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WRITING ON THE WALL: Questions about a company that won a minority set-aside contract from the city. Page 7.

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I just got back from New York and saw a very different picture in my two days of biking around the island [“Bikelash,” WW, June 12, 2013]. Folks there are frustrated at the lack of operability of the Alta [bike-share] system. I think NYC got sold a pig in a poke by Alta, unless its software fail can be rapidly redeemed. So it struck me as odd to read such a valedictory piece. I was expecting the more counterintuitive story about how Alta’s new software is unexpectedly sabotaging what should be a wonderful system, rather than another provincial Portland essay gushing over Mia Birk. That’s the old story, done any number of times in The Oregonian. Check out The New York Times if you want to read about the Citi Bike system’s performance. In short, the stations are so buggy that you can’t trust that you’ll even be able to return a bike and lock it up. What a shame. —“Sarah Smith”

THE REAL WORLD BLOWS TOWN

I only watched this season because it was in Portland; I abandoned The Real World ages ago [“Last Season, on The Real World,” WW, June 12, 2013]. My hope was, since PDX is such an awesome city with so much to show, that they would [show it], at least since we’re so “weird.” I was mad [the cast members] worked at Pizza Schmizza and mad they showed so little of the city. The only thing I could stand was the fighting. Yeah, violence sucks, but this season had nothing else to look forward to. Even their Zombie Camping Trip sucked. They failed to show the real side of Portland, and made us look boring. —“Rap Game ParisHilton” Honestly, I’m glad they made Portland seem terrible. Do any of us actually want MTV watchers to flock here in droves? —“Kate”

The hippy-dippy utopia is the very thing that brought [Mia Birk] to Portland, and now she scoffs at it. Her nose is so high in the air, she’ll drown the next time it rains. Can you imagine sitting on a bike advertising Citibank? How utterly shameful. She ought to empower minority- or small-business owners to run bike shops, not Citibank. She garners government grants to help advertise for Wall Street crooks. I’d rather see people waddle than pedal [in Portland]. That’s what webbed toes are for. [Birk] ought to grow some if she wants to belong. —“Maja Verde”

CORRECTION

Portland has a “weak mayor” system of governance where the mayor shares power with four commissioners. It took me a little while to wrap my head around that. Are there any other major cities that use the same system? —Rudy G.

for Toronto, but a recent Reuters story, “‘Weak mayor’ system keeps Toronto ticking through crack controversy,” suggests the city has managed to keep chugging along. Since the mayor in a weak-mayor system is sort of a first among equals, with one vote on the city council like everyone else and no special veto power, the city’s business can keep rolling even if its chief executive is distracted, absent or, um, otherwise occupied. In strong-mayor systems, by contrast, the mayor hires and fires, writes the budget and bans large fountain drinks more or less at will. If one of these mayors runs amok, the city will feel the burn. Thus, whatever you might think of the weakmayor system, it does seem to be a good one to have if your mayor is going to smoke crack. I’m not saying that Portland Mayor Charlie Hales would ever do that, but still, it’s good to know.

Last week’s cover story on Alta Bike Share, “Bikelash,” incorrectly stated the price of renting a Citi Bike in New York City as $9.95 an hour. The cost is $9.95 a day, with unlimited 30-minute trips. WW regrets the error. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include the author’s street address and phone number for verification. Letters must be 250 or fewer words. Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Fax: (503) 243-1115, Email: mzusman@wweek.com

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The only other major North American city I could find that uses the weak-mayor system (where the mayor has little more legislative pull than any other member of the city council) is Toronto. As it happens, Toronto has been in the news lately, as its mayor, Rob Ford, has been under fire for allegedly smoking crack. And when I say “smoking crack,” I don’t mean “smoking crack” the way somebody who thinks the Cubs are going to win the World Series is “smoking crack.” I mean the “smoking crack” where you have some crack and you’re like, “Yay! Crack!” and then you smoke it. You might think this would spell trouble

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Officials pushing the Columbia River Crossing are concealing the true costs of multimillion-dollar deals they have reached to win support of manufacturing firms affected by the proposed freeway bridge. CRC planners goofed by designing the bridge too low for three companies that barge giant steel structures downriver. The CRC has signed mitigation deals with Oregon KING Iron Works and Greenberry Industrial. But the CRC, a joint Oregon-Washington venture, is refusing to disclose the agreements in response to public-record requests from WW. Also in the dark: Washington state legislators debating the $3.4 billion project. CRC officials say they will release the agreements in September. That’s when the U.S. Coast Guard will decide whether to grant a permit for the bridge design—but after Olympia lawmakers are supposed to approve the project. “I bet they’re willing to give away the farm,” says Sen. Curtis King (R-Yakima), Senate Transportation Committee chairman and CRC foe, “as long they don’t have to report it until the decision’s been made.” The report card is in on how well Oregon school districts provide protection against bullying—especially aimed at gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students. Portland Public Schools and the Beaverton School District earned top marks in a report from the Oregon Safe Schools & Communities Coalition. But the report says three local school districts—Lake Oswego, David Douglas and Riverdale—are among one-third of districts whose policies against harassment, intimidation, bullying and cyberbullying don’t yet comply with state law. Not all the districts agree with the report’s findings. “If the report is suggesting that we’re not paying attention to these issues,” says Lake Oswego schools spokeswoman Nancy Duin, “I have an issue with that because I think we are.” Mayor Charlie Hales made a big deal in his World Environment Day speech June 5 about having the city of Portland lobby the Oregon State Treasurer to stop investing in oil and natural gas companies, which Hales said are environmentally bad and long-term investment risks. “We must act before the carbon bubble bursts,” Hales said. “We can send a message to the world WHEELER that investment in fossil fuels is a losing proposition.” Hales’ idea didn’t get much mileage from State Treasurer Ted Wheeler, who wrote back a week later to say forget it. Wheeler said the state by law must seek the largest possible returns for its $80 billion in investments (mostly pension funds), not use them to send a political message. “Selling off our energy holdings...would potentially expose the state to lawsuits,” Wheeler wrote. Hales spokesman Dana Haynes says the mayor is not deterred and believes his idea is “aspirational.” Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt.

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NEWS MORTAR COMBAT CITY OFFICIALS WANT ANSWERS ABOUT A CONTRACTOR WHO GOT $88,000 UNDER A MINORITY SET-ASIDE PROGRAM. BY AA R O N M E S H

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Last September, the nonprofit Blanchet House of Hospitality cut a blue ribbon to dedicate a $12.9 million, four-story homeless meal kitchen and transitional housing shelter in Old Town. The city of Portland paid for a big part of that—$4 million from the Housing Bureau—and required that the construction project create opportunities for contracting companies owned by minorities and women. Since 1997, the city has had a policy of trying to promote minority-owned contractors. Portland has set goals for any deal that includes city money—20 percent on the Blanchet House project. State rules forbid a company from falsely fronting as a minority- or female-owned business to land contracts for people who are ineligible. Now a city watchdog wants to know whether one of the contractors who got a set-aside contract on the Blanchet House project did so fraudulently. More than $88,000 in contracts went to an East Portland company, Elkins Masonry Restoration Inc., whose listed owner, Nichole Elkins, is a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde. In March, the state of Oregon cleared Elkins of allegations made by the city’s procurement office she wasn’t eligible under the set-asides program, and that her company wasn’t independent from a firm owned by her husband, Ray, who is white. B u t c i t y o m b u d sw o m a n M a r g i e Sollinger is dissatisfied with the state’s findings. In an April 26 letter obtained by WW, Sollinger asks state investigators to explain how they could clear Elkins’ company when so much of the evidence suggests her company may not have been eligible for set-aside contracts. State officials say they ’ll issue a response next week. Sollinger stops short of accusing Elkins of acting illegally. But she tells WW she wants the state to look closer to ensure

Portland’s minority-contracting goals won’t be “co-opted by firms seeking financial gain through fraudulent means.” While the city’s set-aside program is lauded by many, some minority contractors say the program is widely abused by front companies set up by white men. “I don’t want to throw accusations around like candy,” says Melvin Oden-Orr, general counsel for the Oregon chapter of the National Association of Minority Contractors. “But there is speculation that it happens a lot.” Elkins, through her attorney, declined to be interviewed by WW. When Elkins first applied to qualify as a minority- and female-owned business in 2011, she said she started her own firm because she wanted independence after 10 years of working for her husband’s masonry business. “I’d like to be in charge of my own career path as I once was,” Elkins wrote. “Owning my own business and showing pride in my Native American culture are steps to that goal.” Business Oregon, the state economic development agency, is responsible for investigating cases of potential fraud in minority- and female-owned contracting companies. The agency concluded it had found no evidence that Elkins improperly

relied on her husband’s business for help. “She has adequate experience, knowledge and ability to control her business independently,” wrote Raleigh Lewis, manager of Oregon’s Office of Minority, Women and Emerging Small Business. But in her letter to Business Oregon, Sollinger says the state cleared Elkins despite evidence she may not have been eligible for minority- or female-owned business certification in the first place. State rules require the business owner to have “sufficient expertise in the firm’s primary field of operation to control the firm independently.” Elkins told investigators her experience as office manager for her husband’s company, D&R Masonry Restoration Inc., qualified her, and that she would do the estimating for the project. But Sollinger says documents show the estimating work was done by one of her husband’s employees, not Elkins. State rules also require the business “must not be dependent upon any non-disadvantaged, non-minority or non-womanowned firm.” According to the city’s letter, Elkins initially claimed her company didn’t share any resources with another company or need to lease equipment, and that she had

no financial interest in any other firm. But Sollinger says in her letter the record is filled with contradictions: Elkins’ firm shares office space and supplies with companies owned by her husband, and she used equipment from her husband’s company on the city contract. And, Sollinger says, there’s no evidence Elkins paid her husband’s company for use of the equipment or the employee. Business Oregon spokesman Marc Zolton says the agency won’t comment on an open case or on the implication from the city ombudswoman that the agency failed to do its job right the first time. “We’re very limited in what we investigate,” Zolton says. “We don’t investigate fraud except in the areas of certification eligibility.” Sollinger says she wants to look into other complaints about allegedly ineligible companies abusing the city’s set-aside program. But the state is making it difficult. Sollinger asked Business Oregon to release documents regarding three other contractors about whom her office has received complaints. The state’s response? It wants to charge the city $2,718.75 for the records—and payment is due up front. Willamette Week JUNE 19, 2013 wweek.com

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Laura Young says it’s about time someone at City Hall gets serious about paving Portland’s dirt roads. She lives in the Cully neighborhood, where 10 percent of city streets look like mud wallows and cow paths. Young was happy to hear Mayor Charlie Hales’ recent pledge to find a way to pave the city’s 59 miles of dirt roads—and finish them with sidewalks, storm sewers and street trees—within 20 years. “It’s a step in the right direction,” she says. “The city needs to find resources to make it happen.” The mayor’s pledge poses a stubborn challenge to an age-old problem in Portland (“Dirt Roads, Dead Ends,” WW, May 11, 2011), so WW went looking for details of Hales’ plan. It turns out there is no plan, and city officials say they have no idea what it would cost to fulfill Hales’ pledge. “We don’t have enough to go on,” says Dylan Rivera, spokesman for the Bureau of Transportation, who hadn’t heard of the pledge, which Hales made June 5. “We haven’t been asked to scope something

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like this.” Hales has also promised to start maintenance work on 100 miles of roads, including residential streets. The $11.3 million plan calls for applying a “fog coat” sealant or performing a so-called “grind and pave” that would only resurface already-paved streets. It’s a short-term fix that got plenty of media attention when the mayor posed for TV cameras while wearing an orange hardhat atop a paving machine. But his bigger promise has received little attention. “I pledge to you that I and the council will identify new revenue that will allow us to turn every street in Portland into a ‘complete street,’” Hales said. About 170 miles of city streets don’t have sidewalks. It’s a big problem in East Portland, where a 5-year-old girl was struck and killed by a car in February, one week after the city cut sidewalk funding. In April, Hales restored the sidewalk project along Southeast 136th Avenue, where Morgan Maynard-Cook died. So what would it cost for Hales to fulfill his pledge? Rivera came back to WW with a rough estimate: at least $100 million to pave 45 miles of streets—not including sidewalks. He says the city has no estimate for the total cost of paving 59 miles and adding storm sewers, sidewalks and trees. It’s not clear how Hales would pay for

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it all. “There are traditional methods—a gas tax—and there are some more creative methods,” says Hales spokesman Dana Haynes. “We don’t want to get ahead of what has to be a community dialogue.” The combined state and county gas tax is 33 cents a gallon, of which the city gets 4 cents. Most of the city’s gas tax revenues on a 20-year bond have already been dedicated to transportation projects, especially the Sellwood Bridge. “The gas tax is a dinosaur,” he says. “The costs of asphalt and concrete for building anything have been increasing in doubledigit increments.” It’s likely residents along these muddy

streets will feel pressure to pay for the improvements themselves. The city already pursues local improvement districts for such repairs, with property owners shouldering most of the costs. Young says the city should pay a bigger share. And Young says Hales’ pledge is hardly bold—other city leaders have made similar promises in the past. She only wishes the mayor had a plan. “The fact that our tax dollars have been used to maintain the rest of the city’s streets,” Young says, “while ours have been left unimproved and dilapidated for the last 30 years doesn’t seem to register with public officials.”

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bounce bet ween trees, Catch a trout, climb a snow-capped mountain, surf the river and kill your own food.

ortland reminds us of an adult summer camp—and not just because of the low wages, rugged fashion or widely varied grooming habits. Deserted on winter weekdays, this town really comes alive as the skies brighten. Neighbors who went missing just after Christmas suddenly appear at the cafe by your house, and every spare patch of grass seems to be put into the service of blanket-sitters or Frisbee-tossers. For this year’s Summer Guide, we approached Portland like one big collection of cabins, trails and fire pits. So we went fly-fishing for the first time, took up slacklining, learned to windsurf, completed a beginner-level mountaineering expedition and butchered a rabbit. We approached each of these

outings like a kid trying something new at camp—excited, if a little nervous. We also put together a list of some of our favorite locally made camping products and assembled the ultimate summer-events calendar, with one can’t-miss activity for every day between now and the start of MusicfestNW. We hope some of these ideas are useful. You can, of course, take it easy, just hanging out at the commissary downing slushies until the bell rings at the mess hall. But, as a helpful counselor probably told you a few years back, you should make more of your time here. Get out and have an experience, maybe learn something or pick up a new hobby, before the rain returns and everyone disappears. Willamette Week JUNE 19, 2013 wweek.com

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The park rangers must have been lying in wait. Out of the corner of my eye, I see them approaching. The man is tall with a shaved head and small spectacles. With him is a dark-haired woman. They know what we’re about to do, and it’s their job to stop it. It’s an otherwise serene Sunday afternoon at Laurelhurst Park. Joggers bound along the paths, sunbathers sprawl on the grass and a group practices tai chi by the lake. I am wobbling on a 2-inch piece of webbing strung between two trees. My other arm flails above my head as I teeter, but I remain upright. Then I spot two sage green button-down shirts. Busted. Slacklining, technically, is illegal in Portland parks. City code bans parkgoers from attaching ropes (or wires, chains or just about anything else) to trees or other structures. But that doesn’t stop slackliners from setting up in parks, albeit with some wariness. Of the four slackliners who’ve gathered at Laurelhurst Park today, most tell me they’ve been asked to take down lines, but I’ve also heard stories of slackliners attracting crowds without anyone asking them to stop. “I was here yesterday, and we had three lines set up,” says Shawn Whalen, the lanky 32-year-old snowboarding and rafting instructor encouraging me along. “Two rangers walked by and said hello.” Whalen is also something of an arboreal evangelist, pointing out the thick padding he’s wrapped around two trees to protect their bark.

He is increasingly frustrated by what he’s seen at other parks: gouged trees, fallen saplings, toppled light posts. Derrick Peppers, a gregarious 29-year-old climbing guide, hopes slackliners avoid the aggression that characterized many early skateboard activists. “Keep breaking the law, but keep being nice about it when rangers tell you to take it down,” he says. “That’s what I always tell people.” The rangers I spotted definitely see me. I lose my balance. They walk away. You might recognize slacklining as an activity from Colonel Summers Park, with dreaded-out tokers traversing a rope strung between two trees. But slacklining has its roots in the rockclimbing community, where it sprung up among bored climbers in Yosemite during the ’70s and ’80s. Those climbers walked it all: chains in parking lots, climbing ropes at camp and ultimately webbing. The activity required no extra equipment and let climbers rest their weary arms while still honing their stabilizer muscles, sense of balance and mental focus. The activity remains largely limited to climbers, but in the last decade slackliners have pushed themselves to walk longer and higher lines and to execute increasingly gymnastic tricks. A slackliner performed with Madonna at the Super Bowl in 2012. A competition circuit has developed. Online videos guide slackliners through dizzying tricks and intricate footwork. I’m not interested in competing. I’m not interested in flips, somersaults or cartwheels on the line. I just want to defy a bit of gravity and impress some friends at a picnic. So a few weeks ago, I tracked down Chloe Mandell, a high-school acquaintance and instructor at the Circuit Boul-

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dering Gym who agreed to give me a lesson. My first trip on the line nearly makes me seasick. As I grip Mandell’s hand, the rest of my body shakes with untamed abandon. I feel like a cartoon squirrel being electrocuted. But after that initial earthquake, I begin to find my balance. Mandell’s tips: Don’t look down. Find the line before you transfer your weight. Bend your knees. Keep your hands above your head for balance. Breathe. By the end of my first lesson, I take a few steps on my own. I go back again a few weeks later, and get better yet. I’m not exactly in the zone on this sunny afternoon in Laurelhurst Park, but I do feel a sense of relief as the rangers walk away from us. Clambering back on, I take a few steps before tumbling to one side. In a different corner of the park, Peppers and Rob Wright, a 45-year-old math and science teacher, have strung up a massive line, nearly 7 feet off the ground and 115 feet long. A little girl watches as Wright crosses it, very carefully. “Whoa, Mom, look what they’re doing!” she squeals. “Let’s watch!” A dog-walker stops to snap a photo on his iPhone. My relief is short-lived. The park rangers return. The man tells us to take down the lines. His tone is apologetic, almost rueful. He watches as Travis Danner, a 31-year-old engineer, walks the line. “If I wasn’t on the clock, I’d try it myself,” he says. “I’ve got pretty good balance.” The slackliners ask if they can have another go before disassembling. The ranger’s eyes flit back and forth between their pleading faces. He gestures to his partner. “We’re gonna take a walk around the park,” he finally says.

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Circus style

Test out trapeze, hoops, ropes, straps or aerial silks. Several places offer classes in upside-down acrobatics, including for novices. Try Do Jump (231-1232, dojump.org) for trapeze classes that also incorporate solo and partner acrobatics, physical theater and tumbling. A-WOL Dance Collective (351-5182, awoldance.org) has aerial yoga, and Night Flight (206-708-9500, nightflightaerial.com) is a one-stop shop for trapeze, ropes, silks, hoops and straps, in addition to classes on contortion and handstands.

Trampoline

Jump around, jump around, jump up, jump up, etc., at Tigard’s Sky High Sports, where there are trampolines on the floors and on the walls. Aggro types can play dodgeball, fitness buffs can take 50-minute AIRobics classes (the gym claims an hour on the trampoline burns over 1,000 calories), and minimalists can bounce around freeform. 11131 SW Greenburg Road, Tigard, 9245867, por.jumpskyhigh.com.

Slack asana

Sure, they use the same webbing as regular slackliners, but practitioners of slackline yoga (adorably dubbed “slackasana”) achieve even crazier feats of balance, flexibility and, perhaps, Zen. YogaSlackers Northwest hosts periodic workshops around town. Facebook.com/YogaSlackersNorthwest.

Tree climbing

For those looking to summit greater heights, the Pacific Northwest chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture holds tree-climbing competitions, courses and workshops. See Headout on page 45 for more information. 874-8263, pnwisa.org.

Zip line

Test your stability on the balance beams and bridges of a high-ropes course. Head an hour west to Tree to Tree Aerial Adventure Park, near Hagg Lake, where the Extreme Adventure Course includes 19 zip lines and dozens of treetop obstacles, keeping you in the sky for a whopping three hours. There’s also a 1,200-foot “super zip,” if you really want to fly. 2975 SW Nelson Road, Gaston, 357-0109, tree2treeadventurepark.com.

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Killing Me Softly a hunter’s kid seeks the true meaning of farm-to-table. BY MATTHEW KOR FHAGE

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There is already blood on the ground when I arrive at Camas Davis’ Southwest Portland backyard. It pools into the pores of a decorative rock and dribbles onto the soil. The blood is too bright and too red to seem real. It looks like pulped strawberry, or a painter’s tantrum. I am holding a rabbit in my hands, which I have just received out of a box labeled for leafy greens. I am trying not to bond with the animal or pet its fur, though its coat is soft as spring dandelions. This is a survival mechanism of sorts. In about 10 minutes, I am going to break this rabbit’s neck. On this fine and sunny Saturday afternoon, Davis’ Portland Meat Collective is hosting a class in rabbit slaughter and butchery. The blood on the rock is chickens’ blood let this morning. Ten of us are in line, ranging in personality from Estacada cowboy to prim food obsessive, all cradling our rabbits with what probably looks like tenderness. But closer inspection would reveal that each of us is tightly gripping our rabbit’s paws together with our fists, so it can’t scratch us or jerk away. The class is taught by an intensive-care nurse, Levi, who trained with the late chef Robert Reynolds in France. “I don’t love rabbits,” he says at the beginning of the class. “I don’t think of them as cuddly.” He thinks of them as food. He says that feed rabbits, like farm turkeys, are remarkably stupid animals, doomed to death within hours in the wild. But he doesn’t want to cause 18

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them any suffering, and so he teaches us how to kill them as humanely as possible. This turns out to involve a broomstick, which goes over the back of the rabbit’s head for leverage. A simple tug to the back feet, and the rabbit’s spine is neatly severed, too fast for the brain even to register the shock. It is a variation on a classic Navy SEAL technique. Here is the thing, though: I don’t even kill spiders. I scoot them out the door between a cup and a newspaper. Though I come from Anglo-Germanic hunting and farming stock—my grandfather used to trap squirrels for stew until my grandmother made him stop—I never went on the family trips in search of elk and deer. Still, like every eater of meat, I have left behind me a massacre as surely as if I had slaughtered the animals myself. I have eaten elk tongue and deer heart and bull penis, the livers of ducks and geese, the feet of chickens and pigs. I have boiled stomach in soup and fried skin into cracklings. I have eaten tartare and called the watery myoglobin that leaks onto the plate “blood.” There’s no inherent hypocrisy in this. Whatever Ted Nugent’s faux-spiritual hunter’s malarkey, I don’t think you should have to kill your own meat, any more than people who drive cars need to drill their own oil. Specialization of labor has been a remarkable success, all things considered. Most of my classmates intend to farm domestically or cook seriously, and though we’re served wine the course has the feeling of a trade school. People take notes. For my own part, I’m here because I feel I should understand what it means, at the most visceral level, to eat an animal. But of course no epiphanies are forthcoming. It’s not as if I suddenly understand the nature of

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the exchange between life and life. When it comes to performing the act itself, I mostly just worry about screwing up—that I will apply pressure too soon or not tug hard enough and the rabbit will be left living and in pain. Its little bones, however, are as fragile as a bird’s, and after a tiny pop softer than the crack of an old man’s knee when he stands, the rabbit’s eyes are open and unseeing. Then we are to string the rabbit upside down, bleed it into a bucket and “pants” it —this is the term of art—by pulling the legs’ skin away from the muscle, repeating a similar process for the entirety of the body until the carcass stands naked save a patch of fur between the legs. The physiognomy is similar enough to a human’s that the effect is unsettling: It looks like a deeply ill-favored person with unshorn 1970s crotch, its arms in position of prayer. The process of butchery from there is remarkably gentle. One must be attentive to the animal’s form, and trim precisely with a sharp knife. Plato’s phrase suddenly makes sense: the carving of nature at its joints. It is an act of startling intimacy. I roasted the rabbit the next day with my family—my parents and sisters and nieces and nephews. The notion that any part of that rabbit would go to waste was frankly offensive; I winced when my 7-year-old niece left a few bites of foreleg on her plate. What was being shared was much more than meat, its price not something you could find on a tag. But still: It wasn’t something I knew how to explain. --------------------------------------------------

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Forest Foraging

Rewild Portland, 863-8462, rewildportland.com. Oh, and there’s also fruit in the forest. Rewild Portland offers trips into the puckerbrush to teach you how to find food in the woods. Sign up for Rewild’s mailing list to get a heads-up on class dates (and also be informed about truffle-tracking expeditions, squirrel-hunting and fire-making lessons, and the like.)

Share a Cow

Windy Acres Dairy Farm, 3320 NW Stahancyk Lane, Prineville, 541-447-5389, windyacresdairy.com. You can buy a share in a cow for a $50 one-time fee, then $53 a month for upkeep and boarding and such. Why would you do this? Because you get otherwise contraband unpasteurized milk, at a rate of one gallon a week, delivered to a drop site in Portland, unfettered by the FDA’s grubby little food manacles. What are they gonna say about it? It’s milk from your cow.

Adopt a Kid

K2 Farm, Ridgefield, Wash., 360-909-6377, k2farm.com. Chickens are passé. But never fear, there’s always next-wave home agriculture. You can get a pet or dairy goat, and as long as it’s a pygmy, the city of Portland will let you do it. But one thing: If you don’t get two so they can keep each other company, there’s no telling what it’ll do to your yard. $50 to reserve a kid at K2 farm.

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an anti-outdoorsman goes fishing for salvation. BY MATTHEW SIN GER

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It’s a drizzly Memorial Day morning, and I’m standing in calf-deep water in a Yamhill River tributary, searching for redemption. More literally, I am learning tenkara, the Japanese method of fly-fishing. This is odd, as I never learned the more familiar Western style, and also because, at a young age, I swore off the idea of fishing altogether. It is one of my most distinct childhood memories: I was around 8 years old, on my family’s annual summer vacation at a California park. (It could’ve been Sequoia or Yosemite or Lake Arrowhead—honestly, they all sort of meld into one big blur of playing Bubble Bobble in a cabin with my cousins.) My dad took my siblings and me fishing at a nearby creek. As I stood there, my line limply steeped in the shallow water, attracting nary a nibble, I watched as my then-4-yearold sister morphed into the guy on the Gorton’s box, emptying the river of seemingly every last trout. (In reality, she probably only caught two, but as I remember it, she was pulling in enough to stock a Long John Silver’s.) My ensuing jealousy soured me on not just fishing, but outdoor activity in general. Years later, in high school, I wrote an essay decrying fishing as a sport for morons working really hard to outsmart the only creature dumber than they were. As I’ve grown older, I have come to regret those comments. Now, at age 30, I am wading into the muck of Willamina Creek, rod in hand, as a gesture of atonement. In a way, this experi-

ence is about me letting go of the past, and moving toward a damper, muddier future. Jeff Gottfried wants to help me get there. He is, along with being the father of a friend of mine, the founder of Educational Recreational Adventures, a Portland nonprofit designed to foster in children positive experiences with nature, to keep them from maturing into cynical urbanites like me. Short and bespectacled, with a saltand-pepper beard and professorial demeanor, Gottfried is a walking natural-history encyclopedia and one of the only authorized teachers of tenkara in the state. It differs from the Western style of fly-fishing in its use of a light, retractable rod, which has no reel and a fixed line. As Gottfried explains it, he’s got a pretty good record with first-timers. That just convinces me that I am destined to spoil his batting average. When we arrive at around 10 am, the creek is roaring, and the overnight downpour has turned the usually clear water a murky brown. As we trudge down from the road in our waterproof boots and beige coveralls, accompanied by Athena, his steely-eyed Australian shepherd, Gottfried indicates that, given the conditions, perhaps I should be satisfied with merely learning how to cast. “It’s called fishing, not catching,” he reminds me. He instructs me to place the line in the water with two sharp flicks of the wrist, aiming for “zones of tranquility,” then yank the line in imitation of the delicate movements of an insect. As I’m listening to him, my line gets stuck in a tree. Delicacy ain’t exactly my thing. After a few minutes of practice, though, I get into a rhythm. I catch a few snags, get a bit tangled (“A bit tangled? That’s a fucking mess!” Gottfried laughs) and nearly lose the rod in the

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water at one point. But an hour in, Gottfried is complimenting my form and instincts. As it turns out, the constraints of tenkara agree with me. (When I try a regular rod and reel, I give the line too much slack, and the lure ends up hooked in my bootlace.) After a while, the repetition puts me in my own zone of tranquility. It’s not exactly Zen. It’s more like the prurient rush of repeatedly pulling the arm on a slot machine. Each cast is a new opportunity to cash in, and it’s less about the result than the thrill of the attempt. It’s a good thing, too: After about three hours, all I’ve caught is a lot of branches. Then, it happens. There’s a tug on the line, and this time, it’s actually something living. I see a scaly blur flopping out of the shallows, and I freak out a little bit. I honestly wasn’t prepared for this. I ask Gottfried what to do. I shuffle up the shore, tugging on the rod, until the creature wriggles close enough for Gottfried to snare it in a net: an 11-inch cutthroat trout. Part of me thinks it’s a bit silly. It’s illegal for me to eat this thing, and after three minutes of staring at it, we release it back to its miserable fish life. Is this all the payoff for four hours of effort? But another, deeper part of me feels an immense sense of satisfaction. After all, that fish took longer than just four hours to catch. For me, it took 20-plus years. In that time, I’ve evolved from a Southern California shut-in into a transplanted Oregonian willing—and able—to get all up in nature’s face. It’s proof that, as I stumble into my 30s, I don’t have to be the same person I was in my teens and 20s. I can change. I can grow. I can trick a fish into thinking I’m an insect. Then again, maybe I just feel like I finally one-upped my sister. Either way. --------------------------------------------------

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Wheeler Marina, 278 Marine Drive, Wheeler, 368-5780, wheelermarina.net. Fish outsmarting you? Looking to square off against a less wily creature? Located two hours west of Portland, Nehalem Bay is among the best spots for crabbing on the Oregon Coast. Just purchase a license (an annual permit is $7), drop a trap into the water, and those idiots crawl right in!

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I have no business with an ice ax. This realization pops into my stocking-hatted head only after I’m well above the treeline on Mount St. Helens, climbing a steep pile of mushy white snow. Every backpack I’ve had since a leatherbottomed JanSport has had a little nylon ice-ax loop on it, but I’ve never actually used one of these loops for its intended purpose. At the trailhead, I just slid the ax through the loop and started walking. Two hours later, the long, snowy stairway gets steeper, and the dangling handle starts banging my legs. I notice other climbers have carefully tied their axes to the side of their bags. This makes sense: If they slip and fall, the pointy end probably won’t stab them in the leg. I take a break, sucking thin air and tying the ax to my bag. I look back down at the treecanopied approach trail and up at the footsteps above me. I’m happy to see distant people in both directions. I wonder again if this was a good idea. St. Helens isn’t much of a mountain, really. I’ve climbed longer, steeper trails from trailheads higher than its peak. It is, however, glaciated. The glaciers are small—in July, you can make it to the top without touching snow. But they’re big enough to earn anyone who stands at the 8,365foot ridge above the crater—left smoking where it’s top used to be—membership in Portland’s Mazamas mountaineering club. The Mazamas formed in 1894 and have a clubhouse on the side 24

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of Mount Hood. I probably won’t pay $85 to join, but I want to know I can. Summer climbing permits are tough to get for St. Helens—only 100 are issued per day and both July and August are already sold out. I learn this in early May when there are only two weeks left before the limits begin. So I decide to buy a permit Thursday, rent an ice ax Friday and climb Saturday. Unfortunately, my mountaineering knowledge is limited to what I learned on the hilly part of the Trillium Lake snowshoe trail and what I gleaned from a few YouTube videos. A class would have been a good idea. But basic mountaineering classes run several weeks, cost at least $100, and end in the early spring. So I buy some Clif bars and set my alarm for 4:30 am. Two hours later, I arrive at the Lone Fir Cafe, the dingy little souvenir shop/pizzeria where climbers pick up their permits. The crowd there is indistinguishable from a Northwest Portland yoga class. On a wall hangs the most poetic headline The Oregonian has ever printed, “Eruption decapitates St. Helens; at least 9 die; Spirit Lake gone.” Below, random Route 66 paraphernalia, a pamphlet on huckleberry picking, and sunglasses for sale. The sunglasses are key, says the woman handing out permits: “We had one guy who came down with bright red eyes. He’d used suntan lotion all over his face, but his eyes were uncovered and the sun had burnt his eyeballs.” That sounds awful, but less so than the dangers of Mount Hood and Mount Adams, two other mountains I’d considered for my first snowy summit. “We’ve had two recent missions involving indi-

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viduals with extensive backpacking and hiking experience, but no climbing instruction, who chose to climb Mount Hood solo and into a deteriorating weather forecast,” Mark Morford of Portland Mountain Rescue tells me. “We’ve also rescued several climbers who had experience on hike-up mountains like Shasta and some Colorado 14ers, who believed they were prepared for Hood. Over and over, our missions involve climbers who simply underestimated the difficulty or risks.” Three hours in, I’m relatively certain I’m not such a person. A thick pack forms on the last half mile, and I start passing people. Half of us, like me, are in boots, the other half on Alpine touring skis. The snow gets mushier. Eventually, it’s like walking in a giant Slush Puppie. A few minutes after noon, I reach the top. As I enjoy a view of the smoking cinder cone and surrounding peaks, I watch as other hikers slide down the mountain on their butts. If snow is slightly harder to climb than rocks, sliding down like a sledder seems to make up for it. As it turns out, I need that ice ax after all. While I didn’t use it to hack my way up the mountain, the ax is the best way to steer or stop when glissading back down. I slide like this for an hour, walking only far enough to slide again, all the way back to the treeline. I’m having so much fun that I barely notice my boots have filled with slush. Before today, the gaiter grommets on my pants seemed as useless as ice-ax loops, but now I know why people wear them. My feet feel blue, so I stop to wring out my socks and warm my feet on a sun-baked rock. I relax a bit, though I don’t dare take off my sunglasses. I tie the ice ax to my backpack—where it belongs.

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Urban Climbs Hiking a snow-covered mountain is a lot like climbing a long, slushy staircase. The best way to prepare within the city limits? Climb some of Portland’s odd little stairways. This old, hilly city is riddled with sidewalk-sized staircases, relics of life here before the automobile made walking obsolete. Here are five of the best.

Southeast Ankeny Street to Laurelhurst Park

A grand staircase made entirely of red brick and lined with flowering rhododendrons, this stairway takes residents of Laurelhurst the neighborhood into Laurelhurst the park. The staircase is just east of the mansion at Southeast Ankeny Street and Floral Place, where it’s easy to park even on sunny Saturdays, making it a shortcut to the park’s less-populated west end.

Northeast Wisteria Drive and 42nd Avenue to Alameda Ridge

The steep hill known as Alameda Ridge is a gravel bar left over from an ancient flood. Several of the city’s larger stairways still stand there, lined with bushes, ivy and metal handrails. Park at Northeast Wisteria Drive and 42nd Avenue, and loop down the staircase at Stanton Street. The hill has about 100 feet of vertical gain, so 45 round-trip climbs is good training for St. Helens.

Mount Tabor

With 282 stairs, the Mount Tabor staircase that begins at Southeast 69th Avenue and Salmon Way is the biggest climb in the city grid. And one of the prettiest, too.

Northwest Thurman Street and Aspen Avenue

Private staircases line the upper reaches of Northwest Thurman Street, allowing residents of big houses on steep lots to get their mail. Tucked discreetly among them is one of the prettiest public staircases in Portland, a bamboo-canopied flight beginning between mailboxes for 3418 and 3424 NW Thurman St. and ending on a mesa in the Willamette Heights neighborhood.

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Southwest Broadway Drive and Hoffman Avenue

Start this long, steep wooden staircase in the Southwest hills at the top, where there’s parking. The journey down travels through a damp primordial forest thick with ferns.

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Summer Guide cont. ing when I finally stand up, my feet centered and abutting either side of the base of the mast. I teeter for a moment, my feet performing a quick jig before regaining their balance. My instructor, a lean woman far more athletic than myself, shows me how to use the uphaul line to pull the sail out of the water. She executes the task with painless fluidity. I don’t. I soon learn how to jibe and tack—the two turning maneuvers I will use if there’s any hope of me reaching dry land again—and how to “power up” by orienting my body with the sail. I tug the rose-red rig close to my body, a brawny gust of wind finally catching hold of my sail for a moment before the inevitable happens. I lose my balance, shifting the rig awry as the mast comes cannoning into my forehead and I do the premier backflop of the day. I shoulder the pain and scramble back on the board. The next time I power up is different. My board planes effortlessly across the top of the water, a gentle spray splashing my feet as I watch the kiteboarders and the tops of what look like commercial sand barges jetting above the embankment opposite me. I feel the pull of the wind, the natural element feeding my momentum, and I again wonder if this is anything like tube-riding the hollow curl of a wave back home. I dry off, thank my instructor and begin driving toward the ominous clouds looming over Portland’s skyline. For a moment it feels like I’m driving home from the beach of my youth. Instead of Jack Johnson, I listen to an old Modest Mouse record. ---------------------------------------------

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There’s a moment of calm before it takes me. I stand stagnant on the deck of the board as it gradually coasts atop the water and my body gently trembles from a sense of eagerness. I’m not quite prepared when the wave finally hits me from behind and propels me forward, but I manage to carve left and right regardless, a euphoric feeling washing over me as I do. It strikes me as surreal—as if man weren’t meant to harness this force—and I wonder if this was what it was like for my childhood friends. Having grown up in Southern California, I can’t recall how many times I’ve been asked if I surf in the mere seven months I’ve lived in Portland. My high-school friends were bleached-blond surf bums, their cars filled with the overbearing smell of saltwater and their rooms adorned with iconic surfer images of Andy Irons and Kelly Slater hitting the big swells outside Mavericks. Whereas I tended to nonchalantly sleep through first-period chemistry, they were up at the crack of dawn, shamelessly blasting Jack Johnson’s In Between Dreams while waxing their shortboards near the water’s edge. My first surfing experience instead comes in the Columbia Gorge. The 80-mile stretch of canyon has been a staple of the rugged Pacific Northwest landscape since the last ice age ended more than 10,000 years ago. Ancient 26

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floods made the Gorge a natural wind tunnel with steep basalt cliffs and stark differences in atmospheric pressure between the humid east and arid west ends. The Gorge is every bit the surfing mecca my hometown was, with big winds instead of big waves, and this time I’m going to try to enjoy it. So despite the torrential downpour in Portland, I make the hourlong trek to Hood River for my first windsurfing lesson in mid-May, barrelling down the adjacent interstate that runs east and west alongside the Columbia River. I meet my instructor at the “Hook,” a small sailing spot west of Hood River Waterfront Park at what proves to be the perfect training ground for a novice like me. We wait several minutes to no avail for the rest of my amateur cohorts to show up. The enclave’s murky-green water is separated from the rest of the river by a natural jetty, sheltering the spot from the harsh winds that lie beyond and coddling beginners who would surely beat themselves to a pulp on the open water. Wind speeds in the Gorge fluctuate between 15 and 35 mph, depending on the location, but the Hook is relatively mild. I throw on a skintight wetsuit before wading into the water at my instructor’s beckoning. The water in the Gorge is not as cold as I feared. First, we learn the anatomy of the windsurf board and rig comes: the nose, tail, daggerboard, uphaul line, mast, boom, clew and other components that are integral to the sport. They sound familiar, but I learn almost instantly that I have trouble keeping them straight as I mount the blue-and-white wide board. It’s both daunting and excit-

You can float the Clackamas or Sandy any weekend. At Portland’s third annual Big Float, you get to tube the Willamette through downtown with 2,000 other people before partying on a barge. Willamette River, Sunday, July 28. Register online. $7. All ages.

Buckman Swimming Pool

Portland’s always-under-threat pool features aquaerobics, swim lessons and the Blue Makos—which is actually just a kids swim team. Having a high-school-aged lifeguard yell at you for a cannonball never gets old. Buckman Arts Focus School, 320 SE 16 Ave., 823-3668. Open MondaySaturday. Check schedule at portlandoregon.gov. $4 adults, $3 youth, free for tots under 2.

Washougal River Swimming Holes

The Washougal River is lined with 12 or so blue pools less than an hour’s drive from Portland. Dougan Falls is the most popular, but other secluded spots hide amid the trees. Take Washington State Route 14E, turn on Salmon Falls Road, then Washougal River Road. Free. All ages.

North Clackamas Water Park

Wave pools and water slides are hard to come by in Oregon, but Clackamas’ only indoor water park contains both. You can even hit the 29-foot rock wall before channeling your inner Michael Phelps in the lap pool. North Clackamas Water Park, 7300 SE Harmony Road, Milwaukie, 5577873. Open daily. Prices vary based on activity. All ages.

Jet Boats

Jet boats! Willamette Jet Boat Excursions, 1945 SE Water Ave., 231-1532. 10:45 am-4:15 pm daily. $39 for adults, $25 for children.

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The Cascadian Campsite outfit yourself with cool gear from local companies.

3. Industrial Revolution UCO lantern

1. Fort George Stainless Steel Double Wall Growler

4. Snowminer headlamp/lantern

Available at: Fort George Brewery, 1483 Duane St., Astoria, 325-7468, fortgeorgebrewery.com ($20)

Available at: REI, Next Adventure, industrialrev.com ($19.99)

Candles give your campout a little more atmosphere than a harsh LED.

Available at: Snow Peak, 410 NW 14th Ave., 697-3330, snowpeak.com, ($55.95)

Beer, chili, beer, hot cocoa, beer— whatever you need 40 hot or cold ounces of, this vacuum-insulated growler will carry.

Snow Peak has made camping gear since 1958 and opened its first and only U.S. store here last fall. Its snowminer headlamp doubles as a lantern— hard to beat when you’re packing lightly.

2. Fetch Sunglasses

5. Gerber Fit Light Tool

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Available at: Gerber Gear, 14200 SW 72nd Ave., 855-544-0150, gerbergear.com ($41)

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If you had only one tool, this would be a good one. Gerber’s Fit Light Tool is a flashlight with nine other tools ready to fold out when needed. It’s a little heavy for its size but can do a lot.

6. Hungry Hikers

Available at: The Mountain Shop, 1510 NE 37th Ave., 545-8397, hungryhikers.com ($6.99-$8.99)

8. Columbia Sportswear Trail Turner Shell

Available at: Columbia Sportswear, 911 SW Broadway, 226-6800, columbia.com ($190) Hopefully you won’t need a jacket during your summer adventures—but we all know you’re smarter than to leave without it.

A two-person tent made with polyester rather than nylon, it’s one of the most spacious tents available for the ultralight packing weight of 3.5 pounds.

11. Keen Tilden Backpack

Available at: Keen Garage, 505 NW 13th Ave., 971-200-4040, keenfootwear.com ($100) A daypack with a spot for your Camelbak hydration system and a foam back that keeps you cool on the trail.

12. Danner Boots

9. Rambling Ravens Designs Coffey Chair

Available at: Danner Factory Store, 12021 NE Airport Way, 251-1111, and Made in Oregon stores, danner.com ($299.95)

7. Bridgeview Vineyard boxed wine

Designed specifically for backpackers, this 1-pound chair beats sitting on a rock for your entire camping trip.

Danner boots are commonly used by U.S. troops—if they can stand up in Afghanistan, the Northwest’s terrain probably won’t be much of a problem.

This easily transported 3-liter box of local wine is the equivalent of four bottles.

10. Six Moon Designs Lunar Duo Outfitter

A local version of dry backpacking grub. Add water to these pouches— like chicken pot pie or three sisters scramble—and cook them up after they’ve rehydrated.

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coffeychair.com ($94.99)

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Summer Events Calendar June Wednesday, June 19 Plan your summer

Read this calendar and plan the best summer of your life.

Thursday, June 20 See Weezer open a computer store

Rivers Cuomo is now an old creeper without a new record to promote—the band’s latest new work was called Hurley and was named after a character on an old TV program that prominently featured a coconut phone—so the band is opening a computer store. Pioneer Place Mall, 700 SW 5th Ave. Free. The show is Friday, but tickets will be distributed at 11 am Thursday.

Friday, June 21 Get drunk on cider

Lay off the hops for an afternoon. Cider Summit PDX, Elizabeth Caruthers Park, 3508 SW Moody Ave., cidersummitnw.com. 3-8 pm. Continues June 22 from noon-8 pm. $25 advance, $30 at door. 21+.

Saturday, June 22 Watch videos of cute cats on a big screen

The Internet Cat Video Fest is the Academy Awards of Internet cat videos. Who will take home a golden kitty? Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. The festival begins Friday, June 22, with showings both days at 7:30 pm and 9:30 pm. $10.

Sunday, June 23 Bike and swim around town

This two-wheeled endeavor is part of Pedalpalooza. Riders bike 10 to 15 miles in their bathing suits to a total of three pools. Bring a bike lock and towel. Contact Maria Schur for more information at bicyclekitty@gmail.com or 516-3034. Water Avenue Coffee, 1028 SE Water Ave. 1:30-6:30 pm. $12 for pool admission.

Tuesday, June 25 Identify your spirit animal

Maybe your spirit animal is a penguin, maybe it’s something that eats penguins. You’ll learn at this class, which covers meditation and animal totems. Your guides will also help you learn to more fully appreciate the “human experience.” New Renaissance Bookstore, 1338 NW 23rd Ave., 224-4929. 7-9 pm. $10. All ages.

Wednesday, June 26 Watch out for bridges and hop-ons

It’s no illusion—Portlanders are still celebrating the return of Arrested Development. Dress as your favorite character for this easy bike ride and then catch an episode or two of the show afterward. Frozen bananas provided. Oregon Park, Northeast Hoyt Street and 29th Avenue, shift2bikes. org. 8-10 pm. Free.

Thursday, June 27 Yell “Banzai!” and chug sake

You drink the first bottle of sake, but later bottles of sake drink you, according to an old Japanese proverb. Test more than 80 samples of local and Japanese sake with food samples and pairing advice. Tickets grant access to all food and drink samples. The Governor Hotel Heritage Ballroom, 614 SW 11th Ave., 224-3400. 6:30-9 pm. $50 advance, $60 at door. 21+.

Friday, June 28 Save the planet, drink beer

Because the only thing Portland likes more than good beer is good environmental policy, the Organic Brewers Festival comes back for a ninth year. Clink environmentally responsible cups and drink to the festival that claims to “Save the planet, one beer at a time.” Overlook Park, 1599 N Fremont St., naobf.org. Noon-9 pm. Festival continues June 29 from noon-9 pm and noon-5 pm Sunday. 21+.

Saturday, June 29 Sing “Wagon Wheel” with Old Crow Medicine Show at the Oregon Zoo

Rock me mama like a wagon wheel/Rock me mama anyway you feel/Heeeeeey, mama rock me. Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Road, zooconcerts.com. 7 pm. $32.50-$52.50.

Sunday, June 30 Sip tea with Queen Elizabeth

The Audience stars Helen freaking Mirren as Queen freaking Elizabeth, and it’s broadcast from London’s West End. You have plenty of time to spend outside this summer; go indoors today. World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St., 2351101. 2 and 7 pm. $15-$20.

July Monday, July 1 Ask an astronaut about pooping in space at OMSI’s Science Pub

NASA astronaut Don Pettit gabs about life on the International Space Station. Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 236-9234. 7 pm. $5 suggested.

Tuesday, July 2 Pretend you’re a musician

It’s what they call the ultimate “live band” experience, complete with pro gear, lights, sound and a catalog of more than 3,500 songs to choose from. It’s more than just a step up from air guitar or belligerent Chopsticks karaoke. Ground Kontrol, 511 NW Couch St., 7969364. 9 pm. Every Tuesday. $1 to play, $1 per song request. 21+.

Wednesday, July 3 See some kids play the blues

Mavis Staples and Robert Plant top the bill, but it’s young guns like Blind Boy Paxton and his knack for that early 20th-century sound that reminds us why we have an entire festival NASA

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Monday, June 24 Get your copy of Bad Monkey signed by Carl Hiaasen

A columnist and novelist known for blending dark humor into crime stories, Carl Hiaasen writes about greedy, corrupt people who get their comeuppance in Bad Monkey, which features a cop with a human arm in his freezer, a voodoo witch and, yes, a monkey of questionable moral fiber. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free. BOLDLY “GO” WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE: Poop in space Monday, July 1. 30

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revolving around the blues. Paxton is actually a blood relative of Robert Johnson. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, 1020 SW Naito Parkway, 227-2681. 7:30 pm. Noon WednesdaySunday. $50 and up. All ages.

Thursday, July 4 Go to Washington, buy fireworks, and set them off in Oregon

Fireworks are illegal in Oregon, but not across the river in Washington. For this reason, smuggling M-80s is an age-old tradition here. There are also sanctioned firework celebrations on the Willamette waterfront and at Oaks Park (7805 SE Oaks Park Way). America. Free. All day.

Friday, July 5 Laugh at Hooters jokes

Chelsea Lately has become the E! channel’s franchise, and comedian Fortune Feimster is a big reason why. The Los Angeles-based writer and semifinalist on Last Comic Standing is best known for her sketch comedy, but her improv and motivational speeches also showcase her skills. Expect to feel at home one minute and squirming the next. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 643-8669. 7:30 and 10 pm. $20-$25. 21+.

Saturday, July 6 Mosh to classical guitar

For most of us finger-splitting Metallica covers on classical guitar is a novelty. Mexico’s Rodrigo and Gabriela, former metalheads turned thunderous instrumental heavyweights, have made it their art. Known for their quick picking and lashing flamenco guitar, the husband-and-wife duo’s repertoire has become richer with each album release. McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, edgefieldconcerts.com. 6:30 pm. $39-$63.

Sunday, July 7 Go ape over the original King Kong

Jack Black and Adrien Brody? Pssh. The original King Kong— starring Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot, Robert Armstrong and a giant stop-motion animated monster—opened 80 years ago to critical acclaim in New York City. The special effects weren’t groundbreaking even then, but it’s a must-see. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. $6-8.

Monday, July 8 Enjoy the roses in full bloom

Originally designed as a safe haven for hybrid roses grown overseas during the Great War, the International Rose Test Garden houses more than 10,000 rose bushes spread across some 650 varieties. In late June and July, the flowers are in full bloom. International Rose Test Garden, 400 SW Kingston Ave. Open dawn to dusk. Free.

Tuesday, July 9 Try to convince some kids you’re the Crocodile Hunter

Come gawk at the Tolypeutes

matacus, which the Aztecs called “azotochtli,” Americans call “armadillos” and Texans call “breakfast.” Bring your TriMet voucher for an additional $1.50 off admission on this discount day. Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Road, 2261561. 9 am-6 pm. $2.50-$4.

Wednesday, July 10 Draw on some whiskers for Cats

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Broadway phenom, hopefully with lots of striped and furry spandex. Meow! Deb Fennell Auditorium, 9000 SW Durham Road, Tigard, 620-5262. 7:30 pm. Continues through July 21. $20-$37.

Thursday, July 11 Watch unicycle bike polo

Portland’s local unicycle club hosts a weekly polo game every Thursday of the month. They supply the equipment if you supply the unicycle. Alberta Park, 1905 NE Killingsworth St. 6:30 pm.

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Friday, July 12 Gorge yourself on berries

Your chance to taste and buy as many berries as your cobbler-loving, pie-making, jamcovered little heart desires. Also look for marionberry barbecue sauce, loganberry liqueur and blueberry soda. Ecotrust Building, 721 NW 9th Ave., Suite 200, 227-6225. Noon-6 pm. Festival continues July 13 from 11 am-4:30 pm. All ages. Free.

Saturday, July 13 Attend a giant block party

The Mississippi Street Fair has drawn 30,000 people, 200 vendors and 32 live bands between Fremont and Skidmore streets. Mississippi Street between Fremont and Skidmore streets, mississippiave.com. 9 am-10 pm. Free. All ages.

Sunday, July 14 Feel the literary love

The inventive and spunky Camille Cettina revives her solo show, in which she waxes rhapsodic about her unrequited literary crushes. Sure, Darcy’s a hunk, but it’s Cettina who’s the real charmer. CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 715-1114. 7:30 pm. $15.

Monday, July 15 Putt for par

Although you could hit this tasteful golf center’s full-sized course, we suggest taking the cheaper, easier 36-hole route. Have a few drinks and walk around wearing a polo. Keep an eye out for the water traps on hole 11—it’s a doozy. Eagle’s Landing, 10220 SE Causey Ave., Happy Valley. Open 9 am to dusk daily. $8 for 18 holes; $11 for 36 holes.

Tuesday, July 16 Learn how the bike evolved

Michael Embacher taps into his own extensive bike collection to showcase the evolution

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of bike design, with 40 bicycles ranging from mountain to single speed, tandem to urban. Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-2811. 10 am-5 pm. $12-$15. Exhibit continues through Sept. 8.

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Wednesday, July 17 Relive Sub Pop’s secondbestselling album of all time

Ten years ago, the Postal Service was kind of a big deal. Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard and Dntel’s Jimmy Tamborello released a single album before the project tapered off. Give Up, their collection of static-wash tunes, has appeared on television for everything from candy to shipping services that rival the actual U.S. Postal Service. Rose Garden, 1 N Center Court, Suite 150, 235-8771. 8 pm. $29.50$44.50. All ages.

Thursday, July 18 Enjoy an inexpensive music festival in North Plains

Camp in the woods, swig Wild Turkey from the bottle and complain about how pricey Pickathon has become before sets by Yonder Mountain String Band, Greensky Bluegrass, Shook Twins and Horse Feathers. Horning’s Hideout, 21277 NW Brunswick Canyon Road, North Plains, 647-2920. Thursday-Sunday. $135 and up. All ages.

Friday, July 19 Watch Bim Ditson dunk

It’s the 10th year of PDX Pop Now, and if you’re wondering what’s going on with the local music scene, this is usually a safe place to find out. This year’s lineup includes Ramona Falls, Pharcyde’s Slimkid3 and reigning Best New Band Shy Girls, as well as “Rigsketball,” a basketball tournament where 32 bands compete around a hoop bolted to the back of a van. Refuge PDX, 116 SE Yamhill St., pdxpopnow.com. Festival continues through July 21. Free. All ages.

Saturday, July 20 Go fish at Faraday Lake

Lounge around on the shores of Faraday Lake while you wait for a trout to take the bait. An easy one-hour ride just south of Estacada, the 26-acre reservoir offers bank-only fishing. Follow Highway 224 one mile south of Estacada, watch for sign to parking lot.

Sunday, July 21 Brave the brunch line at Screen Door

This will consume most of your day, and the meal will make you too hoggish to do anything afterward, anyway. Screen Door, 2337 E Burnside St., 5420880. screendoorrestaurant. com. Brunch 9 am-2:30 pm.

Monday, July 22 Chalk up and dyno to new heights

Portland is not renowned for outdoor rock climbing. Luckily, we have several great gyms, including two locations of the Circuit—one in Southwest, the other in Northeast—which are among the largest indoor

Karaoke 9pm nightly Hydro Pong Saturday night

Tuesdstaryy: Fun Indu Night!

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Tuesday, July 23 Check a book out of the library Commit to finishing it by September. multcolib.org.

Wednesday, July 24 Drink more beer

The Oregon Brewers Festival is the granddaddy of ’em all, with everyone from 10 Barrel to Widmer pouring suds under the sun. The festival continues through the weekend, but show up early before douchebags drink all the good stuff. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, oregonbrewfest.com. Festival continues through July 28. Noon-9 pm. Sunday, July 28, noon-7 pm. Free admission, $7 for a tasting cup, $1 per drink token. 21+.

Thursday, July 25 Watch Petruchio woo Kate in The Taming of the Shrew

We know there’s plenty of Shakespeare at the park, but Portland Shakespeare Project brings the Bard indoors for a production of the more than mildly misogynistic comedy. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 313-3048. 7:30 pm. Opens July 10, continues through Aug. 4. $20-$30.

Friday, July 26 See the theater of the future

Exciting in-progress works from playwrights across the country. This year’s lineup is unusually dark, featuring plays about mass murder at an apartment complex, a fire that destroys a young artist’s work and cruel McDonald’s managers. You get to fling comments at the playwrights afterward. Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. Free.

Saturday, July 27 Freak out with the Flaming Lips

If you were only going to go to Edgefield once all summer, this would be the night. Musically, the Lips peaked 14 years ago with The Soft Bulletin, but their stage shows seem to grow consistently more grandly weird with every tour. Expect inflatable things, laser things, floaty things and joyful, life-affirming racket. McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 669-8610. 6:30 pm. $42-$43.

Sunday, July 28 Float down the Willamette River on an inner tube

Starting at the Marquam Bridge and ending near the Hawthorne Bridge, this year is Portland’s third annual Big Float. If you haven’t yet taken a dip in the Willamette, now is a good time to do it—along with 2,000 others. Once your fingers turn all pruny, a beach party awaits, with food and live music on a barge. thebigfloat.com. $7.

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Monday, July 29 Cool off at the ice rink

What better way to cool down from the summer heat than with an ice slab, a disco ball and Top 40 hits? Lloyd Center, 2201 Lloyd Center, 288-6073, lloydcenterice.com. Times vary. $6.50 admission, $3.50 for skate rental.

Tuesday, July 30 See a 6,500-year-old corpse

The largest exhibit of mummies and mummy swag ever assembled for public viewing. OMSI, 1945 SW Water Ave., 797-4000. 9:30 am-7 pm. $13-$21.

Wednesday, July 31 Cheer for Portland’s other professional soccer team

The Portland Thorns’ opening game against FC Kansas City in April drew nearly 17,000 adoring fans—the largest crowd at any women’s pro soccer game in more than a dozen years. The rivalry with tonight’s foe, New Jersey’s Sky Blue FC, started early in the season. Jeld-Wen Field, 1844 SW Morrison St., 553-5400. 7:30 pm. $12 and up.

August Thursday, Aug. 1 Haul to Hillsboro for some gender-bending Shakespeare

Bag & Baggage consistently stages some of the quirkiest Shakespeare in town. Last summer brought a kabuki version of Titus Andronicus, and now Scott Palmer directs an all-female production of Julius Caesar. Tom Hughes Civic Center Plaza, 150 E Main St., Hillsboro, 345-9590. 7:30 pm. $18. Through Aug. 17.

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Pickathon is like the summer camp experience you never had. Amid the trees on Happy Valley’s Pendarvis Farm, the three-day festival touts some serious indie firepower (Feist, Kurt Vile, Andrew Bird), but it’s the smaller acts that make Pickathon a tour de force. Pendarvis Farm, 16581 SE Hagen Road, Happy Valley. Through Sunday. $260. All ages.

Saturday, Aug. 3 See another shrew get tamed at Kiss Me, Kate

The Cole Porter classic in which a theater company rehearses a musical version of the Bard’s The Taming of the Shrew. Clackamas Community College, Osterman Theatre, 19600 S Molalla Ave., 594-6047. 7:30 pm. $15-20. Through Aug. 25.

Sunday, Aug. 4 Live long and prosper in the park

This is the final frontier for Trek in the Park, which stages Star Trek episodes with live actors in St. Johns. “The Trouble With Tribbles” finds the Enterprise overflowing with Furbies. Cathedral Park, North Edison Street and Pittsburg Avenue, atomic-arts.org. Continues Saturdays and Sundays in August. 5 pm.

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The walk up Pill Hill to Oregon Health & Science University will definitely make your quads burn. The view on the free tram trip down is worth it.

Tuesday, Aug. 6 Face your fears at Helium Comedy Club’s amateur night

Portland’s comedy scene is so bustling it’s tough to make it onstage. But if you want a three-minute shot at being at being the next Louis C.K., this is the place to do it. Show up extra early to perform. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9 Ave., 643-8669. Signups 7-8 pm, show starts at 8 pm. Free for performers, two-item minimum for nonperformers. 18+.

Wednesday, Aug. 7 Learn about bowls

Have you ever thought twice about your cereal bowl? No? The Portland Museum of Contemporary Craft presents a showcase of different kinds of bowls, from the functional to the decorative to inspire thought about simple, everyday objects. Portland Museum of Contemporary Craft, 724 NW Davis St., 223-2654. 11 am-6 pm. Through Sept. 21. $4.

Thursday, Aug. 8 Watch Zelig under the stars

Blending new footage with doctored newsreels from the 1920s and ’30s, Woody Allen’s Zelig follows a character of the same name who becomes known as “the human chameleon” for his tendency to change his facial and vocal characteristics around differ-

ent groups of people. Atop the Hotel deLuxe parking structure, Southwest 15th Avenue and Yamhill Street, 221-1156. 8 pm.

Friday, Aug. 9 Taste samples from 120 restaurants

Bite of Oregon is a bit like Saturday at Costco—only these cups and skewers come from 120 local restaurants and food carts. Ticket prices haven’t been announced yet, but it’s cheaper than a $55 Costco membership. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, biteoforegon.com. Festival continues through Aug. 11.

Saturday, Aug. 10 Go to the beach

The hottest day ever recorded in Portland was Aug. 10, 1981. So this is exactly when you want to hit the beach.

Sunday, Aug. 11 Ride a bike across all of Portland’s bridges

One day a year, bikes get exclusive use of Portland’s bridges. If you’ve ever wanted to pedal across the top deck of the Fremont Bridge, this is your chance. bridgepedal.com. 6:30 am. $30-$40 for adults. Teams of four or more get $7 off per person.

Monday, Aug. 12 Watch some confused actors go crazy in Anonymous Theatre

Every year, a director casts and rehearses a show individually and in secrecy, with actors arriving to the performance in street clothes and only learning each other’s identities once the first line is uttered from the house. This year’s selection is Thornton Wilder’s allegorical The Skin of Our Teeth, which takes mankind through the Ice Age, visits from Moses and Homer, Noah’s flood and a crushing war. Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave., 3060870. 7 pm. $25.

Tuesday, Aug. 13 Visit Total Wine in Vancouver

It’s like Costco, but it sells only booze. Be sure to show your Oregon ID to avoid sales tax. 4816 NE Thurston Way, Vancouver, 360-885-7583. 9 am-10 pm.

Wednesday, Aug. 14 Make your best educated guess at OMSI trivia night

What’s the common name for NaCl? What politician recently announced he’s running for mayor of New York City? What are the names of the Mythbusters crew? Questions probably won’t be as easy as these, but if you know the answers you might stand a chance at OMSI’s trivia night. OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave., 7974000. 7-9 pm. Free. 21+.

Thursday, Aug. 15 Make up something on the spot at Curious Comedy’s Open Court

If we told you what to expect, then it wouldn’t be real improv. Experience not required. Curious Comedy Theater, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 7:15 pm. $5. All ages.

Friday, Aug. 16 Sing along with Danny and Sandy in Pioneer Square

“Summer days drifting away/ to, oh, oh, the summer nights.” Tell you more, did you say? Well, the 1978 classic Grease will play on a giant screen as everyone sings along. Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave. 7 pm. Free.

Saturday, Aug. 17 Watch adults race down Mount Tabor in a soap box

Adult men and women race intricately designed adultsized soapbox cars down an adult-sized hill fueled by adult beverages. Mount Tabor Park, soapboxracer.com. 10 am-4 pm. All ages. Free.

Sunday, Aug. 18 Picnic at Laurelhurst Park

Take it easy today. Throw some food in a basket, grab a blanket, and park yourself in the sun at one of Portland’s and oldest and grandest parks. Southeast Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard and Stark Street. 5 am-10:30 pm.

Monday, Aug. 19 Step into the Rock Bottom limelight

Rock Bottom Brewery’s open showcase is one of the best weekly open-mic nights around, featuring an artist spotlight and a lax competition where audience members vote for favorites. The showcase isn’t terribly eclectic, but guitar-toting singer-songwriters will feel right at home. Rock Bottom Brewery, 206 SW Morrison St., 796-2739. 9 pm signups, 9:30 pm show. Free. 21+.

Tuesday, Aug. 20 Float down the Tualatin River

The lazy, picturesque rivers that flow down mountains to the Columbia and out to the Pacific make Portland a great place to kayak. You can rent a boat starting at $20 from Alder Creek rentals and paddle through gentle rapids to see the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge from Browns Ferry Park. Alder Creek Kayak & Canoe Rentals at Browns Ferry Park, 5855 SW Nyberg Lane, Tualatin.

Wednesday, Aug. 21 Scream for ice cream

Unknown here just five years ago, Portland now has some of the nation’s best small-batch ice cream. We suggest a double scoop from Lovely’s Fifty-Fifty on Mississippi or Cool Moon across from Jamison Square. Lovely’s Fifty-Fifty, 4039 N Mississippi Ave. Cool Moon, 1105 NW Johnson St.

Thursday, Aug. 22 Pretend you’re Italian

Festa Italiana is a celebration of Italian-American heritage, which includes a raffle, pasta, creepy marionettes and someone who mastered all 8,800 accordion chords. Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave., festa-italiana.org. 11 am-11 pm through Saturday. Free.

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Friday, Aug. 23 Cheer on runners from Hood to Coast

Hood to Coast, the largest relay race in the world, includes 1,050 teams of 12 runners each racing between Timberline Lodge and the beach in Seaside. Spectators can watch along the Springwater Corridor trail. hoodtocoast.com.

Saturday, Aug. 24 Hike Eagle Creek Trail

Eagle Creek is one of the most accessible and spectacular hikes in the Columbia River Gorge. The moderategrade, rugged trail winds its way up a canyon, straddling sheer cliffs and waterfalls— before reaching wilderness at the 800-foot-elevation mark. Take exit 41 off Interstate 84. $5 recreation fee.

Sunday, Aug. 25 Support the Timbers from a bar

It’s not a home game, but do you really need an excuse to drink and root against the Seattle Sounders on a Sunday afternoon? The Station, 2703 NE Alberta St., 284-4491. 7 pm. Free. Minors allowed until 9:30 pm.

Monday, Aug. 26 Smell the flowers

Swan Island Dahlias in Canby hosts an annual dahlia festival, opening up its fields and two indoor rooms to show off more than 400 different flower arrangements. Swan Island Dahlias, 995 NW 22nd Ave, Canby, 266-7711. Aug. 24-Sept. 2. 10 am-6 pm. Free.

Tuesday, Aug. 27 Watch ballet for free in the park

Like an NFL training camp for dance, Oregon Ballet Theatre returns to Director Park for five days of public rehearsals for the fall season. Director Park, Southwest 9th Avenue and Yamhill Street, obt.org. Times vary. Free.

Wednesday, Aug. 28 Wear something nice

The biannual Fade to Light event and runway presentation is an outlet for aspiring, local fashionistas to show off new apparel collections. DJ Gregarious provides music. Crystal Ballroom, 332 W

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Friday, Aug. 30 Remind yourself why the original Shrek was awesome

Shrek the Third was terrible, but the original is now a classic. The movie starts at dusk, but show up early to catch River City Band and gorge on free popcorn. Alberta Park, Northeast 22nd Avenue and Killingsworth Street, 823-7529. 6:30 pm. Free. All ages.

Saturday, Aug. 31 Cop a feel at the drive-in

Things haven’t changed much in Newberg since Happy Days. Get some sense of what life was like for the Greatest Generation as you watch a blockbuster in the comfort of your own car. 99W Drive-In, Highway 99W west of Springbrook Road, Newberg.

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It’s 8:30 in the morning and I have to pee. This is a common problem, I know. For most people, it is easily solvable. For most of my own life, it was easily solvable. But now that I live in a van, it’s not. I peel back the piece of black fabric that keeps the sunlight at bay and try to figure out where the hell I am. I don’t entirely recognize the block where I’m parked, but in Portland it’s safe to assume I’m close to a coffee shop. I grab a clean shirt and the brown corduroy pants I’ve worn for the past three days and try not to shake the van too much as I get dressed: If the authorities were to happen upon a creaky old conversion van with a groggy, pantless man inside, they might want to talk. I slide out and head for Southeast Ankeny Street’s Crema. My bladder relieved and fresh coffee in my system, I start charging my electronics and finally begin the day. Finding a place to take your morning piss is just one of the little problems with not having a house that you don’t anticipate until you don’t have a house. The three most basic: Where do I shower? Where do my student-loan bills go? Where do I hang out until it’s time to sleep? It turns out the solution to all of these problems, like so many situations in life, is to look like you know what you’re doing. I’ll be honest: Personal hygiene has never been one of my top priorities. When I logged 45-hour weeks as a barista, I assumed the persistent aroma of coffee made daily showering a waste of time. Homelessness, however, comes with extra baggage. While it’s true I don’t have a house, I’m trying to avoid being a bum: I have no intention of begging for change, growing dreadlocks, adopting a pit bull or ending up “on the dole.” Keeping clean is the keystone of this plan. So my first trip to the Hollywood 24 Hour Fitness was pretty weird. My membership tour was conducted by an enthusiastic personal trainer eager to show off all the high-tech fitness gear put to good use by gym rats in neon clothing. He seemed confused when I asked him to

show me the showers. The trainer’s sales pitch kept rolling until he told me about the free towel service—done deal, I said. I’ve been there every day since. Ironically, I’m now cleaner than I ever was back when I had access to my own shower, and I even hit the stair machine when I’ve had a few too many Ol’ Dirty Bastards. The gym is usually packed, which makes it easy to get in and out in 10 minutes, totally unnoticed. The mail situation was a bit dicier. The United States Postal Service informed me that you cannot get a post office box without a local address. This confused me. Their reasoning has something to do with 9/11. Hopefully, the freedom-hating terrorists who wish our country harm do not go to the Yahoo vandwellers group, where they will find tips for identifying shipping-supply stores with lax requirements for mailboxes. I ended up at The Postal Annex on Northeast Broadway, where a car title and a driver’s license got me a box. The fact that the deed to my home/van still bore the information for my house/van’s previous owner didn’t slow the clerk. He went straight to the VIN number, scanned a few copies, and handed over keys to the new depository for my outstanding student-loan statements. While I was there, I printed off my résumé and headed back to the coffee shop/lavatory where my day began. Like many coffee joints in Portland, Crema closes early. I still feel weird about being the guy at the bar with a laptop, so I moved to Southeast Grind, a 24-hour shop on Southeast Powell Boulevard. A hodgepodge of loafers and grad students took up the table space, but I found a seat on the couch and spent the rest of the evening staring out the window as the crowd around me got progressively weirder. I went outside to get some fresh air and noticed an old VW bus with flower-printed drapes covering its windows. A Chevy conversion van with a similar getup was parked at the end of the next street. My people. This may be their living room. Actually, I suppose it’s our living room. I watched a few episodes of Arrested Development on the couch before packing up and heading home. The fallout of six cups of coffee was on its way, but I would be ready.

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128 NE 28th Ave., 517-0347, citystatediner.com. It’s neat and clean and a bit devoid of personality, but on Sunday mornings it enjoys a packed waiting list of scruffy, hungover 20-somethings—which you can credit to its location, or the sign on the sidewalk reading “Bacon Served All Day.” This nondescript Laurelhurst restaurant keeps its menu fairly standard, with typical brunch items, a slate of sandwiches and burgers, and a couple of requisite eyebrow-raisers—a Greek sausage scramble, hazelnut challah French toast—to justify its existence in Portland’s glutted brunch scene. The country-fried steak ($10.50) was dry and treated mostly as a gravy receptacle. The Louisiana crab hash ($12.50), while satisfying, was essentially a plate of scrambled crab cakes. It all came out of the kitchen before I had time to make any headway on my bloody mary, perhaps the diner’s most impressive trait. MATTHEW SINGER.

Penny Diner

410 SW Broadway, 228-7222, portlandpennydiner.com. Less an actual diner than it is an ode to the old-school New York diner as it lives on only in nostalgia-gauzed films set in the ’50s

and in the paintings of Edward Hopper, Penny is bright and clean and airy, with art deco “city” wallpaper. You order from the front counter, and eat at the back counter. Despite being owned by Vitaly Paley (Paley’s Place, Imperial), the Penny is serious about its dinerhood, and so the prices are negligible. The breakfast sandwiches are bizarre high-low hybrids, a bit like what happens when the French try to wear “punk” leather jackets but wear them far too well, and far too self-consciously. In the case of the PDXWT (a steal at $4.50), this is purest genius. Duck bologna, coffee mayo (seriously), sauerkraut (seriously), egg and American cheese (seriously) combine on fry bread to create the sloppiest, richest, most generous breakfast sandwich I have heretofore known. It doesn’t physically hold together, really—I had to eat a lot of the ingredients a la carte—but the coffee in the mayo made the flavor open out like a mouth; the sandwich is now what I imagine the French to eat at “comme les americains” diners in posher districts of Paris. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

Byways Cafe

1212 NW Glisan St., 221-0011, bywayscafe.com. Surrounded by national chains on a one-way stretch of Glisan that functions largely as a double-lane entrance ramp to the 405, Byways is clean, bright and patronized by white-collar types. Many of its decorations would be at home in a far grittier establishment, including glass cases decorated with vials of Mount St. Helens ash marked “May/18/80” on red punch label strips and a ceramic chicken with the phrase “spooning for you in Wyoming.” Byways looks exactly like the sort of place you’d expect to find grade-A grub served for loyal regulars and eager tourists. Unfortunately, our meal was a letdown. Toast was buttered so lightly we couldn’t tell it was buttered, and came without any pats to spread. Hash browns were salty, dry and crunchy. The vegetables and ham inside our Denver omelette ($8.95) weren’t cooked enough. Blue-corn pancakes ($8.25) are more like cornbread than familiar buttermilk-based hotcakes. MARTIN CIZMAR.

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Fort George’s Tender Loving Empire Northwest Pale Ale is named after the venerable Portland indie-pop record label and boutique, and it drinks the way many of the bands on the label sound: pleasant, well-made, unlikely to upset anyone. That might read like faint praise, but a middle-ofthe-road pale ale is welcome in an era when craft brewing is trending toward exponentially greater extremes. (Seriously, one of these days I expect to open a can and find nothing but tightly packed hop plants inside.) Sporting an IBU rating of “Just the Right Amount,” the Astoria brewery’s limited-edition seasonal has a light honey flavor, ideal for porch drinking, though the beer itself is less impressive than the lovely can design, or the four live performance videos accompanying its release (viewable at fortgeorgebrewery.com/tenderlovingempire). Like a Y La Bamba record, the most it will inspire is a polite head nod. But at the right time, in the right mood, it could be exactly what you want. Recommended. MATTHEW SINGER.

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GENTRIFYING KARAOKE: According to a liquor-license filing last week, the totally suite Voicebox karaoke lounge plans to double up with a 4,000-square-foot, eastside location in the old Spike’s auto garage space (726 SE 6th Ave.), next door to the planned site for Trifecta, Ken Forkish’s posh “bakery tavern.” That’s the second high-profile karaoke spot in that area this year. Blocks away, the Ambassador owners recently opened a massively expensive 8,000-square-foot karaoke palace called Trio Club (909 E Burnside St.), whose LED-dense interior looks sneakingly like the set of The X-Factor.

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INCOMING: Staff at the Modern Man told WW that the ultra-masculine barber shop, known for handing out whiskey with shaves and haircuts, plans to open a train-themed bar and restaurant (as yet unnamed) at its just-minted Mississippi Avenue location (3956 N Mississippi Ave.), featuring a ticket booth, caboose and curtained booths styled after passengertrain compartments. >> Meanwhile, Michael Wolfson and Peter Webb of the recently closed Yes and No plan to reboot the space this summer as a “bar and micro-venue” called Black Book (20 NW 3rd Ave.), after interior renovations and the addition of a rear patio. BROKEN EGGS: Even before he wrote a defense of Shari’s (page 43), Arts & Culture editor Martin Cizmar had been fielding angry remarks about his omelet-related writing. Several important people expressed disappointment with his statement that Bijou Cafe’s French-style omelets are “a little pale, soupy and light on the cheese for my taste.” Among the aggrieved was Beast chef Naomi Pomeroy, who tweeted that Cizmar “should also know that an omelet need not be browned, nor stuffed full of cheese to be good.” Cizmar would like to clarify that he considers Bijou’s omelets to be a very good example of the French style, which he does not prefer. CLICKY CLICKY: At wweek.com, we bid a fond Portland farewell to erstwhile music editor Casey Jarman, who will be taking over as the new managing editor of McSweeney’s terribly literate The Believer magazine in San Francisco, by posting our 10 favorite Jarman stories from his WW tenure. >> Also look for “Post-Hardcore Shuttle Stop,” our video from Sunday’s Warped Tour at the Expo Center loosely modeled after the VHS-era classic “Heavy Metal Parking Lot.” You’ll learn about the things kids are into today, which include a band called Hands Like Houses (“kinda like a techno—kind of—but with, you know, metal”) and something called Wall of Death (“The first Wall of Death I had, I got punched in the face and my tooth got chipped.”) >> WW music editor Matthew Singer posts his take on the 2013 PDX Pop Now lineup. 44

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WEDNESDAY JUNE 19 PANCAKE FILM FESTIVAL [MOVIES] Since its founding in 2007, this Illinois-based festival has been presenting stacks (geddit?) of short films made by flapjack fanatics. Tonight the fest visits Portland, with complimentary hotcakes for all. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 7 pm. $5.

THURSDAY JUNE 20 CLOSER ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL [MUSIC] Portland’s only multiday electronic music summit pulled off a major coup with Austrian house master John Tejada, who will debut his all-hardware set (read: no MacBook). Multiple venues. $35-$50. 21+. See closerpdx.com for schedule. Through June 23. COLIN STETSON [MUSIC] This Montreal-based experimentalist has collaborated with Tom Waits, Laurie Anderson and Bon Iver. He breathes life into the avantgarde by blowing into a massive bass saxophone. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $15. 21+.

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Tree climbing is an activity most often associated with children and barefoot hippies—two groups that wouldn’t stand a chance at this weekend’s Portland Regional Tree Climbing Competition. The Olympics for tree-climbing enthusiasts ever since the International Society of Arboriculture hosted the first official competition outside St. Louis in 1976, this climbing competition is dominated by professional arborists and has gotten serious with sophisticated rules, mandatory equipment and ever-evolving techniques. “It’s a chance for us to put away the chainsaws and the drudgery of everyday work,” says David Gaugel, a 44-year-old arborist running the Portland event. “We can simply do the parts of what THROWLINE: Climbers throw a thin nylon line tied to a shot bag through a series of hoops to install a climbing line high in the tree. The complex scoring system balances throwing time and target size.

BELAY SPEED CLIMB: A speed race up a predetermined, 60-foot route to hit a bell using the belay climbing method. “We never ever do it in real life,” says Gaugel, “but it’s just too fun.”

we do that are fun. Most of the guys in the industry love being outside—and they really love trees.” This weekend, Gaugel and about 30 other locals will scale 70-to-90-foot linden trees in Columbia Park in a five-part contest judged on criteria including speed, accuracy and fluidity. The weekend’s top performers will earn a shot at the international championship in Toronto, where they will meet the German tree master who has won nine of the last 14 titles. Any innocent bystanders in Columbia Park are likely to be very confused by the goings-on. We asked Gaugel to explain what competitors are doing with those ropes and dummies. BRANDON WIDDER.

SECURED FOOTLOCK: A 50-foot vertical ascent into the tree canopy using a Prusik loop or another approved hitch and the footlock ropeclimbing method. It’s basically like climbing a rope in gym class.

AERIAL RESCUE: A simulated job-site emergency in which contestants attempt to rescue an “injured” worker—usually played by a sand-filled dummy—safely lowering the dummy to the ground for make-believe medical attention.

WORK CLIMB: In this four-station event, contestants must ring a bell with a handsaw and a pole pruner, walk out on a limb without lowering it too far and toss branches onto targets below.

GO: The Pacific Northwest International Society of Arboriculture 2013 Portland Regional Tree Climbing Competition is at Columbia Park, North Lombard Street and Woolsey Avenue, on Saturday and Sunday, June 22-23. 7:30 am-5 pm. $60 to compete. pnwisa.org.

CIDER SUMMIT PDX [BOOZE] Cider has exploded in the three years since this festival began. Sample more than 60 ciders from around the world. Elizabeth Caruthers Park, 3508 SW Moody Ave. 3-8 pm Friday and noon-6 pm Saturday, June 21-22. $30. 21+. QUADRON [MUSIC] The heavily hyped Danish pop duo uses lush strings, organic drums and the lightly whipped vocals of singer Coco O to create a rich musical tapestry, full of soft colors and gentle harmonies. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE 39th Ave., 233-7100. 8 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

SATURDAY JUNE 22 EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL [THEATER] The musical adaptation of Sam Raimi’s cult hit returns, with severed limbs, chainsaws, shotguns, a gleefully rapey tree, zombies and a special plastic-lined Splatter Zone, for audience members looking to get sprayed with bloody goop. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 7 and 10:30 pm. $19-$34. OREGON PACIFIC RAILROAD TRAIN RIDE [CHOO-CHOO] See the city from vantage points few others have— along the freight-train railways in Southeast Portland. Oregon Pacific Railroad opens its rails to passengers for the first time this summer with its passenger ride days. Beginning near Oaks Park, the 40-minute ride travels north along the Willamette River, through Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge to a point near OMSI and back. Oaks Station, 7805 SE Oaks Park Way, 659-5452, oregonpacificrr.com. Noon-6 pm. $5-$10. Willamette Week JUNE 19, 2013 wweek.com

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 CSS, Ms Mr, IO Echo

[ELECTRO] Damn, we were sexy in 2006. Peaches was asking for her bush to be impeached, Klaxons were inciting nu-rave hookups, and CSS, comprising five sex-positive amateur musicians from São Paolo, was thrusting onstage in neon leotards. But, in the case of the latter, those leotards are now wearing thin, literally and figuratively. The band’s name, Cansei de Ser Sexy, translates as “tired of being sexy,” and the band now sounds so tired, it’s barely bothering to get out of bed. See its latest nonsensical party-rock single, “Hangover,” from this month’s Planta, featuring lead singer Lovefoxxx sing-shouting invectives at former bandmate Adriano Cintra, the only original member with any previous musical experience, who left the band in 2011, citing the others’ fame-inflated egos. MITCH LILLIE. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm. $22.50. All ages.

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[SOFT ROCKIN’ IT] It’s unfortunate the worst times in a musician’s life tend to give way to the best albums—an ironic circumstance that fans of Neil Young, Wilco and Josh Rouse know all too well. The latter singer-songwriter’s 2004 folk-pop album, Nashville, is a perfect example of love and life gone awry, captured in 10 nostalgic tracks that spin a lush web of acoustic guitar, waning harmonica and light percussion, coyly nodding to the warm pop undercurrents of the early ’80s. His latest release, The Happiness Waltz, might lean more toward ’70s saccharine soft rock, but the blissful keys still beam alongside Rouse’s breezy, jazzy vocals and polished pop inflections. BRANDON WIDDER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.

The Dandy Warhols, the Shivas

[PORTLAND INFAMOUS] Almost a decade after Dig!, the endlessly engrossing documentary in which Courtney Taylor-Taylor declared his Dandy Warhols “the most welladjusted band in America,” the Dandies are practically neck-and-neck with Everclear for the title of “Most Hated Band in Portland.” As far as I can tell, that’s mostly because, much like Art Alexakis, the band dared to dream bigger than the Rose City. Sure, Taylor-Taylor gives off a vibe of wellstudied rock-star assholishness, and the music borrows from past decades of rock-’n’-roll cool without earning any of that cred for itself, but it can’t be said that the group doesn’t know how to write a good tune. In fact, it has penned some great ones, most of which are contained on 2000’s Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia, which it will perform here—appropriately, in the year of the album’s 13th anniversary—in full. MATTHEW SINGER. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 7:30 pm. $22 advance, $25 day of show. 21+. The Dandy Warhols also play Wonder Ballroom on Thursday, June 20.

THURSDAY, JUNE 20 Grant Lee-Phillips, Gerald Collier

[QUIET-TIME ROCK] With his latest album, Walking in the Green Corn, Grant Lee Buffalo—namesake Grant Lee Phillips—mines his Native American roots in deeply personal meditations informed as much by his recent fatherhood as Mother Nature. Arrangements are lean and lovely, featuring little more than acoustic guitar and the troubadour’s honeyed voice, which he uses to contemplate life and its harvests. If the hypervisual nar-

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MUST-SEES AT CLOSER ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL John Tejada (Friday, Refuge) The meticulous, melodic house master (pictured) is bringing his allhardware (read: MacBook-free) set to Portland for its stateside debut. Eat your heart out, San Francisco. Masa Ueda (Friday, Refuge) Old-school Pacific Northwest techno-heads may remember Ueda from his days as one-third of ’90s breakbeat trio Energon Cube. These days, he’s the head of the Osaka-based Torque label, putting out hard-hitting machine techno from both sides of the Pacific. 214/J. Alvarez (Friday, Refuge) The Miami-via-Seattle producer was named one of XLR8R’s top new artists of 2012 thanks to his rigid sampling and booming synths inspired by the bass music of his hometown. Grown Folk (Saturday, Holocene) This Montreal production duo has certainly grown up fast. Though only together for two years, they craft precise, transcendent house and techno released through San Francisco-based “weird house” label Icee Hot. The Beat Broker (Saturday, Rotture) Most won’t like to dance to the Beat Broker’s Italo disco beats, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. Electro-house jams will be available, too. SEE IT: The Closer Electronic Music Festival is Thursday-Sunday, June 20-23. Multiple venues. $35-$50. 21+. See closerpdx.com for schedule.

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No one could ever mistake Desire Lines as anything but an album by Camera Obscura. All the identifiers are there: melodies meshing the chirp of ’60s radio pop and ’80s post-punk devilry, and the sparkling, instantly recognizable vocals of frontwoman Tracyanne Campbell. In many ways, though, this isn’t your typical LP by the Scottish quintet. Gone are the dense string and horn arrangements that turned the group’s otherwise straightforward tunes into Phil Spector-like layer cakes. In their place is... well, not much: just lots of open space to stretch out and curl up into. The idea wasn’t to render Camera Obscura unrecognizable from its previous work. These slight adjustments to the template were the product of a thoughtful band that was at a perfect place to shake things up a bit. The group has been working at a steady clip since its 2001 debut, Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi. Each successive album proved more popular than the last, bringing more demand for live performances. By the time it laid off the gas pedal, following months of touring in support of 2009’s My Maudlin Career, Camera Obscura was spent. Then, in 2011, keyboardist Carey Lander was diagnosed with cancer, news that left her bandmates reeling and reassessing their priorities. “I think it strengthened our resolve to get on with things,” says guitarist Kenny McKeeve. “As people’s lives started to develop and unpleasant things happened, we started to appreciate what we’ve got. It made us want to be back around each other and get on with it.” The first step the band took was to break out of the creative groove it had remained in for its last two albums, both of which were recorded in Sweden with producer Jari Haapalainen. Using a recommendation from friend and fan M. Ward, the group ended up calling upon Tucker Martine and his Portland studio tucked away amid warehouses along North Interstate Avenue.

“I always have to chuckle when artists whose work I really love and who I think I’d love to work with call and tell me they want to do something different,” says Martine, who’s previously worked with R.E.M., Sufjan Stevens and Spoon, among others. Again, the changes he and Camera Obscura chose weren’t over-the-top shifts but simple and elegant moves that helped bring out the band’s sense of collectiveness. “They decided not to do the thing they usually do,” Martine says, “which was to call in lots of outside help to finish the songs. That meant some band members were in roles they weren’t used to being in. I wanted them to feel like this record was the band, not the band plus a bunch of other people’s ideas.” As well, the goal was to help open up the new songs as much as possible. “We didn’t want everything so in your face,” McKeeve says. “We wanted gaps and pauses or moments where not much is happening beyond a keyboard part and some vocals, or just minimal guitar parts. Tucker gave us the space to experiment with some sounds and to tweak the settings and knobs a bit more.” Desire Lines still has the lush, bucolic feel that has marked Camera Obscura’s work from its formation in 1996, but with more keyboard melodies floating to the surface and some especially lovely backing vocals by Neko Case and My Morning Jacket’s Jim James. With this album completed, the band is now considering how to handle its future with more caution than it might have in the past. All the members have families to consider, and the group has to face a new but welcome challenge now that Campbell is pregnant with her first child. “That’s going to change things for everybody,” McKeeve says. “After we finish this tour of the states, we’re going to take a little more time out. Then we have to decide when we might be back touring and if we can find ways to make it possible with children in tow or not. The Camera Obscura Kindergarten would be a great thing if we could put it in place, but the practicality of that is a long ways off.” SEE IT: Camera Obscura plays Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., with Marissa Nadler, on Friday, June 21. 8 pm. $17.50 advance, $20 day of shows. All ages. Willamette Week JUNE 19, 2013 wweek.com

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ratives of “Great Horned Owls,” “Black Horses in a Yellow Sky” and “Bound to This World” seem to skirt granola, Phillips’ restrained songwriting—at once strippeddown and lush—makes for modern-day spirituals minus the sap. Ever the mystic, when Phillips observes, “All the world’s a rattlesnake waiting to unwind/All the world needs setting straight in its crooked mind” he still holds out hope in the elemental struggle between worship and worry. AMANDA SCHURR. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 7196055. 8 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

Torres, Lady Lamb the Beekeeper

[FEMALE FIRE] The two women sharing the stage at Bunk Bar this evening may approach pop music with drastically different aesthetics, but both have the power and emotion that can bring you to your knees. Aly Spaltro, aka Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, takes a more forceful tone these days. Originally a folk act, Spaltro’s new sound is much punchier, full of dynamic dime stops and dramatic volume swells. Torres, on the other hand, keeps things fairly level throughout her debut album. Yet, when she wraps her strong, crystalline voice around a melody, the effect leaves your head ringing with bliss. ROBERT HAM. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

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[FOLK] It’s been 17 years since releasing her debut album and six years after her last release of new material, and Patty Griffin can still chart in Billboard’s Top 40, as proven with last month’s American Kid, her seventh album. Griffin still packs a punch after all these years, even if she doesn’t have to belt out powerhouse vocals to get her point across. She mines the depths of her emotions and past with this moving record—a tribute to her

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late father—and continues her penchant for writing about the simultaneously beautiful and fragile nature of life. BRIAN PALMER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm. $29.50 advance, $32 day of show. 21+.

Colin Stetson, Justin Walter, Grammies

[SAXPERIMENTAL] To see a Colin Stetson show is to witness a feat of physical strength. The Montrealbased experimental saxophonist can hoist his massive bass saxophone to his lips with only the aid of a harness, employing circular breathing to play without pause for minutes on end, veins bulging from his forehead and his face turning unnatural hues. After a while, you start to get afraid he’ll pass out onstage. Your concern for Stetson’s well-being, though, won’t outweigh his desire to play on. A truly singular artist with a flair for breathing life into the avant-garde, Stetson has collaborated with the likes of Tom Waits, Arcade Fire and David Byrne, and broke out as a solo musician with 2011’s New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges. On that album, spoken-word interludes from Laurie Anderson provided a through line. For this spring’s Vol. 3: To See More Light, ethereal vocals from Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon fill that role. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $15. 21+.

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REUNION: COME Years active: 1990-2001, 2008, 2010-present. Sounds like: Television and the Stooges-inspired darkness, with dueling, strained guitar lines turning into a lascivious, bluesy and slightly drunken dance. Original members: All four: Thalia Zedek (vocals, guitar), Chris Brokaw (guitar, vocals), Sean O’Brien (bass), Arthur Johnson (drums). Who’s stoked: Folks who attended the touring version of Lollapalooza; people who feel the Stones reached their apex with Exile on Main St. Why the rest of you care: With dozens of other ’90s-era bands reuniting to great acclaim and profits, the ripple effect is finally stirring up interest in the groups overshadowed by the titans of the Alternative Nation years. During its initial run, Come certainly had its share of supporters, releasing four full-lengths on Matador and going on the road with Sonic Youth and Sugar. But with its overdriven, snaky guitars and Zedek’s beautifully weathered voice and desperate worldview, the Boston-based quartet had a sound that was too dangerously sexy to achieve crossover success. But listen to the darker moments of bands like Red Fang or experimental duo Barn Owl, and the impact that Come had on vibrant, emotional guitar music is still being felt today. Will it last? This current reunion tour is only to help drum up support for a reissue of the band’s debut, 1992’s 11:11. Plus, Zedek and Brokaw are already busy enough with their respective solo careers, so it seems doubtful Come will exist beyond this tour’s final date in Chicago. SEE IT: Come plays Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., with Rebecca Gates and the Consortium, and Sad Horse, on Friday, June 21. 9 pm. $15. 21+.

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PORTLAND JAZZ COMPOSERS ENSEMBLE THURSDAY, JUNE 20 [JAZZ] How will Portland jazz survive without Andrew Oliver? Since Hurricane Katrina blew the young pianist back to his hometown in 2005 after a few years at New Orleans’ Loyola University, he’s gigged and recorded several impressive CDs with his Andrew Oliver Sextet and Trio. He also founded, toured and recorded with the Kora Band, the CanadianAmerican sextet Tunnel Six, the avant-big band Sound for the Organization of Society, the Balkan brass band Krebsic Orkestar and several other duos, trios and quartets. Despite the remarkable variety of his many projects, they all swing, appealing to casual fans as much as hardcore jazzers. Now, as family commitments move him to London next month, Oliver leaves behind a pair of important Portland musical institutions: the Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble and its spinoff label, PJCE Records. “For me, it’s a great opportunity,” Oliver says of his impending transatlantic relocation. “I grew up here and I love it, and I’ve been able to do a fair amount of things here. But I’m excited to be able to participate in the thriving U.K. jazz scene and larger European scene, which has a tantalizingly well-established infrastructure for jazz.” PJCE grew out of the big band Oliver, Gus Slayton and other Portland State University jazz students played in and wrote for during college under the direction of Charley Gray. Since its first concert in 2007, the band has been a major creative generator of Portland jazz, giving four concerts a year, each showcasing several new compositions by its members. This month’s concert features works by one of today’s most important jazz composers, Dave Douglas, and originals by PJCE regulars Oliver, guitarist Dan Duval, pianist Ezra Weiss, Gray, Trio Subtonic’s Galen Clark and more. Oliver’s other main legacy, PJCE Records, will continue under the leadership of guitarist and longtime collaborator Duval. “I started the label to highlight the diversity and high quality of players in Portland,” Oliver says. “More than a lot of cities of its size, Portland has an extremely high caliber of players.” The plucky jazz label, which has already released seven excellent recordings in under a year, has begun to pick up some national reviews and will release a compilation in December. Though Oliver is excited about the prospects of exploring European jazz, and optimistic about the future of jazz in Portland, “we need to work on bridging the generation gap and bringing new people into jazz,” he says. “It’s been interesting that since I’ve been preparing to move, I get a lot of reactions from people who say, ‘You’ve done so much for the scene.’ I appreciate the sentiment and all the people who have supported me over the years, but I’m also at a loss as to how to get people to go out and see music. The quality of musicians in town is better than ever, and more good musicians are coming in every day. In the future, it’s going to take more organizational work to make it easier for people to get exposed to jazz.” BRETT CAMPBELL. Portland jazz bids farewell to one of its leading lights.

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FRIDAY-SUNDAY born Masekela has spent much of his 74 years bouncing around both the globe and the musical spectrum, introducing his remarkably expressive trumpet playing to a wide array of styles, from bop to pop to fusion to soul to funk. His greatest achievement is in connecting American jazz back to its African roots, which he accomplished most seminally with 1972’s Home Is Where the Music Is. Here, Masekela pairs with freewheeling pianist Larry Willis, whose partnership began with the Home sessions and stretches all the way up to last year’s Friends. MATTHEW SINGER. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $35. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

John Grant

[UNEASY LISTENING] After cutting his acclaimed solo debut, Queen of Denmark—reputable rock rag Mojo’s surprise 2010 Album of the Year—in Texas with mellow backing band Midlake, onetime Czars singer John Grant unexpectedly decamped to Reykjavík to record the follow-up with Biggi Veira, member of electro-poppers GusGus. Perhaps his decision was partly in reaction to some unfair backlash over Denmark’s alleged indebtedness to ’70s “soft rock.” While some of Pale Green Ghosts could be considered “uneasy listening,” Grant’s melodic ear and smooth voice—conjuring a sweeter Stephin Merritt—bely his dark lyrics. Reminiscent of Morrissey’s mordancy, with outlandish metaphors delivered straight-faced, they’re marred only slightly by his reflexive use of the F-word in seemingly every fucking song. JEFF ROSENBERG. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.

Quadron, Foreign Orange, Rap Class

[DANISH POP] Robin Hannibal, producer for Danish duo Quadron, is good at keeping things simple. He only adds a few layers to each of his beats, using a formula similar to a sample-based hip-hop producer, but each layer is gorgeous: humming, muted trumpets and flutes, lush string layers, organic drums. The guy truly understands the concept of “less is more.” Add in the lightly whipped vocals of Coco O, and you have a rich musical tapestry, full of soft colors and gentle harmonies. Quadron recently released its second album, Avalanche, which includes a single featuring Kendrick Lamar and a tribute track to Michael Jackson, but all the songs on the album are moody and warm, perfect for a summer night in Stumptown. REED JACKSON. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE 39th Ave., 233-7100. 8 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

Humungus, Gladius, Zirakzigil, DJ Nate C

[FANTASY METAL] This is only the second show for Zirakzigil, and there’s already national buzz building around the local trio, thanks to a new cassette release on Anthem Records. Battle of the Peak cleverly features a sleek design mimicking old Super Nintendo game boxes. Within the clamshell are three 15-minute progressive-metal treasures concerned with Gandalf the wizard. The three dudes in Zirakzigil are cousins and reportedly recorded these songs in one take in their garage. The strong Dungeons and Dragons aesthetic, combined with brave songwriting and the warts-and-all approach of Pentagram’s early recordings blends into one fabulous artifact, which sounds like Karp covering Blind Guardian. Recommended. NATHAN CARSON. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 7:30 pm. $5. 21+.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 22 Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

[MULTIGENRE ROCK] With a powerful voice comparable to Janis Joplin’s, Grace Potter and her bandmates craft a sound that ranges from ’60s-style rockers to soaring ballads to radio-ready pop rock. The quartet gained fame with its 2010 self-titled album, showcasing Potter’s versatility in moving easily from the attitudinal growls of “Paris (Ooh La La)” to the sweet croon of “Oasis.” For last year’s The Lion the Beast the Beat, the band teamed with producers Jim Scott (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Wilco) and the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach to show off its softer, more country-influenced side. KAITIE TODD. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8:30 pm. $25 advance, $30 day of show. 21+.

Bernhoft, Sun Rai

[SOUL GONE SOLO] The bigger the band, the bigger the bill. Norwegian soul singer Bernhoft knows this all too well. Though he toured successfully with his previous groups, Span and Explicit Lyrics, Bernhoft went bankrupt on tour with an eight-piece backing band, even after Ceramik City Chronicles, his solo debut, found success across Europe. Venues couldn’t afford him, and vice versa. His solution was to grab a loop pedal and take center stage with his silky, ardent voice, trademark blond pompadour and just a few instruments, delicately layering one atop the other. The resulting sound is so smooth, it’s easy to close your eyes and imagine some quartet from the 1930s has been transported to the present, given a couple Stevie Wonder albums to listen to in the green room and thrown onstage. MITCH LILLIE. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $15. 21+.

John Prine, Kendel Carson, Dustin Bentall

[BONA FIDE LEGEND] It may be easy to dub 66-year-old John Prine one of the quintessential folk singer-songwriters of the early ’70s, but wrapping the man’s legacy up in one title is difficult. The Illinois native has been jumping genres ever since Kris Kristofferson helped thrust his eponymous debut into the commercial limelight more than four decades ago. Whether it be the electrifying rockabilly punch of Pink Cadillac or the countrified swagger of German Afternoons, Prine’s poetic, often humorous wordplay has always carried his simple and reflective songwriting. The man is more than just stoner anthems and protest songs. BRANDON WIDDER. Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Road, 220-2789. 7 pm. $32.50-$52.50. All ages.

SUNDAY, JUNE 23 Ex-Cult, Lilacs and Champagne [GARAGE TERROR] It’s a good thing Memphis garage punks Ex-Cult dropped the “s” from the front of their name, because there’s nothing particularly sexy about the band’s steamrolling assault. Produced by Ty Segall to sound as if no one produced it at all, the group’s eponymous debut album is an unrelenting roil of blown-out guitars, bullet-train drums and snotty, faux-English vocals. It’s thrilling in that youthful, “let’s pogo and elbow each other in the spine” sort of way but lacks the hip-swiveling, grown-up grooviness of contemporaries like Thee Oh Sees. Lilacs and Champagne, the sampledelic side project of Grails members Emil Amos and Alex Hall, opens. MATTHEW SINGER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

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MONDAY, JUNE 24 Valleys, Weeknight

[SCANTY POP] While far from the first to do so, Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories reminds us how important the human element is to electronic music. But the machines can be trusted for some pretty pop sketches as well, as Montreal duo Valleys demonstrates with an unabashedly stark, hazy and highly mechanized sound. Drum loops, synths and moody guitars make latest effort Are You Going to Stand There and Talk Weird All Night much more straightforward than its title suggests. It’s mildly dark, technology-driven pop, hoisted to the heavens by breathy vocal gusts. MARK STOCK. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $8. 21+.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 25 Sister Mamie Foreskin, the Translucent Spiders, Consumer MP

[EXPERIMENTAL DUB] Dub is an oft-abused genre of music, with many bands trying and failing to capture the true devilish spirit of pioneers like King Tubby and Mad Professor. That’s what makes Sister Mamie Foreskin such an amazing project. The group doesn’t try to replicate the studio-based wizardry of the aforementioned producers. Instead, SMF builds new creations out of an experimental post-punk template, resulting in pitch-black creations that burble and spit like a particularly nasty witch’s brew. ROBERT HAM. Habesha, 801 NE Broadway, 287-5433. 9 pm. Donations suggested. 21+.

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THE BUILDERS AND THE BUTCHERS WESTERN MEDICINE (BADMAN) [APOCALYPTIC FOLK] The Builders and the Butchers’ fifth album is largely influenced by the postapocalyptic literature of Cormac McCarthy, and it shows: Western Medicine is just as cheerless as The Road. But the Butchers have always been at their best when relating tales of a world gone aflame, and Medicine hardly deviates from the doom and gloom of the band’s past efforts. The slow-burning opener, “Blood Runs Cold,” and the banjo-burgeoning “Watching the World” squirm with the group’s signature brooding despair. Other tracks, such as “The Snow” and “Pennies in the Well,” carry the same weight amid a cannonade of western guitar and Morricone-style trumpet. Despite the dreariness, the commanding “Redemption Sound” and the honky-tonk closer, “Take Me Home,” offer stirring relief in a dirty, gospel-like fashion, more apt for the aging saloons of Stephen King’s Dark Tower novels than No Country for Old Men. Still, there’s a certain beauty in darkness, and the Butchers play it well. BRANDON WIDDER.

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SEE IT: The Builders and the Butchers play Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., with Sons of Huns and River Giant, on Saturday, June 22. 9 pm. $15. 21+.

NATASHA KMETO CRISIS (DROPPING GEMS) [ELECTRO R&B] Natasha Kmeto can’t get no satisfaction, and it’s killing her. As a singer raised on both the come-ons of ’90s R&B and the all-night throb of house and trip-hop, the 30-year-old future-soul producer-songwriter can fog up windows without even trying. But her second album is called Crisis for a reason: Recorded in a year fraught with personal upheaval, the record doesn’t writhe in ecstasy so much as in the ache of being deprived of it. On her last two EPs, Kmeto pierced the glitched-out rhythms and Richter-shifting bass of modern EDM with vocal hooks straight off an Aaliyah greatest-hits set. Here, the beats feel hollowed out, infused with strobing synths, finger snaps and a blacklight moodiness worthy of the Italians Do It Better crew, and Kmeto fills the sparse atmosphere with striking directness, pleading for affection (“Take Out”), detachment (“Last Time”) and the time to get her shit together (“Idiot Proof”). Even “Morning Sex,” with its airy pianos and resting-heartbeat pulse, feels like an elegy to intimacy rather than a roll in postcoital bliss. Crisis is still the sexiest album that’ll come out of Portland this year, but the pleasure is wrapped in the pain of longing—which, of course, only makes it sexier. MATTHEW SINGER. SEE IT: Natasha Kmeto plays Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., with Grown Folk, Ben Tactic and Lincolnup, on Saturday, June 22. 9 pm. $5. 21+. Willamette Week JUNE 19, 2013 wweek.com

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JUNE 19-25 SAT. JUNE 22

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

5th Avenue Cinema

1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. The Must, King Ghidora, Outer Space Heaters

510 SW Hall St. Closer Festival: Marcus Fisher, wndfrm, Mike Jedlika, Sun Hammer, Open Marriage

Hawthorne Theatre

C O U R T E S Y O F T H E DA N DY WA R H O L S

1507 SE 39th Ave. QUADRON, Foreign Orange, Rap Class 221 NW 10th Ave. Soul to Soul: Thara Memory 426 SW Washington St. Throwing Shade

Mississippi Studios

Crystal Ballroom

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Come, Rebecca Gates and the Consortium, Sad Horse

1332 W Burnside St. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

Dante’s

Peter’s Room

350 W Burnside St. Spittin’ Cobras, Black Snake

8 NW 6th Ave. The Supervillains

Record Room

Doug Fir Lounge

8 NE Killingsworth St. Arctic Flowers, Street Eaters, Vicious Pleasures

830 E Burnside St. Bernhoft, Sun Rai

Duff’s Garage

Refuge

WED. JUNE 19 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Casey Neill

Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. James McMurtry, Denver

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Koji, Turnover, Ivy League, Have Mercy

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Stringed Migration

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. CSS, Ms Mr, IO Echo

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Josh Rouse, Field Report

East End

The Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave. UZ, Nathaniel Knows, Benny Rox, Gang $ign$

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Erotic City

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Do You Remember Rock ‘n’ Roll? Radio Show: Pat Kearns

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. The Dandy Warhols, The Shivas

THURS. JUNE 20 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Chris Mann

Alberta Rose Theatre

203 SE Grand Ave. Sawyer Family, No Good Lovers, Pitchfork Motorway

3000 NE Alberta St. Grant Lee-Phillips, Gerald Collier

Hawthorne Theatre

225 SW Ash St. Disenchanter, boneworm, Mammoth Salmon, Nagas

1507 SE 39th Ave. Luciano, Ikronik

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Mattress, XDS, Swahili, Grapefruit

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Tumblers

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. There Is No Mountain, Siren & the Sea, Sam Cooper

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Josh Rouse

Suki’s Bar & Grill 2401 SW 4th Ave. Positive Vibrations

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Arabesque Bellydance

The Elixir Lab

2738 NE Alberta St. Open Mic Nite

Ash Street Saloon

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Portland Youth Jazz Orchestra, The Funk n Groove Workshop Band, The Chris Baum Project

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Torres, Lady Lamb the Beekeeper

Club 21

2035 NE Glisan St. Shit Machine, Kurly Somthing, Bath Party

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Patty Griffin, Max Gomez

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. McTuff, Skerik on Sex

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. Emily Wells, 1939 Ensemble

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Endless Loop, Ask You In Gray, Stepkid

Foggy Notion

3416 N Lombard St. SistaFist, Music Band, Scavenger Cunt

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. Gums, Mighty Misc., The Architex

Hawthorne Theatre 1507 SE 39th Ave. Lion And The Mouse, So to Speak, We Are Alcohol, DJMutagen

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown B3 Group

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Matt Boney Band, Roselit Bone, Joseph Demaree, Zeb Dewar

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. toyboat toyboat toyboat, Holy Tentacles, Lord Master, Swingset Showdown

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Vagabond & Tramp, Fast Rattler, Harold’s IGA, Lewi Longmire & the Left Coast Roasters

Mission Theater and Pub

1624 NW Glisan St. Andrew Oliver’s Composer’s Ensemble

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Billy Strings, Don Julin, Air Show, Small Mammals

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Colin Stetson, Justin Walter, Grammies

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Dada Life, Jamie Meushaw, Way Way

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Wormbag, J E Double F, Grape Juice Scott, Whiskey’s Lament

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St.

The Cry, Los Headaches, No Tomorrow Boys

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Los Headaches, Vincent Black Shadow, Tom Jones, Erica Jones

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave. Ruby Pines, Anna & the Underbelly

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Paper Bird, Patrick Dethlefs, Will West and the Friendly Strangers

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. The Dandy Warhols, The Shivas

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. The Well, The Hand That Bleeds, Pink Slip

Sleep Country Amphitheater

1635 SE 7th Ave. Midnight Serenaders

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Drunk Dad, R.I.P., Terminal Fuzz, Sioux

1507 SE 39th Ave. Henry Phillips, Anthony Lopez, Stephanie Purtie

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Natasha Kmeto, Grown Folk, Ben Tactic

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. The Hague, We’re From Japan, Us On Roofs, Boys

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Aranya, Fever

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Ruby Feathers, Deception Past, James Low Western Front, Slaughter Daughters

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Coffis Brothers, Temporary Lesbian Bar

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Builders & The Butchers, Sons of Huns, River Giant

Oregon Zoo

4001 SW Canyon Road John Prine, Kendel Carson, Dustin Bentall

Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Sonny Hess

Peter’s Room

8 NW 6th Ave. Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown

Record Room

8 NE Killingsworth St. Raw Nerves, Gay Kiss, Cower

Refuge

116 SE Yamhill St. Closer Festival: Lars Behrenroth, Monty Luke, Audioelectronic, Micah McNelly, Nonfiction, Mercedes, The Architects, Missy B, Etbonz, Acid Farm, Scifi Sol, Nathan Detroit, Sonik

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Cody Simpson, Ryan Beatty, Before You Exit

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Bloodtypes, Stalins of Sound, Sex Crime, The Last 45’s

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FLASHBACK: The Dandy Warhols at the 2003 Rock am Ring Festival in Nurberg, Germany. Read frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor’s memories of playing in front of 50,000 Germans at wweek.com. The Dandy Warhols play Wonder Ballroom on Wednesday and Thursday, June 19-20.

116 SE Yamhill St. Closer Festival: John Tejada, J. Alvarez, Bryan Zentz, Masa Ueda, Centrikal, Alter Echo, Jon AD, Monkeytek, Ryan Organ, Senseone, the Dirtmerchant, Kontagious, Aksion, Minds Eye, Elementary, George of the Jungle, Blast Radius, Bomb Shel, Miss Ill, Desero, Ewok

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

Hawthorne Theatre

115 NW 5th Ave. Geoff Rickly, Vinnie Caruana, His Name Shall Breathe

2025 N Kilpatrick St. System & Station, Animal R & R, Northern

4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Hot Club Time Machine

Ash Street Saloon

Backspace

Kenton Club

Hawthorne Hophouse

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. R Prophet 225 SW Ash St. Original Middle Age Ska Enjoy Club, 2000 Tons of TNT, Ottly Mercer, DJ Mikey Oh

Kelly’s Olympian

2845 SE Stark St. Dusu Mali

1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. Canoofle, Eric Smith, Adrian Wakeling

Alhambra Theatre

Jimmy Mak’s

Goodfoot Lounge

17200 NE Delfel Road, Ridgefield, Wash. Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bad Company

The Analog

720 SE Hawthorne Path To Ruin, Terraclispe, Separation of Sanity, Nemesis, the Supression

The Firkin Tavern

FRI. JUNE 21 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Hugh Masekela, Larry Willis

Alberta Rose Theatre

3000 NE Alberta St. Gina Sicilia, Karen Lovely

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Mosby, The Fail Safe Project, December In Red, Riverpool

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. The Gallery, Dylan Jakobsen, Bike Thief, The Toy Gun Conspiracy

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ocean

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Camera Obscura, Marissa Nadler

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Water Liars, Reckless In Vegas, Jon Davidson

1937 SE 11th Ave. Autonomics, Sweeping Exits, This Place Isn’t So Bad, Cambrian Explosion

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Humungus, Gladius, Zirakzigil, DJ Nate C

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Dangerous Boys Club, Musique Plastique, DJ Sharpie

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway The Choices, Red Planet Rebels, Seth Myzel

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Yur Daddy, Dark Matter Transfer

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Tony Starlight

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Ellen Whyte and the Plus Size Band

White Eagle Saloon

Doug Fir Lounge

836 N Russell St. New Transit, James Dean Kindle and the Eastern Oregon Playboys

East End

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar

830 E Burnside St. John Grant

203 SE Grand Ave. Blood of Kings, Tanagra, Sarcalogos

800 NW 6th Ave. Randy Porter Trio

COME ALL YE FAITHFUL: The sign in front of Church (2600 NE Sandy Blvd., 206-8962, churchbarpdx.com) says “Eat. Drink. Repent,” but they’ve got it all wrong. If you’re Catholic, at least— the borrowing place for a lot of the bar’s iconography—church is where you drink for salvation. And the bar does indeed have its saving graces. With its loosely themed knickknacks, even more loosely matched wood and decadent Southern comfort-food menu, the bar would not be out of place on Southeast Belmont or Division streets, nor would bartenders who all put their hair clippers on setting 3. But on Northeast Sandy Boulevard, across from the Pepsi factory and next to the back clinic, it is an incongruous and welcome respite. During happy hour, there is a plate of three tender ribs slathered in house barbecue sauce for a mere $5; the $3 wells ($4 after 6 pm) are Burnett’s gin, Monopolowa vodka and Evan Williams bourbon; and the airy house punch is always $4. The bar is weirdly short on beer taps but has a fine selection of reasonably priced whiskey, with midpriced craft cocktails heavy on same. You’d have to be a bit desperate for exhaust-pipe black lung to hit up the industrial-district patio seating during rush hour, but still: The late sun streams as brightly and warmly through the massive windows as through any stained glass. Though it is a neighborhood bar in no neighborhood at all, it’ll likely still gather a congregation. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Willamette Week JUNE 19, 2013 wweek.com

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MUSIC CALENDAR Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. Youthbitch, Los Headaches, No Tomorrow Boys

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Bloodbirds, Summer Cannibals, Silent Numbers

White Owl Social Club

1305 SE 8th Ave. Big Business, The Bugs, Selector Mancampus

SUN. JUNE 23 Bunk Bar

832 SE Grand Ave. Salsa: DJ Alberton

Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Doug Ferious

Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St. Swing Wednesday

Star Bar

Classic Pianos Recital Hall

1937 SE 11th Ave. Eye Candy VJs

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Grace Potter & The Nocturnals

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Hannah Glavor & the Family Band, Annie Bethancourt, Evan Way

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Ex-Cult, Lilacs and Champagne (9 pm

Peter’s Room

8 NW 6th Ave. Krizz Kaliko, Steve Stone, Mayday, Cool Nutz

Rontoms

600 E Burnside St. Minden, Yours

Sellwood Riverfront Park Southeast Spokane Street and Southeast Oaks Parkway Closer Festival: JAK, Jacaranda, David Solmes, Jaironaut, Pipedream

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Young Turks, Plagues, Griever, The Harrowing

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave. SaBella LaVallee

MON. JUNE 24

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Chris Crusher

The Firkin Tavern

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Event Horizon: DJ Straylight, DJ Backlash

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Ganz Genau

Vie de Boheme

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

Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Jed Bindeman

Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJs Def Ro and Suga Shane

Crush

1400 SE Morrison St Closer Festival: Ctrl_Alt_Dlt, Mario-Maroto, Art of Hot, Mena

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Night Moves: Sex Life DJs, Cooky Parker, Beat Electric DJs

Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St. Limelight Dance Millennium

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Barrett

The Rose

111 SW Ash St. Club Chemtrail: DJ NA, Kaj-Anne Pepper, Massacooramaan, SPF666

Tiga

Doug Fir Lounge

Valentine’s

830 E Burnside St. Frankmusik, Ride the Universe, Magic Mouth

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. A Wilhelm Scream, The Flatliners, Such Gold, Burn The Stage

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Valleys, Weeknight

TUES. JUNE 25 Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Billions & Billions, Valkyrie Rodeo

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Domino & the Derelicts, Vacillators, The Disliked

Habesha

801 NE Broadway Sister Mamie Foreskin, the Translucent Spiders, Consumer MP

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Gaytheist, Baby Gurl, Yak Tooth

The Whiskey Bar 31 NW 1st Ave. Foreign Beggars, TRIAGE, KELLAN

Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St. 80s Video Dance Attack

Moloko Plus

3967 N Mississippi Ave DJ Maxamillion

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Shutup&dance: DJ Gregarious, DJ Disorder

The Rose

111 SW Ash St. Closer Festival: Jamar Hughes, Matt E Star, Richie Staxx, Michael Gabriel

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Ramophone

White Owl Social Club 1305 SE 8th Ave. DJ Jessicat

SAT. JUNE 22 Beech St. Parlor

412 NE Beech St. Lord Smithingham

Berbati’s

THURS. JUNE 20

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Karaoke From Hell

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WED. JUNE 19 Andrea’s Cha Cha Club

1028 SE Water Ave. Ruby Feathers, Anders & Kendall, Kelly Blair Bauman

3003 SE Milwaukie Ave. Olá Sol!: Choro da Alegria, Variegados

JUNE 19-25

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Nate C 232 SW Ankeny St. 4X4 DJ Night

White Owl Social Club 1305 SE 8th Ave. DJ SmoothHopperator

FRI. JUNE 21 BC’s Restaurant

2433 SE Powell Blvd. Activate: DJ Dot, Trevor Vichas

Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Jaeho

Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. Cloud City Collective

Beulahland

118 NE 28th Ave DJ Nik Fury

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Jai Ho!: Ooh La Latin

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Fetish Friday with DJ Jakob Jay

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Mellow Cee

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Revolution with DJ Robb

The Rose

111 SW Ash St. Closer Festival: Mr. Nicewonger, Jed Black, DJ Tronic, Suff-X, Dylan Gouty

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Womb Service

SUN. JUNE 23 Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Linkus EDM

Grand Central Bowl 808 SE Morrison St. DJ North

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. Off the Cuff: DJ Nature

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Night Moves: DJ Acid Rick, Alan Park

MON. JUNE 24 Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ No Regrets

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Maniac Monday with DJ Robb

The Lovecraft

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

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Hornet Leg

TUES. JUNE 25 Beech St. Parlor

412 NE Beech St. DJ Hot Sauce Mechanic

Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Aurora

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Girltopia with DJ Alicious

Eagle Portland

Goodfoot Lounge

835 N Lombard St DMTV with DJ Danimal

Holocene

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Austin Paradise

2845 SE Stark St. DJ Aquaman’s Soul Stew 1001 SE Morrison St. Rockbox: Matt Nelkin, DJ Kez

Star Bar

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Golden Wilson

JUNE 19–25

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

THEATER The Addams Family

Broadway Across America brings the macabre musical comedy to Portland.. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 800-745-3000. 7:30 pm TuesdayFriday, 2 pm and 7:30 pm Saturday and 1 pm and 6:30 pm Sunday, June 25-30. $28.75-$68.75.

Antony and Cleopatra

HumanBeingCurious Productions stages 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 adult puppet musical. Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd., 239-5919. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays through June 29. $15-$35.

Back Fence PDX

Two nights of stories from a variety of tellers. For Thursday’s Russian roulette-themed show at Disjecta (8371 N Interstate Ave.), storytellers will spin a wheel to receive a prompt for a fiveminute story, which they must tell on the spot. On Friday at the Mission Theater (1624 NW Glisan St.), a mix of storytellers will weave tales about their anxieties and phobias. Multiple venues. 8 pm Thursday-Friday, June 20-21. $12.50-$20.

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. Staged in a private home on East Burnside Street, an audience of roughly a dozen lines the walls of a midcenturydesigned living room. 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. While many parts of The Boys in the Band are relevant today, others—the shame, the self-hate, the blame on an overbearing mother—are quickly becoming vestiges of a more tortured time. Perhaps gay culture is fleeting, and perhaps that’s good. Maybe years from now, the next generation will watch Will and Grace reruns and imagine how different things used to be. AARON SPENCER. 3125 E Burnside St., 481-2960. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Sundays 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. 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), an anxious misfit who also works at the Hobby Lobby. 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. 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.

Comedy of Errors

The Original Practice Shakespeare Festival—which performs in parks with minimal rehearsal and casts actors in different roles for each afternoon— takes on one of the Bard’s most slapstick-y comedies. Multiple locations, 890-6944. Various Saturdays and Sundays through Sept. 29; see opsfest. org for exact times and dates. Free.

Evil Dead: The Musical

Sam Raimi’s cult hit, with all its chainsaws, shotguns and dismembered limbs—and now set to music. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 7 pm and 10:30 pm Friday-Saturday, June 21-22. $19-$34.

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 Monday, June 24. $12-$15 suggested.

Invasion!

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 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. 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 Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through June 29. $15-$20.

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. 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 oftenheard 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, and it’s not hard to sympathize with Lanie’s pain. PENELOPE BASS. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Sundays, 2 pm Sundays through June 30. $25-$50.

J.A.W.Z. the Musical in 3-D

It’s not entirely clear what the Saloon Ensemble has planned with this adaptation of the Steven Spielberg blockbuster, but the prospect of sharks singing, dancing and cracking wise has us both wary and intrigued. Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St., 238-8899. 9:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 3:30 pm Sunday, June 20-23. $10-$15.

The Mystery Box Show

The sex-themed storytelling show returns with more stories of kink, fantasy and embarrassment. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 10 pm Saturday, June 22. $10-$12.

NT Live: The Audience

It’s Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth, broadcast in high-def from London’s National Theatre. World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St., 235-1101. 2 pm and 7 pm Saturdays-Sundays through June 30. $15-$20.

NT Live: This House

The series of high-def broadcasts from London’s National Theatre 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 take the stage for Jennifer Haley’s nightmarishly absurd play, in which the worlds of suburbia and video games begin to blur. Portland Actors Conservatory, 1436 SW Montgomery St., 715-1114. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Saturdays-Sundays through June 23. $15.

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

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PREVIEW D AV I D C O O P E R

PERFORMANCE

I BELIEVE I CAN FLY: Dancer Josh Martin.

RISK/REWARD FESTIVAL Think of the Risk/Reward Festival as speed dating for contemporary performance. In one night, you’re introduced to six performers. Each has a different way of moving, of grooving, of talking, of acting—of trying to entice you. And each has only 20 minutes to do so. Liked what you saw? Keep the artist on your radar. Wanted to crawl away? At least it was two minutes shorter than a sitcom episode. Since the festival began six years ago, it’s provided Portlanders a glimpse of some of the West Coast’s most dynamic new work. Because all the artists perform each night, there’s none of the picking and choosing that other festivals require. Still, it’s never certain what exactly performers will present until the stage lights go up. “There have been some hot messes,” concedes festival director Jerry Tischleder. This weekend, that seems unlikely. Here’s a primer. REBECCA JACOBSON.

A salad bar of boundarypushing performance.

Josh Martin: The co-artistic director of the Vancouver, B.C., 605 Collective is “super hot shit right now in the dance scene,” Tischleder says. Martin’s solo piece imagines that each part of the body has a separate memory bank, which it doesn’t readily share with the mind. That premise seems to fit Martin’s phenomenal isolation skills—when reviewing submissions, Tischleder said several panelists thought the video had been manipulated, because Martin’s movements were so uncanny. Wayne Bund: Well-known on the Portland drag scene as his alter-ego Feyonce, Bund is venturing off the cabaret stage to explore the lineage of drag-pop divas, in particular drag’s appropriation of ’70s black culture. “I feel like he’s having this existential crisis about being a drag queen,” Tischleder says. “Is it art? Is it camp?” Satori Group: The Seattle theater group, known for using technology to create rich onstage worlds, collaborates with San Francisco folk duo the Bengsons for a musically charged show. “They’re starting with the idea that we’re all refugees from a society of violence,” Tischleder says. Shannon Stewart: An athletic and precise dancer who’s appeared locally with the now-defunct tEEth, Stewart is presenting a strippeddown work, which she calls an ensemble piece performed as a solo. “I’m not sure what that means,” Tischleder says. The piece will tackle the challenge of balancing economic concerns and artistic ambitions. LanceLife: Portlanders Wallace Fessler and Joshua David Fisher made a name for themselves with the talk-show parody The Famous Mysterious Actor Show, and their latest project spoofs motivational speeches and self-help seminars. “These guys are working on the edge of comedy and performance art,” says Tischleder. “It’s not all satire. They’re really digging into our culture of winning and this idea that there are all these experts out there who can tell you how to live your life.” AJA: The first thing to know about this new Seattle group is that the A’s in its name are silent. Roll your eyes, but then zero back in on these young, multidisciplinary performers for slugs do it real slow and pretty, an exploration of flirting, heavy petting, first kisses and one-night stands—including a vignette in which all eight cast members share the same piece of dental floss. “It’s an incredible scene,” Tischleder says. SEE IT: Risk/Reward is at Artists Repertory, 1516 SW Alder St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday, 5 pm Sunday, June 21-23. $14-$20. Willamette Week JUNE 19, 2013 wweek.com

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JUNE 19–25

those on The Real World but still not meaty enough to carry the performance. 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.

Pocket Pulp: Sci-Fi Night

The Pulp Stage Theatre Company presents stripped-down, dramatic readings of eight short sci-fi stories. Jack London Bar, 529 SW 4th Ave., 228-7605. 7:30 pm Thursday, June 20. Free, $5 suggested.

Somewhere in Time

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. Gazing at her, 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 oldfashioned, which will thrill some and kill it for others. Based on Richard Matheson’s 1975 novel and the 1980 film adaptation, Somewhere in Time follows Richard, a playwright, as he transports himself to 1912. There, he meets the 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). Director Scott Schwartz harnesses fine performances from the large ensemble of out-of-towners and locals. The songs, a mix of dreamy ballads and spunky numbers, are enjoyable. But the emphasis on Richard’s brain tumor is misguided. While it provides urgency, 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. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Sundays, 2 pm Saturdays-Sundays, noon Thursdays through June 30. $30-$70.

Threads

A one-woman show by Tonya Jone Miller about her mother’s experiences growing up in Vietnam in the ’60s and ’70s. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 715-1114. 7:30 pm Thursday-Sunday, June 20-23.

COMEDY & VARIETY Auggie Smith

The Portlander takes the Helium mic for some high-energy ranting. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 pm and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, June 20-22. $15-$25.

Comedy is OK

Standup from Ian Karmel and Barbara Holm, music by DJ Zack and some sort of theatrical riff on Space Jam. Valentine’s, 232 SW Ankeny St., 248-1600. 9:30 pm Saturday, June 22. Free.

State Fair of the Union

An original sketch revue that takes aim at the American dream, consumerist fantasies and relationships. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays through Nov. 23. $12-$15.

Two Houses

An improvised romance culminating

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INVASION! in a wedding. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Saturdays through July 6. $10-$12.

CLASSICAL Classical Revolution PDX Summer Showcase

Since igniting in San Francisco in 2006, the movement that’s been putting affordable classical music in bars, coffee shops and other informal settings has spread to nearly 40 other cities around the world. But Portland’s chapter stands tall, with its monthly chamber jams now always filling the Waypost and new music by local composers increasingly featured. The Portland chapter will host the second International Classical Revolution conference, culminating in this all-star showcase concert hosted by The Late Now’s Leo Daedalus and featuring new music by local composers. The performances include Damen Liebling’s String Quartet No. 1 performed by members of the DTQ Ensemble; Emily Doolittle’s “Social Sounds From Whales at Night” played by Catherine Lee on oboe d’amore, percussion and electronics; Brent Weaver’s song cycle “Caminos” setting texts by the early 20th-century Spanish poet Antonio Machado and performed by tenor Ken Beares and pianist Maria Choban; CRPDX director Christopher Corbell’s settings of poems by Charles Baudelaire for the a capella vocal trio Bergerette; and more, including some old dead guys like Haydn. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 345-7892. 8 pm Saturday, June 22. $5-$15.

David Shifrin, David Finckel and Wu Han

For the 43rd year, Chamber Music Northwest brings some of New York’s top classical performers to Portland. This summer’s festival opens with CMNW’s longtime music director, clarinetist Shifrin, joining the husband-and-wife cello and piano duo in trios by Beethoven, Brahms and Bruch. Monday’s concert is at Reed College’s Kaul Auditorium (3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.) and Tuesday’s is at the Catlin Gabel School’s Cabell Center Theater (8825 SW Barnes Road). Multiple venues, 294-6400. 8 pm Monday-Tuesday, June 24-25. $15$50.

Ellen Fullman

For more than three decades, the Memphis-born, Bay Area-based composer has devoted much of her artistic ambition to her own invention, the long string instrument, an installation of many wires stretching from about 50 to 150 feet, which Fullman plays with rosin-coated fingers. Using the natural overtones produced by vibrating strings (so much purer and more potent than the compromised, equal-tempered system most Western music uses today), her zingy, long-tone music (which can variously evoke the sonorities of a harp, tambura, koto, violin or other instruments) creates a shimmering, mesmerizing sonic environment. The instru-

ment’s visually striking beauty has made Fullman a frequent accomplice of choreographers and installation artists, so YU should provide an ideal environment for her unique sonic art. Yale Union, 800 SE 10th Avenue, 236-7996. 7:30 pm Thursday, June 20. $12.

Oregon Music Festival Concert

Oregon’s newest classical music festival focuses on education for young musicians, using Orpheus Academy Northwest, which engages veteran classical musicians from Portland and beyond to mentor local musicians between the ages of 14 and 25. The culmination of a week of training sessions and a master class, this concert features the Orpheus Academy Orchestra playing an excellent program of music by Mozart and two of the greatest 20th-century composers, Alfred Schnittke and Shostakovich. First Baptist Church, 909 SW 11th Ave., 927-2910. 7:30 pm Wednesday, June 19. $5-$20.

DANCE Luciana Proano

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

Maida Withers Dance Construction Company

The Washington, D.C., company presents its surreal work Collision Course aka Pillow Talk, a provocative piece of dance theater that deals with memories, dreams and nightmares. White bed pillows are incorporated into the scenes, in which they are embraced, shared and taped to dancers’ bodies. The piece is conceptual and packed with symbolism. Conduit Dance, 918 SW Yamhill St., Suite 401, 221-5857. 8 pm Saturday, June 22. $15.

Sea/Port

A performance from Seattle and Portland choreographers is a part of Conduit Dance’s guest artist series. The show includes five contemporary works that range from cerebral to political. Allie Hankins takes on some of Vaslav Nijinsky’s most celebrated roles against a backdrop of gold and muscle. Seattle’s Umami Performance presents excerpts from a series on memory, while Seattle resident Tara Dyberg explores mentalities toward immigration. Danielle Ross illustrates the complications of being in a duo, and Katie Wallich appears to deconstruct her own throne. Conduit Dance, 918 SW Yamhill St., Suite 401, 221-5857. 8 pm Thursday-Friday, June 20-21. $15.

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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 gouacheand-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 angstfilled brand of claustrophobia. He was most famous for his paintings and drawings of The Scream, but Augen presents a lesserknown selection of his innovative prints, which contain eerie, symbolist imagery that can be spooky. Through June 29. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 224-8182.

Chroma-Culture

How does light interact with color through the medium of glass? That’s the topic of Bullseye’s sprawling, 15-artist group show, Chroma-Culture. From the perverse faux-purity of Silvia Levenson’s The Chosen to the smooth black curves of Mel Douglas’ Midpoint, the exhibition encompasses polarities from white to black, with a vast continuum of saturation in between. Whidbey Island-based sculptor Richard Marquis’ eccentric, multihued miniature boats and Germanborn Klaus Moje’s immaculate bowl and platter forms skew the downstairs gallery’s offerings toward unabashed chromatic surfeit, while the back gallery and upstairs exhibition space are dedicated to the phenomena of monochromatic black and white, respectively. Through June 29. Bullseye Gallery, 300 NW 13th Ave., 227-0222.

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, nontraveling 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 threepart 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 world-renowned portraitist Greg Gorman’s series Just Between Us. Through June 29. Cock Gallery, 625 NW Everett St., No. 106, 552-8686.

Temporary Equilibrium

Something weird is floating down the street: something that looks like an octopus covered in fabric. In the bizarre vignettes of Austin, Texas-based artist William Hundley, these cloth creatures float in midair in otherwise ordinary settings: alleyways, street corners, storage units. They cast shadows and reflect the glare of midday light like real objects, despite their uncanniness. In fact, Hundley has elaborately staged the images. In many of them, he himself is inside the amorphous forms, jumping up while swaddled in fabric, capturing himself in fast exposures, his legs curled into the folds of cloth. This fantasy-meetsverité approach is nicely counterweighted by Portland-based artist Jim Kazanjian’s fastidiously Photoshopped digital collages, fantastical combinations of imagery that do not pretend to have any connection to terra firma or realism. Somewhere between these low- and high-tech visions lies the tenuous realm the rest of us call reality. Through June 29. Breeze Block Gallery, 323 NW 6th Ave., 318-6228.

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 anime-inflected 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 nitrous-oxide 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.

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 NoViolet Bulawayo

In her new novel, We Need New Names, NoViolet Bulawayo follows the journey of a young girl leaving Zimbabwe for America. Bulawayo will read from the book, which is being praised as a raw and vivid tale of displacement. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.

the 1940s, Portland’s Don Johnson played baseball with everyone from Ted Williams to Fidel Castro and helped win the Yankees a world championship. Catch an evening with Johnson as he shares his impressive exploits and hilarious stories of a career in the heyday of American baseball, like what it was like to room with Joe DiMaggio. McMenamins Kennedy School, 5736 NE 33rd Ave., 249-3983. 7 pm. Free. 21+.

TUESDAY, JUNE 25 The Legend of Polybius

According to local urban legend, Polybius was a video game that mysteriously appeared in arcades across Portland in the 1980s. Some say it drove players to insanity, that it was monitored by the CIA or that it had supernatural connections. Portland writer Joe Streckert will host a night of lore about Portland’s most dangerous (video) game.. PENELOPE BASS. Jack London Bar, 529 SW 4th Ave., 228-7605. 7:30 pm. Free. 21+.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 20 Colum McCann

Irish writer, National Book Award winner and kickass storyteller Colum McCann (This Side of Brightness, Let the Great World Spin) will read from his newest book, TransAtlantic. A meditation on history and identity, the book is already being hailed for its brilliance. Better come see what the fuss is about. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.

Jo Robinson

Investigating the nutritional history of our original diet 400 generations ago, journalist Jo Robinson learned that many essential fibers, proteins, vitamins and minerals have been cultivated out of our current food crops by unwitting farmers. Her new book, Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health, explores the process and how to get those nutrients back. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 21 Back Fence PDX

Nothing can dilute the bitter taste of failure quite like listening to the misfortunes of others. Likewise, those who suffer from crippling phobias can take comfort as the storytellers of Back Fence PDX share their darkest, funniest and most secret fears for this month’s show “Anxieties and Phobias.” Get ready to cringe along with the director of the Independent Publishing Resource Center, Justin Hocking; Portland screenwriter David Alexander; Seattle nutritionist Mary Purdy; tandem storytellers Jordi Barnes and Laura Faye Smith; Vancouver financial adviser Robert Katsuno; Portland makeup artist Dani Turner; and Eugene journalist Curt Hopkins. You never know who might be a never-nude. Mission Theater and Pub, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 8 pm. $12.50 advance, $16 at door. 21+.

Sandi Doughton

The often-forecasted mega-earthquake due here in the Pacific Northwest has taken on the character of a zombie apocalypse—fun to speculate about at parties but not taken seriously enough to actually do anything. To bring us all screaming back to reality, Seattle Times science reporter Sandi Doughton will discuss her new book, Full Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest. Joining her will be earthquake experts Jay Wilson, Clackamas County’s emergency manager, and Ian Madin, chief scientist at the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

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JIM GAVIN, MIDDLE MEN Midway through this ticking time bomb of a short-story collection about the attempted middle class, a young screenwriter receives advice from a pal of his rich, lubricated uncle: “Get in good with the schnozolas. Otherwise you’re fucked.” I didn’t catch all of that the first time through Jim Gavin’s Middle Men (Simon & Schuster, 240 pages, $23). But, then again, this is a book about Major, you better have a double takes. look at this… The half-gassed irrigationmagnate uncle, hyping his Hollywood-bound nephew regarding a movie idea based on a buried-by-bourbon recollection of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s magnum opus, Predator, is one of the thoroughly modern saints, savants and schmucks brought to ghastly and often weirdly endearing light in Middle Men. The first story is about a scholarship-seeking basketball player with “a concave chest” from a poor Long Beach, Calif., family who spends endless hours practicing only to score six points and commit 12 turnovers in a championship game. He’s left to feel “a miraculous sense of relief because I knew it was all over, my future.” Which sets the tone. This book about servitude to famous game-show hosts, cancer, Catholicism, Del Taco, the depths and limitations of Costco lasagna, and mania—plus delusions pathetic and otherwise (check out “Man Handle”)—stars haplessly ambitious white former athletes in the 15-to-30 demographic. Gavin’s lost boys tend to chase post-locker-room success the way a donkey with a carrot-dangling fishing pole on his back chases lunch. Gavin’s best walk-on characters, on the other hand, are Larry, a middle-aged black sales manager, and Nora, a leggy, loony yuppie software sales vamp. As the son of a broke traveling salesman who is now a broke salesman himself muses, if he doesn’t inherit money from his father, at least his dad will leave him the freeways. Gavin, 36, came out of nowhere with “Costello,” his stunning debut story in The New Yorker, after spending years managing a gas station. He’s target specific: naming every other bad bar and desolate street in Orange County, while also being hyper-funny and horrifying as he recounts tales of booze-brained toilet salesmen and assistants to assistants to Alex Trebek. His details—Nora’s take on a relentlessly optimistic, young blond gofer: “Jill embodied the kind of forthright striving Nora associated with Viking oarsmen.”—and documentary intimacy make his characters seem less like characters than real people accidently trapped inside a book. MARK CHRISTENSEN. READ: Mark Christensen is the author of Acid Christ: Ken Kesey, LSD and the Politics of Ecstasy.

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D+ Jackie Robinson is an American

legend. Brian Helgeland’s Robinson biopic, 42, will also secure a spot in history: history class. This is the kind of shoddy biopic that teachers will keep in the bullpen for sick days, so some hung-over substitute can put it on for a “lesson.” PG-13. AP KRYZA. Academy, Bagdad, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Mt. Hood, St. Johns, Valley.

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. Here’s one bit of welcome news: In 1000 years, the Shyamalan twist is no longer allowed. PG-13. MITCH LILLIE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Oak Grove, Lloyd Mall, Sandy.

André Gregory: Before and After Dinner

A [TWO DAYS ONLY] It makes sense that this documentary on the life and career of film and theater director André Gregory is so deeply felt— Before and After Dinner was conceived and directed by Gregory’s second wife, Cindy Kleine. As both filmmaker and caretaker, Kleine approaches her husband’s story with the same curiosity, daring and warmth that Gregory does with almost everything, but most avidly with his art. Before and After sashays between the past and present, an exploration that includes Gregory’s search for the truth about his father’s financial dealings and potential Nazi ties, as well as the conclusion of a 14-year-long rehearsal of Ibsen’s The Master Builder. Along this journey, Kleine draws out other themes: the impermanence of memory, the joy of the creative process, and the fear of facing death. But as with her impressive 2008 documentary, Phyllis and Harold, Kleine never lets this mass of narrative threads become tangled. Not every story adds to Before and After’s unusual power (the discussion of how both she and Gregory were cared for by nannies feels entirely perfunctory), but those small diversions don’t detract from an otherwise revelatory film. ROBERT HAM. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Friday and 4:30 pm Saturday, June 21-22.

Before Midnight

A 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. For those coming late to Richard Linklater’s nowepic cinematic romance, a recap: After the dreamy, witty gabfest of Before Sunrise, the two didn’t meet again for nine years, in 2004’s luminous Before Sunset. And now, again nine years later, they’re back in the nearly perfect Before Midnight: coupled, living in Paris, raising flaxen-haired twin moppets. While they still have spark, their nervous, youthful energy has been supplanted by something harder

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and sharper, as they navigate the challenges of maintaining a relationship. Early on, Linklater provides one of the uninterrupted takes that showcase the brilliant rhythms of his unobtrusive filmmaking. The take is nearly 15 minutes long, shot in a car, as Jesse and Celine traverse from a discussion of parenting style to playful flirting to heated talk about the future. The debate continues later, 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—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. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Fox Tower.

Berberian Sound Studio

B+ The art of sound design comes

into razor-sharp focus in this Lynchian homage to the giallo flicks of Dario Argento, et al. The great British character actor Toby Jones (the Harry Potter series, The Hunger Games) is pitch-perfect as Gilderoy, a meek audio engineer brought to Italy circa 1976 to craft Foley effects for the latest exploitation fare from the sleazy house of Santini. While the “Don’t call it horror!” auteur seduces his scream queens, Gilderoy massacres all manner of fruits and vegetables to approximate the grisly violence on the screen before him—a screen, it should be noted, we never see. Instead, the viewer witnesses carnage wrought on watermelons and heads of lettuce, which look and certainly sound just as gruesome as the heinous acts of this film within a film. The result is a movie about moviemaking in which the movie itself is almost an afterthought: It’s the journey that consumes its makers both onscreen and off. As an increasingly claustrophobic Gilderoy lets the voices in the studio booth into his head, all those looping tape reels may—or may not—unspool into madness. Writerdirector Keith Strickland cleverly blurs the lines between fiction and reality, creating a measured, sepia-soaked study in mood and tension that’s heavy on atmosphere, light on plot. It’s an analog psychological thriller for the digital age. AMANDA SCHURR. Laurelhurst Theater.

The Croods

B In a nutshell: Nic Cage, voicing a knuckle-dragging caveman, cracks wise, pulls faces and delivers zany, halfcooked monologues on death and love and family amid stunning, oversaturated landscapes that evoke both Dr. Seuss and early Tex Avery-era Looney Tunes. PG. MARSHALL WALKER LEE. Academy, Avalon, Bagdad, Edgefield, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Milwaukie, Mt. Hood, St. Johns, Valley.

Deconstructing Sgt. Pepper

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Like a fancy PowerPoint presentation, Beatles expert Scott Freiman—also a composer and producer—takes viewers through the history of the legendary album, with plenty of archival audio and video clips. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Thursday, June 20.

The Dhamma Brothers

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A documentary about inmates in an Alabama maximum-security prison who embark on a 10-day retreat of silent meditation. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Monday, June 24.

Dirty Wars

B With Dirty Wars, director Rick

Rowley doesn’t so much sugar the pill as caffeinate it. An incisive piece of investigative journalism, his doc-

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COUNTER ATTACK: Amy Acker (right) hides out in Joss Whedon’s real-life kitchen.

A SUPERHERO’S SHAKESPEARE JOSS WHEDON’S MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING IS A SMART AND CHUMMY SOIREE. BY REB ECCA JACOB SON

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Much Ado About Nothing is all about trickery. The comedy—one of Shakespeare’s best—centers on two strong-minded singles, Beatrice and Benedick, each determined never to love and never to marry. Until, of course, their friends decide to play matchmaker. They hatch a crafty plot: The women will stage a conversation for Beatrice to overhear, in which they’ll detail Benedick’s ardent love for her, and the men will do the reverse for Benedick. The scheme works, and the two go on to engage in some of literature’s liveliest, most flirtatious sparring. Like those sly friends holding the strings, Joss Whedon is a masterful puppeteer himself. After wrapping The Avengers, the director retreated to his airy Santa Monica home, corralled some friends and, over the course of 12 days, secretly filmed his adaptation of Much Ado. (Whedon had for years gathered actors on Sunday afternoons for informal readings of Shakespeare.) It’s shot in black-andwhite, often with a handheld camera, but it’s set in the present day, so characters drive luxury cars, wear crisply tailored Italian suits and watch videos on iPhones. Yet the text is still Shakespeare’s, even if the actors’ cadence and mannerisms feel modern. It’s a dizzying, and initially jarring, mix of styles. But don’t doubt puppeteer Whedon: Just like the film’s characters, he knows when to loosen hold of the strings and let his capable players take over. Simply put, Whedon’s take on the Bard is one of the loveliest films I’ve seen this year. To be sure, it’s at times slapsticky and screwball, but that’s in keeping with the tone of the original play. Moreover, the film doesn’t coast on its own cleverness. While it has an off-the-cuff nonchalance, it’s grounded by precise performances, careful camera work and a sharp understanding of the gender politics at play. Much Ado centers on two couples: In addition to spiky Beatrice (Amy Acker) and grumpy Benedick (Alexis Denisof ), there’s the simpler story of Hero (Jillian Morgese) and Claudio (Fran Kranz). Their

love is endangered by Don John (Sean Maher), who tries to destroy Hero’s honor with some oldfashioned slut-shaming. It’s a tale of confused identities and dopey disguises, gentle love and prickly flirtation, deliberate manipulation and mixed messages, all laced with a strong sexual charge. Wisely, the cast plays it more like a Shakespearethemed dinner party than a self-serious affair. Benedick and Beatrice’s jousts form the heart of the story, and Acker and Denisof delight in slinging barbs and then, against their will, falling in love. Acker, whose features are as sharp as her tongue, makes her Beatrice a fierce-minded feminist hero. Denisof, meanwhile, brings an endearing daft-

WISELY, THE CAST PLAYS IT MORE LIKE A SHAKESPEARETHEMED DINNER PARTY THAN A SELF-SERIOUS AFFAIR. ness and goofball sense of vanity to his Benedick, striking farcically dramatic poses and dropping for push-ups when he sees Beatrice. In two of the film’s best scenes, Benedick and Beatrice strain to eavesdrop on the conversations their friends have staged for them, with Denisof rolling across the lawn and Acker ducking under kitchen counters. Visually, Whedon keeps viewers engaged with surprising framing and smart sight gags. Shooting in his own home no doubt made scouting locations easy, and Whedon finds unexpected camera angles and takes advantage of the natural light that floods the house. In a charming turn, Benedick and Claudio share a little girl’s bedroom, inhabited by stuffed animals and Barbie dolls. But most surprising is how bold this Much Ado feels. Shakespeare often gets outlandish updates in live theater, and brash film adaptations are hardly new—think of Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet, or even 10 Things I Hate About You. Whedon’s Much Ado, though, strikes an especially impressive balance of loyalty and audacity, embracing its source text while still having some serious fun. A Much Ado About Nothing is rated PG-13. It opens on Friday at Cinema 21.

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umentary also boasts the anxious, jittery energy of a Red Bull junkie and the trappings of a conspiracy thriller. The crusading reporter methodically peeling away the layers of deception in this riveting exposé is Jeremy Scahill, who previously penned the 2007 bestseller Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army. Delving into the clandestine nighttime raids being carried out in Afghanistan, Scahill discovers the horrific collateral damage wrought by the battle for hearts and minds. Exhibiting little regard for his personal safety, he digs deeper and uncovers unsettling details concerning the Joint Special Operations Command and counterterrorism measures undertaken in Yemen and Somalia (where America’s bedfellows will cost many viewers sleep). Admittedly, interludes featuring Scahill hunched over his laptop or mapping out his investigation with a wall of maps, photos and scrawled notes occasionally seem a little too contrived. However, such stylistic indulgences ultimately don’t diminish the impact of his findings or detract from his assertion that the War on Terror is an interminable hell and the current administration’s “kill our way to victory” tactics are only fueling the inferno. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Living Room Theaters.

Epic

B Based on the promotional materials

for Blue Sky Studios’ Epic, one would be forgiven for thinking it was making a play for the pop-culture-addled throne of Shrek, or perhaps positioning itself as a modern-day FernGully full of heavy-handed environmental grandstanding. Those assumptions are, thankfully, very, very wrong. Epic is a sprawling, otherworldly adventure. 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, Indoor Twin, Oak Grove, Lloyd Mall.

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. Maybe you’re just drunk, but you kind of want to keep hanging out with him. And next morning, you’ve pretty much forgotten what went down. But at least you remember it was fun. PG-13. AP KRYZA. 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Forest, Lloyd Mall, Sandy.

Fill the Void

A- With an exquisite blend of nar-

rative and ethnography, Rama Burshtein’s debut feature takes viewers into the insular world of ultraOrthodox 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 close-ups 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. Fox Tower.

Frances Ha

A- People have been trying to figure

out twentysomethings at least since Dustin Hoffman unzipped Anne Bancroft’s dress. In 2010, The New York Times Magazine ran a late-to-thegame article about a “new” life stage called “emerging adulthood” (a phrase coined by a psychology researcher a decade before) when self-indulgence and self-discovery collide. The exuberant and disarming Frances Ha is a portrait of one such emerging adult, shot in resplendent black-and-white and scored like a French New Wave film. As played with haphazard elegance by Greta Gerwig, Frances is a 27-yearold aspiring dancer in New York City still lurching through the obstacle course of a privileged post-collegiate life. Sometimes life is a playground, as when Frances and best friend Sophie (a snappy Mickey Sumner) play fight in Central Park or snuggle platonically in their apartment. And sometimes it’s a minefield, with the perils of adulthood blowing up without warning in Frances’ face, as when Sophie announces she’s moving out. Gerwig strips her performance of affect or cutesiness; unlike those manic pixie dream girls, she’s not being quirky

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just to snag a guy. 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. Living Room Theaters.

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. 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 it’s often effective in roping the viewer in, Luhrmann’s film has all the subtlety of a young drunk who’s just been left by his girlfriend. PG-13. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Fox Tower, Hollywood Theatre.

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[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] A 1973 Italian psychosexual thriller about a hacksaw-wielding killer and miniskirtclad co-eds. R. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, June 25.

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, writer-director Todd Phillips appears to be trying. Otherwise, the third and, we’re assured, final movie in what’s been retroactively christened the “Wolfpack Trilogy” is somehow lazier and more cynical than the last.

Tossing out the formula he recycled in Part II, Phillips drops a tepid crimecomedy in its place. An all-out parade of degradation would’ve given the series the conclusion it deserved, but the only one willing to truly wallow in shit is Ken Jeong, whose Asian minstrel show overpowers the core trio, who can’t even bother. There’s no hangover in this Hangover, but the effort is that of employees forced into work the morning after the office party, who only want to survive the day and get back into bed. “We’re going to die, finally,” mutters Jeong’s Mr. Chow at one point. Let’s hope so. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Clackamas, Living Room Theaters.

Hawaii Vice

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] A cinematic throwdown between two bands of cops who fight crimes in tropical climes: a mid-’70s episode of Hawaii Five-O, with George Takei as an undercover agent trying to thwart a planned assassination, and a second-season episode of Miami Vice guest-starring Ted Nugent as a drug kingpin. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Monday, June 24.

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[TWO NIGHTS ONLY] Watching kitty videos alone in your mom’s basement is such a bummer. Join the feline-obsessed hordes for the cutest and creepiest cat videos out there. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday, June 21-22.

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

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MONSTERS UNIVERSITY care not at all about the implausibility of luxury-watch reps schmoozing a regular customer over steaks and single malts only to learn their company’s gone bankrupt. That’s but the first of countless script placeholders never to be fleshed out along this clumsily assembled narrative, which finds Vaughn and Wilson as old and out-of-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-than-anarchic perspective doesn’t diminish the constantly inventive, profoundly entertaining performances from our stars. PG-13. JAY HORTON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Oak Grove, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall.

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. In reuniting Downey with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang director Shane Black, Marvel has managed yet another home run in a series of blockbuster gambits. 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-leftfield twists and turns that keep the viewer engaged and chuckling with alarming frequency. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Clackamas, Mt. Hood, Lloyd Mall.

Labyrinth

[ONE WEEK ONLY, REVIVAL] David Bowie, Muppets, goblins—it’s no small wonder the 1986 box-office flop became a cult hit. PG. Academy.

Man of Steel

C 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. Seven years later, the threat of global fascism lay dismantled. For Superman, it was all downhill from there. Original archetypes don’t adapt well, 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. 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 2 1/2 hours. If Snyder wasn’t going to rethink Superman for the 21st century, what the hell is the point? Henry Cavill

looks the part, with his square jaw and action-figure chest, but he’s mostly there to fill out a suit. 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. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Moreland, Oak Grove, Lloyd Mall, Roseway, Sandy, St. Johns Twin.

Monsters University

B Mike and Sully may have been

inseparable pals in 2001’s Monsters, Inc., but that’s not how it started for these BFFs. Monsters University takes us back to their college years, when Sulley (John Goodman) was the cocky bro who didn’t bring a pencil to class and Mike (Billy Crystal) was the Hermione-esque know-it-all who studied rather than partied. As Dan Scanlon’s film opens, the two don’t get along. But, after being kicked out of their major and faced with exile, they’re forced to work together with a team of misfits to prove they belong in the prestigious Scare Program. It’s an old formula that follows the story line of pretty much all college-underdog movies. But Monsters University somehow captures the giddy ups and miserable downs of entering your first year of college—the wonder of first stepping onto campus, or the envy you feel toward the classmate who can carry four cups of coffee in his arms during finals. It does this while adding charming twists that keep things interesting (like the fact that the classmate with the coffee actually has four arms). Although not the best of Pixar’s lineup, there’s enough slapstick comedy for the kids and fast-paced banter for the adults to make it at least good for a laugh. G. KAITIE TODD. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Lloyd Mall, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.

Mud

B Jeff Nichols’ Mud is a Southern-

fried fable about two Arkansas boys whose childhoods are wrested from them. The film centers on buddies Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and Neckbone (Jacob Lofland), who encounter Mud (Matthew McConaughey), a disheveled fugitive hiding out on an isolated island and waiting for his love to join him so they can flee. It’s a remarkably simple set-up, but what seems like a cut-and-dry tale of a mythical bum is instead a rich story of adolescent confusion. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Fox Tower, Hollywood Theatre.

Now You See Me

C In an early scene in the magicheist movie Now You See Me, 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 (The Incredible Hulk, Clash of the Titans) 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 and makes viewers just as dizzy. 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 heists. Why? Who knows! For a moment it seems the Horsemen might be Occupy types, modern-day 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. PG-13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Living Room Theaters, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Sandy.

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hawking security systems to the panicked residents of his gated community. When a gang of masked marauders 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. DeMonaco belabors the film’s premise in the vain hope it will become more plausible, which also serves to underscore the flimsiness of his attempts at social commentary. R. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Lloyd Mall, Sandy.

Spring Breakers

B- Neon lights, blinged-out cribs and James Franco’s white-trash gangsta rapper Alien make Spring Breakers akin to an art-house installment of Girls Gone Wild crossed with Scarface—with all the surface allure and occasional vapid-

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ity that licentious description implies. R. MICHAEL NORDINE. Laurelhurst.

Star Trek Into Darkness

B When J.J. Abrams took over the Star

Trek universe in 2009, he managed the impossible by taking decades of mythology and boiling it down to something accessible to everyone. In his second outing in the captain’s chair, Abrams hammers down on the throttle right in the opening, when we find Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) and Dr. McCoy (Karl Urban) getting all Raiders of the Lost Ark on a distant planet, where they’re being chased by primitive, clay-painted natives, while Spock (Zachary Quinto) dives deep into a volcano to prevent an apocalyptic eruption. But things get dark with the arrival of Benedict Cumberbatch, who launches a one-man war of terror

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Pandora’s Promise

B- Robert Stone’s documentary, which

makes the case for nuclear energy, is sure-footed and suave. But it’s tailored so sleekly that it simply seems too good to be true. Stone cuts together interviews with pro-nuclear environmentalists in a way that paints antinuclear activists as rabid liberals, concerned more with being right than with listening to reason. It’s not that such a suggestion is by any means outrageous—Helen Caldicott roaring into a bullhorn is about as close to rabid as humans get. But Stone’s argument chugs forward so fearlessly that you may not realize until after the credits roll that he got you on board with his opinion using some rather questionable facts. For example, Stone repeatedly refers to a tiny radiation meter, whose size and simplicity are reminiscent of a child’s toy, to indicate that radiation levels in legendary places like Chernobyl and Fukushima are much lower than one might expect. In the moment, the evidence is compelling; but upon deeper reflection, you wonder if that tiny meter provided sufficient foundation to make such a dramatic claim. Like a sly college professor who ends half his sentences with a rhetorical “right?” to bolster their accuracy, Pandora’s Promise seems flawless until you surface from its spell, and realize you still need more evidence. EMILY JENSEN. Fox Tower.

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.

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 (Ethan Hawke) has made a fortune

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THE BLING RING Trapped in the closets of the rich and famous.

Sofia Coppola has spent much of her career enticing viewers to shed a tear for the poor little rich boys and girls of the world. With her fifth feature, she turns her attention to the sidelines, where scores of disaffected, raised-on-reality-TV teenagers yearn to catch the spotlight’s leering gaze and live the lives of leisure enjoyed by their entitled idols. In doing so, the oft-maligned writer-director charges herself with an unenviable task: depicting obsession as experienced by the complacent. The Bling Ring takes its name from the real-life cabal of Southern California acquaintances who made a habit of breaking, entering and burgling their favorite celebrities’ Beverly Hills homes. (In the film, Paris Hilton’s mansion practically becomes their clubhouse.) Coppola has crafted well-drawn analogs for the actual perpetrators: Cold-blooded Rebecca (Katie Chang) hatches the schemes while her insecure sidekick Marc (Israel Broussard) handles the particulars. Frequently along for the ride are Nicki (Emma Watson) and Sam (Taissa Farmiga)—home-schooled friends who subsist on Ativan and treat The Secret as scripture—and Chloe (Claire Julien), who wears the bruises from her latest DUI accident like a badge of honor. Indeed, Coppola skillfully conveys a key cultural shift: the desire for fame supplanted by an appetite for infamy. Somewhere along the line, an embarrassing nip slip became something to aspire to. Furthermore, her film illustrates precisely how little regard people now have for their own security, whether celebrities not thinking to activate alarm systems or the Ring proving only too eager to publicize its exploits on Facebook. Self-preservation seems to have become a lost art form. The final work of the late cinematographer Harris Savides, The Bling Ring is every bit as visually exquisite as Coppola’s previous work and often more formally adventurous. In one instance of bravura staging, a house of floor-to-ceiling windows serves as a veritable diorama, allowing us to watch an entire robbery unfold in a single extended shot. However, as if taking cues from its players’ well-honed apathy, the film is dramatically flat. Never displaying the interplay between the vibrant and the melancholic that made Lost in Translation and Somewhere so engaging, The Bling Ring invites you to admire it from a distance rather than immerse yourself in it. Ultimately, it’s a work very much of its time. Which is to say: readily disposable. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. C+ SEE IT: The Bling Ring is rated R. It opens Friday at Clackamas, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall.

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on Starfleet before taking refuge in an isolated section of the planet Klingon, with which Earth is on the precipice of war. Cumberbatch, unsurprisingly, steals the show. The actor wraps his tongue around each snarled threat with calculated menace. Into Darkness can’t match the verve of Abrams’ first outing, but it eclipses it in terms of character development and humor. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Indoor Twin, Oak Grove, Sandy.

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The Wall

B- For all its meditations on the nature of loneliness, 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 is mysteriously cut off by a transparent but impenetrable wall in the Austrian wilderness. Left without human companions, Gedeck’s character carves out an existence for herself by developing relationships with the animals and by logging her experiences on the few sheets of paper she can find. 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.

This Is the End

B With the underrated and misun-

derstood 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 jump genres to the biblical apocalypse and cast 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, these dudes are perfectly content to sit back, smoke weed and tell dick jokes. It all sounds juvenile, but for the most part, This Is the End works like gangbusters. 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. R. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Fox Tower, Sandy.

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

B+ When Julian Assange exploded into the public consciousness as the face behind WikiLeaks, nearly everybody formed an immediate opinion of the white-haired Aussie. With We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, lauded documentarian Alex Gibney traces 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 great 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.

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Hava Nagila: The Movie B- Like most people with some Jewish blood, I have an ambivalent relationship with the ubiquitous Hebrew folk song “Hava Nagila” (when I was about 6, I kicked my shoe across the dance floor at a wedding and had to shamefacedly dart across the circle to retrieve it). I’m also ambivalent about Roberta Grossman’s documentary, which traces the tune from its debated roots to its maligned present, along the way introducing us to some frankly ridiculous iterations: a death-metal take, a rendition by some Real Housewives bimbos, a burlesque version in Thailand. Those interpretations are good for a laugh, but the same can’t be said of the strained voice-over narration, which strives for folksy jollity but just comes off cheesy. REBECCA JACOBSON. 7 pm Wednesday, June 19. The Ballad of the Weeping Spring B Guitar-stringer, gunslinger, it’s all blended together ever since Robert Rodriguez’s El Mariachi had an assassin travel around with his gun in a guitar case. Despite a title that might as well be a parody of every bad festival film, ever, The Ballad of the Weeping Spring is a weirdly engaging mix of insanely reverent paean to Sephardic (and Iranian) music and larky homage to the gunfighting classic The Magnificent Seven. Here, a pack of hard-boiled musicians travels through Israel to reunite the band for one last performance, from a chair-bound Sophia Loren-ish silver fox to a steely-eyed Hebrew-speaking Yul Brynner. The slow pace is livened by a terrific array of always-too-short musical performances. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. 7 pm Saturday, June 22. A.K.A. Doc Pomus B Chances are good you’ve heard a Doc Pomus song but never realized it. Peter Miller and Will Hechter’s documentary gathers musicians, writers and producers to pay tribute to Jerome Felder, aka Doc Pomus, who wrote more than 1,000 songs in his lifetime. Felder contracted polio at age 6 and was something of an anomaly as a teen: a handicapped Jewish boy singing R&B songs in Greenwich Village. After a record deal flopped, he began writing songs for the likes of Ray Charles and Elvis Presley, including such standbys as “This Magic Moment” and “Save the Last Dance For Me.” But Felder’s life wasn’t all about music, and the film fittingly includes emotional interviews with Felder’s daughter and ex-wife. KAITIE TODD. 4:30 pm Sunday, June 23. The World Is Funny A Shemi Zarhin’s quirky Israeli dramedy opens with Zafi, a student in a writing workshop, as she tells a story and is encouraged to note interesting secrets and moments about everyday people to use in her work. As a housecleaner, this is easy—especially with three of her clients, estranged siblings each dealing with their own unusual drama. Tied together by a thread not unlike that in Love, Actually, the film follows people who are bitter, angry, confused and dedicated as they try to figure out both themselves and each other. Supported by strong performances (especially Naama Shitrit as Zafi, who brings a bright charm to often serious subject matter), The World Is Funny artfully explores love and family in a way both funny and satisfying. KAITIE TODD. 7 pm Sunday, June 23. SEE IT: The Jewish Film Festival is at NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Ave., nwfilm.org. Through June 30. Willamette Week JUNE 19, 2013 wweek.com

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SOUL SISTERS: According to crusty Irish boozer Dave—played with impeccable comic charm by Chris O’Dowd, Kristen Wiig’s cop boyfriend in Bridesmaids—country-western and soul music are both rooted in loss. The difference, Dave says, is that while country-western stars whine about it, soul singers fight desperately for redemption. That exuberant sense of resilience takes center stage in The Sapphires, first-time filmmaker Wayne Blair’s massively entertaining tale about an Australian Aboriginal girl band that travels to Vietnam to entertain American troops in 1968. Loosely based on a true story (Blair’s mother was a member of the original group), the film butts up against serious issues, most prominently racial tension and the trauma of war. But between the spirited songs, big-hearted story line and hypersaturated cinematography, this is a film that unapologetically encourages fingersnapping rather than head-scratching—and bless its spangled heart for that. REBECCA JACOBSON. Playing at: Laurelhurst. Best paired with: Hop Valley Alphadelic IPA. Also playing: Internet Cat Video Fest (Hollywood). Moreland Theatre

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “To know when to stop is of the same importance as to know when to begin,” said the painter Paul Klee. Take that to heart, Aries! You are pretty adept at getting things launched, but you’ve got more to learn about the art of stopping. Sometimes you finish prematurely. Other times you sort of disappear without officially bringing things to a close. Now would be an excellent time to refine your skills. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it’s hard to determine whether or not they are genuine.” So said Joan of Arc back in 1429, right before she helped lead French troops in the battle of Patay. JUST KIDDING! Joan of Arc never had the pleasure of surfing the Web, of course, since it didn’t exist until long after she died. But I was trying to make a point that will be useful for you to keep in mind, Taurus, which is: Be skeptical of both wild claims and mild claims. Stay alert for seemingly interesting leads that are really timewasting half-truths. Be wary for unreliable gossip that would cause an unnecessary ruckus. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): French Impressionist painter Claude Monet loved to paint water lilies, and he did so over and over again for many years. Eventually he created about 250 canvases that portrayed these floating flowers. Should we conclude that he repeated himself too much? Should we declare that he was boringly repetitive? Or might we wonder if he kept finding new delights in his comfortable subject? Would we have enough patience to notice that each of the 250 paintings shows the water lilies in a different kind of light, depending on the weather and the season and the time of day? I vote for the latter view, and suggest that you adopt a similar approach to the familiar things in your life during the coming weeks. CANCER (June 21-July 22): “In order to swim one takes off all one’s clothes,” said 19th-century Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. “In order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one’s inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness, etc., before one is sufficiently naked.” Your assignment in the coming week, Cancerian, is to get au naturel like that. It’s time for you to make yourself available for as much of the raw, pure, wild truth as you can stand. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Gertrude Stein was an innovative writer. Many illustrious artists were her friends. But she had an overly elevated conception of her own worth. “Think of the Bible and Homer,” she said, “think of Shakespeare and think of me.” On another occasion, she proclaimed, “Einstein was the creative philosophic mind of the century, and I have been the creative literary mind of the century.” Do you know anyone like Stein, Leo? Here’s the truth, in my opinion: To some degree, we are all like Stein. Every one of us has at least one inflated idea about ourselves -- a conceited self-conception that doesn’t match reality. It was my turn to confront my egotistical delusions a few weeks ago. Now would be an excellent time for you to deal with yours. Don’t be too hard on yourself, though. Just recognize the inflation, laugh about it, and move on. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When I close my eyes, I get a psychic vision of you as a kid playing outside on a warm summer day. You’re with friends, immersed in a game that commands your full attention. Suddenly, you hear a jingling tune wafting your way from a distance. It’s the ice cream truck. You stop what you’re doing and run inside your home to beg your mom for some money. A few minutes later, you’re in a state of bliss, communing with your Fudgsicle or ice cream cone or strawberry-lime fruit bar. I have a feeling that you will soon experience an adult version of this scene, Virgo. Metaphorically speaking, either the ice cream man or the ice cream woman will be coming to your neighborhood. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): During the past ten months, you have been unusually adventurous. The last time you summoned so much courage and expansiveness may have been 2001. I’m impressed!

Please accept my respect and appreciation. You’ve had a sixth sense about knowing when it’s wise to push beyond your limitations and boundaries. You have also had a seventh sense about intuiting when to be crafty and cautious as you wander through the frontiers. Now here’s one of your assignments for the next 12 months: Distill all you’ve learned out there in the borderlands and decide how you will use your wisdom to build an unshakable power spot back here in the heart of the action. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Michael Faraday (1791-1867) was one of the most influential scientists in history. He produced major breakthroughs in both chemistry and physics. Have you ever used devices that run on electricity? You can thank him for playing a major role in developing that wonderful convenience. And yet unlike most scientists, he had only the most elementary grasp of mathematics. In fact, his formal education was negligible. I propose that we name him your role model of the week. He’s a striking example of the fact that you can arrive at your chosen goal by many different paths. Keep that in mind if you’re ever tempted to believe that there’s just one right way to fulfill your dreams. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “The only thing that we learn from history,” said the German philosopher Georg Hegel, “is that we never learn anything from history.” I’m urging you to refute that statement in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. I’m pleading with you to search your memory for every possible clue that might help you be brilliant in dealing with your immediate future. What have you done in the past that you shouldn’t do now? What haven’t you done in the past that you should do now? CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): According to my analysis of the astrological omens, now would be a pretty good time to talk about things that are hard to talk about. I don’t necessarily mean that you’ll find it easy to do. But I suspect it would be relatively free of pain and karmic repercussions. There may even be a touch of pleasure once the catharsis kicks in. So try it if you dare, Capricorn. Summon the courage to express truths that have previously been hard to pin down. Articulate feelings that have been murky or hidden. For best results, encourage those you trust to do the same. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Are you familiar with Quidditch? It’s a rough sport played by wizards in the fictional world of Harry Potter. All seven books in the series mention it, so it’s an important element. Author J.K. Rowling says she dreamed up the sport after having a quarrel with her boyfriend. “In my deepest, darkest soul,” she reports, “I would quite like to see him hit by a bludger.” (In Quidditch, a bludger is a big black ball made of iron.) I bring this up, Aquarius, because I suspect that you, too, are in position to use anger in a creative and constructive way. Take advantage of your raw emotion to make a lasting improvement in your life. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In his erotic poem “Your Sex,” Joe Bolton exults: “My heart simplified, I touch the bud of happiness -- it’s in season. And whatever grief I might have felt before simply dies inside me.” You might want to write that down on a slip of paper and carry it around with you this week, Pisces. According to my understanding of the astrological omens, the bud of happiness is now in season for you. You have good reason to shed the undertones of sadness and fear you carry around with you. I’ll tell you the last lines of Bolton’s poem, because they also apply: “Sometimes I think it’s best just to take pleasure wherever we want and can. Look: the twilight is alive with wild honey.” (The full poem: tinyurl.com/JoeBolton.)

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