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To those who said we needed this project for jobs regardless of how poorly it was designed, I say to you this: There will be more projects, better projects and truly multimodal, jobs-rich projects—just not this project [“No More Bridge to Nowhere,” WW, July 3, 2013]. The Columbia River Crossing was estimated to increase air pollution in North Portland. It would have increased traffic congestion, not reduced it. It would have limited navigation of watercraft on the Columbia River. It would have forced commuters to be tolled about $10 a day to use the bridge. And it would have robbed desperately needed transit dollars from projects across the state at a time when we have infrastructure literally falling apart. —“Hart Noecker” There may have been an agreement between Oregon and Washington to include light rail, but it was a fatal blunder to not seek citizen approval. In fact, the powers that be seemed to know citizens would never accept it and decided to bully it on us anyway. As much as anything else to be credited for the death of the CRC, a growing outrage at the grassroots level of ordinary citizens cannot be ignored. —“lewwaters” Opposition to light rail to Vancouver always reminds me of Col. Kurtz’s famous last words from Apocalypse Now. The horror—light rail might bring people from Portland to shop in Vancouver. Oh, wait, nobody

from Portland shops in Vancouver because of the sales tax. The horror—riffraff from Portland coming over to disturb the ambiance of Vancouver’s numerous strip malls and bail-bonds hawkers. Or to someday smoke legal drugs. Maybe the real horror is that someone who lives in Vancouver and works in Portland might step off a light-rail car in Vancouver, catch C-Tran home and realize it’s a lot better than spending an hour stuck in traffic. —“eco2geek”

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I haven’t seen Nepenthes, so I won’t comment other than to say from pictures alone I’d take it over Inversion +/- [“Visual Arts Review,” WW, July 3, 2013]. I couldn’t disagree more with the author about the monstrosity that is the Inversion project. It’s not even recognizable as art. Anyone visiting town or who hasn’t been along that stretch recently is more likely to think it’s some partially completed or abandoned midstream construction project. It is ugly. —“Jake Chadwick” Nepenthes, while definitely not Chihuly-grade, provides some light amusement, and a smile to most passersby. Inversion: +/- has started more than one conversation about how bad Portland’s public art mostly just flat sucks. —“TMSM” LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include the author’s street address and phone number for verification. Letters must be 250 or fewer words. Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Fax: (503) 243-1115. Email: mzusman@wweek.com

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On any given morning, those who still tune in to KBOO 90.7 FM might hear stories from the perspectives of prison inmates, homeless people and bicycle advocates. But one of the topics the community radio station’s hosts talk about often is the rights of workers in the face of oppressive employers. “American labor law is broken law,” a guest said on KBOO’s Labor Radio show July 8. “Labor law is rigged for the bosses.” In its 45-year history, KBOO has been a forum for unpopular, controversial and neglected perspectives— often pitching individual freedom against the injustice of big business. But now, KBOO’s own management is being publicly cast as doing all the things a corporate bully might do. Workers at the station this year joined a union after KBOO moved to cut their benefits. The station responded by threatening to lay off the entire staff, and by hiring a Portland law firm that advertises its skills in keeping out unions. The moves have divided the nonprofit station’s board of

directors and pitted its interim executive director against KBOO’s small staff and legions of volunteers who keep the commercial-free station’s programs on the air. The fight has broken out as KBOO faces a decline in revenues and listeners. The station has also had to confront the slippery sense of what its role should be in a changing media world—and whether the station will even survive. Says KBOO board member Hadrian Micciche, “They’re fighting over who’s going to have ownership of the corpse.” KBOO Community Radio went on the air in 1968, out of a basement room at Southwest Salmon Street and 3rd Avenue, and took its call letters from a marijuana strain called “Berkeley Boo.” Its mission then was not that different from today’s: KBOO is a source for community activism, progressive viewpoints and eclectic music. The station runs on its volunteers—as many as 500, according to KBOO—and the programming reflects their tastes. Aside from talk shows focused on local politics, the station’s lineup includes Presswatch (“News You’re Not Supposed to Know”), Sounds Unsound (a music show whose genres include “avant-rock, free jazz/rock/folk, psychedelic, noise…”) and Positively Revolting (“an ecofeminist, and anarcha-feminist perspective”). “Virtually everyone is welcome to come in off the street and run the station,” says Lisa Loving, a KBOO board member. The station also has 10 paid positions. Salaries are capped at $34,960 after five years of employment—and some employees have worked there for more than 20. But the number of KBOO listeners—always a small but highly engaged group—has fallen sharply, from 70,000 in 2004, to below 50,000 in 2011. KBOO declined to release updated listener estimates. Arbitron numbers show

KBOO’s share has slipped further in the last year. Micciche connects the decline in KBOO listenership to the election of President Obama. “The audience that found KBOO to be a good source of news about [President George] Bush’s misdeeds has largely left us behind,” Micciche says. “This target audience isn’t listening at the levels they did in the past—or paying the bills.” The station’s $700,000 in revenues are down nearly 20 percent since 2007. KBOO lost grants in 2008, including from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Since then, the station has been running in the red—more than $100,000 last year alone. (KBOO declined to release recent financial numbers.) “About four years ago, we were like, ‘We only have five years to continue deficit spending,’” says Paula Small, KBOO’s board treasurer. “People aren’t paying attention. In this current pattern, I don’t give us two years.” In January, the KBOO Foundation’s 12-member board voted to shake up the station by trying to make its operations more professional. The board put almost all power to run the station in the hands of an executive director who would also be station manager. The changes were a surprise to station staff and volunteers who had run KBOO as a collective and without a real hierarchy. “The staff managed themselves, but it was not a satisfactory arrangement,” says Lynn Fitch, whom the board hired as interim director. “[The board] wanted a different structure.” Fitch—typically dressed in an embroidered linen frock, and followed everywhere by a vested Yorkie named CONT. on page 8 Willamette Week JULY 10, 2013 wweek.com

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Ryder—grew up in North Seattle and says she worked in public broadcasting in Alaska. KBOO hired her in May 2012 as its development director. “It was a part-time position,” Fitch says. “I was looking for something to do that would give me time to work in my garden.” Fitch gave herself the title of “station navigator”—too many people with the title of station manager, she says, didn’t last very long in the job. KBOO had a complicated grievance process for employees. At the board’s direction, Fitch rewrote the rules so that an employee could be fired at any time without cause. She also cut paid sabbaticals, the number of sick days that could be rolled over, and maternity leave. “I thought there might be pushback,” Fitch says. “I was really not prepared for the level of pushback and hostility.” Employees had already voluntarily cut their own bonuses, retirement fund, conferences and travel, and added a winter membership drive all in the name of reducing the budget deficit. “We were given the [new employee] handbook without time to review it and told to sign it right away,” says Jenka Soderberg, KBOO’s evening news and public affairs director. “We were like, ‘Wait, this slashes our benefits.’” That was in March. The following month, KBOO employees informed Fitch they were seeking to join the Communications Workers of America Local 7901, and asked the station to voluntarily recognize the union. Fitch responded by trying to lay off the entire staff, warning some board members on April 17 of her plans. “How do you do a restructure that is fair to everybody and removes the legal responsibility?” Fitch says. “The best thing you can do is to lay everyone off, with severance packages, with the ability to collect unemployment, with continued benefits, with the caveat that I’m going to post these jobs and you’re welcome to apply for them.” The next day, KBOO workers filed their petition with

the National Labor Relations Board. The station’s law firm, Sussman Shank, recommended to Fitch that KBOO hire another firm experienced in dealing with unions, Bullard Law. Bullard’s website boasts of the firm’s expertise in “union avoidance” and its “strategies to maintain a union-free workplace [and] minimization of union activity.” Word leaked, and outrage among KBOO employees and listeners erupted at management’s claims that the move was meant simply to make the station more professional. “‘Professional’ in this country means anti-worker and anti-union, and KBOO needs to use a different method of

“I AM NOT GOING TO ENGAGE IN THIS IMMATURE, SHORT-SIGHTED, AND CLOSE-MINDED BEHAVIOR ANY LONGER.” —MARC BROWN achieving professional competence,” Chris Lowe, a KBOO listener, said at a May 4 meeting. “There are 250 people here today. Use this energy to get people re-engaged.” Two blogs—savekboo.org and savekboofromsavekboo. blogspot.com—track the dispute, and a change.org petition, aimed at KBOO board president S.W. Conser, has 266 signatures. It demands that the station drop Bullard Law, which is “antithetical to the values of KBOO.” Conser told WW he wasn’t familiar with the blogs. “We have a bunch of 45th anniversary events coming,” Conser says. “The official business of KBOO is enough to keep me busy.” But the dispute has deeply divided the KBOO board. Interviews with board members reveal that a majority is opposed to Fitch’s actions. “She called me at work on a Wednesday afternoon to tell

me she planned to lay off staff,” said one board member, who asked not to be identified because of current mediation. “That was when I started revisiting her whole interlude.” Several board members have quit in the past few months—including Marc Brown, who blames an entrenched staff that fights any meaningful change. “Honestly,” Brown wrote in his May resignation letter, “I am not going to engage in this immature, short-sighted, and close-minded behavior any longer.” KBOO employees contacted by WW declined to discuss the current dispute. One new board member, Sue Bartlett, joined after supporting the Save KBOO movement. Bartlett says she discovered Fitch was largely carrying out directions from the KBOO board. “We all blamed it on the new executive director,” Bartlett says. “I discovered it’s a lot more complex than it seemed at first.” Sources on the KBOO board say there may be enough votes to fire Fitch, but they fear being sued. “I remember asking them, ‘You’re going to have my back, right?’” Fitch says. “They said yes. I don’t think that any of them had any idea what they had asked me to do.” Fitch has asked for mediation with the board to decide her future. KBOO has withdrawn the policies that started the uproar, namely giving Fitch broad powers to run the station and fire employees. Four positions on the KBOO board come up for a vote in September, and none of the members whose seats are up is seeking re-election. Bartlett says KBOO is trying to move forward and focus on keeping the station afloat despite the tension and hard feelings. “There’s a lot of suspicion,” she says. “People have been attacked verbally a lot. Everybody is defensive.” WW intern Sara Sneath was an intern at KBOO from January to May of this year.

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Dawn Smallman lives in a cozy three-bedroom house in the shadow of Mount Tabor. The documentary filmmaker has fought for more than a decade to preserve the forested volcano cone and the scenic drinking-water reservoirs in the park. So you might think Smallman would recoil at the prospect of veteran Occupy Portland protesters pitching tents in her beloved park July 12. Nope. Smallman, a member of the Mount Tabor Neighborhood Association board, sees an invasion by protesters—a “Camp Cascadia” in opposition to Portland’s plans to drain the Mount Tabor reservoirs and replace them with underground tanks—as a chance to launch a cannonball at City Hall. “The times that we live in sometimes necessitate political theater,” says Smallman. “I welcome anyone who’s got a legitimate complaint.” The Mount Tabor occupation is the latest example of how growing grievances over the city’s Water Bureau projects— especially its $279.7 million reservoir replacement plan—have created unlikely political alliances, from big businesses to left-wing activists. The city says it will no longer fight federal requirements to drain the Tabor reservoirs and replace them with tanks under construction at Powell and Kelly buttes. But opponents say that project is a waste of money, won’t make Portlanders’ water safer, and will only put millions in the pockets of private contractors. The debate may be cascading toward a May 2014 ballot measure that would wrest control of the city’s water system from City Hall and create a new public utility to run it. “The supporters of this measure are going to be similar to the lounge scene in Star Wars,” says John DiLorenzo, who is representing utility ratepayers in a lawsuit against the city. “You’ve got some Occupy people and some neighborhood association activists who disagree with a federal ruling,” says City Commissioner Nick Fish, who oversees the Water Bureau. “I understand the frustration, but I think it’s misplaced.” You’ll hear more about the Battle of Mount Tabor. WW offers a map to the various camps.

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The players: Commissioner Nick Fish. Mayor Charlie Hales handed Fish the unwanted assignment of supervising the Water Bureau last month, citing Fish’s legal mind. Fish is now responsible for finishing the reservoir burial and capping program started by former Commissioner Randy Leonard. What they want: To move on—and keep building. Hales and Fish say there’s no use continuing the seven years of asking for a reprieve from federal drinking-water guidelines. The Water Bureau began building a 50 milliongallon tank inside Powell Butte in 2009, and a 25 million-gallon tank in Kelly Butte in 2012.

The players: Veterans of Occupy Portland’s 2011 downtown camps and triumphant fluoride fighters. (Read an interview with Camp Cascadia organizer Jessie Sponberg on page 12.) What they want: A waiver from federal requirements that Portland must close its open reservoirs in Washington Park and on Mount Tabor. They see this as a giveaway to private contractors such as CH2M Hill, leading to an eventual corporate takeover of the city’s water supply.

The players: The oldest foes of touching the Mount Tabor reservoirs—the neighborhood association—and a group called Friends of the Reservoirs, led by activist Floy Jones. They’re loud and persistent—some say obnoxious. They have been unwilling to compromise and now—rebuffed by City Hall— are on the brink of losing. What they want: For the city to ask Oregon’s congressional delegation to secure relief from federal rules. They want to preserve the beauty of the Mount Tabor pools.

The players: Alaska Seaplanes President Kent Craford leads Citizens for Water Accountability, Trust and Reform, whose $126.9 million lawsuit against the city alleges misuse of utility ratepayer dollars. Craford won’t say who’s funding the suit, but his previous backers have included companies paying some of the city’s largest water and sewer bills. What they want: Cheaper water and political control. The suit seeks to recover ratepayer money spent on such diversions as the Portland Loo, public funding of political campaigns and buying the River View Cemetery. Craford wants voters to approve a people’s utility district—taking water decisions away from City Hall and giving them to an independently elected utility board.

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Jessie Sponberg is planning for a long camp-out. The leader of Camp Cascadia—the livein protest of draining Mount Tabor’s reservoirs—is heading up the mountain July 12. Sponberg says he’s not coming down until Portland officials back off plans to take the city’s water supply underground. Sponberg is a 39-year-old native Port-

lander, host of activist Web series Fight Church Television, and a leader of the 2011 Occupy Portland blockade of Port of Portland shipping terminals. He comes across as a barroom-brawling Abbie Hoffman. He says activists are convinced closing the reservoirs is just the first step in handing over the Bull Run watershed to a private cabal of builders and developers and otherwise distrustful corporate interests. And he intends to stop it.

WW: What exactly do you plan to do on Mount Tabor? Jessie Sponberg: I’m going to show up there with a dome tent and about 200 really awesome people that care about our water. If the cops beat my ass, drag me off that mountain, I’ll get released and I’ll get back up that mountain. What do you expect will happen? We would like to believe that the police have just as great a need for clean water as we all do. But as we’ve learned, unfortunately, the police department is the right hand of corporate America. They’re not really protecting and serving us. They are protecting and serving the taskmasters, who stand to reap gigantic financial dividends from this $400 million project. You’re talking about the underground water tanks at Powell Butte? It’s bigger than just that. It’s the decommissioning of the reservoirs. It’s the building of new, unnecessary reservoirs underground. Our perfectly gravity-fed water, which hasn’t made a single person sick in 113 years of operation. People are honestly going to get priced out of water, and then we’ll privatize it, and then we’ll sell it. Because to come up with

that $400 million, we’re going have to borrow that money from Wall Street. So what’s your strategy? There’s a lot of differences between what’s going to happen on that mountain and what happened downtown. What happened downtown was a leaderless movement with a real hard message to disseminate to the masses. But all our sound bite up here is, “Corrupt politicians are messing with our water.” We just use the Occupy banner to scare squares. We want people to write [Mayor] Charlie Hales and say, “Charlie, they’re gonna kill the grass. Charlie, what about our grass? Charlie, the grass!” Put pressure on Charlie Hales, let them know that they’re doing shady shit with our water and that it can be fixed. How long are you willing to stay up there? I don’t know, 2016? That’s when the [U.S. Environmental Protection Agency] will review that ruling. You can call me an idiot. You can call my friends hippies. You can call us dreamers, you can call us whatever you want, but somebody’s got to do this. What’s a victory look like? A waiver [from federal requirements]. Anything less is off the table. I want to get beat up. I want to get bloody. I want old ladies to get Maced. I want the whole nation to see what’s going on with our water. We’re looking for a strategic, organized siege of that mountain.

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Portland police Officer McCageor “Cage” Byrd is telling a judge about the night in April he pulled over a woman for speeding and weaving out of her lane on Northwest 23rd Avenue. The woman is in the courtroom, seated to Byrd’s left. “I was not going 48 in a 25,” the woman interjects. “I’m one of the best drivers I know.” Multnomah County Circuit Judge Jerry Hodson quiets her down, and Byrd finishes his testimony. The woman gives her side, and Hodson isn’t convinced. He hands her $400 in fines. “If I get a parking ticket,” she says, storming out of the courtroom, “you’re paying for it.” Byrd turns to the judge with a bemused

smile. But the guilty driver isn’t entirely wrong. She may be stuck with a fine, but taxpayers are the ones paying for a lot of it. For his time in court, Byrd got three hours of overtime, even though he spent only 45 minutes there for this hearing and another that preceded it. The city’s share of the fines for both cases was $175. Byrd’s overtime costs: $165.18—not counting benefits. Taxpayers often lose money when Portland police go to traffic court. That’s because the police union’s contract contains an extraordinary clause that guarantees officers four hours of overtime for showing up in court—even if they appear for only a few minutes. (Byrd got only three hours because his shift started later that day.) That adds up to a lot of overtime paid when officers are not really working. In all, Portland cops last year clocked 8,501 hours in court for an estimated total of $473,000—a rate of $55.72 an hour. “It’s pretty amazing,” says Gail Shibley, chief of staff to Mayor Charlie Hales. “It’s something the mayor flagged very early on as we started looking at the Police Bureau

budget back in January.” Despite concerns in the mayor’s office— and Hales’ talk about holding police more accountable—the city didn’t seek a basic change in state law this year that would dramatically cut down time officers spend in traffic court. And it’s not clear the city will make automatic overtime a bargaining issue in the upcoming police contract. Commissioner Dan Saltzman—who helped lead a subcommittee on public safety overtime this spring—says getting rid of the four-hour minimum has never been a bargaining issue for the city. “It’s not on anybody’s agenda for this contract,” he says. “If we get something on the minimum, we’d have to give them something else—you know how that goes.” Still, Saltzman says officers getting paid overtime for work they don’t do is “galling.” TJ Browning, former chairwoman of the disbanded Police Bureau Advisory Committee, says Hales should take a hard line on traffic court overtime. She says former Mayor Sam Adams disregarded the committee’s warnings in 2010 that such overtime should be a “primary concern.” Portland firefighters also have a fourhour overtime minimum, but Browning says she couldn’t find another American city with so generous a deal for police.

“Our overtime is so egregious, when I asked officers in Chicago and Rockford, Ill., about it, they were handing me their cards and asking me about transfer policies,” Browning says. “Those officers couldn’t believe it.” President Daryl Turner of the Portland Police Association says the rule has been in place for years and is a way of making officers whole for job duties that butt into their lives. “It’s time away from your family, time away from your sleep,” Turner says. “All the things other people get to do in their personal time, we don’t get to do because we’re mandated to be in court.” Commissioner Steve Novick calls such a premium for overtime “rather bizarre.” “We should take a survey of people who go to traffic court and ask them how much time they have to take off of work,” he says. Police spokesman Sgt. Pete Simpson says the bureau is “in a bind” because there are only two traffic court dockets each weekday. If an officer works nights, swing shifts or weekends, Simpson says, it often means he or she must come in on overtime. “There’s no real financial incentive for the Police Bureau to write more traffic tickets,” Simpson says. “But the community’s expectation is, you’re going to make those traffic stops.” Yet if Oregon’s laws were like those in Washington, Portland officers wouldn’t have to be in court as often as they are now. Washington state law allows officers to testify by affidavit for traffic infractions— usually freeing them from attending court. “They don’t have to come in on their days off,” says Kim Kapp, spokeswoman for the Vancouver Police Department. “Police union representatives are very quick to point to Seattle as a comparable city when we talk about pay,” Shibley says. “This may be one exception to their interest in strict comparisons between Washington and Oregon.” But city officials didn’t pursue changing state law during this legislative session. Shibley says it’s something that may be on the agenda next year. Browning doesn’t understand why there’s a delay in acting. “It’s ridiculous that the taxpayers are paying [four hours of overtime] for 10 minutes of work,” Browning says. “It’s the biggest thing that blows our budget.”

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EPIC CAT NAP: Veterinarian Alison Lord spays a kitten on June 19 at the Feral Cat Coalition. The nonprofit has spayed and neutered more than 61,000 untamed cats and returned them to the wild, hoping to keep colonies from growing. Lord performed 33 surgeries in about four hours that day.

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It’s early on a Wednesday, and Alison Lord can’t wait to begin castrating. A veterinarian in private practice in the Pearl District, Lord typically deals with ailments of the pampered house pet: dental cleanings, tummy aches, ear infections. But today, she’ll spay and neuter 33 cats at the Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon, with the help of volunteers and a comfy pair of sneakers. Inside the clinic, located in North Portland next to a Maaco Auto Parts store and a vacant lot, furnishings are sparse: a few surgical tables and steel racks stacked 6 feet high with metal cages. Inside the cages, giant toms and tiny kittens crouch, waiting their turn. An oil painting of an orange cat and Chinese lettering hangs on the wall. CONT. on page 18

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Morning talk-show banter from a boom box competes with a few stray mews. A number of felines are splayed out on operating tables on their backs. They look dead—or as if they had an epic party the night before. They’ve been dosed with anesthesia and painkiller. Their mouths hang open, tongues lolling. “I remember the first time I came: It was exhausting and exhilarating. And I couldn’t wait to come again,” says Lord, 41, who says this is one of the highlights of her month. The procedure, which takes place three days a week and once a month on Sunday, operates with precision: A young volunteer runs masking tape up the spine of a tabby tomcat asleep on the table. With a Sharpie, the tech writes the cat’s ID number (9), his color and where he was caught. She shaves his groin and squeezes a stream of urine from his bladder into a drain in the table. Next, the cat’s right ear tip is sliced off, and the tech uses a mini torch to cauterize the wound. Then, the main event. Lord slices open the cat’s scrotum with a scalpel, her fingers working deftly on the delicate task in front of her. Lord has repeated this action thousands of times. “Really nothing can prepare you for the depth and breadth of these kinds of clinics,” says Lord, a string of pearls under the neck of her scrubs offsetting the gore on her latex gloves. “But over and over again for years I’ve been able to help these animals.”

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CATATONIC: Feral cats at the Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon’s regular spay/neuter clinics are given anesthesia inside their cages so they don’t scratch and bite when they’re pulled out for surgery.

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tically as Lord slides out his testicles, the size and color of a white Great Northern bean, ties off the long line of connective tissue and cuts his balls off. It’s all over in about 90 seconds. Female surgeries are more complicated and take up to 15 minutes. This tabby is now among the more than 61,000 cats the Feral Cat Coalition has put through the process of “trap-neuter-return.” They don’t return to the couch, but to backyards, forests, barns and alleyways all over Portland. These cats are not domestic, and have no owners in the traditional sense. They are wild, or feral, and their shorn right ears are a mark they have been branded by one of the oldest, most organized nonprofits that caters to untamed cats in the United States. “Most programs across the country are not helping anywhere near the number of stray and feral cats we are,” boasts Karen Kraus, a slender woman who keeps her hair in a ponytail as she tours the operating room of the clinic she’s run full time since 2002. “We do it well.” The Feral Cat Coalition employs eight people and more than 500 volunteers. On its latest tax return, it reported $730,000 in donations and grants, and more than $2.4 million in reserves. Each year, it consistently ranks in the top 10 highestearning of the 100-plus nonprofits listed in WW’s Give!Guide, and raised $43,500 last December. It has such a reputation that a film crew from Japan flew to Portland in June to follow the Feral Cat Coalition. No one knows exactly how many feral cats are scattered across Portland, but to critics they are wild animals that spread disease, decimate bird populations and wreak havoc in neighborhoods. In much of the country, a war simmers in what The New York Times calls a “strange Sylvester-and-Tweety feud

between birders and cat fanciers.” But in Portland, the factions have formed a rare détente. Conservation director Bob Sallinger of the Audubon Society of Oregon says it comes down to the fact that both sides care deeply for animals. “Everywhere else, there’s constant bickering, fighting, vilifying each other,” Sallinger says. “At the end of the day, trapneuter-return is an experiment. But what I tell my friends in the bird community is, it may not work, but we already have 100 years of failure behind us.” Charmaine Ripton is mixing an ambrosial concoction of salmon and shrimp varieties of Fancy Feast cat food. She slides the mush into small tubs and carries them past her thriving tomato and garlic beds to four small cages waiting behind her modest 1950 bungalow in Northeast Portland. Ripton has been baiting the cages for four days, luring cats in for meals without trapping them. But at 6 am on a recent Tuesday, the traps went live. Ripton, 49, with the help of her husband, Garth, sets the traps and rushes back inside to wait. It’s not long before a black cat slinks out of the alley behind her lot, ears periscoping, alert as a deer. The smell of seafood is too much. The cat noses into the cage, and bam! the door slams shut behind him. The cage shudders as the wild cat whirls in circles, yellow eyes wide and ears pinned back, trying to free himself. Ripton walks outdoors and snatches up the cage, taking care to avoid the claws hooking through the wire bars. She puts him in the garage and covers the cage with a pink sheet— tomorrow he will be neutered and given shots at the Feral Cat Coalition clinic, then returned to Ripton’s backyard.

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over, they still face death by coyote, cars and other hazards. But in most communities, a feral cat’s biggest foes are not predators. They’re birders.

DINNER RIGHT MEOW: Charmaine Ripton sets up a mixture of wet and dry cat food for the colony of 16 feral cats she cares for in Northeast Portland. “I’m hoping if I feed them, they won’t need to kill the birds,” Ripton explains.

“It really gets my adrenaline going,” Ripton explains, before returning to her window. The only way the great gamble of trapneuter-return will work is if there are enough people like Ripton who will leave food for animals that will never come within 10 feet of them. In doing so, the hope is, feral cats will prefer Friskies to finches, and bird populations will be saved. Sterilize enough of them, they believe, and feral cats will become a thing of the past. As such, Ripton is part of an underground legion of Portlanders called, in the vernacular of the Feral Cat Coalition, “colony keepers.” And, just like the number of wild cats in the city, no one knows exactly how many of her kind are out there. Kraus says it’s in the thousands. Ripton acknowledges no one in her right mind starts out looking to care for 16 feral cats. In her case, it happened slowly. The first, a lone black cat, appeared last August, lapping cautiously at her dog ’s outdoor water bowl. “I thought, oh my gosh, I wonder about this cat!” says Ripton, a buoyant woman who favors floral dresses and frequently swears to gosh. “So I put out food.” Soon, in the middle of a densely populated Concordia neighborhood street, more than a dozen cats materialized to accept her charity. Feral cats can’t fend for themselves. Large colonies that aren’t fed or fixed overpopulate and are often starving and prone to disease, Kraus says. Healthy colonies, she adds, have keepers. Most mornings, Ripton is up at dawn, depositing breakfast at a custom-built feeding station in her backyard, a small wooden platform with a sharply sloped roof about 3 feet high. She has names for most of her regulars.

“Hi! That looks like Nibbles! Hi, sweetie!” Ripton singsongs at the large black cat already waiting for his chow. Ripton’s medical, food and other bills for all her animals topped $20,000 last year. And Ripton says she doesn’t take vacations, because the cats need their food. That was OK while Garth, a software engineer with a local wind-turbine company, was finishing graduate school. But now that he’s graduated, she concedes she’ll need to find a housesitter who can handle her brood. Ripton asked that her specific address not be made public. Even in Portland, those who tend to feral cats are as skittish as the wild felines they care for, keeping their colonies cloaked in secrecy. Their concerns are twofold: A known colony could become a dumping ground for more unwanted cats. Or worse, a flock could fall in the cross hairs of target hunters or be poisoned. “I don’t think most of the neighbors know,” Ripton says, fearing disapproval. “I like to keep it to myself.” Someone in her neighborhood may have a bead on feral cats, however. This spring, Ripton says she and her husband found a convulsing cat in the alley and rushed it to an emergency vet clinic. It died there. “My suspicion is poisoning,” she says. “Another neighbor said she found two dead cats in her yard.” It’s illegal to torture or kill feral cats. Multnomah County Animal Services prosecutes suspected crimes against the animals, but doesn’t track crimes against feral cats specifically. Kraus says some arrivals at the Feral Cat Coalition are clearly victims of target practice. “I’ve had cats come in with pellets,” she says. “I know cats get shot.” Either way, feral cats face a tough life. Even if they are being fed and watched

“I THOUGHT, OH MY GOSH, I WONDER ABOUT THAT CAT! SO I PUT OUT FOOD.” —CHARMAINE RIPTON

The American Bird Conservancy lobbies against trap-neuter-return. The nonprofit, which has its headquarters in Virginia but also has an office in Washington, D.C., maintains a Web page devoted to the dangers of feral cats and argues that wild cats should be “kept in enclosures…or euthanized.” Spokesman Grant Sizemore points to a study done in Rome from 2006 that found trap-neuter-return to be a “waste of time” and says another study shows the number of cats in the U.S. has tripled in the past 40 years. “From our perspective, it’s important you remove the cats from the landscape,” Sizemore says. “What you do with them after that is up to you.” In 2007, the director of the Galveston, Texas, ornithological society was charged with shooting feral cats in the name of aviary justice. A recent study by the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has increased the tension. The study, published in Nature in January 2013, painted what Smithsonian magazine called a “grim picture for wildlife”: Each year, 1.4 billion to 3.7 billion birds in the U.S. lose their lives to cats. The flame wars in the story’s comment section ignited the moment the study was posted online. “Typical sociopathic and psychopathic cat-lickers,” a commenter wrote on the Smithsonian’s website. “Cat hater bird lover crazy,” retorted a feline fan. Becky Robinson, president and cofounder of Alley Cat Allies, a national advocacy group in Washington, D.C., says the study should never have been published. “What’s threatening birds are human activities: development, pollution, pesticides,” Robinson says. “We’re being scapegoated—cats are not the problem.” Birders point out that cats are the No. 1 carriers of rabies and they spread diseases like toxoplasmosis and even plague. Kraus of the Feral Cat Coalition counters that CONT. on page 20

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disease is no more prevalent in managed colonies than in domestic cats. The American Veterinary Medical Association, citing inconclusive studies on the effectiveness of managed cat colonies and the schism in the veterinary community, takes no position on trap-neuter-return. In Oregon and in Portland, feral cat supporters and birders have laid down their fur and feathers. The Oregon Veterinary Medical Association, for one thing, endorses trap-neuterreturn. And Sallinger of the Audubon Society of Oregon has worked with the Feral Cat Coalition to promote trap-neuter-return— and has taken heat from the National Audubon Society for doing so. Sallinger acknowledges that of the 3,000 injured birds his sanctuary takes in each year, about 40 percent are caught by cats. But, he points out, Multnomah County Animal Services can’t keep feral cats in its shelter. So if a feral cat is brought there, it’s euthanized. He says that’s not always the right way to go. Sallinger supports a multistep approach of keeping domestic cats indoors, targeting problem areas, selective euthanasia and using trap-neuter-return. Working with the Feral Cat Coalition will get that job done better than railing against them, he says. “These animals have value, these cats that have been abandoned and neglected,” he says. “We have to find solutions.” Yet as the summer kitten season dawns and the next generation of killers is born, Sallinger acknowledges that even a progressive city like Portland needs to pick up the pace. “We’re a long way away, and, frankly, we’re not having a whole hell of a lot of success right now,” he says. “I don’t want to oversell this, because we do have a long way to go, but we’re putting a lot of effort into it.”

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CAT VILLAGE PEOPLE: Ann Fore—at the entrance to Meow Village, her feral cat colony in Aurora—works full time for her small nonprofit despite undergoing heart surgery two months ago. She’s had hundreds of cats sterilized at the Feral Cat Coalition, then returned them to live in barns, fields or anywhere she can find.

“MEOW VILLAGE GAVE ME A REASON TO LIVE. I’M NOT GOING TO LET THEM TELL ME I HAVE A YEAR TO LIVE. I’VE GOT CATS TO SAVE.” —ANN FORE

To borrow a phrase from Hillary Clinton, that effort takes a village. Rescuing feral cats has engendered a cottage industry of volunteers and nonprofits who do what the Feral Cat Coalition can’t: help people trap feral cats, socialize kittens and even find them new places to live. It’s something Ann Fore has given her whole heart to—almost literally. The

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64-year-old had heart surgery in April and was told to remain mostly in bed until August. “I know there’s cats out there suffering,” she says, shaking her short gray hair. “Every day I don’t get them, they’re all suffering.” Instead, Fore stands in front of Meow Village, her feral cat sanctuary and nonprofit in Aurora, 30 miles southwest of Portland. The village is something to see—but only if you know where to look. It’s behind a blackberry bramble off a busy road near town but completely invisible from almost every vantage point. The blackberries reveal a warren below the thorns. Humans who want access must crawl on the fresh straw laid down among a dozen cat igloos—hand-insulated cat carriers with bedding inside. Traffic whizzes by as volunteers replenish food once a day. A former acclaimed line-dancing choreographer and state corrections worker, Fore is now retired, and devotes herself full time to Meow Village. She has 10 cats at home and keeps photos of them tucked in her billfold, along with a 1992 high-school basketball photo of her son, Richard. Almost all of Meow Village’s 70-plus feral cats have been neutered or spayed. Along with feeding, Fore and a handful of volunteers work to find new locations for feral colonies and teach people to trap. She’s got a list of at least 100 cats in Vernonia, Molalla and Carlton that need to be caught and fixed. In early June, she was headed to the home of a hoarder with countless cats on his land. Clackamas County officials threatened to trap and kill the nuisance cats—Fore wants to catch them and find them vineyards, barns or any spots that could use low-maintenance pest control. But a week later, the hoarder went back on his promise to let her on his property to trap. Before then, she’d scooped up 19

kittens. This, she explains, was crucial because wild kittens caught before about 10 weeks old can be domesticated. “I’m worried about the cats, if you want to know the truth,” says Fore, who sports a Tigger sweatshirt with a few errant cat hairs on it and sandals. “I need to know they are safe.” The work is more than full time—and Meow Village runs up a $600-a-month food bill and keeps a running tab at the vet that’s in the four figures. Fore uses grants, donations and her personal savings to make do. No matter the health or financial costs, Fore says she knows she’ll be doing this till the day she dies. Fore’s doctors told her in 2009 she wouldn’t live more than a year. But her dedication to these felines— although they’ll never return her love— compels her. “Meow Village gave me a reason to live,” Fore says. “I’m not going to let them tell me I have a year to live. I’ve got cats to save.” On June 22, Ripton stood in front of her feral cat feeding station, the lens of a Japanese filmmaker a few feet from her face. The three-woman Japanese delegation—the director, a veterinarian and an interpreter—will feature Ripton in their full-length documentary on trap-neuterreturn. Japan also has a feral cat problem, and is about a decade behind the United States in addressing it, says Kraus of the Feral Cat Coalition. During the filming, they asked Ripton why she loves cats. Why she does what she does. Why she cares. “It was a really pleasant experience,” Ripton says. “They’re sending me the film when they’re finished.” When they left, they gave her a set of chopsticks. “Cultures aside,” Kraus says, “we’re really not all that different from each other.”

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BARKEEP, GET THIS GOSSIP ANOTHER MEKONG PLEASE. FLY-BY BURGERS: Previously, PDX’s only connection to beloved burger chains was as a conduit between California immigrants and animal-style In-N-Out burgers. But the Port of Portland has announced we’ll be getting a Burgerville in our airport this winter, hopefully early enough for pumpkin BURGERVILLE milkshakes. But for those ready to tout the port’s commitment to local foods in the airport, not so fast: Port of Portland’s in-house magazine, Portside, also breathlessly announced the “first-ever PDX location” of the “world’s largest global food retailer,” McDonald’s.

MICHAEL RUSSELL UNMASKED?: The last semi-anonymous food critic in town, The Oregonian’s Michael Russell, appears to be featured in a collection of photos from local barbecue joints published last week. Russell—an everyman food critic who is normally represented with an avatar that depicts him as an elderly hobo eagerly awaiting a pot of possum stew—is shown eating a sloppy pork rib in Lake Oswego. To see the photo of Russell, as well as photos of every MICHAEL RUSSELL? other food critic in town, go to wweek.com. >> In other O-related blog news, you can now read the triumphant conclusion to WW’s survey of area diners and the cease-anddesist letter from The Oregonian that delayed the project for a few weeks. CORRECTED AND CLARIFIED: In our Fugitives and Refugees cover story (“Capture and Escape,” June 3, 2013), WW incorrectly stated that the building that housed the Jefferson Theater was torn down to build an apartment building called the Jeffrey. In fact, the theater lost its lease, and the building’s apartment tenants were later relocated to the newly constructed Jeffrey building on the same block. Also, in a review of Sok Sab Bai (June 3, 2013), WW called the eatery “Portland’s only Cambodian restaurant.” Readers pointed out that other restaurants, such as Mekong Bistro on Northeast 82nd Avenue, serve Cambodian cuisine in addition to other Southeast Asian food from Vietnam and Thailand. WW regrets the error and Cambodian confusion. 24

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FIFTY TO LOVE: Seattle’s Coastal Hotel Group is already selling off its briefly fashionable Hotel Fifty at 50 SW Morrison St., which opened in 2008, to another set of Seattleites, Pineapple Hospitality, run by Columbia West Properties. The reboot is anticipated in August, and the hotel will be renamed Hotel Rose. The hotel’s H50 restaurant and bar, known both for $3 chichi happy-hour snacks and $300 Spanish coffees, will be retained. As for other changes? Columbia West’s website invites readers to “watch us as we Pineapple our newest acquisition.”

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WEDNESDAY JULY 10 THE OBLIVIANS [GARAGE ROCK] The reunion of these Memphis garage heroes seemed inevitable, given that members of the band, which broke up in 1998, haven’t spent much time away from one another, playing in spinoff projects together and releasing records on each other’s labels. The trio’s reconciliation is no less welcome, though, and the recently released Desperation brings a wellearned maturity to the group’s nofrills, shimmy-shake garage punk. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 2266630. 9 pm. $13. 21+.

FRIDAY JULY 12 BACH: B MINOR MASS [CLASSICAL] The B Minor Mass was J.S. Bach’s final major work. It was completed a year before his death in 1750 and not performed until after he’d passed. Thanks to the original score’s many illegible passages, it’s been theorized that he composed it after he’d gone blind. Lucky for Portland, tonight’s performance is being authoritatively conducted by outgoing Oregon Bach Festival cofounder Helmuth Rilling, who chose this presentation to serve as his own finale. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm. $29-$78. All ages.

NOT ALL BERRIES ARE GOOD. HERE’S A GUIDE TO THE BAD ONES. The third annual Oregon Berry Festival is upon us. It’s a great celebration of one of Oregon’s favorite agricultural products. Yet danger lurks. While the festival’s simple slogan encourages you to “eat your berries,” it’s not quite that easy. The Pacific Northwest is home to many berries you do not want to eat, including some that can kill you. Be careful out there. HALEY MARTIN.

BAPTIST GENERALS [INDIE ROCK] Ten years have gone by since the Texas band released its weird, wonderful Sub Pop debut. You’d expect Jackleg Devotional to the Heart, which appeared in May, to sound either tossed off or terribly belabored. Instead, it’s a meticulous album, expanding on the Generals’ bent, indie-rock-damaged vision of Americana, while simultaneously sounding like it just plopped out of frontman Chris Flemmons’ head one day. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

SATURDAY JULY 13 Baneberry

Bittersweet nightshade

Elderberry

Lantana, or red sage

Deadliness factor: High

Baneberries grow in clusters low to the ground and are glossy red when ripe or greenish when unripe. They may have only three to four berries. Do not be fooled by their small numbers: People have died from baneberries. The first symptoms are blistering and burning of the mouth and throat, which graduates to nausea, stomach cramps and diarrhea. Does your stomach hurt? Did you recently eat a berry?

Nightshade berries are translucent red ovoids that grow on a creeping vine with heart-shaped leaves. Alkaloids like those found in hallucinogenic mushrooms are toxic and potentially lethal. Eat them and you may start tripping… toward a painful death. Intense thirst, blurred vision, headaches, nausea, fever and high blood pressure follow. Do not huff nightshade: Inhaling too much of the fragrance can cause symptoms.

(Actaea rubra)

(Solanum dulcamara)

(Lantana camara)

Pokeweed

(Phytolacca americana)

Beautyberry

Deadliness factor: Moderate

Deadliness factor: Mild

Maybe you’ve eaten elderberries before. They’re safe, right? Wrong. Dead wrong. While the berries are edible when both ripe and cooked, uncooked berries contain cyanide-inducing glycosides, which your body metabolizes into poisonous cyanide. In large quantities, this may cause nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Have you ever grilled a steak that was supposed to be medium but instead turned out medium rare? Watch out.

You can eat these when they ripen into little blue berries. But the unripe green berries are poisonous. Have you ever bought a piece of fruit at the grocery store thinking it was ripe only to discover it wasn’t? Also, horses, sheep and goats like to eat lantana berries, but they will die. Common symptoms to watch for in animals include depression, vomiting, diarrhea and weakness. Is your goat depressed?

Ripe pokeweed berries sort of look like massive, oblong blackberries. In the South, people sometimes eat the plant. Not so fast. Pokeweed berries are considered toxic, though Southerners eat parts of the plant after cooking the berries three times, and they are used carefully in folk and alternative medicine. They will give you a terrible stomach ache and have killed children.

First thing to know about this berry: They’re not actually berries but tiny drupes, which are a type of fruit. And while the little pink or ruby berries are beautiful, they are also toxic when eaten in large quantities.

(Sambucus)

(Callicarpa americana)

GO: The Oregon Berry Festival is at the Ecotrust Building, 721 NW 9th Ave., oregonberryfestival. com. Noon-6 pm Friday and 11 am-4:30 pm Saturday, July 12-13. Free.

SMOKED BEER FEST [BEER] Last week, when 19 Arizona firefighters died in a wildfire, Portland Brewing’s Smoked Beer Brew Fest took on new gravity. Sure, it’s mostly just a chance to try beers made with smoky malts, including Base Camp’s Rauch the Boat and Hopworks’ smoked Weizen with hazelnuts and bacon. But it’s also a benefit for the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. Drink and enjoy, but pour a little out, too. Portland Brewing, 2730 NW 31st Ave., portlandbrewing.com. Noon-5 pm. $20.

SUNDAY JULY 14 HARI KONDABOLU [COMEDY] The seriously smart comedian—he has a master’s degree in human rights from the London School of Economics and incorporates jokes about immigration and race into his analytical but still very funny standup—lands in Portland for a one-night stint. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-6438669. 7:30 pm. $12-$17. 21+. Willamette Week JULY 10, 2013 wweek.com

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 10 Gluttony Dinner at Spints Alehouse

Gluten-free gluttony seems like an oxymoron—how can you properly overindulge without breadstuffs? That is to ask, how does one serve a pie of candied lark’s tongue pie without a proper crust? Spints attempts to fatten and gladden without wheat by serving rich seafood bisque, quinoa noodles, parsnip quark dumplings, lamb and mushroom goulash. Cocktails and gluten-free beer from Harvester Brewing will be served. Spints Alehouse, 401 NE 28th Ave., 8472534. 3 pm. $40.

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Oregon’s berry selection sometimes starts to sound like Bubba’s shrimp monologue in Forrest Gump— salmonberries, loganberries, boysenberries. No need to head to Sauvie Island this weekend, as you can sample some of the season’s best, plus sample products made from them, at this weekend’s berry festival. Marionberry barbecue sauce to red raspberry spirits, among many other concoctions, will be available. Ecotrust, 721 NW 9th Ave., Suite 200, 227-6225. Noon-6 pm Friday and 11 am-4:30 pm Saturday, July 12-13. Free.

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If you’re a little too fancy to eat your berries from a little green crate, head over to Imperial where Chef Vitaly Paley assembles a threecourse berry-centric meal that includes a blueberry- and maplelacquered smoked pork loin and grilled asparagus with pickled green strawberries. Hotel Lucia, 400 SW Broadway, 225-1717. 6:30 pm. $85.

Churn-a-ment

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan struck fear into the hearts of our communist enemies by declaring July to be National Ice Cream Month. “Ze Yanks have whole month where zey eat nothing but ice cream?” Mikhail Gorbachev asked his aides. “Why not give up, have ice cream, allow oligarchs to rule?” And so the red curtain began to fall. To commemorate the occasion, the Dairy Farmers of Oregon will host a Churn-a-ment (hey-ooo!) where six local chefs compete to see who can best capture the taste of summer in Oregon with their hand-cranked ice cream. Free samples and ice cream floats will be served. Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave. Noon-1 pm. Free.

SATURDAY, JULY 13 Smoked Beer Brew Fest

Last week, when 19 Arizona firefighters died in a single wildfire, Portland Brewing’s Smoked Beer Brew Fest took on new gravity. Sure, it’s mostly just a chance to try beers made with smoky malts, including Base Camp’s Rauch the Boat and Hopworks’ Bacon-ator, a smoked Weizen with hazelnuts and bacon added. But it’s also a benefit for the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. Drink and enjoy, but pour some out, too. Portland Brewing Co., 2730 NW 31st Ave., 228-5269. Noon-5 pm. $20. All ages.

THE BAIT: Dungeness crab melt.

LOCAL MOTIVE Local, vegan and vegetarian options are ubiquitous in Portland. Fresh and affordable seafood, not so much. Local Motive, the South Waterfront food cart that mother-daughter duo Janette Sinclair and Brittany Kofford opened two years ago, is aiming for that niche. The caboose-shaped bright red cart is parked under the rusty corrugated steel overhang on the back side of an industrial supply warehouse next to the streetcar stop at Southwest Bond Avenue and Lane Street. Around it are metered parking spaces where you can leave a car for 11 hours with one stub. The small menu includes three seafood-based sandwiches and two vegetarian options. For $20, my dining companion and I got an impressive amount of food. The sandwiches come with a generous side of quinoa salad, seafood chowder, commercial Kettle Chips repackaged in paper sacks, or slaw. Service is fast and friendly. It’s cash only and the nearest ATM is a few Order this: Dungeness crab melt blocks away. ($9, half $6) with quinoa. Local Motive’s line-caught Oregon albacore is nothing like mayonnaise concoctions made from canned tuna, and is bettered by sweet, crunchy apples and toasted hazelnuts. A Dungeness crab melt with Tillamook white cheddar and homemade tartar sauce is the best thing since the Krabby Patty. The crab is grilled to a faint char, and soft ciabatta lets the filling speak for itself. The quinoa salad and slaw were both light and refreshing offsets to the richness of the sandwich. Lighter still, the wild Oregon mushroom sandwich was lackluster, with tough mushrooms offering little flavor. The sharp white cheddar ($1 extra) saved the shrooms. Because this is Porklandia, there’s also frequently a pulled pork sandwich on offer as a daily special. It’s proven very popular. You can put hooks in the water, it seems, but you can’t make this town of landlubbers bite. HALEY MARTIN. EAT: Local Motive, 3838 SW Moody Ave., localmotivepdx.com. 11 am-3:30 pm Monday-Friday. Cash only. $.

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HABANERO CIDER (FINNRIVER FARM & CIDERY) Finnriver’s Habanero Cider is more like pepper spray than hot sauce. That is to say, the danger of pain comes from inhaling, not drinking. Finnriver Cidery, which sits on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula and uses its home state’s apples exclusively, made this unique chili cider during a winter slow stretch. It’s a true oddity: While there are at least a dozen chili beers made in Oregon alone, there are precious few chili ciders in the world. I don’t know if there’s a chemistry-based reason for that, but Finnriver’s version disappointed. Pour hard and sniff deeply, and fluids will flow from all your facial reserves. Sip slowly, and it’s more sweet than spice. For some reason, they added cane sugar to this Pilsner-colored, mild and slightly rosy beverage. It doesn’t satisfy like better chili beers, but it’s a good conversation starter. Not recommended. MARTIN CIZMAR.

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LOWBROW LANAI: Marci Holcomb and Austin Jordan relax in their backyard tiki bar.

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The Polynesian invasion begins July 12, as Portland hosts the 11th annual Tiki Kon, a “weekend of exotica, surf and lounge music.” Enthusiasts from all over the world will descend on our city to celebrate all things tiki, culminating in a tour of custombuilt home tiki lounges. These lounges aren’t tiki bars like the well-known Trader Vic’s, the Alibi or our 2013 Bar of the Year runner-up, Hale Pale. These are basement bars, built by people in Hawaiian print shirts who invite other like-minded geeks over for a drink and debate who invented the mai tai. These are people who sniff at the Alibi’s popular, but inauthentic, karaoke night. These are people like Craig Hermann, who, when I meet him, is carving the smiling face of a Polynesian god into an 8-foot piece of plastic foam. Asked to explain the attraction, Hermann pauses for a full 28 seconds to compose his answer. “Dark,

dangerous, wonder, surprise, delight,” he says. “It’s a return to a base level of being; it’s a way for you to take off your threebutton suit and put on a different sort of attire where you become wild where you can’t during the day.” For that, Portland’s three big tiki establishments aren’t enough. The true tiki experience, they say, is crafted by hand. So they turn their basements, their backyards, entire rooms of their homes into personal Polynesian asylums. And your neighbor just might be one. We looked past the suburban façades and explored the hidden tiki lounges of three of Portland’s most dedicated tiki fans. The Monkey Hut Hermann’s North Portland basement is an underground tropical paradise. The Monkey Hut is his third home tiki bar, one he’s been working on for the past five years. The bar is lit by dim lamps made of fishing bobbers and has enough bamboo chairs and ottomans to host a dozen people, as well as a long line of flavor syrups along with a loop of chirping crickets. Ask Hermann and he’ll launch into a tirade for a full 10 minutes about tiki culture’s roots from Gauguin in

Tahiti as he masterfully mixes up a Navy grog for his visitors. A systems administrator by trade, Hermann has technical skills that enable him to wire up complicated lighting and sound systems; in a basement that’s part technical wonder and all tiki, the only thing missing is the sand. “Many of my interests, I kind of…overintellectualize them, sort of,” he says. Hermann developed a love for tiki culture early, spurred by frequent visits to Disneyland’s Enchanted Tiki Room and his father’s backyard tiki pond. In 1999, when he was 27, a chance visit to a hotel tiki bar rekindled this love. After moving to Portland in 2004, he quickly became a chief in the local tiki scene and, until this year, was the main organizer behind Tiki Kon. Hermann gave that up because of his two small children. “Hopefully, they’ll grow up with it so they don’t think it’s weird.” The Lowbrow Lanai Step into Austin Jordan and Marci Holcomb’s Northeast Portland home and you’re instantly transported back to the 1960s. Ask them what sorts of things they’ve collected over the years and both will proudly list records, cocktail shakers, cat figurines, plastic rocket ships, Finnish glassware and, of course, tiki, to which they now dedicate a whole room of their home. Their Midcentury Modern is stocked with artifacts from the 1950s and ’60s. Since 2003, they’ve jointly run Sputnik Housewares, specializing in “jet-set furnishings from the atomic age.” “A lot of people out there are collecting newer tiki mugs; we always for our personal collection keep to the actual vintage mugs from the ’50s and ’60s,” Marci says. “It’s always fun to find something with a restaurant on the back that no one knows about.” They’ve completely transformed what was once a broken-down backyard patio into the Lowbrow Lanai. What started as a few antique bamboo chairs from the 1940s quickly expanded into a full-blown tiki lounge that now dominates their backyard. The Green Bamboo Lounge Paul Nielsen’s home tiki bar isn’t just for entertaining, it’s also a showroom. His Parkrose Heights home is part ceramics factory, part shipping center, and all tiki. Paul and his wife, Debra, run MunkTiki.

com, an outlet for ceramic tiki mugs he designs, makes and sells to collectors. Some limited-edition mugs go for $150 each. Six months ago, Nielsen and his family decided their small tiki bar wasn’t enough, so they completely renovated their basement, raising the ceiling and transforming it into a three-room tiki escape called the Green Bamboo Lounge. Today, there’s bamboo everywhere, exotic masks on the walls, and shelves lined with more rums than you knew existed. As Paul fiddles with the vintage tiki jukebox, Debra seems embarrassed by the expensive margarita maker hidden in a corner. (Margaritas and Jimmy Buffett’s Caribbean are decidedly un-tiki, but they’ve got one anyway.) Before he got into tiki, Paul mostly worked on bathroom accessories and dinnerware. Now, Tiki geeks are his primary clientele. He makes one design at a time—

MUG SHOT: MunkTiki’s designer cocktail ceramics.

zombies, monkeys, Easter Island heads— for tiki collectors around the world. “I’ve been doing ceramics pretty much my whole life,” he says. “I created a [tiki] bar line thinking it would be another hot item. We took it to a New York gift show and it totally bombed. Then, about three years later, I put up the mug and a few other items on eBay and the mug just took off.” The whole family is part of the business. In one room Paul’s son Miles prepares a large batch of mugs for shipping. In another corner, the shelves are proudly lined with mugs from the past. There’s a prevailing sense of pride in his voice as Paul talks about his mugs, and it’s easy to see why. It’s not a bad business for someone who used to make toilet parts. GO: Tiki Kon is at Red Lion at the Quay, 100 Columbia St., Vancouver, Wash., 360-694-8341. See tikikon.com for a full schedule of events. Friday-Sunday, July 12-14. $12-$205.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 10 Oblivians, Mean Jeans, the Pynnacles, Sex Crime

[MEMPHIS GARAGE HEROES] The reunion of the Oblivians seemed somehow inevitable. Though the band called it quits in 1998, its members have never been too far apart from one another. Greg Cartwright released a number of records on bandmate Eric Friedl’s Goner Records label, as well as playing in the Compulsive Gamblers with the other founding Oblivian, Jack Yarber. The trio’s reconciliation is no less welcome, though. The LP that resulted from it, the recently released Desperation, brings a wellearned maturity to the group’s nofrills, shimmy-shake garage punk. And every report from the world has been clear: The Oblivians are still a fiery, sweaty force of nature on stage. ROBERT HAM. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 9 pm. $13. 21+.

THURSDAY, JULY 11 Mickey Avalon

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[WASHED-UP WHITE RAP] Yeshe Perl, aka rapper Mickey Avalon, had a childhood not unlike that of Anthony Kiedis: They both grew up as scrappy youngsters in Hollywood with fathers who introduced them to drugs, memories of which made up the bulk of their early lyrical mate-

rial. Anthony Kiedis went on to win seven Grammies and sell more than 80 million records worldwide with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Avalon went on to write more about his childhood—one of booze, prostitution, his dick, my dick and your dick. And yet, seven years later, his devotees still hanker for more, just like the imagined lusty vixens who make up the subject matter of his rhymes. “I wanna touch you/I wanna taste you/I wanna take you/Invade you/ Degrade you,” Mickey cantillates in the track “Fuckin’ ’Em All.” Simple, sleazy, straightforward: just what his fan legions are looking for when he shows up on our doorstep time and time again. GRACE STAINBACK. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 2266630. 9 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. 21+.

Future Bible Heroes, Luxury Liners

[SYNTH-Y SKETCHES] The newest project of Lower Dens guitarist Carter Tanton, Luxury Liners is the musical equivalent of a lengthy personal brainstorm. The group’s record, They’re Flowers, combines deconstructed percussion and sampling with dreamy synth and rippling, neartropical hooks. It’s almost dance-y, like Keane on a cocaine binge in the 1980s. And while Luxury Liners features a full band, it’s Tanton’s conflicted personality—sometimes sunny and organic, others rigid and elec-

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TOP FIVE CHRIS NEWMAN PROJECTS Napalm Beach By the time punk hit, Chris Newman was already in his 20s. Instead of disregarding the music of his youth, he filtered it through the velocity of the time, and laid the groundwork for punk’s next evolutionary step. Heck, you can hear grunge’s birth pangs in his crunchy, mudcaked guitar tone alone. Snow Bud and the Flower People Stoner rock in both its riffs and lyrical content, the band began as a joke for the amusement of Newman’s pot dealer—song titles include “Bong Hit,” “Grass Is Groovy” and “Seeds for Thought”—but in certain circles is perhaps better known than Napalm Beach. It even scored Newman an illustrated review in a 1991 issue of High Times. Divining Rods When Newman first returned to the land of the living in the mid2000s, he cataloged his time perched on the edge of oblivion through hard-driving, psychedelic garage-punk tunes that sound something like the Doors paying tribute to the Gun Club. Chris Newman Experiment More an extended therapy session than a project built to last, Newman, fresh from rehab, recruited a father-son rhythm section from his hometown of Longview, Wash., to record an album processing his short-lived second marriage. Nine months later, the band dissolved. Boo Frog Coming together around a memorial show for the Cramps’ Lux Interior, the bassless trio’s stripped-raw blues-punk is designed to restrain Newman’s compulsive genre hopping. But the band gets its power from hearing him battle against those self-imposed constraints.

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CHRIS NEWMAN RETURNS FROM OBLIVION. BY MATTHEW SIN GER

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Chris Newman shouldn’t be here. Not in Portland, not in the yellow house near Mount Tabor where he lives with his girlfriend and her daughter, not leaning back in a chair in his basement rehearsal space, his heavyset frame sheathed in all black, toking from a purple bong. For much of his life, the Oregon Music Hall of Fame inductee, known primarily as the frontman for grunge prototypes Napalm Beach, worked hard on becoming a cliché: the punk-rock martyr, found penniless and forgotten in some gutter, a needle jabbed in his arm. It’s only been a few years since he crawled back onto the grid. As he approaches 60, Newman finds himself not just alive, but enjoying luxuries— like sleeping in a bed of his own, under a roof not made of sheets strung between shopping carts—that he hasn’t experienced since he was a teenager. It’s not surprising, then, that Newman would want to detach from his past once and for all. On Thursday, Newman will play his own birthday party, revisiting his old projects before dissolving them for good. He says it’s so he can focus on Boo Frog, the blues-punk trio he formed in 2009. But Newman is in a period of purging: He just finished writing his memoirs, and a methadone program has kept him clean—from the hard stuff, anyway—for three years. After this show, only the scars and discolorations criss-crossing his biceps will remain as reminders of his old life. “I did everything full-on, 100 percent,” Newman says, “and I just got lost.” Born in Longview, Wash., to a devout Pentecostal family, Newman was drawn to rock ’n’ roll precisely because it repelled his parents. He taught himself to play guitar, and formed his first bands in Portland in the early ’70s. When punk came along, Newman was attracted to its immediacy, though he never fully bought into the “Year Zero” rhetoric. In Napalm Beach, he fused late-’70s fury with bits of the psychedelia and electric blues he grew up on, creating the primordial stew from whence grunge would later emerge. Greg Sage included Napalm Beach on his now-legendary Trap Records samplers, and the band became regulars at Satyricon, the epicenter of the city’s punk scene.

THIS PUNK’S NOT DEAD: Chris Newman in 1987.

A star within his self-contained world, Newman, a student of rock mythology, began living like one. At the time, Satyricon was awash in cocaine, and Newman gained a reputation for holding: Audience members would throw wads of bills at him onstage, trying to cop baggies midperformance. “I started getting known more as a small-town drug dealer than as a musician,” he says. At first, he only used heroin to come down from his own binges. It spiraled from there: His soon-to-be wife, a stripper named Valerie, began prostituting for drug money, and Newman supplemented their income by stealing purses. He got banned from local music stores for hawking hot equipment. Then he got banned from Satyricon. By the early ’90s, Newman had essentially run himself out of Portland. He and his wife escaped to San Francisco, and for the next decade they lived in and out of motels, on street corners and in bus stations. Music became a way for Newman to keep his head barely above water: He began “bootlegging” himself, recording albums for small domestic labels then sending the master to Germany under a different name for more money. Occasionally, he’d get asked to do a gig. He’d play the show, blow his payment on drugs, and go back to sleeping on the street. “I realized that, after a while, any kind of behavior can become normal if you do it enough,” he says. Music would eventually save him. After Newman played a show at Ash Street Saloon in 2003, friends clamored for new material. It took a few false starts, but he eventually got in the studio, producing another album for his heavy psych-rock project, Snow Bud and the Flower People. Welcomed back to Portland, he joined many of his old Satyricon buddies in recovery. He broke up with Valerie, got married again and divorced in the span of 15 months, relapsed, then met his girlfriend, Erika Meyer, who plays with him in Boo Frog, which finally stabilized him. The Star Theater show represents the last step in his return from the brink— an exorcism masked as a celebration. Newman isn’t proud of who he used to be, but he can’t say he regrets it all: After all, he’s been told by fans, more than once, that his music saved their lives. He chuckles at the irony. “Maybe by being an example of what not to do,” he says. SEE IT: Chris Newman’s 60th birthday, featuring Napalm Beach, Snow Bud, Boo Frog, Divining Rods and the Chris Newman Experiment, is at Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., on Thursday, July 11. 9 pm. $8. 21+. Willamette Week JULY 10, 2013 wweek.com

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DEAFHEAVEN SATURDAY, JULY 13 [PINKISH BLACK METAL] When singer George Clarke and guitarist Kerry McCoy moved to San Francisco and formed Deafheaven in 2010, there was no master plan. That’s how it’s always been for these two longtime friends, who met as high-school metalheads in Modesto, Calif., and started writing music together, despite not owning any equipment other than acoustic guitars. “We didn’t even plan to play shows. We didn’t even have members,” Clarke says. “Everything in the beginning was really unplanned and done on a whim.” Little changed when the two relocated to the big city. “I remember having a conversation, being like, ‘Let’s just not care about anything. Let’s not do photos,’” Clarke says. “No ambition at all.” Odd thing, coming from a band that just made one of the year’s most ambitious albums. Youth, beauty, melody and emotion are not typically considered assets in the realm of black metal, but Sunbather, Deafheaven’s sophomore effort, is as gorgeous as it is brutal. While the drums blast furiously, the guitars focus on melodies gleaned from shoegazers like Slowdive and Mogwai. Clarke’s screamed vocals, while characteristically harsh, are low in the mix, blending into the other instruments. And then there’s the bright pink album cover. All in all, it’s a rule-breaking conundrum that will be a gateway for many and a deal breaker for others. As polarizing as the reaction to Sunbather has been—lauded by critics, regarded with suspicion by some in the metal community— Clarke doesn’t see the album as being all that different. “With extreme music, I’ve always found, especially on the more atmospheric side of things, black metal has always been something that carries a great amount of emotion and ferocity,” he says. Still, in black metal, where emotions are often trumped by a preoccupation with eldritch forests and pagan ritual, an album made with the level of honest sentiment that went into Sunbather stands out. The allure of the album, written by Clarke and McCoy, who employed a revolving cast of highly proficient hired guns to fill out the sound, is its exquisitely crafted composition. Each of its four epic-length tracks is separated by reflective instrumental interludes. The lyrics concern Clarke’s vision of perfection, and the impossibility of achieving it. It’s an immersive experience, right down to the art and layout by Nick Steinhardt of L.A. hardcore band Touché Amoré. “He came in with the idea of sort of what the sun looks like behind your eyelids, when your eyes are closed, and you’re like staring at the sky,” Clarke says. For a group that says it started with no particular vision, the success Deafheaven has experienced so far—headlining tours of the U.S. and Europe, a deal with Jacob Bannon of Converge’s Deathwish Inc. label, a coveted Best New Music tag from Pitchfork—is coming as a surprise, even to its members. And if it’s achieved all that precisely because it doesn’t fit the framework of a typical black-metal band, well, that isn’t really for them to worry about. “For us, [black metal] was definitely a starting point,” Clarke says. “I think that there is a huge amount of influence in our music. But I would never say that we’re a black-metal band. Then again, I don’t know what I would say otherwise. We’re just kind of a band.” NATHAN CARSON. Is there such a thing as “pastel metal”? There is now.

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tronic—that’s most audible. It’s the work of a creative guitarist with a knack for the laptop. Headliner Future Bible Heroes is the brainchild of Magnetic Fields’ Stephin Merritt, though Merritt—who suffers from hyperacusis, an ailment making him sensitive to loud sounds—is sitting out the tour. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $15. 21+.

Logan Lynn, Big Dipper, Conquistador, Rica Shay, Darling Gunsel

[GLOW STICKS, BOAS AND CASIO DREAMS] Since announcing his “extended hiatus” from music in 2010, former Dandy Warhols protégé Logan Lynn stepped back from the corporate machine behind major-label breakthrough From Pillar to Post and joined the staff at local queer hub Q Center. A few years and a charity record later, the Portland electro-popper is back with Tramp Stamps and Birthmarks, a layered confection of shiny beats, blips and synths with more lyrical heft (“Hologram,” “Loud Enough”) than the average dance-floor soundtrack. Lynn is back on the road, too, thanks to the Accidental Bear Queer Music Benefit tour, a five-city bicoastal trek to support LGBT and related mental-health resources nationwide. AMANDA SCHURR. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 8 pm. $15. 21+.

country rounds this spring, but it’s back in town for the annual twonight Extreme Dance Party at the Doug Fir. Expect a high-energy smorgasbord of local cellists, musicians and singers covering the likes of Missy Elliot and Paul Simon, along with nods to Jay-Z and Kanye West, all drawn from the group’s 2012 release, Homage, which is basically an instrumental hip-hop record. The Extreme Dance Party is strictly for those looking to get down with some funky string instrumentalists. GRACE STAINBACK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm Friday-Saturday, July 12-13. $15 advance, $17 day of show. Friday’s concert is sold out. 21+.

SATURDAY, JULY 13 Summer Island Jam: Northwest Panman, Bel Mizik, Sons of the Late DC, Snackmaster DJ

[TROPICAL JAM] OK, so Portland isn’t exactly in the tropics, but you can take a sonic vacation at the first annual Summer Island Jam Series, presented by KZME and Portland-based world-music label Rose City Voodoo. This is the first of three gigs this summer reveling in Caribbean beats, and be warned: Even the most dubious Northwest hipster may succumb to happy feet. Saturday’s lineup features steel drum aficionado Northwest Panman, neo-soul hip-hoppers Bel Mizik (“beautiful music” in Haitian French Creole), Hawaiian jam-

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FRIDAY, JULY 12 Baptist Generals

[CROOKED ROOTS] Ten years have gone by since the Baptist Generals released their weird, wonderful Sub Pop debut, No Silver/ No Gold. That’s an unavoidable stat when discussing the Denton, Texas, band’s sophomore album, Jackleg Devotional to the Heart, which appeared in May. That first album, with its hissy, tin-shed take on acoustic folk, suggested that singer and in-house genius Chris Flemmons would spend the ensuing decade producing all manner of uber-lo-fi, stream-of-consciousness recordings from whatever wooded basement he happened to be transmitting from. Instead, he scrapped a potential followup in 2005 and devoted much of his time to putting on an annual local music festival in his hometown. You’d expect Jackleg, then, to sound either tossed off or terribly belabored. Somehow, Flemmons splits the difference: It’s a meticulous album, expanding on the Generals’ bent, indie-rock-damaged vision of Americana, while simultaneously sounding like it just plopped out of Flemmons’ head one day. MATTHEW SINGER. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

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[GET DOWN ON IT] For Los Angeles funkateers Orgone, being a solid backing band has always meant vocals are optional. The band’s soulful discography combines the best elements of ’70s funk, acid jazz, Afrobeat and rock, harnessing buzzing synths and tight horns alongside Mothershipinfused licks that not only beguile but demand listeners take to the groove. The octet’s most recent EP, New You, Part I, isn’t a radical departure from its 2007 instrumental debut—aside from the three lead vocalists, including touring diva Fanny Franklin—but it’s still got the shuffling beats, piercing flute solos and general Meters swagger that make you wonder how the band hasn’t wound up on the retro-leaning Daptone Records. BRANDON WIDDER. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 9 pm. $15. 21+.

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WL SUNDAY, JULY 14 Dreaming in the rain.

[SHOEGAZE] Michael Yun was ready to call it a no-show. A few winters ago, the guitarist sat in his house in St. Johns, listening to the downpour outside and waiting for the singer who so impressed him when his band, Inside Voices, played with her band, Pioneer. Eventually, Misty Mary showed up on a bike, completely drenched. That night, the two wrote the swooning, slumberous “You’re Not Really Here.” And in that moment, arguably Portland’s most authentic purveyor of shoegaze was born. Filled out by drummer Stevie Sparks, WL (pronounced “well”) spent a year making its new record, Hold, a polished collection of droning, swirling guitar, combustible drums and Mary’s lofty vocals. “We’re writing music while we’re all in the same room,” says Yun of their creative process, which speaks to the balanced dynamic that runs throughout the album. Each member delivers equally powerful blows, whether in the form of a crumbling drum fill, mercurial guitar riff or gusty lyric. At times, the music conjures the controlled brooding of the Soft Moon, mixing glam and grit like a Sofia Coppola movie. Sparks’ percussion plays a major role throughout, fulfilling the moodiness of the band’s oft-overused “dream-pop” title while stretching it to inflammatory new heights. There’s a green, generative feeling to Hold, atop all the factory-floor whirs and rumbles. Take the tail end of “You’re Not Really Here,” the last track of the record, which simply and quietly just falls off. The song leaves as unexpectedly as it came to be in the first place, without so much as a rain-soaked footprint. And that generates the need to hear more. WL is accomplished enough, right out the gate, to make you wonder why its members have to work landscape architecture jobs and bartending gigs on the side. Perhaps not for long, though: Yun hints that another recording will be out by year’s end. “We don’t know how it will be received,” Yun says of Hold, estimating the looming number of cassettes WL created in advance of its release show and appearance at PDX Pop Now later this month. He reminds me that they don’t have a manager. But that’s industry. WL is deeper than that. MARK STOCK. SEE IT: WL plays Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., with Grandparents and on Sunday, July 14. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

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[EYES WITHOUT THE FACES] Ian McLagan’s old band, British Invasion ravers the Small Faces, didn’t click in the states until they lost the “Small” handle and leader Steve Marriott and gained singer Rod Stewart and guitarist Ron Wood. They became live favorites until Stewart split for superstardom, and other members were eventually claimed by the Stones (Wood), the Who (drummer Kenney Jones) and, sadly, multiple sclerosis (beloved bassist Ronnie Lane). But the band’s strongest instrumentalist was keyboardist McLagan, who calibrated its memorable blend of music-hall and R&B influences. Onstage today, with consummate Austin bar band the Bump Band, Mac remains a killer on the keys, has revealed himself a soulful vocalist and is a voluble bon vivant sharing stories of old pals and wild times. JEFF ROSENBERG. White Eagle Saloon, 836 N Russell St., 282-6810. 9:30 pm. $15 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.

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SATURDAY-SUNDAY jam-band devotees pay to certain sorts of experimentalism, the H.O.R.D.E. hordes remain notoriously suspicious about pre-programmed sequencers augmenting their face acts’ improvisatory shadings, and fans of instrumental wizardry typically turn tail at the slightest whiff of electronica. The Motet, though, has always done things a bit differently than its more predictable peers. While live performances are built around the ensemble’s crack interplay, founding percussionist Dave Watts— the only constant in latest release Dig Deep’s forays into Afrobeat, Stax-styled funk, free jazz and not especially successful vintage EDM—changes specialists along with the genre on album tracks, and the touring gigs now showcase synth lines for the surrounding frenzy to bleed through. JAY HORTON. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $15. 21+.

SUNDAY, JULY 14 Dan Tedesco, dKOTA

[FOLK ROCK] It only takes a quick glance at singer-songwriter Dan Tedesco’s Facebook page to realize he’s a complete sucker for the smiley-face emoticon. But, then again, the Midwesterner’s latest release, Tracks on Fire, is clearly something to smile about. Like the hardships of contemporary American life the album embodies, the strippeddown batch of songs are both disheartening and sanguine, chock-full

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COMMENTARY PETE COTTELL ON JIMMY EAT WORLD I can’t remember why I skipped my 10-year high-school reunion. I have no qualms about catching up with people I never liked in the first place. My problem was seeing the people I did like awkwardly bumbling their way through some ersatz form of adulthood like I was. Chugging Natural Light in the backseat of a minivan while careening toward Cleveland for the Warped Tour will forever remain one of the fondest memories of my teens. Learning the guy behind the wheel of said minivan is now a door-to-door knife salesman that lives in his mom’s basement is information I can do without. If it’s not on my Facebook feed, I don’t need to know. Whenever Jimmy Eat World releases a new record, the band might as well be that friend. It’s been my favorite band since its 1999 masterpiece, Clarity, but I’ve found myself approaching each subsequent release with hesitation. When the Mesa, Ariz., quartet hit commercial paydirt with 2001’s Bleed American, I was worried my beloved underdog pal had finally gotten too popular for me. Between dealing with jocks asking me to put “The Middle” on their Myrtle Beach senior trip mixtapes and a slew of terrible power ballads with titles like “Drugs or Me,” I wondered how much more I could take. Lucky for me and the other geezers whose emo comb-overs have long since receded into baldness, Jimmy Eat World subscribes to an ethos few modern rock bands are willing to strive for: consistency. Instead of pushing the envelope, the band splits the difference between the introspective punk anthems of Clarity and the sugary power pop of Bleed American. Unlike “edgy” bands that pander to the blogosphere, JEW has a fan base that grants it permission to release the same record every 2½ years. While this is patently uncool, it’s ultimately forgivable, now that emo is just a silly footnote in the annals of rock music. As anticipated, Jimmy Eat World’s latest record, Damage, is packed with grinding power chords, massive choruses and a sense of urgency that’s often left behind when the singer turns 30. In other words, it sounds like a Jimmy Eat World record. What more could I ask for? SEE IT: Jimmy Eat World plays Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., with X Ambassadors, on Tuesday, July 16. $22 advance, $25 day of show. 8 pm. All ages.

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of Jackson Browne-tinged piano ballads and Western rock’n’roll muscle in the vain of folk-rock troubadours like Neil Young and Paul Simon. Some songs, such as the haunting opener “Burn Down the Barn,” bask in the past as a way of moving forward. Others, like “Lookin’ for a Girl Like You,” find solace in a sea of acoustic guitar and simple backbeat. BRANDON WIDDER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 3 pm. Free. 21+.

Dead Prez, Gray Matters, Packard Browne, Saint Warhead

[HIP-HOP] It’s been over 10 years since East Coast hip-hop group Dead Prez released its debut single, the appropriately titled “Hip-Hop,” and it’s still a classic. You can’t go to a rap show in Portland without hearing a DJ drop its rumbling bassline in their opening set or an MC freestyling over it. It’s helped M1 and Stic.man stay relevant, as their work has been hit-and-miss since. Their newest album, The Information Age, is a far cry from the political back talk and captivating boom-bap production of their beloved debut, Let’s Get Free. They’ve gone down a more spiritual route, which sounds good in theory, but has actually had a dumbingdown effect on their music. The fiery emotion and intelligent wordplay has been replaced by wind chimes and corny optimism. Let’s hope their live shows haven’t suffered the same fate. REED JACKSON. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE 39th Ave., 2337100. 9:30 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show.

Brass Bed, New Move

[INDIE ROCK] Louisiana’s Brass Bed makes irresistible songs about death, disappointment and heartbreak. Borrowing the classic Beach Boys dynamic of “bummed-out lyrics swaddled in cheery arrangements,” The Secret Will Keep You, the group’s latest album, is a collection of unfussy guitar rock with frayed edges, as if the band were trying to keep the depression framing these tunes from enveloping them completely. That kind of push and pull, between the light and the darkness, is at the heart of most great pop, and this trio plays that particular game of tug of war with utmost skill. MATTHEW SINGER. Rontoms, 600 E Burnside St., 2364536. 8 pm. Free. 21+.

MONDAY, JULY 15 Shugo Tokumaru, Tara Jane O’Neil

[TOYBOX POP] At South by Southwest this year, I sat on the porch of some downtown Austin bar and heard Shugo Tokumaru play a cover of “Video Killed the Radio Star” on ukulele, kazoo and glockenspiel. It, uh, wasn’t exactly my thing. Thankfully, not all of the Tokyobased songwriter’s material is quite as cloyingly precious. In Focus?, his fourth album, released in January, is full of sunbeam-sharp melodies, and his employment of marimbas and toy pianos and other whimsical elements feels more mischievous than twee, like Os Mutantes let loose in a Toys R Us. It’s still not a sound for everybody, but the detailed construction and sense of exploration are hard to dismiss. At least, they are when you’re not trying to stave off exhaustion on a cool Texas night. MATTHEW SINGER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

Holly Williams

[COUNTRY FOLK] Holly Williams is not trying to be her father or grandfather, two guys who happened to be named Hank. Leaning more toward folk than her country-legend relatives, Williams still infuses her tales with a weariness and sense of woe that would not be out of place on a country record. Williams gives raw performances that squeeze every last drop of emotion out of tales about the downtrodden. Her

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STRING ’EM UP: Dover Quartet plays Doug Fir Lounge on Wednesday, July 10. rich vocals make the tales tragically sweet. Her music won’t necessarily brighten your day, but you’ll be entranced by it, nonetheless. BRIAN PALMER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 8 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

TUESDAY, JULY 16 Tijuana Panthers, Grmln

[SCHOOL’S OUT SONGS] GRMLN is the musical persona of Yoodoo Park, a Japanese-born, California-based student at UC Irvine. The youngster fronts a crashing post-punk band responsible for short but anthemic morsels of summertime rock. Debut record Empire is a tidy collection of familiar school’s-out jubilation that could be mistaken for a collaboration between Superchunk and Dinosaur Jr. Park’s tender age doesn’t jive with his sharp and palpable understanding of power riffs and crescendos. Long Beach, Calif., garage-rock trio Tijuana Panthers caps an evening sure to inspire a road trip. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $8. 21+.

Kacey Musgraves

[COUNTRY] Kacey Musgraves is the talk of modern country—which is to say that even people who don’t normally talk a whole lot about modern country are talking about her. The 24-year-old singer-songwriter selfreleased a string of albums before this year’s major label debut, Same Trailer Different Park, a record wrapping her sweet, plain-spoken voice in a warm, classic sound that doesn’t give in to modern Nashville slickness nor pander to the alt-country hipsterati. But what’s earned her the greatest accolades are her lyrics: sharp, incisive commentaries on small-town life and the desire to escape it. Rolling Stone went so far to compare her to a young, female, Texas-born Elvis Costello. She could easily play a place like Doug Fir and attract a crowd of be-flanneled twentysomethings who only listen to country when Jeff Tweedy plays it. That she’s making those same people go see her at a damn truck-stop bar says everything you need know about why she’s caught everybody’s attention. MATTHEW SINGER. Ponderosa Lounge, 10350 N Vancouver Way, 345-0300. 7 pm. Sold out.

CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Dover Quartet, Andy Akiho

[CLASSICAL] For the past few years, Chamber Music Northwest has been staging a series of concerts featuring young performers outside the usual concert halls and in clubs better known for indie rock. The first in this summer’s Club Concert series includes the young New York-based composer-percussionist Andy Akiho, who is to the steel drum what Jake Shimabukuro is to the ukulele: He can coax an astonishing range of

sounds out of an unlikely instrument. Akiho will play his 2010 composition In/Exchange with fellow 20-somethings in the Houston-based Dover Quartet, who’ll also perform Dmitri Shostakovich’s 1946 String Quartet No. 3. Two more of the festival’s young artists, Benjamin Beilman and Yekwon Sunwoo, will play violin and piano works by Schubert and 20thcentury French mystic composer Olivier Messiaen. BRETT CAMPBELL. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 8 pm Wednesday, July 10. $20. 21+.

Bach: B Minor Mass

[FAMOUS LAST WORDS] The B Minor Mass was J.S. Bach’s final major work. Absorbing elements of other music he’d composed as early as 1714, the Mass was completed a year before his death in 1750. It was not performed until after he’d passed, and since then has been widely interpreted, thanks to its original score’s many illegible passages, composed after he’d gone blind. Lucky for Portland, tonight’s performance is being authoritatively conducted by Helmuth Rilling. A cofounder of the Oregon Bach Festival back in 1970, Rilling chose this presentation to be his finale. The symmetry of ending his tenure with one of the supreme pieces of classical music gives him the last word on Bach’s final musical statement on faith and choral mastery. NATHAN CARSON. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm Friday, July 12. $29-$78. All ages.

Oregon BRAVO Youth Orchestras Kick-Off

[CLASSICAL] One of the biggest stories in 21st-century classical music, Venezuela’s popular musiceducation program, nicknamed El Sistema, has given thousands of young students, mostly from poor families, access to training in Western classics. It hit the world stage (along with a 60 Minutes segment) when the Los Angeles Philharmonic appointed a 26-yearold El Sistema product, Gustavo Dudamel, as its music director a few years ago. More than 50 countries have started their own sistemas, with 80 in the U.S. alone. Now Portland joins the system with a new organization and program starting this fall at Rosa Parks Elementary for children in kindergarten up through third grade. This by-donation fundraising concert includes appearances from Portland’s own El Sistema alumnus, Venezuelan-born Oregon Symphony and FearNoMusic violinist Inés Voglar, and other OSO musicians, including music director Carlos Kalmar. Plus there will be Portland Youth Philharmonic music director David Hattner, members of PYP and Metropolitan Youth Symphony. BRETT CAMPBELL. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 2222031. 7:30 pm Tuesday, July 16. Donations suggested. Send RSVP to rsvp@oregonbravo.org. All ages.

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JULY 10-16 Logan Lynn, Big Dipper, Conquistador, Rica Shay, Darling Gunsel

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Pioneer Courthouse Square 701 SW 6th Ave. Redwood Son

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400 SE 12th Ave. Low Tide Drifters, Dapper Cadavers, Bryan Bingold

Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery 206 SW Morrison St. Jacob Merlin

Shaker and Vine

2929 SE Powell Blvd. Blake Lyman

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Begrime Exemious, Scolex, Dead Conspiracy, Shroud Of The Heretic, Ritual Necromancy

Slim’s Cocktail Bar

8635 N Lombard St. Closely Watched Trains

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Napalm Beach, Snow Bud and the Flower People, Boo Frog, The Divining Rods, CNX

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Sam Cooper, Michelle & The Beards, Nathan Crockett

The Know

EXPLODE INTO COLORS: Shugo Tokumaru plays Doug Fir Lounge on Monday, July 15.

WED. JULY 10 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

303 SW 12th Ave. Josh Hoke, Michael Shoup

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Daniel O’Brien Bravi, Long Hallways, Drawingboard

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. ALTO, Million Brazillians, Fred Meyer

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. La Jeder

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Oblivians, Mean Jeans, the Pynnacles, Sex Crime

Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Champagne Jam

Doug Fir Lounge

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Inspirational Beets, the Resolectrics

Lents Commons

9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic

Main Street, between Broadway and Park Avenue Main Street, between Broadway and Park Avenue Joey Porter (Stevie Wonder tribute)

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Katie Roberts

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Modern Kin, Pictorials

Shaker and Vine

2929 SE Powell Blvd. Robbie Laws Guitar Ensemble

Suki’s Bar & Grill 2401 SW 4th Ave. Jessie Goergen

830 E Burnside St. Dover Quartet, Andy Akiho

The Elixir Lab

Duff’s Garage

The Know

1635 SE 7th Ave. Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam, Arthur Moore’s Harmonica Party

Ecotrust

721 NW 9th Ave., Suite 200 Onuinu, Adventure Galley

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. The Sentiments, Dave Hillyard and Rocksteady 7

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. Mad Caddies, The Disliked, The Sindicate, Redcast

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Morning Ritual, Pegasus Dream

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Kepi Ghoulie, Dog Party, The Bloodtypes, Primitive Idols

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray, Bob Shoemaker

Laughing Horse Books 12 NE 10th Ave. U Sco, Itto, Sloths

2738 NE Alberta St. Open Mic Nite 2026 NE Alberta St. Know Your Saints, Pagerippers, Vultures In The Sky, Shovel & Spade

The Lovecraft

Future Bible Heroes, Luxury Liners

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar

Duff’s Garage

800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Band, Mike Winkle

THURS. JULY 11 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

303 SW 12th Ave. Josh Hoke, Michael Shoup

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Greg Wolf Trio

Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band

Artichoke Community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Acoustic Village

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Hill House, The Hand That Bleeds, Gin & Tillyanna

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Medium Size Kids, the Ecstatics, San Lorenzo

421 SE Grand Ave. Daniel Ouelette & the Shobijin

Biddy McGraw’s

The Old Church

Buffalo Gap Eatery and Saloon

1422 SW 11th Ave. Jennifer McDonald

The Secret Society Ballroom

116 NE Russell St. The Javier Nero Quartet

Tonic Lounge

6000 NE Glisan St. Sockeye Sawtooth

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Hot Tea Cold, Zenda Torrey

Camellia Lounge

510 NW 11th Ave. Beverly Caruso Quartet

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

Chapel Pub

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Bo Ayars, Barbara Ayars

2035 NE Glisan St. The People Electric, Advisory, The Decliners

Velo Cult

Dante’s

430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin

Club 21

1969 NE 42nd Ave. The Loafers

350 W Burnside St. Mickey Avalon

Vie de Boheme

Dig a Pony

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

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St.

Rising Buffalo Tribe, Kingz Ambassadors

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736 SE Grand Ave. MARTI

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St.

1635 SE 7th Ave. Double Deuce

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Low Haunts, Black Swedes, Cunning Wolves

Foggy Notion

3416 N Lombard St. Nasalrod, Tiny Knives, Polst

Gemini Lounge

6526 SE Foster Road Eric Vanderwall

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Erotic City, Kimosabe, No Hero

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. Wundersound

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. J Boog, Katchafire, Hot Rain, Maoli

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. Tom Grant Vocal Showcase: Melanie Roy, Michaela Dale

Jack London Bar

529 SW 4th Ave. Founding Fathers: Art Show Opening - Riley Parker

2026 NE Alberta St. Scared Crow, Sock Children, Little Pilgrims

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave. Adam Hurst

The Press Club

2621 SE Clinton St. Hot Club of Hawthorne

LaurelThirst

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

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Renee Muzquiz, Mo Phillips, Jason & Johnny

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave.

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Baptist Generals

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Eric & Aileen

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Muthaship

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Orgone, Perk!, DJ Steven Vaughn

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Extreme Dance Party: Portland Cello Project

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. The 44’s

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Sam Vicari, Wizard Boots, Thee Four Teens, The New Jangles, the dee dees

Ford Food and Drink

2505 SE 11th Ave. The Don of Division Street, Troy Stewart, Alan Charing, Vagabond & Tramp

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. The Sorry Devils, Robokchoy, Annie Dang

Hawthorne Theatre

The TARDIS Room

1218 N Killingsworth St. Jacob Westfall

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Dark Matter Transfer, cabazon

Velo Cult

1969 NE 42nd Ave. Airshow, Eagles of Freedom

West Cafe

1201 SW Jefferson St. Alan Jones Academy Jazz Jam

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. D-Why, Sam Lachow, Tope, the Good Husbands, Kory Quinn

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Mike and Haley Horsfall

FRI. JULY 12

Jimmy Mak’s

426 SW Washington St. Truckstop Darlin’, Stumblebum, Brother Dege

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Hot Tea Cold

Holocene

116 NE Russell St. Tezeta Band

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Kelly’s Olympian

Buffalo Gap Eatery and Saloon

1507 SE 39th Ave. State Of Jefferson, ThE RoDeO cLoWnS, Dead Remedy, Corner, Dan Eagan Sings The Blues

Jade Lounge

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown B3 Organ Group

6000 NE Glisan St. Jessie Goergen Band, Samsel and the Skirt

The Secret Society Ballroom

Andina

2346 SE Ankeny St. Paul Young

Biddy McGraw’s

1314 NW Glisan St. Dan Diresta Quartet

1037 SW Broadway Bach: B Minor Mass

Artichoke Community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Friday Coffeehouse

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Super Desu, Erik Anarchy, Ian Kashani, Godbless America

Backspace

1001 SE Morrison St. Ecstasy: Jacques Renault, Magic Touch, Miracles Club, Spencer D

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Ryan Short, Chris Juhlin

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Ken DeRouchie Band

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Needles and Pizza, Wire Eyes, Scavenger Cunt

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Rouisi

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. IOA, DV$T, Haunt

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Hong Kong Banana, Charming Birds, Fasters

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Hack, Stitch & Buckshot

Langano Lounge

1435 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Tiny Hearts, Sisterbrittaney, Havania Whaal, the Mishaps

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Blue Cranes

Original Halibut’s II

2201 N Killingsworth St. Avery Hill and Paul Kwitek, Two Schools

Plew’s Brews

6000 NE Glisan St. Manimalhouse, Treefrogs

2527 NE Alberta St. Kevin Selfe

8409 N Lombard St. The Blast-O-Casters

Record Room

8 NE Killingsworth St. A Volcano, Steelhymen, Young Dad

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Melao d’Cuba, De La Warr, the Hill Dogs

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Josh Abbott Band, William Clark Green

Bunk Bar

510 NW 11th Ave. Toque Libre

Camellia Lounge

1033 NW 16th Ave. Akabane Vulgars, Anxieties

Clyde’s Prime Rib

Slim’s Cocktail Bar

Dante’s

8635 N Lombard St. Threadbear

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Elite

The Analog

350 W Burnside St. Nightmare Air, Happy Hollows, The Royalty

The Blue Monk

736 SE Grand Ave. Montel Spinozza

720 SE Hawthorne Witchburn, Vice Riot

Dig a Pony

3341 SE Belmont St. Country Trash, Band on the Moon, The Kilowatt Hour

Doug Fir Lounge

The Know

Duff’s Garage

2026 NE Alberta St. Soft Shadows, Kissing Party, Appendixes

The Secret Society Ballroom

116 NE Russell St. The Weather Machine, Mbrascatu, the Believers, Pete Krebs and his Portland Playboys

The TARDIS Room

1218 N Killingsworth St. Queen Chief

The Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave. Bass Inversion: Jamie Meushaw, KELLAN, Professor, Iron Aiden, Torrent

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway 357, Black Lodge, Particle Son, Ghost Motor

Tonic Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Extreme Dance Party: Portland Cello Project 1635 SE 7th Ave. Boyd Small, Josh Fulero

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Bio Crisis, Fractal

EastBurn

1800 E Burnside St. The Oh My Mys

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Rootz Underground

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. Bloodkin, Old Mill

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Alison Wesley, Annie Lynch, Michaela Anne

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Linda Hornbuckle Band

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Wormbag, This Place Isn’t So Bad, Putts, Thorsten, Vodka Wilson Overdrive

Katie O’Briens

Tony Starlight’s

210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Rouisi

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Gary Smith’s Mardi Gras All-Stars

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Older Women, Hornet Leg, Deep Time

Velo Cult

1969 NE 42nd Ave. Kilty by Association, Drinking Birds

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Portland Youth Jazz Orchestra

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Gabriel Trees, Rob Johnston, Planet Jackers, Reverb Brothers

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. The Neighbourhood, JMSN

SAT. JULY 13 Alberta Rose Theatre

3000 NE Alberta St. Summer Island Jam: Northwest Panman, Bel Mizik, Sons of the Late DC, Snackmaster DJ

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Erotic City

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Weedeater, ASG, Stoneburner, Sioux

Beaterville Cafe

Muddy Rudder Public House

Backspace

8105 SE 7th Ave. The Sportin’ Lifers Trio

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Rockin’ Piano Party

Slabtown

2929 SE Powell Blvd. Avery Hill

Mock Crest Tavern

2201 N Killingsworth St. The Swinging Sea Pickles, Sam Densmore

Buffalo Gap Eatery and Saloon

Shaker and Vine

115 NW 5th Ave. Mechlo, boaconstructor, G Diffuser, Turtlesaur

3435 N Lombard St. Sneakin’ Out

Biddy McGraw’s

1028 SE Water Ave. Deafheaven, Marriages

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. The Golden Country, Little Hexes, the Gams, Joe McMurrian & Woodbrain

Beaterville Cafe

115 NW 5th Ave. Mixtapes, You Blew It, Light Years, Duck Little Brother Duck, Toxic Kid

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Rational Anthem

Kells Brewpub

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. BigMo and J Burns

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Ben Von Wildenhaus, Cuntbat, Valkyrie Rodeo

Langano Lounge

1435 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Foxy Lemon, Duty, Crooked Toad, Northern Currents

Laughing Horse Books 12 NE 10th Ave. Perfect Future, Fuck You Dad, Ghosties

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Matthew Lindley, James Low Western Front

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mississippi Street Fair: Pura Vida Band, Red Yarn Puppet Band, Mr. Ben, The Alphabeticians, Lorna Miller

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Xray Fest: Minden, Don’t

Mock Crest Tavern

3435 N Lombard St. DC Malone & the Jones

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Erin McCree

Plew’s Brews

8409 N Lombard St. The Hill Dogs, Sloe Loris

Record Room

8 NE Killingsworth St.

JULY 10-16 Divers, Kazumis, Know Your Saints, the Babs Johnson Gang

Ford Food and Drink

Red and Black Cafe

Hawthorne Theatre

400 SE 12th Ave. Faith Taylor

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Adventure Gallery, All You All, Mothertapes

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Kahlotus, Old North, The Kronk Men, Silvero

Slim’s Cocktail Bar

8635 N Lombard St. Thunderbird, Marmits, Lord Master

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Oh Darling, Sunderland

The Analog

720 SE Hawthorne Flesh Circus, Smoochknob, the Halogens

2505 SE 11th Ave. Tim Roth

1507 SE 39th Ave. Dead Prez, Gray Matters, Packard Browne, Saint Warhead

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

The Secret Society Ballroom 116 NE Russell St. Zbumba

The TARDIS Room

1218 N Killingsworth St. Aisle of View

The Whiskey Bar

The Analog

Jade Lounge

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Kind Buds

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs

Camellia Lounge

510 NW 11th Ave. Vocalists’ Jazz & Blues Jam: Joe Millward

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Karaoke From Hell

Dig a Pony

2346 SE Ankeny St. Vanessa Rogers, Sara Leah Gentner

The Know

Director Park

Landmark Saloon

The TARDIS Room

Doug Fir Lounge

LaurelThirst

Valentine’s

4847 SE Division St. Ian Miller

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Three For Silver, Dum Spiro Spero, Big Sid and the Wiggle, the Lady Crooners

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Grandparents, WL, Grammies

Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery 206 SW Morrison St. Matt Hopper

Rontoms

600 E Burnside St. Brass Bed, New Move

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Evolution Music Tour

Tiger Bar

BAR SPOTLIGHT

2026 NE Alberta St. Forever, Kitten Forever 1218 N Killingsworth St. Slim Bacon 232 SW Ankeny St. James Apollo & The Sweet Unknown, Lonnie Winn, Glassbones

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Ellen Whyte and Jean-Pierre Garau

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Ozrocket

Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St. Passenger

MON. JULY 15 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

303 SW 12th Ave. Sam Densmore, Celia Reef, Curtis Irie

736 SE Grand Ave. Pink Wink 815 SW Park Ave. Dave Fleschner 830 E Burnside St. Shugo Tokumaru, Tara Jane O’Neil

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. The Lost Project, pink slips, Lancaster

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Sonic Forum Open Mic Night

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Emerson House Band

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Jimmy Greene

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Traditional Irish Jam Session

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy VJs

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31 NW 1st Ave. Lazy Rich, Evan Alexander, Night City 317 NW Broadway Stolen Rose, Akkadia

639 SE Morrison St. The Bobcat

2738 NE Alberta St. Closely Watched Trains

Mississippi Pizza

421 SE Grand Ave. 13 Colonies, Tom Jones and Erica Jones DJ

Star Bar

Alhambra Theatre

The Elixir Lab

529 SW 4th Ave. Club Love

The Know

The Lovecraft

1033 NW 16th Ave. Felecia and the Dinosaur, Sir William, Turncoat Collective, Garden City Refugee

Jack London Bar

The Blue Monk

2026 NE Alberta St. Thee Four Teens, the Dandelyons, Psychomagic

Slabtown

720 SE Hawthorne Bonnie Whitmore, Warren Pash, Michael Damron, Death Star Radius, Still Region, Medium Size Kids, Grizzly

1435 NW Flanders St. Gary Smith Mardi Gras AllStars

2958 NE Glisan St. Jonathan Warren & The Billygoats, Freak Mountain Ramblers

3341 SE Belmont St. Andrews Ave

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Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Tokyo Death Stare, 42 Ford Prefect, Firebats

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Shanghai Woolies

Trail’s End Saloon

1320 Main St., Oregon City Ty Curtis

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Bastille Day Firemen’s Ball: Eric John Kaiser, WC Beck

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Ian McLagan and the Bump Band, the Student Loan

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. The Motet, Excellent Gentlemen

SUN. JULY 14 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

303 SW 12th Ave. Sam Densmore, Slater Smith

Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. The Gords

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Trash River Redemption, Gunsafe, the Plumb Uglies

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Felim Egan

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Eddie Spaghetti

Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. The Man in Black Pajamas

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Dan Tedesco, dKOTA

LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL: A few months ago, when clouds layered Portland, we could have used a Lightbar (1401 SE Morrison St., 971-279-2169, lightbarpdx.com). The first Portland bar to offer “therapeutic lighting with a European-style bistro ambiance,” the pub just opened next to gaudy Nostrana, which looks as if it were beamed to Buckman from sunny Orange County. Park your car somewhere on the acre-sized parking lot and walk past the dentist’s office. Behind the trendy salvaged-wood bar are five therapy lights, which are available to borrow and plug into outlets located below each of Lightbar’s spacy, white dining booths. Therapy lights, which produce a light similar to sunlight, are designed to combat the effects of seasonal affective disorder—something Portlanders are at serious risk of contracting about four months from now. The bar is sparse on décor—it’s all about the light, man—but there are mirrors to toss around subtle purple and red tones. The sunny mood is suffused in the staff. One bartender spends a satisfying five minutes crafting my drink and gossiping about fake IDs. I drink the Steinbeck—Jack Daniel’s and applejack, bitters, brown sugar and a slice of apple ($7)—and watch my hand turn from violet to red to blue. Overhead, dangles a wooden chandelier outfitted with fauxcrystals. Buzzed on happy lights, I try to count the crystals. Sadly, the bar is decidedly light on patrons—on a recent Saturday night it’s just my party. This makes sense. My face is sunburned from authentic sun rays, and I’d prefer a shady patio. JOE DONOVAN. Willamette Week JULY 10, 2013 wweek.com

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JULY 10-16 K E L LY C H R I S T I N E M U S G R AV E S

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Hack Stitch and Buckshot, Saturday Night Drive

Langano Lounge

1435 SE Hawthorne Blvd. High Scores and Records

LaurelThirst

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

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Holly Williams

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Clarence Bucaro

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

SPARKLER AND FADE: Kacey Musgraves plays Ponderosa Lounge on Tuesday, July 16.

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. Metal Monday: DJ Blackhawk

The Analog

720 SE Hawthorne Gothique Blend

The Elixir Lab

2738 NE Alberta St. Moonshine Mondays: Michael the Blind

The Know

TUES. JULY 16 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Sam Densmore, Vanessa Rogers

Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Albert Lee, Terry Robb

2026 NE Alberta St. Long Knife, Stoic Violence, Mongoloid

Ash Street Saloon

The Secret Society Ballroom

Backspace

116 NE Russell St. Dum Spiro Spero, Three For Silver, Big Sid and the Wiggles

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. die sektor, Frontal Boundary

225 SW Ash St. Phreak: Electronic Mutations 115 NW 5th Ave. Bath Party, Mister Tang, Foxy Lemon, Black People Y’all

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Old Age, The We Shared Milk, Charts

Crystal Ballroom

Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. SIN Night

1332 W Burnside St. Jimmy Eat World, X Ambassadors

Valentine’s

Dig a Pony

232 SW Ankeny St. Dead Folk

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Marca Luna, Lost & Found

736 SE Grand Ave. Last Call

Director Park

815 SW Park Ave. Malcolm Noble’s Cool Breeze Band

Doug Fir Lounge

Music Millennium

Duff’s Garage

Pioneer Courthouse Square

830 E Burnside St. Tijuana Panthers, Grmln 1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Quartet

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

3158 E Burnside St. Carolyn Wonderland

701 SW 6th Ave. Brian Copeland Band

Ponderosa Lounge

1435 NW Flanders St. Art Resnick Trio

10350 N Vancouver Way Kacey Musgraves

Jade Lounge

Slabtown

2346 SE Ankeny St. Siren Sessions: Margaret Gibson Wehr, Anna Spackman

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet

Landmark Saloon

1033 NW 16th Ave. Izalith

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave. Oregon BRAVO Youth Orchestras Kick-Off

Twilight Café and Bar

4847 SE Division St. Honky Tonk Union

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

LaurelThirst

Valentine’s

2958 NE Glisan St. Mike Coykendall, Gabriel Mintz, Charlie Maxton, Jackstraw

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Black Black Things

Mississippi Studios

232 SW Ankeny St. Soul Ipsum, Morning Hands, Daytime Television

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Salsa Night

White Eagle Saloon

3939 N Mississippi Ave. PAPA, Wardell

836 N Russell St. Adam Brock, Julia Lucille, Kelsey Morris

The Lovecraft

Berbati’s

421 SE Grand Ave. Skullfuck!: DJ Horrid

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Linkus EDM

Star Theater

SAT. JULY 13 WED. JULY 10 Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. Salsa: DJ Alberton

Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Seleckta YT

Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St. Wednesday Swing

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Trick with DJ Robb

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Danny Dodge

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

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Bradly

The Rose

111 SW Ash St. Flight: Richie Staxx, Jamar, Sappho, Jon AD

FRI. JULY 12 Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. Cloud City Collective

Beulahland

118 NE 28th Ave DJ Atom 13

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Fetish Friday with DJ Jakob Jay

Dig a Pony

THURS. JULY 11 Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJs Def Ro and Suga Shane

CC Slaughters

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

Holocene

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3939 N Mississippi Ave. MRS.: DJ Beyonda

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The Rose

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agitating for campaign finance reform. Eliot Chapel, First Unitarian Church, 1011 SW Salmon St., 985-6746. 3 pm Sunday, July 14. $5-$20 suggested.

Greater Tuna

Lakewood Theatre Company stages the popular comedy, which finds two actors portraying a kooky cast of rural Texans. The 1981 romp is a theatrical evergreen, but not without reason: The play moves from discussions about homeless ducks and UFOs to deeper concerns of racism and censorship, all at a madcap pace. Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, 635-3901. 7:30 pm Thursdays through Saturdays; 2 and 7 pm some Sundays through Aug. 18. $32.

Harvey

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THEATER All at Sea

Paul Susi presents a new devised piece about seven people trying to decide if they should stick together or break apart. Also, tropical volcanoes. BodyVox Dance Center, 1201 NW 17th Ave., 229-0627. 8 pm ThursdaysSaturdays through July 20. $12, cyclists and bus commuters $6.

Cats

“What’s a Jellicle cat?” It’s a phrase repeated throughout the opening of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s seminal oddity Cats, which somehow became an instant smash upon its 1981 release, and it’s a question that’s plagued my thoughts since age 7, when my teenage brother returned from a Detroit production with cat-scratch fever. Wanting to impress him, I stole the tape and set about memorizing every word. Months later, I made my debut, regaling him with a pretty damned accurate rendition of the whimsical “Mr. Mistoffelees.” He was appalled: “What the hell is wrong with you? You’re so lame.” I was crushed. I had never seen the play, but the songs remained, haunting my psyche but still making little sense. Webber harvested his idea from a series of T.S. Eliot poems, which he put through the filter of cheesy hot jazz and creepy, off-key synthesizer cues. Then, apparently, he raided David Bowie’s costume closet post-Labyrinth. What the hell was Webber on? Two decades and far too much contemplation later, I finally chanced upon Broadway Rose’s revival and learned the answer: There are no answers. But, oh, what a glorious spectacle, re-created here in all its nonsensical, synth-blasting, jawdroppingly wacky glory. What is a Jellicle cat? Why, it’s an excuse for an actor to don a skintight leotard and belt out jazzy balladry while performing extremely elaborate and acrobatic choreography. It shows how versatile actors are—and how well they can endure repeated utterances of the word “Skimbleshanks” without breaking into giggles. This troupe, without exception, nails every beat. Sevenyear-old me would have been amazed. Thirty-one-year-old me wanted to drink heavily, immediately, and go home and listen to the Glee soundtrack. That’s what the cool kids like these days, right? AP KRYZA. Deb Fennell Auditorium, 9000 SW Durham Road, Tigard, 620-5262. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays and some Saturdays through July 21. $20-$37.

Comedie of Errors

Claiming to stage Shakespeare’s plays the way they were done in the Bard’s day, the Original Practice Shakespeare

Festival sets its shows outside, with minimal rehearsal, plentiful audience interaction and actors who switch roles for each performance. Shakespeare’s tale of two sets of twins and mistaken identities is a perfect fit for OPS Fest, and this adaptation flourishes as the actors improvise their way through bawdy humor and mixups. A recent performance incorporated bonus material solicited by a prompter, dressed like a referee, who sat at a table adjacent to the stage. Occasionally, she’d stop the play and ask a character to sing a love song, or to expound on “how he really feels,” or to improvise a dance. The actors are equally comfortable wielding swords as they are quoting Ghostbusters and The Princess Bride or confessing their love for specific audience members. For an unpracticed performance, the show is commendably clean and brief. JOE DONOVAN. Multiple locations, 890-6944. Various Saturdays and Sundays through Sept. 29; see opsfest. org for exact times and dates. Free.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [Abridged]

[NEW REVIEW] If high-school English class made you despise Shakespeare, Post Five Theatre’s Complete Works might make you reconsider. This slapstick comedy, directed by Ty Boice, is an absurd farce but an all-around good time. Dressed in black tights and colorful jockstraps, Phillip Berns, Adam Thompson and Brett Wilson ambitiously take on all of the Bard’s 37 plays in 90 minutes. Romping around in goofy costumes and outrageous wigs, they could be called the Three Stooges of modern-day Shakespeare. Their bawdy, physical humor keeps the audience consistently amused— Wilson is particularly riotous as he sings, dances and spews water from his mouth, and he holds nothing back in his female impressions. With a casual setting in the Milepost 5 courtyard, mismatched chairs and a makeshift beer garden sit in close proximity to the rickety stage. Bear in mind that taking a front-row seat could result in an up-close and personal encounter with an actor, which may turn into an invitation onto the stage. While the action—and audience laughter with it—slows after intermission, a rap song about Othello and a race to see how quickly the actors can summarize Shakespeare’s work brings the play back to life for a fast-paced finale. HALEY MARTIN. Milepost 5, 850 NE 81st Ave., 262-853-9344. 7:30 pm Fridays-Sundays through Aug. 4. “Pay what you can.”

Go, Granny D!

Blending activism and theater, this new show is based on the life of Doris “Granny D” Haddock, who in 2000—at age 90—walked across the country

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It’s not every day you come across a 6-foot, boozing, talking rabbit. But in Mary Chase’s 1944 play Harvey, that’s exactly who you’ll meet. Harvey is the (presumably) imaginary friend of Elwood P. Dowd (Jason Shanafelt), who is also unseen to the audience. Clackamas Repertory Theatre’s rendition of this slapstick comedy is lighthearted and very funny, despite the dated cheesiness. As Harvey opens, Elwood’s socialite sister Veta and her daughter are fed up with Elwood introducing Harvey to their friends and embarrassing them, so they decide to have him committed to a sanitarium. From here, chaos and confusion ensue at a steady clip, with the action dragging only at the beginning of the second act. The melodramatic Veta (Amanda Valley) believes her brother’s insanity is rubbing off on her, and between her hysterical weeping and madman cackling, Valley conjures the biggest laughs from the audience. Elwood, for his part, is eccentric and amiable. Constantly bowing and kissing women on the hand, he seems almost too lovable. But his unintentional humor keeps the character intriguing, with some of his slyest comments the funniest of the show. Though he’s constantly ostracized for his interactions with Harvey, there’s a sense Elwood may be more in control than those trying to tame him. “In this world, you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant,” Elwood says. “And I got tired of being smart.” HALEY MARTIN. Clackamas Community College, Osterman Theatre, 19600 S Molalla Ave., 594-6047. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays and 2:30 pm Sundays through July 21. $26.

The Merchant of Venice

When updating Shakespeare, it doesn’t make sense to stop halfway. Portland Actors Ensemble’s free, al fresco production of The Merchant of Venice is like watching Miami Vice characters trying to speak Elizabethan English. In director Bruce Hostetler’s rendition of Shakespeare’s play—centered, of course, on a Jewish usurer who seeks revenge on an anti-Semitic merchant by demanding a pound of his flesh in repayment for a debt—all Italian and Jewish characters don modern dress and carry iPhones, while the princes of Morocco and Aragon wear period clothing, with the latter even wielding a sword. It’s an inconsistency that sometimes makes for a jarring, less-than-cohesive production. With his booming voice, Shylock (James Peck) steals the thunder from many of the younger actors. Still, despite the mishmash of costumes and varied performances—on a recent evening, Bassanio stood silent for a good 15 seconds; I was unsure if he forgot his lines—this Merchant still manages to entertain, thanks to the energy of the cast. RICHARD GRUNERT. Multiple locations, 467-6573. 7 pm Thursday-Saturday, July 11-13. 7 pm Thursday-Friday, July 18-19. 6 pm Saturday, July 20. Free.

Mr. Darcy Dreamboat

The inventive and spunky Camille Cettina revives her solo show, in which she waxes rhapsodic about her unrequited literary crushes. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 715-1114. 7:30 pm Thursday-Sunday, July 11-14. $15.

Take Me Out

Richard Greenberg’s Tony Award-

winning 2003 play revolves around a major league baseball player’s announcement that he’s gay, and the fallout that ensues. Two Rooks Productions and Gorilla Bomb Theatre team up to stage the comic drama. Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, 5340 N Interstate Ave., 306-5217. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through July 21. $12.

The Taming of the Shrew

There’s plenty of Shakespeare at the park during the summer, but Portland Shakespeare Project brings the Bard indoors for a production of the more-than-mildly misogynistic comedy. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and some Wednesdays; 2 pm Sundays through Aug. 4. $20-$30.

Tunde’s Trumpet

A wild array of funky puppets annoy, cajole and distract a talented 10-yearold trumpet player in this short, jazzy kids production from Boom Arts. Tunde (Blake Stone) has the heart to become a true musician, but first he must vanquish five challenges, including frustration and jealousy, in order to reach his potential. Powerful singer and storyteller Ithica Tell and live trumpeter Jon Roberts help anchor the can-do story, while puppets cleverly crafted from old piano keys, bungee cords and bedsheets charm gradeschool-aged viewers. KELLY CLARKE. Multiple locations, 567-1644. 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 3 Buck Yucks

Standup, improv and sketch comedy, swirled together by Brody’s in-house and visiting performers. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 10 pm Saturday, July 13. $3.

Citywide Theatresports Tournament

An elimination-style improv competition, with teams of Portland-area performers building scenes based on audience suggestions. Blank Slate won the last tournament, but can the troupe defend the crown? Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Fridays through Aug. 16 and 10 pm Saturdays through Aug. 3. $8-$10.

The Comedy Bull

Standup comics fight to stay in the saddle in this competitive event. Two judges evaluate their chops, but the audience has veto power and can suggest new topics to floundering participants. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 10 pm Friday, July 12. $7.

Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction

The delightfully weird and raucous event returns, with an impressive slate of 10 comics writing and performing original stories. Audience suggestions invited, so bring your biggest literary fantasies. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE 39th Ave., 233-7100. 7 pm Sunday, July 14. $10-$15.

Greg Fitzsimmons

Standup from the podcast host, author and frequent Chelsea Lately panelist, who’s known for his sarcastic and often-raunchy humor. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 and 10 pm FridaySaturday, July 11-13. $15-$27.

Hari Kondabolu

The seriously smart comedian—he has a master’s in human rights from the London School of Economics and incorporates jokes about immigration and race into his analytical but still very funny standup—lands in Portland for a one-night stint. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 7:30 pm Sunday, July 14. $12-$17.

How to Age Disgracefully

A new scripted sketch-comedy revue taking on the banalities and absurdities of life, death and the beyond. Caitlin Kunkel, a faculty member at Chicago’s

fabled Second City, directs. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Saturdays through Aug. 10. $8-$10.

The Invite

This monthly showcase of sketch comedy returns for a second installment, featuring performers from Curious Comedy, the Brody Theater and ComedySportz. ComedySportz, 1963 NW Kearney St., 236-8888. 8 pm Thursday, July 11. $5.

Jackie Kashian

Standup from the comedian known for talking about her obsessions—including bird watching and video games— as host of The Dork Forest podcast. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE 39th Ave., 233-7100. 10 pm Saturday, July 13. $10$15.

A Prairie Home Companion

Garrison Keillor turns the Edgefield lawn into Lake Wobegon with a live production of the popular radio variety show. McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 669-8610. 6:30 pm Wednesday, July 10. $42-$79.

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 FridaysSaturdays through Nov. 23. $12-$15.

DANCE Dance+ Performance Festival

The annual series by nonprofit Conduit Dance brings together contemporary talent from around the Northwest— and, this year, from around the country—for performances that stretch the imagination. This first show (next weekend will have a different lineup) features five acts that have the potential to be anything from cornball absurdity to Japanese traditionalism. Performers include Conduit co-founder Linda K. Johnson who partners with Sarah Gamblin, a Portland transplant to Texas, who in past performances has screamed “Shit!” and “Fuck!” in rapid succession. This work likely won’t be as avant-garde as others in the showcase, but it does build upon a solo piece created by modern dance star Bebe Miller, with whom both dancers have worked. A more lyrical piece will come from Jessica Hightower, a relatively new choreographer who’s pairing with her familiar partner, Keely McIntyre. The two both dance for the Bobbevy company and performed together in McIntyre’s 2010 piece Subplot. Bringing a different perspective, two Portland choreographers blend divergent cultures from the East: Suba Ganesan attempts to harmonize her South Indian-style Bharatanatyam dance with Michelle Fujii’s taiko, a Japanese folk dance based heavily on percussion. Even more experimental is the performance by Seattle multimedia dance team Ulrich Graczyk Baldoz, whose octogenarian director, Torben Ulrich, is the father of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich. The team has a created an installationheavy performance that will probably challenge audience members with its conceptual nature. Rounding out the show is a video, Clipped Wing, by Chris Peddecord and dancer Kara Girod. It’s a romantic narrative featuring Girod, Northwest Dance Project’s Franco Nieto and Lindsey Matheis and BodyVox’s golden-maned Josh Murry. Conduit Dance , 918 SW Yamhill St., Suite 401, 221-5857. 8 pm ThursdaySaturday, July 11-13. $17-$20.

Phoenix Variety Revue

Burlesque madame and drag performer Zora Phoenix hosts the fouryear anniversary of her monthly variety show. Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., 228-3669. 8 pm Sunday, July 14. $15. 21+.

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Jessica Curtaz: Under the Sun’s Glare

Nothing says summertime like hydrangeas in bloom, so Jessica Curtaz’s show of works on paper is perfectly timed. The Philadelphiabased artist begins with thin graphite outlines of hydrangeas, then layers the images atop one another until they’re veritable heaps of petals and pistils. This visual glut is counterweighted by Curtaz’s subtle grayscale palette, for an overall impression at once maximalist and minimalist. Through July 27. Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, 134 NW 8th Ave., 287-3886.

Karen Esler: Hurricane

Central Florida native Karen Esler, now a Portlander, revisits the Sunshine State in a suite of decidedly unsunshiny oil paintings entitled Hurricane. Unerringly, unnervingly, the artist captures the storms’ pounding wind and rain. Dark skies and gale-whipped palm trees lend the series a sense of violence and foreboding. Through July 27. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 224-8182.

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Barbara Sternberger: Confluence

In lieu of a brush, Barbara Sternberger paints with snow cones loaded with oil paint, raw pigment and wax. Despite this gimmicky technique, the paintings have an old-fashioned charm. In works such as Moving and Beginnings, she lets color, form and surface come to the fore, weaving narratives of pure opticality in the vein of Abstract Expressionist Joan Mitchell. Through July 27. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521.

COGnition: Contemporary Wood-fired Sculpture by Richard Brandt, John George Larson, and Brad McLemore

The Eutectic Gallery showcases contemporary ceramic arts and crafts. Its latest show, COGnition, is all about cogs, wheels, gears, chains and other imagery from the high industrial age. Richard Brandt’s sculptures exude a shimmering glow, while John George Larson’s have a geometric precision counterbalanced by an agreeably crude material thickness. Brad McLemore’s abstracted mechanical devices walk the line between depiction and evocation. Together, the artists perform a seemingly impossible task: using the eminently breakable medium of fired clay to portray objects made of impermeable metal alloys. Through July 28. Eutectic Gallery, 1930 NE Oregon St., 974-6518.

Dan Pillers: Fuel for Thought

A play on words lies at the root of most of Dan Pillers’ sculptures, most of which are concerned with gay identity. About Time shows artist mannequins holding hands behind a sheet of Plexiglas imprinted with two skeletons. The piece is about gay marriage, triply referencing the phrase “It’s about time!”, the wedding vow “till death do us part,” and the reality that only a few years ago, many people thought they’d be dead before same-sex marriage gained acceptance. Pillers creates these politically resonant works from a combination of wood, Plexi, fabric, bone and metal. They have the look of scientific display cases, reliquaries

or Victorian birdcages. Through July 27. Cock Gallery, 625 NW Everett St., No. 106, 552-8686.

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. 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, 998-4152.

Flight

The Falcon Art Community, recently featured in a WW cover story by Aaron Mesh (“Rise of the Falcon,” March 20, 2013), partners with P:ear for the group exhibition Flight. The paintings, mixed-media work and music in the show are the products of several months of workshops between Falcon artists and P:ear youth. Through July 26. P:ear, 338 NW 6th Ave., 228-6677.

Isamu Noguchi: We Are the Landscape of All We Know

The late Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) was a master of integrating natural and industrial materials with dueling Eastern and Western sensibilities. To create this one-time-only, 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

The sun peeks through trees, evoking the melancholy of late summer; a boy throws a basketball toward a hoop, evoking the melancholy of childhood’s fleeting; an old trophy sits on a windowsill, evoking the melancholy of—you get the idea. Shawn Records’ elegiac and, yes, melancholy series, Flaming Energy Ball, is loosely based on his two sons’ love affair with basketball. The honeyed light and evocation of passing seasons is pretty enough to look at but feels heavy-handed and trite. An image of fallen flower petals amid the long shadows of late afternoon; a basketball hoop’s shadow reflected in a window in waning, late-day light—I mean, Jesus, is Records putting together a résumé reel for a Kevin Costner film? Enough with the hokum already! Through July 28. Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 225-0210.

Summer Group Show

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, 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.

Wilder Schmaltz: Night Lands

In Wilder Schmaltz’s drawing Catalan, a sunken-eyed old man confronts the viewer as he stands before an eerie background of arched windows and lapping waves. It’s the strongest image in Schmaltz’s exhibition, Night Lands. In this and other single-figure portraits, Schmaltz’s sense of compositional drama blazes forth, although it tends to dilute when he includes more figures. The works’ high-gloss finish also distracts from their overall appeal. Schmaltz’s luxuriant, chalkylooking marks—made with colored pencils, markers and wax pastels— would benefit from a more direct sight line; there is nothing here to hide and everything to show off. Through July 28. Gallery 6 PDX, 131 NE 6th Ave., 206-7280.

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Vicci Martinez fans will want to “Come Along” to the opening night of Plaza Palooza. Vicci is one of VH1’s most popular artists and a past ‘The Voice’ finalist. She has already opened for or shared the stage with notables such as Sting, Annie Lennox, B.B. King, the Doobie Brothers, and Jonny Lang. Her free concert will also benefit Basic Rights Oregon.

July 18 Hit Machine Featuring Jennifer Batten

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 10 Poetry Reading

There is no shortage of poetry on the subject of love, but the genre is decidedly lacking in the niche of prostitution poetry. Portland-based poet Penelope Scambly Schott’s new book, Lillie Was a Goddess, Lillie Was a Whore, is a witty, sacred and profane exploration of the world’s oldest profession. Joining her in the reading will be fellow Portland poet Andrea Hollander reading from her new release, Landscape With Female Figure. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.

THURSDAY, JULY 11 Susannah Charleson

Through her work in canine search and rescue, author Susannah Charleson has frequently explored the connections between dogs and humans (Scent of the Missing). In The Possibility Dogs, Charleson examines the work of psychiatric service dogs providing therapy to people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

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Unique Ink, Roosevelt High School’s student-run publishing center, has published its first book featuring the writing of both students and local authors. Where the Roses Smell the Best is a collection of poems, vignettes and short stories about the people and places that make Portland what it is, with pieces by such authors as Brian Doyle and Kim Stafford alongside students’ writings. Celebrating the release with a month of readings, this event includes featured writers Paulann Petersen, Andrea Hollander, Thea Constantine, Octaviano Merecias-Cuevas and S. Renee Mitchell. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

FRIDAY, JULY 12 Truth or Fiction?

It’s summertime and the livin’ is easy. Local storytellers gather for this month’s Truth or Fiction showcase to tell tales of their connection with music and the season for the theme of “Summer Mixtape.” The catch? Some of the stories are true and some are pure BS. Those who can tell the difference have a prize in store. This month’s readers include Kristi Gray Lovato, Pat Janowski, Amy Miller, Mark Savage, Jason Squamata, featured author Rob Yardumian (The Sound of Songs Across the Water) and host Doug Dean. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 841-6734. 8 pm. Free.

SATURDAY, JULY 13 Pacific Northwest Regional Pen Roundup

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Delivering pretty much exactly what it sounds like, the first annual Pacific Northwest Regional Pen Roundup will celebrate pens and all things pen-related. Share your love of writing instruments with others there to buy, sell, trade and ogle— you guessed it—pens! And, just for laughs, if you have to write something down, be sure to ask loudly, “Does anybody have a pen?” Lucky Labrador Beer Hall, 1945 NW Quimby St., 360-449-7883. 11 am-8 pm. Free.

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technological espionage, guerrilla warfare and cyberterrorism, Charlie Huston’s new novel, Skinner, is being hailed as a masterful new style of thriller. Huston will read from the book and discuss the genre along with comic-book authors Matt Fraction, Brian Michael Bendis and Kelly Sue DeConnick. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

TUESDAY, JULY 16 OMSI Science Pub

Ever wondered about the creative process that led to the invention of life-changing products like the light bulb, the cellular phone or the Snuggie? OMSI Science Pub presents an evening with author and inventor Brett Stern, whose new book, Inventors at Work: The Minds and Motivations Behind Modern Inventions, interviews 23 inventors of famous products or technologies. Mission Theater and Pub, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 7 pm. $5. 21+.

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REVIEW

PORTLAND’S SLABTOWN Slabtown is not a name that resonates gladly in the hearts of Realtors. Today, the moniker most often refers only to a thin patch of inassimilable real estate around the I-405 freeway overpass, a frontier hodgepodge of cab barn, poker den, tow yard, dive bar and parking lot. But as condos rise at the fringe of the Northwest Industrial District, a slim picturebook history volume called From Creek Bed to Dog Hotel. Portland’s Slabtown (Arcadia Publishing, 128 pages, $21.99) has appeared in grocery stores and small markets. The product of a bevy of local historians—Mike Ryerson, Tracy J. Prince and Norm Gholston, with a foreword by McMenamins historian Tim Hills— the book perhaps allows residents to claim richness for their ’hood even as it’s tilled under and re-created in a frenzy of development bridging the Pearl with the boutiques of 23rd Avenue. Slabtown—named after the piles of wood at George Weidler Lumber Mill on Northwest Northrup Street starting in the 1870s—once ranged from 11th Avenue to the edge of Forest Park. As the book describes, Slabtown’s stadium on 23rd Avenue and Thurman Street was home to the Portland Beavers baseball team, titans of the Pacific Coast League, until 1956. In its turn-of-thecentury heyday, the neighborhood housed a hippodrome, a 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial attended by 2.5 million visitors, and a hockey team called the Rosebuds who were later sold to become the Chicago Blackhawks, current Stanley Cup champions. But the book’s format, a brief intro followed by photographs and caption descriptions of times gone by, can make cause and effect difficult to parse. The historical period that holds the most pressing relevance to the neighborhood’s sudden redevelopment— the carving of the district by Robert Moses’ I-405 freeway, as well as the subsequent decline and failed attempts at urban renewal—is portrayed a bit spottily, with pictures that shotgun haphazardly around the timeline in ways that defy narrative logic. The most interesting and best documented sections go a bit deeper. Especially valuable are the parts of the book describing long-forgotten Native American encampments in the area, which served as a neutral ground and trading post for various tribes, and the neighborhood’s turn-of-the-century service as a landing pad for waves of immigrants from Croatian to Chinese to Irish. The oldest photographs tell a story all by themselves. Johnson Creek once tore a vast gulch into Stumptown, with as many as nine rivulets crisscrossing the area and leading out to flood-prone Guild’s Lake (in the Northwest Industrial District) and Couch Lake (in Old Town). We have since painstakingly filled it all in. Ease and character, it would seem, rarely coincide in a landscape. It remains to be seen whether the last interesting remnants of old Slabtown will survive or whether they, too, will be filled in to create flatter territory. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. GO: The authors discuss Portland’s Slabtown at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., on Wednesday, July 10. 7:30 pm. Free.

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C O U R T E S Y WA R N E R B R O S

MOVIES

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20 Feet From Stardom

A- Life is unfair, and the music indus-

try is worse. If there were a rubric to figure out what makes one performer a household name and the other just another name in the liner notes, the history of pop would read much differently. Turning the spotlight on several career backup singers, Morgan Neville’s 20 Feet From Stardom shows, with great warmth and color, what it might sound like. These are voices and personalities every bit as big as Tina’s and Aretha’s but that, through the vagaries of fate more than anything else, never made what Bruce Springsteen calls “the long walk” from the back of the stage to the front. Only Sheryl Crow, it seems, fully shed the stigma of being a supporting player. Others have come frustratingly close: Lisa Fischer won a Grammy in 1992 but still has to wait in line at the post office. Merry Clayton helped make “Gimme Shelter” into the Stones’ finest moment but never had a major hit herself. Darlene Love, a protégée and plaything of Phil Spector, is the most recognizable, though that’s mostly because she played Danny Glover’s wife in the Lethal Weapon movies. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011, but only after the surreal experience of hearing her voice wafting from the radio in a house she’d been hired to clean. Most are resigned to their roles in the musical ecosystem, content to have sacrificed their own aspirations for the sake of elevating the art itself. Whether that’s noble or a con, Neville never judges. He just lets them sing. And, in a more perfect universe, that would be enough. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters.

Atomic Robo Animation Fest

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] The creators of the Atomic Robo comic-book series present their new, 12-minute animated film, alongside a dozen other animated shorts. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Wednesday, July 10.

The Attack

B- Lebanese-born director Ziad Doueiri’s drama opens as renowned surgeon Amin Jaafari (Ali Suliman), an Arab-Israeli established in secular Tel Aviv society, is 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. As the disbelieving husband, Suliman is an internal study in grief, betrayal and the desperate task of fathoming the unfathomable. R. AMANDA SCHURR. Fox Tower.

Augustine

C+ In the psychosexual drama

Augustine, based on a true story, the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot describes the titular character as “a magnificent patient.” It’s the late 19th century in Paris, and Augustine (French singer Soko) is a 19-year-old kitchen maid suddenly struck by a seizure that leaves her partially paralyzed. Placed under the care of the stony and mercurial Charcot (Vincent Lindon), she’s diagnosed with “ovarian hysteria.” When Charcot refers to her frozen-shut right eye, he calls it her “hysterical wink.” But what makes Augustine so magnificent, in Charcot’s eyes, is her willingness—intentional or not—to experience a hysterical bout when placed under hypnosis. It’s this quality that leads him to trot her around lecture halls like a prize cow, showing how, “as with all hysterics, this patient defies the laws of anatomy.” Unfortunately, the debut feature from writer-director Alice Winocour ignores some basic laws of cinema. The narrative is as oblique as the cinematography is shadowy, and the pacing is glacial. Soko gives a focused performance, but Winocour provides so little

backstory that the character becomes little more than a cipher. Charcot’s pet monkey occasionally provides some energy—and figures into a bizarre flirtation sequence—but this is a medical drama too clinical to engage either emotionally or intellectually. Charcot puts it best: “Experiments performed on animals work better in a lab than with an audience.” REBECCA JACOBSON. Living Room Theaters.

A Band Called Death

B The documentary A Band Called

Death feels a bit like opening a washing machine midcycle. There’s still a bit of dirt, but everything is warm and sudsy. Directors Mark Covino and Jeff Howlett chronicle the struggles of the three brothers who became the Detroit punk group Death, all the way from their largely anonymous beginnings in the ’70s to their belated rise to stardom in 2009. Though the directors place undue emphasis on the fact that Death was making music two years before the Ramones, the film succeeds when the two surviving band members are allowed to play equal parts evangelist and punkrocker. Bobby and Dennis Hackney are best when probed about their beliefs, as when they recall their decision to reject a $20,000 record deal after the label asked them to change their name to something more marketable. But Covino and Howlett can lose sight of the Hackneys’ story of family and faith, and their desire to spin a rock story at times overshadows the brothers’ compelling spiritual exploration. JOE DONOVAN. Hollywood Theatre.

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.

Beijing Flickers

B [ONE NIGHT ONLY] We can’t all

be poets, and unfortunately, whoever tried to write the voice-over for Beijing Flickers was most certainly not a poet (there are four credited screenwriters, so blame could go anywhere). Zhang Yuan’s brooding tale of broke twentysomethings wallowing in increasingly wealthy Beijing is laced with strident, angsty narration that waxes notso-poetic on the dire circumstances of its main characters. And though those contrived words sully some of the Chinese film’s more powerful moments, the captivating chemistry of the excellent cast manages to shine through. The feel of Beijing Flickers is oddly akin to that of Garden State— it’s a similarly plodding yet engrossing look at young, depressed people finding solace in one another. San Bao (Duan Bowen) is an off-the-rails, heartbroken shit show of a man, devastated after his girlfriend leaves him for a richer dude, his crappy apartment gets bulldozed and his dog runs away. He and a ragtag crew of down-and-out comrades—a sweet but morose transvestite, a singer whose band ditches her to join a record label, and San Bao’s pushover best friend—scuffle through their tribulations together, surviving on whiskey and friendship alone. And it turns out to be the unadorned beauty of broken people holding each other up that is the real poetry. EMILY JENSEN. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Wednesday, July 10.

Between Us

D Director Dan Mirvish’s drama, which

follows two young married couples struggling to make it as artists in New York City, opens with the four characters having dinner together. It then leaps forward several years, to another dinner party, with the couples now

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JAEGER BOMB: A giant robot embarks on a campaign of ass-whompery.

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For two decades, Guillermo del Toro has honed a skill that few directors—especially in the mainstream studio system—have mustered: He doesn’t make movies so much as build worlds. Whether it’s the bustling troll marketplace in Hellboy II or a dark underground realm of child-eating monsters in Pan’s Labyrinth, Del Toro’s worlds exist on their own phantasmagorical plane, one where the physics and mechanics of every moving piece are thought out. It’s as if the smartest kid on the planet invited you to play in the sandbox in his mind. Having a fully formed, palpable world with an established history is particularly useful when tackling larger issues, as Del Toro did with the Spanish Civil War and the loss of innocence in Pan’s and The Devil’s Backbone, or with the societal roles of outcasts in Hellboy. But what does such meticulous terraforming do for a movie about gigantic robots punching the shit out of gigantic monsters while destroying whole cities? It makes it effing awesome, that’s what, and Pacific Rim is like getting punched in the face with a fist full of bombastic, childish, escapist bliss. From the get-go, Del Toro—who hasn’t actually directed a film since 2008’s Hellboy II—tosses his audience into a not-too-distant future and, through a quick voice-over and a montage of news clips, lays out a realistic and simplistic history for his world. The ocean floor—having apparently read a lot of Lovecraft—has cracked open a portal to another dimension, which keeps sending out snarling, neon-blooded monsters called Kaiju to wreak havoc. Humanity, in turn, has put aside its differences and formed a U.N. of ass-whompery in its army of Jaegers, 25-story-tall human-shaped machines operated by pilots who must link their minds to avoid zapping their brains while fighting. And fight they do. Through the streets of Hong Kong and Tokyo, in the skies and under the sea. That seems like an easy recipe for awesome, but the Transformers movies showed how confusing and boring it can be to watch other kids play with their toys. Del Toro, though, orchestrates his chaos

beautifully, allowing his towering beasts to be captured lumbering from afar. When the punches start flying, they land with teeth-rattling thunder. Meanwhile, we’re offered a glimpse into the post-Kaiju world, where monster-alert signs hang above makeshift shelters and the black market is flooded with demand for Kaiju bones, which are ground into medicine. In other hands, these flourishes could have been springboards into hamfisted allegory, but thankfully Del Toro avoids direct allusions to Katrina and the South Asian tsunami, and he simply presents a world that has been forced to live with the looming threat of destruction. Of course, a world under siege is only engaging if it’s populated with characters you care for. It’s here that Pacific Rim hits a stumbling block,

PACIFIC RIM IS LIKE GETTING PUNCHED IN THE FACE WITH A FIST FULL OF BOMBASTIC, CHILDISH, ESCAPIST BLISS. offering up well-acted but generic caricatures like Rinko Kikuchi’s female pilot struggling to overcome preconceptions, and Idris Elba’s motivational speech-spouting commanding officer. Charlie Day provides comic relief as a Kaiju-obsessed scientist, frenetically channeling Rick Moranis’ Ghostbusters nerd, while Del Toro regular Ron Perlman brings his trademark sleaze to a small roll as a blackmarket entrepreneur dealing in monster guts. These characters are broadly drawn, but they’re not here to touch your heart. They’re here to save humanity. To do that, they must pilot 25-story robots and battle 25-story monsters. The beauty of Pacific Rim is that it’s a dumb movie with brilliance lurking in the corners of its robust world, for those who want to observe it. For those who don’t care, there’s a robot beating the shit out of a giant fish-gorilla monster by wielding an oil tanker like a bat: further evidence that Del Toro’s remains the greatest sandbox on the playground. A- SEE IT: Pacific Rim is rated PG-13. It opens Friday at Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Lloyd Center, Bridgeport, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Oak Grove, City Center, Sherwood, Sandy, Willsonville, Mill Plain.

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JULY 10-16 Avatar. Yet Epic has more life in one frame than Cameron mustered in his entire film. PG. AP KRYZA. Academy, Avalon, Bagdad, Edgefield, Indoor Twin, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Milwaukie, Mt. Hood, St. Johns, Valley.

An Evening With the Whiteman Brothers

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTORS ATTENDING] Portland-based brothers Sean and Christof Whiteman present a program of comedic shorts and excerpts from feature-length comedies. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Thursday, July 11.

Frances Ha

A- People have been trying to figure

THIS IS MARTIN BONNER drowning in debt, burdened with children and disappointed by dashed dreams. As the two couples discuss sex, religion and money in brutally honest terms, claws emerge to ultimately tear apart their friendships. Though Julia Stiles delivers an honest and deeply emotional performance, unafraid to reveal her vulnerability, the film will appeal only to those who find perverse joy in witnessing malicious couples threaten to murder one another. In addition to the stagnant plot, not one character is likable, meaning we root for no one amid the tiresome bickering. Driven almost completely by tense and heated dialogue, the film, with its talk of depression and suicide, makes for a cruel, pessimistic slog. “Your dreams, your plans, they destroy you,” remarks one character. “Ask anyone who makes a living and they will tell you the same thing.” If nothing else, the film reminds viewers why some things should be kept just “between us.” HALEY MARTIN. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Saturday, July 13.

Bidder 70

B [ONE NIGHT ONLY] Bidder 70 tells

the story of Tim DeChristopher, who, at age 26, made national headlines by derailing a 2008 government lease auction for oil and gas companies. DeChristopher, who simply held up the paddle he’d received after sneaking into the auction, saved $2 million of precious land. DeChristopher grows from anonymous vigilante to outspoken, somewhat self-righteous activist. While the film has beautiful shots of the American West, it grows cliché in its repetitive shots of an awe-filled DeChristopher walking through nature. The introduction of DeChristopher’s cultish advocacy group, Peaceful Uprising, is less of a plot point than a commercial break, and the free press for the group is just as insincere as the Kony video. That said, the story does deliver a sense that individuals have the power to effect change. DREW LENIHAN. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Monday-Thursday, July 15-18.

The Bling Ring

C+ Sofia Coppola has spent much of her career enticing viewers to shed a tear for the poor little rich boys and girls of the world. With her fifth feature, she turns her attention to the sidelines, where scores of disaffected, raised-on-reality-TV teenagers yearn to catch the spotlight’s leering gaze and live the lives of leisure enjoyed by their entitled idols. The Bling Ring takes its name from the real-life cabal of Southern California acquaintances who made a habit of breaking, entering and burgling their favorite celebrities’ Beverly Hills homes. Coppola skillfully conveys a key cultural shift: the desire for fame supplanted by an appetite for infamy, and The Bling Ring is every bit as visually exquisite as her previous work. However, as if taking cues from its players’ well-honed apathy, the film is dramatically flat. R. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Fox Tower.

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[ONE NIGHT ONLY] In Egyptian director Mohamed Diab’s 2010 drama, the

lives of three women are interwoven as they battle sexual harassment in Cairo. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Sunday, July 14.

Deja Vertigo: The ’80s Brian De Palma Series

[ONGOING SERIES, REVIVAL] The Hollywood continues its tribute to Brian De Palma’s psychological thrillers of the early ’80s with 1980’s Dressed to Kill, about a prostitute on the run from a crazed blond woman, and 1981’s Blow Out, with John Travolta as a soundman who accidentally records a murder. Hollywood Theatre. Dressed to Kill plays Friday-Sunday, July 12-14, and Blow Out plays Monday-Wednesday, July 13-15..

Despicable Me 2

C Gru, the lead character of Despicable Me 2, is the sort of megalomaniacal evildoer bound to risk everything on grandiose schemes destined to fail spectacularly. Steve Carell, fittingly, blesses him with richly textured, endlessly inventive vocal embellishments, cultivating every last nuance of long suffering from the character. But the joke rings somewhat hollow when anti-villain Gru’s ambitions have been reduced from stealing the moon to caring tenderly for three adopted daughters amid the wilds of suburbia. This sequel to 2010’s blockbuster adds Kristen Wiig as high-spirited love interest and expands the animated repertoire to encompass 3-D thrills, but the story itself, which shoehorns Gru into the service of a global super-spy league for the flimsiest of reasons, arrives packed with exposition and shorn of coherency while allowing precisely no opportunities for expression of the dastardly hubris that named the franchise. Gags either pander to the target audience’s fart-joke triggers or inanely reference past cartoons— allusions to Carmen Miranda’s fruittopped headwear evidently still forced upon children no longer familiar with old movies or South American-themed floor shows (or perhaps even fruit)— without any trace of genuine wit or verve. The one bright spot is the the slapstick camaraderie of Gru’s minions. All unblinking eye and bristling energy, there’s an anarchic zest to their headlong confusion that happily overwhelms each scene. As importantly, only when commanding those little yellow creatures does Gru truly reclaim his voice.PG. JAY HORTON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Moreland, Oak Grove, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Roseway, Sandy.

Epic

B Based on the promotional materials

for Blue Sky Studios’ Epic, one would be forgiven for thinking it was making a play for the pop-culture-addled throne of Shrek, or perhaps positioning itself as a modern-day FernGully full of heavy-handed environmental grandstanding. Those assumptions are, thankfully, very, very wrong. With its eye-popping art and living forest aesthetic, it’s only natural to compare the setting to James Cameron’s

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out twentysomethings at least since Dustin Hoffman unzipped Anne Bancroft’s dress. In 2010, The New York Times Magazine ran a late-to-thegame article about a “new” life stage called “emerging adulthood” (a phrase coined by a psychology researcher a decade before) when self-indulgence and self-discovery collide. The exuberant and disarming Frances Ha is a portrait of one such emerging adult, shot in resplendent black-and-white and scored like a French New Wave film. As played with haphazard elegance by Greta Gerwig, Frances is a 27-year-old aspiring dancer in New York City still lurching through the obstacle course of a privileged post-collegiate life. In one of the loveliest moments, David Bowie’s “Modern Love” plays as Frances spins through the streets. Backpack bouncing, floral-print dress cutting a contrast with the crosswalk striping, she’s every bit the emerging adult: aimless yet hopeful, self-absorbed yet in wideeyed awe at the big, beautiful world. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Laurelhurst Theater, Living Room Theaters.

The Heat

C 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 strait-laced while Mullins is incredibly slovenly. You can watch McCarthy and Bullock

bounce off each other for only 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, and 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 R. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sandy.

A Hijacking

B Those in search of a little swash-

buckling best look elsewhere. Though based on a true story of contemporary

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MOVIES

The Goonies

A [ONE WEEK ONLY, REVIVAL] I

often wonder whether The Goonies is held in as high esteem elsewhere as it is in the Northwest. For many Oregon natives, the 1985 film was a rite of passage—not only did the Astoria-based adventure flick’s scenery seem familiar, but we treated Goonies as a preInternet personality test. I always saw myself as a Mikey-Chunk hybrid, a truebeliever underdog type who inevitably gets the girl in the end, but also a great dancer with a fondness for ice cream and a giant mutant for a best friend. I’d suggest catching the film as it was meant to be seen: with a half-melted Baby Ruth bar in your pocket and a Cyndi Lauper song in your heart. PG. CASEY JARMAN. Academy Theater.

Grown Ups 2

Adam Sandler and Chris Rock return with more juvenile clowning. Not screened for Portland critics. PG-13. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.

Handmade Monsters: The Masters of Practical Effects

[ONGOING SERIES, REVIVAL] The Hollywood’s monthlong celebration of beasts in 35 mm continues with 1958’s The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, featuring stop-motion animation from the late Ray Harryhausen, and 1962’s King Kong vs. Godzilla, directed by Ishirô Honda. Hollywood Theatre. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad plays Friday-Sunday, July 12-14, and King Kong vs. Godzilla plays Saturday, July 13.

The Hangover Part III

D Five minutes into The Hangover Part III, Zach Galifianakis decapitates a giraffe with a freeway overpass, then basically kills his father. That these moments are played for guffawsshows how blackened and mean the frat-comedy franchise got between the surprise megahit original and the lazy, cynical first sequel. But at least with those gags, writer-director Todd Phillips appears to be trying. Otherwise, the third and, we’re assured, final movie is somehow lazier and more cynical than the last. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Academy, Avalon, Kennedy School, Milwaukie, Valley.

PUT YOUR RIGHT HAND IN: Liam James (left) and Sam Rockwell.

THE WAY, WAY BACK Summertime, and the livin’ ain’t so easy.

The Way, Way Back is a movie about a boy—awkward and introverted 14-yearold Duncan, all hunchback slouch and downcast eyes—who learns to become a man. But it’s also a film about two men who remain stuck in boyhood. They’re men-children of entirely different species: Trent (Steve Carell, playing against type to mixed results) is the boyfriend of Duncan’s divorced mom. He’s a philandering meanie who lies about his whereabouts, bullies Duncan and throws a fit over a game of Candy Land. Owen (Sam Rockwell) is the fast-talking manager of a slightly shabby water park, too fond of cracking jokes and making ’80s references to follow the rules or think much about his future. And each has the potential to make or break Duncan’s summer vacation in a quaint New England coastal town, where the kids spend their days sulking and the parents pour their cocktails at noon and sneak off to the dunes to smoke weed. (Allison Janney, as a tipsy tornado with an orange-tinted tan and too much blue eye shadow, is a scene-stealer.) Forced to sit on the beach with Trent’s snotty teenage daughter, Duncan—admirably underplayed by Liam James—looks ready to bury himself in the sand. Wanting to escape Trent, Duncan finds a girly pink bicycle and pedals to Water Wizz, the park Owen runs. In a Dirty Dancing-style twist, it’s here with the comparative riffraff that Duncan builds his confidence, his social IQ and even his break-dancing skills, earning the nickname “Pop ’n’ Lock.” Much of his growth is due, of course, to Owen’s alchemic, anarchic mix of gentle ribbing and overt encouragement, which Rockwell conveys with warmth and wit. It’s a well-worn model, but Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (who shared a screenwriting Oscar with Alexander Payne for The Descendants and make their directorial debut here) manage a film saturated in both summery charm and gratifying laughs. It’s not without faults—Maya Rudolph, as Owen’s love interest, doesn’t get to use her significant comedic chops, and Faxon’s bit part as a leering water-slide attendant feels unnecessarily misogynistic—but for the most part, The Way, Way Back has serious soul for such scant subject matter. Like the looping water slide at Water Wizz, it may not surprise, but it still satisfies. REBECCA JACOBSON. B SEE IT: The Way, Way Back is rated PG-13. It opens Friday at Fox Tower.

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high-seas piracy, Tobias Lindholm’s slow-burning thriller makes a bid for verisimilitude that extends well beyond the use of natural light and handheld cameras. In this follow-up to his prison drama R, the Danish writer-director again explores the psychological effects of confinement. When Somali pirates overrun a cargo ship, the cook Mikkel (Pilou Asbæk) struggles to keep it together as the sense of an awful and imminent end cedes to the dreadful suspicion that he’s actually been condemned to an inescapable limbo. And how else is he to feel as ransom negotiations between his captors and Peter (Søren Malling), the shipping company’s president, grow ridiculously protracted? While Mikkel’s bid to retain his dignity earns our sympathy, Peter’s attempts to save face demand our rapt attention. Having previously displayed his own predatory instincts, the executive now faces adversaries who can more than match his callousness. By staging his study of brinksmanship on two fronts, Lindholm illustrates how a brutal ordeal for those in the line of fire might amount to just a bad day at the office for the suits calling the shots. R. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Living Room Theaters.

The Internship

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. Academy, Kennedy School.

Iron Man 3

A- Iron Man 3 isn’t just a fine super-

hero film. It isn’t just a fine action flick, either. It’s a film that embraces a mold before completely breaking it with out-of-left-field twists and turns that keep the viewer engaged and chuckling with alarming frequency. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Academy, Avalon, Bagdad, Edgefield, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Milwaukie, Mt. Hood, Movies on TV.

The Kings of Summer

B+ As cops break up a high-school

kegger, two 14-year-old boys stumble into a forest. Intending only to evade police, what they find is far more: a moonlit clearing, as ethereal and lush as anything in FernGully. School is out for summer, the boys’ Ohio town offers no excitement, and their parents are growing ever more intolerable. But here, in this clearing, exist possibility, independence and—just as in FernGully—magic. The Kings of Summer also crackles with its own offkilter magic. The playful film follows three boys who ditch their parents, unannounced, to build a house in that enchanted clearing. Though occasionally too sweet or thin, it still manages to enchant. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Fox Tower.

Kon-Tiki

A- Based on the true story of

The Lesser Blessed

A Larry (Joel Evans) is a teenage

Ticho Indian in the Northwest Territories who spends science class carving “Juliet rules the world” on his desk. After class, he spies on this object of his affections, played by Chloe Rose, as she smokes weed with her friends in a dilapidated farmhouse. The central mystery of this torrid drama is the source of Larry’s severe scars, which criss-cross his back and chest. When new kid Johnny (Kiowa Gordon) befriends Larry and probes him about those scars, Larry’s ready with a cutting response: “I got kissed by the devil; those are fucking hickies.” His voice-over narrative, delivered in a deadpan tone with a cracking voice, is more forthcoming, as he fantasizes about fucking Juliet in ways both funny and somewhat alarming. “After the nuclear war when we all turn cannibal, Juliet won’t be involved,” Larry says. “She don’t eat dead things.” When Juliet and Johnny begin a predictable romance, Larry’s the third wheel, with his impassive demeanor concealing his history of trauma. Based on a novel by Richard Van Camp, director Anita Doron brings unidealized teenage characters to the screen. They’re incredibly destructive—they hot-knife hash and knock each other’s brains out to “get even,” but The Lesser Blessed neither reprimands its characters nor dwells in the muck of teenage drama. That alone is certainly a blessing. R. JOE DONOVAN. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Friday, July 12.

Life Kills Me

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] A melancholic Chilean comedy from 2007, Sebastian Silva’s debut feature centers on a lonely young cinematographer and a death-obsessed drifter. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Tuesday, July 16.

The Lone Ranger

C- Updating olden-day heroes is a difficult task. Like Superman, the Lone Ranger’s mythos is rooted in an outmoded American ideal, one where unquestionable good always triumphs over evil, damsels are in constant distress, and putting a small scrap of cloth over your eyes serves as a perfect disguise. But in these more cynical times, is it possible to update such a paragon of righteousness? Eighty years after the hero first ambled into the American imagination, director Gore Verbinski’s megabudget blockbuster can’t seem to muster any freshness. Here, the Lone Ranger still seems old-fashioned, but all the director really does to alter the character is make him something of a prick. That prick is played with minimal charisma by rising star Armie Hammer (the Winklevoss twins of The Social Network), who spends most of the movie stumbling around and treating his reluctant partner, Tonto (Johnny Depp, again subbing a weird

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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. Laurelhurst.

hat for nuance), like dogshit. The pair is in cahoots to hunt down a murderous bandit (William Fichtner, reliably evil) while a tycoon (Tom Wilkinson) lays the literal tracks for Western expansion. Despite inspired action sequences, Verbinski somehow makes the film simultaneously chaotic and dull. Then there’s the matter of the violence, which is amped up to a discomforting level. Yes, our hero still operates by a firm moral compass, but the world he inhabits is one of almost absurd violence. Say what you will about antiquated values: The new Lone Ranger could benefit from being a little more old-fashioned—and its titular character could stand to be a lot less of a sniveling prick. AP KRYZA. 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sandy, St. Johns Twin.

Man of Steel

C Seventy-five years ago, as the Greatest Generation geared up to save the planet from tyranny, a figure of Christ-like perfection standing up for Earth’s right to exist was precisely what pop culture needed. In 1938, an alien savior in red underwear appeared in newsprint. Seven years later, the threat of global fascism lay dismantled. For Superman, it was all downhill from there. Approaching Superman in the post-Dark Knight era means either altering fundamental aspects of the character or embracing full-blown camp. Or, y’know, doing what Zack Snyder does in Man of Steel: recycling the origin story with stone-faced seriousness, and blowing shit up for 2½ hours. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Forest, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Sandy.

Maniac

A gory reboot of William Lustig’s 1980 horror film, starring Elijah Wood as the delusional owner of a mannequin store who scalps women in his free time. Living Room Theaters.

Marathon Man

[ONE WEEK ONLY, REVIVAL] John Schlesinger’s 1976 thriller, with Laurence Olivier as a Nazi war criminal who abducts and tortures a bewildered Dustin Hoffman. R. Laurelhurst Theater.

Meditation Creativity Peace

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] When David Lynch isn’t making dark and dreamlike films, he’s spreading the gospel of transcendental meditation. That quest is the subject of this documentary, which opens with Lynch comparing meditation to a delicious-looking donut— and calling its rewards even sweeter. Mission Theater. 8 pm Saturday, July 13.

Monsters University

B Mike and Sully may have been inseparable pals in 2001’s Monsters, Inc., but that’s not how it started for these BFFs. Monsters University takes us back to their college years, when Sulley (John Goodman) was the cocky bro who didn’t bring a pencil to class and Mike (Billy Crystal) was the Hermione-esque know-it-all who studied rather than partied. 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. 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Movies on TV, Sandy.

Much Ado About Nothing

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about trickery. The comedy—one of Shakespeare’s best—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 wrapping The Avengers, the director retreated to his airy Santa Monica home, corralled some friends and, over the course of 12 days, secretly filmed his adaptation of Much Ado. 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.

A HIJACKING 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.

Museum Hours

A- [FOUR DAYS ONLY] Museum Hours

might be Jem Cohen’s first narrative feature, but it nonetheless carries shades of his career as documentarian: Cohen set up his cameras unobtrusively in an art museum in Vienna, so his fictional characters must interact with a living world. Indeed, even his characters seem less like performers than like lonely people caught at moments of extreme vulnerability. Non-actor Bobby Sommer plays a museum security guard who befriends a Canadian woman (musician Mary Margaret O’Hara) stranded in Vienna by a friend’s illness; Cohen uses the protagonists’ unusual bond to explore our intense relationship with art and its role as balm, company and incitement. Cohen’s patience and diffuse narration lead to what is perhaps a false sense of calm: This film is an intense experience, a meditation on consuming loneliness and the solace of history. Sommer’s security guard, assuming himself invisible, spends idle time searching for eggs in paintings. Of the other guards, he says, “Some have been in the museum so long that it is difficult to say what they have done with their minds.” The initial story submerges by the end of the film, and we are left simply with naked humanity (literally, in one scene), sadly and searchingly at sea in a world that is always beautiful. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Friday, 4:30 and 7 pm Saturday, 4:30 pm Sunday, and 7 pm Monday, July 12-15.

Now You See Me

C In an early scene in the magicheist movie Now You See Me, Jesse Eisenberg’s character gives an audience a piece of advice. “The more you think you see,” he says, “the easier it will be to fool you.” That’s apparently a tip director Louis Leterrier (The Incredible Hulk, Clash of the Titans) tried to follow, pulling from his bag of tricks plenty of glitz, a throbbing techno soundtrack and a camera that swirls as if on a merrygo-round and makes viewers just as dizzy. Unfortunately, being fooled by this flashy flick is no fun. An opening montage introduces us, Ocean’s Eleven-style, to our four magicians: the smartass cardsharp (Eisenberg), the charming but slightly shady mentalist (Woody Harrelson), the sexy escape artist (Isla Fisher, here to look good in miniskirts and do little else), and the streetwise pickpocket (Dave Franco, here to do even less than Fisher). Summoned by an unknown mastermind and christening themselves the Four Horsemen, they launch a series of heists. Why? Who knows! Not even, apparently, the Horsemen themselves. At their first show in Las Vegas, a “randomly chosen” audience member teleports to Paris to help the Horsemen rob a French bank, which causes 3.2 million Euros to rain down on the giddy spectators. This raises

eyebrows at the FBI and Interpol, who begin trailing the wily illusionists. For a moment it seems the Horsemen might be Occupy types, modernday Robin Hoods who seek to return money to those who’ve been screwed over by banks and insurance companies. Yet they’re neither developed into well-drawn characters nor made into symbols of economic justice. Throughout, characters explain how magic is all about misdirection, about getting the audience to look away from where the real trick is happening. Too bad, then, that with all his interest in distracting the audience, Leterrier has left us nothing else to see.PG-13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV.

Portland EcoFilm Festival: More Than Honey

B- [ONE NIGHT ONLY] John Miller, owner of Miller Honey Farms, stops his truck in the middle of an orchard exploding with almond blossoms and the thick sound of his bees. “Can you hear that?” he asks. “That’s the sound of money.” Miller is one of the more capitalistic interviewees in Markus Imhoof’s documentary More Than Honey, which chronicles modern honeymaking and mass bee deaths around the world. An old-school Swiss beekeeper insists on “racial purity” (of the bees, thankfully), and a Chinese woman runs a business collecting and selling pollen, as her country long ago killed off its bee population. Imhoof includes many macro shots, filmed at 70 frames per second—he claims this captures bee movement the best—and these images of dancing and swarming bees go beyond simple nature documentary. However, the natural beauty of More Than Honey is largely invalidated by artificial, computer-generated shots, such as bees against a night sky. MITCH LILLIE. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Thursday, July 11.

Repressed Cinema: Silver State Sinners

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] A party platter of 16 mm oddities about Vegas, including a debaucherous 1969 short about a naval aviators’ convention, Mark Hamill and a hooker zipping around in a souped-up Corvette, and Kodachrome home videos. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, July 16.

The Sapphires

B+ According to crusty Irish boozer

Dave—played with impeccable comic charm by Chris O’Dowd—countrywestern and soul music are both rooted in loss. The difference, Dave says, is that while country-western stars whine about it, soul singers fight desperately for redemption. That exuberant sense of resilience takes center stage in first-time filmmaker Wayne Blair’s massively entertaining tale about an Australian Aboriginal girl band that travels to Vietnam to entertain American troops in 1968. The Sapphires butts up against serious issues, most prominently racial tension and the trauma of war. But between the spirited songs, big-hearted story

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line and hypersaturated cinematography, this is a film that unapologetically encourages finger-snapping rather than head-scratching—and bless its spangled heart for that. PG-13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Fox Tower.

Saturday Morning Confusion

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] A dizzying array of children’s entertainment, all culled from old VHS tapes. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Saturday, July 13.

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. Eastport, Clackamas, Indoor Twin, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV.

Star Wars Uncut

[ONE DAY ONLY] A mashup of the original Star Wars movies, created by crowd-sourcing the creativity of nearly a thousand fans. Hollywood Theatre. 3:30 pm Sunday, July 14.

Stories We Tell

A We all know that every family

has its own drama, secrets and perspective. Stories We Tell is Sarah Polley’s layered, thoughtful exploration of this idea, in which she turns the lens on her own family. As more than one secret unfolds, Stories We Tell wisely allows the family’s humorous and emotional moments to peek through. PG-13. KAITIE TODD. Laurelhurst.

This Is Martin Bonner

D More a character study than any-

thing else, This Is Martin Bonner follows the title character (Paul Eenhoorn), a divorcé who struggles to acclimate to his new job and life after moving away from his family on the East Coast to Reno. A rehabilitation counselor for recently released prisoners, Bonner befriends Travis (Richmond Arquette), who’s just been set free after serving 12 years for manslaughter while driving drunk and can find work only as, ironically, a parking attendant. Finding himself in a world he no longer understands, Travis reaches out to Martin. Martin, meanwhile, tries in vain to reconnect with his son, a busy artist, and struggles to fit in at his new job. The sophomore feature from director Chad Hartigan, Martin Bonner is an engaging sliceof-life portrait of two middle-aged men straining to restart their lives in a place where neither feels fully welcome. With its emphasis on atmosphere and character development over action—much of this film is set in diners with the characters discussing their broken lives and families—certain moments, such as when Travis tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter, may make you forget you’re watching a movie. RICHARD GRUNERT. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Sunday, July 14.

This Is the End

B With the underrated and mis-

understood Pineapple Express, Seth Rogen, James Franco, Danny McBride and co-screenwriter Evan Goldberg made a rock-solid American counterpart to Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. It was a genre film told from the perspective of the kind of people who consumed such entertainment—in this case, a bunch of dopey stoners caught in the middle of an ’80s action movie. Those who decried it as—or mistook it for—a bad action movie injected with comedy seriously missed the point: What would happen if Lethal Weapon were remade with a pair of seriously high jackasses as the leads? With This Is the End, Rogen and company jump genres to the biblical apocalypse and cast Rogen, Franco, Jonah Hill and almost everyone who’s ever been in a Judd

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Photo caption tk Apatow movie as horrible caricatures of themselves. As the Rapture hits and sends pretty much everybody to heaven—except for those at Franco’s housewarming party— these dudes are perfectly content to sit back, smoke weed and tell dick jokes. Like, a lot of dick jokes. It all sounds juvenile, but for the most part, This Is the End works like gangbusters, particularly in the way the actors lampoon their public personas. There are even some time-capsule moments, particularly a prolonged and heated debate between Franco and McBride regarding the latter’s frequent and explosive ejaculations. These dudes could make any movie fun. That this one happens to have decapitations and a brawl with Satan takes it to another level of stoned-out bliss. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV.

V/H/S/2

B Improving on its self-serious and

scattershot predecessor in every conceivable manner, point-of-view horror anthology V/H/S/2 is a primal jolt that exemplifies what is so often lost in the post-Creepshow world: A series of scary stories isn’t supposed to innovate, it’s supposed to titillate. It’s the filmic equivalent of sitting around the campfire telling ghost stories. V/H/S/2’s five shorts each bring a playful spirit to the fire, with each director presenting nuanced excuses for the POV action onscreen. Even in its weakest bits—the wraparound story of a private investigator researching a disappearance and Adam Wingard’s jump-scare-heavy ghost story—there’s a pervading sense of macabre fun. Yet just when it appears the film is going to rely on tired tropes, there are left-field strokes of brilliance. The first blow to expectations comes from Blair Witch helmers Eduardo Sanchez and Gregg Hale, who transform a helmet-mounted GoPro into a zombie’s-eye view of the apocalypse in all its flesh-munching glory. And The Raid director Gareth Evans and collaborator Timo Tjahjanto turn a news crew’s tour of a cult compound into an unrelenting, brilliant, terrifying and otherworldly nightmare. V/H/S/2 isn’t just an improvement on the original, it’s the best horror anthology in decades. With these storytellers at the helm, it’s tempting to tell the producers to keep dumping gas on the fire. R. Hollywood Theatre.

White House Down

B- 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). Superfluous

V/H/S/2 though it may be, there is a plot. D.C. cop John Cale (Tatum) takes his angsty preteen daughter Emily (Joey King) on a tour of the White House. 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. 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 patriotic appeal of an underdog prevailing against the odds. Tatum’s beautiful bod and fearless fatherly instincts don’t hurt, either. All told, it’s a silver-screen fireworks show—senseless, extravagant and just in time for the Fourth. PG-13. EMILY JENSEN. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Living Room Theaters, Oak Grove, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV.

World War Z

C It looks like Hollywood executives can sleep a little easier at night, once again content in the knowledge that they can solve a problem by throwing enough money at it. 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 at the rotting hands of the undead. 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. With this brand of walking dead more akin to rabid sprinters than somnambulists, humanity is quite literally overrun in record time. Forster’s previous work on Quantum of Solace and Machine Gun Preacher hasn’t instilled much faith in his aptitude for directing action, and he lives down to his reputation here. The best that can be said is that his lack of spatial awareness occasionally serves to heighten the frantic chaos of the large-scale skirmishes. What World War Z most glaringly lacks, though, 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, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sandy, St. Johns Twin.

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BEFORE HONEY BOO BOO: In a world where people watch game shows based on musical chairs and “reimaginings” of antiquated pop-culture characters, perhaps “Weird Al” Yankovic’s UHF—in the glorious Technicolor that is hindsight—was a satire of things to come, rather than the sophomoric farce it seemed upon its release. Back in 1989, the story of an oddball and his odder-ball cohorts (among them a pre-disgraced Michael Richards as a mentally askew children’s show host) who take over a television station and score hits with shows like Conan the Librarian and Wheel of Fish was derided as ludicrous. OK, it still seems ludicrous. But now, it mirrors the kind of crap TV studios clamor to produce. Does that make UHF and Weird Al ahead of their time? Hell yes, it does. Now somebody give this man a network and a bucket of fish. AP KRYZA. Playing at: Hollywood Theatre. Best paired with: Miller High Life tall boy. Also playing: Marathon Man (Laurelhurst), The Goonies (Academy).

4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503281-4215 A BAND CALLED DEATH Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:15 BEFORE MIDNIGHT Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 06:45 VHS 2 FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:40 THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD Fri-Sat-Sun 07:30 DRESSED TO KILL Fri-Sat-Sun 09:30 SPEAK NO EVIL Fri 07:00 MORE THAN HONEY Sat-SunMon-Tue 07:00 KING KONG VS. GODZILLA Sat 07:00 SATURDAY MORNING CONFUSION Sat 07:30 STAR WARS: UNCUT Sun 03:30 BLOW OUT Mon-Tue-Wed 09:30 UHF Mon 07:30 SILVER STATE SINNERS Tue 07:30 LOUD! FAST! PHILLY! Wed 07:30

NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium

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St. Johns Theatre Lloyd Center 10 and IMAX

1510 NE Multnomah St., 800326-3264 PACIFIC RIM: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 01:00, 04:15, 07:30, 10:45 PACIFIC RIM Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:30, 03:45, 07:00, 10:15 GROWN UPS 2 Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:45, 02:25, 05:05, 07:45, 10:25 DESPICABLE ME 2 Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:30, 02:05, 07:20 DESPICABLE ME 2 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 04:40, 10:00 WORLD WAR Z Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:10, 03:05, 06:50, 09:50 THIS IS THE END Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:35, 02:15, 04:55, 07:35, 10:35 THE LONE RANGER Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:50, 03:15, 07:05, 10:10 THE HEAT Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:50, 03:55, 07:15, 10:20 MONSTERS UNIVERSITY Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:40, 03:25, 06:30, 09:30 MAN OF STEEL Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:05, 03:35, 10:30 JOSH GROBAN: ALL THAT ECHOES ARTIST CUT Tue 07:30 LA TRAVIATA MET SUMMER ENCORE Wed 07:00

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Bagdad Theater and Pub

3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-249-7474 EPIC Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 06:00 IRON MAN 3 FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue 08:30

Cinema 21

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Clinton Street Theater

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Laurelhurst Theatre and Pub

2735 E Burnside St., 503-232-5511 KON-TIKI Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 07:00 MARATHON MAN FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:30 FRANCES HA Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 07:10 IRON MAN 3 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:05 MUD Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 06:40 THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES

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Mission Theater and Pub

1624 NW Glisan St., 503-249-7474-5 THE WARRIORS Fri 07:00 SUPERNATURALZ: WEIRD, CREEPY & RANDOM Fri 09:15 MEDITATION, CREATIVITY, PEACE Sat 07:00 BLUE VELVET Sat 09:45 THE CROW Sun 07:00 ENTER THE DRAGON Sun 09:30 SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT Mon 07:00 NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY Tue-Wed DAZED AND CONFUSED

Moreland Theatre

6712 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503236-5257 DESPICABLE ME 2 Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:30, 07:40

Roseway Theatre

7229 NE Sandy Blvd., 503282-2898 DESPICABLE ME 2 Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 03:00, 05:30, 08:00

St. Johns Twin Cinemas and Pub

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CineMagic Theatre

2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-231-7919 WORLD WAR Z Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:30, 08:00

Kennedy School Theater

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ing your ideals into practical action. To help make sure you capitalize on this potential, I suggest you adopt this Latin phrase as your motto: a posse ad esse. It means “from being possible to being actual.” So why not simply make your motto “from being possible to being actual”? Why bother with the Latin version? Because I think your motto should be exotic and mysterious -- a kind of magical incantation. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 2010, two economics professors from Harvard wrote a paper that became a crucial piece of evidence for the global austerity movement. Politicians used it to justify their assertion that the best way to cure our long-running financial ills is for governments to spend less money. Oddly, no one actually studied the paper to see if it was based on accurate data until April 2013. Then Thomas Herndon, a 28-yearold Ph.D. student at the University of Massachusetts, dived in and discovered fundamental mistakes that largely discredited the professors’ conclusions. I believe you have a similar mojo going for you, Scorpio. Through clear thinking and honest inquiry, you have the power to get at truths everyone else has missed. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Breakthrough will probably not arrive wrapped in sweetness and a warm glow, nor is it likely to be catalyzed by a handsome prince or pretty princess. No, Sagittarius. When the breakthrough barges into your life, it may be a bit dingy and dank, and it may be triggered by questionable decisions or weird karma. So in other words, the breakthrough may have resemblances to a breakdown, at least in the beginning. This would actually be a good omen -- a sign that your deliverance is nothing like you imagined it would be, and probably much more interesting. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In a wheat field, a rose is a weed -- even if that rose is voluptuous and vibrant. I want you to promise me that you will work hard to avoid a fate like that in the coming months, Capricorn. Everything depends on you being in the right place at the right time. It’s your sacred duty to identify the contexts in which you can thrive and then put yourself in those contexts. Please note: The ambiance that’s most likely to bring out the best in you is not necessarily located in a high-status situation where everyone’s ambition is amped to the max. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Is your soul feeling parched? In your inner world, are you experiencing the equivalent of a drought? If so, maybe you will consider performing a magic ritual that could help get you on track for a cure. Try this: Go outside when it’s raining or misting. If your area is going through a dry spell, find a waterfall or high-spouting fountain and put yourself in close proximity. Then stand with your legs apart and spread your arms upwards in a gesture of welcome. Turn your face toward the heavens, open up your mouth, and drink in the wetness for as long as it takes for your soul to be hydrated again. (In an emergency, frolicking under a sprinkler might also work.) PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Igor Stravinsky was a 20th-century composer who experimented with many styles of music, including the avant-garde work “The Rite of Spring.” “My music is best understood by children and animals,” he said. In my vision of your ideal life, Pisces, that will also be true about you in the coming week: You will be best understood by children and animals. Why? Because I think you will achieve your highest potential if you’re as wild and free as you dare. You will be fueled by spontaneity and innocence, and care little about what people think of you. Play a lot, Pisces! Be amazingly, blazingly uninhibited.

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