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We need to be sympathetic to all people, but I think that tolerant Portlanders, while their hearts are in the right place, may not understand the scope of this problem [“Change Is Hard,” WW, May 22, 2013]. I work near Old Town, and by the summer this becomes a very visible, in-your-face problem that affects one’s view and enjoyment of the city. My parents no longer stay downtown when visiting because of the street kids. I applaud Mayor Charlie Hales for making it a priority. Pointing out the lack of a “clear goal” sounds like the equivocation of people who don’t want to do anything. I think mitigating the impacts of aggressive panhandlers, particularly the transitory ones, is good in itself. —“Schemes” I’ve lived in Portland for almost 16 years, and I’ve never witnessed this “aggressive panhandling” I read about in the media. Frankly, most panhandlers will be grateful if you give them anything. Also, the only time the sidewalks are obstructed downtown is before the Rose Festival parades. I firmly believe that the homeless should be given the same human decency as the rest of us. As the disaster in Moore, Okla., demonstrated, any one of us could become homeless. Isaac Hudson Southeast Portland

SCHOOLS AND THE ARTS TAX

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PORT PRIORITIES

The Port of Portland is 100 miles from the Pacific Ocean...up a river with a channel that had to be artificially created, and now maintained [“Fantasy Island,” WW, May 22, 2013]. The port should spend its energy on cleaning up its portion of Portland Harbor—you know, the Superfund site on the Lower Willamette. If they had invested the energy in the cleanup that they have poured into ruining West Hayden Island, the Willamette River would be in better shape. Perhaps now instead of paying for a slick PR campaign related to the Superfund site, they can get on with meeting their Superfund obligation with the other responsible parties. —“Mike Gonzales”

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What 21st-century solution do you suggest, Tired? Here’s what people on Twitter might say: FreightHauler99 I’m comin thru get off the trax RndmFreek @FreightHauler99 Pics or it didn’t happen. Also im high on #PCP lol You have to admit, there’s something about the pants-shitting immediacy of a train horn that even the most assiduous tweeting can’t match. Anyway, don’t blame the engineer: They’re required to blow that horn. The regulation in question is called the Final Rule on the Use of Locomotive Horns—a name that strongly implies they’ve had just about enough of your bitching— and it requires four blasts 15 to 20 seconds before

every crossing. In populated areas with lots of crossings, this can amount to pretty much continuous honking. But look on the bright side: Out in the boonies, where there’s no one around to hear them, trains hardly have to blow their horns at all! Protocols exist for creating something called a “quiet zone,” where the Final Rule is suspended. However, quiet zones require every crossing to be tricked out with expensive four-quadrant gates, which are specially designed to prevent even the most ingenious idiots from willfully blundering onto the tracks. As annoying as the train whistles may be, by all accounts they do keep people from getting killed—so much so that Union Pacific Railroad’s official policy is to discourage quiet zones, though they comply with them when they’re created. Thus, your letter illustrates a classic problem of civil society: This rule inconveniences me! On the other hand, it saves lives. But, y’know, not my life, so who cares? QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com

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CONSUMER PROTECTION: Democrats let a debt-collection bill die. 7 HOTSEAT: Kim Kaminski, director of Clean Water Portland. 8 PUBLIC SAFETY: How cops brand crooks—and play the media. 9 COVER STORY: Syphilis is back in a big way among gay men. 11

Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton is mulling the idea of turning in his badge for a run at a seat on the county commission. Staton, sheriff since 2010, confirmed to WW that he has met with Multnomah County Commissioner Diane McKeel—whose East County district includes Staton’s Gresham home—about running for her seat. McKeel would be forced by term limits to leave her seat after 2016. STATON “I talked with Commissioner McKeel about it,” Staton says. “But my first priority is being the sheriff.” Staton also tells WW he plans to run for re-election for sheriff next year, and notes the race for McKeel’s seat is still some time away. Rumors about the sheriff ’s widening political ambitions have heated up as Staton faces increasing criticism from the county board of commissioners about out-of-control overtime spending in the sheriff ’s department (“Overtime Busts,” WW, Jan. 9, 2013). Last year, 44 law enforcement and corrections deputies used overtime to increase their salaries by at least 50 percent—and 13 made more than the sheriff himself. The commissioner’s job would be a pay cut for Staton, who earns $142,145 a year; commissioners earn $93,631. The director of the Multnomah County Health Department, Lillian Shirley, remains on leave after being arrested May 20 for biting her husband on his leg and back. Shirley’s husband, Tom Davidson, declined to press charges, but Shirley remains at home. In a statement last week, Shirley told co-workers, “I sincerely apologize for any impact my personal life has had on the department and on the county.” County spokesman David Austin says Shirley has received an outpouring of support from colleagues and is expected to return to her $167,000-a-year post soon. Mayor Charlie Hales’ budget is done. Now the political infighting can start—beginning SHIRLEY with a rekindling of what has often been a difficult relationship between Hales and city unions. In a May 14 letter to Hales’ City Council colleagues, six city unions attacked Hales’ surprise proposal to decertify the Portland Police Commanding Officers Association. Hales has argued that police commanders in management jobs shouldn’t also be in a union. Leaders of the unions—including for police officers, firefighters and professional employees—want Hales to air the issue in public. “We do not allow for union-busting,” the labor leaders wrote the other City Council members. “This is an issue that demands, at a minimum, a full debate at the council level.” Hales spokesman Dana Haynes says that’s not happening. The mayor is leaving the decision to decertify the union with the state Employment Relations Board. “He does not anticipate council hearings in either case,” Haynes says. Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt.

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OUTSTANDING IMBALANCES DEMOCRATS ABANDON A BILL TO REGULATE PERNICIOUS DEBT-COLLECTION PRACTICES. BY NIG E L JAQ UI SS

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The corpses line 82nd and 122nd avenues, Northeast Sandy Boulevard and other roads of despair: not bodies, but defunct payday-loan shops. It seems like only yesterday a Portlander could find a short-term loan carrying an annual interest rate of 500 percent at any of the 346 payday-loan shops in Oregon, most located in the metro area. But in 2007, then-House Speaker Jeff Merkley (D -Portland) pushed through legislation that all but ended the predatory payday-loan business in Oregon, saving consumers $165 million in interest and fees on money they have borrowed since then, according to a new report from Economic Fairness Oregon. Merkley’s work is an example of how the Legislature can make a meaningful difference for consumers, especially those living close to the bone. Today’s legislators seem to lack the same nerve. This session, Democratic leaders are letting a bill die that would deal with another consumer concern: abusive practices by debt collectors. As WW reported last month, debt collectors file tens of thousands of lawsuits in Oregon courts annually, many with missing or incorrect information (“The Enforcer,” WW, April 17, 2013). In California, state Attorney General Kamala Harris, along with the Federal Trade Commission, is moving to stop debt buyers and collectors from filing such lawsuits. Harris sued JPMorgan Chase & Co. earlier this month for what she termed “frenzied” filings of more than 100,000

lawsuits, many of them bogus, over the past four years. In Oregon, consumer advocates pushed House Bill 2826, which seeks to stop pernicious debt-collection practices, such as suing consumers without proper documentation. The House Consumer Protection and Government Efficiency Committee approved the bill last month. But in April, House Speaker Tina Kotek (D-Portland) killed the bill by sending it not to the House floor but to the legislative boneyard of the House Rules Committee. Kotek spokesman Jared Mason-Gere says the speaker is committed to consumer protection but sidelined the bill because it lacked the votes to become law. “What we need next time is a more concerted effort,” Mason-Gere says. Angela Martin, a lobbyist for Economic Fairness Oregon, a leading advocate for the reform of debt-collection abuses, says similar bills are getting knocked down around the country, but she had hoped Oregon could prove the exception. But House leadership told her to try again. “They said we’re down a couple of votes and they can’t keep twisting arms on something that will fail in the Senate,” Martin says. As if to remind legislators of their missed opportunity, Martin’s group on May 28 released “Payday Lenders Lose interest; Oregon Consumers Pocket Savings,” the first comprehensive report on just how effective Merkley’s 2007 legislation was in reining in payday loans. Payday-loan shops offered short-term loans with steep interest rates and penalties. For many people, payday loans were like crack: The more they used, the more they needed. That’s because the three-digit annual interest rates and high fees meant borrowers needed to keep borrowing more and more just to stay current. Merkley’s bill capped interest rates at 36 percent, limited loan fees and lengthened the minimum loan term

to 31 days. Payday-loan businesses in Oregon shut down: As of last year, only 62 payday-loan shops were left, an 82 percent reduction. In 2005, before the crackdown, payday lenders filed 3,500 lawsuits against Oregon borrowers, according to Economic Fairness Oregon. In 2011, there were 22. On May 28, at a press conference celebrating the sixth anniversary of pay-day loan reform, Merkley said that effort was the culmination of nearly a decade of work. “It became possible not only because of great advocacy work, but because I used my power as speaker to seize the moment,” he told WW. Kotek spokesman Mason-Gere notes that the House this session passed a stronger foreclosure-mediation bill and a bill increasing regulation of insurers. Mason-Gere says it took multiple sessions to pass payday-loan legislation. “A lot of it is visibility,” Mason-Gere says. “People could see payday lenders on their corners, and there was a lot more media coverage of that issue.” But Oregon consumers understand the need for the protections that died with Kotek’s action. Martin’s group polled 500 Oregonians in mid-April and found strong support for tough regulation of debt-collection practices. Democrats—who have already faced politically difficult votes this year, including on reform of the Public Employee Retirement System—don’t want to take on another issue that carries such high political risks. HB 2826 has been fought by banks, credit unions, Debt Buyers Association International and the Oregon Collectors Association, represented by lobbyist Jim Markee. Markee says the debt-collection bill was overly broad. “You try to identify a specific problem and then identify solutions,” he says. “I don’t think they did that.” Martin says low-income Oregonians who are hurt by debt collectors have too few people speaking up for them, especially in the face of finance-industry lobbyists protecting the status quo. “We are up against industry lobbyists with large checkbooks,” Martin says. “It takes a couple of sessions and a lot of work to raise the voices of poor people over those checkbooks.” Willamette Week MAY 29, 2013 wweek.com

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Kim Kaminski just got done burying the Portland power machine in the May 21 election, so excuse her if she’s a bit direct. Kaminski led Clean Water Portland, the campaign against fluoridating Portland’s drinking water. Outspent 3-to-1, opponents crushed the measure, 61 percent to 39 percent. In many ways, the vote had been the fight Kaminski—47, and who has a law degree, focused on environmental issues, from Arizona State University—had been waiting for. She has made opposing fluoridation a yearslong fight as executive director of Oregon Citizens for Safe Drinking Water. In this interview (a longer version is at wweek. com), Kaminski talks about where the fight goes from here, how her campaign didn’t juke the science, and how Carl Sagan is linked to the defeat of fluoride in Portland. Where are you from originally? I grew up in Illinois. State-mandated fluoridation. I had 12 cavities. They were all filled with mercury amalgams. What engaged you in environmental issues? I wanted to change the world. At my college graduation, Carl Sagan was the keynote speaker, and he talked about how we are in this perfect place in the universe that allows us to exist—in this rare, precious place that we call Earth. And we need to protect it. I got involved in the fluoridation issue [in 2005] because they were trying to promote a mandatory fluoridation bill in Salem. I knew nothing about fluoridation. I grew up with it. I assumed it was fine. I believed everything that I was told. I didn’t question it. I also had a son, who was 4, and I thought it was something I should look into. When I did, quite honestly, I was shocked.

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What did you consider your odds in stopping the city’s plans for fluoridating its water? Everyone was telling us, “You can’t do it, you’re going to be outspent, you’re going to be outdone.” They tried to portray us in the media as tinfoil hats and Dr. Strangelove and all of that stuff. People [in opposition] were popping up all over the place, on Facebook—all very disorganized. We created this organization from nothing. The other side already had the City Council locked in place. They had all their groups ready to endorse. It’s humbling to see how so many people came together. It just shows what one person can do. When you think about it, it was kind of a miracle. When did you realize you might win? There was a definite turning point in the campaign—the debate at the Kennedy School [on April 9], and the next night was the Multnomah County Democratic debate at the Dishman Center. The other side, their message was, “We know what’s best for everyone.” It was condescending. People saw through that. At the Multnomah County Democratic debate, so many people were there, they had to call the fire marshal. People were turned away. It was just an outpouring of community to speak truth to power.

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“ they tried to portray us in the media as tinfoil hats and dr. strangelove.” —KIM KaMInsKI Your opponents accused you of scare tactics. There’s no evidence of long-term harm after decades of water fluoridation in the U.S. The fluoride levels we were debating for Portland were well below those that cause the kind of harm your campaign claimed. There’s a difference between dose and concentration. We are not only drinking water, we’re making our soup with it. It is infiltrating throughout our whole lives. Babies who are drinking formula that is made with fluoridated water are hugely susceptible to fluoridation harm. The bottom line is that there’s a lot of things we don’t know. And certain things that we always thought were safe, like leaded gasoline and paint, DDT, asbestos, that were promoted since the ’50s, are now being shown to be not only ineffective but unsafe. Fluoridation is the last remaining remnant of that era. The other side was well-funded and authoritative. Why do you think they failed? Well, if they want to hire me and pay me the big bucks to consult [about] what they did good and what they did bad, sign me up. There’s indication fluoride supporters want to try again. What do you do now? There are [Democratic] legislators in the Portland area, such as [House Speaker] Tina Kotek, and [Sen.] Mitch Greenlick, who are very strong advocates for mandatory fluoridation.... It is our hope that the message that we sent City Hall and Salem is going to resonate. Right now our goal is to secure the commitment of legislators in the Portland area to respect the will of the voters. We have said, “No, no, no.” Four times. “No, no, no, no.”

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When the cops arrested 46-year-old Weston Miner Rogers for robbing three local banks, Portland police crowed in a press release about the capture of the “Hammer Pants Bandit.” Why the nickname? It had nothing to do with MC Hammer’s signature balloon pants, but because during one robbery Rogers carried a hammer in his sleeve. “He had a hammer and he wore pants,” Portland Police Bureau spokesman Sgt. Pete Simpson tells WW. “‘Hammer sleeve’ doesn’t have that same zeal.” In the past few years, local police have started aping the FBI’s tradition of giving catchy nicknames to bank robbers. In all, local police have stuck at least 25 alleged criminals with “bandit” nicknames. There’s been the Hipster Bandit, the Where’s Waldo Bandit and recently the Bad Tan Bandit, who had what police described as “an artificial tan color to his skin” during a May 15 holdup at the Bank of the West branch at 8135 SE Division St. It’s all about getting publicity for the police. Since 2010, the FBI has granted Portland and other area police departments authority to lead bank-robbery investigations. The nicknames come with the new responsibilities. Portland FBI spokeswoman Beth Anne Steele says the better the bandit name, the more media buzz it will get. “If you come up with a good name, it often sticks,” Steele says. “It keeps interest with the public, and they are more willing to call in with tips.” But there’s also a psychology to the snicker-inducing bandit names, police explain: raising the criminal’s notoriety

ROSES BY ANY NAME: The trick to good bandit names is to make them unflattering to the criminal, but still catchy to media, cops say.

while also embarrassing the robber. “You want a name that has something to do with the case, and at the same time doesn’t give the person a lot of credibility,” says Portland police Det. Brett Hawkinson, the bureau’s lead bank robbery investigator. “The ‘Bad Ass Motorcycle Bandit’ would be awful. Something more like the Dopey Bandit is more appropriate.” And it works: WW’s review of news websites shows local media have frequently helped cops hype the alleged criminals’ nicknames—KATU, KPTV and Oregonlive. com doing so most often. (WW has as well, in posts at wweek.com about the Hammer Pants, Where’s Waldo, Hipster and Chia Pet bandits.) Kelly McBride, a media ethics expert at the Ponyter Institute, says readers and viewers have reason to wonder if the media are too cozy with police when they see news reporters quick to repeat the branding cops put on suspects. “They are playing this game and using the gimmick to get media to pay attention,” McBride says. “The audience should question if the journalists are partnering with the police or thinking about what actually serves the public best.” WW intern Ashley Jocz contributed to this story.

WW’S SURVEY (INSIDE OUR OWN NEWSROOM) OF THE TOP 10 CATCHIEST BANDIT NAMES USED BY PORTLAND POLICE. 1. THE HAMMER PANTS BANDIT. Real name Weston Miner Rogers; arrested April 18 and charged with robbing three Portland-area banks. 2. THE BAD TAN BANDIT. Police are still looking for the orange-skinned suspect. 3. THE WHERE’S WALDO BANDIT, thanks to his thick glasses, striped shirt and ability to blend in—for a while, anyway. In 2010, police arrested Ryan M. Homsley for holding up a bank in Tualatin. Homsley sped up his own arrest by posting on his Facebook page: “im now a bank robber.” 4. THE CHIA PET BANDIT, named for his spiky hair. He’s still wanted for robbing three banks in Clackamas and Washington counties in 2010. 5. THE DROOPY DRAWERS BANDIT, who was seen repeatedly pulling up his pants during a convenience-store robbery in Salem in March 2011. Police later arrested Kevin Anderson after he turned himself in.

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6. THE BEASTIE BOYS BANDIT, because he looked like he’d just walked out of the rap group’s “Sabotage” video wearing a fake mustache, aviators and a wig. Michael Aaron Hayden pleaded guilty in May 2012 to two counts of bank robbery and is serving a 12-year sentence in federal prison. 7. THE HIPSTER BANDIT. Harvie Dale Oglesby III was suspected of robbing five Portland banks between July and November 2012. One witness said Oglesby “looked like a hipster.” He was arrested riding his bicycle, allegedly fleeing from a robbery of a credit union on Northeast Sandy Boulevard. His trial is pending. 8. THE BURGERVILLE BANDIT, who stole cash from a cash register at the Burgerville on Southeast Powell Boulevard in July 2012. Two employees chased him down. Dewayne Charles Taylor was later convicted of robbery. 9. DOPEY THE BANDIT, whom police thought looked a lot like the dim one in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Bradley John Kehm was arrested in January for 11 robberies. He faces state and federal charges. 10. THE BAD HAIR BANDIT, aka Cynthia Van Holland, for a series of wigs she wore during her crimes. Police suspected her of robbing 19 banks in four states. In September 2010, Holland was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.

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JAMES REXROAD

COMING UNWRAPPED SYPHILIS IS BACK—AND IT’S SPREADING QUICKLY AMONG GAY MEN WHO DON’T USE CONDOMS.

BY AN D R E A DA M E WOO D

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OVICE SISTER DONNA Vanewday sways to the pounding dubstep in Old Town’s CC Slaughters nightclub, cooling himself with a black fan. It’s hot as hell inside a nun’s habit.

He’s a towering penguin in black patent leather stripper boots, bright pink lipstick, white foundation and two bright blue butterflies painted like a mask over his eyes. Novice Sister Donna is by day John Clark, a thickly built, 31-year-old who works in IT and whose full, brown goatee makes his makeup even more ironic. He’s an aspiring member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a troupe of habit-wearing men whose holy mission is to cast out the stigma of being gay. “Sleep with everybody you want—here’s a condom, here’s some lube, be safe,” Clark says.

Tonight, Novice Sister Donna is following others from the group in an effort to get clubgoers into the restroom. That’s where two Multnomah County health workers have transformed the stalls into a makeshift lab, ready to stick needles in patrons’ arms to test for HIV—and, recently, syphilis. The sexually transmitted disease known for ravaging figures from Al Capone to Charles VIII of France is staging what public health officials call an astronomical comeback: Cases of syphilis in Multnomah County have increased tenfold in the past five years. Public health officials thought they were once on the brink of eradicating the venereal disease that—until the 1970s—was the dominant infectious danger of having sex without a condom. Reports of syphilis in the county have jumped from 22 in 2008 to 208 last year. While the numbers seem relatively low—the county has a population of 748,000—the increase in the Portland area is far steeper than in most U.S. cities. And here’s what is even more worrisome for public health officials: Virtually all cases involve men who have sex with other men. CONT. on page 12

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“I’ve seen more syphilis in the past two years than I have in the last 20 years,” says Mary O’Hearn, clinical director of the HIV clinic at Oregon Health & Science University. “This is really something quite out of the ordinary.” O’Hearn and county health officials say unless the rate of infection is reversed, the number of cases could continue to double every year and move into the broader population. The county ’s syphilis epidemic is symptomatic of a bigger problem: the false sense of security among many in the gay community that modern drugs mean HIV is no longer the death sentence it once was, and there shouldn’t be societal pressures to always wear a condom during sex. “There is a fight in the gay community of ‘We don’t want to have to use condoms, we don’t want to give up our sexuality,’” says Michael Kaplan, former director of Portland’s Cascade AIDS Project who now heads AIDS United in Washington, D.C. The debate about condom use— antithetical to the public health message promoted during earlier AIDS battles—has been going on for years. But this is the first time Portland has seen a major outbreak as a consequence, and public health officials say they haven’t solved the mystery of why syphilis rates are exploding here. They also worry a corresponding increase in HIV diagnoses— something they have not yet seen—may soon follow. As this public health fight is raging, the argument of defiance about condoms is getting louder. And in Portland, the extreme view is personified in a gay porn star named Dice.

ohn Small has been a porn actor during the past eight years. One of his most recent scenes was made in Portland, and you can see it for $9.99 a month on a website called Damon Dogg’s Cum Factory. In the video, Dice—muscular, wellhung and with his stage name tattooed on his chest—has oral sex with another man. And then the other actor—wearing nothing but a straw cowboy hat and cock ring— flips Dice onto his stomach. The camera then makes the viewer more acquainted with Dice’s anus than most of us will ever be with our own, and the other actor has sex with Dice, without a condom. Dice, 26, is HIV positive. He says he’s never had syphilis and gets tested for other STDs regularly. All the porn the Portland resident shoots—including this one, filmed on the east side—is done bareback. When he shoots porn, here and in San Francisco, no one talks about HIV status or other sexually transmitted diseases. “You don’t yuck other people’s yums, if that makes sense,” he explains. “You kind of know what you’re getting into. It’s up to you whether you’re going to risk anything or not.” There’s no evidence gay men are getting syphilis more often because porn actors are having unprotected sex. But the scene shot in Portland is becoming more and more common, appealing to a growing market of viewers who see sex without condoms as more sensual, and even as a statement of sexual freedom. 12

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ROLLING THE DICE: Adult-film actor John Small, who goes by the porn name Dice, has shot scenes for Treasure Island Media, a company that exclusively shoots bareback—even though some of its actors, including Dice, are HIV positive.

“YOU DON’T YUCK OTHER PEOPLE’S YUMS, IF THAT MAKES SENSE. YOU KIND OF KNOW WHAT YOU’RE GETTING INTO.” —JOHN SMALL, AKA DICE One of the most outspoken and divisive voices of the movement is Paul Morris, owner of Treasure Island Media, a San Francisco studio that shoots only bareback porn. (Dice has shot for Treasure Island Media, and has even had the company’s logo tattooed on his perineum.) Morris says movies that show men using condoms only serve to keep them in what’s labeled the “appalling phenomenon of the HIV closet.” Advances in medications, he says, have made HIV virtually a nonissue. Moreover, Morris argues, movies that depict condom use are hypocritical. “The only men who seemed to consistently use condoms were porn actors who wore them in front of the camera,” he tells WW in an email. “And the sex that was captured by the camera in no way resembled the sex that I was seeing—and engaging in—everywhere. “A basic lie was being told to the cameras and to the men who were watching the videos. I decided to film sex the way the men actually had sex, without moralistic judgment, and privileging honesty and

actual documentation.” But others in the gay community say Morris’ message is dangerous. Andrew Klaus-Vineyard is a Portland filmmaker whose erotic movies are filled with gay sex. He says he goes out of his way to show the actors are using condoms. “Sometimes, I think I’m overfocusing on the condom use,” Klaus-Vineyard says. “Like, maybe I only need a three-second shot of the condom wrapper, not five.” Klaus-Vineyard, 34, says that’s the problem. If there aren’t erotic images of condom use in films, then it’s not an erotic fantasy to mirror in the bedroom. “For better or worse,” he says, “whether we want to admit it or not, people learn sex through porn.”

ut many people understand that Morris’ views—while fringe—arises from the complicated history of HIV and AIDS. Before the disease took hold, gay men experienced the “most libertine period since Rome,” according to the 2005 documentary Gay Sex in the 70s. That decade saw the rise of a gay revolution that lasted until AIDS devastated the

community and touched off a stigma that for many still survives, says Kim Toevs, director of the Multnomah County Health Department’s sexually transmitted diseases, HIV and hepatitis C virus program. “For some people, the trauma and grief they’ve not fully processed and healed from is tied up in sex and condoms,” she says. But others say it’s partly reflective of a larger trend: As HIV becomes manageable with daily meds, men are shedding condoms in favor of unprotected sex. “The marketing for HIV medication companies—‘Look, I have HIV and I’m carrying a kayak!’—inadvertently has created this second effect of getting people thinking HIV isn’t as dangerous,” explains Michael Anderson-Nathe, director of Prevention and Education Services at CAP. Dice has been on the anti-viral drug Complera since he was first diagnosed with HIV in 2012. His viral load is undetectable—reducing the risk of transmission by 96 percent, according to one often-cited study. His HIV-positive status is disclosed on his online dating profiles and websites. (He’s known as johnakadice on the ama-

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NO GLOVE, NO LOVE: Andrew Klaus-Vineyard makes art and films that examine gay sex and identity. In his most recent film, Spark, he includes himself in sex scenes. Everyone used a condom. “The body is political, but stupid is stupid,” he says.

“WHETHER WE WANT TO ADMIT IT OR NOT, PEOPLE LEARN SEX THROUGH PORN.” —ANDREW KLAUS-VINEYARD teur porn site Xtube). In his private life, if someone wants to use a condom, he’s game. But he’s not about to change the way he does porn. “I like the feeling of it physically and mentally,” Dice says. “It’s more raw and real, literally and metaphorically speaking.” And he says the kind of porn he appears in has nothing to do with the choices that people make for themselves. “No matter what, people are going to do what they do,” he says. “I did what I did. Everybody makes their own decisions.”

or much of history, syphilis has been the scourge of the sexually active. Nicknamed in the Middle Ages “the French Disease”—it was often introduced to populations by invading armies—syphilis’s corkscrew-shaped bacterium, Treponema pallidum, drills into the skin and spreads throughout the body. Unchecked, syphilis can spread to the blood, causing heart problems, mental disorders, blindness, nerve system problems and even death. But it can still be cured with what Multnomah County’s Toevs

calls “a whopping dose of penicillin.” One in three men don’t exhibit symptoms, which can include sores, rashes and hair loss. It’s not commonly included in STD screenings, and Toevs says it’s so rare now that many doctors don’t recognize it. And she says studies have shown syphilis sores increase the risk of HIV transmission by up to five times. “Syphilis hugely increases risk of transmission and acquisition of HIV,” OHSU’s O’Hearn says. “We have definitely seen cases where people were infected at the same time with both.” About half the new cases of syphilis found in Multnomah County are among men who already have HIV. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a name for the practice of two HIV-positive men seeking each other out so they don’t have to use a condom: “serosorting.” This practice can explain why syphilis rates are increasing among gay men nationwide even as the disease declines overall. But some parts of the country are seeing higher numbers overall, largely in

cities on the West Coast, including Seattle and San Francisco. King County—home of Seattle—has syphilis rates half that of Multnomah County. San Francisco’s rates are above those here, but the Portland area has seen a far faster increase. No one is certain why Portland is seeing such steep increases in syphilis rates among gay men, compared to other cities. But there are theories. Toevs, the county health official, says the city’s small size may have made it easier for syphilis to spread. “We may have had a couple of people who were really infectious at the same time and in an extensive sexual network, and it gave it a jump from there,” she says. Barbara McCullough-Jones, director of the Q Center, a nonprofit meeting space for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities, says she wonders if the county is missing the mark when it pitches safety only to men who have sex with men. “There’s the Portland persona of a much younger generation coming here, with a different kind of gender and sexual

fluidity,” she says. “Somebody who doesn’t see themselves in that kind of messaging is not going to get the message.”

ther cities have pushed their concerns about rising syphilis rates into the public consciousness. When syphilis cases spiked in 2010 in San Francisco, public health officials there launched a phone app to help men gauge risky sexual behavior. That same year, Seattle started a website called syphilisrising.org. While the cities of Seattle and San Francisco issued press releases and got coverage on blogs and in some mainstream press, Toevs says Multnomah County’s approach has been quieter. “I didn’t want to stigmatize a population that can already be stigmatized,” she says. The county sent out a public health alert, asked HIV care providers to test for syphilis up to four times a year, and advertised on gay hookup websites and apps, such as Grindr, Growler and Sacked. The CONT. on page 14 Willamette Week MAY 29, 2013 wweek.com

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THIS IS A TEST: Multnomah County now includes syphilis screenings when it tests gay men for HIV. Testing nights are held at some bars, including Old Town’s CC Slaughters, where men queue up outside two converted restrooms for their free tests.

“WE AREN’T THE CONDOM POLICE...WE HAVE TO MEET PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE.” —LETTY MARTINEZ

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SAFE HABITS: Novice Sister of Perpetual Indulgence Donna Vanewday helps distribute “bliss kits”—bags containing condoms, lube and a breath mint.

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county already supplies 158,000 condoms targeted to gay men each year through organizations like CAP and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. But public officials have not called out people who say condom use is passé or inhibiting—a change from the approach of 20 years ago, when government’s message about safe sex was uniformly forceful. “We aren’t the condom police,” says Letty Martinez of Cascade Aids Project, which works with the county on testing, safe-sex education and condom distribution. “The mission of CAP is to end the stigma of HIV and to prevent new cases. But we have to meet people where they are.” Toevs says condemning people for not using condoms will simply alienate many. “My job in public health is to help them make healthy choices, not to shame them 14

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if they don’t,” she says. “Otherwise, they won’t come back for services they need.” But Klaus-Vineyard says CAP and the county should send a louder direct message. “If not them, then who?” he asks, throwing his hands up. “That is West Coast hippiedippy BS. I’m sorry, but people are dying and participating in reckless behavior.”

young man with an eyebrow ring passes Novice Sister Donna Vanewday, who reaches out and bops him on the ass with her fan. The man turns, raises an eyebrow and without a word takes the fan, returns the gesture, and walks away. “This fan has smacked so many butts,” Clark, aka Donna, says, smiling. The sisters love a party. In the sisters’ purses are “bliss kits” for clubgoers, small

bags holding two condoms, lube and a breath mint. Clark says it’s still important for the sisters to push condoms. “People get comfortable,” Clark says. “They think we have the cure for so many different things. But is it worth 30 minutes of joy to have something that’s going to affect you for the rest of your life?” Becoming a member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Benevolent Order of Bliss, takes at least a year and a near-religious calling. Novices, like Clark, get lipstick, a white veil and scapular. Each wannabe sister must complete a community-service project before being recognized as a fully professed sister. As a novice, Clark says, he can’t speak for the sisters. But outreach nights like this at CC Slaughers are what Clark says

motivate him. Clark says he came out five years ago at age 26 after growing up Mormon in Utah. “You know Mormons, of course, are going to shove it under the rug,” he explains. “I did a lot of research online before I had sex. That drew me to the sisters, because they’re open about everything.” There’s a lot of men who are safety conscious, Clark says, but not many know a condom must be worn to prevent transmission of diseases like syphilis during oral sex, too. He’s not sure how many care. “People have gotten a little more lax,” he says. “You can get a shot, wait a couple of days and go back to whatever you’re doing. It seems like we do have a sexual revolution coming around. We’re making sure they have the tools to be safe.”

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B-ROLLING: Fresh off serving as the muse for 10 minutes of a new work by scandal-plagued monologuist Mike Daisey, WW Stage & Screen Editor Rebecca Jacobson has again received major media attention. Yes, Jacobson’s legs and bike figure prominently in a 1.5-second B-roll clip from episode 9 of The Real World: Portland. She was not getting low at Splash Bar, nor splashing in a Pearl District hot tub, but merely pedaling a bicycle through downtown as she does every day. To see for yourself, skip to 22:45 at MTV.com or check out Jay Horton’s ongoing Real World coverage at wweek.com. >> Also at wweek.com, look for a Sasquatch wrap-up, a review of the new Jesse Eisenberg flick Now You See Me, an extended version of our interview with Blitzen Trapper and a slide show of K-pop craziness. CORRECTION: In last week’s Market Guide, we called Hong Phat Vietnamese market (9819 NE Prescott St.) the only grocery store in Maywood Park. Although it has a Maywood Park ZIP code, because it is located on the north side of Prescott Street, the market is approximately 20 feet inside the adjacent Parkrose neighborhood of Portland. Maywood Park remains without a market. WW regrets the error. 18

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THURSDAY MAY 30 NATASHA LEGGERO [COMEDY] The sharp, nervy electronic-cig-smoking Natasha Leggero—who appears in the just-released season of Arrested Development—headlines the monthly comedy showcase. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 10 pm. $20-$25. INDIGENOUS EXPERIENCE NW [CULTURE] Sample buffalo meat while learning what it means to have the “medicine within” at this festival celebrating Native American art and culture. Along with storytelling, music and an art exhibition from local artist TJ Ravenwolf, there will be guest speakers as well as a meal of native foods. Ainsworth Event Center at the Scottish Rite, 1512 SW Morrison St., 228-3446. 4-7 pm. $25.

FRIDAY MAY 31 A BRIGHT NEW BOISE [THEATER] Samuel D. Hunter’s Obie-winning dark comedy punches at the bleaker sides of faith and small-town life. This is Hunter’s first play to be staged locally, and Third Rail’s all-star cast promises a wallop. Winningstad Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 235-1101. 7:30 pm. $22.25-$41.25.

WHAT IS THIS THING? ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXAMINE THE PUBLIC’S PURPORTED FOSSILS AND ARTIFACTS, SEPARATING PTERODACTYL TEETH FROM WHITE PEBBLES.

When I was in grade school, I found something weird in the woods not far from my house. It’s old and brown, made of smooth, hard bone. It’s six inches long, shaped like a tool, sawed square on one side as the other tapers into a gentle point. It came from the woods near Mary Campbell Cave, below the big falls on Ohio’s Cuyahoga River, named for a settler girl who supposedly lived there after being abducted by Lenape in 1759. In my imagination, this piece of bone was a tool used to till the rich soil along the muddy river. It’s been with me for 25 years, carried from Ohio to Virginia to Arizona to Oregon. Last week, for the first time, I had the chance to ask someone what it is. It stumped Virginia Butler, professor of anthropology at Portland State University who specializes in animal bones. “It looks like it’s been sawed—this is a very sharp edge, this does not look like it was carved with a stone tool,” she says. “What’s interesting is how heavy it is, it’s

almost mineralized. There are some things that are mixed up about it.” And the gently smoothed edges? “Well, this looks like rodent gnawing,” Butler says. I’m left crestfallen. This scene will play out many times at Portland’s first Archaeology Roadshow, as Butler and about 30 other archaeologists examine rocks, arrowheads and pieces of bone found by locals. It’s like Antiques Roadshow, but with arrowheads instead of armoires—and without appraisals. “There’s a common sentiment in people, that we love old stuff,” she says. “What we’re trying to do is deepen that love.” Partly, that means gently discouraging the public from taking artifacts. It’s technically illegal to pick up an arrowhead on your own land, let alone take a piece of bone from a park, but that’s not because archaeologists are killjoys. “All we say is ‘no’ without explaining what’s lost in the taking, which is the context in which it was found, which can tell

us a lot,” Butler says. “It’s really easy for researchers to say, ‘Let me have my fun, but you can’t have yours.’” It’s also efficient. As a professor at a public university, Butler fields calls and visits from people who find fossils, and people who bring her rocks that look like hammers. “A lot of people are going to bring coolshaped rocks that have interesting markings on them,” she says. “And one of the things we’re going to have to do is figure out whether it really is culturally modified. I’m working with students to talk about how to interact with the public so they’re feelings aren’t hurt.” I can tell Butler is practicing on me, explaining the old rat-chewed bone I thought was a tool probably came from a butchered cow, tossed aside and gnawed by rodents. “There are some really cool things about it!” she says. MARTIN CIZMAR. GO: Archaeology Roadshow 2013 is at OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave., on Sunday, June 2. 11 am-3 pm. Free.

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There’s a roar from the stands at the Roosevelt High School football field—the kind usually heard only on those brisk fall nights when the Roughriders take the turf. A player dives, arms outstretched like Pete Rose, for an interception. He rises from the ground to even louder cheering from the 650-person crowd. With bright stadium lights bouncing off his green jersey, he launches a white disc 30 yards downfield. Welcome to Major League Ultimate Frisbee, a new league where Portland is represented by a seven-man squad called the Stags. The Stags, sadly, are struggling. The team is in last place in the Western Conference of the bicoastal eight-team league, with a record of 1-5. Partly, that’s because arguably Portland’s best player bolted for the Seattle Rainmakers. Mario O’Brien has been called the LeBron James of Ultimate Frisbee. Not because he’s as good as the Whore of Akron, but because after leading Portland’s best-known club team for years, O’Brien abandoned the hometown crowd to play for a championship-caliber pro team. O’Brien—a full-time public-school substitute teacher and, along with a sizable percentage of Portlanders, my former roommate—takes the BoltBus to Seattle for games and weekly practice. Though Ultimaters rigorously defend a strict code of jovial sportsmanship—called “spirit of the game,” or “SOTG”— some players have identified him—not the Rainmakers, but him—as their chief rival. O’Brien is unapologetic. “There’s an opportunity to play with one of the best coaches in the world, and I’ve never been coached in Ultimate in my whole life,” he says. “I want to jump on a train that’s already running, and I want to win.” Major League Ultimate is the most serious attempt yet at taking the Frisbee-based sport from the quad to a stadium. The rules are simple: Players toss a disc to teammates to move it toward the opponents’ end zone. You can’t run with the Frisbee. The opposing team takes possession of dropped passes or by interception. Chaos ensues as “cutters” dive, leap and eat dirt attempting to secure the disc. Though players face constant injury—concussions, knee-ligament tears and broken bones aren’t uncommon—they say their biggest challenge is overcoming stereotypes. They are not, they say, stoned frat dudes killing time between Phish shows. They are athletes. “Misconceptions are: A, it’s a game for hippies; B, we play with dogs,” says Nathan Schorsch, 26, the Stags’ general manager. “Everyone confuses it with disc golf. That’s completely different.” As the Stags take the field, Schorsch seems like a lifer as he gleefully argues with refs—zebras are found only at the professional level—and displays the chest-beating pride of a proud father. “If you had told me 10 years ago I’d be the manager of a professional Ultimate team, I would have had to call for an adult,” Schorsch later says as he grins and sips a beer on the sun-drenched patio at Prost in North Portland. According to Schorsch, Ultimate deserves it’s name. “In soccer, players usually play all 90 minutes, but they’re not running all the time,” he says. “A lot of our guys…they have to be running pretty much every second

they’re on the field.” For this, MLU pays them $25 per game. The league also shoulders the price of travel, uniforms, training and injury rehabilitation. Players engage in once-a-week practices and tough endurance- and strength-building exercises. Schorsch, a longtime Ultimate enthusiast, left Seattle late last year to run the Portland franchise. He quickly recruited some of the best players from Portland’s acclaimed Rhino club team. Rhino’s leader and best-known player attended the first Stags tryout, then stopped returning calls. That’s O’Brien, a local institution known for developing a series of videos called Rise Up to teach players technique. In the past two years, he’s traveled to eight countries on three continents to conduct clinics. The Wisconsin native with a penchant for random freestyle raps was featured prominently in Chasing Sarasota, a locally produced documentary about Rhino’s bid for a national club title. In the trailer, O’Brien says Rhino is “about building something with a group of guys that I care about.” Sarasota ends with a heartbreaking Rhino loss. O’Brien’s guys are now in Seattle. One thing everyone in Portland and Seattle can agree on is that the sport needs more fans. The ghost of the Portland LumberJax—a professional lacrosse team that folded in 2009 after four seasons— looms large over discussions of how the Stags can break out of their small niche and become a phenomenon. So far, crowds have consisted mainly of members of the insulated Ultimate community. The goal, players say, is to be more like roller derby, a niche sport with a larger loyal following. Eventually, they hope their popularity might even challenge the Timbers soccer team. O’Brien models his approach on Martin Luther King Jr. “We’re at a watershed moment, but I don’t think we have any idea how big or how small the sport will end up being,” O’Brien says. “How do you break racism? It’s not by having someone tell you that you shouldn’t be racist. It’s by persistent communication over a period of time, and then it’s a meaningful experience that totally changes your view. Eventually, you’re where you are with civil rights and gay rights.” Perhaps more than anyone, Chasing Sarasota director Matt Mastrantuono understands the difficulty of getting nonbelievers into the church of Ultimate. A longtime player

forced into retirement after one too many on-field concussions, Mastrantuono quit his day job to fully commit to the dramatic movie’s yearlong filming and editing. When it wrapped, he took the film around the U.S. and Europe, screening it mostly in cities with a built-in Ultimate community. It played like gangbusters. “Ultimate is reaching a critical mass,” he says. “People are pushing the envelope of the sport. People are starting to gravitate toward stars. Kids are looking up to them.” The rivalry between the Stags and Rainmakers is at once wholly palpable and barely perceptible: Sure, the competitive Rainmakers are an easy target for animosity, but members of the last-place Stags only speak negatively of them in hushed tones. That’s largely because of the sport’s cultish dedication to “spirit of the game.” After all, this used to be a recreational game for most—albeit one taken very seriously—with traditions of goofy costumes and all-night ragers. Stags cutter Dan Shaw was nervous that tight-knit community would be lost in the pros. A veteran of co-ed teams, Shaw valued the sportsmanship and inter-team camaraderie. With the introduction of referees, video streams, announcers and, of course, paychecks, Shaw said he feared the first casualty would be the community that brought the sport to this level. “A huge part of Ultimate is the spirit of the game,” he says. “I was worried that was going to be lost, and that we were going to see egos going off. I’ve been happy with the interactions and demeanor with every team, but it’s something that lingers in the back of my mind.” Instead, MLU players and administrators are seeking to embrace the game they love as it enters a brave new world— one where they’re not stereotyped as barefoot burnouts suffering demoralizing defeats to well-trained Goldendoodles, where the sport and the players get the respect afforded to athletes in other alternative sports. All agree it will take time, dedication and persistence. A local villain doesn’t hurt, either. “It’s never going [be] baseball or football,” O’Brien says. “But I think Ultimate has the ability to appeal to people who like niche sports. Just like there’s professional roller derby, where it’s entertainment and people are really competitive, I see parallels there.” GO: The Portland Stags play the Seattle Rainmakers at Renton Memorial Stadium, 405 Logan Ave. N, Renton, Wash., on Saturday, June 1. 12:30 pm. $8-$16. Willamette Week MAY 29, 2013 wweek.com

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 29 The Perfect Pantry

Get ready to clear those Top Ramen packets and expired cans of chili out of your pantry. After this class taught by diabetic chef Ken Gordon of Kenny & Zuke’s, you’ll know how to stock your pantry with foods that allow you to make quick, healthy meals throughout the week. National College of Natural Medicine Helfgott Research Institute, 2220 SW 1st Ave., 552-1751. 6:30-8 pm.

Wildwood 19th Birthday Celebration

Brush up on that ER and Forrest Gump trivia: In celebration of its 19th birthday, Wildwood hosts a 1994-themed night, complete with trivia, snacks, prizes and a $19.94 cocktail deal that is included with purchase of a ticket. Wildwood, 1221 NW 21st Ave., 248-9663. 6 pm. $19.94. 21+.

FRIDAY, MAY 31 The Green Door Grand Opening

A tour of the bottle shop and bar at Rogue’s corporate headquarters along with corn hole, skeeball, slide rides and a Rogue Nation swearing-in ceremony led by “Global Ambassador” Al Jorgenson. Green Door, 1001 SE 9th Ave., 241-3800. 4-7 pm. Free.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 1 Summer Candies Class

Who needs summer Popsicles when you can have chocolate? This class taught by Anita Buell includes how to make chocolate truffles using different candy molds, dipping and coating methods, as well as how to make peanut butter cups, peppermint patties and chocolate-dipped cherries. Note: It’s not just dunking a cherry in melted Hershey’s bars. Blake’s Decorette Shop, 11945 SW Pacific Highway, No. 109, 620-5100. 10 am-2 pm. $20.

MONDAY, JUNE 3 Culinary Boot Camp

Learn the skills you need to become the next Iron Chef—or just those techniques you might want to become a better at-home cook. Focusing on the fundamentals of French cooking, this five-day course has students making their own lunch each day, as well as two meals to take home for dinner. Techniques taught by two French-trained chefs include knife skills, seasoning, meat, egg and vegetable cookery and meal planning, among many others. Each student gets a baker’s kit with a chef’s apron and hat and basic baking tools. Reservations required. In Good Taste Cooking School, 6302 SW Meadows Road, Lake Oswego, 248-2015. 10 am-5 pm. $12.50.

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PORK POT HIGH: The spicy, meaty, wonderful gaeng oam.

TARAD THAI Tarad Thai’s interior looks like a ’70s Chiang Mai bodega designed by Hollywood, a home away from home to Viet-vet expats who moved to the Thai countryside to find their souls. And it is indeed a home away from home: A motley tiling of reclaimed wood lines the walls, while bits of domestic furniture and door moldings have been cobbled together into market shelves holding low-priced curry cans, Nong’s Khao Man Gai sauce, hot pots, Thai soap (six bars for $1!) and toothpaste. Softly, classic rock plays on a 40-year-old transistor AM/ FM housed on a high shelf by the Order this: Gaeng oam, som heater; the server told us her brother tum with shrimp. found the radio at a garage sale. I’ll pass: The guoy teaw moo pork noodle soup is serThis all adds up to a slapdash viceable, but doesn’t hit the charm, but also a self-consciously highs found elsewhere on the designed stamp of authenticity that menu. would be suspicious were it not for the fact that this little market restaurant’s list of Northern Thai specials includes some of the best Thai food in the city. The reason is simple: care. Though even streetside carts in Thailand may take their sweet time mixing sauces on the fly, Thai cuisine in America is often a quick pan-fried affair built for nearinstantaneous service. Tarad Thai, on the other hand, makes you wait—for which you’d best thank them—for pork slow-cooked in ceramics until its flavor completely saturates the light, milk-free curry its served in. Though that gaeng oam hot pot dish ($12) billows with flavorful herbs, chili, lemongrass and kaffir leaf, the real wonder remains the audacity of the broth’s sheer meatiness, which almost overwhelms. The gaeng hung lay ($12) is likewise meat-centric, a stewy showcase of tender pork and pork belly melded so completely with copious ginger that spice and meat become indistinguishable. They have transcended their oppositions, like the punchline to a Hegelian dialectic. Meanwhile, the som tum papaya salad ($7), served with fresh tomato and perfectly cooked shrimp ($3 extra), is not only at least as good as Pok Pok’s version, it’s damn near as good as Pok Pok’s salad used to be, with bright lime and a lingering chili spice that offers no quarter to the tourist, but doesn’t railroad the flavor. The pad Thai ($10) maintains a similar brightness, without the sludgy peanut overload that ruins far too many renditions. Even overfamiliar dishes such as pad kee mao ($9) are revivified; we got the often-gloopy dish as a take-out order, and were rewarded in a cardboard box with the satisfying firmness of fresh rice noodles, fresher basil and well-balanced spice. Tarad Thai is already popular in the neighborhood for lunch, and its late-night proximity to the drunken canoodlers of Dig a Pony causes concern that as business inevitably picks up, the high level of attentiveness and patience in Tarad’s cooking will not endure. For now, however, the place is a beautiful refuge; if you don’t find your soul there, you’ll at least know what soul tastes like. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. EAT: Tarad Thai, 601 SE Morrison St., 234-4102, taradpdx.com. 11 am-3 pm Monday-Friday, 4:30-9:30 pm Monday-Thursday, 4:30 pm-2 am Friday, noon-2 am Saturday. $$.

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Sugar, flour, eggs and water are now munitions in America’s culture war. Or so you’d think from two Oregon bakeries that recently got national attention for declining to make cakes for same-sex weddings. The first incident, in February, involved Gresham’s Sweet Cakes by Melissa, whose owner told a lesbian couple that “we don’t do same-sex marriages.” Earlier this month, Pam Regentin, who operates Fleur Cakes out of her home in the Hood River area, also refused to make a cake for a lesbian couple’s wedding. Both bakeries cited their religious beliefs as the reason they would not make the cakes. Both describe themselves as Christian. Jesus, of course, never commented on gay people, but did tell his followers to “love your neighbor as yourself.” Instead, the widely cited Bible verse condemning homosexuality comes from Leviticus, a book that also prohibits getting tattooed or eating rabbit. “I believe I have the liberty to live by my

principles,” Regentin told KATU in a May 15 newscast. By law, that may not be true. Oregon statute makes it illegal for businesses to turn away customers based on race, religion or sexual orientation. A lawyer for the couple turned away by Sweet Cakes says they are exploring their options. We wondered what other requests these cakemakers would decline to honor. So last week five WW reporters called these two bakeries anonymously to get price quotes for other occasions frowned upon by some Christians. Surprisingly, the people who answered the phone at each bakery were quite willing to provide baked goods for celebrations of divorces, unmarried parents, stem-cell research, non-kosher barbecues and pagan solstice parties. We later contacted both bakeries to ask about these inconsistencies. Regentin declined to comment beyond asking whether she had been taped (she had not). Sweet Cakes owners Melissa and Aaron Klein were upset that we “would even try to entrap a business” and contacted conservative talk-show host Lars Larson. Sweet taSte of wickedneSS: this cake purchased from Gresham’s Sweet cakes by Melissa bears an important message.

Go: Sweet Cakes by Melissa is at 44 NE Division St., Gresham. 674-5400, sweetcakesweb.com. Fleur Cakes is at 4359 Woodworth Road, Mount Hood, 541-490-4607, fleurcakes.com.

WW ASKS

SWEET CAKE SAYS

FLEUR SAYS

BABY OUT OF WEDLOCK

DIVORCE PARTY

STEM-CELL SUCCESS

NON-KOSHER BARBECUE

PAGAN SOLSTICE PARTY

I’m shopping around for a nice baby shower cake for my friend. It’s her second baby with her boyfriend so I’m not looking for anything too big or fancy—probably enough to serve 15 to 20 people.

My friend is getting divorced and we’d like to throw her a little party to mark the start of her new life. Do you ever write messages on those—we’d want it to say “congratulations!”— and how much would it be for a cake that could serve about eight people?

I was wondering if you could do two little cakes. My friend is a researcher at OHSU and she just got a grant for cloning human stem cells, so I thought I’d get her two identical cakes—basically, two little clone cakes. How much would they cost?

I’m looking to get a special cake for a barbecue we’re having next week. Our cow just died of old age and we’re planning to grill some steaks along with lobster and pulledpork sandwiches—what size would we need for 10 people and how much would it be?

I was calling to get a quote on a cake for a midsummer solstice party. My coven is celebrating on Friday, June 21. The decoration would be very simple: just a green pentagram. We’d like to pick it up sometime that afternoon, before the bonfire. It’ll be for about 30 people.

“We have a sheet cake that will feed 30, or a 10-inch cake that would feed 30 people. The 10-inch cake is $50 and the sheet cake is $52. Or we have an 8-inch cake that would feed 15 for $40.”

“A 10-inch is $29.99. That should probably do it....We can definitely do something like that.”

“Ha. All right. When are you looking to do it? It’ll be $25.99 each, so about $50 to start.”

“A 6-inch cake serves about eight to 10 people at $25.99. The apple goes really good with pork, and the caramel will complement the lobster. For a barbecue, it’s all really good.”

“For 30 poeople we have a couple options... We have two kind of cakes you could have. About the diagram you want on the cake, I’m not sure how much extra that would be.”

Prices vary based on decoration and frosting, but a basic cake is $3 per serving.

“The price for a 10-inch cheesecake is $36 and up. So it’ll be between $36 and $45, but you’re going to have to call in advance because my schedule for June and July is very busy.”

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Prices listed are sometimes for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and socalled convenience charges may apply. Event lineups are subject to change after WW’s press deadlines. Editor: MATTHEW SINGER. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, go to wweek.com/ submitevents and follow submission directions. All shows should be submitted two weeks or more in advance of event. Press kits, CDs and especially vinyl can be sent to Music Desk, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Please include show or release date information with all physical mailings. Email: msinger@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 29 Foals, Surfer Blood, Blondfire

[POLYMATH ROCK] However unexpected the arena-trembling ambitions of Oxford quintet Foals were after six spiky, inventive years plowing critically acclaimed pastures, recently released third album Holy Fire doesn’t exactly suggest Top 40 instincts newly loosed. If anything, the reverse-engineered anthems resemble a jumble of disjointed post-punk B-sides suddenly locking perfectly into place to become more than the sum of their parts. But the constant undercurrent of restless intellects turning their energies toward manufacturing the essence of none-dopier songcraft enthralls precisely because of the overdone wrongness. While a bristling musicality rarely enables the sort of effortlessly soaring choruses from which stars are forged, the band evidently opted to compensate for a certain sonic bloodlessness with unhinged abandon, with frontman Yannis Philippakis lately prone to leaping from second-story balconies mid-gig. Maybe the succession of intricate, ingenious tunes won’t ever approach the pure thoroughbred grace of their forebears’ blinkered riffage, but Foals would have probably never been happy just holding on to the reins. JAY HORTON. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 9 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.

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[POST-MODERN ROCK] Thrown to the back of alt-consciousness like so many threadbare ironic T-shirts, Cake still goes the distance, though more dependent than ever on a comfortably

maturing fan base (2011’s Showroom of Compassion debuted atop the charts— with the worst sales of any No. 1 album in Billboard history) that neither knows nor cares about a worsening critical reputation not altogether deserved. Though the band is loathed in certain circles for embodying all the evils of a nascent hipsterdom since the release of 1996 breakthrough Fashion Nugget, the dilettante romps through discarded idioms felt ironic at the time—the disaffected Gloria Gaynor cover, the breezily doleful trumpet fills, the lyrical preoccupation with décor, even the band’s Sacramento origins seemed oblique whimsy—but confusing aesthetic with identity and embracing past pop trifles soon enough became a generational illness. If John McCrea’s none-morearch delivery limits emotional resonance, that hardly means he’s insincere. Make no mistake, so long as the monied faithful buy out consecutive nights at Doug Fir despite ludicrous prices just to catch his droll toastmaster rendition of disco, he will survive. JAY HORTON. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. Sold out.

Willy Moon, Magic Mouth

[POP ETC.] Like many of this generation’s most annoying artists, New Zealand’s Willy Moon is less recognizable by his name or any particular single than by the iPod commercial his music appears in. “Yeah Yeah” is the sort of sleek post-Fatboy Slim mash-up that sounds specifically designed to sell Apple products. The rest of his debut album, Here’s Willy Moon, scrapes up pop touchtones from the 1950s through present-day

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FIVE K-POP ARTISTS TO WATCH IN 2013 2NE1 (pictured) Mysteriously quiet for the bulk of 2012, YG Entertainment’s 2NE1 are one of a thimbleful of Korean groups to have performed in the U.S. The group hopes to reclaim home territory in 2013, with a comeback on the way and a solo album for its multilingual, bona fide superstar leader, CL. RaNia The group was initially formed with help from Blackstreet’s Teddy Riley, and was built for overseas success. When it arrives in America this summer, the group will be followed by an MTV video crew and Britney Spears’ tour managers, and will feature guest appearances by Snoop Lion and 2 Chainz. A Pink After a steady stream of releases, hot demand for the acting talents of band members Eunji and Son Naeun derailed promotions for the rest of the group. Now, after some lineup changes, A Pink is set to return to the music stage. IU She’s been active on television and variety shows but hasn’t released a new single in some time. Her principal songwriters have found tons of success behind fellow singer Son Ga-In, so their potential return to the “Nation’s Little Sister” is highly anticipated. Exo The 12-member boy band—actually just two six-member boy bands mirroring the same songs but in different languages—generated a lot of hype across Asia with only one EP to its name.

NEW K’S ON THE BLOCK: (Clockwise from upper left) Exo, Glam, GI, Shinee.

SEOUL POWER

THE KOREAN POP MACHINE IS GOING GLOBAL. BUT WHAT EXACTLY IS IT? BY MATTHEW SIN GER

can pop music. If you look at the lyrics, the things are off from our standpoint. They’re the things young people want to hear about, say, family duty: It’s OK to respect your parents, but be yourself and stuff like that. It’s very subversive compared to what they’d been getting the last 20 years. The imagery is so much more fantastic than

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When “Gangnam Style” seized the world in its cartoon-neon clutches via YouTube last year, it seemed like something uploaded from another planet. In fact, it originated from the South Korean pop industry, but close enough. Sounding and looking like a facsimile of mainstream American pop and R&B blown up into a widescreen Technicolor fever dream, K-pop is the subject of growing international fascination, not just for its sensory-overloading aesthetics but also the unique celebrity-generating farm system that cranks out stars like widgets on an assembly line. Psy and his hypnotically goofy dance moves represented K-pop’s first global success, but there’s more where he came from. A lot more. Next week, the Hollywood Theatre hosts a symposium on modern K-pop, featuring a screening of music videos and a discussion with regional experts. We asked panelist Allen Huang, a music writer and host of a monthly Asian pop club night in Seattle, for a primer. WW: What defines K-pop? Allen Huang: First of all, it comes from Korea. But also, it’s involved in the whole multifaceted pop music industry of Korea. There are indie bands and electronic producers from Korea who make really good music, but aren’t what I would say is K-pop. K-pop, to me, feels like, you work with the industries, you do the promotional cycles, you make the music videos, you dress up and do promotion. It’s this whole promotional music scene that’s constantly churning and constantly innovating to keep up with itself. Is anything about it distinctly Korean? The biggest indicator of Korean culture is how it tackles social issues, in that Korea is sort of a conservative culture socially. In their songs, they’ll talk about love and sex and dating and stuff, but it’s very much toned down, especially compared to Ameri-

K-Pop the American pop it’s modeled on. I’m wonder-

ing if that’s a particularly Korean element. Basically, what I think is Korean about it is the pop industry over there moves really fast. Song cycles happen on average in five weeks. You don’t tour on an album for like a year and a half. You have to make the biggest impact you can with that first impression, and I think the immediacy of that lends to exaggerated visuals, exaggerated aesthetics. If you have something that’ll blow the socks off of somebody, you can find unprecedented success. “Gangnam Style” proves that point. How representative is Psy of all this? He’s a super outlier. Psy is very well-respected in Korea. He’s been going for a long time. The guy is almost 40. No one in the game, at least making the music he’s making, is over 40. Everybody else is a balladeer or television host who sing traditional music. He’s also been kind of a bad boy of Korean music. His first album was banned, and then his second album was censored heavily. And his newest song, “Gentleman,” is a big fuck-you to the censors. Where do you see K-pop heading in terms of international crossover? I think you’ll see it panning out pretty similarly to the Latin explosion, in that you’ll have a choice of three or four really excellent, really unique stars come over from that scene and have a global presence. “Gangnam Style” will be the “Livin’ la Vida Loca.” But I don’t see K-pop taking over per se. They’ve been trying for a long time. I personally think the music’s great, and I think producers from other markets, in Europe and America, can learn from the pace at which they innovate. But I don’t see K-pop dominating charts all over the world like “Gangnam Style” did on a regular basis. SEE IT: Fantastic Baby: The Opulent Kingdom of Contemporary K-Pop is at Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., on Monday, June 3. 7 pm. $5. Read an extended interview with Allen Huang and check out a slideshow of K-pop stars at wweek.com. Willamette Week MAY 29, 2013 wweek.com

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WEDNESDAY–SATURDAY directions on King Remembered in Time, his newest and best mixture thus far. REED JACKSON. Refuge, 116 SE Yamhill St. 8 pm. $36.50 VIP, $21.50 general admission. All ages.

and throws them into shuffle mode, never engaging with any of them in a way that displays more than a surface-level understanding. All Music beat me to the comparison, but he really does sound a lot like Jimmy Ray, the ’90s one-hit wonder who also mistook kitchen-sink eclecticism for innovative dynamism. So here’s Willy Moon today. And there he goes tomorrow! MATTHEW SINGER. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 2266630. 7:30 pm. $10. 21+.

Improvisation Summit of Portland

[ON THE FLY] Musicians have been improvising since music began, and jazz is only one form. For the second year, Portland’s valuable Creative Music Guild brings together improvisers from an impressive variety of traditions, from jazz to rock to noise to electronic and more. New York drummer-poet William Hooker, who’s worked with everyone from Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore to avant-jazzer David Murray, joins some of Portland’s most adventurous sound artists, including 1939 Ensemble, Daniel Menche, Golden Retriever and members of Explode Into Colors. The multimedia summit also includes related documentary films courtesy of PDX Experimental Film Festival and Cinema Project, and dance from top local choreographers such as Linda Austin, Tere Mathern and Gregg Bielemeier. BRETT CAMPBELL. Sandbox Studio, 420 NE 9th Ave., 784-7331. 6 pm Friday, May 31, and 3 pm Saturday, June 1. $12-$18 single-day ticket, $16-$40 two-day pass. All ages.

Capital Cities, Gold Fields

[INDIE-ROCK DANCE POP] The tag line from The Wedding Singer could apply to this concert: “They’re gonna party like it’s 1985.” Mixing and mashing everything from dance rock to electro-pop, this indie duo exemplifies the ’80s zeitgeist while remaining firmly planted in the 21st century. In addition to the energetic tunes, singer Ryan Merchant’s vocals induce an upbeat mood, while the music sounds like a kissing cousin of Two Door Cinema Club. The band isn’t saving the world with track titles like “I Sold My Bed, but Not My Stereo,” but it’s definitely making it a more fun place to live. BRIAN PALMER. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE 39th Ave., 233-7100. 8 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.

Divers, Big Eyes, Your Rival

THURSDAY, MAY 30 Violent Psalms, No More Train Ghosts, I Am Nate Allen

[ALT-ROCK] Portland trio Violent Psalms offers a rash, confessional brand of rock that could be filed next to a grunge-era ballad if it weren’t for the subtle injection of country. At times, Ezekial James and company conjure up the late Scotland Barr, before spinning into a J. Mascis-like guitar ride. Mostly, though, Violent Psalms keeps excess to a minimum, focusing on a core of brittle, interpersonal lyrical material framed by pleading guitar and the occasional pent-up surge. Expect a full-length out early next year. MARK STOCK. East End, 203 SE Grand Ave., 232-0056. 8 pm. $5. 21+.

FRIDAY, MAY 31 Big K.R.I.T., Smoke DZA

[SOUTHERN-HOP] It’s hard not to respect Mississippi rapper Big K.R.I.T. The sticky Southern drawler has built his reputation on quality self-produced projects that draw pictures of the South from the perspectives of both the pimp and the preacher. His beats are built on airy, soulful samples and 808 drums, similar to those heard on 1990s Goodie Mob records. He always seems to be wearing his big heart on his sleeve, especially in his live performances. So why hasn’t Krizzle quite made it? Because he fell into a routine. His major-label debut, Live From the Underground, sounded too similar to his previous mixtures and, as a result, many viewed it as a disappointment. This only added fuel to K.R.I.T.’s fire, however, and pushed him to explore new beatmaking and songwriting

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[FOLKED-UP GAGA] It’s not often I get to point out a musician from my small hometown of Ojai, Calif. Hell, it never happens, actually. Other than its tennis tournament and that Emma Stone movie Easy A, the SoCal town is known for little more than its four-star golf resort. Yet, the onetime heartlander Elisabeth Maurus, aka Lissie, now calls Ojai her home. The singer-songwriter’s rootsy, pop-tinged debut, Catching a Tiger, offers a similar style of expressive, whiskey-buzzed narration, akin to Brandi Carlile or Neko Case, but lately it seems her Lady Gaga and Kid Cudi covers have been garnering

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[HOARSE POP PUNK] Portland’s Divers might have only a 7-inch single to its name, but its live shows alone have people buzzing. The quartet’s catalog features the kind of hearton-your-sleeve pop rock that would fill Springsteen and the boys of the Gaslight Anthem with a wee bit of envy and terminal lust. Like any live act worth mentioning, the Brothers Rapp—that is, lead singer Harrison and guitarist Seth Rapp—aren’t afraid to throw in moments of delicate fingerpicking and raw emotion alongside their feisty, distortion-fueled choruses and signature carry-on mentality. Seven-inch singles and Jersey-boy comparisons aside, Divers is a sonic flurry of its own creation. The band also does one mean cover of Ke$ha’s “Die Young.” BRANDON WIDDER. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. Call venue for ticket information. 21+.

all the hype. “Shameless,” the latest single from her forthcoming record, continues to shed her country-leaning, rustic appeal for grandiose poprock ambitions. BRANDON WIDDER. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.

SATURDAY, JUNE 1 The Boxer Rebellion, Fossil Collective

[INDIE] Chances are, by now, you’ve heard the Boxer Rebellion, even if you don’t know it. The music from this U.K. quartet can be heard in a wide assortment of TV shows, movies and video games throughout the past 10 years. The group—made up of an American, an Australian and two Englishmen—gained attention in 2009 after making it onto Billboard charts with its self-released, digitalonly album, Union. The band returns to America this month in support of its newest album, Promises, sporting a broody Brit-rock sound that features soaring guitar and vocals befitting an arena, à la Muse or Coldplay. KAITIE TODD. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $15 advance, $17 day of show. 21+.

Typhoon, Wild Ones

[BIG INDIE] With 12 or so members, it’s fitting to think of Typhoon as the perfect storm of a band. After establishing itself with its heavy-hitting 2010 release, Hunger and Thirst, the Portland indie-pop ensemble went on to burst the late-night bubble, pack the stage at major festivals and release an excellent follow-up EP in 2011. The years have only honed the profuse, orchestral compositions of Kyle Morton, the band’s frontman and chief songwriter, which segue seamlessly from bleak folksy ballads to uplifting pop crescendos, all the while teeming with the lavish strings, brash horns and bombastic dual kits of its debut. Typhoon’s next full-

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BY BRANDON WIDDER

BLITZEN TRAPPER Portland’s music scene has changed a lot in the last 10 years. Venues once at the center of the local music circuit, like the Meow Meow and the Blackbird, have faded into memory, taking innumerable bands with them. Despite the losses, some things have endured: In 2003, Blitzen Trapper, our hometown’s beloved psych-rock freak-folkies, self-released its debut album. This month, the group commemorates a decade of existence. We chatted with frontman Eric Earley about the band’s beginnings, its regrets (or lack thereof ) and why Stumptown’s changing music scene has not changed Blitzen Trapper—for better or worse. WW: Can you recall any memorable moments from the last 10 years? Eric Earley: For me, touring with Stephen Malkmus and jamming onstage with him during “Heard It Through the Grapevine” four or so years ago was a highlight. And doing Conan when Snoop Dogg was the guest. I remember walking up behind him on the soundstage and just thinking, “Dude, that’s Snoop Dogg. The guy is just massive.” How would you sum up the last 10 years at home and on the road? We’ve been slowly making our way and figuring out what we’re doing. I’m not one to think about the future a lot myself, but thinking about the past, we’ve had a really great run. Sure, there are small personal things I might have done differently over the years, but I have no regrets. We’ve done a lot of things people only wish they could do. We’ve set a precedent for playing what we want, and people never know what we’re going to do next. SEE IT: Blitzen Trapper plays Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., with Denver, on Friday, May 31. 9 pm. $25. 21+. Read an extended interview with Eric Earley at wweek.com.

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[PSYCH POP] In its quieter moments, the We Shared Milk sounds like the slow crawl out of bed after a wild night out. That’s the feeling you get from the band’s latest release, Lame Sunset—an album of quiet, melancholy moments steeped in a psychedelic haze of floating, distorted guitars. Sometimes the pace picks up, led by driving drumbeats, fuzzy guitar riffs and touches of keys and saxophone, but mostly the record is tranquil, slow-moving and a little foggy. Recently christened one of Portland’s Best New Bands in this paper’s annual poll, the We Shared Milk returns to the stage tonight with two other rising Portland-based bands, Talkative and Fanno Creek. KAITIE TODD. The Blue Monk, 3341 SE Belmont St., 503595-0575. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

SUNDAY, JUNE 2 Ben Union

[SEX, DRUGS, ETC.] There really isn’t anything surprising about Ben Union. Its music is completely transparent. That’s a good thing: The dirty funk-rock track “Shake That Ass” pretty much says it all, and is emblematic of what to expect from the band. It makes good-time, drink-until-you-tip-over, dance-untilyour-feet-hurt rock-’n’-roll music; no more, no less. With all the ego and bombast of Oasis—they themselves say their live show “rivals IMAX”— and the energy of a seasoned fratparty band, you are guaranteed to have a blast. BRIAN PALMER. Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel, 303 SW 12th Ave., 972-2670. 7 pm. Free. 21+.

Junip, On An On, Barbarossa

[SIMMERING POP] While the bloggers and tweeters of the world have been focused on the big-ticket artists unleashing new products on their fans, Junip quietly released one of 2013’s best albums. This Swedish trio’s self-titled LP has a measured quality to it, each song coming to life in soft strokes of acoustic guitar, lock-groove drums and the steady presence of frontman Jose Gonzalez, whose vocals slowly melt around each track like soft-serve ice cream. Even when the band attempts something close to garage rock (the fuzzhappy “Villain”), the warm embrace of pop is still tangible around the unkempt core. ROBERT HAM. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $16. 21+.

Juicy J

[CRUNK] What does a Southern rapper do after barnstorming the Oscars and nabbing an Academy Award? Keep on banging, obviously. Since Three 6 Mafia took home a Best Original Song statuette for “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp,” the Memphis vets’ surprisingly affecting contribution to the Hustle & Flow soundtrack in 2009, the groups’ 38-year-old leader has continued his own hustle, proselytizing for crunk: the hard, heavy style of rap he helped innovate and popularize. Last year, Juicy dropped the solo single “Bandz a Make Her Dance,” which has an impressive showing on the Billboard charts and blog hype that’s no doubt dwarfed by the number of dollar bills collected on stages whenever its horny throb rumbles out of titty-bar speakers across the country. It might hurt that the album containing the song, Stay Trippy, isn’t coming out until July, but for a dude like Juicy J, creating one of the great strip-club anthems of the past decade is better than going platinum—or any award, for that matter. MATTHEW SINGER.

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!!! MONDAY, JUNE 3 [!!!DANCE¡¡¡] When !!! first undulated out of Northern California in the late 1990s, the underground hadn’t yet gotten its groove back. Disco was still a dirty word, the phrase “four on the floor” verboten. Punks didn’t dance unless it meant they could leave bruises on their partners, and indie rock was still slouching, inertly, toward slackerdom. Emerging from Sacramento, of all places, playing music rooted equally in the jagged funk of post-punk and the rubbery rhythms of actual funk, the band—whose name, as must always be mentioned, is most commonly pronounced “chk-chk chk”—felt like it was doing something radical, if not downright revolutionary. Naturally, that gave its members a bit of a complex. “We definitely viewed ourselves as blacker than everyone else,” says decidedly Caucasian frontman Nic Offer by phone, taking a break from touring the Moog museum in Asheville, N.C. In retrospect, Offer acknowledges how snobby that sounds. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t true, though. It’s still true now. Few of its peers are as dedicated to the purity of the groove. LCD Soundsystem may have earned Band of a Generation status from critics, but James Murphy approached his brand of dance rock with ironic detachment. Even Daft Punk hides behind light-up pyramids and big concepts. For !!!, the only concept it’s ever operated under is that music should loosen inhibitions, and the group has never hidden enthusiasm for its own party—particularly live, with Offer, clad in short shorts, bounding through the crowd, locked in a fit of stream-of-consciousness twitching and voguing. Going into the recording of its fifth album, though, !!! found itself in a bit of a rut. With each successive record since its 2001 debut, the group has gradually sanded down the “punk” half of its dance-punk genre tag, attempting to mold itself into, simply, a great dance band. With 2010’s Strange Weather, Isn’t It?, it finally seemed to get there, producing an album that pulsed with the persistent throb of a transcendent DJ set. But the response, from critics and fans, was tepid. “I knew every nook and cranny of that record,” Offer says. “We were really proud of it. I don’t know why people didn’t respond to those songs. Therein lies the rut.” To dig itself out, the band felt it had to, in a way, start over. One way of doing that was to hire Jim Eno, Spoon’s drummer and in-house producer, to help it realize the ideas it couldn’t quite achieve on its own. Titling the new album Thr!!!er seems brashly iconoclastic, but the appropriation is more than a cheeky joke: Trying on a few fresh grooves, like the cool strut of “Even When the Water’s Cold” and the New Wave stomp of “Fine Fine Fine,” while knocking out more familiar ones with even sharper confidence, this is the record—as its namesake was to the career of its creator— that all previous !!! records were building toward. Offer feels the same. He doesn’t call it a reinvention necessarily. It’s just that, after 16 years of practice, the band is finally living up to its youthful swagger. “We had to do a left turn before we could take a right turn with certain things,” he says. “Other things are stuff we’ve gotten better at nailing. But we always wanted to make a record this funky, and now we have.” MATTHEW SINGER.

How does a veteran dance band get out of a lull? Easy: Dance harder.

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[FUZZY FM DIAL] Standing out in San Francisco’s garage-rock scene ain’t easy, with the likes of Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees making up the competition. But fourpiece Cool Ghouls is staking some rightful territorial claim, having dropped an exuberantly lo-fi selftitled LP earlier this year. On top of influences like the Byrds and Stooges, Cool Ghouls pulls from the more twisted arena of Cream, with certain touches that’ll remind Portlanders of our own Woolen Men. There’s a rock ’n’ roll-driven, puffed-chest quality about Cool Ghouls that might seem premature, until it hits you with two or three more fuzzed-out gems and you

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MONDAY, JUNE 3 Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus Three, Peter Buck

[PEACE, LOVE, INSANITY] Rock’n’-roll stars generally quit, die or lose whatever made them special by the time they hit their 40s. Those who continue to fascinate into their 60s (think of Lucinda Williams or Davids Bowie and Byrne) generally have some lengthy gaps of inactivity or unfortunate decision-making peppered throughout their discog-

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PORTUGAL. THE MAN EVIL FRIENDS (ATLANTIC) [ANTHEMIC ROCK] More often than not, when Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton produces a record, his involvement turns out to be a blessing. His work with James Mercer in Broken Bells imparted an appealing revivalist soul to the relatively muted Shins frontman. With the Black Keys, the duo’s blues rock was a perfect match for Burton’s classic-pop sensitivity. Yet, on parts of Portugal The Man’s latest record, Evil Friends, the band’s natural psych-rock inclinations just don’t mesh with Burton’s production style. Which is not to dismiss John Gourley and his bandmates for their best-manicured work to date. The band has no reservations about producing purebred pop, and the record’s power chords and arena-rock feel testify to that. But previous albums and killer live shows have shown Portugal The Man to be much more individualistic than most of Evil Friends would indicate. Opener “Plastic Soldiers” is a multifaceted gem, starting with acoustic guitars and soft synths before careening into a psychedelic collage of string samples, whammy-bar guitar and a buzzing, insectlike keyboard riff. The beautiful, Peter Gabriel-esque “Sea of Air” demonstrates Gourley’s strong songwriting abilities. But too many songs feel like a tug of war between Burton’s dial-turning and the Portland band’s free-range musical persona—a struggle everyone ends up losing. MARK STOCK. HEAR IT: Evil Friends is out Tuesday, June 4, on Atlantic Records.

ANCIENT HEAT UNDER THE COVERS (SELF-RELEASED) [RETRO DISCO] Unlike other Portland dance acts, Ancient Heat isn’t simply influenced by disco music: This nine-piece ensemble is a living embodiment of the much-maligned genre. And to ensure the authenticity of its sound, the group has analyzed the deep cuts from the 1970s and early ’80s and, in some cases, worked out covers of its favorites for live shows and this new EP. As with the songs Ancient Heat plays in concert, the tracks chosen for Under The Covers are particularly inspired. You get a small taste of Portland music history with the band giving a sparkly spin to “Ghettos of the Mind,” a track from disco-soul group Pleasure. There’s also an allotment of kitsch via a version of the theme to Lucio Fulci’s Italian camp horror film Zombi 2. On “Is It All Over My Face?,” a rendition of a single recorded by Loose Joints in 1980, leader Brendan Grubb and co. take to the original’s lost-in-space vibe—a hallmark of its writer-producer, Arthur Russell—with great aplomb, giving their all to wandering synth lines and capricious group vocals. It’s as close as any current band is ever going to get to uprooting legendary New York night club the Paradise Garage and transporting it to these modern times. ROBERT HAM. SEE IT: Ancient Heat plays Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., with Foreign Orange, Phone Call and 1980sprince, on Wednesday, May 29. 8:30 pm. $6. 21+. Willamette Week MAY 29, 2013 wweek.com

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[POST-ROCK] Following the late’90s disbanding of Chicago alt-blues outfit Red Red Meat, singer-songwriter Tim Rutili regrouped with the quieter, concept-driven Califone, a pseudo-solo project turned ongoing collaboration. A rotating cast of more than 20 musicians pop in on Rutili’s experimental folkrock soundscapes, shaped by his painterly lyrics and an everythingand-the-kitchen-sink approach. A late-April blog post teased a new album, the making of which he called a “beautiful, frightening and healing trip.” In the meantime, Rutili is playing a series of acoustic gigs in living rooms across the country. The Portland date, hosted in the apartment above Bar Bar, is sold out, but tickets to Hood River and Eugene shows were available as of press time. AMANDA SCHURR. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 8 pm. Sold out. 21+.

TUESDAY, JUNE 4 The Parson Red Heads, Desert Noises, Said the Whale

[BIG-SKY FOLK ROCK] No band in recent history has reminded me of Everything All the Time-era Band of Horses more than Utah’s Desert Noises. Vocalist Kyle Henderson chases striding guitar work with the faintest of twang, saddling up an otherwise clean-cut and musing Americana rock outfit. Newest release Mountain Sea couldn’t sound more like its title, filled with the sonic ebbs and flows and peaks and valleys one might normally associate with a full symphony as opposed to a four-man band. Oregon expats the Parson Red Heads, celebrating the release of a new EP, 6, headline. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

Sam Amidon, Alessi’s Ark, Barna Howard

[ROCKY TOP 40] An adorably scruffy acoustic wizard of solid Yankee heritage and frankly Seussical name, Sam Amidon hardly needed to hitch his wagon to U.K. chanteuse Beth Orton’s star for greater exposure. Even within their rarefied niche of roots-inspired, dinner-party-approved stylish folk,

Amidon’s recordings remain decidedly out in left field. Bright Sunny South, his recently released fourth album and first for Nonesuch, continues along a daft archival blueprint of enlivening forgotten string-band tunes through bursts of free jazz and deconstructing Americana outliers with such painstaking craft and grave seriousness that the time-swept eccentricities only run aground once the authentic Civil War-era songs give way to similarly-presented crap R&B (“Shake It Off,” from perhaps too-literally-interpreted The Emancipation Of Mimi). Shearing away modern production gloss and diva glissandi from glorified ringtone fodder only asserts the importance of original context and the self-indulgent dopiness of Amidon’s vision. Why bother recasting creatures of Hollywood within the humble traditions of murder balladry? There’s an Appalachia for that. JAY HORTON. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

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[TRADITIONALLY INSPIRED FOLK] Look alive, Jeremy Barnes fans: It will probably be a while before you see him perform his own material after this A Hawk and a Hacksaw tour. As you might have heard, Neutral Milk Hotel is reuniting for a tour, and as that band’s drummer, Barnes is probably going to be quite busy reducing skinny, tattooed folks to tears. Before that, enjoy this project, which on its latest album, You Have Already Gone to the Other World, delights in the sometimes rollicking, sometimes tender sounds of Eastern European folk and pop with nary a hint of irony or pith. ROBERT HAM. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

Arrington de Dionyso’s Malaikat Dan Singa, Tiny Knives, Million Brazilians

[WILD WORLD] To declare that Malaikat Dan Singa is the most thrillingly crazed project in Arrington de Dionyso’s oeuvre is saying something, considering the Washington native’s résumé includes free-noise firestarters Old Time Relijun and his own experimental solo records. But beginning with 2009’s Malaikat Dan Singa, the dude transcended to another plane of intensely awesome weirdness, wailing on a bass clarinet and contorting his voice around Indonesian lyrics in some otherworldly combination of raga, no wave and worldly psychedelic funk. It’s wild, bracing and meditative at the same time, and utterly mind-blowing. His latest album, Open the Crown, is even nuttier now that de Dionyso’s returned to singing in English, as you realize all those insane buzzing noises aren’t coming from a malfunctioning bug zapper but his own larynx. It’s like if Nick Cave re-formed the Birthday Party after tripping around Southeast Asia and learning Tuvan throat singing. MATTHEW SINGER. Record Room, 8 NE Killingsworth St. 8 pm. $6. 21+.

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430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin

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2035 NE Glisan St. DJ AM Gold

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Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. NEWROTICS

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Asher Fulero, Halo Refuser, Melting Pot Soundsystem

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Boneyard Preachers

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Violent Psalms, No More Train Ghosts, I Am Nate Allen

Gemini Lounge

6526 SE Foster Road Progress Band, William’s Crux

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Scott Pemberton Trio

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Joystick/: Trim Jones

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Widower

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Steff Koeppen and the Articles, Taylor Jane, Swim Atlantic, Give if FM

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. The Restitution, Lancaster, Southgate, Coastlands, San Lorenzo

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Foals, Surfer Blood, Blondfire

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Willy Moon, Magic Mouth

Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. DJ Drew Groove

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. Cake

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Shafty: Phish Tribute

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. Jeffery Trapp, ShadowTag

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. Capital Cities, Gold Fields

1001 SE Morrison St. Ancient Heat, Foreign Orange, Phone Call, 1980sprince

Slabtown

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

Suki’s Bar & Grill

1435 NW Flanders St. Randy Porter

Jack London Bar

529 SW 4th Ave. Proper Movement Drums and Bass

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Barlow Pass

Laughing Horse Books 12 NE 10th Ave. Brickmower, Havania Whaal, Fandeath

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Strangled Darlings, The Libertine Belles, Not Waving But Drowning, Blind Bartimaeus, Brad Parsons

Lents Commons

9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Quizissippi Team Trivia

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Minden, Sista Fist, IBQT

O’Connor’s Vault 7850 SW Capitol Highway Jon Koonce

Shaker and Vine

2929 SE Powell Blvd.

1033 NW 16th Ave. Consumer, dovehead, Flippopotamus 2401 SW 4th Ave. Karyn Patridge

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project Blues Jam

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Arabesque Bellydance

The Elixir Lab

2738 NE Alberta St. Open Mic Nite

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Divers, Big Eyes, Your Rival

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Zirakzigil

Thirsty Lion

71 SW 2nd Ave. Jordan Harris

Thorne Lounge

4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Musician’s Open Mic

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Nate C

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway ACIDIC

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Bo Ayars, Barbara Ayars

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Bohemian Blues: Djs Lynn Winkle & Mark Stauffer

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Welfare

THURS. MAY 30 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

529 SW 4th Ave. Sombras Borrachos!, Moe Bowstern

Jade Lounge

3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Songwriter Roundup

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Idletap, WHIPCORD, Idiot Science

Backspace

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Thursday Hip Hop Series: Chicharones, evvnflo, prapa gramma

The Elixir Lab

2738 NE Alberta St. Hurqalya

Thirsty Lion

71 SW 2nd Ave. Euphonius Thump

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Bob Ham, DJ Will Watts

Tiger Bar

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Gary Smith’s Mardi Gras All-Stars 1530 SE 7th Ave. Full Funkel Nerdity

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Jay Nash, David Ramirez

FRI. MAY 31 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Widower

Alberta Rose Theatre

Andina

Kenton Club

Artichoke Community Music

426 SW Washington St. Hutson, Thank You, Goodnight

LaurelThirst

Artichoke Community Music

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones

Kelly’s Olympian

Andina

832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band

The Blue Diamond

221 NW 10th Ave. Azar Lawrence Quartet

Jimmy Mak’s

303 SW 12th Ave. Widower

Andrea’s Cha Cha Club

720 SE Hawthorne Town and the Writ, Crime Machine, God Bless America, Fluid Spill, Eric Anarchy (theater); Open Mic (lounge)

3000 NE Alberta St. Betty on the Floor, Ron Everett, Cody K, Big Water, Katie Rose, Kristen Hewitt, Scott Brockett, Jake Blecker, Perry Gerber

2346 SE Ankeny St. Paul Young, Erin Dickinson

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Conference, Moon Debris, Busy Scissors

1314 NW Glisan St. Borikuas

The Analog

Vie de Boheme

Jack London Bar

Hello The Future

8635 N Lombard St. Mega Songwriter Blowout

Hawthorne Theatre

1435 NW Flanders St. Tom Grant, Shelly Rudolph

Holocene

Slim’s Cocktail Bar

317 NW Broadway Karaoke From Hell

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

WED. MAY 29

1033 NW 16th Ave. 42 Ford Prefect, Mormon Trannys, Bad Luck Blackouts

1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. Hardfall Hearts, Back Alley Barbers, Ghost Town Hangmen, Infamous Swanks, Paul Brainard 1507 SE 39th Ave. Project 86, Veio, How The West Was Won, In the Aether

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2929 SE Powell Blvd. John Whipple

2958 NE Glisan St. Ridgerunners: Dan Haley, Lynn Conover, Lewi Longmire & the Left Coast Roasters

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Sara Leah Gentler

Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. JT Wise

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Jack Dwyer

Rotture

1314 NW Glisan St. Nat Hulskamp Trio

3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Friday Coffeehouse

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Usnea, Norska, Bastard Feast, Bell Witch

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Ocean of Mirrors, Subverse, The Odious, Here From Apathy, Recursion

Beech Street Parlor

412 NE Beech St. Alex John Hall, DJ Zac Eno

Beulahland

118 NE 28th Ave Listen Lady

115 NW 5th Ave. Fringe Class, The Sorry Devils, Jacob Miller & the Bridge City Crooners

315 SE 3rd Ave. Matthias Schuster, You, Light House, Tuxedo Gleam, Shadowhouse

Camellia Lounge

Buffalo Gap Eatery and Saloon

Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Round Mountain, Ocular Concern

350 W Burnside St. Three Bad Jacks, Hopeless Jack & the Handsome Devils

Sellwood Public House

DeVille Public House

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Sweet Home

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave.

8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic

510 NW 11th Ave. Dan Wilensky Trio

Dante’s

2205 N Killingsworth Barlow Pass, Aarun Carter & Jonathan Trawick

Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Rev Shines

Disjecta

8371 N Interstate Ave. Quiet Music Festival: Lori Goldston, Money Mark, Heidi Alexander, Tara Jane O’Neil, Dragging an Ox Through Water, Michael Henrickson

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Blitzen Trapper, Denver

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Rich Del Grosso

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Kingston Club, The Israelites, Rising Buffalo Tribe

EastBurn

1800 E Burnside St. Andrews Ave

Ford Food and Drink

2505 SE 11th Ave. Daniel Robinson, Whiskey Puppy

Gemini Lounge

6526 SE Foster Road Erna & the Erratics

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. The Want Ads, Archie Crisanto & The Travelling Salesmen, Foxy Lemon, PL Young, Jessica White & Jesse Mazzola, Tuck & Daisy

Hawthorne Theatre 1507 SE 39th Ave. Fear Factory, Hate Eternal, Kobra & The Lotus, Ceremonial Castings, Nemesis

Patterson Hood

Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Reny Brothers

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Breakers Yard

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

O’Connor’s Vault

7850 SW Capitol Highway Billy D and the Hoodoos

Record Room

8 NE Killingsworth St. Bath Party, For the Lash, Tele Novella

Refuge

116 SE Yamhill St. Big K.R.I.T., Smoke DZA

Ringside Fish House 838 SW Park Ave. Pete Krebs and Brent Martens

Sandbox Studio

420 NE 9th Ave. Improvisation Summit of Portland

Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Myshkin, Nick Jaina, Michelle McAfee

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Wormbag, Tyrants, Little Pilgrims

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. The Lampshade Ball: Radical Revolution, Redlight Romeos, Appetite For Deception, Stone In Love, Steelhorse, Shoot to Thrill

The Analog

1435 NW Flanders St. Catarina New

720 SE Hawthorne American Roulette, Chronological Injustice, Tokyo Death Stare

Jack London Bar

The Blue Diamond

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

529 SW 4th Ave. Vicki Stevens and The Sonny Hess Band

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Bill Rhoades

Jade Lounge

3341 SE Belmont St. Sweeping Exits, Comaserfs, Just Lions

2346 SE Ankeny St. Karma Ann Swanepoel, Chris Baron, Matthew Heller

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Azar Lawrence Quartet

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. The Flatcars, the Karmaceuticals, Spy Device

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Rouisi

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Crag Dweller, Sioux, Billions And Billions, Shut Your Animal Mouth

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Acre, The Family Stoned, cockeye

Kit Kat Club

231 SW Ankeny Hopeless Jack and the Handsome Devil, Verner Pantons, Moondog Matinee

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Johnny Outlaw & the Johnson Creek Stranglers

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Alexa Wiley & the Wilderness, Sloe Loris, Lewi Longmire & the Left Coast Roasters

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Waxwings

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave.

The Blue Monk

The Elixir Lab

2738 NE Alberta St. Mostly Hank

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Dusk’s Embrace, City, DJ Horrid

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave. Dashenka, Amenta Abioto, Lady Elaine, Mary Sutton

The Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave. John Dahlback, Evan Alexander, Eddie Pitzul

Thirsty Lion

71 SW 2nd Ave. Dirty Blonde

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. Beacon Sound

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Senseless Beauty, Ballet, The Opportunist

Timeshare Gallery

328 NW Broadway, Unit 114 Beatogether: Mieksneak, Sloslylove

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Monica Nelson and The Highgates, Vodka Wilson Overdrive, the Ransom

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Bureau of Standards Big Band

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M AT T W O N G

2958 NE Glisan St. Blue Lotus, Dark Matter Transfer, James Low Western Front 3552 N Mississippi Ave. Sarah Gwen, Beartown

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Typhoon, Wild Ones

Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. The Adequates

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Cafe Cowboys

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

Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Margo Tufo

FILLING STATION: Growlers are an overrated component of beer-geek culture. It’s a lot of the same beer, and the longer it sits, the warmer and flatter it gets. So Tin Bucket (3520 N Williams Ave., 477-7689) is something of a revelation. The new bottle shop/ taproom/growler-filling station is a gleaming monument to Oregon brewing. A bank of coolers holds a respectable range of bottles, and while the taproom suffers most from its limited seating, the inviting space has already attracted regulars in the neighborhood. The taps are the stars, though. The row of proprietary pressurizing nozzles, which fill both pints and growlers, are spread across a long counter, each looking more like a spaceship’s stasis chamber than a standard row of tap handles. Tin Bucket’s pourers spend most of their time hovered over the clear chambers, which seem to run slowly. It’s hypnotic to watch, so have a pint while you wait. The payoff? Once pressurized, these growlers will stay as fresh as a bottle or can. The 40-tap selection featured a wide array of styles—a steal at $5 to $7 for 32-ounce pours, considering bombers 10 ounces lighter cost at least that much. The best aspect of Tin Bucket’s system isn’t realized until you’re back home: My growler of Solera Brewery’s the Fez was tap-fresh the next evening, with the growler emitting a gasp as I cracked it, just like factory-packaged beer. I sipped at the lemony sour contentedly, finally free of the creeping dread that my beer was dying because I couldn’t drink it fast enough. JORDAN GREEN.

Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery 206 SW Morrison St. Eclectic Approach

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave. Lamb of God, Decapitated, Terror

Shaker and Vine

2929 SE Powell Blvd. Four Point Play

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. The Sexbots, Gemet Gemet, Somebody’s Got An Axe To Grind

Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. The Get Ahead

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Dan Reed, Christian Burghardt

The Analog

720 SE Hawthorne Douglas J McCarthy

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Lloyd Allen Sr.

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. The We Shared Milk, Talkative, Fanno Creek

The Elixir Lab Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Tommy Hogan Band

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. The My Oh Mys, Mexican Gunfight

Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St. Lissie

SAT. JUNE 1 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Widower

Alberta Rose Theatre

3000 NE Alberta St. Live Wire Radio: The Builders and the Butchers

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Celtic Woman

Artichoke Community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Kate Power and Steve Einhorn

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. $intax, Rustmine, Blown

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Boo Frog, Lovesores, The Ex-Girlfriends Club, Rat Party

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. My Goodness, Tango Alpha Tango

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Gordon Lee Trio

Club 21

2035 NE Glisan St. Sei Hexe, Health Problems, Havania Whaal

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. The Insurgence, Dr. Unknown, The Punctuals, 3 Round Burst

DeVille Public House 2205 N Killingsworth Rogue Bluegrass Band

Disjecta

8371 N Interstate Ave. Quiet Music Festival: White Magic, Volunteers Park, Meg Baird, Peggy Honeywell, Sun Foot, Michael Henrickson

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. The Boxer Rebellion, Fossil Collective

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Hank Shreve

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Blue Skies for Black Hearts, Brownish Black, The Knast

EastBurn

1800 E Burnside St. Inspirational Beets, Cascadia Soul Alliance

Fifteenth Avenue Hophouse 1517 NE Brazee St. Karyn Patridge

Gemini Lounge

6526 SE Foster Road Blackfoot Brothers

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Dead Winter Carpenters, Brad Parsons Band

Hawthorne Hophouse 4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Steve Cheseborough

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. Sundowner (Chris Mccaughan Of The Lawrence Arms)

Hawthorne Theatre

2738 NE Alberta St. Da Bassment Jazz

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Business Venture, Faster Housecat, 48 Thrills

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. This Charming Man, DJ Miss Prid

The Whiskey Bar

1507 SE 39th Ave. Mike Pinto, Natural Vibrations, Three Legged Fox

31 NW 1st Ave. FeenixPawl, Jamie Meushaw, Klyde Drexler

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

71 SW 2nd Ave. Brian Odell, DJ Soulshaker

1435 NW Flanders St. John Stowell, Rob Davis

Jack London Bar 529 SW 4th Ave. Sinister Saturday

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Sophie Rogers

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Lloyd Jones

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. The Decliners, Sit Kitty Sit, Somerset Meadows

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Rouisi

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Arcada, Frame By Frame, Mosby

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Die Like Gentlemen, Vice Riot, Vicious Cycle

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Carl Sonny Leyland

Thirsty Lion

Tom McCall Waterfront Park

SW Naito Pkwy. and SW Harrison Steve Holy, RaeLynn, Dylan Scott, Morgan Frazier, Jared Ashley, Kurt Van Meter

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Mean Jeans, Trashies, The Therapists, White Fang, Black Bolt

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Soulcity

Trail’s End Saloon

1320 Main St., Oregon City Chaotic Soul

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Afro-Carribean Beat (Rwanda benefit)

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Vagabond & Tramp

White Owl Social Club 1305 SE 8th Ave.

SUN. JUNE 2 303 SW 12th Ave. Ben Union

Alberta Rose Theatre

3000 NE Alberta St. The Americans, James Low / Lewi Longmire, The Bony King of Nowhere

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Endless Loop, Valentine, Ask You In Gray

Chapel of the Holy Names

17425 Holy Names Dr. Music in the Woods: Mousai Remix

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam

DeVille Public House 2205 N Killingsworth Jack Deville

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Junip, On An On, Barbarossa

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Shut Your Animal Mouth, Lazzaro

Fontaine Bleau

237 NE Broadway Pa’lante

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

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Mice Parade, Alameda

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Lauri Jones, Jim Templeton

Jack London Bar 529 SW 4th Ave. Club Love

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Wadhams & Huston, Krista Herring, Ray Tarantino

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Kris Deelane & the Sharp Little Things, Freak Mountain Ramblers

McMenamins’ Kennedy School

5736 NE 33rd Ave. Jake Ray & the Cowdogs, Bingo & Pete, Dan Haley, Gravel, Little Sue, The Box of Chocolates, Don of Division St.

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Smut City Jellyroll Society, Solomon Crow

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Novosti, Josh Hoke, Dearborn

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish

NEPO 42

5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic

Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery 206 SW Morrison St. Slow Children

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Juicy J

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Communist Kayte, Point of View, Fasters, Grand Style Orchestra

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Kevin Selfe and the Tornadoes

The Elixir Lab

2738 NE Alberta St. Closely Watched Trains

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LaurelThirst

2026 NE Alberta St. Bath Party, Cool Ghouls, Charts

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave. Salute to Cinematic Composers: Big Horn Brass

Tom McCall Waterfront Park SW Naito Pkwy. and SW Harrison Little Big Town, Dustin Lynch, Sweetwater Rain, Tate Stevens, Austin Webb, Britnee Kellogg

Trail’s End Saloon

1320 Main St., Oregon City Rae Gordon

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Ritim Egzotik

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. The Holy Child, The Get Ahead

White Owl Social Club 1305 SE 8th Ave. Rafael Vigilantics, B. Dolan, Grayskul, Das Leune, Doc Adam

MON. JUNE 3 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Ben Union

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Open Mic

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. !!!, White Arrows

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Karaoke From Hell

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus Three, Peter Buck

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Lily Wilde Orchestra

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Sonic Forum Open Mic Night

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. New Found Glory, Cartel, State Champs

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Fantastic Baby: The Opulent Kingdom of K-Pop: Ingmar Carlson, Allen Huang, Jordan Becke, Reese Umbaugh

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Cole Porter Meets the Gershwins: Portland Chamber Orchestra

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Traditional Irish Jam Session

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy VJs

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens, Portland Country Underground

DA CAPO: Lissie plays Wonder Ballroom on Friday, May 31. Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Real Live Tigers, Hi Ho Silver Oh, Delaney & Paris

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. Metal Monday: DJ Grant Panzergod

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Sumo

Pub at the End of the Universe 4107 SE 28th Ave. Open Mic

2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw

Mississippi Studios

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Young Dad, Plant Parenthood, Fake Beach, DJ Just Dave

Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. SIN Night

TUES. JUNE 4 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Ben Union

Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Tom Brosseau & Sean Watkins, Ritchie Young, Shelly Short

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. TIGERS JAW, Pianos Become The Teeth, Sainthood Reps, Lee Corey Oswald

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Tonight on the Rocks

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. The Parson Red Heads, Desert Noises, Said the Whale

Record Room

Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery 206 SW Morrison St. Corner

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Blackhands, Heartracers, Save the Swim Team, TBA

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Margo Tufo, Doug Rowell

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Pagan Jug Band

The Elixir Lab

2738 NE Alberta St. Johnny D’s Community Jam

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. The Last 45s, Needlecraft, Pink Slip, ManX

Thorne Lounge

4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. WHIM

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. Cody Brant

Tonic Lounge

Duff’s Garage

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. D.J. Desecrator Fireside Lounge

East End

Twilight Café and Bar

1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Quartet 203 SE Grand Ave. Wounded Goat, Solar Sea

Muddy Rudder Public House

7850 SW Capitol Highway Songwriter Circle, special guest Kathryn Claire Kathryn Claire, Cal Scott, Richard Moore

LaurelThirst

8 NE Killingsworth St. Arrington de Dionyso’s Malaikat Dan Singa, Tiny Knives, Million Brazilians

2738 NE Alberta St. Blue Flags and Black Grass

Hawthorne Theatre

O’Connor’s Vault

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Tele Novela, The Ghost Ease, The Happening

3939 N Mississippi Ave. A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Balto

Goodfoot Lounge

8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones

Kenton Club

The Elixir Lab

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Califone

Brain Capital, Sun Fun, Brakemouth

2845 SE Stark St. Roseland Hunters

1507 SE 39th Ave. Intronaut, Scale The Summit, Earth To Ashes, The Odious, Never Awake

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Sam Amidon, Alessi’s Ark, Barna Howard

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Gus Pappelis

1420 SE Powell Blvd. Open Mic Night Featuring House Band: The Roaming

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Salsa Dancing w/Lynn Winkle and Mark Stauffer

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. The Hill Dogs, Lefty & the Twin

White Owl Social Club

1305 SE 8th Ave. Totaled Tuesdays: DJ Mike V. & Manee Friday

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Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St.

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WIDE AWAKE • ON SALE $8.99 CD

This is the 3rd release from this hard working bluegrass/ newgrass band. Wide Awake starts with a base of time honored timbres and techniques, yet fashion original songs and arrangements that reflect a love of indie rock and new folk.

JC BROOKES & UPTOWN SOUND

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Throughout Howl, the dark side of love and longing is explored by frontman JC Brooks’s starkly personal lyrics and the Uptown Sound’s willingness to bare all their influences and let the grooves fall where they may.

MARQUEE

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This compilation features the club’s resident artists and affiliated DJs. Showcasing ATB and Paul Oakenfold, Audien and Denzal Park.

PINK SATURDAY: DJ Anjali (right) and the Incredible Kid play Andaz at Rotture on Saturday, June 1.

JEFFREY FOUCAULT & COLD SATELLITE CAVALCADE

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Featuring a collaboration between critically acclaimed songwriter Jeffrey Foucault and award-winning poet Lisa Olstein, Cavalcade both refines and concentrates the band’s signature amalgam of Rock, Blues, and Country.

WED. MAY 29 Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. Salsa: DJ Alberton

Berbati’s

YOU DON’T KNOW ME

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In 1955, Eddy Arnold covered the classic song, “You Don t Know Me,” which he wrote with Cindy Walker. This album pays tribute to that standard as well as 18 other legendary songs by The Tennessee Plowboy who was one of the most influential artists in country music history.

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Crystal Ballroom

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Trick with DJ Robb

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ OverCol

The Firkin Tavern 1937 SE 11th Ave. Eye Candy VJs

THURS. MAY 30 Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJs Def Ro and Suga Shane

CC Slaughters

Sponsored by KZME. Free refreshments, special one-day deals, and live music! Featuring Jenna Ellefson, Lance Andrew Leoning, and Jack McMahon.

736 SE Grand Ave. Newrotics

Dig a Pony

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Laid Out: Gossip Cat, DJ Pocket Rock-It, Misti Miller, DJ Riff-Raff

Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom

Dig a Pony

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Dirty Red

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Rhienna, DJ Cat Lady

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Sublime Frequencies DJs, Hisham Mayet

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Church of Hive

MON. JUNE 3

Goodfoot Lounge

CC Slaughters

2845 SE Stark St. Dj Aquaman’s Soul Stew

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Snap! ‘90s Dance Party: Dr. Adam, Colin Jones, Freaky Outty, DJ Cooky Parker

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Blown

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Uriah Creep

The Rose

111 SW Ash St. Utah Jazz, Kid Hops, Codename

SAT. JUNE 1 Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Mellow Cee

Holocene

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Baby Lemonade

Berbati’s

Pix Patisserie

2225 E Burnside St. DJ Eric Beats

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Linkus EDM

736 SE Grand Ave. Rev Shines, Survival Skillz

CC Slaughters

1305 SE 8th Ave. Cockabilly: DJ Beyonda Doubt & Chanticleer

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1332 W Burnside St. ‘80s Video Dance Attack: VJ Kittyrox

1332 W Burnside St. Limelight Dance Millennium

White Owl Social Club

Star Bar

Bossanova Ballroom

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

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Club 21

231 SW Ankeny St. Cloud City Collective 2035 NE Glisan St. DJ HWY 7, DJ Joey (Sweden)

722 E Burnside St. Wednesday Swing

SUN. JUNE 2 Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Seleckta YT

COMMUNITY DAY & SONGWRITERS’ CIRCLE MONDAY, 6/3 @ 7 PM

BETH HART FRIDAY, 6/7 @ 6PM

FRI. MAY 31 Berbati’s

219 NW Davis St. Revolution with DJ Robb

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Henry Dark 219 NW Davis St. Maniac Monday with DJ Robb

The Analog

720 SE Hawthorne Gothique Blend

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Departures: DJ Waisted, DJ Anais Ninja

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Audrey Horne, DJ Wild Pillow

TUES. JUNE 4 Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Phreak: Electronic Mutations

Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Aurora

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Girltopia with DJ Alicious

1001 SE Morrison St. Booty Bassment: Dimitri Dickinson, Maxx Bass, Nathan Detroit

Eagle Portland

Rotture

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Smooth Hopperator

315 SE 3rd Ave. Andaz

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave. Red Hot: DJ Action Slacks, Wam Bam Ashleyanne

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Dad Jeans

835 N Lombard St DMTV with DJ Danimal

Star Bar

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. TRNGL: DJ Rhienna

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

THEATER Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls

What if life was really just a giant game of musical chairs? And what if you didn’t end up in the chair you wanted? That’s the story Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls sets out to explore. Told in a series of interconnected vignettes, Naomi Iizuka’s play follows 11 characters as they try to figure out who they are and where they’re going in life, from a pregnant, neurotic woman recently dumped by her boyfriend who moves to Alaska, to a dog who isn’t really sure anymore if he is a dog or a man. The story itself, as these twentysomethings try to discover themselves and find romance, is frankly a little exhausting. Existentially angsty questions weigh down the script: “I don’t know who I am! I don’t know what I’m supposed to be!” But the Theatre Vertigo cast, directed by Jen Wineman, delivers welltimed comedic performances as the characters grapple with whether they should, in fact, marry the person they love, or whether that paw is indeed a hand. KAITIE TODD. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 306-0870. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through June 8. $15 Fridays-Saturdays, “pay what you want” Thursdays.

American King Umps

A staged reading of a new play by Don Wilson Glenn, a high-comedy melodrama set during the Civil War in West Texas. When a plantation owner suddenly decamps, his slaves must govern themselves and sort out— through vaudeville and farce—their own identities. Redeemer Lutheran Church, 5431 NE 20th Ave., 287-7553. 3 pm Saturday, June 1. Free.

The Boys in the Band

The 1968 off-Broadway production of Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band was the first depiction of gay men to reach a mainstream audience. Defunkt Theatre offers a memorable production directed by Jon Kretzu (running in repertory with The Children’s Hour; see review also on this page). Staged in a private home on East Burnside Street, an audience of roughly a dozen lines the walls of a midcentury-designed living room. The effect is intimacy not only with the actors, who at times stand inches from your face and even step on your shoe, but also between audience members: You share every laugh and awkward moment with the person sitting across the room. The play could be set today with only minimal line adjustments. The guests are archetypes for any group of gay men: the neurotic one, the know-itall, the lothario, the butch one, the femme one, and so on. One-liners zing back and forth with zeal that would put Henny Youngman to shame, and the dishing and self-deprecation are relentless. Particularly magnetic is Harold (Matthew Kerrigan), who practically hisses his nihilistic worldview between puffs of his cigarette. When Michael (Jeffrey Arrington) accuses him of being late, he dryly retorts, “What I am, Michael, is a 32-year-old, ugly, pockmarked Jew fairy.” Equally but more joyfully engaging is Matthew Kern’s effeminate Emory. “Who do you have to fuck to get a drink around here?” he squeals. While many parts of The Boys in the Band are relevant today, others—the shame, the selfhate, the blame on an overbearing mother—are quickly becoming vestiges of a more tortured time. Perhaps gay culture is fleeting, and perhaps that’s good. Maybe years from now, the next generation will watch Will and Grace reruns and imagine how different things used to be. AARON SPENCER. 3125 E Burnside St., 4812960. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Sundays. 7:30 pm Tuesday, June 11. 7:30 pm Wednesdays, June 5 and 12. Through June 15. $15-$20.

A Bright New Boise

Samuel D. Hunter’s Obie-winning dark comedy punches at the bleaker sides of faith and small-town life. This is Hunter’s first play to be staged locally, and Third Rail’s all-star cast— Andy Lee-Hillstrom, Jacklyn Maddux, Chris Murray, Kerry Ryan and Tim True—promises a wallop. Winningstad Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 235-1101. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through June 23. $22.25-$41.25.

The Bully Project

Oregon Children’s Theatre presents a free reading of six short plays by local middle-school students, selected from more than 65 submissions. Each of the original plays revolves around the theme of bullying. Oregon Children’s Theatre Young Professionals Studio Theatre, 1939 NE Sandy Blvd., 2289571. 7 pm. Free.

The Children’s Hour

Gay culture seems to evolve so quickly that any snapshot is almost instantly antiquated. Offering a queer eye to a straight guy today is almost as passé as wearing an earring in your right ear. Ten years from now, people will recall the primitive times when two women in Arkansas couldn’t marry each other. But despite any change in circumstances, gays and lesbians continue to have many of the same conversations. Alcoholism, sex, abuse, suicide—while these topics aren’t confined to gay circles, their ubiquity over the decades reminds us that not all ground covered is new. Director Jon Kretzu vividly conveys this in two seminal works of homosexual theater now at Defunkt: The Children’s Hour and The Boys in the Band (see review also on this page). Darker than its counterpart, Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour is less about homosexuality than about gossip. The play focuses on a sociopathic monster of a little girl, Mary (Roxanne Stathos), who pretends to faint one second and attacks a classmate the next. Melissa Whitney and Grace Carter star as headmistresses of a private school, but Mary and the three other girls loom over the stage in school desks for most of the show, giving the play an ominous tone. The Children’s Hour was first performed in 1934, when even the mention of homosexuality on stage was illegal in New York, though the play’s popularity gained it a pass. It’s a suspenseful tale, and while slow at times, the gravitas of its historical context isn’t lost on today’s audience. AARON SPENCER. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 481-2960. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Sundays through June 15. $15-$20.

Crooked

As Crooked opens, 14-year-old Laney reads aloud a short story she’s just written, about a murderous lemonade vendor, to her mother, Elise. Elise tells Laney to make it more realistic. “You always say that!” Laney shrieks. “You always want me to be more realistic!” Perhaps Elise wants Laney to take a page from playwright Catherine Trieschmann, who has crafted a remarkably grounded threewoman drama. This sharp and affecting production, directed by Philip Cuomo, taps into the delusions, tensions and pains of adolescence with its story of Laney (Kayla Lian), a precocious tomboy who moves with her newly divorced mother (Maureen Porter) to Mississippi. Laney suffers from back spasms, though she claims she’s grateful for the condition even if it makes her an outcast. “I’m glad I have it because now I know how shallow people are,” she tells her only friend Maribel (Meghan Chambers), a chubby, intensely religious 16-year-old misfit. Lian and Chambers convey the

anxiety of a friendship not yet solidified, with Lian’s eyes wide as she waits for her friend’s approval on a new short story, and Chambers picking nervously at an apple with her fingernails. The role of Maribel is a tonally tricky one, but Chambers doesn’t condescend, even as her character describes her “invisible stigmata” and soliloquizes about everlasting hell. Porter, meanwhile, brings both sarcasm and affection to her role, throwing up her arms when her daughter declares herself “a holiness lesbian” but also dispensing earnest sex advice to the girls. Trieschmann has an ear for the teenage idiom as well as the searing barbs mothers and daughters sling at one another—this is comedy that stings and reality that sings. REBECCA JACOBSON. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 715-1114. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through June 8. $25.

pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through June 9. $35.

The Left Hand of Darkness

When Portland author Ursula K. Le Guin wrote The Left Hand of Darkness in 1969, she imagined it as a thought experiment. What would a world be like, she asked, where humans spent most of their lives as androgynous beings? A world where people only adopted sexual identities for a few days each month, and could become either male or female? So it’s fitting that this new adaptation of Le Guin’s novel is rather experimental itself. The show, co-produced by Hand2Mouth Theatre and Portland Playhouse and directed by Jonathan Walters, follows

Le Guin’s narrative but also incorporates stylized movement, haunting songs and an immersive synth score to transport the audience to Gethen, an icy planet populated by androgynous beings. We meet Estraven (Allison Tigard), the prime minister exiled for treason, and Genly (Damian Thompson), an envoy sent from Earth. John Schmor’s overstuffed script works hard to establish an intricate set of political circumstances, but it grows convoluted even for those familiar with the novel. The second act gains steam, charting Estraven and Genly’s treacherous trek over a glacier and the thawing of their frosty relationship. What unfolds here—as these two

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REVIEW J E R R Y M O U AWA D

PERFORMANCE

Disassembly

[NEW REVIEW] Evan has bad luck. He’s been hit by a golf cart, scarred by scissors and injured in various other accidents. Steve Yockey’s play opens with Evan’s most recent injury, a stabbing. Following this, his twin sister, Ellen, and his fiancee, Diane, try to help him recover while dealing with a stream of visitors to their apartment. Guests include Tessa, Ellen’s well-mannered friend who is always in mourning; Stanley, Tessa’s lovesick best friend with a scary temper; Jerome, Ellen’s Napoleon Dynamite-esque boyfriend; and Mirabelle, the nagging, bitter neighbor who likes to carry a stuffed cat. What starts as a quickpaced and charming black comedy— full of bewildered looks, polite smiles and recurring gags (usually involving Evan’s wound)—soon turns into something darker as these strangers learn more about each other. Perhaps just as strong as the black humor is the Action/Adventure Theatre cast, directed by Noah Dunham to goofy, awkward near-perfection. As Diane, Jai Lavette delivers a delightfully real portrayal amid the lunacy, and Cecily Crow’s continuous nervous laughter as Tessa keeps the audience chuckling. KAITIE TODD. Action/Adventure Theatre, 1050 SE Clinton St. 8 pm Thursdays-Sundays through June 9. $15, Thursdays “pay what you will.”

The Good Person of Setzuan

Portland State University presents Tony Kushner’s adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s meditation on morality about a young prostitute who must invent a male alter-ego for herself. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 725-3307. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Saturday, May 29-June 1. $6-$12.

Ithaka

This drama, commissioned by Portland playwright Andrea Stolowitz for Artists Repertory Theatre, examines the experience of a female Marine as she returns home from combat. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm TuesdaysSundays, 2 pm Sundays through June 30. $25-$50.

La Cage aux Folles

Even among the staunchly classical theater crowd, there is something undeniably entertaining about a man in a dress. Throw in a gay cabaret owner and his transvestite headliner/life partner—who pretend to be man and wife in order to meet conservative parents of their son’s fiance—and hilarity is bound to ensue. Lakewood Theatre’s production of La Cage aux Folles excels thanks to its supremely talented cast, in particular Joe Theissen as Albert and drag queen extraordinaire Zaza. Theissen’s singing is lovely, but it’s his mannerisms and spot-on delivery that have the audience roaring through each scene. The equally talented chorus dancers, in a hurricane of glitter and marabou, shimmy, flip and high-kick their way through the musical’s uptempo numbers in what must be the most cardio-intensive acting gig on stage. Have fun guessing which actors are actually women. PENELOPE BASS. Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, 635-3901. 7:30

EYE OF THE BEHOLDER: Anne Sorce and Kyle Delamarter.

BEAUX ARTS CLUB (IMAGO THEATRE) Beaux Arts Club opens with a strange sort of duet. Actress Anne Sorce, clad in a mod minidress and a fluffy brown wig, shimmies and swivels around an unnamed man who’s been gagged and handcuffed. At one point, she removes a shoe and whacks him with it. Sorce’s bumbling awkwardness—there’s something seductive about the way she moves, but it couldn’t be called sexy—doesn’t disguise the more sinister undercurrents lurking beneath. As she lashes the man behind a web of bungee cords and white fabric, Sorce offers coy glances to the audience. Finally tossing a tablecloth over his head, she turns back to us. “Well, that oughta do it!” she squeals. And like that, we’re complicit in the dark absurdity of this Imago Theatre production, written and directed by Carol Triffle. To an extent, an audience is always a conspirator in a live performance. But Beaux Arts Club raises questions about art, taste, criticism and voyeurism in a way that topples expectations, drawing the audience into a twisted, delightful fever dream of a play. “I went to every First Thursday this year,” says one of the play’s characters. “Turns out everything is art.” The premise is simple enough: Three thirtysomething female friends gather yearly to show off their art, read poetry and drink red wine. Wild giggles, schmaltzy kisses and honeyed voices hardly mask the cattiness and competition. Susanna (Sorce) makes little attempt to hide her eye rolls when Miranda (MeMe Samkow) unveils her photo collage, which looks like something that would hang in a middle-school locker. Miranda and Harriet (Megan Skye Hale) question Susanna’s move from painting—her canvases of black dots and swirls crowd her apartment’s walls—to 3-D installations, which has resulted in this trapped man. But Triffle’s designs are unconventional, and the play swings between hilariously overwrought dialogue and hallucinatory song-and-dance breaks. The capable cast answers Triffle’s demands with exaggerated physicality and unreserved embrace of their preposterous roles. This, along with the persistent air of menace, elevates the action to something more than camp. When Harriet mentions that she keeps all her poetry journals in her car, Miranda asks what she’ll do if they’re stolen. “How else will I get discovered?” Harriet answers, with the utmost sincerity. Sorce steals scenes throughout. She jackknifes from feline slinkiness to feral recklessness, gesturing like Vanna White at one point and growling like a dog at another. It’s a wildly unusual portrait of a downtrodden and lonely artist, but the electric Sorce makes it work. By play’s end, the mysterious man isn’t the only one trapped in her web. REBECCA JACOBSON.

Art imitates life imitating art.

SEE IT: Beaux Arts Club is at Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave., 231-3959. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sunday, June 9. Through June 9. Free, $10-$20 donation suggested. Willamette Week MAY 29, 2013 wweek.com

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navigate foreign social codes and excruciating physical tests—doesn’t need the fragmented, abstruse exposition provided earlier. And despite the centrality of gender to Le Guin’s novel, questions about androgyny and sexual difference in the play become secondary to the unconventional love story. With her white-blond hair and striking features, Tigard brings to mind Tilda Swinton, fiercely impassive and commanding. But Thompson, as the play’s lone Earthman, feels phoned-in. The androgynous humans around him refer to him as a pervert, yet Thompson seems the least sexed of them all. (If you saw his violently seductive performance in last year’s Brother/Sister Plays at Portland Playhouse, you know he’s capable of more.) “Ambitious” is often a euphemism for “unsuccessful,” and there are pieces of The Left Hand of Darkness that are both. H2M and Portland Playhouse gave themselves a massive challenge in adapting Le Guin’s dense and complicated novel for the stage. Best, then, to treat the play as an experiment: a gutsy leap into Le Guin’s world, which these scientists and voyagers are still learning to navigate. REBECCA JACOBSON. Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St., 488-5822. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Saturdays-Sundays through June 16. $23-$32.

The People’s Republic of Portland

It would be easy to carp about Lauren Weedman’s mispronunciation and misnaming of this newspaper (on opening night, she referred to it as “Will-uh-met Weekly”). But that would be too simple, and just a bit cheap. (And it was apparently a deliberate mispronunciation, the show’s dramaturg has informed me.) No, I applaud Weedman, a Los Angeles resident and former Daily Show correspondent, for picking up a copy of WW in her mission to understand our city, a quest she details in this solo show commissioned by Portland Center Stage. But Weedman—an affable monologist, gifted physical comedian and pretty decent dancer— may well have lost this one before she even started. Though her talents are on display, The People’s Republic of Portland winds up somewhere between Portlandia-style potshots and The New York Times’ lovey-dovey coos, with Weedman’s confessional bursts more genuine than those on The Real World but still not meaty enough to carry the performance. The 90-minute show, directed by Rose Riordan, has live-wire Weedman bouncing between humorous anecdotes, skillful character impersonations, hip-hop dance breaks and thoughts about her family. These personal considerations provide a loose framework, but they’re underdeveloped. Weedman’s observations about Portland, meanwhile, hit too many of the expected beats. The show has a bearded barista, a public transit proselytizer, a tattooed stripper, gaggles of Amelie look-alikes, geek trivia whizzes and a woman rhapsodizing about her vision quest at an ecstatic dance party. Weedman—who speaks without punctuation or pause, animated to the point of near-hysteria—presents herself as unguarded, but there’s a caginess to her. It’s one of the things that makes her so engaging: There’s a sense she’s withholding something from the audience, or even from herself. But this undercurrent of anxiety pairs uneasily with her jokes, which seem designed for PCS subscribers to chuckle knowingly about the quaint and quirky charms of our attention-loving city. Strangely, I left the show feeling bad, and almost embarrassed, for Weedman. She’s witty and dynamic, and it’s clear she’s taken with Portland. But Portland isn’t her wheelhouse, and People’s Republic feels unfinished. REBECCA JACOBSON. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm TuesdaysSundays, 2 pm Sundays and select Saturdays, noon Thursdays through June 30. $34-$54.

Rock of Ages

Lovers of ’80s cliches and arena rock, break out that acid-washed denim: Broadway Across America brings a musical to Portland that tells a love story through the songs of Pat Benatar, Journey, Twisted Sister and more. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 800-745-3000. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Friday; 2 pm and 7:30 pm

Pipes: An Improvised Musical

At first glance, it would seem difficult to craft a full-fledged musical around flying, fairies and the Western television drama Gunsmoke—and even more so when the lyrics, music and story are to be created entirely on the spot. But if the task seems daunting or implausible, you wouldn’t know it by watching this Curious Comedy ensemble. After a brief opening improv show featuring local comedians, the rotating lineup of Pipes performers takes the stage, eliciting a quick series of audience suggestions for inspiration. At a recent Saturday performance, the Pipes quintet managed to flesh out an hourlong musical inspired by the aforementioned suggestions, complete with a healthy dose of songs accompanied by pianist Knute Snortum. Yet for improvisation, the show appeared surprisingly polished, anchored by a talented group of performers who enjoy the spontaneity and abrupt plot twists of every act. Watching the ensemble musically fumble as they piece together a song about oversized gun barrels is just as amusing as the quick dialogue that carries the story along, albeit rather slowly at times. It’s not audience expectations or preconceptions that make Pipes enticing, however—it’s the lack thereof. BRANDON WIDDER. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm FridaysSaturdays through June 1. $12-$15.

Portland’s Funniest Person Contest the seagull Saturday; 1 pm and 6:30 pm Sunday, May 29-June 2. $20-$60.

Sombras Borrachas

Paper Eclipse Puppet Company presents four original shadow-puppet plays, including a dreamy meditation on the misty storms of the Scottish coast. Because if there’s anything this city needs, it’s puppet theater about northern Europe. Jack London Bar, 529 SW 4th Ave., 228-7605. 9 pm Thursday, May 30. $5.

Somewhere in Time

Somewhere in Time started out as a novel by Richard Matheson called Bid Time Return, a sci-fi romance about a man who travels back to the 19th century to woo an actress. In 1980, it became a film with Christopher Reeves and Jane Seymour. And now, it’s a musical, getting its world premiere at Portland Center Stage, with a cast and crew boasting plenty of Broadway credits. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Sundays, 2 pm SaturdaysSundays, noon Thursdays through June 30. $30-$70.

The Seagull

Like many great works of art, Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull was booed on its 1896 opening night before finding wild success. Northwest Classical Theatre Co.’s production, directed by Don Alder, uses an intimate venue and emotive acting to add immediacy to this theatrical jewel. Set in the lakeside summertime home of Irina (Jane Bement Geesman), an aging but famous actress, and her idealistic playwright son Konstantin (Ben Buckley), the play’s atmosphere seems idyllic. Yet, as Irina admits, “It’s hot and humid. No one does anything! Everyone philosophizes.” An ensemble cast bears the comedy that arises from what becomes a love hexagon, but unrequited and uncertain desires, along with Konstantin’s attempted suicide, temper any humor. The writer Trigorin, one of Chekhov’s deepest characters, is valiantly played by Jason Maniccia. In the center stand Brenan Dwyer as a fragile but sunny Nina and Clara-Liis Hillier, Nina’s foil as a jaded, black-hearted Masha. The tone is convoluted and dark, but as Nina advises, “You must learn to bear your cross.” MITCH LILLIE. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 971-244-3740. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through June 16. $20.

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Who Stole My Dead Husband?

The long-running dinner theater comedy returns for a six-show run, with the cast chomping down on Italian cliches as attendees gorge on meatballs and guzzle wine. Madison’s East Wing, 1125 SE Madison St., 9617221. 7:30 pm Fridays-Saturdays through June 1. $57-$69.

A Year With Frog and Toad

Local comedians compete for the crown of most hilarious in town. Preliminary rounds run through June 7, with semifinals on June 8 and finals on June 9. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm TuesdaysThursdays, through June 6; 7:30 pm and 10 pm Friday, June 7. $10-$15.

Sarah Colonna

The Chelsea Lately writer and regular brings her irreverent brand of standup to Helium. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 pm and 10 pm FridaySaturday, May 30-June 1. $15-$27.

Oregon Children’s Theatre springs around the forest with this vaudeville-style musical about the amphibious friends. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 228-9571. 2 pm SaturdaySunday, June 1-2. $15-$30.

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U.S.S. Improvise

Diabolical Experiments

Improv jam show featuring Brody performers and other local improvisers. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 2242227. 7 pm every Sunday. $5.

Dom-Prov

If your idea of fun is playing improv games with a leather-clad dominatrix as an audience hurls marshmallows at you, this Unscriptables show is for you. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 309-3723. 10 pm every Saturday. $10.

Friday Night Fights

Competitive improv, with two teams battling for stage time. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 10 pm every first and third Friday. $5.

Girls! Girls! Girls!

Brody’s all-female improv troupe sets out to prove that ladies have got comedic chops, too. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Saturdays through June 1. $8-$10.

Micetro

Brody Theater’s popular elimination-style improv competition. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm every Friday. $9-$12.

Natasha Leggero

The sharp and nervy Natasha Leggero headlines the monthly comedy showcase, which also features Barbara Holm and Jason Traeger. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 2883895. 10 pm Thursday, May 30. $20$25.

Stand-up, improv and sketch, swirled together by Brody’s in-house and visiting performers. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 10 pm Saturdays through June 15. $3.

The Unscriptables craft Star Trekinspired improv, complete with music, props and costumes Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 841-6734. 8 pm Saturdays through June 1. “Pay what you want.”

Weekly Recurring Humor Night

Whitney Streed hosts a weekly comedy showcase, featuring local comics and out-of-towners. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 2380543. 9:30 pm every Wednesday. “Pay what you want,” $3-$5 suggested.

classical Azar Lawrence Quintet

For many jazzers, 1964 to 1965 represents the pinnacle of John Coltrane’s searching artistry—just before the often overextended excursions that prompted many to get off the ’Trane. Fueled by a spiritual resurgence, the great tenor saxophonist pushed the modal improvisation style he’d been cultivating for the previous half-decade (after leaving Miles Davis’ band) to the breaking point, resulting in classic albums like A Love Supreme, Transition and Crescent. L.A.-based alto and tenor saxophonist Lawrence, who worked with Coltrane’s great bandmates—pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones—for years, has earned raves for his channeling of Coltrane’s sound and spirit. He’ll be joined by Portland’s own tenor giant, Devin Phillips, and other local jazz stars George Colligan, Alan Jones and Eric Gruberin this PDX Jazz ’Trane tribute. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 8 pm and 9:15 pm Thursday, May 30; 8 pm, 9:15 pm and 10:30 pm Friday, May 31. $18-$22.

Big Horn Brass

In this family-friendly concert, the orchestra offers a horny tribute to movie music, featuring brassy arrangements of music from The Incredibles, Star Trek films, Silverado and more. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 2222031. 7 pm Sunday, June 2. $10-$15.

Portland State University Choirs

Since Ethan Sperry took over the PSU choral program, the conductorarranger’s expertise in world music has immensely broadened the range of programming and made its concerts a lot more fun, exciting and exploratory. This season-ending show features a quartet of choirs (male, female, small, large) singing songs from Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, South Africa and Zimbabwe, plus the winners of the choir’s admirable new music-composition competition. As a bonus, PSU’s striking new Taiko Drumming Ensemble will feature work by multiple Grammy- and Oscar-winning Indian film composer A. R. Rahman, whose dozens of film scores include Slumdog Millionaire. First United Methodist Church, 1838 SW Jefferson St., 725-3307. 7:30 pm Friday, May 31 and 4 pm Sunday, June 2. $7-$12.

Rocky Blumhagen, Susannah Mars, Lindsay Deutsch

In this benefit for Portland Chamber Orchestra, the city’s well-known cabaret-theater singer (Mars) joins bigband vocalist Blumhagen and L.A. violinist (and racquetball champ) Deutsch in music by the Gershwins and Cole Porter. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 771-3250. 7 pm Monday, June 3. $25.

Venerable Showers of Beauty with Heni Savitri and Midiyanto Mindy Johnston

Lewis & Clark College’s gamelan ensemble joins the Celebrations Works concert series to showcase a selection of Javanese classical music. Directed by Javanese musician and former teacher Ki Midiyanto and featuring traditional Javanese bronze instruments and puppetry, the concert will also include a rare performance by a pesindhen—a female vocalist, here Heni Savitri, who sings along with the gamelan. KAITIE TODD. First Presbyterian Church, 1200 SW Alder St., 228-7331. 2 pm Sunday, June 2. $10-$12.

dance Luciana Proano

Peruvian cultural dancer Proaño presents Chaski, a performance based on the Quechua word for “messenger.” Accompanied by guitar and several percussion instruments, Proaño guides the audience through a dream of positive transformations as a testament to human endurance. Studio 14, 333 NE Hancock St. 8 pm Fridays, May 10-31 and June 14-21. $10-$15.

Pacific Dance Makers

Éowyn Emerald brings together six choreographers for the second installation of her showcase of Northwest dance. The performances include familiar pieces to Portland audiences: Carla Mann’s perception-curving video Displaced and Rachel Slater’s recent Lorazepam, Sweaty Palms and the Shakes, in which the title speaks for itself. Cameos from Seattle choreographers Anna Conner and Maya Soto provide excerpts of newer pieces: Conner’s A Nest in Luna looks at the dark side of pack mentality, while Soto’s Gathering Bones revisits medieval archetypes. Emerald herself delivers an expanded version of I Asked of You, which premiered with BodyVox-2 this past winter, and conceptual artist Dawn Stoppiello gives the audience a chance to rearrange noisemakers to create an improvisational composition. BodyVox Dance Center, 1201 NW 17th Ave., 229-0627. 5:30 pm and 8 pm Saturday, June 1. $15-$20.

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VISUAL ARTS

MAY 29–JUNE 4

= 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.

guided his selection of artists for this exhibition, among whom are painter Dan Ness and mixed-media artist Richard Schemmerer. Through June 9. Mark Woolley Gallery @ Pioneer, 700 SW 5th Ave., third floor, Pioneer Place Mall, 998-4152.

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Ann Ploeger: My Melinda

Who can forget photographer Ann Ploeger’s gory 2009 series of blood-spattered faces, aptly titled Blood? She’s up to the old horror antics again in her current show at Pushdot, My Melinda. This sublimely creepy show features a single model portraying the eponymous foxy redhead, a character in fauxhorror movies drawn from Ploeger’s imagination. In photo after photo, the intrepid Melinda finds herself in danger’s path: inside a claustrophobic shower enclosure, glimpsed by a voyeur through a window at night. What harm will befall her? Can sheer pluck and great lipstick save her from impending doom? Through May 31. Pushdot, 2505 SE 11th Ave., Suite 104, 224-5925.

Cynthia Lahti: Elsewhere

In Elsewhere, Cynthia Lahti combines ceramics with pages from old books, photographs of the circus, party favors and mass-produced figurines. By cobbling these objects together, she aims—not very successfully—to evoke common memories from the well of the collective unconscious. She made these works last year during a residency in Berlin, and indeed, with their marriage of abstruseness and decadence, they exude a decidedly Eurotrash sensibility. They withhold just enough meaning to make you feel cheated, and allow just enough to make you feel cheap. Through June 1. PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.

Gail Tremblay: Reframing Images, Conceptualizing Indigenous Art

Gail Tremblay’s vividly colorful sculptures would be noteworthy even if you didn’t know their backstory. But factor that story in, and they become downright intriguing. A member of the Onondaga and Micmac nations, Tremblay stitches together strips of 16 mm and 35 mm film and leader into basket forms. These sculptures reference native basket-weaving traditions and the ways in which those traditions have long been used to stereotype Native Americans. With their interplay of black- and brown-hued film stock; green, red and yellow leader; and metallic thread, the works have an all-too-rare blend of formal beauty and conceptual ambiguity. Through June 1. Froelick Gallery, 714 NW Davis St., 222-1142.

HEADS

Curator Alex Frum zooms in on the human head as an aesthetic trope in the 11-artist show HEADS. Painters, illustrators and a sculptor interpret the subject matter in a contemporary light, even as they nod and wink at antecedents like the classical bust and cheesy photographic “head shots.” Frum is a fashion portrait photographer, and his eye for intense saturation and sharp angles

Whether they’re called dandies, fops or, in the Congo, “sapeurs,” it’s undeniable that people who dress with conspicuous panache provide eye candy for everyone in their sartorial and social orbits. Spanish documentary photographer Hector Mediavilla traveled to the Republic of Congo to document exemplars of the country’s “sapeur” style. These dressersto-the-nines model themselves after Congolese citizens who visited Paris in the 1920s and returned home with a distinct Parisian flair. Mediavilla’s photo essay highlighting these men’s contemporary heirs gets to the heart of costume’s sometimes uneasy relationship with identity. Through June 2. Newspace Center for Photography, 1632 SE 10th Ave., 963-1935.

Jaq Chartier: Ultra Marine

Fuchsia blobs slowly morph before a fuzzy white background in Jaq Chartier’s transfixing video installation in the exhibition Ultra Marine. Known for her stain-based paintings, Chartier deploys her signature motifs to depict sea creatures in this show. Particularly revelatory are her works on paper, many of which have glittery surfaces that evoke the phenomenon of bioluminescence. The works on panel are most effective when, as in Floaters, the gestures are big and bold. The fact that Chartier has adapted her essentially abstract style so seamlessly to representational imagery shows just how versatile her technique has become. Through June 1. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521.

Lucas Foglia: A Natural Order

Lucas Foglia’s photo essay A Natural Order charts his four-year trek through the backwaters of the American Southeast, documenting the lives of people living off the grid. Some are hippies, some have chosen this way of life for religious reasons, some out of anti-government sentiment, others out of sheer poverty or desperation. Foglia captures them with a piquant but sympathetic eye as they skinny-dip, hunt for food with bows and arrows, teach their daughters to shoot guns, and store freshly slaughtered meat in pinkwatered clawfoot tubs. This is one of Blue Sky’s most beautiful and disturbing shows to date. Through June 2. Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 225-0210.

Matt Leavitt: Curio

Matt Leavitt’s Curio consists of a sand castle, a photo of a tarp-covered car, and 17 doorstops. And that’s it. Are you fascinated yet? Leavitt’s artist statement calls the installation’s elements “archetypes in a critique of the isolation they suggest.” They are, he continues, part of his overall artistic emphasis on “reconciling rational thought with the immediacy and sensuality of direct experience.” With due respect to doorstops, this is exactly the brand of horseshit that has landed the bulk of contemporary art in its current postmodern quagmire. To assemble a hodgepodge this facile, then attempt to rationalize it with M.F.A. lingo this gaseous, takes true nerve. Oy vey. Through June 1. PDX Window Project, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.

Renée Zangara: Ruralization

With Portland’s backyard-chicken craze having gone viral to the point of metastasis, you’d think artists

would pounce to parody the phenomenon, just as the TV show Portlandia has. But that’s not what Renée Zangara does in her paean to poultry, Ruralization. No, she plays it straight, rendering chickens and roosters, along with pigs and sheep, with a neo-Impressionist technique that romanticizes rather than satirizes. In the painting Scuffle, she renders a cockfight as a flurry of jots and dashes that would read as an abstract painting, were it not for a beak here, some waddle there, and the odd claw. The chicken fad itself is annoying as hell, but somehow Zangara’s Ruralization elicits more smiles than smirks. Through June 2. Nine Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 227-7114.

Sandy Roumagoux: Thresholds

Artist (and mayor of Newport, Ore.) Sandy Roumagoux slathers her canvases with creamy paint, her quick brushwork conveying a dynamism that counterbalances the serenity of her landscapes. In pieces like Moonshine Falls I and II and Logsden Clearcut, she portrays Oregon’s natural environs with affection and an assured technique. “Northwest regionalism” is sometimes used as a pejorative, but Roumagoux elevates both the phrase and the style itself in these elegant works. Less regal but more amusing than her landscapes are her quirky Family Shelf Life pastiches, with their panting dogs, idiosyncratic portraits and cobbled tchotchkes. Through June 1. Blackfish Gallery, 420 NW 9th Ave., 234-2634.

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Ted Katz: Questions

After his beloved mother passed away, painter Ted Katz traveled to Eastern Europe and Russia to absorb the heritage that had been hers. In those diverse landscapes, both terrestrial and psychological, he found the inspiration for the paintings in Questions. Katz paints landscapes semi-abstractly, so that according to the viewer’s eye and mood, swaths of color register either as sweeping brushstrokes, plains, hills or misty skies. In works such as What Light You Have, he tilts the horizon line, imbuing the composition with the slightly off-kilter ambiguity of questions—such as “Who was my mother, and who am I?”—that cannot fully be answered. Through June 1. Butters Gallery, 520 NW Davis St., second floor, 248-9378.

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Uncontrollable Urge

You’ve heard of the yeti, right? You know, the Abominable Snowman? But Yeti is also the name of a multiformat journal edited by Mike McGonigal, who conceived the project as “a general-interest magazine for those with marginal interests.” Thirty artists from around the world, including seven based in Portland, will exhibit artwork featured in Yeti’s pages through the years, much of it with a lowbrow or self-taught aesthetic. The show coincides with the publication of Yeti issue No. 13. To miss it would be…abominable. Through June 14. Portland Museum of Modern Art, 5202 N Albina Ave., 953-0515.

Wider Than a Postcard

Talk about whiplash! You couldn’t swing any further from Breeze Block’s previous show—Stephen Scott Smith’s immersive and monolithic installation—to the gallery’s current offering, which incorporates more than 200 small works by as many artists. How small? They’re the size of a postcard. Curator Sven Davis asked the artists to use existing postcards or to create their own, with each piece themed around the postcard’s locale. Beyond that, anything goes. It’s an exercise in stylistic heterogeneity within homogenous spatial constraints, and while the work varies wildly in subject matter and quality, the salon-style hang lends a spunky energy to the show as a whole. Through June 1. Breeze Block Gallery, 323 NW 6th Ave., 318-6228

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BOOKS

MAY 29–JUNE 4

= 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.

THURSDAY, MAY 30 Alan Greenberg

Author and screenwriter Alan Greenberg, known best for his work with Werner Herzog on Heart of Glass, will read from his new book, Love in Vain: A Vision of Robert Johnson, about the short and mysterious life of the famed Mississippi Delta blues musician. Daedalus Books, 2074 NW Flanders St., 2747742. 7 pm. Free.

Charles Yu

Charles Yu, whose debut novel, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, put him on the map of writers to watch, will read from his new collection of short stories, Sorry Please Thank You. Already receiving high acclaim for his humorous and heartbreaking sophomore effort, Yu is garnering lofty comparisons to the likes of Kurt Vonnegut and George Saunders. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.

The PDXX Collective

Celebrating the achievements of women writers and entrepreneurs, the PDXX Collective will host the first in a series of readings spotlighting the women writers of our time, with each event partnered with a local female-owned business. Reading this time will be Andrea Janda, Trish Bendix, Kait Heacock, Lauren Hudgins and Katie Ash, among others. Record Room, 8 NE Killingsworth St., 7 pm. Free.

Jonathan Haidt

Can we ever really agree to disagree? Author, lecturer and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt (The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion) will examine this topic in his free talk “What on Earth Is Happening to Us? Polarization, Demonization and Paralysis in American Politics.” University of Oregon Portland campus, 70 NW Couch St., 412-3696. 7 pm. Free.

FRIDAY, MAY 31 Mark Tercek

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Calculating the worth of the natural world seems to fall into either the exploitation or preservation category. Is there a happy medium where we can benefit from nature’s resources without raping and leaving it for dead? Mark Tercek, CEO of the Nature Conservancy, worked at Goldman Sachs for 25 years and argues that the environment is the best investment we can make in his new book, Nature’s Fortune. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.

Walt Whitman

Local organization Walt Whitman 150 celebrates the aesthetics and lasting impact of Whitman’s work with biennial events to both honor the poet’s work and inspire new writers. Featured readers and winners of the Walt Whitman 150 include Paulann Petersen, Leah Stenson, Margaret Chula and Don Coburn. TaborSpace, 5441 SE Belmont St. 7 pm. Free.

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As far as radio variety shows go, Live Wire is essentially the awesome antithesis of Prairie Home Companion. This week’s show featurescomedian and actress Kristen Schaal (30 Rock), writer Scott Jacobson (The Daily Show), comedian and author Jen Kirkman (I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales

From a Happy Life Without Kids), sex-advice columnist and founder of the “It Gets Better” project Dan Savage, cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt (My Dirty Dumb Eyes) and kick-ass band the Builders and the Butchers. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 7:30 pm. $20$35.

MONDAY, JUNE 3 Khaled Hosseini

Proving he has a knack for inflicting emotional turmoil with his previous books The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini will read from his new novel, And the Mountains Echoed.

Maria Wulff, president of the World Affairs Council of Oregon, will join Hosseini in conversation about his work following the reading. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm. $38.95.

TUESDAY, JUNE 4 Naseem Rakha

Most people visit the Grand Canyon on a family road trip. But local author Naseem Rakha (The Crying Tree) spent January living alone on the south rim of the canyon as the park’s artist-in-residence. Rakha will share stories, writings and photos from her trip. Willamette Writers will host her presentation “The Transformative Core of Writing.” The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 2222031. 7 pm. $10.

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REVIEW

LARRY COLTON, SOUTHERN LEAGUE By all accounts, Birmingham, Ala., was the epicenter of the civil-rights movement of the ’60s. It was there that two of the most important moments in the fight surrounding segregation occurred: the arrest of Martin Luther King Jr., which resulted in his still-powerful “Letter From a Birmingham Jackie Robinson played for the Jail,” and the bombing of a Dodgers in 1947. Meanwhile, in Alabama... Baptist church that killed four young girls. The city is also where, in 1964, the Birmingham Barons, a minor-league affiliate of the Kansas City A’s, returned baseball to the city after a two-year absence, this time boasting an integrated team and park. The chicken-wire fencing to separate black and white patrons was torn down, and starting for the Barons were four South American players and one African-American. By focusing on this team in his latest nonfiction work, Southern League: A True Story of Baseball, Civil Rights, and the Deep South’s Most Compelling Pennant Race (Grand Central, 319 pages, $28), author and onetime WW contributor Larry Colton achieves something of a double play. Primarily, Colton showcases his ability to write about his favorite sport (he pitched briefly for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1968), painting a vivid portrait of the Barons at their best and worst on the diamond. But by following the team throughout the season, Colton can provide a quick and dirty history lesson on the post-Jim Crow, pre-Civil Rights Act South. As the team hit the road for away games, he details how towns like Charlotte, N.C., and Knoxville, Tenn., were embracing or still fighting against desegregation. As with any story of this kind, the impression is most deep when Colton focuses on individuals, such as star players like pitcher Johnny “Blue Moon” Odom or Cuban émigré Bert Campaneris dealing with taunts from the stands or having to depart postgame for a restaurant or hotel far from the rest of their teammates. That said, Colton’s real strength is writing about the baseball side of this story, which means Southern League is probably going to appeal more to students of sports history than readers looking for a deep exploration of desegregation. For the former, though, the book is a sheer delight, reveling in the personalities (each short chapter is named for and focuses on one of the Barons) and the crass underbelly of America’s pastime. ROBERT HAM. GO: Larry Colton reads at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651, on Wednesday, May 29. 7:30 pm. Free.

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D I R . M I R A N D A J U LY

MOVIES

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

D+ Jackie Robinson is an American

legend: The first black player to break Major League Baseball’s color barrier, he shouldered the hopes of a generation, weathering a flurry of abuse to open the gates for future players to partake in America’s pastime. Brian Helgeland’s Robinson biopic, 42, will also secure a spot in history: history class. This is the kind of shoddy biopic that teachers will keep in the bullpen for sick days, so some hung-over substitute can put it on for a “lesson.” Yet this is neither a good sports movie nor a worthwhile historical film. If one were to piece together Robinson’s story based solely on 42, it would read as follows: Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman) was a nice, college-educated man who loved his wife. One day, Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford) called him up to the bigs. Most white players didn’t like him, spending so much time snarling racial slurs they didn’t realize he was both nice and good at baseball. Then everyone realized he was good at baseball. Then they were friends. Despite Boseman’s best efforts, Robinson’s character is criminally underdeveloped, and Ford is reduced to the kind of white-person-solves-racism role that scored Sandra Bullock an Oscar. Even the baseball sequences are lazily constructed. Hell, Remember the Titans is a more complex, moving portrait of racial tensions in sports. 42 is a hackneyed, cookie-cutter film that manages to tell us absolutely nothing about a turning point in American history. But on the bright side, at least it’ll provide endless naps for future history students when their teachers are sick. PG13. AP KRYZA. Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall, City Center, Clackamas, Tigard, Cedar Hills, Bridgeport, Cinema 99, Hilltop, Sherwood, Wilsonville.

After Earth

D A millennium from now, humanity has abandoned Earth. But after their ship crash-lands, Gen. Cypher Raige (Will Smith) and his son Kitai (Jaden Smith) are forced to return to this forsaken planet. Cypher has broken both of his legs, so Kitai must set out alone against feral megafauna and rough terrain to find a rescue beacon, with Cypher giving instructions via radio. “Do exactly as I tell you,” Cypher says, “and we will survive.” With Cypher constantly imploring Kitai to take a knee, the whole quest feels like Kitai is the quarterback and Cypher the coach of a futuristic (though still stereotypical) football team, complete with in-helmet walkie-talkie. It’s unclear whether the wooden performances should be chalked up to director M. Night Shyamalan and his atrocious work of late—his name appears only in the small print of the film’s posters— or to the Smith family’s fatigue as the only central characters. For what it’s worth, pervasive CGI is well-integrated into the exotic locations. With Will Smith credited for the story and writer Gary Whitta working with Shyamalan on the screenplay, here’s one bit of welcome news: In 1000 years, the Shyamalan twist is no longer allowed. PG-13. MITCH LILLIE. Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.

At Any Price

C+ If a film could be a genetically modified organism, it would be this overly earnest family melodrama, a pastiche of oedipal strife, heartland clichés and Zac Efron’s perfect hair. The High School Musical alum struggles to prove he can act as the bad-boy youngest of Henry Whipple (Dennis Quaid), a fourth-generation corn-farming patriarch whose awkward attempts at wooing clients include candy bars and painfully forced “casual” charm. With his beloved eldest—the former high-school quar-

terback, natch—off scaling mountains in Argentina, Henry wants Dean (Efron) to step up, but Dean has his sights on a NASCAR bid that will get him out of small-town Iowa. Henry has designs on more than new business and his makeshift heir apparent: He’s juggling a mistress (Heather Graham, again, natch), a tacky graveside play for more land and authorities increasingly suspicious that he’s reselling genetically modified seeds. Director and co-writer Ramin Bahrani’s strokes are as subtle as a Mack truck— fisticuffs and trophies, windmills and grain fields, stars and stripes, and lines like “That is beer, beer and abortion money.” The highlight here is Quaid’s measured, curiously physical performance, a coda to the aging hero of Everybody’s All-American. Twenty-five years later, that once-winning smile admits despair—not only can Henry no longer convince others of his success, he can’t convince himself. R. AMANDA SCHURR. Eastport.

Backbone: Early Vancouver Experimental Cinema, 1967-1981

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] For more than a decade, Vancouver, B.C., was an epicenter for avant-garde filmmaking, which director Richard Martin explores in this documentary. After Backbone, stay to watch several key films of the era. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Wednesday, May 29.

Becoming Traviata

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film’s end still be an anticlimax if the film was never exciting? Better off just to call the thing an amputee. Becoming Traviata is meant as a documentary of an uncharacteristic production of one of opera’s most sumptuous and overproduced spectacles, Verdi’s La Traviata. When a few of opera’s major stars, including coloratura soprano Natalie Dessay and tenor heartthrob Charles Castronovo, are involved, a minimalist production is that bloated art form’s version of punk rock. Too bad, then, that the film offers no context for musical director JeanFrançois Sivadier’s staging, nor does it even offer much of a glimpse of the final product. Mostly, you spend an hour and a half watching singing practice, and you’re meant to tremble with awe at the wondrous insight you’ve received merely by being on the opposite side of a camera lens from artistic titans. In a few scenes—in particular a few moments of interplay between Sivadier and Dessay that recall boxing footwork as much as artistic collaboration—there’s the sense of a greater purpose. But mostly the documentary meanders aimlessly, dead to what it sees, so all that beautiful singing turns out to be the entertainment at a funeral. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Friday-Sunday, May 31-June 2.

Bel Borba Aqui

B- [TWO DAYS ONLY] Like a sunny,

art-filled vacation, Bel Borba Aqui follows an artist through the coastal Brazilian city of Salvador as he cuts sculptures, decorates neighborhoods with mosaics and paints abandoned buildings. Bel Borba is a quick-to-smile, middle-aged artist who works where he wants, without permission, and who has been adding to the art of his city for the past 35 years. Capturing the lush colors of the markets, beaches and houses as well as in Bel Borba’s own art, the cinematography is beautiful. Yet where the film succeeds is also where it leaves you wanting. Co-directed by Burt Sun and Andre Costantini, the documentary covers a wide breadth of Bel Borba’s work—from his seabird mosaics to the airplane he paints with fish scales and fins. But the film, for all its focus on how Bel Borba makes his art and his connection to place, doesn’t delve deeply into how Bel Borba operates as an artist. We

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CALL ME, BEEP ME: Carrie Brownstein in Sleater-Kinney’s 1999 video for “Get Up.”

CRASH COURSE

A GUIDED TOUR THROUGH PORTLAND’S MUSIC-VIDEO HISTORY. BY B R A N DON WIDDER

bwidder@wweek.com

When filmmaker and Portland State professor Dustin Morrow founded the Portland Music Video Festival last year, he limited the event to videos produced in Portland. This year, he solicited submissions from around the globe. Over 100 submissions poured in from more than 30 countries, and Morrow and his panel selected the best, which will screen at the Hollywood Theatre on Thursday, May 30. With this forward-looking fest showcasing brand-new music videos for the likes of Sallie Ford and Cypress Hill, we decided to take a look back at landmarks in Portland’s music-video history. Quarterflash, “Harden My Heart” (1981)

Premise: The video for the New Wave pop-rock number features everything from well-dressed little people to Daft Punk-esque action figures carrying flamethrowers through the desert. It’s anyone’s guess how the disjointed scenes connect to a song about tough love and moving on. Significance: Quarterflash’s hit single was one of the first music videos to land on MTV during the network’s debut year. Plus, lead singer Rindy Ross’ sax solo in the rain is one of the smoothest to date. U-Krew, “If U Were Mine” (1989)

Premise: The video by Portland’s rising R&B and hip-hop hybrid U-Krew epitomizes ’80s trends: big hair, Crayola-bright backdrop, keytar, stellar synchronized dance moves. This ode to the opposite sex captures the boys macking on some booty-swiveling ladies amid the running synths and hand claps. Significance: Portland wasn’t known nationally for its hip-hop scene prior to U-Krew. “If U Were Mine,” though, rocketed to No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100, proving homegrown hip-hop acts could achieve commercial viability and mainstream success. The Dandy Warhols, “The Dandy Warhols TV Theme Song” (1995)

Premise: A garage-pop song with about 12 nonsense

words leaves ample room for artistic direction. Though the original video was to be full of Vespas cruising the then-industrial Pearl District, limited finances prevented the band from processing the black-and-white film. Director Andre Middleton instead relied on a live Dandys performance and B-roll footage of singer-guitarist Courtney TaylorTaylor vandalizing a local Fred Meyer. Nice. Significance: Despite mixed critical response, “TV Theme Song” was a breakout song for the Dandys. Everclear, “Heroin Girl” (1995)

Premise: Shot beneath the Burnside Bridge by highschool students equipped with 8 mm film cameras, the chaotic video features a mass of headbanging, rowdy youth recruited through local newspaper ads. According to lead singer Art Alexakis, the kids were later suspended for ditching school. Significance: Opinions on Everclear aside, our music scene owes the band a substantial debt. The national media called it Portland’s answer to Nirvana, and with that title came the gaze of a nation. Sleater-Kinney, “Get Up” (1999)

Premise: A line of people, holding hands, meanders through a field to frantic drum work and slinky, distorted guitar. Director Miranda July’s black-and-white video isn’t the most uplifting, with sullen shots of guitarist Carrie Brownstein and company gazing at the sky above. Significance: Sleater-Kinney was a big player in the riot-grrrl scene that sprang up in the Pacific Northwest in the late ’90s. The music video, the band’s first, helped solidify Brownstein as one of Portland’s more iconic artists. The Decemberists, “16 Military Wives” (2005)

Premise: Shot for less than $6,000 at Cleveland High School, the video provides a whimsical yet staunch critique of Bush-era politics. Colin Meloy plays a student representing the U.S. in a Model United Nations simulation who declares war on Luxembourg—bandmate Chris Funk—before launching a bullying campaign against him. Significance: The video was the band’s last before signing to Capitol Records and one of the first to be released via BitTorrent, an online file-sharing service that helped shift distribution methods. SEE IT: The Portland Music Video Festival is at the Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 5 pm Thursday, May 30. $7. Willamette Week MAY 29, 2013 wweek.com

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get little backstory or sense of his motivations and inspirations, making the film more an enjoyable hour-and-a-half tour through an artsy coastal town than a portrait of a celebrated artist. KAITIE TODD. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Thursday and 4:45 pm Sunday, May 30 and June 2.

B-Movie Bingo: Body Count

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL, GAMES] Tick off the clichés in this 1995 film about cops and assassins in New Orleans. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, June 4.

Burn

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A documentary following a group of Detroit firefighters. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Sunday, June 2.

Caesar Must Die

GRACELAND

B+ Featuring an all-male cast

with enough stubble to carpet the Colosseum, Caesar Must Die is a deeply emotional Italian 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 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. Living Room Theaters.

The Croods

B So here’s the thing: The Croods fails to conjure a complex or logically consistent world. It fails to populate that world with credible characters, or to usher those characters through a series of dramatically satisfying trials. But so what? This is primitive, pre-Pixarian family entertainment at its most rambunctious. Psychedelic, exuberant and dumb, The Croods, written and directed by Chris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco, harks back to a simpler time when so-called “family films,” including animated features from major studios like Warner Bros. and DreamWorks, were permitted— nay, expected—to be willfully incoherent, so long as they served up thrills, spills, zingers, romance and a healthy dose of innocuous schmaltz. Now, for better or for worse, filmgoers weaned on Pixar and Studio Ghibli have come to expect—nay, demand—sophistication and subtlety, not to mention visual pyrotechnics, from second-tier animated films (Ice Age, Madagascar) that are, at their core, frivolous entertainment created to engage the imaginations of young children. Of course, not every animated feature can be WALL-E; some of them have to be The Croods. In a nutshell: Nic Cage, voicing a knuckle-dragging caveman, cracks wise, pulls faces and delivers zany, half-cooked monologues on death and love and family amid stunning, oversaturated landscapes that evoke both Dr. Seuss and early Tex Avery-era Looney Tunes. Allow me to reiterate: Nic Cage, cavemen, zaniness. That’s all you need to know, that’s pretty much all you’ll get, and that ain’t necessarily a bad thing. PG. MARSHALL WALKER LEE. Lloyd Mall, Eastport, City Center, Clackamas, Tigard, Oak Grove, Cedar Hills, Bridgeport, Cinema 99, Division, Evergreen Parkway.

Dogtooth

A- [THREE DAYS ONLY, REVIVAL] The

domestic universe of this Greek film seems to have evolved from a bedtime story gone epically awry, as if an overly paranoid parent began extemporizing a fanciful cautionary tale one night and then could not, for whatever obsessive-compulsive reason, stop spinning the yarn that would eventually imprison his children in a world of make-believe. The titular dental rule is the cornerstone of a brilliantly fuckedup parenting style indebted to Texas Chainsaw’s macabre patriarchy and the precious emotional violence per-

petrated by Royal Tenenbaum. The adult children, all unnamed, believe house cats are killer beasts and distant airplanes are small toys that occasionally fall into the backyard. Even language has been manipulated to shrink the world: A “phone” is a salt shaker and “excursion” refers to material used to construct floors, while a “pussy” is a big light. That director Giorgos Lanthimos avoids going over the top with his aria of absurdity is a testament not only to his conjuring skills and carefully chosen influences (Herzog and Korine, both masters of the oddball alternate reality, come to mind), but to the baffling and frequently batshit proscriptions that bind even the most ostensibly healthy family unit. Like the best science fiction and magical realism, Dogtooth brings it all back home again, to that moment Mom explained procreation using pennies and dimes—or was that just my family? R. CHRIS STAMM. Fifth Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm FridaySaturday, 3 pm Sunday, May 31-June 2.

Epic

B The words “from the makers of Ice Age and Robots” and “starring the voices of Beyoncé, Pitbull and Steven Tyler” don’t exactly inspire confidence in a summer animated release. In fact, based on the promotional materials for Blue Sky Studios’ Epic, one would be forgiven for thinking it was making a play for the pop-cultureaddled throne of Shrek, or perhaps positioning itself as a modern-day FernGully full of heavy-handed environmental grandstanding. Those assumptions are, thankfully, very, very wrong. Epic is a sprawling, otherworldly adventure that combines the best elements of The Wizard of Oz and Lord of the Rings into a surprisingly poignant fairy tale. A troubled teen girl (Amanda Seyfried) is magically reduced to the size of an insect only to discover the flora and fauna are all living in an advanced society guarded by tiny soldiers called Leafmen and under attack by an evil king (Christoph Waltz). In terms of pure visual spectacle, Epic is a wonder. A tree stump becomes the dark castle from which an evil army plots world domination. Tiny soldiers dogfight through the skies atop hummingbirds and bats. Miraculously, none of this comes off as particularly cutesy. Most impressive, though, is the sense of wonder that permeates Epic. With its eye-popping art and living forest aesthetic, it’s only natural to compare the setting to James Cameron’s Avatar. Yet Epic has more life in one frame than Cameron mustered in his entire film. It isn’t perfect, but Epic nonetheless nails a balance of heart and popcorn fun. And that it doesn’t resort to a bunch of fart jokes or a sing-along between Beyoncé, Pitbull and the dude from Aerosmith truly sets it apart. PG. AP KRYZA. Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Sandy.

Fast & Furious 6

B- Watching the Fast & Furious movies is a lot like getting stuck in a bar with a loud, muscle-bound drunk in an Ed Hardy shirt. At first, he’s pretty off-putting. Then you have a few rounds with him and realize he’s not really that bad. And five in, you start to realize the dude’s pretty fun.

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Sure, he’s loud, brash, gawdy, stupid, sexist, intense and tends to ramble incoherently, but he’s still really not that bad. And after six rounds—which is where we are in the F&F series—you really kinda like him. You’ve become a little numb, and it’s fun to watch him do crazy shit out of the blue. Maybe he’ll smash a pint over his head. Or drive a fuckin’ tank down a busy highway, smashing into everything he sees. Maybe his homie The Rock will show up, or his hot friend Gina Carano. And maybe they’ll fight each other. Then he’ll get a little incoherent, and you’ll start to lose interest. Until he totally fucking flips out and starts blowing up everything he can see. And then he’s kind of awesome again. Maybe you’re just drunk, but you kind of want to keep hanging out with him. And next morning, you’ve pretty much forgotten what went down. But at least you remember it was fun. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Sandy.

Frances Ha

A- People have been trying to figure

out twentysomethings at least since Dustin Hoffman unzipped Anne Bancroft’s dress. In 2010, The New York Times Magazine ran a late-to-thegame article about a “new” life stage called “emerging adulthood” (a phrase coined by a psychology researcher a decade before) when self-indulgence and self-discovery collide. The exuberant and disarming Frances Ha is a portrait of one such emerging adult, shot in resplendent black-and-white and scored like a French New Wave film. As played with haphazard elegance by Greta Gerwig, Frances is a 27-yearold aspiring dancer in New York City still lurching through the obstacle course of a privileged post-collegiate life. Sometimes life is a playground, as when Frances and best friend Sophie (a snappy Mickey Sumner) play fight in Central Park or snuggle platonically in their apartment. And sometimes it’s a minefield, with the perils of adulthood blowing up without warning in Frances’ face, as when Sophie announces she’s moving out. While Sophie grows more serious about her hedge-fund boyfriend, Frances remains needy, frequently oblivious of others and prone to hogging conversations with directionless soliloquies. Yet she’s immensely likable. Gerwig strips her performance of affect or cutesiness; unlike those manic pixie dream girls, she’s not being quirky just to snag a guy. This non-romantic bent lends Frances Ha freshness, amplified by the rhythmic, sprightly screenplay, co-written by Gerwig and Noah Baumbach. “I’m not messy, I’m busy,” says Frances. Later, after a squabble, she sputters at Sophie: “Don’t treat me like a three-hour brunch friend!” It’s fluid yet fizzy, specific yet eminently relatable. In one of the loveliest moments, David Bowie’s “Modern Love” plays as Frances spins through the streets. Backpack bouncing, floralprint dress cutting a contrast with the crosswalk striping, she’s every bit the emerging adult: aimless yet hopeful, self-absorbed yet in wide-eyed awe at the big, beautiful world. And as the audience, we’re lucky to run alongside her. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Cinema 21.

From Up on Poppy Hill

B- The newest addition to Studio

Ghibli’s emporium of wondrous Japanese animations is a tale of schoolgirl romance, containing all the delight but hardly the depth of Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle or Spirited Away. Umi is a Cinderella of sorts, running her family’s coastal boarding house after her sailor father dies and her mother leaves to study in America. Her prince is daredevil activist Shun, who’s set on saving their school’s unkempt “Quartier Latin” student center. Set in a post-WWII Japan ignited by social ferment, the film’s young characters battle authority and discover love to a soundtrack that sounds like Asian Gershwin. This family affair—Miyazaki worked on the screenplay and his son Goro directed— is dreamlike, endearing and fiercely visual. But scenes of Umi gazing over a misty harbor fall short of the mystical wonder expected from the studio behind Howl’s living, teleporting mansion. PG. ENID SPITZ. Laurelhurst Theater.

Gaining Ground

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTORS AND SUBJECTS ATTENDING] A rough cut of Elaine Velazquez and Barbara Bernstein’s new documentary about farmers in Oregon and California working to grow sustainable produce. Fifth Avenue Cinema. 7 pm Saturday, June 1.

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

D As “How You Like Me Now?” blares presumptuously over G.I. Joe: Retaliation’s end credits, dejected viewers will be excused for muttering, “I actually liked you a lot better before.” While this sequel/reboot boasts the same slapdash storytelling and risible dialogue as its predecessor, John M. Chu (Step Up 3D) can’t infuse the material with the same cartoonish energy Stephen Sommers lent 2009’s The Rise of Cobra. Displaying an aversion to outrageousness, this action flick instead traffics in gardenvariety ridiculousness. Consequently, minor pleasures are the best it can muster, such as Jonathan Pryce’s mischievous turn as the Cobra terrorist who’s assumed the president’s identity. When he orders an airstrike that reduces the G.I. Joe ranks to Roadblock (Dwayne Johnson) and three others, the supposedly international strike force holes up in an abandoned gym and calls on a retiree (Bruce Willis) and his NRA buddies for backup. Given such dreary alternatives, Snake Eyes (Ray Park) understandably defects for a vastly superior subplot featuring ninjas, RZA and cliffhanging melees. Ultimately, this over-the-top tangent only serves to illustrate just what a joyless slog the actual climax is. PG-13. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Edgefield, Mt. Hood, St. Johns, Valley.

Graceland

B In an early scene of the Filipino

crime thriller Graceland, the protagonist finds himself in a dingy Manila alley watching two spiders fight along a stick. It’s a popular bloodsport in the Philippines, and an apt metaphor for the simultaneous ruthlessness and fragility of the film’s characters. At the center is Marlon (Arnold Reyes), the chauffeur to Changho (Menggie Cobarrubias), a crooked politician with a sordid taste for underage girls. When both men’s adolescent daughters are kidnapped, Marlon and Changho land in a web (pun intended) of pitiless violence and organized crime. As a man desperate to recover his daughter—and haunted by his enabling of his boss’s crimes—Reyes gives a performance marked by urgency and remorse. Though the series of increasingly grim events at times veers towards sensationalism, writer-director Ron Morales resists both sentimentality and exploitation. The air of moral decay is heightened by Sung Rae Cho’s unflinching cinematography, which paints Manila as a city of seamy red-light districts and sprawling trash heaps. In one particularly uncomfortable scene, the kidnapper forces Marlon and Changho to visit a brothel, where rows of girls sit behind a window awaiting selection, numbers fastened to the collars of their school

uniforms. It’s as horrifying as it is heartbreaking. REBECCA JACOBSON. Hollywood Theatre.

The Great Gatsby

C Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby begins, appropriately enough, with decoration—a gold-filigreed frame that accordions outward in 3-D before suddenly cutting to a swimmy shot of some water, under a voice-over that dopily bastardizes the book’s opening lines. Then, yet another framing device. Turns out Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire), the always-just-outside-the-action narrator of Gatsby, is telling the entire story of the movie to his psychologist. Well, it’s always good to let the crowd know what they’re in for: a little bit of pretty, a little bit of confusion, a whole lot of stupid. Luhrmann’s 1920s New York is a phantasmagoric spectacle, and the script lobotomizes the novel’s dialogue into amazing subcamp clunkers. But while Luhrmann’s Gatsby is a far cry from the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it is in its own way quite affecting: Badly married silver-spooner Daisy Buchanan (Carey Mulligan) and besmirched tycoon Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) have been cast here not as cautionary tales, but as star-crossed lovers. DiCaprio plays the kid from Titanic grown up into a clueless Howard Hughes. Daisy’s a nice girl, too, though almost too sympathetic in Mulligan’s capable hands for her callow decisions to make sense. The movie’s a high-drama, high-saturation emotional spectacle. And though it’s often effective in roping the viewer in, it has all the subtlety of a young drunk who’s just been left by his girlfriend. The contemporary soundtrack, despite a lot of knee-jerk criticism, isn’t overly distracting. The novel, for all the Jazz Age frenzy it depicts, plays a much softer music—and it is this music one recalls when thinking back on the book, the sadness and the subtle sense of doom contained in every misbegotten line uttered by its characters. Funny that in such a musical film, this music is the one thing Luhrmann couldn’t hear. PG-13. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Mill Plain, Oak Grove, Roseway, Sandy.

Handmade Puppet Dreams Vol. 2

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Ten short puppet films from the collection of Heather Henson (yes, daughter of Jim). Hollywood Theatre. 4 pm Sunday, June 2.

The Hangover Part III

D Five minutes into The Hangover Part III, Zach Galifianakis decapitates a giraffe with a freeway overpass, then basically kills his father. That these moments are played for guffaws (“He killed a giraffe. Who gives a fuck?” snickers Bradley Cooper) shows how blackened and mean the frat-comedy franchise got between the surprise megahit original and the lazy, cynical first sequel. But at least with those gags, writer-director Todd Phillips appears to be trying. Otherwise, the third and, we’re assured, final movie in what’s been retroactively christened the “Wolfpack Trilogy” is somehow lazier and more cynical than the last. Tossing out the formula he recycled in Part II, Phillips drops a tepid crime-comedy in its place, the apparent intent being to bore audiences into never demanding another installment. An all-out parade of degradation would’ve given the series the conclusion it deserved, but the only one willing to truly wallow in shit is Ken Jeong, whose Asian minstrel show—used sparingly in the first film— overpowers the core trio, who can’t even bother. There’s no hangover in this Hangover, but the effort is that of employees forced into work the morning after the office party, who only want to survive the day and get back into bed. “We’re going to die, finally,” mutters Jeong’s Mr. Chow at one point. Let’s hope so. R. MATTHEW SINGER. CineMagic, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Living Room Theaters, Oak Grove, Sandy, St. Johns Twin.

I Do

C+ [THREE DAYS ONLY] It sounds at

first like a high-concept gag: Gay man marries his lesbian friend for a green

card. American Ali (Jamie-Lynn Sigler) and Englishman Jack (David W. Ross) are the players. But the slapsticky scenario belies the seriousness of director Glenn Gaylord’s I Do, and complications arrive once romance enters the picture, as it does for Jack in the form of Mano (Maurice Compte). But the film’s fatal flaw is to treat these tensions as superficially as everything it surveys, including the lead’s relationships with a makeshift family comprising his late brother’s wife and child, as well as his elderly mentor Sam. In place of character development, I Do settles for shorthand signifiers (we know Sam is cool because he listens to the Scissor Sisters, loudly) that don’t go any distance toward making us care whether the expat stays or goes. Eventually it dawns: Each person is a pawn in a stalemated game engineered to illuminate the inequities of gay marriage in the United States. But a dramatization based solely on the didactic makes for uninspired cinema, no matter how well-meaning the message. KRISTI MITSUDA. Clinton Street Theater. 9 pm FridaySunday, May 31-June 2.

In the House

A- In the delightfully sinister In

the House, a high-school teacher named Germain (Fabrice Luchini) positions himself as the Sultan to student Claude’s (Ernst Umhauer) Scheherazade, waiting eagerly and somewhat menacingly for each fresh chapter. It’s just one of many cunning constructions in French director François Ozon’s film, which celebrates the power of storytelling while also detailing its dangerously high stakes. When Germain asks his students to write about their weekend, Claude responds with a provocative, leering story about a classmate and his bourgeois family. Germain, a failed writer of fiction, quickly finds himself wrapped up in Claude’s unfolding tale: as an editor and as an avid reader. Claude entangles himself with the family: He joins basketball games, sleeps over, eavesdrops on private conversations, sneaks into the parents’ bedroom and ultimately seduces the mother. Ozon allows his characters to comment on or interrupt the proceedings, and it’s not always clear where reality stops and Claude’s fantasy sequences begin. But the film is propelled by performances alternately entrancing and repellent. Luchini’s deadpan comedy contrasts brilliantly with Umhauer’s moody, mischievous and slightly smarmy performance as a teenage boy who knows he’s in too deep. As teacher and student bask in their choreographed drama, Germain’s wife, Jeanne (Kristin Scott Thomas), drops cutting asides and cautionary remarks from the wings. Ozon may be knowingly clever, but the thrills and tortures of voyeurism have rarely been so playful—or so skincrawling. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Living Room Theaters.

Iron Man 3

A- Going dark, as superhero movies

are wont to do in the third round, without losing its charm, Iron Man 3 emerges as a top-tier superhero yarn that emphasizes something too often forgotten by its brethren: Comic-book movies are supposed to be fun. Here, our hero (the great Robert Downey Jr.) squares off against an Osama bin Ladentype villain known as the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley), a deranged scientist (Guy Pearce) and an army of super soldiers. In reuniting Downey with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang director Shane Black, Marvel has managed yet another home run in a series of blockbuster gambits. In Black— the man who invented the banterdriven buddy-cop genre with Lethal Weapon—Marvel has finally found a writer who can convey Stark’s gift for fast talk and self-deprecating barbs. He’s populated his film with loquacious henchmen, slapstick sight gags and enough putdowns to fuel 1,000 celebrity roasts. In keeping Stark out of his armor for much of the film, Black has crafted

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KON-TIKI a superhero film that harks back to the golden years of summer action. Iron Man 3 isn’t just a fine superhero film. It isn’t just a fine action flick, either. It’s a film that embraces a mold before completely breaking it with out-of-left-field twists and turns that keep the viewer engaged and chuckling with alarming frequency. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Mill Plain, Cornelius, Forest, Oak Grove, Sandy.

Kon-Tiki

A- Whether you see it because it’s

about a guy named Thor braving Mother Nature, or because you can watch ripped Norwegian dudes sailing the Pacific in their tightywhities, or because you want to witness a shark getting stabbed in the head, the important thing is that you see Kon-Tiki. Based on the true story of Norwegian ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl, who set off in 1947 to float 5,000 miles from Peru to Polynesia on a balsa-wood raft, this gorgeously shot adventure flick is not only awesome because of the epic voyage that could easily fail. It’s awesome because of Heyerdahl’s utter certainty that it will not. PG-13. EMILY JENSEN. Fox Tower.

Love Is All You Need

C- When I sit down to watch a romantic comedy, I enter a silent covenant with the filmmaker: You give me fluffy-headed brain candy so that I may pickle my intellect in nonsense for two hours, and I won’t judge you for spending absurd amounts of money to make a film that has already been made a million times before. Love Is All You Need breaks that covenant. Though it bears the holy trinity of clichés that make a sappy chick flick—a cheating husband, cancer and a wedding—much of the film is in Danish, meaning one must expend extra effort to understand the silly dialogue, thus stirring the brain from its rom-com-induced stupor. Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm are both commendably charming, but the god-awful script overshadows their performances. Brosnan plays a lemon-peddling widower whose son is about to get married in Italy, and Dyrholm plays the cancerfighting, cheated-on mother of the bride. They fall in love, obviously, and though they ultimately manage to make their romance somewhat believable, it simply isn’t worth the brain strain. R. EMILY JENSEN. Fox Tower.

Midnight’s Children

B- I never thought I’d say this, but perhaps Salman Rushdie isn’t giving himself enough credit. In adapting his 1981 Booker Prize-winning novel, he works with director Deepa Mehta for a film that clocks in at 146 minutes, but which hardly seems long enough to give the three-part epic its due. Rushdie’s work of historical fiction is an allegory that covers the end of British colonialism in India and the subsequent formation of Pakistan and, later, Bangladesh. Onscreen, it’s difficult to avoid beating the audience with a sack full of symbolism, and so Rushdie overcompensates by dulling the metaphoric edge—and the

magical realism—a little too much. Instead of staying so true to the narrative arc, time should’ve been spent developing the spirit of the novel, best represented by the children born in the first hour of India’s independence and imbued with mystical talents. We follow Saleem Sinai (Satya Bhabha), one such Midnight’s Child, who is switched at birth and grows up wealthy, with a front-row seat to a politically volatile India. In a film that can never quite nail down its own mood, Saleem comes off as a more somber Forrest Gump figure, always at the right place at the right time to give us a somewhat awkward tour of India’s recent history. There are moments, though, when the allegory is treated with a light enough touch to make it devastating. There can be no greater metaphor for the damage wrought by colonialism than when a British businessman and madman (Charles Dance) impregnates the sweet young Vanita. Even after this, Vanita is destined to die in childbirth, but we watch as she and her husband endure the indignity of literally singing for their supper in a painful, almost vulgar state of self-awareness—and just a touch of authentic joy. Which is to say, even defanged, the metaphor sometimes lands. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Fox Tower.

Mud

B As with many stories about

coming of age under harsh circumstances, a mighty river runs through the center of Jeff Nichols’ Mud, a Southern-fried fable about two adolescent Arkansas boys whose childhoods are wrested from them. Yet unlike last year’s excellent Beasts of the Southern Wild, this is a fable more grounded in reality. Rampaging prehistoric monsters are replaced by unfaithful women and gangsters. But, much like Beasts, Mud is at heart the story of mighty forces encroaching on children’s innocence. The film centers on buddies Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and Neckbone (Jacob Lofland), who encounter Mud (Matthew McConaughey), a disheveled fugitive hiding out on an isolated island and waiting for his love to join him so they can flee. Drawn to his charisma, Ellis plays Pip to Mud’s Magwitch, delivering food and supplies in hopes of proving that true love conquers all. Meanwhile, vigilantes and crooked cops home in on the island. What seems like a cut-anddry tale of a mythical bum is instead a rich story of adolescent confusion. Each choice the boys make to help Mud comes steeped in consequence. Add to that the divorce of Ellis’ parents and Neckbone’s feelings of abandonment, and the emotional heft is staggering. It’s also a lot for young actors to handle, but Sheridan and Lofland shoulder it beautifully. McConaughey meshes Mud’s conflicted morals and his mysticism, creating a character at once larger than life and completely rudderless. Central to the entire narrative, though, is the river. As in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—another tale of a child and

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fugitive—it functions almost as a character, rising and falling with the narrative, hiding secrets in its murky depths and moving everything forward with its current. Mud is far from perfect, but it’s almost impossible not to get swept away by it. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Hollywood Theatre.

Now You See Me

Slick illusionists rob some banks. Screened after WW press deadlines, but look for Rebecca Jacobson’s review at wweek.com. PG-13. Mill Plain, Cornelius, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.

Oblivion

C- In terms of blockbuster source material, “based on an unpublished graphic novel” may not send pulses racing, but it at least offers the allure of the unknown. After all, how many directors other than Christopher Nolan have recently convinced a studio to pony up nine figures on a sci-fi epic that wasn’t already a proven commodity? Joseph Kosinski—whose TRON: Legacy failed to make much of a commercial or critical impression—somehow convinced Universal execs to loosen their purse strings and make his unpublished comic a rendered-in-IMAX reality. And while his sophomore feature capably demonstrates his knack for envisioning and realizing alternate realms, it also confirms that he remains incapable of cobbling together a compelling story. Oblivion kicks off in much the same fashion as Legacy: with onerous exposition. Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) informs us it’s 2077, some 60 years after Earth was decimated during an alien invasion. Jack now resides with his “assigned” wife, Victoria (Andrea Riseborough), in a gleaming penthouse towering over an expansive wasteland. His initial objective is simply to do his job: harvest Earth’s remaining water for an off-planet colony. However, a throwaway line about “mandatory memory wipes” is destined to boomerang back and complicate matters. Alas, we practically have to wait until the 22nd century for the other shoe to drop and Julia (Olga Kurylenko) to crash from the heavens, claiming to be Jack’s real wife. In the interim, we’re left to marvel at the immaculate post-apocalyptic vistas and to lament Cruise’s continued devolution into an action-movie automaton. Forsaking its languid pace in its second hour, Oblivion piles on dodgy plot developments and largely unsurprising “revelations.” The film is too somber to cater in escapist thrills and too vacuous to offer emotional or intellectual engagement. PG-13. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall, Eastport, City Center, Eastport, Clackamas, Tigard, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Sherwood, Wilsonville, Movies on TV.

Oz the Great and Powerful

B Watching the spectacle that is

James Franco feels like watching a great con man. But damned if the handsome bastard isn’t a charmer. So it only makes sense to cast Franco as moviedom’s original master con man in Oz the Great and Powerful. In The Wizard of Oz, the “man behind the curtain” was nothing but a carnival magician using smoke and mirrors to maintain the illusion of power. Here, the curtain’s pulled back further to reveal the wizard’s origins as a hack transported from Kansas to Oz, where he must take on an evil witch to save the Munchkins and talking monkeys. It’s a risky endeavor that sounds suspiciously similar to Tim Burton’s horrid Alice in Wonderland reboot. But in the hands of director Sam Raimi, L. Frank Baum’s world comes fantastically to life. From the black-and-white circus scenes in Kansas to the kaleidoscopic world of Oz, each realm takes on a different aesthetic. One moment, Franco is in a wetland swarmed by cartoonish butterflies. Next, he’s in China Town, made completely of porcelain. But lest this sound too kiddie for the man who directed The Evil Dead, there’s also the matter of the witches (Rachel Weisz, Mila Kunis and Michelle Williams), who muster a few scares worthy of any Deadite. Oz is overlong and often cheesy, but those flaws are also part of the charm of a film that doesn’t try

to surpass its predecessor so much as supplement it. It’s a carnival magician of a film, and to those who come ready to believe, its magic is undeniable. PG. AP KRYZA. Academy, Bagdad, Edgefield, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Mt. Hood, St. Johns, Valley.

Pain & Gain

B- When considering Dwayne Johnson’s cinematic oeuvre, it’s helpful to keep one thing in mind: The Rock’s movies may not be especially good, but he still makes for an infinitely more likable lead than most of his peers in the action-comedy subgenre. It’s doubtful that even the most ardent critics of Tooth Fairy (a long list that presumably includes nearly everyone who saw Tooth Fairy) would deny the part-time WWE star’s inherent charisma, with his easygoing demeanor and thousand-watt smile providing a vital counterbalance to his imposing physique. So perhaps it’s not so surprising that Johnson’s new movie isn’t all that bad, despite being directed by Michael Bay. Opposite Mark Wahlberg—who plays Daniel Lugo, a former personal trainer and bodybuilder from Miami currently on death row—Johnson plays Lugo’s accomplice Paul Doyle. Doyle is a mostly gentle giant who gets in over his head, but he remains the closest thing the film has to a moral compass. Lugo decides to be a “doer” after attending a selfimprovement seminar. That in mind, he launches a plot to part a wealthy client (Tony Shalhoub) from his considerable fortune. The ensuing hijinks feature all the slow-mo, violence, bottle blondes and casual homophobia we’ve come, resentfully, to expect from Bay. What’s unexpected, however, is that Pain & Gain occasionally transcends the mindless, bringing to mind the much more nuanced Bernie in its examination of outwardly likable villains. How many of Bay’s films can be said to rest upon an ideological foundation of any kind? Pain & Gain tells a story so perfectly suited to its director’s music-video aesthetic that it almost seems immaterial whether Bay knows (or cares) that he’s part of the surface-level pursuits his film both glamorizes and laments. R. MICHAEL NORDINE. Pioneer Place, Lloyd Center, City Center, Clackamas, Cedar Hills, Cinema 99, Division.

The Place Beyond the Pines

C+ Among the things that made director Derek Cianfrance’s breakout feature, Blue Valentine, so powerful was its extremely limited scope. With The Place Beyond the Pines, Cianfrance expands this scope, enveloping two families across more than a decade of distress, triumph and tragedy. Yet somewhere along the way, the director loses the heart that marked his previous triumph. The Place Beyond the Pines packs bravura performances across a sprawling narrative. But it’s also about 60 minutes longer than it needs to be, and runs out of gas after its remarkable first act. It’s a film that’s completely overstuffed, and oftentimes overcooked. In the film’s most captivating section, we’re introduced to Luke (Ryan Gosling), a carnival stuntman who discovers he’s sired a son. As he turns to robbing banks, he crosses paths with a rookie cop (Bradley Cooper), who himself comes across massive corruption. Were that not enough, the film then fast-forwards 15 years to peer into the clichéd lives of the pair’s sons. Each segment has a rushed quality, and too little time devoted to developing motivations. Had Cianfrance given his characters more room to breathe, the film might transcend the genre trappings it falls into so easily. In widening his lens, the director loses focus on the big picture. R. AP KRYZA. Fox Tower.

Red Hollywood

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Noël Burch and Thom Andersen go hunting for Commie propaganda in this 1996 documentary about the work of filmmakers targeted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Tuesday, June 4.

Renoir

B- “Color should control the structure of a work, not line.” So opines Pierre-August Renoir in Gilles Bourdos’

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oversaturated but ultimately underwhelming examination of two generations of Renoirs: the aforementioned painter, enfeebled by arthritis in his seventh decade, and his son, Jean, who would go on to become arguably the greatest filmmaker of the first half of the 20th century. Like the elder Renoir, the film Renoir rejoices in the sensual pleasures of Provençal life (it’s easy to have joie de vivre when your vivre consists of seaside villas, lavish parties, naps and picnics) and celebrates the beauty of the female form, specifically the form of actress Christa Theret, who spends roughly 60 minutes in the buff. Renoir is mildly intoxicating, but as Bourdos thickly applies his azure blues and lemon yellows, it all but collapses under the weight of its own prettiness. R. MARSHALL WALKER LEE. Fox Tower.

The Sapphires

B+ 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 first-time 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 head-scratching—and bless its spangled heart for that. PG-13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Fox Tower.

Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s

D+ At an advance screening of

Matthew Miele’s documentary, a fellow viewer joked to her friend: “It’s basically a giant advertisement for Bergdorf Goodman.” As it turns out, the jest largely comes true. This gaudy tribute to New York’s beloved department store mimics the surgery-lifted faces of its saggy fashionista interviewees: It only passes as authentic if you don’t look too closely. Perhaps that sounds a bit cruel, but similarly cruel is the notion that $6,000 shoes somehow make the world a better place. Aside from the footage of artists crafting the store’s spectacular annual window display, which is legitimately impressive, the film drags through bland and redundant segments that simply reiterate that Bergdorf’s is a highfalutin bastion of richies and the innovative designers that dress them—in other words, nothing more than a very long commercial. And if you deign to park your posterior in a theater seat where so many common asses have sat before, then you’re likely not fit to breathe the vapid air inside this great hall of consumerism. Around these parts, where rappers worship thrift shops and pooh-pooh Prada, this flick will probably fall on deaf ears. EMILY JENSEN. Living Room Theaters.

Silver Linings Playbook

A- With his first two pictures—1994’s

Spanking the Monkey and 1996’s Flirting With Disaster—director David O. Russell showed a mastery of familial discomfort, bringing to life the hilarity of tense situational extremes. In his mainstream work—the excellent boxing drama The Fighter and war-film deconstruction Three Kings—he demonstrated a keen eye for the comic potential of the self-destruction of the family unit. With Silver Linings Playbook, Russell revisits these themes and emerges with one of filmdom’s funniest stories of crippling manic depression. If Frank Capra had made an R-rated flick for the Prozac generation, it would look like this. The film follows the social reacclimation of Philly schoolteacher Pat (Bradley Cooper), who is institutionalized after beating his wife’s lover half to death. Pat forms an unlikely relationship with

widow Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), who doggedly tries to win his affections despite the fact that he’s set on winning back the unwilling wife. Silver Linings strikes a delicate balance. This is a film that invites uncomfortable giggles at mental illness before exploding into frightening reality, as when a meet-cute segues into a terrifying domestic incident, with Cooper delivering an Oscar-caliber breakdown set to a Led Zeppelin song. As Pat’s loving dad with a history of violence, Robert De Niro lends a crushing and funny layer to an already marvelously dense story. As a family drama, Silver Linings is top tier. As a romance, it’s blissfully unconventional. And as a foulmouthed ode to classic Hollywood, well, Capra would have fucking approved. R. AP KRYZA. Laurelhurst, Academy, Valley.

Skull World

C- [THREE NIGHTS ONLY] Greg

“Skull Man” Sommer would be right at home in Portland. A cable-access mainstay and unabashed oddball metalhead in a skull mask, Sommer spearheads the Canadian chapter of Box Wars. Basically, the fights consist of warriors, clad in armor made entirely of cardboard, fighting Braveheartstyle in fields. The last man standing with his armor intact is the winner. It’s even wackier than it sounds, and Skull World’s most interesting scenes showcase Sommer constructing insanely elaborate, wearable cardboard art. Yet something rings hollow about Skull World. At its center is a man fully immersed in his own weirdness, and it’s fun to watch this crazy diamond shine, even as he pokes fun at himself for living in his mom’s base-

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DESTINATION MURDER: Steve Oram and Alice Love.

SIGHTSEERS Ben Wheatley’s first two films—the gangster flick Down Terrace and the occult hit-man horror film Kill List—are marked by tendencies to genre hop in ways both stimulating and dumbfounding, mainly in the punctuation of surreal comedy with disturbing violence. Both films are often brilliant but ultimately frustrating, mainly because they don’t pass the true genre test: Would Kill List still be engaging if the characters weren’t hit men? Would Down Terrace still be effective were it simply a family drama absent of criminality? Divorce either film from its genre, and does it still work? Sightseers could have been a cheeky British take on Natural Born Killers, with its story of a murderous couple’s road trip across the countryside. Yet there’s an undeniable sweetness to the film and its core players, two thirtysomething oddballs on a tour that includes stops at museums dedicated to trams and pencils. It’s a caravanning dream trip for the frumpy and overly gregarious Chris (Steve Oram), whose planned “erotic odyssey” with new flame Tina (Alice Lowe)—a lonely dog psychologist who spends her time crocheting crotchless panties— takes a very dark turn following an encounter with a litterbug. That incident launches a series of increasingly gruesome encounters as the pair hops between RV parks and leaves a trail of bodies behind. All the while, Chris pretends to write a book and Tina follows him like a sad puppy, making seriously misguided attempts to win his affections. Wheatley shows off his gift for the bizarre, jackknifing the film between boring tourist traps and hallucinogenic nightmares, but Sightseers belongs to Lowe and Oram. The pair, who conceived Tina and Chris seven years before filming, have an easy rapport, and their conversations, bickering and affection—largely improvised—make them exceedingly pleasant cinematic companions. It becomes easy to forgive their crimes, which are almost afterthoughts. That’s what makes Sightseers so challenging, and yet so strangely watchable. It’s a film about characters on what some might consider the most boring vacation possible (with respect to the Pencil Museum), but it works because its characters are so well-drawn. At no point do we leave the pair’s side, and as a result, we’re both implicated in their actions and horrified by them. But remove the murders, and Wheatley’s film would still stand as a quirky portrait of the blossoming and flawed love between two lost souls. That they remain sympathetic as they wash blood from their hands is a feat unto itself. AP KRYZA.

Of homicide and pencil museums.

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SEE IT: Sightseers opens Friday, June 7, at Living Room Theaters.

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Upstream Color

WHAT MAISIE KNEW ment and working as a gravedigger. But we never really get under his skin, and it becomes apparent that director Justin McConnell isn’t out to tell Sommer’s story so much as engage in hero worship. And so we see Skull Man fighting and screaming and being admired by a legion of LARPers, but never does he break character. Maybe that’s really who Sommer is. But the film is too busy worshipping at his cardboardcovered feet to bother asking. AP KRYZA. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Friday-Sunday, May 31-June 2.

The Source Family

A The tag line on the poster for

this fascinating documentary is “God Has a Rock Band,” a reference to the fact that members of the Source Family, a quasi-religious cult from the late ‘60s through the ‘70s, supposedly recorded enough whacked-out psychedelia to fill 65 albums. The core of the film, though, is the relationship that Source acolytes had with their figurehead, Father Yod (known before he started experimenting with drugs and religion as James Baker). Through interviews with former lovers and followers of Yod, directors Maria Demopoulos and Jodi Wille create a strange and compelling portrait, moving from his days as a WWII hero to his open combination of what he saw as the best parts of numerous spiritual practices into an uber-doctrine. Like L. Ron Hubbard (or Lancaster Dodd in Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master), Yod made it up as he went along, including an embrace of polygamy that frayed the connection he had with several followers. The Source Family provides a clearer sense of how rootless so many children of the Vietnam era were and how, in their search for a father figure, they wound up under the sway of so-called gurus and swamis. That so many emerged from these experiences in one piece is the real miracle. ROBERT HAM. Hollywood Theatre.

Spring Breakers

B- The words “spring break” are repeated so often in Spring Breakers that they eventually begin to lose their meaning. That may seem obvious, given the title, but it’s worth pointing out: The phrase takes on a mantralike quality in Harmony Korine’s most outwardly conventional outing to date. Still best known for writing Kids and directing Gummo, the backwater auteur teams up with a Disneycentric cast led by Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens to turn up the decadence and sleaze to 11 in a candy-coated vision of the American Nightmare. Neon lights, blinged-out cribs and James Franco’s white-trash gangsta rapper Alien make this akin to an arthouse installment of Girls Gone Wild crossed with Scarface—with all the surface allure and occasional vapidity that licentious description implies. The many Skrillex-scored party sequences, though gorgeously filmed, never quite transcend their own vacuousness or offer any

insight into the culture they’re at once glamorizing and lampooning. That said, an utterly sincere rendition of Britney Spears’ “Everytime,” performed by Alien and set to a violent montage, is an early contender for sequence of the year, and nearly enough to forgive the film’s shortcomings. R. MICHAEL NORDINE. Laurelhurst Theater.

Star Trek Into Darkness

B When J.J. Abrams took over

the Star Trek universe in 2009, he managed the impossible by taking decades of mythology and boiling it down to something accessible to everyone. Abrams’ Trek was a hyperkinetic, rowdy, ass-whomping blast of smartass banter. In his second outing in the captain’s chair, Abrams hammers down on the throttle right in the opening, when we find Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) and Dr. McCoy (Karl Urban) getting all Raiders of the Lost Ark on a distant planet, where they’re being chased by primitive, clay-painted natives, while Spock (Zachary Quinto) dives deep into a volcano to prevent an apocalyptic eruption. But things get dark with the arrival of Benedict Cumberbatch, who launches a one-man war of terror on Starfleet before taking refuge in an isolated section of the planet Klingon, with which Earth is on the precipice of war. Naturally, a pissedoff Kirk heads out for some righteous retribution. As with much of founder Gene Roddenberry’s work, there are echoes of current political sentiments spattered throughout Into Darkness, and the film slows down considerably when characters unleash cookie-cutter debates on duty and morality. Still, the cast elevates the proceedings. Pine brings the requisite swagger to the role made famous by William Shatner, while Quinto’s Spock manages multiple layers of humor, stoicism, intellect and badassery (yes, Spock gets to beat some ass). But it’s Cumberbatch who, unsurprisingly, steals the show. The actor, a superstar across the pond for his charismatic role in Sherlock, slips into the skin of a snake with ease, wrapping his tongue around each snarled threat with calculated menace. Into Darkness can’t match the verve of Abrams’ first outing, but it eclipses it in terms of character development and humor. Missteps aside, Abrams boldly goes where no Trekkie would dare by beaming in a wider audience to the cult of Trek—luring viewers in with the spectacle but keeping them salivating by pulling back preconceptions to reveal real humanity. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cornelius, Moreland, Oak Grove, Sandy, St. Johns Twin.

To Catch a Thief

[ONE WEEK ONLY, REVIVAL] Sure, it’s sometimes written off as minor Hitchcock, but with Cary Grant as a retired cat burglar and Grace Kelly as a moneyed vacationer on the French Riviera, this suspenseful romance from 1955 has still got plenty of fire (and fireworks). Laurelhurst Theater.

B Pigs figure heavily in Upstream Color, the sophomore feature from writer-director Shane Carruth. Though Carruth allows us one scene of a woman cuddling with a piglet, the experimental film also includes swine being bagged for an unpleasant fate, a weird surgery in which a human and hog are psychically joined and time-lapse footage of a drowned and decomposing pig. In addition to the swine, this disorienting and nonnarrative film also includes a kidnapping, a romance and some squirmy, mind-altering grubs. Make sense? It probably shouldn’t. With its elliptical narrative, swooning visual aesthetic and hushed dialogue and narration, the film feels like Terrence Malick tackling dystopian sci-fi. It centers, mostly, on a woman named Kris (Amy Seimetz) who is drugged, with those mind-altering grubs, by a character identified only as Thief. While forcing her to copy Walden by hand, Thief cons Kris out of her money and her sense of identity. Oh, and there’s also that operation with the pig. When Kris wakes up, she becomes entwined with disgraced stockbroker Jeff (Carruth), who may or may not have had the same experience, but who definitely understands her need to dive for rocks at swimming pools and to hide in bathtubs after finding curious brass objects. Though ultimately secondary to the mesmerizing visuals and ambient score, the plot is surprisingly engaging, which prevents Upstream Color from becoming a formal obscurity too arch for its own good. You’re free to debate what it all means; I’m happy to lose myself in its messy mystery. REBECCA JACOBSON. Laurelhurst Theater.

Wavemakers

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Cinema Project closes its spring season with Caroline Martel’s documentary about the history and mythic quality of the ondes Martentot, an electronic musical instrument invented in France in 1928. Sandbox Studio, 420 NE 9th Ave. 4:30 pm Saturday, June 1.

What Maisie Knew

A- “Why don’t we go get our-

selves a nice double espresso?” asks the art dealer. The dark-haired pixie looks at him with sadly watchful eyes. “With Mommy?” she asks. Mommy? The response might seem odd, but it’s the question that’s odder: This narcissistic art dealer has asked it of his 6-year-old daughter, Maisie. Based on Henry James’ 1897 novel of the same name, Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s keeneyed film updates the story to modern-day Manhattan. Here, Maisie is the daughter of two wildly selfish parents who are divorcing. Still like children themselves, they’re clueless how to care for a child, with the father taking unannounced business trips (and thinking espresso is a suitable after-school beverage) and the mother (played with unbridled ferocity by Julianne Moore) repeatedly telling Maisie her dad is an asshole, in an attempt to win her daughter’s love. McGehee and Siegel tell the story from Maisie’s perspective, with the camera often at her eye level, as this quietly perceptive girl becomes a pawn in her parents’ messy battle for custody and affection. As Maisie, the young Onata Aprile is phenomenal—there’s no self-consciousness to her portrayal. In keeping with this, Maisie’s need to be cared for is simply presented rather than sensationalized. At one point, she crosses the street with her mother’s new husband and reaches for his hand. It’s natural and intuitive, an unobtrusive reminder of how young and fundamentally needy Maisie is. As Maisie’s parents forget to pick her up at school and then leave her in the care of a bartender working late shifts, this is a high-stakes cautionary tale told with an understated hand. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Fox Tower.

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4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-281-4215 MUD Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 06:45, 09:10 GRACELAND Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 07:15 PIETA Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:00 THE SOURCE FAMILY Sat-Sun 03:15, 05:15 HANDMADE PUPPET DREAMS Sun 04:00 BURN Sun 07:30 BODY COUNT Tue 07:30

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REVENGE SERVED COLD: In the first 10 minutes of Pieta, 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. Showing at: Hollywood. Best paired with: Burnside Stout. Also showing: To Catch a Thief (Laurelhurst).

Lloyd Center 10 and IMAX

1510 NE Multnomah St., 800-326-3264 AFTER EARTH Fri-Sat-Sun 12:00, 02:35, 05:15, 07:55, 10:30 NOW YOU SEE ME Fri-Sat-Sun 12:50, 03:45, 06:50, 09:45 SWAN LAKE MARIINSKY LIVE 2D

Regal Division Street Stadium 13 16603 SE Division St., 800-326-3264 NOW YOU SEE ME Fri 11:30, 02:15, 05:00, 07:45, 10:30 AFTER EARTH Fri 11:40, 02:10, 04:40, 07:15, 09:50

Bagdad Theater and Pub

3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-249-7474 OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL Fri-Sat-SunTue-Wed 06:00 IDENTITY THIEF Fri-Sat-Sun-Tue-Wed 08:55

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616 NW 21st Ave., 503-223-4515 FRANCES HA Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:45, 07:00, 09:10

Clinton Street Theater

2522 SE Clinton St., 503-238-8899 SKULL WORLD Fri-Sat-Sun 07:00 I DO Fri-Sat-Sun 09:00 HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB Fri 12:00 THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Sat 12:00 STUCK IN LOVE Mon 07:00

Laurelhurst Theatre & Pub

2735 E Burnside St., 503-232-5511 OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 06:45 UPSTREAM COLOR FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:30 TO CATCH A THIEF Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:00 TRANCE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:15 SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:15 SPRING BREAKERS

Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 09:45 FROM UP ON POPPY HILL Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:00 THE COMPANY YOU KEEP Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:30

STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 04:00, 06:45, 09:30 THE HANGOVER PART III FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:00, 07:30, 09:55

CineMagic Theatre

2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-231-7919 THE HANGOVER PART III Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:30, 07:50

Mission Theater and Pub

Regal Cinema 99 Stadium 11

Moreland Theatre

Edgefield Powerstation Theater

1624 NW Glisan St., 503-249-7474-5 REAR WINDOW Fri 10:00 MURDER BY DEATH Sat 05:00 SEVEN Sat 10:00 A TOUCH OF EVIL Sun 07:00 MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS Sun 09:15 6712 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503-236-5257 STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 05:30, 08:15

Oak Grove 8 Cinemas

16100 SE McLoughlin Blvd., 503-653-9999 STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 01:00, 04:00, 07:00, 09:55 FAST & FURIOUS 6 Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:50, 03:50, 06:50, 09:40 AFTER EARTH Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:20, 02:40, 05:00, 07:20, 09:30 EPIC Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:00, 02:20, 04:45, 07:15, 09:30 NOW YOU SEE ME Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 02:00, 04:50, 07:25, 10:00 THE GREAT GATSBY Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:30, 03:30, 06:30, 09:35 IRON MAN 3 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:25, 04:15, 07:05, 09:50 THE HANGOVER PART III Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:00, 04:35, 07:10, 09:45

Roseway Theatre

7229 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-282-2898 THE GREAT GATSBY FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:00, 04:30, 08:00

St. Johns Twin Cinemas and Pub 8704 N Lombard St., 503-286-1768

9010 NE Highway 99, 800-326-3264 NOW YOU SEE ME Fri-SatSun 12:50, 03:45, 07:15, 10:05 AFTER EARTH FriSat-Sun 12:05, 02:35, 05:10, 07:45, 10:20

2126 SW Halsey St., 503-249-7474-2 OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 06:00 G.I. JOE: RETALIATION Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:00

Kennedy School Theater

5736 NE 33rd Ave., 503-249-7474-4 OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 02:30 IDENTITY THIEF Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:35 FROM UP ON POPPY HILL Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:30 TRANCE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:50

The OMNIMAX Theatre at OMSI

1945 SE Water Ave., 503-797-4640 HUBBLE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon 03:00, 06:00 DEEP SEA Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon 02:00, 05:00 BORN TO BE WILD Fri 12:00, 01:00, 07:00 TORNADO ALLEY Fri-SatSun-Mon 04:00 TO THE ARCTIC Sat-Sun-Mon 11:00

Fifth Avenue Cinemas

510 SW Hall St., 503-725-3551 DOGTOOTH Fri-Sat-Sun 03:00

340 SW Morrison St., 800-326-3264 AFTER EARTH Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 02:40, 05:20, 08:00, 10:40

Regal Cinemas Bridgeport Village Stadium 18 & IMAX

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Back in the 1920s, the governor of Texas was determined to forbid the teaching of foreign languages in public schools. To bolster her case, she called on the Bible. “If English was good enough for Jesus Christ,” she said, “it’s good enough for us.” She was dead serious. I suspect you may soon have to deal with that kind of garbled thinking, Aries. And it may be impossible to simply ignore it, since the people wielding it may have some influence on your life. So what’s the best way to deal with it? Here’s what I advise: Be amused. Quell your rage. Stay calm. And methodically gather the cool, clear evidence about what is really true. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A few weeks ago, the principal at a school in Bellingham, Washington announced that classes would be canceled the next day. What was his rationale? A big storm, a bomb threat, or an outbreak of sickness? None of the above. He decided to give students and teachers the day off so they could enjoy the beautiful weather that had arrived. I encourage you to make a similar move in the coming days, Taurus. Take an extended Joy Break -- maybe several of them. Grant yourself permission to sneak away and indulge in spontaneous celebrations. Be creative as you capitalize profoundly on the gifts that life is offering you. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In Japan it’s not rude to slurp while you eat your ramen noodles out of a bowl. That’s what the Lonely Planet travel guide told me. In fact, some Japanese hosts expect you to make sounds with your mouth; they take it as a sign that you’re enjoying your meal. In that spirit, Gemini, and in accordance with the astrological omens, I encourage you to be as uninhibited as you dare this week -- not just when you’re slurping your noodles, but in every situation where you’ve got to express yourself uninhibitedly in order to experience the full potential of the pleasurable opportunities. As one noodle-slurper testified: “How can you possibly get the full flavor if you don’t slurp?” CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here’s a thought from philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein: “A person will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push that door.” I’d like to suggest that his description fits you right now, Cancerian. What are you going to do about it? Tell me I’m wrong? Reflexively agree with me? I’ve got a better idea. Without either accepting or rejecting my proposal, simply adopt a neutral, open-minded attitude and experiment with the possibility. See what happens if you try to pull the door open. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you have been waiting for the right moment to perfect your party skills, I suspect this might be it. Is there anything you can do to lower your inhibitions? Would you at least temporarily consider slipping into a chronic state of fun? Are you prepared to commit yourself to extra amounts of exuberant dancing, ebullient storytelling, and unpredictable playtime? According to my reading of the astrological omens, the cosmos is nudging you in the direction of rabble-rousing revelry. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Where exactly are your power spots, Virgo? Your bed, perhaps, where you rejuvenate and reinvent yourself every night? A place in nature where you feel at peace and at home in the world? A certain building where you consistently make good decisions and initiate effective action? Wherever your power spots are, I advise you to give them extra focus. They are on the verge of serving you even better than they usually do, and you should take steps to ensure that happens. I also advise you to be on the lookout for a new power spot. It’s available. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Reverence is one of the most useful emotions. When you respectfully acknowledge the sublime beauty of something greater than yourself, you do yourself a big favor. You generate authentic humility and sincere gratitude, which are healthy for your body as well as your soul. Please

note that reverence is not solely the province of religious people. A biologist may venerate the scientific method. An atheist might experience a devout sense of awe toward geniuses who have bequeathed to us their brilliant ideas. What about you, Libra? What excites your reverence? Now is an excellent time to explore the deeper mysteries of this altered state of consciousness. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When explorer Ernest Shackleton was planning his expedition to Antarctica in 1914, he placed this ad in London newspapers: “Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, return doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success.” Would you respond to a come-on like that if you saw it today? I hope not. It’s true that your sense of adventure is ratcheting up. And I suspect you’re itching for intense engagement with the good kind of darkness that in the past has inspired so much smoldering wisdom. But I believe you can satisfy those yearnings without putting yourself at risk or suffering severe deprivation. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I’d rather not sing than sing quiet,” said the vivacious chanteuse Janis Joplin. Her attitude reminds me a little of Salvador Dali’s. He said, “It is never difficult to paint. It is either easy or impossible.” I suspect you Sagittarians may soon be in either-or states like those. You will want to give everything you’ve got, or else nothing at all. You will either be in the zone, flowing along in a smooth and natural groove, or else totally stuck. Luckily, I suspect that giving it all and being in the zone will predominate. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1948, Nelson Mandela began his fight to end the system of apartheid in his native South Africa. Eventually he was arrested for dissident activities and sentenced to life imprisonment. He remained in jail until 1990, when his government bowed to international pressure and freed him. By 1994, apartheid collapsed. Mandela was elected president of his country and won the Nobel Peace Prize. Fast-forward to 2008. Mandela was still considered a terrorist by the United States, and had to get special permission to enter the country. Yikes! You probably don’t have an antiquated rule or obsolescent habit that’s as horrendous as that, Capricorn. But it’s past time for you to dissolve your attachment to any outdated attachments, even if they’re only mildly repressive and harmful. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): As a renowned artist, photographer, and fashion designer, Karl Lagerfeld has overflowed with creative expression for 50 years. His imagination is weird and fantastic, yet highly practical. He has produced a profusion of flamboyant stuff. “I’m very down to earth,” he has said, “just not this earth.” Let’s make that your mantra for the coming weeks, Aquarius: You, too, will be very down to earth in your own unique way. You’ll follow your quirky intuition, but always with the intent of channeling it constructively. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the following passage, French novelist Georges Perec invites us to renew the way we look upon things that are familiar to us. “What we need to question,” he says, “is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us.” A meditation like this could nourish and even thrill you, Pisces. I suggest you boost your ability to be sincerely amazed by the small wonders and obvious marvels that you sometimes take for granted.

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