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I’m not anti-government or anti-cop, but your article about the astronomical amounts of overtime pay being doled out at the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office infuriated me [“Overtime Busts,” WW, Jan. 9, 2013]. The situation reinforces accusations by antigovernment types who claim that government employees think they have a blank check signed by the public and they can write whatever dollar amount they want on it; that they live in a bubble protected from the realities of supply and demand that the rest of the world lives in. There is no way this would happen in the private sector. If a manager/administrator allowed hundreds of thousands of dollars to be spent on overtime pay instead of simply hiring more employees so that it was not necessary to pay “time-and-a-half” wages, that manager would be replaced. But in government, that manager says he was unaware of the problem, utters a slogan about wanting to have “good stewardship of the public’s money,” and nothing changes. In the private sector, there is an owner who thinks “all that overtime pay is money coming out of my pocket.” In the public sector, there is no such person. I’m not suggesting everything be privatized, but to utter another well-worn phrase: We have to build some accountability into government. Paul Lee Southeast Portland That is just sickening, really. I am amazed. Where is the leadership on this issue? It is one thing to make some overtime, but tens of thousands of dollars over already well-paying jobs? —“Travis Williams”

Never mind the world’s largest fungus [“Dr. Know,” WW, Jan. 2, 2013]—it’s harmless. Wasn’t some new type of microscopic fungus discovered in Oregon a couple years back? A deadly one, that was going to kill us all? How long have we got, Doc? —Andromeda, Strained In hot, dry climates, presumably it’s fashionable to at least occasionally have nightmares about crawling across a desert littered with cow skulls croaking “water, water.” In the dank Northwest, though, we’re so perennially waterlogged that even our irrational fears revolve around mildew, maceration and other ways one might perish solely from terminal dampness. Thus, when a new, potentially fatal variety of the airborne fungus, Cryptococcus, C. gattii, surfaced in Oregon in 2010, a thrill of terror coursed through Portland’s moist, sticky underwear. We’re going to mold to death! Some fungus is 4

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It ought to be very clear to everyone [“Mohamed and ‘The Terror Factory,’” WW, Jan. 9, 2012]—the fact that the FBI routinely uses drug addicts, snitches, known liars and petty criminals in order to try and secure convictions for its completely ginned-up phony “terrorism” cases proves that these federale pigs are not all that concerned with enforcing or respecting the rule of law. —“Damos Abadon”

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While there is no doubt the gas tax has not kept up with inflation, the problem here is lack of competency [“A Fork in the Road,” WW, Jan. 9, 2013]. It does no good to have increased revenue if it is wasted on pet projects while less interesting, but much more necessary, projects are ignored. Remember the biodigester that [ex-Mayor Sam] Adams wanted to use street-repair dollars on? Why was the city even involved in that? Prior to being elected, Adams mentioned that he thought a bond measure would be needed to help cover street repairs, and I believe he simply looted the Portland Bureau of Transportation for pet projects in the belief that the taxpayers would then be forced to pony up for another bond issue. —“Greg” 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

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WATERCOLOR WONDER: Advocates are flummoxed that the state of Oregon’s plans for a new mental health hospital in Junction City include cutting all commitment beds in the Portland area and east of the Cascades.

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The road for the Oregon State Hospital in Junction City stretches across an open field, waiting to lead people to the state’s newest mental health facility. State officials have spent $61.8 million preparing the land in the Lane County town 15 miles northwest of Eugene. New water and sewer lines run to the site. But as with the road, so far they lead nowhere. There’s no new hospital in Junction City yet. And many mental health advocates want to keep it that way. Gov. John Kitzhaber’s proposed 2013-15 budget calls for borrowing $79.4 million to build the hospital, which is already two years behind its original schedule. Oregon has been undergoing a major effort to bring its mental health system into the modern age. The Oregon State Hospital, built in 1883, in Salem was literally crumbling when the state tore it down. In its place, legislators approved $458 million for a new 620-bed hospital in Salem, intended to leave behind the days of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. But plans for the second hospital in Junction City are perhaps the least-known—and least-scrutinized—part of the state’s strategy. And mental health advocates say building it would add the wrong kind of treatment beds in Oregon, taking the state in the opposite direction from where it should go: toward smaller, less-expensive facilities located near highpopulation areas—including Portland.

If the Junction City hospital opens (scheduled for 2015), the state would close a 90-bed state hospital campus in Portland and the 60-bed Blue Mountain Recovery Center in Pendleton. Blue Mountain and Portland accept civil commitments, people who pose a danger to themselves or others, not forensic patients, who have been found not guilty of crimes by reason of insanity. That would leave the state without civil mental health facilities east of the Cascades and no beds in the Portland area, which accounted for nearly half of the state’s civil commitments last year “We don’t do that for any other health condition,” says Chris Bouneff, executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Oregon. “Imagine your loved one had a stroke and had to go into some long-term rehabilitation care and was from Portland, and we sent them to Junction City two and a half hours away.” Linda Hammond, interim director of addictions and mental health for the Oregon Health Authority, says the Junction City hospital is necessary to replace the outdated Pendleton facility. The lease for the Portland branch expires in 2015. Hammond says her agency wants smaller, locally based facilities, but they would take more time to set up than the state has. She estimates establishing a network of community-based care will take years. “We can’t suddenly close Blue Mountain and Portland and put those people out on the street if there is not the infrastructure and services to meet their needs,” she says. The U.S. Department of Justice has put pressure on the state to move away from larger hospitals, so in 2010 state officials cut the capacity of the proposed Junction City hospital to 174, from its original 360.

Overall, the new hospital would add just 22 beds to the state’s mental health system, Hammond says. The long-term plan, she adds, is to hand over the Junction City facility to the state Department of Corrections, which owns the site. Bouneff and other opponents say they’re skeptical that will ever happen. He says smaller facilities of 16 or fewer beds in locations across the state would save money, allow the state to collect Medicaid reimbursements that it can’t with a large hospital, and keep patients nearer their homes. The lack of good reasons to build a big, new hospital so far from Portland, he adds, has led him to one conclusion: “This is pork, pure and simple.” The Junction City hospital would bring about 2,500 construction jobs to Oregon’s economy and 500 to 600 sustained jobs once it opens, says state Rep. Val Hoyle (D-Eugene), whose district includes the hospital site. But to call it pork for her district is “insulting and wrong,” Hoyle says. The governor’s budget, she points out, includes $1 billion for community mental health and addictions treatment—a 43 percent increase from the current budget. Hoyle calls the plans “80 percent” of what advocates want. “If I didn’t think that this was a necessary part of our mental health system, then I wouldn’t be fighting for it,” she adds. Kitzhaber and Democratic legislative leaders want to approve the hospital. Despite their backing, Rep. Carolyn Tomei (D-Milwaukie), chairwoman of the House Human Services and Housing Committee, says the high costs of doubling down on larger institutions rather than providing community care could give lawmakers pause. “It could be stopped if enough of a swell of the population says, ‘Wait, this doesn’t make sense,’” Tomei says. “But I don’t think it will happen.” Willamette Week JANUARY 16, 2013 wweek.com

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The trail of John McAfee has run from Belize to Guatemala to Miami in recent months as the software millionaire fled questioning in a murder case and was deported to the U.S. Along the way, McAfee milked the international media attention, mocking police who sought him and spinning increasingly strange stories about Hezbollah conspiracies and poisoned dogs. In no time at all, McAfee became the most mysterious and crazy-sounding celebrity since Charlie Sheen. And now McAfee is here. As WW first reported last week, the 67-year-old McAfee says he plans to call Portland home for the next year and a half. He slipped into town, seemingly content to wait until the city woke up to his presence. There’s only one person aside from McAfee who knew his twisted path would lead him here: Chad Essley, an obscure artist raised as a Mormon who is living an otherwise quiet life in Southeast Portland. And that just creates more mystery: Who the hell is Chad Essley, and how did he get entangled with a Col. Kurtz-like figure notorious for cohabitating with a harem of young women (some former sex workers) before fleeing the law in Central America? In short, Essley says he had hoped to turn McAfee’s cartoon life into a graphic novel. But in the meantime, McAfee’s story blew up in a way neither expected. Essley now finds himself closely tied to a man who seems to enjoy making himself appear nefarious. Essley, 41, is soft-spoken and slightly nervous in the way computer and comics geeks often are. He’s been drawing comics since he was a kid growing up in Utah. “I stopped going to church at 12 because it happened when The Brady Bunch was on,” Essley says. He moved to Portland in 1992, got a job at Kinko’s and drew pictures using Deluxe Paint software on his Amiga computer. There was another local artist using the nowextinct Amiga for animation: Jim Blashfield, director of

EYES ON ESSLEY: Portland artist Chad Essley agreed to be interviewed by WW for this story, but only if the newspaper ran a self-portrait of him rather than a photograph. Essley says his association with John McAfee has made him increasingly worried about his security and privacy.

music videos for artists like Michael Jackson. Essley joined Blashfield’s studio and later worked at local animation houses such as Will Vinton Studios (now Laika) for clients such as Ritz Crackers and Microsoft. “Microsoft hired me to work on a kid’s tablet computer and do all the graphics for the game,” he says. “They paid a lot of money, which enabled me to get out and do something on my own.” Through his own company, CartoonMonkey, Essley has worked primarily with clients interested in children’s education, such as Sesame Street. “I do these anti-bullying children’s music videos,

essentially, that are animated,” he says. “They’re lessons that are sold to schools. It’s pretty fun stuff.” Essley says his interest in comics has an edgier side. “My background has always been through studying artists like Robert Crumb and the underground, so in my own personal sketchbooks I’ve always had a little darker tilt,” he says. “And the McAfee story, it’s not for children.” Two years ago, Essley says he logged into a secret members-only message board and noticed “a guy posting photos of himself driving his boat around and saying he had all these businesses.” Essley saw a potential wealthy client. So he pitched a

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MEDIA Web animation proposal to a man whose identity he didn’t know beyond a screen handle. The reply from the man on the message board? “‘Sure, do it,’” Essley recalls. “Then he immediately wired me $5,000. All of it. Up front. That’s when I realized who he was.” The mystery client was John McAfee. In the 1990s, McAfee sold the antivirus software company that still carries his name for about

“EVERYONE IS MAKING MONEY OFF THIS STORY EXCEPT FOR JOHN.” —CHAD ESSLEY $100 million. He’s since pursued increasingly eccentric and often unsuccessful ventures before retreating to his Belize estate about five years ago. McAfee later canceled the animation project but invited Essley to Belize in April. Essley decided to go despite having read about a Belize government raid on McAfee’s estate. His wife had reservations. “She told John she’d kill him if anything happened to me in Belize,” Essley says. In Belize, Essley says, he witnessed McAfee’s “peace talks” with a Colombian drug lord he says was later shot by Belize’s Gang Suppression Unit. He also interviewed six of McAfee’s live-in girlfriends—some former prostitutes—about the rough upbringings that led to their bleak lives in the sex trade. Essley says he went to Belize to witness what was going on in McAfee’s life and translate it into humor. He looked the other way even though the vast age differences between the girls and the near-septuagenarian McAfee made him uncomfortable. In November, police in Belize said McAfee was a “person of interest” in the shooting death of his neighbor, Gregory Faull. McAfee denies having anything to do with Faull’s death but fled Belize into Guatemala to avoid being questioned. There, authorities arrested and deported him to Miami in December. McAfee has spun an increasingly bizarre tale of corruption and power that culminated when he wrote a post on his blog Jan. 3 accusing

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officials in Belize of partnering with Hezbollah to train Lebanese terrorists. He also claimed to have launched a convoluted countersurveillance campaign of loading laptops with keystroke-monitoring software and giving them to his enemies. In media reports and interviews, McAfee often seems paranoid. Essley says he knows why, given the government raids on McAfee’s estate and a failed attempt to kill McAfee by one of his girlfriends. “Shady characters would walk up the beach and approach the house, wanting to talk to John,” Essley says. “After five or six years of living there, and all these raids and being deaf in one ear after [the girlfriend] tried to shoot him, wouldn’t you be a little paranoid?” It may be rubbing off. As a condition of talking to WW, Essley asked that his photograph not be published with this story. Essley has big plans for his material. He’s got video footage, photos and recorded interviews in addition to his graphic novel, called The Hinterland. He and McAfee meet every day now, eating breakfast at Portland restaurants and discussing plans for an animated film version of the graphic novel and a potential video game. Essley notes that McAfee’s life story has just sold to Hollywood, with Sacha Baron Cohen slated to play McAfee. But the movie was based on a Wired magazine piece. “Everyone is making money off this story except for John,” Essley says. Essley claims he has passed up big money, waiting for the right deal. “I was approached by a literary agent from New York who said, ‘I can get you $500,000 from a publisher for your story,’” Essley says. He says he turned it down. “Business advice from John: ‘Tell them that’s an insult,’” Essley says. “And I did. Writing that email, as a destitute cartoonist, was possibly the hardest thing I ever did. But he emailed back within a day and said, ‘I apologize, sir. What I meant was seven figures.’” None of it has materialized yet, leaving Essley with a collection of wild tales, hopes of riches, and his unlikely relationship with McAfee. “Throughout everything, I am poor,” Essley says, “but I am still a loyal friend.”

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Two Portland legislators say they want to close the loophole in state law that allows government-run restaurants to escape health inspections. The proposal comes after 135 people got sick from eating food prepared by Oregon Zoo restaurants in December. State health investigators say zoo patrons were exposed to a norovirus, which is passed along from feces or vomit, often when someone handling food fails to wash his or her hands. As WW first reported, zoo restaurants haven’t had a county health inspection since 2006. “Food services, whoever runs them, should be inspected,” state Rep. Mitch Greenlick (D-Portland), chairman of the House Health Care Committee, tells WW. “That seems to me to make a lot of sense.” Zoo officials have said there is no proof regular inspections would have prevented the norovirus outbreak, and that a subsequent state review found no glaring problems at zoo restaurants. But county officials told WW that the zoo has in the past turned down offers of voluntary inspections, something zoo officials have denied. The zoo’s restaurants have since agreed to regular advisory inspections by the county. State law requires any “person”—including individuals and businesses—running a restaurant to hold a license and

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undergo health inspections twice a year. Counties carry out the inspections. State officials at the Oregon Health Authority, operating on advice from the attorney general, had earlier told county officials the zoo’s restaurants didn’t need to be licensed or inspected because the zoo is run by a government agency, Metro. Since the norovirus outbreak, records obtained by WW show, Multnomah County officials have pressed the state about changing the way the law is interpreted. The Oregon Health Authority has not taken a formal position. But emails show one top official, Jean O’Connor, the agency’s deputy director of public health, believes the exemption for government-run restaurants lacks a rationale. “I don’t see the public health logic to this interpretation and never have,” Lila Wickham, director of Multnomah County Environmental Health, wrote in an email exchange with O’Connor on Dec. 20, 2012, two weeks after the outbreak. The state’s position, Wickham added, “does not make sense from a public health perspective.” O’Connor said she agreed. “I concur with your thoughts about the rationale or lack thereof,” she wrote Wickham in reply. In an interview with WW, O’Connor stopped short of calling for ending the exemption. “We do think the policy question needs some follow up,” O’Connor says. “The public has a general expectation that, when they consume food in a public place, the restaurant or establishment is inspected.” In her Dec. 20 email, Wickham cited other exempt food

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facilities. “We also do not inspect the Multnomah Athletic Club because it is private, although we all know they have many many catered events where food is served to the public, not just members,” Wickham wrote. County officials say they will be asking other exempt food facilities to agree to voluntary health inspections. “When it comes to Oregon state rules and their interpretation, the counties take direction from the state,” Wickham said in a statement to WW. “Each county does not make up its own rules.” State Sen. Chip Shields (D-Portland), who serves on the Senate Health Care and Human Services Committee, also want to change the law. “If any entity should have frequent inspections,” Shields says, “it should be government-run entities.”

PUBLISHER’S REPORT

GIVE!GUIDE RESULTS BY RICHARD H. MEEKER

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TO OUR READERS: You are simply amazing. In November and December, 5,450 of you gave $1,967,423 to local nonprofits through Willamette Week’s Give!Guide. That’s nearly 100 times the amount you donated through the first G!G nine years ago—and brings to more than $7 million the total you’ve given through this annual campaign. Even more impressive is the spirit in which you do your giving. Many of us involved with G!G deliver gift packages to donors who give at certain levels, and when I arrive with these incentives, I am often greeted by expressions of joy and pleasure at the ability to participate. I’ve also heard wonderful tales of nonprofits helping each other— Oregon Tradeswomen, for example, performing free construction at North by Northeast Community Health Center and then holding a graduation ceremony there. We are all simply wowed by the energy and determination shown by the par-

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ticipating nonprofits, as well as the spirit of friendly competition in which they do their great development work each fall. These organizations use social media to great benefit. They come up with an array of special incentives on their own. They show great creativity in their videos. And they hold fabulous parties—in one week in December, I got to attend an amazing display of circus skills in Northwest Portland, a huge martini event at the Ace Cleaners

GREAT BUSINESS PARTNERS (Please patronize them if you can.) A to Z Wineworks Bank of America Bob’s Red Mill Chinook Book Comcast David Wright Tremaine E & R Wine Shop Food Front Holocene IKEA Ken’s Artisan Bakery Morel Ink

Music Millennium New Seasons Market OakTree Digital Oregon Community Foundation Paloma Clothing Pedal Bike Tours ¿Por Qué No? Taqueria Portland Center Stage Rogue Distillery Rontoms Rose City Mortgage

Salt & Straw Shwood Steven Smith Teamaker Stumptown Coffee Roasters Tender Loving Empire Thompson Kessler Wiest & Borquist Two Tarts Bakery Umpqua Bank Vertis Communications Washman Car Wash Whole Foods Market Widmer Brothers Brewing

So we quickly created the Stumptown Coffee Roasters Challenge, which provided $500 to the nonprofit in each of G!G’s eight categories that received the greatest number of donations from young Portlanders. The response was immediate, and G!G ended up with 1,101 such donations. Of special note: The G!G model is spreading and growing. Our new media company in North Carolina, INDY Week, initiated a G!G this year and will produce a full-blown effort in November and December. And three alternative-news media publishers—California’s Monterey County Weekly, the GIVE!GUIDE Colorado Springs Independent, DONATIONS BY YEAR and Smiley Pete Publishing Here’s a smattering of what 2004: $22,000 in Lexington, Ky.—raised Nick showed me: 2005: $78,000 ∫ Total individual donors 2006: $248,397 an additional $2 million for 2007: $534,084 this year: 5,450, a 7 percent their communities at the end 2008: $806,582 increase over last year. of 2012. 2009: $918,094 ∫ The averag e donation 2010: $1,163,688 G!G will return in the fall. 2011: $1,588,689 increased from $313 last year If you know any local nonprof2012: $1,967,423 to $361 this year. it you’d like to see involved in TOTAL: $7,326,957 ∫ The nonprofits received this effort, send their name $305,617 of matching gifts and a contact for the organizamade possible by their business partners. tion to Nick Johnson (njohnson@wweek. ∫ Of the 110 nonprofits in this year’s com). We start accepting applications for Give!Guide, 74 returned from last year, and the 2013 G!G in June. 48 of them exceeded their total from 2011. In the meantime, this effort is ∫ G!G’s special giving days (featuring goodguided by one fundamental principle— ies from Salt & Straw, Shwood, Holocene contained in the inscription at the base of and Rogue Distillery, as well as Giving the Skidmore Fountain in Old Town: “Good Tuesday) produced $249,485 in donations. citizens are the riches of a city.” And on Dec. 31 alone, you gave an incredWe are fortunate to be able to count so ible $360,872. many of you as good citizens in this annual ∫ In terms of geography, Southwest Porteffort. land really stepped things up this year, Thank you for all you do to support the nearly dethroning the perennial leader, health and well-being of our community. Northeast Portland. Your good works keep Portland a special place in which to live, work and play. Not everything went according to plan, though. One of G!G’s primary goals is to encourage giving by Portlanders under the age PUBLISHER of 36. About midway through this year’s effort, Nick noticed donations in this age P.S. This week’s paper contains a Volunteer group had dropped way off from 2011. Guide. It’s designed to show you how to Some of this could be attributed to the give something other than money to local still-depressed economy, and some to the nonprofits—your equally valuable sweat fall elections. equity. Please give pages 24-27 a look. downtown a couple of nights later and a great evening of square dancing in North Portland the following Sunday evening. This says nothing of all the wonderful local businesses that chip in to help. See the box on this page for companies whose employees you should thank. WW’s annual G!G effort has become such a big project that we now have a fulltime executive director, Nick Johnson, and about a quarter of our staff chips in to help in one way or another. Nick is a nut for statistics, so one of the new joys for me in this year’s effort was poring over the sheets of data he produced.

RESULTS, BY PARTICIPATING NONPROFIT 1000 Friends of Oregon .........................$19,303

Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon .............. $43,581

Meals on Wheels People........................$24,484

Pongo Fund Pet Food Bank .................$72,263

Sexual Assault Resource Center ...........$6,474

Artichoke Community Music ..................$3,350

Forest Park Conservancy ......................... $17,281

Mercy Corps Northwest ....................... $50,609

Portland A-S Tennis & Education ..........$4,105

Shadow Project ............................................. $17,186

Basic Rights Education Fund ............... $13,933

Friends of Outdoor School....................$26,749

Miracle Theatre Group ...............................$2,485

Portland Animal Welfare Team............ $16,263

Sisters of the Road ....................................$37,750

Bicycle Transportation Alliance ............$37,061

Friends of the Children.............................$11,090

Morrison Child & Family Services .......$10,330

Portland Art Museum ..................................$6,714

Start Making A Reader Today ................$11,997

Blue Sky ............................................................$5,085

Friends of the Columbia Gorge........... $36,331

My Voice Music............................................. $6,560

Portland Fruit Tree Project .......................$18,511

Street Roots .................................................. $21,698

Bradley Angle...............................................$12,494

Friends of Trees ...........................................$19,783

Neighborhood House ............................. $26,406

Portland Gay Men’s Chorus .....................$4,720

Sunshine Division Inc...................................$7,657

Camp Fire Columbia ................................... $8,725

Giving Tree...................................................... $5,494

N and NE Portland Tool Libraries .........$2,845

Portland Homeless Family Solutions . $9,850

Transition Projects ..................................... $14,827

CASA For Children .................................... $10,535

Growing Gardens ....................................... $18,582

N by NE Community Health Center .. $33,541

PICA ....................................................................$2,945

Urban Farm Collective ...............................$3,835

Cascadia ........................................................... $9,745

Habitat for Humanity...............................$34,469

NE Emergency Food Program ..............$6,825

Portland Kitchen ........................................... $7,280

Urban Gleaners............................................ $16,936

Cat Adoption Team ..................................$49,026

Hacienda CDC............................................... $6,204

NW Documentary Arts & Media ..........$5,040

Portland Playhouse ......................................$6,821

Virginia Garcia Health Center .................$9,567

Children’s Book Bank ................................ $9,240

Hollywood Theatre ......................................$5,708

Northwest Film Center ............................. $4,209

Portland Women’s Crisis Line .............. $15,205

Voz ......................................................................$3,293

Children’s Healing Art Project ................$4,535

Hoyt Arboretum Friends ........................... $8,315

Operation Nightwatch .............................. $5,066

Portland YouthBuilders ........................... $19,584

Wallace Medical Concern ...................... $33,588

Circus Project ..................................................$11,180

Human Solutions ........................................$10,032

Oregon Children’s Theatre.......................$2,053

Potluck in the Park ...................................... $11,801

West Women’s & Children’s Shelter ... $8,909

Classroom Law Project..............................$14,195

I Have a Dream .............................................. $7,496

Oregon Cultural Trust............................ $195,058

Pride Northwest .............................................$1,220

White Bird ........................................................$5,580

Columbia Riverkeeper............................... $5,005

Impact NW .....................................................$9,040

Oregon Food Bank .................................. $109,841

Project Access NOW ...................................$11,919

Willamette Riverkeeper............................$18,225

Community Cycling Center ................. $54,004

In Other Words .............................................$1,495

Oregon Humane Society ........................$40,651

Project POOCH Inc....................................$20,301

Wordstock .......................................................$11,707

Community Warehouse ............................$20,131

IPRC ................................................................... $16,616

Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc........................$8,941

Raphael House of Portland ................... $15,458

Write Around Portland .............................$15,222

Depave ...............................................................$3,801

JOIN .................................................................$36,646

Oregon Wild .................................................. $18,461

ReFIT .................................................................... $1,194

Youth, Rights & Justice...............................$7,579

Dougy Center................................................. $7,965

Latino Network..............................................$2,826

p:ear .................................................................. $29,031

Returning Veterans Project ......................$9,841

Zenger Farm ...................................................$7,090

Ethos Music Center .................................... $9,405

Library Foundation ...................................$23,200

PDX Pop Now! ...............................................$13,612

Right Brain Initiative................................... $14,891

Farmers Ending Hunger........................... $9,468

Literary Arts ...................................................$11,890

PHAME Academy.........................................$5,320

Rock ’n’ Roll Camp for Girls .....................$9,150

Farmers Market Fund ................................ $3,034

Live Wire! Radio.......................................... $12,039

Planned Parenthood .............................. $106,784

Schoolhouse Supplies ................................$7,700

FearNoMusic ...................................................$5,350

Living Yoga........................................................ $4,116

PlayWrite Inc. ..................................................$7,737

Self Enhancement Inc. ................................ $9,125

TOTAL ...............................................$1,967,423

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CREW GOV. JOHN KITZHABER HIRED RUDY CREW TO SMASH THE STATUS QUO IN OREGON SCHOOLS. WHAT COMES AFTER THAT? BY NI GE L JAQU ISS

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Anybody who thinks there are no second acts in American life should consider Rudolph Franklin Crew. Crew is a leading figure in the national education reform movement. Over the past 30 years, he’s jumped from one big-city school district to another, shattering the old way of doing things and demanding that adults do more for kids who are failing. He landed some of the biggest jobs in public education—and then lost them. Crew was a hero in Tacoma, Wash., until the school board demanded his resignation. He wowed New York City and then got summarily fired. He was the first outsider to run Miami schools in 50 years, but after making big changes got booted there, too. In each case, Crew drove bold educational shifts but got the politics wrong. “I’ve learned that if you disturb a system,” Crew says, “it will ultimately disturb you back.” So where is he today? Sitting at Gov. John Kitzhaber’s elbow as Oregon’s first-ever chief education officer. Kitzhaber wants to blaze a seamless educational trail from cradle through college, rescuing the one-third of Oregon students who currently fail to finish high school and energizing our feeble economy. To achieve that vision, Kitzhaber must demolish the status quo. Crew is his bulldozer. When Oregon’s 77th Legislature con12

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venes Feb. 4, no actor will be closer to the spotlight than Crew. No one but Crew—who has also been a classroom teacher, an author and a college professor—will be more central to figuring out what Oregon needs to do to save its public schools. “He’s really good at improving outcomes without additional resources,” says Matt Donegan, who serves on the Oregon Education Investment Board. “In Oregon, that’s really important.” Donegan says Crew also brings a muchneeded sense of urgency to a state that Education Week says ranks 43rd in the country for educational results. “He speaks with moral indignation about how we treat our children,” Donegan says. Heavyset with an unlined, moon-shaped face, Crew, 62, is polished but also blunt. In a process-loving state where passive-aggressiveness poses as politeness, Crew, who’s accustomed to fast action and the roughand-tumble of big cities, will be challenged. “Everybody wants to be liked,” he says. “But that’s not what I’m here for.” Not everybody is sure Crew is the savior Oregon needs. Skeptics say he’s been vague about when and how change will happen. And judging from Crew’s history, he’s unlikely to be the long-term solution. “He has this philosophy he calls ‘disruptive change,’” says Debbie Winskill, president of the school board in Tacoma, where Crew ran the school district for two and a half years. “He’s good at breaking things but incapable of putting them back together.” For a guy who used to sit in the president’s box at Miami Hurricanes football games and pal around with former Citigroup chairman Richard Parsons in New York, Crew inhabits a threadbare office.

There’s no plaque commemorating his 2008 National Superintendent of the Year award, no celebrity wall photos. The furniture is government-issue basic and the building a plain storefront next to Salem’s First Presbyterian Church. In Crew’s office, with its ground-level view of Court Street, there’s smooth jazz on the radio, a photograph of Crew’s four kids on the desk, a picture of horses behind it (he owns three trail horses—Mabel, Lady and Roxy), and a framed print of a motto: “Any sort of change requires courage.” The utilitarian feel extends to Crew’s Ford F-150 pickup truck—he’s a modern-day gunslinger whose weapons are his words. In a stylish loden-green suit, he is the opposite of the typical cautious bureaucrat. Between sips of tea, he assesses the risks of trying to transform the state’s largest and costliest institution—public education. His view of Oregon so far is succinct. “There’s been too much conversation about why things can’t be done,” Crew says. “We need to apply more rigor to the work.” And he understands his mission. “You have to be willing to fail, to lose a job, to step into the breech,” he says. When he signed a three-year contract last June, he became, at $280,000 a year, the highest-profile African-American on Oregon’s public payroll. (See sidebar on his contract, page 15.) Crew says some Oregonians are unsure what to make of him. “It might have given people a little bit of a pause when they saw me eating in a little breakfast place in John Day,” he says in the New York accent he’s never lost. “Sometimes people might hold a point of view about what a black man is. People are surprised I have horses. They’re surprised a city guy like me likes to fish.” Crew went fishing with Kitzhaber in late September near Tillamook. “Didn’t catch a thing,” he says. Nonetheless, he bought himself a fly rod as a holiday gift. Crew says his race and background allow him to make demands that could sound hypocritical coming from a white man. “There’s no guile or hoodwinking when the message and the messenger align,” Crew says. In his 2007 book, Only Connect: The Way to Save Our Schools, and in speeches, he tells of his upbringing in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., about 70 miles north of Manhattan. His mother died when he was 2, and his father, Eugene, a jazz trumpeter and night watchman, raised him. CONT. on page 15

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CONT. An indifferent middle-school student, Crew was headed to vocational school. But his father balked. “He was a guy who wanted his son to go to college but didn’t know how to do it,” Crew says in a YouTube video his office produced. “He didn’t have the slightest clue. All he knew was, from where we lived to the college front door, there had to be a road.” Crew says his father refused to take no for an answer. He recalls his father telling a school counselor, “You just need to put him in the same class as everybody else who’s going to college. I don’t know what those courses are called, but I want him in them. I’ll take care of the rest.” His father’s actions formed the foundation of his educational philosophy—that poverty need not be a disqualifier. “My father,” Crew says in the video, “is almost single-handedly responsible for everything I understand about parent engagement.” Crew earned a business degree from Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., and later, a Doctor of Education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He started out teaching English in Southern California. His principal, Ramon C. Cortines—later superintendent of the New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco school districts—observed Crew’s class one day and gave him advice that stuck with him. “Did you think about teaching that lesson a different way?” Cortines asked Crew afterward. “Why would I?’ Crew replied. “Because somebody just might get it,” Cortines said. Cortines’ message was that everybody can learn, just not necessarily the same way. Crew focused on the minority achievement gap as the superintendent in Sacramento, Calif., from 1988 to 1993. He left Sacramento after five years—citing frustration at chronic funding shortfalls— for the Tacoma district. In Tacoma, test scores jumped during Crew’s tenure, attracting the attention of the New York City Board of Education, which had burned through six chancellors in 10 years. Crew’s candidacy for the New York job played out on the pages of newspapers in both cities. After being courted by New York, he at first decided to stay put. “I really feel an obligation to getting on with business here,” he told The News Tribune in Tacoma on Sept. 21, 1995. “I don’t think you can do it and walk away from it

LOW-KEY: Crew’s office holds few mementos. Here, a cross his daughter gave him and a Tiffany star from New York.

in two years. I’ve really opted to see this one through.” But then Crew vanished and holed up in Sacramento, where Tacoma board members couldn’t find him, let alone reach him. Meanwhile, he was negotiating with New York, and three weeks later he accepted the New York job. Feelings about Crew remain raw in Tacoma. “Up here, it was a messy ending to what had been a good marriage,” says Pierce County Executive Pat McCarthy, then a member of the Tacoma Public Schools Board. “The good that he did, he was undermined by the way he left.” Crew says the opportunity to go home to New York and to lead a 1.1 million-student district was too compelling to pass up. But he acknowledges former supporters feel “jilted.” “I don’t think the work in Tacoma was complete,” he says. In New York, Crew made an immediate splash. He took personal responsibility for 10 failing schools, forming a “Chancellor’s District.” He fired principals, transferred teachers and beefed up course offerings. Crew would later expand that effort,

announce the end of “social promotion” and wrest control of elementary and middle schools from community boards. In New York City, the public schools ultimately answer to the mayor. Initially, Crew says, he and then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani got along well. “I had a really good relationship with Rudy,” Giuliani says. “Doing all kinds of things from horseback riding to wine and cigars.” Crew says he always knew he was swimming in dangerous waters. “In New York, there are so many forces at play you have to pick your way through to stay as whole as you can for as long as you can,” he says. “But I was aware there would be a D -Day. There’s a D -Day in every system.” In 1999, Giuliani, a Republican preparing to run for the U.S. Senate, wanted to spend $12 million on vouchers for private education. That would burnish his conservative credentials. Crew balked. “He said, ‘Do this,’” Crew recalls. “I wouldn’t do it.” After that, no more horses and cigars— Giuliani successfully lobbied the board to fire Crew.

RUDY’S NUMBERS By Oregon standards, Rudy Crew is well paid. His $280,000 salary is nearly four times what the former superintendent of public instruction, Susan Castillo, made. The 2011 Oregon Legislature abolished Castillo’s job and created Crew’s position. He earns more than the governor, state treasurer and secretary of state—combined. Crew signed a three-year contract, which calls for him to get a year’s severance should Gov. John Kitzhaber fire him early. He also got a $30,000 moving allowance, $1,000-per-month car allowance and the opportunity to continue his various consulting and for-profit education ventures provided they don’t “conflict with the loyalty or energy” expected of him. NIGEL JAQUISS.

“I didn’t want to leave New York,” Crew says. “But there can only be one king.” Supporters, such as Judith Chin, Crew’s director of professional development in New York, say he excelled at the educational part of the job. “People remember him here for the work he did with the Chancellor’s District,” Chin says. “He put a lot of focus on improvement and accountability. But he left before his work was finished.” After New York, Crew took charge of a principal leadership program at the University of Washington. He left after 15 months to head the Stupski Foundation, a Bay Area education-reform group. In 2004, Crew took over in Miami, the nation’s fourth-largest school district. Media reports said his $400,000 paycheck made him the highest-paid superintendent in the country. If New York was stormy, Miami was a cyclone. Crew followed his New York playbook: He identified the city’s 30 worst-performing schools and placed them in a “School Improvement District,” giving them longer days and paying teachers 20 percent more to work in them. On the eve of those schools opening, recalls Joseph Garcia, Crew ’s Miami spokesman, Crew learned there would be 100 substitute teachers, a number he deemed unacceptable. “Rudy reassigned 100 administrators on the spot to teach in those schools,” Garcia says. “The teachers’ union wasn’t happy and the administrators weren’t happy, and some school boards weren’t happy, but it was the right thing to do.” Miami politics were harder to solve. A board member sued Crew for refusing to turn over public records. Crew filed an ethics complaint against a state senator CONT. on page 16 Willamette Week JANUARY 16, 2013 wweek.com

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for racial epithets that led the lawmaker to resign. Cuban-Americans raised a furor over a school library book they found sympathetic to Fidel Castro. In 2008, after two years of massive budget overruns, the board fired Crew. “New York is complicated, but the politics were out in the open,” Crew says. “Miami was a strange confluence of complex geopolitical realities—and you can’t see them.” Karen Aronowitz, president of the United Teachers of Dade, gives Crew mixed grades. “I would give him an A in terms of education policy,” she says. “He had an understanding of children all the way from early childhood through college. But I’d give him a D for community outreach.” Crew left Miami toting a severance check for $368,000. In 2010, Kitzhaber campaigned for governor promising to cure the ills of Oregon’s schools in a measurable way. The former emergency-room physician tied Oregon’s lousy graduation rate—currently 67 percent—to the state’s per-capita income being nearly 10 percent below the national average. After winning election, he set ambitious goals. By 2025, Kitzhaber wants to eliminate dropouts and have 80 percent of Oregonians earning an associate degree or higher. Currently, state figures show that only about 36 percent of 25-to-34-year-old Oregonians have that level of education. In 2011, Kitzhaber rammed a reform package through the Legislature. The governor convinced lawmakers to abolish the 148-year-old elected office of state superintendent of education, institute teacher evaluations, expand charter schools and create a 12-member Oregon Education Investment Board, whose job is to break down the walls that separate early childhood from higher education. Corporate Oregon has a loud voice on the OEIB. In addition to Donegan, two key members are Julia Brim-Edwards, director of government and public affairs at Nike, and Ron Saxton, a two-time Republican gubernatorial candidate and now executive vice president of Jeld-Wen, the Klamath Falls window maker. “One thing Ron and I brought is a ‘no excuses’ philosophy and a dissatisfaction

Kitzhaber says when voters see the educational system is operating at maximum efficiency, they will pay for smaller class sizes and richer course offerings. Such efficiency may come at teachers’ expense, putting Kitzhaber and Crew crosswise with the 47,000-member Oregon Education Association. OEA Vice President Hanna Vaandering serves on the OEIB and has positive words about Crew. “I think what’s made an impression is when he shares stories about personal interaction with students,” she says. “You can hear the passion in his voice.” But Vaandering is skeptical how much can change without substantial additional funding. “We need to provide the resources to meet the outcomes we’ve set,” she says. “If you look at the investments that we’ve made in the past decade, they’ve declined.” Kitzhaber says pension costs must be trimmed first. “No amount of revenue will be adequate to meet our education goals unless we get a handle on major cost drivers that divert resources from the classroom,” the governor told the Oregon School Boards Association in November. Crew has challenged teachers’ unions before. In Miami, doing so accelerated his ouster. “We had negotiated a pay increase and didn’t get it,” Aronowitz says. “So we worked very hard to make a change.” Crew says his interactions with Oregon’s teachers so far have been positive. “I don’t see any signs I should assume OEA is my nemesis,” he says. “My nemesis is stillness and inertia.” In previous jobs, Crew addressed inertia by firing people and seizing failing schools. He lacks such authority here. But Crew will use the megaphone Kitzhaber gave him. Every school district, community college and college in Oregon now must complete an “education compact” annually, creating a road map for improvement. Last August, Crew blasted many of Oregon’s 197 school districts, saying their compact goals were “completely unacceptable.” The education board’s members applaud his candor. “What I see so far is a guy who is very focused on kids and on taking the courageous steps,” Donegan says.

“MY NEMESIS IS STILLNESS AND INERTIA.” —RUDY CREW with the status quo,” Brim-Edwards says. (Saxton was traveling abroad and could not be reached.) Brim-Edwards led the team that selected Crew from a pool of in-state and out-of-state applicants. She says the committee talked extensively with Crew about his roller-coaster work history and found it a plus. “If you are doing hard work and holding people responsible and have your elbows out to get results for students, you are not going to make everybody happy,” BrimEdwards says. “We weren’t interested in somebody who did not make waves.” Kitzhaber wants to end the practice of funding education on a per-capita, per-day basis, preferring to invest in approaches proven to work. 16

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“Sometimes it takes an outsider to come in and drive that change.” Crew will need parents’ support to succeed, but his difficulty at navigating the politics of a new place has already surfaced. For example, he chose a strange way to introduce himself to Portland’s rabid K-12 activists. In October, Crew and the OEIB scheduled one of seven statewide listening sessions in Portland. The forum was held at Marshall High School, which Portland Public Schools closed in 2011. They were ostensibly seeking input on Kitzhaber’s reforms. Yet only one of the 12 OEIB members— Vaandering, the OEA representative—

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TOO MUCH TALK: “We’ve had a robust conversation about achievement in Oregon, but the results aren’t good,” Crew says.

showed up, sitting onstage alone with a line of empty chairs. Crew only appeared via video. He says he was ill. “Although my intention was to attend, by late afternoon it just wasn’t possible,” Crew says. “I found it incredibly disrespectful,” says Susan Barrett, a founder of the parent group Oregon Save Our Schools. “There was a real sense of anger in the room.” Crew will also need strong backing from lawmakers. But on a recent visit to the Capitol, Crew came up short on details. He presented four strategic investments—in early childhood education, literacy, mentoring and professional development—that would require $150 million from the 2013-15 budget. Most of that sum would pay for four to six regional teacher-training facilities, and come out of the budgets of existing Education Service Districts. When lawmakers quizzed Crew on specifics, he had few answers. Almost a month later, Rep. Sara Gelser (D-Corvallis), who chairs the House Education Committee, says she is still waiting for an explanation. “I have not seen any details and don’t know anybody who has,” she says. Crew promises those details are coming soon. “We have been working with members and will have a draft legislative concept that provides detail on the strate-

gic initiatives this week,” he says. Kitzhaber wants Crew to show business leaders and the public that Oregon can produce better educational outcomes without raising taxes. That means aligning a Balkanized system, cutting pension costs and jacking up graduation rates. Critics think it will be tough for the new education czar to deliver. “Crew is highly articulate and is an effective cheerleader for the governor’s reform program,” says Tom Olson, a retired teacher and educational researcher who co-founded Save Our Schools. “But there’s nothing in the so-called reform package that will directly impact large numbers of kids.” Others are more hopeful. Rep. Betty Komp (D -Woodburn), a former teacher and principal who sits on the House Education Committee, says for the first time since she entered the Legislature in 2004 she sees a commitment to transformation. Komp says it matters less how long Crew stays in Oregon than whether he can chart a new path. “He is a change agent,” Komp says. “A change agent is in a position three to five years and moves on.” Crew agrees there is a sense of urgency. “It’s like a timed test,” he says. “This window of opportunity for change will close, and I don’t want to be outside when it does.”

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SCOOP GOSSIP IS TOO DRUNK TO WATCH THAT MOVIE. stop the robots: Steven Spielberg, once slated to direct an adaptation of Portland author Daniel H. Wilson’s Robopocalypse, has indefinitely postponed plans for the film. The 2011 sci-fi novel by Wilson— who has a Ph.D. in robotics—was a New York Times bestseller, and Anne Hathaway and Chris Hemsworth were in talks to star in the film version. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Spielberg said the script (adapted by The Cabin in the Woods screenwriter Drew Goddard) wasn’t ready and that production costs were too high. “It’s back to the drawing board to see what is possible,” Spielberg spokesman Martin Levy said. future drinking: Regal Cinemas’ Fox Tower 10 (846 SW Park Ave.) has applied for a beer and wine license. If it is approved, this would increase the number of brew-’n’-view screens in Portland by about 50 percent (and possibly take a bite out of nearby rival Living Room Theaters). Regal Cinemas has already started selling beer elsewhere in the country; prices at its Knoxville, Tenn., theater are $4 to $6.50 for a 12-ounce bottle. Some Regal theaters with beer service have been restricted to those age 18 and over. word scramble: They say April is the cruelest month; it will certainly be so for aficionados of red herrings and that peculiar whiff of almond in the drinking water. Mystery bookshop Murder by the Book has announced it will shut its doors for good in April and sell selected books at steep discounts starting this week. Meanwhile, zine shop Reading Frenzy—which announced in November it will leave its longtime downtown location on Feb. 15 after losing its lease—will hold a benefit art auction Feb. 7 to help fund a reboot across the river, location to be determined. going to extremes: Experimental Portland, a local blog run by frequent WW contributor Robert Ham dedicated to the avant-garde extremes of the local music scene, is partnering with Mississippi Studios to put on monthly showcases of outre music. Although Ham—whose column Outer Worlds appears biweekly on wweek.com—has organized regular live events at various venues under the name “Experimental Portland Presents...” before, the concerts at Mississippi Studios will feature bigger-name (relatively speaking) touring acts, such as Pennsylvania-based noise collagists Blues Control, who headline the inaugural show Feb. 28 along with locals Plankton Wat and Fang Moon. watch for vampires: Songs From a Room, a Londonbased operation that puts on secret, invitation-only living-room concerts in cities around the world, is coming to Portland. On Saturday, Jan. 19, the “global music movement,” as the organizers refer to it, is throwing a show somewhere in town, to be announced via the group’s mailing list a few days earlier. The bands are unknown as of press time, but past participants have included DeVotchKa, Stumptown’s own Radiation City and, in one instance, actor Robert Pattinson. Interested parties can sign up for the newsletter at sofarsounds.com, though admittance is limited to roughly 60 people.

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WEDNESDAY JAN. 16 PDNEXT firsT ANNiVErsAry [MUSIC] The monthly gathering of Portland’s electronic music vanguard celebrates its first birthday in a big way, bringing in DJ Rashad, the reigning king of the Chicagobased evolutionary-house style known as footwork. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

THURSDAY JAN. 17 kEN jENNiNgs [bookS] ken Jennings, all-time Jeopardy! champion and genetically engineered superhuman, has released a new book debunking the myths we tell children to keep them in line. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

FRIDAY JAN. 18 PArquET courTs [MUSIC] Light Up Gold, the debut album from these buzzing New York rockers, is 33 minutes of pure, shitshakin’ garage-pop glory. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $8. 21+.

SATURDAY JAN. 19

Swing Your Partner IT’S HIP TO BE SQUARE. The first lesson I learn at Village Ballroom’s weekly square dance is that punctuality matters: My friends and I arrive 20 minutes late, and we are immediately circled by gray-haired cowboy types wanting to dance. Never mind that our raincoats are still dripping and that none of us have square-danced since high-school gym class—we are in demand. I quickly learn my second lesson: Don’t say no. When I mutter something about sitting out the first round, one of the chaps brusquely waves me off, mumbling discontentedly. But this is (really) the only interaction over the course of two hours that is not mind-bogglingly (really!) heartwarming. And so, the third lesson: These square dancers are damn friendly, from the young parents with their pigtailed tykes, to the older folks in denim vests and bolo ties, to the 20-something creatives in studded leather, earnest plaid and kerchiefs. On this Sunday evening in North Portland, a band called the Gold Diggers

strums fiddle, banjo and guitar as caller Jane Palmieri sips an Occidental Doppelbock out of a plastic cup. The dances are gender-neutral: Palmieri provides instructions for those “playing the gent” or “playing the lady.” About 70 of those gent and lady players spin across the ballroom’s 100-year-old wooden floor, and even more will probably promenade down to the Portland Old Time Music Gathering, a five-day festival devoted to Appalachian-style string music occurring across the city starting this week. After sitting out the first dance, I partner with a suspenders-wearing gent named Steve and later with a younger man named Walker. Walker and I find ourselves in a group of eight equally inexperienced dancers, none of whom know much about weaving the ring, breaking the basket or shooting the star. The caller informs us that we have reached the most complicated pattern of the evening. Our group, mostly strangers, attempts the steps

before deciding to wing it: We hook arms gleefully, play tag and incorporate elements of the Hokey Pokey and the Horah. We look around: Everyone else seems comfortable with all these allemandes and do-si-dos. We continue, laughing, perhaps emboldened by our pints, or perhaps just grateful for lesson No. 4: Creative improvisation trumps all. REBECCA JACOBSON. go: The Portland old-Time Music Gathering is Wednesday-Sunday, Jan. 16-20. various locations. Costs vary. Every Sunday Square Dance is at the village ballroom, 700 NE Dekum St. 7-9 pm. $7 sliding scale.

PALM TrEE riDE [bIkES] because nothing says January like tropical vegetation, the Urban Adventure League guides a leisurely bike tour of Portland’s best exotic flora. Meet at Velo Cult Bike Shop, 1969 NE 42nd Ave., urbanadventureleague.blogspot. com. 11 am-3 pm. Free. NATioNAL PigEoN AssociATioN grAND NATioNAL [bIRDS] The country’s largest pigeon show judges old cocks, young hens and rare breeds on a “standard of perfection,” which we assume to include accuracy of projectile defecation and elegance of pigeon toe. Hilton Vancouver, 301 W 6th St., Vancouver, Wash., 360-9934500, npagrandnational2013.com. Jan. 17-19. Free. cAMP Lo [MUSIC] Camp Lo’s Uptown Saturday Night is a minimal, ultrastylish and underrated ’90s hip-hop masterpiece. A full 15 years after the album’s release, MCs Sonny Cheeba and Geechi Suede are hitting Portland—on a Saturday night, no less—to perform their greatest heist in its entirety. Refuge, 116 SE Yamhill St. 9 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

SUNDAY JAN. 20 LEs quizErAbLEs [TRIvIA] Losers will be forced to listen to looped recordings of Russell Crowe wailing like a water buffalo. EastBurn, 1800 E Burnside St., 236-2876. 6 pm. Free. 21+.

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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By MITCH LILLIE. PRICES: $: Most entrees under $10. $$: $10-$20. $$$: $20-$30. $$$$: Above $30. Editor: MARTIN CIZMAR. Email: dish@wweek.com. See page 3 for submission instructions.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 16 Baseball IPA Movie Night

As sports movies go, Bull Durham is among the best. Starring Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon, it features mild bondage, nudity and Costner hitting a home run. As sports-themed beers go, Lompoc’s baseball IPA series, including Yankee Clipper, Stargell Stars, Roar of ’84 and Hammerin’ Hank, must also be at the top. Small-batched and infrequently available, they are begging us to use baseball puns. We’ll refrain. Sidebar, 3901A N Williams Ave., 288-3996. 7 pm. Free. 21+.

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This year, 19 vintage beers, conditioned for up to eight years in kegs, will make up Bailey’s fourth annual CellarFest. As any hophead will tell you, the older the beer, the less sharp the alcohol flavor, and the more subtler flavors can bloom. VIP tickets allow attendees entry two hours early, a guaranteed seat at the bar and six tasters, though 4-ounce tasters can be had for a few dollars apiece without a ticket. Foamy highlights include a 2008 Russian River Consecration, a 2010 Block 15 Figgy Pudding and a 2005 Rogue Russian Imperial Stout. It’s all the good parts of a cellar without the cobwebs. Bailey’s Taproom, 213 SW Broadway, 295-1004. 4 pm. VIP tickets $25. 21+.

SUNDAY, JAN. 20 Pie Contest

Got an Agent Cooper-level obsession with pie and the pastry skills to make it? Enter your pie in the second annual Pie Contest held at Pacific Pie Company in honor of National Pie Day. Both sweet and savory awards will be given, and don’t worry about competing with the head chef at Pacific Pie. Professionals and amateurs will be judged and awarded separately, but make sure to bring your recipe. The creations will be judged by various foodies, including the venerable 10-year-old Thea Dieter, aspiring pastry chef. Winners are named “pie champions” and their pies will be featured on Pacific Pie’s menu in February. Hang around after the judges’ test to sample the pies and vote for the people’s choice award. Send an email to info@pacificpieco.com to register. Pacific Pie Company, 1520 SE 7th Ave., 3816157. 1-3 pm. Free.

TUESDAY, JAN. 22 Thai Food Adventure

Akkapong “Earl” Ninsom, the culinary and business mind behind Mee-Sen Thai Eatery and PaaDee, has hand-picked his favorite Thai chefs in Portland to curate a sixcourse dinner with wine and cocktail pairings. Ninsom is not one to compromise on flavor. When testing dishes, he looks for the approval of Thai eaters—and he usually gets it. The chefs, Amporn Khayanha of PaaDee, Sayan Promwongsa of Thai Bloom and Pitoon Koonswasdikool of Red Onion, will probably blow wimpy American taste buds out of the water. Gratuity is included, and guests will leave with gift certificates to some of Ninsom’s favorite restaurants around town. PaaDee, 6 SE 28th Ave., 208-4290. 9 pm. $125. 21+.

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CHICkEnIng OuT: Blue Star’s fried chicken doughnut.

BLUE STAR DONUTS Fried chicken with fancy doughnuts is, apparently, a thing. The combination has taken the East Coast by storm, with four such shops announced in Washington, D.C., alone. But, as best as I can tell, no one else is combining wings ’n’ rings quite like Little Big Burger boss Micah Camden. Blue Star Donuts makes a glazed brioche ring with chunks of moist chicken breast in a dark bronze batter and a squeeze packet of Frank’s RedHot ($4.75). Surprisingly, the chicken doughnut is the standout of this stylishly minimalist shop selling a $30 dozen (only $10.50 at Voodoo) in the former Pinot American Brasserie space. Though there are but three crisp Order this: Chicken and stupidly obvious chords—hot, sweet, doughnut and the simple but wonderful fritter. doughy—it comes together like a Cheap I’ll pass: Blueberry Trick song. bourbon basil. There’s more novelty, but no equal satisfaction, elsewhere on the constantly shifting menu. Brioche is famously versatile, and Blue Star uses enough of it to occasionally press the coffee station into service as a proofing rack. Rich and dense, the doughnut doesn’t fuse with the toppings so much as display them. This works well with dulce de leche ($2.50) and a smoke-kissed bacon maple made with real syrup ($2.75), but not so well with sharply acidic passion fruit or overly bitter chocolate ganache. A ring coated in a cloying ooze of blueberry, bourbon and basil accomplished the unlikely feat of going uneaten in our newsroom. A powdered peanut-butterand-jelly-filled doughnut was another major disappointment, a globular mass with only a hint of peanut residue. Lemon-and-lime cream filling was uncomfortably similar to those cement-mixer shooters primarily used to induce vomiting in young and obnoxious bar patrons. Cost aside, Blue Star’s menu is still worth tasting. Especially at 11 am, when the chicken goes in the fryer. MARTIN CIZMAR. EAT: Blue Star Donuts, 1237 SW Washington St., 265-8410. 7 am-7 pm Monday-Friday, 8 am-7 pm Saturday-Sunday. $.

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VALLEY WEISSE (SOLERA BREWERY) The tiny town of Parkdale doesn’t have a stoplight, but it has a brewery. Journeyman brewer Jason Kahler took over the shuttered Elliot Glacier Public House last April, making his own brews in a former movie theater. In addition to well-crafted IPAs and oatmeal stouts, Solera works with little-seen styles like Dark English Mild. Save your growler for the highly sessionable Valley Weisse Sour Wheat. It’s a peculiar beer: a dry, tart sour with only 3 percent alcohol by volume. Crisp and mild, there’s a little green apple and a bready heft from the wheat base, but nothing that’ll tire you after a glass or three. Solera pours most of its product behind its bar, but look for the odd keg at Saraveza in North Portland. If you see it, get a glass. Then another. And, hey, maybe just one more. Recommended. MARTIN CIZMAR.

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BIG-TENT COOKING The Baowry, a charmingly domestic former hovel in St. Johns, recalls a vacationer’s eatery in a picturesque riverfront town— which, of course, St. Johns very much is. On weekdays, the spot’s small bar space is packed elbow-to-elbow with regulars and down-the-street locals. As irregulars arrive to sit at the Baowry’s tables, they are greeted with casual surprise from behind the bar. Much at the Baowry bears hints of the carnivalesque and far from home. On one visit, we were serenaded by a Carnaby Street fair of obscure Kinks tracks, on another with Exile on Main Street’s Order this: One of each bao equally catholic excursions. The ($10) is a worthy meal. place was, after all, once a streetBest deal: Each $5 happyhour banh mi is stacked side food cart; it might as well higher than a tire ﬁre. bring the bustling variety of the I’ll pass: Mussels. street inside with it. The Baowry’s tables are decorated with a collage of Californian-Japanese newspapers, from hair-removal ads to immigrant news. Beer is available in tall novelty giraffes. The Baowry’s Asian-eclectic food seems similarly determined to pack everything in. The trademark bao—steamed bun sandwiches ($4 apiece, or three for $10)—are jammed with flavors and textures: the yeasty sugar dough still dusty with flour; the hoisin-heavy pork loin, duck confit or shiitake mushroom; and then the acidic crispness of lightly pickled cucumber and daikon. It’s an all-boats-in-thewater approach to sandwich making, a pre-bop jazz confection of flavors balanced in counterpoint rather than overloaded on the palate. The menu’s far-flung flavor bombs seem to have less to do with any ’90s notion of food fusion than of simple abandon. In the bacon black bean mussels ($14), this approach leads to perplexity, with thick garlic-lime aioli spilling off a generous pile of mussels into soy-spiked black bean noodles. The feeling is that one dish has mistakenly been spilled onto another in transit from the stovetop. On the other hand, the gingery braised greens ($5, listed as mustard on the menu, though they looked to be red swiss chard) were a beautiful Southern dish gone nonnative, with umami in threefold concert among bacon, pork stock and soy sauce. With a vinegared soft-boiled egg ($2 extra), the result was an unbridled excess of flavor, a wildly salty-spicy bar snack best slurped with alcohol in hand. The sizzling rice soup ($14) works with a similarly oceansalty flavor profile (substituting pork belly for bacon, and introducing some shrimp), but adds the satisfying texture of crispy rice squares that crackle when dropped into broth. The Baowry’s food, though sometimes a bit overambitious in spicing, is propped up by a solid understanding of what to do with a cut of meat, whether a firm-textured pork belly, a shrimp prettily butterflied within its shell or duck steeped until the flavor seems to come from somewhere deep within. Besides, in a drab world, the small-town fair is always a comfort. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. EAT: The Baowry, 8307 N Ivanhoe St., 285-4839, baowrypdx. com. 5 pm-2:30 am daily. $-$$.

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surgical instruments, and monitoring cats post-operatively. Fundraising volunteers help plan fundraising events, volunteer at events, grant writing or create new opportunities for FCCO.

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for people who have excellent communication skills, can follow directions, be punctual and reliable, and are compassionate! Phone experience, and office or administrative skills are a plus. Positive attitude required! CONTACT: Caitlin Traxler,

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community event, cuddle with shelter cats, provide daily care, take photos, write about cats, host a supply drive, and greet and assist clients all while having a purr-tastic time and getting paid in head-butts and purr!

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or individuals interested in helping raise and train autism service dogs for a local nonprofit while making a difference in the quality of life for an individual with autism! We are looking to bring new board members onto our team and develop our fundraising committee. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: Dedicated

volunteers willing to devote the time and energy necessary to raise, socialize and help train a service dog. This includes being able to bring the dog to work or school and out in the community! Interest in nonprofits, dogs, children and families in need, or fundraising. CONTACT: ASDA info@ autismservicedogsofamerica.org

CAT ADOPTION TEAM WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: As a CAT

volunteer, make purr-fect matches as an adoption counselor, foster a litter of kittens, represent CAT at a 24

about cats, caring for cats, and helping others fall in love with cats, we need you. CONTACT: Nancy Puro,

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FERAL CAT COALITION OF OREGON WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: Office

volunteers schedule and confirm appointments, and screen cats for eligibility for FCCO clinics. They assist callers with questions regarding feral cats and spay/neuter. Outreach volunteers attend street fairs, farmers’ markets and other events. They share accurate information about our services with the public and answer questions. Clinic volunteers will be given additional training for assigned positions. Jobs include: reception desk, cleaning cages, sterilizing

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THE OREGON CAT PROJECT WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: Here are

some of the ways you can volunteer your time at TOCP, Oregon’s fastestgrowing feline rescue and spay/ neuter clinic. Adoption Centers: (Lake Oswego, SE Portland, Gresham, Downtown & Sherwood) socialization, feeding, cleaning, adoption counseling, transportation. Veterinary, foster care, clerical, accounting, legal, special events, fundraising. Put your skills to work for TOCP. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: We are looking

for individuals who possess these qualities: Enthusiasm, a positive attitude is vital. Common sense, knowing the difference between right and wrong, reliable, willing to devote a set amount of time regularly. Committed, demonstrating you’re passion, self-confident, able to work both autonomously and with others, good communication. CONTACT: D. Lionel or J Walsh, theoregoncat@gmail.com

PORTLAND ANIMAL WELFARE TEAM (PAW TEAM) WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: 40

volunteers—5 in marketing/PR/social media, 10 for special events, 25 for monthly clinics. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: Must like animals,

vet care, social media, event planning, marketing, office. CONTACT: Cindy Scheel,

Executive Director, cindyscheel@pawteam.org, 971-282-8443

make our workshops, readings and professionally designed books possible. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: Our volunteers are

INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING RESOURCE CENTER can help our organization as an Open Hours Staffperson, fundraiser, special knowledge volunteer, publicity helper, workshop facilitator, or database entry person, ask an Open Hours Staffer for an application or go to iprc.org. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: We are always

looking for volunteers whose skills and interests coincide with our mission to facilitate creative expression and identity, by providing public access to the resources and tools needed to create independently published media and art. CONTACT: Michael D’Alessandro, michael@iprc.org, 503-827-0249

NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: Northwest

Dance Project is a leading contemporary dance company with 150+ original works created and premiered in Portland. Volunteers help at our Studio + Performance Center and with outreach and community events, assist with office and administrative needs, distribute posters and fliers and help in many ways at shows and events. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: Our volunteers

love dance and value new works and the creative process. Dedication, dependability, organization, flexibility, communication and customer service skills are key. Sense of humor and patience are musts. Marketing/ development experience a plus, as well as computer skills including Word, Excel, database, ticketing and experience with social media.

committed to respect, writing and community. They are passionate about our mission to bring workshops to hospitals, schools, prisons, treatment centers, and other facilities. They love being part of an organization where everyone pitches in and every job, whether making copies or facilitating workshops, makes a difference. CONTACT: Liz Eslinger, eeslinger@writearound.org, 503-796-9224

COMMUNITY BICYCLE TRANSPORTATION ALLIANCE WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: Volunteers

strengthen the work of the BTA every day. You can get involved by helping at events, assisting in the office, doing research, attending meetings, stuffing envelopes, leading community rides, fixing bikes for our youth classes, and more. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: Our volunteers are

passionate about their communities. They have a desire to help others save money on transportation, support the goals of creating safe and vibrant neighborhoods, and build a stronger local economy. We’re always looking for people with experience in grant writing, phone banking, public outreach, and volunteer organizing. CONTACT: Chris Knott, chris@btaoregon.org, 503-226-0676

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Community Vision’s Homeownership Independence Program, work parties are held throughout the year to accomplish home-based repair and house painting for the individuals with disabilities living in their homes.

WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: More than

IDEAL VOLUNTEER: The ideal volunteer

CONTACT: Katie Lofgren,

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250 people volunteer at Write Around Portland each year. Volunteers facilitate our creative writing workshops, help produce each of our publications and staff community readings. Volunteers also help with all of the behind-the-scenes tasks that

for Community Vision would enjoy working with a small group of other community volunteers, in three- to four-hour increments to make a difference in the lives of people with disabilities.

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engage in a wide range of activities, from sporadic to regular, in groups or alone, that help people prosper in a community of support. They serve clients ranging in age from 1 month to 103 years old throughout the metropolitan region.

as a reading tutor for adults with developmental disabilities. Tutors support diverse students who are working to improve independence through increased literacy skills. In a celebratory environment, form new relationships and discover the rewards of creating an inclusive community of Portlanders with and without disabilities.

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IDEAL VOLUNTEER: Our ideal volunteer

WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: Volunteers

volunteers range from those with professional skills to those with time who wish to gain a new skill. People interested in helping children achieve success, families gain independence and seniors maintain active involvement in our communities all will find a satisfying role. CONTACT: Community Involvement Manager, volunteer@impactnw.org, 503-988-6000

KBOO COMMUNITY RADIO WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH:

Answering phones, database entry, administrative support, coordinating projects and events, outreach, marketing, promotion, solicitation, graphic design, website and social media, engineering, IT, live broadcasts, local news production, writing, editing, audio recording and production, volunteers are the heart & soul of KBOO. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: A good sense of

humor, creative, out-of-the-box thinker, organized, good followthrough and initiative, independent, friendly, good oral and written communication skills, flexible, dependable, able to adapt and respond quickly, good attention to detail, willing to share ideas and solutions, trustworthy‚ and interested in building community through radio. CONTACT: Lynn Fitch, Station Navigator, manager@kboo.org, 503-231-8032 x222

NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH:

Neighborhood House uses hundreds of volunteers each year in our education and social services programs serving low-income children, families and seniors. Volunteers distribute food in our food pantry and tutor struggling students after school. They help out at our Senior Center and in our Development office, supporting our fundraising and communications activities. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: Our ideal volunteer

is passionate about helping lowincome people make it through hard times and start on a path toward a better life. A kind, nonjudgmental attitude is essential. Experience with kids, customer service skills, knowing languages other than English, writing/graphic design skills and gardening are helpful, but not required. CONTACT: Jeanine, volunteer@nhweb.org, 503-246-1663 x2117

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CONTACT: Valerie Plummer, valerie@cvision.org, 503-292-4964 ext. 124

is fun, flexible, compassionate, and reliable, and believes that the contributions of all unique community members are valuable. Volunteers should be good readers and able to make a three-month commitment. We provide disability/ diversity training and guidance on best practices in special education and community integration. CONTACT: Molly Mayo, molly@onthemoveonline.org, 503-287-0346

OREGON FOOD BANK

STREET ROOTS

WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: We are

WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: Street Roots

building a community of folks who are passionate about making a difference! Come repack food for distribution across our statewide network. We run fun, lively 2- to 3-hour-long volunteer shifts Monday through Saturday at our Portland and Beaverton locations. Your help inspires hope. Sign up at www.oregonfoodbank.org. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: Do you like working

in a group? Do you want to be a part of hunger relief in Oregon? We are looking for enthusiastic and passionate folks to help sort and repack food. It’s easy to get started. Visit www.oregonfoodbank.org to sign up. Age 6 and up. CONTACT: volunteer@oregonfoodbank. org, 503-972-2993

THE REBUILDING CENTER OF OUR UNITED VILLAGES WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: Help turn

unwanted building materials from a waste into a community asset! De-nail, sort and stock reclaimed old-growth lumber and tons of other used-building materials for reuse to benefit communities and our environment. Administrative tasks, handing out literature to the public at events, writing, technology, video and much more! IDEAL VOLUNTEER:

We need people of all skill levels. We thrive on positive energy and are committed to sustaining an environment that’s filled with respect, discovery, laughter, fun and making a meaningful difference. Commitment to safety and a sincere desire to make a positive difference for community and the environment is a must. CONTACT: Volunteer ‘Igniter’ coordinator, volunteer@ourunitedvillages.org, 503-467-4985

needs a variety of volunteers for all of our programs: graphic designers to assist creating promotional material for development. Hospitality and front desk volunteers for our vendor program. Volunteers to assist with the Rose City Resource guide data entry and distribution. We are also interested in volunteers who are willing to be at the forefront of social media use to affect change in the community. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: Street Roots

volunteers come from all backgrounds. We need creative individuals who enjoy a fast-paced variable environment. Volunteers are problem solvers who have good people skills and an ability to multitask. CONTACT: Volunteer coordinator, volunteer@streetroots.org, 503-228-5657

TRANSITION PROJECTS WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: We need

groups (5 to 10 people) to donate their time and a thoughtful meal to homeless individuals. Groups purchase food and prepare and serve the meal to people working to overcome their barriers to housing. Cooking opportunities are for our 90-bed residential programs. This project could be corporate team building, a faith-based mission project or a fun night with friends. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: A compassionate

group who wants to see the immediate effect of their contribution and play a supporting role in peoples’ success. Cooking, planning and leading skills are all a plus, but not required. Youth volunteers allowed with adult supervision. CONTACT: Sam Haffey, volunteer@tprojects.org, 503-280-4770

UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF OREGON & SW WASHINGTON WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: United

Cerebral Palsy of Oregon & SW Washington has been advancing the independence, productivity and full citizenship of people with disabilities since 1955. We are pleased to announce the opportunity for volunteers to serve on our board of directors. Board service provides a unique opportunity to “give back” and use your professional expertise and personal experience to help shape the organization. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: The following

characteristics are desirable for our Board: previous experience with committee work; comfort in communicating ideas in a group setting; an interest and dedication to working with persons with cerebral palsy and other intellectual and developmental disabilities. We have particular interest in gaining members who are competent in the following areas: accounting; financial management; community organizing; development / fundraising; and public relations / marketing. CONTACT: Ann Coffey, acoffey@ucpaorwa.org, 503-777-4166

IDEAL VOLUNTEER: The ideal volunteer

will enjoy interacting with the public and will have an appreciation for historic preservation and the historic architecture of Portland. A willingness to be flexible with volunteer tasks is greatly appreciated (as is a sense of humor). CONTACT: Ita Lindquist, ital@visitahc.org, 503-231-7264

CHILDREN’S BOOK BANK WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: The

Children’s Book Bank is dedicated to providing books to kids in low-income households who may not otherwise have books at home. Whether by hosting book drives, repairing wellloved books, sorting books by levels and categories, delivering books to schools, or representing CBB at community events, your efforts will support a new generation of readers. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: Volunteers share

our belief that ALL kids should grow up surrounded by books. They are self-motivated book lovers who are detail-oriented, can commit to regular volunteer shifts, and enjoy participating behind the scenes. A library or bookstore background is a plus, but not necessary. CONTACT: Robin, robin@childrensbookbank.org, 503-616-3981

EDUCATION

“I HAVE A DREAM” OREGON ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE CENTER WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: The

Architectural Heritage Center’s mission is to preserve the historic character and livability of our built environment, and to promote sustainability through the reuse of period homes and buildings. We need volunteers to help with our outreach efforts, education programs, walking tours, collections, reception desk and special events.

WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: IHAD

helps low-income students succeed in school, college and career, and a key component of our program is connecting Dreamers with adult role models. We’re looking for committed and fun volunteers to become mentors to students in East Portland. Are you ready to make memories with a Dreamer? Get involved! IDEAL VOLUNTEER: No special skills

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cooking, gardening or outdoor education is helpful, but not required. Drop-in volunteers help with farm projects at weekly work parties and people interested in taking on leadership roles have the opportunity to make seasonal commitments to the farm. CONTACT: Alice Froehlich,

alice@zengerfarm.org, 503-282-4245

ENVIRONMENT FOREST PARK CONSERVANCY WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: Forest Park

with a Dreamer! You’ll get lots of resources and support so you won’t be alone. We require that mentors be 18+, complete the background check/training, and commit to a year of mentoring. Dreamers live in East Multnomah County, so proximity to or ability to travel weekly is necessary. CONTACT: Kelsey Pine,

kelsey.pine@ihaveadreamoregon.org, 503-287-7203

OREGON HUMANITIES WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: Oregon

Humanities seeks event coordination volunteers for Idea Lab, an innovative three-day summer program where Oregon teens and teachers use the humanities to study the pursuit of happiness. Volunteers are needed in late spring/summer to assemble reading materials, provide administrative support and oversee onsite logistics for the late July event. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: An enthusiastic

problem solver who communicates clearly, meets deadlines, has a passion for the humanities and wants to work with an amazing group of Oregon teens and teachers in an academic camp setting. CONTACT: oregonhumanities.org, o.hm@oregonhumanities.org, 503-241-0543

PORTLAND AFTER SCHOOL TENNIS & EDUCATION (PAST&E) WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: PAST&E

delivers one-on-one academic tutoring, tennis lessons, a nutrition/ fitness curriculum, and enrichment activities to at-risk K-12 children and their families. Volunteers serve as coach/tutors, providing support on the tennis court (assisting in drills and fitness activities) and in our classrooms (helping children develop academic skills).

SE WORKS WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: SE Works

is supported by a dedicated team of volunteers. ESL Volunteers conduct tutoring sessions for adults learning English, GED tutors help at-risk youth study for the GED, mentors provide ongoing guidance to youth, and Civic Justice Corps Volunteers tutor students who have been involved with the juvenile justice system. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: Successful

volunteers have the ability to explain difficult concepts with patience and empathy, respect for diversity, have cross-cultural competence, and have the ability to work well with others. All volunteers are provided with training and materials as well as ongoing support from SE Works‚ staff. CONTACT: Julia Martin, jmartin@seworks.org, 503-772-2341

SMART (START MAKING A READER TODAY) WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: Volunteer

with SMART and help children discover the joy of reading! We are an early-literacy nonprofit that engages community volunteers to help preK-third grade children become confident readers by providing oneon-one literacy support, valuable adult mentorship, and books to take home and keep. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: Ideal volunteers

will have an enthusiastic love of books and enjoy working with young children. They will need to be available to read for one hour per week during public school hours through mid-May. CONTACT: Staci Sutton, ssutton@getsmartoregon.org, 971-634-1616

ZENGER FARM WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: Volunteers

for volunteers who can provide encouragement and positive reinforcement for at-risk children on the tennis court and in our classrooms. No tennis experience required. CONTACT: Trenton Corvino, program

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IDEAL VOLUNTEER: Ideal volunteers are

passionate about the environment and interested in getting to know Forest Park more intimately. A willingness to get dirty working and hiking in the great outdoors is a must. Forest Park Conservancy provides all necessary tools and training, and welcomes family, group and business participation. CONTACT: Mikala Soroka, mikala@forestparkconservancy.org, 503-223-5449 ext. 106

FRIENDS OF THE COLUMBIA GORGE WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: Be a steward

of Gorge trails and landscapes. Volunteer to build and maintain trails, remove obnoxious weeds, trim vegetation, and plant natives. Explore new places by working on our land trust properties not open to the public. As the only nonprofit dedicated to preserving the Columbia Gorge, we need your help in keeping the Gorge an unspoiled treasure for everyone to enjoy. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: Likes working with

your hands and getting a bit dirty! Wants to revel in the surrounding beauty and be rewarded with taking care of this one-of-a-kind landscape right here in our own backyard. CONTACT: Maegan Jossy,

maegan@gorgefriends.org, 971-634-2028

FRIENDS OF TREES

volunteer activity partners, music instructors or music therapy, art, yoga, events, sports, visiting friend, reading or cooking. You can also volunteer in our restaurant, retail thrift shop, jewelry, antiques and collectibles stores.

CONTACT: Andy Meeks, andym@FriendsofTrees.org, 503-595-0213

IDEAL VOLUNTEER: Highly motivated,

TUALATIN RIVERKEEPERS WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: Tualatin

Riverkeepers’ Trips & Tours program is the “heart and soul” of our organization. Our Volunteer Trip Leaders are trained to guide our canoe and kayak paddle trips through our Trip Leader Training classroom session and pool training session (paddle safety & rescue). Volunteer roles include trip leader, trip assistant, gear coordinator, registration coordinator and hauler. Volunteers should be willing to volunteer for at least two paddle trips per season (May-October). If you enjoy being on the water, are looking to help promote our mission to restore and protect the Tualatin River, and would like to meet other paddlers in the area, please consider volunteering with Tualatin Riverkeepers. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: The ideal Volunteer

Trip Leader would be someone who is outgoing, enjoys working with the public, has paddle experience and skills, has an interest in river issues, is enthusiastic and owns their own canoe or kayak. Volunteers with some or all of these traits are encouraged to apply. CONTACT: Margot Fervia-Neamtzu, margot@tualatinriverkeepers.org, 503-218-2580

WILLAMETTE RIVERKEEPER WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: We need

help protecting and restoring the Willamette River! A handful of volunteers are needed for targeted water-quality monitoring. Get your hands dirty at our seasonal restoration work parties and cleanup events along the Willamette River. Join our e-news community or Facebook page to learn about upcoming events. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: An ideal volunteer

is friendly, interested in connecting with their river and community, and enjoys being outdoors rain or shine. CONTACT: Marci Krass, marci@willametteriverkeeper.org, 503-223-6418

WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: We welcome

help Zenger Farm offer field trip programming to over 6,000 youth a year, teach healthy cooking classes to families, raise crops and livestock, and help spread the good word about Zenger Farm in the community through events.

IDEAL VOLUNTEER: We’re looking

Conservancy volunteers preserve and enhance Forest Park’s trail network and native habitat. Stewardship projects include trail maintenance and repair, removal of invasive plant species, construction of split rail fence, repair and construction of bridges, and planting of native trees and shrubs.

Northwest’s finest winter weather, meeting new friends and neighbors and laughing a lot, as well as learning about trees, how to plant them and why they’re awesome. All ages welcome. Family and group friendly. We can’t wait to work with you!

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volunteers in dozens of ways, but our biggest need is planting trees! We plant every Saturday from 9 am to 1 pm October-April around the metro region. Simply show up dressed for the weather. We provide gloves, tools and guidance, as well as snacks and coffee. Rain or shine. No need to preregister.

HEALTH & WELLNESS

EVENTS: www.FriendsofTrees.

Kerr strengthens Oregon families and communities by helping children and adults with developmental disabilities and mental health challenges. We are looking for

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likes being outdoors in the Pacific

ALBERTINA KERR WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: Albertina

enthusiastic, ability to work well with others, patient, personal commitment to helping others and improving lives, willingness to share, teach and learn, extremely dependable, able to commit to 6-9 months, ability to understand and accept differences as well as work well with others. CONTACT: Meghan Anderson, Community Relations Manager, meghana@albertinakerr.org, 503-262-0187

THE LOTUS SEED WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: Volunteers

can help the Lotus Seed by using their time and energy in the following areas: teaching yoga, movement or art, office administration, graphic design / marketing, improving the building and grounds, and fundraising. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: The Lotus Seed is

a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing yoga, movement and art to the community through outreach programs and continuing education. Volunteers who have a focus on community development through health and wellness are perfect candidates for working the Lotus Seed. CONTACT: Wren deVous, wren@lotusseed.org, 503-278-3799

MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: Our greatest

need is for Meals on Wheels drivers. Meals are delivered daily between 10:30 a.m. and noon. We have 35 locations where meals can be picked up throughout Multnomah, Washington and Clark counties. Meals on weekends are served in Multnomah County only with a pick-up on SE Belmont. We also use volunteers on committees, to do administrative work and help with special events. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: Volunteers must

be at least 18 years old. For those who wish to deliver meals, you must have your own car and insurance and undergo a background check. You should enjoy talking with elderly people and be willing to visit for a few minutes with those on the meal route. Volunteers with office skills are always needed at our adminstrative office and at our meal sites. CONTACT: Diana Creitz, diana.creitz@mealsonwheelspeople.org, 503-953-8101

REFIT: REMODELING FOR INDEPENDENCE TOGETHER WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: At ReFIT,

you are our lifeblood. We are a volunteer organization dedicated to helping people struggling with illness, injury, disability or the aging process

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IDEAL VOLUNTEER: The ideal volunteer

would be someone with construction experience and a project management background to head up a specific project. In addition, we are always on the lookout for individuals for fundraising event planning, marketing and community outreach. If you have a passion to help the most vulnerable and isolated members of our community we can use your talents. CONTACT: Laurey Maslyk, lmaslyk@refitportland.org, 503-943-9544

RETURNING VETERANS PROJECT WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: Returning

Veterans Project asks licensed and insured mental health practitioners, massage therapists, acupuncturists, chiropractors and naturopaths to open a pro bono slot in their practice to provide free, confidential services for Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans and their families across Oregon and SW Washington.

All skill levels are welcome, just a willingness to learn and must be 16 years old. Our construction days are Wednesday-Saturday 8:30-3:30. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: Weatherproof

volunteers needed for busy winter! Habitat staff has known for years that our volunteers are so sweet they could be made of sugar! Perhaps they are made of a special weather-resistant, anti-dissolving sugar that only the Portland metro area can produce. Habitat has many construction and non-construction volunteer opportunities available right now to help keep our momentum going on each of our homes. CONTACT: Marianne McClure, marianne@habitatportlandmetro. org, 503-287-9529 ext. 14

POTLUCK IN THE PARK WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: Potluck is

a volunteer-driven organization. All of our jobs from fundraising to picking up food and supplies is thru volunteers. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: Every job is

different, so we wouldn’t turn away anyone who is interested away. Some jobs require a selfstarter. Some request a long term commitment if possible. CONTACT: Cheri Baber,

cheribaber@potluckinthepark.org, 503-255-7611

IDEAL VOLUNTEER: We welcome

Providers who want to work with us to help support and heal our veterans and their families. You must be insured, licensed and have a professional office space. Supervised Interns working toward licensure may be eligible. For more information and to apply, please go to http://www.returningveterans.org/ for-providers. CONTACT: Pam Beaty, mail@returningveterans.org, 503-954-2259

RIDE TO REMEMBER WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: Helping at

rest stops, day-of setup, on-course monitors and spotters, cleanup, Warrior Dash checkpoint monitors, drivers to pick up and deliver items as needed. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: We need volunteers

who are energetic, want to help encourage and motivate the participants, can be flexible and willing to help out where needed, and are dependable. CONTACT: Sandee Cano, sandeecano@gmail.com, 503-916-9480

SOCIAL ACTION

SISTERS OF THE ROAD WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: Sisters Of

The Road offers a space to build community, empower ourselves, learn from one another, dine with dignity and organize for justice and human rights for all. Sisters’ Volunteer Program exists to ensure that volunteer resources are available throughout our organization to support Cafe operations, events and systemic change campaigns. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: Volunteers work

in all areas of the organization including fundraising, community outreach, event planning, office/ reception, food service, and political activism. We ask that all volunteers demonstrate a commitment to Sisters’ philosophies of nonviolence and gentle personalism, grassroots community organizing and a systemic change model. CONTACT: Lindsay Day, lindsay@sistersoftheroad.org, 503-222-5694 x43

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HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND/METRO EAST WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: Habitat

for Humanity builds year-round throughout Portland and Northern Clackamas County. Volunteers help with all aspects of construction.

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to live independent lives‚ at home. By providing essential remodeling services such as access ramps and bathroom modifications, we help those who want to stay in their homes but lack the financial resources to make necessary modifications to stay there safely.

change a life by simply becoming a friend to a child. Many of the youth we serve come from single-parent families, are of low income and some are foster children. They face a variety of challenges and often just need another adult to talk to. By being a Big Brother or Sister you become that

friend by just sharing a little time with them. That might include going to the library, taking a hike, playing ball or simply just talking. Our studies show that through this friendship, our children are better in school and less likely to be involved with drugs, alcohol or criminal activity. Please sign up today and be a friend to a child. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: To become a Big

Brother or Sister, all you need to be is a caring adult who wants to be a great friend to a child. CONTACT: Ericka Carbajal,

ericka.carbajal@bbbsnorthwest.org, 503-249-4859

BOYS & GIRLS AID WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: Volunteers

proficient in a particular skill or activity they can teach to youth in our programs are encouraged to apply. Project volunteer activities could include things like arts and crafts, cooking, music, dance, job search / interview skills, sports or exercise, or storytelling. In addition, we welcome event volunteers for fundraising events throughout the year. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: Volunteers must be

positive role models with the ability to work with teens and young adults with challenging behaviors and traumatic histories. Volunteers must be flexible and adaptable. Project volunteers must be proficient in the skill or activity they plan to teach. CONTACT: Christy Noyd,

info@boysandgirlsaid.org, 503-542-2301

CASA FOR CHILDREN WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: Our trained and empowered advocates are a voice for each child. Our tireless volunteers advocate for the health, safety, stability and well-being of children who have been abused or neglected and are under protection of the court. They contact those involved in the case and report

their findings to the court to ensure necessary safety, care and permanence for the children. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: Volunteers work

to ensure that each child’s need for a safe permanent home is met. Our advocates need to be conscientious, thorough and reliable and have the ability to maintain perspective and objectivity. They need time to devote to training sessions and follow up for their child. We have volunteers from all walks of life. No special professional background is needed, but volunteers do need to be 21 or older. CONTACT: Debi Sakamoto, recruitment@casahelpskids.org, 503988-4224

GIRLS INC. OF NORTHWEST OREGON WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: Our

volunteer program aims to provide a meaningful experience as we work toward achieving our mission to inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold. Whether you train to become a Girls Guide to deliver our after-school programs or you explore opportunities around one-day activities or events, we’ll work with you to find a good fit. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: Our ideal volunteers

are professional women and college students interested in positively impacting girls in the greaterPortland area. Professionals in science, technology, engineering, and math, media artists, counselors, educators, and college students are among our current volunteers. Your interest in serving area girls and inspiring them to be strong, smart and bold is the key! Learn more and apply on our website: http:// girlsincnworegon.org/volunteer/. CONTACT: Darby Burn Strong, darby@girlsincnworegon.org, 503-230-0054 x4

MACDONALD CENTER WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: Volunteers

help us foster the sacredness and dignity of all individuals and build community by breaking down social isolation. Our Community Room provides a safe space for our community to gather, seek support and feel connected. We are in need of volunteers to help welcome people to this space, play games, teach classes or just be present. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: Our ideal volunteer

is someone who is open-minded and engaging, interested in meeting people from diverse backgrounds, and compassionate toward individuals struggling with addiction issues, disabilities, mental illness and poverty. We ask our volunteers for a weekly commitment. All ages and backgrounds welcome. CONTACT: Sarah Knuth, sk@macdcenter.org , 971 202-7451

ROCK ’N’ ROLL CAMP FOR GIRLS WHAT WE NEED HELP WITH: Help build

girls’ self-esteem through music creation and performance! Be a mentor, empower Campers, and support their creative endeavors. We are looking for responsible volunteers 18+ to help with our 2013 Summer Camps! Year-round volunteer opportunities also exist. IDEAL VOLUNTEER: Despite our name, no musical experience necessary for many volunteer positions. Our ideal volunteer is energetic, prompt, passionate about the Rock Camp mission, and puts our campers’ physical and emotional safety above all else. We are looking for femaleidentified mentors to be instrument instructors, band coaches, workshop leaders and counselors. Several indirect mentorship opportunities are available to all responsible adults as well! CONTACT: Molly Gray, molly.gray@ girlsrockcamp.org, 503-445-4991

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EXHIBITION

January 16 5-8 p.m. Graduate School

WORKSHOP

Fighting Men Works by Leon Golub, a painter; Pete Voulkos, a ceramist; and Jack Kirby, a cartoonist, probe images of violence and masculinity.

Honoring Big Stories by Writing Brief Chapters Explore how “the trick of beginning” can release possible epiphanies from the silence of impossible stories with Kim Stafford. Advance registration is required at go.lclark.edu/big/ stories/workshop.

January 21 7 p.m. Templeton Campus Center, Council Chamber

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Bending Towards Justice Screening of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, followed by a short silent march to the chapel for readings and performance by jazz musician Devin Phillips. For details and a full list of activities during the week, visit go.lclark. edu/MLK/week.

January 26 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. Pamplin Sports Center

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WEDNESDAY, JAN. 16 PDneXt: DJ Rashad, Massacooramaan, Natasha Kmeto, Graintable, Plumblyne, Danny Corn

[EDM] PDneXt, the monthly gathering of Portland’s electronic-music vanguard started by Danny Corn, Natasha Kmeto, Plumblyne and Graintable, turns 1 year old, and to celebrate, the curators are going big. Along with sets from the founding producers, they’re bringing in one of the most au courant names in EDM, Chicago’s DJ Rashad. For the past few years, the beatmaker has been one of the lead proselytizers of footwork, a style that evolved out of house music, characterized by stuttering drums and frantic rhythms. In 2012, his efforts paid off, as his TEKLIFE Vol. 1: Welcome to the Chi landed on just about everyone’s best-albums list, and helped establish the music— also referred to as “juke”—as one of the most thrilling subgenres in the underground dance world. MATTHEW SINGER. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

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[WEEPING GUITAR] Chris Forsyth’s last album, Kenzo Deluxe, managed to elude the attention of tastemakers and their 2012 year-end lists. More’s the pity, as what those folks missed was one of the more stunning sologuitar statements of this still-young decade. The Philadelphia-based musician unwraps each composition calmly, letting melody and understated solos alluringly splay out over the stereo

field. This mannerly approach is a far cry from the freeform splattering he partook in as a member of improvisational group Peeesseye, but it is a chance to hear this guitar master’s innate understanding of blues, folk and jazz in full flower. ROBERT HAM. Valentine’s, 232 SW Ankeny St., 2481600. 9 pm. Call venue for ticket information. 21+.

THURSDAY, JAN. 17 Karrin Allyson

[VOCAL JAZZ] Karrin Allyson has long been one of the more unsung jazz vocalists of this era. Mainstream notoriety is harder to come by when you don’t hit the low register quite the same way as Diana Krall or do the love-ballad thing in the same vein as Jane Monheit. Instead, Allyson’s forte has tended more toward the quirky song choice or the subtle vocal change midsong, letting her smoky vocals paint a picture of a lovelorn woman, or sounding like a more subdued chanteuse when covering a John Coltrane ballad. Allyson grabs your attention in a more indirect way, but once she’s got you in her grasp there’s no breaking free. BRIAN PALMER. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 8 pm. $16 advance, $18 day of show. 21+.

Anna Fritz (9 pm), Shoeshine Blue (6 pm)

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TOP FIVE PAPI FIMBRES PROJECTS Sun Angle

Initially sounding like “a sped-up Can,” Fimbres describes the material on the band’s upcoming debut—recorded in a cabin in Zigzag, Ore., under certain, um, mycological influences—as “more bombastic but really intricate, like a psychedelic woven tapestry.” O Bruxo

At one point, Fimbres’ globe-trotting dance band was Portland’s sweatiest live act. Although on indefinite hiatus, the group is releasing a long-delayed album on cassette this year. Paper/Upper/Cuts

Featuring Fimbres alone with his drum set, accompanied by dubby textures, the occasional flute solo and whatever else happens to pop into his head, P/U/C is his most loose-limbed, freeform project. North West Coast Music, an album-length dedication to his wife coming out this month, is the solo venture’s most cohesive statement yet, Fimbres says. Ioa

One of Fimbres’ personal favorites is this tripped-out soul-pop group featuring members of Vellela Vellela and Point Juncture, WA, a baritone ukelele and Fimbres on timbales. It rarely performs live. “Everyone in that band is in every other band,” he says. Orquestra Pacifico Tropical

Introducing the Pacific Northwest to the national rhythm of Colombia (and a bit of its fuzz-toned Peruvian variation, chicha), Fimbres and his orchestra—he’s got horns, accordion and traditional percussion— play cumbias from the 1950s and ’60s, with little modern affectation. “I love knowing we’re playing this music that was created in a different part of the world at a different time,” he says, “and that a fresh breath of air is being blown into it.”

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When David “Papi” Fimbres’ mother was pregnant with him, she knew her child was special. A shaman told her so. She already had two children, but this one, she was told, would be born with profound spiritual abilities. “I thought that was fucking awesome,” says Fimbres over an afternoon beer at Lucky Lab in Northwest Portland, a wide smile stretching over his pudgy cheeks. “My mom always felt that. I’m three out of four, and all my siblings are crazy. They’ve all been to prison, they’ve been involved in murders, they’ve all done crazy shit. And I’m the one that’s been completely away. It’s not that I can’t relate to them, but I’m so different from them. I’ve become my own entity.” Mystical powers would certainly help explain how the 32-year-old songwriter and multi-instrumentalist finds time to play in seemingly every band in Portland. At last count, he had 16 ongoing projects, ranging from his one-man drums-andelectronics outfit Paper/Upper/Cuts to Orquestra Pacifico Tropical, a nine-piece cumbia orchestra. Such is the creative drive of an artist for whom music has been both a shelter from his surroundings and, later, a link to where he came from. Born in Los Angeles, Fimbres grew up near MacArthur Park, in a low-income, crime-riddled neighborhood. “I would hear gunshots, I would hear helicopters, and I thought that was normal,” he says. But music was just as much a part of the landscape, blaring out of windows and from street corners. In his own home, too, Fimbres was inundated with different sounds, whether it was his father playing Santana and Pink Floyd records or his mom listening to Mexican rancheras on the radio. Even his brother, “a hardcore gangbanger,” introduced him to Morrissey and the Pet Shop Boys. By the time Fimbres was 3 years old, his mother had enrolled him in free music and art courses at community rec centers, deliberately to protect him

from the pull of the streets. “Growing up so poor, [music] helped me get away from that,” he says, “and focus on being happy in the moment.” Typical of a kid who came of age in the early ’90s, Fimbres’ first bands were grunge-y Nirvana rip-offs. In 1999, Fimbres took a job in Portland, moving into a $250-a-month apartment and bringing along little more than a boombox and a backpack full of CDs. Within a year, he bought a drum kit, struck up friendships with the likes of Talkdemonic and Skylar Norwood, and started dabbling in Radiohead-inspired art-rock groups. But Fimbres admits that relocating to the Northwest left him reeling from culture shock. As he became ubiquitous in Portland’s music scene, Fimbres began reconnecting with the heritage he left behind, incorporating Latin rhythms into the dance-party potpourri of O Bruxo and flourishes of South American folk into Paper/Upper/Cuts, not to mention playing straight-up Colombian cumbia in Orquestra Pacifico Tropical. “It was the only thing that kept me alive,” he says. It’d seem that, based on sheer probability, one of Fimbres’ groups would’ve caught on nationally by now. But while several have been local favorites, none has ever toured beyond the West Coast or reached an audience outside Portland. That might change this year. In May, Sun Angle, the heat-scorched psych band he started in 2011 with fellow restless genius Charlie Salas Humara, releases its debut album, Diamond Junk. Produced by Menomena’s Danny Seim, the record has the approval of one of Portland’s most influential bands and a possible international distribution deal. It could end up being the most widely successful project Fimbres has ever been involved with. And even if it isn’t, Fimbres will keep playing. Because playing music is what he does. “What I love about music the most is being on the spot,” he says. “The immediacy, the intricacy, the love, the fear of it. It’s all there. I guess I still continue playing…because I want to see how far I can go with it. Because it’s an endless possibility.” SEE IT: Sun Angle plays Rontoms, 600 E Burnside St., with Summer Cannibals, on Sunday, Jan. 20. 9 pm. Free. 21+.

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PARQUET COURTS FRIDAY, JAN. 18 [GARAGE POP] Speaking with Andrew Savage is similar to listening to Parquet Courts, the New York-based band he fronts. Just as he does throughout the group’s debut album, Light Up Gold, the singer-guitarist wastes few words. He speaks and sings with a clipped directness, cutting right to the point of any subject, whether discussing his baked wanderings through Queens looking for food (as he does in the song “Stoned and Starving”) or the Courts’ first tour of the United States. “Oh, for sure, it’s been going great,” Savage says via phone from the band’s van en route to Mississippi from Texas. “Lots of people have been coming out, shaking their shit and going nuts.” Indeed, Light Up Gold is 33 minutes of pure, shit-shakin’ garage-pop glory. The band—which also features Savage’s brother Max on drums, guitarist and co-songwriter Austin Brown and bassist Sean Yeaton—doesn’t bog itself down with self-indulgence, dispensing is almost every song quickly, with an absolute minimum of chord changes. “We recorded it in three days, live with a few overdubs,” Savage says of the album. “There were definitely a lot of songs that were written in the last few days leading up to the recording, and some during the recording that I think allows for a certain immediacy to the whole thing.” To spare the trouble of trying to pinpoint all of Parquet Courts’ influences, the group put together an online mixtape in June 2011 laying bare the many reference points that the quartet pulls from—everything from the lo-fi wanderings of Pavement to Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s blunted world view. The mix was an unnecessary move, as Savage already worked out many of the same sonic ideas in his other band, Fergus & Geronimo. That duo’s few albums share a terse, fuzzy vibe with Parquet Courts, though augmented with more psychedelic intrusions. That foundation already laid, the Courts didn’t have to do much work to kick up some dust on music blogs soon after its first album was released on a micro-indie label last summer (it was recently reissued on What’s Your Rupture?). Savage, though, is quick to point out that the attention from music tastemakers didn’t come immediately. “The band is 2 years old at this point,” Savage says. “We were lying low and doing our thing for a while before people all around the U.S. started listening and wondering about us. I am surprised at the reaction and the enthusiasm, but it wasn’t like an overnight thing.” Parquet Courts isn’t planning to coast on this current wave of chatter, either. The quartet hopes to have another album completed this year, and will probably crisscross America a few more times before it takes the foot off the gas pedal. ROBERT HAM.

The buzzing New York garage band doesn’t mince words, or chords.

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Thursday-saTurday Fritz shows she’s got strong singing and songwriting skills to match her cello chops. The powerfully anthemic “On Wisconsin,” inspired by the state’s recent Republican labor-baiting, is one of several moments that shares the political sensibility of her 2005 disc, Wake. But most of the new songs embrace the personal and sexual as well as social consciousness, including a couple that feature transgender characters. The accompanying arrangements for percussion, guitar, piano, horn and cellos feel essential rather than merely exotic, and Fritz’s supple voice can haunt, hellraise or break hearts as appropriate. BRETT CAMPBELL. Secret Society Lounge, 116 NE Russell St., 4933600. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

FRIDAY, JAN. 18 Anthony B, Jagga Culture and the People’s Choice Band, Serious De Witness

[RASTAMAN INDIGNATION] If it seems the righteous anger and political consciousness that once defined the sound and soul of reggae have all but disappeared now, it was even worse in the late 1980s, when a teenage Anthony B started making music out of the Kingston suburb of Portmore. Back then, just a few years removed from the deaths of Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, the new crop of artists coming out of Jamaica were more interested in delivering misogynist sex rants than chanting down Babylon. But as a devout Rastafarian and fervent admirer of both Marley and Tosh, Anthony couldn’t allow himself to betray reggae’s revolutionary heart. Over the course of more than 20 albums—including last year’s aptly named Freedom Fighter—the former Keith Blair has kept the fire burning, reminding people with his fierce live shows that reggae isn’t all granola and tie-dye. MATTHEW SINGER. Bob White Theater, 6423 SE Foster Road, 503-894-8672. 9 pm. $25 advance, $30 day of show. 21+.

The Spits, Di Di Mau, Youthbitch, DJ Slim Chances

[GUTTER PUNKS] The Spits’ entire 2011 12-track LP, V, fits comfortably on a single YouTube video. For those unfamiliar with the band, this should give you a pretty good indication of what to expect. Since forming sometime in the ’90s, partly in Seattle and partly in Michigan, the three-piece has amassed a devout following with its dirty, drunken yet surprisingly tuneful garage punk. Half tongue-in-cheek, half fist-in-face songs with names like “I H8 Pussies” and “Piss on Your Skull” rarely clock in over the twominute mark. And the Spits have a predilection for low-budget costumes and onstage pyrotechnics. So maybe also expect a few bruises, a hangover, tinnitus and a good laugh. RUTH BROWN. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

Gray Matters, Luck-One, the Flu

[HIP-HOP] Last year was another big year for local MC Luck-One. He released two new projects, both of which saw him teaming with a local producer to create fiercely meditative music. Luck was also as contentious as ever: He threatened retirement, made harsh comments about touchy situations like the Clackamas Town Center shooting and got into a well-publicized spat with Portland hip-hop scene flag-holder DJ Chill. Part of the rapper’s appeal, though, is his willingness to speak his mind in a poignant manner, so his actions hardly came as a surprise to his true fans. They welcomed the candor. REED JACKSON. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm. $7 advance, $10 day of show. All ages.

Denver, Widower, What Hearts

[COUNTRY] If you enjoy dusty country music with howling harmonica solos and twangy allusions to dancing with the moon, then this evening will be a good night to see Portland’s Denver perform some wandering cowboy songs. The rest of the lineup will be worth a watch, too. Seattle’s Widower, highlighted by the melancholy country-folk musings of frontman Kevin Large, celebrates the release of its longawaited new album, Fool Moon, this week. With the addition of fellow Seattle singer-songwriter Kaylee Cole, the group turns out some gorgeous vocal pairings. Opening the night will be the cast of lovely local women known as What Hearts. Fronted by Julie Vitells, the quintet plays instrumentally understated songs full of quirky, descriptive lyrics and subtle multi-part harmonies. EMILEE BOOHER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $8. 21+.

Sum 41

[CANADIAN IDIOTS] Back when the world was young and media actually new and the appetites of suburban tweeners enshrined as cultural ideal, you wouldn’t have figured Sum 41 to aim for lifetime achievement honors. Honestly, given the average shelf life of pop-punk provocateurs filtered through Deryck Whibley’s visibly calcifying smirk, you’d have cautioned them to avoid the lease. Slouching through 2001 as designated carnal wafer for consumers more than Radio Disney but not yet a Staind woman, the Ontario combo still managed only one lone hit. For all the throwaway thrills and whippet venom of “Fat Lip”—a cartoon anthem to shake the terraces borne upon flourishes and daft momentum—adrenalized nods to harder genres does not a mission statement make. You couldn’t call the track mature, but, relative to subsequent albums’ empty gravitas and limply operative gestures, it probably represents the group’s fullest growth. JAY HORTON. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 9 pm. $20. All ages.

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SATURDAY, JAN. 19 Two Gallants, Future Twin

[FOLK INFERNO] Touting a musical partnership that’s spanned a decade, Adam Stephens and Tyson Vogel have Two Gallants in full stride with The Bloom and the Blight. The San Francisco duo’s first full-length in five years bursts with a blown-out Delta folk sound, searing and dirty blues inspired. Somewhere atop the fiery Americana pulpit that’s home to the likes of Shakey Graves and the Cave Singers, Two Gallants is nothing if not strident. The fits of driving rock Stephens and Vogel tend toward only strengthen their sermon. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $15. 21+.

Jackson Browne

[ICONIC SINGER-SONGWRITER] I don’t think I’m alone in saying Jackson Browne’s rendition of “Stay,” a tune originally written by Maurice Williams in 1953, exemplifies that universal nostalgia for youthful nights conjured by Browne’s classic 1977 record, Running on Empty. Particularly the part of the song when multi-instrumentalist David Lindley sings with his unmistakably high-pitched vibrato, “Oh won’t you stay just a little bit longer?” Continuing their collaboration 20 years later, Browne and Lindley joined forces for a 2006 tour across Spain, which was compiled on Browne’s 16th official album and latest release, Love Is Strange: En Vivo Con Tino. Released in 2010, the live recordings clearly demonstrate Browne’s ongoing maturation as a songwriter and performer, as his voice and vision haven’t missed a beat. EMILEE BOOHER. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 800-745-3000. 8 pm. $42.50-$96. All ages.

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REUNION: QUICKSAND Years active: 1990-95, 1997-99, 2012-present Sounds like: Hardcore at the dawn of the alternative era, when the production got bigger, the riffs beefier and the melodies hookier. Original members: All four: Walter Schreifels (vocals, guitar); Tom Capone (guitar); Alan Cage (drums); Sergio Vega (bass). Who’s stoked: Lapsed straightedge bros; dudes who used to set their VCRs to record 120 Minutes every week; early Warped Tour attendees; fans of new metal before it became nu metal. Why the rest of you care: Because it’s as good a time as any to reskim the sludgier end of the ’90s alt-rock gene pool. Not that Quicksand is a particularly sterling example: In its rather inauspicious career, the New York band put out two major-label albums of tunefully angsty, monochromatic grind-and-groove—think a sanitized Jesus Lizard—before falling apart, rendering it an also-ran to the similarly styled, more mainstream-successful Helmet. Having formed out of the East Coast hardcore scene (Schreifels played in cult legends Gorilla Biscuits and Youth of Today), the demographic that really carries the torch for the group is aging punks who, tiring of getting dog-piled and eating boot-first stage dives at every show, were shepherded out of the scene by a band that, while still loud and aggressive, was a lot easier to enjoy from the back of the club. Will it last? Hard to say. An aborted reunion in the late ’90s collapsed because of unresolved tensions within the band, leaving a third album half recorded—which means these guys obviously have trouble getting along, but the nagging pull of unfinished business might just keep them going. SEE IT: Quicksand plays Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., with Title Fight, on Saturday, Jan. 19. 8 pm. $25 advance, $28 day of show. 21+. Willamette Week JANUARY 16, 2013 wweek.com

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[LATE ’90S HIP-HOP] Camp Lo’s Uptown Saturday Night is a minimal, ultra-stylish ’90s hip-hop masterpiece every bit as unique as more celebrated albums like A Tribe Called Quest’s Midnight Marauders and Digable Planets’ Blowout Comb, but it’s rarely mentioned in the same breath. That’s probably because, where the aforementioned records seemed to signify a feel-good black renaissance, Camp Lo’s debut painted a grittier and less approachable picture of inner-city life—one whose playfully funky, Ski-produced beats were countered by flurries of near-unintelligible, vaguely European slang. The duo’s 2002 follow-up, Let’s Do It Again, veered from the debut’s marquee formula, and Camp Lo never fully recaptured the magic. A full 15 years after Uptown Saturday Night first hit, though, Sonny Cheeba and Geechi Suede are hitting Portland—on a Saturday night, no less—to perform their greatest heist in its entirety. Hide your jewels. CASEY JARMAN. Refuge, 116 SE Yamhill St. 9 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

Records and the touring schedule the label put her on. Happily, the Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter soldiered on and took her time recording her latest album, I Want What You Want. The extra care afforded these songs paid off, as the LP—released on O’Connor’s own Kiam Records—finds new pathways through the dusty quadrants of the music world known as roots rock and indie folk. ROBERT HAM. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

MONDAY, JAN. 21 Gojira, Devin Townsend Project, the Atlas Moth

[PROGRESSIVE METAL] Gojira (née Godzilla) was founded in Bayonne,

France, in 1996. Since then, the band has become a popular favorite in the progressive-metal underground, nipping at the heels of Meshuggah and Opeth. Its fifth album, 2012’s L’Enfant Sauvage, features lurching rhythms tempered with melancholy melodies that add emotion and depth to environmental and spiritual lyrics. The band toes the line between Morbid Angel’s technical supremacy and Lamb of God’s questionable industrial machismo. Supporting tonight are two acts more bulletproof than Godzilla himself—Devin Townsend of Strapping Young Lad and Chicago’s future stars of indie metal, the Atlas Moth. Be early or answer to their patron saint, Mothra. NATHAN CARSON. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm. $20. All ages.

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SUNDAY, JAN. 20 Ezza Rose

[SUBTLE FOLK] While stringed instruments and contemporary folk singers get a bad rap for their ubiquitous unification, there are some circumstances in which the pairing just makes sense. I feel this way about artists like Horse Feathers and, more recently, Ezza Rose. With a delicate, finely tuned tone, Rose’s classically beautiful voice complements the sound of bowed cello notes and plucked violin strings. Occasionally she’ll throw in an oldtimey coo or a playful falsetto that calls on her California smalltown upbringing of traditional folk and bluegrass influences. But the Portland-based singer-songwriter also brings her own intriguing qualities of obscure lyrics and simple arrangements that build upon themselves to keep her growing music interesting. EMILEE BOOHER. Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel, 303 SW 12th Ave., 972-2670. 7 pm. Free. Ezza Rose plays Al’s Den nightly through Saturday, Jan. 26. 21+.

Slightly Stoopid, Karl Denson, Marlon Asher

[THE SUBLIME AND THE RIDICULOUS] To be sure, the rise of Slightly Stoopid required no small measure of dumb luck. Even in 1995, high-school stoners throwing together enough tunes to fill an opening gig out of town wouldn’t expect to sign record contracts just afterward. For reasons yet unknown, Sublime’s Bradley Nowell insistently championed the group from the beginning, delivered a ready-made fan base and released the band’s albums through his own label. After the band’s seventh full-length, Top of the World, debuted within the Billboard Top 20, appalled critics pointed to the cavalcade of appearances by ‘90s frat-house faves (G. Love, the singer for Fishbone, and MC for Jurassic 5) and further diffusion of focus (reggae, thrash, blues, psychedelia, hip-hop, roots— every idiom to smoke weed by) as especially artless bro-stalgia pandering. But, though the members clearly dislike music and perhaps always did, they do seem to still enjoy parties. JAY HORTON. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 2250047. 7:30 pm. $25 advance, $30 day of show. All ages.

Jennifer O’Connor, Chris Brokaw

[NEW YORK INDIE FOLK] There was a point in the past five years when Jennifer O’Connor considered giving up on music entirely, thanks to the emotional and physical exhaustion of releasing two albums on Matador

TrombonE bIggIE: Cadence Fest performer Julian Priester (background, with obo Addy) at Jimmy mak’s in 2006.

CADENCE FEST SUNDAY-TUESDAY, JAN. 20-22 In 2011, Cadence—one of the premier magazines in the country covering jazz and other improvised music—found itself at a deadly confluence of two rapidly drying streams: print journalism and jazz. When Oregonbased jazz musician and Cadence contributor David Haney read that the New York-based quarterly, founded in 1976, would cease publication at year’s end, he resolved to try to save it. Now the magazine’s owner and coordinating editor, Haney has been so successful that the magazine not only survived, it’s sponsoring festivals in several cities this year—the first occurring in Portland, Cadence’s new home. An accomplished musician with a background in publishing, Haney was certainly qualified to be the magazine’s savior. His experience running the online publication the Liturgy Planner taught him that relying on print subscribers wouldn’t support Cadence. “Getting money from musicians isn’t the soundest business plan,” he says. Haney created a lower-cost, quarterly online edition, with a single annual printed version, available to paid subscribers, and boosted income by licensing the digital content to libraries and other institutions. After five issues—featuring contributions from a stable of writers scattered across the U.S., Europe and Japan— Haney says the magazine is on solid footing. To celebrate the magazine’s rebirth and relocation, Haney conceived Cadence Fest, which will have similar incarnations later this year in New York and Philadelphia. Spanning improvisatory styles from Dixieland to avant-garde, it features Portland jazz vets like pianist Gordon Lee and saxophonists Rich Halley and MarySue Tobin, plus national stars Bernard Purdie and Julian Priester, as well as Haney himself. It might turn into an annual event, and Haney is looking at creating a retail space in town. “Cadence’s name has some power,” he says. “It makes sense to use it to galvanize things here. We’re always looking at what we can do that’s good for the music, because that’s good for Cadence, too.” BRETT CAMPBELL. A legendary jazz magazine is reborn in Portland.

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SEE THEM LATER THAT NIGHT @ THE ROSELAND Iamdynamite have established themselves as a rock and roll force to be reckoned with. The musicianship is solid, the tunes are irresistible and their energy on stage has been appropriately described as â&#x20AC;&#x153;feverishly fun.â&#x20AC;? On â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Supermegafantastic,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; armed with only a simple electric guitar and drum kit, the high energy duo whips their way through thirty-three minutes of raucous indie rock thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chock full of clever harmonies, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;70s psychedelic guitar riffs, bombastic drums and undeniable dance hooks for one of the most infectious, groove laden debuts in years.

DOUBLE RECORD RELEASE EVENT! MONDAY 1/21 @ 6 PM NICOLE BERKE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Berkeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remarkably mature voice,

commanding presence and mesmerizing musical style makes for an unforgettable performance. With influence from artists such as Fiona Apple, Erykah Badu and Stevie Wonder, Berkeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s full-length debut,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;This Bright Beforeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, is a fresh and well-crafted take on what soul-pop-jazz can be. CHANCE HAYDEN â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Guitarist and songwriter Chance Haydenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s characteristically tasteful guitar work shines throughout â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Family Treeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; as does his knack for full-size band arrangements. The album is rich with vintage keyboards, horns and backup vocals while maintaining a desirable organic feel. Artists such as Lenny Kravitz and Raphael Saadiq provide Hayden with the inspiration to create music with classic R & B stylings and modern sensibilities.

KEN STRINGFELLOW

WEDNESDAY 1/23 @ 7 PM

Ken Stringfellow has been part of the indie landscape since the debut of his acclaimed band, The Posies, in 1988. Kenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s solo work mixes deeply expressed, emotional singing with delicate support: acoustic, electric, electronic, chamber. Kenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fourth album, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Danzig in the Moonlightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, has moments of fearsome electro-tinged menace, balanced with some of the most intensely intimate fragility youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re likely to encounter on record this year.

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MUSIC CALENDAR

[JAN. 16-22] ash Street Saloon

= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Editor: Jonathan Frochtzwajg. TO HAVE YOUR EVENT LISTED, send show information at least two weeks in advance on the web at wweek.com/submitevents or (if you book a specific venue) enter your events at dbmonkey.com/wweek. 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: music@wweek.com. For more listings, check out wweek.com.

225 SW Ash St. Secnd Best, Ether Circus, Phasers on Kill

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Yardsss, Italics, Altered Beats

Beulahland

b U R D I T T/ S C H I E k

118 NE 28th Ave. DJ Nik Fury

Biddy McGraw’s

626 SW Park Ave. Nicole Glover Trio

Buffalo Gap Saloon

Someday Lounge

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Dryland Farmers Band

Chapel Pub

2845 SE Stark St. Scott Pemberton Trio

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. Tom Grant with Marilyn Keller

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Pacific Oceans

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Karrin Allyson

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Mbrascatu, Sad Little Men

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. The Pickups (8:30 pm); Chris Miller Band (6 pm)

303 SW 12th Ave. Casey Shea

andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Jason Okamoto

ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Swim Atlantic, Sawtell, Chaotic Karisma

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Béisbol, Minden, Sam Adams, Micrasoft

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Stringed Migration

Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Dan Gaynor

duff’s Garage

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Jeffree White

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. L.A. White, Starbuks, J. Burns

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray (9 pm); Bob Shoemaker (6 pm)

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Jamie Leopold & the Short Stories (9 pm); Scott Law (6 pm)

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

Lents Commons

East Burn

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mr. Hoo

1800 E Burnside St. Irish Jam

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. The Way Downs

9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic

Mississippi Pizza

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Birds of Chicago, Jenn Rawling and Basho Parks, Huck Notari

Mount Tabor Theater

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Sheds, Truth and Its Burden, Betrayed by Weakness, the Globalist, Chin Up Rocky, Albatross

Revival drum Shop

8700 SW Sweek Drive, Tualatin Bronnie Griffin with Cary Novotny

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. Weresquatch, Terraclipse, Blood Magic

Valentine’s

1465 NE Prescott St. Soup Purse, Leah Wilmoth, Ryan Miller, Andrew Jones

232 SW Ankeny St. Chris Forsyth, Marisa Anderson, Plankton Wat

Roadside attraction

Vie de Boheme

1000 SE Yamhill St Nick Jaina, Esme Patterson

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave. Old Time Music Gathering: Caleb Klauder Country Band, Whiskey Puppy, Newt Payne

The Blue diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project

Thirsty Lion

71 SW 2nd Ave. Jordan Harris

Thorne Lounge

4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Open Mic

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Bo Ayars

1530 SE 7th Ave. Beacon Street Titans

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. The Holy Child, Frizz, Little Lord Fauntleroy

Wilfs Restaurant and Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Band with Barbara Lusch

THuRS. Jan. 17 al’s den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Casey Shea

andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Borikuas Trio

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones

The Know

The Press Club

Goodfoot Lounge

1435 NW Flanders St. Tom Bergeron’s Brasil Band

The Blue diamond

duff’s Garage

1800 E Burnside St. Eat off Your Banjo Bluegrass

Tualatin Heritage Center

125 NW 5th Ave. The Pyrenees

430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin

East Burn

3435 N Lombard St. Gardeners Logic

8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic

2026 NE Alberta St. King Ghidora, Outer Space Heaters

1635 SE 7th Ave. James Grant Blues Mythology (9 pm); Tough Lovepyle (6 pm)

Mock Crest Tavern

320 SE 2nd Ave. Rum Rebellion, Juicy Karkass, PDX Punk Rock Collective, I Have No Friends, Skoi

Sellwood Public House

510 NW 11th Ave. Melz/Prigodich/Erskine Group

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

Secret Society Lounge

Branx

Brasserie Montmartre

Camellia Lounge

WEd. Jan. 16

315 SE 3rd Ave. Boy Funk, We Are Like the Spider, Mattachine Social, Devine Debris DJs

Bob White Theater

6423 SE Foster Road Anthony B, Jagga Culture and the People’s Choice Band, Serious De Witness

116 NE Russell St. Anna Fritz, Timmy Straw, Saloon Ensemble (9 pm); Shoeshine Blue (6 pm)

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Mosby, Chris Margolin

al’s den at the Crystal Hotel

Rotture

Counterfeit Cash (9:30 pm); Lynn Conover (6 pm)

6000 NE Glisan St. Sweet Home (9 pm); Cooper (6 pm) 626 SW Park Ave. Grant Sayler Experiment

WHERE’S GOOFuS?: Two Gallants play doug Fir Lounge on Saturday, Jan. 19.

Old Time Music Gathering: Porterbelly with Jane Palmieri, the Gold Diggers with Lisa McAvoy (square dance)

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Caitlyn Olds, Cotton, Urban Wildlife (9:30 pm); Casey Neill & the Norway Rats (6 pm)

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Aly Tadros, J Irvin Daly (9 pm); Lost Creek Bluegrass Band (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Randy Rogers Band, Wade Bowen

Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Eric Vanderwall

Moon & Sixpence

2014 NE 42nd Ave. Old Time Music Gathering: Jam Session with WB Reid and Bonnie Zahnow

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

O’Connor’s Vault

7850 SW Capitol Highway Gary Ogan with Dave Captein and Mel Kubik

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

Polish Hall

3900 N Interstate Ave.

2621 SE Clinton St. SuS Quartet

The TaRdIS Room

1218 N Killingsworth St. Namoli Brennet

Thirsty Lion

71 SW 2nd Ave. Jessie Georgon

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Open Mic

Tony Starlight’s

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

Torta Landia

4144 SE 60th Ave. Brian Francis and the FoPo Follies

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Alan Hager, Lloyd Jones, David Kahl

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. The Lesser Bangs, Kenchucky Darvey (8:30 pm); Brothers of the Hound (5:30 pm)

Wilfs Restaurant and Bar

800 NW 6th Ave. Anandi, George Colligan & Phil Baker

FRI. Jan. 18 al’s den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Casey Shea

alberta Rose Theatre

3000 NE Alberta St. Shirlee Nanette, LaRhonda Steele, Reggie Houston, Lloyd Jones, Ural Thomas, Joe McMurrian, Janice Scroggins, Kory Quinn, Carlton Jackson, Mic Crenshaw, Steve Kerin, the Tin Pan Alley Cats, Gary Harris, Warren Rand, Arlo Leach

andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Jason Okamoto Trio

ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. The Tanked, Mormon Trannys, Raw Dogg and the Close Calls

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Andrea Gibson

Berbati

231 SW Ankeny St. The Spits, Di Di Mau, Youthbitch, DJ Slim Chances

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St.

Brasserie Montmartre

Buffalo Gap Saloon

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Parquet Courts, Nucular Aminals, Naomi Punk

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Ibrahim And Da’ Basement Band

Carvlin Hall

1636 SE Hickory St. Edna Vazquez

Club 21

2035 NE Glisan St. P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S.

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ocean 503

dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Plum, Ten Pound Rain

doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Shy Girls, De La Warr, Magic Fades

duff’s Garage

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Melao de Cuba (9 pm); Get Rhythm (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Denver, Widower, What Hearts

Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. The Adequates

Mount Tabor Theater

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Dio Rising, Edge of Paradise, Live Undead (Slayer tribute)(concert hall); Bad Habitat, Two Planets, New Pioneers, Cray, Buck Turtle (lounge)

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Iamdynamite

nel Centro

1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew

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

Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Lisa Mann

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave. Sum 41

Scottish Rite Center

1512 SW Morrison St. Old Time Music Gathering: The Shadies with Gabe Strand (square dance, 10:30 pm); Tatiana Hargreaves, Hopping Jenny, the Todalo Shakers, Erik Killops (7 pm)

Secret Society Lounge

1635 SE 7th Ave. Bill Rhoades & the Party Kings (9 pm); the Hamdogs (6 pm)

116 NE Russell St. Rob Stroup & the Blame, Wilkinson Blades, Black Black Things (9 pm); Boy & Bean (6 pm)

East Burn

Slabtown

1800 E Burnside St. Side Street Reny

East End

1033 NW 16th Ave. Arctic Flowers, Population, Adelitas

203 SE Grand Ave. Béisbol, Liquid Light, Foreign Orange

Slim’s Cocktail Bar

Ford Food and drink

Someday Lounge

2505 SE 11th Ave. Miller & Sasser

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Gray Matters, Luck-One, the Flu

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Aperitivo Happy Hour with Def Con 5

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Ed Bennett Quintet

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Freddy Trujillo (8 pm); Anna and the Underbelly (6 pm)

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Devin Phillips

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Blue Iris, Jenny Sizzler

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. The Charlie Darwins, ChildChildren

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Antique Scream

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Portland Playboys (9 pm); Steve Lockwood (6 pm)

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. The Giraffe Dodgers (9:30 pm); Sassparilla (6 pm)

8635 N Lombard St. Otis Heat 125 NW 5th Ave. The Keplers, Redray Frazier, Wild Bells, Harmony Motel

The Blue diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Sonny Hess Band

The Firkin Tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave. The Infinity of It All, the Brazillionaires, the Hill

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. The Pathogens, the Know Nothings, the Dead Giveaways, Rory OK & the Worst Band in the World

The Press Club

2621 SE Clinton St. Vacilando

The TaRdIS Room

1218 N Killingsworth St. Northern Currents, Better Days

Thirsty Lion

71 SW 2nd Ave. Ants in the Kitchen

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Jori and the PUSH, the Anxieties, Hall Trash, Sammy Warm Hands

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Tony Starlight’s SixthAnniversary Show

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Tommy Hogan Band

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jan. 16-22 Mississippi Studios

BAR SPOTLIGHT

the Waypost

rosnaps.com

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Themes, Hearts and Minutes, the Caste, Grammies

3120 N Williams Ave. William Ingrid, Language

thirsty Lion

71 SW 2nd Ave. Audio Syndicate

Mock Crest tavern

3435 N Lombard St. Johnnie Ward’s Sharkskin Review

tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. In Repose, the Fail Safe Project, Mosby, Psychro

Mount tabor theater

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Kina Lyn Muir, Cosmic Tilt (Janis Joplin tribute show)

tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Tony Morrettii (Frank Sinatra tribute show)

Muddy Rudder Public House

trinity Episcopal Cathedral

8105 SE 7th Ave. Kory Quinn

147 NW 19th Ave. Women of Song Liturgy

nel Centro

VFW Post 907

1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew, Dave Captein, Randy Rollofson

837 SE Mill St. Oregon Pipers’ Society

4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. The Grizzled Mighty, Gavin Wahl-Stephens & the New Americans, Lone Madrone (9 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)

White Owl Social Club 1305 SE 8th Ave. Lord Dying, Diesto

Wilfs Restaurant and Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Greg Goebel Trio with Andrea Niemiec and Chris Brown

Sat. Jan. 19 al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Casey Shea

alberta Rose theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. The Shanghai Woolies (vaudeville show)

andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio

Noise Agency, No Parades, Alto!

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Virtues, Stories & Soundtracks, She Preaches Mayhem, Jade Grenade, Lights of the City

Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Paul Paresa and the People

Bushwhacker Cider

1212D SE Powell Blvd. Gordon Neal Herman

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Circle 3 Trio

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Andy Stokes

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Radical Revolution

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Two Gallants, Future Twin

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Jujuba

Hawthorne Hophouse 4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Ben Larsen & Austin Moore

Hawthorne theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Kingdom Under Fire, Ion Storm, Character Assassin, Mursa

Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center

5340 N Interstate Ave. Stephen Steinbrink, Ever Ending Kicks, Genders, the Ghost Ease

221 NW 10th Ave. Soulmates

Keller auditorium

222 SW Clay St. Jackson Browne

Kenton Club

ash Street Saloon

East End

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Samsel and the Skirt, Dearborn

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Pilar French Intention (9:30 pm); the Barkers (6 pm)

Boom Bap!

203 SE Grand Ave. The Jolts

Fifteenth avenue Hophouse

1517 NE Brazee St. Hot Club Time Machine

Foggy notion

3416 N Lombard St. System and Station, Wow & Flutter, Bahn Mi

Gemini Lounge

6526 SE Foster Road Welfare

640 SE Stark St.

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116 SE Yamhill St. Camp Lo (performing “Uptown Saturday Night”), Scarub, X Kid, Sea One, Hood Prisms, Rocket One, DJ Spark

426 SW Washington St. Bike Thief 2025 N Kilpatrick St. Power of County, Meridian, Other Son, Ghost to Falco

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Matt Schiff Trio

Laurelthirst

the Know

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Keep Your Fork, There’s Pie (9 pm); Boys Without Toys (6 pm)

1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero Trio

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Slightly Stoopid, Karl Denson, Marlon Asher

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Wild Ones, Minden, Prescription Pills

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Davina & the Vagabonds

Foggy notion

3416 N Lombard St. Drunk on Pines, Rogue Gallery, the Paris Funds, Mr Frederick

Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave. Tim Roth

Hawthorne theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Hungry, Hungry Hip-Hop (9 pm); Laurel Brauns, My Fellow Traveler (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Jennifer O’Connor, Chris Brokaw

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

nEPO 42

5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic

Rontoms

600 E Burnside St. Sun Angle, Summer Cannibals

Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Open Mic

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Frenzy, Peroxide, LifeForm, Apocalypse Now

the Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. George Colligan Quartet

the Firkin tavern 1937 SE 11th Ave. Open Mic

the Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Cool Ghouls, the Shivas, Big Black Cloud, A Pig to Die

the Waypost

3120 N Williams Ave. Crash Parlor, 3 Bedroom 2 Bath

tube

18 NW 3rd Ave.

232 SW Ankeny St. Faster, Timmy the Terror, Weird Fiction

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Gypsy Jazz Jam

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Left Coast Country

MOn. Jan. 21 al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Ezza Rose

232 SW Ankeny St. Mama Bird Showcase

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Rare Monk, Boone Howard, Dustin Brown

tuES. Jan. 22 al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Ezza Rose

andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Jason Okamoto

Backspace

andina

115 NW 5th Ave. Find Your Smile, Hot Bodies in Motion, Dearborn

ash Street Saloon

Bunk Bar

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

Backspace

1028 SE Water Ave. Violet Isle, Just Lions, Sama Dams

115 NW 5th Ave. The Lily Henley Band with Rushad Eggleston, Wayward Vessel, Bluegrass Jam

Duff’s Garage

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Radula

2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic

Hawthorne theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Gojira, Devin Townsend Project, the Atlas Moth

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. Cadence Jazz Fest: Julian Priester Quartet, Marc Smason Group, Gary Smith’s Mardi Gras AllStars

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

Goodfoot Lounge

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. Cadence Jazz Fest: Bernard Purdie with David Haney and Andre St. James, Rich Halley Group, Five Saxes Group

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Her Ghost

Jimmy Mak’s

Jade Lounge

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm); the Jazz Society of Oregon’s Battle of the Bands (5:30 pm)

Jimmy Mak’s

Landmark Saloon

Laurelthirst

Mississippi Pizza

2346 SE Ankeny St. Emerson House Band 221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band 4847 SE Division St. Saturday Night Drive 2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens (9 pm); Portland Country Underground (6 pm)

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mr. Ben

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

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Chance Hayden, Nicole Berke

Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Carlton Jackson–Dave Mills Big Band

the Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Sumo

4847 SE Division St. Rocky Butte Wranglers 2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw 3552 N Mississippi Ave. Jimmy Lott

Red and Black Cafe

400 SE 12th Ave. C. Kiten, Lucia Fasano, Sharks from Mars

the Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Margo Tufo with Doug Rowell

the Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Pagan Jug Band

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Blessure Grave, Industrial Park, Moral Hex

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Mother Shrew, the Hilldogs

3341 SE Belmont St. Trash Can Joe

the Firkin tavern

2958 NE Glisan St. Everyday Prophets (9:30 pm); the James Low Western Front (6 pm)

andina

2958 NE Glisan St. Dan Haley & Tim Acott (9 pm); Freak Mountain Family (6 pm)

Valentine’s

the Blue Monk

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Valeri Lopez (9 pm); Hank Sinatra (6 pm)

3000 NE Alberta St. Katie Roberts, Old Mill, Walkfast, Cris Kelly, Noraa Ish & Kid Pistol, Bare the Butcher, Flat Black Tomato, Jesse Layne, Cole Carr, Perry Gerber

Star theater

the Blue Diamond

Laurelthirst

alberta Rose theatre

Slim’s Cocktail Bar

4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Garrett Potter, Novosti

Wilfs Restaurant and Bar

303 SW 12th Ave. Ezza Rose

Slabtown

the Back Door theater

4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray and Ian Miller

al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

116 NE Russell St. Jaime Leopold & the Short Stories, Atomic Gumbo, Brooks Robertson (9 pm); Everything’s Jake (6 pm)

13 NW 6th Ave. School of Rock (Led Zeppelin tribute show)

836 N Russell St. The Student Loan

Sun. Jan. 20

Secret Society Lounge

Kenton Club

White Eagle Saloon

128 NE Russell St. Quicksand, Title Fight

1512 SW Morrison St. Old Time Music Gathering: The Privy Tippers, Zach Hudson, Missouri Turn Around, Amy Hofer, Foghorn Stringband, Lucas Hicks, Crankset Stringband, Charmain Slaven, New Five Cents, Caroline Oakley, Flatrock Stringband, Tony Mates, Triple Chicken Foot, Steph Noll (evening square dance); Leela Grace, Kirk Sutphin and Bertram Levy, the Brainstormers, Lauren Sheehan, Rich Kirby, the Canote Brothers, Kate O’Brian-Clark, Laurel Bliss, The Yups, Charmaine Slaven, Portland Sacred Harp, John Hatton, Gabe Strand, Paul Silveria, the Onlies (day performances)

2346 SE Ankeny St. Rebecca Sanborn, Brittany Mcnair, Richey Bellinger, Ryan Freeman, Alexa Wiley

Landmark Saloon

Wonder Ballroom

Scottish Rite Center

Jade Lounge

1530 SE 7th Ave. The Ladykillers

800 NW 6th Ave. Craig Stevenson with Curtis Salgado and Brian Foxworth

Refuge

Jimmy Mak’s

East Burn

225 SW Ash St. Ape Machine, Mos Generator, Jared James Nichols, Wolfpussy

8 NE Killingsworth St. Heavy Baang Staang, IX, Antikythera

8635 N Lombard St. The Hoons, Spirit Lake, Wes Phillips

2346 SE Ankeny St. Brian Rozendal (8 pm); Darlin’ Blackbirds (6 pm)

1037 SW Broadway A Tribute to the Great Ray Charles: Ellis Hall, Oregon Symphony

1800 E Burnside St. Boy and Bean, Cascadia Soul Alliance

Record Room

Jade Lounge

Duff’s Garage

arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

2527 NE Alberta St. Bill Rhoades

1033 NW 16th Ave. The Angries, Divers, 42 Ford Prefect, C. Kiten

Kelly’s Olympian

1635 SE 7th Ave. Soul Vaccination

Original Halibut’s II

1435 NW Flanders St. Cadence Jazz Fest: Alan Jones Project (Leroy Vinnegar tribute), Mary Sue Tobin Group, Alan Jones Academy of Music Ensemble

Shoegeezer, Selector TNT, Neetcha

amy bezunartea

HIT THE LITES: No one was expecting Lauren to show up at Beer (1410 SE Stark St., 233-2337, facebook.com/BeerPortland). Sure, on paper, Beer is just a generically named bar with $2.50 Miller Lites next to a shop that sells steak sandwiches. But that Meat Cheese Bread sandwich is sliced rare flank steak on ciabatta and the Lite is listed right above a $15 sour ale that was aged in pinot noir barrels. Yet, for some reason, Lauren called in sick at work on a Monday and came in from the ’burbs to spend several hours day-drinking here. It’s a homey room, to be sure, lit by vintage beer signs and decorated with wall hangings made from flattened old labels. Six hours in, still wearing her purple nylon rain jacket with the guy who brought her here nowhere to be found, Lauren is both aggressively inquisitive and uncomfortably forthcoming. By 8 pm, she has wedged herself into every conversation in the bar, scattering the flannel-clad crowd. The bartender cuts her off, seemingly surprised to find a hard-bitten barfly on one of his stylish metal drafting stools. Either Beer’s affected nods toward egalitarianism have temporarily backfired, or the vegan bakery down the street is going to need more glazed doughnuts. MARTIN CIZMAR.

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Happening, the I’s, Brain Capital

Vie de Boheme

noho’s Hawaiian Cafe

Rays of Disillusion, Woodburn, Gunnar Roads Band, Chronological Injustice, Criminal Mastermind, Poe and Monroe, Holgate, Sabateur, Sketch the Rest

1937 SE 11th Ave. 100 Watt Mind, Eye Level Eye, Erik Anarchy 2026 NE Alberta St. Faster Housecat, Hungry Tiger, Absent Minds

the Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Xploding Boys

the Press Club

2621 SE Clinton St. Green Tambourine

JEn anD JaCKEt: Jennifer O’Connor plays Mississippi Studios on Sunday, Jan. 20.

Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave. Manoj

Star Bar

wed. Jan. 16

Fri. Jan. 18

Beech Street Parlor

CC Slaughters

Berbati

dig a Pony

CC Slaughters

412 NE Beech St. Dan Bryant

219 NW Davis St. Trick with DJ Robb 736 SE Grand Ave. Battles & Lamar

Ground Kontrol

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

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. PDneXt: DJ Rashad, Massacooramaan, Natasha Kmeto, Graintable, Plumblyne, Danny Corn

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Chris Crusher

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. DJs Straylight, Backlash

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Blackwell

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Berbati

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Deff Ro

CC Slaughters

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

Club 21

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736 SE Grand Ave. Safi

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830 E Burnside St. Halo Refuser, PotatoFinger, Afro-QBen

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511 NW Couch St. Joystick with DJ Darkcloud

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Night Moves: Sex Life DJs, DJ Cooky Parker, DJ Nathan Detroit, DJ Spencer D

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Faded!

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Jonny Cakes

The Crown room

205 NW 4th Ave. Jacques Greene, Magic Fades, Photon, Sasha Coulter

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Eye Candy

The Lovecraft

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

The rose

111 SW Ash St. Club Chemtrail: Dubbel Dutch, Massacooramaan, SPF666, Commune

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3416 N Lombard St. DJ AM Gold

Gold dust Meridian

3267 SE Hawthorne Blvd. DJ Drew Groove

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Soul Stew with DJ Aquaman

Groove Suite

440 NW Glisan St. Trifecta: DJs Flave, Wiggles, Offline, McCabe Reed

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. DJs MT, RAWIII

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Rockbox: Matt Nelkin, DJ Kez, DJ Mighty Moves

interurban

4057 N Mississippi Ave. Lo-Fi Lounge-Core with DJ Saltfeend

refuge

116 SE Yamhill St. DJ Nickodemus, Solovox

rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Shut Up & Dance with DJ Gregarious

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. Blank Friday with DJ Paultimore

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Skullfuck with DJ Horrid

The whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave. The Elemental Verse: Azazel, Anok?, Professor Nemus, Iron Aiden

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Whitehorse

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Ausland

SaT. Jan. 19 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Colin Anderson

Berbati

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Mello Cee

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Revolution with DJ Robb

dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Mikee Lixxx & Dirty Red

Gold dust Meridian

Tiga

3267 SE Hawthorne Blvd. DJs Gregarious, Disorder

Valentine’s

511 NW Couch St. DJs I Heart U, Avery

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ “Chains” Crumley 232 SW Ankeny St. WL DJs

Ground Kontrol

Holocene

639 SE Morrison St. Go French Yourself! with DJ Cecilia Paris

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Bar Hopper

The whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave. Trance Mission: DJ Zoxy, Gotek, Falcon, Timmie

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. Hostile Tapeover

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Vs. Nature

Sun. Jan. 20 ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. DJ Just Dave, Boy Funk, Juicy Karkass, DJ Fingerbang, Headlock

dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Bad Wizard

Gold dust Meridian

3267 SE Hawthorne Blvd. DJ Danny Dodge

Savoy Tavern & Lounge

2500 SE Clinton St. Mike McKinnon

Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave. Hive

Mon. Jan. 21 Beech Street Parlor

412 NE Beech St. Cowboys from Sweden

Berbati

231 SW Ankeny St. Henry Dark

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Maniac Monday with DJ Robb

dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. TreSlim

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Service Industrial with DJ Tibin

Kelly’s olympian

426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy VJs

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. Metal Monday with DJ Blackhawk

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Know the Ledge with DJ Montgomery Word

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. Alex John Hall

TueS. Jan. 22 ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Phreak

Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Nietzsche

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Girltopia with DJ Alicious

dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Freaky Outy

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Bradly

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Boything

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. I’m Dynamite

1001 SE Morrison St. Gaycation: DJ Snowtiger, Mr. Charming, Hold My Hand, Bruce La Bruiser

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poverty, blah blah blah,” and Porter’s deadpan delivery of both jargon and criticism are among the production’s many hilarious moments. Other gags are surprisingly scatological. After a PowerPoint mistakenly reads, “Assess, Asses again,” Darren comments, “Maybe your ass-istant should rectal-fy her error.” But when does the laughter stop? For those looking for a rallying cry, A Noble Failure falls a bit short. But as a comedy, the hallway humor of high school is a welcome distraction from the despair. MITCH LILLIE. Winningstad Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 235-1101. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Feb. 3. $22.25-$41.25.

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PERFORMANCE

Princess Grace Award-winning director Gisela Cardenas helms this project by Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard III, as told by the play’s women. Headwaters Theatre, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9, 289-3499. 7 pm Thursdays-Sundays through Feb. 3. $15.

The Road to Mecca

THE ROAD TO MECCA

THEATER 4X4=8 Musicals

Taking a page from Ten Tiny Dances and forgoing Les Miz-style grandeur, this show presents eight original 10-minute musicals, all presented on a 4-by-4-foot stage. PCPA Brunish Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 875-1149. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through Jan. 26. $28.25.

Arms and the Man

In the first minutes of George Bernard Shaw’s anti-militarism comedy, a Swiss mercenary named Bluntschli crashes through a stranger’s window after fleeing a battle in the Serbo-Bulgarian War. Sleep-deprived and grubby, he begs the room’s beautiful young Bulgarian occupant, Raina, to hide him. And upon learning he’s the sort of soldier who crams his pockets not with cartridges but with chocolates, she fortifies him with a box of chocolate creams. From there, Shaw, who was a pacifist and socialist, debunks not only romantic illusions of war, but also the hypocrisy of class differences, the immorality of keeping servants and the posturing xenophobia of patriotism. It’s a systematic, satirical takedown, stacked with biting one-liners. This Northwest Classical Theatre Company production, directed by Alana Byington, turns in numerous crowd-pleasing moments. But Arms and the Man is a deceptively difficult play, requiring director and cast to balance frivolity, didacticism and irony, and it’s in this juggling act that the production sometimes stumbles. As Bluntschli, Jason Maniccia is appropriately levelheaded and practical. Other characters are more outsize, namely Sergius (Tom Mounsey), Raina’s blustery buffoon of a fiancé. Though Bluntschli is Shaw’s voice of reason, he gave Sergius many of the punchiest lines, both serious (“Soldiering, my dear madam, is the coward’s art of attacking mercilessly when you are strong, and keeping out of harm’s way when you are weak”) and droll (“I could no more fight with you than I could make love to an ugly woman”). But with a cast that walks a fine and sometimes clumsy line between naturalism and caricature, these lines feel more like Russell Stover candies than like fine Swiss chocolates: They might provide a quick kick of flavor, but the delight is unlikely to linger for long. REBECCA JACOBSON. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 971-244-3740. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Jan. 20. $18-$20.

Frida, Un Retablo

Milagro Theatre presents a reprisal of Dañel Malán’s play about the legendary Mexican artist. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7:30 pm Thursdays, 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sunday, Jan. 10-19. $12-$24.

Grand Hotel

Lakewood Theatre Company presents the Tony-winning musical, set in 1928 Berlin and featuring a revolvingdoor cast of volatile and ambitious characters. Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, 635-3901. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm and 7 pm most Sundays through Feb. 17. $32-$35.

The Huntsmen

Portland Playhouse presents the world premiere of Quincy Long’s dark comedy about a teenage serial killer, complete with doo-wop musical breaks and machetes. Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St., 205-0715. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Saturdays-Sundays through Feb. 17. $23-$39.

John “Babbacombe” Lee

Portland Story Theater’s Lawrence Howard tells the fact-based tale of a man accused of murdering an old spinster in late-19th-century England. Hipbone Studio, 1847 E Burnside St., 358-0898. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays through Jan. 26. $15-$20.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Oregon Children’s Theatre bounds off to Narnia for a production based C.S. Lewis’ classic tale. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 2 pm and 5 pm Saturdays (no 5 pm shows Feb. 9 and 16) and 2 pm Sundays through Feb. 17. $18-$30.

A Noble Failure

[NEW REVIEW] “Something is wrong with our public schools. But it may not be what we’ve been told.” So reads the program cover for Third Rail Repertory Theatre’s world premiere of A Noble Failure, written by Susan Mach and directed by Philip Cuomo. Those lines prime audiences for a fierce political showdown, perhaps a frazzled veteran teacher like Rosalyn (Jacklyn Maddux) going on long tirades about the Youth and the System. That’s not, however, entirely the case. Yes, there are political elements. Young teacher Darren (John San Nicolas), fresh out of Dartmouth, has students with abnormally high test results, while Rosalyn has to fight with a hardheaded lawyer to keep her job because her students’ scores are low. Her rapport, though, with troubled student Ivan (Rolland Walsh) is strong. Principal Spencer (Bruce Burkhartsmeier) is helpless to aid Rosalyn, his power sapped by Barbara (Maureen Porter), a metricsobsessed “teacher coach” sent by the district to boost state exam scores. Barbara, and those darn tests, quickly become the villains in A Noble Failure. Dropouts are now “non-completers,” teachers are “teammates” and testing is “assessing” for Barbara. Heartless lines pour out of her, like “Poverty

[NEW REVIEW] It’s a simple story, really—a snapshot of one evening in the lives of two women. But much can be revealed in a conversation fueled by trust and desperation. South African playwright Athol Fugard’s The Road to Mecca explores faith and freedom on the most personal levels, while also establishing a clear backdrop of the era’s political climate. Set in 1974 in South Africa, a country still heavily under the rule of apartheid, an evening passes in the home of the elderly Miss Helen (based on Afrikaner Helen Martins and her Owl House, which is well worth a Google search). She receives a visit from her only friend Elsa Barlow, and though separated by four decades in age, both women find themselves in places of darkness and turning to the other for guidance. The stunning performances by Amanda Soden as Elsa and Eileen DeSandre as Helen are the reason to see this production, the local directorial debut of Profile Theatre’s new artistic director Adriana Baer. Both women infuse each moment with such heartrending authenticity that you might need hankies. In the face of suffocating darkness, Elsa and Helen find the strength to make choices—whether to stay or to move on—and a freedom that casts a beautiful, glittering light. PENELOPE BASS. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 242-0080. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Feb. 3. $16-$30.

Sonnetscape

Fuse Theatre Ensemble presents an original multimedia work, more than a year in the making, based on Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 971-238-3873. 7:30 pm ThursdaySunday, Jan. 17-20; 10 pm ThursdaySaturday and 7:30 pm Sunday, Jan. 31-Feb. 3. $10-$12.

COMEDY & VARIETY Alive and Dead in the USA

It’s improv with a dark side in this long-form Brody show, with death lurking in every corner. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7:30 pm Saturdays through Feb. 16. $8-$10.

Bret Ernst

Stand-up from the comedian recently seen in Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show and Showtime’s Weeds. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 pm and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, Jan. 17-19. $15-$25.

Fly-Ass Jokes

Comedian Ian Karmel and Brody artistic director Tom Johnson curate a comedy showcase. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 9:30 pm Friday, Jan. 18. $8.

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CUT IT CLOSE: Rob Nagle plays James Beard.

I LOVE TO EAT (PORTLAND CENTER STAGE) Opera music booms and steam spills out from beneath the giant onstage refrigerator as I Love to Eat begins. As the song builds and steam obscures the floor, James Beard (Rob Nagle) strides out of the fridge. Dressed in striped silk pajamas and a floor-length blue robe, he chuckles in faux modesty as an unremitting cascade of rose petals falls from above. “Moderation!” he roars. “I’m against it!” Yet for such a grandiose proclamation, I Love to Eat, directed by Jessica Kubzansky, feels less like a rich meal than a scattered sampler of tasty but underwhelming tidbits. James Still’s chatty script has the celebrated chef recounting culinary and childhood reminiscences, taking phone calls from both fans and Julia Child, preparing mayonnaise and chopping parsley for canapes and, in some brief spots, revealing and then brushing off stories of loneliness and unrequited love. Though peppered with a few lovely moments—the Portland-born Beard recalls digging for razor clams and grilling ham on the beach in Gearhart, for example—this West Coast premiere neither digs enough into Beard’s underlying melancholy nor sufficiently plays up his convivial wit. Given the bony and episodic script, Nagle’s performance mostly impresses. He’s outwardly jovial but slightly distant and insecure, at one point revealing his fear of the day his phone stops ringing. Set inside the gourmand’s comfortable New York apartment—with an immense world map providing a perplexing and distracting backdrop— the production jumps between informal confessional and re-enactments of Beard’s 1940s cooking show. Nagle kicks down any traces of the fourth wall, and he endears himself to the audience with knowing glances, dramatic flourishes of the arm and self-aware delivery of lines tailor-made for tittering Portland audiences. “I did some theater in Portland,” he purrs, swinging his hands open to invite the laugh. But many of the lines are so slick or painstakingly choreographed (“the two most fabulous inventions of the last century are the Cuisinart and call waiting”) they fail to elicit more than a polite giggle. Nagle, whose accent makes numerous confusing shifts throughout the play’s course, does his best with the play’s tonally episodic nature, but nothing can save him in the incongruous, kiddie scenes with a bovine hand puppet. At one point, Beard fields a call from a frazzled home cook in Kansas. He encourages her to pour the disaster down the sink. “That’s the way it is in the kitchen,” he says. “Sometimes it all goes boom.” But that’s the problem with Still’s unfocused script—though it carries on at a gentle simmer, it never makes much of a bang. REBECCA JACOBSON.

Portland’s proto-foodie dishes up less than a satisfying meal.

SEE IT: I Love to Eat is at the Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Sundays, 2 pm Saturdays-Sundays, noon Thursdays through Feb. 3. $39-$65. Willamette Week JANUARY 16, 2013 wweek.com

JAN 16–22

Late Night Action With Alex Falcone

Comedian Alex Falcone hosts a twice-weekly, live talk show featuring local personalities. Backup provided by Bri Pruett and guest sketch-comedy artists. Action/ Adventure Theatre, 1050 SE Clinton St. 9 pm Fridays-Saturdays through Feb. 9. $12.

Pipes: An Improvised Musical

Comedic improv, set to song. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays through Jan. 19. $12-$15.

The Uninvited: Tennessee Williams with Zombies

Because Tennessee Williams’ portrait of the American South just wasn’t rich enough for the Unscriptables, the improv-comedy group spices things up with zombies in this episodic show. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 309-3723. 8 pm Saturdays through Feb. 16. “Pay what you will,” $10 suggested.

St., Vancouver, 360-735-7278. 3 pm Saturday and 7 pm Sunday, Jan. 19-20. $10-$50.

ViVoce

The Portland Revels’ women’s vocal ensemble sings Stravinsky’s “Four Russian Peasant Songs” (short settings of Russian folk texts that will intrigue fans of his Russian-inspired works like The Rite of Spring and “The Wedding”) and music by William Byrd and Pavel Chesnokov. Plus there will be early American, Romanian and British folk songs. The performance also includes storytelling by Nathan Markiewicz and Sarah Hauser. St. Michael and All Angels Church, 1704 NE 43rd Ave., 284-7141. 7:30 pm Saturday and 4:30 pm Sunday, Jan. 19-20. $12-$15.

DANCE Portland Metro Arts Choreographers’ Showcase

Portland Metro Arts is now taking requests from novice as well as experienced choreographers to present work at a PMA showcase at 7 pm Saturday, Jan. 26. Requests will be accepted through Jan. 20. Choregraphers can submit requests to Nancy Yeamans at 503-408-0604 or email them to info@PDXMetroArts.org. Portland Metro Performing Arts, 9003 SE Stark St., 408-0604. 7 pm Saturday, Jan. 26. Free; donations accepted.

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PERFORMANCE

The Word Series: A Night of Competitive Punnery

Want some fun in the pun? Comedic wordplay from a long slate of competitors. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 238-0543. 9:30 pm Wednesday, Jan. 16. “Pay what you will.”

CLASSICAL Beaverton Symphony Orchestra

Travis Hatton conducts the orchestra and soloists Lindsey Cafferky McMahon, Brennen Guillory and Alexis Hamilton in opera music by Wagner (overture to The Flying Dutchman, prelude to Lohengrin), Verdi (prelude to Aida) and various arias. Village Baptist Church, 330 SW Murray Blvd., Beaverton, 819-4664. 7:30 pm Friday, Jan. 18 and 3 pm Sunday, Jan. 20. $5-$20.

Oregon Symphony, Ellis Hall

The former Tower of Power lead vocalist joins the orchestra in music of another blind, Georgia-born singer: Hall’s friend and mentor, Ray Charles. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353. 7:30 pm Saturday, Jan. 19. $21-$96.

Oregon Symphony, Norman Leyden

The orchestra welcomes back its longtime associate conductor and Portland music legend, with his clarinet, to play swing classics by Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey and others. This includes a piece written by the symphony’s own current pops conductor and composer, Jeff Tyzik, who will also toot his own cornet. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353. 3 pm Sunday, Jan. 20. $27-$105.

Takacs Quartet

In its latest Portland appearance sponsored by Friends of Chamber Music, the world’s greatest string quartet is joined by guest violist Erika Eckert for two of Brahms’ finest works, his String Quintet No. 1 in F Major (Monday) and String Quintet No. 2 in G Major (Tuesday). Plus there will be two of Haydn’s famous Op. 76 string quartets and quartets by Brahms (Monday) and Schubert (“Rosamunde” Tuesday). Chamber music doesn’t get any more powerful than this amazing ensemble’s work, so these will likely be two of the year’s finest classical concerts. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 224-9842. 7:30 pm Monday-Tuesday, Jan. 21-22. $30–$45.

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Composers through the centuries have evoked the story of Hamlet in music, and this VSO program contains four of the best-known, by Tchaikovsky, Liszt, Shostakovich and William Walton. Award-winning actor and Stumptown Stages artistic director Kirk Mouser will interpolate readings from Shakespeare’s play. Skyview High School, 1300 NW 139th

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READ HER LIPS: Luisa Sermol plays a circus psychic.

THE LOST BOY (ARTISTS REPERTORY THEATRE) In 2001, Oregon City teenagers Miranda Gaddis and Ashley Pond disappeared, and local playwright Susan Mach found herself confronted with billboards of the girls’ faces. Both intrigued and disturbed by media exploitation of the event, Mach found parallels between the girls’ disappearance and a story more distant in both time and place: the 1874 abduction of 4-yearold Charley Ross, the country’s first kidnapping for ransom. That Philadelphia abduction also met sensationalism, spurring popular songs, a Broadway play and the involvement of circus magnate P.T. Barnum. Mach tackles Charley’s story and the resulting circuses— of both the literal and media varieties—in her world-premiere play The Lost Boy. Though the theme of bleeding tragedy for lurid gain resonates, the production suffers from plodding exposition, a casserole-like jumble of discordant styles and thorny tonal shifts. Set against colorful backdrops of circus scenes—fire eaters, elephants and acrobatic bears—the first act trudges through Charley’s abduction and the subsequent investigation. The young actors playing Charley (Logan Martin and Agatha Day Olson share the role) and his older brother Walter (Harper Lea) are a highlight: They exhibit remarkable self-possession and spar in some goshdarned adorable playfights. The kidnappers—Duffy Epstein as the grizzled but melancholy mastermind and Sean Doran as his lonely, clumsy underling—bring emotional complexity to the proceedings. But exchanges between Charley’s parents and the detective (a gravelly voiced, hard-bitten Doren Elias), which should heave with urgency and tension, feel undercooked and overlong. Mach has intercut these scenes with circus spectacle, including juggling, balancing acts and straitjacket tricks. As Barnum—who did offer a reward for the return of Charley—Gray Eubank fails to fully flesh out the huckster’s showy, manipulative manner. Luisa Sermol, however, vamps delightfully as a fortuneteller with wild eyes and a bouffant worthy of Helena Bonham Carter. But despite their clear intent, the circus interludes come across more as commercials breaks than integral dramatic elements. In the program notes, Mach wonders if she’s guilty of exploiting Charley’s story. If anything, she doesn’t milk it enough. REBECCA JACOBSON.

A three-ring circus abducted of oomph.

SEE IT: The Lost Boy is at Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Sundays, 2 pm Sundays through Feb. 10. $25-$50.

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of their carcasses. It’s disconcerting to see mushrooms and a tree branch growing out of a bird’s eye in the piece Bird, or flowers and leaves from the belly of Deer, and various flora spreading across the bodies of Snail, Bear, Owl, Rabbit and Raccoon. But this is the fate of any animal that runs out its clock and sleeps without waking. With a potent mix of whimsy and the grotesque, Chen makes us confront the fate that awaits all beasts, including us. Through Feb. 3. Compound Gallery, 107 NW 5th Ave., 796-2733.

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Apex: Sang-ah Choi

The glittery panels, cereal boxes and blow-up Easter Bunny and Frosty the Snowman that make up Sang-ah Choi’s exhibition are intended to critique American culture, yet they are so visually seductive, they wind up celebrating it. This is commodity critique and Charles Jencksian double-coding repackaged for the millennial set. It sets itself up to pierce our shallow, consumerist American hearts with a rapier, but the glint of light across the metal blade is so mesmerizing, all we can do is ooh and aah. Through March 31. Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-0973.

Aqua

Margaret Evangeline’s gorgeous watercolors stand out in this aquatically themed six-artist show. Her Fluid Flow series captures the trajectory of a river with long arcs of sweeping color in a progression of blues and grays. Rick Stare’s photographic prints also display painterly qualities, showing rippled waterscapes via a combination of ground-up pigments, inks and cotton rag paper. Through Feb. 2. Butters Gallery, 520 NW Davis St., second floor, 248-9378.

Camera Work: Vintage Photogravures 1903-1917

In recent years, Charles Hartman’s reliably engaging programming has branched into painting, drawing and other media (including knockout shows by painters Eva Speer and Hayley Barker), but his true strength is photography. He is an expert in antiquarian photography techniques, and in the current show he shows off some choice examples of photo engravature from the first two decades of the 20th century, including prints by photographer and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz. Through Jan. 19. Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, 134 NW 8th Ave., 287-3886.

Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts Ford Family Foundation Golden Spot Awardee Print Exhibition

Pat Boas’ lithographs, chromatically adventurous and gesturally free, contrast effectively with the rigid geometry of Arnold Kemp’s work, entitled Who. Elsewhere, Eva Lake and Jenene Nagy dispatch rectangles and judicious color to respectively evoke and defy the power of nature. Through Jan. 19. PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.

Glades and Ragged Underwood

Vivian Chen’s paintings are the highlight of this three-artist show. In a commentary on decay and rebirth, they present a menagerie of animals lying dead on the forest floor with vegetation sprouting out

You walk into Nine Gallery and see no show title, no artwork titles, not even a sign announcing who the artist is. The works on the wall are too bad to be good but too good to be bad: sophomoric abstract paintings that are painfully self-aware in their amateur chic. A phone call to the gallery director turns up the answer to some questions. The artist is Jesse Hayward, who, in a precious, “Look at me—no, don’t!” move, placed his name so low down on the door jamb that gallerygoers would not see it. Likewise, according to the director, Hayward left an explanatory brochure about the show “in an unassuming spot” so unassuming that viewers could not find it. It sort of makes sense that any artist who would throw together a show this mediocre would not want to be that closely associated with it. Through Feb. 3. Nine Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 227-7114.

Josef Albers: The Interaction of Color-Formulation: Articulation

Run, don’t walk, to this museumquality exhibition of Josef Albers’ prints. Albers literally wrote the book on color effects (his magnum opus, 1963’s Interaction of Color) and in the prints that make up Augen’s current show, the late, great abstractionist lays out all the arrows in his quiver. Squares, rhomboids and other shapes nestle within one another in chromatic combinations designed to delight and boggle the eye. An unexpected pleasure are the folded shapes in works such as Folio 2, Folder 21A, in which the minimalist master seems to channel M.C. Escher’s illusionistic pretzels. Through Feb. 2. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 224-8182.

Nancy Abens: Curiosity Envisioned

Two years ago, when photographer Nancy Abens plunged her digital camera into tidal pools off the coast of Mexico, she discovered an eerie world of exotic-looking sea creatures and plant life. Since then, she has created a body of work that focuses on natural history: specifically birds, insects and shells. Although her subject matter is organic, many of her prints, especially those dealing with geological phenomena, flirt with geometric abstraction, thanks to an assured sense of composition. Through Feb. 23. I Witness Gallery Northwest Center for Photography, 1028 SE Water Ave., Suite 50, 384-2783.

Perspective & Place

Katherine Thompson’s oil painting, Toro, bursts forth with expressive dollops of tomato red, barely contained by a Rouault-like latticework that recalls stained-glass windows. A halo of cerulean envelops the composition, cradling it like a baby. Thompson’s work in this vein reads as pure abstraction, while pieces such as Mindscape come across as abstracted landscapes. While these medium-format works are inventively hued and composed, Thompson’s smaller-scale paintings are not nearly as compelling. Through Jan. 30. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900.

LEARN THE ART OF

Raymond Pettibon: The Punk Years, 1978-86

World-renowned artist Raymond Pettibon is showcased in a sassy traveling show sponsored in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation. The show focuses on Pettibon’s formative years in the underground punk scene in Southern California. It features some 200 designs, many of which will be familiar to fans of the artist, whose style is heavily influenced by comic books and illustration. Through Jan. 25. One Grand Gallery, 1000 E Burnside St., 212365-4945.

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Dream, Inc.: Awakening From the American Dream

Munich-born artist and writer Richard Schemmerer takes on the American dream in Dream, Inc., an exhibition of paintings, sculpture and mixed-media work. In addition to a suite of abstract paintings, Schemmerer offers a series depicting enigmatic faces, which confront the viewer with a kind of unsettling mirror. The exhibition’s most compelling work is a sculpture entitled Wings of Desire, made from wrought iron, a metal spring, driftwood and red feathers. With intimations of the Icarus legend, the piece seems to portray a nation risen from its folksy, pioneer past (symbolized by the gnarled wood) and industrial heyday (the metalwork), only to flame out in a wash of decadence (the red wings): a cheap feather boa where a bald eagle once soared. Through Feb. 2. Cock Gallery, 625 NW Everett St., No. 106, 552-8686.

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Robert Rauschenberg and Christopher Rauschenberg

In Hollywood, this is what you call dream casting. To mount a show featuring the late, great artist Robert Rauschenberg and his son, Portland-based photographer Christopher Rauschenberg, is a formidable, delicious challenge, which Elizabeth Leach and her team must surely have relished. The late Rauschenberg’s mixed-media prints will rub elbows with photographer Rauschenberg’s travelogue tableaux of a recent visit to St. Petersburg, Russia. This is a January must-see. Through Feb. 2. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521.

Vanitas

Curator Michael Endo has long held an interest in the “vanitas” genre of 17th-century still-life painting, which used motifs such as skulls and botanicals as memento mori. As an artist, Endo has explored these motifs in his paintings. Now, as a curator at Bullseye, he calls upon five other artists to offer takes on the transience of human life: Shannon Brunskill, June Kingsbury, Catharine Newell, Marc Petrovic and Michael Rogers. All five use glass as a material. It’s an intriguing medium for this theme, since glass, like life itself, can seem strong, sturdy and limitless in potential—until it shatters. Through March 2. Bullseye Gallery, 300 NW 13th Ave., 227-0222.

Winter Group Exhibition

Group shows often seem like arbitrary conglomerations of unrelated parts. But Froelick’s holiday group show has the feel of a bona fide “best of the best” lineup. It’s easy to take this gallery’s stable for granted, thanks to reliably engaging programming and owner Charles Froelick’s easygoing manner. But when, as in this show, you see works by artists as diverse as Rick Bartow (archetypal imagery influenced by Native traditions), Victor Maldonado (politically charged installations and mixed media), and Laura Ross-Paul (sumptuous, symbolism-encoded paintings), you realize just how lucky we are to have this gallery in our midst year after year. Through Feb. 2. Froelick Gallery, 714 NW Davis St., 222-1142.

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BOOKS

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Fresh, Authentic Flavors of our Jalisco Heritage

By PENELOPE BASS. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit lecture or reading information at least two weeks in advance to: WORDS, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: words@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 16 Susan Jackson Rodgers and Wendy Willis

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Cultivating the hilarious and heartbreaking through a collection of 19 short stories, Susan Jackson Rodgers’ new book, Ex-Boyfriend on Aisle 6, manages to strive successfully toward charming deception. Wendy Willis’ new collection of poems, Blood Sisters of the Republic, is rooted in family history and the bonds of genealogy. Both women will read from their work and share their experiences. Annie Bloom’s Books, 7834 SW Capitol Highway, 246-0053. 7 pm. Free.

Writing Seminar With Kim Stafford

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FOOD & DRINK

The hardest part is getting started. In the seminar “Honoring Big Stories by Writing Brief Chapters,” author Kim Stafford will share the experiences of writing his own book, 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared, about his brother’s suicide. The event will serve as a launch party for the book and will feature readings, writing time and live music by Jan DeWeese, Harriet Wingard and Kim Stafford. Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Road, 768-7000. 5-8 pm. Free.

William Stafford Birthday Reading

Celebrated poet William Stafford was a longtime professor at Lewis & Clark, authored more than 50 books and received the National Book Award. So, he’s kind of a big deal. Portland Latino writers’ group Los Porteños will host its third annual William Stafford Birthday Reading, featuring Frank Delgado, Catherine Evleshin, Joann Farías and many more. Bring your favorite Stafford poem to share! Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7 pm. Free.

Supernatural Teen Fiction Reading

Not every book series can be the next Twilight or The Hunger Games, but there is no shortage of authors lining up to suckle at the teat of that cash cow. A full lineup of young-adult authors will share their supernatural realms, including Kevin Emerson (The Lost Code), Martha Brockenbrough (Devine Intervention), Sean Beaudoin (The Infects) and Cat Patrick (Revived). Get your stock options now! Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651. 7 pm. Free.

THURSDAY, JAN. 17 Ken Jennings

Ken Jennings, all-time Jeopardy! champion and genetically engineered superhuman, has released a new book debunking the myths we tell children to keep them in line. Because I Said So!: The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids used medical-case histories, scientific findings and Jennings’ own selfinflicted experiments to uncover the lies of parenthood. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.

An Evening With Night Bomb Press

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Local, independent publisher Night Bomb Press will host an evening of readings with its authors, including Suzanne Burns’ newest story collection, Ghost Wife; short stories and poems by Tommy Gaffney (Whiskey Days); chapbook poet Jaye Harris (Titan’s Moon); and poetry from

Rocks, Planets and People, examines how the events that formed the solar system are found in each of us. Heavy. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

TUESDAY, JAN. 22 Diana Salier (Letters From Robots). It’s some of the best that local lit has to offer. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

FRIDAY, JAN. 18 Neil Shubin

Sure, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young have been saying it for decades, but we really are made of stardust, and science writer Neil Shubin is exploring exactly how. His newest book, The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of

Nicole Georges

Inspired by a psychic reading, Portland zinester Nicole Georges goes in search of some answers about her father and a family story she never knew. Combining a coming-of-age tale and a coming-out story, Georges’ brand-new graphic memoir, Calling Dr. Laura, explores the effects of growing up surrounded by secrets. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.

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REVIEW

TREVOR AARONSON, THE TERROR FACTORY The Justice Department has prosecuted more than 500 terrorism defendants since 9/11. On its face, that statistic seems to show the federal government is doing its level best to keep us safe. But The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism, a new book by investigative journalist Are they terrorists Trevor Aaronson, describes an or just lonely fools? agency caught in a law-enforcement echo chamber. The FBI prioritizes lone wolves—individuals not officially affiliated with a terrorist organization, but inspired to violence— finding many through sting operations that target troubled and easily influenced men. Results outlined in this exquisitely researched book are dismaying. According to Aaronson, many of those prosecuted for terrorism—particularly those caught through sting operations using informants—are more bumbling shit-talkers than actual threats. Some have histories of mental illness, others are simply fools or losers who talk a big game to impress a new friend—to their great misfortune, an FBI informant. Left to their own devices, Aaronson argues, many suspects would have neither the means nor the abilities to carry out plans of any kind. This includes Portland’s Christmas tree bomber, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, the subject of a chapter excerpted in WW last week. In the various and superbly detailed cases outlined in Aaronson’s book, the FBI and its informants provide these suspects with weapons, equipment, know-how and money to carry out their sometimes feeble plans. In many cases, the accused are so buffoonish that, rather than being revolted by their involvement in terrorist schemes, one pities them. Aaronson’s book is not without flaws. Overall, he moves the reader through the plots quickly and smoothly. But at times the writing defaults to a newspaper style that weighs heavy in the longer format of a book. At times his style seems tacky. He has an odd habit of describing agents’ and informants’ hairstyles. Though it works as an outrage piece for civil libertarians, Aaronson’s book also functions as a broader warning: Investigators focused on stings might not recognize new and different threats. When you’re a hammer, the saying goes, everything looks like a nail. STEPHANIE CZEKALINSKI. GO: Trevor Aaronson will read at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., on Monday, Jan. 21. 7:30 pm. Free.

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MOVIES

Editor: REBECCA JACOBSON. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, send screening information at least two weeks in advance to Screen, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: rjacobson@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.

Alice

A [TWO NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL]

“Now you will see a film for children,” Alice’s lips announce at the start of Czech surrealist Jan Švankmajer’s 1988 Alice. “Perhaps.” In this darker version of Alice in Wonderland, Švankmajer accurately reads Lewis Carroll’s classic as a dream, not a fairy tale. If anything, it’s a nightmare, but most of the familiar characters are present: the White Rabbit, the Caterpillar, the Queen and her court, and the Mad Hatter. Without Alice’s thorough narration, some characters would be hard to discern. Shot largely in stop-motion, the animals are all taxidermied, some with skulls for heads, and Alice, while at first played by a real girl (Kristýna Kohoutová), shrinks to become a stop-motion doll. Švankmajer takes further liberties with the plot. The rabbit hole is a series of drawers, the White Rabbit is quite a bit more violent, and there’s no hookah or pepper soup. Some scenes have no connection to the original Wonderland. A roomful of worms made of socks bores holes in the floor. The cut-out croquet flamingoes turn into live chickens. There certainly aren’t any skulls, scissors or cans full of live cockroaches in Carroll’s original. But these images, like Carroll’s “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” riddle, will probably induce mad giggling rather than head scratching. As the 17th cinematic adaptation of Carroll’s story, the changes are a relief, especially given Švankmajer’s unique style and consistency of vision. Sounds are often disconnected from their sources, and when they’re not, they are distinctly out of proportion, whether the White Rabbit’s chattering teeth or the creaking floorboards. Paired with the endless visual clutter of dusty memorabilia and half-eaten food, watching Alice has the same effect as accidentally inhaling fungal spores alone at an abandoned foreign museum. I can’t help but agree with Alice: “I think it worked quite well, though not as I’d expected.”. MITCH LILLIE. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7:30 pm Saturday and 5 pm Sunday, Jan. 19-20.

The Animal

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Lee Frost’s rarely seen, very nasty nudie film is a character study in perversion and psychological ruin. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Jan. 22.

Anna Karenina

B In the popular imagination, Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is a torrid love story about an impossible love affair between a married woman (Keira Knightley) and a dashing cavalry officer named Vronsky (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). But the novel is actually a much broader affair about the artifice of St. Petersburg and the dream of the noble life. Accordingly, Tom Stoppard and Joe Wright’s new film version places much of the moral heart with gentleman farmer Levin (Domhnall Gleeson)— love-struck by the much younger Kitty Oblonsky—and with Anna’s cuckolded husband, Karenin, played with pinched sadness by Jude Law. The initial scenes, set almost entirely in a theater, slip from tableau to gorgeously arranged tableau. These whip by at such a fast pace early in the film that all sense of reality and consequence is removed, even as many of the actors give genuine nuance to their roles. The most patient moments are spent in sadness or regret, aside from one truly touching moment of tenderness between Kitty and Levin, enacted with children’s wooden blocks. This beautiful film is noble in suffering but often terrible in triumph: Anna and Vronsky might chew the scenery in their doomed affair, but it is up to Law’s wounded Karenin to digest it. In counterpoint, farmer Levin’s self-revelation is in his willingness to live at all. While the men score their pained moral victories, the women are offered up as prizes or thrown on the bier. This is, indeed, a country for old men. R. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Hollywood, Fox Tower.

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. A decade ago, that sentence would have drawn laughs. But over the course of the three films he’s directed, Affleck has positioned himself as something of an auteur in the Michael Mann mold: slick, concise and able to tell complex stories in a straightforward manner, with subtly kinetic camera flourishes punctuating brilliant performances. From its opening sequence of rioters storming the U.S. embassy in Tehran to its white-knuckle finale, this is a film where suspense is rendered not through violence but emotional gravity. By not pandering to sentimentality, Affleck has taken what others would have turned into farce and emerged with one of the year’s best pictures. R. AP KRYZA. Clackamas, Forest, Lake Twin, Living Room Theaters, Bridgeport, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV.

Attack of the Flix

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, CONTEST] A monthly competition of local filmmakers. To participate, arrive an hour early with your under-10-minute flick in Apple TV 2 format. Curious Comedy Theater. 6 pm Sunday, Jan. 20.

Beasts of the Southern Wild

A In the Bathtub—the fictional

Louisiana bayou settlement that forms the backdrop and lifeblood of 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, an area certain authorities were seemingly happy to see drowned out of existence. Although showered with festival accolades, some have labeled the movie’s director and co-writer, a white Wesleyan graduate named Benh Zeitlin, a “cultural tourist.” It’s a dubious criticism, considering that where #Beasts# really takes us is on a tour of a child’s imagination. As far as we know, the Bathtub we experience only exists in the mind of Hushpuppy (dynamo first-timer Quvenzhané Wallis, already the subject of Oscar handicapping). And it’s got giant, mythical horned pigs in it, for crying out loud. Accusing Zeitlin of making—in the words of one critic—an “art-house minstrel show” is like accusing Maurice Sendak of misrepresenting imaginary monsters. The movie is a fable, not a documentary. It’s like Southern-fried, live-action Miyazaki. Is it messy? A bit. But like the Bathtub, that’s part of the film’s charm and power. It manipulates waterworks at its emotional climax, which isn’t necessary. Beasts clamps its jaws down on you long before then. MATTHEW SINGER. Laurelhurst.

Blind Husbands

[TWO NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] Erich von Stroheim’s directorial debut, made

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GHOSTBUSTER: Patrick Doyle, a local paranormal investigator, searches for spirits in an Eastern Oregon mine.

GHOSTS IN THE DARKNESS A PORTLAND PARANORMAL DETECTIVE SEARCHES FOR GOLD ON SYFY’S GHOST MINE. BY A P KRYZA

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We believe what we want to believe, especially in the world of the paranormal. Some will argue that something that goes bump in the night is a restless spirit. Others, like your carpenter, insist you need home improvements. Both conclusions are levied by businessmen with similar motivations. A paranormal investigator comes in with all kinds of gear and finds ghosts. A carpenter does the same and finds dry rot. Both want your money. And in both fields, there are honest practitioners and there are scammers. Portland paranormal investigator Patrick Doyle seems honest about convening with spirits—at least as honest as anyone with homemade equipment and a stoic stare can seem. The 32-year-old Illinois transplant with tatted arms and a ginger padlock goatee seems genuinely to believe in what he does, and he isn’t obsessed with changing minds. “You really can’t change a person’s beliefs,” Doyle says. “I’ve learned that. But you kind of sway them to start to think about it differently. Changing someone’s beliefs isn’t possible unless you take them out, have an investigation with them.” On SyFy Channel’s new Ghost Mine, he does just that. Doyle and co-investigator Kristen Luman follow a group of miners in Sumpter, Ore.’s Crescent Mine as they search for gold in a supposedly haunted hole. These roughneck miners ignore the warnings as long as they can. But they can’t ignore Doyle and Luman as they get all kinds of pseudoscientific and extremely serious. Doyle says the miners were blindsided by their presence, and a preview of the first episode seems to confirm it. We see big, burly dudes totally sidetracked—and slightly annoyed—by the investigators, who spent the full mining season with them. “When we were first introduced, you could tell in their eyes they were like, ‘What the hell are they doing here?’” Doyle says. “I think it was a big surprise that we were invited to be there.”

Doyle says none of the show—including the appearance of a shadow figure walking past a light grid—is scripted, but there’s definite influence from the network: An attractive red-haired female investigator tags along because superstitions mark redhaired women in a mine as bad luck. Production value is high, yet Travel Channel this ain’t, and there’s a dubious air of exploitation that can be hard to overcome. Doyle helps diffuse that. He’s a dude who produced a Web series in which he turned the camera on other investigators and equated their desire to see spirits with addiction. Sometimes people see what they want to see, and Doyle’s quick to call bullshit. He’s not a showman like John Edward,

“CHANGING SOMEONE’S BELIEFS ISN’T POSSIBLE UNLESS YOU TAKE THEM OUT.” —PATRICK DOYLE who exploited family misery on Crossing Over. He’s more akin to TC’s Ghost Adventures host Zak Bagans, who has a faux-hawk and a penchant for insisting that ghosts want to fuck him. Though not as showy as Bagans—or as obsessed with awakening undead wood—Doyle’s boyish enthusiasm lends Ghost Mine some credibility. He loves his gadgets, and his stone-faced seriousness when presenting findings belies genuine giddiness. “I have to say, the mine environment, and the evidence I collected, it’s all in the top five of stuff I’ve seen and heard,” he says. “I don’t want to give it away, but I have a device that I built for going into dangerous environments.… I took that and modified it to work in the mine. It worked beautifully.” Into the darkness Ghost Mine leads us, asking us to trust in the assessments of grim-talking ghostbusters whose equipment works because they say it works, despite being impossible to test scientifically. In a world of smoke and mirrors, the most interesting magicians are sometimes the ones who don’t think they’re magicians at all. SEE IT: Ghost Mine premieres Wednesday, Jan. 16, at 10 pm on SyFy. Willamette Week JANUARY 16, 2013 wweek.com

MOVIES

JAN. 16–22

F I R S T R U N F E AT U R E S

now in The Guilt Trip, a sweet trifle of a road picture/buddy comedy. The small twist on the formula is that these adventurers are a mother and son. Here, Rogen takes his loving but overbearing mom (a charming, dowdy Barbra Streisand) along for a cross-country ride as he attempts to sell an all-natural cleaning product. The catch is Rogen’s other agenda to reconnect Streisand with a longlost love. Beyond that, the film sticks close to convention: Tension arises, secrets get revealed, lessons are learned, and a montage or two fly by. The Guilt Trip is cinematic comfort food given some substance by the charming chemistry of its leads and a genuinely heartfelt, affecting interest in strong family bonds. Both should secure this film’s success on the overstuffed holiday film calendar. PG13. ROBERT HAM. Division.

ALICE in 1919, stars the auteur as an Austrian military officer who sets his eyes on another man’s wife. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm SundayMonday, Jan. 20-21.

Broken City

Russell Crowe plays a mayor who hires a private eye, played by Mark Wahlberg, to investigate his cheating wife. Screened after WW press deadlines, but look for Michael Nordine’s review on wweek.com. R. Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.

Charlie Is My Darling—Ireland 1965

[TWO NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] Digitally restored and beefed up with additional footage, this documentary follows the Rolling Stones over two days in Ireland. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Thursday-Friday, Jan. 17-18.

Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away

Impossibly flexible acrobats, rendered in 3-D. Not screened for critics. PG. Clackamas, Living Room Theaters, Movies on TV.

Django Unchained

B- Give Quentin Tarantino this much: He’s got balls. Imagine entering a meeting with a major studio and pitching a relentlessly violent, big-budget revenge fantasy about an escaped slave in the pre-Civil War South who slaughters his way through Confederate plantation owners in search of his wife. If nothing else, Django Unchained has audacity going for it. But it raises a question that, ultimately, makes it tough to enjoy: When dredging up the ugliest period of American history for the sake of entertainment, is being cool enough? Because Django Unchained is exceptionally cool. A mashed-up spaghetti Western and blaxploitation flick, it is the kind of kinetic pastiche job that’s made Tarantino a genre unto himself. It’s got tight, crackling dialogue, and three actors who revel in delivering it. It’s got a handful of images—such as a close-up of a slave owner’s blood misting across cotton bolls—that are among the best in the director’s oeuvre. It’s got original music by both Ennio Morricone and Rick Ross, and a slow-motion shootout set to a posthumous collaboration between Tupac and James Brown. Why, then, did I leave the theater feeling not exhilarated but empty? Django Unchained trivializes an atrocity, and that makes it hard to digest as fun, frivolous popcorn. Tarantino has taken it upon himself to offer an extreme form of catharsis for immense suffering, but the movie’s blood lust contains little trace of actual empathy. Its staggering runtime—two hours and 45 minutes— is earned only by its three lead actors. As the sociopath-cum-abolitionist Dr. King Schultz, Christoph Waltz makes Tarantino’s words sing. Jamie Foxx finds a captivating stoicism as Django. And Leonardo DiCaprio, playing a psychotic cloaked in Southern gentility, bites down with rotted teeth into a role of slimy, slithering, utterly unsubtle evil. With Django Unchained, Tarantino

has made another monument of cinematic cool. But has he made a responsible film? And does it matter? That, it turns out, is the biggest question of all. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Clackamas, CineMagic, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Movies on TV, Tigard, Wilsonville, St. Johns.

Do the Right Thing

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Spike Lee’s 1989 litmus test for race relations in Brooklyn. R. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Thursday, Jan. 17.

Faust

[TWO NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] The surrealist Czech filmmaker Jan Švankmajer blends live-action and clay animation in his take on the legend of Dr. Faustus. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Tuesday and 2 pm Sunday, Jan. 22 and 27.

Gangster Squad

C- Talk about a misfire. An extra-pulpy 1940s crime drama with visions of The Untouchables in its eyes, Gangster Squad aims for homage, but the impatient direction of Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland) lacks the grace and wit of a true noir. Based on the allegedly true story of an LAPD shadow unit that brought down one of the city’s most notorious crime lords, Gangster Squad stars Sean Penn as Mickey Cohen, a boxer-turned-psychopathic kingpin with a scowl permanently etched into his face. Seriously: The makeup gives Penn the look of a Dick Tracy villain, and he plays Cohen with attendant cartoonish malevolence. The new police chief (Nick Nolte, talking like he swallowed Tom Waits) gives Josh Brolin’s bullheaded but incorruptible Sgt. James O’Mara—a World War II vet for whom the war has not ended—the green light to engage in guerrilla combat with the previously untouchable Cohen. Ryan Gosling is a fellow vet for whom the war has ended and who is content to slurp cocktails and chase tail, but his usual smolder is snuffed by Will Beall’s underboiled script. Gangster Squad bulldozes from elevator brawls to jailbreaks to car chases to a needlessly showy slow-mo shootout in a hotel lobby, pausing only for perfunctory male bonding and clunky dialogue that spells out the half-baked theme of the thin division between the lawful and the lawless. When one character gives a shooting lesson by tossing a beer can in the air, the other character takes the easy shot after the can lands in the dirt. I think I know how that can feels. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Sandy, St. Johns.

The Guilt Trip

B Seth Rogen has spent much of the past five years trying to come out from under the long shadow of his mentor, Judd Apatow. But only recently has the Canadian actor become truly successful, via a restrained dramatic turn in Sarah Polley’s Take This Waltz, and

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A Haunted House

A Paranormal Activity spoof, starring Marlon Wayans and Cedric the Entertainer. Not screened for critics. R. Clackamas, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Sandy.

Hitchcock

C There’s an inherent danger in pulling back the curtain to reveal the puppeteers behind iconic art. It’s even trickier when the man is Alfred Hitchcock, whose reputation as a dry-witted prankster perfectly fit his skill at appealing to audiences’ fledgling fascination with grotesquerie and unease. With Hitchcock, rookie director Sacha Gervasi attempts to separate the public persona from the private life of Hitch alongside wife Alma Reville. Guess what: Old married couples are kind of boring…and so are cookie-cutter biopics. Anthony Hopkins cakes on the jowls to play Hitch as he tries to get his hugely controversial Psycho off the ground, latching onto the project despite the studio’s refusal to finance it and against the better judgment of Alma (Helen Mirren). The film is best when it focuses on Hitch on set, terrorizing Janet Leigh (Scarlett Johansson) and Vera Miles (Jessica Biel) while struggling to make others see the potential. But it skids to a halt when it turns to Hitch and Alma, who Hitch suspects is having an affair with a former writer. Hopkins and Mirren are excellent in their roles, with Mirren offering steely sass and Hopkins adding vulnerability to the legend, but the former Hannibal Lecter has little to work with, and instead of layering his showcase with nuance, he barely rises above caricature. To borrow Hitch’s favorite criticism: “It’s stillborn.” PG-13. AP KRYZA. Hollywood.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

B+ By the time Peter Jackson wrapped his sterling Lord of the Rings trilogy, audiences had spent nearly 12 hours in Middle Earth, marveling at the dense cinematic landscape. It was only a matter of time before J.R.R. Tolkien’s even more popular—and considerably lighter—novel The Hobbit hit the screen. Yet anyone expecting another LOTR installment or, even worse, The Phantom Hobbit, will be bowled over by the spectacle Jackson has produced. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey takes his penchant for sprawling panoramic views, large-scale melees and lingering shots of small men gazing into the distance and distills it through the eyes of young Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), prodded into adventure by the wizard Gandalf (a returning Ian McKellen, clearly enjoying himself). The mission: join a group of dwarves led by fallen king Thorin (a gruff Richard Armitage) to reclaim their mountain kingdom and its treasures from a gigantic dragon. “All good stories deserve embellishment,” Gandalf tells Bilbo, and it’s safe to say the film delivers in a talltale sense, from a game of wits with snarling cockney trolls to the infamous “Riddles in the Dark” sequence with a never-more-frightening Gollum (motion-captured by Andy Serkis to perfection). After a slow and decidedly kiddie start, The Hobbit moves at

the lightning pace of a chase movie intercut with stellar mini-adventures involving orcs astride wolves, gigantic spiders, soaring eagles and reanimated kings. It’s all anchored firmly by Freeman’s assured performance, which exudes charm and childlike fear. From the little man’s perspective, it all seems new again. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Wilsonville.

Holy Motors

A The end of the year is the time

when studios truck out their most prestigious fare: films with fat ideas, scenery-chewing acting and screenfilling spectacle. Yet with little fanfare, the arrival of one strange, poignant and thoroughly unshakeable piece of cinematic art has managed to emerge as the best film of 2012. It couldn’t have come from a more unlikely source: Leos Carax, the visionary French director whose last feature, Pola X, landed with such a resounding commercial and critical thud in 1999 that, until recently, no one would hire him. So with nothing to lose, and the financial backing of a half-dozen production companies, Carax went for broke on Holy Motors, using nearly two hours of screen time to comment wryly and sharply on the state of film and the entertainment industry. The main story follows M. Oscar (the craggy and lithe Denis Lavant, in a bravura performance), a gent who drifts through Paris in the back of a limousine and adopts various guises along the way. He emerges from the limo as an old woman begging for change on a bridge, a motion-capture artist in a skintight bodysuit and, in the most memorable sequence, as a mentally unstable homeless man who eats flowers and manages to kidnap Eva Mendes. By commenting on each era of the film industry—from its earliest experiments to modern CGI—and by using some of its reference points (look for the nod to the 1960 classic Eyes Without a Face at the end), the director urges viewers to remember how potent and indelible the art form can be. ROBERT HAM. Living Room Theaters.

Hyde Park on Hudson

B+ Like so many great romances in

history, the affair between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his cousin began with a timid hand job. At least, that’s how his paramour Daisy (Laura Linney) remembers it. In Hyde Park on Hudson, director Roger Michell brings us the tale of Margaret “Daisy” Suckley’s naughty exploits with distant relative FDR (Bill Murray), who thrills Daisy with wild rides through the woods near his mother’s upstate New York mansion in 1939. Leave it to Murray, though, to make something as icky as incest seem somehow sweet and forgivable. He’s an enchanting FDR, aglow with twinkle-eyed mischief and Poughkeepsian “huh-what’s” and “huhwhy’s.” His gaggle of doting ladies are well cast, three in particular: Linney’s skittish Daisy darts about with irritating but convincing anxiety; Olivia Williams becomes a ballsy and pragmatic Eleanor Roosevelt; and FDR’s mother (Elizabeth Wilson) is deliciously bitchy. Then into the covetous hubbub waltz the King and Queen of England, on their first visit to America, hoping to convince President Roosevelt to back them in World War II. With the help of rosy quips and a slew of martinis, FDR gets the prudish Brits to loosen up, making his way to the moral of this film: Whether you’re a king with a stutter, a lady with the hots for her cousin or a president in a wheelchair, the key is finding happiness in what is, rather than in what should be. Whatever helps you sleep at night, Mr. President. R. EMILY JENSEN. Hollywood, Fox Tower.

The Impossible

C It’s always tricky to criticize a film for what it fails to depict rather than for what it actually captures. But in The Impossible, the omission is so glaring that to disregard it would be to commit a similarly shortsighted act of complacency. Though it centers on the 2004 tsunami that ravaged Southeast

Asia and killed 230,000 people, Juan Antonio Bayona’s film is less a tale of cataclysmic human and environmental devastation than a troublingly narrow narrative about one white, privileged, European family whose vacation is spoiled by a crushing wall of water. As a disaster drama, it’s immersive and at points extraordinary: When the tsunami arrives, it crashes and swirls so violently that I was relieved the action wasn’t rendered in 3-D. The family of five, who minutes prior had been exchanging Christmas gifts and uninspired dialogue, is swept up in the surge. We witness the mother, Maria (Naomi Watts), receive a particularly vicious thrashing, spun as if in a blender and then flayed to the bone by debris. As she reunites with 12-year-old Lucas (Tom Holland), Bayona seems to think that lingering over dirty wounds and bloody flaps of skin can make up for Sergio G. Sánchez’s thin screenplay, but he’s fortunate to have Holland and Watts, who both give gritty, heartfelt performances. But the dramatic pull grows a bit sluggish when Bayona turns to Maria’s husband (Ewan McGregor), who does little more than stumble through rubble while hollering for his wife. Meanwhile, the few locals are relegated to window dressing, even as the film keeps reminding us that this is a “true story,” with those words appearing twice in the title credits. But did we need any “true story” of this colossal tragedy adapted for the big screen, least of all one of a lavish vacation gone wrong? Bayona need not have made a by-the-book docudrama or filled the screen with suffering Asians, but he ultimately allows sap and irresponsible flights of sensationalism to trump sensitivity. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Clackamas, Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall.

Jack Reacher

B- In the opening of this impeccably timed Tom Cruise vehicle, a sniper in Pittsburgh guns down five apparently random people. Detective Emerson (David Oyelowo) finds a wealth of evidence to convict a former soldier, James Barr (Joseph Sikora). But instead of pleading guilty, Barr scrawls a cryptic note: “Get Jack Reacher.” Reacher (Cruise) is a military copturned-drifter. The character, created by author Lee Childs, was born out of pulp: intimidating, 6-foot-5 and blond, and preternaturally gifted in investigation, krav maga, marksmanship and general ass-kicking. But at some point in the casting process, writerdirector Christopher McQuarrie must have said, “Fuck it, let’s just get Tom Cruise.” When Reacher shows up in the Steel City, he finds himself appointed the lead investigator by Barr’s defense attorney (Rosamund Pike, reduced to little more than looking sexy and growing aroused as Reacher unravels the mysteries of the case). Jack Reacher has some serious moments, including some gruesome hand-tohand combat, but it also has a sense of humor about itself. This is a movie with a high-speed car chase between cop cars and modern sedans in which Cruise inexplicably drives a ’70s muscle car. The brutal Russian mob is kept in line by the iron fist of an aging former Siberian prisoner (Werner Herzog) with a pronounced German accent and gnawed-off fingers. There are two ways to approach this film: either as a ludicrous vanity picture for an over-the-hill movie star with a serious Napoleon complex, or a work of high camp. You may expect the former, but be prepared to cackle at the latter. PG-13. JOHN LOCANTHI. Clackamas, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV.

Jaws

[ONE DAY ONLY, REVIVAL] Time for a swim! PG. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 4 pm Saturday, Jan. 19.

Kakoon

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Locally made on a shoestring budget, Sean Brown’s exploitation film follows siblings obsessed with mummification. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Tuesday, Jan. 22.

The Land Before Time

[TWO DAYS ONLY, REVIVAL] Littlefoot

JAN. 16–22

Les Misérables

D Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables lives up to its name. With the exception of about 10 minutes, the nearly threehour film is an endless wallow in the fields of squalor, filth, chancre and herpes. Derived from Victor Hugo’s humanitarian novel, already a doorstop weepie, Les Miz is in musical form a bathetic pressure washer loaded with human tears. In Hooper’s (The King’s Speech) loose directorial grip, this water cannon jerks itself around as in an old Looney Tunes cartoon, spraying the world with salty liquid. As the saintly thief-gone-noble Jean Valjean pursued by the relentless Javert (Russell Crowe) through the streets of 19th-century France, Hugh Jackman is a terrifically convincing physical presence. But he is hobbled by Hooper’s decision to have the actors sing every line. Jackman is more a song-and-dance man than a balladeer, and his trilling over-enunciation bleeds his character of any possible nuance. Crowe, likewise, sounds less like a punctilious follower of the law than a bar-band bellower who needs a drink. Despite some expensivelooking overhead shots of degraded French life, Hooper’s epic film is centered doggedly on the suffering found in a human face. In the case of Anne Hathaway as the dying prostitute Fantine, this is a wise decision. She becomes a Jeanne D’Arc figure, ruined and beatific, sobbingly and haltingly wresting “I Dreamed a Dream” from Susan Boyle with the imperfections of her rendition. Les Miz is, more than anything, painfully obvious Oscar bait. In shooting relentlessly for a statuette, Hooper makes all of humanity into much the same thing: heavy and small, shining on the surface but just plain dead on the inside. PG-13. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

The Last Stand

Kim Jee-Woon directs Arnold Schwarzenegger as a sheriff hunting down a drug kingpin. Screened after WW press deadlines, but look for AP Kryza’s review at wweek.com. R. Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.

Life of Pi

C Ignore the tiger for a moment. Ang Lee’s Life of Pi is a very simple story with a grandiose backdrop. For much of the film, we’re alone on a lifeboat, in the middle of the Pacific, with a boy and a Bengal. Rendered in sumptuous 3-D, the swoony special effects and churning waves create a palpable sense of motion. But the story lacks such pull. Based on Yann Martel’s Booker Prize-winning novel, the film surrenders the book’s more subtle messages for ham-handed schlock and slack-jawed awe. And unlike better feel-good films, which slowly lock their fangs around your heart, Life of Pi seems downright manipulative. It begins in French India, where Pi’s family owns a zoo. After some clunky exposition, the family loads its menagerie onto a ship bound for Canada, but a massive storm lands Pi on a lifeboat with the aforementioned tiger. Visually, this is where the film picks up: The ocean swirls with phosphorescent plankton and jellyfish, a shimmering whale glides across the frame and the starry sky blurs with the glistening sea. Such sequences call to mind those Ravensburger jigsaw puzzles of underwater scenes with glowing moons and rainbow-hued fish. Less successfully, they reminded me of the neon Lisa Frank dolphin stickers I used to slap on my elementary-school notebooks. As Pi, newcomer Suraj Sharma deserves praise, and not just because he spends the majority of his scenes with a CGI tiger (which, it must be said, looks pretty realistic). But structurally, Life of Pi is—like the one it features onscreen—a shipwreck. Tedious

scenes of an adult Pi and a Canadian author (presumably Martel) frame the film’s dramatic center, making the allegorical conceit all the schmaltzier. When at sea, Life of Pi’s grand visuals pick up some of the story’s slack. But back on land, it just runs aground. PG. REBECCA JACOBSON. Clackamas, Cinema 21, Lloyd Center, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Movies on TV, Tigard.

Lincoln

B Lincoln opens with a shot of

Abraham’s very large, very statuesque head. As the camera pans to the front, the effect is startling. Though the 16th president has been put to film many times before, no one has looked the part like Daniel DayLewis. He’s a ringer: hollowed cheeks, slightly unruly mop of hair, a creased forehead and heavy brow. So when Day-Lewis first moves and speaks, it’s weirdly disquieting. But the initial shock of a reanimated Abe quickly fades, because Day-Lewis’ portrayal goes beyond physical likeness: His performance is brilliantly malleable, fully inhabited and deeply transfixing. It’s Oscar bait of the highest order. The same can’t be said for all of Lincoln. Though Steven Spielberg’s stately drama is shrewd, balanced and impressively restrained, it’s also uneven and dogged by a waxy stuffiness, made worse by Janusz Kaminski’s cinematography, which is so dark and blue it looks bruised. Focusing on the fight to abolish slavery in the first few months of 1865, the film turns in mesmerizing moments of political wheeling and dealing, as well as blistering debates and brazen name-calling on the House floor—it’s C-SPAN with waistcoats and muttonchops. More like a stage production than a Spielbergian spectacle, some of the best dialogue comes during the boisterous House vote on the 13th Amendment. Though we know the result, Spielberg manages to imbue the scene with moral complexity and gripping tension, as well as rowdy humor. It’s both inspirational and disheartening: Could contemporary politicians overcome such partisan gridlock? “Say all we’ve done is shown the world that democracy isn’t chaos?” Lincoln asks at one point. Nearly 150 years on, can we claim the same? PG13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Clackamas, Lloyd Center, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Movies on TV, Tigard, Sandy.

Looper

A Brain-bending sci-fi loses its snap

when treated like homework, but you won’t really understand Looper unless you prepare by watching a few episodes of Moonlighting. They will prime you to better appreciate the lead Looper performance of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who delivers a precise, slyly parodic mimicry of Bruce Willis circa 1987. Gordon-Levitt has been a regularly mesmeric actor for the last decade, so it’s peculiar that his breakthrough comes from impersonating an icon. But that paradox fits the aims of director Rian Johnson, who used Gordon-Levitt as a teenage Sam Spade in Brick, and with Looper throws 100 years of film noir into a blender. The picture is set in the future—2040, with a brief discursion to 2070—but it is breathlessly in love with movies past. Early buzz is praising the originality, but Johnson has in fact succeeded at repurposing familiar elements in unusually satisfying ways. Forget neo-noir: This is retroneo-futurist noir. In resurrecting sights and faces we never thought we’d see afresh, Looper knows what movie lovers always feel: The past is never dead. It’s not even past. And it’s got a gun. R. AARON MESH. Laurelhurst.

Magnificent Obsession

A- [TWO DAYS ONLY, REVIVAL] Magnificent Obsession, the most brilliantly bonkers of all the “women’s weepies,” makes Love Story look like a staid documentary. Douglas Sirk’s 1954 film starts with Rock Hudson crashing a high-speed boat, then moves on to a heart attack, a streetside collapse, a car accident that leaves a widow blind, a botched suicide, a mistaken-identity love affair, some weird Episcopalian version of Scientology presided over

by a father figure who in other films would be playing the devil, decades of devoted chastity, emergency brain surgeries and countless bodies wracked by heaving sobs. Sirk’s peculiar genius is to create a world in which all of this makes perfect sense. Like any good German director, he makes his entire filmic world conspire in portraying his characters’ torrential feelings; the screen is bathed in light or drowned in shadow, the soothing swell of strings is never far, and the entire production is filmed with the diabolical patience of a suspense thriller. Calamity is, after all, ever near. One doesn’t need to know Hudson’s sexual identity to understand that this flick was an exercise in tautly controlled, ironized camp even as it arrived in the 1950s: The amorous relationship between Hudson and co-star Jane Wyman is a neardemonic love of a son for his mother. In Obsession, Hollywood’s crazy-foryou romantic ideal becomes, finally, merely insane. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Friday and 2 pm Sunday, Jan. 18 and 20.

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is the cutest dinosaur there ever was. G. Hollywood Theatre. 2:30 pm Saturday-Sunday, Jan. 19-20.

Mama

Jessica Chastain goes goth in this Andres Muschietti-directed, Guillermo del Toro-produced horror film. Screened after WW press deadlines, but look for AP Kryza’s review at wweek.com. PG-13. Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Living Room Theaters, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.

Moon

[THREE DAYS ONLY] Sam Rockwell harvests moon gas in Duncan Jones’ sci-fi thriller. R. Fifth Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday, 3 pm Sunday, Jan. 18-20.

The Mulberry Tree

[ONE DAY ONLY] A convicted murderer dying of AIDS provides hope to a man who killed his best friend while driving drunk. R. Clinton Street Theater. 4 pm Sunday, Jan. 20.

New Jerusalem

B- [TWO NIGHTS ONLY] The only

thing worse than being hounded by a pushy evangelical Christian is being hounded by a pushy evangelical Christian with a creepy blond mustache. In New Jerusalem, poor Sean Murphy (Colm O’Leary), a scruffy Irishman recently back from military service in Afghanistan, deals with just such a character, a mouth-breathing Bible thumper by the name of Ike (Will Oldman). As the two work side-byside at a tire shop in podunk Virginia, Ike desperately tries to herd Sean’s wayward soul into God’s flock—a flock that, at least in this town, drinks Mountain Dew in church and has designated hand gestures to go along with the lyrics of each hymn. “I want you to be....right,” Ike pleads, handing Sean a taped recording of him reading the Bible aloud. Sean grimaces complacently, dismissing Ike’s sweet but overbearing offers of salvation. If director and co-writer Rick Alverson could have wrought a more dynamic story, O’Leary and Oldman’s gripping performances might not have been obscured by the film’s hollow nebulosity. In the torpor of New Jerusalem’s plodding ruminations on faith and religion, I found myself checking my watch every few minutes, wondering—much like Sean—where we were going, and when it would end. EMILY JENSEN. Clinton Street Theater. 7 and 9 pm Saturday-Sunday, Jan. 19-20 .

Old Goats

B- Panning a film like Old Goats feels a bit like pushing your crotchety grandfather down a flight of stairs: No matter how much he may deserve it, it’s just a mean thing to do. A sliceof-life picture about finding purpose in late adulthood, it means exceedingly well. It’s the product of a firsttime director working with a paltry budget, and it stars a trio of elderly non-actors, each playing a fictionalized version of himself and improvising

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MOVIES

ALL IN THE FAMILY: Léa Seydoux (center) and Kacey Mottet Klein play sister and brother.

SISTER Amid the blinding alpine light, 12-yearold Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein) scans the merchandise from behind ski goggles and a mask, his disguise in the Swiss film Sister. His name on the slopes is Julien. He nonchalantly takes skis, helmets, goggles, gloves, sunglasses and sandwiches from the racks and backpacks of a ritzy Swiss ski lodge. Their unseen owners chatter away in multilingual patter, oblivious to the thefts. Simon examines the merchandise in a restroom stall with all the diligence of a gypsy jeweller, throwing broken and worn items into the toilet before relaxing on the can with pilfered tea and sandwiches. Selling the goods to the neighborhood kids is Simon’s job, while his unemployed older sister Louise (Léa Seydoux) zips off to drink with her various boy toys. They live together, without adult supervision. Mike (Martin Compston) is a British seasonal worker who gives Simon an expanded adult market for his wares. But when Simon meets Kristin (Gillian Anderson, Scully of X-Files fame), mother to two happy boys, he is moved to confront Louise about a series of lies that, when unraveled, will transform the way viewers examine the siblings’ relationship. Family and class dynamics are the key drivers in the aptly titled Sister. Louise can’t hold down a job, so it’s Simon’s sales of “secondhand” ski equipment that buy the groceries—and fuel Louise’s days-long binges with her boyfriends. She pays him back much later, by miserably plodding off to work as a cleaner. Social strata are physical. Above, either snow flurries or sun grace the rich who inhabit the Olympian paradise of Swiss ski resorts. Below, people like Simon and Louise live in a cramped apartment tower, the brown-and-flat expanse of the valley floor primarily devoted to churning factories and highways. Such a rigid duality, no matter how well-structured, is bound to put enormous stresses on whatever or whomever crosses the border, in this case Klein’s Simon. If it weren’t for the joyless expression on Klein’s face as he sells his goods, it would be difficult to believe his character steals out of necessity rather than greed. And if it weren’t for Klein’s composed haggling with men twice his age, Simon would come off as immature. Klein, though, succeeds in his role as protagonist, thanks in no small part to the direction of Ursula Meier, who also worked with Klein in 2008’s Home. If there is an antagonist in Sister, it’s Louise. We meet her as she steps out of a car, cursing at the driver and calling him a creep. “I’m tipsy, Simon,” she says, walking home and urinating on the roadside. She lies to all her boyfriends, claiming Simon is temporarily staying with her. As an even bigger lie emerges, it’s hard not to feel both revulsion and pity for her. Seydoux has got rage down pat, screaming, “You’re a ball and chain!” at Simon repeatedly, but other emotions are a little flat. The two are stuck with each other, and Sister’s biggest success is avoiding mawkishness while still remaining, at its heart, an emotionally charged film that examines the faults and triumphs of broken families. After meeting Simon, Mike asks: “What about your parents? Haven’t they got any money?” Julian replies, stone-faced: “I have no parents. Only a sister.” MITCH LILLIE. Stealing more than just your skis.

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MOVIES

JAN. 16–22

UNIVERSAL PICTURES

Red Dawn

C- A lot can happen in three years,

MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION most of the way through their roles. If there’s such a thing as a criticproof movie, it’s this one. But, if we wish to remain honest, it must be said that Old Goats putters through its 90 minutes without telling much of a story. Focusing on a few weeks in the lives of three retirees—an aspiring memoirist clinging to his playboy lifestyle well into his 80s; a socially awkward bachelor who lives on a decrepit boat; a relatively younger, middle-class office worker just beginning to cope with life post-job—the film cycles through a series of artlessly shot golf games, dinner parties and coffee-shop conversations, strung together by jokes about senior dating and struggles with newfangled technology. Britt Cosley, as the lonely guy who sleeps at the docks, has a remarkably sympathetic face, and Bob Burkholder is really great at calling people assholes. Ultimately, though, watching Old Goats is sort of like getting stuck in a conversation with a kindly senior citizen on the bus: You smile and nod, but the entire time you’re checking your watch and searching for an excuse to switch seats. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters.

Parental Guidance

C- Artie Decker (Billy Crystal), the longtime announcer for Fresno’s minor-league baseball team, has just been fired. The aging Decker didn’t post on Facebook or tweet enough to satisfy management. And let’s not even discuss the last time he “hashtagged.” During the screening, an elderly woman sitting behind me snorted and turned to a small child: “I bet you know what all those terms meant,” she said. That, in a nutshell, is the target audience: old people who still find Crystal funny and children who don’t know any better. Bette Midler is also here for people who remember the ’80s and early ’90s. Parental Guidance even features a cameo by Tony Hawk, the Billy Crystal of skateboarding. Upon discovering they’re the second-tier grandparents, Midler and Crystal descend upon their daughter’s (Marisa Tomei) fully automated household to take care of their quirky grandkids while Tomei and her husband are out of town. The two out-of-touch grandparents bond with the kids and learn to become better parents. Tired technology jokes aside, this is a fairly pleasant, predictable and feel-good holiday movie. Even a Grinch like me chuckled a few times. PG. JOHN LOCANTHI. Clackamas, Forest, Bridgeport, Division, Movies on TV, Sherwood..

Playing for Keeps

C- Divorce can be hard on a young child. It only grows more awkward when your father is a washed-up Scottish soccer star who “gets more ass than a toilet seat.” In Playing for Keeps, Gerard Butler stars as George Dryer, a former superstar who has recently moved to Virginia to bond with his son and rescue his ex-wife, Stacie (Jessica Biel), from the dreaded clutches of her fiancé. Dryer’s main parenting duty is chauffeuring his son to and from soccer practice. The youth team itself, the Cyclones, has fallen on hard times. The kids didn’t win a game last year,

and a frustrated Dryer seizes the coaching job of the team through a bloodless coup. The Cyclones start winning games, and along the way, Dryer is hounded by an all-star lineup of ’90s bombshells who have matured into hot, albeit troubled, soccer moms (Catherine Zeta-Jones, Uma Thurman, Judy Greer). Dryer’s Scottish accent, rocking bod, thick and wavy locks, and his commitment to helping children make him irresistible to these venerable vixens—and presumably to the target audience for this film. Unluckily for the horny moms, Dryer is still very much in love with his ex-wife, which he proves by banging only a few of them. Playing for Keeps meanders through its 106minute runtime, never entirely certain whether it wants to be a feel-good comedy or a serious family drama. But now if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go sign up to coach youth soccer and get in on this soccermom action. PG-13. JOHN LOCANTHI. Portlander.

Promised Land

B There are shots in Gus Van Sant’s

Promised Land that could be mistaken for shots in 1991’s My Own Private Idaho: beautiful pastoral scenes, rolling country roads, the filmmaker’s signature time-lapse clouds. But where Idaho evokes Shakespeare and surrealism, Promised Land is a more humble film, about a farm boy-turnedcorporate salesman named Steve (Matt Damon) who travels to small American towns and buys up land to drill for natural gas. But as he goes door to door convincing the blue-collar Pennsylvania townsfolk that natural gas promises an economic windfall, Steve begins to question his own silver-tongued pitch. It’s a familiar narrative arc—likable corporate villain undergoes crisis of conscience— executed skillfully and sympathetically, though hampered by a few preachy incidents and some dubious plot twists late in the film. As Steve, Damon (who also wrote the screenplay, along with fellow star John Krasinski) gives a characteristically genuine performance, trilling a consistent refrain: “I’m not a bad guy.” But when high-school science teacher— and former Boeing engineer—Frank Yates (a reliably twinkly Hal Holbrook) whips out some damning data on fracking, Steve flails. The real trouble, though, arrives in the form of the improbably named Dustin Noble (Krasinski), a slightly smarmy charmer who further peeves Steve by snaring pretty elementary schoolteacher Alice (a good-spirited but dramatically superfluous Rosemarie DeWitt). Though Van Sant’s assured direction allows the drama to build quietly, Promised Land can’t help but wear its heart on its sleeve, and in the third act succumbs to a cheap shock. In a picture that’s otherwise well-acted, well-intentioned and handsomely shot, such late-in-the-game manipulations of storytelling leave a sour taste. Van Sant has called Promised Land his opportunity to make a movie in the spirit of Frank Capra, but the machinations of Damon and Krasinski’s screenplay have done him a disservice. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Bridgeport, Fox Tower.

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which is about how long the remake of John Milius’ Cold War fantasy Red Dawn sat on the shelf, due to MGM’s financial woes. For one, your enemies can become big movie markets, forcing you to digitally replace Chinese flags with North Korean ones during an invasion of Spokane that prompts a group of teens to take up arms. On the upside, the film’s delay has seen Chris Hemsworth’s star rise from unknown to God of Thunder, but even Thor himself seems lost in the mess (and not at all comfortable in Patrick Swayze’s big-ass shoes). It’s only natural that the kids compare their experiences to Call of Duty—that video game is basically the setting for the movie, right down to the incoherent action, endless hordes of foreign combatants and plentiful explosions triggered by teens. Yet it’s no fun. Granted, Milius’ story of Russkies hitting us in the homeland was an alarmist hunk of jingoism, but at least the iconic image of tanks outside a McDonald’s spoke to true American fears. Here, we’re hit with an utterly implausible threat. If the film wanted to speak to our modern fears effectively, maybe director Dan Bradley could have used those three lost years to install some CGI Wall Street bankers in those tanks. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Avalon, Mt. Hood.

Reel Eats: Martin Luther King Jr. Tribute

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Setting aside films about food for this installment, the monthly series screens King: A Filmed Record...From Montgomery to Memphis. Clinton Street Theater. 7:30 pm Monday, Jan. 21.

Rise of the Guardians

C As with any successful children’s book, it was only a matter of time before Hollywood set its sights on adapting The Guardians of Childhood series. These novels follow the adventures of the titular defenders—Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny, among others—as they seek to protect the purity and joy of young people around the globe. And, as you might expect, much of the arch weirdness and fantastical beauty that author William Joyce is known for has been shorn off and replaced with over-thetop humor, blowsy voice acting and a tidy but trite narrative. In the film, the evil Pitch (voiced by Jude Law) threatens to blanket the spirit of the world’s children in blackness, a move that compels the Guardians to join forces and defend their charges. As they do, they bring a new Guardian into the mix: the creator of winter chaos, Jack Frost (a whiny-sounding Chris Pine). If you can’t figure out what happens from there, you haven’t seen enough movies. Still, the journey is pleasant enough, thanks to some pretty incredible animation and some surprisingly dark moments that might spook or confuse younger attendees. PG. ROBERT HAM. Clackamas, Movies on TV, Sherwood.

A Royal Affair

B For a country best known to Americans for its progressive social policies and its invention of Lego blocks, Denmark wasn’t always at the liberal and intellectual vanguard. In the late 18th century, as the rest of Europe crept out of the mud and murk of feudalism, Denmark remained a repressive state, with a reactionary elite ruling over a population of poor peasants and serfs. Nikolaj Arcel’s A Royal Affair introduces us to a true story from this time, a love triangle among the mentally unstable and infantile Danish king Christian VII; his Englishborn wife, Caroline Mathilda; and the forward-thinking, German-born physician Johann Struensee, who becomes an adviser to Christian and a paramour to Caroline. A brainy bodice-ripper of a tale, it’s stuffed with sumptuous costumes, masked balls and fevered discussion of Rousseau and Voltaire. Struensee is a devotee of these Enlightenment thinkers, and as he ingratiates himself to Christian, the king becomes a pawn who pushes through his puppet master’s radical reforms. Likewise, it’s the passion of

the mind, rather than of the body, that draws together Caroline and Struensee—despite the film’s title, their illicit romance isn’t terribly spicy. As Struensee, Mads Mikkelsen’s searing eyes and cut-from-stone jaw—hell, even his jutting cheekbones—exude broody passion, but Alicia Vikander’s Caroline is a bit spiritless. Mikkel Boe Folsgaard turns in an absorbing performance as the alternately feeble and malicious king (he also creepily calls Caroline “Mother”), but for all its lush details and historical richness, A Royal Affair suffers from an overlong running time and scenes of oddly excessive restraint. Like Vikander, it’s terribly pretty but just a tad flat. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Living Room Theaters.

Rust and Bone

B+ Rust and Bone’s soundtrack fea-

tures Bon Iver, “Love Shack” by the B-52’s, and Katy Perry’s “Firework.” Such contrivances are rivaled only by the film’s implausible premise: A driven trainer of orcas (Marion Cotillard), who has just lost her legs in a freak accident at a Sea Worldlike park on the French Riviera, falls in love with a thuggish drifter (Matthias Schoenaerts). It sounds like a romantic melodrama that’s been sprinkled with Free Willy dust and set to a college freshman’s road-trip playlist. And yet, in this film about beating the odds, both soundtrack and plot manage to do just that. Schoenaerts’ character, Ali, is a nightclub bouncer who breaks up a fight involving Cotillard’s Stephanie and escorts her home, nonchalantly commenting that she’s dressed like a whore. When he notes the photos of whales, she spits back: “You’re surprised a whore can train orcas.” But the relationship doesn’t build until after Stephanie’s catastrophe. Writer-director Jacques Audiard doesn’t really explain what impels Stephanie to phone Ali after losing her legs, but by this point, we don’t care. We’ve seen each character broken— Stephanie physically and Ali spiritually—and their union feels hard-won. Cotillard turns in a phenomenal, intoxicating performance. With eyes that simultaneously exude warmth and steeliness, she conveys Stephanie’s anguish, shame and eventual embrace of pleasure with raw energy and vulnerability. Rust and Bone recalls The Sessions, another recent picture about sex and disability. In both, what begins as an act of physical therapy for a single character becomes hard-fought emotional rehabilitation for both participants. Based on a true story, The Sessions has a leg up on Rust and Bone, but the latter pummels and tenses in ways the former doesn’t. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Fox Tower.

Seven Psychopaths

A- In 2008, playwright-turned-film-

maker Martin McDonagh pulled off a nifty directorial trick with In Bruges: He made a crime comedy with soul. Seven Psychopaths, McDonagh’s follow-up, is also a crime comedy, but it’s not at all the same film. It is, in a lot of ways, the exact movie #In Bruges# wasn’t. It is highly aware of its own existence: Colin Farrell’s character is a creatively blocked, alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter, not coincidentally named Martin, wrestling with how to turn an unwritten script prematurely titled Seven Psychopaths into a “life-affirming” work of art. It’s also grisly—death comes via chainsaw, hacksaw, self-immolation and straight razor—and not particularly concerned with emotional complexity. In short, it’s a lot like all those other post-Pulp Fiction crime comedies where the criminals talk incessantly about movies while the movie talks incessantly about itself. And yet, it works. Maybe not to the degree of In Bruges, which truly seemed new and special. But McDonagh would have to fail pretty terribly to screw up a picture starring Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell as high-profile dognappers, Woody Harrelson as a Shih Tzu-loving gangster, and Tom Waits as a vigilante serial killer with a thing for white rabbits. No, Seven Psychopaths—the movie, not the movie within the movie—is not a “lifeaffirming” work of art. It’s simply crazy fun. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Academy, Laurelhurst.

Silver Linings Playbook

A- With his first two pictures—1994’s

Spanking the Monkey and 1996’s Flirting With Disaster—director David O. Russell showed a mastery of familial discomfort, bringing to life the hilarity of tense situational extremes. In his mainstream work—the excellent boxing drama The Fighter and war-film deconstruction Three Kings—he demonstrated a keen eye for the comic potential of the self-destruction of the family unit. With Silver Linings Playbook, Russell revisits these themes and emerges with one of filmdom’s funniest stories of crippling manic depression. If Frank Capra had made an R-rated flick for the Prozac generation, it would look like this. The film follows the social reacclimation of Philly schoolteacher Pat (Bradley Cooper), who is institutionalized after beating his wife’s lover half to death. Pat forms an unlikely relationship with widow Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), who doggedly tries to win his affections despite the fact that he’s set on winning back the unwilling wife. Silver Linings strikes a delicate balance. This is a film that invites uncomfortable giggles at mental illness before exploding into frightening reality, as when a meet-cute segues into a terrifying domestic incident, with Cooper delivering an Oscar-caliber breakdown set to a Led Zeppelin song. As Pat’s loving dad with a history of violence, Robert De Niro lends a crushing and funny layer to an already marvelously dense story. As a family drama, Silver Linings is top tier. As a romance, it’s blissfully unconventional. And as a foulmouthed ode to classic Hollywood, well, Capra would have fucking approved. R. AP KRYZA. Clackamas, Cornelius, Lake Twin, Moreland, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.

Skyfall

A- James Bond should be forgiven a

little creakiness. Ian Fleming’s superspy has spent 22 films and 50 years getting punched and shot. His jet lag has to be excruciating. Let’s not even think of the wear on the old horndog’s nethers. But any concern about the franchise’s relevance is silenced within two seconds of Skyfall, which picks up in the middle of a batshit chase culminating in one of the most inventive train-top melees since young Indiana Jones rode the rails. Bond (Daniel Craig) is presumed dead and loving it: His days consist of anonymous sex and blackout benders. He snaps to when terrorists targeting boss M (Judi Dench) hit MI6 headquarters, and to its very last moment, Skyfall brilliantly maintains the gritty modernist aesthetic of Casino Royale while injecting elements that were largely absent in that installment, including gadgetry, sass and humor. Director Sam Mendes subtly humanizes Bond by focusing on his relationship with M while keeping up a breakneck pace. Cinematographer Roger Deakins brings verve to each sequence, particularly a neon-drenched fistfight in a high-rise and a prolonged shootout at a creaky Scottish manor. Each action sequence is shot wide and with the precise choreography of a dance. Skyfall also delivers an appropriately megalomaniacal villain in the creepy, bleached-blond Javier Bardem, a crazed, revenge-bent computer whiz with an itchy trigger finger and an Oedipus complex that would make Norman Bates cringe. As Bond, Craig brings a hard-edged cockiness and well-earned swagger in one of the year’s most crackling adventure films, which is also one of the super-spy’s most satisfying outings and proof that you can indeed teach an old horndog new tricks. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Clackamas, Indoor Twin, Bridgeport, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Pioneer Place.

Texas Chainsaw 3D

C There isn’t that much chainsaw action in Texas Chainsaw 3D. In most other regards, though, it functions exactly as you’d expect. As with most latter-day slashers, John Luessenhop’s iteration of the genre-defining series is

more gory than scary. After an initially confusing montage made up of footage from Tobe Hooper’s 1974 original that establishes this as a direct sequel, the film eases into a stage-setting first act that creates a passably tense atmosphere. Like many horror movies, though, Texas Chainsaw 3D is better at ominously hinting at events to come than actually delivering them—and besides, watching a man-child with a chainsaw both outrun and outwit a group of able-bodied teens is only believable (or frightening) up to a point. Danger comes from both the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface and the badge-wearing cops, an angle that gradually (and effectively) reverses our sympathy. This is an artless exercise, yes, but it’s also sporadically successful in its attempts to expand on the Leatherface mythos in a newish way. Surprisingly, the film ends up more enjoyable for its thicker-than-water subtext than for its requisite chainsaw violence, and Texas Chainsaw 3D is the rare superfluous sequel whose filmmaker actually seems familiar with (and invested in) the original material enough to put a worthwhile spin on it. It no doubt benefits from low expectations, but it turns out that this is the best bad slasher in quite a while. R. MICHAEL NORDINE. Clackamas, Division, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV.

The Sessions

A- Sex and disability are murky

waters for film. How does a filmmaker depict sex involving disabled people without gawking or needlessly inflating the event’s significance? 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 brought generous skepticism to The Sessions, based on the true story of Mark O’Brien (John Hawkes), a polio survivor who has spent most of his life in an iron lung. At age 38, Mark decides to lose his virginity and hires a sex surrogate to guide him through the deed. Hawkes is astonishing: He spends the entire film on his back, head cranked at a 90-degree angle and spine contorted, but his wheezy voice and expressive eyes convey deep wells of pain and self-consciousness along with biting wit. The scenes with the sex surrogate, Cheryl, played with bravery and guarded emotion by Helen Hunt, are surprising and affecting. Rather than glorifying sex or treating it with clinical coldness, writer-director Ben Lewin charts Mark’s quest with grace, warmth and wry humor. Lewin could have stood to give his unapologetically uplifting 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. Academy, Bagdad, Kennedy, Laurelhurst, Valley.

This Is 40

B Judd Apatow’s latest undertaking revisits Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann), the churlish yet lovable couple first introduced in Knocked Up. The story picks up a few years after that rom-com, and though its tagline suggests otherwise, This Is 40 is not even “sort of” a sequel. Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl are nowhere to be found, nor is there any mention of their characters. The hilariously fiery dynamic between Pete and Debbie, however, is here in full force. Pete and Debbie are turning 40 within a week of each other, and both make the middleaged years look absolutely terrifying. Their lives are a depressing stew

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Threads

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] The 1984 BBC-produced television docudrama is a chilling, speculative tale of nuclear holocaust. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Monday, Jan. 21.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2

C- The first Twilight hit theaters in 2008, a gentler time when fans of supernatural romance had less to choose from when it came to fanged and clawed eye candy. But nowadays, most people know what a “Sookie” is (not to mention were-panther sex). Even crap like Teen Wolf and Beauty&the Beast gets the reboot treatment. A little sparkle just doesn’t cut it in 2012. And maybe that’s why the last installment in this eternal love story feels so halfhearted and painfully plodding, like a Lifetime movie remake of itself. All Breaking Dawn Part 2 does is confirm that Edward and his family (newly undead bride Bella included) are one boring bunch of bloodsuckers. This time, the brood’s newest member—Edward and Bella’s vamphuman baby, Renesmee—is threatened by the evil masters of the undead, the Volturi. A handful of delicious moments come, as usual, from Michael Sheen, who plays villainous Volturi head Aro as a tittering, red-eyed mouse from crazy town with a Napoleon complex. As in past Twi-movies, he seems to be the only member of the cast not taking the convoluted plot or wooden dialogue at all seriously and therefore is awesome. Similar to Breaking Dawn Part 1, which was saved by an amazing vampire C-section scene, Part 2 is somewhat redeemed by a surprisingly clever and bloody third act that seems to gleefully incinerate whole chunks of writer Stephenie Meyer’s original plotline. Purists will be incensed (briefly) while the rest of us bored stiffs warm to the sight of multiple decapitations and an honest-togoodness river of lava. But don’t

worry—in the end there are eventually kisses. And love. Endless love. Put a stake in it already, will ya? PG-13. KELLY CLARKE. Indoor Twin, Mt. Hood, Movies on TV.

VHS for President

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A politically themed assortment of video clips, which still (of course) include nudity, melodrama and Buddy Ebsen (better known as Jed Clampett). Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Thursday, Jan. 17.

Zero Dark Thirty

A- For all the talk about torture

Zero Dark Thirty has generated, you’d be forgiven for thinking director Kathryn Bigelow spends 157 minutes depicting detainees being waterboarded, strung up with ropes and crammed into confinement boxes. This is, of course, not the case. The majority of the film is an intricate police procedural about the decadelong hunt for Osama bin Laden, with a 30-minute climax depicting the assault on his Abbottabad compound. But those scenes of torture, front-loaded in the first third of the film, dredge up such challenging, uncomfortable and important moral questions it’s no wonder they’ve dominated discussion since before Zero Dark Thirty was released. Yet I’m unable to see the film as some rah-rah, killthe-motherfucker piece of jingoism that pines for the days when detainees wore dog collars. Instead, it’s as uncomfortable in its relentlessly raw representations of torture as it is in its characters’ emotionally ambiguous reactions—or nonreactions—to those acts of torture. Take the first scene of torture: CIA officer Maya (Jessica Chastain) has just arrived in Pakistan and is present for the violent interrogation of a detainee named Ammar. Maya cringes, clenches her jaw, clasps her arms across her chest and at one point covers her eyes. But there’s an unsettling slightness to these reactions. The torture is terrible and sad in its brutality; Maya’s reactions are terrible and sad in their faintness. Where Maya shows no faintness is in her single-minded drive to root out bin Laden, which Chastain fiercely portrays. Her determination, as we know, pays off, and Zero Dark Thirty builds to the pivotal raid on bin Laden’s compound by a group of Navy SEALs. Largely shot with night-vision lenses, it’s a dramatic shift from earlier cinematographic naturalism, but it remains eerily and grippingly real. The suspense is thick, the carnage plentiful, and the celebration brief and fraught—this is no simple act of triumphalism. Much like the film’s earlier depictions of torture, it’s wrenchingly decisive yet, ultimately, inconclusive. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Roseway.

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TEEN DREAM: Like most teen movies, The Perks of Being a Wallflower harvests the raw power of adolescent passion in all its sloppy, horny glory to craft a cinematic confection that reflects, interprets and glorifies the experience of being a teenager. Charlie, a lonely high-school freshman (Logan Lerman), fumbles his way into that rare circle of upperclassmen mature enough to be kind to him but reckless enough to get him wasted. Among his newfound crew of misfit seniors is Sam (Emma Watson), an outcast indie goddess, and Patrick (Ezra Miller), Sam’s histrionic yet lovable half-brother. Wallflower is wild, hormonal and hyperbolically emotional. It’s kind of perfect, actually. EMILY JENSEN. Playing at: Laurelhurst. Best paired with: Coalition Wu Cream Ale. Also playing: The Sessions (Academy).

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Cinema 21

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Clinton Street Theater

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CineMagic Theatre

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Kennedy School Theater

5736 NE 33rd Ave., 503-249-7474-4 FLIGHT Fri-Sat-Sun-MonWed 07:50 WRECK-IT RALPH Fri-Sat-SunMon-Wed 05:30 HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA Fri-SatSun-Mon 03:00 THE SESSIONS Fri-Sat-Tue-Wed 02:30

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4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-281-4215 HYDE PARK ON HUDSON Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 07:15, 09:15 ANNA KARENINA Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 06:45 HITCHCOCK Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 09:30 CHARLIE IS MY DARLING Fri-Sat 07:00, 09:00 CHASING ICE Sat-Sun-Wed 07:00 THE LAND BEFORE TIME Sat-Sun 02:30 THE ANIMAL Tue 07:30

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