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INBOX WEIGHING IN ON SHARI’S
Thanks for bucking the trend and writing what could be (ironically?) viewed as a rather courageous article [“Gold Chain,” WW, June 19, 2013]. However, having sampled Shari’s a few times with your same intentions—to take the cuisine on its own terms—your wonderful descriptions don’t quite match my experience. In spite of their best intentions, Shari’s still seems manufactured and artificial—though the service is awesome, and they definitely know how to take (hyper) active kids in stride. And when the bars have closed and the Pancake and Steak House is too far to drive to legally, Shari’s is a safe, consistent bet. Thanks for taking a break from the food cart/boutique restaurant/ cutesy flavor of the month. —“Joel Gunz”
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Unpaved streets are the responsibility of the whole city [“Stuck in the Ruts,” WW, June 19, 2013]. Forcing property owners to shoulder most of the costs is inequitable. —“jj”
Do you know what’s interesting about someone sleeping in a van? Everything except sleeping in a van, unless it ties into a larger story [“Vanifest Destiny: The Shower Scene,” WW, June 19, 2013]. Be a musician, an artist, an actor, an entrepreneur, a confidence man, an activist, an alcoholic, an addict. Get kicked out of your last place and no one will take you in, tell us about how much your parents/friends hate you. Alienate or befriend other kindred souls. Have some kind of a personality, or in absence of that, surround yourself with people that do. Find new friends to crash with or allow sketchy characters to stay in your van with you. Make really stupid decisions—otherwise, this is a complete and utter waste of space. —“JH”
Fact is, the large majority of Portland’s streets were paved at the expense of the adjoining property owners. Historically, developers of residential areas were required to set aside rights of
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ter how many times you crap in it, he’d fall down on his knees and worship you as a god. Still, I get it; you want to do the right thing. Unfortunately, compost collection in big complexes presents special challenges. Single-family homes are easy—you drag a bin to the curb and somebody empties it. Apartments, though, are more varied. Some have trash chutes, some have garbage rooms, or dumpsters, or outdoor cages. Each complex needs its own plan. That said, if you and your fellow tenants have such a plan—and you can sell your landlord on the idea—you’re welcome to join the growing cadre (more than 100 properties so far) of voluntarily composting apartment dwellers. Metro hopes your efforts will coalesce into a movement that clears the way for universal composting. (You’ll know each other by your cantaloupe-rind armbands.) Si se puede! *Yes, fine; they do overflow occasionally. Grab a plunger, you whiner.
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Portland State University signed a $1.5 million no-bid contract earlier this year with a company for janitorial work in its dorms. But WW has learned the company, Diversified Abilities Inc., has $34,000 in state tax liens and $341,000 in federal liens for failing to pay employee withholding taxes. Diversified, headquartered in Happy Valley, is what’s known as a “qualified rehabilitation facility.” There are 21 such firms in Oregon that employ disabled workers. QRFs often compete against each other for work, although Diversified was the only company bidding for the dorm contract. Portland State did not seek other bids. Portland State spokesman Scott Gallagher says university officials awarded the contract without seeking bids because of an existing relationship with Diversified and because the contract was relatively small. “We did not know about the tax liens,” he says. “The Oregon Department of Administrative Service certifies QRFs and monitors them,” Gallagher adds. “We don’t do any back checks.” Darvin Pierce, the state employee whose job is to keep an eye on QRFs, says the state primarily ensures compliance with laws defining who can work for a QRF and that workers’ time is tracked accurately. Pierce says he was unaware Diversified owes hundreds of thousands in back taxes. “That’s news to me,” he tells WW.
After awarding the $1.5 million, three-year contract in February 2013, PSU inked another $273,000 janitorial contract with Diversified in May. Diversified’s owner, Ann Toth, says the company employs nearly 100 people. Most do janitorial or landscaping work for public agencies, earning $11 to $13 an hour. Toth says she often works seven days a week helping to support workers with multiple challenges. “If we don’t employ these people, who else will?” Toth says. She acknowledges the company has had financial problems since its founding in 2005. “We’ve been struggling as hard as we can struggle to make this thing work,” Toth says. Records filed with the state show Diversified has five federal tax liens and two state tax liens outstanding stretching back to 2005. The liens came about because Diversified took money out of employees’ paychecks to pay their income taxes but then failed to pay those taxes. “Withholding payments are trust funds, and it’s very important for employers and to us that employers remit those payments timely,” says Oregon Department of Revenue spokesman Derrick Gasparini. “We file liens as soon as the employers are delinquent.” (Gasparini has no specific knowledge about Diversified.) Toth acknowledges the liens and blames a variety of factors: bidding too low on contracts, slow payments from Portland State, and paying what she claims are overly generous employee benefits. (Gallagher says Toth’s invoices have been incorrect, delaying payment, but PSU honors its contract.) “We’ve done far more good than bad,” Toth says. “Some
things happened, and some mistakes were made, and in the end I will pay the price. I am liable for those withholding taxes.” Toth and her husband, David, who she says runs the landscaping portion of their business, have paid themselves well, even though records show their nonprofit has consistently lost money. In 2008, for instance, the company, which is registered as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, had gross revenues of $1.053 million. Ann Toth paid herself a salary of $101,000 and her husband $77,000. For comparison, the Toths paid themselves the same amount that the state’s largest QRF, Portland Habilitation Center, with revenues of $27 million, pays its CEO: $178,000. In 2011, after years of losses, the Toths cut their salaries to $49,000 and $44,000, respectively. Some Diversified employees have complained about how they are paid. One employee, Tom Jewell, filed six complaints with the state Bureau of Labor and Industries in March. Jewell alleged Diversified paid employees late, paid them less than they were owed, and bounced checks. BOLI sent warning letters to Diversified. Two other employees filed suit against Diversified in Multnomah County Circuit Court this year for unpaid wages. The case settled before trial. Toth says terms of the settlement preclude her from discussing the lawsuit, and she says the BOLI complaints are without merit. “I’ve done nothing wrong,” she says. Diversified and Portland Habilitation Center are currently competing for a much larger PSU contract, for janitorial services at 23 university buildings that are not dorms and two parking garages. That contract, expected to be worth more than $2 million annually, is set to be awarded July 3. Gallagher says university officials will keep a sharper eye on Diversified in the future. “Going forward, we will look more closely and monitor them,” he says. Willamette Week JUNE 26, 2013 wweek.com
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SHOOTING TO KILL A LAW: Roxanne Ross says she doesn’t believe Multnomah County’s gun-control ordinance should apply within the city of Gresham. “You have all these horrible instances of shootings—they happen in gun-free zones,” Ross says.
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Roxanne Ross says she was raised to believe every responsible citizen should own a gun. When she picked out her own handgun last fall, Ross went old school and chose a .357 Magnum revolver, which she says is simply made and easy to clean. It also has just the right firepower to protect her in her Gresham home, says Ross, a 52-year-old empty-nester. So when Multnomah County commissioners unanimously passed a gun-control ordinance April 25, Ross says she was dismayed to learn it was intended to apply within Gresham city limits, even though the Gresham City Council hadn’t approved it. “I think it’s just terrible, the way they would all have us be sitting ducks,” Ross says. “I want all the criminals to know that the county’s ordinance does not apply to Gresham, Fairview, Troutdale or any of the cities.” Now, Ross is party to a tort claim filed by Portland lawyer Bruce McCain, contends county commissioners overstepped their bounds by including a clause stating that the gun-control law applies “countywide unless a city…enacts separate legislation on this same subject matter.” The legislation—co-sponsored by County Chairman Jeff Cogen and Commissioner Deborah Kafoury—was deliberately written to make Multnomah County’s cities fall in line, Kafoury says. “If they don’t have anything on the books, I think they should,” Kafoury says. “Most children who are killed by guns, the cause is a well-intentioned mom or dad who left their gun out, not shootings at Clackamas Town Center.” The county’s gun-control ordinance mirrors one passed in Portland in 2010 after a spate of shootings. The ordinance makes it a crime to carry a loaded firearm in public, to fire a gun in Multnomah County, not to report a stolen firearm and not to keep guns locked near minors. It also establishes a tighter nighttime curfew for 8
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minors convicted of gun crimes. The ordinance makes exceptions for law enforcement officers, those with concealed handgun licenses, hunting and a few other cases. Kafoury says if a city has a law on the books about firing a gun within city limits, for example—as Gresham and Troutdale do—the city ordinance applies. But if a city has, say, no law about locking firearms and keeping them away from children—Gresham, Troutdale, Fairview, Wood Village and Maywood Park do not—the county’s law takes effect. That’s creating some confusion for local jurisdictions. Gresham City Attorney David Ris says that since Gresham has laws pertaining to discharging firearms, the county has no authority over Gresham guns. “We don’t feel that the county ordinance applies within the city of Gresham,” Ris says. McCain, who filed the tort claim April 29, says he now plans to file an injunction and lawsuit to stop the county ordinance. He says commissioners wrote the law to suggest their work is relevant to more than just the 24,000 residents of unincorporated Multnomah County. “If the cities are included, about a quarter of a million people are affected,” McCain says. “This was a political move by county commissioners to
“THE CRIMINALS, THE RAPISTS, THEY ALWAYS KNOW WHERE THE GUN-FREE ZONES ARE.” —ROXANNE ROSS give the impression that their county law applies to all cities.” County spokesman David Austin says McCain is “flat-out wrong.” “There are many regulatory matters within incorporated cities where county rules apply,” Austin says. But Ross says she and other East Multnomah County residents are tired of having Portlandbased politicians decide their fate. “It doesn’t apply in our city limits unless our city councilors choose to make it apply,” Ross says. “To give the impression that it does, that’s just unfair. The criminals, the rapists, they always know where the gun-free zones are.”
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WW: First, do you like cops? Constantin Severe: When I was a kid, I didn’t like cops. Cops made me afraid. When I was in law school [at Vanderbilt University], I was in a Kinko’s, and I was the first person out the door when a silent alarm got tripped. I opened the door and there’s this cop pointing his Glock in my face, like, a foot away. I was pretty upset. But, being a criminal defense attorney, you read a lot of police reports, you meet a lot of police officers, and I came away with a lot of respect for police officers. So to answer your question, yeah. Now. If you asked 16-year-old me that? Definitely not. What’s the most common complaint your office gets? The biggest complaint people have is officers being rude to them. You know, this officer disrespected me, yelled at me, balled up the ticket and threw it in my car. Folks need to advocate for themselves. If they are in a situation or know of a situation where something like that happened, they need to contact our office. CONSTANTIN SEVERE BY A N D R E A DAM E WO O D
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As a first-generation Haitian-American growing up in Brooklyn and Miami, Constantin Severe hated cops. Then he learned to like them during his time as a defense attorney with Metropolitan Public Defender in Portland. And now, Severe, 37, leads the office that is responsible for holding Portland police officers accountable. On June 20, he replaced Mary-Beth Baptista as director of the city auditor’s Independent Police Review division. Severe steps into the $105,000-a-year position after serving as the IPR’s assistant director since 2008. He’s got a lot of work ahead: The IPR reviews cases, investigates some itself, and forwards others to police internal affairs, and it must approve every internal investigation and every commander’s findings. It’s also on the front lines of carrying out the police reforms mandated by the U.S. Department of Justice. Severe talks about why the Police Bureau should have fired Capt. Todd Wyatt for inappropriately touching female police employees, and why Hales is ultimately responsible to fix the bureau.
What’s your first priority? Look at the city code, and see what needs to be changed. We’re going to have to speed up the way we do things, because the DOJ agreement says an entire investigation must be done [within] 180 days. IPR is also supposed to be able to do meaningful independent investigations, but there are several parts of the code that interfere with that. IPR can’t talk to the officers directly, and have to go through an internal affairs liaison, for example. Mary-Beth Baptista didn’t hide the fact she was frustrated that Chief Mike Reese didn’t fire Capt. Todd Wyatt this year. What’s your take? As a former defense attorney, I want to say that wasn’t justice, but that’s not the right word. That wasn’t accountability. How do you fix accountability? I think a discipline guideline is key. One of the biggest issues for our office, and just oversight in general, isn’t just that officers aren’t being
held accountable. We publish an annual report that says a certain amount of officers were disciplined this year. But I don’t think we’ve been able to show either to the public or to police officers what the standard is. Do you see any groups getting favor? Across the board, there’s this pattern of when commanding officers get in trouble they’re not held to the same standard that officers are held to. A discipline guide, that’s one of the purposes of it. Everybody’s treated the same. Is there any role for the IPR in discipline decisions? Make it more transparent—make the board’s recommendation, the chief ’s recommendation, and if they differ, make it public. Sometimes things change pretty drastically, and for the public to be able to understand each step of the process is important. Who do you think is ultimately responsible? Portland’s greatest strength, and greatest weakness, is that every bureau has an elected official as their head. The Police Bureau has the police commissioner [Hales]. That’s where the buck stops. The Police Review Board is an advisory body to the chief of police and the police commissioner, right? If the chief of police or the police commissioner decide not to follow that, that is where the public needs to hold them accountable. Pick three adjectives to describe the Police Bureau. They’re really hardworking. They’re evolving. The bureau has changed, but I think there’s some ways that the bureau could move a lot faster. We’re trying to change the bureau and make it more responsive. The PPB is also complicated. For somebody whose job it is to make sure that the police are accountable, and at the same time not unfairly target individual officers or unfairly target the organization, it takes a lot of effort to understand it.
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OWNERS OF THE OREGONIAN GAMBLE ON THE NEWSPAPER’S DIGITAL FUTURE. The death of The Oregonian as you know it came at 9:58 am on June 20. That’s when reporters, editors, photographers and designers who put out the 163-year-old daily newspaper were told to “please proceed” to a large basement conference room. Such meetings at the newspaper—especially on short notice—are unusual at The Oregonian’s headquarters at 1320 SW Broadway. But the staff knew what it was about. For months, there had been speculation The Oregonian’s owners, the Newhouse family, intended to cut back the publication schedule of the newspaper, rely more on its website to deliver news, and make deep cuts in staff. The Newhouses, who own 34 newspapers through their holding company, Advance Publications, had made this same move at eight of their other papers, including The Times-Picayune in New Orleans. The company’s digital division chairman, Steve Newhouse, had signaled this was the new strategy for the entire company. Some inside the newsroom thought The Oregonian would get a reprieve. After all, the newspaper is making a profit, and Advance’s handling of the situation in New Orleans has been considered a fiasco. Maybe the Newhouses would see Portland was different. Publisher N. Christian Anderson III quickly dispelled this notion. Anderson told his staff The Oregonian would deliver papers to subscribers on Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. On the remaining days, the paper would publish only a street edition, saving millions of dollars in printing costs. Anderson also announced layoffs. By the time he and Editor Peter Bhatia were done, sources say, almost 100 of the paper’s 650 employees had lost their jobs. The cuts fell disproportionately on the newsroom: As many as 49 reporters, editors, designers and photographers—nearly a quarter
of the remaining news staff—will be gone by Sept. 27. If the death of the old Oregonian has arrived, the new product that takes its place promises the potential for innovation—and risk—in the way much of the state gets its news. Many industry experts say the gamble is a solid one and is long overdue—even if Advance’s particular approach doesn’t always make sense. “They plainly believe that the print era is ending,” says Ken Doctor, who runs Newsonomics, a news industry analysis company. “They want to force the transition. It’s really a shock to the system that they are inducing. If they get this right, they win new and younger readers.” But the kind of news Oregonians get will change. The Oregonian’s newsroom is already under enormous pressure to write stories that draw hits on the website—often at the expense of in-depth reporting that reveals what’s actually happening in the community. Few feel this more strongly than James O. Long, an investigative reporter at the newspaper who retired in 2003 after 41 years, who was widely regarded as the dean of the newsroom. Long sees last week’s changes as a sign the paper’s New Jersey owners can no longer be trusted, by its employees or by readers. “Ownership has frittered away the extraordinary trust it had earned from staff over the years, simply by treating people fairly and letting them produce good-quality journalism, even if it cost them money to do that,” Long says. “You don’t feel they are doing the right thing now, but rather squeezing the last pennies out of the print papers before they go away forever.” Anderson began his speech to employees June 20 in the company’s large Conference Room A by describing the day as “bittersweet.” In a meeting so packed that employees spilled into the basement hallway, Anderson said the paper would become a more nimble organization. “Today,” as he put it later that morning in an email to employees, “we are unveiling exciting plans for the future of our company.” CONT. on page 14
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To do this, Anderson said, Advance had formed two new entities: Oregonian Media Group, which would oversee the move to Web-based reporting, and Advance Central Services Oregon, which would run the paper’s physical operations. The paper would eventually sell its Broadway building and move into a new space. And a number of people would not be offered jobs in the new company. Anderson said even though subscribers would no longer receive home deliveries of print editions on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, they would get free access to a Web copy of the paper called “MyDigitalO.” But those present say he declined to answer a question from tech reporter Mike Rogoway about the business sense of the new digital strategy. “He wasn’t able to answer questions about why we are doing this, other than saying that we need to embrace our digital future,” says a reporter, who requested anonymity. “He wasn’t doing a very good job of selling that.” Anderson also declined to comment when WW asked him the question. “We don’t have any comments on the specifics of the financial model,” he said by email, “except to say that we will remain profitable.” An hour later, Bhatia followed Anderson’s announcement by telling the newsroom that some editors would now be called “managing producers.” Bhatia’s new title would be “vice president of content.” And Bhatia acknowledged the initials
of Oregonian Media Group formed the abbreviation OMG. Someone in the back of the room cracked, “At least it’s not WTF.” The Oregonian that readers have come to expect over the last two decades was born of embarrassment. In 1992, the newspaper knew about— and failed to report—allegations of sexual misconduct by then-U.S. Sen. Bob Packwood (R-Ore.). The Washington Post broke the story instead, which led to Packwood’s eventual resignation and humiliation for The Oregonian. Fred Stickel, then The Oregonian’s publisher, understood he needed to shake up a sleepy newsroom. He did it by hiring Sandra Mims Rowe as editor in 1993. In many ways, Rowe spent her way to success: She eventually doubled the size of the newsroom to well above 300. But she also brought a new swagger and ambition to The Oregonian, demanding excellence and insisting the newspaper find ways to get better all the time. In 1999, business reporter Richard Read won the paper’s first Pulitzer Prize in 42 years by following a shipment of frozen french fries from Eastern Oregon to Asia. Under Rowe, the paper went on to win four more Pulitzers and have eight other finalists for journalism’s top award. Employees also enjoyed a remarkable protection under Stickel known as “the pledge”: No one would ever be laid off for economic reasons.
“YOU DON’T FEEL THEY ARE DOING THE RIGHT THING NOW, BUT RATHER SQUEEZING THE LAST PENNIES OUT OF THE PRINT PAPERS BEFORE THEY GO AWAY FOREVER.” —JAMES O. LONG, FORMER OREGONIAN REPORTER
The pledge was first made to Oregonian employees to keep out unions—the Newhouses broke the unions at the paper in the early 1960s. It soon spread to other Advance newspapers. Like many papers, The Oregonian was slow to recognize the potential of the Internet and the perils it would pose to its revenues. But Advance did act early by founding oregonlive.com as a separate company in 1997—splitting online business from print, and keeping control of the Web in New Jersey. In 2007, the U.S. economy went into a recession that collapsed print advertising and prompted newspapers to begin a
steady stream of layoffs (WW included). By some estimates, The Oregonian’s revenues fell by as much as one-third within two years as display advertising faded and classified ads—by that point still representing about a quarter of the company’s revenues—all but vanished. The Oregonian resisted layoffs, in 2008 offering generous buyouts to long-term employees, an expensive move Stickel believed was his moral duty given the pledge The Oregonian had made. But in 2009, Stickel, then 87, retired. Rowe soon followed him out the door. That left Rowe’s longtime deputy, Bhatia, and a new publisher, Anderson, a native
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Oregonian who’d previously served as publisher of The Orange County Register. In February 2010, Anderson and Bhatia laid off 37 employees, mostly in the newsroom. No more jobs for life. “It was the end of the solemn promise,” says a former Oregonian reporter. “It was incredibly painful.” Meanwhile, Advance Publications was working on a bold strategy. In 2009, it ended daily print publication of its newspapers in eastern Michigan, including The Ann Arbor News, and put all the news on the papers’ websites. Then last year, The New York Times broke the news that Advance was trying something even larger: It was ending daily publication of The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, a paper the company’s founder, S.I. Newhouse, had purchased in 1962. Along with the change came deep cuts in the newspaper’s staff. The decision brought jeers from most corners of the news business and particularly in New Orleans, which had relied on the newspaper’s heroics during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 (see “Letter From New Orleans,” page 16). Steve Newhouse, chairman of Advance’s digital wing, defended the strategy last August. “We are in the midst of a digital revolution, and instead of constantly being disrupted by our numerous online competitors, we decided to reinvent ourselves,” Newhouse wrote on poynter.org. Meanwhile, The Oregonian’s newsroom watched Advance cut publication days at other papers. “We knew it was coming,” says a reporter who was not laid off last week. “You talk about it in theory—about how you just want it to happen and end that bubble of uncertainty. But then when it happens, you just want to go back and live in that bubble of uncertainty.”
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Dear Portland: Sorry to hear about your paper. We in New Orleans got “Newhoused” a year ago, and readers of The Times-Picayune are still grousing. Advance Publications promised us, and you, that mass firings at the rebranded “NOLA Media Group” (NMG) would result in a more “robust” news product. (Among readers down here, “robust” became both a new term of sarcasm and a Twitter hashtag. A three-day-a-week paper? #Robust!) Here, the cutbacks leaked before the bosses were ready to announce them; the city got pissed off, and that anger hasn’t ebbed. But first the readers were in shock, wondering about the future, just as they are in Portland. You’ll still get a seven-day print product, but it won’t land on the porch every day. We got cut to a thrice-weekly publication, a decision reversed June 17. Turns out printadvertising revenue isn’t dead. It’s all very confusing for readers. Advance will explain it to you as soon as they figure it out themselves. (Looks like there was some mix-up in Portland over whether home delivery would be three days a week or four, and they haven’t figured out subscription rates yet.) When the executives do talk to the public, believe about half of what they tell you. Down here, the editor became the “vice president of content,” just like Oregonian Editor Peter Bhatia. Copy editors, who do the paper’s fact-checking, got axed; “quality assurance producers” were added to “ensure that every post meets search engine optimization goals.” Out went page designers; in came “curators of news,” who scrape the website for content and assemble stories for the print edition. Experienced reporters and editors with decades of institutional knowledge were fired, replaced by folks who are more Internet-friendly. Will reporters get posting quotas? Not exactly. But reporters who manage three or four stories a day here are the ones getting stroked by bosses. Earlier this month, after the corpse of a young local teacher was recovered from a bayou, NOLA Media Group’s digital czar was crowing. “2 galleries, one of the car being pulled from the water, and a second of the memorials, have generated 863,463 page views,” he wrote in a staff memo. “We were everywhere, and we owned this story!” Oregonian Publisher N. Christian Anderson III says Advance may sell the paper’s headquarters. Here, reporters moved into new high-tech offices atop a shopping mall and were given cellphones so they could shoot photos and video for their stories. Many of them still do fine journalism. But you can’t whack dozens of experienced people and expect the same overall quality in a newspaper. Your future is what they are already serving up on nola. com: “rivers of news,” heavy on sports scores and entertainment and polls designed to “get people talking” in the comments section. (That means encouraging the readers to provide much of the content themselves, just like Reddit— another Advance Publications holding.) One of the mostread stories on nola.com recently was “Zombie Run Infests City Park.” We got “NMG.” You’re getting “OMG.” It’s all very #robust. Love, New Orleans. Kevin Allman is the editor of Gambit, an alternative weekly in New Orleans. He lived in Portland from 2005 to 2008.
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education and poverty. Learn’s and Graves’ work was once The Oregonian’s definition of success: in-depth stories that regularly appeared on the front page. (“I think they’ll hire a new person who’s better at online stuff than I am!” Learn replied on Twitter to a reader indignant over his layoff.) “The decisions seem ruthless,” says Dan Hortsch, a retired reporter and editor who worked at The Oregonian for 41 years. “It just seems so cynical to say, ‘We’re replacing some well-known names, but we’re going to replace them and do the same quality journalism.’ There’s just no way to do that.” Some of those laid off were sanguine. Sports reporter John Hunt tweeted that he was flying home from covering the Oregon State Beavers in the College World Series in Omaha, Neb., noting, “I’ll be fine, especially if I can hit a Chick-fil-A on the way out of town.” Music writer Ryan White composed a farewell message online. “Yesterday, a lot of good, talented people—friends—were laid off, an act I always suspected wasn’t as gentle as it sounded,” he wrote. “I was right.” Charles Pope, The Oregonian’s former Washington, D.C., correspondent, linked to White’s post with a tweet: “This is the graceful, evocative, wonderful writing The Oregonian is losing. Screw you Little Stevie Newhouse.” In the days since he dropped the ax, Anderson has pledged that The Oregonian’s new digital focus will make the paper stronger. Industry experts say Advance is actually making a necessary move—changing a lumbering institution that faces a ceaseless decline in print-advertising revenues, in order to shore up oregonlive.com, which has gained a corner of the online market much as The Oregonian once dominated the regional print business. “I would scoff at its obituary,” says Owen Youngman, Knight professor of digital media strategy at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. “It will change, but it has not died.” Youngman says the financial motive for Advance’s decisions is clear—Monday, Tuesday and Thursday print editions have long been a money loser for most newspapers. “Any product that costs you 25 cents to make, and it only brings in a dime—how long are you going to produce that product?” he asks. Newsonomics analyst Doctor says The
Oregonian’s decisions may have saved as much as 25 percent of its costs. But both experts say Advance is bucking the conventional wisdom of American newspapers in how to make money on the Web. Many, including The New York Times, have tried to get readers to pay more—via online paywalls or higher subscription prices. Instead, the Newhouses have decided to stake The Oregonian’s fate on advertising— both print inserts and digital ads. “They have waited and waited and waited—and then rushed,” says Doctor. “It’s a leap into darkness, in terms of how you’re going to make money. But they have focused the whole company on seizing that future. They knew the old way wasn’t working.” Advance has already moved several of its papers away from daily printing, including The Times-Picayune, The Post-Standard in Syracuse, N.Y., and several in Michigan. But in March, Columbia Journalism Review found the newsrooms of those papers have been packed with inexperienced staff instructed to post quickly and often, with an emphasis on stories that will draw Web traffic. Three days after the layoffs were announced, Oregonian Media Group began posting job openings. The positions included a general assignment reporter and a content data analyst. No salaries were listed. The responsibilities for the reporter job included “story aggregation and topical link-posting” and “elevating comments into new posts when appropriate.” The Oregonian has not announced what it’s new subscription rate will be, but Anderson has already reversed one change: The new online paper will not be called MyDigitalO, a name that quickly generated laughter about the unintended sexual connotation. When asked by WW what readers of The Oregonian should expect the future to look like, Anderson quoted his own June 23 editorial. “Digital journalism allows us to tell stories in new and powerful ways beyond ink on newsprint, and we will take full advantage of the tools we have and will have,” he wrote. “Journalism that fully serves communities transcends the medium.” WW reporter Nigel Jaquiss and news interns Katie Gilbert and Ann-Derrick Gaillot contributed to this story.
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SEMI-PRO BREWING: Aaron Fabbri, co-owner of brewing supply shop Homebrew Exchange in North Portland, has an ambitious plan to partner with homebrewers. His plan is to add a taproom, small brewing facility, patio and falafel cart to his store, morphing it into the Crooked Bottle, a “communityfocused brewery incubator” where enterprising homebrewers can make and launch their own brands. The homebrewers won’t be paid for their brewing, but Fabbri will split the profits from any beer he can sell, though “there’s not a whole lot of profit to be divided up.” Fabbri took out a second mortgage after renovating part of his store and needs to raise about $26,000 before he can purchase the necessary equipment. “We spent pretty much all the money we had available,” he says. His Kickstarter campaign, which ends July 1, still had a long way to go as of press time.
NEW BRO: It looks like bustling Swedish brunch spot Broder intends to expand into the space of the just-shuttered Gotham Tavern (2240 N Interstate Ave.), according to a liquor-license application, despite brief rumors the space would be taken over by a former employee. In its heyday, the Gotham was a Portland food hot spot co-run by Beast’s Naomi Pomeroy. The BRODER Tavern then closed, reopened under new ownership and then closed again, winding out its run in May. According to the application, the new spot will be called Broder Nord. 20
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NEW ’WAY: After the closing of the neighborhood Safeway, Montavilla found itself with a bit of a grocery-store vacuum. No longer. Hong Phat Food Center has moved into Safeway’s old location at 101 SE 82nd Ave., and residents seem to have already discovered the Vietnamese market: It was so full on opening day, June 23, that it ran out of shopping carts and parking. Even the cheese section at Hong Phat, according to our WW operative, was “better than at the Safeway—at least, the Rogue Creamery cheese was cheaper.” In other Montavilla grocery news, a group called the Montavilla Food Co-Op is attempting to start a fresh, local and organic shop in the neighborhood and has launched a funding campaign on indiegogo.com.
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(GOING BACK TO) WELLSVILLE WITH MICHAEL STIPE, IGGY POP AND ASSORTED OTHER INDIE ROCKERS WHO HUNG WITH THE WRIGLEY BROTHERS. Remember the ’90s? Remember when indie rockers had enough clout to make it as bit actors in popular children’s television shows? Or when hell-raising garage-rock icons played park rangers and suburban dads? Perhaps you’ll follow me to the town of Wellsville for a brief refresher on The Adventures of Pete & Pete. The Wrigley brothers, both born with the name Pete (played by Mike Maronna and Danny Tamberelli), were normal kids who grew up in suburban anytown USA. They played hooky from school, got grounded and went on treacherous family
Iggy Pop as a concerned parent who’s instrumental in getting Artie (Toby Huss) kicked out of the neighborhood.
Gordon Gano of the Violent Femmes as a frazzled substitute math teacher.
vacations. Their offbeat universe hosted a wide variety of familiar characters: antagonistic teachers, menacing bullies with lackluster superpowers, weird neighborhood kids who were often annoying but sometimes useful. They even had their own personal superhero in Artie, the Strongest Man in the World. To prepare myself for the gang ’s reunion tour, which creators Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi will bring to the Hollywood Theatre this weekend, I dug for forgotten gems on YouTube with the hope that the show was as good as my inner
Kate Pierson of the B-52s as a crazy blind widow who refers to the erstwhile Mr. Tastee as “Leonard.”
Juliana Hatfield as a lunch lady.
tween remembers it to be. Has nostalgiadriven revisionist history made me forget that the show was actually terrible, like much of Nickelodeon’s other output from the ’90s? To my delight, the answer is no. What I didn’t remember, however, was that the show was littered with musicians of all stripes who went completely unnoticed by my 12-year-old self. LL Cool J played Little Pete’s teacher. Michael Stipe played a scab ice-cream man when Mr. Tastee, the gang’s beloved ice-cream man, disappeared. How did I miss this? As it turns out, I missed quite a few. PETE COTTELL.
David Johansen (aka Buster Poindexter) of the New York Dolls as a scrupulous park ranger.
Luscious Jackson as the entertainment for Big Pete’s fall dance.
Debbie Harry as a neighbor who employs the Petes to sweep her yard for land mines.
Richard Edson (the original drummer of Sonic Youth) as a school janitor.
GO: Petesfest: The Adventures of Pete & Pete Reunion is at the Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., hollywoodtheatre.org, on Friday and Saturday, June 28-29. 7:30 pm. $10.
WEDNESDAY JUNE 26 CINE-DANCE [MOVIES] There’s a long history of turning the kinetic into the cinematic—Dirty Dancing and Flashdance, anyone? This program of dance captured for the big screen features 10 collaborations between top Northwest dancers and filmmakers. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 7:30 pm. $8. ALELA DIANE [MUSIC] About Farewell, the melancholy new album from this dusky, dynamic Portland folk songstress, is informed by her recent divorce. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 2222031. 7:30 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.
THURSDAY JUNE 27 SAKE FEST PDX [BOOZE] Sample more than 80 local and Japanese sakes, along with food. Tickets get you access to everything. The Governor Hotel Heritage Ballroom, 614 SW 11th Ave., 224-3400. 6:30-9 pm. $50. 21+.
FRIDAY JUNE 28 PETE HOLMES [COMEDY] Holmes identifies his style as “youth pastor” and is known for his popular podcast You Made It Weird. In the fall, he’ll have his own late-night TV show after Conan. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $20. Under 21 permitted with parent or guardian.
SATURDAY JUNE 29 TODD EDWARDS [MUSIC] Thanks to Daft Punk, even EDM novices who don’t know their house from their garage know Edwards, who sang on and co-wrote the Random Access Memories track “Fragments of Time.” The L.A.based producer has been honing his unique, sample-based production style for over a decade. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9:30 pm. $12. AIR GUITAR [MIME] Competitive air guitar returns to Portland. Entrants will compete with imaginary instruments mostly held between their legs. The winner advances to the national championship in San Francisco. A lot is on the line, you just can’t see it. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 345-7892. 9:30 pm, $12. 21+.
SUNDAY JUNE 30 REBIRTH BRASS BAND [MUSIC] “Tuba Phil” Frazier and his drummer brother, Keith, cofounded this New Orleans institution 30 years ago. Mixing trad brass-band textures with contemporary flourishes of funk, R&B and hip-hop, the band has gone from the streets of the French Quarter to sold-out European tours and a 2012 Grammy. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $15 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.
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OUR SUMMER INTERNS GORGE THEMSELVES ON WORLDLY RAMEN. BY RI CH ARD GR U N ERT
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How good can instant ramen get? Good enough for Pok Pok’s Andy Ricker, Portland’s best-known chef and the restaurateur behind one of The New York Times’ top restaurants of 2012, who likes Thai Mamabrand noodles enough to have served them at the now-closed Ping, and at his newest venture, Sen Yai (see page 23). Curious how they would do at home, we convinced Sen Yai to sell us a sealed package of Mama ramen for $3. We came across the same package for 49 cents at Beaverton’s Uwajimaya market, and got excited. Then we got carried away, grabbing about 50 types of imported instant noodles for a taste-off. Six college-aged summer interns— plus WW’s technically homeless vandwelling columnist, Pete Cottell—sorted through them and picked out the most appetizing. We prepared them dorm-style, following the cooking instructions as closely as we could in our humble office kitchen, and serving them with plastic forks in mismatched ceramic bowls, warped Tupperware and one extra-large coffee mug. In the end, we had regrets.
Tapas at Kenny & Zuke’s
Restaurateur and Oregonian columnist Ken Gordon of Kenny & Zuke’s serves up a dozen family-style Spanish tapas to be paired with pomegranate sangria. The event is part of a summer-long weekly series called “Summer Wednesday Nights with Ken.” Reservations required. Kenny & Zuke’s Delicatessen, 1038 SW Stark St., 2223354. 6 pm. $42.50.
Hands-on Food Preservation
A four-part series of workshops dedicated to canning fruits, vegetables, meats and salsa. This course focuses on fruit-based canned products such as applesauce and jams, along with typical canning techniques and equipment. Registration required. Mt. Hood Community College, 26000 Stark St., Gresham, 491-6422. 6-9 pm. $25.
THURSDAY, JUNE 27 Sake Fest PDX
More than 80 local and Japanese sakes will be available, along with food and advice on pairing. Tickets provide access to all food and drink samples. Governor Hotel, 614 SW 11th Ave., 2243400. 6:30-9 pm. $50. 21+.
North American Organic Brewers Festival
Returning to Portland for its ninth year, the North American Organic Brewers Festival combines two of Portland’s favorite things: beer and sustainable practices. Featuring more than 50 organic beers and ciders from across the country, the festival will serve brews in environmentally respectful tasting cups touting the tagline, “Save the planet, one beer at a time.” Overlook Park, North Fremont Street and Interstate Avenue. Noon-9 pm. 21+.
Techno Tarts Raspberries Class
It’s finally raspberry season, and this two-hour class walks you through how to make different kinds of raspberryfilled cookies and low-sugar fruit preserves. Registration required. Two Tarts Bakery, 2309 NW Kearney St., 910-6694. 6 pm. $30.
Wai Wai Brand Oriental Style (60 points)
Other than “oriental style,” the packaging says nothing about the flavor. These Thai noodles looked like the kind you can get for 10 cents at any collegetown supermarket, but they were virtually tasteless, leaving only an unpleasant, burning aftertaste. TASTING NOTES: “Strange spicy aftertaste won’t leave your mouth.” “Looks like ramen, smells like garlic.”
Good Bean Vermicelli—Tom Yum Kung (56.6)
None of us was sure what “tom yum kung” flavor actually was at first, and we’re not sure if it’s meant to go with thin, clear Italian-Vietnamese noodles. This one comes with mysterious bits of unidentified fish (crab?) meat floating in the broth. TASTING NOTES: “The noodles feel like Jell-O.” “Like the Vietnamese trying to do angel hair pasta.”
King Chef Authentic Kimchi (56)
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Korean “authentic” kimchee flavor straight outta Vietnam, this soup smells a good deal like what they say they are; the noodles themselves, however, mostly just taste like salt.
Sauerkraut Class
Before refrigeration, sauerkraut was a staple, a way for people in northern climes to get vegetables and vitamin C in the winter. Learn how to make the famed pickled cabbage in this class at Cedar Mill’s Curious Farm, which specializes in sauerkraut and kimchee. The class takes you through two different recipes as well as safe fermentation techniques. Registration required. Email cathy@curiousfarm.com or call 971-2480717 for registration. 9 am-noon. $75.
TASTING NOTES: “So freakin’ spicy it wasn’t even worth it.” “This tastes like spicy salt.”
Lucky Me! Instant Pancit Canton (55)
Imported from the Philippines, this one made us a little nervous. The soup is murky and brown and smells nothing like chilies, but tastes spicy. TASTING NOTES: “I get a strange Cheerio aftertaste; not as spicy as it claims to be.”
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Hao Hao Mi Tom Chua Cay—Hot-Sour Shrimp (53.3)
The packaging proudly declares: “Made with Japanese technology,” but these noodles are actually from Vietnam. One of the strangest parts of this soup was the actual lack of soup in it: We cooked it with the amount of water recommended, but the noodles soaked up almost all the liquid. TASTING NOTES: “Overpowering saltiness; can’t taste any shrimp.” “Tastes like the seawater you’d find in a Midwest grocery store.”
Tu Quy Chicken (52.5)
While it looked and smelled exactly like chickenflavored Top Ramen, some in our group thought these Vietnamese noodles tasted more like cinnamon than chicken. TASTE NOTES: “Not sure how I feel about ramen that is reminiscent
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of Christmas, but this one tastes like a gingerbread cookie.” “Who came up for the recipe for this one? The cinnamon taste was…interesting.”
Bah Kut Tea Noodle For Vegetarian (50.7)
These Taiwanese noodles are for vegetarians in denial; there’s no actual meat in them (although chunks of meat are pictured on the packaging), but it comes with packets of artificial meat flavoring. TASTING NOTES: “The tightly curling noodles and the dark, amber color of the broth reminded me of the hair of a girl I liked in high school. On closer inspection, the flavor, like her, turned out to be less exciting than I hoped.”
IndoMie Beef & Lime (49.3)
Approved halal by Indonesian clerics, these noodles actually taste a lot like the packaging description. But make them without the included chili powder; you’ll never be able to taste the quite pleasant citrusy beef flavor if you do. TASTING NOTES: “Good, comforting, bland ramen. Like home.” “It tastes slightly buttery and a lot like cardboard.”
Moo Nam Tok—Boat Noodle With Pork (47)
The only thing not in Thai on the package are the words “SERVING SUGGESTION” (we had to get the product’s name transliterated at a Thai restaurant) and the cooking instructions. This murky soup tastes like a mix between artificial beef and artificial Asian; the saddest part is that we can actually tell the difference between them now. TASTING NOTES: “Tastes like a bizarre combination of all the spices in my pantry.”
Pho Chay Vegetarian (46.4)
One thing you’ll quickly notice about vegetarian ramen is the unhealthy-looking, radioactive orange glow many of them seem to have. If you can get past the floating globs of oil in the broth, the reward is an unidentifiable and overpowering sweetness. TASTING NOTES: “Looks like a bowl of toxic pizza grease.” “Crunchy, greasy and way too orange to be good for you. It even stained my fork orange.”
Paldo—Teumase (46.25)
The packaging of these Korean noodles has the subtitle “Flavor, Culture, Human.” We’re not entirely sure what that means, but the soup itself has no flavor, leaving only a strong burning sensation. TASTING NOTES: “This takes like if you mixed all the spices on the table at a pho restaurant into a bowl, then finished it with barbecue sauce.” “Overpowering spice, can’t taste anything else.”
Mama Artificial Duck (43.2)
Once you realize you can tell the difference between real and artificial duck, you know you’ve eaten too much ramen. At least these Thai noodles do it pretty well: Regular, dull, dorm-room flavor. TASTING NOTES: “Bland.”
Neo Guri Spicy Seafood (42.5)
It smells and tastes like seafood, but it isn’t really all that spicy. Unfortunately, the unappetizing and ugly orange broth might turn you away.
TASTING NOTES: “Definitely looks like spaghetti.” “It tastes like seaweed.”
Super Bihun (41.3)
This Indonesian ramen looks like what would happen if you mixed a bunch of noodles into some chowder; it isn’t all that bad, though, albeit a tad flavorless. It would go well with some meat in the soup. TASTING NOTES: “Flavorless and uninspiring, like the Wonder Bread of ramen.” “The clam chowder of ramen.”
Bun Rieu Cua—Sour Crab (39.5)
This Vietnamese ramen sure smells like crab, but the broth and noodles are flavorless to the extreme. It’s also got that disturbing orange glow and little chunks of soggy crab meat. Avoid. TASTING NOTES: “I actually liked this. It brings me straight to a Little Vietnam in Maryland.” “This smells like sour socks.”
Kung Nung Ma Now—Spicy Lemon Lime Shrimp (38)
The entire package is in Thai, and it’s got a meanlooking anime girl on the front. With a strong citrusy flavor, this one made many of us cringe when we tried it.
TASTING NOTES: “Actually tastes healthy. It would be good for one’s self-esteem come dinner time.” “This tastes like bathroom cleaner.”
Mexi-Ramen Chicken Habanero (38)
This one smells and tastes a lot like taco-truck fare. It claims to be chicken flavor, but none of us could taste it. TASTING NOTES: “One time in Tijuana I was served hot coffee in a plastic cup, and the coffee melted the cup. This soup reminds me of that flavor.”
Mama Oriental Style Shrimp (22.5)
This is the same flavor of Thai Mama noodles Ricker uses at Sen Yai. Seasoning packets give the broth a radioactive orange glow. The strangest part? It tasted it bit like a spicy shrimp-flavored margarita. TASTING NOTES: “Like a lime sinking into the Dead Sea.” “Citrusy and salty; like a margarita but not as fun.”
Sapporo Ichiban Shrimp (22)
In Japanese, “ichiban” means No. 1. To us, it’s No. 19. This one looks and tastes a lot more like chicken than shrimp, almost to the point where we’re worried they packaged the wrong flavoring packet. TASTING NOTES: “The noodles fall apart like dust bunnies.” “Appearance was promising, but it tasted like the cardboard box that I used to move my old, musty towels back home from college.”
Ve Wong Artificial Mushroom Pork (19.4)
This Taiwanese ramen smells a bit like pork, but no trace of either mushroom or swine is detectable. TASTING NOTES: “Gooey. Mushy. Taste made me cringe. Yikes.” “Looks like cat food and is just as bad…not that I’ve ever eaten cat food.”
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ANDY’S NOODLE HOUSE: Sen Yai’s phat si ew.
MORNING SEN ANDY RICKER’S NEW NOODLE JOINT HAS GREAT NOODLES, EVEN BETTER CUSTARD. BY M A RT I N C I Z M A R
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pandan leaf that makes Pok Pok’s drinking water so great. I’d gladly buy a bucket of it to dip thick, lightly toasted slabs of rich white bread from An Xuyen Bakery that is surprisingly superior to finger-sized fried crullers called patangko ($3 for six), not quite crunchy, not quite soft, and served at room temperature. Gooey coddled eggs in a clear glass ($6) are another option. Breakfast crowds have been light, and Sen Yai’s patio is a great place early in the day, when oppressively peppy Thai pop music and passing traffic on busy Division Street enliven, rather than annoy.
Andy Ricker is too busy to gather coconuts. Makes sense, given the Pok Pok owner has six At 11 am, the crowds start showing up, includrestaurants on two coasts, a nationally distributed line of drinking vinegars and a cookbook ing many families drawn to a big-name chef ’s cheaper, noodle-forward and kid-friendly spinoff. coming out this fall. Lat Khao, the Thai curry house he intended Sen Yai noodles are wonderful in phat si ew ($11), for the former Kappaya space, got lost in the a dish that’s a lot like familiar drunken noodles, shuffle. “Just the amount of work making curry wok-fried to a slight char with small pieces of paste would be insane,” Ricker told Portland pork and sliced Chinese broccoli stalks and tops. Monthly in February, saying it would be tough to My dining companion was similarly impressed get enough coconuts, even frozen. “I can’t be run- with ba mii tom yam muu haeng ($12.50), wheat ning around the city looking for...coconut meat.” noodles served with broth on the side and topped Sen Yai is his replacement. The noodle house with crumbled pork, dry pork medallions, chili took over the oddly shaped, bright blue-green vinegar and long beans that she compared to the building two blocks east of Pok Pok in May. If newly departed Wafu’s much-missed aburasoba. A pair of rice dishes includes another standPok Pok sometimes feels like a cozy maze of tarpout, kai kaphrao khai dao sided shanty shacks, Sen ($12.50), fried bits of minced Yai is a diner inside an auto Order this: Sangkhaya with toast ($4) or chicken and long beans flarepair shop. The bright main phat si ew ($11). dining room, decorated with I’ll pass: Pork bun, any Mama ramen dish. vored with onion, basil and soy sauce served alongside Thai cooking posters and soundtracked by Thai pop music, is surrounded a big pile of jasmine rice and the runny yolk of a by outdoor picnic tables under a high overhang, fried egg to glue it together. Sen Yai does have a few duds: Our vegan where your waitress may awkwardly offer your food to the party seated next to you or you may version of the flame-kissed spinach appetizer get wet or cold. The namesake, a big, supple rice borrowed from Pok Pok (phak boong fai daeng, noodle made fresh in house, is the star. Two other $9.50) was a lightly seasoned platter of hollow dishes actually use instant noodles (see page 22). spinach stalk and foliage in thin, salty sauce. And then there’s the ramen. We tried the vegSen Yai’s breakfast menu is its biggest revelation. Soup is breakfast in much of Southeast Asia, etarian version of the Mama phat ($9), stir-fried which is why Portland’s best pho shops open by instant noodles with green onion, bean sprouts, 9 am. Ricker offers three soups, along with toast, cilantro and a fried egg. The noodles, which Ricker custard, runny eggs and a steamed pork bun calls “a national obsession” in Thailand, where carts and restaurants serve them, seem out of ($3.50, unremarkable but for its price). Ricker’s kuaytiaw naam kai soup ($9), which place, like something a broke college student also appears on the dinner menu, is tasty but a would cook for a fifth date, or something prepared little flat—the broth is advertised as “simple” and by a busy man who barely has time to eat—let is, so spend some time spooning in sweet chil- alone search for frozen coconut. ies and white pepper. Thankfully Ricker found enough coconuts for the sangkhaya ($4 with EAT: Sen Yai, 3384 SE Division St., 236-3573, pokpoksenyai.com. 8 am-10 pm daily. $$. toast), a rich coconut custard flavored with the
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KRYZA. Goodfoot Lounge, 2845 SE Stark St., 503-239-9292. 9 pm. $6. 21+.
Jenny Don’t and the Spurs, the Lady Killers, Dusty Rust
Amy LaVere, Mark Pickerel
[SALOON-Y] If you thought the union of three punky Portland mainstays would produce another brash outfit similar to their previous bands, you’ll be surprised by Jenny Don’t and the Spurs. Featuring Jenny Don’t of Ladies of the Night on guitar, Kelly Halliburton of Pierced Arrows on bass, and Sam Henry of the Wipers on drums, the band dabbles in twangy acoustics rather than the distortion-heavy cuts you’d expect to come raging out of their amplifiers. “My heart is so blue/ So blue/ So blue without you,” Don’t sings achingly amid sparse, brushed drums and Halliburton’s walking bassline on the aptly titled “My Blue Heart.” It doesn’t revel in lyrical complexity, but sometimes sincerity is enough. BRANDON WIDDER. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
Trio Subtronic, Brett McConnell Lovetet
[JAZZHEADS] For the past halfdecade, Portland’s Trio Subtonic has played on stages big, small and everywhere in-between, along the way honing a sound steeped in classic club jazz and augmented by blasts of electric organ-driven funkiness. With the release of the ultra-mellow, infinitely listenable I’ll Meet You There Tomorrow, the group remains at the top of its game as an outfit that doesn’t just play together but seemingly breathes in unison, offering a modern take on the old school demanding to be discovered. AP
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[AMERICANA] Americana songstress Amy LaVere’s most recent album of new material, 2011’s Stranger Me, features a lot of self-searching, doubt, curiosity and a pervasive who-the-hellam-I theme. LaVere’s performances have an appealingly sarcastic and biting devil-may-care vibe, but considering the source material is so personal, that’s not really surprising. Her workmanlike attitude is also impressive given that she moonlights in other bands and performs on other projects when she’s not doing her own stuff. LaVere’s music isn’t exactly upbeat, but as long as she’s creating, she’s happy as a clam. BRIAN PALMER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
THURSDAY, JUNE 27 Madeleine Peyroux
[SULTRY JAZZ] Madeleine Peyroux has the sort of sultry, oh-my-God-Ican’t-believe-I-just-heard-that voice of which jazz dreams are made. When she pairs her vocals against blues and even R&B-tinged numbers—particularly on her latest record, Blue Room, which features covers of songs from the classic Ray Charles album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music—the results are remarkable. It takes guts to take on such historically relevant material, but Peyroux proves she is up to the task. As one of the
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MYKKI BLANCO Born: Michael Quattlebaum Jr. in 1986 in San Mateo, Calif. Sounds like: A gender-twisted gangster straight outta Hades, blasting holes through hip-hop’s hetero-normative heart, with enough wig and vocal change-ups to make Nicki Minaj’s head spin. For fans of: Lil B, Lil Wayne, Death Grips, an alternate reality where RuPaul’s Drag Race is hosted by Marilyn Manson. Latest release: Betty Rubble: The Initiation, the Brooklyn rap artiste’s first official EP, in which she titters like a schoolgirl, imitates Michael Jackson (badly), threatens to “douche” and “Lenny Bruce” her enemies and drops a verse in demonic Latin, all over shuddering, eerily sparse beats. Why you care: Whatever you do, don’t say it has anything to do with so-called “queer rap.” True, in the last year, openly gay MCs like Le1f and Zebra Katz have stepped out from behind hip-hop’s candelabra, and Blanco, who wields gender the way Ice Cube brandishes a TEC-9, is perhaps the most intriguing example, but the former Michael Quattlebaum Jr. requests that you kindly keep him out of your journalistic think piece. A teenage runaway and art-school dropout, he toiled in the industrial-punk underground before creating Mykki Blanco as a means of exploring and distorting notions of sexual identity and street life in general. It might sound like a performative put-on, but the bottom line is, Quattlebaum is as fascinating to listen to as he is to ponder. She might not look like anything rap has seen before, but ask Blanco and she’ll tell you she’s part of a lineage— from Slick Rick to Lil Kim to Andre 3000—taking hip-hop’s natural flamboyance to the next logical level. Then again, none of those other rappers ever appeared in a video wearing a dead octopus. SEE IT: Mykki Blanco plays Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., with Beyondadoubt, Isaiah Allure Esquire and Nathan Detroit, on Sunday, June 30. 8:30 pm. $15 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.
GUITAR ROMANTIC: Michael Herrman at Rock School Kabul.
AFGHAN GIGS A PORTLAND MUSICIAN TEACHES KABUL YOUTH HOW TO ROCK. BY MATTHE W SIN GER
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In the United States, the phrase “rock school” rings a tad false. There’s nothing wrong with empowering kids through music they actually listen to, but teaching something as fundamentally non-pedantic as rock ’n’ roll in an institutional context seems like a contradiction in terms. (Have any School of Rock instructors actually heard “School’s Out”?) Doing so in Afghanistan—a country where, as recently as 2011, Islamic militants beheaded civilians for participating in mixed-gender dance parties—is a different story. There, giving young people the tools to express themselves is a revolutionary act. Earlier this year, Michael Herrman, of Portland chamber-pop group Buoy LaRue, found himself in Kabul, teaching AC/DC riffs to teenagers afraid to be seen in the streets carrying a guitar. Now, the 35-year-old musician is back in Portland, looking to raise funds and collect instruments for donation to the country’s first music-based youth center, Rock School Kabul. WW spoke to Herrman about the Afghan rock scene and the joy and danger involved in what the school is doing. WW: How did you wind up in Afghanistan? Michael Herrman: My wife works for an [international nongovernmental organization] that’s based in Kabul. We’d been apart 10 months, and I basically said, “This isn’t working, so I’m going to come to you.” When I got there, my wife introduced me to some friends, and one of them happened to start a rock school that’s in its second year. Of course, before I left Portland, that’s what I did here, I taught guitar. I started volunteering there and teaching about seven Afghan kids a week. What are the kids interested in musically? There’s a big metal scene there, which is interesting. It made me think back to my youth, when I was learning to play guitar and writing my own songs. When you start out, as a teenager you have all this built-up angst, and naturally, your music is
going to reflect that kind of emotion. There’s a lot of anger there, frankly. These kids have a lot to say. They’re very political in their lyrics, and they’re speaking their mind, which is dangerous to do, in some ways. Is there a rock scene developing in Kabul? There is a little scene there. There aren’t your Dante’s or those kind of clubs. The shows are more controlled. They’re also way earlier in the day, at like 5 pm, because a lot of these kids have to be home by 7. But they’ll pack a 200-seat house. Is there danger in what Rock School is doing? I think I’d be naive if I said no. I have had kids talk to me about being uncomfortable carrying a guitar down the streets of Kabul to the Rock School, because they don’t want to be seen. In terms of getting people in danger, it’s just about being smart and knowing, yes, it is a war zone. For example, for the performances I had there—I had over 20 gigs when I was there, believe it or not—the shows I did, you don’t publicize them. Here you send out a big Facebook invite, you text all your friends, you send a press release. None of that happens [in Afghanistan]. The day before the show, you send an email out. You don’t want there to be this knowledge of when, where and what you’ll be doing. Were there any moments when you actually felt in danger? I was at the school, it was about 5:30 in the evening. I got a text from my wife’s NGO and their security department saying everything’s on lockdown, no movement until further notice. We came to understand that was the attack on the U.N. right before we left. You could hear the gunfire from our street. I’m not sure what’s stranger: The fact that there was gunfire six blocks away from me, or that by the time I knew it, I was OK with it. I wasn’t numb to it, but it’s just part of the life there. I went out on the street and there are kids playing soccer. There are guys at the grocery store and vendors selling produce. Life doesn’t change because there’s gunfire happening down the street. SEE IT: The Rock School Kabul Benefit, featuring Naomi Hooley, Buoy LaRue, the Heritage and Tufan, is at Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., on Monday, July 1. 8 pm. $15-$20 sliding scale. 21+.
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best jazz vocalists of our era, this should come as no surprise. BRIAN PALMER. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $45. All ages.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 28 Mos Generator, Ancient Warlocks, Shut Your Animal Mouth
[STONER FRIENDS] Now that Black Sabbath has made it to the top of the Billboard charts, it can no longer be said that playing stoner music leads to an inevitable dead end, which must be a welcome development for Tony Reed. Up in Port Orchard, Wash., Reed has been beating his head against the glass ceiling since 2000 with his Mos Generator project. The band is a professional trio with two dozen releases under its belt. Its latest split 7-inch with brother band Ancient Warlocks melds the girth of Sabbath with the guile of Soundgarden—a combination hefty enough to, perhaps, finally cause a breakthrough. NATHAN CARSON. Club 21, 2035 NE Glisan St., 235-5690. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
Spellcaster, Skelator, Gorgon Stare, Night Nurse
[SPIKY NORTHWEST METAL] Fans of old-school thrash and power metal, rejoice: This show features two of the finest no-frills hard-rock bands in the Northwest. Local metalheads should’ve already been thrilled at the prospect of seeing Spellcaster again, especially with the band’s new lineup and the promise of previewing a batch of new songs from its upcoming album. But don’t show up late and miss Skelator, the Seattle quintet that takes cues from ’70s-era Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, from denim vests and fantasy novel lyrics to the glassshattering wail of vocalist Jason Conde-Houston. ROBERT HAM. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 2266630. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
Fault Lines, Boat, Future Historians
[GARAGE POP] Sporting thick, neon-bright guitars and a booming vocalist in the Beth Ditto mold, Fault Lines is a garage band that sounds much too big to fit in an actual garage. Portland usually doesn’t take kindly to that sort of outsized ambition, but the group’s debut, Tapes and Wires, is too hooky to ignore. It’s a classic example of making nice tires without reinventing the wheel: You’ve heard these exuberantly winsome power-pop melodies before, but they still stick in your heart. And with frontwoman Sara Hernandez belting them out, those melodies nearly transform into a force of nature. MATTHEW SINGER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
Vieux Farka Toure, Tezeta Band
[AFRICAN BLUES] As if he didn’t feel enough pressure as the son of one of Africa’s most legendary musicians, Vieux Farka Toure has had to deal with increasing competition in the past few years in the arena of Malian blues. His father, Ali Farka Toure, introduced the world to the trance-inducing guitars of the Sahara in the ’90s, and after he passed away in 2006, Vieux picked up the torch while also fusing the traditions of his homeland with dabs of modern funk and rock. But with the recent global successes of artists such as Tinariwen and Bombino, there is a race on for the title of Mali’s leading cultural ambassador—a title Vieux once held almost by default given his lineage. With this year’s gorgeously mesmeric Mon Pays, though, the 31-year-old proves he is still very much in the running for that particular designation. MATTHEW SINGER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $25. 21+.
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[NEXT-GEN TEEN BOP] Louisiana
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LA LUZ FRIDAY, JUNE 28 [NORTHWEST BEACH MUSIC] La Luz is a study in contrast. The Seattle quartet melds ’60s girl-group harmonies with boys-club surf guitar, and the band’s buzz-garnering debut 2012 EP, Damp Face, would feel equally appropriate as the soundtrack to a Quentin Tarantino movie as to a Frankie and Annette beach romp. The group’s new single, the jangly earworm “Brainwash,” is sun-dappled dream pop projected through the cloud-covered skies of the Emerald City. Despite those contradictions, guitarist Shana Cleveland says the quartet knows precisely what it wants to be—at least, more than her previous group with La Luz drummer Marian Li-Pino, the psych-rock outfit the Curious Mystery. “I guess we’re more focused,” Cleveland says. “La Luz has a clear vision of what we’re doing and what we want to do, how we want to make people feel.” Cleveland says La Luz’s sound was a natural evolution from her days growing up in the Midwest, harboring equal fascination with the beach and rock ’n’ roll. “I would spend every moment I could on the shore of Lake Michigan, just by myself, watching waves,” she says. “When I taught myself how to play surf guitar, it was a revelation, because I felt like I could merge the two things I loved.” For her part, Li-Pino credits her mother’s obsession with oldies and girl groups. “I was constantly singing along with her or learning dance moves,” she says, citing the Shirelles, Dusty Springfield and the Beach Boys among her favorites. “Back when it wasn’t ‘white music’ or ‘black music,’ it was the music of the poor and the young and the wild and the perpetually unsatisfied,” adds Cleveland, who writes the band’s lyrics. “Growing up as I did, half-black and half-white, I was always told that I wasn’t supposed to like certain types of music, like rock and country, because they were ‘white.’ That always pissed me off, because as far as I know, black people invented rock ’n’ roll. So I think part of the reason I gravitate toward early rock ’n’ roll is because it was an era when the music wasn’t limited by being attributed to one race or another.” It’s been barely a year since Cleveland and Li-Pino formed La Luz with keyboardist Alice Sandahl and bassist Abbey Blackwell, taking their name from a church on Seattle’s south side. Within a few months, the four women were in the studio—a friend’s “little music cave” in a trailer park—cranking out a tight batch of atmospheric bursts and Ronettes-style ballads. Damp Face is a hooky, lo-fi gem, featuring assured psychedelic textures and retro riffs awash in swooning, reverb-soaked vocals, with each member taking a turn on the mic. A full-length is due this fall. Having been in co-ed bands before, Li-Pino calls the immediate attention given La Luz because of its all-female dynamic “an interesting social experiment. I’ve had a guy look at the drum key I usually wear around my neck and ask if my boyfriend played the drums. Or just the mildly annoying comments on our media pages, like, ‘I knew there would be a day when I liked a girl band.’ “But my favorite comments have been from girl fans,” she continues. “Nothing catty or envious, just really supporting us for our musicianship. It is probably the best feeling ever to hear genuine comments like that.” AMANDA SCHURR. Seattle surfer grrrls ride a dreamy wave of retro.
SEE IT: La Luz plays the Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., with the Shivas and Teenspot, on Friday, June 28. 8 pm. $5. 21+.
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FRIDAY-SATURDAY sextet Royal Teeth ought to be playing all-ages shows. I feel for the kids on this one, as they won’t be able to take in the band’s candy-coated pop rock that feels like it was made directly for them. Forthcoming debut Glow basks in simple, sunny melodies and bouncy, boy-girl call-and-response vocal harmonies. Complicated Royal Teeth is not, but therein lies the band’s feel-good, youthful cuteness. It’s the kind of stuff that’ll take you straight back to your awkward beer-stealing, diarywriting era. MARK STOCK. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
Perhapst, Old Light, Reverb Brothers
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[ALT-COUNTRY] John Moen, aka Perhapst, boasts a résumé that’s about as impressive as any musician’s in Portland. The drummer has played with Elliott Smith, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Dharma Bums, the Minus 5, and Guided by Voices’ Robert Pollard, among others—not to mention a little band from here called the Decemberists. In 2008, Moen stepped out from behind the skins with Perhapst’s eponymous debut, proving himself a talented multiinstrumentalist and pop songwriter. Five years later, he’s back with Revise Your Maps, an album that, true to its title, finds Moen shifting course into promising alt-country territory. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. White Eagle Saloon, 836 N Russell St., 2826810. 9:30 pm. $8. 21+.
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Twista, Rose City Gang, Mr. C, Dubz from Mercenary/ENT
[SPEED RAP] Chicago rapper Twista has an oral fixation, in more ways than one. In practically every photo, the self-proclaimed world’s fastest rapper is biting on something—whether chomping his own lip, a stack of Benjamins, a silver ring or a thick gold chain with a gleaming Rubik’s cube on one end. I don’t know what all this has to say about his rapid lyrical style, honed in rap battles on the streets of Chicago’s K-Town, or about his vast collaborations with artists as diverse as Jay-Z, Kanye, R. Kelly, Three 6 Mafia, E-40 and Monica. Here’s to hoping Twista is a literalist and he’s just putting his money where his mouth is. MITCH LILLIE. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE 39th Ave., 233-7100. 8:30 pm. $25 advance, $35 day of show.
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[HOUSE] Random Access Memories, Daft Punk’s latest (but not greatest) album, has had a mixed effect on people. It made some wish the French duo hadn’t changed its formula. It caused others, like Todd Edwards, to relocate to California. After contributing his voice and signature
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COMMENTARY REED JACKSON ON FLEETWOOD MAC Unlike many other kids I know, my parents didn’t introduce me to Fleetwood Mac. Between my jazzhead father and Motownloving mother, there were hardly any rock records in my house growing up. My love of the group isn’t rooted in childhood nostalgia. It is purely out of love for their tunes. As soon as I first heard “Dreams” on KBOO, I knew the Mac would become one of my favorites. A few years after I began collecting vinyl, I had nearly their entire discography on wax, from their early, bluesy stuff to 12-inch singles for huge hits like “Rhiannon.” Only one album was missing from my collection: 1982’s Mirage. Fans consider it their “sellout” record, but to me, that’s when the band’s organic sound found an alluring smoothness—“Gypsy” will forever be my summertime cool-out jam. It took me about three years to find the album. Crusty, old record-store owners would laugh at me, asking why they would even consider keeping Mirage in stock. I dug through stacks of the band’s records, only to discover endless copies of Rumours and Heroes Are Hard to Find. Even Lindsey Buckingham’s solo albums were easier to find. Not even the dollar bins had a dingedup version. Somehow, this had become my holy grail record—an album a lot of people probably adopted from their parents, then threw out. In 2012, I flew down to L.A. to visit my girlfriend, who I’d been in a long-distance relationship with since meeting at the Goodfoot in Southeast Portland. Two days into the trip, we broke up. Dejected, I decided to do some shopping at Hollywood’s massive Amoeba Music record store. And that’s when I saw it: that beautiful, purple-tinged cover of Buckingham and Stevie Nicks dancing, all mine for the buying. I damn near cried. It was as if God said, in a burnt-out hippie voice, “Cheer up. Who needs a girlfriend when you have Stevie?” When I got back to Portland, the first thing I did was open the windows to my overstuffed basement room and put the record on. “Gypsy” was as smooth as ever; “Hold Me” still catchy as hell. My world was finally whole. Of course, I could have just ordered the album online years earlier. But what’s the fun in that?
THE B-52s AND THE GO-GO’s • JULY 7
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SEE IT: Fleetwood Mac plays Rose Garden Arena, 1 N Center Court St., rosequarter.com, on Sunday, June 30. 8 pm. $29.50$149.50. All ages.
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ALELA DIANE ABOUT FAREWELL (RUSTED BLUE) [FOLK] On the title track of her new album, About Farewell, local songstress Alela Diane sings, “Leaving is the hardest part, that’s what we always said/ Once upon the other side, it’s best not to look back.” Looking back, however, is precisely what Diane spends the length of this thoroughly elegiac and lovely collection of songs doing. About Farewell is, well, about farewells: goodbyes, separations, parting’s sweet sorrow, etc. It’s easy to draw a connection between the theme and Diane’s recent divorce, but over these 10 tracks, the songwriter is clearly talking about more than her exhusband. Indeed, on “Rose & Thorn,” she’s her own whipping boy. “Oh, the mess I’ve made,” she laments. “A crimson rose, a hundred thorns.” Throughout the record, Diane is accompanied by delicate, gorgeous piano, strings and drums from musicians-about-town Heather Broderick, Holcombe Waller and Neal Morgan, while her voice—always the main draw—is as dusky and dynamic as ever. On About Farewell, Diane may be down, but she’s certainly not out. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG.
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SEE IT: Alela Diane plays the Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., with Holcombe Waller, on Wednesday, June 26. 7:30 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.
RADIATION CITY ANIMALS IN THE MEDIAN (TENDER LOVING EMPIRE)
[SPACE-AGE INDIE POP] A few months ago, upon hearing “Zombies,” the first single off Radiation City’s new album, a friend of mine compared it to Pink Martini. That’s unfair, but not totally inaccurate. Like the bigmoney swing-pop orchestra, Rad City’s indie exotica exudes a certain lavishness. Animals in the Median, the quintet’s first album since becoming the talk of Portland last year, conjures images of retro-futurist bachelor pads in its kitschy synths, poolside tiki parties in its bossa-nova swing, and concert-hall luxury boxes in its cinematic strings. Under the well-manicured accoutrements, however, is superb pop craft: swooping melodies, lush choruses and the indispensable voice of singer Elisabeth Ellison, who alternates between resembling a sprightly Victoria Legrand (“Foreign Bodies”) and Portishead ice queen Beth Gibbons come unfrozen (“Wash of Noise”). It’s a reminder why Radiation City is the only Portland band you and your mom can agree on—and why that shouldn’t be interpreted as a slight. MATTHEW SINGER. SEE IT: Radiation City plays Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., with Social Studies and XDS, on Friday, June 28. 8 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.
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[SUNNYSIDE SYNTHS] On their full-length debut, SoCal ex-pats Jeff and Ryan Burian channel their sunny home into a disc’s worth of summer-ready jams. From crystalline instrumental opener “Big Folk”—what may have happened if M83 reworked the Cure’s “Plainsong”—to slippery slow-jam coda “Is It Over,” the Béisbol brothers keep the grooves retro and the harmonies posh. The jazzy, yacht-rocking “Disappear” and “Taking It All (Easy)” could be Steely Dan outtakes, and “Dead Beats” jitters through a Talking Heads-like verse before the balls-out chorus. Elsewhere, “That Feeling” flits along with lithe bass funk and loops, while “Nothing Strange” throws a dub-meets-MGMT house party. There’s one breezy hook after another here, be it the fuzzy high of “Ecstasy,” with sing-along refrain “All I wanna do is have fun with you/ I’ll take you in my room and fall in love with you,” the pure ’80s synth pop of “Easier Without It” or the staccato wake-up call “Ready for Something.” Ready or not, this season’s soundtrack has arrived. AMANDA SCHURR. SEE IT: Béisbol plays a record-release show at Rontoms, 600 E. Burnside St., with Old Age, on Sunday, June 30. 8 pm. Free. 21+.
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Flesh Lights, the Pity Fucks, Hornet Leg
[FULL-TIME PUNKS] I can think of no finer place for this show than the cozy confines of the Know. What better spot is there to lose one’s shit over the ballsy, garage-punk fury of Flesh Lights? The Austin, Texasbased band comes to town gearing up for the release of a new LP, and if its last record, Too Big to Fail, a four-song blast of beer- and smokefueled vitriol and brio, is any indication, the new material is going to leave scorch marks on your ear holes. ROBERT HAM. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. Call venue for ticket information. 21+.
GOLDEN GIRLS: Prince Rama plays Mississippi Studios on Tuesday, July 2. sampled melodies to “Fragments of Time,” the formerly New Jerseybased producer decided he couldn’t leave the L.A. environment, where the album was recorded. For the first 10 years of his career, Edwards honed his version of house production largely from his bedroom before finding underground success in Europe. For a guy who’s been defining garage-house music for more than two decades to have finally found a comfortable scene in L.A. is even more exciting for listeners. And unlike those Francophone androids, Edwards knows his formula and sticks to it, for better or worse. MITCH LILLIE. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9:30 pm. $12. 21+.
Old Crow Medicine Show, Dale Watson [ACOUSTI-PUNKGRASS] From the band’s humble beginnings—busking in Appalachian North Carolina, being discovered by folk forefather Doc Watson, performing regular gigs at the Grand Ole Opry and on Prairie Home Companion—to hitting the “Free Bird” big time by finishing a song half-written by Bob Dylan (“Wagon Wheel”), Old Crow Medicine Show helped spearhead the newgrass movement, peddling its breakneck strings a decade before Mumford, Avett and the Lumineers took the roots revival mainstream. The group’s fourth album, Carry Me Back, further evolves its brand of aggressive, altinfused Americana. Unromanticized tales of tobacco farms and moonshine testify to OCMS as an authentic, off-the-rails throw-forward. AMANDA SCHURR. Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Road, 220-2789. 7 pm. Sold out. All ages.
Nu Era, Kingdom Crumbs, Kung Foo Grip, Chill Crew
[FUTURE HIP-HOP] Seattle hip-hop has exploded into colors in recent years. While that scene’s biggest name, Shabazz Palaces, deals in elastic, black-lit murkiness, much of the rest of the city’s MCs dabble in psychedelic fluorescents. See: everyone on this bill. While each group certainly has its own identity, they’re linked by a few key components— glow-in-the-dark synths, cloud-funk beats, head-trip lyrics—most of all a desire to expand rap’s borders into the cosmos. I can’t speak toward Nu Era, Kung Foo Grip or Chill Crew’s live shows, but if they’re anything like Kingdom Crumbs’ Martian roof-raisers, then get ready for one wigged-out party. MATTHEW SINGER. Rotture, 315 SE 3rd Ave., 234-5683. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
Wooden Indian Burial Ground, And And And, Grandparents, Summer Cannibals
[NEW ROCK] At this point, if you care at all about Portland music, then you probably already know about psychedelic garage ghouls Wooden Indian Burial Ground and trippy pop ensemble Grandparents, two bands that’ve made names for themselves by gigging constantly over the past year. And you certainly know And And And, who’ve practically become mascots for the city’s rock scene. The odd group out on this loaded local bill is Summer
Cannibals, though that won’t be for long: The foursome’s got a debut album, No Makeup, dropping in August, and the songs circulating from it thus far show a quartet—three girls, one dude—adept at chunky, ’90s-gazing riffage and swinging, snarling hooks. Methinks you’ll be hearing—and reading—a lot more about them in the next year, so get acquainted now. MATTHEW SINGER. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
SUNDAY, JUNE 30 Rebirth Brass Band
[RIGHTEOUS NOLA FUNK] In the 30 years since “Tuba Phil” Frazier and his drummer brother Keith cofounded Rebirth Brass Band with their high-school-marchingband brethren, the assorted players have become ambassadors of New Orleans culture. The collective’s mix of trad textures—second-line syncopations, call-and-response, gospel, jazz—and contemporary flourishes of funk, R&B and hip-hop have taken the group from the streets of the French Quarter to sold-out European tours to a 2012 Grammy for Best Regional Roots Music Album, a first for a brass band. The group is also responsible for modern-day Crescent City classics “Do Whatcha Wanna” and “Feel Like Funkin’ It Up,” soul-packed grooves whose powerhouse horns are matched by vibrant rhythms. The nine-member ensemble still raises the roof every Tuesday at NOLA’s iconic Maple Leaf Bar. Here’s a chance to catch the band on the West Coast. AMANDA SCHURR. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $15 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.
Ziggy Marley
[IRON LION SCION] Under the best of circumstances, firstborn heirs of genre-defining, world-entrancing, prematurely-departed icons face impossible hurdles pursuing the family trade, and Ziggy Marley inherited a particularly challenging legacy. His father’s simplicity of music and unanimity of message proved unexpectedly ripe for adoption by brotherhoods of men rather more exclusive—the truncated discography and shambling beat precisely matching the needs of fratboys as loath to dance as shop for records—but, if Ziggy’s early work with the Melody Makers or similarly sun-dappled solo efforts plough only the most saleable reggae terrain, there’s also reason for children born of prosperity to avoid divisiveness. While 2011’s Wild And Free—his last non-concert release—essentially retains the irie blueprint, the title track’s spirited, expansive call-to-arms regarding California ballot measures for weed legalization (Woody Harrelson guest vocals, natch) suggests an artist who has perhaps finally found focus for these ancestral songs of freedom. JAY HORTON. Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Road, 220-2789. 7 pm. $32.50-$62.50. All ages.
TUESDAY, JULY 2 Prince Rama, Lavender Mirror
[REINVENTED POP] Last year, sibling two-piece Prince Rama concocted Top Ten Hits of the End of the World, an absurdist pop record that imagined tracks from 10 different imaginary acts that died during the apocalypse. If that sentence strikes you as bizarre, then maybe this show just isn’t for you. But if you want to restructure your concept of music through tribal, glassy, psych-tinged trance, this night is for you. Sisters Taraka and Nimai Larson make up the band, which is one of the busiest around, turning out at least a recording each year for the past half-decade. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Third Angle
[PORCH MUSIC] Portland’s oldest new-music ensemble has been as forward-thinking in its ways of presenting music as it is in programming it, including playing in such unusual settings as Lan Su Chinese Garden, Keller and Lovejoy fountains, and a bank lobby. For this fundraiser, the group divides its audience into five groups, which stroll through Northeast Portland’s historic Irvington neighborhood and stop at five different porches, each sporting a small ensemble playing a different piece from the band’s next season lineup. BRETT CAMPBELL. Multiple locations. 4 pm Saturday, June 29. $35. All ages.
ViVoce
[A CAPPELLA CHORAL] The a cappella women’s choir from Portland Revels continues its exploration of choral music from around the world with a colorful program of summery classical and folk songs from Armenia, Bulgaria, Finland, Croatia, Turkey, Czechoslovakia, England and North America—including music by Portland composer Joan Szymko (of Do Jump and Aurora Chorus) and Palestrina—plus readings from storytellers Ithica Tell and Bob Sterry. BRETT CAMPBELL. St. Michael and All Angels Church, 1704 NE 43rd Ave., 284-7141. 4:30 pm Sunday, June 30. $15 adults, $12 students and seniors, free for children ages 6-12, $5 as part of Arts for All program. All ages.
Imani Winds
[RE-RITE OF SPRING] In this centennial year of its premiere in Paris, we’ve heard “The Rite of Spring” arranged for jazz piano trio, one piano, two pianos and more—so why not flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn? One of classical music’s most ebullient and audiencefriendly ensembles, the New Yorkbased quintet Imani Wind returns to Chamber Music Northwest to perform its new arrangement for winds of Igor Stravinsky’s century-shaking ballet score, along with another 20th century classic, Francis Poulenc’s breezy “1939 Sextet.” BRETT CAMPBELL. Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, 294-6400. 8 pm Monday, July 1. $15-$50.
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Fringe Class, Rare Monk, Ninja Turtle Ninja Tiger, Koruscant Weekend
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722 E Burnside St. DEG Jam Fest: Aaron Obryan Smith, Elite, the Uniques
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Unease, Prestige, Buck Williams, Bad Decisions, Crib Death, Show Your Strength
Club 21
2035 NE Glisan St. Mos Generator, Ancient Warlocks, Shut Your Animal Mouth
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. LaRhonda Steele
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Spellcaster, Skelator, Gorgon Stare, Night Nurse
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Fault Lines, Boat, Future Historians
East End
MAN FROM MALI: Vieux Farka Touré plays Mississippi Studios on Friday, June 28.
WED. JUN. 26 Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Stab in the Dark, Ill Lucid Onset, The Moon Dogs, The Union Drifters
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Italics, Studenets, Taylor M., Telephobia
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Darkest Hour, Wayfarer, Hail the Artilect, When They Invade
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Jenny Don’t and the Spurs, the Lady Killers, Dusty Rust
Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. Chris Pureka, Emy Reynolds Band
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Warm Soda, Youthbitch, The Cry
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Trio Subtronic, Brett McConnell Lovetet
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE 39th Ave. Machine Head, Proven, American Roulette, Separation Of Sanity
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Still Pigeons, PWRHAUS, Swim Swam Swum
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet, Harry Allen
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Jr. Worship
Langano Lounge 1435 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Hollagramz
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Amy LaVere, Mark Pickerel
Matt Danger, Mr. Plow, Sean from the Mormon Trannys
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Two Moons
Suki’s Bar & Grill 2401 SW 4th Ave. Walkfast
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. The Reality Show, Hollow, Spit Vitriol, Disavow
The Old Church
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Euphonius Thump
Foggy Notion
Thorne Lounge
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Delaney & Paris
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Do You Remember Rock ‘n’ Roll? Radio Show: Pat Kearns
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Ruthann de la Vega
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Pall Jenkins
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Buckcherry, Girl On Fire
THURS. JUNE 27 Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Madeleine Peyroux
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Matices
Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band
Ash Street Saloon
Red Room
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Defiance Ohio, Naam Sain, Strangeweather
315 SE 3rd Ave. Giraffage, Mister Lies, citymouth, Quarry
Shaker and Vine
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Redwood Tango
Gemini Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. The Infinity of it All, 1000 Fuegos
4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Musicians Open Mic
Rotture
Slabtown
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Jordan Harris
Tango Alpha Tango
3416 N Lombard St. M.A.R.C and the Horse Jerks, Dwight Dickinson, Raw Dog and the Close Calls 6526 SE Foster Road Sean Gaskell
3158 E Burnside St. One From Many 2530 NE 82nd Ave.
350 W Burnside St. DRC 3, Split Anchor, Raw Dog and the Close Calls
1422 SW 11th Ave. Alela Diane, Holcombe Waller
225 SW Ash St. Grey for Days, Sparkle Nation, Aron Schur, Jeremy Knuth
Music Millennium
Dante’s
Goodfoot Lounge
1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. Old Man Markley, Country Trash, Shadow Tag
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE 39th Ave. Motive, Cellar Door, Spirit Lake
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1033 NW 16th Ave. We Are / She Is, Smoke Rings, Needles and Pizza
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Demure, Give It FM, KINGS AND VAGABONDS
1435 NW Flanders St. Tom Grant Vocal Showcase: Lauri Jones, Rylie DeGarmo
Tony Starlight’s
Jimmy Mak’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Fang Moon, Outer Minds
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown B3 Organ Group
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Sex Ghost, Sweet Tooth, Mister Tang
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Joel Savoy, Jesse Lege
Laughing Horse Books
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Martens Combination
Valentine’s
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Kory Quinn
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Susannah Mars
FRI. JUNE 28
2346 SE Ankeny St. Anna Spackman, Matt French, Lisa Frazier, Casey Thomas
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Patrick Lamb, Jennifer Batten, Andy Stokes, Paul Creighton (Michael Jackson tribute)
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. A Happy Death, Old Age, Cambrian Explosion, Jolliff
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Appendixes, Fine Pets, Grave Babies
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Vieux Farka Touré, Tezeta Band
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Child Children, Exotic Club, SuperDuperFunGun
Slabtown
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Pete Holmes
1033 NW 16th Ave. The Shrills, Guantanamo Baywatch, Therapists, Youthbitch, Lunch
LaurelThirst
Alberta Rose Theatre
Star Theater
McMenamins Edgefield 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Steve Miller Band
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St.
3000 NE Alberta St. Marley’s Ghost, Royal Wood
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. COVEN, Live Undead (Slayer Tribute), Raptor, Only Zuul
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave.
225 SW Ash St. My New Vice, Faithless Saints, Thorntown Tallboys, MF Ruckus
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Stealing Lucky, Cement Season, Bellwether
Backspace
1969 NE 42nd Ave. U Sco, Hang the Old Year, Oker
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Radiation City, Social Studies
SAT. JUNE 29 Alberta Rose Theatre
115 NW 5th Ave. Hail The Sun, the Speed Of Sound In Seawater, Stolas, For The Life Of Me, She Preaches Mayhem, Kaia
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. ON-Q Band
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Tango Alpha Tango
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Dinner for Wolves, Thrones, 42 Ford Prefect
EastBurn
1800 E Burnside St.
1517 NE Brazee St. Steve Cheseborough
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Jujuba
Hawthorne Hophouse 4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Ben Larsen
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. New York Rifles, Black Black Things, The Colin Trio
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE 39th Ave. Twista, Rose City Gang, Mr. C, DUBZ From Mercenary/ENT
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St.
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3000 NE Alberta St.
BAR SPOTLIGHT
Hawthorne Theatre
12 NE 10th Ave. Male Bondage, Our First Brains, Beach Party 2958 NE Glisan St. Jamie Leopold & the Short Stories, Lewi Longmire & the Left Coast Roasters
Ash Street Saloon
Fifteenth Avenue Hophouse
1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. Sole, Moodie Black, Monsters INK
Jade Lounge
317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell
31 NW 1st Ave. Valentino Khan, Gang $ign$, Nathaniel Knows
836 N Russell St. Perhapst, Old Light, Reverb Brothers
316 SW 11th Ave. Blueyedsoul
Fez Ballroom
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
The Lovecraft
Tiger Bar
The Whiskey Bar
White Eagle Saloon
Artichoke Community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Better Halves, Matt Meighan
1422 SW 11th Ave. Sylvia Romero
Velo Cult
Daniel Robinson, A Mile to Go
801 NE Broadway Au Dunes, Charts, Shay Roselip
2738 NE Alberta St. Body Holographic
116 NE Russell St. Three For Silver, the Missing Parts
The Old Church
Woodburn Rocks, N’ycole, Between Cities, Skies & Guests
Habesha
The Elixir Lab
The Secret Society Ballroom
2026 NE Alberta St. La Luz, The Shivas, Teenspot
203 SE Grand Ave. Kingston Club
1507 SE 39th Ave. Face To Face, Teenage BottleRocket, Blacklist Royals, Joshua Black Wilkins
421 SE Grand Ave. Death Trip, DJ Tobias
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13 NW 6th Ave. Royal Teeth, the Colourist
The Analog
720 SE Hawthorne One From Many
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. The Mermaid Problem, Terror Bird, Denim Wedding
THREE THE WRONG WAY: If you’re planning to hang out at Trio Club (909 E Burnside St., 234-5003), a word of advice: Sit by the windows. Far more entertaining than the gelled-up Beavertonian mangling “In the Air Tonight” on the light-up dance floor is watching passersby peer inside the gleaming-white karaoke palace and mouth, “What the fuck is this place?” No one mourned the demolition of overpriced dungeon the Galaxy last year, but who thought it’d be replaced by a business that looks sprung from the mind of Parks and Recreation’s Tom Haverford? It might be the weirdest place on the “weird side” of Portland, and it isn’t even trying—though if you ask me, Las Vegas is much weirder than our town could ever hope to be. And with its luxury-suite sleekness, fluorescent lighting, $5 cover plus security pat-downs, $4 PBRs, lack of well drinks, Jumbotron lyric screen, behind-the-bar waterfall, smoke machines and three rooms separated by soundproof glass—including a rentable party room where you can apparently order a sparkler-topped bottle of Grey Goose for your birthday—Trio Club’s owners are clearly trying to trick suburbanites into believing they can relive that one wild weekend in college just over the Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway. That’s all fine for an Old Town meat market, but there’s a reason the most popular karaoke joint on the eastside is a rundown Chinese restaurant: The appeal of spending a night publicly butchering popular songs is the besotted egalitarianism. Everyone sucks, no matter how many lasers and how much fake fog you surround them with, and that’s the fun. But Trio Club mistakenly believes everyone wants—and deserves—faux-VIP extravagance. What the fuck indeed. MATTHEW SINGER. Willamette Week JUNE 26, 2013 wweek.com
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MUSIC CALENDAR Ecstasy: Etbonz, GOODWIN, Miracles Club, Spencer D
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Billy D and the Hoodoos
Jack London Bar 529 SW 4th Ave. Synchronicity
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Freddy Trujillo, Joaquin Lopez, Sue Zalokar
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. DK Stewart, Duffy Bishop, Lisa Mann, Lady Kat, La Rhonda Steele, Rae Gordon (Etta James tribute night)
Katie O’Briens
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Jiffy Marker, the Lolligaggers, Fools Rush
Kells Brewpub
210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Rouisi
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Souvenir Driver, The Purrs, Buzzyshyface, Dead Teeth
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Ruby Feathers
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Ruby Feathers
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Johnny Outlaw & the Johnson Creek Stranglers
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Brad Parsons Band, Blind Bartimaeus, Jacob Miller and the Bridge City Crooners, James Low Western Front
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. The Fool Hardy, James Faretheewell, Green Tambourine
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Todd Edwards, Ian Pooley, Lincolnup B2B Ben Tactic, Mr. Romo B2B Bahb
Multiple locations
Third Angle
Oregon Zoo
4001 SW Canyon Road Old Crow Medicine Show, Dale Watson
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Lubec, Lost Integrity, Modern Marriage, Mount Mazama
JUNE 26-JULY 2
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Nu Era, Kingdom Crumbs, Kung Foo Grip, Chill Crew
Shaker and Vine
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Dustin Hunley
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. I Have No Friends, BlakJuu, Machetaso Profano
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Wooden Indian Burial Ground, And And And, Grandparents, Summer Cannibals
Damn Glad To Meet You, Jupiter, Ask You In Gray
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Lucky Tubb and the Modern Day Troubadours, Ian Miller
Langano Lounge
1435 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Josh Landry
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Kris Deelane and the Sharp Little Things, Freak Mountain Ramblers
Mississippi Pizza
The Analog
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Emily Danger, El Drifte, Karyn Anne
The Know
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Frontier Ruckus, Ravenna Woods, Vikesh Kapoor
720 SE Hawthorne Tyler Stenson, Russell Stafford, Star Anna
Mississippi Studios
2026 NE Alberta St. Augurs, Shroud Of The Heretic, Usnea
Oregon Zoo
Urban Garden Supply
Rontoms
12115 SE 82nd Ave., Suite B Block Party Blowout: Aceyalone, Jagga Culture, Dee Arthur, Serge Severe, Bad Habitat, Rafael Vigilantics, Rose Bent, Al One, Destro, Cyprus Jones, Two Planets, Mic Crenshaw
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Shafty, Garcia Birthday Band
SUN. JUNE 30 Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. MDC, Verbal Abuse, In Defense, Chartbusters
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. July Talk, Grounders
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Rebirth Brass Band
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE 39th Ave. The Portland Battle Of The Bands: Queen Chief, One For The Wolves, The Starship Renegade, Mosby, Jet Force Gemini, Truth Vibration, Machine, Wintermute, The Pavelows, Random Axe, Fast Fox, The Raccoons
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Mykki Blanco, Beyondadoubt, Isaiah Allure Esquire, Nathan Detroit
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St.
4001 SW Canyon Road Ziggy Marley 600 E Burnside St. Béisbol, Old Age
Rose Garden
1401 N Wheeler Ave. Fleetwood Mac
St. Michael and All Angels Church 1704 NE 43rd Ave. ViVoce
The Analog
720 SE Hawthorne Folsom 2026 NE Alberta St. Flesh Lights, the Pity Fucks, Hornet Leg
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave. Johnny & Jason, Mo Phillips
Urban Garden Supply
12115 SE 82nd Ave., Suite B Block Party Blowout: Rising Buffalo Tribe, Mister Chief, Sindicate, Laura Ivancie, Half Man Half, Shipwreck, Starbucks and Dra Z, Twitch, Nefarious XO, Starz of da Bizzare, Chillest Illist, Steady tha Boss, Easy Mcoy and Six, Quiz Zilla, Chef Boys
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Dramady, Dandylions, the Hugs
MON. JULY 1 Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Karaoke From Hell
Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Cha Cha
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. DJ OverCol
The Firkin Tavern 1937 SE 11th Ave. Eye Candy VJs
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Psychopomp: Ogo Eion
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Magic Beans
1332 W Burnside St. Limelight Dance Millennium
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Dirty Red
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Eye Candy
The Rose
111 SW Ash St. Flight: Mario Maroto, Sappho, Clay Watkins, Joepamine
FRI. JUNE 28 Beech St. Parlor
THURS. JUNE 27 Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Cuica
Berbati’s
231 SW Ankeny St. DJs Def Ro and Suga Shane
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Laid Out: Gossip Cat, Pocket Rock-It, Misti Miller
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412 NE Beech St. Tyler Little
SAT. JUNE 29 Beech St. Parlor
412 NE Beech St. DJ Shrimp Tempura and Booty Futures
Beulahland
118 NE 28th Ave Hip Hop vs. New Wave: DJ Just Dave, DJ J-One Ill
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St. Come As You Are: 90s Dance Flashback
Refuge
Rotture
421 SE Grand Ave.
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2025 N Kilpatrick St. Violent Vickie, Boy Funk, Smoke Rings
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Hack, Stitch & Buckshot, Saturday Night Drive
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Naomi Hooley and Rob Stroup, Buoy LaRue, the Heritage, Suzanne Tufan (Rock School Kabul benefit)
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Anatomy of Frank, ThaThunder, Noise Complaint, Seasons
The Analog
720 SE Hawthorne Gothique Blend
421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Bar Hopper
SUN. JUNE 30
3341 SE Belmont 503-595-0575 BASEMENT BAR @THE BLUE MONK
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WEDNESDAY, 6/26 8:00 Arabesque Belly Dance THURSDAY, 6/27 9:00 Eddi Valliant, Soopah Eype, Lucas Dix, Cray Jake Kost Hosted by DJ ZONE of LOS CHICHARONES FRIDAY 6/28 9:00 Double CD Release: The Mermaid Problem Denim Wedding Terror Bird
The Know
SATURDAY 6/29 9:00 Conjugal Visitors Closely Watched Trains
White Eagle Saloon
SUNDAY 6/30 8:30 Pete Petersen and Friends
2026 NE Alberta St. Relentless Approach, Barbarian Riot Squad, Piss Piss Piss, DJ Just Dave 836 N Russell St. Marca Luna, Steph Infection and the Heebie Jeebies
TUES. JULY 2 Al’s Den
303 SW 12th Ave. Steelhead Duo
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. The Happening, Pink Slip
LaurelThirst
MONDAY 7/1 7:00 Comedy Open Mic! TUESDAY 7/2 6:30 Pagan Jug Band WEDNESDAY 7/3 6:00 Barlow Pass 8:00 Arabesque Belly Dance
2958 NE Glisan St. Nick Jaina, Jennie Wayne, Jay William Henderson, Jackstraw
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Prince Rama, Lavender Mirror
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Hoist The Colors
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Drunk Dad, Big Black Cloud, Prizehog
HOLIDAY SALE!
White Owl Social Club 1305 SE 8th Ave. Black Elk Medicine Band Bison, Bison Bison
Pub at the End of the Universe
Star Theater
232 SW Ankeny St. Stay At Home Mob DJs
The Lovecraft
The Lovecraft
Kenton Club
Valentine’s
Berbati’s
315 SE 3rd Ave. Blown: Keys, Saltfeend, D Poetica, Rosbarsky
1507 SE 39th Ave. Emmure, Born Of Osiris, City In The Sea, Sisyphean Conscience, Assyria
4107 SE 28th Ave. Sundae: DJ Wicked, DJ P, Mez Matos, DJ Mighty Moves
116 SE Yamhill St. Twerk It: DJ Barisone, Tyler Tastemaker, Joe Nasty, Dylon Keys, Chase Manhattan, Doc Riz, The Hoff
231 SW Ankeny St. Cloud City Collective
Hawthorne Theatre
The Rose
111 SW Ash St. The Rhythm: DJ Nature
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom
815 SW Park Ave. Brian Oberlin
The Know
Skullfuck!: DJ Brian Backlash, DJ Horrid
WED. JUNE 26
Director Park
13 NW 6th Ave. Church of Hive: DJ Brian Backlash, DJ Skully, DJ Waisted
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Matthius
MON. JULY 1 Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy VJs
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Departures: DJ Waisted, DJ Anais Ninja
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225 SW Ash St. Phreak: Electronic Mutations
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231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Aurora
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. TRNGL: DJ Rhienna
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THEATER The Addams Family
Broadway Across America brings the macabre musical comedy to Portland. Based on some of the reviews the New York production got—even when Nathan Lane starred as Gomez—you might be better off watching the movie. 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
[NEW REVIEW] HumanBeingCurious Productions’ gender-bent riff on Antony and Cleopatra—which features men in the titular roles—begins with a dance routine to Beyoncé’s “Get Me Bodied.” Chip Sherman’s Cleopatra, whose high heels make him over 6 feet tall, leads the dance, luring the smaller Antony (Orion J. Bradshaw) by showing off his shapely legs. From there, Shakespeare’s ill-starred love story ensues. The result is both fun and tragic, with pop-music-intoxicated characters imbuing the production with the sweaty flavor of a dance club. Director Cassandra Schwanke renders the romance between Antony and Cleopatra more convenient than passionate. The lovers share only one kiss throughout the performance, and aside from one uncomfortable sex scene (which aims for stylization but winds up feeling stagy) behind a wispy curtain, the characters spend more time apart than together. Bradshaw is every bit the Roman general, most in his element when stomping off to plan a battle. Sherman, meanwhile, plays his role with terrific abandon: He’s a loose and seductive Cleopatra with diva aspirations he’s unable to fulfill. “I have nothing of woman in me,” says Sherman. This, then, becomes the play’s real tragedy: a male body that can’t fill out a little black dress. JOE DONOVAN. Milepost 5, 850 NE 81st Ave., 729-3223. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, June 28-29. $10.
Avenue Q
Triangle Productions revives its version of the irreverent, Tony Award-winning adult puppet musical. Warning: raunchy scenarios, filthy language and explicit puppet nudity Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd., 2395919. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through June 29. $15-$35.
Cats
Broadway Rose stages 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 Wednesday-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays and some Saturdays through July 21. No show Thursday, July 4. $20-$37.
Comedy of Errors
The Original Practice Shakespeare Festival—which performs with minimal rehearsal and casts actors in different roles for each afternoon—takes on one of the Bard’s most slapstick-y comedies. Performances take place at parks across Portland (see website for details). Multiple locations, 890-6944. Various Saturdays and Sundays through Sept. 29; see opsfest.org for exact times and dates. Free.
Harvey
Clackamas Repertory Theatre begins its season with a throwback, Mary Chase’s 1944 comedy about a man whose best friend is a six-foot-tall, invisible rabbit. Clackamas Community College, Osterman Theatre, 19600 S Molalla Ave., 657-6958 ext. 5351. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2:30 pm Sundays through July 21. No show Thursday, July 4. $26.
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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. It is a word unhinged from all reference and thus also threatening. Like the mysterious V of Thomas Pynchon’s eponymous novel, Abulkasem is the conspiracy we see in everything, or the dark vision at the corner of the eye. But if this vital first production is any indication, Badass Theatre Company won’t linger too long in anyone’s peripheral vision. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 358-4660. 8 pm ThursdaysSaturdays and 2 pm Sundays through June 29. $15-$20.
Ithaka
When home is a destination in your mind as much as a physical space, it’s an arduous journey to overcome the obstacles that hinder your arrival. After fighting the Trojan War for 10 years, it took Odysseus another 10 years to reach his home in Ithaca. For Marine Capt. Elaine Edwards (Dana Millican), returning home from her latest tour in Afghanistan, the forces keeping her at bay are her own haunted memories. Ithaka, a new original work by Portland playwright Andrea Stolowitz and nimbly directed by Gemma Whelan, follows Lanie’s trek through the Nevada desert and her own disturbingly populated subconscious. Though she arrived home to her husband more than a week ago, her real life no longer feels real. She’s baffled by the people who smile through mundane activities such as shopping. “Was I ever that happy doing this bullshit?” she wonders. Millican embodies a woman both strong and broken: Lanie blows up at her husband and can’t forgive herself for letting out the cat. Tackling the topic of war can be tricky, rife with potential for often-heard indictments or for sweeping patriotic grandeur. But Stolowitz has said she didn’t set out to write a play about soldiers or even war in general; she wanted to write about friendship and what happens when those bonds are lost. Her strippeddown 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. Regardless of any experience with the military or the realities of war, it’s not hard to sympathize with Lanie’s pain as she undertakes her own odyssey toward home, peace and Ithaca. PENELOPE BASS. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 2411278. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Sundays, 2 pm Sundays through June 30. $25-$50.
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presents Peg Kehret’s comedy about a woman who throws her husband a surprise funeral to shake him out of his midlife crisis. Sellwood Playhouse, 901 SE Spokane St., 490-5975. 7:30 pm Fridays-Saturdays through June 29. $12-$15.
My Americana
Monkey With a Hat On presents an original show, written, directed and performed by Ollie Collins (with musical help from Josh Ward) about life in our fair city, touching on subjects ranging from pancakes to tattoos to spaceships to Shakespeare. Clinton Street Theater , 2522 SE Clinton St., 238-8899. 7 pm Sunday, June 30. $5.
My Mind is Like an Open Meadow
7:30 pm Tuesdays-Sundays, 2 pm Sundays and select Saturdays, noon Thursdays through June 30. $34-$54.
Pocket Pulp: Crime Night
More stripped-down storytelling from the Pulp Stage Theatre Company, this time with a double bill of political thrillers. The Waypost, 3120 N Williams Ave., 367-3182. 7:30 pm Thursday, June 27. Free, $5 suggested.
Sombras Borrachas
Paper Eclipse Puppet Company presents several original shadow-puppet
plays, including a reprisal of its dreamy meditation on the misty storms of the Scottish coast. Because if there’s anything this city needs, it’s puppet theater about Northern Europe. Jack London Bar, 529 SW 4th Ave., 2287605. 8 pm Thursday, June 27. $5.
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 the
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The third installment in CoHo’s solo summer is Erin Leddy’s reprisal of her remarkable one-woman show, which incorporates dance sequences and an immersive soundscape to introduce audience members to her grandmother. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 715-1114. 7:30 pm ThursdaySunday, June 27-30. $15, festival pass $50.
NT Live: The Audience
It’s Helen freaking Mirren as Queen freaking Elizabeth, broadcast in high-def from London’s National Theatre. That’s all you need to know. World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St., 235-1101. 2 pm and 7 pm Saturdays-Sundays through June 30. $15-$20.
Once Upon a Mattress
Hillsboro’s HART Theatre closes its season with the musical comedy based on The Princess and the Pea. HART Theatre, 185 SE Washington St., 6937815. 7:30 pm Fridays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through June 30. $12-$16.
The People’s Republic of Portland
It would be easy to carp about Lauren Weedman’s mispronunciation and misnaming of this newspaper (on opening night, she referred to it as “Will-uhmet Weekly”). But that would be too simple, and just a bit cheap. (And it was apparently a deliberate mispronunciation, the show’s dramaturg has informed me.) No, I applaud Weedman, a Los Angeles resident and former Daily Show correspondent, for picking up a copy of WW in her mission to understand our city, a quest she details in this solo show commissioned by Portland Center Stage. But Weedman—an affable monologist, gifted physical comedian and pretty decent dancer—may well have lost this one before she even started. Though her talents are on display, The People’s Republic of Portland winds up somewhere between Portlandia-style potshots and The New York Times’ lovey-dovey coos, with Weedman’s confessional bursts more genuine than those on The Real World but still not meaty enough to carry the performance. The 90-minute show, directed by Rose Riordan, has live-wire Weedman bouncing between humorous anecdotes, skillful character impersonations, hip-hop dance breaks and thoughts about her family. These personal considerations provide a loose framework, but they’re underdeveloped. Weedman’s observations about Portland, meanwhile, hit too many of the expected beats. The show has a bearded barista, a public transit proselytizer, a tattooed stripper, gaggles of Amelie look-alikes, geek trivia whizzes and a woman rhapsodizing about her vision quest at an ecstatic dance party. Weedman presents herself as unguarded, but there’s a caginess to her. It’s one of the things that makes her so engaging: There’s a sense she’s withholding something from the audience, or even from herself. But this undercurrent of anxiety pairs uneasily with her jokes, which seem designed for PCS subscribers to chuckle knowingly about the quaint and quirky charms of our attention-loving city. Strangely, I left the show feeling bad, and almost embarrassed, for Weedman. She’s witty and dynamic, and it’s clear she’s taken with Portland. But Portland isn’t her wheelhouse, and People’s Republic feels unfinished. REBECCA JACOBSON. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700.
SHANE TORRES A Texas-born comedian becomes Portland’s funniest person.
Nearly seven years ago, comedian Shane Torres thought the best joke in his arsenal was the first one he’d ever written. Apparently the open-mic patrons at the Hungry Tiger Too didn’t think naming his first child “Abortion” was quite as funny as he did. “I thought I fucking crushed it,” says Torres, hunched over a shot of well whiskey at the White Eagle. “The host congratulated me—he sounded sincere. My friends actually felt worse for me about my comedy set than about me losing my job waiting tables.” A lot can change in seven years. In early June, Torres—a long-haired, heavyset Texan who describes himself as a “Native-American Meatloaf impersonator”—was named Portland’s Funniest Person at Helium’s annual competition. With jokes about getting fired, he seems the quintessential Portland underachiever. “I’m quite poor,” begins one joke. “I was so broke that a few months ago I had to donate plasma…I don’t know anyone who’s ever done it before, so I googled ‘plasma centers Portland’ and there are Yelp reviews for plasma centers, guys. And they’re not like a Yelp review for a T.G.I. Fridays where they’re like ‘Try the Montana burger, Steve’s the best waiter!’ That’s not happening with a Yelp review for a plasma center. Essentially, a Yelp review of a plasma center is an argument you’d expect to see in the parking lot of a plasma center.” “My comedy started to change when I wasn’t afraid to talk about how I felt,” says the 31-year-old. “I remember being really depressed and lonely at one point in my life. I had friends, but I didn’t have someone I could lean on or bleed my heart out to.” Call him out for being a cornball, but being honest paid off during a set at Suki’s Bar and Grill, when Torres decided to riff on the text-message relationship he’d built with a complete stranger. It was early in his standup career, and he remembers the sound of genuine laughter and other comics congratulating him on a job well done. Torres came to comedy only after moving to Portland. During his mid-20s, at the insistence of a good high-school friend living in Portland, he left a bartending gig in Fort Worth, Texas, and drove west. After stumbling on a local comedy showcase, he began bumming around open mics and eventually moved in with comedians—a situation that hasn’t changed much, as he currently bunks with local comedy king Ian Karmel. Like many of the city’s comedians, Torres has his sights set outside Portland. He hopes to move to New York by year’s end. “There is a lot more for us to do to make Portland comedy a scene that is considered one of the best in the country,” he says. “If we want our scene to be better, we have to be better.” BRANDON WIDDER.
SEE IT: Shane Torres is at Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., at 9 pm on Wednesday, June 26, and at Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, at midnight on Friday, June 28.
actress, Richard sings: “I look at you and don’t know where I am/ Or where you are/ But there you are.” Yikes. Mellifluous, maybe— and the actor, Andrew Samonsky, has pipes—but also evidence of a musical still working out its kinks. Portland Center Stage’s Somewhere in Time is a world premiere with big dreams (writer-producer Ken Davenport hopes to take it to Broadway), and in many respects, it delivers. A swooning romance, it has polished performances and a grander scale than most local theater. But it’s also awfully oldfashioned, which will thrill some viewers and kill it for others. Based on Richard Matheson’s 1975 novel and the 1980 film adaptation, Somewhere in Time follows Richard, a playwright who never lived up to his promise, as he transports himself to 1912. There, he meets the pretty actress from the portrait, Elise McKenna (Hannah Elless). It’s love at first sight, but courting Elise proves even more difficult than traveling through time, thanks to Elise’s despotic Svengali of a manager (Marc Kudisch, relishing but not overplaying his character’s chilly sense of cunning). Director Scott Schwartz harnesses fine performances from the large ensemble of out-oftowners and locals. The songs, a mix of dreamy ballads and spunky numbers are enjoyable, though dogged by a frustrating sameness. But the emphasis on Richard’s brain tumor is misguided. While it does provide 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.
Tunde’s Trumpet
Boom Arts presents its first full production, a family-friendly puppet musical about a 10-year-old who receives a trumpet and, with the help of a puppet goddess, must overcome challenges to achieve his horn-playing goals. Free performances will take place at parks around the city, with occasional ticketed shows at indoor venues. See strikingly.com/boomarts for details. Multiple locations, 567-1644. 12:15 pm Thursday, June 27. 1 and 4 pm Saturday, June 29. 6:30 pm Saturday, July 13. 6:30 pm Sunday, July 21. 6:30 pm Friday, July 26. 7 pm Friday, Aug. 2. 2 and 7 pm Saturday, Aug. 3. 2 pm Sunday, Aug. 4. Free-$25.
COMEDY & VARIETY Comedy Grab Bag
A comedy party platter, with standup, improv and mixed-media sketches from the likes of Whitney Streed, Dylan Reiff, Jay Flewelling, Kim Brady and others. Action/ Adventure Theatre, 1050 SE Clinton St. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, June 28-29. $6.
Diabolical Experiments
Improv jam show featuring Brody performers and other local improvisers. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7 pm every Sunday. $5.
Dom-Prov
If your idea of fun is playing improv games with a leather-clad dominatrix as an audience hurls marshmallows at you, this Unscriptables show is for you. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 309-3723. 10 pm every Saturday. $10.
Dylan Moran
The Irish comedian and star of Shaun of the Dead brings his sarcastic standup to the Aladdin. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm Saturday, June 29. $30.
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Friday Night Fights
Competitive improv, with two teams battling for stage time. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 10 pm every first and third Friday. $5.
Micetro
Brody Theater’s popular eliminationstyle improv competition. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm every Friday. $9-$12.
Pete Holmes
So exuberant he might scare you away if he weren’t so goddamn likable, Holmes—who identifies his style as “youth pastor”—is known for his popular podcast, You Made It Weird. In the fall he’ll have his own late-night show after Conan. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm Friday, June 28. $20.
Rob Schneider
Standup from the ubiquitous comedian and actor, known for his Saturday Night Live appearances and spending far too much time onscreen with Adam Sandler. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, June 27-29. $27-$35. 21+.
Ron Funches
Portland lost one of its best comedians to Los Angeles last year, but the good-natured funnyman— whose pilot was just picked up by NBC—returns for a two-show gig. MC Traeger hosts, with opening standup by Amy Miller and Anthony Lopez. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 8 and 10:30 pm Thursday, June 27. $10$12. 21+.
Slingshot
The third installment of the fruitful comedy collaboration between Portland Center Stage and Bad Reputation Productions features original solo sketches performed by some of the city’s funniest improvisers. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 10 pm FridaySaturday, June 28-29. $15-$20.
State Fair of the Union
An original sketch revue that takes aim at the American dream, consumerist fantasies and relationships, featuring a strong slate of local improv artists as TV morning show hosts. 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 in a wedding. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Saturdays through July 6. $10-$12.
Weekly Recurring Humor Night
Whitney Streed hosts a weekly comedy showcase, featuring local comics and out-of-towners. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 2380543. 9:30 pm every Wednesday. “Pay what you want,” $3-$5 suggested.
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DANCE BodyVox
One of the friendliest forms of classical music joins one of the friendliest of Portland’s dance companies. BodyVox teams up a third time with Chamber Music Northwest, a pairing that has been pleasing if innocuous, to perform In Motion 2013. Co-artistic directors Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland premiere a piece set to Astor Piazzolla’s Libertango and Paquito D’Rivera’s Son from Aires Tropicales. The music is performed by the Imani Winds, a wind quartet presented by Chamber Music Northwest. BodyVox also reprises its pieces S.O.S., set to Jean Sibelius’ Valse Triste, and Foreign Tails, set to music by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. St. Mary’s Academy, 1615 SW 5th Ave., 228-8306. 8 pm Thursday, June 27 and Saturday, June 29; 4 pm Sunday, June 30. $25-$50.
Linda Austin
In a display that shows dancing is not only for the young, 59-yearold Linda Austin performs two pieces from her 30-year career. Presented by Performance Works NW, Reach:30 includes a re-creation of Austin’s first piece from 1983, An Atrocity Exhibition in Two Parts, as well as a sneak preview of her newest project, Three Trick Pony. In the former, Austin poses with a series of slides in which the images have been updated to reflect the mood of 2013. In her new work, Austin makes three passes through a sculpture by David Eckard. Performance Works NW, 4625 SE 67th Ave., 777-1907. 8 pm ThursdaySunday, June 27-30. $12-$20.
Merge Dance Project
The Ohio company features Sandra Mathern, the twin of Conduit Dance’s Tere Mathern, who presents the show. The company performs Swimming in Green, a piece using video to create patterns, textures and forms while three dancers perform simultaneously. Conduit Dance, 918 SW Yamhill St., Suite 401, 221-5857. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, June 28-29. $15.
PDX Dance Collective
Five choreographers’ powers combined, PDX Dance Collective presents the original show Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Dance. The five pieces of contemporary dance represent the earth’s elements and are performed against an artistic backdrop of photography and woodwork. Live music by singer Marita Ericksen accompanies the show. The Headwaters, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9. 7:30 pm Saturday and 3 pm Sunday, June 29-30. $12.
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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By PENELOPE BASS. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit lecture or reading information at least two weeks in advance to: WORDS, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: words@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115. Gaiman expertly tackles the fear and uncertainty of childhood in The Ocean at the End of the Lane. His Portland reading is sold out, so you might have to scalp tickets from a children’s librarian. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 3 pm.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26 Verse in Person
The weather is heating up and so is the poetry as the Verse in Person reading series hosts an evening of steamy, erotic tales. Following an open mic, this month’s featured readers are poets Celina Wigle, Dena Rash Guzman, Ross Robbins, Joaquin Lopez and Sterling Clark. Remember, poets do it in iambic pentameter. Multnomah County Library—Northwest Branch, 2300 NW Thurman St., 988-5560. 6 pm. Free.
Jami Attenberg
Our infatuation with food in America can lead to tragic consequences beyond the deep-fried Twinkie. Jami Attenberg’s new novel, The Middlesteins, explores this obsession within a sprawling story of marriage, family and the yearnings of Midwest America. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 6:30 pm. Free.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 27 E.R. Brown
Tapping into the bountiful story opportunities that lie within the legalization of marijuana, E.R. Brown has released the first novel in his Crime in Cascadia mystery series, Almost Criminal, where medical marijuana leads to murder. We’ve found it mostly leads to poor late-night snacking decisions, but actual murder makes for a better story than the slaughter of a bag of Funyuns. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
FRIDAY, JUNE 28 Rashida Shani Young
Portland-based performance poet Rashida Shani Young will release her new book of poetry, Squint, with an accompanying album. The double release explores Young’s life growing up in the black Baptist Church while trying to reconcile the spirituality of her African roots. Several local poets and musicians will join the release-party performance before Young takes her work on the road to Nigeria. Independent Publishing Resource Center, 1001 SE Division St., Suite 2, 827-0249. 7 pm.
SATURDAY, JUNE 29 Neil Gaiman
You may have lied about reading Harry Potter, but there’s no shame in diving headlong into the comics, graphic novels and children’s literature of fantastical storyteller Neil Gaiman (Coraline, American Gods). Having recently released his first “adult” novel in eight years,
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Paul Collins, NPR’s regularly featured “literary detective,” explores a sensational and mysterious murder that shocked the American masses at the turn of the 19th century. It was enough to unite bitter rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr in the hunt for justice. Collins recounts the tale in Duel With the Devil. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
MONDAY, JULY 1 OMSI Science Pub
We all wanted to be an astronaut at some point in our lives. Not to uncover the mysteries of the universe, but mostly to float around in zero gravity. NASA astronaut Don Pettit managed to do a little of both during his 193 days spent aboard the international space station, mostly conducting research in the orbiting laboratory. Pettit will discuss his time in space for the OMSI Science Pub presentation “Life Without Gravity: One Astronaut’s View From Space.” Bagdad Theater & Pub, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 236-9234. 7 pm. $5. 21+.
Authors in Pubs
Some of history’s most acclaimed writers were notorious barflies— Thompson, Hemingway, Bukowski— and it served them well, more or less. Now celebrating its second anniversary, the Authors in Pubs monthly reading series will host a booze-infused author extravaganza with 16 writers from across the country, along with three bands and three guest artists. Jack London Bar, 529 SW 4th Ave., 2287605. 7:30 pm. Free. 21+.
Jonathan Lyons
After the business of settling the American colonies was taken care of, Benjamin Franklin proposed an idea radical in its simplicity: that society should advance and improve through intellectual and collaborative inquiry. Historian Jonathan Lyons’ new book, The Society for Useful Knowledge, explores the founding of the American Philosophical Society and its implications in today’s world. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
TUESDAY, JULY 2 William Shakespeare’s Star Wars
Complete with evil lords, virtuous knights, an unlikely hero and a galaxy loaded with odd creatures, Star Wars might be more Shakespearean than we realize. Ian Doescher takes the next logical step and puts it in iambic pentameter for his new book, William Shakespeare’s Star Wars. To be or be not; the question that is. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651. 7 pm. Free.
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JUNE 26–JULY 2
= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By RICHARD SPEER. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit show information—including opening and closing dates, gallery address and phone number—at least two weeks in advance to: Visual Arts, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: rspeer@wweek.com.
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 angst-filled brand of claustrophobia. He was most famous for his paintings and drawings of The Scream, but Augen presents a lesser-known selection of his innovative prints, which contain eerie, symbolist imagery that can be downright spooky. Through June 29. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 224-8182.
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.
Corey Smith: End Your Pain
Corey Smith has been exhibiting his wry mixed-media paintings at Backspace and other Portland galleries for the better part of a decade. He’s also had a full career nationally and internationally. In his latest outing at Backspace, he serves up plenty of his signature irreverence and visual puns: a tombstone carved with the words “THIS PARTY”; a kid pointing a handgun at another kid, preparing to fire; the phrase “PROFIT IS JOY”; and a 12-piece grid made up of the words “SATAN IS WAITIN.’” Still, this body of work doesn’t seem as sharp as Smith’s previous shows. The biting humor seems blunted, the sense of visual invention compromised, the whole endeavor facile by comparison to past exhibitions. As a satirist, Smith may have finally found his toughest competition: his former self. Through June 30. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900.
Diane Avio-Augee: Synergy
For creamy surfaces and sheer gestural drama, you can’t beat Abstract Expressionism, the defining art movement of the 1940s and 1950s. AbEx casts a long shadow, having influenced generations of painters in its wake. Among those emerging from the movement’s legacy is Portland artist Diane Avio-Augee, who has shown with Mark Woolley Gallery for many years. In the current show, as in the past, she displays a gift for bold brushstrokes and intuitive color combinations that add up to an impressive whole. Through July 14. Mark Woolley Gallery @ Pioneer, 700 SW 5th Ave., third floor, Pioneer Place Mall, 9984152.
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.
showcased a gloriously obsessive technique. Wall is one of six artists in New Views at Laura Russo, joining Sahar Fattahi, Jo Hamilton, Ruth Lantz, Loren Nosan, and Ahmad Rafiei in a varied and well-considered show. Through June 29. Laura Russo Gallery, 805 NW 21st Ave., 226-2754.
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Small Lies
There is something to be said for well-executed gimmickry, and that’s basically what Small Lies is all about. The right halves of Sean Hardin’s wood panels are either bare wood finish or black matte, while the left sides are painted landscapes. Together, the halves seem to argue with one another in a deconstructionist dialogue: naturality versus artifice, abstraction versus representation. It’s an obvious but still potent dialectic, which Hardin carries off with aplomb. Through June 30. Nine Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 227-7114.
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Summer Group Show DAWN OF SEPARATION BY JEFFREY HORVITZ 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., 2231321.
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 negligee. The three-part series, bookended by Dawn of Separation and Righteousness, exposes the left and right sides of the model’s torso, with its hunky abdominal muscles and inguinal crease. The connection between photographer and subject is strong, recalling world-renowned portraitist Greg Gorman’s series Just Between Us. Through June 29. Cock Gallery, 625 NW Everett St., No. 106, 552-8686.
Julio Mitchel: Do You Love Me?
Cuban-born photographer Julio Mitchel offers slices of urban life in his series, Do You Love Me? A man and woman lie on a bed, a young child between them; the woman nestles up to the child, but the father turns his back. Is he feeling left out of the cuddly lovefest? Another couple slow-dances to an LP player in their living room at the end of a night out on the town. Where have they been, and what does the rest of the night portend? A little boy sits in a white limousine, bored out of his gourd, waiting for a wedding party to conclude. How many years will it be until he is the groom? These images, shot in such cities as New York, Chicago and Portland, have a poignant universality that flows directly from their contextual specificity. The works’ sole flaw is a printing technique that produces too much contrast, creating melodrama in a body of work that would have benefited from a more unaffected photojournalistic approach. Through June 30. Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 225-0210.
New Views
Samantha Wall’s graphite-and-charcoal drawings made a big impression in the Marylhurst Art Gym’s January-February show. With their melding of controlled gradations and blazing photorealism, they
Rick Bartow’s lyrical acrylic paintings number among the highlights of Froelick’s annual summer group show. In Bear Mother and Blue Crow Girls Sing Bear, the artist marries depictions of iconic human/ animal/spirit hybrids with abstract passages, replete with push-pull dynamics straight out of the Hans Hofmann playbook. Elsewhere in the show, Laura Ross-Paul debuts a new technique, most apparent in the painting Rain Tree, a moody, sylvan landscape with seepy, driplike textures frozen in a waxy finish. The piece contrasts with Hood, which is in a style more recognizable as Ross-Paul’s native idiom. A portrait of a woman wearing a hoodie, it uses contemporary garments to lend a sense of disconnect to a timeless pose and open visage. Through July 13. Froelick Gallery, 714 NW Davis St., 222-1142.
Temporary Equilibrium
Something weird is floating down the street: something that looks like an octopus covered in fabric. In the bizarre vignettes of Austin, Texasbased 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, watercolorwashy 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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D+ Jackie Robinson is an American legend. Brian Helgeland’s shoddy Robinson biopic will also secure a spot in history: history class. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Academy, Laurelhurst, Mt. Hood, St. Johns, Valley.
100 Bloody Acres
B [TWO NIGHTS ONLY] If you were stranded in the Australian Outback and offered a ride from a hillbilly in a truck advertising “organic blood and bone fertilizer,” would you get in? Put three friends on a trip to a music festival in this situation—can you guess what happens? (Hint: It involves an industrial meat grinder.) Fortunately, 100 Bloody Acres leaves the horror tropes behind and shifts into a comedy about halfway through. This first feature from Australian brothers Colin and Cameron Cairnes is an impressive debut, with unexpected shifts in tone and audience loyalties. The annoying protagonists are typical horror-movie cattle: a twentysomething couple who spend most of the movie arguing about their relationship (even when they’re about to die) and a stoner tripping on LSD for about 75 of the film’s 90 minutes. The villains’ dynamic is much more compelling: two brothers desperately trying to save their failing business by any means necessary. If 100 Bloody Acres teaches its viewers anything, it’s to wait until the concert before dropping acid. RICHARD GRUNERT. Clinton Street Theater. 11:15 pm Friday and 9 pm Sunday, June 28 and 30.
The Attack
B- In this drama based on Yasmina
Khadra’s 2005 bestseller, Lebaneseborn director Ziad Doueiri grapples with tough questions of national, cultural and personal identity. The film opens as renowned surgeon Amin Jaafari (Ali Suliman), an ArabIsraeli established in secular Tel Aviv society, accepts top honors in his field, only to be called to work. Victims of a suicide bombing are piling up—and Amin’s wife is among them. More tragic still, she’s immediately pinned as the perpetrator, an accusation that blindsides her husband. Acute shock and denial set Jaafari on a fact-finding mission into the decidedly non-secular West Bank, where his spouse’s sacrifice provides him neither answers nor basic safety. The assimilated ArabJew is now the odd man out, everywhere. As the disbelieving husband, Suliman is an internal study in grief, betrayal and the desperate task of fathoming the unfathomable: “We’re not Islamists or Christian fanatics,” one of his wife’s rebel colleagues says. “We’re just a ravaged people that’s fighting with whatever we can to recover our dignity.” Director Doueiri poses these questions analytically and unflinchingly, even when he plods into dogma—though not politics, wisely. Flashbacks fill in the loving relationship between husband and wife but ultimately cannot explain the divide between the rational and the irrational that haunts Jaafari—nothing can. Perhaps The Attack’s greatest success is its fundamental unknowability. R. AMANDA SCHURR. Fox Tower.
B-Movie Bingo: Samurai Cop
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL, GAMES] To celebrate the second anniversary of B-Movie Bingo, the series brings back Amir Shervan’s wondrously bad 1989 flick. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, July 2.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
[ONE WEEK ONLY, REVIVAL] Like a lesser Mary Poppins, this live actionanimation mashup—with its underwater nightclub and sabotage-happy Germans—wasn’t Disney’s best effort. G. Academy Theater.
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Before Midnight
A For those coming late to Richard Linklater’s now-epic cinematic romance, a recap: After 1995’s Before Sunrise introduced us to two young travelers (Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy), the two didn’t meet again for nine years. And now, again nine years later, they’re back in the nearly perfect Before Midnight. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Hollywood Theatre.
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 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 auteur seduces his scream queens, Gilderoy massacres all manner of fruits and vegetables to approximate the grisly violence on the screen before him. Writer-director Keith Strickland cleverly blurs the lines between fiction and reality, creating a measured, sepiasoaked study in mood and tension. AMANDA SCHURR. Laurelhurst.
The Bling Ring
C+ Sofia Coppola’s film 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. Coppola skillfully conveys a key cultural shift: the desire for fame supplanted by an appetite for infamy. However, as if taking cues from its players’ well-honed apathy, the film is dramatically flat. The Bling Ring is ultimately a work very much of its time. Which is to say: readily disposable. R. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Clackamas, Lloyd Mall.
CineDance
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] There’s a long history of turning the kinetic into the cinematic. This program of dance captured for the big screen features 10 collaborations between top Northwest dancers and filmmakers. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Wednesday, June 26.
Dirty Wars
B Director Rick Rowley’s documen-
tary boasts the jittery energy of a Red Bull junkie and the trappings of a conspiracy thriller. The reporter in this exposé is Jeremy Scahill. Delving into the clandestine nighttime raids being carried out in Afghanistan, he convincingly asserts that the War on Terror is an interminable hell. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Living Room Theaters.
The East
B In many ways, the titular group in the eco-thriller The East recalls a peace-loving pack of hippies. But the East takes after the Weather Underground more than it does a group of herb-loving flower children: It’s an anarchist eco-terrorist collective, which launches campaigns against crooked corporations. In Zal Batmanglij’s absorbing, suspenseful and implausible film, a young operative for a private intelligence agency (Brit Marling, who co-wrote the screenplay with Batmanglij) goes undercover. The lines of morality are appealingly wooly, and the performances bring the film’s logic-straining turns back down to earth. PG-13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Fox Tower.
Epic
B Epic is a sprawling, otherworldly
adventure that combines the best elements of The Wizard of Oz and Lord of the Rings into a surprisingly poignant fairy tale. PG. AP KRYZA. 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
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SPIRIT OF 2010 A FUZZY MEMORY OF WW ’S SOFTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP. BY A P KRYZA
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This weekend, local filmmakers Stephen Kozik and Adam Moser premiere High and Outside: The Story of Hosford, a documentary celebrating the blood, sweat, bruises, tears and heavy drinking endured by a stalwart squad of recreational softball players at the rugged Hosford Park over the past 15 years. The film is at once a love letter to those who flock to this dilapidated field and a testament to Portlanders’ unending dedication to playing recreational sports while drinking. If Portlanders are willing to sit through an entire documentary about Hosford, they must be hankering for more war stories—so we offer one from the magical summer of 2010, when this newspaper’s bar softball league team brought home the championship trophy. Here, then, is a totally unbiased, completely non-masturbatory history of this watershed moment. The following is best read in the voice of Al Pacino. The year was 2010. Iron Man 2 and Toy Story 3 dominated multiplexes. Cee Lo Green’s “Fuck You” was a family-radio hit. Full-throttle Four Lokos were slowly disappearing from bodega refrigerators. And in local parks, men and women were engaging in the most grueling physical feats imaginable. They called it Sunday Softball. Each week, teams engaged in the dangerous game of slow-pitch, nostrike-out, un-umpired softball. And against all odds, WW’s scrappy team was making a bid for the crown. For years, the group had struggled with bitter disappointment and harrowing hangovers. Then, in 2010, something changed. Under the tutelage of Dan “Two Hands” Winters and Michael “Li’l Pizza” Mannheimer, the Blue Demons had gone from lovable idiots to an unlovable force to be reckoned with. There was Whitney “Hot Guy” Hawke, whose glove was a magnet. There was Ben “Gazelle” Mollica, the fastest man in the world. Kendra “Sparkles” Clune and her brother Alex brought the family thunder. Andy “The Hammered” Kryza yelled. A lot. And then there was Adam “Fat Bat” Krueger. Here was the team’s heart and soul, a man who had risen from the design desk to a season-long streak of homers. His arm could launch a ball from deep left field to home plate. He slid without fear of torn flesh. His beard was made of iron. With Krueger leading the way, WW was poised for victory. But the championship game was preceded by a hard-fought victory over the Vern that same day, and that duel had left some bruises. Krueger took a hard grounder to the hand, bending back a fingernail on his throwing hand and sending spouts of blood into the dirt. Fear of defeat hung in the air. As the team took the field against defending champs the Slammer—who
BLOOD SPORT: Adam Krueger (left) marks the win with his own vital fluid.
generated hatred with their good sportsmanship— Winters rallied his team to a tremendous game. Krueger returned, blood still spewing, and scored several runs. At the bottom of the final inning, WW had a seemingly insurmountable 9-0 lead. Triumph was assured. But the Slammer wouldn’t go down so easily. Hubristically, WW gathered for a group PBR shotgun. It was in this moment of bloated grogginess that the Slammer fired out a spectacular five-run rally as WW players flailed around the field, slipping, overthrowing and generally reverting to their previous clownage. But in a moment of seeming error, JD McLandrich saved the day. Sprinting after a fly ball, he took a massive spill. Breath was bated as McLandrich hit the ground…only to raise a fist clutching the ball. The game was won. Champagne popped and poured into the newly acquired trophy. Tears of joy dripped from Winters’ amazed eyes. Beers were shotgunned. Wary of their reception, the team headed to the league’s unofficial postgame spot…the Slammer. Yet the players were greeted by a standing ovation. Owner Lizzie Robarts-Dille awarded the team a bottle of tequila, which was passed around, poured into the trophy and gone within five minutes. The next day, nobody remembered what had happened. That was the last glory year for WW. The following year, the spark was gone. Many of the key players had left to pursue other dreams. The defending champs didn’t even make the next summer’s playoffs, and soon thereafter the team dissolved. Still, every Sunday, when the noon bell rings, this author shotguns a beer, blows his vuvuzela and dreams of a time he doesn’t really remember: that fleeting moment when we were kings. SEE IT: High and Outside: The Story of Hosford is at the Hollywood Theatre at 7:30 pm Sunday, June 30.
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Footloose
[THREE DAYS ONLY, REVIVAL] Schlocky, sure, but Kevin Bacon was breaking it down way before those perky Glee kids ever did. Fifth Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday, 3 pm Sunday, June 28-30
Free Samples
D+ [FOUR NIGHTS ONLY] You’re
familiar with the old adage “nothing in life is free.” Jay Gammill’s comedy Free Samples takes those words to heart. Possibly the most unpleasant human being in the world—or at least in Los Angeles—Jillian (Jess Weixler) is a hungover law-school dropout with daddy issues and a fiance she doesn’t talk to. So naturally, she’s the one handing out free samples of ice cream to passersby in an empty parking lot. The highlight of the film comes in scenes between Weixler (who dryly deadpans her way through, adding just a bit of charm to Jillian’s unpleasantness) and Jesse Eisenberg, who plays Tex, the guy Jillian doesn’t remember meeting at the bar the previous night. But given that these exchanges account for maybe five of the film’s 80 minutes, they’re just a few sweet sprinkles on top of a very bitter sundae. KAITIE TODD. Clinton Street Theater. 9 pm Monday-Thursday, July 1-4.
Hannah Arendt
C- Goodness knows there’s a fascinating film to be made about the titular philosopher, writer and theorist, but this ain’t it. That’s mostly because director Margarethe von Trotta homes in on a key moment of Arendt’s last years—when she covered the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann for The New Yorker—while skimming over her years as a student and lover of Martin Heidegger and her escape from Nazi-occupied France. This candy-colored biopic relies on too many scenes of Arendt staring wistfully out of a window, smoking, as she struggles with Jewish guilt and “the banality of evil.” ROBERT HAM. Living Room Theaters.
How to Make Money Selling Drugs
C+ This is basically the Huffington Post of films: an irresistible headline, which doesn’t reflect the true content of the piece, which had already been done by someone better. Unlike America’s premier side-boob news site, Matthew Cooke’s How to Make Money Selling Drugs does at least attempt to stay true to its advertised conceit for about half the film, as former drug dealers—from corner boys to international drug runners—talk about how and why they got into the game and all the cash they made while playing. It’s a fun watch, but you won’t actually learn many practical tips, let alone witness the “shockingly candid examination of how a street dealer can rise to cartel lord with relative ease,” as promised in the film’s press release. Most of the advertised celebrities, like 50 Cent and, appropriately, Arianna Huffington, offer one or two soundbites at best. For act two, the film jarringly segues into its real premise, which is, roughly, “the war on drugs is stupid and bad.” And it is, and Cooke presents a fine case, but it’s a case that was presented so much more clearly and affectingly by 2012’s outstanding The House I Live In. Which means that How to Make Money is, well, like clicking through the HuffPo slide show when you’ve already read the New York Times original. RUTH BROWN. Hollywood Theatre.
The Internship
left-field twists and turns that keep the viewer engaged and chuckling with alarming frequency. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Clackamas, Mt. Hood, Lloyd Mall.
B A clumsily assembled narrative
that finds Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson as old and out-of-touch Google interns, The Internship has none of Wedding Crashers’ biting wit or respect for storytelling. Yet this doesn’t diminish the constantly inventive, profoundly entertaining performances from our stars. PG-13. JAY HORTON. Cedar Hills, Clackamas.
Jewish Film Festival: The Other Son
Iron Man 3
A- Going dark without losing its
charm, Iron Man 3 emerges as a toptier superhero yarn that emphasizes something too often forgotten by its brethren: Comic-book movies are supposed to be fun. Iron Man 3 is a film that embraces a mold before completely breaking it with out-of-
B [ONE NIGHT ONLY, ONGOING SERIES] In this politically charged twist on the classic switched-at-birth scenario, French filmmaker Lorraine Lévy orchestrates a touching but overly manicured tale about overcoming prejudice for the sake of family. Joseph and Yacine grow up in opposite yet parallel worlds, divided by a 26-foot concrete wall: Joseph (Jules Sitruk) in the relative opulence of Tel Aviv, and Yacine (Medhi Dehbi)
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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. PG-13. AP KRYZA. 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Lloyd Mall.
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WHITE HOUSE DOWN
In a time of international turmoil, divisive politics and increasing moral vacancy, two all-American truths remain: Channing Tatum is smokin’ hot, and watching big explosions is fun. These are the principles that guide White House Down, in which Independence Day director Roland Emmerich again lays waste to our nation’s capital. Now, instead of an alien invasion, he unleashes computer hackers, terrorists and other enemies of the state on a mission to capture President Sawyer (Jamie Foxx) for ambiguous, ultimately superfluous reasons. Because who cares why they’re doing it? All we need to know is that a crew of cookie-cutter bad guys are wreaking havoc on the White House and two sexy Americans are trying to stop them. It’s a silver-screen fireworks show—senseless, extravagant and just in time for the Fourth. Superfluous though it may be, there is a plot. D.C. cop John Cale (Channing Tatum) takes his angsty, video-blogging preteen daughter Emily (Joey King) on a tour of the White House after—for lack of a better word—bombing an interview to join the Secret Service. When Emily goes in search of a restroom, a bomb explodes nearby, and a squadron of bedraggled dudes with automatic weapons floods the marble hallways, busting every head and antique vase in their path. Cale narrowly escapes a spray of bullets and takes off looking for his daughter, but instead finds the president. Ample violence, awkward political references and obnoxious racial stereotyping ensue as the unlikely duo scramble through elevator shafts and underground tunnels, with Cale shouldering the dual responsibility of protecting the president and finding Emily. What gives this trigger-happy flick some charisma, aside from feeding the red-blooded American fascination with attacks on Washington, is the equally patriotic appeal of an underdog prevailing against the odds. Cale’s story—rising suddenly from a nobody policeman to the president’s most trusted protector—is the quintessential up-by-your-own-bootstraps tale. Tatum’s beautiful bod and fearless fatherly instincts don’t hurt, either. All told, White House Down is enjoyable in the way that a large order of McDonald’s fries is enjoyable: It’s greasy and devoid of nutrients, but still inescapably, embarrassingly delicious. EMILY JENSEN. ’Cause baby, you’re a firework.
B- SEE IT: White House Down is rated PG-13. It opens Friday at Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Living Room Theaters, Sandy, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Bridgeport, Tigard, Oak Grove, Mill Plain.
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in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. Through a routine blood test, Joseph’s parents discover he is not their biological son, and they later learn that during a bomb evacuation shortly after the boys’ births, Yacine and Joseph were mixed up and returned to the wrong mothers. The Other Son is beautifully crafted, but ultimately folds under the pressure to sugarcoat an ancient, deep-seated hatred. PG-13. EMILY JENSEN. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 8 pm Saturday, June 29. See nwfilm.org for the complete Jewish Film Festival schedule.
Just Like Being There
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] A new documentary about gig posters and the artists who make them. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Thursday, June 27.
The Kings of Summer
B+ Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts’
debut feature follows three boys who ditch their parents, unannounced, to build a house in that enchanted clearing. The premise may be absurd, but everything else in The Kings of Summer is unapologetically genuine. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Fox Tower.
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 and Mike (Billy Crystal) was the Hermione-esque know-itall. It’s an old formula, but Monsters University somehow captures the giddy ups and miserable downs of entering your first year of college. G. KAITIE TODD. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Lloyd Mall, Sandy.
Much Ado About Nothing
A Much Ado About Nothing is all
about trickery. The comedy centers on two strong-minded singles, each determined never to love and never to marry. Until, of course, their friends decide to play matchmaker. Like those sly friends holding the strings, Joss Whedon is a masterful puppeteer himself. After wrap-
ping The Avengers, the director retreated to his airy Santa Monica home, corralled some friends and, in 12 days, secretly filmed his adaptation of Much Ado. It’s shot in black-and-white, often with a handheld camera, but it’s set in the present day. 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. PG-13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Cinema 21.
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,
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Kon-Tiki
A- Based on the true story of
Norwegian ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl, who set off in 1947 to float 5,000 miles from Peru to Polynesia on a balsa-wood raft, this gorgeously shot adventure flick is not only awesome because of the epic voyage that could easily fail. It’s awesome because of Heyerdahl’s utter certainty that it will not. PG-13. EMILY JENSEN. Fox Tower.
Leviathan
A [TWO NIGHTS ONLY] Like
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Deadliest Catch but wish it had less chit-chat and more contemplative existential dread? Lucien CastaingTaylor and Véréna Paravel’s essentially wordless documentary about commercial fishing strips the world’s most dangerous enterprise of its made-for-TV drama, rendering the profession in the hellish tones of a Hieronymus Bosch painting. Shot with a dozen ultra-tiny cameras, including one with a fish-eye lens, the film immerses itself in the muck of life aboard a boat in the North Atlantic, observing the crew’s dispassionate drudgery—shucking clams, hacking fins off rays, sweeping guts over the side—from disorienting angles that turn from entrancing to unsettling. In its concluding sequence, a camera tethered to the vessel is given over to the chaos of the sea, creating a nightmarish hallucination of black water and upside-down gulls. By giving us a glimpse of their final moments, the scene pays tribute to the men who’ve died so we can enjoy Long John Silver’s. MATTHEW SINGER. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 and 9 pm Friday, 6 pm Saturday, June 28-29.
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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. Seven years later, the threat of global fascism lay dismantled. For Superman, it was all downhill from there. 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 stonefaced seriousness, and blowing shit up. 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 in Monsters, Inc., but
SITTING GRITTY: Sandra Bullock (left) and Melissa McCarthy.
THE HEAT The Heat may be the most tragic blunder since Pryzbylewski gunned down that plainclothes cop in Season 3 of The Wire. Despite the combined talents of Bridesmaids director Paul Feig, Parks and Recreation writer Katie Dippold and go-for-broke star Melissa McCarthy, the few jokes that hit their mark are severely overshadowed by the film’s lousy rap sheet. After rushing to team up Ashburn (Sandra Bullock), a buttoned-down FBI control freak, with Mullins (McCarthy), a borderline-feral Boston police detective, the action-comedy sets them off in lukewarm pursuit of a shadowy drug lord. With the film barely feigning interest in its own slapdash plot, it quickly devolves into a succession of scenes intended to reinforce that Ashburn is extremely straitlaced while Mullins is incredibly slovenly. Feig and Dippold have both excelled with ensemble comedies, exploring (and exploiting) the unique dynamics between diverse characters. While Parks’ Leslie Knope and Ron Swanson are wonderful comic creations (and significantly more nuanced than the cartoonish Ashburn and Mullins), the thought of them butting heads for two hours would give even the most ardent fan pause. Likewise, you can watch McCarthy and Bullock bounce off each other only for so long before the effect becomes about as amusing as staring at a Newton’s cradle. In terms of meeting its “buddy cop” requirements, The Heat is content to go through the paces, lacking the inclination or nerve to subvert expectations or tweak formulas like last year’s 21 Jump Street. And while the choreography of that film’s set pieces benefited from its directors’ background as animators, the action sequences here betray a director who cut his teeth shooting dialogue-centric television. Regrettably, Feig’s composition skills leave Judd Apatow looking like a visual stylist by comparison. Like Apatow, his former Freaks and Geeks collaborator, Feig tends to become overly enamored with his stars, allowing them to riff for far too long. McCarthy is a nimble actor, but—as in the abysmal Identity Thief—she’s reduced here to strictly a blunt-force weapon. Asking her to do little more than hurl f-bombs is just a crime. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK.
A buddy-cop flick without any burn.
C SEE IT: The Heat is rated R. It opens Friday at Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Pioneer Place.
JUNE 26-JULY 2 “the easier it will be to fool you.” That’s apparently a tip director Louis Leterrier tried to follow, pulling from his bag of tricks plenty of glitz, a throbbing techno soundtrack and a camera that swirls as if on a merry-go-round. Unfortunately, being fooled by this flashy flick is no fun. PG-13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Forest, Living Room Theaters, Oak Grove, Sandy.
PetesFest: The Adventures of Pete and Pete Reunion
[TWO DAYS ONLY, REVIVAL, CREATORS AND STARS ATTENDING] An all-out celebration of one of Nickelodeon’s most legendary television programs, with live music, Q&A and appearances from stars and writers. See Headout on page 21 for more. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday, June 28-29.
The Purge
C- James DeMonaco’s speculative thriller The Purge unfolds in a near future where politicians have designated 12 hours a year during which all crime is legal. This annual cathartic “purge” has left the country practically crimefree 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 opportunistically hawking security systems to the panicked residents of his gated community. When the defenses inevitably fall and a siege ensues, the melees that follow are perfunctory and poorly staged. R. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Clackamas.
Reel Feminism: But I’m a Cheerleader
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] A less-than-successful 1999 satire about a rehab camp for gay teens. R. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Wednesday, June 26.
Reel Relics: Synthestesia
[TWO NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] Archival footage of British synth pop from the ’80s. Clinton Street Theater. 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday, June 28-29.
The Sapphires
B+ Wayne Blair’s feature debut is a massively entertaining tale about an Australian Aboriginal girl band that travels to Vietnam to entertain American troops in 1968. The Sapphires butts up against serious issues. But between the spirited songs, big-hearted story line and hypersaturated cinematography, this is a film that unapologetically encourages finger-snapping rather than head-scratching—and bless its spangled heart for that. PG-13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Laurelhurst.
The Secret Disco Revolution
C+ [ONE WEEK ONLY] Jamie Kastner’s cheeky documentary claims to tell a secret story, stripping away disco’s psychedelia to reveal the politics beneath the mesmerizing beats. Disco, Castner argues, was not just about trippy aesthetics, dance parties and checking your mind at the door: It was also a statement of protest, an argument for the liberation of women, blacks and gays. Take Donna Summer’s 1975 song “Love to Love You Baby”—the extended track ran nearly 17 minutes and featured Summer moaning and groaning erotically. “It was a 20-minute multiorgasm on record,” says historian Alice Echols, “intended not only for extended dancing, but extended lovemaking.” In a time when women were protesting three-minute sex, this was a feminist critique in musical form. But while The Secret Disco Revolution contends that we owe much to disco’s progressive artists, Castner undercuts his argument with strangely ominous voice-over narration and campy re-enactments, in which actors dressed in outrageous disco gear do the Hustle. With
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some sweet flashback footage of ’70s dance clubs, the film is nostalgic with a fresh perspective, but still not as revolutionary as the title promises. HALEY MARTIN. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm FridayThursday, June 28-July 4.
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Sleepaway Camp
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] All summer long, the Hollywood Theatre is sending viewers back to summer camp. First up is the 1983 slasher cult classic, which has one of the ballsier twist endings among horror films. R. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Thursday, June 27.
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, Abrams hammers down on the throttle right in the opening, but things get dark with the arrival of Benedict Cumberbatch, who, unsurprisingly, steals the show. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Indoor Twin, Oak Grove.
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[ONE NIGHT ONLY] As part of the Hollywood’s collaboration with Portland State’s art and social practice MFA program, the theater presents a free screening of two episodes of the Mexican soap opera Por Ella Soy Eva. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Sunday, June 30.
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B With This Is the End, Seth
Rogen and company jump genres to the biblical apocalypse and cast James 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 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. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Sandy.
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We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
B+ Alex Gibney traces Julian Assange’s rise from teen hacker to international celebrity with verve and compelling storytelling. In its most compelling moments, the film trains its lens on Bradley Manning, the young, isolated Army intelligence analyst who 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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World War Z
C Thanks to $20 million in
reshoots, Marc Forster’s World War Z has managed to conceal most of the cosmetic evidence of its clusterfuck production and emerge as an eminently watchable summer blockbuster. That said, it remains fundamentally flawed. Billed as “an oral history of the zombie war,” Max Brooks’ inventive 2006 novelturned-source material saw dozens of characters sharing their horrific accounts of humanity’s annihilation. It’s disappointing, then, that this adaptation centers on just a single character. Brad Pitt plays Gerry Lane, a former U.N. investigator whose family is set upon by agents of the zombie apocalypse. What World War Z most glaringly lacks is any unique sensibility. The screenplay has no interest in subtext—the lifeblood of any great zombie film. Ultimately, such a product can only satisfy the most mindless of hordes. PG-13. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, CineMagic, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Lloyd Mall, Sandy, St. Johns Twin.
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PARLOR GAMES: Forget Psycho. That flick may have cinema’s most harrowing shower scene, but Charade has its most delightful, in the form of a fully clothed Cary Grant lathering himself up as a highly amused Audrey Hepburn looks on. Stanley Donen’s 1963 film was the only time the two stars appeared onscreen together, and the result is just as giddy and combustible as you’d expect. The ever-elegant Hepburn, outfitted in Givenchy couture, plays an American in Paris whose husband has just been murdered and who is being trailed by a murderous trio convinced she has some stolen loot. Grant might be out to help her—or he might be in cahoots with the baddies. Walking the line between thriller and romantic comedy, with delicious injections of morbid humor (such as when a police inspector clips his nails during a funeral), Charade has been called Hitchcock lite, but it’s more than worthy in its own right. “Won’t you come in for a minute?” Hepburn asks Grant. He declines, and her matter-of-fact response is a masterpiece in itself: “I don’t bite, you know…unless it’s called for.” REBECCA JACOBSON. Playing at: Laurelhurst. Best paired with: Ninkasi Sterling Pilsner. Also playing: Before Midnight (Hollywood), The Croods (Academy).
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ried. He believed that if he remained unwed during his time on earth, he would be blessed with two spirit-wives in the after-life. Have you ever done something like that yourself, Libra? Is there an adventure you’ve denied yourself in the here and now because you think that’s the only way you can get some bigger, better adventure at a later date? If so, now would be an excellent time to adjust your attitude. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “It is kind of fun to do the impossible,” said Walt Disney, a pioneer animator whose cartoon innovations were remarkable. Judging from your current astrological omens, I think you Scorpios have every right to adopt his battle cry as your mantra. You’ve got an appointment with the frontier. You’re primed to perform experiments at the edge of your understanding. Great mysteries will be tempting you to come closer and lost secrets will be teasing you with juicy clues. As you explore and tinker with the unknown, you might also want to meditate on the graffiti I saw scrawled on a mirror in a public restroom: “Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.” SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Astronauts on lunar expeditions have orbited the moon and seen its entire surface. But the rest of us have never seen more than 59 percent of it. As the moon revolves around the Earth, it always keeps one side turned away from our view. Isn’t that amazing and eerie? The second most important heavenly body, which is such a constant and intimate factor in our lives, is half-hidden. I’d like to propose that there is an analogous phenomenon in your inner world, Sagittarius: a part of you that forever conceals some of its true nature. But I’m pretty sure you will soon be offered an unprecedented chance to explore that mysterious realm. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Anglo-Irish novelist Laurence Sterne married his wife Elizabeth in 1741. Twenty-five years later he fell in love with another woman, Eliza. In composing love letters to his new infatuation, he lifted some of the same romantic passages he had originally written to Elizabeth when he was courting her. Try hard not to do anything remotely resembling that, Capricorn. Give your intimate allies your freshest stuff. Treat them as the unique creatures they are. Resist the temptation to use shticks that worked to create closeness in the past. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s important that you not punish yourself or allow yourself to be punished for the sins that other people have committed. It’s also crucial that you not think nasty thoughts about yourself or put yourself in the presence of anyone who’s prone to thinking nasty thoughts about you. Self-doubt and self-criticism may be healthy for you to entertain about ten days from now, and at that time you will probably benefit from receiving compassionate critique from others, too. But for the moment, please put the emphasis on self-protection and self-nurturing. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): For over three decades, a man in Assam, India has worked to build a forest. When Jadav “Molai” Payeng started planting and tending seeds at the age of 16, the sandbars bordering the Brahmaputra River were barren. Today, almost entirely thanks to him, they’re covered with a 1,360-acre forest that harbors deer, birds, tigers, rhinos, and elephants. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you could launch a comparable project in the next 12 months, Pisces -- a labor of love that will require your persistent creativity and provide you with sanctuary for a long time.
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