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Thank you for this article [“Restaurant Guide,” WW, Oct. 24, 2012]. It’s so refreshing to see recognition for a couple of food mavericks doing innovative things in Portland. As you noted, too often it seems that new restaurants play it safe, going with whatever the dominant food trend is and giving diners nothing genuinely new. I guess those folks are just reflecting what the marketplace wants—but it’s a sign the food scene is maturing that a place like Aviary can succeed in Portland. I, for one, am grateful. —“Alba S” Congratulations! What a wonderful honor to be named Restaurant of the Year. The food is superb at Aviary. Everything I have ever tried there was delicious. Aviary is my all-time favorite restaurant. —“Betty McKinnell” Yummy, pig’s ears—how many different deadanimal parts can we dice up into one dish? —“Jason B” Nostrana is “something of an Olive Garden for wealthy old-Laurelhurst residents.” They do serve a good pie, but, although I have given them about five chances (I keep thinking I must be missing something), I have never had a good meal there other than their pizza. It’s a puzzler why it gets on this list year after year. —“Robert” No Noble Rot? It’s always packed, has great food, and great views. —“Jonathan Radmacher”
Let’s talk goose poop: Every park and walkway near the Willamette River is covered with the stuff. Is it any health threat to people and pets? —Thomas C.
Before I answer, I’d like to formally disapprove of the recent spate of questioners signing their real names. It’s traditional in agony columns (and this column is nothing if not agony) to sign yourself “Anxious” or “Puzzled in Portland” or “Chauncey McHandjob Mellencamp.” So I hope you don’t mind, Tom, if, for the remainder of this piece, I address you as “Dildo Baggins.” Anyway, it’s not your imagination: Oregon’s Canada goose population—much like the bowels of its constituent geese—is exploding, with 250,000 individuals residing here for at least a portion of the year. To put that figure into perspective: Each goose takes about two pounds’ worth of dumps per day. Let’s say they’re here for five months—a conservative estimate, since many hang around like unemployed relatives all year long. 4
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COPS AND THE COMMUNITY Wow! I wasn’t aware anyone who is actively campaigning for the top slot in PDX was really commenting about the Portland Police Bureau and its shortcomings [“Policing the Police,” WW, Oct. 24, 2012]. I applaud Charlie Hales for doing so. And, of course, [Portland Police Association president] Daryl Turner would offer up claims regarding how inappropriate, even unfair, it is for someone seeking such position to cast such shadow upon the bureau. That is all that guy is about: PPB members doing no wrong, no matter what the circumstances. —“davidlee”
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I love to use $2 bills, but find it interesting the “feds” have a dim view of the Casa Diablo red bills [“Blood Money,” WW, Oct. 24, 2012].... If “it’s against federal law to deface U.S. currency with the intent to make it unusable,” then I can’t see the case against Johnny Zukle having much traction. He implicitly states he is doing the gimmick to get more into circulation, and to [create interest] in the under-used denomination. It’s a shame the government is using its strong-arm tactics on such a small issue. Perhaps they should instead harass the McDonald’s manager and others who refuse to accept legal U.S. tender. Fight the good fight, Zukle! —“EyemanPDX” LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include the author’s street address and phone number for verification. Letters must be 250 or fewer words. Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Fax: (503) 243-1115, Email: mzusman@wweek.com
That means every two years, these uninvited visitors produce enough crap to make a pile equivalent in weight—if not in architectural charm—to downtown Portland’s U.S. Bancorp Tower. Is all this poop dangerous? Hard to say. On the one hand, goose feces (like, it must be acknowledged, most feces) are not exactly hospital clean. They often contain E. coli, salmonella, and that bugbear of the Portland Water Bureau, cryptosporidium. Then again, according to the proceedings of the Oregon Geese Control Task Force, there’s never been a documented case of a human being actually becoming ill through this goose-ass-tohuman-mouth vector. That may be because most people have the sense not to eat goose excrement, wallow in it, or massage it into open wounds. I doubt this anomalous display of good judgment on the public’s part will last, though, so enjoy it while you can. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com
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After 29 years, Jack Ohman has drawn his last editorial cartoon for The Oregonian. Ohman—winner of virtually every major award for political cartooning and a Pulitzer Prize finalist this year—has accepted a buyout from the daily. “I was still taking acne medication when I started there,” Ohman, 52, said on Facebook in announcing his departure. Ohman tells WW his leaving OHMAN BY OHMAN has nothing to do with the paper’s direction under Publisher N. Christian Anderson III or the new editorial page editor, Erik Lukens. Ohman says he will announce his new job soon. “I don’t want anyone to worry about me,” he says. “I feel like I’m at the peak of my career.” There’s less than a week to go before Election Day, and the candidates for Portland mayor are treating the outcome as a fait accompli. With polls showing him well ahead, Charlie Hales has pulled $30,000 worth of television advertising buys—this after going to the trouble of breaking his pledge to limit campaign contributions by taking big union checks. “It seemed like the right thing to do,” says Hales campaign manager Evyn Mitchell. Meanwhile, the Jefferson Smith campaign has stopped talking about Jefferson Smith. His campaign has been working for the $482 million Portland Public Schools bond measure. This week Smith campaigners held signs on Southwest 4th Avenue to draw attention to issues facing East Portland, which Smith has represented in the Oregon House for two terms. The campaign signs didn’t mention Smith—and his staff won’t discuss why. “There are some really critical issues facing the city,” says Smith campaign manager Henry Kraemer. “We want to spend as much energy as we can focusing on those issues.” An Oregon sheriff has been named 2012 Sheriff of the Year by the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, an organization the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled an “anti-government ‘patriot’ group.” Grant County Sheriff Glenn Palmer didn’t return WW’s calls to discuss his ties to the group, which calls for a “new Declaration to the Federal Government regarding the abuses that we will no longer tolerate or accept.” Palmer has already made news for his anti-federal government stances; last year he refused to sign a mutual protection agreement with the U.S. Forest Service. “The principles of this group are very close to some of right-wing militia,” says Dave Fidanque, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon.
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A light drizzle fell on Bob Wolfe as he stood outside a citadel of the Portland establishment like the lupine nemesis in the story of the Three Little Pigs. Wolfe was rattling the doors of the Portland City Club’s luncheon debate Oct. 26 at the Governor Hotel between Secretary of State Kate Brown and her Republican challenger, Dr. Knute Buehler. Wolfe is also on the ballot as the Progressive Party’s candidate. But no matter how loud he knocked, the City Club would not let him in. City Club officials denied Wolfe access because (as they said in an Oct. 17 email to him) he isn’t a “viable candidate.” Wolfe won’t win, but his only goal is defeating Brown, whom he accuses of suppressing Oregon voters by routinely invalidating tens of thousands of petition signatures. He barreled into the secretary of state’s race late, on Aug. 28, after Brown’s office said a measure to legalize marijuana, for which he was chief petitioner, didn’t qualify for the November ballot. He now wants to draw votes away from Brown using the potency of Oregon’s marijuana legalization supporters. In the May primary, Wolfe helped raise $200,000 in national marijuana money for now-Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum (who’s married to WW publisher Richard Meeker). He spent another $50,000 on radio ads bashing her opponent, Dwight Holton, who as U.S. attorney for Oregon targeted medical marijuana clinics.
do it,’” Wolfe says. “I figured I’m relatively smart and wellspoken. How hard can it be?” Very hard, as it turned out. In April, Brown said Wolfe’s campaign was illegally paying signature gatherers and fined him $65,000. Wolfe is contesting that fine. Wolfe then turned in 169,214 signatures—plenty, he says, to qualify for the November ballot. Brown’s office disqualified nearly half of them. “We killed Holton’s candidacy,” Wolfe says. “Now we’re Wolfe claims many were valid signatures rejected on technical grounds. (An unaffiliated pot legalization initiahoping to motivate people to vote no on Kate Brown.” Brown already faces a serious test from Buehler, a Bend tive, Measure 80, made the ballot.) Wolfe accuses Brown orthopedic surgeon. In 2008, Brown beat Republican Rick of ratcheting initiative rules too tightly to make it more Dancer by only 51 percent to 46 percent—a small margin difficult for anti-tax activists to qualify ballot measures. considering Democrats’ statewide registration advantage. He says his measure was collateral damage. “I’ve voted a straight Democratic ticket since I was 18,” Portland pollster Adam Davis thinks Wolfe’s chances of Wolfe says. “The first time I’ve ever not voted for a Demospoiling Brown’s re-election are slim. “You need to see an alignment of the stars for that to crat was last week, when I voted for myself.” Wolfe plans on sending out as many as 200,000 camhappen,” Davis says. “It really helps to have two candidates that people aren’t comfortable with, and you don’t paign mailers, and he’s using a 50,000-name email list and strong relationships with marijuana advocates and bloghave that here.” Outside the debate, Wolfe waved a poster with a red gers. Wolfe also writes snappy copy. He’s spent $26,000, “X” superimposed on his face above the caption “Banned.” including buying radio ads in four markets, some of which feature Ralph Nader attacking Brown on A motley crew of his supporters competed with fresh-faced Brown campaigners for the very issue she’s used against Buehler: FACT: The last spoiler to tip a voter suppression. the attention of passersby. statewide race was conservaWolfe points to statistics that show Wolfe, 50, is an ex-Navy submariner tive Al Mobley. His 13 percent signatures were validated at a far lower who’s run the Oregon Pinot Noir Club, a in the 1990 governor’s race helped Democrat Barbara rate this year for his and others’ measures mail-order wine seller since 1994. Roberts beat moderate than they were in past Oregon elections or He entered politics by happenstance Republican Dave Frohnmayer. rather than design. In 2010, he says, his in Washington state. “I’m trying to protect the initiative system,” he says. ex-wife was suffering from ovarian cancer “Wolfe’s allegations aren’t true,” says Brown campaign and sought Wolfe’s help in obtaining marijuana. “I don’t smoke marijuana, and I’m not a marijuana lifestyle guy,” spokeswoman Jillian Schoene. “He is attacking [Brown] in retaliation for her holding him accountable for breaking Wolfe says. “I’m a red-wine man.” Wolfe says he found Oregon’s medical marijuana law state elections law.” The tale of the Three Little Pigs ends badly for the forbidding but also endangered. In 2011, Wolfe says, he traveled to Salem 40 times to help protect the law. Nation- wolf—he gets cooked. Wolfe hopes Brown’s political career al marijuana legalization supporters subsequently enlisted ends up in the cook pot with his. “I’m craving Nov. 7,” he says, “when I get my real life him to promote a 2012 ballot initiative for legalization. “I said, ‘It sounds like fun and it sounds useful, so I’ll back.” Willamette Week OCTOBER 31, 2012 wweek.com
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UNDER ROCKY BUTTE: Residents of Precinct 4506 in the Madison South neighborhood (see map, below right) say the mayoral campaign hasn’t addressed their concerns, including trouble surrounding sex shops along Northeast 82nd Avenue (below left). Neighborhood association president Dave Smith (above) says City Hall has been responsive to neighborhood needs.
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post-World War II homes, with view houses on the hill road leading up to the former county jail site, surrounded by a park and natural area. According to the 2010 census, the neighborhood is only slightly less white than Portland overall: about 70 percent, compared to 80 percent citywide. The neighborhood also has a lower median household income, about $42,000, than the city median of $48,000. Many residents of Precinct 4506 say their location east of 82nd Avenue, a psychological demarcation line, means they get less attention from City Hall. “Eighty-second is almost like a fire line,” Wojcik says. “Past this point, what’s the point? It’s always been the downtrodden side of town.” Kirsten Holstein, waiting outside Jason Lee Elementary to pick up her two sons, says she likes living in Madison South and adds that its isolation is a positive. “It’s made it a hidden gem,” she says. “A lot of people don’t want to live past 82nd.” But the lack of sidewalks worries her, especially when she’s walking with her
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Janet Wojcik grew up in the shadow of Rocky Butte, the Northeast Portland bluff once known for its jail but that now features a park with a commanding view of the city. This year, Wojcik, who works for a financial firm, has been watching the mayor’s race with interest—but not much enthusiasm. The choice between Jefferson Smith and Charlie Hales, she says, is terrible. She’s not keen on Smith at all. And Hales? “Hales is oatmeal,” she says. “Nothing about him stands out as noteworthy. I’m not hopeful we will get a good mayor.” Wojcik is but one voter in the city, but her neighborhood, Madison South, sits along a political boundary that defines voter loyalties to Hales and Smith. The neighborhood is largely covered by Precinct 4506. If you had flipped a coin here between Hales and Smith in the May primary, the coin would have landed on its edge: Hales and Smith each got 357 votes in this precinct. Precinct 4506 sits along the eastern edge of Northeast neighborhoods Hales won in the primary, and the frontier of East Portland where Smith calls home. WW has spent the past few weeks visiting residents there. They say the mayor’s race has largely passed them by. And they say they have heard little from Hales or Smith that could help their neighborhood, such as better city services or more police to stop crime oozing in from Northeast 82nd Avenue. Tim Young, who’s lived near Northeast 87th Avenue for the past 14 years, says he wants the City Council to focus on the basics the city needs, like good garbage pickup and paved roads. “They are so concerned about making a name for themselves or making history, or doing interesting things,” Young says, “when we really need them to focus on the basics and get back to being sensible and reasonable.” The precinct is walled in by Interstate 84 to the south, and Interstate 205 and Rocky Butte to the east. It’s home to Portland Bible College, Jason Lee Elementary and the Lumberyard, an indoor BMX and mountain-bike park. The neighborhood is made up largely of
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boys. “It’s really hard to be safe enough with both of them,” she says. Crime tops most residents’ list of concerns. City crime statistics show the overall crime rate in Madison South is not that different from Portland’s on average. But arrests for prostitution and drugs make up a higher percentage of crimes in the area. Neighbors complain about sex businesses like Honeysuckle’s Lingerie, Pussycats and xXx located on 82nd near Northeast Fremont Street. David Bunk, who lives seven blocks off 82nd, says he wants the main commercial strip through his neighborhood cleaned up. “I don’t want my daughter growing up with pink pussycat,” he says, referring to one sex shop’s signs. “It’s not something I want my family exposed to.” Madison South Neighborhood Association president Dave Smith says Portland police have shut down some of the lingerie shops when illegal activity has been proven, but the businesses sometimes just change their names and open back up. “It’s more frustrating for the people who don’t understand that the city can’t
shut businesses down because individuals disagree with what those businesses are,” he says. Smith thinks Madison South can count on support from the City Council. For instance, he says, the city helped put up a barrier near the MAX station at 82nd and Northeast Halsey Street so people could cross the busy road safely. “We don’t, like, have lunch daily with [people at City Hall],” Smith says, “but as far as I can tell, we have a vehicle for communicating issues we feel are important.” But if the mayor’s race has reached their neighborhood streets, many Precinct 4506 residents say they haven’t seen it. One exception is Abbie Sagebiel, who lives on Northeast 87th Place. She says Hales’ campaigners came to her house a month ago and gave her a lawn sign. She’s also one of the few residents WW interviewed who said she has made up her mind about the race, and she’s supporting Hales. “He has some experience in the private sector,” she says. “We did like what we heard about Charlie.” Michael Angelechio grew up on Northeast 89th Avenue and graduated from Western Oregon University in Monmouth in 2010 before moving back home. Angelechio says he has already cast his ballot for Jefferson Smith, despite reports Smith faced a 1993 misdemeanor assault charge for striking a woman at a college party. He said he voted for Smith because he liked Smith’s “realistic and simpleton approach” to issues. “I still based my vote on that,” Angelechio says, “but I’m not exactly championing my vote.” Young says he doesn’t plan to vote at all; both candidates are too liberal. He wants a conservative in City Hall—and knows that’s not going to happen. “It would be nice to have that choice,” he says. “I’d vote, if that was the case.”
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If you’re a registered voter and surf the Web, one of the sites you visit has almost certainly placed a tiny piece of data on your computer flagging your political preferences. That piece of data, called a cookie, marks you as a Democrat or Republican, when you last voted, and what contributions you’ve made. It also can include factors like your estimated income, what you do for a living, and what you’ve bought at the local mall. Across the country, companies are using cookies to tailor the political ads you see online. One of the firms is CampaignGrid, which boasted in a recent slide show, “Internet Users Are No Longer Anonymous.” The slide show includes an image of the famous New Yorker cartoon from 1993: “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” Next to it, CampaignGrid lists what it can now know about an Internet user: “Lives in Pennsylvania’s 13th Congressional District, 19002 ZIP code, Registered primary voting Republican, High net worth household, Age 50-54, Teenagers in the home, Technology professional, Interested in politics, Shopping for a car, Planning a vacation in Puerto Rico.” The slide show was online until last week, when the company removed it after ProPublica asked for comment. Rich Masterson, CampaignGrid’s chairman, wrote in an email that the slide show was posted in error: “It was an unapproved version of a sales deck that was posted by an intern who no longer works for the company.” CampaignGrid does indeed collect 18 different “attributes” for every voter, Masterson told ProPublica, including age, gender, political donations and more. Campaigns use this data to tailor the online ads you see.
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Online targeting has taken off this campaign season. ProPublica has identified seven companies that advertise the ability to help campaigns target specific voters online. Among them is Experian, the credit reporting company. Datalogix, a company that works with Facebook to track users’ buying patterns, is also involved. CampaignGrid and a few similar firms have been profiled for their innovative approaches. Yet the scale of the targeting and the number of companies involved has received little notice. Few of the companies involved in the targeting talk about it publicly. But CampaignGrid, which works with Republicans and a similar Democratic firm, Precision Network, told ProPublica it has political information on 150 million American Internet users, or roughly 80 percent of the nation’s registered voters. The information—stripped of your name or address—is connected to your computer via a cookie. Targeting firms say replacing your name with an ID number keeps the process anonymous and protects users’ privacy. But privacy experts say assembling information about Internet users’ political behavior can be problematic even if voters’ names aren’t attached. “A lot of people would consider their political identity more private than lots of information,” says professor William McGeveran, a data privacy expert at the University of Minnesota Law School. “We make more rules about medical privacy. We make more rules about financial privacy. So if you think private political beliefs are in that category, maybe you’re concerned about having them treated like your favorite brand of toothpaste.” Google has stayed away from this kind of targeting. It classifies political beliefs as “sensitive personal information,” in the same category as medical information and religious beliefs. But other big players have embraced the “political cookie,” as one company branded it. As ProPublica reported in June, Yahoo and
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Microsoft sell access to your registration information for political targeting. That’s one way CampaignGrid and other companies find you online. Political targeting firms say they also work with other websites, but would not name them. While campaigns and the firms working with them can buy reams of data about voters, voters have been left mostly in the dark. Many online ad companies mark targeted ads with a small blue triangle symbol, or the phrase “Ad Choices,” and offer Internet surfers a chance to opt out. But even if Web users know what the triangle means, they get no information about how or why they were targeted. “Consumers don’t really understand what’s going on and haven’t given their permission,” says Joseph Turow, a digital marketing and privacy expert at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. There are few legal regulations governing how online targeting works, or what notification consumers must receive. Online advertising experts point out that individual voting records are public information and have long been used to target voters through direct mail. And targeting companies say they are offering a valuable service. Instead of seeing random ads, users get to see ads from candidates they might actually want to support. “We empower voters,” Jeff Dittus, co-founder of CampaignGrid and now head of Audience Partners, wrote in an email. “We give voters information that is meaningful to them and helps them make choices.” Stuart Ingis, a lawyer for the Digital Advertising Alliance, an industry group, says voter file targeting is a First Amendment issue, and that targeting should be protected as part of political speech. “These technologies provide a method for politicians inexpensively to improve our democracy,” he says. “The Founding
A recent survey found 77 percent of us wouldn’t return to A website if we knew it shAred informAtion About our internet use with politicAl Advertisers. Fathers firmly believed in the ability—I think our society very much values the ability—to efficiently reach a desired audience with a political message.” Not everyone seems to agree. A recent study by the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School found that 86 percent of surveyed adults did not want “political advertising tailored to your interests,” and that 77 percent would not return to a website if they knew it “was sharing information about me with political advertisers.” While targeting firms promise a wealth of individual detail, it’s hard to know how much information most campaigns are actually using. “The more third-party data providers you use, the smaller the universe of people who you can reach becomes,” CampaignGrid’s Masterson says. “Republican women 25 to 34 who drive SUVs and have American Express cards, and go to the theater once a month—that might be four people.” One place online voter targeting has been used successfully is in the state senate primary race of Morgan McGarvey, a Kentucky Democrat who faced three other Democratic candidates in May. With four liberal candidates competing for a liberal district, McGarvey says, he needed to convince the small number of voters who would turn out in the primary that they should vote for him. His campaign worked with Precision Network to show online McGarvey ads to local voters under 35, and to female Democrats who had voted in at least three of the past five primary elections. (Two of his challengers were women.) “When every dollar counts, when literally every vote counts, you have to be more targeted,” he says. “I do think it helped us win.” McGarvey is now running unopposed in the Nov. 6 election. Lois Beckett is a reporter with ProPublica. Read more at propublica.org.
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The rumble of raw logs bouncing through the sawmill’s machinery sounds like giants rolling strikes in a bowling alley. A metal lever thrusts the 10-foot-long Douglas firs onto a conveyor chain, and a wheel smacks them into place: Slam-BAM! Slam-BAM! In a crow’s-nest office above the action, the man whose checkbook could upend Oregon politics stares at a computer screen that shows him how fast these trees are being turned into money: the weight of each log, the number of two-by-fours the
MILLER TIME: Stimson Lumber CEO Andrew Miller says his company believes it’s important to spend money to create political change. “This is an investment,” he says, “not a crusade.”
saws can slice out of each one, and the dollar value of every board. The sawmill, outside the tiny Washington County town of Gaston, has been owned by Stimson Lumber Company for nearly a century. Except for the computer, the mill is largely unchanged from the day in 1969 when Andrew Miller, whose family has owned Stimson for generations, first visited it at age 10. CONT. on page 19
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THE STIMSONS: Andrew Miller’s grandfather, Harold Miller, built the Stimson Lumber sawmill outside Gaston, Ore., in 1930. Stimson owns seven other mills across four Western states.
urban planning, density and especially the Milwaukie light-rail extension. The revolt has earned the county the nickname “Clackistan.” Scott Moore, spokesman for unionbacked political force Our Oregon, says Miller’s group “has the potential to be a game-changer.” Election victories in Clackamas County would give Miller’s operation a powerful geographic base—a counterweight to Portland’s liberal voting power. “If you campaign effectively against ‘Portland creep’ [in] Clackamas County, then you can take that into Washington County,” says veteran Salem lobbyist Len Bergstein. “In two or three cycles, you’ve created a ring around the progressive vote.” If this siege succeeds, it will be because of the money and drive of a blue-eyed, buttoned-down Portland businessman who annually donates the 75-foot holiday tree to Pioneer Courthouse Square. Miller can be soft-spoken one moment, and explosive the next—when he goes off on Oregon’s business climate, government interference and his motives for financing a political insurrection. But Miller’s friends say he is just as frustrated by what he sees as the Republican Party’s failure to provide voters with acceptable political choices as he is with the Democratic leaders who have run the state for nearly three decades. “I don’t think he can be categorized,” says Jody Stahancyk, the Portland divorce lawyer who’s been Miller’s friend for years. “He’s as independent as a hog on ice.” Republican donors have always given big money in Oregon politics. But for decades many were moderate, even progressive, recognizing that what was good for Oregon came first, and what was good for their businesses would follow.
Those leaders included timber barons— who have mostly vanished along with their companies. “You don’t have those same type of visible characters,” says Jim McCauley, who was a timber industry lobbyist before joining Washington County as government affairs director. “They’ve died. Retired.” Stimson Lumber survived—and put Miller in position to be an old-style power broker in a new era. Miller’s family has owned Stimson Lumber—named after his great-greatgreat-grandfather, T.D. Stimson—for 162 years. Other companies owned mills but not the timber. When the feds cut off the supply from national forests, their futures dried up. But Stimson Lumber spent decades buying timberlands. Today it still owns 500,000 acres of forest and eight mills across four Western states. With 700 employees (nearly half in Oregon), the privately held Stimson has annual sales
of $260 million, according to industry estimates. Miller might go unnoticed on a Portland street in his shirt-and-slacks business attire, if not for his Lincolnesque height and jutting chin. He’s missing the tip of the middle finger on his left hand, severed by a saw when he was 25 and managing a Weyerhaeuser sawmill in Wisconsin. Miller is genteel, reserved to the point of bashful. John Ludlow, one of the Clackamas commission candidates he’s backing, says Miller is “so soft-spoken, at times I nearly had to force him to talk.” But Miller can become heated when talking about what drives him in his campaign. “The Democratic Party has been a monolithic front for public-employee unions,” he says while walking along the log pond at Stimson Lumber’s Gaston sawmill, a 45-minute drive from downtown Portland. “Everyone said we don’t need the timber industry because we’ve got Silicon Forest or whatever. That’s just bullshit.” Former Trail Blazers player Chris Dudley, who received an extraordinary $510,000 from Stimson Lumber in his failed 2010 Republican bid for governor, remembers his first conversation with Miller. “He said, ‘Listen, I’m not going anywhere,’” Dudley recalls Miller telling him. “‘I’m not going to leave. I’m going to change this place. I’m going to make it a place where people can support their families.’” Unlike other businesses, Stimson cannot just get up and run. Its wealth is tied to the land—something everyone in Miller’s family understands. “My mother’s almost 80 years old,” Miller says, “and she’s still giving me a hard time: ‘Aren’t you buying more timber?’” And it was a fight over land—and his company’s right to use it as it sees fit—that first engaged Miller in Oregon politics. Miller’s 1977 Lincoln High School yearbook photos show a kid with David Cassidy hair. He graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa and later earned a Master of Business Administration at Columbia University. He worked at the Wisconsin sawmill for three years before moving back to Oregon, minus a fingertip, to join the family business in 1991. CONT. on page 20
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Miller, Stimson Lumber’s 53-year-old CEO, inherited his wealth and still makes his money from what many people see as a dying part of Oregon’s history. The state has mostly moved on from its timber past, a boom-and-bust economic cycle that battered the state’s forests and, in the end, betrayed hundreds of thousands of rural families who had counted on middle-class lives earned from the Oregon woods. Miller, who is 6 feet 4 inches tall and as narrow as one of his company’s twoby-four studs, views things differently. He sees an Oregon economy and manufacturing base sabotaged by Democratic Party politicians and public-employee unions that have made it difficult for business to thrive and, in turn, create the kind of jobs that pay for the schools and services Oregonians say they want. “We are out of money,” he says of state government. “We should be ashamed of our behavior. We have not made a better world for our children. We have made it worse.” Miller’s complaint is the same message corporate leaders have been sending for years, without stemming the blue power of the progressive, Democratic Portland metropolitan area. But Miller is trying to alter that by bringing his fight to Portland’s doorstep. His privately owned Stimson Lumber Company has spent $2.2 million in recent years to influence Oregon politics— unmatched by any other business in the state. But Miller’s growing influence arises from how he’s spending it: funneling cash to candidates from his increasingly influential political machine, Oregon Transformation Project PAC. Miller’s operation is trying to win political control of Clackamas County. His group’s slogan, “Stop Portland Creep,” is resonating with those who are tired of
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UNDERDOG: Manuel Castaneda, a Republican candidate for the Oregon House backed by Miller’s PAC, says state government intrudes on small business. “This is the only state where you can commit assisted suicide, but you can’t walk on your own job site,” he says.
Miller won’t talk about the Dudley campaign, but insiders say he fought bitterly with Dudley’s out-of-state campaign team, including national political consultant Steve Schmidt, the senior adviser to Sen. John McCain in his failed 2008 presidential bid. Miller felt the consultants had Dudley spending too much time in rural Oregon where he had support locked up. Miller wanted Dudley spending more time campaigning in the Portland suburbs and east Multnomah County, where Dudley’s star power and appeal as a political moderate had its greatest potential to win over new voters. “They would come to (Miller) with their hand out,” says Ross Day, a land-use activist who volunteered on Dudley’s campaign, “and when he said, ‘You’ve got to be in Portland more,’ they would say, ‘Go and sit in the corner. Be a good donor.’ That’s not something he would really appreciate.”
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During this era—when the timber industry was being hit by recession, timber shortages and tightening environmental standards—Stimson was run by non-family members. Miller was a divorced father of three daughters and a son. Friends recount how Miller baked cookies with his children to deliver to workers at the Gaston sawmill, so his kids would know where their wealth came from. In 2004, Oregon voters passed a ballot measure to allow property owners to file claims against government agencies for what they believed was the loss of their land’s economic value as a result of landuse planning. Stimson Lumber, which had promoted Miller to CEO the previous year, spent $30,000 backing the measure. “The attitude coming out of Salem was, ‘We’re going to tell you what to do with your land,’” Miller says. “If you don’t protect your interests, you’ll get run over.” The new law could have cost the state and local government billions and disrupted the state’s planning system. Stimson Lumber was hoping to develop 40 luxury homes over 1,143 acres of Washington County property south of Cornelius called Iowa Hill. In 2007, under pressure from government agencies and environmental groups, lawmakers sent voters an alternative, Measure 49, that overturned the compensation claims. Stimson Lumber spent $490,000 unsuccessfully fighting that reversal, the most money donated by any company. The measure passed, and Stimson Lumber sold the Iowa Hill land for $6.5 million to Metro—the regional planning agency Miller sees as an adversary—to create a nature reserve. It was a fraction of the price Stimson would have earned from subdividing the land. The defeat intensified Miller’s determination to change state government. Miller pinned his hopes on Dudley, the 6-foot-11 former Blazers center many thought was a moderate Republican who could sway Portland-area voters. Dudley spent $10.4 million in his effort to defeat the comeback campaign of Democrat John Kitzhaber, who was seeking a third term after being out of the governor’s office for eight years. “For a brief, shining moment,” Miller says, “it looked like he had a chance.”
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Dudley lost by 22,238 votes statewide— or 1.5 percent—after heavy turnout for Kitzhaber in Multnomah County swung the race. For Miller, it was a turning point. If he was going to pay the bills, he decided, he would pick the candidates and the consultants. “The Republican Party hasn’t been a lot different in this state,” he says. “You can keep giving money and not pay attention to how it’s being spent. Or you can just give up. Or you can go straight to the customers—which is in this case the candidates. It’s all about how you go to market.” Miller decided the best vehicle for his money—and his determination to call the strategic shots—was Oregon Transformation Project. It was a think tank of sorts started by Allen Alley, the state GOP chairman and a failed candidate for governor and state treasurer. Alley founded it with Third Century Solutions, a Lake Oswego-based political consulting firm with five employees, including principals Bridget Barton, Jim Pasero and Rob Kremer. Kremer is a bushy-browed former Chicago financial derivatives broker who lost a bid for Oregon Superintendent of Public Instruction in 2002. He’s a hard-right conservative whose particular passion is what he considers the evils of the public education system. He now serves as treasurer of the Oregon Republican Party and hosts a radio talk show. And he saw in Miller someone with the cash and spine to mount a separate movement. “There’s a reason we’ve lost jobs in downtown Portland,” Kremer says. “Have you ever heard an honest conversation in this city about the economic consequences of smart growth?” Oregon Transformation Project is a
wing of Third Century Solutions with many business donors, most of whom remain secret. The group’s political action committee is separate and funded primarily by Stimson Lumber. Oregon Transformation Project PAC typically works through targeted media buys and direct mail. Third Century Solutions creates the marketing. Stimson Lumber gives money. To campaign against the Portland Public Schools bond measure, the PAC has paid for the “PolitiMyth” billboards, a parody of PolitiFact in The Oregonian. It’s also sunk money into small-town races, including Wilsonville and Damascus city councils, and even donated to fight a $10 million Gladstone library levy. Miller and his group are also trying to swing the deadlocked Legislature into Republican control. Much of the $645,000 donated by Stimson in the last two years—more than threequarters of the committee’s bankroll—has gone to candidates whose campaigns make the best pitch. Most are considered underdogs—some long shots. The group has given $30,000 to freshman Rep. Mike McLane (R-Powell Butte) and $33,400 to Dan Mason, a property manager trying to unseat Rep. Chris Harker (D-Beaverton). Scott Roberts, an oral surgeon from North Bend running for an open Oregon Senate District 5 seat against Democrat Arnie Roblan, received $25,000 from the Oregon Transformation Project PAC and another $50,000 directly from Stimson Lumber. (Oregon is one of four states that has no limit on how much an individual or organization can give to a candidate.) Miller says one candidate, entrepreneur Manuel Castaneda, was told by other conCONT. on page 22
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sultants not to bother running against fiveterm incumbent Rep. Jeff Barker (D-Aloha) in Oregon House District 28. Castaneda has since become a favorite of Miller’s. Castaneda was born in a tiny village in Mexico, moved to Washington state with 11 siblings to pick berries, and now runs a successful construction and engineering firm. Oregon Transformation Project PAC gave his campaign $72,000 because Miller and Castaneda shared a deep dislike for what they see as government interference with business. “People were telling him, ‘Don’t even try, Manuel, because it’s a 10-point registration deficit district,’” Miller says. “Why would we want to discourage somebody from even trying?” Oregon Transformation Project PAC has aggressively campaigned for Castaneda—to the point of mailing out a flier falsely claiming that Barker, a former Portland cop, was receiving “a government pension worth more than $100,000 a year.” Barker actually collects $79,104 annually through the city’s Fire and Police Disability and Retirement fund. “They’re just blowing a lot of money,” says Rep. Dave Hunt (D-Gladstone), the former state House speaker. “They continue to waste a ton of money on legislative races they can’t win.” But few suggest Stimson’s dollars are being wasted in Clackamas County. “That’s been a smart expenditure on their part,” Hunt says. “There’s no question they have a shot at taking that.” Hunt should know. He gave up his House seat this year to run for chair of the Clackamas County Commission. He ran into a slate of anti-light-rail candidates bankrolled by the Oregon Transformation Project and got crushed in the primary, finishing fourth.
CLACKISTAN WARLORD: John Ludlow is campaigning to upend the metro area’s “smart” growth. “They’ve got a plan,” Ludlow says. “We the people, we’re not part of the plan.”
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Miller says he couldn’t care less about the fate of light rail in Milwaukie or anywhere else. “I know it’s a rallying point,” he says, “but it’s not an issue for Stimson Lumber or Andrew Miller. Other people have a bone to pick with urban transit—I don’t give a shit about that.” Miller and the Oregon Transformation Project PAC unleashed their money on Clackamas County because its political
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map showed promise in 2010: Dudley had done very well in the county, winning 53 percent of the vote despite a three-point voter registration edge for Democrats. Despite the party registration, Clackamas County has traditionally shown some resentment toward Portland. “There’s always been this undercurrent of, ‘We’re the county that nobody pays attention to,’” says former U.S. Rep. Darlene Hooley (D-Oregon), who served on the Clackamas County Commission and represented West Linn in the state Legislature before she went to Congress. That friction became a fissure in December 2010, when the Clackamas County Commission approved a $5 vehicle registration fee to fund repairs on the Sellwood Bridge into Multnomah County. Residents forced a public ballot, and 63 percent of voters rejected the fee. “One of the most remarkable developments to happen in Oregon in our political lifetimes,” Kremer says. “The rulers are at war with their people.” By the time Oregon Transformation Project PAC mounted a billboard reading “Stop Portland Creep” along Interstate 205 this spring, Clackamas County was already rebelling against TriMet’s light rail being extended to Milwaukie. Oregon Transformation Project PAC identified three candidates for Clackamas County Commission—former Wilsonville mayor John Ludlow, former Rep. Tootie Smith (R-Molalla) and anti-light-rail petitioner Jim Knapp—as the group’s primary election slate and has spent more than $200,000 to get them elected. Smith, a former co-owner of a Christmas tree logging company and farm, made news when she raffled off a 9 mm Glock pistol in May at a fundraiser. “People give to a campaign, they think they don’t get anything in return,” Smith
says of the raffle. “With my campaign, you get something in return.” Ludlow, a realtor who announces Wilsonville High School football games, says he’ll send every public project costing more than $20 million directly to voters. In the primary, all three campaigned on requiring a public vote on any further county debt funding for light rail—a ballot measure that passed in September. Miller’s checkbook has also paid for the “Portland Creep” billboard and a radio jingle from a Los Angeles songwriter who’s written a track for the band Maroon 5. “How do we stop Portland creep?” the bass-heavy song asks. “Tootie, Ludlow, Knapp!” Knapp lost in the primary to Martha Schrader, but Ludlow and Smith finished first and second in their respective primaries, and are now positioned to win outright, giving conservatives a majority on the County Commission. Miller gets angry at the suggestion he’s buying control of a county. He says Stimson Lumber has no land in Clackamas County and no stake in county issues. “You’re making the assumption this company is uberwealthy,” Miller says. “If people want to say, ‘This guy’s trying to buy influence,’ I don’t know what to say about that.” Victory in Clackamas County would give Miller and his group a political foothold and a sign of strategic progress. He has inverted the old moderate businessman’s adage in Oregon, arguing what’s good for Oregon emerges from what’s good for his business. Bringing that argument to victory in the shadow of Portland would send a very loud message. “Somebody in the goddamn metro area is trying to stand up and protect naturalresource businesses,” Miller says. “If we do not have urban political leaders who protect the natural-resource businesses, we are on the long road to decay.”
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DRANK: Fall seasonal beer picks. MUSIC: Portland’s famous mariachi. THEATER: Interdependence. Isolation. Dancing. BOOKS: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore.
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enjoy the silence: You know what Portland needs? A silent disco. Because...um...well...it just does, OK! For the uninitiated, a silent disco is a dance party in which everyone is wearing headphones and listening to the DJ of their choice. In essence, it takes the communal experience of going to a club and personalizes it, which would seem to defeat the whole purpose—though Michelle Arrazcaeta, who’s throwing “Portland’s first art-infused silent disco” Dec. 2 at Union/Pine, argues it does the opposite, “transforming the anti-social act of listening to headphones into a shared experience.” OK, but what about the fact that everyone around you will be moving to a different rhythm? That sounds very annoying. Anyway, these things are growing increasingly popular for whatever reason, so help Arrazcaeta pay for the DJs, the art and, most crucially, the headphones, at kickstarter.com/ projects/marrazcaeta/pdx-silent-disco. canceled: November was shaping up to be a huge month for music shows in Portland. But last week, a series of bigname cancellations hit. First, Morrissey, who was scheduled to mope out at the Schnitz, canceled his remaining North American tour dates to return to England and tend to his ailing mother. Then, Green Day confirmed what everyone presumed would happen after Billie Joe Armstrong’s onstage breakdown in Las Vegas in September, postponing its upcoming concert slate, including a planned green day stop at the Salem Armory Auditorium. Finally, rapper Wiz Khalifa backed out of his appearance at Memorial Coliseum—surely a disappointing blow to local marijuana sellers. Don’t worry, though: As of press time, the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies’ gig at Dante’s on Dec. 1 is still on. bomb drop: The ill-fated space under Noble Rot on East Burnside Street—home to four doomed bars in five years, with clientele ranging from frosted tips to biker tats to khakis and donkey pins—quietly cracked its doors this week as Bar alla Bomba (literally, bar of the bomb), a more upscale venture featuring Venetian-style small plates heavy on meat and seafood. As explained to BaB’s owner, Christopher Ashley, by a gentle old man in Venice: “For vegetarian, it is disaster.” The chef will be Ethan Flom (Broder, Savoy), and the official grand opening is Nov. 8. Future drinking: Tae Gyun Kim and Hyun Joo Lee are opening a “Napolese-style wood-fired pizza kitchen” called Oro Di Napoli at 3632 N Williams Ave. that will be headed up by former Bluehour and Morso chef Kenny Giambalvo. >> Akkapong “Earl” Ninsom of Thai restaurant PaaDee is opening Tarad Restaurant & Thai Market at 601 SE Morrison St. >> Farmers market gluten-free bakery Petunia’s Pies & Pastries is opening a brick-and-mortar location in the West End, at 610 SW 12th Ave. >> A new distillery called Rolling River Distillery is planned for 1215 SE 8th Ave.
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WEDNESDAY OCT. 31 DIGITAL UNDERGROUND [MUSIC] Watch in horror as a room of frat boys in pimp costumes lose their shit to “The Humpty Dance”! Seriously, though, Oakland hip-hop crew Digital Underground accomplished a lot more than creating a karaoke staple for uncoordinated white guys. Refuge, 116 SE Yamhill St. 9 pm. $13 advance, $20 day of show, $75 VIP. BUG-COOKING DEMO [FOOD] Jamaican field-cricket kabobs, scorpion scaloppine and wasabi-glazed waxworms: These are actual things “bug chef” David George Gordon will be making at Paxton Gate. Beats caramel apples. Paxton Gate, 4204 N Mississippi Ave., 719-4508. 7-9 pm. Free.
THURSDAY NOV. 1 MORTIFIED LIVE [EMBARRASSMENT] Celebrating all that is awkward, wonderful and hilarious about adolescence, Portlanders share their most humiliating childhood artifacts: love letters, poetry, journals and more. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 8 pm. $12-$15. 21+.
FRIDAY NOV. 2 PO’SHINES CHITLIN AND JAMBALAYA FEST [FOOD] Chitlins are pig intestines. It’s a Southern thing. North Portland nonprofit soul-food cafe Po’Shines raises money for the eatery’s culinary-training program for at-risk kids. Po’Shines Cafe de la Soul, 8139 N Denver Ave., 978-9000. FridaySaturday, Nov. 2-3. ORYCON [GEEK] Now in its 34th year, OryCon is Portland’s oldest sci-fi convention. This year’s con, titled “Apocalypse How?,” will feature a masquerade ball, art show, writers workshop, sci-fi-related vendors and special guests. Portland Doubletree Hotel, 1000 NE Multnomah St. 10 am-8 pm Nov. 2, 10 am-9pm Nov. 3, 10 am-2 pm Nov. 4. $60 at door, children 6-12 $30, children 5 and under free. Info at 34.orycon.org.
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SATURDAY NOV. 3 HITCHCOCK FESTIVAL [MOVIES] Alfred Hitchcock is getting extra attention this fall thanks to a feature film and an HBO original movie. See Hitchcock’s best films, including Vertigo, Psycho and Rear Window. Cinema 21, 616 NW 21st Ave. Multiple showtimes, Nov. 2-7. See cinema21.com for schedule.
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Like those soggy leaves you should be raking up about now, autumn beers come in different shades of yellow, orange and brown. For brewers, the months between summer’s crisp lagers and winter’s spicy booze bombs are a free-for-all. The seasonal shelf at local beer shops is crowded with a mishmash of bitter fresh-hopped pale ales, roasty porters and cinnamon-blasted pumpkin stouts. What should you be drinking on these cool, damp nights? Five WW writers—Martin Cizmar, Rebecca Jacobson, John Locanthi, Brian Yaeger and Robert Ham—graded 10 widely available Oregonmade autumn beers on a 100-point scale.
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Score: 85 Pumpkin beers present a paradox. You want them before Halloween, but it takes at least a month to get from harvest to bottle, so brews using fresh pumpkins rather than canned squash or fake flavoring agents come out closer to Christmas. Rogue set its own schedule for this pale-ish ale by harvesting pumpkins early from its own patch. It’s not the best pumpkin beer we’ve tasted, but it was the most impressive fall seasonal we found for this taste-off. Tasters said: “Smooth, gets better by the taste” and “Tastes like pumpkins!”
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Score: 82 Combining pumpkins and chocolate is like buying your kid a Batman costume: It just seems too easy. But Eugene’s Oakshire still gets credit for balancing two big, distinct flavors. At 9 percent alcohol, it’ll keep you warm, too. Tasters said: “Just awesome” and “Spicy and chocolatey, nice pumpkin aftertaste.”
McMenamins Black Widow Porter
Score: 80 McMenamins is bringing Black Widow to all its brewpubs this year for the first time. An outpost in Salem has been making this brew for two decades, but this year all locations are making their own barrels. Expect slight variation in this pitch-black, licorice-infused tonic from the tap, or seek out a bottle made at Edgefield. Tasters said: “Nice and chocolatey, nice liquorice root goes with roast malts” and “Delicious, chocolatey, licoricey, tasty!”
OTHERS: Alameda Stubs Old Crow Hazelnut Porter
Score: 59 The Willamette Valley grows most of our nation’s hazelnuts, so it’s smart for this Northeast Portland brewery to capitalize with this brownish black brew. Tasters said: “Roasty, toasty hazelnut aftertaste” and “Long-lasting head, raisiny, hazelnuts in aftertaste.”
Lompoc Monster Mash
Score: 52 New Old Lompoc’s Monster Mash is sort of a brewhouse brass monkey, usually concocted from whatever
leftover malts are handy. This year’s version is very chocolatey, but the thin body lacked the appropriate heft. Tasters said: “Like a watered-down, lighter version of the Black Widow Porter” and “Like mixing Nesquik with water.”
BridgePort Witch Hunt
Score: 51 New this fall, this BridgePort seasonal is very subtly spiced and could easily pass as a summer beer. Tasters said: “Crisp, slightly citrusy, but really bland” and “More gingerbread man than pumpkin pie.”
Bridgeport Hop Harvest Pilsner
Score: 45 We let BridgePort take a second bob for the apple with this freshhopped lager. No luck. Tasters said: “Duller than the draft version I had two weeks ago—like it died in the bottle” and “Tastes like they needed to leave the hops on the bine longer.”
Oakshire Harvest Ale
Score: 38 A copper-colored brew with earthy Old World noble hops that did nothing to evoke the flavors of the season. It’s not good, either, with a lightly metallic flavor. Tasters said: “No theme here” and “Tastes like a pile of rusty leaves.”
Captured By Porches Undead Porter
Score: 19 Our bottle of this porter, which is made using unmalted grains, may have been spoiled, given the terrible showing for this typically solid Portland brewery. Tasters said: “Super heady with a lingering, disgusting aftertaste... buttery and almost sour” and “Spoiled.”
Flat Tail Feathertop Pumpkin Stout
Score: 15 Remember when a stingy neighbor dropped a penny in your trickor-treat bag? That’s how we felt after trying this undrinkable mix of pumpkin, vanilla bean and cinnamon bark from Corvallis. The ambitious mix of ingredients boded well, but the result was an unmitigated disaster. Tasters said: “Tastes like they rubbed Sour Patch Kids on a dirty elevator button” and “Spoiled, sour and no pumpkin at all.”
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SHUT UP, LARDO A BUN-BASED BATTLE OF RIVAL SOUTHEAST SANDWICH SHOPS. BY MA RTIN CIZMA R
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Yo! Asshole! Youse can plainly see I’m eatin’ at dis sandwich shop. And youse gonna eat at d’otha sandwich shop? In South Philly, where partisans yell insults across the street as they line up for cheesesteaks, hitting two sandwich shops in the same day wouldn’t fly. And maybe it shouldn’t, given how bloated four WW staffers felt after braving rival Southeast Portland sandwich shops Lardo and Shut Up and Eat on a recent Sunday. These joints have a lot in common: Both began as carts in the autumn of 2010, winning ardent fans with big, meaty sandwiches before moving into walk-in establishments in the summer of 2012. But while Lardo owner Rick Gencarelli is a trained chef with an impressive résumé who spitpolishes everything down to his logo-stamped paper, Shut Up and Eat boss John Fimmano’s place reflects the blue-collar background of a guy who moved here from Philadelphia to work construction before selling his mama’s meatballs from a taxi-yellow cart. THE SCENE
Sleek Lardo sits across from the Cartopia pod on Hawthorne Boulevard at the edge of Ladd’s Addition in inner Southeast. The tiny building is mostly kitchen and bar, forcing patrons onto a huge patio filled with wooden picnic tables that are now covered, but not yet heated. The crowd is generally youngish and fashionably attired. Shut Up and Eat sits on the corner of Cesar Chavez Boulevard and Gladstone Street in Southeast, an intersection where a furniture refurbisher was recently replaced by a record shop. It’s laid out like a classic lunch counter, with lots of two-person tables and no patio. The crowd here is actively eating. THE MEATBALLS
The best sandwich we tried from Lardo, the meatball banh mi ($8), sits on a ciabatta roll
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from Fleur de Lis Bakery. Sliced flat, the hearty meatballs are freshened up by a topping of Sriracha sauce, half a bushel of cilantro, and a slaw of pickled carrots and daikon. It’s a very large meal. Shut Up and Eat’s massive meatball sub ($8.50) has four balls—made of beef, veal and pork—as big as a grade-schooler’s fist on a bun from Pearl Bakery. A thick layer of melted cheese blends creamy provolone with sharp Asiago and Parmesan. The meatballs are lightly sauced, with dipping marinara providing balancing zest. It’s two meals. THE OTHER MEAT
Lardo’s griddled mortadella ($8) is a messy blend of fatty salumi topped with a translucent slice of provolone. We preferred Shut Up’s mammoth cheesesteak ($8.50), topped with fried onions and hot peppers. THE VEGETABLES
Lardo takes pride in its meatiness, so maybe it’s not surprising that its chickpea sandwich ($8) is uninspired. Basically falafel on a bun slathered with an overly minty yogurt sauce, it did nothing for us —although we did enjoy the fried chickpea-topped raw kale salad ($5). Meanwhile, Shut Up has two nice vegetarian sandwiches, including smoky charred yams and cream cheese ($8.50) with sauteed spinach, kale and fried red onions. THE POTATOES
Lardo gets plaudits for its herby fries cooked in duck fat, but Shut Up’s freshly fried potato chips are a better accompaniment to any of these showstopping sandwiches. THE DRINKS
Lardo has a full bar with taps spouting local brews and Peroni (all $5) along with a cocktail menu that includes a drink made with Chartreuse and Limonata. Shut Up sells Olympia tall boys for $2.50 all day, every day. The final verdict? Lardo’s great, but most days I’d rather Shut Up and Eat.
LARDO: Meatball banh mi and kale salad.
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EAT: Shut Up and Eat, 3848 SE Gladstone St., 577-5604, shutupandeatpdx.com. 9 am-8 pm Tuesday-Saturday, 9 am-7 pm Sunday. $. Lardo, 1212 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 234-7786, lardopdx. com. 11 am-11 pm Sunday-Thursday, 11 ammidnight Friday-Saturday. $.
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Prices listed are sometimes for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and socalled convenience charges may apply. Event lineups are subject to change after WW’s press deadlines. Editor: MATTHEW SINGER. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, go to wweek.com/ submitevents and follow submission directions. All shows should be submitted two weeks or more in advance of event. Press kits, CDs and especially vinyl can be sent to Music Desk, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Please include show or release date information with all physical mailings. Email: msinger@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 31 Ash Street Saloon 18th Anniversary Show: Pierced Arrows, Pillowfight, Black Pussy
[RAWK] The number of bands who have cut their teeth at downtown’s Ash Street Saloon during the past 18 years must number in the hundreds. While a good percentage of that troupe has passed into obsolescence, Ash Street continues to soldier on, now filling a role in the Portland music ecosystem once occupied by the likes of Satyricon, as a venue in which new groups can test their explosive claims. Tonight’s party calls on at least two success stories from the bar-rawk genre in which Ash Street specializes: Pierced Arrows, which continues to put groups half its age to shame; and Black Pussy, whose thundering swagger constitutes a soiled, leather-bedecked revelation. SHANE DANAHER. Ash Street Saloon, 225 SW Ash St., 226-0430. 9:30 pm Wednesday, Oct. 31. $8. 21+.
Memories, Twerps, Dignan Porch
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[GARAGE POP] Who started using bongs, anyway? If you’re going to get stoned, keep it simple. The Memories are a group of local boys who do exactly that with a refreshingly easygoing take on pop music. The band’s unadorned, lo-fi garage pop conjures images of getting stoned in the garage when Mom wasn’t home, or that time you convinced a girl to take mushrooms with you at the swimming hole. It’s that innocence paired with the songs’ dark, eerie undertones that make the Memories a great band to see on Halloween—they’re creepily content and the music is danceable— although they would provide an even better soundtrack for prancing through a grassy meadow. The show is headlined by Twerps, bringing its classic jangle-pop all the way from Melbourne, Australia. DREW LENIHAN. Bunk Bar,
1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm Wednesday, Oct. 31. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
Vagabond Opera, Chervona, Dum Spiro Spero, Flip Cassidy and the Junkyard Gospel
[TRANSYLVANIAN VOODOO BALL] A Vagabond Opera show is usually a costume party even when it’s not All Hallow’s Eve. But in addition to the usual neo-cabaret burlesque— fueled by frontman Eric Stern’s accordion and operatic tenor, various Eastern European musical influences and dueling cellos, sax, clarinet and rhythm section—this extravaganza ups the ante by including Russian Balkan party band Chervona; belly dancers Karolina Lux and Rachel Brice; chalky Butoh dancers roaming the floor; ghostly Appalachian ballads from Dum Spiro Spero; sacred fire-ritual ancestor worship; tarot readings; an interactive Día de Los Muertos altar; and, undoubtedly, legions of costumed acolytes in the audience. BRETT CAMPBELL. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 9 pm Wednesday, Oct. 31. $16$20. 21+.
THURSDAY, NOV. 1 Orquesta Aragon, Martin Zarzar
[CHARANGA LEGENDS] And you thought the Rolling Stones were an institution: Cuba’s Orquesta Aragon formed in 1939 and, through all the political and social turmoil its home country has endured in the years since, has somehow managed not only to stay together but continuously evolve. Starting out with a base of traditional son, by the 1950s the group was an international ambassador for all forms of Cuban dance music. Obviously, membership has rotated over the decades (namesake Orestes Aragon, bassist and bandleader, left the group
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TOP FIVE PLACES TO GET BUSY (OTHER THAN BURGER KING BATHROOMS) College campus piano practice rooms My girl and I used to tape a sheet of notebook paper over the little window on the door. When people walked by, I’d reach up with my free hand and bang a few random chords as a decoy. Department store fitting rooms Usually inspired by her asking my opinion of something she tried on, something so sexy I had to follow her back in. Hotel stairwell during a crowded one-room afterparty These are especially exciting when everybody’s so drunk and busy conversating they don’t even notice us sneaking the comforter out of the room. The early morning secret shower session The ones that happen during a sleepover in which the other guests must not know about the hook-up. These are electrifying! The upstairs master bedroom walk-in closet during a house party The resident strange clothing all around us adds mystery and excitement, and if it happens to not have carpet, there’s always a nice, long coat or two to make a bedding with. SEE IT: Digital Underground plays Thriller IV at Refuge, 116 SE Yamhill St., on Wednesday, Oct 31. 9 pm. $13 advance, $20 day of show, $75 VIP. 21+.
LA MARIACHI EDNA VAZQUEZ DECLARES HER INDEPENDENCE. BY matthew siN ger
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Edna Vazquez’s life in music began with a crush. When she was 13 years old, a boy in her tiny hometown of Tonila, in central Mexico, attempted to win her affections by giving her a guitar. Growing up in the birthplace of mariachi, Vazquez says she spent her childhood “showered in culture,” but up to that point, she’d never thought of participating in the arts herself. Things didn’t work out between her and the boy—even then, Vazquez, who is openly gay, sensed she’d prefer to eventually have a wife instead of a husband—but she kept his gift, and started taking lessons at a local church. She found herself to be a quick learner. “It was like something woke up in me,” says Vazquez, 34. And when she decided to learn to sing one of her grandmother’s favorite songs, she discovered something else: She had a naturally strong voice. “And I’m like, ‘Fuck!’” she says. “‘I can do whatever the heck I want!’” Indeed, Vazquez, who left Mexico for the United States as a teenager and wound up in the Portland area soon after, has been doing pretty much whatever the heck she wants ever since. Fidgeting in her chair at Boulevard Tacos, Vazquez is nonchalant about the fact that much of her life has been defined by acts of hard-nosed defiance. But the empowerment she gained from music instilled in her a streak of gutsy independence. Over the years, that sense of self-determination has manifested in different ways—from her decision to come out in a deeply religious community to her move to integrate into Portland’s music scene playing original, soul-baring Mexican folk songs. It’d seem that, after 34 years of boldly declaring her identity, Vazquez would have a clear idea of who she is as a person and an artist. But one of the things that compels her as a performer, she says, is that she’s still trying to suss that out. “[Music] is, like, a metaphysical way of figuring out who we are,” Vazquez says.
In terms of her sexual identity, Vazquez has long been certain. At 17, she announced to her parents that she’d fallen in love with her best friend. Fearing for her well-being, they sent Vazquez to live with relatives in East Los Angeles. Four months after arriving in America, Vazquez moved, along with her aunt and uncle, to Hillsboro, where her feelings of alienation doubled: Not only was she a lesbian, she was now one of only four Latino students in her high school. It was, she confesses, a lonely time. “I guess I spent it by myself,” she says. After graduating, Vazquez joined Salem-based Mariachi Los Palmeros, with which she’s performed practically every weekend for the past 12 years. Nine years ago, Vazquez began composing her own songs, sneaking them into her solo repertoire. Then, in 2010, while living in Vancouver, Wash., she appeared on Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento, a popular talent competition on Spanish-language television. Playing a traditional song from her mother’s home region of Huasteca, her lugubrious alto nearly drove the three celebrity judges to tears. Although she was eliminated from the program in the semifinals, the performance made Vazquez a minor TV star, earning her invitations to other shows and allowing her to tour Texas with her own quartet. It also had an impact locally: Thanks in large part to the support of Y La Bamba’s Luz Elena Mendoza, who came across a clip of her Tengo Talento appearance on YouTube, in the last year Vazquez has gone from playing Mexican restaurants and quinceañeras to high-profile events like PDX Pop Now! While that might seem odd—a mariachi singer sharing bills with Portland indie rockers—Vazquez says her music, which borrows from a range of Latin American styles, is regarded with equal curiosity in the Latino community. She’s been told she should stick to one genre (she also has a rock band, called No Passengers). As you might imagine, though, Vazquez doesn’t do well with restrictions. “I’m just exploring myself,” she says. “Maybe I’m not going to be a famous artist, like, to be commercialized and all that…but I’m just doing whatever comes, and that’s what I want to keep doing. Everything else: Who cares?” SEE IT: Edna Vazquez and No Passengers play the Dia de los Muertos celebration at Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., on Thursday, Nov. 1. 6:30 pm. $5. All ages until 9 pm. Vazquez also plays the Piano Fort, 1715 SE Spokane St., with MidLo on Saturday, Nov. 3. 8 pm. $10 suggested donation. All ages. Willamette Week OCTOBER 31, 2012 wweek.com
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in the late ’40s), but the band has largely kept it in the family, with sons succeeding their fathers, and maintained an exceedingly high level of musicianship. And while it’s never given in to modern trends, Orquesta Aragon remains more than just a historical artifact, delivering hot live performances that educate crowds while also making them sweat. MATTHEW SINGER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 2250047. 8 pm. $30 advance, $35 day of show, $40 Golden Circle seating. All ages.
Sera Cahoone, the Parson Red Heads, Desert Noises
[HIGH-COUNTRY ROCK] Utah’s Desert Noises can be filed alongside folk-rock compatriots Blitzen Trapper and Denver. In fact, given frontman Kyle Henderson’s airy, Ben Bridwell-inspired vocals, I’d file them even closer to Band of Horses. The quartet’s rolling, wide-reaching surges of twangy Americana are as familiar and fuzzy as they are lasting. On this tour, the band will be offering a special 7-inch with previously unreleased tracks, engineered right here in Portland by Fruit Bats’ Graeme Gibson. The Parson Red Heads and Sera Cahoone round out a heavy bill of talent from west of the Rockies. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm Thursday, Nov. 1. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
Petunia and the Vipers, the Maldives
[COUNTRY SWING] The first words on Petunia and the Vipers’ new self-titled album go something like this: “Oh-lo-do-do-do-hee-hee-yahee-hee.” OK, so yodeling doesn’t really translate well to the page. But on record and in person, Ron Fortugno, aka Petunia, could quite possibly convert the anti-yodeler to the other side. And that’s only the half of it: The animated Canadian singer-songwriter’s voice ranges from the classic country twang of Hank Williams to the rough, raucous energy of Tom Waits. Since beginning his guitar-slinging, kazoocooing career years ago on the streets of Canada and New York, Petunia has toured extensively with his backing group the Vipers, gaining followers in small towns and honky-tonks everywhere. EMILEE BOOHER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm Thursday, Nov. 1. $12.
Benny Benassi
[SUPERSTAR DJ] Few DJs have attained international household-name status, but Italy’s Benny Benassi has. His 2002 hit, “Satisfaction”—accompanied by its stunning video featuring babes and power tools—may have worn thin on many ears in the ensuing decade, and the thought of that song and the more recent “Beautiful People” booming through to the masses in the Roseland isn’t particularly appealing, but Benassi’s catalog is diverse, drawing on house and electro with hip-hop remixes thrown in. He has seen a decline in popularity of late and is showing his age a bit, so fans, and Benassi himself, may need to up their doses. MITCH LILLIE. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $35. All ages.
FRIDAY, NOV. 2 Menomena, Radiation City, Parenthetical Girls
[FAMILY MATTERS] Menomena has been through some rough patches. The band was barely on speaking terms around the time it released 2010’s Mines. Shortly after, Brent Knopf left to pursue his other project, Ramona Falls. But now we can stop talking about all that drama, as it will take more than a few bumps in the road to keep the band’s remaining members Danny Seim and Justin Harris from writing the kind of uniquely intriguing music that brought the group to the forefront of the Portland
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FAR BEYOND STEAM-DRIVEN: Vagabond Opera plays Star Theater on Wednesday, Oct. 31. scene in the first place. Taking a more sonically aggressive and lyrically focused approach, Menomena released its fifth full-length album in September, which, as suggested by the title, Moms, revolves around the theme of both the absence and presence of mother figures in the musicians’ lives (Seim’s mother died when he was 17; Harris was raised by a single mother). The record contains the same masterful production and quirky wordplay Menomena is known for, but this time it’s a little more personal. EMILEE BOOHER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 9 pm Friday, Nov. 2. $16 advance, $18 day of show. All ages.
The Afghan Whigs, Van Hunt
[ROCK AND SOUL] Time-swept iconoclasts even during their grunge-era heyday—when they were the first Sub Pop signees outside the Pacific Northwest, and about the only act of note off that starkissed roster to leaven their fuzzedup riffs and drugged-up anomie with soulful vocals—the Afghan Whigs faded away shortly before the turn of the millennium. But as the adoring response from soldout shows among this extended reunion proves, the Ohio troupe was sorely missed. The three original members (swelling to six on tour, with sidemen picked up during vocalist Greg Dulli’s stints with the Twilight Singers and the Gutter Twins, plus various solo jaunts) still know their way around a corrosive spiral of guitars. And Dulli, ever fond of interposing bizarre cover choices between bars of the original, retains a dashing hint of menace. JAY HORTON. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm Friday, Nov. 2. $35. 21+.
SATURDAY, NOV. 3 Jens Lekman, Taken by Trees
[INDIE POP] He might never again turn in a single as exultant and heartbreaking as “The Opposite of Hallelujah,” but Swedish-born songwriter Jens Lekman still ranks among indie pop’s finest curios, both because of his meticulous compositions and endearingly hermetic songwriting. This summer’s I Know What Love Isn’t, Lekman’s first LP in five years, maintains the lugubrious tone of his earlier work, while tightening the sonic package in which it’s presented. Even if he seems to have abandoned subtext for this outing, his songwriting still places him in rarefied company. SHANE DANAHER. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 9 pm Saturday, Nov. 3. $20. All ages.
Metz, Bison Bison
[SONS OF ALBINI] Calling Metz a “guitar band” would be inaccurate. Sure, the Canadian trio wields its axes with force, and the whole construction of the group—three guys whipping up an unfussy, viciously loud racket—is, in part, a reaction against its home country’s predilection in recent years toward chamber-pop orchestras driven by
glockenspiels and fluegelhorns. But, like its curmudgeonly forefather, Steve Albini, the group shows less affection for the instrument itself than the dirty, vituperative noise it can be used to create. In truth, Metz would probably play cement mixers and chainsaws if they were more convenient to haul around in a van. In any case, the group’s self-titled debut is still one hell of a scraping, gnashing guitar record, recalling the unrepentant abrasiveness of Albini’s Shellac and Big Black, while also writhing with post-hardcore angularity. MATTHEW SINGER. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
Sea Wolf, Hey Marseilles
[THE SOUND OF SINCERITY] Credit to Alex Brown Church, aka Sea Wolf: He has created one of the most cerebral and committed records of the year in Old World Romance. In an effort to bring his sound back to himself, Church went domestic, recording at his home studio and playing with a heartfelt tenderness the indie world hasn’t seen since Rogue Wave. The flaws exist where one wouldn’t expect, namely in the record’s excessive cleanliness and safety-first approach. As attractive as the record is overall, one should look forward to a more human display from Church away from the studio and on the stage. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm Saturday, Nov. 3. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.
The Strange Tones
[BLUES] The rain’s nagging you. Your recent breakup’s been on your mind. The teller at your bank won’t even look you in the eye. Or maybe you’re just lonely for the blues themselves. Don’t come to the Strange Tones show all mopey, though. Guitarist Guitar Julie, bassist Andy Strange, guitarist Suburban Slim and drummer Andy Gauthier churn out blues music that hooks into you like a defibrillator. The title of their latest album, Crime-a-Billy, is a strangely fitting genre tag for the band: Like the Strange Tones themselves, it is flexible, raw and fresh. Try not to come to the show with too much genre-based baggage. It’ll get lost somewhere in the shuffle, the twist, and the Hang Ten. MITCH LILLIE. Duff ’s Garage, 1635 SE 7th Ave., 234-2337. Call venue for ticket information. 21+.
Old Light, Hungry Ghost
[FOLK EXPLOSION] Portland quartet Old Light’s never been among the city’s easily classifiable bands. This is, after all, a folksy band that boasts both Neil Young and Ozzy Osbourne as primary influences, that can alternately sound like the Beach Boys and My Morning Jacket in the span of a single song and that counts among its rock arsenal an autoharp and two drummers. But damned if its debut, 2010’s The Dirty Future, wasn’t among the best albums of that year, and if leaked tracks from the group’s upcoming sophomore release are any indication, shit’s about to get real. This is neo-classic
saturday-monday rock, dipped in metal (yup), and taking on a bevy of harmonic influences to forge one of the most floor-stomping sounds to come out of Portland in some time. AP KRYZA. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm Saturday, Nov. 3. Free. 21+.
Mark Farina, Chali 2na, Roc C, Oh No, Mercedes, Cloudy October, SKNY MRCLS
[HIP-HOUSE] Mark Farina is a legend in the world of electronic dance music for his ability both to lift a party into the atmosphere and to bring it back down to earth. Moving from Chicago to San Francisco in the ’90s, Farina became known for DJing highenergy house sets, then spinning hours’ worth of chilled-out, downtempo music he dubbed “mushroom jazz.” He’ll showcase both styles here, joined by rapper Chali 2na, the booming voice that powered much-missed throwback hip-hop crew Jurassic 5. That’s not all, though. Along with Oh No, brother of hyperprolific godhead producer Madlib (and no slouch in that area himself), 2na and rapper Roc C will also perform a full set of songs from their new collaborative project, Ron Artiste. No matter what you think of them, whatever you do, don’t throw your drinks at the stage. MATTHEW SINGER. Refuge, 116 SE Yamhill St. 9 pm. $15 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.
SUNDAY, NOV. 4 The Sea and Cake, Matthew Friedberger (of the Fiery Furnaces)
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MONDAY, NOV. 5 Skeletonwitch, Havok, Mutilation Rites, Night Nurse
[METAL ONSLAUGHT] This bill gives new meaning to the term “Metal Monday.” Here are four worthy horsemen of the apocalypse: Ohio’s melodic death-metal export Skeletonwitch has come a long way since its Portland debut at Tube, Denver’s Havok proves there are at least two new American bands that deserve to perform classic thrash, Brooklyn’s Mutilation Rites excels at crustinfluenced black metal, and local act Night Nurse adds a twist to the bill with rocket-equipped vocalist Jennifer Trezza singing conceptmetal tunes with lyrics inspired by Law & Order. NATHAN CARSON. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 8 pm Monday, Nov. 5. $12 advance, $14 day of show. All ages.
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Twin Sister, Pure Bathing Culture
[DREAM POP] Delighting the blogosphere ever since serving as support on a number of high-profile tours last year, Long Island quintet Twin Sister marries an effortlessly ethereal indie prettiness with electro grooves. Its 2011 debut, In Heaven, if ulti-
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CAT POWER Born: In Atlanta in 1972. Sounds like: The “sad girl” of teen films (see: Empire Records) if she expressed her angst less through black lipstick than by writing heartrendingly vulnerable music. For fans of: PJ Harvey, Elliott Smith. Latest release: This autumn’s Sun is Chan Marshall’s first proper record in six years and an exciting one for longtime Cat Power fans. It finds the singer-songwriter in a positive and creative place, experimenting with electronic instrumentation for the first time while maintaining her work’s essential exposed quality. Why you care: Anyone who paid any attention to the underground in the late ’90s and aughts already knows why. For an entire generation of indie-music fans, Cat Power’s soul-baring, smoky-voiced music was the soundtrack for their own growing pains, and Marshall became a transcendent figure, at once pitied and admired. The songstress first drew notice in 1995 with her sparse and challenging debut album, Dear Sir, but she didn’t find a wider audience until 1998, with the still bleak but more accessible Moon Pix. From 2000’s The Covers Record, where she gave distinctive voice to songs by Michael Hurley and others, to 2006’s The Greatest, in which the native Southerner recorded in Memphis with a number of the city’s notable musicians, Marshall progressed toward a fuller, more soul- and bluesinfluenced sound. But then, at her career’s peak, she hit rock bottom, enduring well-publicized personal struggles and checking herself into a hospital for emotional problems and alcoholism. Fortunately, Marshall emerged months later an appreciably happier, healthier woman, recording another covers album in 2008 and returning to full force this year with an excellent collection of original material. SEE IT: Cat Power plays Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., on Sunday, Nov. 4. 8 pm. $35 advance, $38 day of show. All ages. Willamette Week OCTOBER 31, 2012 wweek.com
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monday-tuesday mately dependent upon the haunting vocals of Andrea Estella, gently but insistently expanded the synth palette. It’s not, perhaps, the sort of music to fill the dance floor—nor likely to attract crowds aching to break a sweat—but, amid post-show slumber, toes will be tapping. JAY HORTON. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 10 pm Monday, Nov. 5. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
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[EPONYMOUS EXPERIMENTALISTS] The new band led by Nick Zammuto isn’t too far removed from the guitarist-vocalist’s work in his former outfit, the Books. The choppy beats, sly sociopolitical commentary and impassioned vocals are all still there. The differences, though, make all the difference. For one, the rhythms are now coming courtesy of a freakishly talented live drummer Sean Dixon, rather than a laptop. And there is far less emphasis on cheeky samples taken from found recordings. The onus is now entirely on Zammuto the band and Zammuto the frontman, and it sounds like they couldn’t be happier about that fact. ROBERT HAM. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm Monday, Nov. 5. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.
Kid Koala, Adira Amram and the Experience
[THE KID IS HOT TONIGHT] Kid Koala’s tours have always tended to be high-concept affairs: The turntablist’s last jaunt was with the Slew, a project that found him scratching over a live, heavy rhythm section. For his current Vinyl Vaudeville Tour, Kid (né Eric San) is going even further. He has promised puppets, dancing girls and fully functional cardboard turntables. Oh, and he’s taken to performing wearing a bear costume—a strange but inviting accompaniment to his latest album, which takes the walking beats and down-and-dirty vibe of vintage electric blues and tears it to shreds. ROBERT HAM. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm Monday, Nov. 5. $15. 21+.
TUESDAY, NOV. 6 G-Eazy, Mod Sun, IAMe (of Sandpeople), Pat Brown
[BAY AREA HIP-HOP] Oakland has always been a hot bed of hip-hop since Mac Dre put Vallejo on the map during the golden age of the hyphy movement, and this cradle of rap music is constantly evolving its flavor. But the dynamics of the rap game there have changed immensely in recent years. Take G-Eazy, a Bay Area kid with a bachelor’s degree, who is friends with bass king Lil B and looks more like a member of the Rat Pack than a hip-hop crew. With clever lyrics and punishing beats any Thizz Entertainment aficionado would be proud of, this slick, up-and-coming MC is sure to turn some heads. DREW LENIHAN. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Nov. 6. $15. All ages.
Tilly and the Wall, Icky Blossoms, Adventure Galley
[BETTER MUSIC THROUGH TAP DANCING] Upon first listen, Tilly and the Wall’s feel-good pairing of acoustic melodies, electronic keyboard loops and harpy lyrics is nothing too special. But the sampling is much more complex than it seems, and the music is actually quite technical. The group doesn’t even have a drummer, employing a tap dancer instead. The band’s electro-acoustic mix, combined with the performative aspect of its percussionist, makes Tilly and the Wall’s kooky mystery much more attractive as a live act than on record. Joining the band are fellow Omaha, Neb., friends Icky Blossoms, contemporaries of Conor Oberst in the early days of Omaha’s indie-music scene, and openers Adventure Galley, a nononsense rock band that just made the jump from University of Oregon
house-show regulars to getting steady gigs in the Rose City. DREW LENIHAN. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm Tuesday, Nov. 6. $13.50 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.
Nappy Roots, Serge Severe
[SOUTHERN-FRIED HIP-HOP] Anyone else find it weird that in 2002, Kentucky-bred hip-hop crew Nappy Roots had one of that year’s biggest-selling hip-hop albums? It’s not just because the group has largely slid off the mainstream radar since, though that’s certainly part of it. A decade later, the outfit’s sound just does not seem like something that would’ve topped the charts, despite its pronounced pop hooks. With warm, natural production, a down-home attitude and an image that greatly played up
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their backwoods heritage, the once six-member Roots stood out from their Southern peers rapping about pushing drugs and candy-painted cars. Maybe that’s what helped push Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz, their major-label debut, to platinum status, but it’s probably also what made it hard for the group to sustain that momentum. Ten years on, Nappy Roots are back in the indie-rap world. They’ve lost a few members along the way and, with 2011’s Nappy Dot Org, have started messing around with Auto-Tune and synthesizers. But the troupe still sounds comfortable being themselves, and that’s more than you can say for a lot of the artists outselling them today. MATTHEW SINGER. Mount Tabor Theater, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 8:30 pm. $10. 21+.
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NUCULAR AMINALS START FROM AN END (SELF-RELEASED) [MISSPELLED BUT UNBOWED] The path Nucular Aminals took to get their third album out was a fraught one. The quartet had planned to travel to Chicago to work with illustrious recording engineer Steve Albini, then the funding for that venture fell through. And, while K Records released the band’s second album, the label balked at putting out another full-length. These added obstacles would have bowed a lesser band, but the Aminals forged ahead, recording Start From an End at Type Foundry Studio in North Portland and self-releasing the album digitally and on vinyl. The group shows no signs of wear from the process, either, sounding stronger than ever on this latest collection of minimalist psych-pop. In fact, the raw sound of an Albini recording session could have been Start’s undoing. Here, the band is given its due, with Robert Comitz’s crisp guitar playing and the fuzzy give-and-take between Jheremy Grigsby’s bass and the melodies echoed via Erin Schmith’s ever-present organ drones popping brightly out of the mix. The Aminals sound like they are a having blast, too. The album carries the jubilant pulse of a live show, giving the performances a loose swagger that serves both band and listener very well. ROBERT HAM.
LITANIC MASK LITANIC MASK (FAST WEAPONS) [NIGHTPLAY] Litanic Mask certainly knows how to create and sustain a mood throughout an album. I put the duo’s self-titled record on repeat for a few hours and was surprised at how often it moved from the end back to the beginning without me even noticing. That’s both a compliment and a detriment. The atmosphere is great, capturing the same synthetic, smoky vibe popularized by Zola Jesus and the xx. Yet it left me with few melodies I could call up in my mental jukebox. It all came back as a steely gray wash of processed beats and ghostly vocals. The person who suffers most from this is singer Kenna Jean. On those rare occasions when post-production effects don’t obscure it, such as the moody centerpiece “Kabuki,” the frail beauty of her voice quickly takes hold of your senses. What does stick are those little moments Jean and her musical partner, Mark Burden, provide: the fluttering stabs of guitar in “Hologram”; the way the drumbeat for “Leather Mask” sounds like it’s being swiped aside. Consistency is a fine thing to attain, but it renders the album the perfect soundtrack for heavy-lidded, latenight activities rather than music to command one’s full attention. ROBERT HAM. SEE IT: Nucular Aminals play the Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., with the Whines and Tiny Knives on Saturday, Nov. 3. 8 pm. 21+. Call venue for ticket information. Litanic Mask plays Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., with the Miracles Club and Midnight Magic on Wednesday, Oct. 31. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+. Willamette Week OCTOBER 31, 2012 wweek.com
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RAP CLASS WEDNESDAY, OCT. 31 [SAMPLE-BASED] To quote an overused hip-hop proverb, sampling is an art. For local beatmaker and DJ John Kammerle, aka Rap Class, it’s also a turn-on. “I don’t want that to sound wrong—but I’ve always gotten off on that,” he says. “Sampling is me wanting to be a part of a song because of the good feeling I feel when I hear it. It’s always been a fantasy.” Kammerle’s desire to be a part of the music has defined his life, which, in part, has helped define his music. It all stems from the Jazzercise classes his mom taught while he was growing up in Arizona. There, Kammerle was introduced to classic groups like the Beatles, and he found that certain fragments of songs would stick in his head. He wished he could hear them endlessly. Flash forward to high school, where Kammerle was introduced to two albums that would change his life: John Frusciante’s To Record Only Water for Ten Days and the Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique. The first convinced him that he wanted to write songs for a living. The second showed him that, through sampling, he could fulfill his wish to be a part of the songs he loved. Shortly after, he bought a sampler—the same cherry-colored Korg machine he uses today—and he’s been bending flute riffs and warping vocal clips to make beats ever since. Only recently did Kammerle, 25, release his first proper full-length, the appropriately titled Greatest Hits, through the Dropping Gems label, a crew he’s been rolling with ever since he moved to Portland four years ago. The album is built on sharply chopped samples, warm melodies and buzzy synth lines, and reflects the catchy songs that stuck in his brain as a youth. “I’m not trying to reinvent the wheel or anything…I just want to put out catchy music so you can sing along to it,” he says. “Sometimes I hear little bits of songs that are so great, and they make me feel so great to hear them over and over again. What I’m trying to convey is just comfort.” That comfort can also be heard in his DJ sets, which are often feel-good, dance-heavy affairs. He sometimes plays his own music, but playing songs by other artists that haven’t been heard yet gives him just as much satisfaction, he says. This is partly why he’s been able to get more gigs lately. But, like the millions of other musicians in Portland, Kammerle is unable to live solely off music: He currently works in a hotel kitchen. Scraping by in order to do what you love, though, is no problem, especially when you have a good song stuck in your head. And Kammerle has many. “For me, it’s DJing or bust,” he says. “As long as I can DJ when I’m asked and when I want to, that’s fine for me. That’s all I want to do.” REED JACKSON.
Portland beatmaker John Kammerle wants to take the songs stuck in his head and cram them into yours.
SEE IT: Rap Class plays the Crown Room, 205 NW 4th Ave., with Eprom, Slugabed and Chrome Wolves on Wednesday, Oct. 31. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
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[OCT. 31-NOV. 6] Duvall Contingent
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chapel Pub
430 N Killingsworth St. Alex Shakiri
club 21
2035 NE Glisan St. Warm Soda, the Cry!, Cheap Bliss
crystal Ballroom
CORINNE MERRELL
1332 W Burnside St. Orquesta Aragon, Martin Zarzar
doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Sera Cahoone, the Parson Red Heads, Desert Noises
duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Suburban Slim Band (late show); Tough Lovepyle (early show)
east end
203 SE Grand Ave. Midday Veil, Eternal Tapestry, Hot Victory, Grapefruit
ella Street Social club
714 SW 20th Place The Sorry Devils, Mane of the Cur, Roselit Bone
Gemini Lounge
6526 SE Foster Road Jamie Harvey
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Philly’s Phunkestra, The Hunters
Holocene
SuPeR FuRRy ANIMAL: Kid Koala plays Holocene on Monday, Nov. 5.
Wed. Oct. 31 Al’s den at the crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Pat Kearns, Bonnie Veronica
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Ash Street Saloon 18th Anniversary Show: Pierced Arrows, Pillowfight, Black Pussy
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. The Good Sons (the Ramones tribute), the Small Arms (the Go-Go’s tribute), Felecia and the Dinosaur (Billy Bragg tribute), Bubble Cats (Devo tribute), Sorta Ultra (White Stripes tribute), DJ Acid Wash
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Andy Stokes
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Memories, Twerps, Dignan Porch
camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Jazz Jam with Errick Lewis & the Regiment House Band
doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. Dr. Theopolis
duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. The Astro Vans, Suburban Slim Band, Jim Wallace, A.C. Porter, Lisa Mann, Dave Melyan, John Neish, Nopomojo
Josh Feinberg
Flat Rock String Band
Goodfoot Lounge
Red Room
2845 SE Stark St. Jujuba
Hawthorne theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Hellyeah, Holy Grail, Proven
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. DJ Cooky Parker, DDDJJJ666, This Charming Man (Smiths tribute), Hookers
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Tommy Hogan Band
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Bike Thief
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet
Ladd’s Inn
1204 SE Clay St. Lynn Conover
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray and the Cowdogs (9:30 pm); Bob Shoemaker (6 pm)
Laurelthirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Jamie Leopold & the Short Stories (9 pm); Dolorean (6 pm)
Lents commons
9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. 78B (9:30 pm); Red Yarn Halloween Kids’ Show (5 pm); Mr. Hoo (12 pm)
Mississippi Studios
east Burn
3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Miracles Club, Midnight Magic, Litanic Mask
east end
Mount tabor theater
1800 E Burnside St. Irish Music Jam 203 SE Grand Ave. Lucifer’s Friend (Mercyful Fate tribute), Motley Crude (Motley Crue tribute), the Anal Cunts (Anal Cunt tribute)
east India co.
821 SW 11th Ave.
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Simon Tucker, World’s Finest, the Hill Dogs (main stage); Doc Ocular and the Lesser Bangs (Sideshow Lounge)
Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave.
2530 NE 82nd Ave. American Roulette, Set to Burn, Abash’t, Disenchanter
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Revocation, A Life Once Lost, Kenmode, Southgate
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. DJ Marcel Da Chump, Putts
Slim’s cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. Junkyard Dogs
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. The Vandies, Tiger House, Archie Cristiano & the Travelling Salesmen
Star theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Vagabond Opera, Chervona, Dum Spiro Spero, Flip Cassidy and the Junkyard Gospel
the Blue diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project
the elixir Lab at Al Forno Ferruzza
2738 NE Alberta St. Doc Brown Experiment
the Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Cops for Fertilizer (Crucifucks tribute), Germ Free Adolescents (X-Ray Spex tribute), Motorgreg (Motorhead tribute)
the Press club
2621 SE Clinton St. Joseph Appel
tillicum club
8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Chad Rupp
Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Lindsay DiAnn
White eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. The Resolectrics, the Tomorrow People, Police Cars
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Band with Linda Michelet
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Saint Etienne, Kim Baxter
tHuRS. NOV. 1 Al’s den at the crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Pat Kearns, Jeremy Wilson
2346 SE Ankeny St. Chris Juhlin
Jam on Hawthorne
2239 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Hot Club of Hawthorne
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown B3 Organ Group
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Spruce Goose, the Greencarts, Bikethief
Kenton club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. A Volcano, Blood Owl
Laurelthirst
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Tracy Kim Trio
Andrea’s cha cha club 832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band
Artichoke community Music
3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Open Mic
Ash Street Saloon
Berbati
317 NW Broadway Kingdom Under Fire, Separation of Sanity, Kill on Sight, Bedlam Massacre
Jade Lounge
3552 N Mississippi Ave. This Fair City (9 pm); Leo J & the Melee (6 pm)
1036 NE Alberta St. Barna Howard, Lindsay Clark, Muscle & Marrow
thorne Lounge
tiger Bar
1435 NW Flanders St. The Gus Pappelis Band
Alberta Street Public House
225 SW Ash St. Dovehead, the Mercury Tree, Red Forman, Wes Turner
4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Open Mic
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
2958 NE Glisan St. Trip Syndicate (9 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)
71 SW 2nd Ave. Jordan Harris
thirsty Lion
1001 SE Morrison St. Orquestra Pacifico Tropical, Edna Vasquez with No Passengers, Death Songs, DJ Sesqui (Dia De Los Muertos show)
231 SW Ankeny St. Abigail Press, Starrats, Stewart Villain, Fluent Sav, Odis Rockwell
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. John Ross
camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave.
Mississippi Pizza
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Petunia & the Vipers, the Maldives
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Gulls, Boy Funk, New Pioneers, Ninja Turtle Ninja Tiger, Dual Mode, Le Printemps
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Libertine Belles
Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Neon Piss, Defect Defect, the Body, DJ Marcel Da Chump
Slim’s cocktail Bar
8635 N Lombard St. Closely Watched Trains, Blind Barteemeus
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Doo Doo Funk All-Stars
Peter’s Room
8 NW 6th Ave. Aer, Yonas, David Dallas
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Longshots, Whiskey Avengers, the Disliked
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. The Kos, Trueheart Suzy
510 NW 11th Ave. Laura Stillwell, Joe Millward
clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Muthaship
thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Tim Karplus
tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell
tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Lord, Cadet, the Dunbar Number
tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Warren Black with the All-Star Horns
Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Loose Change
White eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Ben Union, Novosti, Symmetry/Symmetry (8:30 pm); Brothers of the Hound (5:30 pm)
FRI. NOV. 2 Al’s den at the crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. Pat Kearns, Gerald Collier
Aladdin theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. David Wilcox
Alberta Rose theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Steve Forbert
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Outer Space Heaters
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. JB Butler Trio
Artichoke community Music
3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Friday Night Coffeehouse 225 SW Ash St. We the Wild, A((wake)), Wolfpussy, O.A.K. 115 NW 5th Ave. The Great Train Robbery, Ozymandias, She’s Not Dead, How to Build a Fire
Berbati
231 SW Ankeny St. I-Taweh and the Reggae Lions
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Mexican Gunfight (9:30 pm); Lynn Conover (6 pm)
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave.
Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band
Noho’s Hawaiian cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Linda Hornbuckle
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Ion Storm, She Preaches Mayhem, Manx, Aux 78
Secret Society Lounge
1332 W Burnside St. Menomena, Radiation City, Parenthetical Girls
116 NE Russell St. Saloon Ensemble (livescoring “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” 9 pm); Bossa Nossa (6 pm)
doug Fir Lounge
Slim’s cocktail Bar
duff’s Garage
Someday Lounge
crystal Ballroom
830 E Burnside St. Wooden Indian Burial Ground
east Burn
2621 SE Clinton St. Inky Shadows, Trio Flux
Backspace
2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb
camellia Lounge
the Press club
Muddy Rudder Public House
Original Halibut’s II
6835 SW Macadam Ave. New Solution, Fresh Track
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones
the Blue diamond
Ash Street Saloon
8105 SE 7th Ave. Payne Money
Buffalo Gap Saloon
1635 SE 7th Ave. Get Rhythm & Night Life (Johnny Cash tribute, late show); the Hamdogs (early show)
Mount tabor theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Outpost, One Drop, Irie Idea, Dio Rising
How the West Was Won, Subtle City, Gaia, Asleep at Last, Recursion, the Unspoken Word
1800 E Burnside St. Cascadia Soul Alliance, Andrews Ave.
ella Street Social club 714 SW 20th Place Northeast Northwest, Animal Parts, Landon Jenkinson, Hip Hatchet
8635 N Lombard St. The Hill Dogs, Brassierllionaires
125 NW 5th Ave. The Eventuals, BrownErbe, Carl Diehl
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. The Sonny Hess Band
Star theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Polyrhythmics, Acorn Project
the Blue diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. HiFi Mojo
Foggy Notion
the Blue Monk
Hawthorne theatre
the Know
3416 N Lombard St. Iceland, Chautauqua, Jonesmore, Gang Radio 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Toxic Zombie, Nemesis, Amerakin Overdose, Stonecreep, Useless ‘N’ Pointless
3341 SE Belmont St. Brownish Black, Eldridge Gravy 2026 NE Alberta St. Formica Man, Assembly, Jewelry Rash
the Press club
Island Mana Wines
2621 SE Clinton St. Cary Miga Trio
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
71 SW 2nd Ave. Dee Dee Fox and the Stimulus Package
526 SW Yamhill St. Joe Marquand
1435 NW Flanders St. Bridge Quartet
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Matthew Heller, Joey Beats Brady (8 pm); Timberbound Project (6 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Patrick Lamb and His Funkified Band
Katie O’Briens
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Cutback, the Tanked, Dr. Stahl, Sic Waiting
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Shitty Weekend, Bevelers, A Happy Death, Tiananmen Bear
Kenton club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Cave Swells, Chris Birch
Laurelthirst
2958 NE Glisan St. The Builders & the Butchers (9:30 pm); Michael Hurley & the Croakers (6 pm)
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Buffalo Rising Tribe, Skoolyard Reggae (9 pm); Jenny Sizzler (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Young Evils, Death Songs, Appendixes
Mount tabor theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Mission Bells
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Spodee-O’s
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St.
thirsty Lion
tillicum club
8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Blow Frog
tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Vicious Rumors, Garden of Eden, Wild Dogs
tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Shanghai Woolies
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Acoustic Minds, the Sale
White eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Rubella Graves, Lone Madrone, Jackrabbit (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. The Afghan Whigs, Van Hunt
SAt. NOV. 3 Al’s den at the crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Pat Kearns, Bart Davenport
Aladdin theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Jens Lekman, Taken by Trees
Alberta Rose theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Jens Lekman (Live Wire!)
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Nervous & the Kid, Ruby Feathers
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio
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8635 N Lombard St. No Hawk Yet, Ramune Rocket 3, Fashion Nuggets
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. The Robert Glasper Experiment, the Doo Doo Funk All Stars
Star theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Mr. Gnome, Eighteen Individual Eyes, And And And
the Blue diamond
3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Howard Wade with Mary Flower
ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. $intax, Rustmine, Factor 5
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Space Waves, Miss Massive Snowflake, the Blacklights
Berbati
231 SW Ankeny St. The Dandelions, Paradise, the Verner Pantons
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. 29 Steps (9 pm); the Barkers (6 pm)
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Metz, Bison Bison
camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Brooks Roberston
clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Cool Breeze
dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Cash’d Out (Johnny Cash tribute)
doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Sea Wolf, Hey Marseilles
ducketts Public house 825 N Killingsworth St. Clackamas Baby Killers, Dirty Kid Discount, Shark Party
duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. The Strange Tones
east Burn
1800 E Burnside St. Jambox Allstars
ella Street Social club 714 SW 20th Place Murzik, James Apollo, Sad Little Men, City Squirrel
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First congregational church 1126 SW Park Ave. Alfredo Muro, Victor Villadangos
Foggy Notion
3416 N Lombard St. Palo Verde, Tyrants, Rolling Through the Universe
Gemini Lounge
6526 SE Foster Road NoRey
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Zach Deputy
hawthorne theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Michael Schenker Group, Earth to Ashes, Never Awake
ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Mundell Lowe, Mike Magnelli
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Bow Thayer, Krista Herring (8 pm); Christopher John Mead (6 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Bobby Torres Ensemble
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Great Wilderness, IOA
Kenton club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Uh-Oh, Dramedy, San Fransesca, Thee Headliners
Langano Lounge
1435 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Hoops, the Pathogens, the Sighs
Laurelthirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Pagan Jug Band (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave.
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Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Old Light, Hungry Ghost
Mount tabor theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Blowfly
Muddy Rudder Public house 8105 SE 7th Ave. Cafe Cowboys
Noho’s hawaiian cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music
O’Malley’s
6535 SE Foster Road Opposition Party, Gaytheist, Argonaut, These Things
2026 NE Alberta St. Nucular Aminals, the Whines, Tiny Knives
the Piano Fort
1715 SE Spokane St. MidLo, Edna Vazquez
the Press club
2621 SE Clinton St. The Low Bones
thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Reverend Hammer
tillicum club
8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Second Time Through
tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. System and Station, the Crash Engine, Sucker for Lights
tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Stolen Sweets
White eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Marca Luna, Volifonix, Frame by Frame (9:30 pm); the Student Loan (4:30 pm)
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. The Infamous Stringdusters, Polecat
Woodstock Wine & deli
4030 SE Woodstock Ave. Dave Friesen Quintet, Circle 3 Trio, Battleground High School Jazz Ensemble (Jazz Society of Oregon induction ceremony)
SuN. NOv. 4 al’s den at the crystal hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. Mishka Shubaly
andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero
clyde’s Prime Rib
crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. Cat Power, The Goat
doug Fir Lounge
Roseland theater
ella Street Social club
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Green Jelly, Headless Pez, Gorgon Stare, Weresquatch
8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music
5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic
Red and Black cafe
400 SE 12th Ave. The Plurals, Erica Freas, Shitty Weekend, Walter Mitty and His Makeshift Orchestra
Rontoms
600 E Burnside St. AAN, Mwahaha
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Hellgasm, Death Machine, LifeForm
Slim’s cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. Suburban Slim
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Kimosabe, True Rebellion, Errick Lewis and the Vibe Project
1001 SE Morrison St. Kid Koala, Adira Amram and the Experience
714 SW 20th Place SurfsDrugs, Jeans Wilder, Free Weed
hawthorne theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Ocean of Mirrors, Dinner with a Bear, Upon a Broken Path, Fear the Slaughter, Chronological Injustice
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Dan Cecil
2346 SE Ankeny St. Elie Charpentier 221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Speaker Minds, Bad Tenants
White eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Infinity of It All
tueS. NOv. 6 al’s den at the crystal hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. Mishka Shubaly
alberta Rose theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Fast Rattler, David Rovics, Kory Quinn, Mono Operandi
ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. The IcanIcants, Emergency, Poe and Monroe
Backspace
4830 NE 42nd Ave. The Angel Bouchet Band Jam
115 NW 5th Ave. G-Eazy, Mod Sun, IAMe (of Sandpeople), Pat Brown
the Blue Monk
Bunk Bar
Spare Room
3341 SE Belmont St. Trombone 8
1028 SE Water Ave. Blood Beach, Cloaks
the Know
ella Street Social club
2026 NE Alberta St. Tiger High, the Shivas
the Old church
1422 SW 11th Ave. The Walking Willows
tillicum club
8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Steven Kindler, Mark Turner
tupai at andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Midnight Honey
vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Roberta Donnay & the Prohibition Mob Band
White eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Justin Rayfield, Time and the Bell, the Sorry Devils
ash Street Saloon
830 E Burnside St. The Sea and Cake, Matthew Friedberger (of the Fiery Furnaces)
116 NE Russell St. Dominic Castillo (6 pm); Saloon Ensemble (livescoring “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” 3 pm)
holocene
NePO 42
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Blood Oath, Unruly Instinct, Echoic, Holy Filament
Secret Society Lounge
Mississippi Pizza
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Title Fight, Pianos Become the Teeth, Single Mothers, Lee Corey Oswald
the Know
Plan B
8 NW 6th Ave. Blue October, Barcelona, A Silent Film
1624 NW Glisan St. Lunasa, Colleen Raney with Cary Novotny and Johnny Connolly
hawthorne theatre
the Blue Monk
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam
Red Room
Mission theater
2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic
Jimmy Mak’s
Original halibut’s ii
1305 SE 8th Ave. Ghost Alien, Criminal Trespass
2958 NE Glisan St. Dan Haley & Tim Acott (9:30 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
Goodfoot Lounge
Muddy Rudder Public house
225 SW Ash St. Zax Vandal, Porter Jones, Laugh at Linus
2527 NE Alberta St. Bill Rhoades
Laurelthirst
Scott Pemberton Trio
Jade Lounge
3341 SE Belmont St. Little Hexes
artichoke community Music
4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray
3552 N Mississippi Ave. The Lovely Lost (9 pm); Lyman Louis (6 pm)
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Franco Paletta and the Stingers
BAGELS AND BOOZE: It’s difficult to find a barometer by which to measure Kenny & Zuke’s new deli-bar hybrid, Deli Bar (3901 N Williams Ave., 287-0782). It’s certainly the only deli bar I’ve ever been to. It is likely the only deli bar anyone has ever been to. Should a deli bar have both a brightly lit cake-display fridge and a dark wood back bar of spirits and wines? Should it have candles on the table and boxes of bagels behind the counter? Should it have a soundtrack of early aughts R&B club hits? I cannot say. I can say that I enjoyed my Cel-Ray Collins ($7)— made with gin, lime juice and the eponymous East Coast soda— one of the few cocktails on the menu that nods to the deli side of the shtick (there’s also a daiquiri made with Manischewitz wine, and a whiskey shot with a pickle-juice back). The menu is a variation on what you’ll find at Kenny & Zuke’s other locations— and that includes the prices. A simple buttered bagel is $1.95, but otherwise, you’re looking at $9-$10 for most sandwiches. But, hey, maybe that’s normal for a deli bar. It’s definitely the finest one I’ve ever been to. But also the worst. RUTH BROWN.
Landmark Saloon
MON. NOv. 5 al’s den at the crystal hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. Mishka Shubaly
andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Open Mic
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Skeletonwitch, Havok, Mutilation Rites, Night Nurse
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Twin Sister, Pure Bathing Culture
doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. Zammuto, AU
duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Lily Wilde Orchestra
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St.
714 SW 20th Place Pinscape, Space Waves, Cober
hawthorne theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Tilly and the Wall, Icky Blossoms, Adventure Galley
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. The Chicharones, Whiskey Avengers, Abadawn, the Kill Party
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. The Fair Ophelia
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Sophie Barker, Suzanne Tufan
Mount tabor theater 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Nappy Roots, Serge Severe, DJ Mom, Big Shell, Bottom Shelf Band, Gums and Antitune, Jon Robot, Soopah Eype, Evvnflo and His Super Best Friends Band
Star theater
13 NW 6th Ave. 8mm
the Blue diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The 4 of Diamonds
the Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Superposition State Quartet (8 pm); Pagan Jug Band (6:30 pm)
the Know
2026 NE Alberta St. 7 and a Switchblade, Rotties, Counterfeit Cash
White eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Bottlecap Boys
Wed. Oct. 31 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Tony Remple
Berbati
231 SW Ankeny St. DJs Tobro Bergbro, Goomy
cc Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Trick with DJ Robb
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. Tronix with Logical Aggression
Lola’s Room at the crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St. Come As You Are
Matador
1967 W Burnside St. DJ Whisker Friction
Refuge
116 SE Yamhill St. Thriller IV: Digital Underground, Pumpkin, Solovox, DJ Wicked
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Bar Hopper
Fresh: Claude VonStroke, Celoso, Ben Tactic
Lola’s Room at the crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. ‘80s Video Dance Attack
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Shutup & Dance with DJ Gregarious
tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. RNDM Noise
Sat. NOv. 3 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Selector TNTs
cc Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Revolution with DJ Robb
holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Booty Bassment: Ryan Poulsen, Dmitri Dickinson, Maxx Bass, Nathan Detroit
Lola’s Room at the crystal Ballroom
the crown Room
1332 W Burnside St. All Decades Video Dance Attack
the Firkin tavern
116 SE Yamhill St. Mark Farina, Chali2na, Roc C, Oh No, Mercedes, Cloudy October, SKNY MRCLS
205 NW 4th Ave. Eprom, Slugabed, Chrome Wolves, Rap Class 1937 SE 11th Ave. Eye Candy VJs, VJ Norto
the Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Halloween Horror with DJ Horrid
tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Cowboys from Sweden
Yes and No
20 NW 3rd Ave. Death Club with DJ Entropy
thuRS. NOv. 1 cc Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Hip Hop Heaven with DJ Detroit Diezel
Refuge
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Andaz with DJ Anjali & the Incredible Kid
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Soulciety: DJ Drew Groove, Katrina Martiani
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Sugar Town: DJs Action Slacks, Freaky Outty
the Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Miss Prid
tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Humans
Radio Room
1101 NE Alberta St. DJ Ghost Train
Roseland theater 8 NW 6th Ave. Benny Benassi
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. DJ Doc Rock
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Barrett
the Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Dirtbag with DJ Gutter Glamour
the Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Vortex: DJs Kenny, John, Skip
tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Womb Service
FRi. NOv. 2 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Musique Plastique
cc Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Fetish Fridays with DJ Jakob Jay
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Decadent ‘80s: DJ Non, Jason Wann; Rewind with Phonographix DJs
holocene
1001 SE Morrison St.
SuN. NOv. 4 Gold dust Meridian
3267 SE Hawthorne Blvd. DJ Tennessee Tim
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. DJs Riff Randell, Baby Lemonade
MON. NOv. 5 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Kendall Holladay
cc Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Maniac Monday with DJ Robb
Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave. DJ El Rubio
tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Gabe Celestino
tueS. NOv. 6 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Doug Ferious
cc Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Girltopia with DJ Alicious
tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Never Forget
trader vic’s
1203 NW Glisan St. Temptation Tuesday with DJ Cabana
Oct. 31-nOv. 6
= 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 The Black Lizard
Imago Theatre presents an encore performance of last season’s popular, genre-bending production of Yukio Mishima’s play 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, 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, 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 exuberant cast, the energy sometimes slips. The script’s scattershot structure is the primary problem, but the best moments forgo period appropriateness—standouts 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., 205-0715. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays; 2 pm Sundays; 7:30 pm Wednesdays, Nov. 14 and 21. Closes Sunday, Nov. 25. $15-$38.
Body Awareness
People with Asperger’s syndrome are often said to lack empathy. But no matter how emphatically Jared 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. Baker’s characters are idiosyncratic, flawed and instantly relatable: stubborn feminist Phyllis; her inquisitive and emotional partner, Joyce; Joyce’s awkward 21-year-old son, Jared, and Frank, a free-spirited photographer. Phyllis finds Frank’s subject—nude women of all ages and shapes— exploitative and offensive. Joyce disagrees. Conflict mounts. Phyllis (Gretchen Corbett, who also directs) is a bit thinly characterized, but little else here feels shallow. 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). Deftly juggling emotion and reason, Body Awareness slyly tugs at the heartstrings but is too smart to pander to sappy sentiment. REBECCA JACOBSON. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 205-0715. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Nov. 10. $20-$25, Thursdays are “pay what you will.”
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 rapid-fire exchange between three characters performed by only two men. Confounding yet not confusing, it’s a fitting opening to this intricate production. 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. REBECCA JACOBSON. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm TuesdaysSundays, 2 pm Sundays, with alternating Saturday matinee and Sunday evening performances, noon select Thursdays. Closes Nov. 11. $25-$54.
Dracula: A Musical Nightmare
The horror genre these days seems increasingly at pains to take itself seriously. With caricatures of vampires like Colin Farrell’s in Fright Night and tongue-in-cheek flicks like Cabin in the Woods, the idea of playing Dracula straight seems tired. Turns out that idea had been played out in 1974, when Douglas Johnson wrote Dracula: A Musical Nightmare. Director Tobias Andersen has resurrected the show for Stumptown Stages, a spoof that mixes the classic Bram Stoker tale with a little vaudeville. The story features Kirk Mouser as a ghoulish emcee who transforms into the murderous count at night. Between jolly antics and British jokes, he and his band of “vampirette” trollops seduce helpless townspeople. The show is fast-paced, and those not adept in wordplay might be left behind—Dutch vampire hunter Van Helsing (Sammuel Hawkins) in particular serves up gems as he fumbles with broken English. The show is considerably self-referential and caters to theater buffs—Dracula more than once escapes trouble by yelling “stage convention!” before making an otherwise inexplicable exit. The style isn’t modern, but it’s clever, sharp and funny enough to seem fresh. AARON SPENCER. 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.
Duck for President
Think you can escape politics by schlepping the tots to a play? Think again. Oregon Children’s Theatre pulls a fast one, staging a production about
a duck running for the highest office in the land. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 228-9571. 2 pm and 5 pm Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Nov. 4. $15-$30.
Eh, Things
HumanBeingCurious Productions presents a musical clown show about how technology undoes language. Performances travel to various locations; see human-being-curious. com for details. Multiple venues. 5 pm Friday-Saturday, Nov. 2-3; 7 pm Thursday, Nov. 8; 6:30 pm and 10:30 pm Friday-Saturday, Nov. 9-10. $8.
Fall of the Band
A band is a fragile entity, much like an unstable molecule—one electron goes rogue and suddenly it’s free-radical chaos. So when Lana, lead singer of fictional Portland band Ghost Dad, announces she’s quitting, the other members react with varying degrees of devastation. Some audition new singers; others go on whiskey and weed benders. To make matters worse, the band’s big show at the Doug Fir is only two weeks away, the bass player has just quit her job and their shared home is slated for demolition to make way for a TriMet bridge. I’m filling you in because next week’s show—episode two of the four-part serial comedy— will be completely different. In the spirit of its past hit Fall of the House, Action/Adventure Theatre has created another episodic and largely improvised theatrical sitcom featuring a hilarious cast and special guest performances by stellar local musicians. Will the band find a replacement singer in time for their gig? Will they find a new place to live? Will Lana get kicked in the vagina? Tune in next week for the unscripted musical hijinks. PENELOPE BASS. 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
Any troupe attempting this psychosexual parlor drama had better come correct. Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming is deceptively simple: Son Teddy brings bride Ruth home to meet the family, which is to say, he pushes his wife of six years into a North London all-male den of workingclass grime and impotent posturing. The men of the house jockey for some vague position; small talk is laced with resentment and the threat of bodily harm. Ruth becomes a bit too familiar with her in-laws. But realizing Pinter’s dowdy-absurdist world requires the actors to live in uncomfortably long pauses that border on missed cues, and there’s a cadence to Pinter’s dialogue that’s hard to nail down: a kind of pidgin of non sequiturs, blunt insults, meaningless asides and sporadic rage that somehow meld into effective interaction. The Defunkt cast is mostly up to the task, with Matthew Kern keeping to tight comedic timing as Lenny. Grace Carter plays an alluring Ruth, but regrettably doesn’t do much to suggest that she has any motive beside opportunism. This all plays out in a dusty bachelor pad that doubles as a decrepit shrine to a longdead woman from another era. The cramped Back Door Theater forces the audience into uncomfortable intimacy with the dismal sitting room and its attendant bitterness, rage and erotic manipulation. It’s the perfect venue. SAUNDRA SORENSON. 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.”
Kickin’ Sand and Tellin’ Lies
Cresting the wave in a 21-foot wooden dory boat and crashing against the surf, one eye always turned to the weather—this has been the livelihood of Pacific City fishermen for nearly 100 years. This Linfield College production, based on interviews with fishermen, follows a doryman as he struggles to command respect and eke out a livelihood on the unforgiving Oregon coast and in the equally uncompromising dory community. Ford Hall’s Marshall Theatre, 900 SE Baker St., McMinnville, 883-2292. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays and 2 pm Sunday, Nov. 4.
Through Nov. 10. $5-$9.
The Last Dance of Dr. Disco
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. Sellwood Playhouse, 901 SE Spokane St., 490-5975. 7 pm Saturdays, 3 pm Sundays through Nov. 4. $10-$15.
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. MATTHEW SINGER. Ethos/IFCC, 5340 N Interstate Ave. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays through Nov. 3. $18-$22.
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PERFORMANCE
kaboom: (From left) Rachel slater, Lyra butler-Denman, tere mathern, Reed Wallsmith and Joe Cunningham.
GATHER: A DANCE ABOUT CONVERGENCE (TERE MATHERN & TIM DUROCHE) Gather, a new dance-music piece, professes its mission with buzzwords like interdependence, isolation, connection, division, collaboration and community. Such a jargon-y catalog is unsurprising from dancer-choreographer Tere Mathern and drummer-composer Tim DuRoche, frequent collaborators and both cerebral players in their fields. In execution, Gather is certainly brainy—marked by sharp composition, pointed choreography and the heady flurry of improvisation—and at points draining. But it also offers moments of kinetic and musical release, when its lofty manifesto is best forgotten. Mathern is known for analytical and even architectural choreography, showcased in Gather. The six dancers best convey the piece’s mission as they continually break from static tableaus to reflective solos, powerful duets and trios, and to frenetic union. Dressed simply, they dart about the studio and between the musicians—Mathern keeps the audience’s eyes constantly moving. They create spaces through which others slither their torsos and wend their limbs, arms intertwining like tangled telephone cords. Angular rigidity plays off soft roundness as fiercely bent legs meet curved arms. Though the careful choreography can feel repetitive or empty of character or narrative, moments of improvisation create a nervous but appealing energy. Is a collision intentional or unplanned? Or is it somewhere in between, inevitable but still surprising? Two duets stand out. Kristine Anderson and Éowyn Emerald Barrett move with astounding purpose and dynamism, milking the patterns of tension and release: Anderson shoots into an arabesque, and Barrett catches her leg, repeatedly tugging and pushing. It’s a delightful fight between resistance and surrender. Another duet, between the petite Mathern and the statuesque Lyra Butler-Denman, plays with the dancers’ size differences as they lean against and push off one another. Meanwhile, DuRoche (drums) and his ensemble Battle Hymns & Gardens (two saxophonists and a bassist) play a propulsive, jazzy score. In one playful spot, the two saxophonists experiment with honking at the floor, at the wall, at each other. Like the audible train whistles (Conduit is located four floors above a MAX station) and the dancers’ unexpected moments of contact, these sax blasts startle, collide and delight—no lofty thesis needed. REBECCA JACOBSON.
When musicians and dancers collide.
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Mother Courage and Her Children
Theatre Vertigo opens its season with Bertolt Brecht’s anti-war masterpiece, set during Europe’s religious conflicts of the 17th century. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 306-0870. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays through Nov. 17. $15.
NT Live: Timon of Athens
The National Theatre Live series presents Shakespeare’s play about a philanthropist who spends beyond his means, with some very modernday parallels. World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St., 235-1011. 1 pm and 5 pm Sunday, Nov. 4; 2 pm and 7 pm Saturday, Nov. 10. $15-$20.
NT Live: The Last of the Haussmans
The next installment in the 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.
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. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 971-244-3740. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Nov. 4. $20.
Raíz
HEADOUT
Chili peppers, animal skins, driftwood, skeletons, candy, bread, beans. These are the workaday objects in the Miracle Theatre lobby’s four Day of the Dead altars, which, like Raíz itself, are original, fantastical and examine the idea of what director Arturo Martinini calls “death as transformation.” But this year’s bilingual Día de los Muertos play has something the altars don’t: a sense of humor that is both dry and slapstick. Out of the opening darkness and shamanic rustlings, four pre-Hispanic gods writhe on an Aztec calendar on the floor, faces painted and heads fitted with brilliant plumage, projecting their shadows against a red screen. Mujer (Woman) and Hombre (Man) enter, and the gods wordlessly teach the humans to domesticate corn. The atmosphere is reverent, if a little confounding—until a tiny popcorn machine appears, spewing popcorn to hilarious effect. After the arrival of Magno Pinacate, a Pierrot-like clown played by the talented Enrique E. Andrade, the play refocuses on his loss of his sidekick Augustina and his appeasement of the suddenly and laughably all-too-human gods. The pattern of ritual, rising drama and falling humor continues throughout, and the acting and directing keep audience members on their toes. You will leave this performance pensive but amused, two hours closer to death but perhaps more composed for its arrival. MITCH LILLIE. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7:30 pm Thursdays, 8 pm FridaysSaturdays, 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 recently. Now, Artists Rep presents the Portland premiere of this installment, set in 1948. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Sundays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Nov. 11. $20-$50.
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COMEDY Doomed to Repeat It
The Brody folks try their hand at revisionism with this history-themed improv show. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7:30 pm Saturdays through Nov. 17. $8-$10.
kickin’ sand and tellin’ lies
Flushed: Portland Comedy Makes a Splash
Gross gags aren’t just for the guys— female comedy group Potty Talk isn’t afraid to toss in the occasional fart joke in its satirical sketches of the modern American woman. Tonight’s show also features the Brody crew and improv group Blank Slate. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 9:30 pm Thursday, Nov. 1. $10.
Halloween Spectacular
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 Wednesday, Oct. 31. $12-$15.
JB Smoove
The Curb Your Enthusiasm star brings his act to Helium. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 pm and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, Nov. 1-3. $17-$28.
Peter N’ Chris
The Portland debut of the Canuck comedy duo, known for their physical sketch comedy and narrative style. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, Nov. 2-3. $12.
Portland Theatresports Tournament
Brody takes its popular improv competition citywide. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 10 pm Friday Nov. 9; 9:30 pm Saturdays Nov. 3 and Nov. 10; 9:30 pm Thursday, Nov. 8. $9-$12.
CLASSICAL Alfredo Muro and Victor Villadangos
This Portland Classic Guitar concert offers a chance to hear a pair of fretboard masters from south of the border. Now based in Colorado, the Peru-born Muro is renowned for his expertise in Brazilian rhythms from samba to its younger sibling, bossa nova, to choro and more. Buenos Aires native Villadangos has performed tangos and more throughout Argentina as well as the U.S., Europe and beyond. First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park Ave., 654-0082. 8 pm Saturday, Nov. 3. $30-$49.
Kushal Das and Swapan Chaudhuri
In this Kalakendra concert of Hindustani classical music, Calcuttaborn sitar master Das joins awardwinning, California-based tabla virtuoso Chaudhuri, who has accompanied stars from Ravi Shankar to Ali Akbar Khan to Stevie Wonder and Mark O’Connor. First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park Ave., 228-7219. 4 pm Sunday, Nov. 4. $10-$25.
Musica Maestrale
Veteran opera soprano Amy Hansen joins baroque guitarist and vihuelista Hideki Yamaya in a rare program of Spanish songs from the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical periods. Community Music Center, 3350 SE Francis St., 410-491-8828. 7:30 pm Saturday, Nov. 3. $10-$12.
Oregon Symphony
The big band goes big time, adding a score of extra musicians to perform Mahler’s massive Symphony No. 6 (including the first heavy-metal moment for orchestra: a sledgehammer smashing a wooden box in the finale) and Schubert’s delightful music for the play Rosamunde. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353. 7:30 pm Saturday-Sunday, 8 pm Monday, Nov. 3-5. $21-$95.
Portland Opera
Opera doesn’t get any greater than Mozart’s darkly magnificent Don Giovanni, and this racy, unconventional staging by Christopher Alden (who returns to direct after leading the company’s controversial 2011 Turandot) created for the muchpraised 2009 New York City Opera production, promises to bring new life to this 1787 retelling of the lascivious Don Juan legend. Several of the leading singers, including Daniel Okulitch in the title role, Stefania Dovhan and Jason Hardy, received critical praise for their New York turns, and the show, conducted by George Manahan (who led the City Opera production, too), also features several PO veterans. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 241-1802. 7:30 pm Friday, Nov. 2; 2 pm Sunday, Nov. 4. $25-$150.60.
DANCE Atsushi Takenouchi
Dancer Atsushi Takenouchi comes to Portland to teach an intensive workshop, perform his own solo work and direct workshop participants in an original piece. A native of Japan, Takenouchi began dancing with butoh company Hoppo-Butoh-ha in Hokkaido in 1980, then went on to found his own troupe, Jinen Butoh. Now based in Paris, he has developed a reputation for site-specific improvised pieces, often staged in natural environments and characterized by a stark kind of beauty. The Headwaters, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9. 7 pm Friday, Nov. 2. $10-$15.
Savannah Fuentes
Seattle-based flamenco dancer Savannah Fuentes joins forces with L.A.-based flamenco dancer Ricardo Chavez, flamenco singer Jesus Montoya of Seville and Bulgarian guitarist Bobby de Sofia in the international and tradition-minded group show Por el Flamenco. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 8 pm Sunday, Nov. 4. $12-$40.
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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By RICHARD SPEER. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit show information—including opening and closing dates, gallery address and phone number—at least two weeks in advance to: Visual Arts, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: rspeer@wweek.com.
quers and mother-of-pearl. Her latest body of work, From Ash and Pearl, incorporates other exotic materials, including sulfur from Mount Fuji, Japan, and ash from a peat fire in Ballinskelligs, Ireland. Through Dec. 1. PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.
Nile Hagen: Recovery
Two years ago, while recovering from multiple concussions, Nile Hagen picked up a SLR camera and started snapping pictures. Some of the images, such as Recovery 1, with its warning sign planted on the ledge of a cliff, held resonance to the burgeoning photographer’s precarious recovery. Hagen’s images aren’t just limited to personal narrative and symbolism, however; they cover a broad range, including some rapturous photographs of landscapes and night skies. This is a promising debut from an emerging artist with an eye for composition, color value and content. Nov. 1-Dec. 1. Graeter Art Gallery, 131 NW 2nd Ave., 477-6041.
Portland Storage Building: Open Studios
There’s an artistic mini-Renaissance going on at the historic Portland Storage Building, the century-old warehouse that sits like a lumbering behemoth beneath the Morrison Bridge’s east side. No longer just a storage facility, the building has begun to attract large numbers of artists, who rent medium- to largesized storage units to use as artist studios. In November, for the first time, those artists will open their doors to the public to show their spaces and their wares. The building is normally closed to passersby, so the open studios will afford a rare glimpse into this new “it” spot. Participating artists include Dan Reid, David Nielsen, Jason Vance Dickason, Travis Willis, Jebediah Stafford, Grant Johnson and Bill Rollins. 5-8 pm, Friday, Nov. 2. Portland Storage Building, 215 SE Morrison St.
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Angelina Woolley: Inscapes and Landscapes Angelina Woolley’s paintings of ballet dancers are reveries that blur the boundaries between figuration, landscape and decorative motifs. In works such as Emerald, long-legged ballerinas stand in an aspen grove whose leaves and vines curl and twine from foreground to background. It is a half-natural, half-illusionistic space in which vegetal motifs function dually as landscape and graphic elements. Woolley carries off this tricky feat with élan. She renders the dancers with a neo-Impressionist technique, flecking a tulle skirt with elegant jots of orange, periwinkle, lemon and chartreuse. As always, Woolley’s brushstrokes are luscious and assured. Through Nov. 11. Mark Woolley Gallery @ Pioneer, 700 SW 5th Ave., 3rd floor, Pioneer Place Mall, 998-4152.
ASS @ COCK
In a bizarre or not-so-bizarre curatorial development, gallerist and social butterfly Mark Woolley is guest-curating Cock Gallery for the month of November. The show is called ASS @ COCK and features work across a variety of media, all probing the theme of the human ass. Woolley is known for themed shows, including a memorable exhibition of one-foot-square works at his now-closed Pearl District space and another show themed around the color red in his current Pioneer Place gallery. But to build an entire
show around the conceit of the derriere takes a lot of, um, balls. Hmm... maybe that’ll be the theme of Woolley’s next show. Nov. 1-Dec. 15. Cock Gallery, 625 NW Everett St., No. 106, 552-8686.
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.
Nancy Lorenz: From Ash and Pearl
Fashionista Cindy Crawford, designer and film director Tom Ford, Broadway star Nathan Lane, and singer-songwriter Elton John all own artwork by Nancy Lorenz. And it’s no wonder, given the glamorous, glittering surfaces the artist creates with gold, silver, shiny lac-
It seems certain the duo of Sherrie Wolf and Margot Voorhies Thompson will prove November’s most visually diverse two-person show. Wolf paints sumptuous floral still lifes in a neo-Baroque style, while Thompson creates calligraphy-influenced abstractions that crackle with Kandinsky-esque kineticism. Both artists are excellent at what they do in these wildly polar techniques. Nov. 1-Dec. 1. Laura Russo Gallery, 805 NW 21st Ave., 226-2754.
The Day We Saw the Sun Come Up
Whimsical and graphic-artsinspired, the mixed-media works of Brooke Weeber and Timothy Karpinski bring a slice of sunshine to Compound Gallery with their two-person show, The Day We Saw the Sun Come Up. Cheerily ironic images of hipsters abound, all flannel shirts, beards, and bangs, as do drolly self-aware depictions of little girls, bows in their hair, cradling kittens in their arms. In recent years, Compound’s programming began to feel homogenous (repeated shows themed around the Portland Trail Blazers were particularly irksome), but more recently the art space seems to have turned a corner toward greater pictorial and thematic variety. Nov. 1-Dec. 2. Compound Gallery, 107 NW 5th Ave., 796-2733.
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THE REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND FRIDAY 11/2 @ 6 PM
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.
John Bunzow has been called one of the finest roots writers-musicians on the current music scene. Producer Pete Anderson (Dwight Yoakam, Meat Puppets, Steve Forbert) said he is “…without doubt the best artist I’ve heard in recent times.” Chicago Tribune columnist Jack Hurst credits Bunzow with mixing “the rootsy with the revolutionary.” Jon Koonce has recordings dating back to 1980. As a traditional rock artist, Johnny and The Distractions and Jon Koonce and The Gas Hogs have had solid sales as both major and indie label releases. Performing solo acoustic, Jon Koonce has been on recent bills with Huey Lewis & The News, Johnny A, Nanci Griffith, Joe Ely, & Dave Alvin. Jack McMahon is a performing songwriter as well host and organizer of the Music Millennium Songwriters’ Showcase. McMahon has been a working musician for all of his adult life and over the years has fronted some of Portland’s more notable bands (Tracks, The Chameleons, Jack McMahon & Friends).
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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 31 Deadfellas Halloween Bash
If anyone is equipped with the firepower necessary to take on the undead, it’s the mob. Comic novelist G. Xavier Robillard will launch the Kickstarter for his new book, Deadfellas: Monsters vs. the Mob, at a Halloween party including horror stories by Andrew Fuller and Kerry Cohen, fortunetelling, a costume contest and a dance party. Just mind your brains. Jack London Bar, 529 SW 4th Ave., 228-7605. 8:30 pm. Free. 21+.
THURSDAY, NOV. 1 Michael Meade
Between extreme environmental degradation, worsening global conflicts and the looming threat of people who actually think the zombie apocalypse will happen, our chances on Earth might not be so great. But author and mythologist Michael Meade takes a more optimistic approach with his new book, Why the World Doesn’t End: Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss. Just leave the weapons at home. First Unitarian Church, 1011 SW 13th Ave., 228-6389. 7 pm. $12.
FRIDAY, NOV. 2 Robin Sloan
Encompassing themes from global conspiracy and code-breaking to young love and eternal life, all set within a small San Francisco bookstore, Robin Sloan crafts a modern literary adventure in his lauded new book, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
SUNDAY, NOV. 4 Sci-Fi Authorfest VI
Recharge the inhaler and set phasers to kick-ass for the Sci-Fi Authorfest VI. More than 20 science fiction and fantasy authors will converge for a book signing, including Kevin James Breaux, Alyx Dellamonica and Todd McCaffrey. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651. 4:30 pm. Free.
Bedouin Books Poetry Reading
Local publisher Bedouin Books is hosting three of its poets for a reading of new work. Coleman Stevenson explores memory and impermanence in his collection, The Accidental Rarefication of Pattern No. 5609, George Marie deals with the aftermath of grief in Dismember and John Sibley Williams traces a path through the construction of a city in Autobiography of Fever. Nomadic poetry at its best. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
MONDAY, NOV. 5 Authors in Pubs
The monthly reading and drinking event is back with more local writers, bartenders, actors, mothers and cowboys ready to throw back a few and share their writing. This month will feature Shawna Reppert, Taylor Patterson, Grant Keltner, Jonathan Ems, Melina Holl and many others. Jack London Bar, 529 SW 4th Ave., 228-7605. 7 pm. Free. 21+.
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Robert Michael Pyle
Celebrating the assertion by Darwin that all the elements of a tangled
bank, and by extension the world, are endlessly interesting and evolving, writer, nature-lover and lepidopterist Robert Michael Pyle contributed the “Tangled Bank” column for 52 consecutive issues of Orion and Orion Afield magazines. His new book of the same name presents his complete collection of essays. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651. 7 pm. Free.
TUESDAY, NOV. 6 Christmas Murder Mystery
Oregon author Christopher Lord will read from his new holiday-themed murder mystery, The Christmas Carol Murders. Set in Dickens Junction, Ore., the story combines the spirit of the holiday classic with the overt sensationalism of brutal murder. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.
Archaeology and Climate Change
Fresh off Hurricane Sandy, Portland State professor Shelby Anderson will present a free lecture about coastal erosion from rising sea levels that is directly impacting Alaskan villages and the Arctic’s archaeological record. OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave., 797-4000. 7 pm. Free.
REVIEW
ROBIN SLOAN, MR. PENUMBRA’S 24HOUR BOOKSTORE Author Robin Sloan’s paean to books—both digital and on paper—is filled with elements so plausible readers will want to Google them to see whether they ’re real. And that’s fitting, because Google—not just the search engine, but the company—plays a key role in solving the mystery Don’t be evil? of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 304 pages, $25). In the Great Recession, Clay Jannon loses his job as a Web designer for a startup bagel company and takes the night shift at a 24-hour bookstore in San Francisco. Funny thing is, the bookstore rarely sells any books. Instead, eccentric clients borrow books one at a time from the “Waybacklist,” a collection of one-of-a-kind volumes all printed in code and stored on bookshelves stretching three stories high in the back of the store. Suspicious of the bookstore’s true purpose, tech-savvy Clay builds a 3-D computer model of the store and uses a Google scan of one of the store’s logbooks to track the order in which customers check out the books. The results reveal a puzzle that will take Clay and his allies on a quest from California to New York and points in between. Along the way, Sloan creates characters and institutions that blend seamlessly with the real world of Google and a Renaissance printer named Aldus Manutius. There’s The Dragon-Song Chronicles, a series of fantasy novels Clay loved as a boy that now offers clues to the mystery; a typeface called Gerritszoon that’s used in everything from Microsoft Windows to the Amazon Kindle; a computerized inventory of the world’s museums called the Accession Table; and Consolidated Universal Long-Term Storage, a vast warehouse in Nevada where museums store 90 percent of their stuff (and whose initials spell “cults,” although nobody in the book seems to notice). Even Sloan’s conception of Google Inc. cleverly mixes the real with the possibly imagined: In addition to developing a driverless car (real), employees of the Mountain View, Calif., computing giant eat their lunch on tables covered in graph paper (company spokesmen could not be reached to confirm this). Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore is a light autumn read about the value of good friends and good books in a menacingly technological world. It combines the elaborate puzzle-solving of The Da Vinci Code with the sense of childlike wonder evoked by Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Mr. Penumbra, meet Mr. Wonka. MATT BUCKINGHAM. GO: Robin Sloan speaks at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651, on Friday, Nov. 2. 7:30 pm. Free.
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Alex Cross
D- Remember Kiss the Girls and
Along Came a Spider? Those generic, detective-on-the-trail-of-a-serial-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. Matthew Fox plays the seriously gaunt killer, distilling every psychopathic villain from the past 20 years of cinema and reducing them to twitches, bug-eyed stares and overly mannered pauses with every line reading. It’s really just best to forget this franchise exists at all. PG-13. ERIK MCCLANAHAN. Eastport, Clackamas, Forest, City Center, Division, Lloyd Mall.
Arbitrage
B Arbitrage may not be directed by Paul Verhoeven, but it feels like it. Feature-film rookie Nicholas Jarecki, so thoroughly channels Verhoeven’s hollow-man ambitions, smug moral posturing and incongruous driving-synth atmospherics that the director hangs in gross 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. No one in this film is likable, all are wrong and all is wretched isolation. 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 dialogue 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. Over the course of the three films he’s directed, Affleck has positioned himself as 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. 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. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, CineMagic, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, St. Johns.
B-Movie Bingo: SFX Retaliator
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Cross out the clichés on your bingo card as you watch Chris Mitchum build a tank out of plywood. Plus prizes! Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm, Tuesday Nov. 6.
Beauty Is Embarrassing
A- [FOUR DAYS ONLY] The puppets
and set for Pee-wee’s Playhouse. A music video for Peter Gabriel. Commercials for Old Spice. They all owe their creation to a bearded man
in his 50s—the subject of this documentary—with a banjo under his arm. The film begins in a small, aging theater. After a bluegrass prelude, White announces himself: “My name is Wayne White. I make pictures.” Growing up in Tennessee and coming into his art in 1980s New York, White makes more than just pictures, as he shows the audience on playful slides: a massive LBJ mask with an insane smile, for example, and a painting of white landing craft spelling the words “FUCK YOU” invading a coastline. His country-boy perseverance and affection are revealed, too, through director Neil Berkeley’s interviews with White’s family and friends. But with works like “Heinies n’ Shooters w/Hotties at Hooters”—those very words painted blockily amid the foliage on a thriftstore painting—it’s White’s humorous immaturity that makes the film. White may be no superstar, but Beauty Is Embarrassing balances his style of cult comedy and his creative significance to create a beautiful and (yes) embarrassing portrait of a modern pop-art icon. MITCH LILLIE. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. Multiple showtimes Friday-Monday, Nov. 2-5. Wayne White in attendance 7:30 pm Friday.
Bones Brigade: An Autobiography
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A documentary from Stacy Peralta about teenage skateboarders, including Tony Hawk and Rodney Mullen, in the ’80s. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Friday, Nov. 2.
Brooklyn Castle
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A- The focus of Brooklyn Castle,
the first directorial effort by Katie Dellamaggiore, is the incredibly successful chess team from I.S. 318, a public middle school in Brooklyn. But as much as the students and their families are the stars of this documentary, they share top billing with the collapse of the U.S. economy. That boondoggle casts a long shadow on the events of this film, as teachers and administrators struggle with budget cuts that threaten the school’s extracurricular activities and electives. You can see the weight bearing down on the adults as much as on the kids. But through this lens, the success of the chess team shine that much brighter. Same goes for the overarching goal of the film: to encourage parents and educators to protect extracurricular programs and electives. The kids in Brooklyn Castle are the icing on this dense cake. They are a charming, poised bunch with relatable personalities and appropriately lofty goals spurred on by the success they’ve achieved playing chess. Dellamaggiore presents their stories with clear eyes, avoiding the cloying emotion that could have hindered such a fine and uplifting work. PG. ROBERT HAM. Fox Tower.
Cell Count
B+ Cell Count was released this year,
but it might as well have premiered in 1985. It’s got a warm and grainy look and some cheesy—but believable—effects, emulating the gore and suspense of movies like The Evil Dead. It also takes a page from David Cronenberg’s 1986 film The Fly: The plots are similar and the shots of human flesh falling off bodies strike a related cult resonance. But if you have a weak stomach and dislike fluorescent lights, creepy doctors and smockclad people chasing other smock-clad people with axes, this is probably not for you. Cell Count follows Russell Carpenter (Robert McKeehen) and wife Sadie (Haley Talbot) during a hospital visit. The doctor claims Sadie has a terminal illness, but says she can be saved by an experimental procedure that requires the couple to check into a treatment center (which resembles the spaceship from 2001: A Space Odyssey). Three weeks later, they wake with mysterious incisions on their bodies. They fear they may be in some sort of prison—and then discover there
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Like denim or Dr. Seuss, Alfred Hitchcock never goes out of style. But the director is particularly hot right now: Anthony Hopkins stars as the master of suspense in a forthcoming feature (simply titled Hitchcock) about the turbulent making of Psycho, which director Sacha Gervasi has billed as a love story between Hitch and longsuffering wife Alma. HBO’s take, The Girl, aired Oct. 20 and examines Hitchcock’s abusive manipulation of The Birds star Tippi Hedren. Such films make more sense if you’ve seen Hitchcock’s originals, of course. You can do just that—in glorious 35 mm!—at Cinema 21, which is holding its first Hitchcock festival. Here are four to watch.
complex tale of power, manipulation and vulnerability. Laurence Olivier, broody as ever, stars as Maxim de Winter, an aristocrat who marries the young and innocent Joan Fontaine (her character is not named) after his first wife, Rebecca, drowns. But at their Manderley estate, the clumsy and naive Fontaine provokes intense hatred from the servant Mrs. Danvers (a menacingly creepy Judith Anderson). All thick fog, swirling mist and driving rain (Fontaine first sees Manderley through the car’s windshield, as the wipers cut a semi-circle on the glass), the film could survive on ghostly atmosphere alone. But the characters give Rebecca its real juice—the controlling but unhappy Maxim, the malicious and lonely Mrs. Danvers and, most of all, Fontaine’s transition from girlish naif to desperate co-conspirator. The claustrophobia and hysteria of Manderley seem to suffocate Fontaine, whose posture droops under its pressure. Word is that a remake of du Maurier’s novel is in the works, but see this one first. RJ.
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Marnie (1964)
B Hitchcock had binders full of women at his disposal, but with The Girl having just debuted, Tippi Hedren is the Hitch belle du jour. Hedren allegedly became an object of obsession for Hitch while shooting The Birds and Marnie, after which Hitch apparently torpedoed her budding career. Interesting, then, that Marnie—more so than masterpieces Rebecca and Vertigo—is such a stark portrait of psychological violence against women. The film centers on a disturbed thief (Hedren) who serially robs her employers and fosters a deep fear of being touched by men. When her boss (Sean Connery) discovers her game, he forces her to marry him. The two set off on a honeymoon, where Connery seeks to understand her inner torment and ends up taking possession of her body and mind. Marnie lives in a world of constant terror, portrayed by Hitch with a heavy coat of psychoanalytical exposition. Perhaps the director, who famously treated his actors horribly to coax out the best performances possible, was just messing with Hedren. If that’s the case, it worked: It’s Hedren’s best work. So much so that there’s nary another role you’d remember her in. Hitch was a possessive man, even when he criticized his own tendencies. APK.
Notorious (1946)
A When Notorious was released, The New York Times wrote that Hitchcock and screenwriter Ben Hecht had “done a forthright and daring thing: they have made the girl, played by Miss [Ingrid] Bergman, a lady of
notably loose morals.” She speeds, she gets drunk, she shags on an early date. Egad! But while Bergman’s character no longer feels so risqué, the romantic thriller has retained plenty of bite. Bergman plays the daughter of a convicted Nazi spy, who is recruited by U.S. agents—including Cary Grant—to infiltrate a group of Nazis in postwar Brazil. Though Bergman’s Mata Haristyle turn is masterful, the real drama comes not from the tale of espionage but from the film’s fraught romance. Grant won’t fess up to his love for Bergman, and his plot drives her to the bed of Nazi ringleader Alex Sebastian (Claude Rains), who also falls in love with her. Rains is delightfully complex, both iniquitous and sympathetic. (Fun fact: He wore elevator shoes to appear taller next to the 5-foot-9 Bergman.) Bergman exudes a sort of lusty elegance, matched by Hitchcock’s exquisite camera work. One of the film’s more outdated scenes is also one of its most memorable: To circumvent the ban on kisses longer than three seconds, Hitch staged a devilishly extended scene (kiss, nuzzle, rinse, repeat) between Bergman and Grant. Loose morals, indeed. RJ.
Rebecca (1940)
A- Despite my name, it took me quite a while to make it to Rebecca. I dismissed the Daphne du Maurier novel for its oft-lurid cover, and once I discovered Hitchcock in high school, I stuck to his better-known films. But it’s a shame it took me so long, because Rebecca—Hitch’s only Best Picture winner—is a thing of haunting beauty. A gothic melodrama set in a spooky Downton Abbey-style manse, it’s less a thriller than a morally
A There’s a reason that, more than 60 years on, Strangers on a Train still conjures genuine unease. “Everyone has somebody that they want to put out of the way,” as Robert Walker’s iconic villain puts it, forming the setup for an oft-imitated plot device, the murder swap (see: Horrible Bosses or Throw Mama From the Train). When Walker’s Bruno Anthony meets unsuspecting tennis pro Guy Haines (Farley Granger) on a train, he bombards the politely dismissive jock with theories on everything from how to live your life to how to end somebody else’s. Taking Haines’ ineffectual nodding as a verbal agreement, Bruno promptly offs Haines’ golddigging wife, then begins to demand Haines do the same to Bruno’s own father. What follows is a tense two hours of classic cinema, from the tense scenes at a carnival to the violent homoeroticism that has had scholars pondering the film since its release. Perhaps most iconic, though, is Walker himself, whose villain is the most frightening kind of crazy. Charismatic and handsome, he regales any listener—even a senator—with his theories about clean energy and space travel as casually as he talks about killing people out of convenience. Even scarier, most people are lured in by his wayward smile. If the film took place today, Bruno Anthony just might be recast as a politician. APK.
also screening: The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, North by Northwest.
SEE IT: The Hitchcock Festival is at Cinema 21, 616 NW 21st Ave., on Friday-Wednesday, Nov. 2-7. See cinema21.com for showtimes and ticket prices.
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are two murderers on the loose. With its bloodthirsty killers, voyeuristic doctor and the cure (which may be worse than the disease), this gory, mildly entertaining flick will either give you the jitters or just make you queasy. DREW LENIHAN. Living Room Theaters.
Chasing Mavericks
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C- Learning to surf is supposed to be difficult—I’ve tried. So when a snotty 8-year-old, Jay Moriarty (Cooper Timberline), catches and stands on his first try in an opening scene of Chasing Mavericks, I saw the wave of joy on his dewy face as the shit-gobbling smile of a lucky dilettante—even if this is based on a true story. The film centers on the ambitious goals of teenage Jay (now played Jonny Weston) and his grueling training sessions with local surf master Frosty (Gerard Butler). In a way, it’s The Karate Kid with a slightly cooler Daniel and an emotionally infirm Mr. Miyagi, but I’m hesitant to take the comparison that far. The true series of events has been chopped up and screwed around Hollywood style, sharks are cheesily reflected in visors, and cannabis use is strictly frowned upon (by Jay, at least). Clichés are glued together hastily and awkwardly. Let’s get one thing straight: As claimed on the official website, Chasing Mavericks features “some of the most mind-blowing real wave footage ever captured on film.” Surfers are shown numerous times catching and failing to catch massive walls of water, and seeing them teetering atop these waves inspires some respect for the real Jay and his story. Still, the messianic respect heaped on Jay and Frosty without a hint of irreverence will leave most viewers wondering what’s underneath the surfboard wax. PG. MITCH LILLIE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
CineBitch: Sisters of ‘77
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Bitch Media hosts a screening of a documentary about the first National Women’s Conference. Mississippi Studios. 7 pm Monday, Nov. 5.
Cloud Atlas
C+ 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. Their sprawling adaptation of David Mitchell’s 500-plus-page novel Cloud Atlas is a marathon masquerade ball of six different plots, between which the film repeatedly hops. 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. Consider three of the six tales: A young Brit (Ben Whishaw) works in the 1930s as an amanuensis to a grouchy composer (Jim Broadbent). A cheeky publisher (Broadbent again, even better) is confined to an old-folks home in modern-day London. In a faraway, post-apocalyptic future, a scraggly goatherd (Tom Hanks) and a traveler (Halle Berry) unite against bloodthirsty villains. 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 actors are cloaked in such ridiculous makeup that the stunt is more distracting than cunning (Berry, for example, dons whiteface as a Jewish aristocrat), and save for a few sly winks at some of the gender swaps, the cast remains determinedly solemn-faced. 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 oppres-
DETROPIA sion, the thirst for freedom, the pursuit of truth, the triumph of good over evil—Cloud Atlas ends up saying very little. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Lloyd Center, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
Dead Alive
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] A free screening of Peter Jackson’s absurdly gory cult flick. Cinema 21. 7 and 9:15 pm Wednesday, Oct. 31.
Detropia
A- Toward the close of Detropia,
tenor Noah Stewart delivers a stirring Puccini solo in Detroit’s abandoned train station. As Stewart sings, his notes ping off the station’s crumbling walls, the word “VOMIT” sprayed in blue paint across the moldering tiles. Detropia, at its core, is an aria to decay. But filmmakers Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing neither sensationalize Detroit’s ruin(s) nor romanticize the city’s past. Theirs is an honest and sobering take, but also a vivid and beautiful one: The documentary cuts between scenes of frustrated bewilderment at a union meeting to staggering shots of a skeletal skyscraper façade trembling in the wind. Though its archival footage of children playing in well-manicured neighborhoods flirts with sentimentality, Detropia also takes the viewer back to Detroit’s violent riots— there’s an especially affecting shot of a woman driving down an empty street in 1967, loose wrist over the steering wheel and pistol in hand. Though Detropia offers plenty of staggering numbers about Detroit’s population decline and its economic collapse, it is far more than the sum of its statistics. It challenges its central figures—a warm-hearted union president, a feisty schoolteacher-turned-bar owner, a young video blogger—on how best to save their beloved, beleaguered city. Set to Motown, opera and ambient electronic beats, Detropia is a lyrical and human tale, and a wellearned tribute to Detroiters’ hope, resourcefulness and grit. REBECCA JACOBSON. Living Room Theaters.
Elena
B [THREE DAYS ONLY] Class divi-
sion is omnipresent in Russian cinema, but Elena excels in finding a unique intersection between the rich and working class. This drama of quiet grief succeeds due to its sympathetic performances and overarching sense of uncertainty. AP KRYZA. Fifth Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday, 3 pm Sunday, Nov. 2-4.
Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare
B [ONE NIGHT ONLY] When you’re trapped by a wildfire, you might need to burn what’s around you to survive. This is the essence of an escape fire, as this documentary explains in its opening scene. The analogy between a fire management technique and the actual focus of this documentary, the
American health-care system, is distant and thin. But the potency of the film is not lost in its odd analogies (baseball and construction are used later). Terrifying statistics flash across the screen in white blocky type, the citations almost cowering in the corner. Indeed, the fact that Escape Fire feels like a collection of soundbites and statistics is disorienting but not distancing. Human stories, from Virginia to Arizona, abound as well: A painkiller-addicted veteran, on the verge of tears from withdrawal, finds solace and relief in acupuncture. In forthright interviews with doctors, patients and experts, including the venerable Andrew Weil, our health-care system—Obamacare and all—is revealed to be little more than “disease care.” Escape Fire will make you uncomfortable at points, and it should. MITCH LILLIE. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Thursday, Nov. 1.
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 Wookiee carnage. Filmusik performs the entire soundtrack live and in (mostly) intelligible English. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 1-3.
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. But Frankenweenie is, indeed, a Tim Burton original. Only, it’s an original idea that’s close to 30 years old. In 1984, Burton made his first live-action short film, about a boy who screws bolts into his dead dog’s neck and brings the pooch back to life. Animated in gorgeous black-and-white stop motion (and shot in thankfully unobtrusive 3-D), the film goes places the original couldn’t. PG. MATTHEW SINGER. Eastport, Clackamas, Bridgeport, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV.
Fun Size
D 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. 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, and 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. The best lines are
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[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A guided tour through the depths of YouTube. ZOMG! BABY ANIMALS! Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Monday, Nov. 5.
a precise, slyly parodic mimicry of Bruce Willis circa 1987. 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 GordonLevitt 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. Forget neo-noir: This is retroneo-futurist noir. R. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Lloyd Center, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Tigard, St. Johns.
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[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A Halloween smorgasbord of horror clips, including the smoothest zombie out there—Michael Jackson in the full, 15-minute version of the “Thriller” music video. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Oct. 31.
The Man With the Iron Fists
martial arts, nubile flesh and razorsharp weapons. Not screened for critics. R. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Movies on TV.
The Master
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. In the movie’s first 30 minutes, Joaquin Phoenix’s Freddie Quell mimes intercourse with a femaleshaped sand sculpture, then masturbates into the ocean; undergoes a Rorschach test in which he reports
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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. James 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 throws himself. 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, detract from its overall likability, it finishes much stronger than expected. PG. EMILY JENSEN. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Forest, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Wilsonville.
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. 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. It’s all very flashy and dull, and so, so forgettable. PG. ERIK MCCLANAHAN. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
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[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Shralp the gnar with two new snowboarding films. Clinton Street Theater. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Nov. 6.
The Killer
[TWO NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] John Woo’s kinetic, frenetic Hong Kong action film. R. Clinton Street Theater. 6:45 pm Saturday-Sunday, 9 pm Saturday, Nov. 3-4.
Least Among Saints
A drama about a former Marine and his troubled 10-year-old neighbor. R. Living Room Theaters.
Legend of Aahhh’s
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Greg Stump’s semi-autobiographical exploration of the ski film genre. R. Cinema 21. 7 and 9:15 pm Thursday, Nov. 1.
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
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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. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
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FLIGHT Fly the shit-faced skies.
Flight is about as subtle as a plane crash. And the plane crash at the beginning of Flight ain’t too subtle, either. At 30,000 feet, a commercial airliner carrying more than 100 passengers descends suddenly into free fall above rural Atlanta. Its pilot, Capt. William “Whip” Whitaker (Denzel Washington)—who is seen earlier surreptitiously gulping a screwdriver—is passed out in his seat. Jolted awake, Whitaker takes the controls and, with the composure of someone parallel parking a Smart Car, guides the craft into a roll, slowing its downward trajectory enough to land the plane relatively calmly in a field. He saves the lives of nearly everyone on board but clips the steeple of a small church on the way down, thus kicking off a film packed with references to “acts of God” (in both the legal and metaphorical sense), a montage of heroin use set to “Under the Bridge” and, near its end, a close-up of a single tear rolling down a cheek. That the crash itself is shot with armrest-clasping terror isn’t surprising: After all, the best part of Cast Away, director Robert Zemeckis’ last live-action film before embarking on a decade of motion-capture animation, was the scene of Tom Hanks’ doomed cargo plane going down in the middle of the Pacific. And the fact that an intriguing premise gets smashed to bits by a sledgehammer of sentiment isn’t surprising, either: Zemeckis also made Forrest Gump. But with Flight, he squanders a rich opportunity to question the nature of heroism in the Media Age: Would we, for instance, think any different of Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger’s 2009 heroics on the Hudson if we knew he was out doing blow and banging flight attendants the night before? Instead, Flight is basically a movie about how flying planes drunk is a bad idea. Even Washington, so often preternaturally commanding, is at a loss. Granted, he’s got little to work with: Whitaker is, theoretically, a complex man, but John Gatins’ script reduces him to an alcoholic in denial. Washington’s turn, all stuttering and bitter-beer face, offers only a glimpse of how his self-parodying Pacino Years will look. Then again, this is a movie that, at its dramatic climax, takes a jarring, implausible slide into Hangover-style drug humor. It’s a wreck nobody had a chance of surviving. R. MATTHEW SINGER.
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seeing only genitalia; and attempts to choke a customer at his postwar job as a mall photographer. 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 repressedmemory therapy. 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. Fox Tower.
Paranormal Activity 4
More hand-held camera work and malevolent demons. Not screened for critics. R. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
A 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. 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 is Sam (Emma Watson), an outcast indie goddess, and Patrick (Ezra Miller), Sam’s histrionic yet lovable half-brother. Wallflower find s a way to come across as deeply, disarmingly sincere. It’s kind of perfect, actually. PG-13. EMILY JENSEN. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall.
Pitch Perfect
B An underdog comedy about com-
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petitive collegiate a cappella groups and the cinematic debut from Avenue Q director Jason Moore, Pitch Perfect takes some obvious cues from Bring It On and Glee, but struggles with exactly what it wants to be. 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. PG-13. RUTH BROWN. Eastport, Clackamas, Forest, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard.
Ratking
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A horror flick about two documentary filmmakers investigating a mysterious symbol in Portland. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Tuesday, Oct. 30.
Seven Psychopaths
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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 “lifeaffirming” work of art. It’s also grisly and not particularly concerned with emotional complexity. And yet, it works. 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 Tzuloving gangster, and Tom Waits as a vigilante serial killer with a thing for white rabbits. Seven Psychopaths is not a “life-affirming” work of art.
Photo caption tk It’s simply crazy fun. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Bridegport, City Center, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV.
Shorty Shorts: Queer Film Festival
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] In 10 minutes or less, Portland filmmakers showcase their chops. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Thursday, Nov. 1.
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
A horror film based on the survival video game of the same name. Not screened for critics. R. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
Sinister
B- The most frustrating aspect of Scott Derrickson’s Sinister 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. 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. 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 ending hits, there’s a sense that maybe he emptied his bag of tricks a little too soon. R. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Pioneer Place, City Center, Division, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV.
Taken 2
D- Taken 2 is an extremely stupid piece of shit. Typically, with this kind of movie, that should be an overwhelmingly positive assessment. When we 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 sucks all the joy out of the affair. 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. PG13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard.
The World Before Her
A Ruhi Singh and Prachi Trivedi
are two very different young Hindu women in India, with two stories that are not quite as different as they may first appear. Singh is a very pretty, well-polished con-
WRECK-IT RALPH testant in the Miss India pageant, who speaks eloquently of independence and equality. Trivedi is a homely, angry member of a rightwing fundamentalist Hindu training camp for young girls. She spits bigoted views and sees women as second-class citizens. But as Canadian filmmaker Nisha Pahuja’s beautifully balanced documentary unfolds, she pulls the contradictions of these two worlds into sharp focus. The pageant princesses speak of progress and modernization while receiving Botox treatments and literally parading around with sacks over their heads. The young moral warriors are told to be subservient to their husbands and fathers and marry by 18, as they learn karate and weaponry. Singh’s parents are supportive and want to see her succeed in a man’s world, but they can offer little way out of their limited, rural existence. Trivedi wants to forgo marriage and motherhood to dedicate her life to “the movement,” but her father, who brags about punishing her with beatings and burning her with a hot iron rod, forbids her. Despite our initial Western sympathies for Singh’s world, Pahuja ultimately lets the audience see that both are strong-minded women dedicated to institutions that devalue and degrade them. But only Trivedi is aware that she is fighting for a system that oppresses her. And at least she gets karate lessons out of it. RUTH BROWN. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Wednesday, Oct. 31.
Wreck-It Ralph
B+ Following the release of Tangled
in 2010, Walt Disney Animation Studios announced a hiatus from princess movies. Rich Moore’s Wreck-It Ralph is the entertaining result. John C. Reilly voices the title character, a villain in an 8-bit arcade game called Fix-It Felix Jr. In the world behind the arcade screen, Ralph isn’t a villain; he’s just a guy working a thankless 9-to-5 job. He gets tossed in the mud every day and can never win a medal. The film opens with Ralph in a support group for villains, including Bowser, Zangief and Clyde from Pac-Man—a few of many cameos by beloved game characters. Ralph’s irrepressible need for validation in the form of a medal leads him into an Area 51-style shooter game before culminating in a high-speed race through the colorful candy world of Sugar Rush (ridden with product placement). Along the way, Ralph bumps into Jack McBrayer recycling his 30 Rock shtick, a gruff captain “programmed with the most tragic backstory ever” (Jane Lynch) and an obnoxious little glitch (Sarah Silverman). You don’t need to know much about old games to enjoy this alternately funny and touching film, but it rewards those who do. PG. JOHN LOCANTHI. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Moreland, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
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Pillow talk: Helen Hunt and John Hawkes.
THE SESSIONS Sex and disability are murky waters for film. How does a filmmaker depict sex involving disabled people without gawking or needlessly inflating the significance of the event? How to show it as both normal and meaningful? These questions apply, of course, anytime filmmakers put sex on the screen, but the risks of picketers are lower when you’ve got pretty, able-bodied stars shaking the sheets. Films about people with disabilities often omit sex entirely—consider My Left Foot or The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Scarlet Road, a recent documentary about an Australian sex worker who specializes in clients with disabilities, is undoubtedly sex-positive and determinedly non-voyeuristic, but celebrates the central sex worker as a goddesslike savior for her clients. So I approached The Sessions with generous skepticism. The drama is based on the true story of Mark O’Brien, a polio survivor and writer who spent most of his life in an iron lung. At age 38, he decides to lose his virginity and hires a sex surrogate to guide him through the deed. But rather than glorifying sex or treating it with clinical coldness, writer-director Ben Lewin charts Mark’s quest with grace, warmth and wry humor. Explicit nudity (female only, thanks to the MPAA’s double standard) has never been so moving and delicate. As Mark, the versatile John Hawkes—recently seen as a menacing meth addict in Winter’s Bone and a sinister cult leader in Martha Marcy May Marlene—turns in an astonishing performance. Hawkes spends the entire film on his back, his head cranked at a 90-degree angle and his spine contorted, but his wheezy voice and expressive eyes convey deep wells of pain and self-consciousness along with biting wit. Mark’s droll and sardonic one-liners pepper The Sessions. When asked if he’s religious, he answers in the affirmative: “I find it absolutely intolerable not to be able to blame someone for all of this.” At one point, Mark’s caretaker asks him for a favor. “What, you need help moving furniture?” he asks. The scenes with the sex surrogate, Cheryl, played with bravery and guarded emotion by Helen Hunt, are surprising and affecting. In an NPR interview, Hawkes noted that he and Hunt filmed their scenes chronologically. This is apparent in the palpable discomfort of Mark and Cheryl’s first sessions: She must undress him without his help, and he unintentionally ejaculates. (Lewin, to his great credit, does not turn this into a joke.) The Sessions is unapologetically uplifting and flush with lyrical snatches of language. There’s also a fantastic turn by a shaggy-haired, tan-skinned William H. Macy as Mark’s priest, who undergoes a mini-crisis of faith as he blesses the whole sinful endeavor. Lewin could have stood to give the film sharper teeth—his characters seldom show frustration or anger—but he also, mercifully, does not paint them as faultless saints. And as central as sex is to The Sessions, Lewin takes a balanced view: Is the act wholly earth-shattering? Perhaps not. But exciting, important, maybe even therapeutic? Yes—much like this film. R. REBECCA JACOBSON.
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Publishes December 12 Space reservation deadline: December 4 @ 4pm Artwork due: December 5 THAT OTHER HURRICANE: In the Bathtub—the fictional Louisiana bayou settlement that forms the backdrop for the enchanting Beasts of the Southern Wild—the price of existing off the grid is living in waterlogged squalor. Shot among the ravages of post-Katrina New Orleans but set on the eve of the hurricane’s arrival, the film is a clear allegory for the Ninth Ward. But as far as we know, the Bathtub we experience exists only in the mind of Hushpuppy (dynamo Quvenzhané Wallis). And it’s got giant, mythical horned pigs in it—it’s like Southern-fried, live-action Miyazaki. Is it messy? A bit. But like the Bathtub, that’s part of its charm and power. MATTHEW SINGER. Showing at: Hollywood Theatre. Best paired with: Woodchuck Cider. Also screening: Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes (Laurelhurst).
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Week of November 1
“Four Legs Good”–two legs bad!
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Big opportunities are coming up for you. Even if you cash in on them, though, they aren’t likely to make an immediate practical impact. They are subtle and deep, these prospects. They have the potential of catalyzing monumental shifts in your long-term unfolding, but will take a while to transform your day-to-day rhythm. So what are these openings? Here are my guesses: 1. You could root out a bad seed that got embedded in your subconscious mind before you knew any better. 2. You could reinterpret the meaning of certain turning points in your past, thereby revising the flow of your life story. 3. You could forgive yourself for an old sin you thought you’d never let go of. 4. You could receive a friendly shock that will diminish some sadness you’ve carried for a long time. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): This would be a good time to get introspective and meditative about your urge to merge . . . to think objectively about the way you approach togetherness . . . to be honest with yourself about what strengths and weaknesses you bring to the art of collaboration. The most important question you can ask yourself during this inventory is this: “How do I personally contribute, either knowingly or unconsciously, to the problems I experience in relationships.” Here’s another query you might consider: “How hard am I willing to work to create the kinds of intimacy and alliances I say I want?”
55 Removed from the actual action, as with a commentator 56 Where Cedric the Entertainer got a big break 57 ___ chi 58 Jimmy Eat World’s “Drugs ___” 59 “I thought it’d never get here!” 60 Damascus’s place: abbr. 61 Lofty poem 62 Notable feature of each 1-across Down 1 Grin from ear to ear 2 First name in gymnastics 3 Strove for first 4 Monogram pt. 5 Illegitimate 6 Unit of energy 7 She played drums on “Seven Nation Army” 8 Venue for drunken singing 9 Preset on a stereo, maybe 10 Org. 11 Bryant Gumbel’s brother 12 Player suspended in 2003 for using a corked bat 14 Zodiac sign for Ben Affleck or Roger Federer 18 Crime novelist Grafton 20 MSNBC rival 22 Lon ___ (palindromic coup leader) 24 Piquant 25 Pageant host 26 Lima and pinto 27 They may be stored in “Favorites” 28 Comic Poundstone 29 Nixon whose voice
replaced Natalie Wood’s in “West Side Story” 30 Golden Arches sandwich, sometimes 31 “Love Will Lead You Back” singer Taylor 34 Shift 36 Don’t rush 37 Reaches, as a high point 39 One of the Seven Sisters 40 Lamentable 42 Drink once pitched by Yogi Berra 43 Beatnik interjection 44 Govt. arm mentioned by Eminem in “Without Me” 46 Muesli ingredients 47 Get an inside shot? 48 Giant slain by Odin, thus creating the Earth 49 Intense anger 51 ___ contendere 52 Rapper on the reality show “The Surreal Life,” for short 53 Last word in ultimatums 54 Pixels, really 56 Tongue depressor sound
last week’s answers
Across 1 There’s one at the beginning of each of this puzzle’s four theme entries 7 Retail estab. 10 Holder and Reno, for short 13 “Nets to Catch the Wind” poet Wylie 14 Goneril’s father 15 Sign for a packed theater 16 Getting gray 17 Ways out 19 Sketch show with Dollar Bill Montgomery 20 Bart Simpson word 21 Gothic novelist Radcliffe 23 1 of 18 24 Explorer with a peak named after him 29 C times C, divided by IV 32 Chef who says “Pork fat rules!” 33 Had some hash 34 Type of 1-across, in Mexico 35 Burn in the tub 36 Election Day day: abbr. 37 Leader of 1960s UK rockers The Pacemakers 38 Till compartment 39 ___ Harbour, Fla. 40 Shown past the foyer 41 “What is it?” 42 Native American group (and source of a Washington city that differs by one letter) 44 Yell on the links 45 Pop-up blockers block them 46 Drug abused by Rush Limbaugh and Courtney Love 50 Like growly stomachs
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Dear Rob: I seem to be marooned in an interesting limbo. The sights and sounds are not exactly pretty, but they keep me perversely entertained. I’m sampling tastes that are more sour than sweet, thinking that sooner or later the sweetness will start to prevail -- but it never does. Sometimes I feel like I’m in a trance, unable to do what’s best for me. Can you offer any help? Like maybe give me a password that would break me out of the trance? -Meandering Gemini.” Dear Meandering: This is one of those rare times when you have cosmic permission to favor what’s calming and reassuring rather than what’s amusing and stimulating. Your password is sanctuary. CANCER (June 21-July 22): On September 22, the San Francisco Giants played a baseball game against the San Diego Padres. In the fourth inning, Giants’ third baseman Pablo Sandoval sprinted to the edge of the field, then hurled himself over a railing and into the crowd in order to snag a foul pop-up. The fact that he landed upside down but perfectly unhurt wasn’t the most impressive aspect of his feat. Nor was his improbable ability to wield such precise concentration while invoking so much raw force. Even more amazing was the pink bubble that Sandoval blew with his chewing gum nanoseconds before he dived. It was a supremely playful and successful Zen moment. That’s the spirit I hope you will bring to your efforts in the coming days. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your unconscious mind will be more accessible than usual in the coming weeks. It will reveal its agendas more clearly and play more of an active role in your life. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? It will depend on how open-minded you are toward the surprises your secret self will reveal. If you try to ignore or repress its eruptions, they’ll probably wreak chaos. If, on the other hand, you treat this other part of you as an unpredictable but generous ally, you may be able to work out a collaboration that serves you both. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Urbandictionary.com defines “Skymall solution” as “an absurdly singlepurposed tool or solution that solves a problem you don’t actually have.” The term is derived from the famous Skymall catalog, which sells unusual specialty products. According to my analysis of the current astrological omens, you should be wary of any attraction you might have to Skymall solutions. Do you really need a King Tut tissue box cover or an ice cube tray that makes ice in the shape of dachshunds or a stencil set for putting messages on your bundt cake? I doubt it. Nor do you need their metaphorical equivalents. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Right before I woke up this morning, I had a dream that one of my teeth fell out.
As I lay there groggily in bed, my mind searched for its meaning. “What does losing a tooth symbolize?” I asked myself. “What is its psychological meaning?” I promised myself that when I got up, I would google that question. But my rumination was interrupted by a dull ache in the back of my mouth, and it was only then that I remembered: Yesterday, in actual waking life, I had a real tooth yanked out by a real dentist. The moral of the story, Libra: Be wary of making up elaborate stories and mythic assumptions about events that have simple, mundane explanations. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This is an excellent time to explore the frontiers of wise foolishness. I’m hoping you will take full advantage of learning opportunities that might require you to shed your excess dignity and acknowledge how much you don’t know. Are you brave enough to disavow cynical thoughts and jaded attitudes that muffle your lust for life? Are you smart enough to understand how healthy it would be to go out and play like an innocent wild child? Make yourself available for delightful surprises. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Zombies used to be terrifying. But then they became a featured motif in pop culture, often in humorous contexts, and now there’s a growing acceptance and even affection for them. Here’s the view of Max Brooks, author of The Zombie Survival Guide: “Eventually rock and roll morphs from Sid Vicious to the Jonas Brothers. Same thing with vampires: We went from Dracula to Twilight to make them peachy and G-rated. I guarantee you someone is working on a way to take the fear out of zombies and market them to children.” Your assignment, Sagittarius, is to do to your personal fears what the entertainment industry has done to zombies: Turn them into amusing caricatures that don’t trouble you so much. For example, visualize an adversary singing a duet with Justin Bieber. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “You must learn from the mistakes of others,” said humorist Sam Levenson. “You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.” That’s excellent advice for you right now, Capricorn. In order to glean the teachings you need most, you won’t have to bumble through a single wrong turn or bad decision yourself. There will be plenty of blundering role models who will be providing you with the precise inspiration you need. Study them carefully. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Every November, thousands of writers participate in National Novel Writing Month. They pledge to compose at least 50,000 words of a new novel in that 30-day period. In accordance with the astrological omens, Aquarius, I propose that you commit yourself to a comparable project in your own field. Is there a potential masterpiece on which you could get a substantial amount of work done? Is there a major transformation you’ve long wanted to undertake but have always had some excuse to avoid? I predict that you will attract unexpected help and luck if you summon the willpower to focus on that task. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t believe the climate is changing? Go ask the birds what they think. Sixty percent of all the feathered species in North America have moved north in the past 46 years. Scientists are pretty sure their migration is a response to the warming trend that’s afoot. I like the idea of tuning in to how animals behave in order to get accurate information about the state of the world. Would you consider doing more of that, Pisces? According to my astrological analysis, the coming months will be a time when you can learn a lot from non-human intelligences.
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