Knute Buehler] is possibly moderate on social issues, but last time I checked, the secretary of state had very little to do with abortion, but a lot to do with elections. P.S. Shawn Lindsay got schooled on redistricting, Matt Wand’s big accountability bill does nothing, and Julie Parrish is simply unhinged. Sending these clowns back to Salem is a terrible idea for Portland and the state. But, again, what do you guys care? I’ve been saddened to see The Oregonian take a right-wing turn and become basically irrelevant. Too bad Willamette Week is following its footsteps into irrelevancy. Perhaps you were once an opinion leader in Portland, but no more. —“JC” Thanks for your very thoughtful endorsement of the Library District. For me, it’s not just about supporting the libraries that enrich us all, but to also replace the “race for the bottom” with a clear statement of hope for our collective future; voting yes for the Library District does just that. —“Tom”

When i think “oregon trail,” i think of people barely surviving on meager rations as part of a dehumanizing ordeal. that does make the phrase an appropriate name for our food-stamp program, but i find it hard to believe the department of human services shares my sense of irony. do they? —Julia F. As a freelance writer in the Internet era, I am, of course, rich beyond the dreams of avarice. However, the tattered wretch whom I employ to fish dirty C-notes out of my gold-doubloon-filled swimming pool assures me you’re right: The card that poor folks use to purchase their daily hardtack and suet does bear the “Oregon Trail” name. I don’t think you should read too much into this, however. I’m sure the folks who came up with it just thought “Oregon Trail” was a resonant phrase that (a) contained the word “Oregon” and (b) included a nod to the state’s history. (The 4

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After reading the full article, I felt sad. It is disappointing to read that the best our political process can produce is a serious mayoral candidate who appears to be subjecting himself to self-implosion, a library measure that seems to add additional funding to an already expensive per-capita operation without any substantial and independent oversight, [and] comments about a spendthrift city fire department and a tone-deaf, Taser-happy city police department.... And you wonder why people become disengaged. —“akasaka” Is it too obvious to write in Eileen Brady? [“Dr. Know,” WW, Oct. 17, 2012.] She captured nearly as many votes in the primary as Charlie [Hales] or Jefferson [Smith], and the only dirt they could dig up on her kind of seems irrelevant now given the way things have gone since then. Her views sound pretty refreshing to me when I consider the official alternatives.... I think Eileen is the only write-in candidate who could possibly win. But it will require that she step up and run an active write-in campaign. Come on, Eileen! —“Sattie Clark”

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Observers of the Portland mayor’s race have whined about campaign tactics this year. But running for City Hall is like sipping high tea at the Heathman Hotel compared with the brass-knuckle tactics in the battle for control of the Oregon House. House campaign advertising features unborn babies, scary criminals and smears by association. Democratic advertising links Republicans to tax credit-grubbing fat cats, presidential candidate Mitt Romney and strip joints. Republicans link Democrats to budget-busting public employee unions and Portland mayoral candidate Rep. Jefferson Smith (D-East Portland). Today, the Oregon House is split in a historic 30-30 tie, and control by either party after the Nov. 6 election will determine the fate of Gov. John Kitzhaber’s agenda, including ongoing school and health-care reforms, and a push to rewrite the state’s tax system. The parties’ struggle for both the House and Senate is always fraught, but the tie in the House and other factors have made the 2012 races more fierce—and expensive— than usual.

And the battle is centered in the suburbs of Portland, where five freshman Republicans are fighting to survive in districts with a Democratic edge in voter registration. Voters from Hillsboro to Happy Valley, and from Tualatin to Fairview are seeing mailers and TV spots that rip one candidate or the other. “We’re seeing scurrilous tactics,” says veteran lobbyist Len Bergstein. The intensity of the campaigns signal that the stakes are enormous. The party that holds a majority names the speaker—likely to be Rep. Tina Kotek (D -North Portland) if Democrats succeed, or Rep. Bruce Hanna (R-Roseburg) if Republicans triumph. (Last session, Hanna shared the speaker’s gavel with Rep. Arnie Roblan, a Coos Bay Democrat, who is running for a Senate seat this year.) The speaker names committee chairs, who decide what bills get heard, and controls the flow of bills. And any tax measure has to originate in the House—giving the speaker outsized influence over what course tax reform might take. Both caucuses are spending money at a record pace. The House Democratic caucus has already eclipsed the $2 million it spent in 2010. Republicans have also topped the $1.3 million they spent that year, when they picked up six seats. Republicans are trying to get an edge by bringing up a 2009 measure, House Bill 3508, which shortened prison sentences for some criminals. Democrats who pushed the measure through say the bill helped trim

prison spending at a time when the state’s revenues were falling dramatically. But that explanation gets glossed over in campaign attacks aimed at portraying Democrats as soft on crime. “Republicans are making a lot of hay on the 3508 vote,” says GOP political consultant Rob Kremer. “It’s very effective.” For their part, Democrats are first making sure voters know the Republicans are Republicans—particularly in the closely contested metro-area districts where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans. To make matters worse for the Republican incumbents, lawmakers redrew districts last year (as they are required to do every decade). In two key districts, the result left GOP rookies with fewer Republican voters. That especially matters in a presidential election year: In the past two presidential contests, turnout has been 15 percentage points higher than in a midterm election year, a phenomenon Democrats think will help them. Blaming the GOP for inadequate school funding and for pushing tax breaks for corporations has been the Democratic approach. “I don’t think you have to work so hard

to emphasize how the incumbents haven’t done much to fund education,” says Jared Mason-Gere, a spokesman for the House Democrats. “For us, it’s all about jobs and education this time.” Republicans handed Democrats an especially potent weapon earlier this year. Seven GOP House members—including two metro-area first-termers—hit a strip club during a three-day golfing vacation to Palm Springs in January. One vulnerable incumbent who went on the outing, Rep. Patrick Sheehan (R-Clackamas), is depicted in an independent group’s TV ads with his eyes popping out like one of Tex Avery’s cartoon wolves as he patronizes a strip club. Bergstein, who has seen his share of rough campaign seasons, says the attack ads will have some effect on voters’ opinions. But, he says, in legislative races, winners are often decided by more traditional methods. “What it’s really going to come down to on Election Day,” Bergstein says, “is blocking and tackling—who can get their voters out.” cont. on page 8 Willamette Week OCTOBER 24, 2012 wweek.com

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The Oregon House stands at a 30-30 tie between Republicans and Democrats. But Democrats see a chance to take control in this election by targeting five incumbent GOP freshman legislators and one open seat in the Portland area. Both political parties are zinging negative ads, as are outside organizations, such as Oregon Right to Life, and independent expenditure groups. In a couple of cases, redistricting has helped the Democrats’ chances. Here are the races most likely to decide control of the House:

HOUSE DISTRICT 29 (HILLSBORO, FOREST GROVE AND CORNELIUS)

Oregon Right to Life papered the district with mailers featuring its old standby, pictures of an unborn fetus, to highlight the pro-choice position of Democrat Ben Unger. GOP Rep. Katie Eyre, an accountant, hired a Texas campaign consultant who’s digging his spurs into Unger, himself a political consultant, accusing him of being a carpetbagger who’s never held a real job. Republicans sent Unger (and voters) a “happy anniversary card,” noting it had been a year since Unger rented an apartment and moved back into the district. (He actually grew up there.)

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HOUSE DISTRICT 37

Democrats have hammered GOP Rep. Shawn Lindsay, an intellectual-property lawyer, for traveling to China on the public dime (so did Democratic lawmakers) and for chairing Mitt Romney’s statewide campaign (no Dems did that). Lindsay’s opponent, retired college professor Joe Gallegos, has never run before and therefore doesn’t have many easily exploited vulnerabilities.

Republicans have a target-rich opponent in Democrat Carl Hosticka, who seeks to unseat ﬁrst-term Rep. Julie Parrish. Hosticka served in the House six terms representing Eugene and spent the past 12 years as a councilor for Metro— which might as well be the Taliban in parts of this district. Democrats have blasted Parrish for her support of online charter schools and for a bizarre robo-calling campaign aimed at inactive voters.

(HILLSBORO AND NORTH PLAINS)

Democrats’ registration advantage: 6 points. Change since 2010: Up 1.

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Democrats’ registration advantage: 1 point. Change since 2010: None

Democrats’ registration advantage: 7 points. Change since 2010: Down 1.

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LINDSAY (R)

Raised: $421,000 Cash on hand: $110,000

GALLEGOS (D)

Raised: $416,000 Cash on hand: $72,000

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PARRISH (R)

Raised: $321,000 Cash on hand: $31,000

HOSTICKA (D)

Raised: $412,000 Cash on hand: $74,000

HOUSE DISTRICT 51

(TROUTDALE, WOOD VILLAGE AND FAIRVIEW)

(CLACKAMAS AND PARTS OF HAPPY VALLEY)

Republicans have smacked Democratic candidate Brent Barton for supporting a 2009 bill to shorten some prison sentences. They also tagged him as soft on crime for continuing to support mayoral candidate Jeﬀerson Smith after reports Smith punched a woman 19 years ago. Democrats have pilloried Barton’s opponent, building contractor Steve Newgard, for failing to pay his property taxes on time. “District 40 might be the nastiest race,” says House Republicans spokesman Nick Smith.

With a big registration edge, Democrats should own this seat. Dems have noted that ﬁrst-term incumbent Matt Wand (R-Troutdale) took big checks from the banking industry and voted for tax cuts for corporations and millionaires. Republicans have called challenger Chris Gorsek soft on crime and weak on school funding—despite his work experience as a former cop and current instructor at Mt. Hood Community College.

Rep. Pat Sheehan was one of seven GOP members who made a highly publicized January visit to a California strip joint—as an eye-popping TV ad paid for by unknown donors through independent expenditures reminds voters. Sheehan’s opponent, ﬁrst-time candidate Shemia Fagan, is feeling the heat from Oregon Right to Life, which, as in the House District 29 race, delivered mailers with pictures of fetuses to attack Fagan for her support of women’s reproductive rights.

Democrats’ registration advantage: 8 points. Change since 2010: Down 9.

Democrats’ registration advantage: 14 points. Change since 2010: Down 1.

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Raised: $324,000 Cash on hand: $40,000

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Raised: $368,000 Cash on hand: $37,000

Raised: $530,000 Cash on hand: $135,000

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Raised: $316,000 Cash on hand: $37,000

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Charlie Hales says he’s crossed paths with the Portland police during his campaign for mayor—and he hasn’t always liked what he’s seen. He talks of a recent weapons stop he witnessed at Southeast 162nd Avenue and Stark Street where six cop cars responded to one “kid with a gun.” With such a heavy response by police, Hales says, “questions come up.” Hales also tells a story about walking in Holladay Park with neighborhood advocates who were trying to bring a positive on-the-ground presence. Hales watched a patrol car drive onto the park’s walkway “at speed,” he says, “scattering pedestrians and families.” “What the hell?” Hales says. “What’s going on here?” Hales, who’s assumed the role of frontrunner in the mayor’s race, has made challenging the Portland Police Bureau’s status quo a recurring part of his stump speech, even at the risk of second-guessing what officers were doing in specific—even dangerous—situations. It’s a provocative stance for a mayoral candidate hoping to oversee the police and push them toward community policing. His opponent, state Rep. Jefferson Smith (D-East Portland), has also talked about connecting the police more closely to citizens. His proposals are more detailed than Hales’, but not as far-reaching. Portland Police Association president Daryl Turner bristles at Hales’ anecdotes. “Sometimes citizens see officers doing things and they don’t know the reason why,” Turner says. “They come to conclusions based on what they see, rather than giving the officer the benefit of the doubt.” Hales says Portland’s community policing reached its zenith under former Chief

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POLICING THE POLICE Charles Moose, who ran the bureau from 1993 to 1999. Since then, the bureau has struggled with its image as high-profile shootings and excessive-force cases have mounted. The U.S. Department of Justice last month criticized the bureau’s “pattern and practice” of excessive force against the mentally ill. Smith and Hales have largely supported the reforms called for by the DOJ. While Hales lauds some officers for their close ties to the neighborhoods they serve, he says most city dwellers don’t view the police as an open and inviting presence. “We have room for improvement there, to say the least,” he says. Smith had the police union’s endorsement until Oct. 11, when the group yanked its support following reports that Smith hadn’t told the truth about a 1993 misdemeanor assault charge for striking a woman at a college party. Smith says he won’t rely on more foot patrols— often a key component of community policing—but rather more comprehensive communitybased reform. He says the city can improve its training at a new facility (approved by the City Council in March); create a volunteer MAX line watch; and form partnerships with nonprofits—reforms Smith says can be done “for a relatively low price point.” In an organization that often makes major changes as quickly as a tree leaks sap, Hales says the push for community policing will have to come from the top— the mayor and the police chief. Chief Mike Reese nearly ran for mayor last fall, only to back off in the wake of the chaos stemming from shutting down the Occupy Portland camps. Hales won’t say if he will insist on a new chief. “I want to give Chief Reese every opportunity to succeed,” he says. When asked if that sounds like Reese is on probation, Hales pauses and adds, “Aren’t we all?” But Hales’ choice of advisers is telling:

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He tops his list with former Chief Rosie Sizer, whom Reese replaced after Mayor Sam Adams fired her in 2010 for criticizing his police budget. Sizer, who now lives in Bend, couldn’t be reached for comment. Smith says he won’t discuss replacing Reese. He says the police chief ’s job has seen too much turnover: four chiefs in the past 10 years. “I’m not too hasty in ousting a chief who has the ability and commitment to address the challenges, even if it takes more than a year,” Smith says. (Reese declined to comment for this story.) Turner, the union president, says Hales’ talk about community policing is just a “political buzzword” for “old-school” tactics police have practiced for decades. He says budget cuts have made those efforts less effective, and the city needs to increase police staffing by 25 percent.

“It’s not reinventing the wheel,” Turner says. Hales has yet to explain how he will pay for a shift in policing strategy that will require a more labor-intensive approach and more money. He hasn’t said whether he’d spend more on police or find savings in the bureau’s $167 million budget. Vancouver, Wash., created a neighborhood police officer program about five years ago. Neighborhoods loved the change, but police cut their property crimes unit to pay for it. Still, cities such as Los Angeles, Minneapolis and Boston have won awards from the U.S. Department of Justice for their community policing programs. “It starts with who we hire, and how we train and how we assign work,” Hales says, “and what’s considered prestigious in the bureau.”

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FEDS SEEING RED: Casa Diablo manager Johnny Zukle and his “bloody” money (above).

BLOOD MONEY A PORTLAND STRIP CLUB HANDS OUT RED-STAINED $2 BILLS, DESPITE WARNINGS FROM THE FEDS TO STOP. BY MA RY EMILY O’ HA R A

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The manager at the McDonald’s on Northwest Yeon Avenue glanced at the money in the customer’s hand, a $2 bill that looked as if its edges had been dipped in blood. He grew tense, shook his head and turned away. “Oh, no,” he says. “We’re not allowed to accept those.” McDonald’s employees had seen the mystery money before—crimson-stained, smeared, always $2 bills—as have food carts, bars, retail stores and other businesses across the Portland area. The bills have amused some people and alarmed others, who aren’t sure if the stains come from real blood, if the cash is counterfeit, or if the bills were marked by an exploding dye pack during a bank robbery gone wrong. Thousands of these tainted bills are in circulation around the city, but their source is no longer a mystery: They’re a marketing gimmick for Casa Diablo, a Northwest Portland strip club that is taking U.S. currency and smearing it with blood-red ink. Casa Diablo has made headlines in Portland for its vegan menu and its successful battle against local opponents to open a second club on Southeast McLoughlin Boulevard. Johnny Zukle, the club’s manager, says he’s the one red-inking the bills—which are legal tender—to suggest they’re stained with blood. He says he wants the strip joint to remind patrons of the vampire-infested cantina in the 1996 Robert Rodriguez film, From Dusk Till Dawn. “People see these,” Zukle tells WW, “and say, ‘Look, it’s a Casa Diablo bill.’” But the feds have taken a dim view of Zukle’s actions: It’s against federal law to deface U.S. currency with the intent to make it unusable. WW has learned Zukle and Casa Diablo are now under investigation by the Secret Service, the enforcement branch of the U.S. Treasury. Jon Dalton, resident agent in the Secret Service’s Portland office, tells WW the fact the bills are being rejected show Casa Diablo’s inking of the 12

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money violates federal law. Dalton says his office has told Casa Diablo three times to stop handing out the tainted bills. He also says his office has prepared a cease and desist order and is consulting with federal prosecutors about criminal charges. (WW has also learned the FBI paid the bar a visit in February.) But despite these warnings, Casa Diablo keeps doling out the blood-red money. A WW reporter last week was still able to get a stack of the $2 bills from the bar. Casa Diablo uses $2 bills to encourage bigger tips for its dancers. Zukle says he orders the $2 bills in bulk from his bank, Wells Fargo, then stains them with red ink. He won’t say exactly how he does it. “Trade secret,” he says. Zukle says what he’s doing to money is protected as free speech, and he compares it to “Stamp Stampede,” a campaign launched this year by ice cream kingpin Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s, to put political messages on currency. But Zukle says thanks to pressure from the feds, he will phase out his inking of bills. Zukle started dyeing the bills in February. Casa Diablo dancers say Zukle wants to keep the currency circulating inside the bar and only give change in the $2 bills. “Either customers love them or they say they don’t know what to do with them,” says Casa Diablo dancer Erin Lee McCallum. “Sometimes they’ll just dump all the twos on my stage.” U.S. Bank spokeswoman Teri Charest says her bank followed Federal Reserve orders this summer to stop accepting the bills, but was told a week ago that it’s OK to take them again. Wells Fargo spokesman Tom Unger says his bank’s area branches collect 600 of the bills each day, and then ship them to the Federal Reserve Bank to be destroyed. “We see them as unfit currency, so we don’t put them back into circulation,” Unger says. Employees at other bars and taverns say they’re getting stuck with the dyed currency, unable to spend it or turn it in to their bank. Amy Snyder, a bartender at Portland strip clubs Sassy’s, Lucky Devil and Devils Point, says she’s got $160 worth of the bills she received as tips, and her bars no longer accept them. Snyder says the bills force people to go back to Casa Diablo. “The $2 bills may be great advertising and a great moneymaking scheme for the strippers and employees of Casa Diablo,” Snyder says in a Facebook message to WW, “but for other bars in the industry, it may as well be Monopoly money.”

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Portland Timbers fans have learned one thing for certain about the team’s owner, Merritt Paulson: He’s not afraid to gamble. He launched the team’s freshman season in Major League Soccer last year with a coach, John Spencer, who had never run a team before, and with a high-profile striker, Kenny Cooper, who was supposed to bag plenty of goals. This year, Paulson went all in on Scottish star Kris Boyd, a $1.5 million-a-year forward with great goal-scoring promise. So far, they’ve been lousy bets. Paulson fired Spencer midseason this year after a terrible start and a 1-0 tournament loss to an amateur team. Cooper—whom the team dismissed as soft after a disappointing 2011 season—was traded to the New York Red Bulls, where he’s now tied with L.A. Galaxy striker Robbie Keane as MLS’s No. 3 scorer. And Boyd? The forward was benched after Spencer’s firing, having scored too few goals (seven) and played too many games in which he looked as if he were out for a jog. The Timbers, with one of the league’s worst records (8-169, 33 points), end this miserable season with a home game Saturday, Oct. 27, against the league’s top team, the San Jose Earthquakes. Portland scraped together its only road win of the season in Vancouver, B.C., on Oct. 21 to bring home the Cascadia Cup, but it’s a small consolation. Next season, Paulson is rolling the dice again, on a charismatic young gun as head coach: 37-year-old Caleb Porter. Porter is a considerable catch. His inspired career as head coach of the University of Akron men’s soccer team gives Timbers fans reason for optimism. Porter’s winning percentage of .825 with the Zips is the highest of any current Division I college coach. Paulson called him “the best young coaching mind in the country.” “He treats every player like they’re his sons,” says Timbers midfielder Darlington Nagbe, who was a standout under Porter at the University of Akron. “He treats every player the same and tries to motivate them and get the best out of them.” Paulson’s gamble comes in hoping a college coach (even a very good one) can make the switch to the pros. ESPN commentator Jeff Carlisle says MLS and college soccer simply inhabit different worlds. “The players are older, they’re more experienced, they’re going to give more pushback,” he says. “The egos are bigger, and some of the players make more money than the coach does.” CONT. on page 16

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Through representatives at Akron, Porter declined to be interviewed for this story. But his hiring signals a shift to a faster game that fans have seen hints of under Gavin Wilkinson, the team’s general manager, who’s served as interim coach after Spencer’s firing. Porter was a star midfielder for Indiana University, but his MLS career was sidelined in 2000 by knee injuries after playing just 11 games with the Tampa Bay Mutiny and San Jose Clash; he returned to his alma mater as an assistant coach before signing on with Akron as head coach for the 2006 season. Within a year, Porter was named Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year, and he brought home a national championship in 2010. But the transition from college directly to an MLS head coaching job is rare; only four coaches have done it, and all were considerably more seasoned than Porter. Only Schellas Hyndman of FC Dallas has made the switch in the past decade. The Washington Post reported the Timbers had interviewed Colin Clarke and Preki Radosavljevic, who coached MLS teams that reached the playoffs in consecutive years. Porter’s one stint with professional players was not encouraging. As head coach of the U.S. under-23 national team hoping to qualify for the 2012 Olympics in London, Porter drew criticism after his heavily favored squad didn’t even make it out of the first round of competition. “In that tournament, he showed some tactical inflexibility,” says ESPN’s Carlisle. “He was coaching the team that he wanted to have rather than the team he actually had.” And that could very well be the problem in Portland, where even the best players have turned in inconsistent performances this season. Wilkinson remains confident, however. “I think there’s a big risk involved in hiring any coach,” he tells WW, “but I think in talking to him, we knew he was the guy. He lives the sport, day in, day out. He’s the real thing.” Spencer preferred a direct game in which players brought the ball up the sides of the field and quickly unloaded long crosses across the goal box. Porter’s style is almost diametrically opposed to this, favoring lots of quick passes. “Akron typically possesses the ball and is

“ ElsEwhErE you sEE tallEr, slowEr, biggEr playErs. portEr rEcruits fastEr, smallEr, morE tEchnical.” —Michael Beaven constantly on the attack,” says Michael Beaven, a sportswriter for the Akron Beacon Journal. “It’s usually in the opponents’ end of the field.” “You look at Akron’s soccer team,” Beaven adds, “there’s a lot of speed and a lot of guys who are shorter and quick. Elsewhere you see taller, slower, bigger players. Porter recruits faster, smaller, more technical [players].” Wilkinson hinted the Timbers will be making adjustments to fit Porter’s coaching style. “Last year, we were looking for the most talented players that we could get,” Wilkinson says. “I think this year we’re looking at certain positions, certain capacities, certain gaps that need filling in.” But Wilkinson says the current player roster is “almost there” in terms of fitting Porter’s style of play. Kevin Alexander, of the soccer blog Slide Rule Pass, disagrees. “The groundwork is being laid, as you can see, by Gavin Wilkinson’s adopting [Caleb Porter’s] style during his interim stewardship,” Alexander says, “but what is also clear are the deficiencies in the squad with regard to playing that way.” That means the Oct. 27 game against San Jose could be the last look fans get at key players in Timbers jerseys. Wilkinson has already shown a willingness to trade popular players when he swapped goalkeepers with the Montreal Impact, sending away Troy Perkins in exchange for Donovan Ricketts. According to Stumptown Footy’s Ryan Gates, familiar faces don’t fit very well with Porter’s game—including defender Kosuke Kimura, forward Sal Zizzo and the team’s captain, midfielder Jack Jewsbury. “I think Captain Jack will get left out,” Gates says. “He’s a good defensive midfielder, but too slow for that style.” As for the team’s marquee player, Kris Boyd? “If they’re going to play the way Porter’s playing,” Gates says, “I don’t see Boyd staying at all.”

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Like most major cities, Portland puts the cost of many of its public essentials—sewers, parks and public safety—on the credit card. The bonds Portland has sold also paid for urban renewal projects, the streetcar and the remodel of PGE Park—now Jeld-Wen Field. In all, the city has piled up $3.2 billion in bonded debt—or about $5,457 per person— putting us midrange on the West Coast and among other comparable cities. Nearly half the debt comes from the “Big Pipe” combined sewer overflow project; that borrowing will climb by $700 million by 2017. The debt figure doesn’t include the $2.7 billion unfunded liability for the city’s pay-as-you-go Fire and Police Disability and Retirement system. That giant IOU adds about $4,500 to our percapita debt. TROY BRYNELSON.

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Yes. “We share some reservations about the mechanism for the arts measure. The larger question here is one of the reasons that I’m running. We have to round the corner from the permanent emergency that we’re in in public schools and a lot of other things, and the creaky tax structure we have. I want to work with the governor and his plan to open up the whole question of our tax structure, but we still have to live in the present.... I’ll defend Jeff on this one. Neither of us, I suspect, would have crafted this mechanism to fund the arts, but as voters and as leaders we’re given the opportunity to say ‘yea’ or ‘nay’ on it, and I say ‘yea.’ I believe in the agenda.”

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Yes. “I’ll vote yes with a love-hate relationship with the bill. I’ll vote yes—why?—because we should be investing in arts and arts education. It’s really linked to our distinctive strengths. The reason why it’s not a slam-dunk vote for me is I roughly hate the financing—I don’t hate it. I do not prefer the financing mechanism…. We are spending less per capita on arts than competitor cities like Denver and Seattle. If we want to have an economic plan that fits our distinctive strengths, it’s not all about just trying to be the cheapest date, but actually a better value proposition. The arts and the knowledge economy have a critical linkage.”

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Portland voters will decide Nov. 6 whether to impose an annual $35-per-adult tax on city residents (with exemptions for those living in poverty) to help fund more arts teachers in Portland Public Schools and provide taxpayer support to private nonprofit arts organizations. Measure 26-146 was sent to voters by the City Council in June after years of debate how Portland could increase its public financing of the arts. We asked the mayoral candidates how they will vote on the measure. BRENT WALTH.

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THE AMOUNT OF YARD DEBRIS AND FOOD SCRAPS COLLECTED HAS INCREASED 3X Three times more compost for fertilizing yards and gardens.

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President: BARACK OBAMA (D)

U.S. House, 1st District: SUZANNE BONAMICI (D) U.S. House, 3rd District: EARL BLUMENAUER (D) U.S. House, 5th District: KURT SCHRADER (D)

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OREGON SENATE

Secretary of State: KNUTE BUEHLER (R)

District 14 (Beaverton and Sylvan): MARK HASS (D)

State Treasurer: TED WHEELER (D) Labor Commissioner: BRAD AVAKIAN (NP) Oregon Supreme Court: RICHARD BALDWIN (NP) Oregon Court of Appeals: TIM VOLPERT (NP) Measures 77 and 78—Disaster Emergency Powers: YES Measure 79—Real Estate Transfer Tax: NO Measure 80—Legalizes Marijuana: YES Measure 81—Bans Gillnetting: NO Measures 82 and 83—Establishes a Private Casino: NO

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Measure 84—Repeals Estate Taxes: NO Measure 85—Repeals the Corporate “Kicker”: YES

OREGON HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES District 26 (Wilsonville and Sherwood): JOHN DAVIS (R)

District 40 (Oregon City and Gladstone): BRENT BARTON (D)

District 27 (Beaverton and Southwest Portland): TOBIAS READ (D)

District 41 (Sellwood, Eastmoreland, Milwaukie and Oak Grove): CAROLYN TOMEI (D)

District 28 (Aloha and portions of Beaverton): JEFF BARKER (D) District 29 (Hillsboro, Cornelius and Forest Grove): KATIE EYRE (R) District 30 (Hillsboro and North Plains): SHAWN LINDSAY (R) District 33 (Northwest Portland and Cedar Mill): MITCH GREENLICK (D) District 35 (Tigard, Metzger and Garden Home): MARGARET DOHERTY (D) District 36 (Multnomah Village and Southwest Portland): JENNIFER WILLIAMSON (D) District 37 (West Linn and Tualatin): JULIE PARRISH (R) District 38 (Lake Oswego and Southwest Portland): CHRIS GARRETT (D)

District 44 (North and Northeast Portland): TINA KOTEK (D) District 45 (Northeast Portland): MICHAEL DEMBROW (D) District 47 (Parkrose and outer East Portland): JESSICA VEGA PEDERSON (D) District 48 (outer Southeast Portland and Happy Valley): JEFF REARDON (D) District 49 (Troutdale, Fairview and Wood Village): MATT WAND (R) District 50 (Gresham): GREG MATTHEWS (D) District 51 (Clackamas, Happy Valley, Damascus and portions of Southeast Portland): SHEMIA FAGAN (D) District 52 (Hood River, Corbett and Sandy): MARK JOHNSON (R)

CITY OF PORTLAND

MULTNOMAH COUNTY

Mayor: CHARLIE HALES (NP)

Measure 26-143—Creates a Multnomah County Library Tax District: YES

City Council, Position No. 1: AMANDA FRITZ (NP) Measure 26-145—Reforms the Portland Fire and Police Disability and Retirement Fund: YES Measure 26-146—City of Portland Arts Tax: NO

PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS Measure 26-144—Portland Public Schools Bond: YES

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SCOOP THE CURE FOR ROMNESIA IS AN OBAMANIA RELAPSE. CIAO, MUFFULETTA: Purveyor of some of the city’s best sandwiches, Eastmoreland Market & Kitchen is shuttering after nearly ﬁve years of business. Co-owner Colleen Mendola told Scoop that landlord Carol Christensen forced the closure. “She gave us an eviction notice on Oct. 6 because we couldn’t initially buy the building,” Mendola says, claiming that Christensen wanted $470,000 for the storefront, located on Southeast Knapp Street in the tony Eastmoreland neighborhood. That location has housed a market since 1924, and Christensen and her late husband, Gary, ran an incarnation from 1984 to 2007. Mendola says the grocery has until Nov. 6 to vacate the building, but said she and her husband, Patrick, hope to liquidate as quickly as possible. Attempts to reach Christensen were unsuccessful. The market will be missed— Scoop has fond memories of after-school ice-cream bars at the “little store,” and the Mendolas made a mean Cubano.

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CONVERGE [MUSIC] It seems like Converge was working toward this moment: the point when it would unleash All We Love We Leave Behind, its eighth album, an absolute masterpiece of punk-metal angst and fury on the world. The quartet snaps together into a Voltron-like beast that lumbers and blasts forward, leaving smoldering rubble in its wake. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 7:30 pm. $15. All ages.

The first encyclopedia was written by Pliny the Elder. The Roman statesman died in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which destroyed Pompeii in a blast with 100,000 times the thermal energy of the Hiroshima bombing. The city of Hiroshima made the oleander its official flower because it was the first in bloom after the bomb. I learned all this in minutes thanks to Wikipedia, an information source more or less taken for granted except when site co-founder Jimmy Wales stares the Internet down during one of his creepy pledge drives.

“Occasionally, Wikipedia gets stuff wrong, or an important topic doesn’t appear in its millions of virtual pages,” the library says. “You can help to change this!” But beware: You may end up facing a cold, black monolith of idiocracy. Squabbles frequently break out on the site, resolved only after a laborious consensus-building process among unpaid, untrained and often underage editors who earn titles like “Most Perfect Tutnum” and “Lord High Togneme Vicarus.” Thankfully, there is a loophole that can short-circuit all this, forever determining whether Speedy Gonzales’ accent is “inauthentic” or “stereotypical” without the intervention of an Illustrious Looshpah. Wikipedians are prohibited from doing original research, so it falls to them to buttress any statement, no matter how trivial, by citing a reliable published source. Mainstream publications staffed by professional informationgatherers—such as this one—are dealt the trump cards. In honor of the Multnomah County Library’s Edit-athon, we’d like to fulﬁll our solemn journalistic obligation to quell longstanding Wikipedia squabbles. Here, then, are ﬁve facts that are important to at least two lonely humans willfully braving the harsh winds blowing across the horizonless range of the Wikiworld.

THURSDAY OCT. 25 PORTLAND VS. SEATTLE BARTENDERS SOCCER [SPORTS] Portland’s ﬁnest bartenders take on Seattle’s ﬁnest bartenders in a battle of...soccer? Hey, they can’t be any worse than the Timbers, and there will be breakfast, punch and beer. Portland Futsal, 3401 SE 17th Ave. 11 am. Free.

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Freddie Mercury’s ethnicity would be best described as Italian.[1] Pwned is an obscure government bureaucracy. It should always be pronounced “Puh-WAH-ned.[2] Fox Mulder wasn’t an alien.[3] Cher is not a gay icon.[4] The fact that Paul Ryan was voted “Biggest Brown Noser” in his high-school class is extremely important and relevant in the 2012 presidential election.[5]

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1. According to Joshua, a Domino’s Pizza delivery guy. (Freddie Mercury was born in Zanzibar to parents of Parsi origin. He grew up in India and then moved to London.) 2. Says Dorothy, clerk at a New Age bookstore. 3. According to a guy sitting in the rain on a bench in Tom McCall Waterfront Park smoking marijuana at 9:30 am. “No, man, but she was. [Dana Scully] was an alien.” 4. Says Nate, who works at the Plaid Pantry on the corner of Southeast Gladstone Street and Cesar Chavez Boulevard. 5. According to the author of this piece, MARTIN CIZMAR. GO: The Multnomah County Library’s Wikipedia Edit-athon is at the Central Library, ww801 SW 10th Ave., 988-5123, multcolib.org, on Saturday, Oct. 27. 2-4 pm.

FRIDAY OCT. 26 FALL OF THE BAND [THEATER] Forget The Real World: Portland. Action/Adventure Theatre stages a new, semi-improvised serial comedy about a Portland-based band whose lead singer decides to quit. Action/Adventure Theatre, 1050 SE Clinton St., actionadventure. org. $12.

SATURDAY OCT. 27 PORTLAND EROTIC BALL [SEX & MUSIC] When you’re mingling with a sea of generally horny folks who have gathered together to be generally horny, you’d damn sure better have a solid soundtrack. Once again, the Portland Erotic Ball’s got a schizo lineup—featuring Copacabana throwback Pepe & the Bottle Blondes and synth-rockers the Slants—that should get juices ﬂowing. If not, that dwarf with the French tickler has got it on lock. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm. $39-$69. 21+.

TUESDAY OCT. 30 HISTORY OF AMUSEMENT PARKS IN OREGON [HISTORY] In 1928, Hayden Island played home to the largest amusement park in the nation. Spread over 123 acres, “Portland’s Million Dollar Playground” boasted a roller coaster, bumper cars and swimming pools. Now we’re stuck with Oaks Park. Learn what went wrong. McMenamins Edgeﬁeld, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale. 6:30 pm. Free. MAYA ANGELOU VS. THE OATMEAL [LITERATURE/MEME] World treasure Maya Angelou speaks at the Schnitz just as Web comic Matthew Inman steps up to “read” at Powell’s. Angelou wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; Inman is touring in support of his book How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You. Angelou speaks at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway. 7:30 pm. $41.50-$110. Inman appears at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St. 7:30 pm. Free. Willamette Week OCTOBER 24, 2012 wweek.com

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CREEPER CRAWL WE HUNG OUT IN DARK ROOMS WITH TENSE TEENAGERS. THEY SCREAMED. Even the air inside Butteville Manor is creepy. The 160-year-old mansion stinks of age, decay and drywall mud—a dank cocktail that clings to your hoodie long after you’ve made it past the gauntlet of spooks lurking inside. It’s hard to imagine any better setting for the haunted houses that spring up this time of year than this 4,000-square-foot farmhouse outside the town of Donald, Ore., pop. 979. Neighborhood kids have long spun lore around it, says owner Christie Kelly. “I had one girl come up and ask me to take photos of it for ‘a school project,’” she says. “She said her friends really wanted to see inside what they called ‘the creepy old house.’” The big manor on the edge of town was built by one of Oregon’s original homesteaders and sits on land deeded to hop farmer G.A. Cone through the Donation Land Claim Act of 1850. Kelly’s family has owned it for a century, though no one has lived in it for 20 years, after her grandparents gave up trying to care for it and moved into a manufactured home next door. So Kelly—who is renovating the house with the hope of one day living in it—decided to make it into a Halloween attraction. She’d learned the business while managing a party store in the center of the state, though the show she’s crafted here is quite different. “A lot of the larger haunts are all the same...all animatronic,” she says. “With this house I wanted to use actors, and I think using actors is more effective.” Butteville Manor, which has a parking lot large enough for only a few cars and is staffed by a disproportionate number of elementary-aged children made up in bloodstained hospital gowns, may leave you disquieted on the 40-minute drive back to Portland. I was impressed from the moment Kelly’s cousin, playing a deranged nurse, stained my hand with a glowing streak of fluid from a chalice, whispering a warning: “Don’t let the doctor see the mark.” What happens if the doctor, who wanders the halls calling for you, sees the green glow? You’ll have to find out for yourself—or test your nerve at one of the other area haunts we’ve reviewed here. MARTIN CIZMAR.

OTHER HALLOWEEN EVENTS Halloween Hunt

Because Portland never stops scavenger hunting, even on Halloween. This night-time hunt is for teams of two to six—in costume, natch—working by torchlight. First place is $500. 7 pm Saturday, Oct. 27. $50 per team. pdxhunt.com for more info.

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spooky little girl: Butteville Manor is a very old house haunted by young actors.

SCREAM PORTLAND

A few inches off I-5, Scream Portland sits in a desolate field next to Portland International Raceway. An unfocused jumble of canvas-roofed plywood shacks, attractions include a haunted gold mine crawling with animatronic tarantulas and a “Twisted Circus” that’s a mess of redand-white-striped curtains, strobe lights and house music, where a clown asked if I wanted to have a dance party and a bearded woman proposed marriage. A soggy day drew a subdued crowd: most under 30, plenty of hand-holding couples, mobs of high-school kids poorly equipped for the rain. People dashed from haunt to haunt, their shrieks due more to the chilly downpour than to the actors paid to scare them. REBECCA JACOBSON. 1940 N Victory Blvd., 360-258-1782, screampdx.com. $8-$40.

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There’s some depressing real-life horror associated with this haunt on a country road outside the burg of Donald: Part of the proceeds are going to Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in memory of Kacy Sue Lunsford Duda, daughter of Michael Duda, who runs the haunt with owner Christie Kelly. Kacy Sue, 3, was killed by her mother’s boyfriend, Benjamin George, an ex-Marine, now serving a life sentence for performing “ultimate wrestling” moves on the child as he babysat her in 2010, collapsing her lungs, lacerating her liver and causing massive brain

from Salmon Street Springs, 1000 SW Naito Parkway, portlandspirit. com/zombiecruise.php. 8-11 pm Wednesday, Oct. 31. $20. 21+.

Sniff & Treat Halloween Dog Bash

Our friendly neighborhood luxury dog hotel, Sniff, gives you an excuse to dress your pooch up in a ridiculous outfit. There’ll be a costume contest, a raffle, booze and snacks. All proceeds go to Chase Away K9 Cancer. Sniff Dog Hotel, 1828 NW Raleigh St., 208-2366. 5-8 pm Wednesday, Oct. 31. Free. All ages.

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Curious Comedy celebrates the season with a special installment of the Neutrino Project, with groups of improvisers racing to whip up a horror flick and relying on audience participation for title suggestions, donated props and cameo appearances. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 4779477. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, Oct. 26-27; 8 pm Wednesday, Oct. 31. $12-$15.

swelling. Knowing this, the haunt’s icy-eyed child actors are even more chilling. MARTIN CIZMAR. 20775 Butteville Road NE, Donald, 752-8692, buttevillemanorhaunt.com. $10.

HAUNTED CORN MAIZE

This four-acre corn “maize” (get it?) winds along a path lit only by tiki torches and the occasional strobe light. In order to get from one end to the other, visitors must pass through several disorienting “farmhouses” and survive encounters with disfigured hillbillies, grotesque demonoids and, worst of all, canoodling teenagers. (Pro tip for oldsters: Go on the night of a big high-school football game.) My biggest scare came from well-disguised Swamp Things rising from the muck in a fetid bog. There’s very little blood spilled at this family-oriented affair; most of the scares are telegraphed to visitors in advance, and the maze, at least this year, isn’t all that hard to find your way out of. But if you’re going to be pumpkin shopping on Sauvie Island, this haunt makes for a nice stroll before you return to town. MATTHEW SINGER. 16511 NW Gillihan Road, Sauvie Island, 621-7110, portlandmaize.com. $10-$15.

FRIGHTTOWN

Portland’s most-hyped Halloween attraction is hidden with little fanfare in the concrete catacombs below Memorial Coliseum. Here, groups of teenagers flirt near a

Phantom Halloween Costume Party with Naughty By Nature

You down with O.P.P.—Outrageous Parties with Pretty old hip-hop acts? Then this party, taking place in a 120,000 square-foot warehouse underneath the Fremont Bridge, is the Halloween-themed event for you, featuring a costume contest, food carts, a professional photo booth and a headlining performance from proudly adulterous early ‘90s pop-rap charttoppers Naughty By Nature. 1300 N. River St., phantompdx.com. 8

pm Saturday, Oct. 27. $40 general admission, $60 VIP. 21+.

Bollywood Horror X

Local ambassadors of hip-swiveling Indian pop DJ Anjali and the Incredible Kid host their annual costume contest and dance party, distinguished from their other monthly dance parties by projected psychedelic visuals from Bollywood horror films. Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th Ave., 248-1030. 9 pm Saturday, Oct. 27. $8 with costume, $10 without. 21+

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sad-looking kiosk selling sad-looking junk food. But true to its reputation, FrightTown offers a sophisticated setup inside each haunt, with immersive sets, a small army of actors, high-quality animatronics, professional makeup jobs, and almost certainly a far more detailed backstory to every scene than the audience will ever know or care about. “The Contagion,” this year’s new haunt, offers a post-apocalyptic Walking Dead experience, which, while not exceptionally scary, is plenty gross, as wildeyed actors cough and retch all over you. On a quiet Wednesday night, you can do all three haunts in under a half-hour, but I’m told the lines grow as All Hallow’s Eve draws nigh. RUTH BROWN. Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Rose Quarter, 1 N Center Court St., frighttown.com. $20-$40.

MILBURN’S HAUNTED MANOR

This three-part haunt is hosted at a family-owned farm on a winding country road outside the two-block town of Hubbard. The “manor” is an ignoble storage barn with other scares set up in the woods around it. In the best of the bunch, the star of the story is a parricidal youngster, here played by a gothy teenage girl decked out in ghostly white makeup and a frilly dress. There’s also a wooded haunt next to the barn. It’s under attack by zombies who cannot walk through metal fencing, though they do like to shake that fencing and breathe loudly. (Don’t worry, these zombies do not yell and do not have chainsaws.) The third attraction, “The Dark” is “phobia-based,” but the only phobia really indulged is the fear of clowns, who here are a little less scary than your average Juggalos at a suburban MAX stop. MARTIN CIZMAR. 11503 Broadacres Road NE, Hubbard, 830-0865, milburnmanor. com. $9-$20.

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Flashing lights, hydraulic platforms and a nonstop chorus of high-pitched screams are all packed inside a building in a random Beaverton strip mall—it’s the warehouse rave of haunted houses. The official backstory claims it was a covert military research facility overrun by a virus that mutated the human scientists and unleashed alien lab rats. The result is something like a Skrillex show. The 13th Door is “rated” PG-13, so there are operating rooms and laboratories smeared with blood and body parts and alien fetuses and decimated carcasses and actors with oozing sores and open wounds—though there’s often so much going on that a lot of these details are easily missed. While the amount of work put into the 13th Door is admirable, there is just too damn much going on to conjure many legitimate scares. I spent most of my 30 minutes in the building disoriented, trying to distinguish between an exit and the entrance to the next room. If a traditional haunted house is the original Friday the 13th, the 13th Door is Jason X: Maybe it cost more to make, but is it really any better? MATTHEW SINGER. 8805 SW Canyon Lane, Beaverton, 222-5554, 13thdoor.com. $20.

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Fear Asylum isn’t made for children. Your average 8-year-old would be red-faced and tear-streaked halfway through, telling his mom he wants to leave. It wouldn’t be easy to do so: Fear Asylum is a massive and disorienting maze, stretching across 18 “rooms” in a two-story Elks Lodge that’s dressed up to look like a Kingdom-style hospital of the damned and ruined. Mental-asylum inmates roam the halls at will while victims of mad experiments beg to be set free. “Where are you going?” a woman yells from behind cell bars. “How can you just leave me here? Why do you keep walking?” By the end, my companion at the lodge was cleaving tightly and pushing at my back, trying to get me to move faster. It is a place relentless in its desire to tip one’s equilibrium, with an arsenal of tactics broad and deep. Trust Milwaukie—my own somewhat bedraggled hometown—to set me ill at ease. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. 13121 SE McLoughlin Blvd., Milwaukie, fearasylumhauntedhouse. com. $10. EXTRA: For longer versions of these reviews, go to wweek.com.

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Portland Cocktail Week is, ostensibly, for bartenders. But the evening celebrations are open to the public, and lemme tell you: Bartenders make awesome drinking buddies. Events include: Pig & Punch, a fundraising event put on in various locations by San Francisco outﬁt the Bon Vivants that includes roast pig, punch, games and raising money for charter school LEP High; the United States Bartenders Guild’s America: Red, White and Booze party, with bartenders from all 34 USBG chapters serving; and a Portland vs. Seattle bartenders soccer match. See portlandcocktailweek.com for full schedule. Jupiter Hotel, 800 E Burnside St., 230-9200. Various times Wednesday-Thursday, Oct. 24-25. Ticket prices vary. 21+.

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THURSDAY, OCT. 25 Salted Caramels with Xocolatl de David

Xocolatl de David’s cocoa wizard, David Briggs, teaches you how to make fancy caramels and caramel sauce. The class includes wine to sip and a pot of sauce to take home and devour shamefully with your ﬁngers. Tickets at atthemeadow. com. The Meadow, 3731 N Mississippi Ave., 388-4633. 7:30 pm. $25.

Portland’s Original Iron Chef

Another local Iron Chef-style battle (this one claims to be the “original,” but I can’t keep track). Last year’s winner, Rick Widmayer of Screen Door, will defend his title against Davis Street Tavern’s Gavin Ledson, Simpatica’s Ben Shaw, Deschutes Brewery’s Jill Ramsier and Slappy Cakes’ Laura Rhoman, all while raising money for Children’s Relief Nursery. Allez cuisine! World Forestry Center, 4033 SW Canyon Road, 228-1367. 6 pm. $100.

FRIDAY, OCT. 26 Night of the Living Ales

Craft beer and Halloween, together again. Night of the Living Ales this year promises a costume competition, burlesque, go-go dancers, music from Boy Eats Drum Machine and Oh Darling and beers from Burnside, Oakshire, Upright, Ninkasi, Bushwhacker, Lompoc and others. Tickets at 28thstreetpubcrawl.blogspot.com. Burnside Brewing Co., 701 E Burnside St. 8 pm-1 am. $10. 21+.

SATURDAY, OCT. 27 Killer Beer Fest

BrewPublic’s Killer Beer Week wraps with its ﬂagship event, the Killer Beer Fest. The event promises cross-brewery collaborations and one-of-a-kind beers. Bailey’s Taproom, 213 SW Broadway, 295-1004. 2 pm. Prices vary.

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PRICKLY ASH What’s roujiamo supposed to taste like? Honestly, I have no idea. Prickly Ash’s version of the flatbread sandwich, China’s answer to the hamburger, is the only version I’ve had. The Mississippi Marketplace cart is, as best I can tell, the only place in town making roujiamo, Order this: Red Baja mo with salad and noodles. and the nearest competitor may be up in Best deal: Vinegar Vancouver, B.C. peanuts ($1.50). Roujiamo comes from what might be I’ll pass: Pork belly mo. called the Sino Midwest—Shaanxi, the China province where it was created is a sister state to Minnesota. Despite the unfamiliar name, which translates to “meat pinched between bread,” these sandwiches are reassuringly simple and hearty, filled with familiar fare like pork belly and Szechuan chicken. Fresh squares of bubbly flatbread—somewhere between starchy naan and spongy pita—are Prickly Ash’s key ingredient. Made from dough balls that remain on the rise as you order lunch, the cart closes when it runs out. On a busy day, that could be as early as 2 pm. I was hoping for more punch from either the Bruce Lee ($6.50)—which has pork belly, avocado, cabbage, two types of aioli, a dusting of Cotija and two slices of orange chili pepper—or the red-oil chicken roujiamo ($6) with braised greens and pickled vegetables. Both have high-end ingredients but subtle flavor. More impressive were a side dish of cold, fat, pleasantly gummy noodles in sesame dressing ($3) and a salad of chopped napa cabbage with cilantro and a zesty, almost invisibly thin rice-wine vinegar dressing ($2). If these are the fries to the roujiamo’s burger, call me a fan. MARTIN CIZMAR. EAT: Prickly Ash, 4233 N Mississippi Ave., 997-8649, pricklyashpdx. com. 11:30 am-4 pm Tuesday-Sunday, 5-9 pm Friday-Saturday. $.

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fence and in the trees.” The concept looks like a chalkboard etched with Pacific Northwest beers—it’s heavy on Hopworks and Alameda, along with Deschutes, Rogue BY M A RT I N C I Z M A R mcizmar@wweek.com and more—and great Portland-style food. “Portland food?” Sure, it’s a thing, Forsyth says. Cameron Forsyth has never lived in Portland. No matter how self-aware a city is, it can be hard This did not stop him from opening a Portland- to see it from an outsider’s perspective. When Forsyth looks at Portland, where he’s often traveled, centric restaurant in his native Canada. Yes, our city has a culinary embassy in Van- he sees burgers, pork belly with potatoes, a saucouver, B.C. The existence of Portland Craft sage-heavy charcuterie platter and cheese grits. might seem weird to us—especially, I’d bet, to The kale- and beet-topped burger, which is made Portlanders who lived here in the rugged years with butter pressed into one-third of a pound of before the vegan bike hipsters arrived—but it ground beef, is excellent, as are the accompanying salt- and pepper-coated fries. There’s a small makes sense to him. “You think about a French restaurant— pickle plate—it’s called “We Can Pickle That” and someone calls it Bordeaux and you sort of has grapes, daikon, yellow bell pepper and cantaloupe for $4—and a fried chicken know what you’re getting,” he and waffle platter called “Put a says. “If we called this ‘FriendOrder this: “Put a Bird On It” ($15). Bird on It” ($15). ly Craft Beer Restaurant’ it Best deal: Sumac chips ($3). Forsyth offers the Portlandia wouldn’t really work.” I’ll pass: “Pig and Pots” ($8). references expecting a chuckle As it turns out, we can be from someone who hasn’t heard proud of Portland Craft. At 5 pm, the restaurant is filling with people who don’t them all before. As it turns out, it’s easy enough to lose sometake off their jackets until the second pint. The locals order $7 Black Butte Porters (“something a thing in international translation. Forsyth—who little different”) and charmingly flub the pronun- speaks with round O’s—has had more significant ciation of Seattle’s Elysian Brewing (“I’ll have the blowback over that platter. Fried chicken and ELLY-shy-ann stout”). By 6:30, it’s packed. “We’ll waffles, a combination he says is mostly unknown run a line soon,” the bartender laughs. “Oh yeah, to Canadians, works really well. But the plate was we’re doing it right. We’ll even hold the line if we missing something. Watermelon, he found, gave an otherwise too-blah plate a pop of pink and don’t need to.” Mount Pleasant, the bartender says, is the served as cool cleanse for the palate. Canadians, name of the neighborhood. He offers this tenta- of course, aren’t blighted by our nation’s histively, and a shiny new sign announcing it sug- tory of racism. Forsyth had no idea pairing fried gests maybe it’s still in the testing phase. This chicken and watermelon could be seen as insengentrifying stretch of Main Street, which looks sitive until someone tweeted their intention to a little like Northeast Sandy Boulevard, has pho boycott his restaurant. He was confused. “Oh my places, a Russian butcher and a 24-hour Church’s God, I didn’t even think about it even a little bit,” Chicken along with bicycle rebuilders and coffee he says. “It’s food on a plate, and that’s it. We’re shops selling Intelligentsia roasts. It’s the sort of not trying to be offensive.” In this country, I might well lead the boycott. place you see a man wearing a businesslike blue But from sweetly innocent Canadians, it just peacoat with a Daniel Boone coonskin hat. “It’s a really great neighborhood—the perfect works. Great Portland-style food—as only availplace for this concept,” Forsyth says. “I mean, this able up north. is a neighborhood where you see bikes. We’re still trying to get enough bike racks.... In the summer EAT: Portland Craft is at 3835 Main St., Vancouver, B.C. 604-569-2494, portlandcraft.com. you see bikes chained up all over the chain-link

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AFRICA HIGH-TECH CHRISTOPHER KIRKLEY WENT INTO THE SAHARA IN SEARCH OF AN UNHEARD MUSICAL TRADITION. HE FOUND IT—BUT IT WASN’T WHAT HE EXPECTED. BY m at t h e w si n g e r

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In 2008, Christopher Kirkley went to Africa in hopes of capturing sounds rarely heard by the rest of the world. Traveling southwest from Morocco, carrying little more than a backpack, an acoustic guitar and a digital recorder, the shaven-headed Portland native, then in his late 20s, recorded every form of regional music he encountered, from urban dance bands to nomadic Tuareg singers. As he pushed into the Sahara, though, a trend developed. At night, Kirkley would frequently sit around a fire, drinking tea with other young musicians. He’d strum a tune for the locals, then hand the guitar over and ask them to show him a song from their own culture. Often, they’d put the instrument aside, pull out a cellphone, and play him a tinny MP3—usually by an artist they couldn’t identify, and featuring elements of Western-style production, such as drum machines and Auto-Tuned vocals. “It was really annoying,” Kirkley says. “My first thought was, ‘These cellphones have ruined everything.’” But as he continued to explore the Sahel—a vast geographic belt covering parts of Senegal, Mali, Mauritania and Niger—Kirkley began to hear many of those same songs emanating from phones all over the region. It soon dawned on him that he had stumbled upon precisely what he’d come to Africa to find: a rich, self-contained, largely undiscovered musical tradition. Only, instead of an old, possibly fading tradition like he expected, he’d come across a new, wholly modern one. While other technological advancements, such as personal computers, have been slow to arrive in West Africa, cellphones, specifically of the cheap, off-brand variety, are even more integral to everyday life than they are in America, Kirkley observed, functioning less as communication devices than as pocket-size storage units containing photos, videos and, especially, eclectic music libraries. As in other parts of the world, the digital music collections of those living in the Sahara are built primarily through file sharing, except instead of taking place anonymously in cyberspace, the exchange happens face-to-face via Bluetooth. In a region without reliable Internet connections, the people there had, inadvertently, created a kind of ambulatory, regionalized peer-to-peer network. “Instead of fiber-optic cables,” Kirkley says, “you have highways, and people on buses with phones.” Five years later, Kirkley, 32, is an internationally recognized authority, not just on contemporary African pop but on the role of cellphones in West African society. Since returning to the United States in 2010, he’s put together two compilations of songs copied from SD cards during the year he spent in Mali. Initially available only as a cassette and through his blog, the online popularity of Music From Saharan Cellphones—wildly divergent mixes showcasing everything from Malian hip-hop to Mauritanian synth music—inspired Kirkley to start a label, Sahelsounds, through which he’s released several more albums of rare African music. He’s been interviewed by the Guardian and the BBC, and gave presentations at the Time Based Arts Festival and the WW-sponsored Portland Digital eXperience. Recently he flew to France to speak at a tech conference in Paris. He’s even been contacted by phone companies looking for advice on opening up the Saharan market. And all for uncovering a thoroughly offline culture and bringing it online. “It’s crazy how things happen on the Internet,” he says. For his first four months in Africa, Kirkley lived in Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, where he recorded

SahEl callIng: christopher Kirkley at a cafe in Kano, nigeria.

primarily vaguely bluesy, amplified wedding bands. It wasn’t until he got to Kidal, in northern Mali, that Kirkley became aware of the crucial role cellphones play in disseminating a broad variety of music throughout the Sahel. A small, dusty border town miles from the nearest paved road, Kidal’s proximity to both Algeria and Niger nonetheless makes it a well-traveled “desert port” of sorts. As such, the phones in Kidal offer especially dynamic surveys of West African popular music, the result of MP3 trading between the local population and the truckers, drug smugglers and sub-Saharan migrants passing through on their way elsewhere. Along with outdated rock and pop hits from the United States and Europe, the collections

cards trying to track down each artist and sign them to a contract, agreeing to split the revenues evenly. Besides, just because the musicians come from impoverished countries doesn’t mean they lack business sense. After all, they’re the ones who took the technology available to them and turned it into a distribution model, which some have used to build lucrative touring careers. Some even turned down Kirkley’s contract offer, considering the money too paltry. In a way, Kirkley says, the artists of the Sahel understand the current music economy better than a lot of record executives do. “Music wasn’t always a recorded thing that was commercialized,” he says. “Recorded music is pretty new in

In A rEgIOn WItHOut rElIAblE IntErnEt COnnECtIOnS, tHE PEOPlE Of tHE SAHEl CrEAtED An AMbulAtOry PEEr-tO-PEEr nEtWOrK. Kirkley gained access to ran a spectacularly wide gamut, from the Ivory Coast’s stuttering dance genre coupé décalé to electronic updates of the Algerian folk style of raï to the entrancing, psychedelic assouf music made globally popular by Mali’s own Tinariwen. Kirkley was especially drawn to music born seemingly from odd cross-cultural exchanges, such as that of Mdou Moctar, a guitarist from Niger whose self-recordings feature the prominent use of Auto-Tune. But as Kirkley explains, “He wasn’t, like, this Tuareg kid who heard T-Pain.” Rather, he went to Nigeria and became exposed to the country’s Bollywood-obsessed film industry, in which producers utilize pitch-correcting technology in an attempt to mimic Indian movie soundtracks. So Moctar is, in fact, a kid filtering Tuareg guitar through Indianinfluenced Nigerian film music with distant, unintended echoes of current American pop radio. “It’s a very weird web,” Kirkley says. Of course, the image of a white man going into Africa and emerging with a trove of uncopyrighted music carries some negative connotations, and Kirkley’s had to deal with them from the moment he made his first compilation available for download. A few blogs misreported that Kirkley had scavenged the songs from discarded SD cards. In truth, he traded for them directly, usually in exchange for a Townes Van Zandt or Elliott Smith album. And when he decided to press Music From Saharan Cellphones to vinyl and sell it, Kirkley burned through international phone

the history of music. So it’s not like music is going to stop being made. It was made before there were commercial recordings, and it’ll be made after. And I think these kids are more on top of it than people are here.” But the phenomenon Kirkley observed may have been a fleeting one. In the five years since he first visited the Sahara, things are already starting to change. On return visits to the region, Kirkley found Internet speeds, once grindingly slow, gradually improving, along with the speed of culture: Formerly enthralled by the likes of the Scorpions and Dire Straits, people in West Africa are catching on to au courant pop stars almost as soon as they break here. Even though he knows firsthand the way the Web can transform lives, Kirkley regards the encroachment of the Internet in the Sahel—with its tendency to absorb everything it touches into a homogenous monoculture—with trepidation. “The whole landscape is going to change drastically,” he says. “The idea of this closed network—once Internet speeds are quick enough to allow uploading songs, and kids can make their own websites and have their own version of SoundCloud, it’ll change everything. So the Internet’s coming there. It’s just taking its time.” SEE IT: Christopher Kirkley, aka DJ Sahelsounds, performs a DJ set at 13 Months of Sunshine: African Sounds Dance Party at Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., on Wednesday, Oct. 24. 9 pm. $3. Visit Kirkley’s blog at sahelsounds.com, and see his top five favorite West African tracks at wweek.com. Willamette Week OCTOBER 24, 2012 wweek.com

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steel-guitar solos, violin melodies and vocals crisper than Scandinavian air. Three continents, one sound: Who knew globalization could be so sexy? DREW LENIHAN. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 8 pm. $16.50 advance, $19 day of show. 21+.

The Fontaine Classic, Cutbank

[ENERGIZED FOLK] Like black ink on white paper, Portland transplants the Fontaine Classic are sure to leave a mark. The Northern California-bred duo honed its sound traveling across the country, from Memphis to Florida, before reuniting in Northwest Portland to produce and record its debut album of indie Americana. Flipside Records’ Latest Faith EP is rich in lo-fi vintage warmth, reminiscent of lounging on porches or sipping Budweiser in the heat of the Deep South. The familiar, tantalizing sound comes from the band’s dual-ribbon mic-to-tape recording process, and it’s even more prevalent live, with sparks and beads of sweat flying off guitarist Tyler Mehlhaff and drummer Frank Roehr. DREW LENIHAN. East End, 203 SE Grand Ave., 232-0056. 8 pm. Call venue at for ticket information. 21+.

Crystal Castles, Health, Kontravoid

[SYNTHETIC IMPRESSIONISM] Of a lineage including M83 and Teengirl Fantasy, Toronto’s Crystal Castles are tireless experimentalists in the modern digital scene. The musical partnership of Ethan Kath and Alice Glass is one suspended by abstraction, dark trance and notoriously wild live sets. The band moved to Poland to record its third and newest record, due out before the end of the year. While a newfound popularity has propelled the act to new heights, rest assured: The inherent weirdness and certain doomsday dance appeal that makes Crystal Castles so fascinating is still very intact. MARK STOCK. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $32. All ages.

Dio Disciples, Witchburn

Elina Duni, Battle Hymns and Gardens

[ALBANIAN JAZZ] On her radiant new album, Matanë Malit, classically trained Albanian-born singer Elina Duni, along with pianist Colin Vallon—the young Swiss jazzer who lit up Tony Starlight’s in a PDX Jazz show last year—explores her Balkan roots, arranging folk songs for her quartet and creating original improvisational vehicles based on traditional Albanian tunes. She adeptly indulges in the ECM label’s signature pensive, ethereal sound and really soars in upbeat, folk dance-inspired tunes. BRETT CAMPBELL. Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant, 1435 NW Flanders St., 241-6514. 8 pm. $10-$15. 21+.

Allen Stone, Yuna, Tingsek

[WORLDLY SOUL] The new face of politically conscious soul does not look anything close to Aloe Blacc or godfather Marvin Gaye, but more like the love child of Joss Stone and Napoleon Dynamite. Meet Allen Stone, self-proclaimed soul hippie and Washington native, a pitch-perfect crooner who is more likely to belt out critical lyrics about hearing it through the stock exchange rather than the grapevine. Joining Stone is Yuna, a Malayasian indie diva, whose dreamy, warm voice has a musical spectrum longer than the ﬂight from Kuala Lumpur to her new home of L.A. Her experimental and immaculately produced songs are genrebending, comparable to a mix of Feist and Frank Ocean. Rounding out the bill is Sweden’s Tingsek, who brings a funkier take on soul with

Daniel Higgs, Arrington de Dionyso, Lori Goldston, Larry Yes

[ASTRAL TRAVELING] The cosmic creations of Daniel Higgs provide transport to transcendence in myriad weird ways. Via feedback drones, Jew’s harp jams, spokenword sermons and sylvan folk dirges,

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[METAL TRIBUTE] One of the most important metal voices was forever silenced in 2010, when Ronnie James Dio passed away at age 67. But his music lives on, and members of his backing band have gathered to celebrate his legacy. Big vocal shoes are being ably ﬁlled by Tim “Ripper” Owens, the man who inspired the screenplay for the ﬁlm Rock Star by graduating from Judas Priest tribute artist to the real band’s actual lead singer. Dio guitarist Craig Goldy reprises his role, as do drummers and keyboardists from lineups past. It’s a cast of pros playing some of the greatest genre songs ever, and donating proceeds to the RJD Cancer Fund. NATHAN CARSON. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.

Higgs has devoted his post-Lungﬁsh years to evolving a syncretic form of musical mysticism that reaches roots deep into the mess of our planet’s mud while sending smoke signals up into realms we cannot name. Kindred searchers like Incredible String Band, Devendra Banhart and Michael Gira have done or still do similar spirit-summoning things, but Higgs can lay claim to his own special corner of that part of the universal brain that wants to get outside of itself. CHRIS STAMM. Valentine’s, 232 SW Ankeny St., 2481600. 9 pm. $7. 21+.

THURSDAY, OCT. 25 Converge, Torche, Kvelertak, Nails

[TENDER ABUSE] In some way, it seems Converge was working toward this moment: the point when it would unleash an absolute masterpiece of punk-metal angst and fury on the world. Earlier this month, the band did just that with the release of its eighth full-length, All We Love We Leave Behind. The quartet snaps together into a Voltron-like beast that lumbers and blasts forward, leaving smoldering rubble in its wake. But don’t ignore the sincere heart of vocalist Jacob Bannon, who masks his pained view of relationships and society with his terrifying growl and the band’s swathes of volume. ROBERT HAM. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 7:30 pm. $15 advance, $17 day of show. All ages.

Robyn Hitchcock, Young Fresh Fellows, Peter Buck

[BIG-NAME JANGLE] Who’s Portland’s biggest rock star? If we’re taking into consideration the level of inﬂuence, size of audiences and personal fortune—and stretching the qualiﬁcations for being considered a “Portlander” just a wee bit—then it’s got to be Peter Buck.

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WAKA FLOCKA FLAME Born: 1986 in Queens, N.Y. Sounds like: Club-destroying Southern hip-hop from a streetwise kid smart enough to know deep thoughts just slow down a good party. For fans of: Lil Jon, Ludacris, Young Jeezy, going to strip clubs strictly for the music. Latest release: Triple F Life: Friends, Fans & Family, a trunkrattling set of booming synth production and lyrical content best summed up by the line, “What the fuck is you thinking? Better yet, what the fuck is you drinking?” Why you care: Well, if you’re one of those “empirical lyrical spherical miracle” types—that is, the kind of puritanical hip-hop head who believes rap is only about dense, dexterous rhyme skills—then chances are you’ll never care about Waka Flocka Flame, and you’re probably a drag to hang out with. But for the rest of us, the MC born Juaquin James Malphurs taps into hiphop’s primal pulse the way the Stooges ripped out the heart of rock ’n’ roll in the late ’60s. Maybe he isn’t doing it in the name of Dionysian art like Iggy Pop was, but the effect is much the same. A dreadlocked, fully inked, transplanted ATLien with a delivery that alternates between a throaty shout and a narcotized drawl, Waka Flocka announced his arrival two years ago by proclaiming, “I go hard in the motherfucking paint,” and he indeed approaches his music with the no-bullshit force of a bruising power forward attacking the glass. It’s not cerebral, but it’s plenty visceral, and as no less an authority than Rakim once said, MC means “move the crowd.” Waka Flocka doesn’t just get crowds moving, he makes them jump, scream and throw ’bows at each other’s heads, and that’s all he needs to do. SEE IT: Waka Flocka Flame plays Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., on Tuesday, Oct. 30. 8 pm. $25. All ages. Willamette Week OCTOBER 24, 2012 wweek.com

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OK, so the former (and, we’re sure, future) R.E.M. guitarist will always be considered a favorite son of Athens, Ga., but these days Buck splits his time between Seattle and Stumptown; hangs out and jams with several true locals, including Willy Vlautin, Fernando Viciconte and Scott McCaughey; and just recorded his first solo album at NoPo’s Type Foundry Studio, flashreleasing it on Mississippi Records earlier this month. In a city of transplants, I think that’s enough to consider him one of our own. Tonight’s show offers the first opportunity for Portland to hear those newly recorded songs live, and also to take in our semi-secret, middleage ’80s-college-rock-icon scene, as McCaughey shifts from backing Buck to playing with his own regional cult heroes, Young Fresh Fellows, with Buck reappearing to support the headliner, Soft Boys legend Robyn Hitchcock. MATTHEW SINGER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.

Dan Deacon, Height with Friends, Chester Endersby Gwazda, Alan Resnick

[PSYCHEDELIC ELECTRONICA] Dan Deacon has never been one to shy away from the light, be it with his animated electronic music or penchant for zany live appearances. A light-up skull and other various touch-lights are frequent props for his unconventional live shows that take audience participation to new heights. Now, Baltimore’s psychedelic pop-smith is getting high-tech, oﬀering a free app that converts audience members’ phones into “a source of synchronized light and sound.” Who knows what direction this will take, as his shows already involve using skittering iPods for backing tracks and synchronized shouts about Harry Potter from the crowd. It’d be neat if the inclusive light show could somehow become a representation of his new album, America, a disc about the positive and negative ﬁbers that weave the country together. All we know is things are about to get weirder. And as his numerous albums during the past nine years have proved, when it comes to Dan Deacon, weird is a very good thing. NILINA MASONCAMPBELL. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.

FRIDAY, OCT. 26 Perfume Genius, Dusted

[SADSACKERY] Dropped like a lifeboat into this past winter’s tormenting sprawl, Perfume Genius’ Put Your Back N 2 It has now enjoyed eight months as 2012’s most aﬀecting work of consoling art, and I’m betting nothing is going to match its melancholy power before year’s end. As Perfume Genius, Seattle’s Mike Hadreas taps into the same fragile, haunted grief Antony Hegarty transforms into wrenching arias, but Hadreas never lets his lush and crushing piano-based compositions forget where they came from. The results are perfect sonic snapshots of the too-small, toobeautiful and way-too-fucked places where sadness lives. CHRIS STAMM. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 9 pm. $15. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

Bassnectar, Gramatik, Gladkill

[ALL YOUR BASS] Joining Deadmau5 and Girl Talk in a conspiracy to turn our venues into that weird techno orgy from The Matrix and transform our youth into slobbering, molly-addled somnambulists intent on rubbing their nethers together, Santa Cruz DJ Bassnectar has garnered a vast following via his ability to hypnotize the masses with every bleep, bloop, thump and stac-

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CADENCE WEAPON SUNDAY, OCT. 28 How a cerebral Canadian MC evolved from an introverted philosopher into “a traveling fun machine.”

[ECLECTIC HIP-HOP] Expectations are high for 26-year-old Canadian rapper Rollie Pemberton, also known as Cadence Weapon. He was a poet laureate for his hometown of Edmonton, Alberta, so people expect his music to be philosophical. He was a journalist and a full-time writer for Pitchfork, so his lyrics are expected to be full of literary references. And, he says, people often expect his real-life persona to be as serious and intricate as his music. Pemberton does live up to some of those expectations: For example, he references Jean-Paul Sartre many times on his new album, Hope in Dirt City. But, when it comes down to it, the MC really just wants his listeners to expect one thing: to have fun. “I want to enlighten people and make people feel good,” Pemberton says. “I’m like a traveling fun machine for other people. Life is so fucked up. People need an escape. People need to listen to music, jump around and have fun. That’s why I take it so seriously.” Pemberton has not always had this upbeat mindset. He describes himself as a shy person, stemming back to his days producing music on a laptop alone in his bedroom. That timidity stayed with him when he picked up a pen and started writing anything he could—whether it was a poem about Edmonton, a song about a girl or a review of a Ghostface Killah album. Only now, after nearly a decade of performing and releasing music—he dropped his first project when he was 18—is he becoming “the life of the party.” Maybe the transformation was to be expected: His late father was a well-known DJ and an ambassador of funk, soul and hip-hop in Edmonton, and Pemberton says he is becoming more like him everyday. “He was always the person you wanted to be around,” he says. “I feel like I’m becoming more like that. His influence is all over what I make, from the things he told me to the music I grew up with.” His father’s influence can be heard on Hope in Dirt City, a project that constantly blurs genres, from the dub-tinged “Small Deaths” to the electro-laced “Crash Course for the Ravers.” The album is deeper and more elaborate than his first two, featuring live instrumentation. And his lyrics are as dense and meditative as ever: On “Conditioning,” Pemberton raps in his low gurgle of a voice about how the rough conditions around him growing up affected his physical well-being. But the heaviness of the project should be taken lightly, Pemberton says. While dark in texture, Dirt City’s overall themes are based in triumph. It’s a survivor’s soundtrack. As he has gotten older, Pemberton realizes more and more the importance of this type of music. “I want people to reach a part of their brain they thought they didn’t have access to normally,” he says. “People will work the worst job ever, constantly struggling for money. [Music] is so important—there are people in the world that don’t have that outlet.” REED JACKSON. SEE IT: Cadence Weapon plays Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., on Sunday, Oct. 28. 8:30 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

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stark raver mad: Bassnectar plays memorial Coliseum on Friday, Oct. 26. cato programming riff available. This year’s Vava Voom follows the same formula as the DJ’s last eight albums and 18,098 mixtures—that is, tons of noise crammed together and bookended by a beat, and maybe a rap verse or two to go along with the psychedelic light show. When the robots eventually crush humanity, they just might keep Bassnectar around to write their national anthem. AP KRYZA. Memorial Coliseum, 1401 N Wheeler Ave., 235-8771. 7:30 pm. $39.50. All ages.

Cult of Youth, Arctic Flowers, Industrial Park

[NEO-FOLK] Sean Ragon made his name as bassist for Love as Laughter, but the buzz his current band Cult of Youth is experiencing threatens to make this his true legacy. Firmly rooted in the brooding, gothic neo-folk tradition, the Brooklyn-based songwriter initially started sparse and alone. But his self-titled album from 2011 introduced a hand-selected backing band, which returns for the brandnew Sacred Bones release, Love Will Prevail. If Death in June, Current 93, Swans, Birthday Party, Love and Rockets and similarly dreary, artful music gets you off, then prepare to join the rapidly growing throng before it becomes passé…again. NATHAN CARSON. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. $7. 21+.

SATURDAY, OCT. 27 Portland Erotic Ball: Keegan Smith and the Fam, Pepe & the Bottle Blondes, the Slants, DJ Jub Jub

[BUMP ’N’ GRIND] When you’re mingling with a sea of naughty nurses, leather-clad fetishists, drag queens and other generally horny folks who have gathered together to be generally horny, you damn sure better have a solid soundtrack. Once again, the Portland Erotic Ball’s got a schizo lineup that should get anyone’s juices flowing. If the jammy soul of Keegan Smith and the nine-piece Fam don’t get you tingling, maybe Copacabana throwback Pepe & the Bottle Blondes or ’80s-style, Asianfusion, synth-rock outfit the Slants will tickle your fancy. If not, that dwarf with the French tickler has got it on lock. AP KRYZA. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm. $39-$69. 21+.

Bowerbirds, Strand of Oaks, Prypyat [TEXTURAL FOLK] The ups and downs that come with a romantically involved musical duo can make or break a band’s career. For Bowerbirds, fronted by couple Phil Moore and Beth Tacular, the circumstances led from breaking up, to making up, to writing some of its best music yet. The band’s third LP, The Clearing, recorded with Brian Joseph (Bon Iver) and released earlier this year, wipes clean the challenges of strife and

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heartbreak with a dynamic collection of earthy, textural songs carried by the charge of impassioned collaboration. With layers of violin, cello, clarinet, vibraphone, wholehearted lyrics and mesmerizing male-female vocals, there’s no doubt this fueled-by-romance outfit is on its way up. EMILEE BOOHER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.

Matt and Kim, Oberhofer

[NEO-HOUSE MUSIC] There might not be a more appropriate sound for Brooklyn circa the last five years or so. Electro pilot Matt Johnson and drummer Kim Schifino have created anthemy, fist-pumping, ever-burgeoning DIY dance music that reflects the pulse of NYC’s hippest borough. The duo’s fourth studio effort, Lightning, came out just weeks ago. It’s a typically exuberant record that incorporates raw hip-hop percussion with towering electronic chord progressions and Johnson’s dizzying sampling technique. Fellow Brooklyn band and dance-punk aficionado Oberhofer opens. MARK STOCK. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $20 advance, $23 day of show.

SUNDAY, OCT. 28 Balmorhea, Dragging an Ox Through Water

[INSTRUMENTAL AMERICANA] Austin group Balmorhea creates the kind of soundscapes perfect for wandering imaginations. The narrative between quiet minimalist guitar phrases, swelling classical string sections, ambient synthesizer and propelling rhythms forces the mind to travel through riveting and wordless stories for which the perception of sound plays a big role. Originally formed in 2006 by Rob Lowe and Michael Muller, the now six-member band this month released its fifth full-length album, Stranger, which Lowe boasts is some of the group’s best work to date. Marking Balmorhea’s most ambitious and complicated arrangements, Stranger revolves around dissonance and harmony, chaos and resolution, emotiveness and tranquility—all while maintaining its signature guitar-led cyclical patterns and means for cognitive catharsis. EMILEE BOOHER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

TUESDAY, OCT. 30 Toadies, Helmet, Ume

[GRUNGE RIDES AGAIN] Back in the early ’90s, both Helmet and Toadies made some significant contributions to the alternativerock rule book. Whether you find that an admirable feat probably depends on your opinion of the decade that followed, but in any

TUESDAY case, most everyone who has ever yielded an overdriven power chord or throaty howl owes these groups a deferential nod. Toadies, in an appropriately punk-rock maneuver, reunited in 2010 to re-record Feeler, an LP whose release Interscope had quashed in 1998. Helmet elected to re-up as well in 2004, and has cultivated a rotating cast of auxiliary musicians to recreate its thrashing, jazz-inﬂected grunge. SHANE DANAHER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm. $20. All ages.

Dark Dark Dark, Emily Wells

[GYPSY LOVE SONG] Amidst the endlessly bright idylls of Dark Dark Dark’s salad years—when the Minneapolis troupe ﬂoated foundobject rafts down New York and

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Venetian waterways and won critical praise/Grey’s Anatomy soundtrack bounty for its effervescent genre-clash—chanteuse Nona Marie Invie and co-songwriter and producer Marshall LaCount fell in and out of love. Remarkably, the group continued business as usual, and by largely trading former roots-y klezmer flare-ups for avant-cooljazz backdrops more befitting Invie’s Regina Spektor-y passions—outré outbursts all the more impressive within surrounding restraint—its just-released second full-length, Who Needs Who, serves haunting, bittersweet evocation of a freak-folk flag flying at half-mast. JAY HORTON. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 2848686. 8:30 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.

The Thornes Perfect Monster performing a Roky Erickson tribute set

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ALBUM REVIEWS

WEINLAND LOS PROCESSAUR (WOODPHONE/JEALOUS BUTCHER) [FOLK ROCK] Forget the quiet, rainy-day Weinland of yesteryear. Within the first few measures of opening track “Bones Cracking In,” the Portland band’s fourth album, Los Processaur, deviates from the albums of melancholy folk that preceded it. With a decisive acoustic guitar strum and an enthusiastic “Woo!” distantly howled by frontman Adam Shearer, the band introduces a livelier rock-’n’-roll vibe along with an air of confidence that shouts, “It’s about time we made this record!” In the three years since Weinland’s last release, Breaks in the Sun, the band’s five members have spent time in various projects, such as Alialujah Choir, the Decemberists and Blitzen Trapper. When it came time to return to Type Foundry Studio to lay down some new tracks, Shearer and company could draw from a pool of fresh music-biz experience. In this sense, the sure-footed Los Processaur sounds like the product of readiness over timeliness. Here’s the catch: While strewn with multipart harmonies and call-and-response electric guitar and piano riffs, this is not an album of moments that instantly stand out. But give it some time. With each listen, Shearer’s vocals grow weightier. Through his imperfect yet wholly expressive pipes come a sincerity that carries the entire album. In “Portland,” Shearer sings, in a cracking timbre, “It rains 364 days a year here/ On the other day the weather’s fine.” While people in this city are notorious for grumbling over winter weather, the song seeps in deeper than expected. And with time, you’ll find the rest of the album doing the same. EMILEE BOOHER.

CARS & TRAINS WE ARE ALL FIRE (CIRCLE INTO SQUARE) [ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC] Even if the press materials for We Are All Fire didn’t explicitly talk about how the album centers on the theme of family, and even if Tom Filepp, the man behind Cars & Trains, didn’t sing lyrics like, “Little black birds in my family tree,” you’d still be able to detect the raw emotion that lies at the center of what is the musician’s finest work to date. It helps that the entire album has a tone of hazy nostalgia. The soberly played acoustic guitar and simple, fluttering electronic beats provide a comfort and warmth akin to staring at a slide show from the ’70s. The pangs arrive once you dig into the lyrics and Filepp’s affecting vocal delivery. He doesn’t have the most dynamic voice, but he knows how to use it to maximum effect. Listen to the way his double-tracked vocal oozes out the words, “But I am father’s hands/ Pushing forward some sort of plan,” and sense the ache that lies just beneath the surface. Those moments, sprinkled throughout We Are All Fire, provide the right burst of cold air, producing little shivers that prod you ever closer to the album’s heated core. ROBERT HAM. SEE IT: Weinland plays Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., on Friday-Saturday, Oct. 26-27. 9 pm. $12. 21+. Cars & Trains plays Ted’s Berbati’s Pan, 19 SW 2nd Ave., on Thursday, Oct. 25. 9:30 pm. 21+. Call venue for ticket information.

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[OCT. 24-30] Kelly Shannon Jazz All-Stars, Sara JacksonHolman, Sad Little Men, Andy Stokes (Oregon Music News anniversary)

Someday Lounge

125 NW 5th Ave. Mark Mallman, Aina Haina

the Blue diamond

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2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project

the Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Steelhymen, Crag Dweller, Sluagh

the Press club

2621 SE Clinton St. Simon Tucker

thorne Lounge

4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Open Mic

tillicum club

8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Chad Rupp

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Daniel Higgs, Arrington de Dionyso, Lori Goldston, Larry Yes

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Carrie Bella

White eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Rupa and the April Fishes, Sam Cooper

Wilfs Restaurant and Bar

800 NW 6th Ave. Dick Berk, Tardo Hammer, Dave Captein

tHuRS. Oct. 25 Al’s den at the crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Buoy LaRue

Alberta Rose theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. The Druthers, Myrrh Larsen, Lowenbad, Adrianne Gunn

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Borikuas

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

Ash Street Saloon

yOu ARe NOt A uNIque SNOWFLAKe: crystal castles play Roseland theater on Wednesday, Oct. 24.

Wed. Oct. 24 Al’s den at the crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Buoy LaRue

Alberta Rose theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Tony Lucca, Justin Hopkins, Daniel Kirkpatrick and the Bayonets

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

Mother Shrew (9:30 pm); Mr. Hoo (12 pm)

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

Jade Lounge

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mother Shrew (9:30 pm); Mr. Hoo (12 pm)

east Burn

426 SW Washington St. The James London Band, Tigress, No More Parachutes

doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Robyn Hitchcock, Young Fresh Fellows, Peter Buck

duff’s Garage

Andina

Ash Street Saloon

203 SE Grand Ave. Fontaine Classic, Cutbank

east end

225 SW Ash St. Local Dudes, Myselfdestruct, Socionic, Death on the Highway

east India co.

Backspace

714 SW 20th Place Sister Midnight, Meta Pinnacle, Holy Filament

115 NW 5th Ave. The Arkells, Delta!Bravo, Asteroid M, the Crash Engine

Buffalo Gap Saloon

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Andy Stokes

camellia Lounge

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

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. The Hoons

1800 E Burnside St. Irish Music Jam

1314 NW Glisan St. Jason Okamoto

225 SW Ash St. Abash’t, Beards of Yeast, Shark Party

821 SW 11th Ave. Josh Feinberg

ella Street Social club

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. The Giraffe Dodgers

Hawthorne theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Dio Disciples, Witchburn, Maiden NW (Iron Maiden tribute), Motorbreath (Metallica tribute)

1435 NW Flanders St. Elina Duni, Battle Hymns and Gardens 2346 SE Ankeny St. Karyn Ann

Kelly’s Olympian

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

Mississippi Pizza

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Allen Stone, Yuna, Tingsek

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Greg Trooper

Palace of Industry

5426 N Gay Ave. Mystery String Band

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Black Tusk, Nether Regions, Lord Dying, Towers

Roseland theater

2958 NE Glisan St. Curtis Eller, Strangled Darlings, Professor Gall (9 pm); Dolorean (6 pm)

8 NW 6th Ave. Crystal Castles, Health, Kontravoid

Lents commons

315 SE 3rd Ave. Earth, Fontanelle, Stebmo

9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave.

Rotture

Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St.

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Vanport Drifters Jam

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Converge, Torche, Kvelertak, Nails

Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. John “JB” Butler & Al Craido

chapel Pub

430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin

corkscrew Wine Bar 1669 SE Bybee Blvd. Inspirational Beets

duff’s Garage

Hardcoretet, Trio Subtonic

Hawthorne theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Dan Deacon, Height with Friends, Chester Endersby Gwazda, Alan Resnick

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Ancient Heat, Adventure Galley, Beisbol, Sex Life DJs

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Randy Porter Trio

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Jason Simpson

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Delfayeo Marsalis

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Manx, Thee Four Teens, the Hot LZs

Laurelthirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Mike Coykendall, Matt Bauer, Evan Way (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Hungry, Hungry Hip-Hop (9 pm); Amaya Villazan, Elke Robitaille, Elise LeBlanc (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Allen Stone, Yuna, Tingsek

Mittleman Jewish community center

6651 SW Capitol Highway Beth Karp (live film-scoring of The Golem)

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Mike Brosnan

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Yuna

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

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Channel 3, CBK, Shock Troops

Record Room

8 NE Killingsworth St. Eatrightstayfit (8 pm); Gloomweaver, Disemballerina (5 pm)

Secret Society Lounge

116 NE Russell St. Greg Trooper, Jon Koonce, Dan Weber (8:30 pm); the Barn Door Slammers (6 pm)

Sellwood Public House

2845 SE Stark St.

tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell

tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Atlas and the Astronaut

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. ARC

White eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. The Apheliotropic Orchestra, the Magic Beets (8:30 pm); Brothers of the Hound (5:30 pm)

Wilfs Restaurant and Bar

800 NW 6th Ave. Dick Berk, Tardo Hammer, Dave Captein

FRI. Oct. 26 Al’s den at the crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Buoy LaRue

Aladdin theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Perfume Genius, Dusted

Alberta Rose theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. New Iberians, Philly’s Phunkestra

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Dan Diresta Quartet

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. SepticFlesh, Krisiun, Melechesh, Ex Deo, Inquisition, Anonymia

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. NW Loop Fest: Krystyn Pixton, Cellotronik, Waffle Taco, Bass Shaker Pressley, Noah Peterson, Karma Bomb, Noise with Dean, Wes Turner, Tony Smiley

Biddy McGraw’s

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

Boom Bap!

640 SE Stark St. The Ghost Ease, Thank You Holy Spirit, Amenta Abioto, Slashed Tires

Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Boy & Bean

Buffalo Gap Saloon

6835 SW Macadam Ave. I Digress

camellia Lounge

club 21

8635 N Lombard St. Grammies, Montgomery Park, DNA

Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave. Noise Agency

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave. Afro Knot, Becky Alter

ted’s Berbati’s Pan

Goodfoot Lounge

2621 SE Clinton St. Coconino Trio

Slim’s cocktail Bar

east Burn

203 SE Grand Ave. Hustle and Drone, Transfer, Dead Folk

the Press club

8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic

Star theater

east end

2026 NE Alberta St. 1939 Ensemble, the North Wind

510 NW 11th Ave. Ron Stephens Freakfly Band

1635 SE 7th Ave. The Brandon Santini Band (9 pm); Tough Lovepyle (6 pm) 1800 E Burnside St. Eat Off Your Banjo Bluegrass

the Know

13 NW 6th Ave. Judgement Day, the Tomorrow People 231 SW Ankeny St. Cars & Trains

2035 NE Glisan St. Wannabe Dogs (the Stooges tribute), the Queens of Noise (Runaways tribute), Motley Crude (Motley Crue tribute), Broken Bodies (Misfits tribute)

clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. LaRhonda Steele

doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Husky, Hannah Georgas

duff’s Garage

the Blue diamond

1635 SE 7th Ave. Rich Layton & the Troublemakers, Wilkinson Blades (9 pm); the Hamdogs (6 pm)

the Blue Monk

east Burn

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones 3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones Jam

1800 E Burnside St. Doc Brown Experiment

east end

203 SE Grand Ave. Dollywood Babylon

ella Street Social club

714 SW 20th Place Mufassa, A Ton of Bricks Falling a Thousand Yards, Danny Delegato

Hawthorne theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, MillionYoung

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. The Ezra Weiss Sextet (8 pm); the Colligan Men (5 pm)

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Class M Planets & OBVCP (8 pm); John Chap (6 pm)

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Jacob Merlin, Sarah Billings

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Wolflaut, the Unicornz, Foal

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Talkative, Bubble Cats, Log Across the Washer

Kenton club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Hand That Bleeds, Rollerball, Nasalrod, Super Duper Fun Gun, Party Killer

Laurelthirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Michael the Blind & the Els, Lone Madrone, Youngblood (9:30 pm); Alice Stuart (6 pm)

Memorial coliseum

1401 N Wheeler Ave. Bassnectar, Gramatik, Gladkill

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. La Tropikana (9 pm); Whiskey Puppy (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Weinland, Denver, the Lower 48

Mount tabor theater

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Greensky Bluegrass, Sugarcane (main stage); Northbound Rain (Sideshow Lounge)

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. BassMandolin

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

Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Jon Bunzow

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Shadow of the Torturer, Hail, Thou Shall Kill, WohrBohr

Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Z’Bumba (9 pm); Pete Krebs and His Portland Playboys (6 pm)

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Fontaine Classic, A Happy Death

Slim’s cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. Audios Amigos, Bad Assets

Someday Lounge

125 NW 5th Ave. The Warrior Bros, Nathan Jenkins, Josh Romo, Heatesca, Micah McNelly, Michael Grimes

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Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. George Colligan Quartet (8 pm); the Hutchensons (5 pm)

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Father’s Pocket Watch (8 pm); Annie Vergnetti (6 pm)

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Linda Hornbuckle Band

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Tuck and Roll, Danger Death Ray, Pageripper, Absent Minds

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Pheasant, Jeremy Lee Faulkner, Blake Mackey

Kenton Club

PLAYER SUBSTITUTION: First thing’s first: No, Alberta Substation (2703 NE Alberta St., 284-4491, albertasubstation.com) is not a sandwich shop. Housed in the 80-year-old brown stucco building previously occupied by Thai restaurant Siam Society, the Concordia-area sports pub takes its name from the original tenant, the Northwestern Electric Company, which operated a power station in that spot in the 1930s. So it’s basically a McMenaminsstyle repurposing job, helmed by Circa 33’s Josh Johnston and Jim Hall, except the conversion feels, well, a bit unnatural. A large, arched doorway leads into a room outfitted with cathedral windows, a massive projection screen and a mirrored bar whose top shelf must be accessed by ladder; framed jerseys of disgraced athletes hang on concrete walls next to insulators excavated from the basement and an antique high-voltage rack. It’s like they shoved an upscale man-cave inside an old community playhouse. As incongruous as the mix of faded industrialism and nouveauwestside chic comes across, though, it makes for an appealingly strange atmosphere to watch a Ducks game, even if it’s somewhat inadvertent. And there’s little quibbling with the cocktail menu, in particular the Knee Jerk ($7), a thick, sweet rum drink blending honey syrup, lemon juice and egg whites and dusted with just enough cayenne to leave a pleasant burn. MATTHEW SINGER.

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Medicine Family, Root Jack, Spirit Lake

Laughing Horse Books 12 NE 10th Ave. Cowardice, Subversive, Blackfoot

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. James Dean Kindle & the Eastern Oregon Playboys (9 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. DK Stewart Band (9 pm); Brad Creel & the Reel Deel (6 pm); the Alphabeticians (4 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Weinland, Tango Alpha Tango, Kelli Schaefer

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

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

4830 NE 42nd Ave. Teri and Larry

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Rasputina, Faun Fables

Ted’s Berbati’s Pan

231 SW Ankeny St. Oreganic, Dusu Mali Band

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Bridge City Blues Band

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Cult of Youth, Arctic Flowers, Industrial Park

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Genre, Regal Nonchalant

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave. Darrell Grant

The Press Club

2621 SE Clinton St. The Druthers

Thorne Lounge

4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Tasha Flynn

Tillicum Club

8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Deep Blue Soul Revue

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Little Kitties, Bob’s Apprentice, Gloomsday, A Volcano, Vises

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Sinatra Fest: the Bureau of Standards Big Band

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Everything’s Jake

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St.

Psychro, Big Small (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)

Camellia Lounge

Wilfs Restaurant and Bar

Club 21

800 NW 6th Ave. Tony Pacini Trio

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Groundation, John Brown’s Body, Alcyon Massive

SaT. OCT. 27 al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Buoy LaRue

alberta Rose Theatre

3000 NE Alberta St. Classical Revolution PDX

andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio

ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Hordes of Nebulah (Darkthrone tribute), Dead Conspiracy, Only Zuul, Crime Machine, Aethyrium

510 NW 11th Ave. Rich Halley Quartet 2035 NE Glisan St. Radio Birdbath (Radio Birdman tribute), Dirty Rubbers (the Sonics tribute), the Rolling Shits (the Rolling Stones tribute)

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Planet Krypton

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Boo Frog, Verner Pantons

Slim’s Cocktail Bar

8635 N Lombard St. Power of County, Josh Smith

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave. Papa Dynamite

Ted’s Berbati’s Pan

231 SW Ankeny St. My Big Fat European Halloween: DJs Kypros, Boki

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Deep Blue Soul Review

The Blue Monk

303 SW 12th Ave. Pat Kearns, Future Historians

alberta Rose Theatre

5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic

1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero

ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Reign Cycle, Horse Bodies, the Fontaine Classic, Amy Bleu

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Felim Egan

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Chin Up Rocky, Final Last Words, Stanley and the Search, Projections

Club 21

Clyde’s Prime Rib

Tonic Lounge

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Boys Like Girls, the All-American Rejects, Sunderland

Doug Fir Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Death Frees the Beast, Perfect Monster

830 E Burnside St. Balmorhea, Dragging an Ox Through Water

Tony Starlight’s

Duff’s Garage

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Sinatra Fest: Tony Starlight

Trinity Episcopal Cathedral

1635 SE 7th Ave. White Caps, Planet Crashers, Blast-O-Casters

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Hopsin, Dizzy Wright, SwizZz, Jarren Benton, DJ Hoppa, Tragedy, Kings of eXile

8409 N Lombard St. Bison, Bison; the Hand That Bleeds; Lord; Silent Numbers; Eternal Tapestry; Metanoia; Lepra; Charlie Darwins; Appendixes; Matt McDowell; Blake Mackey; C.E. Searle

Vie de Boheme

Holocene

Record Room

Wilfs Restaurant and Bar

Plew’s Brews

8 NE Killingsworth St.

1530 SE 7th Ave. Tommy Hogan Band

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Garcia Birthday Band (9:30 pm); the Student Loan (4:30 pm)

800 NW 6th Ave. Devin Phillips Quartet

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Paper Bird, dKOTA (9 pm); Aaron Nigel Smith (2 pm)

andina

The Press Club

8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway China Watch

Mississippi Studios

Muddy Rudder Public House

2035 NE Glisan St. Therapists, the Whines, Still Caves

Tillicum Club

1028 SE Water Ave. Buxton, Chamberlin

3552 N Mississippi Ave. The Ukeladies (9 pm); the Dirigible Brothers (6 pm)

3000 NE Alberta St. Cris Kelly, Society’s Dead Age, Patrimony, Iris Shanks, Counterfeit Cash, Sister Midnight

3341 SE Belmont St. Nix 2621 SE Clinton St. James Low, Lewi Longmire

Mississippi Pizza

1001 SE Morrison St. Cadence Weapon, Kingdom Crumbs, Tope

8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music

NEPO 42

Rontoms

600 E Burnside St. The Suicide Notes, Modern Lives

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave. TANK

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Dysrhythmia, Dog Shredder, U Sco

Slim’s Cocktail Bar

8635 N Lombard St. When the Broken Bow, Mr. Frederick

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave. Angel Bouchet Band Jam

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Ed Bennett Quintet

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Au Dunes, the Eeries, the Be Helds, Supersun

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Sinatra Fest: Tony Starlight

Tupai at andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Martin Zarzar

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. John Dover Big Band

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Open Mic

MON. OCT. 29 al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

2346 SE Ankeny St. Morgan Quin

303 SW 12th Ave. Pat Kearns, Strange Language

Landmark Saloon

andina

LaurelThirst

ash Street Saloon

Jade Lounge

4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray 2958 NE Glisan St.

1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs 225 SW Ash St.

Bunk Bar

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Amplified Heat

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Veesuge, Michael Winter (8 pm); Insomniac Folklore, Unwoman (5:30 pm)

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Trixie and the Nasties

LaurelThirst

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

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mr. Ben

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

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. Metal Monday with DJ Blackhawk

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Tom Grant Trio

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. ‘80s Hardcore, Stranger Danger (the Stooges tribute)

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway AC Lov Ring

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Leo

TuES. OCT. 30 al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Pat Kearns, Joel Roth

andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Neftali Rivera

ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Random Axe, Country Trash, Tater Famine, The Lucky Loser Show!

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St.

830 E Burnside St. Bowerbirds, Strand of Oaks, Prypyat

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Sultans of Slide

East Burn

1800 E Burnside St. Rare Monk, Cascadia Soul Alliance

Foggy Notion

Brasserie Montmartre

Goodfoot Lounge

Buffalo Gap Saloon

Hawthorne Hophouse

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Huston, Blue Iris

116 NE Russell St. Midnight Serenaders, the Libertine Belles (9 pm); the Martens Combination (6 pm)

al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

Ghost Alien, Random Noise, the Advisors

Doug Fir Lounge

Biddy McGraw’s

626 SW Park Ave. Djangophiles

Secret Society Lounge

SuN. OCT. 28

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

Crystal Ballroom

East End

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

8 NW 6th Ave. Matt and Kim, Oberhofer

128 NE Russell St. Other Lives, Indians

1332 W Burnside St. Keegan Smith and the Fam, Pepe & the Bottle Blondes, the Slants, DJ Jub Jub (Portland Erotic Ball)

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Black Rose Phantoms, Secnd Best, Angry Lions

Roseland Theater

Wonder Ballroom

147 NW 19th Ave. When That Rough God Goes Riding: A Van Morrison Liturgy

Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. AC Porter

Spare Room

Little Volcano, Pynnacles, the Slidells, Grrrl Friend, Pataha Hiss, the Charts, A Happy Death, Old Wars, DJ Bummer Town USA, DJ the Real Kevin Lee, DJ Hero Worship

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MUSIC

203 SE Grand Ave. Beyond Veronica, the Purrs and the Pynnacles 3416 N Lombard St. Fruit of the Legion of Loom, Lonesome Shack, Junk 88 2845 SE Stark St. The Goodfoot All-Stars 4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Ron Hughes

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CALENDAR Toadies, Helmet, Ume

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Nneka, Fly Moon Royalty

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Quartet

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Crypties, Paradis

Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Levator, Souvenir Driver

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Kory Quinn

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St.

Jazz Jam with Carey Campbell and the Hank Hirsh Trio

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. The Human Equation, Hidden Knives, Year of the Rabbit

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. The Nutmeggers

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Gary War, Sun Angle, Street Nights, Purple Pilgrims

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Skelator, Tanagra, Wild Dogs, Spellcaster

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Waka Flocka Flame, Wooh Da Kid, Reema Major

Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave. All the Apparatus

Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ El Dorado

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Trick with DJ Robb

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. 13 Months of Sunshine: DJs Sahelsounds, Jason Urick, Dullah, Cuica, E3

Matador

1967 W Burnside St. DJ Whisker Friction

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ OverCol

The Crown Room

205 NW 4th Ave. Proper Movement: Advisory, Homemade Weapons, Justin Neal, Delo

The Firkin Tavern

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

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Babylon Death Party, Murderbair

The Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave. Whiskey Wednesday with American Girls

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Endless Sumler

Yes and No

20 NW 3rd Ave. Death Club with DJ Entropy

THURS. OCT. 25 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Dan Bryant

CC Slaughters

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

Fez Ballroom

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

Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Crucial Andy

Someday Lounge

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

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Red Rooster

Swift Lounge

1932 NE Broadway Funky Broadway with DJ Drew Groove

The Crown Room

205 NW 4th Ave. Counter Culture with DJ Coulter

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Addictions

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Kev It Up

FRI. OCT. 26 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Both Josh

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Howl: Mr. Rogers, Nicoluminous, Defunk, Guttstar, Manoj, Hoya, Alden Brown (inside Branx); Worthy, Maximus, Andrew Mataus, Flipsta, Doug de la Fresca with Sara Z, Forrest Avery (outside Branx)

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Sound Glitter with Peter Calandra

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Halloween Party with ‘80s Video Dance Attack

Element Restaurant & Lounge 1135 SW Morrison St. Chris Alice

Fez Ballroom

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

Foggy Notion

3416 N Lombard St. Apocalysp

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Soul Stew with DJ Aquaman

Babysitter, the Rolling Shits (Rolling Stones tribute), Planet Claire (B-52s tribute)

Thirsty Lion

71 SW 2nd Ave. PX Singer-Songwriter Showcase 3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Bo Ayars

White Eagle Saloon

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

The Blue Monk

Wonder Ballroom

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Sportin’ Lifers 3341 SE Belmont St. Pagan Jug Band

128 NE Russell St. Dark Dark Dark, Emily Wells

The Know

639 SE Morrison St. Blank Friday with DJ A-Train

The Crown Room

205 NW 4th Ave. Noise Friday with DJ TJ

The Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave. Trance Mission with DJ Zoxy

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. Beacon Sound

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Syd Rock

SAT. OCT. 27 Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. DJ Sonero

Beech Street Parlor

412 NE Beech St. DJs Shrimp Tempura, Booty Futures

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Blow Pony

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Revolution with DJ Robb

Fez Ballroom

316 SW 11th Ave. Popvideo with DJ Gigahurtz

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Roxy’s Ego Hour

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Jai Ho!: Prashant, Brett Bell

Matador

1967 W Burnside St. Saturday Spooktacular with DJ Drew Groove

Summerween: Bomb Shel Bailey, Child Children, Douchebag Assassin, DJ Radius, DJ Filthy Sweet

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Bad Wizard

SUN. OCT. 28 Matador

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

Plan B

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

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Joey Prude

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. DJ Fuzzboxxx

MON. OCT. 29 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Bob Ham

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Maniac Monday with DJ Doughalicious

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Service Industrial with DJ Tibin

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy VJs

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Magic Beans

TUES. OCT. 30 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Rickshaw

CC Slaughters

Palace of Industry

219 NW Davis St. Girltopia with DJ Robb

Plan B

835 N Lombard St DMTV with DJ Animal

5426 N Gay Ave. The Original James Murphy

Eagle Portland

511 NW Couch St. DJ Notaz

1305 SE 8th Ave. Wicked Awesome Queer Dance Party

Star Bar

Holocene

Rotture

Tiga

Someday Lounge

Tonic Lounge

Ground Kontrol

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

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

Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Holiday

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave.

315 SE 3rd Ave. Blow Pony 125 NW 5th Ave. Bollywood Horror X with DJ Anjali and the Incredible Kid

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Trimmy Trim

The Crown Room

205 NW 4th Ave. Trap Funeral: Djemba Djemba, #MostCustom, Gang$ignS, Cestladore, Photon!

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Howl: Professor Stone, Mr. Wu, Spekt1, PRSN, El Capitan (inside Rotture); Solovox, GlobalRuckus, Ms. Sarah King and the Grooveyard Allstars, Stereovision, Bridgetown Review and the Delectable Grooveyard Dancers (outside Rotture)

WED. OCT. 24

MUSIC

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Bradly 1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Bill Hambone 3100 NE Sandy Blvd. DJ Eclecto

Trader Vic’s

1203 NW Glisan St. DJ Cabana

Yes and No

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

The Whiskey Bar 31 NW 1st Ave.

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UPCOMING IN-STORE PERFORMANCES

YUNA

THURSDAY 10/25 @ 6 PM With her soft vocals and warm acoustic guitar, this singer-songwriter crafts intriguing and infectious ruminations on life, love, and so much more. Growing up in Malaysia, Yuna was first inspired by the universal appeal of acts like No Doubt, The Cranberries, and Fiona Apple. Yuna’s self-titled full-length US debut contains 13 original tracks produced by a who’s-who of today’s best music talent.

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Gerhardt Plays Tchaikovsky Oct 27 | Sat, 7:30 pm Oct 29 | Mon, 8 pm

THE REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND

Carlos Kalmar, conductor • Alban Gerhardt, cello Adès: Asyla • Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme Prokofiev: Suite from Romeo and Juliet One of the most expressive cellists of our time plays the warm and elegant Variations on a Rococo Theme. Plus the sumptuous ballet score of Romeo and Juliet!

Roaring out of the southern Indiana foothills comes the Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band playing a brand of Americana and Blues that stands alone. Delta blues and hillbilly fervor combine with musical acuity sharp as razor wire – best know, this trio is a force to be reckoned with. From virtuoso musicianship to great songwriting, their new album ‘Between The Ditches’ has got it all.

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MUSIC MILLENNIUM VINYL ROOM GRAND OPENING

Come in: 923 SW Washington | 10 am – 6 pm Mon – Fri

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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: REBECCA JACOBSON. 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: rjacobson@wweek.com.

THEATER Art

Lakewood Theatre Company presents French playwright Yasmina Reza’s play about a man who buys a white-onwhite canvas—and whose friends disagree with its merits. Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, 635-3901. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays; 2 pm Sundays Nov. 4, 18, 25 and Dec. 2; 7 pm Sundays Oct. 28 and Nov. 4 and 11; 7:30 pm Wednesday, Nov. 28, through Dec. 2. No performance Thursday, Nov. 22. $30.

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. NW Neighborhood Cultural Center, 1819 NW Everett St., 222-4480. 12 pm and 4 pm Saturdays and Sundays. Closes 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. Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave., 231-3959. 7:30 pm Thursdays, 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Nov. 4. $15-$30.

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

In Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, the seventh president pours himself into skinny jeans, slicks his hair back Fonzie-style and packs a microphone in his low-slung holster. He does beer bongs before signing legislation and orders pizza to the Oval Office. And sometimes, he just sips at a juice box and whines about how much his life sucks. Historical revisionism hits head-spinning heights in Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman’s swashbuckling musical, presented at Portland Playhouse. Bloody Bloody is a vaudeville romp through Jackson’s life, set to an emo-rock soundtrack on a Wild West-inspired stage. This production, directed by Brian Weaver, gets off to a high-octane start. Jackson (Logan Benedict) swaggers onstage like an emo Elvis, dressed in a nipple-exposing white henley and black eyeliner. “I’m wearing some tight, tight jeans and tonight we’re delving into some serious, serious shit,” he croons to the audience, lip curled. The ensemble, in sexed-up frontier garb, jab fists into the air as they belt the opening song, “Populism, yea, yea!” It’s surprising, silly and very funny. But despite the best efforts of an exuberant cast, Bloody Bloody’s energy sometimes slips. The script’s scattershot structure is the primary problem, but the best moments forgo period appropriateness—standout spots include a battle scene of impeccably choreographed dueling duos, a spooky version of “Ten Little Indians” and Melissa Murray’s deadpan turn as Jackson’s wife, Rachel. Bloody Bloody has plenty of oomph—it just needs a bit more focus. REBECCA JACOBSON. Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St., 2050715. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Sunday, Nov. 11. $15-$38.

The Body of an American

At the beginning of Dan O’Brien’s play, two actors introduce themselves as Paul Watson. One then speaks as Terry Gross, the familiar voice of NPR’s Fresh Air. Soon after, the other also adopts the radio host’s serene voice. A few lines later, the conversation draws in the playwright. Suddenly, it’s a rapidfire exchange between three characters performed by only two men. Confounding yet not confusing, it’s a fitting opening to this intricate produc-

tion. Watson—the man doubly introduced in the play’s first lines—is a war journalist who won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for a photo of an American soldier being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu, and The Body of an American (premiering at Portland Center Stage) chronicles his story and his relationship with O’Brien, the playwright. Body is an unconventional exploration of trauma, vulnerability and trust, set on a stark stage as photos and maps slide behind. Though each actor has a primary role—William Salyers is both hardened and wounded as Paul, and the superb Danny Wolohan plays Dan with energy, humor and sorrow—they also take on smaller roles, and occasionally speak as the opposite character. Director Bill Rauch deftly harnesses the play’s fluidity, and it’s a treat to watch these skilled actors flit in and out of roles, altering their gaits and voices with ease. After beginning with matters of global significance, it’s Body’s personal questions—about healing, forgiveness and human connection—that most resonate. REBECCA JACOBSON. 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. Closes Nov. 11. $25-$54.

A Chorus Line

Broadway Across America presents a one-night engagement of the classic musical about a Broadway audition. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 946-7272. 7 pm Sunday, Oct. 28. $25-$70.

Dracula: A Musical Nightmare

The vampire count gets the campy treatment in this comedic Stumptown Stages production. PCPA Brunish Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 381-8686. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays; 2 pm Sundays; and 10 pm Wednesday, Oct. 31, through Nov. 11. $18-$30.

Dracula: Death of Nosferatu

The teenage actors of Oregon Children’s Theatre’s Young Professionals Company present a production based on Bram Stoker’s book. Oregon Children’s Theatre Young Professionals Studio Theatre, 1939 NE Sandy Blvd., 228-9571. 7 pm ThursdaySaturday, 2 pm and 5 pm Sunday, Oct. 25-28. $5-$12.

Duck for President

Think you can escape politics by schlepping the tots to a play? Think again. Oregon Children’s Theatre has pulled a fast one, staging a production about a duck running for the highest office in the land. He supports energy conservation, universal health care and ample vacation time—but sorry, parents, only the kids can vote in this election. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 228-9571. 2 pm and 5 pm Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Nov. 4. $15-$30.

Fall of the Band

Action/Adventure Theatre, which developed the riotous Fall of the House and Captured by Aliens, stages a new, semi-improvised serial comedy about a Portland-based band whose lead singer decides to quit. Each weekend features a new episode, and several local acts have signed on for mini-concerts within each installment. Action/Adventure Theatre, 1050 SE Clinton St. 8 pm and 10:30 pm Fridays, 9 pm Saturdays and 8 pm Sundays through Nov. 18. $12.

The Homecoming

Never a company to shy away from challenge, Defunkt Theatre opens its 13th season with Harold Pinter’s enigmatic play about a son who brings his American wife to meet his working-class family in North London. The

Tony Award-winning drama, described by critic John Lahr as “both a family romance and a turf war,” exposes thorny issues of morality, sex and violence. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 418-2960. 8 pm Thursdays-Sundays through Saturday, Nov. 17. $15-$20, Thursdays are “pay what you will.”

Kinda Creepy

A solo show of spooky tales from Julie Strozyk. Hipbone Studio, 1847 E Burnside St., 247-9338. 7:30 pm Friday, Oct. 26. $12.

Knives in Hens

Hillsboro Artists’ Regional Theatre stages David Harrower’s play about a love triangle in an ambiguous, preindustrial past. HART Theatre, 185 SE Washington St., 693-7815. 7:30 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Nov. 11. $14.

The Last Dance of Dr. Disco

New company King’s Players Northwest stages its first production, a murder mystery about a villain who plots to take over the world by sneaking subliminal messages into disco music. Who’ll be stayin’ alive? Sellwood Playhouse, 901 SE Spokane St., 490-5975. 7 pm Saturdays, 3 pm Sundays through Nov. 4. $10-$15.

boy, who puffs up his chest in an attempt to be a man but (perhaps unwillingly) just parrots the ruthless racism of his alcoholic father. As Sam, Bobby Bermea gives a stirring and balanced performance: As much as Hally’s behavior pains and angers him, he also understands the boy’s confused hypocrisy. Fugard is a bit didactic, and the plot’s metaphors perhaps too tidy, but director Jane Unger (who stepped down as Profile’s artistic director last season) allows the production to burble gently—all the way through its cruelly explosive turns and to its potent conclusion. REBECCA JACOBSON. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 242-0080. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Oct. 28. $16-$30.

Mother Courage and Her Children

Theatre Vertigo opens its season with Bertolt Brecht’s anti-war master-

piece, set during Europe’s religious conflicts of the 17th century. John Steinkamp directs. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 306-0870. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through Nov. 17. $15.

NT Live: The Last of the Haussmans

The next installment in the popular National Theatre Live series is Stephen Beresford’s new play about an aging hippie and her idiosyncratic family. World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St., 235-1011. 1 pm and 5 pm Sunday, Oct. 28; 2 pm and 7 pm Saturday, Nov. 3. $15-$20.

On Killing

Jacob Coleman and Amber Whitehall, both of the Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble, collaborate on a theatrical project about love and melan-

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PERFORMANCE

The Lost Boys Live!

What’s the deal with today’s vampires, huh? In my day, creatures of the night didn’t sparkle, and they certainly weren’t conduits for the virginal desires of hormonal teenage girls. No, the vampires I grew up with hung out in caves, eating Chinese takeout and listening to the Doors. The Lost Boys—Joel Schumacher’s 1987 horror flick about a gang of stylishly mulleted bloodsuckers tormenting Jason Patric and the two Coreys—was a generational touchstone for kids like myself, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to let a bunch of Portland sketch comedians snark all over my childhood. But the folks at Bad Reputation Productions must’ve also spent their formative years obsessing over the movie, because their live stage adaptation is as much a riotously fun homage as it is a gentle mockery. Injecting self-conscious meta-humor into the original screenplay, writers Shelley McLendon and Courtenay Hameister mostly take jabs at the film’s overwhelming Eighties-ness, but the real laughs come from the cast biting down hard on the movie’s hammiest lines. In particular, Tynan DeLong captures the slack-jawed innocence—and vomitous Technicolor wardrobe—of young Corey Haim, and Michael Fetters slips comfortably into Kiefer Sutherland’s great, douchey sneer. The production is remarkably resourceful, utilizing projected comic-book panels, Razor scooters and roller skates, and never feels limited by the tiny theater at the Ethos Music Center. If you’ve never seen the movie, the play is probably a bit insider-y at times. But, hey, if you didn’t watch The Lost Boys every weekend from the ages of 8 to 13 like some of us, that’s your problem. MATTHEW SINGER. Ethos/IFCC, 5340 N Interstate Ave. 8 pm FridaysSaturdays through Nov. 3. $18-$22.

“Master Harold”..and the Boys

[NEW REVIEW] “Master Harold”…and the Boys, set in 1950, is South African playwright Athol Fugard’s most autobiographical play. It’s a fitting place for Profile Theatre, which devotes an entire year to a single playwright, to begin the season: It introduces Fugard as a writer of political but not polemical works that probe apartheid-era prejudice and inequality in his home country. This quietly provocative production takes place on a rainy day in a quaint tearoom in Port Elizabeth, where the shop’s two black employees, Sam and Willie, have been practicing their ballroom steps. The master of the play’s title is 17-year-old Hally, the son of the tea shop’s owners, who joins Sam and Willie for the afternoon. A privileged white boy tucked into a prep-school blazer and tie, Hally is a stand-in for Fugard. It’s an unforgiving portrayal—Hally can be annoying, smug and mean. Sam Benedict plays him as an impetuous and angry

laugHing matter: gretchen Corbett (left) and sharonlee mclean.

BODY AWARENESS (COHO PRODUCTIONS) People with Asperger’s syndrome are often said to lack empathy. But no matter how emphatically Jared, a character in the deft and funny Body Awareness, denies such a diagnosis, his social aptitude certainly comes up short. When he sees his mother crying, he doesn’t ask why—he demands a snack. And when trying to chat with his mother’s partner, he asks her about growing old and unattractive. Playwright Annie Baker, however, has empathy in spades. That’s on full display in this engrossing and humorous production, which examines how we attempt to understand those around us—and how spectacularly we sometimes fail. The play takes place in the fictional Shirley, Vt., a small college town whose denizens make organic stew, quote Deepak Chopra and hang abstract art above overstuffed bookshelves. Her characters are idiosyncratic, flawed and instantly relatable: psychology professor Phyllis, a stubborn feminist; her inquisitive and emotional partner, Joyce; Joyce’s awkward 21-year-old son, Jared, an autodidact and budding lexicographer who still lives at home; and Frank, the free spirit who’s been invited to show his photographs as part of the college’s Body Awareness Week. But Phyllis finds Frank’s subject—nude women of all ages and shapes—exploitative and offensive, going so far as to describe him as “evil manifest.” Joyce disagrees. Conflict mounts. Phyllis (Gretchen Corbett, who also directs) is a bit thinly characterized, and her dismissal of Frank happens too quickly to feel wholly probable, but little else here feels contrived. Sharonlee McLean is marvelous as Joyce: well-meaning and a bit intrusive, with virtuoso inflection and ace comic timing. As Jared, Josh Weinstein slumps his shoulders and thrusts his head forward, eyes darting side to side, like a turtle peeking out from its shell. Weinstein is deeply affecting and never succumbs to caricature, even as he shoves an electric toothbrush into his mouth to soothe himself during uncomfortable moments—such as when he receives halting and hilarious tips about women from Frank (an excellent Gavin Hoffman). Questionable advice aside, Frank brings a generous helping of heart to a trio snarled in rationality. This is, perhaps, the play’s greatest strength: Deftly juggling emotion and reason, it slyly tugs at the heartstrings but is too smart to pander to sappy sentiment. REBECCA JACOBSON.

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choly, which incorporates soundscape, grainy video and old voice recordings. The Headwaters, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9, 289-3499. 8 pm ThursdaysSundays through Oct. 28. $15.

Othello

Bill Alexander is kind of a big deal: He’s won a little thing called the Olivier Award, and he’s a former associate director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Now, he’s directing the season opener at Northwest Classical Theatre Company, which also stars Portland favorite Michael Mendelson as the villainous Iago. Not too shabby. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 971-2443740. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Nov. 4. $20.

Raiz

Milagro’s annual Day of the Dead celebration returns with another original, bilingual production. This year, time turns backward as a cabal of ostracized Aztec gods reunites two young lovers. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7:30 pm Thursdays, 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Nov. 11. $15-$30.

Seven Guitars

August Wilson’s 10-play 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. Closes Nov. 11. $20-$50.

Something to Hide

Vancouver’s Magenta Theater presents Leslie Sands’ very British mystery about a woman who runs over her husband’s mistress. Magenta Theater, 606 Main St., Vancouver, 360-6354358. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturdays; Wednesday, Oct. 24; Thursday Oct. 25; and 2 pm Saturday Oct. 27, through Oct. 27. $12-$15.

The Tell-Tale Heart

This Tears of Joy Theatre production is adapted from Edgar Allan Poe’s short horror story, but all you need to know is it features murderous puppets—lifesize murderous puppets. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 248-0557. 8 pm FridaysSaturdays through Oct. 28. $5-$17.

That Hopey Changey Thing

That Hopey Changey Thing is like reverse dinner theater: Rather than audience members munching on their meal, it’s the actors sipping wine and gobbling pie. But unlike most dinner theater, where the show is fluff, Richard Nelson’s play—set on the night of midterm elections two years ago, and cribbing its title from a Palinism—plumbs knotty family dynamics and the ragged state of liberal politics. It’s also the first in a planned four-play cycle, which will follow a single family, the highspirited Apple clan, over four years

(director Scott Yarbrough, cast and crew have all committed to the project). The dinner here takes place at the upstate New York home of schoolteacher Barbara Apple, who lives with her uncle Benjamin (a rambunctious and affecting Bruce Burkhartsmeier), a former actor who’s developed amnesia since his heart attack. Barbara’s three siblings join them: a lawyer, a secondgrade teacher and a writer, who totes along her actor boyfriend. For much of the production, it’s as if we’re eavesdropping on so many conversations between disaffected liberals. Campaign finance, shovel-ready stimulus packages and the Middle East are weary topics. The personal conversations are more engaging, and talk flows easily from the playful to the weighty. Though arrows never fly—this is a family that tortures by tickling—the skilled cast rouses both quiet empathy and genuine laughter. As an isolated production, Hopey Changey is perhaps too muted. But as a prelude to a four-play cycle, it’s a compelling introduction to a family worth knowing. REBECCA JACOBSON. Winningstad Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 235-1101. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Oct. 28. $22.25-$41.25.

Three in a Seance: Storytellers Three Halloween Show

Sarah Hauser, Anne Penfound and Anne Rutherford tell supernatural stories. Artichoke Community Music, 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd., 232-8845. 8 pm Saturday, Oct. 27. $15.

COMEDY Ari Shaffir

Stand-up from the comedian behind The Amazing Racistpranks and the podcast Ari Shaffir’s Skeptic Tank. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, Oct. 25-27. $15-$25.

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.”

Halloween Spectacular

Curious Comedy celebrates the season with a special installment of the Neutrino Project, with groups of improvisers racing to whip up a horror flick and relying on audience participation for title suggestions, donated props and cameo appearances. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, Oct. 26-27; 8 pm Wednesday, Oct. 31. $12-$15.

Portland Theatresports Tournament

Brody takes its popular improv compe-

music inspired by Shakespeare, including settings by Benjamin Britten, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Verdi, Berlioz, Strauss, the great contemporary American song composer Ned Rorem, plus lesser-known composers such as Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, Steven Sametz and more. Agnes Flanagan Chapel at Lewis &Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, 427-8701. 7:30 pm Saturday, Oct. 27 at Lewis & Clark College’s Agnes Flanagan Chapel; and 2 pm Sunday, Oct. 28 at First Presbyterian Church. $11-$22.

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Seventh Species

fall of the band tition citywide, with teams of Portlandarea performers building scenes from audience suggestions. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 10 pm Fridays Oct. 26 and Nov. 9; 9:30 pm Saturdays Oct. 27, Nov. 3 and Nov. 10; 9:30 pm Thursday, Nov. 8. $9-$12.

certs, he leads his quartet back to Portland for the first time in more than a decade. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 7 pm and 9:30 pm Thursday, Oct. 25. $20-$25.

Filmusik

The Unscriptables heads to Swinemumps (a fictional Hogwarts rival) for a Harry Potter-inspired show. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 309-3723. 8 pm Saturdays through Nov. 24. “Pay what you will.”

It was nobody’s business but the Turks’ when they re-created Star Wars in the Cappadocia desert, as they did to weird effect in 1981’s Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam. With the help of voice actors (in a translation of the original script), sound-effects artists, a chamber orchestra and a score by Filmusik head honcho Galen Huckins, the irreverent Portland film series brings that oddball remake, featuring gratuitous karate, proliferation of amputations, cherry-colored Wookiees and plenty of explosions, back from the dead. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 7 pm ThursdaysSaturdays through Nov. 3. $12.

Spectravagasm

The Golem

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 Fridays-Saturdays through Oct. 27. $10 suggested donation.

Portland composer-pianist Beth Karp accompanies the silent film The Golem with her original score. Mittleman Jewish Community Center, 6651 SW Capitol Highway, 244-0111. 7:30-9:30 pm Thursday, Oct. 25. $8-$10.

CLASSICAL

Frequent guest-star cellist and OSO artist-in-residence Alban Gerhardt returns to solo in Tchaikovsky’s popular Variations on a Rococo Theme, and the orchestra plays one of the 20th century’s finest ballet scores, Prokofiev’s dark Romeo and Juliet. But the big news is a major work by the great hope of contemporary English music, composer (and now part-time Los Angeles resident) Thomas Ades’ wild and wondrous Asyla. Gerhardt will also perform a Bach cello suite and give master classes in free appearances around town. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 2281353. 7:30 pm Saturday, Oct. 27; and 8 pm Monday, Oct. 29. $21-$95.

Scary Movie

No, not those Wayans Brothers movies—this is Brody’s annual Halloween show, which riffs on classic horror and sci-fi flicks. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7:30 pm Saturdays Oct. 20 and 27; 8 pm Friday, Oct. 26. $9-$12.

School of Sorcery

Classical Revolution PDX

Wanna hear something really scary? Classical music suitable for zombie attacks by Shostakovich (String Quartet No. 3), Schubert, SaintSaëns, Portland composers Beth Karp, Galen Huckins (the evil genius behind Filmusik) and Kevin Elmore, plus more—including silent film, aerialists, spoken-word artists and more fun frights. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 8 pm Saturday, Oct. 27. $10.

Delfeayo Marsalis

The least famous member of the celebrated jazz clan is also a talented trombonist, composer, producer and arranger, and in these PDX Jazz con-

Oregon Symphony

Resonance Ensemble

The superlative vocal group drawn from the city’s finest choirs sings

The Oregon composers’ collective presents homegrown, contemporary works (plus a piece by Maurice Ravel) for (mostly) piano and voice, along with improvisations by some of the state’s busiest postclassical music creators, including Jack Gabel, Gary Noland, Paul Safar, Jeff Winslow and more. Colonial Heights Presbyterian Church, 2828 SE Stephens St., 2353714. 8 pm Saturday, Oct. 27. $5-$20.

DANCE

Best Howl-Oh-Ween Celebration

Contemporary dancer Luciana Proaño performs in her spookiest masks and costumes, accompanied by JB Butler on guitar and effects and Flora Sussely on creepy song-singing. Scary poetry and stories are also planned. Prizes will be awarded for the guests in the best costumes. Boxlift Building, 333 NE Hancock St., 503-866-3346. 8 pm Friday, Oct. 26. $10.

GATHER: A Dance About Convergence

As the election looms and partisan bickering divides us, Portland contemporary choreographer Tere Mathern and jazz composer-percussionist Tim DuRoche have collaborated on GATHER: A Dance About Convergence, which is more interested in exploring what brings us together. Mathern will be joined by dancers Kristine Anderson, Éowyn Emerald Barrett, Lyra ButlerDenman, Rachel Slater and Joshua Thrower; DuRoche’s team includes Blue Cranes saxophonists Reed Wallsmith and Joe Cunningham, plus bassist Jon Shaw. Both camps will converge as they attempt to delineate the meanings of community and interconnectedness. Conduit Dance , 918 SW Yamhill St., Suite 401, 221-5857. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays Oct. 25-27 and Nov. 1-3. $14-$17.

Naked Girls Reading/Critical Hit Burlesque Halloween Show

Get an eyeful and an earful at Naked Girls Reading, which goes the seasonal route with classic and modern horror stories, followed by burlesque performances in A Devilish Night of Dancing Ghouls. Austin’s Coco Lectric (New Orleans Burlesque Festival’s Queen of Burlesque in 2010) joins in; The locals include Angelique DeVil, Baby Le’Strange, the Infamous Nina Nightshade and others. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 8 pm Tuesday, Oct. 30. $10-$18. 21+.

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of stacked blankets impaled by steel beams. These works reference her recent move to New York City. She may have left Oregon behind for the steel-girdered metropolis, but the Native American-inﬂuenced blanket motif so endemic to her work and her Northwest roots has remained. These sculptures elegantly repurpose and recontextualize the artist’s past, adapting her signature materials to her new cosmopolitan environment. Through Oct. 27. PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.

Paul Soriano: Young American

Painter Paul Soriano channels Caravaggio in Young American, a suite of male nudes. In The Call Boy, he directly references the Renaissance master’s Youth With a Ram. In The Anarchist, a portrait of a young man sitting seductively on an American flag, Soriano displays a gift for depicting milky flesh and sumptuous drapery. Elsewhere in the show he gives us more men in tight jeans and Speedos, reclining on pink sheets, touching their feet, and wearing hemp anklets as they pout and pose. It’s a twinkalicious celebration of historically informed homoerotic desire, rendered with a polished figurative technique. Through Oct. 27. Cock Gallery, 625 NW Everett St., No. 106, 552-8686.

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Andrea Schwartz-Feit: Full

Leaving behind the fastidious order of her grid-based works, Andrea Schwartz-Feit employs a versatile curlicue motif in her new series. Variously resembling trees, fish, fences and Slinkies, this motif allows the artist a gestural freedom and allusiveness that she is obviously relishing. The show’s most compelling works, Amnesia and Innards, isolate the coil motif in a window of illumination, cordoned off from an otherwise waxy, black night. The artist complements the paintings with encaustic sculptures that are by turns whimsical and stoic. Liberated from the grid, Schwartz-Feit has found a new lyricism. Through Oct. 27. Butters Gallery, 520 NW Davis St., 2nd floor, 248-9378.

Corey Arnold: Graveyard Point

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 sockeyesalmon-fishing 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 1970s lives on in the work of Seattle-based painter Francis Celentano. His works are boldly patterned, often boldly colored, and always hyperbusy, with vertigo-inducing eﬀects that boggle the eye. In his latest series, he paints on many diﬀerent shapes of canvases, including lozenges, which are diamond-shaped. Many of the show’s standout pieces make use of patterns that are remi-

niscent of Native American decorative motifs. Through Oct. 27. Laura Russo Gallery, 805 NW 21st Ave., 226-2754.

Heike Brachlow: Six Impossible Things

Six Impossible Things is a damn cool title for an art show (or a Lewis Carroll reference), and Heike Brachlow’s exhibition lives up to the moniker. Her six kilnformed glass sculptures seem to defy the laws of gravity, balancing precariously in Equinox 1 and nestling together with uncanny intricacy in Fugue and the subseries Theme and Variations. In Somewhere I and II, shapes that resemble Stealth bombers appear to ﬂoat on the end of metal hooks. It’s a triumph of aesthetic sleightof-hand. Through Oct. 27. Bullseye Gallery, 300 NW 13th Ave., 227-0222.

MK Guth: Best Wishes

There’s something unsettlingly true about the photograph Bar by MK Guth. It’s a self-portrait of the artist sitting in a Las Vegas hotel bar, decked out with two braids tied to her head as part of a performance-art piece. These aren’t ordinary braids. They’re each 300 feet long, piled up behind her on the ﬂoor in an enormous heap. Isn’t this what we all do when we sit at a bar, trying to look cool or pick people up: bring our baggage with us, the accoutrements of vanity, which we use to prop up our egos, oblivious of how ridiculous we may look? There may not even be anybody else in the room, as is the case in Guth’s photo, but our props take up all the extra space, metastasizing on a mission to eat the world. Ah, vanity, thy name is not Woman, but Human. Through Nov. 27. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521.

Marie Watt: Skywalker/Skyscraper

Fabric and blankets have long been Marie Watt’s calling card, and in the installations of her current show, she deploys them in rainbow arcs across the gallery walls. But the show’s most conceptually sophisticated works, Axis Mundi and Babel, consist

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

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Suzy Poling: Elemental Forces

Suzy Poling’s varied and immersive show, Elemental Forces, marks a strong debut for Disjecta’s new curator-in-residence, Josephine Zarkovich. The show incorporates digital video, photographs, prints, sculpture and music for an engaging aggregate eﬀect. In the nonproﬁt’s smaller exhibition space, the Vestibule, Brittany Powell covers the walls with black-and-white paintings that parody the soft-core porn aesthetic of American Apparel ads. Through Oct. 28. Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate Ave., 286-9449.

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 gallery-filling installation and incorporates arching shapes that connect the floor to the ceiling. Through Oct. 27. Chambers @ 916, 916 NW Flanders St., 227-9398.

Yoshihiro Kitai: Four New Works on Paper

For years, Yoshihiro Kitai has exhibited medium- to large-format works on paper at Pulliam Gallery and other venues such as the nowdefunct (and much-missed) Portland Art Center. In this month’s show at Pulliam, Kitai has created four smaller-scale works that incorporate cloud motifs. These clouds seem to be communicating with one another via raindrops, in the form of white dots linking them up, down and across, like communication lines. If clouds could speak, this is what they would look like doing it. Either Kitai has a visionary imagination, or he’s smoking something really good. Through Oct. 27. Pulliam Gallery, 929 NW Flanders St., 228-6665.

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THURSDAY, OCT. 25 Wendy J. Pabich

Environmental scientist Wendy J. Pabich was so shocked by her own water usage she decided to explore the water footprint of all the products she used, process her own wastewater and take other extreme measures to reduce her personal water uses. She breaks it all down in her new ridiculously long-titled book, Taking on Water: How One Water Expert Challenged Her Inner Hypocrite, Reduced Her Water Footprint (Without Sacrificing a Toasty Shower) and Found Nirvana. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.

The Mystery Box Show

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 24 Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie has spent his prolific, 20-year literary career as a daring and hilarious observer of life as a Native American growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. In his new book, Blasphemy, Alexie gathers 15 of his classic stories with 15 new pieces in a comprehensive anthology. Bagdad Theater & Pub, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 236-9234. 7 pm. $27, includes book copy.

Think and Drink series

The final conversation of Oregon Humanities’ Think and Drink series about how technology shapes our future will feature Lewis & Clark Law School professor Tung Yin and former chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force Gen. Merrill A. McPeak to discuss the future of robotic warfare. Because the drones are coming. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 6:30 pm. Free. 21+.

Portland in the 1960s

Just like the masses of overeducated, unemployed twentysomethings currently invading Portland, the city experienced a similar influx in the ’60s when it was overrun by hippies in what Newsweek deemed an “imminent threat.” Author Polina Olsen explores the stinky revolution in her new book, Portland in the 1960s: Stories from the Counterculture. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651. 7 pm. Free.

Nothing entertains quite like somebody else’s sexual misadventures. Revel in the dark fantasies and awkward hilarity of five strangers sharing real-life experiences in the storytelling showcase the Mystery Box Show. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7:30 pm. $10-$12.

Ariel Gore and Jenny Forrester

Sure, you might have joked about your survival plan for the impending zombie apocalypse, but have you started hoarding grain and weapons? Writers Ariel Gore and Jenny Forrester have compiled an anthology, The People’s Apocalypse, of those awaiting the end times, from extreme survivalists and environmentalists to anarchists and fundamentalist Christians. Whether it’s rising tides, the walking dead or a 90-foot Jesus, the end is coming. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

FRIDAY, OCT. 26 Hillsboro Library Friends Book Sale

For those who prefer the nostalgic tactility of real books to the electronic tablets of our eventual computer overlords, Hillsboro Library Friends are hosting their annual book sale with more than 50,000 items available from novels and cookbooks to vinyl records and audiobooks. Hillsboro Main Library, 2850 NE Brookwood Parkway, 615-6500. 10 am-8 pm Mondays-Fridays, 10 am-6 pm Saturdays, noon-6 pm Sundays through Nov. 4. Free admission.

Booty Call Reading Series

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the occasional reading series, Booty Call is back with a lineup of local and national authors sharing their titil-

lating tales and sexy stories for a night of good, dirty fun. Readers will include Paula Bomer (Nine Months), Michael Heald (Goodbye to the Nervous Apprehension) and Nancy Rommelmann (The Bad Mother) with musical guest Julia Kobos and sexy trivia. The Blue Monk, 3341 SE Belmont St., 595-0575. 8 pm. $5. 21+.

MONDAY, OCT. 29 Close Is Fine Release Party

Documenting the seemingly inconsequential lives of residents of a small Wisconsin town, Eugene-based author Eliot Treichel is releasing his new collection of short stories, Close Is Fine, with a reading and Q&A session. Learn what lurks behind the cheese. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 5-8 pm. Free.

John Perry

Although 92 percent of wasted hours can be linked to watching cat videos, philosopher John Perry argues procrastination might not be such a bad thing if we know how to take advantage of it. In his new book, The Art of Procrastination, Perry explains structured procrastination can actually lead to the accomplishment of surprising acts of genius. Let the slacking off begin. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651. 7 pm. Free.

TUESDAY, OCT. 30 History of Amusement Parks in Oregon

Take a ride through the history of Oregon’s amusement parks (without the risk of vomiting or death) at the next Oregon Encyclopedia Night. The local history group will share photos and video footage of the state’s famous and obscure parks and carnivals. Grab a beer and a funnel cake and hold on. McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 6698610. 6:30 pm. Free.

Matthew Inman

If it weren’t for the helpful insights of Matthew Inman, a New York Times bestselling author and the creator of the Oatmeal website, thousands might have already been murdered by their household pets. Inman is now sharing his advice with a larger audience through his new book, How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

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TODD GRIMSON, STABS AT HAPPINESS The title story of Todd Grimson’s new collection, Stabs at Happiness (Schaffner Press, 216 pages, $24.95), is made almost literal: It recounts an art-punk lesbian— Wavves’ “Surf Goths” on the earbuds—strapping on a dildo to peg a vacantly compliant emo boy she’d met in a chatroom. At the end of the story, she mixes up the details, accidentally rememberTell the creeps to come and get her. ing more intimacy than was real when describing the encounter to an older wheelchair-bound blogger with multiple sclerosis. This fictional confidant is a surrogate for the author. Portland’s Grimson has been mostly housebound since a 1991 MS relapse, and spends his days writing novels and reading about a book a day. In the ’90s, he wrote intense, savage, fever-dream vampire books that made fans of James Ellroy, Katherine Dunn and the Oulipian experimental writer Harry Mathews. Grimson’s short fiction, though, is something else altogether. He’d originally written the fiction under a pen name, Innocente Fontana, to separate those stories from the vampire fiction he’d created as Todd Grimson. In their best moments, Grimson’s stories bear traces of Kafka and of Brian Evenson’s detached religious brutalism, the uncanny narrative syllogisms of Borges or Barthelme. “Batista’s Lieutenant” is a kaleidoscope of petty violence and deadpan comic self-interest centered on a Cuban Revolution whose sides seem arbitrary, war a mere distraction from private ambitions and slights. “What the Matter Is” details a fictional trip by 1930s movie star Jean Harlow to San Francisco, in which she tries to become her own reputation: making of herself a counterfeit Harlow as tawdry as the sex symbol she’s been made out to be. “Nothing in Tangier” is dominated, on the other hand, less by sex and violence than the glint of suspicion in bright sun. The tale of a North African disappearance is obsessed with unknowability and the existential other, and thus also haunted by the ghost of writer Paul Bowles, who was Grimson’s mentor—once upon a time—in Morocco. But while Grimson’s fiction thrives on the alien and the uncanny, it falters when close to home. “Wrong,” a story of skuzzy old-Portland drunks and hookers with a prominent scene featuring the original Hung Far Low, is an overfamiliar aggregation of local-noir bar stories not quite redeemed by the story’s lingering final image. But the familiar is rare in Stabs, and the stories’ occasional missteps and overexplanations are less prominent than their rewarding moments of grim wonderment. Grimson has created his own dingy vernacular of the strange and estranged, a world awash in the dazed impossibility of things as they are. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. READ: For more information about Todd Grimson, visit toddgrimson.com.

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and the storyline occasionally slow, Brothers is heartfelt, informative and empowering. DREW LENIHAN. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Tuesday, Oct. 30.

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MOVIES

The Cabin in the Woods

Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Day Film Festival

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Three short films about alternative health and acupuncture. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Oct. 24.

Alex Cross

D- Remember Kiss the Girls and Along Came A Spider? Those generic, detective-on-the-trail-of-aserial-killer movies, starring Morgan Freeman as the brilliant Alex Cross? No? Well, Cross is back, and this time he’s played by Tyler Perry, of Madea fame. Alex Cross, directed by schlock peddler Rob Cohen (xXx, The Fast and the Furious), is the worst kind of Hollywood product: middling, forgettable and kind of sad. As the film begins, Cross learns there’s a psycho killer on the loose he must track down using his astonishing mind powers, because—that’s right—he can get inside the minds of killers. The biggest unintentional laugh comes when Ed Burns (as Perry’s partner and best buddy) yells at Cross to “get inside his head!” Matthew Fox plays the seriously gaunt killer. If he lost the weight in some attempt at Method acting, then it’s even more of a shame, because this is one spectacularly awful performance. Fox distills every psychopathic villain from the past 20 years of cinema and reduces them to twitches, bug-eyed stares and overly mannered pauses with every line reading. You’d think Alex Cross would have us begging for the return of Freeman, because Perry is to Freeman as Coyote is to Road Runner: He just can’t win. But no—it’s really just best to forget this franchise exists at all. PG13. ERIK MCCLANAHAN. Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard.

Arbitrage

B It is strange to discover this, but Arbitrage is the first and only time that actor Richard Gere (Days of Heaven) and director Paul Verhoeven (Showgirls) have ever worked together. Never mind, of course, that the film is actually directed by feature-film rookie Nicholas Jarecki, rather than Paul Verhoeven. Jarecki so thoroughly channels the hollow-man ambitions, smug moral posturing and incongruous driving-synth atmospherics of 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.

Argo

A- Halfway through Ben Affleck’s Argo, the main characters stage a script reading for a Flash Gordon rip-off they claim to be prepping for the screen. It’s 1980, and there are green Wookies, gold-chained slave babes and even a Fu Manchu-sporting Emperor Ming type gathered at a table. They start reading—with terrible delivery—perhaps the most hackneyed post-Star Wars script since, well, Flash Gordon. The result is hilarious. Then something harsh happens. The dia-

logue fades, replaced by violent political speak from the Iranian revolution in which 52 Americans are being held hostage. This stark juxtaposition perfectly captures the tone of this thriller, a bizarre story of a joint mission between the Canadian government, the CIA and Hollywood to extract six Americans hiding in Tehran by posing as a Canuck film crew on a location shoot. It sounds like a recipe for a comic romp, but Affleck is too smart for that. A decade ago, that sentence would have drawn laughs. But over the course of the three films he’s directed, Affleck has positioned himself as something of an auteur in the Michael Mann mold: slick, concise and able to tell complex stories in a straightforward manner, with subtly kinetic camera flourishes punctuating brilliant performances. From its opening sequence of rioters storming the U.S. embassy in Tehran to its white-knuckle finale, this is a film where suspense is rendered not through violence but emotional gravity. By not pandering to sentimentality, Affleck has taken what others would have turned into farce and emerged with one of the year’s best pictures. R. AP KRYZA. Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Sandy, St. Johns.

Bidder 70

B [ONE NIGHT ONLY] Bidder 70 tells

the story of Tim DeChristopher, who, at age 26, made national headlines by derailing a 2008 government lease auction for oil and gas companies. DeChristopher, who simply held up the paddle he’d received after sneaking into the auction, saved $2 million of precious land. In this modernday version of Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang, DeChristopher grows from anonymous vigilante to outspoken, somewhat self-righteous activist. Set mostly in Utah, the film follows his efforts to spread awareness about the Bush administration’s plan to give parcels of land to oil and natural gas companies. From West Virginia, where DeChristopher witnesses the horrors of mountaintop removal for the coal industry, to the fallout of the oil and gas industry in his home state of Utah, Bidder 70 charts the contemporary struggles of the environmental movement. While the film has beautiful shots of the American West, it grows cliché in its repetitive shots of an awe-filled DeChristopher walking through nature. And while the content is compelling, the narrative sometimes gets lost. The introduction of DeChristopher’s cultish advocacy group, Peaceful Uprising, is less of a plot point than a commercial break, and the free press for the group is just as insincere as the Kony video. That said, the story does deliver a sense that individuals have the power to effect change. DREW LENIHAN. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Wednesday, Oct. 24.

Brothers on the Line

A [ONE NIGHT ONLY] Brothers

on the Line begins in 1920s Detroit with the terrible working conditions of the automobile factories. From there, the film follows the beginnings of the automobile industry’s unions and their fight for collective bargaining rights. The brothers in question— Walter, Roy and Victor Reuther—were industry workers and shop-floor organizers who struggled for fair pay, pensions and safe working conditions. The three faced police brutality and even assassination attempts from automobile industry elites. Through archival footage and interviews with politicians, old labor organizers and members of the Reuther family, the documentary incorporates both disturbing shots of labor riots and compelling dialogue. The director, Sasha Reuther, is Victor’s granddaughter, and while some of the cinematography feels antiquated

A [THREE NIGHTS ONLY] How does

someone in my position discuss The Cabin in the Woods? It’s pretty much guaranteed I’m going to ruin something without even meaning to, so it’s probably best to avert your eyes right now. Before you do, though, allow me to offer a painfully generic imperative: Go see this film. It’s some of the craziest fun you’ll have at the theater all year. Cabin’s sharply satirical edge will engender comparisons to Scream, but that franchise celebrated the conventions it gleefully subverted, while this film demolishes tropes with a tinge of disdain. In truth, a more apt companion piece is Rubber, the 2010 French curio ostensibly about a murderous, sentient car tire. It’s a movie that openly questioned its own existence, wondering—aloud—why anyone would want to watch a film about a killer tire. Similarly, Cabin questions the use of the slasher flick, with its ever-revolving casts of stupid kids making stupid decisions and getting their stupid heads snared in bear traps. Its response is to throw the whole institution out. In its exhilarating, blood-smeared climax, the movie sends enough horror clichés flying at the screen to give fanboys an aneurysm, and it feels like one great, giant purge—the end of horror as we know it. And really, after witnessing a dude get stabbed through the chest by a unicorn, what else is there to even see? Oh no, I’ve said too much. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Fifth Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm FridaySaturday, 3 pm Sunday, Oct. 26-28.

Chasing Mavericks

A biopic about Jay Moriarity, a surfing phenom who sought to ride some of California’s toughest waves. Screened after WW press deadlines, but look for a review at wweek.com. PG. Clackamas, Mill Plain, Living Room Theaters, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.

The Children of Terra Firma

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A locally produced sci-fi flick about a UFO cult and strange disappearances in the woods outside Eugene. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Sunday, Oct. 28.

Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel

A fashion documentary about the late Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue editor. PG13. Fox Tower.

Eco-Horror Spooktacular

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A mash-up of 1970s clips about environmental devastation and dystopia, heavy on the freaky creatures: man-eating rabbits, sludge monsters and toxic worms. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Monday, Oct. 29.

Ekimmu: The Dead Lust

Andy Koontz’s low-budget, locally shot horror film, about a series of mysterious murders and crimes. Not screened for critics. Living Room Theaters.

Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn

[REVIVAL] A young Sam Raimi’s very bloody yet absurdly comic romp, featuring Bruce Campbell chainsawing his own hand—which comes back to fight him. Hollywood Theatre.

Fat Kid Rules the World

C+ Life sucks for 17-year-old Troy

Billings. His mom’s dead, and his dad and brother disdain his fondness for multiplayer online war games. Aside from that virtual community, Troy hasn’t got any friends. And girls? Ha. Troy is also fat—really fat. As the film begins, he’s contemplating tossing himself in front of traffic. But this is Fat Kid Rules the World, not Fat Kid Goes Splat, and Troy is saved when Marcus, a greasy-haired junkie in a

THE GOATHERD’S GRIP: Halle Berry and Tom Hanks.

CLOUD ATLAS When an author calls a book “unfilmable,” it takes some serious chutzpah to raise a challenge. Directors Lana and Andy Wachowski (of the Matrix franchise) and Tom Twyker (who directed Run Lola Run) have gall to spare. For their sprawling adaptation of David Mitchell’s 500-plus-page novel Cloud Atlas, they amassed a $100 million budget to make a film that runs nearly three hours. The result is a marathon masquerade ball of six different plots, between which the film repeatedly hops—sometimes in clever ways, and sometimes as obnoxiously as rapid-fire channel changing. But the dizzying structure spreads the viewer’s loyalties thinner than water: With so many plots and characters to follow, none end up demanding our emotional investment. You start to care about a character, and then they disappear for a half-hour. The six tales: An American (Jim Sturgess) takes a high-seas voyage in 1849. A young Brit (Ben Whishaw) works in the 1930s as an amanuensis to a grouchy composer (Jim Broadbent, who seems to be having far more fun than anyone else). A journalist (Halle Berry) investigates shady nuclear dealings in 1970s San Francisco. A cheeky publisher named Timothy Cavendish (Broadbent again, even better this time) is confined to an old-folks home in modernday London. In 2144, a clone in shiny Neo-Seoul uncovers the truth about the consumer system she serves. And finally, in a faraway, post-apocalyptic future, a scraggly goatherd (Tom Hanks) and a traveler (Berry) unite against bloodthirsty villains. In this last tale, the goatherd is haunted by a green-faced goblin in a top hat (who looks like the love child of Tim Burton and the Grinch), and Hanks and Berry speak in borderline-incomprehensible pidgin English— it’s like Forrest Gump’s down-homey accent got deeper, earthier and way less intelligible. Perhaps plonking the actors in numerous roles, across all six stories, was supposed to help unite the largely disparate threads, or at least drive home the film’s precious platitudes about the interconnectivity of all lives. But the cast is cloaked in such ridiculous makeup that the stunt is more distracting than cunning. Berry dons whiteface and blond finger-wave curls as a Jewish aristocrat, Sturgess and James D’Arcy get Asian makeovers, and Hugo Weaving dresses up in drag as a slit-eyed, malevolent nurse. Facial tattoos feature prominently. And rather than laughing with the audience at these preposterous transformations—save a few sly winks at some of the gender swaps—the Cloud Atlas cast remains determinedly solemn-faced. A leaden sobriety saddles much of the film. As a wild-haired Broadbent and his gang of doddering friends plot a jailbreak from their retirement home, they provide much-needed comic relief, but the film quickly returns to labored philosophizing. In trying to speak about everything—the fight against oppression, the thirst for freedom, the pursuit of truth, the triumph of good over evil—Cloud Atlas ends up saying very little. “There is a method to this tale of madness,” Cavendish says early in the film. Maybe. But in the end, I wasn’t so concerned with method—I just wanted a little more fun, a bit less makeup and a lot more Broadbent. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. overcast, with a chance of getting really lost.

C+ SEE IT: Cloud Atlas opens Friday at Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Lloyd Center, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Sherwood, Tigard.

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threadbare sweater, tackles him away from the oncoming bus. The two go on to form a punk-rock band and forge an unlikely friendship—unpredictability is not this film’s strong suit. Director Matthew Lillard (best known for playing Shaggy in the Scooby-Doo movies) has only moderate concern for the thin-as-broth plot, but the sincerity of the performances helps compensate: As Troy, Jacob Wysocki is self-deprecating and sympathetic; Matt O’Leary as motormouth Marcus has questionable motives but remains quite likable; and strongest of all is Billy Campbell as Troy’s conflicted dad, whose drill-sergeant veneer cloaks a deep well of compassion. Fat Kid has some distractingly juvenile moments—Troy’s fantasies about girls standing under the sprinklers in chem class, for example, and an unfortunate case of stage fright (projectile vomit in 3…2…1)—but it’s best as a more modest story about misfits who unite to overcome the odds against them. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Living Room Theaters.

Faust

A- Russian auteur Aleksandr

Sokurov’s Faust begins with a mirror hung pristinely in the heavens like a Réné Magritte apple; this image fades gently into a corpse’s floppy penis and a slimy doctor’s hand reaching into the body’s fetid intestinal cavity. The sequence is telling: This Faust is an airy legend made bawdy flesh. Though the cinematography is soft and gauzily lit, medieval Germany is here an ugly place of foul humours. The actors, including Faust himself (Johannes Zeiler) seem forever sick or drunk, poisoned by the foulness of life and the air. The devil to whom Faust sells his soul is a louche, hunched pawnbroker with a body of ill-formed clay and a penis for a tail. Though an esteemed scientist, Faust himself lusts merely for a bit of scratch and a roll in the hay with a young woman he knows only as an object. Though the actors speak German, it is difficult not to see the film as a rough parable about Russia’s fallen state, in which ultimate power is no longer knowledge but access, and corruption is grimly omnipresent,. “There is no such thing as good,” says Faust’s assistant, “but evil exists in the world.” It is a darkly hallucinogenic, often ponderous vision of the old doctor—a collection of philosophic fever dreams in high language and low places, with unexpected beauty amid tedium. It is a film that asks for a great deal of work from the viewer; it rewards this effort with a sublime bitterness. Fair deal. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Saturday and 4:30 pm Sunday, Oct. 27-28.

Filmusik: Turkish Star Wars

Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam, the Turkish version of the space Western, stole footage from the original and has everything George Lucas’ version lacked, including fight scenes in mosques and Wookie carnage. Filmusik is performing the entire soundtrack live and in (mostly) intelligible English. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Thursday-Sunday, Nov. 1-3.

Flow State

The latest ski film from director Warren Miller. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. 7:30 pm Friday, Oct. 26.

Frankenweenie

B “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 has been that he doesn’t have any original ideas left—that all he’s capable of 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 à la Frankenstein’s monster. So, yes, Tim Burton is now remaking himself. But maybe that’s what he should have been doing all

along, because 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 black-and-white stop motion (and shot in thankfully unobtrusive 3-D), the film goes places the original couldn’t, particularly with its creature-feature climax. And 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. Clackamas, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV.

Halloween

[REVIVAL] John Carpenter’s classic slasher film about a six-year-old who murders his sister and later returns to stalk a group of teenage girls. R. Living Room Theaters.

Here Comes the Boom

C This is a movie about Kevin James getting his ass kicked, which is sadly not as enjoyable as it sounds. In this family-oriented sports comedy, he plays Scott Voss, a dopey, downtrodden biology teacher at a crumbling public high school on the verge of cutting all its extracurricular programming. Upon discovering UFC fighters can earn big bucks simply by competing, Voss, determined to rescue the school’s music program and the lovable old fart (Henry Winkler) who runs it, throws himself in the ring with men who have built entire careers on bashing skulls betwixt their sinewy thighs. Flopping into the Octagon like a roasted Cornish game hen wearing boxing gloves, James flounders from one brutal beating to the next with his signature ham-handed slapstick. Although the ever-hovering annoyance of dialogue generated by writers who have clearly run out of things to say, and the obvious fact that movies such as these are cinematic EasyMac— bland, formulaic and, yes, cheesy— detract from its overall likability, it finishes much stronger than expected. Because no matter how hokey the characters and plot, watching a highschool teacher throw down against professional mixed martial arts fighters is just pure badass. PG. EMILY JENSEN. Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Sandy.

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. Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Sandy.

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The House I Live In

B+ Eugene Jarecki’s excavation of

drug criminalization in America is dense with jarring insight, but The Wire creator David Simon sums up the point in just a few words: “What drugs haven’t destroyed, the war against them has.” Jarecki weaves a complicated and revealing tapestry of this country’s long, misunderstood history of attempting to control the use of mind-altering substances, first through the experiences of his childhood nanny (whose actual legal name is Nannie), and then through the tales of users, dealers, cops and scholars throughout America. It is by no means a sob story but rather an intelligently crafted, thoroughly researched and ferociously honest discussion. It is also, like the war on drugs itself, not actually about drugs. It’s about race, politics, poverty and taking a hard look at why America has criminalized drugs so zealously. It runs long, churning through a staggering number of interviews and plotlines, but it remains compelling nonetheless. Ultimately, this film is a call for viewers to demand political and systemic change that would end the class-based and slow-motion genocide known as the War on Drugs. And whether you needed any convincing or not, they make a damn good case. EMILY JENSEN. Fox Tower.

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 femaleshaped 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 crazy-making 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. CineMagic, Fox Tower.

Night of the Living Dead and Return of the Living Dead

[TWO NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] A double feature of the nihilistic zombie classics, from 1968 and 1985.. Braaaaaaaaaaains. Bagdad Theater. 8 pm Night and 10 pm Return Thursday and Friday, Oct. 25-26.

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MOVIES

The Hunt: Gold Rush

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Excerpts from an annual BMX video contest. Lots of dudes bouncing around on kiddie bikes. Clinton Street Theater. 7 and 9 pm Thursday, Oct. 25.

Janeane from Des Moines

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A mockumentary about a conservative housewife who sets out to select a candidate in the run-up to the 2012 Iowa caucus. Living Room Theaters. 7:30 pm Thursday, Oct. 25.

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. 99 West Drive-In, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Lloyd Center, Moreland, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Tigard, St. Johns.

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

CHiCKEN LiCKEN: Volvo gets humped.

FUN SIZE Nickelodeon Movies is a studio with a wide range of tastes—or else it’s in a constant state of identity crisis. It’s responsible for Harriet the Spy but also Nacho Libre; both Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events and The Last Airbender. Nowhere is this branding problem more obvious than in Fun Size. Though the comedy presents itself as a fairly chaste teen romp, its sense of humor is at serious odds with its subject matter. Victoria Justice’s sweet and vulnerable Wren suggests Fun Size is meant for the adolescent female set, but the lowbrow humor proves the producers had a much younger crowd in mind—yet it’s hard to imagine that grade-school kids will be much impressed by the Johnny Knoxville or Ana Gasteyer cameos. That strange bit of casting might be an attempt to woo parents, many of whom might blanch at the foul language, rampant groping and illicit behavior. The strongest performance is Chelsea Handler’s, whose arch sarcasm transcends her role of rebounding widow—she knows she’s in an awful movie and couldn’t care less as long as the check clears. The film unabashedly cribs from Adventures in Babysitting, but the journey, captured in a series of jerky shots with little skill or forethought, isn’t half as interesting. Ambitious high-school senior Wren is stuck watching her weird little brother, Albert, on Halloween. Albert is a kind of malicious idiot savant of indeterminate age (5? a short 15?) who would really best be left missing. Recovering him means skipping out on a crush’s house party (or does it?) and teaming up with two sexually awkward classmates who have access to a car. It’s easy to guess where the tonal disjoint happened: Director Josh Schwartz’s résumé features Gossip Girl and The O.C., so sexual content crowds his wheelhouse. Screenwriter Max Werner’s previous credits are episodes of The Colbert Report, and it’s not hard to imagine that when presented with a hacky assignment, he allowed himself a few flights of fancy. The best lines are given to Fuzzy, the cerebral convenience-store clerk, who also manages the best delivery. In a more capable movie, Fuzzy would be the underwritten character we’d want to see more of, but he remains overwritten and tiresome—just like the rest of Fun Size. PG-13. SAUNDRA SORENSON. A long, disgusting search for Shorty.

D SEE it: Fun Size opens Friday at Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

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Paranormal Activity 4

The series continues with more hand-held camera work and malevolent demons. Not screened for critics. R. Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergren Parkway, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Sandy.

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 well-calibrated film incarnation of an actual teenage life. It’s kind of perfect, actually. PG-13. EMILY JENSEN. Clackamas, Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall.

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 allfemale 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 self-aware meta-comedy like the best bits of Glee? The over-thetop 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. Clackamas, Forest Theatre, Lloyd Center, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard.

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Portland Humanist Fim Festival

[THREE DAYS ONLY] A variety of films about reason, science and ethics. Cinema 21. Various times, Friday-Sunday, Oct. 26-28. See humanistfest.com for a complete schedule.

Ratking

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A horror flick about two documentary filmmakers investigating a mysterious symbol in Portland, plus a selection of Lovecraftian shorts. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Tuesday, Oct. 30.

Reel Music Festival: Wagner and Me

A- [ONGOING SERIES] [Nearly 130 years after his death, composer Richard Wagner remains one of the most revered and controversial figures in classical music. His operas—most notably his Ring Cycle—are beyond reproach; his anti-Semitic views and his music’s long association with the Nazi Party are reprehensible. It is amid these contradictions that, in 2009, British TV personality Stephen Fry and a documentary crew traveled to Bayreuth, the home of Wagner’s specially built opera house, to attend the annual festival of the composer’s work. The resulting film, saddled with the unfortunate title Wagner and Me, is a moving portrait of Fry’s own joy and sorrow at being surrounded by some of his favorite music alongside memorials to atrocities that his Jewish relatives faced during World War II. I don’t think it gives away too much to reveal that Fry’s wonder at watching the festival come to life and at meeting one of Wagner’s granddaughters wins out over his distress. To see his childlike glee at a small ensemble performance of Traüme, or while sitting in the conductor’s chair at Bayreuth, is as charming as it gets. ROBERT HAM. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 4:30 pm Saturday, Oct. 27. See nwfilm.org for a complete Reel Music schedule.

Repo! The Genetic Opera

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] A dystopian horror rock opera with a convoluted plot about widespread organ failure and villainous repo men. Also, Paris Hilton sings. R. Clinton Street Theater. 9 pm Friday, Oct. 26.

Seven Psychopaths

A- In 2008, playwright-turned-

filmmaker Martin McDonagh pulled off a nifty directorial trick with In Bruges: He made a crime comedy with soul. Seven Psychopaths, McDonagh’s follow-up, is also a crime comedy, but it’s not at all the same film. It is, in a lot of ways, the exact movie In Bruges wasn’t. It is highly aware of its own existence: Colin Farrell’s character is a creatively blocked, alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter, not coincidentally

named Martin, wrestling with how to turn an unwritten script prematurely titled Seven Psychopaths into a “life-affirming” work of art. It’s also grisly—death comes via chainsaw, hacksaw, self-immolation and straight razor—and not particularly concerned with emotional complexity. In short, it’s a lot like all those other post-Pulp Fiction crime comedies where the criminals talk incessantly about movies while the movie talks incessantly about itself. And yet, it works. Maybe not to the degree of In Bruges, which truly seemed new and special. But McDonagh would have to fail pretty terribly to screw up a picture starring Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell as high-profile dognappers, Woody Harrelson as a Shih Tzu-loving gangster, and Tom Waits as a vigilante serial killer with a thing for white rabbits. No, Seven Psychopaths—the movie, not the movie within the movie—is not a “life-affirming” work of art. It’s simply crazy fun. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Clackamas, Lloyd Center, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Fox Tower, Movies on TV.

Silent Hill: Revelation 3D

A horror film based on the survival video game of the same name. Not screened for critics. R. Clackamas, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Mill Plain, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Sandy.

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Sinister

B- The most frustrating aspect of Sinister, the new ghost story from Exorcism of Emily Rose director Scott Derrickson, is how good it is. Were it a standard Hollywood frightfest, it’d be easy to forgive Derrickson’s reliance on tired horror clichés. But Sinister is way better than that. It’s endlessly creepy, refusing to relent as it builds to a grotesque climax made all the more horrifying by a setup that takes pains to let you know that nobody—children, chief among them—is safe from the slowly percolating evil. The film chronicles the unraveling of Ellison Oswalt (a terrific Ethan Hawke), a true-crime novelist who unknowingly moves his family to the former house of his latest subject: a young girl who went missing after her family was massacred. After coming across a stack of old Super 8 reels in the attic, he discovers that the murders are actually part of an interrelated series of gruesome cult rituals spanning decades. Derrickson ratchets the tension through a series of gory flashbacks and disquieting encounters with the unknown, turning the screws of horror in an old-fashioned, Polanski-esque descent into dread. But he insists on countering each slick move with a dumb one, and by the time the requisite twist

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CHASING MAVERICKS ending hits, there’s a sense that maybe he emptied his bag of tricks a little too soon. But damned if it isn’t a deeply unsettling and terrifyingly entertaining ride before it plateaus into convention. R. AP KRYZA. Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Tigard.

Some Guy Who Kills People

[ONE WEEK ONLY] Sporting the pithiest title of the year, it’s a horror-comedy about a man who leaves a mental hospital bent on revenge. Clinton Street Theater. 7 and 9 pm Friday-Tuesday, Nov. 11-15.

Something Evil

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Steven Spielberg’s rare 1972 horror film about a family terrorized by demons. Hollywood Theatre. 9:30 pm Monday, Oct. 29.

Taken 2

D- Taken 2: The Takening (our title, not the movie’s, though it should be) is an extremely stupid piece of shit. Typically, with this kind of movie, that should be an overwhelmingly positive assessment. When we go to a movie theater to watch a sexagenarian (Liam Neeson) hammer-punching an endless sea of faceless henchmen in their necks, we expect certain things—brainlessness, one-liners and explosions chief among them. But director Olivier Megaton—whose name alone implies he should know better—sucks all the joy out of the affair in a way that makes Pierre Morel’s joylessly crude original seem like a whiz-bang actioner of the Commando variety. Neeson punches just fine, but the presentation here is almost unwatchable. The film’s so full of hyperactive jump cuts and herky-jerky camera work it’s impossible to tell who even won a fight until the next scene, when Neeson invariably walks away from a sea of lifeless Albanians in track suits and makes an intense cellphone call. Let’s hope that when the inevitable Taken It to the Streets hits theaters, we’ll finally get the kind of tongue-in-cheek mix of hilarity, explosions, and bloodied track suits this series deserves, rather than some bullshit that thinks it’s making a bigger statement than the word “pow.” PG-13. AP KRYZA. 99 West Drive-In, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Sandy.

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,

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Clint Eastwood is old. Trouble With the Curve, directed by longtime Eastwood producer Robert Lorenz, reminds us of this in countless demeaning ways that relentlessly kneecap the red-blooded, American-born, deeply self-sufficient man he has always portrayed. Still, Trouble is one American icon grinding its teeth on another, and for this it is in some small part irresistible. Eastwood plays an aging Major League scout named Gus Lobel who lives, breathes and loves baseball. And he does it for America’s team, the Atlanta Braves. 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. Clackamas, Bridgeport.

Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit

[TWO DAYS ONLY, REVIVAL] The adorable claymation duo takes on an evil mutant rabbit. G. Hollywood Theatre. 2 pm Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 27-28.

You’ve Been Trumped

Once upon a time, there was a tiny shire in the land of Scotland called Aberdeen, where hardworking farmers and fishermen lived peacefully. They built their homes into the idyllic green hills along the icy blue sea, and spoke in a glorious brogue so thick it needed subtitles. But then one day, a wicked, slimy monster slithered ashore, spewing a bounty of lies from beneath the shaggy follicular outcropping atop his crap-filled noggin. The monster was named Donald Trump, and he had come to build a multimillion-dollar golf course for himself and all his scary, slimy monster friends. Everyone feared him, but no one had the power to stop him. Donald Trump cut down trees and destroyed water sources and flooded the land. He terrorized a delicate ecosystem akin to the Amazonian rain forest, and shat upon the lifestyles of the people who lived in the countryside. This is a story of good versus evil; Scotland versus America; and the average man versus Donald Trump. Put plainly, it’s an awesome underdog story set to the tune of bagpipes, in which brave Scottish people fight back against a certified douche whose true colors are clearer than ever. EMILY JENSEN. Living Room Theaters.

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Every Halloween, Hollywood inundates us with the same candy that rots our teeth year after year, and this round there were several big-studio releases intent on recycling scares with the same diligent and flavorless regularity of a morning trip to Starbucks. Yet audiences can’t seem to break away. Is it just because people like familiarity that the latest Paranormal Activity scored $30 million in its opening weekend, while the far more original (but still pretty derivative) Sinister floundered? Halloween is a holiday based on mimicry, so it’s not any surprise we’re constantly rehashing the same themes. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t films worth revisiting — this season, ditch the megaplexes for Portland’s second-run theaters, which are screening the flicks that invented the scares.

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Spawn: Every zombie you’ve ever seen. Legacy: Even discounting the endless academic analyses of its subtext (it’s about Vietnam! No, it’s about racism!), George A. Romero’s definitive masterpiece is, at its very core, a horrifying exercise in low-budget terror wherein humanity turns upon itself. The heroine is catatonic within the first five minutes…and so is the audience. It’s also one of the most replayed films of the season due to a copyright snafu that put it in the public domain upon its release, meaning everybody owns the rights to the film, so anybody can screen it—or rip it off—whenever they want. Bagdad Theater.

Return of the Living Dead (1985)

Spawn: All Return of the Living Dead films that came after; Shaun of the Dead. Legacy: With its nihilist punk-rock attitude and gnarly zombie effects, Return of the Living Dead is the rare hybrid of horror and comedy that takes both genres very, very seriously, from the cast of stock characters/meat that lampoons everything from hicks to New Waver art kids,

to some serious zombie carnage. During a ghastly interrogation, a dismembered ghoul explains that human flesh acts like morphine to ease the pain of decomposition and so coins the popular “braaaaaaains” moan forever associated with the undead. Bagdad Theater.

Evil Dead 2 (1987)

Spawn: Army of Darkness; endless fanboys talking about boomsticks. Legacy: Having perpetrated one of the ghastliest and most infamous “video nasties” ever made, young Sam Raimi made the odd choice of remaking his notorious classic as a slapstick comedy soaked in more blood and guts than a Takashi Miike marathon. The film’s most gruesome moment comes when Bruce Campbell chainsaws his own hand. But when he’s forced to fight his dismembered appendage, well, that’s when a classic was born. Hail to the king indeed. Hollywood Theatre.

Blair Witch Project (1999)

Spawn: Paranormal Activity, Cloverfield, [Rec]. Legacy: It’s hard to explain the Blair Witch phenomenon to younger fans. Released at the dawn of the dot-com boom, the flick is the first

real example of viral marketing, having duped audiences into thinking it was a documentary with this new invention called the interwebs. Other found-footage horror came before (Cannibal Holocaust and The Last Broadcast), but Blair Witch was a phenomenon that showed the true potential of its nauseating aesthetic. It may not have aged well, but it still has the power to send chills through the uninitiated. Academy Theater.

Ghostbusters (1984)

Spawn: Evolution; every “familyfriendly” horror flick since; endless online speculation/arguments about the third installment. Legacy: Bill Murray. Bustin’ ghosts…that’d be enough to make Ghostbusters a classic in its own right, but the seamless mix of comedy, excellent special effects and some solid scares (if you saw it as a kid, you’ll forever be extra quiet in the library) make it timeless. Laurelhurst Theater.

Halloween (1978)

Spawn: Jason Voorhies; any maniac with a mask and a machete. Legacy: Marred by endless sequels and remakes, John Carpenter’s original is a masterpiece because it’s so bloody simple. Its villain isn’t an invincible killing machine or some sort of demon (not yet, anyway)— he’s just a lunatic silently stalking and slaying with no motivation. He simply is, and what makes the film consistently scary is that it never relies on gore or jump scares. What makes the stomach turn is the inevitability of senseless death lurking in the shadows. Living Room Theaters.

The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

Spawn: Too soon to say. Legacy: Avid horror junkies Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard toss every cliché imaginable into a blender and pour out the most surprisingly batshit horror cocktail imaginable, one that at once embraces convention and lovingly flips it off. Since it was released this year, it’s hard to measure its impact, but Cabin’s most unfortunate aftereffect may be a deluge of winking, ultra-meta horror flicks trying to cop its ideas the same way every crime film after Reservoir Dogs featured talky criminals. Frankly, given the rowdy joy of watching (and rewatching) Cabin, it’ll be worth enduring the copycats. Fifth Avenue Cinema.

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WORDLESS WONDER: Samsara is a Sanskrit word referencing the circle of life. That may reek of patchouli, but put aside those aversions— this wordless documentary is one of the most visually intoxicating films in recent memory. Shot in gleaming 70 mm, it travels to 25 countries—from hurricane-ravaged New Orleans to East Africa, from Egyptian apartment complexes built in view of the pyramids to a Bangkok strip club full of undulating “lady-boys”—and paints an astounding portrait of human existence. Whether it’s as profound as the filmmakers want it to be depends on your predilection toward enlightenment, but as a travelogue, it’s goddamned beautiful. MATTHEW SINGER. Showing at: Hollywood. Best paired with: Pinot grigio. Also screening: Ghostbusters (Laurelhurst).

Lloyd Center 10 and IMAX

1510 NE Multnomah St., 800-326-3264 TAKEN 2 Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:15, 02:45, 05:20, 07:50, 10:15 LOOPER Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 01:15, 04:25, 07:15, 10:10 ARGO Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:45, 01:30, 03:40, 04:30, 06:50, 07:25, 09:45, 10:20 PITCH PERFECT Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:30, 03:50, 07:10, 10:00 CLOUD ATLAS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:05, 03:55, 08:00 SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:35, 03:35, 06:40, 09:35 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:20, 02:40, 05:05, 07:40, 10:05 SILENT HILL: REVELATION Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 04:50, 09:55 SILENT HILL: REVELATION 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 02:25, 07:30 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: OTELLO LIVE Sat 09:55 JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR UK SPECTACULAR Mon 07:30

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Avalon Theatre & Wunderland

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Clinton Street Theater

2522 SE Clinton St., 503-238-8899 SOME GUY WHO KILLS PEOPLE Fri-Sat 07:00 REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA Fri 09:00 THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Fri-Sat 09:00, 12:00 THE CHILDREN OF TERRA FIRMA Sun 07:00 THE WALKING DEAD Sun 09:00 NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY Mon I HEART MONSTER MOVIES Tue 07:00 RATKING Wed 07:00 SHORTY SHORTS QUEER FILM FESTIVAL

Hollywood Theatre

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a family to call my own. It’s ok, don’t be sad, I am staying with a very nice foster family and their kitty is my very best friend in the world but I know can’t stay here forever, I have to find a place where I can finally take that big sigh of relief knowing I am safe and sound forever. I am of course perfectly house-trained and crate trained as well. I love to go for walks, romp around at the park and go on camping trips with my loved ones but my days of running marathons are a thing of the past. I’m more of a leisurely girl these days. Ok, enough about me, let’s talk about us. I would love to meet you so please contact the PIxie Project at info@pixieproject.org to set up a date. I’ll bake muffins! I am fixed, vaccinated and microchipped. My adoption fee is $100

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the coming days, many of your important tasks will be best accomplished through caginess and craftiness. Are you willing to work behind the scenes and beneath the surface? I suspect you will have a knack for navigating your way skillfully and luckily through mazes and their metaphorical equivalents. The mists may very well part at your command, revealing clues that no one else but you can get access to. You might also have a talent for helping people to understand elusive or difficult truths. Halloween costume suggestions: spy, stage magician, ghost whisperer, exorcist. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The coming week could have resemblances to the holiday known as Opposite Day. Things people say may have meanings that are different or even contrary to what they supposedly mean. Qualities you usually regard as liabilities might temporarily serve as assets, and strengths could seem problematical or cause confusion. You should also be wary of the possibility that the advice you get from people you trust may be misleading. For best results, make liberal use of reverse psychology, freaky logic, and mirror magic. Halloween costume suggestion: the opposite of who you really are.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I don’t have a big problem with your tendency to contradict yourself. I’m rarely among the consistency freaks who would prefer you to stick with just one of your many selves instead of hopscotching among all nine. In fact, I find your multi-level multiplicity interesting and often alluring. I take it as a sign that you are in alignment with the fundamentally paradoxical nature of life. Having said all that, however, I want to alert you to an opportunity that the universe is currently offering you, which is to feel unified, steady, and stable. Does that sound even vaguely enticing? Why not try it out for a few weeks? Halloween costume suggestion: an assemblage or collage of several of your different personas. CANCER (June 21-July 22): An avocado tree may produce so much fruit that the sheer weight of its exuberant creation causes it to collapse. Don’t be like that in the coming weeks, Cancerian. Without curbing your luxuriant mood, simply monitor your outpouring of fertility so that it generates just the right amount of beautiful blooms. Be vibrant and bountiful and fluidic, but not unconstrained or overwrought or recklessly lavish. Halloween costume suggestion: a bouquet, an apple tree, a rich artist, or an exotic dancer with a bowl of fruit on your head. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I hope your father didn’t beat you or scream at you or molest you. If he did, I am so sorry for your suffering. I also hope that your father didn’t ignore you or withhold his best energy from you. I hope he didn’t disappear for weeks at a time and act oblivious to your beauty. If he did those things, I mourn for your loss. Now it’s quite possible that you were spared such mistreatment, Leo. Maybe your dad gave you conscientious care and loved you for who you really are. But whatever the case might be, this is the right time to acknowledge it. If you’re one of the lucky ones, celebrate to the max. If you’re one of the wounded ones, begin or renew your quest for serious and intensive healing. Halloween costume suggestion: your father. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Do you know how to tell the difference between superstitious hunches and dependable intuitions? Are you good at distinguishing between mediocre gossip that’s only ten percent accurate and reliable rumors that provide you with the real inside dope? I suspect that you will soon get abundant opportunities to test your skill in these tasks. To increase the likelihood of your success, ask yourself the following question on a regular basis: Is what you think you’re seeing really there or is it mostly a projection of your expectations and theories? Halloween costume suggestions: a lie detector, an interrogator with syringes full of truth serum, a superhero with X-ray vision, a lab scientist. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I am officially protesting you, Libra. I am staging a walkout and mounting a demonstration and launching a boycott unless you

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