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Even noting that the assessments are preceded by the comment, “What follows is mostly gossip and opinion,” as a constituent of [state Rep.] Tobias Read, I am surprised at WW’s assessment [“The Good, the Bad and the Awful,” June 5, 2013]. As one of his constituents, I want to share my perspective. I moved to Beaverton three years ago, and since then have observed and attended many community meetings that Read has hosted. In my many years of activity in multiple communities, I haven’t had any elected official—be it on a city council, a school board, a special district, or a state or federal legislator—be as accessible and open to conversation as Read is. I commend him for his constant small-group coffee meetings on Saturday mornings in Beaverton. My assessment is that he has reasoned, not rhetorical, explanations for his positions, as well as having consistency between his positions. He’s clear that his interest is economic development for this community and for Oregon, and can and will explain the whys of that to you. You may not agree with some decisions, but I respect him for his ability to conceptualize and articulate his reasons for taking the positions he does. Carmela M. Bowns Beaverton
I read the legislative ratings but take them with a large grain of salt. If nothing else, they’re a chance to guess at who’s dishing who in the Salem soap opera these days. But I cannot let the slam on Sen. Ginny Burdick pass (“If Salem’s top arms-control expert can’t pass anti-gun measures after the Newtown, Conn., and Clackamas Town Center shootings, maybe it’s time to turn to something more achievable, like cold fusion.”). Is that your advice to President Obama too? The final word on gun reform this session hasn’t been written yet, but whatever it is, Burdick is a champion. I suspect a fair number of her detractors are simply ashamed of their own inability to endure the abuse dished out by the gun nuts when sensible gun laws are proposed. On gun reform, the ineffective legislators are the ones who give up. Katie Pool Northeast Portland I give WW a 7.62 for integrity but a 4.85 for brains and a 5.03 for effectiveness, for an overall rating of an anemic 5.83. You’ll need to try harder. —“JD Mulvey”
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They’ve taken down the “Temporary Dog Play Area” signs at Northwest 12th Avenue and Overton Street. Now where do I take my temporary dog to play? She’s not much of a dog, but she’s all I’ve got. I was even thinking of making her full time—but now, who knows? —Mr. Wilson I’m sorry, were you saying something? I was just at the bar hoping to outwit some cute girls, until I realized that trying to get laid using your intellect is like trying to do your taxes using your penis. I also realized that the white-powdered cheese at the bottom of the Smartfood Popcorn bag is like cocaine for fat people, and then after that I had to lie down for a minute. But now I’m totally ready to answer your question! I’ll put aside your literal-minded misreading of the sign in question (although it’s exactly 4
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this kind of thinking that got me a $250 ticket in Wanker’s Corner) and play it straight: the play area you describe was designed to address dogromping needs that have since been filled by the Fields Park, which just opened next door. “Now your temporary dog, plus all other breeds, can enjoy 8,000 square feet at the Fields Park,” says the Parks Bureau’s Mark Ross, who probably hoped this column wouldn’t include cocaine and penises. “[The off-leash area] drains well and won’t be muddy or gross even during our long winter.” As for your dog, I recommend putting her on salary, which is a great way to get full-time work out of somebody for part-time money. Plus, you can tell her it’s a big honor, and she’ll believe you because dogs are stupid. (Of course, you’re still the one standing there with a handful of warm poo, but I guess it takes all kinds.) QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com
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It will soon be easier in Oregon to rescue someone overdosing on heroin. Gov. John Kitzhaber last week signed a bill passed by the Legislature that will allow trained laypeople to inject naloxone, commonly known as Narcan, which can revive a person who has slipped into an opiate overdose. In March, WW reported other states have had success by widening access to Narcan (“Who Wants to Save a Junkie?” WW, March 6, NARCAN 2013). The bill was introduced by Sen. Alan Bates (D-Ashland), a physician. “The bottom line,” says Rep. Jennifer Williamson (D-Portland), a co-sponsor, “is this new law will save lives.” A long-running legal ethics battle will go another round. Highprofile securities lawyers Barnes Ellis and Lois Rosenbaum have appealed an Oregon State Bar trial verdict that they violated state ethics rules at the Stoel Rives firm while representing FLIR Corp. and its executives in federal civil and criminal cases. The Oregon Supreme Court will hear the appeal from one of its own, former Supreme Court Justice Mick Gillette, who retired from the court in 2011 and will represent Rosenbaum and Ellis. Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt.
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In January, the staff at Providence ElderPlace of Glendoveer, a residential care facility in Northeast Portland, responded with speed when patients at the 84-bed center started showing signs of norovirus infection. They had seen this virulent bug before: The facility had been hit with norovirus once a year for the previous three years—77 cases in all, according to newly released state records. Providence officials say this year’s illness (although listed as norovirus in a state records) turned out be another kind of bug. But the alarm it set off indicates the threat norovirus poses to facilities that care for the elderly. “We take this very seriously,” says Providence spokesman Gary Walker. “We have protocols to respond right away, and we report it immediately.” Norovirus is highly contagious and triggers severe diarrhea and vomiting. It can be spread anywhere—schools, workplaces, restaurants. The virus is usually passed through fecal matter that contaminates food, surfaces and unwashed hands, and even lurks in the air around people who are sick. It’s not unusual for a nursing home or other long-term care center to get hit with norovirus. It’s suspected in sickening more than 23,000 residents in 365 Oregon long-term care facilities in the past decade, according to a state report to be released this week and obtained by WW. But the records also show 48 facilities have seen more than one norovirus outbreak in the past decade, and 22 have reported repeated outbreaks since 2011. State health officials say the number of outbreaks at a particular facility doesn’t mean there’s a problem there. They say many factors—including the type of facility, its size, and the simple fact that norovirus is difficult to keep out—can play a role. “The reporting largely indicates that [long-term care facilities] are taking it seriously and that they did something about [the outbreak],” says Dr. Paul Cieslak, manager of the Oregon Public Health Division’s communicable diseases section. Norovirus has become more prevalent in recent years, and so have warnings about how to avoid it. In the past, state officials have disclosed names of other public places—such as restaurants—tied to norovirus outbreaks. But they have resisted naming nursing homes, assisted-living centers and other long-term care facilities. They have claimed the facilities names were not subject to release under the Oregon Public Records Law, and that disclosing the names would discourage long-term care centers from reporting outbreaks. But this week, the Oregon Health Authority, following a series of requests by WW, will publish details of more than 1,000 communicable disease outbreaks in the past decade
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and name the care facilities that reported them. Seven out of 10 outbreaks were caused by norovirus. “Our concern in public health practice was that if we could not get accurate information about outbreaks, we’d be less able to protect the public,” says Tom Eversole, administrator of the Center for Public Health Practice at the state health authority. “But the question really prompted us to look at that. We decided to go ahead and see if we could do this and also maintain good sources.” But some public health officials say disclosing detailed outbreak information could distract or mislead people who are trying to weigh the quality of long-term care facilities. “It’s important when you seek supportive housing for aging family members that you get information on
staffing, bedsores and hospitalization rates—all far more important than reported disease outbreaks,” says Dr. Paul Lewis, deputy tri-county health officer. Facility administrators concede norovirus is almost impossible to keep out of long-term care centers, with visitors and residents coming and going every day. “It is a constant battle to keep it out of the facility,” says Deborah Nedelcove, vice president of risk management and chief compliance officer at Avamere Health Services, which operates nearly 40 care and residential centers in the Pacific Northwest. Two Avamere facilities have seen a series of recent outbreaks: Avamere Crestview in Southwest Portland, which saw outbreaks in January and April, and Avamere Rehabilitation of Beaverton, with an outbreak in 2011 and another this year. The Avamere Crestview outbreaks were contained to fewer than 10 residents each—a relatively low number, compared to outbreaks at other facilities. “We’ve had to become very skilled at dealing with it,” Nedelcove says. Eversole says the state health authority plans to update public reports of outbreaks on a semi-regular basis. Joe Greenman, legal counsel for the Oregon Health Care Association, a trade group for nursing homes and other care centers, says consumers could learn a lot about a facility if they knew more about its track record. “An outbreak isn’t the sole fault of the [long-term care facililty],” Greenman says. “If you’re a consumer, you’d be more interested in knowing how they responded to an outbreak than whether they had one or not.” Advocates for the elderly say such information should be readily available on a regular basis. “With norovirus, you can find out about restaurants. You ought to be able to find out about nursing homes,” says Mary Jaeger, Oregon’s long-term care ombudswoman. “People making decisions about where they might put a loved one should have this information, “ she adds. “It’s just one piece of information, but someone could find it an important one.” Willamette Week JUNE 12, 2013 wweek.com
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A bill that could register as many as 600,000 new Oregon voters is in danger of dying without a vote. The state’s top elections official, Secretary of State Kate Brown, wants anyone who gets a new driver’s license, or renews an existing one, to be automatically registered to vote. Brown argues that more registered voters promotes a stronger democracy: 2.8 million Oregonians are eligible to vote but only 2.2 million are registered, a registration rate Brown calls “mediocre.” Supporters say the bill should be zinging its way through the Legislature, appealing to citizens who want to limit their dealings with bureaucracy. “It’s a great concept,” says Paul Gronke, chairman of the political science department at Reed College. “Why would anybody want citizens to appear in government offices twice instead of just once?” The bill has partisan implications. Unregistered voters tend to be younger and Hispanic, who tilt toward the Democratic Party—which could add to the Democrats’ 183,000-voter registration edge over Republicans. Yet Brown has failed to pull together the needed votes in a Legislature controlled by Democrats. The bill is still stuck in committee and may never reach the House or Senate floors before the 2013 session adjourns, probably some time this month. Democratic leaders are reluctant to have members vote on a controversial measure without a guarantee it will pass. The secretary of state’s office says no other state uses driver’s licenses for automatic voter registration. Eleven states, including Maine and Minnesota, which lead the nation in eligible voter participation, have same-day registration. (With vote-by-mail, same-day registration would not work here.) North Dakota is the easiest state in which to vote—no registration is required. The potential for aiding Democratic voter rolls is one reason GOP officials have come out against the measure. “We’ve never said that out loud,” says former Republican Party of Oregon spokesman Greg Leo, who has twice testified against the bill in committee hearings. “But what this bill would do is allow Democrats to rebuild the kind of registration advantage they had before the 2008 election.” That’s when younger and minority voters flocked to vote for Barack Obama. Gronke, who studies voting patterns as director of the Early Voting Information Center, agrees the bill could help Democrats initially. “Republicans should try to appeal to Hispanics rather than try to keep them off the rolls,” he says. The passage of a new law earlier this session that allows undocumented immigrants to get driver’s licenses has added opposition to Brown’s bill. Last week, Janice Williamson of Salem cited such concerns in written testimony she presented to the Joint Ways Subcommittee on General Gov-
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ernment. “There are no safeguards in this bill to prevent ineligible or illegal persons from obtaining a driver’s license, becoming registered and voting illegally,” she wrote. Brown’s spokesman, Tony Green, says that wouldn’t happen. DMV data indicate who is a citizen and who is not, and elections clerks would simply set their data queries to exclude noncitizens from voting rolls. But opponents have also argued Brown’s bill would abridge citizens’ rights by automatically registering them unless they affirmatively opt out. They say the bill also raises questions about ballot security and added costs for county elections officials. One of Brown’s strongest allies is Linn County elections director Steve Druckenmiller, who originally won election as a Republican. Druckenmiller, now a non-affiliated voter, says the debate over automating voter registration reminds him of the debate over vote-by-mail, a concept pioneered in Linn County. “A lot of people opposed vote-by-mail because they believed it would benefit the other party,” he says. “That’s a simplistic view.” Druckenmiller says county clerks already get more than 125,000 address-change forms annually from the Driver and Motor Vehicle Division, or DMV. Brown’s bill would create an electronic system that cuts costs by updating addresses automatically, he adds. “Voting is the underpinning to all other rights,” Druckenmiller says. “The current registration system creates barriers to voting. That’s backwards.” Brown, a Democrat who was Senate majority leader before becoming secretary of state in 2008, says she thinks the votes are there in the House to pass her bill. But she lacks the votes in the Senate, where Democrats hold a 16-14 majority. “I think it’s fair to say that a 16-14 Senate is a highly unpredictable body,” Brown says. And at least one member of her party, Sen. Betsy Johnson (D -Scappoose), says she won’t support the bill. “I don’t like that it shifts the burden of who is responsible for bringing voters to the polls from the individual to the government,” Johnson says. “I still view voting as a privilege, and if you want to vote, you should get up and march yourself in there and register.”
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A BENSON HIGH 2013 VALEDICTORIAN TALKS ABOUT HER SCHOOL’S FUTURE. N ATA L I E B E H R I N G
When did you first learn about Benson? My mom worked as a lunch lady, and eventually worked at Benson. I was always really interested in computers and technology from when I was little. When I first arrived, Benson had that air of mystery. It had all these different hallways, I remember seeing all this machinery and computers. I wanted to go there and get to work with these things. How would your experience have been different at another high school? I’ve gotten to know people from all sorts of financial, racial and ethnic backgrounds, people who want to go for a doctorate and people who aren’t going to college at all. It’s interesting to see the different ways people can find success.
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Earning a diploma from Benson Polytechnic High School is serious business. In addition to passing the standard classes in history, English, math and science, Benson’s graduates must complete hands-on, real-world work in one of three pathways: health science; industry and engineering; or communications technology. Benson has one of the highest graduation rates in the city, particularly for AfricanAmerican, Latino and low-income students, and a big percentage go on to jobs or college. But the school is under threat from Portland Public Schools, which three years ago tried to reduce Benson to a two-year vocational-tech institute. After a public protest, the district capped Benson’s enrollment—barring almost half the 400 students who apply annually from attending. Keighley Overbay is a Benson success story. She worked daily in the school cafeteria, reassembled a car engine and overcame frustrations when PPS cut her major, computer science. She graduates this week with a 4.0 GPA, one of four valedictorians. In the fall, she heads off with a two-thirds ride to Harvey Mudd College in Southern California, where she will study computers. Overbay, 18, talked with WW about her experiences at this extraordinary high school and what she thinks of PPS’s efforts to shrink her school.
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Which pathway did you follow? My major was computer science, but they cut that. I ended up going into communications. When they cut that as a major, I went into digital media production. Before I declared a major, I did a lot of work in automotive and manufacturing. I’ve taken apart a small engine and put it back together. I used a computer program to design a coaster, the kind you put drinks on. We cut that design out of wood, used sand casting and forged it out of metal—pouring hot liquid metal and casting it. I don’t think other students get to do that. Is it different being a girl at Benson? Not too much. There’s the idea that most girls at Benson are either health-science or communications majors. But even if you do auto or manufacturing, you still get the same respect. I feel like I’ve had a lot of encouragement from teachers to learn to explore what I want in life and to pursue that. Teachers have given me advice about speaking up for myself and doing what I need to. What did you miss by going to Benson instead of a comprehensive high school? I missed a lot of electives. I was really interested in learning Spanish, but at Benson
they only offered two years. We should have a wider choice of majors, and electives like languages, art, band, even clubs. Benson just doesn’t have the funding for them. Can you tell me a little about what a Benson diploma means, versus a regular PPS high-school diploma? I’ve done a lot more specific work in my major. Even though I haven’t had the benefit of electives, I’ve studied in a really concentrated area, which I think prepares me more for the work force in the future. I’ve made actual websites and movies. What do you think of PPS’s decision to shrink and cap Benson’s enrollment? I won’t say they are slowly killing it off. But by slowly making it smaller—which means less funding—our program isn’t as strong as it could be. I find that personally aggravating. I wanted to go into computer science, and I had that taken away. They used to have more majors, but the funding was too low. A lot of those were lost. It’s really taking away from the high-school experience we should have there. Did you participate in the protests in 2010 after PPS announced plans to turn Benson into a two-year vo-tech school? I didn’t. I wish I had. At that point I didn’t realize how much Benson would mean to me. The seniors, they knew it was a great school and they were out there. I didn’t know that yet. If it happened this year, I would definitely be out there and protest. What would you tell the district about Benson? Keep supporting the school, because it is a really great environment. How do you feel about leaving Benson? It’s definitely bittersweet. At the beginning of the year, I was so ready to be done and get out of there. By the second half of the year, I was thinking I will miss it a lot. In the last few weeks, I’ve been really happy with everything. It’s like, why am I so happy with high school when everything is ending?
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BIKELASH MIA BIRK TAKES BIKE SHARE TO NEW YORK—AND SPARKS BEDLAM IN GOTHAM. BY AARO N MESH
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Three weeks ago, an invading fleet arrived in Manhattan. Nearly 6,000 cobalt-blue bikes appeared in gleaming silver docks. They materialized in Brooklyn, too, near co-ops and bodegas. Citizens stood in wonder, lining up to swipe their credit cards so they could pay $9.95 an hour to pedal around the city. Bike share—what cycling activists say is the future, making riding a two-wheeler as easy as hailing a cab—had hit New York. Then the city hit back. The tabloids screamed about the dangers posed by the blue bikes and their kiosks—they would block building entrances, lower property values and invite naive tourists on a suicidal ride through the city’s harrowing traffic. “Take them all out,” cried the New York Post on the program’s first day. “Don’t wait for a tragedy.” For the past three weeks, New Yorkers have quarreled over whether the Citi Bike program (named after its corporate sponsor, Citibank) is a marvel, a blight or a boondoggle. And who is behind the bicycle blitzkrieg? Portland, and its No. 1 trafficker of two wheels, Mia Birk.
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Birk, 45, is the president of Alta Planning + Design, a Portland company that designs and builds bike routes and lanes in cities across America. In the 20 years since she started her career as the city of Portland’s bicycle coordinator, she has acted on her belief that bicycles can save the planet. Birk also thinks they can turn a profit. Four years ago, she helped launch Alta’s bike-share spinoff. The company quickly cornered the market—running bike shares in Washington, D.C., and Boston, then winning contracts in Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco. The New York debut gives Alta Bike Share 10,000 rental bicycles worldwide, more than double that of all its competitors combined. By 2015, it expects to be managing 23,000 bikes. But Alta has also been wracked with problems in every city it has started a bikeshare program. Competitors have accused Alta of graft, and employees claim they were underpaid. Often, the systems simply haven’t worked: Computer software glitches in New York and elsewhere have delayed launches and exasperated customers. In Portland, where Alta won a bid last year to bring bike share to its hometown, the program is a year behind schedule and still more than $6 million short despite $2 million in government subsidies. Now Birk has taken the bike-share experiment to New York, the world’s harshest stage. She’s fighting to prove that bicycles can be trustworthy daily transportation for everybody—not just the true believers. Can Birk—a self-described “Trekkie” who bikes to work in high-heeled shoes—bravely go where many men have failed before? “We’re out there in the public light,” Birk says, “and some of the things weren’t that great. New York City has a very big spotlight.” Birk grew up in Dallas, Texas, as she has put it, “TV remote in one hand, Dunkin’ Donut in the other.” Her father develops machinery software, her mother is a financial adviser. She went off to the University of Texas, studying government and French, and emerged with dreams of becoming an environmental activist. During a break from graduate school— she was studying international relations at Johns Hopkins University—her brother taunted her into taking his 10-speed Schwinn when she went back.
“Miss So-Called Environmentalist,” Birk, who told the story at a 2011 TED Talk in Portland, recalls her brother saying. “Why don’t you get off your lazy butt? Then maybe you’ll stop whining about being so fat.” She fell in love with riding bikes and lost a dress size while doing so. As she wrote in her 2010 memoir, Joyride: Pedaling Toward a Healthier Planet, she studied the snarl of road congestion and consequential air pollution in Africa, Asia and Latin America. She nearly died of an asthma attack in India because of diesel fumes and dust. “I wanted to transform American cities,” she said in her TED Talk, “into bicycle-friendly places.” In 1993, Birk took a job as bicycle coordinator for the Portland Bureau of Transportation. The job existed in part because the nascent bicycle lobby in Portland had successfully sued the city for failing to provide adequate bike lanes, as required under the state’s 1971 “Bike Bill.” Birk plotted out the city’s bike-lane network, chose the date for the first Worst Day of the Year Ride, and propelled Portland into national prominence for bike friendliness—all while working closely with thenCity Commissioner Earl Blumenauer, now a U.S. congressman. Colleagues say she only had one gear. Jim Middaugh, spokesman for regional government Metro, met Birk during his time on the board of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, Portland cycling’s political lobby. He recalls her working all day on bicycle issues, then convening after-hours meetings in her office to keep plotting strategy. “It’s a lifestyle for her,” Middaugh says. “It’s not a job.” When Birk was hired, she set several goals: open new bike lanes, create at least one safe bicycle route through each section of Portland that leads to downtown, and build more bike storage and parking downtown. She accomplished it all. Birk also became the public face for Portland residents who saw bicyclist activists as demanding and elitist. In her memoir, Birk recounts her early arrogance. At one public meeting, she wrote, she dismissed a mother’s concern that bike lanes would make it easier for her children to run out in the street. “I’m not sure it’s our responsibility to keep your kids from running into the street,” she replied. CONT. on page 14
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Today, Birk looks back on her own reactions with some chagrin, and sees this period as combative. “There was a time when I stopped saying I was the city’s bicycle coordinator, because people would just say, ‘Rawr, rawr, rawr’—[and] say something nasty about bikes,” she tells WW. “At a certain point, I just said, ‘I’m a flight attendant.’ It felt less personal.”
STAN JACKSON OF COMMUNITY CYCLING CENTER, 1995
PORTLAND’S SHARE CAPTAIN BIRK: Mia Birk is president of Alta Planning + Design, vice president of Alta Bike Share, and a dedicated Star Trek fan. “I like the team model that Picard brought in,” she says.
That design project turned into a powder keg the next summer on North Williams Avenue, where African-American residents saw bike lanes as a sign they were being pushed out of the neighborhood. In 2011, someone began laying metal tacks in the Williams Avenue bike lane to puncture bicycle tires. The city and Alta diversified the advisory committee and approved a plan. “We have worked on thousands of miles of bikeways across the country, and occasionally we run into challenges,” Birk says. “But more often than not, we don’t.” In 2009, Birk and six partners launched Alta’s bike-share business. Bike-sharing programs—essentially A LTA B I K E S H A R E
In 1999, Birk jumped from city government into consulting, becoming a partner at Alta Planning + Design, a California-based company that soon moved its headquarters to Portland. The company quickly became one of the leading national consultants for scoping and designing bike routes, lanes and other street improvements. “Everywhere where bicycles are involved, Alta is there,” says Dan Bower, manager of PBOT’s Active Transportation Division. “It’s one thing to win the contracts. It’s another thing to do all the work. That’s a lot of work for a little company on the inner east side of Portland.” The company’s relationship has been especially close to the city bureau where Birk worked for six years. Since then, Alta has won five contracts with the Bureau of Transportation worth $3.4 million—more than half from the bike-share contract. In 2010, Birk helped shape the city’s Bicycle Plan for 2030 as co-chairwoman of its steering committee. Her company then landed a $214,000 contract to design projects for that very plan. That contract eventually went up to $227,865.
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short-trip rental systems, often run by private vendors on public property—are common in Europe and Asia. But they were largely new and untested in the U.S. They work much like Zipcar or other short-term rental businesses. Once you’ve signed up for the program, you can rent a bike from an automated kiosk and unlock the bike by inserting a key fob. In New York, you can rent access to a Citi Bike for a day for $9.95. If you sign up as a subscriber, it costs $95 a year, but you can ride for 45 minutes at a time at no extra charge. New York is the fifth city in three years where Alta has launched a bike share. (Along with Boston and Washington, D.C., the others are Melbourne, Australia, and Chattanooga, Tenn.) It has secured contracts in another six cities, with programs slated to begin this year in Chicago; San Francisco; Columbus, Ohio; and Vancouver, B.C. It plans to launch Portland and Seattle systems in 2014, and is in conversations with Baltimore. “If you can imagine starting something like TriMet in every city, that’s our challenge,” Birk says. “I start the day on the East Coast.” Birk doesn’t dress the part of a hardcore cyclist. When she rides her Trek Allant bicycle each morning to Alta’s Eastside Industrial offices, it’s not in the Lycra and windbreaker of the weekend triathlete, but in a violet lace shawl and 4-inch-heeled wedges. On a recent afternoon, she was sitting on a purple exercise ball in the center of her corner office in Alta Planning + Design’s headquarters on Southeast Grand Avenue, on the second floor of an 1892 office building tucked behind River City Bicycles. Her office is scattered with trophies and photos: Blumenauer cutting the ceremonial ribbon for bike lanes on D.C.’s Pennsylvania Avenue, next to portraits of her husband, three children and her posing with pacifiers in their mouths. But her day on Eastern Daylight Time actually begins with meetings conducted from the two-story, $685,000 home she and husband Glen Coblens purchased last year in the North Tabor neighborhood. First comes the 8 am conference call CONT. on page 16
The first bike-share program in the United States started in Portland in 1994. It was a fiasco. A group of volunteers affiliated with the Community Cycling Center began the Yellow Bike Project with 90 bikes for anyone to borrow, free of charge. They hoped people would simply leave the bikes where the next rider could easily find them. Within months, most of the yellow bikes disappeared. At the time, WW went looking for them and found only one—in the possession of a homeless man who said he slept with it under the Burnside Bridge. He was very protective of it. “It took me two days to find this goddamn bike,” he told WW. Mia Birk, then with the city of Portland, watched the Yellow Bike failure with horror. “That was the hippie-dippie utopian version,” she says. But the proposed version of Portland Bike Share has its own problems. City documents show that Portland’s program will cost $15 million over the first five years—three times the $4 million price tag on the original proposal approved by the City Council. (That’s because city officials approved only the startup costs, not the price of operating it.) The program will not get any city money, but it has received a $2 million federal grant. Alta is trying to sell naming rights for the program, which could be worth up to nearly $4 million. The hope is that the balance will come from revenues from cyclists or more sponsorships. News reports have said Regence BlueCross BlueShield might be the major sponsor—but sources tell WW the health-care insurer backed away. Birk says Alta is close to announcing sponsors, but won’t say who. “Alta is our contractor, and they’ve said they can do this,” says Dan Bower, manager of the Portland Bureau of Transportation’s Active Transportation Division. Alta has now scheduled a launch for the spring of 2014. Birk is already worrying about next spring’s weather. “I watched the Portland spring— every day was so beautiful—and felt the pain of not having bike share launched,” she says. “Next spring, it’s going to rain every day. We’re going to get so much blame: ‘Why did you start it so early in the spring?’” —Aaron Mesh
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The $47 million Alta-run Citi Bike program in New York is largely bankrolled by Citibank. But elsewhere, Alta’s programs wouldn’t exist without big government subsides. In 2010, Alta launched its first bike share in Melbourne with a $5.5 million government-funded project. The same year, Alta won a contract to replace a small bike-share program in Washington, D.C., previously run by media giant Clear Channel. Alta has expanded it with at least $7 million in government subsidy. Much of that money is federal transportation funding passed through regional governments. In Chicago, the feds have kicked in $18 million for a $22 million bike-share program Alta is supposed to launch there. In Portland, $2 million in federal money—passed from the state to Metro and finally into the city’s hands—is supposed to help launch the program here (see sidebar, page 14). “The automobile is heavily subsidized by government as well,” Birk says. “We are simply the contractor playing the hand that is dealt.” Alta has a key friend on Capitol Hill: Blumenauer, who is chairman of the Congressional Bike Caucus and consistently calls for more federal grants for bikes. Middaugh says Alta has spotted a golden opportunity and knows the right people, including bicycle-backing Blumenauer. “It’s a bit of good timing, a bit of hard work, and a bit of business need and a bit of good connections,” Middaugh says. “The baby boom is part of the timing. There’s a bunch of middle-aged white men trying to stay ahead of mortality.” Blumenauer says he’s proud to have advocated on Capitol Hill for bike-share funding. 16
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“It’s what we hoped would happen with these flexible funds—to get things started that are cutting-edge,” he says. “I think having a small Portland company have more than 500 employees, that’s a good thing. It’s good for us, and it’s good for the country.” In the month leading up to the launch of Citi Bike on May 27, and nearly every day since, New York newspapers have whipped themselves into a froth over it. “The city’s dastardly bike-share program begins today,” blared a May 27 item in the New York Post. “Yet it’s already threatened the well-being of an elderly man.” (Citi Bike had removed a 15-foot segment of bike stations after the Post incorrectly reported it got in the way of an ambulance pickup.) Other Post stories featured New Yorkers dumping trash on the bike racks (“Bike share is ‘wasted’ space”), a Lower East Side bike-shop owner concerned about competition (“Hell on wheels for my bike biz”), and glitches at the rental kiosks (“Citi Bikes made me late to work”). The newspaper even found a government recommendation that people weighing over 260 pounds might damage the bicycles. “Can obese cyclists sign up for the city’s new bike-share program? Fat chance!” But the greatest umbrage came from the Post’s august sister paper, The Wall Street Journal, also owned by Rupert Murdoch.
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to Chicago, where Mayor Rahm Emanuel became the first member of Divvy Bike Share, scheduled to open later this year. Then Birk checks in with New York City and the Citi Bike team. In between, she feeds her 1-year-old son, Levi. One marvels at how she can possibly do all this. “I’m telling you how I do it,” she says, and returns to reciting the schedule.
CAPITOL PAL: U.S. Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) is an influential fan of Citi Bike. “If there’s decent weather,” he says, “I for one plan never to take a cab south of Central Park.”
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VICIOUS CYCLE: New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg launched Citi Bike on May 27 at a ceremony in front of City Hall (above). Within days, the media tornado started whirling (left).
“DO NOT ASK ME TO ENTER THE MIND OF THE TOTALITARIANS RUNNING THIS GOVERNMENT OF THE CITY.” —DOROTHY RABINOWITZ In a June 3 video that went viral nationally, Journal editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz condemned the rental bicycles that had “begrimed” the New York streets. “Do not ask me to enter the mind of the totalitarians running this government of the city,” says Rabinowitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, speaking with a patrician sneer that recalls Lucille Bluth in Arrested Development. “The bike lobby is an all-powerful enterprise.” David Bragdon, the former Metro president who moved to New York to work for Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s planning department and now leads a transit nonprofit, was member No. 1,047 of Citi Bike. “If you read some of the tabloid opinions, it’s easy to detect how driven they are by ideology and some type of cultural animus,” Bragdon says, “akin to how they react to having an African-American president or seeing two women marrying each other. Every time I have been at the stations, people have been coming up asking how to join.” But Citi Bike has received criticism from the left as well—for catering mostly to rich whites. The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have reported that the vast majority of Citi Bike stations are concentrated in Brooklyn and Manhattan’s posher neighborhoods. The Daily Show got in the same dig— interviewing a man in Brooklyn’s BedfordStuyvesant neighborhood who declared, “Ain’t no Citi Bike in the ’hood.” The opening of Citi Bike was nearly a year late—partly because much of Alta’s equip-
ment was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. The biggest delay facing Citi Bike, however, came because Alta’s Canadian equipment supplier, Bixi, had a falling-out with the company that designed much of the computer software. The replacement software has been riddled with glitches—in New York, Chattanooga and Chicago—that didn’t affect earlier systems in Washington, D.C., and Boston. Alta has also run into trouble in other cities. In Chicago, two competitors who lost bids to Alta to run Divvy Bikes filed a complaint last year with the city alleging graft in the program selection, because the city’s transportation commissioner is a former Alta consultant. (Chicago’s inspector general is conducting an investigation; the Alta program is scheduled to start this summer, a year late.) Last month, The Washington Post broke the news that 18 current and former Alta Bike Share employees filed a labor complaint over what they say is $100,000 in back and withheld wages. Most of the employees work as truck drivers who “rebalance” the Capital Bikeshare system by hauling bicycles between docking stations. The workers, led by former employee Samuel D. Swenson, say in a petition that when they were hired, Birk gave each of them a copy of her book. “The title left some of us wondering where we fit into that ‘healthier planet,’” they write, “as we worked without health care, doing dangerous jobs on busy streets and in a filthy warehouse by the Superfund section of Southwest D.C.” Birk says Alta is addressing its mistakes. “As a young company, we are constantly facing new issues and learning as we go,” she says. In the face of big government contracts, malfunctioning equipment and media scrutiny, Birk points to the 263,456 miles pedaled on Citi Bikes in the first 10 days as validation. And she remains as combative as ever. “What a scrappy, determined company,” she says. “Despite government bureaucracy, despite challenges on the part of our supplier, despite a hurricane, despite media derision, we launched. We’ve got 36,000 annual members, and we’ve been to the moon and back.”
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CASTLE CLOSING: For the second time in as many years, the Green Castle food-cart pod at 1930 NE Everett St. will be closing—this time for good. The carts will leave at the end of summer because developer Joe Westerman will be putting up a five-story apartment complex on the site. This seems to be a trend as the real-estate market rebounds. Both the popular D-Street Noshery at Southeast 32nd Avenue and Division Street and a small pod on Southeast 47th Avenue and Division have closed in the past year so their land could be redeveloped. According to Bryan Killoren, owner of the Plow cart, Green Castle’s carts were offered spots at Westerman’s Rose City Food Park on Northeast Sandy Boulevard. NEW MOVES: Oregon Ballet Theatre has chosen its new artistic director six months after the previous one, Christopher Stowell, abruptly resigned. The new director is Kevin Irving, a Long Island native who has danced under famed choreographers such as Alvin Ailey and Twyla Tharpe. His résumé is solid, and he has experience working with several international companies, including leading the Göteborg Ballet of Sweden for five years. No doubt OBT hopes Irving can bring some stability to the company, which has wobbly finances. In choosing Irving, the company somewhat surprisingly passed over former dancer Anne Mueller, who’d been serving as interim artistic director. Irving will begin his job in late July. “He’s not a choreographer,” says Paul King, co-founder of White Bird, which brought the Göteborg Ballet to Portland last year. “He’s an artistic director that doesn’t choreograph, and that’s kind of a rare bird in this field.” WESTSIDE STORY: Portland’s first combination commercial gallery/urban winery has popped up at 1439 NW Marshall St., pairing the newly opened White Space art gallery with Cerulean Skies’ new Portland tasting room. >> Bye and Bye/Sweet Hereafter co-owner John Janulis will be reuniting with an old bartender of his, but this time as a business partner. He filed for a liquor license last week to open a massive 174-capacity bar in the Governor Hotel called Jackknife with Jake Carey (current co-owner of Dig a Pony). >> Meanwhile, highly pedigreed chef Jose Chesa will open a much-anticipated tapas spot called Ataula in the defunct Patanegra space (1818 NW 23rd Place) that once served...tapas.
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WEDNESDAY JUNE 12 BIKE SMUT 7 [PORN] Ever want to watch someone have sex with a bicycle? On a bicycle? The Bike Smut amateur sex film fest (bikeporntour. blogspot.com), in its seventh year, is dubious as porn but generally good for the yuks and yucks and sex-positive ya-yas. Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St., 897-0744, cstpdx.com. 9 pm. $7. BEERS MADE BY WALKING [BEER] Four local brewers lead a hike through Forest Park, stopping to show off native plants used in their new brews. On Thursday, Belmont Station taps the beers. The Forest Park Conservancy, 1505 NW 23rd Ave., beersmadebywalking.com. 6 pm. $10. THERESA CAPUTO [TALKING TO THE DEAD] A shellacked Long Island mom, Caputo claims to receive spontaneous messages from the great beyond. Bogus? Oh, yeah. Tonight she’ll commune with audience members’ dearly departed. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 800-273-1530. 7:30 pm. $35.75.
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THURSDAY JUNE 13 GGG: DOMINATRIX FOR DUMMIES [THEATER] CoHo Productions kicks off a summer of solo performances with Eleanor O’Brien’s one-woman show about her experiences at a professional house of domination in New York City. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 715-1114. 7:30 pm. $15. AM & SHAWN LEE [MUSIC] The transcontinental duo’s second album, La Musique Numerique, is one of the year’s outta-nowhere gems, a nocturnal mélange of Kraftwerkian synthfunk, 8-bit reggae and dusky art rock. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
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X-RAY VISIONS [MOVIES] Benjamin Ellis presents a 90-minute director’s cut of his 2000 documentary on the X-Ray Cafe, the legendary Portland music venue. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 5 and 7 pm; bands begin at 8:30 pm. $7. 21+.
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SABOTAGE: TRIBUTE TO THE BEASTIE BOYS [MUSIC] Adam “MCA” Yauch is gone, but we’ll never live in a world without the Beastie Boys’ robust musical legacy. The lineup for the second annual B-Boys tribute is a testament to their wide-reaching influence, featuring hip-hoppers like Vursatyl and Rev. Shines as well as members of groups from the Decemberists to Trans Am uniting under the banner of getting ill. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 8 pm. $8. All ages.
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STEALTH BOMBER FIRST RULE OF VANDWELLING: DON’T LET ANYONE SEE YOU VANDWELLING. BY P ETE COTTELL
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The cops may be on to me. It’s 10:30 on Monday night and I’m walking “home” to the van where I’ve lived for a week. I’ve got one eye on a police cruiser as a black-and-white Radio Cab whizzes by—briefly worrying me that this is a full-on sting. The actual police car slowly lurches down a side street near the Buckman neighborhood spot I’ve occupied for the past two days, and I impulsively walk to a bar at the end of the block. The cop stops, creeps forward, then stops again. I am officially freaking the fuck out. If you are going to live in a van parked in the city, being able to park without being hassled, which vandwellers call “stealth,” is your top priority. “If they don’t notice us, they won’t hassle us,” says Robert Wells, author of How to Live in a Car, Van or RV—And Get Out of Debt, Travel and Find True Freedom, the $2.99 Kindle book which has become a Bible of sorts for me. Every vandweller knows three basic commandments: Avoid being seen entering or leaving the van; get inside only after sundown; keep the hell away from parks, schools and other large public spaces. After a week, I’m getting sloppy. The problem started with a very good night of sleep. My ability to sleep inside the van has come a long way since my zombie-filled nightmare next to a Gresham plasma clinic. Perhaps too far. On Monday morning, after a long weekend of booze and pancakes, I am still in a comalike state around noon. I will get a job—I did not come here to just be a dirty hippie living in a van, but to live in a van as a means of simplifying my life while I get my shit together—but since I don’t have any employment yet, why not sleep until noon on a Monday? I put on a pair of flip-flops and stumble out of the passenger seat, falling head-first into an overgrown bush someone must have planted overnight. Not only have I left the van in the middle of the day, I have done so clumsily. In a daze, I look to see if anyone had witnessed my blunder. A quick scan of the area yielded nothing but a stray cat in a staring contest with a sparrow perched on a neighbor’s picket fence. 22
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Having recovered from my tumble, I slide open the rear passenger door to gather my things for the day. An avalanche of pens, shoes and dirty, vintage T-ball shirts spill out of the van and onto the sidewalk. Again, I should know better. “You must find a way to organize your possessions, or your mobile life will be a nightmare,” says my guidebook. A whole chapter on organization tips follows. I have not been following them, so I spend 10 minutes peeling my stuff off the sidewalk. I curse myself. I lock up and started walking in the direction of a coffee shop I’ve been calling “my living room” when I notice an old man in a porch chair sitting in the front yard of the apartment building near my van. The table next to him is covered in empty Rainier cans; hopefully he isn’t lucid enough to recount my gaffes to the appropriate authorities. I go to the coffee shop and apply for lots of jobs, even the barista gig at a high-end department store I really would prefer not to have. I go to the gym, hit the treadmill and take my daily shower. I have a drink with a girl I met at Sasquatch. Then it’s time to go back home. Which is when the cops roll by. With police officers lurking too close to my van for comfort, I slip into a dive for a PBR. I play some pinball to cool my heels. I tell the bartender in a fedora and Buddy Holly glasses about my delusional bout with the cops, and he gives an amused scoff. “You’re in the right place,” he says, gesturing toward a table of tattooed barflies. “You practically get a discount for having priors at this place.” I think about the old man on the porch. Did he call the cops on me? An hour later, it’s time to find out. I’m unnoticed as I get into the van, and decide to move it to a darker street. My new street has even more weird old vans on it than the last. Some drunken kids on their way home from the bar at the end of the road also notice this, loudly exclaiming how many “bitchin’ vans” are parked on their street every night. After reflecting on the day’s events, I pledge stricter allegiance to the vandweller code that would have prevented the whole debacle. I spend the last night of my first week in my new home asleep without a stir. I get up at 8 am to apply for more jobs. READ: Pete Cottell quit his job in Ohio to move to Portland and live in a van. Follow his adventures at wweek.com.
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PASS THE SNIFF TEST IF YOU’RE JUST LOOKING AT THE ROSES, YOU’RE MISSING HALF THEIR CHARM. BY KA I T I E TO D D
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All roses look pretty, but not all roses smell pretty. Any schmuck can admire the petals, but those who want to enjoy the sweet smell have to be a little more strategic about things. Portland is the City of Roses because of its weather: mild, damp winters and warm but not hot summers. From that, a garden has bloomed, including the Rose Festival wrapping up this week, and the International Rose Test Garden. WW sat down with Harry Landers, curator at the International Rose Test Garden, and we read the smelling notes of John Clements, the late owner of Heirloom Rose Nursery in St. Paul, east of McMinnville, who operated the largest family-owned rose nursery in the United States, to learn how to more fully appreciate the ubiquitous blooms. Here are a few things you probably didn’t know. Smell early. The best time to sniff is in the morning, when the temperature is between 65 and 70 degrees, according to an article written by Clements. “As the day gets warmer, the fragrance oils evaporate,” he writes. Roses also smell differently depending on the time of day. “It’s more intense when the sun warms the petals,” Landers says. “Some roses are fragrant no matter what— even when it’s 40 degrees you can still smell them. But for the most part, you can smell one rose, come back a half-hour later and can’t smell anything out of that same rose.” Don’t expect every rose to smell. Roses vary widely in their scent, many having almost none at all. That’s because rose breeders gave up on smell during the era of polyester and disco, when people wanted disease-resistant roses that didn’t require chemical sprays. Unfortunately, that led to breeding scentless roses. “They could not with the technology then split
the genes between the fragrance and the disease resistance, so they gave up the fragrance, and that was a big loss,” Landers says. Legendary British breeder David C.H. Austin is credited with reviving strongly scented roses. Know your nose. Noses, like tongues, have different sensitivities. “Some people have a much keener sense of smell than others, so a rose may smell strongly scented to one person and not another,” wrote Clements. “Each person is subjective when it comes to rose fragrance.” Clements said a rose breeder he knew, oddly, couldn’t smell yellow roses. Sniff for the unexpected. Typical rose scents include vanilla, myrrh, raspberry and citrus, according to Landers. According to Clements, you may also be able to smell apricot, tobacco, cedar and baby powder. There are professional rose smellers. “A lot of the breeders actually have ‘professional noses’ come in, like those who smell perfumes or taste wines,” Landers says. “They can pick up the blackberry or vanilla or myrrh scents.” These are the people who write the descriptions that accompany roses when you visit a nursery or buy them from a rose breeder. Smell is competitive. The International Rose Test Garden hosts the annual Portland’s Best Rose contest, led by the Portland Rose Society. Categories include best fragrance, which this year went to the Sugar Moon Hybrid Tea Rose. The Michael Jordan of scented roses is the Double Delight Hybrid Tea Rose. Voted “best fragrance” in 1977 by the All-America Rose Selections, its “sweet, spicy” scent remains the top-rated fragrance rose of all time. At the International Rose Test Garden, look for it in the center plot farthest from the parking lot. GO: International Rose Test Garden, 850 SW Rose Garden Way, 227-7033. 9 am-7 pm daily all summer. Free.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12 Beers Made by Walking
Learn how to make beer from local plants on this hike through Forest Park. Four local brewers from Breakside, Coalition, Gigantic and Hopworks will lead a two- to threehour hike through the large urban wilderness, stopping to point out plants they have been using in new brews. The Beer Made by Walking program also hosts a tapping Thursday at Belmont Station, where the four brewers will share the beers they created with plants from Forest Park. Forest Park Conservancy, 1505 NW 23rd Ave. 6 pm. $10.
FRIDAY, JUNE 14 Battle of the Belgians
It’s a battle of four American-made Belgian-style beers vs. four Belgian beers. Which wit is better? This tasting, a part of PDX Beer Week, lets you decide with side-by-side tastings. Bazi Bierbrasserie, 1522 SE 32nd Ave., 234-8888. 5-10 pm. $15.
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Berry season is upon us, and Kruger’s Farm Market is celebrating with its annual Berry Jam Festival. The strawberry fields will be open for picking, and there will be jammaking workshops, strawberry shortcake and live music. Kruger’s Farm, 17100 NW Sauvie Island Road, 621-3489. 11 am-4 pm. Free.
Schwenk Dinner
No, it’s not a weird way to say “swank”—schwenking is a German style of grilling meats, in which a grill swings over an open flame, supervised by a schwenk meister. Teutonic Wines teams with Sichuan restaurant Lucky Strike for a dinner using one of these contraptions. Contact Olga Tuttle at olga@teutonicwines.com or call 705-6311 for more information. Lucky Strike, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 206-8292. 4 pm. Prices vary.
Montavilla Pancake Breakfast
Northeast’s Montavilla Food Co-op hosts its third annual pancake breakfast fundraiser with a buffet (gluten-free and vegan options available), as well as live music and a raffle. Montavilla United Methodist Church, 232 SE 80th Ave., 254-5529. 11 am-1 pm. $10 adults, $5 kids.
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A dinner for the beer-loving dad: Widmer Brothers teams with Oba’s head chef, Scott Neuman, for a three-course dinner of salmon, pork and steak with appetizers and dessert. All courses are paired with Widmer Brothers beer, including the limited release and seasonal Marionberry Hibiscus Gose and Citra Blonde Summer Brew. Oba, 555 NW 12th Ave., 228-6161. 6-9 pm. $55.
SUNDAY, JUNE 16 Portland Beer and Cheese Fest
Forget cheese and wine for a day and test out cheese and beer pairings at the second annual Portland Beer and Cheese Fest. Cheese Bar cheesemonger Steve Jones teams with Northwest brewers for 10 beer and cheese pairings. The Commons Brewery, 1810 SE Stephens St., 3435501. 1-5 pm. $32. 21+.
EGGPLANT? NOT A CHEESESTEAK. WE’RE TALKING ABOUT EGGPLANT?: The Italian Market’s Passyunk sandwich.
THE ITALIAN MARKET Some people have a problem with Philadelphia. How anyone could dislike the city that gave us Questlove and the Allen Iverson “practice” speech is beyond me, personally. Maybe it has to do with booing Santa Claus, or the Eagles’ continued employment of Michael Vick. Or maybe it’s the cheesesteak. While no one can deny the genius of slopping fistfuls of sliced beef, cheese and onions onto a bun and calling it a sandwich, a picture of Andy Reid (or Chip Kelly) with cheesesteak juice dribbling down his chin is a pretty good symbol of our country’s obesity problem. Consider the Italian Market a small attempt at rehabilitating the image of Philadelphia cuisine. Even if the name conceals its origins, the cart—conjoined to Belmont Station—doesn’t hide its aggressive Philly-ness: the Phillie Phanatic is spray-painted right onto its doors. Order this: The Passyunk But instead of the city’s chief culinary ($8), baked eggplant with roasted peppers and fennel, cliché, transplanted Philadelphians pesto and mozzarella. Erin Callahan and Andrew Vidulich serve up what they refer to as the true street food of South Philly. This includes the Federal ($8), an Italian sub Vidulich says is a staple of his hometown. Densely packed with shredded roast pork and provolone, the meat is offset by broccoli rabe, giving the sandwich a distinctly earthy flavor. My dining companion ordered the Passyunk ($8), a similarly weighty eggplant sub, and raved about the freshness of the housemade pesto and mozzarella. Both sandwiches are served on thick Italian bread from Southeast Portland’s Alessio Baking Co., which, unlike other cheesesteaks, keeps them from being disintegrated by grease. The side of meatballs was uninspiring, and on the day I visited, the pretzels were less than fresh (which Vidulich copped to, offering me one for free). Overall, though, the Italian Market should go a long way toward repairing Philadelphia’s relationship with some of its local haters. Then again, some folks will never let their rivalries go. It’s their loss. MATTHEW SINGER. EAT: The Italian Market, 4500 SE Stark St., italianmarketpdx.com. Noon-9 pm daily. $.
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APPLE BEER (BUCKMAN BOTANICAL BREWERY) The boundaries between beer and cider are blurring. Cidermakers now add hops to their libations; brewers pour apple juice into their beer (or, in the case of Redd’s Apple Ale, made by MillerCoors, “natural apple flavor”). When done well, the apples, barley and hops come together in floral, citrusy harmony. When not, you get Buckman Botanical Brewery’s Apple Beer. The small operation specializes in beers that prioritize the flavors of herbs and spices over the bitterness of hops. Its apple brew is 75 percent beer and 25 percent cider, but recalls a different lunchbox fruit: bananas. Pouring a cloudy gold, it’s more like Hefeweizen than cider, because of its Belgian yeast. It’s fruity, to be sure, and not unpleasant, but it also feels like a case of false advertising. I dove in hoping for an apple orchard; I landed instead in a banana plantation. Not recommended. REBECCA JACOBSON.
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BREAKFAST LIKE A KING wonderful surprises, including two Latin-influenced entrees that are among the best breakfasts I’ve had in recent memory. The first, a plate of cowboy-style, sliced medium-rare steak with bright chimichurri and two BY M A RT I N C I Z M A R mcizmar@wweek.com over-easy eggs ($13) atop a bed of stewy, brown Much of this city’s shape was determined within borlotti beans specked with chorizo, delivered the walls of Bijou Cafe. Not just inside the kitchen enough spicy herbed protein to fill me up until of the stalwart bruncherie, one of the first Port- dinner time. The second, spoon-tender achiote land restaurants to push organic and local provi- braised pork ($10) with over-easy eggs, slivers of sions. But in the dining room, site of so many mildly hot poblano peppers, pickled red onion, cilantro and plump hominy kernels, was just as fateful handshakes and kingmaking coffees. As one story goes, when the ambitious young gooey, flavorful and filling. Not all the classics disappoint: Oatmeal, graJohn Kitzhaber wanted to challenge incumbent nola, bacon, sausage and fruits partymate Barbara Roberts are all solid. A hash ($10) with for the governorship in 1994, cauliflower, kale, feta, black he sought the blessing of Order this: Cowboy-style steak and olives and two eggs, was good, Neil Goldschmidt, Roberts’ eggs with chimichurri ($13). powerful predecessor. Where Best deal: Achiote braised pork ($10). the runny yolks and tangy feta coalescing beautifully over to stage such a ring-kissing? I’ll pass: The hashes. home fries. Likewise, not all Bijou, of course. the Southwestern options Maybe it says something about Portland that our rulers convene not over were quite so good. Enchiladas ($12), a cassolette old whiskey and bloody meat in a wood-walled filled with two rolled tortillas each stuffed with den, but over fluffy oyster, bacon and onion an average street taco’s load of shredded chicken omelets in an airy downtown breakfast joint with and baked under sauce and cheese, were too a waiting list. Our rulers are not necessarily any crispy on top, disintegrating to mush below. Meanwhile, two breakfast salads were standless nefarious—Goldschmidt’s mysterious decision to step away from gubernatorial re-election outs. A plate of buckwheat noodles ($9) with and become a party godfather was explained a shredded cabbage, carrots, black sesame seeds decade later when WW revealed he had sexually and a light, gingery dressing may be intended abused a 14-year-old girl as mayor of Portland in for Asian tourists, but I found it very enjoyable. the ’70s—but they do eat in louder and sunnier A salad of roasted yams and beets ($9) was made both sharp with apple-cider vinaigrette and sweet environs, surrounded by unfolded visitor maps. And they eat well—especially when they’re with crisp local apples and crunchy walnuts, crewilling to order unconventional breakfast fare at ating a tangle of bright pink, purple and orange chunks that looks like an abstract painting. NeiBijou, now 35, old enough to run for president. The front of the menu, where the breakfast ther would make a great breakfast on its own, but standbys queue up, isn’t anything special in the both were perfect for sharing as a side dish. So share, and look around. Chances are, one of $40-breakfast-for-two range. Bijou’s buckwheat griddle cakes ($7) can be soggy, those French- the surrounding tables has two people making a style omelets a little pale, soupy and light on the decision that will change your life. cheese for my taste. A dry muffin came with the main course, instead of with coffee and cocoa as EAT: Bijou Cafe, 132 SW 3rd Avenue, 222-3187, bijoucafepdx.com. 7 am-2 pm Monday-Friday, requested. Bijou sits next to Stumptown, but that 8 am-2 pm weekends, 6 pm-close Friday supper coffee comes from Illy. jazz. $$. Flip the menu over, though, and you find some
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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, JUNE 12 Parquet Courts, Naomi Punk, Blood Beach
[INDIE] Here at WW music headquarters, we try not to use the word “indie” in show previews. It makes sense: At this point, the term has become a nearly meaningless, lazy descriptor. There are two exceptions: Bands from indie rock’s golden era, when “indie” actually meant a real break from the mainstream; and bands, such as Parquet Courts, that so evoke the era no other word will do. On the Brooklyn quartet’s breakout record, Light up Gold, one hears all the lo-fi production and unconventional songwriting of the late-’80s and early-’90s underground— not to mention the scene’s positively scintillating creativity. Punctuality at tonight’s show will bring rewards: The bill pairs Parquet Courts’ punk lite with the heavier sounds of Seattle-Olympia it-band Naomi Punk. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
The Noble Firs
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[FOLK ’N’ SURF] Noble Firs frontman Jeremiah Brunnhoelzl and guitarist Derrin Brice didn’t know the noble fir, or Abies procera, was a type of large tree native to the Pacific Northwest when they were rattling off ideas for band names. They wanted something that paired nature with an image evocative of aristocracy. The name stuck, though, and the folksy surf-rock foursome has been playing under the evergreen moniker ever since, meshing bright Dr. Dog-esque riffs with a lightly distorted patchwork of frantic drumming and plainspoken harmonies. The
band has released only two singles to date, “Electric Jellyfish” and “Skin,” so catching it in the act is pretty much the only way to channel your inner musical arborist. BRANDON WIDDER. Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., 228-3669. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
Conjugal Visitors (9 pm), Ezza Rose (6 pm)
[AMERICANA] Portland-bred fourpiece Conjugal Visitors may currently live on the island of Maui, but you couldn’t tell just by listening to them. The band’s Americana style sounds more like the simple bluegrass-folk tunes made out in some coal-mining mountain town 100 years ago, but with better sound quality. Songs off their latest album, Maui Wowie Jubilee, were recorded live in Hawaii, and are rife with original and classic songs set featuring yodeled vocals and fast-paced banjos. Throw in some saxophones and a tendency to jam, and the Conjugal Visitors suddenly enter jazz territory, before shifting just as quickly back into rollicking, rootsy bluegrass tunes. KAITIE TODD. LaurelThirst, 2958 NE Glisan St., 232-1504. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
THURSDAY, JUNE 13 They Might Be Giants, Moon Hooch
[CABARET VOLTRON] Things were never easy for They Might Be Giants. Well before hyper-verbal, sub-fashionable successors like Barenaked Ladies coalesced staggering crowds around geek pride, Johns Flansburgh and Linnell had been uncomfortably grouped within the early
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BY M ATTH EW SI N GER
FIVE BANDS TOO OLD TO BE PLAYING WARPED TOUR Reel Big Fish (pictured) Ska is overdue for another ironic revival, but until it actually happens, the average Warped-goer is going to wonder what the paunchy Ace Ventura impersonator playing music that sounds taken from the background of a Saturday-morning cereal commercial is doing onstage.
TEENAGE LOBOTOMY: The crowd at the 2011 Warped Tour in Hillsboro.
I’M GETTING TOO OLD FOR THIS PIT WHO’S PLAYING WARPED TOUR? BEATS US. SO WE WENT TO THE MALL TO FIND OUT. BY MATTHEW SIN GER
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Nothing makes a 30-year-old music writer feel like a decrepit, out-of-touch sack of dust more than scanning a Warped Tour lineup. The hordes of pierced, tatted and asymmetrically coiffed mallpunk idols bred in the Vans corporate laboratory for the specific purpose of filling the stages of its annual summer festival are designed to age out of existence like zits on a forehead, making way for the next seasonal crop of screamer-emoters who will voice the subsequent generation’s junior high school years. It’s impossible to keep up with, even if you wanted to. Instead of pretending like we have any idea who these bands are, we went straight to the experts—teenagers hanging around in the general vicinity of the Lloyd Center Hot Topic—and asked who’s hot and who’s totes not on this year’s bill. (“Totes” is still a thing kids say, right?) HANNAH, 19
Motion City Soundtrack Claiming such erudite influences as Sunny Day Real Estate and Jawbox while actually sounding like a warmed-over Weezer, these Minneapolis power-poppers were lost among the emo millions in the early 2000s, but they’ll look like Elvis Costello and the friggin’ Attractions with this crowd. Goldfinger Another relic of the ska-punk ’90s, Goldfinger’s last dalliance with relevance was appearing on The Waterboy soundtrack, which is also the last time anyone had positive feelings toward Adam Sandler. As I probably don’t need to tell you, that was a long time ago. Hawthorne Heights When your band is thought of with faint, lukewarm nostalgia by a kid not yet old enough to rent a car (see adjacent story), perhaps it’s time to give dubstep a try. Big D and the Kids Table Wait, there’s another 20-year-old ska-punk band on the bill? Did the revival already happen and no one bothered to tell those of us who actually wore pinstripe suits and porkpie hats to school in 1997? Damn kids.
Who’s sick: “The Story So Far I’m really excited for. I’ve been to one of their shows at Branx, and it was crazy. Everyone was off-the-wall going nuts. They’re like pop-punk, kind of, just like, yelling and fun and cry-about-it sad stuff every once in a while.” Who sucks: “The Summer Set is really annoying. It’s really pop. It could be on the radio and you wouldn’t tell the difference. That’s not up my alley. Woe Is Me is terrible live. They’re, like, Hot Topiccore, as I call it—the metalcore kind of stuff. The CD is great, but live it’s just, like, what are you doing?” KARMA, 17
Who’s sick: “August Burns Red. I got my front tooth knocked out in the mosh pit during them, like, two years ago. Chiodos is pretty old, but I used to listen to them when I was younger. And Crown the Empire. I like their new shit that’s on Rise Records. I’ve seen them on YouTube a lot. I like angry shit. It helps let out my feelings whenever I listen to that stuff.”
Who sucks: “I See Stars sucks, because they kicked out their black screamer. Don’t go see I See Stars or Black Veil Brides. They’re just really too emo. They put on makeup and stuff. I don’t like that kind of stuff. I like hardcore stuff.” ALICIA, 13
Who’s sick: “Sleeping With Sirens. [Singer] Kellin Quinn is adorable!” Who sucks: “Black Veil Brides. Their new style sucks. Their old style was more rockish. Now they’re all sweet and soft.” MARIA AND AIYANA, 13
Who’s sick: “Memphis May Fire is one of our favorite bands. They just sing about, like, life and problems. And Never Shout Never. Christofer Drew [Ingle], the lead singer, he had, like, family problems, and he dropped out of school and stuff. He sings about that and, like, his drug-addict problems, and how he managed, with all the problems, to get big with his band. And also, they’ve been one of our favorite bands since fourth grade.” Who sucks: “There’s just, like, radio music that’s, like, mainstream, like Allstar Weekend and Hawthorne Heights. But I don’t think any of them are that bad. I like them all.” WYATT, 14
Who’s sick: “Odd Future.” [Editor’s note: Odd Future is not playing Warped Tour.] MICHAEL, 20
Who’s sick: “Hawthorne Heights. They’re just an old band. I can’t say I don’t like them. They’re just an oldie, so everyone’s got to love them. Everyone listened to them in middle school.” Who sucks: “Warped Tour is bringing it more poppy than it used to be. It used to be more metaly. I’ve been going to Warped Tour seven or eight years, and it was way different back in the day. Now it’s going down the drain. It’s to the point where I might not want to go anymore.” SEE IT: The Vans Warped Tour is at the Portland Expo Center parking lot, 2060 N Marine Drive, on Sunday, June 16. 11:30 am. $35. All ages. See vanswarpedtour.com for complete schedule. Willamette Week JUNE 12, 2013 wweek.com
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‘80s NYC art-punk scene simply because the sax-crazed vaudeville shtick of fez-topped outcasts belonged nowhere else. Their answering machine-jukebox “Dial-A-Song” racket petered out shortly before the Internet developed rather more lucrative iterations, and, after nearly a decade’s worth of experimental wanderings and label disputes, their stalled career momentum couldn’t have been helped by a 2001 comeback album’s 9/11 release date. Through three decades of frustrated timing, though, the pair never stopped writing and, as gloriously proven through the scattershot goofiness of current release Nanobots, never quite matured. JAY HORTON. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 9 pm. $21 advance, $23 day of show. 14+.
Eleanor Friedberger, Teen
[SIBLING PSYCH ROCK] Smoke machines are an overused stage prop, but if ever there were a group that demanded cloudy ambiance, it’s Teen. Comprising the sisters Lieberson (Teeny, Lizzie and Katherine) plus bassist Jane Herships, the psych-rock quartet plays fanning, brooding guitar alongside swirling, hypnotic keys. There’s a tantalizing tug of war between the dark, melodic tones and Teeny’s bright vocals, an internal battle that can make for resembling a druggier Sleigh Bells. Newest EP Carolina is a rough-cut precious stone, relaxed in form but potent and cerebral in function. The always-clever Eleanor Friedberger headlines. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $11 advance, $13 day of show. 21+.
AM & Shawn Lee, Don’t Talk to the Cops, Adventure Galley
[GROOVING AFTER MIDNIGHT] One’s a coffee-shop troubadour based in Los Angeles. The other is a soft-grooving, electro-exotica producer and American expat living in London. Based on the distance between—musically and geographically—prevailing wisdom suggests they shouldn’t work well as team. Thus far, though, AM and Shawn Lee have released two impressive, alluring collaborative albums together. La Musique Numerique, their latest, is one of the outtanowhere gems of 2013, a nocturnal mélange of Kraftwerkian synth funk, 8-bit dancehall and dusky art pop. As it turns out, these two are perhaps better as a duo than they ever were on their own. MATTHEW SINGER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
Diesto, Ninth Moon Black, Antikythera, Humors
[WILLAMETAL] Local trio Antikythera—look up the meaning, it’s cool—kicks off its two-week tour tonight, which will send the group slingshotting around Austin, Texas, and back up the coast. According to Facebook, the band is planning to collect bottles and cans to pay rent after the journey is complete. So do the right thing: Support this show. It’s ridiculously cheap for such a heavy-hitting lineup of killer bands. Ninth Moon Black offers sterling post-metal from Eugene and Diesto tops the bill with its expansive desert rock. Humors alone is worth the price of admission, so don’t dally. NATHAN CARSON. Kenton Club, 2025 N Kilpatrick St., 285-3718. 9 pm. Contact venue for ticket information.
Lovers, Atole, Coins
[PLAYS THE HITS] Carolyn Berk’s Lovers has had many incarnations over the years. She has used the name to describe her forlorn solo folk-pop project and a freewheeling rock band. But something stuck when the project coalesced into a meaty, synth-driven threepiece and released Lovers’ fourth album, Dark Light, in 2010. The joy factor doubled. The intensity upped. Understated love songs became huge dance-club anthems. While Dark Light was more minimal and exacting than its fantastic predecessor, I Am The West, the trio’s live show gradually became a must-see. Expectations for the band’s forthcoming record, then, are off the charts. Will it be packed with Berk’s uber-catchy pop songs or sprawling electronica? Will it be personal or political? Will it eschew guitars completely? It’s still too early to answer these questions, but expect a sneak preview of new material tonight. Also, expect to have Lovers’ songs stuck in your head for
at least a month afterward. CASEY JARMAN. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
SATURDAY, JUNE 15 Valkyrie Rodeo, Big Black Cloud, TBA
[PARTY SLUDGE] You know what’s fun for music fans? Cassette tapes! You know what’s fun for bands? Putting out albums on their favorite labels! This show is a win-win, since after four years of activity, local duo Valkyrie Rodeo is celebrating the release of its EP, Ready, Set, Ruin!, on Stankhouse Records. Tuviya “Toby” Edelhart shrieks like a wretched sea bird while assaulting his poor drums, while Jake Thomas plays bass like it’s a weapon, fighting his way out of muddy trenches only to slip back in for 25 violent minutes. Fans of godheadSilo best take note. NATHAN CARSON. Club 21, 2035 NE Glisan St., 235-5690. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
Mount Kimbie, Holy Other, Vinyl Williams
[SNEAKY DOWNTEMPO] Cold Spring Fault Less Youth, the second full-length by U.K. electronic duo Mount Kimbie, is not an album that grabs you immediately. These 11 mostly midtempo songs are creepers, sneaking up on your subconscious thoughts and leaving little earworms that will follow you around for hours at a time. Once the melodies take you back to the LP, then you’ll start to notice the little details—the sandy percussion hits, synth lines recorded as if in a cavern, the Italo-disco breakdown. When all the pieces have locked into place, you might see it as I do: as one of the best EDM releases of 2013. ROBERT HAM. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $16. 21+.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 14 PDX Pop Now! Compilation Release
[HOMETOWN HEROES] Not only is PDX Pop Now!—the all-ages, all-Portland summer music festival—one of the city’s best annual events, it also serves as a crucial survey of a music scene that’s constantly shifting, evolving and turning over. And the compilations the volunteer organization behind the festival produces each year are physical time capsules of very specific moments. The 2013 comp, which comes with the price of admission, features big names (Mike Coykendall with Zooey Deschanel and Ben Gibbard, Y La Bamba, Chromatics), of-themoment “talks of the city” (the Shivas, Radiation City, Woolen Men) and under-the-radar next big things (Magic Fades, Dupre, Eidolons), along with release-show performers Sapient, Sean Flinn and the Royal We, Summer Cannibals and Wishyunu. How many of those artists will be around this time next year? It’s impossible to say, but that’s what make PPN so vital. MATTHEW SINGER. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. 8 pm. Free. All ages.
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Portland music-scene fixture Joe Haege returns this week to premiere new 31Knots songs—which his own bandmate, Jay Winebrenner, will be hearing for the first time and giving commentary on from the stage. In anticipation, we asked the band to tell us about this photo of 31Knots playing a warehouse space in New York, circa 2004. “I’m pretty sure this is the show where Joe pissed off some people with his ‘going into the crowd’ antics. Somehow, he stepped on someone’s backpack, which contained a laptop that happened to belong to a music critic, who then bitched about it in his review of the show a day or so later. Joe emailed the critic and apologized, then the critic responded, saying something to the effect that he ‘loved the show’ or ‘don’t worry about it, friend,’ which was completely contrary to his write-up. It made no sense.” —Jay Winebrenner, 31Knots guitarist SEE IT: Joe Haege plays new 31Knots songs for Jay Winebrenner at Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., with Made for TV Movie, E*Rock, DJ Champagne Jam and DJ Safi, on Wednesday, June 12. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
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MARISA ANDERSON SUNDAY, JUNE 16 [GUITAR, SOLO] Somewhere on Marisa Anderson’s résumé is the phrase, “Once portrayed the ass-end of a jaguar.” It was the mid-1990s, a few years after the Northern California-born guitarist dropped out of Humboldt State University and decided to live the next decade and a half without a fixed address. During that time, she walked across the country twice, joined up with various activist groups, lived out of tents, cars and buses, and got involved with a community circus troupe, which traveled to Chiapas, Mexico, visiting encampments of antigovernment guerrillas and giving allegorical performances depicting the overthrow of an evil ringmaster by a group of rebellious animals. Anderson wrote the accompanying music, and appeared in walk-on roles as a “very bad juggler” and, yes, the hindquarters of a two-person jaguar costume. Anderson’s stint in the circus ended, along with her period of itinerancy, in the early 2000s, when the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle brought her to the Northwest and into a shared house in Portland. In a way, though, Anderson, 42, is still an artist without a home. A folk musician more enamored with sounds than songs, who prefers improvisation over the constraints of tradition, she has endeared herself to Portland’s experimental community more than, say, the LaurelThirst happy-hour scene. Even there, she doesn’t quite fit in. A selfdescribed Luddite, she has no use for the pedals and computer programs of her peers working in noisier mediums. Her latest album, Mercury, is 16 tracks of rustic, stream-of-consciousness guitar instrumentals, recorded over the past year at her home studio. It’s music based in the American roots tradition, filtered through the methodology of jazz. “I’m taking the music that resonated with me my whole life and treating it in a way that I think is exciting,” says Anderson from a booth at the back of Spare Room in Northeast Portland. “I like improvised music. I like people who are just playing by the seat of their pants. But the jazz language, that vocabulary isn’t my vocabulary. And I don’t need to play folk songs. I like folk songs, but I don’t need to play them. I’m just not called.” As a songwriter with a deep social conscience, however, Anderson is driven by the same desire that spurs most folk traditionalists: to communicate her life. The experiences from her rootless past are imprinted all over Mercury—not on the words, of course, because there aren’t any. Regardless, each song is pinned to a specific memory for Anderson, reaching back to her childhood in rural Sonoma, Calif. If the direct meaning of titles like “Happy Camp” and “Furnace Creek” remain personal to her, the feelings those references summon within her are imparted with such evocative picking and strumming that lyrics would only get in the way. “It’s a challenge to have a full palette of emotional ideas and auditory interest without words,” she says. “In folk music, country music, blues—we already know the words. We already know your heart is broken. We know times are hard. We can hear a sound, even, and we already know where it’s going. So I don’t need to say it again.” MATTHEW SINGER. For a rootless roots musician, words are very unnecessary.
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[FUNK] It’s hard not to like the style of Oakland-based hip-hop group the Coup. The group consists of an Afro-adorned political activist named Boots Riley, who raps about social injustices in a smooth, pimped-out hush, and DJ Pam the Funkstress, whose skills on the ones and twos have garnered her the nickname “the Party Slapper.” The duo has spent more than two decades sticking it to the man with a funky brand of rap rooted in the music of ’70s blaxploitation flicks, but the group’s last album, 2012’s Sorry to Bother You, mixed wobbly synths with dirty guitar riffs and trash-can drums to create the punkest gangster-rap record since Ice-T’s “Cop Killer.” Portland MC Luck-One will warm the show up with his own brand of fiery conscious rap, so be sure to get there on time. REED JACKSON. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $17. 21+.
Drunken Prayer, the Mutineers, the My Oh Mys
[ALT-EVERYTHING] Of all the musicians evoked by Drunken Prayer mastermind Morgan Christopher Geer, the one who most mirrors the Portlander is perhaps Eels’ Mark Oliver. Not in style, per se, but in Geer’s deft hand in encompassing such a wide range of musical influences and executing them, one after another, in a genre-hopping, streamof-consciousness flood. And on record, he does most of it himself. On last year’s Into the Missionfield, as with the rest of his body of work, Geer drifts between alt-country, psychedelia, jangle pop and Americana, with the compositions glued together by his uniquely blunt cadence. AP KRYZA. The Secret Society Ballroom, 116 NE Russell St. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
Sabotage: The Second Annual Tribute to the Beastie Boys: Rev. Shines, Vursatyl, Dr. Theopolis, Pinehurst Kids, Ask for Janice, Flomentum, Kid Hype, DJ Weather, Bottom Shelf Band, Dear Drummer, Nathaniel & the Hornblowers
[BODY MOVIN’] It’s a bitch that we now live in a world without Adam “MCA” Yauch. But dammit, we’ll never live in a world without the Beastie Boys’ robust musical legacy, one that dipped its funky fingers into pretty much every aspect of popular music. Even when the results weren’t always great, the effort was always there. The lineup for the Wonder’s second annual B-Boys tribute is a testament to that wide-reaching influence. It’s granted that hip-hoppers like Vursatyl and Rev Shines would appear, but they’re joined by musicians from groups ranging from the Decembrists to Blue Skies for Black Hearts to Pinehurst Kids, Norway Rats and Trans Am. They’re united under the banner of getting ill. Hell, maybe we all are. AP KRYZA. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 8 pm. $8. All ages.
SUNDAY, JUNE 16 Radar Bros, Ola Podrida
[LO-FI TWILIGHT ZONE] Slow and folky as Radar Brothers have been over their 20-year career, the band has always offered something somewhat paranormal. The lumbering songs, therapeutically cool and composed thanks to Jim Putnam’s sleepy voice, make the perfect clear-night backdrop for the unexpected. Eerie whistles and droning guitar work appear in controlled doses in much of the band’s work, hinting at some bizarro world over which Rod Serling might narrate. Newest project Eight shows a band broadening its sound with new members and instruments, including pedal and steel guitars, but Radar Brothers’ otherworldly heart is still beating strong. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
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BOOTS ’N’ SUIT: The Coup plays Mississippi Studios on Saturday, June 15.
Y La Bamba, Vin Blanc/White Wine
[SPANGLISH ROCK] There’s something intrinsically beautiful about a band that can fluidly switch between languages without alienating us monolingual folks. Luz Elena Mendoza and the rest of Portland’s Y La Bamba often do just that, melding distinctive elements of traditional Mexican music with the rain-soaked indie pop of the Pacific Northwest. Y La Bamba’s latest release, Oh February, showcases Mendoza’s quirky, operatic aptitude and the band’s use of Latin rhythms, subtle accordion and flowing guitar. It’s the percussive romps and dancefolk beats that snake their way through the EP’s haunting undertones that separate the six frenzied tracks from the hokey indie-rock rabble of an everyday Portland band. If only we could all speak Spanish. Opener Vin Blanc/White Wine is the latest project from Joe Haege of 31Knots and Tu Fawning, whose new album, In Every Way but One, comes out next month on upstart Portland label Party Damage Records. BRANDON WIDDER. Rontoms, 600 E Burnside St., 2364536. 8 pm. Free. 21+.
MONDAY, JUNE 17 Cayucas, JBM
[TROPICAL SUN POP] The inflatable beach ball that comes bundled with the deluxe version of Cayucas’ debut album is a sign of the group’s knack for sand-tinged nostalgia, A pet project of multi-instrumentalist Zach Yudin, the Santa Monica-based musician’s sole full-length, Bigfoot, is a twinkling collection of pedestrian-turned-pearly tunes about girls, bicycles and other images conjured from the West Coast native’s memory bank. The album swims with chiming keyboard, breezy percussion and spry guitar, with a distant air of melancholia recalling Beta Band or a slightly more somber Vampire Weekend. It’s the perfect soundtrack for a drab summer. BRANDON WIDDER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
TUESDAY, JUNE 18 The Front Bottoms, Weatherbox, Lee Corey Oswald
[POST-HARDCORE] If you have fond memories of the days when labels like Polyvinyl and Saddle Creek were household names and emotionally charged punk rock was still defiant of catch-all genre tags that implied little more than tight pants and navel-gazing, Weatherbox might be a welcomed blast from the past. This SoCal foursome stacks layers of jagged riffs and anthemic choruses atop jittery stop-start dynamics in a way that will have fans of Jawbox, Criteria and Cursive dropping their guard and diving headfirst into the pit. The dude sings like Conner Oberst in need of a cold glass of milk at times, but the end result
is the same. Meanwhile, the Front Bottoms’ twisted fusion of folk elements and dialed-to-11 power pop recalls an over-caffeinated mix of Frightened Rabbit and the Thermals, which is an excellent reason to make it to this one in time for the openers for once. PETE COTTELL. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 2482900. 7:30 pm. $10. All ages.
Emily Wells
[POST-CLASSICAL] It’s no longer rare to see one musician up on a stage manning a synth, a drum machine and a looping pedal. Classically trained violinist Emily Wells puts those things to a different kind of use, though, creating her own brand of post-classical, hiphop-based music. Blending a theatrical, orchestral flair with hip-hop beats and touches of electronic sounds, Wells combines strong string sections with simultaneously haunting and alluring vocals, creating an atmospheric and entrancing one-woman show. KAITIE TODD. Music Millennium, 3158 E Burnside St., 231-8926. 6 pm. Free. All ages.
Fall Out Boy
[POP CHEESE] The Chicago suburbanites of Fall Out Boy rode the early aughts’ emo-punk-pop wave with catchy-if-vanilla hits that belied their hardcore roots. After their fourth album, 2008’s Folie a Deux, stalled commercially, frontman Patrick Stump and company took an indefinite hiatus, spending the next few years in solo projects and, in the case of chief lyricist-bassist Pete Wentz, gossip mags. Fall Out Boy announced its return this February with the release of Save Rock and Roll, a slick, only half-jokingly titled disc of modern hair metal that features cameos by Courtney Love and Elton John. Taylor Swift-approved comeback anthem “My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light ’Em Up)” is the same serviceable, soulless power pop that’s always made the band a love-’em-or-loathe-’em deal. It’s a shame—there’s smarter songwriting and musicianship here than the processed bombast allows. AMANDA SCHURR. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. Sold out. All ages.
Rachael Yamagata
[SOULFUL FOLK] Rachael Yamagata has made herself one of the more compelling, indispensable artists of the indie realm in recent years, with her husky, honey-smoked vocals guiding tracks like riverboats down slow-moving rivers. Yamagata is at once fragile and empowered as she reveals all that relationships have done to her and how she has grown from them, and her fearlessness is what makes her songs resonate so deeply with fans. Her last release, the Heavyweight EP, demonstrated she can throw curveballs as well by dramatically stripping down her sound. Such minimalism in the heart of such weighty content is quite the balancing act, and Yamagata is always up for the challenge. BRIAN PALMER. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 7:30 pm. $15 advance, $17 day of show. 21+.
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KELLI SCHAEFER 601 (AMIGO/AMIGA) [GHOSTLY FOLK] “The mouth is an open wound,” sings Kelli Schaefer on her new EP, and the 28-year-old Portland enchantress lets hers bleed all over these four spectral songs. On 601, Schaefer’s already unadorned songwriting gets stripped to the bone. Ghost of the Beast, her 2011 full-length, folded white noise and ambient sounds into the crooks of her sometimes raging, sometimes fragile indie-folk. Now, she’s writing whole songs out of those bits of ephemera. Bells, shakers, one-note bass pulses and what sounds like steam valves are her prime accompaniment; the drums and guitars are just streaks in the atmosphere. Within such minimalism, it’s important that Schaefer maintain a presence. She isn’t a showy singer, but she is a dynamic one, and her ability to put every range-stretching howl and half-muttered warble in its precise place makes the tracks on 601 at once confessional and hauntingly ambiguous. “When I don’t have anything good to say/ I open my mouth anyway,” she confesses on “I’ll Take You,” a song about carrying someone away from the tyranny of their father, though it’s never clear if she’s addressing a friend, a lover or herself. “You better pull it together,” she commands on “Calm Down,” over trance-y, tribalist blues, but again, it could be her trying to shake someone else out of their complacency, or a moment of self-laceration. And when Schaeffer does disappear, she’s sure to make a point of it: On closer “Inside the House Where Nobody Lives,” a nine-minute drift into tranquil ambience, Schaeffer’s multitracked voice slowly evaporates, vanishing like dandelion spores in the wind. It’s a brilliant cliffhanger: The intrigue is in seeing where it’ll bloom next. MATTHEW SINGER. SEE IT: Kelli Schaefer plays Union Pine, 525 SE Pine St., with the Beauty and No More Train Ghosts, on Thursday, June 13. 6 pm. Free. All ages.
SPACE WAVES YOU CAN RIDE A BEAM OF LIGHT LIKE A MUSICAL STRUM (MINDWAVE) [COSMOS - GAZE] Space Waves bassistvocalist Sarah Bourland unwittingly sums up the entirety of her band’s second full-length a mere 25 seconds into the song “Underworld”: “Nothing’s quite wrong/But it’s not quite right.” She and her two bandmates—husband Kelley Bourland and drummer Mark Loftin—do everything a trio of Spacemen 3 and Slowdive worshippers should do. The guitar is sent through a bank of effects pedals, reverb is slathered on the vocals, and every melody and rhythm is set on repeat to create a hypnotic effect. They hit all the right notes. So why does it feel so flat and affectless? With few exceptions, most of the tracks on Beam of Light float past in a narcotic haze. The rhythms barely rise above a normal resting heartbeat, and no one instrument or voice pushes itself forward. Not a bad thing in moderation, but when sustained over the better part of 40 minutes, it’s downright oppressive. That approach certainly helps the more awake moments on the album. The growling “Stealin Time” and the near-jangly opener “Turns” feel like the titular beams of light cutting through the mist, and listening to Sarah Bourland’s delicate voice push to be heard against the washes of cymbals and processed guitar sound makes for some fantastic tension. Try as it might, those touches can’t help add the necessary heat to bring this album to a much-needed boil. ROBERT HAM. SEE IT: Space Waves plays Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., with Spirit Lake, Thomas Mudrick and Boing, on Friday, June 14. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
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JUNE 12–18 McMenamins’ Kennedy School
= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Editor: Mitch Lillie. TO HAVE YOUR EVENT LISTED, send show information at least two weeks in advance on the web at wweek.com/submitevents or (if you book a specific venue) enter your events at dbmonkey.com/wweek. Press kits, CDs and especially vinyl can be sent to Music Desk, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Please include show or release date information with all physical mailings. Email: music@wweek.com. For more listings, check out wweek.com.
5736 NE 33rd Ave. Fools in Paradise
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Cafe Istanbul, Mo Phillips, Johnny Keener
Mississippi Studios
COURTESY OF BB GUN PRESS
3939 N Mississippi Ave. AM & Shawn Lee, Don’t Talk to the Cops, Adventure Galley
O’Connor’s Vault 7850 SW Capitol Highway Julie & The Boys
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Hot Victory, The New Trust, Steelhymen
Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic
Shaker and Vine
2929 SE Powell Blvd. MPEG
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Meredith Brothers, Small Arms, MG3
The Analog
720 SE Hawthorne Kaelynn Sparkle Pony Open Mic
The Blue Monk Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Song Sparrow Research, Luz Mendoza
Alhambra Theatre
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Sad Horse, the Woolen Men, Hands In, the Stereofidelics, Device Grips, Yak Attack
Andina
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Lisa Forkish Quartet
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. The Noble Firs
LaurelThirst
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar
Duff’s Garage
Lents Commons
Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Housecoat
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Parquet Courts, Naomi Punk, Blood Beach
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Mother Android, Julie Richfiels, Die Robot
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Rivera, the Lesser Bangs
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. Jeffrey Trapp
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE 39th Ave. Authority Zero, Ballyhoo, Versus The World, Rendered Useless, Absent Minds
Holocene
9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Pops Couch
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Indigenous, Hunter Paye
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Armed With Legs
Shaker and Vine
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Robbie Laws
Suki’s Bar & Grill 2401 SW 4th Ave. Jessie Georgen
The Analog
720 SE Hawthorne Shamanic Sounds
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Arabesque Bellydance
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Konrasekt, Destroyer, Wild Mohicans
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Death Wish Club: Black Medic
1001 SE Morrison St. XRAY Fest: Made for TV Movie, E*Rock, DJ Champagne Jam, DJ Safi
Thirsty Lion
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Musicians Open Mic
1435 NW Flanders St. Kathy Kosins, Randy Porter
Jack London Bar 529 SW 4th Ave.
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Dante’s
Doug Fir Lounge
Ash Street Saloon
115 NW 5th Ave. Josiah Leming, One Love, Jeremy Murphy
White Eagle Saloon
350 W Burnside St. Richmond Fontaine, Ian Moore
232 SW Ankeny St. Fox & Woman, Split Screens 836 N Russell St. Sexy Offenders, Ninja Camp
4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray, Bob Shoemaker 2958 NE Glisan St. Conjugal Visitors (9 pm), Ezza Rose (6 pm)
Backspace
Valentine’s
1332 W Burnside St. They Might Be Giants, Moon Hooch
Landmark Saloon
1314 NW Glisan St. Jason Okamoto 225 SW Ash St. Jack and Jill, Sightseer
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Bo Ayars
Crystal Ballroom
71 SW 2nd Ave. Jordan Harris
Thorne Lounge
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Do You Remember Rock ‘n’ Roll? Radio Show: Pat Kearns
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800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Band, Doctor of BeBop, David Watson
THURS. JUNE 13 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Song Sparrow Research, Lynnae Gryffin
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Greg Wolf Trio
Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band
Artichoke Community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Acoustic Village
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Nemesis, Tight Lies, Apophis Theory, Embalming Process
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. MUSCLE AND MARROW, Yevtushenko, Sad Little Men, Caroline Bauer
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Sockey Sandwich
Buffalo Gap Eatery and Saloon 6835 SW Macadam Ave. Joey Beats Brady
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Laura Cunard Quartet
Chapel Pub
430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin
830 E Burnside St. Eleanor Friedberger, Teen 1635 SE 7th Ave. Donkey Driver
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Problems, Spanish Galleons, Ghostwriter, Sewers of Paris
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Papa Coyote, Transcendental Brass Band, Manimalhouse
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE 39th Ave. Nekromantix, The Silver Shine, Toxic Zombie, the Back Alley Barbers, Sangre, Swamp Devil, Disastroid
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Tom Grant Vocal Showcase, Anandi, Mike Winkle
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown B3 Organ Group
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. BC Stargazer, Beejan, Shroom La Doom, Stem & Leaf Plot, Stay High Kings, Wagz & Heest
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Fuckette, Pinky Swear, Sparkle Princess Forever
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. The Pickups
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. The Alder St. All Stars, the Bottlecap Boys, Lewi Longmire & the Left Coast Roasters
303 SW 12th Ave. Song Sparrow Research, Robin Bacior
Aladdin Theater
Muddy Rudder Public House
3158 E Burnside St. Builders and the Butchers
Tony Starlight’s
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Gold Dust, Glass of Hearts, Heartbeat, Show
Music Millennium
Proper Movement Drums and Bass
FRI. JUNE 14
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Lights
8105 SE 7th Ave. Stumbleweed
WED. JUNE 12
128 NE Russell St. Mt. Eden
Mock Crest Tavern
3435 N Lombard St. Claes of the Blueprints
PICKUP ARTIST: Rachael Yamagata plays Wonder Ballroom on Tuesday, June 18.
Wonder Ballroom
3341 SE Belmont St. Johnnie Ward’s Sharkskin Review, Euphonius Thump
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Pelican Ossman, Montgomery Word, Dramady
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Withering Of Light, Okha, Zack Kouns, DJ Horrid
The Old Church
Alhambra Theatre
71 SW 2nd Ave. Eric John Kaiser Band
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Scotty Sounds
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Karaoke From Hell
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Grateful Buds
Union/Pine
525 SE Pine St. XRAY Fest: Kelli Schaefer, The Beauty, No More Train Ghosts
1314 NW Glisan St. Dan Diresta Quartet
Artichoke Community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Friday Coffeehouse
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Echo Park, Here Come Dots, Gibraltar
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. PDX POP NOW! Compilation Release
Beulahland
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ellen Whyte, Gene and Jean
Katie O’Briens
Kells Brewpub
210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Rouisi
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. School of Rock
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Diesto, Ninth Moon Black, Antikythera, Humors
Langano Lounge
1435 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Dead Cult, Shadowhouse, Bone Spells
LaurelThirst
Mississippi Pizza
320 SE 2nd Ave. Lucifer’s Child, Ceremonial Castings, Panzergod, DJ Old Man Stares
Bravo Lounge
8560 SE Division St. Trick Sensei, Manic Messenger
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Rich Halley Quartet
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Norman Sylvester
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Zepparella 2205 N Killingsworth Matthew Lindy
2002 SE Division St. The Greengoes, Proof151, Thorntown Tallboys, Start A War
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Space Waves, Spirit Lake, Thomas Mudrick & (((BOING)))
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Too Loose Cajun Band, Atomic Gumbo
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. The Holy Child, Fever, A Breakthrough in Field Studies, The World Radiant
EastBurn
1800 E Burnside St. Closely Watched Trains
Food for Thought Cafe
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. The Stubborn Lovers, Christopher John Mead, Adam Sweeney and the Jamboree, Will West and the Friendly Strangers
Jimmy Mak’s
Branx
2505 SE 11th Ave. Jeremy Murphy, Daniel Mateo
1201 SW Jefferson St. Alan Jones Academy Jazz Jam
529 SW 4th Ave. Meggan James Band
2958 NE Glisan St. Garcia Birthday Band, Joe McMurrian & Woodbrain
West Cafe
1530 SE 7th Ave. Pink Lady John Bennett Jazz Band Speakeasy
Jack London Bar
118 NE 28th Ave Scotty Sounds
1620 SW Park Ave. Big Black Cloud, Naam Sain, Sharkpact, Crabapple, Space Trash, Walter Mitty and his Makeshift
Vie de Boheme
1435 NW Flanders St. Rebecca Kilgore, Tom Wakeling, Randy Porter, David Evans
Andina
Dilly’s Bar and Grill
Thirsty Lion
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Broken Bodies, The Hot LZs
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Gappy Ranks, Protoje, Show
The Press Club
116 NE Russell St. Tezeta Band
1507 SE 39th Ave. Snowden, the We Shared Milk, Suckerforlights, Soft Shadows
Alhambra Theatre
DeVille Public House
The Secret Society Ballroom
Hawthorne Theatre
221 NW 10th Ave. Steely Dawn
1422 SW 11th Ave. Astoria Music Festival Portland Preview 2621 SE Clinton St. Hot Club of Hawthorne
The Applicants, We Are Brothers, PL Young
Ford Food and Drink
Habesha
801 NE Broadway Jollapin Jasper, Bath Party, Mister Tang, Comaserfs
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd.
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Pura Vida Band, Dance Party
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Lovers, Atole, Coins
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Sneakin’ Out
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music
O’Connor’s Vault
Thorne Lounge
4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. SloeGinFizz
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Lady Elaine, Lancaster, Frame By Frame, The Floorboards, Sugar Tits
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Xploding Boys, The Deadfly Ensemble, Before the Eyewall
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Signatures
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Mr. MuMu
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Los Gallos Rumba
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Jon Wayne And The Pain, Device Grips, Reverb Brothers
SAT. JUNE 15 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Song Sparrow Research, the Ocean Floor
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway Bill Dickey’s Big Broadway Bash: Portland Gay Men’s Chorus
Artichoke Community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Brooks Robertson and John Standefer
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Destro, Th3rdZ, Rafael Vigilantics, Bad Tenants, Bad Habitat, DJ Wicked
Backspace
7850 SW Capitol Highway King Beta, Fred Stickley
115 NW 5th Ave. The Best of Arya Show
Original Halibut’s II
118 NE 28th Ave Jon-RA
2527 NE Alberta St. Lloyd Jones
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Beat Totem, Cabana, The Protons
Ringside Fish House 838 SW Park Ave. Brent Martens Combination
Shaker and Vine
2929 SE Powell Blvd. George Colligan
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Grandfather, Lee Corey Oswald, Your Rival, Our First Brains
The Elixir Lab
2738 NE Alberta St. Jenny Don’t
Beulahland
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Mexican Gunfight, the Barkers
Bob White Theatre
6423 SE Foster Road Mo Phillips, Red Yarn, Mr. Hoo, Tallulah’s Daddy, Matt Clark, Buttercup Bill Aubrecht
Bossanova Ballroom
722 E Burnside St. Anahata: Cheb I Sabbah, Alam Khan, Colleena Shakti, Amel Tafsout, Sedona Soulfire, NagaSita, Apsara, Donna Oefinger, Sekou Somah, Dance Mandal, Monique Trinity Rose
The Know
Buffalo Gap Eatery and Saloon
The Lovecraft
Camellia Lounge
2026 NE Alberta St. Adelit@s, Raw Nerves, Wretched of The Earth 421 SE Grand Ave. [Product], Ghostmotor, DJ Horrid
The Secret Society Ballroom
116 NE Russell St. Pete Krebs and his Portland Playboys, the Resolectrics, Redray Frazier, Dr. Theopolis
The TARDIS Room
1218 N Killingsworth St. Jawbone Flats
The Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave. Bass Inversion: Black & Mild, Vouge, Professor, Iron Aiden
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Ants in the Kitchen
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Dueling Duets: Rockin’ Piano Party 510 NW 11th Ave. Diego Garcia
Club 21
2035 NE Glisan St. Valkyrie Rodeo, Big Black Cloud, TBA
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Andy Stokes
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. Gaylabration 2013: Vicci Martinez, DJ Wildfire, Drag King Emilio, DJ Grind
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Whitey Morgan & the 78s
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St.
JUNE 12–18 VIVIANJOHNSON.COM
The Blue Monk
830 E Burnside St. Radar Bros, Ola Podrida
The Know
East End
The Secret Society Ballroom
116 NE Russell St. Drunken Prayer, the Mutineers, the My Oh Mys, Everything’s Jake
The TARDIS Room
1218 N Killingsworth St. Moonraker
The Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave. Chris Herrera, Eddie Pitzul, Colin James
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Jacob Merlin Band
Tiga
POUR OF SPIRIT: The Oregon Public House (700 NE Dekum St., 828-0884, oregonpublichouse.com) certainly has a catchy slogan: “Have a pint, save the world.” The Woodlawn neighborhood watering hole, whose opening has been long delayed and whose religious ties and use of city grant money have raised eyebrows, claims to be the nation’s first nonprofit pub. The Public House donates 100 percent of its proceeds (after overhead, of course) to charity—but servers do keep their tips. As bartenders tap at iPads docked in faux rustic wooden mounts, they ask which of eight nonprofits patrons would like to support. So ask yourself: Aid for residents of city dumps in Nicaragua? Improved emotional expression for marginalized youth in Portland? Help for victims of sex trafficking? More trees in metro areas? Donations are logged at the Give-o-Meter, where wooden chips are dropped in clear vials below beefy beer mugs. All I know is that our bill (pints run around $5) went to assisting low-income Oregonians, that my Elysian Trip 16 Farmhouse Rye was deliciously funky, and that my drinking buddy thought the St. Nicholas mural on the exposed-brick wall was either Zeus or Jerry Garcia. I might not have changed the world, but at least I upped my blood alcohol content. REBECCA JACOBSON.
Mount Kimbie, Holy Other, Vinyl Williams
Ducketts Public House 825 N Killingsworth St. The Hand That Bleeds, Steelhymen, Thrashkey Kids
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. DK Stewart Sextet
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Ultra Goat, Akabane Vultures
EastBurn
1800 E Burnside St. Chris Juhlin and the Collective, DJ Zimmie
Fifteenth Avenue Hophouse
1517 NE Brazee St. Hot Club Time Machine
Food for Thought Cafe 1620 SW Park Ave. The Taxpayers, Artistic Crisis, Hi Ho Silver Away, Detachdolls, Danger Death Ray, Living Rheum
Gemini Lounge
6526 SE Foster Road Welfare
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Acorn Project, Dark Matter Transfer
Hawthorne Hophouse 4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Karyn Patridge
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. Matt Danger, Mr. Plow
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. What the Festival Kickoff Party: Nasty Nasty, Most Custom, KELLAN
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
Mock Crest Tavern
1435 NW Flanders St. Ezra Weiss Sextet
3435 N Lombard St. Johnnie Ward’s Sharkskin Review
Jade Lounge
Music Millennium
2346 SE Ankeny St. The Dreadnoughts, JD Dawson and the Cosmic Roots
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Bobby Torres Ensemble
Katie O’Briens
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. PDX Punk Rock Collective, The Exacerbators, The Food
Kells Brewpub
210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Rouisi
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. The Underlings, Soothesayers, Sans, the Homemakers
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Two Ton Boa, Total Life, Thrones
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Can’t Hardly Playboys, Fields of May
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Ridgerunner Summit, Dan Haley, Lynn Conover, Tim Acott & Jessie Spero, James Low Western Front
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. The Jim-Jams, Sons of Malarkey, Red Yarn Puppet Band
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Coup, Luck-One, Cloudy October
3158 E Burnside St. Bear Town
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music
O’Connor’s Vault 7850 SW Capitol Highway Jack McMahon
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. AC Porter
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Needles Pizza, Universe People, Little Volcano
Refuge
116 SE Yamhill St. Splash PDX: Sugarpill, G Jones, Chrome Wolves, PRSN, Mr. Wu
Ringside Fish House
838 SW Park Ave. Bret Malmquist and Neil Grandstaff
Scandals
1465 NE Prescott St. Hostile Tapeover
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway The Sammus Theory, Desert Valley Stranglehold
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Mike Scheidt (of YOB), Satyress, DJ Desecrator
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Billy & the Rockets
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Freakathon
Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Al Perez Band
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Rubella Graves, Rich West Blatt & the Once in a While Sky
White Owl Social Club 1305 SE 8th Ave. Control Top A Queer Experience: Double Duchess, The Ononos, Bomb Ass Pussy, Roy G Biv, Bruce LaBruiser, Freddie Says Relax, Hold my Hand
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Richard Arnold and the Groove Swingers
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Sabotage: The Second Annual Tribute to the Beastie Boys: Rev. Shines, Vursatyl, Dr. Theopolis, Pinehurst Kids, Ask For Janice, Flomentum, Kid Hype, DJ Weather, Bottom Shelf Band, Dear Drummer, Nathaniel & the Hornblowers
SUN. JUNE 16 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Casey Neill
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero Trio
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Sons of Aphrodite, Bordertown, Little Ford Faunteroy
1125 SW Stark St Taking Pride: Magic Mouth, DJ Robb
Biddy McGraw’s
Shaker and Vine
Branx
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Steve Hale
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Street Eaters, FED X, Lozen, Nasalrod
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. School of Rock: Soundgarden
The Analog
720 SE Hawthorne Subterranean Howl, Race of Strangers, Grey for Days, Nothing Said
Doug Fir Lounge
3341 SE Belmont St. Cottonwood Cutups 2026 NE Alberta St. Condominium, Sick Rats, White Wards, Therapists
6000 NE Glisan St. Felim Egan 320 SE 2nd Ave. Madame Anita Dumoore Shitney Houston, Melody Awesomazing, Carla Rossi, Kaj-Anne Pepper, Bottom Forty, Jason Kendig
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Burnt Ones, Boom, Jollapin Jasper
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam
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BAR SPOTLIGHT
203 SE Grand Ave. Miracles Club, Break Mode, Xander Harris, Etbonz
Fontaine Bleau
237 NE Broadway Pa’lante
Food for Thought Cafe
1620 SW Park Ave. Harry and the Potters, the Chair Project, Fandeath, Fools Rush, Sons Of An Illustrious Father, Grandma Kelsey
Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave. Tim Roth
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Mitzi Zilka
THIS USED TO BE OUR PLAYGROUND: Radar Bros. play Doug Fir Lounge on Sunday, June 16.
Jack London Bar 529 SW 4th Ave. Club Love
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. The Ink-Noise Review, Curtis B. Whitecarroll
Langano Lounge
The Deltaz, Tiffany Carlson
MON. JUNE 17
1435 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Old Junior, Sleeptalker, Terminal Fuzz Terror, Tiny Lady
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
LaurelThirst
Andina
2958 NE Glisan St. Kris Deelane & the Sharp Little Things, Freak Mountain Ramblers
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Poe and Monroe, Nicodemus Snow
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Marisa Anderson, Dragging An Ox Through Water
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish
NEPO 42
5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic
O’Connor’s Vault
7850 SW Capitol Highway Country Side of Sunday: Bob Love, Kurtis Piltz, Jeff Woodcock, Jon Koonce, Steve Bradley
Rontoms
303 SW 12th Ave. Casey Neill
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Open Mic
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Hands, Bombs Into You
Camellia Lounge
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. Metal Monday: DJ Blackhawk
Mississippi Pizza
Twilight Café and Bar
Mississippi Studios
Valentine’s
Music Millennium
1465 NE Prescott St. Tony Remple 1420 SE Powell Blvd. SIN Night 232 SW Ankeny St. Peck, Memory Boys, Break Up Flowers
TUES. JUNE 18 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Casey Neill
Dante’s
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Souvenir Driver, Comaserfs, Bubble Cats
Doug Fir Lounge
Andina
830 E Burnside St. The Green, Movement, the Expanders
1314 NW Glisan St. Neftali Rivera
Goodfoot Lounge
115 NW 5th Ave. The Front Bottoms, Weatherbox, Lee Corey Oswald
Jade Lounge
Beech St. Parlor
2845 SE Stark St. Sonic Forum Open Mic Night 2346 SE Ankeny St. Emerson House Band
Jimmy Mak’s
Alhambra Theatre
Backspace
412 NE Beech St. Shane and Camelia Blood Beach
221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band, Evergreen High School Jazz Ensemble
Bunk Bar
1125 SW Stark St Taking Pride: Larry Pendar and Best of Friends, DJ Robb
Kells Brewpub
510 NW 11th Ave. Christofferson, Wakeling, Strait & Evans
Shaker and Vine
Landmark Saloon
600 E Burnside St. Y La Bamba, Vin Blanc/ White Wine
Scandals
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Happy Otherwise
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. The Need, Labryse, Fucking Lesbian Bitches, cockeye, Thank You Holy Spirit, DJ Hero Worship
210 NW 21st Ave. Traditional Irish Jam Session 4847 SE Division St. Hack Stitch and Buckshot, Saturday Night Drive
LaurelThirst
Star Bar
2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens, Portland Country Underground
Star Theater
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Cayucas, JBM
639 SE Morrison St. The Bobcat 13 NW 6th Ave. Panzergod
Mississippi Studios
Muddy Rudder Public House
Tabor Heights United Methodist Church
8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones
Tonic Lounge
3158 E Burnside St. Jon Davidson
6161 SE Stark St. Double Reed Divas
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. FireFriend
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Virgin Blood, Ortrotasce, Queen Scott, White Poppy
Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Padam Padam
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St.
Music Millennium
1332 W Burnside St. Cam Lasley
Tiga
510 NW 11th Ave. Vocalists’ Jazz and Blues Jam, Joe Millward 350 W Burnside St. Karaoke From Hell
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom
1028 SE Water Ave. WL, Fake Nails
Camellia Lounge
Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. The Green, The Movement, The Expanders
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Lost Creek 3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Staves, Musikanto 3158 E Burnside St. Emily Wells
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Emily Wells
O’Connor’s Vault 7850 SW Capitol Highway
Stella Black, Dan Gaynor
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Woolen Men, Sauna, Memories
Red and Black Cafe
400 SE 12th Ave. Porch Cat, Dear Doris, RMS Olympic
Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave. Fall Out Boy
Shaker and Vine
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Robert Richter, Gabby Holt
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Pagan Jug Band
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. The Gutters, Tyrants, Warm Trash
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave. Mo Phillips
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Treasure Hunters Club
Duff’s Garage
Tonic Lounge
Goodfoot Lounge
Twilight Café and Bar
1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Quartet 2845 SE Stark St. Roseland Hunters
Habesha
801 NE Broadway ID M Theftable, Glochids
Hawthorne Theatre 1507 SE 39th Ave. Melechesh, Vreid, Lightning Swords of Death, Reign Of Lies, Heathen Shrine, Anonymia
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Project Pitchfork, Ayria 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Open Mic Night Featuring House Band: The Roaming
Twilight Café and Bar
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Open Mic Night Featuring House Band: The Roaming
Vie de Boheme
Pub at the End of the Universe
Jade Lounge
1530 SE 7th Ave. Salsa Dancing: Lynn Winkle and Mark Stauffer
Record Room
Jimmy Mak’s
836 N Russell St. Olio, Ben Rice Band, Scott Brockett
4107 SE 28th Ave. Open Mic
8 NE Killingsworth St. Bullshit, Labryse
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Vicious Circle, Psychosomatic, Condemned, World Of Lies
2346 SE Ankeny St. Margeret Gibson Wehr, Anna Spackman 221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet, Lew Jones
White Eagle Saloon
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Rachael Yamagata
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Morgan Geer, Jackstraw
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MUSIC CALENDAR
JUNE 12–18 Come As You Are: 90s Dance Flashback
Lowbrow Lounge
1036 NW Hoyt St. Saltfeend, E3, Monkeytek, Samizdat
Rotture
WED. JUNE 12 Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. Salsa: DJ Alberton
Berbati’s
231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Seleckta YT
Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St. Wednesday Swing
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Trick with DJ Robb
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Danny Dodge
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Gaycation: JD Samson, Bruce La Bruiser, Mr. Charming, DJ Snowtiger
Rotture
The Rose
1465 NE Prescott St. Sex Life DJs
Tiga
Berbati’s
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Old Frontier
231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Mellow Cee
Vie de Boheme
Branx
Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ VS. Nature
Berbati’s
231 SW Ankeny St. DJs Def Ro and Suga Shane
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Hip Hop Heaven with DJ Detroit Diezel
SUN. JUNE 16 Berbati’s
SAT. JUNE 15 412 NE Beech St. Dood à la Mood
THURS. JUNE 13
421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Straylight, DJ PARADOX
Tiga
1937 SE 11th Ave. Eye Candy VJs
1530 SE 7th Ave. Bohemian Blues: DJs Lynn Winkle & Mark Stauffer
The Lovecraft
111 SW Ash St. Hennessy Hour: DJ Regulate
Beech St. Parlor
231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Linkus EDM
Club 21
2035 NE Glisan St. XRAY Fest: DJ Dollar Bin a.k.a. Steve Turner of Mudhoney, DJ HWY 7, DJ Ghost Train, DJ Monophonics, DJ Cecilia
320 SE 2nd Ave. Blow Pony: Hi Fashion, Big Dipper, Boy Funk, Rap Girl, We Are Like The Spider
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Ol’ Sippy
CC Slaughters
MON. JUNE 17
219 NW Davis St. Revolution with DJ Robb
Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Alone Time
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. DJ I
Berbati’s
426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy VJs
The Analog
720 SE Hawthorne Gothique Blend
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Know the Ledge: DJ Montgomery Word
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Departures: DJ Waisted, DJ Anais Ninja
TUES. JUNE 18 Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Phreak: Electronic Mutations
Berbati’s
231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Aurora
Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St. Tango DJ
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Girltopia with DJ Alicious
Eagle Portland
835 N Lombard St DMTV with DJ Danimal
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Smooth Hopperator
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. TRNGL: DJ Rhienna
White Owl Social Club
1305 SE 8th Ave. Totaled Tuesday: DJ Mike V.
231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Henry Dark
Jack London Bar
529 SW 4th Ave. Wax it Up: DJ Kryptic
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St.
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. Go French Yourself: DJ Cecilia
315 SE 3rd Ave. Live and Direct
The Firkin Tavern
315 SE 3rd Ave. Blow Pony: Hi Fashion, Big Dipper, Boy Funk, We Are Like The Spider, Rap Girl, DJ Airick X, Stormy Roxx, Kasio Smashio, DJ Fingerbang
Kelly’s Olympian
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Maniac Monday with DJ Robb
Holocene
KELSEY ADENIJI
1001 SE Morrison St. I’ve Got A Hole In My Soul: DJ Beyondadoubt
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St. Limelight Dance Millenium
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Soul Nite: Chazz Madrigal, DJ Johnny Grayston
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Jake Cheeto
The Rose
111 SW Ash St. Modern Ritual: DJ The Perfect Cyn, DJ Heatesca
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Jose D
White Owl Social Club
1305 SE 8th Ave. XRAY Fest: DJ Joe Preston, DJ Blackhawk
FRI. JUNE 14 Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. E*Rock
Berbati’s
231 SW Ankeny St. Cloud City Collective
Boxxes
1035 SW Stark St. Decadent 80s: DJ Non, DJ Jason Wann
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Fetish Friday with DJ Jakob Jay
Foggy Notion
3416 N Lombard St. BMP/GRND Pride: Velvet Goldmine Edition, DJ Rhienna, DJ Amy Kasio, DJs ONE-900, DJ Go Ask Your Dad
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Dj Aquaman’s Soul Stew
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THEATRE Antony and Cleopatra
HumanBeingCurious Productions presents Shakespeare’s tragedy as it was presented in the Bard’s day: with two men playing the title roles. Milepost 5, 850 NE 81st Ave., 729-3223. 7 pm Wednesday-Thursday, June 12-13 and Saturday-Sunday, June 15-16; 7 pm Fridays-Saturdays, June 21-30. $10.
Avenue Q
Triangle Productions revives its version of the irreverent, Tony Award-winning adult puppet musical. Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd., 2395919. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through June 29. $15-$35.
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 midcenturydesigned 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. The characters are archetypes for any group of gay men: the neurotic one, the knowit-all, 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. 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. AARON SPENCER. Private home, 3125 E Burnside St., 481-2960. 7:30 pm Wednesday, June 12 and 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through June 22. $15-$20.
A Bright New Boise
If Tolstoy was right—that in all great literature, a man either goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town— there’s hardly a clearer example of the latter than A Bright New Boise. Samuel D. Hunter’s Obie-winning 2011 play follows Will, a middle-aged religious zealot who has left his northern Idaho home for Boise. There, he finds work at a Hobby Lobby, a big-box craft store, and proceeds to upend the lives of those around him. But through it all, Will remains eerily calm—or perhaps not calm, but rather unreadable, impassive, vacant. He’s like the hub of a wheel, hardly stirring as those around him spin out of control. This Third Rail Rep production, directed by John Vreeke, rockets out of the gates and hits many of the right notes, but flags somewhat as it goes on. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of the stumbles come from the character of Will, played by Tim True. Generally magnetic and adaptable, here True can be so inscrutable that he grows blank. Early on in the play, we learn of Will’s connection—not to be revealed here—to the teenage Alex (Andy Lee-Hillstrom, propelled by nerves and anger), an anxious misfit who also works at the Hobby Lobby. Under the fluorescent lights of the employee break room, Will and Alex trade dialogue marked by fits and
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starts, or interrupted by the entrance of another blue-vested worker: Jacklyn Maddux’s sailor-mouthed supervisor; Kerry Ryan’s bumbling loner; and Chris Murray’s misguided art student, who wears T-shirts emblazoned with “FUCK” or “CUNT.” Hunter, the playwright, has a knack for textured dialogue that is outwardly direct but scrapes at something darker. Alex’s frequent refrain—“I’m gonna kill myself”—rings with teenage impetuosity while hinting at higher stakes. But A Bright New Boise never lays all its cards on the table. Frustrating, maybe, but given each character’s fumbling search for meaning, ultimately fitting. REBECCA JACOBSON. 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 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. 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. 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., 4812960. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Sundays through June 15. $15-$20.
Festival of Stories
Portland Storytellers Guild closes its season with two separate programs. On Friday, five tellers recount personal stories and adult-only folk tales. Saturday, six different story-spinners tell uncensored tales from the Brothers Grimm. Hipbone Studio, 1847 E Burnside St., 358-0898. 8 pm FridaySaturday, June 14-15. $8-$15.
GGG: Dominatrix for Dummies
CoHo Productions kicks off a summer of solo performance with Eleanor O’Brien’s one-woman show about her not-altogether-successful experiences at a professional house of domination in New York City. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 715-1114. 7:30 pm Thursday-Sunday, June 13-16. $15, $50 festival pass.
The Hen Night Epiphany
Corrib Theatre, a new-ish company devoted to Irish drama, presents a staged reading of Jimmy Murphy’s five-woman play about a hen night party (basically the Irish equivalent of a bachelorette party) that turns from rowdy celebration to more somber reflection. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St. 7:30 pm Mondays, June 17 and 24. $12-$15 suggested.
Invasion!
[NEW REVIEW] Invasion!, the first production by the long-incubating Badass Theatre Company, is a beautiful little honey pot of a play—luring its viewers into one type of play
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only to recruit them unawares into entirely unexpected scenarios. Stage vets Nicole Accuardi, Chantal DeGroat, Gilberto Martin Del Campo and John San Nicolas capably move through multiple roles and sometimes genders in a kaleidoscopic romp through the fields of Middle Eastern identity in America, with a cast of characters that includes Lebanese pipe fitters who cross-dress only on trips to America, Turkish telemarketers, Kabuki-choreographed military experts on a hammy talk show, and troublemaking kids exposed to something far too serious for a summer vacation. Under Antonio Sonera’s direction, the play moves freely from shock tactics to broad comedy to sudden pathos, keeping viewers off their moorings without sending them out to sea. At the center of it all is Abulkasem, a name that stands as totem for everything: terrorism, exoticism, mildly unsuccessful second-generation immigrants, any feeling for which words fail. It is a word unhinged from all reference and thus also threatening. Like the mysterious V of Thomas Pynchon’s eponymous novel, Abulkasem is the conspiracy we see in everything, or the dark vision at the corner of the eye. But if this vital first production is any indication, Badass Theatre Company won’t linger too long in anyone’s peripheral vision. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 358-4660. 8 pm ThursdaysSaturdays and 2 pm Sundays through June 29. $15-$20.
ing Estraven and Genly’s treacherous trek over a glacier and the thawing of their frosty relationship. 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., 4885822. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Saturdays-Sundays through June 16. $23-$32.
Let Him Sleep ‘Til It’s Time for His Funeral
The fledgling Sellwood Playhouse presents Peg Kehret’s comedy about a woman who throws her husband a surprise funeral to shake him out of his midlife crisis. Sellwood Playhouse, 901 SE Spokane St., 490-5975. 7:30 pm Fridays-Saturdays through June 29. $12-$15.
NT Live: The Audience
It’s Helen freaking Mirren as Queen freaking Elizabeth, broadcast in highdef from London’s National Theatre. World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW
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PERFORMANCE
Ithaka
When home is a destination in your mind as much as a physical space, it’s an arduous journey to overcome the obstacles that hinder your arrival. After fighting the Trojan War for 10 years, it took Odysseus another 10 years to reach his home in Ithaca. For Marine Capt. Elaine Edwards (Dana Millican), returning home from her latest tour in Afghanistan, the forces keeping her at bay are her own haunted memories. Ithaka, a new original work by Portland playwright Andrea Stolowitz and nimbly directed by Gemma Whelan, follows Lanie’s trek through the Nevada desert and her own disturbingly populated subconscious. Though she arrived home to her husband more than a week ago, her real life no longer feels real. Millican embodies a woman both strong and broken: Lanie blows up at her husband and can’t forgive herself for letting out the cat. Tackling the topic of war can be tricky, rife with potential for often-heard indictments or for sweeping patriotic grandeur. But Stolowitz has said she didn’t set out to write a play about soldiers or even war in general; she wanted to write about friendship and what happens when those bonds are lost. Her stripped-down approach results in a story about guilt, loss and finding a way back home. Rather than wallow in the maudlin, the punchy dialogue and dark laughs push the show at a solid clip. It’s not hard to sympathize with Lanie’s pain as she undertakes her own odyssey toward home, peace and Ithaca. PENELOPE BASS. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm TuesdaysSundays, 2 pm Sundays through June 30. $25-$50.
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? 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. The second act gains steam, chart-
RHYME AFTER RHYME: Andrew Samonsky and Hannah Elless.
SOMEWHERE IN TIME (PORTLAND CENTER STAGE) Between writer’s block and a brain tumor, Richard Collier’s head is in bad shape. He has fled to a hotel in Michigan, where he stumbles on a portrait of a breathtaking starlet from some 60 years before. That stumble turns into a head-over-heels tumble down the rabbit’s hole of love—and time. Gazing at the actress, Richard sings: “I look at you and don’t know where I am/ Or where you are/ But there you are.” Yikes. Mellifluous, maybe—and the actor, Andrew Samonsky, has pipes—but also evidence of a musical still working out its kinks. Portland Center Stage’s Somewhere in Time is a world premiere with big dreams (writer-producer Ken Davenport hopes to take it to Broadway), and in many respects, it delivers. A swooning romance, it has polished performances and a grander scale than most local theater. But it’s also awfully old-fashioned, which will thrill some viewers and kill it for others. Based on Richard Matheson’s 1975 novel and the 1980 film adaptation, Somewhere in Time follows Richard, a playwright who never lived up to his promise, as he transports himself to 1912. The show is a bit pokey up to this point, but it gains energy once Richard arrives in the Edwardian era. There, he meets the pretty actress from the portrait, Elise McKenna (Hannah Elless). It’s love at first sight, but courting Elise proves even more difficult than traveling through time, thanks to Elise’s despotic Svengali of a manager (Marc Kudisch, relishing but not overplaying his character’s chilly sense of cunning). Director Scott Schwartz harnesses fine performances from the large ensemble of out-of-towners and locals. The technical muscle is likewise impressive, with set parts constantly moving onstage and off (in an instance when Richard fights to remain in the past, the lights flicker and the hotel walls tremble). The songs, by composer Doug Katsaros and lyricist Amanda Yesnowitz, are a mix of dreamy ballads and spunky numbers. Though enjoyable, they have a frustrating sameness. But the most misguided piece may be Richard’s brain tumor, which is a twist absent from the novel or film. While it does provide urgency— Richard has a year to live, at best—it also turns the romance into an illness-induced delusion, dulling its fantastical appeal. Entering the theater, we’ve already handed over expectations of logic and plausibility— why bog us down with science turned syrupy? REBECCA JACOBSON.
Let’s do the time warp again.
SEE IT: Somewhere in Time is at the Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Sundays, 2 pm Saturdays-Sundays, noon Thursdays through June 30. $30-$70.
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NT Live: This House
In addition to Helen Mirren in The Audience, the series of high-def broadcasts from London’s National Theatre also presents a new play from James Graham that goes behind the scenes of Britain’s Parliament in the ’70s. World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St., 235-1101. 1 pm and 5 pm Sundays, June 16 and 23. $15-$20.
Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom
The inaugural participants in the mentorship program at Third Rail Rep—a company that has some of the strongest actors in the city—take the stage for Jennifer Haley’s nightmarishly absurd play, in which the worlds of suburbia and video games begin to blur. Come for the zombies, stay for the chance to see the next generation of Portland performers. Portland Actors Conservatory, 1436 SW Montgomery St., 715-1114. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm SaturdaysSundays through June 23. $15.
Once Upon a Mattress
Hillsboro’s HART Theatre closes its season with the musical comedy based on The Princess and the Pea. HART Theatre, 185 SE Washington St., 693-7815. 7:30 pm Fridays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through June 30. $12-$16.
OUTwright Theatre Festival
As part of Pride, Fuse Theatre Ensemble presents staged readings of several new and well-known works that explore questions of gender and sexuality. The mini-fest includes a play about man boobs and other physical insecurities, a drama about a gay son in an evangelical family, and a genderbent Romeo & Juliet with women in the lead roles. An original dance piece opens each reading. See fusepdx.com for schedule. Theater! Theatre! 3430 SE Belmont St., 971-238-3873. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday, June 12-15. $5 per show or $20 for a festival pass.
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-uhmet 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 jokes 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.
The Screwtape Letters
The touring production—a comical adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ novel, which takes on spiritual themes from the devil’s perspective—makes a stop in Portland. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 800-273-1530. 8 pm Friday and 4 pm and 8 pm Saturday, June 14-15. $39-$59.
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. MITCH LILLIE. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 971-2443740. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through June 16. $20.
COMEDY Homo Ha! An Evening With Ant
As part of the annual Pride Festival, comedian Ant performs with Belinda Carroll and Manuel Hall. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 7 pm and 9:30 pm Thursday, June 13. $18-$25.
Improv Night
The People’s Republic of Portland might not have been Lauren Weedman’s greatest hit, but perhaps it will provide fruitful inspiration for this night of improv, featuring Brad Fortier, Nicholas Kessler, Shelley McClendon and Marilyn Divine. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 8 pm Monday, June 17. $5-$10.
Michael McDonald
Standup from the comedian best known for his 10 years on MADtv. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday and 7:30 pm and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, June 13-15. $15-$30.
Skootch
The improv ensemble presents Multiverse, which relies on audience input to create a cast of characters in a unique world—and then to launch some fateful changes. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7:30 pm Thursday, June 13. $6.
The Invite
For its first installment, this new monthly showcase of sketch comedy features performers from Blank Slate, Disco Lounge and J Names. ComedySportz, 1963 NW Kearney St., 236-8888. 8 pm Thursday, June 13. $5.
Three Buck Yucks
Standup, 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.
Tracy Morgan
Tracy Morgan has had his hiccups—an expletive-swamped show in Melbourne that sent audience members fleeing and homophobic comments in 2011 that upset fellow 30 Rock star Tina Fey—but he’s a skilled comedian with a knack for creating ridiculous characters. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 8 pm Thursday, June 13. $43.
Two Houses
An improvised romance culminating in a wedding. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Saturdays through July 6. $10-$12.
CLASSICAL Astoria Music Festival Preview
This local sampler for the one of the annual highlights of Oregon’s summer classical season features a stellar lineup, including peripatetic Portland classical keyboard master Cary Lewis, the concertmasters of both the Oregon Symphony and Los Angeles Philharmonic and terrific Russian cellist
Sergey Antonov. They’ll play music by Mendelssohn, Glière and more, including a rare opportunity to hear one of Dvorak’s loveliest works in its original instrumentation for two violins, cello and the little reed pump organ called a harmonium. That plangent last instrument is seldom heard these days, so Dvorak’s Bagatelles is usually arranged for other combos. Fortunately, the Old Church has an 1884 harmonium, which provides the requisite haunting sound for Romantic classic. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. 7:30 pm Thursday, June 13. $10-$15.
Cappella Romana
The superb Portland choir brings home the program it presented last year in Greece: medieval and earlier Byzantine chants, church music from the Eastern Orthodox church’s unhappy encounters with Western Europe and contemporary sacred works by Athens’ Michael Adamis and 20th-century Greek-American composers based in California. To mark Father’s Day, dads will receive a free CD of the choir’s recent performances in Greece. Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 3131 NE Glisan St., 236-8202. 4 pm Sunday, June 16. $18-$36.
Stravinsky Violin Concerto features two joyful group sections, while the Prodigal Son drips with the drama of the Bible story. Audience favorite Square Dance rounds out the show. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 800-745-3000. 7:30 pm Friday, 2 pm and 7:30 Saturday and 2 pm Sunday, June 14-16. $28-$148.
Polaris Dance Theatre
What is perhaps Portland’s most unpredictable dance company premieres nine works. Part of its X-Posed showcase, this show has a twist: Company members curated all of the pieces. Dancers created some works anew and picked other works created by outside choreographers. Polaris Contemporary Dance Center, 1501 SW Taylor St., 380-5472. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, June 6-8 and Wednesday-Saturday, June 12-15. $17.50-$25.
Portland Festival Ballet
A one-act narrative ballet of Hansel and Gretel headlines this show from artistic director John Magnus. In addition, the Beaverton academy presents Classical Pastiche, a piece from the ballet Le Corsaire by Adolphe Adam. Rounding out the show are two pieces by PFB’s Les Watanabe: One evokes his time growing up in the dance culture of the ’60s and the other brings to life a poem by a young dancer who died of cancer. Arts & Communication Magnet Academy Performing Arts Center, 11375 SW Center St., Beaverton. 7 pm Saturday and 2 pm Sunday, June 15-16. $20-$25.
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Salmon St., 235-1101. 2 pm and 7 pm Saturdays-Sundays through June 30. $15-$20.
PERFORMANCE
Homay and Mastan Ensemble
Despite being banned from performing in his homeland since 2009, Iranian Parvaz Homay—a singer, songwriter, poet and player of the setar, a Persian lute—has been winning worldwide acclaim for his modern update on the Persian chameh soraei (singersongwriter-arranger) tradition. Still in his early 30s, Homay has recently expanded his ambitions to create an original operetta and a new project dedicated to advocating for the environment and wildlife. His sextet of master Persian instrumentalists will play plaintive original and traditional folkloric music. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 8 pm Saturday, June 15. $45-$85.
DANCE Fusion: The Body
PDX Fusion, a group that calls itself a “triannual multidisciplinary collaboration” brings together lecture, visual art, performance and music. Dance performances include belly-dancing group Bridgetown Revue, which expands its repertoire to include hip-hop and LED props. Also performing is burlesque performer Nina Nightshade, as well as Jannae of Rage Hoopsill, who will do something interesting with an LED hoop. Analog Cafe, 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 8:30 pm Friday, June 14. $8-$12. 21+.
I Am Not Going to Jail, The Wheel
Two choreographers present contemporary works. Celine Bouly’s I Am Not Going to Jail is the story of a man’s dream, in which he’s floating in an ocean one moment and running through a wet street the next. The dance compiles the dream fragments into a story. The second piece, The Wheel, by Esther La Pointe, is about the circular nature of life and aims to illustrate how our positioning on the wheel affects our lives. Conduit Dance, 918 SW Yamhill St., Suite 401, 2215857. 8 pm Friday-Saturday and 5 pm Sunday, June 14-16. $10-$15.
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.
Oregon Ballet Theatre
George Balanchine once told Newsweek, “Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.” OBT is doing its best to prove him wrong with a tribute performance 30 years after his death. The performance includes three very different pieces of choreography. The energetic
WITHIN REACH: Franco Nieto (top) and Andrea Parson.
SUMMER SPLENDORS (NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT) “Intimate” might seem disingenuous when a dance company uses it to promote a show in a small space—much like how real-estate agents use “cozy” to describe a kitchen that’s actually cramped. But in the case of Northwest Dance Project’s Summer Splendors, “intimate” aptly characterizes a show in which dancers are sometimes mere feet from your chair. For those who’ve never seen a performance in a studio venue, the first few minutes are alarming in their starkness and exposure. The dancers are no longer abstract bodies on a stage, they’re human. They have flesh and sweat and tattoos. Their joints crack as they extend their legs into développés. The show is an annual tradition for the company, often a vehicle for new work. Unusually, this year’s show features only one new piece. The others are repeats: Carla Mann’s Illumine, Loni Landon’s Covered and artistic director Sarah Slipper’s MemoryHouse. With new work, executive director Scott Lewis says it’s “damned if you do, damned if you don’t”: When the company has a string of premieres, audiences become so accustomed to the new that originality becomes unremarkable. Slipper chose pieces that complement the small space, the company’s home studio. Slipper’s MemoryHouse is even choreographed for the space: Dancers Andrea Parson and Franco Nieto perform a dramatic duet, at one point leaving the studio and performing outside in the company’s garden. The audience can see some of the action through the windows, and the trick also draws spectators along North Mississippi Avenue. By the end of the piece on opening night, a sizable crowd of onlookers had gathered around the open doors and windows. In conversation afterward, Slipper said she loves this aspect. While MemoryHouse is the showstopper, a piece called X-ing is the world premiere. Choreographed by Minh Tran and featuring the entire company, it starts out like a game of “follow the leader,” in which the first dancer in a line performs a movement and the others repeat it, one after another. The dancers then break into groups of three and travel as disjointed units across the stage, often striking warriorlike poses. Perhaps not surprisingly, X-ing seems like the only piece that would work better in a larger venue. In the studio, dancers are often waiting against the wall until their turn, which speaks to the unpredictability of new work—and the skill it takes to curate it. AARON SPENCER. The new and the old, inside and out.
SEE IT: Summer Splendors is at Northwest Dance Project Studio & Performance Center, 833 N Shaver St., 421-7434. 7:30 pm WednesdaySaturday and 4 pm Sunday, June 12-16. $30-$40. Willamette Week JUNE 12, 2013 wweek.com
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Anakena: The Easter Island
As part of the Cooley Gallery’s Case Works project space, prolific blogger and film, video and performance artist Tiffany Lee Brown exhibits and lectures about her five-year artistic obsession, Anakena: The Easter Island Project. The subject of this intensely personal exhibition is Brown’s evolving views about motherhood. At the beginning of her journey, she was a passionate “childless-by-choice” activist; then her biological clock began to tick loudly and she found herself unhappily child-free; finally, she and her husband, Josh Berger, became the parents of a bright-eyed baby boy. The complicated emotions surrounding this evolution were the reason for Brown’s trip to the island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), where she performed fertility-related rituals beneath the towering stone heads for which that island is known. Her talk promises to be selfrevelatory, compassionate and humorous. 1-4 pm Saturday, June 15. Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. 1-4 pm, talk at 3 pm.
Arless Day, Edvard Munch
It would be hard to think of a twoartist exhibition with more dramatic contrasts than the double bill of Arless Day and the late Edvard Munch (1863-1944). Day’s gouache-and-collage pieces are the essence of airiness. With their expansive compositions and exquisite handling of natural light, they seem to waft into your lungs and breathe with you. Munch, on the other hand, distilled a uniquely angst-filled brand of claustrophobia. He was most famous for his paintings and drawings of The Scream, but Augen presents a lesser-known selection of his innovative prints, which contain eerie, symbolist imagery that can be downright spooky. Through June 29. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 224-8182.
Corey Smith: End Your Pain
Corey Smith has been exhibiting his wry mixed-media paintings at Backspace and other Portland galleries for the better part of a decade. He’s also had a full career nationally and internationally. In his latest outing at Backspace, he serves up plenty of his signature irreverence and visual puns: a tombstone carved with the words “THIS PARTY”; a kid pointing a handgun at another kid, preparing to fire; the phrase “PROFIT IS JOY”; and a 12-piece grid made up of the words “SATAN IS WAITIN.’” Still, this body of work doesn’t seem as sharp as Smith’s previous shows. The biting humor seems blunted, the sense of visual invention compromised, the whole endeavor facile by comparison to past
exhibitions. As a satirist, Smith may have finally found his toughest competition: his former self. Through June 30. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900.
Diane Avio-Augee: Synergy
For creamy surfaces and sheer gestural drama, you can’t beat Abstract Expressionism, the defining art movement of the 1940s and 1950s. AbEx casts a long shadow, having influenced generations of painters in its wake. Among those emerging from the movement’s legacy is Portland artist Diane Avio-Augee, who has shown with Mark Woolley Gallery for many years. In the current show, she displays a gift for bold brushstrokes and intuitive color combinations that add up to an impressive whole. June 15-July 14. Mark Woolley Gallery @ Pioneer, 700 SW 5th Ave., third floor, Pioneer Place Mall, 998-4152.
Flight
The Falcon Art Community, recently featured in a WW cover story by Aaron Mesh (“Rise of the Falcon,” March 20, 2013), partners with P:ear for the group exhibition Flight. The paintings, mixed-media work and music in the show are the products of several months of workshops between Falcon artists and P:ear youth. Through July 26. P:ear, 338 NW 6th Ave., 228-6677.
Isamu Noguchi: We Are the Landscape of All We Know
The late Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) was a master of integrating natural and industrial materials with dueling Eastern and Western sensibilities. To create this one-time-only, non-traveling exhibition, the Japanese Garden’s artistic curator, Diane Durston, worked with Matthew Kirsch at the Isamu Noguchi Foundation in New York to bring 22 of Noguchi’s sculptures to Portland. This is the perfect setting for the work, amid the verdant hillside landscaping, rock gardens and sounds of birdsong and flowing water. For a dose of tranquility and high culture during the course of a busy week, it doesn’t get much better than this. Through July 21. Portland Japanese Garden, 611 SW Kingston Ave., 223-1321.
Jeffrey Horvitz: Matt
Photographer Jeffrey Horvitz focuses on one subject, Matt, in a series of flesh- and soul-baring portraits. The model dresses up in full leather regalia in Like a Fury, while in Fearlessness he dons a lacy blue negligée. The three-part series, bookended by Dawn of Separation and Righteousness, exposes the left and right sides of the model’s torso, with its hunky abdominal muscles and inguinal crease. The connection between photographer
and subject is strong, recalling worldrenowned portraitist Greg Gorman’s series Just Between Us. Through June 29. Cock Gallery, 625 NW Everett St., No. 106, 552-8686.
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New Views
Samantha Wall’s graphite-and-charcoal drawings made a big impression in the Marylhurst Art Gym’s January-February show. With their melding of controlled gradations and blazing photorealism, they showcased a gloriously obsessive technique. Wall is one of six artists in New Views at Laura Russo, joining Sahar Fattahi, Jo Hamilton, Ruth Lantz, Loren Nosan, and Ahmad Rafiei in what promises to be a varied and wellconsidered show. Through June 29. Laura Russo Gallery, 805 NW 21st Ave., 226-2754.
Range
“Viva Venezia!” is probably the phrase on Oregon-based artist James Lavadour’s lips these days. He was invited to participate in the famed art showcase known as the Biennale di Venezia (Venice Biennial), which began June 1 and continues through Nov. 24. Back here in Stumptown, Lavadour’s abstracted landscapes are part of Range, an eight-artist group show this month at PDX Contemporary. He is joined by Anne Appleby, Victoria Haven, Johannes Girardoni, Wes Mills, Megan Murphy, Jane Timken and Leigh Wells. Through June 29. PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.
Tomoe Taniguchi: Stunning Beauty
For an immersion in pure cheese, it’s hard to beat Tomoe Taniguchi’s new show, Stunning Beauty, at Compound. Frothy mixed-media paintings such as A Dragonfly and Water Play and Wrapped in a Vision feature animeinflected sprites, all doe-eyed and demure, fingers tapering delicately, flowers floating in their hair. The artist renders these visions in a dreamy, watercolor-washy style that feels as buoyant and vacuous as a nitrousoxide high. It’s all so very pretty, so hokey, so terribly, deliciously saccharine—perfect to hang in your guest bathroom, laundry room, shed or any other grim space in dire need of levity. Through June 30. Compound Gallery, 107 NW 5th Ave., 796-2733.
Uncontrollable Urge
You’ve heard of the yeti, right? You know, the Abominable Snowman? But Yeti is also 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. Through June 14. Portland Museum of Modern Art, 5202 N Albina Ave., 953-0515.
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MECHANICS OF HITHER AND YON, #31 BY BRENDA MALLORY
REITERATIONS AND RIFTS Toxins and microbes and spores traveling through the air, wreaking havoc: It’s a phenomenon as ancient as the great historic plagues and as current as ricin-laced letters. But put any of these fearsome agents under a microscope, and they take on a kind of beauty, their protein spikes and flagella fanning out like sprigs and blooms in a floral still life. Artist Brenda Mallory riffs on this conceit in her first solo show at Butters Gallery, Reiterations and Rifts. The reiteration referred to in that title comes from the series’ origins in an installation Mallory created for Portland International Airport. Many of the current pieces are adapted from that exhibition, which managed to make the phenomenon of global pandemics beautiful. The artist begins each work by dipping strips of canvas in hot, pigmented wax. After they dry and harden, she affixes them together with nuts and bolts, imparting a look that’s simultaneously handcrafted and industrial. Wall sculptures in her Mechanics of Hither and Yon series are round, with steel spikes shooting out like the spokes radiating from an angel’s halo. Look at them macrocosmically, and they could be a bouquet of flowers on your dinner table; microcosmically, they could be the salmonella lurking in your roasted chicken. Strictly Ordered and Variable Order are irregular rectangles with long, vertical lines that recall bamboo shoots or chlorophyll under magnification. Installed on the gallery walls, they interact with their light sources, casting eccentric shadows. The round pieces and their linear counterparts complement one another, as do works in balming ecru and sinister black. Mallory’s themes—the amorality of nature and the jolie-laide creepycrawlies teeming beneath the threshold of the naked eye—are similar to ideas explored by another artist on the Butters roster, David Geiser, whose work evokes the messy goop of digestion and lava flows. Like Geiser, Mallory ably negotiates the commingling of the ravishing and the ravaging, a task that in less-capable hands could come across as trite. But Mallory knows what she’s doing, both materially and conceptually. Reiterations and Rifts is a sophisticated, thought-provoking show, gorgeous on the surface but more unsettling the deeper you delve. RICHARD SPEER. Pretty but deadly.
SEE IT: Reiterations and Rifts is at Butters Gallery, 520 NW Davis St., second floor, 248-9378. Through June 29.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 13 Marci Blackman
New York author and original member of spokenword troupe Sister Spit, Marci Blackman will release her second novel, Tradition, about a young man who flees home after witnessing a murder and returns decades later. Joining Blackman will be local writers Cooper Lee Bombardier, Valentine Freeman and Cass J. Hodges. Independent Publishing Resource Center, 1001 SE Division St., Suite 2, 827-0249. 7 pm. $3-$10.
Peter Zuckerman
Until they get that ladder installed on Everest, climbers will be dependent on sherpas to help them reach the top. In 2008, when 11 climbers died on the mountain, two sherpas survived. Peter Zuckerman’s Buried in the Sky re-creates the harrowing story. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
Publishing Resource Center has been providing education, resources and a workspace to Portland’s creative community of writers, artists and publishers. Swing by the newly remodeled center for a birthday celebration with interactive letterpress demonstrations, a print sale and a big cake. Independent Publishing Resource Center, 1001 SE Division St., Suite 2, 827-0249. 7-11 pm. Free.
Bloomsday
Celebrate beloved Irish author James Joyce for the annual (albeit a day early) occasion of Bloomsday with a live group reading of Ulysses. To sign up for a section to read, email bloomsday.pdx@gmail.com. Laurelhurst Park, Southeast 39th Avenue and Stark Street. Noon. Free.
SUNDAY, JUNE 16 Truth or Fiction?
Can you tell a true story from straight bullshit? Test your skills at the storytelling showcase Truth or
Fiction?, where a lineup of featured readers will share their supposedly true tales. At the end, the audience will guess who are the truth tellers and who are the prevaricators. This month will feature Kristi Gray Lovato, Pat Janowski, Danny Nowell, Mark Savage, Jason Squamata, host Doug Dean and special guest Mary Rechner telling Father’s Day-inspired stories. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 841-6734. 8 pm. Free. 21+.
MONDAY, JUNE 17 Blumesday
James Joyce isn’t the only author who gets an annual celebration. Blumesday honors the brilliant career of Judy Blume, whose often-censored books stand as landmark moments for women and adolescents. A host of local writers and performers, including Emily Chenoweth, Sarah Grace McCandless, Courtenay Hameister and musicians Laura Gibson and China Forbes, will take the stage to share their most awkward and titillating Blume moments. The Secret Society, 116 NE Russell St., 493-3600. 7 pm. $8-$10. 21+.
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Oregon Book Club
Keeping with the Father’s Day theme, the Oregon Book Club will host a reading and conversation with memoirist Aria Minu-Sepehr (We Heard the Heavens Then) and Pauls Toutonghi (Evel Knievel Days) as they discuss fathers, memoirs and the state of the Middle East. Writers’ Dojo, 7518 and 7506 N Chicago Ave., 706-0509. 7 pm. Free.
FRIDAY, JUNE 14 Rose City Used Book Fair
Bibliophiles and hoarders unite for the seventh annual Rose City Used Book Fair. More than 40 vendors will be selling thousands of used and rare books, prints and miscellaneous ephemera. DoubleTree Inn, Lloyd Center, 1000 NE Multnomah St., 2816111. 2-8 pm Friday and 10 am-5 pm Saturday, June 14-15. $2.
Lori Eanes
San Francisco writer, photographer and backyard-farming enthusiast Lori Eanes will share the tips and philosophies she gleaned from dozens of urban farmers of the Pacific Northwest (including eight from Portland) while compiling her book, Backyard Roots: Lessons on Living Local From 35 Urban Farmers. Naomi’s Organic Farm Supply , 2500 SE Tacoma St., 517-8551. 6-7 pm. Free.
Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society
San Francisco’s Cacophony Society was one of the most influential underground cabals of the last several decades, hosting chapters in more than a dozen cities and claiming responsibility for a slew of pop culture trends, like flash mobs and culture jamming. John Law has edited a history of the mysterious group for Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.
John Sibley Williams
Portland poet John Sibley Williams will release his new book of poetry, Controlled Hallucinations, with a reading of his work along with a reading by writer Susan DeFreitas. A. Molotkov and Emily Pittman Newberry will join the evening for interactive poetry discussion. Stonehenge Studios, 3508 SW Corbett Ave., 224-3640. 7 pm. Free.
SATURDAY, JUNE 15 IPRC Birthday Bash
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REVIEW
TAO LIN, TAIPEI Robert Ham maps the fringes of Portland music. Biweekly on wweek.com As you read Tao Lin’s latest novel, Taipei ( Vintage Contemporaries, 250 pages, $14.95, ), you will know when a character leaves to go to the bathroom. You will know when a character goes to Urban Outfitters. You will know what a character buys at Whole Foods Market—kale, lemons and energy drinks. Such details make Taipei a lot like a pointillist painting where dots seemHit refresh again. ingly meaningless up close become a picture from afar. That picture isn’t so pretty. We follow Paul, a socially awkward writer living in New York City, through a blur of parties, Google Chat, almost-relationships and steadily increasing drug use. Amid Adderall- and Klonopin-induced hazes (or, sometimes, cocaineand heroin-induced hazes), he constantly refreshes his Tumblr feed, goes on book tours, visits his parents in Taipei and, in Las Vegas, weds another writer, Erin, on a whim. The little dots end up creating a portrait of a twentysomething strung out on technology and drugs, leaving little room to care about much of anything. That includes, but is not limited to, his wedding and marriage, his impending death and people in general, whom he sees as “vaguely, unsatisfactorily desirable.” The sentence structure adopts the self-conscious staccato of internal thought, jumping from how beautiful life can be to “let’s get drunk” in no time at all, which makes Paul’s hazy world feel all the more real. Lin’s prose is sometimes bogged down by too many thoughts and details—sentences often stretch into the Faulkneresque—making it hard to keep track of time or people. But while the language and Paul’s numbness cause the story to start flat, the writing eventually pops to life in surprising and weird ways. Lin, the author of several other novels, including Shoplifting From American Apparel and Richard Yates, has said that Taipei is autobiographical fiction. The events in Taipei aren’t really what it’s about, though. It’s more a depressing and analytical look into a character’s thoughts as he struggles to express himself in a toobusy world. KAITIE TODD. GO: Tao Lin visits Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., on Tuesday, June 18. 7:30 pm. Free. Willamette Week JUNE 12, 2013 wweek.com
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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.
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. 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 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 or to the Smith family’s fatigue as the only central characters. PG-13. MITCH LILLIE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove.
Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan
[ONE DAY ONLY] A new, campy, lowbudget horror film that imagines the giant lumberjack is real—and out for blood. R. Clinton Street Theater. 4 and 9 pm Sunday, June 16.
Bike Smut 7: Porny Express
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Ever want to watch someone have sex with a bicycle? On a bicycle? The Bike Smut amateur film fest, in its seventh year, is dubious as porn but generally good for the yuks and yucks and sexpositive ya-yas. This year’s program includes films from five countries and live performances by Porn-E-Oke (yes, a blend of porn and karaoke) and Hammercise (yes, a blend of Hammertime and Jazzercise). Clinton Street Theater. 9 pm Wednesday, June 12.
The East
B In many ways, the titular group
in the eco-thriller The East recalls a peace-loving pack of hippies. Though not unwashed—in fact, they take communal baths—they scavenge in garbage bins, play rounds of “spin the bottle” that include minutelong embraces and perform mealtime rituals involving straitjackets. But the East takes after the Weather Underground more than it does a group of herb-loving flower children: It’s an anarchist eco-terrorist collective, which launches eye-for-an-eye campaigns against oil companies, Big Pharma and other crooked corporations. In Zal Batmanglij’s absorbing, suspenseful and wildly implausible film, a young operative for a private intelligence agency (Brit Marling, who co-wrote the screenplay with Batmanglij) goes undercover to infiltrate the cell. She’s drawn to the sense of community even as she’s troubled by the group’s actions—poisoning pharmaceutical execs with their own drugs, for example—and she comes to question the profit-minded world she works for (Patricia Clarkson plays the appropriately icy boss). The lines of morality are appealingly woolly, and the performances—Marling’s controlled ambiguity, Ellen Page as a fervent activist and Alexander Skarsgård as the group’s charismatic ringleader— bring the film’s logic-straining turns back down to earth. Most impressive, though, might be the film’s evenkeeled approach to these activists: They’re neither freaks nor superheroes, but rather a ragtag group of young idealists straining for meaning and community. PG-13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Fox Tower.
Epic
B 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. 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. PG. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Forest, Oak Grove.
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 offputting. 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. 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. And next morning, you’ve pretty much forgotten what went down. But at least you remember it was fun. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove.
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-year-old aspiring dancer in New York City still lurching through the obstacle course of a privileged postcollegiate life. 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. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Cinema 21.
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) 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. Though the movie’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. PG-13. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, CineMagic.
The Guillotines
B- [THREE NIGHTS ONLY] The titular
apparatus gets surprisingly little screen time in this thoughtful if meandering redux of the Shaw Brothers’ 1975 classic, The Flying Guillotine. Andrew Lau (Infernal Affairs) directs an all-star Chinese cast as a covert band of assassins charged with protecting the house of Emperor Qian Long during the Qing Dynasty. One minor complication: The group doesn’t
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IF THE SUIT FITS: Slick new costume, same boring superhero.
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MAN OF STEEL MAKES CLEAR SUPERMAN JUST WASN’T MADE FOR THESE TIMES. BY MATTHEW SIN GE R
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Seventy-five years ago, as the Greatest Generation geared up to save the planet from tyranny, a figure of Christ-like perfection standing up for Earth’s right to exist was precisely what pop culture needed. In 1938, an alien savior in red underwear appeared in newsprint, establishing a new form of allegorical fiction. Seven years later, the threat of global fascism lay dismantled. For Superman, it was all downhill from there. Original archetypes don’t adapt well (see: the Sex Pistols, Hulk Hogan, Cheerios), and as the world changed, old Supes stayed the same, fighting for truth, justice and the American Way, even as those definitions blurred, warped and finally lost meaning. Only dying made him interesting, and even that was temporary. Comic-book fans have decried superheroism’s founding father as a crusty anachronism for over two decades now. But it doesn’t take a geek scholar to recognize that an invincible, morally superior star-man isn’t going to fly in an age when all heroes are antiheroes—especially if he can fly. There’s a reason the Superman mythos has been revisited on film only one other time since 1987, and it’s the same reason people fall asleep in church: Flawlessness is boring. Approaching Superman in the post-Dark Knight era means either altering fundamental aspects of the character or embracing full-blown camp. Or, y’know, doing what Zack Snyder does in Man of Steel: recycling the origin story with stone-faced seriousness, and blowing shit up for 2½ hours. On one hand, it’s a good move. The last thing the summer needed was a broody Superman movie, particularly one directed by the guy who made Sucker Punch. Early trailers suggested we were going to get Existential Crisis-Man, what with the operatic score, shots of drizzly shipyards, and the imprimatur of Mr. Monochrome himself, producer Christopher Nolan. Turns out, this is a Zack Snyder joint after all. He spends the first 20 minutes of Man of Steel on Krypton, not so much to reacquaint audiences with the tumultuous infancy of baby
Kal-El as to show off the CGI planet he’s created before blowing it to smithereens. As the escape pod containing the future Clark Kent hurtles toward Earth, Snyder inverts the 2001 jump-cut, leaping from space to a fishing boat, where a thirtysomething Kent (Henry Cavill) rescues workers trapped on a burning oil rig, then leaps into a flashback from his childhood, where he lifts his school bus out of a river, and on and on for the next 143 minutes. Snyder can’t film three seconds of laundry flapping in a gentle breeze without getting jittery, let alone stop to ponder the thin discrepancies between good and evil. This is his Superman, and he isn’t going to think about much of anything else. But if Snyder wasn’t going to rethink Superman for the 21st century, what the hell is the point? Sure,
ZACK SNYDER CAN’T FILM THREE SECONDS OF LAUNDRY FLAPPING IN A GENTLE BREEZE WITHOUT GETTING JITTERY. his Man of Steel modernizes the action of Richard Donner’s original genre-birthing trilogy, destroying Metropolis in a 45-minute climax of explosions, flying debris and turbo-mode fight sequences, but Christopher Reeve’s ’70s and ’80s Man of Steel felt more urbane, almost relatable. Cavill looks the part, with his square jaw and action-figure chest, but he’s mostly there to fill out a suit. That suit, with its darker hues and more form-fitting design, is actually the most updated thing here. The film plays out episodically, grazing past childhood and years as a jobless drifter, hinting at complexities Snyder doesn’t have the patience to explore. Cavill isn’t the only one who suffers: The typically mesmeric Michael Shannon, as General Zod, is reduced to a permanent bug-eyed scowl. Amy Adams has more to do than the Lois Lanes of the past, meaning she gets to fire a couple photon guns. Is it possible for Superman, in 2013, to grip the zeitgeist like Batman and the Avengers? He doesn’t have to be a scowly, growly antihero or a wisecracking frat boy. He just has to be more than what he is right now. In Snyder’s hands, he’s the same thing he’s always been: just a god in spandex. C Man of Steel is rated PG-13. It opens Friday at St. Johns Twin, Eastport, Clackamas, Cedar Hills, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Pioneer Place, Division, Roseway.
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LAST SEASON, ON THE REAL WORLD THE DEADLIEST SINS OF SEVEN STRANGERS WHO STOPPED BEING POLITE LONG, LONG AGO. BY JAY H O RTO N
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Portland, The Real World is over. On Wednesday, June 12, MTV will air the final hour of the Stumptown season, as well as the customary reunion. As you may have seen over the past 11 weeks—though abysmal ratings would argue against it—the Portland incarnation of the venerable series has inspired eruptions of violence unlike anything in the history of reality television. To chronicle such uncharted dimensions of mortal venality, it only makes sense to sketch the deadliest sins of these seven pretend Portlanders. PRIDE
Technically, eight roomies were funneled into the Pearl District last summer—nine, should we count Jack Russellish mutt Daisy, who received separate screen credit during the opening montage and won fans for voiding her bowels during cast members’ confessionals. But this season broke new ground by advertising Atlanta psychopath “Hurricane” Nia from the beginning—even though she only entered as a replacement during the fourth episode. Participants were traditionally expelled for even limply violent gestures or an unwanted trespass that wouldn’t ruffle feathers at an Oberlin dorm. Never before, though, had we watched a loftmate suddenly come to their senses and vault over the wall. Recent University of Washington/ Playboy alum Joi blamed Portland’s economic peculiarities for her flight—she spent the majority of the first three episodes weeping vainly scanning job sites and phoning her parents to insist she’d wanted more from life. GREED
Ever since the program turned away from the original casting philosophy (driven professionals, social activists) toward the current directive (fuck bunnies, the clinically insane), each season introduced a new venture to be
PEARL BEFORE SWINE: “Hey, let’s get out of here and go to Subway and Splash Bar.”
and even across the bridge to Rontoms (the absence of signage predictably incensed moods) were abandoned for the curious comforts of Splash Bar: spring break imagined by an upscale Bulgarian airport disco. Hopeful foodies must have been disappointed by cast attitudes toward cuisine that never rose above utilitarian carb-loading at Northwest pasta joints like Caffe Allora, and eventually centered on the nearest Subway.
bilities. Marlon identified leather gear with the anticipatory frisson of someone newly (if partially) out of the closet. Nia warily regarded each object as tremblingly familiar. Jordan stared down the dildos. Carnal obsessive Averey twirled toys in the air, her pre-coital zest infectious in the very best way. However little they cared about dining or indie rock or weirdness as an aspirational quality, you couldn’t have asked for better sex-shop employees.
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We’ll forever blame the dreariness of Portland’s portrayal on network executives intent on selecting athletes and hostesses who held no recognizable passions, actively disliked those few areas (cafe culture, epicurean delights, vibrant artistry) in which we excel, and never really tried to mask the disappointed bewilderment of children promised Disneyland but given Fresno Gardens. Shouldn’t there have been, say, an author? A chef? A brewmaster, a sex worker-puppeteer, a fixie-riding bike mechanic with handlebars made from hemp and recycled aluminum? The producers brought around a selection of physically
INSOFAR AS OUR CITY FULFILLED THEIR IMMINENT DESIRES, PORTLAND COULD HAVE PASSED FOR A DAMP AND PERVY BAKERSFIELD. shared among folks who’d soon demonstrate breathtaking incompetence in every conceivable facet of the job. Still, their habits offer some advice for prospective job-seekers: Look for low-level service positions (Pizza Schmizza; frozen-yogurt stand; sadly, the Roxy declined); assume beauty will overcome lapses of résumé or character (Schmizza was oddly open about why Hooters vet Averey was hired); and wait to fuck up in grand fashion (Schmizza was disappointingly vague about why two roommates were still employed after a restroom quickie during their first shift). In the end, despite ever more spectacular bouts of workplace drunkenness, only Nia’s uniquely withering approach to customer service forced termination. GLUTTONY
A loft equidistant from the Pearl’s aspirational splendor and Old Town’s sillier clubs may have made theoretical sense for these freewheeling libertines, but emotional disorders create strange homebodies. Early forays toward Dante’s burlesque show (eyebrows raised, threesomes refused, girls taken home and then released into the wild) 46
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impressive specimens singularly unsuited to Puddletown’s cultural/spiritual/actual climate. The Pearl’s perennially gray streets served as an oval track for incessant bouts of jogging. Trapped in a real world they never made, the cast members wanted only to bathe, exercise and announce their wants, unprompted, in declarative sentences. Insofar as our town fulfilled their imminent desires, Portland could’ve passed for a damp and pervy Bakersfield. LUST
Who would’ve guessed the first episode’s showily diffident revelation of Texas Tech linebacker Marlon’s close-contact drills with a male cheerleader would’ve marked the high point of aberrant eroticism? Spirits ever willing, swelled egos and stunted empathy prevented nearly every attempt to further bodily pleasures, whether in dalliances with locals or during conjugal reunions with lovers from home. When the group visited the Fantasy for Adults Only erotica shop on West Burnside Street, we were at least allowed a glimpse of the show that might have been had producers arranged work tailored to each member’s sensi-
Its inhabitants shorn of responsibilities (Schmizza management perhaps no longer requiring them to work) and naturally predisposed to conservation of energies, the loft increasingly resembled a luxury hotel suite packed with defeated celebrants turning upon one another, and MTV never quite figured out how to sensationalize the torpor. Producers tried their best to lure group involvement in day trips to the Columbia Gorge or Mount Hood—opportunities culminating, respectively, in bitterness over the length of their trek and utter disbelief that a snowboarder of some celebrity actually chose an Oregon residence—and in a string of activities that only fueled the aggro tendencies of Oklahoman provocateur Jordan, who not only won the gocarts bout but also the BrewCycle’s ride to neighborhood pubs, which wasn’t really intended as competition. WRATH
’Twas, in the end, a show about rage. Continual combatants Jordan and factory-damaged Southern belle Jessica took center stage early on. Once Nia entered the octagon as self-appointed defender of the sisterhood, words very nearly came to blows. Nia said she had no choice but to publicly “suck the skin off of ” Jordan, and stakes were escalated when next she spotted him shitfaced and alone. Straddling and choking him, wielding a clock and a lamp as weapons, she slapped and shrieked while booze-laden Jordan seethed unmoving behind a calcified smirk. Of the penultimate episode’s slugfest that began with Nia stepping in Daisy droppings and ended with her goading Averey and Johnny, we’ll reiterate only how singularly disturbing this season’s slide toward blood-simple brutality has felt. Yet every generation loves its first Real World. However joyless the frustrated rage of broken malcontents may appear to older fans, there must be, somewhere, a group of beguiled tweens who will one day insist that the franchise only ever took hold in Portland. WATCH: The Real World: Portland’s finale and reunion episode air at 10 pm Wednesday, June 12, on MTV.
JUNE 12–18 implausibility of luxury-watch reps schmoozing a regular customer over steaks and single malts only to learn their company’s gone bankrupt. This clumsily assembled narrative finds Vaughn and Wilson as old and outof-touch Google interns. Still, with leads so charming and dialogue so crisp, any insistence upon critical standards seems utterly churlish. This isn’t Vaughn and Wilson’s first feature together, of course, but this limp hackjob has none of Wedding Crashers’ biting wit or respect for storytelling. The film makes no apologies for an unflinching boosterism of all that Google represents. Surprisingly, though, this less-thananarchic perspective doesn’t diminish the constantly inventive, profoundly entertaining performances from our stars. PG-13. JAY HORTON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, St. Johns Twin.
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 Laden-type villain known as the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley), a deranged scientist (Guy Pearce) and an army of super soldiers. 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
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realize that its latest assignment, to take down the messianic rebel Wolf (Huang Xiaoming), is also a suicide mission of sorts—the Emperor is cleaning house and Westernizing his rule. As martial-arts epics go, Lau and producer Peter Chan (who also remade the Shaws’ Blood Brothers) have crafted a visually striking film, heavy on the genre tropes—over-thetop religious symbolism, sweeping slow-motion cinematography, elaborate extras-laden set pieces—and like clockwork in its choreography. It’s also a thematically dense drama, perhaps due to a whopping six (!) credited screenwriters and a nationalist thread running throughout (think shades of both Hero and Braveheart). Lau and company are more talk than action—the head-offing weapon has its moment in the stylized sun, but violent money shots aren’t as plentiful as expected. That’s not to say The Guillotines is an anemic affair, but Lau appears less concerned with having blood on his hands than he does with painting a portrait of a people in transition. PG-13. AMANDA SCHURR. Hollywood Theatre. 9:15 pm Friday-Saturday and 7 pm Sunday, June 14-16.
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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 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, writerdirector Todd Phillips appears to be trying. 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. 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. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Living Room Theaters.
The History of Future Folk
A What if that gimmicky, half-
tongue-in-cheek local band with a cult following—say, the Protomen, Captured! By Robots or the Phenomenauts—were for real? What if the band members really were aliens or robots or galactic pioneers trying to tell their story through song, while we humans laughed at their “costumes” and “stage personas”? That’s the idea at the heart of The History of Future Folk, a charming little tale of a folk duo whose cheap spacesuits and straight-faced presong monologues about being aliens sent to Earth to wipe out the human race find a devoted audience at a Brooklyn dive bar. Catch is, the two members of Future Folk really are aliens and they really did come here to kill us all…until they discovered music and decided this planet wasn’t so bad after all. Earnest but understated performances from the leads and good-natured, PG humor keep the film from ever feeling as highconcept and self-consciously clever as it sounds on paper. Instead, it plays out as a simple, sweet story of two alien lifeforms who discover that falling in love and playing the banjo is a better mission than intergalactic genocide. And that’s a message I think we can all get behind. RUTH BROWN. Hollywood Theatre.
The Internship
B Whether or not Vince Vaughn and
Owen Wilson are believable as salesmen, their sheer presence effortlessly sells the dopiest of movies. There’s a crumbling landmark quality to Vaughn’s unlikely angles and bristling energy—like an Ansel Adams landscape crossed with a lump of undercooked hamburger after the power’s been turned on high. It’s a presence that demands immediate and unconsidered reassurance, a role Wilson’s Butterscotch Stallion was born to play. As The Internship opens, we care not at all about the
STONER’S GOT A GUN: James Franco (right) averts apocalypse.
THIS IS THE END With the underrated and misunderstood Pineapple Express, Seth Rogen, James Franco, Danny McBride and co-screenwriter Evan Goldberg made a rock-solid American counterpart to Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. It was a genre film told from the perspective of the kind of people who consumed such entertainment—in this case, a bunch of dopey stoners caught in the middle of an ’80s action movie. Those who decried it as—or mistook it for—a bad action movie injected with comedy seriously missed the point: What would happen if Lethal Weapon were remade with a pair of seriously high jackasses as the leads? With This Is the End, Rogen and company follow the example of Shaun’s Edgar Wright, jumping genres to the biblical apocalypse and casting Rogen, Franco, Jonah Hill and almost everyone who’s ever been in a Judd Apatow movie as horrible caricatures of themselves. As the Rapture hits and sends pretty much everybody to heaven—except for those at Franco’s housewarming party—these dudes are perfectly content to sit back, smoke weed and tell dick jokes. Like, a lot of dick jokes. It all sounds juvenile, especially when you add an exorcism, demons with huge swinging genitals and a lot of gore. But for the most part, This Is the End works like gangbusters, particularly in the way the actors lampoon their public personas. Franco is a riot as a pretentiously arty man-child with a BFF crush on Rogen. McBride is a more awful version of Kenny Powers. Rogen is just a resin-stained Fozzie Bear. The only loose end is Jay Baruchel, whose incessant whining drags down the film, though he’s somewhat saved by the very welcome presence of Craig Robinson. These dudes are a blast to hang out with, and while some may compare this to Adam Sandler’s masturbatory Grown Ups—which was seemingly an excuse for him to hang with his bros in a cabin— This Is the End has endless chuckles. There are even some timecapsule moments, particularly a prolonged and heated debate between Franco and McBride regarding the latter’s frequent and explosive ejaculations. These dudes could make any movie fun. That this one happens to have decapitations and a brawl with Satan takes it to another level of stoned-out bliss. AP KRYZA.
The end is high.
B SEE IT: This Is the End is rated R. It opens Friday at Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Oak Grove, Bridgeport.
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and chuckling with alarming frequency. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Indoor Twin, Oak Grove.
Jewish Film Festival: Fill the Void
B+ [ONE NIGHT ONLY, ONGOING SERIES] With an exquisite blend of narrative and ethnography, Rama Burshtein’s debut feature takes viewers into the insular world of ultra-Orthodox Israeli Jews. Burshtein—who was raised as a secular Jew and only entered Tel Aviv’s ultra-Orthodox community in her 20s—wrote and directed Fill the Void, which centers on an 18-year-old named Shira (Hadas Yaron). Shira is of marrying age, and as the film opens we see her at the grocery store, trying to catch a peep at a potential husband. She and her mother finally glimpse him, in the dairy section, using his prayer shawl to clean a smudge on his glasses. Shira’s mother turns to her: “You’ll have to do a lot of laundry,” she says. But those plans are upended by tragedy when Shira’s beloved older sister dies in childbirth and Shira becomes a potential new match for the widower. Burshtein’s tight closeups of the actors’ faces match the restrictions of the world she depicts, in which women’s chief responsibility is to marry and bear children (indeed, the most common message to an older, still-single cousin is, “May you get married next”). Succumbing to neither judgment nor mawkishness, Burshtein gets impressively nuanced performances from her cast, primarily Yaron as a naïve but dutiful young woman and Yiftach Klein as the mournful, enigmatic and slightly threatening widower. It’s a slice-of-life picture that plays out patiently, respectfully and—perhaps against the odds—thrillingly. PG. REBECCA JACOBSON. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Sunday, June 16. See nwfilm.org for the complete Jewish Film Festival schedule.
The Kings of Summer
B+ As cops break up a high-school
kegger, two 14-year-old boys stumble into a forest. Intending only to evade police, what they find is far more: a moonlit clearing, as ethereal and lush as anything in FernGully. School is out for summer, the boys’ Ohio town offers no excitement, and their parents are growing ever more intolerable. But here, in this clearing, exist possibility, independence and—just as in FernGully—magic. Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ debut feature, The Kings of Summer, also crackles with its own off-kilter magic. The playful film follows three boys who ditch their parents, unannounced, to build a house in that enchanted clearing. The premise may be absurd, but everything else in The Kings of Summer is unapologetically genuine. Though occasionally too sweet or thin, the film still manages to enchant. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Fox Tower.
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey With Mumia Abu-Jamal
B+ FIVE NIGHTS ONLY] Long Distance Revolutionary is hardly the first film about Mumia Abu-Jamal, the Philadelphia journalist and radical jailed since 1981 for the murder of a police officer. His continued incarceration, which many speculate is more politically motivated than due to any real wrongdoing, has been a cause célèbre for social activists and the subject of countless explorations in print and on screen. So, while director Stephen Vittoria isn’t relaying anything new about this admittedly riveting story, he manages to breathe some fresh life into the telling. Key to the documentary’s success is a reliance on Mumia’s writings. The film uses segments of pieces he has recorded by telephone for radio, as well as bringing in actors, historians and other talking heads to read excerpts from his letters and books. Such a move is hardly groundbreaking, but it still adds depth to Mumia’s life as a young revolutionary, a pioneering newsman and, now, a resident of a medium-security prison in Pennsylvania. Vittoria also weaves in plenty of historical context and commentary on our current sociopolitical landscape to leave viewers itching for
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action by the film’s end. ROBERT HAM. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm FridaySunday, June 14-16; 7 pm Tuesday and 7:15 pm Wednesday, June 18-19.
Mud
B Jeff Nichols’ Southern-fried fable
about two adolescent Arkansas boys whose childhoods are wrested from them centers on buddies Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and Neckbone (Jacob Lofland), who encounter Mud (Matthew McConaughey), a disheveled fugitive hiding out on an isolated island. But what seems like a cut-anddry tale of a mythical bum is instead a rich story of adolescent confusion. PG13. AP KRYZA. Hollywood Theatre.
Now You See Me
C In an early scene in this magicheist movie, Jesse Eisenberg’s character gives an audience a piece of advice. “The more you think you see,” he says, “the easier it will be to fool you.” That’s apparently a tip director Louis Leterrier tried to follow, pulling from his bag of tricks plenty of glitz, a throbbing techno soundtrack and a camera that swirls as if on a merry-go-round. Unfortunately, being fooled by this flashy flick is no fun. An opening montage introduces us, Ocean’s Eleven-style, to our four magicians: the smartass cardsharp (Eisenberg), the charming but slightly shady mentalist (Woody Harrelson), the sexy escape artist (Isla Fisher, here to look good in miniskirts and do little else), and the streetwise pickpocket (Dave Franco, here to do even less than Fisher). Summoned by an unknown mastermind and christening themselves the Four Horsemen, they launch a series of bank heists. For a moment it seems the Horsemen might be Occupy types, modernday Robin Hoods who seek to return money to those who’ve been screwed over by banks and insurance companies. Yet they’re neither developed into well-drawn characters nor made into symbols of economic justice. Throughout, characters explain how magic is all about misdirection, about getting the audience to look away from where the real trick is happening. Too bad, then, that with all his interest in distracting the audience, Leterrier has left us nothing else to see. PG-13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Living Room Theaters, Oak Grove.
Oblivion
C- Oblivion is too somber to cater in escapist thrills and too vacuous to offer emotional or intellectual engagement. PG-13. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Academy, Avalon, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst Theater, Milwaukie, Mt. Hood, Valley.
Oz the Great and Powerful
B 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. PG. AP KRYZA. Academy, Avalon, Mt. Hood, Valley.
The Painting
B [THREE DAYS ONLY] Leave it to
the French to tie together a human’s search for meaning and the nature of prejudice into a sharply rendered animated feature. And God bless director Jean-François Laguionie for not pounding these themes into our heads, instead teasing them out via the figures in the titular artwork: the completed images known as Allduns, the unfinished Halfies and the roughly configured Sketchies. The Painting’s themes are as bold and in-your-face as its bright color scheme, but the charming characters and dazzling animation make the bitter pill that much easier to swallow. ROBERT HAM. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 8:45 pm Friday, 7 and 8:45 pm Saturday and 4 pm Sunday, June 14-16.
Pete’s Dragon
[TWO DAYS ONLY, REVIVAL] Not one of Disney’s best, this 1977 film mixes live action and animation in its tale of an orphan boy and his fire-breathing buddy. G. Hollywood Theatre. 2:30 pm Saturday-Sunday, June 14-15.
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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. R. AP KRYZA. Living Room Theaters.
Portland EcoFilm Festival: Elemental
B+ [ONE NIGHT ONLY] When people
devote their lives to environmental change, they tend to lionize themselves as real-life Captain Planets— bold, heroic, noble. But Elemental, a documentary following three far-flung activists who have set out to revive nature’s most precious features, takes an unflinching look at these green superheroes, ugly moments included. In India, government official Rajendra Singh undertakes a 40-day pilgrimage to clean up the putrid Ganges River. He delivers moving speeches to villages across the country, but he morphs into a sanctimonious diva in moments of pressure. In Canada, native Denè tribe member Eriel Deranger helps lead a grassroots movement against the tar sands, an oil deposit the size of Florida. Though a ferocious activist, she makes sacrifices for the cause that endanger her family and friends. And in Australia, inventor Jay Harman fights against claims that he’s a hack as he seeks to develop an atmospheric mixer he believes will slow global warming. Even in their most unflattering moments, the characters deliver a lesson: People who fight to change the world are small, flawed and human. They are not infallible, and they stand to lose a great deal. Yet in spite of that, they push themselves to superhuman lengths to fight for what they believe in. EMILY JENSEN. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Wednesday, June 12.
The Purge
C- It seems that giving America a
“freebie” was the answer all along. Writer-director James DeMonaco’s speculative thriller The Purge unfolds in a near future—March 21, 2022, if you want to add it to iCal—where politicians have stopped blathering about traditional values and have chosen instead to take their lead from more open-minded couples. Just as otherwise monogamous spouses will allow each other a one-night stand without repercussions, so too have the “New Founding Fathers” designated 12 hours a year during which all crime— including murder—is legal. Boasting its own tag line (“Release the beast!”), this annual cathartic “purge” has left the country practically crime-free for the remaining 364 days a year. It’s also left some enterprising individuals incredibly wealthy. For instance, James Sandin (an unnervingly cleanshaven Ethan Hawke) has made a fortune opportunistically hawking security systems to the panicked residents of his gated community. When a gang of masked marauders (headed by preening Rhys Wakefield) arrives on James’ doorstep looking to raise hell, he is forced to confess that the defenses he peddles weren’t designed for a “worst-case scenario.” Likewise, The Purge’s dubious foundation can’t withstand much scrutiny. When the defenses inevitably fall and a siege ensues, the melees that follow are perfunctory and poorly staged. Content simply to go through the motions, DeMonaco neglects to release the beast, leaving The Purge a sheep in Straw Dogs’ clothing. R. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius.
Repressed Cinema: Felony Flats
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] A 2011 film from local director Bob Moricz about a mentally ill man-child, shot in the Foster-Powell neighborhood and spotted with local landmarks. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, June 18.
Saturday Morning Confusion
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Clips of bizarre children’s entertainment patched together by Seattle’s Scarecrow Video. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Saturday, July 15.
Sightseers
B+ Unlike Ben Wheatley’s first two
films—the gangster flick Down Terrace and the occult hit-man horror film Kill List—Sightseers genre-hops without sacrificing tone or losing focus on its characters. With its story of a murderous couple’s road trip, the film could have been a cheeky British take on Natural Born Killers. Yet there’s an undeniable sweetness to the film and its core players, two thirtysomething oddballs (Steve Oram and Alice Lowe). The pair have an easy rapport, and their conversations, bickering and affection 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. AP KRYZA. Living Room Theaters.
Spring Breakers
B- An art-house installment of Girls Gone Wild crossed with Scarface—with all the surface allure and occasional vapidity that licentious description implies. R. MICHAEL NORDINE. Laurelhurst Theater.
Star Trek Into Darkness
B In his second outing in the Star
Trek captain’s chair, J.J. Abrams hammers down on the throttle right in the opening, when we find Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) and Dr. McCoy (Karl Urban) on a distant planet, where they’re being chased by primitive,
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NO PEACE IN GREECE: Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy.
BEFORE MIDNIGHT In Before Sunrise, the 1995 film about two young travelers who spend a night together in Vienna, the American Jesse (Ethan Hawke) says he views himself as a perpetual 13-year-old boy. Celine (Julie Delpy), the Sorbonne student he’s met on the train, responds that she sees herself as an old woman, forever pretending to be young. Eighteen years later, with the characters now in their early 40s, those self-perceptions seem, if anything, to have deepened. Jesse still has the same crooked smile and tendency to crack wise whenever conversation turns serious, and the more practical Celine grows frustrated with his evasions and self-absorption. For those coming late to Richard Linklater’s now-epic cinematic romance, a recap: After the dreamy, witty gabfest of Before Sunrise, the two didn’t meet again for nine years, until she tracked him down at a book reading in Paris. That reunion was the subject of 2004’s luminous Before Sunset. And now, again nine years later, Jesse and Celine are back in the nearly perfect Before Midnight: coupled, living in Paris, raising flaxen-haired twin moppets bilingually. Before the romantics rejoice, know that while Jesse and Celine still have spark, their nervous, youthful energy has been supplanted by something harder and sharper, as they navigate the challenges of maintaining a relationship. In Before Midnight, they’ve come to the end of a blissful summer in Greece. Early on, Linklater provides one of the uninterrupted takes that showcase the brilliant rhythms of his unobtrusive filmmaking. The take is nearly 15 minutes, shot in a car, as Jesse and Celine traverse from a discussion of parenting style to playful flirting (“I’ve got a Trojan in my billfold and a rocket in my pocket,” Hawke croons) to heated talk about the future. Jesse’s ex-wife lives in Chicago; Jesse wants to be closer to his teenage son; Celine thinks Jesse is asking her to relocate to the Windy City. That debate is bound to come up later, and does it ever, at the hotel where Jesse and Celine are supposed to be having an amorous evening away from their daughters. That argument—a remarkable half-hour that should go down in cinematic history—is funny, painful and thoroughly astounding. Hawke and Delpy inhabit their roles so completely, and their characters are so good at manipulating conversation, that I found my loyalties zinging back and forth as if in a high-speed, particularly vicious game of pingpong. Not, of course, that I wanted one partner to win—I just wanted it to stop. Or, maybe, I didn’t. REBECCA JACOBSON.
After dark, the love is no longer blind.
A SEE IT: Before Midnight is rated R. It opens Friday at Fox Tower, Eastport, Bridgeport, Clackamas, Lloyd Mall.
JUNE 12–18 clay-painted natives, while Spock (Zachary Quinto) dives deep into a volcano to prevent an apocalyptic eruption. Things get dark with the arrival of Benedict Cumberbatch, who launches a one-man war of terror on Starfleet. 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. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Forest, Indoor Twin, Oak Grove.
Stories We Tell
A We all know that every family
has its own drama, secrets and perspective. Stories We Tell is Sarah Polley’s layered, thoughtful exploration of this idea, in which she turns the lens on her own family. Polley (who has directed features like Take This Waltz and helms her first documentary here) goes on a journey to investigate secrets about her mother, Diane, who died of cancer when Polley was 11. Polley gathers her four siblings, her father and others who knew her mother to “start from the beginning.” Their recollections create a colorful picture of Diane and her life, often accompanied by Super-8 footage—shot to look like home video but staged by Polley—that brings an illustrative charm to the film. As more than one secret unfolds, Stories We Tell wisely allows the family’s humorous and emotional moments to peek through. “What are you, some kind of sadistic interviewer?” her father, Michael, half jokes at one point. It’s moments like these, when we see not talking heads but family members piecing together a mystery, that unite the past and present to make the film so engaging. KAITIE TODD. Fox Tower.
Stress Position
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AND PRODUCER ATTENDING] The premise of Stress Position is certainly intriguing: What happens to two friends who try to withstand Guantánamo Bay-level conditions at the hand of the other for an entire week? Yet this intriguing premise proves painful in execution. Although A.J. Bond’s drama starts off feeling real, it’s a mistake to watch this movie imagining its moments are unstaged. While the tension and chemistry between the two actors—who are close in real life and start off as best friends in the film—are often believable, the faux drama added to many of the scenes, such as the staging of some of the torture, creates a confusing and off-putting blend of fiction and reality. If you can get past that, it’s an effective fictional thriller: The setting is a white room, stark and uncomfortable as strobe lights flash and loud noises blare. What’s more painful is the psychological torture inflicted on both the characters, as Bond (who plays himself) takes his vision too far on friend Dave Amito—playing videos of Amito’s friends critiquing him, for example—and promptly gets it turned on himself. KAITIE TODD. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Thursday, June 13.
Terminator and Terminator 2
[ONE WEEK ONLY, REVIVAL] Ahnold is back, this time in 35 mm and with some specially brewed swill from Lompoc—Ryes of the Machines IPA—as well as seven other sci-fi-inspired IPAs. R. Hollywood Theatre. Double feature at 7:30 and 9:30 pm Friday, June 14. Screenings continue at 9:30 pm Saturday-Thursday, June 15-20.
Tom McCall Film Festival
[TWO DAYS ONLY] Arguably the most important Oregon politician of the last century, late former governor Tom McCall now has a film festival devoted to him. The land-
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mark 1962 documentary Pollution in Paradise—McCall was a KGW TV news commentator at the time and served as the film’s reporter and lead writer—plays at 6:30 pm Saturday, June 15. On Sunday, June 16, at 2 pm, catch two documentaries: Politics of Sand, a history of Oregon’s beaches, and a film about Vortex 1, the state-sponsored rock festival McCall helped organize in 1970. Hollywood Theatre. SaturdaySunday, June 15-16.
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True Crime Cinema
[TWO NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] Two nights of crime dramas based on true local events: 1957’s Portland Exposé (7 pm Wednesday, June 12), about a tavern owner who gets entangled with the mob when his daughter is attacked, and the Angelina Jolie vehicle Without Evidence (7 pm Thursday, June 13), about the 1989 murder of the director of the Oregon Department of Corrections. Each film will be preceded by a discussion with guest speakers. Mission Theatre. Wednesday-Thursday, June 12-13.
The Wall
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nature of loneliness, an individual’s will to live and the differences between animals and humans, The Wall is perhaps most notable as a cautionary tale in how not to adapt a book for the screen. In reworking Marlen Haushofer’s eponymous novel, Austrian director Julian Pölsler apparently decided to copy-and-paste entire paragraphs of text into the screenplay, which results in voice-over narration that makes Terrence Malick seem reticent. The film centers on an unnamed woman (Martina Gedeck, who also starred in The Lives of Others) who is mysteriously cut off by a transparent but impenetrable wall in the Austrian wilderness. She is, best as she can tell, alone inside this invisible jail, and the few people she glimpses on the other side of the clear barrier seem frozen in time. Left without human companions, Gedeck’s character carves out an existence for herself by developing relationships with the animals—a dog, a cow, a couple cats—and by logging her experiences on the few sheets of paper she can find. “So many things have happened to me that I must write if I don’t want to lose my mind,” she narrates. Gedeck modulates her facial expressions carefully, and the nature photography is often stunning, but they’re both swamped by the incessant voice-over. Perhaps we’re supposed to feel like we’re inside Gedeck’s head, but I just found myself craving silence. REBECCA JACOBSON. Living Room Theaters.
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
B+ With We Steal Secrets, Alex Gibney traces Julian Assange’s rise from teen hacker to international celebrity with verve and compelling storytelling. In its most compelling moments, the film trains its lens on Bradley Manning, the young, isolated Army intelligence analyst who, despite WikiLeaks’ professed policy of never disclosing whistle-blowers’ identities, was arrested and held in solitary confinement after he supplied Assange with hundreds of thousands of files. Meanwhile, the film takes pains to paint Assange not as a martyr, villain, saint or terrorist, but as a man struggling with fame and commitment to his cause. R. AP KRYZA. Living Room Theaters.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
[ONE WEEK ONLY, REVIVAL] All summer long, the Academy Theater pays homage to classic family films, kicking off with 1971’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel. G. Academy Theater.
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EFFECTS MASTER: Had the late Ray Harryhausen never broken into cinema, we probably wouldn’t have the world of movies we do today. From his breakout in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) all the way to Clash of the Titans (1981), Harryhausen’s pioneering work in stop-motion model animation dropped jaws. And while it’s easy to look back and poke fun at the primitive effects, the maestro’s innovative work has no better display than 1963’s Jason and the Argonauts. Sure, it’s a pretty cheesy spectacle, based on the Greek myth of the quest for the Golden Fleece, but even today it’s staggering for the level of care Harryhausen put into the world of Hydras and skeleton armies. There’s no disputing the importance of the film to future generations (Army of Darkness, for one, wouldn’t even exist). Back in the day, people marveled and asked, “How do they do that?” These days, we should ask a more important question: “Why don’t they do that anymore?” AP KRYZA. Playing at: Laurelhurst Theater. Best paired with: Coalition Cream Ale. Also playing: Terminator and Terminator 2 (Hollywood), Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Academy). Mission Theater and Pub
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