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When friends asked why I was so enthusiastic in my support of Charlie Hales, I said, “It’s time the adults were in charge” [“Return of Chucky,” WW, Jan. 30, 2013]. I thought I was speaking metaphorically, not literally. But it turns out that both seem to apply. “Edward Hershey” I’m glad someone is doing some actual cutting of the budget. There has been so much spending for so long that I am sure there is fat that can be trimmed. I wish Hales good fortune in this endeavor. He will face many obstacles along the way, but it is the right thing to do. “laduran” This article is very soft and squishy. How about actually reading the city budget and union contracts and coming up with a top-10 cuts list? All the cuts mentioned wouldn’t amount to .00001 percent. The real money is in salaries and benefits beyond what most enjoy. If they can’t be reduced, eliminate positions. “Budge”
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Nigel Jaquiss: Consider whether [Leonard’s] personal life is worth such a gleeful knifing in your pathetic, bitter excuse for a “newspaper,” and go home and hug your family tight. When I have time, I plan an in-depth profile of you as a news reporter, including the sourcing of some of your
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I wouldn’t read too much into this, Steve. After all, Punxsutawney Phil, the attention-whore groundhog who sucks up the Groundhog Day headlines for the whole country, was predicting the weather in Pennsylvania, not here. Luckily, Portland has its own tradition. In our version, we rather insufferably point out that, actually, Groundhog Day derives from earlier, European traditions involving a hedgehog, and so it’s really more correct to use Jabari, an African pygmy hedgehog at the Oregon Zoo. I swear I am not making this up. Leave it to Portland to do Groundhog Day with an artisan groundhog. For the record, Jabari saw his shadow. Also for Willamette Week FEBRUARY 6, 2013 wweek.com
Leonard perfected the art form of making everything personal. He deserves every “gleeful knifing” he gets.... Exactly what empathy does Leonard deserve? He deserves it in exactly one area, and that has to do with his family/adopted kids. Beyond that, it’s fair game, just as it was when he was occupying the bully pulpit (what an apt name). “PDXMB”
Randy Leonard is a lying hypocrite, and I hope he gets fined and sued big time [“Double Standard? No Sweat,” WW, Jan. 30, 2013]. What a scumbag. “Phil Jones”
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the record, both Jabari and Phil are wrong well over half the time. This is probably due to the coming climate apocalypse that is rapidly rendering the concept of “winter” obsolete. (When the streets run red with blood and the living envy the dead, don’t say I didn’t warn you.) Groundhog Day is derived from a pagan holiday called Imbolc, the festival of—I shit you not—the lactating ewe. The date falls halfway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox, in keeping with the ancient Druidic hobby of splitting the calendar into ever smaller and more pointless sections, and was Christianized as Candlemas. (Not to be confused with Handlemas, the festival of 1.75-liter liquor bottles.) Imbolc is one of the four main Gaelic seasonal festivals, along with Lughnasadh, Beltane and Samhain. Any of these would be a great day to burn a wicker man with your boss inside. Who knew Groundhog Day could be so metal? QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com
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Flummoxed by the fluoridation fight? Fluoridation opponents are adding to the confusion. The campaign to pass city ballot Measure 26-151 in May, which would authorize fluoridating the drinking water from Portland’s reservoirs, is called “Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland.” It debuted its Facebook page four weeks ago. But on Jan. 28, fluoridation opponents launched a decoy Facebook page titled “Healthy Portland, Healthy Kids” that features posts linking fluoride and cancer. Evyn Mitchell, campaign manager for Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland (that’s the “yes” side, for those keeping score at home), is not amused. “This is standard operating procedure for the group that opposes fluoridation—confuse, manipulate and mislead,” Mitchell says. Clean Water Portland executive director Kimberly Kaminski (for the opponents) says her group didn’t create the Facebook page. “We’ll try to get them to take it down,” she says, “once we find out who did it.” Former mayoral candidate Jefferson Smith is quietly exploring a campaign finance reform initiative as his next political vehicle. Smith, who voluntarily limited contributions during his unsuccessful 2012 mayoral race, has communicated with Secretary of State Kate Brown, the state’s elections chief; publicinterest lawyer Dan Meek, author of previous campaign finance reforms; and Ted Blaszak of the signature-gathering firm smith Democracy Resources. Smith didn’t respond to requests for comment, but in a recent Facebook post asked, “Anyone know a kindhearted grant writer?” Five months after the end of the Free Rail Zone, fare inspectors on the Portland Streetcar have yet to issue a single citation for freeloading. The yellow-vest-clad inspectors are still in “education mode,” according to the January minutes of the streetcar citizen advisory board meeting. Compare that approach to the draconian $175 ticket TriMet hands out and the stings it conducts outside Trail Blazers and Timbers games. Streetcar officials estimate about 7 percent of riders evade fares—which is curious, given (as WW reported in last week’s Murmurs) city officials have limited data on how many people are riding the trains.
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Not having enough money is a problem most public schools in Oregon understand well. But having money they can’t get access to—that’s even worse. In 2011, voters by nearly 3-to-2 approved a five-year levy for Portland Public Schools that could add up to $80 million a year to the district’s operating budget. The levy meant taxpayers would kick in more for schools to help avert teacher layoffs. But of the money voters approved, the district will have to leave more than $28 million—enough to hire 300 additional teachers—on the table. It’s not by the school district’s choice but due to a side effect of Oregon’s property-tax limits called “compression.” “It’s hugely frustrating,” says PPS budget director David Wynde. “The amount of money we’re talking about is the difference in any likely scenario between another year of cuts and retrenchment or being able to invest positively for kids.” Voters can raise taxes on themselves locally to pay for more services. But if the total amount of taxes exceeds the state’s property-tax limits, the amount of money governments can collect gets squeezed like an accordion. That’s what happened when Multnomah County voters approved a new taxing district and operating base for the library. The new tax assessment restricted money other local governments could collect. The new library district, for example, choked off $10 million due to Portland’s city government next year. Local governments and schools are finding compression a fast-growing problem, according to a new report by the Oregon League of Cities. The organization found that half of Oregon cities, 90 percent of school districts and every one of the state’s 36 counties lost money last year because of compression—in all, $144 million. Now, as lawmakers convene this week for the 2013 session, Democratic legislators are preparing to push for what they hope will be the first major change to the state’s Measure 5 property-tax limits by freeing schools and local governments from compression. State Rep. Jules Bailey (D-Portland), who is proposing one of the reforms, says if voters approve a tax, prohibiting a jurisdiction from collecting it is “crazy.” “My perception is when voters pass a local option levy for schools, they think the authorized amount is actually going to schools,” Bailey says. “That’s not happening.” But Bailey and others who support the change do so at
the risk of disrupting a longer-term political strategy of Gov. John Kitzhaber. Kitzhaber, a Democrat, wants to prove to Oregon voters that the state can cut the cost of public education before asking them to rupture a property-tax limit that has been sacrosanct since it passed in 1990. He also wants to wring big savings out of the Public Employee Retirement System and improve graduation rates before asking voters to commit to paying higher taxes or changing property-tax limits. And by waiting, Kitzhaber’s strategy is intended to put greater pressure on the state’s stressed school-funding system—and increase the likelihood voters will opt for major reform. Changes like those proposed by Bailey and others could reduce the impetus to institute bigger reforms. Sue Levin, executive director of Stand For Children, says school districts could certainly use the extra revenue that compression fixes would bring, but there are risks.
“A piecemeal approach could take some pressure off in the short term,” Levin says. “Our members recognize comprehensive tax reform has a better chance of solving our problems long-term. Those bigger fixes will be a tough fight—both in the legislature and likely at the ballot.” Not everybody thinks compression is a problem. Jason Williams of the Taxpayer Association of Oregon says the state’s property-tax limit has done exactly what’s it was supposed to do—cap the overall tax burden on voters. (The limits restrict property taxes at $5 per $1,000 of assessed value for schools, and $10 for local governments.) Williams says a major change is wrong-headed and unnecessary. “A lot of our property tax is blown on urban renewal,” Williams says, referring to the practice of diverting property taxes to economic-development programs. “Then the politicians hold our kids hostage and say, ‘Give us more money!’” cont. on page 8 Willamette Week FEBRUARY 6, 2013 wweek.com
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Tobias Read (D-Beaverton) have proposed an overhaul that would reduce income taxes and property taxes and add a 5 percent sales tax (“A Sales Tax, Anybody?” WW, Dec. 5, 2012). Hass says their proposal would stabilize Oregon’s volatile revenue system and could generate $1 billion annually in new money. Many parents—particularly in the Beaverton School District, where a local option levy failed in 2011—are fed up with large class sizes and outdated textbooks. Allowing them and parents in other relatively affluent districts to pursue local options outside compression could reduce pressure for wholesale tax reform. Hass says he’s got nothing against trying to address compression, but he’s frustrated by how long it’s taking to begin real reform. “It’s OK to work on tiny, obscure parts of our tax code, but we can’t get our arms around the big picture,” Hass says. “If we did a top-to-bottom restructuring, we could take care of all these problems.” All of the changes Hass favors would mean amending the state constitution, and that would require a statewide vote. None would need the governor’s signature. Kitzhaber has been briefed on compression fixes, says his spokesman, Tim Raphael. “He thinks they are good ideas,” Raphael says, adding the governor will focus primarily on bigger-picture issues, such as pension reform. Otto Schell of the Oregon Parent Teacher Association says trying to fix compression is a useful step, but even if it’s successful in generating new money, it will not be enough to satisfy parents. “The problem is so much bigger than the money those [compression] proposals would raise,” Schell says. “The problem is so big and profound that none of the tinkering stops the harm.”
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Bailey’s proposal, House Joint Resolution 8, would allow schools and local governments to seek—and collect— levies approved by voters without regard to property-tax limits. Bailey says the change would especially help rural counties that have lost federal timber payments. “This is a way for counties to go out for a local operating levy,” Bailey says. Another proposal is more limited. Rep. Sara Gelser (D-Corvallis) has introduced a measure that would allow for local operating levies beyond the limits, but only for schools. She would impose a higher cap, $7.50 per $1,000 of assessed value, as opposed to the current $5. But Gelser’s bill would also reach back in time and allow school districts to collect the full amount of levies that voters have already approved. That’s a potentially large difference from Bailey’s measure: Gelser’s approach amounts to an immediate tax increase where school districts are facing compression— but it would also mean immediate money for those schools. Gelser says there is no perfect solution. She says her bill would aid far more school districts than the competing measures and that voters in those districts are more concerned about fundraising than whether a measure is retroactive. “Everybody has a compression problem,” she says. “The goal of all these measures is to get more money in local governments and school districts.” With Democrats in control of both the House and Senate, they have a good shot of at least referring changes to voters—if they can reconcile Bailey’s and Gelser’s competing ideas. But some legislators think dealing with compression doesn’t go far enough. Sen. Mark Hass (D-Beaverton), chairman of the Senate Education Committee, is pushing for more sweeping change: Hass, Sen. Ginny Burdick (D-Portland) and Rep.
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Those are the odds a woman on this planet will face abuse in her lifetime. V-Day is your chance to do something about it.
One in three. One-third of all women worldwide— let’s call it an even 1 billion—will be victims of violence because they are women. You could get depressed or apathetic when you see that overwhelming figure, or you might fall silent to avoid talking about the uncomfortable topic. Or you can take to the streets. Feb. 14 marks the 15th anniversary of V-Day, an international day of activism to put a stop to violence of all kinds against women. The organizers of V-Day (who say the “V” stands for victory, valentine and vagina) are marking the anniversary with events they are calling “One Billion Rising,” a cathartic movement to march,
dance, protest and make clear that violence against women must stop. In Oregon, there are signs of hope and reasons for worry. In Portland, police report that domestic assaults decreased 27 percent between 2001 and 2012. But the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say 55 percent of women in Oregon will face domestic or sexual violence in their lifetimes, well above the national average. And more than 27 percent will be raped—making Oregon’s rate the second highest in the U.S., behind only Alaska’s. WW is taking this moment to draw attention to the movement. In the following pages, survivors tell their stories. We look at an innovative program that puts other survivors face to face with abusers; what activists hope Salem can do to help; and why one of four local shelters for women in crisis is closing. We’re also running a schedule of local One Billion Rising events. We hope you’ll join in. ANDREA DAMEWOOD. 1 in 3 cont. on page 13
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I, SURVIVOR THREE WRITERS TELL OF THEIR EXPERIENCES WITH VIOLENCE, AND THEIR JOURNEYS BACK.
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In the winter of 1995, I was 16 and a highschool senior in Boise, Idaho. I was miserable in Boise and counting down the days until I could leave for Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., the next fall. One weekend in November, I drove to Portland with my best friend to see Sonic Youth and Bikini Kill at the Roseland Theater, and it was one of the greatest nights of my life. Back in Boise three days later, I was raped. He was a man I’d met only briefly a few weeks earlier. I’m not sure where he came from, but one day he was hanging out with a group of kids I knew. He was older; he said he was 20 but later I found out he was 25. He claimed to be part of the “Rainbow Family,” but he didn’t seem like a hippie at all. The night it happened, I’d run into him downtown and he latched onto me. I tried to get rid of him but he offered to buy beer and I reluctantly gave in to hanging out with him. After an hour or so of drinking
and talking, I told him I was going home. Instead, he forced me to drive my car deep into the hills above the city, and then he raped me in the back seat for several hours. More than once he put his hands around my neck and started squeezing. I knew I would die that night; there was no doubt in my mind. I kept picturing my naked body being discovered, and I just hoped he would leave some evidence behind. Eventually he was done, and he threw my clothes at me and told me to get dressed. Then he took me back to his apartment and forced me to take a shower. He told me he would kill me if I told anyone, then let me go. I drove to a hotel just down the street from his apartment complex and asked to use the phone to call 911. The rape was really violent, and there was blood running down my legs. I knew I needed to go to the hospital, and I honestly never considered not reporting it to the police. I had to have emergency surgery because of internal injuries. It was actually a blessing in disguise—the severity of my injuries made it hard for him to claim it was consensual. I spent a couple days in the hospital. I gave a description to the police and told
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them where he lived. I looked at a set of mug shots and picked out his photo immediately. He was finally arrested six days after it happened. A month after the rape, I testified before the grand jury, and the trial was scheduled for about six months later. His main defense strategy was that he claimed I was a prostitute. But there was so much evidence against him that he pleaded guilty at the last minute in the hope of gaining leniency. So instead of a trial, there was only a sentencing hearing with a judge. The rapist never took any responsibility or admitted to any sort of wrongdoing, even though he was pleading guilty. His strategy didn’t work because he was sentenced to 10 to 30 years in prison. He became eligible for parole in 2005, and I attended the parole hearing. The rapist got his chance to say whatever he wanted first, and it was the same as the first time around: I was a whore who was asking for it. Then the parole board asked him a few questions. It was really overwhelming seeing the rapist again and I started to cry as soon as I stood up to read my statement. The parole board took only a few minutes to make a decision, announcing it had decided not to grant him parole. Five years later, in 2010, he had his second parole hearing. This time, I sent a private letter to the board; I didn’t want him to know how deeply affected I still was by what he did to me. I heard that at this hearing he finally, sort of, admitted to raping me. But he added to his lies: that he was a pimp and planned to turn me out. He was denied parole again. The next year, he went back before the board and won parole. I also chose not to attend this hearing, because I was almost certain he would be getting out soon and I didn’t want him to see me and know what I look like now, in case he came looking for me. I spent the next several months feeling like my life was about to end, both figuratively and literally, because I really do fear he’ll find me and kill me. Just around the time I expected him to get out of prison, I received a letter from the parole board saying his parole had been revoked. The parole board required he complete a six-month sex-offender treatment program as a condition of his release. And he refused. As it stands now, he’s supposed to serve out his entire 30-year sentence, which would keep him in prison until 2025. He can apply for another parole hearing each year, and I’m sure he will. I’ll continue to write letters to try to keep him in prison for as long as I can. I do feel grateful that I’ve had the last 18 years to live my life feeling relatively safe with him locked up. But once he’s released, I doubt I’ll ever stop looking over my shoulder, waiting for him to come after me again. Anna Bjornberg is a Portland writer. This story is revised from an account she wrote anonymously last year for xojane.com. I, SURVIVOR cont. on page 14 13
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“SLAPPING, SHOVING, CHOKING, KICKING—I COULDN’T DENY WHAT IT WAS.” By E R I n Ro o K
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We met during summer orientation at a New England women’s college. I was an orientation leader, and Nehal was one of the new students. At the time, we were both lesbians. (We’ve both since come out as transgender men). I hadn’t gone into orientation looking for “fresh meat” as some of my peers did—Nehal pursued me, and hard. By that evening, we had consummated our relationship. A few weeks later, he professed his love by drawing it on my back with his finger. Come fall semester, we were essentially cohabiting. I was a 22-year-old “student leader”— editor of my college newspaper, president of the Communications Liaison, member of the Feminist Union (aka FU). I was mildmannered but by no means weak-willed. Nehal was a fiery 18-year-old tennis player whose hard-to-place accent and unfamiliarity with American culture was endearing. (I made him his first ever peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich). He was cute, funny and charming (and a head shorter than me)—hardly threatening. But it took less than a year for a charismatic Dr. Jekyll to turn into a monstrous Mr. Hyde. Sweet nothings gave way to searing insults. In place of loving touch, his hands delivered punishment and his body, denial. All the signs of abuse were there. The name-calling (“stupid fucking cunt” was his favorite), the put-downs (“You’ll never be a writer”), blaming me for everything— including attempted rape (“I was feeling rejected”). Once the physical abuse—slapping, shoving, choking, kicking—began, I couldn’t deny what it was. So I started keeping notes in a private online diary,
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“just in case” it kept happening. And it did. There was no real rhyme or reason to the assaults. They weren’t frequent enough to be predictable. But they were always my fault. I didn’t open the door fast enough, I dropped something, I was cleaning wrong. One time he made me get on my knees, shoved a dirty sock in my mouth, spit on me, and hit and kicked me while telling me what I horrible person I was. As much as I knew what he was doing was wrong, that it was an outsized reaction to the circumstances, I couldn’t help feeling like I brought it on myself. I cheated (once), I lied (about the infidelity), and I confided in a friend (who turned out to have designs on my partner). I should have known this would happen. Had these assaults happened backto-back, I might have left sooner. But they were spread out, interspersed with legitimately good times. Such is the cycle of violence. Every incident is followed by a “honeymoon” period full of tearful apologies, sincere promises, romantic gestures. Until the tension begins to build again, exploding into another assault.
Eventually, crazy became the new normal. I couldn’t rely on anything but instability. Like a hostage suffering from Stockholm syndrome, I survived by identifying with my captor and focusing on minimizing harm. When Nehal threatened to kill me in a drunken rage, I did my best to calm and soothe him. When he said he’d “take out” my entire family if I didn’t repay some money I owed him, I chastised him like a child. “You can’t say that!” I admonished. He responded in kind: “I meant, like, take them out for ice cream. Geez.” It was all very surreal. People who say they would never put up with abuse don’t understand the insidious way it creeps into a relationship, the way that daily emotional manipulation wears away your defenses and self-worth, the way your abuser’s forcibly asserted worldview begins to cloud out reality. I did reach out for help once. In the midst of some drama around Nehal having an ongoing affair with my best friend, I told the director of Residence Life that I was considering moving to a single dorm room because my
partner was “borderline abusive.” Instead of picking up on my desperate, if understated, plea, she offered me a room key. It wasn’t the help I was looking for. I’m not sure why my friends never said anything. They knew Nehal was “difficult”—but they either didn’t suspect the abuse or didn’t want to ask. I was careful to make excuses for his behavior. If they knew what I was really dealing with, I thought, I’d have to leave. And I didn’t feel ready to do that. When I finally left almost four years later, it took the better part of a year and weekly support-group meetings to begin to regain my footing. I wouldn’t have made it without Bradley Angle’s program for LGBTQ survivors and the friends and family who welcomed me home. The past still haunts me from time to time, but in the five years since I left, I’ve learned and grown so much. It gets better. But not until you leave. Erin Rook lives in Portland with his fiancé and works as a freelance writer and web editor for PQ Monthly. The names he used in his story have been changed.
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residence, which was just down the street. Lisa moved back into the beach house that she’d left a couple of years before to be with her boyfriend, Brian Brush. Lisa told me her restraining order would expire, and I encouraged her to get another. But not much later, I saw Brush with Lisa, doing yard work. I checked in with her and was politely rebuffed. She said she wouldn’t reunite with Brush, but he needed time to adjust. In the following weeks, he was still around. Though I constantly felt misgivings, I was unsure if any action on my part would be overreaction, so I tried to ignore the nagging feelings whenever I looked up and saw Lisa’s house. My mind overruled my instincts at every turn. On Sept. 11, 2009, I decided to leave for a weekend trip when I spotted Brush outside Lisa’s house, clearing out blackberry bushes. I walked in his direction, trying to think of a way to casually start a conversation.
His eyes were red and unfocused. I asked him, gently, what he was doing. “You have to make up for what you’ve done,” he said in an even, calm voice. I considered telling Lisa what he had just said, or telling the police, but I didn’t know if that would was best, or if it might make things worse for her. I decided Lisa would know best to leave if she needed to. So I left town with uneasy feelings. The last time I saw her alive she was standing outside her home, about 100 feet from Brush. Later thats day, during an annual car rally in town, she and Brush argued in public. He shot her four times with a pump-action shotgun in view of many witnesses. The 88-year sentence handed to him was but cold comfort to Lisa’s two teenage daughters. For their sake, especially, I regret not giving more credence to my instinct that day. Sunny Clark is a Portland-based writer and filmmaker.
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The last thing I expected was a call from my landlady saying she needed to take my new rental house back. Nor did I expect the reason why. She needed to escape, she said, “an ugly incident of domestic violence.” It seemed unimaginable that a shrewd firebrand like Long Beach, Wash., realtor Lisa Bonney would be caught in the yoke of domestic violence. Yet, there was Lisa, in the summer of 2009, saying she had applied for a restraining order and that her boyfriend had threatened to kill her. Lisa told me she had family around and said her beach house was her most likely route to safety and autonomy. I made arrangements to move back into my former
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Hope Vanderhoof for eight years put up with being hit in the head and kicked with steel-toed boots by her boyfriend. She finally ended the relationship in 2005, when he tried to kill her by setting her bedroom on fire. Even though the abuse stopped for Vanderhoof, the questions didn’t. “I always thought that I did something wrong, or said something wrong, or wasn’t smart enough,” Vanderhoof, 43, says. “My goal was just to get some closure.” That’s why in 2009 Vanderhoof sat down in a Washington County Community Corrections building to talk with a man who had committed abuse in a violent relationship of his own. “It was a little scary at first,” she recalls. She asked him if he knew what he was doing to his family. And she asked whether she could have done anything differently. He told her no. “He was just very honest,” Vanderhoof says. “When you’ve been lied to for so long, and you finally have someone in front of you who is going to tell you the truth, that’s really empowering.” The very idea that victims of domestic abuse could benefit from supervised conversations with recovering
“i got yelled at. i got screamed at. how dare i re-Victimize them?” —carrie outhier banks abusers has alarmed women’s advocates ever since Carrie Outhier Banks first thought of it in 2000. For more than a decade, many reacted to the suggestion by Banks—then a grad student studying conflict resolution—as if she’d proposed treating shark-attack survivors by submerging them in a tank of hammerheads. “I got yelled at,” Banks, 42, says. “I got screamed at. And asked to leave a conference: How dare I re-victimize them?” Banks didn’t see it that way at all. “To say they’re not strong enough—these are women who had the strength to get up and get hit every day,” she says. Today, Banks carries out this unprecedented practice,
and her nonprofit, Domestic Violence Safe Dialogue, has conducted more than 100 conversations between abusers and survivors. In each session, a woman who was abused talks for about two hours with a man who was violent toward another woman. (Survivors are never put in the same room with their former abusers.) The men and women are typically in counseling, and their therapists suggest they take part only if it might help them deal with their respective pasts. Four counselors are there to observe and guide the conversations. It’s the only program of its kind in the United States. This month, Banks is trying to take the program national. She’s produced a two-hour DVD showing two actors recreating exchanges word for word from a session. Banks plans to mail hundreds of copies of the DVD to colleges and universities in Oregon and Washington. She believes the DVD provides a model that can help abused women get answers. “They’re going to meet a guy in a bar on a Friday night, and they’re going to have the same questions,” Banks says. “In this situation, they can ask those questions in a safe environment.” Banks, who holds a doctoral degree in conflict analysis and resolution from George Mason University in Virginia, now runs her dialogue program out of Portland, mostly using therapist offices as settings. Her nonprofit gets funding from her family as well as wine tastings and raffles. There are no government grants: She’s ineligible for money through the federal Violence Against Women Act, for example, because her program helps abusers as well as victims. The dialogue reflects the kind of restorative-justice programs made most famous in post-apartheid South Africa and post-genocide Liberia. Many experts questioned whether the approach could be applied successfully to the ongoing and intimate nature of an abusive relationship. “I didn’t want to put a client in a situation where a batterer gets triggered and becomes angry,” says Sheryl Rindel, a clinical program manager who started out skeptical of the dialogues. She changed her mind after watching sessions and is now a member of the program’s board. “Neither party is pointing a finger, saying, ‘You did this to me,’” Rindel says. Many offenders realize during a conversation just how much their abuse affected their own partners. “I always compare it to the Grinch and the heart growing three sizes that day,” says Matt Johnston, a domesticviolence counselor in Beaverton, whose male clients have taken part in the program. “The defenses are down. Crying
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CARRIE OUTHIER BANKS: The creator of Domestic Violence Safe Dialogue says the conversations have been remarkably tranquil. “We’ve not had one cross word,” she says.
is not unusual on both sides.” The DVD re-enactment contains emotional exchanges, but consists mostly of questions. “Was there anything that she could have done differently?” the woman in the film asks three times. The man admits no approach by his wife could have defused him. Banks says that’s an important admission. “I’m not really a touchy-feely person,” Banks says. “So I don’t go in saying, ‘Let’s talk about forgiveness.’ But 90 percent of the time, the offender will look at the survivor and say, ‘I am so sorry that happened to you.’ Their offender will probably never say that.” Vanderhoof, when she took part, recalls seeing this stranger seated across from her and feeling as though “we had the same relationship, but didn’t know each other.” She says the conversation changed how she viewed the relationship that she had survived. “This might sound silly, but I learned it wasn’t love,” she says. “Love doesn’t hurt—that’s what I learned. I became a new person after I did that. I started coming out of my shell, and now you can’t shut me up.”
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THE VIOLENCE PERSISTS FEWER REPORTS, BUT STILL A BIG PROBLEM. Violent crime has dropped in Portland in the past decade, including assaults. But the percentage of assaults that involve domestic violence has decreased only slightly— from 48 percent in 2001, to 43 percent last year. 48% 2001
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V-DAY: A HISTORY Susan Cushman works as a sculptor as part of her therapy to help her move past the trauma of being raped. She says her art is part of her effort to make the world a place where women can feel safe wherever they go. To do it, she sculpts clay labia. “Happy labias equal world peace,” Cushman says. When she heard about a call on a billion people to rise up against sexual violence, Cushman had to take part. “I believe that if women were free from rape and violence, we would have world peace,” she says. Cushman is an organizer of a local One Billion Rising, a worldwide protest scheduled Feb. 14 to draw attention to issues of violence against women. The events are sponsored by V-Day, a nonprofit advocacy group funded by ticket sales of The Vagina Monologues, which has been translated into 48 languages and seen in more than 140 countries since it was first performed in 1996. V-Day has raised more than $90 million and marks its 15th anniversary this year with the One Billion Rising protests. “It’s a global call—inviting everybody in to participate,” says Susan Swan, executive director of V-Day. The Vagina Monologues author Eve Ensler founded V-Day in 1998. Her play
is performed thousands of times a year to raise money. V-Day has supported safe houses and community centers, among other efforts. Swan says this year’s action was inspired by a 2006 United Nations report that estimates one in three women will be the victim of violence in her lifetime. The organization is hoping to get people all over the world to stand up and dance—from the United Kingdom to Sudan, from Mexico to The Dalles. Ensler will be dancing in the Congo at the City of Joy, a community center built with V-Day support. Cushman is enthusiastic to dance in solidarity with other women in Director Park. “I was one of the 1 billion,” she says. “I was raped by a cousin. I was date raped. I was beaten. My daughter is 20. I want my world to be safe for my daughter and all the daughters.” ERIN FENNER.
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WW: Is Oregon moving in the right direction on dealing with sexual violence? Vanessa Timmons: We’re making progress. Some really innovative things have happened in Oregon over the last couple [legislative] sessions. One being the Healthy Teen Relationships Act, making sure that all of the middle schools and high schools have domestic-violence curriculum and training about teen-dating violence. That’s a really important step in the right direction. Where I’d like to see things move more quickly is we are severely underfunded in our state. We’re funding at less than 50 percent of what’s needed. We would need $16 million to bring baseline services—that means emergency shelters. That’s not looking at prevention or anything like that.
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Vanessa Timmons is fighting in Salem to get state leaders to combat domestic violence. And she wants them to do it with more money. She is executive director of the Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, made up of 45 organizations around the state that serve women who have encountered violence. Timmons, 49, coordinates the services of women’s shelters and rape-crisis centers across the state. She also plays a key role in shaping the state legislative agenda for groups that combat sexual violence. Born in Camas, Wash., Timmons was herself a victim of childhood sexual abuse. Now a mother of four daughters—and a grandmother of two—she has taken up “indigenous healing methods,” including herbalism, storytelling and a drum circle, where she plays with other survivors. “It works on the body,” she says, “and the body holds the memory of the trauma.” With the Oregon Legislature’s 2013 session starting in earnest this week, WW sat down with Timmons to discuss why protections for women often fall through the state’s safety net, how the laws on restraining orders need to be changed and where victims can go when they have nowhere to turn.
Why are shelters closing or reducing services? Are budgets being cut? From visiting shelters, this is what I see: We’re raising awareness of what domestic violence actually is. We’re raising awareness of what the impact of domestic violence is on children—how it affects their cognitive development, their ability to graduate, later criminal behaviors. We talk a lot about the fatality risk of domestic violence. So if you keep services at the same level, and you increase awareness across the board about what domestic violence is, you’re going to have an increased need for domesticviolence services. You’re in effect creating a deficit without cuts. What effect is that deficit having on women and families? I have personally worked with survivors [where] this means the difference between leaving and staying. It’s not just about, “What am I going to do for this week or next week?” We’re looking at having the need for permanent low-cost housing. The need for entry-level jobs. The need for access to mental-health counseling for them and their children. So when we don’t have these comprehen-
sive services, [it’s] the difference between really feeling hopeless and having nowhere to go, or being able to create a life for yourself. Looking at that very concretely: It’s survivors sleeping in their cars. It’s survivors couch-surfing. Camping is very common. I’ve done safety planning with survivors in hospital waiting rooms—they’re staying in the waiting room because it’s free, it’s clean and it’s well lit. What’s your highest priority in the legislature that’s not money? Housing. Increase access to affordable housing for survivors of domestic and sexual violence. Another one that’s not money or housing would be to get the Sexual Assault Protection Order passed so that survivors of sexual assault could get a restraining order without having to say they’re having an intimate relationship with someone who is their perpetrator. The protective orders that are available right now are designed for domestic-violence survivors. But there’s no protection order for someone who’s a victim of sexual assault. Even though most sexual-assault survivors know their perpetrator, they would not identify that as an intimate relationship. What’s the most troubling fact about domestic violence in Oregon? There’s so many things. What troubles me most right now is the lack of intersection in the way the services and the responses happen. It’s very difficult for a survivor who is a woman of color, who maybe has drug and alcohol and mental-health issues, who is experiencing poverty, to get help. The programs don’t work together well. And I don’t mean that to shame anyone. There are areas where our services work very well. And there are areas where it completely falls apart.
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In the final days of the 112th U.S. Congress— days marked by frantic brinkmanship to avoid the fiscal cliff—Capitol Hill let the Violence Against Women Act fall with a thud. For the first time since the VAWA’s passage in 1994, Congress didn’t renew the protections and funding for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. “This is the first time there’s been a serious fight about it,” says Scott Berkowitz, president of the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network. “There’s a lot of that in Washington these days.” The VAWA provides the framework for funding domestic-violence and rape-crisis centers, along with prosecution of sex crimes. “These services are literally lifelines,” says Niki Terzieff, a lobbyist for the Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. That money—$1.8 million annually for Oregon—won’t instantly disappear because bleed
the VAWA wasn’t reauthorized. But new protections remain uncertain. One of those would have targeted a national backlog of untested DNA rape kits. (Some states have thousands of untested rape kits. Oregon State Police say only 14 exist in the state— and only one older than 90 days.) The VAWA’s non-renewal wasn’t an oversight. House Republicans led by Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) blocked the Senate-drafted renewal because of three new provisions. “We continue to work with VAWA advocates on the best path forward to ensure we protect victims, prosecute offenders and put an end to violence against women,” Cantor spokeswoman Megan Whittemore tells WW. As Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) prepares for another confrontation with the House beginning this week in the 113th Congress, here are the sticking points: Extending the VAWA’s protections to include domestic-violence victims who are lesbian, bisexual or transgender. This provision is also included in the new Senate bill. House Republicans say it’s a Trojan horse for a gay-rights agenda. “It would prohibit discrimination under [VAWA], including shelters,” says Maya Rupert, policy director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights. “It’s a crucially
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important protection.” Increasing the number of visas allotted for undocumented immigrants who petition for legal status because they are the victim of an abusive spouse or parent. GOP leaders said upping the number of “U visas” would invite fraud. The new Senate bill has dropped the provision. Allowing tribal courts on Native American lands to prosecute non-native men for sexual crimes against native women. This law change would combat an epidemic of rapes on reservations. The U.S. Department of Justice says 86 percent of sex crimes against native women are committed by non-native men.
The changes would allow tribal police to investigate and make arrests, instead of merely detaining accused rapists and waiting for state police or the FBI to arrive. “We have this long history of native women continuing to be victims of sexual assault, and nothing ever happens,” says Tawna Sanchez, director of family services at the Native American Youth and Family Center in Portland. News reports from December say Cantor blocked the provision on constitutional grounds. The provision is back in the new Senate bill. 1 in 3 cont. on page 20
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Every day at 9 am, the Portland Women’s Crisis Line website updates the availability at the city’s four emergency shelters. Most mornings, it’s the same answer: no vacancy. Despite that searing need, Yolanda House, a 10-room shelter run by the YWCA of Greater Portland, will close March 1. The cause, as is often the case, is a lack of money. But YWCA officials say the closure of Yolanda House will mark a change of strategy, from providing emergency refuge to longer-term housing. Still, the loss drops Portland from 100 emergency beds to 78. Last year, Yolanda House provided 126 women with housing, safety and advocacy. But the house—opened in 1998 and named after a YWCA staffer killed by an ex-boyfriend—was too expensive to keep open.
YWCA executive director Leslie Bevan says the state and county covered about $400,000 of the house’s $600,000 operating costs. Another $100,000 came from fundraising. Bevan says the remaining costs drained too much of the YWCA’s $2 million general fund. The YWCA hopes to turn Yolanda House into long-term transitional housing, rather than the 30 to 60 days emergency shelters allow. “We’re hoping to keep women from losing their housing to begin with,” Bevan says. “Once someone becomes homeless, it’s very costly and takes a long time to get back to self-sufficiency.” Bevan says the YWCA—which is seeking a partner for this new approach—will add three new advocates who will help women head off domestic-violence situations, including one at the Multnomah County’s Gateway Center and two at Home Forward, Portland’s public-housing agency. One former client says the YWCA’s shift in strategy makes sense. Monica Smith arrived at Yolanda House in 2004, gripped by an addiction to methamphetamine and escaping abuse. Smith brought her daughter, then in sixth grade, with her. Smith says she went from the Yolanda House to an apartment she couldn’t
afford, where she was kicked out and lost custody of her daughter. Months later, she landed in another domestic-violence shelter, Raphael House, before finding stable housing. Today, Smith lives in Estacada and is happily married. Her daughter of whom she regained custody is in college. “Recovering from domestic violence is very similar to recovering from addiction,” says Smith, 36. “You’re changing your behavior, looking at what healthy relationships look like. Learning all those things is not anything you can do in 30 to 60 days.” Emergency shelters are still a part of the spectrum, but they’re always in as much crisis as the people they serve, says
Deborah Steinkopf, executive director of Portland shelter Bradley Angle. Steinkopf agrees there’s a need for more stable housing for women in crisis, but she says the YWCA’s decision to shutter Yolanda House will only put more pressure on the city’s remaining shelters. Steinkopf says shelters receive half their funding from the government “if they’re lucky,” and that figure has flatlined after the economy hit the skids. “It’s not a very sustainable system,” Steinkopf says. “It’s going to force some consolidations and mergers, eventually. It’s really, really hard for us to sustain the level of services that are required to meet the demand in this economy.”
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PIZZA SQUABBLE SETTLED: Two local pizzerias have settled a beef over pizzaiolos. Stephen Ferruzza, owner of Al Forno Ferruzza on Northeast Alberta Street, was upset when some of his employees were contacted about working for the new Oro Di Napoli on North Williams Avenue. Oro Di Napoli uses imported ingredients to make Napolistyle pies. The shop’s oven has been manned by an Italian guest chef, who is about to move back home, leaving the shop in need of a new pizzaiolo. Ferruzza, who says several of his AL FORNO FERRUZZA long-tenured staffers were approached, responded by asking his lawyer to tell Oro Di Napoli owner William Kim to cease and desist. “He can’t just come over here and try to steal my employees,” Ferruzza says. “He was literally texting my employees while they were working, and I was thinking, ‘Man, this guy’s got some gumption.’” Kim says the matter was a misunderstanding and he has no intention of taking any of Ferruzza’s employees, adding that their skills wouldn’t translate anyway. “Our pizza is so different—we don’t even toss the pizzas, we kneed them on a marble table,” Kim says. “I need local people to be trained, but I don’t want any more confusion with my neighborhood. I don’t have any intention to get his current employees.” SUCK IT, STARBUCKLAND: It’s always a cheap thrill when Portland beats Seattle, so we’re pleased to report that we’re still better at making coffee. Portland dominated last year’s Northwest Regional Barista Competition in Tacoma, but with this year’s battle actually taking COAVA COFFEE place in the birthplace of the Venti Caramel Frappuccino last weekend, would Seattle finally serve up a steaming cup of victory? No. For the second year in a row, the competition was won by Portland barista Devin Chapman of Coava Coffee Roasters. Second place went to Seattle barista Cole McBride, and Collin Schneider of Portland’s Sterling Coffee Roasters was third. BEE QUEEN: Mayor Charlie Hales lost out in a celebrity spelling bee this week to eventual champion Zia McCabe, keyboardist for the Dandy Warhols. The fundraiser pulled in $250,000 for Schoolhouse Supplies, which provides free classroom equipment to Portland teachers. To Hales’ credit, he was indeed the last man standing, but all four women in the bee fared better than the six men. McCabe’s winning word? Gnathonic, which means “toadying, fawning.” Charlie’s ouster? Fusillade. Which is to say, a battery of insults. THE CRAFT: It was a busy week for craft-alcohol OLCC applications in Portland. First, it appears we’re getting yet another urban winery: Chateau Bogrumpus filed for a liquor license at 2034 NW 27th Ave. Reverend Nat’s Hard Cider is pulling up stakes in Woodlawn and moving just north of the Leftbank building near the Broadway Bridge, at 1805 NE 2nd Ave. Belgian-beer fetishist Bazi Bierbrasserie in Southeast has applied for a license to become a bottle shop as well as a bar.
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WEDNESDAY FEB. 6 SOUNDGARDEN [MUSIC] Grab that crusty flannel from the bottom of the hamper, grow out your soul patch and re-up on the methadone—grunge is back! Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 8 pm. $70.50. All ages.
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THE BOX MARKED BLACK [THEATER] Kunta Kinte as a sock puppet? We’re sold. Damaris Webb presents a solo show about growing up mixed-race in Portland. Ethos/IFCC, 5340 N Interstate Ave., 283-8467. 7:30 pm. $10-$15.
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GEORGE SAUNDERS [BOOKS] Short-story master George Saunders has a new collection of work, Tenth of December. The collection touches on themes of war, love, sex and loss. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free. WHY AREN’T THERE MORE BLACK PEOPLE IN OREGON? [HISTORY] That is an excellent question. Walidah Imarisha breaks it down in this interactive presentation. Belmont Library, 1038 S.E. Cesar E. Chavez Blvd., 988-5382. 2 pm. Free.
SUNDAY FEB. 10 WORST DAY OF THE YEAR RIDE [BIKES] Thousands of Portlanders don crazy outfits and bike through inclement weather...but with doughnuts. The 16- and 45-mile rides start and end at the Lucky Labrador Brew Pub, with beer and bread at the finish. The 16-miler has treats every four miles. 915 SE Hawthorne Blvd., worstdayride.com. 9 am. $36.50.
TUESDAY FEB. 12 THE MELODIANS [MUSIC] Although overshadowed by Jimmy Cliff’s contributions, “Rivers of Babylon,” the Jamaican trio’s most well-known track, is one of the standouts from the legendary The Harder They Come soundtrack, and among the most soul-stirring songs in reggae. Mt. Tabor Theater, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 360-1450. 8 pm. $10 advance, $15 day of show. 21+. FAT TUESDAY [DRINK] Aside from the annual charity auction at St. Francis Church, Portland isn’t much for Mardi Gras traditions beyond vomitspeckled Old Town sidewalks. We suggest you start a classier one: a traditional Hurricane cocktail from the drink-geeks at Hale Pele. Hale Pele, 2733 NE Broadway, halepele. com. 5 pm. $10 for Hurricane.
GO: See Ernie Button’s Cerealism at Camerawork Gallery, 2255 NW Northrup St., 9 am-5 pm Monday-Saturday. thecameraworkgallery.org. See more of Button’s work at erniebutton.com.
IT’S NOT ME, IT’S YOU [STORYTELLING] Portland storytellers share cringe-worthy tales sure to make your life look like a Nicholas Sparks novel. This event may make you swear off dating forever. Abstinence anyone? Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 467-7521. $18 advance, $20 at door. 7 pm. 21+.
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FOOD & DRINK = WW Pick. Highly recommended. By ENID SPITZ. PRICES: $: Most entrees under $10. $$: $10-$20. $$$: $20$30. $$$$: Above $30. Editor: MARTIN CIZMAR. Email: dish@wweek.com. See page 3 for submission instructions.
THURSDAY, FEB. 7 EcoTrust Blind Bingo
Always bragging about your palate? You might be able to win taste-bud bingo. EcoTrust has tapped female chefs for a sixmonth series, which starts with Nong of Nong’s Khao Man Gai this week. Blindfolded players will try to match flavors with dishes on a bingo smorgasbord to win a bottle of booze from a local craft distillery. Ecotrust, 721 NW 9th Ave., Suite 200, 227-6225. 7:30-9 pm. Sold out. 21+.
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Chocolate, wine and roses. Is it Valentine’s Day or something? Kiva offers free spa treatments, fondue and tea tastings at its second Saturday party. There are also $15 astrology readings that will bring many promises of tall, dark strangers. Kiva Tea Bar & Spa, 1533 NW 24th Ave., 704-4460. 6-9 pm. Free.
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Corn is in our cows, breakfast cereal, soda, Tupperware and fuel tanks. Anthony Boutard, for one, is pleased by this. He’ll share stories “infused with his love of this wonderful grain” at this Slow Food Portland event. Vintage Design Collective, 7126 SE Milwaukie Ave., 975-3952. 7-8:30 pm. $10 members, $12 non-members.
SUNDAY, FEB. 10 Coffee Tasting at Penner-Ash
Are coffee snobs the new wine snobs? Penner-Ash Winery hosts a coffee cupping guided by the
roaster at Newberg’s Caravan Coffee. Penner-Ash Wine Cellars, 15771 NW Ribbon Ridge Road, Newberg, 554-5545. 2 pm. $15. 21+.
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Too responsible for day-drinking but want to get a jump on Mardi Gras? Head down to the transit mall on your lunch hour for crawfish balls and jambalaya to the tunes of the Too Loose Cajun Band. Swamp Shack, Miss Delta and Howard’s BBQ will have food. Unico Plaza, Southwest 6th Avenue and Oak Street. Noon. Free.
TUESDAY, FEB. 12 Mardi Gras Dinner at Acadia
Acadia owner and chef Adam Higgs is going all out with gumbo z’herbs, beef cheek debris and crawfish étouffée. Whoever finds the baby Jesus in a traditional multicolored king cake gets a $50 gift certificate. The three-course menu is $35, but the regular dinner menu also will be available. Acadia, 1303 NE Fremont St., 249-5001. 5-8 pm. $35.
Mardi Gras at EaT and the Parish
Sister New Orleanian restaurants EaT and the Parish celebrate Fat Tuesday with a boatload of oysters. You will have all Lent to repent for your conduct during the costume contest, while enjoying the live music or inside the free limo shuttling patrons between the restaurants. The party starts at 11 am with no presumed end. EaT: An Oyster Bar, 3808 N. Williams Ave., 281-1222. 11 am, music at 4 pm. Prices vary.
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You’re 41 years old. How have you changed as a result of the experiences you’ve described? I’m very non-materialistic now. As far as possessions, I have my clothes, my knives and my snowboard. That’s about it. I feel like, with everything I’ve gone through, it’s made me humble. I was riding quite a high with Clarklewis, with the press nationally and all, and certainly it caught up to me. The fame totally went to my head and fed
“HE SAID, ‘I CAN’T DO THIS ANYMORE.’ SO I TOLD HIM TO GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY KITCHEN.” —MORGAN BROWNLOW He thought it was my job to find money for the business. And this was at the start of the recession and nobody was giving away money. I also wanted health insurance because of the risks I was taking processing 5,000 pounds of pork a week. How do you respond to critics who say you’re impossible to work with…a screamer, crazed tyrant, etc.? I’m an intense person. When I first sat down with John Gorham, he told me that I’m a bombshell, a powder keg. I’m just a really intense individual. But that’s no excuse for blowing up. And when I was younger, at Clarklewis, I did that. I know that I was out of line on multiple occasions.
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The rap on Morgan Brownlow is that he’s brutal on pastry chefs. During his tenure at Clarklewis, Brownlow even fired one just as dinner service was starting. The Portland-raised Brownlow could afford the fallout during that two-year run, which started in 2003. Clark-lewis—run by Naomi Pomeroy and Michael Hebb—rode a wave of local and national acclaim, with Brownlow getting plaudits for being the brilliant cook and butcher. When the business suddenly tanked, Brownlow headed to Seattle, where he couldn’t match his success here, eventually returning to town humbled. After years without a regular kitchen job, Brownlow finally has another highprofile post: dinner chef at John Gorham’s new Tasty N Alder restaurant downtown. Gorham, also an intense guy, is responsible for the birth of two of the last six
Willamette Week restaurants of the year, Toro Bravo and Tasty N Sons. We sat down with the wide-eyed, worldweary Brownlow to talk about his past mistakes and path for the future. WW: After the gig at Clarklewis went bad, you moved to Seattle. What did you do up there? Morgan Brownlow: I worked at Michael Hebb’s One Pot suppers, taught some butchery classes for Kurtwood Farms and, at the tail end around 2009, began to talk to Aaron Silverman about the Tails & Trotters pork business. What about Cafe 401, the Northeast Portland breakfast place that became real popular real fast in 2009 before you left after about three months? The reason I left Cafe 401 was that I was promised an ownership interest on a handwritten contract with no signature that made it not legally binding. And I had problems with the other [owner] because I was trying to explain business scenarios to him—profit and loss, food costs—and he didn’t really grasp the concept of what that was. Plus, he dragged his feet on getting a liquor license, which we really needed to make a profit. So that’s why I left. But we were doing $23,000 to $25,000 a week in sales.
What was the worst thing you did? I had a pastry chef and I was really having a lot of pressure from Michael and Naomi and my floor managers because people weren’t liking the desserts, so I was supposed to sample any new desserts first. I found out he put some new desserts on the menu without my approval. So it was 5 pm on a Friday and I confronted him about it. He said, “I can’t do this anymore.” So I told him to get the fuck out of my kitchen. Do you regret that? Um…maybe…just by being rude. Performance is performance, but I didn’t handle the situation properly, obviously. Everybody thought I had a thing about pastry chefs. The one before him...she tried to walk out and I told her, “You’re not walking out with the keys.” So she threw them at me, and I called her a cunt. Did I instigate that? Certainly I said the wrong response, but…she would come in late and hung over and yell at her assistant for not getting her work done, and I said, “No, you’re the pastry chef and you need to do the pastries.” Anyway, the next pastry chef was [Clyde Common’s] Danielle Pruett, and she was awesome. Other than that, I had few cooks who challenged me, and I pulled them off the line and sent them home. No profanity though. No physical confrontations ever. Ever been treated for any mental health or drug and alcohol issues? No. As far as alcohol goes, I mean, I’ll have a few drinks. But when you’re broke, you’re not going out drinking. I’ve never been arrested. I’m sure there’ve been a few times when I’ve drank too much, but it’s never had anything to do with my work.
my chef ’s ego. I feel like if I was a little more toned down and focusing on the business instead of the fame, things would have turned out differently. Now, that feeling of being high and mighty, better than everybody—the Michael and Naomi way—that’s disappeared. I have my skills as a chef, but that only takes you so far. From all my past work, I have zero savings. When Clarklewis failed, I lost $150,000 worth of equity. How did you become involved with John Gorham and the new project Tasty N Alder? I had been friends with John for years and had known him going back to when we both worked at the same restaurant in Berkeley. When Tails & Trotters wasn’t working out, I got in touch with him because I knew he was looking for someone and I was looking for work. After he signed the lease for this new place, he told me that we should see if we could work well together. So, last October, I started with a little consulting work related to the meat section of the menu, then I started working at Toro Bravo doing butchery and meat-curing downstairs. And then John gave me the option to stay at Toro Bravo or come over here. And I chose to come over here. Put this job in perspective. I feel like I’m turning over a new leaf in my life with this new position in terms of creating some stability, financially, and being a cook rather than a boss or owner. I’m a manager, but one among a group of managers, not a sole chef and operator. I’m not responsible for creating a menu with 35 masterpieces every day. Gorham has a strong personality. Any concerns about you and him clashing? Yeah, it’s always in the back of my mind. But, in all honesty, this is my chance to change my persona and show that I can be a respected chef and not be an asshole at the same time. And John’s not going to tolerate that. I respect that this is John’s business and he makes the final call on everything. And if you look at my track record, before Clarklewis, when I’ve worked for great chefs, I’ve done really well. I may not be a subservient person, but I can be subservient. I think John respects my abilities. I’m also not going to have to deal with the stress of underfunding and understaffing. And I know this could be my last chance. EAT: Tasty N Alder is at 580 SW 12th Ave. Brunch 9 am-2 pm. Dinner service is scheduled to start Feb. 13. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 6, 2013 wweek.com
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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 6 Suzanne Vega
[HER NAME IS VEGA] Over the past three years, folk-pop mainstay Suzanne Vega has been in self-reflection mode. During that time, she has released a series of albums under the title Close-Up on which she takes songs from throughout her storied career and re-records them with new arrangements and, in some cases, a complete upending of tone. It doesn’t negate the strides she has made over the course of 36 years as a performing artist— including a top-10 single with 1987’s “Luka.” This series of albums simply emphasizes the strength and beauty of Vega’s work and how those qualities remain strong no matter how the songs are interpreted. ROBERT HAM. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $32.50 advance, $35 day of show. All ages.
Ellie Goulding
[FOLK AND RUN] As an artist beloved in her native Britain for 2010’s Christmastime cover of Elton John treacle (she performed at Prince William’s wedding reception), and lately developing a stateside fan base borne upon dubstep anthems (she’s the, um, ex of Skrillex), Ellie Goulding in the live shows of her latest tour has reportedly suffered from the chasm separating the demands of recent high-energy hits and a lingering dedication to early indie-folk musings. However grand her genuine vocal talents, the electro-pop delights of just-released sophomore album Halcyon rather argue for this Florencealike to embrace the machine. JAY HORTON. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 9 pm. Sold out. All ages.
THURSDAY, FEB. 7 Leni Stern African Trio
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[MALIAN JAZZ] Mali is in the news again and, as usual, for the wrong reasons. The troubled nation has been the wellspring of some of the planet’s greatest music (including the blues)
for centuries. A veteran of two dozen albums over three decades and former bandmate of jazz legends Paul Motian and Bill Frisell, the German-born, New York-based jazz-blues guitarist and ngoni (Malian banjo predecessor) player Leni Stern recorded her lively new album, Smoke No Fire, in Bamako just as the country was descending into its latest spasm of chaos. Her long study of the music (including a stint in the great Malian singer Salif Keïta’s band) and connections with Malian griots and musicians enabled her to write and sing English and Bambara lyrics based on folk songs’ original meanings. But forget the singing and rapping: It’s Stern and her band’s bubbly, sometimes fiery instrumental prowess that makes this latest Malian export worth hearing. BRETT CAMPBELL. Camellia Lounge, 510 NW 11th Ave., 221-2130. 8 pm. $10. 21+.
Into the Woods’ Three-Year Anniversary: Naomi Punk, Litanic Mask, WL, FF, DJ Rom Com, Magic Fades DJs
[ANTI-GRUNGE] They’re from Washington, their guitars sound dragged through wet waste, and they don’t give a fuck about their Internet presence. Grunge might be an apt way to describe Naomi Punk, but it leaves a lot of the band’s corners unlit. For one, their vocals have a schoolyardchant quality, like a broken Kate Bush record. Last year’s full-length, The Feeling, was re-released on trendy pan-indie label Captured Tracks in November, after multiple do-it-yourself CD-R releases had bolstered its punk cred. This is not a group that fits easily into a box—or a five-minute video. The challenge of capturing it might be why it was selected to play this show, a three-year anniversary party for music documentary crew Into the Woods, who just recently filmed Naomi Punk in its natural element, a Portland house show. It will be difficult. “Most writers don’t know how to describe us,” guitarist Neil Gregerson says in an Into the Woods interview. “They just talk about our haircuts.” MITCH LILLIE. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $8. 21+.
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THINGS THAT WOULD GET ME TO MOVE TO PORTLAND Warm weather
I love the hot tropical weather we get in New Orleans. I couldn’t ever live anywhere cold. Po’boys on every corner
I grew up on these. Can’t live without my hometown cuisine. Second line brass band parades
These are just part of what brings us all together. They are part of the culture down here in New Orleans, and I can’t imagine living without them. Fabulous clothing stores
So I can maintain my style. We have flavor in New Orleans—gold and silver—and so I could not live without my stores, and my uncle who makes a lot of my clothes. My mom
She would have to want to move too! I am a mama’s girl. I love my mom and would never live apart from her. SEE IT: Big Freedia plays Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., on Wednesday, Feb. 6. 7:30 pm. $15. 21+.
BLACK HOLE SON A CONVERSATION WITH PORTLAND’S FOREMOST SOUNDGARDEN EXPERT. BY MATTHEW SIN GER
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If music fandom is measured by the number of times people have seen their favorite band live, then Matt Reeder is a lousy Soundgarden fan. He owns 250 bootlegs, all the band’s official releases (including a Superunknown CD-ROM), a binder’s worth of press clippings, a rare European tour shirt worth $100—and exactly one ticket stub from a concert he actually attended, at Washington’s Gorge Amphitheater in July 2011. Growing up in Salem, Reeder had multiple chances to catch the Seattle grunge titan at its height, when the band would swing through the Salem Armory, but each time, for reasons he can’t even remember, he stayed home. Then, in 1997, Soundgarden broke up. Regrets? Reeder has a few. In the years between then and the band’s 2010 reunion, the 32-year-old, who teaches French at Portland Community College, has thoroughly atoned for those blown opportunities. In 1999, Reeder started the Soundgarden Live Guide (soundgardenliveguide.com), an online resource dedicated to cataloging, in great detail, every concert the band has ever played. And that, it turns out, is a greater act of tribute than just being another flannel-clad longhair in the crowd. Although Soundgarden is among the biggest bands of its generation, Reeder says it is woefully underdocumented as a live act. His site isn’t just the most exhaustive of its kind—it’s the only one. It hasn’t gone unnoticed, either: Guitarist Kim Thayil once referenced the guide in an interview, Reeder says. This week, Soundgarden comes to Portland for the first time since April 16, 1992, when it performed at the Fox Theater (a show for which there is no known recording or set list). And this time, Reeder is not missing out. WW: How did you first get into Soundgarden? Matt Reeder: I remember listening to KNRK 94.7 a lot when I was first getting into rock music. When I got some money for eighth-grade gradu-
ation, I went out and bought Superunknown and Nevermind. Many times I wish I were, like, five years older so that I could have really seen those bands back in the day. I mean, I was 13 when Kurt [Cobain] died, and even though I was a huge fan of Soundgarden from 1994 on, I never saw them. How did it end up that you’ve seen Soundgarden only once? Well, I was a total loser in high school and didn’t go to shows at all. So when Soundgarden came through in 1996, I really wanted to go, and it just didn’t happen for some reason or another. Don’t ever miss a concert if you really want to go—I wish somebody would have told me that when I was 15. Is there a holy grail of Soundgarden bootlegs? There are so many shows that have never seen the light of day. The Soundgarden bootleg community just isn’t on the same level as that of their peers. I mean, there are recordings out there of basically every show Pearl Jam has played since 1993. We have recordings of maybe 20 percent of the shows Soundgarden played before the breakup. What have you learned about Soundgarden that the casual fan is unaware of ? Who else would have the balls to cover [Spinal Tap’s] “Big Bottom”? What’s your favorite Soundgarden song? “Head Down.” I was 13 when Superunknown came out, and I really didn’t get what they were trying to do with that song at all. It was never my favorite until I heard a live version when I first started collecting bootlegs. It almost instantly became my favorite Soundgarden song, and it has remained so ever since. Tell me about that one show you attended. I think I was numb the first few songs and spent most of the show just watching with my eyes bugged and my mouth hanging open. I mean, I never thought I’d ever have the opportunity to see them, so it was a surreal experience for me. I’m really looking forward to seeing them in Portland and Seattle on this tour. Those three days are going to be a dream come true. SEE IT: Soundgarden plays Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, on Wednesday, Feb. 6. 8 pm. $70.50. All ages. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 6, 2013 wweek.com
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Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers, the Brothers Comatose
James Apollo, Strangled Darlings (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
[DOO-WOP AMERICANA] Any band that can make a video cover of Hall and Oates’ “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do)” while in its van, manage to make it cool, and garner 2 million views for it is OK by me. Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers’ latest release, Driftwood, is full of oldtime folk; dreamy, doo-wop-tinged Americana; and the kind of rock that was king about 35 years ago. There is more than a passing vocal similarity between Bluhm and the great Stevie Nicks at times, so look elsewhere if you are looking for a band that’s completely distinctive. But if homages are your thing, check out the Lynyrd Skynyrdesque sound of “Little Too Late,” the single from the Gramblers’ upcoming, as-yet-untitled album. BRIAN PALMER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $15. 21+.
[WANDERER’S SONGS] James Apollo has one of the most fascinating Facebook pages. Posting a steady stream of globetrotting photos and a smattering of poetic, ambiguously important status updates, the frontman gives off the vibe of a wandering vagabond with occasional Internet access. This is all very fitting considering he wrote his band’s 2012 EP, Little War, Little Less, during an expedition to the Utah canyons, where he disappeared unbeknownst to his family, friends and bandmates for a number of weeks. The album carries obvious ties to introspective and soulsearching songwriting, but with the production of Seattle staple Damien Jurado, it also finds a nice balance of accompanying instrumentation. From the driving opener “Blessed or Bust,” deep with woodwinds, horns, percussion, piano and guitar, to the whispering “A Suckers Spark,” composed mainly of piano, bass and backup vocals, James Apollo’s songs pleasingly mix his meandering musings with interesting compositions. EMILEE BOOHER. White Eagle Saloon, 836 N Russell St., 282-6810. 9:30 pm. $8. 21+.
FRIDAY, FEB. 8 The Wood Brothers, Seth Walker
[BLUESY BROTHERS] There’s no doubt the Wood Brothers are professionals. Brothers Oliver and Chris Wood can bust out solos on their respective instruments with the kind of ease that comes only with a lifetime of playing. For a number of years, Oliver honed his guitar and songwriting skills with the group King Johnson, and Chris played the upright bass in jazz-jam trio Medeski, Martin and Wood. In 2005, the two brought their bluesy folk roots together and began their own project, which now regularly includes percussionist-“shutter” extraordinaire, Jano Rix. Honestly, aside from the Woods Stage at Pickathon (pun not intended), there’s no better place in the Portland area to experience the talented group than amid the beautiful sound of Aladdin Theater. EMILEE BOOHER. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 9 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.
SATURDAY, FEB. 9 Mark Kozelek (of Sun Kil Moon)
[UNCOVERED FOLK] Cover bands suck. That’s the unfortunate mantra of the indie music world. Bands can occasionally hide others’ songs within the hidden tracks on albums, or bring out a classic cover for a live encore. The fact that Mark Kozelek, of Sun Kil Moon and Red House Painters, has covered songs on nearly every solo and band record, and done it so uncompromisingly, should be a hint he’s got something that doesn’t suck. His cooing, gentle wail and acoustic stylizing make Modest Mouse and AC/DC songs completely his own. In short, he’s harking back to the cover-happy roots of folk, with more than enough solo material to endear himself to the indie community. Though prone to
[PIANO PARTY] Sporting a tantalizing résumé ranging from collaborations with Charlie Hunter to a degree from the Berklee College of Music, Marco Benevento certainly doesn’t lack a musician’s brain. What the piano-toting experimental performer has often lacked is the following many writers believe he deserves, and many more believe the Brooklyn-based artist will garner via 2012’s TigerFace. The record marks Benevento’s first real flirtation with the conventional, featuring less instrumentation, poppy vocals and a transition from jazz to jam rock. But he still holds fast to his Dan Deaconlike love for effects-riddled keys and the crazy, complex soundscapes they tend to spawn. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
Wampire, Eternal Tapestry, the Shivas
[EERIE INDIE] It’s probably the band’s name, but I can’t help but picture a Transylvanian summer night whenever I hear Portland’s Wampire. The band’s off-kilter organs, distant whistles and fluttery guitar lines create an eerily cheery vibe that makes me feel both warm and weirded out at the same time. The band’s newest single, “The Hearse”—from its upcoming Polyvinyl debut, and which opens with a menacing keyboard line before tearing open to a punchy, drum-driven lullaby— could serve as the intro music to a cheesy 1980s horror flick. I can definitely see a stake-wielding Corey Feldman rocking out to it. Too bad the Woods, the local music venue housed in a morgue, closed last year—it always seemed to fit the band’s creepily fun aesthetic perfectly. REED JACKSON. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
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pigeonholing—his style and voice are renowned for having changed very little in two decades—his live performances have the ability to carry audiences away down a dusty road, to see the sepia-washed ephemera from his album covers. MITCH LILLIE. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $17. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.
Wake Owl
[COUNTRY FOLK] Scores of indie bands are trying to emulate the success of bands like Mumford & Sons and the Lumineers these days. Vancouver’s Wake Owl, thankfully, is more imaginative than that, choosing to tip its hat to those groups instead of shamelessly copying them. Mixing Americana strains with wistful violins, echoing and occasionally ethereal guitars, complementary percussion and Colyn Cameron’s alternately scratchy and hauntingly beautiful vocal harmonies, Wake Owl’s music is decidedly its own. The songs are tinged with country and folk-rock sounds throughout, but the band mostly stays in the Americana realm, painting emotionally charged, picturesque tales of love, loss and finding your way. If you enjoy music that is more subtle than lively, this is the band for you. BRIAN PALMER. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 8949708. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
Om, Sir Richard Bishop
[AGONY AND ECSTASY] The sound of Om’s music has been slowly moving closer to the idea wrapped up in the group’s chosen name. Band leader Al Cisneros has been reaching for exalted heights with his work for the band since starting the project in 2003, but it comes out even clearer on the group’s most recent album, Advaitic Songs. Released in 2012, the disc strips away the trudge of its early doommetal experiments to concentrate on ecstatic drones, haunting Hindi vocals and minimalist percussion by Portland’s Emil Amos. ROBERT HAM. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $15. 21+.
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PALLBEARER Formed: In Little Rock, Ark., in 2008. Sounds like: A slow march through brimstone fields at the end of time. For fans of: Black Sabbath, Candlemass, Electric Wizard, Burning Witch, funerals, lying in bed on a rainy day crippled with sadness. Latest release: Sorrow and Extinction, five songs of gorgeous, despairing, traditional doom metal. Why you care: Pallbearer is that rare case of a young band deserving of its meteoric rise—not that Pallbearer does anything fast on purpose. Debut album Sorrow and Extinction was awarded Pitchfork’s coveted Best New Music tag when it was released in March 2012. Nine months later, the record was hailed as best metal album on nearly every relevant year-end list. The praise is warranted, if unprecedented. Until recently, doom has traditionally been the least commercially viable subgenre of metal. What pushes Pallbearer over the top is the vocal style of singer-guitarist Brett Campbell. His soaring lyrics of despair ride the billowing, angelic waves that cascade from his golden throat. It’s this majesty that carries otherwise leaden, anguished riffs into the stratosphere. The music is heavy, down-tuned and miserable, but with a baroque air that never forsakes its melancholic vibe. Hope seems to be in short supply, and that type of gothic sensibility seems to be speaking to a lot of people right now. Go figure. SEE IT: Pallbearer plays Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., with Enslaved, on Sunday, Feb. 10. 7:30 pm. $14. All ages. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 6, 2013 wweek.com
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[ZAP-CID JAZZ] The musical pedigree of Seattle trio McTuff is untouchable, considering the madcap skills of Hammond organist Joe Doria, guitarist Andy Cole and drummer Tarik Abouzied’s combined experiences of playing with pretty much every jammy jazzfusion outfit in the past 20 years. But add to them sax demigod Skerik—whose own experiences run the gamut from Stanton Moore to Les Claypool and beyond—and you’ve got a veritable supergroup that mines the depths of Zappa at his most unhinged and flings everything against a solid rock foundation that really needs to be experienced live to be understood. Four years and two albums in, McTuff remains one of the most challenging and refreshing fusion outfits in the Pacific Northwest, a furious instrumental monster that relishes slapping expectation directly in the jaw. AP KRYZA. Goodfoot Lounge, 2845 SE Stark St., 239-9292. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
Onuinu, Phone Call, Dutty Wilderness
[ELECTRO-BANGERS] Fresh home from his first national headlining tour, Onuinu’s Dorian Duvall will close out his nearly monthlong excursion at Holocene, unleashing his self-coined “disco-hop” stompers. The night also serves to showcase two up-and-coming acts, including Phone Call, the band that’s risen from the ashes of Strength. In this latest incarnation of that beloved local dance outfit, the remaining members have jumped a decade from the ’70s to the ’80s in terms of musical influences. Standout track “Faint of Heart” is practically a rallying call to the dance floor. Rounding out the bill is Seattle’s Reed Juenger, debuting his new side project Dutty Wilderness, in which he creates a beat-driven and sample-heavy homage to several decades’ worth of hip-hop and breakbeat production. He’ll be heading to SXSW in the next month, and is likely to stir up hype similar to that of his other project, electro trio Beat Connection, a band already on the up-and-up. NILINA MASON-CAMPBELL. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
Ra Ra Riot, Cayucas
[BEACH-BUM MIXTAPE] Cayucas’ Southern California context is immediately evident in the group’s Richard Swift-produced debut, Bigfoot: the ever-present oohs and aahs, the subtropical riffs, the playful muses, which range from high-school secrets to East Coast girls. It’s the musical equivalent of sand between your toes, with nods to Paul Simon’s South African phase or Lord Huron on happy pills. Cayucas drags its feet fetchingly, in that hugely harmonious, beachrock way that transports the listener straight to the Santa Monica pier. Headliners Ra Ra Riot share in the bliss, emitting rays of pop so bright they burn the skin. MARK STOCK. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $15 advance, $17 day of show. 21+.
SUNDAY, FEB. 10 Hot Tuna
[COLD PHISH] The decidedly earthbound members of Jefferson Airplane’s founding crew, guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bassist Jack Casaday split from the epochal Summer of Love band just before the first strains of embarrassment began to seep through the mix and parleyed their unassailable youthculture cred into an endlessly sustainable living museum of the blues. Four decades on, you can’t fault Hot Tuna’s commitment—not every septuagenarian schedules a February acoustic tour barnstorming Bozeman, Bend and Grants Pass in advance of Caribbean resort gigs—but, as with
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KINGDOM CRUMBS WEDNESDAY, FEB. 6 The future of hip-hop is living in Seattle. And no, it’s not Macklemore.
[TOMORROW’S HIP-HOP] Like an increasing number of rappers these days, Tay Sean Brown of Seattle’s Kingdom Crumbs doesn’t listen to much hip-hop. Not as much as he used to, anyway. Growing up, he was what might be deemed “a true head.” He rhymed, break-danced, dabbled in graffiti, made beats. Asked what inspires him today, though, Brown is more inclined to mention L.A.’s Brainfeeder label—a crew of producers who smash hip-hop into pieces and filter the shards through the lens of electronic music—than any MC. Simply put, Brown is a rapper burned out on rap. It’s not that he’s forsaken the culture that raised him. He just recognizes that, in order for the music to move forward, it must look beyond itself and admit that the so-called “golden era” of hip-hop, which many of his peers still cling to, is over. “I’ve heard enough boom-bap stuff in my time,” Brown says by phone from a hotel somewhere in Illinois, referring to the production style of early ’90s rap. “I still like listening to it from time to time, but I’m just a little more moved by things that are progressive and experimental and heartfelt. Not to say that boom-bap hip-hop isn’t heartfelt. I guess I just got a little bit tired of it.” Kingdom Crumbs is Brown’s effort to nudge hip-hop toward its future. Formed in 2010, the group—Brown, Jerm D, Mikey Nice and Jarv Dee—is, to use the parlance of the genre, on some next-level shit. Its self-titled debut, released last year, takes the shadowy template of Shabazz Palaces—the act at the forefront of Seattle’s rap avant-garde and whom Brown is currently assisting on tour—and turns up the black lights. Produced mainly by Brown, the album’s airy, psychedelic beats often seem to float above ground, but the record stays tethered to earth by the MCs’ laid-back, streetwise swagger. It’s aggressively unique, but Brown says it’s wrong to read the album as a direct response to the stagnant state of hip-hop. “Maybe subconsciously it’s like, ‘We’re filling in the gaps here,’ but it’s not a conscious effort to do that,” he says. “We’re just trying to make the music we like.” Live, however, is where the Crumbs deliberately try to stand out. In contrast to the typical “one laptop and a few microphones” setup, the group reproduces its beats together onstage by banging on drum machines and synthesizers, often while performing synchronized dance moves, infusing the abstractions of its album with house-party energy. In a sense, it’s the forward-thinking crew’s way of reaching back to an older hip-hop ideal: As Rakim once said, “MC means ‘move the crowd.’” “We went into the record knowing we wanted to do more than just grab the mic and rap,” Brown says. “We’d all done that enough times that we’d kind of gotten bored with it. When an artist appreciates the opportunity they’re given to get in front of a crowd and give them something, whether that crowd is 20, 30 people or whether it’s 2,000 people—I take that seriously. I want to give those people a good show. I wasn’t satisfied with just rapping over my beats. I don’t feel that’s doing enough.” MATTHEW SINGER. SEE IT: Kingdom Crumbs plays Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., with Magic Mouth and Dual Mode, on Wednesday, Feb. 6. 8:30 pm. $6. 21+.
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OLD PUNKS DIE HARD: Off! plays Branx on Monday, Feb. 11. the idiosyncratic fingering-filled jams of 2011’s Steady as She Goes (Hot Tuna’s first studio album in 20 years), a large net may be required just to find somebody to love this sort of music. JAY HORTON. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $35. 21+.
MONDAY, FEB. 11 Off!, Negative Approach, Bad Antics
[AARP-CORE] For a subculture founded on the principles of playing fast, dying young and obliterating the crusty, bloated rock establishment, punk has gotten mighty nostalgic in its old age. Keith Morris, the fiery, dreadlocked imp most identifiable as the frontman for SoCal’s merry hardcore pranksters the Circle Jerks, might be the greatest offender. Not only does he continually bring back the Jerks every few years, this year he’s performing with a reconstituted version of Black Flag—a band he was in for all of one admittedly awesome EP in the late ’70s—and touring with Off!, a new band that sounds like every old band he’s ever been in. Featuring members of Burning Brides, Hot Snakes and Redd Kross, the pseudo-supergroup plays straight-up, clenched-fist, ’80s-style hardcore, all agitated power chords and blink-andyou’ll-miss-it song lengths, with 57-year-old Morris hollering about alienation and political oppression like he scribbled out the lyrics during his high-school history class. It works—often with facebreaking force—mostly because it’s a hard formula to fuck up. Angst and aggression are ageless, and Off! provides an outlet for rage that, unlike its members, will never get old. MATTHEW SINGER. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 8:30 pm. $13. All ages.
TUESDAY, FEB. 12 Ninja Turtle Ninja Tiger, Adventure Galley
[CASIO KEYBOARD CATS] The name sounds like an Internet meme custom-built for nostalgia-fetishizing millennials, and indeed, some of Ninja Turtle Ninja Tiger’s high-energy electro-pop tracks have shades of Nyan Cat. Plus, the band’s neon-heavy album covers look like they belong on a Threadless shirt. But there’s enough substance to back up the sweatband-friendly style of this Portland quartet. The band’s 2012 debut LP, I’ll Find You in the Colors, is a surprisingly polished collection—but you’d never know the entire thing was apparently self-recorded by vocalist-guitarist Dustin Brown in his living room—of huge shoutalong choruses and disco beats that sound heavily inspired by the more recent works of Phoenix, but also recalls earlier MGMT and Ra Ra Riot. Several catchy standouts like “Spinning on Fire” and
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North Mississippi Allstars, the London Souls
[BLUESY ROCK] Trio North Mississippi Allstars may have started with a bit of hubris behind it—brothers Luther (guitar) and Cody Dickinson (drums) had no claim to fame when they started more than 10 years ago, and said claim came from roping R.L. Burnside’s kid into playing with them. Somehow, with bassist Chris Chew (no relation to that Charleston dude) in tow, the band’s become ubiquitous on the festival circuit, and it’s no wonder. Veering toward the Skynyrd side of the country-blues-rock spectrum, the group’s gained momentum, but nary a bit of pretension. This is country rock sung in an off-key that lets the slide guitar do the talking, and on 2011’s Keys to the Kingdom, the Allstars proved themselves, finally, to have earned their name through a universally appealing and charmingly askew rust bucket of a sound that more than befits its loaded name. AP KRYZA. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $18. 21+.
The Melodians, the Yellow Wall Dub Squad, the Sentiments
[ROOTS REGGAE] For casual reggae fans, the Melodians are known mostly for “Rivers of Babylon,” the stirring Rastafarian spiritual that appears on the classic The Harder They Come soundtrack album. For even more casual fans, “Rivers of Babylon” is a song Sublime once covered. But the Melodians’ career extends beyond that one, soul-rending tune. Coming together in Kingston in the early ’60s, the honey-voiced trio recorded for Jamaican production bigwigs such as Coxsone Dodd, Duke Reid, Byron Lee and Lee “Scratch” Perry, releasing a series of singles across the ensuing two decades as famous on the island and among rocksteady aficionados as its biggest song is internationally. Although the Melodians have broken up, reunited and lost founding member Brent Dowe to a heart attack in 2006, original singers Tony Brevett and Trevor McNaughton continue to carry the torch, celebrating their 50th anniversary with rare stateside appearances, backed by the legit session group the Yellow Wall Dub Squad. MATTHEW SINGER. Mt. Tabor Theater, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 8 pm. $10 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
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THEO CRAIG (RONTOMS SUNDAY SESSIONS) Theo Craig is one of Portland’s biggest music fans. In January 2012, the chatty, affable 35-year-old became the sole talent buyer for the free Sunday Sessions at Rontoms, which have since transformed into heavily attended showcases for new and lesser-known local acts. Hosting some of the earliest performances from bands like Shy Girls and Pure Bathing Culture, the eastside bar buzzes each week with crowds of friends, barflies and other musicians. With his handpicked playlists of local artists streaming between live sets—which he’s now turned into the podcast There Ain’t Nothing Going On Here—Craig’s vision for the sessions encapsulates his ongoing devotion to music, and often steers the local beat. When he moved here in 2007, however, Craig had little idea such a scene even existed. “No one was talking about Portland at that time, and there were all of these really great bands that I had never heard of,” he says. While growing up in the suburbs of Juneau, Alaska, Craig cultivated his passion for music through house shows and jam sessions with classmates such as Matt Sheehy, who later relocated to Portland and formed Lost Lander. After graduation, Craig, too, got the hell out. Spending a number of years in Seattle while attending college and working for radio station KEXP, he eventually landed in Portland, where he discovered an emerging music community and couldn’t help but get involved. Originally hoping to start a record label, Craig instead learned how to book tours after assisting Sheehy—who was living in Portland and working on a solo project—in planning a West Coast tour. “He’s such a huge lover of music,” Sheehy says. “He will see bands and have blind faith in them and just start helping.” In 2008, Craig scheduled one of the earliest shows for Y La Bamba, leading to a small and logistically disastrous tour. But he continued booking the group during its rise to the forefront of Portland music. Gaining other clients such as Brainstorm, Boy Eats Drum Machine and Jared Mees and the Grown Children, Craig honed his booking skills while enduring the mixed emotions of aiding young bands to success. “I felt like every time I was advancing in [my] career, things would kind of fall apart a little bit,” he says. “I’d grow with artists and I’d think that we’d continue growing together, but every time they got to the point where it’d become easy to book them, another agent would come along and grab them.” But Craig never lost sight of what drives him. “My goal is not to grow as a booking agent, it’s to support the community that I love and help bands get out there.” And because of Craig’s hard work and faith in local artists, Sunday nights at Rontoms have become the city’s go-to event for hearing the next undiscovered act. “It’s a feeling that you can’t put a price on,” he says. “I’m achieving one of my goals in life, which is to make our world better in a small way.” EMILEE BOOHER. Meet the man who made a Burnside bar the epicenter for Portland music.
This is the third in a series on Portland’s musical infrastructure. SEE IT: Souvenir Driver and Paper Brain play Rontoms, 600 E Burnside St., on Sunday, Feb. 10. 9 pm. Free. 21+. Hear Craig’s podcast at mixcloud.com/smokesignalsmusic.
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3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. The Wood Brothers, Seth Walker
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Alberta Rose Bluegrass Festival: The Caleb Klauder Country Band, Cahalen Morrison & Eli West, Wayward Vessel, Stumbleweed
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Vassafor, Knelt Rote, Pleasure Cross, Sempiternal Dusk
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Yung Mil, Horizun, Hype Louis, Big Mo, Mighty, Chieftan, DJ Eps
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Tin Silver
Boom Bap!
WED. FEB. 6 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. John Phelan
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Suzanne Vega
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway Soundgarden
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. The Bevelers, the Allies, Cambrian Explosion
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray (9 pm); Bob Shoemaker (6 pm)
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Tara Stonecipher, Closely Watched Trains (9 pm); Wayward Vessel with Lex Browning (6 pm)
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. The Planet Pluto (9:45 pm); Mr. Hoo (5 pm)
Mississippi Studios
THURS. FEB. 7 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. John Phelan
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Led Zepagain
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Sonasi Quartet
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Closely Watched Trains, Tara Stonecipher, Jeff Donovan
Biddy McGraw’s
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Aan, Incan Abraham, Cuckoo Chaos
6000 NE Glisan St. John Ross
115 NW 5th Ave. Boyd Tinsley (of Dave Matthews Band), Rob Stroup & the Blame (live film-scoring)
Record Room
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Amorus
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. Ellie Goulding
1465 NE Prescott St. Cloudburst, Medicine Cabinet
Dante’s
Someday Lounge
Backspace
350 W Burnside St. Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House, Left Coast Roasters
Doug Fir Lounge
8 NE Killingsworth St. Worthless Eaters, Tom Hanks, Wasichu
Revival Drum Shop
125 NW 5th Ave. Random Axe
Suki’s Bar & Grill 2401 SW 4th Ave. Eric John Kaiser
830 E Burnside St. Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Barna Howard, Vikesh Kapoor
The TARDIS Room
Duff’s Garage
71 SW 2nd Ave. Jordan Harris
1635 SE 7th Ave. Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam (9 pm); High Flyer Trio (6 pm)
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Acoustic Speakeasy, Vintage Vaudeville
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. The Real, Laser Piss
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Magic Mouth, Kingdom Crumbs, Dual Mode
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Tom Bergeron’s Brasil Band
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Brian & K’lyn, Joe Little, Vanessa Rogers, Astro Apes
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1218 N Killingsworth St. Eric Vanderwall
Thirsty Lion
Torta Landia
4144 SE 60th Ave. Tim Alexander, Katie Roberts
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Beringia, Vultures in the Sky, Debrailler, DJ Dungeonmaster
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. The Blue Drag Quartet, Hot Club Time Machine
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Michele Van Kleef Music Machine
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar
800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Band with Toni Lincoln
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Big Freedia, DJ Beyonda
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Buffalo Gap Saloon
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Leni Stern African Trio
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Here Come Dots
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Blue Iris, Irea Idea
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Chris Miller Band
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Chris Juhlin & the Collective, the Tummybuckles, David Paulik (9:30 pm); The Left Coast Roasters (6 pm)
Corkscrew Wine Bar
Dante’s
8635 N Lombard St. Mr. Frederick
1669 SE Bybee Blvd. Free Peoples
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
350 W Burnside St. Wizard Boots, A Happy Death, the Blacklights, the Dandelions
The Blue Diamond
Doug Fir Lounge
3341 SE Belmont St. Howl & Wolf
830 E Burnside St. Left Coast Country, All the Apparatus, Neighbors
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Steve James & Del Rey (9 pm); Tough Lovepyle (6 pm)
Hawthorne Theatre
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones
The Blue Monk
The TARDIS Room
1218 N Killingsworth St. Swiggle Mandela and the LFGM
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Hair Assault
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Jee Sick, the Resistance, Packard Browne, Das Leune, the Dream Team
Torta Landia
Holocene
1530 SE 7th Ave. Loose Change
1001 SE Morrison St. Into the Woods ThreeYear Anniversary: Naomi Punk, Litanic Mask, WL, FF, DJ Rom Com, Magic Fades DJs
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Tom Grant with Heather Keizur and Dennis Caiazza
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Renee Muzquiz, Keith Scott, Sean Patrick Martin
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Hashem Asadullahi
4144 SE 60th Ave. Brian Francis
Vie de Boheme
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Medicine Family, Spirit Lake, Hong Kong Banana (8:30 pm); Brothers of the Hound (5:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Mike & Haley Horsfall
FRI. FEB. 8 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. John Phelan
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ed Bennett Quintet
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LaurelThirst
Mickey Finn’s Brew Pub
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Mark Kozelek (of Sun Kil Moon)
2958 NE Glisan St. Alexa Wiley & the Wilderness, Sloe Loris (9:30 pm); Joe McMurrian, Woodbrain (6 pm) 4336 SE Woodstock Blvd. Bubble Cats, No More Parachutes, Avant Laguardia
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. The Cry! (9 pm); Level 2 (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
303 SW 12th Ave. John Phelan
Aladdin Theater
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Alberta Rose Bluegrass Festival: Danny Barnes & Nick Forster, the Banjo Killers, Jackstraw, Sugar Pine, the Chick Rose School of Bluegrass
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio
Artichoke Community Music
3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Tribute to Jim Morris and Ken Vigil
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Mike Schafer, Tree Top Tribe, Colin Trio
3435 N Lombard St. Sneakin’ Out
Burgerville (Hawthorne)
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Lower 48, Eidolons, Bike Thief (concert hall); The North Wind, Soft Shadows, Appendixes (lounge)
Ash Street Saloon
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. The Sportin’ Lifers Trio
115 NW 5th Ave. Dancing Hats, Midnight Parade, Ed & the Red Reds
Original Halibut’s II
Biddy McGraw’s
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Seffarine
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Muthaship
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. Super Diamond, Under a Blood Red Sky
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Witchburn
Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. Marco Benevento, Grammies
Duff’s Garage
East End
3435 N Lombard St. Dan Coyle
James Apollo, Strangled Darlings (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
Buffalo Gap Saloon
Mississippi Studios
Mock Crest Tavern
4847 SE Division St. Miller and Sasser (9 pm); W.C. Beck (6 pm)
Mock Crest Tavern
1635 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones (9 pm); the Hamdogs (6 pm)
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers, the Brothers Comatose
Landmark Saloon
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Wampire, Eternal Tapestry, the Shivas
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Troy Richmond Dixon
Mississippi Pizza
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Old Junior, Old Growth, the Cut 45, Sleeptalkers, the Betwixies, John Sutherland
640 SE Stark St. William Ingrid, Goomy, Young Dad
1122 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Welfare, the Sale (KZME benefit)
ENGLAND’S DREAMING: Ellie Goulding plays Crystal Ballroom on Wednesday, Feb. 6.
Kenton Club
203 SE Grand Ave. Orchids, Party Foul
EastBurn
1800 E Burnside St. Closely Watched Trains
Evans Auditorium at Lewis & Clark College
0615 SW Palatine Hill Road Capella Nova, Community Chorale, Women’s Chorus, Section Line Drive, the Merry Weathers, Momo & the Coop, the Ravine Academy
Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave. Lorna Miller
Gemini Lounge
6526 SE Foster Road Brown Erbe
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Hot Water Music, La Dispute, the Menzingers
Mount Tabor Theater
2527 NE Alberta St. Vicki Stevens with Sonny Hess
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Michael Hurley, Dragging an Ox Through Water, Hyena, Paper/Upper/Cuts
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Skoi, Chase the Shakes, Skatter Bomb, Mouthwash Enema
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Matthew Gailey, the Quadraphonnes, Eric Fridrich, Stephen Marc Beaudoin (9 pm); Pete Krebs & His Portland Playboys (6 pm)
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Boats!, Therapists, Chemicals, Youthbitch
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Palace Fiction, Yard, Sci Fi Sol, Senor Frio
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Federale, Ancient Heat, Matthew J. Tow
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Little Hexes
The Elixir Lab at Al Forno Ferruzza 2738 NE Alberta St. Gunga Galunga
The Firkin Tavern
225 SW Ash St. Separation of Sanity, Lidless Eye, Kingdom Under Fire, Sumerian
Backspace
6000 NE Glisan St. Treefrogs
Bossanova Ballroom
722 E Burnside St. Atomic Gumbo, the Too Loose Cajun and Zydeco Band, Transcendental Brass Band, the Skull and Bones Gang (Portland Mardi Gras Ball)
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Wake Owl, Sean Flinn & the Royal We, Andy Shauf
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Dave Frishberg & Rebecca Kilgore
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Elite
Dante’s
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. The Buckles
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. White Murder, Youthbitch, Piss Test, Lunch
EastBurn
1800 E Burnside St. The Keplers
Fifteenth Avenue Hophouse 1517 NE Brazee St. Ben Larsen
Jade Lounge
Thirsty Lion
2845 SE Stark St. McTuff with Skerik
Tonic Lounge
4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Steve Cheseborough
Jimmy Mak’s
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Pinehurst Kids, the Hand That Bleeds, 42 Ford Prefect
221 NW 10th Ave. Toque Libre, the Paul Creighton Band
Katie O’Briens
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Dwight Dickinson, Cutbank, Joe Little
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. People Under the Sun, Hands In
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Tony’s AM Gold Show
Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Ojos Feos
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St.
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Jeff Lorber with Patrick Lamb and Jennifer Batten
Katie O’Briens
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Lost City, 48 Thrills, Brigadier, the Badlands
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. The Silent Numbers, Kingdom of the Holy Sun, Highway
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Medicine Family, Hearts of Oak, Magnetic Hands
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Twang Shifters
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Palace Fiction, Memes, Hamsa El Dinner (9:30 pm); The James Low Western Front (6 pm)
Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan St. Libertine Belles, Joe McMurrian, Cafe Metelyk (Miz Kitty’s Parlour variety show)
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Sons of Malarkey, Maggie’s Fury (9 pm); The Hill Dogs (6 pm); The Toy Trains (4 pm)
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Sidestreet Reny
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Garcia Birthday Band, Cats Under the Stars (concert hall); Northbound Rain (lounge)
Muddy Rudder Public House
8105 SE 7th Ave. Maggie and Patrick Lind
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Lloyd Allen
Peter’s Room
Record Room
830 E Burnside St. Om, Sir Richard Bishop
6526 SE Foster Road Welfare
71 SW 2nd Ave. Madson
2346 SE Ankeny St. Colin Fisher, Jesse Robison, Beth Champion (9 pm); Ruby Feathers (6 pm)
Doug Fir Lounge
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Reaktion, Product
Jade Lounge
8 NW 6th Ave. Garden of Eden, Mike Branch Band, Broken
1937 SE 11th Ave. The We Shared Milk, Father Figure, Silverhawk, Less Cash
2346 SE Ankeny St. The Big Bad Wolf, Kyle Stephens and Jack Martin, Booty & the Bandit (8 pm); Jeffree White (6 pm)
1435 NW Flanders St. Kevin Deitz Sextet
350 W Burnside St. Kultur Shock, Chervona
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Randy Porter Trio
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
Gemini Lounge
Goodfoot Lounge
Hawthorne Hophouse
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Poison’Us (Poison tribute), Unchained (Van Halen tribute), Dr. Love (KISS tribute)
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Onuinu, Phone Call, Dutty Wilderness
8 NE Killingsworth St. Sleep Talker, Little Sister, Bad Light, Hauksness
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Die Robot, the Applicants, Hundred Dollar Jayhawks, Three Five Seven, Lee Rude
Red and Black Cafe
400 SE 12th Ave. Felecia and the Dinosaur, The Small Arms, Turncoat Collective
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Z’Bumba, Maracaboom, Samba Já (9 pm); Trashcan Joe (6 pm)
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Two Crows Fighting, Bubble Cats, the Valley, Tiananmen Bear
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. Barn Door Slammers
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Kiss Kill, Shannon Tower Band, Annie Vergnetti
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Deep Blue Soul Revue
The Firkin Tavern
1937 SE 11th Ave. Charles Darwins, the Roving Eyes
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The TARDIS Room
1218 N Killingsworth St. The Weather Machine
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Love 2 Love Fest: Anne Mersereau, Mona Reels, Sedan, Appendixes, Hornet Legs
Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Arthur Moore’s Harmonica Party
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. The Sale
MON. FEB. 11 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
NOT MY SON: In theory, Thorne Lounge (4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 234-2423, thornelounge.com) is a rock-’n’-roll bar. Right now, though, the vibe is more adult contemporary. It’s open-mic night, and at the moment two twentysomethings in striped sweaters are on the small corner stage with acoustic guitars, performing songs that’d probably sound great coming through the house speakers at Pottery Barn. “This is a cover,” they announce, before strumming out a totally straight-faced, utterly funkless rendition of “Billie Jean.” If it weren’t for the crimson-colored walls decorated with images of Marilyn Monroe and the Beatles, light fixtures apparently purchased from an opium den’s yard sale, and signs advertising drink specials with names like Red Headed Slut and Sloe Comfortable Screw (a mixture of sloe gin, Southern Comfort and orange juice that tastes like spiked Hawaiian Punch), it’d be easy to think you’d wandered into a Christian singles mixer. Like the duo currently sucking the soul out of Michael Jackson, Thorne is sincere in its desire to transform the formerly nondescript Vertigo Pub into an authentic neighborhood dive, but it’s an inaccurate cover. A dive is where people go to hide; Thorne has too many windows, and the place is too small to look away in embarrassment when someone onstage is being a bit too earnest. MATTHEW SINGER. The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Sioux, Crag Dweller, Fellwoods
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Effword, Tonality Star
The TARDIS Room
1218 N Killingsworth St. Raw Dog and the Close Calls
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Gentleman’s Club
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. 16volt, Stiff Valentine, Proven
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Soulcity
Torta Landia
4144 SE 60th Ave. Cody Weathers
Twilight Room
5242 N Lombard St. Dina y Los Rumberos
Vibrant Studios
1532 SW Jefferson St. Liz Kohl with Nicholas Erikson (8 pm); Becky Rissman with Liz Kohl (6:45 pm); Zsuzsi with Sophie Lippert (5:30 pm) (live-music-accompanied yoga sessions)
Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. The Sale
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. The Lonesome Billies, Country Lips (9:30 pm); the Student Loan (4:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Marc Fendell All-Stars with Dick Berk
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Ra Ra Riot, Cayucas
SUN. FEB. 10 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Kory Quinn
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Hot Tuna
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Alberta Rose Bluegrass Festival: Jim Lauderdale, Danny Barnes & Nick Forster, Barn Door Slammers, Calico Rose, the Bluegrass Regulators
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. The Vandies, the Paul Iannotti Band, Silk and Olive
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Enslaved, Pallbearer, Royal Thunder, Ancient Wisdom
Doug Fir Lounge
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Vanessa Rogers (7 pm); Midnight Parade (5:45 pm)
Katie O’Briens
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Muddy River Nightmare Band, the Living Deadbeats, Primitive Idols
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Ian Miller and Pete Krebs
LaurelThirst
1435 NW Flanders St. Gus Pappelis Happening
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Broadway Calls, Burn the Stage, Lee Corey Oswald, Absent Minds, All Falls Through
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Off!, Negative Approach, Bad Antics
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Lindsay Lou & the Flatbellys (9 pm); Susie & the Sidecars (6 pm)
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Sabaton, Nemesis, Forbidden Symphony, Ion Storm
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Mats Eilertsen Trio
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Dan Balmer Band
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Hack, Stitch & Buckshot (9:30 pm); Saturday Night Drive (7 pm)
Langano Lounge
1435 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Grapefruit, Shannon Steele, Hawai’i
PCPA Antoinette Hatfield Hall
1033 NW 16th Ave. Megan Larson, Val Bauer, Vega Black
3552 N Mississippi Ave. John Simon (9 pm); The Ukeladies (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Wild Cub, Minden, Escondido
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Ancient Wisdom
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Erik Anarchy, Crime Machine, Super Desu, Eddie Reagan and Mike Linsmeir, Truth Vibration, Bad Habbit
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
Andina
Mississippi Pizza
Ford Food and Drink
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. One for the Wolves, From the Eyes of Cain, the Unspoken Word, How the West Was Won, Heidi Canfield, Queen Chief, Opus, Bellwether, Revery, Bootblack Sinners
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Shawn Mullins, Max Gomez
1111 SW Broadway Sally Harmon and Frank Gruner
PICA
Hawthorne Theatre
Aladdin Theater
2958 NE Glisan St. Dan Haley with Tim Acott (9:30 pm); Freak Mountain Family (6 pm)
830 E Burnside St. No Kind of Rider, SuckerForLights, Wildfish (Vibe of Portland benefit) 2505 SE 11th Ave. Tim Roth
303 SW 12th Ave. Kory Quinn
415 SW 10th Ave., Suite 300 And Martin (11)
Red Room
Refuge
116 SE Yamhill St. Kris Deelane, Pagan Jug Band
Rontoms
600 E Burnside St. Souvenir Driver, Paper Brain
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St.
Slabtown
Unico Plaza
SW 6th Ave. and SW Oak St. Too Loose Cajun Band
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Love 2 Love Fest: Concrete Floor, Focus Troup, Mark McGuire, Spencer Clark
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Samsel and the Skirt
TUES. FEB. 12 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Kory Quinn
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Transcendental Brass Band, Too Loose Cajun Band, Roseland Hunters, Steve Kerin
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Hey Ocean!, the Ecstatics, the Low Haunts, Sad Little Men
MUSIC CALENDAR
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Whispers of Wonder, We Rise the Tides, For Those Alive, From Here to Eternity, Upon a Broken Path, I Wish We Were Robots
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Ninja Turtle Ninja Tiger, Adventure Galley
Crystal Ballroom
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Champagne Jam
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ DK
WED. FEB. 6 Beech Street Parlor
412 NE Beech St. DJs Go Ask Your Dad, Rhienna
1332 W Burnside St. Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, Dr. Theopolis, Urban Sub All Stars
CC Slaughters
Doug Fir Lounge
736 SE Grand Ave. Champagne Jams
830 E Burnside St. North Mississippi Allstars, London Souls
EastBurn 1800 E Burnside St. Conjugal Visitors
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Radula
Jade Lounge
219 NW Davis St. Trick with DJ Robb
Dig a Pony
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. Tronix with Bryan Zentz
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. DJ SamFM
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. DJs Nealie Neal, Unruly
2346 SE Ankeny St. Cynthia O’Brien, Apis Malifera
Tiga
Jimmy Mak’s
Valentine’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm); Mario Sandoval Vibraphone Quartet (6:30 pm)
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Sagebrush Sisters
Melody Ballroom
615 SE Alder St. Blues Harmonica Summit: Mitch Kashmar, Hank Shreve, Jim Wallace, Bill Rhoades, Sir Henry Cooper, Newell Briggs, Chuck “Orca” Laiti, Jeff Minnick, David Kahl
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Lindsay Lou & the Flatbellies
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Melodians, the Yellow Wall Dub Squad, the Sentiments
Red and Black Cafe 400 SE 12th Ave. Living Rheum, Toim, Hyena, Chris Birch
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Professor Gall, Klezmocracy, Maracaboom
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Nate C. 232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Cavalier
THURS. FEB. 7
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave. Andre Feriante
Union/Pine
525 SE Pine St. The Woolen Men, KM Fizzy (Dill Pickle Club benefit)
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Love 2 Love Fest: Z Baron, Romanteek
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Dean!
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Graveyard, the Shrine
1001 SE Morrison St. Snap!: Dr. Adam, Colin Jones, Freaky Outty (9 pm); Aperitivo Happy Hour with DJ Zac Eno (5 pm)
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. ‘80s Video Dance Attack
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Love & Direct: Rev. Shines, DJ Nature, Slimkid3
3267 SE Hawthorne Blvd. DJ Mike-A-Nay
Savoy Tavern & Lounge
2500 SE Clinton St. DJ Jen O
Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave. Hive
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. The Bobcat
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Ipod
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. Blank Friday with DJ Ikon
The Conquistador
2045 SE Belmont St. DJ Drew Groove
MON. FEB. 11 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Vs. Nature
CC Slaughters
CC Slaughters
Tiga
Dig a Pony
Valentine’s
Ground Kontrol
219 NW Davis St. Hip Hop Heaven with DJ Detroit Diezel
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Two Arm Tom
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. DJs Brokenwindow, Strategy
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. DJ Cry Baby
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Barrett
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Dirt Bag: Bruce LaBruiser, Il Trill, Ill Camino
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Vortex: DJs Kenny, John and Skip
The Blue Diamond
1422 SW 11th Ave. Whitton, Andre Feriante, Steve Thoreson, Edna Vazquez, Adrianna Locke, Anna Hoone, Ashlea Stinnett, Alexandra Underhill
Holocene
Gold Dust Meridian
219 NW Davis St. Maniac Monday with DJ Robb
412 NE Beech St. DJ Coloured Glass
Trader Vic’s
The Old Church
511 NW Couch St. Super Cardigan Bros.
736 SE Grand Ave. Sweet Jimmy T
The Lovecraft
Tiga
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Rhoades, Porter and Draper
Ground Kontrol
SUN. FEB. 10 Dig a Pony
Beech Street Parlor
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. The New Iberians
Cock Block: Mistress Jackie, Lil Roxy, Marcella Gabriella, Miss Uungh, Melody & Mary Jo Fisher, Miss Vixen
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Smelly P. 1203 NW Glisan St. DJ Drew Groove
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Mike M
FRI. FEB. 8 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Arcadia
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Fetish Friday with DJ Jakob Jay
Club 21
2035 NE Glisan St. DJs Dollar Bin, Hwy 7
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Hostile Tapeover (late set); Paul Montone (early set)
Gold Dust Meridian 3267 SE Hawthorne Blvd. DJ Cecilia
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Soul Stew with DJ Aquaman
Groove Suite
440 NW Glisan St.
421 SE Grand Ave. Skullfuck with DJ Horrid 1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Survival SKLZ 232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Spliff Huxtable
SAT. FEB. 9 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Koop
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Revolution with DJ Robb
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Montel Spinoza
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. DJ Zimmie
736 SE Grand Ave. Oliver 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 Desecrator
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Zac Eno
TUES. FEB. 12 Ash Street Saloon
1800 E Burnside St. DJ Zimmie
225 SW Ash St. Phreak: Little Terror, Shrubbery, Deelo-G, Skeme
Fez Ballroom
Beech Street Parlor
Gold Dust Meridian
CC Slaughters
EastBurn
316 SW 11th Ave. Evilone 3267 SE Hawthorne Blvd. DJs Gregarious, Disorder
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. DJs Destructo, Chip
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Sex Life DJs, DJ Zack
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St. All Decades Video Dance Attack
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Mrs. with DJ Beyonda
Refuge
412 NE Beech St. Jason Urick
219 NW Davis St. Girltopia with DJ Alicious
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Rhythm & Bounce: DJs Cooky Parker, Beyonda, Freaky Outty
Dots Cafe
2521 SE Clinton St. DJ Drew Groove
Eagle Portland
835 N Lombard St DMTV with DJ Danimal
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Real Emotion: DJ Road Chief, Sex Life DJs, Magic Fades
116 SE Yamhill St. Threshold: Andreilien, R/D, Shawna, the Black 22’s, DJ Rescue, Global Ruckus
Someday Lounge
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Smooth Hopperator
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Jessicat
The High Dive
1406 SE 12th Ave. DJ Drew Groove
125 NW 5th Ave. Lift: Electrokid, DJ Colleague, Senseone
Star Bar
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Family Jewels
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Horrid
The Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave. Play Saturday: Stoneface & Terminal, DJ Eddie, Smalls & Kane, Kyel
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FEB. 6–12
= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Most prices listed are for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply, so it’s best to call ahead. Editor: REBECCA JACOBSON. Theater: REBECCA JACOBSON (rjacobson@ wweek.com). Classical: BRETT CAMPBELL (bcampbell@wweek.com). Dance: HEATHER WISNER (dance@wweek.com). TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit information at least two weeks in advance to: rjacobson@wweek.com.
THEATER 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother
Triangle Productions presents Kate Moira Ryan and Judy Gold’s brisk and compassionate comedy, which draws from more than 50 interviews with Jewish mothers across the country. Ritah Parrish and Wendy Westerwelle star. Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd., 239-5919. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Feb. 24. $15-$35.
Anansi the Spider
With the assistance of puppets, Tears of Joy Theatre brings to life two tales of the trickster spider. Winningstad Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-0557. 7:30 pm Friday, Feb. 8. 11 am and 1 pm Saturdays, Feb. 9 and 16. 1 pm and 3 pm Sundays, Feb. 10 and 17.
Antony and Cleopatra
Northwest Classical Theatre Company stages Shakespeare’s tragic romance. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 971-244-3740. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays through March 10. $18-$20.
The Box Marked Black
From Damaris Webb comes a solo show about growing up mixed-race in Portland, complete with a sock-puppet reenactment of Roots. Ethos/IFCC, 5340 N Interstate Ave., 283-8467. 7:30 pm Fridays and Sundays, 3 pm and 7:30 pm Saturdays through Feb. 24. $10-$15.
Cressida
[NEW REVIEW] Infidelity, war and ambiguity are the central themes in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida. Troilus, a Trojan prince, and Cressida, a seer’s daughter, awkwardly build a relationship until she is delivered to Greek enemies in a prisoner trade. Though she doesn’t stay faithful, she’s seen not as a whore but as opportunistic and emotionally troubled. The original play is an examination of the tragic nature of tragedies, but in Asae Dean’s adaptation the atmosphere remains at a fever pitch. Emotions and volume both run high, but not high enough for a true satire. As Cressida, Allison Rangel manages greater subtlety than the rest of the cast, and her dry, coy tone is the production’s most modern element—aside from the rows of folding chairs on either side of the stage and the grating, full-house lighting. (“So we can see you and you can see us,” the cast explains preperformance.) Arthur Delaney, in roles that include Pandarus and Paris, overacts but still achieves the hilarious satire the original meta-tragic play calls for. Cressida’s level of drama falls well over what would be considered normal for a tragedy, but just short of what is required of such subtly satirical works as Troilus and Cressida. MITCH LILLIE. Headwaters Theatre, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9, 289-3499. 8 pm ThursdaySaturday, Feb. 7-9. $12.
Grand Guignol 5: Possessions
Third Eye Theatre presents its fifth annual homage to the Parisian theater known as the Grand Guignol, which staged graphic horror shows from 1897 to 1962. This year’s sampler features four gory vignettes from local playwrights. Kenton Masonic Lodge, 8130 N Denver Ave., 970-8874. 8 pm Thursday, Jan. 24. 8 pm FridaysSaturdays through Feb. 16 and (no Friday show Feb. 15) and 7 pm Sunday, Feb. 10. $12-$15.
Grand Hotel
Lakewood Theatre Company presents the Tony-winning musical, set in 1928 Berlin. Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, 6353901. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2
pm and 7 pm most Sundays through Feb. 17. $32-$35.
The Huntsmen
Devon, the central character in The Huntsmen, is an awkward and fidgety teen, the vice president of his high school’s glee club and the child of divorced parents—his father is a lawyer and his mother lives in a trailer with her West Indian boyfriend. He’s a kid who still builds forts in the forest with friends, struggles with eye contact and makes the occasional questionable decision—including posting nudie pics of his mom on the Internet. He’s also a machete-wielding serial killer. Such is the teetering heap playwright Quincy Long constructs in his strange and striking dark comedy. And the issues don’t stop there—this brisk and entertaining world-premiere production, nimbly directed by Kathleen Dimmick, also touches on domestic violence, mental illness, bullying and religious conflict. Sometimes Long hops over his hot-button themes too abruptly, and his characters occasionally act on inexplicable motivations. Yet he also manages to balance the hilarious and macabre in a way that recalls David Lindsay-Abaire. Like Lindsay-Abaire, Long toys with questions of narrative reliability: Can we trust these characters? Where do reality and illusion diverge? It’s just this sort of theater— non-traditional and non-naturalistic yet grounded by a compelling narrative and sympathetic characters—that provides a welcome shot of energy midway through the performance season. Played with mesmerizing zeal by Dean Linnard, Devon is equal parts clumsy teen, moody murderer and smooth crooner. The Huntsmen isn’t a musical, but it’s peppered with catchy doo-wop tunes, which Linnard injects with surprising psychological intensity. With vocal backup and pitch-perfect choreography from the fedora-clad Jared Miller, Gavin Gregory and Michael O’Connell (who all play other roles), the songs focus rather than distract from the action. In the hands of a lesser cast, The Huntsmen might stumble, but this Portland Playhouse production hits all the right notes. Several days later, I’m still singing to myself. REBECCA JACOBSON. Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St., 488-5822. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm SaturdaysSundays through Feb. 17. $23-$32.
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change It’s a big ol’ Valentine’s heart from Broadway Rose in the form of this popular musical revue, composed of vignettes about dating, love and relationships. Broadway Rose New Stage Theatre, 12850 SW Grant Ave., Tigard, 620-5262. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays and most Saturdays through Feb. 24. $20-$40.
I Love to Eat
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, he chuckles 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 jumps between informal confessional and re-enactments of Beard’s 1940s cooking show, with the celebrated chef reminiscing, preparing mayonnaise and chopping parsley, and, in some brief spots, revealing and then brushing off stories of loneliness and unrequited love. Though peppered with a few lovely moments, this Portland Center Stage production neither digs enough into Beard’s underlying melan-
choly nor sufficiently plays up his convivial wit. Given the bony script, Nagle’s performance mostly impresses. But many of the lines are so slick they fail to elicit more than a polite giggle, and nothing can save Nagle in the incongruous, kiddie scenes with a bovine hand puppet. At one point, Beard fields a call from a frazzled home cook. 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. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 4453700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Sundays, 2 pm Saturdays-Sundays, noon Thursdays through Feb. 10. $39-$65.
International Falls
That comedy comes from pain is a well-worn trope, but in International Falls, Thomas Ward’s compassionate and sharply observed worldpremiere play, it’s a two-way street: Not only do misfortune and sadness produce laughs, but comedy also leads to tragedy. This is the case with Tim (Isaac Lamb), a standup comedian who, after 16 years of moderate success on the hotel-bar circuit, is burned out, lonely and aimless. Stuck in International Falls, Minn., for a twonight gig, Tim meets a Holiday Inn desk clerk named Dee (Laura Faye Smith), who invites herself back to his room. What follows—but only after a beneath-the-sheets hand job—is 90 minutes of theater that is both piercingly funny and bitterly heart-rending. Ward writes pointed but humane dialogue, and under Brandon Woolley’s shrewd direction, Smith and Lamb move seamlessly from jokes about genitalia to humor that exposes these characters’ insecurities and sorrows. These exchanges are cut with snippets of Tim’s standup act, which Lamb delivers with a sense of weary confidence. But dark realities lurk behind Tim’s well-practiced assurance, and Dee, despite her lively demeanor and resilient front, isn’t holding up so well either. Both Lamb and Smith are dynamic yet vulnerable, wedding ace comic timing with raw emotion. Though the production lurches a bit toward the end—the dialogue grows circuitous in its tired discussion of authenticity, and the conclusion puzzles even as it unsettles—International Falls hits the funny bone as well as the heart. REBECCA JACOBSON. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 220-2646. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Feb. 16. $20-$25.
La Celestina
Based on Fernando de Rojas’ 1499 novel, this Miracle Theatre production finds a lovesick nobleman seeking help from a sorceress—who also happens, of course, to manage a brothel. Presented in Spanish with English supertitles. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7:30 pm Thursdays, 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through March 2. $15-$30.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Oregon Children’s Theatre bounds off to Narnia. 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.
The Lost Boy
In 2001, Oregon City teenagers Miranda Gaddis and Ashley Pond disappeared, and local playwright Susan Mach found herself both intrigued and disturbed by media exploitation of the event. She found parallels between the girls’ disappearance and a story more distant in both time and place: the 1874 abduction of 4-year-old Charley Ross. That Philadelphia abduction also met sensationalism, even spurring the involvement of circus magnate P.T. Barnum, and Mach tackles Charley’s story in her world-premiere play The Lost Boy. Though the theme of bleeding tragedy for lurid gain resonates, this Artists Rep production suffers from plodding exposition, a casserolelike jumble of discordant styles and thorny tonal shifts. Set against colorful backdrops of circus scenes, the first
act trudges through Charley’s abduction and the subsequent investigation. 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, hardbitten Doren Elias) feel undercooked and overlong. Mach has intercut these scenes with circus spectacle, including juggling, balancing acts and straitjacket tricks. 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. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Sundays, 2 pm Sundays through Feb. 10. $25-$50.
Rakugo
In the Japanese entertainment form known as “rakugo,” a single storyteller—equipped with only a small cloth and a paper fan as props—narrates comical tales. Matt Shores, who is pursuing his Ph.D. in Japanese literature, performs. The Little Theater, Portland Community College, 12000 SW 49th Ave. 1 pm Thursday, Feb. 7. Free.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
The students of Portland Actors Conservatory present Tom Stoppard’s classic absurdist work. Portland Actors Conservatory, 1436 SW Montgomery St., 274-1717. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Feb. 24. $10-$25.
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REVIEW PAT R I C K W E I S H A M P E L
PERFORMANCE
INTIMATE ENCOUNTER: Ginny Myers Lee and David Barlow.
VENUS IN FUR (PORTLAND CENTER STAGE) Fifty Shades of Grey reduced sadomasochism to handcuffs and spanking. Venus in Fur—while not devoid of dog collars and riding crops—throws into question such simple ideas of control and compliance. In David Ives’ work, in a jagged but entertaining production directed by Nancy Keystone, the relationship between domination and submission is an erotic power play that revels in its ambiguous stakes. Thomas (David Barlow) is a playwright-director who has adapted Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s 1870 novella about a man who dreams of being enslaved by a woman, and as Venus in Fur begins he’s just endured a disastrous string of auditions. But as he calls his fiancee to snivel about those 35 inept actresses, into the dingy rehearsal room blows Vanda (Ginny Myers Lee), furiously shaking her umbrella and swearing about the perverts on the subway. Vanda may share a name with Sacher-Masoch’s female character, and she may have come dressed in spike heels and leather bustier (which she’ll later unzip with a very funny “Geronimo!”), but on first glance she’s not so different from the 35 previous ninnies. That quickly changes as Vanda cajoles Thomas into letting her audition for the part. Lee, with impressive control, transitions between more than two roles: In addition to modern-day Vanda, a ditzy motor mouth who describes Sacher-Masoch’s book as “porn-ish,” and 19th-century Vanda, a haughty aristocrat with a vaguely Continental accent, there’s another Vanda who cites Greek mythology and dips into startling psychosexual insights. Lee flings herself into these rapidly shifting guises, and she’s hilarious to boot—in the show’s comedic highlight, Vanda improvises a scene as a German-accented Venus, slinkily lounging on the divan as she pronounces “cuddle” as “coodle” and whispers “I’ll be back” as if she’s Schwarzenegger. Her motives—was this audition a premeditated stunt or did it develop more organically?—remain mysterious. Opposite this swirling tempest, Barlow falters. As his character is alternately flattered and berated, Barlow’s default response is to widen his eyes and gape at Vanda like a startled puppy. Rather than fully engaging in her game, he relinquishes control almost immediately, rendering his later bursts of misogyny (“You fucking idiot woman!”) a bit incongruous. Best, perhaps, to turn attention to Ives’ sizzling script, a fiercer whip than E.L. James could ever hope to crack. REBECCA JACOBSON.
No one gets away until they whip it.
SEE IT: Venus in Fur is at the Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Saturdays and most Sundays, 2 pm Saturdays-Sundays, noon Thursdays through March 10. $25-$54. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 6, 2013 wweek.com
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Seussical
Northwest Children’s Theater cavorts through Dr. Seuss’ tales. NW Neighborhood Cultural Center, 1819 NW Everett St., 222-4480. Noon and 4 pm Saturdays-Sundays through March 3. $13-$22.
Urban Tellers
Personal, unscripted yarns from six tellers. Hipbone Studio, 1847 E Burnside St., 358-0898. 8 pm Saturday, Feb. 9. $10-$15.
COMEDY & VARIETY Alive and Dead in the USA
Long-form improv with a dark side. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 2242227. 7:30 pm Saturdays through Feb. 16. $8-$10.
Aries Spears
One of the longest-serving cast members on Fox’s MADtv, Spears appeared in 198 episodes between 1997 and 2005. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Wednesday-Thursday, 7:30 pm and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, Feb. 6-9. $10-$30.
Late Night Action With Alex Falcone
Comedian Alex Falcone hosts a twiceweekly, 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.
CLASSICAL Beth Madsen-Bradford, Janet Coleman
Centuries before “Lovesick Blues,” songwriters were comparing love to a medical condition. In this intriguing pre-Valentine’s Day concert in the Celebration Works series, the excellent mezzo-soprano and pianist team up with soprano Kim Giordano and Portland Baroque Orchestra violinist Adam LaMotte to perform music by composers from the Baroque era (Handel and Purcell) through the 20th century (Oscar Hammerstein and Stephen Sondheim). With help from a clinical psychologist, they’ll also explore the chemical, physical and psychological sources of the perennial malady of love. First Presbyterian Church, 1200 SW Alder St., 228-7331. 2 pm Sunday, Feb. 10. $10-$12.
Hashem Assadullahi Sextet
Now based in New York, the recent University of Oregon grad returns with a CD release concert for his new all-original disk, Pieces. Along with Assadullahi’s bubbly sax and easygoing compositions, the CD and concert will lean heavily on the vibrant textures of electric guitarist Justin Morell. 8 pm Thursday, Feb. 7. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. $5.
Jack Gabel and Musicians
As part of the opening of an exhibit by painters Elizabeth Malaska and Anna
Kodesch, one of Oregon’s finest living composers leads a 50-minute performance of a dozen of his short, original duets composed over a span of three decades. Each is composed for a different orchestral instrument and set of percussion instruments wielded by Northwest New Music virtuoso Florian Conzetti and other percussionists, all spread across the theater’s main lobby and musicians arrayed around the mezzanine balcony. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 6 pm Thursday, Feb. 7. Free.
Michala Petri
After starring in one of last summer’s most impressive concerts, an all-Baroque music affair with a small orchestra at Chamber Music Northwest’s annual summer festival, the Danish recorder virtuosa joins another of the world’s finest instrumentalists, veteran Los Angelesbased, CMNW and Oregon Bach Festival oboe master Alan Vogel. Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 294-6400. 7:30 pm Friday, Feb. 8. $20-$45.
Portland Opera
Following last fall’s edgy, modernist version of Don Giovanni, the company delivers a Tosca for traditionalists: costumes and sets that explicitly evoke the original production’s late 19th-century Roman setting; soapy, melodramatic acting; a taut, sexand violence-spattered thriller plot tightly directed by Metropolitan opera veteran David Kneuss; and of course Giacomo Puccini’s heart-tuggingly rhapsodic melodies, performed ably and powerfully (sometimes too powerfully for the singers, except for Kara Shay Thomson, whose soprano soars in the title role) by the PO orchestra directed by Joseph Colaneri. In this revival of a production last staged here in 2005, bass Mark Schnaible revels so charismatically in his character Scarpia’s unapologetic villainy that we almost root for the bad guy. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 800-7453000. 6:30 pm Friday, Feb. 1; Thursday, Feb. 7; and Saturday, Feb. 9. 1 pm Sunday, Feb. 3. $25-$160.
Tessa Brinckman
The accomplished and adventurous New Zealand-born flutist, who frequently used to play hereabouts, has spent the past few years performing in Ashland’s Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She often played the music of longtime OSF composer and her fellow Southern Oregon University prof Todd Barton, who’s also written for the Oregon Symphony, Kronos Quartet and many others. (Chances are, if you heard music at the festival, it was Barton’s.) Brinckman returns to play a solo program featuring five different flutes (including piccolo, the wooden Baroque traverso, alto, contrabass) and occasional electronic accompaniment. The program features Barton’s new Sonus Sonorusfor traverso and electronics, inspired by a work by 18th-century French composer Jean-Marie Leclair; Brinckman’s own new Hüzün Nar (inspired by her
travels in Istanbul and the work of famed Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk); music by Australian composer Ross Edwards; and American composers Shirish Korde and Alex Shapiro; plus Jennifer Higdon, one of today’s finest composers. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 725-3307. 8 pm Thursday, Feb. 7. Free.
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PERFORMANCE
Toque Libre, Paul Creighton Band
For this concert, Toque Libre’s core three-piece lineup joins several members of the Ojedas’ ’90s Latin funk band, Rubberneck, and other guests to form an eight-piece ensemble purveying powerhouse flamencoguitar-meets-Afro-Cuban grooves. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 2956542. 8 pm Friday, Feb. 8. $10.
DANCE Burlynomicon
Burlesque and Fat Tuesday go together like red beans and rice, or “Beads and Beards,” which happens to be the title of this latest installment. Expect to see Claire Voltaire, Hyacinth Lee, the Infamous Nina Nightshade and Sophie Maltease disrobe; fusion belly dancer Endymienne and “boylesque” sensation Esequiel Esquire join in. The Lovecraft, 421 SE Grand Ave., 971-270-7760. 9:30 pm Tuesday, Feb. 12. $10. 21+.
AGAINST ALL ODDS: Julie Hammond, Matthew Dieckman and Erin Leddy (in background).
SOMETHING’S GOT AHOLD OF MY HEART (HAND2MOUTH THEATRE COMPANY) I can feel it coming in the air tonight.
The self-explanatory, semi-regular event adopts a satire and parody theme, so tonight’s proposal might, in fact, be slightly immodest. Angelique DeVil hosts and Portland burlesquers Kai Mera, Rayleen Courtney and Sophie Maltease read. The Blue Monk, 3341 SE Belmont St., 595-0575. 9 pm Saturday, Feb. 9. $15. 21+.
Is love more like a fish stew or a Phil Collins song? Hand2Mouth wants you to consider this in its newest experimental offering, which pings between schmaltzy representations of movie love and a spat about who gets the gravy boat when a marriage ends. The frenetic, nonnarrative Something’s Got Ahold of My Heart packs playful vignettes, goofy choreography, heartrending storytelling and boisterous rock ballads. But the performers approach their topic with such unapologetic sincerity that they successfully sidestep sentimentality. The beginning will divide audiences, with Erin Leddy prancing about as she coos French phrases and exaggeratedly arches her eyebrows. This is followed by direct flirtations with the audience and a silly bit in which the performers don headphones and dance alone. But it’s not all love-drunk glee: Leddy and Maesie Speer enact a 1930s romance between a Marxist Jew and her Waspy husband, which we later see crumble. As Matthew Dieckman and Julie Hammond steer a relationship from initial infatuation to troubled standstill, Something’s Got Ahold probes passion and heartbreak. The cast members switch roles and genders rapidly, sometimes to frenzied effect. Other times, the action slows, like when performers ask a series of questions to guide audience members down memory lane. Depending on your current relationship status, this will cause either cheer or distress. What makes Something’s Got Ahold work is its earnest exuberance: Performers spin across the stage and trade fierce stares. Gentle cuddling becomes a cathartic wrestling match. The show closes with a spirited rock concert, featuring several original songs. In one, titled “Breaks My Fucking Heart,” the performers howl into their microphones and pound their feet, causing the floor to shudder. Hand2Mouth’s previous project, Leddy’s solo show My Mind Is Like an Open Meadow, wrenched your insides. Something’s Got Ahold doesn’t quite get there. But with the performers’ deeply felt commitment, they just might break your fucking heart—in the best of ways. REBECCA JACOBSON.
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SEE IT: Something’s Got Ahold of My Heart is at Studio 2, 810 SE Belmont St. 8 pm Thursdays-Sundays through Feb. 17. $12-$20.
Jeremy Wade
It’s easy to see how Jeremy Wade, an American artist working in Berlin, has parleyed his experience as a party host into making dances. His collected works look like a series of happenings, with large groups ebbing and flowing around him onstage, backstage and elsewhere. Such is the case in Fountain, which is billed as a solo but isn’t always. When Wade dances alone, it’s hard to take your eyes off him; he cycles between elegant and contorted movement, all while keeping up a stream of patter. The dynamics shift when his viewers become participants, crowding into the space and filling it with additional movement and sound; that, too, has its fascinations. Wade performs Fountain here on a two-night run (and teaches the improv workshop “Articulating Disorientation” 10 am-2 pm Feb. 8-10 at PICA) before returning to Europe. PICA, 224 NW 13th Ave., 242-1419. 8 pm ThursdayFriday, Feb. 7-8. $10-$15, $85 for the workshop.
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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By RICHARD SPEER. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit show information—including opening and closing dates, gallery address and phone number—at least two weeks in advance to: Visual Arts, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: rspeer@wweek.com.
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 doublecoding 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.
Ceci n’est pas un Vernissage
After nearly a decade of consistently engaging, boundary-blurring shows, Chambers is closing its doors, at least temporarily. Ceci n’est pas un Vernissage is its penultimate exhibition. Ever since it opened next to the old Elizabeth Leach Gallery downtown, Chambers fed on the creative energy of owner (and accomplished installation artist) Wid Chambers and a series of curators. Current director Martha Morgan aims to continue the gallery at a different location, but details remain sketchy. Chambers has had a great run, and we wish Wid Chambers well as he leaves the gallery business to concentrate on his own artistic projects. Feb. 7-16. Chambers @ 916, 916 NW Flanders St., 227-9398.
Chris Fraser: In Passing
If you haven’t seen Chris Fraser’s installation In Passing, run, don’t walk, to check out what is certain to be one of 2013’s most crowd-pleasing, trippy and sheer fucking gorgeous shows. The San Francisco-based artist worked with curator-in-residence Josephine Zarkovich to create an immersive experience, which viewers walk through. There’s a long, three-sided corridor on the gallery’s perimeter, with vertical and diagonal slots that spray prisms of colored light onto the interior walls. When you come to the hallway’s corners, the light plays tricks with your eyes, creating a foggy atmosphere that is pure optical illusion. It’s one part James Turrell, one part 2001: A Space Odyssey. You simply have to see it. Through March 3. Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate Ave., 286-9449.
Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders
Get your motor runnin’ for photographer Danny Lyon’s tribute to late-1960s biker culture. Lyon’s photographs introduced the world to the Outlaws motorcycle club, whose cross-country antics bridged the boundaries between Beat and bruiser and influenced Dennis Hopper’s seminal film, Easy Rider. Portland has had its share of motorcycle-themed shows (Graeter Art Gallery had one last year), but Lyon has been around long enough to rock some serious old-school cred. Through March 16. Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, 134 NW 8th Ave., 287-3886.
Kayla Newell
A rising star in Portland’s art constellation, Kayla Newell mounts a strong showing of mixed-media drawing/painting hybrids at Mark Woolley’s gallery at Pioneer Place Mall. In fantastical mountainscapes such as Stone Pile and Ascend, she uses paint drips to suggest waterfalls and majestic, Middle Earth-like vistas. Her work has a similar feel to that of fellow Portland artists Adam Sorensen and Anna Fidler, but with the addition of meticulously rendered geometric motifs, glitter and sludgy black paint covering up intricate structures beneath. One of Newell’s pieces is called Nihilism/Existentialism, but there is nothing sinister or depressing about this brightly hued, materially inventive show. Through March 10. Mark Woolley Gallery @ Pioneer, 700 SW 5th Ave., third floor, Pioneer Place Mall, 998-4152.
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.
Peter Moore: Controversy and Conversation
Renowned designer Peter Moore aims for piquant political commentary in Controversy and Conversation, but his reach exceeds his grasp. This selection of untitled prints depends on dubious visual puns tied to world events. There is a portrait of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad juxtaposed with a handful of mixed nuts; a U.S. dollar sign made out of barbed wire, titled Money Trap; a drop of crude oil, half black and half blood red, titled Price Per Gallon; and a black silhouette connected with a screw to a red silhouette, titled Screwed Together. Moore appears to be riffing on a party line that preaches to the progressive choir, but these unremarkable printed works on paper have a bark that’s worse than their bite. Then again, their bark is pretty lame, too. Through Feb. 22. Gallery Homeland, 2505 SE 11th Ave., 819-9656.
The Monument of the 7th Dimension
“Quirky” doesn’t begin to describe the programming at this Old Town art space. The current show, according to director Tom “Faux-Richards,” is “a portal to transfer/transport our patrons into a dimension of creative thought and inspired vigor that will change their lives forever.” This heightened realm of consciousness “is another dimension; it is not just a representation.” Is this portal an installation, a sculpture, a multimedia happening, or something else entirely? The press materials offer no hint, so we’ll just have to find out at the opening. Through March 31. The Faux Museum, 139 NW 2nd Ave.
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 the instant it shatters. Through March 2. Bullseye Gallery, 300 NW 13th Ave., 227-0222.
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FEB. 6–12
= WW Pick. Highly recommended. 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, FEB. 6 Jerry Greenfield Lecture
Anna Trebunskaya from Dancing with the Stars
Ballroom with a Twist Saturday, February 16 | 7:30 pm Sunday, February 17 | 3 pm Jeff Tyzik, conductor Anna Trebunskaya, Dancer Tristan MacManus, Dancer Cast members from Dancing with the Stars and Top 12 finalists from American Idol perform with the Symphony and a bevy of talented dancers to show us what Ballroom’s all about. And the twist? We’re gonna keep that a surprise!
Born to Taiwanese parents in the American South, Eddie Huang set out to defy the “model minority” stereotype. Huang experimented through careers as a lawyer, fashion designer and stand-up comic before embracing his family, past and food, and creating the New York restaurant that made him famous, BaoHaus. His new memoir, Fresh off the Boat, is a new twist on the immigrant’s story. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651, 7:30 pm. Free.
Architecture Lecture
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Eddie Huang
THURSDAY, FEB. 7
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ARLENE
Jerry Greenfield (that would be Jerry as in Ben & Jerry’s) will be speaking about his experience as an entrepreneur and the importance of social responsibility, as well as sharing some anecdotes about cofounding one of the world’s most famous ice-cream companies. And yes, there will be free ice cream. Agnes Flanagan Chapel at Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, 768-7461. 7 pm. Free.
CONCERT
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Following the assertion that “architects create places, not spaces,” the department of architecture at Portland State University will continue its “Placing” lecture series with L.A.-based architect Kevin Daly, who will discuss how the process of placing things and people in the world influences his work. Portland State University, Shattuck Hall, 1914 SW Park Ave. 6 pm. Free.
Nathanael Johnson
MARCH MUSIC MODERNE III Listening to the Here of the Now
Writer Nathanael Johnson examines how current “ecological anxiety” has caused so many people to revert back to natural and organic lifestyles and whether it’s helping or hurting us in his new book, All Natural: A Skeptic’s Quest to Discover if the Natural Approach to Diet, Childbirth, Healing and the Environment Really Keeps Us Healthier and Happier. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
FRIDAY, FEB. 8 George Saunders
New York Times best-selling author and short-story master George Saunders has released a new collection of work, Tenth of December. Filled with stories imbued with Saunders’ signature exuberance and humanity, the collection touches on themes of war, love, sex and loss. Struggling with the meaning of life? Come hear Saunders tell it like it is. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
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Collaborating with the IPRC, the Portland Zine Symposium will host a small press and zine fest. Local zinesters will present their work, onepage valen-zines will be crafted for that special someone, and Gabby Holden, Liz Moyer, Emily Kendal Frey and others will read on the topic of love (and anti-love). Independent Publishing Resource Center, 1001 SE Division St., Suite 2, 827-0249. 2-6 pm. Free to attend, $5 to exhibit.
SUNDAY, FEB. 10 The Studio Series
Writer, teacher, activist and all-around amazing woman Judith Arcana with
be sharing her work for the monthly Studio Series poetry reading and open mic. Joining her will be feminist poet and Oregon Book Award winner Penelope Scambly Schott. That’s a tough act to follow. Stonehenge Studios, 3508 SW Corbett Ave., 2243640. 7-9 pm. Free.
MONDAY, FEB. 11 Brandon Sanderson
Fans of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time saga feared the tale would never reach its conclusion when Jordan died in 2007 before completing the series. But working from notes and partial writings left behind by Jordan, fantasy writer Brandon Sanderson has taken up the helm to complete the work with the assistance of Jordan’s widow as editor. Hear Sanderson read from the resulting book, A Memory of Light. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651. 7 pm. Free.
TUESDAY, FEB. 12 Readings @ Milepost 5
By day, Evelyn Sharenov works as a mental-health nurse, but her writing has appeared everywhere from Glimmer Train to Bitch magazine, along with inclusion in the Best American Short Stories anthology. Joining her for the evening will be writing coach, editor and poet Christi Krug. Milepost 5, 850 NE 81st Ave., 729-3223. 7:30 pm. Free.
Greg Martin and Sallie Tisdale
Albuquerque-based writer Gregory Martin’s new locally published memoir, Stories for Boys, explores the author’s struggle to understand his father after his secret life as a gay man is revealed after his failed suicide attempt. Joining Martin for the reading will be nonfiction author Sallie Tisdale as part of Portland State University’s Visiting Writers series. Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student Union, 1825 SW Broadway. 7 pm. Free.
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REVIEW
MARY SZYBIST, INCARNADINE Even for avid readers of all genres, poetry can sometimes feel a bit…unapproachable. But the poems of Portland-based writer Mary Szybist read more like a letter from an old friend, familiar and inviting. They float by like a snippet of overheard conversation. Words both lovely and sad flow from line to line in an experience akin to following the lines of To: Donkey Sanctuary. Re: What I want. force within a painting. Szybist’s newest collection, Incarnadine, pulses with its titular rosy glow. Recurring themes of love, faith, motherhood and aging are grounded in precisely realized settings. We see Mary, folding laundry and watering plants, avoiding conversations with God. And while Szybist continually returns to spiritual topics, it is with curiosity more than reverence—a search for middle ground between believing and not believing. Szybist turns proclamations from angels into personal revelations, with several poems crafted in the form of an annunciation. She pulls text from the Starr Report and Nabokov’s Lolita to create a portrait of “intolerable tenderness.” In “Annunciation Under Erasure,” select words are pulled from the angel Gabriel’s original annunciation to Mary that she will give birth to the son of God, turning the blessing into a warning: “…be afraid Mary, The Holy will overshadow you, therefore be nothing, be impossible.…” It is not only her choice of words but their construction that makes each poem a unique experience. “It Is Pretty to Think” is presented in the form of a diagrammed sentence. “Girls Overheard While Assembling a Puzzle” is exactly what it sounds like, but Szybist creates an abecedarium with the overheard phrases. In “How (Not) to Speak of God,” each sentence radiates out from a center point. What could end up confusing and pretentious instead manages to be smart and charming. Ultimately, Incarnadine paints a portrait of its author—longing for motherhood, questioning the divine, watching patterns of sunlight through her curtains and playing with her words. In her letter-style poem “To Gabriela at the Donkey Sanctuary,” she puts it simply: “What I want is what I’ve always wanted. What I want is to be changed.” PENELOPE BASS. GO: Mary Szybist appears at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., on Tuesday, Feb. 12. 7:30 pm. Free.
MOVIES
PIFF 2013
PHOTOS COURTESY OF PIFF
eulogy of Caesar from the middle of the prison yard as inmates hang from the bars on their windows, screaming their lines back to him. EMILY JENSEN. CM, 9 pm Friday, Feb. 8, and 6 pm Monday, Feb. 11.
La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus
A- [UNITED STATES] The journey of the yellow school bus goes far beyond carting snotty pre-teens five miles to middle school and back. After 10-year tours of duty in the U.S., buses are driven to Central America, where they become camionetas. The story of one such bus, from Midwestern auction to busy Guatemalan route and all the ambitious businessmen in between, is the focus of Mark Kendall’s beautifully shot documentary La Camioneta. Meticulously chromed and repainted, equipped with a roof rack and, on special occasions, outfitted with icons of St. Christopher and palm fronds, this camioneta bears little outward resemblance to its forebear. But, as is hinted by banal aphorisms (“Life is a journey!”), these buses foster an international connection, even if American drivers don’t have to pay off gangs to continue working. Superb pacing is the key to La Camioneta’s success: It keeps on truckin’. MITCH LILLIE. WTC, 6 pm Saturday, Feb. 9, and 7:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 17.
Leviathan
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TONIGHT, WE ARE YOUNG PIFF WILL SET THE WORLD ON FIRE, AND BURN BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN. BY WW STA F F
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Being a kid is tough these days. Whether children are being unfavorably compared to that hilarious little Honey Boo Boo, stripping down to their SpongeBob underwear for a search at elementary school, or being told their summer job has been given to an unemployed middle-aged father of three, the glory of youth is a thing of the past. Or is it? The Portland International Film Festival reminds us it’s always been hard to be young. The
2013 lineup includes kids struggling across time and space: in postwar Germany; under threat of the Cold War in ’60s London; against a repressive military junta in Argentina; or among ghosts on a sub-Saharan jungle battlefield. Sometimes, there are triumphs. These are best in the form of soul music, fine Scotch whisky or old-fashioned lovin’. Other times, things don’t turn out so well. But some of these wretches will grow old, as other entries in the PIFF program assure us, perhaps becoming adulterous 80-year-olds or animated retirees, or maybe taking sex vacations in Africa. PIFF is big. You are small. That’s why we’re providing some guidance: the great, the good and the meh. Go forth and conquer.
PIFF PERFECT
Beyond the Hills
Alois Nebel
orphan, struggling to rekindle a faded romance, is confined and subjected to exorcism by female members of a remote monastery. No, Cristian Mungiu’s fourth feature (his second, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, won the Palme d’Or in 2007) is not a seedy sexploitation flick à la Chained Heat, and if that synopsis has you hot and bothered, then this movie might feel like a cold shower. Quiet, austere and strikingly shot, Beyond the Hills divided critics at Cannes, with some hailing the film as a masterpiece and others dismissing Mungiu’s deliberate style as vacuous or pretentious. With a running time of 155 minutes, Mungiu’s mysterious tale of shifting identities will inevitably test the patience of some viewers, but I found it electrifying. A kind of Chekhovian horror story, Beyond the Hills grapples with material that’s equal parts tragic and banal, and the result is totally unreal and yet
B [CZECH REPUBLIC] Starkly ani-
mated in black-and-white rotoscoping—a method in which live actors’ performances are painted over—Tomáš Lunák’s Czech oddity Alois Nebel is glorious to look at, with a noirish aesthetic that resembles subdued Frank Miller. The story revolves around the titular train dispatcher, haunted by flashbacks of World War II and frequently visited by an ax-wielding mute with a grudge. It’s actually about a lot more than that, although those without a knowledge of Eastern European history will probably be lost during the film’s 80-minute running time. But damned if this isn’t a gorgeous place to be lost, and while the film may lack clear exposition, it more than makes up for it with a dazzling and original visual style. AP KRYZA. CM, 3:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 9, and 8:30 pm Tuesday, Feb. 12.
A- [ROMANIA] A penniless lesbian
utterly convincing. If that all sounds like a bunch of baloney, then you might be better off renting Cellblock Sisters. MARSHALL WALKER LEE. WH, 8:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 9. LC, 7:30 pm Wednesday, Feb. 13.
Caesar Must Die
B+ [ITALY] Featuring an all-male
cast with enough stubble to carpet the Colosseum, Caesar Must Die is a deeply emotional sausagefest. Brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani follow actual inmates rehearsing a production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in Rome’s Rebibbia prison—but the film’s not a documentary, and if you didn’t know any better, you’d assume this band of drug traffickers, gangsters and murderers were professional actors. The passion with which cast members explore their roles, earnestly stumbling upon parallels between the play and their own lives, is raw and startling. Antonio Frasca plays a shattering Marc Antony, performing his
A [UNITED STATES] Like Deadliest Catch but wish it had less chit-chat and more contemplative existential dread? Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel’s essentially wordless documentary about commercial fishing strips the world’s most dangerous enterprise of its made-for-TV drama, rendering the profession in the hellish tones of a Hieronymus Bosch painting. Shot with a dozen ultra-tiny cameras, including one with a fish-eye lens, the film immerses itself in the muck of life aboard a boat in the North Atlantic, observing the crew’s dispassionate drudgery—shucking clams, hacking fins off rays, sweeping guts over the side— from disorienting angles that turn from entrancing to unsettling. In its concluding sequence, a camera tethered to the vessel is given over to the chaos of the sea, creating a nightmarish hallucination of black water and upsidedown gulls. By giving us a glimpse of their final moments, the scene pays tribute to the men who’ve died so we can enjoy Long John Silver’s. It’s PIFF’s best horror movie. MATTHEW SINGER. WH, 3:15 pm Saturday, Feb. 9. CM, 6 pm Wednesday, Feb. 13.
Madrid, 1987
B+ [SPAIN] An absorbing pas de deux combining the droll, microcosmic pleasures of My Dinner With Andre and the sexual bathos of a John Updike novel, David Trueba’s Madrid, 1987 invigorates the stale May-December sex farce formula by literally locking up its two romantic leads—a cultured, goatish graybeard and a beautiful young student—and throwing away the key. José Sacristán plays Miguel, a celebrated newspaper columnist who spends his days banging out copy in a posh café and his nights banging something else entirely. But when Miguel’s planned seduction of a pretty wannabe journalist goes awry, the two end up trapped in a small, drab bathroom. Suddenly, Trueba has trimmed his film down to its most essential elements: two characters, one room, no relief. And, oh yeah, they’re naked. Although the film drags in the final act, Sacristán mostly keeps things zipping along, as Miguel and the student exchange stories, quips and insights without ever arriving at an equilibrium. MARSHALL WALKER LEE. CM, 8:45 pm Monday, Feb. 11, and Thursday, Feb. 14. WTC, 8:45 pm Friday, Feb. 22.
Neighboring Sounds
B+ [BRAZIL] In this next-to-plotless thriller—and no, that’s not an oxymoron—director Kleber Mendonça Filho provides an evocative and occasionally surreal investigation of security, paranoia and class tension. Set in an affluent neighborhood in the Brazilian coastal city Recife, Neighboring Sounds gives a cross section of lives: reluctant real-estate agent Joao,
stoner housewife Bia, small-time criminal Dinho, the cagey team of security guards that protects residents (or, conversely, stokes their fear). Mendonça’s camera follows at a distance, cutting from gleaming shots of a geometric cityscape to glimpses of dirt alleys, and from scenes of Bia getting off with the help of her washing machine to extended takes of smooching teens. The intricate soundscape—barking dogs, car alarms, street soccer, stormy weather—amplifies the sense of slyly menacing apprehension. REBECCA JACOBSON. LC, 8:45 pm Saturday, Feb. 9, and 9:15 pm Friday, Feb. 15. FT, 6 pm Wednesday, Feb. 13.
The Painting
B [FRANCE] Leave it to the French to tie together a human’s search for meaning and the nature of prejudice into a sharply rendered animated feature. And God bless director JeanFrançois Laguionie for not pounding these themes into our heads, instead teasing them out via the figures in the titular artwork: the completed images known as Allduns, the unfinished Halfies and the roughly configured Sketchies. The Painting’s themes are as bold and in-your-face as its bright color scheme, but the charming characters and dazzling animation make the bitter pill that much easier to swallow. ROBERT HAM. CM, 8:45 pm Saturday, Feb. 9. WH, 5:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 17.
Pieta
A- [SOUTH KOREA] In the first 10 minutes of the latest feature from internationally renowned director Kim Ki-duk, a man in a wheelchair hangs himself, another loudly humps a pillow on his bed, and a third is crippled by a large drill. A startling beginning to any film, but for a strange parable about the state of the world economy, it fits perfectly. The rest of Pieta follows a nihilistic loan-shark enforcer whose life is upended by a mysterious woman claiming to be his mother. What happens from there vacillates between terrifying, disturbing, charming and unusually moving. You might not be able to watch it at times, but what you do see will stick with you. ROBERT HAM. CM, 6 pm Saturday, Feb. 9. LC, 6:30 pm Monday, Feb. 11.
The Sapphires
B+ [AUSTRALIA] According to crusty Irish boozer Dave—played with impeccable comic charm by Chris O’Dowd, Kristen Wiig’s cop boyfriend in Bridesmaids—country-western and soul music are both rooted in loss. The difference, Dave says, is that while country-western stars whine about it, soul singers fight desperately for redemption. That exuberant sense of resilience takes center stage in firsttime filmmaker Wayne Blair’s massively entertaining tale about an Australian Aboriginal girl band that travels to Vietnam to entertain American troops in 1968. Loosely based on a true story (Blair’s mother was a member of the original group), The Sapphires butts up against serious issues, most prominently racial tension and the trauma of war. But between the spirited songs, big-hearted story line and hypersaturated cinematography, this is a film that unapologetically encourages finger-snapping rather than headscratching—and bless its spangled heart for that. REBECCA JACOBSON. WH, 6 pm Friday, Feb. 8. CM, 5 pm Sunday, Feb. 10.
A Simple Life
A- [HONG KONG] A Simple Life is a rarity in a Chinese cinema replete with sweeping epics and multigenerational melodramas: It is a small and lovely film, attentive to the individual and the telling detail. Flowing gently as a backwoods stream, it tells the tale of a woman who has worked as a servant to a family for four generations before herself falling victim to a stroke. And so the caretaker becomes the one in need of care. Though it stars the often larger-than-life Andy Lau as the middle-aged man now caring for his onetime nanny, Ann Hui’s film almost feels unscripted. It seems more the document of a very real affection
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between two people who’ve known each other for a very long time. And even if the film is clunky, perhaps a bit plodding, it doesn’t matter: Life seems more beautiful, and even more possible, after two hours spent with it. Not because we’ve been cheered, but because we’ve been shown something true. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. LC, 9:15 pm Friday, Feb. 8, and 2:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 10.
up to that distinction. Fleeing but not necessarily repentant, Lore (Saskia Rosendahl, excellent in her debut) and her four younger siblings trek through the Black Forest and struggle to reconcile who they know themselves to be with the way the postwar tide is turning. A constant stream of saturated colors and soft focus make Lore a gorgeous visual experience, but the story line isn’t always as powerful as the premise suggests it could be. Though Shortland has yet to realize her considerable potential fully, she and her second film are both worth watching. MICHAEL NORDINE. WH, 7:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 10. LC, 5:45 pm Monday, Feb. 11.
Tabu
B+ [PORTUGAL] Expect the debate after Miguel Gomes’ Tabu to center on the necessity of its first half, a slow expository hour that explores the fraught yet tender friendship between Pilar, a middle-aged divorcée, and her elderly neighbor, Aurora. But that hour provides the necessary counterpoint to the emotional second act, told in the form of a flashback as a former lover of Aurora’s recounts their doomed affair in an unnamed African country in the late ’60s. If it is difficult to reconcile the two halves, revel instead in the sumptuous black-and-white cinematography and the fine performances by Ana Moreira and Laura Soveral as the young and old Aurora, respectively. ROBERT HAM. LC, 5:45 pm Friday, Feb. 8, and 7:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 10.
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War Witch
B [CANADA] Shocking and heartbreaking but never exploitative, Canadian director Kim Nguyen’s War Witch examines violence (in this case, in an unnamed sub-Saharan region) by focusing on two lost children bonding. The narrative is framed by Komona (Rachel Mwanza) as she tells her unborn child about being torn from her village by rebels and forced to kill at age 12, and her eventual status as a tortured “war witch” who can see the ghosts of the fallen on the jungle battlefield. It’s a heavy subject, and kudos to Nguyen for bringing such horrors to the screen without cheapening them for shock value. But it’s the emergent romance, tragedy and melancholy that set War Witch above the typical Third World war film. It takes on the bleakest of subjects, ghosts and all, but somehow manages to bring hope to the front lines. AP KRYZA. LC, 8:30 pm Friday, Feb. 8. WH, 4:30 pm Monday, Feb. 18.
EH, WHY NOT? The Angels’ Share
B- [GREAT BRITAIN] Though the
Scottish slang is slightly more comprehensible than that in Trainspotting, this heartwarming yarn of a thug-turnedgood might still make viewers yearn for subtitles. Fortunately, though, the goofy heist plot is simple enough that you’ll be fine with a 30-percent grasp of the dialogue: Four young Glaswegians sentenced to community service after minor offenses hatch a scheme to pilfer some very pricey Scotch whisky. Headed up by new father Robbie (real-life ex-con Paul Brannigan, a wiry and endearing presence with a short fuse), the clumsy quartet dons some tartan and tromps to the misty Scottish Highlands, along the way hitchhiking with nuns, developing their whisky noses and unleashing plenty of potty humor. The film is genial enough, with its lighthearted jokes and sugary soundtrack tempered by director Ken Loach’s periodic injections of leftist social commentary. REBECCA JACOBSON. LC, 6 pm Saturday, Feb. 9. WH, 8:45 pm Friday, Feb. 15.
Chinese Take-Out
B [ARGENTINA] Cultures clash, communication falters, and a cow falls out of the sky in this low-key black comedy. Ricardo Darin (from 2010’s superb The Secret in Their Eyes) stars as Roberto, a surly and solitary hardware store owner who reluctantly takes in Jun (Ignacio Huang), a Chinese immigrant who speaks no Spanish. Jun is the trembling kitten to Roberto’s snarling Doberman, making for some fine comic moments as the two attempt to locate Jun’s uncle. This quest is interrupted by occasional surrealistic flights: Roberto collects newspaper clippings of absurd stories, and writer-director Sebastián Borensztein
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A SIMPLE LIFE dramatizes several of these bizarre tales—in one, Roberto imagines himself a barber, enacting Sweeney Toddesque revenge against a frugal customer. REBECCA JACOBSON. WTC, 2:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 10, and 3 pm Sunday, Feb. 16.
Shun Li and the Poet
Clandestine Childhood
C+ [ARGENTINA] Based on direc-
tor Benjamin Ávila’s own youth, Clandestine Childhood is an oddly mild-mannered coming-of-age tale about a tween boy caught up in his parents’ failed revolution, set in the “dirty civil war” of ’70s Argentina. Much of the film is spent in soft light, moving fragmentarily through a medium of deep affection and memory: a mother’s smile, a father’s indulgence. It’s as if the director were attempting to capture the feeling of finding an old photo album. We find fragments in the half-light, brief and pregnant encounters. The fabric is rent violently, of course—this is the way of revolutions in police states— but in the end the feeling is that the young, lovelorn Juan began adrift and ended much the same way. It wasn’t ever quite his fight, nor quite anyone’s movie. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. CM, 7:30 pm Sunday, Feb 10. LC, 9:15 pm Monday, Feb. 11, and 6:30 pm Thursday, Feb. 14.
Coming of Age
B [AUSTRIA] It’s a meet-cute made in PIFF heaven: An 80-year-old woman, riddled with cancer, stands outside the apartment building from which she’s just been evicted and happens upon an elderly gentleman on his way to bury a dead cat. He takes pity on her and helps her get set up in a hotel, where he steals a kiss. He’s married, but the relationship went stale long ago. And so they commence an affair, bonded by feelings of abandonment. And, they figure, if society is going treat them as if they are invisible, they might as well become invisible to society. It’s like Yasujirō Ozu, except his subtle ruminations on family and aging are replaced by characters saying things like, “No one wants to believe old people still feel.” There’s also scene of old people smoking weed, which all but guarantees the film an audience award. MATTHEW SINGER. LC, 3:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 9, and 6:30 pm Wednesday, Feb. 13.
The End of Time
B+ [CANADA] Canadian filmmaker Peter Mettler is obsessed with filming the unfilmable. For his 2002 documentary, Gambling, Gods and LSD, that meant abstractly capturing the human desire for happiness. In 2012’s The End of Time, he examines time, from wonky scientists at Switzerland’s CERN particle accelerator to Bodhi tree pilgrimages in India to beautiful, slightly slowed shots of volcanic rock slides.
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B- [ISRAEL] Shaul (Gur Bentvich), an Israeli inventor of crappy, unpatented devices who lives in a storage space and wears unbuttoned Hawaiian shirts, receives a visit from his 13-year-old daughter, Libi (Elya Inbar), just as missiles start falling during the Second Lebanon War. Together they putter around in a car borrowed from Shaul’s shriveled ladyfriend, telling “offwhite lies,” which are actually big fat lies, in order to find places to sleep. Maya Kenig’s directorial debut is one of those quirky, dark comedies in which we learn people can care for one another in even the grimiest of circumstances—a stale formula but worth revisiting if only for the sweeter moments between father and daughter, and the compelling performance by Inbar. EMILY JENSEN. LC, 1:45 pm Sunday, Feb. 10, and 2 pm Sunday, Feb. 17. FT, 8:30 pm Monday, Feb. 11.
WAR WITCH Musically, with bass-bell chimes and faint glitchy sounds, The End of Time is closest to perfection. But dude, the film totally gets, like, way trippy, with nearly 20 continuous minutes filled with sappy computer animations. The stunning meditative tone throughout the rest of the film, though, turns it from stoner-mentary into intoxicating exploration. MITCH LILLIE. WTC. 3:15 pm Saturday, Feb. 9, and 6 pm Saturday, Feb. 16.
A Fierce Green Fire
C+ [UNITED STATES] Like two lugubrious semesters of earth science, Mark Kitchell’s A Fierce Green Fire will leave you feeling hopeless, enraged, skeptical and bored in roughly equal measure. Subtitled The Battle for a Living Planet, Fire details the rise of the environmental movement from the 1950s to the present. The film, which clocks in at just a shade under two hours, describes a parabolic arc of panic: We’re killing the planet; we’re really killing the planet; OK, we’ve killed the planet, happy now?! Buried within this sprawling classroom-ready doc is a fiercer, more focused film about the creation of Earth Day and the violent, revolutionary politics of Greenpeace co-founder Paul Watson, but those tasty morsels are ultimately lost in Fire’s flavorless vegetal broth. MARSHALL WALKER LEE. WTC, 6 pm Friday, Feb. 8 and 15. C21, 8:45 pm Friday, Feb. 22.
Ginger & Rosa
B [GREAT BRITAIN] It’s customary enough for British actors to have to perfect their American accents to break into Hollywood, but it’s rare for an English-made, English-directed film to contain almost no British actors. (In this film, only the estimable Timothy Spall carries the right passport.) Poor
Christina Hendricks—Joan from Mad Men—wins the prize for most distracting accent. The young Elle Fanning (the titular Ginger), on the other hand, is a wonder on every front. At heart, Ginger & Rosa is a deeply melodramatic ’60s coming-of-age girl-buddy flick with a hamfisted nuclear-bomb metaphor and a sociopathic Lothario dad. But the delicacy Fanning brings to her role just plain breaks your heart, even as the lines she’s sometimes asked to deliver do the same. Wonderful to watch an actress discover such hidden depths in oftenthin material. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. WH, 6 pm Saturday, Feb. 9. LC, 8:15 pm Tuesday, Feb. 12.
A Letter to Momo
B [JAPAN] Hiroyuki Okiura’s 2011 animated feature plays like a more grown-up version of the Studio Ghibli classic My Neighbor Totoro. Instead of cuddly, bearlike creatures, A Letter to Momo features three nasty-looking goblins brought into being by Momo, a young teen reeling from the untimely death of her father. The trio of spooks attempts to look after Momo and her mother as they seek a new life on a remote Japanese island, but ends up causing all manner of adorable chaos. The darker elements and mature themes at play may be tough for younger viewers to swallow, but for others, this mystical coming-of-age story provides plenty of thrilling and moving moments amid the surreality. ROBERT HAM. WTC, noon Sunday, Feb. 10. LC, 6 pm Tuesday, Feb. 12.
Lore
B- [AUSTRALIA] Cate Shortland’s Lore fancies itself an atypical World War II movie. Insofar as it’s told from the perspective of a 14-year-old German daughter of SS parents, it lives
B [ITALY] From nativist agitation in the streets of Dublin and Madrid to the French government’s failed attempts to ban the hijab, questions of pluralism and diversity are at the center of the European Union’s fragile politics of inclusion. Enter cinema. Right on cue, a clutch of younger European filmmakers, working in the tradition of Fassbinder’s Ali: Fear Eats the Soul and Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne’s Lorna’s Silence, have arrived on the festival circuit bearing tidy, wistful features focused on the troubles of disenfranchised, Eastern-born immigrants. Andre Segre, an Italian documentarian, social activist and professor, whose previous films skewed heavily didactic (one choice title: The Extermination of the Gypsy People), is just about the last director you’d expect to rise above the fray, delivering a sexy, pretty, light-as-air story about fishing, friendship and the beauty of the fog-choked upper Adriatic. As Shun Li, a Chinese immigrant laborer abruptly transferred to a quiet seaside village south of Venice, Zhao Tao manages to inject life and breath into this subdued story of a star-crossed, oddball friendship. MARSHALL WALKER LEE. WTC, 8:45 pm Saturday, Feb. 9, and 5 pm Sunday, Feb. 10.
Starry Starry Night
B [TAIWAN] Whimsy and despair commingle in Tom Lin’s Starry Starry Night, which tells the story of children Mei and Jay as they encounter life’s more difficult aspects—death, fragmenting families, grade school. With the death of her grandfather and decline of her parents’ marriage, Mei clings to artistic outsider Jay, and the two make origami animals, fight school bullies and search the forest for Mei’s grandfather’s home. Mei loves her puzzle of Van Gogh’s Starry Night, and as her world falls apart, puzzle pieces literally rain down on her. From the first CGI snowflake, the film takes on the visual quality of a Monet painting. Human shadows become dragons, trains lift off their tracks to fly through oil-painted skies, and origami rabbits come to life. But these sweet moments of childlike joy quickly spin into grief, as Mei’s dance with her mother ends in parental breakdown and disillusionment: It is the painful experience of growing up. Starry Starry Night may have the fantasy of childhood, but this is no children’s film. ENID SPITZ. LC, 5:15 pm Sunday, Feb. 10, and 6 pm Friday, Feb. 15.
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FOR THE COMPLETIST ONLY La Sirga
C [COLOMBIA] The title of William
Vega’s film refers to a creaking, crumbling guesthouse located on a lake somewhere in the Colombian mountains. The wind is wet, gray and always howling. No drops of sunshine or color make it to this hopefully fictional locale. A young woman named Alicia (Joghis Seudyn Arias) is left alone when her village is razed and family killed by a faction in a war. Her aging uncle Oscar takes her in, and the two work together to prepare the guesthouse for tourists. Then they wait. And wait. Though the civil war is a driving plot force— Alicia and Oscar are constantly warned that war is on its way—no violence is shown onscreen. A romance barely bubbles between Alicia and a neighbor named Mirichis. Visually, La Sirga is interesting in its monochrome palette, but the geologic pacing will leave most viewers looking for a guesthouse of their own. MITCH LILLIE. WTC, 8:45 pm Friday, Feb. 8, and 7:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 10. CM, 2:30 pm Monday, Feb 18.
Paradise: Love
C- [AUSTRIA] Teresa (Margarethe Tiesel), an overweight Austrian woman on a beach vacation in Kenya, hires a local man named Mungu (Peter Kuzungu) for sex. But the exploitation is reversed when Mungu starts fleecing Teresa for financial gain. Though the premise is outwardly shocking, Ulrich Seidl’s directorial hand is colder than his fellow countryman Michael Haneke’s, resulting in a film devoid of character development or psychological depth. From our initial introduction to a woman with a vile way of speaking about her attraction to Africans’ unique odor, to Teresa’s exhaustingly repetitive string of humiliating dalliances with local men (alert: explicit nude dance scenes), Paradise: Love seems set on numbing viewers rather than engaging them. It’s marginally redeemed by the occasional retinasingeing shot, some of which verge on portraiture, but ultimately fails to elicit either curiosity or concern. REBECCA JACOBSON. CM, 6 pm Friday, Feb. 8, and 8:45 pm Friday, Feb. 15.
Purge
C- [FINLAND] The title is apt: It’s what you’ll want to do during much of Antti Jokinen’s film. It’s also the fundamental arc of the movie, a grotesquely violent and sickening binge followed by a reckoning. In its depictions of rape and psycho-
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logical punishments—in one case, 1940s Soviet Russians brutalizing and gang-raping young Estonian women; in another, 1990s Russian Mafiosi brutalizing and gang-raping young Estonian women (notice a theme?)—the film manages to be both disturbingly graphic and as far from pornography as it gets. But it’s unintelligently unrelenting. The film seems to want nothing but to inflict pain on its audience until they succumb, numbed, to a vision of the world as a place of demonic foreign men who exist only to inflict sexual torture on women who, brutalized, become themselves also brutal. It’s not a film; it’s a bludgeoning. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. LC, 5:15 pm Saturday, Feb. 9, and 5:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 16. WH, 8:30 pm Tuesday, Feb. 12.
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Reality
C- [ITALY] Everybody knows there’s nothing real about reality TV. But that doesn’t stop an otherwise lucid Neapolitan fishmonger from upending his life and ruining his marriage in an attempt to get on Grande Fratello, the Italian version of Big Brother. If you don’t know what Big Brother is, then you should skip this movie. If you do know what Big Brother is, then you should skip this movie. If you thoroughly enjoy Big Brother, or if you yourself have been a participant on Big Brother, then shame on you, and you too should skip this movie. According to director Matteo Garrone, whose previous film, Gomorrah, was selected to represent Italy for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Reality is based on a true story, but that doesn’t excuse the film for being overlong, unfocused and ultimately cruel to its hapless hero. MARSHALL WALKER LEE. FT, 7:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 10. LC, 5:45 pm Thursday, Feb. 14.
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Wrinkles
D+ [SPAIN] Animation is a tool that often brings the fantastical to life, or at least adds some panache to an already engaging narrative. What it doesn’t do is make the story of two elderly dudes in a nursing home all that interesting. Such is Ignacio Ferreras’ Wrinkles, a bland-as-cafeteria-food drama that uses broad-stroke animation to make broad-stroke observations about aging. The animation adds nothing to the story of an elderly Lothario and a banker with early Alzheimer’s who stand around blank-faced, talking aimlessly. It’s about as interesting as visiting somebody else’s grandparents in an old-folks’ home, and as equally engaging to look at. AP KRYZA. LC, 6:30 pm Friday, Feb. 8, and 1:45 pm Sunday, Feb. 17.
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56 Up
A This documentary is “a complete
fraud,” says one of its subjects. It’s a sentiment voiced often in 56 Up, the latest in Michael Apted’s visionary, often-depressing series that has documented the lives of 14 disparate Britons, in seven-year installments, since they were 7 years old in 1964. John, the above-quoted skeptic, resists the notion that social class determines one’s future: He is, of course, congenitally upper-crust rich and has remained so. The lower-class men and women—who have also remained so, though most have grown more comfortable over the years—have a different perspective. They are more likely to talk about the limitations of possibility, or about one-time chances they missed. For those who’ve not watched all the previous installments, 56 Up is largely of anthropological or cultural interest; for those who have, there’s a wistful sadness to the affair. Still, it’s one of the great journeys in documentary film; it’s unlikely there will be another one like it. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Living Room Theaters.
Amour
A Midway through Michael Haneke’s
scrupulously devastating Amour, the elderly Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) tells his wife, Anne (Emmanuelle Riva), about a film he remembers watching as a child. Though he can no longer recall any details, he keenly remembers how the film made him feel, and the reminiscence brings him to tears. “The emotions remain,” he tells Anne. That scene is almost too perfect, but it captures what makes Amour both calmly beautiful and tremendously wrenching. Set almost entirely in Georges and Anne’s comfortable apartment in modern-day Paris, Amour lays its groundwork early. Anne has a stroke one morning, seeming to disappear mentally for several moments. She soon ends up in a wheelchair, having lost function on one side of her body. Riva’s performance is as graceful as it is heartbreaking. As Anne’s health declines, Georges’ remains loving and attentive, but anger and frustration flash through. Though Amour may not contain the same cold shocks of menace or cruelty as Haneke’s other films, it also does not relent in its painful realism. And that is precisely what endows it with such power. PG13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Fox Tower.
Argo
A- Ben Affleck’s thriller, a bizarre
story of a joint mission between the Canadian government, the CIA and Hollywood to extract six Americans hiding in Tehran, is one of the year’s best pictures. R. AP KRYZA. Clackamas, Cornelius, Lake Twin, Living Room Theaters, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV.
Beasts of the Southern Wild
A Like Southern-fried, live-action
Miyazaki. MATTHEW SINGER. Academy, Laurelhurst.
Bullet to the Head
C+ Most of the dialogue in Bullet
to the Head is as blunt as the title, but the gunfire and ax fights (!) are carried out with a sort of kinetic grace that betrays their makers’ experience within the genre. Enjoyment of Walter Hill’s first film in more than a decade is nonetheless largely predicated on agreeing with its tagline: “Revenge never gets old.” This is indeed an old story whose director and star have both been around the block several times before, but Hill and star Sylvester Stallone have put their experience within the genre to good use. The result is the kind of movie in which dudes drink whiskey straight from the bottle to dull the pain of amateur surgery, and callously offing baddies is more a matter of survival-of-the-fittest instinct than conscious decisionmaking. Sly is at his gruffest and most
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no-nonsense throughout, especially compared to the detective he partners with early on to take down a shared enemy in New Orleans. Though this partnership often strains credulity, it does lead to Sly at one point saying, “Let’s go take a bath.” Small victories, friends. R. MICHAEL NORDINE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
Cascade Festival of African Films: Otelo Burning
B- Otelo Burning lives up to the tragic allusion of its title. Apartheid crumbles and Nelson Mandela walks free, but the Durban township Lamontville sees little respite from violence. Three boys—Otelo, New Year and Mandela— find hope in surfing. But, true to the film’s Shakespearean name, lust and ambition interfere with the boys’ dreams. The expected “times are changing” line arrives halfway through Otelo Burning, and—with the help of retrospective, voice-over narration— much of Sara Blecher’s film proceeds just as predictably. But it ensnares you despite the heavy-handed foreshadowing. The young cast, especially the tag-along younger brother played by Tshepang Mohlomi, carries the film with such honest emotion it doesn’t matter whether the characters’ fates are predictable; you still want to see them live them out. Same with the cinematography: Stylized at times, it beautifully captures the physical and emotional landscapes of South Africa’s turmoil (noon Thursday and 7:30 pm Friday, Feb 7-8). Also showing are Grey Matter (1:45 pm Thursday and 7:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 7 and 9) and An African Election (7:30 pm Thursday, Feb. 7). ENID SPITZ. Portland Community College’s Cascade Campus, Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building, Room 104, 705 N Killingsworth St., 971-722-5711. Through March 2.
Django Unchained
B- 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, Quentin Tarantino’s film 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. 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. 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. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Lloyd Center, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Movies on TV.
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 impa-
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JOHN DIES AT THE END tient 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. The new police chief (Nick Nolte, talking like he swallowed Tom Waits) gives Josh Brolin’s bullheaded but incorruptible Sgt. James O’Mara the green light to engage in guerrilla combat with the previously untouchable Cohen. 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. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Division, Evergreen Parkway.
main story follows M. Oscar (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. By commenting on each era of the film industry—from its earliest experiments to modern CGI—and by using some of its reference points, the director urges viewers to remember how potent and indelible the art form can be. ROBERT HAM. Living Room Theaters.
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
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. Leave it to Bill Murray, though, to make something as icky as incest seem somehow sweet and forgivable. R. EMILY JENSEN. Laurelhurst, Fox Tower.
B- Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is a
totally different monkey from the rest of the neo-fairy-tale crop. This isn’t some serious epic or vanity project for an aging Hollywood queen. This is a big, dumb action flick, which finds that Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and Gretel (Gemma Arterton) have got a thing for tight leather and a knack for hunting, torturing and killing witches. Naturally, that brings them to a village terrorized by Famke Janssen. They fight. Like, a lot. The stars look great, but it’s obvious none of them gives a shit. There are a lot of glossed-over and highly disturbing subtexts one could bring up in tearing apart this film— among them its rampant violence toward women. But that’s reading too deeply into this tale. This is a gory confection that’s deeply flawed, horrifically acted and utterly ridiculous, but that nonetheless manages to be fun, which is something none of the other fairy-tale reimaginings has managed. R. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Living Room Theaters.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
B+ 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. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Bridgeport, Forest, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood.
Holy Motors
A This strange, poignant and thoroughly unshakeable piece of cinematic art 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, Carax went for broke on Holy Motors. The
Hunger
[THREE NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] In 1981, Bobby Sands died leading a famous hunger strike in North Ireland’s Maze Prison. In 2008, Steve McQueen’s Hunger immortalized the struggle, making history of its own with an epic, 17-minute single-shot scene. Fifth Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm FridaySaturday, 3 pm Sunday, Feb. 8-10.
Hyde Park on Hudson
B+ Like so many great romances in
Identity Thief
Melissa McCarthy cons Jason Bateman; bounty hunters, road trips and inevitable quips ensue. Screened after WW press deadlines, but look for Jay Horton’s review at wweek.com. R. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
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. But Bayona seems to think that lingering over dirty wounds and bloody flaps of skin can make up for Sergio G. Sánchez’s thin screenplay. 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? R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower.
John Dies at the End
B Don Coscarelli has spent three
decades producing flicks tailor-made
for the geek/cult set, from his nutso 1979 breakthrough, Phantasm, to the ferret-canoodling warrior of The Beastmaster. His master opus was Bubba Ho-Tep, which pitted Elvis and a black JFK against a mummy oddity. With John Dies at the End, the director attempts to top a career filled with deranged morticians and STD-afflicted elderly rock gods by adapting author David Wong’s notoriously batshit take on interdimensional lunacy, monsters made of hot dogs, tits, ghosts and necromancing. No fair spilling too many details about a film that puts a spoiler in its title, but let it suffice to say this giddy freak show follows buddies Dave (Chase Williamson) and John (Rob Mayes) on a quest to save the known universe from some pretty gnarly beasties, taking a fantastic slacker voyage along the way through the realm of creative low-budget special effects. This is, of course, not a film for everybody: The content’s just far too weird for mainstream audiences, and Coscarelli seems to have created the film specifically for the geeks who worship his bizarro aesthetic. Sometimes he overreaches, but damned if it’s not a compelling exercise in what-the-fuck filmmaking punctuated with pangs of hysteria. Oh, and hot-dog monsters. R. AP KRYZA. Hollywood Theatre.
Kung Fu Theater: Invincible Pole Fighter
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Gordon Liu of Kill Bill pole-fights his way through temples to avenge his family. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Feb. 12.
The Last Stand
B- After a 10-year absence, the most legendary action hero’s cinematic return is totally an Arnold Schwarzenegger flick, a loud, riotous symphony of bad one-liners, explosions, blood, guns and fast cars. This is gun-worshiping, masochistic comfort food for anyone who ever stayed up late watching Commando. The mayhem is delivered by the great Kim Jee-woon, a master of taking genre tropes and amping them up to ridiculous levels. The plot could have been written by a 6-year-old: A Mexican drug lord escapes police custody, gets in a souped-up Corvette and makes a 200 mph dash for the border, where a semi-retired badass (Ah-nuld) is sheriff of a sleepy town. When the Corvette arrives, things—actually, pretty much everything—go boom. Especially bodies. But when Arnold plays Road Runner to a sea of Wile E. Coyotes with automatic weapons, The Last Stand is a welcome return to form—a hysterically stupid celebration of chaos delivered with childlike love. R. AP KRYZA. Eastport.
Last Tango in Paris
[THREE NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] Marlon Brando headlines this racy love affair. NC-17. Clinton Street Theater, 6:50 pm Friday-Sunday, Feb. 8-10.
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. PG-13. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Tigard, Wilsonville.
Let My People Go!
Mikael Buch’s loopy satire follows Reuben, a French-Jewish gay mailman, after he’s exiled by his Nordic lover. Living Room Theaters.
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. But the film surrenders the more subtle messages of Yann Martel’s novel for hamhanded schlock and slack-jawed awe. PG. REBECCA JACOBSON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Lloyd Center, Clackamas, Bridgeport, Forest, City Center, Movies on TV, Tigard.
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B Steven Spielberg’s stately drama is shrewd, balanced and impressively restrained. 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. PG-13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Indoor Twin, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall, Tigard, St. Johns Twin.
Mama
C+ Andrés Muschietti’s Mama opens with a deranged father who, having killed several co-workers and his wife, kidnaps his daughters. But he careens off the road and meets an unfortunate fate, leaving his little girls on their own. Five years later, we meet the girls’ uncle (Nikolaj CosterWaldau), who discovers that little Lily (Isabelle Nélisse) and Victoria (Megan Charpentier) have survived essentially as animals, with Lily snarling and crawling on all fours. The film is strongest when it follows the girls’ social reacclimation and psychoanalysis, which reveals that they invented an imaginary protector named Mama— only, of course, she’s not so imaginary. But the second half of the film teeters into the most macabre episode of Scooby Doo ever. It’s also at this point that the ghost ceases to be scary. In early appearances, she’s a ghostly shape whose hair and clothing billow as if underwater. But then the film grows impatient, and suddenly Mama is front and center, looking like test footage from The Grudge and less interested in terrorizing the characters than in popping her head directly before the camera. Could it be that Mama’s real goal is to make the ultimate photobomb? If so, nicely done. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
Meatballs
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Bill Murray leads a substandard summer camp through slapstick antics. PG. Dig a Pony. 5 pm Sunday, Feb. 10.
Notes From the Underground
[ONE WEEK ONLY, REVIVAL] Take a visit to society’s underbelly with Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, David Lynch’s Blue Velvet and David Fincher’s Fight Club, all in 35 mm. See cinema21.com for showtimes. Cinema 21.
Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films
A- Cumulatively clocking in at a
brisk 40 minutes, this year’s Oscarnominated animated shorts are a uniformly charming bunch. The briefest is the 2-minute, stop-motion Fresh Guacamole, in which inedible objects— a grenade, a pincushion, a baseball— become a bowl of tasty dip. In Maggie Simpson in “The Longest Daycare,” Homer and Marge’s infant daughter is dropped off at the Ayn Rand School for Tots. The short harks back to the dense wit of The Simpsons’ earlier days—in 5 minutes, it packs a surfeit of mordant and clever images: Maggie wearing a caterpillar in a Frida Kahlostyle unibrow, a pot of paint labeled “bleakest black” and freaky Raggedy Ayn dolls. Adam and Dog is a lushly illustrated tale about man’s best friend, while the dizzy-making Head Over Heels finds a long-married couple that has grown literally apart, with the husband living on the floor and the wife on the ceiling. But the most delightful of all might be Paperman, a 7-minute wisp that blends hand-drawn and computer-generated animation to tell the story of a missed connection in midcentury New York City. With its playful sound design, elegant blackand-white palette and bouncy paperairplane choreography, Paperman delivers. REBECCA JACOBSON. Living Room Theaters.
Oscar-Nominated Live Action Short Films
Five shorts vying for a shiny statuette. Living Room Theaters.
Parker
C+ Jason Statham may be the real last
action hero. He’s never made a film to match Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Predator or T2, but his output has been consistently serviceable in a way that few of his forebears and peers can lay claim to. Parker is decidedly measured and patient. It gives Statham ample time to espouse his rule-following ideology and has viewers share in his relentless quest to get back at the crew who left him for dead after a job. There may be as many strained revelations of Statham’s and co-star Jennifer Lopez’s troubled inner beings as there are pithy one-liners, but Parker’s blend of old-school action ultimately lives up to the promise of the exceptional heist sequence with which it opens. R. MICHAEL NORDINE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
Portland Black Film Festival
Hollywood Theatre honors Black History Month with a lineup of AfricanAmerican films. Kicking off the festival is the mobster classic Across 110th Street (7:30 pm Wednesday, Feb. 6), in which racial tensions boil over. Director Michael Schultz attends for a double feature of his 1985 films, The Last Dragon and Krush Groove (7 pm Saturday, Feb. 9). In conjunction with Cinema Classics, the festival will also show 1943’s Cabin in the Sky (7 pm Sunday, Feb. 10), a musical with an all-black cast that features Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. Hollywood Theatre.
Promised Land
B Gus Van Sant’s Promised Land is 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. Damon (who co-wrote the screenplay with fellow star John Krasinski) is characteristically genuine. But when high-school science teacher Frank Yates (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 (Rosemarie DeWitt). But 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. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Academy, Bagdad, Laurelhurst, Mission, St. Johns.
Quartet
B You’ve seen this film before: A pack of love-drunk song-and-dancers needs a ton of money to save their home, so they band together to put on a big music show. Can they pull it off? Will the big star agree to take part? But in Quartet, Dustin Hoffman’s twilight directorial debut, the stars are septuagenarians. The film, which takes place in a ridiculously well-appointed retirement home for former classical musicians, acts as both valedictory and wake for an entire passing generation of British actors and musicians—notably Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly and Tom Courtenay, alongside a host of former opera stars. But it’s surprisingly fun. While Hoffman seems very aware he’s gently closing the book on an entire generation of entertainers, he nonetheless allows them to do what they’ve always done best: be entertaining. PG-13. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Fox Tower.
Reel Relics: Rock Me
[ONGOING SERIES, TWO NIGHTS ONLY] Revisit the spandex and mullet glory of female rock empowerment with reels from Heart, the Runaways, Suzi Quatro and Pat Benatar performing live. Clinton Street Theater. 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday, Feb. 8-9.
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. Nikolaj Arcel’s A Royal Affair introduces us to a true story from this time, a love triangle among the infantile Danish king Christian VII; his English-born wife; and a German-born physician, who becomes an adviser to Christian and a paramour to Caroline. A brainy bodice-ripper of a tale, A Royal Affair is terribly pretty but just a tad flat. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Living Room Theaters.
Silver Linings Playbook
A- David O. Russell emerges with
one of filmdom’s funniest stories of crippling manic depression. R. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Lake Twin, Moreland, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigar, Wilsonville, Roseway, St. Johns Twin.
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. But those scenes of torture dredge up such challenging, uncomfortable and important moral questions it’s no wonder they’ve dominated discussion. Yet I’m unable to see the film as some rah-rah piece of jingoism. Instead, it’s as uncomfortable in its relentlessly raw representations of torture as it is in its characters’ emotionally ambiguous reactions to those acts. 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. Zero Dark Thirty builds to the pivotal raid on bin Laden’s compound by a group of Navy SEALs. 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. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
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Stand Up Guys
D Europe is considerably kinder
to its elder statesmen—at least where cinema is concerned. Michael Haneke’s dissection of octogenarian love, Amour, is a lock for the foreign-language Oscar, with Emmanuelle Riva, 85, up for her own golden boy. Middlebrow dramedy Quartet is winning audiences over with its story of retired musicians like Maggie Smith and Michael Gambon taking the stage. What do we do with our aging legends? We repurpose their wellworn personas. Take Fisher Stevens’ Stand Up Guys, which casts some of the greatest actors of the past 30 years in a horribly unfunny and tonally schizophrenic crime comedy. In the rare quiet moment when the two masters of cadence exchange dialogue, the film shows potential. But it jackknifes in tone more frequently than Walken himself. Maybe it’s time Pacino gets a room at that nice retirement home we call Europe, where gals like Emmanuelle Riva might want a look at that python. R. AP KRYZA. Clackamas, Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall.
Twilight Zone
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Relive season-one standouts, complete with original commercials. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Monday, Feb. 11.
Warm Bodies
B+ “Don’t be creepy, don’t be creepy,
don’t be creepy,” the lovesick zombie begs himself as he stares, slackjawed, at the very blond, very alive object of his affection. His name is “R” (he thinks) and he’s your average twentysomething zombie. He’s conflicted about all the killing, but considering his only way to reconnect to the world is to download a human’s memories by devouring their brains, he’ll take it. That is, until he locks eyes with shotgun-wielding Julie and falls head over undead heels in love. In a genre already clogged with teens trysting with milquetoast vampires and hunky werewolves, forcing zombies to woo humans sounds like a calculating cash grab. But director Jonathan Levine’s goofy wisp of a film is a charming lurch through zombieland that bypasses the usual headshots to aim at the heart—and scores a surprisingly direct hit. It helps that Nicholas Hoult is the world’s cutest corpse: all mussed hair, starburst eyes and deep-shadowed lids…and a little mouth slime. After saving Julie from his “friends,” he courts her with canned fruit cocktail and Coronas. When Julie (Teresa Palmer) starts to warm up to her undead suitor, he in turn remembers how to be human. The CGI effects are laughable, and it takes a while to adjust to the willfully cheeseball tone. But once it clicks, it’s irresistible. In this world, all you need is love. And sometimes a shotgun. PG-13. KELLY CLARKE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
STONED FACE: Rooney Mara.
SIDE EFFECTS Warning: Steven Soderbergh’s new film may cause anxiety, frustration, terror, temporary memory loss, episodes of euphoria, Hitchcockian feelings of nostalgia, numbing, exhilaration, dread and apathy. Side effects of Side Effects may also include jaw clenching and eye rolling. Consumption of Side Effects is recommended with a grain of salt. Soderbergh is a master of genre jumping, as apt at tackling sprawling legal dramas as popcorn flicks. With Side Effects, he combines the medical horrors of 2011’s middling Contagion with a noir-style narrative about a young woman (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’s Rooney Mara) who commits a horrendous crime while under the influence of a radical new antidepressant. What emerges is a nail biter that eventually sacrifices a gorgeous concept for standard mystery beats. But the setup, a story about the casualties of mental-health treatment, is damn jarring. Mara puts in a performance that’s completely counter to the feel-good depression of Silver Linings Playbook, painting a portrait of mental illness and paranoia that lodges directly under the skin. Suicidal and prone to sleepwalking, she reaches out to an overworked psychiatrist (Jude Law), who puts her on the experimental antidepressant. It doesn’t go so well. As with any mystery, the less you know going into Side Effects the better, but let it suffice to say this is perhaps the least Soderberghian of the director’s films. Gone are his signature humor and off-color lens filters, which are ditched for a smooth digital palette. What is ever present, though, is his ability to unnerve, and the first hour plays like a nightmare in which you occupy the head of a severely disturbed mental patient, an effect augmented by jittery sound design that gives the illusion of constant whispers following Mara. Meanwhile, Channing Tatum continues his evolution into a solid actor with a turn as a loving husband whose concerns add gravity. Alas, just as the film ratchets up the jitters and paranoia, it takes a turn for the conventional in the second half, which focuses on Law doing an awful lot of Googling and stoic staring before the film hits the safety net of ho-hum conspiracy theory and conventional thriller tropes. For all its emotional buildup and unease, Side Effects eventually suffers from multiple personalities. AP KRYZA.
The girl with the Paxil tattoo.
B- SEE IT: Side Effects is rated R. It opens Friday at Eastport, Clackamas, Fox Tower, Cedar Hills, Lloyd Center, Bridgeport.
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IF YOU WANT TO SING OUT: Exactly what about cult classic Harold and Maude spoke to my high-school self ? The twisted romance that blooms between a death-obsessed young man and a life-loving old woman? Saucer-eyed Bud Cort, who horrifies his mother by staging fake suicides? The earnest Cat Stevens songs that tug and punch at each dramatic turn, setting the benchmark for all twee indie soundtracks to come? Sure, Hal Ashby’s dark comedy is criticized for its wafer-thin characterizations and implausible—and creepy—conceit. But, let it suffice to say, as an indignant teenager, I thought the film was speaking directly to me. “Liberate yourself from the ennui of conformism!” it hollered. “Harold,” Maude says, “everyone has the right to make an ass out of themselves. You just can’t let the world judge you too much.” Did I listen? Only so well. But it slayed me as a 16-year-old, and it still gets me now. REBECCA JACOBSON. Showing at: Academy. Best paired with: Boneyard Diablo Rojo. Also showing: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Laurelhurst).
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Why do the Heathen rage? And the People imagine a vain thing? The Kings of the earth set themselves and the Rulers take counsel together [conspiracy]; Against the Lord, and against HIS Anointed, saying: Let us break their bands [chains] as under and cast away their cords from us! BUT HE that sits in the Heavens shall LAUGH! The Lord shall have them in derision. Then HE shall speak to them in HIS sore displeasure... ...I will declare the decree: The Lord has said unto me - You are MY son [Daughter], for this Day have I begotten [adopted] you (Galatians 4:5-7). Now ASK OF ME, and I will give you the Heathen for your inheritance - and the uttermost parts of the world for your possession [dominion]. ... For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show HIMSELF strong in the behalf of those whose heart is perfect to SEEK HIM! (2 Chronicles 16:9). THEREFORE, as I have said, says the Lord: ASK OF ME WHAT I SHOULD DO FOR YOU! (1 Kings 3:15 and Luke 18:41). Join US in prayer to the ONE TRUE GOD of Abraham, today, for the City of Portland. Chapel@gorge.net
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JONESIN’ by Matt Jones 66 Kind of off-road motorcycle racing 67 “The Star-Spangled Banner” contraction 68 Pull on a tooth 69 N.Y congressman Anthony taken down by a sexting scandal in 2011 70 The Ravens got four in Super Bowl XLVII: abbr. Down 1 Floor cleaner 2 Bathtime sounds 3 San Diego neighbor 4 Cremona currency, once 5 Wilberforce University’s affiliated denom. 6 Part of DJIA 7 How more and more old movies can be viewed 8 Jazz pianist Krall 9 Show up to 10 He-cow 11 Words of regret 12 Captain’s journal 13 Plug-___ 18 Yell out 19 Opera set in Egypt 22 1970s synthesizer brand 23 Rapscallions 24 Flockmates 26 Parisian street 27 Apt. ad stat 29 Different ending? 31 “Blast!” 33 Cartoon skunk ___ LePew 34 Walk like you’re cool 38 Sciences’ counterpart 39 “___ Te Ching” 40 Handheld device, for short 41 Big ISP, once 42 Keep slogging
44 Rum from Puerto Rico 45 “Sorry, you’re on your own” 46 Full of subtlety 47 Bayer Leverkusen’s country: abbr. 49 Department store section 50 When someone will be back, often 55 Be penitent
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible,” said poet Theodore Roethke. For the foreseeable future, Aries, you could and should be a person like that. I’m not saying that you will forevermore be a connoisseur of amazements and a massager of miracles and a magnet for unexpected beauty. But if you want to, you can play those roles for the next few weeks. How many exotic explorations and unlikely discoveries can you cram into your life between now and March 1? How many unimaginable transformations can you imagine? TAURUS (April 20-May 20): North America’s most powerful and iconic waterfall is Niagara Falls, which straddles the border between the U.S. and Canada. In 1969, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers managed to shut down the American side of this elemental surge for a few months. They performed their monumental magic by building a dam made with 27,800 tons of rocks. Their purpose was to do research and maintenance on the stony foundation that lies beneath the water. I’m thinking that you Tauruses could accomplish a metaphorical version of that feat in the coming weeks: some awesome task that allows you to peer beneath the surface and make refinements that enhance your stability for a long time. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): National Geographic reports that dung beetles have an intimate relationship not only with the earth but also with the stars. Scientists in South Africa found that the bugs use the Milky Way Galaxy to orient themselves while rolling their precious balls of dung to the right spot for safekeeping. The bright band of starlight in the sky serves as a navigational aid. I nominate the dung beetle to be your power animal in the coming weeks, Gemini. It will be prime time for you, too, to align your movements and decisions with a bigger picture and a higher power. (Read about the research here: http://tinyurl. com/GalacticBeetles.) CANCER (June 21-July 22): You should go right ahead and compare oranges and apples in the coming week, Cancerian. Honey and butter, too: It’s fine to compare and contrast them. Science and religion. Bulldogs and Siamese cats. Dew and thunderclaps. Your assignment is to create connections that no one else would be able to make . . . to seek out seemingly improbable harmonies between unlikely partners . . . to dream up interesting juxtapositions that generate fertile ideas. Your soul needs the delight and challenge of unexpected blending. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The collection called Grimm’s Fairy Tales includes the story “The Devil and His Grandmother.” In one scene, the devil’s grandmother is petting and rubbing her grandson’s head. Or at least that’s what the English translations say. But the authors wrote in German, and in their original version of the text, grandma is in fact plucking lice from the devil’s hair. Your job in the coming week, Leo, is to ensure that no one sanitizes earthy details like that. Be vigilant for subtle censorship. Keep watch for bits of truth that have been suppressed. You need the raw feed that comes straight from the source. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In her book Jung and Tarot, Sallie Nichols notes that the sixteenth card in most Tarot decks portrays lightning as a hostile force: “jagged, zigzag strokes that slash across the sky like angry teeth.” But there’s one deck, the Marseilles Tarot, that suggests a kinder, gentler lightning. The yellow and red phenomenon descending from the heavens resembles a giant feather duster; it looks like it would tickle and clean rather than burn. I suspect you’ll be visited by a metaphorical version of this second kind of lightning sometime soon, Virgo. Prepare to be tickled and cleaned! LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Years ago, “bastard” was a derisive term for a child born to unmarried parents. It reflected the conventional moral code, which regarded a “birth out of wedlock” as scandalous. But I think we can safely say that this old dogma has been officially retired. According to recent statistics compiled by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), over 40 percent of the kids born in the U.S. are to unmarried mothers. Just goes to show you that not all forbidden acts remain forbidden for-
ever. What was unthinkable or out of bounds or not allowed at one time may evolve into what’s normal. I bring this up, Libra, because it’s an excellent time for you to divest yourself of a certain taboo that’s no longer necessary or meaningful. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): While trekking up Mount Katahdin in Maine, naturalist Henry David Thoreau had a “mountain-top experience” that moved him to observe, “I stand in awe of my body.” You’re due for a similar splash of illumination, Scorpio. The time is right for you to arrive at a reverent new appreciation for the prodigious feats that your physical organism endlessly performs for you. What could you do to encourage such a breakthrough? How can you elevate your love for the flesh and blood that houses your divine spark SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): How do you like your caviar? Do you prefer it to be velvety and smooth, or would you rather have it be full of strong, fishy taste? If it’s the first option, beluga caviar is your best option. If the second, sevruga should be your favorite. What? You say you never eat caviar? Well, even if you don’t, you should regard the choice between types of caviar as an apt metaphor for the coming week. You can either have velvety smoothness or a strong taste, but not both. Which will it be? Set your intention. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Dear Astrology Guy: I have been reading your horoscopes since I was 19. For a while, I liked them. They were fun riddles that made me think. But now I’ve soured on them. I’m sick and tired of you asking me to transform myself. You just keep pushing and pushing, never satisfied, always saying it’s time to improve myself or get smarter or fix one of my bad habits. It’s too much! I can’t take it any more! Sometimes I just want to be idle and lazy. Your horoscopes piss me off! - Crabby Capricorn.” Dear Crabby: I’ve got some good news. In the coming week, you are completely excused from having to change anything about yourself or your life. Stay exactly the same! Be frozen in time. Resist the urge to tinker. Take a vacation from life’s relentless command to evolve. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Young art student Andrzej Sobiepan sneaked into Poland’s National Museum with a painting he had done himself and managed to surreptitiously mount it on one of the walls. It hung there for a while before authorities noticed it and took it down. “I decided that I will not wait 30 or 40 years for my works to appear at a place like this,” he said. “I want to benefit from them in the here and now.” This is the kind of aggressive selfexpression I’d like to see you summon in the coming weeks, Aquarius. Don’t wait for the world to come and invite you to do what you want to do. Invite yourself. P.S. The English translation of Sobiepan’s Polish last name means “his own master.” What can you do to be more of your own master? PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Before any system can leap to a higher level of organization, says poet Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge, it has to undergo dissolution. “Unraveling or disintegrating is a vital, creative event making room for the new,” she declares. Guess what time it is for the system we all know and love as YOU, Pisces? That’s right: It’s a perfect moment to undo, dismantle, and disperse . . . as well as to unscramble, disentangle, and disencumber. Be of good cheer! Have faith that you will be generating the conditions necessary for the rebirth that will follow. “To change from one reality to another,” writes Wooldridge, “a thing first must turn into nothing.” (Her book is Poemcrazy.)
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